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B. W. wrote:Audie wrote:"Every creation interpretation tries to make science fit into their particular creation interpretation"
Who knew?
Science cannot answer how everything came into being either. So how are you not just as guilty as of making things fit your narrative?
If you honestly think that this is a reasonable response with the least bit of relevance, I dont know that it is worth responding.
Im seeing from you in three posts some "rubber / glue" stuff, maybe with a tinge of
implied hypocrisy on my part, esp with the bit about "ism". About me, not the topic.
How about a bit of content?

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I present you with a super duper easy recipe straight from Michelle Obama's kitchen!
This Cauliflower Mac and Cheese is a favorite of Malia and Sasha and is now my go to comfort food dish. At first I was little apprehensive, I like cauliflower and all, but why ruin something as wonderful as macaroni and cheese? I was wrong – it is delicious. The cauliflower masks itself as additional cheese so you think eating extra gooey and warm cheese when you're actually getting a dose of healthy cauliflower. It is also man approved as Ryan said "gotta save this recipe!" (which I believe also means kid approved) Wohoo for being able to sneak veggies into something that is typically void of nutrients.
This was such a fast meal to make too – took me all of 20 minutes to prepare and then another 25 to bake. Perfect for a busy evening!
So without further ado, let me introduce you to my new favorite:
8 ounces of pasta shells
1 cup skim milk
1 pound of your favorite mixing cheese (I used 1/2 a pound of skinny gouda and 1/2 a pound of sharp cheddar)
1 cauliflower, cut into florets
1/4 cup Parmesan cheese
3 tablespoons chopped flat-leaf parsley
Salt and pepper to taste
1 tablespoon melted butter
1/2 cup bread crumbs
- Preheat the oven to 350º. Bring salted water to a boil and cook the pasta until al dente.
- Steam the cauliflower until soft, about 10 minutes. Transfer to a food processor. Puree the cauliflower, add some of the steaming liquid to thin the puree a tad bit.
- In a large casserole dish, combine the pasta and hot cauliflower puree. Add the milk, both cheeses, parsley, and season with salt and pepper to taste. Mix.
- In a small bowl, mix the butter and breadcrumbs with your fingers until it resembles damp sand. Sprinkle across the top of the pasta mixture, then place the dish in the oven for about 25 minutes until the top is crispy and the sauce is bubbling.
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Aiming for Perfection?
Back with you after an amazing week spent with life strategist Anthony Robbins and his crew at his Date with Destiny workshop. For me it was a blind date because I had no idea why I was going or what to expect. I spent thousands of dollars to be there and I turned down an opportunity to go the AKC Invitationals in order to participate in this workshop. I have no regrets, it was spectacular.
It was 6 days but in those 6 days we got 90 hours of instruction. Yes, you read that correctly. We started at 9 AM, sometimes 10 or 11 AM. The earliest night was 1 AM and one night we went until 3:45 AM all without more than 1-45 minute break per day (so you had to pack snacks with you) and no scheduled bathroom breaks.
Now I am a person that is bed by 10:00 at night and up at 5:30 in the morning. Some New Year's eves I can make it to midnight, but not all of them. Yet I rarely checked my watch at all during those late hours. Each day we went full tilt. Time flew by and I would do it again in a heartbeat. To say it was life altering would be an understatement. Tony has a new reality TV show starting in January. Be sure to tune in and get a glimpse of what we went through.
The workshop was mostly about discovery, learning about yourself, what makes you tick, your relationships and emotions. There were many couples that went and a many people in a lot of pain. But that was before "Transformation Day" where things were turned around. There was about 1500 participants and we were put into groups of 50 people. Many of those 50 people were almost like family by the end of 6 days.
During one of his lectures Tony made a comment that made me think of some of my students. When I have asked some of them in the past what they are trying to achieve with their nose targets or other dog training skills the answer has sometimes come back as "perfection". I always found that a strange answer but it has not been uncommon in my teaching. I tried to inspire people to exchange "perfect" for loads of fun and "roughly right".
Tony's comment really struck a cord so I thought I would share it. He said "Perfection is the lowest standard a human could ever take on because it is unattainable therefore you ultimately have no standard at all. You are preparing for failure, because that is your ultimate expectation." So aiming for perfection means you will never move forward. For some of you that may be what your subconscious expects and you will never achieve more than you think you deserve.
It was pretty heady stuff!
Today I am outrageously grateful for my week with Tony Robbins and for all of the people in my life (including each of you).
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Theresa says:
Sunday, December 20, 2009 at 11:58pm
Where the heck is Susan ?
has she been dragged into a whelping box by all the puppies ?
Marcella says:
Sunday, December 20, 2009 at 4:27pm
Definitely a simple yet important thing to think about. I love the things you share with us, Susan. It makes life so much more worth living, especially with our dogs. Sometimes the most important lessons can come in the least expected ways. 🙂
Helen Verte says:
Sunday, December 20, 2009 at 11:01am
Susan, you made the right choice. Tony Robbins rocks. The AKC Invitationals? Someone posted a YouTube of what agility purgatory looks like and it was right there at the 2009 AKC Agility Invitational. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXk1e0NgUGc&feature=player_embedded Yikes!
Beth says:
Friday, December 18, 2009 at 9:54pm
Welcome back! Tony sounds like he works wonders on the soul. Can't wait to hear more in Florida. We should all enjoy the little things in life………:)
Theresa says:
Friday, December 18, 2009 at 3:49am
I think it is awesome you were able to attend a live seminar ..
It sounds as wonderful as I would expect it to be. Can't wait to hopefully hear more sometime, and to see how the fruits come forth in your life !
I've listened to some of his seminars and know how inspiring and right on in allot of ways he is ! (are you yeasty ? )
Good for you !
Gee…. sounds like the Invitational, but hey did have a couple porta potties……… 🙂
Kim Munoz says:
Thursday, December 17, 2009 at 4:38pm
Hmmm…interesting quote. For me "perfection" means that nothing more can be done to improve or get better. I think this is true for a lot of OCD personalities. They obsess on something and do it over and over and over trying to get it perfect – but it never is and so the obsession manifests.
I tend to be my own worst critique. I find criticism is easier to swallow than a compliment. If I get a compliment I think "…yeah BUT…this would have made it better". It's difficult to just say "thank you" and enjoy it.
So what did Mr. Robbins suggest for us nutso individuals who aim to disappoint ourselves?
Christine says:
Thursday, December 17, 2009 at 2:12pm
At training last night, fantastic. I yelled 'that's it' jackpot galore. Woohooo, perfection. Its only a word. It is its meaning that you apply that matters. My goal will be my idea of perfection, the fun is getting there and the perfection is my interpretation. Like beauty it is in the eye of the beholder. So my ideal may not be the same as others but I can dream and I can aspire and the process is a whole lot of fun.
Deeds says:
Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 11:41pm
I've always wanted to try to attend one of his workshops. Just can never get the free time.
Andrea says:
Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 1:42pm
Yay, so glad you're back with us! Sounds like an amazing experience.
Mike Gooch says:
Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 12:42pm
I'll keep shooting for excellence in all the little pieces, and appreciate all the little victories…and let perfection monitor itself.
Bobbie Bhambree says:
Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 11:33am
I started agility to "give my herding dog a job." Then it was about building my business as a dog trainer by offering another service to clients. Then it was about improving my skills as a dog trainer and instructor. Finally, unknowingly, agility has become a vehicle of self-learning and personal growth.
I'm happy to say I've learned the lesson of trading "perfection" for "roughly right" and Tricky (the pup) is benefiting from this. On top of it, we're having lots of fun. It's been a real change since training my first dog aiming for perfection and making us miserable in the process.
The Tony Robbin's quote definitely strikes a chord. Thanks for sharing.
Kristine says:
Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 10:53am
This year I exchanged "perfection" to loads of fun and "roughly right". This has paid off in ways that I could never have imagined. My dogs are happier, I'm happier, and our competition performance has improved exponentially. I like what Tony said about perfection. That really is true.
