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The Mazda Miata MX-5 is credited for starting the sports car boom in the 1990s. Appearing for the first time during the 1990 model year, the Miata became an instant hit. While it certainly can't compete with the power of America's venerable and iconic roadster, the Corvette, or any of the European two-seat powerhouses, the price is right and the overall performance impressive.
With little if any competition, the Miata immediately assumed a special place in North American auto circles and came to represent a certain lifestyle and sexy, sporty place. It even appears as a prop in Playboy photo shoots.
Since 1968, the Mazda car company has had a race and sports car tuning division. Originally called the "Mazda Sports Corner," this operation fielded entries in races around the world and had relative success at 24 Hours of Le Mans with Wankel engine powered cars in the 1980s before winning the race in 1991—becoming the only Japanese company to do so. Soon after its stunning victory, this independent affiliate of Mazda stopped fielding vehicles directly in order to support third party race teams. Around this time the division was renamed "Mazdaspeed." In 1999 Mazda took control of Mazdaspeed and has used it to develop parts and tuning techniques for many of the vehicles in its fleet.
This brings us to the history of the short-lived Mazda Mazdaspeed Miata MX-5. It's worth noting that the name "Miata" does not appear anywhere on this vehicle, it is simply called the MX-5. But it is obviously a Miata, and one can tell this at a glance. The Miata has been a beloved roadster with a diehard following of enthusiasts since hitting the roads back in the early 1990s. If there is a single complaint to address or a request routinely made, it it's for more power. The Mazda MX-5 provides the long overdue answer to that request. Mazda only produced this version of the popular roadster in 2004 and 2005. For this reason these models are becoming collectables.
While the Miata reputation had long been established by the time this particular version rolled off the assembly lines in 2004, the Mazdaspeed MX-5 is known as a request granted. Boosting power in the popular roadster that has sold over 300,000 units in the U.S. addresses the only issue enthusiasts ever complain about.
This Mazdaspeed MX-5 manages to retain the handling and pleasure inducing characteristics of its lower horsepower siblings, while getting an acceleration boost. Many reviewers and fans were concerned that changes in other parts of the vehicle necessitated by a boost in engine output would negatively affect the handling and performance that makes the Miata a hit. Remarkably, The Mazdaspeed shop altered more than 1000 parts, yet still retained the light, crisp, go-cart like turning and handling of roadsters. The MX-5 does not have a heavy feel, weighty transmission parts, or even a harder ride. This Miata still takes the curves well and moves quicker than its other versions in both zero to 60 and quarter-mile tests.
This upgraded Miata uses a 1.8-liter, four-cylinder that produces 178 hp at 6000 rpm and 166 lb-ft of torque at 4500 rpm. This special engine packs an IHI ball-bearing turbo charger that pushes eight pounds of boost to add horsepower and torque. This speed shop motor hooks up to a six-speed manual transmission. Also different from the regular models is the change to 17-inch Hart Race wheels with wider tires and a lower chassis. Along with the upgraded suspension, these changes allow this MX-5 to pull a lateral grip g.
Being a performance-oriented car, it offers little in the way of features. Saving weight helps with performance. Only two trims are available: a base model and the Grand Touring package that has leather seats and a cloth convertible top.
While the Miata MX-5 lives on, the Mazdaspeed turbo-charged version only lasted two years. Mazda made just over 5,400 of them. A fire in the factory shortened production of 2005 models to less than 1,500 after 4,000 were made in 2004.
Between the two years, the only real difference is in color options. 2004 models can come in Velocity Red Mica or Titanium Gray Metallic only. The 2005 models offer two additional color choices: Lava Orange Mica and Black Mica. Only 2005 models offer the Grand Touring package.
2005 Mazda MAZDASPEED Miata MX-5
Convertible, Sports
The 2005 Mazda MAZDASPEED Miata MX-5 comes with very few new features for this year's model.
2004 Mazda MAZDASPEED Miata MX-5
The 2004 Mazda MAZDASPEED Miata MX-5 continues a tradition of providing affordable roadster driving fun.


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Nathan.giblett needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 65 designs submitted by 25 freelance designers.
Valen light LLC
Our company is a worldwide manufacturer of cutting edge LED lighting. We design and manufacture LED lighting built from high quality materials that are robust and uniquely aesthetically appealing. We have derived our name from the Latin word "Valens", which means "powerful".
Government bodies, infrastructure, developments, town planning, architects, engineers, councils, manicipalities,
The logo needs to be" Valen light". Underneath this or somewhere nearby we would like "technologies" to also be written
We would like something which conveys a sense of powerful, eco-friendly lighting, but keeping it very much corporate.
Our sister company is Solar Streetscapes (http://www.solarstreetscapes.com) and is a black website to better showcase our lighting systems working. We would like to stick with something that would enable the use of having virtually the same website for Valen Light.
In Summary: think Corporate, Global, Environmental (but not going over the top by using leaves and green planets etc), Energy efficient and Powerful
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Four Seriously Cool Information Resources
As a librarian, researcher and frequent blogger, I'm constantly coming across incredibly useful online information resources that are most effectively searched using their own site search tools, rather than relying on general-purpose engines to surface their valuable content. I plan to start writing about these on a regular, ongoing basis, using a bullet-point format that highlights the most useful features of each resource, rather than doing in-depth reviews.
Without further ado, here are the first four (of many more to come).
C-SPAN Video Library
- Cost: free
- In three words, amazing, important, essential
- With a few exceptions just about every program that have aired on C-SPAN, C-SPAN 2, C-SPAN3
- More than 170,000 hours of content, back to 1987
- Advanced search interface
- Important to remember that C-SPAN carries more than what goes on in the Senate and House of Representatives
- Hours and hours of author interviews, political rallies, interviews with newsmakers and journalists and much more
- Most programs are full text searchable using mechanically generated transcripts
- People search allows you to quickly see if a person has appeared on the network and then link directly to the program(s)
- Example: Larry Page (he's appeared on C-SPAN Twice)
- Many programs are embeddable
- Most programs appear in the archive within a day or two (if not sooner) of airing.
- The C-SPAN Video Library won a prestigious Peabody Award in June
Old Maps Online
- Cost: free
- Officially launched last week
- One search, centralized access to multiple digitized historical map collections
- About 60,000 maps available today, with more than 120,000 maps by end of 2012
- Keyword search, focus by date using slider, search by map
- Material included so far:
- A Vision of Britain through Time, Historical Map Library
- British Library, Map Library
- David Rumsey Map Collection
- Moravian Library, Mollova mapová sbírka
- Cost: free to search; fee for institutions to subscribe
- Archive-It is a fee-based service from the Internet Archive that works with non-profits, schools, governments and others to crawl and archive sites and pages they specify
- Many of the collections are available to all
- Close to 1,700 collections currently available
- Example: Archive of NASA Social Media
- Collections are updated regularly with new material
- Unlike the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, Archive-It collections are keyword searchable
Road 2.0: Resource of Outdoor Advertising Descriptions
- Cost: free
- Provided by Duke University Libraries
- More than 30,000 digitized images, with search/browse capability
- Most images are of outdoor signs from between 1930s and 1980s
- Advanced interface allows you to search by company, product and date
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Tsukiji fish market tour and cooking class.27th/3/2015‐Sushi,Niku-dohu&Miso soup Class
Tsukiji fish market tour and cooking class.
--Sushi ,Niku-dohu&Miso soup Class
・27th/3/2015 9:00-13:00
The cooking class next to tsukiji fish market,
■A convenient location ■Learn in English
■Use the food materials fresh from Tsukiji Market.
Join Tsukiji fish market tour and cooking class.
