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Denton's DJ Nature calls each of his gigs "The Party" for a reason. Whether he's spinning on Friday nights at Zubar or forcing his hometown hipsters to stay up late on Wednesdays at Rubber Gloves, Nature packs rooms with the freshest live mixes in town. And we don't mean "fresh" as slang--his whirlwind blends of baile funk, indie rock and thugged-out hip-hop are full of tracks that have barely made blips in New York's DJ world, let alone in Dallas. Makes sense that Nature's a forward-thinker; before recently returning to town, the man did his duty in the ultra-competitive scenes of New York and Puerto Rico and worked high-profile gigs as M.I.A.'s live DJ and as re-mixer for various XL Recordings artists. Still, the rsum means nothing without a hot dance floor, and Nature wins on a weekly basis with a healthy spread of genres that gets guys and girls of all tastes dancing like fools. Party on.
Not so long ago, down the highway apiece in the town of LaGrange, there was a place called the Chicken Ranch that had nothing to do with laying eggs but a whole lot to do with getting laid. For decades it operated as an illegal bordello where bad-boy politicians could get done to them what they were doing to constituents, where college football players could pay to score with professional sure things.
The Chicken Ranch offered a friendly spot for a horizontal hoedown with some down-home hos. Local law enforcement let it be. Then along came a screaming, toupee-wearing, crusading-for-morality Houston TV reporter named Marvin Zindler, whose exposs on the brothel got the Bible brigade to force the authorities to shut it down.
The story cracked the headlines for a while in the 1970s and might have faded into the annals of Lone Star State history were it not for Texas writers Larry L. King and Peter Masterson who, along with composer Carol Hall, scrambled the facts of the Chicken Ranch scandal into a sexy theatrical fry-up called The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.
Choreographed by Texan Tommy Tune, the show opened on Broadway in 1978 and played more than 1,500 performances. The campy but less successful movie starring Dolly Parton as Miss Mona (the madam), Burt Reynolds as the sheriff and Dom DeLuise as the Zindler character, Melvin P. Thorpe, came and went in 1982.
Its been a good while since any Dallas theater mounted (tee-hee) a full-sized production of the musical, but its a nice fit at Contemporary Theatre of Dallas, where its onstage through October 29. CTD founder and Whorehouse cast member Sue Loncar plays one of nine Chicken Ranch chickies and says she remembers watching the real story unfold on TV when she was growing up in Houston. And did this Highland Park mother of five have any reservations about playing a prostie? My kids just think its funny. Anyway, how cool is it to be 40-something and get to be in this show! I consider it a privilege and an opportunity to try to lose some weight!
Husband Brian Loncar, the Strong Arm lawyer on those TV commercials, is making his theatrical debut as The Governor, singing Dance a Little Sidestep and spouting political doubletalk: As I was saying just this morning at the weekly prayer breakfast, it behooves the Jews and the Ay-rabs to settle their differences in a Christian manner. Loncar says hes bringing to the role what he tries to bring to the TV adsMy motto is maximum cheese.
Whorehouse was risqu Broadway fare in the 70s, but by todays Pussycat Dolled-up, G-String Diva-fied standards, its pretty tame stuff. Its definitely not The Life, says Sue Loncar, referring to the much edgier musical about streetwalkers. This show puts a sugar coating on prostitution. Miss Monas is less like a brothelmore sorority house.
Whorehouse may be a bit of a museum piece but still has some things to say about the society we live in and the way the media blow things out of proportion, especially things of a sexual nature, says director James Paul Lemons. But its not message-heavy. Think lingerie and big hair, Lemons says. Were going over-the-top Texas style, walking the line between camp and authenticity.
For the actress playing Linda Lou, one of the scantily clad, by-the-hour hoochies who works for Miss Mona (played by Jenny Thurman), its the latest in a series of R-rated roles on Dallas stages. Cara Statham Serber gave audiences the T and the A as the cheerleader/prostitute in Kitchen Dog Theaters production of Debbie Does Dallas: The Musical and stripped down to her bra and half-slip as Janet in CTDs Rocky Horror Show.
Someday no one will want to see me in lingerie, so I have to capitalize on it, says Serber, who recently co-starred in WaterTower Theatres Into the Woods and describes her offstage persona as Frisco hausfrau. I spent all of my 20s doing Maria in The Sound of Music and Marian the librarian in The Music Man. I have to say, playing a whore is more silly fun than being Laurie in Oklahoma!
Actor Joey Oglesby pawed Serber as a football player in Debbie and gets to do it again as one of the dancing Aggies visiting the Best Little Whorehouse. When director Lemons told Oglesby hed be wearing a jockstrap, and little else, for one of the numbers, the actor headed for the gym. I have my 10-year high school reunion coming up, too, so I guess thats a good thing, he says. Ive never been opposed to taking off my clothes for laughs.
A Baylor grad whos also part of the Second Thought Theatre company, Oglesby says his Southern Baptist parents are pretty open-minded but refused to see Debbie Does Dallas, which was several notches raunchier than Whorehouse.
Maybe best not to tell them, or Zindler, whos still on the air at Houstons ABC station, that CTD occupies a two-story building off Lower Greenville Avenue that formerly served as a house of worship.
Says Sue Loncar, Yep, weve put the hos in church. Were probably all going to hell for that. Elaine Liner
The final resting place of notorious outlaw Clyde Barrow and his brother Buck is located just west of downtown on Fort Worth Avenue, mere minutes away from the glittering, soulless faades of the New Dallas (cough, cough, W Hotel, cough, cough). Sure, Old Clyde wasn't the best behaved of fellows, but living in this town you have to admit that our outlaws--Barrow, Oswald, Ruby and the like--are some of the most fascinating characters Dallas ever produced, morals or not. After Clyde was killed in Louisiana (alongside his beloved Bonnie Parker) in a ruthless law enforcement ambush, his body attracted hundreds of curious Dallasites, both before (his remains were displayed in the Belo Mansion, which at the time housed the Sparkman Funeral Home) and after burial. Access to the cemetery is extremely limited, and the neighborhood is notoriously sketchy (though the Belmont Hotel might change that), so we wouldn't suggest visiting old Clyde without permission. Just knowing he's there is good enough for us.
Someone in Austin is gonna pay for this. When the all-female roller derby leagues of Central Texas reared their heads during our college days, we thought it was novel enough--after all, we almost went to a match once to catch And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead. Thankfully, we abstained, so we can't count ourselves responsible for the derby's spread to DFW and beyond. Judging by the growing ranks of local leagues such as Assassination City Derby and the Dallas Derby Devils--and all their blood make-up, lame tattoos and piercings--the metroplex has more than its fair share of strained father-daughter relationships. Now that the A&E series Rollergirls has been canceled, we can all hope that this obnoxious trend will be similarly short-lived. All right, we get it already. You chicks are tough. Can we have the Double Wide back now?
When Mayor Laura Miller announced that she wouldn't seek re-election, speculation about who might succeed her spread like a West Texas grassfire, prompting the men of KTCK's The Hardline to ask: Why not Mike Rhyner? When the beloved radio host was asked that afternoon what platform he might run on, the Old Gray Wolf responded with a stroke of political genius, saying if he were elected, he'd put Big Tex on top of the Reunion Tower. He's got our fake vote. Even if he only kept his promise for a day, you have to admit it would be a sight to see. Now if only we could get Santiago Calatrava to work the Texas Star into one of those friggin' bridge designs.
In only two years, the Summer Strut Home Tour, which takes place in early June, has leapt to the top of the list in this otherwise moribund category of entertainment. After all, how long can you really stay interested in Swiss Avenue? Sponsored by the AIDS Resource Center, the Summer Strut so far has presented tours in the Turtle Creek area and Greenway Parks, west of the Dallas North Tollway at Mockingbird Lane. It's not cheap--$50 a head and $90 per couple--but there are hors d'oeuvres at the houses and often live music. Old homes are mixed with new in a blend that is more stylish than what one sees on typical neighborhood tours.
What's going on with investigative TV reporting lately? For a while KTVT-Channel 11 had pulled ahead of WFAA's News 8 with a consistent string of hard-hitting, well-reported stories on local government and politics. What happened on 11? Recently their biggies were "New cameras can change the way you look," "Katie Couric's day in Texas" and, our favorite mind-boggling expos, "Schools influencing value of homes." Channel 8, meanwhile, is back in the winner's circle again with hard-hitting stories by Brett Shipp and Byron Harris on airline safety, wacked-out incompetence in the Dallas schools' administration, complaints of meshugga cops in Deep Ellum and others. All the major newscasts have competent newsreaders. It's the individual reporters and behind-the-scenes producers who make the difference. Right now, those are the people who have made News 8 the one to watch at 6 and 10.
