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Vikings Fans, Pre-Order Your Jeremy Maclin Jerseys!
Who will be the recieving core for the Minnesota Vikings in 2014?
I know its not the burning question, that obviously is, who will be throwing to the receiving core in 2014?
That being said, it is a interesting offseason as far as wide receivers are concerned from the draft to free agency.
With the #8 pick in the 2014 NFL Draft in May, many believe the Vikings will go with a QB if one of the top three rated quarterbacks isn't available at eight, but if not, don't be shocked if the Vikings call Sammy Watkins's name as maybe the best player available come that selection.
Hypothetically, lets say the Vikings don't select a WR at #8, and decide to fill other voids throughout the drat itself, then they are left with the following: Greg Jennings, Corderrelle Patterson and Jarius Wright.
Jerome Simpson is now a free agent and many speculate that he will be brought back because of his low sticker price for a one year deal.
I would advise the Vikings not to bring back a inconsistent Simpson and look to free agency to fill that void and improve at the position.
Here is the list of the top 2014 Free Agent Wide Receivers:
Hakeem Nicks (after signing with Jay Z and Roc Nation, I'm guessing a bigger market is in store)
Eric Decker (brings similar traits and skill set as Greg Jennings)
Anquan Boldin (the question would be how much is left in the tank)
James Jones (let's not make this the Packers of old)
Jeremy Maclin (recovering from a major injury could be a concern for any team, but I like the fit in Minnesota)
Kenny Britt (Kenny is fun to hang out with, but not to employ.)
Golden Tate (it appears he is headed back to Seattle)
Devin Hester (Patterson is what Hester was, Vikes won't be interested in my opinion)
So there you have it VIkings fans, get your pre-orders in for your Jeremy Maclin jerseys.
All kidding aside, the Vikings need to make sure whoever is tossing the pigskin around in 2014, that they are fully equipped with the adiquit weapons around them in what appears to be a wide open NFC North.


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Google has released a list of its top Android apps of 2012, which have been hand-picked by Googlers as being among the top apps on the Google Play app store.
The apps on the list were selected because of their design and usability on both smartphones and tablets. Google has made big bets on tablets, releasing its own 7-inch and 10-inch Nexus tablets to compete with the incumbent iPad.
These are the best Android apps of 2012, as selected by Google Play's editors, in no particular order:
Evernote: A note-taking app that synchronizes across multiple devices.
Zappos: An online retailer that sells clothing an apparel.
Pinterest: An online scrapbook in which users "pin" links and images to pages.
Grimm's Snow White: A storybook-style app that introduces Grimm's fairy tales.
Pocket: An app that saves articles, videos and other pieces of content to read and view later without an Internet connection.
Expedia: A trip-planning app that includes a "rich detailed tablet experience."
Ancestry: A genealogy app for keeping track of a family tree.
Fancy: Think Pinterest, but geared toward shopping. It serves as a wishlist/store of sorts.
Mint: An app for keeping track of your finances.
Seriesguide Show Manager: A second-screen app for watching television that includes more information about shows and schedules.
Pixlr Express: A photo-editing app that includes quick-fixes like red-eye reduction and cropping.
TED: A collection of talks from some of the world's thought leaders in just about every subject.

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Havelock was trying to get back to normal Thursday morning, but the effort was slow, literally.
Havelock was trying to get back to normal Thursday morning, but the effort was slow, literally.
Snow-covered streets turned into sheets of ice overnight, and though drivers on U.S. 70 and Main Street found easier travel, getting there was the problem. Neighborhood streets and service roads remained covered in snow and sleet, and authorities urged drivers to use caution.
Craven County Schools were closed Thursday, and only designated personnel were working at Cherry Point. Personnel were expected to return to their normal work schedules on Friday.
Havelock city offices, including parks and recreation, and the senior center, were closed on Thursday. Trash pickup was off schedule and court for the day had been canceled.
The Havelock Chamber of Commerce Military Affairs Committee Family of the Quarter event was rescheduled to 6 p.m. on Tuesday, and the chamber�s business before hours event at Gurganus Elementary School was rescheduled for Feb. 25.
Annunciation Catholic School rescheduled its open house to 4 to 6 p.m. Feb. 6.
The icy roads also caused delays in delivery of the print editions of the Havelock News and Windsock.
One event not impacted by the weather will be the Eastern Carolina Aviation Heritage Foundation Gala scheduled for Friday night at the Havelock Tourist and Event Center. Foundation officials say the event will go on as planned, and tickets are still available for the fundraiser. Call 444-4348 for more information.
Businesses that had been closed Wednesday were reopening on Thursday, and many of the city�s grocery and retail stores and restaurants were getting back to work.
The Havelock area received about 2 inches of sleet and snow from a winter storm Tuesday and Wednesday that covered roads and created a winter playland for many children and adults alike. Temperatures dropped into the middle 20s Wednesday night, creating sheets of ice on the roads.
Clearing skies and temperatures into the middle and upper 30s could lead to some melting of the snow and ice on Thursday, but low temperatures into the upper 20s could cause refreezing of roads overnight, according to the National Weather Service.
Afterward, a warming trend begins, with highs near 50 on Friday and near 60 on Saturday. Sunday brings temperatures into the middle 60s and a 40 percent chance of rain, according to the weather service.


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Passengers evacuated after Park and Ride bus catches fire at Norwich Airport
PUBLISHED: 13:06 21 January 2013 | UPDATED: 13:07 21 January 2013
Passengers were evacuated after a Park and Ride bus caught fire in Norwich this morning.
Fire and rescue crews from Sprowston and Earlham were called to the Norwich Airport Park and Ride on Cromer Road shortly before 9.30am.
About six passengers were safely evacuated after black smoke was seen billowing from a vent above the driver's seat.
A spokesman for the Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service said there were no injuries, and that the crews had extinguished the fire within about 10 minutes.
The fire is believed to have been started by an electrical fault.
One of the passengers, Tess Ward, said: "I saw thick smoke above his (the driver's) head and said loudly: 'What's that smoke?' "Everyone looked and the driver then asked all passenger to evacuate the bus.
"The smell was really strong and the smoke was getting darker. Some of us has to moved farther not to inhale that terrible smell. "The driver was on his mobile and not long afterwards the fire brigade arrived, one after the other, pretty quickly."
A fire service spokesman said: "It was a very small fire, mostly smoke. We believe it to be an electrical fault and obviously that bus is now being repaired."
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Kabul: Two roadside bombs exploded on Thursday in eastern and southern Afghanistan, killing at least 12 people and injuring 16 others, officials said.
Militants regularly plant roadside bombs to target Afghan and NATO forces, but the devices often kill civilians. Bombs like the ones in Khost and Uruzgan province have killed a total of 16 people since Tuesday.
A bomb blast killed two civilians at a park in Khost, about 150 kilometers south of the capital, Kabul, said Jabar Nahimi, governor of Khost province in eastern Afghanistan. Eight others were wounded in the blast, including four women and a child, he said.
Earlier, a minivan traveling in a remote part of Uruzgan province in southern Afghanistan struck a roadside bomb, killing at least 10 people and wounding eight others, said Nayamatullah Khaliqi, the top government official in Dehra Wood district. He said most of the dead were women and children.
The United Nations has called on the Taliban leadership to stop using such explosives and mines. The Taliban say they use only remote-controlled roadside bombs which unlike the mines automatically activated by pressure plates allow a bomber to choose the time of the blast and specifically target coalition troops and their Afghan allies.
The UN says that insurgents` homemade bombs continue to cause the most civilian deaths. Such explosives killed 340 civilians and wounded 599 others in the first nine months of this year, an increase of almost 30 per cent compared to the same period last year, according to the UN.


