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In Australia in the 60s the Geoghegan brothers pretty well dominated. Leo in single seaters with Ian alternating between Sports Cars and Touring Cars. Australian Sports Car Champion in 1963, 1965 and 1976, he also won five Touring Car Championships, 1964 an four in a row from 1966 to 1969.
In motor racing in Australia in the 60's it was almost a case of "if Leo didn't get you then Ian would" as the Geoghegan brothers pretty well dominated the scene. Leo mostly stuck to single seaters where he regularly gave the visiting drivers in the Tasman series a run for their money, but Ian, or Peter as he was affectionately known, alternated between Sports Cars and Touring Cars.
He won three Sports Car titles in 1963 and 1965 in a Lotus 23 and in 1976 in the Laurie O'Neill owned Porsche and an unrivalled five Touring Car Championships, 1964 an four in a row from 1966 to 1969. Championship win in 1969 was the first to be contested over a series of rounds and he triumphed by just one point from Alan Hamilton.
Although he didn't win another title, Geoghegan was a major player in the Championship in the early 70's and his victory over Allan Moffat at Bathurst on Easter Monday in 1972 is still regarded by those who saw it, at as the greatest race ever run in this country. "Pete" finally achieved his ambition of winning Australia's greatest race when he won Bathurst in 1973 with his great rival and friend, Allan Moffat.
He was a man with a great sense of humor & car control which had to be seen to be believed.
His extraordinary achievements included:
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President of the European Aerosol Association FEA, Brussels/Belgium
AEROSOL EUROPE: You have been President of the European Aerosol Association since 2010. When you look back across your previous association activities, which achievements make you especially proud?
Dr. Rolf Bayersdörfer: Our successes with cooperation, both internal and external!
I have had the opportunity to work with a truly unique and fantastic team, the FEA office, the national associations, and industry experts from various companies. Whether it was the good alignment with the Commission in order to realize the adaptation to the technical progress for the ADD and synchronisation with the CLP, for example; the close and constructive cooperation on expert committees for the creation of new guidelines, standards, and position papers; or the FEA office, which has implemented the organizational structural transformation perfectly and with great motivation.
All of this sounds like a matter of course, but it is not. A very motivated team at the FEA office has always kept an ear open for new ideas and questions, has a worldwide network, and it gives its heart and soul to the aerosol industry.
The openness and productivity of the thematic work at the FEA distinguishes itself through a truly noteworthy degree of constructiveness and operative readiness.
Also with respect to questions of succession in our industry sector, there are concrete ideas being implemented that counteract the tendency of ever-greater concentration on a few experts. Our open way of working and our culture will allow the "young people" to profit quickly from our broad experience and give them the chance to help design the future.
AEROSOL EUROPE: In rough terms: Which topics must currently be dealt with primarily on the European level?
Dr. Rolf Bayersdörfer: The ADD is currently determining the scope of work, whether through the current evaluation by the Commission or through the industry-motivated adaptation to the technical progress with the keywords plastic aerosols and 15 bar.
We are also closely connected with our global colleagues in order to observe the market and regulatory topics and synchronize these as intensively as possible.
A global market should demonstrate few regional differences since topics with respect to safety, quality, and sustainability are the same everywhere.
AEROSOL EUROPE: Great Britain will leave the EU. What consequences do you anticipate, especially with a view to the European aerosol industry?
Dr. Rolf Bayersdörfer: I cannot predict the economic consequences here since a lot will still depend on the discussions in Brussels. However, with respect to our day-to-day cooperation with the BAMA team, I am quite relaxed about the future. Our common sense and team spirit, which has always bound us closely to the English association, will not suffer. I am sure that we will find ways to get the expertise and quality of our content work heard.
AEROSOL EUROPE: America has voted. Do you believe that the close cooperation between the FEA and the American CSPA will change?
Dr. Rolf Bayersdörfer: No. It is about people. Our great relationship is our foundation.
I do not anticipate any limitations on cooperation. We are all professionals and open to the topic of "aerosols." We may also not forget that many multinational companies are present on both continents and naturally they have an interest in common lines on regulatory matters.
Surely we will learn soon how the political leadership's position on environmental topics will develop. Then we will have to decide and act.
AEROSOL EUROPE: We suspect that even close connections with the Latin American aerosol associations will continue. What is the current state of things here?
Dr. Rolf Bayersdörfer: You suspect absolutely correctly. These associations are part of the global network and regular exchange at in the context of conferences and our annual meeting as International Liaison Committee solidify these relationships. There are common topics on our agendas that we will advance globally.
The FEA practices the politics of open communication and in Alain D'haese, it always has an expert ambassador when it comes to FEA subjects.
AEROSOL EUROPE: What will be your focal points in the cooperation with the Asian Aerosol Association AAF?
Dr. Rolf Bayersdörfer: Since the foundation of the association, we have supported it where we can, and we welcome its goals. A common understanding and an approach on a global level are our basic principles here too. Advising economically up-and-coming countries on guidelines, standards, and providing them with expertise while they are building up their production and establishing their logistics chains are our primary efforts.
The outstanding, long-term relationships with the Australian and New Zealand associations also form an essential axis, as do the good relationships with China and Japan.
AEROSOL EUROPE: The production of aerosols in Europe stagnated last year on a very high level. Where do you see growth potential for the future?
Dr. Rolf Bayersdörfer: Innovations!! I am convinced that the possibilities for aerosols are far from being exhausted completely. Aerosols are largely convenience products thanks to their easy, effective, and efficient handling. Both the recipes and the packaging technology will surprise us time after time in the not-too-distant future; this is my assumption.
AEROSOL EUROPE: The FEA will organize future international aerosol congresses "by itself" if we have understood correctly. How will this look in 2018, when the international aerosol industry will meet in Düsseldorf?
Dr. Rolf Bayersdörfer: The FEA team is working on the organization with great creativity and commitment. The focus is currently on the program and the supplementary events.
Düsseldorf is an ideal location with respect to the infrastructure. With the great support of a professional organizer and the goal of making the content framework interesting even for non-technical experts, I see a truly interesting and varied mixture in our future.
Innovations will mark the development. We want to inspire and provide the basis for an active network.
AEROSOL EUROPE: The 29th International Aerosol Congress of the FEA with exhibition, which should have been held this year in Istanbul, had to be canceled due to the uncertain political situation in Turkey. This was a painful, but correct decision. Your opinion?
Dr. Rolf Bayersdörfer: Yes, I think in the end this was the right decision.
I am very thankful to the Turkish association for its professional preparation and commitment. This was a very difficult decision for everyone who was involved in the organization. However, the increasing insecurity of the local situation finally caused us to cancel. We would not have been able to forgive ourselves if something had happened to even a single participant.
AEROSOL EUROPE: What goals have you set for yourself in the near future?
Dr. Rolf Bayersdörfer: On the regulatory side, we want to find the best solutions for the aerosol directive. New guidelines and standards will provide still more support for the aerosol industry and then naturally the focus of our organizational work will be on the FEA congress and exhibition.
