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I might be losing my taste for cake. Just a little. After baking so many cakes this fall since starting my business, they just seem to have lost some of their appeal. I still taste a bite or two – I have to make sure they're good, of course, so I can tweak my recipes if needed – but haven't eaten a whole piece of one in a while.
It's actually been a conscious effort, too, not to sample too much of my baking but just to let others enjoy it. And last week I managed to not eat anything sweet all week – no candy, no cupcakes, no ice cream… On Sunday, though, I made a few individual desserts for Jamie and me. It's the perfect way to get a little something sweet without having a whole enormous cake sitting temptingly on the kitchen counter, beckoning you to have a piece at 11pm, when you're already full from dinner and don't need something sweet. It's just a want moment.
And while I haven't made caramel apples since high school, I wanted a dessert that was somewhat reminiscent of a caramel apple. Caramel Apple Cheesecake Trifle.
Trifles are a great way to make individual desserts in small jars, glasses or whatever you have, and all the layers let you incorporate so many different flavors and textures. This one had everything I could want in a trifle – creamy, crunchy, salty and sweet. Trifles are also very adaptable – the recipe isn't an exact science (like baking a cake would be) so the proportions of each layer can be changed to suit anyone's taste.
I started by simmering apples with brown sugar and cinnamon, until they were soft and beautifully golden, then cooled the apple compote completely. Be sure you do cool it completely – otherwise the hot apple mixture can "break" the dairy layer, causing it to crack or curdle.
For the no-bake "cheesecake" layer, I whipped light cream cheese with light sour cream and non-fat Greek yogurt (the sour cream and yogurt could certainly be substituted with whipping cream, for a richer result).
A combination of salted crushed pecans and pretzels for the "crust".
And of course, generous drizzles of caramel.
A pinch of coarse sea salt on top looked pretty, and brought out the flavor of the caramel even more.
I think I'd much rather sink a spoon into this dessert than try to bite into a whole caramel apple dipped in nuts and chocolate and sprinkles any day…
Caramel Apple Cheesecake Trifles
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- 4 apples, peeled, cored and diced
- 1/3 cup brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, divided
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 cup water
- 12 ounces reduced fat cream cheese, room temperature
- ¼ cup low-fat sour cream
- ¼ cup non-fat plain Greek yogurt
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
- 2-3 tablespoons powdered sugar
- ½ cup pretzels, finely crushed
- ½ cup pecans, finely crushed
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup salted caramel sauce, room temperature
In a medium saucepan, combine the apples, brown sugar, 1 tablespoons butter, cinnamon and water. Cook over medium low heat, stirring occasionally, until the apples are soft and caramelized and most of the water has evaporated but it's still syrupy. Pour into a bowl, cover and refrigerate until completely cooled.
In a bowl, whip the cream cheese, sour cream, yogurt, vanilla and powdered sugar until smooth. Set aside.
In a separate bowl, toss the crushed pretzels and pecans with the salt and the remaining 1 tablespoon butter (melted).
Set out 6 glasses. Spoon half of the pretzel crumbs into the bottom of each glass and press down gently. Top the crumbs with half of the cream cheese/whipped cream mixture (I used a piping bag to get a clean, even layer). Top the cream with half the caramelized apples. Top the apples with half the salted caramel. Repeat all the layers, using up the rest of the ingredients.
Refrigerate until ready to serve, but set out at room temperature for 1 hour before hand, so the caramel is not too firm.
Cook's Note: All the separate elements can be made up to two days in advance, but the trifles shouldn't be assembled until the day you plan to eat them, since the pretzel layer will get soggy after a day after soaking up the moisture from the other layers.
Yields 6 servings.
Recipe from Curly Girl Kitchen


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brain (someone)
To strike or assault someone violently and severely, typically on the head. He warned me that he was going to brain me if I didn't stop insulting him. The lump on my head is from when a box fell off a shelf and brained me yesterday.
See also: brain
brain someone
Fig. to strike a person hard on the skull as if to knock out the person's brains. (Often said as a vain threat.) I thought he was going to brain me, but he only hit me on the shoulder. If you don't do it, I'll brain you.
brain someone
Hit someone hard on the head. For example, The roof collapsed and a bunk of plaster brained him, or I'll brain you if you don't get to those dishes! This term is used both literally (first example) and hyperbolically (second example). [Slang; 1930s]
1. n. a good student; a very intelligent person. (see also brains.) I'm no brain, but I get good grades.
2. tv. to hit someone (in the head). I ought to brain you for that!

