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The pistol is the most basic firearm in many GTA games.
The pistol is mainly used at the start of the game, or later when the player has run out of ammunition for better firearms. In its original form in GTA 1 and GTA 2, the pistol is one of the least effective firearms of them all, firing only one bullet every second or so, at a rate slower than a machine gun. From GTA III onwards, the 9mm pistol is given generally poor stopping power, average accuracy, and a fairly short range. In GTA San Andreas the weapon is significantly more effective, partly because it's possible to kill a target in one shot to the head. In every game since Grand Theft Auto III, this weapon is the standard armament of many gang members and all police officers on patrol.
- In GTA 1 and GTA London, the pistol closely resembles the AMT Automag II by the HUD Image, Although the GTA 1 Icon also resembles a Soviet TT-33 design from WW II
- In GTA III, GTA Vice City and GTA San Andreas, the pistol resembles a Colt M1911 in shape, and its magazine capacity ranges from 12 rounds (in GTA III) to 17 rounds (GTA Vice City onwards). All of this is despite the fact that the Colt M1911 isn't commonly chambered in 9mm and, even if it was, it still possesses a single-stack magazine design, therefore making it impossible to fit 17 rounds into the magazine without completely redesigning the weapon (or using an extended magazine). It is seen carried by Ray Machowski in the mission "Crazy 69" of GTA Liberty City Stories, but is not available to use in-game.
- In the introduction cutscene of GTA San Andreas, where all three members of C.R.A.S.H. arrest Carl Johnson; Jimmy Hernandez and Eddie Pulaski are holding Glock 17s, instead of Colt M1911s like the ones in gameplay. Given the fact that the in-game pistol's magazine capacity (17 rounds) is incorrect for a Colt M1911 but correct for a Glock 17, and the fact that the Glock really is a 9mm pistol, it may be that the developers originally intended the player to use the model seen in the cutscenes, but this feature was left out for some reason. The Glock-17 can be used in-game by switching and swapping the pistol's model/texture with the Glock's one.
- In GTA Liberty City Stories, the pistol resembles the Glock 17, while in GTA Vice City Stories, the pistol resembles a Beretta 92.
In Grand Theft Auto IV, the pistol appears to be a Glock 22, which is the full-size .40 S&W model commonly used by law enforcement. While the real-life Glock 22 has a standard 15-round magazine, the in-game model uses the optional 17-round magazine instead. The sights on the model are incorrect; the gun's front sight is a duplicate of the twin-post rear sight. Unlike previous GTA games, in which the Pistol is soon usurped by other weapons, the Pistol in GTA IV can be used effectively from start to finish. Unless a mission explicitly requires a stronger weapon, such as a Sniper Rifle or a Rocket Launcher, it is possible to complete most missions in GTA IV and its episodes with only a Pistol by using cover strategically, being patient, and focusing on headshots. It can be fired from cars, and its availability and ammo capacity make it more desirable for drive-bys and chases than the Combat Pistol; submachine guns, however, are always a better option than pistols when available. In multiplayer, the pistol must deliver 2 headshots to kill (from full health). It is the starting weapon when weapons are set to "all", "pistols", or "weak".
In Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, the pistol's HUD icon suggests it is once again modeled on the the M1911. It reverts back to its function in earlier games as a weak starting weapon.
In many of the games in the series, variants of the entry-level pistol exist. In GTA San Andreas, for instance, the player can acquire the ability to wield two pistols at once, and there is a modified pistol with a sound suppressor. In addition, most of the games in the series have at least one more powerful, larger-caliber equivalent of the pistol, such as the Python or the Desert Eagle.
If in the hands of a skilled shooter, the pistol can be very effective given its weak power, decent accuracy, & mid range distance.
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(To show your coordinates you have to enter a cheat code, use at your own risk)
- Building east of Altamount Station (Altamount) (172,5 225,5 3)
- West of the bank near Flotsam docks (Flotsam) (227,5 210,5 2)
- Go to the street east of the Zaibatsu HQ. Take it on south direction, turn west at its end. Enter the small alley on the south side and you'll find a courtyard (Flotsam) (232,5 146,5 3)
- Dropped by Loonies, Yakuza and Zaibatsu at any time
- Next to the church entrance (Wormley) (114,5 124,5 2)
- Dropped by Rednecks, Scientists and Zaibatsu at any time
- Dropped by Hare Krishna, Russians and Zaibatsu at any time
- Red Light District, Portland - Available to buy from Ammu-Nation for $250 after completion of Pump-Action Pimp ($4,000).
- Callahan Point, Portland - On the north ledge of the large building next to and south of the Callahan Bridge.
- Near every hideout after collected 10 hidden packages.
- GTA Vice City
- Vice Point - On the first floor of the main building under construction at Fairground Point (in Avery's Buliding).
- North Point Mall - Available to buy from Ammu-Nation from start of game ($100).
- Ocean Beach - On the patio between Pier 1 and Pier 2 for the parking garage at The Piers.
- Ocean Beach - Available to buy from Ammu-Nation from start of game ($100).
- GTA San Andreas
- Ganton, Los Santos - Corner of wall behind a house across from the Johnson House in Grove Street.
- Las Colinas, Los Santos - Beside a wall in an opening between two houses.
- Santa Maria Beach - Beside a lifeguard post.
- Garcia, San Fierro - Corner of a narrow alleyway.
- Tierra Robada, Las Venturas - Under stone support beam for the railroad track.
- Roca Escalante, Las Venturas - Inside the police station, where a shotgun, body armor and nightstick also spawn. The player incurs an instant 2 star wanted level after picking up this pistol.
- Available to buy from Ammu-Nation after completion of "Doberman".
- Willowfield, Los Santos - In Emmet's after the mission "Nines and AKs".
- GTA Liberty City Stories
- Saint Mark's, Portland - Available at the safehouse upon collecting 10 hidden packages.
- Red Light District, Portland - Available to buy from the Ammu-Nation. ($150)
- GTA Vice City Stories
- Fort Baxter Air Base - Inside the barracks up to the mission "Conduct Unbecoming", the barracks are again available to enter during Over the Top and the pistol is still there.
- Vice Point - Spawns next to some stairs by the mall.
- Downtown - Next to a statue south of the dirt track.
The Glock (referenced as Pistol in-game) can be purchased from the back-alley gun shops for $600, and each additional magazine is $35. The Glock can be purchased from Little Jacob for $420, and each additional magazine costs $25.
- Firefly Island - Can be found to the right of the "Liberty Go-Karts" wall mural to the right of Wappinger Ave.
- Hove Beach - Can be found atop the Perestroika club, on a walkway on the roof.
- Rotterdam Hill - Can be found across the street from Michelle's house in a gated lot, behind some dumpsters.
