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Chain Conveyors are an essential part of many bulk handling systems, where they are used to convey bulk materials such as powders, grains, flakes, pellets …etc. Many of these conveyors use drop forged chains with flights as a means of conveying the material being handled. This "en-masse" conveying system is very popular as it is a simple but highly efficient system of moving material.
When it comes to purchasing a chain conveyor, it is easy to look just at the one-time purchasing cost and the quality of the components. The problem with conveyors is that they are exposed to a lot of wear and tear, and even the best chains can fail after a certain period of time. But this can be many years depending on the conveyor use and maintenance.
If we look at the lifetime cost of an en-masse chain conveyor, we'll find that a big part of this is the maintenance: the cost of replacement chains and links, the cost of the labour and finally the cost of the downtime.
For each and every user of chain conveyors, it is of vital importance to have the conveyor running to full capacity for as long as the equipment can allow it. Maintenance and repair can cost a lot of money and time, usually requiring the services of a team of engineers and considerable amount of resources.
So how does the en-masse conveying system work, and where does the chain failure occur?
In En-Masse conveying, the flight height can be as low as 12.5% of the material being transported in the chain conveyor. The material is fed into the conveyor from the top and falls through the moving chain to the bottom of the box. Because the particles interlock, the material moves as a single stream at the same speed as the chain. This highly efficient conveying process allows nearly the entire conveyor cross section to move as bulk.
Traditionally, the flights are made of steel and welded onto the links. The links with flights are then assembled in many different arrangements using pins and circlips, headed pins and circlips or headed pins with collars and a roll pins. The whole assembly is very robust and works well until general wear, operational errors, material build up and many other reasons can cause maintenance shut down.
In the case of a minor incident, such as the flights breaking, although the chain does not require to be changed, it is still necessary to order new chain links with flights welded or grind the sides of the failing links and weld new flights onsite. In both cases, a lot of resources and time are needed to complete the maintenance procedure. Having new links with flights welded is only the first step of the maintenance process: the chain needs to be slackened, the circlips must be broken in order to take out the links where the flights have failed, new links with welded flights need to be put in, and finally the chain has to be tensioned again before the conveyor is at last operational or the whole chain removed from the conveyor.
One of the other major causes for concern with this traditional assembly is the fact that the circlips can sometimes come loose due to poor installation, not only causing the chain to collapse therefore again stopping the conveyor, but also contaminating the product that was being conveyed and risking pollution and obstructions in the plant process.
Engineers have been working hard at suppressing and minimising the different problems encountered within a chain conveyor as much as possible with solutions such as more frequent maintenance checks, metal detectors…etc. - Whilst this has helped to reduce the number of unexpected break-downs, it hasn't removed the need for conveyor shut downs when the chains or flights need to be replaced.
With 125 years experience and providing solutions, worldwide, to customers within the bulk material handling industry, the engineers at 4B have come up with a revolutionary simple solution that minimises conveyor maintenance downtimes and overcomes a lot of the problems encountered when using drag chain conveyors.
4B's Bolt 'N' Go system is a new flight assembly system that gets rid of the need for welded flights and pins and circlips assemblies which are quite costly and time consuming in terms of manufacturing. This new system includes:
A set of Nylon flights that can be cut to accurate lengths depending on the desired overall width. These nylon flights are very strong and wear resistant but remain light- weight, therefore reducing the amount of power required to drive the chain.
A hollow pin made of alloy steel (the same material as the link) and case hardened to C57 - C62. This pin will take the load in the assembly. It is very strong and can be supplied in stainless steel for applications in a corrosive environment.
Bolts, nuts and washers are used to hold the flights onto the link and assemble the links together. Lock nuts are used to secure the whole system.
At no point does the bolt take the load or is in contact with the pin. It merely holds and secures the flights.
The system uses 4B drop forged chain links that have special lugs on the sides onto which the flights are fastened, giving the assembly extra stability.
The Bolt 'N' Go system is extremely easy to install, yet very robust and has a long lifespan. It has many advantages in comparison to the traditional pins and circlips assembly.
This system will undoubtedly save a precious amount of time and money when conducting maintenance work. With the Bolt 'n' Go system, it is no longer required to take the tension out of the chain and take the chain out of the conveyor before changing the flights; the old flights can be taken out and new ones fitted while the chain is still tensioned inside the conveyor. Since a shorter amount of time is required to assemble the Nylon flights rather than welding steel flights onto links, all the flights can be delivered very quickly thus eliminating the need to stock a lot of spare parts; or they can be kept in stock on site at low cost, since they are not welded to the chain.
The Bolt 'N' Go system will also enable the full use of the links since it is not necessary to change the links every time new flights are needed. Once again this represents a major saving for facilities using this system.
4B's Bolt 'n' Go chain links are made of special heat treated alloy steel case hardened to Rockwell C57 - C62 with a ductile core hardness of Rockwell C40. 4B's superior heat treatment technique and material provides the optimum chain link with a more resilient ductile core for shock resistance, and an extremely hard exterior surface for superior wear and corrosion resistance. This results in reduced downtime and maintenance with an increase in the working life for the chain conveyor.
The Bolt 'N' Go assembly system is an excellent and robust solution that will not only improve the overall capacity of the conveyor to perform at its optimal ability for longer. But also help to minimise the offline maintenance periods thus improving the yearly capacity and profits made using the chain conveyor.
The Bolt 'n' Go system has been used successfully in many facilities across the world, in a wide range of applications including agricultural, wood chips, sugar, animal feeds, etc. All these products have been used in conveyors of various length, angles and high capacity applications.
The system has been such a success that many suppliers of en-masse chain conveyors now offer the Bolt 'n' Go chain and flight system as an option.
Bolt 'n' Go is currently available for 4B102NA, 4B142NA and 4B142HA links with flights up to 750mm wide.
4B's drop forged chain is backed by an international network of companies with over 125 years of bulk handling experience. 4B engineers are specialised in the drop forged chain industry and can provide engineering design service and advice for any drag or en-masse chain conveyor application.


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Getting music online is a rather basic thing. However, when you are trying to find a large amount, awesome choice and service from a company, it requires a little more research. Take the pointers above to heart and utilize them when you are looking for the next wonderful song or cd.

