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For those of you who have been following my blog for a while now will know I studied in Leuven, Belgium for my third year of University. I moved back to Edinburgh in September 2016 and whilst deciding where to study my masters degree, I came across the POLITICO EU Studies fair set to commence in Brussels in February 2017. Of course, I couldn't miss out on an opportunity to visit Belgium again, so last month, I combined a trip to catch up with friends in Leuven and attend the EU Studies fair in Brussels.
|Martelarenplein, Leuven
On Thursday the 9th of February, I flew to Brussels and as soon as I arrived in Leuven, I checked into my airbnb on Mechelsestraat. The street is one of my favourites in Leuven and I was really excited to stay there as it's located right in the city centre. I met my friend, Pablo, and we had dinner at his place with some other friends, then headed out to the Capital bar and a variety of the clubs/pubs in Oude Markt that evening.
|Grote Markt, Leuven
Throughout documenting my year abroad in Leuven, I received a lot of emails from students who had more questions about the city. Sandra, a law student from Vienna, emailed me about the accommodation I was staying in and we kept in touch. As I decided to visit Leuven, she very kindly took me out for lunch. We went to Notre Dame Quasimodo on Naamsestraat, then we took a detour through Mechelsestraat and the Klein Begijnhof before ending up at the Vaartkom area of Leuven (where Waterview - my old residence, and Sandra's new residence is based). Sandra was really lovely and we agreed to stay in touch in the future.
|Vaartkom, Leuven
As I parted ways with Sandra, I met Loïc, a close Belgian friend at my old local cafe, Opek, for a drink. Afterwards, I met some friends on the Oude Markt for a drink and we went back to Pablo's place to cook the haggis I brought over from Scotland..
As I was a bit restricted on what I could take with me in my hand luggage to Belgium, I could only take tinned haggis, which we opted to fry. Although the texture was completely off... I think it went down as a success, which was a surprise, as it's always a bit awkward explaining the contents of haggis (google if you are unfamiliar!). We went to another friend's place for pre-drinks later that evening then attended the International Party in Fuifzaal Albatros. Throughout my year in Leuven, I never really liked Albatros as a club venue and only ended up staying for a couple of hours. As expected, the Erasmus Student Network (ESN) society had changed its board members from when I lived in Leuven, and although the city seemed exactly as I left it, the organised international party vibe didn't quite feel the same for me...
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On Saturday morning, I got on a train from Leuven to Brussels North to attend the POLITICO EU studies fair. During the day, they hosted an exhibition with stalls from various European Universities in the Crowne Plaza le Palace. They also had bookable appointments with a careers/CV adviser and although I didn't use this service, it seemed very informative and it was fully booked when I attended.
I spoke to representatives from the University of Kent, Vesalius University Brussels, Sciences Po Paris, IBEI Barcelona and Universiteit Leiden. I received a lot of useful advice about the application process and about the course programmes. I also found out more about courses in British institutions I didn't realise existed. I have managed to rule out quite a few Universities since visiting the fair, but I'm still not 100% sure of my subject direction (purely a personal matter, I found the EU studies fair exceptionally helpful otherwise!).
To find out which exhibitors were present and for more information about the POLITICO EU Studies fair, click HERE.
|Grand Place, Brussels
After the studies fair, Pablo and I walked to the Grand Place for a look around and I was reunited with my favourite Belgian dish, vol au vent, in Le Roy D'Espagne.
|Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert, Brussels
Afterwards, we took a walk through the Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert, to the Mont Des Arts and headed back to Leuven later that afternoon. Brussels is definitely my happy place in the world and I'll always be taken aback by its beauty no matter how many times I visit.
|Mont des Arts, Brussels
Back in Leuven, we went to a friend's place for pre-drinks and headed onto the Oude Markt for my final night in Leuven. The night consisted of a lot of drinking (despite feeling very fragile after a 3 day binge!) and partying until 7am, where we expected to finish the night in the Seven Oaks, but stumbled into a slightly bizarre techno rave in Rumba instead.
|Waterview Residence, Leuven
On my final day in Leuven, I decided to go to my old residence to visit some of my ex-flatmates. When I arrived, my Brazilian flatmate, Plinio, introduced me to some residents who I had been in contact with through my blog. The residence is exactly as I left it and I'm glad my old unit is more sociable and interactive this year, I spotted a few games tables and a sofa which wasn't there when I moved out!
After a lovely catch up at Waterview, I headed to meet Pablo again for a final farewell and burger at Ellis on Muntstraat before heading back to Edinburgh via Zaventem airport.
|Grote Markt, Leuven
I arrived back in Edinburgh late Sunday evening absolutely exhausted from a hectic, but enjoyable, weekend in Belgium. I miss living in Belgium and often think about the good times I had, especially in Leuven. I will definitely continue visiting and hopefully I will be able to pursue further studies/employment there one day as the country will always have a special place in my heart.


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People who work against gun violence get many love letters from gun advocates."You Are a bunch of useful [sic] idiots. If this once great nation succumbs to your propaganda you will see mass murder on a scale you can't imagine. God have mercy on your souls," said one we recently received. "Your [sic] not a ducking victim, your [sic] a survivor……and your [sic] all idiots….. Go shoot yourselves," said a second well wisher.
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For this card I decided to use a new Embossing Folder. I bought it the second it was introduced, but then I never used it! Crazy me! Its so cute. The folder is part of a set of two folders that make little embossed frames. The set of "Designer Frames" Embossing folders is nicely priced at $8.95 for the pair. This card uses the oval, and there is also a rectangle frame. Since I was in an embossing mood, I also broke out my much used Framed Tulips Embossing folder. To make the texture of these folders really stand out, I used a sponge to antique the raised portions of the images, with Early Espresso ink. Next I stamped a butterfly from the Kindness Matters set onto a piece of First Edition Designer Series Paper. I love the look of the newsprint on my projects so you'll see this paper a lot! I punched out the image with the Extra-Large Oval punch, which is made to co-ordinate with this embossing frame. One of the great things about Stampin' Up! is the co-ordination of the products! I love that! I colored the butterfly in with Pretty in Pink, then added highlights with Perfect Plumb.
I then took my sponge and added some ink around the edges of the oval. I wanted the butterfly to be a little shimmery, without too much glitter, so I grabbed the Smooch Pearlized Accent Ink in "Illuminate Top Coat. This is a product that I've just recently started using. Its great because it adds a shimmer, but no bulk of glitter, and no mess of glitter. And sometimes glitter is too much. I love glitter, but this product is a great addition that I didn't think I needed, but now that I have it, I love it. And, is easy to apply, like nail polish! I painted it onto the butterfly image. Done!
I them put all my pieces together. I added some Pretty in Pink 1 1/4 inch striped ribbon, gathered at the top with an Antique Brad. I attached my ribbon to a piece of Chocolate Chip Paper with distressed edges. I used a glue dot, or three, to attach my framed butterfly to the ribbon and Chocolate Chip paper, and put it all on my Crumb Cake base layer.


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Group Exchange: 2nd Tamworth Textile Triennial - Art Collector
| Courtesy: Glasshouse Regional Gallery, Port Macquarie
|This exhibition follows a rich cultural heritage in the promotion of textile practice and excellence in Australia. It celebrates a rich historical lineage that dates back to 1975.
The Tamworth Regional Gallery and Tamworth Regional Council have developed this key textile exhibition which continues to gain regional and national significance and is attracting international interest.
Twenty-two artists from around Australia have explored themes around collaboration, interdisciplinary relationships and the cross pollination of ideas.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts; its arts funding and advisory body.
This exhibition has been assisted by the Tamworth Regional Council, the NSW Government through Arts NSW and developed by Tamworth Regional Gallery.
|Exhibition opens: 2 September 2016
|Exhibition closes: 23 October 2016
|Location: Glasshouse Regional Gallery, 32-42 Clarence St, Port Macquarie NSW 2444
|Contact: 02 6581 8888
|Website: http://www.glasshouse.org.au
|About Glasshouse Regional Gallery
|The Glasshouse Regional Gallery presents around 20 to 25 diverse exhibitions each year featuring contemporary, indigenous, historical, traditional, design and sculptural artworks as well as a number of prominent social history exhibitions. Exhibitions are programmed approximately two to three years in advance and target three distinct focus areas:
* Glasshouse Regional Gallery Exhibitions featuring the Port Macquarie-Hastings Council Art Collection
* Community access exhibitions featuring local artists and cultural organisations; and
* Touring exhibitions presented in partnership with significant Australian arts and cultural organisations.


