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Across the U.S., temperatures are creeping higher, kids are out of school and the days are longer. This can only mean that summer is upon us.
For many, summer also means travel season. Whether you're traveling by plane, train or automobile for that vacation, you're likely to feel the pinch of rising travel costs.
If you've checked air travel recently, you will surely have noticed the increase in prices and fees even for domestic trips. The rising costs are mostly for all the usual reasons: fluctuating fuel costs and decreased domestic capacity. But according to Nicholas Kralev, author of the book Decoding Air Travel, airlines charge such fares for a simple reason.
"Because they can," Kralev tells weekends on All Things Considered guest host Jacki Lyden. "Airfare is now based on demand and supply ... very often if you fly very short distances, you do end paying a lot of money."
This is because airlines can afford to bump up the prices, Kralev says, as supply is limited.
According to industry trade publication Airlines For America, average ticket prices are actually lower than they were in the 1970s when adjusted for inflation. But Kralev says this is misleading since published fares don't include the taxes, fees and extra costs associated with air travel.
"[A] second bag to go to Europe is $100," he says. "How is that cheaper?"
Kralev says summer travelers can try and combat these costs by subscribing to fare alerts to inform them of price drops. They can also look for flights that might include out-of-the-way routes. It might take a little longer to get to your destination, he says, but those flights can sometimes cost half as much.
Hitting The Road
If higher airfare costs have you turned off from traveling by air, you might be thinking about packing up the car and taking to the open highways.
While it's certainly cheaper than air travel, you'll still have the higher prices at the gas pump to contend with (though the average price of gas is nearly 20 cents less than a month ago). But that's not the only thing to consider when planning your road trip.
Congress remains deadlocked over a new highway bill and there's a faint hope it will reach an agreement before the current bill funding transportation projects expires at the end of the month. With no agreement, highway projects across the nation will grind to a halt this summer.
As NPR's Brian Naylor reports, it wasn't too long ago that the highway bill was something all lawmakers – Republicans and Democrats – could agree on. That was before the "bridge to nowhere" gave earmarks a bad name and some conservatives started questioning whether the federal government should even be in the infrastructure business.
Now, the highway bill is stalled, putting projects like road repaving and bridge restorations on hold in many states.
The Senate has passed a two-year, $109 billion measure, but the House was unable to agree on bill. Republican leaders refuse to bring the Senate version to the floor.
If lawmakers can't agree on a bill by the end of the month, as seems likely, congressional leaders are expected to pass another temporary measure in order to fund projects until after the November election.
Riding The Rails
So if the roads are too bumpy, why not get off the road and go by rail. Unfortunately, rail travel is simply not what it used to be.
To understand what's happened to rail travel, you have to go back a bit to the National Railroad Passenger Corp. It was established under President Nixon when it looked like the golden days of U.S. railroads were fading.
Essentially, it was a government takeover of what was left of the passenger rail industry. It was quickly rebranded though to what we now know as Amtrak.
"It was an attempt by the federal government to make sure that the passenger rail network, which was very robust in the years before World War II, but which was facing steady decline, was still available in many metropolitan areas," says Robert Puentes, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
Amtrak was supposed to be a short-term fix, Puentes says. Rail travel was basically on life support at the time, with 75 percent of passenger-train mileage having disappeared between 1958 and the early 1970s.
Amtrak still runs most of the rail travel in the U.S., but improvements to speed and new destinations has been slow going.
In his 2010 State of the Union address, President Obama praised investment in the nation's high-speed rail program. But newly elected governors in Florida, Ohio and Wisconsin all rejected funds for high-speed rail projects, putting the future of rail travel in those states on indefinite hold.
Improving Infrastructure
Much of the travel infrastructure in the U.S. was built at a time when the population was about 50 million people less than it is today. One needs only to travel during a holiday to see how congested both the roadways and airlines have become.
All is not lost, however. Puentes tells NPR's Lyden that though movement in Washington has slowed, state governments and metropolitan areas are taking steps to improve travel at the local level.
"You do see a lot of innovation," he says. "Governors in Michigan and Virginia and in other states ... are starting to look very differently at their transportation network [and] starting to see investments in transit and some other technological innovations."
If successful at the local level, he says, perhaps the federal government will follow their lead.
It's WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Jacki Lyden, in for Guy Raz.
And let me recreate an experience I had a few weeks ago that perhaps you've had as well this summer. You check in on one of those travel websites like KAYAK or Orbitz or Priceline. And let's look up DCA to Milwaukee, MKE.
On every segment, I'm getting over $200. That means a $400 roundtrip ticket. For two people, that's $800. Then we have to pay extra for our bags. Figured 25 bucks apiece, that's another 50. Both ways, now it's 100 - $900, and that doesn't even include taxes on the airfare or perhaps, you know, we're going to take the metro to save money, right? You know, it's 1,000 bucks just to go home to Milwaukee. So you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to get in the car.
WOODY GUTHRIE: (Singing) I've been hittin' some hard travelin', I thought you knowed.
LYDEN: Which raises the question: Why is the cost of travel, economic and psychic, seem higher than ever? We're going to talk planes and trains in a moment. But if you're like me, you're hitting the road this summer, good luck with those potholes - they're not getting any smaller.
Congress remains deadlocked over a new highway bill, and there's a faint hope that they'll reach an agreement before the current bill funding transportation project expires at the end of the month.
Without an agreement, highway projects across the nation will grind to a halt this summer, idling thousands of workers. NPR's Brian Naylor has more.
BRIAN NAYLOR, BYLINE: Back in the not-too-distant past, the highway bill was something that all lawmakers - senators and Congress people, Republicans and Democrats - could agree on. After all, what was not to like about the prospect of bringing hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars back to your district or state to repave a bumpy highway, fix a crumbling bridge or build a new bike path?
But that was before the bridge to nowhere gave earmarks a bad name and some conservatives started questioning whether the federal government should even be in the infrastructure business. Now, the highway bill is stalled, as the headline writers are fond of saying. The Senate has passed a $109 billion two-year measure, the House was unable to agree on a bill, and Republican leaders there won't bring the Senate version to the floor. This week, a consortium of construction interests began running ads in some congressmen's districts, urging listeners to urge their lawmakers to act.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Look out the window. More than 600 bridges in the Oklahoma City area needs significant repairs. But time is running out. Federal investment for Oklahoma's transportation programs ends on June 30th unless Congress acts now. Will Congressman James Lankford be part of the problem or part of Oklahoma's transportation solution?
NAYLOR: Oklahoma Republican James Lankford was unmoved. He told reporters his office had received as many as three calls as a result of the ad.
REPRESENTATIVE JAMES LANKFORD: And I've yet to have a person that didn't hang up the phone and say stick to your guns. So these ads that they're running telling us to try to get something done have actually, I think, backfired on them to solidify our base.