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Intracoastal City
Intracoastal City is the nearest access to Vermilion Bay and the Gulf of Mexico in this region, but don't expect a bustling city with a large population. Intracoastal City evolved through years of service to the area's oil and shrimp industries. Further south of Intracoastal, you should not miss the Leland Bowman Lock on the Intracoastal Waterway. This lock, operated by the Army Corp of Engineers, helps to regulate the flow of water in the Mermentau District compromising much more than the entire parish of Vermilion. Two hundred thirty-eight (238) miles of the Intracoastal Canal falls under the Leland Bowman Lock's supervision. This system of keeping salt water out of the fresh water supply that serves the farming communities further north, while allowing the flow of transportation by commodity carrying barges, is fully computerized and interesting to watch. The Intracoastal Canal is a partially manmade canal inland of the Gulf of Mexico, stretching from Texas to Florida, that allows water transportation. It was furthered along after World War II when German subs managed to sink 90 crude carrying boats from Texas to New Orleans in the gulf off Louisiana waters. This and other history, plus an interesting video can be found at the Lock's main office. The drive until the gate at Leland Bowman is public and the surrounding cattail marshes are filled with water lilies and wire grass. All established areas here were built up out of the marshlands for habitation purposes. Once you reach the gates, you are granted permission to enter by calling ahead - 337-893-6790. Keep in mind that Homeland Security does affect visitation rights. But once there, we recommend that you pack a picnic lunch to enjoy under the shelter of the Lock's gazebo. If you bring your binoculars and camera, you're in for a treat since the surrounding marsh is teeming with local flora and fauna.
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Many prominent golf companies, players and PGA instructors regularly take to Twitter to talk about their equipment and other aspects of their game. Here is a round-up of some of the most interesting golf-related Twitter entries from the week of May 16-22, featuring Paul Stankowski, Anna Rawson, Brad Faxon and more:
Nike Golf
@nikegolf First win for the Nike 20XI golf ball! Congrats to Nike Athlete @suzannpettersen on a BIG win @SybaseMatchPlay! #FistPump
Paul Azinger
@PaulAzinger Bridgestone way ahead of the rest in solid ball tech. 0 Xouts RT @MikeHill21 @jayatownsend In your opinion Zing, what are the 3 best balls?
Cleveland Golf
@ClevelandGolf Brandon Brown won on the @HootersTour today, adding to CG/ @SrixonGolf wins on the @NationwideTour and @PGATOUR #winning
Mizuno Golf
@Golf_Mizuno RT @philliprigsby: @Golf_Mizuno I'm going back to mizuno irons. Played the best golf of my life with them. I feel the nostalgia coming on...
Cobra Golf
@cobragolf Here's what's in @IanJamesPoulter bag //bit.ly/jyV3UK @cobragolf White ZL Driver, Baffler Rail Hybrid, Pro CB/MB irons
Rory McIlroy
@McIlroyRory Poulter uses a platinum ball marker with diamonds, a 10p coin does the trick for me! #simples
Boris Busljeta, PGA
@boris_pga Love my @TRUElinkswear golf shoes. I use them for teaching and playing the best..
Hank Haney, PGA
@HankDHaney Not a lot of difference make sure they fit RT @richiecollette: @HankDHaney what is a good brand for a starter set of clubs?
@HankDHaney 4 wedges usually for a long hitter RT @benlown10: @HankDHaney four wedges or a 2 hybrid?
@HankDHaney I prefer a hybrid there RT @edwardo2727: @HankDHaney should i drop my 7w and get a hybrid to fill the gap between my 4i and 5w?
@HankDHaney I prefer a hybrid there RT @edwardo2727: @HankDHaney should i drop my 7w and get a hybrid to fill the gap between my 4i and 5w?
@HankDHaney 2, 3 RT @Sidnickels:have 1D & 3W and I wanna add new hybrid clubs to my bag.Should I go with (2hybrid & 3hybrid) or (3hybrid & 4hybrid)? Thx
Nike Golf
@nikegolf Now you'll have 1! RT @DavidMullen80: My favorite irons gave me my best score w/20XI. All I'm missing is the Method! yfrog.com/h0t3nqej
@nikegolf Your set is now complete! RT @pdotmac1: trunk full of his & hers Nike clubs, method would complete my bag! //lockerz.com/s/103594437
@nikegolf Problem solved! RT @gmcugolferMark: I support the #swoosh deep but I have this Cameron headcover ruining the bag //yfrog.com/h32fgsgfj
@nikegolf Replaced! RT @PHParton: only thing not swoosh is the putter, replace my scotty! //yfrog.com/h2irkvsj
Richard Adby, PGA
@richardadbygolf Used the @CallawayGolf imix cart with flightscope for the first time this week, love it!! 3 new drivers sold straight away
Gary Babcock, PGA
@GooBabcock_PGA Polly gonna drop sum bombs. #bombsquad //t.co/iL1HhV3
Cameron Tringale
@CamTringalePGA Putter was cryogenically frozen today. Does anyone know a good remedy?
Mark Whetzel, PGA
@GolfTipofWeek I played in the rain & went through 5 gloves! Keeping warm & dry is the key. Also, keep grips dry, use an umbrella over clubs to keep dry!
Wilson Golf
@WilsonGolf Thanks for stopping by! RT@novice2scratch: Pic from earlier... Inside the @wilsongolf tour truck at @GolfLIVE //bit.ly/khR3Rm
Hank Haney, PGA
@HankDHaney Try an adjustable driver, they work RT @msatto: @HankDHaney hit 3 wood 225 straight but slice driver ?? Suggestions .. Drills etc .. Thanks
@HankDHaney Nike Vapor Speed RT @Mike_DoDoBrown: I'm a 12 handicap with a slow swing speed who's drive average 250yds. What golf ball should I play?
@HankDHaney Vapor spins less RT @HoselRocket18: Whats the difference between the Nike One Vapor and Nike One Tour-D? Both 3 piece balls, eight
@HankDHaney Turn the 3 into a hybrid RT @AndreRouai: i play blades my 3 & 4 are like piercing bullets. How can I get more height out of them
@HankDHaney Personal preference of what u like to look at RT @perfectplex: What is the best type of putter for beginner-mallet, two ball , blade etc?
@HankDHaney They r great blades so great for u RT @jeenyuswr22: Is it odd that playing blades helped me more than hurt me? Im loving these vr pro blades
Bubba Watson
@bubbawatson Glow in the dark golf!!! #buzzcut //t.co/F9Itdjt
Stewart Cink
@stewartcink For those who don't know, the @nikegolf R&D facility is here in Ft Worth. Nicknamed "The Oven" because they are always cooking up new ideas.
Anna Rawson
@TheAnnaRawson Why is hitting golf balls so fun?? I love golf!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Richard S Johnson
@RStanleyJohnson @StuartAppleby got a new style going //t.co/meMfroz
Michael Johnson
@PirettiGolf A certain South African is tied for the lead at the Crown Plaza using this putter. //twitpic.com/5054tg
Travis Mathew Apparel
@TRAVISMATHEW Loadin' up for Dallas //lockerz.com/s/103320745
Joe Leenheer, PGA
@JLeenheerPGA Sporting a new @powerbalance wristband today. Black on Black...very Gary Playerish twitpic.com/50515i
Stephanie Connelly
@S_L_Connelly My @ClubGloveUSA travel bag came today ...love the red! //t.co/rwKqjCR
TaylorMade Golf Europe
@TaylorMadeTour TaylorMade is also the number 1 driver brand and #R11 is the number 1 driver model at the Volvo World Matchplay @ Finca Cortesin, Spain
@TaylorMadeTour Just finished @CharLouJackson clubs.... Hope they help her quest for a single figure handicap this year.... //twitpic.com/502id1
@TaylorMadeTour New XFT wedges for (British radio and TV personality Vernon Kay) @OfficialVernonK //twitpic.com/500qjl
Hank Haney, PGA
@HankDHaney I like that, anything to make the game easier RT @MarkCrose: @HankDHaney What do you think of changing the 14 club rule to 15 or 16?
Stewart Cink
@stewartcink Oven time earlier this week! Tested next generation of drivers, fairway woods, irons, golf balls. //yfrog.com/h7iiklgj
Belen Mozo
@BelenMozo I cannot be more in love with my new @ECCOshoes BIOM running shoes! I feel like im walking barefoot. yfrog.com/h750fcnj
Paul Stankowski
@PaulStankowski Reminiscing...changed a lot over the years! //twitpic.com/4zsfr0
@PaulStankowski Check out the size difference!!! //twitpic.com/4zsg5e
@PaulStankowski This might make an appearance soon...still is as hot as ever!!! //twitpic.com/4zsidn
Titleist Europe
@TitleistEurope "@kellylouise92:my G15 driver, no bigger thrill that crunching a drive! & @Titleist ProV1. No greater ball in my opinion" We'd have to agree
Adrian Bishop, PGA
@aydthegolfer Got my new Flightscope X2 today. first impressions are big improvement on my old Kudu. Wireless and battery make it very convenient.
Mizuno Golf
@Golf_Mizuno RT @tonybrown72: @Golf_Mizuno played mizuno for 20yrs, cimarron, TP9's n M57's awesome, why play anything else //t.co/Y7xnsSk
Oliver Wilson
@Oliver_Wilson Got couple of new Razr Hawk drivers today & some 3 woods to try for Wentworth. Need to eliminate left, only been working on it for 20 years
TaylorMade Golf Europe
@TaylorMadeTour Quick loft and lie check for one of our PGA / Euro Tour players today ahead of the BMW PGA next week - guess who? //twitpic.com/4zktw0
@TaylorMadeTour Justin Rose of course! //twitpic.com/4zl2iv
@TaylorMadeTour New XFT wedge for @justinrose99 for next week at Wentworth. //twitpic.com/4zp1qb
@TaylorMadeTour TaylorMade is the number 1 driver brand and #R11 is the number 1 driver model again on Tour at the Madeira Islands Open.
Vokey Wedges
@VokeyWedges Where do you store your Vokeys? //ow.ly/i/bMeC //ow.ly/i/bMeD
Whitlam Golf
@WhitlamGolfUSA Our new Gauge Design tcg wedges. //t.co/yAIBh0l
Fujikura Composites
@FujikuraOnTour John Hovis working with a guest in the Fit on Studio this morning //twitpic.com/4zprsa
SeeMore Putters
@SeeMorePutters Ready for member guest today! Awesome day! //t.co/yhCLRYj
Titleist Africa
@TitleistAfrica Styling Titleist Brand Ambassador Neil Schietekat will be heading down the fairways soon! //yfrog.com/h2ia4shlj
@TitleistAfrica Sunshine Tour School winner and Titleist loyalist Colin Nel are joining the FJ 'parade' on tour;) //yfrog.com/h2targmej
Ping Golf
@PingTour After hitting a flush S56 3-iron, PING Pro Angel Cabrera aced the par 3 fourth hole at Colonial C.C. from 247 yds. //twitpic.com/4zcjhg
Trent Whitekiller
@twhitekiller Check out the new addition to the golf bag. yfrog.com/h0mjelsj
LoudMouth Golf
@LoudMouthGolf Cool Picture! RT @jdgloves Nice view of a @loudmouthgolf Black Disco Ball golf glove- Thanks Jim! //twitpic.com/4zhqd2
Cindy LaCrosse
@CindyLaCrosse Got new @Titleist balls and gloves today. Thanks @TFJgolfgirl!
Michael Johnson
@PirettiGolf Jim Furyk rolling a new model that we will release soon. //twitpic.com/4zgfr2
Karen Stupples
@Kstupples My bag :-) //lockerz.com/s/102742944
@Kstupples Another view //lockerz.com/s/102743230
Compression Board
@CompressionGolf Really liking my R11 3 Wood and hybrid...much better flight and control.
Nike Golf
@nikegolf Everyone loves a new golf bag! Nike's Justin Leonard switching his gear into his new 20XI golf bag //yfrog.com/h865722679j
@nikegolf A user of STR8-FIT, Nike Athlete Justin Leonard is checking the face angle on his driver at the Oven //yfrog.com/h889iouj
@nikegolf Another Nike Athlete excited about his new golf bag! Stephen Ames putting the 20XI bag in play //yfrog.com/h8uvszlj
@nikegolf The Oven is getting a Method 003 ready for Nike's Stephen Ames to possibly play this wk @CrownePlazaInv //yfrog.com/gyn21vkj
@nikegolf Nike Athlete Anthony Kim dialing in his driver w/the track man at The Oven today //yfrog.com/gzfxxevj
@nikegolf Anthony Kim is armed with 14 Nike clubs in his bag & he is ready to compete @CrownePlazaInv //yfrog.com/h72f6flj
@nikegolf The Oven is getting Nike Athlete Anthony Kim's Method putters ready for competition //yfrog.com/gz94eioj
Anna Nordqvist
