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Some things happen naturally and one more or less knows which road it will lead to eventually. There are other things however, that evolve on another level and then one day you hit your forehead and think "Why didn't we think of this before?" This workshop falls in to the second category. I've known Simone through our blogs for many years and we have enjoyed each others company as friends more intensively when we met for the first time a few years back here in Weimar.
As a matter of fact, come to think of it, every time I have met Simone it was here in Weimar. Our friendship developed and we often helped each other with photography and styling issues and queries about the business. One day while exchanging ideas about a styling job she wanted to do with me, we got talking about workshops … and that is when that a-ha! moment came.
Why hadn't we joined forces yet? After all Simone is a fantastic food photographer and often gives workshops in Holland. In the past she has attended a Plate to Page workshop and my food photography and styling workshop in Ettersburg last year, so what was stopping us from organizing one together? Simone already had a great location in mind and from there the ball got rolling pretty fast. It looks like Amsterdam is calling us. It's time I finally meet Simone in her hometown!
Having just completed a workshop here in Weimar in March with Sandy of Confiture de Vivre, I was convinced we should hand over the scepter for food, meal planning and design to her. She's a professional, with great ideas and is so much fun to work with. Simone needed no convincing as she had already met Sandy at the Ettersburg workshop last year.
With such a fun and professional team, putting together this workshop has flowed quite smoothly with incredible ideas coming alive as we enthusiastically put the programme together.
We have put together, what we hope will be an active, creative and fun workshop for all those who attend. We are inviting you to come join us on a 2-day food photography and styling session in Amsterdam in the wonderful "green" area of Almere. We're going to take you away to the "Groene Geheim" (The Green Secret) lodges situated in a unique location surrounded by woods and water. There is ample space for creative reflection and lots of intensive work, where you will learn all the fundamental elements you need to hone your skills in food photography. You will also be learning how to find your way through the jungle of food styling to create the perfect set-up.
Simone and I will offer focused and comprehensive sessions on camera techniques, mastering light and lighting to capture the perfect image, getting down and dirty with aperture, shutter speed, white balance and ISO, finding and selecting props for your set-up, composing the perfect shot, the rules of placement and angles. We will talk about the importance of workflow and discuss post-processing.
There will be many practical assignments, a lot of theory, hands-on group work and plenty of creative feedback from the instructors to help equip yourself with the know-how to create beautiful food and tabletop images. With an on-location photo shoot at an organic farm we hope to guide you through practical exercises where you learn how to take great images when you are on-the-go and traveling. We will not only tantalize your tastebuds with Dutch inspired meals but also push you to your limits.
Do you hear Amsterdam calling? If you are eager to join Simone, Sandy and me for a green, fun-filled and intensive 2 day photography and styling session here are the details of what the course covers, the costs and where you can register. The workshop is limited to only 12 participants and works on a first-come-first-serve basis. Presentations and main workshop language will be in English (instructors speak Dutch and German and is aimed towards beginners, novice and advanced level participants.
Day one - Friday 27th September 2013
Meet and Greet Brunch with mouthwatering Dutch delicacies in a relaxed atmosphere
Photography Fundamentals by Meeta Wolff & Simone van den Berg
Mastering the camera, natural light techniques, focusing, learning the techniques etc.
Styling Fundamentals by Meeta Wolff
Composition and placement, creating a mood/atmosphere, the right props, color, texture etc.
Styling/Shooting Demo by Meeta Wolff & Simone van den Berg
Styling / Photography session - Group work
Enhancing your Images and Workflow Management with Lightroom by Simone van den Berg
Welcome to the table by Sandy Neumann
Learn how to lay, set and create an elegant table using everyday material
Dinner: Amsterdam Calling
We'll treat you to a potpourri of Dutch specialties, taking you through some traditional dishes and crossing-over to more modern interpreted dishes.
Day two - Saturday 28th September 2013
Trip to Organic farm
We will visit an organic farm & a market for an on-location shoot and to shop for lunch
Farm to Table - Lunch & Group work
Shooting a themed assignment followed by a light lunch
Intensive work on assignment - Group work
Evaluation, discussion & critique on assignment
Constructive feedback, discussion and critique on exercises
Finale Wine and Cheese
Further details for the announcement:
2 day food styling, photography and designing sessions with Simone, Sandy and Meeta
1 night accommodation at the Groene Geheim Lodges
Friday: Meet & Greet Brunch and Dutch Specialty Dinner; Saturday: Farm to Table Lunch and Wine and Cheese
Snacks and beverages (includes alcoholic beverages) during the workshop
All material/equipment is provided for the shooting /styling sessions
Location: Groene Geheim Lodges, Almere
Website: Groene Geheim Lodges
To register for this workshop please fill out the registration here.
Limited to max 12 participants
Please Note: The instructors reserve the rights to modify the programme should the need arise.
About Simone van den Berg
I've been a photography enthusiast for most of my life with a dad that took photos of just about everything he could think of. I loved spending time together with him in the dark room and I still remember those magic moments when the photo would appear… Funny enough I've always wanted to become a photographer but there was never money to pay the expensive school so it didn't happen. Then 6 years ago I decided it was time and I quit my day job to become a full time photographer. I did weddings, portraits, pets, products anything I could think of but it quickly became apparent that my true passion was food photography. The switch from general photography to food photography went gradually and since two years it is the only thing I do.
I work for magazines, restaurants, catering companies as well as certain brands…
Blog: Junglefrog Cooking
Portfolio: Fresh Food Photos
About Sandy Neumann
Sandy is a food blogger and food photographer, who lives in Jena, Germany. Her heart, however still resides in her "second home" - South of France.
She runs the blog Confiture de Vivre where she shares her passion for French inspired recipes, stories of extraordinary people and her approach to life. When she is not baking macarons or trying out new tart recipes you will find her meeting other creative people like her friends the butcher and the baker to create new sausages or bread.
Sandy has a passion for decoration, loves crafting and has an entire room for foodstyling-props.
She is currently working on the first issue of her e-magazine, called "Fruits Sauvages", where she will reveal her secrets of hunting artisan treasures.
All photographs and written content on What's For Lunch, Honey? © 2006-2013 Meeta Khurana Wolff unless otherwise indicated. | All rights reserved | Please Ask First


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Wii play offers a compilation of 9 fun filled games for the Wii and is bundled with an additional Wii remote ensuring you can make the most of the 2 player mode. Wii play offers housr of fun playing classic games such as laser hockey and table tennis to name a few. Before you get stuck in be sure to request your Mii character, so they can represent you in the games. If you use your saved Mii character this will ensure you can save all your scores, against your character. Wii play consists of a wide variety of games, the most noticeable being shooting range, because of is reference to classic duck hunt, laser hockey which resembles classic pong or Air hockey. Others games will include Billiards, the well known pool table game and fishing. Also featured is charge, a unique racing game in which you steer a bull ridden by a Mii character. Tanks, battle it out with friends using tanks. Find Mii, follow a series of objectives to seek the Mii characters in the game. Pose Mii a fun filled game that involves moving your Mii character in a series of poses, to collect points.

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As a Flash game, Angry Animals can be played offline with two main ingredients: The Flash Player and the Angry Animals SWF, both of which must be stored locally. This is somewhat simple if one knows where to get each of those elements, but for those not comfortable with the process or firing commands from a terminal, or perhaps too lazy to even try, Zarko Zivanov created a script that automates the whole thing.
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Zivanov's script essentially runs a simple dependency check, then quits if one of the dependencies (namely
wget, tar, convert) is missing, asking the user to install them manually. If all dependencies are satisfied, it downloads the required components and creates a desktop launcher.
I liked the idea behind his script, but thought it could be enhanced with a GUI and adding some more automation and flexibility. I decided to pick up where he left it and put together a script that does the following:
1.- Offer a graphical interface for the script. After all, lots of people get easily scared by the command line.
2.- Check dependencies and automatically install whatever is missing. The script will find what is missing and automatically install it as part of the Angry Animals configuration process.
