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Spring season officially begins this week for Sacramento's very own sport and social club. Appropriately named Sacramento Sport and Social Club, this unique adult sports experience has something in store for all types of social rec athlete in the Sacramento area.
The idea first arose in 2008 when SSSC founder Brad Satterwhite and a co-worker of his wanted to get a group of their employee friends together for some good-natured out-of-office fun. They decided on bowling, but when the crew couldn't find a local league that fit their needs, Satterwhite stepped up and played the role of league organizer. The office-mates started with 12 teams in what later became known as the Planning, Policy, Urban Development Bowling League (or 'PUDL for short, named after their career field). 3 years later, PUDL is back for a Spring season and more popular than ever before. Longtime PUDL member Jim Clark says:
"PUDL gives you that chance to have a really great time with really great people. You will not find a bowling league that has as much fun both in the alley and out than we at PUDL do."
But even this is just the tip of Sacramento's iceberg.. Last year league members started asking about other sports and activities. Recognizing the potential there, Satterwhite has since set up leagues that appeal to the socially-inclined, co-ed crowd- adding Mini-Golf, Cornhole, and Beer Pong to the mix. There is even a league devoted entirely to team trivia, as well a golf league named "Putt-Putt League of Awesomely Fun People" (all members are guaranteed free putt-putt after the season ends.. nice!). Thus, Sac Sport and Social is creating a niche for itself as THE social league in greater Sacramento. You can almost think of it as a well-organized, neverending carnival for adults.
The commish also emphasizes rewards and prize opportunities for his participants. Sign up on the official SSSC website here and win a pair of movie tickets to Tower Theatre in Sacramento- just enter "Sportsvite" in the 'Referred by/from' section of the form.
Once you've created an account on the website, register for summer leagues here via SSSC's LeagueApps-powered online registration, OR in person at MVP's Sports Grill on Thursday, April 28th from 5:30pm-7pm.
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rebelwithoutaclue wrote:Uhhhhh..... Smokin hot babes (drive down High St. right now and it's gonna be short skirt and bra-less shirt heaven) and a National football power that has a track record of pumping players out in the NFL?
If a recruit picks a school based on the weather, he's a moron.
Just wait five minutes and a snowstorm will dash that look. And are you really trying to compare Southern California women to central Ohio women? Did that just happen? You may know less about women than you do about pizza.
And Peeker already said it best; tOSU already had a hell of a time competing with the Miami's, Texas', and USC's of the world WITH scholarships. What do you think's gonna happen when all the free money is gone? No one's gonna come pay to play football at tOSU.
WTF are you babbling about?
You're right. OSU just cannot recruit because of the bad weather and lack of free money and hot chicks, it's obvious.... it's over.
Thank you, without your rambling nonsense I never would've had a clue.
Edit; Some of that was too harsh and mean. No need to be that big of an asshole. My bad

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The front page story in Tuesday's Journal, has a headline about the perceived need for a water park in New Ulm. Who is kidding whom?
Residents of New Ulm are truly some of the most fortunate people in the entire world and, yet, some want more.
Residents of the metro area would laugh at you if you complained that the nearest water park was 15 minutes away, or that the nearest major university was a half hour distant, or that the nearest casino was about a half hour away. There are many, many facilities available to New Ulm area residents, including many employment opportunities that also are within a half hour drive, and that should be appreciated.
An alternative to a city water park in New Ulm would be to build your own in your back yard. Obviously, the cost is likely prohibitive – but then that cost resulting in higher taxes for construction and on-going maintenance should not be passed on to the majority who may never use the facility.
Let's support Sleepy Eye's investment in their water park while we use our fantastic year-round pool and our unique summer "water park" at Flandrau State Park.
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Fans of the late, great Beatle flocked to a storage warehouse at the airport last week for a glimpse of the car made famous by the Fab Four's classic film Yellow Submarine.
The Rolls stopped off in Prestwick en route to the USA after being on display in London.
The airport's station manager, John Barclay, told the Post: "Surprisingly a lot of people wanted to get in for a peek at it. It was really exciting and it was a very pleasant car.
"We actually think it's the one that was used in Yellow Submarine.
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orkshop on Remnant Movement, Feature Movement and their Implications for the T-model Potsdam University, 24 and 25 July 1999 The workshop will take place in Stiftung Einstein Forum Am Neuen Markt 7 , 14467 Potsdam Saturday, July 24 9.00 Introduction 9.30-10.30 Hans den Besten, University of Amsterdam (invited speaker) Remnant XP Movement 11.00- 12.00 Sjef Barbiers, University of Leiden Remnant Stranding and the Theory of Movement 12.00-13.00 Maire Noonan, York University CP-pied piping and Remnant VP Movement in long distance wh-movement 14.30-15.30 Roland Hinterholzl, HUB (invited speaker) Remnant Movement and Partial Deletion 16.00-17.00 Ivy Sichel, CUNY X\176 Movement and XP Movement in Hebrew Possessives 17.00-18.00 Hilda Koopman, UCLA (invited speaker) Verbal complexes: Pied-piping, Specifier extraction, and derived complexity Filters. Sunday, July 25 9.30-10.30 Gisbert Fanselow, University of Potsdam (invited speaker) Remnant Movement gives way to Partial Deletion 11.00- 12.00 Joao Costa, Universidade Nova de Lisboa VOS in Portuguese: arguments against an Analysis in terms of Remnant Movement 12.00-13.00 Marie-Claude Boivin, UQAM Case Theory and constraints on DP Remnant Movement: evidence from French 14.30-15.30 Gereon Mueller, University of Stuttgart (invited speaker) Two Types of Remnant Movement 16.00-17.00 Piotr Banski, University of Warsaw Prosodic Diagnostics for Remnant AP Movement in Polish 17.00-18.00 Howard Lasnik, University of Connecticut (invited speaker) Feature Movement or Agreement at a Distance? Alternate On Feature Movement Masanori Nakamura, Senshu University For further information, please visit http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/events/artemis/ http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/lot/Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue


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Nice job, the pies look great, especially the margheritas. Sorry if I missed it early, but what cheese are you using and how long was the bake time? Chau
Outstanding job. They look pro all the way with the micro leoparding. My personal opinion is that a 24 hour RT dough is perfection for a Neapolitan pie. My workflow has evolved into exactly what you are doing, except I use natural leavening.I would like to find and try the San Felice flour as well.John
Very nice job! Did you do a short bulk/long ball method on these?Marlon
I agree on the micro blistering and the fermentaion times perfect! any cross section shots The one upskirt looks as though there might be a slight Gum line? is that what you are shooting for ? Great looking pies!! its only my preference for a slight bit more char on the bottom. Its a balanceing act for sure ! If my floor is at 900 hard to keep bottom from burning and get the corinione so perfect.John
I'm very happy to finally be able to make pies like these on the lowly forno bravo andiamo 70. Now I know it's capable of producing great pies. It just takes practice.
