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Orlando, at the heart of Orange County in Florida, is a family friendly city which makes the perfect holiday destination. With theme parks all over the area, fabulous sub-tropical climate and a host of shopping malls, golf courses, museums and galleries, it's unlikely that you'll see everything you want to in a single visit. And with a huge range of self-catered accommodation, it's the perfect destination to look at booking holiday rental properties. Tourism is Orlando's lifeblood, so rental villas and condos are both excellent value and high-spec.
Universal Orlando Resort, Sea World Orlando and Disney World are among the world's most popular tourist attractions, and all three are in or around Orlando. It's been claimed that there are more theme parks and attractions in the Orlando area than anywhere else in the world, in fact. And once you've explored the theme parks, the opportunities for shopping are incredible - the Florida Mall just outside the Orlando city limits has more than 250 shops for a start! Once you've tired of the commercial side of your holiday, there are also some wonderful places to visit in Orlando itself, such as the World of Orchids, an indoor rain forest dedicated to the cultivation of these rare and beautiful flowers. Budding astronomers will also enjoy the Orlando Science Centre, with its massive refracting telescope. Not only this, but you'll find it hard to walk for more than ten minutes without tripping over a golf course.
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Saturday, the game will be televised by the Comcast Network (at Orioles), Sunday, Comcast SportsNet (Yankees) and Monday, ESPN (Red Sox). Games can also be seen on MLB.TV and heard on radio on MLB.com. WPHT AM, The Big Talker, and the Phillies radio network will carry the Saturday and Sunday games.
After this weekend, there are eight more spring training games in Florida for the Fightins' Hard to believe, Harry.
Phillies AAA and AA squads will play the Blue Jays at Carpenter Complex on Saturday, 1 p.m. starts, while the big club is out of town. That evening the staff will hold a meeting to discuss potential in-season rosters of the Phillies minor league clubs . . . Another group of Phillies fans on the Spring Training USA tours will be at the park on Sunday morning . . . After the game, John Brazer and Ricky Bottalico will broadcast live from the Tiki Bar on WBCB in Levittown, PA . . . On Monday, Wheels will be signing his book on at 10:35 a.m. in the main concourse . . . WPHT AM's Chris Stigall will broadcast his Monday show live from the Tiki Bar, 5:30 p.m.-9 p.m. . . . Phillies Charities, Inc., will be hosting an auction, also on Monday . . . Second group of Phillies sponsors are here for the weekend.

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"Full of intellectually omnivorous insights and reminiscences about Everett's years with the Pirahã . . . [Language] is that rare thing: a warm linguistics book." —The New York Times Book Review
"The most important—and provocative—anthropological fieldwork ever undertaken." —Tom Wolfe
"Revelatory. There is nothing about humans that is quite as astonishing as language."—The Guardian
"A book whose importance is almost impossible to overstate. This is an intellectual cri de coeur and a profound celebration of human diversity. . . . Very rich but also very readable."—The Sunday Times (London)
"[Language] is that rare thing: a warm linguistics book . . . A useful study of a burgeoning theory compatible with Darwinism, anthropology, psychology and philosophy—an interdisciplinary orientation the Chomskyans have largely spurned."—The New York Times Book Review
"[Language] deserves a serious reading." —The Economist
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"Everett's stories of the Pirahã . . . bring to life the culture that fosters the language. The stories also anchor his linguistic proposals in anthropology. Most linguists might take this as an insult; Everett would accept it as a compliment." —The Globe and Mail (Canada)
"[Everett lobs] a scientific grenade . . . into the spot where anthropology, linguistics and psychology meet: he asserts that the Piraha language exhibits traits that call into question aspects of linguistic theories that have been widely accepted for decades." —Chicago Tribune
"Everett writes simply and persuasively about language. . . . His courage and conviction should give linguists pause for thought." —The Observer (London)


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By one estimate, the extension of the Bush tax cuts will save California's richest citizens -- those in the top 5 percent of income -- more than $20 billion a year.
As it happens, projections of California's budget deficit for the next four years are $20 billion a year.
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The country's Number One Dog All Breeds is no longer in Arcadia FL, but Jacqueline Rayner had plenty of talent in her final at today's Greater Venice Florida Dog Club show. They were the Brittany, GCH CH Credit Where Credit Is Due, the Afghan Hound, GCH CH Criston's Enchanted, the Great Dane, CH FendaneSylcrests Eb Oro Puro, the Miniature Bull Terrier, CH Evolution Runs With Scissors, the Miniature Pinscher, GCH CH Marlex Classic Red Glare, the Miniature Poodle, CH Karadale Clarion Born This Way, and the Australian Shepherd, GCH CH Copperidge's Sugar n Spice.
The top two dogs today were the RBIS, the Mini Bull, and the BIS, the Afghan, Rachel. We had the opportunity to see this beauty up close at Hatboro and we are happy that she is starting to get noticed. Rachel and handlers Marcelo Veras & Larry Cornelius have two BIS this year and 20 Hound groups this year. Both of the BIS have come in the last three weeks.


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Welcome to the world of Barbershop singing.
This website is the central website for The British Association of Barbershop Singers (BABS) and here you will find everything you need to know about Barbershop harmony singing in the UK.
If you need to find a barbershop chorus or barbershop quartet to sing for your event, or want to find a chorus near to you that you can join to sing, or you need to know what barbershop events are occurring in the barbershop singing world, or you need to track down some music, then you will find it all here on this website
BABS holds its national convention in May every year when all the choruses and quartets from all over the UK meet to celebrate this wonderful hobby. There are two major competitions - one for the choruses and one for quartets.
Barbershop harmony is a style of unaccompanied vocal music characterised by consonant four-part chords for every melody note in a predominantly homophonic texture.
The melody is consistently sung by the lead, with the tenor harmonising above the melody, the bass singing the lowest harmonising notes, and the baritone completing the chord.
Barbershop singers adjust pitches to achieve perfectly tuned chords in just intonation while remaining true to the established tonal centre.
Artistic singing in the Barbershop style exhibits a fullness or expansion of sound, precise intonation, a high degree of vocal skill and a high level of unity and consistency within the ensemble. Ideally, these elements are natural, unmanufactured and free from apparent effort.
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John Wheeler's body was found last week in a Delaware dump, and that may be among the lesser oddities in the case involving the former aide to three Republican presidents. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that police are investigating Wheeler's possible role in arson involving a couple with whom he had been feuding in court. Meanwhile, Fox News shows surveillance video of Wheeler — the last sighting of him — wandering aimlessly through a Wilmington office building not far from where his body was found:
After working at Mitre on Dec. 28, Wheeler is believed to have taken a train from Washington to Wilmington. That night, police said, smoke-bomb devices were set off in an unfinished New Castle home across from Wheeler's that belongs to a couple with whom he was long embroiled in a court battle over the dimensions of the house.
On Dec. 13, a Chancery Court judge denied Wheeler's application for a temporary restraining order. Wheeler's lawyer, Bayard Marin, has said he last spoke to Wheeler on Dec. 27 – the day before the arson attempt.
Marin doubted the dispute had anything to do with Wheeler's death. He declined on Wednesday to comment further.
On Dec. 29, Wheeler turned up at a pharmacy in New Castle at 6 p.m. and asked the pharmacist for a ride to Wilmington, the Wilmington News Journal reported. The pharmacist, who declined comment Wednesday, told the newspaper that Wheeler looked "different" and "a little upset." He said he offered to call a cab, but Wheeler refused and left.
About 30 minutes later, Wheeler entered the parking garage attached to the New Castle County Courthouse in Wilmington, about seven miles from the pharmacy. How he got there has not been explained.
According to the Inquirer, witnesses say that Wheeler told them he had been robbed and spoke of the recent death of his mother. However, she died several years ago, according to the paper. His car had been towed, not stolen. The witnesses offered to call police and loan him some money, but Wheeler apparently refused both, saying he had $120 on him and didn't need the police.
A coroner's inquest will be presumably forthcoming, and very enlightening. Could it be that Wheeler just got into a dumpster on his own and died in it without anyone noticing? It would hardly be the oddest development in a case that looks stranger by the day.


