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These were purchased for my April 2008 baby, so everything up to 6 months is for warmer weather, everything after that is for cooler weather.
All come from a smoke-free home with one small dog that doesn't shed much. Some clothes do have stains on them due to being in storage. If you're interested in them, I will do my best to get the stains out. If I am unable to do so and you are still interested in the item, I will let you have it for half of what I'm asking.
Prices do not include shipping. If you're interested in something in particular, PM me your ZIP/postal code and I will get a shipping quote for you at the cheapest rate possible with DC. Will combine shipping for multiple items. PayPal only; will also consider trades for clothes 6 months and up for a baby boy due around the New Year or size 5/5T girls' dresses and shirts, any season.
1) NB lot: Carter's white romper, $2; Garanimals yellow bodysuit, $1.
2) 0-6 month lot: Both Child of Mine, each outfit is $2. On the left is a shirt/shorts set, white with pink flowers. On the right is a white bodysuit with matching hat.
3) 0-3 months: Both are Okie-Dokie 3-piece outfits--shirt, bloomers, and headband. Each outfit is $3.
4) 0-3 months, left to right: Baby Gap striped shirt with coordinating shorts, $2; Baby Healthtex 3-piece outfit--shirt, bloomers, and bib, $2; Carter's long-sleeved shirt (not a bodysuit) with coordinating overalls, $3.
5) 0-3 months, selling as a lot: both are Little Bundles bodysuits. $2 for both.
6) 0-3 months, random pieces, $1 each. Clockwise from top left: Cowboys and Angels green/pink shirt; Just One Year ruffly pants; Child of Mine bodysuit; Baby Gap white bodysuit with blue flower.
7) Size 1 (0-6 months) white patent leather shoes. Velcro fastening. Super adorable. $2.
8) 3-month 2-piece dresses, $3 each: Just One Year, purple with white polka dots (polka dots on bloomers are bigger than on dress for some reason); Lullaby Club butterfly sundress with bloomers; Carter's pink floral dress with pink bloomers.
9) 3-month bodysuits, $1 each: All are Carter's, short-sleeved. Will sell as a lot for $4.
10) 3-month random pieces: Carter's blue pants with ruffled cuffs, $1; Bright Future 3-piece outfit, snap-up bodysuit with embroidered bunny on left side (would be cute for Easter) with matching pink booties, $3.
11) 3-6 month George Baby Organics bodysuits, set of 3. $2 each or will sell as a lot for $5.
12) 3-6 month outfits, $3 each: First Moments 2-piece outfit, bodysuit and pants with French theme; Lullaby Club lavender romper with purple and white trim; Fisher-Price 2-piece sleeveless romper and sun hat.
13) 3-6 month, $1 each: Baby Tykes white bodysuit with pattern (I promise it's labeled 3-6 month even though it's much longer than the other two in the picture; two Baby Connection bodysuits ($1 each); pink and white checkered shorts, unknown brand.
14) 3-6 month dresses: b.t. kids adorable white dress with tulip pattern, $5; Gymboree 2-piece pink sundress with tropical design and matching bloomers, $5; Carter's 2-piece yellow dress with duck pattern and matching bloomers, $4.
15) 6-month dresses, $4 each: handmade green dress, may be 3-6 month or 6 month; Just One Year pink/white checked dress with spring pattern.
16) Long-sleeved bodysuits ("Onesies"), all 6-9 months, $1.00 each. Brands clockwise from top left: Gerber (2), Children's Place, and George (bottom 2).
17) Lightweight cotton snap-up footed sleepers, both 6-9 months, $2.00 each. Child of Mine (left) and US Polo Assn (right).
18) All are 6-9 months. Top left: H&M olive corduroy overalls with purple flower trim. Selling them with the bodysuit to the right even though they technically aren't part of the same set. The bodysuit appears to be from Germany, and I'm estimating size to be 6-9 months. Set is $6.00. Top right: Children's Place long-sleeved purple shirt, $1.00. Bottom: First Impressions 2-piece shirt and jacket set, $3.00.
19) All are 9 months. From top left: Carter's yellow romper with blue floral pattern, could be used as PJs, $2.00; Cherokee white long-sleeved floral shirt, $1.00; Carter's fleece zip-up hoodie, $2.00; Carter's pink long-sleeved bodysuit with "Hug Me" on it, would be cute for Valentine's Day, $1.00.
20) Little Me 2-piece sweater set, 9 months. Sweater buttons up. $3.00 for the set.
21) Both are 12-month Gerber zip-up fleece footed sleepers. $3.00 each.
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HINSDALE – Charlie Rose didn't need a film session to pinpoint one of the big hurdles York's basketball team had to overcome Tuesday.
"We came out with a lot of energy, but we just didn't make shots in the first half," the York senior said. "They jumped out on us and we were just fighting back the whole way."
Despite trailing the whole way after the slow start, the Dukes had a chance to win the game against Hinsdale Central. A 3-pointer at the buzzer missed the mark as York lost 50-47 to the Red Devils.
The loss was the Dukes' first in West Suburban Silver play and dropped their conference record to 10-1. Central improved to 10-1 in the league and likely ended York's chances of winning an outright conference title. The conference crown, or at least a share of it, will be on the line when York plays on the road against Oak Park-River Forest at 7:30 p.m. today.
"Hopefully this isn't going to have too much effect on us," Rose said of the loss. "We have to bounce back [today] and hopefully get the 'W' and then make a run in the playoffs. This is a tough one and it's going to hurt for a couple days, but we need to bounce back and then we'll be all right."
Recovering from a loss isn't something York (23-3) has had to deal with much this season, but the one-game-at-a-time approach the Dukes have employed all season will help.
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York never led against the Red Devils, but they were never completely out of it, either. Despite shooting just 7-of-18 in the first half, including 3-of-10 in the first quarter, the Dukes were down just 9-8 after a quarter and 21-18 at halftime.
"It sure seemed like there was a lid on the rim in the first half for us, but that's the way it goes sometimes," York head coach Vince Doran said. "To be honest, I thought maybe we should have been down 10 or more at halftime. We did a good job defensively, but we just didn't make shots offensively."
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NSW COUNTRY almost provided a grandstand finish to a quality international against the Cook Islands at Tamworth's Scully Park on Saturday night but couldn't quite reel the visitors in.
After leading the game from the first few minutes the Cook Islanders held on for a 26-22 win.
"It was a good game," Cook Islands captain Zeb Taia said.
"A couple of our boys were underdone in our team and well as theirs because we haven't played for a few weeks.
"But I think we put up a good show.
"We're happy to get the result, although we would have liked it to be a bit bigger.
"But they kept coming at us and we had to keep them out."
The Cook Islands started well with a try to Keith Lulia inside the first three minutes thanks to a grubber from Alex Glenn that found Country without a winger in the left-hand corner.
Country had almost no possession in the opening quarter and squandered what ball it did have.
That pressure eventually told as Glenn set up another try, this time with a sneaky inside ball to Zeb Taia who crashed through a couple of tacklers to score and make it 10-nil.
Country finally had a couple of chances at the other end but came up with some poor options and made errors and the only real chance slipped away when Hayden Crouch swooped on a grubber kick a fraction of a second late and grounded it over the touch in-goal line.