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News server Howto
News servers are one of the oldest services hosted on the internet: they are used to communicate and exchange files in thematic areas called "groups".
To access this service you need a newsgroup client, but most mail client allow you to read newsgroup as well: Thunderbird and Sylpheed for Windows and Linux, as well as more basic UNIX software like pan, knode, slrn.
Parameters to access A/I Newsgroup Server are:
Servername: news.autistici.org Port: 119 (or 563 for SSL)Once you'll have downloaded the list of the "groups" hosted on our newsserver you can subscribe to the ones you are interested into and download all of its messages every time you connect to the server.
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steve, that is really a great looking recipe.Just wondering where you find the bonta in 28 oz cans.
escalon was selling 28oz cans of the bella rosa pasty stuff that was very similar to bonta, but now it is no longer available on their website.
Steve,I notice that your recipe does not call for oil in the dough. What are your thoughts on oil in a NY-style dough?cb
Are you from the Dallas area by any chance?Peter


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Damian Edwards and David Fowler Demonstrate SignalR
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SignalR is a groundbreaking open-source project in the .NET community. It offers real-time communication to a variety of platforms, is easy to use and to set up, and scales immensely. The progenitors of one of the most popular projects on GitHub and NuGet, Damian Edwards and David Fowler, demonstrate the power of SignalR using some amazing demonstrations in this episode. You won't want to miss this Web Camps TV episode, it'll open your eyes to the possibilities available with SignalR if you need asynchronous, real-time communication.
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Nice video on SignalR. It's actually kind of cool to put a face and voice to David Fowler. We've chatted a lot on both NuGet and JabbR.
I'm very excited about the types of apps that a library like SignalR not only makes possible but how simple it is to do so.
Please bring back Damian often!!
Damian is a BEAST!!! Lex Luther of ASP.NET Web Forms.
Awesome stuff. You now have 801 followers.
Great work! This is really impressive stuff!
SignalR is the beginning of SkyNet
signalR really bridges the gaps here. it would be nice to see websocket transport build in to the lib (instead of the requirement to run it in win8 and .net 4.5), but then it's an awkward situation to create a separate websocket implementation here. nontheless, it's very a cool lib.
AWESOME stuff! I'd appreciate it though if Brady stopped the useless repetition of "right", "nice", "wonderful", etc every 5 seconds!
I appreciate the feedback and will adapt for future interviews. I was pretty excited about this interview, so forgive my enthusiasm for all the topics these guys covered. It was a really great chat, and I hope that didn't detract from the quality of information they put forward.
Awesome! Just started using SignalR a week ago and it works like magic. Great stuff!
This has my attention now. Great demos and conversation.
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I'm not sure I'd seen the words "physicist" and "contemplative" in the same sentence many times, much less found them together as descriptors of the same person, before I met Arthur Zajonc. (His name reflects his father's Polish origins, by the way, and rhymes with "science.") As a professor of Physics at Amherst College, his research interests have ranged from the theoretical foundations of quantum physics and the polarity of atoms to the relationship between the sciences and the humanities. He also has a long-time contemplative practice and is a leading figure among academics exploring the relevance of contemplative traditions for higher education. And even when he is discussing elemental questions of science, he is likely to invoke ideas of the 18th-century literary figure Goethe, or the 20th-century scientist/philosopher/educational innovator Rudolph Steiner.
Writing that, I realize how erudite and perhaps abstract it might sound. In fact, being in Arthur Zajonc's presence is as calming and grounding as it is intellectually intriguing. He has acquired an amazing range of tools across an adventurous 40-year career that explores human knowledge and human being in all their wholeness. Yet his tools and ideas are remarkably accessible — "sensible," in fact, a word he uses often. He paints a manageable picture of how human life itself — lived fully and held consciously — compels us to integrate qualities of thought and mind that our culture often holds apart. We ourselves and everything around us have an interior as well as an exterior — and we can explore both with due vigor. Life as well as science has both an experiential, intuitive context and an objective, factual basis — and surely we must take all of this seriously if what we are really after is truth that matters and knowledge that serves.
