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Jim Rome's first call of the new year Tuesday was, big surprise, from Houston, where KILT (610 AM) dropped the show last week after more than 14 years to air a local show hosted by Mike Meltser and Brad Davies.
Rome was restrained in his comments but obviously is wounded by the decision by KILT program director Gavin Spittle to pull the show in the wake of several months of stagnant ratings that have resulted in KILT ranking second in that day part to KBME (790 AM).
"Houston was one of the first big markets and first big affiliates to take a chance on this show," Rome said. "… We had an amazing run in that town on the same station. I'm sad and I'm pissed because the station has decided not to renew the show.
"Interesting market. There are three other (sports) stations in the market. I want to say this: Business is business. No babies allowed. Big boys' game. Stations will do what they do, and I understand that. I respect it. I don't like it at all. I think it's the wrong decision, personally."
Rome encouraged Houston listeners to "make some noise" and lobby KILT to take back the show or another Houston station to pick it up.
"I'm not giving up on you, H-town. Don't give up on me," he said. "Just keep banging away. It might not happen today. It might not happen tomorrow. But we're exploring options to make something happen. Just keep banging away."
Rome also mentioned his several visits to Houston over the years and added, "The clones there mean the world to me."
Rome also mentioned the show's departure in a Facebook post and in several Twitter messages, including one that read, "Given how long we had been there and how many offers we had to leave, their decision is extremely disappointing."
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While doing some recent research, I came across a list of the most annoying "Business Cliches" used in today's business environment. Number one on this list was "Think outside the Box". After reading enough business journals and speaking with various business people, I would have to agree with this conclusion. It would appear odd to start this article with such an overused/annoying phrase and I will avoid the temptation to do it, but the reference can be used.Read More