@ANordqvist "@Kstupples: Just opened my new golf bag. It is sweet looking and light :-)" perfect week for a new bag, lol. Got my new @cobragolf today!
Kris Blanks
@krisblanks Putting station set up. New putting arc HD and mirror for shoulder alignment. Using the toe side of the HD. yfrog.com/gykn7fij
@krisblanks Same type station but using heel side of putting arc. Working on squaring up my shoulders. yfrog.com/h7h6ckvj
Kelly Tidy
@kellylouise92 I have all these clothes, plus a whole load more, and still don't have anything I want to wear! :( yfrog.com/h05mqnjj
John Parry, PGA
@johnparry17 Am unpacking my Trackman - am like a kid at christmas
Titleist Europe
@TitleistEurope Pyramids of Pro V1X balls, ready for some afternoon practice at the Volvo Matchplay. //yfrog.com/h7yk3tbj
Hank Haney, PGA
@HankDHaney None of the new adjustable drivers are too unforgiving RT @Rrager15: @HankDHaney Is the Taylor Made R11 too unforgiving for a 10 hdcp ?
@HankDHaney A two hybrid and a 3 wood RT @Aaron_55: @HankDHaney carry 3 iron 220. get a hybrid?
Brad Faxon
@BradFaxon Had an unreal day yesterday at TPI w Greg Rose and Dave Phillips, no better guys or better place to practice! Thanks boys!
@BradFaxon To make it better spent the afternoon with Paul Vizanko at Scotty Cameron's Putter studio. One of the coolest places on earth! Thanks guys!
@BradFaxon Here r a few headcovers on display. Saw the prototype for us open! U will love it! yfrog.com/h8vo1tmj
Nike Golf
@nikegolf Nike Athlete @StewartCink stopped by the Oven today to check out what's cookin' at the Oven //yfrog.com/h7iiklgj
@nikegolf Keeping Nike Athlete @StewartCink busy at the Oven - Checking out his numbers on the Track Man //yfrog.com/h091849402j
@nikegolf Here's a peek into the golf bag of Nike Athlete @StewartCink - he is prepared for competition this week //yfrog.com/h7g86kej
Ping Golf
@PingTour This is something you don't see everyday... Ben Hogan and his locker at Colonial C.C. //twitpic.com/4yzywz //twitpic.com/4yzz41
@PingTour PING Pro Daniel Summerhays spent the afternoon testing out his new PING driver at the @CrownePlazaInv @PGATour //twitpic.com/4yzohn
Titleist Europe
@TitleistEurope Guess who's #scottycameron putter this is ?.... Its a thing of beauty //yfrog.com/hsi2dihj
@TitleistEurope Does the headcover look familiar too.... //yfrog.com/h2evkdij
@TitleistEurope Meet the new Team Titleist mascot! ProV1's instead of pearls! //yfrog.com/h21ajznj
@TitleistEurope Young Korean star Noh Seung-Yul limbering up at Finca Cortesin //yfrog.com/h7v23yejj
@TitleistEurope Pro V1X player Ian Poulter working on his swing at the Volvo World Matchplay this morning. //yfrog.com/gyiyfdoj
Cobra Golf
@cobragolf rain has stopped and range is buzzing this afternoon @bmwcharityproam #TwitPict //twitpic.com/4yzm7u
Whitlam Golf
@WhitlamGolfUSA My baby twitpic.com/4yqjbh
Fujikura Composites
@FujikuraOnTour Only 4 drivers for Richard S. to test. Must be a slow day. Oh yeah no go on Kelly. Up one minute down the next. //twitpic.com/4yycir
@FujikuraOnTour Jerry Kelly testing VC 7.2x and we have a yatzee ladies and gentlemen!! Wha wha whaaaat!! //twitpic.com/4yxxz8
TaylorMade Golf Europe
@TaylorMadeTour Retief adjusts his FCT settings on his R11 to account for the wind at Finca Cortesin. //twitpic.com/4ywpx2
Hank Haney, PGA
@HankDHaney No you need at least 2 extra wraps RT @tcrichins: @HankDHaney Are standard grips ok for me, I wear a XXL glove, thanks!!!
@HankDHaney Most important is length and lie and grip size RT @K_Kaleto: @HankDHaney for a beginner how important is it to have a club fitting?
@HankDHaney Not unless it is adjustable RT @LiamMorbin: hank any way on getting my driver delofted and what's the pros/cons of thicker grips thanks
Brett Waldman
@bm_waldman For all you Headcovers fans. Got a new one today. Pretty cool //twitpic.com/4ylulj
Nike Golf
@nikegolf Which Nike Method do u use? Looks like Stephen Ames might try out Lucas Glover's method...the 003 //yfrog.com/gyfuuaaj
@nikegolf Nike's Stephen Ames working on his wedge shots at the Oven....getting everything dialed for Colonial //yfrog.com/h74muwdj
Pahr Golf
@pahr72 KJ Choi is a beast! I wonder how many fat putter grips were sold today? over 100k?? or under 100k
Sligo Wear Inc.
@sligowear With almost 70% success rate @BrianGayPGA ranks 1st on TOUR in sand saves in 2011. Does that make @SligoWear the hottest thing in beachwear?
Fujikura Composites
@FujikuraOnTour Yep looks like the normal shipment area each week. Getting our boxes is not always the easiest thing. //twitpic.com/4yj8t4
Richard S Johnson
@RStanleyJohnson What do you do when you find a good driver in Sweden and you travel without luggage?? Improvise! yfrog.com/h4oxkfrej
@Titleist Pro V1 loyalist K.J. Choi wins @2011PLAYERS, leads 1-2-3-4-5 finish for Titleist golf ball players //bit.ly/kkvy8C
Vokey Wedges
@VokeyWedges Another win for Vokey wedges at The Players...that's 8 wins for #DaVoke on Tour this year. It's only May.
Odyssey Golf
@odysseygolf In a playoff on the island green with an Odyssey putter in hand. That's how the winner got it done at TPC Sawgrass. That's Clutch putting
Stewart Cink
@stewartcink My latest @nikegolf apparel shipment. A new box arrives about every 8-10 weeks. //lockerz.com/s/102166218
Ping Golf
@PingTour PING Pro Miguel Jimenez is all business as he prepares for the Volvo World Matchplay Championship in Spain //twitpic.com/4yibd3
TaylorMade Golf Europe
@TaylorMadeTour UK Market Share data just in for March & R11 is the #1 selling driver by a long way with 38% share! #R11. Stats by Golf Datatech LLC.
@TaylorMadeTour In Darren's Bag: R11 9.0 Driver, R9 13° FW, Rescue 09 TP 19°, TP MB Irons 3-PW, xFT wedges 50°, 54° & 58° and Penta TP Ball - number 60!
@TaylorMadeTour Double win for the R11 last weekend - Darren Clarke at the Iberdrola Open and the winner of the TPC @ Sawgrass also used an R11 #R11
Hank Haney, PGA
@HankDHaney Great, get her some little clubs RT@thelincster:The best way to start out a 4-year old girl in golf? All my girl wants for her bday is clubs!
@HankDHaney I doubt that RT @Mikezzz33: @HankDHaney Could switching to a different golf ball have a negative affect on G McDowell game?
@HankDHaney Cavity back, the game is hard enough RT @Dalrockdfr: @HankDHaney cavity back or blades?15 handicap.
@HankDHaney Yes if u have a lot of club speed RT @Mdeathstar2:u always say get hybrids. it is possible to have a swing that would hit long irons better?
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The Internet dramatically reduced the costs of a number of creative activities. For example, publishing written work used to require a large upfront investment. As a result, publishing was controlled by corporations who acted as creative arbiters. The Internet enabled writers to bypass those corporations, leading to an explosion of creativity and innovation.
Creative activities that involve physical things have mostly resisted this trend. Let's say you are an entrepreneur who has designed a new line of jewelry. You need to find a factory, commit to a large batch size, and make a significant upfront investment. It is a risky and expensive endeavor.
Shapeways is a startup headquartered in NYC that eliminates the fixed costs of manufacturing. Making use of breakthrough advances in 3D printing, Shapeways manufactures objects in a variety of materials – including metals, ceramics, and plastics – with no upfront costs or minimum batch size. The results are indistinguishable from – and sometimes superior to – objects manufactured using traditional techniques.
Here's a short video that shows the revolutionary potential of 3D printing:
Today, I'm excited to announce that Andreessen Horowitz is leading a $30M investment in Shapeways along with our friends at Union Square Ventures, Index Ventures, and Lux Capital. We believe that technology is at its best when it enables human creativity. The Internet unlocked the world of bits. 3D printing is unlocking the world of atoms.
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'Phoenix,' An Amazon Kindle Single By Chuck Palahniuk
Update: Since Friday, 'Phoenix' has shot up Amazon's sales rank from around #27,000 to #278. It's now #3 in the Kindle Single Fiction category. Thank you all for reading!
Update: You can also now purchase 'Phoenix' on Amazon CA and UK here.
In all the excitement last week- with the announcement of three new books in thee years- something just as cool got lost in the shuffle. Chuck Palahniuk has gone and written a Kindle Single!
If you don't know what Kindle Singles are, they're basically long form short stories and novellas in eBook format that Amazon publishes. They're perfect for an author like Chuck who, when he's not prolifically writing new novels, is experimenting with short stories which he reads on tour, publishes with magazines like Playboy and then (if we're lucky), later releases in collections.
But recently, he wrote something which broke that format a little. 'Phoenix' is an abnormal short story for Chuck in that, it's 32 pages long and is written in the third person. That's perhaps longer than most shorts and shorter than most novellas. In "short," it was perfect for the Kindle Single program. But I was curious about its backstory, so I emailed Chuck to get more, and here's what he had to say:
Ah, "Phoenix" ... I've been working on stories told in third-person, longer stories that would be impossible to read on tour. Last October the editor Amy Lloyd Grace asked me to write a Halloween-themed piece for the on-line subscription service Byliner. I'd worked with Amy at Playboy. She editted "Romance" among other things, and her advice always made me a better writer. For years I'd been collecting stories about cats, and this summer -- yes, when I met you for dinner -- a publicist in L.A. told me the perfect cat anecdote. Suddenly all my cat anecdotes fit together beautifully, like the anecdotes that merged to create "Guts."
Byliner liked the story so much that they didn't want to rush it to market. Instead, Amy and I worked on it for a few months, and the tortured-marriage aspect of it made it appropriate for a Valentine's Day launch.
To write it, I had to jettison my punk rock aesthetic. Instead of starting loud and fast, I start slower and quieter, but build to something more awful.
To be honest, part of my recent stress is caused by the concentration required to write these longer -- 30 to 60 page -- stories. They're almost novellas. That, and switching to third-person has eaten up all of my time and attention for months. It's as if I'm back in school, starting to write from scratch, and Amy's been drilling me to shed my old, comfortable writing tics.
"Phoenix" is a weird one. It's so cruel, but there are a couple big laughs which occur at some of the most upsetting moments. In that way it's very similar to "Guts."
Thank you for shining some light on it. I've been so nervous about it that I didn't want to jinx it by talking about it.
I love that Chuck was actually nervous about this. The story launched on Valentine's Day and on Friday, it was sitting at an Amazon sales rank of #27,000. At the time of my typing this, it's close to breaking into #1,000 and it's already ranked #6 in Amazon's eBook Short Fiction category.
You can purchase it from Amazon for only 99 cents here.
And Barnes & Noble has it too if you have a Nook.
If you want a little taste first, Byliner has an excerpt from the story here.
Chuck sent another reply shortly after where he said he wants to write a story-behind-the-story feature on how 'Phoenix' came to be. So look for that soon.
In the meantime, get 'Phoenix' here, and if you don't have an eReader of any sort, you can download Amazon Kindle as an app for your PC or Mac and read it from your computer that way. It's easy. And worth your time.


