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U.S. Day Ahead: It's debate time and Romney has to perform!
Oct 2 - The 90 minute showdown between Obama and Romney takes place Wednesday at 9:00 PM in Denver, Colorado - one of the eight battle ground states. Romney has a key opportunity to make up for last month's gaffes.
Less than 24 hours till Obama and Romney face off each candidate will try to hammer home their vision of how to heal the economy. -- showdown will be in Denver Colorado one of the eight battleground state. In addition to the economy it's it's also spar over foreign policy. Obama it's coming into the debate in a stronger position than his rival. Still this could be a chance for Mitt Romney to make up for the gaps of last month. Romney's trailing in opinion polls in time's running out for him to turn things around he's going to be under a tremendous amount of pressure to deliver a strong performance beckoning voters reassess and and reconsider the support for President Obama. So look for Ron you come out and be aggressive in attacking Obama. Obama probably is gonna play more of a defense of role and that he doesn't really need to do anything except for avoiding any futures. And be sure to catch our preview of the debate with our correspondents and Jacob and anti development outside the White House Wednesday morning they'll talk about the importance of body language right. Shouldn't try to go out and seen each other. Hewlett-Packard investors will want to know how CEO Meg Whitman can reboot the ailing PT -- she holds a key analyst day in the morning. -- here for Whitman after taking over from Leo apt to car. So far she's slashed almost 30000 jobs in March and the bringing divisions and wrote off eight billion dollars from outsourcing business. Still it hasn't done much for the stock now down nearly 30%. And the start of the year that is -- Three S&P 500 companies are reporting earnings on Wednesday. To what family dollars that's about its business. The company should -- bigger profits from last year but investors -- wanna know how badly family -- margins are being squeezed by competitors. Is under pressure from Wal-Mart and Dollar General which are trying to slash their prices. That I had we know manufacturing showed surprise growth in September. But what about service I have arts as -- don't bet on it the ISM non manufacturing index is that -- slipped to 52 point nine which means that part of the economy is expanding but at a slower rate. He's also focus on the employment part of the index. It is clear about Friday's jobs report number expected to come in at eight habit of 130000. I'm holiday mom this is writers.


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Something is different as I write today. It's not weather or the mood but it's the backdrop, towering mountains have replaced the skyscrapers.
Change as they say is inevitable, and so it was time for us to move from
Dubai to . We are all set for new challenges, goals,
happiness, frustrations and learning's here in Muscat . Muscat
It was almost 7 years ago I got married and came to
join my hubby. To be honest, at first I
didn't like place very much but in a matter of few months I started calling it
home. We set our first house together, done it up to call it our home, bought
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Little Smera was born here in
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got us closer to each other as partners. Dubai
We have been extremely fortunate on our career front and especially my husband who has been part of an outstanding company for the last 10 years. RSA has been extremely generous and supportive of him and his ambitions. In fact Smera is truly a RSA baby with pink and purple being favourite colours, true to the brand colours of the company.
Taking a sabbatical from work to enjoy motherhood, it was here I first tried my hands at blogging and I must admit I am addicted to it (thanks you for supporting my addiction !).
There are numerous memories tied with this city and I am really going to miss it. The friends we made, our house (no, home), our favourite food joints and so many other things. However I am sure we are going to make many more new memories and I would love to share it with you all too here on Sangrywords!
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Voters in Washington State will be heading to the polls next week to vote on an initiative that could legalize the sale of marijuana—a move that many are pushing for in British Columbia.
[WATCH Pot TV's LIVE coverage of Election Night 2012 on November 6 starting at 4PM Pacific to watch the historic votes on marijuana legalization in the USA.]
If the initiative goes through, Washington State will become the first American jurisdiction to allow farmers to grow marijuana that can then be legally sold to adults 21 years and older. The drug will then be taxed and regulated by the government in an attempt to the curb sales in the black market.
Prominent B.C leaders such as Liberal MLA Kash Heed and former Attorney General Geoff Plant are just some of the high-profile British Columbians who are pushing for a similar initiative in B.C. Both have endorsed the Stop the Violence Campaign, and have maintained that the criminalization of pot fuels gang violence.
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The Union of B.C. Municipalities also passed a resolution last month, calling for the decriminalization of cannabis.
"For a long time, one of the arguments against policy reform in Canada was that Canadians could never try and get ahead of the Americans on this issue without risking the wrath of U.S. law enforcement," said Plant at the B.C. Liberals' annual convention in Whistler on Saturday. "It looks like the Americans are step-by-step getting ahead of Canadians on this issue. If there's a successful vote on that Washington initiative, that's another step forward. Sooner or later we're going to be playing catch-up here."
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The late Hank Lumpkin, co-founder of Boss Hawg's Barbeque in Topeka, with his wife, Elizabeth, was a Beer Can Chicken fan.
Hank didn't care why the chicken crossed the road as long as it straddled his can of beer when it crossed over. Befitting of barbecue jargon, Hank called it Beer Butt Chicken.
Call it what you will, Beer Can Chicken debunkery has revved up again these days in food media with the publication of Meathead Goldwyn's outstanding new book, "Meathead — The Science of Great Barbecue and Grilling."
After reading Meathead or spinoffs inspired by Meathead, America's backyard pitmasters may soon be drowning legions of drunken garden slugs with canned beer previously set aside for cooking. The Beer Can Chicken Myth has been busted!
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Here's what Meathead says about Beer Can Chicken not being "the best way to cook a bird." My comments are in italics:
Half a can of beer with holes punched on top doesn't get hot enough to emit steam inside a chicken carcass because the carcass insulates the beer like a koozie. I tested this with a full can of beer and a half full beer can, each pop-topped to avoid the Thunder Bird Reaction. I barbecued two chickens at 250 to 300 degrees for 3 hours. Meathead is correct: the chickens didn't give up a single drop of beer.
Beer doesn't add flavor to chicken.
True. My fully cooked chickens were moist and tender, gently kissed with pecan smoke and DennyMike's Chick Magnet seasoning, but no beer flavor.
Beer can chicken is a health risk because the beer can cools the bird's center, risking undercooked chicken.
Undercooked chicken, regardless of cooking method, is a health risk.
Beer can chicken wastes good beer.
"Waste" is a subjective value judgment, not science.
It's an inferior cooking technique.
"Inferior" is a subjective value judgment, not science.
Final nail in Beer Can Chicken's coffin: Fine dining restaurants don't serve it because their chefs know "better ways to roast."
A more relevant analogy for backyard barbecue cooks would be "barbecue restaurant pitmasters and competition barbecue cooks don't serve Beer Can Chicken to customers or judges."
How would Hank Lumpkin react to Beer Can Chicken debunking?
We'll never know, but I imagine his first reaction would be an amused smile.
Proving that the Beer Can method doesn't steam the bird's cavity or enhance the flavor with beer is a valid basis for saying that the method doesn't do what it purports to do. That's objective science. Value judgments such as "waste" and "inferior" are subjective opinion.
Although I have a few more minor bones to pick with Meathead, I highly recommend his new book.
Meathead Goldwyn is one of the most thorough, passionate, genuine and downright fun barbecue entrepreneurs I have ever met. Although I'm closer to the Neanderthal end of the barbecue methods continuum than the science end, I get valuable insights from his writing and research.
Will I kick the can? I favor the spatchcock method as perfected by the late Giancarlo Giannelli in Tuscany.
I seldom use the Beer Can method, but now and then, regardless of the myth, I'll roast a Beer Butt Chicken in honor of Hank Lumpkin. I raise a toast to Hank with six ounces and share the remaining six ounces with the chicken. Beats the heck out of feeding good beer to slugs!
Ardie Davis founded a sauce contest on his backyard patio in 1984 that became the American Royal International Barbecue Sauce, Rub & Baste contest. He is a charter member of the Kansas City Barbeque Society and an inductee into the KCBS Hall of Flame. He has been interviewed on food shows and writes for barbecue-related publications. His most recent releases are America's Best BBQ (Revised Edition), with chef Paul Kirk, and Barbecue Lover's Kansas City Style .