3.- Customizable launcher location. Zivanov's script had a fixed location to create the launcher: The desktop. While this is a logical place for a launcher, it relied on a path (
~/Desktop) that is only good for installations in English. As a result, I decided to offer the user the option of choosing where the launcher should be created.
So? Wanna play? If you want to easily get Angry Animals running locally on your PC, using the script I created is an quick and convenient way to do it. Here's what you should do to get it to work:
1.- Download my script from HERE.
2.- Save it locally and review the code to make sure it's safe (I know it is, but this is something you should always do with any script to guarantee the safety and privacy of your data)
3.- Make the script executable using a method you are comfortable with.
4.- Double-click on the script and you will be playing in a matter of seconds!
Here are a few screenshots which show the script in action:
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Once installation is done, the final step is to select where to create the game launcher.
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Voila!... Just double click on the launcher and go Angry Animal!
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Shane Crosby just takes down a monster to pot to claim the chip lead.
As I walk to table 27 there is a big hand in progress.Seat 5 raises to 1,025 from UTG and gets callers from seats 6 and 1.Shane Crosby in the small blind reraises to 3,500 to see all but seat 6 fold.Board reads 8c 8d Ah, Crosby leads out for 5.5k while seat 6 shoves all in for 21,300.Crosby tanks and finally calls with AK beating seat 6's A10.Board runs out and Crosby takes the chip lead with 120k.
For fans of poker that like to enjoy games on the go, Juicy Stakes and Intertops Poker have introduced a new mobile service for users of smartphones and tablet computers.
Juicy Stakes and Intertops Poker will hold their special May Day online poker tournament with a guaranteed $2,000 in the prize pool on May 1 and players are being offered the chance to qualify from Monday to April 30 via a series of satellites.
The Easter holidays are now upon us and Juicy Stakes and Intertops Poker are celebrating by holding a pair of special online poker tournaments.
Juicy Stakes and Intertops Poker will be launching their three-stage Vegas Milli Maker tournament series from tomorrow offering players the chance to win a prize package to compete in the upcoming Millionaire Maker event at the 48th annual edition of the World Series Of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas.
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|The logo of Transgender Europe. The graphic is a cog-like circular design in yellow, and the letters TGEU are in blue.
On the evening of September 30, the first night of the Council, the two women went to eat at a restaurant. As they entered the building, a couple of bystanders began yelling slurs at them. These two men invited several more passersby to join them. When the women emerged, they were attacked physically, with fists and eggs, by a crowd of men.
The attack was apparently motivated not only by cissexism but also by racism. Turkophobia runs high in Europe and has for hundreds of years.
After the incident was reported to the authorities, the police on duty did not do their job and seek out those responsible for the hate crime. Of course not. They further penalized these activists for their nationality and their gender by referring to them with incorrect pronouns, questioning their right to be in Sweden, and otherwise humiliating them. The delegates described their treatment as "".
The hosts of the conference are understandably enraged, though not surprised:
"There is no safe space for transgender people in Europe. Last night's attack showed once more that transphobia and racism are not only a problem of certain countries in Europe. Transphobia is everywhere", says TGEU Vice chair Julia Ehrt.
"We express our solidarity with our activist friends. We are sad and angry and call upon the police to do everything to persecute the perpetrators," says Dr Carsten Balzer from the "Transrespect versus Transphobia Worldwide" TvT- Research project..
The largest European Human rights event on transgender issues deals among other topics with hate crimes and violence faced by gender variant people. In the last 30 months 33 transgender people were reported of being murdered in Europe according to TGEU's TvT-project. 79% of trans people are subject to negative comments, harassment, physical and sexual abuse and violence according to the European Hate Crime Study published by Press for Change last year.
In the US, Public and police mistreatment of trans people, particularly trans women, is often egregious and violent. Duanna Johnson was
But such abuse is not limited to the shores of my homeland. Women around the world are hassled, violated, raped, and murdered, and that hatred is intensified if they are trans. When they are also a member of a marginalized nationality, they are even more vulnerable to the violent agents of the kyriarchy. And like many marginalized people, the police offer no recourse but instead another avenue of victimization. Organizations like Transgender Europe and the brave activists who populate them are vital to dismantling the global system of racism and cissupremacy that endorses and encourages such treatment.
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The United States military employs unmanned drones which fly over regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan in search of militants. The essential concept in this approach to warfare is that those at a base know where the "militants" are located and thus when missiles strike they supposedly kill the "bad people." Of course, during the Vietnam war, American military commanders were under pressure to "kill Vietcong" and whomever the local commander said was a "Vietcong," was one. Perhaps, the same problem is now occurring in Pakistan when drones land on a house. Last week, American military commanders assured the world that drone strikes had killed 22 suspected foreign militants. Local people assert many civilians were also killed in the bombing.
There is growing anger in Afghanistan and Pakistan about these raids.If Vietnam is any model, an approach that relies on air strikes to kill "suspects" will be incorrect a large percent of time. Ground forces are more effective in being able to clearly identify enemy and kill them. The air program is one doomed to create new recruits for the Taliban.


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So, today I took the Christmas money I got from my wife's grandma, and I bought the first thing that's exclusively for my custom Mando. A pair of Nerf Mavericks.
Of course, my current beat up work boots are going to become my Mando boots, and I've got old bits and pieces of things I'm gonna incorporate into my armor, but the Mavericks are the first thing that I've picked up that is solely for my Mando.
Sat down as soon as I got to work and took them apart, and did the "Russian Roulette" modification on both of them. Now the barrels/chambers roll out much further than they did originally.
I'm planning on snagging some blood draw tubes from work, to see if I can't incorporate them into my gauntlets. I'm thinking I'll fill them with some blue-ish liquid and call it Bacta (since I'm gonna be a medic). And just imagine how excited I was to find out that they almost slide into the barrel chambers.
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Send your photos to us either by emailing them to firstname.lastname@example.com or uploading them to our Facebook page and we'll feature them here. What's more, the best will also feature on the JG pages of matchday programmes and the official Arsenal magazine.
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Everyone at Arsenal Football Club sends their support and best wishes to Chairman Peter Hill-Wood who is recovering after suffering a heart attack, following a bout of pneumonia.
Peter was taken ill at home on Friday and is currently being treated in hospital. He is making a good recovery.
The Club wishes Peter a full and speedy return to health and our thoughts are with him and his family at this time.
"[He is important] for stability and the continuity of the balance of the Club and I hope he will be back very soon," said Arsène Wenger.
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NICE! i have the Big brother in .40 as well. First gun i ever bought. still have a LOT of practicing to do....
I just picked up a PX4 subcompact 9MM and got back from the range. The trigger on this is one of the best I've seen coming from the factory.
The sights are easy to pick up and it has a finger extention on one of them mags.
Took it to the range and put about 300 rounds through it. No malfunctions at all, even with my reloads.
1. Like I said it has a great trigger for out of the box and I'll leave it just like it is.
2. I thought that the finger extention would be a big help but I found myself shooting better and controlling more if I curled my little finger under the mag and used a crush grip.
3. Muzzle flip was not nearly as much as I thought it would be.
4. the sights are big white dots and easy to see but not night sights.
these were shot at 10 yards off hand with my reloads of 115 grn laser cast and 5.0 grn of WW231. 30 shots
This one is also at 10 yards off hand. 30 shots of 10 each 115 grn Gold Dots, 124 grn Gold Dots, and 115 grn Corbon DPX.
It looks like I'm gonna be loading a lot more 9MM cause I do like this little gun. It fits holsters I use with its big brother (PX4 40S&W) but the barrel is shorter, but I have some that are slide types and they work great.
I'm going to be carrying it with the Corbon DPX as they seemed to shoot well.
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- 1 package (20 ounces) turkey Italian sausage links
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 2 tubes (13.8 ounces each) refrigerated pizza crust
- 1 can (15 ounces) pizza sauce
- 1 cup sliced red onion
- 1 can (14 ounces) water-packed artichoke hearts, rinsed, drained and chopped
- 2 large tomatoes, sliced
- 2 cups (8 ounces) shredded Italian cheese blend
- In a large skillet, cook sausage in oil over medium heat for 8-10 minutes or until no longer pink. Cut into 1/4-in. slices.