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All of the varieties listed here are fragrant climbing roses. They are best and most frequently used on house walls but are also perfect for growing on pillars, obelisks, walls, trellises and over arches. The most fragrant climbers, as a group, are David Austin's Climbing English Roses, which tend to flower with greater regularity and abundance than other climbers. They also have the wonderful natural ability to flower from the top of the plant all the way down to the base, so their fragrance can be enjoyed at close quarters. Other groups of roses which are generally fragrant are the Noisette Roses, Climbing Tea Roses and Climbing Bourbons.


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A summary of the ICRC's work in Egypt, including our regional advisory services on international humanitarian law and our efforts to promote IHL in academic and media circles. The brochure also addresses the relationship between the ICRC and the Egyptian authorities and our close cooperation with the Egyptian Red Crescent, especially since the revolution. It also highlights humanitarian services provided by the ICRC, such as restoring family links, plus the Communication Support Centre, which supports the communication efforts of ICRC delegations in Arabic-speaking countries.


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Jason Jackson emerges as a jazz master whose gifts as a composer and arranger match his virtuosity as a trombonist. His inspired combination of horns, strings, and rhythm is quite unlike anything else being recorded these days. The disc is on Planet Arts/Jack & Hill Music labels.
Inspiration finds Jackson at the helm of full orchestras made up of rhythm, horn, and string sections. Jackson was able to call on the services of friends and colleagues such as trumpeters Roy Hargrove and Terell Stafford, trombonist Slide Hampton, clarinetist Evan Christopher, saxophonists Pete Christlieb, Dick Oatts, Rich Perry,and Steve Wilson, pianists Roger Jones II and Michael Melvoin, bassist Rufus Reid, drummers John Guerin and Dennis Mackrel, and percussionist Roger Squitero. Of the ten selections on the CD, six of the arrangements were written by Jackson, one by his friend and former teacher Slide Hampton, one by Christopher, and two by the prolific motion picture composer Eddie Karam.
The remarkably varied program on Inspiration opens with the lively samba- and montuno-driven original "Brazilian Bop," which came out of Jackson's travels to Brazil with Ray Charles and the two years he spent in Dominican salsa singer Raulin Rosendo's band. The standards "Spring Is Here" and "Tenderly" showcase Jackson as a supremely lyrical interpreter of ballads in the tradition of such trombone predecessors as Tommy Dorsey and Urbie Green, both of whom he credits as influences, although he cites J. J. Johnson, his onetime instructor at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, as his all-time favorite.
Other standouts are the swinging Jackson composition "Wake Up Election 2000" for full orchestra, with solos by Wilson (on alto), Stafford, and the leader; Vernon Duke's "April in Paris," for which Jackson's arrangement combines polyrhythmic swing with an Afro-Cuban feel; and "The Spot," the trombonist's swinging salute to jam sessions. "It's where musicians have sort of a social gathering; otherwise we're working all the time," he says. "It's where we go to play and hone our skills and be inspired by each other's ideas."
With the release of Inspiration, Jason Jackson emerges as a jazz master whose gifts as a composer and arranger match his virtuosity as a trombonist. His inspired combination of horns, strings, and rhythm is quite unlike anything else being recorded these days.
Jason Jackson
Jason Jackson has been one of the busiest and most respected trombone players in New York City since settling there 21 years ago. In addition to the two years he spent touring the world with Ray Charles not long after his arrival, he has been teaching Jazz Trombone at the Juilliard School, the lead trombonist in the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band for the past decade. On Mondays, his off-nights from playing in the pit bands of such Tony Award-winning Broadway productions as The Color Purple, Wonderful Town, Nice Work If You Can Get It, and Motown the Musical, he has been a member for the past 10 years of the Grammy Award-winning Vanguard Jazz Orchestra at the Village Vanguard. He also teaches part-time at City College of New York, performs about once per month in a group he co-leads with his wife, vocalist Rosena Hill Jackson, and even finds time to occasionally sit in at jam sessions. Inspiration was recorded at the legendary Capitol Studio A in Hollywood and at two studios in New York—but mostly at his and his wife's Jack&Hill Recording Studio in their South Orange, New Jersey, home, with Jackson himself serving as recording engineer—the CD features Jackson at the helm of full orchestras made up of rhythm, horn, and string sections.


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I recently read through IDEO's Tom & David Kelley's book Creative Confidence, and I found a great deal of inspiration for helping build buy in for my designs and proposals. I also was able to add to my collaboration tool kit, as the book also presents stories and collaborative processes that can help kick start creativity on any team.
We have all worked on initiatives where we were so rushed that it felt if we built out our case logically and spelled out the benefits to our audience, they would naturally accept the change… or so we thought. But as we've found time and time again, "If you build it, they will come" often proves to be one of the most ineffective product launching strategies.
IDEO's approach to design and change initiatives is a human-centered one that examines potential reactions to any sort of new product, object, service or change. The Empathy Map tool presents a simple start at mapping and envisioning how people will react to what you're putting in front of them whether it is a user interface to a purchasing tool or an ice-cream scoop.
The Empathy Map asks four questions in regard to your change, product, or initiative:
- What will people say?
- What will people think?
- What will people do?
- What will people feel?
Normally, you would put these questions up on a white board or pieces of chart paper and have your team write their answers to these questions on Post-It notes, but I work in virtual teams, so I created a PowerPoint version (see Resources below). These questions can help you sort through possible reactions and prioritize the ones that you should address. Then start making a plan for how you will address those.
In my example PowerPoint, I included the simple example of sending out a survey. Everyone loves taking surveys right? After listing a few audience reactions, thoughts, and feelings, I made an initial attempt at addressing those that I've seen in the past. What I appreciate about this approach is that is a little more thorough. It allows you to separate and methodically map these reactions vs. coming up with the most 'scary' ones and reacting solely to those.


