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I LOVE cupcakes!!!!!! I really love any type of cake, but there is something about a cupcake, it's just so cute and really never disappoints.
I adapted this recipe from www.skinnytaste.com if you haven't checked this site out do so ASAP. There are tons of great things to try!!
I ended up combining two of the recipes to create what I believe to be "The Perfect "skinny" Pumpkin Cupcake" yea that's right the title of this badboy has the words skinny, cupcake, and pumpkin (yep I just blew your mind).
Cupcake Ingredients:
* 18.25 oz Betty Crocker Spice Cake Mix
* 2 tsp pumpkin pie spice
* 1 can 100% pure pumpkin
* 1.4 oz sugar free, fat free, instant cheesecake pudding
* 1/2 cup water
Pumpkin Frosting Ingredients:
* 1 container fat free cool whip
* 1.4 oz instant pumpkin pudding (this is a seasonal item, if not found I would use a vanilla pudding mix (can be sugar free, fat free) and would add pumpkin pie spice to taste)
* 1 cup Skim Milk
Directions for Cupcakes:
Preheat oven to 350°. Line a cupcake tin with cupcake wrappers. (Recipe makes 24 cupcakes)
Combine cake mix and pumpkin spice in a large bowl.
Add pumpkin puree, pudding mix and water, mix about 2 minutes.
Fill cupcake liners 2/3 full and bake about 20 – 25 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
Directions for Pumpkin Frosting:
Combine milk and pudding mix into a bowl and beat for two minutes with a wire whisk set pudding mixture in the refrigerator for 5 mins.
Take the mixture out of the refrigerator and fold the Cool Whip into the pudding mixture until its nice a smooth.
Frost cupcakes when cupcakes are completely cool.
This recipe makes 24 cupcakes and are 3 ww points plus each.
These cupcakes should be kept in the fridge due to the frosting components.


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Tuesday, September 30, 2014
It's that time of year-----
Fall is here and that means those pesky leaves-- here is a nice little helper to keep your sidewalks and drive way clear of leaves and stuff--check it out.
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Monday, September 15, 2014
Hub Sockets-- Clearance-- Great Deal
If you do auto work or know anyone who does let them know about these-- we have put all these hub sockets on clearance, we will no longer carry them-- all of them are well below cost-- don't miss this deal if you know someone who can use them. Check them all out here. Don't forget to check out the clearance section for more great deals on more auto tools.
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20 volt Black and Decker Pivot Vac
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Black & Decker New Flex Vac
Look at this-- B&D has added an extension pole to their flex vac system-- how cool-- now you can grab this little guy for fast pickups and don't have to hunch over to get the mess-- keep in mind this is for additional use with the regular vacuum cleaner not a replacement. More images if you click on the link.
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DeWalt Air Drill-- check it out
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Art Project #31: Washi Tape Votive Holders
Often I buy supplies because of a project we saw that I liked... and just as often by the time I get around to buying the supplies I can't remember what project I saw that I wanted to try out!
So this weekend I went and purchased some tiny, square, glass vases from Michael's craft store. They came in a kit of three and I thought that would be perfect; one for each boy!
The boys were so excited to start this quick and easy art project but immediately told me that they wanted to keep them for themselves. I told them that their craft project was theirs to keep or give away; it's always up to them.
They started by wrapping the tape up, down and around the sides of their vase. They used scissors to cut the tape when they needed and made sure to go back over all the tape pressing down to make sure all the bubbles were gone.
Project 3: Star Wars Crafts
Project 4: Watercolor compass circles
Project 5: Floral pens
Project 6: Watercolor outlines
Project 7: Scratch art jellyfish
Project 9: Fingerprint dandelions
Project 10: Beaded Sun Catchers
Project 11: Bird crafts and snacks
Project 12: Symmetrical, color mixing, butterflies
Project 22: Qixel art kit
Project 24: Wood burning cutting board


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Yanez told investigators the next day that he believed he saw Castile pulling out a gun. Five of Yanez's bullets struck the 32-year-old black man and he was pronounced dead at Hennepin County Medical Center.
In a blurry black-and-white video taken of Diamond Reynolds and her 4-year-old daughter as they sit in the back of a squad vehicle shortly after the fatal shooting of Philando Castile, the young girl hugs her mom and pleads with her not to yell or try and take off her handcuffs. Reynolds tells her. "When they come, OK, tell them you wish that they didn't have to kill people".
Muddying the incident even further is a transcript of an interview the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension conducted with Yanez following the shooting.
While jurors heard quite a bit about the interview, prosecutors waited until cross-examining Yanez before they tried to introduce the full audio. I told him to get his hand out!'
After the shooting, the video shows Yanez standing at the auto window, breathing heavily and cursing repeatedly, with his gun drawn for some time. I don't know what that jury heard and saw from the witnesses and attorneys. I smelled burnt marijuana.
And if smoking in front of children makes one a cold-blooded killer, well, then we here at Blavity have seen hundreds of killers roaming free on the streets. Does he really believe that a person who smokes in front of their child in a auto would have the propensity to kill a police officer? Prosecutors contended that the officer never saw the gun because it remained in Castile's pocket until paramedics removed him from his vehicle. "Rip him meaning steal from him".
In Minnesota, possession of 42.5 grams or less (1.48 ounces) of marijuana is a misdemeanor with a $200 maximum fine. He was found not guilty of manslaughter and other charges in the death of Castile, a black motorist who was shot seconds after he told Yanez he had a gun. According to Tom, Yanez's actions were over the top for the situation that he was in.
"As he was pulling at, out his hand, I thought, I was gonna die".
"I can keep you safe", the girl said.
The problems with this statement are evident to most thinking and responsible adults, but let me break this down into three parts so everyone understands the ridiculousness of his comments and why a person like this should not be in law enforcement.
"Do you have your license and insurance?" he asks Mr Castille.
"But you didn't say anything about the marijuana?" investigators asked. "I don't want it to be like this anymore", the girl says.
"If the officer would've exercised more caution, it may not have escalated as fast", he said. The video was presented to a jury during Yanez's trial. In his wallet, Castile also had a gun permit. He might be the robber.
The video came from a camera in the squad auto of Officer Jeronimo Yanez.
In the dash-cam video, Yanez can be seen approaching the auto. And it showed Yanez repeatedly firing into the vehicle for reasons that are not clear on the tape. Police delivered evidence at trial of 6 grams of weed inside a plastic baggie tucked in a jar with the lid off on Reynolds' seat.
Yanez testified that Castile ignored his commands not to pull out the gun. Police arrested eighteen people.
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AMSR-E/Aqua L2B Surface Soil Moisture, Ancillary Parms, & QC EASE-Grids, Version 2
This Level-2B land surface product (AE_Land) includes daily measurements of surface soil moisture, vegetation/roughness water content interpretive information, and quality control variables. Ancillary data include time, geolocation, and quality assessment.
This is the most recent version of these data.
See https://nsidc.org/data/amsre/data_versions/index.html
COMPREHENSIVE Level of Service
Data: Data integrity and usability verified; data customization services available for select data
Documentation: Key metadata and comprehensive user guide available
User Support: Assistance with data access and usage; guidance on use of data in tools and data customization services
Geographic Coverage
Other Access OptionsClose
Once you have logged in, you will be able to click and download files via a Web browser. There are also options for downloading via a command line or client. For more detailed instructions, please see Options Available for Bulk Downloading Data from HTTPS with Earthdata Login.
Earthdata Search: This application allows you to search, visualize, and access data across thousands of Earth science data sets. Additional customization services are available for select data sets, including subsetting, reformatting, and reprojection.
As a condition of using these data, you must cite the use of this data set using the following citation. For more information, see our Use and Copyright Web page.Njoku, E. G. 2004. AMSR-E/Aqua L2B Surface Soil Moisture, Ancillary Parms, & QC EASE-Grids, Version 2. [Indicate subset used]. Boulder, Colorado USA. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. doi: https://doi.org/10.5067/AMSR-E/AE_LAND.002. [Date Accessed].
Detailed Data Description
Level-2B soil moisture data are unique to AMSR-E products. It consists of point data in Hierarchical Data Format - Earth Observing System (HDF-EOS) format where the resulting grid is in a table format rather than a grid that image processing programs can easily visualize. Files contain core metadata, product-specific attributes, and data fields. The data fields are summarized in Table 1. Table 1 uses the following notations to describe the data types:
|64-bit (8-byte) floating-point integer
|32-bit (4-byte) floating-point integer
|16-bit (2-byte) signed integer
Note: The number of records per granule depends on the number of gridded points over land.