Personally, I want to secure the future of our association work by ensuring a very high quality standard for the experts on our committees. In addition, it is important to develop new talent early. These people need to have the support of their companies to be available for work in the association.
The association work, this is my personal experience and conviction, represents an enrichment in many respects, so that I hope that I will be able to motivate new members to do it in the future.
AEROSOL EUROPE: Dr. Bayersdörfer, thank you very much for the conversation.

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Sunday's Scripture ~ John 20:24-29.
There is a powerful scene towards the end of Disney's The Lion King where Simba, the reluctant and somewhat recalcitrant prince of the Savannah, is alone at night until he sees an effigy of his father in the clouds. Instead of coming towards him, Simba's father seems to dissipate on the winds. Simba chases the cloud with all his might. He attempts to catch up with the wind and when he realizes he cannot, he hurls at the wind – at his father – "You said you'd always be there for me! But you're not…And it's my fault. It's all my fault."
I imagine the disciples felt the same way after Jesus' crucifixion. Even though the disciples betrayed, denied, and deserted Jesus, I believe they continued to hope that all he had said would be true – that he would be with them, that he would die and rise again, and after ascending, that he would send his Holy Spirit to be with them always.
Ten of the eleven disciples have seen Jesus, but Thomas was absent. Thomas hears their testimony about Jesus, but he wants to see for himself. He wants – he asks – to see and touch.
Thomas wants to explore the realness of the resurrection. He wants personal confirmation that the resurrection was not an illusion or a trick or a figment of the disciples' collective imagination. If the resurrection had been an illusion, trick, or figment of the imagination, the resurrection would not have the same efficacy, the same saving power.
"You said you'd always be there for me!" And Jesus was. Jesus is.
Jesus showed up. Jesus revealed himself to Thomas and the disciples again. Thomas asks and Jesus responds; Jesus provides and Thomas receives.
The story of The Lion King is a story of identity – of Simba discovering or returning to who he is, which ultimately guides him home. The death of Jesus caused an identity crisis for the disciples and followers of Jesus, too. Although Jesus foretold his death and resurrection numerous times, the weight of its reality finally set with the sun that Good Friday. Seeing the resurrected Jesus reminded the disciples of who they are and whose they are. Touching Jesus – physically interacting with his living truth – restored and reconnected the disciples to the living truth of Jesus' miracles, healings, and teachings.
Wanting that confidence of who we are and whose we are, wanting to see and touch the living truth of our Jesus does not make us bad people. That desire locates us as individuals that trust our "asking, seeking, and knocking" will be answered by our Jesus that has already shown his desire that we would all believe. So if you have the desire to ask, seek, or knock – proceed! Jesus' timeline in answering may be at odds with your timeframe of receiving an answer, but do not let that sway you from asking. Remember, Jesus is faithful and is making all things known. Jesus is here for us and answers us when we call.
Prayer: "When our confidence is shaken in beliefs we thought secure, when the spirit in its sickness seeks but cannot find a cure, God is active in the tensions of a faith not yet mature. God is love, and thus redeems us in the Christ we crucify; this is God's eternal answer to the world's eternal why. May we in this faith maturing be content to live and die!"* Amen.
*"When Our Confidence Is Shaken," The United Methodist Hymnal 505.


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State of the Meg Update
So, I'm heading back to uni (again - hopefully this time I'll get a degree out of things). I'm studying part-time, because that way I'm not going to be overloading myself, and I'll be able to get things like, y'know, housework and such done as well as studying without pushing myself to the point of breakdown. Unfortunately for me, this week is O-week, which means I pretty much need to be on campus every day.
Yesterday was O-Day (Guild clubs & societies sign-up day). It did not go well for me.
A bit of background: I am hyper-sensitive to noise. Lots of noise overloads me, because I basically don't have a filter for "foreground noise" or "background noise" - everything I hear comes in marked "process immediately", so too much noise, and too many sources of noise, and too much volume means my brain literally gets overloaded. I am also somewhat claustrophobic in crowded situations - I prefer having something of a generous personal space bubble, and crowded areas make me anxious and panicky.
O-Day yesterday was trying to cram pretty much the entire cohort of first year students, plus a fairly substantial chunk of second and third year students, into a single 500m by 20m (widest point maybe 50m) stretch of the campus. Plus two different sound stages within about 100m of each other, dozens of club and society booths, and numerous corporate and social bodies trying to get people's attention as well. Essentially, if I ever wind up in hell, it will be like being stuck in something like this on a never-ending basis.
O-Day officially started at 12 noon. I was getting the fsck out of there by about 12.30pm, and I only managed to sign up for one of the (potentially four) clubs I was interested in. Even thinking about it now is making me feel uncomfortable. I have not felt so purposefully excluded in years. (This was actually probably the least of their accessibility fails - I wouldn't have wanted to be trying to get a wheelchair or walker through that throng without a cow-catcher bolted onto the front, TBH).
Fortunately the earliest I have to be on campus today is about 3pm, for a Mature Age study skills session, and tomorrow I only have one thing to attend (a one-off lecture for one of my courses, where I'm hoping to receive the unit outline, since it isn't available online). But I'm really not feeling welcome there or happy about being there.
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'You're confirmed for 11 a.m. Wednesday morning. You will have 15 minutes with a nameless ghoul."
Last week's message from Ghost B.C.'s publicist, while amusing, was also a little worrying. With its conspicuously costumed anonymity (think Residents, KLF, Kiss), the Swedish metal band's attention-getting image overshadowed one of the most musically intriguing debut albums of 2010. The band has also conducted interviews in costume and in character, with voices electronically altered, making the prospect of one more deadpan interview with a "nameless ghoul" seem unpromising.
So it was a relief when Ghost's guitarist unexpectedly spent 30 minutes talking about music and Mayhem, upcoming B-sides with Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl, and, of course, corpse-painted frontman Papa Emeritus II's failed campaign for Pope.
Yes, the identities are still secret, at least for now, and the lyrics, in English and Latin, are appropriately sacrilegious. But Ghost's music continues to evolve. Sophomore album Infestissumam, released Tuesday, boasts highly melodic vocals, catchy unison guitar parts, and keyboard-heavy arrangements that compare favorably to Blue Oyster Cult-era metal, vintage prog-rock, even West Coast psychedelia.
Surprisingly, the band continues to find favor among black metal fans, not least because Darkthrone co-founder Fenriz praised Ghost as a combination of metallurgists Mercyful Fate and Estonian composer Arvo Pärt.
Meanwhile, the band's cross-genre appeal threatens to make 2013 the year Ghost hits big. Here's a Nameless Ghoul to tell you all about it.
Indy: Listening to the new single "Secular Haze," with its time signature and keyboards that sound like a circus calliope, I have to wonder: Did you ever expect the metal community to embrace you the way it has?
Nameless Ghoul: When we began working on the first album, we had in mind the music and imagery that we ourselves would want to hear and see. The songs are sort of dramatic and moving, and the imagery and ideas made the band seem a bit bigger in people's minds, maybe, than we actually were. And we were very lucky when Fenriz of Darkthrone blogged about us as his "band of the week." Obviously his following is predominantly the metal community, and we come from a metal background ourselves.