- Press pizza dough into a greased 15-in. x 10-in. x 1-in. baking pan, building up edges slightly; seal seam. Prick dough thoroughly with a fork. Bake at 400° for 8 minutes or until lightly browned.
- Spread with pizza sauce; top with sausage, onion, artichokes and tomatoes. Sprinkle with cheese. Bake for 15-20 minutes or until crust is golden brown. Yield: 8 servings.
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The Canisius volleyball team has announced its 2013 schedule, which features 14 matches in the Koessler Athletic Center.
The Golden Griffins will open the season by hosting four teams in the KAC. Canisius will open play against Eastern Michigan and North Carolina State on Friday, Aug. 30, and then take on Hartford and Cleveland State on Aug. 31, as the Griffs are hosting a tournament for the first time since the 2010 campaign.
After traveling to the Mountaineer Invitational at West Virginia and the Bucknell Invitational, the Golden Griffins host cross-town rival the University at Buffalo in the KAC on Tuesday, Sept. 17. The Griffs and the Bulls have split their last six meetings, with Buffalo winning in four sets last season after the Griffs won in four sets in 2011.
Canisius opens Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference play, which features the addition of Quinnipiac, at Saint Peter's (Sept. 21) and Rider (Sept. 22). The Griffs return to the KAC for a five-match homestand, which includes hosting rival Niagara University on Wednesday, Oct. 2. Canisius then plays seven of its next nine matches on the road, starting with a match against defending league champion Fairfield University (Oct. 12) and including matches at Niagara (Oct. 19) and Siena (Nov. 9). The Griffs close out conference play on the last weekend of the regular season against Quinnipiac (Nov. 16) and Fairfield (Nov. 17).
The 2013 MAAC Championship will take place on the campus of Siena College (Nov. 23-24) as the Saints are hosting the conference tournament for the first time since the 2008 season.
Canisius posted a 16-13 record during the 2012 season, including a 13-5 record in conference play. The Griffs have played in the semifinals of the MAAC Championship five times in the last seven seasons, posting 78 wins in conference play during that timeframe.


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Discussion in 'Pistons and NBA' started by Smoooth, Jan 20, 2009.
PISTONS: True Blue Pistons B-B-B-B-BREAKING NEWS
Not much of a surprise there. Good job Smoooth.
PISTONS: True Blue Pistons Hamilton becomes sixth man; lineup change is permanent WOOHOO, The end of SB Here are the nuts and bolts and ramifications of the move: - Amir Johnson, who didn't play in Monday's win at Memphis, will be the starter alongside Rasheed Wallace most nights. But against really big teams – Curry cited the Lakers, with 7-footers Andrew Bynum and Pau Gasol – Kwame Brown will be the starter. - Hamilton will anchor a second unit that will include Antonio McDyess and Jason Maxiell at the power positions with Will Bynum at point guard. - It's not an experiment. "This is for the rest of the season," Curry said. WOOT
Sounds good. A difficult decision has finally been made. Hallelujah. My only question: Does WB at PG and Rip at SG means that AA = DNP or does he play SF as a member of bench small ball? In other words, is SB dead, or has it just gone to the bench?
Interesting. Maybe a precursor to a trade.
yea no mention of what there going to do about prince's backup.... thats a major issue too... still would prefer AI getting the backup PG mins and AA getting the scrapes of the guard mins not bynum.
Straight dope. Rip just got demoted by the ascension of Stuckey and the AI trade. for the rest of the season If Rip handles this like a big boy, it could make us a lot better.
Until a trade is made will AA go back to playing the closing seconds of quarters? There just aren't any minutes for him.
I do not believe it 'til I see it. And I did not talk about UFO's I have every right to remain sceptical: we have heard many promises from MC before the season and those turned to be rather empty. read this stuff and by all accounts it is still higely likely that we'll see lots of small balling during usually crucial 4th quarter.
They need to figure out this AJ starting thing also. They probably have played their best with him starting, but those games have been against doormats for the most part. I still prefer Kwame to start, but that would present a different set of problems. I just don't see AJ matching up against the elite teams of the league. His size makes him ideal for a bench player.
I hope Rip knows that he might be the future and be happy with what's going up.
To me, this change is largely irrelevant. I want to see how the execution shapes up in the 4th qtrs...or will we continue to run the SSS (Saunders Standard of Substitution).
Is Rip only going to play a max of 24 mpg? Curry says Hamilton will come off bench | detnews.com | The Detroit News
Anyone know if Rip has a no-trade in his extension?
I have to believe that he'd be willing to waive it if the right deal came along.
Technically, no-trade clauses do not exist in the NBA. What does exist, are trade kickers (bonuses) that make it difficult to trade a guy, because there is more money involved than the trade value. Someone either overpays to see a guy leave or arrive. Players can waive these kickers or renegotiate them IIRC.
Stuckey is the future. Rip is done (as a Piston that is, on another team he will still be one of the better SG for 3-4 more years). If his demotion to the bench is not the nail in coffin, then I do not know what is.
I was listening to 97.1 and they said that Curry said RIP would play 30 minutes a game and he would decide who would play the 4th quarter on the fly (I assume between RIP, AI and Stuck). I guess this leaves AA with little to know playing time now? Maybe he'll backup Tay. I like this move as long as RIP buys into it.
Maybe a few random DNP CD's along the way would do it.
if AA backs up Tay it's not really small ball if we still have 2 bigs in the game. to me SB is defined more by Tay at the 4 than Rip/AA at the 3. and AA has shown he can guard 3s pretty well (besides he'll be guarding bench 3s anyway). i'm glad this is over and done with. we have some stability and can work toward a common goal for the rest of the season. and rip's comments, taking it like a champ...is very encouraging.
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Samsung will launch the world's first official Chromebook in the UK this Friday, 24 June costing from £349.
The European launch of the Series 5 took place in London last night with Dinesh Chand, Head of Mobile Computing Europe, saying: "The idea of the Chromebook is revolutionary – it's about expanding people's perception of computing. Many people today are living web-centric lifestyles – they're online at home, on the move and at work. Rather than start with an existing notebook model and adapt it for the web, we've designed this from scratch to meet the needs of those people specifically." Chromebooks are laptops running Google's Chrome OS, the first of which was the non-consumer Cr-48 which was shipped as a test model by Google last year. Samsung is the first to bring a Chromebook to market though Acer has also got a Chromebook ready for launch and should be available here soon.
While the Series 5 is not quite as sleek as the high-end Series 9 we recently reviewed, at 20mm thick and weighing just 1.48kg, the Samsung Series 5 is certainly portable, which really is the point of these machines. It comes with a 12.1in 300 nit display with a resolution of 1280 x 800, will run on a 1.66MHz dual-core Atom N570 processor and has a 16GB mSATA SSD and an SDXC card reader. There will be a 1 megapixel HD webcam, dual band 802.11 Wi-Fi, optional global 3G, mini VGA port plus two USB 2.0 ports. Google are claiming a battery life of 8.5 hours so it will last you all day and an instant-on feature, which promises a boot time of under ten seconds. Security is deeply integrated within Chrome OS including features such as sandboxing, data encryption, and verified boot.
The Samsung Series 5 Chromebook will be available in the UK, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain and Italy from this Friday, 24 June, priced at £349 for the Wi-Fi model and £399 for the 3G-enabled model. They will also be available in other countries over the next few months.
It's great to finally see a Chromebook being launched here in the UK but we still have reservations about whether the general public will embrace the idea of working completely online. With no local storage, Chromebooks effectively become useless if you can't get a network or Wi-Fi connection and this could lead to a lot of frustration. It may finally show us exactly how "connected" we really are.
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- The 14th-ranked Tennessee Volunteers could not swing the momentum in singles Friday in a 4-0 loss to 17th-ranked Florida at Ring Linder Tennis Stadium.
After dropping a close doubles point that came down to court 2, the Vols (12-6, 1-3 SEC) won just one of six first sets with opportunities to win others in their first road conference match of the season.
When the Vols tried to seize momentum midway through singles play, Florida won on the three courts they needed to secure victory.