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Reid, Daschle feud over S.D. Senate
The South Dakota Senate race is turning into a tense feud between two longtime Democratic power brokers: Harry Reid and Tom Daschle.
The rift between the current and former Senate Democratic leaders threatens their party's effort to keep control of the Senate seat held by the retiring Sen. Tim Johnson since 1997.
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Reid and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee wanted to recruit former Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (D-S.D.) as their candidate to replace Johnson in 2014. As he spent weeks attempting to clear the field for Herseth Sandlin, Reid met privately with Johnson and his wife to ask them to persuade their son Brendan not to run for the seat, sources say. Or at the very least, let Herseth Sandlin make her decision on whether to get into the race before deciding whether Brendan Johnson should jump in.
But against Reid's will, Daschle — Reid's predecessor as Democratic leader and a South Dakota native — was privately encouraging a longtime former aide and personal friend, Rick Weiland, to mount a bid of his own.
Daschle's endorsement of Weiland helped persuade Herseth Sandlin to pass on the Senate race, according to Democratic sources close to the issue. Reid and top Senate Democrats were stunned and outraged by Daschle's move, a sentiment Reid communicated directly to the former senator, according to several people familiar with the incident.
In a brief interview last week, Reid didn't hide his frustration with the way the South Dakota race is shaping up.
"We're going to have a candidate there; we don't have it yet," Reid told POLITICO.
When asked whether he would ever back Weiland, Reid was emphatic in his opposition.
"He's not my choice," Reid said.
One top Democrat involved in the race, speaking on condition of anonymity, said: "This is [Daschle's] race. If he wants to encourage someone to get in, if he wants to endorse someone to get in, he should be prepared to raise all the money necessary to support them."
( Also on POLITICO: Primary colliders: David Axelrod vs. the Clintons)
Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet, who chairs the DSCC, would say only this when asked if he would back Weiland in South Dakota: "We are looking at all our races."
Daschle acknowledged that he was aware Reid and the DSCC backed Herseth Sandlin's potential candidacy, although he said he didn't realize she would be "their only candidate."
"Harry and I have not had a conversation about this in several weeks," Daschle said. "And so it came as a little bit of a surprise to me that they had made that decision [to back Herseth Sandlin]. I had heard from a number of people that Stephanie wasn't even sure she wanted to run, so it's curious to me that they weren't clear about her intentions before they made her the definitive candidate."
The spat between Reid and Daschle — who refer to each other as "brothers" and have been close professionally for years — shows what's at stake in the 2014 elections as Senate Democrats are forced to defend their majority in red states like South Dakota, Arkansas, Alaska, Louisiana, North Carolina and West Virginia. Republicans are hoping to cut into the Democrats' 55-45 seat majority — if not take control of the Senate outright — threatening President Barack Obama's second-term agenda in the process.


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September's a big month for bibliophiles, as Baltimore and Washington stage their book festivals. And this year, for the first time in recent years, the festivals don't fall on the same weekend, allowing readers to catch both packed slates of authors and events.
The National Book Festival, held on the Mall, kicks off first, on Sept. 22-23. The event always has a star-studded lineup, and this year it includes Thomas Friedman, T.C. Boyle, Geraldine Brooks, Robert A. Caro, Sandra Cisneros, Patricia Cornwell, Junot Diaz, Charlaine Harris, Walter Isaacson, Jeff Kinney, Marilynne Robinson, and Mario Llosa Varga.
The Baltimore Book Festival runs Sept. 28-30 in Mount Vernon -- and always makes for a great weekend. There are interesting panel discussions, cooking demonstrations, and literary walking tours of the area, where greats such as Henry James and John Dos Passos once trod.
Among the authors appearing in Baltimore are Emily Giffin, "Where We Belong;" Laura Lippman, "And When She Was Good;" Laura Amy Schlitz, "Splendors and Glooms;" and Michael Tucker, "After Annie." Steven Galloway, the author of "The Cellist of Saravejo," will also appear as part of the Maryland Humanities Council's One Maryland One Book program.


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The lone survivor of this massacre, Frank (John Lowe), is determined to get revenge. A nurse (the name of the actress who played the nurse, like the majority of the supporting cast, is nowhere to be found in the credits) constantly makes goo goo eyes with Frank, but unfortunately (for the sake of his rarely touched penis) the sight of the racially diverse threesome violently crashing through the window of the karate school is all he can think about it at the moment.
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Name: Mike P
Age: 25
Location: LA
My girlfriend needs to watch lesbian porn to get off and sometimes kicks me out of the bedroom to masturbate by herself. Initially I was turned on by her desire to watch porn — but now — it's become a blockage. She always needs porn. I am frustrated and to make things worse — she has started abusing me through financial manipulation. She makes me pay her rent — pay for her food, pay for everything — and she never gives me nookie.
Should I leave this woman?
Time to wake up, fella! Your "girlfriend" — and you'll notice I put that term in quotes — is decidedly not YOUR girlfriend, and possibly not any dude's girlfriend.
I'm gonna go way out on a limb here and say; I think your "girlfriend" is a certifiable, died-in-the wool, muff-divin', coozie-lovin' lesbitarian. All that's really left for her to do to make the picture perfectly clear…even for you, is to show up one day in a mullet and a plaid flannel shirt. Holy cow, Mike, how is it that you are missing the obvious?
Listen, bub, it's clear to me, you're excess baggage. She keeps you around for comic relief…oh and to foot the bill.
Should you leave this woman, you ask. Honey, she's beaten you to the punch on that one. She's long gone and left you way behind, at least emotionally and sexually. All that's left for you to do is find the door and say good-bye to this embarrassing situation.
Name: Leslie
Age: 46
Location: Brisbane
Will bicycling make me impotent?
YIKES Leslie, what kind of bike riding are you doing that would put such a notion in your head?
My initial response to your question, of course, was a wisecrack. "Sure, bike riding will make you impotent if you get your balls caught in the spokes. Throw those things over your shoulder when you ride, for christ sake!"
Then I thought to myself, "Wait, what does Leslie mean by impotent?" I know lots of people confuse and/or conflate the two very different concepts of impotency and sterility. So maybe this is an opportunity to sort this out some.
Impotence is characterized by a dude's inability to develop or maintain an erection. And I suppose extreme bike riding, like the kind I often see on TV, could possibly cause this condition. Especially, if you are knocking your cock around enough to cause your darling little willie serious injury.
Male sterility, on the other hand, is the inability of the male reproductive system (a dude's balls, basically) to produce enough (or even any live) sperm for the purpose of impregnation. The reason I bring this up is, I know fertility specialists are very concerned about men wearing tight-fitting underwear and pants for long periods of time. (We used to call these cheap hotel pants — there's no ballroom! Get it?) Tight fitting garments elevate a man's nuts to the base of his pelvis, which in turn increases the temperature in his huevos. Too much heat kills the little juniors in our baby-batter, don't cha know!
The reason evolution designed our family jewels to reside outside our bodies and actually hang off of and away from our bodies is so that all our adorable little sperm buddies can stay relatively cool and comfortable till they blissfully shoot out of our dick into a vagina, asshole, condom or Kleenex.
Tighty-whities and all such things, particular those obscenely clingy spandex (which is basically glorified plastic) bike shorts makes things even hotter. They're notorious sperm killers! So in a way, Leslie, yes, biking can make you sterile if not impotent.
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He may no longer be Mr. Kim Kardashian, but it looks like Kris Humphries might be swapping that title for another one: dad!
The basketball player is expecting his first child with his ex-girlfriend, Myla Sinanaj, TMZ reports.
According to the site, Sinanaj is three months along and says that Humphries, 27, is definitely the father. However, the site also says that she has yet to tell him about the child. Last month, Kardashian subpoenaed Sinanaj in the divorce case, wanting to know if Humphries said anything to Sinanaj about his claim that Kardashian defrauded him and the details of their texts and emails.
Humphries and Sinanaj reportedly began dating again in January, three months following his split from Kardashian.