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Surveillance camera map, VancouverSaturday, November 17th, 2012
Very nice map of surveillance cameras in downtown Vancouver, by the Vancouver Public Space Network.
Disturbing content aside, it's a very attractive map.
Very nice map of surveillance cameras in downtown Vancouver, by the Vancouver Public Space Network.
Disturbing content aside, it's a very attractive map.
Tags: B.C., BC, Big Brother, British Columbia, cameras, Canada, Canadian, CCTV, map, surveillance, Vancouver, Vancouver Public Space Network
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I recommend this article on cities, because design alone will not save us.
This blog is a long, somewhat messy photo essay on the history and politics of design. Design's socio-historical context—that is, the constraints and influences on the way we make objects, dwellings and cities—seems too often ignored. We no longer know where our styles, tastes or objects really come from, and this damages our creativity and sense of meaning. Historical knowledge is so fugitive in the New World, with everything so decontextualized in the rapid flow of commodities and images. Don't even get me started on tumblr and pinterest.
As Fran Lebowitz said, "Designers now, they all have these things called mood boards. I suppose they think a sense of discovery equals invention. It would be as if every writer had a board with paragraphs of other writers—'Oh, I'll take a little bit of this, and that, he was really good.' Yes, he was really good! And that is not a mood board, it is a stealing board."
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Angelo Ponzi necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 98 diseños de 24 diseñadores freelance.
ShootTheChit's is a free-minded community that allows 12 – 30 year olds a place to share/voice their opinion via surveys, polls, chat rooms and field assignments on a variety of topics. And, for doing this, they will win free "chit."
Where do the best ideas come from? Where does sincerity percolate? Where does collaboration reach its apex to form the template of the next generation? Greatness and innovation is not found in stuffy rooms or under the restrictive gaze of social rules, propriety, or inertia. No, it bursts forth from the pure unadulterated freedom of kicking it with your friends and just "shooting the shit." Pool halls, sidewalks, sports bars, skateboarding, surfing, lounges, concerts, festivals, your grandmas front porch, or simply lounging in the living room on the couch nursing your favorite vice; the words and wisdom spilt from your lips without hesitation or concern of the consequences is the purest form of truth. This truth is what we at shootthechit.com want to connect into, the proverbial clay for us to dip our hands and carve the sculpture of your collective vision. We are utilizing the Web to provide those individuals with a voice and the desire for it to be heard to record their opinions, about anything from products, gear, relationships, music, politics, etc. And, for every opinion you will earn free "chit", prizes and other cool gear.
Overall we are targeting those teens and young adults that like to be involved, to be heard and are influencers among their peers. However, participation will be open to all.
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The Wineries of Nova Scotia
When you walk through Nova Scotia Wine Country's lush vineyards,
you're never more than 20 kilometers from the ocean.
Situated on one of the cooler climate limits for vines, Nova Scotia's soil and mesoclimates create some of the most distinctive premium-quality grapes in North America.
Our wineries have garnered international acclaim for their efforts and genuine passion. There are over 70 grape growers and more than 800 acres under vine in seven different regions across the province.
We have a long and rich tradition for growing grapes for wine dating back to the 1600s, when this was one of the first areas to cultivate grapes in North America.
The Winery Association of Nova Scotia was formed in 2002 to represent the interests of wine producers in the province, to serve as a voice for local industry and to promote the growth and development of local wines.


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muguk wrote:Nice one ggn .. if only others were this organised (or even bothered!)
muguk wrote:Back in the old days it was literally scraps of A4 / A5 graph paper from Slasher Bog of the Bog Brothers who kept me in saved game editors.
Pity we fell out over a scratched CD of warez approx a decade ago. Ah well, was a good team whilst it lasted.
ggn wrote:I still also have a a4 page with all trainers I did with bugaboo and was too bored (and igornat ) to turn them into complete trainers
ggn wrote:A CD a decade ago costed a fortune, I think it was a big deal back then
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Until this morning, I never would have guessed that the fabulous Datsun 510 might be making a comeback. And then Nissan went and dropped the IDx Nismo Concept on us. Thanks, Nissan!
It's great to see a modern version of a beloved classic, even if it's only in concept form at the moment. So this got me thinking: What great old car needs to make a comeback?
Come on, Jalops. Bitching about old cars that aren't made anymore is what we do best. Let's go nuts. Tell us what discontinued model needs a revival.
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every four months or so, the whiskey club meets and samples a variety of whiskey's purchased by someone in the club who knows a lot more about whiskey than i do. this time around we were sampling irish whiskey which, as the name so aptly indicates, is distilled and aged in the island of ireland.
our collective taste buds agreed that the best to least best whiskeys were as follows:
Redbreast 12 Year Old, Single Pot Still Irish Whiskey
Knappogue Castle 16yo "Twin Wood"
Tullamore Dew 12 Year Old / Special Reserve
Bushmills 10 Year Old
Greenore 8 Year Old
i dropped the ball and didn't take any tasting notes. i'll have to fix that oversight the next time around. all were quite drinkable, but there is quite a difference between each brand in terms of smoothness, and flavors etc. perhaps the biggest surprise was the fact that the 16 year old knappogue didn't win first place, but it came in a close second to the redbreast.
you're not going to go wrong with any of them, but if you want a special treat, go with the redbreast 12 year old.


