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I thought of this post the other day when I was catching up on Hajumete no Aku, and remarked via twitter (I'm so hip) that Kyouko was fucking awesome.
Okay, so I actually said I loved her. Keep in mind, I don't actually love characters from animations. They're not real. Instead, I love their seiyuu (RK4EVER).
Okay, so I don't actually love them either, I just like them a lot in a non-sexual, purely respect driven obsession. We've all been there though get over yourself. Oh, and sorry Mushy, no all caps this time.
Yeah, that's write, people all over the internet are tweetin me. That's just how it is when you're hip and "with the times". I'm no square, man.
At this point, it should be known that I stopped writing for an entire hour trying to find a show that had some square kind of pac man thing in is. If you followed me on twitter during this time, you might have been able to see my duress. WELL GUESS WHAT BITCHES!!!???? GLO THE FUCKING ASSHOLE LEGEND AIN'T A LEGEND FOR NO REASON!!!! I ALWAYS FIND MY SHIT!!!!
Without more time wasting, here's the list (NOTE: If I've seen the anime as well, then the manga doesn't count, these characters are from things where I have ONLY read the manga……you know, unless the manga was completely different from the anime):
10. Sakurako Tenmaku – Ai Kora
If you haven't read Ai Kora, then shit man, fuck it.
Ai Kora is best categorized as a harem with a twist. In most harems, I feel like the main protagonist is a pussy, and somehow gets hot girls simply by being alive. Yet, since he never actually asked for any of the hot girls to like him, he usually shrugs them off because he's an IDIOT. This is almost the opposite. Our main protagonist is the man, and goes to Tokyo with the hope to collect parts. That means, he wants a girl with the perfect legs, a girl with the perfect boobs, a girl with the perfect voice and so on and so forth.
Tenmaku happens to be the first girl he sees (therefore, the main girl), and keeper of the perfect eyes. I like eyes as well, but that's not why she's my favorite. It's actually pretty simple (I'm a man with simple tastes). She's a tsundere who completely second guesses herself. She treats Hachibei (main male lead) like SHIT and IMMEDIATELY feels bad for him afterward. It's kinda funny to see, and always enjoyable to read.
Maybe it's just me, but she feels different from other tsunderes. Maybe it's her awesome eyes. Great manga either way I recommend it to all.
9. Adachi Hana – Yankee-kun to Megane-chan
I included 2 pictures just because I liked these two pictures.
If you haven't read Yankee-kun to Megane-chan then I'll tell you, it's good, and the only reason I picked it up was because it had "megane" in the title.
Do I have a glasses fetish? Kinda. Sexual? No, I just really like hot girls in glasses anime and 3D alike. Luckily, the manga turned out pretty awesome (fell reaaaal far behind on it though).
Basically, we have Daichi, a high school delinquent. He's taking a shit, when all of a sudden Adachi, the class president who clearly does not know what personal space is, pops her head over the stall to question him about some thing or another I forget. Anyway, as it turns out, Adachi was a former delinquent who basically ran shit all over town and killed everyone, and she's trying to go straight by becoming the acting class rep (which she is). I just ruined the surprise for you, but Adachi is fucking awesome. She's like……a nice, innocent class rep for a while, then she kills everyone and her only response was "Oops, I said I wasn't going to get violent anymore." I don't know why I stopped reading this.
8. Akko – Girlfriends
I just finished reading this, so I had to update this list a bit, but Akko and Mari from Girlfriends are both awesome characters. In the end, I like Akko's crazy, zaniness and incredibly outgoing/carefree/airhead in a non-Orihime way attitude. What did I write about her in my review? Oh yeah:
…Akko, who is kind of nuts sometimes, and has the ability to get flustered at times and jump to random conclusions…
She has awesome flusterability. I had to make that word up. But not only do I like her flusterability, but I also like how she got confessed to first, and THEN thought about it, and then the tables kind of flipped on her where she was put iin Mari's shoes and had to be the one confessing. Fucking awesome manga yuri is the best shit.
7. Sakurako Amamiya – Psyren
Okay, can you say split-personality-of-awesomeness-with-glasses-and-samurai-swords-who-usually-has-a-cold-personality? If you can, then I don't need to explain why Sakurako is fucking awesome.
6. Watari Kyouko – Hajimete no Aku
Well, glasses sure has been a theme here today. In all honestly, there's not much special about Kyouko, except for her special circumstances. She's got an evil society living in her home now in the form of cousins (from an actual like….take over the world evil society) and her cousin, Jiro, wants to operate on her body. But for the most part, I like her because she's a normal girl, who is still fucking awesome.
This one is indeed tough to explain. She's got awesome hair and glasses, yes, but other than that, not much else to bring to the table. She's kind of cold toward Jiro (evil scientist), but nice other times, still, not tsundere at all. You gotta read this awesome piece of manga lore to really understand, and I'm going to leave it at that.
5. Veronica – Franken Fran
Honestly, I'm surprised this one got so low on the countdown. I originally expected Veronica to be somewhere around 7 or 8. But, here she is cracking the top five.
By now almost everyone should have at least read a few chapters of Franken Fran, but for those of you who don't know, Franken Fran is about two main things: Irony, and surgeries that are fucking impossible. You see, Fran is a doctor who can perform any surgery (once, here head was stabbed off, and she performed surgery on herself while she had no head, because he body is augmented in insane ways), and so she does, sometimes on a whim, to people who think they'll be happier with the surgery. Of course, most of the time the surgery ends up causing misfortune for the ones getting augmented, and their lives become ironically opposite of what they wanted. It's fucking awesome.
As is such, Veronica is an augmentee of Fran's mentor, Dr. Madaraki. What's special about her? She fucking kills everyone.
She's an assassin, but she still shows emotions like embarrassment and stuff, and that's why she' kicks ass. (the gore this girl creates….where's a Franken Fran anime? Too gory? It's not that bad come on!)
4. Emiru Ikuno – Nozoki Ana
I already wrote a WHOLE POST DEDICATED TO HER. My laziness thanks me that I don't have to write anything more here.
3. Serika – Choku!
I once or twice wrote a post about Choku!, which I consider to be the funniest manga currently running. The only problem with it is it's slow release pace. Really, really, slow.
It should be known that the humor in Choku! is NOT for everyone. The humor in Choku! appeals only to those who are FUCKING AWESOME. So don't feel bad if you don't like the humor in Choku!, it only means that you suck as a person.
The humor in Choku (and, well, EVERYTHING in Choku!) is made possible by Serika's complete lack of knowledge about real life. She's like……I don't want to say a fucking moron, but she does……err……express her feelings differently?
She's very blunt, has no censor or filter, has no facial expression, has never had a friend in her life, and is completely socially inept. But the best thing about her is her bloody noses. I'm gonna need another picture here.
There's too many awesome picture of hilariousness to choose from from the second chapter alone. Do yourself a favor and read at least the first two chapters because they're fucking awesome. There's a reason she's number 3 on the long list of female manga characters.
2. Pariya – Otoyomegatari
This is another one that is gonna be though to explain. Otoyomegatari is an excellent manga. The art is amazingly beautiful and it's very easy to grasp a hold of the settings and how the world works for the characters.
Where most characters seem to be serious, focusing on marriages between families and other tasks at hand, we have Pariya.
She is not married. In fact, she has a bit of a problem in finding a suitor due to her temper and awkwardness around men. She's almost tsundere like, except not fake and dumb (even though I like tsunderes). Just like the rest of the characters, there is a genuineness about her that makes her temper, tomboyish appeal, and tsundereish-but-not-really attitude realistic. And honestly, she's batting 1000 right now. There hasn't been a single frame that had her in it that I didn't like her. Can't really say that about anyone else on the list.
1. Urabe Mikoto – Mysterious Girlfriend X
No surprises here. At least not from me. Mysterious Girlfriend X is probably my favorite manga at the moment. It's got it's own weirdness: a girl and her boyfriend (both keeping their relationship a secret from everyone) taste each other's drool (and are able to get the exact feelings that the other person is feeling at that moment) on a daily basis.
Urabe is especially awesome because of her:
A) Scissor Abilities: She keeps scissors tucked into her underwear (this isn't an ecchi manga though) at all times. Whenever she gets riled up, she'll pull them out and slice things like signs, houses, and small children (well, signs at least) into small bits in about 0.9 seconds.
B) Awesome Hair: I really like her hair…… End.
C) Slight Awkwardness: If the whole drool thing isn't enough, Urabe is slightly awkward. Not in terms of speaking to people, but she almost never smiles, she's got a cold stare, and doesn't joke. That being said, she still gets pretty emotional, she just does a great job of hiding it. I guess I like those types of characters, huh? Anyway, here's more pics:
If you haven't read Mysterious Girlfriend X, you're dumb. It should have a fucking anime. Especially considering half the shit that's out there. Bullshit.