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"To celebrate Freddie Mercury's 65th birthday, we are streaming a continuos version of Queen's legendary 1986 concert at Wembley Stadium."
Hour and a half of awesomeness.
"To celebrate Freddie Mercury's 65th birthday, we are streaming a continuos version of Queen's legendary 1986 concert at Wembley Stadium."
Hour and a half of awesomeness.
Penderecki, Aphex Twin & Greenwood:
In Poland this weekend for some concerts - some of which are being broadcast online, so if you're nowhere near, perhaps you'd like to listen in...
Live broadcast (Polish Radio Channel 2 and 3)
(from 19.30)
http://www.polskieradio.pl/9,Trojka (from 21.15)
Chicken Foot, Sept 27th ....cr****
Have Another Hit Of Colorado Sunshine
EDIT: that's 3:30 PM EST.On September 11, 2011 at 3:30 p.m., NPR Music and Q2 present a live audio Webcast of Remembering September 11: a free concert on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks from the Metropolitan Museum's majestic Temple of Dendur. The afternoon's program features the world premiere orchestration by Maxim Moston of William Basinski's The Disintegration Loops as well as meditative, memorial works from Ingram Marshall, Osvaldo Golijov and Alfred Schnittke, performed by the Wordless Music Orchestra under the direction of Ryan McAdams.
Hosted by NPR Music's Anastasia Tsioulcas and WQXR/Q2's own Helga Davis, the concert is part of the ground-breaking Wordless Music series, which presents imaginative programs that pull together musicians from the pop and classical worlds.
The concert takes place at the circa 15 B.C. Temple of Dendur, a gift to the United States in 1965 by the Egyptian government, now housed in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Aeolian sandstone monument sits in the museum's Sackler Wing, a giant glass atrium with a reflecting pool and windows overlooking Central Park — the placement is meant to evoke the temple's original location on the banks of the Nile River. For the concert, the musicians perform within the temple itself while the audience takes their seats on the floor of the cavernous atrium.
The program opens with pieces that consider memory, loss and remembrance: Ingram Marshall's Fog Tropes II, Osvaldo Golijov's Tenebrae and Alfred Schnittke's Collected Songs Where Every Verse is Filled with Grief, as arranged by the Kronos Quartet. Golijov addresses what he calls the "two contrasting realities" at the origin of Tenebrae.
But the centerpiece of the program is a world premiere orchestration of William Basinski's monumental The Disintegration Loops. The experimental composer was attempting to digitize his analog tape loops from the 1980s when he discovered that the reel-to-reel material was disintegrating as it was being transferred. That work took place in August and September of 2001 — as the music was playing and deteriorating in Basinski's Brooklyn apartment, he and his neighbors watched that fateful morning unfold.
I shared this in the RTB thread, but this seems a good place to post here too. Its the first professional performance released since the film crew made the documentary back in 2004
8/27 Rock the Bells @ Shoreline
9/1 Amon Tobin @ The Warfield
9/30 DJ Premier vs. Pete Rock @ Mighty
Sunday night Wilco's concert will be streamed. I'm not sure if it will be streamed on wilcoworld or npr but they announced it during the NPR interview. Should be great to hear the new songs live!
AF's big giant Montréal last-show-of-the-tour homecoming thing is currently streaming at http://radio3.cbc.
200,000 people must make for miserable toilet queues.
Elton John is streaming on youtube, just sayin'.
this is huge
how huge?
look at those fucking lineups.... http://www.thewarehouseproject.com/
Beginning this Saturday, Resident Advisor will provide live streams of select performances from The Warehouse Project in Manchester.
Between September and New Year's Eve, The Warehouse Project turns Piccadilly Train Station into a pillar of Manchester's club scene, with dozens of big events that draw from all ends of the electronic music spectrum. Thanks to RA's nifty streaming service (powered by Awdio), you'll be able to catch many of these performances live as they happen from anywhere on the globe.
Tune in this Saturday night at 00:45 (GMT) to hear Visionquest in full effect, with Seth Troxler, Shaun Reeves, Ryan Crosson and Lee Curtiss all on board, immediately followed by Minus heavyweight Marco Carola at 3:30. London's beloved Horse Meat Disco will be streaming live from Room 2 (starting at 0:30), and will hand over the decks to Julio Bashmore at 4:00. You can also catch WHP residents Krysko and Greg Lord opening the party at 21:30 in rooms 1 and 2 respectively.
Rhythm is a dancer.
The Greatest Gig In The Sky is now live! Every hour, on the hour, between now and September 28th, you can hear Pink Floyd's performance of The Dark Side Of The Moon from Wembley 1974, accompanied by some of the original concert screen films, and connecting with fans across the world who are also watching - and commenting - with you:
Rebroadcast of NPR interview is on now, they take the stage in about 20 minutes.
Art of Almost sounds fucking great live! Way to kick things off.
Thank you for those posts, Faxman!
awesome stuff
Rhythm is a dancer.
From SBTRKT's FB page:
I clicked on the link and it's someone else now, but the quality of the stream is fantastic; hopefully it is the same when he goes on!live set from Paris is streamed live tonight here from 22.15 (UK GMT) / 23.15 (Paris) / 17.15 (NYC) / 14.15 (L.A) http://www.live-concert.sfr.fr/live/index.php
SBTRKT was awesome, and the quality of the stream is incredible. Modeselektor is scheduled to go on at 7 PM PST, although they're running quite late (SBTRKT was close to 45 behind) so that might mean they go on closer to 8. Either way, worth checking out.
Broadcast live from Amsterdam
1500 – 1900 (CET), 1400 – 1800 (GMT): Thursday 20th October 2011
BROADCAST URL: http://boilerroom.tv/live
Rhythm is a dancer.
Day 1 of Bridge School Benefit streaming live today.
Arcade Fire, Beck, Neil Young, Devendra Banhart, Eddie Vedder and others.
Black Lips happening right now
Deamau5 is going to stream 30 minutes of his show tonight in Toronto in about 5 hours (according the the countdown clock).
"Deadmau5 will be celebrating his tour finale show in Toronto on the 5th November with a free, 30 minute live stream of the set via live.deadmau5.com to subscribers. The set will also be streamed live on youtube at youtube.com/deadmau5.
The show will be broadcast live on the 6th November 1am EST / 5am GMT and 10pm PST on 5th November."
April 24 - Queens of the Stone Age
April 26-28 - Levitation
Rhythm is a dancer.
Rhythm is a dancer.
DJ Shadow live dj set right now, Link.
The Rapture will be airing a show live from a bowling alley in London at 1 P.M. Pacific. There is a link available at their facebook page if you are interested. Some Dell Computers thing.
Wilco streaming songs on the WGN news live this morning. One coming up NOW
Tomorrow night in New York they are ending their 2 year tour and they are streaming it! I look forward to having some drinks and watching.
Thanks so much for your support over the past two years. We've had such a great time playing shows for all of you and we're excited to be finishing up at home in New York City tomorrow night. To celebrate, we're doing a live webcast from the Beacon Theatre so you can share in the last night of the High Violet tour! On Saturday, December 17th, at 9 pm EST, visit www.americanmary.com to watch the show. You can watch on our Facebook page as well. Thanks to Fuse for making this possible.
bump it's about to be go time...
warehouse project w/ pete tong, sasha and james zabiela https://www.facebook.com/petetong?sk...62564297176154


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TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -- Officials say it's reasonable for a University of Michigan hospital to be the emergency-transfer provider for the last abortion clinic left in Toledo -- even though it's more than 50 miles away.
A signed pact between the University of Michigan Health System and the Capital Care Clinic puts the clinic in compliance with a state law requiring abortion providers to have a transfer agreement with a "local" hospital, a spokeswoman for the university told The (Toledo) Blade (http://bit.ly/1jdHH4i ).
"We are a regional system, and we do consider Toledo to be part of our service area," hospital spokeswoman Denise Gray-Felder said.
Anti-abortion rights activists, however, question how a hospital nearly an hour from Toledo can be considered "local."
Much of the discussion at a hearing in Columbus this week centered on responding to an emergency within 30 minutes. On a good day, it would take at least 53 minutes to transfer a patient from Toledo to Ann Arbor, said Kayla Smith of Ohio Right to Life.
The Toledo clinic is one of several abortion providers that have run into trouble with the transfer agreement issue since last summer, when a provision of the state budget made the requirement a law instead of a department rule and banned public hospitals from making agreements.
Capital Care had a one-year deal in place with the University of Toledo Medical Center, but the hospital opted not to renew it as of last July 31. No private hospital in the region was willing to take its place.
Kellie Copeland of the abortion rights group NARAL Pro-Choice said any medical emergency at a clinic could be handled at Toledo hospitals, whose emergency rooms can't legally turn away any patient.
"This is not an argument about public safety," Copeland said. "This is a gotcha game that the Kasich administration has set up to close clinics."
The Ohio Department of Health is expected to make the final decision on Capital Care clinic sometime in June.
Information from: The Blade, http://www.toledoblade.com/


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North Shore's Surf Row: Where the pro surfers live
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Either by ownership, long-term lease or rental, Ke Nui Road, on the North Shore of Oahu, is now home to world's biggest surf companies and their best surfers, at least from November through January. From the street, the houses are tough to distinguish, most cut off from the world by thick hedges and intimidating gates. From the beach, though, these properties share something special. In real estate terms, let's call them big wave adjacent.
Last week, we road-tripped to the North Shore with nothing but a map and a modest dream—to take a neighborly peek over the surf world's most expensive fences.


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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Cream cheese and blueberry coffee cake
Once again, we're snowed in. Seriously snowed in. The highways are closed, the public transportation system is shut down, and no one has even bothered to start shoveling. It's serious. Although I'll be hurting a little bit if work is cancelled again tomorrow, I've had too many (unpaid) snow days.
I searched high and low on the internet for a recipe like this, and I couldn't find any. I wanted a basic coffee cake, but with berries, a cream cheese layer, and a crunchy streusel-y topping. Why doesn't this exist besides in my mind?
The good news is that my ideal recipe translated perfectly into reality. This is a hell of a coffee cake. The base cake is light and fluffy, the blueberries fit right in between the cake and the creamy layer of cheese, and the streusel topping is thin and crunchy.
Cream cheese and blueberry coffee cake
Cake base and streusel layer adapted from the Joy of Cooking 1975 edition
For the cake base:
1 1/2 c rice flour mix
1/4 t salt
1/4 t xanthan gum
2 t baking powder
1/4 c butter, softened
1/4 c sugar
1 egg
2/3 c milk
1 t vanilla
Preheat oven to 375. In a small bowl, blend together the flour mix, salt, xanthan gum, and baking powder, then set aside. Cream the butter and sugar, then beat in the egg, followed by the milk. Add the vanilla, then stir in the flour mixture. Blend well, then spread into a 8x8 pan or an 8" pie/tart pan.
For the berry layer:
1/2 c to 3/4 c fresh or frozen blueberries (don't thaw them if they're frozen)
1 T sugar
Toss the berries in the sugar, and sprinkle over the cake layer.
For the cream cheese layer:
8 oz cream cheese, softened (I used low fat 'Neufchatel')
1 egg yolk
1/4 c sugar
2 t lemon juice or vanilla
Smoosh the cream cheese together with the egg, sugar, and lemon juice. Beat until smooth, and drop big spoonfuls on top of the berries.
For the streusel layer:
2 T rice flour or almond meal
2 T butter
3 T sugar
1/2 t cinnamon
Mash together all the ingredients with a fork until crumbly. Sprinkle over the cheese layer.
Bake the cake about 45-60 minutes, until no longer jiggley in the center, and starting to brown. Cool completely before serving.
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I am so glad you made this! It looks amazing. I'm going to make this, maybe this weekend!ReplyDelete
Oh wow. Just wow. I am so trying this with buckwheat flour. Thanks for sharing the recipe and the photos are beautiful!ReplyDelete
What glorious victory! Gosh, this is gorgeous, and reminds me of coffee cakes of my gluten past. Well done! And thank you for reminding me how much I love coffee cake; must, make, soon!ReplyDelete
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Now you can try the Vocaloid software before purchase, and it just became more affordable too. In response to popular demand, Yamaha have released a free tryout (demo) version of Vocaloid, the amazing singing synthesis software that allows singing to be generated in any lyrics, with unprecedented realism. Users of the Tryout Version are licensed to use commercially any singing created with it, making it a useful production tool in its own right!
Download the Vocaloid Tryout Version now by clicking here
Yamaha have exciting plans for the ongoing development of their Vocaloid technology, with many improvements in the pipeline (and more free software updates for registered users), and to ensure that as many people as possible are able to access this exciting new technology and add new voices, Zero-G have adjusted the price of their first three Vocaloid virtual vocalist products, with Vocaloid LEON and Vocaloid LOLA each now costing only £129.95, and their latest voice Vocaloid MIRIAM £149.95.