Our music does have popular elements, but shit, so did most bands from the '70s as well. We knew it was weird and sort of catchy, but we didn't know that three years later we'd be in the position we're in right now: being on a major label, releasing our second album, and being able to play places like the Ogden Theatre and Coachella.
Indy: I'm surprised you mention the Ogden. Most bands, especially coming from Europe, wouldn't know what state I'm calling from, let alone what venue they'll be playing here.
Nameless Ghoul: Right, right. I'm a stickler for venues. I think that if there's one ingredient to making it, especially as a band like Ghost, it's being interested in a lot of aspects that go outside just the immediate aesthetic part.
Because if you're just a bunch of 22-year-olds that are out there to get fucked up, you don't learn anything. Most of those bands just get spit out a couple years later, and then they're completely destroyed because they didn't know what happened. We're slightly older and we've been in bands before that have toured to some extent. So we know that, in order to make it fly, we really need to be focused. Because it's so easy to just fall apart otherwise.
Indy: In terms of staging, the corpse makeup is the thing that most evokes black metal. As teenagers, were you guys into bands like Immortal and the kind of theatricality they favored?
Nameless Ghoul: I personally really like that whole black metal movement of the early '90s. Up until '94.
Indy: Back when it was more raw?
Nameless Ghoul: Yeah. When a lot of those bands got to their third record, that's when everything began to change in a way that made it very uninteresting, for me at least. And before that, it was the whole death metal thing, and thrash. And yeah, that's a big part of the DNA of Ghost.
Also, there was an element of inaccessibility about a band like Mayhem back before the Internet. And that's what we've tried to do with Ghost, to be a band that you didn't know everything about.
Indy: And with regard to being nameless, is there some way you could assure me that you're not former Pink Floyd or Moody Blues members, or some kind of Coldplay side-project?
Nameless Ghoul: No, I can't really guarantee you that, no.
Indy: I want to ask a non-musical question about vocalist Papa Emeritus and his Internet campaign for Pope. How disappointed was he about not being chosen?
Nameless Ghoul: From our point of view, we weren't complaining when he didn't land the job, because he had signed up with us. But to him it was an annoyance, which is understandable. I mean, he saw the vacancy as a potential career move, whereas playing with these five dudes from Linköping might not be in the same way. I mean, put next to being Pope?
Indy: There are a lot of advantages, like getting to ride around in the Popemobile.
Nameless Ghoul: Yeah, well, we promised to make it up to him a little bit. We're gonna rent him one.
Indy: Is the Vatican renting them now?
Nameless Ghoul: Yeah, they're leasing, and they cut us a really good deal. So it worked out way better for everyone in the long run.
Indy: I should also ask how you first hooked up with Dave Grohl.
Nameless Ghoul: We both played at a festival; I don't remember whether it was Lowlands in Holland or Pukkelpop in Belgium. And since we knew that he was a fan of the band, we thought, "Well, let's have our people call his people and maybe we can go over there." So we went to say hi, and pretty quickly got to the point of, "You want to do something?" And he was like, "Yeah!"
Indy: Did he engineer the sessions?
Nameless Ghoul: He was more of a producer. And he played drums on a few songs.
Indy: Which ones?
Nameless Ghoul: He played drums on [the ABBA cover] "Marionette" and "Waiting for the Night," a Depeche Mode cover we did. And he played a little bit of guitar and other things on a few of the other songs we recorded. So it was very much a playful thing where we came in with the material, rehearsed a little bit, and just recorded.
Indy: And finally, I saw a video online where an interviewer asked when the apocalypse was coming, and you — well, one of you — said that it was already ongoing, and seemed to allude to the environment. Are you guys concerned about that?
Nameless Ghoul: The environment? I think that any person in the world that doesn't at least give the environment some sort of thought doesn't deserve to live in it. I wouldn't say that we have an environmental agenda, but we do sing about mankind, and we're mirror-reflecting the human mind and the human psyche and how people treat each other. And one of the most obvious ways of seeing mankind's failing in general is to just open up your window and smell it. I mean, there you have the apocalypse, that's the end of the world.


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You know, offensive in the worst kind of way.
That wouldn't be too surprising, seeing as how PECOTA has the Pirates finishing 64-98 this year -- the worst projected record in the majors. Nady and Bay are gone, and Nate McLouth is the only remaining piece of last year's Bucco outfield, which, until two-thirds of it was dealt to the AL East, was baseball's most productive.
"I'm not worried about us scoring runs," Doumit fairly growled. "Absolutely, we're going to score runs."
Good call. You'll score runs. You just won't score nearly enough runs to make up for your pitching giving up -- let's see...educated guess...does six runs a game sound realistic?
First, the Pirates did it with small ball -- tiny ball, actually. They needed just about all of their 10 singles, 2 doubles and 2 walks in the first five innings to scratch out their first five runs. Then in the sixth inning, center fielder Nate McLouth finally provided a little pop with a two-run home run, his first hit of the season in his 13th plate appearance.
Fourteen baserunners in five innings is small ball, but only because two of those were walks. Stupid bastards not swinging at pitches. And because Nate McLouth is a mere 5'11'', 180 lbs., all of his home runs are tinier than normal home runs.
I'm thinking we might not see enough of those from the Pirates over the long haul...I don't quite share Doumit's belief than the Pirates' hitters can do that sort of thing on a consistent basis. I look at the lineup -- without Jason Bay and Xavier Nady from a year ago -- and see very little thump, at least not enough to carry a weak pitching staff that figures to give up a lot of runs.
I'm inclined to agree with you there, Ron. Hey, I'm going to go get a cup of coffee. Would you like one? No, no, it's on me, since we're best logic buddies now.
I will tell you this: The Pirates are going to be offensively challenged in a frightful way if their big catcher doesn't have a big, big year.
Here's your medium dark roast and 45 packets of Splenda, sir. And to that last point, I'd add that I think they're going to be pretty challenged anyway, but just how big a year were you thinking?
A monster year, actually.
I'll buy that. If Ryan Doumit hits 89 home runs and has an OPS of 2.401, that actually might be enough to get make up for what I'm sure will be an equally miserable K:BB ratio from the bullpen and a team ERA somewhere just south of 20.07.
That seems like too much to ask, doesn't it?
Don't get me wrong. I'm a huge Doumit fan. Pirates management has made a lot of boneheaded personnel decisions during the 16 years of losing, but it made a good one when it signed him to a contract that could keep him in Pittsburgh at least through the 2013 season and will pay him a guaranteed $11.5 million and as much as $27 million. Switch-hitting catchers with pop are so rare.
I don't necessarily disagree. The guy's a pretty decent player, and that contract is probably pretty close to what Doumit might have gotten after two solid years in a moderately shallow free agent market, likely from a team that doesn't look at silly indicators of performance, like on-base percentage or batting average on balls in play.
If Doumit stays healthy -- he did last season for the first time in his big-league career and responded nicely with a .318 average, 15 home runs and 69 RBIs -- he will give the Pirates their money's worth.