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Art of Healing – TCM
About Traditional Chinese Medicinal Herbs
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a science and art dealing with the maintenance of health and the prevention, alleviation, and cure of disease. TCM emphasizes the important balance inside the body. If the important balance has been broke disorder and disease tend to follow, rebuilding balance with different herbs is the TCM's way to cure disease. In fact, TCM is in an advantageous position to cure disease especially stubborn disease what we have not known enough about.
The Oldest and Most Sophisticated System of Natural Healing on Earth
Chinese Herbal Medicine has been used successfully for centuries in China to create radiant health and well being. Chinese knowledge of herbs dates back to 4000 years ago when Shen Nung's Herbology of Chinese Medicine was compiled. Chinese herbal medicine is made up of flowers, seeds, fruits, leaves, branches, roots, bark, mineral and animal. It is important to use herbs grown in China rather than outside of their native environment in order to get the full benefit.
The Medicine of Harmony
The reasons Chinese herbal medicine is so popular are because of its emphasis on prevention as a healing method , and it is simply gentler and safer than chemical medications. Chinese herbs can also be taken to reduce the side effects of other medication. Herbal medicine can strengthen the body's immune system while antibiotics weaken the system.
Each herb has its own specific characteristics.
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the different characteristics of herbs are employed to treat diseases and rectify the hyperactivity of yin and yang (described below), thus curing the diseases and restoring health. The various characteristics of these herbs are properties, flavors, channel tropism, actions of lifting, lowering, floating and sinking, etc.
How are herbs categorized?
1. Property: It refers to the cool, cold, warm, or hot nature of the herb. For example, herbs which cure heat syndromes (fever, thirst, constipation, sore throat) have a cold or cool property. On the contrary, herbs of warm or hot nature usually have positive effects on cold syndromes (cold hands and feet, pale complexion, loose stools).
2. Flavor: it refers to the taste of the herb (pungent, sweet, sour, bitter, salty, neutral, or astringent). Herbs of similar taste normally have similar in effects.
3. Channel tropism: Channel tropism refers to a drug's selective therapeutic effects on a certain part of the body.
4. Actions: Actions of lifting, lowering, floating and sinking refer to the upward, downward, outward or inward directions in which drugs tend to act on the body.
A balance of yin and yang represents a state of health and longevity.
The concept of harmony is central to Chinese medicine. Without it there wouldn't be health. The determination of harmony in Chinese medicine is based on the universal theory of yin and yang. Yin-yang is simply a symbolic way of defining opposite forces that are at work in everything from the universe down to the molecule of the body. Yin and Yang represent the masculine and feminine, day and night, hot and cold, external and internal etc.To the Chinese, the human body is the cosmos in miniature. When imbalance occurs, diseases and weakness will result.
Chinese believe food and herbal medicines can correct yin-yang imbalances by supplementing the deficient element. One example of basic preventive care based on yin-yang theory is to adjust the diet according to the season. In summer, cooling yin foods should be increased in the diet, and in winter, more warming yang foods should be added to the meal.
Interaction of the Five Elements
Since ancient times, the Chinese have divided the world intofive symbolic elements:Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, andWater . The five elements encompass all the phenomena of nature. Each force represented by the Five Elements has a generative and a subjugated influence on one other force. The ancient wisdom also compared the elements contained in nature with the main organs of the body, and matching them to demonstrate their interdependence and mutual reinforcement and restraint: Fire for the heart, Metal for the lungs, Earth for the spleen, Water for the kidneys and Wood for the liver.
The generative cycle of the Five Elements:
Wood generates Fire (it burns to generate Fire).
Fire generates Earth (it produces ashes).
Earth generates Metal (it can be mined from the ground).
Metal generates Water (it becomes molten when heated).
Water generates Wood (it promotes growth of plants).
The subjugative cycle of the Five Elements:
Wood subjugates Earth (it breaks up the soil and depleting its nutrients).
Earth subjugates Water (it absorbs it).
Water subjugates Fire (it extinguishes it).
Fire subjugates Metal (heat changes it from solid to liquid).
Metal subjugates Wood (an axe can cut down a tree).
This explains how one element can help or suppress another. Since Water (the kidney) can nourish the Wood (the liver), the kidneys are the "mother" of the liver. If a patient has liver problem, a doctor will decide by his physical appearance which category his particular symptoms man


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The Packer's National Editor Tom Karst chatted on Oct. 16 with Tim York, chief executive officer of Markon Cooperative, Salinas, Calif., and key leader in the work on the Stewardship Index for Specialty Crops.
1:00 p.m. Tom Karst: How do you assess the progress of work toward the Stewardship Index for Specialty Crops over the past couple of years?
1:01 p.m. Tim York: You come back to why we are doing this in the first place. The reason we got together in the first place, we saw the mistakes that were made in food safety. What the growers were doing in some cases was insufficient in terms of food safety. We as buyers, from a brand protection standpoint as well as from a marketing position, said we need to develop a food safety program. We each had third-party auditing companies or food safety experts come to us and say, Markon, I've got the answer for food safety and here is how you can be better than Sysco. Somebody said that to Sysco, somebody said that to Safeway, Kroger and right on down the line. So we wound up with multiple food safety systems, multiple buyer expectations, and multiple third-party auditors that have a big economic stake in the status quo. Now you see work going on with GAP harmonization and trying to put that genie back in the bottle. We have had a lot of meetings and a lot of time spent trying to fix that.
1:04 p.m. Karst: Are you satisfied with how the inclusive model is working?
1:05 p.m. York: The model is collaborative. We can agree on some things, but we are not going to agree on everything, but let's look for common ground. We took the approach we have to have the environmental groups involved early on. That's that the more difficult road to travel. It is slower and more onerous but I think it is the only right way to make it happen. From the genesis of this, those principles still resonate with us, collaborative approach, precompetitive, and avoid the duplications.
1:07 p.m. Karst: Some growers have raised concerns about sustainability metrics being used against them. Do you sometimes feel that no good deed goes unpunished?
1:08 p.m. York: Honestly, it is like trying to roll a rock uphill. If growers understood what we are trying to do, they would be having a hug fest with us. This is not Markon and a few buyers saying, "Here is this sustainability standard" and we are going to cram it down their throats. Growers are here helping us determine it. All we are saying is let's get a common yardstick, let's define how we measure sustainability. It won't preclude a buyer from taking those measurements and saying what is most important to them, but at least we're measuring the same way.
1:09 p.m. Karst: What is the latest with the pilot projects to help develop metrics for the stewardship index?
1:11 p.m. York: We have over 100 pilots for 19 crops in 13 states. This is about development of metrics. It is really about the idea of whether we can collect this information in a cost-effective manner and if it can lead to continuous improvement. Because if you don't have that, you don't have a good business case of why we should be doing this in the first place. The whole idea is to be able measure inputs and reduce them.


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See also: benevolence, clemency, condonation, consent, dispensation, exception, favor, franchise, grace, grant, greed, largess, leave, lenience, license, longanimity, permission, philanthropy, privilege, remission, sanction, sufferance, temperance, tolerance, understanding, vice
INDULGENCE. A favor granted.
2. It is a general rule that where a creditor gives indulgence, by entering into a binding contract with a principal debtor, by which the surety is or may be damnified, such surety is discharged, because the creditor has put it out of his power to enforce immediate payment; when the surety would have a right to require him to do so. 6 Dow, P. C. 238; 3 Mer. R. 272; Bac. Ab. Oblig. D; and see Giving Time.
3. But mere inaction by the creditor, if he do not deprive himself of the right to sue the principal, does not in general discharge the surety. See Forbearance.


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EPA's Public Meeting to Discuss Hemphill Road TCE Superfund Site has been Cancelled
Release Date: 02/10/2014
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(ATLANTA – February 10, 2014) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) public meeting to discuss current and future actions at the Hemphill Road TCE site (former chemical drum recycling) in Gastonia, N.C. on Monday, February 10, 2014 has been cancelled due to uncertain weather conditions caused by Winter Storm Pax.
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We last talked about Hercules while making the New Life Cocktail. I've since made two iterations of the recipe.
Hercules #2
1 bottle Navarro Chardonnay
1/4 cup Yerba Mate
1/2 tsp oregano
2 tsp Gentian
2 tsp Cinchona Powder
1/2 tsp Wormwood flowers and leaves
4 whole cloves
Dried Peel from 1 Seville Orange
1 stick Ceylon Cinnamon
1/2 tsp whole coriander seed
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup Apple Brandy
Method: Combine all ingredients other than brandy, bring to 140 degrees for 10 minutes. Strain off solids, cool, and add Brandy. Refrigerate.
This version received many, uh, ambivalent responses. "I've never tasted anything like this before." "Boy is that bitter." "That flavor really sticks with you!" More constructive criticism was that a stronger spice component would be more enjoyable. I also thought it would benefit from a richer wine base.
Hercules #3
1 Stick Cassia Cinnamon, crushed
2 tsp. Coriander Seed, crushed
8 Whole Cloves, crushed
1 tsp. Quinine Powder
1 tsp Gentian Root
1/4 Cup Yerba Mate
1 bag peppermint tea
Rind 2 Seville Oranges
Rind 1/2 Valencia Orange
1/2 cup Raw Sugar
750ml Quady Elektra Orange Muscat
1/4 cup Osocalis Brandy
METHOD: Combine spices, peel, yerba mate and wine. Heat to 140 degrees. Add mint and allow to steep for 15 minutes. Filter through chinois and add Brandy. Let stand for at least a day. Pour liquid off of sediment and through a coffee filter and bottle.
While there is no way I can judge whether I am getting closer to what Hercules might have tasted like, this is actually a fairly enjoyable beverage. I'll have it along for tonight's Savoy Cocktail Book Night at Alembic. Stop by after 6 and ask for a taste.