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Yeah, but only the legal kind. I have a cold and I went to CVS to get some over the counter cold medicine. And the little shits who cook up meth these days have made it really inconvinient for me to get my fix. It's behind the counter, you have to show ID, you have to sign something saying you won't make illegal drugs with it. Dude, I just want my nose to stop running and being stuffy.
I got paid today--wasn't much since last week was a shorter week, but it's something. It's enough that I may go out and buy a new bookcase tomorrow-there were some on sale at Office Max.
I talked to an old friend Clayton last night. He may be getting engaged soon. He's definitely thinking about it. I'm happy for him. He's been dating this chick on and off for the last three and a half years. And even better, she reminds him of me--so she has to be a cool chick :) I've known him for nine years now. ..... Yeah. But I still better not be Aunt Jamie for a while, he's got to finish his PhD.
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Author: Donna Cooner
Publisher: Point
Pub. Date: August 26, 2014
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Donna Cooner establishes herself as our own Jodi Picoult in this timely tale of sisters, loss, and redemption.
Torrey Grey is famous. At least, on the internet. Thousands of people watch her popular videos on fashion and beauty. But when Torrey's sister is killed in an accident -- maybe because of Torrey and her videos -- Torrey's perfect world implodes.
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Sammy Hagar, Michael Anthony reflect on 25th Anniversary of the chart-topping album, Hagar's first with Van Halen after the departure of David Lee Roth.
By Peter Lindblad
Somebody had to go, and it wasn't going to be Eddie Van Halen. Not with his brother, Alex, on his side and the very name of the band at stake.Whether he left Van Halen of his own volition or was kicked to the curb by the two siblings, David Lee Roth found himself on his own in April of 1985, ready to eat them or anybody else and smile that 1,000-watt smile to the world. However, the future of Van Halen, this hard-partying, hard-rocking juggernaut from California that had vaulted up the pop charts, was in doubt - that is until Eddie made friends with fellow sports car lover Sammy Hagar while his Lamborghini was in the shop. But, at first, Hagar was apprehensive about joining Van Halen.
"My first reaction was, 'I don't want to be in that f**king band,' because Dave's image kind of overshadowed the band. It really did," said Hagar. "The general public, they heard the music on the radio, but me, I was in the industry. And I heard all the tales, and I would go into a building, the same arena where they had just played, and you hear all the horror stories, and I always thought, 'I don't want to be in no f**king band like that.' And so, I said, 'Well, I'll go down and check 'em out.' It's pretty much in the book [Hagar's best-seller "Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock"] about all this, but I thought I would check 'em out and maybe get Eddie to play on one of my records - not to be in the band or nothing, but I thought he was a really talented guitar player, and you know, I'm going to do a new record. I'll get him to play on the record, you know. And I went down and jammed with Ed, Al and Mike, and I went, 'Holy shit. This is f**king good.' And they went, 'Holy shit. This guy can sing.' And it was just magic from that moment on."
Hagar's arrival signaled a change in direction for Van Halen. More emphasis was placed on Eddie's shiny new toy, the synthesizer, and Hagar's sincerity as a songwriter starkly contrasted the "wink, wink, nudge, nudge" sarcasm and unabashed hedonism boasted by Roth's lyrics. It was a marriage that later turned rocky, but in the beginning, the partnership between Hagar and Van Halen would produce the biggest selling album of the band's career, the chart-topping 5150, named after the California police code for a mentally deranged person. 5150 turned 25 years old in 2011, and the switch from Roth to Hagar was as controversial a lineup change as rock music has ever witnessed.
Tensions boil over
1984, and the high-flying videos for "Jump" and "Panama" - not to mention the titillating "Hot for Teacher" schoolboy fantasy, rolling along on Alex's barreling drums, Anthony's howitzer bass, Roth's lascivious clowning and Eddie's hot-wired guitars - that were all over MTV, had made the men of Van Halen giants. Only Michael Jackson, with the indomitable Thriller ruling the charts with an iron fist, was bigger. Onstage, every night was a party to end all parties, the greatest rock and roll show on earth. Eddie's dizzying, thermonuclear guitar fretwork dazzled, while Roth's outrageous showmanship, impossible gymnastics, cheeky humor and hairy-chested machismo made him a golden god.
Behind the scenes, however, during the 1984 tour, jealousy and personality clashes, issues that had dogged the band for years, were tearing Van Halen apart. Eddie could no longer stomach Roth's spotlighting-hogging ego, while Roth was becoming increasingly irritated by Eddie's substance abuse and moonlighting without the band's approval. Furthermore, there were creative differences, Roth becoming more insistent upon moving toward more of a pop-oriented sound, as opposed to Eddie's desire for increased musical complexity. There are two sides to every story, says the old saw, and the backbiting and accusations that have flown back and forth regarding Roth's departure are rivaled only by the litigious slings and arrows of the Mark Zuckerberg-versus-the Winklevoss twins Facebook saga.
Little did bassist Michael Anthony know then that a similar drama would play out when Roth's replacement, Sammy Hagar, was booted from Van Halen in 1996, before Anthony himself, in the mid-2000s, was exiled from the band he'd been in since 1974.
"In the latter days of Van Halen, before I was out of the band, you almost start to lose perspective on why we're doing this in the first place, because Van Halen became a pretty well-oiled machine - touring and everything, and of course, it all becomes big business and whatever," said Anthony. "It almost got to the point where we never got into the studio to really jam, like we do in Chickenfoot [the band he's in now with Hagar, Red Hot Chili Peppers' drummer Chad Smith and guitarist extraordinaire Joe Satriani]."
Chance of a lifetime
Things weren't always that way with what many refer - sarcastically or affectionately - to as the "Van Hagar" years. When Sammy Hagar entered the picture, stepping in for Roth as Van Halen's singer and rhythm guitarist in 1985, his arrival was a breath of fresh air. Introduced by a mechanic, of all people, sports car lovers Hagger and Eddie initially hit it off. But, before this fortunate happenstance, Van Halen had been foundering in its search for a new lead vocalist. As the story goes, Patty Smyth of Scandal was offered the role, but she nixed the idea. Jimmy Barnes was considered, too, but nothing ever came of it. Haggar, as it turned out, was the ideal replacement, even if news of his enlistment wasn't greeted with cheers and toasts from everyone.
For Haggar, joining Van Halen was the chance of a lifetime. Though he'd had solo hits, including the ubiquitous "I Can't Drive 55" in, of all years, 1984, and AOR staples such as "There's Only One Way to Rock," "Three Lock Box" and 1982's "Your Love is Driving Me Crazy," which rose all the way to #13 on the Hot 100 chart, Van Halen was playing in a different league. And after the trials and tribulations the Red Rocker experienced earlier in his career with Montrose, Haggar was grateful for the reception he received in Van Halen.
"Montrose ... Montrose wasn't that much fun," admits Hagar. "You know, we were fun, but we were poor on our ass and we bombed at practically every show we played. (laughs) We got booed ... oh yes. I mean, we headlined Winterland in San Francisco, and we headlined Paris at the Olympia Theater - the only two cities in the world where Montrose was the headline act. The rest of the time, we were an opening act, and we got booed off whenever we opened for anybody. It was like, 'F**k. Why doesn't anyone like us?' (laughs) And then we went on to sell, over the years, four million albums of that first [Montrose] record and we never even made the Top 200. It was never even on the charts. So, you know, that wasn't that much fun (laughs). It was like being in the f**king infantry, on the front lines the whole time, you know (laughs)."
Hagar, though, had his detractors, even though his technical proficiency on guitar - something Roth never had - expanded Van Halen's capabilities, allowing Eddie more opportunities to play synthesizer live. Many of them would continue to deride Hagar long after 5150, Van Halen's first album with Hagar onboard, had fallen off the charts, but Hagar had the last laugh.
"Oh man, joining the band, having the same old thing that always happens with everything I do - the doubting Thomases [that say], 'Aw, this is never going to work. Sammy's a whole different guy. Nobody can replace Roth,'" recalls Hagar.
As the skeptics lined up to express their misgivings, Van Halen went in the studio with Hagar in November 1985 to bang out 5150 in short order. Wasting little time, the band assumed a bunker mentality during the recording sessions, which would quickly yield fruit.
"Just going in there while we were making the 5150 record, we were on fire," remembers Hagar. "You know, we locked everybody out. No one came in but our manager and our engineers and producer, [Foreigner's] Mick Jones, and so forth. And everybody in that room is going 'this is a fight to the f**king world, here's this.'"