Field Name
Data Type
Fill Value
|Scan start time in International Atomic Time in seconds with 01 January 1993 00:00:00 as the zero base (TAI93).
|Latitude (-90.0 to 90.0)
|99 / 98
|Longitude (-180.0 to 180.0)
|999 / 998
|EASE-Grid row index (1-586)
|EASE-Grid column index (0-1382)
Brightness temperature (Tb) quality control flag. A non-zero value indicates a given channel is out of limits for a given pixel as the following values indicate. These values indicate the first bad channel detected, though more than one channel may be bad.
|As part of the Level-2B processing, a heterogeneity index is computed as the standard deviation of the 36.5H GHz, 11 km resolution data points within each 25 km EASE-Grid cell. The index is used as an output data quality flag. A value of -9999 implies bad Tb data in any channel (TB_QC_Flag).
|Multiply data values by 0.01 to obtain units in Kelvins (K).
|Indicates surface type classification.
|Soil moisture at 10.7 GHz resolution. A value of -9999 indicates no retrieval due to bad Tbdata in the retrieval channels (TB_QC_Flag), or screening by land surface classification (Inversion_QC_Flag_1).
|Multiply data values by 0.001 to obtain soil moisture in g cm-3. Range: 0 to 500.
|Vegetation and surface roughness parameter at 10.7 GHz resolution. This term incorporates effects of vegetation and surface roughness together. See the Derivation Techniques and Algorithms section of this document. A value of -9999 indicates no retrieval.
|Multiply data values by 0.01 to obtain vegetation water content in kg m-2. Range: 0-1000.
|Land surface temperature is not calculated because of Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) contamination in the 6.9 GHz channels. The field contains only fill values (-9999).
|Multiple data values by 0.1 to obtain land surface temperature.
|Inversion quality control flag. Values are as follows:
10: Good retrieval using empirical algorithm
12: Bad retrieval using empirical algorithm
14: No retrieval
20: Good retrieval using iterative algorithm
22: Questionable retrieval using iterative algorithm
24: Bad retrieval using iterative algorithm
26: No retrieval
|Not currently used.
|Not currently used.
Sample Data Record
Figure 1 and Figure 2 are an example of the data fields for Level-2B soil moisture data.
This section explains the file naming convention used for this product with an example. The date and time correspond to the first scan of the granule.
Example file name: AMSR_E_L2_Land_T06_200706062353_D.hdf
Refer to Table 2 for the valid values for the file name variables listed above.
|Product Maturity Code (Refer to Table 3 for valid values.)
|file version number
|four-digit year
|two-digit month
|two-digit day
|hour, listed in UTC time, of first scan in the file
|minute, listed in UTC time, of first scan in the file
|orbit direction flag (A = ascending, D = descending)
|HDF-EOS data format
Product Maturity Code
|Preliminary - refers to non-standard, near-real-time data available from NSIDC. These data are only available for a limited time until the corresponding standard product is ingested at NSIDC.
|Beta - indicates a developing algorithm with updates anticipated.
|Transistional - period between beta and validated where the product is past the beta stage, but not quite ready for validation. This is where the algorithm matures and stabilizes.
|Validated - products are upgraded to Validated once the algorithm is verified by the algorithm team and validated by the validation teams. Validated products have an associated validation stage. Refer to Table 4 for a description of the stages.
Validation Stage
Stage 1
|Product accuracy is estimated using a small number of independent measurements obtained from selected locations, time periods, and ground-truth/field program efforts.
Stage 2
|Product accuracy is assessed over a widely distributed set of locations and time periods via several ground-truth and validation efforts.
Stage 3
|Product accuracy is assessed, and the uncertainties in the product are well-established via independent measurements made in a systematic and statistically robust way that represents global conditions.
Table 5 provides examples of file name extensions for related files that further describe or supplement data files.
|Extensions for Related Files
|Browse data
|Quality assurance information
|Product history data
|Metadata files
Each half-orbit granule is on the average 0.61 MB. The actual size depends on the number of gridded points over land.
Spatial Coverage Map
The following map shows a typical day of coverage with 28 half-orbits.
Coverage is global between 89.24°N and 89.24°S, except for snow-covered and densely-vegetated areas. See AMSR-E Pole Hole for a description of holes that occur at the North and South Poles. The swath width is 1445 km.
Spatial Resolution
Input brightness temperature data at 10.7 GHz, corresponding to a 38 km mean spatial resolution, are resampled to a global cylindrical 25 km EASE-Grid cell spacing. The effective spatial resolution is thus slightly higher than the inherent 38 km resolution.
Input brightness temperature data at 10.7 GHz, corresponding to a 38 km mean spatial resolution, are resampled to a global cylindrical 25 km EASE-Grid cell spacing. The effective spatial resolution is thus slightly higher than the inherent 38 km resolution.
Grid Description
Level-2A brightness temperatures are resampled to a global cylindrical EASE-Grid (1383 columns by 586 rows) with a nominal grid spacing of 25 km (true at 30°S). Level-2B data are unique to AMSR-E products. They consist of HDF-EOS point data where the resulting grid is in table format, rather than a grid that image processing programs can easily visualize. In the case of the Level-2B soil data, each geophysical variable value has a corresponding EASE-Grid row and column index.
Please refer to All About EASE-Grid for more information on related products and tools.
Temporal coverage is from 19 June 2002 to 3 October 2011. See AMSR-E Data Versions for a summary of temporal coverage for different AMSR-E products and algorithms.
Temporal Resolution
Each swath spans approximately 50 minutes. The data sampling interval is 2.6 msec per sample for the 6.9 GHz to 36.5 GHz channels, and 1.3 msec for the 89.0 GHz channel. A full scan takes approximately 1.5 seconds. AMSR-E collects 243 data points per scan for the 6.9 GHz to 36.5 GHz channels, and 486 data points for the 89.0 GHz channel.
The number of satellite passes per day is a function of latitude as shown in AMSR-E Observation Times.
Surface soil moisture (g cm-3): soil moisture in the top ~1 centimeters of soil, averaged over the retrieval footprint
Vegetation water content (kg m-2): equivalent water content (including surface roughness) in the vertical column of vegetation, averaged over the retrieval footprint
The following are the estimated accuracy of the output variables:
- Surface soil moisture: 0.06 g cm-3
- Vegetation/roughness parameter: 0.15 kg m-2
Software and Tools
For tools that work with AMSR-E data, see the Tools for AMSR-E Data Web page.
For general tools that work with HDF-EOS data, refer to the NSIDC: Hierarchical Data Format - Earth Observing System (HDF-EOS) Web site.
Data Acquisition and Processing
AMSR-E/Aqua L2A Global Swath Spatially-Resampled Brightness Temperatures (Tb) are used as input to calculating soil moisture variables. Static input databases are used for surface classification and to identify valid grid points for retrieval.
Surface topography data are derived from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) GTOPO30 global digital elevation model. Horizontal grid spacing is 30 arc seconds. Preprocessing of these data enables screening out points over ocean, mountains, and areas where the topographic variability within a grid cell is likely to degrade geophysical retrievals.
Sand and clay fraction are derived from a 1 degree x 1 degree latitude/longitude global soil type database that estimates soil dielectric properties as a function of soil moisture content.
A mask of permanent ice and snow is used to screen out these areas over land.
Vegetation type is derived from the USGS 1 km global land cover characteristics database. These data estimate the dependence of vegetation type on the model coefficient that relates vegetation water content to vegetation opacity.
Finally, precipitable water and surface air temperature are derived from National Center for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) or European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) global reanalysis climatologies, or from real-time forecast model outputs. These data are used for estimating atmospheric contributions in the geophysical retrieval algorithm (Njoku 1999).
The soil moisture algorithm uses Polarization Ratios (PR), which are sometimes called normalized polarization differences of the AMSR-E channel brightness temperatures. PR is the difference between the vertical and horizontal brightness temperatures at a given frequency divided by their sum. This effectively eliminates or reduces surface temperature effects, which is necessary since no dynamic ancillary surface temperature data are input to the algorithm. The algorithm first computes a vegetation/roughness parameter g using PR 10.7 GHz and PR 18.7 GHz, plus three empirical coefficients. Soil moisture is then computed using departures of PR 10.7 GHz from a baseline value, plus four additional coefficients. The baseline values for PR 10.7 GHz are based on monthly minima at each grid cell over an annual cycle.
