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What size drill bit for a 5/8" Bolt?
I am building a Pergola with 5/8" Lag bolts to support the posts to the beams, and I want to make sure that the drill bit I use is not too big. What size drill bit would you use to get a 5/8" Lag Bolt through?
7/16" to 1/2" for 5/8" lag screw, BOB
Bob; the root diameter of any thread will be the proper size. Root diameter is the dimension of the bottom of the thread. You can Google " pilot hole for 5/8 lag bolt" and bet the exact size http://www.portlandbolt.com/technica...olt-chart.html Here is a chart for ya.
Correct skymaster Thanks for the chart. 13/32" is what they state for 5/8" lags which is 1/32" shy of 7/16" I don't think that will make that much of a difference, being that a 7/16" spade bit would be more common for a home owner or DIY'er Thanks again.
you guys're makin' what little hair i have left hurt :laughing: just pick a bit that's the size of the bolt's center EXCLUDING thread height,,, threads're for pullout strength & the center's for shear,,, scheeeesch, next thing you know, i'll probably find a couple of you on the ibmwr site :whistling2:
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Thank you guys, I will use your advice. Much appreciated! I may be on here this weekend, bleeding & injured, and asking more questions as the Pergola is going up. :thumbsup:
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76 r 90/6, 82 r100rs, & fyk 85 r100rs,,, can't being myself to spend the $$$ for newer models,,, 75s is a great bike - c bars ?
apologies to the rest of the board/thread
The C bars wern't big enough, I converted to the bars from RT, and I ponder going to even bigger custom bars that come back further.
I don't see many air heads in san diego, is it tought to keep them up? Are most parts available? I have done tons of work to my k75s but it runs like a top even with 62K on it.
My apologies to the rest of the board/thread as well.
i have a sofa i need to drill holes in the frame to screw in legs the threaded bolt on the legs is 5/16 i also purchases tee nuts that are 5/16-18x3/8 that were recommended from leg manufacturer. i would like to know what size drill bit i need to use for this. i would appreciate any help you can give thank u mary jane
i'd use 1/4" :yes:
If you want the two members to pull together tight you'll bore two sizes of holes concentric. The first hole ( anchor hole ) will be the root diameter of the screw through the first member and into the second member the required distance. The second boring should be the major diameter of the screw completely through the first member. This will allow the screw head and washer to pull the two members together tight. Where you'll really see the difference is with twisted warped lumber.
Sometimes good things take a little longer.
The hole for a 5/16" t-nut should be 3/8". The length of your t-nut is 3/8", so, I'd drill it 1/2" deep.
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Adam Goodes, Kurt Tippett, Sam Reid and Lance Franklin joined forces for the first time in the 19-point victory amid high anticipation and expectation. Reid said on Saturday that even he was unsure if and how they would complement each other. But the highest-priced forward line in the game quickly proved its contribution this season could stretch far beyond kicking goals.
"I think everyone was a bit curious, including myself, to see how it was going to go with the four big guys up there," Reid said.
"But, while we are four big guys, we can actually move around quite well. We rotated a lot due to varying levels of fitness, I guess. But the beauty of it is that we aren't big lumbering tall blokes.
"We've got Tippo, who's obviously a bit of a man-mountain up front. He can stay home a bit and if we can isolate him he can be pretty damaging. Goodesy, myself and Buddy can go up the ground and have a bit of a run around. I think we worked to each other's strengths pretty well. It was pretty exciting, to be honest."
Reid played a high role, he said, and helped out Tom Derickx in the ruck without Lewis Roberts-Thomson and the injured Mike Pyke. Franklin went looking for the ball, too, yet gained enough possession inside 50 metres to have nine scoring shots.
"He didn't kick that straight but he was getting into the right spots," Reid said.
"Goodesy was up a bit higher too, but due to his fitness he had to go back at times. As weeks go on he'll be able to play more of a role up the ground, move around a bit more."
After the match, coach John Longmire said he'd been confident of having Reid help in the ruck, as he had done in the reserves before playing senior football.
"He's got great agility and a big tank and can run all day," Longmire said. "When he's able to use that in the ruck it adds another string to his bow."
Reid said he needed only to look to his brother Ben at Collingwood to see how valuable versatility can be.
"He was drafted as a forward, then he was an All Australian defender and he's been going forward at times for the past year or two, so I don't have to look far for inspiration of how it can be done and how effective it can be," he said.
Pyke will be monitored at training this week to assess his availability for the clash with Essendon in Melbourne on Friday night. Either way, Reid said he expected to spend time working on his rucking.
"If that's best for the team, going in there to provide a contest in the ruck - not necessarily win too many hit-outs - and be able to work over the other ruckmen a bit and get them blowing, I'm happy to do it," he said.
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Officers of the state police Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement in Punxsutawney last week discovered two moonshine distilled liquor stills, one near Rossiter and the other in Cooper Township, Clearfield County.
Sgt. Shawn Fischer, district office commander of the BLCE, said it's rare for agents operating out of the Punxsutawney office to find a still, let alone two in one week.
Unlike the stills typically portrayed on TV — hidden in the forest of some southern state and operated with a wood fire — the illegal stills found locally were out of sight in sheds and had propane-fired heat sources.
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waffle house have security cameras that can identify those teens and put them on the 5 o'clock news. i'm not a cop so i'll be a good witness once the good guys come. can i have a refill on my coffee please.....
This is a discussion on You witness three teens leave a restaurant without paying... within the Carry & Defensive Scenarios forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; You and a friend are having dinner at a Waffle House at around 5:00 and witness three teens leaving the restaurant without paying for their ...
You and a friend are having dinner at a Waffle House at around 5:00 and witness three teens leaving the restaurant without paying for their meal.
Your friend urges you to go with him into the parking lot to confront the teens and attempt to stop them from leaving.
What do you do?
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waffle house have security cameras that can identify those teens and put them on the 5 o'clock news. i'm not a cop so i'll be a good witness once the good guys come. can i have a refill on my coffee please.....
got to texas as fast as i could...Fuhgeddaboudit!
Besides notifying and witnessing it...i'm not doing anything else. This is a nonviolent crime and doesn't even involve property damage.
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This is one of those things that wouldn't even hit my radar. I might point out to the server what's going on. I might write down the license plate if I could see it from where I was sitting. I'm not getting out of my chair. In fact, I'm still eating.
They're stealing waffles, for crying out loud.
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Waffles don't rate a whoop azz. Notify and keep on eating.
Cold waffles are nasty.
While I may notice that the teens left without just compesation to the proprietor, I'm busy eating. Pass the butter and the syrup please.
draw and fire...multiple hits on all of the non paying teens...for being stupid enough to eat at the waffle house instead of someplace with premium food if they are not going to pay...if youre gnna rob a restaurant rob a good and expensive one for gods sake!..(the preceding was a joke for those whos pants are a bit too tight today)...
what the heck business of mine is it if a couple of kids decide not to pay their bill at the waffle house?...
I'm going to possibly die for a $25.00 waffle bill? I don't think so!
I would get the tag number of the vehicle if I could see if from my seat, and let the management of the waffle house know about it.
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I am doing absolutely nothing in this incident, despite the fact that these kids are probably due for a good tuneup to get them in check. I'm not gonna start a possibly violent confrontation over someone not paying $20. Sounds like this guy was overly eager to play cop for a day.
In the words of the 911 dispatcher:Like others have said. Be a good witness. Get a plate number if I can see it. Finish breakfast."Now do what now,"
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How would I start the editor in the HTML source mode instead of the WYSIWIG mode?