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It is Monday evening in Diyarbakir, a city in Turkey's southeast, and a weekly meeting of several local members of the so-called Gulen movement has begun with a book reading. One of the eight men present this is an all-boys affair picks up a paperback by Fethullah Gulen, the charismatic Islamic preacher after whom the movement is named, and reads out a few paragraphs. The subject is one of the central tenets of Gulen's philosophy: hizmet, service to others. Once the reading ends, a few of the other members smiling beneath cropped mustaches begin to extemporize on the difficulties and rewards of teaching and the challenges of shaping young minds.
Many Turks view the Gulen Movement with suspicion. The group has drawn comparisons among the conspiracy-minded to the freemasons; it has been accused of being a shadow government and more than once of trying to engineer an Islamist takeover of Turkey; and in recent years, some of its opponents have found themselves snared in legal proceedings. There's little reason to expect such issues to come up during an informal gathering of local Gulenists in a place like Diyarbakir. The movement not only forswears any role in politics, but is also said to discourage discussion of political issues among its followers. (A student who stayed at one of the movement's dormitories in Istanbul told me that he, an international relations major, was asked not to read or discuss books on politics in his room.) Still, the next item on the Diyarbakir meeting's agenda comes as something of a surprise.
It involves the day before, Sunday May 13: "What did you do for Mother's Day?"
The question comes from Bilgi Ozdemir, a public school teacher who is presiding over the gathering. A tour de table follows. One of the men reports that he and a group of friends cooked dinner for a group of women. All the time they are the ones cooking, he says, but on Mother's Day "we told them to sit still and let us prepare the food." Another man took a group of moms to a picnic outside Diyarbakir. Yet another organized a sightseeing tour of the city, including visits to a mosque and a reading hall the local equivalent of a Boys and Girls Club run by fellow Gulen supporters.
As the meeting progresses, it's hard to avoid the impression that the men, all of whom have regular jobs, have much time for anything other than hizmet. For the months of May and June alone, Ozdemir's circle, one of many similar Gulen groups in Diyarbakir, has scheduled at least a dozen events. Fundraisers, trips, charity functions: one for Nurses Day; another for Disability Week; and still more for the International Day against Drug Abuse. They might as well belong to the Rotary Club. Except that hizmet can be a little all-enveloping.
Nearly half a century after Fethullah Gulen began delivering impassioned sermons in Izmir, a city on Turkey's Aegean coast, the religious movement he helped inspire counts as many as six million followers. (There is no formal membership structure, Gulenists say, making exact numbers impossible to compute.) The largest religious movement in Turkey, Gulen sympathizers are known to run hundreds of schools, several media outlets, including Zaman, the paper with the highest circulation in Turkey, as well as a bank, a number of foundations, and a major charity.
If anything, the tiny, informal gathering in Diyarbakir reveals a side of the Gulen movement that is key to its power its management at the grass-roots level. Opening an Excel file on his laptop, Ozdemir the teacher asks each of the eight men present to report how much money they have raised for the construction of four new reading halls in the city. Each of the members, Ozdemir tells me, represents a group of lower-level followers who have been asked to pitch in, along with friends, neighbors and family. Celal, a physiotherapist seated to my left, has managed to raise 4,000 lira, or about $2,200. Others report having raised 1,400, 1,500 or 250 lira. Ozdemir carefully records all the sums. For transparency's sake, he tells me, we prefer bank transfers. "If donations are made in cash, we will provide receipts."
Apart from nominal contributions for special projects, it is local businessmen sympathetic to the movement's cause who often foot the Gulenists' bills. "When I was in high school, some people inspired by hizmet helped me financially," says Aladdin Korkutata, who heads DIGIAD, a local business association. "Now that I've reached my target I am happy to help others."
Leading lights within the movement usually insist that that Gulen-affiliated institutions are administered autonomously, with little supervision from above. Meetings in Diyarbakir, however, show that at least here, at the local level, the movement runs a very tight ship. Most local Gulenists have no difficulty producing data about the movement's educational activities. In the southeast as a whole, Gulen followers run 57 elementary schools, Ali Pehlivan, a principal at one of the schools, tells me. In Diyarbakir province alone, another Gulenist says, the movement's 27 reading halls cater to roughly 4,500 children. FEM, a network of Gulen dershanes, or cramming schools, operates 14 local branches, attracting about 11,000 students per year. The total number of FEM branches in Turkey is "roughly" 615.
At one of dershanes, Bulent Ince, the headmaster, explains that 2,000 lira, the price of tuition, buys local high schoolers much more than a 10-month prep course for Turkey's feared university entrance exam. Students, he says, are also assigned so-called teacher-guides, who look after them in and outside of class, and even after they enter college.
The teacher-guides, says Ince, serve as role models. "None of them smoke or drink," he says. Many become the teens' confidants, calling on them regularly, offering advice, teaching them "love for their parents, love for their country, love for others," and "Islamic values." "Sometimes, our kids will share things with their teacher-guides that they will not share with their parents," says Ince. Students can phone their guides late at night to talk about their problems. "It's 24 hour hizmet."
When students enter college FEM students score better on the entrance exams than most others they remain under the watchful eye of Gulen followers. If a student goes off to study in another city, says Ince, a teacher will accompany him there and try to place him in a dorm or a house where "people don't smoke and drink, and where they pray." Otherwise, he says, "we will introduce him to our friends, who will keep in touch with him." After graduation, he explains, "we will help him find job, or make him a teacher and send him abroad." As he puts it, "If you're in hizmet, you're never alone."


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It would seem that the French are not yet ready to prostitute their constitution to the interests of major recording labels.
The French Constitutional Council has rejected their government's controversial "three strikes" law that would have people accused of file sharing denied internet access.
"Innocent until proven guilty" remains a central principle of French law, and it cannot be bypassed simply by creating a new nonjudicial authority.