The vegetation/roughness parameter g incorporates effects of vegetation and roughness together, because both have the same functional form (exponential) in their influence on the normalized polarization differences in the simplified model used in the retrieval algorithm. The parameter g may be interpreted as an equivalent vegetation water content with units of kg m-2. In a desert with no vegetation, any value of g greater than zero is due to roughness only. The value of g reflects the influence of roughness on the polarization ratio as if equivalent vegetation of amount g (kg m-2) were present. If the surface were smooth everywhere, then g would equal the vegetation water content in kg m-2 since the roughness contribution would be zero. Vegetation water content and roughness cannot be determined independently from g, and it is computed primarily as a lumped correction factor for the soil moisture retrieval (Njoku and Chan 2006).
Refer to Njoku et al. (2004) for an assessment of calibration biases over land, and methods used to correct these biases.
Processing Steps
AMSR-E/Aqua L2A Global Swath Spatially-Resampled Brightness Temperatures are resampled to the EASE-Grid using a drop-in-the-bucket method, where all the samples that fall within a grid cell are averaged together. Gridding the data allows brightness temperatures to be combined with ancillary data for classification and retrieval, and allows statistics of brightness temperatures and retrieved variables to be calculated at fixed grid locations from successive orbits.
Surface type classification of gridded brightness temperature identifies and screens grid cells that include major water bodies, dense vegetation, snow, and permanent ice, for which retrievals will not be possible. Other tests are performed, such as for excessive relief, precipitation, frozen ground, and Radio Frequency Interference. However, since the reliability of these tests, as well as their influence on the retrievals, is not well characterized, detection of these conditions does not prevent retrievals from being made and values being written into the output array. The user must decide whether to do further screening on the data based on the surface type flags.
The Surface_Type field in the Level-2B land surface product is a 16-bit integer in which nine possible surface classes are represented by nine individual bits. A bit is assigned with a value of one if the surface class that the bit represents is flagged by the classification subroutine. The sequence begins with the least significant bit, for example, the rightmost bit, in order to keep the resulting word small in decimal values.
16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
bit 1: Permanent ice sheet
bit 2: Mountainous terrain
bit 3: Snow
bit 4: Frozen ground
bit 5: Precipitation
bit 6: RFI
bit 7: Dense vegetation
bit 8: Moderate vegetation
bit 9: Low vegetation
Surface_Type = (bit 1 * 20) + (bit 2 * 21) + (bit 3 * 22) + (bit 4 * 23) + (bit 5 * 24) + (bit 6 * 25) + (bit 7 * 26) + (bit 8 * 27) + (bit 9 * 28)
For example, if the tests for mountainous terrain, snow, and precipitation were all true and the other tests were all false, the value of Surface_Type would be 0000000000010110 binary, or 22 decimal.
Finally, Level-2B data are output to HDF-EOS data format. The number of records per granule depends on the number of gridded points over land.
Version History
See AMSR-E Data Versions for a summary of algorithm changes since the start of mission.
Error Sources
AMSR-E measurements of soil moisture are directly sensitive only to the top 1 cm of soil averaged over approximately 60 km spatial extent. Significant uncertainty may therefore arise when these measurements are compared against point-derived in-situ data, due to differences in sampling depth and spatial extent between satellite and in-situ observations.
Measurements of soil moisture are most accurate in areas of low vegetation. Attenuation from vegetation increases the retrieval error in soil moisture (Njoku et al. 2003). Surface type classification is assigned to indicate low and moderate vegetation, and retrievals are not performed in dense vegetation.
The retrieval algorithm does not explicitly model effects of topography, snow cover, clouds, and precipitation. Other potential error sources include anomalous inputs from bad radiometric data and low-level processing errors. The processing algorithm includes checks to identify these and other anomalies and assign appropriate flags (Njoku 1999).
Soil moisture retrievals represent averages over the horizontal footprint area and vertical sampling depth in the top ~1 cm of soil. The actual sampling depth varies with the amount of moisture in the soil. Soil moisture deeper than ~1 cm below the surface may not be sensed by AMSR-E.
The 6.9 GHz channel is shared with mobile communication services; therefore, retrievals using this frequency are subject to Radio Frequency Interference (RFI), particularly near large urban land areas. The soil moisture algorithm uses the 10.7 GHz channel to alleviate the RFI problem. For more information, see the Derivation Techniques and Algorithms section of this document.
Refer to Njoku et al. (2004) for an assessment of calibration biases over land, and methods used to correct these biases.
Quality Assessment
Each HDF-EOS file contains core metadata with Quality Assessment (QA) metadata flags that are set by the Science Investigator-led Processing System (SIPS) at the Global Hydrology and Climate Center (GHCC) prior to delivery to NSIDC. A separate metadata file in XML format is also delivered to NSIDC with the HDF-EOS file; it contains the same information as the core metadata. Three levels of QA are conducted with the AMSR-E Level-2 and -3 products: automatic, operational, and science QA. If a product does not fail QA, it is ready to be used for higher-level-processing, browse generation, active science QA, archive, and distribution. If a granule fails QA, SIPS does not send the granule to NSIDC until it is reprocessed. Level-3 products that fail QA are never delivered to NSIDC (Conway 2002).
Automatic QA
Surface type classification screens out invalid grid cells, including major water bodies, permanent ice, dense vegetation, and snow.
Quality control is monitored by convergence or limit checks in the retrieval algorithms. In off-line QC, global fields of soil water content, vegetation water content, and brightness temperature are created by averaging the output Level-2 products onto daily and/or monthly grids. The number of samples, means, and standard deviations are examined for missing data and spatial and temporal coherence.
Operational QA
AMSR-E Level-2A data arriving at GHCC are subject to operational QA prior to processing higher-Level-products. Operational QA varies by product, but it typically checks for the following criteria in a given file (Conway 2002):
- File is correctly named and sized
- File contains all expected elements
- File is in the expected format
- Required EOS fields of Time, Latitude, and Longitude are present and populated
- Structural metadata is correct and complete
- The file is not a duplicate
- The HDF-EOS version number is provided in the global attributes
- The correct number of input files were available and processed
Science QA
AMSR-E Level-2A data arriving at GHCC are also subject to science QA prior to processing higher-Level-products. If less than 50 percent of a granule's data is good, the science QA flag is marked suspect when the granule is delivered to NSIDC. In the SIPS environment, the science QA includes checking the maximum and minimum variable values, and percent of missing data and out-of-bounds data per variable value. At the Science Computing Facility (SCF), also at GHCC, science QA involves reviewing the operational QA files, generating browse images, and performing the following additional automated QA procedures (Conway 2002):
- Historical data comparisons
- Detection of errors in geolocation
- Verification of calibration data
- Trends in calibration data
- Detection of large scatter among data points that should be consistent
Geolocation errors are corrected during Level-2A processing to prevent processing anomalies such as extended execution times and large percentages of out-of-bounds data in the products derived from Level-2A data.
The Team Lead SIPS (TLSIPS) developed tools for use at SIPS and SCF for inspecting the data granules. These tools generate a QA browse image in Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format and a QA summary report in text format for each data granule. Each browse file shows Level-2A and Level-2B data. These are forwarded from Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) to GHCC along with associated granule information, where they are converted to HDF raster images prior to delivery to NSIDC.
Please refer to AMSR-E Validation Data for information about data used to check the accuracy and precision of AMSR-E observations.
References and Related Publications
Contacts and Acknowledgments
Investigator(s) Name and Title
Eni G. Njoku
NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
Technical Contact
NSIDC User Services
National Snow and Ice Data Center
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0449 USA
phone: +1 303.492.6199
fax: +1 303.492.2468
form: Contact NSIDC User Services
e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Document Information
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October 2007


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Wordpress owner Automattic has been quietly raging against some of the more creative abuses of the DMCA takedown procedures and general attempts to control the internet, maintaining a "Hall of Shame" tag on its official blog to out some of the worst attempts to get it to remove content.
One I've been on the end of is featured, too. Portakabin really hates it when people use the brand name Portakabin to refer to any old prefabricated building, so much so that it sends out emails to authors asking them to edit copy and remove the word Portakabin should the writer have actually been talking about a non-branded rival moveable shed. Imagine that being your job.