Jan DeMello says:
Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 10:25am
I thoroughly admire and enjoy TR…been over 10 years since I went to his seminar. What a truly great inspiration he is and what an opportunity for you to be able to attend! Happy Holidays to you, John and all the kids and mostly to Buzz!


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On the train to Carinthia. 6 pm and outside it's darkest night. Here are two Urban Dreams captured in the morning.
Both of these images wouldn't have been possible with a small-sensor camera like the Panasonic LX5. The image on the left was of a reflection, taken at f1.4 and with the focus somewhere in the weird lines of the reflection. In post-processing I've equalized the tones (the left side was much darker), pushed colors and partially contrast, but nothing of that is regarded as particularly non-photographic.
The Image of the Day is almost completely a result of Photoshop work. I took an image of an advertising poster with extremely shallow DOF and played around with it, pretty aimless, until I had the idea with the stripes, and from there it became a flag, a turmoil, something burning, a window into a world of warring nations. In the end I liked the result better than the straight photograph, and this is how it ended up as Image of the Day.
The Song of the Day is "Flags And Banners" from the 1973 Faces album "Ooh La La". Beautiful song. Hear it on YouTube.


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Community divided over museum's fate
Published 7:52 pm, Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Several days after finding out from a newspaper article that Norwalk finance director Thomas Hamilton called for the closing of the Norwalk Museum, curator Susan Gunn-Bromley said that she was still somewhat shell-shocked.
"They didn't even sit down and talk to us about what our plans are," Gunn-Bromley said. "They didn't challenge us to come up with different ways to cover our costs."
Gunn-Bromley questioned how Hamilton came up with the figure of $216,395 -- the amount he said the city would save by closing the museum and eliminating the curator's position. She also pointed out that packing up the collections, moving them and paying for proper climate-controlled storage would be costly.
"It's not realistic to think we can close and pack up the museum in 5 1/2 months and do it in an orderly fashion," she said. "But the worst thing would be the loss to the community. The loss of this material."
The collections are vast and vary in size and scope, she said. They include furniture, paintings, textiles, tools, goods manufactured in Norwalk, ceramics, more than 30,000 photographs, thousands of books, maps, historic documents, and 19th- and 20th-century newspapers, to mention a few. It also houses a re-creation of the Dunne Hardware store.
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"I am open to suggestions," Gunn-Bromley said. "I realize somehow in the long run we have to reduce costs to the city, but then we have to figure out how to do that. We are crippled at the moment because we can't be opened beyond
5 p.m. With some changes, we can be open one night a week. It would help support local restaurants. In the past, when we had exhibit openings at night, they were well-received among the businesses and restaurants in SoNo.
"Removing the museum will take away another tourist destination from the immediate walking area, reducing the reasons for tourists, visitors, people dining in South Norwalk restaurants for coming to South Norwalk."
Peter Bondi, chairman of the Norwalk Historical Commission, which oversees the museum, shared similar sentiments.
"For the museum to stay where it is would be the best thing," he said. "We have to figure out a way to keep the collection together. There's been talk about splitting up the collection. That's not something that is going to happen. I will not accept that as an option."
Like Gunn-Bromley, Bondi said the first time he learned about the talk of removing the museum from the operating budget was through a newspaper article.
"Because of that, of course, everyone is upset and didn't know which way to turn or what to do," Bondi said. "So we put together a petition. People just started coming out and supporting the museum and what it provides to the community. So that's where we stand today."
Bondi said that the best-case scenario would be to try and work with the landlord and extend the museum's lease, which is about to expire.
"We are totally against packing the museum up and storing the collections anywhere," he said. "There is really no plan for where to store it, how to store it, the cost to store it."
At press time, 200 people had signed the online petition, which is located at http://chn.ge/w7BIgj.
Common Council member Matthew Miklave believes there is not enough money at stake to say this is strictly a financial issue.
"They are going to save $200,000 or $300,000 by closing the museum out of a $299 million budget. It's not a financial issue," he said. "What they are trying to do is tackle a management issue that they haven't been able to handle for whatever reason. And they are trying to find an easy solution for it, which I think threatens the collection. I think that is a mistake.
"They need to confront the issue head on. Put men and women of good will in a room and say let's figure this out. Closing the museum is an easy way out."
According to Gunn-Bromley, maintaining a curator to care for the collection was a part of the city's initial agreement with the founders of the museum, Manice Deforest Lockwood, his cousin Julia Belden Lockwood, and other residents. The founders funded the design and construction of the Lockwood House building on East Avenue, which was home to the Norwalk Museum before its move to South Norwalk. The Lockwood House is now used by the Norwalk Fire Department.
"When the museum moved to SoNo the concept was the city would rent that building or use it for some other purpose and that real estate cost would offset the rent here," Gunn-Bromley said. "Now the city is using it for the Fire Department for a year-and-a-half. Have they factored the cost of where they would have had to put the fire department? That should offset some of the cost of the rent. But they aren't thinking that way. But that's not fair. They wouldn't have that asset without the museum."
Miklave said the ideal solution would be to keep the museum funded and form a bipartisan committee of stakeholders, the administration and the Common Council to consider a longterm solution for the museum.
"That may mean housing the collection in a different location ... maybe operating with a different model that is an acceptable model for handling the museum collection," Miklave said. "To simply throw up your hands and say we don't know what to do, and then figure it out is backward. It's bad decision making."
The Board of Estimate and Taxation will meet March 7 to discuss the city's budget. Gunn-Bromley said the BET can change the recommendation before it goes to the Common Council.
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Frederick C. Hart Jr. wrote: I am a Norwalk native and a certified genealogist and am very deeply interested in Norwalk history and genealogy. I have used the collections many times in the past and expect to do so in the future. In my opinion, closing these collections to researchers would be a serious mistake and a black eye for the town. Norwalk should celebrate these valuable historical collections, not treat them as a liability.
Susan Peterson Mundy wrote: When a culture is put in storage, the people represented or who will be represented might as well be put in storage, too. No matter the size, a well run museum is priceless. Find another place for cutbacks."


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My dad died a long time ago, long before I had children. Yet, among other things, we are still bound by a book. It's a hardcover edition of Mark Twain's short stories. My dad bought it when I was a toddler and gave it to me the night before I got married, telling me that Twain's humor and wisdom would come in handy in the years ahead. It did, and it still does.
When you share a book with someone it's as if you're saying "I value what's in this book enough to want to share it with you because I value you too." Simple sentiments become more powerful when accompanied by a book.
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Caught on camera: Man throws ink on Subrata Roy's face
Sahara chief was attacked outside SC premises as he got out of a car and was heading towards the court. Roy was arrested in connection with a case of non-refund of Rs 20,000 crore to investors
New Delhi: A man claiming to be a lawyer threw ink at the Sahara chief Subrata Roy Tuesday outside the Supreme Court premises here.
Manoj Sharma, 44, who claimed to be an advocate from Gwalior, threw ink at Roy as the latter got out of a car and was heading towards the court amid security personnel and a large number of mediapersons.
Sharma is the same person who in 2011 had tried to hit Suresh Kalmadi with a slipper.
"I threw ink at Subrata Roy as he is a thief and has robbed the poor," Sharma shouted, after which he was hurriedly taken away by police.
Sahara chief Subrata Roy. File pic
Roy was brought to Delhi Monday after he was arrested by the Lucknow police Feb 28.
The apex court Feb 26 had issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against Roy for failing to appear before it in person as directed by the court.


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Anthony D'Amico had a hat trick and the defense did the rest as the visiting Indians (8-2-2, 8-2-2 SWCL) held the Spartans (4-8-1, 4-8) to one shot on goal. Arieo Nascimento and Chris Leonardi scored while Tyler Reilly wasn't seriously tested in the shutout.
Grafton 5, Uxbridge 0
Friday, Oct. 12, 2012, at Uxbridge
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Millers Put Three Past Bantams
Don Valley Stadium
2 January 2012 3.00pm
Attendance: 5,368 (1,842 Bantams)
Three goals in eleven minutes was enough to see a good start to 2012 for Rotherham United this afternoon against Bradford City.
