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From artificial intelligence-powered smartphone apps to wearable technologies, new innovations are helping people find and stick with meditation and stress-relief methods best suited for their lifestyle.
In many ways, technology contributes to high stress levels by encouraging a breakneck, get-this-done-yesterday pace. Some innovators, however, are using tech to reduce stress, encourage calmness and improve wellbeing.
"Practitioners of meditation have been around for hundreds, if not thousands, of years and we're all standing on their shoulders," said Jeffrey Martin, Ph.D., a social scientist and expert in Transformative Technology who uses tech to study and assist people as they learn to meditate though his Finders Course.
"Today, we have a bit of a crescendo between modern, academic studies proving the health benefits of this ancient practice and the maturity of the Internet and technology, which together are making this the moment for innovation."
Still, age-old meditation obstacles abound. First, there's the human challenge of committing to the new habit. Second, meditation is not one-size-fits-all; there are many types, including the best-known, mindfulness and mantra.
In addition, it can be hard to know if the meditation style is actually helping the practitioner because there aren't obvious quantifiable results like there are for weight-loss programs. In recent years, technologists have developed tools and applications to address these concerns, putting the quest for calm within reach.
Meditation On-Demand
There are dozens of popular smartphone apps, including Headspace and Calm, which feature libraries of different meditations, structured programs and push reminders. These apps also offer encouragement to keep a consistent practice and to increase the time spent meditating.
To mitigate drop-off, an app called Aura uses artificial intelligence to collect demographic information about its users. It asks users to rate their meditation experiences, which in turn informs the types of meditations recommended each day.
Measuring the Stress Response
But stress relief technology is most compelling, said Martin, when it records and measures specific physiological responses to stress.
The wearable bracelet WellBe ($149) uses an optical sensor to measure heart rate variability (HRV), a known indicator of stress level. HRV is the time interval between the beats of the heart, and it's been proven that when that interval varies from beat to beat, a person is experiencing stress.
"We give you the ability to measure stress any time of day as well as automatically, and give you stats to learn about the triggers of your stress," said WellBe co-founder Doron Libshtein.
By taking hourly records and cross-referencing the wearer's online calendar and geolocation, the WellBe app can identify high-stress situations and provide meditations — mined from MentorsChannel.com, which Libshtein also founded — to combat them.
Viewing a log over time, Martin said, can have a de-stressing effect, too.
"It's really informative to learn about the body's habits and response patterns that you can't consciously pick up," he said. By bringing awareness to stress via the data, the user can make both intentional and subconscious adjustments to reduce stress.
Taking a different tech tact, the Spire ($150), a clip worn on your belt or bra, is part activity tracker and part breathing monitor. The latter determines respiration rate and depth of the breath via the expansion and contraction of the torso using force sensors. When the Spire detects a shallower or faster breathing pattern than is normal for the wearer, it classifies your stress state accordingly and syncs it to the person's calendar and location. Instant notifications immediately alert the wearer and offer guided breathing exercises to combat the elevated respiration rate.
Alternatively, The Pip ($179) measures stress before and after meditation sessions. It is equipped with galvanic skin response (GSR) sensors, enabling the device to determine stress level based on electrodermal activity (EDA), which is the skin's ability to conduct electric currents. When a person experiences stress, their skin sweats more, making electrical impulses travel faster.
Users must actively engage with the device instead of waiting passively for feedback, according to Marie Clarke, head of marketing for Galvanic, which manufactures the Pip.
"The fact that you take it out and interact with it, you're doing something intentional to make yourself less stressed," Clarke said. "You get quantitative real-time feedback during and after your meditation session. It becomes a coping mechanism when you're faced with stress."
Effortless Calm
With regular practice, meditation trains the body and mind to automatically use coping strategies in response to high-stress situations. While many people struggle with a consistent meditation practice, some technologies act as meditation in their own right by getting the user to focus.
The company Thync, for example, employs transdermal neurostimulation — a very low electric current — in a device that adheres to the head and neck. The device stimulates the nerves to relax or energize the wearer, depending on the program chosen.
The Thync Relax hones in on the calming frequencies and administers them to the back of the neck to provide deep relaxation in sessions lasting 30 minutes or less, according to Isy Goldwasser, co-founder and CEO of Thync.
"This is geared for people who often feel stress and anxiety and sleep less than six hours a night," she said. "You don't have to sit in a dark room and breathe quietly to feel the effects."
The stress-intervention system, NuCalm, involves a four-step process: the skin application or ingestion of GABA, an amino acid that functions as the main calming neurotransmitter in the brain; the application of a cranial electrostimulation device that emits a very low electrical current; listening to music underlain with neuroacoustic software to provoke relaxation; and a light-blocking eye mask.
"The concept behind it is to balance the autonomic nervous system between the stress and rest response," said James M. Poole, NuCalm's president and CEO.
"We put the brakes on the stress and kick up the rest by bringing the brainwave function to between 4 and 7 hertz, which is just above deep sleep, or the state that some monks can achieve through meditation."
The original system costs $4,295 and, as an FDA class III medical device, it requires a prescription. A relatively more affordable consumer unit, ReNu by NuCalm, are slated for release this November for about $900, according to the company.
A Stress-Free Future
While Martin is enthusiastic about these innovations, he sees opportunities for improvement.
"The interesting gulf is on the data-processing side," he explained.
Hardware and sensors are improving, but the challenge lies in creating algorithms to meaningfully interpret the data, said Martin. Bringing more meaning to people's lives is an essential function for these stress-reducing technology to integrate seamlessly into the wide variety of lifestyles.


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By Iain Blair
BAFTA- and Emmy-nominated director and producer Paul McGuigan has made quite a name for himself in film and TV thanks to his gift for handling gritty crime procedurals and atmospheric dramas.
This Scot started out as a still photographer before working his way into the documentary world, helming non-fiction assignments for Channel 4 and the BBC. He made his fiction debut with the short The Granton Star Cause, an adaptation of one of Irvine Welsh's short stories. The film inspired him to direct two additional self-contained episodes, also adapted from the work of Welsh, stitched together as a well-received omnibus called The Acid House.
That laid the groundwork for his move into features on a full-time basis, starting with the inventive crime sagas Gangster No. 1 and Lucky Number Slevin. He followed these with the medieval film The Reckoning, the romantic mystery Wicker Park and Victor Frankenstein, starring James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe.