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The Eagles will host safety prospect Janzen Jackson, according to Aaron Wilson of Scout.com.
Jackson (5-11, 188) played last year at McNeese State, after being dismissed from the Tennessee program, where he spent his first two college seasons.
In November, 2009, Jackson was one of three Tennessee players arrested for attempted armed robbery, but the charges against him were dropped.
Last August, Volunteers coach Derek Dooley dismissed Jackson from the program. Sources told ESPN.com that Jackson had substance abuse issues and failed multiple drug tests.
On the field, he started 22 of 23 games and had five interceptions as a sophomore, earning second-team All-SEC honors. Jackson ran a 4.64 40 at the combine. Here's part of what NFL.com's scouting report says about him:
Jackson is an electric athlete who could make an immediate impression at the next level. He is sudden, quick twitched and fast enough to cover the deep half of the field against the SEC's best receivers. Teams may be put off by the issues surrounding his transfer history, but Jackson is an undeniable athlete who could contribute early at both the corner and safety position.
Jackson projects to have a third-round value.
The Eagles have spent second-round picks on safeties Jaiquawn Jarrett and Nate Allen in each of the past two drafts. Jarrett saw limited playing time in 2011 and faces an important offseason if he wants to earn a starting spot.
Allen had an up and down 2011, but played his best football at the end of the season. Kurt Coleman could also compete for a starting job. And the Birds could still make a move in free agency. They've shown some level of interest in Yeremiah Bell, according to Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald.
Finally, once again, here is the master list of Eagles draft visits. I'll keep this updated throughout the next month.
You can follow me on Twitter or become a fan of Moving the Chains on Facebook.


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- Hundreds of children will be taught in portable cabins when the new academic year begins
- Old classrooms are being re-opened to cater for hundreds more
- Scores of youngsters are still waiting to be allocated a place
- Headteachers in some areas are refusing to take in extra children – saying they are already full-to-bursting
Primary schools in Greater Manchester are having to draw up emergency plans to find places for four-and five-year-olds to meet an unprecedented surge in demand.
The crisis has been sparked by rocketing birth rates and immigration into Greater Manchester – including thousands of new BBC workers at MediaCity. That has resulted in an estimated 4,000 more primary-age pupils this year than four years ago.
Experts now say the next five years will see the biggest primary population since the post-war baby boom. But town hall bosses have been left with little room for manoeuvre after shutting dozens of primaries in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
The four worst-affected areas are Manchester, Salford, Stockport and Trafford. Scores of schools have been forced to reopen old teaching space, tack on temporary classrooms and build permanent extensions.
Salford's shortage has reached crisis proportions as the council prepares to spend at least £500,000 building portable cabins by September, to help accommodate 700 extra pupils across all year groups.
Coun John Merry said 10 new two-form primaries will be needed by 2018 – to accommodate 4,200 extra children. One senior council insider said predicting rising pupil numbers is a 'dark art' and admitted the city has been hit by an unforeseen crisis. But Diane Ogg, from Salford Unison, said: "I can't believe it's come to this. How were we not more prepared? It's quite scary."
In Manchester, there has been a 2,000-child surge in reception applications since 2008.
Like Salford, it is re-opening unused space and building new classrooms.
It currently has 72 pupils without a primary place and is creating 300 more places by September to reflect an expected surge over the summer.
Coun Afzal Khan, executive member for children's services, said the city remained 'one step ahead'.
But he said the council may have to use some disused day care centres to cope with the overspill in worst-hit areas.
In Stockport, the council is expecting an 11pc increase in numbers and has created 173 extra places at 14 schools by building mobile classrooms, extensions and increasing admissions numbers. Education chief Coun Shan Alexander said every Stockport child has a place for 2012. In Trafford, applications have soared by 360 in three years. An extra 105 places have been created for September.
Deputy council leader Alex Williams said: "Despite the growth in demand for school places over the last four years, we continue to meet our statutory duty of ensuring an appropriate school place is offered to all Trafford children."

Steve Riva was stunned when all six primaries he applied to for his son Flynn said no – including the one he attends for nursery.

He had hoped the four-year-old could stay on into reception at Chorlton Park, Chorlton, yet he is currently 15th on the waiting list.

Meanwhile at his second choice, Cavendish Road in West Didsbury, Flynn is currently 29th on the list.

Both primaries are about a mile from his home in Roseharth Avenue, but due to overwhelming demand for places in south Manchester – particularly at high-performing schools such as Flynn's first preferences – waiting lists run into the hundreds.

The other four schools on his application list, all in Chorlton, also turned him down. He was offered a place at another local school, which his parents rejected, and last week he was offered a place at Barlow Hall Primary, which he accepted.

Steve, 42, a joiner, said: "It has come as a shock that it's this difficult, to be honest. When we rang up Chorlton Park to ask where he was on the waiting list, they said 15th – but there's actually 200 on the list.

"All we want is for him is to be at one of those two schools. I can't understand where the children are coming from, unless people are putting down false addresses. I could have put my father's address down, which is even nearer, but that's not how you're supposed to do it."

Steve fears Flynn's younger brother Jonas could be hit by the same problem when he reaches primary age.

He has now taken his case to his MP, John Leech, and plans to appeal.

He added: "I think if children are already at nursery they should be guaranteed a place – or at least to be offered one."

 Deborah Linton examines the causes of the crisis

Predicting the number of school places would appear to be a straight-orward business. Keep an eye on the birth-rate and you get four years notice of demand. But the truth is not quite as simple.

It appears part of the problem is that what started as a population spike - following a baby boom towards the end of the last decade - emerged as a continuing trend.

That means the pressure for places, which might have been manageable as a one-off spike is not abating – and not so manageable.

In Manchester and Salford in particular, that is exacerbated by the large number of families moving to the cities from elsewhere in Britain and abroad.

Councils find themselves clamouring to keep up – although they have not been blind to the problems. Manchester uses a combination of five separate methods to forecast demand while Stockport, which relies on birth data, insists it has a 'clear and effective strategy' for managing the problem. The difficulty is that as fast as it is creating places, the pressure is growing.

Salford - which last year had to create 750 new places and is under pressure to create another 700 this year - differs slightly.

A report, in 2010, warned that a new school was needed without delay and the city now admits that its previous method of using birth registrations to forecast demand was inaccurate - it fails to take account of new families arriving in the city.

That was dumped in March 2011 in favour of data showing the number of children registered at GP surgeries. It now needs 10 new schools and more than 4,000 places by 2018 to cope.

Until recent years, councils were encouraged to keep a surplus of places which allowed 'shocks' to be managed. But that was changed under the last Labour government.

Manchester, which has 6,500 reception places and must bring in 300 more by September, is now hoping to reinstate extra desks to help address demand, with 10 per cent more places over the next few years. Free schools and partnerships with academy trusts may be part of the solution.

Temporary classrooms and portable cabins are providing makeshift solutions – but it is a longer-term problem that can only be solved by cash and new schools.

The Department for Education allocates 'per-pupil funding' to local authorities each year based on the number of children on school registers.

It also provides a cash allocation to help provide the space for children to learn. Since September, there have also been two rounds of supplementary cash to help shortfalls in places in the worst-affected areas. The most recent announcement, last week, included money for building projects at schools in Manchester, Stockport, Salford, Bury, Tameside, Wigan and Oldham.

A modest new-build primary school is said to cost about £15m – that kind of cash, many times over, will provide the only sustainable solution.