The Millers came out the stronger and forced two corners in the first minute and after that there was very little between the two sides at a cold Don Valley this afternoon. The Millers latest loanee, Rhys Taylor, who only joined today, had little to do and even a powerful shot from James Hanson went straight at him. On twenty minutes some good passing between Chris Holroyd and Lewis Grabban finally found Jason Taylor who fired over from just outside the area. Five minutes later Rhys Taylor had to be quick off his line to foil a header from Hanson and, at the other end, Danny Harrison, who had been off the pitch receiving treatment to a head injury for some time, tried a shot from thirty yards out that sailed wide over Jon McLaughlin's bar. Three minutes from half-time, Rhys Taylor misjudged a Robbie Threlfall corner, punching it high into the air and with Andrew Davies and Taylor both going for the hanging ball, Davies was all over the Millers 'keeper and referee Madley blew for a foul just as Luke Oliver had time to control the ball and shoot. The best effort of the first half came right at the end when Grabban fed the ball to Danny Schofield and his low shot went just wide of the goal.
City perhaps could have opened the scoring in the first two minutes of the second half when a long free-kick from Threlfall eventually Oliver who flicked it towards Hanson but the Bantams top scorer couldn't quite get on the end of it. At the other end Sam Wood got a good ball to Johnny Mullins who's header went just wide. On fifty-seven minutes a hard drive from Schofield was parried away and fell to Holroyd only for the Millers striker to be flagged off-side. It seemed to be all Rotherham and it wasn't a surprise when they took the lead. McLaughlin couldn't hang onto a cross and, with Alex Revell challenging him, the ball fell to Grabban who slammed the ball into the net to open the scoring. Four minutes later the Millers were awarded a penalty when McLaughlin rushed out of his area and bowled Sam Wood over when he was clean through on goal. Why he wasn't shown at least a yellow card, no one knows, but he was unable to save Grabban's spot kick which made it two-nil to the Millers. On seventy-one minutes, Brett Williams replaced Chris Holroyd and three minutes later Williams, seeing the Bantams 'keeper off his line, unleashed a shot from forty-yards out which McLaughlin didn't seem to know how to handle as he first looked as though he would punch it, changed his mind and tried to catch it but as he was still back-peddling, the momentum took both him and the ball over the line for goal number three. In the final ten minutes McLaughlin did well to tip over a stinging shot from Grabban as the Millers striker looked for his hat-trick and, at the other end, Mark Stewart, on for Leeds United loanee, Charlie Taylor, had a header which hit the far post having beaten Rhys Taylor and rolled away to safety.
Well, if someone had told me at half-time we'd win (and comfortably) this game three-nil I'd have thought they were barmy! A poor and boring first half from both sides was brought to life by the Millers in the second half and, in the end, it's a good three points and sees us move up to tenth place.
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What It Felt Like When My Parents Divorced at 80 (Hint: Not Terrific)
There's an old Jewish joke.
An 80-year-old Florida man calls his adult daughter in Manhattan. "Darling, I've got bad news," he says. "Your mother and I are splitting up."
Daughter is shocked, "My God, Dad, you've been married forever. Don't do anything rash. I'm flying down tonight, and we'll work this out."
"All right, sweetheart, if you think that's best," he replies, then turns to his wife and says, "Good news! She's coming for Passover."
I love that joke. But it wasn't so funny when I got that call, and it wasn't Passover.
I was 53 when my parents divorced. They had been married for 56 years when they decided it just wasn't working out. I was shocked, but not surprised.
From the start, Mom and Dad were chalk and cheese. Dad was a Brooklyn boy with a great sense of humor, love for adventure, and a short fuse. Mom grew up in Loraine, Ohio, in a proper, joyless home whose family crest read, "It's just not done that way."
It wasn't a happy marriage, but it didn't seem like a disaster, either. They always presented a united front to my older brother and me, rejoiced together at family occasions, enjoyed their station as pillars of the community.
But in old age, their differences became unbridgeable. Mom became more and more fearful about going new places and doing new things, while Dad was desperate to make the most of his remaining time. They had been living separate lives for years, and when the tension became too great – and my father became sloppy about his affair — they divorced.
They aren't alone. The number of "grey divorces" in the 65-plus group more than tripled between 1990 and 2010, according to a study by the National Center for Family and Marriage Research at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Evidently, the kids are grown, lifespans are stretching, and couples feel they no longer want to live unhappily ever after.
When my parents announced their separation, my head exploded.
I look like my mother, but I think like my father. The divorce, I feared, would force me closer to Mom (we don't really get along) and farther from Dad, whose good opinion still factors into choices I make.
I worried how my mother, who has never been alone, would survive without a husband.
I worried that my father, already attached to a woman just a few years older than I, would cut me out of his new life: It happens.
I fretted that mother's care was being dumped into my lap; and I obsessed that I wouldn't know when my father was sick or be invited to his someday funeral.
But mostly, I grew more and more anxious about my own, 13-year marriage.
Mostly, Greg and I are happy. But, we've had our struggles. Would he leave me when I was stooped and terrified about breaking a hip? Would I take off when his bad knee held me back from stalking rainbows in a new trout stream?
Was there no time in marriage when I could relax and figure, "We've come this far; we'll surely go the distance?"
My folks have been divorced now for 7 years. Mom lives in a retirement community, and I worry constantly about her state of mental and physical health. Dad remarried, and the new wife begged me to fly to Florida when, at 87, Dad worked himself into exhaustion and briefly landed in the hospital: After all, he's got a young wife and an old wife to keep in high style.
Greg and I are fine and just celebrated our 20th anniversary. We're sending our son off to college in the fall, and we had a ball trekking glaciers in Alaska last summer.
Mostly, I thank heaven for our solid marriage. But some days I look at my dear husband and think, "Will he leave me today?"


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DOVER, Del. - For the first time since early May, Kyle Busch isn't the leader in the Sprint Cup Series. But nobody, including Busch himself, discounts his ability to rally during the Chase for the championship.
Busch started the playoffs a week ago with a 34th-place finish to drop to eighth in the rankings heading into today's Camping World RV 400 at Dover International Speedway. After winning eight of the first 26 races, he's now down by 74 points.
But he's not out.
"Kyle can rebound and win three in a row any time," Dale Earnhardt Jr. said. "They are that strong of a team. You know how strong Kyle is. We have seen how many races he has won and how well he has run this year. Even if he was 200 points back with five to go, wouldn't count him out. There is just no telling when they could flip a switch and make it happen."
Busch will try to start a comeback today on the concrete oval known as "The Monster Mile." The race is scheduled to start at 2 p.m.
"You can focus on going out there and trying to do what you can," he said. "If there's a wreck that happens in front of us, hopefully we miss it. If we don't, then it wasn't anything I could've done different to miss it. It's too many different circumstances that will come about in these last nine races."
Busch's commanding lead during the regular season was erased when the Chase started a week ago. All 12 drivers in the playoffs started with 5,000 points, but each victory during the first 26 races was worth a 10-point bonus. A broken bolt on a suspension part early in the race sent him spiraling to an unfamiliar spot deep in the standings.
"It was pretty disappointing, pretty devastating for everybody," Busch said. "The only thing we can do is try to put it behind us and work on some things that will make that not happen again and try to continue on. The game plan is to do the same thing that we've done all year long. We had some bad luck there, and it wasn't one of our favorite tracks anyway, but I feel like we can try to get back on stride and just continue on."
Jeff Gordon, who remains winless this year, will start on the pole as he tries to rally into contention in the Chase. His Chevrolet ran 157.061 mph in qualifying.
Despite being 11th in the rankings, down by 99 points, Gordon is using the same approach as Busch with nine races remaining.
"We just have to take each race one at a time," he said. "We were a little disappointed how we finished at New Hampshire. That was one of our strongest tracks and we didn't get the most out of it. We put that behind us.
"I can promise you one thing about Kyle this weekend; he's going to be going really fast and bouncing pretty much off of everything there is to bounce off of. If he keeps it going straight, there's a very good chance he can win this race this weekend. That's just Kyle. He's a very aggressive driver, and when he has a week like he had last week, he's ready to make up for it right here in one week."
