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En español | These days, more and more retirees are working as a way to stay engaged, support a lifestyle or both.
For Jose and Jill Ferrer, ages 64 and 59, respectively, it's been all of the above. When they retired from telecommunications careers that spanned nearly three decades at AT&T, they sold their townhouse in Randolph, N.J., for about $360,000 and hit the road.
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Since 2005, they've traveled full time from Oregon to New Mexico to Florida and points in between at the wheel of their 40-foot Country Coach Allure motor home (paid for with cash). A Harley-Davidson Heritage Softail motorcycle, a Saturn car and two bikes are along for the ride.
"We're living a lifestyle that enables us to move around as we choose," says Jill. "We usually take our time — spending at least a few days and more likely a week or more in an area. We fully intend to get to all of the national parks."
The couple planned carefully for retirement. They lived off one of their $100,000-a-year salaries for about five years before retiring and saved the other one. They contributed the maximum to their 401(k) savings plans and rolled them over into individual retirement accounts once they retired. "We're hopeful that we have saved enough to last us in a retirement that includes frugal living and part-time work," Jill says.
For this road warrior couple, that part-time work is a website and blog dedicated to the RV lifestyle. "We were seeking something we could do on the road to make some extra income. We created Your RV Lifestyle as a site where we could share tips, lessons learned and travel experiences," she says.
And it has worked. With both a laptop and a desktop in the motor home, they use a wireless data plan with an air card for Internet access. On average, they try to do something on the site every day: a blog, a new page or an updated page.
The payoff: They earn a small commission on products sold through the product-affiliate programs related to the RV lifestyle, such as Good Sam club, FMCA, RV books/DVDs and so on, that are promoted on the site. They also get a cut when visitors click on Google AdSense ads displayed on the relevant pages.
"For now, as we balance various aspects of our life, we are happy to earn a little extra money — about $700 a month — from the site," Jill says. "And we know the potential is there to grow our website business."
Whatever your reason for wanting to keep earning income, it doesn't mean you're locked into the daily treadmill. Opting to work a slimmed-down number of hours a week gives you plenty of room to travel, enjoy your hobbies, spend time with friends and more.
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Sustain Design Studio's newest prefab home, the 12×36 TRIO, recently landed in Brighton, Ontario. With its butterfly roof and passive solar design, the California Edition of the Trio is energy-efficient, has a small environmental footprint, and it is available at an affordable price.
The TRIO brings a lot for its small size of 436 sq feet. Inside you get 10 foot ceilings, a master bedroom, kitchen, living space and bathroom. This 12×36 California Edition starts at $134,900, and it can be expanded with other modules up to 1,100 sq feet.
Designed for passive ventilation and cooling with operable windows on the east and west as well as southern facing windows to help bring in heat, this little home has energy efficiency at heart. The home also includes a tankless hot water system, energy efficient lighting and an integrated HVAC system to reduce the energy load where possible. FSC-certified woods and formaldehyde-free finishings make for a green and non-toxic interior. Additionally, the home is wired for easy installation of a wind or solar system, which could make it off-grid capable.
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March 24, 2010 at 12:06 pm
It's not very meaningful to compare the per square foot cost of a 2700sf house (Flueckiger's) and a 436 sf prefab one. Smaller houses will generally have higher sf costs as the expensive components – skin, appliances, fixtures – are in much higher proportions to the total area. The cheapest sf are the big areas in the middle of the rooms. Economies of scale are just that. Flueckier's house is wonderful, but when you compare cost per occupant, the comparable cost is less unbalanced. Of course you can find examples of houses that are cheaper, and just because the word "affordable" is in the title doesn't mean this house intends to replace all forms of affordable housing. It's fulfills a very specific niche, and compared to others of this type, quality, energy performance, yes, it is affordable.
March 20, 2010 at 8:27 pm
Unfortunately, again this is ridiculous as I have a 1,500 square foot house that cost 20,000 less than this, and a normal trailer this size would probably cost less the $50,000. Passive solar and a butterfly roof don't cost a lot – let's see how cheap we can make sustainable so average people can go green.
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$309 a square foot is not affordable.


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Some time ago I bought a set of Dewalt pilot point drill bits. I have found that its not a good idea to drill a pilot hole for a larger bit as the tip of the bigger bit is easily broken off.