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The following is Publisher Larry Tobin's Ups-N-Downs Column for June 19, 2007:
Want to find out some facts about the global warming issue? Just go to www.aconvenientfiction.com. While I know it sounds like it might be a slam on Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth," it isn't really. It provides a lot of fact and fiction on both sides of the issue, unlike Gore's movie, which only provides one very unbalanced and unscientific side.
Because I note a lot of the exaggerations of the global warming issue, I'm sure a lot of people think I don't believe any of it. I will not argue the fact that the earth has warmed slightly. But a one degree increase in the average temperature over 100 years is not the alarming or pending tragedy that the extremists want us to believe. Plus, that single degree is a worldwide average. It varies from place to place on the planet.
There was, you may recall, a greater warming period, known to science, during the Middle Ages. That was followed (also known to science) by a mini-ice age. There have been climatic changes throughout the history of the planet.
What is irritating about Gore and other global warming extremists is that they distort science and grossly exaggerate the risks. And, to listen to them, anyone who disagrees with them is corrupt and evil. If you'll notice the diatribes, these folks claim the debate is closed, but most of those people are notably not scientists. They are politicians and members of the major media.
I've heard these people claim that the Polar Ice Caps are melting and that the rising oceans will flood New York City under 20 feet of water. Yet, when you see the response of scientists, even those who agree with the likelihood of man-caused global warming, they note that if every cube of ice in the world melted, it would only add 16-17 inches of water to the oceans. Not exactly major flooding to be reckoned with.
Why is Gore such an alarmist? I believe it's a power thing.
If you watch his movie or read his book, you'll find that he offers no solutions. Indeed, he won't even add earth-friendly features to his 20-room, energy-gulping mansion.
No, what Gore is about is "changing attitudes." Attitudes have to be changed before the American people will accept more government intervention and intrusion into their lives. But attitudes won't change without crisis stimulation. It's the old " an asteroid is about to hit the earth" theory. Without impending doom, people will not allow government to expand its powers in ways clearly contrary to the Constitution. That's why he wants to change attitudes toward government as much as he wants to preach about the environment.
Somebody called global warming "the moral equivalent of war." That's what Gore is banking on to give politicians the power to take over in ways they could never do without a crisis.
"Government will save us all if you let it!"
So far, very few of us believe that. You've probably all stood in line at the Department of Transportation licensing office. Is that how you want every other aspect of your life run as well? I don't think so.
But that's what the great liberal defenders of the little guy would have us endure. "Let government save you!"
This whole thing is little about saving the planet in the long run. It's about changing the attitudes of the American people in ways that would allow government to invade their lives beyond imagination. In order for the ultra-liberal extremists to do that, however, they need a crisis – real or improvised.
This one's improvised folks!
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Some gym owners report seeing a 30 to 40 percent increase in traffic in the month of January. And most of those crowding in just signed up as part of their New Year's resolution.
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Pistons Select Andre Drummond With The Ninth Pick In The 2012 NBA Draft
Khris Middleton Selected 39th and Kim English 44th
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. – The Detroit Pistons announced today that the club has selected Andre Drummond with the with the ninth pick in the first round of the 2012 NBA Draft held on Thursday, June 28. The club also selected Khris Middleton with the 39th pick and Kim English with the 44th pick in the second round.
"We are pleased to draft Andre Drummond with the number nine pick," said Joe Dumars, Pistons President of Basketball Operations. "He's a player with good size and physical tools and we look forward to seeing him grow within our organization. We're real pleased to add Khris Middleton and Kim English in the second round. They're two young players that will give us quality depth at the wing positions."
Drummond, a 6-11, 279-pound center from the University of Connecticut, averaged 10.0 points, 7.6 rebounds, 0.4 assists and 2.7 blocks as a freshman for the Huskies. In 34 games, he shot a team-high 53.8% from the field and ranked third in blocks (2.7) in the Big East Conference. Drummond recorded a season-high 24 points (11-12 FG), eight rebounds and five blocks vs. Holy Cross (12/18). Drummond also earned two Big East Big East Rookie of the Week honors last season by scoring 20 points and grabbing 11 rebounds vs. West Virginia (1/9) and 18 points (9-12 FG) with seven rebounds at Georgetown (2/1). A native of Mount Vernon, N.Y., he was rated the No.1 high school prospect by Scout.com, No.2 in the ESPNU Top-100 and led St. Thomas More (Conn.) to the 2011 Prep National Championship.
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A few months ago, we caught up with Gary Arndt, author of Everything Everywhere, in a podcast. We talked to him about how he quit his job, sold his house, and started traveling the world. For the last three years he's been documenting his travels on Everything Everywhere, which was voted one of Time Magazine's 25 Best Blogs of 2010.
The reason I'm bringing up Gary is that I stumbled upon a guest post he wrote on the The Blog of Tim Ferriss, called "20 Things I've Learned From Traveling Around the World for Three Years." Everything he's learned I can say I, too, have learned in my 30 plus years of traveling.
Not only that, but a few of his lessons are the very same ones I am constantly preaching, such as everyone should travel. Traveling exposes you to different cultures, but it also teaches you that despite where we come from, we're not all so different from one another.
Gary also brings up an important point about the political protests we covered in detail when they occurred earlier in the year in Bangkok, Thailand. He was in Bangkok at the time of the protests, and he witnessed firsthand, that unless you were in the area where these protests were occurring, you would never know they were happening.
Bangkok is a sprawling city, and these protests were occurring in isolated areas. It broke my heart when tourism to this magnificent country suffered because of reports that led travelers to believe it was unsafe to go there. Fortunately, tourism to Thailand has been rebounding beautifully and all has returned to normal.
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BUCKNER--- The beginning couldn't have gone much better for Oldham County.
Right-footed senior forward Jay Davis had the Colonels on the board with a goal off his left foot just 2:32 into the game.
The goal helped send Oldham County to a 2-1 win over Collins in the boys soccer 16th district championship, but it didn't quite propel the Colonels through the game.
Following Davis' goal, Oldham County coach Brian Durbin said he saw his team go into a bit of a lull. The Colonels didn't build on their first goal.
"We got an early goal and then just sat back and didn't do what we could've done," Durbin said."I feel like after our first goal today, we let up. It's always good to get an early goal, I just wish we'd continue to pressure and continue to play forward."
Oldham County also dodged a few bullets.
The Titans had three just misses after that opening goal in the first half. The last was a shot by Collins senior midfielder Baker Medley that went wide right at the 14:30 mark. Nearly five minutes later, Medley didn't miss, with a goal at the 9:34 mark that tied the game 1-1.
But like they did to begin the game, the Colonels struck quickly in the second half.
"This first half was probably the worst first half we had all year," Davis said. "(Durbin) told us that and we knew. We didn't have that good of a second half, we just played hard and got the result."
Senior midfielder Dallas Moore booted the ball from 25 yards out that curved in under the crossbar 1:51 into the half. Collins junior goalkeeper Brandon Hughes came out, but didn't even attempt to block the ball that was a little wind-aided.
"The first half, we didn't play very intense," Moore said. "We got the first goal and after that, we stopped playing the game we were playing. We were going out wide at the beginning of the game and then we started just hitting it over the top. The second half, we got the ball out wide more and that opened up the game a little more."
This time, Oldham County built on its opening goal. Neither team scored the rest of the way, with the Titans just missing on more opportunities.
Collins junior defender Logan Bailey received a yellow card with 2:03 left in the game and a minute and a half later, junior midfielder Austin Huff had a goal on a header waived off after he was called for a foul on Oldham County senior goalkeeper Evan Gallagher.
Moore, Davis, junior Jared Kemper and sophomore Tanner Forrest were all named to the all-district tournament team for the Colonels.
Oldham County has a quick turnaround as it travels to Ballard for the first round of the region tournament on Monday, with gametime to be announced.
Durbin said he was a bit upset with the lull in performance, but at the same time, he smiled when asked about it.
"We've got a bunch of nice kids," Durbin said. "I wish some of them would find that killer instinct after the first goal and start putting it to 'em. But we do have that tendency to lag off a bit after one goal."
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2014: Tommy Ramone, the founding drummer and last surviving original member of the punk rock band the Ramones, dies at age 65 at his home in the Ridgewood area of Queens, New York. He had been in hospice care following treatment for bile duct cancer. Born Erdelyi Tamas in Budapest, Hungary, he played with the band for the first four years of its existence, appearing on the first three Ramones' records. He wrote "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" and the majority of "Blitzkrieg Bop" for the Ramones and also co-produced several of the band's albums. [ + - ]
2009: Italian-Canadian boxer Arturo Gatti, who won world championships designated by two different boxing boards in two different weight classes, is found dead in a hotel room in Ipojuca, Brazil, at age 37. Gatti, an inductee of the International Boxing Hall of Fame, compiled a career record of 40 wins (31 by knockout) and nine losses. The Brazilian authorities initially ruled Gatti's death a homicide, with his widow initially arrested in connection with his death, but after further studies ruled it was a suicide. [ + - ]
2008: Michael E. DeBakey, the world-renowned cardiac surgeon, innovator and scientist, dies at age 99 in Houston, Texas. A pioneer in the development of an artificial heart, DeBakey also was one of the first to perform coronary artery bypass surgery and performed the first successful carotid endarterectomy in 1953. He also led the team that completed the first simultaneous multi-organ transplant from one donor to four recipients in 1968. [ + - ]
2008: Apple releases the iPhone 3G. [ + - ]
2007: Lady Bird Johnson, who was first lady from 1963 to 1969 as the wife of President Lyndon B. Johnson, dies at age 94 in West Lake Hills, Texas. She was a lifelong advocate for beautifying the nation's cities and highways and the Highway Beautification Act was informally known as Lady Bird's Bill. She also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest U.S. civilian honors. [ + - ]
2006: A total of 209 people are killed in a series of seven train bomb blasts in Mumbai, India. The attacks, which also injured another 700 people, were carried out by Lashkar-e-Taiba and Students Islamic Movement of India, according to Mumbai authorities. [ + - ]
1998: U.S. Air Force Lt. Michael Blassie, a casualty of the Vietnam War, is laid to rest near his Missouri home. He had been positively identified from his remains that had been enshrined in the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington, Virginia. [ + - ]
1996: Singer-songwriter Alessia Cara is born Alessia Caracciolo in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. She's best known for the songs "Here" and "Scars to Your Beautiful" and won the Grammy for Best New Artist in 2018. [ + - ]
1990: Tennis player Caroline Wozniacki, who topped the rankings in 2010 and 2011 and won the 2018 Australian Open, is born in Odense, Denmark. [ + - ]
1989: English actor, director and producer Laurence Olivier, regarded by many to be the greatest actor of the 20th century, dies of renal failure at the age of 82 in Ashurst, West Sussex, England. Olivier is known for his three Shakespeare films as actor-director, 1944's "Henry V," 1948's "Hamlet" and 1955's "Richard III." He was nominated for a total of 12 Academy Awards, winning Best Actor for "Hamlet." He also received an honorary Oscar in 1947 for the "outstanding achievement" of bringing "Henry V" to the screen and another honorary Oscar in 1979 for his entire body of work. Besides his Shakespearean roles, Olivier played many other roles on stage and screen, including roles in movies such as "Wuthering Heights," "Rebecca," "Spartacus," "Sleuth," "Marathon Man," "A Bridge Too Far" and "The Boys from Brazil." [ + - ]
1985: Nolan Ryan becomes the first major-league pitcher to earn 4,000 strikeouts in a career. [ + - ]
1979: America's first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean. [ + - ]
1977: Martin Luther King Jr., pictured here in 1964, is posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. [ + - ]
1975: Rapper and actress Lil' Kim, the only female rapper besides Missy Elliott to have at least three platinum albums, is born Kimberly Denise Jones in Brooklyn, New York. Some of her best known songs include "Get Money," "No Time," "Crush on You," "Not Tonight" and "Magic Stick." [ + - ]
1969: David Bowie's "Space Oddity" single is released in the U.K. [ + - ]
1960: "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee is first published. [ + - ]
1956: Actress Sela Ward, best known for the TV series "Sisters," "Once and Again" and "CSI: NY," is born in Meridian, Mississippi. [ + - ]
1955: The first class for the U.S. Air Force Academy is sworn in at a temporary site at Denver's Lowry Air Base while the permanent site is under construction near Colorado Springs. Here cadets from the first class line up for physical training. [ + - ]
1953: Professional boxer Leon Spinks, best known for his February 1978 upset of Muhammad Ali, is born in St. Louis, Missouri. Spinks won the undisputed world heavyweight championship by beating Ali in only his eighth professional match. However, he was stripped of the WBC title after fighting Ali in an unapproved rematch seven months later, which he lost by a 15-round unanimous decision. He also won a gold medal in the light heavyweight division at the 1976 Olympic Games and finished his pro career with a record of 26 wins (14 by knockout), 17 losses and three draws. [ + - ]
1946: Dean Martin records his first four songs, "Which Way Did My Heart Go," "All of Me," "I Got the Sun in the Morning" and "The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi." The first two tracks were the A and B sides, respectively, of his first single release. [ + - ]
1937: Composer George Gershwin, whose best works include the orchestral compositions "Rhapsody in Blue" and "An American in Paris" as well as the opera "Porgy and Bess," dies from a brain tumor at age 38 in Los Angeles, California. [ + - ]
1934: Fashion designer Giorgio Armani is born in Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. [ + - ]
1922: The Hollywood Bowl opens. [ + - ]
1921: Former U.S. President William Howard Taft is sworn in as the 10th chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the only person to ever be both a president and chief justice. [ + - ]
1920: Actor Yul Brynner, best known for roles in such movies as "The King and I," "The Magnificent Seven" and "The Ten Commandments," is born Yuliy Borisovich Briner in Vladivostok, Far Eastern Republic (present-day Primorsky Krai, Russia). He died of lung cancer at age 65 on Oct. 10, 1985. [ + - ]
1914: Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major League Baseball, pitching the Boston Red Sox to victory. [ + - ]
1899: E. B. White, best known for the children's novels "The Trumpet of the Swan," "Charlotte's Web" and "Stuart Little," is born in Mount Vernon, New York. He was also known as co-author of the English language style guide "The Elements of Style," which is commonly known as "Strunk & White." He died from Alzheimer's disease at the age of 86 on Oct. 1, 1985. [ + - ]
1895: The Lumière brothers (Auguste Lumière on the left and Louis Lumière on the right) demonstrate film technology to scientists. [ + - ]
1889: Tijuana, Mexico, is founded. [ + - ]
1864: During the Civil War, Confederate forces attempt to invade Washington, D.C., in the Battle of Fort Stevens. [ + - ]
1859: Westminster's Big Ben rings for the first time in London. [ + - ]
1804: U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a duel. Hamilton was carried to the home of William Bayard on the Manhattan shore, where he died at 2 p.m. the next day. [ + - ]
1798: The United States Marine Corps is re-established; it had been disbanded after the American Revolutionary War. [ + - ]
1767: John Quincy Adams, the sixth U.S. president from 1825 to 1829, is born in a part of Braintree, Massachusetts, that is now Quincy, Massachusetts. The son of former President John Adams and Abigail Adams, he was elected a U.S. representative from Massachusetts after leaving office, serving for the last 17 years of his life. He is, so far, the only president later elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. [ + - ]
Alexander Hamilton loses a duel, the Marine Corps is re-established, a space station plummets to Earth, and Martin Luther King earns a posthumous honor, all on this day.