NAYLOR: Hence, Republicans are insisting that elimination of some environmental reviews and approval of the Keystone Pipeline be included in the measure. Democrats call those demands extremist. If, as seems likely, lawmakers can't agree on a bill by the end of the month, congressional leaders are expected to try to pass another temporary measure to fund projects until after the November election. Brian Naylor, NPR News, Washington.
GUTHRIE: (Singing) I've been walking that Lincoln highway, I thought you knowed.
LYDEN: Well, even though highways might not be in great shape, a road trip can, as we mentioned, be cheaper than flying. That's for all the usual reasons - fluctuating fuel costs, decreased domestic capacity - but in other ways, it's much more simple.
I put this question to airfare savant Nicholas Kralev. He's the author of the book "Decoding Air Travel." We asked him, why do airlines charge such high fees?
NICHOLAS KRALEV: Because they can.
LYDEN: I was afraid of that.
KRALEV: Airfare is now based on demand and supply because the airline industry hasn't been regulated since the 1970s. And so very often if you fly very short distances, you do end up paying a lot of money because the airlines can afford to bump up the prices because supply is just so limited.
LYDEN: Now, it seems as if airfare is more expensive - and if you would (unintelligible) for today's dollars, you know, it's relatively cheap. According to a trade magazine, Airlines for America, if the average fare in 1979 had kept pace with inflation, an average ticket today would cost $625. It actually cost an average of $365 last year. So should we think we're getting things cheap?
KRALEV: To be honest, I don't like these average things and generalizations because how does it affect you? Yes, fares that are published may be relatively lower, but there are all these extra fees now for luggage. The second bag to go to Europe, for example, is $100. How is that cheaper? I mean, it's not.
LYDEN: Nicholas Kralev, you travel all over the world, and you spend a lot of time outside the U.S. looking at travel. How are we doing with our infrastructure, would you say, for transport compared to these other countries?
KRALEV: For a first world country and the world's most powerful country and the largest economy, not too well. It was interesting that particularly in the '90s, the American Airlines decided that they would focus on quantity rather than quality.
And so you see packed planes, you see cutbacks in service, and it sounds ridiculous when people don't even expect to get pretzels on the plane. But if you ask a frequent traveler, particularly business traveler, would you choose first class on a U.S. airline or an Asian airline? Of course, the answer would be Asian airline.
LYDEN: So if airlines can charge what they do simply because they can, what alternative do we have?
KRALEV: There are a couple of things we can do. And the first one is to subscribe to fare alerts. There are actually websites you can program - and I explain that in the book - how to, every time a fare drops, receive an email. And if you know you're going to go to that place more than once, get more than one ticket.
I once got a fare of $36 to Phoenix from Washington. That is something that you should not be missed, and I bought two or three tickets that time. That sort of a peculiar routing might save you money. For example, if you need to go to Milwaukee, nobody will think about going through Las Vegas because it's way out of the way, right?
LYDEN: Mm-hmm.
KRALEV: But if your fare to Milwaukee is 800 or $1,000, what if going through Vegas cut that price in half and you don't have to buy two separate tickets? And one last thing - sometimes I've noticed that shockingly, it may be cheaper to fly first class than coach. I know it doesn't make sense. But this past week, there was a fare from Orlando to Chicago, $200 first class. Well, guess what? The last minute, economy available was $300 each way. But who thinks of searching first class? We think it's outlandish, right? Well, sometimes it's not.
LYDEN: Nicholas Kralev. More tips are found in his book "Decoding Air Travel: A Guide to Saving on Airfare and Flying in Luxury."
LYDEN: To the rails now, the story of why rail travel isn't what it used to be is just that simple: It isn't what it used to be. Let's explain. Ever heard of the National Railroad Passenger Corporation?
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: East or west, north or south, past farm and village, through town and city, the railroads make America move.
LYDEN: The National Railroad Passenger Corporation was established under President Nixon in 1971 when it looked like the golden days of U.S. railroads were fading. It was essentially a government takeover of what was left of the passenger rail industry. It was quickly rebranded, though.
ROBERT PUENTES: Amtrak - and it was an attempt by the federal government to make sure that passenger rail network, which was very robust in the years before World War II, but which was facing steady decline, was still available in many metropolitan areas.
LYDEN: Robert Puentes is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. It was supposed to be a short-term fix. Rail travel was essentially on life support at the time - 75 percent of passenger-train mileage have disappeared between 1958 and the early '70s.
PUENTES: You know, there probably was some kind of feeling that the passenger rail network was...
LYDEN: Passe.
PUENTES: ...passe. Well, just really was not the gleaming new technological transportation investments that were being made all across the United States at the time.
LYDEN: Let's fast forward to 2010 with a clip from Barack Obama's first State of the Union address.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: There's no reason Europe or China should have the fastest trains or the new factories that manufacture clean energy products. Tomorrow, I'll visit Tampa, Florida, where workers will soon break ground on a new high-speed railroad funded by the Recovery Act. There are projects like that all across this country that will create jobs and help move our nation's goods, services, and information.
LYDEN: That sounds pretty good, Robert Puentes. What happened?
PUENTES: Clearly, the national economic challenges kind of overwhelmed everything. But the important thing to remember is the way that the high-speed rail program came together is this money was actually held and was put into a competition so states in particular had to apply for the funds.
LYDEN: In fact, let me give you a couple of examples. Rick Scott in Florida, governor, rejects high-speed rail as does John Kasich in Ohio, Scott Walker in Wisconsin, all these newly elected governors - the fall after the president's State of the Union remarks - all replaced governors who'd lobbied for hundreds of millions of dollars in high-speed rail funds.
PUENTES: Yeah. But each of those states, it's important to remember, actually applied for the funds. So I think that the way that it was framed, that the federal government was trying to shove money into these places that didn't want it was - is disingenuous.
LYDEN: I want to ask you another question. You're an expert on infrastructure, and we're a country whose core infrastructure was built at a time when our population was, what, 250 million? We're over 300 million now. You only have to get out there to know that things are congested. We have a problem whether it's trains, planes or automobiles. But politically, there's no movement. When could we see that change?
PUENTES: There's no doubt there's little movement here in Washington. But when you leave Washington and you look at what's happening in states in metropolitan areas, you do see a lot of innovation. You see governors in Michigan and in Virginia and in other states that are starting to look very differently at their transportation network. You're starting to see investments in transit and some other technological innovations that may not be as sexy but squeeze so much out of the system.
So I think the federal government still has a lot of work to do, and I think they're ready to do that work probably past the election. But I think the federal government is going to recognize what's happening in states and metropolitan areas and capitalize on all the innovations out there.
LYDEN: Robert Puentes, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
GUTHRIE: (Singing) I've been hitting some hard travelin', I thought you knowed.