Mike Alford beat Andrew Dromsky 6-3, 6-4 on court 5 to give Florida a 2-0 lead. Senior Jarryd Chaplin broke Maxx Lipman's serve twice in the second set but could not do it a third time in a 6-3, 6-4 loss on court 4. After fighting off a half dozen match points on his own serve, junior Mikelis Libietis could not complete a second-set rally in a 6-3, 6-4 loss to Florent Diep on court 2.
Junior Hunter Reese was just one game away from his first SEC win at the top of the lineup. He led Gordon Watson 7-5, 5-4 when the match was clinched. Fellow junior Brandon Fickey lost a close first set to Diego Hidalgo and was serving at 6-7, 1-1. After getting shut out in the first set 6-0, freshman Markus Kerner finally found his footing on the indoor courts. He was serving at 0-6, 6-2, 3-4.
Libietis and Reese collected the Vols' only win on the court in doubles. The second-ranked pair improved to 25-3 this season with an 8-4 win over 11th-ranked Orkin and Watson at the top of the doubles lineup.
After Libietis and Reese's quick win, Florida assumed control on the remaining doubles courts, winning 8-5 on courts 2 and 3 for the doubles point.
Tennessee returns to action Sunday at South Carolina at 1 p.m. A live audio stream will be available at utsports.com.
1. #22 Hunter Reese, UT, vs. #106 Gordon Watson, UF, 7-5, 5-4
2. Florent Diep, UF, def. #34 Mikelis Libietis, UT, 6-3, 6-4
3. Brandon Fickey, UT, vs. Diego Hidalgo, UF, 6-7, 1-1
4. Maxx Lipman, UF, def. Jarryd Chaplin, UT, 6-3, 6-4
5. Mike Alford, UF, def. Andrew Dromsky, UT, 6-3, 6-4
6. Markus Kerner, UT, vs. Elliot Orkin, UF, 0-6, 6-2, 3-4
1. #2 Libietis/Reese, UT, def. #11 Orkin/Watson, UF, 8-4
2. Alford/Diep, UF, def. Dromsky/Kerner, UT, 8-5
3. Hidalgo/Lipman, UF, def. Chaplin/Fickey, UT, 8-5
Order of Finish: Doubles (1,3.2); Singles (5,4,2).


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Help me decide on a pocket pistol. pros, cons, and opinions. thanks
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Help me decide on a pocket pistol. pros, cons, and opinions. thanks
Already have LCP. Why? Ruger brand loyalty mostly. Like and trust their handguns. Wouldn't buy ANY Taurus because I consider them "bush league" in general. Kel-Tec's reputation is OK but I prefer Ruger's rep as well as the look of the LCP over the P3AT... Liking my LCP a lot!
I would not spend $100 for a new P3AT. I wouldnt spend $50 for one. Get anything else.
We now have both the LCP & the 3AT. I got my 3AT before Ruger came out with LCP. They both shoot the same for me. The LCP is a little nicer looking, but there is no big difference in them. :smt033
I have the LCP, It is a better quality version of the Kel-Tec
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ruger makes a great pistol!
I voted LCP. I have not owned a P3AT but did own a PF9 that functioned very well. Just wasn't for me. The LCP is clearly an unabashed copy of the P3AT which begs to question why have the copy when one can have the original? In this case, and in my opinion, the LCP seems to be a little more refined in the fit and finish department. Other factors that swayed me where the trigger is pretty darned good and you can lock the slide to the rear. If I already had a proven P3AT I wouldn't sell it to get a LCP. But starting out fresh like I did and based on my now limited but positive experience with it I'd recommend it for consideration. I am not a Taurus basher (never had one) but based on their spotty reputation I can't recommend them especially with the LCP and P3AT in the mix. Much better gamble. I paid $319 for my LCP and believe the P3AT's run about the same. Worth every penny.
I have an LCP, and it works OK. No Taurus for me, thanks. The Keltec, I might give a try...if I wanted another mouse gun.
P3AT. It is the original with a longer history and cheaper. Works first time every time.
Very happy with the LCP with a CT laser. Just seemed better made than the Keltec and I've been "burned" by Taurus' CS before.
I voted with my billfold for the Ruger LCP (3 times)...
All three have been absolutely reliable and more than self defense accurate right out of the box... I added a Crimson Trace laser to my daily carry LCP (my wife has one with the engraved slide, and the third was purchased simply because i was so pleased with the ones my wife and myself have).
I have owned two Keltecs in the past (P32/P11), and both were fine.
I just like Rugers because I've owned a Ruger of one type or another for half a century, and (knock on wood), have yet to have a bad one.
I don't care for Tauri.. The reputation for a fantastic lifetime warranty doesn't mean too much when the general reputation of the Taurus customer/warranty repair service sucks.
But, to each his own.
Best Wishes,
I've never had a failure with my P3AT and think you could use the 100.00 or so difference between it and the Little Copy Pistol to buy ammo and practice.:mrgreen::mrgreen::mrgreen:
I am giving the lcp to my daughter who is waiting on her ccw. I purchased a p238 & love it. Carl pointed me in that direction best advise for best gun, yea it cost more but is it sweet. You can see other opinions on gundirectory.com Happy shooting and stay safe
my LCP works all the time...
FYI, here's a couple pics of my LCP w/ProMag 10-rd. extended mag:
What about the new S & W Bodyguard in .380.
A manufacturer with a good reputation, and a small and light weapon.
I'm not sure how easy these tiny weapons are to shoot well. I would probably choose the one that fit the hand best. The lighter the weapon the greater the percieved re-coil. I'd go with something small and heavy that fit my hands well.
As I've mentioned before I'm a big Smith fan (2 snubby's/6 pistols), but over the years I've learned the hard way to NEVER buy a first run, or early series ANYTHING..
The "anything" includes pistols.
If you don't mind being a "beta-tester" for the manufacturer then buy away, but chances are excellent there WILL be unfound "bugs" in whatever it is that will necessitate a recall at the very least, and could malfunction at the worst time as Mr. Murphy and his "law" is alive and well in 2010..
A malfunction at the "worst time" is even more critical in a firearm you might be using for self defense.
IF I were in the market for "another" mousegun, I'd certainly give the little Smith a consideration, but from learning the hard way in decades past I'd take a pass until a few thousand, pretty much bug-free, had been sold and found dependable.
No offense to anyone, just repeating what I've tried to teach my Son on such matters.
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Hi, I'm an atheist who was raised secular, but I have attended religious services with people from many different backgrounds. Now, I don't dislike anyone who believes in God. In fact, I love to talk to people about what they believe and what inspires them to follow the God they have chosen. However, no matter how many people I talk to, the conversation almost always ends with the same argument: that, if God does not exist, then what is lost by believing in God as long as it makes life easier?
I've lost respect for many people based of this answer, since it seems to me that these people don't care if they lose their self respect in the process of making "life bearable" . Its like saying its ok to believe in Santa Claus for the rest of your life, even though he never brings you presents, because at any time he COULD bring you presents and you also have someone to blame for NOT getting gifts. And if he never brought you gifts, what does it matter? You apparently were happy about wasting you time waiting for him.
Is there another way to think of this logically? I would like to know what you think about this argument. What, if anything is wasted by believing in a God that doesn't exist. Is there any reason to compartmentalize the pain that exists in life so much that it creates a false God?
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First off, I want to start out by saying, as a new member, I am really impressed all of the responses and can't wait to explore some of your discussions.
But now to respond to as much as possible. It is hard for me to pin this question down to one or many gods since the definition of "god"is so broad and encompassing, that the actions of many gods could be interpreted as the act of one. Though I do see how it matters in the discussion. To simplify the scenario, I will treat belief human as a singular point and god(s) itself as a SINGULAR possible force or influence that causes the singular point to undergo a change. This is the closest earthly comparison I can make, since much like the forces of nature, while we can (and should) treat the different forces of nature separately and according to their own laws, we can look at the overall features forces and treat them as one in order to gain some understanding before moving to more complicated issues, or even dividing the forces.
(also, I use this example because, much like religion, science is a system of beliefs, but one with a set of logic that we can, more or less, agree on.)