Mark Martin qualified second at 157.054 mph, followed by Denny Hamlin in third, Kurt Busch in fourth, Greg Biffle in fifth, Clint Bowyer in sixth, David Gilliland in seventh, Matt Kenseth in eighth, Jamie McMurray in ninth and Earnhardt in 10th.
Kyle Busch will start 11th.
With nine races to go, Busch knows there's plenty of time to make up the deficit. After all, he went from 30 points up to 74 points down in a matter of one week.
"A part of this sport is you are only as good as your last race, but yet there's still next week," he said.
"To us, it doesn't really make a difference whether we're leading or chasing because ultimately we're doing the best we can every week with our race car to try to make it good and drive well. The points have taken care of themselves this year."


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Warlpiri painter Dorothy Napangardi depicts her Dreaming - and lives it, writes Ashley Crawford.
Dorothy Napangardi tells detailed, important stories in exquisite paintings. To a whitefella, these extraordinary works may appear to be intricate black and white abstractions, but for Napangardi and her people they recount the stories of Jukurrpa, or Dreaming, which prescribes laws, moral codes and rules for dealing with the environment.
Indeed, Napangardi's exhibition at the Vivien Anderson Gallery is a small library of ancient and hallowed stories.
But while the Western world may hide its legends and myths in dusty tomes in corners of libraries, Napangardi and her folk keep their stories well and truly alive, adapting the telling of them with innovative paintwork.
Even in a field renowned for its innovation (seen in the work of such artists as Rover Thomas and Emily Kngwarreye), Napangardi's painting is truly unique. Her canvases depict both the area she hails from - Mina Mina - and the stories of the ancestral women and their digging sticks.
One of the stories tells how the women in Kanakurlangu Jukurrpa (or "digging stick-possessing Dreaming"), were dancing up a storm in the desert as they headed east. As they danced, dust began to rise. Meanwhile, Walyankarna, the Snake Ancestor, was travelling north. At a certain point they met and as the dust rose, as did Walyankarna, who then flew to Yaturlu Yaturlu (the Granites) and descended into a soak hole, where he remains to this day.
Napangardi is a Warlpiri woman from the Tanami Desert. The women use digging sticks for digging up yams, goannas and witchetty grubs. They are also used for making shelter, fighting and for sorry business (funerals).
While many of Napangardi's paintings recount events and adventures associated with the Kanakurlangu Jukurrpa, her work is also quite literally landscape, describing the countryside, especially Ngayuru, a salt lake in her country.
According to renowned artist Kathleen Petyarre, in a comment published in the catalogue for Napangardi's major survey show at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art last year: "In a way it reminded me of Auntie Emily Kngwarreye's work, the way she put down her Yam (Dreaming); same idea. Not same dreaming - Dorothy has different Dreaming - same idea in a way, but different Dreaming. . . . Not same brushstroke, different stroke. Dorothy painting always reminds me of women dancing, really in formation, dancing for ceremony."
Napangardi was born in the bush in the early 1950s about 400 kilometres west of Alice Springs. Although she does not recall seeing any kardiya (white people) in her youth, miners attracted to gold encroached on Warlpiri land in 1910.
The growth of the cattle industry meant that major water holes were taken over, with the result that the Warlpiri people were forced off their land.
They were able to return in 1976 when land rights legislation was finally passed.
Napangardi began painting in Alice Springs in 1987, rapidly becoming renowned for her innovative approach to the canvas, often simple black fields dappled in carefully structured white shapes. These may have a literal source, as in Salt on Mina Mina, but the results shimmer like the heat haze on the salt planes.
In Sandhills Mina Mina, one can almost feel the wind tearing up the desert in vicious flurries.
Over lunch, Napangardi is shy and quietly spoken. Her Alice Springs dealer, Roslyn Premont, says that Napangardi is renowned in her tribe as a great hunter, always the first to spot and catch a perentie lizard.
In Melbourne, she adapted these skills in tackling the Chapel Street shops, proudly showing off her new acquisitions.
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On Jan 26, 2013 Associated Press writer Mike Stobbe popped a piece on the public, strongly suggesting that we should shame the obese into losing weight. The story was carried by Fox and a few MSM outlets, and some have made jokes about the possibility that Mayor Bloomberg could head the effort to shame the fatties, to supplement his war on 16oz soft drinks.
Breitbart journalist, John Nolte, responded with a scathing rebuke of the AP piece and said, "Under no circumstance would these insufferable elites ever look to "pretty up" society through the "shaming" of drug addicts, alcoholics, sexual degenerates, lazy welfare leeches, or any others who loot the treasury and spread much more human misery than nicotine and ice cream. And anyone who suggested such a thing would immediately be branded a bully by the very same elites now testing the waters to bully-by-shame the overweight."
Wikipedia has outdone all dictionary def's with this description of shame, excerpted from Helen B. Lewis, Shame and guilt in neurosis, published by International University Press.
"Shame is, variously, an affect, emotion, cognition, state, or condition. The roots of the word shame are thought to derive from an older word meaning "to cover"; as such, covering oneself, literally or figuratively, is a natural expression of shame."
This writer's definition of shame in America is far more succinct, I call it - "almost gone."
While shame is sparse, Americans still have a lot of nerve. With Mr. Obama sanctioning everything gay including gay marriages the rest of the world is not buying our indulgence. Even with the high priest of prurient, Dan Savage, skip jumping across the nation's campuses with his message of anything goes in America; the rest of the world could care less.
In his 2013 second inaugural speech Mr. Obama declared that, "we must not mistake absolutism for principle." Obama's speech writer probably thought this unique bit of phraseology would serve as a powerful rhetorical tool to make the presidents new ideas look good to moderns, but in fact, it is a long shot that missed the mark by a mile.
According to almost any worthy philosophy of man, religious precept or bible passage there is no principle to be found at all, without absolutes. Swimming around in gray lukewarm soup may seem like the stuff for today, but Christ saw this day coming when he said:
"I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth." (Rev 3: 15, 16)
Mr. Obama may not be one of those Americans that "cling to their bibles," but perhaps he might want to crack one open from time to time to help his speech writers from sounding absolutist about non-absolutes.
The French Resistance is Still Active
Over 300,000 rallied against same sex marriage in Paris. French President Francois Hollande thought he had a green light for everything gay, but the French it seems, have had quite enough weird, among both Catholic and non-religious alike. It was the largest demonstration in decades and it is something Americans should take note of instead of making photo journals and news-hype on all the gay pride parades taking place in U.S. cities.
In fact same sex marriages are recognized as completely legal in only eleven countries around the world. America may be a world leader, but in this case, we are falling far behind. For many of us, we can only be thankful. We can hope America finds the shame for the very bad idea of same sex marriages before it starts to shame people for being overweight. We would be in danger of becoming the world leader in unbridled hypocrisy; if we are not already.
Russians – "All in one mind"
Much beloved by the Irish folksingers is a song entitled "War Like Lads of Russia." The traditional arrangement of the song has a curious line which describes the way the Russians thought, and is given as the reason they were able to deter the onslaught of Bonaparte's invading armies.
"Those warlike lads of Russia they fought all in one mind - Made Bonaparte to run and leave his troops behind"
The strong resurgence of the Russian Orthodox church since the Berlin wall came down is thought to be responsible in part for the Russian refusal to get swept up in the worldwide gay agenda, but the general consensus of the Russian's is that they want no part of the western decline, American style.
No one applied for a gay marriage license in Moscow in 2012 and in St. Petersburg they are considering a huge fine for any public display of homosexuality including kissing in public. Russia says they do not want their children to be exposed to the gay agenda which they see as closely connected to pedophilia and other dangerous practices.
Americans and of course some Europeans are charging Russia with a return to Medieval thinking, but others believe that promoting the gay life pushes civilization much further back in history, to the days of Sodom and Gomorrah. How well did that work out?