Now McGuigan, whose credits include the TV series Sherlock (starring Benedict Cumberbatch) is back with his latest movie, Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, which earned three BAFTA noms. Based on Peter Turner's memoir of the same name, the film follows the playful but passionate relationship between Peter Turner (Jamie Bell) and the eccentric Academy Award-winning actress Gloria Grahame (Annette Bening) in 1978 Liverpool. What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme fatale and her young lover quickly grows into a deeper relationship, with Peter being the person Gloria turns to for comfort. Their passion and lust for life is tested to the limits by events beyond their control.
I recently talked to McGuigan about making the film.
What was the appeal of this story for you?
Both the book and the script it's based on were just so interesting, with this whole idea of memory being so fluid. I felt there was a real cinematic world to explore, what with Gloria Grahame being this former big star who won the Oscar for The Bad and The Beautiful, and I liked the idea of this Hollywood icon ending up in this small house in Liverpool. Then you had this very intense love story — and Annette was already attached — and [James Bond producer] Barbara Broccoli had wanted to make it for years and was so passionate about it. I knew I was in good company.
It's not your usual biopic.
No, I wasn't interested in that anyway, and this was a very specific part of her life. I wanted to make a very intimate, emotional film, but nothing that was sentimental. Annette said to me when we first met, "This can't be a film about an old lady dying in a room," and that really stuck with me, and that's what we desperately avoided — the violins and all that stuff — because Gloria would have hated that bullshit. She was a tough woman. She had a very interesting life and career, and I think she was way ahead of her time.
What did Annette bring to the role?
It's hard to define, as she's so brilliant. She brought a student's perspective to the character. When we first met, she had a book full of notes, and so many questions about Gloria — things that weren't even in the script. She just wanted to find out who the real woman was behind the myth and image — all the day-to-day stuff between her and Peter. She did so much research, and then she just arrived on set completely prepared. She's very method in a way. If she had to be in bed sick, she'd just lie in bed all day and not speak to anyone on the set, and I liked that. The crew would tip toe around her as if she really was sick.
What about Jamie Bell?
He's amazing and such a smart guy. He's the kind of actor you can put a camera on, and even though he's not saying anything, he says everything about the scene with his eyes and expression. That's what you need since the story's told from her point of view, and he's the audience's connection to it, so you need someone who's got that natural gift.
I heard it was a very fast shoot with some very inventive set changes. How tough was it?
It was just 40 days, and we shot in Liverpool a bit, mainly for exteriors. All the interiors and the locations in LA and New York were shot on set at Pinewood Studios. I deliberately set out to create a sense of heightened reality by using a lot of back projection in scenes like the beach in LA — the same technique they used in a lot of her noirs, and I didn't want to do the usual flashbacks to her life or her movies. I wanted the actors to walk through the memories, from one scene to another, and one set to another. So we built sets side to side, and even had one with a bed that revolved 180 degrees, and the camera would just wander off them while they ran around the back to the other set and into another scene. It was a lot of fun to do.
Where did you do the post?
I'm based in Glasgow, and we did all the editing there in a rented office, and then all the rest — sound, VFX, DI — at Pinewood, where they have great post facilities
Do you like post?
I love it because you can just relax and create your film after all the stress of the shoot. I've done it for so long now and it's the most creative part of the whole process for me. The only stress is if you're doing TV in America as they kick you out after a few days, and I'm like "Whoa! That's where my work is." So I always try to stay longer. This was all about so much detail, and I'd sit there every day and not move.
The film was edited by Nick Emerson, who cut Starred Up and Lady Macbeth. You hadn't worked with him before, right?
Right, but I was big admirer of his work. After my usual editor, Charlie Phillips, passed away, it was great to get Nick. He was in Pinewood with us and would pop in now and again, mainly if we had a problem. I never look at an assembly, ever since I did my first movie — Gangster No. 1, and saw that one and thought seriously about killing myself, it was so bad! I actually thought it was the worst thing I'd ever seen. Luckily someone told me it would turn out fine, and now I just start with first frame, first scene, and look at material and start working on it.
What were the biggest editing challenges?
To keep it simple. The music was a big challenge as we didn't want any sentimentality. I spent a lot of time working on the score with composer Josh Ralph. Even though I'm not a musician, I always think I am. I'll sit at the piano and start hitting out stuff out of frustration, as it can be so abstract sometimes, trying to pin down what I want. Music's so important, and I'll share all that with actors, the editor, the sound guys, so it gradually evolves. When I started out, I used to think, "Fuck it, I don't care about sound and music. Just stick stuff on everything and it's fine." But now I know better — that music and all the sound is half the movie. So when you're in Liverpool we had the sound of children playing outside, or the sound of the sea, and in New York you have sirens, traffic and so on. I work very closely with the sound guys to get all the details right and keep it stripped down. I got very obsessed about it and Nick and I did quite a lot of that work in the edit before we even started with the sound team at Pinewood, where we also did the mix.
How many visual effects shots are there in the film?
Very few as we tried to do most of it in-camera. The Liverpool of today is very different, so we had to do a big VFX shot for the ferry sequence, and some cleanup.
The film has a great look. Can you talk about the DI and how that process helped?
We did it at Molinare in London with colorist Asa Shoul, who's amazing. We shot digitally, on Alexas, and Asa and the DP worked together on it, and I was very involved — annoyingly so, as I began as a photographer and can't help myself (laughs). Looking back, this post went very smoothly — just 12 weeks, and I'm very happy with the way the film turned out.
Industry insider Iain Blair has been interviewing the biggest directors in Hollywood and around the world for years. He is a regular contributor to Variety and has written for such outlets as Reuters, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times and the Boston Globe.

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Property of Melvin A. Stanford Trust, Marcella M. Stanford Trust & Prairie View Farm, Inc.
AUCTION LOCATION: Flint Hills Room, Best Western Hospitality House, 3021 W Hwy 50, Emporia, Kansas
TRACT 04 PROPERTY LOCATION: 1700 Rd. 370 Allen, Kansas
INSPECTION: Anytime by appointment with Griffin Real Estate & Auction Service, call the office at 620-273-6421.