Well, that's that! (I did not check nor proofread this piece of shit)


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Katelyn Cusack '08 was looking for something different. That is how she ended up stationed in Niger as a Peace Corps community youth education volunteer, sleeping outside of a mudbrick house, living without running water, and adopting a cat, even though she proclaims she is not a cat person. At a young age, Cusack's parents instilled in her the importance of giving back. As an Emmanuel student, she continued to maintain a strong personal commitment to service, becoming a staple of the Campus Ministry Office's programs around town, participating in Alternative Spring Break to Phoenix, Ariz., and volunteering at hospitals during her summers. When graduation began to near, she recognized the Peace Corps as a chance to contribute on a global scale while offering the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to venture to another part of the world she otherwise might not consider. Referred to as "The Hard Post" within Peace Corps circles due to its challenging climate and poor economic conditions, Niger lived up to its moniker when Cusack arrived in the summer of 2009. During the midday peak, temperatures easily reached 120 degrees with the lowest rarely ever dipping into double digits. The village, located just outside the Nigerien capital of Niamey, was surrounded by a sea of brown - mostly dust or decayed vegetation suffering from the exhaustive heat. There were only a handful of schools to support the 30,000 villagers there, and one of the first things Cusack noticed upon her arrival was the library, its doors closed and children unable to enter. In addition to her teaching responsibilities and overseeing the English club she established for children (villagers speak French and Zarma, the latter a language native to the region), Cusack took on the dilapidated library building as her project. She led the effort in renovating the library, cleaning and repainting its interior and exterior and restoring the bookshelves. The daughter of a librarian, she took a page from her mother's book and hosted an open house to celebrate the reopening of the building upon completing the restoration.
For someone who quickly admits she was born with the gift of gab, the inability to communicate as freely as she'd like proved perhaps her greatest challenge. At one point during her stay, Cusack slipped and broke her arm, the barriers of language and culture resulting in an array of confusion on both ends. As she sat crying, her host mother knew not what to do. She handed Cusack a cup of water with the expectation it would quench her thirst and despair, then returned to business as usual.
Observation and reflection became the resulting byproducts of her stay, outcomes Cusack fully embraced. She discovered, much to her surprise, that in many ways her initial perception of Niger as a place so different from any she had known was mistaken. She recalled shared elements of human nature shining through as she quietly watched an older sibling pester a younger one at the kitchen table, forcing parental intervention.
"Seeing how the world works, that everyone is the same, it was soothing," she said.
Cusack's service with the Peace Corps ended in the winter of 2011, after which she returned to the U.S. She currently works in the admissions office of Northeastern University and has aspirations of pursuing a master's degree in education to become a teacher. When she thinks of her time in Niger, she does so fondly. Often, she recalls an elderly couple she met while there. Fellow volunteers, the septuagenarians sold their house and joined the Peace Corps with the simple explanation that they just always wanted to do it. Cusack has it in her mind that someday she too will do the same. Even if she doesn't, she says her time with the Peace Corps will always remain with her.
"This was a positive experience and I feel blessed to have had it," she said.
Katelyn Cusack '08 spent a year and a half in Niger as a Peace Corps community youth education volunteer. Known as "The Hard Post" within Peace Corps circles due to its challenging climate and poor economic conditions, Cusack says the location lived up to its moniker. For someone born with the gift of gab, the inability to communicate was Cusack's greatest challenge, however, it did not stop her from becoming an active member of the village community. One of Cusack's major projects involved renovating the village's library.


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The software industry is moving ahead at a rapid pace at the moment – particularly on the Mac. We've seen some brilliant new applications released this year, and a few classics updated with an impressive new feature set.
Before we forge ahead into a new year, likely dominated by the onset of the Mac App Store and everything that entails, I thought it would be fun to take a look back at the past twelve months to remind ourselves of what happened.
I'd be honoured if you'd join me in this review of Mac apps in 2010. You might just find some fantastic new software along the way!


text: The Mars Orbiter P5-A Presentation video (lecture 11) is now on the BATC website. To access the video go to http://www.batc.tv/ and click on the 'Archive' icon on the left. Select which AMSAT-UK lecture you wish to watch then click the 'Play' (>) icon. Click on the icon between the 'Progress' bar and the 'Volume' bar to get full screen viewing. Lectures 4 and 5 are about the MoonLITE project which will be the first Lunar mission by the United Kingdom. Lectures 6, 7 and 8 are about the Delfi-C3 satellite Lecture 9 is the P3-E satellite presentation given by AMSAT-DL President Peter Guelzow DB2OS, see also 'Get into Orbit with AMSAT-DL's P3E-Satellite' at http://www.p3e-satellite.org/index.pl?lang=en_EN Lecture 10 will be the Amateur Radio Mars Orbiter P5-A given by Achim Vollhardt DH2VA, see also 'GO-Mars with AMSAT-DL's P5A Mission' at http://ticket-to-mars.org/index.pl?lang=en_EN Still to be added: Lecture 11 will be the Delfi-n3Xt next generation satellite presentation Lecture 12 will be the presentation on the new GB4FUN vehicle given by Carlos Eavis G0AKI Lecture 13 will be the 2.3/3.4/5.6GHz Signal Generator for Satellite Applications by Grant Hodgson G8UBN Lectures 14/15 will be the Band planning for satellite operations on frequencies in the Amateur Service by Hans van de Groenendaal ZS6AKV, President AMSAT-SA followed by the IARU Satellite Forum. The full lecture programme (with video lecture numbers) can be seen at: http://www.uk.amsat.org/content/view/640/213/ The PowerPoint presentation slides can be viewed at: http://www.uk.amsat.org/content/view/664/235/ Pictures from the event can be seen at: http://www.uk.amsat.org/gallery2 AMSAT-UK publish a newletter OSCAR News which is full of Amateur Satellite information. Join online at https://secure.amsat.org.uk/subscription/ For further details contact Jim Heck G3WGM. Tel: +44 (0)1258 453959 Email: g3wgm at amsat.org Web: http://www.uk.amsat.org/ ---- 73 Trevor M5AKA __________________________________________________________ Not happy with your email address?. Get the one you really want - millions of new email addresses available now at Yahoo! http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/ymail/new.html


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One of the five nominees for Entertainer of the Year at this year's Academy of Country Music Awards is Miranda Lambert.
Miranda is undoubtedly one of country's hottest stars right now, thanks to a series of hit songs including "The House That Built Me," "Over You," "Kerosene," "Fastest Girl in Town," and her most recent single "Mama's Broken Heart." She has a bold and sometimes "fiery personality," and she is, as one of our panel of music experts notes, "the girl that girls wish they had the guts to be."
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We're in the home stretch of posts about my trip to the Northeast, with two more cities to go. It's taken me as long to write all this stuff up as it did to see it.
I must've picked up a nasty cold somewhere in New York, because by the time we got to Philadelphia the symptoms were on me in full force. We hit the trail anyway. I'm a first-rate wuss, but it takes more than a runny nose and a sore throat to keep me from historical sightseeing.
Something like the sequester, for example.
To explain how the folks in Washington put a real damper on this leg of the trip, I need to back up and give you a brief history of my previous visits to the City of Brotherly Love. I was still in high school the first time I went there, accompanying my mom on a research trip. We were only in town for one day, so there wasn't much time for sightseeing. I got to pick one destination to visit, and it came down to either Independence Hall or the Academy of Natural Sciences.
You'd think this would be a no-brainer for a Rev War buff, but at that time my history buffdom was still in its embryonic stage. Like our tiny mammalian ancestors, it scurried around in the underbrush, unable to compete for resources with the ginormous reptiles who took up all the good habitat space. In this case, the ginormous reptile was a hadrosaur, the first major dinosaur find ever made in the U.S. and one of the star attractions of the Academy of Natural Science's collections. So I picked the ANS and vowed that if I ever made it back to Philly I'd see Independence National Historical Park.
Many years later, I had to fly up to Philadelphia on a trip for the Lincoln museum. With a couple of hours to myself, I managed to hit Independence Hall, the Liberty Bell, and the buildings where Congress and the Supreme Court sat. I'd really wanted to see the house where Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, the New Hall Military Museum, and the gallery of Charles Wilson Peale's portraits, but there just wasn't enough time. Once again I left Philadelphia with unfinished business, promising myself that someday I'd be back to fill in the blanks.
So here I was again in 2013, ready to take another crack at seeing everything INHP had to offer. You can imagine my reaction when when we found the Declaration House, the military museum, and the Peale gallery closed. If you're familiar with that scene in National Lampoon's Vacation where the Griswolds finally make it to Walley World, and they run giddily up to the entrance only to encounter a statue of Marty Moose with a recorded message announcing that the park is shut down for renovation, well…
…it was sort of like that.
Missing the Peale gallery was just plain bad luck; it's only open on certain days of the week, and we happened to be there on one of the other ones. But I couldn't figure out why the Declaration House and the military museum were off limits. The park's website gave no information. I wondered if the sequester might have had something to do with it, and apparently that was the case.
On the off chance you ever read this, members of Congress and President Obama—thanks for nothing.