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Back In The Day, Crew Safety Equipment Was Non-Existent. Today, It's A Different Story
Top-flight safety equipment isn't just for drivers anymore. More manufacturers are coming out with innovative designs to keep you safe while you're working on your race car. Let's face it, the pit area at any racetrack isn't the safest place on the face of the earth. The side of the pit road wall you are standing on has a lot to do with the type of safety equipment you require. And many sanctions leave those decisions up to you, the racer. We're going to take a look at both sides of the fence, or wall as the case may be.
Inside The Wall
It's a hot, steamy Saturday night at your local dirt track. Your driver has just completed his heat race and banged up the front quarter-panel. He complains of a strange noise in the motor. You open the hood to investigate, setting your tools and a hammer on the fender. You're just reaching down into the motor when Uncle Joey waltzes by, eating a hot dog, and bumps into you. Your forearm gets a little too close to the header, and psssttt. As you reel back in pain, you knock the hammer off the fender and it lands squarely on your big toe. You've burned your arm and broken your toe. Thanks a lot, Uncle Joey! Now, while seemingly far-fetched, that scenario is not out of the realm of possibility-especially if you're not wearing the right safety equipment.
For those of you on the "safe" side of the pit wall, there are three basic items you should always have with you: gloves, the proper shoes, and eye protection. Let's take a look at each one.
Gloves The mechanic glove revolution started back in 1991 in the motocross world. A group of guys began making gloves for motorcycle mechanics to protect their hands when changing tires. The first wrench to use the gloves was Brian Lunniss, the chief mechanic for famed Yamaha factory rider Damon Bradshaw. Lunniss began telling his friends, many of whom worked for top NASCAR teams, about the gloves. The rest, as they say, is history. Within a year, the newly named Mechanix Glove was all the rage in NASCAR, and Mechanix Wear was born. The second motorsports glove company, Ringers Gloves, came along in 1996. Now, a decade later, almost every safety equipment company offers a mechanic glove of some type.
There are gloves with fingers, gloves without fingers, gloves with gel inserts to resist impacts, vented gloves for hot weather, insulated gloves for cold weather, and more. Some are fire-retardant, with ratings as high as SFI 20. There is even a glove with a light on it to illuminate those hard-to-see places. The light glove is one of 29 styles offered by Mechanix Wear, while Ringers has 14 different gloves.
So, why so many different styles?
"We didn't develop 29 gloves by accident," says Bari Waalk, Marketing Guy (yes, that is his title) for Mechanix Wear. "Each glove is task-specific, so it is important to pick the glove that fits your job."
Task-specific is a buzzword you'll hear a lot in the glove business.
When choosing a glove, you should always remember the three F's. "Fit, feel, and function are the keys to finding the perfect glove," says Waalk. "The fit should be tight and snug. If you can't wear the glove all of the time, why wear it at all?" Essentially, your glove shouldn't feel like a glove at all. It should feel like a part of your body.
Feel for a mechanic glove is no different from the input feel for driving gloves and pedal feel for racing shoes previously discussed in the pages of Circle Track. "You need the capability and dexterity to feel, especially when you are picking up small nuts and bolts," says Mindy Stephens of Ringers Gloves. Glove makers go to great lengths to deliver that all-important feel through advanced materials research.
Those advanced materials bring us to our third and final F: function. The materials that manufacturers use determine the glove's specific function. For example, a glove made for intricate work may feature multilayered palms made of silicone that have non-slip patterns. That makes gripping small nuts and bolts easier. On the other end of the spectrum is a glove that a rear tire changer may wear. This glove offers either rubber or plastic protection on the top side of the fingers along with two-ply leather on the palms and a gauntlet that seals over the sleeves of the crew suit. In the cases of Mechanix Wear and Ringers, both companies offer gloves that use CarbonX and deliver a hefty SFI 3.3/20 rating. That's terrific if you're fueling the car during a pit stop, but it's overkill if you're just working on the brakes in the garage.
Remember Waalk's words-task specific. Whether you're a fabricator who bends a lot of sheetmetal or you're a professional tire changer, there is a glove for your specific task. The best resource to help you decide which glove you need is the manufacturer. Visit their Web sites or call them on the phone. They'll direct you to the glove that's right for your job.
Shoes Shoe technology has come a long way in the past decade. Purpose-built crew shoes are available from just about every major safety equipment supplier. There are two types of pit crew shoes: those for guys who go over the wall, and those for guys who don't.
If you go over the wall, you want a shoe that blends traction, durability, safety, and comfort. Let's face it-pit road is the last place you want to fall down, and your shoes will keep you from doing so. Take a close look at what the soles are made of as well as the tread pattern. The tread pattern should provide good traction on a wide variety of surfaces, including dirt, mud, gravel, and asphalt, in wet and dry conditions. In addition, an over-the-wall shoe should have hidden laces or a non-lace form of closure. The less there is to trip over, the better. Regardless of your over-the-wall job, you'll also want a shoe with an SFI rating. Look for something with at least an SFI 3.3/10 rating.
If you don't go over the wall, traction is less important, but you still want to have durability, safety, and comfort. In any crew shoe, pay particular attention to whether or not your chosen shoe has a reinforced toe area. Remember our example at the beginning of this article? If you accidentally drop something heavy on your foot, you want to be sure that you're well protected. Also, be on the lookout for good ankle support. Remember, you are usually on your feet all day at the racetrack. With that in mind, many manufacturers build shoes with covered toe pads as well as gel-pad inserts for long-lasting comfort.
Eye Protection You gotta love those dudes on ER with the clear lens Gargoyles. Commonplace even in your local repair shop, eye protection seems to be one of the most overlooked accessories by crew members. But it shouldn't be. You may find yourself underneath a car, where you run the risk of having something fall into your eyes.
But you don't have to drop 80 bucks on a pair of Gargoyles to achieve good eye protection. Head over to your local home improvement warehouse, where you'll find a pair of ANSI-approved safety glasses for as little as $10. They look cool, too.
Over The Wall
Now that we've covered what you need to protect your hands, eyes, and feet, it's time to go over the wall. If you race in a series such as ARCA or NASCAR's Grand National Division, where pit stops are the norm, then the safety of your over-the-wall gang should be a top priority. Since we've already discussed gloves and shoes, we'll concentrate on two areas key to survival when you hop over 2 feet of concrete: helmets and firesuits.
Your Noggin When Nascar mandated helmets for pit crews a few years ago, there were not many choices. Thankfully, that has changed. So there is no reason to compromise your well-being by using a hockey or bicycle helmet. Those types of helmets are not made for our environment and should be nowhere near your head when the green flag drops.
Helmets that carry a Snell rating of SA2005 are always a good choice. This rating signifies that the helmet has passed a test that includes multiple impact tests at two different angles in wet and dry conditions. To pass the tests and gain the rating, the helmet must have a thick shield, flame-retardant paint, trim, retention strap, and interior.
Another key feature that makes a helmet comfortable is the ventilation system. Be sure to look for a helmet with a good ventilation system that allows air to flow over various parts of your head. In addition, you should also make sure the helmet has room for radio headsets, sunglasses or goggles, and a visor system.
Here's a little trick. If you like to wear sunglasses or some other form of eye protection during pit stops, bring your eyewear and even your radio headset when your try on helmets. This way you can try on the whole setup at once and determine if the helmet is the right one for you.
If you're fueling the car, you'll want a full-face helmet with a faceshield and a fire-retardant inner lining. In all cases, do not take shortcuts when it comes to your helmet. Having the right one could save your life if things go badly during a pit stop.
Firesuits Good-quality firesuits are not just for drivers anymore. You'll remember that the Feb. '07 issue of Circle Track had an in-depth story on firesuits. Fortunately for crew members, more suit manufacturers are getting into the business of crew suits. Impact Racing makes a three-piece suit specifically designed for crewmen. These suits allow you to take off an outer layer jacket in between pit stops to keep cool. You are still protected by a fire-retardant under jacket and pants.
Bell Racing, new to the crew safety game but one of the most respected names in safety equipment, offers a crew firesuit that features padded elbows and padded knees. In addition, there are expansion areas around the arms and legs to provide additional mobility.
The key to finding a good crew firesuit is to try it on and simulate the movements you make when performing your job. Squat down, jump up, run, and so on. The more freely you can move in the suit, the better you'll perform your duties. We don't need to tell you how important that is.
Other Cool Stuff Many safety companies make accessories that not only keep you safe, but also make your job a lot easier. Kevlar sleeves are a popular item that keep your arms protected from heat. If our crewman from the beginning of the story was wearing one when Uncle Joey bumped into him, he never would have gotten burned.
Crew aprons do a great job of keeping uniforms clean when messy work is performed. Even fire-retardant aprons are available for added safety when you fuel a car during a pit stop. Most are made of some type of cotton/poly blend and have pockets in the front.
Speaking of tools, some manufacturers make toolbelts. These belts are a convenient way to keep your tools in reach but out of the way when working on your car.
Of course, when you're working on the car, you will eventually find yourself beneath the monster and flat on your back. This can be pretty uncomfortable, especially at a dirt track. As basic as this sounds, put something between your back and the ground-a mat, a crawler, or anything that will help ease the burden on your spine.
The Bottom Line
To many racers, safety while working around the car is almost an afterthought. But it shouldn't be. If you spend a few minutes to take the proper safety precautions, you can avoid a minor injury that could put a major dent in your racing weekend.