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Fat-Heavy Recipes of Gordon Ramsay, Ina Garten, Trisha Yearwood Get Thumbs Down from Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.
Bad boy TV chef Gordon Ramsay may make the ratings sizzle, but his recipes could put you on the road to a heart attack, doctors say. Ramsay's cookbook, "World Kitchen," is one of the worst cookbooks of 2010, according to the nonprofit Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, which advocates a healthy diet for disease prevention.
Other cookbooks on the doctors' no-no list include "Barefoot Contessa: How Easy is That?" by Food Network chef Ina Garten, "Home Cooking" by country singer Trisha Yearwood, "How to Cook Like a Top Chef" from the makers of the hit TV show Top Chef, and "The Primal Blueprint Cookbook" by Mark Sisson and Jennifer Meier.
In one recipe (named Garth's Breakfast Bowl) in Yearwood's cookbook, the songstress cooks up a single dish with eight large eggs, a pound of bacon and a pound of sausage, cheese tortellini, cheddar cheese, tater tots, and butter. "How to Cook Like a Top Chef features deep-fried bacon doughnuts, among other health-shockers. Ramsay recreates fat-laden versions of recipes from around the world, including his British Pheasant Casserole, which includes two pheasants, smoked bacon, butter, and double cream.
"These cookbooks are blueprints for obesity and heart disease," says PCRM's nutrition education director Susan Levin, M.S., R.D. "They completely disregard the fact that America's in the midst of an obesity epidemic. Ramsay and other chefs have turned even traditionally healthy recipes into unhealthy ones by adding copious amounts of fat."
PCRM's The Five Worst Cookbooks of 2010 are:
"World Kitchen," by Gordon Ramsay
"Barefoot Contessa: How Easy is That?" by Ina Garten
"Home Cooking" by Trisha Yearwood
"How to Cook Like a Top Chef" from the makers of Top Chef
"The Primal Blueprint Cookbook" by Mark Sisson and Jennifer Meier
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Marshall A. Chapman
During the mid 1930s, most of the voters of Dublin wanted Marshall A. Chapman to be their mayor. He was a good man and an outstanding servant of the people. One man disagreed. He didn't like something the mayor did. He employed an attorney and found that the mayor was illegally elected for his second two-year term. So he sued. And, he won. That's when a lot of Marshall Chapman's friends stepped forward and found a way to let him stay, just a little bit longer.
In the early months of 1936, John A. Walden filed a petition of quo warranto in the Superior Court of Laurens County requiring Dublin mayor, Marshall A. Chapman, to show the authority he had to act as mayor. A.L. Hatcher and Henry Taylor, the attorneys representing Walden, claimed that city of Dublin's charter, enacted in 1911, prohibited any person from serving as mayor for more than one term unless additional terms came after an interval out of office.
Dublin Judicial District Judge J.L. Kent recused himself because of his relationship to the petitioner. Judge Kent asked Judge Eschol Graham of the Oconee Judicial Circuit to hear the case against the highly popular mayor. Upon the presentation of all the evidence by Hatcher and Taylor, Chapman's attorney, C.C. Crockett attempted to show that his client was qualified and certified by the city clerk as qualified to be mayor and that in fact, the people of Dublin elected him in 1933 for a two-year term and again in 1935 for a second two-year term.
Judge Graham issued a finding that the law of the state was clear in that the city's charter clearly prohibited any person from serving more than one term as mayor, unless the left office for at least one term, before being eligible to qualify for a second term.
Mayor Chapman refused to comment to the media on the judge's ruling, but directed his attorney to announce that he would immediately appeal to the Supreme Court of Georgia.
After hearing the case, the Supreme Court issued its ruling on October 14, 1936, seventy five years ago this week. In holding for the petitioner, Chief Justice Richard B. Russell, Sr., father of long time U.S. Senator from Georgia, issued the opinion for the court. The Chief Justice discounted Crockett's argument that his client was his own successor since no one else qualified for the 1935 city election.
Crockett reiterated his argument in the trial court that in the previous quarter of a century, that the restriction buried in the city charter had been previously ignored. Herbert Moffett was elected in 1923 and served two consecutive terms. Even Chapman's predecessor, T.C. Keen, held office for two terms from 1930 to 1933. The justices held that argument without merit, holding that the law was the law and variances from it do not constitute a repeal of the city's charter and state law in a unanimous decision.
Chapman's one saving grace was that Judge Graham did not require him to leave office immediately. In fact, Judge Graham's order allowed Chapman to stay in office until a special election could be held.
Crockett immediately filed a motion for a rehearing which the Supreme Court denied in mid-December. Because of the holiday season, no city council meetings were scheduled to be held until early January.
At the first city council meeting of 1937, city attorney, W.W. Larsen, Jr. recommended that the council schedule a special election to comply with the Supreme Court's ruling.
No council member seemed to be ready to call for a special election. If a majority of the council voted to do so, then it would take at least forty-five days before a new election could be held. Still presiding over the council session, Mayor Chapman issued a brief comment. "It is mob psychology to kick a man when he is down," said the mayor.
By then, Chapman was already half way through his second term. No action could be taken any earlier than January 18. Meanwhile, Mayor Chapman went about his duties by appointing council members to committees.
And, it was about that time when Mayor Chapman's friends decided to make an end run around the court's decision. State Representatives W.A. Dampier and W.W. Larsen, Jr. introduced a bill to repeal the clause of the 1911 charter to allow Dublin's mayor to serve two consecutive terms.
Smelling a rat, Walden filed a mandamus to require the city council to call a special election. The council reluctantly decided to discuss the matter on February 1, five days before Judge Graham was to hear Walden's petition. The judge issued a summons to councilmen M.Z. Claxton, Dee Sessions, E.B. Mackey, C.A. Hodges, R.L. Tindol, E.F. Moxley, and F.C. Hutchinson to show cause why they shouldn't be ordered to schedule a new election to replace Mayor Chapman.
Rep. Dampier introduced a bill to allow Mayor Chapman to remain in office until the expiration of his term for which he was elected. The bill expressly prohibited Chapman from qualifying for the special election as well as any candidate from seeking an additional term beyond New Year's Eve. Rep. Larsen initially announced his opposition to Dampier's bill.
Meanwhile, the council was still debating if and how to legally schedule a special election. The issue became moot. For on the 4th of February, two days before Judge Graham was scheduled to hear the petition for a mandamus, the Georgia legislature unanimously passed local legislation to allow Dublin's mayors to succeed themselves for unlimited terms.
Mayor Chapman returned to the mayor's office in 1944 and served a single two-year term, making him the second longest serving mayor until that time, only behind Lucien Quincy Stubbs, who served five two-year terms around the turn of the 20th Century. The tradition of four years as mayor continued until Bobby Cochran, Albert Franks and Bob Walker each served as mayor for eight years. Phil Best, the current mayor, is now the longest serving mayor completing his twelfth year as the Mayor of the Emerald City.


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R̥gveda 3.9.8
आ जुहोता स्वध्वरं शीरं पावकशोचिषम् । आशुं दूतमजिरं प्रत्नमीड्यं श्रुष्टी देवं सपर्यत ।।८।।
ā juhotā svadhvaraṃ śīraṃ pāvakaśociṣam | āśuṃ dūtamajiraṃ pratnamīḍyaṃ śruṣṭī devaṃ saparyata ||8||
8 Offer to him who knows fair rites, who burns with purifying glow,
Swift envoy, active, ancient, and adorable: serve ye the God attentively.
According to the AHD, the Greek word is not of Indo-European origin but from an "unknown Oriental source". Monier-Williams and Pokorny say Sanskrit ajira is from Proto-Indo-European *aǵ- "drive, draw, move".
That's not all - according to this dictionary, Arabic الآخرة al-ʾâẖira-t means "afterlife". Remove the definite article al-, and the feminine suffix -t to get ʾâẖira, and convert this to the Spanish Arabists School romanization system, and you get - what else? - ājira.