Recently Ive had a couple of jobs to do that for some reason consumed several bits in the process. Job one, drilled holes for self tapping bolts in a flatbed trailer deck. First drilled large hole in aluminum(for bolt to pass thru) then drill smaller hole in steel I beam crossmember(for self tapping portion). Putting in about a dozen bolts, I managed to bend the larger bit and bend or break off three of the smaller ones. This was all done with a half inch B&D drill. These bits seem to "catch" badly just when the hole is almost complete.
Today with a near new(19 holes) bit(same size as the small ones above, 17/64) I broke one off in aluminum. Im frustrated beyond belief as its about a 60 mile round trip to buy new bits.
Did I end up with crappy tools with a good name on them or am I doing something wrong? What brand bits are you professionals using? Do you guys use them by the bucketfuls too???
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Those dewalt pilot point bits are trash. Same thing here. The dewalt bits without a pilot are a lot better.
I usually get my bits from McMaster-Carr. Just get the regular black oxide jobber bits. Any supply house should have them such as Fastenal, etc.
I always drill pilot holes for any job. You really need to brace yourself when using a hand drill to keep it straight when it grabs. Also it needs to be straight the whole time you are drilling. A lot of it is technique. I don't know how many times I see someone using one hand or going crooked while drilling.MM250
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Some suggestions:
Stay away from imported, mass market drill bits. You know, the kind you buy at the Depot. Buy USA made drills from McMaster-Carr, ENCO, MSC etc.
For your kind of work, I might suggest that you also stay away from the "split point" drills which can be very aggressive, particularly if you've drilled a pilot hole. Use the standard point drills.
Also, consider using some sort of cutting fluid if possible, particularly for aluminum which can be quite "grabby" when drilled with hand-held equipment.
Be aware that all drill bits become very aggressive as they break through the bottom of the drilled hole. You can usually feel this as it starts to happen and you need to ease off on the applied force.
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When drilling a pilot hole, don't make it any larger than the web thickness of the larger drill.Miller stuff:
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Agreed. The bits you buy from the fastenal work great with cutting fluid. I use brake fluid. It washes with water. But thats me. The rapid tap oil works greatSyncrowave 250
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When you sharpen your bits for this type of work keep the rake to a minimum. It will cut slower but will grab less. Don't push your drill though let it cut its way though and as stated, ease up when your close to dropping though.---Meltedmetal
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This happens a lot when drilling bolts when safety wiring bolts. I have found that if you don't tighten the bit down so that it may slip at the point of break through you can save a few bits... That may not work as well for the bigger stuff.MillerMatic 211 Auto-set w/MVP
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Thanks for all the replies. I do let up at the end of the hole, but with this particular job it didnt seem to matter. I will be investing in some other bits. Many thanks for the brand names. One thing I liked about these Dewalts is the shank is not round, very easy to keep tight in the chuck.Who do you call when the lawmakers ignore the law?
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I use Irwin high speed bits. There the cheapest but work the best for me in alum and steel. We get them at a old local lumber yard there silver colored. I've try all the high dollar ones not no more. They resharpen good too. One of the few cheap products that work.


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I wondered if it's possible to use to big of plasma cutter for the job. I'd like to cut thin sheet metal 1/16" or so up to 1/2" plate. I'm close to getting a deal on a Miller Spectrum 3080. According to the online manual at the lowest setting can be adjusted to 30A output (I'm guessing this by looking at the dial).
Any suggestions if this is overkill to the point that my cuts would suffer on sheet metal?
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Possible to have too big of plasma cutter?
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i think your electric bill might suffer a lil but i dont see the cuts suffering. 30 amps should have no problem on the thin stuff. just keep the consumables replaced as needed and cleaner the air the better. if you are getting a good deal on a larger plasma then you need its better then one too small. you will be able to grow into the larger one, where i feel i have outgrown my smaller one and am looking to go bigger.i should have gone bigger to start with but did not have air at the time.thanks for the help
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i think he raises a valid point. too much power could easily lead to problems on thiner stock. my spectrum 125C dose a great job on this stuff at 12amps but not so good on 3/16". not being able to get a low enough setting could result in thick cuts in thin matereal. but as it goes down to 30 amps i think he will be ok on the thin stuff, but hope some one with this size cutter chimes in to make shore of that. so in general no there is no such thing as too big. but it could be problematic if working on lil stuff and just plain being too powerfull. some thing i was concerned about on the MM210 i plan on getting, thinking i would have to kep my MM135 for the thin stuff, but after trying the MM210 on 20 gage i no longer have that consern. the MM210 worked great on 20 gage and i think 30 amps should do fine on thin stuff as well. i know i wish i had waited gotten my air compressor first them gotten a larger plasma cutter. dont get me wrong i love my spec.125 but its limited to small stuff and i now have a need to do thicker. O/A will get it done but plasma would not only be nicer but much more conveneant.thanks for the help
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too much power means bigger cut
I've been cutting thin and thick material with plasma cutters for over ten years now and I can tell from experience that cut quality will suffer with too much power on THIN material.