Since the influence of the Orthodox Church and the Bible have been seriously curtailed for a full generation it is hard to blame the homophobic sentiment of the Russian people on these elements alone.
Perhaps it isn't just an ancient mandate against perverted behaviors that is the impetus for the anti-gay sentiments of the Russians, but there is a far simpler answer. Russians can see what is going on in America, the gay parades where children are exposed to perversions and nudity and the endless debate and anger that the gays are now showing anyone who refuses to buckle under their extravagant claims that, after all, they were born that way.
The Prophetic Element
That Russians allowed the wall to fall and the old Soviet establishment only after a generational long experiment with an ideological construct that was doomed from the start. This says at least one thing about them – they don't easily fold to outside pressure. They seem to come to their own realizations quite apart from the influences of the rest of the world.
Like most nations they will not have time to wake up out of their next, well prophesied, mistake. Ezekiel's prophecies tell of the time when Russia will help Muslim countries to invade Israel in one final attempt to wipe that tiny nation off the map. It will miserably fail and it is only a short time after that when many of the rest of last day's prophecies will be completely fulfilled – not a good time for any nation.
Don't Wait for God to Apologize
America seems to have accepted every tenet of the new penchant for political correctness, tolerance and diversity. An entire nation now seems bent on becoming a sensitivity training ground for the plebes of modern thinking, regardless of how far removed from reality they may be.
The several passages of the Bible that clearly state that God condemns the practice of homosexuality cannot be hidden but only refuted. The refutation is weak at best because the only argument is based on a modern frame of thinking. One is to say, God did not say anything about gays, but it is far too late for that. The other is to conclude that he didn't mean what he said.
"God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?" (Nu 23: 19 NIV)
Sentimentality Is Not Real Love
If truth without love is cruelty and love without truth is sentimentality, then where does justice fall in the scheme of God's demands on mankind? In fact just when most of the world has sufficiently dismissed the Bible and fairly much silenced the Christians is when the fulfillment of all prophecy will take place. The world's assurance that the Bible and its adherents were always wrong will suddenly reverse. In that great awakening, the world will see they were universally mistaken. That is called the second coming of Christ. You can count on it.
God's love will persist to the last minute of time. The call to repentance and the invitation to join the blood washed band of the redeemed will be offered to the last moment in time. After that justice will be meted out for all of our perversions and sins, which will include the practice of homosexuality. The blasphemous notion that God made gays that way, will count for nothing and all the sins and the justifications for them will be exposed.
No Queen James version of the bible or modern twisting of scripture will have any chance of changing these much dreaded words.
"Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity." (Mt 7: 21 – 23)
Shame may be almost non-existent in America today, but it will soon make a resurgence that for many, will last for all eternity. In the interim what America has decided is not shameful is considered nothing but shame by our old enemy – is the lesson here, all too obvious?
According to writer Robert Bridge the lesson is easy. One line from his article published on Russia's RT website entitled "How the Russian soul can save the American Empire" seems to say it all.
"The problem with America (potentially) "going to Hell" is that this earth-straddling superpower carries enough economic, political and social baggage to drag the rest of humanity to Dante's depths with it."
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Well, I'll say this much for Amazing Spider-Man 2. It managed to do what I considered to be impossible. It made me yearn for Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire to return to the franchise.
Okay, I'm exaggerating a bit. I wasn't a huge fan of the Raimi trilogy and I'm including Raimi's Spider-Man 2 which some have labeled one of the best superhero movies ever. The plots didn't grab me and Maguire seemed like a lost puppy dog. But at least his Peter Parker had a sweet innocence about him which contrasted with his alter-ego. Andrew Garfield's Peter Parker is kind of a dick. Put it this way, in the screening I attended, there was a promo with Garfield and Stone right before the movie, where they inform us that we can go upgrade our ticket for a few extra bucks to be first in line for the Blu-Ray. Before I go further, let me say if this had appeared after the film was over, I would've told the both of them to do something to themselves that rhymes with 'cluck,' as in huge turkey, as in this movie. Even in the promo, Garfield comes off as a smug jerk. Which makes me wonder how much he's acting in this film. He's full of annoying tics, head-swaying and bobbing…he comes off as either a total spaz or a drunk.
Amazing Spider-Man 2 manages to leap frog past the original Spider-Man 2 and jumps right into committing all the errors that Spider-Man 3 did. Multiple convoluted subplots--I'm still not clear why Parker's parents were on the run and why they felt it necessary to abandon their only child. I know what the script wants me to swallow, but I didn't buy it--multiple villains crammed in to the storyline and forced into unlikely alliances, cartoonish and underdeveloped characters--SCREECH, let's apply the brakes for a second and delve into this.
Only a masterful screenwriter could successfully convince me that a character whom I've met all of a few minutes onscreen is Peter Parker's best friend from childhood. And the three credited writers on this film are not masters. Well, one of the writers is Roberto Orci, who's responsible for the original Transformers and last year's worst film, Star Trek: Into Darkness. Rather than make an attempt to set up the relationship between Parker and Harry Osborn in the opening scene (which should've taken place in the first film), they devote the first five minutes to a fight scene involving Parker's parents. Subsequently, there's nothing substantial in this film that requires all the opening exposition centered on the parents that couldn't have been accomplished with a couple throwaway lines. Then you have Gwen Stacy, who is ingeniously written as an employee of Oscorp. Quelle coincidence! She's also written as smarter than Peter Parker in the science department. Huh? You have Max Dillon, who is written first as a cartoon character (with a cartoonish soundtrack set behind him as well), then once he gains his powers, he becomes a two-dimensional lackey to Harry Osborn, who becomes the Green Goblin, in a sequence that has the same tacked-on feeling as Venom had in Spider-Man 3. The Rhino is not even worth mentioning. If you were unhappy with the denouement of Liam Neeson's The Grey (2011), the Rhino's appearance will provide you with unhappy memories. The Rhino's only raison-d'etre is to provide a bridge to upcoming Sony comic book movie releases.
But let me return to Andrew Garfield. Whenever he's onscreen as Parker, whomever else is onscreen with him acts rings around him. Emma Stone, Dane Dehaan (who I believe is an actor to keep your eye on), and especially Sally Field all mop up the floor with him. Garfield, whom I thought was excellent in The Social Network, is simply annoying. What I saw as quirky, or as a different take on Peter Parker in the first film comes off as asshole-ish in this film. You hear from some actors how they studied the movements of a character or animal in order to nail the character perfectly. Garfield slacked off on his studies. He is not convincing when he appears in practical shots wearing the costume. He looks like any other human being in the costume as opposed to looking like a man who moves like a spider, as the character does in the books.
This is a Spider-Man film where a character breaks free of Spidey's webbing with a pair of scissors. A film where a powerful godlike villain is inexplicably defeated by some kind of generic power beam. Where Oscorp is established as being the source of all Spider-Man's future foes. Where I suppose Oscorp is involved in genetic manipulation, yet Paul Giamatti's Rhino wears a battle suit (so is Oscorp into genetic study or battle tech?). Where we're supposed to believe Max Dillon single-handedly designed the entire power grid for New York City, only to have it stolen by Oscorp--wait, Oscorp is a power utility too? Where Peter pushes Gwen away, then stalks her and whines when she prepares to study at Oxford (note that Woody Allen did this 35 years ago in Manhattan) . Where Gwen Stacy breaks bad and schools Spider-Man (who in the comics is a top-notch science student) on his web shooters. Where the writers use Gwen in a ridiculous fashion to move the plot along to a shocking climax (no pun intended--I say shocking, but the only emotion I felt at this point was nonchalance). This is a film where scenes which seem like set ups have no pay off. And finally, I imagine the Blu-Ray will not contain any additional or extended scenes because at two and a half hours, I believe the cutting room floor where this was edited was clean enough to eat off of. Meaning there was nothing left out and there was so much that should have been. All this to say the movie is full of potholes and plot devices that exist simply to get from point A to point B, unconvincing characterizations and motivations, and overlong uninteresting scenes.
