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Five Tips on Making the Most of your Portable Blenders
Five tips on how to make the best use of your portable mixers.
For the plant operations people or food technologists who know how to use portable mixers, they can be an essential part of key process steps. For those who do not understand portable mixers, they may be the equipment of last resort and often the cause of problems.
These low-cost, readily available mixers can be found in nearly all plants, at many locations within those plants and in all sorts of applications. This article will provide some understanding of these machines and some guidance on how to get more out of your portable mixers.
Unfortunately, a portable mixer only moves fluids and has some limitations even for basic motion. Characteristics needed for a quality product – such as flavor, color, viscosity, opacity, surface shine or other aesthetic properties – are only indirectly related to the mixing.
|A typical mounting arrangement has the portable mixer mounted approximately 5 to 15 degrees from the vertical.
The skills needed to optimize such facets of product development often are an art developed over years of experience. Nevertheless, the product development route from the kitchen to production can be a lot smoother with a basic understanding of fluid mixing. That understanding should include the effects of order of addition, ingredient selection, mix time and mixing intensity.
The typical portable mixer has a motor from 1/4 to 2 hp in size. The mixer is either clamp-mounted to the side of the tank or cup-mounted to a support near the side of the tank. The mounting provides a capability of positioning and aiming the mixer with the potential for different mixing results.
The impellers for most portable mixers are either marine propellers or mixing hydrofoils. Both styles are designed to pump downward toward the bottom of the tank. Other impeller types are available for special applications.
The first and most important aspect necessary for understanding mixing is defining the problem. Different applications require different mixing characteristics, and many batch situations require evaluation at different points in the process.
One of the most misunderstood characteristics of good mixing is that what looks like good motion on the surface may not be good mixing throughout the tank. A good flow pattern for successful blending with a portable mixer may create only ripples on the surface. In other cases a strong vortex on the surface may be needed to draw powders or liquids into the bulk liquid. That same surface motion may cause other problems by drawing air into the batch and creating undesirable bubbles or foam. Defining and understanding the process should be the first step for any mixer selection.
Tip 1: Choose the right mixer
Portable mixers come in two general categories: high-speed/direct drive and low-speed/gear drive mixers. The high-speed mixers run at motor speeds typically around 1,750 rpm. Low-speed mixers run at a slower speed, often 350 rpm.
As most would expect, a mixer with a small impeller running at high speed can probably do a similar job of mixing as a large impeller running at a low speed. The confusion comes from the fact that the large impeller running at the low speed requires less horsepower than the small impeller at the high speed for the same mixing intensity or process result. In fact, a 1/4-hp low-speed mixer will usually do a better job of blending than a 1-hp high-speed mixer.
These differences in mixing characteristics do not mean high-speed mixers cannot be very effective for some applications. High-speed portable mixers are commonly used in smaller tanks up to 500 gal., although larger tanks to 1,000 gal. with low-viscosity fluids can be mixed with large high-speed portables.
High-speed impellers often are required if dispersion of powders or liquids is essential to the process. However, small impellers may not be effective for mixing higher viscosity fluids, above 500 centipoise. The dividing line between tank size and fluid properties is a trade-off. As volume goes up, maximum viscosity must come down for successful results.
Low-speed portable mixers offer advantages when attempting to mix larger batches or more viscous fluids. Even a 1/4-hp low-speed mixer can handle as much as 750 to 1,000 gal. of low-viscosity, water-like liquids. Larger size, low-speed portable mixers can handle fluids to 2,500 or even 5,000 centipoise. The larger impellers influence a greater volume of fluid and do not need to pump it as far, making them more effective for viscous mixing.
Problems often arise because portable mixers are used in batch applications where volumes and properties change during the process. Initial batch conditions may require only a little mixing of a low-viscosity fluid, while final conditions may require much more mixing capability because of increases in either batch size or viscosity or both. The ready availability of variable-speed drives has helped solve some of these process problems, but may introduce mechanical problems that will be discussed later.
All of the "rules" for mixing have exceptions, so the best advice is to use specific information only as a guide for typical situations. No specific rules exist for impeller size relative to tank diameter, although the diameter of a typical portable impeller is about 15 percent to 30 percent of the tank diameter.
The off-bottom clearance for a single impeller is about one impeller diameter. In tall tanks or situations requiring extra surface motion, two impellers may be used. The second impeller is typically placed one to two impeller diameters above the lower impeller.
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Bird's Eye Steam and Serve
Birds Eye Steam and Serve offers quality vegetables expertly prepared with a gourmet sauce at nearly 3 bucks.
While the U.S. Dietary Guidelines recommend five servings (2½ cups) of vegetables per day, the average consumer gets only 3.7 servings. Ask them why and they'll say other foods taste better and are easier to prepare and eat.
In their early history, frozen vegetables were considered luxury items. Birds Eye, the first manufacturer of frozen vegetables, in the 1940s and '50s targeted women in upper-middle-income households with frozen products that were "grander than the grandest" and the "work-free-est," so they could relax and read a book while the pre-cleaned, pre-cut vegetables practically cooked themselves.
In the intervening years, frozen vegetables, like their canned counterparts, became commodity items. Now Birds Eye wants to move them upscale again with Steamand Serve Vegetables, offered in six different blends that include nuts and other unique ingredients (for this review we focus on Spring Vegetables in Citrus Sauce).
The brand is maintaining the ease of preparation and arguably better nutrition, adding gourmet flavors and ingredients and packaging them in a relatively new steamable tray. The real benefits are greater convenience (cook in the package - no prep, no mess, no clean up) and fresher vegetables steamed to the right level of crispness with a gourmet sauce that announces you know good food.
Understanding the marketplace
World trade has brought us fresh fruits and vegetables in all seasons from growing locations all over the world. Imports were valued at $12.7 billion in 2004, according to USDA. So the challenge for frozen vegetable processors was to prove their products' superiority in some way.
Packaging is one source of superiority. Fresh vegetables have a short shelf life, but canned or frozen vegetables can be kept for months.
A 1956 study by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation found frozen vegetables were nutritionally superior to canned veggies, asserting frozen vegetables had higher levels of thiamin, riboflavin, vitamin A, vitamin C and niacin. More recently (2002), the American Institute for Cancer Research provided ammunition that frozen may be better than fresh, or at least imports. Researchers found that shipping and long storage diminishes nutrients, especially vitamin C, in fresh produce. Frozen vegetables are processed within hours of picking and so may retain more vitamin A, C and fiber.
Some numbers for the retailer and manufacturer ton consider: Only 48 percent of all store SKU's are profitable, according to Willard Bishop Consulting's 2005 Grocery Super Study. Fully 60 percent of frozen SKUs turn a profit, while produce produces only 17 percent of the store profit. But 49 percent of consumers perceive private label frozen vegetables as equal to or better than the national brand, according to some studies. That's a tough perception to overcome, especially with this pricey a product.
So while frozen vegetables clearly have profit potential, high-end branded products must have something that makes consumers want to pay more than a commodity price for them.
|Birds Eye's Steam and Serve Vegetables drew raves from our raters, despite the premium pricetag, to wit: "For anyone who has had mushy, overcooked vegetables, this is a godsend - especially as consumers are becoming less aware of how to cook vegetables."
Frozen vegetables experienced 4.5 percent growth from 2004 to 2005 with an overall market size of $3 billion. Key growth areas include breaded vegetables, vegetables in sauce and onion rings. The market size of mixed vegetables is $400 million with a growth rate of 1.5 percent, while vegetables in sauce is growing at 5.6 percent from $250 million.
The big drivers of change in the category are the shift from plain vegetables to prepared vegetables (crumbs or with sauces) and newer packaging, including resealable and steamable. Although steamable packaging has been available in Europe and Asia for years, the first U.S. version hit the shelves about a year ago at H.E.Butt grocery stores, where it was offered under the HEB Steamables private label. Boiling vegetables causes up to a 30 percent loss of nutrients, but steaming retains nutrients and is easier and faster.