For his part, Anthony wasn't quite sure what to make of Hagar when he first showed up to work. This wasn't the laidback California surfer dude and hippie philosopher Anthony had pictured. Any reservations he had, however, were quickly dismissed.
"I know Sammy was ... I think he was just starting to take a long break [just before he joined Van Halen]," says Anthony. "So, he comes walking into the studio and I was sitting in the control room and he came walking in, and here he is, his hair is all shaved off, pretty much. And I said, 'Whoa, that's Sammy Hagar? This ain't the guy we signed on to come play with us.' But yeah, we had a few ideas that were already written that we were kind of working on, before Sammy came in. One of 'em was 'Good Enough' ... I forget what the other one was, but we had a couple of ideas and we started playing, and Sammy just started singing off the top of his head, you know, just listening to this stuff. And there were a lot of lyrics that he actually ended up using in the songs. That's how well it clicked. I still have the cassette tape somewhere at home of that first time. We all had copies, and we were just blown. I mean, as soon as we started playing, as soon as we started playing ... we actually stopped and said, 'We've got a band.' That's how well it clicked. It was great."
What chemistry, what magic - Hagar couldn't believe how fast the record, released 25 years ago in 1986, and the promotion of it, came together. The salacious "Good Enough" was a powerhouse of an album opener, its rhythmic pistons pumping furiously from start to finish, while the triumphant "Best of Both Worlds" happily marched up a mountain of life-affirming riffs. The bruising "Inside," with its roiling guitars sounding as brutal as a gang initiation, was a cocky middle finger pointed straight at Van Halen's critics, and "Summer Nights" nostalgically pined for those humid, sweaty evenings of misspent youth, when smoking joints, drinking beer and fouling around in the backseats of cars was all that mattered.
"5150 was actually recorded pretty quickly, because we had a lot of ideas already and then a lot of stuff, obviously, was written once Sammy entered the thing, but I think the band was on such a high at that point," said Anthony. "I mean, we were firing on 16 cylinders at that point, because it was new and fresh and Sammy really brought his own thing into the band full-on. Here was a guy who could vocally sing anything that Ed was coming up with, and he could play guitar. So from that standpoint, he could make suggestions musically and melodically there, and he could also pick up a guitar and jam with us in the studio, too. And I can't remember, but I think ... I can't say for sure, but it seemed like we did that album pretty quick - a month, a couple months."
A pristine palace of sonic grandeur, with its sparkling production, 5150 - that cocoa-buttered muscle man down on one knee holding up the world on the cover indicative of the band's ambition and the pressure they were under - wasn't your typical Van Halen record. For one thing, it had soaring ballads, earnest love songs like "Dreams," "Why Can't This Be Love" and "Love Walks In" that contained nary a hint of Roth's prurient penchant for sly sexual innuendo and bawdy jokes. Different too was the fact that Eddie's guitars, so prominent in the mix on Van Halen classic hard-rock rumbles like "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love," "Everybody Wants Some," "Running with the Devil," "And the Cradle Will Rock," "Mean Street" and "Unchained," among others, had taken a step back, quite comfortable on equal footing with keyboards, Anthony's big, booming bass and Alex's thundering herd of drums. And then there was the stunning vocal interaction between Anthony and Hagar, a signature feature of Van Halen's sound with Hagar.
"I'll say one thing, after doing backgrounds to David Lee Roth, because his vocal range is a lot lower, all of a sudden, it was like, 'Whoa,'" says Anthony. "I mean, it really pushed me in the beginning, so I was all of a sudden singing in registers that I hadn't really sung in before. Not that I couldn't do it. But I never did it with Van Halen, and it was cool. And I think it really inspired me and the fact that I could sing those parts, I was really digging it. We really kind of took it to another level vocally with the backgrounds we were doing."
While the public waited with bated breath to hear the results of this unusual union, Hagar and company had every reason to be satisfied with what they had produced. And Warner Bros. was thrilled, too. To think, after Roth had left, the record company, nervous about its cash cow, had pushed the band to abandon the Van Halen name, or even change it, officially that is, to Van Hagar. Not only that, but the suits had put their foot down about allowing Van Halen complete control in the studio. Their ace in the hole, producer Ted Templeton, who captured all the vital energy and punishing intensity of Van Halen's live sound on record in the making of Van Halen I and II, and Fair Warning, Women and Children First and Diver Down, was out of the picture, and they weren't about to let the inmates run the asylum. Don Landee, the engineer on previous Van Halen records, initially assumed production duties, and later, Jones was recruited to provide production assistance.
Still, when all was said and done, Warner Bros. figured it had a monster hit on its hands with 5150. And they couldn't wait to cash that lottery ticket. "Warner Bros., they shot us right out there on tour," said Anthony. "We didn't even know what happened. The album wasn't even out yet and boom, they had us out on the road. I guess they were all wanting new summer homes and stuff like that (laughs). But you know, for the first two, three albums that Sammy did, we'd tour and then we came right back in the studio and bam, we were going and then we were right back out on the road before we knew it. It was all happening really fast at the time, but like I said, the band ... we were really on a high right then."
Hagar's head was spinning, as well. "So then we go out and play the first show before the album was out, and the place knocked the f**king barricade down in Shreveport, La., and ripped the stage apart," says Hagar. "We damn near had to stop the show in the middle of it, because it was just ... you know, it's those kinds of things: the energy and enthusiasm and the success. The album goes to No. 1 the third week out, it stays there for three weeks. Everybody had their first No. 1 album. It was just one thing after another; it was just success, success, success."
Swept up in all the swirling madness that used to accompany a No. 1 record, Hagar and Van Halen, nevertheless, relished the spoils of their victory. And the backlash that came from longtime Van Halen fans that pledged their allegiance to Roth and gnashed their teeth over the new sound of the band didn't faze Hagar or the other members. Instead, when the 1986 Tour, so named as a not-so-veiled swipe at the doomed 1984 Tour that caused so much tumult within the band, ended and 5150's meteor had fallen to earth, this new Van Halen went back to work.
There was a concert movie, "Live Without A Net." OU812, 5150's follow-up, arrived two years later, and it contained the hits "When It's Love" and the countrified "Finish What Ya Started," with its light "aw shucks" pop manner and incredibly nimble guitar picking. 1991 saw Van Hagar release For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge - the acronym of which produced a certain F-word Hagar is found of using - and it reunited the band with producer Templeton. Unlike the first two albums, which generally received more positive reviews than scathing rebukes, For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge was savaged by the critics as being unnecessarily fussy and devoid of fun, and it signaled the end of Van Hagar's first run. Then came 1995's Balance, and the tensions that had simmered between Hagar and the Van Halen brothers, who were breaking down physically with Eddie's hip problem and Alex's neck pain, began boiling over. Still, on a commercial level, everything Van Halen and Hagar touched seemed to turn to gold.
When asked what his favorite memories are of the Van Hagar period, Anthony said, "I think one was just seeing every album go to No. 1, and then enter at No. 1 in the charts with Sammy. It's funny because, it isn't until I can really sit back and look at what's happening, or somebody comes up to me, a friend or something, and says, 'Wow! Do you know how big you guys really are?' We never really realized it, because you're working so hard and you're there, and plus, it's great, you're playing for the big crowds and everything, but you don't have time to sit back and think of what happens. I think it would scare the shit out of me if I did. But, you know, we were just having so much fun doing it, there was a time when it was like, you know ... we called ourselves the four-headed monster. There was no stopping us. And I don't know, I just think ... you know, just the way Sammy entering the band just elevated the whole thing, it was like man, it almost seems like a dream now. You know, every now and then, I'll put on 'Live Without a Net' or see something live that I've got that the band did, and the energy that the band had, it was pretty cool. I sit back and kind of ... whoa, we were happening."
What was happening internally was not so pleasant. Hagar and Van Halen reached the point of no return with the recordings for the "Twister" movie soundtrack, which Hagar was dead-set against, and plans for a compilation album, which Hagar also resisted. And so, like Roth, Hagar exited in a storm of controversy, with Hagar saying he was fired and the Van Halen claiming that he quit. Some reports have said that Hagar did, indeed, quit, but it was because Van Halen was recording with Roth again behind his back.
Since then, of course, Van Halen has churned through a series of singers, chewing up and spitting out Gary Cherone before recycling Roth, not once but twice, and Hagar, whose reunion with the band lasted from 2003-2005. In 2011, Hagar put out an explosive tell-all autobiography that detailed, in no uncertain terms, his strained relationship with the Van Halen brothers and his wild times with the band, as well as hitting on other parts of his musical career.