The Wordpress maker, back in 2014, outlined a case where Portakabin had seemingly bullied a blogger into deleting their entire site with a legally threatening email, then asked Wordpress' bosses to have even the offending URL and holding page deleted -- because the URL and its use of the word "portacabin" was deemed a breach of a trademark.
Wordpress said no, which is nice of it. Other entries under the Hall of Shame tag archive include one where Subaru claimed trademark infringement and cybersquatting because someone entered one of its own competitions and talked about the brand, the case of a copyright holder who received an automated takedown request for his own content, and a request by Janet Jackson's people to have that famous wardrobe malfunction photo removed from the internet for about the 1,000,000th time. [Hall of Shame]
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I had a lunch date with a male who was not my husband and I thoroughly enjoyed myself! We talked and ate for almost 2 hours… and he was nice enough to not even bring his DS to the table. In case you still can't figure it out, Jay and I went to lunch together … just him and I!
Gracie's social calendar was full yesterday. She had a pedicure party in the morning and then a play date with a different friend in the afternoon. Grace is the exact opposite of Jay, she is my social butterfly. She can flit around from group to group and fit right in. I think this is a great trait and by all means want to encourage her to be social, however, it often makes me sad to see her so popular and Jay not as much. Don't get me wrong, Jay does have friends. Honestly whether or not he has a play date does not bother him. He is perfectly happy to just sit home on a Saturday afternoon by himself reading a book or playing a video game. It bothers me way more than it bothers him. Maybe that is why I felt the need to do something special with him. Oh who am I kidding… he is a neat kid and I just like spending time with him.
I told Jay to get dressed because after we dropped off Grace we were going to have lunch together just him and I. You should have seen his face. He was so excited. He practically came dancing down the stairs in his favorite pair of sweatpants (yes sweatpants… so much for the fall of captain sweatpants )
I had expected Jay to say he wanted to go to McDonald's or some other very familiar place. But my boy surprised the heck out of me when he announced that he wanted to try the new Japanese Hibachi restaurant. "Mom they cook at your table… how cool is that?" I didn't argue with him because it is cool. Besides as soon as he said it my mouth started watering just imagining shrimp and fried rice.
Hibachi restaurants and Autistic/sensory kids… you would think not a good combo. To begin with, you sit at a table with a bunch of strangers who loudly clap and cheer as a man with a funny looking hat throws around sharp knives and cooks food on a large and very hot grill in front of you. There is FIRE and SMOKE, lots and lots of it. The food is cooked TOGETHER and you watch it being seasoned with… GASP, SEASONING! Even with all this noise and sensory overloading ambiance… Jay was okay. No he was more than okay, he was beyond happy. In fact the little old couple sitting across from us I think enjoyed watching Jay flapping and twitching in excitement more than they did watching the chef.
Speaking of the Chef… I have to say this man was great. He was so kind and patient and answered every question, I do mean EVERY QUESTION, he asked. Thankfully the place was not busy so we got a lot of attention. For 10 minutes he sat there flipping steak into the air until finally Jay caught one in his mouth! I never thought that a seal circus trick would make me so proud but it did. Jay tried new foods, he didn't complain when his food on his plate touched and he spoke with an indoor voice. I know my husband will hate me saying this, but I do believe it was by far the best date I have had in a very long time!


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Dear avid TVHE readers,
We've finally set up our own hosting and have a new site at www.tvhe.co.nz, if you could be so kind as to set your links/bookmarks/feeds to the new web address it would be much appreciated!
We have lots of exciting things planned for the blog in the future (including some new commentators and some tax calculators for you to play with!), we look forward to seeing you there:)
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IQ and Voting: 2004 US election
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Update: Thanks to the journalistic skills of Kimble and StephenR we know this chart is a hoax, it has however sparked some amusing comments on the IQ/party matches for NZ:)
While procrastinating doing work on the weekend I found this little stunner
Would be interesting to see a similar exercise for the 08 election
A few weeks ago a fellow named Jeffrey Doyle posted a "history of economic thought" type comment/post on the blog, which can be found here.
Beyond this he also added one additional criticism of "neo-classical economics" – the focus on "monetary flows" instead of energy. Of course, as a criticism of economic science this is a misnomer – economic science is the study of scarcity, and "monetary flows" are merely a convientent way of representing this scarcity. Using energy as a representation should – if the models are sufficiently specified – provide the same results. Now, in when applying models there may be substantial differences, given what is implicitly assumed to be useful or not in different models – while this argument is important for application it is not something I can argue about, as I do not have the scarce intellectual talent to go around and apply a new set of assumptions to an underlying framework of scarcity.
However, my impression is that Dr Doyle is not criticising the individualistic methodological process in economics – he is attacking the "economic unit" used when we study scarcity, something that is constantly occurring and is a healthy part of any discipline.
Deposit Insurance Crackdown
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However much I was looking forward to launching my own incredibly risky finance company, I'm glad that the RBNZ and Treasury have tidied up what was a terrible decision by the government to extend deposit protection to finance companies at no charge.
Details here (ht: Migeul Sanchez). News coverage here
I particularly like the quote in the stuff article from an anonymous commentator
"The two-year deposit guarantee announced by the Government on Sunday was a "free lunch for [finance company] gluttons"
While I prefer the term economic opportunist to glutton:) I thin it sums up the situation before the rule change quite nicely.
Now that I think about it, 3% off the 30% return I'm promising may not actually be that bad given how risky our investments will be, we just need to work out how to get a BBB- credit rating….
This video was doing the rounds amongst the investment bankers/consultants a while a go. I must say it's hilarious. However I'm sure the management consultants that this video mocks are feeling slightly more secure about their jobs at the moment.
note: Youtube is blocked at work so I have no idea if my first attempt at posting a video has been successful:)
I wouldn't go as far as saying being an economist is a recession proof career. But at the moment I would say "damn it feels good to be an economist" relative to being an investment banker. If I had any rapping/video editing skills I might try and make a reply video. It would definitely have Matt Nolan as the front man, given he is such a pimp:)
p.s. Obviously economists can't be trusted with youtube at work. I think it's fair enough, I definitely suffer form bounded will power:)
SNL: Reliable investments
Posted October 7, 2008on:
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Brilliant video, I love that Alec Baldwin has reinvented himself as a comedian:)
That is the topic of my Dom Post article this week.


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For the first time in the series, MLB 10: The Show lets you experience baseball through the eyes of the guy in the catcher mask. The all new Catcher mode allows you to call pitches from the backstop and control the game just like Minnesota Twins catcher Joe Mauer, the cover athlete for this edition. Homerun Derby also makes a return to the series as both a standalone mode and as an experience during the All-Star Break. Not to be forgotten is the Movie Maker mode which allows you to combine saved replays of a game to turn into a highlight reel and save to your hard drive, and also the updated Road to the Show 4.0 with new settings and stat features.
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Terry Barlow (connector extraordinaire) and Wendy Claunch were privileged to be the guests of Shak Hill and the Allstate Foundation at the 19th Annual Knock Out Abuse Gala. A fabulous event that brought over 700 women together to benefit victims of domestic violence, we were excited to share DASH with several inspiring women including co-founder, Jill Sorenson. Thank you, Shak (www.AllstateAgencies.com/Shak) for your support of DASH and for the invitation to a night we won't forget!
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Babylon 5 is noted for its structure. The series is arranged like a series of books, with each season having its own name (Signs and Portents, The Coming of Shadows, Point of No Return, No Surrender, No Retreat and The Wheel of Fire), title sequence and musical score. Each season acts as a movement in the traditional five-act structure of a story: introduction, rising action, climax, resolution, aftermath. This gives the entire series a sense of tremendous narrative momentum. Creator/showrunner/head writer Joe Michael Straczynski also layered a number of mysteries into the backstory of the series, giving fans something to discuss and theorise about online (B5 was easily the first show to make significant use of the Internet in building its fan community). However, he also explained and resolved these mysteries long before the end of the show, avoiding the problem of overloading the series resolution with too many elements to support (and in doing so avoided the pitfalls which made the endings to later serialised shows like Lost and Battlestar Galactica so problematic).