- Schedule: ・27th/3/2015 9:00-13:00
・Meeting time:8:45
・Meeting place:Toei Oedo Line 【Tsukiji shijyou】station Exit A1
・Fish Market tour: 9:00-10:00
・Cooking clss: 10:15-13:00
-Address: 6 Chome-27-3 3F Tsukiji, Chūō-ku, Tokyo, Japan
-Price: ¥15120(including.tax) per person
-Capacity:10 persons
-4food items
Three type of Sushi (Nigiri-sushi,Maki-sushi,Temari-sushi)
Simmered Meat and Tofu
【Miso soup】
【Seafood dish】
Recommended menu
How to register
-Applicants must make reservations in advance.
-Same day registration is permitted, subject to availability.
Check here to register.
Welcome to Japan!
Are you satisfied with only eating and shopping?
TSUKIJI COOKING welcomes people as follows;
-Not fully satisfied with "just eating" delicious Japanese cuisines.
-Looking for a unique Japanese experience to enhance your trip!
-Always thought of learning how to cook traditional Japanese cuisines, including home dishes.
-Hoping to recreate an authentic Japanese food when you go back.
TSUKIJI COOKING can offer you;
-A convenient location
We are located in next to tsukiji fish market. Make an extra stop to participate in class when you are sightseeing in the city.
-Learn in English
Don't speak Japanese? No problem! Japanese/English interpreter will attend classes.
-So fresh!
We will use the food materials fresh from Tsukiji Market.
We aim to have a bonding relationship between students and teachers.
Why don't you join us and cook a delicious dish, try it, and have social fun time?
Join Tsukiji Cooking.
What is Tukiji Market?
Tsukiji market opened in 1935, when the fish market in Nihonbashi and the vegetable market in Kyobashi were moved.
It is the wholesale market for seafood and vegetables which has the oldest history of the 11 Central Wholesale Markets in Tokyo.
The supply zone extends to the nearby prefectures in Kanto Area as well as Tokyo. It is one of the world's largest markets for marine products in particular and plays a role as a quoted market of Japan.
※A quoted market means a market with the power to form prices as reference to trade at other markets.
- Venue
【TSUKIJI COOKING】next to tsukiji fish market. Tokyo japan
- Tickets
Tsukiji fish market tour and cooking class. --Sushi ,Niku-dohu&Miso soup Class SOLD OUT ¥15,120
- Venue Address
- 東京都中央区築地6-27-3 3F ≪Address≫6 Chome-27-3 3F Tsukiji, Chūō-ku, Tokyo, Japan Japan
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①都営大江戸線【築地市場】駅徒歩5分 ②日比谷線【築地】駅徒歩8分 ≪Access≫①Toei Oedo Line 【Tsukijishijo】Station 5-minutes walk ②Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line【Tsukiji】Station 8-minutes walk
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Library's pet snake dies after act of cruelty
SHELTON -- Her name was Peaches.
And for the last eight years, the Creamsicle-colored corn snake was the serpentine ambassador of the Huntington Branch Library.
For countless children, and their parents, Peaches was the star attraction at the library.
So why would someone intentionally pour a heavy-duty cleaning solvent onto the mild-mannered snake in a lethal act of animal cruelty?
"We still don't know who did it or why," library director Shawn Fields said Tuesday.
The solvent, he explained, caused burns and kidney damage to Peaches last month and led to her death in a matter of days.
But there's at least one clue in the case, Fields said.
On March 18, library workers discovered a can of cleaning solvent called Goof Off near Peaches' glass enclosure in the children's section of the library.
"We didn't think anything of it at first," Fields said, adding that the staff thought the solvent might've been left accidentally by the cleaning crew.
But people kept saying there was a chemical smell in the children's area, so library staff began looking for the source, he said.
"We found it was strongest in the snake tank," Fields said.
That's when library staff realized someone had poured the caustic liquid directly on the snake.
Fields said they began calling veterinarians and found one in Bedford, N.Y., who treats exotic pets. So Peaches was taken there for treatment.
In addition to the chemical burns on her skin, veterinarians tried to purge toxins from the snake's body, he said.
"They found the toxicity in her kidneys was five times greater than it should have been," Fields said.
Peaches was brought back to the library and, despite everyone's best efforts, she died five days later.
"We have had a lot of crying kids and many upset people because of what happened," Fields said, adding that Shelton police are investigating the incident.
Among those saddened by Peaches' death is Sue Barrozo's 8-year-old son, Luke.
Barrozo, a Shelton resident, said seeing Peaches was always a favorite part of her son's visits to the library.
"I told him Peaches was dead, but didn't tell him much more," Barrozo said Tuesday. "He was really sad to hear it."
On the library's Facebook page, more than 100 people have expressed their shock and dismay at the cruel act.
One post was from Kristy Rose, who said that Peaches -- whose full name was Peaches and Cream -- used to be her snake. Rose gave it to the library before going away to boarding school, she said.
"I had wanted a snake for the longest time, and my mom (a former librarian at the library) finally let me get one when I was 11," Rose wrote.
She said it was sad to leave Peaches behind, but she knew her snake was in good hands at the library.
Rose said when she was still in Connecticut, she would visit Peaches. But it became harder to see her snake after she moved away.
"I wasn't able to see her for the past couple of years and it is heartbreaking to hear this news," she wrote.
Rose said Peaches was "the nicest, friendliest snake" and never bothered anyone.
"She didn't deserve to die and she definitely didn't deserve to suffer the way she did," Rose said.


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B&CMW needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 24 designs submitted by 11 freelance designers.
International Christian Triathalon Network needs a new and updated website.
We need a new website for: http://www.ictrinet.com/. The logo can be found here: http://www.ictrinet.com/logos/logo-final.eps. The marketing gutter needs to stay in some fashion. It can be on either side or box or something like that in the content. Navigation stays the same as well. Don't make it overly Christian! Colors are the artists choice, but must work with the logo.


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Today's delve into the past comes from the 1949 edition of Lily Gilmour's "Everyday Cookery". Lily seems to have taken a rather wide definition of every day cookery because some of the recipes would probably take most of the day, such as the haggis made from scratch. The first ingredient in the list is a sheep's pluck. For the uninitiated, a pluck is the heart, liver and lights. Lights means lungs, by the way. Second ingredient on the list – a sheep's stomach bag. Are you salivating yet?
My favourite recipe in the book is for "fried crumbs". The recipe – and you might want to get a pen to write this down - advises to heat butter in a frying pan, add breadcrumbs and stir over a gentle heat until they turn golden brown. Oh Lily, however do you come up with your ideas?
For all my mocking, this is actually a nice little cook book with lots of useful advice for the housewife…make no mistake, it is intended only for the housewife; the unmarried or male must look elsewhere for recipes. As with many books of the time the writing style is authoritarian and doom laden – for example, rather than telling us that cakes should always go into pre-heated ovens, we are instead told: a cold oven is fatal. I'm assuming Lily means it's fatal for the cake? Or maybe it's a threat?
The recipe that caught my eye was for these little macaroon cakes. I have never made tartlets before that use puff, rather than shortcrust, pastry. I used pre-rolled, pre-made butter puff pastry; much as I like making things from scratch my exceptions to the rule are puff and filo pastry. Lily's recipe for puff pastry (listed elsewhere in the book) suggests that it will go from ingredients to finished pastry in less than 30 minutes…I'm rather dubious about that!
If you use pre-made pastry (hangs head in shame) these are a quick bake. They are also extremely tasty; personally though, I would prefer shortcrust pastry. Lily doesn't list jam in the ingredients list but mentions it in the method so I have added it to my ingredients list below. I have also doubled the ingredients as I thought those given were meagre, they actually would have made 12 tartlets.