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comment:1 Changed 10 years ago by martinkou
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comment:2 Changed 10 years ago by martinkou
- Reporter changed from martinkou to anonymous
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1294774&group_id=75348&atid=543656 have been marked as dup of this bug
Moved from SF. Original poster: alfonsoml
Has this been implemented? I still can't see anything in the API that allows it?
Moved from SF. Original poster: tallyce
The editor can be started in source mode using the following code (although this doesn't truly avoid starting in WYSIWYG, just the end result is source mode):
<script type="text/javascript"><!-- function FCKeditor_OnComplete(editorInstance) { // Switch the editor from WYSIWYG to SOURCE on startup. editorInstance.SwitchEditMode(); } --></script>
The FCKeditor_OnComplete function is executed once the editor has loaded. Outside of using this hack in your pages to force the editor to switch on startup, the current editor doesn't support a textmode option by default.
The biggest problem with this scenario is when Gecko or IE "massages" the underlying HTML for purposes not explained by anyone. I know that some fixes for these events already exist in FCKeditor, but it would still be nice to have this function implemented so that the IFRAME initialized with the source active instead of the WYSIWYG view.
Moved from SF. Original poster: ytztech
It�s not possible in the actual version. I�ll manage to include it on future versions.
Best regards, FredCK
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comment:3 Changed 10 years ago by martinkou
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comment:4 Changed 9 years ago by fredck
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comment:5 Changed 9 years ago by w.olchawa
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comment:6 Changed 9 years ago by fredck
- Milestone set to FCKeditor 2.7
Changed 9 years ago by fredck
First patch proposal. Not intended to be the final solution.
comment:7 Changed 8 years ago by OlaA
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Are there any news on when this feature will be included?
Changed 8 years ago by OlaA
Modified proposal
comment:8 Changed 8 years ago by OlaA
I tested the proposal patch on 2.6.4, and modified it a bit to make it work. I've tested it on Firefox, IE, Opera and Chrome. It seems to be working well but I'm not sure it's suitable for a final solution.
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It's supposedly this short video, The Innocence of Muslims, a film by California film maker Sam Bacile (currently in hiding), which incited the violent overthrow and destruction of the U.S. Embassy in Libya that took the life of Ambassador Chris Stevens and 3 other Embassy staff members.
While the film isn't new, produced in 2011, it was recently dubbed into Egyptian Arabic and has been the center of attention lately for radical Islamist who seem eager as ever to stage violence in the middle east in the name of Allah.
Terry Jones, the Florida pastor most famous for his burning of Qurans which previously sparked deadly riots in Muslim nations, posted on his website Tuesday that he would be re-broadcasting the trailer for "The Innocence of Muslims" as part of a day of "International Judge Mohammad Day" in which the Muslim prophet is subjected to a mock trial, accused of "promoting murder, rape, and destruction of people and property through his writings called the Koran."
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It is almost that time again – time for school to let out for the summer. This can be a bittersweet time for parents. While it is nice to get a much deserved break from the daily grind of packing lunches and dealing with homework, it can be hard to find things to keep the kids entertained. In these difficult economic times, expensive summer camps and vacations may not be an option and more and more parents are looking for simple, economical ideas for summer fun. Starting now, each week through Labor Day weekend, I will feature at least one fun and inexpensive summer fun idea for kids to enjoy. This week's summer fun idea is stamping with fruits and vegetables to create a work of art.
Summer Fun Idea – Stamping With Fruits and Vegetables
What You Need:
- White (or any other light color) sheet or pillowcase
- Construction paper
- Fruits and vegetables (potatoes, apples, celery, star fruit, corn on the cob, mushrooms, cauliflower, and bell peppers work great)
- Washable, non-toxic paint (you can use homemade paint for this as well)
- Disposable aluminum containers for paint (pie tins work great)
- Paint brushes
- Wash fruits and vegetables and dry thoroughly.
- Cut fruits and vegetables in half and pat the moist inside portion dry. For the cauliflower, simply break into florets.
- Pour paint into disposable aluminum containers (but don't throw them away; wash them and re-use!).
- Take paint supplies and sheet, pillowcase, and/or paper outside and set them up on the driveway or sidewalk.
- Dip a paintbrush into the paint and paint color onto the cut end of a fruit or vegetable (you can also dip the cut end of the fruit or vegetable directly into the paint but this is much, much messier). Use a paintbrush to paint corn on the cob as if it were being buttered.
- Holding the dry end of the fruit or vegetable, stamp designs (roll the corn on the cob) onto the sheet, pillowcase, or paper.
- Use a paintbrush to paint additional designs or add writing (don't forget to sign your name!).
- Rinse brushes thoroughly, let air dry, and dispose of used fruits and vegetables.
Kids love to make their own creations, and stamping with fruit and vegetables is a fun, inexpensive way to create a masterpiece as well as a great summer memory. Parents will love that the mess stays outside and that washable paint makes clean-up easy.
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The Fearless Freep. A strange little number out from the other side of the county. Robert John Stephens "& friends" are the ones responsible for this one. Their press kit thought it was being clever, asking me if I liked pop songs. They thought it might be amusing to bend my ear about how Stephens (as the Freep) previously had some 40,000 downloads thanks to the last album, No Less Sordid. Thought it might be good to tell me about how hard the musician's world is, that money is but some imaginary substance most days. Hell, you didn't have to tell me that.
I dig The Fearless Freep.
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And Fall Is How You Sleep
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For once, the silly, over-dramatized words of the little bits of paper that come with all these discs was absolutely right. Mr. Stephens has certainly concocted a pop album, that while might be the farthest thing away from people's first notion of what "pop" is, nevertheless is everything pop is. Got that? I hope so. What I mean is that there are plenty of nice melodies, hooks, vocal bits, and guitar parts here to move you, to groove you, to make you play and fall is how you sleep over and over again.
But it's not going to hit you like a hammer.
No, The Freeless Freep are not about blind siding you with larger than life sounds that would sell millions upon millions of CDs and Coke bottles. And while the notion of them doing just that wouldn't be so bad, the fact that it doesn't sell pop culture in a glass means that the songs have a longevity that not even The Muffs could imagine. (And where are they now, anyway? See!) We're talking about 10 songs here, tucked inside a strangely textured, burnt sienna sleeve (kind of looks like mud, or an adobe hut), that never fails to catch fire.
"And why is this?" you may arsk.
"Because," as the man so once elegantly said. And that man is me. It won't take you long to look. Just put on the first song, "It's All Good" and listen to Stephens drag out the Freep slowly, coaxing you along. Dig how the bass drum is mixed a little heavier than the rest of the drums, so that if you indeed have a subwoofer, you can hear the backbeat like a steady pulse. It's an interesting effect. "And we staple all the corners down / Board up all the holes / It's just the shadows and the noises now / Burned in a fiery glow / As we smoke 'em out one by one / We snuff 'em out one by one / And it's . . . all good" sings Stephens as the song forms a monumental melodic sigh that suckers you in. Oh, it's good all right. Very good.
It's been noted that Stephens probably can't escape comparisons to bands like Dinosaur Jr. I will admit that he does have a kind of J Mascis-ish way of singing and doing the slow song thing, but otherwise there's not much to compare. And I for one think that's good, as Mascis hasn't excited me over an entire album since his major label debut Green Mind 10 or so years ago. I'd sincerely like to see him come up with something as sublimely catchy as Stephens' "Corrections" here with its steel guitar lines and rattle trap drum fills.
There's also the chunky "It's All Soup" (needless to say, no pun intended) that features Stephens rocking out in his own way. It's a spacious sound, lots of gap between the guitars, the drums, and the vocals, but it does rock. You've not heard anything like this, I guarantee. And dig the two chord grumble of "Tonight, We're Stepping Out of Bounds Tonight", that sounds like as if it might have drawn inspiration from The Velvet Underground's "Venus In Furs" or "All Tomorrow's Parties". Exquisite.