Things only got worse when centre Dan Randall coughed up the ball close to his own line straight into the hands of an opponent and Ben Taia strolled over to make it 14-nil.
It could have been a thrashing at that point but Country finally started to find its feet and scored when Sam Wooden broke a tackle from a scrum, bounced off a high shot from the Cook Islands fullback and then somehow carried two tacklers over the line and grounded the ball to referee Shayne Hayne's satisfaction to cut the score to 14-6 at halfitme.
Just after the break Warialda prop Chris Bamford was rewarded for his strong effort when he busted the line and used his surprising foot-work to weave his way over for a try that cut the margin to two points.
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Those two tries put the visitors up 26-12 and it looked like curtains for Country.
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Randall made a clean break and then chipped perfectly for Wooden who still had some work to do to gather the ball and beat the cover defence but did it well to make it 26-16.
Country then had 10 minutes camped on the Cook Islands line but couldn't come up with a try that would have set up an exciting climax.
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"We had to dig deep in the last 10 minutes when we were on our own line the whole time," Zeb Taia said.
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"We let a couple in earlier and then that last one was a bit disappointing."
Cook Islands prop Tinirau Arona was named man of the match after a strong showing but he had a few accomplices up front.
Coach David Fairleigh also praised Glenn, wingers Dominique Peyroux and Lulia Lulia for their defensive efforts and bench prop Walter Vaeau.
Country coach Brett Jones lamanted his side's first quarter which put it so badly on the back foot.
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"Bodie O'Connell was our best,"
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It doesn't sound like they want a relationship any more than you do. If they do tell you about an illness or death, a card would be nice (to the siblings) but you have no obligation to be all family-like and go running to them.
If I were one of your half-siblings, and the birth parent we share had a health crisis or passed away, I would notify you. Because I think that is a common courtesy that you are owed. You have a right to know that your parent died. I would not necessarily expect that you would come to visit or attend the funeral--that would be your choice. But I would want you to have that choice. So I wouldn't take such a communication from your half-siblings as a desire to reconnect, but more as "This Major Life Event has happened to your parent. We thought you should know." So, no, I don't think the way you feel is strange--it sounds like a logical outcome based on how you were treated. And if you do get some notification from the siblings, the polite thing to do would be to acknowledge it and thank them for taking the time to let you know. And then you can let the matter drop.
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Democrat Anil Kumar, M.D., has officially joined the race to oust Republican U.S. Rep. Kerry Bentivolio in Michigan's 11th congressional district.
Kumar, 63, was one of the two leading physician investors of Doctors' Hospital of Michigan in 2008, after purchasing the hospital, formerly known as the North Oakland Medical Center. He is a former chairman of the Doctors' Hospital board. He owns the Kumar Surgical Center in Rochester Hills and Metropolitan Urology Associates PC in Waterford.
Born in India, Kumar came to metro Detroit after medical school three decades ago through a surgical research program at Wayne State University. He and his wife, Marjorie, also a doctor, have two sons who are studying medicine at Wayne State. He lives in Bloomfield Hills.
Kumar says he has raised more than $600,000 for his campaign so far. According to the Federal Election Commission, at the end of 2013, Kumar had $476,772 cash on hand, of which $260,000 came from three personal loans he made to his campaign fund at the end of the year.
He will likely face Bobby McKenzie in the Democratic primary in August. McKenzie, a former counterterrorism expert at the U.S. State Department, announced last fall. McKenzie has already been added to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's Jumpstart Program, which has given him the ability to raise money for his campaign at the national level on the DCCC's website.
The winner of the Democratic primary likely will face either Bentivolio or David Trott, chairman and CEO of Farmington Hills-based Trott & Trott PC, who also owns Attorneys Title Agency LLC and co-owns Dietz Trott Sports & Entertainment.
The seat, which covers southwestern Oakland County and northwestern Wayne County, leans Republican, but Democrats believe they have a shot, given some of the controversies Bentivolio has found himself in, including comments last summer about wanting to impeach President Barack Obama.
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Surely it's still carbon neutral, given it's from already-present carbon grown from air in the first place (like all plants)?
Surely it's still carbon neutral[?]
We use tons of petrochemicals to grow corn.
It's taking a lot of the carbon from the soil instead of the air... so no. Also, consider all the gasoline used to plant/harvest/transport it. Ethanol is a corn-state boondoggle. It drives up corn prices and brings in massive revenue to the midwest. Ethanol support is critical for any politician that wants to win in states like Iowa. When you hear a 60yr old farmer start talking about "green energy" you know he grows corn.
Ethanol support is critical for any politician that wants to win in states like Iowa.
Now if we could just push back the date of the Iowa Caucuses . . .
The only thing that runs on gasoline now are the Gators [deere.com]; everything else is diesel, even the pickup trucks.
It's taking a lot of the carbon from the soil instead of the air... so no. Also, consider all the gasoline used to plant/harvest/transport it. Ethanol is a corn-state boondoggle. It drives up corn prices and brings in massive revenue to the midwest. Ethanol support is critical for any politician that wants to win in states like Iowa. When you hear a 60yr old farmer start talking about "green energy" you know he grows corn.
But the vast majority of the carbon in corn comes from the air, not the soil! It might surprise you to learn that most of the bulk of a huge tree, for example, was produced from the air, not the ground. The ground supplies trace minerals and water, and little else.
Another real problem with ethanol is that it is a low energy density fuel, compared to gasoline. So beyond a certain small percentage, it actually reduces the efficiency of your vehicle and causes it to burn MORE gasoline per mile, rather than
It's taking a lot of the carbon from the soil instead of the air... so no.
Virtually none of the carbon plants are made of comes from the soil. What most plants take from the soil is nitrogen and micronutrients. Some plants, however, actually put nitrogen into the soil. Sadly, instead of planting crops in guilds, we opted for gross machine cultivation which not only demands planting massive monocultures but which also requires using varieties bred for machine harvestability rather than optimal nutrition, flavor, or texture. It also attracts pests while failing to attract their nat
No it's not that simple. Plants require nutrients from the soil, which have to be replenished each year[1] partly by natural in-soil processes that break down residue from previous crops, but mostly from the application of synthetic fertilizer, which is synthesized using a process that burn natural gas. See the wikipedia article on the Haber Process [wikipedia.org].
Also there are fossil fuels used in the planting, cultivation, harvest, and irrigation of the crop.
If corn could fix its own nitrogen like legumes do, it might be a lot closer to carbon neutral.
[1] In many parts of the world, including the Brazillian rainforest, farmers are actively "mining" nutrients from the soil. The soil left from burning the rainforest is extremely rich in nutrients, allowing intensive farming for a few years. After a while, though, the soil is depleted of nutrients and organic matter and yields drop. Sadly many farms just burn down more forest. Some methods of farming, including zero-till, try to foster natural soil processes to produce more nitrogen in natural ways, reducing synthetic inputs.
I don't think that's true unless its waste and/or corpse gets buried deeply enough that bacteria can't cause it to decompose. When bacteria eats plants/animals/organic waste, it releases a lot of CO2 back into the atmosphere.
It is brain-dead stupid!