John McCaa is a serious person. He has a master's degree in politics from the University of Dallas (not easy to get) and has been at WFAA since 1984, with a solid history of street reporting behind him. But look, how do you judge news anchoring, as opposed to news news? Let's be honest, McCaa is this year's best anchor because he has the best knitted-brow expression of somber authority and the best end-of-newscast chuckle. That's what you call range in the anchor biz. He also does those voice-over previews at the beginning of the newscast with just the right amount of energy, meaning he doesn't sound bored but doesn't sound like a used-car guy hawking repos either. We don't want to go on too much about the others who didn't make it in this category. Tracy Rowlett at Channel 11 was close, but his pompadour has been a little flat lately. Clarice Tinsley and Jane McGarry--their cute wore off awhile back. Karen Borta--still too cute. We know one thing: Nobody better put us in front of that camera. Don't even try. Did you hear that? We dare you. Try it. Just once.
Outlaw country and baseball chat--what's next, an award for our fave bait shop? Not really, and this shouldn't insinuate that other genres aren't doing well on Dallas' dial; the heated battle between KBFB-97.9 FM (The Beat) and KKDA-104 FM (K104) is good news for mainstream rap fans, and KNTU-88.1 FM delivers more worthwhile, bop-era jazz than most stations in the nation. But this year's winners aren't just the best of Dallas--they're what you'd least expect in this plastic city. Longtime local jockey Alan Peck Sr., decades past his days at trailblazing country station KBOX, continues to lead The Range with its self-professed brand of "hard country" that proves no cut is too deep, from Ray Stevens' "Ahab the Arab" to Sorta's "Party's Over" and every Texas swing gem in between. And in spite of The Ticket's growth this year, boosted by the all-sports station's official partnership with the Dallas Cowboys, the no-B.S. attitude that has won over legions of dedicated P1s hasn't softened, which means The Musers' Gordon Keith is still screwing around as The Fake Jerry Jones and The Hardline's Mike Rhyner won't stop calling Bill Parcells "The New Jersey Con Man" anytime soon. The station touts that its listeners "hang out" with the hosts, and that's exactly what it feels like to hear the guys deliver hilarious, self-deprecating material about everything from spelling bees to Parcells' "fupa" (not to mention their weekly recaps of on-air screw-ups, the kinds most other stations would prefer to ignore). Talk and country radio that isn't cheesy and contrived doesn't just exist in Dallas; it thrives.
Want to know what's going on politically in the southern sector? Or all the sectors, for that matter? Well, heck, you've got the top elected official in southern Dallas talking about it every week on the radio. Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price spices his show with humor and leavens it with uplift, but then he also just goes off the deep end sometimes telling it like it is--like he says it is, anyway--about Dallas politics. Liberation Nation provides smart and valuable insights into an important part of the city, and it also makes for some highly entertaining listening.
Since we take pride in celebrating local failures, we're honored to shine our Best of spotlight on Frank Hejl, the former KNTU DJ who hasn't seen a microphone with proper wattage since May. The creator and voice behind Frequency Down lost his job (an unpaid one, no less) after airing an uncensored version of "Shake It Off," a song by Ninja High School complete with the FCC's least favorite F-word (no, not "fandango"). We call B.S. on the firing . The accident was aired late on a Sunday night, and Hejl was our favorite kind of DJ: funny, smart in interviews and with a show full of good, local musical choices. But the Frequency is down for the count, as Hejl now has a new project: a stand-up comedian/band series called Mix Tapes and Baby Fights. And in spite of our bloodlust for failure, all hail Hejl's and MT&BF's success.
As the quality of musical radio dries up, the search for a great local DJ becomes ever more desperate. Really, if an on-air personality doesn't have the right combination of personality, humor and taste, then why bother ejecting the car tape adapter for our iPods? Thankfully, Tom Urquhart nails that combination every Sunday at 9 p.m. with The Good Show, the only show left in town that gives a damn about the following four pillars: supporting good local music, delivering the best in national indie rock, surprising ears with great classic picks from all genres and making fans laugh in the process. Local band interviews, in-studio sessions and theme episodes are great, as are the Good crew members, but Urquhart's the ultimate music buddy, the guy who wraps up suggestions old and new in witty, pleasant banter. Best of all, iPod fans, you can even keep your gadget plugged in with weekly podcasts uploaded to goodshow.net.


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Manisha's Bhadang
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Patricia's Fabulous five-minute fudge
Sharmi's Polodya (Plantain-buttermilk curry)
Trupti's Chana-Bateta Curry
I do not have pictures for these dishes that I made, but I just had to share the links with you.
Annita's Chilli Mushroom
Indira's Capsicum Curry
Kanchana's Puli-itta Keerai
Kaykat's Cauliflower Coconut Stew
Laavanya's Vendakai - Poondu Vathal Kuzhambu
Laavanya's Garlic Chutney
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Nupur's Sago Khichdi
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rstilp Posts: 105This coming September is the 300M Enthusiats Club National Meet in Kansas City MO. Check out the thread on the club message board. Sept. 15,16 &17 20060
easyrider300m Posts: 1,116Thanks for the info rick. Sounds like a fun time. Hope a lot of M'ers show up.0
On 7 July weekend the 300M'ers will be meeting along with the Dodge Intrepid guys at the All Chrysler Nationals held at the Fair Grounds in Carlisle, PA. Hopefully the rains will have subsided for that area of the country and the grounds will be dry. Admission to the showfield where we will have a big tent and upwards of 50 300M's and Intrepids is $45 at the door. It was $35 for pre-event registration. Anyone who wants to join us is welcome. We anticipate drag racing Friday nite, dyno testing on Saturday, dinner Saturday night in a group, and car judging with awards, etc. Hope some can make it and join us. :shades:0
mea culpa for not getting back on here sooner. Went to the Club meet at All Chrysler Nationals in Carlisle. It was my first time there but it was awesome. Got really up close with the new Challenger which is now coming out as a 2008 model. Same with the large, large Imperial protype. That car is huge, and stands almost 6 feet high on 22 inch tires. Yow. Don't know if that one will make it to production. We had about 30 M's and a similar number of Intrepids show up. Saw about a half dozen 300s and Chargers. We had a great time and wish more Mers could have attended. Next meet is Kansas City in Sept. Check it out. :shades:0
Just a reminder to those in the area of KC. The big National Meet will be there the weekend of the 15th. Still room for people to show up and carouse with other M'ers. Host hotel is the Clarion Hotel, 39th Street at the Truman Sports complex area. Club rates are still available for a few more days I think.
I am just back from the Woodward Dream Cruise this past weekend and it was again fabulous despite some liquid sunshine. Truly the number one car event on the planet, and always the 3rd Saturday in August.0
Still time to get to KC for the 300M meet at the Clarion and environs near the Ball Park. There is also an airshow that weekend with the Blue Angels. Course they will have to have the afterburners running to stay pace with our M's. Lot of good things planned so if you got an M or wish you had one come on out and see us. Show and shine are Saturday morning. :shades:0
The 300M Mountain Meet is going to start in Virginia and run along the Blue Ridge Parkway I think for some distance. I think it will be next weekend but you can check the Club site for hotel, and etc. They expect the fall foliage to be looking good by the time they make their run. All Mers are welcome to join in the fun. I cannot make it myself as I am about tapped out on trips and $$ after the Woodward Dream Cruise, Corvette Museum Anniversary Bash, and 300M KC meet. I did go to the Mountain Meet last year [we started in Asheville, NC] and we did the Blue Ridge for about 75 miles and then the Biltmore estate, and it was a great weekend.
Hope some of you can make it to the meet. And remember the All Chrysler Nationals will be a big event for us in early July 2007. My M just rolled thru 92K miles and 8.5 years and is still running great. Have a 300M day. :shades:0
drpixel Posts: 256Yup... any rumors you may have heard are unfounded....! just to bring you up to speed... after getting downsized in 2002, I found a new job in 'only' 2 years locally--no more commuting into NYC. After 9/11, the 'fun' of spending 1 3/4 hours each way from NJ into and back home from NYC sort of lost its fun factor.
Work locally in NJ now, though hours have been cut--seems to be a lot of that going on.... mrs. pixel and I have just become grandparents--our first--a beautiful baby boy named Christopher William Dzienisiweski (31 leters long...!) and its amazig how quickly you can fall in love again.... he's a little over a week old, daughter, son-in-law and Chrsitopher are doing fine! If anyone wants to contact me, I'm at same email address [email protected] (Sorry, Pat.. a little off topic but I wanted to visit the ol' forum and see who was here.... am glad to see that you're still keeeping an eye on us!!!!