- East Hook - Can be found on the first-floor ledge of a cylindrical silo-type structure off Mohanet Ave. The player can easily reach it with an SUV/MPV or other tall vehicle like a Cavalcade or Ambulance.
- Willis - Can be found behind and to the left of the parking lot off Freetown Ave. This parking lot is also located to the left of the small parking space where you obtain Stevie's Comet during the mission No. 1.
- Broker Bridge - Can be found midway across the bridge, on the pedestrian walkway.
- Liberty - Can be found on a giant rock in the West River just east of Westdyke, Alderney. You can see the rock from the Hickey Bridge as well.
- Northern Gardens - Can be found in the ladies' powder room of the Triangle Club. Please note: this pistol should be obtained only as a last resort, because otherwise the player shall receive a one star wanted level and the patrons and guards will begin shooting.
- South Bohan - Can be found on the sixth floor of the apartment complex across the street from the South Bohan Safehouse.
- Northwood - Can be found on the edge of the roof of a gutted-out warehouse off of Vespucci Circus.
- Middle Park - Can be found on the lone island in the lake, next to the tree growing there.
- The Meat Quarter - Can be found on the West River side of the driving range of the Golden Pier Golf Club, next to a sand trap.
- Westdyke - Can be found on the roof of the ancient casino featured in the mission Out of Commission.
- Westdyke - Can be found on the roof of the garden shed of a mansion on Owl Creek Ave. The mansion is the same one where the Turismo is parked out front for Stevie's car thefts.
- Berchem - Can be found in the alley behind the TW@ Internet Café, atop a small garage roof.
- GTA Chinatown Wars
- It can be purchased from the Ammunation website for $200, or $100 with the discount acquired.
- Found in various red dumpsters throughout Liberty City.
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Born and educated in France, Sens has lived in the American South for more than 20 years. His poems have appeared in numerous magazines in the U.S. and abroad. Part of Piccolo Spoleto Festival's Sundown Poetry Series.
Returning to its original venue at the newly renovated Dock Street Theatre, the Piccolo Sundown Poetry Series will help you erase the workday from your mind among the twittering birds, unfailing breezes, and "a general ambiance that often produces magic." Join some of South Carolina's most renowned poets for one of the few events that has taken place every year since Piccolo Spoleto began in 1979. Every weeknight, a different poet will present a free reading followed by receptions at various downtown art galleries.
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Don't miss performances by Jean-Mark Sens (you haven't lived until you've heard original poetry delivered with a French accent); Helen Brandenburg, who expects hordes of her Bishop England students to attend; Jack Tracey, of Monday Night Blues fame; Ann Herlong-Bodman, who lived on a boat for years; and Susan Finch Stevens, who makes books by hand.
Jim Moore, husband of photographer JoAnn Verburg, will do a reading (free with admission) at the Gibbes Museum on May 30 at 3 p.m. Moore's poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Nation, and many more magazines, and he will have a new book of poetry available in 2011 from Graywolf Press. When not in Spoleto, Italy, he and his wife live in St. Paul, Minn.

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More movie stars at the Emmys
A new teaser trailer has been released for HBO's Behind The Candelabra with Michael Douglas as Liberace and Matt Damon playing his lover Scott Thorson, directed by Steven Soderbergh. Can't wait, can't wait, can't wait to see this. May 26 in Canada and the US but Deadline is saying there could be a screening in Cannes.
And it sets up a competitive Emmy Awards, non?
Al Pacino will for sure receive a nomination for Phil Spector. And I can't imagine they'd not include Douglas and Damon too. Needless to say, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association will be all over that too for the Golden Globes in January. Behind The Candelabra was originally supposed to be a feature film but due to whatever politicking and difficulties in the movie business the film ended up at HBO instead, which probably allowed for less interference and more creative freedom. It's yet another example of how the most interesting storytelling and production is moving over to television. And many of the industry's biggest stars are following. Matt Damon's film career is not on the decline. Matt Damon isn't doing tv because his career is in the sh-ts. In all fairness, though he may not have been as inclined to take on the project without Soderbergh's involvement and if it had started as a tv project to begin with, the fact that he stayed with it, and that it has ended up on television counts as another plus on the tv side of the tv or movies debate as the movies are increasingly being dominated by mindless explosions and all manner of dumbassery. Example: The Host.


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State Needs Federal Investment, Not Cuts
by Luke Reidenbach (MPP Candidate '13)
The aerospace industry is worried. Its most important customer, the Department of Defense, might have to cut more than $40 billion from its budget this year because of automatic spending cuts, otherwise known as the sequester, which - without congressional action - will begin Friday.
Such cuts would be "catastrophic for our industry and our nation," Lockheed Martin CEO Robert Stevens said last year. Lawmakers agree. "I implore you, no, I beg you, to stop this from happening," Rep. Buck McKeon, R-Santa Clarita (Los Angeles County) told employees of defense contractor Northrop Grumman at its Palmdale plant last year in an effort to rally public support to save California's aerospace industry from the forced spending cuts.
Lawmakers like McKeon, who chairs the House Armed Services Committee, are right to worry about the employees of California's aerospace industry. After all, the cuts in defense spending probably will result in fewer contracts and less revenue for companies like Northrop Grumman. But the laser-like focus on the effect of the sequester on our defense contractors misses an important point: California's aerospace industry as we know it already was on the decline. And without further investments in our infrastructure, our workforce and our research institutions, the aerospace industry will disappear, along with our other innovative industries.
The history of aerospace in California is a lesson on what can be accomplished when the government and the private sector complement each other. The government didn't merely buy the planes and missiles manufactured by the aerospace industry; it supported the creation of technologies by funding expensive multiyear research projects. Throughout the 1960s, funding on overall research and development made up an average 10 percent of total federal government spending, compared with less than 4 percent today. And California enabled these industries by educating its workforce and expanding its infrastructure of roads and highways.
These investments paid off. Even just 20 years ago, California's aerospace industry was huge. In 1990, more than 300,000 Californians worked in aerospace, and 1 of 3 people working in that field nationally lived and worked in California. And around the same period, there were nearly 1,000 aerospace businesses and establishments around the state.
The end of the Cold War brought significant changes to our military. Defense spending was cut, military bases were closed and company mergers resulted in many contractors shutting down operations. The number of aerospace businesses has declined, falling by nearly 25 percent between 1993 and 2011, and more than 150,000 jobs were lost in the same period.
The industry is still feeling the pinch of changing military priorities, with major factories desperate for federal scraps. Factories like Boeing's C-17 plant in Long Beach, which laid off 900 workers two years ago, are under perpetual threat of closure. The Department of Defense says it no longer needs the C-17s but that it still needs the Long Beach plant to upgrade them. Once that work is complete, the future of the plant is unknown.