At retail in the frozen vegetable category, consumers see Green Giant, Birds Eye and other brands. Per capita consumption of fresh vegetables is 147 lbs., consumption of canned vegetables is 100 lbs. per person and per capita consumption of frozen vegetable is 79 lbs., according to 2004 USDA/Economic Research Service data. Fresh consumption has increased 3 lbs. per capita since 2002, while canned decreased by 1 lb. and frozen sales were flat. Clearly, frozen needs some excitement. And consumers are looking for more sauces and unique items in their foods.
Birds Eye is trying to meet the needs of the consumer for the 75 percent of meals that are eaten at home. The company is seeking to shift the paradigm for frozen vegetable convenience from one of access to nutritious vegetables at any time of the year to nutrition plus ease of preparation and cleanup.
Birds Eye also is addressing the issue of freshness. This is a complex idea because it involves consumer perceptions of what is fresh and how does it link to value and shelf life. Can a frozen food be fresh?
From our own Healthy You! research, we find the key attributes for frozen meal products in ranked order are: taste, price, portion size, product appearance and calories. These attributes can easily lead to a commodity perception, since price is the second most important attribute. Consumers, when asked to trade off a variety of ideas, are looking for: indulgent flavor; zesty flavor; traditional home-style; crunchy vegetables; moist vegetables; branded; and all natural…no artificial flavors or preservatives.
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lace top : ENDLESS ROSE / pattern jeans : similar here / boots : DOC MARTENS
Hello my lovelies! MARCH is finally here! I've been pretty pretty busy for the month of February (argh that's the only month that I can't spell right! I needed to autocorrect that word lol) February (no help from autocorrect this time!:P) has passed by in a flash! Perks of having a short month is that your salary comes in fast, hahah! But cons of it is that it seems like time is ticking so fast with so many things on our hands! I've been busy at work, running errands, trying to stay away from social media to run some parts of my life (eventho that's pretty unachievable) LOL I still try to update my instagram a lot and still try to stay connected with the people I care about. But somehow February has been a month of really wild roller coaster rides. A few of my close friends might know what had happened, and a whole lot bunch don't because peeps, it's always important who you share your personal life with, cause that's the only thing you have which is truly yours right? Anyways, back in giving you an update of my month! Like I said, lots of things wasn't smooth-sailing but what's the fun in life when the oceans aren't rough to overcome to the other side right? Hehe, for now I'm sailing pretty smoothly, but I'm pretty sure a storm will be coming up sooner than you know it!
BY THE WAY, I'm trying real hard to find time to film my FEB FAVS video on my YOUTUBE CHANNEL! I've said it before in my JAN FAVS that well, quote, "If I were to have a new year resolution, that would be filming my monthly favourite every end of the month." HAHAHA, see! This is why I hate having new year resolutions! I suck at keeping them. We're already stepping into the 3rd month of the year! Still remember what's your new year resolutions? Are you keeping up with them or are you side-tracking a bit
like I am? Well I know, NO excuses! I'll try to get it out reallll soon! (although I really don't know who watches these things I make for fun LOL) OKAY! Anways, OOTD time!
It was love at first sight when I saw this on ENDLESS ROSE! ohhhh my god, I craze for lace-y clothes, but really not ALL lace clothes are nice to be honest, some of them will make you look like a grandma and I hate it! Especially those dirty white / dusty pink kindda color, I don't know for me, on me, it just looks really wrong. I'm in love and very please with the cutting for this top. Seriously when I got it in the mail, I'm just sooo glad it fit me sooo well. I got mine in S size if you were wondering. Endless Rose has always been a LA brand that I am in love with !! Their clothes really do make you feel adorable, confident and unique! Because all of their designs are one of a kind. Guess what? This shirt even has a matching skirt! And guess what, this shirt would look so cute on dates!! Absolutely adorable, showing a lil (not too much) of skin and would still look classy and feminine. I really think that the lace empire brings out the femininity in a women, and since I think I'm at the age of maturing to a grown up, lace is one of the must-haves in my closet. However, again I must stress that my style is a mixture of both - femininity and edginess, it has always been like that and I hope it will always stay the same way! I've own a lottttt (like countless) of white tops and I'll never get bored of them, and right now, this one is probably my current fav! Do you have your own pretty white lace top that you adore? :)
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Andy Friedman, head of content operations, Patch.com
Andy Friedman has been appointed head of content operations for Patch.com. He will run operations for content and digital engagement across the sites. Friedman has worked in traditional and new media for more than 20 years. Friedman most recently served as vice president of programming and interactive at Merlin Media. Prior to that, he was vice president of interactive content for the Tribune Company, where he oversaw the online editorial operations of 32 media organizations across the nation, including a radio station, eight newspapers, and 23 television stations.
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Primary Fights Drain Republican Super PACs
Party's Backers Spend Heavily on Intraparty Battles, Leaving Democratic Groups With More Cash
A contentious primary season has taken a toll on pro-Republican super PACs, which spent heavily on election battles among GOP candidates and are looking to November with less cash on hand than their Democratic counterparts.
The largest pro-Republican super PACs have not only raised less money than Democratic groups but spent a far larger share of it on primary fights, a Wall Street Journal analysis of campaign-finance filings shows. For the current campaign cycle through July 3, pro-Republican super PACs in the study directed...


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AS A SOPHOMORE (2011-2012): (XC) Earned 37th place with a time of 19:54 in the 5k race at the USF Invite … Finished the Hornet Jamboree 5k in 19:49. (TRACK) Started off the season with a personal best time in the 2 mile race SF State Distance Carnival with a time of 11:43.60 … Ran the Woody Wilson Invite 5k in 20:13.71 … Earned personal best time in the 5k at the Brutus Hamilton Invite in 18:59.39 … Finished the season in the 5k at the Sac State Open in 19:25.23.
AS A FRESHMAN (2010): (XC) Ran 18:35 at Riverside Invitational 9/18/10 (5k)...Finished 116th at Stanford (6k) in 23:32 on 9/25/10...Placed 112th in 19:06 in SCU Bronco Invite 10/16/10 (5k)...Earned 14th in 23:01 @ Doc Adams Invite 11/06/10 (6k).
Cross Country: 18:35 in the 5k (2010 - UCR Invite); 23:01 in the 6k (2010 - Doc Adams Invite)
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"Two Lanes of Freedom" is Tim McGraw's first album since he announced that he gave up alcohol five years ago. It's also his first record for Big Machine — appropriately, also Taylor Swift's home label, given her single "Tim McGraw" — and he looks hale and hearty in the album's accompanying videos.
It all signals a major new start for McGraw, one of pop-country's bestselling but critically assailed figures. If only the songs on "Two Lanes" were as honed and wiry as their singer. The album should keep him atop the country commercial firmament, but doesn't really advance him as an artist.
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The record is brawnier than most of McGraw's catalog, with lead single "One of Those Nights" built on the rock guitar riffing that McGraw and Co. showcased on a recent stadium tour with Kenny Chesney. But the writing is as modern-country-boilerplate as it comes — an ode to drinking away a heartbreak in Mexico ("Mexicoma," a pun that borders on Nashville-factory camp), a paean to hillbilly life ("Truck Yeah") that's flagrant in its attempt to coin a party slogan.
"Highway Don't Care," McGraw's collaboration with Swift and Keith Urban, is a blowout of a send-off ballad, and we're glad McGraw beat his demons and is looking great. But it's a shame he didn't take the musical chances that can also mark a new beginning.


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If you earned your first under-the-table paycheck watching the neighborhood kids while their parents were out to dinner - you're not alone! Babysitting for neighbors and family friends is a common first job, and you can use that experience to become a professional sitter. Children, seniors and pets are often in need of a caring companion, and if you have a great personality and a knack for getting along with others then babysitting can be a great career option.
Babysitting or daycare, experience can lead to work as a childcare provider, dog groomer or at-home-care provider. Even if you don't pursue those careers, the patience and service skills you learn in the babysitting field will serve you well in almost any profession!