How much of the total plant bio-mass are you processing to start with when you are dealing with corn? 2%? 3%? (That is until you get to
the actual fuel, which is much less than that.) When you do Biofuels from farming monoculture the proper way (if such a thing is possible at all), like from sugar-cane, where maybe 30-50% of the biomass is the part to be processed into biofuel, you may be getting some improvement over oil status-quo. With algae you maybe can achieve 100% of the biomass to start processing, sounds even nicer.
But from Corn? It is so stupid, it does not even deserve a proper adjective. It is even stupid to waste time making "studies" on it.
Trying to do it is only about corn super-production, hype, and abuse of government subsidies to plant corn, all mixed with a large, big
dose of the reverse of common sense.
Sounds like a crate full of stupid my friend. Imagine how many people could be fed from that corn? Well as long as the environmentalists didn't throw a hissy fit over it and try claiming it was poisonous or something.
Corn is a shitty food. Better food could be grown in its place though.
Corn is a shitty food. Better food could be grown in its place though.
That's nice to say when you have plenty to eat.
Corn is high in starch, low in nutrition. We can do better.
How much of the total plant bio-mass are you processing to start with when you are dealing with corn? 2%? 3%?
This research was about making biofuel from cellulose, which means that stems, leaves etc are used as well. But apparently even that is not sustainable because corn takes a lot of its carbon from the soil instead of from the air.
I have had a 265mile per tank vs 300 mile per tank difference between 10% ethanol vs 0% ethanol on three occasions. I've never gotten 300 miles per tank on 10% ethanol.
So -- for a 2010 Honda Element, my experience is the same as yours.
But I have measured that I get AT LEAST 10% less millage in my 2013 Mazda on gasoline diluted with alcohol than I do with pure gasoline.
Assuming that's true: is it likely to be due to the way the ECU and the emissions system treat the ethanol/fuel mix? Lots of cars are optimized for lowest production of NOx, carbon monoxide, etc, as opposed to highest efficiency. Just an example: the PZEV version of my Mazda gets 10% less HP and torque than the same car with the then standard (non California) emissions package.
But I have measured that I get AT LEAST 10% less millage in my 2013 Mazda on gasoline diluted with alcohol than I do with pure gasoline.
So where did you get the "pure gasoline"?
duckduckgo for "real gasoline" or "pure gasoline" and you will find stations in your state that sell gasoline without ethanol.
I recently started using ddg as well as google since google tailors the results and profiles me and sometimes I want to see a raw search result. (My other option would be to go to the library and use google there). The creepy bit is that their profile works whether I'm logged in or not.
Here you go..
http://pure-gas.org/ [pure-gas.org]
It's worth trying a tankful and seeing how your car performs.
Should we take ethanol out of gasoline and put MTBE back in? Discuss.
>It is brain-dead stupid!
Only from a science perspective.
Supporting corn ethanol is how candidates win primaries, so it makes perfect sense for our presidents to support it.
>But from Corn? It is so stupid, it does not even deserve a proper adjective. It is even stupid to waste time making "studies" on it.
If we're going to eliminate corn ethanol (which we should), it will require putting pressure on politicians from non-corn belt states. And to do so will require studies like these.
Corn ethanol isn't good for the environment, and it drives food prices through the roof, both domestically and abroad.
I highly recommend reading The Economics of Food for anyone interested in the subject.
If they're counting the carbon to harvest the stalks, then the comparison for gasoline should include the carbon from oil extraction, transportation and refinement. The article also doesn't state if the carbon reduction from plant uptake is offsetting the carbon emissions of burning biofuels. Sounds like they're saying, look at the carbon you get from burning ethanol, add in the diesel to run the tractor, worse than gasoline!
I remember a study by the airline industry trying to claim air transportation was more efficient than high speed trains. This study reminds me of that kind of science.
I was asking myself the same question: do they really consider that gasoline comes for free from the oil wheel to the car?
Someone will need to read the academic paper to tell us
the oil wheel
Oil has wheels???
I found the article confusing as well, but here is what I've come up with. I don't think they are talking about any indirect carbon emissions due to say, running the tractors or fertilizer. So the study doesn't address total life cycle carbon costs of ethanol or gas. (It does address it, but just uses standard previously compiled models). It's main focus is to study how much CO2 the soil will give off after the corn plant leftovers are removed from the field. Literally, the soil has carbon trapped in it
Biofuels are about government subsidies and nothing more. All the talk about biofuels and the environment is just to trick the rubes.
Biofuels are about government subsidies and nothing more.
That is bullshit. Biodiesel or green diesel from waste fats are pure benefit, as are biofuels from algae. Unfortunately, the best of them (Butanol) is being suppressed by BP and DuPont until such a time as they can control it completely. If that's never, so be it, to them.
Biodiesel or green diesel from waste fats are pure benefit, as are biofuels from algae.
Most biodiesel is essentially a by-product [wikipedia.org]. It's a nice way to reduce waste and arguably worth doing but let's not pretend that there is enough to go around to really make a big dent in oil consumption overall. And NOTHING is "pure benefit". There are drawbacks to everything. Diesel isn't the cleanest burning fuel available and it has all the problems you get from any form of fossil fuel when it comes to pollution. Good? Yes. "Pure benefit"? Not remotely.
There is close to no industrial scale product
Anyone who knows anything about Ethanol knows that the two best sources are sugar cane and switch grass. Switch grass should be the choice for North America as it can grow just about anywhere. Corn, on the other hand, takes up valuable farm land, requires more water, and has higher production costs. Ethanol from corn is a nothing but a scam perpetrated by the corn industry. Believe this study or not, but there are much better options than corn...
http://www.scientificamerican.... [scientificamerican.com]
Anyone who knows anything about Ethanol knows that the two best sources are sugar cane and switch grass.
'Best' how? Both of those are still soil-based crops. Algae is better because you can grow it on dirty water in most weather conditions above freezing, and it takes less processing than basically any other bio feedstock but shit.
That and the fact that the U.S. is a net exporter of fossil fuels leaked out.
The telco's basically run the NSA spying program, but nobody is complaining about anything but the NSA.
Telcos cannot function without the capability to run a telephone spying program, at least the listening-in part. And that's all they provide, besides basic records which they need for billing and for diagnostics. The federal government itself operates the facilities which actually centralize and process the data. You may (or may not) have seen some articles go by here on slashdot about massive federal data centers for use by certain three-letter agencies.
Given the vastly superior alternatives to corn for this.
Using Corn for this crap is about as smart as grinding up phone books for ink. Using corn for this is just asking for it to look bad.
Using food crops as fuel is immoral. Our ethanol program has made the price of food go up just not here but in countries whose people can ill afford to pay more for food. It needs to go away now. There is plenty of oil in the ground for a long time.
Slashdot is becoming a corporatists plaything. Filled with tech naives who would die in the dark without electricity after an EMP. And wouldn't be able to thing of anything else but the present paradigm. What a sorry read that was. Oh, by the way, I did try to be equitable, generous, patient, tolerant. After having it pester me so persistently, now I, too, *Curse Beta*!
Most of the corn grown in the US is used to feed cows. Cows (via their symbionts) eat the wood and protein. They pass most of the starches.