The macaroon element of this recipe is old-school! Forget the fancy little sandwiched Laduree things, these are the crunchy and chewy almond delights! The batter, on going into the oven, starts to get holes in it – rather like a crumpet. At first I thought the recipe had gone wrong but then it dawned on me that these were the hearty macaroons us Brits grew up on! Here's a close up:
These quantities will make 24 tartlets – you will think that you are not going to have enough of the macaroon mix....but you will!
Puff pastry – I used 3 pre-rolled sheets
Raspberry jam to spoon into the bottom of each pastry case
4 egg whites
120g (4oz) ground almonds
180g (6oz) caster sugar
1 teaspoon almond extract
60g (2oz) rice flour – I used Tesco brown rice flour
½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
½ teaspoon cream of tartar
Preheat the oven to 200˚C/fan oven 180˚C/390˚F/Gas mark 6
Grease two cupcake pans with butter or cake release spray – I used cake release and they came out clean as a whistle.
Using a round biscuit cutter, cut out pastry disks and line each patty pan.
Spoon a little raspberry jam into each pastry case and put to one side.
Now make the topping: place the egg whites in a bowl and whisk until they are frothy but not yet at the soft peak stage.
Add the ground almonds, sugar and almond extract and beat until thick and well combined. The recipes states this will take 1o minutes. Mine thickened a little but was always runny.
Stir in the flour, bicarbonate of soda and cream of tartar; make sure you lift up all the ingredients from the bottom of the bowl as the almond tends to sink.
Spoon a generous tablespoon of mixture over the jam and ensure that no jam is visible (it will bubble up and spoil the look). Don't worry that the macaroon mix is thin and runny.
Bake for approximately 25 minutes or until the macaroon is no longer wet and the pastry looks cooked.
Leave to cool in the tins until you can safely handle the tin then remove from the tin and leave to cool completely on a wire rack.
The tarts will keep in an airtight container for several days.
Bask in the glory of the wonderful thing you have created.


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Slightly confusing title, I know. But that pretty much sums up the whole decor thing that Josh and I have been trying to resolve the last three months. I know… that still doesn't clear up any confusion. Ok, I'll explain… let's start at the very beginning:
(I feel like a quasi-nun with a guitar ready to sing to an audience of Von Trapp children…. Aw… )
As you may remember, Josh and I moved here to Brooklyn just three months ago. Prior to that, we had lived in Atlanta (in three different apartments… we're gypsies). Obviously, moving to most anywhere in NYC pretty much guarantees you'll be living in an apartment, and our case was no exception. However, Josh and I have always made the commitment to make anywhere we live feel like a home, regardless of whether we're renting it or not. For us, this usually means painting, adding shelving, and hanging art — paying no mind to whether or not we may have to spackle, prime, and re-paint back to boring contractor white in the future. Whatever. It's always worth it in the end, and the amount of money spent to achieve this is never much.
Well, as you may remember from one of my previous posts, "Books and Nooks: The Living Room Edition," we already completed our living room and kitchen/wall (calling it a kitchen would be an insult to real kitchens everywhere — it's a "kitchen/wall").
Wait. What's that? You want to see some pictures of it to remind yourself and/or you don't feel like navigating away from this page to check out that link?
I can take care of that! Worry not!
Here you go:
Ta da!!!
So… living room: check! kitchen/wall: as "check"ed as it's ever going to be!
In the meantime, there's the bedroom. For the most part, we were reusing our previous design and colors from our last apartment (I'd love to show you pictures — it was lovely — but I never took any… what's wrong with me?). However, we were gaining a few exciting additions for this particular apartment….
(We took two pillows whose facades we were getting tired of and covered them in these DIY Mr and Mrs pillow covers. There were super easy and super cheap: white duck cloth, a little velcro (in the back), green fabric paint, and the steady hand of one Teresa Foster.)
The other differences in this apartment had less to do with additions and more to do with subtractions, i.e., the subtraction of square footage. This was no surprise to us (as we were clever measurers beforehand), not to mention it's an NYC apartment. If it's not a little small, something's probably wrong with it (or the neighborhood… or both). Armed with this knowledge and the measurements (I mean seriously, we were very Type A about this particular matter — I made a scale drawing and everything), we realized we would have to use a lot creativity when it came to storage options.
After considering every nook and cranny — under the bed, in the closet, on the bookshelf — we realized we would still need more storage space. Making said storage space aesthetically pleasing was another matter, too. In the true vertical tradition of New York City, I thought UP.
I also thought of an excellent post that I'd read a couple of years ago from one of my favorite blogs, Young House Love. This couple used Ikea wardrobes on either side of their bed and then hid them with curtains to create additional closet space. Here are some pictures of their brilliance:
Being a renter, I knew it wasn't worth the time and trouble (and extra bucks) to add molding to the top like this couple did, but I knew I could use the same concept for our bedroom. After all, with about three feet on either side of our bed, it seemed silly to waste all that space on a mere night stand and a lamp. Instead, I thought we could get two bookshelves, hide those with curtains, and gain loads of storage space in the process.
I also knew that this project needed to be an inexpensive one, so I turned to my tried and true inexpensive furniture retailer, Ikea. I decided their Billy bookcases — which measure 79 1/2″ high, but only 15 3/4″ wide — would be the perfect option:
While Ikea furniture is famously inexpensive (this bookcase is only $39.99), I knew I could probably find one or both of these bookcases on the ol' Craigslist. So the search began… and quickly yielded results: I was able to purchase one Billy bookcase for $15, less than half of the original $39.99! I continued searching for the second one, but couldn't find one that I thought was reasonably priced. We really wanted to buy both of them before we moved, so we caved and went to Ikea (but less than $55 for two bookcases? That's not so bad).
Once we moved in, we assembled them, placed them on either side of our bed, loaded them up with our stuff, and said "ahhhh……."
But only for a minute, because we still had to address the aesthetic issue: covering up the less than lovely and super cluttered bookcases. We had navy blue curtains from our previous apartment that were only a few inches shy of being ceiling height, so we decided that these could be reused for this same project. The only question was how to hang them. This is where the difficulty began.
To help you fully understand our three month plight, let me go through each of our "solutions" and then show you how we determined that they were anything BUT solutions:
1. Hang the curtains to the wall using a curtain/drapery rod as if the bookcases were windows.
(This is that moment in the game show where a buzzer goes off, making us feel silly for even suggesting such an answer.)
We knew this wouldn't work aesthetically because the book cases stick out about two feet from the wall. This would pull the curtains out from the wall and drape over the bookcases in a not-so-cute fashion. Wrong answer. Try again.
2. Use a curved curtain rod
The problem is, these don't really exist. They have curved shower rods, but these usually run about $30 EACH, so after buying two, we'd be out $60. Nope.
However, I thought it would be cool to use plumber's pipe and make one of our own considering plumber's pipe comes in different lengths and also has corner pieces. I thought we could attach one end to the back wall and the other end to the side wall. We had a $60 Home Depot gift card, so why not!?
Well, after using the WHOLE gift card on plumber's pipe (really — it cost that much!), we looked forward to attaching it to the walls, hanging the curtain, and being done with the whole thing (because at this point, the living room was finished, so we figured the bedroom should be, too!). What we didn't take into consideration was the weight of these pipes on plaster walls. Whoops. To make a very long and aggravating story short, we tried EVERY method out there, and try as we might, we never figured out a way to hang these things without ripping out a chunk of plaster (which maybe almost happened?). Deep guttural sigh……… Back to the drawing board.