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Saving Discount
992 Merrick Road, Baldwin
(516) 548-7086
Easy to find, since it's visible from Merrick Road in the Mill Shopping Center, Saving Discount is a store where everything is marked $1 and up. Prior to opening it last August, its owner was in the retail industry for 15 years, working with major department stores. His resources and connections include wholesalers and distributors who can supply him with great deals and value. Thus, he can offer quality merchandise at good pricing.
Inventory includes mostly brand name products that are manufactured domestically. The 2,200-square-foot store is stocked with a wide variety of household items, laundry necessities, hardware, and health and beauty products. If you're planning to entertain, they have everything disposable, from tableware and paper and plastic goods, to foil pans. Their stationary section offers pens, pencils, markers, paper, pads, binders, folders and a nice selection of greeting cards.
Children will enjoy their toy selection, and if you're having a party or wrapping a present, search no more. They keep up with the seasons and holidays with gifts, cards, decorations and more. Right now, you can winterize yourself with a toasty new hat, gloves or socks. And currently, they are featuring goods and goodies for Valentine's Day.
Also sold are refrigerated drinks (soda, iced tea, juices) and of course, candy. Balloons are shown in a variety of styles and themes. On display are reading glasses and sunglasses, some wearing popular labels like Foster Grant.
Saving Discount is located next to 24 Hour Laundromat. Parking is never a problem since the shopping center lot can accommodate 50 cars. The store is open everyday — 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Sunday. Management brings in fresh merchandise every week.