Still, an incomplete visit to INHP is better than a full visit to most places. It's an awesome park. We did manage to see the reconstructed Declaration House from the outside. The original was demolished in 1883.
And Independence Hall makes any trip to INHP well worth it, even if some of the other buildings are closed.
People have been paying their respects here for a long time.
The line to see the Liberty Bell was much longer than on my last visit, wrapping all the way around the outside of the building. I wondered if this was due to the fact that so many of the other buildings were closed. There's a great exhibit in the building that houses the bell, covering everything from its manufacture to its evolution as a symbol of freedom and protest down to the present day. It's a fascinating look at the development of historical memory.
I didn't get to visit Carpenters Hall on my last trip, so I was glad to see it this time. The interior is much smaller than I'd expected.
We also walked through Christ Church Burial Ground. Five signers of the Declaration of Independence are at rest here, including Benjamin Franklin.
One other feature at INHP was new to me, because when I first visited the park it hadn't been built yet. It's an outdoor exhibition called "The President's House: Freedom and Slavery in the Making of a New Nation," which opened in 2010 on the site of the house occupied by the President of the United States from 1790 to 1800. A sort of semi-reconstruction of the home's facade marks the spot.
It's an interesting case study in the intersection of memory, politics, and public history, and for that reason it's worth examining in some detail.
Excavations at the site, which revealed remnants of the presidential residence's work areas, generated public calls for recognition of the slaves who lived and worked there. As of the time of my visit, the exhibit tells both the story of George Washington's slaves and the story of the presidency's beginnings…sort of.
There are some panels with information about important events in the history of the presidency (the Jay Treaty, the Alien and Sedition Acts, etc.), but it seemed to me that slavery was the main story here. Video screens run short films on Washington's servants, and toward the rear of the structure you can look through a transparent floor at some of the house's original foundations.
Washington's time in Philadelphia definitely exposed the uglier side of his career as a planter. By a 1780 state law, non-residents could only keep their slaves in Pennsylvania for up to six months; after that, slaves of nonresidents living in the state were free. The law provided an exemption for members of Congress, but not for the president or federal judges. Washington managed to get around the prohibition by moving slaves in and out of Pennsylvania so that none of them were in the state for more than six months at a stretch, even though a 1788 amendment to the original law closed this loophole by prohibiting that very practice.
Washington never came under legal scrutiny for these shenanigans, but his slaves still proved harder to hold onto in the capital city than he anticipated. As he prepared to leave Philadelphia and return to Virginia, a young woman named Oney Judge (one of Martha Washington's dower slaves) fled the household. Knowing that escape would be extremely difficult back in the Old Dominion, she used her connections among Philadelphia's black community to make a bid for freedom and made it to New Hampshire, where she married a sailor and had three children. Washington's efforts to recover her ended in failure, and she died a free woman—in practice if not by law—in 1848.
It's one heck of a story, and I'm glad the exhibit is telling it. At the same time, I couldn't shake the impression that we were juggling two different topics, and not entirely successfully. The origins of the presidency and the role of slavery in the Washington household are both immensely important and very complicated subjects, requiring as much space and ingenuity as possible. The President's House exhibit conveys the slaves' story much more effectively than the story of the executive branch's early development. This is a problem, because there aren't many historical topics more consequential than the presidencies of Washington and Adams. Every decision, every measure, every bit of protocol established precedents that would shape American government for more than two centuries, and in some cases determined whether the U.S. would maintain its precarious existence or be caught up in the torrent of European war.
I would've preferred the exhibit take its time and tell either one of these stories fully, either the bottom-up story of Washington's slaves or the top-down story of the first two men to take the oath of office. To me, the limited space devoted to the top-down story only called attention to the fact that the coverage was so basic and limited, like an afterthought tacked on because there happened to be room for a few more exhibit panels. It was as if the interpreters were trying to cram in enough to please everybody, with the result that nothing got covered as thoroughly as it should have.
I realize that I've devoted more verbiage to my critique of the President's House exhibit than any other aspect of INHP. I hope this doesn't give you the impression that my overall assessment of the park is negative. Far from it; the only reason I haven't discussed the park as a whole in the same detail is because the President's House exhibit was new to me, and it raises all sorts of interesting questions about how we interpret historic sites. I consider the park as whole to be one of the crown jewels of the entire national park system. I've had two guided tours of Independence Hall and the buildings alongside it over the years, and both were among the best historic building tours I've ever taken. The rangers here are extraordinarily knowledgeable and engaging, the buildings are beautifully restored and maintained, and in terms of historical significance it might just outrank every other historic site in the country. If you're making a list of historic places to see in the U.S., this one should be at the very top.


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I got this as a gift for a friend that was moving far from any outdoor climbing. They were able to keep up the finger strength during this period, which was 8 months. It has a solid variety of different size holds and pockets and it held up well to regular use.
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- Familiarity: I've used it once or twice and have initial impressions
Every summer, I have a huge list of climbing goals, but between work and dry land training for skiing, my goals usually remain at large. This winter, I thought if I had a climbing board, I would at least be in partial climbing shape by summer. While I think this board will get me there, it's definitely overwhelming at first. Like other reviewers have said, there are not a lot of easy holds and even just looking at it is a bit overwhelming. I would say the simpler Metolius board would be a better place to start. Though my brother comes over and uses the board and loves it (and he is on the higher end of intermediate).
too many pockets
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I feel like I could get just as good a workout on a board with 1/2 the pockets. that would take up less space on your wall, and presumably drop the price. otherwise, great board!
Not a beginner's board
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
The first board that I ordered felt tacky and damp as if the epoxy hadn't set properly. Backcountry were awesome though and just sent me out a new one. They even paid for the return shipping of the old one. I can't commend Backcountry more highly for that.
As to the board, the number of holds is great and it's one of the best training boards I've used. I have to say that it's NOT a beginners board. The holds range of medium to tiny with only 1 set of 'jugs'. If it's not an advanced board, it's definitely in upper end of intermediate.
Great item
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
Installing this training board is kind of a pain. You'll need 3/4" ply wood and some good size wood screws. Ply wood gets screwed to the studs behind the drywall, then the training board gets screwed to the ply wood. Once everything is up and secure, it is worth it. It has different holds to practice with (slots, slopers, pinch, and jugs). Very cool.
does the job Does the job.
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
Good and versatile trainer. I wish the jugs were a bit bigger but what else is new.
Metolius used to make better...
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
So, I've got one of the first editions of the Project Board in my current house. The thing is sweet. Plenty of friction, great holds, and good design. I bought this thing thinking it would be comparable to my old one. I was definitely mistaken, and it seems as though Metolius has downgraded their manufacturing on their hangboards. The material was slippery, holds were not well thought out, and it just didn't give me what I was looking for.
I feel like mine is a bit slippery too... the slopers are pretty much useless, doesn't feel like there's any grit. Did you find any solution or another board you'd recommend?
You guys are ridiculous. Of course they're slippery, but that's what chalk is for! Grip is awesome.
No excuses now!
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
I just mounted the contact board above the doorway to the living room. I live in Germany so I had to mount the backboard a little different. Can't use wood screws on concrete walls. The board is secured very well and has many options for training. I would suggest the board to anyone. It's a small edition for training that yields big results. All that's left to do is increase my climbing ability. I am very pleased with the products.
This board was an upgrade for me, since I started to use it more. At first I was a little overwhelmed by the choices--going from a pretty basic option to all the different pockets and grips that this board offers, and for the first few workouts I kind of wished there were less choices. After using it for several weeks, I like having so many small variations in the grips because I'm getting to know the board and I'm actually using them all as I progress in strength, and the pinch is really good. If I had less space and didn't plan to do such a specific hangboard workout, I would choose the Project Board.
Backyard training set up
Really like the counterweight idea. Exactly what I need for my training. Thanks!
Awesome hang board!
This board has has plenty of holds to keep you in shape during your off months. That's all I ask of a hang board.


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With three generations of research, development and experience in creating functional, grape varietal specific glassware, Georg and Maximilian Riedel challenged themselves to improve on what had gone before. The result is Performance – a technologically advanced and user-friendly collection of grape varietal specific glasses. Performance is the first Riedel wine glass series ever to feature bowls with a light optic effect. Detailed research by the Riedel family, aimed at improving the organoleptic wine experience, revealed that increasing the inner surface area of the glass had a positive impact on the perception of the bouquet and flavour of the wine. This was achieved through a unique optical effect, which not only adds a pleasing visual aspect to the bowl, but also increases the inner surface area, allowing the wine to open up and to fully show every aroma and subtle nuance.
Fatto A Mano
"Fatto a Mano" combines the sophistication of hand-made glass in the style of the ancient Venetian tradition with the very latest 21st century glass making technology, using fully automated machine-blown techniques. The ancient, colorful Venetian glass making tradition inspired and ignited the thought process and lead the way towards the required design, where the stem and base would be made by hand and the bowl blown by machine.