All of this would be terrible news for California's larger economy if aerospace were our only high-tech industry. But while aerospace has waned, other innovation-heavy industries less reliant on government as a customer have risen. Everyone knows the story of Silicon Valley and the Internet technology boom, but there also has been a surge of biotech, chemical-engineering and renewable-energy technology firms throughout the state. Then there are the other types of high-tech manufacturing industries, such as medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturing, in which employment has grown even during the recession.
One reason these industries have thrived in California: government investment. Just like aerospace, the federal government's investments in research and infrastructure, as well as loans and targeted subsidies that encourage new businesses, have been instrumental in maintaining California as an innovation hub. Regardless of the sequester's potential cuts to the defense sector, California can continue to be competitive by doing what always has done: investing in people and the research that become the foundation of new industries.
Luke Reidenbach is a master's candidate at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley. This op-ed was originally published in the SF Chronicle.


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Maginot Technologies needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 1202 designs submitted by 241 freelance designers.
Edit Zen and Translation Zen
Thank you for checking out our current project. We will provide quick feedback, detailed responses to anyone who messages us, and a fast decision at the end of the contest. We're looking forward to working with all of you again.
We have established an incubator within our company to develop several new Internet-based service businesses. All of our incubator businesses will be tied together with a common brand suffix, "Zen".
The first two products to carry the "Zen" branding will be "EditZen" and "TranslationZen."
We are looking for a single base logo design crafted around "Zen" that can be applied to both EditZen and TranslationZen, and be flexible enough to let us build additional "Zen" businesses in the future using the same core logo design.
We are not looking for separate designs for EditZen and TranslationZen, but we would like to see both representations of your design showing how it looks with both EditZen and TranslationZen in the same logo type. This will serve as a "proof of concept."
Our target market will be primarily businesses, with some consumer use. The logo should appeal to a broad range of business users from start-ups to Fortune 500 clients.
Since the products we are releasing will be disruptors within their respective markets--editing for "Edit Zen" and translation for "Translation Zen"--we do want to convey some of that freshness and energy through the logo.
However, because our offering is new, we still need to convey confidence to potential customers.
Drawing a bit on trends seen within the "Web 2.0" space is fine so long as it does not reduce the shelf-life of the logo, pigeonhole our brand, or come across as too childish/playful.
What We're Looking For:
1. A fresh, clean, and modern logo that will work for a group of business services using the unifying-theme "Zen." Essentially, "reliable yet fresh."
2. The logo should convey our core advantages: High Speed, High Quality, and Cost Effective-- without emphasizing "cheap", "discount", or "low price".
3. The logo can be easily used with words in addition to "Edit" or "Translation." For example, if we were going into Travel as well, we should be able to easily create a TravelZen logo using the same basic design.
4. We like type that's well-kerned-- don't be afraid to move letters around a bit.
5. We are flexible with regards to unifying elements, accents, and color. If we like an underlying core design we'll provide feedback in terms of what will get us closer to what we're looking for.
6. We'd like the logo to work well if used within a colored-element on a website, letterhead or powerpoint presentation. If your design has to be stuffed into a white box to play with backgrounds other than white please rethink it.
7. Final output should be available in vector format.
What We Don't Want:
Recognizable clip art, "cute", anything that is specific to either Translation or Editing-- keep in mind the next use may have nothing to do with either of those areas, over-the-top decorative fonts, anything orange.
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Chuck Jones is one of my favorite cartoonists and a huge influence on me.
I sometimes think of him as two people:
1) The entertainer that made really funny regular folk type cartoons from roughly 1945-1950
2) The stylist/designer who made beautiful soft cartoons from 1938-1945, and then again from 1950 to the rest of his life.
As an artist, I like his experimental and artsy cartoons.
As a regular type guy with normal man needs, I like the 1945-1950 period when he made hilarious cartoons like Pest In The House, Long Haired-Hare, Rabbit Punch, My Bunny Lies Over The Sea and one of my all time favorite cartoons, Scaredy Cat.
Jones is in his finest form in this cartoon. You can tell he really thought about it and worked hard. The drawings and poses are all really strong and solid, the acting is great and he uses a lot of imagination in one particular area of the cartoon-Sylvester's takes.
Jones did his best cartoons-at least in my opinion- when he had a good structure figured out and he could spend his time concentrating on one main creative aspect of the cartoon.
Mike Maltese wrote Scaredy Cat. It's a very funny idea and a funny story, so that part is well taken care of. Now Jones can concentrate on what I believe he thought was the most important part of the cartoon-Sylvester's reactions-his "takes".
Here's a take (above) that's only on screen for a very few frames. Jones' direction in this cartoon is so masterful and confident that he can draw and time his takes with such clarity and power that he barely leaves them onscreen for you to register them - but you do and it's perfect! Some of the takes-like the one above are arrows that lead your eye to the following scene of the mice doing some ghostly gag. He uses the device throughout the cartoon. Very clever indeed.
Jones was a master at drawing poses that really tell you how the character is feeling, in ways that are hard to describe in words. Look at the funny attitude Sylvester has above and below. These poses aren't arbitrary, they tell you more than one thing at once.
If you remember from my post "Design 1" I said Jones was mainly a stylist but sometimes used his design ability. (Design and Style are 2 different things)
He didn't often use it to create new types of characters (he did sometimes and I'll post about that later) but he would use it for funny reactions. For most of this cartoon, Porky and Sylvester are pretty much "on-model". Jones always felt he needed a strong reason or excuse to break from model-or create something new.
Sylvester's extreme fear is a really good reason to create some funny new faces. These use Chuck's design ability.
Go see all the great poses from Scaredy Cat that Duck Dodgers made for us at:
Chuck had an odd habit. Whenever he made an outstanding and original cartoon, he would make it again. Sometimes a million times, like The Road Runner Series. Usually the other versions of the same story don't turn out as good as the breakthroughs. I'm not sure why. Maybe, once he made something that really worked, he figured he could turn it into a "stock" idea and every time he made it again, it would be easier and faster and cheaper.
That way he could spend more time on his next firsts. I have no way of knowing, but his firsts tend to have more life and more elaborate animation and lots more custom poses drawn by Chuck himself.
Here are some frames from Claws For Alarm-a remake of Scaredy Cat. Note how the characters are drawn by comparison with Scaredy Cat. It seems like the main creative part of the cartoon is now in the backgrounds instead of the characters. It is still well drawn and funny, but Chuck (rightly) doesn't seem as inspired to make a cartoon that he's already done.