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Welcome back!
Pat and I split the Sedans forums now, but I'll be sure to send your message!
Congrats on the new grandbaby!0
Hey Doc, long time no see!! Congrats on the grandson, that's wonderful! When you have a chance you should post some pics. I'd love to see them and I know all of the ol' 300M folks would as well.
I am certainly glad I do not have to pronounce that last name, though. (zen-is-weski?)
I remember the employment issues and I'm glad you got them at least somewhat worked out.
Welcome back. Don't be such a stranger. We've missed you.0
300M lovers are invited to a meet at Indy on Bump Weekend. The 300M Enthusiasts Club will be staying at the Adams Mark Hotel on Executive Drive, Indianapolis. The dates are 18-20 May 07. A complete tentative agenda is on the Club site. Highlight will be attending the Mayor's Breakfast [$60] with the possibility, if the weather cooperates and prior qualifying is mostly done, of a chance to do a lap on the Brickyard before the Breakfast. The Festival Queen will be announced at the Breakfast, and former champs are expected to be there too, maybe for autographs. Peyton Manning is going to be Grand Marshal for the parade, so he might be there too. We have 19 already signed up for the Breakfast, but if you just want to attend and participate in the other good times, and show and shine, we would love to have you. There is still time to sign up and join us. There will be a lot of great M'ers attending. Life is too short to miss a chance to hit the Brickyard. I have some special awards for attendees. The first 19 signing up and paying for the breakfast get a street sign commemorating the run on the track [if we are able to get it] and the first nine who sign up to attend [but don't do the breakfast for whatever reason and I certainly under the $$ aspect] if they show up will get one of my street signs that read: 300M A NEED4SPEED! I have these specially made for our meets. So, come on out. One day or all three. We would like to meet and greet you. How about Pat showing up too? :shades:0
The All-Chrysler Nationals are the first weekend in July at Carlisle, PA. The 300M Club and Trep group are meeting there again this year. All are welcome to attend. A Trep couple will be married on the show stage during the weekend. A great time is assured. If you are in the area and can make it for all or part of the weekend they would love to see you.
Regrettably, I cannot make it this year as I will be in NE where my daughter delivered early and has presented us with a new Grandbaby girl, and I will be up there helping out.
I apologize for my derth of posts of late, but my system at work now blocks Edmunds forums and I haven't been on Edmunds for a long time at home. Best to Pat and Sylvia.0
Hey Mike, congrats on another grandchild, that's great! You take care - and come around on the weekends. We're here!0
The 300M Enthusiast's Club is having another meet, this time in Guelph, Canada, near Ontario as I recall. The meet is the first weekend in August. Check the Club site for hotel and details. I can't make it for this one as I am already committed in August to the Woodward Dream Cruise [with a Vette group] north of Detroit on the 3rd Saturday in August. All 300M'ers are welcome to Club events. :shades:0
Came back from a fabulous Woodward Dream Cruise. If you are ever able to get to the Detroit area on the 3rd Saturday in August, once in your life you have to hit the suburbs on Woodward Avenue from 8 Mile northward to Pontiac. Thousands of classics, prototypes, and custom cars and over a million mellow folks checking them out. The Club is talking about doing a meet up there again maybe next year. If so, I will do a post here. But, notwithstanding, once in your life you got to do it if you can. Even the cruising during the week leading up to Cruise day is incredible. More later.0
emcmx5 Posts: 3Hi All- - I have a '99 300M- - 69000 miles - WHAT A CAR! You might want to chech-out 300M club.org. I have found this site to be vvery helpful in regards to just about everything that 'happens' to our great car. I have installed a Magna flow exhaust system, a KN 'custom' cold air system and I get 29 to 32 mpg. I live in Kern county in the Tehachapi mountains,4200 ft., and not too aggresive a driver but my experience with this car is GREAT!0
The next big meet for the Chrysler Enthusiasts Club is at the All-Chrysler Nationals the second weekend in July 2008. I would expect between 20-30 M's and a like number of LH platform Treps will make it for this meet. It is the biggest draw for the east coast guys, so if you are near Carlisle this is a great MOPAR take in and you can meet and greet some of the great gearheads in the various LH clubs.
We had a spectacular meet at Indy on Bump Weekend. Got to do a lap on the track and everyone had their photo taken in their M passing over the Yard of Bricks. Got to see them qualify 20 cars on that Saturday. Weather was A-1 and like I said it was a spectacular meet.
We hope to do it again next year so start thinking about joining other great M owners at Indy. :shades:0
The big meet at the All Chrysler Nationals is this coming weekend. It is a MOPARfest to be sure. The Club will be there in force, so if you are in the area, drop by and look for the Intrepid and 300M area of the fair grounds. There should be lots of them there. :shades:0
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Because American politics is both divided and ineffective, it's easy to assume that divisiveness is the problem, and being nicer and more cooperative would make government work again. Especially on occasions like the Fourth of July, the temptation is strong to hold hands and call, earnestly, for bipartisan comity. Can't we all just get along?
No, we can't—even though much of our partisan division is superficial. The more basic problem is denial. Like a dysfunctional family writ across a continent, we Americans have learned to look away from some of our hardest problems, such as inequality and climate change, and, when confronted with them, wring our hands and pretend there's nothing we can do—even when we pretend to be making a fuss about them.
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Part of the reason for the denial is that doing something meaningful about these problems would deepen our conflict. It would reveal a country divided by material interests, not just partisan rhetoric and style. It would raise the stakes of politics. This is risky, but the chance might open the door to a more hopeful politics.
Talk about embracing conflict seems divisive, which is automatically taken as a bad thing these days. But division as such is not a bad thing. Cultural vitriol stirred up by cynical posturing— that is a bad thing. Much Washington partisanship is tactical, positioning the team to take another increment of power. Much popular partisanship is a matter of culture and identity—where you get your news, what kind of tone you use when pronouncing President Obama's name, which kinds of people you wish your children or siblings wouldn't date.
But the actual scope of disagreement in our so-called polarized time is nothing compared with the issues that divided the country during the debates over slavery, the labor-capital clashes of the Populist and Progressive eras, the same again during the New Deal or the battles of the Civil Rights era. Conservative opponents accused Franklin D. Roosevelt of taking the country down the road to fascism, with considerably more conviction than Republicans' insincere warnings against "socialism" today. One hundred and one senators and congressmen signed the 1956 Southern Manifesto denouncing Brown v. Board of Education and defending segregation. Those were divisions worth braving. By comparison, our civic mutual loathing is a tempest in a pisspot.
So why am I calling for conflict—real conflict, not its facsimile? Because the United States got two big doses of reality in the last six months. One was the explosive arrival of Thomas Piketty's finding that inequality is vast and that we are headed toward a second Gilded Age, if we aren't there already.
The other was the new set of U.N. reports on climate change, which confirmed, yet again, that the problem is real and accelerating. Happy developments like President Obama's new greenhouse-gas rules and California's pioneering climate legislation amount to spitting in the wind. Half of the total greenhouse-gas emissions in human history have happened just since 1970, and, growing at 2 percent a year, annual global emissions are set to double between now and 2050.Everything hard, from drought to floods to disease, is going to get worse, and, like all natural disaster, it's going to be hardest on those who are already poor and vulnerable.
Both pieces of news ran right into a familiar politics of denial: the explicit climate-change denial that much of the Republican Party has made its specialty and the faux-outraged cries of "class warfare" that still greet factual reports on inequality.
But this is froth compared with the real denial. The real denial is structural, not rhetorical. It's made up of policies that conceal difficulties and conflicts. This is the denial that we have to overcome in order to come to grips with the problems.
Climate denial is structural as long as the economy's everyday feedback system, the price system, treats fossil-fuel emissions as free. We are running a carbon deficit that there is no way to repay. Like any unsustainable debt, our carbon deficit makes the borrowers feel richer than they really are, until it falls due and they are suddenly poor again—plus interest. We are greatly inflating the level of industrial activity the Earth can afford, ecologically speaking.
What about structural denial of inequality? Here the trick is actual economic debt. As Piketty and other researchers have pointed out, much of the growth in total social wealth in recent decades has gone to the very highest earners and the very wealthy—top executives and those who hold large amounts of capital. Ordinary people have seen their incomes stagnate while returns to capital, especially elite capital, grow.