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From early coaching days, Castle Square had become the commercial centre of town, when the Castle Inn after which the square is named became established. When the inn was demolished in 1823, the square was opened up into a broad thoroughfare which became the main coaching centre of the town, with most routes from London and other places terminating here. Numbers 1-8 on the south side of Castle Square are all listed buildings; number 1 was probably designed by Wilds and Busby in the 1820s.
The view depicted is from Old Steine and dates from the first decade of the 20th century, at the time where horse drawn omnibuses were being replaced by motorised vehicles. Although Motor Buses operated there from 1903, the Horse Buses continued to run up until 1916.
On the left-hand corner is the "Coal Owner's Direct Supply Association" which occupied the site from around 1900 until 1920. On the right-hand corner is Needham's, a well-known outfitter's stores until it was replaced in 1933 by the art-deco 'Electric House'.
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Castle Square in the early 1900s
From the private collection of Councillor Geoffrey Wells
Castle Square in 2010
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Thanks Jennifer, it's great looking at before and now photos which often appear on this site. It's easy to see the big changes when buildings are demolished, but I like looking for the subtle changes too. You can often see that windows are bricked up, balustrades removed, chimneys capped and roofs extended. Sometimes these changes are because of disrepair or necessity, but another reason for change especially in the middle to latter part of the 20th century was fashion. Just think how many period architectural features were removed in the 60s and 70s from the inside and outside of buildings just because they looked old fashioned. Looking around the street scene it's nice to think where the people have come from or where they're going to in that snapshot of life in days gone by. Looking on the corner of Needhams there seems to be what looks like a large modern day parking meter; it looks to be about six feet tall. Does anybody have any idea what it is or what it's used for?
How weird - I mean the giant parking meter! Could it have been some kind of telegraph device for use by police constables on the beat? I'm completely flummoxed. Both views are of East Street, from Pavilion Buildings, where I served a seven year apprenticeship with the newspaper Brighton & Hove Herald. I was a spotty faced office boy for the first year (1952-3) and had to deliver accounts to, among many others, Reason & Tickle who occupied the large white building blocking the fork 'twixt East St and Bartholomews (centre of the picture). I liked going in there to get that big, beautiful smile from the assistant estate agent (who was several years my senior and way out of my league!).
Actually, I've made a big mistake! Studying the modern picture more closely, I now see that I am looking from the War Memorial towards North Street. The blue tinted building in the right foreground is where Electricity House used to be, and of course the building I thought was Reason & Tickle is where Hanningtons once presided. So East Street is the second left in the picture and Pavilion Bldgs to the right. My other comments still stand. Apologies for my lack of observation.
Is it me being daft or is that a parking type meter in the top picture at the bottom right hand side?
Wonder if anybody can help me? I was born in Brighton and lived there until the early 1970s. There is a family story that my great grandfather (John? Standen) was a retired jockey and was killed in Castle Square/North Street when a horse he was taking to be shod took fright at a motor car (new fangled invention) and reared up, striking him on the head and fracturing his skull. I have tried to find any newspaper reports of this without success but I have found a death record of John Standen in Brighton in1902 -which looks about right. Does anybody else have any knowledge of this incident?
Re the parking meter lookalike on the Needham's corner, I can't see any evidence of the semaphore arm signals that pre-dated traffic lights, so I think, like Brian, that it may be for some form of radio/telephone communication.
The giant look a like parking meter is certainly a bit of a puzzle. My first thoughts were perhaps it was tramway paraphernalia but the trams never operated through Castle Square or up and down North Street. The tram rails etc ran up and down the east side of the Old Steine to connect with the Aquarium terminus. It may well be something to do with the other things already mentioned. Maybe we are reading too much into this! Is it simply a cast iron post about four feet high placed there to stop larger vehicles mounting the pavement in so doing damaging the shop awning? Looking at the photo with a magnifying glass, is the camera playing tricks with us? it may well be that the oblong top section is nothing to do with the post and is an object hanging from beneath the shop awning? Whatever it is I love these MyB&H challenges so many thanks Jennifer.
Hi John, I have a higher resolution copy of this postcard and Chris is spot on the money - there was a post on the corner and the area above it was part of a window display of Needham's store. It's one of those pictures where the eye tries to make sense of a part of an image by association with an object familiar to the viewer. Regards
Nice one John and Andy. So what was the item on display, Andy, and how much was it?!
The parking meter lookalike is I think a street fire alarm that was sited in many places around town before the 999 system was used. It had a break glass window to operate the alarm.
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Area on road to recovery
The message delivered by speakers at Friday's quarterly meeting of the Plainview Hale County Economic Development Corp. is that of recovery following a difficult year due to the ongoing drought and closure of Cargill's beef processing plant.
"Hale County's unemployment rate is down to 10.4 percent for March after peaking at 15.0 percent in June," reported Don Hill of the South Plains Workforce Solutions-Plainview office. "We will be closing our New Opportunity Center, for displaced Cargill workers, on May 30 and moving its staff into our office."
That's because of declining demand, Hill said. "We've been able to retrain a large number of those Cargill workers to give them truck driving skills, become HVAC technicians, general maintenance technicians and more. Many are now driving back and forth to Midland and Odessa while still living in Plainview."
Some of the those former Cargill workings are helping haul materials and build the pads for wind turbines in Floyd County, he noted, and 30 percent of new job applicants at Caviness Beef Packers in Hereford live in Hale County.
Expanding on Hill's comments, Paul Henderson of South Plains College-Plainview said 108 displaced Cargill workers received truck driver training through a cooperative program between South Plains Worksource and SPC. Currently 82 percent of those who have completed the program are now employed as truck drivers. "Some have had to relocate, but they have jobs."
Henderson said construction of the new technology center on the SPC-Plainview campus is moving quickly and, with a national push for regional training centers, the Plainview campus could be in line for another building as it continues to expand its training programs.
"In the future at least 80 percent of the available jobs will require more than a high school or GED education," Henderson said. "In the years ahead, colleges and universities should expect a 60 to 80 percent increase in enrollment. And with a better educated workforce, Texas is pulling in high tech jobs faster than any other state."
With an increasing number of job training programs becoming available through South Plains College, Plainview should soon be able to offer potential employers a highly skilled labor force for a wide variety of technology trades. "This should give us an opportunity to recruit industry as never before."
PHCEDC Executive Director Kevin Carter reported that economic development in the immediate future will focus on energy. He noted that Sharyland is currently working on routing electrical transmission lines that will run some 52 miles from Golden Spread Electrical Cooperative's Antelope Station near Abernathy to Floyd County where they will tie into existing transmission lines.
Hale Community Energy will begin construction on its huge wind energy project in late fall, and could be producing electrical power in late 2015 to early 2016.
The Plainview Orchard Wind Project, in northwestern Hale County, will be kicking off soon, Carter reported, and all of Hale County could end up attracting lease offers for oil and gas exploration. A couple of oil companies already are drilling exploratory wells in the county, he noted.
Wal-Mart Distribution Center, Azteca, White Energy and Golden Spread Electric Cooperative have either completed or involved in improvement and expansion projects, and BNSF has announced plans to construct an off-loading facility east of Plainview to handle wind turbine components. Another firm is interested in placing a similar off-loading facility within the city.
"This is due to the lack of rail service in Floyd County, and these facilities are needed for the wind farm project at South Plains, north of Floydada," Carter said.
During the past week, a federal $99,990 grant to set up a revolving local loan fund was approved. With local matching funds, that will mean the availability of about $200,000 for local business development loans.
Sharon Wright, reporting for Plainview ISD, said despite projections that the district would lose 400 students with the closing of Cargill, actual student numbers are down some 225 students.