But a monster year?
Maybe that wouldn't be too much to expect if Doumit played first base or in the outfield. But he's the catcher and, as such, he not only has to take the daily beating that goes with that difficult defensive job, but he also has to spend a lot of energy trying to coax what appears to be a shaky rotation -- Paul Maholm aside -- and a worse front end of the bullpen through six or seven innings every night.
I'm not sure that these things are related. In fact, just his being a catcher makes him more valuable than pretty much any first baseman who would put up those numbers. A lot of teams are content to field a facemask and a pulse -- just look at how many Molinas have starting jobs. But here's the really disturbing part: last year -- Doumit's "breakout" year -- he had a BABIP of .338. That's about 38 points greater than the league average, and a lot of that is just dumb luck. For a bulk of the season, his BABIP hovered around or over .360, which is astronomically dumb luck. That said, Doumit is likely to have a BABIP over the league average most of the time because of his propensity to hit a ton of line drives (about 25 percent), but that .357 OBP last year was more a product of his inflated BABIP than what you'd hope would cause someone to have an OBP, namely plate discipline. Last year, Doumit walked just 23 times in 465 plate appearances, and he struck out 55 times. His groundball-to-flyball ratio was a solid 2:1.
I know that's a lot of numbers, but think about it. Ryan Doumit might have been one of the luckiest guys in the league last year. Not only did remarkably good luck inflate his production and make him look like a much better hitter than he probably is, but it got him at least $11.5 million guaranteed.
What this all comes down to, I guess, is that while it would be great if Ryan Doumit had a breakout year, hit .330 with 30 homers and got on base to a .370 clip, the reality of it is that he's not even a good candidate to repeat what he did last year.
Good luck to Doumit with that.
Good luck to him having anything left to hit with after a while.
I understand the idea of cadence, but this sentence, even in context, does not make any sense. At age 27, Ryan Doumit hit a career-high 15 home runs, and the Pirates are bad enough that he hits much higher in their order than he would for most other teams. So I guess Ron has a point here in that he will get pitched around, especially if he's hitting ahead of, say, Ramon Vazquez, Jack Wilson, Brandon Moss, Freddy Sanchez or anyone named LaRoche. Of course, given Doumit's history of plate discipline, I wouldn't be shocked if he wound up hitting into 48 ground ball double plays exclusively on pitches thrown as part of intentional walks.
Good luck to the Pirates if Doumit doesn't hold up and put up huge numbers.
If the 2009 Pittsburgh Pirates finish with a losing record, it will be because Ryan Doumit underachieved. Not because the starting pitching was awful and Ian Snell is a headcase. Not because the bullpen walks eight hitters per inning. Not because the club trades away performing players or expiring contracts at the deadline for minor league depth. No, it will be because Ryan Doumit just didn't want it badly enough. I can already hear Bob Smizik hammering together a cross on which to nail Neal Huntington.


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After that, I did a fishtail braid on both sides of the headband.
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SUN VALLEY, Colo. If the secret to real estate is location, location, location, then most certainly the key to skier numbers is access, access, access. With that in mind, the Sun Valley-Ketchum Chamber & Visitors Bureau is spearheading an effort to raise funds to guarantee minimum revenues for flights from Denver to the Sun Valley area.
The Idaho Mountain Express reports that the chamber hopes to raise $50,000, giving it $100,000 to dangle in front of an airline. Sun Valley/Ketchum currently have direct flights from Seattle, Los Angeles and other West Coast cities.
Bones working on Revelstoke
REVELSTOKE, B.C. The Revelstoke Times Review reports that efforts to build a major new ski resort at Mount MacKenzie shows evidence of traction. The newspaper says only minor glitches hindering an agreement between the developers, Robert Powaduk and Hunter Milbourn, and the city of Revelstoke. The city is selling them 69 acres, thereby enabling the base-area development.
The Times Review also reports that Paul "Bones" Skelton, the manager of ski operations for Intrawest at Whistler, has a three-year contract to work on the runs and other components of the ski operation. Michael Hurdzman has been retained to design the golf course.
Independent grocer closing
CANMORE, Alberta The last independent grocery store in Canmore is closing its doors. Marras Grocery store has been open for four generations, employing four generations of family members.
Its not purely a matter of money, although that plays into the picture. More grocery dollars are going down-valley to Calgary. In Canmore, chain retailers have opened or expanded. The grocers also report that, as Canmore has grown in population, getting help they can afford has become more difficult, as has parking.
"Its not because we cant make a living doing what were doing. Were just tired of doing what were doing," explained Phil Marra. "There has to be more to life than working 60 to 70 hours a week," added his father, Ron. "If you dont get a monetary return for it, why bother?"
They had thought about creating a specialized food market, but concluded that Canmore, with its population of 11,000, just isnt big enough.
Vail sales revenues up
VAIL, Colo. Vails overall sales tax receipts are up 6 per cent this year after about 13 years of flat and even declining sales. Even better, these gains are amidst the beginning of $1 billion in construction. That construction will ultimately result in 574 lodging units within four years.
On the other hand, notes the Vail Daily, retail sales coffee mugs, T-shirts, and fur coats, for example are no better than flat, causing town officials to scratch their heads as to why.
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(28-12-2015, 04:40 PM)pingotg Wrote: Oh, have just found your post in Olimex forum... have a look...
(31-12-2015, 04:29 AM)jwzumwalt Wrote: I documented this and several other shortcomings on this forum but the the sysadmin apparently dislikes the criticism and removed it along with another individuals remarks.
A copy of the same post is located here...
I would suggest you read it in order to save yourself some head scratching.
(01-01-2016, 09:31 PM)pingotg Wrote: See my previous reply.
(It should be obvous that people not controlled by Olimex have broken a working software project and/or you're using a different software combination (OS+IDE etc) than was used when it worked. I agree it's annoying and daft but that's what some people do - they break things carelessly. I do think you might actually try my reply though.)
(02-01-2016, 06:53 PM)pingotg Wrote: My reply is not about MPIDE, which is not an IDE from this site is it?
Quote:From your post John This works and runs but only has serial ports communications tty0 in other words is all this see's
MPIDE - Rating (7 out of 10): http://chipkit.net/wpcproduct/mpide/
My evaluation of MPIDE is based upon using it for non-pinguino dev boards. However, previous experience with it has been good.
+ The most stable IDE for programming a PINGUINO MICRO I tried.
+ The forum/user group is very active and support is very good.
+ includes virtual serial terminal.
+ sysadmin and experts do their best to support Pinguino questions.
- No command documentation.
- Does not support line numbers or command completion.
- MPIDE requires a custom boot loader to be installed before Pinguino programs can be used.
Quote:First subject on your post John #1
Pinguino-V11 - Rating (3 out of 10): http://pinguino.cc/ Pinguino-V11 is by far the nicest IDE concept I have seen.
BUT... It is extremely buggy I tried several versions and they all have bone crippling problems. From what I can tell, the Linux version may be OK but I tried it under Win7 64bit and it is pretty much useless. If this IDE was stable, it could be 10 stars!