TERMS: The Property is sold without any ag lease for 2015. All tracts are sold with a hunting lease in place through June 30, 2015. The lease is $5.00/acre. The buyer will receive 1/2 of the hunting lease payable at time of closing. he earnest money is payable day of auction to Moon Abstract Co. Tract 1-$35,000.00 Tract 2-$70,000.00 Tract 3-$50,000.00 Tract 4- $15,000.00 Tract 5- $15,000.00. The CRP contracts will transfer to the buyer upon notification to the FSA office. The Seller receives 2014 rental income and 2014 CRP payments. The Seller will be responsible for 2014 taxes. The form of title evidence shall be title insurance and shall be paid equally between buyer and seller, as well as the closing fees of the title company. All property is sold as is with no warranties or guarantees. All acreages are sold more or less. FSA acreages and payments are not guaranteed and could be subject to change. All financing arrangements must be made prior to the auction. All information has been gathered from Lyon Co sources and is deemed reliable, but is not guaranteed. All statements made day of auction take precedence over advertisements.


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All-Southwest Conference defensive tackle James Patton switched urine samples with another University of Texas player to avoid detection of steroids during a Southwest Conference drug test last August, a current and a former Texas football player have told the Austin American-Statesman in a copyrighted report.
The current Texas player, who asked to remain anonymous, said he witnessed the switch, which occurred between Patton and another starter on the first weekend of two-a-day practices in August at the Neuhaus-Royal Complex.
Patton, a 6-foot-3, 265-pound junior from League City, Texas, is a two-year starter and was a consensus All-SWC selection in 1990. He is being pushed as a potential All-American next football season, when he will be a senior.
Patton is generally regarded as the strongest player on the Texas football team as a result of an annual weightlifting test. He can bench-press more than 460 pounds.


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Everyone who is enjoying the Sunshine must have made good decisions when struggling in the dark. If you dont prepare for your future, you will be restless in Old age. Warren Buffet said, "what the wise do in the begining, fools do in the end." I want to equip you with some important tips on stocks, which knowledge will make your future easy. Dont wait until you make terrible mistakes to look for this information.
Things that contribute to the rise in share price include:
#1.DEMAND AND SUPPLY: On the Stock Exchange, Investors bid, offer stocks and also sell stocks at the market price. A bidder may bid at a lower price if he believes that the stocks are overvalued or when there are many sellers. The person who is offering may want to give up his shares for more money if there are less sellers or when the underlying business is doing very fine. Not to make things difficult for my reader,when there are less sellers than buyers, prices go up. These are common principles in Economics.
#2.EARNINGS PER SHARE: Watch closely after Annual General Meetings. If a Company makes a good profit and their Earnings per Share increases, its Share price will also go up. Sometimes such Companies do not even award dividends. If they are growing, it is justifiable.
#3.FUTURE PROSPECTS: If a Company wants to expand into more profitable new markets, the share price may increase. For me, in Zambia, the Companies in my Portifolio are from the Energy Sector, Finance and Construction. Remember also that if a Company is in a growing Industry, its share price may increase despite making low profits in the Preliminary stages. A bad beginning especially in Capital intensive industries may not be an omen for a bad perpetuity but it should just be probed. So, people are more interested in the future existence plus higher profits of the Company than current profits on the dark start. It is hard to invest in an Industry that is going to extinction and by the same token, a growing Industry has vast possibilities.
#4.INNOVATION:If a Company wants to make a big change that will make it have an advantage over its Competitors, Investors will be lured to buy such a Stock. Value Investors identify such undervalued Companies and make their best bets on their future. Within a short period after the ideas are implemented, stock prices begin to rise.
#5.DIVIDENDS. A Business has to make all the Stakeholders happy. For Investors, they are interested in getting a share of the profits. Hence, a Business that awards good dividends may have its stock price rise just after that Corporate action. Of course, if the Business is not growing much, but not for bad reasons, why keep all the profits?
#6.POSITIVE NEWS: Investors are attracted by good news concerning a Company. If the Image of your Company is enhanced by the Media, the Share price will increase. The Media can either build or distroy a Company Image, depending on the news from that particular Company. But again, no matter how much hype the Business may swim in, there is always time for the truth. The underlying Business Progress matters.
#7.CHANGE OF MANAGEMENT: There are Chief Executive Officers who have made names for themselves. If a Company installs Management that has turned arround Companies before, Investor Confidence increase, in view of which share price shall increase. Look for Top Management that has People with Entrepreneural minds.
#8.MAJOR BUYER: When a Company wants to buy another Company, Investors can be enticed to sell by offering at a higher price. There is a general belief that Companies are bought to be improved.
#9.MACRO ENVIRONMENT: Low Interest rates, Low Inflation, High Gross Domestic Product and Low Taxes may make Investors to opt for Companies in a particular Country. Please note that Indices may indicate how healthy Companies are in a particular Region. Meaning that the moment they rise, it may be an indication that more Investors are investing in that particular Country and stock prices will increase. You can see this from the Indices: Dow Jones, Nasdaq and S & P500 in the USA, FTSE in Britain, DAX of Germany etc.
#10.DEBT TO EQUIT RATIO: If profits and market do not justify the level of leverage, Financial Statements will show.On the Balance sheet will show Liabilities, Assets and Equity. Profit will be found on the Profit and Loss Account. Calculate the Debt to Equit ratio using figures from the Balance Sheet.Companies with healthy Financial Statements i.e reduced debts may have an Increase in Share price. Big debt to Equit ratio may not strangle Companies making high profits. Companies with low profits and not expanding into Profitable markets may find it hard to repay high debt.
Dont forget that your savings in the Bank battle with Inflation.
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Thursday, September 22, 2011
Subway Infrastructure Milestone Achieved
Tunnel Boring Machine Arrives
at Lexington Ave/63rd Street Station
Major Milestone Reached in the Long
History of the Second Avenue Subway
At 11:28 a.m. today, September 22, 2011, the tunnel boring machine (TBM) that had been mining the east tunnel of Phase I of the Second Avenue Subway reached its final destination.
It successfully broke through a rock cavern wall -- into open air -- deep inside Manhattan's Lexington Avenue/63rd Street station.
The posting that follows chronicles today's historic event.
Update: 9/23/11
The MTA's official video of the TBM breakthough, and a selection of media pieces about the event, have been added near the end of the post.