About the book, Sammy says, "I just figured it was time for people to hear my story. I know it kind of sounds stupid, but I wanted to do it while I still remembered it. All this stuff, my memory is still pretty good, real good actually. It just ... I don't know, it was time, you know. I'm one of those guys who don't make decisions unless it just comes to me, and I think, 'Oh, I'm going to do that.' I'm really a knee-jerk f**ker. I'm kind of like an insect. If I'm cold, I move towards heat. If I'm hot, I move towards cold. If I'm hungry, I eat. If I'm tired, I sleep. So, somebody offers me the book ... I've been offered a book a hundred times, for the last 20 years. I even wrote a book already once and never released it. And I just said, 'Yeah, this is right.' I thought the Van Halen stuff ... I was just getting sick of doing interviews and going down the street and on the radio and people, fans, getting me letters saying, 'Why can't you and Eddie get it together? Why don't you give Eddie a call? Why don't you guys go back in the studio? Why can't you go on tour? Why didn't you guys play my town? How come you ...?' And I'm just going, 'F**k. I've got to tell these people why. It ain't me, damn it. It's not me. I'm not the problem here.' I've made 15 records and probably played a thousand shows since the last time they've shown their faces (laughs). It's not me. I really kind of wanted to get that out. And I feel real good about getting it out."
In some respects, despite their differences, Hagar feels bad for what's become of Van Halen, who, as rumor has it, is working on a new record with ... drum roll please: David Lee Roth.
"I think [Eddie] and Al, as much as I love Al, they over-think everything until it ain't no more, it ain't there no more," said Hagar. "By the time they finished going back and forth and back and forth, wake up in the middle of the night, changing their minds, it's pretty soon that that golden light just went to darkness. And it's no longer there. So, they go, 'Aw, f**k it. Yeah, we shouldn't have done it anyway. Yeah, it's probably better. Okay, next.' It's the way they function, and I don't know what their problem is with that, but you know, there's a lot of abuse going on in that in terms of personal stuff and everything else, and I just ... I feel bad for him. I feel bad for the fans ... Van Halen, one of the biggest, greatest bands in history, in rock history ... you know, we hold a lot of titles. And to just not give anything ... God, it's just such a waste. I couldn't live like that. If I was still in that band, and we had these long hiatuses, I would have just quit. I would have retired from music completely, and just said, 'No, I'm not going to wait seven or eight years,' and then say, 'Okay, let's make a record and go tour. Get the f**k out of here.' It's like an athlete, boxers, Muhammed Ali takes two or three years off from the Army thing that came down on him, and he was never the same fighter ever again, you know. And that's the way all athletes are. You know, musicians, rock musicians, are especially like athletes. You've got to keep your art, your hands and your voices, your body, everything, has to stay in that kind of condition - lubed up and ready to go. Otherwise, you lose it, and I'm sorry, but those guys are crazy."
As for Anthony, he and his Jack Daniels bottle-shaped bass began drifting apart from Van Halen after 1996 as well. Though he stayed on for various projects, despite various reports that he was no longer in the band, Anthony's role steadily diminished, until in 2006 Eddie revealed that Van Halen would carry on with his son Wolfgang replacing Anthony on bass. Since then, Hagar and Anthony have grown closer, having worked together on Planet Us with Satriani and others before touring as a member of the Other Half during part of the Sammy Hagar and the Waboritas tour. And now, Chickenfoot is a thriving enterprise, with two hit records to its credit.
"There was a time when Sammy was out of [Van Halen] that we actually lost touch," says Anthony. "We didn't really communicate too much, and obviously, Eddie and Al, that was my band. So, it was politically incorrect for me to have anything to do with Sammy, which I was kind of bummed out about that because Sammy and I became really good friends during the time he was in the band, and I think it was ... God, it had to have been a few years later, when ... I think I remember getting drunk on New Year's Eve, and I was with some friends, and I said, 'You know, I'm going to call Sammy.' And I called him and got his voicemail, and we actually played phone tag a couple of times like that. He called me back and he happened to be in the L.A. area doing something at one point, and he gave me a call and said, 'Hey, why don't you come on down and we'll hang out.' We actually became better friends the second time around than when he was in the band the first time. I think probably because it wasn't ... well, the first time he was kind of thrown into it: 'Here's your new lead singer,' and it started out like that. Whereas the second time, we just hung out, and really didn't even talk about anything musically or anything like that. It was just, 'What's been happening in your life? What are you doing' and we are better friends than we have been."
Looking back on it all, Hagar has no regrets about the time he spent with Van Halen, even with all the eventual hassle that came with it. We had nine incredible years, two horrible years, and then another reunion nine months of horror beyond horror, and you still look back, and the horror is pretty much the most recent things so I can recall things, thinking, 'I'll never play with that guy again. I would never be in the same room with Eddie Van Halen again, sober or anyway,' because anybody who was in as bad a shape as I saw, sober is still going to be crazy," explained Hagar. "So, I'm not going to deal with it. So, looking back, it's still too fresh from that reunion tour, but at the same time, I had some of the greatest times in the history of rock. For nine years, it was the greatest ride on the planet. I mean, I don't think life could be any better than that for any musician or artist. And then it went bad. But, too bad - the last couple of years ... everything written in my book, I put that in there because it was part of the deal. And everyone wrote about it and brought it up, and exploited it. But the truth of the matter is I had nine of the greatest years of my rock and roll life in Van Halen. It was one of the greatest things I'll ever do. And the only thing that rivals any of it is this Chickenfoot thing."


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Corsair shows off its gaming keyboard lineup at PAX Prime 2013
We check out Corsair's keyboard lineup at PAX Prime 2013
By: Trace Hagan | Peripherals News | Posted: Aug 30, 2013 11:21 pm
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PAX PRIME 2013 - While checking out Corsair's new headsets, I checked out the rest of their booth and took a look at their gaming keyboard lineup. Of course, the entire lineup was recorded for your viewing pleasure. You can see the video embedded below:
The top-of-the-line Vengeance K70 keyboard has been expanded into three different models. The first, previously seen, makes use of Cherry MX Red keys. The two new models make use of blue and brown switches, respectively. Furthermore, a feature that I have never before seen was demonstrated. The backlighting will light up the key that you just pushed. The keyboard also retains the ability to individually switch backlighting on and off for each key.
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Elizabeth B. Cole, EdD, CCC-A, LSLS Cert. AVT
Elizabeth B. Cole, EdD, is the director of Soundbridge, a program of the Capitol Region Education Council in Connecticut. Soundbridge is a statewide public school program that provides a wide variety of services to more than 700 children (birth through secondary school) whose parents want their children with hearing loss to use spoken language to communicate and learn.
Dr. Cole first began working with preschoolers with hearing loss in 1973, when the majority of children with hearing loss used body hearing aids with Y-cords and button receivers and were learning through listening and watching. After receiving her masters degree in audiology and doctorate in special education (hearing impairment) in 1980 with Drs. Laura and Richard Kretschmer at the University of Cincinnati, Dr. Cole worked with Dr. Daniel Ling at McGill University for 16 years, during which time powerful hearing aids became miniaturized and behind the ear, and cochlear implants for children became increasingly widespread. She taught courses in acoustic phonetics, language and development, as well as aural habilitation to prospective teachers, speech-language pathologists, and audiologists in the School of Communication Sciences. Dr. Cole has lectured widely on those topics, in addition to serving as an adjunct professor at the University of Hartford and at the University of North Carolina (first years program) before coming to Soundbridge in 1996.
Dr. Cole has credentials and experience as an audiologist, auditory-verbal therapist, teacher of the hearing-impaired, French teacher, reading teacher, educational administrator, and professor. She has published numerous articles, chapters, monographs, and books all related to establishing the conditions (technological, human, and environmental) that will help children with hearing loss learn to listen and talk as a means toward academic and vocational achievement and independence.


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St. Lawrence Cement Company, LLC
May 2, 2001
ANNOUNCEMENT OF PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD and
LEGISLATIVE PUBLIC HEARING and ISSUES CONFERENCE
May 2, 2001
APPLICANT: St. Lawrence Cement Company, LLC, 4303 US Route 9, Hudson, NY 12534 (DEC Application # 4-1040-00011/00001).
TITLE OF ACTION: St. Lawrence Cement Company - Greenport Project
PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The Applicant, St. Lawrence Company LLC, (SLC) has applied to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) for various permits under the Environmental Conservation Law (ECL). SLC's proposed project involves construction and operation of a state-of-the-art, high efficiency, dry process cement manufacturing facility consisting of a raw mill system, kiln feed blending silo, preheater/precalciner tower, rotary kiln, clinker cooler, finish mill system and associated balance-of-plant systems and facilities. The capacity of the facility will be approximately 2.6 million US tons of clinker per year. The primary fuel will be a coal/coke blend. Distillate oil and natural gas will be used for pre-heating and start-up.