"And our preliminary STAAR test scores in reading and math for grades 5 and 8 have just come in, and overall they are the highest ever in the three-year history of the test."
She noted that for fifth graders, the reading scores are up 4 percent while math scores are up 8 percent. For the eighth grade, the reading scores are down 1 percent, but the math scores are up 2 percent.
"Giving what the district has been through during the past year, with the restructuring of the campuses, that is simply phenomenal." She noted that 52 percent of PISD staff is in new positions and/or different campuses.
Wright added that with HB 5 brought on new graduation requirements for incoming freshmen this fall, "and the district sees great things happening with our growing partnership with Wayland and South Plains College.
Mayor Wendell Dunlap reported that several items are "on hold" at the city, pending the outcome of May 10 city council elections.
City Manager Greg Ingham has announced plans to retire later this year, and Dunlap said the search for his replacement will begin in earnest following the election. Also on hold are plans for development of a business or industrial park.
He noted that plans for creating a backage road through Stonegate Shopping Center have hit a funding snag with TxDOT, but hopefully those problems will be worked out by the end of the summer or early fall. Also, plans have been announced for a multi-family housing complex south of Walmart, with the city working on annexation proceeding to bring city services to that area.
Linda Morris, Plainview Chamber of Commerce executive manager, wrapped up the community reports by noting that her group is encouraging property owners and occupants to clean up areas along Fifth Street to make to community more attractive to industry and business prospects.
She said the Chamber has made contacts with several truck stop firms urging them to consider Plainview. Two women's clothing stores and a national chain restaurant have told the Chamber they plan to locate here.
Morris added that the farmers market that has been using the Tractor Supply parking lot for several years will be relocating this summer to the Centennial Bank parking lot on the northeast corner of Fifth and Austin. Another farmers market will continue to operate in the Gebo's parking lot.
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3/27/2008 – Kate Stepan, Associate Editor.
While Jeff, Robert, JB and the rest of the C&K crew were on the scene in Santa Cruz last weekend, I was out doing some surfing of a different, more unintentional kind on the Salt River in the Arizona desert.
Read Jeff's Blog on the Santa Cruz Kayak Surf Festival
First, a little about the Salt. This wilderness classic drains the White Mountains of eastern Arizona and has no shortage of desert vistas, otherworldly rock formations, exotic flowers and towering saguaro cacti. Not to mention 60 miles of mostly mellow, riffling whitewater with one Class IV stretch thrown in for excitement. The trick is catching it in a good snow year and having the foresight to apply for a permit during said bountiful winter.
I got the email from Glen Goodrich, a West Virginia connection who's somewhat of a multi-day guru, two weeks before the trip—he had a few spaces left on his five-day permit March 14-18. Glen guides on the Salt and otherwise has his private trip logistics as choreographed as a Richard Simmons workout routine, so I didn't hesitate to beg my way on to the trip. For the next week, between editing and deadlines, I watched as the gauge inched up to medium, then optimal, levels: 1,400, 1,600, 1,800 cfs.
After putting our latest issue to bed, I whipped my rented economy Chevy across the desert through the night and arrived at the put-in in typical boating fashion: at 7 a.m., just as the sun began peeking over the canyon walls. Soon the beach was littered with our fleet, which included two Shredders, a 14-foot paddle raft, two kayaks, an open canoe, and three gear-laden oar rigs. I decided then and there, in classic C&K, serve-all-subculture style, that I'd have to try my hand at piloting each craft before the trip was done.
We awoke each day to frost-covered gear, and endured one afternoon hailstorm that turned into a night and morning of rain. Water temps dipped below 50 degrees.
We rigged boats and put on around noon, floating seven easy miles to an outpost where four rafting companies, including Wilderness Aware where Glen works, stage their day trips on the Salt. Camp 1 was pretty cush—with a dish line and cook tent already in place for the commercial guests and guides who live there for the spring Salt season. Little did we know that our other digs, though decidedly more exposed, would be almost as comfortable replete with Glen's full kitchen, preplanned menu, and bevy of camp chairs for relaxing after dinner.
Our crew included several current and former West Virginia guides, including a few I'd worked with or at least, we figured, crossed paths with on the river or around Fayetteville where I spent a few seasons pushing rubber and shooting raft trip videos from my kayak. Bob the open canoeist from North Carolina, JP from Montana, and Sam and Millie, a couple from Phoenix in their 60s, rounded out the 15-person group.
Floating in the desert in March is more of a survival affair than spring break party. We awoke each day to frost-covered gear, and endured one afternoon hailstorm that turned into a night and morning of rain. Water temps dipped below 50 degrees, at least according to Andy's watch, which had a built-in thermometer. Even in the sunshine—of which we also had plenty—I needed pogies to protect my chapped hands. The cold and daily windstorms didn't stop us from layering up in all the clothes we brought—"emergency" fleeces included—to spin boating yarns around the campfire or engage in a few highly competitive rounds of bocci ball in the sand (we knew Bob meant business when he broke out the tape measure).
Day 4—the rain morning—brought our biggest whitewater stretch. After meandering through a granite micro-gorge, the river pours into a slightly bigger canyon and is funneled into two rapids known as Quartzite and Corkscrew. And by meandering I mean shooting downstream like Wile E. Coyote out of a cannon—at the moment I was trying to improve my rowing skills, and was at the oars through a section Glen called "The Maze." Spinning off rocks and running holes that would easily swallow my kayak provided all the adrenaline I needed to warm up from the chilly, rain soaked morning.
But the real trouble began back in my little boat. We arrived at the top of Quartzite, a jumble of jagged rock that once formed a Class V rapid that was reportedly blasted by raft guides sick of portaging the drop with their commercial crews. I must have thought I was still in the gear boat when I misjudged the size of a monster hole near the bottom of the rapid, and decided to run the meat down the center instead of the smoothed out left chute everyone else took. I got stopped by a rogue seam and did not quite have the power to stomp through the maw like I'd planned. Penciled in is a more apt description, just before the hole ride of my life. Reports from the peanut gallery grew throughout the day to seven rounds in the Maytag, but suffice it to say everyone was worried when, once I finally did pull my skirt, my boat popped out way before I did.
But, as with most things in boating, all was well that ended well, and the lesson I learned is never to second guess Glen on the river. Especially when it comes to bringing the ingredients for Irish Car Bombs for our St. Patty's day camp that evening.


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Pelion Hut (walk-in camping)
Pelion Hut is the halfway point on the Overland Track and the largest hut, sleeping 36. It is 16.5 km south of Windermere Hut (allow 6 hr).
This campsite is located in Overland Track (Cynthia Bay)
The Overland Track is Australia's most famous bushwalk. During the summer walking season, trekkers start at the Cradle Mountain end of the track and take around 6 days – longer depending on the weather and side tracks – to finish at Cynthia Bay at the southern end of Lake St Clair. The track leads through Tasmania's alpine heart and although there are huts and an upgraded path, walkers must be reasonably fit and fully equipped with a gas/fuel stove and tent. They should also be prepared to sit out bad weather, which can occur in any season. Camping is at the huts along the track; each has tank water and gas or coal heaters, with fuel supplied and camping platforms nearby. Walkers must book departure dates in the peak season (Nov–Apr).
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Bush's reading skills are as bad as that of Palin
New York, December 30 (ANI): Former underlings in the George W. Bush administration have likened the U.S. President to Alaska Governor Sarah Palin in terms of their "bad" reading skills.
Larry Wilkerson, a top aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell, said that Bush was a "Sarah Palin-like" leader, who had a short attention span and often deferred on big decisions.
According to him, Vice President Dick Cheney and then-Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld promoted the notion that they were a national security "dream team" to guild the foreign-policy amateur Bush.
"It allowed everybody to believe that this Sarah Palin-like President - because, let's face it, that's what he was - was going to be protected by this national security elite, tested in the cauldrons of fire," the New York Daily News quoted Wilkerson as saying.