Incidentally, have you ever noticed that every other director's Sylvester is generally funnier and drawn better than Friz'? That's very odd, considering that Sylvester is associated mostly with Freleng.
Clampett- This is the first Sylvester model drawn by Tom McKimson for Bob Clampett. Below is my favorite Sylvester cartoon ever: Kitty Kornered


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8:30 am
Katie Brown Workshop "Dressing Up The Ordinary" Katie demonstrates shortcuts that can turn the ordinary into the extraordinary. Recipes include open-faced veggie sandwich and dressed-up matzo.G
9:00 am
Lidia's Italy In America "New Orleans: A Cup and a Slice of Capuccino" NULL
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Clodagh's Irish Food Trails "County Waterford" NULL
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Chefs A' Field: Culinary Adventures That Begin On The Farm "New York, New York - GreenMarket" Chef Peter Hoffman's Savoy is a standout among New York's many restaurants, its success stemming from the purity and freshness of each meal served. Nearly every day, Chef Hoffman dodges traffic as he rides his specially outfitted bike to the Union Square Green Market, the city's largest farmers market, to gather ingredients from local sources like Keith's Farm in Westtown, NY. Recipes: Garlic Custard; Heirloom Tomato & Purslane Salad. D
10:30 am
Mexico -- One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless "Extraordinarily Delicious Ensenada" Fish tacos embody Ensenada's history in one bite: Fresh fish from pristine waters encased in crispy batter influenced by Asian immigrants, topped with Spanish-inspired creamy sauces, wrapped up in a very Mexican corn tortilla and spiked with chile. We seek out some of the best versions at Mariscos El Norteno, a stall opposite the Ensenada Fish market, and a 30-year old corner stand, Los Originales El Chopipo. No trip to Ensenada would be complete for a foodie without a stop at La Guerrerense where Sabina Bandera Gonzalez has been serving the best seafood ceviches and tostadas for more than 29 years. D
11:00 am
Habitable Planet, The "Human Population Dynamics" The human population of our planet now exceeds 6.5 billion and is rising. Much of this growth is projected for the most environmentally fragile regions of the world. Will studying the history of the world's population growth help predict the Earth's "carrying capacity"?. D
11:30 am
Habitable Planet, The "Risk, Exposure, and Health" We all require food, air, and water to survive - which are contaminated to some extent by man-made pollutants. Two studies, one in a rural western mining town and another in a dense urban population, reveal how these exposures impact health, and what can be done to reduce the risks.G
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Minds Behind The Station This is a documentary for viewers of all ages about the NASA scientists who designed the Space Station and maintain the floating laboratory that is used as a base for space exploration, observation and research.G
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Rediscovering Biology: Molecular to Global Perspectives "Session 12. Biodiversity" With current extinction rates exceeding those of previous mass extinctions, many biodiversity studies focus on efforts to count the Earth. D
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Five Rivers Five Voices Across a vast landscape, rivers cut to the very heart of life in the American West. Some are wild, some harnessed by man. Some inspire and renew us, others stand as boundaries and battlegrounds. D
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Churchill "The Last Prize" Explore the later life of Winston Churchill, the embodiment of Britain and the age of imperial grandeur. Part 3 of 3G
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Artifacts & Fiction: Workshop In American Literature "Workshop 3. Social History" The discipline of social history focuses on the lives of ordinary people. Diaries, photos, music, and clothing all contain clues to these personal histories. This session illustrates how literature can be more fully understood when paired with social history artifacts that reflect the cultural norms of the time. D
4:00 pm
Hands On Crafts for Kids "China" Today we visit the Far East. China is located in eastern Asia and has the largest population of any country in the world with over 1 billion people. We visit China for beautiful symbols of the Chinese New year and traditional Chinese designs. D
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Hey Kids, Let's Cook "Pepperoni Pizza Soup" And today we're going to take another spin on one of the most popular kid foods, we're going to show you how to make Pepperoni Pizza Soup. Yes, I did say soup. All the yummy, irresistible flavors of pizza you can also drop in a stock pot and stir together for the same taste. D
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Essential Pepin "Light As Air" Meringue Shells With Chantilly Cream; Macaroons; Chocolate Roll; Chocolate Souffle Cake With Raspberry Sauce. D
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America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated "Two Ways with Fish" Test cook Bridget Lancaster uncovers the secrets to perfect Poached Fish Fillets with Sherry-Tomato Vinaigrette. Then, science expert Guy Crosby explains the science of poaching in oil. Next, tasting expert Jack Bishop challenges host Christopher Kimball to a tasting of oyster crackers. D
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Chef John Besh's New Orleans Chop Salad, Redfish Courtbouillon, and Strawberry Sorbet. D
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Joanne Weir's Cooking Confidence "You Say Harissa" Each time Joanne travels, she loves to find ways to bring exotic flavors home. In this episode, she shows her student Michelle how a picant spice rub, harissa, can quickly transform a home cooked meal of pork tenderloin into a gourmet experience with a cooling mint and cumin yogurt on the side. Recipes: Harissa-Rubbed Pork Tenderloin with Mint and Cumin Yogurt, Green Spring Vegetables. D
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Ask This Old House "Installing a New Kitchen Sink and Faucet/Installing Insulated Sidelights on a Front Door" Plumbing and heating expert Richard Trethewey heads to Colorado Springs, Colorado, to install a brand new kitchen sink and faucet. Then, general contractor Tom Silva installs insulated sidelights on a front door. D
7:30 pm
Rick Steves' Europe "Italy's Great Hill Towns" Rick finds Italy's quintessential charms in the classic hill towns. He travels from San Gimignano's medieval towers to Cortona's charming lanes, to Orvieto's history of papal intrigue and Civita di Bagnoregio's cliff-hanging vistas.G
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Rudy Maxa's World "Food, Drink & Place" At Istanbul's Spice Market, persimmons are split open, their insides resembling melting rubies. Brown-gold paprika is carefully molded into the shape of a pyramid. Cinnamon, cumin, ginger, and cardamom infuse the air with the fragrance of the East. D
8:30 pm
Essential Pepin "Light As Air" Meringue Shells With Chantilly Cream; Macaroons; Chocolate Roll; Chocolate Souffle Cake With Raspberry Sauce. D
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America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated "Two Ways with Fish" Test cook Bridget Lancaster uncovers the secrets to perfect Poached Fish Fillets with Sherry-Tomato Vinaigrette. Then, science expert Guy Crosby explains the science of poaching in oil. Next, tasting expert Jack Bishop challenges host Christopher Kimball to a tasting of oyster crackers. D
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Joanne Weir's Cooking Class "Asparagus Puffs (Gougeres) and Lamb Skewers With Fava Salad" Joanne shows her student Del how to peel fava beans and use rosemary in an unexpected way, and then they create a seasonal twist on the classic French cheese gougeres. Recipes: (1) ASPARAGUS CHEESE PUFFS, (2) GRILLED LAMB ON ROSEMARY SKEWERS WITH WARM FAVA SALAD. Student: Clodel "Del" Gosuico - Programmer. D
10:00 pm
Taste This! "Texas Bbq" Chef Joe ventures out of the kitchen, even leaves New York and heads to Texas to see how BBQ is done in the Lone Star State. He finishes his round trip with some New York style pizza and some Long Island Apple Picking! What a way to spend the day!. D
10:30 pm
Rick Steves' Europe "Italy's Great Hill Towns" Rick finds Italy's quintessential charms in the classic hill towns. He travels from San Gimignano's medieval towers to Cortona's charming lanes, to Orvieto's history of papal intrigue and Civita di Bagnoregio's cliff-hanging vistas.G
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Theater Talk "Cyndi Lauper & Harvey Fierstein Show Off Their Kinky Boots" Our guests are composer/lyricist Cyndi Lauper and librettist Harvey Fierstein creators of Kinky Boots, the hit show. They reveal secrets of their collaboration, which resulted in 6 Tony Awards, including ones for Lauper and the show as Best Musical of 2013. D
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Closer to Truth "What Makes Brains Conscious?" Everything I know - everything! -- comes from my brain. Consciousness, our private sense of inner awareness, is the one big question to which we might find answers. D


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JCRobert needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 157 designs submitted by 44 freelance designers.