The proposed facility will utilize a large multi chamber state of the art baghouse for controlling particulates from the clinker manufacturing process. Staged combustion, a low NOx burner, flame optimization, process optimization, reduced air combustion, and a selective non-catalytic reduction (SNCR) system will be used to reduce and control nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions. Sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions will be controlled by parallel wet/dry scrubber systems. An integrated continuous monitoring and recording system will also be used to monitor emissions. The monitoring data will be used to optimize operation of the facility and minimize emissions. In addition, the manufacturing facility will include: enclosed conveyors (between the quarry, plant and dock site), control facilities, office and maintenance facilities, access roads, parking areas, a new docking facility (for incoming and out going shipments) and a public park.
LOCATION: The St. Lawrence Cement Greenport Project, will be located on property owned by SLC in both the Town of Greenport and the City of Hudson and is generally bounded on the north by the City of Hudson, on the east by Newman Road, on the south by NYS Route 23 and on the west by the Hudson River. The proposed cement manufacturing facility will be physically located within the Life of Mine boundary of an existing 1222 acre quarry located between Newman Road on the east and US Route 9 on the west.
SEQRA STATUS: Pursuant to 6 NYCRR Part 617 of the implementing regulations for Environmental Conservation Law (ECL) Article 8, (State Environmental Quality Review Act - SEQRA), DEC, as lead agency, determined the project may have significant impact on the environment and issued a SEQR Positive Declaration on April 8, 1999 requiring the preparation of a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS). On May 2, 2001 DEC staff accepted the DEIS for the project described above. Potential impacts discussed in the DEIS include air quality, surface and groundwater pollution, noise impacts, dust impacts, visual impacts, impacts on cultural resources, impact on freshwater wetlands, impacts upon aquatic habitat and traffic impacts.
A public scoping comment period was previously provided and a public scoping meeting was held on June 24, 1999 at the Columbia County Office Building in Hudson, NY.
PERMITS: SLC has applied to the DEC for the following permits: a state facility permit for air pollution control (for air emissions from the cement facility), 6 NYCRR Parts 201, et seq. (Air Pollution Control); a state pollutant discharge elimination system permit (to cover process and storm water discharge), 6 NYCRR Parts 750-758 (State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System); an Article 15 Protection of Waters permit and § 401 Water Quality Certification (to expand the dock area on the Hudson River), 6 NYCRR Part 608 (Water Quality Certification, pursuant to § 401 of the Federal Clean Water Act); a mined land reclamation permit modification, (to cover modifications to the mined land use plan, including the increase in the extraction of rock from 2 million metric tons per year to 6 million metric tons per year), 6 NYCRR Parts 420-426 (Mined Land Reclamation); and a freshwater wetlands permit (for building conveyors between the plant and the Hudson River dock) 6 NYCRR Part 663 (Freshwater Wetlands).
In addition, this proposed facility is located within the Hudson River coastal zone and therefore, the lead agency, DEC, must determine whether the project is consistent with the State's coastal zone policies pursuant to Article 42 of the Executive Law and 19 NYCRR Part 600.
TENTATIVE DEC STAFF POSITION: DEC staff has reviewed the applications and determined they are complete pursuant to 6 NYCRR Part 621. Staff has determined that all statutory and regulatory criteria can be met through the imposition of special conditions. A draft SPDES permit and fact sheet and a draft air state facility permit and fact sheet are available for review.
LEGISLATIVE PUBLIC HEARING: Legislative hearing sessions to receive unsworn statements from the public on the applications and the draft permits will be held before Administrative Law Judge Helene Goldberger, on June 20, 2001, beginning at 1:00 P.M. and at 7:00 P.M. at the Columbia-Greene Community College, Gymnasium (located in the Main Building), 4400 NYS Route 23, Greenport, NY. All persons, organizations, corporations, or government agencies which may be affected by the proposed project are invited to attend the hearing and to submit oral or written comments. It is not necessary to file in advance to speak at the legislative hearing. Lengthy statements should be in writing and summarized for oral presentation. Reasonable time limits may be set for each speaker to afford everyone an opportunity to be heard. Equal weight will be given to both oral and written statements. The hearing location is fully accessible to persons with a mobility impairment. Interpreter services shall be made available to deaf persons at no charge upon written request to the ALJ at least 10 days prior to the hearing, pursuant to the State Administrative Procedures Act (SAPA).
WRITTEN COMMENTS: All comments must be filed with the NYS DEC Office of Hearings and Mediation Services, 50 Wolf Road, Albany, NY 12233-1550, Attn: ALJ Helene Goldberger. All written comments must be submitted (postmarked) by no later than June 20, 2001.
ISSUES CONFERENCE: A pre-adjudicatory hearing issues conference will be held on June 21, 2001 at 10:00 A.M. at Columbia-Greene Community College, Student Center (located in the Main Building), 4400 NYS Route 23, Greenport, NY, and will continue on succeeding days as necessary. At the issues conference, the ALJ will determine what issues, if any, require adjudication, and will define the scope of such issues. The purpose of the issues conference will be to define, narrow and resolve, if possible, the issues concerning the permit applications which may be raised. Participation at the issues conference will be limited to the Department staff, the applicant and those persons requesting party status pursuant to 6 NYCRR §§ 624.4 and 624.5 in advance of the issues conference.
IT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT THAT ANY PERSONS REQUESTING PARTY STATUS APPEAR OR BE REPRESENTED AT THE ISSUES CONFERENCE IN ORDER THAT ALL VALID ISSUES MAY BE FULLY DISCUSSED. An adjudicatory hearing will, if necessary, be scheduled following the issues conference. The issues conference may be canceled if no filings for party status are received by the deadline listed below.
FILING FOR PARTY STATUS AND PROPOSED ISSUES: To participate at the issue conference, parties must file a written petition requesting party status including the facts intended for presentation pursuant to 6 NYCRR §§ 624.4(c) and 624.5(b). In addition, any petition must fully identify the proposed party and the name(s) of the person(s) who will act as the party's representative(s), the party's environmental interests, the statutory considerations relevant to the project, whether the request is for full party status or amicus status, and the precise grounds for opposing or supporting the project. Mere opposition to the project is not a sufficient basis to be granted party status.
If seeking full party status, the petitioner must propose issues that could result in permit denial, major modification of the proposed project or the imposition of significant permit conditions. The petition must identify all statutory and regulatory requirements which may not be met, and explain why. If a party intends to rely upon expert testimony, the petition must also include an offer of proof that specifies the witness(es), the nature of the arguments and other documentary evidence that the party intends to present at the hearing, and the grounds upon which the assertions are based regarding the proposed issues.
For amicus status, the filing must identify the nature of the legal or policy issues to be briefed, and provide a statement explaining why the proposed amicus is in a special position with respect to those issues, as required by 6 NYCRR 624.5(b)(3).
Persons having similar interests of concern are encouraged to file as a consolidated party. The hearing provisions can be found at www.dec.state.ny.us, Hearings & Mediation, Guide to Permit Hearings.
All petitions requesting either full party status or amicus status must be received at the DEC Office of Hearings and Mediation Services by 4:00 P.M. on June 13, 2001. Such filings must be submitted to the following: ALJ Helene Goldberger, NYS DEC Office of Hearings and Mediation Services, 50 Wolf Road, Albany, NY 12233-1550, Robert Leslie, Regional Attorney, NYSDEC Region 4, 1150 North Westcott Road, Schenectady, New York 12306, and Robert J. Alessi/Thomas S. West, LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, LLP, One Commerce Plaza, 99 Washington Avenue, Albany, New York 12210-2820. Electronic filings and service by fax will NOT be accepted.
Statutory Provisions: Environmental Conservation Law Article 1 (General Provisions); Article 3, Title 3 (General Functions); Article 8 (Environmental Quality Review); Article 15, Title 5 (Protection of Water); Article 17 (Water Pollution Control); Article 19 (Air Pollution Control); Article 23, Title 27 (Mined Land Reclamation); Article 24 (Freshwater Wetlands) and, Article 70 (Uniform Procedures).