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Daycare teachers work primarily with children who are too young to start preschool, from infants to 5-year-olds. You'll be nurturing the young, impressionable minds of the future, stimulating their physical, emotional, intellectual and social growth.
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In order to make your way up the ladder, you'll need some additional education and work experience. If you're working for a local school district, they'll probably offer tuition reimbursement to help you earn your bachelor's degree and get your teaching license.


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I am looking for someone to use existing facial and emotion recognition software SDK (affectiva) to build a solution which will read live video streaming and provide feedback visually on the person's emotions from an education perspective (attention, engagement and valence). This will be an initial very simple proof of concept from which future work may be required. I will need someone who can work with ambiguity and can communicate in English well so we can constantly review and refine the prototype.


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SK 1202HS "High speed"
It is the model specifically designed for high-speed productions, up to 300 packs per minute in double lane. The new SK 1202HS is equipped with a newly conceived shrinking tunnel, using an innovative system to manage air flows which lets hot air evenly distribute on all sides of the pack. This system allows getting superior quality packages from the aesthetic point of view.
The film-cutting system is equipped with brushless motors and assures higher efficiency and precision in the machine operations. The automatic format change adjustment device at the machine infeed considerably simplifies all the operations to be executed when a format change takes place, since it dramatically reduces the operator's manual activity and, consequently, the probability of errors and damages.
The SK "HS" series also features a highly ergonomic "pit-type" blank magazine, whose capacity can be expanded by additional modules, which can be loaded automatically through robots.
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1In the machine infeed zone, a group of guides accurately lines up the loose containers carried by a conveyor belt featuring low-friction chains made of thermoplastic material. In the pack formation zone, the containers are clustered in the required format through electronically synchronized combs and dividing bars, operating in continuous motion.
2In P and T models, a corrugated cardboard pad or blank is picked from the blanks magazine by a rotary picker composed of two groups of vacuum suckers. The pad or the blank moves along the blank climb and places itself underneath the group of products in transit with the long side leading.
3In the tray former, special mechanical devices fold the blank's front and rear flaps. The side flaps are sprayed with hot melt glue and then folded, thus forming the tray.
4The unwinding of the film reels, placed in the lower part of the machine, is controlled by a dedicated device ensuring the film precise and constant tensioning. Before the pack enters the shrinking tunnel, the film is wrapped around the container batch and overlapped at the base of the pack.
The innovative "Easy-Load" system allows the automatic loading of the cardboard blanks magazine and features considerable advantages from an operating and functional point of view; in fact, the operator can easily load the cardboard blanks, stacked horizontally in uniform groups, because the feeding belt of the cardboard blanks magazine is positioned at the same working height as the packer's infeed belt, rather than under it.
More in detail, the new system patented by SMI is made up of a series of conveyor belts, fitted with motorized mats, which feed the packer's cardboard blanks magazine; the cardboard blank stacks are carried on these belts up to the area in which they are translated and then continue up to the collection system at case/shrink packer infeed.
Thanks to specific sensors, the layout and feed of the cardboard blanks on the conveyor belts fitted with the motorized mats and their loading into the packer's magazine is, in fact, fully automated.
Therefore, the innovative solution devised by SMI eliminates the disadvantages related to the traditional loading of the cardboard blanks magazine, which force the operator to bend his/her body continuously to place the blanks in the bottom part of the machine.
The technology used in the "Easy-Load" magazine also features the great advantage of ensuring fluid and constant picking operations with a wide range of cardboard blanks having a thickness between 0.5 mm and 5 mm.
The NEW TS (Tray Stacker) stacks on two or more layers clusters of plastic, metal , cardboard or glass containers both clustered in cardboard trays or pad and loose (this latter solution solely for fit-in type cans). This device can be installed on SK shrink wrappers, on WP case packers and on CM combined packers.
It consists of an electronic stacking device operating in continuous motion, which achieves an output rate up to 60 packs per minute according to the machine model and to the product handled.
Pack collations can vary according to the container shape, capacity and size; in general, the most requested collations are: 4x3 and 6x4. It is available both for single and for double lane production.
After coming out of the trayformer, two or more packs are stacked by means of a Cartesian coordinate system.
Before the pack enters the shrinking tunnel, the film is wrapped around the products and overlapped at the base of the pack.
The Easy-Open system can be installed both on the SK shrinkwrappers and on the CM combined packers. It consists of a device piercing the film during the cutting operation, in order to create the required mark.
It can pierce two types of marks, "X"-shaped and "H"-shaped, and is available both for single and double lane production. Thanks to the Easy Open system, the customer's level of satisfaction is definitely improved, because of the easier opening of the pack.
Moreover, this application does not require any specific packaging materials and, therefore, allows to obtain eye-catching packs without additional costs.
SMI customers can now upgrade their SK and CM packers with an innovative film welding device. The "film welding device by heated blade" joins the edge of the film reel about to end with the beginning of the new reel while the machine is running, with no need to stop production. The machine slows down and the film (printed or neutral with reference mark) is automatically joined; the machine is immediately back to running at full pace.
The new system allows dramatic cuts on energy and maintenance costs compared to traditional hot sealing method, as there are no more sealing rollers to be kept at a consistent temperature. The sealing precision of printed film or neutral film with reference mark is higher, with +/-10mm margin from the reference mark. The "film welding device by heated blade" can handle also no-collant film.
* Data provided on this page are not binding, as they have to be confirmed by SMI according to the machine user's production conditions and technical specifications.
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Castroneves Wins Indy 500 Pole for Penske Racing
May 10, 2009
His teammate, Ryan Briscoe, was Castroneves' primary competition for the pole. Castroneves supplanted Briscoe for the No. 1 position with a four-lap average of 224.864 mph, then held on as Briscoe withdrew his earlier effort - still good enough for second on the grid - and tried to take the pole position from his Team Penske partner.
Briscoe's effort came up just short, however, and he settled back into the No. 2 starting position on the middle of the front row. Will Power also successfully qualified for Penske Racing and will start ninth in the famed race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on May 24.
Meanwhile, Castroneves will take aim at his third Indy 500 victory from the No. 1 starting spot.
"This place is magic, man," Castroneves said. " It's just amazing. Ryan and I were really strong. A couple of times I thought it was going to be tough. When we were trying to decide if he was going to try to beat me, I was like, 'Don't make me make this decision. Don't go back out there.'"
Briscoe, already in second place on the starting grid, withdrew his time and took the No. 6 Team Penske Dallara/Honda back on track with just minutes remaining in the windy and wild six-hour qualifying session. Briscoe turned four laps at an average of 224.083 mph, not enough to top Castroneves' effort in the No. 3 Team Penske Dallara/Honda, but enough to retain second place.
"It was pretty hairy out there," Briscoe said. "As trimmed out as you are, you really feel the wind. Every corner feels different. You have to get out there fast on the out lap, and your tires are cold so you're sliding around. You wouldn't think so, but it's pretty hard work out there."
Power, driving the No. 12 Team Verizon Wireless Dallara/Honda, averaged four laps at 223.028 mph and will start on the outside position of the third row.
"My line was really quite comfortable, to be honest," Power said. "The team gave me a car that was comfortable. The wind certainly makes it harder. I didn't need to be that conservative, but it was a good run."
Briscoe held the top spot for most of the day until Castroneves topped him at 4:19 p.m. Briscoe then went back out on the track at 5:51 p.m. - just nine minutes before the end of the session -- hoping to record something better than 225 mph.
"I thought I was going to have a shot at the pole but just couldn't get it done," Briscoe said. "We tried. You can't say we didn't try. We knew we had speed. I didn't go as fast as I was expecting. I felt confident that I was going to be able to at least defend my position. And I really thought I had a shot at getting the pole, but it didn't work out."
Castroneves said the late-afternoon run that unseated his teammate was risky, mostly because he had to withdraw his previous time. A crash or bad lap would have been disastrous. Instead, he won another pole position for the world's biggest race
"It was a gamble, a big gamble," Castroneves said. "But we took a chance and it paid off."