3. The third method involved attaching Ikea cable to the ceiling and hanging the curtain from this. Well… count this as Epic Fail #3 and I've got the pictures to prove it:
As you can see, the cable sagged under the weight even though we had it as taut as possible. When we tried to tighten the cable a second time so it wouldn't sag, it literally popped out of the ceiling (forget those screws that were holding it in place). Fortunately, the rest of the ceiling didn't come with it. Whew.
4. Moving on. For the next idea (that never came to fruition) I thought back to a "canopy" bed I had when I was in high school. In reality, it was a daybed, but my parents took two metal towel rods, attached them to the ceiling, and draped a piece of fabric over my bed (glorious…. again, no photos). I thought we could use this same method on either side of the bed, but instead of draping the fabric, we could attached the curtain with rings of some sort (a problem to be solved in the future). After pricing numerous towel rod options, I realized this was going to be WAY more expensive than it was worth. Either the towel rods were too short or they were too expensive. At one store, it would have cost $80 to buy both towel rods of proper length (WHAT?!).
5. A solution!
I had pretty much removed the situation from my mind, because it was aggravating both of us so much. And we still couldn't think of an economically effective, plaster wall friendly solution.
I say "pretty much removed… from my mind" but that's a lie. I mean THIS is what we had to look at every day:
Well…. the solution came one day, rather unexpectedly at Ikea (though the Ikea part is not unexpected). I was shopping with my friend, Maria, helping her with her $100 apartment makeover (future blog post comin' at ya in December — look out!). I was totally not even thinking about my wretched curtain situation, when I stumbled upon the solution. In the kitchen section, Ikea has three foot long metal rods, with curved ends that are meant to be attached to a wall. They're called BYGEL Rails and they are a mere $2.99 (though right NOW they are on sale for $1.99). They are great for towels, but their main purpose is to support different types of caddies and hanging kitchen objects. Here's a picture so you know what I'm talking about:
That's right! For $6 plus tax, I found the solution! Given that they're metal, they won't sag, but given that they're small, they won't run the risk of ripping plaster off the walls or ceiling. When I realized this was the solution, I was a mixture of joy and fury. We'd already used an entire Home Depot gift card (and returning the pipes was not an option), we'd bought a package of Ikea cable (about $25), and we almost bought two towel rods (would have been $80). To know the solution was a mere SIX dollars almost made me crazy.
Well, we went home, Josh and I attached them to the ceiling (easy!) and then we approached our next hurdle: how to attach the curtains to the rods. The curtains are the type with big metal grommets at the top, but the openings were still not big enough to slide the curtain rod through. Obviously, shower curtain rings or drapery clips/rings would be the solution, so I went in search of such a thing at Target.
I knew that in order to get enough rings to go through all of the grommets, I would have to buy two packs. After pricing a few options, I realized this cost anywhere from $3 for the clear, plastic, shower curtain rings to $40 for the fancier drapery rings. Crazy talk! You know which ones I went with :)
And yes, if you look very closely (they are clear after all) you could think they look decidedly shower-like. Which would be accurate as they are indeed shower rings However, because of where they are hanging (on the ceiling, ten feet in the air) and given that clear, acrylic things are home-decor-hip right now, we can pretend they work. (But they really do!) For now. I see a future of metallic silver spray paint, but I'll worry about that later. I'm just going to enjoy the end result for now. This is our bed nook in her day wear and evening wear:
And here are some sassy side angles…
Yes, from this angle you can totally see the difference in the ceiling height and bookcase height, but I'm OK with that. In actuality, you can't really see it this well from any angle of the room — I kind of stood in the doorway and held the camera to my side, so normally this isn't visible.
Here's a close-up:
Pardon the camera.
And the lamps are both Ikea as well — they were easily screwed into the bookcases and we stapled the cord (quasi-discreetly) done the side of the bookcase. Ooh la la :)
And here's the reality of the situation, more often that not:
Those are my dogs. They're pretty spectacular, huh?
So instead of spending an extravagant amount of money, all we needed were our $3 rods and our $1.47 clear shower sings. Of course, the process (read: 3 epic fails) was a bit more expensive than that, but we learned our lesson… and hopefully you can benefit from it. Huzzah!
What do you think? Have you ever attempted a space saving, storage maximizing project like this one? Did you "epicly" fail 3 or more times before arriving at your solution? (Did you have to spend a lot of money in the process?) Let me know!
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Sunday, February 5, 2012
RootsTech 2012 Recap 3
Saturday was the final day of RootsTech 2012. I watched Ancestry.com's morning keynote online in my hotel room while I packed some of my things.
After a brief visit with others at the media hub, I caught the last half of Lisa Louise Cooke's "Genealogy Podcasts and Blogs 101." I know more than 101 about these topics, but sometimes I like to go to beginning tech sessions and watch the audience. See their reactions and what kinds of questions they ask. It helps me gauge where the genealogy community as a whole is in terms of tech skills. Lisa is a great speaker. Hopefully she encouraged a few audience members to start their own blogs.
The second session I attended was "Future of FamilySearch Family Tree" with Ron Tanner. He's a very funny guy. We got a glimpse of the "Family Tree" which will be available for all users hopefully by the end of the year. For the non-LDS crew out there, Family Tree is a lot like WikiTree with the spirit of collaboration at the forefront. People working together to document the lives of our ancestors. We will be able to attach documents, sources and eventually photos. All of this information will be free, available to the public and stored in Granite Mountain indefinitely.
After a quick lunch, I did a final lap around the exhibit hall. I talked to a lot of people. Conference sessions are great, but the real education on the genealogy industry comes from the floor. I learned a lot "off the record" this week.
RootsTech 2012 drew to a close in the afternoon. Sue Maxwell of Granite Genealogy and her wonderful husband picked me up from my hotel, and Lisa Louise Cooke from her hotel and gave us a tour of the valley and hills. It was so nice because all I've ever seen is the road from the airport to downtown.
Our tour led to the other side of the mountain and we landed at the home of Kim and Janet Hovorka, friends of mine and owners of Family ChartMasters. They hosted a wonderful party for friends, family, bloggers, speakers and others at RootsTech. It was a wonderful evening, and a chance to visit with people who are often dashing from one place to another during conferences. I left that evening feeling very happy and lucky to have so many genealogy friends.
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You're absolutely right about the real education coming from the floor. It makes me feel less bad about the sessions I didn't get to - and I can catch some of them on the website later. When I get my strength back!ReplyDelete
We all had a great time, and learnt a lot. See you at Rootstech 2013.
After last night I am "feeling very happy and lucky to have so many genealogy friends" too but also sad you all had to leave. :)ReplyDelete
Thanks so much for coming. And for being such a bright spot in the genealogy community.
Hi, Amy,ReplyDelete
Sounds like a wonderful time!
You blogs are full of interesting "tidbits", and bring the conference to life!
Glad you had a good time, and I look forward to next year.
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Key Lime Cheesecake Bars
I refuse to accept that summer is over. How can it be when we're still technically having summery weather, albeit that the mornings are now cold and we even had frost a couple of mornings ago? I'm going to stomp my feet and throw a tantrum, I'm not a winter person at all and autumn might as well be winter in the UK. In fact, I'm one of those people that finds myself a bit 'chilly' even when it's 25℃/77℉ and wearing a light jacket when everyone else is wearing summer tanks. I'm so ready ready to bid farewell to all the summer berries and ice creams I've been perving at the last few months.
Therefore today I'm rebelling with lime cheesecake bars. Not that it's all *that* rebellious! The modern world brings us imported limes even during the winter months, but hey, it's the thought that counts!