Riedel Superleggero
Riedel Superleggero (2015) is a grape-varietal specific crystal glassware series and a revolution in handmade glassware, with finer aesthetics and improved lightness – as reflected in the name itself. With a slightly adapted shape and stem length, it is the perfection of the original Sommeliers design. Following the Riedel philosophy of 'form follows function', all Superleggero glasses are primarily 'tools' designed to enhance the enjoyment of fine wines. For the first time in Riedels history, the designation of the series can be found on the base of the glass next to the Riedel logo.
The introduction of the SOMMELIERS series in 1973 achieved worldwide recognition. A glass was born that turns a sip into a celebration – a wine's best friend - fine-tuned to match the grape! We invite you to share this fascinating and unique experience. You don't need to be a wine writer, a wine maker or an expert to taste the difference that a RIEDEL glass can make.
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It's always a good idea to design for efficiency whenever you can. But efficiency can be a hard sell unless the buyer or management sees higher efficiency as a smart investment.
I visited a Baldor Electric, Fort Smith, Ark., a manufacturer of electric motors, drives, and, controls, and learned about substantial reductions in electricity costs that can be had simply by specifying higher efficiency motors. The presentation was geared toward general-purpose motors in the manufacturing plant, but energy savings could also become a selling point if you specify electric motors for hydraulic power units.
John McFarland, president and CEO of Baldor, pointed out that more than 97% of the money spent on a motor goes toward the electricity to run it. More specifically, the average 3-phase, 50-hp, 1800-rpm motor will consume $36,029 worth of electricity if operated continuously over the course of a year. This assumes a very modest $0.10/kW-hr rate for electricity and motor efficiency of 90.7%. However, a premium efficiency (94.5%) motor operating under the same conditions would consume $34,580 worth of electricity. McFarland noted that the $1449 savings in the first year alone would almost pay for the entire motor -- not just the difference in price. Now multiply this saving by an expected life of ten years (which seems rather conservative), and the cost of a $2000 motor compares to a total cost of $360,000.
Granted, most motors aren't 50 hp and don't operate fully loaded 24/7. However, for most industrial hydraulic systems, the power unit's electric motor is running whenever the machine is on. And in many cases, the motor runs fully loaded most of the time. So if the power unit is running 16 hr/day, six days a week, the savings can still be substantial.
Literature provided by Baldor lists figures for motors sized from 1 to 200 hp, so let's look at a situation more typical of an industrial hydraulic system. According to Baldor, a standard 10-hp motor has an efficiency of 86.1%, which would use $7591 worth of electricity annually if operated continuously. But 4800 hr/yr seems more reasonable for a typical power unit. This amounts to 16 hours per day, six days a week, with two weeks off, which translates to $4159/yr. Baldor publishes their 10-hp premium motor as having an efficiency of 91.7%, which would consume $7127 of electricity annually. Again, though, at 4800 hr/yr, this would translate to $3905 -- an annual savings of $254.
But if the motor runs only about 55% of the time, then we should upgrade its expected life proportionally -- to 18.25 years. So for our example, the total energy cost savings from specifying a premium efficiency motor would amount to $4635. And don't forget, these figures are based on electricity at $0.10/kW-hr. Ten cents is too low for situations, and rates will likely increase even more over time.
After the formal presentation, someone remarked that many designers are well aware of the benefits of specifying more energy-efficient components. The problem is that sometimes the people who won't approve spending a little more for higher energy efficiency are the same ones who threaten to cut jobs if expenses (such as the electricity bill) are not reduced. Therefore, because you have read this far, it now has become your task to share this information with whoever has been complaining about your facility's electricity bill.


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LONDON (MarketWatch) — A stronger-than-expected nonfarm payrolls report from the U.S. sent European stock markets higher in afternoon action on Friday, erasing earlier losses fueled by a downbeat assessment on the German economy.
The Stoxx Europe 600 index SXXP, +0.23% rose 0.1% to close at 279.17, after trading as low as 278.26 earlier in the day. On the week, the index closed 1.2% higher.
Stocks rebounded in the afternoon after nonfarm-payroll data from the U.S. showed 146,000 jobs were added to the economy in November, far exceeding the 80,000 expected by economists polled by MarketWatch.
The unemployment rate dropped to 7.7% versus expectations for an unchanged reading of 7.9%. See: U.S. creates 146,000 jobs in November
U.S. stock traded mixed on Wall Street, as consumer-sentiment data missed expectations. Read more about U.S. markets
"I think you have to be careful to read too much into these numbers [nonfarm-payrolls]. There are in so many ways a lot of noise in this, with Superstorm Sandy, Thanksgiving and the U.S. election distorting the data," said Henrik Drusebjerg, senior strategist at Nordea in Copenhagen.
"More and more people are focusing on the fiscal cliff negotiations and what I'm mostly worried about is that we'll see the same turbulence as we saw in August last year during the debt-ceiling discussions. Back then, markets didn't react before the uncertainty showed up in the macro data and I'm worried about the macro data now," he said.
The fiscal cliff refers to automatic spending cuts and tax hikes slated to take effect in the new year, unless Democrats and Republicans agree on a deal to avert it.
Among notable movers in Europe, shares of Deutsche Telekom AG DTE, +1.15% dropped 1.9%, after the firm late Thursday said it would cut dividends for next year to 0.5 euro ($0.65).
Shares of Norsk Hydro ASA NHY, +0.21% slumped 2.4%, after Nomura cut the aluminum producer to reduce from neutral.
Drug makers were among best performing sectors, with Sanofi SA SAN, +1.78% SNY, +0.87% and Novo Nordisk AS NOVOB, +0.50% NVO, +1.19% both rising 0.7%. Shares of Roche Holding AG ROG, +1.75% climbed 0.9% after Morgan Stanley lifted the firm to overweight from equal weight.
German concerns
Most stocks had earlier in the day traded in negative territory, as hopes that the European economy will soon recover were dashed, after Germany's central bank downgraded its forecast for Europe's largest economy.
The Bundesbank said it now expects gross domestic product to grow 0.7% this year, but growth will ease to 0.4% next year, down from its previous estimate of 1.6%. It also said that unemployment could edge up to 7.2% in 2013 from an expected 6.8% this year, before falling back to 7% in 2014. See: Some bad news about that German engine of growth
In addition, data showed industrial production for October fell 2.6%, a steeper decline than expected by analysts.
"Germany has been the stronger economy in Europe and signs that they are struggling are bad for markets," said Richard Perry, chief market strategist at Central Markets.
"The euro EURUSD, -0.4086% has been hit hard again and is back below $1.30, which is a psychological level that has been broken," he said.
The downbeat forecasts come just a day after the DAX 30 index DAX, +0.11% surged to its highest closing level in almost five years on the back of surprisingly strong factory-order data.
The index closed 0.2% lower at 7,517.80 on Friday, with shares of Deutsche Bank AG DBK, -2.18% DB, -1.66% down 1.1% and Commerzbank AG CBK, -2.71% off 0.8%. The DAX, however, closed out the week with a 1.5% gain.
Italian stocks underperform
Italy's FTSE MIB index XX:FTSEMIB underperformed its European peers, as questions about how long Prime Minister Mario Monti can last as the country's front figure started to arise.
Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's People of Liberty Party on Thursday withdrew its support for Monti's unelected technocratic government. See: Political risk rises as Italy's Monti feels the heat
The index sank 0.9% to 15,699.22 and was down 0.7% on the week, with shares of UniCredit SpA UCG, -3.29% off 1.3%.
Greece's Athens General Index GD, -0.26% on the contrary, rallied 1.1% to 840.73 with a 3.9% weekly gain. The Wall Street Journal reported that Greek banks are prepared to sell back their entire stock of Greek government bonds as part of the country's debt-buyback program. Deadline to participate in the plan is at 5 p.m. London time, or noon eastern. See: Greek banks ready to sell 100% of bonds in buyback
And in the U.K. shares of mining firms were on the rise, as most metals prices moved higher after the U.S. labor data. Shares of Rio Tinto PLC RIO, +0.80% RIO, -0.18% RIO, +1.50% rose 0.6% and Antofagasta PLC ANTO, -3.39% picked up 0.8%.
The FTSE 100 index UKX, +0.85% gained 0.2% to 5,914.40, sending it 0.8% higher on the week
France's CAC 40 index PX1, +0.20% gained 0.1% to 3,605.61. It closed out the week 1.4% higher.
Shares of Publicis Groupe SA PUB, +0.35% rose 0.9%, after the advertising group said it bought two different agencies in India as part of its strategy to develop in emerging markets. See: Publicis acquires two agencies in India
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Hiring the Best: Go Beyond Asking Questions in an Interview
This article is a reprint of Wise Bread's contribution to OPEN Forum from American Express -- where small business owners can get advice from experts and share tips with each other.
Finding the perfect employee for your business can be difficult. Depending on the size of your business, you may not have a separate human resources department. You may also have limited resources you can commit to a search for job applicants.