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Agacio Basics Low Rise Trunk is the underwear males need to get that barely-there feel. The modal stretch fabric and unique cut and style makes it the must have for men who are ready to experiment with their innerwear.
Features that make Agacio Basics Low Rise Trunk unique
Agacio means good in Greek and this trunk is just right for men. It fits right, looks great and is comfortable. Do men want anything more from their undies? No.
The Agacio Basics Low Rise Trunk is made from 96% modal and 4% spandex. This unique combination makes the fabric stretchable and breathable. It makes the underwear soft, great to feel and also renders the right fit. The fabric provides the skin-like feeling that males love the most.
The waistband comes in contrasting black with the logo of the Agacio popping in front. The pouch is perfect with sack lifting technology to give the package not only a good fit but also a good boost.
The waistband being soft and light, feels comfortable against the body.
The cut is designed in a way to give the pouch a proper fit that men require the most.
Pros of Agacio Basics Low Rise Trunk
Most men who tried Agacio Basics Low Rise Trunk were happy with the product. They highly praised the support that the trunk provided to their package. The good fit and the softness of the fabric was also liked. Some men even felt that it fitted like a glove.
Agacio Basics Low Rise Trunk made men feel good and stylish too. It is perfect for daily wear and for casualwear also. It is also good for athletic reasons. It is comfortable to wear round the clock and the breathable and stretchable fabric made it a popular choice for men.
Cons of Agacio Basics Low Rise Trunk
Some men were not happy with the product as they expected it to provide a better fit. Some even felt that the support provided was less. Some males may find it uncomfortable if they are used to wearing other brands of low rise trunk.
Agacio Basics Low Rise Trunk seems to have won the hearts of males. Most of them were happy with the fit, support and comfort that it provided. Since men are going experimental with their underwear, Agacio Basics Low Rise Trunk may prove to be the right choice for modern men who are ready to wear their attitude.
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Judioo necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
2 ganadores han sido elegidos entre 1450 diseños de 374 diseñadores freelance.
Make sure you read the REQUIREMENTS.
We are creating a new ONLINE MEDIA DISTRIBUTION network aimed at lowering the barrier between content creators and consumers.
Its a massive proposal so we decided to start small and just focus on music! ( our core love ).
[ * translated: were creating a music site for now ]
This contest is for the all important LOGO design!
We Love and really appreciate the value of good design!
We cannot stress this enough! The design / UX will be the most IMPORTANT part of the site. It is our belief that the logo alone will make up some peoples minds before they have even visited the site.
We are not designers but know what we *think* good design is.
Initially the company will be targeting Niche music lovers. Aims to attract people who are passionate about their music.
This is a LOGO contest:
We are looking for a graphic logo that will represent our company across all future ventures.
Our network will facilitate social sharing ( of ideas, knowledge and media ) and we seek a logo that conveys this
We Don't Want
* NO music related iconography: we will not just be distributing music
no musically notes, headphones, mics, jack plugs, sound level etc
* NO logos using the letters of the brand name
people who do not read English should be able to understand our logo
we want to see logos don't focus on the brand name.
We Do Want
* clean
* memorable
* makes us excited
Here are some examples of graphical logos
We hope for a high standard of designs. These previous 99design contests show the level of designs we expect ( note the quality of the 4star or greater designs in both competitions )
Fish on Fire:
The competition will be open unless there is some serious plagiarism. Good design should influence good designers. If a situation arises that we choose a design that has some origins from another design we will HAPPILY pay a comparative sum to the originator as well.
BUT PLEASE DON'T COPY each other BE ORIGINAL!!! We'd hate to make the competition blind.
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.


text: This week, a dog named Caesar will be reunited with his owners in Michigan more than a year after a New Mexico car accident that killed a dad and his daughter. Monica Benson survived the crash with four of her children, but the family's Maltese disappeared after the accident. This month Caesar turned up in an animal shelter and was identified by his microchip. "This has been the best news we have received in a year," said Benson. "Words can not describe how much this means."


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Safety Tanard Jackson was signed by the Redskins in April of 2012, but never played a game with the team because he was suspeded for a year after violating the NFL's substance-abuse policy.
Jackson will be eligible for reinstatement just before the start of the regular season and the Redskins will get a roster exemption of a few weeks to decide whether or not to put Jackson on the roster. That decision will obviously have much to do with how Jackson looks once he's allowed to resume practicing with the team and with what the team's other safeties do in training camp and the preseason, but defensive coordinator Jim Haslett certainly sounds like he's eager to get the chance to make that decision.
"Obviously if we got Tanard back, you know that's another bonus because he's a heck of a football player. I don't know where that stands with the NFL, but we'd welcome [him] back with open arms," Haslett said, via Rich Tandler of CSNWashington.com.
The best case for the Redskins would be for Jackson to truly be a bonus to the secondary. That would mean Brandon Meriweather is healthy and rookies Phillip Thomas and Bacarri Rambo are ready to take on regular season roles, among other questions to be answered at training camp. That would make it incumbent on Jackson to force his way onto the roster, a much better scenario than the Redskins needing to count on a player a strike away from a lifetime ban for a significant place on their defense.


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Summer on the lakes in Rotorua
Whether you're a local or just visiting Rotorua on holiday, you will definitely want to check out the beautiful Lakes District surrounding Rotorua.
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Just 15mins drive from the inner city the there are a number of pristine lakes with loads of fun activities for all the family. The Rotorua Lakes District has some of the best trout fishing in the country, plenty of space for watersports and a countless number of great spots for picnics and swimming.
Lake Tarawera
If you are wanting to get the boat out you can't go past Lake Tarawera, the largest of a series of lakes with the region. There is plenty of space for jet skiing, wakeboarding and all other water sports. Lake Tarawera is also very popular this time of year with campers staying on the unique 'hot water' beach campsite.
Blue Lake
Also known as Lake Tikitapu, it is one of the smallest of the lakes within the region making it the ideal swimming spot. You will also find a number of sporting events held here of the summer including rowing regattas and triathlons. At the peak of the day when the sun is bearing down you can take advantage of the lakes shaded walking track.
Lake Rotoiti
Lake Rotoiti is a popular destination for keen trout fishers. This lake has one of the highest catch rates in the district due to the healthy natural stocks and a large number of hatchery-reared trout that are released into the lake each year. After a hard days fishing head across the lake to the Manupirua Hot Springs. Only accessible by boat these hot pools are set in a magic location, surrounded by native bush and right on the water's edge overlooking Lake Rotoiti.
The Golden Glow Motel is a newly refurbished family friendly Rotorua motel located on Fenton Street, only minutes from the city centre, central mall and many convenient amenities. If you would like to know more about the Golden Glow Motel or any other activities and attractions in Rotorua, please contact us or visit our website - www.goldenglowmotelrotorua.co.nz.