Arthur Zajonc finds a favorite example of this layered nature of reality in the elemental substance of light. As we've explored a number of times on this program, the scientific debate over whether light is a particle or a wave was resolved in the 20th century with the unexpected conclusion that it is both. I've always pointed to this as an intriguing example of how contradictory explanations of reality can simultaneously be true — a lesson straight from life that the answers we arrive at depend on the questions we are asking.
But Arthur Zajonc takes this debate and its implications to yet another level. Whether light is a particle or a wave, he points out, is still not the whole story of light; those of us who live in a world of light and darkness live in our experience of it, not in a perception of particles and waves. Goethe defined color, evocatively, as "the deeds and sufferings of light" and insisted that light and color have sensory and moral effect as well as physical properties. And surely it is not insignificant, and also worthy of investigation, that light is a primary spiritual metaphor across the centuries and across traditions.
Rudolf Steiner explored this idea, beginning from a scientific perspective, in the late 19th and early 20th century and has been a formative thinker for Arthur Zajonc. Here again, he is drawn to the integrated approach — and the experiential application of ideas — of Steiner, who founded the Anthroposophical Society in Switzerland, which continues to flourish across the world. Waldorf Schools are probably the best-known fruit of his philosophy. These schools intentionally cultivate the wholeness of the humanity of a child: intellectual, practical, ecological, musical, and spiritual.
Zajonc's own life experience has been recently reshaped by a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease. He has seen the progression of this illness in other members of his family, and so has some understanding of what is ahead. This is at one and the same time a source of grief and a continuation of the adventure Arthur Zajonc has long been on — to explore what holding life consciously means, now with a progressively debilitating condition. He tells me:
"There are two main types of meditation and both of them are part of my life, which one is a concentration and the other is what I call open awareness. It's a very open presence.
In the concentration phase, tremors actually worsened.
You have a line of poetry or from scripture or an image and you bring your full undivided single-pointed attention to that content. But as we're straining mentally to do that, the hand begins to tremor more. And then when you release the image and become very still and quiet and open yourself wide, the hand slowly calms to the point where indeed your whole body feels at ease and the tremor disappears. Interesting…
I can see that the mind and the body are so delicately attuned to one another that these practices affect the Parkinson's state itself. … So here's the question I pose to myself. Is it possible to be alive, active in the world, and yet have such calm, such kind of inner openness and presence that one can lead a life, at least in part, that is an expression of that quality of meditative quiescence that's on the one hand quite alert and on the other hand, completely at ease, completely at rest. … And I'll keep you posted as to whether that comes out all right or not."


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Highs and lows: Some of the best, worst of the week
Here are some of the best – and worst – of the week:
CLASS C CHAMPS – It's been a great ride and the journey continues! On Tuesday, the Silver Creek Black Knights defeated Middle Early College to win the overall Section 6 Class C boys basketball title. "I can't even express their happiness and how happy I am for them," said coach Rob Genco. Silver Creek will square off against Section 5's Mynderse in the Class C Far West Regional today in Rochester. That game will determine who will compete in the New York State Public High School Athletic Association state boys basketball tournament.
SWIMMING SUCCESS – For the first time in program history, Fredonia State will send two women to the same NCAA Division III championship meet in the sport of springboard diving. Six-time All-American Sara Ficarro will be making her fourth and final NCAA appearance while junior Ashley Keller will be making her first appearance later this month at Shenandoah, Texas.
Fredonia State has been represented at the NCAA meet by at least one diver – male or female – in each of the previous seven meets under the old format. In addition to Ficarro, Kelly Sponholz – a national champ in 2009 – has competed in women's diving at the NCAA level.
Also, in the men's meet, senior Ryan Fuller earned his first trip to the NCAA Division Championship meet by finishing second in the men's 1-meter springboard event.
Good luck to the Blue Devils as they head to the championship meet!
SPRING SPORTS NEARS – This week, we read about how SUNY Fredonia Blue Devils were getting ready for the upcoming baseball season. Also, local high school students have begun practice. Outdoor lacrosse is nearing as well. Whether you enjoy sports or not, the start of baseball season is a reminder that winter is coming to an end.
TWO VEHICLE PURCHASE – We're not arguing that Fredonia police need new vehicles. We're questioning replacing two at once. According to Police Chief Brad Meyers, one vehicle has 150,000 miles on it, while the other has 90,000 miles on it. Why replace both vehicles at once? Replace the higher mileage this year and then replace the other the following year. Better yet, develop a long-range fleet replacement plan so that village taxpayers aren't forced to replace multiple police vehicles in a single year.


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Freedom, Responsibility, Lift and Thrust.Wednesday, May 30th, 2012
Last week's blog on the NTSB's recommendations to improve experimental or amateur built (E-AB) aircraft safety brought out a lot of pithy comments as did the blog a week earlier on Santa Monica.
Regarding the NTSB recommendations on E-AB, while it's tough to argue against safety, it appears that if the rules and guidance that are already published are followed, there probably isn't a need to promulgate more. There is a lot of guidance, and by this time next year there will be still more from EAA, FAA, and the Air Safety Institute relative to flight testing, transition training, and loss of control. At some point, however, we pilots have to take responsibility for our actions and for the consequences. Let me be clear that we welcome the insight that NTSB provides—it's up to pilots to use it intelligently!
The corrective action that physics and gravity mete out is consistent and swift. The only unfair aspect is that occasionally passengers fall victim to misjudgment—just as they do in cars, motorcycles, and at baseball games. (If you read the ticket, the owners let the buyer beware that they may get beaned by a foul or fly ball.) As PICs, we should be ever mindful of that! FAR 91.319 (d) is clear that, "Each person operating an aircraft that has an experimental certificate shall…Advise each person carried of the experimental nature of the aircraft." That's not something to be glossed over, and the aeronautically-unqualified passenger should understand what it means.