To add insult to injury, the end credit sequence doesn't even involve Spider-Man. It's a truncated scene from X-Men: Days Of Future Past that has no connection to Spider-Man whatsoever. So, are the producers suggesting they're so clueless about the direction of the Spider-Man franchise, they weren't prepared with a proper credit sequence to whet our appetites for Amazing Spider-Man 3, to which Garfield is already committed? Or maybe the geniuses behind this film didn't realize the scene with the Rhino was actually the scene they should've used for the credits given that was all it was worth?
If ever there was a movie that's not worth seeing but I know you're going to see anyway, it's this one. But at least take this advice: don't waste your money on the 3D. Paying $13 for the 3D matinee would be like throwing salt into a big, wide, gaping pus-filled wound. 2/5 reels
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The Manitoba NDP say they'll give Manitoba parks a facelift and invest in the tourism industry if elected this spring.
"It's called the 96/4 plan," NDP Leader Greg Selinger said Saturday at Assiniboine Park.
By taking four per cent of the total revenue from tourism in the province and putting it back in the industry, Selinger said the Manitoba government could help the tourism industry grow by 96 per cent.
The plan is based on the Manitoba Chamber of Commerce's funding model, according to the NDP.
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"For $4 million of investment from us, [the chamber] believes we could grow tourism in Manitoba by $96 million," Selinger said, adding that the commitment would turn Manitoba tourism into a $2-billion industry by 2020.
The New Democrats also promise to spend an extra $20 million on improving parks in the province. That aspect of the plan would include expanding Wi-Fi access in parks, adding an additional 100 camp sites across Manitoba and developing more comprehensive hiking and canoe maps with First Nations on the Bloodvein River and Mantario Trail.
Selinger touted the 2014 opening of the Journey to Churchill exhibit at Assiniboine Park as an example of what the government has done to attract more people to the province under his watch. He added that tourism boomed in 2015 thanks in part to the 103rd Grey Cup and the FIFA Women's World Cup, which were hosted in Winnipeg.
"We have tremendous tourism assets all around us," Selinger said, listing off a series of popular Manitoba festivals and museums.
The Progressive Conservatives came out with a tourism announcement of their own last weekend, promising to grow the industry in northern Manitoba.
The PCs responded to the NDP pledge on Saturday, claiming they have had 17 years to promote tourism "and they haven't done it."
Manitoba Liberal Party Rana Bokhari also criticized the NDP's plan.
"We'd like to know what they're going to cut to pay for it," Bokhari said in a statement.
Manitobans head to the polls April 19.
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Over the last five months I've been lucky enough to contribute in some small way to the exhibition Crafting Modernism at the Museum of Arts and Design. The show opened on October 12th and got a glowing review in the New York Times last Friday!
MadBlog.org: Crafting Modernism Opens! (a mini tour of the show with the show's curator Jeannine Falino).
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MARYVILLE (WVLT) -- An eight yard scamper by sophomore Rommel Hightower for a touchdown capped a stellar season for the running back from Lenior City as he eclipsed the 1,000 yard plateau and allowed Maryville College to capture their seventh win of the season with a 43-6 triumph over Averett University on Saturday afternoon.
Hightower finished the game with 150 yards rushing and established a new career touchdown mark with his pair of scores on the day. His 1,016 yards this season ranks as the second best individual season for a back in MC football history.
The Scots used the scoreboard early and often during the USA South contest. In their second possession, MC used an eight play, 57 yard drive that took only 3:19 to score. Quarterback Lucas Wall hit Tyler Sauceman from 17 yards out to end the drive. Brad Daniell added the extra point and Maryville led 7-0.
MC tallied a 41 yard drive in their next possession. Hightower finished the offensive march with a three-yard scoring plunge. Daniell's kick put MC up 14-0.
At the end of the first quarter Maryville was up by a pair of touchdowns and driving towards another score.
The Cougars stopped the Scots and forced Daniell to connect from 42 yards out. His field goal was good and Maryville led 17-0 early in the second quarter.
Six consecutive punts ended the half, as Maryville went to the intermission with a 17-point advantage.
Maryville took advantage of poor snap that sailed over the head of punter Michael Moore. The Scots took over possession on the Averett 18 yards line and used only a pair of plays for a quick scoring strike. Wall hit senior wide receiver Joseph Bryant from 23 yards away and kicker Doug Carter hit the conversion. The Scots' lead had extended to 24-0.
The stellar Scots defense forced another punt and Maryville marched down the field for Hightower's record setting score. His eight yard touchdown that finished a seven play drive was his 11th of the season. Carter's kick was wide right, but MC still led 30-0 at the end of the third quarter.
The fourth play of the last quarter saw Cory Boatman step in front of a Shane Fairbanks pass and take the interception 65 yards for a touchdown. Carter's conversion was good and MC led 37-0.
Averett avoided a shutout on their next possession when Fairbanks took his Cougars 68 yards on seven plays that finished with a 30 yard touchdown pass to Hammond. MC's Calvin Taylor blocked his second kick of the day and the score stood at 37-6.
With 5:18 remaining, Gary Hughes dashed 11 yards for his second touchdown of the season. The game would end with the final of 43-6.
Maryville's defense held the Cougars to a total of 22 yards rushing on the day. Dustin Locke and Scott Stevens paced MC's defense with eight tackles each.
The Scots used a 445 yard offensive attack to stop Averett. Rommel Hightower had 150 yards on 26 attempts. Nick Moore had 69 yards on only 10 carries.
Maryville finishes the season with a 7-3 record. The seven wins is the greatest total victories in a season since the 1999 campaign, the same season Armond Akiboh ran for 1,069 yards.


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Appliances that Save You $$
Posted by Gail | Filed under SensibleSpending
Did you know that your fridge accounts for about 11% of your household's total energy consumption? I was agog when I saw that stat. While we're all becoming more energy conscious – and saving money to boot – there are still a whole lot to learn about how to use our resources smartly.
According to Natural Resources Canada, buying an Energy Star® appliance will save you the equivalent of a year's worth of energy over that appliance's life. And Energy Star® compact fluorescent light bulbs use 75% less energy than incandescent bulbs. That's because standard incandescent bulbs use less than 10% of their energy to produce light; the rest goes up in heat.
It used to be those bulbs were butt-ugly but I recently found bulbs that look like regular incandescent bulbs but that have the fluorescent structure inside, making them more attractive for certain fixtures.
Perhaps the appliance that held the biggest surprise for me was the dishwasher; lotsnlotsa people think they're energy pigs. But a dishwasher can actually save energy because you're using far less hot water. Hot water heating accounts for about 13% of the energy use in an average home.
While we're on the topic of water usage, a low-flow shower-head can reduce water flow by 60%. If you're taking 15-minute showers, trim back to 10 and watch your costs come down.
I'm often surprised when I go into homes that still don't have a programmable thermostat. Turning your heat down just one degree will save you two percent on your heating bill. Ratchet that sucker down when you're not at home and when you're sleeping, and rake in the savings.
Microwaves save 50% of cooking energy over conventional ovens (and doesn't heat up your kitchen in the summer.) Electric kettles are more efficient than either microwaves or stove-top kettles.
If you want to gauge what the various appliances in your home are costing you, head on over to HydroOne's calculator and play around for a while. You'll find that your aquarium costs you about $2.45 a month to operate, that having your TV on for 4 hours a day will run you $1.17 a month, and ironing for two hours a day, 8 days a month will burn though $1.95, which is why I gave up ironing years ago!
37 Responses to "Appliances that Save You $$"
lana Says:
October 23, 2012 at 4:32 am
Putting my microwave on a powerbar has save me tons of money. Having the clock running costs more than operating it.
Cas Says:
October 23, 2012 at 7:07 am
Our fridge is old. 20 years old. But it seems to work fine. And it's probably an energy sucker. I know the hydro company will happily come and take it off my hands, but my problem is this. Many people I know that have bought a fridge in the last 5 or so years, have had to replace them already. The quality in appliances seems to have decreased. Therefore, I'm not convinced I'll be "saving" any money by getting a new one.