LYDEN: And a correction from our cover story yesterday in which we reported on the decline in union membership. We got some of our numbers wrong. We said that 12 percent of today's workforce belongs to private unions. In fact, that number refers to both private and public sector workers with just 7 percent of private sector workers belonging to unions.
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If you ask my mom how I got started in geology, she'd tell you that it began with her taking 3-year-old me to see landslides coming off steep hillslopes during the spring thaw. That makes a nice story, but its not the real reason I got sucked into geology. Truth be told, I picked geology because it was the field of science my parents knew nothing about.
In my hometown public school system, the smart kids were herded towards doing in-depth middle school science fair projects. There was a wonderful teacher who helped us find projects and mentors, and taught us the art of visual displays and public teaching. As the child of two scientists, I was a natural fit for the program. There was only one problem: I didn't want to do anything with which my parents could help. That was my mild form of early teenage rebellion. With my parents' expertise in biology, chemistry and computer science, I felt I only had one choice: physics. But physics had too much math for my taste. (Little did I know just how mathy geology can be.)
Then a family friend suggested a geology project, I took it and ran with it, and the rest is history. My family friend was a resident of the Bayfield Peninsula, which juts up into Lake Superior from northern Wisconsin. Our friend was a sailor and nature enthusiast, and he pointed out that all of the rock cliffs along the lakeshore had right-angle fractures. He wanted to know why.
That question was the inspiration for my first real science fair project was "Fracture characteristics and geologic history of the Chequamegon Sandstone (Bayfield Group, Late Precambrian)." I collected dozens of stones from the rocky beaches of Madeline Island, where the Chequamegon Sandstone is exposed. I measured the angles between all sides of the stones, and tried to correlate them with grain size, induration and other characteristics. I made my first and last thin sections and I sieved samples using the same sort of Ro-Tap machine I now teach students to use. I also learned about things like properties of non-crystalline materials, the North American Mid-continental rift sytem, paleocurrents, and Pleistocene glaciations.
I don't think my conclusions were particularly startling to people who knew anything about rocks. The rocks generally broke along their bed planes, and then at 90 degrees from their bedding, with more than 50% of the rocks exhibiting fractures between 80 and 100 degrees from bedding. Secondary modes were 60 and 120 degrees from bedding. More tightly indurated rocks had a higher propensity to have obtuse fracture angles.
That first project led to a second project, a year later: "Strength, porosity and fractures in the Chequamegon, Mount Simon, and Eau Claire Formations," in which I contrasted the materials properties of two building stones and an aquifer. Then the Mississippi River floods of 1993 pretty permanently steered my interest from ancient rocks and materials properties towards the more dynamic modern landscape. I've never again worked on rocks within an order of magnitude as old as my first rocks, and these days I'm more apt to think about the water flowing over and through rocks than the rocks themselves. But sometimes I'm in the field, and my eyes will be drawn to an outcrop, boulder, or piece of float. And I still find myself silently inspired by the amount of geologic history that rock has experienced to end up in the stream bed, hillslope or lakeshore obeying simple laws of physics.

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My baby and I have been able to reach the 1 year mark of pure breastfeeding just a few days ago. I work from home for 3 days so I am able to directly feed her and on days that I go to office, she drinks expressed milk. I've been reading up a lot (esp fr LLLI) to make sure we maximize the benefits of breastfeeding. Since this is my first baby and first time in bf, I'm quite paranoid on how much my milk supply really is. It's a struggle to trust my body to make enough milk for my daughter - so I've been regularly taking Moringa Oleifera Lam capsules. I also drink mother's milk tea when I notice a drastic drop in my supply. Starting our 10th month (when DD also had 2 round of high fever which caused her weight to drop significantly), I noticed that my already decent pumping output of 5-6oz dropped to 3-4.5oz --- now I know that this should not be taken as the exact measurement of my supply but i really cannot help but notice the change and be extremely worried. Now, when i am away which is about 10hrs) DD only takes 9-10oz. When we are together, we have around 2 sessions of 20min nursing during the day and abt 2 "snack" nirsing of 5-10mins.
My husband and I are on the short side, both only stand at 5"4ft. My baby has been between the 10th and 25th percentile in the WHO growth charts (which I use to track her growth). She is one extremely happy and active baby, and has been really good at hitting milestones (she is now walking on her own). We've been seeing an endocrinologist 2x now and on the last check up which was a few days after she turned1, she told me that it's time to wean her off. My heart literally broke when I heard this as I really really struggled to ensure that my baby gets only the best milk! The doc explained using the WHO charts that she fell below the 5th percentile and so she is advising that the quantity and quality of my breastmilk may not be sufficient for my DD anymore. She explained to me
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July 07. 2013 8:01PM
Nashua church throws a summer block party
By BARBARA TAORMINA
Union Leader Correspondent
Charlie Short, 4, of Nashua, shoots a ping pong ball with a slingshot in a homemade kids arcade of biblical theme games at Calvary Chapel's neighborhood block party. (BARBARA TAORMINA PHOTO)
With hoses spraying cool water, Santos singing cool '50s style versions of religious songs and volunteers doling out watermelon, frozen yogurt, lemonade and all sorts of other free treats, Nashua's Calvary Chapel on Bridge Street invited the neighborhood and anyone passing by to join them for a summer block party.
"We just felt we were supposed to do this," said Maria Boren, who along with her husband, Pastor Scott Boren, founded the church in Nashua back in 1996. "It's a tough world and we just want to love on people."
And if they convince a few people to join them at a Sunday service, well that's good too, but there wasn't any pressure on any of their guests to do that. Just a reminders here and there that the church door is open and everyone is always welcomed.
The Borens, who came to Nashua by way of Philadelphia, said they felt called to start their church in New Hampshire. Members originally met in the Borens' kitchen but in 1999, they set up in a mill building at 48 Bridge St., where they've been ever since.
"One of the biggest complaints I hear from people is, 'I never knew you were here,' " said Scott Boren. "So we decided to go out to the highways and byways, make some noise and let people know we are here."
The church, which has somewhere from 40 to 50 members, is tiny and both Borens acknowledge if they had more members and more support they could do more work in the community.
But they're also going full throttle with their current resources, volunteers and friends and that allows them to do a lot of reaching out to people in need.
Like other Calvary Chapels throughout the United States, the Nashua church is affiliated with Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa, Calif. Although each church is separate and independent they share a similar approach and mission.
"We teach the Bible, verse by verse, book by book," said Scott Boren. "It's not the church that helps people or changes lives, it's Jesus."
And what the Borens understand most is that life is difficult and people need support and understanding. They feel they can help people tap into some of that support from God by reading the Bible.
Booby Shifflett, who has been a member of the church for several years, said it's the open atmosphere of friendship that drew him in.
"I went to another church but I never found my place there," he said. "When I came here, I felt like I was home."