Consider and fall is how you sleep an indie rock milestone of low light inventiveness and slow burn creativity. Robert Stephens takes his time to present the songs here, and the listener should definitely allow them to play out and sink in. The Fearless Freep may not be about the instant payoff, but they certainly know how to write excellent songs with that extra something that keep one listening. So yeah, I can believe this band had 40,000 downloads of MP3s at one time.
But now, it's really up to you to hear and believe it as well.
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Belle & Sebastian Write About Love
Write About Love, the seventh release from twee pioneers Belle & Sebastian, is lazy, goofy, playful and content. In other words, it's everything a reunion should be.
For those unfamiliar with the Scottish pop-act, B&S are a collective that have more or less been the voice of lonely hipster boys and girls ever since The Smiths broke up. With songs comprised of stories semi-autobiographical, introspective, and sometimes outright fictional, frontman Stuart Murdoch has been capturing the imaginations of those lonely hipster boys and girls for the past decade and a half.
The problem with hipsters, and hipster bands, is that the musicians and fans who love them one day grow up. They get married, find jobs and perhaps have kids who will one day become disillusioned with middle-class life and make music about it (see: Arcade Fire). Despite how the years have dragged both B&S and their fans into a post-B&S era, it doesn't mean we can't be nostalgic for the glory days.
Fresh from a four-year hiatus, B&S return with a culmination of styles seen in past works, from the folk-pop of If You're Feeling Sinister (1996) and The Boy With the Arab Strap (1998) to the string-laden, bouncy production of "radio-friendly" affairs Dear Catastrophe Waitress (2003) and The Life Pursuit (2006). Their last record, Pursuit, felt very much like a bookend showcasing the limits of what B&S is capable of musically. Bandleader Stuart Murdoch is aware of this on Love, and isn't trying to rewrite the indie rock handbook. He's simply here to remind you he exists, and to remind you why you loved B&S so much back before life got in the way.
The sounds on Love are always familiar, yet never recycled. Though much of the charisma and youthful energy that made past efforts so lovely and timeless have been replaced with worn, tired arrangements, Stuart and the gang are never too old to have a little fun. While it would be a stretch to liken the presence of Norah Jones and actress Carey Mulligan (An Education) to that of mid-life crisis stunts, it's hard not to smile with B&S in their gentle mischief. On the title track, Mulligan makes the lines, I hate my job! I'm working way too much! Every day, I'm stuck in an office! somehow playful and charming.
If anything, Love is far more interested in its audience than any of its fictional characters. Tell me all about your man and your hopes and the flaws of your life, waxes Stuart on "Come On Sister." Narratives take a backseat emphasis, as Stuart mulls over the past with a positive demeanor: Every girl you ever admired, every boy you ever desired/ Every love you ever forgot, every person that you despised is forgiven, he preaches on New Wave-flavored closer "Sunday's Pretty Icons."
Musically and lyrically, Love maintains a peaceful tone as it effortlessly strolls through neo-soul, recycled Motown riffs and retro '60s pop. With the exception of boogie freakout dud "I'm Not Living In the Real World," the record favors consistency over needless risk-taking. Unquestionably fueling the band's contentment is the presence of God, who is seen "shining up from Her reflection" on "The Ghost of Rockschool."
In every way, Love is the kind of sellout album that should enrage longtime fans, but doesn't. Compared to other B&S albums, Love is sorely lacking in the hook department. Most of the time, it sounds bored and senile. It features a sultry duet with Norah Jones that will no doubt be heard in your local Starbucks one day. It's also probably the first B&S album you could give to your mom.
The genius of Love, and its "sellout" aesthetic, is that the record captures where the audience is in life right now. Most longtime B&S fans are no longer moping in high school hallways: they've already fallen in love, and work nine-to-five shifts. They're worried about things like savings accounts and the war on terror; the war of nerds and jocks nothing but a distant memory. The only place Love has in their lives is in escape and nostalgia. Even if Write About Love isn't perfect, like real life, it plays on the best of what used to be: of what we had and what made bands like B&S so magical.
Stuart Murdoch understands we've all moved on. He's moved on, too. Love isn't here to impress. It's a largely forgettable album, and by the time the record needle stops spinning, many of the tracks will probably be gone from memory. But before that happens, you'll be smiling and thinking of the good ol' days.
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It's a very mature album. I love the lyrics. As for the whole--I don't know, I listened to it every day for two weeks, it still doesn't haunt me the way their other albums do. Even if Pursuit was their sell-out record, I think I had more fun with it. Until this record, every B&S album had AT LEAST one song that would give me the chills or hit home in a strange way. This one more or less fades from memory.


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By Earline Byers
The city of Des Moines has provided me with these significant details for scheduled transportation improvements in the city in response to my request for information for my column.
This money is available for new projects using grants, but not easily for paving streets as noted below by Mayor Dave Kaplan:
S. 216th Street: The Washington State Transportation Improvement Board awarded the city of Des Moines a $4 million grant for construction of S. 216th Street (24th Avenue to 18th Avenue South) including the 24th Avenue S. intersection. The city plans to advertise this segment for construction in October with construction beginning in the spring of 2013. Construction costs are estimated to be $7.5 million.
24th Avenue South: The city expects a $3 million federal grant for construction of 24th Avenue South (S. 208th Street to S. 216th Street) in July, the project will be advertised in 2013 when the federal funds become available, and construction will be substantially completed in 2014. Total estimated road construction costs are estimated at $7.3 million.
There will be restrooms at the end of the (light-rail) line but new federal funding requirements could alter some of the planned off-site mitigations for the new South 200th Street station.
Despite the funding concerns, the SeaTac City Council approved unanimously on June 26 the development agreement between the city and Sound Transit for the new station set to open in September 2016.
Sound Transit will provide the land and build the restrooms as part of the parking and retail structure. However, the restrooms will be operated and maintained using funds from leases of retail space.
Sound Transit will design the restrooms so they can be used after the businesses close in the evening.
At their June 12 meeting, some SeaTac lawmakers voiced concerns about the restrooms being closed after hours, especially with people coming from longing distances to the southern most light-rail station. Other council members said unattended restrooms open at night might be magnets for crime.
Sound Transit project director Miles Haupt noted at the earlier meeting that his agency does not normally operate restrooms at their stations.
Press release:
The Port of Seattle Commission has honored three airlines as winners of the 2012 Fly Quiet Awards for their efforts in 2011 at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
Alaska, Virgin America and SkyWest Airlines were honored for their strong commitment to noise reduction.
These awards highlight what can be accomplished when an airport and airline work together on noise reduction:
Fly Quiet Bravo Award – Alaska Airlines Awarded to the quietest airline among the top five carriers at Sea-Tac. Alaska has replaced their older MD80s with newer Boeing 737s, creating a quieter fleet of aircraft. Alaska has also been a key partner with the Port and the FAA to pioneer the Greener Skies Initiative, which is developing quieter and more fuel efficient approaches set to be implemented by 2013.
Fly Quiet Award – Virgin America . Awarded to the quietest airline among all other carriers at Sea-Tac. Virgin America has a full fleet of newer Airbus A320 and A319 aircraft and consistently excels in adhering to noise abatement flight procedures.
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The Hyde Shuttle began operating a combined route in the cities of SeaTac and Tukwila June 4. The Hyde Shuttle provides free rides to seniors (55 years of age or older) and to people with disabilities.
It is a cooperative venture between Senior Services (an agency promoting the well-being of older adults) and King County Metro.