Corn *is* a low-return case as a fuel.
Corn (maize) is one of the worst possible plant masses you could grow to make biofuel. It's horribly inefficient compared to other crops.
We've always known this. And it drives up the price of food. Globally.
Why are we still using corn to make ethanol? Farm lobby.
Go ask any mechanic who deals with vehicles that run on Biofuels such as BioDiesel, Green diesel, Bioethanol or >10% blends and you will find that they often clog up the injectors so badly that they need to be replaced (injector) 45% more frequently (adjusted % based on time injector was installed and comparing same brand part durability on the same vehicle until breakage).
That may not seem like much to some, but for those running public transportation and school buses, the political "go green" machine
Go ask any mechanic who deals with vehicles that run on Biofuels such as BioDiesel, Green diesel, Bioethanol or >10% blends and you will find that they often clog up the injectors so badly that they need to be replaced (injector) 45% more frequently
Uh what? Biodiesel and green diesel remove varnish left behind by petrodiesel. Ethanol sucks because it attracts water and because you get poor output when you run it through an engine which also expects to run on gasoline. Running veg oil will certainly clog things up, though, or waste motor oil.
In any case, the cure for deposits from running one or the other kind of diesel (petro or bio) is to occasionally run a tank of the other. Problem solved.
The viscosity caused by those fuels are not meant to be handled by most engines for any long duration, period. Anyone running >10% blend over long periods is asking for trouble. If you do not believe me, go run some 50/50 "WMO" mix for 10k miles and check how many of your injectors are clogged, gaskets ruined and seals leaking. Engines in todays vehicles are still not ready to handle it.
Since the energy required to produce corn ethanol is nearly equal or sometimes greater than the energy gained as fuel, corn sucks. It should be obvious that you are going to produce more emissions with corn. Even when the tarsands require large amounts of refining, that tarsand oil will be used to produce corn ethanol. Oil is used today in corn agriculture and production of ethanol. Corn as a biofuel is an odd stop-gap. If we have to use subsidies, why not encourage farmers to make some other crop that tran
If farmers were not forced to destroy their alcohol stills in the early days of Prohibition we would have known long ago about the viability of biofuels. Almost a century ago farmers would make ethanol for use as a fuel to run tractors. No doubt they'd also drink some of it, or sell some of it for others to drink. Prohibition destroyed the hobbyist experimentation of ethanol as a fuel. It made any use of ethanol a legal nightmare.
When Prohibition was lifted it didn't improve things much. Ethanol produc
The only real winner from corn ethanol is giant agribusiness companies who produce the GM corn seeds, sell the massive amount of chemicals the corn requires and makes ethanol from the result. It does nothing to reduce green house gas emissions. It does nothing to reduce the dependance on foreign oil (especially given all the oil-derived products required to grown that corn including the diesel for the tractors and harvesters). And it probably doesn't put all that much extra money in the pockets of small cor
I remember reading this argument like 10 years ago. I don't know if it is true, but it seems reasonable... all things being equal, it would take a lot more work to get a diesel fuel out of corn than crude oil.
But the true stupidity in using corn for fuel is using food as fuel. That just pushes food costs higher. Consider that there are a lot of other cleaner ways to make bio-diesel that don't compete with the food supply, it is hard to pin this study on the oil companies. Corn for bio-diesel is just mor
The only purpose of the whole corn ethanol debacle is to transfer vast amounts of money from the taxpayers and the gasoline-buying public to Cargill and Archer Daniels Midland. Any other claimed purpose is, and always was, bullshit.
Corn's incredibly harsh on the soil. It annually needs a lot of fertilizer (that is, modern corn). Biofuels - pretty much everyone before the corn lobby got into it was talking lots of other, easy, fast-growing *weeds*, like switchgrass comes to mind. No fertilizer, etc... I mean, it's a *weed*.
But agribusiness industry (petrochemicals into fertilzer, for example) aren't interested in *that*....
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That's what the incentive would be for....
Do you download because its free or....
Hmm, no downloading. Don't know if I can do it. Lol. But I need to get more layouts done!
LoL: The true hoarders in us are being revealed... ;-0 -- NO downloading... are you mad? hee, hee Then we'd have to start a group called "Fibbers Anonymous"...
ooophf, NO downloading? Wow.... I'll test run that for a couple of days before I enter that challenge! And I'll have to start tomorrow since I downloaded some of Brooke's brushes BEFORE I saw this post, hehe!
Because I have particular layouts or projects in mind when I'm hunting, I tend to be picky.
That doesn't mean that I don't go 'oooh, shiny!' occasionally, though.
I'm with Angela - I used to download everything but it got to the point that I couldn't find anything because I had too much stuff. I got rid of 95% of it and now I only download CU because I don't want to unintentionally violate copyright. I just recently did the same thing with my closet, I got rid of about 50-60% of my clothes and it feels great. I feel unburdened.
Ooh, fellow hoarders!
Well ... I've been browsing around the digi scrapping world for about a week or so now (and then a couple days ago found PixelScrapper) and following blog trains and generally link-surfing. But luckily I've been limited in downloads (um yes, I do have a few freebie downloads already!) because a) we live in the country and my internet is sllloooowww and b) I was so overwhelmed that I am only downloading stuff I absolutely know I like. I've passed up anything with an iffy color scheme/theme and I definitely prefer certain styles already.
Not download now, in exchange for community points and thus being able to download more later? I can imagine myself agreeing to that and then blowing it! I would love to watch other hoarders try though!
So nice to know I'm not the only digi-scrap product hoarder!!! I have more than I would ever use in a lifetime unless I start scrapping for hire!!!
What a relief to know I'm not the ONLY one!!! I have been in a perpetual state of Downloading for what seems like months now. What I need to do is actually create some pages with all this content I have!
I am glad to see this! I knew I couldn't be the only one who hords scrapping downloads! I will gladly join the Scrap Horder's Group since I have SEVERAL external drives FULL of downloaded stuff and most of it I've never used. I know I need to get rid of LOTS but can't seem to find time to do it - spend too much time looking for MORE stuff, lol!
Seriously, I have to get a handle on this and trash bunches of stuff. Maybe if I tried doing a little each day I could make a small dent. We shall see how that works out!
I also now only d/l if I am sure I will use it SOON! That is at least cutting down on time spent downloading!
Deleting content is just as hard as throwing out printed pictures. I just can't seem to make myself do it.
When I first started, I used to download heaps. But now I tend to only download things I really really like.
And I also go through my stash about every 6 months and do big cleanouts. I find things and wonder what I was thinking when I downloaded it. But I still have kits, ect from the very early days of when I started, because they still hold their appeal to me.
I also don't download everything I see anymore. I create so much of my own now and never use somebody else's. That way I don't have to worry about copy write etc. I must admit though as a mixed media artist I do still download many vintage and steampunk, grungy images. I mean ..... you never know when a project is going to call for that image. I'm addicted to the old out of copy write books too and will clean up and use those images to create with.
Well, since I started this thread a year ago, I have to admit... I've downloaded so much stuff my head is spinning and I've only made 5 layouts in the last year!! Aaaaackk! I'm hopeless!!! Just shoot me now...