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Whether or not a boat is considered "old" is usually in the eye of the beholder. There is no doubt that when your replacement parts begin to get scarce, your boat is beginning to show its age. M & M Marine Salvage of Meredith, NH is the second largest used motorboat parts retailer in the US. A half acre building, two stories high is full of dash panels, seats, throttle cables, engines, outdrives, canvas, swim decks and other miscellaneous parts. Most of the parts come from boats that are stripped down on site. There are over 500 outdrives alone (all of which have been refurbished). We also purchase many boats such as the one above that we do not strip down... we sell them!


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The UNCLE BEN'S Brand Shines Light On Missing Piece Of Children's Education Through Parent Survey
Survey Shows Importance of Cooking as an Important Life Skill Similar to Reading and Writing
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RANCHO DOMINGUEZ, Calif., Oct. 6, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Private coaching, tutoring centers, language labs. When it comes to investing in their children's education, parents look for anything that might help their child advance academically. However, true help may lie in the one place they aren't looking for it: the kitchen.
Research shows that children who are involved in family meal times perform better academically than those who aren't1 and yet many parents are not bringing their kids into the kitchen to help reap those benefits. In a recent survey the UNCLE BEN'S® Brand found nearly three in five parents of children 10 years of age and older are not certain their kids could cook a meal for themselves.
Cooking is an important and necessary skill to hone, however most people do not learn to cook until well into adulthood. The UNCLE BEN'S® Brand looked to convey this message through a video that showcases the importance parents place on homework yet overlook how cooking is a life skill equally as valuable as reading and writing. Armed with a hidden camera, the UNCLE BEN'S® Brand asked a wide range of parents if they would sign up for a service to perform their children's homework and if they regularly taught their children these important cooking lessons. The results were pretty incredible.
The UNCLE BEN'S® Brand worked with Wakefield Research to conduct the survey centered around family meal times and then brought the survey results to life through this short video while also supporting the Ben's Beginners™ Cooking Contest, a program aimed at getting families cooking and eating together.
"Between both the survey and video, the goal was to have parents stop and ask themselves if they were taking the same level of passion around homework into the kitchen to teach their children how to cook," said Andrew Cops, U.S. Director of Marketing, Mars Food North America, the parent company of the UNCLE BEN'S® Brand. "Cooking is an integral part of a child's development because it teaches them math when they measure out ingredients, science when they bring things together and reading as they learn to understand and decipher recipes."
The survey brings to light the importance of family meal time and learning to cook at a young age but a lack of execution when it comes to educating children in the kitchen. The UNCLE BEN'S® Survey was conducted by Wakefield Research, and led to surprising results2:
- 63 percent of parents of children ages three to 14 think that cooking a meal would teach their children more valuable life skills than doing homework.
- One in three parents of children ages 10 and up, 33 percent of those surveyed, are not completely confident their child could do something as simple as locate a measuring cup in their kitchen without parental assistance.
The UNCLE BEN'S® Brand aims to encourage parents and kids to spend time in the kitchen cooking healthy meals and leads the kid cooking movement with their Ben's Beginners™ Cooking Contest. Participants in the Ben's Beginners™ Cooking Contest submit a short video of themselves cooking a rice-based dish with their parents and vie for a chance to win one of five grand prize packages which includes $15,000 cash, a $30,000 cafeteria makeover for their child's school and a hometown celebration. Submissions are accepted on unclebens.com until 11:59 a.m. EDT on Oct. 12, 2015. Ben's Beginners™ has helped bring the importance of family meal times and its positive effect on children to the forefront nationwide. For more information about UNCLE BEN'S® and Ben's Beginners™, please visit unclebens.com.
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1 Eisenberg M, Neumark-Sztainer D, Feldman S. Does TV viewing during family meals make a difference in adolescent substance use? J Prev Med 2009; 48:585-587.
2 Wakefield Research. (2015, September 24). [Survey of U.S. parents of children ages 3-14].
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The search is on for a new principal at Trimble County High School.
After three years managing day-to-day operations at TCHS, Rebecca Moore has resigned from the school's top administrative position to become the district's Instructional Supervisor and Director of Federal Programs. The new positions were left vacant at the end of the 2007-08 school year, following the retirement of Sheila Rowlett.
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California dairies find going 'green' expensive
California's new greenhouse rules offer dairies two reasons to be thankful -- an exemption from the limits and a chance to make money by voluntarily cutting back climate-warming methane.
But industry officials say it's unlikely that many dairies will get involved because it's too expensive to build a methane-capturing system.
"It's got to pay for it to work," says Michael Marsh, chief executive officer of Western United Dairymen, representing 1,000 dairies in the state. "We don't think it does."
It's one of the growing pains for California's newly approved cap-and-trade program, which is supposed to drop greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by the end of this decade.
This is the nation's first big push to limit climate-warming gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane. The entire country is watching to see how this works out.
California will set a cap, or limit, on greenhouse gases that refineries, power plants and other businesses are allowed to release. If companies can't get under the cap, they can buy allowances from companies that have made extra reductions.
Beyond the allowances, credits or offsets can come from dairies, which are exempt from the cap but encouraged to cut back to create a backlog of reductions. Dairies emit 2% of such gases in the state and regulating them would be too difficult at this point, state officials said.
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Columbia University historian Matthew Connelly makes no effort to mask his support of reproductive rights in this disturbing and compelling global history of population control programs. The dedication in his most recent book, Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population, reads "To my parents, for having so many children."
Connelly, the youngest of eight children to Roman Catholic parents, nonetheless manages to write a fairly balanced history of the broad population-control movements in the 20th century. As populations and life spans rose dramatically over that time period, countries and organizations initiated immigration restrictions, breeding programs, compulsory sterilization, and other directives aimed at adjusting human reproduction.
Often launched under the guise of reducing poverty and even saving the earth, family planning became a means for wealthy foundations, foreign aid agencies, the United Nations, and others to plan other people's families, he concludes, and without the perpetrators having to answer to anyone. On the day the author was born in 1967, the cabinet of India under Indira Gandhi first considered compulsory sterilization for parents with more than three children.
What sparked the broad efforts to control population? In the 20th century, internationalization made the world seem smaller even as life spans increased. In the past century, humans have lived more than twice as long as in the previous 2,000 centuries and grown more than four times in numbers. By the 1980s, the earth was gaining about 80 million inhabitants per year.
Connelly criticizes Ms. Gandhi, influential author Paul Ehrlich ("The Population Bomb"), and other thought leaders who agreed that only population control could save the world from poverty and other maladies. The 20th century marked the first time the future of a species – not only its numbers but also its nature – became the object of its own design, he writes. People eradicated diseases, regulated migration, and manipulated fertility rates. Human populations became the subject of scientific experiments and political struggles. The stakes – and the consequences – were huge.
Americans were the first to pursue policies to shape the world population and played a leading role in institutionalizing the science of demography and the political strategy of family planning. But critics on both the left and the right have attacked population control as something perpetrated by white, wealthy, elite people (especially in the United States), upon the rest of the world, particularly poor nations, where populations had been spiraling out of control.
The author sets out to demonstrate how some leading population control groups acted in underhanded ways, pretending to advance one agenda such as a rise out of poverty or the betterment of mankind, while harboring another such as breeding out perceived misfits.
One example is eugenics – selective breeding to produce better people – which did not end with the Nazi Holocaust; it continued in several American states, Scandinavia, Japan, India, and China. Eugenics culminated with India's sterilization camps and China's one-child policy.
Drawing from records in more than 50 archives in seven countries, including those from Planned Parenthood and the more recently opened Vatican Secret Archives, Connelly provides extensive examples of movements to adjust populations. He adds detailed and useful information and sources in an extensive section of notes at the end of the book.
The impact of the 20th century's many and varied programs to control population have changed the world, and sometimes in unexpected ways. Throughout the 20th century people were promised that they'd have more things if they had fewer children.
But now that Asians have reduced their reproductive rate to 2.1 children, for example, there are other issues to consider. If they also have air conditioning and automobiles, they will have a much greater impact on the global ecosystem than a billion more subsistence farmers, he writes.
The world population growth is slowing and the age of population control appears to be over for the moment, but Connelly writes that his book is not just about history: It is a cautionary tale about the future.
Future challenges such as global warming and population stabilization in countries with aging populations and declining birthrates may lead to a new age of population control. And this time around, the experiments, complete with genetic counselors and possible genetic enhancement technology, could be much more dangerous.
Connelly asks the reader to reject population control by looking at its history and learning from it. It's a precaution worth taking.
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St. John�s Hospital may lose its status as a Level 1 trauma center � along with the accompanying prestige and revenue � after a decision by Southern Illinois University School of Medicine to end an almost 16-year arrangement and give the region�s Level 1 designation to Memorial Medical Center alone.