After more qualifying and practice this weekend and next, the Indianapolis 500 is scheduled to begin 12 p.m. ET on Sunday, May 24. The race will be televised live by ABC-TV.


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Bath rallies to beat Redskins in 4 games
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After securing a first game win, Wapakoneta Redskin varsity volleyball coach Amy Ruppert felt her team had finally shaken off the "albatross around their neck," but the Bath Wildkittens battled back Thursday in the second game and took the last two in convincing fashion.
The Redskins started strong winning the first game, 25-14, but after trailing early in the second set and coming within a point at 19-18 on an ace by sophomore Addy Gray, they could not close out the set. Bath took advantage of serve-receive errors and won 25-19, 25-11 and 25-14 to win the Western Buckeye League match.
"We started out exactly as we prepared for the game," Ruppert said. "We had great hands at the net, when we hit the ball we hit it hard and I think we limited ourselves to one service error in the first set.
"We have been trying really hard to get more production out of our middles and that starts with a good pass — and I felt we were able to do that in the first set, and midway through the second set, we were able to do that as well," she said. "There just comes a time where the serve-receive errors started to catch up and the next thing you know we are behind. That has been the albatross around our neck is this serve-receive game."
Wapak played consistently in the first game, pulling ahead 6-1 then 12-3 and finally 21-9 before the teams played even and the Redskins closed it out 25-14.
The Wildkittens jumped out to a 6-0 lead before the Redskins battled to trail 10-6 and then closed the lead even further behind services by senior Erin Schnell, junior Josie Miller and sophomores Jadyn Nuss and Gray.
After getting close in the second game at 19-18, the Wildkittens took command and won the set.
While Bath did not change their attack, seniors Kristen Davis and Danielle VanDyne changed their method of operation by mixing up spikes with drop shots depending on the position of the Redskin setters.
"When we came out, we came out very slow and I told the girls if we expect to win then we cannot play like that," Wildkitten varsity coach Mandy Green said. "We need to start playing together and as a team and they did so in the second, third and fourth game.
"I told the girls that we had to move their feet," she said. "We tipped a lot in the first game and I told them they have to swing and that is what they started to do and that worked for us."
Ruppert said the Wildkittens tipping the ball forced her to pull a setter up to defend one shot over the other and the Wildkitten players adjusted when they saw the opening.
"We were trying to adjust our defense because they were trying to tip the ball versus hit the ball because they were adjusting for the fact when they were hitting the ball they were hitting it out of bounds so they went to tipping the ball," Ruppert said.
Bath's attack proved dominating in the third game which saw the Redskins take a 4-1 lead only to watch it evaporate on one turn. They trailed 8-4 and the Wildcats did not let up grabbing a 18-5 lead before a flurry by Wapak at the end of the set made it a little closer.
The fourth game followed the same pattern.
The Wapakoneta Redskins junior varsity squad lost the opening game 25-22 and then recovered to win an exciting second game, 25-21, and then dominated the third for the win, 25-10.
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I learnt in my tajweed class that if u pause on the word minhu it becomes minh. 2 sakins cannot come together in the arabic language.
I learnt in my tajweed class that if u pause on the word minhu it becomes minh.2 sakins cannot come together in the arabic language.therefore a fatha with one fourth of the timing should be given to noon, just enough to make it bounce like a qalqalah word, so the word would now sound like minah.similarly with the words of surah fajar like watr will be watar and ashr will be ashar etc. But i listened to at least 8 qaris and nobody was doing it. please enlighten me on this.
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The prohibition of two saakin letters meeting in the Arabic language is between two words, not within one word. When two saakin letters meet within one word, it occurs when we are stopping on a word with a incidental sukoon on the last letter and it is preceded by a letter with a sukoon, such as in: . When this happens the reciter needs to pronounce the saakin letter correctly with all of its characteristics, and no vowel whatsoever, then go on to pronounce the next letter with a sukoon.
There is no addition of a vowel or partial vowel on the first of the two saakin letters in a case like this and no rule of recitation which states that this should happen in the case of two saakin letters meeting within a word.
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Houses are to be judged by a panel chosen from Vancouver's pre-eminent Architects, Designers, and Artists. Entries will be made from edible materials, constructed at a scale to fit within a 16" x 16" box, and displayed at the Museum of Vancouver. An online auction featuring each team's entries and background information will be available on the Creative Room website from December 3rd to December 10th. The winning entry will be celebrated at the Gingerbread Gala held on the evening of December 10th at the Museum of Vancouver. Entries will be auctioned off such that they may grace the living rooms of a select few Vancouver homes this holiday season. All proceeds from this event will be donated to Architecture for Humanity.
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This post is not for the faint of heart. We're going to cover some modern physics, and it will not make sense to many readers. But — believe it or not — I actually have a pretty good grasp of this stuff, and I'm confident this is good science, as crazy as it's going to seem.
Why does earth-time go in only one direction?
Sounds like a stupid question, doesn't it? Believe it or not, physicists wrestle with this one. It's a very hot issue among theorists today.
Nearly all the equations that describe physics run in both directions. The equation for a ball falling is the same for a ball propelled upwards. The math cannot tell you which way time runs!
If, for example, you took a film of the solar system, with all the planets, moons, and asteroids circling (ellipsing, really) around the sun and each other, you couldn't tell whether the film were running backwards or forwards!
Of course, we all experience irreversible events. When you bite an apple, well, a film of that run backwards would plainly be wrong! But why?
The one law of physics that runs only one direction with time is the law of entropy — the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which says that closed systems become less organized over time.
For example, you put a cup of hot tea in an unplugged refrigerator. The tea cools and the surrounding air warms, until it's all the same.
Now, if you plug the refrigerator in, it all gets colder and eventually freezes. It becomes more organized and entropy goes down. But entropy cannot decrease. So what happened?
The electricity that makes the refrigerator work was made by burning coal in a power plant, and the total entropy (disorganization) in the universe went up because the burning of the coal created lots of entropy, more than offsetting the freezing of the tea. All organization — all work — is bought at the price of greater entropy somewhere else.
Just so, in making memories, your brain creates organization. Some molecules are created that store the memory. Organization goes up. Entropy goes down. But the energy to do this came from your breakfast, which has become vastly less organized! The universe — on the whole — has become less organized and entropy has — on the whole — gone up.
Therefore, memory can only go in one direction because entropy can only go in one direction — because you have to expend energy to make memories.
The universe has a beginning and can only wind down. Entropy must always go up. Memories always point toward the beginning.
Second theological point: (wait for it)
God doesn't live in this universe. And in heaven, the Second Law of Thermodynamics doesn't prevail. God makes the laws. He's not subject to the laws.
This is easily demonstrated by the fact that heaven lasts forever. If entropy were a problem, then heaven simply could not last that long. In the created universe, at some point entropy increases to its limit, and when that happens, the universe will be dead. Life (and the making of memories) will all end. No work will be possible. It's a mathematical certainty. But not in heaven.
Therefore, God can remember the future. He's made of different stuff that obeys different rules — and we have to be careful not to impose our limits on God when we think about God things.
Of course, remembering the future is just an odd way of saying seeing the future or knowing the future or foreknowing, right? But this is kind of cool, I think.
Time is part of this universe
According to the Hawking-Penrose Theorem, derived from Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, time began when the universe was created. Indeed, time is a part of the universe and is simply undefined outside our finite (in both time and space) universe. In fact, time is one of the four dimensions that define the shape of this universe. It's built into the very fabric of this universe.
The New Testament beat the scientists to this conclusion millennia earlier–
(1 Cor. 2:7) No, we speak of God's secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began.
The word often translated "eternal" is aion, which often means "unbounded by time" and in many contexts properly refers to a spiritual existence separate from earthly time.
(Luke 18:29-30) "I tell you the truth," Jesus said to them, "no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God 30 will fail to receive many times as much in this age and, in the age to come, eternal life."