I know what ya mean, Cat - my hubby tells me I spend more time downloading then making pages... LOL I guess both of us need to make some changes.
Every month I feel I download less. Also, I´m making a stash cleaning, and deleting some freebies I downloaded just because and haven´t used. The nice part is to find nice kits and templates that you downloaded and forgot about...
To me Lorien, that is the BEST immediate reward to going through your kits and destashing... FINDING the awesome kits you forgot you downloaded that you never used. It's kind of like Christmas But I have to make myself ignore how many I actually throw away realizing I'll never use them because I wasted time grabbing them in the first place. I've learned to really check out a new designers 1st or 2nd downloads well to see if I truly like them and will use them before grabbing everything they have.
One thing that has made it easier for me not to download besides not wanting to spend more money on another EHD {haha} is that I really like to take the time to leave meaningful "thank yous" so that part of downloading freebies to me can be very much a "time guzzler". So, I can download 20 items in 1/2 hour maybe if I take the time to find awesome ones, but with my typing skills (never was my strong suit, I'm a hunt and peck typer) and wanting to say something meaningful, I can spend another 1/2 hr just writing those (at least). So because I'm not one to grab and run I tend to just avoid downloading a lot lately. For Ex: all these lovely ladies made these wonderful kits for us for the wedding kit, and I've got about 10 days left to grab them and I've put it off this long because I know it will take me a couple hours between the downloading and writing notes. For example it took me 20 minutes to write this post... whew, maybe I need to spend my time and take a typing class. LoL
That's why I love this place so much is because I know we have top notch designers... and the new ones are so willing and generous to share their lovely kits for me to decide in an informed way.
Lorien said: ...I´m making a stash cleaning, and deleting some freebies I downloaded just because and haven´t used. The nice part is to find nice kits and templates that you downloaded and forgot about...
Wow, I thought I was slow on writing - I need to think carefully before writing long paragraphs in English - but you may take the same time as me But yes, I also need to take a period of my day when I deceide download a blog train... And I never do that on the first days, so I don´t get the traffic jams.
I figured out that another thing that makes me take a long time to use kits that I download is being born on the wrong hemisphere and not having the money to change it For example, when I made this layout, a couple of weeks ago, I was going mad for not having a kit with the colors I wanted - and the only kits I could remember were the ones I downloaded recently, full of purples, blues and deep greens - then, I started organising the kits folder to find something and found a lovely blogtrain from the middle of last year. And seriously, I was going mad trying to figure out what to do for this layout...
These days I can actually think on what I´ll use by seing the previews, since I have some things I like the most, and some random "not really my style" random stuff that I do sometimes. And most of the freebies that I download are blog trains...
Edit: Just checked: It took 20 min to write this message...
Well ladies, I think I have finally turned a corner this year. One of my good intentions was to completely stop downloading (aaaargh), because I have so many downloads already that I could probably scrap hundreds of pages. So, until I scrapped with every single one of them, I deny myself any further downloads. And (drumroll please) I have succeeded for these past three months!
To be honest, I still download stuff I need for my designs, but only if I use them instantly, not in a hoarding fashion.
I have to say, I am pretty proud of me
I just started doing digital scrapbooking, so right now I am a hoarder But I have been using everything that I have downloaded since I don't have much of a stash yet.
I am defintely a hoarder and download too much and spend too much time organising files then actually scrapping. I am now trying very hard to only download things that appeal to me and know I will be able to use but I think I'm just as addicted to finding and downloading free scrapbooking supplies as I am to scrapbooking!!
WOW! Now that takes some definitely will power......I'm still searching for mine.....in the mean time, I guess I will have to keep downloading
I admit, I'm a freebie hunter addict! But I only download things I really like, not just because it's free. This may seem odd but I actually like the process of downloading files and filing them in their places on my hard drive. I think i's something to do with being organized. I've a need for order and my physical world is not in order at the moment so I enjoy trying to be organized digitally. I know, just weird!
I have to say though, in my own defense , that this site hasn't helped me at all. I bought the years subscription for unlimited downloads...
@Cat: LoL I know!, Right??? We're enablers of the best kind...
I try to be honest with myself as to what I will actually use (which is so hard!) But I will also sometimes download something I'm not really sure about because my taste might change or I may find a new idea for using that particular file.
When I first started scrapping, I downloaded just about everything but now I am fussy, just download what I think I will use....
My problem right now is CU stuff - especially if its time limited. I'm always thinking to myself, "but what if I need that at some point".
I was and am still to an extent, a hoarder. Probably one of the best things that happened to me was when my computer and my EHD crashed. I lost some extremely precious photos in the process, which I still mourn, but I started over with my kit collecting and have found that it is much easier now to delete kits!
This (my PC crashed, not an EHD) but it had the total opposite effect on me. I was in control of it UNTIL I lost all my layouts, my photos, my kits. It made me a hoarder for a few years. I didn't want to let anything go... even if I really hated it. AND even stuff in my house. I never was a hoarder in the sense of the TV show type hoarders, but in my heart I struggled with the whole feeling of the great depression type... what if I end up with nothing thing.
NOW what I do is once a year I watch about 5 or 6 of those episodes and BAM!!! instant SPRING (I mean hold on to your underpants, even if you're wearing them) cleaning/purging. I still hoard on the computer somewhat cause it seems easier to do. Out of sight out of mind... But I have a better perspective that if I lose it, the world isn't going to end.
PS Don't get me wrong... I just like every other female alive still has that pair of jeans and dress in the back of my closet I keep lying to myself that I will one day eventually fit back into them (even if they NEVER do come back into style). LoL
...when my computer and my EHD crashed. I lost some extremely precious photos in the process, which I still mourn, but I started over with my kit collecting and have found that it is much easier now to delete kits!


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Choicepoint acknowledged earlier this week that thieves were able to set up bogus companies and obtain confidential consumer information.
Now Choicepoint is sending a warning to 145,000 customers around the country, that their identities may have been stolen.
News channel Eight's James Steiner investigates the claims of a Carson City woman who was shocked after getting a Choicepoint credit check. The case is now getting the attention of the Nevada Attorney General.
Jaky Denny got the surprise of her life.
A credit report, for a job she applied to at Target in Carson City, came back with the social security number and personal information of someone else. After going through hoops with the state, Target, and Choice Point Denny contacted News Channel 8 to see what we could do.
A Choice Point supervisor told her the report was just sent to Target, and Target sent it to her. Yet, no one checked the results.
We contacted the woman in Northern California whose information Denny got on her report. She wasn't home. We also took the complaint to the Attorney General's office.
Attorney General Brian Sandoval says there's no law on the books requiring Choice Point to contact victims if their personal information has been compromised. But, now the state has a victim and that could change in this legislative session.


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As the transfer season is nearing, rumours of Wayne Rooney leaving Manchester United have arisen.
It's argued by some that Rooney is not the player he used to be and indeed was tipped to be. However his performance in a different role other than the usual striker position has shown more of an improvement. For example in the game between Manchester United and Aston Villa, his assist to Van Persie from United's half was one of the best seen this year. This obviously highlighted by the volley Van Persie achieved.