The awarding of the route follows several weeks of discussion between the two cities and Senior Services. Available resources from Senior Services and Metro, coupled with a demonstrated need for increased accessible transportation in SeaTac and Tukwila, along with some fortunate timing of the request, have combined to make this possible.
The Hyde Shuttle provides door to door transportation for qualified individuals to various local destinations including grocery stores, senior centers, medical appointments and other neighboring venues.
It will not, however, provide rides to the airport. The shuttle operates Monday – Friday, with general hours between 9 a.m.- 4 p.m.
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King County Executive Dow Constantine on Thursday, June 14 recommended alignments and station locations for two more RapidRide lines connecting Burien with Renton and Shoreline with Seattle.
The F Line in South King County will travel from the Burien Transit Center – via SeaTac and Tukwila – to downtown Renton, with a possible future extension to The Landing in North Renton. It will stop at both the Link light rail and Sounder train stations in Tukwila, plus connect workers to jobs at Sea-Tac Airport, Boeing worksites, and the Southcenter retail area.
"Implementation of the F Line is more than just moving people from one place to another," said Councilmember Julia Patterson. "This east-west connection is about creating more opportunity for people to access jobs, services and shopping in South King County.
"With links to Link light rail and the Sounder, people of South County will have access to mobility options like never before."
What about the restrooms at the end of the light-rail line?
That was the controversial question before the SeaTac City Council June 12 as they discussed the proposed South 200th Street Station development agreement between the city and Sound Transit.
City of SeaTac program manager Soraya Lowry said restrooms would be part of the retail development at the station.
Sound Transit project director Miles Haupt noted his agency does not normally operate and maintain restroom facilities at light-rail stations.
But SeaTac Councilman Barry Ladenburg questioned whether bathrooms would be available before the retail spaces are developed. He also said the restrooms should be open after businesses close for the night for light-rail riders.
Councilman Rick Forschler noted the station would be at the end of the line until light rail is extended to Des Moines or Kent. He said that while many patrons at other stations may live near them, many riders at the last station might travel from farther away. He said the operation and maintenance of the restrooms should be shared.
"This is a weak area (in the agreement) that needs to be patched," Forschler said.
Take the family on a Father's Day bike ride on the second Burien Bike SaFaRi of 2012, Sunday, June 17.
The ride will follow a quiet, flat, 3.5 mile loop that connects Burien's Town Square with several parks, community spaces, and schools to the north.
A lot of locals enjoy strolling along the nice, wide sidewalks along 4th Avenue SW, but fewer folks have discovered some of the quiet streets – such as 6th Avenue SW – that serve as safe, pleasant north-south connectors for people walking or bicycling to school, parks, the community center or downtown Burien.
SaFaRi bike riders will meet up at 2:00 pm and begin the ride at the grassy knoll in the middle of Burien Town Square. With playground stops for kids, plan to be back at Town Square by 3:30pm, just in time to get the charcoal started for that Father's Day BBQ!
Burien's Wild Strawberry Festival will be going on at the same time. Ride your bikes up to the Festival, take a break for a Bike SaFaRi, then finish off back at the Festival.
Four students from Aviation High School are among the 160 high school juniors from across the state who have qualified for a spot in the Washington Aerospace Scholars (WAS) Summer Residency program.
Savannah Mattson, Tran Tonnu, Jacob Wagner, and Dustin Werran competed against nearly 300 students for acceptance into the Summer Residency.
They began in December by completing eight online lessons and a final project developed by NASA. Their academic performance on the WAS Phase One curriculum qualified the four AHS students for the Phase Two residency program.
As their final project, students created a proposal for a future colony on Mars. They were challenged to design a colony capable of sustaining 30 colonists for an extended period of time and to create a visual design of their colony. Top designs will be displayed at the Museum of Flight.
Press release:
Starting the evening of Monday, May 14, and through early Thursday morning, May 17, there will be night-time lane closures on westbound State Route 518, International Blvd, Air Cargo Rd, S 170th St, S 160th St, and the Airport roadway system to support the installation of roadway signage for the opening of the new Rental Car Facility.
Monday, May 14 to Tuesday, May 15
Between 8:00 pm and 4:00am construction crews will have lanes closed on S 170th St and Air Cargo Rd. Travel lanes will be open through the construction work zones to support traffic.
Between 11:30pm and 4:30am construction crews will have two lanes closed on the southbound lanes of the Northern Airport Expressway. Travel lanes will be open through the construction work zones to support traffic.
Tuesday, May 15 to Wednesday, May 16
Between 8:00pm and 11:00pm construction crews will have lanes closed on eastbound State Route 518 in the vicinity of the Airport exit. Travel lanes will be open through the construction work zones to support traffic.
While few Highline residents may use the Sea-Tac Airport's new consolidated rental car facility, its opening on May 17 will bring local benefits.
With the twelve rental car companies all consolidated in one location away from the airport, congestion along SeaTac city streets and airport roadways will be reduced, along with the resulting pollution from the vehicles.
The project also generated $25 million in local taxes as well as creating 3,900 local construction jobs during the great recession. Up to 350 trades people worked at the site at one time.
The massive five-story, $2.1 million square foot facility is located at South 160th Street and International Boulevard. The building, which is the largest concrete structure on the west coast, is easily visible from State Route 518, just southwest of the Tukwila light rail station.
Although construction has stretched over three years, airport managing director Mark Reis noted at a May 9 pre-opening celebration the project has been more like a "17-year journey" with several stops and restarts.


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Handling Poultry Safety
What We Do.
At Bell & Evans we take every precaution to ensure the chicken we offer you is safe. It starts on the farm where we enforce stringent bio-security practices for each flock.
For over 20 years, Bell & Evans voluntarily takes samples from each flock to screen for the avian influenza virus. In the unlikely event of an outbreak, birds would be handled according to USDA guidelines. More Info
What You Do.
When you bring it home, you need to observe some simple safe-handling guidelines when preparing chicken.
Like other raw foods, poultry should be handled with care to minimize the risk of foodborne illness. Most foodborne illness is caused by storing foods at room temperature, cooking or reheating at too low a temperature, or for too short a time, keeping cooked foods at room temperature, washing hands improperly, using poor personal hygiene, and using the same utensils and serving dishes for raw and cooked foods.
Proper washing of hands and utensils is a crucial step in the prevention of food-related illness. Wash your hands with warm soapy water for at least 20 seconds immediately before you start cooking and between cooking tasks and dry them on clean towel. Use separate cutting boards for raw meats, cooked meats, and vegetables and fruit.
An important food safety rule to remember is to keep hot foods hot and cold foods cold. Most disease-causing bacteria are killed at temperatures above 140oF. To ensure all disease-causing bacteria are killed throughout unevenly shaped poultry pieces; internal temperature recommendations are slightly higher-165o-180o F., depending on the part. Bacteria are not killed at temperatures below 40oF., but low temperatures slow their growth. So adjust your refrigerator to keep the temperature no higher than 40oF.
Most foods can safely remain at temperatures between 40oF. and 140oF. for no more than 2 hours, including serving time and time cooling in the refrigerator. Foods kept in a chafing dish that is hotter than 140oF. can be held for about 4 hours. To chill cooked foods as quickly as possible, place them in a covered shallow pan or container in the refrigerator or freezer immediately after the meal is finished. Use the leftovers within 2 to 4 days. Reheat leftovers to at least 165oF.


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Always cracks me up when people bring up the price point of a bridge camera being in the same ballpark as a DSLR.
Heck . . . a Dodge Ram, Ford or Chevy/GMC truck can cost more than a Lincoln Town Car . . .
Dude! The OP said he wanted a DSLR but could not afford it. That's why I mentioned the cost of the DSLR. Crack that up.