The fairness surrounding land use and politicians keeping commitments is much less self-correcting. The U.S. has traditionally prided itself on freedom and the ability to accomplish things that may entail risk, personal growth, learning, and sacrifice. But for every black there is a white, a yin for a yang, or a down for an up. In too many cases these days, facts become irrelevant and emotion—which is a bad way to govern—holds sway. (That's not unique to the aviation discourse these days and is a much bigger conversation.)
As pilots and defenders of the ability to move freely, the challenge of even well-intentioned regulatory creep or land grabs should not be accepted lightly, as previously noted. It's now time to get involved regularly in communicating the value of GA and the freedom it brings. Acknowledge that without risk there can be no reward, and that some rewards are most definitely not worth the risk (that yin-yang thing).
As a new pilot many years ago, I understood the safety responsibility intuitively, but did not understand the need for AOPA and the AOPA Foundation in defending the freedom to fly until some years later. That mental sunrise has been gradually continuing with the recognition that the human impediments to flight are every bit as real as drag and weight. It is up to each of us to provide thrust and lift. I hope you will join with us in keeping GA aloft!


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ARM and IBM this week announced an agreement between the two companies to extend their collaboration on advanced semiconductor technologies. The resulting technology will provide a suite of optimized physical and processor IP by ARM tuned to IBM's advance manufacturing process down to 14nm. Eventually this will allow smaller developers of ARM-based solutions to quickly utilize leading-edge manufacturing technologies.
Through this agreement ARM and IBM will collaboratively develop design platforms aligning the manufacturing process, microprocessor and physical IP design teams. This collaboration will minimize the risk and barriers to migrating to smaller geometries while enabling optimized density, performance, power and yield in advanced SoC designs; accelerating the introduction of advanced electronics into the marketplace.
Past collaboration with IBM and ARM on advanced geometries have been underway since 2008, resulting in the implementation of extensive process and physical IP refinements to improve SoC density, routability, manufacturability, power consumption, and performance. Moreover, through the previous collaboration on the 32nm and 28nm ARM has already delivered eleven test chips that provide concrete research structures and early silicon validation. In addition, ARM has developed specific optimizations targeting ARM processor cores including most recently a complete ARM Cortex-A9 processor core implemented on 32nm high-K metal gate technology.
The new agreement reinforces the aligned co-development of semiconductor process, foundation Physical IP building blocks, and microprocessor core optimization necessary to achieve market-leading system-on-chip (SoC) solutions for nodes ranging from 20nm through 14nm.
"IBM has a proven track record of delivering the core research and development that is relied upon by major semiconductor vendors worldwide for their advanced semiconductor devices. This agreement will ensure we are able to deliver highly tuned ARM Artisan Physical IP solutions on advanced ISDA process technologies to meet the early time-to-market our customers demand," said Simon Segars, executive vice president and general manager of ARM physical IP division.
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At an internet cabin in Innsbruck, while waiting for my train to depart, I find a note from the illustrious British mountain runner Martin Cox, containing all of the information that I need in order to take over his flight from Bergamo, Italy to Oslo, Norway, three days from now. Due to a nagging problem with his calf and not being able to run the very steep pitches that Norway is renowned for, Martin has insisted I go in his place. His initial suggestion was to simply use his ticket and passport, thus avoiding the 100-euro name-change fee. I suggested that this might not be the best solution since we look nothing alike. More important, I told him about my long history of failed Monty Python impersonations. No, my British accent would not even fool a Norwegian customs official.
When I arrived at the first race of the season last summer, admittedly clueless in Europe's mountain-running scene, Martin took me under his wing and taught me the ways of the vagabond runner. I hadn't realized at the time that I was to be traveling from race to race with one of the legends of European mountain running, despite his blatant admission as such. "I've got my fingers on the pulse," he'd say to me. With over 10 summers of racing in the Alps, Martin has accrued no less than 50 wins. Race directors know him for his speed, temper and occasional dyed-blond hair.
From Martin I learned that a bag of chips and a can of beer can make a complete meal, that the complimentary hotel shampoo is all you need to wash your socks in the bathroom sink and which race directors to ask for travel assistance. Last, Martin taught me about the "worst type of people."
"Fell runners [English mountain runners] are the worst type of people," he said.
"But I thought you told me that the Bavarians were the worst type of people."
"I said the Bavarians are the worst type of Germans," he replied.
"Oh, then what about the Swiss Germans?"
"They're horrible, indeed. Worse than the Bavarians. But they aren't German."
I never really did find out who was the worst type of person, since they all seemed to have fallen under the category at some point or another.
For the next six weeks, we made our way from one race to the next. With a few words to each race director he would arrange for us both free entrance into the race, free lodging, three meals a day and occasionally a small sum of money for travel expenses.
I often wondered how he benefited from including me in the scene. One more decent runner meant the possibility of him finishing one more place back in the prize purse, and I knew Martin needed the money. As a grassroots sport, mountain running needs its shoestring athletes no less than it needs the race directors, aficionados or Olympians. At 39, Martin is nearing the end of his years as a hand-to-mouth professional runner. He saw in me a young, fresh heart with a resume not unlike his own. Curriculum Vitae: no job, no wife, no home, abnormal and unconventional lifestyle and, last, a willingness to earn your meal in the age-old fashion of simply running it down.