Rooney's vision with the ball and passing abilities along with Carrick's pass completion rate have been what has kept the Red Devils dangerous this season and with 13 assists this season it's starting to show that he may be there for assisting the strikers more than being the striker himself.
However Rooney has been getting the goals this season with 16 over all competitions to his name. This shows that there is still the striker in him but could be argued that he could be more suited to the attacking midfield position more.
With Rooney's goals this season it can be said that a few have been from him chasing the ball up, getting into the box and getting that little one touch that's needed to put it into the back of the net. This is still being a striker although when the counter attacks comes from the opposition, Rooney is the player who gets back and defends well, allowing for a possible successful defence.
This all shows that when Rooney has a fellow striker on the pitch he can be suited better for a secondary striker with the abilities of a midfielder.
So what is to say he will stay though? With Van Persie and Chicharito as strong strikers alongside a midfield of Carrick and Kagawa, will there still be a place for him in the Manchester United setup? Furthermore if rumours come reality, the return of Ronaldo could cause issue with Rooney being selected for a starting eleven spot.
If in this summer Manchester United does see the departure of Rooney, it will be a great loss for the club. The club will miss the presence that comes with the name along with a solid attacking midfielder that would easily complement the likes of Van Persie and possibly Ronaldo again.
He is a player that always wants the best for the club and the passion Rooney gives in every game regardless of possible off form days is more than expected of a top class player in the Premier League.
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Event and visits
The Lord-Lieutenant, Vice-Lieutenant and Deputy Lieutenants organise, host and attend a wide range of events.
These range from award presentations, memorials and services to Royal visits. The Lord-Lieutenant is responsible for making all the arrangements for a visit to Hampshire by a member of the Royal Family. The Lieutenancy Officer will make the arrangements direct with the Royal Household, the host organisation and the Police.


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Barcelona are set to launch a staggering £21million bid for Manchester United and Manchester City target Marquinhos, reports talkSPORT.
The 18-year-old defender is regarded as one of the hottest properties in Italian football at the moment, prompting interest from a host of top European clubs.
Roma paid just £2.6million to sign the South American from Brazilian side Corinthians last summer, and despite his tender years, threw the youngster straight into the Giallorossi first-team.
Marquinhos has managed 20 Serie 'A' appearances in his debut season at the Stadio Olimpico, with his impressive displays already catching the eye of Red Devils boss Sir Alex Ferguson, who has bee linked with a bid to bring him to Old Trafford.
Manchester United will face competition for his signature from local rivals Manchester City, as Roberto Mancini also sets sights on adding Marquinhos to his Etihad Stadium squad.
According to reports, neither of the Premier League's top two were planning to move for Marquinhos this summer, but now might be forced into action after Barcelona's intentions to make an offer for the Brazilian's services emerged.
With club legend Carles Puyol approaching the end of his career, Barca chiefs are already on the lookout for a long-term replacement for the Spanish stopper, and have identified Marquinhos as the young pretender to succeed Puyol at Camp Nou for many years to come.
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I've seen a number of posts on how to apply to a new guild. There's some very astute points from many of them. (I'm so sorry... World of Matticus is the only that comes to mind atm, but I know I've read a ton of other ones.) If you're looking to join a new guild, there's good ways and bad ways to present yourself. Please don't do the bad things.
On Monday night, when we killed Magtheridon, I get a random whisper as we're clearing trash. I was still in the process of organizing the clickers (via the old pen and paper deal) and generally telling people what to do. Long story short: even after I told him I was in Magtheridon's Lair leading the raid, he still continues to ask me a few questions. /sigh
There's a lot of information out there about a potential new guild. You can tell where they're at in terms of progression via wowjutsu or your realm forums. You can tell who the GM and officers via WowArmory. And if it's an established guild, you can probably google their name to find their web site as well. But please, please don't expect to have a full on conversation with one of the officers in the middle of the raid. I was nice to the guy, and wouldn't even say no to him if he applied on that premise alone. But come on... seriously.


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Michigan State Law Mediation Team Places Sixth in International Competition
Michigan State University College of Law students place sixth at the Twelfth Annual International Law School Mediation Tournament. Third-year (3L) students Stefanie Lacy and Anthony Chester, along with second-year (2L) student Lauren Prew, placed sixth in the advocate client category. MSU Law 3L David Aschwege filled in for a student unable to make the trip, helping that team place third in the mediation category.
"This group truly embodied what it means to be a team, and their success is due to everyone's efforts," said MSU Law Assistant Clinical Professor Brian Pappas, who coached the team. "David Aschwege went above and beyond in joining a team that lacked a mediator. Their third place finish was incredible and speaks to David's skill and quality as a teammate."
Thirty-six teams and 108 competitors from five continents competed in the event, held March 12—15, 2013, at Law Society of Ireland, Dublin. The tournament provides law students with the opportunity to learn about the various forms and techniques used in mediation, as well as the opportunity to practice their mediation skills in friendly competition with other students from around the world. Teams of three students each go through three preliminary rounds serving as mediators, advocates and clients.
Mediators work in pairs, with the co-mediators being from different schools, and are judged on their ability to work together with their co-mediator in addition to their listening skills, their ability to help the advocates and clients see the strengths and weaknesses of their cases, their ability to stay positive and professional, and their ability to help guide the parties to a resolution of the dispute that brought them to mediation. Advocates and clients are judged on their ability to present their case, to articulate their strengths and weaknesses, and to work with the mediators toward a solution while also meeting their needs and interests.
Pictured from left to right: Courtney Lyman (3L), Aaron Simonson (3L), Stefanie Lacy (3L), Lauren Prew (2L), David Aschwege (3L), Allison Kittelberger (3L), and Anthony Chester (3L).


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The Wall of Bad Art at the Hotel Lincoln, the newly renovated boutique hotel in Lincoln Park at the corner of Wealthy and Twee, is a monument to iffy talent and questionable taste. It is a reminder of how bad art can get funneled through wood-paneled rec rooms and yard sales and come out the other end as good taste, warm memories and enduring charm.
The Wall of Bad Art, assembled by San Francisco interior designer Andrew Alford after an epic Midwest antique store binge, stands tall behind the hotel's front desk. It climbs from the lobby to the second-floor lounge. It is a visual anchor, a comfy monolith. It's also keeping with the vintage, handcrafted rumpus-room aesthetic sweeping hipster hotel lobbies, a look popularized by the Ace Hotel in New York, which has a lobby featuring a large American flag, salvaged-wood tables and taxidermy.
What it does not have is bad art.
The Ace Hotel does not offer, as the Wall of Bad Art does, a kind of museum of 20th-century middlebrow bourgeois values. It does not boast a giant red wall that begins with the yellowing, washed-out photo of a spongy, nondescript captain of industry (the kind of company photo that once passed for gravitas in corporate lobbies), continues with paintings of cats playing cards, squirrels resting on branches and hippies smiling, and ends with a needlepoint flower vase.
It does not have a painting of a white cat with big eyes and a pink bow, or several pieces of Mexican feather art. It does not have guests who, as general manager Bob Shelley has witnessed, stand before works of art and make up stories about what the artists must have been smoking.
"Occasionally, we get a guest who wants to buy the art," Shelley said, "and we go 'Really?' I think if any of these pieces were alone on a wall, they might feel differently. But I understand. A wall of it is awe inspiring."