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The Conference Series
To build and strengthen its relationship with the broader science community in support of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) invites the international scientific community to conferences on a regular basis.
These multidisciplinary scientific conferences attract scientists and experts from the broad range of the CTBT's verification technologies, from national agencies involved in the CTBTO's work to independent academic and research institutions. Members of the diplomatic community, international media and civil society also take an active interest.
2017: CTBT Science and Technology
With around 1,000 participants from over 120 countries, 650 abstracts, nearly 400 posters, and over 100 oral presentations, the CTBT: Science and Technology 2017 Conference (SnT2017) was the largest Conference of its kind to date. Held in June 2017, the Conference provided a forum for scientists from around the world to exchange knowledge and share advances in monitoring and verification technologies of relevance to the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) in support of the Treaty's global verification regime. For the first time, a fifth theme "Monitoring for Nuclear Explosions in a Global Context" was included in the programme, and the Conference also saw a high participation from young scientists, as well as members of the CTBTO Youth Group.
See conference webpage for more.
2015: CTBT Science and Technology
The CTBT: Science and Technology 2015 Conference (SnT2015) took place from 22 to 26 June 2015 at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, Austria. It was the third in a series of multidisciplinary conferences designed to further enhance the strong relationship between the scientific and technological community and the CTBTO. See website story on the opening day and summary.
See conference webpage for more.
2013: CTBT Science and Technology
The Science and Technology 2013 (SnT2013) conference, took place from 17 to 21 June 2013. Scientists made over 80 oral presentations and over 250 poster presentations (see programme) at the conference to more than 750 conference participants. Speakers included Hans Blix, former Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency; Siegfried Hecker, former director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory; Michel Miraillet, Director, French Ministry of Defence and Ellen Tauscher, former U.S. Under Secretary of State.
See summary or conference webpage for more.
2011: CTBT Science & Technology
In what CTBTO Executive Secretary Tibor Tóth described as "a scientific pilgrimage to Vienna", 500 scientists participated in the Science & Technology Conference (S&T2011) from 8 to 10 June 2011. Two renowned scientists gave keynote speeches: U.S. physicist Richard Garwin and Canadian geophysicist David Strangway. The CTBTO's role and contributions during the March 2011 Fukushima disaster played a prominent role in the conference's 350 scientific presentations and posters.
See the summary or the conference webpage for more.
2009: International Scientific Studies
The second conference under the title "International Scientific Studies Conference (ISS09)" from 10 to 12 June 2009 gathered around 450 scientists from 86 countries to assess the CTBT's capability and readiness to detect nuclear explosions anywhere on the planet. The second nuclear test conducted by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea only weeks before provided ample topics for discussion.
See the summary or the conference webpage for more.
2006: Synergies with Science
Already the CTBTO's first major scientific conference titled "Synergies with Science, 1996-2006 and Beyond" from 31 August to 1 September 2006 attracted several hundred participants, among them scientists from internationally renowned universities and scientific institutions, representatives of diplomatic missions and members of the press.
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The difference between the Singleton and Static is Singleton Class can have value when Class object instantiated between server and client, such a way if three client want to have a shared data between them Singleton can be used. Static are always just shared and have no instance but multiple references.
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Chirashi-zushi is a type of sushi that has a number of toppings, "scattered" on a bed of loose sushi rice. The word "chirashi" literally means "scattered," so this is basically a big bowl of rice mixed with fish, vegetables, and additional ingredients of your choice.For me, I'm going to just use salmon for chirashi.The reason is , I bought a very large piece of salmon ,about two and half pound from BJ's wholesale to make sushi for hubby.These days salmon is quite pricey but we still prefer salmon rather than tuna because salmon have soft buttery texture and it's flesh is smoother than tuna or others fish..In my household it's just 3 of us,so the amount of salmon I bought is quite alots for us.As usual before I used the salmon, I have to freeze the salmon first before defrost it to use for safety reason..I understand there is some different between chirashi rice and sushi rice.Chirashi rice contains more vinegar then regular maki or sushi rice..Anyway,making chirashi is no brainier!! If you have problem rolling maki or shaping sushi rice Chirashi is an ideal way for you to make Japanese raw fish dish,not to said it's has lesser work involved..Simple and easy,yet delicious!!
For making su-meshi/ vinegared rice
1 cup calrose rice/sushi rice
4-5 tbsp mixed sushi vinegar
1 tbsp granulated sugar
1/2 cup water
Yield 2 person
300 gm salmon ,sliced thin or about 1/2 inch each
1 cucumber,peeled and sliced thin(deep into cold water to retain crunchiness)
roasted sesame seeds
tobiko/masago / flying fish roe
soy sauce
1:Remove rice from rice cooker after it's cooked.Toss in mixed sushi vinegar and sugar,mix well with rice spatula.Scoop 2 scoop of vinegar rice into a wide bowl or deep plate.
2:Place 5-6 slices or more salmon on top of the rice,some tobiko and some sliced cucumber.Sprinkle some roasted sesame seeds.Serve with wasabi and soy sauce.


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Anyone with one slot available at all times can sign up!
This is a Tournament Players Association Year 3 (TPA3) Premier event, and is governed by its rules, guidelines, and judgments, detailed here. All are welcome to join and participate in the association. You need do nothing more than join one or more of the TPA3 events that will be announced each Monday. Check back on the scoreboard to see how you're doing.
It's easy to excel at a certain style of gameplay, and win a whole ton of tournaments while at it. But taking on the different styles of gameplay that CC offers, and excelling at them, well that's another ballgame altogether. In this tournament, each round will feature a different style of gameplay, and getting to the end of this tournament will certainly take a fair amount of skill and strategy. And a dash of luck definitely wouldn't hurt either!
Note: Round 1 & 2 matchups are determined solely by random.org.
Round 1: 1v1 - 64 players
1A: Winners advance to Round 2A, losers to Round 1B.
1B: Winners advance to Round 2B, 16 losers eliminated.
Round 2: Doubles - 48 players
2A: Winners advance to Round 3, losers to Round 2B.
2B: Winners advance to Round 3, 16 losers eliminated.
Round 3: Terminator - 32 players
8 groups of 4 players, 3 games per group.
Top 2 players with most kills from each group advance, 16 losers eliminated.
Tiebreakers will be based on average placing over games in Round 3.
Round 4: Assassin - 16 players
4 groups of 4 players, 1 game per group. Winners advance, 12 losers eliminated.
If a player wrongly eliminates another player, the culprit will be eliminated, and game replayed with 3 players.
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1 group of 4 players, 1 game per group. Winner wins the tournament!
Map: Classic
Players: 4 Players, except 1v1 games
Troops: Automatic
Order: Sequential
Spoils: Escalating
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- I reserve the right to change aspects of the game if anything needs changing, to ensure fairness to all players or for the benefit of the tournament.
- Reserves will only be used for Round 1.
- If you do not join the game within 48 hours, you will be replaced.
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- Alliances are not allowed.
- For any questions, problems etc. you may voice it out in this thread or you can PM me.


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Wyoming Family History Research
This entry was originally written by Dwight A. Radford in Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources.
History of Wyoming
Wyoming Territory was created on 25 July 1868, mostly from Dakota Territory. Forts, fur trading, and the Oregon Trail had been a part of its early history. The coming of the Union Pacific Railroad through Wyoming, from 1867 to 1869, left a string of towns'Cheyenne, Evanston, Green River, Laramie, Rawlins, and Rock Springs'along the railroad line. Much of the business history of present-day Wyoming is connected to the Union Pacific Railroad. The construction of the railroad brought a number of Chinese laborers to Wyoming.
The mining influx during the late 1860s and 1870s brought settlers into Sweetwater country. As mining broadened out to encompass several additional industries, towns such as Atlantic City, Miner's Delight, Red Canyon, South Pass City, and others were formed.
Statehood was achieved 10 July 1890. One-fourth of Wyoming's population at that time was foreign born, originating from England, Germany, Ireland, Scotland, Sweden, Canada, Russia, Denmark, Wales, China, Norway, Italy, Austria, and France.
In January of 1890 two hundred African Americans, mostly from Harrison County, Ohio, were brought to Dana (near Hanna) to work the coal mines, but most did not stay long. A small German-Russian colony from Chicago arrived in the Big Horn Basin in 1896.
Although land opened up for settlement in 1890, very little was filed or patented from 1890 to 1897. In 1909 dry farming was tried in Wyoming, and the enlarged homestead acts brought more dry farmers to the state. Congress changed the homestead residence requirement in 1912 from five years to three years and permitted the homesteaders to absent the property for five months each year. These concessions gave renewed emphasis to dry farming and settlement.
The great era of public land entries in Wyoming was in the twentieth century, with the peak years being 1920'21. But the growth of Wyoming's agricultural industry was severely challenged by years of drought and the Depression. Following World War II, the economy focused on cattle, crude oil, and petroleum, along with industries that support them. Wyoming still remains a sparsely populated state that draws considerable tourism related to year-round recreation.