I've adapted this recipe to make it easier and less time consuming to make thanks to ready made lime curd, but the recipe for lime curd is included below if you wish to make from scratch. I did make the lime curd to go with this cheesecake but my thermometer decided to die on me just before the part where I needed it. It was working up until that point then BAM! So I had to guess but I'll be using that lime curd for something else. 😉
Dudes and dudettes, you have to make some of these bad boys. They're the yummiest cheesecake bars, or cheesecake I've ever tasted. I could not stop eating the raw batter whilst making these key lime cheesecake bars. I'm surprised there was even enough filling to go into them!
The giant man-baby made the following official statement..
"You're good at making cheesecakes now, aren't you?"
Not sure whether to take that as a compliment or an offending statement. What do you think? A ban on him eating any future goodies? *cocks head back and laughs evilly* muahahaha!
Key Lime Cheesecake Bars Recipe
Prep Time: 20 mins
Cook Time: 40 mins
Yield: 10in cheesecake
- 2 cups graham crackers or digestive biscuits, crushed
- 1 stick/113g butter, melted
- 1 stick/113g butter, softened
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2 large egg yolks
- ⅓ cup + 4 tbsp fresh lime juice
- 2 8oz packs cream cheese, softened
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 large egg white
- 2 tbsp plain/all purpose flour
- ½ cup sour cream
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- green and yellow food colouring (liquid or gel)
- Beat butter and sugar into a large bowl. Slowly add the eggs and the yolks one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Pour in the lime juice and mix again. Expect the mixture to look curdled, this is normal.
- Cook the mixture over a medium heat in a medium-sized saucepan until it looks smooth and no longer curdled. Increase the heat slightly and cook, whisking constantly until the mixture thickens. Using a thermometer, cook until the mixture reaches 170℉/77℃.
- Remove the curd from the heat and transfer into a bowl. Press plastic wrap in the surface of the lime curd to keep a skin from forming. Chill the lime curd in a refrigerator, the curd will thicken more as it cools. It will keep in the fridge for approx. 2 weeks.
- Preheat the oven to 325℉/175℃, line a 10×10 inch pan with parchment that overhangs the edges. Mix the butter and graham crackers or digestive biscuits together and press into the bottom of the pan evenly. Bake the crust for 5 minutes and allow to cool completely.
- Tint ¾ of a cup of the lime curd with the green and yellow food colouring until a lime-rind green and set aside. Beat cream cheese and sugar in a large bowl with mixer on medium-high speed until smooth.
- Beat in eggs on low speed until blended then beat in the sour cream, vanilla and plain/all purpose flour until just blended. Remove 1 cup of batter and reserve.
- Pour the remaining batter over the crust. Mix ½ cup of the tinted lime curd with 1 cup of the reserved batter. Place spoonfuls or dollops of this mixture, in no particular fashion, on top of the plain cheesecake batter. Repeat with the remaining ¼ cup lime curd onto the previous mixture. Using a skewer or toothpick, swirl the mixture together to create a marbled effect.
- Bake for 35 minutes at 325℉/170℃. Allow to cool completely in the pan then refrigerate. Once chilled, lift the cheesecake out of the pan with the parchment overhang and cut into bars before serving.
After I pressed the graham crackers/disgestive biscuits into the bottom of the pan and allowed to cool, I put the pan in the refrigerator to cool and harden further as it seemed a little too brittle not to do this.
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The Oath Taken By Boniface, 30 November 722
In the name of God and of our Saviour Jesus Christ.
In the sixth year of Leo, by the grace of God crowned emperor, the sixth year of his consulship, the fourth of his son the Emperor Constantine, the sixth indiction.
I, Boniface, by the grace of God bishop, promise to you, blessed Peter, chief of the Apostles, and to your vicar, the blessed Pope Gregory, and to his successors., in the name of the indivisible Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Ghost, and on thy most sacred body, that I will uphold the faith and purity of holy Catholic teaching and will persevere in the unity of the same faith in which beyond a doubt the whole salvation of a Christian lies. I will not agree to anything which is opposed to the unity of the Universal Church, no matter who may try to persuade me, but in all things I will show, as I have said, complete loyalty to you and to the welfare of your Church on which, in the person of your vicar and his successors, the power to bind and loose has been conferred.
Should it come to my notice that some bishops deviate from the teaching of the Fathers I win have no part or lot with them, but as far as in me lies I will correct them, or, if that is impossible, I will report the matter to the Holy See. And if (which God forbid) [71] I should be led astray into any course of action contrary to this my oath, under whatsoever pretext, may I be found guilty at the last judgment and suffer the punishment meted out to Ananias and Sapphira, who dared to defraud you by making a false declaration of their goods.
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Thursday, December 6, 2012
Not Exactly Happy Holidays
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Get well soon, indeed count your blessings . Hope u an find the right car soonReplyDelete
Sorry Colette!ReplyDelete
Glad you're ok. I know what you mean about preferring a larger car. I have a Ford Fusion and I really like having so much car around me. The only thing I really fear is colliding with a semi. Good luck with your car shopping.ReplyDelete
Oh my gosh! I'm so glad you're okay. Hope you feel better soon!ReplyDelete
Glad to hear that you're okay, but that looks so scary! I'm sure things will turn around and you will have a happy holiday ;DReplyDelete
So glad to hear and see you are okay! I completely understand hassle of totaling out a car. I had to do one truck and two motorcycles after Hurricane Isaac. Not fun but the most important thing is that its a thing and can be replaced, you my dear cannot!ReplyDelete
Glad you're ok.ReplyDelete
Thanks for your sharing, it's a good post, keep going and support you.ReplyDelete
Yikes, I'm glad you are ok. Come back to blogging soonReplyDelete
Aw horrible.. me and boyfriend's car also got smashed for a time ago. But it was parked and we where not in it. :)ReplyDelete
Wow, Those are some scary photos! Your car's trunk really is kind of gone!ReplyDelete
In 2006, I was rear-ended at a stop light by a careless young driver. Unfortunately, I sustained a concussion, whiplash, then later developed chronic myofascial pain and fibromyalgia, which are both life-long chronic pain conditions for which there is no cure. The damage to my 1999 Honda Civic was not much compared to your 1998 Buick Regal, but the impact was definitely significant.
I am and have always been a sentinel on the road, watching out for others and making sure they don't collide if I can honk and prevent it. I believe I have prevented plenty of accidents. I wish drivers were more careful. It turned out the driver who hit me had four accidents since then. Ugh!
Anyway, take care of yourself first. We will wait for you when you are able to share. There is never a need to apologize for being too busy to post on a blog. We all have lives to lead. We understand.
P.S. My car was almost totaled, but they fixed the frame and back bumper and I am still driving it today. When it finally gives out, I am considering going all-electric to a Nissan LEAF. Hope you find a car that suits you.
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Americans clearly want Washington to solve its looming budget crisis, and they clearly reject almost every option to do that, according to a new McClatchy-Marist Poll.
The only option that voters endorse, by a ratio of 3-to-2, is to raise taxes on the wealthy.
A majority oppose other often-discussed options, including raising taxes on everyone, cutting Medicaid or Medicare spending, raising the age for Medicare, or taking away tax deductions for charitable contributions or home mortgage interest.
The survey helps explain why it's so difficult for Washington to solve a problem everyone sees and everyone wants fixed.
President Barack Obama and Republican House Speaker John Boehner met secretly Sunday but there is still no sign that they're moving toward a deal that could win support from both the Democrats who oppose any cuts in government spending or benefits and from the Republicans who oppose all tax increases.
"No one is very enamored of anything," said Lee M. Miringoff, director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion in New York, which conducted the national survey of registered voted Dec. 4-6 for McClatchy.