It is.
To find the Wall of Bad Art, pass through the front doors of the Hotel Lincoln, then head for the check-in desk, walk past stacks of old travel trunks and tattered coffee-table books and hotel guests nursing coffee on mismatched furniture and sculptures that only loosely earn the title of sculpture. On a sleepy Saturday afternoon, on a pedestal beside the clerk at the front desk (herself in a polka dot dress and a small yellow shrug), there was a brown chunk of wood carved to resemble a rockin' '70s van. The clerk, whose name is Katy Higgins, said she didn't expect the van to be long for this lobby. Since the Hotel Lincoln reopened in February — a nationally registered landmark, it was rescued from foreclosure by Chicago and New York investors — a number of bad sculptures had been lifted from the lobby, presumably by guests. A wooden gorilla (gone). A porcelain parrot (gone). A ceramic tiger (gone). A 30-pound Abraham Lincoln (gone).
"Unfortunately, we've had casualties," she said.
Asked about this, Alford said it was not unfortunate. In fact, while planning the look of the Hotel Lincoln, he anticipated it. He even tried to persuade the new owners of the Hotel Lincoln to stamp a discreet message on the backs of all of the hotel's art, something like "Thank you for stealing this from the Hotel Lincoln."
But this wasn't done, and the art on the Wall of Bad Art was bolted down. So don't get any funny ideas.
About stealing.
Otherwise, go ahead: Funny ideas about the Wall of Bad Art are welcomed. For instance, the long, vertical painting at the top of the stairs of a seemingly successful guy with large 1970s eyeglasses and a mustache and pillowy yellow hair, dressed in a powder-blue suit, jauntily thrusting a pencil? Is he an architect? An ad man? A classy pornographer? A TV detective who solves crimes with a tumbler of scotch in his right hand?
What are we looking at?
"Awesomeness," Alford said. "You are looking at awesomeness. All of these paintings come from ambiguous origins. Who are the people in these pictures, and who painted them? I don't know. I don't even know what I love about these paintings. That '70s guy? We call him Ron Burgundy (as in Will Ferrell's character from "Anchorman"). We don't know who he is. But it was the first piece we hung on the wall. We put him at the top of the stairs because we wanted to draw people to the second floor, encourage them to stand next to Ron and take pictures with him. I think we bought him at, I want to say, oh, maybe Edgewater Antiques? He was standing in the window, and it was very much 'How much is that doggy in the window?'"
Actually, $250.
It is the most expensive piece of art on the Wall of Bad Art. The budget for the Wall was $20,000 but ended up costing "way under," Alford said. Not far from Ron Burgundy, for instance, is a picture of an antique car. Its $10 price tag was not removed. To put it in perspective: The revival of the 184-room hotel, built in 1928 and most recently a Days Inn, cost $10 million; installing a new elevator alone cost $1 million. There are 168 pieces of art hanging on that back wall, hung in cramped, stacked gallery style, cascading floor to ceiling.
Average cost was $40.
The entire wall? Maybe $8,000, rounding up.
The idea for the wall came from a few inspirations, Alford said. The first was artist Henry Darger, the untrained Lincoln Park recluse whose eerie, undiscovered watercolors became, years after he had died, the ultimate outsider art. The other inspiration was Ben Weprin, the founder of AJ Capital and one of the hotel's owners, an enthusiastic collector of kitschy art who lives in the neighborhood.
"You can never have too much (bad art)," Weprin said, "especially when you're paying minimal prices for it. Besides, it's not about price or investment at that point anyway; it's about how this random picture by a stranger speaks to your soul."
In the year before the reopening, Alford, who owns San Francisco-based Dirty Lines Design, would fly into Chicago for a few days and hit antique store after antique store, acquiring bad art. He drove to Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin.
"Chicago is such a diverse city that I wanted to make sure different people were represented (on the wall)," Alford said, "but we had a hard time finding vintage art with African-Americans. We found some. A lot of what we ran across was so horrifically racist." But in the end, he bought more art than he could use, more than 200 pieces. Some leftover went to Weprin, some went into storage. (Incidentally, Alford ran across so many old desk drawers that the front desk itself is constructed of dozens of old desk drawers.)
As for the wall …
Highlights include paintings of a naked woman bathing, a duck resting, cardinals in a tree, ballet dancers, geishas and a girl with gold curls named Little Daisy. Framed paper doll sheets. A painting of a flapper standing at a bank window ("Transferring her accounts," reads the caption). A painting of a bulldog, a dog show, a zebra, a German shepherd so lovingly rendered it had to have been someone's favorite pooch. There are many vases of flowers, both painted and drawn. Several images of geese alighting. A watercolor of a New England fishing village at low tide. Needlepoint renderings of flowers and birds and old-timey towns ("Reminders of all the projects my mom never finished," Alford said). There is a painting of David Cassidy (though Alford isn't so sure it's him). There is a silhouette reminiscent of artist Kara Walker's silhouettes.
Only terrible.
Frames are painted gold and silver, some are brown, and others are cracked in corners. There are a number of original paint-by-number works, including the once ubiquitous "Swiss Village." There are a several clowns. There is a drawing of a child in a bonnet, and beside it a drawing of the same child crying, his face contorted. There is a glow-in-the-dark woodland animal and a velvet painting of an exotic bird. There is a painting of a walleyed man that looks like Neil Young, only stranger. Few are signed, but "C. Burford" signed a painting of a farm. There is a needlepoint picture of a building labeled "Shakespeare's Birthplace," though it looks more like a Cracker Barrel. There is a painting of what could be either a landfill or a Christmas tree. There's a painting of a woman who could be related to Meryl Streep and a bad portrait of a Doris Day-like innocent.
Doe-eyed girls wear go-go boots, young boys wear full-body swimsuits, a comely woman with a guitar stands in a doorway, and a handsome man with bongos at his feet leans against a wall and holds a trumpet. There is a painting of a goat so awkward it could be a painting of two people stuffed into a goat costume.
Alford said, "Being across from the park and the zoo, I wanted to include a lot of nature and animals, but mostly, being in the neighborhood, I wanted it to feel like a home. I love it when I see people walk up and down the stairs and say, 'Oh my God, that was in my grandmother's house!' That was exactly the idea."
Asked to name the hotel's aesthetic, he said, "Eccentric preppy."
Asked the same thing, Shelley said, "Second bedroom."
"As in," he explained, "the place should feel like a guest room. And the thing about art in a second bedroom, it's always what's left over, what didn't fit the rest of the house, the art we're just not ready to let go of yet."


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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration officials said Monday that they are asking fish and wildlife agents and dolphin monitors in several states to be on the lookout for other troubling cases.
A marine mammal biologist for NOAA says two dolphins were found shot in Louisiana in 2011. This year, three dolphins were found shot -- two in Mississippi and one in Louisiana.
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The National Association of Manufacturers has designated today as Manufacturing Day to promote the importance and desirability of our country's manufacturing jobs. Nationwide, more than 17 million Americans work in manufacturing, which accounts for one in six private-sector jobs. In North Carolina, more than 800 Meritor employees at our Fletcher, Maxton and Forest City plants have built a variety of axles, transfer cases, drivelines and independent suspensions for commercial and military vehicles for customers throughout North America, South America, Europe and Asia since 1980.