Last summer we went to look at central air conditioners for our home. I said, "They've come down a bit in price from 2 years ago." The sales guy/installer said that so has the quality. And efficiency. Due to new environmental regulations, (freon?), they will not perform or last as long.
Got to love these "advances" in technology.
Aimee Says:
October 23, 2012 at 7:31 am
I agree with Cas. We recently had our early 80's model furnace serviced and when we asked how much life might be left in it were told by the technician that those old furnaces could "go forever" with proper maintenance whereas the new systems are built to last 10-15 years. "Planned obsolescence" makes upgrading sometimes not the best choice for cost savings.
Sierra Says:
October 23, 2012 at 8:26 am
I got rid of the old refrigerator and freezer in the basement a few years ago; my bill went down $15/month almost immediately.
I replaced my upstairs refrigerator and my bill went down about $5. I have had no problem with my new one.
My gas furnace is old (1990), but with regular maintenance, it has worked perfectly. The only electricity it uses is the spark to kick the heat on. My water heater is gas fired, so I don't know what it costs to run. My gas bills have gone down after a spike when the price went up a few years ago. Unfortunately, I can have a programmable thermostat because I have radiators and hot water heating; so I have to remember to flick the thermostat up and down every day.
I do turn off power bars for the TV and computer when not in use. But I don't go around turning off all the clock/radios in the bedrooms, or the microwave or coffee maker, except when we are going away for a few days.
Sierra Says:
October 23, 2012 at 8:27 am
Sorry- I meant to say 'I cannot have a programmable thermostat'
You needed an excuse to give up ironing lol?
I had no idea about the refridgerator…we do have energy star appliances but still…11%??? Wow.
I find the largest portion of my hydro bill is the water usage and cleaning. We don't water anything outside unless times are truly desperate and plants are dying, we have cut back on shower time, use a dishwasher and still…the water bill is astronomical. Any ideas on how to cut back on water usage?
psychsarah Says:
October 23, 2012 at 9:20 am
LOL re: ironing-thanks for the perfect excuse Gail 🙂
Kat Says:
October 23, 2012 at 9:23 am
re: Ratcheting down thermostat
I read a study (don't remember when) — that recommends not going too far below temperature as the cost to heat the house rapidly up and down (ie and I forget the exact amount…. but for example purposes going more than 3 degrees Celsius down from your normal temperature may actually NEGATE any savings, as the furnace then blows non-stop to get back up to temperature).
Check online… I'm sure the actual recommendation is posted somewhere as to how many degrees to lower.
My MIL is a mad saver on hydro, another energy sucker is the oven, and alot of times a toaster oven (which takes less energy) will do the job.
I have heard the same thing about new E.S. appliance. What you save on your monthly Hydro you more than pay for a new appliance every 5-7 years. My washer and dryer are from 1997 – big workhorses, that are not E.S. but probably will last forever.
Things used to be built with forever in mind, sadly that is no longer the case.
The biggest Hydro pull on our account is the dryer, which I run only at 'off peak' times and only when I cannot hang the laundry to dry (winter).
Also, did my own experiment (and blogged about it) and absolutely concur that even an older dishwasher, if you run it once a day (again, at 'off peak' times) and don't use the 'dry' cycle, does not cost a lick more than handwashing dishes for 3+ meals a day, through the day at high and mid peak times. 🙂
I wish I could get more of my family to buy into the power bar way, but for now, I'll just keep keeping on my merry Hydro busting way.
Have a great day, all!
Lisa Says:
October 23, 2012 at 9:30 am
I have to agree on the old fridge. My 24 year old one works great, and if I only save $5 per month on electricity, that takes alot of months to pay for a new fridge. I also know people with newer fridges than mine that have been replaced within 5 years.
I did however replace my 20 year old furnace. It was working fine, except it made a sound like a door slamming every time it turned on. And I really needed an air exchanger added, and the old fan on the furnace would cost me a fortune to run that much. I am very happy with the new furnace, nice and quiet, and the air exchanger helps keep the moisture down in my very efficient house.
I used to read on some PF blogs that people would turn their heat down 10 degrees when they are not home then have it programmed to jump back up to 20 when they got home from work to save money on their energy. This Trick only works when you leave on vacation for a week or two.
Not only does that end up costing you more on your heating bill, it puts more wear on your furnace when it goes full blast to heat up the whole house those 10 degrees.
The trick is to keep it low as much as possible. Set it to 18-19 and throw on a sweater or cuddle on the couch with a blanket. Turn it up when you have guests over then turn it down when they leave.
When the house is empty, turn it down 1-2 degrees only, that way it's easier for the furnace to play catch up when you get home.
AndreaM Says:
October 23, 2012 at 9:51 am
Wow! Only $1.95 for 16 hours of ironing?? I've been suspecting for a while that I have to give up my bad drycleaning habit and this proves it. I wear a uniform for work. The shirts are a cotton / poly blend that need to be pressed and starched to look good and my skirt does fine coming out of the dryer.
I pay a drycleaner $4 for each shirt and I'm in uniform normally 4 days each week plus extra parades, ceremonies etc.
Considering I can iron and starch 8-10 shirts in hour, that means I can now save $62 each month by spending 90 minutes watching a movie / tv while ironing.
Which is what I did for the first 10 years of my career and before I got lazy / decided I could thoil my drycleaning. I thought my time could be better spent. And I'm going to watch tv / movies anyway …
Thanks for the push I needed! When I pick up my shirts tomorrow morning at the drycleaner, I guess I'll be bidding him farewell.
Tracy Says:
October 23, 2012 at 10:05 am
My $$ savings was to unplug my washer and dryer when not in use. I found the savings to be over $50.00 a month. Now I am like a craz'ed woman unplugging everything that doesn't need to stay plugged in while we are all at work/school. The dog and cat do not care if the stero and TV are plugged in during the day. Kids are on board with this program big time;)
Tracey H Says:
October 23, 2012 at 10:07 am
Huh. Guess I can iron during the week now (during the day when I can see my ironing) instead of putting it off until the weekend. Looks like I might get caught up on all of that ironing. Somehow I thought an iron was a real energy hog (since it converts energy straight to heat).
Edward Says:
October 23, 2012 at 11:13 am
I have my TV, DVD player, Playstation, cable box, and stereo all on a powerbar which is plugged into one of those power timers people use to turn on and off their lights when they're not home. So, my electronics all shut off completely between 3:00 AM and 4:00 PM. I'm sure whatever power the timer uses doesn't equate what all those things leech during peak hydro period. (I've never really thought about unplugging the microwave, but I think I'll start doing that as well.)
Geoff Says:
October 23, 2012 at 11:21 am
@ Aimee – can you tell me if you live in Toronto or GTA who serviced your old 80s furnace please?
Martha Says:
October 23, 2012 at 11:32 am
The furnace in our house is from 1962 and works great! We would save maybe $10 a month apparently going to a new one. Dh has fixed the couple of minor problems that it has had. May be bigger then a newer one but with the quality of appliances going down further each year rather not replace it until we have too. Our average gas bill about $125 a month and that is hot water and heating for normally 5 people and 1700 sq foot house. I keep the house about 70 degrees and wash in warm and hot water. plus about $25 or more is just taxes on the bill not the actual gas. Water is a set fee here in the lower mainland plus no off hours for electric. We replaced the fridge when we moved in 10yrs ago. An LG. don't recommend. You can only get the parts online. Apparently the only company that does this. The door handle has broke twice and dh couldn't fix it so we just do without after spending $100 on a new one to have it break after a year. We got a new stove at the sears outlet and have replaced the hot water heater. Two savings..knowing tradesman that owe you favours and having a handy hubby that can trade work.
Our washer and dryer are about 15 years old and work great. Since my kids are 8 and 9, they have had a workout of up to 12-15 loads a week when the kids were younger.
The thing that has lowered our electric bill the most…our teenage homestay student moving out!
kate Says:
October 23, 2012 at 12:08 pm
@ Tracy unplugging has saved me over $30 a month. I tell everyone that unplugging is the only way to save real money just turning it off means it's still using electricity. I went thru my Moms house and unplugged things she doesn't use, she saved $70 the next month, now she unplugs everything before she goes to bed.