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WTP Development Status Meeting
Remember, any committer can add an agenda item. Typically, short announcements or news items go in the "Announcements" section at the beginning. Longer items or issues requiring discussion should go in the "Other business" section at end.
Announcements And Special Reports
WTP Calendar
(Weekly Google Calendar updated through June, 2011)
For Indigo/Helios overall dates, see a Simultaneous Release Calendar
Focus on Quality (Neil)
- Focus Item:
- Untargeted severity "Major" and higher bugs opened before March 1st, 2011 (This week - 23; Last week - 23)
- Options:
- Target to a specific release or "future" if planning to fix but not in the next release
- Adjust severity as appropriate
- Untargeted bugs and enhancements with patches attached over 1 year old (This week - 16; Last week - 16)
- Untargeted bugs and enhancements with patches attached (This week - 32; Last week - 30)
- Ready to vote for release latest build?
- Please document your Project's testing and approval by Friday, 5/13, noon (Eastern Time)
- Assumption for now is that the 5/11 build will be our final build for declaration.
- We will not officially release until 5/20 to allow one quiet week.
3.2.4 Schedule
- 5/11 M build final build (one week of buffer following this week, quiet week, until 5/20 (respin would requires +3))
See "references" [1] for detailed explanation of what these dates mean.
Bug Review
- Bugs targeted to 3.2.4 -- still one?
- Ready to declare RC1 latest build?
- can we fix/respin for "releng test" failures?
- RC1 05/12 (for delivery to Indigo+2 on 05/17) (after this build, still PMC +1)
- RC2 05/19 (for delivery to Indigo+2 on 05/24) (after this build, begin PMC +2)
- RC3 05/26 (for delivery to Indigo+2 on 05/31) (after this build, begin PMC +3)
- RC4 06/02 (for delivery to Indigo+2 on 06/07) [Final build]
Bug Review
- Unfixed bugs targeted to the past -- please triage!
Other business
- Time for spring cleaning. Project Leads, our Indigo IP Logs are due 5/18. So, it is a good time to ...
- Review your IP Logs to prepare for the WTP IP Log submission. This should be done before the end of next week. The "Contribution Review" tool can be found here - http://www.eclipse.org/projects/tools/ (on the left side menu). It is useful for identifying patches that may have been committed without being flagged as IP.
- Another maintenance release proposed: Several projects have requested another maintenance release on Helios, so the PMC has agreed it is feasible to have a 3.2.5 release.
- Schedule to be proposed later. And we still need to workout how to balance multiple streams
- (i.e. we don't ask everyone to test every week each of the three: Helios maintenance, Indigo maintenance, and Juno maintenance. ...."
- Committers must make sure the streams are cumlative ... that is, a fix going into Helios maintenance needs to go into Indigo maintenance which needs to go into Juno release
- Nitin - status back regarding Babel maps
- Indigo builds are happening, Helios values are not automatically used
- This means all project must enter for Indigo! - please check - we'll review next week.
- Certainly any "new" maps (such as for Libra) would have to be added ... and doubt if "we" know how to do that for GIT/SVN repos.
- ↑ Our plan dates are on 'Friday' of the week. But, we produce and test the build on Thursday of the week, and ideally declare on Thursday. The dates in the Google Web Tools group calendar are for 'Thursdays' since that's a calendar for committers. We give ourselves the buffer to Friday, as our "public" date, that others can pick up our build, just in case a regression is found on Thursday and we have to respin and retest. [Technically, some might say, we still have till the following Tuesday or Wednesday for some "Simultaneous Release" due dates ... but it's hard to do much in that window, without disrupting everyone ... so we'll not use that buffer, except for the worst emergencies.]
- ↑ Hotbug Policy
Also, see
- See also the WTP Meeting Archive-Reference Page.


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Noble knights in shining armor are a dime (a silver?) a dozen Alliance-side in World of Warcraft. Where you find one or more Alliance roleplayers, you'll find a veritable solar flare of the Light. In most cases, however, the buck (or the Light, as it may) stops right here at the boundary between Azeroth and Earth. But in one longstanding Moon Guard (US) guild, the Light spills forth into all corners of members' lives. The Bearers of Light's noble guild foundation rests on charity, both in game and out. Moving beyond regular newbie zone assistance events, the guild recently embarked upon a real-world community challenge that's racking up life-changing results.
Since its inception in the classic WoW era, this guild force for good seems to be filling an apparently unique niche among Azerothian guilds. Back in 2009, WoW Insider's David Bowers (then author of our roleplaying column) wrote about discovering the guild with his own character: "The guild I eventually chose is called The Bearers of Light on the Moon Guard server, and I chose it because its members pledge to be kind to others. It was the first and only guild I've ever seen in World of Warcraft that is explicitly founded around the spirit of benevolence and charity. I felt that it was a perfect match for me personally -- if you've seen movies like Pay It Forward or read about ideas such as random kindness and senseless acts of beauty, then you will have seen the kind of impact this theme can have on a group of people. Once kindness itself is a goal, it makes life so much more livable."
Looking for inspiration to start your new year off on the right foot? Look no further than The Bearers of Light.