+ It is the cleanest looking, feature rich IDE of all the open source I have tried.
+ There is an active blog and forum, questions are answered promptly
+ Supports line numbers and command completion.
There are too numerous bugs to mention, but here are a few.
- Lacks virtual com.
- Generic example code, not tested for specific cpu.
- If a program name is the same as an existing file or dir name, it will not compile.
- If a file is saved in a new directory and file name, the compiler still tries to edit and compile the old program.
- The name, "Pinguino IDE" is confusing to distinguish from generic software - it needs a name.
- It lacks a virtual com serial terminal.
- "Command Completion" stops working unexpectedly. You must reboot the computer to get it to work again.
- It is missing much of the command documentation
- Commands are not universal between CPU implementations, so examples do not always work.
- No significant development of the IDE or updates to the WIKI, criticism on the forum is deleted.


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Presbyterian Axtells not so stern as first thought, but not much fun. Their social life limited to fellow church members! Summoned the Baptist minister from next door as soon as they learned the Cathers were Baptists. Has been to an organ recital at Carnegie music hall, which shares a building with library and art museum; theater next door. Between going to church and pretending to know Wild West stories, is losing all standards of truth. Magazine is dull stuff, but is practically the managing editor, with her own desk. Willa [Stout #27]
Not fair to accuse her of keeping her address a secret. Had not expected to be daytime telegraph editor when she accepted the Leader job, but when it became available applied and got it, despite youth and sex. Work is like running a race, but hours are short. Hard to write distinctive headlines for a dozen suicides at a time. Has received A Portrait of a Lady [ James ]. Mr. Farrar has come to call, so must break off. Willa Cather [Stout #46]
Dorothy Canfield is the "Real Thing." [allusion to story by Henry James.] [Stout #54]
Enjoyed Thanksgiving visit to Columbus. Canfields away, leaving house to Dorothy, Jim and fiancée, and herself. Many parties. Is spending much of her leisure time with Ethelbert Nevin, a lovable man. Has been reading Kipling's poetry, as she used to at the university. [Stout #55]
Has interviewed Nevin for the article she is doing. He told her about his writing of Narcissus. Is returning photographs. Willa Sibert Cather [Stout #56]
Is studying Greek and being treated like a goddess. Hasn't seen the Nevins, but they have phoned and he has sent a copy of Shakespeare's sonnets. In Chicago had dinner with Mr. Dooley. He and the Peatties encouraged her to come there to work. Mrs. Peattie's new story in Atlantic ["The Man at the Edge of Things," reviewed by Cather Nov. 4] establishes her as a writer. Was met at the train station by Isabelle, looking beautiful. They have been walking in the hills and going to concerts. Has read all of Dorothy's letters from Paris. Had a nice visit with May Willard last night. P.S.: Will tell her about Alfred next time. Willa [Stout #58]
Will revise article on Ethelbert Nevin. Willa Sibert Cather [Stout #59]
Returning proofs of her article on Nevin with inserts Alexander suggested. Willa Sibert Cather [Stout #60]
Has accepted a temporary position with the Library. Parents may move to Lincoln. Will be there to help around the first of November and will stay through the winter. Would be interested in some work on the Journal. Has to work, or will begin to resemble Herbert Bates. Has some new prose and poetry being published in the fall. Willa Cather [Stout #62]
Ethelbert Nevin died last Sunday. Would like to have the photographs she sent that he did not use. Willa Sibert Cather [Stout #66]


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Wednesday, November 21, 2007
george tibet
blogged from georges photo blog. original link here
kid needs some more drawings though. get on it boy!
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look at this guy...
- November 23, 2007 at 6:08 PM
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mr man im still waiting on something new
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sarah's so boring ever since she stopped drinking
music. musings. mumblings. mine.
a personal blog that used to be about my sobriety.
Tuesday, August 12, 2003
Holy shit. Last night I went to see British Sea Power with Greg and I swear to you that I was totally impregnated by the music. I stood there for like 30 minutes with my mouth gaping wide open in total amazment. Holy fucking shit. I can't wait to see them on friday at Irving.
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The Binary crew is in Whistler this week and we happen to be renting a condo owned by Kevin Menard, one of the owners of Transition Bikes. We were gearing up for another day of riding this morning when a silver Raptor pulled up to deliver a new dishwasher, and who was inside but none other then Kevin and Chris Pascucci from Transition, with a carbon fiber Covert strapped to a rack on the back.
|The dudes in question
I've talked to Kevin on the phone a number of times, but this was our first time meeting in person. He's always been nice and helpful and today was more of the same. They hung out and chatted with us for a while, and he gladly let us snap some shots of the Covert and give it a ride around.
|The Bike
There are a lot of different opinions out there about carbon. I've never been too worried about getting a carbon bike, but I've figured that one day we'll all be riding carbon whether we think it's the greatest or not.
The frame is a beauty. You can see that by checking out the pictures. But some of the details are really nice. The cable routing is awesome, and they've stepped up their bearing covers and graphics. The lines are a matter of opinion, I suppose. But i think it looks awesome.
|Matte black with matte graphics. Awesome.
|rear linkage and new bearing covers.
|cable routing
|notice the socked sandal in the background. Awesome again.
As you can see, we didn't get to rally this thing on some trail, but we all gave it the classic parking lot test, which everyone knows is the most important test of a mountain bike, right? Of course the carbon was light, but just in general, the bike felt super stiff and very well balanced. I got the feeling that I could ride it on just about anything ("quiver killer" as they like to call it.).
We talked with Kevin for a bit about 26 vs. 29, since a couple of us are riding Bandit 29s, and at one pointed he hinted that if you like aggressive 29ers, there's some exciting stuff coming down the pipeline. Let the speculation fly!
A few of us have been riding Transition for a number of years. They keep upping their game with their bikes, while doing a great job of maintaining that rider-owned mentality and focus on customer service. Kevin and Chris took a bunch of time to let us check the bike out and answer our questions. It's hard to overstate how nice it is to deal with a company full of guys who see riding just like I do, like they could join our crew without anyone skipping a beat. I know there are a lot of factors that go into what bike to buy and I know there are a lot of great brands and bikes out there, but Transition is pretty rad.
|Dave testing the CF Covert's manually capabilities
|Jarel giving her the flip-flop test
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Sharon Ann
"This is good, Mom," Colleen said after she read my first draft.
Lara agreed with her sister. "You should get it published."
Well, of course my daughters would praise my memoir. Not only were they interested in the story of our family, but they were particularly curious about their eccentric grandmother—a petite but fierce Irish woman they knew only as a successful artist.
But while I was working on my manuscript, publishing was the last thing on my mind. I was grieving. The loss of my mother, followed by the sudden and unexplained death of my sister, had impelled me to write about my childhood. I wanted to remember happiness.
I was surprised at how much I remembered: the smell of ozone from my brother's electric trains, the sound of our squeaky back door, the lawn daisies growing alongside our house. It was like watching an old movie, and all I had to do was write down what played in my mind.