Regulatory Provisions: Title 6 of the Official Compilation of Codes, Rules and Regulations of the State of New York (6 NYCRR) Parts 201, et seq. (Air Pollution Control); Parts 750-758 (State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System); Part 608 (Water Quality Certification, pursuant to § 401 of the Federal Clean Water Act); Parts 420-426 (Mined Land Reclamation); Part 663 (Freshwater Wetlands); Part 617 (State Environmental Quality Review); Part 621 (Uniform Procedures); and Part 624 (Permit Hearing Procedures).
STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION ACT: A cultural resources survey has been completed. Based on the information provided in the survey report, the NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (OPRHP) has determined that the proposed activity will have an impact on registered or eligible archaeological sites or historic structures. DEC must consult further with OPRHP before making a final decision regarding issuance of the permits.
DOCUMENT AVAILABILITY: All filed application materials, the DEIS, the draft SPDES permit, the SPDES fact sheet, the draft Air State Facility permit and the prevention of significant deterioration (PSD) fact sheet will be available for public inspection beginning on Monday, May 7, 2001 at the following locations:
1) NYS DEC Office of Hearings and Mediation Services, 50 Wolf Road, Albany, NY 12233-1550
2) NYS DEC Region 4 Headquarters, 1150 North Westcott Rd., Schenectady, NY 12306. (518) 357-2069
3) St. Lawrence Cement Offices, 4303 US Route 9, Hudson, NY 12534, (518) 828-8478
4) St. Lawrence Cement Offices, 3 Columbia Circle, Albany, NY 12203. (518) 452-3001
5) Town of Greenport, 600 Town Hall Drive, Hudson, NY 12534. Contact: Town Clerk; (518) 828-4656
6) City of Hudson, City Hall, 520 Warren St., Hudson, NY 12534. Contact: City Clerk; (518) 828-1030
7) Hudson Area Library, 400 State Street, Hudson, NY 12534. (518) 828-1792
8) Chatham Public Library, Woodbridge Ave., Chatham, NY 12037. (518) 392-3666
9) Germantown Library, 50 Palatine Park Rd., Germantown, NY 12526. (518) 537-5800
10) Hillsdale Public Library, 2609 Route 23, Hillsdale, NY 12529. (518)325-4101
11) Livingston Free Library, Old Post Road, Livingston, NY 12541. (518) 851-2270
12) Catskill Public Library, 1 Franklin Street, Catskill, NY 12414. (518) 943-4230
13) Kinderhook Memorial Library, 18 Hudson Street, Kinderhook, NY 12106. (518) 758-6192
14) Valatie Free Library, 3203 Church Street, Valatie, NY 12184. (518) 758-9321
15) Claverack Library, 629 Route 23B, Claverack, NY 12513. (518) 851-9120
16) D.R. Evarts Library, 80 2nd Street, Athens, NY 12015. (518) 945-1417
17) Philmont Public Library, 124 Main Street, Philmont, NY 12565. (518) 672-5010
18) Egremont Free Library, 2 Button Ball Lane, Great Barrington, MA 01230. (413) 528-1474
19) Mason Public Library, 231 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA 01230. (413) 528-2403
20) Pittsfield Public Library, 1 Wendell Avenue, Pittsfield, MA 01201. (413) 499-9480
21) Austen Fox Riggs Library, 25 Main Street, Stockbridge, MA 01262. (413) 298-5511
22) West Stockbridge Library, 9 Main Street, West Stockbridge, MA 01266. (413) 232-0308
June 13, 2001......................................Deadline for Filing for Party Status
June 20, 2001......................................Legislative Public Hearing
June 20, 2001......................................Close of Public Comment Period
June 21, 2001......................................Issues Conference
For further information please contact: Michael Higgins, Project Manager, NYSDEC Region 4 Headquarters, 1150 North Westcott Road, Schenectady, NY 12306, (518) 357-2069.
Chief Administrative Law Judge
Albany, New York
May 2, 2001


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The Government has tasked the Department with transforming Australia's visa system to make it easier to understand, easier to navigate and more responsive to our economic, social and security interests.
Australia's visa system has served us well, but it needs modernising to meet the future needs of rising traveller volumes and complex risks at the border.
From 31 July until 15 September, the Department consulted the public on design elements of the new visa system.
The public consultations on visa simplification comprised a broad program of engagement with industry, sectors of the community, international partners, and other interested parties. The Department released a
policy consultation paper to support the public and other stakeholders in developing their response to visa simplification. The paper sought views on:
During the public consultations, the Department received detailed responses from across the community and industry, which have provided valuable input towards the system's design. A
summary of these consultations (216KB PDF) is now available.
Submissions have been published on our website, unless withheld at the submitter's request.
The Department has begun work to enhance the way we deliver visa and citizenship services, using the latest digital technologies to make it more efficient and easier to use for applicants and business.
While our current visa processing arrangements have served us well, we need to improve them to ensure we can manage growing volumes of visa applications and travellers.
This is a long-term program of transformation of Australia's visa system and how it is promoted and delivered around the world. The purpose of this transformation is to pursue the Government's priorities of a strong economy, strong national security and a cohesive and prosperous society.
As a first step, the Department released a market consultation paper –
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My only steady hobby is racing my RC car. It's a blast to drive, but I am pretty terrible at it.
Now that I can keep it off the walls (mostly), I am working on laying down consistent laps. I ham having making and significant improvements because I can only make it out to Mike's one day a week to practice. Couple that with the fact that they're changing the track layout almost weekly and you'll undertand my dilemma: I've basically plateaued.
Since I am not able to make it to the track as often as I'd like, I've decided to try and bring the track to me.
My Christmas toy this year was a Mini-Z Sports. I opted for the Sauber C9 since I am a fan of the Sauber F1 team.
Anyway, the idea behind getting the Mini-Z – besides having another cool toy :) – was to turn laps at home. Sure, it's not 100% like-for-like with my 1:10 F1 car, but they are both essentially pan cars. Here is a lengthy, but thorough description of what a pan car is, for those who are interested.
Long and short, they should drive similarly. Even if not, I would still be refining my hand-eye coordination, as these Mini-Z's are pretty quick and nimble.
Now that I had the car, it was time to focus on making a track for my garage – taking into account these key limitations:
- The end product had to aim for as high of a Wife Acceptance Factor as possible
- Make setup and teardown as quick and simple as possible
- Part of hitting #1, above, is amount of room the solution takes up when put away
- Try to replicate an ozite carpet surface, as closely as possible
- As always, minimize cost
- Finally, I've only got 13′ x 21′ of usable garage space to play with
Options Considered
With that in mind, it was time to focus on the two key items for the track:
- Track surface/material
- Track walls/dividers
Track Surface
Being the obsessive person I am, I spent way too much time reading many accounts of others' experiences with their home tracks. Ultimately, a few front-runners for the track surface emerged.
- RCP: This is far and away the #1 track surface for Mini-Z's in the US (though carpet is the choice in Asia)
- EVA Foam Tiles: EVA Foam is the stuff they make those interlocking tiles for kids playrooms, gyms, etc. from
- Rolled rubber/neoprene/etc
- Canvas
- Tar paper
- Carpet
RCP is popular because it has high levels of grip. It also gets cool points for the Lego-like "snapability", not to mention the rails to keep the cars on the track. RCP is the most professional-looking out of all of these options, hands down.
I passed on RCP for a few reasons, though:
- Cost: Professionalism costs :) A typical RCP setup is to buy two of these "Wide L" setups… at $210 a piece retail. I don't think that includes shipping, either, but I might be wrong. Just seemed wrong to spend ~$500 for a track to drive a $160 car on it.
- Space: One Wide L set would be too simplistic of a track, but I didn't have room to accomodate all of two Wide L's. So, I'd be paying for track that I couldn't use.
- Grip: Having seen these cars in action at Inside Line Racing, I can say they stick to RCP pretty damned well. That doesn't fit with my goal of replicating the medium levels of grip found on the ozite at Mikes.
- Limited layout options: The shape of RCP tiles is pre-defined. A straight is a straight. All curves are 90 degrees (unless you spend $70-140 for one 45 degree turn). This limits your options on track layouts.
On a side note, the owners at Inside Line Racing are super cool peeps. Definitely stop by if you're in the South Bay area, even if it is just to watch some laps.
EVA Foam Tiles
The story on EVA tiles was a mixed bag. You had some people saying that they were nearly identical to RCP and others – who also seemed to be higher-skilled drivers, BTW – saying there was a major difference between the two.
In either case, there was a fair amount of prep work that would need to go into the EVA foam in order to get the mold release agent (read: grease) off of the tiles before you could run on them.
EVA didn't make the cut because:
- Cost: Looking around many places on the Internet, the best deal I could find for EVA tiles was in the ballpark of $0.85 per sqft. That's about 2x the cost of what I ultimately settled on.