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Steve Dawson - Telescope
Sample Songs:
Caballero's Dream
The Gunslinger Retreats And Lurks Underground
Keith Lowe
Chris Gestrin
Speaker Damage
The Hunt Is On
Fun Machine Two
No One Goes To The Park When It Rains
1000 Year Old Egg
Acclaimed Vancouver, BC musician/producer/songwriter Steve Dawson will release 2 new albums of his work in 2008; Waiting For The Lights To Come Up and Telescope.
"I decided to record two albums at once this year. It wasn't what I set out to do originally. I was getting ready to make a record that would feature a new batch of songs that I had been writing, but at the same time, I was learning the pedal steel guitar, and had been writing ensemble-based music that would feature that instrument."
Rather than waiting and recording them separately, Dawson decided to put together a crack band and spend a few days in the studio getting the majority of both albums done at once. The idea was to create two completely different projects that tied together sonically and that shared a similar energy. "I thought it would be interesting to have them both done in the same space at the same time, and by the same people."
The musicians are players with whom he's been making a lot of records over the last few years. The band comprises Keith Lowe (Bill Frisell, Fiona Apple) on bass, Chris Gestrin (Randy Bachman, K-OS) on keyboards, and Scott Amendola (T.J. Kirk, Bill Frisell, Madeline Peyroux) on drums.
"With musicians of this caliber, I knew that most of the magic would be happening quickly on early takes, even before the band was too comfortable with the new material." Dawson and the band set up shop in The Factory Studios in Vancouver and proceeded to record the bulk of the two records in about 5 days. Dawson took the tracks back to his Henhouse Studio to add overdubs, textures and sound manipulation. The result is a wonderful and arresting pair of new releases — Waiting For the Lights To Come Up and Telescope.
The second album in the series, Telescope, is an all-instrumental release written primarily on, and based around the pedal steel guitar. Steve set out to create music that was a showcase for the voice of the pedal steel, a complex form of slide guitar with a series of foot pedals and knee levers that raise or lower the pitches of the individual 10 strings.
Telescope has been in the works since 2005, when Steve received a grant from the Canada Council For The Arts to study the pedal steel guitar with Greg Leisz, one of the most influential, not to mention one of the most recorded steel players in modern recorded music. Steve spent time working with Greg in short spurts over the next 2 years and during this intensive period, began writing music for the steel guitar. "Most people know the pedal steel as a country instrument, but I wanted to write music for it that was outside that genre… so these tunes started coming together and I thought it would be fun to try it with this group of musicians" says Dawson.
The result is a beautifully unique instrumental album that emphasizes melody and interplay, displaying healthy doses of both structure and improvisation. "Some of the songs, like 'Caballero's Dream' were planned out entirely, while others like 'Speaker Damage' were left more open for the musicians. "on that one, I had the rhythm section playing to a recorded loop that I created that had nothing to do with the final song. I wanted to experiment with the idea of having the drummer and bass player reacting to something that you don't actually hear in the finished piece. The title comes from a really cheap distortion pedal I have that emulates a broken speaker. It got a lot of use on that track!"
"'Fun Machine Two' is the sequel to a tune from my last album, both of which were written using a cheesy organ called the Fun Machine. It's got some great drum moments care of Scott Amendola who I really encouraged to let loose and release his inner John Bonham. He was playing so loud that all the studio equipment was peaking out, but I loved the sound, so we left it like that".
"'Nailbiter' is a fun song that I wanted to get really unique sounds on, so we recorded the drums from quite far away, and the piano sounded too much like a piano, so I dumped a case of blank CD's onto the strings to deaden them, but they ended up jingling around when the notes were hit. I loved that sound too – sort of like an old tack piano. Now that's productive use of digital technology!".
"… I'm not a flashy player in the traditional sense, and I didn't want this record to be a showcase for over-the-top pyrotchnics. It's more about the feel, the tones and the mood that the steel guitar can conjure up... "
"At the time I was writing this music I was very inspired by Tom Verlaine, Bill Frisell, Brian Eno, and Japancakes…" says Dawson "…and the way they use repetition and tone to create a mood. Some of these new songs have quite long melodies, which I think is a product of listening to that kind of music. At the same time, I was reading a book about recording the Beatles, and revisiting their music - that manifests itself in the way we recorded some of the instruments… particularly the drums, which are all recorded in mono, with only three microphones, and the steel and other guitars were all recorded exactly as you hear them – without adding any effects in the mixing process."
Featuring the same band as his last album; Scott Amendola on drums, Keith Lowe on bass, and Chris Gestrin on keyboards, Steve also enlisted trumpet players Brad Turner and J.P. Carter for the evocative horn parts and solos, and Ottawa harmonica player Steve Marriner for some bluesy wailing on 'Speaker Damage'.
Working with a recurring cast of musicians has honed the sound of Steve's recording work to the point where he has become a recognizable and prominent producer of many current artists working around the world. In the last few years, Steve has worked in the studio with artists like Jim Byrnes, Kelly Joe Phelps, The Sojourners, Ndidi Onukwulu, Jenny Whiteley, Old Man Luedecke and many others. While individual projects vary in sound, the signatures of Steve's production come through, such as the elements of live performance that he keeps at the heart of his recordings, and the tones of the old and unusual instruments that he collects. His go-to list of textural instruments include the pump organ, marxophone, mandotar, tack piano, and a growing collection of oddball guitars and microphones. Steve uses these tools to create soundscapes of unusual yet timeless sounds.
Telescope is a unique page in the career of Steve Dawson, and a refreshing blast of spirited and inspired roots-jazz-pop-improv that stands on its own in the landscape of Canadian music. In Steve's own words; "…I feel like we accomplished the goal of making something unique and compelling that also takes the pedal steel guitar out of its comfort zone."


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London Stock Exchange Group signs to restructure, develop the Mongolian Stock Exchange (News Brief)
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and the Mongolian State Property Committee (SPC) have signed an exclusive strategic partnership agreement to restructure and develop the Mongolian Stock Exchange (MSE).
Under the agreement, LSEG will appoint a management team at the MSE to oversee its development and privatization. LSEG's Millennium IT, a global exchange technology provider, will provide trading and surveillance infrastructure to the MSE.
Using the LSEG Academy, both parties will conduct a training program on capital markets infrastructure and legislative framework for MSE officers, clients and officers of the Mongolia Financial Regulatory Commission.
LSEG will provide assistance in the broadening of tradable asset classes at the MSE, to derivatives and ETFs; and LSEG will also work to implement an international standard Mongolian market index.
Mongolian GDP is expected to triple to $23bn by 2013 on the back of demand for its mineral resources. The stock exchange more than doubled in value last year even though opening hours are limited.
A number of companies quoted in London have interests in Mongolia. Central Asia Metals joined AIM (Alternative Investment Market) at the end of September 2010. It has copper, gold and molybdenum mining assets in Kazakhstan and Mongolia. AIM-quoted investment company Origo Partners has as number of investments in Mongolia mining projects.
AIM-quoted oil and gas explorer Petro Matad has three production sharing contracts in Mongolia and is capitalized at more than £210m.
At the MSE are working some 340 brokers and national specialists from 48 professional organizations, who have rights to run stock exchange trade and services. Since 1990, 474 joint stock companies have been registered at the MSE. They have traded 738.3 million shares with MNT 262.5 billion, and 3.1 million bonds with MNT 215.1 billion. With MNT 477.6 billion, 3,873 trades have been held as well.
For the time being, the MSE has registered 448,717 domestic and foreign share holders, investors and entities. They have been granted dividends of MNT 109.6 billion.
- HUMNEWS Staff, (sources: London Stock Exchange, Mongolian State Property Committee)


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Listen, CNBC, I understand that there's a lot of complex data flying all over the global economics maps at any given time. And anything that a TV producer can do to make all that parsing and projection seem even a little bit fun or plugged into pop culture must feel almost like an obligation. But, man, this attempt just hurts to watch.
The first part of the segment uses a phrase called Vindicated Doves to riff off of Rovio's hit Angry Birds franchise. From there, they talk about several European countries — Portugal Ireland Italy Greece Spain — whose names form the acronym PIIGS. PIIGS gets loosely tied to Angry Birds' spinoff Bad Piggies and… it's just a mess. Sorry, CNBC, you guys don't get any stars for this awkward stab at relevance.