Good tips! I need to do better on some of these . . .
@Sierra – my parents live in an old house with radiators/hot water heat, and they have a programmable thermostat. Might be worth investigating a bit more.
Sylvia Says:
October 23, 2012 at 12:18 pm
The fridge in my father's house is the one that came "Brand New" when he bought the house from the builder in 1968. It still works just fine. There is no way he would ever spend $500+ to buy a new fridge to save energy. It would take years to pay the savings off.
christine Says:
October 23, 2012 at 1:51 pm
We have all energy efficent appliances and new furance. We have only compact flourscent bulbs and some LED which saves more and then is no change to our bills. We do all our laundry off peak hours and only use lights when we are in the room. Our consumption hasn't changed all the other charges have gone up.
I wish we could see all those savings. But it wont discourage us we still feel it is important to adapt to the frugal way of using energy.
Tara Says:
October 23, 2012 at 1:59 pm
Wow, $30-$50 a month just by unplugging things? I am sold!
Elizabeth A Says:
October 23, 2012 at 7:52 pm
My furnace was over 35 when I had a problem with the air conditioner part. Only a similar aged used part was available, and a new air conditioner couldn't be fitted to the old style furnace, something about intake, etc. So I got a new one, saw immediate savings on my gas and electric BUT the new furnace doesn't do an even job of heating the house like the old workhorse did. I would thoil it to have a warm bedroom. Hope I used that correctly!
Carolyn C Says:
October 24, 2012 at 12:12 am
No one has mentioned the new water-saving toilets so here's a word to the wise. DON'T BUY ONE!! We needed to replace the gasket on one of our toilets but my husband wanted to get one of the new ones to save water. We have only a shallow well to provide water and the rest must be trucked in so it seemed to make sense. However, we often end up flushing the $%&# thing 2 or 3 times to clear the bowl and you have to do this with the lid shut unless you want water all over the floor. I find myself constantly closing the lid, flushing, checking, closing the lid, reflushing, checking. Its a pain in the behind and cost us $400 so its not like we bought a cheap one.
Sheri Says:
October 24, 2012 at 1:21 am
Carolyn – I soooooooooooooooo hear you! We moved into a new house 15 years ago, and all the toilets are low flush. Save water? I don't think so! We don't have to cover our toilet to flush, but I swear if you sneeze at it, it clogs! A worker told us to cut down the plastic insert (pretty much full size tank, but has a plastic "bucket" in it to keep water usage down). We did that right away, and still have massive problems. I wonder if one can even buy regular flush toilets anymore – THAT would save me water!
Does anyone know if lamps that are left unused but plugged in cost for electricity? I plan to go around the house this weekend unplugging things, and putting others on power boards. Thanks to all for all your tips 🙂
Wow, more good idea to save $$ here. Thanks all to share your experiences.
Julie Says:
October 24, 2012 at 7:15 am
@Sheri – the things that draw power when they are turned off are generally electronics – things with standby states or digital readings (clock radios, microwaves). Lamps don't draw anything when they aren't turned on.
Christa C Says:
October 24, 2012 at 12:01 pm
Make your normal toliet low flush by adding a couple of sour cream containers to the top part. Takes 30 seconds and YOU set the water level if you don't like the flush you can just use a smaller container and you never have the problems listed with the real low flush toliets listed above. I've done this for years and save 1 liter a flush.
Eunice Says:
October 24, 2012 at 3:03 pm
@Carolyn & Sheri
Maybe you guys should try installing new ones and see if you have better luck? My low flush toilet has a fast and pretty powerful flush; haven't had any problems at all, never had to flush twice. It's actually a lot better than the regular flush ones that were there before, which were so slow and not powerful at all. Best part was that I bought them on sale for $100 each.
Cas Says:
October 24, 2012 at 5:03 pm
@ Tracy: what kind of washer and dryer are you using that requires $50 of electricity per month when not in use??? Our washer uses pennies per load. We hooked up a meter to it. (My husband is an electrician.). It draws NO power when not in use. And it's an electronic front load washer without a clock; it SHOULDN'T draw any power. Same as our dryer. I can't see how you can possibly be saving that much money by unplugging the machines, or saving ANY money by unplugging the machines. Unplugging a computer, tv, satellites, etc will save money. MAYBE even $50/month if you have a few if each. But not a washer and dryer.
Carolyn C Says:
October 24, 2012 at 8:03 pm
@Eunice: The toilet is brand new, made by Kohler. The problem, in my opinion, is that there is virtually no water in the bowl. Stuff sticks to the sides if you get my drift. I plan to write the company to express my extreme dissatisfaction and ask for suggestions to make it work better. It also needs to be cleaned more often for the same reason.
Debbie Says:
October 24, 2012 at 9:12 pm
I was enthusiastic a couple of years ago about unplugging televisions when not in use but later found our satelite dish messed up. Found out that it updates certain things at different times and it wasn't getting updated because it was off. Also keep computer on all the time because of the updating of certain things, but mainly because of convenience.
DD Says:
October 24, 2012 at 9:53 pm
We save money by renting instead of owning our home. However, it means we cannot control many of our energy costs. The thermostat is not programmable, the fridge is old, the insulation leaves a lot to be desired. We do the things we can – light bulbs, keeping the microwave and chargers unplugged except when in use, that sort of thing.
Sheri Says:
October 25, 2012 at 12:21 am
Julie – thanks for your reply – makes sense; I kinda thought that it was the case with lamps being fine left plugged in, but I guess I got a bit befuddled reading all the energy saving tips 🙂
Eunice – thanks for your thoughts, I don't think I'll be replacing them anytime soon though…
Carolyn – if they give you any tips, please share 😀
Whenever we need a new appliance we look for the ones that use the least energy. Also I do more baking in the winter when it helps warm the house. Using a pressure cooker or a slow-cooker saves a lot of energy. Every bit helps!
John Says:
November 1, 2012 at 9:01 pm
3 years ago, I replaced our 20 yr old furnace with a new 98% efficiency one. Each year since the change our annual gas cost has decreased from about $900/month to just under $600! I paid 700 for the furnace and 300 for the install. One more year and the savings have paid for the furnace! So not sure how one can argue that their 20+ yr old furnace is cheaper burning at 60 or 65% efficiency. Not to mention you need to get it inspected to make sure it isnt falling apart; of course the repairman doesnt want you to replace it, he'd have one less customer!
Thanks for the information Gale. I'm from the land down under and we have just been introduced to a carbon tax this year that has raised the energy bills by 25%. I can now cut that back by trying to conserve more energy to protect the environment and my hip pocket more.


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Composed by Jane Smisor Bastien. Method. Bastiens' Invitation to Music. Music book. Published by Neil A. Kjos Music Company (KJ.WP272).
Item Number: KJ.WP272
Piano Party is the core book at all four levels of the Bastiens' Invitation to Music Series (A, B, C, D); new concepts are introduced in the Piano Party books. Along with Piano Party, the companion books, Theory & Ear Training Party and Performance Party, provide the formula for a well-balanced music education. Colorful illustrations in all the books are used to reinforce concepts and styles, to maintain interest, and to motivate. Book C presents pieces written on the grand staff with an emphasis on reading steps and skips before intervals of 4ths and 5ths are introduced. Slurs, ties, forte, piano, and 2/4, 3/4, 4/4 concepts are mastered. Students read from bass clef low F to treble clef high G in the positions of C, G, F (Group 1), and Middle C position.
About Bastiens' Invitation To Music
Sensitive and inspired teaching of early childhood students is a very satisfying and joyful experience for both parents and teachers. Ensure the success of these very special students with the Bastiens' Invitations to Music series, an exciting introduction to the marvelous world of music. No reading or writing is presumed, all necessary skills are developed gradually in successive levels of instruction.
The Bastiens' Invitation to Music series uses gradual multi-key approach, guiding children from pre-staff notation to staff reading. Illustrations and activities that are fun and instructional enhance learning and heighten interest. Ideal for children 4 and up.