Mid-August: Turtagrø, Norway
If Martin failed to warn me about the Norwegians being the worst type of people, it's only because he figured the race courses and rules already implied it. The course is as steep as Grintovec but the rain is impossibly cold and the obligatory five-pound backpack gets heavier with every agonizing step up the trail, which starts at sea level and finishes at 6000 feet. The race is just over five miles long. Despite his age, 44-year-old Jon Tvedt wins these races in his home country by as much as 15 minutes. The two-minute lead that he maintains on me today keeps him out of sight. When I finish second to him, I am consoled by the Norwegians, who insist that the man is hardly human.


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When it comes to experimental drone metal, Skullflower have few peers. Recent releases have seen contemporaries like Sunn O))) expand their palette with saxophone, choirs and so on; however, despite having 2 CDs to play with, Skullflower have kept their focus tightly on guitar, with some minimal percussion and creepy looped vocals on City of Dis. This is not to say it is dull; it is fascinating to see just how much texture and variation mass feedback drone can be imbued with in the right hands. This particular version of Skullflower (Strange Keys was recorded in 2006/07) is essentially Matthew Bower solo. He has maintained an impressive control of the tonal structuring of the pieces here, organising blocks of scuzzed-up roar and crackle so that they slide across each other, creating a sense of depth and flow that his limited raw materials might not suggest would be possible.
Rather than aiming for contrived climaxes and false drama, he constructs pieces that circle a well defined centre of gravity, mapping out an aural terrain rather than taking the listener on a sonic journey. While Shivering Aurora has a "shaking a chainsaw inside a steel dustbin" vibe, City of Dis manages an eerie pulsing calm and Enochian Tapestries a cavernous stasis of awesome dimensions, leading through to the second disc and the restless energy of Blackened Angel Wings Scythe the Billowing Void and the almost elegiac final track Rheingold. (However abstract their music, one metal tradition Skullflower haven't abandoned is titles sounding like they've been ripped from a Gothic fantasy novel.) Monotone, they might be; monotonous they are not. Once you reach this point, it is difficult to imagine metal stripped down to a purer form. The beat has almost completely evaporated, riffs have been sanded away, all you are left with is an expression of sheer sonic muscle, a paint-stripping, yet meditative, otherworldly roar.
If metal is all about expressing power and domination, Skullflower have produced a music that begins to approximate a sound-weapon, relentlessly exerting a field of control over everyone in hearing range. In this stripping away, Skullflower are but one of a whole raft of groups exploring just how rarefied metal can become and still be metal, along with the aforementioned Sunn0))), Earth and Black Boned Angel are also following similar slowed-down, fuzzed-up paths. In essence, though, all this harks back to the multi-layered electromagnetic impenetrability of Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music, widely seen as a joke when it came out in 1975. Reed claimed that it was the ultimate conclusion of metal; 35 years later, it seems he was not wrong.


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But, not everyone one of them turns out great, do they? (at least mine don't).- Mitch
You are awesome, Norma!
Happens to me all the time. You gave me a good laugh!
I could definitely have eaten that one Norma....not a problem. Bob
Norma,That one looks more like lasagna pie then your last one. Haha.
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Mary Ann,I bet that was a mess to clean up! I still had to chuckle though. Norma
Ha! I have the very same "new and improved" container Mary Ann.If you go to place it in a low cupboard and hold it by the top lip rather than the handle you are destined for the Thread of Shame thread. It was jus a matter of time me lady! Bob
Here's my spontaneous calzone. It began life as a mis-fired launch into the Blackstone, managed to flip the hanging portion back onto itself and completed the bake. It was actually really tasty.


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Acer platanoides
Acer platanoides (Norway Maple) is a species of maple native to eastern and central Europe and southwest Asia, from France east to Russia, north to southern Scandinavia and southeast to northern Iran.[2][3]
It is a deciduous tree growing to 20–30 m tall with a trunk up to 1.5 m diameter, and a broad, rounded crown. The bark is grey-brown and shallowly grooved; unlike many other maples, mature trees do not tend to develop a shaggy bark. The shoots are green at first, soon becoming pale brown; the winter buds are shiny red-brown. The leaves are opposite, palmately lobed with five lobes, 7–14 cm long and 8–20 cm (rarely 25 cm) across; the lobes each bear one to three side teeth, and an otherwise smooth margin. The leaf petiole is 8–20 cm long, and secretes a milky juice when broken. The autumn colour is usually yellow, occasionally orange-red. The flowers are in corymbs of 15–30 together, yellow to yellow-green with five sepals and five petals 3–4 mm long; flowering occurs in early spring before the new leaves emerge. The fruit is a double samara with two winged seeds; the seeds are disc-shaped, strongly flattened, 10–15 mm across and 3 mm thick. The wings are 3–5 cm long, widely spread, approaching a 180° angle. It typically produces a large quantity of viable seeds. It is not particularly a long-lived tree, with a maximum age of around 250 years.[4][5][6][7]
Classification and identification
Norway Maple is a member (and is the type species) of the section Platanoidea Pax, characterised by flattened, disc-shaped seeds and the shoots and leaves containing milky sap. Other related species in this section include Acer campestre (Field Maple), Acer cappadocicum (Cappadocian Maple), Acer lobelii (Lobel's Maple), and Acer truncatum (Shandong Maple). From Field Maple, Norway Maple is distinguished by its larger leaves with pointed, not blunt, lobes, and from the other species by the presence of one or more teeth on all of the lobes.[4][5]
It is also frequently confused with the more distantly related Acer saccharum (Sugar Maple). Sugar Maple is easy to identify by clear sap in the petiole (Norway Maple has white sap). The tips of the points on Norway Maple leaves reduce to a fine "hair", while the tips of the points on Sugar Maple leaves are on close inspection rounded. On mature trees, Sugar Maple bark is more shaggy, while Norway Maple bark has small, often criss-crossing grooves. While the shape and angle of leaf lobes vary somewhat within all Maple species, the leaf lobes of Norway Maple tend to have a more triangular shape, in contrast to the more squarish lobes often seen on Sugar Maples. The seeds of Sugar Maple are globose, while Norway Maple seeds are flattened. Sugar Maple usually has a brighter orange autumn color, where Norway Maple is usually yellow, although some of the red-leaved cultivars appear more orange. The tree tends to leaf out earlier than most maples and holds its leaves somewhat longer in autumn.[4][5]
Cultivation and uses
The wood is hard, yellowish-white to pale reddish, with the heartwood not distinct; it is used for furniture and turnery.[8]
It has been widely placed into cultivation in other areas, including western Europe northwest of its native range. It grows north of the Arctic Circle at Tromsø, Norway. In North America, it is grown as a street and shade tree as far north as Anchorage, Alaska.[9] It is favoured due to its tall trunk and tolerance of poor, compacted soils and urban pollution.