The two Springfield hospitals have annually alternated as the Level 1 trauma hospital since 1999 in a unique arrangement statewide and possibly nationally. Memorial currently is the Level 1 trauma hospital serving Sangamon County and other counties in the Springfield area.
It�s unclear whether St. John�s will fight the decision, which an SIU official said will take effect Jan. 1.
St. John�s chief executive officer, Dr. Charles Lucore, issued a statement Wednesday that said the Illinois Department of Public Health is the state agency authorized to designate trauma centers as part of voluntary arrangements with hospitals.
�St. John�s has not received any notification from the department that we will no longer serve the region as the Level 1 trauma center in calendar year 2015,� Lucore said.
Lucore�s statement didn�t say what the hospital�s next move might be, and St. John�s officials wouldn�t comment beyond the statement.
Dr. Jerry Kruse, chief executive officer of SIU HealthCare, said Memorial would retain the Level 1 status on Jan. 1 � the date St. John�s normally would take over as the Level 1 hospital and receive virtually all admissions of patients in trauma cases.
Memorial would remain home base for the trauma program � known as the Southern Illinois Trauma Center � and the center�s eight SIU trauma surgeons, Kruse said Wednesday.
SIU�s decision amounted to �choosing between two good options,� he said.
Kruse wasn�t available later Wednesday to react to Lucore�s statement, which was issued in response to questions from The State Journal-Register.
Kruse said officials at SIU, a state-supported medical school, decided to base the trauma center at just one hospital for several reasons.
With one hospital, there will be more opportunity to provide even better service to patients, he said. And SIU won�t have to go through the annual process of retraining each hospital�s staff to ensure a smooth transition every January, he said.
Kruse said SIU, which employs the Southern Illinois Trauma Center�s medical director, Dr. John Sutyak, wants to focus even more on quality improvement, education of future doctors, research and patient care.
�To optimize those four things, our assessment was Memorial was the better environment for that,� he said.
When asked whether St. John�s voiced disagreement with SIU�s decision in recent days to end the hospital�s Level 1 designation, Kruse said, �I haven�t heard that directly.�
He said SIU still has a �very strong relationship� with St. John�s, where SIU doctors provide services in the specialties of pediatrics, neonatology, women�s health and urology, among others.
Under the scenario Kruse described, St. John�s would continue to handle trauma cases, but ambulances and first-responders would bring most adult trauma patients to Memorial. Pediatric trauma patients would continue to be brought to both hospitals, he said.
Not a financial decision
Officials at Memorial, a 500-bed hospital, declined an interview request and issued a written statement that said Memorial is ready to serve as the Level 1 trauma hospital and values its relationship with SIU.
Lucore�s statement said St. John�s, a 439-bed hospital, received a letter dated Nov. 21 from the state health department recognizing the hospital�s contributions to patient care when it redesignated St. John�s as the Level 1 trauma hospital for adults in 2015 in the Springfield area.
�In 1999, St. John�s commitment to supporting the highest level of trauma services for the region was instrumental in the state designating a Level 1 Trauma Center in Springfield,� the statement continued. �We remain committed to supporting these life-saving services that benefit patients from the 18 counties served by the Southern Illinois Trauma Center. That commitment is evident by our recent $172 million investment in a new surgery department and renovated, private patient rooms.�
Factors that SIU considered in making its decision included the state�s Nov. 21 letter finding that the trauma program �may be inhibited by yearly rotation among two separate hospitals,� Kruse said.
The letter cited an �exhaustive re-education process during annual transition for hospital and trauma program staff.�
Also a factor in the decision, Kruse said, was the interest by SIU trauma surgeons in the trauma program seeking a high-level certification from the American College of Surgeons that is available only to programs based at a single hospital.
�SIU School of Medicine is committed to the highest level of quality and patient care and education and research,� he said.
The decision wasn�t at all based on the hospitals� financial performance, he said.
In recent years, Memorial has posted record-setting revenues, while St. John�s has deal with red ink in annual operations despite having more than $400 million in net assets.
For the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, Memorial reported more than $592 million in total revenues from patient care and more than $44 million in revenues exceeding expenses � or a 7.4 percent margin.
St. John�s was expected to break even for the fiscal year that ended June 30 after posting an operating loss of $11 million based on $436 million in total patient care revenues in the fiscal year ending in June 2013.
No immediate effect on patients
Kruse said patients wouldn�t be immediately affected by SIU�s decision. The trauma center, no matter which hospital is the host, serves about 1,000 patients each year. Those patients� injuries come from car or motorcycle crashes, falls, gunshots, stabbings, fires and other incidents.
Hospitals with a Level 1 designation, the highest available from the state health department, provide an array of doctors � including general surgeons, plastic surgeons, orthopedic surgeons, neurosurgeons and other specialists � who must be available to patients within 30 minutes.
Those doctors are backed up by other doctors, often surgical residents in specialized training programs, who must be constantly present in the hospital.
In Springfield, the trauma center�s doctors have moved their headquarters between Memorial and St. John�s. A handful of SIU staff, including a trauma coordinator and registrar, have moved as well.
Most of the care for trauma patients, however, is provided by the nursing staff at each hospital.
Memorial and St. John�s officials celebrated the 10-year anniversary of the unique arrangement in 2009, saying it made sense because each hospital had certain strengths and wanted to benefit from the influx of patients and prestige that came with the designation.
Level 1 and Level 2 trauma hospitals throughout the state share in $4 million to $5 million in annual funding from the state to help support a variety of patient care and accident-prevention services. The revenue comes from traffic fines.
In the fiscal year that ended June 30, St. John�s received $94,571, and Memorial received $93,686, Illinois Department of Public Health spokeswoman Melaney Arnold said.
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I've been gone for nearly a week to the rain-drenched Texas Hill Country and, during that time, I received all kinds of email about that remarkable page-one essay by William Lobdell of the Los Angeles Times about how his work on the religion beat knocked the foundations out from under his Christian faith. Click here for the quick post I wrote about that essay during my travels. Frankly, I do not have any new comments to add about his piece, other than to restate what I said before. This was a striking work of personal confession and reflection on the complex and painful questions linked to theodicy, but not a piece of newspaper journalism -- at least, not the kind of journalism that editors place on page one in a major daily newspaper. Thus, I still wonder what the editors were thinking.
Meanwhile, legions of Times customers have offered their opinions about Lobdell's loss of faith. It is interesting to note that, at least in the context of the online chat session that let the reporter interact with readers, people elected to ask him about the faith issues in the piece and not (sadly) the journalistic issues that it raised. This is not a surprise to the GetReligionistas, since we spend quite a bit of time trying to get our readers to focus on journalism, as opposed to doctrinal squabbles and (at times) cat fights.
There was this one exchange, however:
2007-07-24 13:34:03.0 Peggy Normandin: Bill, what do you think made your story "LA Times front page newsworthy"?
2007-07-24 13:36:22.0 Bill Lobdell: I think it's a story that almost everyone -- including the saints of the church -- grapple with. Everyone identifies with a struggle over faith. Some people have criticized the paper and said it was only on the front page because I ended up without faith. If I ended up with my faith intact, it would have gotten the same play. The editors were interested in how my spiritual journey was impacted by my professional life.
Ah, yes. I would ask the same question. I think this piece would have been right at home in a Sunday magazine, the op-ed pages or some other essay-oriented section of the newspaper. I also do not think that Lobdell is right when he says that the story would have ended up on page one if it affirmed his faith. It was a story about a crisis. That was the "news" hook in the first place.
Meanwhile, the Times also received this email from a reader. In fact, this appears to be the very first email that the newspaper received -- of the 1,200 and counting -- in reaction to this piece:
1. I'd be interested to know if the Los Angeles Times ever printed an article of similar length on how someone came to faith and held onto it through dark times. If not, why not? Dare we imagine a bit of bias?
Submitted by: Thotful 10:15 AM PDT, July 24, 2007
Let me add that, should the Times decide to publish some kind of "how working as a journalist strengthened my faith" piece, I am not sure it should be published on page one.
The bottom line: I still have journalistic questions about all of this, as opposed to theological questions.


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Sooner or later, some travelers will encounter an emergency while abroad. Dealing with a serious injury, illness, an assault, or even just running out of funds is never a pleasant situation. However, a little preparation beforehand can help you better prepare and cope with the situations life throws at you.