Social Media Plus - a web 2.0 business summit
We are an online employment organization in the Philadelphia area and are planning to host a Business summit for CEO, CIO, HR, Sales and Marketing professionals to come and learn how Social Media and Web 2.0 technology can help them grow their businesses.
We are targeting small and medium and enterprise sized business owners, marketing professionals, sales, HR, and IT professionals to attend.
We are looking for a logo for our Social Media and Web 2.0 business summit.
The name of the event is:
a web 2.0 business summit
Some initial thoughts included using a crossword puzzle with Social Media Plus going across the middle with other Social Media names and web 2.0 buzz words as other answers in the crossword puzzle:
ie: Facebook, Linkedin, Cloud Computing, Twitter etc.
But definitely not stuck with that idea.
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City of Lincoln
Mayor's Office
Mayor's Office
Because of the heat advisory issued by the National Weather Service (NWS), Belmont Community Center, 1234 Judson, will be open until 9 p.m. tonight. The "F" Street Community Center, 1225 "F" Street, also is open until 9 p.m. on weekdays. Those without air conditioning also can cool off during regular hours at senior centers, libraries and other recreation centers. Hours for City facilities can be found at lincoln.ne.gov.
Information on local weather, the heat index and safety precautions is available at the NWS Web site weather.gov. More health information can be found at the website of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cdc.gov.


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DAVIS — You can get to downtown Davis by car or by train. Either way, you'll find yourself in a town that feels like it's just the right size with an ambience that's both hip and laid back, reflecting the intellectual vibrancy of a world-class university campus, as well as the old-timey agricultural heritage of its Central Valley location — with almost as many coffee shops per square inch as San Francisco's Mission District.
Even better, you'll find yourself in the middle of a unique, interactive outdoor museum.
If you come by train, the first thing you see when you walk away from the station along H Street are rivers of red, yellow and blue paint that seem to pour out of the side of a building, drenching a group of figures in primary colors, then pooling on the sidewalk at their feet.
Painted by Kerry Rowland-Avrech, the figures in the "Splash" mural are some of her colleagues on the Davis Mural Team, who painted this and nine other murals on buildings in downtown Davis in 2012. The red figure in the center is John Natsoulas, a local gallery owner and the prime mover behind the Davis Art Walk, which has expanded from those 10 murals and a few other pieces to include more than 40 works throughout downtown Davis and the adjoining UC Davis campus.
You can pick up a detailed map of the walk and descriptions of the art at the Natsoulas Art Center on the corner of First and E streets. And you can enjoy your first cup of coffee at Pachamama Coffee Cooperative, which shares the building with its spacious gallery, bookstore and conference center and sells organic coffee sourced directly from family farms in Central and South America.
If you're driving to Davis, the Natsoulas Center for the Arts is the first thing you'll see as you emerge from the Richards Boulevard underpass off Interstate 80, which serves as the unofficial gateway to the town. Locals and university students have disparaged the little tunnel for years, dubbing it the "Armpit of Davis." But it serves its purpose, which is to get cars, bikes and pedestrians smoothly across the railroad tracks without having to stop for oncoming trains.
Legendary faculty
If you park in the huge city-owned garage a couple of blocks away, you might pause to look at the mural that sprawls across one entire wall on the second floor. This monumental work traces the history of the town's culture with depictions of artists Robert Arneson, Wayne Thiebaud, William T. Wiley and others who were part of the legendary faculty in the 1960s and '70s, when UC Davis boasted one of the top university art departments in the country. Painter Roy De Forest got left off the big mural, but there's a nearly life-size portrait of him on a side wall, and images based on his iconic smiling dogs are all over the place. The big mural also shows some of the art buildings on campus and the original home of the highly respected Davis Art Center in the town itself.
And those hippies and children picnicking on the grass? They represent the first Whole Earth Festival, held in Davis in 1970, which has morphed into Earth Day, now celebrated all over the world.
The mural is one of several that grace the otherwise ugly parking structure that the city turned over to the Davis Mural Team — with carte blanche — to beautify. Natsoulas and his friends officially dedicated the building as the Davis Art Garage this winter, and more art is promised for its gray walls.
A leisurely stroll around Davis will present a feast for the eyes and yet another surprising gateway. Cross First Street in front of the Natsoulas Center and you'll come to the Davis Commons, a cluster of shops and restaurants watched over by Finley Fryer's spooky metal "Stealth Angel." Grab a quick lunch and enjoy it on the spacious front patio they all share. If you're there at the right time, there might be a singer entertaining the crowd. Or walk through to the back of the shops and across the parking lot. There, on the bike and pedestrian path that links downtown Davis with the campus arboretum, you'll pass under Christopher Fernell's spectacular "Shovel Gateway." Formed entirely of old rusty shovels donated by townspeople, who call themselves "Davisites," the surprisingly graceful structure resembles a delicate leaf bower elegantly linking town and gown.
A work in progress
Continue down the path, bearing left, and you'll come to an underpass that has nothing in common with the Richards Boulevard "armpit" except that it, too, takes you under the railroad tracks, linking downtown with the rapidly growing south Davis area. Both entrances to the tunnel, along with the walls and ceiling, are covered with muralist Caryl Yasko's colorful "Quercus," depicting local fauna and flora. Like the Davis Art Garage, "Quercus" is still being worked on by members of the Davis Mural Team and other local artists — a reminder that the Davis Art Walk is still very much a work in progress.