Contrast that with the exhaustive process (and extensive resources) used by online footwear retailer Zappos. At Zappos, hiring is just the beginning. From there, new employees go through a four-week training program and then spend two weeks on the customer service lines, no matter what position they're hired for. Zappos has become well known for this process, as well as a special offer the company makes to each new hire after the first week of training. If new hires agree to quit immediately, they can walk away with $2,000 in their pockets.
The entire on-boarding process ensures that new employees are just as dedicated to Zappos as employees who have been with the company for years. But it's probably not a practical option for smaller businesses. Nevertheless, innovative small businesses can go beyond the standard interview routine to find the right employees.
Dig Deeper than the Interview
Interviews are a mainstay of the hiring process. They provide a way to get to know an applicant, but they don't say much about how well the candidate will perform nor how she'll fit in with you and the rest of the team.
To help her get a better sense of applicants, Alicia Vargo of Pampered Passions uses card, board, and strategy games.
"I don't play an entire game of chess with an applicant," she says, "you can imagine how time consuming this would be – however I sit down and either play gin rummy or chess with our applicants. Of course, they look at me quite strange."
Despite the odd looks, Vargo's method gets results.
"When I sat down with one applicant, she was quite competitive, and frustrated with her mistakes. She was concerned about winning the game, and winning only. She was quite insecure at the same time about her strategies. Ultimately she was throwing her hands in the air, could not believe she was making the decisions she was making on the board, and gave up after about ten moves. She had mentioned that she was an excellent chess player prior to me taking out the game."
Form this experience, Vargo surmised a few things about the candidate:
- She may be a perfectionist;
- She may not be a team player;
- She may give up in a challenging circumstance;
- She may not be a problem solver;
- She could not take the time to breathe through her frustrations.
The result? "She was not a candidate we hired," says Vargo.
The Handwriting on the Wall
Chess and board games aren't your only alternatives. While a variety of assessment tests have become commonplace in the hiring process, Sheila Lowe's handwriting analysis stands out. Lowe provides employers with a deeper insight into the people that they may hire and her analysis has proven out for her clients. "I had provided an analysis of a woman who was applying for outside sales. In my report I noted that while she had many fine qualities for the job, her strong sensitivity gave her tendency to blow up at the slightest provocation. While not all my clients share with their applicants that their handwriting is being analyzed, this particular one did. He told the woman what my report had said and – she blew up."
Lowe's efforts provide employers with an additional layer of information about a candidate. "I never tell a client that they should or shouldn't hire someone," she says, "but my analyses provide objective information (I never meet the applicants) that they can add to their impression in the interview, application, skill testing, background check. I'm not there to stop good people getting a job, but to help the employer make sound choices. In most cases, it's not poor job skills that cause people to lose their job, it's personality problems."
Show, Don't Tell
Many applicants will come to you with impressive resumes – but a resume doesn't tell you how they really do their job and how they fit in with your team. Having a prospective employee actually get down in the trenches and do a trial project (paid, of course) can give you a much clearer picture of how they'll actually work for your company.
Sara Sutton Fell is the CEO of the jobsite Flexjobs.com. Applicants to her company are asked to complete an exercise that shows how they would perform in the real world.
"One of the positions is a researcher role," Fell says, "so we gave the candidates similar guidelines that our current researchers have, and asked them to take a half hour and submit the results of the research guidelines. It gives us a great insight into (a) their current level of understanding of the job; (b) the quality of their work; and (c) in what areas they may need training. "
Because her current researchers are already experts, she includes them in the process, helping her "grade" candidate responses. "We had four candidates who just knocked the research component out of the park, with their submitted results being 100 percent usable and up to our current standards, with absolutely no training. The other submissions ranged on the spectrum, with about half of them ensuring their progress to the interview stage."
Fell's process has resulted in positive responses from applicants, as a general rule. After all, many potential hires aren't sure how a company really operates until they land the job and start work. The test offered a glimpse of what applicants were applying for. The insights that a work exercise such as Fell's research test provides can be beneficial to applicants as well as the companies interested in hiring them.
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SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ernst & Young LLP today announced the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2013 award winners in San Diego. The award recognizes outstanding high-growth entrepreneurs who demonstrate excellence and extraordinary success in such areas as innovation, financial performance and personal commitment to their businesses and communities. The finalists and winners were selected by an independent panel of judges and honored at a gala event at the Hyatt Regency Aventine in La Jolla, CA on June 13, 2013.
- Business Services category: Adconion Direct, San Diego – Kim Reed Perell, CEO
- Technology category: ecoATM, San Diego – Tom Tullie, CEO & Chairman of the Board
- Consumer Products & Services category: LifeProof, San Diego – Gary Rayner, Former CEO
- Life Sciences category: Santarus, Inc., San Diego – Gerald Proehl, President & CEO
- Medical Products & Services category: SkinMedica, Carlsbad – Mary Fisher, Former CEO
- Family Business category: The Wheat Group Inc., San Diego – Kelly Grismer, President and Chad Grismer, CEO
Now in its 27th year, the Entrepreneur Of The Year Program has honored the inspirational leadership of such entrepreneurs as Howard Schultz of Starbucks Coffee Company, Arthur M. Blank of AMB Group, LLC (The Home Depot, Atlanta Falcons), Pierre Omidyar of eBay Inc., Ruth Fertel of Ruth's Chris Steak House, Maxine Clark of Build-A-Bear Workshop, Inc., Tom Adams of Rosetta Stone, Reid Hoffman and Jeff Weiner of LinkedIn, and 2012 National winner and now World Entrepreneur Of The Year winner for 2013, Hamdi Ulukaya of Chobani, Inc.
These regional award winners now go on to compete at the national level. Award winners in several national categories, as well as the National Entrepreneur Of The Year Overall Award winner, will be announced at the annual awards gala in Palm Springs, California, on November 16, 2013. The awards are the culminating event of the Ernst & Young Strategic Growth Forum®, the nation's most prestigious gathering of high-growth, market-leading companies.
Founded and produced by Ernst & Young LLP, the Entrepreneur Of The Year Awards are nationally sponsored by SAP America and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. In San Diego, local sponsors include: Marsh Insurance, Union Bank, Cox Business, The Daily Transcript, and Scherzer International.
About Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur Of The Year®
Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur Of The Year is the world's most prestigious business award for entrepreneurs. The unique award recognizes the significant contributions of entrepreneurs who inspire others with their vision, leadership and achievement. For more information about the Entrepreneur Of The Year program in San Diego, go to http://www.ey.com/us/eoy/sandiego.
About Ernst & Young LLP's Strategic Growth Markets practice
Ernst & Young LLP's Strategic Growth Markets (SGM) practice guides leading high-growth companies. Our multidisciplinary team of elite professionals provides perspective and advice to help our clients accelerate market leadership. SGM delivers assurance, tax, transactions and advisory services to thousands of companies spanning all industries. Ernst & Young is the undisputed leader in taking companies public, advising key government agencies on the issues impacting high-growth companies and convening the experts who shape the business climate. For more information, please visit us at ey.com/us/strategicgrowthmarkets, or follow news on Twitter at EY_Growth.
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whats the time frame between each films?
so between anh and esb and so forth for ep 4-6
i assume esb and rotj is a couple of month or so
anh to esb must of been a while because the death star was 3 1/4 rebuilt in esb
chipsteak wrote:I seem to remember something about a couple of years before Empire and a year before Jedi.
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When the U.S. Mission to NATO received word that a specially-equipped destroyer -- the USS Donald Cook -- would be arriving in February for permanent basing in Rota, Spain, as a key component of protecting Europe against ballistic missile threats, we jumped at the chance to organize a tour of the vessel for European media. We were given unparalleled access to one of America's most sophisticated and powerful defense capabilities, and to the men and women that carry out the mission of operating, maintaining, and, if the situation warrants, using that capability to defend our Allies. Fourteen journalists from a wide range of NATO states joined USNATO for the tour. We viewed this opportunity -- a four-day journey on this top-of-the-line ship, from Funchal, Portugal to Rota, Spain -- as a once-in-a-blue moon occasion for press to experience firsthand this impressive ship's operations.
Besides its missile defense mission, the USS Donald Cook (DDG 75) also carries out maritime security operations, bilateral and multilateral training exercises, and other NATO deployments, including participation in the Standing NATO Maritime Groups. The U.S. destroyer will patrol the Mediterranean on four-month rotations under U.S. command and control, but can be placed under NATO operational control if threat conditions warrant.
The press packet for the USS Donald Cook describes it as "a multi-mission destroyer...designed to destroy enemy aircraft, missiles, submarines and surface ships." This is a sobering description of a serious piece of equipment. The Aegis radar and missile defense system detects, intercepts, and destroys incoming ballistic missile threats to NATO Allies, and therefore serves as the backbone of NATO's larger European missile defense system. It was impressive, to say the least, to view the Cook's equipment up close: two MK 41 Vertical Launch Systems (VLS) for standard and Tomahawk Missiles; Harpoon Missile Launchers; one 54 caliber 22-foot cannon that can launch 20 five-inch diameter projectiles 13 nautical miles in one minute; two Phalanx radar-guided remote-operated machine guns; and a supply of MK 46 torpedoes which can be launched from two triple-tube mounts.