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Reports that Beyonce is pregnant are "untrue," a rep for the singer told Access Hollywood on Friday.
MediaTakeout.com reported earlier this week that a "ROCK SOLID" source had stated that Beyonce and her husband, hip-hop mogul Jay-Z, were awaiting the pitter-patter of little feet – a report the private singer's rep denied.
The pair married in April 2008.
Beyonce told Access Hollywood later that year that kids might be on the horizon by the time she turned 30 in 2011.
"The kids, I don't know… in three years, maybe," she said at the time. "It's a lot of work."
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What would Sully do?
Chesley B. Sullenberger III has received phone calls from President Bush and President-elect Barack Obama, and is generally being hailed a hero around the globe.
As of Saturday morning, "Sully," as he's affectionately known, already had more than 112,000 fans on his newly launched Facebook page, presumably created by somebody else.
And Zazzle.com now has "Sully Is My Co-Pilot" hats and T-shirts available for purchase.
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Using a participative approach, empowerment brings to the forefront the strengths of each person, allowing them to:
- Build confidence in their own abilities
- Develop their assertiveness to its highest level
- Create proposals focused on personal and social growth
- Make decisions appropriately and autonomously
- Enhance their positive thinking and ability to generate change
Empowerment makes accessible a new way of approaching the virtual team, in this instance by awakening the great power and strength inside each human being. This, when joined together with others generates an immense force to bring to bear on common objectives. Thus, it entails a new paradigm in which Human Talent should be managed from a participative and inclusive approach, relying on both personal as well as collective effort.
At the end of the course, you will be able to recognize how much there is to gain by encouraging the empowerment of a virtual team. You will be able to implement empowering principles in your work and that of the people around you, creating an environment capable of leveraging its full potential.


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ArkGeo Board Meeting was called to order on Friday, June 29, 2007 by Wayne Lunsford.
The following members were in attendance in person:
Daniel, Beth
Lunsford, Wayne
Philpott, Frank
Slaughter, Max
Swanson, Rich
Turner, Jerry
Vaughn, Pat
These members were in attendance by teleconference:
Drake, Bert
Wright, Gunnar
Minutes of the last meeting of the steering committee were read and approved.
I. Beth Daniel reported that we have $2403.96 in our bank account.
Monthly service charge of $10 will apply until such time as documentation
of our non-profit status is provided to the bank.
II. Bert Drake reported on the status of our web site. An election
administration area has been added and issues with the newsletter
function appear to have been resolved, enabling batch emails to be
sent to members. (Yeah, Bert!)
Committee/Other Reports:
I. Non-profit status report (Wayne)
1. All official documents of ArkGeo were reviewed.
2. It was decided that we will make membership certificates
available to members for download.
3. Changing ArkGeo's bank account to new EIN was discussed. It was
decided that Beth would take care of this matter.
4. Membership - We discussed ways to make membership status and
registration procedures more obvious to web site users. This
discussion was tabled to allow the Website Manager time to
research and present available options.
Special Orders of Business:
I. Elect Executive Committee (Duties of each office are found in Article
V, Section 1 - provided to each Board member)
The following nominations were made:
1. President: Wayne Lunsford
2. Vice President: Rich Swanson
3. Treasurer: Beth Daniel
4. Secretary: Pat Vaughn
5. Website Manager: Bert Drake
The slate of officers was accepted by acclimation.
Unfinished Business:
New Business:
1. New Board members drew lots for terms of office.
Two year term was drawn by Rich Swanson. Three year terms were
drawn by Frank Philpott, Jerry Turner, and Pat Vaughn.
II. Board member packets were reviewed. (Vision & Mission State-
ments, Bylaws)
III. Bylaws revision:
1. Propose rewording of V. 4 to read, "The Board will appoint a
Website Manager. Unless already an elected member of the
Board, the Website Manager shall become a de facto, non-
voting member of the Board." This was accepted as proposed.
IV. Annual General Membership Meeting
1. Establish Date and Location: Tabled until discussion of new
V. Development of Standing Rules:
1. A standing rule was adopted that ArkGeo will not contribute to
member - sponsored events. Members who would like ArkGeo to
consider hosting something as an ArkGeo - sponsored event
should contact the Events Committee.
2. Propose changing logo usage guidelines. After much discussion,
it was decided to retain original wording on logo usage as
referred to in the Bylaws.
3. We discussed methods for announcing upcoming Board
meetings to the membership and agreed to post future meeting
dates, times, and locations to the web site. Members who
wish to be heard during the meeting may request to be added
to the agenda by contacting any Board member.
4. The Board discussed the possibility of implementing nominal
dues, but decided that dues were not needed. All future
fund-raising efforts should be addressed by the Fund Raising
5. Disabling or purging web site accounts that have not been used
for over two years. Accounts inactive for over two years with no
forum posts will be deleted.
6. Will we sponsor an annual CITO event? If so, location and date?
Refer this to Events Committee.
IV. Next meeting time and place for Executive Board - This item was
tabled and this information will be announced as soon as it has been
The Board of Directors has chosen to form the following four committees at this time. These positions will be filled from the general membership.
I. Election Committee: Responsible for recommending committee
members to the Board as well as recommending those to run for
Executive Board.
II. Event Committee: Responsible for planning and coordination of
Annual General Membership meeting and any other ArkGeo-
sponsored events such as CITOs.
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Photo, Print, DrawingRaising the old flag over Fort Sumter 1 photographic print on stereo card : albumen ; 10 x 18 cm. | Stereograph showing a crowd gathered at Fort Sumter to celebrate the raising of the American flag by General Anderson four years after it had been hauled down by the Confederates.
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New Pitching Prospect Interviews
Two interviews with top Angels pitching prospects are now online. You need Windows Media Player to listen.
Will Smith ranked first on the 2008 FutureAngels.com Top 10 Prospects report. He was 8-2 with a 3.08 ERA. In 73 innings, Will struck out 76 and walked only six, an incredible start to his career.
Ryan Chaffee was selected in the third round, but didn't pitch in 2008 due to a broken foot suffered earler in the year. Angels scout Tom Kotchman describes him as "a combination of John Lackey, El Duque and Mark Fidrych." Ryan ranked sixth on the 2008 FutureAngels.com Top 10 Prospects list.


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On a recent trip to the TREE, The Tablescaper and I were engrossed in scoping out the goodies. Just like the old blue light specials at KMart, an announcement was made about a cart of amazing bargains up front.
The older of the 2, hustled from all the way in the back of the store to the shoving and pushing crowd in the front.
What? Seven stinkin' cents? I think a stick of gum costs more now.
I wriggled my not so svelte self into the mayhem and grabbed away.
Reminded me of those big sales of wedding dresses at Filene's .
You can't be too polite, and you have to be willing to get a little bruised!
Nah, it wasn't that bad! So enough blah, blah, what did I get?
They were a little bruised themselves, but with an emory board and some red enamel...
they were patched up! (The reversible placement beneath them was .84 from an trip last year.)
And won't they look pretty with these from the Tree?
The plates were $1.99 each. They remind me of my friend Susan at Savoring Time in the Kitchen. She loves red!Susan is a wonderful photographer.
The Tablescaper declined, but I am sorry I didn't take the blue roses too!
Moving on, another basket of 7 stinkin' cents stuff held Waverly beaded napkin rings.
Gawgeous, as we say in NY!
TT says Fall, and yes, they could be. But I bought them to use with my Lenox Eternal Christmas.
And I think it will work. Anyway, most of my friends eyes are old, and they won't notice. :)
I took A LOT of them, and so did TT, ( I babysat her cart in the back while she made her way to the front, I was applying ice to my bruises. :) ) so come Fall we will be doing some give aways with them.
A few more bargains...
I know you gals do great at Thrift Shops, but we don't have that many out here, and their prices are way too high. Even at Savers, almost an hour from me, they had those plastic chargers you can buy new cheaper than what they had them priced.
But for 12.00 at SAVERS I got a whole basket of new SPODE mugs and plates, 10 of each, plus the basket. :)
Then I bought 6 dinner plates that matched. All by Spode. I figured I could mix solid black in with the dotted ones.I just looked them up, and they want 38 dollars for 4!!!
I thought of our friend BJ at Sweet Nothings when I saw them! She loves her dots!
I also got these for .99 at SAVERS ...Johnson Bros. They look new.
I don't want to bore you, so that's all I'll show for now. Stay tuned for the next chapter!
If all this bargain browsing has made you hungry, I made some chili. Dig in!
I am joining Diann at for Thrifty Friday, Laurie at Bargain Hunting with Laurie for Favorite Things, and The Tablescaper for Seasonal Sundays. Kim at Savy Southern Style for Wow Us Wednesday . Have a great weekend!
Thanks for stopping by!
Congratulations to Yvonne on winning the generous give away of copper pots from Designs by Gollum.
ML's new book, Gone with a Handsomer Man will be released April 12th. ML is the proprietor of Foodie Fridays and is amazingly generous with her give aways.