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A giant spider goes on a rampage through a small town. Can anyone stop it before it takes over the world? (1958, b&w)
Mark says:
When you see Bert I. Gordon (Beginning of the End, Empire of the Ants) listed as director, you should be tipped off as to what type of film to expect.
Like a lot of Gordon's films, Earth vs The Spider has a promising start. Jack Flynn (Merritt Stone) is driving home to surprise his daughter with a locket for her birthday. Jack suddenly sees something stretched across the highway, and before he can stop, he collides with a cable (it's supposed to be the strand of a giant spiderweb) which slashes through his face in a rather gruesome and bloody manner. But that's where the excitement ends.
Mr. Flynn's high school daughter, Carol (June Kenney; Attack of the Puppet People), is upset when her father does not return home. Amusingly, most people, even Carol's mother, assume that Jack is on an all-night bender. Carol insists that her father didn't get drunk "this time" and enlists her boyfriend, Mike Simpson (Gene Persson; Bloodlust!), to help search for him.
To make a long and not very interesting story short: Carol and Mike find her father's truck crashed near a cave. Upon exploring the cave, they find some skeletons, a giant spiderweb, and a gargantuan spider-beast that almost devours them.
No adults will believe their story except for friendly science teacher, Mr. Kingman, played by Ed Kemmer (Giant from the Unknown). Mr. Kingman convinces Sheriff Cagle (Gene Roth; Tormented, Attack of the Giant Leeches) to investigate the situation. Wisely, they bring with them an exterminator and a tanker full of DDT. The sheriff loses a deputy, but they kill the spider (or they think they do) with the DDT.
Mr. Kingman thinks it would be a grand idea to keep the dead arachnid in the high school gymnasium while he tries to figure out what to do with it. Unfortunately, a band of jive-talkin' rock n' rollers awaken the monster during their rehearsal, and the beast goes on a rampage through town before heading back to its cave.
The remainder of the film involves tireless trips back and forth to and from the caverns. Any momentum built within the first half of the movie disintegrates during the final half. Camp value will only carry a film so far, and this movie peters out long before the finale.
The special effects are the standard Bert I. Gordon variety, fun but atrocious. Mr. Gordon also had a single, mechanical spider leg constructed to use during scenes where he wanted the spider to appear in the same shot as the actors. The leg is obviously too thin to match the fat, furry legs of the real spider, and thus the effect is reduced to schlock cinema. Adding to the absurdity, the spider shrieks and roars in a manner that sounds suspiciously human.
Another facet of this film that strikes me as rather silly, is that most of the high school "kids" are conspicuously older than they should be. In fact, Mike and Carol's friend, Joe, is played by Troy Patterson, who was 34 when the film was shot! It's not too often you'll see a teenager with 5 o'clock shadow.
Earth vs The Spider is filled with B-movie veterans. Besides the actors listed above: Hal Torey (Invisible Invaders) plays Mike's father; Sally Fraser (War of the Colossal Beast, It Conquered the World) is Mrs. Helen Kingman, and Hank Patterson (Monster on the Campus, Beginning of the End) plays Hugo, the janitor. Hank Patterson is also a character in a movie this film tries to rip off, Tarantula.
Adding insult to injury, Bert Gordon promotes two of his other movies in the course of the film. While talking to Carol on the phone, we clearly see a poster advertising The Amazing Colossal Man behind Mike. Mike then makes a reference to Attack of the Puppet People, which he says "sounds pretty wild." There's nothing quite like shameless self-promotion.
Earth vs The Spider is campy enough to be fun, but the story becomes tiresome early on. We lose interest in the characters so quickly that by the final rescue scene we simply do not care if they are devoured or not. The spider is scary, not because of its enormous size, but because all spiders are inherently frightening, at least in my book.
This movie was produced by Samuel Z. Arkoff, Bert I. Gordon, and James H. Nicholson.
Scene to watch for: Carol's mother wants her to stop grieving her father and finish her homework. After all, it has been hours since Carol discovered her dad's dead and shriveled body.
Line to listen for: "You know what we eggheads are like, sheriff. We want to know why this, how come that? What about the other? It's a matter of scientific interest to find out what made that creature tick."
Trivia: The title of the film, Earth vs the Spider, was used to ride the success of an earlier film, Earth vs the Flying Saucers. However, before release, another more successful film, The Fly, was raking it in at the box office. So in all of the promotional materials, the movie was advertised as The Spider, even though the main title on the film was never changed.
Mark's Rating: ! ! ½ out of 5.