And a lot of the guests at the block party who were not church members seemed to feel very at home. Kids played in a makeshift arcade at Biblical themed games. They could blow down the walls of Jericho with a plastic horn, shoot down cans with a sling shot in David and Goliath style or fish for play fish like the apostles.
Brenda Weber, a founding church member who was making the rounds with some animal puppets, said the church focuses on the positive lessons on the Bible.
"There are some thing we don't understand but the things we do understand will keep us busy for the rest of our lives," she said. And reaching out to people with friends like Santos, a former member of the '50s band Dion and the Belmonts, who may be best known for the 1961 hit, "Run Around Sue," helps.
Despite the heat, Santos had people up dancing and clapping to his doo-wop style hymns. "We just want to share the love of Christ," said Marie Boren. "People need to know they are loved."


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MI-5 "Agenda" As a dangerous Muslim extremist wins his battle to stay in the UK, a gunman shoots him down. An explosion in a cafe kills more Muslims and a Christian group called The Sons of Phineas claims it is behind the attacks. Adam and the team trace the group to a bishop who is advising the Prime Minister. Adam goes undercover to learn more. Meanwhile Mossad (the Israeli secret service) is also investigating The Sons of Phineas.G
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Land Girls "Displaced Loyalties" Bea falls for an Italian POW, and Connie flirts with a bashful piano player. Meanwhile Martin's accident produces more trouble and Lady Hoxley's sister snags herself a wealthy American admirer.G
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Volume I: Foundational Body-Mind Practices for Strength and Well Being
With The Yoga of Awakening three-volume training series, Seane Corn makes available for the first time her complete program for entering the deeper dimensions of yoga—and discovering our own vast capacities of consciousness, empowerment, and connection. Each DVD guides us into a unique realm of consciousness—the physical-mental, the emotional-energetic, and the psychic-symbolic—to discover our full potential in each dimension.
Volume I, Body-Mind Flow, teaches the foundational practices of the series. DVD One provides all-level instruction in Vinyasa flow yoga and on awareness of the body for inner discovery and healing. DVD Two offers more advanced practice to stabilize your foundation, deepen the body-mind connection, and release tension. With precise and easy-to-follow guidance, you'll learn how to:
- Build each pose from the ground up while tuning into the body-mind
- Harmonize movement, breathing, and awareness
- Work with your physical "edges" to release stuck emotions
- Create strength and well-being—physically and spiritually
Each DVD has been designed for use at either the beginner level or as a sweat-inducing advanced workout—and includes a music-only option for undistracted practice. Features music by Suzanne Sterling.
"Seane Corn is a passionate and refreshingly straightforward voice of contemporary yoga and spirituality. In her The Yoga of Awakening series, she guides us beyond the body and into the true heart of our being. No one teaches love, nor demonstrates it, more beautifully than Seane." —Marianne Williamson
"Seane Corn is one of the most exceptionally gifted yoga instructors in America. She is not only highly educated in yoga as an Eastern spiritual discipline, she is a natural born teacher who creates an atmosphere of grace, healing, and superb yoga instruction in every class with sincerity of intent and devotion to her practice. I feel very privileged to know Seane and have her as a yoga instructor. I am also honored to call her a friend. She is a gracious and gentle person whose commitment to her work and to helping others is a blessing to all who know her." —Caroline Myss
"Seane Corn is one of the great spiritual leaders of our time. With a heart of gold, a spirit filled with grace, and feet that stay solidly on the ground, she has battled through the trials of life to emerge victorious and lead others into liberation. A true evolutionary leader of the heart, her down to earth teachings inspire people to their best and highest, from beginners to advanced alike." —Anodea Judith
"It doesn't matter if you practice for minutes or hours. It's not about the application—it's about our attitude." —Seane Corn
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- Great! Review by Külli
I have just finished the full practice and absolutely loved it. Sean's talks and wisdom lead you perfectly into the practice, it's worth listening to all the parts of the recording. I found both the beginner and advanced practices to have just the right amount of challenge to be a great workout physically but at the same time the mystical and spiritual aspect of Sean's teaching offers so much more than just a physical workout.
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- A great teacher Review by Tara
A phenomenal sequence from a great teacher. From my perspective, Sean's core instruction comes through loud and clear, and the straightforward style and filming only adds to the power of this program. It has helped me inhabit my body and being more deeply, and I've only begun. Thank you.
(Posted on 10/17/2016)
- Review for The Yoga of Awakening: Body-Mind Flow Review by Beverly B
This is a serious asset to my personal yoga practice.
(Posted on 10/26/2014)
- Review for The Yoga of Awakening: Body-Mind Flow Review by Alice Lam
I was so moved by Seane Corne's words of wisdom and compassion on recent the Awake In The World that I had to buy this video. I was looking forward to a yoga program that would be help me to be more aware of my body as well as developing strength and flexibility. Unfortunately, I think this video could have benefitted from an Absolute Beginners workout (perhaps modified poses, and at a slower pace) as I really have little yoga experience, so found many of the poses too difficult so struggled through rather than enjoying the whole experience. I hope Seane will consider producing such a video as really would like yoga to be part of my regular spiritual and health routine.
(Posted on 10/23/2014)
- Review for The Yoga of Awakening: Body-Mind Flow Review by Clarence W
I have not completely reviewed the whole DVD, but I really like her teaching style and content.
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Seane has a way with words and yoga practice that takes the practice for the individual to a deeper, more meaningful, personal level. Her authentic tone and descriptive instruction help you to feel held and guided in a way that I personally have never experienced in a yoga class. To be able to experience such a moving practice in the comfort of my own home, I never thought possible, Seane is opening me up to this and many more possibilities with her gifted way of teaching , I can't wait for the next volumes. This purchase is one you will not regret and will pay for itself over and over again, each time you practice, and even more so when you're not practicing, as her words have a way of sticking with you in your daily life and experiences. Seane, I am forever grateful; it was a blessing to see you in person at The Wake Up Festival this year. I hope your family is safe and well.
(Posted on 9/16/2014)
- Review for The Yoga of Awakening: Body-Mind Flow Review by Sharon L
As always Sean is phenominal and an inspriation.
(Posted on 8/26/2014)
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I love Seane Corn and highly recommend her Body Mind Flow DVD. She is a great yoga teacher and inspiring leader in the world.
(Posted on 8/20/2014)
- Review for The Yoga of Awakening: Body-Mind Flow Review by Lily H
I am in love with the training on Seane Corne's DVD. I feel privileged to have her in my home, just in front of me. I am enjoying the yoga and love the grounded feeling that I felt. Thank you thank you!
(Posted on 8/17/2014)
- Review for The Yoga of Awakening: Body-Mind Flow Review by Byron W
A must see for anyone seeking more meaning and spirit on the yoga mat.
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Listen to the interview. It's worth it.