It is becoming a popular species for Bonsai in Europe and is used for medium to large Bonsai Sizes and a multitude of styles. [10]
Many cultivars have been selected, with distinctive leaf shape or coloration such as the dark purple of 'Crimson King' and 'Schwedleri', the variegated leaves of 'Drummondii' and 'Emerald Queen', and the deeply divided, feathery leaves of 'Dissectum' and 'Lorbergii'. The purple-foliage cultivars have orange to red autumn colour. 'Columnare' is selected for its narrow upright growth.[5][11]
- Weeping Norway Maple, Acer platanoides 'Pendulum'
As an Invasive Species in North America
Unfortunately, despite its good looks and urban hardiness, it releases chemicals to discourage undergrowth[12] which tends to create bare, muddy run-off conditions immediately under the tree. A. platanoides has been shown to inhibit the growth of native saplings as a canopy tree or as a sapling.[13] Norway maple also suffers less herbivory than sugar maple, allowing it to gain a competitive advantage against the latter species.[14] As a result of these characteristics it is considered invasive in some states[15] and has been banned in New Hampshire and Massachusetts.[16][17] Norway Maple is one of three species that Meijer Garden Centers no longer sell; Meijer made this decision due to the tree's invasive nature.[18] Despite these steps, Norway Maple is still available and widely used for urban plantings in many areas.
Natural Enemies of Norway Maple
Norway Maple itself is threatened in a few areas by the Asian long-horned beetle, which eats through the trunk of trees, often killing them.
A number of species of Lepidoptera feed on Norway Maple foliage; see Lepidoptera that feed on maples. Norway Maple is generally free of serious diseases, though can be attacked by the powdery mildew Uncinula bicornis, and verticillium wilt disease caused by Verticillium spp.[19]
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- ^ Shannon L. Galbraith-Kent and Steven N. Handel (2008). "Invasive Acer platanoides inhibits native sapling growth in forest understorey communities". Journal of Ecology 96 (2): 293–302. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2745.2007.01337.x.
- ^ C. L. Cincotta, J. M. Adams, C. Holzapfel (2009). "Testing the enemy release hypothesis: a comparison of foliar insect herbivory of the exotic Norway maple (Acer platanoides L.) and the native sugar maple (A. saccharum L.)". Biol Invasions. http://newarkbioweb.rutgers.edu/Holzapfel%20Lab/Main%20Pages/People/people%20pages/Claus/claus%20pdf/8402%20Cincotta%20Norway%20Maple%20BioInv.%202008.pdf.
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- ^ Sally Kerans (May 31, 2007). "Invasive plants: Old standards get bad name". Danvers Herald. http://www.wickedlocal.com/danvers/fun/gardening/x546950923.
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The housing market downturn is resulting in billions of dollars of forgiven mortgage debt. In tax year 2008 (the most current data available), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) estimates that individual taxpayers excluded $6.4 billion to $11.8 billion in forgiven mortgage debts on principal residences. While most forgiven debt is treated as a financial gain and included in taxable income, forgiven mortgage debt is, according to complex rules, sometimes excluded from taxable income.
Through 2012, taxpayers may exclude forgiven mortgage debts from taxable income if the mortgage proceeds were used to buy, build, or substantially improve a principal residence. Forgiven mortgage amounts used for other purposes, including purchases of vacation or investment properties, would generally still be considered taxable income unless the taxpayer is bankrupt or insolvent.
Housing market data show the potential for significant revenue losses from failure to pay taxes on certain forgiven mortgage debt, but IRS is not collecting enough information to assess compliance. Complex rules governing forgiven mortgage debt may lead individual taxpayers to exclude such debt erroneously from taxable income. For example, only forgiven mortgage debts that were used to buy, build, or substantially improve a principal residence may be excluded from taxable income. However, in recent years many taxpayers cashed out equity from their primary residences and used the proceeds for personal consumption or to consolidate other debtsnot to buy, build, or improve the home. In addition, taxpayers losing investment or vacation homes through foreclosure are still liable for taxes on forgiven mortgages secured by these properties. Vacation home and investment property purchases are estimated to be well over a quarter of all house purchases in recent years. Despite the financial hardship that leads to forgiven debt, recent housing market analyses suggest that thousands of taxpayers with forgiven mortgage debt not eligible for exclusion (debt forgiven on second homes or investment property) may be able to pay the taxes legally due on such debt.