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NK News, one of the best sites for following the situation in North Korea, has been publishing a great series that talks to defectors from the state about their life in the country and their life since leaving.
The series — called "Ask a North Korean"— has already given us one great insight about the good side of life in North Korea, and yesterday's installment gave a new revelation just as fascinating.
In a live video, Seung-Chul, a former doctor in North Korea who moved to Bradford, UK, in 2003, gave a great explanation as to why the UK was kind of like North Korea.
Here's a transcription, via Huffington Post UK:
"I sometimes actually think how similar North Korea and the UK are.
"The regime would tell us exactly what they believed are the assets of the perfect communist state and I find a lot of those characteristics here.
"Schools are free, medical care is free, the hospital system is the same. I feel the UK fits the description of what NK officials think of as a perfect communist state.
"But we were only shown the negative side of capitalism, they said people are pathological, they are selfish, it is wanton.
"And when I came out of North Korea I could see an element of truth in that, there are poor people, homeless people in Western societies.
"Capitalism is not always good, there is still a dark side. South Koreans especially only want to show North Koreans the bright side of capitalism.
"But I think that it's important to show North Koreans the bright and the dark sides, but stress the most important factor is that they are free and open."


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For foreclosure processors hired by mortgage lenders, speed equaled money
Saturday, October 16, 2010; 12:57 AM
Millions of homes have been seized by banks during the economic crisis through a mass production system of foreclosures that was set up to prioritize one thing over everything else: speed.
With 2 million homes in foreclosure and another 2.3 million seriously delinquent on their mortgages - the biggest logjam of distressed properties the market has ever seen - companies involved in the foreclosure process were paid to move cases quickly through the pipeline.
Law firms competed with one another to file the largest number of foreclosures on behalf of lenders - and were rewarded for their work with bonuses. These and other companies that handled the preparation of documents were paid for volume, so they processed as many as they could en masse, leaving little time to read the paperwork and catch errors.
And the big mortgage companies overseeing it all - including government-owned Fannie Mae - were so eager to get bad loans off their books that they imposed a penalty on contractors if they moved too slowly.
The system was so automated and so inflexible that once a foreclosure process began, homeowners and consumer advocates say, there was often no way to stop it.
"The problem is when you try to fight back against this machine, well, it's a machine," said Michael Alex Wasylik, an attorney for homeowners in Dade City, Fla. "You have to be able to get your case off the mass production line and to someone who will take the time to read what they file, but in many mortgage firms that person doesn't exist."
The financial incentives show that the problems plaguing the foreclosure process extend well beyond a few, low-ranking document processors who forged documents or failed to review foreclosure files even as they signed off on them. In fact, virtually everyone involved - loan servicers, law firms, document processing companies and others - made more money as they evicted more borrowers from their homes, creating a system that was vulnerable to error and difficult for homeowners to challenge.
"This was a systemic problem. It's not like a few renegade employees made mistakes," said lawyer Peter Ticktin, who defends Florida homeowners facing foreclosure. "It was industry-wide and pervasive, and everyone knew about it."
$1,300 per case
The law firm of David J. Stern in Plantation, Fla., for instance, assigned a team of 12 to handle 12,000 foreclosure files at once for big financial companies such as Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Citigroup, according to court documents. Each time a case was processed without a challenge from the homeowner, the firm was paid $1,300. It was an unusual arrangement in a legal profession that normally charges by the hour.
The office was so overwhelmed with work that managers kept notary stamps lying around for anyone to use. Bosses would often scream at each other in daily meetings for "files not moving fast enough," Tammie Lou Kapusta, the senior paralegal in charge of the operation, said in a deposition Sept. 22 for state law enforcement officials who are conducting a fraud investigation into the firm. In 2009 alone, Stern's law firm handled over 70,000 foreclosures.
"The girls would come out on the floor not knowing what they were doing," Kapusta said. "Mortgages would get placed in different files. They would get thrown out. There was just no real organization when it came to the original documents."
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Citigroup said they no longer do new business with Stern's firm.


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Irene D. Miller
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A memorial mass for Irene D. Miller, age 90 of Dallas, was at 10 a.m. Monday, Dec. 13 at St. Rita's Catholic Community in Dallas.
Mrs. Miller was born July 23, 1920 near Longdale, Okla. She grew up on a small farm, and attended a one-room schoolhouse. At sixteen, she left home to pursue a bachelor's degree in education at Northwestern Oklahoma State College in Alva. Upon completing her degree and obtaining her teaching credentials, she taught school in Oklahoma and Iowa, then in Lebanon, Oregon and Lodi, Calif. She taught at a Catholic school in San Diego before accepting a teaching position at the public elementary school in Greenfield, Calif., where she met fellow teacher Douglas J. Miller. They were married in 1956, and Mrs. Miller retired from teaching to raise a family.
After a year in Palo Alto, the couple moved to Watsonville, Calif., where they raised four children and lived for 42 years. Mrs. Miller was a regular parishioner and choir member at the Catholic church in Watsonville. In 1999, she and her husband moved to Dallas.
She died Tuesday, Dec. 7 in Dallas.
She is survived by her husband and their children: Madeline Crist of Falls Church, Va., John Miller of Kent, Wash.: Rose Roeder of Wayne, Pa., and Mark Miller of Mount Vernon and Dallas. She is also survived by five grandchildren and her siblings, Dean Hall of Enid, Okla., Roger Hall of Kingfisher, Okla., and Marjorie McKinney of Lewis, Kans.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the nursing home outreach of Mount Vernon Music, P.O. Box 719, Mount Vernon, Tex., 75457, or online at http://mountvernonmusic.org


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On 6 September, the government launched its National Insurance Contribution holiday. Under the three-year scheme, eligible new businesses will not have to pay the first £5,000 of Class 1 Employer NICs for each of the first 10 employees they take on in the first 12 months of trading, offering a potential saving of up to £50,000.
The scheme is open to new businesses set up on or after 22 June 2010 and will run until 5 September 2013.
Once the £5,000 cap is reached the 'holiday' will end for that employee and Class 1 NIC will apply as normal. Any unused relief (eg if the employee leaves) is not transferable. The relief applies only to Class 1 contributions – not to Class 1A or Class 1B.
Relief is not compulsory and businesses will need to apply for the holiday. If you have not applied and been accepted, you will be required to pay as normal.
Business can apply at www.businesslink.gov.uk/nicsholiday
The regions that will benefit include Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, the North East, Yorkshire and the Humber, the North West, the East Midlands, the West Midlands and the South West.
However, excluded are businesses in Greater London, the South East Region (Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey, West Sussex, Bracknell Forest, Brighton and Hove, Medway, Milton Keynes, Portsmouth, Reading, Slough, Southampton, West Berkshire, Windsor and Maidenhead and Wokingham) and Eastern Region (Bedford, Cambridgeshire, Central Bedfordshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Luton, Peterborough, Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock).
Most staff will be included, but there will be some specific exclusion, for example, employees operating under companies caught by the IR35 rules. Restrictions also apply to subsidiary business, businesses in association and managed service companies.
NOTE: The legislation is not expected to receive Royal Assent until early 2011 and has not been formally accepted. Therefore, if the coalition government falls apart and the NIC Holiday is never implemented, any relief already obtained will be repayable. Other exclusions and restrictions apply.
Justin is a partner at London-based chartered accountants and tax advisers Jeffreys Henry LLP.