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I read an article a few months back in the Readers Digest about the rushing in today's society. For the author, it was all about how she constantly hurried her child through every aspect of life. The author, herself, was at the point of frustration & shouting each day over simple things like putting on shoes & getting ready for bed, where as the child was in tears each day over her inability to keep up with the mad craze of rushing. I don't entirely remember what the breaking point was for the family, but eventually the author realised that if she continued to push & rush through life she was going to miss out on a lot, especially the relationship she could have with her daughter.
The article really gave me pause to stop & reflect on my own life & where I may be rushing things that should be taken more slowly. There's obviously a balance of when we need the push to move forward & when we need to slow down & wait. Everyone is different & that time will, of course, be different for each family.
This article has come to mind a lot lately as I've watched young Mums reaching out for support in their homeschool journeys, each one excited & delighted at the prospects ahead. We've all been there before, the excitement of finally beginning, the delight in selecting the books & curriculum that will best suit your family, & the sheer joy when they arrive.
When they reach our front door we can't wait to open up the box & are often eager to start right away, regardless of how our children feel. And that's when the rushing begins. We rush to start school, we rush to finish the high expectations we put on our children, & then we rush to move them into another subject.
I've heard some true & deep heart felt cries of parents concerned of failing their children lately. Parents distraught because their young Kindy students can't read, or refuse to sit still for hours upon hours each day for schooling. The three year old who isn't interested in the preschool curriculum Mamma spent hundreds of dollars on. The four year old who seemed so eager to learn but cries when it's "school time" each morning. The six year old who is angry because he really just wants to continue playing with the train tracks he just built. Rush. Rush. Rush.
I'm not an expert. I don't have a fancy degree in child anything hanging on my wall. I don't have a degree in education hidden in a back cupboard somewhere, but I can offer you all some heart felt advice from raising 2 children for the past 15 years & educating them for the past 10? Slow down. Really. Take a deep breath & simply slow down. After all, what's the rush?
Does it matter if your 5 year old can't read? Not really. If he's hitting 9 or 10 & still struggling, yeah I'd be seeking outside help. Ask me how I know. Forcing your child to sit still & string letters together into words & words into sentences isn't going to make them the sharpest tack in the box, it's going to burn them out.
If your 6 year old doesn't want to sit down for hour upon hour each day & calculate math sums, does it really matter? Not really. Wait! I can hear you now, "Of course it matters! At 6 I have to legally have my child enrolled in school & reach 180 days of education!" or whatever legal constrains you are obligated to uphold. Me too, I'm there with you. I've been there before you. It's okay.
I bet your little one would love to go outside & collect rocks or flowers. Did you know rocks, flowers, & toys can be grouped together in 2's or 5's or even 10's & it's a lot more fun then sitting at a table with a math book. You can play lots of fun games with skip counting too.
Traveling a long distance? Unplug the backseat DVD players & slip in an audio book instead. Even little ones can get greatly caught up in the beauty of Paddington Bear, Olga da Polga, or The Tale Of Despereaux. The downside is getting your children out at the destination can be harder, & when you get back home chances are they'll want to act out the story.
Wait, I can still hear you. You're worrying about your child being behind his peers. You're stressing about the lack of structured lessons. And again, I ask you, what's the rush? Is this a race to see who's child gets to the graduation ceremony first?
I'm not suggesting you fail to urge a capable child to take on the responsibilities he's able to. While we may not have had very formal structured lessons at a young age our children read or were read countless books. We were outside all the time, & if my children didn't know what they were looking at they asked. We pulled out more books to "look it up". We'd drive past fields of crops & a little voice from the backseat would say, "That's pyrethrum you know, in a few weeks the field will be white like snow."
By slowing down & not rushing, we can harbour a love for learning, & the knowledge that nothing is too great for them if they want to know badly enough. Am I sure? I'd like to think I am, but like any homeschooling Mamma I have my moments of doubt. Most recently I was lamenting the fact that my youngest might not know one skill or another, when I hear him from the backseat saying, "Those clouds are stratus clouds it's probably going to rain tonight."
Did I teach him that? No. His passion for weather has been growing more rapidly with each passing year & he'd checked a weather book out of the library & read it. Thus he could tell us all about the stratus clouds.. & cumulus clouds.
The thing is, when we slow down & stop rushing pell-mell down the educational road it's amazing how much more we can learn because we aren't fighting the uphill battle of students who are not ready for what's ahead. Rushing into things isn't worth the collision course ahead.
Many times in our years of homeschooling we've come to a pause, or even a dead stop, in order to allow a child to build confidence in skills that would then help propel them forward. There's no shame in it, none. I'm not saying you're not going to get pressure, but stop & evaluate where that pressure is coming from.
Is it because you're playing the comparison game? You're not alone, we've all fallen prey at one time or another. The friendly neighbour who doesn't homeschool? We've all got them. Family members? Been there done that. Take a deep breathe, evaluate your plan, pray about it & decide if you're on the right path.
There's nothing wrong with moving at a calm & steady pace, after all it worked pretty well for the tortoise.


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Train hasn't started yet. But all looks good.
14321 Be Bhuj Express runs from BAREILLY (BE) to BHUJ (BHUJ). This train covers a distance of 1425 KM in 27hr 30 mins. The train is available on MON,WED,FRI,SUN. It has 45 halts along the end-to-end journey. If you are on this train, treat yourself with hygienic food delivered at your seat. Book Meal now. Still looking for tickets on this train? Check current Seat Availability to book tickets.
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RailYatri is one of the source for train enquiry around Train Status, Time Table, to spot your train. You can even without looking outside of the train tell your co-travellers on where is your train based on GPS based train status.
The two key things which are important to be noted while checking Live Train Status are "Last Reported Location" and "Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) at upcoming stoppages"
The "Last Reported Station" (for example - - at present for this train) signifies the station based on which the current live train running status of 14321 Be Bhuj Express is determined. The "Last Reported Station" also conveys that as per the current train status, the train has either arrived or departed or crossed that particular station. In this particular case, this instance of 14321 has departed -
The "Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA)" value conveys the expected time at which the trains is supposed to arrive at any of its upcoming stoppages like , . This is the time when the traveler at the upcoming stations is expected to be there to board the train.
The last reported station can be either a stoppage or an intermediate station (where the train does not have a regular stoppage and simply is expected to cross the station). Some examples of Intermediate Stations for 14321 - Be Bhuj Express are , etc.
It is important to note that while running train status updates typically arrive from all the stoppages; it is not necessary that train status live updates will arrive from all the intermediate stations.
According to RailYatri, 90% of the live train status updates of the train from a particular station arrives with 8-10 mins of the train arriving/departing/crossing a station. For the remaining 10% of live train updates can range more than take more than that at times reaching to nearly an hour.
It has been observed that Indian train status updates associated for Express and higher category trains arrive on a faster manner than the train current running status live for Passenger category trains.
While tracking live running status please do remember that trains do recover time. So the train delay at the upcoming stoppages may be less than what current train running status has been reported from last reported station. Please plan accordingly. Train Running status live updates change frequently. So it is recommended that the user check the status updates frequently. Nearer to the estimated time of arrival, the train running status information becomes more and more accurate.
Train running status updates are much more accurate when it arrives from the GPS of the RailYatri app users.
Train status updates from the last stop (-) typically arrive in a delayed fashion.
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What is fog train delay?
Fog is a common phenomenon in many Indian regions during the winter months. Due to a drop in temperatures, the water vapor condenses into tiny water droplets forming Fog. Fog can significantly reduce the visibility to less than 1 KM. As a running train needs high visibility to move at top speed, so trains are delayed due to fog.
Why are trains delayed due to fog?
There are various factors which contribute to delayed trains in Indian railways when there is fog around.The first factor is: Indian railways always gives a priority to passenger's safety over speed. So, when the visibility is not adequate, the trains (under the mandate) run much slower than their average speed.Secondly, Indian railways signaling system depends largely on visibility rather than electronic communication. When there is fog around, the train drivers cannot see the signals. Thirdly, the anti-fog technologies are still in the experimental stages and have not been implemented completely.
What are the ripple effects caused by fog train delays?
There are many parts of India, where fog is a non-entity. But that does not mean that train late status in these states is any better than the rest of India. This is due to the ripple effects of trains delayed due to fog.One has to understand that majority of rail tracks in India are double line, which means a train can pass through only if the earlier train vacates the route. When a train is delayed due to fog, it can affect the schedule of other trains along the same route. Secondly, Premium trains (such as Rajdhani, Duronto, Shatabdi) enjoy the privilege of being provided the highest priority at signals. This again, impacts the delay of other trains.
What is the impact of fog on train cancellations?
A quick data analysis about fog train delays shows that as many as 2358 were canceled in 2016. And already 885 trains have been canceled within the first winter month of 2017. This is why it is essential for passengers to check if train is rescheduled or canceled prior to their journey.
How many trains are rescheduled due to fog?
Owing to huge delays and often unavailability of vacant tracks, there are many trains which have to be rescheduled during the fog infested months. 18,039 were rescheduled due to fog in 2016, and already 3,196 have been rescheduled in 2017. Before journeying in the winter months, do care to check the reschedule train status.