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MONTREAL — Young Jews will seriously consider leaving Quebec if the Parti Québecois (PQ) forms a majority in the next provincial election and the proposed charter of values becomes law, predicts one of the country's best-known demographers.
"It would be naive to think it's not a serious risk," said Jack Jedwab, 55, director of the Association for Canadian Studies.
Jedwab, who served as director of the Quebec branch of the now-defunct Canadian Jewish Congress from 1988 to 1998, told The CJN that while the province's Jewish community remains vital and influential, it's "in a state of serious, serious flux."
But "if this charter thing passes, it could be devastating."
Some 30,000 Jews are believed to have left the province since the PQ formed its first provincial government in 1976. The community's population now numbers about 90,000.
Jedwab said a PQ majority government combined with the passage of Bill 60 would be "a worst-case scenario."
For the Jewish community, the proposed secular charter "is affecting the sense of who we are in society, that we are not equal to our de vieille souche [old stock] co-citizens," said Jedwab, who is regularly asked to comment on minority issues by French- and English-language news outlets.
"It's coming across as an attack on our identity."
Jedwab said he's been impressed with the stance taken by the publicly funded Jewish General Hospital, which pledged that it would not enforce a charter rule barring workers from wearing religious symbols on the job.
But, like many others, he had no idea how the provincial government would react to the hospital's civil disobedience.
"It's a major question," he said.
Jedwab said the charter issue has been a challenge for the Jewish community's official advocacy body – the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA).
He said despite CIJA's very forceful and articulate position against the charter, it has no option but to keep lines of communications open with the government, despite the latter repeatedly "drawing a line in the sand on the issue."
Jedwab also believes that French-language news media have tended not to approach CIJA for comment on the issue, because its name contains the word "Israel," which they find confusing.
The government is so intent on achieving a majority and getting the charter passed into law by pandering to the province's most base and xenophobic elements, he said, that it's "ready to sacrifice its relationship with the Jewish community," which almost never supports the PQ anyway.
It's clear from the current legislative hearings on Bill 60 that the party is cynically striving to exploit those xenophobic elements and distract from real issues such as the economy, Jedwab said.
One of the most troubling aspects of the charter debate for Jedwab is that religious rights are no longer being seen as fundamental or immutable, but as subject to legal manipulation.
"It is one of the most worrisome dimensions," he said.
Jedwab is quite familiar with these issues. He was at Congress during the 1995 referendum on sovereignty, when the "No" side barely won and then-PQ premier Jacques Parizeau uttered his infamous comments blaming the "money and ethnic" vote for the razor-thin result.
He was also at CJC when the late Quebecor tabloid publisher Pierre Péladeau referred to Quebec's Jewish community as taking up "too much space," and when Mordecai Richler suggested that anti-Semitism continued to play a role in Quebec national life.
But Jedwab seems more concerned now than previously, saying that the charter is "one of the ugliest initiatives I've seen. I'm very, very saddened by the turn of events."


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Wages in the Buffalo Niagara region are about 7 percent lower than the national average and lower still than wages paid in other upstate New York cities, according to federal data released Thursday.
Workers in Buffalo Niagara earn an annual average of $42,720, or $3,070 less than the national average, and about 20 percent, or $10,860, less than the statewide average, which is inflated by the heftier wages paid to workers in the more costly New York City area, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported.
While the New York City and Albany areas have higher average wages than the Buffalo market in part because they employ more workers in better-compensated sectors, such as financial services and state government, wages here also are lower because of the cost of living, economists say.
The bureau's data was from May 2012.
Whether looking at annual or hourly wages, the average pay of workers in Buffalo Niagara lags behind the pay of workers in the New York City, Albany, Syracuse and Rochester areas.
John Slenker, a regional economist for the state Labor Department, said the federal wage data is in line with similar statistics tracked by the state agency.
Slenker said differences in wages among regions are based on two factors: differences in pay, which can be driven by differences in the cost of living, and differences in the dominant industries. "You have both of those things happening," he said.
Yes, Slenker continued, the pay levels in Buffalo Niagara are lower than the pay levels in other upstate cities, but the difference is modest.
And where there are big differences in pay, such as between Buffalo and New York City, a lot of this gap is driven by the difference in the cost of housing, entertainment and food between the two areas, he said. "That's the other side of it," Slenker said.
Average hourly wages in Buffalo-Niagara Falls were $20.54, or $1.47 less than the national average and $5.22 less than the statewide average, which is swollen by the high pay earned by downstate workers.
Comparing this region with other upstate regions, workers in Buffalo Niagara earn $2.37 less per hour than workers in the Albany metro area, 88 cents less than workers in the Syracuse area and 74 cents less than workers in the Rochester area, the bureau found.
Pay levels in the Albany area are boosted by the number of workers employed by the state government, said Martin Kohli, the bureau's chief regional economist. And in the New York City area, where the average hourly wage is $8.09 higher than here, the dominance of the financial services sector also drives up the rate of pay for workers in many supporting fields, such as information technology, he said. "It's having an indirect effect on other wages," Kohli said.
While Western New York is home to a number of employees of commercial banks, those don't pay as well as Wall Street banks, Kohli said. And the average annual wage for education, training and library workers was $47,480, or $3,730 lower than the $51,210 paid to their peers nationwide.
"Those are all making significantly less in Buffalo than the national average," Kohli said, referring to these and other white-collar jobs.
But workers in the construction and protective service fields – a category that includes police and correction officers – earn more here than the national average, the bureau found.
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Statewide voter turnout high for presidential election
WINSTED >> Although President Obama was declared the winner of the 2012 elections on Nov. 6, the results are not official until all of the elections have been certified. Sunday's audit was Winsted's step towards verifying the results, and moderator Debbie Angell said the initial counts were almost entirely accurate.
"When you're talking 4,711 votes," Angell said, "to pick up a couple of votes is whatever."
Mitt Romney, the Republican candidate for the office of President, gained four votes in the audit, but the recount made no difference in the outcome of the results. Romney outvoted Obama in Winsted, and Obama's initial count of 2,211 held up. The accuracy of the initial tallies -- over 99 percent, according to Angell -- was reassuring to Winsted's elections moderator.
"When you're counting 4,700 votes, and you're off by one vote, I don't see that as a problem," she said.
According to state statutes, 10 percent of Connecticut's voting precincts using electronic scan ballots must be subjected to a hand recount. Secretary of the State Denise Merrill announced the precincts to be included in the audit on Nov. 20, and the last day to perform the audit is Dec. 3. Merrill's office certified the election results on Nov. 28, joining states across the country in confirming President Obama's reelection.
The audit included precincts in Andover, Berlin, Bloomfield, Bozrah, Bridgeport, Chester, Clinton, Colchester, Cornwall, Danbury, East Hartford, East Windsor, Essex, Greenwich, Guilford, Lebanon, Madison, Manchester, Meriden, Middletown, Milford, Naugatuck, New Britain, New Canaan, New Fairfield, Newington, Norwich, Oxford, Plainville, Putnam, Sharon, Shelton, Southington, Tolland, Torrington, Trumbull, Vernon, Wallingford, Waterbury, Waterford, West Hartford, Westbrook, Wethersfield, Winchester, Windsor, Wolcott and Woodbury. Two precincts in Bristol, Cheshire, New Milford, North Branford, Stratford and Westport were included, while three precincts in Hartford and West Haven, four precincts in Stamford and six precincts in New Haven were chosen.
During the announcement of which precincts would be audited, Merrill also announced that 13 towns had not reported their turnout totals. Winchester was on that list, but the town had submitted its results in time for Merrill's office to certify the results. Statewide, 73.77 percent of registered voters cast ballots, which -- although it fell short of the 2008 total of 78.14 percent -- was still the seventh highest percentage nationally.
"Despite the challenges we faced following Hurricane Sandy, Connecticut voters came to the polls with a very strong turnout on Election Day," Merrill wrote in a press release.
Reach Jason Siedzik at (860) 489-3121, ext. 321 or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/RCjsiedzik. Follow us online at www.registercitizen.com or on twitter.com/registercitizen.