Perhaps I should make clearer what I mean by "easier" first. Perhaps this statement is a paradox. What about the belief in god is easy and how does it simplify life? I will define this according to what I hear from many believers. That:
A).God(s) can grant infinite blessings, such as eternal life, and can heal infinite sorrows, including anxiety, pain, etc.
B) that God(s) grant a life after this one, explaining one of the most questioned events of a human life.
C) God(s) give a standard in which to live by, taking the guess work out of morality.
Pascal's Wager does bring up a good point that should discussed in the context of what would be the simplest and what would make life easier since...
"There is here an infinity of an infinitely happy life to gain, a chance of gain against a finite number of chances of loss, and what you stake is finite. And so our proposition is of infinite force, when there is the finite to stake in a game where there are equal risks of gain and of loss, and the infinite to gain."
I like the fact that this both depends on and rejects a full reliance on reason to answer a question. That is the reason that it works as an argument for the existence of god.I can also see how, if one does not know if God(s) exist or not or does not belong to a religious sect, this would be a perfect argument since it assumes the best of the possible situations available, which is what any gambler does when he/she tries to win the lottery. This does make life seems easier, to ignore the negative possibilities.
However, I am not a "betting" type of person, and neither is the average believer. To "bet" seems to, in the nature of betting, reject total faith, which is contradictory many religions (not all, which is why this is not a my main point).
(I have more to say and will update more latter).
This comes across as a variation of Pascal's Wager..
I have a few questions for you ... Why is it easier? Because then they don't have to put any thought into things and just accept?
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. " -- Carl Sagan
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Good post,the second one gets into the firing pin block but I'd like to add on that.
Holding the hammer back and the trigger to push on the firing pin can be awkward at best so here's an easy way for the lever systems.With the slide in battery pull the trigger and hold it there,then rack the slide.The hammer will stay cocked but as long as you hold the trigger back the disconnector can't reset.Easy peasy.
The comments about an adjustable trigger are true,setting up minimum overtravel can cause the pin to doink the block and peen it.While adding in more overtravel can prevent it,it really isn't the right cure.The firing pin block should be disengaged when the pretravel is taken up and the sear is beginning to move,the little movement of the sear escaping is inconsiquental unless the block is being disengaged way too early-which I haven't run into yet.
There are 2 cures for this.The elcheapo way is to heat the trigger lever (not the plunger lever) and slightly bend it to begin lift earlier.The proper way is replace the plunger lever.Colt used to make 4 levers,but now there is only the standard lever they use in all but the Gold Cup,and the Gold Cup lever that provides earlier lift.The GC lever is the cure and they only cost $5,and a few bucks for a new plunger (or block).Don't bother cleaning up the burrs on the plunger,it's a cheap part so throw it away.It is not unusual for a Colt to be out of time,it's been a known problem since they stopped making the other 2 levers.Normally,with the slide off,the plunger lever will stick above the frame right around .100" when the trigger and disconnector are on the sear ready to move it.
The modified Swartz system in Kimbers have been known to be out of time,but not as bad as Colt.I'm unaware of anything but the original rod length so the only cure for this is to have a good welder tig a drop of weld on top and refit it.
Replacing triggers is quite common on 1911s and seems easy,and is if you know what's going on.Some know that a few makes of triggers have longer bows than spec,and that could cause more lift of the lever system if you think about it.Don't take this approach.While it could cure your lift problem,alot of times it causes reset problems and hammer drop.The reason is the longer bow encroaches on the pretravel space and decreases it.While it sounds nice to limit pretravel,you need to have a minimum of about .060" for safe operation.Your sear feet and disconnector paddle can be thinned (and they should be equalized in thickness from side to side if they aren't) but that really isn't the proper way to do it.Occasionally even the back of the trigger's bow needs to be thinned to get proper pretravel without thinning the disconnector and sear feet too thin.
Hope this can help someone.


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NWHM is celebrating this Earth Day by shinning a light on environmentalist Rachel Carson. Rachel was instrumental in bringing environmental issues to the fore in this country.
Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life- Rachel Carson.
Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964) was an American marine biologist and nature writer credited with catalyzing the global environmental movement. She started as a biologist with the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries in 1936, but became a full-time author in the 1950s. Her first three books were about marine life, from the shore to the surface to the deep sea. But it was her 1962 bestselling book, Silent Spring, about the effects of pesticides that brought environmental issues to the attention of the American public, and later, the world. Silent Spring led to a nationwide ban on DDT and other pesticides, and the grassroots environmental movement the book inspired led to the creation of the federal Environmental Protection Agency [EPA].
Early Life, Education and Adversity
Rachel Carson was born on May 27, 1907 on a small family farm near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She owed her love of nature to her mother, who taught her daughter "as a tiny child joy in the out-of-doors and the lore of birds, insects, and residents of streams and ponds," as well as a love of reading (Beatrix Potter) and of writing. The youngest, and only child of three to attend college, she was a published writer by age 10 and regularly submitted stories to her favorite children's magazine. Rachel excelled in school, graduating at the top of her high school class of forty-four students.
At the Pennsylvania College for Women (now Chatham University), Rachel switched her major from English to biology, but continued contributing to the student newspaper and literary supplement. Although admitted to graduate standing at Johns Hopkins University for her senior year, finances forced her to complete her degree in Pennsylvania, graduating magna cum laude in 1929. After a summer course in Marine Biological Laboratory, she continued her studies in zoology and genetics at Johns Hopkins that fall.
After her first year of graduate school, Carson became a part-time student, taking an assistantship in the biology lab to earn her tuition. She also served on the zoology staff of the University of Maryland for five years and spent summers in the exciting atmosphere of the new oceanographic institute at Woods Hole, Massachusetts. She completed a master's degree in zoology from Johns Hopkins in June 1932, and then taught at their summer school for seven years. However, strained family financial circumstances, worsened by her father's death, forced her to forego her pursuit of a doctorate and seek full-time work to support her aging mother and, later, two orphaned nieces.
Carson spent the World War II years with the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, writing publicity that urged people to eat less meat and more fish; meat was rationed, and fish was not. She also wrote radio scripts for a weekly broadcast, and the series on aquatic life proved surprisingly popular. After outscoring all other applicants on the civil service exam, Carson became only the second woman to be hired by the Bureau of Fisheries. Starting as a junior aquatic biologist, she had a 15-year federal career. She analyzed data on fish populations and used lively, non-bureaucratic language to write brochures for the public. Her work culminated in promotion to the position of Editor-in-Chief of all publications for the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
All the while that she worked for the federal government, she continued her personal research and writing. Her first book, Under the Sea Wind (1941), had the bad fortune to come out just weeks before Pearl Harbor and the beginning of the war, and consequently had been buried in the avalanche of more pressing publishing topics. A decade after the disastrous timing of this beautiful book, she published her second, The Sea Around Us (1951). Chapters were reprinted in Science Digest, the Yale Review and The New Yorker; it won the National Book Award; and Carson was awarded two doctorates and a national science-writing prize as a result. This led to the reissue of Under the Sea Wind, as well as a Guggenheim grant that enabled Carson to leave federal employment and focus on The Edge of the Sea (1955).
With the resultant financial security, she bought a good binocular- microscope and a house in Maine. In 1952, she was finally able to give up her federal job to concentrate on writing. She worked on a documentary script for The Sea Around Us, which she had a right to review, but not final script approval. The very successful film won the 1953 Oscar for Best Documentary, but Carson was so disgusted by the experience that she never again sold film rights to her work.
Relationship with Dorothy Freeman
In 1953, Carson moved with her mother to Southport Island, Maine, and in July met Dorothy Freeman. This was the beginning of an extremely close relationship, which some describe as a "romantic friendship", that would last the rest of her life. Freeman was a summer resident – and married, a "kindred spirit" according to biographer Linda Lear. The two women had a number of common interests – nature foremost. They began exchanging letters while apart and shared every summer for the remainder of Rachel's life, meeting elsewhere in the off-season when their schedules permitted. Shortly before Rachel's death, she and Freeman destroyed hundreds of letters. The surviving correspondence was edited and published by Freeman's granddaughter in 1995 as Always, Rachel: The Letters of Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman, 1952–1964: An Intimate Portrait of a Remarkable Friendship.