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Fantastic explanations and easy to follow videos.
(Posted on 7/28/2014)
- Review for The Yoga of Awakening: Body-Mind Flow Review by Erin
Much of this offering explains on a deep level the mystery of yoga. It helped me personally to deeply understand the integral process of the practice of yoga. Yoga, when practiced more deeply connects us all with the somatic bodily experience, the vulnerable emotional energetic experience and captures how yoga marries with the beautiful union of divinity within us all. This deep, all encompassing expression of yoga, in my humble opinion is the grace and open way of being that we all need when we are on and off of our mats. The beauty of allowing ourselves to vulnerably transform and open to grace which ultimately sets us free from any kind of pain we all experience on this journey of life here on Earth. I am very thankful for this offering and will tell all I know and care for about it. Blessings, Erin
(Posted on 5/5/2014)
- Review for The Yoga of Awakening: Body-Mind Flow Review by sasha b. cohen
WOW! everything about seane's new dvd is extraordinarily brilliant!! from the potent content, to the gorgeous, yet simple, aesthetics, to the soothing music from suzanne sterling, this is a journey to be taken. not only will you benefit from seane's commitment to this path of truth & love, but you will also be able to witness a beautiful yogini on her mat, practicing in the most dedicated, mindful and conscious form. seane's incredible gift of articulation, authenticity, passion, compassion & love, are the qualities all of us need for healing...
thank you seane and sounds true for this masterful piece of work. deepest blessings...
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Down the mission route-to-streetcar suburb-turned-autopia-strips that comprise San Gabriel, past the endless parade of the hugest big-box retail this side of Wal-Mart lies Lu Din Gee. Aram made special arrangements for us to join him there in honor of his return to good health.
The featured dish and strip mall setting are about all it shares in common with another palace of roasted Peking duck (OK, Beijing to be current) I visited across the country last year. No older men in red polyester waiter jackets are in sight. Instead it's twentysomethings with spiked hair and black-on-black outfits taking care of the customers, who are seated in the modestly sized room that's awash in goldenrod and furnished with slick lacquer pieces. The bathroom sink isn't just a basin; it's practically a mini water feature, complete with a sluice and plants.
The birds arrive at the table sliced and plated into tidy mounds surrounded by what's for me the Main Event -- glossy sheets of crisp, sweet and faintly smoky skin. The lazy Susan goes round and around so that we can all get access to the essential components: duck, wispy scallions, and thick fermented bean sauce.
And that's only part of the deal. Nothing goes to waste and Lu Din Gee. I also eat what feels like mounds of bean sprouts sauteed with soft bits of the meat extras, and I slurp down spoonfuls of the milky soup, the rich and soft flavor of which comes from the bones. Then there's the hearty formidable fried fish balls with their complex layers and many textures in each bite.
I'm glad I proposed that we cruise down Las Tunas and Main Street to grab some cones at Fosselman's. More evidence that celebrating being well doesn't necessarily require healthy food.
Lu Din Gee Restaurant
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Multiplayer game lets anyone go on a virtual rescue mission
Suit up, astronaut! Yes, they may have to let your spacesuit out a bit, but that doesn't matter. NASA is looking for astronauts, and having just returned from the brand new moonbase deep inside Shackleton Crater, I can say that there's a lot of work to be done, lives to be saved, and glory to be won.
Although landing on the real moon may be a ways off, we can all experience the joys and danger of space exploration with NASA's new game, Moonbase Alpha. This is no little Lunar Lander game either. Moonbase Alpha was created by the same people who made America's Army. In fact, the Army Game Studio produced Moonbase Alpha with development by Virtual Heroes, a division of Applied Research Associates in Research Triangle Park, N.C. The game is available for free on Steam, the premier distribution site for PC gamers. It was fun to see the NASA game downloaded using the same system I use for Mass Effect, Modern Warfare and Splinter Cell, even if it came with a warning that "this software is property of the United States Government."
The game itself is fully in 3D and looks exactly how you would imagine the moon would look. There is even that low-gravity effect that makes it seem like you're walking in slow motion, though you can jump pretty far.
Right now there is only one mission, but it can grow or shrink in size and complexity to provide some variety. NASA says that more missions may be added in the future, depending on the popularity of the game. Larger games can be played by more than one person at the same time, which makes it kind of like a moon-based Massively Multiplayer Online game.
Here's the scenario: An asteroid slams into your oxygen processing machines at the start of the game. The impact shreds power cables busts solar panels and fries circuits, which leads to the people inside the base starting to run out of air. You have to fix the problems, and fast. In 25 minutes, it will all be over. You have a variety of tools available for this purpose, including robots you can send into hostile areas and hand-held implements (welding torches and wrenches for example) for close-quarter work. .
In multiplayer games with large maps, up to six players can try to tackle the problems, with teamwork making or breaking your efforts. There is even a command center module that one astronaut can commandeer; the module will let them remotely drive rovers to speed repair teams of players to hotspots. Working together with others reminded us of more traditional MMOs, only without the monsters. Groups and individuals are scored and ranked on leaderboards based on how quickly they get the oxygen processors back up to speed. Of course, if your entire moonbase team suffocates, you get no points.
The fact that there are so many people playing bodes well for NASA's new game. A couple of days after launch I found more than 30 active servers filled with players looking for teammates. Jumping into a game was easy, and everyone I encountered was friendly. Quite a few of the players seemed to be engineers in real life, since they knew some tips and tricks about how to get things working quickly, or perhaps they just played the game a lot.
The game provides a smaller, less complex map so you can play solo offline. You can enjoy that by itself or use it for practice before trying to jump into a larger online game. After all, nobody wants to be the newbie who brings a wrench to a welding job. I would recommend new players try this at least once to get familiar with the interface and the challenges before offering your services to a team. There are virtual lives at stake.
As a proof-of-concept title being distributed for free by NASA, Moonbase Alpha is pretty good. If NASA wants to keep its community of players happy, the agency should rush forward with some new levels and different missions before that excitement cools off, which happens like lightning in most MMO communities. I for one will be waiting.
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The game is an effective use of American taxpayer's money to promote
the NASA Administrator's interpretation of Obama's "Cairo Initiative." The Administrator stated "perhaps foremost, he [Obama] wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with predominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math, and engineering." An international gaming community of Muslims will promote peace, harmony, and a better world. While one generation of Americans went to the moon another will export games. Who can doubt that this game as a gift from America will make the Muslim world feel good about America?
Windows only? I would think our young generation of scientists would be playing on Macs after laying out their LaTeX on their iPads between chess moves in the park :-) Seriously does look cool, and I think the game is a fantastic idea to get people interested, but I do wish it was cross-platform so I could get my kids and their classmates in on it. People need to realize NASA has to do a lot of marketing to keep the dollars flowing for their wrk. You may thing their mission waivers from time to time, and you may disagree with the President's directives, but there is little denying they are critical to the long term scientific advancement of this nation and all humanity, and to do that they need the attention of young minds.