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Is The Internet Getting Psychic On Us?
Did you hear the news that Amazon.com may start boxing up items and getting them ready to ship to us before we even order them? How does it know what we want?
The company says it will use past orders to figure out what we might want to order next, and it's possible if we hover over an item for an extended period of time while we're shopping, amazon might go ahead and get it ready to ship to us, and send it only if we actually order it. Wow! The goal is to cut down on shipping and delivery times.
This is totally awesome, and kinda scary too. What's stopping us from hovering over a Chia Pet for a long time just to mess with them? The internet is fun and weird and helpful and mind-blowing sometimes. Before this bit of news, I didn't know Amazon was watching me hover.
Now if only they could just make the music I order go straight to my phone within a split second. Oh wait, they can! Maybe they'll also start delivering tangible packages through that Amazon Cloud Player. It is a digital world we live in after all.


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Nick Fisher is planning an event in February to mark the opening of his new animal shelter. But a basset hound named MacArthur kind of beat him to the punch.
"He was the first dog brought in here, on Christmas Eve," said Fisher, CEO of the new Humane Society of the South Platte Valley. "He got adopted today (Jan. 22)."
He expects there will be many more.
"We're serving a community that has been underserved for a long time," Fisher said.
The new shelter grew out of the collapse of the Colorado Humane Society's shelter, which used to serve the area.
The managers of Colorado Humane were accused of mismanaging shelter funds and euthanizing animals to make room for more adoptable ones. They denied any wrongdoing. State Attorney General John Suthers, however, appointed an outside custodian in December 2008 to run the shelter.
The cities of Littleton and Englewood awarded animal service contracts to the South Platte Valley shelter last November.
A phone call to Colorado Humane early this week was greeted by a recording: "As of Dec. 22, (Coloradado Humane) has closed
all shelters indefinitely. We are transitioning back to our roots as a statewide cruelty prevention organization." It referred animal owners to the new shelter.
But on Wednesday, the former executive director of Colorado Humane and her husband were barred from operating or managing charitable organizations for the next decade, Colorado Attorney General John Suthers announced,
In addition, the pair — former executive director Mary Warren and her husband, Robert Warren, the former development director of the society — are prohibited from owning and operating any business covered by the Colorado Pet Animal Care Facilities Act, such as an animal shelter, for the next five years.
Mary Warren's daughter, Stephanie L. Gardner, who was director of the organization's operations, was barred from operating a charity for the next two years and operating any business covered by the Colorado Pet Animal Care Act.
Fisher said last week that the cities of Englewood and Littleton contacted him and a group of others to find a new arrangement for the Colorado Humane Society, "As we started looking into it, we thought it was better to start our own organization.," he said. " So we filed for non-profit status with the state."
Fisher is former director of the Table Mountain Animal Shelter in Golden.
He explained the new facility is an "open admission" shelter. What that means is spelled out in a mission on the shelter's website: "As an Open Admission shelter, we accept any animal in need. We will not turn away any animal."
Visitors to the shelter at 2139 West Chenango Ave. Unit A in Littleton will find a 6,500-square foot warehouse with 58 kennels A backyard play area for dogs is planned.
"People who come in like the vibe," Fisher said.
The shelter will begin low-cost spays and neuters next month.
Fisher said all animals that are adopted will get a free rabies shot through an arrangement with VCA animal clinics. If needed. VCA will also provide up to $500 worth of care for any lingering problems.
The shelter also has an arrangement with three Petco stores for adoptions.
The public grand opening celebration (except for a certain basset hound) will be Feb. 27 from noon until 4 p.m. Refreshments will be served.
Reach the Humane Society of the South Platte Valley at 303 703-2928 or www.hsspv.org.
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Furry Scurry – Registration is now open for the 2010 Furry Scurry on May 1, which will celebrate the Dumb Friends League's 100th anniversary. Register at:
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Browse through your complete product catalog, accept and swipe customer credit cards, and even print or email receipts to your customers.
How inconvenient would it be if you had to keep track of multiple product catalogs, inventories and payment systems? Shopify always thinks ahead and the development of our web-based point of sale software is proof.
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Shopify POS works with your existing credit card reader to accept Visa, Mastercard and Amex cards.
You can also setup custom payment options like debit, process partial payments, split tenders and more.
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We continue the 19th Annual Designing Women edition surf with this third round of extraordinary designers.
* Jackie Matelski: Toast Ceramics simple, graphic design and comfort food
* Sweet C : Make a Chalkboard Effect in Photoshop
* The excellent hand lettering of Martina Flor
* Kerry Butters : Designing with words
* Katherine brings your: Soul To Call
* Ariane's Design Dimensionality
... and more to come!
Sweet C : Make a Chalkboard Effect in Photoshop
It's no secret that chalkboard anything is totally in style right now. Courtney is a designing woman doing some special stuff. Her tutorial uses Photoshop or Photoshop Elements and some basic photoshop knowledge to simulate chalkboard type.
Courtney's blog has some interesting stuff... including a whole set of blogging tips and tricks -- and her Crafts and DYI department is not to be missed!
Full story : Sweet Cs Designs
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The excellent hand lettering of Martina Flor
Look at Martina's gallery and you'll see a graphic artist with a diverse palette seldom seen! No wonder she speaks at all the TyPE conventions, teaches workshops, and
Martina Flor combines her talents as both a designer and an illustrator in the drawing of beautiful letters. Based in Berlin, she has worked in the creative industry for over 12 years with an emphasis on type design, lettering and illustration. Working by hand as well as digitally she has developed an wonderfully elegant style with a love for detail and flourishes. ALSO SEE : "Lettering vs Calligraphy" http://www.letteringvscalligraphy.com/
Full story : martinaflor.com
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Kerry Butters : Designing with words
Kerry specializes in Web design articles, SEO writing, writing about all things technology inc. digital marketing, social media, cloud, gadgets, news, SEO, enterprise and consumer tech, mobile apps, mobile devices and much more!
She and her husband, Martin, run markITwrite Ltd and while it's mostly about writing ... we are also going to include her in "Designing Women" because her writing is very important for graphic designers.
Full story : SitePoint & markITwrite Ltd
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NEXT : Ariane, Jackie and Katherine brings your Soul To Call
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The Alaska GMC in Anchorage holds non-proprietary rock core and cuttings that represent more than 16.7 million feet of unique energy exploration and production drilling samples and 76,000 linear feet of continuous core from more than 3,000 exploratory or production wells on Federal, State, and private lands in Alaska, including the Alaska outer continental shelf (map image, right). Additionally, the collection holds more than 354,000 linear feet of diamond-drilled hard-rock mineral core representing more than 2,100 exploratory and geotechnical boreholes. USGS, USBOM, USBLM, and energy industry archives are merged at the GMC to form a state-wide collection of 350,000 surface rock and sediment samples. Our catalogue of more than 198,000 processed slides contains a world-class palynology collection and numerous other microfossil, organic and petrographic thin sections, sediment, and thermochronology glass slides. Extensive geological and geochemical results derived from all third-party sampling of GMC materials are maintained in unreviewed data and reports publications. We also archive numerous geologic maps and Alaska air USGS photos.
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I woke up today with the warm weight of a Chihuahua dog on my chest, moving up and down with my breath. She moved slightly as I opened my eyes, positioning her butt onto my side, like she was attaching herself to my side with a USB, downloading all sorts of important dog documents into my hard drive.
Gudrun, the mighty leader of the house, with all of 7 lbs to enforce her will and way, is very calm in the mornings. She's usually the first thing I see, her shiny black eyes like buttons on me, fixating on my face, willing me to wake so I can pet her. Sometimes she will sit on my slumbering figure like a succubus in a Victorian horror novel, which sounds much more ominous than it actually is. Other mornings I will find her in a tight curl next to my cheek, wet nose daubing my ear, snout trying to tuck into my neck, as its warmer there, she knows.
Bronwyn, my blonde macadamia white chocolate chunk cookie beauty, with her mysterious canine lineage, which we think is Australian cattle dog and something else shepardy, no one knows for sure, usually won't get on the bed unless it's the morning and I am alone or it's just me and Gudrun. Bronwyn, even though she's about 6 or 8 times gudrun's size, will still bow to the wishes of the smaller dog. She knows she might get bit on the haunches if the Chihuahua is disobeyed.
Gudrun sits on me, to be close to her dog mother, and also at the same time to make a barrier of her body so that her sister can't get as close. I must reach over the white dog to get to the blond dog.
How I love the soft flicks of their ears, deepening pink of the dog skin underneath the short straight lines of downy fur, how the fur elegantly splits to make ruffs at the back of the neck, laying flat behind the head and then laying flat the other direction on the face, so on the head you pet backwards but on the face you pet forwards, being very careful to pet the snout as you don't want to catch any whiskers in your display of affection – better to go under the snout and scratch the chin where they like it best and lean their chins into you as you get in there, bony tangles of legs and paws, dog belly to human belly which are warm as hot tea on my lips, 4 eyes looking pleading me at me to get up and play.