- Setup/Teardown: I would be looking at 60 or so 2'x2′ pieces that I would have to assemble every time I wanted to drive. Given that I will only have an hour or two here and there, I'd rather spend that precious time driving.
- Storage: At 3/8″, we're talking 7.5 cubic feet (if I'm doing my math right) of tiles to store. Either way, we're talking a minimum of 2′ in from any of the garage walls, which is quite a bit when you only have about 20′ total width… and you're trying to fit two cars along with enough space between to actuall get out of the cars.
- Limited layout options: Same issue as RCP
Rolled Rubber/Neoprene
These were interesting options, but they ultimately didn't pan out for a few reasons:
- Grip: This would likely be even grippier than RCP. They use something like this in Europe, so there is precedent, but recall that I am trying to approximate carpet-levels of grip.
- Cost: Best I could find was about $1/sqft
- Durability (maybe imagined): The rolled rubber – at the $1/sqft price point – was chunks of cut rubber, which concerned me about how it would fare being rolled and unrolled
- Material width: The widest roll I could find – again, at a reasonable price point – was 6′, but that much more than $1/sqft. I was not keen on having to lay two or three runs of this together and hoping there isn't a big seam, having to tape them together, etc.
I came across a couple of posts where people mentioned using canvas for their track. Honestly, this wouldn't have occurred to me, but they universally agreed that grip levels were really great.
I passed on canvas because:
- Grip: Sounded like the grip was too good
- Difficult to lay flat: There would be seams and creases in the material
- Durability: On a per sqft basis, the price was similar to my final solution, but I was concerned how well it would hold up over time
- Material width: Ultimately, there wasn't a cost-appropriate setup that would have fit my garage without having to tape multiple sheets together, etc.
Tar Paper
I read many accounts of people using tar paper for Mini Z tracks. The issues here were several, and similar to the other "rolled" options:
- Longevity. Tar paper ("roofing felt") simply isn't made to be rolled and unrolled. Plus, it tears easily.
- Cost
- Material Width
- Grip: From what I read, sounds like the grip would have been too good
RCP and (somewhat) EVA foam come with their own rails, which is nice. That said, both are limited in their shape, thus limiting layout options. Besides, they were out of the running due to cost, anyway.
Other posts turned up some good ideas, but here are the ones I passed on:
PVC Pipe
- Too expensive
- Inflexible (literally, and in options for layout)
Pool Noodles
- Same issues as PVC, save flexibility
- Much more expensive, unless I found them on clearance or something
Garden Hose with Sand
Some people said they used garden hose with sand inside, just to give the hose weight and some "positionability."
"Final" Product
Ultimately, here is what I settled on:
- "Commercial," low-pile indoor/outdoor carpet
- Garden hose, with dowels to keep the hose straight and give them some weight
Carpet won out for the following reasons:
- Cost: $0.49/sqft, which was about 1/2 the closest other material
- Width: Carpet is available in 12′ rolls, which uses almost all of the 13′ available
- Ease of setup/teardown: Roll out and roll up :)
- Closest resembelence to ozite
- Can get locally, thus not pay shipping costs (which are non-trivial)
- This style of carpet is what Kyosho themselves use
- The folks at Kyosho were kind enough to tell me the following about their carpet:
- Manufacturer: Shaw
- Style: "Putting Green" is the name, though it's not a grass-like pile – and it's black, not green :)
- Bought at: Lowes
- The folks at Kyosho were kind enough to tell me the following about their carpet:
In the process, I learned more about carpet than I rightly should. Here are the key takeaways:
- Ozite is pretty damned expensive – and must be ordered in large quantities, plus comes in 6′ wide rolls
- Mini Z's are pretty sensitive to the height/pile of the carpet, as fibers start binding wheels, get caught in gears, etc
- There are three main carpet materials: polyester, nylon and Olefin. You want Olefin for RC cars, as it is the most resistent to generating static electricity.
- Ideally, you want a needlepunch carpet, as this minimizes the about of fuzz that comes off the carpet
- The outdoor-style carpet has a different type of backing vs "normal" carpet (more on this in a bit)
Here is the carpet I chose, for those who are interested.
An Unexpected Discovery
Reading further, it seems that you really need foam tires to run Mini-Zs well – and I don't have foams at the moment.
Indeed, the rear was pretty squirly with slicks on the carpet. The front seemed planted, but the rear as all over the place – which is the opposite of my experience at Mike's, where the rear sticks well, but the front pushes if I take a corner too hot.
I noticed that the backside of the carpet was a rough, semi-rubbery surface. Seemed kind of like canvas in a way. So, on a whim, I flipped the carpet and ran on that.
Oddly enough, the grip and handling were pretty similar to my F1 car at Mike's.
Here's a picture of the underside of the carpet to show you what it looks like:
It looks fuzzy as all heck, but the car mainly just comes off with dust – which I understand is an issue with RCP, as well.
Garden Hose
I opted for a hose that was not necessarily the cheapest for a few reasons:
- Diameter: It seemed that 3/8″ inside diameter hose woudln't keep the car on the track
- Finish: The cheaper hoses had a rubbery finish, which I suspected would have not let the car glance off the "wall"
- Color: Vein, but I liked the dark gray over green or tan :)
I ended up getting 100′ of 5/8″ inside diameter hose, as I needed enough for the perimeter (12'x2 + 20'x2 = 64′) as well as making the walls inside the track.
Initially, I thought I could straighten out the hose by bending it opposite to the way it was rolled up. This helped, but it didn't work that well. It did not take long for the hose to revert back to a curve/circle.
As mentioned above, I was thinking about using sand in the hose to weigh it down, but I feared that would not address the curling issue. So, I opted to get 4′ x 1/2″ dowels to keep te hose straight. The 3/8″ were 2/3 the cost, but they seemed a bit too flimsy for the job, as the hose was pretty robust and didn't want to be straight :)
Originally, I just planned on using circles of hose at the corners – kind of like the "dots" you'll see at most on road tracks. But, I found that the dowels can be used not just to make a run of host straight, but you can use them to hook runs of hose together – including the circles of hose. This allows me to make pretty clean, curved corners, like so:
Of course… Duct Tape
The one major gap with my creation is that any free-floating pieces of hose don't have enough weight to keep from being knocked around. Even those that are hooked together can be moved over time.
For now, my answer to those issues is duct tape. Keeps with the simple setup/teardown criteria and gives it that DIY feel :)
Here's a pic of the end result. Again, this is just one of an endless possibility of layouts.
Future Plans
The main thing I need now is a timing solution. I tried using Easy Lap Counter. It actually worked pretty well, but it unfortunately (and oddly) doesn't announce the lap times.
Knowing immedialtely how a lap went is the best feedback tool to know what you're doing right – and wrong. Not having that really diminishes the value of this setup.
So, my next plan is to use the Ping))) sonic rangefinder with my Arduino and modify the sketch for the "Flip Side Dio" so I can use the excellent Flip Side Lap Counter software.
Ultimately, I might retool it to use RFID, but since it's just me for now, this should work just fine.


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RF-/STEEL Plastic includes an extensive as well as extendable cross-section / material library with standard-specific strength values.
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The add-on module RF-/STEEL Plastic imports all relevant information and internal forces from RFEM/RSTAB. First, you select the members/member sets as well as load cases, load combinations or result combinations that you want to take into account for the ultimate limit state design. The materials from RFEM/RSTAB are preset but can be adjusted (for example changing the yield strength).
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When I was in high school, I played in various punk & pop-punk bands. As any kid with a ton of music nerd friends would be, I was eventually lured into collecting vinyl. Over the years, I've seen my collection grow from a couple of PVC discs to a colorful archive of my musical personality. I've got some classics, & some embarrassing ones, too.
Over the summer, A & I were gifted a late-70s record player with accompanying speakers by her grandfather, "G-Dad Reynolds." While the player was worn-down and beyond repair, the speakers still worked like a champ. I was so in love, that I upgraded my old record player to one compatible with these beauties.
Since I met the gal, I've dragged A along with me on record store digs. From our earliest dates to Mojo Books & Music in Tampa to as recent as our roadtrip to Gainesville, my little #1 has stuck by my side as I picked through each & every record in every store we've gone to together. Just as my old Crosley player needed a new home, it seemed that she finally caught the itch.
As soon as A introduced my old record player to her loft bedroom, she started a collection of her own. What once started as a solo activity has seen our weekender luggage include a bag full of records. Not to mention, A's new obsession has led to some adorable fangirl moments (re: meeting Mish Way at Pre-Fest).