Seems NASA is having some trouble trying to figure out what its mission is lately. Since we are no longer going into space I guess We'll have to be satisfied with games produced through taxpayer dollars. Glad to see such productive uses of tax money.
I keep hearing the theme from "Space: 1999".
I've played this for the last couple days. I'm having an awesome time with a core group that I met online. We have it down to fixing the entire station on hard mode in 17 minutes. We are trying to trim off seconds and make the leaderboards. Watch out for THE BLUE CREW!
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The horrible and heartbreaking events in Japan present a strange concatenation of disasters. First, the planet unleashed one of its primordial shocks, an earthquake, of a magnitude greater than any previously recorded in Japan. The earthquake, in turn, created the colossal tsunami, which, when it struck the country's northeastern shores, pulverized everything in its path, forming a filthy wave made of mud, cars, buildings, houses, airplanes and other debris. In part because the earthquake had just lowered the level of the land by two feet, the wave rolled as far as six miles inland, killing thousands of people. In a stupefying demonstration of its power, as the New York Times has reported, the earthquake moved parts of Japan thirteen feet eastward, slightly shifted the earth's axis and actually shortened each day that passes on earth, if only infinitesimally (by 1.8 milliseconds).
But this was not all. Another shock soon followed. Succumbing to the one-two punch of the earthquake and the tsunami, eleven of Japan's fifty-four nuclear power reactors were shut down. At this writing, three of them have lost coolant to their cores and have experienced partial meltdowns. The same three have also suffered large explosions. The spent fuel in a fourth caught fire. Now a second filthy wave is beginning to roll—this one composed of radioactive elements in the atmosphere. They include unknown amounts of cesium-137 and iodine-131, which can only have originated in the melting cores or in nearby spent fuel rod pools. Both are dangerous to human health. The Japanese government has evacuated some 200,000 people in the vicinity of the plants and issued potassium iodide pills, which prevent the uptake of radioactive iodine. The US carrier USS Ronald Reagan had to change course when it sailed into a radioactive cloud.
The second shock was, of course, different from the first in at least one fundamental respect. The first was dealt by Mother Nature, who has thus reminded us of her sovereign power to nourish or punish our delicate planet, its axis now tipping ever so slightly in a new direction. No finger of blame can be pointed at any perpetrator. The second shock, on the other hand, is the product of humankind, and involves human responsibility. Until the human species stepped in, there was no appreciable release of atomic energy from nuclear fission or fusion on earth. It took human hands to introduce it into the midst of terrestrial affairs. That happened sixty-six years ago, also in Japan, when the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. At the time, Harry Truman used language that is worth pondering today. "It is an atomic bomb," he said. "It is a harnessing of the basic power of the universe. The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East." Japan's prime minister, Naoto Kan, referred to the atomic bombings by implication when he stated that the current crisis was the worst for Japan "since the Second World War."
For some years afterward, atomic energy was understood mainly to be an inconceivably malign force—as the potential source of a sort of man-made equivalent of earthquakes, and worse. In the 1950s, however, when nuclear power plants were first built, an attempt began to find a bright side to the atom. (In 1956 Walt Disney even made a cartoon called Our Friend the Atom.) A key turning point was President Dwight Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace proposal in 1953, which required nuclear-armed nations to sell nuclear power technology to other nations in exchange for following certain nonproliferation rules. This bargain is now enshrined in the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, which promotes nuclear power even as it discourages nuclear weapons.


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Now, we have an opportunity to relieve Laura of some of her financial stress by attending a benefit in her honor on Monday, May 3, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Trattoria Simpatico. All of the proceeds will go toward her expenses.
All you Hawkeye and Radar fans take note, for the theme of the event will be the 1970s television show, M*A*S*H, and although costumes are optional, there will be a prize for the best M*A*S*H costume.
Some items have already been donated for a raffle and live auction, but more would be appreciated. If you or your business would like to give antiques, new items or services to the raffle and auction, contact Mary Wright at 423-1586 or at firstname.lastname@example.com as soon as possible.
With the May 1 and 2 Jamestown Community Chorus concerts about to take flight, Director B.J. Whitehouse wants to be assured that the audience will be knowledgeable about the subject of the program, "This One's for the Birds."
He says that the term a "flock" of birds is rather bland.
"As a matter of fact, 'flock' can be used only with parrots, pigeons and swifts. Most bird species have their own peculiar collective name. For example, you may see a host of sparrows or murmuration of starlings. A cover of Coots or a kettle of nighthawks. Can you identify the following collective name with the appropriate species?
1. Murder
2. Covey
3. Parliament
4. Exaltation
5. Tidings
6. Walk
7. Ostentation
Answers are at the bottom of the column.
Three Labs wear the first three dog tags on the island. Lily has number 1; Steamer, number 2; and Jake, number 3. Our vallhund, Joshua, is proudly wearing number 302.
The deadline for dog registration is April 30.
We were told that our new town clerk Cheryl Fernstrom's Lab, Max, is the number 1 dog in Exeter.
Sunny Hocutt wonders how many readers know Tiger Woods' given name?
C'mon guys, Janet LaMantia tells us she received no response to her request to borrow acoustic guitars for the Lawn Avenue School's annual Island Treasures Day on May 20. The guitars will be used just for the day and will be handled very gently. Help the students out by calling Janet at 423-3988 or by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com or contact Lisa Carlisle at 423-3353 or at email@example.com.
In addition to the coyotes, we've heard that we may have another pest species living with us on the island. It's possible that the fisher cat has made its way over the bridge and is now a part of our animal population. A fisher cat was photographed in North Kingstown some time ago and a friend of ours who lives in the Bonnet told us the animal is often seen along the shoreline from Saunderstown to Narragansett.
Google tells us that years ago, the fisher cat was heavily hunted for its fur. Then, the government stepped in and restricted hunting and trapping the animal. It is a medium sized mammal related to, but larger than, the American marten. It is agile in trees and has a slender body that enables it to pursue prey in hollow trees or to burrow into the ground. In spite of its name, it seldom eats fish.
It is most active during the day, though an island resident told us he heard its awful screech in the middle of the night. The fisher is a solitary generalist predator and will feed on any animal it can catch. It will also eat carrion. Attacks on humans are very rare, but it will prey on pets like cats and dogs.
Peter Pemantell writes in response to Sam Bari's question about the flip side of "Blue Suede Shoes."
"It was 'Tutti Frutti.' I am not sure who wrote 'Tutti Frutti,' but I know that Carl Perkins wrote 'Blue Suede Shoes' when I was 10 or 11 years old and that would put us at about 1955 or 1956."
For all you hard-core environmentalists out there, the volcano in Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull glacier is showing everyone who's really boss!