The show is also notable for its case of extremely well-drawn characters, all of whom have significant backstories, and how they evolve over the course of the series. Babylon 5 was very much the TV equivalent of A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones in that regard (and, interestingly, Straczynski namechecks George R.R. Martin as an inspiration in an article for Foundation magazine in early 1995, though this was for his earlier work as A Game of Thrones didn't come out until Babylon 5's third season was already over), though Straczynski was moderately less ruthless with his characters. The casting was excellent, and in particular gave long-standing Hollywood supporting actors like Peter Jurasik and Andreas Katsulas some meaty, solid roles to get their teeth into. The show was also praised for its still-impressive (if rather low-res by today's standards) CGI graphics, which allowed the show to have the most visually impressive space battles since the Star Wars trilogy on a tiny budget.
In terms of overall quality, Babylon 5 was conceptually bold and, at its best, was complex and satisfying, with multiple character arcs interweaving around one another and the main storylines of the series in a manner that was occasionally awesome. This was all accomplished at the same time that Straczynski also pursued a number of important thematic elements, as well as bringing in elements of realism to the setting (which was considerably more dystopian than Star Trek's). Babylon 5 was the first space-based SF show to comprehensively explore such issues as religious fundamentalism, substance abuse, alcoholism and political censorship. Other elements were not so lucky, with an examination of gender identification (via a male character - played by a woman in makeup - who would have become female in the second season and then pursued a relationship with the lead character of the show) torpedoed by the technology not being up to the job. A planned lesbian relationship between two lead characters was also ditched when one of the actresses involved left the show.
Unfortunately, whilst Babylon 5 at its best was easily the finest show on TV at the time, at its worst it stunk like weeks-old cheese. Unusually, the fans and writers were in agreement over the weakest shows of the series, and in several cases Straczynski even warned fans that that week's episode might be a bit sub-par ahead of time. This unusual honesty was refreshing, though notably it lessened as the series went along (with the near-unwatchable first half of the fifth season being defended to the hilt by the production team). The show certainly took a while to build its reputation, with the first season being 'variable' in quality and only becoming reliably good in its second year. Even then, good episodes could be let down by the odd jarring line or recycled plot element (the 'assassin/bomber loose on the station' storyline got a bit old after a while), whilst the show's production values were always only a bit above 'acceptable' (though what B5 achieved on a tiny budget was always impressive). Also, the show had a major problem with doing funny comedy episodes, with the show always falling flat on its face when it attempted it (the fact that the two funniest episodes were written by Peter David, not Straczynski, is rather telling).
Babylon 5 was flawed then, but somehow it's strengths shine all the more brightly because of its flaws. It hasn't aged brilliantly, but it's still a show that's worth watching now for its great performances (especially from Andreas Katsulas, Peter Jurasik and Mira Furlan), still-impressively-constructed central story arc and its formidable worldbuilding, not to mention some of the best spacecraft designs and space battles ever seen in the genre.
Straczynski conceived of the show in 1987. A huge fan of authors such as J.R.R. Tolkien, Isaac Asimov and Frank Herbert and TV shows like Star Trek, Blake's 7, Doctor Who and The Prisoner, he'd previously been working on two separate SF projects. The first was a small-scale, personal show set on a space station and focusing on characters. The second was a big, epic story told on a huge canvas. One day - whilst in the shower according to Straczynski - he hit on the idea of combining the two into a single show, with the potentially ruinously expensive big story told through the (much more affordable) lens of the space station setting. Originally he planned two five-year shows, Babylon 5 and its immediate sequel, Babylon Prime, but whilst working on the show's first season realised this was over-ambitious and conflated the two into a single, five-year storyline.
Straczynski's pre-planning and recruitment of respected producer Douglas Netter allowed Babylon 5 to be presented to studio execs with detailed costings, which suggested the show could be made for not much more than half of the budget of the then-on-air Star Trek: The Next Generation. Key to this plan was for the show's special effects to be completely computer-generated, eschewing the then-standard expensive and time-consuming use of motion-controlled cameras and models. Early CGI pioneer Ron Thornton (himself a veteran of British series such as Blake's 7, for which he built spaceship models in the final season) used a Commodore Amiga computer equipped with a Video Toaster plug-in card to produce an impressive image of the Babylon 5 space station orbiting a planet which wowed execs. However, most were still wary of the show, believing that there was only room for one space opera franchise on TV and that was Star Trek. Paramount themselves turned down the project in 1989 (the source of Straczynski's later grumbles when the superficially-similar Deep Space Nine was announced two years later).
In 1991, Warner Brothers agreed to develop Babylon 5 as a TV pilot. Straczynski was surprised: during the pitching session, he shattered one of his teeth and got through the rest of the session slightly spaced out on painkillers and ice. But Warner Brothers liked the idea and got behind the show with enthusiasm. SFF magazines, keen to see a non-Star Trek show on the air, also gave the project plenty of early coverage. Even computer magazines leap aboard, thrilled at seeing affordable home computers (the Amiga was huge around 1989-94, especially in Europe) being used to generate special effects for a Hollywood production. All of this enthusiasm was nearly wasted when Warner Brothers wobbled upon hearing that Deep Space Nine was in development, but they held the course and got the pilot onto the screens.
Their faith was rewarded: Babylon 5's pilot pulled in impressive ratings, got favourable reviews and sold gangbusters when it was released on VHS and LaserDisc for rental and sale a few months later. A first season was commissioned, which started airing in January 1994, with some modest cast changes (and impressive upgrades in CGI hardware). The final episode aired on 25 November 1998.


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Fiscal Sustainability Study
During the FY 2015-16 and FY 2016-17 Budget process, staff identified challenges the City is currently facing and/or is likely to encounter over the next ten years. These areas of concern were discussed with the City Council Finance/Audit Committee, City Council Capital Facilities Committee, various Visioning 2064 Committees, and City Council members during the Budget study sessions.
During these meetings, public service and infrastructure concerns were discussed, such as the City's financial ability to maintain existing streets and roads at current pavement conditions. Overall, the City is in "good" fiscal health, but in an effort to continue prudent and sound financial management, it is important to take a proactive approach to ensure that the City remains fiscally sustainable over the long-term. With this in mind, during the budget process, City Council directed staff to return with a "Fiscal Sustainability Study" that would identify fiscal challenges and provide recommendations and options for City Council consideration. City Council then directed staff to provide information and educate residents through community engagement and public outreach. This would provide a platform to get the community involved in the discussion of recommendation/options related to the City's fiscal sustainability.
The Ten-Year Financial Strategic Plan (2014-2023) projects a potential financial future for the City and provides a comprehensive update of the City's initial ten-year plan, which was adopted by City Council on February 22, 2005.
Listed below are the various highlights of the City's Fiscal Sustainability Study with links to applicable staff reports and presentations:
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ITHACA, N.Y., Jan. 15 (UPI) -- U.S. birdwatchers can get help identifying a species they're observing by reaching for their smartphone, Cornell University developers of an app say.
Created by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology with support from the National Science Foundation, the app -- dubbed Merlin -- asks just five questions then displays photos of birds that match the description -- customized to the phone user's location and time of year.
"We named the app 'Merlin' because of its uncanny, almost magical, way of guessing which bird you saw," Jessie Barry, whose team created the app with partner Birds in the Hand, said.
Merlin uses data from citizen-science participants and bird watchers to understand how people see and describe birds -- and to narrow the list to the birds found nearby, Barry said.
Data from the eBird citizen-science project helps the app dynamically select the birds found within about a 30-mile radius of a location at the time the bird was observed.
"This type of precision is only possible because bird watchers report their sightings to eBird from locations across North America every day of the year," Barry said, noting that Merlin draws on 70 million eBird sightings to calculate which species are most likely to be encountered.
Released for the iPhone and available from Apple's App Store, a version of Merlin for Android and online use will be offered in the coming months, the Cornell lab said.


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I'm still alive :) I have been crafting some here and there. Summer time is just busy with both kiddos home and one in summer school but only for a few hours each day and during that time I'm taking the other one to therapy, library time, appointments, etc.
My bestie and I do a monthly swap and it's always my favorite thing to create every month.
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I made a Graduation Paper bag mini album for her daughter that graduated in 2010.
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I used alot of supplies on this mini album so I won't list them here but if you would like to know just comment or send me a message. Some of them are also handmade specifically for this album.
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Situated in the heart of Vieux Quimper, the pedestrianised area close to Saint Corentin Cathedral, Le Petit Gaveau is a restaurant with style & charm in abundance. Ranging from the vividly decorated internal garden room to outdoor terraces and a slightly more standard restaurant setting, there's something to suit every mood.