Thus, in the age to come – in the New Heaven and New Earth – we'll have eternal life, that is, life unbounded by time.
In other words, there is no necessary correspondence between time as we experience it and time as God experiences it — if God is bound by any kind of time at all. As the Bible says, a thousand years is like a day to God. It doesn't mean that he's old! It means his time is radically unlike ours.
Hence, as heaven is outside the created universe, it's not bound by and doesn't even have to touch time as we know it.
This universe has more than one clock
According to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity — which has been confirmed in many ways — time is not a constant. The speed of light is. Therefore, time travels at different speeds, depending on the observer. For example, there are subatomic particles that have an existence — while sitting still — of less than a millisecond but which last for centuries when they travel at close to the speed of light. You see, time slows down the faster you go.
Therefore, for someone outside the universe looking in, such as God, it's impossible for him to set his heavenly watch to match the time inside the universe, because time is traveling at many different speeds at many different places. In fact, for the electrons making my monitor light up, time is hardly moving at all. Therefore, whatever time it is in heaven, it's not likely that time here.
What about the new heaven and new earth?
Heaven itself is clearly not a part of this universe and so clearly is outside of our time. But the new heaven and new earth (henceforth, "new earth") is in some sense a continuation of this earth. So will the new earth be part of this universe and bound by our present kind of time? I think the answer is no. Here's why.
First, we will have bodies of some sort in the new earth. And our bodies will be imperishable and will last forever. But in this universe, the laws of physics necessarily make our bodies perishable because they are subject to entropy. In fact, the universe itself will wear out when entropy becomes so high work can no longer be done. The sun and all the other stars will burn out. It will end.
Therefore, the new earth will be subject to different laws of physics. Our bodies will be, in some sense, physical, but they won't be made of the very same electrons, protons, and neutrons we're made of today.
Moreover, it just seems to make sense that when God leaves heaven to live on the new earth, he'll bring his glory with him as well his form of existence. In other words, God will re-write the laws of this universe, making it into something radically different, so different it will even have a different sort of time. It seems necessarily so, as the time we experience is inextricably tied to entropy and the perishable, finite fabric of this existence.
Time in the new earth
And so, let's try on a hypothesis for size. Imagine that time in the new earth is the same as time is now in heaven. Well, God is outside of earth time. Therefore, he can see the earth's future as well as its past. He's quite literally outside looking in, even though he is also in this universe. He's just bigger than the universe. He's outside our time and so not bound by our time.
When we die, we pass from earth time to heaven time, and God transports us, I think, from earth time to the beginning of the new earth — Judgment Day. But to better understand this, we need to rethink the geometry of time. You see, this means that the Eschaton is just a heartbeat away. We aren't so much transported years and years into the future as we are transported to an event outside of our time that's right next door. (Think Narnia.) It's just that, at the end of our time, the entire planet and everyone on it will be transported to this same event. Everything converges.
Now, if this hypothesis is true, some cool things happen. The thief on the cross dies and meets Jesus at the gates of Paradise, in the new earth — just a moment away from his death, even though Jesus spent millennia (in earth time) preparing the new earth to receive him.
Just so, at the Transfiguration, Moses and Elijah left the glory of God in the new earth to visit with Jesus — just a moment away on the top of a mountain in Palestine.
And the rich man, who failed to love Lazarus, looked but a moment away to see his friends, still in First Century Judea, making the same foolish mistakes he made which led him to his on-going destruction in the Lake of Fire.
None of this is impossible. Some of this is certain. There's no doubt that time is part of the created universe, with a beginning, and finite. There's no doubt that any existence outside the created universe will be entirely separate from our time. It has to be that way.
It works. It's weird. It's hard to explain. But it works. And, you know, it greatly simplifies things, eliminating and solving many great riddles of the scriptures.
And, by the way, it resolves predestination and some related issues very nicely:


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Biophilia Center
Learn all about the sun at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Jan. 19 at the E.O. Wilson Biophilia Center. Standard admission rates apply. Call 835-1824.
Tree sale/pancake breakfast
The Walton County Master Gardeners will hold its annual tree sale from 9 a.m. to noon Jan. 19 at the County Fairgrounds in DeFuniak Springs. The 4-H Club youth will host a pancake breakfast from 7-10 a.m. the same morning at the Extension Office next door. Cost is $6/adults and $3/children 5-14. Proceeds will benefit Southeastern Guidedogs. The public will be able to enjoy a hot breakfast before selecting new trees and other landscape plants for their property. Call 892-8172.
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Topsail Hill Preserve State Park in Santa Rosa Beach will hold the following tours. All programs except Breakfast with a Ranger require a $6 entry admission into the park. Outside tours are canceled during severe weather. For information, call 267-8330.
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Book sale
The Friends of the Walton/DeFuniak Springs Library will hold a book sale from 8:30 a.m. until noon Jan. 19 at the Walton County Fairgrounds. Thousands of books, fiction and non-fiction, hardback and paperback, covering every possible subject will be available. Pack as many books as possible into a plastic grocery bag for $2. Bags will be provided for your convenience. Proceeds will be used to provide new books and other materials not currently covered by the library budget. Call 859-0215.
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� Jan. 22: Monthly meeting at 6 p.m. at Ed�s Hometown Seafood & Steaks in Niceville. Visitors welcome. Call 654-1172.
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Emerald Coast Public Relations Organization will meet at 11:30 a.m. Jan. 22 at Angler�s Beachside Grill on Okaloosa Island. January�s topic will be �Learn, Develop, Achieve-For Your Full Potential� presented by Julie Cotton. Cost is $15/members, $20/non-members, $10/full-time students and $5/ attend without eating. Call 525-9446 or email email@example.com.
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Walton County Library �Prime Time� programs continue at 10 a.m. Wednesdays at the Coastal Branch Library, 437 Greenway Trail in Santa Rosa Beach. Program brochures are available at the Coastal library and posted on www.youseemore.com/walton. Register early at 267-2809.
� Jan. 23: Demetrius Fuller, music director and conductor, Sinfonia Gulf Coast, presents Grammy Award nominated violinist Caroline Goulding.
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Grammy Award-nominee Caroline Goulding returns to the Sinfonia stage to perform Sibelius� epic violin concerto at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 25 at Destiny Worship Center in Miramar Beach. The concert concludes with Beethoven�s rhythmically whimsical and inspiring seventh symphony. Tickets range from $29.50 to $42.50. Visit sinfoniagulfcoast.org.
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An opening reception will be held from 5-7 p.m. Jan. 25 for Abstraction: An Adventure into the Imagination, presented by the Cultural Arts Alliance of Walton County in partnership with Northwest Florida State College. Artists exhibited are Donnelle Clark, Juan Francisco Adaro, Joanna Ellington, and Didon Comer. Show runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, Jan. 25 through March 17, at South Walton Campus of NW Florida State College, 109 Greenway Trail in Santa Rosa Beach.
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Hope Lutheran Church hosts its annual Chili Cook-Off at 6 p.m. Jan. 25 at 3422 U.S. 98 in Santa Rosa Beach. Join us for a time of great chili, food, fun and prizes. Awards and door prizes will be given out in a variety of categories. Everyone is welcome. The cost is free. Call 267-0322 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Caring & Sharing of South Walton County will have a Fashion Show and Lunch from 2-4 p.m. Jan. 26 at the Sandestin Linkside Conference Center. Proceeds will benefit the Caring & Sharing Pantry. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased at 850-267-2866. They are located at 112 Lynn Drive in Santa Rosa Beach and are open Monday-Friday 9 a.m.-3 p.m. and Saturdays 9 a.m. to noon.
Arbor Wealth Management, LLC will host �2013 Market Outlook: Retirement and Income Generation� at 10 a.m. and also at 5 p.m. Jan. 30 in the Arbor Wealth Conference Room. Firm founder and principal Margaret R. McDowell, ChFC�, AIF, will lead a Power Point presentation that provides an overview of anticipated market trends in 2013. Income generation and investment strategies outlined are most appropriate for investors with $250,000 or more of investable assets. Refreshments will be served. Call 608-6121 to reserve seating.