However, what began as snippets of life during the innocent fifties began to transform into something else. Something so subtle, so insidious, it was hard to put my finger on what was wrong with this picture of my family.
"We were raised in a cult," was my brother Patrick's opinion. "Our mother would not want you to tell her secrets."
Meanwhile, fellow members of a writing workshop were encouraging me to publish. The facilitator of the group, herself a published author, felt sure that my book would get the attention of a literary agent.
And so began the process of querying agents—and any new writer will tell you what an emotional gauntlet that can be. I don't know what was worse: the instant rejections, or when an agent showed an interest by asking for sample chapters and proposals and synopses, ad infinitum… only to reject the manuscript with the pat explanation: "Not a good fit."
By then, I began to realize that I really did want my book published—despite my reluctance at sharing the secrets of what, I was beginning to understand, made my family dysfunctional, and perhaps contributed to my sister's accidental suicide.
The next step was to query the smaller publishing houses which did not require agent representation. But the result was always the same: My book was "not a good fit."
To hell with them, I thought. I'll self-publish.
Now, I hadn't given up on the hope that, one day, a mainstream agent would discover my memoir. I knew it was a good book. So when I shopped around for a self-publishing company, I made sure I had the option to cancel my contract and withdraw my book if an agent decided to pick it up.
Which is exactly what happened. After getting my memoir formatted for paper and e-books, and making it available in the virtual bookstores under the title Backwards, I was contacted by a reputable agent who wanted to represent me. "This is a beautiful memoir," she assured me. In addition, this particular agent represented another memoirist whose book was a recent bestseller! Woo-hoo! I couldn't believe my good luck!
But I had a problem. Not only had I already self-published, but after I ordered the first box of fifty books, meaning to peddle them to local bookstores, I realized there were many misprints and errors in the text. I had already contacted the so-called publishing house, who acknowledged the problem and offered to refund my money if I returned the faulty books.
What the publisher did not tell me was that they would re-distribute the used copies, and that my bookcover would remain on the virtual bookstore sites until all the paperbacks were sold. I considered buying them back, but whenever I checked Amazon, my book was priced between $800 and $1700!
Not only that, but when I Googled my name, Sharon Nobilio, I saw that I had completely lost control of the contents of my book. (One site quoted a line and referenced my name on a billboard in China!)
Apparently, while my book was going viral, Barnes & Noble occasionally offered sale prices, which is how my younger half-brother and a few native Irish cousins found my memoir and promptly disowned me for telling the truth about our family. But that's another story…
"I told you our mother wouldn't want you to tell her secrets," said brother Patrick.
"Don't worry," wrote my FB friends. "If it's a good book, an agent won't care if it had once been self-published."
When I confessed the unseemly publishing history of my memoir to the agent, she did not reply. In fact, I never heard from her again—which, by the way, is how the bigshot agents reject you.
The moral of this story, I suppose, is that if you are considering self-publishing, know what that entails. Once your book goes global, there is no turning back.
I believe indie authors are gaining a foothold in the market, and there are many fine self-published books out there. But unfortunately, self-published writers are still viewed as the illegitimate step-children of the literary world—which is kind of ironic in my case, since being an unwanted child is the theme of my memoir.
But because this unwanted child has a story to tell, I have, once again, self-published my memoir—after licking the wounds incurred by the ordeal of trying to get traditionally published.
The new title, The Will O' Wisp, is in reference to my mother's girlhood stories of the graveyards in Ireland. And my pen name, Sharon Ann, is in honor of my father, the forgotten figure of my childhood resurrected through the magic of writing.
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When I was little—you're going to laugh at this—I was brought downstairs during dinner parties at our family estate, Templeton [in Old Westbury, New York], and I was made to curtsy. I remember seeing these huge extravagant tables, and back then [1960s] entertaining was much more formal: The flowers were magnificent, and everyone was dressed so beautifully. I would come down, curtsy—and back up I went. Always in a smocked dress—I hated those dresses more than anything in life! All the other girls wore Florence Eiseman dresses.
My parents would do both formal dinners and informal lunches. I love big buffets, and that's something I learned from my mother. We would have a buffet for Sunday lunch and at Thanksgiving. Otherwise, there was always a first course of consommé, then a fish course, a meat course, salad, cheese, and then dessert. And my mother never used a florist in her life—the flowers always came straight from our gardens. There were ashtrays and cigarettes on all the tables; I don't smoke, but I still do that now. I think it's horrible when people have to get up to go smoke a cigarette. And when my mother entertained, she would have someone call all the female attendees and say, "Mrs. Guest is wearing a long dress." Or a short dress. People were informed. Andy Warhol, Reinaldo and Carolina Herrera, Oscar de la Renta, Yves Saint Laurent, and Lynn Wyatt were all frequent guests.
My mother didn't serve a thing herself, and she didn't know how to cook. We had wonderful people who worked for us and were so proud of what they did. Our butler taught me how to clean silver. And I loved being in the kitchen, helping set fires, learning how to set a table. My mother couldn't stand that I was in the kitchen, but it was my favorite place to be! And I now have my own catering company, so clearly it stuck.
Toward the end of my mother's life [C.Z. Guest died in 2003], I would take over the hostess duties. I had a house in Florida, and she would come down, and we would spend the winters together and have parties on Sunday nights. She used to laugh because I would wear a pair of sharkskin shorts, a T-shirt, and flip-flops. I still looked nice—it's not as though I were wearing cutoffs! I believe entertaining is from the heart. It's about people having fun. You want them to leave and say, "God, that was a magical evening."


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Hi all,
I am trying to wire a motor to go in reverse. It's a lathe—and you will tease me, but it's a harbor freight lathe. The 12 inch type, model 34706. This one: http://www.harborfreight.com/12-inch-x-33-3-8-eighth-inch-wood-lathe-with-reversible-head-34706.html#pr-header-back-to-top-link
I successfully wired my previous lathe to go in reverse when I flipped a "double-pole, double-throw switch." It was a smaller Dayton motor and it had a nice wiring diagram on the motor housing. Easy as can be.
This HF motor is not so nice. There is no wiring diagram or information plate of any kind on the motor housing (not even to tell me how many amps it's drawing, which I think is a safety concern. I emailed tech support but we'll see if they even bother to email me back!)
But let me cut to the chase: when I switch the wires that I normally would to reverse direction, the motor continues to run forward. I have tried every combination, except swapping out the upper wires for the lower ones (I'm not that expeditious so far).
Anyone have an idea of what gives? The only info I have on the motor is that it is a capacitor start (the cap is bulging out of the top), and it's the kind that has a switch or solenoid click on when it runs (I can hear the solenoid or whatever closing when the motor shuts off). The HF manual is, of course, not so helpful.
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As President Trump defends his means of preparedness for the historic summit with North Korea, the New York Times points out that he is doing so absent of a science adviser to the White House, or a senior counselor trained in nuclear physics.