Today, to commemorate Manufacturing Day, our plant in Fletcher is hosting nearly 70 students, teachers and guidance counselors from Rugby Middle School and Balfour Education Center to experience a modern manufacturing facility firsthand. Our goal is to encourage young people to develop the skills needed for jobs in a growing sector of the economy.
According to NAM, 600,000 manufacturing jobs remain unfilled nationwide simply because applicants are not adequately trained for today's evolving industry. The organization also notes that 67 percent of manufacturers report a moderate to severe shortage of qualified workers, and only 30 percent of parents encourage their children to enter the manufacturing industry.
If manufacturing is to continue providing career options and have positive economic impact here in North Carolina and across the country, the industry must fill the gap between job requirements and the skills of those applying for them — both today and tomorrow.
Government, community and business leaders will come to our Fletcher plant to discuss why students are so important to the future of manufacturing and how good corporate citizenship impacts local communities. Meritor, for example, has invested more than $30 million in new equipment and technologies in recent years at our North Carolina facilities, which keep the plants up to date with evolving technologies to keep our company competitive and maintain a stable source of employment.
As a good neighbor and citizen, we contribute to the well-being of numerous communities across the country with Meritor manufacturing facilities. Here in North Carolina, for example, we pay more than $1.3 million in state and local taxes each year.
Our Meritor Trust Fund provides at least $1 million in charitable contributions across the nation, including a substantial amount in grants to public and technical schools, colleges and universities in North Carolina.
Our employees share our commitment to social responsibility, raising $161,000 for the United Way of Buncombe and Henderson counties and also supporting Habitat for Human-ity, the American Cancer Society and other organizations during the past year.
We look forward to opening our doors to inspire young people and to show them why they should develop the skills needed for a long-term career in manufacturing. A healthy manufacturing base built around a skilled workforce is good for manufacturing employees, good for North Carolina and good for America.
Brian Cavagnini is director of operations and site manager for Meritor's Fletcher facility.
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I'm heading back to work in the new year & I'm nervous about how to weave nursing into that schedule.
I'm a psychologist & I'm lucky enough to work from home and to set my own schedule. I see clients in one hour blocks & I see about 3-4 clients a day. In Jan I'm planning on only seeing 2 clients a day, one in the morning (usually around 10am) and one in the later afternoon (usually around 4 or 5).
I'm hoping to organize nursing so that I don't have to pump. My husband or mom will be watching baby while I'm with a client, so she'll be in the house out of ear shot.
Thus far we've been feeding on cue & there's no real rhyme or reason to the schedule, except that she usually does cluster feed in the late afternoon to bedtime.
Most of the "going back to work" advice is for a different kind of work situation. I'm not quite sure how this will look for us on January and beyond...and it's a little more complicated because, of course, it's a moving target.
I need to start scheduling clients ASAP, but I'm not sure how best to do that, particularly when I'm seeing two clients in the afternoon.
Has anybody had a similar situation that they can share some advice? Or does anybody know of resources for helping me anticipate how this might go?
How do I convince baby to nurse for the hour right before a client comes or between clients?
Do I leave husband or mom with a pumped bottle just in case?
How do I not lose my mind juggling the necessary focus of my work with the demands of a nursing-whenever-she's-hungry infant?
Next week she'll be 7 weeks old...how might things be a bit different by February at 11 weeks? (I know everybody's different...)
As a side note: it's such an injustice that some people only get 6 weeks (or zero weeks if you're not on contract) of maternity leave. I can not even fathom having to go back to work full time right now. My heart really goes out to those moms. And if they can continue to EBF then they're super-heroes as far as I'm concerned.


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It delivered.
Maya Moore scored 20 points with five rebounds and five assists and Seimone Augustus added 16 points, seven assists and six boards, as Minnesota downed Los Angeles, 94-77, in Game 1 of the Western Conference finals.
Rebekkah Brunson posted a double-double of 14 points and 10 rebounds for Minnesota, which is trying to become the first team to repeat as WNBA champs since the Sparks accomplished the feat in 2001 and 2002.
Candace Parker led all scorers with 25 points and 11 rebounds, while Alana Beard added 16 points and Kristi Toliver recorded 12 for the Sparks, who swept their way into the Western Conference finals, but failed to gain any momentum and saw their hopes fade in the second quarter.
Game 2 of the best-of-three series is Sunday in Los Angeles. The Lynx are just 4-21 all-time in the Sparks' home arena.
After a back-and-forth first quarter, the defending WNBA champs took to the interior and built a comfortable margin by halftime. Brunson and Augustus were the key contributors early, scoring 13 of the team's first 15 points in the second period, including Brunson's layup that opened a 31-20 margin.
Moore's triple capped eight straight points for a 34-20 lead, and the Lynx continued the long-distance barrage with two more threes, the last by Augustus that pushed the score to 46-26. The Sparks sliced into the lead, but Lindsay Whalen's bucket beat the buzzer for a 48-31 lead. Whalen, who played with a broken left ring finger and a bruised left wrist, finished with 12 points.
The Sparks trailed thanks to Minnesota's 50 percent shooting and 22-11 rebounding edge.
The Lynx fed off the home crowd as they have all season, riding the emotion to a large lead they didn't relinquish in the second half, improving to 19-1 at home this season.
The advantage grew to 57-33 on Taj McWilliams-Franklin's jumper with just under six minutes to go in the third, but Los Angeles showed a little spark late in the period, slicing the deficit to 66-53 on Beard's jumper in the final seconds.
The margin whittled down to 10 at one point, but Minnesota never felt threatened in the fourth, pushing the lead back to 89-72 on Moore's fadeaway with just under two minutes to go.
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Im in Australia, I have a female blue claw who has bred previously with a now deceased male blue claw. I recently added a larger male red claw and after nervous nights they appeared to accept each other with out incident.
Everything has been fine with my small catfish and yellowbelly not over stressing or being attacked. However it now appears they are trying to cross breed, She has a sperm sack under her but they continue to fight nearly 6 hrs after i first noticed it. I have a helicopter crash orniment in the tank and the bouts always happen inside it. This has been her home since i added it to the tank.
The current situation as i type. They will fight normally with her ending on top. Then next thing she is on top of him walking all over him without a care. Then she will be active around the tank before it happens again. She is extremely active, all around my tank, Behaviour she has not had since before i put the helicopter orniment in the tank 6 months ago. (Fighting again now) didnt see who won..... Both outside the helicopter now as my light has turned off. There was a small scuffle and he is back in the helicopter. .....
I dont know what to do? Im tempted to remove him to another tank rather than her so she doesnt loose any eggs that might be layed.
I cant find anything on the internet about cross breeding between the species. Will i be the first? "Well cats, dogs and horses do." They are both Cherax species?
Anyone shed light here?
Now she is under my pump cleaning under her tail.... She doesnt appear to want to lay eggs?
Back in on top of him again, Shaping up to fight maybe....Appears to be a staring contest this time....Its on again, nope she went out one of the holes. AAAARRHHH! HELP?