As with ANY camera, once you get used to the EVF of the higher end bridge superzooms, manual focus is very easy.
I can quite happily get used to an EVF on a larger sensor cam like the EP-2. Heck, I can even focus well on the LCD of the PEN EP-2. It's certainly not the same with my older bridge cam.
And to be perfectly honest, most cropped-sensored DSLR viewfinders are almost (notice I said "almost") impossible to manual focus, not to mention that DOF preview is not accurate like in an FF digital or 35mm film SLR and really not any easier to use than the EVF of my FZ50 or other superzooms.
Sure. That's why I emphasised that the OVF has to be clear.
Manual focus handheld shot from my FZ50:
Took this shot during the first week I owned the FZ50 (frame number 189) . . .
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Last Monday Ling passed her driver's test, on her first try no less! And as in so many events of this spring, I was half a continent away so missed both the trauma and the celebration.First the trauma.Teaching driving can drive (ha ha) a parent to drink or even worse, texting. 16 year olds don't like being told what to do by their parents, and even less being critiqued every couple of seconds.I had hoped that the driving school and the husband would do the bulk of the teaching, k … [Read more...]
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Pumps & Systems, July and August 2007
A review of traditional metering pump designs, along with a look at some of the new technologies that are being introduced.
The metering pump is a positive displacement chemical dosing device with the ability to vary capacity manually or automatically as process conditions require. It features a high level of repetitive accuracy and is capable of pumping a wide range of chemicals, including acids, bases, corrosives or viscous liquids and slurries.
Basic Components
The pumping action is developed by a reciprocating piston which is either in direct contact with the process fluid, or is shielded from the fluid by a diaphragm. Diaphragms are actuated by hydraulic fluid between the piston and the diaphragm. Metering pumps are generally used in applications where one or more of the following conditions exist:
- Low flow rates in ml/hr or gph are required
- High system pressure exists
- High accuracy feed rate is demanded
- Dosing is controlled by computer, microprocessor, DCS, PLC, or flow proportioning
- Corrosive, hazardous, or high temperature fluids are handled
- Viscous fluids or slurries need to be pumped
The metering pump is usually driven by an AC constant speed motor. Variable speed, pneumatic, and hydraulic drivers are also utilized. The liquid end design and materials of construction are determined by the service conditions and the nature of the fluid to be handled. Temperature, flow rate, fluid viscosity, corrosiveness and other factors are considered.
The drive mechanism translates the rotary motion of the driver into reciprocating movement. Industrial duty pumps will submerge this portion of the pump in an oil bath to assure reliability during continuous operation. Pump flow rate is adjustable by varying stroke length, effective stroke length, or stroking speed. Most metering pumps are supplied with a micrometer screw adjustment. The micrometer can also be replaced by an electronic or pneumatic actuator to adjust pump flow rate in response to process signal.
Metering Pump Characteristics
The pumping action is developed by a reciprocating piston. This reciprocating motion develops a flow easily represented by a sine wave. Actual flow rate is determined by the following formula:
Flow rate = Displacement x Cycles per unit of time
The metering pump flow vs. stroke characteristic curve is linear. It is not, however, necessarily proportional, in that 50 percent stroke setting may not equal 50 percent flow. This is due to the fact that the calibration line may not pass through 0 on both axes simultaneously.
By measuring flow at two stroke settings, plotting both points and drawing a straight line through them, other flow rates vs. stroke can be accurately predicted. The steady state accuracy of a correctly installed industrial grade metering pump is generally +/- 1.0 percent or better. Although a metering pump can generally be adjusted to pump at any flow rate between 0 and its maximum capacity, its accuracy is measured over a range determined by the pump's turndown ratio.
Most metering pumps have a turndown ratio of 10:1, which means that the pump is within its accuracy rating anywhere between 10 percent and 100 percent of capacity. New generation metering pumps have been introduced that feature higher accuracy, and a greater turndown ratio of 100:1. Some of these new designs will accurately dose anywhere between 1 percent and 100 percent of capacity.
The maximum capacity of a metering pump is determined by gear ratio, piston diameter, and motor RPM.
Liquid End Designs
The liquid end, which is referred to as the wetted part of the pump, is selected to meet the specific service conditions of the application. Required flow and pressure ratings are considered, as well as the physical and chemical properties of the liquid. The liquid end's ability to protect the environment is also a major consideration when dealing with toxic or hazardous chemicals.
All liquid ends have several features in common. First, the liquid is drawn into the wetted end by the rearward motion of a piston, and expelled by the forward motion. To achieve this, the metering pump is supplied with check valves at the suction and discharge connection points. The check valves contain and release the chemical based on system conditions and gravity.
During the suction portion of the stroke, the motion of the piston lifts the suction ball check from its seat, allowing liquid into the pump. At the same time, the piston's motion and system back pressure hold the upper check valve (discharge) closed. This is then reversed during the discharge stroke.
Check valves are available in several different designs and configurations. There are single or double ball configurations and poppet style check valves. Selecting which type to use can be determined by the manufacturer based on capacity required of the specific pump.
For example, slurries or liquids with large fibers or particles can cause a single ball to leak if particles are trapped between the ball and seat. Therefore, a double ball check offers more stability and accuracy. On the other hand, since each check valve causes some resistance in the flow path even when open, viscous fluids are better handled with a single ball suction check valve.


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|New Spanish breastfeeding campaign
from the Massachusetts Breastfeeding Coalition.
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We've heard from a lot of readers this week about what they think the "breastfeeding essentials" are, and we've seen quite a few comments about how breastfeeding organization should not market breastfeeding.
What we want to hear about are your ideas to market breastfeeding to the masses.
Do you have an advertising idea that reinforces one of the positive aspects of breastfeeding?
How would you give breastfeeding a makeover so that women view it as glamorous, sexy, essential? Or fill in your adjective - what attributes do you think we can emphasize to make breastfeeding more acceptable, appealing, desirable to more women?
You don't have to have a degree in marketing to come up with a catchy campaign. One ordinary father recently revealed his advertising prowess when he came up with a new slogan for the Massachusetts Breastfeeding Coalition's Spanish breastfeeding campaign (pictured in this post).
So let's hear it: give us your ideas for advertisement. Think about magazine ads, television commercials, YouTube videos, pictures splashed across billboards or buses, signs to put up in doctors' offices, flyers to put in hospital take-home bags. Who knows, your idea could be the next big ad campaign!


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Evolutionary Psychology & Embodied CognitionPublished 28 January, 2013
A recent paper published in the journal that hosts this blog, Evolutionary Psychology, explores an idea drawn from a set of ideas that travel under the label "embodied cognition." Storey and Workman report some research in which subjects played a Prisoner's Dilemma game while holding something hot (chemical hand-warmers) or cold (freezer packs). They predict and report that holding something warmer rather than colder leads to more cooperation because there is, in their words, "a link between real world temperature sensation and feelings of psychological warmth."
The "link" is built on two ideas, and I apologize to the authors if I'm not rendering either or both properly. From what I can tell, the idea is that close relationships during development are literally "warm" because of the close physical contact involved with hugs and such. This history of feeling warm during such encounters causes a psychological association between literal warmth and close relationships. The second source of the "link" is neurophysiological, and the authors draw on findings that suggest that trusting someone leads to activation in the same brain area as one implicated in processing temperature.
The most important thing that strikes me about this application of the notion of "embodied cognition" from the standpoint of an evolutionary/functional analysis is that the proposal here is that, whatever the cause for the "link," the effect of the link is to cause people to make mistakes. In the context of relationships – or decisions to cooperate or defect in an interaction – there are a number of cues that might reasonably be useful to attend to when making a decision. Is this a person I've known and will continue to interact with? What is the magnitude of the possible loss if I cooperate? Is there evidence that this person is disposed to like (dislike) me? These should, as normative and adaptive matters, be taken into account when making decisions about social interaction. If there is a long shadow of the future, for instance, then the expected value from subsequent interactions is greater.