Why it matters: The veteran negotiator is sticking to his trademark of running matters his own way as the Times details that he is "the first president since 1941 not to name a science adviser." And former nuclear negotiators caution that the lack of an adviser with such experience in the field "could put him at a tactical disadvantage in one of the weightiest diplomatic matters of his presidency."


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Tutorial: Introduction to SIMPLE IRAs
An explanation of what is a 'SIMPLE IRA Plan'
The savings incentive match plan for employees of small employers (SIMPLE) IRA plan was established under the Section 1421 of the Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996, Pub. L. 104-188 ("SBJPA"), effective for tax years beginning January 1, 1997. As this coincided with the date employers could no longer establish salary reduction SEP (SAR-SEP) plans, it is a common belief that SIMPLE IRAs replaced SAR-SEP plans. However, there is nothing in the tax code that confirms or denies that belief, and it could be just a coincidence. Additional guidance was later provided in the Technical corrections made by the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997, Pub. L. 105-34 ("TRA 97").
The SIMPLE IRA is one of the easiest plan to establish and administer, and as such has proven to be a growing favorite among small businesses. However, there are areas that are often overlooked, resulting in non-compliance and could cause disqualification of the plan.
SIMPLE IRA Defined
A SIMPLE IRA is an IRA based retirement plan that may be established by small business owners for the benefit of their employees. Business owners who meet the eligibility requirements are also able to participate in the plan.
The term 'IRA based' is used, because the funding vehicle for SIMPLE IRA contributions are IRAs. Once the SIMPLER IRA contributions are made to these accounts, they are subject to the traditional IRA rules with a few exceptions which include the following:
1. Distributions made before the participant reaches age 59 ½ are subject to a 25 % penalty, if the distribution is taken before the two-year period has been satisfied. After the two-year period, the penalty is 10 %. See the section on Distributions for details.
2. SIMPLE IRA assets cannot be rolled-over or transferred to another retirement plan, or converted to a Roth IRA unless the two-year period has been satisfied
In addition:
· Regular IRA contributions cannot be made to a SIMPLE IRA; this is unlike a SEP IRA to which traditional IRA contributions can be made. And
· Assets from other plans cannot be rolled over or transferred to a SIMPLE IRA, unless the assets are being rolled-over or transferred from another SIMPLE IRA.
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Mount Auburn Cemetery Birch Gardens
As the most recent addition to this 175-acre National Historic Landmark, Birch Gardens reclaims a narrow underutilized space along the east perimeter of the cemetery.
A 450-linear foot Canadian Mahogany granite wall, spaced with wrought iron panels, replaced a perimeter chain link fence to enclose an area and provide additional burial sites within a park setting. Set within the lush tree and shrub plantings of the new garden, free-standing granite benches were placed to overlook a granite inscription wall and a black granite reflecting pool. The new wrought iron fence was fabricated using a custom-made casting to match the historic, Egyptian revival gates at the entrance to the cemetery.
The project required working closely with designers and horticultural staff to ensure that the newly created gardens flourished in this very visible, public setting. Extensive tree and site protection measures were implemented to ensure that valuable trees were not impacted during construction. Custom blended planting soils were produced on site. Utilities were rerouted and/or rebuilt to accommodate the project and ensure long term reliability of the site infrastructure.
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The introduced case was confirmed on 29 August in a young man who had travelled to Dakar, by road, from Guinea, where he had had direct contact with an Ebola patient.
Senegal's response is a good example of what to do when faced with an imported case of Ebola. The government, under leadership of President Macky Sall and the Minister of Health Dr Awa Coll-Seck, reacted quickly to stop the disease from spreading.
The government's response plan included identifying and monitoring 74 close contacts of the patient, prompt testing of all suspected cases, stepped-up surveillance at the country's many entry points and nationwide public awareness campaigns.
WHO treated this case as a public health emergency and immediately dispatched a team of epidemiologists to work alongside staff from the Ministry of Health, and other partners, including Médecins sans Frontières and the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
On 5 September, laboratory samples from the patient tested negative, indicating that he had recovered from Ebola virus disease. He returned to Guinea on 18 September.
Senegal has maintained a high level of active "case finding" for 42 days – twice the maximum incubation period of Ebola virus disease – to detect possible unreported cases of infection.
While the outbreak is now officially over, Senegal's geographical position makes the country vulnerable to additional imported cases of Ebola virus disease. It continues to remain vigilant for any suspected cases by strict compliance with WHO guidelines.
- The outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Senegal is over
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ADHD—Homework Tips for Parents
ADHD—The Use and Abuse of Psychostimulant Medication: Tips for Parents and Teens
ADHD—Why Am I Having So Much Trouble With School?
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Alcohol and Your Child: What Parents Need to Know
ASDs Family Handout—Behavioral Challenges
ASDs Family Handout—Discussing the Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) With Your Child
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Bullying: It's Not OK
Child Sexual Abuse
Crying Child - 3 Months and Older
Dangers of Secondhand Smoke
Discipline and Your Child
Drug Abuse Prevention Starts with Parents
Eating Disorders: Anorexia and Bulimia
Everybody Gets Mad: Helping Your Child Cope with Conflict
Growing Independence: Tips for Parents of Young Children
Home Drug Testing: What Parents Need to Know
Inhalants: What You Need to Know
Is Your Toddler Communicating With You?
Learning Disabilities: What Parents Need to Know
Marijuana: What Parents Need to Know
Parenting Your Infant
Playing Is How Toddlers Learn
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Sibling Relationships
Sleep Problems in Children
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Teen Suicide, Mood Disorder, and Depression
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3 comments:
- Patricia Reed said...
lol! ... this one looks a little tipsy!
- January 11, 2014 at 4:02 PM
- Mary Nell said...
Most people would have discarded that mailbox before it got to this stage of life. Whoever owns it did, however, paint the flag so I suppose that's a good thing...symbolic of a facelift, I suppose.
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Overview: 5 Bedrooms + Loft, 3-1/2 Baths, and 2-Car Garage
Welcome to an immaculate, designer home in Alameda Landing! With over $150,000 in upgrades, every exceptional room and detail delivers.
Wood floors gleam in the open-concept kitchen, dining, and family rooms. Plantation shutters, painted accent walls, and crown molding style contemporary living spaces. Stylish baths implement high-end tile work, stone, and fixtures. For the culinary enthusiast, the swanky chef's kitchen features a Bertazzoni 6-burner range, stainless steel appliances, huge island with bar seating, granite counters, a Kohler apron sink, and a stunning metallic tile backsplash. What wonderful design! Plus, for brilliant indoor-outdoor living and entertaining, the interior flows through triple sliding glass doors onto a beautifully designed patio. More luxurious details…
- Retire to the great room wired for surround sound.
- Settle in for movie nights in the home theater with a 10-foot screen, ceiling mounted projector, and wired surround sound.
- Soak in the master suite with a towering 12-foot ceiling, huge walk-in closet, classic wainscoting, and a spa-like bath.
- Sink toes into plush carpeting in the first-floor deluxe en suite and upstairs bedrooms.
- Step out to the paver patio for lounging, barbecuing, and outdoor dining, where a bronze gas fire pit, artistic water feature, and horizontal-planked accent wall provide rich ambience.