Voters do see the fiscal mess of expiring tax cuts and looming spending cuts as a crisis that needs to be solved.
By 78 percent to 22 percent, they say they're concerned about it, and by 75 percent to 21 percent, they say it's more important for government officials to compromise to find a solution rather than standing on principle even if it means continued gridlock.
"They think a deal needs to be struck and they think it matters," said Miringoff.
The one thing that voters support is letting the Bush tax cuts expire as scheduled on Dec. 31 – and thus raising taxes – for individual income above $200,000 and family income above $250,000.
Voters support that 57 percent to 40 percent.
Despite the solid majority in favor, the proposal backed by Obama is the most divisive, with Democrats supporting it 75 percent to 20 percent, and Republicans opposing it 68 percent to 30 percent.
If a majority of voters want to raise taxes on higher incomes, they do not want to raise taxes on everyone.
By 74 percent to 20 percent, they oppose letting the Bush tax cuts expire – and therefore raising taxes – on all income levels.
And by 50 percent to 33 percent, they oppose letting the Obama cut in the payroll tax expire as scheduled at the end of the month. The tax finances Social Security.
A plurality or majority also opposes several other high-profile options to cut government spending:
– Voters oppose, by 59 percent to 40 percent, raising the eligibility age for Medicare from 65 to 67. There's a gender gap on that issue, with women more opposed to raising the age, perhaps reflecting their longer life expectancy.
– Voters oppose cutting overall spending for Medicare, by 74 percent to 23 percent.
– They oppose cutting spending for Medicaid, the program for the poor, by 70 percent to 26 percent.
– They oppose reducing the federal tax deduction for home mortgage interest, by 67 percent to 29 percent.
– They oppose eliminating the tax deduction for charitable contributions, by 69 percent to 28 percent.
"None of these things are attractive to a majority," said Miringoff.
There are partisan differences.
Democrats are the most opposed to raising the age for Medicare, which could make it difficult for Obama to sell that to members of his party.
Republicans oppose every option mentioned in the survey.
"There's no clear statement of what Republican voters want to happen. There's opposition to everything," said Miringoff.
"If you're a Republican in Congress looking for what Republican voters are telling you, they're not telling you much."
Voters do signal that they will blame somebody if Washington does not solve the fiscal crisis and taxes jump or spending is slashed – but the forecast is mixed.
Overall, 47 percent of registered voters said they'd blame congressional Republicans, 36 percent said they'd blame Obama, 11 percent said they'd blame both, and 6 percent were not sure.


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Social Commerce is a buzzword and it's hot lexical real estate, evoking a fusion of two big digital trends of "social media" and "e-commerce".
As a result, social commerce means different things to different people (see list below), and it's been the target of a number definitional land-grabs by businesses seeking to define the term based on what they sell.
So here's a no-vested-interests inclusive word cloud definition of "social commerce" that we created (with the wondrous Wordle). We simply took 18 top definitions of social commerce and threw them together into Wordle, and this is the result; (word size proportional to word frequency)
Okay, so you can't use the word cloud definition of social commerce as your elevator pitch definition, but exploring the cloud provides a conceptual understanding of social commerce and its key themes (don't want to go all Wittgenstein on you, but idea clouds approximate to how our minds store concepts). The social commerce cloud is also a potentially useful creative stimulus in thinking about how to deploy social commerce.
Based on the word cloud we've come up with a simple inclusive definition of social commerce.
Social Commerce: A subset of electronic commerce that involves using social media, online media that supports social interaction and user contributions, to assist in the online buying and selling of products and services.
Or the cocktail party version:
Selling with social media – the use of social technologies in the context of retail
[Update] As the above definition denotes, the concept of social commerce has been expanded beyond e-commerce to include the use of social technologies in the context of retail – whether online or in-store.
Examples of social commerce include user ratings and reviews, user recommendations and referrals, social shopping (sharing the act of online shopping together), user forums and communities, social media optimization (for e-commerce), and social applications and social ads linked to e-commerce.
And hey, if you don't like this inclusive definition of social commerce, you can always pick one from the timeline list of definitions below!
- Definition 1: David Beach(Yahoo) (November 14, 2005)
- Social Commerce: The Shoposphere and Pick Lists are examples of social commerce. We believe the community of shoppers is one of the best sources for product information and advice
- Definition 2: Dave Beisel(Venrock) (December 6, 2005)
- Social Commerce: Subset of "advertorial content", where content is the advertising… generated by a friend [wishlists… giftlists… picklists… tags… recommendations]… to provide consumers with rich social context and relevancy to the purchases which they are making
- Definition 3: Steve Rubel(Edelman) (December 23, 2005)
- Social Commerce: Creating places where people can collaborate online, get advice from trusted individuals, find goods and services and then purchase them.
- Definition 4: Dave Beisel(Venrock) (November 1, 2006)
- Social Commerce: Social input in online shopping services [that] augments the experience [c.f Social shopping: Sharing the act of shopping itself with others; …a subset of social commerce as a whole]
- Definition 5: Ken Goldstein(Shop.com) (December 2006)
- Social Commerce: Creating new and more meaningful ways for retailers to interact with customers [through] search, communication and community
- Definition 6: Sam Decker(Bazaarvoice) (June 2007)
- Social commerce: Strategy of connecting customers to customers online and leveraging those connections for commercial purpose
- Definition 7: Linus Gregoriadis(eConsultancy) (August 2, 2007)
- Social Commerce: Customers having the means to interact with one another in order to make better buying decisions.
- Definition 8: Lee Raito(LeeRaito.com) (August 11th, 2007)
- Social Commerce: A trusted environment where friends, family and acquaintances dynamically contribute content to the referral and sale of goods and services though positive and negative feedback, reviews, ratings and testimonials regarding their experiences past & present. In short, social commerce is a trusted environment of which prospective consumers make buying decisions based on the advice of a network of friends and family, not strangers they don't know or trust.
- Definition 9: Wikipedia(September 27, 2007 version)
- Social commerce: Subset of e-commerce in which the active participation of customers and their personal relationships are at the forefront.
- Definition 10: Jay Deragon(Social Media Directions) January 2008
- Social Commerce: Conduct[ing] commerce using social networks
- Definition 11: Brendan Gibbons(Practical eCommerce) May 2008
- Social Commerce: Monetizing social media sites…applications transform[ing] a profile page on a social network into an online store, complete with payment processing.
- Definition 12: Craig Agranoff(Scommerce) (September 2008)
- Social commerce: Buying and selling stuff online with friends helping
- Definition 13: Andrew Stephen and Olivier Toubia(Columbia / INSEAD) (September 2008)
- Social commerce: Emerging trend in which sellers are connected in online social networks, and where sellers are individuals instead of firms. [The distinction between social shopping and social commerce is that while social shopping connects customers, social commerce connects sellers].
- Definition 14: Jeremiah Owyang(Forrester) (April 2009)
- Social Commerce: [The Fifth Era of Social Media]: Brands will serve community interests and grow based on community advocacy as users continue to drive innovation in this direction.
- Definition 15: Paul Dunay(Avaya) (October 2009)
- Social commerce: Working with or using your social graph, which is defined as your followers or your friends, and allowing them to help you make buying decisions.
- Definition 16: Fumi Matsumoto(Allurent) (November 2009)
- Social Commerce: Enabling consumers to browse, view, and add products to a shopping cart, within the context of a social site, like Facebook or a blog
- Definition 17: IBM(October 2009)
- Social Commerce: Connect and foster active participation with customers to help improve your customer experience… including ratings and reviews, blogs, micro-blogging as well as forums and communities
- 17a Social Commerce: The concept of word of mouth in the context of e-commerce
- Social Commerce: Connect and foster active participation with customers to help improve your customer experience… including ratings and reviews, blogs, micro-blogging as well as forums and communities
- Definition 18: Paul Marsden (Social Commerce Today) (November 2009 Updated)
- Social Commerce: A subset of electronic commerce that involves using social media, online media that supports social interaction and user contributions, to assist in the online buying and selling of products and services.