We visited on a busy summer weekend and had the foresight to book in advance, well a quick phone call just after 17:30 for the same evening did the trick. From the moment we walked in the staff were very welcoming, service was friendly and attentive without being intrusive and there was a great atmosphere.
We started with cold soups, Spiced Melon was sublime and the Gazpacho authentic. Main course for both of us consisted of the perfectly presented house burger which, like all other dishes, was accompanied by the delicious house potatoes (no fries to be seen).
Desserts are from Brittany's master chocolatier & confectioner, Georges Larnicol. Amazing.
This little restaurant is popular with locals and tourists alike, it's open for lunch and dinner and no visit to Quimper would be complete without a visit. A lovely meal and fab experience. Highly recommended.


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Statesville's superhighways, interstates 40 and 77, are two great currents of semis, SUVs, and Buicks — some 70,000 vehicles a day — flowing in the four directions of the wind.
For most people behind a wheel, Statesville is just another name in white, reflective letters on green, reflective signs. For me, Statesville has long been a milepost, and a conveniently precise answer to are-we-there-yet questions while on the way to somewhere else. Driving west on I-40, it's exactly 100 miles to Asheville. Driving east, I know I'm a good 40 miles from Winston-Salem. But on this trip, Statesville is the destination, a place that deserves to be stayed in longer than it takes to pay at the pump and down a combo meal.
Statesville beyond the interstate run-em-thrus is an unhurried place of historic neighborhoods with manicured yards and big trees, and a downtown where everything old feels fresh and new. In 2013 the city completed the first phase of its downtown streetscape project, which widened and prettified the sidewalks, turned crosswalks into brick, installed benches and tables and even rocking chairs, and decorated lampposts with banners that make this boast about the city: "Where It All Comes Together."
Reasons to stop
In downtown Statesville these days, you can dine on eggplant rollatini at the Mezzaluna II Ristorante Italiano, sample apple chutney at the 220 Café, buy cheese bread from a Colombian bakery, sip a glass of pinot noir while sitting at a sidewalk table at Wine Maestro, drink a frappé at HEbrews Coffee House, get a tattoo, buy a guitar, or stock up on jars of boysenberry jam at a nook called Your Southern Dreams.
First Flight Bicycles on South Center Street is one of the top 100 bike shops in the country, according to Bicycle magazine. It occupies space inside a former department store built in 1923. Sleek new mountain bikes with fat tires shine on the wooden floor, but this shop is as much a museum as it is a showroom. Up there on a ledge against the wall are bikes that backpedal through more than a century of cycling history.
"As far as we have been able to determine, we have the largest selection of vintage mountain bikes in the country," says the owner, Jeff Archer, whose braided ponytail is graying with his 49 years. He's originally from Ohio and has been in Statesville since 1989. He's now chairman of the Downtown Statesville Development Corporation, a non-profit working to keep the city's heart healthy.
He stands at his front door and looks across the street at one recent improvement: the American Renaissance Middle School, which converted a tired old storefront into something vital again. "It was really rewarding to watch," Archer says. "It was an old J.C. Penney. It was an old eyesore and they really dressed that thing up." Everything old so fresh and new.
His shop is right next door to the Statesville Historical Collection, a gallery of hundreds of mostly black-and-white photos and ads that depict Statesville through the generations. Steve Hill, a 59-year-old native son, retired assistant school superintendent, and devotee of Statesville history, owns all these photos. "I started collecting when I was a kid," he says. "I started collecting everything related to my hometown. I had some great teachers in the public school system who sparked the interest of a young boy into following local history."
Here's a picture of the Bunch Furniture Company engulfed in a boiling cloud of smoke during a fire in 1944. Here's a picture of the Woolworth's. Here's a picture of a grand hotel. And here, near the front door, is a display of photos showing the construction and completion of the I-40 and I-77 interchange in the 1960s. Bulky cars with round headlights glowing in the twilight roll along the pristine white concrete.
Fifty years later, the interchange is under construction again. The excavators, bulldozers, and graders are back, turning the right-of-ways into a riot of red dirt. The original intersection is a cloverleaf, which slows traffic considerably with its circular on- and off-ramps. The new ramps, called "flyovers," will arc over the travel lanes, allowing drivers to maintain highway speed. "So we have arrived!" Hill boasts with a smile. "Getting our own flyover! In little ol' Statesville!"
The name "Statesville" predates the interstates by about 170 years, but from what state of mind did someone state that the name "Statesville" should stick? Historians have proffered their theories. One is that it was named for the State Road that passed through here from Salisbury to the mountains. Another theory — and it appears to be the most accepted one — is that at the time of its founding in 1789, the town was roughly in the middle of the state; North Carolina back then still included much of what would become eastern Tennessee. "It's basically named after the state of North Carolina," Hill says. "The village of the state."
Whatever the name's origin, Statesville will always be called home for Steve Hill, whose gallery is open on weekday afternoons. "It's the perfect place in the universe — for me, anyway," he says. "I think every community should have someone taking care of their local history, making sure it's not lost, making sure it's available for generations to come."
The best barbecue around
The noon hour has come and gone. Nothing is in my stomach and barbecue is on my brain. My visit to Statesville has to include a meal — a big meal — at Carolina Bar-B-Q. So I turn left onto East Front Street, pass the handsome and historic brick-built City Hall, and head toward Salisbury Road. And there it is, with the tall, green roof and big, white letters spelling out "Carolina Bar-B-Q."
Like any good North Carolinian worth his pepper and vinegar, I look for the woodpile. It's there, all right — a stack of hickory logs just beyond the take-out window. A brick chimney, shimmering on top from the rising heat, lords over it. Satisfied that this is the real deal, I walk inside and find the requisite pig figurines, always looking so gleeful despite their prominence on the menu. Since this restaurant is considered a local icon, the kind of place profiled in barbecue guidebooks and bragged about across state lines, I look for the inevitable autographed pictures of famous visitors. They hang above the door, mostly singers of the Nashville variety: Ronnie Milsap, Pam Tillis, Garth Brooks, Earl Thomas Conley ("To all at Carolina Bar-B-Q. Thanks.").
A young waitress seats me beneath an overhead train track. Every now and then the toy locomotive gives a toot and circles the dining room. "You know, growing up, I never had my own electric train, and I think I'm old enough now to have one," says Gene Medlin, who, along with his wife, Linda, moved here from Stanly County to open this restaurant in 1985. It was once the location of the Big Rebel Drive-In, a favorite hangout that served fried chicken, burgers, and ice cream. When Medlin and his wife were looking to start their own business, they settled on North Carolina's sacred plate — barbecue. Of course, it would be easier and cleaner for Medlin to snuff out the woodsmoke and cook his 'cue with gas or electricity. His take on that: "Not as long as I'm here."
And as long as he's here, he'll never talk about the restaurant without talking up his wife, and he'll insist to anyone who wanders in with a notebook that she deserves as much ink as he does. "We wanted to use the restaurant as a springboard to get her into the catering business," he says. Judging by the photos on their website, her catering business can set one magnificent spread.
Here at my table beneath the train track, I order the large chopped-pork dinner with fried okra, slaw, and hushpuppies, and I top it all off with hot blackberry cobbler and a hunk of vanilla ice cream. Sitting across from me, Medlin reflects on his years in Statesville. "We charted our course 28 years ago to be a clean, wholesome, family restaurant that happened to specialize in good North Carolina barbecue. So far, we have never wavered from that course."
He knows I'm not here solely to talk barbecue, but to dig into the lore of his adopted hometown. And then it occurs to him — a story about Statesville, he says, must include the story of Tom Dooley. "That's got to be in your story," he says. "As much as I like to talk about Carolina Bar-B-Q, that put Statesville on the map." The story, in a few small bites, is this: Thomas Dula (Dooley is the local pronunciation), a veteran of the Civil War, was tried, convicted, and hanged in Statesville for murdering a 21-year-old woman, whose body was found in a shallow grave in nearby Wilkes County. Nobody thought Dula could get a fair trial there, so it moved to Statesville. The case was embroiled in a whodunit controversy. Dula supposedly said on the gallows, "Gentlemen, do you see this hand? I didn't harm a hair on the girl's head."