This is a view of the solid rock wall at the eastern end of the so-called 63rd Street Stub Cavern. Built in the early 1980's as part of the Lexington Avenue/63rd Street station, this cavern has one purpose: to connect to the G4 (east) tunnel of the Second Avenue subway.
When this image was taken at 10:22 a.m., the cutterhead of the TBM was still about 1-2 feet behind the rock wall.
Here, a large delegation of invited guests begins to congregate - cameras in hand.
As the TBM mines behind the rock, two workers check the rock face to ensure that all is proceeding as planned.
The machine continues to mine. . . The crew boss, on the right, communicates by radio with the operators of the TBM which is located on the other side of the wall.
At 11:23 a.m., small cracks and fissures start to appear in the wall, and rock dust begins to billow out toward the workers and guests. Viewing this gave me the impression of a long-slumbering dragon breathing out smoke as he slowly awoke.
Workers also begin to spray water on the wall in an effort to minimize the dust that is produced by the TBM's approach.
The dust continues to accumulate, settling again afterwards as the TBM pauses.
Finally, as the dust clears we have our first view of the face of the TBM -- at last!
Loud cheers break out and the assembled crowd claps in appreciation.
Second Avenue Subway TBM Hole Through (0:23)
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This short video was shot a few minutes after the TBM broke through the wall.
Here, the machine is fully stopped. A worker (with the yellow shirt) steps forward to assess the depth of the remaining rock. He determines that the machine still has about about one foot of rock to grind through.
The workers step back and the machine is restarted in order to mine the last foot of rock. The dust builds again, as clearly can be seen in the images above and below.
The dust settles on the guests as the machine continues to thrust forward.
The cavern walls are now totally obscured by a dense cloud of dust.
A decision is made to stop the machine at this point, since it became clear that the final foot of rock would require more time to mine.
The assembled press is then brought forward to inspect the scene and to interview various MTA officials.
Dr. Michael Horodniceanu, President of MTA Capital Construction, answers a question from NY1 reporter Tina Redwine. Jay Walder, Chairman and CEO of the MTA, is standing on the far left.
An S3 Tunnel Constructors worker inspects the face of the TBM.
S3 Tunnel Constructors, a joint venture of Skanska USA Civil, Schiavone Construction, and
J.F. Shea Construction, is the contractor responsible for mining the two running tunnels, and the construction of the launch box, in Phase I of the project.
Look closely and you can see that a small trap door (at about 12 o'clock) on the face of the cutterhead has been opened.
The Sandhogs can use this door to access the face of the cutterhead. During mining operations, this door would only be opened after first stopping the machine and then backing it up about 5 feet, to create a space between the rock and the face of the TBM.
Following the press briefing, many people stood together for photos in front the TBM; I did my best to capture some of the group photos.
Here is what I really like about the group shots below -- they show just how proud all of these men and women are of today's accomplishment. These people have been part of a great achievement in underground construction, and each of them wants the event recorded for posterity.
MTA Chairman Jay Walder (center-left), MTA Capital Construction President Dr. Michael Horodniceanu (center-right) and New York City Council Member Daniel Garodnick (right).
Pat Barr and two other Sandhogs standing with Julio Martinez of S3 Tunnel Constructors.
MTA Chairman Jay Walder on the right.
MTA Capital Construction President, Dr. Michael Horodniceanu and MTA Chairman, Jay Walder.
This group from S3 Tunnel Constructors poses with MTA Capital Construction Sr. Vice President William Goodrich (3rd from the right). Goodrich has overall responsibility for the Second Avenue Subway project. An MTA project engineer is the 4th person from the left.
Three MTA engineers (vests) pose with two workers from S3 Tunnel Constructors (T-shirts).
A group of engineers from Arup and AECOM (formerly DMJM+Harris) pose with an MTA project engineer.
An assembled group of Parsons Brinckerhoff employees. Parsons Brinckerhoff is providing construction management services for Phase I of the project.
Chris Smart (a surveyor), Tom Maxwell, Anthony Del Vescovo, Mike Goldstein, Alaeden Jlelaty, Julio Martinez and Bob Hamill - all with S3 Tunnel Constructors.
Some of the original Second Avenue Subway design team from Arup and AECOM.
After the photo session, everyone was asked to leave the cavern so the machine could be restarted to complete the last bit of tunneling.
On my way out, I took these three pictures of the Lexington Ave/63rd Street station.
looking west
This is an image of the existing track on the north side of the lower level of the station. The track was laid in the early 1980's. Note that the 3rd rail has been removed.
This track extends through an inactive tunnel under Central Park that eventually leads to the 57th Street/7th Avenue station. (A diagram for this section of track can be found on this link.)
looking west
looking east
Note the active signal. This section of track was being used to store out-of-service trains between runs, until recently.
I exited the station so that I could transmit the cell phone picture that was used in the previous posting.
When I returned to the station about an hour later, I found these four Sandhogs and Julio Martinez, a Tunneling Engineer for S3 Tunnel Constructors, relaxing in the Lexington Ave/63rd Street station.
Normally, these guys are working inside the TBM. However, they are now clearly thrilled to be outside the TBM, contemplating a job well done.
Alaeden Jlelaty, Skanska's head project manager on this job and Anthony Barrett, a Sandhog with the very special title of walking boss.
Barrett, a long time Sandhog, was involved with the construction of the Lexington Ave/63rd Street station between 1979 and 1982. As a stroke of good Irish luck, today's events coincided with his birthday.
I was subsequently invited back down into the tunnel, with two other photographers, to take this group photo. Clearly, this is a very proud group of men.
The Sandhogs have a closer look at their machine and then proceed to climb back into it via the hatch (just out of view) that is now positioned at about 6 o'clock.
A Sandhog heading back to the job.
The walking boss, Anthony Barrett, is visibly pleased with today's accomplishment.
The last two Sandhogs descend back into the TBM.
The TBM will be backed up all the way to the launch box at 92nd Street and partially disassembled.
It will then be shipped back to the contractor's yard in New Jersey where it will be refurbished for its probably next assignment - an 8-mile long Combined Sewer Overflow tunnel for the city of Indianapolis, Indiana.
MTA staff photographer, Patrick Cashin, takes his final pictures.
The sign that says it all.