And it's a work that viewers can not only look at, but also interact with. Many of the sculptures and murals are embedded with microchips, so if you download the Microsoft Tag app onto your smartphone (http://tag.microsoft.com/home.aspx) you'll be able to view videos of the artists and their works and leave messages, poems, even songs and videos of your own, for others to see.
Natsoulas calls the experience a Transmedia Art Walk. He says that as far as he knows, the use of this near-field technology to enhance the experience of viewing public art is a first.
"The greatest thing about it is that it got the students to look at the art ,because they all have the phones, and this is how they communicate with each other," he says.
This interactive dimension makes it hard to judge how much time to budget in order to "do" the art walk. The official map says to allow an hour and a half if you're walking, half that time if you're doing it by bike — and Davis just might be the best bike-riding town in America. It's completely flat, the streets are wide and populated with drivers who seem to be perfectly comfortable giving bicycles the right of way. Except for weekdays on campus, nobody seems to be in too big a hurry. Davis residents pride themselves in having more bikes than people in their town, and if there's anything that outnumbers the coffee shops, it would be bike stores.
A full day to explore
So you could certainly cover the terrain in 45 minutes by bike or 90 on foot. But that's using the old map; the new one is rolling off the presses soon with expanded art offerings. Then there are those videos to watch, and you might want to "tag" one or more work with an electronic response. Some works just take longer to look at than others. And those coffee shops beckon, as do the beer halls, and the restaurants that serve Indian, Thai, Nepalese, Chinese and Italian, as well as American food, some of it on an all-you-can-eat basis, befitting a college town. And on Saturdays, the town's Central Park hosts one of the first — and best — farmers markets in Northern California.
I'd give it a full day — and then come back, pick up what you missed the first time and enjoy another round.
Contact Peter Magnani via firstname.lastname@example.com.
Natsoulas Gallery: A sensible starting point for the Davis Art Walk, the gallery has free maps of the walk and exhibitions by local artists connected with the walk. Open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday,
11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday, noon to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. 521 First St., 530-756-3938; www.natsoulas.com
Other galleries: For those who prefer their art hanging on interior walls, Davis is blessed with a vibrant selection of art galleries, including the Davis Art Center, Pence Gallery and Richard L. Nelson Gallery downtown, and the Carl Gorman Museum, Craft Center Gallery and Design Museum on the UC Davis campus. They're all listed on the Davis Art Walk map, along with the U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame.
Coffee shops: The Davis wiki lists 19 coffee shops in Davis, and that's probably just a sampling. There's also a tea room, the Tea List, with a charming patio off the street, 222 D St.
Restaurants: Four fast but high quality eateries share an outdoor patio at the Davis Commons, directly across from the Natsoulas Gallery: Pluto's, Habit Burger, Mikuni, The Melt — and, for frozen yogurt, Pinkberry. For something a little classier, but still casual, Bistro 33 inhabits the space that used to be Davis City Hall, 226 F St. And the Orangecourt complex, at 129 E St., houses a number of small Asian restaurants and a hot dog place in its jumble of off-street cottages.
Essential websites: Download the map and other information at www.davisartwalk.com. To use the transmedia features, download a Microsoft Tag app at http://tag.microsoft.com/home.aspx. And for all things Davis, past and present, go to http://daviswiki.org.
— P. Magnani, Correspondent


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Ignore the Market's 2013 Results and Diversify
2013 was a great year for stocks, and that has investors doing the exact wrong thing: jumping in, and jumping in blindly. MarketWatch's Chuck Jaffe joins us to talk about investors and the "recency" effect. Photo: Getty Images.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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After nearly eight years of good, uneventful surfing on
the Atlantic coast of Florida, 20-year-old UNF baseball pitcher Clayton Schulz
said he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time when he was attacked by a
shark last July in the waves Jacksonville Beach.
"I don't have any really distinct memories of it, except
that I felt teeth and the next thing I knew I was on the beach and then in an
ambulance on the way to the hospital. It all happened so fast, it's all just
kind of a blur," Schulz said.
Nobody knows exactly what kind of shark or other
sharp-toothed creature tore into his left foot, but whatever it was held on and
shook for a while before letting go. Fortunately, another surfer helped Schulz
to shore and called for help; however, the damage to his foot was extensive,
requiring reconstructive surgery and 300 stitches.
Schulz said his first concern once he realized what
happened was whether or not he'd be able to continue playing baseball for
UNF. "The reason I applied to UNF
was so I could play baseball here, and my main goal after college is to play
baseball," he said. "Hopefully this injury won't change anything for me."
Since then, the junior majoring in business management
has spent countless hours in rehabilitation and physical therapy as well as
training at UNF to regain all function of his foot. "My foot's been healing
well so far," he said. "It just takes a while to get that strength back; there
was a lot of damage done, so it's going to take time to heal completely."
Schulz's coaches are confident the determined athlete
will experience a 100-percent recovery. Head Baseball Coach Raymond "Smoke"
Laval said Schulz is doing great and will be back on the mound soon. "He's been
getting his arm in shape and will be just fine to throw a couple of innings for
us. Everything's going as planned and I anticipate he'll be back in the game
this season," Laval said.
"Clayton has battled through a very serious injury and
has worked hard enough to be able to practice with the team," said Assistant
Baseball Coach Judd Loveland. "His balance and strength are improving on a
daily basis."
UNF Assistant Athletic Trainer Mark Powers also is
optimistic about a complete recovery and said the young athlete continues to
improve with each rehabilitative session. "It's a lengthy process, as we are
not only working on strengthening the foot and ankle, but addressing strength,
form and balance with the rest of his biomechanical chain as well," Powers
said. "Clayton has progressed to the point where he is taking part in most of
the team drills and he has started his throwing program, but it's too early to
give a timetable for his return. His motivation and work ethic, though, are off
the charts."
Will Schulz continue to surf? The answer is yes, but not
for a while. "Right now I'm putting all my effort into getting back to
baseball, so I don't have time for surfing. I'll think about it sometime after
baseball season," he said. "If I were to hurt myself surfing again, it would be
pretty stupid — and I'm sure my coaches wouldn't appreciate that much."