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The model of parenting most of us grew up with was authoritarian parenting, which is based on fear. Some of us may have grown up with permissive parenting, which is also based on fear. Authoritarian parenting is based on the child's fear of losing the parent's love. Permissive parenting is based on the parent's fear of losing the child's love. Connection parenting is based on love instead of fear.
Connection Parenting recognizes that securing and maintaining a healthy parent-child bond is our primary work as parents and the key to our children's optimal human development. Our effectiveness as parents is in direct proportion to the strength of the bond we have with our child. Connection Parenting promotes parenting practices that support a strong, healthy parent-child bond.
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There are two types of vitamins: fat soluble and water soluble.
Red Bull contains water-soluble vitamins. Water-soluble vitamins do not get stored as much in the body as fat soluble vitamins. Instead they circulate through the blood plasma, whatever the body does not use will be released. Water soluble vitamins include the group of B vitamins, e.g. niacinamide (vitamin B3), pantothenic acid (vitamin B5), vitamin B6 and vitamin B12, which are contained in Red Bull.
These B-group vitamins contribute to normal energy-yielding metabolism, such as the build-up and break-down of carbohydrates and proteins and contribute to normal mental performance (pantothenic acid) and the reduction of tiredness and fatigue (niacin, pantothenic acid, B6, B12).
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Asia Society is the leading educational organization dedicated to promoting mutual understanding and strengthening partnerships among peoples, leaders and institutions of Asia and the United States in a global context. Across the fields of arts, business, culture, education, and policy, the Society provides insight, generates ideas, and promotes collaboration to address present challenges and create a shared future.
Founded in 1956, the Asia Society is a nonpartisan, nonprofit educational institution with offices in Hong Kong, Houston, Los Angeles, Manila, Melbourne, Mumbai, New York, San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Washington, DC and Zurich.
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Just listened to Ep. 21 of the Ardent Atheist (my first episode) and I thought I would commend you all on the program. I was spellbound by the conversation and to say it was thought provoking is an understatement. While the topic was serious I truly enjoyed the humorous banter.
I look forward to listening to the preceding episodes and those that will follow. Thanks for the program.
Hi Heather, and welcome to this rational world of Internet atheism--- a haven of truth and peace from the superstitions and fictional god of the masses.
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Gee, Heather, thanx 4 the response. It was just so surprising--and pleasant---to find someone on this site (having just signed up a few days ago) who lives where I spent most of my life. Unfortunately, I'm just not a big Texas fan. I almost croaked when the Lakers---my absolute favorite sports team---lost to Dallas in the recent playoffs. Same, when the Texas Rangers got to the World Series in October. At least a California team---the Giants---won. Texans seem to be real overbearing when it comes to their teams, especially the Dallas Cowboys who haven't won zip in years and years. Out here, football, conservatism & Christianity seem to be the order of the day.
If you ever choose to write again, feel free to use my e-mail email@example.com I check my e-mail everyday, but probably won't being going to the AtheistNexus website regularly after a few days or weeks.
Thanks 4 replying. Ciao. Keith in Arlington
My parents both were born in Philadelphia and moved here, whoops, THERE---where you are---in the 30's. You seem as if you may be involved in the entertainment industry. The reason my parents moved to L.A. was that my father's brother, with the aid of the Mafia, was installed as head of a studio (Pathe?--I really don't remember) in L.A. My parents moved to L.A. too, and the brother got my father into the motion picture industry where he directed several of the Our Gang comedies and was an Ass't Director/Production Manager at MGM in MGM's heyday back in the 40's and 50's. Both my parents passed away in the 60's.
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Oh Wow! Excuse my enthusiasm, but I just signed on to this site. For the past 11 years, I've lived in Arlington, Texas, as the result of getting married (in 1999) to a lady who lived here and whose 2 daughters live here. In 2008, my wife passed away as the result of brain cancer. Before moving here, I lived in So. Calif. all my life with most of my childhood spent in and around Valley Village long before it was formally recognized the way it is now.
I went to Carpenter Avenue grammar school, No. Hollywood Jr. High (i.e., Walter Reed), and Hollywood high. I LONG FOR the SFV and Hollywood which I consider my REAL home even tho I've lived here for 11 years. The weather here SUCKS unless you like living in an oven from May thru Sept.-Oct. and freezing for a big chunk of Nov.-March. Yes, I know, one can always move back, but it's not that simple. And, being an atheist and social liberal in Texas almost puts you in the Pariah category. Whatever.
At any rate----"enough about me"----,I just got really excited seeing that someone from my old Laurel Canyon/Moorpark area signed on too.
Cheers. Keith.
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The sun at dawn this morning is a fireball mounting the treetops, seeming to shout "get up , get moving!"
Yesterday we got up and hit the road at dawn for yet another distant college campus tour. Kayla in Chattanooga is our favorite student guide so far. "I love my school!" She really sold it. But Older Daughter's decided she doesn't like "sprawly" campuses. So far as I'm concerned, they're the best kind. And we haven't begun to see "sprawly," anyway. But, I must remind myself, I'm just the driver.
In our absence the mailman delivered a treat, a "classic reprint" of Dr. Curtis's Science and Human Affairs from the Viewpoint of Biology (1922). Reading it, I know exactly why he was invited to Dayton to defend the humanity of science and the science of humanity: he was the Carl Sagan of his day.
The humanistic philosophy of life, which flowered in Greece and which has blossomed again, is not the crude materialistic desire to eat, drink, and be merry. It is a spiritual joy in living and a confidence in the future, which makes this life a thing worthwhile.
The Cosmos we know today is unbelievably complex and more is being disclosed. Things undreamed of in our philosophy continually appear… The biological discovery of man's place in nature did more than change traditional beliefs; it gave a point of departure into a future, unknown but fraught with possibilities.
What science intends, both for the immediate and the remote future, is to keep going. The scientist believes that his rationalistic method offers a means of moving forward… The future is bright with a promise that stands at the threshold of realization.
There you go again, Dr. C., pulling dollars from my ear. It's a trick that never gets old. The secret? Keep moving.