In the reported work, subjects play ten rounds of a Prisoner's Dilemma game, two blocks of five rounds holding either the hot or cold object, with the blocks counterbalanced. If I have understood the analysis correctly, the authors report that the payoff people earn is higher when the subjects in a PD pair are holding the hot object compared to the cold object. (My interest here is in the theory, not the stats, but it seems to me that the correct analysis is the frequency of Cooperate choices (a binary variable) by individuals rather than the payoff data to pairs, but it's possible I misunderstood the analysis.)
In any case, to return to the theory, the temperature of what one is holding is a non sequitur. And I mean that in the literal, logical sense. The temperature of the room or the temperature of one's hands is not any sort data on which such decision-making ought to be based, like choosing a mate because of their sign of the zodiac, or some other arbitrary, irrelevant property. Therefore, to the extent that temperature influences decisions, these decisions are being affected by irrelevant information, and are in error just to the extent that these effects are felt.
The ideas that motivate research of this type in the embodied cognition literature, then, rely on what strike me as a peculiar sort of byproduct. In the present case, the fact that two properties co-occur leading one to use the presence of one property when making decisions about the latter. There seems no obvious reason that noticing such co-occurrences ought to have such an effect. Further, the association seems to be particularly imperfect. People also get warm when they're angry, possibly explaining why we have expressions such as hot under the collar. In Steven Brust's novel, Five Hundred Years After, one character is explaining why he took care to be armed, saying:"Your Venerance, my master the Baroness gave me to understand the affair might become tolerably warm," again illustrating how one might, from such constructions, have derived the reverse prediction.
More generally, it strikes me as just an odd sort of byproduct. Would it really have been that hard to engineer the trust system in such a way that it simply ignores the extraneous and irrelevant information about the temperature of one's hands? Now, before the accusations of a commitment to "optimality" fly – lookin' at you, Gary Marcus – of course there are any number of reasons that the mind might not be optimally designed. True enough. But as side effects go, this one seems particularly odd or, to put it another way, particularly easy to engineer out.
Further, it seems to me that there are just many facts about the world that don't fit the notion. If being a little warmer makes you more trusting, should we find that our friends in the hot Philippines by and large are more trusting than our colder friends in Norway? It seems we should. But they're not. By a far cry (see Fig. 1).
I might note that an additional source of motivation for the Storey and Workman paper is that it builds on prior results in this area, especially that of John Bargh and colleagues. I haven't been following this work closely, but my sense is that there are at least some worries that the initial findings can be replicated. Again, I'm not an expert in this area, but it was a bit surprising to me that some concerns that have arisen in this area were not discussed by the authors.
The larger point is that most of the work of this type in embodied cognition, it seems to me, posits that the mind has the peculiar property of using a ton of irrelevant information in making decisions. Not only that, but there are any number of bits of irrelevant information the mind might use in making decisions. I myself have never really understood how one chooses which bits of irrelevant information are good candidates. Now, again, don't get me wrong, I suspect that there are any number of cases in which the mind does indeed use irrelevant information – perhaps findings under the umbrella of the halo effect might be good exemplars. But information such as "heat" seems to me like an odd candidate for having an effect on social decision making.


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Valley boy to honor soldier's gift of life at 2013 Rose Parade
Soldier's kidney saves life of Palm Springs boy
"When we're in PE changing, they're like, "How come you have the scar? I'm like, "because I had a kidney transplant," said Ernesto Bravo Chavez.
The healthy 11-year-old is a sixth grader at Raymond Cree Middle School in Palm Springs. Sick at age three, he was diagnosed with a kidney disease.
Ernesto's mother Rosario Chavez says it was difficult watching him suffer while in need of a kidney transplant. Ten months of dialysis later at Loma Linda University Medical Center, Chavez received the best gift of all on her birthday -- the call of a compatible kidney for her son.
Ernesto's donor, Gabriel Barajas, of Los Angeles, was a part of the Special Forces team that captured Sadam Hussein. Barajas returned from three tours in Iraq when he was killed in a car crash and gave Ernesto a second chance to live.
"He's a hero to all of us," said Ernesto.
"To understand what his disease was and to also understand that someone died in order for him to live, it's truly touching to see that in a 12-year-old," said Julie Humeston, the director of transplants at Loma Linda University Medical Center.
Come New Year's Day, Ernesto and 30 other organ recipients selected from across the nation, will raise awareness and bring hope to thousands as riders on the Donate Life float at the 2013 Rose Parade in Pasadena.
"I feel nervous because it's my first time doing it," he said.
The float serves as a memorial to organ and tissue donors. It's also an inspiration for others to do the same.
"That day, for some, is kind of tough because emotions come back for the ones that they've lost, but it's also the excitement for them to see the gift that was given in the life of Ernesto," said Humeston.
Ernesto's transplant surgeon and LLUMC family visited the desert to send him off.
"Its so emotional to see one of my kids, one of my patients go all of the way and be probably one more hero that we have," said transplant surgeon Dr. Pedro Baron.
Thanking God for their guardian angel Gabriel, Eernesto's family never considered becoming organ donors. Now, they'd like to return the favor and wish others would become donors to help save a life too.
Ernesto's message to his donor and brave soldier, "I'd say thank you for the kidney. I'm better now. I can do sports, anything."
He and his family will help build the Donate Life float during the next few weekends, including decorating a floragraph portrait of Barajas, which will be adorn on the float.
Bravo says the Barajas are apart of his family now. He sees them about twice a year.
Ernesto will be old enough just in time to ride in the parade as he will celebrate his 12th birthday on Dec. 20.


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{Dairy-Free} Halva and Pistachio Ice Cream
July 16, 2012
No one will argue that ice cream is the perfect way to cool down and treat yourself to something delightful. There are endless flavor combinations of ice creams floating around, but I'm pretty confident you haven't come across this perfect blend of halva and pistachios. I'm excited to introduce it to you. You might have had pistachio halva, but rest assured this halva and pistachio ice cream takes it up a notch. Mainly because the pistachio ratio is dramatically increased and complements the smoothness of the halva against the velvety texture of the ice cream.
What got me even more excited about this recipe is that I was able to make it without an ice cream maker. It's also healthy, naturally sweetened, and dairy-free. That basically means I can have as much as I want, whenever I want. And, I did.
I savored spoonfulls of rich, creamy ice cream that had a hint of a coconutty aftertaste.
I might have shared with the family a little, but mostly two baking dishes disappeared in matter of two days.
I promise, it's that good.
I hope you're enjoying your summer and creating memories.
You can find other ways to keep cool and check out the other links below! A group of great bloggers have launched a Kosher Linkup, and you can check them out here.
Also, in case you were wondering...we have a winner! Random number: 9. Nedra Weinreich! Contact me at thekosherspoon (at) gmail (dot) com
Halva and Pistachio Ice Cream
6 eggs, divided
1/2 cup of honey
500 ml of coconut cream (I used Kara)
400g of halva
1 cup of pistachios, coarsely chopped
1. In a bowl of a stand mixer, beat the egg yolks with the honey until you get a light and fluffy pale yellow mixture, about 3-4 minutes.
2. In another bowl, beat the egg whites until firm, and peaks form. Fold into the egg yolk mixture.
3. In another bowl, beat the coconut cream, for about 2 minutes. Fold into the mixture.
4. Incorporate the halva and pistachios.
5. Pour into two baking dishes and freeze for at least 4-6 hours. Stays fresh for up to 3 days. (If it will last that long.)