Richard Clarke, a former counter-terrorism adviser, said that even then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice was aware of the fact that bush was not very great at reading.
He revealed that Rice and her deputy Steve Hadley once told him: "Don't give the President a lot of long memos. He's not a big reader."
Telling as to how he reacted to that statement, Clarke said: "Well, s---, I mean, the President of the United States is not a big reader?"
Former Bush media adviser Mark McKinnon said that the administration was in trouble even before Bush took office in the aftermath of the 2000 recount, in which the Supreme Court effectively ruled that he had won Florida.
"The recount poisoned the well from the beginning. A good number of people in this country didn't believe Bush was a legitimate President. And you can't change the tone under those circumstances," McKinnon said. (ANI)


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After years of budget cuts, Florida's universities appear to be getting everything they're asking for this year from the Florida Legislature — and in some cases, even more.
House and Senate leaders say they plan to boost university funding by over $100 million this year, in addition to restoring a $300 million cut from university budgets last year. Some of the money will be tied to university performance.
The University of Florida and Florida State University would receive even more money, as much as $30 million, as part of a proposal to grant them special status as the state's top-ranked institutions.
House leaders are even considering a 6 percent tuition increase that would add $37 million to the schools' coffers.
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"We're having a very good legislative session," university system chancellor Frank Brogan said this week.
Brogan and other university officials are careful to note that the budget process has just begun. The House and Senate still need to reach an agreement and Gov. Rick Scott must go along.
But the mood is far different than a year ago, when universities felt blind-sided by state budget cuts and were powerless to prevent them.
A tuition increase remains unlikely. Scott has said he opposes raising tuition and could veto a tuition increase if the Legislature passes one.
"This is a tax," Scott said. "It's a tax on students; It's a tax on families. So we can't be raising the cost to get higher education in this state."
Florida President Bernie Machen said he expects the schools to stay out of that fight.
"The universities are so pleased with the amount of resources that are on the table, it's a matter between the governor and the Legislature to decide if tuition is or if it is not part of the mix," Machen said.
In another turn from last year, the new Florida Polytechnic University might be the one school to have cause to worry.
While House budget writers blocked off $27 million for the new university, the Senate's budget plan includes only $11 million.
The university, which controversially split from the University of South Florida in 2012, had been expecting $27 million.
"We're looking forward to working with both sides to ensure that both sides match and that we are again fully appropriated at the $27 million re-occurring amount," said interim university leader Ava Parker. "We believe that we can demonstrate that we need that budget amount in order to adequately build the vision and implement the university."
House Speaker Will Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel, continues to suggest that Polytechnic may be better off as a branch of another school instead of the state's 12th public university. So far he has only floated the idea, but language to strip away the school's independence could be written into the state budget.
Parker and Board of Trustees chairman Robert Gidel said the school is working toward independence, but funding is a concern. In addition to classrooms and administrative offices, the school want to build housing and hire staff.
Polytechnic is planned to open fall 2014 with 500 students.
The state's Board of Governors, which oversees the university system and met this week in Tallahassee, wondered how Polytechnic leaders will pay to create a campus and recruit students before earning accreditation.
"As we look down the road a little bit, I'm seeing a little struggling here," Norman Tripp, a member of the board, said during Thursday's meeting.
For the second year, House and Senate leaders want to provide additional money to Florida and Florida State to help improve their national standing.
Scott vetoed a bill last year that granted the two schools the ability to raise tuition beyond the state's other universities. This year, lawmakers are replacing tuition increases with state dollars.
The Senate's budget plan includes $15 million for each school. The House would provide Florida State $12.5 million and Florida $30 million, half of which would be to increase the number of online courses, another Weatherford priority.
Weatherford also believes state universities should raise tuition in 2013, though not as much as previous years.
Schools have increased tuition up to 15 percent in recent years to offset state funding cuts. Even with state support improving, a modest tuition hike is warranted, Weatherford said.
Florida State President Eric Barron agreed.
"I think the key here is we've gone through so many cuts over so many years that it's starting to do real damage to the institutions," he said. "And so what becomes important is additional revenue."


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April is the time of year when we usually start our Spring Cleaning with a vengeance. The probability of clutter objects finding a way out of the house increases. Why not make use of this opportunity to apply some basic Feng Shui tips to provide further stress relief without doing much other than work on our living space?
It is said that the state of our house is a reflection of the state of our mind. So a cluttered messy home is quite reflective of our stress levels even if we deny it with phrases like 'there's method to our madness' until a stage arrives when you need Stress Management Coaching. (Click the link to learn how I can help).
A decade ago, it was trendy in India to gift bamboo plants in beautiful containers and I remember back in my office, the Country Manager's Executive Assistant received 4 of these plants one birthday. Looks like we all had the same idea to wish her the Feng Shui way!
You may not know much about Feng Shui but you can learn a lot about it on the internet and the glossy section of newspapers. There are shops both offline and online that sell Feng Shui products to help you with your career, marriage, health, relationships and even to protect your car!
Feng Shui means 'wind and water' in Chinese and is a centuries old oriental art used to balance and harmonize surroundings, to bring good fortune, peace and health. The benefits are also felt by those around you.
Feng Shui is based on the belief that the world around us is filled with energy or Chi, similar to Prana in the Ayurvedic system. For the Chinese, wind and water are symbols of health and good fortune.
Following this premise that by boosting your Chi and by living in harmony with the world's energy you can bring success and prosperity to your life as well as of those around you, it stands to reason that Feng Shui can also help alleviate stress.
Not everyone is into symbolism or feels comfortable carrying items in their pocket or person or having oriental objects in their home. So how do we work around that?
Here Come 5 Practical Ideas for Stress Relief – the Feng Shui Way
This week, I share some ideas of how you can use Feng Shui to relieve stress without going out and buying objects or making it obvious to others what you are doing. I've tried all these tips myself over the years and know that they work.
These are all layman tips and if you really want to learn more about Feng Shui, please consult an expert or buy a good book to find out more. I can recommend 2 books. One is by Lillian Too which was published in 2006 but good called 365 Feng Shui Tips
The other is by Karen Kingston, Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui: Free Yourself from Physical, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Clutter Forever
Back to my own layman Feng Shui tips, you have 3 options here.
You can continue reading to learn the tips or if you prefer slides, view the slideshare presentation.
As a bonus, I've also included one of the first videos I made way back in 2014 (but was too shy to upload 🙂 )until I wrote this blog post. and listen to what I have to say. I was still experimenting and even if it isn't world class, it's a good video.
Here goes!
The Written Feng Shui Suggestions for Stress Management
Adjust your lighting: Anyone who has ever had headaches and then gone to the optician only to discover that they need spectacles all because of bad lighting will appreciate this tip!
One of the most important elements Feng Shui involves the lighting of your room. All rooms in your home or office should be very well lit to benefit from a feeling of peace and comfort.
Banish Clutter: This one is easy. In my post Want to reduce Stress? You Need to clear Clutter, I wrote at great length about the indicators about one's personality and state of life including stress simply by looking at the composition of the clutter and where it was appearing in one's life.
In Feng Shui, in order to promote calmness, everything should be in its right place. In other words, organize your space! It's really less stressful to be able to pick up your car keys from its allotted place on the front table in the morning rather than first rummaging through piles of newspaper or looking for it all over the place, isn't it?
Arrange your furniture and fixtures to support your success: When I first learned about this tip, I wanted to jump up with glee because I knew how to do it. As a school girl, I had participated in the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme and one of the skills that I had to accomplish was basic interior decoration. Our guide, who was a well-known Interior Decorator in India, taught us the basics and the first step was how to plan a room. She used to keep talking about easy flow in the room and preventing blockage of movement in a room. What that means is, for example, if I walk into the living room, I should be able to reach the sofa without having to zig zag via tables and other impediments.