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Urgent Messages
Messages surround us everywhere we look. We are in fact, saturated with information. How do certain messages gain our attention, and what does it mean for a message to be urgent?
"Urgent Messages" is an exhibition in the form of an extended poster-making workshop. Viewers are asked to consider an urgent message they want to deliver—is it political, personal, funny, or absurd? Is it a cry for help, a missive of hope, or a proclamation of wisdom?
We provide the means—a risograph printer and a kit of pre-made graphics commissioned for the exhibition—and ask workshop participants to design posters that relay their urgent message. Participants receive an edition of 20 of their posters to take with them to put out in the world.
Featuring kits designed by: Ashley Robin Franklin + Brandy Shigemoto + Claudia Gamundi + Edith Valle + Garland Kirkpatrick + Harsh Patel + Jesse Jaramillo + Jimmy Luu + Rene Cruz + Suthada Wadkhien + Tuan Phan + Yewon Kwon
Date: Wednesday, November 28 / 7pm-9pm
Price: Free!
Maximum 12 participants
Duration: 2 hours
Ink colors: Red and yellow
Each participant receives an edition of 20 two-color posters to take with them to put out in the world.
All supplies will be provided.
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***1/2 (out of four)
In the immensely authentic, Chicago-made "Drinking Buddies," the chemistry between pals and Revolution Brewing co-workers Kate (Olivia Wilde) and Luke (Chicago native Jake Johnson of "New Girl") isn't the elephant in the room. It's a freaking Tyrannosaurus Rex in the room, so great is the natural dynamic between these friends who are both seeing other people.
Kate and Luke aren't alone in their uncertainty -- when Luke and his girlfriend, Jill (Anna Kendrick), join Kate and her boyfriend, Chris (Ron Livingston), for a lakeside Michigan weekend, the pairs quickly get tangled. Chris and Jill share ease and respect on a hike; Kate and Luke prefer to stay in and perpetuate a closeness they know grazes past platonic lines but enjoy too much to cool off.
The concept's familiar, but with his best film to date, writer-director Joe Swanberg ("Nights and Weekends") uses flailing monogamy and emotionally driven temptation to craft a film that overflows with truth. These characters handle some situations well and some badly, but always do so realistically. Once consumed with the mundane to the point of capturing nothingness, Swanberg delivers a film that's borderline effortless in its observation of relationships and portrayal of relatable characters. Casual flirtation explodes , with the fantasy of the non-relationship -- the friend who seems so ideal because there's actually no romantic accountability binding you two -- batting its eyes and daring everyone to wink back.
The cast bubbles with charm while giving each character his or her own fatal flaw. Yet Swanberg, despite a few developments that lack creativity, never pushes farther than he needs to or settles for easy answers. He also provides a great showcase for the bearded, booze-swilling Chicago that thrives on wood paneling and beer on tap.
The role of timing in relationships and the sometimes-delayed, gnawing virus of guilt is nothing new. But "Drinking Buddies" is streamlined and real like a new favorite song that both reminds you of something you already loved and gets you to see it with fresh eyes.
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QUOTE | "I think Steam is ... probably the most important thing that's happened to indie games in the last 10 years." — Fullbright Company co-founder Steve Gaynor on reactions to his game Gone Home and how indies must think about sales platforms.
Elsewhere in the business of video games this week ...
QUOTE | "We expect both Sony and Microsoft to be very profitable in the next generation." — Analyst Michael Pachter, discussing the prospects for the console business over the next several years, though he is "sceptical" that Nintendo will turn a profit on the Wii U.
QUOTE | "There's no measuring spoon for love. You can't quantify it. Retention is not the same as happiness." — Laralyn McWilliams, former creative lead on Free Realms, on why metrics can't judge a player's love for a game.
STAT | $US77 billion — Worldwide game revenue for 2014, as forecast by analyst firm DFC Intelligence; the firm sees global game revenues reaching $US96 billion by 2018.
QUOTE | "We expect that Destiny will become the best-selling new video game IP in history when it launches." — Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick, expressing his optimism for Bungie's new game launching September 9.
QUOTE | "They want to engage in our console franchises, they want to see them on mobile devices, but we really aren't doing very well at helping them out with that." — Ubisoft VP of digital Chris Early, on the challenge of creating tablet/console crossover titles.
QUOTE | "The fear and trepidation is something I feel like to a large degree we've overcome." — NPD's David McQuillan, on how difficult it's been to get publishers to share data on digital game sales.
STAT | 48 per cent — Amount of PS Vita software sales that are digital downloads, according to Sony; also, so far one-third of PS Vita owners have purchased a PlayStation 4.
STAT | 47 per cent — Amount US video game hardware sales rose in January versus January 2013, once you adjust it for the extra week in January 2013's numbers; by contrast, software revenues dropped by 25 per cent by the same figuring.
QUOTE | "It's a talent business. The office isn't valuable because of the computers, or the kettle, it's the people." — Tony Beckwith of Studio Gobo, on why they are "extremely fussy" when it comes to hiring people.
STAT | $US689 million — Revenue that mobile game maker Supercell brought in during 2013; the company brought in a gross profit of $US322 million, all on two games: Clash of Clans and Hay Day.
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itissteeltime wrote:Even though it seems the majority of people here say yes, I don't think I can be convinced they are correct. Again, if you guys are talking about stealing the bottle, worth a couple cents recycled, then I agree that's theft. However, I cannot figure out in my head what the difference is between taking what is left in a bottle, and dumping the contents into those little plastic cups. If anything, you're using more of their inventory when you ask for an extra cup.
The question posed is "Is it stealing to take the bottle of hot sauce from chipotle" [sic]. There was no clarification on the amount of sauce left in said bottle. That could mean anything from a normal plastic container-sized portion that is meant to be complementary, or a full unopened bottle. When answering a binary question, worst case scenario has to be controlling.
So yes, it's bloody stealing to take a whole bottle of hot sauce from a restaurant.
And I like how 90-10 'seems' like people say it's stealing.
itissteeltime wrote:ok - So it's the physical bottle you guys are concerned about, not the content within the bottle? I've never taken an unopened new bottle. But if there is like 1/3 of the bottle, which I'd either use on my burrito, or empty entirely into a little plastic cup, it's still wrong?
If you are using 1/3 of a bottle of hot sauce on a burrito, why bother buying the burrito? Save your stomach the trouble and just drink the hot sauce.
I have a desk drawer at work with about 8-10 different hot sauces. I love hot sauce. Never in a million years would I consider it a worthwhile endeavor to put 4 oz of hot sauce on anything that was burrito sized. It's a waste of a burrito.
yubb wrote:In the latter case, if enough people do what you do then Chipotle may alter how they divvy out hot sauce.
My buddy used to work out at a Crossfit gym in West Hollywood that was down the street from a Whole Foods. Every Wednesday, WF would have bacon in the breakfast buffet. Bacon for Crossfitters is like blood to sharks. They'd descend on WF after the morning workouts and simply house all the bacon.... and since it was part of the breakfast bar, you could get a full pound of bacon for like $5, which is considerably less expensive than buying packaged bacon to cook at home. (At least at WF)
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The Federal Reserve today declined to curtail its economic stimulus program, surprising investors who had expected the government's bond-buying to be tapered off starting this month.
Investors anticipated that the policy statement at the end of the two-day Federal Open Market Committe meeting today would lead to a "tapering" announcement of the Federal Reserve's $85 billion a month bond purchase program. The question was how much the Federal Reserve would scale back its purchases. Many investors on Wall Street expected the Federal Reserve to cut its purchases by about $10 billion to $15 billion. Instead, it did nothing. Stocks moved sharply higher on the news.
"Today's moment of truth, at which the FOMC was widely expected to announce its first reduction in the pace of quantitative easing—and therefore the turning point in a five year old monetary policy regime—has fallen flat," said Guy LeBas, chief fixed income strategist with Janney Capital Markets, in a research note. "Instead, what we have from the central bank is just one more brick in the carefully-laid wall of shifting monetary policy...Bernanke simply isn't willing to give up. Not yet, at least. That will have to wait for November."
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will go in front of cameras for his quarterly news conference at 2:30 p.m. ET.
"Taking into account the extent of federal fiscal retrenchment, the Committee sees the improvement in economic activity and labor market conditions since it began its asset purchase program a year ago as consistent with growing underlying strength in the broader economy," the Fed said in a statement. "However, the Committee decided to await more evidence that progress will be sustained before adjusting the pace of its purchases. Accordingly, the Committee decided to continue purchasing additional agency mortgage-backed securities at a pace of $40 billion per month and longer-term Treasury securities at a pace of $45 billion per month."
In the spring, markets tumbled after Bernanke said the Federal Reserve would consider reducing purchases in light of improving economic data, such as employment figures. The Fed's bond purchases since the 2007-2008 recession have flooded the economy with cash, spurring lending and keeping interest rates low.
The Fed has said in previous policy statements that it would keep the federal funds rate, the rate at which banks lend to each other overnight, at zero to one quarter percent while the unemployment rate remains above 6.5 percent and inflation remains in line with expectations.
The unemployment rate is 7.3 percent, according to the Labor Department's most recent jobs report for August.
Read More: What People Are Saying About the Federal Reserve Chair Candidates
While the effect of Wednesday's news on interest rates and stock prices was positive, "the signal for the real economy was not good," said Brad McMillan, chief investment officer for Commonwealth Financial.
"For the Fed to maintain the current level of stimulus suggests that they think the real economy is weaker than is widely supposed," he said. "If that is the case, then employment and spending may increase less in the next several months than most people now expect."