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|Max Luminous Flux
|450 Lumens per foot
|450 Lumens per foot
|450 Lumens per foot
|Color Tuning Range
|LED Type
|SMD 5050 RGB LED Chips
|SMD 5050 RGB LED Chips
|SMD 5050 RGB LED Chips
|LED Quantity
|18 LEDs per foot
(300 per reel)
|18 LEDs per foot
(300 per reel)
|18 LEDs per foot
(300 per reel)
|Max Run
|32 feet @ 24VDC
|32 feet @ 24VDC
|32 feet @ 24VDC
|0.4 lbs per reel
|0.6 lbs per reel
|1.2 lbs per reel
|Estimated Lifespan
|50,000 hours
|50,000 hours
|50,000 hours
|1 Year
|1 Year
|1 Year
|Suitable Uses
|Dry Location Only
|Dry or Damp Locations
|Dry, Damp or Wet Locations
|Standards / Certifications
|UL Listed, RoHS
|UL Listed, RoHS
|UL Listed, RoHS
- Maintenance free
- Solid-state construction makes for high shock and vibration resistance
- SMD 5050 LEDs are super bright, high intensity and low power consumption
- Extremely long life: up to 50,000 hours with very low time-luminosity decay
- No RF interference
- Custom flexible PCB board color are available in white, black or yellow (special order)
- Architectural lighting for canopies, corridors, archways, windows
- Downlighting or uplighting for wall wash applications
- Backlighting or edge lighting for signage
- Edge-lighting for glass
- Under-cabinet, toe-kick, in-cove moldings
- DIY projects
- Safety stair tread and step marking
- Decorative lighting for holidays, tradeshows, exhibitions
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- How long is the lead length on a normal strip light?
- Every strip light is made with 6" wire leads on both ends of the 16.4' reel of lights. This allows you to cut the strip light anywhere and utilize both ends for your project.
- How many wires are used on an RGB color changing strip light?
- RGB Strip lights use 4 wires. One wire for each color Red, Green, Blue and one wire for Black(+) positive.
- How do I make my CCT strip light change color?
- You will need a CCT controller or a DMX color changing setup to make your RGB strip light change color. For specific questions about your application, feel free to chat with one of our LED lighting experts.
- Should I choose Standard Brightness or Ultra Bright?
- This is a personal preference and depends on your application. If your application requires a high or more bright lighting or if you are trying to light a larger area, go with Ultra Bright as the light will spread farther and appear brighter. If you are using these as more of an accent light and not a focal point, go with Standard Bright. If you are unsure, go with Ultra Bright and use the dimming function on your controller to allow you to choose your own brightness once installed.
- Do I need Waterproof, Water Resistant or Non-Waterproof?
- To select the right LED strip light, consider your application. If it is going to be used outdoors where it will be exposed to rain, humidity or moisture go with the Waterproof. The Waterproof strip lights are completely encased in silicone and can be submersed under water. They are also more resilient to heavy traffic or abuse because of this protection layer. If it will be used indoors near a sink or in a location where it might occasionally get splashed, or under a covered roof outdoors where it will be protected from most moisture, go with Water Resistant. If you are using it indoors and there is no chance of direct water or moisture exposure, the Non-Waterproof will be your best bet.
- What lengths are available? What if I need longer than 16.4'?
- All of our strip lights are manufactured to 16.4' (5 Meters) but they can be daisy chained together. For high volume, special orders can be made custom to length. Call or chat for more information. For specific questions about your application, feel free to chat with one of our LED lighting experts.
- Can I connect multiple strip lights together?
- Yes, you can but the distance you can run will depend on the voltage you select. If you plan to run more than 16 feet select 24VDC strip lights and you can run up to 32 feet or 2 full reels daisy chained together. If you plan to cut your strip lights and are looking for pre-made connectors to avoid soldering, check out our Strip Light Connectors and make your install easier. Your application may also require signal amplifiers/repeaters depending on the distance you are running from your controller. For specific questions about your application, feel free to chat with one of our LED lighting experts.
- How do I connect my strip lights to the power supply?
- On the strip light, there are four wires; a red, green and blue wire and a black (+) wire. These wires will screw into the terminals on your controller corresponding to their color. Your power supply will have a line(+) and neutral(-) wire that will also connect to your controller.
- What gauge wire should I use to run between my strip light and my power supply?
- This depends on the distance between your strip light and the power supply. We generally recommend using between 18ga and 14ga stranded wire. Longer distances require larger gauge wire. Always consult a wire gauge chart to determine the correct size wire for your application and remember that you will need to run 4 wires for RGB Color Changing lights.
Power Supplies
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LED strip lights are a low-voltage (12VDC or 24VDC) product and require a constant source of low voltage power in order to operate. In most residential or commercial applications, a power supply (sometimes called a driver or transformer) is used to provide the LED strip lights with the low voltage power that they need to run. The power supply connects to standard house current (120VAC) and steps this current down to 12 or 24VDC. In automotive or marine applications, this power can be supplied from a 12vdc or 24vdc battery. The most popular voltage used by residential and commercial customers is 24VDC, since it is still a safe low voltage and yet it provides more protection against voltage drop, and consumes less current. If you have any questions about sizing your power supply, please don't hesitate to chat live with an LED expert.
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24VDC (24 volts DC) is the most popular option for residential (under-cabinet, kitchen, cove molding, accent lighting, etc.) and commercial (architectural, signage, safety, accent lighting, etc.) applications. 24VDC is a safe, low voltage and is the most stable and reliable voltage for your LED strip lights.
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Warm White
Warm White is most popular light color for residential applications and has a bit of a gentle/soft warmth/yellowish hue to it. Warm white is the same color as a standard incandescent light bulb, which is 2700-3000K.
Cool White
Cool white (also referred to as Neutral White) is popular for commercial (office/hospital/medical/municipal) applications. It is also very popular in modern-style residential projects. Cool white is a very pure white, it doesn't really have any yellowish or blueish hue. Cool white is the same color as most fluorescent light bulbs, which is 6000K.
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Our non-waterproof LED strip lights are designed for indoor use only and are not intended for any exposure to water. They feature a 3M adhesive tape backing, which allows you to peel and stick them directly to virtually any clean surface. Our non-waterproof LED strip lights are IP44 rated.
Water Resistant
Our water resistant LED strip lights have a protective layer of silicone applied over the entire face of the LED strip, which protects all of the LEDs and resistors from intermittent/infrequent exposure to small amounts of water. They also feature a 3M adhesive tape backing, allowing you to peel and stick them to virtually any clean surface. Our water resistant strip lights are frequently used for automotive/motorcycle lighting and residential/commercial architectural accent lighting when they will only be exposed to intermittent water. Our water resistant LED strip lights are IP65 rated.
Waterproof (Submersible)
Our waterproof LED strip lights are fully encased inside of a flexible protective silicone shell. Our waterproof strip lights are designed for constant use outdoors or underwater. They do not have an adhesive backing and are designed to be installed using our mounting straps, or with an adhesive caulk. Our waterproof LED strip lights are IP68 rated and are fully submersible, allowing you to use them underwater.
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New York, January 14, 2014--The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned by reports that veteran U.S. journalist David Satter has been banned from Russia for five years. Satter, adviser to the U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and former Moscow correspondent for the Financial Times, told CPJ that the Russian foreign ministry told him to leave the country on December 4 and reapply for a Russian visa. But, he said, on December 25, the Russian embassy in Kiev rejected his visa application. The journalist is currently in London.
"We call on Russian authorities to allow David Satter back in the country and let him do his work unobstructed," CPJ Europe and Central Asia Program Coordinator Nina Ognianova said. "The banning of a prominent international journalist from Russia, just weeks from the opening of the Sochi Winter Olympics, is a menacing omen for the thousands of foreign journalists due to attend the Games."
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said today that Satter, who has been in Russia since September, had violated Russia's immigration law and was banned from the country for five years. Satter, who has been critical of the Russian government, denied the allegations on his website.
On January 28, CPJ will release a report on the press freedom conditions surrounding the Sochi Olympics.


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Hilary Swank's engagement to Ruben Torres has been called off, the actress' rep told People on Monday.
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It would have been the second marriage for Swank, who was married to actor Chad Lowe for 10 years until 2007. She and Torres, a former professional tennis player, were first romantically linked in July 2015. The couple made their red carpet debut as a couple five months later while attending DuJour's kick-off party for Art Basel in Miami.
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Torres popped the question in March during a trip to Palm Springs. At the time, Swank, 41, wrote on social media, "Went on a hike and this happened! I am so happy to announce the engagement to my dear Ruben."
The actress has since deleted her engagement announcement from Instagram and Twitter.
Swank isn't alone. Heartbreak in Hollywood abounds, as several other celebrity couples — including Demi Lovato and Wilmer Valderrama, Taylor Swift and Calvin Harris, Amber Heard and Johnny Depp and Kylie Jenner and Tyga — have called it quits within the last month alone.