Medical emergencies
Assaults and robberies
Report the crime to the police, even if you don't think they will do anything, as you will need the police report for any insurance claims. In third world countries where you are unsure of the reliability of local police, report the situation first to your embassy or consulate, which may be able to assist you in notifying the police, as well as assist if you need help in notifying your family.
In an extreme emergency, most countries have services such as a battered women's shelter, homeless shelters, and the like. Using such services is not ordinarily recommended (as they are geared towards local residents) but if your only other option is to sleep on the streets, make inquiries as they are better than nothing.
Travelers Aid
In the United States, Canada and Australia, the Travelers Aid[1] organization lends a helping hand to travelers in need of any type of assistance. Staffed by volunteers in counters at many airports, they can answer routine queries (such as what is the cheapest way to get from the airport to downtown) but also can provide referrals to other social service organizations or emergency services in serious crises such as destitution, homelessness, or human trafficking.
What your embassy can do
The quick answer is much less than you'd expect — in particular, they will never pay a single cent of any costs caused by the emergency — but their assistance can still be valuable. These services can also be provided by consulates and associated countries (eg. Commonwealth embassies for Commonwealth citizens, EU embassies for EU citizens).
Embassies usually cannot assist you in legal matters if you hold citizenship of the country you are currently in even if you are a citizen of the embassy's country too.
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Some of the planes in our skies are 70 years old and still going strong. What's the secret behind their staying power? Two aviation experts explain all.
When the Douglas DC-3 entered service with American Airlines, Adolf Hitler was in power in Germany, Jesse Owens was the fastest man in the world and the history of powered flight was barely three decades old.
Seventy-six years later, the two-engined airliner and cargo plane – with its distinctive rumbling sound – is still a regular sight in our skies. And not just for air shows or charter scenic flights; DC-3s, and their military version the C-47, are still serving as freighters and airliners.
Last May saw the longest running production for a military jet finally end – the Soviet Union's MiG-21, an interceptor capable of flying at twice the speed of sound and whose delta shape became an icon of Cold War crises and superpower proxy wars. It first flew in 1959, and was later produced in China.
When so few aircraft outlast the lives of their designers, what qualities set old-timers like the DC-3 and the MiG-21 apart? Here, Royal Aeronautical Society Head of Research Keith Hayward and design writer Jonathan Glancey outline the five rules every classic should have.
Rule one: Be adaptable and flexible
Launched in 1969, the Harrier jump jet typifies this rule, says Glancey. "It remains in service with the US Marine Corps – beginning its days as a last ditch Cold War interceptor based as close as possible to the East German border, and ending its RAF days as a sophisticated patrol-and-strike aircraft in Afghanistan."
Adaptability and flexibility is also key with civilian aircraft. "Most modern civil aircraft are now designed with further developments in mind, as well as sharing features and parts to reduce training and operational costs," says Hayward. "Airbus is probably more successful in this respect as a family than Boeing has been."
Rule two: Be easy to fly
"Aircraft that stand the test of time tend to be simple and reassuring machines to fly," says Glancey. "This means reliable engines, smooth, precise controls and crystal-clear instruments that are easy to reach or see – especially when upside down, in combat, in unfamiliar conditions and emergencies. "
Hayward agrees. "[The] basic principle is that the design must fulfil basic objectives of its 'market'," he says. "Military aircraft fully meets mission requirements, with high chance of bringing crew back alive; an airliner makes money for airline, ditto passengers and crew safely delivered on a regular basis."
Rule three: Be resilient
"The B-52 – which entered service in 1955 and is expected to fly until at least 2040 – has and will outlast other bombers because it has solid basic design qualities, structural resilience, and simply no better bomb truck has turned up since," Hayward says.
"Aircraft like the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter and the Convair B-58 Hustler supersonic bomber might have been fast, furious and downright thrilling to fly on a good day," says Glancey, "yet both have accident rates to match: the Starfighter was known as the 'Widowmaker', while a fifth of all Hustlers were lost to accidents."
Rule four – Be easy to maintain
"If you can keep a veteran MG car on the road, you should be able to service and maintain a Tiger Moth, more or less," says Glancey. "No one likes a cantankerous aircraft not least because its safety – the crew's safety, your safety – turns on the machine behaving impeccably. As air passengers used to say in the States – 'If it's not Boeing, I'm not going.' Boeing, along with other US manufacturers, made aircraft that were comfortable, reliable, safe and easy to maintain."
"Outlasting the field may also explain why ex-Soviet designs like the MiG-21 or the Antonov An-2, a biplane first flown in 1947 and still in production in China, have stayed in service," says Hayward. "All are cheap, simple, brick outhouse constructions, with little or no competition in their original markets."
Rule five – Be easy on the eye
"In its purest form, the Hawker Hunter is such a beautiful machine, that it must have been a wrench for RAF pilots to abandon it," says Glancey. "Swiss pilots hung on to their Hunters until 1994, and the aircraft lives on in front-line service with Lebanese Air Force today. But, beauty and sentimentality alone cannot stop the march of new technology, even though I can't help thinking they've played their part in keeping a number of aircraft in active service well past what might have seemed their natural retirement date."
But don't be swayed by looks alone, warns Hayward. "The F-4 Phantom was one of the ugliest beasts in the flying world, but it fought several wars, operated on land and at sea and outlasted many prettier aircraft," he says. "Concorde was lovely and was an immensely impressive piece of technology, but it failed in its basic function as an airliner, to sell widely [to airlines] and to make money."
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- Huge variety of sliders (also premium licensed ones).
- iOS Slider
- Creative Slider (based on Revolution Slider)
- Fixed Sliders
- Style 1 (Flex Slider)
- Style 2 (Nivo Slider)
- Style 3 (Wow Slider)
- 3D Cute Slider
- Fancy Slider
- Circular Content (NOT Responsive !!)
- Static Content (great variety)
- Portfolio Slider Devices (based on Revolution Slider)
- Portfolio Slider Frames
- Laptop Slider
- iCarousel
- CSS3 Panels
- 3 Portfolio Layouts
- Category Layout
- Sortable Layout
- Carousels Layout
- Custom pages designs.
- Process
- Contact us
- Offline / Coming soon
- Historic / Timeline
- Testimonials
- Team
- Portfolio Item
- Blog Item
- Product page
- Services
- Careers
- Pricing tables
- Photo Gallery
- Bonus – Christmas & Easter page headers
- Animated Header
- Google Fonts support (500+)
- Dynamic PHP Contact form
- Built-in Prettyphoto Lightbox with autopopup & open from link functionality
- Custom QR Code generator
- Sitemap design included
- HTML5 & CSS3 Ready
- PSD Files included
- Great social media support!
- Built in styles
- Good Documentation
- & many others!!
Many thanks to.
- Icons – http://www.iconfinder.com/ ()
- Images used in preview properly licensed from www.photodune.net ( not included in the template )
- Placeholder images – www.lorempixum.com
- Subtle Patterns http://subtlepatterns.com/
- Bootstrap Framework http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/
- IOS Slider – http://iosscripts.com/iosslider/
- Revolution Slider http://codecanyon.net/item/slider-revolution-responsive-jquery-plugin/2580848
- Icarousel http://codecanyon.net/item/icarousel/2527180
- 3D Cute Slider – http://codecanyon.net/item/cute-slider-3d-2d-html5-image-slider/3046001
- Isotope Jquery plugin (properly licensed) – http://isotope.metafizzy.co
- Nivo Slider – http://nivo.dev7studios.com/
- WowSlider – http://wowslider.com/
- Modernizr – http://modernizr.com/
- Jquery Map marker plugin – http://www.welancers.com/jquery-map-marker-plugin/
- Flex Slider – http://www.woothemes.com/flexslider/
- CarouFredSel – http://caroufredsel.dev7studios.com/examples
- PrettyPhoto – http://www.no-margin-for-errors.com/projects/prettyphoto-jquery-lightbox-clone/
- Jquery Countdown – http://keith-wood.name/countdown.html
- Superfish Menu – http://users.tpg.com.au/j_birch/plugins/superfish/
- Respond.js – https://github.com/scottjehl/Respond
- Twitter JS Api – http://code.google.com/p/twitterjs/
- Jquery Flickr Plugin – http://www.newmediacampaigns.com/page/jquery-flickr-plugin
- Jquery Easing – http://gsgd.co.uk/sandbox/jquery/easing/
- Jquery Placeholder – http://mths.be/placeholder
- SWF Object – http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/
- Raphael Diagram – http://tympanus.net/codrops/2011/04/22/animated-skills-diagram/
- Jquery Mobile – jquerymobile.com
In the latest update Revolution Slider is 4.2+ so now worries about the security problem as it's patched.