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Rated 1 out of 5 by 1LUV from I'M SO SAD I literally read every review on every wreath sold by Williams-Sonoma and this one had great feedback so I spent WAY more than I wanted to for this and crossed my fingers only to be totally disappointed. Sadly this is NOT as pictured. There is no red, no purple, no yellow…..just dull, dry and washed out looking. I wanted so badly for this to be amazing, but it's not. I doubt that I will ever order a direct from vendor item again from Williams-Sonoma as there is no quality control on these!Date published: 2017-01-27Rated 5 out of 5 by GabrieleM from Gorgeous Wreath Received my wreaths today. They came perfectly packaged. I am very pleased with my order. Can't wait to hang them on my doors!Date published: 2016-01-06Rated 5 out of 5 by ASquidinTexas from Great Fall Wreath Wreath was beautiful and was as it is shown in the photo. It has nice proportions and was scaled right for my 10"-0" high entry door. It held up so well, that I stored it in a box for next Fall.Date published: 2016-01-05Rated 5 out of 5 by KarenfromKingwood from Stunning wreath Wreath was much nicer than I expected. It was large and I ordered the wreath hanger that works well with the wreath. I am totally satisfied, just wish I had ordered it sooner so we could have enjoyed it sooner. It was very well packed with no damage. I have it hanging in our entry and it looks wonderful and I have had many, many compliments already. Makes the house feel warm and inviting!Date published: 2015-11-20Rated 5 out of 5 by kebbers from Beautiful wreath! The Williams-Sonoma grains wreath is exactly like it is displayed on their website.Date published: 2015-10-29Rated 5 out of 5 by Njgram from Beautiful Wreath I was hesitant about spending this amount for a wreath--but it was well worth the money! It is hanging in my entry and may only be taken down for Christmas. It is beautiful - and- my husband agrees! I ordered the large one and it does need a bit of space to show off. I appreciate that it is hand made is the US. Highly recommended!Date published: 2015-10-24Rated 5 out of 5 by Deanie1 from Decorative and nice Love this wreath. Looks great on my door. I do have a covered porch. I would not expose it to the elements, however. My only gripe is that it took a while to arrive. Other than that, I give it a thumbs up.Date published: 2015-09-16Rated 5 out of 5 by JulsM from Birthday Present for Parent We bought this for my mother and she loved it. They hung it inside the house & enjoyed its scent. I was a bit hesitant as I noticed that some other wreaths did not get 5 stars but I can say it was well worth the money and a great present to give someone. .Date published: 2014-11-26


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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
summertime bento brunch
She had a lunch kabob made with colby cheese and leftover sausage that my husband made the other night. I think it's bratwurst? I'm not sure. I think it's gross and don't eat it myself, but Paige thinks it's great and is thrilled when it makes an appearance. She also has blackberries & raspberries, cucumber slices, and a few butterfly crackers with a couple mini-heart shaped cut outs of pomegranate fruit leather.
That cucumber was grown from our very own garden! We only planted two cucumber plants and I was fully expecting them to die. Let it be known, I do not have a green thumb. But we have cucumbers o' plenty! It's very exciting. And a little challenging to keep Paige from going out and eating the cucumbers straight off the plants. Two thumb-sized not-ready-to-be-picked-yet cucumbers have already fallen victim to her impatience and voracious appetite. ;-)
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Today is your LAST day to enter the fun bento goodie giveaway, to benefit Alex and the Kallas family. I'll be closing the contest later tonight. Don't miss your chance to get in a few entries (by voting!!) for your chance to win. Again, THANK YOU so much for taking a minute out of your busy day to cast your votes! It's not the easiest voting set-up, but your effort is very appreciated!
11 comments:
- ✿ Belle ✿ said... [Reply to comment]
cucumber look great! i love the idea with the sausage! will try :)
- July 13, 2010 at 2:48 PM
- Otiiva said... [Reply to comment]
I'm so inspired by your creations, that I bought Bento-style lunch boxes for my kids for the fall!! I'm so excited! I even just bought the egg molds too, as they are completely obsessed with eggs lately! Keep it coming, now I'll need lots of ideas come September!! :D
- July 13, 2010 at 2:59 PM
- Wendy said... [Reply to comment]
I love the graphical elegance of this lunch. So pretty!
- July 13, 2010 at 3:08 PM
- Kelly Polizzi said... [Reply to comment]
oh that was such a neat idea with the sausage and cheese. And I LOVE those butterfly crackers. Haven't seen them before.
- July 13, 2010 at 6:50 PM
- Jenn @ BentoForKidlet said... [Reply to comment]
Yummy! I need some butterfly crackers now :P I love those things!
- July 13, 2010 at 9:03 PM
- The Iowa Farmer's Wife said... [Reply to comment]
So cute! I bought 4 new cookie cutters last week! A butterfly, star, heart and cross. Thanks for your inspirations! :)
- July 13, 2010 at 9:24 PM
- Monica said... [Reply to comment]
I love your site and I just gave you an award. You can pick it up here http://lifeissooogood.blogspot.com/2010/07/yay-for-me_13.html
- July 14, 2010 at 12:01 AM
- Josh said... [Reply to comment]
Hi, hope it's OK to contact you with this comment. We'd like to offer you to be included on our giveaway search engine: Giveaway Scout (http://www.giveawayscout.com). Have a look and if interested, use our online form to add your blog (http://www.giveawayscout.com/addblog/ ). thanks, Josh
- July 14, 2010 at 4:49 AM
- Raji P. said... [Reply to comment]
I cannot find those long picks anywhere, Melissa. That is all that is missing for me - that which is preventing me from making the world's most creative lunches. haha. HAHAHA. ya right!!
You will notice a lot of hits on your blog from Austin now, I've been shouting your praises from the rooftops on my 2 moms' lists.
- July 14, 2010 at 7:40 AM
- Melanie said... [Reply to comment]
one day i hope i can create lunches as fabulous as yours. :)
- July 14, 2010 at 10:49 PM
Such creative ideas! I don't have kids, but I think anyone would love a cute lunch like this! Oh, and kudos on your cukes. My solo plant didn't make it :0(
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A car that was so cheap when new that a trunklid was an option? The Henry J was such a car, and Evestay has found an example that still survives on the streets of Denver.
Buyers who didn't want to splurge on the frivolous trunklid option had to fold down the back seat in order to get access to the trunk. Try explaining that to the Yaris buyer who whines because he has to pay extra for cruise control!