A place to explore
So full of barbecue and a colorful side of history, I feel compelled to burn off some calories. I drive to where the landscape surrenders to lofty trees and century-old homes with columns and wraparound porches. The Davie Avenue and Broad Street Historic District is a residential Eden. I park my truck and walk a couple of blocks to soak it all in. Other people are out walking their dogs and jogging.
I walk on to Mitchell Community College, an imposing presence on a hill at the end of Broad Street. The main building, with its six Parthenon-style columns, overlooks downtown Statesville. I amble along a brick walkway known as The Circle, looping as it does around an expanse of grass, soft and lush. The school was founded in 1852 as a Presbyterian women's college but is now a two-year community college with more than 3,800 students. On this Saturday the campus is empty, the setting quiet and contemplative.
But daylight is fading fast. The interstates summon me. So I climb back in my truck and head east on Broad Street toward I-77. I turn onto I-77 north, then to I-40 east. The neon-trimmed signs of the interstate wayside illuminate the darkening sky, and soon are blotted out in my rearview mirror. The mighty I-40 lies before me in the headlights. I become one with the cruise-controlled travelers, the people who would be wise to slow down near Statesville, and stop for a plate of barbecue and a walk around town.
Carolina Bar-B-Q
213 Salisbury Road
Statesville, NC 28677
(704) 873-5585
First Flight Bicycles
216 South Center Street
Statesville, NC 28677
(704) 878-9683
Mitchell Community College
500 West Broad Street
Statesville, NC 28677
(704) 878-3200
Statesville Historical Collection
212 South Center Street
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The music of Destiny was a collaborative effort between Bungie's former in-house composer Marty O'Donnell, his partner Mike Salvatori and former Beatle, Sir Paul McCartney. One of McCartney's contributions to the game's soundtrack, The New York Times reports, will be released as a single later this year.
The Times calls McCartney's track the game's theme song, reporting that it is fully orchestrated and was recorded at Abbey Road Studios under the direction of Giles Martin, son of The Beatles producer Sir George Martin.
Other details about the song are under wraps, apparently, so it's unclear if the song features McCartney's vocals and is in the vein of a theme song like "Live And Let Die," which Paul and Linda McCartney wrote for the James Bond movie of the same name. Interestingly, the song's producer is Mark "Spike" Stent, who has experience recording a handful of James Bond movie theme songs: Tina Turner's "GoldenEye" and Madonna's "Die Another Day."
The Destiny theme song is about hope, according to the Times.
McCartney announced his involvement in the Destiny score in 2012, tweeting, "I'm really excited to be working on writing music with @bungie, the studio that made Halo."
O'Donnell detailed his collaboration with McCartney last year when Bungie unveiled the first details on Destiny. He said the former Beatle was drawn to the project by his interest in the technology behind interactive music.
"He didn't only want to do Paul McCartney music," O'Donnell said. "He wants to get involved in themes, how melodies and motives can be a touchpoint for people."


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Ryan Preece: Poised for NASCAR Success in 2016
At age 25, stock car racing driver Ryan Preece has built a strong resume. He made his NASCAR debut in 2007 in the Whelen Modified Tour, and has since made 123 starts, earning 15 wins, 55 top-fives, 78 top-tens, and 14 pole awards.
In 2008, Preece became the youngest driver in Whelen Modified Tour history to earn a pole. In 2013, he became the youngest Whelen Modified Tour champion ever.
Preece is now getting ready for his first full season in the NASCAR Xfinity Series. He's raced in the Xfinity Series before, having debuted in 2013 and raced two other times. This year, Preece will be driving the No. 01 Chevrolet Camaro for JD Motorsports.
We caught up with Ryan to talk about how he got into racing, his success so far, and what he hopes to accomplish in the future.
You were raised in Berlin, Connecticut – not what most people think of as NASCAR country. What sparked your interest in racing?
Preece: Racing is really popular throughout the whole country now. But there's a type of racecar called a modified that came out of the northeast, and that is something I grew up around. Also, both my mother and father raced locally, so it's also been a family thing.
Who were your favorite drivers growing up?
Preece: Everybody would say Dale Earnhardt was one of their favorite drivers. Tony Stewart was for me as well, and as a teenager Kevin Harvick was one of the guys I always rooted for.
When did you start to think seriously about a career in racing?
Preece: I think every kid dreams about it – when I started trying to make it a reality I was 18 or 19 years old. When you are fighting to try and get there it isn't easy, but it's all worth it.
What has been your career highlight so far?
Preece: There have been a lot of races I am pretty happy about winning over the past few years, but I'd say winning the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour Championship in 2013.
What's the most difficult or challenging part of being a NASCAR driver that some fans may not know about?
Preece: Money is what buys speed for these kinds of cars. If you want to have everything you need to win, you're going to need sponsorship and backing. When you have that, you can get good motors and chassis and it makes the whole team better. That's why I joined JD Motorsports. They have a program that works great for everybody.
What is your biggest goal for the future?
Preece: I'd like to be top 15 week in and week out, but I also want to contend for wins and top 10s, and I think if the right circumstances come along and we can get that bigger backing, this team is capable of doing that.
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How can fans follow you this season?
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Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Aidan's First Hunting Trip- November 2016.
Back in November (the week of Thanksgiving) Dale took Aidan on his first (and 2nd) Deer Hunting Trip. The first day they brought home a 9 point buck and the second day a 7 point buck. Needless to say, Aidan had a blast and has wanted to go hunting a million other days since then, lol.
Below you will see photos of them hunting, their bucks, and Aidan helping work up the deer like a big boy, afterwords. =)
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Mon frere!March 31st, 2012 by Bekah Brunstetter
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Guess what? If you don't live in a big and sometimes gross city, you can have things like porches, stars, air, room, and dinner parties.
Last night, I was pleased to attend a country dinner party at the home of fellow UNC alumn, Jeff Meanza, featuring Roasted Beer Chicken, where you stick a can of beer up a chicken's butt, stick it on the grill, and watch it salute you / hang out as it cooks. It's fairly strange and human-like. As it cooks, the beer sort of explodes inside of it. Sorry, the chicken, and Elizabeth Castoria.
Even more importantly, the party concluded with a pie that a boy made, which is never a bad thing. BOYPIE!
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Today was really special and NOT just because I wore Mom shorts. Today, my friend since high school Michael Harwood made me a Mocha. Years ago, when I was working (badly) as a barista, I got Mike a job at the Wide Eye Cafe (a coffee bar inside of a gym? Why? I don't know.) Wide Eye is owned by Scott and Beth, who also own Open Eye and Driade, the two best coffee places pretty much in the world, but also in Chapel Hill and Carborro. Mike went on to move up the barista ranks, and he is now officially the best barista in the Southeast United States, and is about to compete nationally. I'm really really proud of him, and so I drank my mocha All, remembering the 413 I had in college.
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In case you were curious, today was perfect, and now I'm going to tell you about it regardless of your level of curiosity. TODAY! Began with a nice run through North Campus, followed by a stroll up Franklin street to Walgreens to pick up the STEROIDS?! that I have to put in my eyeballs every day for a month, followed by a lunch of wine, giant salads and bread that can only be described as Crack with sister Blaine, then irrational shopping (including the purchasing of those important pink shorts) then a pedicure, then Hunger Games, and now some Hoarders, garlic broccoli, Junot Diaz and netflix. SHUT UP, DAY! I feel lucky. Tomorrow, back to work.
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A bit about my eyes: I've had contacts since I was 12 years old. I don't know who would give contacts to a twelve year old, but somebody did. Carelessly and for years, I was too lazy to take my contacts out when I went to sleep. I started to get these bumps under my eyelids but for years, was too ashamed to tell any eye doctor about it. So you'd think I'd wear my glasses, but I'm so blind that my lenses have to be REAL thick and I have basically no peripheral vision. And then my eyes got worse. And then I had no health insurance and just dealt with expired glasses. And then spring and pollen came extra early and hard this year and I had more eyegasms* than usual. And so today, in one of the first adult moves of my life, I finally and ashamed-ly fessed up to an eye doctor, who examined me and told me I had some disease thing that I can only describe as eye herpes. So, I have that. I also have to wear my glasses for a month, walk into things, and have no depth perception. I'm not quite sure what the moral of this story is, but it has something to do with not ignoring things and not giving contact lens to twelve year olds.
* Eyegasm: n. when you rub and rub and rub at your eyes like you want them to die. By the time it's done, you have eye make up all over your face, and it's questionable whether or not you should be entrusted with taking care of yourself.