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38w, 1d. After many, many months, the nursery is finally done! Come take a peek inside our daughter's new room!
Back in August when we learned we were having a daughter after two sons, I was keen to create a special space for her. We didn't have an extra bedroom available, but our 3-year-old was finally transitioning out of his crib, and to help ease his transition, we tried moving him into a toddler bed in his big brother's room. Although it wasn't exactly a seamless move, it has worked well enough to stick with the arrangement, conveniently leaving me with an empty room to re-design for our daughter. But, given that we had just had the room painted and furnished barely two years ago when we moved back into my childhood home, my husband wasn't eager to spend much money to overhaul the space. In fact, I was politely informed that there would be no painting, no new window treatments… But with Pinterest, anything is possible, right?
Fortunately, we still had the nursery furniture from when our 5-year-old was a baby—a white Oeuf classic crib and dresser (the 3-drawer one we have is no longer available, but a 4-drawer model is), and a white Eames molded plastic rocker. None of it was cheap (although cheaper knockoffs can certainly be found online), but it has all held up incredibly well, and we still love the clean, modern look of it all. To keep the room tidy, we added inexpensive storage courtesy of Expedit shelving units and a Trofast frame with bins, both from Ikea (the latter holds all of our cloth diapering supplies and kind of makes me magically happy when I open up a bin to find tiny little pink diapers).
To change the look of the room, I decided to start with swapping in some new crib bedding (we had a white and gray chevron striped bumper with red crib sheets) and a new rug (it was a massive swath of dark blue), to get some bang for our buck. The walls were a light, bright green—not particularly feminine, but gender-neutral enough for me to give up on fighting to have them painted (or actually go to the trouble of doing it myself—although, yes, it ultimately probably would have been cheaper if we had just painted—then again, I still would have wanted new crib bedding and a rug, so…). The window treatments were custom blackout shades (we live in a house dating back to the 1860s, so our windows are an odd size, necessitating the custom sizing) in a map print (specifically this Out to Sea Map print from Ralph Lauren), and given how important sleep is in this household, I didn't want to lose the blackout feature of the shades by swapping in some girlier but translucent curtains. Anyway, keeping the shades meant trying to find crib bedding that worked with it, and the map print on the shades immediately made me think of travel as a nursery theme—something my husband and I love to do, albeit infrequently these days—and a theme that wouldn't feel too baby-ish within a year or two. I ultimately softened the look of the shades a bit with these sheer (and easy iron-to-hem) Matilda curtains from Ikea for less than $20/pair.
I then stumbled upon this purple bazaar crib bedding from The Land of Nod and liked the idea of the green walls-purple bedding combo, as well as the kind of global market feel of the design, as it fit with the travel theme. My mom and her father both worked overseas (throughout Africa and India, respectively) and as a result, we have quite the stash of fabrics for wall hangings from their travels. Hanging some of those fabrics would not only brighten the room but remind me of my mom, who passed away from breast cancer shortly after our second son was born and thus will never get to meet her granddaughter. Walls? Done.
But I still wanted the room to feel really feminine, given that this is our one and only daughter—and the daughter I never thought we'd have, given that only boys have been born into my husband's family for the past few generations. In my many hours spent on Pinterest, I found this sweet pompom/lantern combo idea from cupcakeMAG, which I used in place of a mobile above the crib, in addition to some fun garlands, found mostly on The Land of Nod and Etsy.
The rug was one of the hardest elements for me to choose. Originally, I thought about doing some kind of cozy shag rug, but then I thought better of it after being reminded of all of the spit-up and other stains that would likely appear shortly after baby girl's arrival. The window shades had yellow and red accents, and I ultimately settled into a hunt for a yellow rug to give the room a bit more brightness (it doesn't get a ton of sun, sadly). After several months of hunting, I finally chose this DwellStudio Draper Stripe rug, which I love in its simplicity, given how intricate some of the Indian wall hangings are in comparison.
And finally, I'm lucky enough to have some incredible friends who contributed to the room's design, including one of co-hosts of the sprinkle from last weekend, who stalked my Pinterest nursery board to find décor for the shower that could then be transferred to the nursery (see the hot air balloon lantern, for example), and another incredible friend currently living in Yemen who brought over the incredible lantern lighting up the fireplace and the purple leather pouf next to it, both from a market trip to Egypt. The dolls lining the mantelpiece are all ones my mom used to bring back to me from her African travels. I love that I get to pass along something from my childhood, from my mom, to my daughter.
If there's anything here that you love and want to find for yourself, check out the links in this post or my nursery board on Pinterest. If there's anything I've missed, just leave a comment below and I'll try to provide the info for you.
Additional elements:
- "I love you from here to…" print from HopSkipJumpPaper on Etsy (I ordered "I love you from here to Arkansas, in a nod to my husband's Arkansan upbringing)
- mirrored peacock pillow from Pier1 Imports
- mother of pearl mirror, also from Pier1 Imports
- peacock storage bins from 3 Sprouts
- nuLOOM knitted pouf (purchased from Gilt but available elswehere)
- crepe paper nova from eeBoo
- Hot air balloon paper lantern from CreateItGirl on Etsy
- Ubbi diaper pail (we have it in white, but it comes in a bunch of awesome colors—and it's made of powder-coated steel, not plastic, which means it doesn't get permanently stinky—and it can be used for disposable or cloth diapers, which is a feature that's remarkably hard to find)
I'd love to hear about how you decorated your wee one's nursery. Were you starting from fresh or did you have to re-purpose an older child's room, like me? Please share your inspiration in the comments below!