Transition to Conservation Work
Carson continued to write for TV and popular magazines and planned a book on evolution, but abandoned the project as she became more interested in conservation. She became involved with The Nature Conservancy and other conservation groups. She also decided to acquire and preserve from development a wilderness area in Maine.
Early in 1957, one of the nieces died, leaving a five-year-old son whom Carson adopted. This additional responsibility, along with continuing care of her mother, took its toll on her, and she moved to Silver Spring, Maryland to care for them both. Around this time, a letter arrived from an old friend in Duxbury, Massachusetts, which detailed the loss of bird life in this coastal town. The idea of spring without bird songs triggered Silent Spring (1962) about consequences of DDT, which was sprayed aerially to prevent mosquitoes – and killed birds.
She worked with the Audubon Society and communicated with many scientists. Some worked for the government, which was at the forefront of the pro-chemical advocates, with projects using DDT to eradicate fire ants and encouraging other pesticide use to improve crop yields. Carson's anti-chemical stance was vindicated when the sale of U.S. cranberry products was halted due to three consecutive years (1957-59) of findings of high levels of an herbicide known to cause cancer in rats.
The Duxbury area remains the nation's primary producer of cranberries, and federal hearings about the "Great Cranberry Scandal" led Carson to wonder aloud about the possible "financial inducements behind certain pesticide programs." This was a real possibility, as the testimony of chemical manufacturers was directly contradicted by researchers at the National Institute of Health who studied carcinogens.
Silent Spring
During the two decades prior to the publication of Silent Spring, there had been an explosion of indiscriminate pesticide use, as agriculturists used new chemicals and airplane-spraying technologies developed during the war. Hundreds of millions of pounds of insecticides and herbicides were spread over millions of acres of forests, prairies, and croplands to kill insects and clear brush and weeds. Biographer Mark Hamilton Lytle writes that Carson "quite self-consciously decided to write a book calling into question the paradigm of scientific progress that defined postwar American culture." The main theme of Silent Spring is the powerful, and often negative, effect humans have on the natural world.
At a time when humans largely believed themselves to be apart from nature and destined to control it, Rachel Carson argued passionately that nature is a network of interconnections and interdependencies and that humans threaten its cohesion at their own peril: "Man, however much he may like to pretend the contrary, is part of nature. Can he escape a pollution that is now so thoroughly distributed throughout our world?" What is mainstream belief today was heretical in 1962.
Her main argument is that pesticides have detrimental effects on the environment, with their effects rarely limited to the target pests. "Can anyone believe it is possible to lay down such a barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called 'insecticides' but 'biocides'." She also accused the chemical industry of intentionally spreading disinformation and public officials of accepting industry claims uncritically. Most of the book is devoted to pesticides' effects on natural ecosystems, but four chapters also detail results on humans, including cancer and other illnesses. The book's bibliography lists 55 pages of sources.
Carson predicted increased consequences in the future. She foresaw that targeted pests develop resistance to pesticides, while weakened ecosystems fall prey to unanticipated invasive species: i.e., the birds that naturally eat mosquitoes were killed, while mosquitoes quickly evolved defense mechanisms against pesticides. Although Carson never called for an outright ban on DDT, the book closes with a call for an ecological approach to pest control.
Carson and the others involved with publication of Silent Spring anticipated fierce criticism and possibly a libel suit, and their expectations were realized. Before publication, though, the book was submitted to eminent scientists and even to Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, who was known to have environmentalist leanings, and who ultimately endorsed it. In order to generate public interest and support, the book as serialized in The New Yorker, starting in June 1962 issue. Silent Spring was issued in late September and was selected as the Book-of-the-Month for October.
The chemical companies went on the attack, and former Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, who also was a prominent Mormon, wrote to former President Dwight Eisenhower, reportedly concluding that because Carson was unmarried, despite being physically attractive, she was "probably a Communist." Critics asserted that she was calling for the elimination of all pesticides, yet Carson had repeatedly clarified that she was merely encouraging responsible, managed use with an awareness of the chemicals' impact on the entire ecosystem.
The academic community generally backed the book's scientific claims, and public opinion soon turned Carson's way. The chemical industry's campaign backfired, as the controversy greatly increased public awareness of potential pesticide dangers, as well as Silent Spring book sales. (Bill Moyers recently termed the book a "blockbuster.") Pesticide use became a major public issue, especially after the CBS Reports TV special, "The Silent Spring of Rachel Carson" that aired April 3, 1963, which showed Carson reading from Silent Spring, including this passage:
"We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven't become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe. Man's attitude toward nature is today critically important simply because we have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself…. Now, I truly believe, that we in this generation must come to terms with nature, and I think we're challenged as mankind has never been challenged before to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature, but of ourselves."
The program included interviews with a number of other experts, mostly critics funded by the $300 million pesticides industry, but Carson appeared calm and convincing, not the hysterical alarmist that her critics complained of. The TV audience was estimated at ten to fifteen million, and the public response resulted in a congressional review of pesticide dangers and the public release of a pesticide report by the President Kennedy's Science Advisory Committee, validating her scientific claims. She made numerous public appearances, including The Today Show, and received many honors and awards, including medals from the National Audubon Society and the American Geographical Society, and induction into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Unfortunately, Carson could scarcely savor these fruits of her labors, for she was so seriously ill with cancer that completing the final manuscript of Silent Spring had required tremendous determination. She died on April 14, 1964, just two years after the publication of her warning of a spring without songbirds, her own prescient voice silenced by bone cancer.
Rachel Carson's longtime agent and literary executor, New York City's Marie Rodell, spent nearly two years organizing and cataloging Carson's papers and correspondence for archiving. She arranged for the publication of an essay, combined with photographs, as a book: A Sense of Wonder, which encourages parents to help their children experience the "lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world", which "are available to anyone who will place himself under the influence of earth, sea and sky and their amazing life." Additional previously unpublished work was edited by Linda Lear and issued as Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson.
Rachel Carson's impact cannot be overstated. Her most important legacy was the coalescing of the general public around ecological issues and the establishment of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Silent Spring is generally credited with inspiring the modern global environmental movement. In its collection of the 100 most important people of the 20th Century, Time magazine said: "Before there was an environmental movement, there was one brave woman and her very brave book."
Carson's early literary education enabled her to distil dull scientific facts and translate them into the lyrical prose that engaged her readers. The Sea Around Us stayed on the bestseller lists for 86 weeks, including 39 weeks in first place; by 1962, it had been published in 30 languages. Thus, she was able to connect with the general public and to weather the abuse resulting from Silent Spring.
Rachel Carson and the environmental movement were—and continue to be—criticized by chemical trade industry groups and conservative legislators as unnecessarily restricting economic freedom. The policies of the Reagan and Bush Administrations emphasized economic growth at the expense of environmental regulation, rolling back many of the environmental policies, and we are today seeing pressure to drill at sea and to deforest national preserves and other wildlife areas in response to the current economic crisis.
Posthumous honors
Since her death, a variety of groups — government institutions to environmental and conservation organizations to scholarly societies — have celebrated Carson's life and work. In 1980, she was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States, by President Jimmy Carter. The U.S. and several other countries have honored her on stamps. Rachel Carson is also a frequent namesake for prizes awarded by philanthropic, educational and scholarly institutions.
Her birthplace and childhood home in Springdale, PA, now known as the Rachel Carson Homestead, is a National Register of Historic Places site. Her home in Colesville, Maryland, where she wrote Silent Spring, was named a National Historic Landmark in 1991.From Maine to North Carolina, numerous conservation areas bear her name. She is memorialized by buildings and schools in Maryland, Virginia, and DC, including the ceremonial auditorium at the U.S. EPA's main headquarters.
Carson summarized her thought in 1958: Awareness of ecological relationships is — or should be — the basis of modern conservation programs, for it is useless to attempt to preserve a living species unless the kind of land or water it requires is also preserved. So delicately interwoven are the relationships that when we disturb one thread of the community fabric we alter it all — perhaps almost imperceptibly, perhaps so drastically that destruction follows. ["Essay on the Biological Sciences" in Good Reading.]