And so there you have it. A major milestone in the 82 year history of the Second Avenue Subway.
Update - 9/23/11
Second Avenue Subway - 9/22/2011 Update
Metropolitan Transportation Authority via YouTube
A selection of media pieces about the event:
"Second Avenue Subway Reaches "Boring" Milestone"
By Tina Redwine
Video (1:59) - NY1 - 9/22/11
"New York MTA Completes Two-Mile Tunnel for Second Avenue Subway"
By Esmé E. Deprez and Andrea Riquier
Bloomberg News - 9/22/11
"TBM breakthrough in New York"
By Paula Wallis
TunnelTalk - 9/11
"At 63rd Street, Adi emerges"
By Benjamin Kabak
2nd. Ave. Sagas - 9/23/11
Here's a listing of the recent additions
to the right-hand column of The Launch Box
"Construction to Start on Second Avenue Subway 86th Street Station"
By Amy Zimmer
DNAinfo.com - 9/15/11
6 comments:
- PETER HECKSCHER said...
Interesting Press coverage of precise engineering in a difficult geological and environmental context.
- September 23, 2011 at 11:38 AM
- AR Elia said...
Great work. Very interesting. It would be great if you can give an overview of the next phase of construction now that the tunneling is done (if it is done.). What are the next major above ground impacts. When will construction take place primarily below grade. Still, it's great to see progress toward getting 2nd Ave back online. Thanks for your efforts.
- September 23, 2011 at 8:34 PM
- Anonymous said...
Congrats Ben on being the single greatest source for SAS construction information and for being present for this milestone.
As a resident of the UES I thank you very much for keeping us informed.
I was wondering if you have any particular insight as to when we can expect most surface level construction to be complete. I.e. when our sidewalks are returned.
Will the 83rd street access shaft be a working construction site all the way 'til the 2016 completion date or will there be a sooner date at which most if not all of the work will be concentrated underground?
- September 25, 2011 at 10:48 AM
- jmp said...
Now that the TBM run is complete, how will this impact the surface conditions around the Launch Box itself?
It's my understanding that the muck removal system in place at 93rd Street was suitable for the debris produced by the TBM, but not for the stuff produced by the cavern mining operations for the various stations. With the TBM done, does that mean that there's no more need for the tower that's now been there for a couple of years? Does that mean it'll be coming down soon? What about the other structures that were there mostly to support TBM operations?
Is the backfill of the top of the launch box part of the tunneling contract, or the 96th Street Station contract? At what point will the area about the launch box be handed over to the station construction crew?
- September 25, 2011 at 11:44 AM
- The Launch Box said...
Let me try to answer a few of the questions in the comments:
Surface Level Construction:
The best source of information is the new MTA Long-Term "Construction Look Ahead Map" on this link:
e.g from this map one can see that the 83th Street access shaft will be there until at least 1Q2014.
Surface Conditions above the Launch Box:
There will most likely be a fair amount of surface activity for the next few months as they disassemble the Muck Tower (btw. 92nd & 93rd streets) and the remove the TBM from the site. Once this is done one could expect that there will be far less heavy construction activity - since "all" they have to [now] is built the station, from the bottom up.
Backfill over the Launch Box:
My understanding is that this is not part of the current tunneling contract. This will be done after they build the 96th Street station.
Handover of Launch Box Site to the next contractor:
The current contractor (S3 Tunnel Constructors) will handover the site to the next contractor early next year.
Hope this helps a bit.
- September 26, 2011 at 11:13 PM
- rgp1121 said...
Thank you for this post. The work is amazing. It really puts this effort into perspective. The pride and the hard work of many really come through in the photos. I, for one, have a bigger and better appreciation of this project.
- October 1, 2011 at 10:53 AM


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I've been talking about the Eyelet Corset Pullover from Knitscene Fall 2009, and in the space of a couple weeks, I whipped up this sweater in my own size.
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On Wednesday came the first concrete result of the president's new emphasis: withdrawal of a proposed Occupational Safety and Health Administration rule that would have required businesses to protect workers from shop-floor noise by changing schedules or installing new equipment rather than by passing out earplugs, as current rules require. Strongly backed by organized labor, the proposed rule had triggered loud business protests, especially from manufacturers, who said it would cost billions and destroy jobs. Now it will be progressives' turn to howl.
Our emphasis. Associated Press, "Feds drop plan to change workplace noise standards":
OSHA spokeswoman Diana Petterson said the noise standards decision was "completely unrelated" to Obama's order. The proposal did not involve issuing a new rule, but reinterpreting an existing rule.
The Post comments after OSHA pulled its noise plan, "Now it will be progressives' turn to howl." While it's a safe prediction that "progressives" will howl just on general principle, on the OSHA interpretation they've been quiet. We looked for expressions of outrage from organized labor and the usual suspects who supported OSHA's noise plan, and nothing.
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It seems to happen more and more these days because I happen to need more and more help, thanks to all the "upgrades" that take place, fixing things that really don't need fixing.
A good example of this took place a couple of weeks ago when I was attempting to update my e-mail platform system because my e-mail provider decided it needed updating.
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Vote for Tripp! It's Thanksgiving!
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@Ultimate the Hedgehog - I'm about 50 strips ahead so I when I did this strip a few months ago I didn't consider the date at the time. But Christmas will be VERY special.
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this is beginning to feel like the Rimmer/Lister relationship on Red Dwarf.
What? No thanksgiving special?
Poe that's not embarassing, unless you're going commando, then it could be.
<whine> The second strip in a row where I don't get to do any boobie jokes! But they're my best thing! </whine>
You didn't know who Rimmer and Lister were?? Is that an american thing or are you just not from this planet...?
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Tonto Dikeh sparked controversy on Twitter last week when she announced that she was about to launch her career as a musician. Well, she's definitely serious about this, she is set to release her single titled 'Itz ova' on Wednesday, the 17th of October, 2012. I really cannot wait to hear it. She is also working on another song, which was inspired by Wiz Khalifa titled 'Hi.'


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In the fall of 1993, Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Center for Human Genome Research in Bethesda, Md., was contacted by Brad and Vicki Margus of Boca Raton, Fla. The couple had learned that two of their three sons were afflicted with a rare genetic disease, ataxia telangiectasia (A-T). Jarrett and Quinn, then 4 and 2 respectively, were stumbling and bumping into walls, the first symptoms of a neurological breakdown leading to the loss of such vital motor skills as walking, writing and even speaking. In the teen years, A-T victims develop cancers, and most die by their 20s.