From a Feng Shui perspective, the arrangement of furniture and decorations is important as it influences your sense of security, productivity and ability to experience calmness.
Another tip that my teacher taught us and I should have guessed that she knew about Feng Shui as she was also my Ikebana instructress was to avoid sharp objects and corners in our decorations as these represent harshness and can impede stress relief actions. I practice it to this day.
If possible, do remove any overhanging shelves and objects as these too affect our sense of security. According to Feng Shui principles, these overhanging objects are like a cloud hanging over our heads. So banish the clouds and let the sunshine in!
Decorate with nature: You'd have guessed this one from the beginning of the post and yes, gifting someone a bamboo plant is a lovely gesture. It indicates that you wish them well. The gentle bamboo plant actually helps to absorb the negative energy in the house.
How do you know it is working?
Despite your taking the best care of the plant, one by one, the leaves of the plant will wilt as they absorb the negative energy. All you have to do when the plant is completely wilted is to replace it with gratitude for plant having supported you.
Other nature-based Feng Shui items include keeping fresh flowers and plants in the home to create a soothing environment. One point that I would like to mention is that wilted flowers and plants represent tension and if you like to keep dried flowers in the house, then please reconsider.
Use incense and aromatherapy as part of your stress management tool kit: In Eastern cultures, we use incense and joss sticks as part of our prayer rituals and regularly in our everyday life. The belief is that our prayers are carried towards the Divine through the fragrance of the incense sticks. We use scent for Chakra balancing too.
The principle is the same for Aromatherapy and complements Feng Shui helping to enhance our mood or rid ourselves of a bad mood. So, take out your aromatherapy book (if you have one) or just Google and find out which aroma can help with your objective. You can actually remove the negative energy from your presence or uplift your mood by using the right aroma.
I can write on forever about the various ways we can use Feng Shui to enhance peace and alleviate stress, but these 5 simple and practical ideas are a great place to start the Feng Shui way of life.
Did any of them appeal to you or are you using them already? Please do share your thoughts and experiences with me!
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Good morning! YAY for a new challenge at the Sparkle and Shine Challenge Blog - this week we have a beautiful photo inspiration, and a prize sponsored by Pretty Pink Posh!
Here is the photo inspiration we have to play with this time around:
I loved the neutral colors - the kraft and black, as well as the twine - so I used that as my inspiration! I used Avery Elle's Wonky Stitches ELLE-ments to die cut my kraft paper, then stamped Wplus9's adorable bunnies and sentiments using Wishing You and Wishing You Sentiments. I left them neutral, and used a little white ink around the edges to make them pop a little more. Added some Pretty Pink Posh Lime sequins, some torn vellum, pattern paper from Crate Paper, a few splatters of white Mister Huey's ink, and some baker's twine to finish it off.
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Wednesday, April 08, 2009
All A Writer Needs Is A Little Freedom
(wait for it)
...the internet.
Freedom from checking your email every few minutes. Freedom from checking the comment trails on your favorite blogs. Freedom from Twitter, Facebook, your book's Amazon.com ranking...
not that I ever look at my books...umm...hardly ever, I mean...*cough*
...in short: Freedom to do some actual work. The way Freedom works is, you set it for a specified time and during that time, the program prevents you from accessing the internet for any reason--even to check March Madness results (Cher bracket) on Go Fug Yourself. You can't argue with it...you can't reason with it. It knows no mercy.
If that's not a writer's godsend, I don't know what is. It's just too easy, when hitting a bump in the fifth circle of hell known as the First Draft, to say I must know, at this very instant, how to say "hurry up" in French! Before I even know it, Google is activated and I'm knee-deep in French-to-English translation sites. And then I remember that I wanted to know what sort of fabric is crepe, exactly, and by the way, wasn't The Road with Viggo Mortensen supposed to come out last November? Where hast ye been, Viggo? And then...
No! No more! Where do I get this Freedom? I cried, cursor poised, ready to click through to my deliverance. And then I saw the fine print. (Why, why is there always fine print?)
Freedom is for Macs only.
*foam quietly at mouth for a moment*
Fine. Maybe it's just that Mac users don't have the self-discipline that we PC-ers do. So yesterday, I devised a little Freedom of my own: I disconnected my laptop from the internet. (I was surprised at how long I hesitated before clicking "disconnect." As if the mouse was a cleaver held over my sole supply of oxygen.) Every hour and a half, I allowed myself ten minutes surf time. (Okay, fifteen. And once was thirty minutes, but that was lunch.) Overall, I was pretty pleased with myself. And today?
Mm. Well. But look: the 2009 Go Fug Yourself March Madness champion, with video!
And cute cats!
And...and...Aarghh! I can't make it stop! Fred Stutzman, savior of Mac users, hear us! Are we not also helpless in the face of a strong wireless signal? Do we not also have work to be done? Where's our PC Freedom?!
5 comments:
- sally nemeth said...
Oh lord - I voted early and often in the Go Fug Yourself March Madness. Love that website....and others. Seriously fun wastes of time....and so is my garden, my dog, my cat, my chickens, so if there were no internet, I'd still find ways to fritter away my time.
- Melissa Marsh said...
This is exactly why I do all my writing on my laptop - no internet connection available!
- Lisa Schroeder said...
I may have to go for some freedom myself. Although I really do use google ALL the time when I'm writing and then I do get right back to the book. Well, most of the time. :)
- Laini Taylor said...
Oh, Chris, I'm so sorry you don't have access to Freedom! As a Mac user, for years there were applications I couldn't get! Now, finally, some folks are designing stuff just for us. Yay!
Seriously, I love Freedom. It is awesome. Today I set it for 120 minutes -- TWICE -- and I WROTE! I finished a chapter and wrote another 1000 words. Not HUGE output, but I was happy with it. If I could do that every day . . . well. We'll see!
- Lisa Nowak said...
Yeah, the temptation is strong to check your email, or see what your friends are doing on Facebook, or look at the weather report (surely it must have improved in the past five minutes). But if I used Freedom instead of telling myself "no" I'd just find another way to waste time, as Sally pointed out. There are always kitties to be snuggled and desks to be organized. The Internet didn't create procrastination, it just made it more convenient.
That cat video was a riot.


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Friday, January 16, 2009
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Yeh, I know.
I've been a bad, baaaaad blogger. But it turns out that Accounts Receivable types get real busy in an economic downturn. Who knew?
At least I have a birrov news for y'all since last we spoke:
- The Beaut.ie pre-Chrismas brunch was great craic, with goodie bags galore and lots of Lovely Girls
- We went to Monart for New Year's Eve & it was only fabilis, dahling. Love. It. So. Much.
- I have had a birthday and am now (gulp) 27. Eek!
- Himself had a birthday and is now 28. Ha ha ha ha haaaaaaaa...
- Ummm, that might be it.
Still no change on the job front but so far this week I have decided to be a journalist, a solicitor, an interior designer, and a beauty therapist. Not all at the one time, like, but it seems that there's at least one potential new job appealing to me every day. Who knows what I'll want to be today? Maybe a sexy assassin. Maybe the caretaker of the islands of The Great Barrier Reef. Can't wait to find out!
While I try to puzzle that out, have an oul' outfit picture to keep you going:
(I am something less than an ace photographer so things that are very definitely navy In Real Life look nearly black here, soz about that.)
* Dress: Chupi
* Navy cardigan: Warehouse
* Vest top: H&M
* Indigo jeans: Joe's Jeans (these have lovely navy sparkly bits on the arse pockets, so they have)
* Navy & blue shoes: Irregular Choice (can't really see them in this pic but they have flower corsages!)
* Cream flower ring: Accessorize
Usually I wear this dress with navy opaque tights which is a much nicer look altogether, but it was a bit chilly this particular day so on went the jeans.
Anyways, it was a Friday and actually I am still being very good about not wearing them generally. (So now!)