Update History
- Fixed : Accorion page builder element was open at page load
- Fixed : Buddypress - Username appeared at top of the page when viewing a user profile
- Fixed : Facebook like box was appearing improperly in certain conditions
- Fixed : Submenu width was improperly calculated in certain conditions
- Fixed : Features element icon alt tag when using HTML tags in title field
- Added : Laptop slider is now responsive
- Added : Portfolio slider devices are now responsive
- Fixed : The page doesn't refresh after user log-ins
- Tweak : Woocommerce pagination style
- Tweak : Woocommerce appearance in responsive view
- Fixed : Header styles not applying
- Update : Updated revolution slider to latest version (4.2+)
- Fixed : Improper alingment of Step box 2 page builder element
- Added : 2 new header styles
- Added : New pagebuilder element : Static content - Simple text ( full width ). This element can be used to place a custom slider shortcode/content inside the subheader area
- Added : New option for the mailchimp newsletter for changing the "JOIN NOW" text
- Added : Each page builder row has a new css class
- Added : Added new option for the accordion shortcode to choose the default state on page load ( open/closed )
- Tweak : Various SEO improvements
- Tweak : Accordions works in tabs shortcodes
- Tweak : Shortcodes can now be used inside Testimonial slider
- Tweak : Optimized Twitter widget
- Tweak : Recent works page builder element
- Tweak : Fixed Cute slider not working in IE11
- Tweak : You can now use multiple testimonial elements on the same page
- Tweak : Changed how the tabs shortcode works
- Tweak : Portfolio carousel pagination pagebuilder element now works on Frontpage
- Tweak : Update Woocommerce theme files for version 2.0.14
- Tweak : Replaced theme color picker with wordpress default one
- Tweak : Optimized options description in backend
- Fixed : Error received when using Custom header module
- Fixed : Wrong link in Static 10 pagebuilder element
- Fixed : Parallax effect doesn't work on a page if is choosed as Blog Page
+ Added : Support for BuddyPress ( only normal color style )
+ Added : Shortcode support for testimonials slider page builder element
+ Added : New field ( media name ) that will only appear in the single portfolio item edit page
+ Tweak : Blog post image is hidden if the post is password protected
+ Tweak : Blog post image alt tags ( normal layout )
+ Tweak : Widget mailchimp performance
+ Tweak : Reply form display
+ Fixed : Menu flickering in Firefox
+ Fixed : Color picker for Fancy slider doesn't work
+ Fixed : Small display issue on Tabs element on small screens
+ Fixed : Google fonts options not appearing in certain circumstances
+ Fixed : Testimonial Fader not showing author name in certain circumstances
+ Fixed : Coming soon page display on smaller screens
+ Fixed : Woocommerce checkout page not fully responsive
+ Added : Yelp! icon to social icons
+ Added : Full support for BBPress
+ Added : Page builder with sidebar on the same row works for blog posts now.
+ Added : Ability to use shortcodes in action box.
+ Added : Ability to use shortcodes in accordion page builder elemet.
+ Added : Ability to use shortcodes in the Circle text box page builder element
+ Added : New option for the photo gallery to choose the images height
+ Added : New option for the accordion page builder element to select each accordion default state ( opened/closed ) on page load
+ Tweak : Optimized Memory usage
+ Tweak : Changed the breadcrumbs icon from default red to the main color.
+ Tweak : Improved compatibility with SEO by Yoast
+ Tweak : Password protected pages will also hide the page builder elements
+ Tweak : Small CSS change for the layout of Vertical tabs element on mobile browsers
+ Tweak : Small display issue for the latest posts 4 page builder element
+ Removed : price.php from woocommerce folder
+ Removed : short-description.php from woocommerce folder
+ Removed : title.php from woocommerce folder
+ Fixed : Resolved contact form message not appearing after submitting the forum.
+ Fixed : Multiple screenshoot boxes not working on the same page
+ Fixed : Google map controls appears distorted
+ Fixed : Pagination doesn't appear for Portfolio Carousel page builder element
+ Fixed : Mobile menu appeared when the responsive features were disabled
+ Fixed : iOS slider doesn't work on Default blog page
+ Added : Re-Captcha field to contact form
+ Added : New feature to make backup/restore of the theme's options. You can find this option inside the advanced tab from the admin panel
+ Added : Shop Products Presentation - You can now choose the desired titles for the "Latests products" and "Best selling products" tabs
+ Added : Instagram social icons to the social icons list
+ Added : Slideshare social icons to the social icons list
+ Added : Compatibiliy with Post types order plugin for sortable portfolio
+ Tweak : Video box - the title will appear above the video if no image is set
+ Tweak : Removed "Wordpress" word from emails received after contact form was submitted.
+ Tweak : You can now place shortcodes into the "list" shortcode
+ Tweak : Seoworkers.com not seeing two or more keywords combination
+ Fixed : Link Portfolio Media options works on all portfolio sortable pages
+ Fixed : Twitter button not displaying when using the Social buttons widget
+ Fixed : Multiple Shop limited offers on the same page
- Added : Nivo slider - option to select the manual or automatic slider transition
- Added : Nivo slider - Option to select the slider pause speed when using automatic transition
- Added : Link to support forum inside the admin panel
- Added : Link to online documentation inside the admin panel
- Tweak : Swithced from the PHP mail function to Wordpress Mail function
- Tweak : Testimonials slider HTML markup
- Tweak : Register popup : All passwords appear as asterixs now
- Optimized : Overall page speed
- Optimized : Portfolio sortable code
- Fixed : Portfolio sortable not working properly when multiple categories were selected for a portfolio item
- Fixed : Ios Slider not working properly when using only one slide
- Fixed : Circular content slider - style 2 not working properly
+ Optimized : Alt tags for images. you can now select an alt and title for various page builder elements and portfolio items
+ Added : Option for pages to display the page builder elements next to the sidebar. You can find this option inside the page edit screen.
+ Updated : Revolution Slider plugin
+ Optimized : Overall theme performance
+ Optimized : Moved all page builder elements into their own file. It is now easier to override the page builder elements from a child theme
+ Fixed : WPML logo link
+ Fixed : Multisite logo link problem
+ Optimized : Portfolio section for performance and SEO
+ Fixed : Page builder elements not working properly on the WooCommerce pages
+ Fixed : Sortable portfolio not working properly when categories name were using special characters
+ Optimized : Portfolio category performance
+ Optimized : Portfolio Carousel performance
+ Optimized : Photo Gallery page builder element
+ Fixed : Various small css fixes
+ Added : New page builder element : STATIC CONTENT - MAPS MULTIPLE LOCATIONS . Using this element you can create a map with multiple locations.
+ Added : Dailymotion video support
+ Fixed : Twitter Widget
+ Fixed : IE 10 problems after IE last update.
+ Updatr : Revolution Slider plugin
+ Added : Full support for page builder in single product pages
+ Tweak : Increased various plugins compatibility
+ Added : Option for the photo gallery page builder element to choose the number of columns to display images
+ Added : WooCommerce option to hide the descriptin in category view and related products
+ Added : New single blog layout . Can be selected from Blog Options > Single Blog Item Options
+ Added : New archive blog layout . Can be selected from Blog Options > Archive Options
+ Added : Target option for the button shortcode
+ Tweak : Increased compatibility with Wordpress multisite
+ Tweak : Facebook comments block layout display
+ Tweak : Image Gallery thumbs size on small screens
+ Tweak : "Sale" badge only shows when the product is on stock
+ Tweak : WooCommerce shop title in breadcrumbs
+ Tweak : Updated Preety photo plugin to the latest version in order to increase compatibility with various wordpress plugins
+ Tweak : Prepared theme for Wordpress 3.6
+ Tweak : Increased teme compatibility with various plugins
+ Fixed : HTML code displaying in page when the title of the image box was using HTML code.
+ Fixed : Ios Slider captions not displaying properly when big image sizes were used
+ Fixed : Gravity forms compatibility problems
+ Fixed : Contact form 7 Autoresponder plugin compatibility problems
+ Fixed : Portfolio Subcategory breadcrumb problem
+ Fixed : Page title displays the title of the first item in category
+ Fixed : Contact form not working in FR language
+ Added : Permalinks options for Portfolio
+ Added : Permalinks options for Documentation
+ Added : Option for WooCommerce to make the shop a catalog one. By enabling this feature, all the purchase buttons will be removed
+ Added : Option to link iOS slider images
+ Added : Page builder elements now work on single shop item page
+ Added : Page builder elements now work on shop archive page
+ Added : Options to choose the desired width and height of the shop images on archive pages.