A's amazingly vast musical palate includes anything from quirky one-hit-wonders & 80s jams to contemporary classic punk rock (that's my girl). However, she often can walk out of a store with four records to my one. Some of her recent grabs include Styx, Ramones, Tone-Loc & Madonna.
It's so much more fun to walk into a record store with a pal who's just as excited to be there, to compare findings and to sit & listen to them together than it is to do it all on your own, especially when you already have for years.
But it's easy to share something you love so much with someone that you love even more.
**Above are some photos from our Veterans Day trip to Daddy Kool Records in St. Pete, one of our favorite places, & a small sampling of favorites from our collections.**


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Sizing up the Ultra-Right
David Butler
- The National Front by Nigel Fielding
Routledge, 252 pp, £12.50, January 1981, ISBN 0 7100 0559 8
- Left, Right: The March of Political Extremism in Britain by John Tomlinson
Calder, 152 pp, £4.95, March 1981, ISBN 0 7145 3855 8
Britain in recent years should have been a breeding ground for parties of the ultra-Right. A country humbled by the loss of its imperial role, by its industrial decline compared to other major – and minor – powers, and by the failure of the nostrums prescribed by alternating governments, meets most of the textbook requirements for the growth of extremism. Some profess to see in the monetarist takeover of the Conservative Party, or in the Labour Party's lurch to the left, a fulfilment of these requirements. But Margaret Thatcher and Tony Benn are committed Parliamentarians and, despite all the rhetoric about the reactionary Conservative Government or Marxists in the Labour Party, no policy that has been, or is likely to be, enacted at Westminster ranges beyond what has proved acceptable in civilised democracies elsewhere. Indeed, current developments suggest a move back to the middle, as Conservative and Labour each seeks to recapture the neglected centre ground which recent opinion polls have shown to be so extensive.
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When most of us think about our primary education, we think of the old school model – texbooks, blackboards, number 2 pencils. But for Gen Z and beyond, that model is rapidly shifting.
Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.huffingtonpost.com
We are on the edge all the time in Klassikka and it gives you a boost, but I also is demanding job to lead with old traditional IT departments.


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On the first day of our stay there, RJ left after breakfast to hold a one-day seminar about data protection/privacy and IT security. I had the day to myself and set off soon after he was gone.
My plan was to walk around the outer rim of the island once, which would take me nearly until lunch time (if I'd keep to a very leisurely pace, allowing for plenty of photo stops), then have something to eat before setting out on another walk, this time to explore the town centre. Depending on the weather, I could take a short boat trip around the bay to Bregenz (Austria), or visit a museum and/or some shops.
At first, the weather didn't look promising. As you can see, the morning light was grey, and it was very windy, with sprinkles here and there, just enough for me to be glad of my hooded rain jacket, but not enough for stopping me from my walk.
Later into the morning, all of a sudden the sun came out. This is the advantage - or the disadvantage - of being near a large body of water such as a big lake or the Sea: The weather changes very quickly.
By now, I had more than halfway surrounded the island. I'll show you the rest in my next post.


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A man approached me on the subway when I was 24 and wanted my phone number desperately. I was once fooling around with someone I'd been out with a few times.
Big and beautiful online dating site
Some jerk once IMed and asked, "Are there really guys out there who are attracted to you?
" Friends of mine were setting one another up on dates but not me.
No matter how many magazines start featuring plus-size women, in mainstream white culture, a woman who's heavy isn't considered as attractive as a woman who's not.
Ultimately everybody's looking to get to the next level, and for many men in New York, a larger woman is the bottom level, regardless of what she's like.
Then my dad died when I was 22 and I wasn't interested in anything anymore. It wasn't until I was 28 that I decided I wanted to date again, after I got back in touch with people from camp.


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I grew up in a home filled with handmade textiles. My mother made most of the soft furnishings, everything from blankets to tablecloths to embroidered guest hand towels. And that doesn't even cover the decorative things like tapestry cushions and Christmas tree ornaments. It was (and is) cozy in my mother's home, soft and warm and welcoming.
Inevitably, I started to do the same with my own home when I moved out. It's a very different style, to be sure, but I have handmade blankets on the bed and crocheted cushions on the sofa, along with lace snowflakes on the Christmas tree and samplers on the wall. "It's what grown-ups do," says the little voice in the back of my head.
The one thing I had never done was make my own curtains. That's Mom's thing. Actual curtains to keep in the warmth at night and sheers for privacy's sake during the day. I had never needed them, but the Spouse and I recently moved into a ground-floor flat that faces the road. It was a choice between making sheers or never opening the blinds.
Mom came through with a set of surplus sheers from her previous house that didn't fit her new windows, along with the leftover fabric in case I needed to make more. Good thing, too: the picture window in our bedroom took two curtains, so we were one short.
I had planned to leave the existing curtains as they were, but they were longer than the window openings and were driving me potty. So I spent the afternoon hemming the existing four and making one all by myself.
It's such a strange thing, really, but I had been terribly intimidated at the thought of making my own curtains. I don't know why - it's not like I've never hemmed interminable rectangles of fabric before. But somehow this was a much bigger deal than making garb or knitting socks. Maybe it was because Mom hasn't made any curtains since I left home, at least not that I've watched her make. All my memories of the process are from before I really started sewing properly.
I feel like I've levelled up or gotten bonus adulting points or something. Clearly it's time to have ice cream for supper.


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Rocksmith clothing recently spent some time with Kendrick Lamar as the cameras followed him throughout the course of a day. The Compton rapper spoke on his grind, his sound compared to that classic West Coast G-Funk, the Top Dawg Entertainment team and prepared himself for a concert.
If you missed it, his "Cartoon and Cereal" track with Gunplay was really good.
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Video: Couple Sues Woman For Texting Boyfriend When He Hit Them With Truck
On September 21, 2009, David and Linda Kubert were riding their motorcycle about a mile from their New Jersey home, when a Chevy truck swerved across the center line and hit them. Both Kuberts (pictured, left) lost a leg in the crash.
David told CBS News (video below): "What I saw was a gentlemen in the truck steering with his elbows, with his head down. And I could tell he was text messaging. I looked down after the impact and my leg was torn off. I asked my wife is she was ok and she told me the bones of her leg were through her pants."
The driver of the Chevy, Kyle Best, pleaded guilty to three motor vehicle violations, including using a handheld device while driving.
The Kuberts are suing Best as a distracted driver for damages as well as Shannon Colonna, his girlfriend, for sending him text messages, while he was driving, and distracting him.
Skippy Weinstein, the Kuberts' lawyer, argues Colonna was "electronically present" in the crash.
Weinstein says Colonna should have known Best was driving home as they exchanged text messages leading up to the crash.
Lawyers representing Colonna didn't return calls or emails from CBS News, but their legal papers claim that the Kuberts' suit is a "leap of logic" and should be dismissed.


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Subject: Re: [ecasound] ecasound resample problem
From: Aaron Heller (heller_AT_AI.SRI.COM)
Date: Wed Jul 28 2004 - 03:40:29 EEST
Kamil Wencel wrote:
> If memory serves Kai right he and I had a chat about that issue
> some month ago. His first idea was that maybe an updated version
> of secret rabbit code would help. But it did not.
> Maybe with combined efforts we can find a solution.
> Kai, what can we do ?
As a first check, I ran my 96kHz sine-wave files though
sndfile-resample, which is an example application that comes with
libsamplerate. In every case, the files produced by sndfile-resample do
not have the clicking which implies that libsamplerate is OK.
Then I took a close look at the clicks and they have resemble a sinc
function, which suggests that the error is in filling the input buffers
to libsamplerate.
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Over the weekend, I drove up to Joplin to see my parents. I chose a different exit this time, deliberately choosing the path through where the tornado had made its mark this time last year. The hospital still looks like something out of 1980s Beirut.
My family was very lucky last year, their homes untouched. Still, they can tell some horrible stories. Driving through it again this weekend and seeing signs of new life, new development was encouraging and still heartbreaking.
It's hard to believe how different the landscape is now. My dad said that for days it was nearly impossible to get your bearings. There was a scramble to somehow label streets because it all seemed indistinguishable… same devastation, block after block. It's still like that. I get to a certain point, and without a street sign, it's very easy to get turned around.
You know I used to tell people that I was from Joplin, and nobody knew where that was. Now, when I say I'm from Joplin, I get the same question every time. "Family affected?" Thank God the answer is no. Ironic that a tornado figuratively put Joplin on the map while literally wiping whole sections from it.