- Social Commerce: The use of social media in the context of e-commerce
- Social Commerce: A subset of electronic commerce that involves using social media, online media that supports social interaction and user contributions, to assist in the online buying and selling of products and services.
- Definition 19: Pierre Raiman (Sherpad) (December 2009)
- Social Commerce rises through trusted advice in conversations and word-of-mouth among your friends and relations in social networks, blogs, and communities, helping to make shopping decisions and transactions
- Definition 20: John Jackson(DecisionStep) (February 2010)
- Social Commerce: The ability of two or more people to collaborate online, to share opinions and influence each other's buying decisions
- Definition 21: Bill Zujewski(ATG) (February 2010)
- Social Commerce is about customers having the means to interact with one another in order to make better buying decisions
- Definition 22: Jochen Krisch (ExcitingCommerce (cited here) (June 2010)
- Social commerce models are ecommerce models that focus on people instead of products
- Definition 23: Jason Weaver (Shoutlet/ LinkedIn Social Commerce Group) (Jun 2010)
- Social Commerce: Selling with social media
- Definition 24: Lora Cecere(Altimeter group) (Nov 2010)
- Social commerce is the use of social technologies to connect, listen, understand, and engage to improve the shopping experience


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I have interested in entertainment products which use historical background. However, many guys usually talk me something like " history is boring", " fewer customs will buy the product if it have historical element."
Is that real? So, I want to ask everyone's idea:
1/ Are the players of Total War series ( and Age of Empire series, RTK, Dynasty Warrior, Call of duty series, Battlefield,…) really care about historical element in game – in both good and bad way?
Exp: " I will/will not play this game, because it take the background in some historical periods."???
2/ Why these entertainment products almost just focus on several historical period: Ancient of Egypt, Rome, Crusader, Napoleon War and World War 2 – with Chinese and Japanese studio, we have Three Kingdom period and Sengoku Jidai?
Even with American video game studio, we can see they made very very few game about America Revolution, India War, Cowboy ( and they usually say America Civil War and WW1 is too boring to made video game).
3/ Have any different between a strange fantasy world with a less-famous period?
Exp: people love Game of Throne while very few have interested in War of Roses period. And some video game - Mount and Blade - base on a fantasy world which almost as same as Europe's medieval period. Why they have to creat a fantasy world if that world almost just as same as the reality?
4/ Is less-famous historical background cause players confuse when playing the game?
Even I – a guy who love to learning history of every nation – I really confuse when playing Cossack 1's Uckraine and Russia campaign. This is the first time I know about Uckraine and Russia history, too. I don't know that is because of the way they tell their story or not. However, I can't imagine what are happening during the campaign at all .
May be that is because I don't have any knowledge about these nation's history before?
So, that mean these less-famous nations should introduce a period which everyone have a little knowledge before?
- Burmese: instead made about the legendary Bayinnaung, they should made about Mongol invasion? ( " Oh, I don't know anything about Pagan dynasty, but I know Mongol. Are they really defeated Mongol ? I want to see more about their story."
- Vietnam: instead made about Tay Son dynasty, they should made about Vietnam during Chinese's Three Kingdom period? ( " wait! Vietnam is a part of Chinese during Three Kingdom period? They really at war with Wu dynasty ? I can't wait to see what were happening in that land while Cao Cao, Sun Quan, Liu Bei were fighting against each other")
- Korean: Imjin war ( Korean defeated Hideyoshi from Sengoku Jidai? I want to see that were going on …")
Hope everyone share me your idea???


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McLaren is looking to invade the Paris Motor Show with its latest Hypercar, the P1– the F1 successor. No specs have been released on the car just yet but we can certainly see plenty of ducting toward the extremely wide rear end. Race inspired rear diffusers and a front integrated splitter allow for some extreme down force capabilities, clear indicators of a menacing driving experience.
'It is the true test of a supercar's all round ability and a much more important technical statement. Our goal is to make the McLaren P1 the most exciting, most capable, most technologically advanced and most dynamically accomplished supercar ever made.', said McLaren Automotive Managing Director Antony Sheriff. When the McLaren P1 goes into production later next year, it will sit above the 12C and 12C Spider, in terms of both price and performance.
It's nice to see that companies like McLaren still enjoy creating provocative vehicles. The 12C has us worried for a bit. With the P1, McLaren clearly has a goal of replacing the supercars in children's dreams ¬– and ours as well to be honest.
More information will be released following the McLaren Automotive press conference scheduled for 8:45 AM (PST), on Thursday 27 September 2012. You can follow our Instagram feed @europeancarmag or on our facebook account (fb.com/europeancarmag) for all our Pairs Motor Show Coverage.


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Broad River Creative designs small, flexible web sites with a focus on small business and professionals. We primarily use Wordpress for our CMS and custom design a template appropriate to each customer.
We focus on usability, communication, and custom solutions.
Primarily small business owners and professionals, such as sales, accounting, legal.
View our current web site here: http://broadrivercreative.com. The logo should fit with that color scheme and look and feel.
I do need a logo that will be portable beyond the web site, to all of our marketing materials.
I want it a printable format .ai, .psd, .eps AND I want it in .png (transparent) .gif (tranparent) and .jpg.
Use the name Broad River for inspiration. I like the idea of a water/river theme. There is also the possibility of adding a tree near a river, but that is just one of my ideas, so don't let it limit you. Also, don't feel you need to represent a river in a literal sense.
What I like about my current header logo: I like how Broad River Creative is splashing below the surface. Again, I am open to new ideas.
What I don't like: The logo is too big and not dynamic enough.
I want a logo that visually entertaining, bold, but not over-detailed. It can or cannot include the name Broad River Creative. If you choose to submit a logo only that can be separate from the name, please include your suggestion for how the name should be presented along side the logo. In some ways, I tend to prefer a logo that can be separated from the name, but use your creative judgement here.
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SureStay Plus Hotel by Best Western San Antonio SeaWorld
Property Details
Property Location
With a stay at SureStay Plus Hotel by Best Western San Antonio SeaWorld, you'll be centrally located in San Antonio, within a 10-minute drive of Lackland Air Force Base and San Antonio SeaWorld. This hotel is 5.5 mi (8.8 km) from Lackland Air Force Base Visitor Center and 6.4 mi (10.2 km) from St. Mary's University.Rooms
Make yourself at home in one of the 72 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and microwaves. Flat-screen televisions with cable programming provide entertainment, while complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected. Bathrooms have shower/tub combinations and hair dryers. Conveniences include phones, as well as desks and coffee/tea makers.Amenities
Don't miss out on the many recreational opportunities, including an indoor pool, a spa tub, and a fitness center.Dining
A complimentary buffet breakfast is included.Business, Other Amenities
Featured amenities include a business center, complimentary newspapers in the lobby, and dry cleaning/laundry services. Planning an event in San Antonio? This hotel has facilities measuring 720 square feet (65 square meters), including a meeting room. Free self parking is available onsite.Attractions
Distances are displayed to the nearest 0.1 mile and kilometer.