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Whites Use More Drugs Than Blacks: The Great Narco Lie
This article by Auset Marian Lewis is re-posted from Black Agenda Report.
My husband is a Black man. He is one of the hardest working Americans I know, but he is wearing the face of crime in America. That means that if he is in an elevator with a white woman, she is apt to clutch her purse a little tighter. If he's traveling down a dark deserted street, she might cross over to the other side. When he goes into a store, the security guard is likely to follow him, anticipating theft.
If you look at the prison system, it is filled with a whole lot of people who look like him. Indeed, it appears that these Black rascals are the culprits terrorizing honest, law-abiding Americans. These are the deadbeats who are sucking up all the drugs and thwarting the Drug War causing murder and mayhem in an otherwise civilized society. That is what many people think.
Although it may be of little comfort to know this, the Bernie Madoffs and Wall Street derivative junkies of the world are more likely to do you harm than my dapper husband walking to his car parked on St. Paul Street. At least we can be pretty sure that this Black man is not about to foreclose on your home due to predatory and tricky lending practices. He is not about to ship your young men off to war to be killed based on the Pinocchio principle—lying through your teeth. This Black man is not trying to rip off struggling, recession-weary Americans to give stuff to the rich. He is not likely to go to a school and unload an AR15 assault weapon on our children. Nonetheless, we easily see the criminal as the dark man whose TV images have flashed before our eyes in the Zero Tolerance Drug War aimed at black and brown communities. But isn't that smart policing since that's where all the criminals are? Are they really?
After Nixon launched the Drug War, there was much public conversation about drugs as an anathema to society and the need to "get tough" on drug criminals. I always thought this was because drugs were proliferating in society. As it turns out, that was not the case.
Kenneth B. Nunn, Professor of Law and Assistant Director of the Criminal Justice Center, wrote:
"In 1982, when the drug war began, the recreational use of illegal drugs was in decline…in 1982, surveys conducted by the National Institute on Drug Abuse showed significant drops in drug usage over long periods for a wide range of age groups. This decline impacted the use of both legal and illegal substances."
The intersection of drugs and race is striking when looking at drug arrest rates in 1988 and even in 2010. At the height of the drug war in 1988, the ratio of arrests regarding African Americans and Whites is very telling. Arrests for Black people were 1,033 per 100,000 people; Whites only 273. Over the years, the chart shows a steep decline in African American arrests, however, the ratio is still skewed—in 2010: Blacks, 723; Whites 492.
"Stop and Frisk" is a Drug War police tactic used to apprehend criminals by stopping and searching random people who cops view as suspicious. A 2011 New York Police Department study reported that in that year alone, 700,000 unfortunates were swept into this New York dragnet. Nearly ninety percent of those stopped were African American or Hispanic. With Bloomberg as Mayor, from 2003 to 2011, "stop and frisks" increased by 600 percent.
New York Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Donna Liebermann stated:
"While it appears at first blush to be a slick, fact-filled response, nothing in the report can dispute the reality that stop and frisk NYPD-style is targeted overwhelmingly at people of color, so innocent of any criminal wrongdoing, that all but 12 percent walk away without so much as a ticket."
Is this very controversial racial profiling policy really the way to catch criminals and make our streets safer? A twelve percent yield is not a winning outcome.
So why haven't Rambo tactics in black and brown communities, with police slamming people up against the wall to be spread-eagled, searched, insulted and demeaned, brought about better results?
White anti-racist Tim Wise, author and public speaker on White supremacy, wrote in his book Dear White America that Whites were more likely to use drugs than Blacks. When I read that, my mind went into a brain freeze. How is that possible? That can't be true. Pictures flashed through my mind: crack addicts selling their babies, women trading shocking, deviant sex acts for drugs, and violent junkies terrorizing neighborhoods. All those faces were black.
In 2000, Tim Wise wrote, "According to the Department of Health and Human Services, Whites are eleven percent more likely to have used drugs than Blacks and twenty-five percent more likely to have done so than Hispanics." He further reports that a National Drug Abuse Survey from the Centers for Disease Control found that Whites in high school were "seven times more likely than Blacks to have used cocaine or heroin, and six times more likely to have used methamphetamine.
In 2001, Wise revealed findings from the National Institutes on Drug Abuse, the Centers for Disease Control, and the Department of Health and Human Services, admitting the fact that contrary to popular belief, Whites were at least as likely, if not more likely, to use drugs than their black and brown stopped-and-frisked-like-a South-African kafir brethren.
Perhaps even more shocking came the statistic that it is more likely that a White male has carried a weapon in the last thirty days than…well, my husband.
As for drug dealers, according to the Justice Department, the culprits who are using and selling drugs are mostly White, middle-class males between the ages of 14 and 32. The image etched in my brain of crazy, scared White kids coming into black ghettoes to "score" exploded. Whites mostly buy from Whites and apparently keep it in their own middle-class suburbs or frat houses.
The obvious question at this point from all these government statistics is if a great deal of money has been spent to uncover these truths, why are the drug arrests and convictions so heavily skewed toward Black people. If the War on Drugs did not evolve out of a drug crisis, if the people targeted after a very racist media campaign are Black people and not Whites who are more likely to have drugs, if White people are toting guns (lest we not forget the gun-slinging NRA) more than Blacks, if they are guzzling drugs and selling them in the 'burbs—and let's not get into the wealthy who own the planes and banks that launder the money—if all that is true, then you mean to tell me that the face of crime in America is my Black husband. Really?
Using fear of "the other" as a chisel to carve out a hidden political agenda is boilerplate American strategy and nothing new. We can recognize this tactic today in the Republican racist dog whistles that serve to cement their political base. However, this Machiavellian strategy is as old as the scars of slavery itself.
It was in the beginning of the twentieth century that drugs became regulated. Before that, cocaine could be bought in a Sears Roebuck catalog for $1.50. Even though most of the addicted drug users were White women and war veterans whose doctors had prescribed the opiates, the face of drugs quickly became "the other."
There was much racial animus toward the immigrant Chinese and their opium dens, which were seen as a corrupting influence on the morals of White women. The scare tactic was the myth that the Asians were seducing these women into debauchery. This culture war against the Chinese, accused of taking White people's jobs, caused the city council of San Francisco to pass the first drug law. In 1875, they put a ban on smoking in the opium dens—meanwhile, the opiate laudunum, the drug of choice for many genteel White women (including Lincoln's addicted wife) remained legal.
The illogical differentiation of drugs smacks of the modern cocaine/crack discriminatory sentencing guidelines. The minimum sentencing guidelines for crack cocaine were a hundred times harsher than sentencing for powder cocaine. Crack, the cheaper drug more available in poor communities, put a majority of Black people away. The media made it appear that it was mostly Black people addicted to the drug, not Whites. In 1994, 96.5% of sentences for crack abuse were applied to non-Whites. This is the tricky part, though. David B. Kopel & Michael Krause write in an article, "The Drug War Against Civil Liberty and Human Rights":
"Yet statistics from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) reveal that most crack users are White. Of person reporting cocaine use (in anonymous surveys) in 1991, 75% were White; 15% Black and 10% Hispanic. In the same year, persons reporting crack use were 52%, White, 38% Black, and 10% Hispanic."
In 1914, when the federal government went on a campaign to regulate the production, sale, and distribution of opiates (an early twentieth century Drug War, so to speak) they knew that they did not have jurisdiction over criminal law. That was a matter for the states. However, they could tax, so they added a tax to the law. Further, in order to overcome objections by southern states-rights congressmen, they racialized the issue. Hence, the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act was born. A media campaign ensued to make the Black man the face of drug crime. Kopel and Krause report:
"The Harrison Act was…incited by newspapers which printed wildly racist headlines to drive up sales and to create panic about the rape of White women by Black men, high on cocaine. For example, a New York Times article titled, 'Negro Cocaine Fiends, New Southern Menace' claimed 'most of the attacks upon White women in the South are the direct result of the 'cocaine crazed' Negro brain."
They also warned against the Chinese and Hispanics who were charged with all kinds of vile characteristics that could threaten White people. They even said that the drug would create super-human powers and assigned police more lethal weaponry so that they could better subdue the "bogeymen"—shades of our militarized SWAT police force that developed as a result of the scare tactics of Reagan's Drug War.
If the face of crime in America is not the Black man, then what does it look like? How can we adjust our thinking about this pervasive lie?
At its inception, the United States began as a criminal enterprise: genocide of Native Americans for land, and the enslavement of African people for profit. These are some of the greatest atrocities in human history. The effects of that cynical barbarism remain with us today in big ways and small. For some, it may seem like a small thing that my husband has to bear the face of crime in America, that people cannot see him without contemplating his criminal status. You might say that he just needs to "get over it." Even if he could, I can't.
What I resent the most is that I was programmed to believe a lie that denigrates my very family. A lie that I live with daily. Many people believe that the past no longer matters and that I just need to bask in the embrace of the new White liberalism. I need to embrace my peach-white, miscegenated grandchildren and call it a day. Maybe they're right. However, I like the saying: "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes." In that regard, I take great care on how I put on my shoes in America, and tread ever so lightly on this bloody, appropriated soil.