Nancy O'Brien recalls that she did her student teaching at the Lawn Avenue School in the third grade, under Ida Richards. "Mrs. Brazil was the second-grade teacher and Mrs. Grace Smith was the first-grade teacher for sure!"
Kudos to islander Jessica Rudman, a member of the ProJo's All-State girls swimming 400- yard freestyle relay team at North Kingstown High School. The quartet won the 400-yard freestyle relay at the state meet with a fivesecond margin of victory and finished second in the 200-yard medley relay.
Caption in last Friday's ProJo sports section: "PC head coach Keno Davis may be forced to recruit basketball players of questionable character to improve his record in the Big East."
Hold on and we'll see if we can come up with a mugger or two, maybe a drug dealer, over the weekend. What the heck, winning is everything.
There was a time in this country's recent history when families felt it was their responsibility to take care of their spouses and children and were ashamed and embarrassed to take handouts from the government.
Where have our values gone?
Peter Pemantell asks, "Who were the owners of O&C Rubbish Removal?"
From John A. Murphy: When you mention the singer Gene Chandler, most trivia mavens think only of his biggest hit, "Duke of Earl." But ask them the song performed in his wild stage show, a song that triggered an audience response equal to that of James Brown for pure energy.
Larry Lewis, a fellow Toyota owner, weighs in. "I, too, am a happy Toyota owner and am tired of the negative rhetoric from the misinformed. Bought my first Corolla new in '89 and it gave me 274K miles. I'm still driving my '97 Corolla, currently at 289K and counting! Car magazines routinely describe this vehicle as 'bullet proof' and they're right; it just keeps going.
"Toyota has five major assembly plants in the U.S. and, ironically, had a joint-venture relationship with GM from 1984-2009. I'll remain loyal because the automaker has acknowledged its mistakes and is correcting them. By all reports, head management is taking personal responsibility. Gee, what an outdated concept today."
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U.S. stocks erased early losses and commodities pared declines as House Speaker John Boehner said he is optimistic lawmakers engaged in budget talks can "avert this crisis sooner rather than later."
The Standard & Poor's 500 Index was up less than 0.1 percent as of 11:25 a.m. in New York after earlier slumping as much as 1 percent. The S&P GSCI gauge of 24 raw materials was down 0.7 percent, trimming an earlier decline in half as oil pared losses following a report that showed an unexpected decline in U.S. supplies. Ten-year Treasury rates slipped less than two basis points to 1.62 percent and the Dollar Index reversed an earlier advance.
Equities reversed declines as Republican Representative Boehner made his remarks to reporters, while saying he continues to oppose the expiration of tax cuts for top earners and Democrats need to get "serious" on budget cuts. Obama will meet with business leaders today and have lunch with election opponent Mitt Romney tomorrow as lawmakers debate ways to avert $607 billion in tax increases and spending cuts that will kick in next year if a deal isn't reached.
"The market is at the mercy of the fiscal cliff until we get some sort of resolution," Liz Ann Sonders, the New York- based chief investment strategist at Charles Schwab Corp., which has $1.9 trillion in client assets, said in a telephone interview.
The S&P 500 fell on the first two days of the week after optimism that a budget deal will be made sent the index up 3.6 percent last week, its biggest gain since June.
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TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — An attorney for the leader of an Amish breakaway group convicted of hate crimes in beard- and hair-cutting attacks has asked a federal judge for a light sentence, saying what happened was no more than a minor assault.
Samuel Mullet Sr.'s attorney said in court documents filed Friday that Mullet has no criminal history and that the 67-year-old is hardly a threat to commit any more crimes.
Mullet is scheduled to be sentenced next Friday in U.S. District Court in Cleveland and faces up to life in prison. But his attorney argued that a sentence of 18 months to two years is more appropriate.
Defense attorney Ed Bryan said Mullet is facing the same sentence as those given to several notorious killers including Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, Atlanta Olympics bomber Eric Rudolph, and Jared Lee Loughner, who's serving seven consecutive life terms gunning down six people and injuring former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.
"Non-drug federal life sentences are thus typically reserved for the most heinous of crimes involving murder," Bryan wrote.
Mullet was one of 16 people convicted in the hair-cuttings who came from the Amish settlement that he founded in the eastern Ohio town of Bergholz near the West Virginia panhandle
All are scheduled to be sentenced next week.
The government said the cuttings were an attempt to shame members of the Amish community who he believed were straying from their beliefs. His followers were found guilty of carrying out the attacks, which terrorized the normally peaceful religious settlement.
Prosecutors and witnesses described how sons pulled their father out of bed and chopped off his beard and how women surrounded their mother-in-law and cut off two feet of her hair, taking it down to the scalp in some places.
Prosecutors say they targeted hair because it carries spiritual significance in their faith.
Mullet wasn't accused of cutting anyone's hair. But prosecutors said he planned and encouraged his sons and the others and mocked the victims in jailhouse phone calls.
Mullet's attorney said in the court filing that no one suffered any serious physical harm and that Mullet is now suffering "invisible" penalties that go beyond the courtroom.
"A significant collateral consequence for Mullet is the loss of his privacy and the smearing of the reputation of the Bergholz Amish community," Bryan wrote. "Most important to Mullet, however, is the damage suffered by the Bergholz Amish community as a whole."
Prosecutors say Mullet thought he was above the law and free to discipline those who went against him based on his religious beliefs. Before his arrest last November, he defended what he believes is his right to punish people who break church laws.
The hair cuttings, he said, were a response to continuous criticism he'd received from other Amish religious leaders about him being too strict, including shunning people in his own group.


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All arrived at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford in the early morning hours, joining with ambulance crews from other states that also answered the EMAC request. The Vermont crews are expected to work through Saturday.
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Making Halloweeny Treat Boxes
First I take a little paper mache box (you can usually find them at any ole craft store). . .
. . .and paint it with craft paints. Since I'm in Halloween mode, I stuck with the traditional white/black/orange combo.
Then I stain it-- Slop on a watery layer of dark brown paint, then quickly wipe it off with a paper towel. It adds texture and visual interest.
Then I make the little fabric pinwheel thingies.
1) Tear a fabric strip that's 1/2 inch X 9 inches (or so) and do a simple running stitch along one edge with embroidery floss, leaving a thread tail at both ends. 2) Scrunch the fabric strip. 3) Tie in the back. 4) Done. Now I hot glue it to my box top.
Then I pick the perfect button and glue that in the middle.
Then I make more. And more. And more.
Now they're all ready to be filled with something.
What do you want in yours?