Almost two decades later, in 2007, the Editor-in-Chief of the Chemical & Engineering News Rudy M. Baum, acknowledged the power of Silent Spring: "A certain moral outrage suffuses the book: 'Who has decided—who has the right to decide—for the countless legions of people who were not consulted that the supreme value is a world without insects, even though it be also a sterile world ungraced by the curving wing of a bird in flight? The decision is that of the authoritarian temporarily entrusted with power; he has made it during a moment of inattention by millions to whom beauty and the ordered world of nature still have meaning that is deep and imperative.' Carson's prose gave voice to millions who yearned for a value system that effectively opposed the indiscriminate poisoning of their world in the name of economic efficiency."


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- 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons butter, softened
- 1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon sugar
- 2 egg yolks
- 5 teaspoons grated lemon peel
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1-3/4 cups confectioners' sugar
- 6 to 8 teaspoons lemon juice
- 1-1/4 cups pistachios, toasted and finely chopped
- In a small bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the egg yolks, lemon peel and vanilla. Combine the flour, cornstarch, baking powder and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well.
- Shape into a ball, then flatten into a disk. Wrap in plastic wrap; refrigerate for 1 hour.
- On a lightly floured surface, roll dough to 1/8-in. thickness. Cut with a floured 2-1/2-in. doughnut cutter. Place 2 in. apart on greased baking sheets.
- Bake at 350° for 10-12 minutes or until lightly browned. Remove to wire racks to cool.
- In a small bowl, beat confectioners' sugar and enough lemon juice to achieve desired consistency. Spread over cookies. Sprinkle with pistachios. Let stand until set. Store in an airtight container. Yield: 1-1/2 dozen.
Originally published as Lemon Pistachio Wreaths in Taste of Home's Holiday & Celebrations Cookbook Annual 2011, p74
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The Johns Hopkins University is hosting the 86th American Chemical Society's Colloid and Surface Science Symposium in Baltimore, MD on June 10-13, 2012. The meeting includes 13 parallel sessions, a poster session, 28 invited speakers, and 28 session organizers. A new addition to this meeting is the Langmuir Student Awards presentation session with application details given on the conference website.
Abstract submission is now open and the deadline is February 7, 2012. Up-to-date information on the meeting can be found at the website: www.colloids2012.org.
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You may have noticed that I have been off the grid a bit over the last few months.
My family has been experiencing a great deal of loss over the last 6 months.
We have had 7 members of the family pass away in that time.
Most notably, my Father.
I lost my dad a month ago and it has greatly affected me.
I'll get to all of the PMs as I can, but to be honest, I'm not really concerned about costuming right now.
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Song for the Mute's fall / winter 2012 runway show was unveiled on one of the many catwalks of Melbourne fashion festival (VAMFF) and Fashionising.com was there to capture each look.
You can see all of the Song for the Mute autumn (fall) / winter 2012 runway collection by clicking on a thumbnail on the left. From there you can browse through each of the pictures from the fashion show.
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any have a vest template size L
if you have one can please sendme to
firstname.lastname@example.com :D
thanks in advance
oh and sorry if exist another post but i just cant find :facepalm
I would love to have one if someone has them. In a large or an X-Larg
Pleas PM me
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Me 5 ....It's always good to have these things around for "emergencies"...:lol
You guys may want to check out a vest pattern by "Simplicity" the # is 9806, and you can get it at Walmart. YOu will have to do minor alterations, but its a really good base pattern to use if you want to sew your own, and its not overly difficult. Lisa Fett had a great tutorial around here somewhere, and I believe that is the pattern she recomends. Hope that helps:) PM sent Secol:)
I agree, I used the Simplicity pattern and it worked great. The patterns aren't that expensive.
I use a hospital scrubs pattern as the basis for mine. You just have to make sure that you have a scrubs pattern that has an armhole and separate sleeve as opposed to the kind that has the body piece and arm piece as one continuous piece. I add to the side seam to account for the folds I use for my hidden snaps on both sides and I modify the actual sleeve pattern piece into the shape I need. Easy-peasy. And if you are thinking of doing two separate pieces instead of a flightsuit the scrubs pattern comes in handy yet again as you could use the long sleeve pattern with some alterations and that most have a type of pocket marked out on the pattern for placement on the pants. Works well...although I prefer the flightsuit version now that I've made both.
What kinda material did you use. i bought some white acetate, it is basically fake satin (sheen on one side and super shiny on the other) i also bought the biggest cheerleader outfit i could find and still have to add a few inches.
uugh to many projects at one time
The first time I made it I used matte heavy satin with a backing of the same cotton fabric that I used to make the flightsuit. It looked good, but didn't do well with the velcro (tons of snags). Then I installed snaps and ended up with all sorts of little "runs" in the satin. This time I decided to forego the satin look and used a cotton twill - the same as for the flightsuit, again doubled. If I had only been wearing my gear once in awhile I would have stuck with the satin.....but it just isn't fabric that is meant to be abused and since I wear my gear alot it wasn't really feasible for me.
Are you punching holes and installing the snaps directly to the vest. That may be the reason you had problems with the runs/tears. A method that has worked well for me and others, is to attach your snaps to a piece of elastic first, then sew the elastic pieces, (with the snaps attached,) on to the vest. Just ans idea you may want to try;)
Go to www.tk409.com he has some great help on these.
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Sports32 Announces 2012-13 Phoenix Basketball Coverage
By: Andrew Gavin (@GBGavin)
GREEN BAY, Wis. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) - The Green Bay men's and women's basketball teams will appear on Time Warner Cable Sports32 at least 11 times throughout the 2012-13 basketball seasons, Director of Athletics Ken Bothof and Time Warner Cable Wisconsin General Manager Mark Strachota announced on Tuesday.
The Green Bay men's basketball team will have four games produced by Sports32, including Dec. 19 against Marquette (Milwaukee market only), Jan. 3 at Wright State, Jan. 9 against Loyola and Jan. 31 at UIC. Chris Roth will handle the play-by-play duties for each of the games, with Phoenix Hall of Famer Jeff Nordgaard (Dec. 19, Jan. 9, Jan. 31) and Andrew Gavin (Jan. 3) serving as the color analysts.
The Phoenix men will also appear on Sports32 at least three other times during the season through the Horizon League Game of the Week package - Jan. 5 at Detroit, Jan. 19 against Cleveland State and Feb. 2 at Loyola. The team's home contest against Detroit will either be televised as an HLN Game of the Week or on ESPN2.
Three women's games will be produced from the Kress Events Center and feature broadcast teams very familiar to Phoenix fans. On Dec. 23, Green Bay hosts Wisconsin on Sports32 at 7 p.m. with Matt Menzl, host of Inside Phoenix Basketball, and Cordero Barkley on the call. Menzl and Barkley are the home radio team for Phoenix men's basketball. Roth will team with former Green Bay player Mary (Kulenkamp) Simonsen for the broadcasts on Jan. 8 against Detroit and Feb. 14 against Cleveland State.
Inside Phoenix Basketball presented by Miller Lite, a weekly basketball coaches show, will also be seen throughout the 2012-13 season on Sports32. The men's show featuring head coach Brian Wardle airs on Thursdays at 5 and 10 p.m. while the women's show featuring Kevin Borseth airs on Fridays at 4 and 10 p.m.
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Dec. 23 - Wisconsin
Jan. 8 - Detroit
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Hours after the announcement that Peaches Geldof passed away, stars took to Twitter to remember the model/television personality.
Ms. Geldof was found dead at a home near Wrotham, Kent, England on Monday (April 7) at the age of 25. See the touching tributes from fellow stars below.
Looking for an excuse to get all gussied up, a bunch of beautiful ladies headed over to The London Hotel in West Hollywood for the 50 Most Fashionable Women of 2013 soiree hosted by Who What Wear and Cadillac.
"Simple Life" starlet Nicole Richie was the center of attention as she arrived in a lacy cat-ear headpiece to go with her beaded black ensemble.