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Dogs are quite well known for being flatulent and on occasion creating the most embarrassing of situations as a result. Have you ever said 'it's not me, it's my dog!'? Which leads us to wonder, is it a sign that something's wrong and if so, what can you do to eliminate, or at least reduce? Or are certain breeds simply more prone than others?
Interestingly, most of the gas that dogs produce comes from swallowed air. This gas moves down the gastrointestinal tract and is then expelled as wind, so it makes sense that dogs who swallow the most air will produce the most gas.Even so, it's worthwhile spending time to make sure your dog's diet is best suited to their digestive needs.
There are two groups of dogs that tend to be windier than most.
Photo credit: Tim Simpson.
1. Dogs who are speedy eaters.
Brachycephalic breeds such as the Bulldog, the Staffordshire Bull Terrier and the Boxer have a short nose and their mouth can be overcrowded with teeth, so eating can be less than graceful. The result is that they often swallow a mouthful of air with each mouthful of food.
Dogs that are enthusiastic eaters and inhale their meals usually take in air with each hurried mouthful of food. One breed that comes to mind when we think about food loving dogs is the Labrador. Active working dogs that eat while still panting can also swallow air as they gobble their dinner.
2. Dogs who have sensitive stomachs.
Dogs with gastrointestinal conditions such as inflammatory bowel disease can suffer from a bacterial overgrowth in their intestines.
From a technical perspective, these bacteria can produce gas which makes its way down the gastrointestinal tract and out, to assail our nostrils. You may find that if your dog falls into this group, he may also lose weight or have abnormal stools.
If your dog suffers from flatulence and isn't unwell or losing weight, there are a couple of things you can try.
Firstly, slow down his eating. Offer him two or three meals a day instead of one large one. If he doesn't have much to eat in one sitting, he's less likely to gulp down air with it. You may also want to try one of the specially designed food bowls with bumps on the bottom or a raised dog bowl.
If your dog has to nibble his food from between the bumps, he can't possibly eat fast enough to swallow air with it. If you have more than one dog, feed them in different rooms so there is no sense of competition and they're less likely to eat quickly.
Secondly, try a change in diet. An inflammatory bowel condition or a food allergy may respond to switching to a diet more suited to their needs or you might just find switching to a different diet, perhaps a more natural one, suits their digestive systems better.
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While flatulence is unpleasant or embarrassing if you have to explain that it's your dog who's the culprit, it's not necessarily an indication that something is wrong with your much loved canine family member.
As always though, if you're concerned, then have a chat to your vet. However if your dog is otherwise bright and active with a good appetite, then try the dietary changes suggested above. They may make enough of a difference so your dog is again welcome to share your home without you needing to wear a gas mask, or apologise on his behalf.
Has your dog ever caused a room to evacuate? Share your funny stories with us here - we'd love to hear from you! Also, if your dog has ever suffered from wind, share your stories on how you solved.


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Today is World Oceans Day, and the 2017 theme of "Our Oceans, Our Future" is focused on encouraging solutions to plastic pollution and preventing marine litter for a healthier ocean and a better future. Healthy oceans, healthy planet!
We're lucky enough to currently live within walking distance of the ocean, and better still a beautiful stretch of dog-friendly beach. It's relatively clean compared to many, but there is still always some rubbish washed up along the high tide line. It is a rare occasion that I am at the beach without one or both dogs, and they love it as do I. Unfortunately, they also love beachcombing along the high tide line for yucky things to roll in or nibble on, so I often spend time walking through and surveying everything that has washed up instead of strolling along the waters edge. Silver lining? If I'm going to stare at the tide line while I walk, I might as well bring along an extra bag or two and collect trash. It's a very feel good feeling to leave the beach a little cleaner than we found it, and such as small effort to make. I have to admit, I've found some really strange things on our walks, but also a lot of common "repeat offender" items including pieces of beverage rubbish in particular: juice-box straws, big straws, bottle caps, coffee cup lids, and fragments of plastic drink cups, etc. Sad.
Check out the World Oceans Day website for resources and information on plastic pollution and things you can do to help contribute to a healthier ocean. Small changes and simple actions all add up.


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As promised, long ago, we are finally ready to share our recent photo journey through Old Montreal and Griffintown. Old Montreal, as everyone should know by now, is the original downtown of Montreal. It is full of beautiful architecture and narrow European streets bursting at the seems with cafés, boutiques, art galleries, and restaurants.
Also attached to this area is the Old Port, which is a series of docks basically that have been transformed into new modern day uses.
The real discovery of this photo journey was Griffintown and Cite du Multimedia, which is a small, dense neighborhood adjacent to Old Montreal. This area was once an abandoned industrial district, that has recently seen a resurgence as the technology hub of Montreal. It is often referred to as the Silicon Valley of Quebec. The character in this area is incredible! Everywhere you look are old factories and warehouses full of rustic old character. The redevelopments are half tech companies, half art galleries with a good helping of high-end condos and lofts thrown in for good measure. There is a great "art bar" that I am hoping to take Jen to in the near future called Cluny's. You can probably spot the pictures of the outside of it in the photo gallery. The image above is of Cluny's as well.
Click here to begin the journey!
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The New Mexico Department of Health announced today that a 76-year-old man from Bernalillo County has died from West Nile Virus infection.
This is the first fatality due to West Nile Virus in New Mexico in 2012. The man had meningitis and encephalitis, the more severe clinical form of the disease and had been hospitalized since Aug. 23. The Department of Health originally reported this case Aug. 29.
"We have seen West Nile Virus cases in many different areas of New Mexico in the last month. We all need to do our best to prevent mosquito bites, especially people older than 50, who are at most at risk for developing serious complications from the disease," said Cabinet Secretary of Health Catherine Torres, M.D.
New human cases by county:
Three new cases have been reported since the last update, bringing the total for this year to 21 cases.
The new cases are:
1. 44-year-old man from Bernalillo County. Encephalitis/meningitis.
2. 21-year-old woman from Valencia County. Encephalitis/meningitis.
3. 73-year-old woman from Sandoval County. Encephalitis/meningitis
Total human cases by county:
Bernalillo County: 6 cases; 63-year-old man, encephalitis/meningitis; 58-year-old woman, encephalitis/meningitis; 55-year-old man, uncomplicated fever; 76-year-old man, encephalitis/meningitis, which resulted in death; 56-year-old woman, uncomplicated fever; 44-year-old man, Encephalitis/meningitis
Cibola County: 1 case; 59-year-old man, uncomplicated fever.
Curry County: 1 case; 32-year-old man, uncomplicated fever.
Dona Ana County: 5 cases; 54-year-old man, encephalitis/meningitis; 76 year old man, encephalitis/meningitis; 78-year-old man, uncomplicated fever; 9 year old boy, encephalitis/meningitis; 72-year-old man, encephalitis/meningitis.
Lea County: 1 case; 59-year-old man, uncomplicated fever.
Rio Arriba: 1 case; 62-year-old woman, meningitis.
San Juan County: 1 case; 43-year-old man, uncomplicated fever.
San Miguel County: 1 case; 67-year-old man, uncomplicated fever.
Sandoval County: 3 cases; 79-year-old man, encephalitis/meningitis; 81 year old man, encephalitis/meningitis; 73 year-old-woman, encephalitis/meningitis.
Valencia County: 1 Case; 21-year-old woman, encephalitis/meningitis.
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Getting started - the planning.
My first task was to plan the staircase and start doing the maths after obtaining the essential measurements of the empty stairwell space in the house. I did a heap of drawing and presented a few options, and my customers opted for a staircase with winders - that is, there is an upper and lower straight flight with radiating treads around the corner newell post mid way up. This would increase the size of the pantry underneath the upper flight, which was their reason for chosing this option.