In the ship's Command Information Center (CIC), the heart of the Cook's weapons systems, highly trained naval officers man radar and computer stations that constantly monitor air, land, surface and submarine contacts in the vicinity. It's here, at the core of the ship, that the journalists gained an appreciation of the complexity of some of the challenges and potential threats facing the Alliance, and the reassurance that the United States and NATO Allies stand ready to respond.
The arrival of the USS Cook to Rota is an undeniable, concrete example of America's long-lasting and enduring commitment to Europe, and there are three more ships just like the Cook scheduled to arrive in Spain between now and the end of 2015. The United States continues to bring high-tech, proven capabilities to the defense of its Allies...and they are coming at high speed on the high seas.
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Holy Cross Among National Leaders In Graduation Success Rate
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WORCESTER, Mass. – Holy Cross' athletic teams continue to rank among the best in the nation in graduation rates, according to the latest Graduation Success Rate Report which has been released by the NCAA. The Crusaders' overall Graduation Success Rate of 97 percent for all student-athletes tied for the 14th-best mark in the country out of 351 Division I schools. This marks the 11th straight year in which Holy Cross has posted a Graduation Success Rate of at least 97 percent.
"Holy Cross is in elite company as the 14th highest-performing Division I academic institution in the country," said Holy Cross Director of Athletics Nathan Pine. "The consistency with which our student-athletes have achieved success in the classroom is an incredible tribute to their hard work and dedication to this most important pursuit. I'm proud that at Holy Cross, our student-athletes strive for excellence in both academics and athletics."
Holy Cross was one of four Patriot League institutions to rank in the top 20 in the nation in Graduation Success Rate, along with Colgate (98 percent), Loyola (98 percent) and Lafayette (97 percent). Only five other schools from New England earned top 20 rankings, in Dartmouth (99 percent), Harvard (99 percent), Yale (99 percent), Brown (97 percent) and Fairfield (97 percent).
Nineteen of Holy Cross' athletic teams achieved a perfect 100 percent graduation rate. The Crusader programs to post perfect graduation rates were men's basketball, women's basketball, men's cross country, women's cross country, field hockey, women's lacrosse, women's rowing, men's soccer, women's soccer, softball, men's swimming and diving, women's swimming and diving, men's tennis, women's tennis, men's indoor track and field, men's outdoor track and field, women's indoor track and field, women's outdoor track and field and volleyball.
The data used to calculate the Graduation Success Rate is from the four-class aggregate of entering classes from 2007 through 2010, for which the NCAA has compiled sport-by-sport figures. The average Graduation Success Rate for all NCAA Division I sports stood at 87 percent.
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Mt. Airy USA is partnering with the Free Library of Philadelphia and the Community Design Collaborative to develop a design plan for the Lovett Library's garden.
On Sept. 15, there will be a meeting of the Collaborative, a partnership between Mt. Airy USA and the Community Design Collaborative, at Lovett Library, 6945 Germantown Ave., in the Meeting Room (off of Sedgwick St.).
Imagine a beautiful neighborhood park, bustling with activity right on Mt. Airy's Main Street, Germantown Avenue. The Collaborative, in partnership with the Free Library, recently began work to develop a plan for improvements to the green space adjacent to the Lovett Memorial Library.
The Collaborative is a volunteer-based community design center that provides pro-bono preliminary design services to nonprofit organizations. They have convened a volunteer team of design professionals for the project, including two landscape architects/designers, one urban planner and a cost estimator. The final product will include a variety of conceptual planning documents of the existing and proposed site design, in addition to rough cost estimates and phased implementation and maintenance plans. The completed plan will guide Mt. Airy USA in its efforts to improve the site and to secure the community support and funding necessary to move forward.
"The Free Library is excited to partner with Mt. Airy USA in its efforts to begin to develop and revitalize the Lovett Library's outdoor public space. We are very grateful that this project has the backing of The Community Design Collaborative to help facilitate a design vision for its use. The efforts of Mt. Airy USA to improve the Germantown Avenue corridor appear to be reaching a critical mass that will, I believe, create the foundation for sustained community enrichment and growth," said Joe Benford, extensions division chief, Free Library of Philadelphia.
In its current state, this large green space contains only enough seating for two people and is relatively inactive, attracting very few visitors.
"Through thoughtful planning and development we believe there is tremendous opportunity to activate the site and transform it into a community-serving asset. This is another key step in the revitalization of America's most historic commercial corridor," said Anuj Gupta, executive director of Mt. Airy USA.
The project will enrich the current site to generate increased foot traffic and further connect the commercial nodes of the Avenue currently separated by institutional and residential uses. It will also complement the streetscape improvement project the organization recently completed on Germantown Avenue, which includes new pedestrian-scale light-poles, new sidewalks and curbs, trees and benches.
This design and planning project comes on the heels of a summer film series "Moonlight Movies in Mt. Airy," which has been held at the Lovett Library Garden throughout the summer (depending on the weather).
"We hope the Moonlight Movies series has started to get people thinking about this space and the possibilities it holds. If we can capture that momentum to get people engaged in the design and planning, we'll have a really dynamic process and a final product reflective of the community's vision," said Elizabeth Moselle, director of Commercial Corridor Revitalization at Mt. Airy USA.
The design team is working with a community task force consisting of 17 neighborhood stakeholders, including members of the East and West Mt. Airy Neighbors civic groups, business owners, institutional representatives and near neighbors. The group, whose first meeting was held on August 23, is helping to guide and shape the plan. Additional neighborhood constituents will have an opportunity to participate in the planning process during two community-wide meetings, the first of which will be held on Thursday, September 15 at 6:30 p.m. at the Lovett Library's meeting room (enter on Sedgwick Street).


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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A device that plays a melody in an attempt to slow people's breathing didn't lower the blood pressure of people with diabetes, according to a new study.
"Given the results and the studies available, you can conclude that there is not enough evidence to use this device," said Dr. Gijs Landman, the study's lead author from the Isala Clinics in The Netherlands.
In theory, the device works by measuring the wearer's breathing and playing a melody to reduce the number of breaths they take per minute, which relaxes blood vessels and - in turn - lowers blood pressure.
Past research on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved RESPeRATE device, however, has produced mixed results.
Last year, a review of eight studies that evaluated the device found it lowered the participants' blood pressure, but that benefit disappeared when the researchers excluded studies sponsored by RESPeRATE's maker - InterCure Ltd.
For the new study, Landman and his colleagues recruited 24 adults with diabetes and high blood pressure to use the device for 15 minutes per day over eight weeks.
Another 24 people with diabetes and high blood pressure were also recruited to act as a comparison group by using an identical device without the therapeutic melody.
At the start of the study, all the participants had systolic blood pressure (the top number) of about 151 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg), and their diastolic blood pressure (the bottom number) was about 82 mm Hg.
The American Heart Association recommends that a person's systolic blood pressure should be less than 120 mm Hg, and their diastolic blood pressure should be less than 80 mm Hg.
At the end of the study, the researchers found no significant differences in the participants' blood pressure in either the intervention or comparison group.
What's more, three participants using RESPeRATE didn't complete the study. Two dropped out because of side effects that could have been related to their use of the device, according to the researchers in JAMA Internal Medicine.
InterCure did not respond to a request for comment before deadline. Landman told Reuters Health the company did supply his team with the devices, which cost between $300 and $420.
Dr. Kamal R. Mahtani, who was not involved with the new study but led last year's analysis, said the new findings back up their earlier findings.
"There is no clear evidence for clinical benefit and this new paper is interesting because it's highlighting a potential harm," said Mahtani, from the Center for Evidence Based Medicine at The University of Oxford in the UK.
He added that he would not recommend the device to his patients and encourages people considering using this device to speak with their doctor first.
Mahtani said the treatment of high blood pressure often depends on a person's risk of heart disease, but could include lifestyle changes or medication.
Landman also told Reuters Health that he would not recommend the device, because - on top of not providing a benefit - it's time-consuming to use.
"You have to listen to the music for 15 minutes every day… I don't think it's feasible," he said.
SOURCE: bit.ly/17Fu3CG JAMA Internal Medicine, online June 10, 2013.


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by Jacqueline Weiss
This weekend is full of excitement, the much-anticipated final installment to the Harry Potter series premiere's Friday, and a classic children's story is brought back to life. If you're interested in good food, make sure to attend this summer's University City dining days.
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What: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II (PG-13)
When: July 15
Where: Check your local listings
The much-awaited final installment in the Harry Potter series hits theaters this weekend and picks up with Harry, Ron, and Hermione setting out to destroy Voldemort's final three horcruxes. The battle for the safety of the wizarding world is put into the hands of Dumbeldore's Army.