One thing Schulz does want to make time to do is meet
with UNF's resident shark expert, Dr. Jim Gelsleichter, a Biology professor, to
find out everything he can about sharks in the region. "I have lots of
questions about what kind of shark it could have been, since I never even got
to see what attacked me," he said. "I may never know what bit me, but I'll
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Tariff Analysis Project API - Developers
The U.S. Department of Energy, through the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, operates the Tariff Analysis Project (TAP) - a comprehensive data warehouse of utility tariffs and query tools designed to accurately calculate utility bills. TAP consists of a library of tariffs that, in conjunction with their SOAP API, allows users to calculate their actual energy costs and saving based on actual tariffs, rather than estimates. There are several search/data retrieval methods in the TAP API that allow users to get utility data (by ZIP code or state), tariff listings, and tariff descriptions. This data can be used in conjunction with the bill calculation method to calculate a detailed projection of monthly utility costs. This free API is provided over SOAP, and requires users to register their I.P. through the provider's site to gain access to the service.


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Southern Railway
Historical Association
1959 Southern Railway Annual Report
1959 Southern Railway Annual Report,
An original Southern Railway annual report from the Norfolk Southern Archives (not a copy). This document contains this year's financial data, as well as a summary of significant events during this year.
Price: $3.00
(Discount available for SRHA Members)
Shipping: $2.00 (Inc. $1.00 for each add'l item)
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Christa H needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 42 designs submitted by 19 freelance designers.
Pro Focus Realty Group
We are a new Real Estate Group in Atlanta, specializing in the intown market (condos, townhomes and pricey single family homes) in Midtown, Downtown and Buckhead. Every member of the group has 10+years of experience.
We are targeting the intown market of potential buyers and sellers (urban, midtown, downtown), as well as any potential relocation clients and possible future developer clients, as we have an area of expertise in new construction marketing
We want a design that conveys that we are a real estate company, perhaps through a house or roof peak somehow incorporated into our logo, or even a city skyline outline somewhere. A more modern approach is preferred, and we want a feel of professionalism through the design. The real estate industry is competitive, and we want a logo that brands us as different that the rest.
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Dayton E49 Oil-Fired Portable Heater Covers 1,500 Sq. Ft.
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Chase the chill from any industrial space with the Dayton E49 oil-fired portable heater. This powerful unit quickly heats areas up to 1,500 square feet and is perfect for use in warehouses, construction sites, factories and more.
Easy to Use
The Dayton E49 oil-fired portable heater couldn't be easier to operate: just fill the E49 with kerosene, plug it into a standard 120-V outlet, and enjoy instant comfort.
Safety Protection
The user-friendly displays include an easy-to-read fuel gauge and power indicator light so you always feel on top of your unit's operation. The E49 also has an automatic overheat safety shutoff for your protection.
Built-In Handle
Get serious heating power anywhere because the Dayton E49 oil-fired portable heater has a built-in carrying handle that lets you easily transport this heater for warmth on demand.
Powerful Heating
The Dayton E49 oil-fired portable heater runs on 1-K kerosene and has a 1/8 horsepower. It moves air at 65,000 BTUs and covers 1,500 square feet. While it's great for poorly insulated areas, the E49 still only uses 120 volts of electricity.
Guaranteed Satisfaction.
- Up To 30 days to return your purchase
- Money back guaranteed
- Free return shipping
- No restocking fees
- Model: E49
- Product Type: Oil-Fired Portable Heater
- Product Dimensions: L: 30.00" x W: 12.00" x H: 15.00"
- Product Weight: 48.00 lbs.
- Product Color: Orange\Black
- Application: Ideal heater for industrial space with heating range up to 1500 square feet
- Voltage: 120 volts
- Amps: 1.6 amps
- Frequency: 60 Hz
- Fuel Type: Kerosene
- Heating Capacity: 65000 BTUs
- Heating Area: 1500 Square Feet
- Tank Size: Pounds, 5 Gallons
- Air Flow: 230 CFM
- HP Rating: 1/8
- Cord Length: 6 Inches
- Base Type: Stand
- Variable Heat Angles: No
- Control Type: Push Button
- Display Type: LED
- Safety Features: Overheat Protection
- Additional Information: PSI: 3.5
- Carrying handle for convenient portability
- Easy-to-read fuel gauge
- Energy-efficient heater runs for 10 hours without refueling
- Helpful LED power indicator light
- Ideal for garages and other poorly insulated areas
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We are having one of those special cozy kind of week ends. We lit our first fire in the woodstove, mostly for the romance but it was the perfect nod to the first day of Fall. Cozy business having a crackling fire ablaze in the living room.
The boys snuggled up and I finished reading them Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl. Great book, simply great. But at the very end we found this – I love the thought of authors imparting a special life message to kids at the end of a book.
Next up – make your own pizza.
I make dough and cook up pizzas often but today I gave each boy his own dough and they made their own little pizza's. It was so simple but they were floored by the whole thing. They kept complementing one another "Wow, Emmett you did such a good job on your pizza".
Next up a movie night, we watched and simply loved The Black Stallion . I think I saw it as a child but I cant say enough about how beautiful and simple it is.
I guess it's turning out to be a boy's adventure story kind of weekend. Might have to throw some Pippy Long Stockings in there tomorrow to level the whole thing out!
Happy first day of Fall to all!


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Winter is coming, like it or not. Along with winter comes the need to heat your home and that, with the current economy, could be expensive this year. What can you do? Well, either freeze, or takes some simple, easy steps to winterize your home.
Winter is coming, like it or not. Along with winter comes the need to heat your home and that, with the current economy, could be expensive this year. What can you do? Well, either freeze, or takes some simple, easy steps to winterize your home.
How much you spend to heat (and cool in the summer) will vary with the interaction of many factors. Bruce Snead, Extension specialist in residential energy at Kansas State University, says, "Your house's size, shape, the number and quality of doors, windows and other openings, efficiency of the heating and cooling equipment, your own personal standards for comfort, and the rates paid for the fuel used are key elements that control your costs."
You can improve all of these factors except the rates your utility charges. With your own time, effort, and $50 in materials, you can reduce your energy costs.
The key to saving energy economically is to choose simple, but effective, measures that you can do yourself. Check your home for these 10 items that can save a significant amount of energy and make your home a more comfortable place to live.
Air filtering into your home comes through the joints, holes, and cracks in the exterior skin of your house. Several types of caulks are available for different applications.
Latex and butyl rubber caulks are inexpensive and can be used inside. Expanding foam caulks in spray cans are excellent for filling voids and large gaps.
Interior caulking can be very effective at stopping air leaks. Joints around window and door trims and along floorboards and molding can be caulked with clear or paintable sealant.
The cost of caulking is small compared with the benefits in energy savings. Don't worry about getting your home too tight. Most homes simply can't be tightened to the point where indoor air quality becomes a problem.
Weatherstripping slows air leaks between the fixed and moving parts of the skin of your home. Doors, windows, and attic access panels are typical locations for weatherstripping.