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It only took me a week to accidentally lock myself out of my room. Thanks to a pretty stellar emergency housing system, I made one call, and within ten minutes, a very dapper undergrad, who 8 years ago I would have leered at on campus, charmingly and politely let me back into my room. As the electronic wheelchair door slowly opened with an errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, I nearly asked him to marry me.
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The Brunstetters trekked to Sears Portrait Studio today for yet another successul family photoshoot, complete with awkward touching and coordinating colors. While we won't have the prints to share for a few weeks, I can give you a few hints: one being some serious floor action, and second being this:
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A few years ago, the UNC Theater Department lost the incredible Ken Strong to cancer. Today a gallery of student theater pictures / articles / programs was dedicated to him – including THIS PROGRAM FROM MY SECOND PLAY EVER. I'd like to most importantly call attention to the fact that I ask the audience to 'please, approach this play as you would a painting.' BEKAH. You don't know anything about paintings, and isn't this kind of a cop-out? Take from it what you will, as in, I have no idea what I'm writing? Please note that also, I directed.
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So What is Content Marketing Anyway
Content marketing is perhaps the most misunderstood concept of digital marketing. In reality, it is just common sense.
Use content marketing to strengthen your brand from within
Content marketing is not just a way of reaching your customers. It is also a brilliant method of building cohesion and loyalty amongst your staff.
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Manufacturers do not seem to realize the age of distributors and cold calls is over, and everyone needs to embrace visual marketing tools.
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Two things most businesses forget in their digital marketing strategy are absolutely crucial to success. And it's amazing how many people ignore them.
There is money in that content, man!
Despite what many marketers say, measuring ROI on content marketing is not rocket science.


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Three years after the death of HR Giger, the medieval city of Gruyères has finally come to terms with the unsettling legacy of the Oscar-winning creator of the creatures from the film Alien. (SRF, swissinfo.ch)
Besides designing the monstrous characters and set props for the 1979 science-fiction horror film, Alien, Hans Rudolf Giger is also well known for his sculptures, paintings and furniture in his unmistakable biomechanoid style .
A native of the city of Chur and a resident of Zurich for most of his life, Giger chose the walled city of Gruyères also known for the cheese by the same name, as a permanent home for many of his most prominent works.
The HR Giger Museumexternal link in Château St. Germain, inaugurated in 1998, is managed by his second wife Carmen Scheifele Giger and contains the largest collection of the artist's works.


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Something which may surprise you is that many of the articles I've written about the SSD and storage markets for my main publication StorageSearch.com have never made it to the web - even though I edit that publication (which means they would easily meet my standards).
It's not that they weren't good enough to publish - but if they took too long to write then short term daily pressures for fresh content bumped them off my to-do list - and maybe a few days or weeks later they just got abandoned.
The strange thing is that the analysis and thought processes that went into constructing those unseen articles has had an impact on rewiring the synapses and assumptions in my brain. And very often when I'm writing about about a related subject I start the process of linking to an article which no one else has read but me.
I can still find them on my notebook - and because they're in the same directory as live www files (they just never got completed and uploaded) there's a strange feeling of loss and panic when I can't find them online.
Oh yeah - I remember now - it never got that far.
Many of these articles are 95% complete - and even years later seem to fill much needed gaps in the analysis of the market.
The curious thing for me is that I do have the benefit of having written them - even if no one else has yet seen them.
In the thousands of years of writing - before the online world - this must have been a much more common experience. And even though my educational background was electronics, physics and maths (and not literature and all that stuff) even as an ignorant technocrat barbarian I am aware that during the course of history there have been many writers who are popular today - but who never got published in their lifetimes.
I'm not saying that a blog about some ephemeral aspect of a transient market like solid state storage (which no one will care too much about in 50 years time) can be compared to a novel or collection of poetry. (Which reminds me - I do have some novels I've finished which aren't online too. And I reread them when I'm in the right mood and have run out of anything else to read. My wife and I have over 4,000 books in our house - and I've read most of them - except I confees I have skipped several hundred marketing books - because I'm not the one in our household who runs product management master classes.)
I'm just saying that going through the process of writing articles which analyze some aspect of a high tech market helps to improve the quality of thought in later articles even if the original articles were never published. I guess it's like winning a track event. No one sees you training. But you are more likely to do better in public if you have trained.
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Down on the ground.
As the Not-Romney of the Month, Herman actually has a chance to stick around a little longer than Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry before him.
So the Tea Pees have known about the Godfather for some time now.
The political experts on your teevee keep saying Herman's got no on-the-ground organization, though. They are obviously mistaken. It's a stealth organization, flying under the Beltway radar. And like the rest of the conservative extremists, Cain is just as mean and ignorant as Perry or Bachmann ...
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Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain has cast himself as the outsider, the pizza magnate with real-world experience who will bring fresh ideas to the nation's capital. But Cain's economic ideas, support and organization have close ties to two billionaire brothers who bankroll right-leaning causes through their group Americans for Prosperity.
Cain's campaign manager and a number of aides have worked for Americans for Prosperity, or AFP, the advocacy group founded with support from billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, which lobbies for lower taxes and less government regulation and spending. Cain credits a businessman who served on an AFP advisory board with helping devise his "9-9-9" plan to rewrite the nation's tax code. And his years of speaking at AFP events have given the businessman and radio host a network of loyal grassroots fans.
As the Not-Romney of the Month, Herman actually has a chance to stick around a little longer than Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry before him.
His links to the Koch brothers could undercut his outsider, non-political image among tea party fans who detest politics as usual and candidates connected with the party machine.
AFP tapped Cain as the public face of its "Prosperity Expansion Project," and he traveled the country in 2005 and 2006 speaking to activists who were starting state-based AFP chapters from Wisconsin to Virginia. Through his AFP work he met Mark Block, a longtime Wisconsin Republican operative hired to lead that state's AFP chapter in 2005 as he rebounded from an earlier campaign scandal that derailed his career.
Block and Cain sometimes traveled together as they built up AFP: Cain was the charismatic speaker preaching the ills of big government; Block was the operative helping with nuts and bolts.
When President Barack Obama's election helped spawn the tea party, Cain was positioned to take advantage. He became a draw at growing AFP-backed rallies, impressing activists with a mix of humor and hard-hitting rhetoric against Obama's stimulus, health care and budget policies.
So the Tea Pees have known about the Godfather for some time now.
Block is now Cain's campaign manager. Other aides who had done AFP work were also brought on board.
Cain's spokeswoman Ellen Carmichael, who recently left the campaign, was an AFP coordinator in Louisiana. His campaign's outside law firm is representing AFP in a case challenging Wisconsin campaign finance regulations. At least six other current and former paid employees and consultants for Cain's campaign have worked for AFP in various capacities.
And Cain has credited Rich Lowrie, a Cleveland businessman who served on AFP's board of advisors from 2005 to 2008, with being a key economic adviser and with helping to develop his plan to cut the corporate tax rate to 9 percent, impose a national sales tax of 9 percent and set a flat income tax rate of 9 percent.
"He's got a national network now that perhaps he wouldn't have had 15 or 20 years ago because of his work with AFP," said Republican Party of Wisconsin Vice Chair Brian Schimming, who has introduced Cain at events in Wisconsin. "For a presidential candidate, that's obviously helpful to have."
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GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain is pushing the idea of an electrified fence on the border with Mexico, complete with a sign in English and Spanish warning that it's lethal, the New York Times reports:
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said Saturday that part of his immigration policy would be to build an electrified fence on the country's border with Mexico that could kill people trying to enter the country illegally.
The remarks, which came at two campaign rallies in Tennessee as part of a barnstorming bus tour across the state, drew loud cheers from crowds of several hundred people at each rally. At the second stop, in Harriman, Tenn., Mr. Cain added that he also would consider using military troops "with real guns and real bullets" on the border to stop illegal immigration.
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Cain made the fence comments Saturday at a Tennessee rally while kicking off his bus tour to promote his "9-9-9" tax plan.
Speaking to the crowd, Cain recalled a conversation he had on his conservative radio talk show with a caller who argued against building a fence to prevent illegal immigration.But Cain said he fought back, telling the caller:"When I'm in charge of the fence, we going to have a fence. It's going to be 20 feet high. It's going to have barbed wire on the top. It's going to be electrocuted, electrified," Cain said. "And there's going to be a sign on the other side that says it will kill you."