What: Winnie the Pooh (G)
When: July 15
Where: Check your local listings
In the Hundred-Acre Wood, Winnie the Pooh sets out to find honey, and after misinterpreting a note from Christopher Robin, Pooh convinces everyone that Christopher has been kidnapped by a creature called "Backson." Pooh and his friends set out on a mission to save him.
What: Moonlight Movies Series: Back to the Future
When: July 15 @8:30 p.m.
Where: Lovett Memorial Library
6945 Germantown Avenue
Mt. Airy
Mt. Airy USA is partnering with the Free Library of Philadelphia and the Trolley Car Diner to host a Moonlight Movies outdoor series that will run for six consecutive Fridays through August 12. This week's movie is Back to the Future, a 1985 sci-fi adventure flick. Seating will begin at 8 p.m.
What: High Point Sunday Market
When: July 17 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Where: High Point Café
Allens Lane Train Station
Chestnut Hill
High Point Sunday Market will celebrate urban farmers and local crafts every Sunday through October. There will also be music concerts on the first Sunday of every month.
What: University City Dining Days
When: July 14 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Where: various restaurants around the University City
This weekend will kick-off University City's annual summer Dining Days. Enjoy three courses at three price points: $15, $25, or $30. At each price point you have the option to choose from a variety of restaurants ranging from Indian to barbeque and everything inbetween.
What: Concert with The Large Flowerheads
When: July 14-28
Where: Abington Art Center
515 Meetinghouse Road
Abington Art Center and Abington Township's Parks & Recreation Department are partnering to host a Thursday evening concert series in the Sculpture Park. Enjoy dancing, food from Trolley Car Diner, children's activities, and more. Enjoy classic hits from The Large Flowerheads where they will bring back '60s pop music.


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Author Notes: Pasties (Pass + tees) are traditional hand pies that originated in England, and were eaten as lunch by miners. They made their way around the world with Cornish miners, and one of the places they ended up was in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Both of my parents were raised in the U.P. so I grew up eating pasties. The traditional upper Michigan pasty contains beef, potatoes, rutabaga, and onion. Carrots would sometimes be included in addition to or in place of the rutabaga.
When I make pasties I use my mom's crust recipe (which she got from her mom.) The only alteration I've made is to use butter instead of margarine. The crust is almost a cross between pie dough and bread dough with a little bit of choux thrown in the mix. It is easy to work with, and makes a perfect containment system for the filling.
This filling is not traditional at all, but inspired by Saraveza, a local bottle shop and pasty tavern. They offer a variety of traditionally filled and unusual pasties. Some of my favorites are their greens and cheese versions. For my version I used my recipe for Collards & Chorizo, and combined it with fromage blanc and Pecorino Romano for a tasty and satisfying filling. Other sturdy-type greens (kale, mustard, etc...) can be used instead of the collards. Tender greens can skip or greatly shorten the blanching step. For a main course serving I like to make 8 pasties, but if you like yours smaller you can make up to 12 with this recipe.
Food52 Review: Wow! Hardlikearmour has hit another home run with these scrumptious, full-of-flavor pasties. The dough is a snap to put together and roll out, and it yields such a wonderfully flaky yet sturdy crust. The fromage blanc, pecorino and nutmeg combo (which you spread on the dough before spooning in the greens-chorizo mix) both moistens the pasties' interior and serves as the perfect complement to the chorizo's spiciness and the collards' chewiness. When these emerge from the oven, fragrant and golden, it takes some effort not to scarf one down immediately. Mine cooked in just under 35 minutes, so start checking for doneness at half an hour. —em-i-lis
Makes: 8 (to 12) pasties
Crust and composing the pasties
cup water
cup unsalted butter
cups all-purpose flour
teaspoon baking powder
teaspoon fine sea salt or table salt
ounces fromage blanc
ounces Pecorino Romano grated on the small holes of a box grater
large egg, lightly beaten
teaspoons freshly grated nutmeg
bunches collard greens (about 2 lbs)
teaspoons table or fine sea salt, divided
tablespoons olive oil
small links Spanish chorizo (about 3.5 oz) *see note for vegetarian version
medium cloves garlic
teaspoons freshly ground black pepper
tablespoon sherry vinegar
Crust and composing the pasties
- In small saucepan, bring water to a boil. Remove from heat and add butter. While butter is melting, whisk dry ingredients together to blend in a separate bowl. Once butter is thoroughly melted, stir the dry ingredients into wet ingredients until well blended. Cover and refrigerate at least 4 hours or overnight.
- Heat oven to 375º F with one rack in the top third and one rack in the bottom third of the oven.
- Turn refrigerated dough out onto lightly floured counter top. Some of the butter will have separated, knead the dough several times to break down any large chunks of butter. Divide the dough into 8 equal pieces. Roll each piece into an 8- to 9-inch round. (I generally roll them out a bit, let them rest a bit, and roll again. This helps the gluten relax so they roll out easier.)
- Spread 1/8th of the cheese "spread" into onto the lower half of the dough, leaving a border of at least 1 inch. Top the cheese with about 1/8th of the collard mixture, attempting to get even dispersal of the chorizo. Brush the border with water to help insure a good seal. Fold the top half of the dough over, and gently press the filling into a half circle shape. Press the dough rim together, then roll the bottom portion of dough over the top portion. Crimp to seal. Dock the tops with a fork in several places to allow steam to escape.
- Place the pasties on 2 parchment lined baking sheets. If desired, brush the pasties with an egg wash (1 egg whisked with 1 tablespoon water). Bake for 40 to 45 minutes, trading rack positions and turning baking sheets 180º midway, until light golden brown. Allow to cool on pan 5 to 10 minutes before serving.
- To make the cheese "spread": Combine both cheeses, egg, and nutmeg in a small-medium bowl. Stir until well mixed.
- To make the collards and chorizo mixture: Bring 2 quarts of water to a boil in a 6 to 8 quart pot. While the water is heating, remove stems from collard greens and coarsely chop.
- Once water is boiling, add 1 & ½ teaspoons salt and the collard greens. Stir the greens until they are wilted. Reduce heat to medium, and cover the pot. Cook for 6 to 7 minutes until the greens are fairly tender, but still a pretty vibrant green color.
- Drain greens and shock them in an ice bath to halt the cooking. Transfer the greens to a salad spinner and spin to remove excess water. Chop the greens into small bite-sized pieces. (The greens can be covered and stored in the fridge several hours at this point.)
- Cut the chorizo in quarters lengthwise, then into rough cubes. Mince or press the garlic cloves.
- Heat 1 tablespoon olive oil in a large sauté pan (or wipe out the pot you used to cook the greens and use it) over medium heat until shimmering. Add the chorizo and sauté several minutes until pieces have started to brown, and some of the fat is rendered out. Add the garlic, and cook for 30 to 60 seconds, stirring continuously. Add the collard greens, ½ teaspoon salt, and black pepper. Toss the greens well to coat with oil adding additional tablespoon olive oil if needed. Cover pan until heated through, about 3 to 4 minutes. Sprinkle greens with vinegar and toss to combine. Taste and add more salt or pepper if needed. Cool to room temperature before using to fill pasties.
- *Note: For a vegetarian version, omit the chorizo. Coarsely chop enough oil cured olives to make a ¼ cup. Heat 2 tablespoons olive oil in a large sauté pan, and briefly cook the olives. Add the garlic and cook for 30 to 60 seconds, stirring continuously. Add the collard greens, 1 teaspoon smoked Spanish paprika, ¼ teaspoon salt, and black pepper. Toss the greens well to coat with oil, adding an additional tablespoon if needed. Cover the pan until heated through, about 3 to 4 minutes. Sprinkle greens with vinegar and toss to combine. Taste and add more salt or pepper if needed. Cool to room temperature before using to fill pasties.