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Great tutorial! Thank you for sharing!!! I would like dark chocolate, orange, M&Ms Please :)ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing your treat box technique with us! SusanReplyDelete
Minature Reeces please! :)ReplyDelete
I have aged with watery brown paint and I think it ages better than using the antique medium. I bought a little box, still deciding what to make with it.ReplyDelete
...I'd have to go with the candy corn. Thanks for sharing your techniques--the boxes are scrumptious!ReplyDelete
Very cute! Thank you for posting the mini tutorial! :-)ReplyDelete
You are so kind and giving!ReplyDelete
I LOVE this tutorial!!!
if I could have anything...I'd want bits and pieces of stuff like some buttons. a stray earring, some wire, a rusty safety pin, an old key and an old faded postcard....treasures.
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We've started to hear reports from Twitter that the supplies for the HTC EVO 4G at Sprint stores is starting to dwindle. The Seattle Times is reporting that Sprint stores across Washington are already sold out and I have done some personal checking at local stores in the Twin Cities area and have found that most of them have had their stock completely depleted. If you're not finding any luck at your local Sprint store, keep in mind that you can simply surf over to our cell phone store to make your purchase, but we do have one last flicker of hope if you really want to get your hands on the HTC EVO today.
While making the rounds at a few local stores, I noticed something odd. When I inquired about the HTC EVO 4G at one store, the first response from the sales rep (who was standing right next to the store manager) was that they had sold out hours ago. After talking for a few minutes, I casually mentioned that I was with T-Mobile and suddenly a light seemed to sparkle in the sales rep's eyes. He mentioned that they might have overlooked something in the back and came out from the back office a second later with two EVO boxes.
It occurred to me that Sprint stores may be running low on handsets and are simply holding them for non-Sprint customers. Unfortunately in the world on cell phone sales, a sale is not a sale. A new customer is worth a lot more to a store than simply selling a current customer a new phone. Sales reps make more commission off new customers and stores have monthly and quarterly quotas to achieve. I called up a half dozen stores to confirm my theory. Two stores stated they had a few left, one store was completely sold out, but three of the locations changed their "sold out" stance once I told them I was not a Sprint customer.
So if you're still in the hunt for a Sprint HTC EVO 4G, just mention that you're with AT&T, T-Mobile, or Verizon. I know, we shouldn't advocate lying, but you're simply trying to counter their little white lie with one of your own.


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JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A federal judge in Alaska has thrown out a plan designating more than 187,000 square miles as habitat for threatened polar bears.
U.S. District Judge Ralph Beistline, in a written order dated Thursday, said the designation was too extensive and presented "a disconnect between the twin goals of protecting a cherished resource and allowing for growth and much needed economic development." He sent the matter back to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to correct "substantive and procedural deficiencies."
The federal government declared the polar bear threatened under the Endangered Species Act in 2008, citing melting sea ice. The move made the polar bear the first species to be designated as threatened under the act because of global warming.
A designation of critical habitat was required as part of a recovery plan, and more than 187,000 square miles in and near the Beaufort and Chukchi seas — an area larger than California — was set aside.
A coalition of Alaska Native groups, oil and gas interests and the state of Alaska sued, calling the designation an overreach.
Beistline, in his order, said that Fish and Wildlife Service's decision didn't comply with a requirement under the law that critical habitat include physical or biological features essential to the conservation of the species. The agency didn't show that two of the land units had all the required features, the judge said.
Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell hailed the decision.
"The Fish and Wildlife Service's attempt to classify massive sections of resource-rich North Slope lands as critical habitat is the latest in a long string of examples of the federal government encroaching on our state's rights," he said in a statement. "I am pleased the State of Alaska was able to fight off this concerted effort to kill jobs and economic development in Alaska."
Bruce Woods, a Fish and Wildlife Service spokesman in Alaska, declined comment, saying the agency had just learned of the decision Friday afternoon and was still reviewing it.
Alaska Attorney General Michael Geraghty said protecting polar bears "is a priority for us all, but such measures must carefully comply with the requirements of the statute."
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, said Beistline made the right decision, calling the bear populations "abundant and healthy."
"The only real impact of the designation would have been to make life more difficult for the residents of North Slope communities, and make any kind of economic development more difficult or even impossible," she said in a statement.
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By Toni Collins
J. A. of Rosewood asks, "Say, I've got a question for you…I was driving home on State Road 24 the other night and I saw a vehicle with its lights on stopped by the side of the road. I didn't think much of it but, as I passed by, I saw another car in the ditch with its lights flashing. I was already by both vehicles so I called 911 and told them about it. However, I got to thinking, later on, that maybe I had some sort of legal obligation to do more. Did I?
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On December 13, 1977, Charles Hardee, Chairman of the Levy County Board of County Commissioners and Rollin C. Janney, representing the Levy County Planning and Zoning Commission, held a public hearing to consider the proposed purchase of environmentally endangered lands called the Cedar Key Scrub Habitat. There were 18 persons in attendance and there was no opposition to the proposal.
Litter is like sunshine, it is everywhere. Energy Advisory Panel members volunteered to assist our school children with the Route 24 Adopt-A-Highway program and a clean-up at the City Marina on Jan. 12 and 14, respectively. Once you pick-up roadside and community litter you seem to notice it more. It really is pretty much everywhere.
By Daniel J. Vance
In 1927, two local newspapers, The Williston Sun and The Levy County News joined forces to print a LEVY COUNTY DEVELOPMENT EDITION profiling local businesses and their contribution to the economy.
One of the featured businesses was the Montbrook Crate Company. The company employed 80 workers making it a community prosperity feeder with its payrolls.
At that time, Montbrook thrived on one industry, the Montbrook Crate Company. The company was organized in 1924 when J.T. Flowers, the present owner, bought all the stock in the old Montbrook Veneer & Basket Company.
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Monroe County Court has again ordered Thrills go-go bar in Jackson Township to close for one year, until September 2013.
Monroe County Court has again ordered Thrills go-go bar in Jackson Township to close for one year, until September 2013.
After a two-part hearing in May and September, Judge David Williamson found Thrills again violated a state statute earlier this year by having erotic, scantily clad female dancers give customers lap dances in areas closed off from common-area view.
The statute requires "adult cabaret" establishments to offer lap dances in unenclosed areas visible to everyone in the common areas of those establishments.
Jackson Township's ordinance allows adult entertainment bars and adult bookstores only in the industrial zone bordering Pocono Township.
Thrills is at Route 715 and Doll Road, an area rezoned last year from commercial to single-family residential.
Township officials said Thrills twice illegally opened without a township permit at its current location.
The first time was in March 2010 and the second time was last October, after being closed for a year under court order for violating the state statute the first time.
Thrills attorney and day manager Ira Weiner has said all along that the business needs no permit because it has the same restaurant-and-bar use that occupied that location under previous ownership, without erotic dancers.
He was not immediately available to comment Tuesday.
Township officials said Thrills was still in violation, despite Weiner saying it recently stopped private lap dances and inappropriate physical contact between dancers and customers.


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