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Giles and Hywel Davies
Talking Fashion Giles
Mar 12 2009
Filmed at the Victoria and Albert Museum, this 'Talking Fashion' evening brings together journalist Hywel Davies and fashion designer Giles Deacon. Pro...
Nick Knight and Jane How
Nov 10 2000
Here's something we made earlier: stylist Jane How recreated her favourite looks of Spring/Summer 2000 from sweet papers, cupcake wrappers and doilies,...
Nick Knight, Simon Foxton, Bea Sweet, Lou Stoppard and Younji Ku
Jul 27 2012
Nick Knight's ground-breaking 2012 fashion film 'Studs', pushes gender boundaries. As defined by one of the subjects of the film, a 'stud' is 'a mascul...
Penny Martin and Jason Evans
Stormtrooper In Drag
Nov 5 2001
This is not a love song: Jason Evans dressed up in a combination of Stormtrooper and polka-dot Comme des Garçons to test the parameters of identity and...
Nick Knight, Peter Saville, Mariacarla Boscono, Gideon Ponte, Francesca Burns, Alana Zimmer, Raquel Couceiro and Lou Stoppard
Soft Furnishings
Apr 20 2009
As backdrop to an editorial story for July 2009 Wallpaper* magazine, Peter Saville's febrile imagination constructs an imaginary 'Erotic House' of Pop ...
Simon Foxton and Nick Griffiths
May 1 2007
&Son, the creative consultancy of stylists Simon Foxton and Nick Griffiths, undertook 'Skin' as a way of rethinking traditional motion image advertisin...
Simon Foxton, Penny Martin, Michael Bracewell and Charlotte Cotton
Sittings: Thirty Men
Apr 1 2005
Over April 2005, Simon Foxton styled 30 models as 'living magazine pages', seated in front of a webcam. Via telephone, the 'Sittings' models could take...
Nick Knight
Mar 7 2008
Filmed amidst the nuts-and-bolts of the photographic shoot, Showtime is a sneak preview of Nick Knight's editorial for the April 2008 edition of Britis...
Slow Knights, Edward Quist and Derek Gruen
Apr 4 2013
Musician Derek Gruen (or Del Marquis to Scissor Sisters fans) and director Edward Paul Quist exclusively release the video for 'Shame', a dark track ta...
MC Angel, Girls On Top, DJ Cheekyhalf, Shay D, Rhimes Lecointe, Paula Varjack and AiNA ROXX
Selling Sex: Lyrically Challenged Collective
May 9 2012
As part of the exhibition 'Selling Sex', poet and rapper MC Angel orchestrated a unique performance from SHOWstudio's Bruton Place headquarters. Recrui...
Atsuko Kudo and Simon Walter Hoare
Selling Sex: Atsuko Kudo
May 18 2012
Coinciding with the display of her 'Armour for Prostitutes' in SHOWstudio's 'Selling Sex' exhibition, latex doyenne Atsuko Kudo provides a lesson in dr...
Ruth Hogben and Saloni Lodha
Saloni S/S 13
Feb 15 2013
London-based Indian designer Saloni Lodha commissioned star filmmaker Ruth Hogben to capture her Spring/Summer 2013 collection in a fashion film starri...
Nick Knight and Paul Hunwick
Safer Steps
Feb 9 2001
Why you should 'always give your new leather soles a bit of a rubdown with sandpaper before venturing out for a night on the town'. A cautionary story ...
Nick Knight, Rick Owens and Panos Yiapanis
Rick Owens Portrait
Apr 9 2009
An intimate portrait of Rick Owens in his own words and his own clothing, this filmic diptych explores Nick Knight's monograph of an American fashion l...
Atsuko Kudo, Lou Stoppard, Jon Emmony, Chloe Orefice and Simon Walter Hoare
Restricted Love
Oct 26 2012
Continuing her mission to merge latex-wear with high fashion, Atsuko Kudo took part in the Lingerie London show in aid of the Seven Bar Foundation. To ...
Rei Nadal
Rei, I Don't Exist
Apr 3 2012
Artist Rei Nadal offers a unique take on 'Fashion Fetish' by curating the SHOWstudio Tumblr for a one-week period from 2-8 April 2012 inclusive. Her wo...
Walter and Zoniel
Reflecting The Bright Lights
Jun 28 2011
A unique twenty-first century insight into nineteenth-century photographic methods, artist duo Walter and Zoniel capture portraits of a new generation ...
Nick Knight and Victoria Beckham
Range Rover Evoque Special Edition Featuring Victoria Beckham
Apr 20 2012
Victoria Beckham teams with Land Rover, serving as guest creative designer for a special edition of their latest model, the Range Rover Evoque. Beckham...
Nick Knight, Art School, Lara Johnson-Wheeler, Georgina Evans, Jake Hall, Calum Knight, Mimma Viglezio, Dominic Myatt, Grace Oni Smith, Nathalie Khan, Liam Hess, BBZ, Jazzelle Zanaughtti, Joe Bobowicz, Mykki Blanco, Munroe Bergdorf, Harold Offeh, Lewis G. Burton, Charles Jeffrey, Josephine Jones, Rosa-Johan Uddoh, Larry B, Sinéad O'Dwyer, Fat Tony, Ebun Sodipo, Dani St James, Johanna Londinium, Amelia Abraham, Ana Viktoria, Tom Rasmussen, Liv Wynter, Zooey Gleaves, Mariana Caldeira, Tom Zambaz, Raquel Couceiro, Beth Ditto, Dilara Findikoglu, Younji Ku, Ashish Gupta, Florian Hetz, Myles Hall, Michèle Lamy, Rhea Dillon, Nakhane and Jamie Windust
Apr 24 2018
SHOWstudio's 2018 'Queer' project is an open, interrogative and creative exploration of the term. Celebrating communities that align with contemporary ...
Danielle Neu
Queen of Hell
Jan 14 2014
Artist Danielle Neu takes inspiration from a myriad of references, including the magic of the leather jacket, the fantasy of the female biker, the sexu...
Nick Knight, Kate Moss, Vivienne Westwood, Gareth Pugh, Ruth Hogben, Liberty Ross, Stephen Jones, Henry Holland, Sam McKnight, Val Garland, Marie Schuller, Carri Munden, Tremaine Emory, Daryoush Haj-Najafi, Hilary Alexander, Sam Gainsbury, Giles Deacon, Giles, Lou Stoppard, Shayne Oliver, Roksanda Ilincic, Claire Barrow, Katy England, Chris Sutton, Caryn Franklin, Mandi Lennard, Nasir Mazhar, Matthew Williams, Stavros Karelis, Anna Trevelyan, Bella Freud, Philip Treacy, Virgil Abloh, Bobby Gillespie, Lulu Kennedy, Charlotte Stockdale, Maarten van der Horst, Michèle Lamy, David Hellqvist, Soki Mak, Anders Christian Madsen, Tilly Macalister-Smith, Agi&Sam, Craig Green, Sue Webster, Tim Noble, Brix Smith-Start, Frances Corner, Marion Hume, Princess Julia, Richard Mortimer, Helen Bullock, Ellie Grace Cumming, Matthew Williamson, Peter Pilotto, Pam Hogg, Kate Phelan, Juliette Larthe, Alister Mackie, Kathryn Ferguson, Dal Chodha, Colin McDowell, Rick Owens, Mary Katrantzou, Charlie Le Mindu, Sarah Piantadosi, Shaun Leane, Simon Costin, Susanna Lau, Lily Allen, Alek Wek, Rag & Bone, Joseph Altuzarra, David Sims, Erin O'Connor, Tim Blanks, Anna Dello Russo, Steven Klein, Andreas Kronthaler and Marios Schwab
Proud To Protest
Feb 10 2014
SHOWstudio and Gareth Pugh join Amnesty International in their fight against the prejudice and violence directed towards Russia's LGBTI community. Nick...
Nick Knight, Alexander McQueen, Ruth Hogben and Raquel Zimmermann
Plato's Atlantis
Oct 6 2009
Under the direction of Nick Knight and with support from IMG, SHOWstudio streamed Alexander McQueen's Spring/Summer 2010 presentation, 'Plato's Atlanti...
Nick Knight, Jane How and Lone Sigurdsson
Feb 9 2001
A unique interpretation of the Spring/Summer 2000 collections, Lone Sigurdsson worked with stylist Jane How to create plasticine replicas of the season...
Nick Knight, Lily Donaldson, Sophia Neophitou-Apostolou, Laura Dominique, Eamonn Hughes, Ming Xi, Andrew Tomlinson, Jourdan Dunn, Sui He, Cindy Bruna, Devon Windsor, Behati Prinsloo, Lais Ribeiro, Barbara Fiahlo, Jon Emmony, Liam Bendell, Britt Lloyd, Lily Aldridge, Candice Swanepoel, Joan Smalls and Tom Wandrag
Oct 16 2014
Nick Knight teams with Sophia Neophitou, editor-in-chief of 10 magazine and one of the masterminds behind the infamous Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, ...
Philip Treacy
Philip Treacy's Feather Salad
Mar 25 2010
On 25 March 2010, internationally acclaimed milliner and accessory designer Philip Treacy took up residence in the LiveStudio space for one day only. T...
Richard Mortimer and Sophie MacCorquodale
Paint It Pink
Sep 23 2015
Since 2008, Sink the Pink has been redefining East London's club scene with its loose attitudes towards gender, sexuality and ultimately, life. In the ...
Nick Knight, Katy England and Alice Rawsthorn
One In Ten
Nov 17 2000
If breast cancer affects one-in-ten women, why is it invisible in fashion photography? Nick Knight and stylist Katy England redressed the balance in a ...
Nick Knight, Matthew Williams, Paul Hetherington, ALYX, NOLIFE and Raquel Couceiro
Natural Order: Alyx A/W 16
Feb 27 2017
For the presentation of Alyx's A/W 16 collection, Nick Knight and Matthew Williams explore the chaos inherent in nature. Model Stella Lucia appears bot...
Nick Knight, Ruth Hogben and Natalia Vodianova
Natalia V
Feb 27 2008
In tandem with his shoot for supermodel Natalia V's guest-edited issue of Russian Vogue, Nick Knight captured this fashion film featuring the world-fam...
Alice Hawkins
Museum of Costume
Oct 26 2011
Created to accompany the Antwerp Fashion Museum's 2011 exhibition 'Dreamsuits: Designs by Nudie Cohn, the Rodeo Tailor', photographer and filmmaker Ali...
Henry Holland, Bill Waters, Stu Sibley, Mark George, Neal Bryant, Tim Lofts, Ben Perry, Lize Moran, Tristram Edwards, Martin Southworth, Russ Shaw and Clive Booth
Moving Portraits
Feb 13 2014
Clive Booth's 'Moving Portraits' aims to provide a new insight into well-known fashion figures through intimate filmic portraits, created using experim...
Nick Knight, Kate Moss, John Galliano, Gareth Pugh, Stephen Jones, !WOWOW!, Val Garland, Simon Foxton, Sam McKnight, David Bailey, Willy Vanderperre, Toyin, Tom Hingston, Steven Klein, Stella Tennant, Stella McCartney, Sølve Sundsbø, Shona Heath, Peter Lindbergh, Patrick Demarchelier, Liz Collins, Linda Evangelista, Lily Cole, Katy England, Katie Grand, Karen Elson, Julien D'Ys, Jonathan Kaye, Jason Evans, Hiromix, Glen Luchford, Gemma Ward, Francesca Burns, Fabien Baron, Emma Reeves, Eamonn Hughes, Christian Louboutin, Alister Mackie, Alice Hawkins, Kate Phelan, Tim Walker, Bay Garnett and Marian Newman
Moving Fashion
Sep 29 2005
The printed page has determined the way fashion looks since women's magazines were first introduced. Nick Knight's key motivation for founding SHOWstud...
Nick Knight, Matthew Williams, Paul Hetherington, Juliette Larthe, Tom Guinness, Jeppe and ALYX
Mother: Alyx A/W 15
Sep 1 2015
To celebrate the launch of his womenswear label, Alyx, Matthew Williams asked long-time collaborator Nick Knight to create a fashion film. Shot both on...
Nick Knight
More Beautiful Women
Jun 13 2002
An homage to Andy Warhol's screen tests, 'More Beautiful Women' evolved from Nick Knight's commission to photograph the most famous models of the twent...
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15 Fantastic Organized Spaces
Beautifully organized spaces are very inspirational for me. Often, I think, if I only had more space, but these rooms make it clear that space is not the issue. In fact, we know that it's more environmentally-friendly to live small; you just need to know the secrets to making a small space work. Creative solutions, lovely placement, and only having what you use and love make a room clean and simple.
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1 A small organized bedroom keeps a child's room clean and simple.
2 I'm a sucker for an organized office and with its neutral palate, this one makes it look easy.
3 Taking advantage of the bright yarn and other craft supplies this great room makes the storage art.
4 We know you've seen it, but organizing your books by color is such a great way to make a statement.
5 A strong color carried throughout the room makes this living area look organized even with many things in the space.
6 How clever! I love this closet turned into a kid's office.
7 Even with open shelving, this kitchen still looks simple and organized.
8 Two desks in a small space don't look cramped because of large graphic elements that draw your eye away from any potential mess.
9 Make it colorful! Showcasing lovely fabrics on hoops this craft room makes you want to work.
10 Wood tones on this bookshelf anchor the area and make everything else look in place.
11 Sophisticated storage. It's open and there's a lot on those shelves but it looks great.
12 All white makes this desk with a lot going on look like a calm space.
13 The closer you look the more great ideas you'll find in this cute space.
14 I think we all dream of a garage that looks like this.
15 Thoughtful groupings in this living and dining room make a lot of stuff practically disappear.
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I'm annoyed right now at the Queensland Governments policy of enforcing speed limits. They are currently trialing digital cameras with no margin of error.
This means that you will no longer be booked at 67Km p/h on Queensland roads in a 60 zone, you will be booked at 61Km p/h.
I'm not looking for an excuse to speed. As a sensible driver over the last 15 years I have had not one speeding ticket. I am, shall we call it, a "sedate" driver. I take driving very calmly and see driving as a journey, not a destination.
I really enjoy it. Continue reading "Why I will be driving at 95 kmph in 100 kmph zones on Queensland roads" »


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There are still plenty of places left on exciting full-time courses starting this September that could change your life. You'll receive great one to one advice and see first-hand what we can offer at this session.
This event at Lower Mounts is only for students interested in Hairdressing, Beauty Therapy courses or Accounting. Only the person interested in studying here should register for a ticket.


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Gamification of Online Communities for Beginners
Nothing is worth doing unless it's fun. At least that's what I like to tell myself.
How do we make online communities fun? By introducing gaming mechanics for each activity a community members performs. They're already baked into today's online community platforms but may not be that obvious to you. They come in the form of points, status ranks, badges, progress bars, virtual currency and leader boards.
By making things competitive, you encourage members to engage in the desired behaviors and goals of your online community that would otherwise seem dull and unfulfilling.
Which gaming mechanics have you deployed on your community? Did you see an instant uptick in user-generated content and activities?