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Hello all…it's Jo from Jo's Country Junction. Recently I made a couple totes for my son so he could store his jumper cables and keep his league softball goodies all in one place. Then my teenage daughter wanted a set too. Being she is a cheerleader and our school colors are red, white and black, Sweetwater's new fabric line, "Mama Said Sew," was perfect. She is using hers a lunch bag and a cheerleading bag. I thought I would share these great versatile bag patterns with you. They make a great gift for just about anyone on your list!
Momma Said Sew Jelly Roll
Scraps of Deco Bond or heavy interfacing
Zippers 22″ red and 12″ red
Pet Mesh Screen: This may be hard to find locally. Here is an Amazon link for it:
New York Wire 70587 Pet D-Fence Screening, 36-Inch by 84-Inch
Start by unrolling your pet screening. This is a plastic product. Don't worry about cutting it with a scissors or sewing with it. It works wonderfully.
2 ~ 12″ x 12″ pieces of pet screen
4 ~ 12″ x 4″ pieces of pet screen
Take your 12″ zipper. Take your favorite black jelly roll strip and cut two pieces the length of the zipper. Take a different jelly roll strip and cut two more pieces the length of the zipper.
Take one of each of the two different pieces and sandwich the zipper between them as shown making sure the right sides of the fabric face the zipper. Make sure your favorite fabric piece is on the top of the zipper as it is the only fabric that people will see.
Pin in place as shown.
Sew along the pinned edge.
Press the fabric as shown.
Top stitch along the zipper.
Repeat for the other side of the zipper making sure the fabric that you want to be shown faces the top of the zipper.
Take a jelly roll strip. Cut four pieces of fabric that are the width of the newly made zipper unit. Sandwich two the pieces as shown, pinning in place.
Sew along the pinned edge using a 5/8″ seam. Press and top stitch in place just as you did along the zipper.
Trim the edge of the fabric by placing the ruler along the edge and lining the 1 1/4″ line along the seam as shown.
Take a ruler and measure 10″ (the picture shows 11″ but use 10″). Mark the line with a pen.
Tack the zipper as shown; sewing on the line previously made.
Trim the extra fabric away as shown cutting through the zipper. Being the zipper is tacked, it is okay to cut it.
Sandwich the remaining two pieces of red fabric on the end. Sew using a 5/8″ seam, press and top stitch as you did with the first end.
Trim the pieces so it is four inches wide. It is easy to do this if you line the 2″ ruler marker along the zipper and trim.
Set this piece aside. Now onto the handle.
Take a jelly roll strip. Cut it 13″ long. Cut a piece of Deco Bond 2 1/2″ x 13″. Place the Deco Bond on the wrong side of the jelly roll piece and fold in half. Pin.
Sew along the edge as shown using a 1/4″ seam.
Turn the piece right side out. Press and top stitch.
Align the handles between the top of the zipper area as shown. Tack in place.
Sew the 4″ x 12″ mesh pieces and zipper piece together as shown using a 5/8″ seam.
Bring the remaining zipper edge and the mesh edge together keeping right sides together. Pin. Sew using a 5/8″ seam.
Take the piece you just complete and one of the 12″ x 12″ mesh pieces. Align it as shown pinning in place making sure the first and last pin is 5/8″ away from the edge.
Sew BETWEEN THE PINS using a 5/8″ seam.
Align the next edge. Again pinning in place making sure the first and last pin is 5/8″ away from the edge. Sew BETWEEN THE PINS using a 5/8″ seam.
Continue on each side. Unzip the zipper.
Then repeat adding the other 12″ x 12″ piece.
Trim the corners. Turn the bag right side out and you're finished.
To make the long bag:
Cut one piece of mesh 24″ x 26″.
Make the handle using the directions above only this time make it 16 inches long. Set aside.
Prepare a zipper using the directions above. Please note that when using a jelly roll to make these, the pieces along the zipper will be different prints. The zipper for this bag will not need to be tacked and cut. It is already the right length.
Place the edge of the mesh along the edge of the zipper piece. Pin and sew using a 1/4″ seam.
Bring the opposite edge of the pet mesh around aligning the wrong side of the zipper. Pin and sew using a 1/4″ seam.
Unzip the zipper half way.
Fold the bag as shown. It should be about 14″ wide when folded so the zipper should line up at the 7″ mark or half the distance. Pin and sew using a 5/8″ seam allowance.
Now it is time to box the corners. Start with the end of the bag that DOES NOT have the beginning of the zipper.
Fold as shown, Place your ruler and measure 2 1/2″ from the tip of the corner.
Cut the corner off.
Do the corner on the opposite side the same way. The handle needs to be added first.
Now it is time to add the handle. The handle is added as you box the corner. Fold the bag the same way you did on the previous end only this time, slide the handle end in place. Pin and sew. I back stitched over the handle to make it more secure. Clip.
If you look closely you can see the handle in between the mesh pieces under the seam.
Do the same for the other side.
Turn your bag right side out and you're ready to go.
Two bags that are sure to make organizing your goodies just a little easier.
As soon as the bags were finished, our daughter put them right to use!
Stop over to my blog, Jo's Country Junction, and see what I'm up to now.
Jo Kramer


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Davidoff Escurio Petit Robusto 4 Pack
Size: 3 1/4 x 50 Pack of 4 Cigars
The Davidoff Escurio Petit Robusto is a journey into new stimulations and sensations. It is medium to full bodied with sweetness and spiciness with a pronounced nuttiness throughout. Each Escurio cigar mixes the Cubra leaf – the fire of the Cuban Criollo refined – and the Brazilian Mata Fina leaf pulsing at the heart of this inspired blend of tobaccos. As you happen upon new tastes around every corner of this captivating cigar, there is never a dull moment for your palate. The Approximate smoking time of the Escurio Petit Robusto is 20 minutes.
Wrapper: Ecuadorian Havana Seed
Binder: Brazillian Cubra Seed
Filler: Mata Fina and Cubra from Brazil; San Vicente, Piloto and hybrid Olor/Piloto Seco from Dominican Republic
Size: 3 1/4 x 50 Pack of 4 Cigars


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Megan Hauserman, star of VH1's Megan Wants A Millionaire, has publicly resurfaced at a hotel in Los Angeles with a mystery man. Megan had been laying low since news hit that one of the contestants on her show, Ryan Jenkins, was the main suspect in the murder of his wife.
The mystery man photoed with Megan was not one of the contestants on her now canceled show. It's safe to say things did not work out with whomever won the show. The rumored winner was contestant, TJ Diab. It might also be safe to predict a 2nd season of Megan Wants A Millionaire will be coming soon. A photo of TJ and other MWAM contestants can be seen here.
Megan also took to her twitter recently to thank fans for their support.
"I just want to thank everyone for your love and support. It is really all that is getting me through this difficult time."
VH1 has also canceled I Love Money 3, as Ryan Jenkins was also a contestant on it.
More photos of Megan below –
Megan Hauserman with mystery man


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Charlotte Bacon, 6
Daniel Barden, 7
Olivia Engel, 6
Josephine Gay, 7
Ana Marquez-Greene, 6
Dylan Hockley, 6
Madeleine Hsu, 6
Catherine Hubbard, 6
Chase Kowalski, 7
Jesse Lewis, 6
James Mattioli, 6
Grace McDonnell, 7
Emilie Parker, 6
Jack Pinto, 6
Noah Pozner, 6
Caroline Previdi, 6
Jessica Rekos, 6
Avielle Richman, 6
Benjamin Wheeler, 6
They were very young, and in a sense they had no idea what hit them. Nor, unlike those older, did they really understand what had been taken from them – the joys, sadnesses, the every day hum drum of life and the occasional ecstasies, all the things that make up a human life. Their families and community will be traumatized and in some ways will never recover – lives altered in ways unexpected, with little defense for this kind of sudden shift, even if our country offers up repeatedly the example of its possibility. "Normalcy" is shattered, sent into pieces with the rapid fire of a high-powered rifle which throughout America can be readily purchased at a hardware store, pawn shop or myriad other places. The right is allegedly enshrined in the 2nd Amendment of our Constitution. Whether in response to this tragedy, and the many which preceded it, we will, as a society, confront and materially deal with it, is an open question. We will be drowned in prayers, which do nothing aside from delude the praying that they are doing something. Whether real, material, actions will be taken seems doubtful – especially in a time when a million small-time drug users languish in prison, and the extremely wealthy managers of banks, laundering billions of dollars in drug (and weapons) money, when caught red-handed, are lightly slapped on the wrist and let go. Or when the same society sits silent while drones patrol the skies of far away places, loosing Hellfire missiles on alleged "terrorists" which often prove to be wedding parties, and other gatherings of a social kind, or schools, like the one in Newtown, Conn.
Adam Lanza, aged 20
It is an irony that will doubtless be pointed out many times, that Adam's mother, his first victim, was a gun fancier, and it was with her own gun with which she was slain. What compelled her to keep an assault rifle, and several pistols capable of shooting many rounds automatically, along with a few run-of-the-mill hunting guns is something we won't ever know. Nor why so many other Americans seem to feel the same need despite the massive statistics which show they will most likely be their own victims. But then living in a country of 300+ million which spends more than all the remaining 6.3+ billion people on the planet on "defense" makes such behavior seem in some way logical. It is something evidently deeply ingrained in the American cultural DNA that God and Guns go together. As does our propensity for simply deleting those who inconvenience us – from native Americans to the endless list of "others" who in varying manners find themselves on the wrong side of "our" interests. Usually far away, culturally rather different, and in some way an affront to "the national interest" whether in Guatamala, Venezuela, Chile, Viet Nam, the Congo, or of late in some middle-eastern locale such as Iraq or Iran. Once we sent the Marines to sing "from the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli;" now we send them if the drones and black bases and special service ops don't do the job.
So the nation will weep some crocodile tears, the President may make some small tentative steps towards a modest bit of gun control (no, the 2nd Amendment did not authorize citizen owning of tanks or anti-aircraft missiles…), there will be the customary weeping and wailing, and the drones will drone on, the military-industrial complex will crank out more fantastical weapons and their corporate partners will peddle them around the globe, and likely we will follow the historical trajectory of an empire – over-extending ourselves, bankrupting the communal finances, and becoming decadent and corrupt along the way. You need only turn on your TV set to have proof of the latter, see Federal and State budgets for the prior, and sneak a look at the "top secret" reality which is our government's practice, and punishable, as Bradley Manning can tell you, with "legal" draconian treatment should you slightly lift the curtain on it, for proof of the the first.
Rachel Davino, 29
Dawn Hochsprung, 47
School principal
Anne Marie Murphy, 52
Lauren Rousseau, 30
Mary Sherlach, 56
School psychologist
Victoria Soto, 27
Our national press did not see fit to publish the names of the 47 dead of this Afghan wedding party, "collateral damage" of a drone attack.
Nancy Lanza, 52
Mother of gunman
Bradley Manning
While the Obama administration has seen fit to approve the treatment of Bradley Manning, when confronted with criminal actions on a huge scale by international bankers, laundering drug money in the billions of dollars, and trading with "the enemy" (Iran), the Department of Justice (sic) chose not to prosecute. See this for full details.