The maths in a staircase are really interesting, to make it egonomically right. Ever been on stairs which don't feel right? Here's how we'll get this one right: The height difference between the top and bottom floors on this job is 2655mm (the total Rise), and the plan shows 15 treads. This means the "Rise" height (the height of each step) must be 177mm, regardless of the style or configuration of this 15 tread staircase. The vertical surface at the back of the tread is called a "Riser". The length of the step (from riser surface to riser surface) is called the "Going". Long ago allegedly someone determined that it takes twice as much energy to walk upwards as it does to go forward. Hence the relationship between the Rise and the Going is determined by a formula, these days called "The Rule of 585":
GOING + (2 x RISE) = 585mm (to a maximum of 625mm).
Hence for this staircase the maximum Going on the straight flights would be 250mm and the minimum would be 231mm. Given the requirements from my customers to maximise the size of the pantry underneath, we opted for a 230mm Going in addition to the Winders around the bend. With a 30mm overhang of the tread beyond the front of the riser, this would give a total tread depth from front to back of 260mm. Armed wth this information, I created a set-out board - a full size drawing of the detail, to determine the various angles.
Time to play with timber!
My customers live in a house in Augusta with lots of jarrah, so they wanted something different, a lighter colour. The opportunity came up to purchase some American White Ash for a very good price, so that is the timber I am working with for this job. Interesting stuff, I understand it is what is used for baseball bats in North America.
Making the Newel Post.
In my planning for this staircase design and construction, I decided to laminate up an octagonal newel post. In this way the winding treads on the bend will each radiate out from a flat face on that rising bend. The octagonal post will have a 170mm diameter up to a point above the widers where it will morph down into a 100mm diameter turned cylinder. One lamination will be missing below a certain point inside the pantry, inorder to house the chest freezer at the back of the pantry.
The next stage after completing the squaring of the post to 170mm was to turn it into an octagon. To achieve this, I cramped a straightedge along each of the 4 faces in the right possie to use this as a guide for my trusty 9 1/2 inch makita power saw. This worked a treat to accurately remove the waste. Once again the No7 was used to shoot two of the new faces at 45 degrees to the original square faces, and then the stick was put through the thicknesser several times carefully to create an equal sided octagon at 170mm from face to opposite face. If I wasn't stuffed before, I certainly was now! This beast is damn heavy!!
Meanwhile, as the newel post was being created I was also working simultaneously on making the treads and stringers. To create the 42mm treads which are 260mm deep, I need to glue up most of the treads, using a butt joint with a double spline in the joint. The splines are of 6mm thick plywood. In the foreground of this pic there is a pair of treads in the cramps still.
As mentioned earlier, the top section of the newel post will be turned down to around a 100mm diameter. How to do this? Well my solution has been to create what you might call a temporary long bed lathe. With the post being 3.2m long, the way I created this was to use about 40 cramps, a few big blocks of wood, and a bunch of long sticks out of my timber racks. When I made the Hill 60 columns, I used a similar method. It works well. By using cramps and the whole thing constructed on a couple of pairs of saw stools, when I have finished with it the cramps will come off and the timber will go back in the rack. This time I have used a spare lathe headstock at one end (attacehd to it's bed!), and a workhead bolted onto a stack of blocks at the appropriate height.
Only the top metre of the post needs to be turned in this way. To create a nice parallel top end of the post at the right diameter, a wide board is cramped parallel to the axis of the post (which is held between centres), and a sliding toolrest fabricated out of bits and pieces from around the workshop in order to hold an angle grinder with an Arbortec disk in it. This assemply then has both X and Y axis movement, with another cramp providing an adjustable depth stop.
This pic shows the Arbortech at work. Although the top of the post is mounted on a faceplate in the headstock, the variable speed lathe has a slowest speed of 500rpm - and this is way too fast for this huge lump of timber in a temporary bed held together with cramps! So the post is revolved by hand initially, then the forward motion of the Arbortech provides enough friction on the timber to turn the post while simultaneously reducing its diameter into a nice cylinder. It works OK.
This pic is a close-up of the arbortech at work in it's assembly on the sliding toolrest.
With this timber, I couldn't get a smooth enough finish off the Arbortech, so I decided to power the rotation of the post. With the lathe unable to turn slow enough, I used the arrangement which worked for the Hill 60 columns. I once bought an el-cheapo wood lathe at a garage sale. I kept the headstock and chucked the rest. The headstock spindle protrudes from a box which houses the motor and an enclosed 4 speed pulley arrangement. So using yet more cramps, I put this power source behind the post and had a v-belt running around its headstock spindle and then around the bottom end of the post. I set it on the fastest speed that I dared without the whole lot vibrating too much, and then was able to get a much smoother finish off the arbortech. I then used the belt sander, random orbital sander, and hand sanding to sand down the 100mm cylinder and a nice transition from the 170mm octagon poast. It is a winner!
This pic shows the cylinder prior to motorising the post, which would prove to give a smoother finish.
Here's a shot of the motorising department. It also shows the workhead bolted to the block of timber and housed in the piece of 3/4 inch ply which was screwed to the bottom end of the post. This motorising set-up may look rough but it worked like a dream. Spinning a 3.2m long solid stick of timber in a 170mm octagon. Serious weight to it and that dinky little headstock off the cheap lathe turns it well from straight off the spindle. I only paid $20 at the garage sale for the cheap lathe too. It has paid for itself many times over!
I love this amazing and weird shot! My I-phone camera takes all these pictures. The spindle was turning at the time, so it was an action shot. I expected it to be a blurr - but instead it came out looking like a spiral!!
This is a pic of the post once the turning and sanding of the cylinder was completed. It has been sanded to about P240 grit, in the line of the grain. Nice. You can see this whole thing took place in the patio adjacent to my little workshop. Lucky it was a fine day. That is Rosemary's red stripey hammock pulled out of the way and tied to the pole. This patio is affectionately know as "The Tearooms" by us - but it is a wonderful spillover for me when I have stuff to do which is too big for my workshop! Not that Rosemary is thrilled about that...
Another view along the completed post from the bottom end.
This pic shows the transition from the 170mm octagon to the 100mm cylinder. Not bad, eh?
The next stage for newel post is the chopping of the housings for 5 of the stair treads and risers, and the housing for the top end of the bottom stringer. The housing for the bottom end of the top stringer I will chop on site after the bottom flight and the three widers have been assembled in situ. At this point the newel post will be totally fixed in position. There will be lots of fiddly stuff to make and fit on site, so I am being careful at this stage. The location of the transition point from octagon to cylinder I had calculated from the full-size drawing I did on my set-out board. ...hope I have drawn if right... Fingers crossed, eh?!
So I got on with things and was too busy to take pics as I went - I have to remember to do this as I go!
Here is a pic of the housings in the newel post for the treads and risers. From out of 5 of the 8 faces of the octabon, a tread emerges. Once this was done, there was nothing more to do on the post until I got on site.
Meanwhile, it was back onto making the bottom straight flight of stairs.
Here the bottom flight are cramped up. the bottom riser is not in place, as the stringers have been left an extra 10mm long, in order to scribe the base to fit the floor, which may not be level. Once the stringers have been scribed to the correct level, the riser will be cut to height and inserted prior to the bottom flight being bolted to the wall in position.
This pic shows the bottom flight completed ready to be taken to the job site. With the newel post done, the bottom flight completed, the material machined up for the top stringers, and the remaining treads and risers made, it was time to pack up and head south to Augusta for the installation. This was going to be a big load on the trusty ute. The other pic is a closeup of the housed treads and risers. All a very nice fit!
Like I said, it would be a load!! It rained that day with a for cast for a storm, so I had to have it wrapped up pretty well for the 320km (200mile). It was very heavy too. I can't even lift the bottom flight, but I got the whole lot loaded onto my ute, wrapped and secured before the rain arrived that morning. It was a mission. Sometimes working on your own has down sides - like when you have to load up. The ute is pictured here at the junction of Sues Road and the Brockman Highway, only about 50km from the final destination.