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The Wisconsin State Fair is 11 days of entertainment and activities for all ages. The summer festival will have music and comedy shows including Jeff Dunham (Thursday), The Band Perry (Aug. 6), Barenaked Ladies (Aug. 10) and Victoria Justice (Aug. 9); cream puffs (the pastry treat has been a part of the fair since it began in 1924); a live shark exhibit; amusement rides; and the National Clydesdale Show (the Budweiser Clydesdales will not be in attendance).
Why go: There's no place we can think of where you can have a variety of food-on-a-stick, and then go to a gadget and gizmo expo.
Reconsider: Attending the fair would limit your cheesehead jokes.
Details: Thursday through Aug. 12 at Wisconsin State Fair Park, 640 S. 84th St., West Allis, Wis.; $9, $6 for seniors, $5 for ages 6-11; 800-884-3247, best11daysofsummer.com


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The application must be made by the committee or board with responsibility for the management of the community premises.
A community premises include a church hall, chapel hall, village hall, parish hall, community hall or other similar building.
The management committee will be responsible for all alcohol sales under the licence.
The Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) website gives a summary explanation of the Licensing Act 2003.
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Applications must be made on the prescribed form.
In the application form you must set out:
how the premises is managed
your committee structure
how the supervision of alcohol sales is to be ensured
You must send us copies of any constitution or other management documents with the application and include names of key officers e.g. the chair, secretary and treasurer.
If you already hold a licence, your application must be accompanied by the required fee of £23 and your original premises licence. If you are applying for a new premises licence or a full variation to your existing premises licence, there is no additional fee for applying to disapply the DPS.
Only the Police can object to an application to disapply the DPS on the grounds of crime and disorder. Comments from the police must be made within 28 days of the application being submitted to us.
If the police issue a notice seeking the refusal of the application, we must hold a hearing in order to reach a decision on whether to grant the application.
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Disney California Adventure Park
Grizzly Peak
Kids, Tweens, Teens, Adults
Small Drops, Thrill Rides, Water Rides, Spinning
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A thrilling whitewater raft adventure that takes you roaring down a California river in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Buckle up for an exciting free-floating river ride up, down and through Grizzly Peak. The Grizzly River Rafting Company has converted a former mining operation into a one-stop destination for thrill-seeking rafters—and you're invited to join in the excitement.
Meander along a tranquil path brimming with towering pine trees and pass a series of age-old cliffs that reveal the fossilized remains of some of California's Ice Age inhabitants. In the distance, a massive muzzle and snout that is the mountain's summit comes into view: Grizzly Peak. Proceed over a rocky bridge flanked by a rushing waterfall and make your way inside a timber structure—the debarkation point for your wild river ride.
Adventure Awaits!
Hop inside a circular 8-person raft and drift along a lazy river, passing the rusty remnants of an old mining company. Rumble along a 275-foot-long conveyor belt as you begin your gradual ascent up the mountain, taking in scenic views of the surrounding area. At the top, splash down amid a foaming spring and then brace yourself for a treacherous descent down Grizzly River.
Bob up and down and gently spin almost out of control amid the raging current. Sail through a craggy mountain cavern and weave back and forth inside a howling mine shaft, as waves curl up and over the side of the raft. Forge ahead through a wooden sluice channel built by miners a century ago, and be engulfed by a massive water eruption as you plummet down what seems like a perilous bedrock slope. Ease your way back to base camp, but not before navigating waters overrun with gushing geysers.
Do you have what it takes to brave the mountain?
The grizzly bear was the symbol of a land filled with mountain summits, giant trees and thundering waterfalls. According to early folklore, Grizzly Peak was once a giant bear named Oo-soo'-ma-te, whom A-ha-le the Coyote transformed into stone to watch over and protect the mountain.
Amid the raging water of the Grizzly River and the howling wind shooting through the rocky caves, the great bear's spirit can reportedly still be heard roaring at those who dare to intrude upon the sacred mountain. Consider yourself warned.
You will surely get splashed on this attraction—and you may even get soaked. Grizzly River Run is a whitewater rapids attraction that features gurgling geysers, jetting water and a splashdown. Guests wishing to experience this attraction but remain dry for the remainder of the day are encouraged to bring a waterproof poncho, an extra pair of clothes or a towel to dry off. Souvenir rain ponchos are available for sale at the adjacent Rushin' River Outfitters shop.
Lockers are located next to the 20-foot tall grizzly bear statue that marks the entrance to Grizzly River Run. Be sure to store electronics or items that might be damaged by water. The lockers are available at no charge for the first 2 hours.


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The Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) is an expansion of NAFTA to five Central American nations (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica and Nicaragua), and the Dominican Republic. It was signed May 28, 2004, and passed through the U.S. House of Representatives by one vote in the middle of the night by the U.S. Congress on July 27, 2005. Visit our CAFTA Damage Report to see Public Citizen's analysis of some of the most unfortunate "Yes" votes that helped pass CAFTA.
CAFTA is based on the same failed neoliberal NAFTA model, which has displaced family farmers in trade partner countries, exacerbated the "race to the bottom" in labor and environmental standards and promoted privatization and deregulation of key public services.
CAFTA proponents promised that the deal would bring prosperity to Central America, causing violence and immigration to the United States to decline. The opposite has happened. Central America is facing unprecedented levels of gang and drug-related violence, and immigration from Central America to the United States has surged. Evidence suggests that CAFTA itself has contributed to the economic instability, feeding the region's increase in violence and forced migration.
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Sonalksis Unleashes FreeG Utility Plug-In - For Free!
Sonalksis has announced FreeG a free plug-in that can be used for a variety of applications to increase the control and flexibility of the signal flow in the insert chain of the host. FreeG was developed after Sonalksis solicited feedback from their professional recording and production customers about what features were missing in their working environments. Once obtained, the company got to work.
To make the workflow and the overview of the signal processing easier, FreeG provides extensive, customizable metering features and settings that is "not just a meter, more than a fader."
- The meter displays a current indication of signal level. The main display is a classic Peak-type level meter, which follows the signal in accordance with the metering type selected on the Preferences panel. The superposed red bar displays the current instantaneous signal RMS.
- Selecting 'Pre' switches the fader to display the pre-fader, pre-pan, pretrim input signal.
- The fader is the main plug-in control, and allows you to adjust the level of the incoming signal.
- PEAK: This box, and the red arrows on the meter, displays the current highest peak value recorded (using the metering law configured on the Preferences panel). Click boxes to reset.
- RMS: This box, and the yellow arrows on the meter, displays the current highest instantaneous RMS value recorded. Click the boxes to reset.
- The Trim dial provides a course input level adjustment. The Trim range can be configured using the preferences panel.
- The Pan dial allows a stereo signal to be panned to the left or to the right. The Pan law is configured using the preferences panel.
- The Flip Phase button inverts the phase of the signal, for mixing applications.
- The Bypass button provides a soft-bypass for the plug-in.
- The Mute button will mute the signal.
- Fine mode allows for an alternate method of fine-calibration of the fader. When the fader is set approximately, pressing 'Fine' will 'zoom in' on the fader, and offer a linear-law fader, which you can adjust with greater accuracy. The range of the Fine scale can be configured in the Preferences panel.


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BiologyStags and hinds tend to stay in separate groups for most of the year (1); stags group into unrelated 'bachelor herds', and hinds live in groups consisting of a dominant female and her daughters (1). They are active throughout the 24-hour period, but tend to be more so in the evening and at night, possibly due to human activity (4). The diet consists of shrub and tree browse (4), grasses, sedges and rushes (1), as well as heather (4). Mating occurs between late September and November (1), during this time, known as 'the rut', mature stags invest much time and effort into competing with other males for access to females at traditional rutting areas (1). Roaring contests and parallel walking allow males to 'size each other up' without violence; evenly matched stags may then escalate the contest and lock antlers, push each other and try to throw their opponent off-balance by twisting, sometimes leading to serious injuries and even death (5). After the rutting period, males and females go their separate ways. Births, usually of a single young (3), occur from late May and peak towards the beginning of June (4). Male offspring disperse when they reach one or two years of age, but female calves usually stay with their mother (4).


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Skip to comments.Bellevue group wants Bloomberg investigated by NYAG
Posted on 06/25/2013 6:33:04 AM PDT by marktwain
Following weekend revelations that New York Mayor Michael Bloombergs Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) website is registered to a New York City government server and apparently administered by city employees, a Bellevue-based gun rights group wants New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to investigate.
CBS News, Politico and others learned about the MAIG website registration and Monday morning, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms called on Schneiderman to determine whether any laws have been broken. Gottlieb told Examiner that using taxpayer-owned computer servers to host a website for a politically-motivated gun control group is pretty tacky.
In a press release, Gottlieb observed, On top of everything else that has been revealed in recent days about Bloombergs MAIG group padding lists of so-called gun victims with the names of criminals and a terrorist bombing suspect, this new discovery is an outrage that demands a criminal investigation.
He was alluding to MAIGs inclusion last week of the names of dead murder and terrorism suspects, including alleged Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, to a list of gun crime victims that is being read during a 25-state, 100-day bus tour launched by the group. MAIG has apologized, but not before having to wipe political egg from its face.
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If these allegations are true, Bloomberg is guilty of misuse of public funds, abuse of public authority and probably a few other charges as well, but I am not familiar with New York law.
any NYAG of the current state regime is not going to investigate an anti gun mayor of NYC. they have a just as big an anti gunner for Governor of NY State. and especially as the NYAG, Eric Schneiderman, is an elected liberal Dhimmicrat.
Who was the last billionaire that went to jail? Buehler? Buehler?
Headline caused a double take. Bellevue is the large psychiatric hospital in NYC. "Bellevue" has become the vernacular for a 72 hour psych hold..
That would be appropriate, too.
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Features of the Clinton Select Series Adjustable One-Sided Staircase:
1. 1.5" diameter stainless steel handrails with end bumpers.
2. Fast easy height adjustments with self indexing spring action plungers and numbered height indicator strips (no holes to line up or count).
3. Second knob removes any side-to-side play for a rigid upright.
4. Hardwood plywood base with durable, UV satin, topcoat finish.
5. Assembled with steel fasteners (No glued wood dowels).
6. All edges are banded with tough, Slate Gray, PVC edge material.
7. 2 full width safety treads on each step.
8. Available in 30" and 36" widths.
9. 450 lbs. weight limit (both models).
10. Reinforced bariatric load capacities.
This product is non-returnable.
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