By the time Margus, 35, a graduate of Harvard business school and president of a shrimp-processing company, spoke to Collins, he had already raised $600,000 to fund research on the disease's genetic cause. Collins, who had been hunting for the A-T gene as part of a team headed by Dr. Yoshef Shiloh of Tel Aviv University, was inspired to accelerate his efforts. This summer the team announced it had succeeded in isolating the gene that, in a mutated form, causes A-T. Even more significant was the revelation that carriers of the damaged A-T gene, like Brad and Vicki—though suffering none of the neurological problems of the disease's actual victims—appear to be many times more vulnerable to a wide variety of cancers than noncarriers. The A-T gene could become a key to a cure for cancer.
Reared in Staunton, Va., Collins, 45, received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Yale and his M.D. from the University of North Carolina. As an assistant professor at the University of Michigan, he pioneered methods of gene detection that, in 1989, resulted in his codiscovery of the gene that causes cystic fibrosis. Collins, a divorced father of two, became head of the Human Genome Project in 1993. (The Project, which so far has mapped 7,000 of the human body's 80,000 genes, expects to complete its work of reading the entire genetic blueprint of the human body by 2003). He discussed the significance of the A-T gene discovery with Chicago bureau chief Giovanna Breu.
What is the connection between A-T and cancer?
Each of the body's genes exists in two copies, one of which we inherit from our mothers, the other from our fathers. The A-T gene is one of about 4,000 located on the 11th chromosome. Each gene can be printed out as a sequence of letters—A, C, G and T, standing for the four chemical compounds that make up DNA. If you printed the A-T gene's sequence, it would run about 100 pages long. The mutation results from a single misspelling somewhere in those 100 pages. If both copies of the gene are misspelled, you get A-T. If only one copy is misspelled, you are an A-T carrier, and you run an abnormally high risk of developing certain cancers.
Which ones?
Women who are A-T carriers may be as much as five times more likely to develop breast cancer than those who are not. Carriers apparently are also more susceptible to cancers of the skin, lung, stomach and pancreas. Overall, a carrier of the A-T gene has a three-to four-fold increased risk of developing some form of cancer over his or her lifetime. Other genetic defects, such as the breast cancer gene called BRCA1, carry an even higher risk of cancer. The significance of the A-T gene is that it is so common.
How common?
The mutated form of the gene is carried by one in every 100 people. That's 2.5 million carriers in the U.S.—and the vast majority don't know they have it.
How do you know if you are a carrier—and what do you do if you are?
At present the only way to know if you are a carrier is if you have had a child with A-T. (Even when both parents are carriers, the risk of their child having A-T is only one in four.) We should be able to develop a test for the gene relatively soon—possibly within two or three years. Then, people who know their risk is high might want to alter their diet, their lifestyle, and be checked more often for cancer.
What is the function of the A-T gene?
When cells divide, they usually check themselves beforehand to make sure they're not damaged. Damaged cells usually don't divide. But when the A-T gene contains an error, damaged cells continue to divide when they should have stopped and repaired themselves. An analogy would be a driver who sees the oil-pressure light come on in the car. Most drivers would stop immediately and add oil. A faulty A-T gene is the driver who doesn't stop. He or she keeps on going and destroys the engine.
How was the A-T gene found?
By a very tortuous process of sifting through chromosomes until you hit the right gene—which you can identify because of its misspelling. If you print out the entire genome of a human being, it would fill 23 sets—not volumes, sets—of the Encyclopaedia Britannica with every line of every page filled with strings of A, C, G and T. To find a single gene, first you have to find the right volume, and you have to turn pages, page after page, until you hit on it.
How important is the discovery of the A-T gene in finding a cancer cure?
Cancer is a genetic disease where cells have DNA damage that causes uncontrolled growth. What we learn about A-T will tell us how cells repair themselves and how they go awry.
It should be possible to design a drug that compensates for the effect cancer has on cell checkpoint control. In 10 to 15 years we may know how to fix the problems. Finding the gene isn't a cure, of course. But if you ask Brad Margus, he'd say that now there's hope.


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Prime Minister Stephen Harper is expected to present a rosy picture of his Conservative government's handling of the recession Thursday in a slick made-for-TV presentation designed to forestall a quick summer election.
The planned event in the southwestern Ontario industrial city of Cambridge will feature the prime minister releasing the government's report on the effectiveness of government policies at the Armenian Community Centre.
The presentation will be moderated by Senator Mike Duffy, a former television journalist, and feature Harper, flanked by Human Resources Minister Diane Finley and Gary Goodyear, the local MP and Minister of State for Science. It will include a staged interview segment between Harper and Duffy.
Duffy has been doing staged interviews with Conservatives for years, so this should be old hat.
The fact the government is resorting to this cheesy approach to sell themselves, is a statement in itself. You don't need slick if you've got the goods, you don't fear a REAL interview, if you have compelling answers. This concoction reeks of a charlatan.


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I am a 25 year old wife and mother. I am currently at home with our 3 year old son, who is my pride and joy. I wrote some childrens books awhile back and I am currently working on a new project that i hope everyone will enjoy reading as much as I have been enjoying writing it.
Latest project is called Something Wicked! Here is a sneak peek!
Braylen is unkowning a very powerful witch. She was left on the doorstep of an orphanage only mere hours after her birth. Living with the strange things that always seemed to happen around her she was raised in the orphanage until a loving couple with no other children adopted her at the age of six. Ten years later she is sixteen and starting her second year of highschool.
Jake came up and wrapped his arm around Ren's waist and looked from Riley to Braylen "dude what are you doing with the weirdo?" Jake said laughing at her. Braylen slammed her locker door and all the windows on this side of the school shattered. Everyone screamed and Braylen walked off through the rain of falling shards of glass. They scratched her face and her bare arms but she didn't care. Riley chased her "where are you going?" he demanded pulling her to a stop, "to class" she said jerking her arm out of his grasp. "Braylen your face and you arms a cut, you have pieces of glass embedded in your skin, you need to go to the nurse, probably the hospital" Riley said pulling her away from the hall that led to class to the front of the school to find the nurses office. To her disbelief there was more people waiting on the nurse than she knew even went to this school. "Come on I will take you to the hospital" Riley said, she wanted to protest but knew he was right. "Why did you not get any cuts?" Braylen asked as he drove her to the hospital.