Yep, it was loaded, and very heavy (did I mention that?). Fortunately, it kept dry too.
Here is the timber and components unloaded on site in the adjacent kitchen space, ready to go. In another room are the many boxes of tools, fixings and other equipment that I also had unloaded from the ute.
This pic shows where the staircase is heading!
This pic shows where the staircase begins... the hole we are going to fill. I say "we" because my wonderful Dad, who lives next door to the job site, has been itching to give me a hand. At 82, he still has heaps to teach me - though I can show him a trick or too as well these days - and we really enjoy working together. He is hard of hearing too, so that always makes it entertaining as we communicate on the job! See the floor sander, well I brought that down on the back of the ute too. First task was to sand the jarrah floor ready for the staircase to be fitted. This pic shows the end of that travel day. It begins in earnest tomorrow, with the sanding to be completed first up.
Here is the bottom flight in place. The floor was sanded, the bottlms of the stringers scribed and trimmed to height, and the bottom riser trimmed and fixed. Now to fit the post.
The post here has been fitted. It was like a jigsaw and had not been assembled previously. It had all be done by measurement and working off my fill sized set-out board, so I was very pleased (and relieved) that it all went together so well. Nice to no longer have to move that very heavy poast around anymore, too! That's Dad surveying our progress.
This pic shows the tenon of the stringer and the top step of the bottom flight fitting nicely into the mortice and housings in the newel post. So satisfying when it all comes together!!
With the stringer and post joint pulled up, the fixings were put in place to hold it there.
The first of the winders had been fitted and the second one is about to happen. This is fiddly work, and we also first used Dad's machines for a couple of hours to create the flooring which we will use on the winding steps.
Two of the winders are in, and we are working on the third and fourth. Dad here measuring the length of a riser. Framing had to be fixed to the walls to support the flooring/winding treads, so there is plenty to do!
This pic shows the winders completed. Now for the top flight!
The top stringers were then made, and the first of these fixed to the wall in the appropriate location.
The big tenon on the end of the centre top stringer fitted beautifully into the mortise on the newel post. With the cramp pulling the stringer tight into the joint, the measurements could be taken to cut the top flight treads and risers to length. The cramp was removed adn the top centre stringer taken down. Then each of the treads and risers were individually fitted for their housing, as they would need to each be inserted after the stringers have been fixed in their respective positions.
Meanwhile, we laminated up the two posts and the pantry door jamb. The 2 posts would be structural supports for the upper centre stringer, which transitions to a small flat landing before it meets the wall and doorway above. Dad here checking the cramps after we have done the glue-up togther. One post will be 90 x 90mm and the other 90 x 70mm, at nearly 2.7m long.
These pics show the posts in position and the top stringers in poace for a "dummy run". Check, check, then check again... once we start putting it all together there will be no turning back without major grief!
Here most of the treads and risers have been inserted and fixed in position. It was left overnight cramped in position while the glue dried. The prop against the opposite wall applied the pressure needed to keep everything in exactly the right position. Next day the remaining treads and risers, the top landing and other structural elements were completed. After the final sanding, a sealing coat was added. The treads and risers were now completed! We're not finished yet with this staircase, but we are most of the way there...
This pic shows the top flight from the corner of the first winder. Still no balaustrading, handrails or cover strips around the wall on the winders or the top landing yet.
I am very pleased the way the winders come out so cleanly of the faces of the octagonal newel post base. It looks great and was a good way to construct it. Essentially the line of each riser face passes through the centre point of the newel post. The drawing on my set-out board was beautifully transfered into reality!
The picture on the left shows the top of the stringer against the wall terminating up in the air. The 45 x45mm cover strip referred to earlier will pick up the end of the stringer and follow the wall all the way to the top stringer, going up and along each of the winders on the way. There will be much scribing to do around the tread nosing. One of the finishing jobs to do...
Another job still to do is to make and fit the balaustrading, the mid posts, and handrail for the top stringer. This pic shows the completed upper middle stringer with the structural support posts below. We are considering what would be a nice top for the newel post - as yet undecided. I am likely to turn something up as it could be quite a feature I reckon.
Well, this is a big change from the empty hole which was there about 5 days ago.
The pantry is also coming together on the right. Doorway opening is rebated on the inside, as I will be making a nice pair of doors to go in the opening, which will open inward. The triangular space between the top and bottom centre stringers will be filled in with some vertical WA Blackbutt lining board. That's another task to do - as is the shelving in the pantry and 3 big drawers which go under the bottom flight of stairs.
It's been a brain teasing but very satisfying project, which I have been enjoying immensely. I have also really enjoyed working with Dad again. It is nearly time to get back to Perth, once I have laid adequate protection on the stairs and put up temporary fall protection. The painter, tilers, sparkies, plumbers, cabinetmaker and other tradies are still to finish off their work upstairs in the master bedroom.
I will be returning to Augusta to complete the staircase in a few weeks, when I bring and install the carcasses for the new kitchen I am about to start building. I don't really do kitchens anymore, as my workshop is too small to set them out. However I am pleased to do this job for my son and his partner, for whom I have been building the staircase. The kitchen will be no "chipboard special" of course. It will be a cross between a modern kitchen and a large piece of furniture! ...Stay tuned for more developments with the staircase as work on this job resumes in due course!...


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This week, a letter came, with these drawings! (Half of them came with the words "Wolf and Butterfly.") Hurray!
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Hi Folks & Happy NY,
We have been away and distracted, but now back on the case and have just finally got round to getting pre-entries for this years (2018) Inov-8 HCN race set up on SiEntries. There are no limits and pre-entry closes a couple of days before the race. We are trialing this out as hoping it will reduce our paperwork burden over the race weekend.
You can still enter on the day, but it will cost a bit more. Kids races are enter on the day as usual.
This race will be great prep for Edale!


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The first time that I had ever heard of Ray Peterson was on Skeeter Davis' album called Here's The Answer. Unlike other records, Davis' album consisted of her singing answers to six original country songs. Thus, Peterson's song, Tell Laura I Love Her was answered with Davis' Tell Tommy I Miss Him. This album seemed to be very popular here because I've seen so many copies of it in second-hand record stores.
Peterson had at least two versions of this song and I particularly liked the version that had appeared in the Davis album. Recently when I listened to the version in Peterson's album, Missing You, which was supposed to be a collection of his greatest hits, I felt impassive. The song failed to register the same feeling of pathos and poignancy. It was as if it was sung by a different person.
Several years ago, I came across a YouTube video of Peterson singing The Wonder of You. I know that the song was made popular by none other by Elvis Presley but to hear it delivered by Peterson was to see the song in a different light. It was all tender and nostalgic. The Wonder of You is also featured in Missing You.
Side One: Corinna Corinna, Ya ya, Hey little one, Hooked on a feeling, Tell Laura I love her, Love the understanding way
Side Two: Goodnight my love pleasant dreams, The wonder of you, Me myself and I, Funny how time slips away, I can't help it (if I'm still in love with you), Missing you


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As you can see, it is on my wishlist (refer the side bar hehe).
A friend of mine had kinda talked me into it
and I've been reading a lot about diving since then and that's it,
I think I want to try diving next!
But the whole process is not that simple.
There'll be courses & classes;
that requires a whole lot of time, money and commitment...
which I don't have and I can't give for now.
I just can't wait to graduate and have all the time in the world
to do all the things that I love.
2 more years!
I can wait.
The sea can wait.
Hiking is my (current) forte,
and I have a long list of mountains-to-hike.
I guess I should spend the time I have for now for the mountains :)
So yea I'm just posting this for my future reference.
1) http://www.eshamzhalim.com/scuba-diving-bagaimana-untuk-menjadi-seorang-open-water-diver/
2) http://www.padi.com/Scuba-Diving/padi-courses/course-catalog/open-water-diver/