Current forms used to collect information from lenders and taxpayers on forgiven debts do not provide adequate information for IRS to assess compliance with the mortgage debt forgiveness provision. For example, neither lenders nor taxpayers are required to disclose the address of the secured propertypotentially a key source of information for determining whether the property is the taxpayer's principal residence. Also, taxpayers with multiple forgiven debts only need to indicate the types of forgiven debts and the total amount to be excluded from income, but not the individual amounts of each forgiven debt. Without this information, it is difficult for the IRS to estimate the extent of noncompliance and determine whether additional resources for compliance are needed.
GAO, in its August 2010 report cited the need to obtain better information to determine the revenue losses due to incorrectly excluded mortgage debts, and recommended that IRS modify existing forms to capture more information from taxpayers and lenders about forgiven debt and any securing property. IRS initially agreed with most of GAO's recommendations but, after further analysis, indicated that making changes to the forms would not generate benefits that exceed the costs of doing so. However, GAO continues to believe that without first revising the associated forms, any review of a sample of tax returns using only currently available data risks understating the benefits of additional information reporting. GAO continues to recommend that by taking some relatively low-cost steps, including revising the associated forms, collecting more information from taxpayers and lenders, and using third-party data to determine whether taxpayers are correctly excluding mortgage debt from taxable income, IRS could determine how much additional revenue could be gained from refocusing its enforcement efforts. Since lenders already maintain property address records, reporting this additional information to IRS is not expected to impose significant burdens on lenders. Further, as GAO previously recommended, IRS should also determine if other available data would allow it to identify taxpayers with multiple homes.
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Here are four unique cocktails created by mixologist Charles Steadman.
Pacific Punch
(Hawaiian Luau)
- 1 oz. Mount Gay Eclipse rum
- 1 oz. Captain Morgan rum
- 1 oz. Domaine de Canton ginger liqueur
- 1 oz. fresh lime juice
- 1 1/2 oz. blood orange juice
- 1 1/2 oz. water
Garnish: Orange peel lined glass with pinch of grated nutmeg on top, edible orchid, sprig of mint and coconut dust rim*
Preparation: Combine ingredients into a mixing tin with ice. Stir and strain into a collins glass or tumbler over ice.
*Take 8 oz. of dried, unsweetened coconut flakes. Place on a baking pan in an oven at 300 degrees. Allow to brown. Remove from oven and place in blender with 1 cup of baking sugar. Give a quick blend to mix and break up the coconut flakes.
Tea Violette
(Tea Party)
- 1 1/2 oz. Tito's vodka
- 1 oz. Creme de Violette liqueur
- 1 oz. fresh lemon juice
- 1/2 oz. Jasmine Tea syrup*
- 6-8 mint leaves
Garnish: Candied violet flower petals**
Preparation: Press the mint in the bottom of a mixing tin to release the oils. Add the remaining ingredients and ice. Shake well and strain into a teacup. Optional to not add the Creme de Violette into the mixing tin and instead pour it in separately after straining the cocktail into a teacup. This will give a layered effect.
*Take 1 ounce of loose jasmine tea and combine with 1 liter of water and 1 liter of baking sugar in a pot. Bring to a boil then let simmer for 10 minutes to allow the sugar to dissolve and the tea to steep. Remove from heat and allow to cool before serving.
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Tobacco Kicker
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- 1 1/2 oz. Tobacco infused Maker's Mark bourbon*
- 1 oz. Cointreau
- 2 dashes of Regan's No. 6 Orange Bitters
- 1 oz. Champagne
Garnish: Flamed orange peel
Combine Maker's Mark, Cointreau and orange bitters into a mixing tin with ice. Stir and strain into a coupe glass and top with Champagne.
*While I use a sous vide for infusing you can easily do this at home by taking 3/4 ounce of unflavored pipe tobacco (easily purchased at a local cigar shop) and 1 liter of Maker's Mark and putting both in a pot on low heat for 45 minutes. Secret is not to bring to a boil or simmer as alcohol cooks off at 172 degrees. Once it is done steeping, run the bourbon through a strainer to remove the tobacco. Allow to chill before serving.
Golden Drop
(Disco Party)
- 2 oz. Belvedere vodka
- ½ oz. Grand Marnier
- 1 oz. Fresh Lemon Juice
- ¼ oz. Honey
- ¾ oz. Agave Nectar
Pinch Edible gold luster
Garnish: Gold dust sugar rim*
Combine ingredients into mixing tin with ice. Shake well and strain into a martini glass.
*Combine 1 teaspoon of edible gold luster with 1 cup of baking sugar. Mix well.


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Wonderful Welsh Walks right at our hotel entrance! You may like to enjoy a relaxed stroll in our grounds but there are many other walks which you can take to explore the area. We have maps and routes at the hotel which you are welcome to borrow.
Some Suggested Walks
Brecon Beacons National Park (Pen y fan 886m, 2907ft)
If you enjoy walking, then you will love the Brecon Beacons National Park. Stroll through sleepy valleys, wander alongside sparkling lakes and reservoirs or hike across some of the most spectacular scenery in southern Britain.
Mynydd Epynt is an upland area of mid Wales right on the doorstep of the hotel. So if you want a good upland walk (about 13 miles) directly from the hotel, where you may only come across a farmer tending the sheep, look no further than this walk.
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Wye Valley Walk
Imagine one of the most beautiful fully waymarked long distance walks in Britain where you hardly see another walker. That is the case with the Wye Valley Walk which passes close by our front door. Follow the Leaping Salmon signs and the full walk will take you from the Source to the Sea, a distance of 136 miles. Not something to attempt in a weekend, but come and stay and walk part of the spectacular trail.