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Board OKs purchase for south county park, seeks hospital funds for barn activity center
night's Porter County Parks and Recreation Board meeting was a memorable
one for Parks Superintendent Walter Lenckos, with turning points for a new
south county park and the Raise-the-Barn activity center.
board voted 4-0 to allow Lenckos to make an offer to purchase a 55-acre
piece of land southeast of the County Road 550 South and Ind. 49
intersection in Morgan Township for the price of $407,000.
property is flat agricultural land now, but, if the deal is made, the
parks department will progress with developing a new park which, according
to preliminary discussions, will include fields for baseball/softball and
soccer and trails for walking/jogging. No permanent decisions have been
made yet. It is close to the site of what was the historic Tassinong Grove
trading post, one of the oldest settlements in northern Indiana.
two members absent Thursday were Craig Kenworthy and Ruth Jarnecke, both
of whom reside in the southern half of the county.
the meantime, a major piece of the funding puzzle for the Raise-the-Barn
may be solved too. Lenckos said both the County Commissioners and the
County Council have indicated to him they support spending $1.5 million of
interest money from the sale of Porter Memorial Hospital toward the
activity center at Sunset Hill Farm County Park.
park board voted 4-0 for Lenckos to request the funding from both the
Commissioners and the Council. Majority votes are required from both
boards to spend the hospital interest money.
are starting to all come together," Lenckos said.
attorney David Hollenbeck said the $407,000 offered to purchase the south
county park land is significantly less than what the department was
willing to spend on the parcel -- $600,000. It was even less than the
average of the two appraisals done, one which valued the land at $440,000
and the other at $426,250, which is what Indiana law prescribes the
purchase should be.
property owner's identity is the Dorothy L. Anderson trust, Hollenbeck
member Rebecca Tomerlin said the Land Acquisition and Development
Committee recommended the purchase at its meeting two weeks ago.
all agreed this is an excellent property," Tomerlin said.
he would be unable to attend the meeting, County Councilman Jim Polarek,
R-4th, phoned the Tribune earlier Thursday to say he would like to
thank the Anderson family for allowing their property to be purchased by
the parks department.
going to help the kids," Polarek said.
also lauded the efforts of former County Commissioner Carole Knoblock and
her successor County Commissioner Laura Shurr Blaney, D-South.
had announced at this week's county commissioner meeting that the deal
was moving forward now that the parks department had in its budget CEDIT
money earmarked for land acquisitions.
park is long overdue. It will give the south county residents a place to
gather with friends and family for fitness and fun," Blaney had said.
parks supporters Charlotte and Herb Read told the board they would like to
see the county parks department continue searching for areas that could be
acquired and developed for passive recreation.
Read asked that a master plan be developed for the new south county park
with various alternatives for the public to give input on.
member David Canright said the board will not ask for input yet since the
land purchase is still under negotiation.
the Barn plans updated
members got to view a new draft of what the inside of the Raise-the-Barn
will look like from Vavrek Architects. The plans now show about 1,400 sq.
ft. to be added for the inclusion of the County's Recycling and Waste
Reduction District offices.
additional space will not greatly alter the roughly $3 million price tag
as it will mainly consist of only a few walls, floor and a roof extension.
updated building cost estimate is expected within the next month, Lenckos
officials have wanted to move the offices along with the County Extension
office to Sunset Hill Farm to free up needed space in the county
administration building. The Extension office has not been included in the
new Raise-the-Barn center plans as it recently has begun negotiations to
relocate to the county fairgrounds, Extension educator and park board
member Annetta Jones said.
will request $1.5 million in hospital sale funds from the Commissioners at
their April 16 meeting. The request will then go to the County Council for
FUNset sign ups April 13
signed up while there is still a chance, Lenckos said about the spots open
for Camp FUNset this summer. Open registration will be Saturday, April 13
from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Sunset Hill Farm.
camp is open to children entering grades 1-7. The dates for the camps run
from June 10 to Aug. 2.
other items:
Lenckos introduced Charmayne Guch who will be the department's new
part-time marketing and events coordinator. She will also assist in the
office, taking over for Shirley Massey who resigned this past month.
Massey will still lead her painting classes offered by the department.
Union Twp. resident Bill Pauley and Parks Planner Ray Joseph have begun to
put up signs around the trails of Sunset Hill Farm with GPS capabilities.
If someone has an emergency in the park and dials 911, they can better
give dispatchers their location by referring to where they are in
proximity to the signs. Pauley said he is talking with local
municipalities about putting up more signs and will present a PowerPoint
at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, April 10, at the Porter County Administration
A new septic system will be installed at the house in Brookdale Park. The
board voted 4-0 to accept a bid of $8,820 from Gift Septic Service of
Lenckos said there will be a volunteer clean-up effort led by the Kiwanis
Club at Brincka-Cross Gardens. The work will start at 10 a.m. on Saturday,
April 13 and more volunteers are welcome.
The annual Spring Out to Sunset event will be on May 18 at 10 a.m.,
Lenckos said. Admission is $5 per car.
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Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler left Sunday's game against the Washington Redskins after suffering a groin injury. Reports now claim he is headed for an MRI on the injyry and results should be known sometime on Monday.
Cutler left the game in the second quarter and looked to be in serious pain. He was hunched over and walking very slowly, after his legs stretched awkwardly during a sack. He was just 3-of-8 for 28 yards with no touchdowns and an interception when he left the game.
If this injury is bad enough that Cutler couldn't return and has to undergo an MRI, it's fair to assume the 30-year-old quarterback will be out for a while. Groin injuries don't just go away, tend to linger for weeks and like abdominal injuries, they are incredibly difficult to play through.
Cutler was replaced by Josh McCown, who completed 14-of-20 passes for 204 yards and a touchdown, with no interceptions. The 34-year-old also added four rushes for 33 yards. McCown actually looked really good in relief, as the Bears lost 45-41 on a Roy Helu touchdown with 45 seconds left in the game.
McCown certainly wasn't Chicago's problem on Sunday, as its defense surrendered 499 yards to a Redskins team that had been struggling to move the ball. Washington rushed for a whopping 209 yards, while quarterback Robert Griffin III threw for 298 yards and two touchdowns. Griffin threw an interception on the day but he also averaged 10.3 yards per attempt. The Bears really have a lot of work to do defensively.
As for now, it's a safe bet that McCown will be starting under center in Chicago for the next few weeks.


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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) Whether it's after a win or a loss, a controversial call or a season-ending injury to a key player, Penn State's Bill O'Brien focuses on the next game.
There's no sense looking back, except to learn how to improve. Next up for the Nittany Lions (6-4, 4-2 Big Ten) following last week's loss to Nebraska is a visit from Indiana.
``Of course, we hate to lose. Like I've always said, losing will never be accepted here at Penn State,'' O'Brien said Tuesday. ``Everyone wishes we could have done a better job ... but we've moved on.''
Playing football has been the respite for players under near-constant scrutiny for things had nothing to do with them. It's been that way for a year now, since ex-assistant coach Jerry Sandusky was arrested on child sex abuse charges, and the NCAA levied landmark sanctions on the program for the school's handing of the scandal.
Many Penn State fans have been irritated that players bore the brunt of the NCAA's wrath. Frustration boiled over again following last week's 32-23 loss to the Cornhuskers over what was ruled a fumble just before Matt Lehman reached the goal line for what could have been a touchdown.
Quarterback Matt McGloin said he thought Penn State wouldn't get that call against any team. ``That's just the way it is. Write what you think. It's us against the world and we're not going to get those types of calls in these types of games,'' the senior said after the game. McGloin wasn't made available to reporters this week.
``At the end of the day, it's a free country and Matt can say what he wants, and that's what he did,'' O'Brien said Tuesday. ``He's an emotional kid but, look, it's time to move on to Indiana and that's it.''
When asked what he would tell fans wondering if there's a bias against Penn State, O'Brien gave an impassioned response.
``I would tell our fans that nobody is against Penn State,'' he said. ``Penn State has a football team this year that plays with extremely good effort, plays hard. Penn State has a senior class on this football team right here that to me will go down in the history of college football as one of the better senior classes of any college football team.''
Apparently, the only time that issue has come up in recent days was when initiated by reporters Tuesday. Right tackle Mike Farrell said O'Brien hasn't touched on the issue at practice, and that the team stood behind McGloin.
O'Brien ``really preaches playing the next play and not dwelling on the past,'' Farrell said.
If anything, the Nittany Lions would like to figure out if there are any common threads in the poor play in the third quarters of each of their four losses. The latest post-halftime hiccup came after Nebraska opened the third quarter with touchdowns on two straight drives, the last one coming after McGloin was intercepted deep in his own territory.
To date, Penn State has been outscored 89-28 after halftime in each of its four losses, including 56-6 in the third quarter. O'Brien said the coaching staff would have more time after the season to dig into what they could be doing better after halftime.
``At the end of the day sometimes those adjustments work and sometimes they don't,'' O'Brien said. ``I wouldn't make too much out of the second half thing ... but we just need to coach it and play it better.''
There is at least one big adjustment to make - 6-foot-3 tight end Kyle Carter is out the rest of the year after leaving the Nebraska game with what appeared to be a right wrist injury. The redshirt freshman emerged to become a big part of O'Brien's tight end-friendly offense with 36 catches for 453 yards, both second on the team behind receiver Allen Robinson.
Carter has turned into an athletic, dangerous receiving threat between the hashes. The emergence of Carter and Robinson from relative obscurity, and O'Brien's near-flawless handling of the program in light of the sanctions, are among the reasons why O'Brien's name has been floated out on the NFL rumor mill as a potential coaching candidate.
O'Brien is in his first year as a head coach after spending five seasons as an coach for the New England Patriots, where he was offensive coordinator. Asked twice Tuesday about the NFL rumors, O'Brien insisted his focus was solely on preparing for the Hoosiers.
O'Brien's deal was extended in the offseason to cover the length of the NCAA sanctions, and he's now signed through 2020. However good a job he's done steering the program and his players through tricky times, O'Brien even seemed to acknowledge that his won-loss record may not seem too attractive to potential suitors.
``We're 6-4,'' he noted to a reporter. ``I'm flattered that you would ask me that question.''
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