- Utilize tech features such as Nest thermostats, dimmable LED lighting, Cat 6 network cabling, and electric car charging.
419 Carnevale, part of an urban village, boasts an ultra-convenient location. All right nearby are Alameda Landing shops & restaurants, the northern waterfront, the Main Street Ferry (to whisk you away to Oakland & San Francisco), a complimentary Alameda Express Shuttle to access the 12th St. BART station, Alameda Point's destination Spirit's Alley, the historic West End Business District, and all that Alameda has to offer.
With fabulous form and fantastic function, this home is truly a must-have!
Alameda was once a peninsula connected to the Oakland docks. In 1902, a canal was dredged to enable easier shipping access, and that turned Alameda into an island. A little off the beaten track, Alameda has a laid-back vibe all its own. Despite its 80,000 residents, there's still a small-town feeling in Alameda.
A 4th of July Parade, complete with horse-drawn carriages, embodies the small-town feel in Alameda, which has preserved much of its Victorian housing stock, cottages, and central, walkable shopping district along Park Street. The Alameda Theater on Park Street was restored to its art deco glory. Civic pride runs high here; formerly the Carnegie Library, the Alameda Free Library was transformed into a multimillion-dollar showplace that earned a Silver LEED certification. Kids play soccer on former parade grounds of the converted army barracks. Crown Memorial State Beach and Shoreline Drive attract wind surfers.
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06 Dec How to Choose the Best Personal Trainer for Your Needs: Part 1
Part 1 of a 3-part series:
We know how important it is to choose the right personal trainer. You'll be spending a LOT of time together and it's a big investment.
So how exactly do you choose the right trainer who will motivate and support you? Here are a few tips and some questions to ask:
1. They are certified. Of course, this is number one. The major certifying bodies for Personal Trainers are ACSM (American College of Sport Medicine), NASM (National Academy of Sports Medicine), ACE (American Council on Exercise), NSCA (National Strength & Conditioning Association). A certified trainer will have the minimum requirements to make sure you are working safely, and…
2. They should have a strong knowledge of anatomy. You might think this goes without saying, but unfortunately many certifications don't require that a trainer know more than just where the major muscles are. This can be a major problem because we use ALL of our muscles when we're working out, and if someone doesn't know how they all work together (and what happens if they don't), it can be a recipe for disaster. Strong anatomy knowledge = a stronger you!
3. They listen to you and understand your goals. This should actually take the #1 spot. A trainer who listens to what you need (and really takes the time to hear you) will be able to connect with what your goals are, and help you get there! A great question – if they don't do this already: "Could you repeat my goal back to me so I know you understand?"
4. They work with you on your goals, not theirs. A great personal trainer should ask you how you're feeling each and every time you work out, and then – keeping your overall goals in mind – base the workout on your answer…not on what they have planned for that day. Which brings us to: Part 2!


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On January 2, 2012, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, announced a final rule in the Federal Register that reduces the time some U.S. citizens are separated from their immediate relatives (spouse, children, and parents), who are in the process of obtaining a visa to become a lawful permanent resident ("green card holder").
Under current immigrant law, certain undocumented immigrants that are immediate relatives of U.S. citizens are not eligible to adjust their immigration status in the United States to become a lawful permanent resident, and must leave the U.S. to obtain an immigrant visa. The challenge facing these individuals, which has effectively kept many immediate relatives of U.S. citizens from adjusting their immigration status, is a three or ten year ban that immigration law imposes on certain individuals who leave the United States after having lived in the U.S. as undocumented immigrants. Under the new process, undocumented immigrants would be seeking a waiver to the ban before they leave the United States, so that they can pursue legal permanent residency in the U.S.
Beginning March 4, 2013, certain undocumented immigrants will be able to apply for a provisional "unlawful presence" waiver before they depart the United States to attend immigrant visa interviews in their countries of origin. More information about the filing process will be made available in the coming weeks at www.uscis.gov.
"This final rule facilitates the legal immigration process and reduces the amount of time that U.S. citizens are separated from their immediate relatives who are in the process of obtaining an immigrant visa," said Secretary Napolitano.
"The law is designed to avoid extreme hardship to U.S. citizens, which is precisely what this rule achieves," USCIS Director Mayorkas said. "The change will have a significant impact on American families by greatly reducing the time family members are separated from those they rely upon."


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Crossterm Input | cross-platform input reading .
This crate allows you to read the user input cross-platform. It supports all UNIX and windows terminals down to windows 7 (not all terminals are tested see Tested Terminals for more info)
This crate is a sub-crate of crossterm to read the user input and can be used individually.
Other sub-crates are:
When you want to use other modules as well you might want to use crossterm with feature flags.
Table of contents:
Getting Started
This documentation is only for
crossterm_input version
0.3 if you have an older version I suggest you check the Upgrade Manual. Also, check out the examples folders with detailed examples for all functionalities of this crate.
Add the
crossterm_input package to your
Cargo.toml file.
crossterm_input = "0.3"
Import the
crossterm_input modules you want to use.
extern crate crossterm_input;
pub use crossterm_input::{input, AsyncReader, InputEvent, KeyEvent, MouseButton, MouseEvent, SyncReader, TerminalInput};
Useful Links
These are the features of this crate:
- Cross-platform
- Multithreaded (send, sync)
- Detailed Documentation
- Few Dependencies
- Input
- Read character
- Read line
- Read key input events (async / sync)
- Read mouse input events (press, release, position, button)
- RawScreen (from
The examples folder has more complete and verbose examples.
Simple Readings
let mut input = input();
match input.read_char() {
Ok(s) => println!("char typed: {}", s),
Err(e) => println!("char error : {}", e),
match input.read_line() {
Ok(s) => println!("string typed: {}", s),
Err(e) => println!("error: {}", e),
Read input events synchronously or asynchronously.
// make sure to enable raw mode, this will make sure key events won't be handled by the terminal it's self and allows crossterm to read the input and pass it back to you.
let screen = RawScreen::into_raw_mode();
let mut input = input();
// either read the input synchronously
let stdin = input.read_sync();
// or asynchronously
let stdin = input.read_async();
if let Some(key_event) = stdin.next() {
match key_event {
InputEvent::Keyboard(event: KeyEvent) => match event { /* check key event */ }
InputEvent::Mouse(event: MouseEvent) => match event { /* check mouse event */ }
Enable mouse input events.
let input = input();
// enable mouse events to be captured.
// disable mouse events to be captured.
Tested terminals
- Windows Powershell
- Windows 10 (pro)
- Windows CMD
- Windows 10 (pro)
- Windows 8.1 (N)
- Ubuntu Desktop Terminal
- Ubuntu 17.10
- (Arch, Manjaro) KDE Konsole
- Linux Mint
This crate supports all Unix terminals and windows terminals down to Windows 7 but not all of them have been tested. If you have used this library for a terminal other than the above list without issues feel free to add it to the above list, I really would appreciate it.
- Timon Post - Project Owner & creator
- Dave Ho - Contributor
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details