Baytowne on Ice
The ice skating rink at The Village of Baytowne Wharf will be open through Jan. 31 at the Apex Broadcasting Skating Pavilion. For $10 guests can skate for an hour and a half. Skate rental is $2. The first hour of each day is reserved for "kids skate" for youth 12 and under. Season passes are available for $140. Call 816-682-1003 for times and special skating packages.
Tasting of Champions
The Destin Charity Wine Auction Foundation�s Tasting of Champions to benefit children in need in Northwest Florida will be held from 6-8 p.m. Feb. 1 in the Coral Ballroom at Hilton Sandestin Beach Golf & Beach Resort. Sample more than 600 South Walton Beaches Wine & Food Festival entries. Tickets are $50 at dcwaf.org.
Francesco Attesti Concert
The South Walton Rotary Club will host an evening with Internationally acclaimed Italian pianist Francesco Attesti at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 5 at the Santa Rosa Beach Community Church, 3524 US Highway 98 West in Santa Rosa Beach. Proceeds will benefit a medical mission in Tela, Honduras, that the South Walton Rotary Club has sponsored each year since 2010. Medical doctors, dentists, nurses and assistants led by South Walton Rotary Club member Rodney Durand, MD provide medical assistance and care to residents of Tela each year for a week. Eventually, it is the Club�s objective to open a diabetic treatment facility in Tela. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased at https://www.xorbia.com/e/swr/attesti.
Free pancakes at IHOP
IHOP will give away free pancakes from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Feb. 5 to celebrate National Pancake Day. The fundraiser aims to raise $3 million to kick off Children�s Miracle Network Hospitals� 30th anniversary.
Wine Women and Shoes Vintner Dinners
Intimate dinners featuring world-class wines and regional chefs will be held at 6 p.m. Feb. 8 in private homes in Destin, Sandestin, Bluewater Bay and Panama City Beach. For tickets, visit winewomenandshoes.com/sinfonia.
Wine, Women & Shoes
The Magnolia Ballroom at Sandestin's Village of Baytowne Wharf is transformed into a shopping, wine and fashion paradise for the Wine, Women & Shoes Fashion Show, Shopping and Wine Extravaganza at 2 p.m. Feb. 10. Event benefits Sinfonia Gulf Coast and Sinfonia�s Music Education Program. Tickets are $65 at winewomenandshoes.com/sinfonia.
Book Lover�s Club
The Coastal Library Book Lover�s Club will be held from 10-11 a.m. Feb. 12 in the community room of the Coastal Branch Library, 437 Greenway Trail in Santa Rosa Beach. New members are welcome along with their friends. Book to be discussed is �In the Sanctuary of Outcasts� by Neil White Jackie. Call 267-2809 or visit www.youseemore.com/walton.
� March 12: �Unbroken� by Laura Hillenbrand
� April 9: �The Dressmaker of Khair Khan� by Gayle T. Lemmon
Amernet String Quartet
The Amernet String Quartet, Ensemble-in-Residence at Florida International University, presents a weekend of chamber music at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 15 and 16 in Town Hall at Rosemary Beach. Tickets are $35 at sinfoniagulfcoast.org.
Wild Game/Seafood Dinner
The Point Washington United Methodist Men's Group will host its annual Wild Game and Seafood Dinner at 6 p.m. March 9 at the church, 1290 N. County Highway 395 in Santa Rosa Beach. Cost is $20. The event is open to men and women, and there will be music from the church Praise Band and door prizes. Guest speaker will be John Riley, an inspirational speaker with a unique God-given ability to communicate great Biblical truth in a simple and understanding manner. Church members, hunters and fishermen, will cook their game or catch with special recipes. For ticket information call 231-4928 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Sinfonia: Bond and Beyond
The Sinfonia celebrates its seventh season (007) and 50 years of James Bond at 7:30 p.m. March 23 at the Emerald Coast Convention Center on Okaloosa Island. Featured will be the music that made the Bond films famous with award-winning singer Debbie Gravitte, who joins the orchestra to perform Bond favorites such as "Diamonds Are Forever," "Secret Agent Man," "Goldfinger," and more. Tickets are $125 at sinfoniagulfcoast.org.
Pajama Time Story Time
Join storyteller Ms. Cheryl at 6 p.m. every Monday in the children�s room of the Coastal Library for some bedtime stories in your pajamas. This will be a quiet time for little readers to relax to a bedtime story in the comfort of their caretaker�s arms. Call 267-2809.
Yoga Express
A 45-minute Yoga Express class will be held at 8 a.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at The Studio, 30A Yoga in Seaside. Cost is $12 drop-in, no monthly fee. Call 320-237-4201 for more information.
Baby Boot Camp
Boot Camp in Santa Rosa Beach offers a 55-minute workout designed specifically to help new and seasoned moms with stroller-age children get back into shape after having a baby at 9:45 a.m. Tuesday and Thursday mornings and at 5:45 p.m. on Wednesdays.
Narcotics Anonymous
Narcotics Anonymous Last Chance Group meets at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 1st Presbyterian Church, 1063 Circle Drive in DeFuniak Springs. Progressive Recovery group meets at 7 p.m. everyday at 249 E. Hewitt Road in Santa Rosa Beach.
Zumba classes
Zumba With Marcia classes will be held at 6:30 p.m. Mondays, 6 p.m. Thursdays, 8:30 a.m. Fridays and 9 a.m. Saturdays at Premiere Performers Academy in Santa Rosa Beach; 10:30 a.m. Wednesdays at The Studio in Seaside; and 8:30 a.m. Wednesdays at Rosemary Beach Fitness Center.
Rudy Applewhite
Tommy Bahama�s Restaurant & Bar, 525 Grand Blvd. in Sandestin, presents Rudy Applewhite from 4-9 p.m. every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. Call 654-1743,
Dannica Lowery
Dannica Lowery performs live from 6-9 p.m. every Tuesday at Shorty�s Surfside Bar, 63 Hotz Ave. in Grayton Beach. Call 468-0417.
Rosalina plays classic standards and show tunes on keyboard from 6-9 p.m. Wednesdays and Saturdays at Christiano's Ristorante in Santa Rosa Beach. Call 267-2185.
Fusion fitness classes
Hope Lutheran Church, 3422 U.S. 98 W in Santa Rosa Beach, will offer fusion fitness classes at 9 a.m. Thursdays. Attendees may bring a mat, towel, water and light hand weights. Suggested donation is $5. Call 267-0322.
Jazz class
Jasmine Dance Studio in Santa Rosa Beach will hold a ladies adult jazz class from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursday. Call 217-6620 for more information.
Low Country Boil
723 Whiskey Bravo, 3031 E. County Hwy. 30-A in the heart of Old Seagrove, offers a Low Country Shrimp Boil with boiled shrimp or crawfish and all the fixin�s plus live music from 3-7 p.m. Sundays. Call 213-0015.
Thursday thread therapy
Needlers, knitters, crocheters and others come for free therapy from 4-6 p.m. Thursdays on the porch at Yards N Yarn, 3770 Co. Hwy. 3280 in Freeport. Call 880-6404.
Seaside Farmers Market
Get your pick of fresh produce, baked goods, dairy products, native plants and other unique offerings during Market on Saturdays from 8 a.m. to noon in the Amphitheatre behind Raw & Juicy. Enjoy special cooking demos and activities.
Amateur Radio Club
The Chautauqua Amateur Radio Club of DeFuniak Springs/Walton County meets at 6:30 p.m. the last Tuesday of every month at McLean's Restaurant near I10 and 331 South. This club welcomes new and old Ham Radio operators. There are no business meetings on these Tuesdays. We have classes and a great time together. Call 892-2562 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Rotary Club of South Walton
The Rotary Club of South Walton meets for breakfast at 7:30 a.m. each Thursday morning at the Embassy Suites, Scenic Hwy. 98 in Miramar Beach. Visiting Rotarians and their guests are welcome. Call 267-2929.