Elan Valley
The Elan Valley, set in the Cambrian Mountains, is another major centre for walking and just a short drive away from the hotel. You can explore this beautiful area with its extensive range of walks around the expansive reservoirs and dams which date back to Victorian times. There are also walks throughout the year led by the Rangers which allow you to appreciate the beauty of the Valley.
Some walks conclude at the Roman Marching Camp or the remains of Nant y Gro dam where the Bouncing Bomb was tested before the legendary Dambusters' raid of the Second World War. Most of these walks are free of charge.


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First step in gun control: background checks
In the national argument over controlling gun violence in the U.S., most of the attention seems focused on the types of guns and the capacity of the magazines that are available.
The first order of importance, we think, should be who is buying the guns in the first place. And all too often, people who shouldn't have guns wind up owning them.
The Star-Tribune's front page on Sunday contained a chilling account of a Minnesota man who is probably the last person in the state who should be allowed to own guns, and the arsenal he accumulated. Christian Philip Oberender of Carver County shot his mother to death when he was 14, served time in prison and in the St. Peter State Mental Hospital. He is in jail again, after posting pictures of himself on Facebook showing his guns spread out around him, with notes supporting the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooter.
Somehow, Oberender got a permit to buy guns. He simply switched his first and middle name on the application, neglected to mention his record of mental illness, and got permission to purchase all the guns he wanted.
There has to be a more thorough method of screening gun purchasers, better background checks, more access to the records of juvenile offenders and to the mental health records of dangerous felons.
Oberender was caught before he had a chance to act on the murderous urges that a note to his dead mother said were rising again. How many more like him are out there?


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Speaking in Los Angeles, before heading to Vancouver in Canada to continue filming the new Twilight movie Breaking Dawn, he said: "I know it's sad. A lot of actors have a bunch of people who kind of just go up and stay with them for like two months, like an entourage. "But my friends, their egos are too big. They'd be like, 'I'm not part of your entourage. I'll stay in a free hotel for a bit if it's in New York or LA but I'm not going to come out to some random town in the sticks.' "But that's kind of why I adopted the puppy. It's from a shelter and he was going to be put down. I only got him two or three days ago and they only keep them for 10 days. "He's been freaked out. It's funny. I got a private plane here from Louisiana, where I was filming Twilight, so he came out of the shelter and the next day he's on a private plane. A bit like Lady And The Tramp." The puppy doesn't have a name yet, although he joked: "I'm going to call him Robert."
is rumoured to be presenting an award at the Oscars on Sunday. But he say s nothing has been confirmed and he doesn't think he's going to have to get dressed up.
As well as the new puppy, he will be travelling with his own TV set ("they always have rubbish TVs in hotels") and some of the 5000 DVDs he's bought but never finds time to watch. Robert, who wrote two songs for Twilight's soundtrack, will also bring his collection of guitars which always now travel with him. But he said: "It 's annoying when you can't sit around and just get really drunk and stay up until five in the morning. It's not much fun." Keanu Reeves is known for living out of hotels and when he leaves, giving what he's accumulated during the stay to the crew or hotel staff. He said: "I'm a hoarder. I gave away all my furniture from Baton Rouge but with books and things, I have storage spaces all over the world."It's ridiculous. Clothes - I cannot give away clothes. I don't know why." I wear the same thing everyday and I just have piles and piles and piles of clothes and then every two years, I'll go to the storage space and kind of see what I can give away."I give away like three things, search through everything and then pack it all back up and put it in the storage space."
When the second part of Breaking Dawn is released next year, Pattinson will, like Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe, be kissing goodbye to the role that made him a global superstar. At first he found the fame suffocating and at odds with his real life, which he claimed was boring.But over the past two years, he said he has learnt how to deal with all the craziness of fans chasing him and being catapulted to instant fame. Four years ago Pattinson could walk around Soho in London, where he lived at the time, in peace. As soon as Twilight was released, that all changed - he was screamed at and chased and had to hire bodyguards.
Airports, especially LAX, are hard to deal with, he said, but he has learned to make it easy on himself by getting his ticket just 20 minutes before the plane takes off and then hiding when he gets on board. He explained: "I just put a blanket over my head and literally fall asleep as soon as I get on the plane." Planes and cars seem to be his daily routine and although award bashes may seem glamorous, for Pattinson they are just a brief part of his working life that he has to work around. And has been working non-stop since the last Twilight film, building on his romantic lead credentials with roles in Water For Elephants, opposite Reese Witherspoon, which is due for release in May, and in Bel Ami with Uma Thurman.
So red carpet invents aren't as glitzy to Robert as they seem to us.
May be it's because he's one of those awkward English actors, in the mould of Hugh Grant, but despite being incredibly famous, Pattinson doesn't like to cash in on his high-profile. He said: "I don't expect anything from anyone. So it doesn't make any difference to me, the power things. "I don't even know how to wield it at all, apart from getting free sunglasses. That's the only thing I use it for."
Critics have accused Pattinson of being rather wooden and it's fair to he has hard ly pushed as an actor in the Twilight films so far - his performances seem to consist largely of a clenched jaw and looking moody. The movies, too, have their detractors. Even vampire fans have branded it Fangs & Boon, a derogatory comparison to sickly sentimental Mills & Boon romance novels. The moaners may be silenced by the final two movies, which see Kristen's character Bella become pregnant by Edward. He then faces the prospect of having to make her a vampire or she'll be killed by their unborn baby. Pattinson said: "It's kind of scary." As always, his relations hip with Kristen is off-limits. They have never officially confirmed they are an item, although it is strongly rumoured that they are.
But when asked about for bidden love, he laughs: "There's always some kind of problem when you're in love with someone.