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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - UCSB multi event series athletes will be heading to the Cal State Northridge track and field complex to begin the first weekend of the Big West Conference Championship, May 4-5.
Associate Head Coach Cody Fleming is excited to see what his athletes can do after this long season of hard training. He refers to the heptathletes and decathletes "the special forces" of the team because they have to ability to go into the meet this weekend and start the conference championship off in the decathlon and heptathlon and also come back and compete the following weekend, May 10-11, in their specialty single events.
Fleming's main goal is for each of the athletes is to go in and complete a solid series of events. He feels that each individual has the ability to have a great meet and he is confident each of them will do well.
Freshman Tori Usgaard will be one Gaucho woman who is competing in the heptathlon. Although she has big shoes to fill with the graduation of Big West record holder and All-American Barbara Nwaba, Fleming believes she has the ability to earn herself a spot on the podium.
On the men's side the Gauchos have four athletes competing this weekend. Senior Derek Masterson - who will be defending his conference championship from last season – leads the group. Senior Mike Powers, who finished second behind Masterson at last year's Big West meet, junior Billy Britt, and freshman Ike Okapara. The group of four will begin the men's program's defense of its first Big West team title.
After being forced to pull out of last year's NCAA Championships, Masterson is going into the Big West meet aiming for another chance at qualifying. He hasn't had the easiest season - enduring a minor strain in his left hamstring at the Sam Adams Multi event a few weeks ago - but he is back on track, healthy, and ready to compete.


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Key facts and figures from Stanley Cup Final Game 4by John Kreiser / Chicago Blackhawks
The Chicago Blackhawks have turned a best-of-7 Stanley Cup Final into a best-of-3 series -- and they'll have two of them at raucous United Center.
The Blackhawks blew a pair of two-goal leads and a couldn't hold one-goal advantage in the third period before beating the Boston Bruins 6-5 in overtime Wednesday in Game 4 at TD Garden. Brent Seabrook's goal 9:51 into OT got the Blackhawks even in the series and gave them the chance to win the Cup by holding serve at home.
It was an up-and-down contest, replete with goals and scoring chances that were uncharacteristic of two of the best defensive teams in the NHL.
Here are some of the key facts and figures from Game 4:
1 - Power-play goals scored by the Blackhawks during the Final. Chicago was 0-for-3 on Wednesday and 0-for-14 in the series before Patrick Sharp scored at 11:19 of the third period. Chicago had been scoreless in its prior 24 power-play opportunities since scoring in Game 2 against the Los Angeles Kings in the Western Conference Final.
2 -- Overtime goals by Seabrook, who got the winner at 9:51 of OT. The defenseman also had the winner in OT in Game 7 of the Western Conference Semifinals against the Detroit Red Wings.
2 -- Shorthanded goals scored by Chicago this spring after Michal Handzus beat Tuukka Rask during a first-period Boston power play. The other was by Michael Frolik in Game 2 of the Western Conference Quarterfinals on May 3. It was the first postseason shorthanded goal of Handzus' 16-year NHL career.
3 -- Overtime games during this year's Final. The most recent time there were as many as three OT games in the Stanley Cup Final was 1993, when the Montreal Canadiens won Games 2-3-4 against Los Angeles in OT.
5 -- Overtime victories by Chicago in this year's Stanley Cup Playoffs. The Blackhawks are 5-2 in OT; the Bruins fell to 5-3.
6 -- Playoff goals this spring by Boston defenseman Johnny Boychuk, whose blast with 7:46 left in regulation led to overtime. The six goals are more than Boychuk has ever scored in a complete regular season.
8 -- Shots on goal by Sharp, the most of anyone on either team. The eighth shot became the Blackhawks' fifth goal. Sharp got all eight of his attempted shots on goal -- and the Blackhawks were on target with 47 of their 70 attempts.
10 -- Postseason assists by Boston's Jaromir Jagr, who had yet to score a goal this spring. The last player to reach double figures in assists in a playoff year without scoring a goal was Mike Ridley of the Washington Capitals (11 assists) in 1992.
11 -- Combined goals by the Blackhawks and Bruins in Game 4, matching the most scored in a Stanley Cup Final game that went past regulation. The other time 11 goals were scored in an overtime game in the Final was Game 1 in 1982, when the New York Islanders beat the Vancouver Canucks 6-5.
19 -- Players who've taken part in 200 Stanley Cup Playoff games. Jagr joined that group Wednesday when he took the ice for the Bruins. He's played for six teams during his career and made the postseason with five of them.
27 -- Overtime games during this year's Stanley Cup Playoffs. That's the second-highest total in NHL history, one short of the record set in 1993.
30 -- Consecutive penalty kills by Boston before Chicago scored on the power play in the third period.
38 -- Faceoffs won by the Blackhawks in Game 4; they lost 39. That was a huge improvement from Game 3, when Chicago won 16 of the 56 faceoffs.
40 -- Shifts by Chicago defenseman Duncan Keith, whose 32:37 of ice time was the most of any player. The Blackhawks played most of the game with five defensemen; Nick Leddy saw 2:37 of ice time, though the team didn't announce if he'd been injured.
42 -- Games since the Blackhawks had allowed more than one power-play goal. Boston became the first team to get two extra-man goals in the same game against Chicago since the Edmonton Oilers did it March 10.