Most halva comes sweetened with white sugar. You might find one that's sugar-free if you want the ice cream to be completely natural.
This recipe makes about two 8x8 baking dishes. You can definitely halve it (though I can't understand why you would do that!)
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I love that you don't need an ice cream maker to make this! And no sugar? It doesn't get any better than this!ReplyDelete
I have eaten halva, but never cooked with it! Looks so good! Was just trying to figure out if I could make my own.ReplyDelete
You put us all to shame! Halva ice cream is one of my favorite ice creams flavors - second to pure vanilla.ReplyDelete
i've been on a halva obsession lately, making this my favorite dessert for now. we'll see what will come next...ReplyDelete
Such an original idea..pistachios, halva and coconut. Creative!ReplyDelete
Pistachio is my favorite ice cream flavor, but paired with halva and coconut it must be UNBELIEVABLE!ReplyDelete
OHHHH YUM!!! I want this now! Halva ice cream!!! mmmmmmReplyDelete
Sina!!! beyond fabulous - halva was my grandmother's a"h favorite dessert its an acquired taste but a favorite with me too! never thought to do it with ice cream! Do you mean coconut milk? is that the same as coconut cream?ReplyDelete
I never liked halva growing up, but my son likes it and having tasted some now I see the appeal. I would love to try this recipe.ReplyDelete
Love the combo of halvah and pistachios. And I like that the recipe is sweet enough without added sugar.ReplyDelete
Your pictures are amazing, nice job!ReplyDelete
This sounds lovely! I also like the notable absence of ice cream maker...beautiful photos too!ReplyDelete
I have been looking at the different links and each one is tempting. Pistachio Ice Cream is one, I have not made and I think, we would like.ReplyDelete
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text: BEIJING, Nov. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Sinovac Biotech Ltd. (Nasdaq: SVA), a leading provider of vaccines in China, today announced that management is scheduled to present at the Cowen and Company China Opportunity Conference that will be held on November 15 – 16 at The St. Regis Beijing. The Sinovac team, inclusive of Dr. Weidong Yin, Chairman and CEO, Ms. Helen Yang, Investor Relations Director and Chris Lee, Investor Relations, will participate in the Biopharmaceuticals Panel at 11:00 am China Standard Time on November 15th and will be participating in one-on-one meetings. About Sinovac Sinovac Biotech Ltd. is a China-based biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the research, development, manufacture and commercialization of vaccines that protect against human infectious diseases including hepatitis A, seasonal influenza, H5N1 (bird flu) pandemic influenza and H1N1 influenza. In 2009, Sinovac was the first company worldwide to receive approval for its H1N1 influenza vaccine, PANFLU.1, and has received orders from the Chinese Central Government pursuit to the government stockpiling program. The Company is developing a number of new vaccine products, including vaccines for pneumococcal conjugate, enterovirus 71 (EV71) (against Hand, Foot & Mouth Disease), pneumococcal polysaccharides, human rabies, HIB, rotavirus and epidemic meningitis, chickenpox and mumps & rubella. Its wholly owned subsidiary, Tangshan Yian, is focusing on the research, development, manufacturing and commercialization of animal vaccines, and has launched its internally developed inactivated rabies vaccine in China. Safe Harbor Statement This announcement contains forward-looking statements. These statements are made under the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can be identified by words or phrases such as "will," "expects," "anticipates," "future," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates" and similar statements. Among other things, the business outlook and quotations from management in this press release contain forward-looking statements. Statements that are not historical facts, including statements about Sinovac's beliefs and expectations, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. A number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement. Sinovac does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement, except as required under applicable law.


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Tobey Maguire's Wife Dodges Natalie Portman Questions
Tobey Maguire and his wife Jennifer Meyer took their kids out to lunch at a vegan restaurant in West Hollywood on Saturday. The family looked like they were having a wonderful time.
However, Jennifer Meyer didn't seem to be having a great time at the Skyy Vodka-sponsored screening of Brothers last week. Meyer is said to have been upset when she was asked about her husband's love scene with actress Natalie Portman.
"She seemed upset as she was getting bombarded with questions about how she felt about her hubby's intimate role with Natalie," the New York Post quoted a source as saying.
"She finally said something to her husband, and he assured her that she had nothing to worry about," the source added. Which is most likely the case. Tobey's not old enough for Natalie.


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When I first heard about the Apple iPod Touch I was extremely excited. I can now get an iphone with out the dumb Phone part. But then the news started flying around about the bugs that plagued the Touch. The first news story was about how some Touches had no OS installed on them. Then there was news that it thinks it's still an iPhone. The latest word on the street about these things is that some have low resolution screens, so the video looks dark and unimpressive.
With all this bad hype, I wonder what Apple was thinking when they were releasing this thing. You think they would have waited until they worked out all the bugs. But I guess Job's was in a hurry to stick it to AT&T. He no longer wants his awesome toy to be their new exclusive phone.
If you have been in the dark about this, here is a nice long list of stories about the iPod Touch. Enjoy!
CrunchGear.com – Some iPod Touches Have Screen With Cruddy Video Quality? – September 18th, 2007
SlashGear.com – Unboxing – Apple iPod Touch – September 16th, 2007
CrunchGear.com – iPod Touch Mistakes Itself For An iPhone – September 16th, 2007
Washington Post – First Look: 16GB iPod Touch – September 16th, 2007
Engadget.com – An iPod touch ships without OS X – September 14th, 2007
iFixit.com – First iPod Touch Dissection – September 14th, 2007
CrunchGear.com – Hands On With The iPod Touch, Nano, Classic – September 9th, 2007
CrunchGear.com – iPod Touch Is Not The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread – September 5th, 2007
BoingBoing.com – Confirmation: No Bluetooth in iPod Touch – September 6th, 2007
CrunchGear.com – iPod Touch Tour – September 5th, 2007
Even with all the news about bugs I still want one, but I am going to wait until after Christmas. Maybe by then all the bugs will be worked out.
Also, when are they going to come out with an iPod that cooks bacon?


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On a drizzly evening in Zuccotti Park this week, where the Occupy Wall Street protesters are camped out, I spotted one young man wearing a T-shirt with an image of Ronald Reagan and the words "Bad Religion."
It was the right outfit for the occasion. That's because the greatest significance of the wave of leftist demonstrations that started in Lower Manhattan and has rippled across the United States is the potential challenge it poses to the Reagan Revolution.
The triumph of Reaganism and the doctrine of small-l liberalism over the past 30 years was remarkable. In the U.S. and Britain, taxes shrank; regulation, especially of the financial sector, was pruned back; state companies were sold off. Soviet Communism collapsed; China converted to capitalism and entered the world economy. Emerging-market economies in Latin America and Africa embraced liberalization as the path to growth.
"The ideology drove everything that happened in the next 30 years," said Branko Milanovic, a World Bank economist and author of The Haves and the Have-Nots. "Deng Xiaoping captured it best: 'To get rich is glorious.' "
The biggest beneficiaries of the global economic boom were some of the world's poorest people. Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion of the World Bank found that between 1981 and 2005, the number of people living in poverty in the developing world fell by 500 million. The West prospered as well, with relatively consistent economic growth over the past 30 years.
But something else was happening, too: a sharp increase in income inequality. Although it has been most striking in the U.S. and China, income inequality has grown in most developed countries.
"What we now call the Reagan Revolution was a turning point in the American economy," said Jacob Hacker, a political science professor at Yale University in Connecticut. "These patterns of rising inequality were established then."