Lackland Air Force Base - 5.5 km / 3.4 mi
Ingram Park Mall - 5.9 km / 3.7 mi
Wolff Municipal Stadium - 8.1 km / 5 mi
San Antonio SeaWorld - 8.1 km / 5 mi
Aquatica San Antonio Waterpark - 8.5 km / 5.3 mi
Lackland Air Force Base Visitor Center - 8.8 km / 5.5 mi
Joint Base San Antonio - 9.4 km / 5.8 mi
San Antonio Aquarium - 9.7 km / 6 mi
St. Mary's University - 10.2 km / 6.4 mi
Port San Antonio - 12.6 km / 7.8 mi
University of Texas Health and Science Center at San Antonio - 13 km / 8.1 mi
Wonderland of the Americas Mall - 13.1 km / 8.2 mi
South Texas Medical Center - 13.8 km / 8.6 mi
CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Hospital - Medical Center - 13.8 km / 8.6 mi
North Star Mall - 19 km / 11.8 mi
The preferred airport for SureStay Plus Hotel by Best Western San Antonio SeaWorld is San Antonio, TX (SAT-San Antonio Intl.) - 22.3 km / 13.8 mi
Hotel policy
Bed Types are requests only and may not be honoured at the hotel if availability does not permit.
Property Policies
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Important Information
Please note, there is important information about this property to know before you arrive.
Know Before You Go
- Children 18 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding.
- The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
- Rollaway beds are available for an additional fee
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
- -Indoor pool
- -Free self parking
- -In-room accessibility
- -Roll-in shower
- -Accessible bathroom
- -Smoke-free property
- -Dry cleaning/laundry service
- -Safe-deposit box at front desk
- -Spa tub
- -Laundry facilities
- -Elevator/lift
- -Business center
- -Free breakfast
- -Fitness facilities
- -Free newspapers in lobby
- -Multilingual staff
- -One meeting room
- -RV, bus, truck parking
- -Vending machine
- -Total number of rooms - 72
- -Number of floors - 4
- -Conference space size (meters) - 65
- -Conference space size (feet) - 720
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It's no secret that Chevrolet has been around for a very long time. And in that time, they've learned a thing or two about making some power. Since Chevrolet first invented the small-block, they've also been working on ways to improve it. We thought it was time we tried some of their parts on our little mule. After a brief phone conversation with the technicians at GM Performance Parts and the folks at Scoggin-Dickey Performance Center, we were convinced that Danger Mouse had to wear a set of GM's Aluminum Fast Burn cylinder heads for its next dyno dual.
If you're not familiar with the Fast Burn heads, here's some info. They're designed to fit any '58-00 283-400-cid small-blocks using a conventional water flow design, so that means the LT1 and LT4 are out. Of course, they won't fit LS1 either, because it's a completely different animal altogether. The Fast Burn heads are a 23-degree wedge design developed using the best of GM Motorsports and GM Production cylinder head techniques. The heads can fit either self-aligning rocker arms, as we chose to run, or standard rockers and guide plates. They're also dual drilled to accept either the late model "Vortec"-style intake manifold that uses only eight bolts to mount it to the head, or they'll accept a raised-port, 23-degree intake. The valve cover rails are also dual drilled to accept the late-style center-bolt valve covers or the early perimeter bolt-style covers.
The name "Fast Burn" refers to its combustion chamber's ability to quickly and completely burn the air/fuel mixture. The chamber shape is designed to work best with flattop pistons and GM does not recommend that you try to re-shape the chamber for more power. This new head is also manufactured with a .400-inch thick deck, which creates considerable gasket clamping force and strength.GM claims that this head is an "out-of-the-box" design that does not require any additional porting for maximum performance. Although, according to GM, polishing the chambers and exhaust ports is acceptable and may increase power, but we left them stock.
The Fast Burn heads feature a raised intake port that measures 210cc. Normally, we'd say that 210cc is kinda big for the street, but GMPP did their homework on this head and combined it with smaller than normal valves (2.00 intake, 1.55 exhaust) and an efficient 62cc chamber. The hollow-stem intake valves and sodium-filled exhaust valves are incorporated to reduce mass which allows for better valve control at higher rpm. We ordered our heads as a complete set with GMPP LT4/ZZ4 springs (101 pounds at 1.78 inches, 332 pounds at 1.22 inches) with lightweight LT4/ZZ4 retainers, and 3/8-inch screw-in studs.
GM told us that the Fast Burn heads would respond well to a fair amount of valve lift, but we didn't want to go too radical with the cam. We chose a healthy COMP Cams Xtreme Energy hydraulic roller grind for this test. The cam's 230/236 duration at .050 meant that it would idle acceptably on the street, but would still have a notable tone. GMPP 1.5:1 aluminum roller rocker arms with self-aligning tips were employed to keep valve lift in the cam's advertised .510/.520-inch range. Since Danger Mouse is equipped with a belt drive, we tested several different intake centerline installed positions before we came up with the best results, which turned out to be advanced 2 degrees (104 intake CL).
This month's dyno test did not involve any direct comparison to any previous tests. We tested DM as if it were an entirely new motor this month. We did, however, reuse several of our original key pieces, like the Demon 750 vacuum secondary carb, MSD billet distributor and wires, and of course, the same short-block as in all the other tests. The results shown here are listed chronologically as test 26 just in case we want to refer back to them at a later date.
Danger Mouse specs for Test 13:
355 cid, 9.4:1 cr, 4.030-bore four-bolt Motown block, 3.48-stroke Lunati crank, 5.7-inch Lunati rods
Test 26: GMPP Aluminum Fast Burn heads (62cc chambers, 210cc runners, 2-inch hollow stem intake valves, 1.55-inch sodium filled exhaust valves), GMPP single-plane intake manifold, Demon 750 carb, COMP Cams Xtreme Energy hydraulic roller camshaft XR-282-HR (230/236 at .050, 282/288 adv, .510/.520 lift, 110 LS). GMPP 1.5:1 aluminum roller rockers, 36 degrees total advance.
The first pulls on Westech's Superflow 901 dyno were promising. Interestingly, after an entire day of testing and tuning, trying different carb spacers, cam and ignition timing, and carb jetting, it turned out that our first set-up was practically the best. The only change the engine responded well to was advancing the cam. Everything else we tried cost us a little power. Which made it very clear to us that this was a very well matched package. It's pretty cool to know that these few GMPP/COMP Cams/Demon parts can make a truly bolt-on, 450-plus hp small-block that can run all day on 91-octane and still treat you like the royalty you'll become from stoplight to stoplight.


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Rhode Island's House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday that would legalize same-sex marriage, setting up a crucial vote in the Senate on the controversial issue.
The state would become the 10th to recognize same-sex marriage, which is also legal in the District of Columbia. Currently, Rhode Island is the only state in New England where same-sex partners cannot marry.
The House bill, which redefines marriage as "the legally recognized union of two people," passed 51 to 19.
Rep. Arthur Handy had repeatedly proposed the bill for 11 years.
"My wife and I have been married since 1997, and as we've worked together to raise our son, the value of having a committed, strong family has become more apparent to us over time," Handy said in a statement after House passage. "All Rhode Islanders deserve to enjoy that security and support, and deserve to have their family recognized as equal to others."
The state's independent governor, Lincoln Chafee, also supported the measure.
"Although this vote is indeed historic, there is still a long way to go," Chafee said in a statement. Chafee had previously issued an executive order recognizing same-sex marriages from other states. "Now that the House has swiftly acted, I urge Senate leadership to 'call the roll' -- for our economy, for our gay and lesbian friends and neighbors, and for history."


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hi everyone
I've wanted a 1st gen for quite a while and it looks like I can finally start the hunt! I'm looking for a GOOD CONDITION / running 71-74 Coupe. I'm in Albuquerque NM. PLEASE PM with any leads. THANX so much and I'll be learning all I can from this great site in the meantime!
T Edwards