Felt strips, foam tape, rubber extrusions, folder metal and vinyl strips, and door thresholds and sweeps are some of the more common weatherstripping.
Select only the higher quality materials for weatherstripping doors because they receive the most wear of any part of your home.
You might be surprised at how much air can leak through and around a wall outlet or switch in an exterior wall of your home. Fortunately, this leak is easy and inexpensive to plug. Foam gaskets can be installed behind the cover plate to seal the opening effectively.
Water heater set point
If you have a typical family, 15 to 30 percent of your family energy budget goes to heating water for domestic purposes. The common temperature setting for most water heaters, 130 to 160 degrees, is higher than is needed in most residential uses.
With the exception of automatic dishwashers and some laundry requirements, a setting of 120 degrees is usually adequate.
A higher setting results in more heat lost through the tank and pipes and hot water going down the drain. Most gas-fired water heaters have temperature with warm, medium and hot settings. Since an actual temperature indicators probably won't be there, you will have to measure water temperature at a tap with a candy thermometer.
Run the water for a minute before you measure the temperature. After adjusting the dial, wait several hours before measuring the temperature again.
If turning the dial down to the lowest setting still meets your needs, then it costs you nothing and saves you money. It will also extend the life of your water heater.
Water heater insulation
After you have turned the thermostat down, you can save even more by increasing the insulation on the tank. Kits for both gas and electric heaters are available and usually cost less than $10. Water-heater wraps reduce heat loss from hot water in the tank.
Water flow restrictors
The average person uses 15 to 25 gallons of hot water each day. You can save water-heating costs simply by using less hot water.
An easy way to reduce hot water use is to install flow restrictors in showerheads and sink faucets. Some flow restrictors simply are inserted inside the faucet head and can be install with a pair of pliers, using a rag to protect the faucet finish. Replacement shower heads usually can be installed the same way.
Furnace filter replacement
Forced-air heating systems do a good job of stirring the air in your house. The entire volume in your house is circulated through the furnace three to four times in a single hour of operation.
Your furnace filter traps airborne lint and dirt, preventing it from coating the fan blades and furnace heat exchanger. Dirt accumulation inside the furnace not only reduces efficiency, but also is difficult to remove.
Filters should be checked and, if necessary, replaced every four to six weeks during the heating season. It's a good idea to buy a season's supply in the fall and keep them on hand.
Clock thermostat timer
No one thing affects your heating (and cooling) costs more than the temperature setting on your thermostat. For every degree you lower the setting during the winter, you save as much as three percent on your heating costs.
Setting back the thermostat eight hours a day or at night will save one percent for every degree reduction.
Adjusting your thermostat costs nothing if someone is at home and remembers to make the changes. Another way to ensure the same results and savings is to have the thermostat controlled automatically. Automatic thermostats can cost from $40 to $400.
Thermostat setback in not appropriate for every kind of heating system, but most gas and propane furnaces and boilers can be operated more economically with a setback of four or more hours. Special thermostats are available for heat pumps.
Interior plastic storm window
Windows make up 5 to 25 percent of the exterior wall area of your home. With a typical R-value of one for single-glazed windows and two for double glazed windows, the amount of heat lost through windows can be significant.
The advantage of an interior storm window is that it covers all the cracks and joints in the existing window and reduces infiltration and heat loss. Kits of clear plastic, which will cover one to five windows, are available.
Window insulation shutter
Another low-cost way to reduce heat lost through windows even more effectively is to use a nightly or seasonal insulating window shutter. The shutter pressure fits inside the window casing or trim and is typically installed at night and taken down in the morning.
While saving energy isn't always glamorous, it does make good economic sense. There is some grant money available to those that would like to weatherize and needs financial assistance. I have more information on the grant program for weatherization at the Extension Office.


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The search procedures are designed to ensure a smooth search process and to provide clear documentation of efforts undertaken by all who serve Southern Connecticut State University to support its affirmative action policy and goals. Any additional questions and concerns can be addressed by the Office of Diversity and Equity Programs (ODE), ext. 25491.
You will find the PDF guidelines in the menu for each of the following search procedures:
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Click on the highlighted text to open the file. Each guideline may be downloaded, and copied for distribution to search committee members.
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Roku Thinks Out of the Box With AOL News
Nov 14, 2013 12:51 PM PT
Video streaming service Roku has added an integrated news service powered by AOL to its home screen, the company announced Thursday, giving users quick access to news content including videos from AOL partners such as The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, BBC News, CNET, GlobalPost and Entertainment Tonight.
"News is among the fastest growing categories on the Roku platform, and this partnership with AOL makes it even easier for customers to find and start watching a variety of news videos," said Steve Shannon, Roku's general manager of content and services. "This is the first integrated news service on a TV streaming platform, and we expect for it to be a big hit."
The integrated service is now available to Roku users free of charge on the new Roku 2, Roku 1 and Roku LT set-top devices and will be automatically updated through software updates to all current Roku products.
Not a Game Changer
Roku already has more than 1,000 channels and is continually adding new content. This partnership with AOL will certainly deliver a whole lot more to viewers.
AOL is committed to making its library of premium videos available on every device, Rob Delacruz, the company's general manager of connected TV and mobile video, told the E-Commerce Times.
"Consumers today want instantaneous access to current events, and we're able to deliver on that request by serving news videos from our syndication partners within hours or even minutes after the content exits the editorial review process," Delacruz added.
Whether the new capabilities will give Roku a significant leg up on the competition, however, is another question.
"This is a nice incremental content addition for Roku, which already has good traction," Greg Sterling, principal analyst at Sterling Market Intelligence, told the E-Commerce Times. "It's not going to be a major differentiator or a game changer for the company."
Missing the Mainstream
While Roku's business model has been to target viewers who may opt for an alternative to traditional cable offerings, the service has not been entirely without news even before the new partnership.
"There is actually a lot of news available with Roku already," Dan Cryan, director of digital media at IHS iSuppli, told the E-Commerce Times. "There has already been a news category with Roku, and it has already offered Sky News and Fox Business as well as top stories from NBC.
"Roku has provided a range of news service, which they have already promoted," Cryan added. "What has been missing is the mainstream cable news. There has been no CNN and no full MSNBC."
'A Grown Up TV Alternative'
Indeed, media have become increasingly fragmented, Cryan pointed out.
"The question that Roku is now facing is whether it can get the information to users in a timely manner and be relevant to viewers," he added.
In the meantime, "strategically speaking, it makes them look like a grown up TV alternative," Cryan concluded. "If all you have is Hulu and some apps, you still look like a streaming box, but with the inclusion of actual news services from major brands in the business, this makes for a much more rounded offering."