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Something in the ocean has been death to Alaska's king salmon.
The state's iconic fish, treasured for food, sport and cash, should now be swimming in droves up rivers from the Southeast rain forests to the populated Railbelt and the Western Alaska tundra.
But they're not.
To preserve future runs, state officials are clamping down throughout Alaska, banning even catch-and-release fishing of returning kings in Southcentral and halting subsistence king fishing on the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers. They're still reviewing whether to restrict the commercial setnetters in Cook Inlet who target sockeyes but can't help taking kings as well.
"We're in a period of low abundance and low returns, statewide, and whether it's from Southeast, Copper River, Cook Inlet, Kodiak, Nushagak, Yukon, we're just in this period of low productivity in the ocean," said Ricky Gease, a biologist and director of the Kenai River Sportfishing Association.
After leaving their home rivers as half-ounce smolt, most kings spend three to four years in the ocean, though the range is wide: as little as one year for kings that return as shrimpy jacks, or seven years for monsters. That's a lot of time for something to go wrong.
Biologist Tom Vania, the Cook Inlet regional coordinator for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, said the widespread failures of king salmon returns indicate the problem isn't freshwater-based, such as not enough adult spawners in the prior generation, or a loss of eggs from some kind of river catastrophe.
"Freshwater issues tend to be more isolated in a particular drainage," Vania said. Hatchery fish are also missing and biologists know those smolt made it to sea in normal numbers.
Whatever the problem, it's been building for the last five years or so, Vania said.
"Salmon populations are cyclic in nature," he said. "Right now, I have no reason to believe this is not just the bottom end of a cycle and that we won't come out of this cycle -- you see that in all game populations. But there are a lot of changes going on in the ocean environment right now surrounding global warming. Our understanding of what that's going to do to anadromous species we probably won't know for a number of years."
Consultant Ray Beamesderfer of Cramer Fish Sciences in Oregon, an expert in Pacific salmon, said shifts in ocean currents that began in the 1970s generally favored Alaska kings, or chinooks, to the detriment of stocks from California, Oregon and Washington, some of which have been declared endangered.
"We used to all think the ocean was a big homogenous pasture and they all went out there and came back," Beamesderfer said in a phone interview. "But now we know that there's a patchy distribution of resources in the ocean and we know it's an extremely dynamic environment."
If Alaska-based kings are going hungry, the opposite is true of the runs from California and the Columbia River system, which are at their best in years, he said. Sockeyes are also doing well.
"Ocean conditions are the primary driver in the variability in what we're seeing," he said, urging fishermen to remain calm. "The fundamentals of the Alaska salmon system are sound. The habitat is good, the fishing is controlled, there's no problem that's exacerbating these up or down cycles."
When fishermen are not catching fish, they'll often think it has something to do with the fisherman in front of them, whether it's the guy with the bigger dipnet five feet to the right or the huge trawler out in the ocean scraping up fish by the boatload.
There's something to be said of the trawler.
Kevin Delaney, a consultant who headed the state division of sportfishing until 2000, said the historical peak abundance of upper Cook Inlet kings came in the early 1950s before dropping off. That drop coincided with the rise of unregulated foreign fishing outside what was then the nation's three-mile territorial limit.
The Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976 ended the pirate fishery by extending the U.S. economic zone to 200 miles.
As a young Fish and Game employee, Delaney would count returning salmon in the Deshka and other upper Cook Inlet rivers.
"In the early years, we would see lower numbers, numbers like we're seeing today -- maybe three to five thousand fish in the Deshka," Delaney said. "But by 1977, it was just amazing on the Deshka. I counted out of a helicopter and, counting 1-2-3-4, saw 25,000, 30,000 fish. It was extremely clear to us that the 200-mile limit on foreign trawl fishing had a tremendous effect on the marine survival of our king salmon. There was no other way to explain it."
The runs remained strong through the early 1990s, he said.
"Times were good -- it couldn't have been any better," he said. "Then it started to drop off, stream by stream." By 2008, the crash was no longer a matter of a creek here or a drainage there -- it was statewide.
It took some years after passage of the Magnuson Act but eventually the foreign trawlers were replaced by U.S. vessels. While the pollock and cod they caught led to economic benefits in Alaska and Washington state instead of Japan, China and Russia, the ships also netted thousands of kings each year in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska. As "prohibited species," the kings were thrown back to sea, dead.
According to a report by the North Pacific Fishery Management Council, the king salmon bycatch gradually increased in the Bering Sea at the same time the numbers were declining in Alaska streams.
"From 1990 through 2001, the Bering Sea chinook salmon bycatch average was 37,819 salmon annually," the December 2009 report said. "Since 2002, chinook salmon bycatch numbers have increased substantially. The average from 2002 to 2007 was 82,311 chinook salmon, with a bycatch peak of 122,000 chinook salmon in 2007." Additional kings were being caught and wasted in the Gulf of Alaska.
Finally, in 2009, the council voted to limit the bycatch, effective 2011 in the Bering Sea. If the quota of 60,000 kings is reached, pollock fishing must cease, said Diana Stram, a planner on the council staff. A similar quota of 25,000 kings took effect this year in the Gulf of Alaska, said council staffer Diana Evans.
State government officials from the governor down have expressed their dislike of the U.S. Endangered Species Act but that law played a significant part in developing the quotas, Evans said. Kings from everywhere mingle with pollock and cod, including those listed as endangered in Washington state and California. The quotas were derived using statistics that estimated the number of kings from endangered runs among the bycatch, and holding that number below the level that would trigger special action under the Endangered Species Act, Evans said.
The council has ordered an aggressive sampling effort of bycatch salmon to use genetics to attempt to determine their streams of origin, she said.
Delaney said the bycatch is playing a role in the current king decline but its full significance is still unknown.
"Whether it's changes in the ocean environment, competitor species, climate change, bycatch in marine fisheries or a combination of all of them, the marine waters is where the hole in this bucket is," Delaney said. "It's not in Alaskans not putting enough fish on the spawning grounds routinely across all of the streams that produce king salmon."
Two other groups catch Cook Inlet king salmon while going after other species -- the drift boat fleet and setnet fisherman that primarily target sockeyes.
Gease, the director of the Kenai River Sportfishing Association, said he believes the driftnet fleet could position itself in such a way as to nearly eliminate its bycatch of shore-hugging kings as it targets sockeyes.
"The drift fishery in front of the Kenai and Kasilof is a pretty clean sockeye fishery," Gease said. "Last year, they caught 3.2 million sockeyes and about 500 kings. That's a phenomenal low rate of bycatch."
The same cannot be said for the near-shore setnets, which he hoped would be sharply restricted when the commercial season opens Monday.
"We've been asking the Board of Fisheries, Fish and Game and the east side setnet fishery to try to come up with harvest strategies that would minimize king salmon bycatch, and that would include shallower nets, fishing the tides differently. But they've all been met with, 'We don't need to do that.' Well, now we do need to do that, we need to figure out how to minimize king salmon harvests on the east side setnet fishery," Gease said.
Tracy Lingnau, regional Fish and Game supervisor for commercial fisheries, said he is spending the weekend studying the situation before the opening Monday.
"We're going to be very cautious on how we manage these fisheries but yet we still need to be able to harvest sockeye salmon," Lingnau said. "It's truly going to be a balancing act to try to harvest sockeye salmon that are available, yet try to conserve king salmon."
Whatever happens, anglers, dipnetters and guides won't be the only ones pinched by the lack of king abundance, he said. Commercial fishermen will feel it too.
"No doubt there will be pain," Lingnau said. "There will be pain on all sides by the end of the season."
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If its something that simple ill bang my head against the wall lol. Thankyou for the reply. Now would it be wired like the first picture ( Controlling the + lead ) or in the second picture ( Controlling the - lead )
Hi Fungus, I measured the dimming terminals of the driver and it does have +10VDC across them. So im assuming the pull down resistor would parallel the driver in your diagram?
Any idea what value for the pull down?
Can you explain why just the NPN alone wouldn't work?


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Price Rule?
If the Fed is trying to follow a price rule for unit labor cost based on 1.5% annual growth, it appears they've been quite successful.
Labels: economics, inflation, labor, macroeconomics, monetary policy, wages
Labels: economics, inflation, labor, macroeconomics, monetary policy, wages
Food for thought, as usual.
A lot of volatility, though. Adjusting for seasonality and broad business cycle movements might clear up the picture. Or maybe no.
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