Economists have been pointing out the growing gap for a decade. But, particularly in the U.S., the increasingly skewed distribution didn't catch fire as a political issue. One reason is suggested by University of Chicago economist Raghuram Rajan in his 2010 book Fault Lines – that the credit bubble of the 1990s and 2000s masked the stagnating wages of the American middle class.
The 2008 financial crisis ended that self-deception. While the U.S. middle class is still in the doldrums, the top 1 per cent has largely recovered, thanks in part to muscular intervention by the state. That's why the taboo on talking about income distribution is lifting, particularly in Zuccotti Park.
" 'Class warfare' has seldom had much traction in American politics because Americans tend to idealize the 'free market' as a separate sphere of life, with its own [rough]justice," Larry Bartels, a political science professor at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee and author of Unequal Democracy, wrote in an e-mail reply to my questions.
"Escalating inequality and the wreckage of the Great Recession may now be focusing increasing anger on that top sliver – especially bankers, who are, conveniently, prominently implicated in the malfeasance that led to the financial meltdown of 2008 and [still]immensely rich."
But the left shouldn't declare victory just yet. The middle-class anger is also being harnessed by the right, and with greater and more focused political effect. Consider the remarks this week by Tea Party heroine Sarah Palin. In a speech in Seoul, she railed against "crony capitalism," complaining that "well-connected banks get bailed out" and "certain companies get special deals through governments."
Her remedy is to double down on the Reagan Revolution – to lower taxes and shrink government further. The standard prescription of Progressives – higher taxes, more regulation, a stronger social welfare net, more investment in education – may be sensible. But it lacks the rallying power of Ms. Palin's call to smash crony capitalism by depriving the elites of their political tool – big government.
Even the protesters in Zuccotti Park know their populist movement has found its complaint – "We are the 99 per cent" – but not its remedy. After a lecture about income inequality delivered on the square by Sara Burke, a policy analyst at a New York research organization, one listener said she was keen to "educate" people about the issue. But she wanted Ms. Burke's help with something: "What's my sound bite?"
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Tapestry Crochet and More (book review)
Tapestry Crochet and More: A Handbook of Crochet Techniques and Patterns by Maria Gullberg is a crochet instructional book rich in colors and graphic elements.
Tapestry Crochet and More: A Handbook of Crochet Techniques and Patterns by Maria Gullberg is a crochet instructional book rich in colors and graphic elements.
Tapestry crochet is a unique niche of crochet that emphasizes colorwork and graphic patterns. It is made by carrying yarn colors along behind the work and switching out those colors to create your patterns. It can be done using just the very basic crochet stitches that you probably already know. This roundup has nine tapestry crochet tutorials/ patterns plus another 32 photos of tapestry crochet designed to inspire you with all that can be done in this craft.
Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day. In honor of the day I wanted to share what I was able to find around the web in Martin Luther King. Jr. crochet.
Today's crochet quote makes me want to try tapestry bead crochet even though I haven't done either tapestry crochet or bead crochet yet.
Christmas may be over but the giving isn't done here at Crochet Concupiscence. Through the end of December I'm giving out daily awards to honor crochet bloggers who do certain things especially well. Learn more about this project here. Congratulations to today's award recipient: Carol Ventura of Tapestry Crochet You have received this award for: Best Niche of Crochet Blog One of the things I love about crochet is that there is always something new that you can learn. In addition to various stitches and crochet techniques, there are many different niches of crochet. Many bloggers talk about those niches here and there but very few bloggers actually blog solely about that niche. That's why I think it's so great that Carol Ventura uses her blog space to talk just about one great crochet niche – tapestry crochet. It's a unique type of crochet and Carol does an awesome job teaching us about and sharing the work of numerous other tapestry crochet artists. Love your blog Carol! Winners are welcome to snag the above image to share on their blog with a link back to this post. Alternatively, they can grab the sidebar button using the code beneath the button in the sidebar to the right of this post.
I am having fun learning how to use Etsy treasuries to cull together some of my favorite Etsy makers' crochet items in a theme. This week's theme is tapestry crochet, also known as mosaic crochet or jacquard crochet. I am most impressed by the crochet artists who can create really cool portraits and pictures using tapestry crochet but I also like the way that this technique is used to create great colorwork and patterns for accessories.
Today's Etsy crochet feature is an abstract crochet art piece that is done using Tapestry Crochet. It is by CrochetByColor812.


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Breaking in New Winter Tires
January 28th, 2014
Congratulations! You've taken the first step in winter safety and decided to invest in a set of winter tires. There are a few things you are going to want to remember about your winter tires, especially if this is your first time making the transition. A few things you may want to know:
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Yeah, I heard you made a killing.....you suck!:haha:
Ok, I went ahead and ordered the Teflon Moly spray with the extra nozzles. I was told by my dear mother that the airbrush compressor we used to have passed away some 3 years ago and she is worried I am getting forgetful. Wait till I tell her I have to use her pristine oven to "cook" the AK!


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Owen Jordan; Ted Hoskins; Morton Schindel; Václav Bedřich; Robert McCloskey; Scholastic Inc.; Weston Woods Studios.; Krátký film.; New Video Group.
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|Make way for ducklings: camera and editing by Jan Mack and David Paight ; music by Arthur Kleiner. Burt Dow, deep water man: animators, Olga SÌisÌkovaÌ, VeÌra MichlovaÌ, OldrÌich Haberle, Jaroslava ZlesaÌkovaÌ ; editing, Zdenka NavraÌtilovaÌ ; music, Petr Skoumal.
|Make way for ducklings: English narration by Owen Jordan. Time of wonder: Narrated by Ted Hoskins.
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|Make way for ducklings / from the book by Robert McCloskey ; produced by Morton Schindel (11 min.) --
Blueberries for Sal / from the book by Robert McCloskey (9 min.) --
Time of wonder / from the book by Robert McCloskey (1961) (13 min.). Special features: Bonus stories: Burt Dow, deep water man / from the book by Robert McCloskey ; produced by Morton Schindel ; adapted and directed by Václav Bedřich ; Krátký Film Praha (1983) (9 min.) --
Lentil / from the book by Robert McCloskey (9 min.); Make way for ducklings Spanish language version; Read along option for all stories; Previews (1 min.).
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|Scholastic ; Weston Woods presents.
The Mallards look for the perfect spot to raise their young, and find it in the most unlikely place. Their friend Michael, a policeman, helps them to "Make Way for Ducklings" as they march their eight little ones home. A little girl and her mother go out to get "Blueberries for Sal." But Sal and a little bear get mixed up with each other's mothers. Two sisters spending a summer in Maine experience a wonderful variety of natural sights and sounds, in a "Time Of Wonder." Retired fisherman "Burt Dow Deep Water Man" sets out in his leaky boat, the Tidely-Idley, with his pet the Giggling Gull. A storm blows up and they shelter from the storm in the belly of a whale he has recently befriended. "Lentil" saves the day with his harmonica playing when calamity threatens the homecoming celebration for the leading citizen of Alto, Ohio.
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"Jeffrey Watts is an artist who has been steadily building both a reputation as an outstanding painter and draftsman of this generation as well as a consummate teacher and instructor of fine art principles. In his Watts Atelier, he trains a new generation of painters in the drawing and painting procedures that have almost become a lost art.
Jeff has carved a permanent place for himself in the California educational art scene by creating and operating an art school, Watts Atelier of the Arts, near San Diego, and now passes on his drawing and painting knowledge to a new generation of artists in an ongoing curriculum of classical drawing and painting semester classes. His own work is receiving national recognition as one of the most powerful portrait and figurative painters of this generation, winning awards from the Portrait Society of America, Oil Painters of America and being invited to participate in such exclusive events as the Prix de West competition.


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