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It won't be long before we're knee-deep in motherboards designed for Intel's next-generation Haswell processors. To hype their upcoming products, mobo makers have teased various features, with ASRock most recently dropping hints on its swanky A-Style integrated audio. The firm has a whole 8-series micro-site that hints at other goodies, including 802.11ac W-Fi, "Home Cloud" capabilities, and a waterproof coating. The details on those are still to come. ASRock has, however, introduced a new HDMI input with built-in switching. See for yourself:
The ability to pipe in a secondary HDMI feed should appeal to folks with a limited number of monitor inputs. I particularly like the fact that the extra input still works when the system is powered off. Too bad the hotkey-powered switching takes about five seconds to complete.
While the video doesn't really show whether the HDMI input adds any latency, it's clear that the monitor is connected to the motherboard's display output. There isn't a graphics card in sight. Presumably, running your PC's output through the motherboard is essential to the switching mechanism. That doesn't necessarily mean you're restricted to integrated graphics, though—Lucid's Virtu software allows discrete graphics output to be fed through the mobo.
Platform integration has made it increasingly difficult for motherboard makers to differentiate their products, but ASRock clearly has some novel ideas up its sleeve. My fingers are crossed for a video of the waterproof coating in action. I'm not sure that's something I want to try for myself in the lab.


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So recently I've been trolling the WoW Guild Recruitment Forum and posting recruitment messages. In case you ever find yourself posting there (or anywhere else) looking for a guild, here are a few guidelines to getting noticed and getting a post.
Your title should be simple and informative. Something like "Exp. Glad Prot War/Arms War LF Top 500." (A real post) So from this title I can glean that this warrior is dual specced, experienced (so he says) and achieved a Gladiator title in arena. He also states he is looking for a top 500 guild, which tells me what kind of guild he's looking for and his attitude towards raiding (anyone looking for a top guild is probably fairly hardcore).
Make complete sentences and use punctuation. If your post is a big mash of words with no real structure, sense, etc. then it's unlikely you'll hear from me or anyone else. It's not that I really care about grammar on a day to day basis in guild chat, but what matters is how you're willing to present yourself. Basically, it shows that you put two seconds of effort into your post and doesn't encourage a response on my part.
Be clear and detailed about what kind of guild you're looking for. The more specific you are, the better chance you'll get a response from a guild that fits you. You might get less posts overall, but they'll be ones that work for you. For instance, if you don't specify your time zone, desired raiding schedule, etc. you will end up getting a lot of responses from guilds with raid times that don't work for you. This also includes describing what level of progression you want responding guilds to be at.
Describe what you can give to guilds and what your role/spec in a raid is and provide a parse. If you explain a little bit about your spec and how you typically play in raids, it will show not only that you know what you're doing but that you pay attention to your spec. Guilds want raiders who are not only interested in raiding but also playing their character as well as they can.
Don't whine. If your post sounds whiny or complainy, I'm immediately going to click the back button. Don't gripe about your previous guild or about how your current guild isn't putting you on the raid roster. If your guild disbanded due to drama or whatever other reason, there's no need to go into gory details. Simply say that you are looking for a new guild – explain further if asked (you'll usually see a related question on any guild applications).
Apply alone. While you can't always do this (if you have friends or a significant other you want to raid with), your chances of getting in to a guild will probably be higher if you're applying by yourself. The main reason for this is that people who apply together often do other things together, such as leaving for a new guild, taking vacation, and missing raids. While I'm absolutely not saying that people who apply in groups do this more than single applicants, having multiple raiders disappear at the same time is not a good thing for any guild.
Extras that help you:
- Posting on your main
- Linking your armory
- Logging out in proper gear (healing/tank/DPS)
- Showing some personality
- Willingness to transfer servers
P.S. My guild is recruiting, so if you're looking for a guild check out our recruitment thread here. (Note: it's a little out of date, we actually have killed Yogg and we're also looking for a Hunter.)


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Semi-potent Potables
I'm aware, as I often am, that this entry would have been more timely had it appeared earlier. Hot alcoholic drinks are especially well suited for entertaining at any party meant to celebrate one of the holidays associated with the winter solstice. But a) better late than never, and b) there's still a lot of cold weather to come, though not, perhaps, here, where "unseasonably warm" does not even begin to cover it. Still, it's likely that there will be plenty more cold weather between now and spring.
In general, I prefer to make heated alcoholic drinks on the weaker side than, say, eggnog, which I believe should continue to be made the way it was routinely made in the fifties. That is to say in a period when people routinely smoke and drove under the influence without worrying too much about the consequences. I don't much care for smoking, and I believe in designated drivers and/or waiting a sufficient amount of time after drinking and/or calling a cab and/or passing out sleeping bags, but given what passes for eggnog these days, your goal should probably be for your guests to exclaim "Whoa! That's lethal" right after they've exclaimed, "Gee! That's tasty." (I require all of my guests to use "Gee" as their first interjection when they visit. Penalties for non-compliance have sometimes been very harsh.)
But with heated drinks, I generally start with a good deal less alcohol. Admittedly, this is partly because some of the alcohol cooks out and because when I'm serving, say, the mulled wine, I like to toss a healthy shot of dark rum in the bottom of the mug before ladling on the hot wine to make the drink more, um, volatile. But it's also because if I have leftovers, I can drink a significant quantity without having to worry about inebriation.
This has been a special concern this year because I have often found myself in the situation of needing something both tasty and friendly to the voice. Winter is hard on the throat and lungs, and on Christmas Eve this year, I had to sing in a madrigal choir at the afternoon service and in the regular choir at the evening service. There were also (relatively short) solos for each service, and my vocal mechanism (I have no idea what else to call it) was, not to put too fine a point on it, pissed off.