Herman Lodge
Herman Lodge #108 Free and Accepted Masons will meet at 7 p.m. first and third Tuesdays of each month on Madison Street in Freeport. Call 835-2314.
Eastern Star
The Order of the Eastern Star #281 meets at 7:30 p.m. the first and third Fridays of each month at Herman Lodge on Madison Street in Freeport. Call 835-2314.
SHRM Chapter
A Society of Human Resource Management Chapter in Walton County will meet at 8 a.m. the first Thursday of the month at TJ�s Table in Freeport. The group is open to all individuals involved in any aspect of human resources. Email email@example.com or call 892-8668, ext. 215.
Town Planters
The Town Planters of Freeport will meet at 7 p.m. the first Tuesday of the month at the Blount House on Kylea Laird Road. Call 835-5611.


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Is a sense of shame, embarrassment, fear at being discovered central to what makes us fully human? The old story in Genesis suggests so - (from the King James translation):
And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. [...] And the serpent said [...] in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. [...] And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. [...] And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
The first emotion of the couple awakened by knowledge of good and evil was not joy, but shame. To be human is to err, to make mistakes. To do things that are truly embarrassing. It's part of who we are. But it is not just the mistake-making, it's recognizing those mistakes. To actually be embarrassed, to feel shame, to be afraid of the consequences of what we've done. If we routinely do stupid things but don't even recognize that we've done anything wrong, we're living a paradise of ignorance, a pre-fall state of unconscious bliss.
It's become clear to me this is the state which US political and media culture is aiming for. A return to the Garden of Eden, where nobody can do anything wrong, and it is impossible for any public figure to ever feel shame. Where the media has no ability and feels no responsibility to distinguish between right and wrong, truth and falsehood, good and evil - except on those rare occasions where the bad guys are foreigners and everybody on our side can agree.
There are still occasional exceptions. Elliot Spitzer, briefly. You have to give the guy credit for disappearing from public view for a while after that business - and he was our governor too, a really powerful figure. He really, sincerely looked ashamed and embarrassed at the exposure of his sinful behavior. John Edwards is a worse story - and I and a lot of other people feel embarrassed about that one, I was a big supporter of the guy before his mess became public. But at least Edwards quit his campaign and really did look highly ashamed about his own behavior.
There have been a couple of minor congressmen resigning recently for stuff of that nature, but it seems to be pretty few and far between. Why is David Vitter still in the US Senate? John Ensign? Why did that Idaho senator and S. Carolina governor hang on until their terms ended? Yeah, yeah, Bill Clinton too. Though at least you could sort of feel his pain at times.
And those are just the sex scandals. When it comes to the more serious wrongdoing with respect to their actions in office, there seems to be no sense of shame at all, ever. John Murtha completely unrepentant. Charlie Rangel. Jack Abramoff, Tom Delay and friends. Ted Stevens in Alaska. The many scandals of the Bush administration (and Reagan before). Did any of those folks every admit that anything they did was wrong? Did you notice how governor Walker of Wisconsin reacted when the recent prank Koch call became public?
I am sure that reality shows and celebrity obsessions are a contributing factor in our culture of shamelessness. Perhaps that form of popular entertainment is a real source of harm, but I am far more concerned about the harm done by the lack of recognition of truth and falsehood, right and wrong, among our political and media classes. It almost seems brazenness in the face of what to regular people would be highly embarrassing is an asset for politicians.
My evidence that we have now reached the pinnacle of shamelessness in US politics is this markup hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, held on Tuesday March 15th. The subject of the hearing was House Resolution 910, titled the "Energy Tax Prevention Act". The committee, chaired by Fred Upton, makes the claim that their work to stop the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases will reduce gasoline prices.
Politifact examined Upton's claim on this and found it to be False. But at least the claim that regulations cause prices to rise and therefore is a little like a future "tax" (despite not involving taxes at all) has some rationale. So the bill title, while distorting the truth, isn't perhaps a completely implausible and blatant lie.
And one can understand that representatives might vote against something that on its face sounds like a good idea for legitimate reasons, or conversely for something that otherwise sounds like a terrible idea. Though the vote in committee on the final bill was pretty clearly against the facts of the matter, as this editorial in Nature put it:
It is hard to escape the conclusion that the US Congress has entered the intellectual wilderness, a sad state of affairs in a country that has led the world in many scientific arenas for so long. Global warming is a thorny problem, and disagreement about how to deal with it is understandable. It is not always clear how to interpret data or address legitimate questions. Nor is the scientific process, or any given scientist, perfect. But to deny that there is reason to be concerned, given the decades of work by countless scientists, is irresponsible.
Worse than the title and distorted spin from the committee chair are the actual words uttered by some of our duly elected representatives during that hearing. This is not just an intellectual wilderness, this is a moral wilderness where completely provably false statements are just accepted, treated as legitimate points of view, where nobody needs to apologize for being wrong, ever.


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For Lusep Sugiharto, a modified Yamaha Byson was tricky. "It's easy because the shape is nice but also so difficult for fear that dimodif even worse than the standard," he said directly from Cirebon, West Java.
Bender-waving modifiers of complex commercial IQ Motor CBC, Block F1, Cirebon is using fiberglass as the material foundation making body kit. Certainly, almost all parts of the body can touch.
For example the tank. "The shape does still follow the original design Byson, but the condom is regenerated with air hole lattice accent," says this bespectacled man.
Indeed, the end result of bodywork is designed to make Byson a new look more sporty and modern. "Because it is attached to the body design kit is now also refers to the model of the future and remain in the corridor MEFRIK," explained the man who just opened shop in Cirebon after a long time in Jakarta. Other creations are in the manufacture of headlamp cover. "Created as the main light was a robot head. A little inspired by the Transformers," he said.
With a red color that are mixed silver in this section. Also supported the design that fits, his opinion was acceptable.
Not only that, the stern also been redesigned. "The side was made more robust with a concept seat that can be single and also double," added Lusep he said if you want to lift, rear seat cover that you want can be removed easily.
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Cascade Mountains bowhunters, who will hit the woods en masse Saturday, will be the first of thousands of Oregon hunters to discover that their "hair tags" of old have now turned into "horn tags."
Tags allowing an any-elk bag limit — dubbed hair tags because they required only that the elk had hair — are no longer available for bowhunters on national forest lands in the Rogue Unit and elsewhere along the western slopes of the Cascades, where elk numbers are down.
Muzzleloader hunters also will see their one-elk bag limit shift to one bull elk on national forest lands. But perhaps the biggest group to lose their hair-tag status in the national forests will be hunters with disability permits who previously were allowed them to turn any bull-elk tag into an any-elk tag.
These changes mean the only cow elk shot from now on in places such as the Rogue Unit will be on low-elevation lands during archery and muzzleloading hunts, under damage-complaint status and small youth-only hunts around the Christmas holidays.
"And as far as we're concerned, we would have added youth hunts and everything else with that," says Fred Craig, president of the Oregon Hunters Association, which supports the change. "But we don't see the rules."
The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission set these rules last summer to go into effect now following recommendations from the OHA and Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife biologists struggling to rebuild once-vibrant Roosevelt elk herds in national forests that dominate the Cascades' western slopes.
The bull-only hunting restrictions for bowhunters on national forest land is in effect locally in the Rogue, Dixon, Evans Creek and Indigo units. They are all wildlife-management units, where overall elk numbers are below what the ODFW calls "management objectives" — or targets for what the unit's habitat should hold.
While declining habitat on national forest lands is considered the main reason for declining Roosevelt elk numbers, altering hunting seasons and bag limits is one of the few tactics available to ODFW and hunters to reverse those trends.
"We consider this one step in trying to recover those herds," Craig says. "When herd numbers are way down, it's females you need to recover it.
"We have to conserve this resource first if we're going to have hunting in the future," he says.
The bans also include the McKenzie and Santiam units farther north. The bowhunters' elk season runs through Sept. 22.