text: Pro-Life Tuesday, 01/08/13 10:39:22 PM Re: Pro-Life post# 52 Post # of 61 No end flagged for iron ore rally January 8, 2013 - 3:44PM http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/business/mining-and-resources/no-end-flagged-for-iron-ore-rally-20130108-2cegb.html Quote:Spot iron ore prices rose to almost 15-month highs, sustaining a rally that began last month and could extend amid a limited supply of spot cargoes, as top buyer China rebuilds stockpiles on hopes a mending economy will buoy steel demand. Concern that an upcoming cyclone season could disrupt supply from top iron ore exporter Australia and firmer Chinese steel prices could stretch gains in iron ore prices which have already surged more than 33 per cent since early December. Benchmark iron ore with 62 per cent iron content rose 0.4 per cent to $US153.90 a tonne on Monday, the highest since October 14, 2011, based on data from Steel Index. Iron ore, the raw material used to make steel, has rebounded 77 per cent since hitting three-year lows below $US87 in September as Chinese appetite bounced back along with signs its economic growth is picking up. Advertisement "There's a lot of speculative buying going on and supply in the open market has been relatively short," said Jamie Pearce, head of iron ore broking at SSY Futures. Slower domestic production of iron ore in China, especially in the northern regions due to winter, and limited flows of spot cargoes from Australia, Brazil and India have also helped push up prices, said Mr Pearce. Australia's cyclone season could start as early as this week, with weather forecasters saying last week that a low-intensity storm off the western coast could intensify, potentially disrupting shipments of iron ore. That could prolong a rally in prices as Chinese mills continue to replenish stockpiles at major ports that have fallen to less than 80 million tonnes from 90-100 million tonnes for the most part of 2012. "I'm expecting prices to move further up," said a physical trader in Singapore, adding the benchmark 62 per cent iron ore could hit $US170 in the near term. Steel prices help sustain rally A slightly higher-grade cargo, a 70,000-tonne Brazilian 63.5 per cent material for delivery to China's Qingdao port in March, was sold at $US158 per tonne on Tuesday via the GlobalOre trading platform, traders said. Miner Rio Tinto is selling 165,000 tonnes of 61.5 per cent grade Pilbara iron ore fines at a tender closing later in the day, traders said. Rising Chinese steel prices are also helping sustain the rally in iron ore, pointing to a recovery in end-user demand. The price of spot billet in China's key Tangshan area rose by another 60 yuan ($US10) per tonne on Tuesday, adding to a 50-yuan rise on Monday, the Singapore trader said. In Shanghai, the most-traded rebar futures for May delivery reversed early losses to trade up 0.4 per cent at 4019 yuan per tonne by the midday break. It hit a six-month peak of 4047 yuan on Monday. But the increase in steel prices is also fuelled by the rise in iron ore costs of steelmakers, prompting China's biggest listed steelmaker Baoshan Iron and Steel to lift prices for a third month in a row for February. "China's new leadership has emphasized ongoing investment into transport and civil infrastructure. Combined with stabilising and improving real estate sales, end-demand prospects for steel in China are looking better than 3-6 months ago," Commonwealth Bank said in a note. "While end-demand prospects are improving, the current surge in iron ore prices looks overdone. We suspect iron prices will either take a breather in the coming weeks or we'll need to see further increases in Chinese steel prices to sustain iron ore above $US150/tonne," the bank said. Reuters


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A bent bike and a STUCK bottom bracket. Maybe you should leave the bike and come back tomorrow. Maybe I can't do it while you wait because I still have 3 tune-ups to finish before close. Or maybe I know I'm going to have to do something to your bike that you don't want to see me doing. If you think of your bike as your best friend, your must trusted companion, well he's really f***** up and I'm going to put my foot in the small of his back and reset his shoulder with no anesthesia…..I don't think you want to be there in the room when I do it.
This bottom bracket was so stuck that I couldn't budge it even while hauling on the wrench with a cheater bar. So I pulled the bike out of the stand so I could stand on the cheater bar. If this amount of force is necessary, this method is actually a very controllable way to apply it. Keep in mind that my splined BB tool has a bolt and threaded washer to keep it from slipping off the cup or buggering the splines, and the flooring is old rug over plywood. When the BB breaks free, the swing of the wrench stops when the cheater bar hits the floor. It's so easy to come a cropper when two people are pulling opposite directions at frame and wrench with the bike in a workstand, but put the bike on the ground and you let gravity do most of the work. The frame/fork is unlikely to be damaged at the contact points with that floor, and the alignment isn't going to be disturbed. Even if warping the alignment was a risk, in this case it totally doesn't matter: the bike was bent from a collision and the bottom bracket had to come out so that the bike could be placed on the alignment table. Under these conditions, bike mechanics is a no-holds-barred event.
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A regular Post-graduate Diploma Course in Journalism (Odia) was introduced during 2001-02 at IIMC, Dhenkanal for catering to the growing needs of the Odia language media. It was for the first time that a language journalism course, besides Hindi, was launched by IIMC. The regional media industry has extended full cooperation in running the course since its inception. Editors and senior media-professionals often visit IIMC, Dhenkanal and interact with the students for enhancing their understanding and providing exposure to the practical intricacies of the profession.
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