Things over at the ABC show "Revenge" keep getting shaken up, and the latest change was just announced- Ashley Madekwe will make her departure.
According to a report, the "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People" actress will still appear on the Season 3 premiere, but after that it's farewell.
Gearing up for the forthcoming awards show season, stars flocked to the Golden Globe Nominee Party in West Hollywood last night (November 29).


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sck5 has it exactly right. I teach most of the ASA classes.
I have never had anyone fail the Basic Keelboat exam.
That's not to say, we pass people indiscriminately, but you'd have to try very hard to fail that class. I keep going over the material until you get it.
It's the instructors job to ascertain who needs extra attention or extra practice.
The best advice I could give, would be to read the book ahead of the class.
Relax and try not to overthink, let the instructor guide you through.
Ask relevant questions.
The written test is pretty easy if you pay attention. I find the biggest trick to the sailing skills for students is....paying attention to where the wind is coming from, getting a feel for the boat, and teamwork handling the sails.
sck5, has also hit on a phenomenon that I notice, mostly in my male students. Some of them lose focus and get distracted by the goofiest stuff.
ADD? They start looking off to other boats, or something happening on shore, start asking questions that have nothing to do with the task at hand?
Next thing they know they have turned the boat around and don't understand what happened. They turn their heads to look at something, and turn the tiller with their head......;-)
You'll be fine! It's not good business to take $500.00 or more from someone for a Fun recreational sport...and then have them fail at it.
Also, sailing schools WANT you to pass. They dont make money or get a good reputation by failing students. If you arent getting it they will go over whatever you didnt get so you can pass.
I asked the instructor in one of my ASA courses if he had ever failed someone. He said yes, there was a guy who just couldnt concentrate enough not to pull dangerous stunts like sudden turns or mistaking port and starboard and he felt it would be wrong to pass him since he might endanger people. He also said that the point he thought a relatively high bar should be imposed is the ASA 104 exam which certifies you to go off and captain a bareboat. Even then he said the goal was to help people pass if they could reasonably do it in good conscience. He also said almost all of the people willing to cough up hundreds of dollars for sailing lessons really did want to learn all they could so he rarely had a problem. Basically, he said (as people above did) that most folks had the desire so they did fine.
ASA is designed so that you pass the test if you read and digest the materials. It is in your and the schools best interest that you pass and continue on. I have heard of only two people that did not pass, and it was because they decided not to take the test because they decided that sailing was not for them.....for whatever reason.
As you go up in numbers you should continue to pass as long as you are interested. The most difficult is Navigation, but even that can be easily passed with work.
Have fun and you will do just fine.
|Wow, you guys are great. Thank you for the encouragement.
Do the reading - answer the questions (till they are understood, not rote) and then ESPECIALLY follow Jackdale's link above. Everything that will be on the test is covered there.
Jitters are natural in any test taking for some people (me included).
|I also took ASA 101 last year and the exam was nothing to be overly concerned about. I too was nervous but my instructor was great and I passed without a problem. Good luck and no worries!
Me and Mrs. took four ASA courses in December, on a 42 ft. catamaran in the BVI. We were distracted somewhat because we were sailing all day long and taking the written tests late afternoon after anchoring, or in a couple cases in the morning. But basically, if you do the reading, and it all makes sense to you, the test questions will make sense to you too.
If something you are reading or learning is NOT making sense to you, then my suggestion would be to have someone explain or demonstrate it until it does make sense.
Cause that's what you want to end up with, anyhow, isn't it?
And it all makes sense.
Study the questions and answers at the end of each chapter in the ASA Basic Keelboat book, you'll be okay. Even though your lessons are by day, pay attention to the running lights, several questions on this. Also capacity plate, what not to throw overboard, when/how to report accidents, what are the 5 top things making a sail dangerous (like fuel leak, insufficient PFDs/fire extinguishers, overloaded, etc.), buoyage, basic rules of the road, stuff like that. It's all in the book and chapter reviews at the end. This is good stuff to read up on in advance
On the practical how-to-sail side, you'll want to show you can tack, jibe, hold course, get sails trimmed right, and get from and to your dock under reasonable control, know how to do a crew overboard recovery (life cushion used, much lighter to get back on board, ha ha), know the basic parts of a boat, how to anchor, how to reef (not on test, but you should learn it), get out of irons, general stuff. You learn this stuff by doing much more so than reading about it, ask questions (lots of them) and "it'll come to you" as you sail. Then read after each lesson, the book makes much more sense once you've sailed a little rather than vice-versa.
You'll be fine.
|I took ASA 101 last year and I did better than expected but I did study! If you feel you understand the information then you'll do great. That's the whole point anyway. Only 1 trick question. Good luck!
|It is nothing to worry about. I believe that the tests are mostly multiple choice. If you pay attention and read over the book you will do fine.
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A new Google Doodle has been released to celebrate the first day of winter in the Southern Hemisphere (readers based in the Northern Hemisphere will hopefully be getting a little something for the start of summer soon).
The Doodle has been created by artist Christoph Niemann and shows a combined scarf and glove being knitted into the shape of the Google logo.
Niemann is a German illustrator and graphic artists whose work frequently appears in The New York Times. As well as creating artwork for print, Niemann has also experimented with digital technology. In 2013 he created an interactive app called Petting Zoo, where various cartoon animals react to the users' prods and swipes. A behind the scenes story of the app can be read here.
The beginning of winter or summer in various hemispheres is known as the solstice – a biannual event where the Sun appears at either its highest or lowest point in the sky. This variable placement is created by the axial tilt of the Earth, the same quirk of planetary alignment that gives the earth its seasons.
The name solstice comes from the Latin sol for sun combined with the verb sistre, meaning to stand still. The term has been in use at lease since the time of Pliny the Elder – the Roman natural philosopher who used the word in his Natural History, published between AD 77-79.
The opposite of the solstice is the equinox, another word with Latin etymology meaning "equality of night and day".
In prehistoric times solstices were important markers that helped early farmers plant and harvest their crops. Many ancient structures in Europe are associated with marking the solstice including Newgrange – a site in Ireland that has an approximate construction date of 3200 BC is older than both the pyramids and Stonehenge.
Although archaeologists can only speculate as to the exact significance of Newgrange, its interior spaces and stone passages align with the rising sun, meaning that during the winter solstice light floods the central chamber.
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'"We just want to start trying to do a lot of the little things right," said Sabres assistant coach James Patrick, who played on that 1998-99 team. "Lindy's been harping on that for a couple weeks now."'
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Update: Prosensa Sinks On Drug Disappointment, Sarepta Gains
Sarepta Therapeutics (SRPT) and Prosensa Holding NV (RNA) were both big movers today, although in very different directions.
At recent check, Prosensa was down 69%. Earlier today the company, partnered with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), announced that the primary endpoint in its Phase 3 study of its Duchenne muscular dystrophy treatment Drisapersen was not met.
In a randomized double-blind study of 186 boys over 48 weeks, the drug did not show statistically significant improvement in the 6 Minute Walking Distance (6MWD) test compared to a placebo.
On a conference call, management said that it could take weeks, if not months to analyze the data, and thus could not offer guidance in regard to its next step would be.
By contrast Sarepta was jumping 22% on the news, as it is developing the drug Eteplirsen as a rival treatment. Barron's Andrew Bary correctly predicted last month that Prosensa's loss would be Sarepta's gain. Nonetheless, there was some chatter about potentially increased difficulty for Eteplirsen's approval in the wake of the Drisapersen disappointment.
Still, both Needham's Chad Messer and Robert W. Baird's Brian Skorney view the news as a bullish event.
Messer writes "Although we concede some people, potentially including the FDA, may now be more skeptical of exon-skipping technology in general, we are confident in Etelpirsen's efficacy based on the long-term consistency of the Phase IIb data." He also believes that with Drisapersen's removal, there is less risk to Etelpirsen's market share position. He has a $57 price target on the stock.
Skorney also notes that the news may not be all positive, given the possibility of caution from regulators, but writes "we believe the elimination of Prosensa as a potential competitor more than offsets any increase in risk to the fundamental thesis." He has a $63 price target on the stock.