It is my firm belief that honey, lemon juice, red wine, and heat are all good for the voice. This belief is important to me, so if I'm mistaken, I would very much appreciate not finding out: go mess with somebody else's religion. I will say that the belief comports with my experience, and on this Christmas Eve, I was sitting in the choir with a thermos of my mulled cider and wine, and taking a drink of it when my voice was feeling unhappy made me feel a great deal better. And because the effect was immediate and because it isn't that strong, I'm pretty sure it wasn't the alcohol that helped. There may be a placebo effect going on, but, again, ignorance is bliss, and I intend to follow mine.
Mulled Wine and Cider
A half gallon of apple cider, preferably unfiltered
A three-liter box (or four 750 ml bottles) of red wine
One lemon
One orange
2 cinnamon sticks
2 slices crystallized ginger
2 star anise
1 nutmeg
5 green cardamom pods
1 t. whole allspice
1 cup honey
Granulated sugar, optional
Remove and reserve the zest from the lemon and orange. Squeeze the citrus and reserve the juice. Break the cinnamon sticks in half, bruise the anise and cardamom pods, and cut the nutmeg in half. In a large pot, combine the wine, the cider, the citrus zests, the citrus juices, and the spices. Over a low flame, bring to near the simmer, then cover and let heat, without boiling for an hour or more.
Stir in the honey. Taste and add granulated sugar or more honey if necessary. Serve hot.
You can, if you like, put all the spices, etc. in cheesecloth, but I don't see the point. It's easy enough to keep them out of the ladle, and if someone gets a cardamom pod in his or her mug of mulled, then where's the harm? You can also, of course, ratchet up the alcohol (dark rum is an especially nice addition), but, again, it's not necessary, and if you leave this the way it is, people can drink quite a lot of it with no fear of impairment. Which is good because the recipe makes quite a lot.
It should go without saying that you can alter the blend of spices to your liking, but if it doesn't, I've said it, so it needn't.
Between our Christmas Eve guests (my Christmas Eve schedule: 9am - noon, go to work; noon - 2:45, drive home, start Christmas Eve dinner; 2:45 - 4:30, drive to church, sing, drive home; 4:30 - 5:45, finish and serve dinner, leave guests at table; 5:45 - 8:30, drive to church, sing, drive home; 8:30 - 12:30, hang out with guests, clean up, drink much wine; 12:30 - 2:30, wrap presents) and the next couple of days, the mulled wine/cider was gone before the girls and I went to Florida to see my parents and my sister and her family. It takes a while to make more, so when my voice or throat or sinuses are feeling unhappy and in need of some TLC, I need a quicker alternative. This one is as restorative as it is easy.
Weak Wine Punch
The juice of half a lemon
4 oz. red wine
2 T. honey
a sprig of fresh rosemary
2 cups boiling water
In a very large (24 ounce) coffee/soup mug, combine the lemon juice, red wine, and honey. Stir well. Add the sprig of rosemary. Fill to near the top with boiling water.
I almost always have the ingredients for this concoction (that's V.'s term for everything I make, pretty much) on hand, though I sometimes have to step outside for the fresh rosemary. If you don't have fresh rosemary, by the way, just leave it out. The drink is perfectly delicious without it. In fact, you don't really taste the rosemary, but when you add the boiling water, the essential oils are released, and a little cloud of rosemary-scented vapor hovers over the top of your mug. Rosemary is invigorating, and there is something extremely healthful and comforting about the way it floats into your sinuses as you sip the punch.
I should note that I really don't measure the ingredients for this. I cut a lemon in half, then I cut one half into two quarters, then I squeeze the quarters into the mug, then I add a healthy squeeze of honey from my big Costco honey container, then I add a good splash of red wine from the box, then I stir, then I toss in the rosemary, then I add the water from the kettle. I did measure the wine one time, just so I could say how much I used, and I found that the four ounces I measured was probably about twice as much as I'd used the first time. And it's good either way, but I think it's a little better with the extra wine. I can't bring myself to measure the honey, but I think the 2 tablespoons is a good approximation. If, you know, it's not sweet enough, just squeeze a little more in. If you add a little too much, well, this is a pretty weak drink, so you'd have to add a lot too much for it to be a big problem, I think.
In any case, if your amounts are anywhere close to the amounts here (and probably even if they aren't), this is going to be an awfully good drink. It may not have any proven medical benefits, but it's very salutary to your mood. It is just the ticket for a tough day. Or, indeed, for a day that might turn unexpectedly tough. And what day is immune from that affliction? Better not to take chances: drink your punch.


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Easy Valentine's Day Treat Recipes
Valentine's Day is filled with sweet treats. And this year you can have your child help you to whip up a few. Spend some together time with your little one, making Valentine's Day goodies to share with the entire family. Serve your treats at a holiday party or send them to family members and friends. If you need a few simple Valentine's Day recipes for your child to help you create, check out these holiday ideas.
Valentine's Sundae
Crush your Valentine's Day chocolates into a bowl of cherry red ice cream. Mix the candy into the ice cream and top generously with whipped cream. Add a cherry, or a chocolate-covered cherry, on top. Sprinkle with candy hearts and drizzle with cherry and chocolate syrup.
Cherry S'mores
Turn your regular s'mores into a Valentine's Day treat. Cover marshmallows in cherry juice, turning them a holiday red or pink. Stack the cherry-flavored marshmallows with cholate on graham crackers. Heat the stacker in the microwave for 10 seconds or until the marshmallows starts to melt.
Candy Bark
Melt white chocolate in a microwave-safe dish, stirring often. Don't allow your child to handle the hot chocolate. Sprinkle candy hearts into the chocolate. Spread the mix onto a wax paper-covered cake pan. Freeze the chocolate until it hardens. When it's solid, Break the chocolate bark apart into pieces.
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It could soon be more difficult for drunk drivers to keep getting behind the wheel on Louisiana roads. Currently, in some cases, repeat DWI offenders are charged only as first offenders. The state legislature is looking to change that in a move strongly backed by law enforcement and prosecutors.
A state board has recently been revived to create a statewide computer system that would keep track of DWI convictions. Police officers would be able to see if a suspect has any previous DWI convictions in any parish before making an arrest.
The goal is to cut down on the number of repeat offenders in Louisiana. In a state that saw nearly 300 alcohol related traffic deaths last year, we believe a DWI tracking system is essential. If the 2011 rate continues, at least 5 people in Louisiana will die because of alcohol related crashes every week. This system needs to be implemented as soon as possible.


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