+ Tweak : WooCommerce page builder elements display when moving the WP-Content folder
+ Tweak : Responsive style for iOS
+ Tweak : Moved WooCommerce theme related options to a new submenu
+ Fixed : Responsive display of Historic Page builder element
+ Fixed : Logo display on iPhone when the contain logo option was active
+ Fixed : Steps box display on IE10
+ Fixed : Google font subset not working properly
+ Fixed : Laptop slider autoslide
+ Fixed : Main color not applying on the login buttons in modal
+ Fixed : Responsive display of coming soon page
+ Fixed : Horizontal tabs not working properly when multiple elements were used on the same page
+ Added : New option for increasing the site loading speed in the Advanced panel.By enabling the "Enable Menu Caching ?" option your site speed should grately improve.
+ Added : Option for the iOS slider to choose the slider height
+ Added : Additional options for the default header style
+ Added : Confirmation box for installing the Dummy Data
+ Tweak : Redirect page for the login.
+ Tweak : WPML language chooser displays the native language now
+ Tweak : The slider navigations will not be shown when having only one image in the iOS slider.
+ Fixed : Facebook Open Graph title
+ Fixed : Columns layout shortcode
+ Fixed : Sidebar layout on Blog pages
+ Fixed : Team box layout when using 960px layout
+ Fixed : PreetyPhoto not showing corectly in IE10
+ Fixed : Circular Content being responsive even with the responsive options off
+ Fixed : Product Loupe image dimension in 960px layout
+ Fixed : Portfolio not working when creating a page with the "portfolio" slug
+ Fixed : Additional plugins doesn't install from child theme
+ Fixed : Header animation for 404 page.
+ Fixed Unlimited headers and Unlimited sidebars in Admin options.
+ Overall speed/memory optimizations : The theme is now faster than "Twenty Twelve" default theme. Please find bellow all the files modified http://pastie.org/7697193
+ Fixed Portfolio slug.
+ Added new Static header element for displaying a text and video
+ Fixed Google Fonts subsets
+ Added responsive features for the register modals
+ Added a timeout option for the iOS slider
+ Fixed issues when multiple partners logos were displayed on a page
+ Fixed image resizing not working when the wp-content folder was moved
+ Removed all extra text domains from language files
+ Tweak the non-responsive features of the theme
+ Added page title compatibility with Yoast plugin
+ Added missing words to translation files
+ Resolved the Contact form not sending all texts when punctuations were used in field names
+ Added : Option to link portfolio images directly to portfolio items
+ Added : Option to configure the typography options for the main menu
+ Added : Option to show subheader after the main header
+ Added : New page builder element "Action box text"
+ Added : General options to configure the Google web fonts used troughout the theme
+ Added : Missing words to translation functions
+ Added : Option to hide the search button in header
+ Added : Option to show footer widgets rows or not
+ Resolved : Contact form not sending all content
+ Resolved : Favicon not showing in IE9
+ Resolved : Various visual issues in IE8
+ Resolved : Theme options not saving on several web hostings
+ Resolved : Several display issues when using Russian text
+ Resolved : Ios Slider conflict with latest posts
+ Resolved : Various small fixes
+ Added : New page builder element to display a sidebar position
+ Added : A "Documentation" custom post type system
+ Added : Color options for various texts
+ Added : Option to select the typography for various texts
+ Added : Missing words to translation function
+ Added : The buttons shortcode now accepts a link url
+ Added : A new option for Google fonts to select the font subset
+ Added : Added styles for Woocommerce subcategories
+ Added : Description for the content and sidebar page builder element
+ Added : When creating a new account, you can set up your password directly rather than Wordpress generating a random password
+ Enhancement : Rewritten some of the header login system in order to make the login system more compatible with various plugins
+ Enhancement : The theme is now 100% Wordpress multisite/network compatible
+ Fixed : Bug on contact form not sending all the fields when the field names contains spaces
+ Fixed : Problem when setting the footer rows to contain only one sidebar position
+ Fixed : You can now use as many Recent Works elements on the same page as you want
+ Fixed : Problem when having multiple verical tabs on the same page
+ Fixed : Cart over the search button when using header style 1/4
+ Fixed : Problem when not adding a link to the iCarousel items
+ Fixed : Strange characters when using cyrilic fonts
+ Fixed : Limited offers responsive display
+ Fixed : Error message on coming soon page when using various plugins
+ Fixed : Image box link when no url was set in the options
+ Fixed : Bottom mask style on dark style
+ Fixed : Error displayed when no image was inserted in a post
+ Added a new Blog Layout based on Columns
+ Added option to choose the colors for the top navigation links
+ Added option to use the first attached image from inside a post on blog Archive and categories pages
+ Customized the product search box from WooCommerce
+ Added the "All" word to the translation functions
+ Further optimized the page loading speed/score
+ Added header date to translation functions
+ Further optized WooCommerce compatibility for product variations
+ Fixed Google fonts for SSL enabled hosts
+ The unlimited sidebars names are used instead of default name
+ The unlimited headers names are used instead of default name
+ Added additional options for map element for dragging and mouse zooming
+ Fixed limited offers "division by zero error" and also reduce price calculati
+ Fixed header background image in IE8
+ Fixed Contact form not working in IE
+ Fixed Spelling error in admin panel
+ Fixed map type selector
+ Added windows phone compatibility
+ Page builder to posts si portfolio
+ Added more google web fonts
+ Fixed product variation modal image
+ Linked the product images together
+ Fixed page header default style in Unlimited headers
+ Added option to change the content color / add image
+ Added option to change the grey area color / add image
+ Added option to globally disable page comments
+ Added missing translation strings
+ Fixed Skills shortcode not appearing correctly
+ Fixed Sortable portfolio multiple item categories bug
+ Extended WooCommerce compatibility for images in single product page
+ Fixed Laptop Slider navigation buttons not appearing
+ Fixed logo dimension on coming soon page
+ Tweaked the position of logo on coming soon page
+ Fixed social icons overlapping issue on Safari
+ Fixed social icon that appeared even if no one was selected
+ Made error message friendlier
+ Added ability to customize the blog page with page builder element
+ Extented the compatibility with Woocommerce 2.02
+ Added option for logo to be contained in header
+ Fixed compatibility between latest Cute Slider verion and theme
+ Fixed Logo size on Coming Soon page
+ Additional style fixes
+ Firefox problems with items dissapearing
+ Sidebar layout issue and overall page layout issues for shop
+ Woocommerce 2.0 full compatibility
+ Minor css fixes.
+ Added new responsive menu style - You can select it from theme's options page
+ The page builder elements are now sorted alphabetically
+ Improved child theme support
+ Improved image resizing function
+ Improved countdown timer on IE and safari
+ Fixed left sidebar displaying on right side
+ Added shortcode support for vertical and horizontal tabs
+ Added option to select boxed or full layout for homepage
+ Added option to select the default color for menu links
+ Added option to remove the logo
+ Added option to remove the footer
+ Added child theme in package
+ Updated Revolution slider to latest version
+ Updated Cute 3D slider to latest version
+ Integrated Envato Toolkit - From now on you can update the theme from inside the admin panel
+ Added option to select a background image/color for header
+ Added option to select a background image/color for footer
+ Added option to use a boxed layout
+ Added option to upload a background image/color if boxed layour is selected
+ Added top header menu
+ Added top header social icons options
+ Added Custom CSS box inside the admin panel
+ Added option to select the footer border color
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For decades now mankind has been left to wonder: Just where did the first Cake Wreck come from? We may never have the definitive answer (outside of "42", of course) but an historic find has recently been unearthed in the area of Gilbert, Arizona, that may shed some light on this weighty issue.
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Breathtaking, isn't it? This artifact, discovered by Luz G. of Beautiful Impermanence, is believed to date back to the "free love" era of the 1960s, when the word "magic" was interchangeable with the names of many and varied forms of hallucinogenic drugs. Coincidence?Highly suspicious.
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Just like your kitchen knives, your garbage disposal blades can dull over time from use.
(Especially if you're like me and play a home version of "Will It Blend?" on your Insinkerator.)
To sharpen the blades, combine table salt and coarse cleanser (we like Bar Keeper's Friend), shove the mixture down past the baffle (yes, that rubber ruffle-y thing has a name!) and run the disposal without any water. When that's finished, run water with the disposal like normal and rinse away the residue.
The coarse mixture should sharpen your blades. Another tip: Always run cold, not warm, water when running your disposal. Cold water hardens greasy substances, which makes them easier to grind, and keeps grease from sticking to the drain lines.
Check out my other appliance maintenance-related blog posts.