The writing on the wall about western Cascades elk declining in national forests goes back to the 1990s, when cutbacks in logging led to a decline in prime elk habitat. Add aggressive fire suppression, and national forest lands have little opportunity to provide the fresh, young plant growth elk desire.
Over the years, biologists have seen a drop in cow-to-calf ratios, and now overall herd estimates are down in places such as eastern Jackson County's Rogue Unit, the hot-bed for Southern Oregon elk hunting, which is dominated by national forest land.
The entire unit is managed for an elk herd of 3,300 animals, but recent estimates put the overall herd at fewer than 2,800 elk, according to ODFW statistics.
Perhaps even worse is that elk distribution has changed, as well.
More elk have moved out of the national forests and into lower-elevation areas in recent years, creating elk anomalies such as the Foothill herd that regularly wanders inside Medford city limits.
Recent estimates put about half of the unit's elk in the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, but they are spread over two-thirds of the unit. That makes elk densities relatively sparse on national forest land.
While all this has occurred, bull hunting successes have been dismal despite excellent bull ratios.
While archers are the first to live under these more restrictive rules, they are the least culpable in the Rogue Unit.
In 2011, no cows were killed by archers during bow season in the Rogue Unit, and just 44 were taken by bowhunters in the entire Cascades, ODFW statistics show.
"Most (bowhunters) I know are hunting bulls anyway," says Craig, a bowhunter from Grants Pass. "But some people will take anything they can get."
Those "some people," statistically, are disabled hunters.
In all Roosevelt elk hunts, 1,521 hunters with disability permits shot 264 cows in all rifle and archery hunts on Western Oregon slopes, with the lion's share during the general season when their permits turned bull tags into hair tags.
"The bottom line is, there will be fewer cow elk taken now," Craig says. "We pretty strongly support no antlerless harvest where herd numbers are below management objectives."
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Cascade Mountains bowhunters, who will hit the woods en masse Saturday, will be the first of thousands of Oregon hunters to discover that their "hair tags" of old have now turned into "horn tags."


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It is with great sadness that the Canadian Mathematical Society learned of Richard Kane's passing on October 1, 2010.
Richard Kane was a lifetime member of the CMS and was deeply dedicated to the work of the Society. He was the CMS president from 1998 to 2000, and during his membership served as chair of the Finance, International Affairs, Nominating, and Research committees. He was also an associate editor of the CMS Books in Mathematics series. In 2006, he received the CMS Distinguished Service Award and the inaugural David Borwein Distinguished Career Award for his outstanding service to the CMS, for his significant research accomplisments and for his many contributions to the Canadian mathematical community.
Richard's contributions to the mathematical community are numerous and extensive. He served as scientific convener of the 1996 NSERC Review of Canadian Mathematics and chaired and served on numerous NSERC committees for the mathematical sciences. His efforts in these positions raised government and public awareness of the importance of mathematics in Canada and secured and enhanced funding for mathematical research. Richard was also a member of the Royal Society of Canada and a Fields Institute Fellow.
Richard had taught at the University of Western Ontario since 1980 and served two terms as Chair of the Mathematics Department. He was a dedicated teacher and supervised four PhD theses. He was well known for his research in the field of algebraic topology.
In 2008, when Richard was honoured with a Distinguished University Professorship Award from Western, former CMS president Thomas Salisbury noted, "I cannot think of any aspect of the Canadian mathematical community which Richard has not influenced for the better. He has taken on all such challenges that have come his way, and has done so with care and attention."
In the words of Richard's close friend, Joseph Neisendorfer, "He possessed a strong serene integrity. He was a loyal and gracious presence to his family, to his friends, to his colleagues, and to his students. He will be missed by all who knew him."
The CMS extends its deepest condolences to Richard's family and friends.
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Max Conners (Sigourney Weaver) and her nubile daughter Page (Jennifer Love Hewitt) understand the power of the verbs "oogle" and "grope," with specific regards to the male members of our species. Mom seduces a rich old lug into marriage. Immediately after the knot is tied, Daughter lures him into bed. This allows Mom to stumble in on them and emerge with a generous settlement.Heartbreakers isn't exactly about broken hearts, but you get the picture.
Ray Liotta enters the film as one of their first victims. He later returns to add dramatic complication to the mother and daughter's prize catch: a phlegmatic tobacco billionaire coughed up by Gene Hackman. In an unusual move, the story tries to weave in a subplot about Page's yearning for independence as she travels with her overprotective mom—the same woman that encourages Page's sex fraud of men three times her age. It's an oddly sentimental moment for a relatively moral-free film, and it simply doesn't make sense. The most wholesome person in the film is a bartender named Jack (Jason Lee), Page's sincere love interest.
Weaver knows how to vamp. Her knack for comedy complements the steely Ripley roles she tends to play. Hewitt's acting abilities are outweighed by her more material assets, which the camera and costumer capitalize on greedily. What Weaver called "dresses the size of postage stamps" are particularly important to Page's screen presence. Many viewers will feel as gypped as the men these heartbreakers attack.


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Only once in their first eight games did the New Orleans Saints score 30 points, a total that was practically a given last season during their 13-0 start.
Turns out that championship form hasnt disappeared after all.
Drew Brees(notes) and the Saints have hung at least 30 points on their last three opponents during a four-game winning streak, a rhythm theyll look to continue Sunday when they visit Paul Brown Stadium hoping to hand the Cincinnati Bengals a ninth consecutive loss.
New Orleans (8-3) was an offensive juggernaut last season, averaging 35.9 points during its 13-0 start and scoring at least 30 in three postseason games en route to capturing its first Super Bowl.
The Saints averaged 20.9 points during the first half of 2010, but they suddenly appear to be rounding into form. New Orleans put up 34 points in wins over Carolina and Seattle, then got a 12-yard TD pass from Brees to Lance Moore(notes) with 1:55 left on Thanksgiving to cap a 30-27 comeback victory in Dallas.
Weve just taken a very aggressive mentality, said Brees, whos averaging 329.6 passing yards over his last five games. Were kind of getting back to our brand of football with great tempo obviously, a lot of formations, a lot of personnel groups, a lot of guys involved, taking shots down field.
The big plays have returned the past two weeks after being few and far between in the first half. The Saints had 15 completions of 25 yards or more in their first nine games - 20th in the league - but had seven plays of that length against the Seahawks and Cowboys.
New Orleans leads the league in third-down conversions (49.7 percent), but that doesnt mean Brees and the offense have been perfect everywhere. The Saints have scored a TD in the red zone on 45.7 percent of their trips - 25th in the league - and have left with points 78.3 percent of the time - 29th.
Its something that we clearly pay attention to. Weve had opportunities, coach Sean Payton said. The good news is that were (first) in the league in red zone drive opportunities, and now its just being more efficient with those drives and coming away with more touchdowns than field goals.
Getting Pierre Thomas(notes) and Jeremy Shockey(notes) back could help. Thomas may return from a severely sprained left ankle thats kept him out since Week 3, while Shockey - who has 31 catches for 314 yards and three TDs - could be back after missing two games with bruised ribs.
Add in the likely return of safety Darren Sharper(notes) - who has sat out the past two contests with a strained hamstring - and New Orleans could be in great shape to catch NFC South-leading Atlanta.
The only thing the Bengals (2-9) have a shot at securing is the No. 1 pick in the 2011 draft. Cincinnati is mired in its sixth eight-game losing streak in the past 20 years after a 26-10 road defeat against the New York Jets on Thanksgiving night.
The Bengals offense hit rock bottom, totaling a season-low 163 yards and increasing its turnover total to 25 - second-most in the AFC - with three more giveaways.
Its something different in every phase of the game every week, receiver Terrell Owens(notes) said. We find ways to put ourselves in the hole. Im out of answers.
Despite the fact that two of the teams three double-digit losses have come in the past two weeks, Owens reality show co-host and fellow receiver had a different take on Cincinnatis problems.
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