The REAL question is how thin are you likely to be cutting MOST of the time and how thick? 30 amps is too much power for good (hand) cut quality on thin stock (say 14 to 18 gauge). Sure you can cut it, but it will be hard to get decent small cuts or intricate detail. To a certain extent you can makeup for the excess power with faster travel speed, but with hand cutting this gets tricky, especially on small detail.
If you anticipate working at 1/16" or thinker you are probably OK with the bigger unit. It certainly will provide a better cut on thicker stock.
We were able to get better detail out of our unit by getting a 30amp drag tip (the highest amperage Esab makes for drag tips). This provides a much finer cut on thin stock than the standard offset tip.
The initial cost of the unit is only the tip of the iceberg, you have the cost of power, consumables and your time to add to the equation. Not to mention any time spent cleaning up lousy cuts. I'd aim for a unit optimized for what you will be cutting most of the time - you'll be happier in the long run.
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i thought 30 amps was a low enough amp to make good cuts on small stock. non of the info on the sites tell you the cut amps available though, strange its not there. or maybee i missed it ?? any how as my spec125 is a 14amp i figured 30 must not be too high. the spec375 is the next step up any one know what its amp range is ??
would a smaller torch help ??thanks for the help
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I have a 1000 G3 that works great on the thick stuff.... but when I get artistic with it I have to keep my travel speeds very high otherwise you end up with a lot of slag on the back of your work piece. I ended up buying a used 375 for the small stuff and that dropped my travel speed down to where it was manageable. But then again the 375 is a dog on anything bigger than 3/16 steel. You really have to decide the the range you'll be working with most.
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I have the 375 xtreme, it goes from 20-27 amps and can runn 110 or 220. I will say on 22 gauge metal it throws a 1/8" kerf on a drag cut, If you give it the reccomended 1/8" spacing between tip and material the kerf goes up to 1/4" on 20amp. Controlling the cut can be somewhat unwieldy as the amperage is a bit much for the metal. 30 amps is doable, but you wont have the control you expect from a plasma. The 125 is great for sheet metal, not so great for anything over 1/4" and dead at 3/8". The 375 is great for 14 gauge to 3/16 and ok for 20, 22 gauge (haven't tried 24).John
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FORT MYERS, Fla. (Nov. 17, 2010) - After closing out the regular season with a victory against USC Upstate last Wednesday, the No. 3 seeded ETSU volleyball team gets set to take on No. 6 seeded North Florida, Thursday night at 7:30 p.m. on the opening day of the Atlantic Sun Championship inside Alico Arena.
The Bucs (24-8, 7-3 A-Sun) locked up the No. 3 seed following their victory over the Spartans and a victory by Kennesaw State over Mercer. The winner of the ETSU-UNF contest will take on No. 2 seeded Kennesaw State in the semifinals on Friday night at 7:30.
Senior Erin Ryan (Davie, Fla.) recorded a game-high 12 kills on .345 hitting to lead the Bucs past USC Upstate, 3-0 (25-20, 25-13, 25-17) in the regular season finale.
ETSU came away with 43 kills on .324 hitting, while limiting the Spartans to just 26 kills and a .112 attack efficiency. The Bucs also out-blocked the Spartans 7.0 to 2.0. The .324 attack efficiency recorded by the Bucs was their second best total of the season. The Bucs hit .333 against N.C. Central back in September.
The Atlantic Sun Conference announced its all-conference awards on Monday and the Bucs had three members earn accolades. Senior middle blocker Alysa Long (Romulus, Mich.) earned First-Team All-Conference after finishing the regular season atop the league in blocks and hitting percentage. Senior setter Whitney Cogburn (Kingsport, Tenn.) was named Second-Team All-Conference after leading the A-Sun with 1,122 total assists. Outside hitter Megan Devine (Kingsport, Tenn.) became the first Freshman of the Year since ETSU joined the Atlantic Sun. Devine led the team in kills and points, while ranking second on the squad in digs.
UNF (7-21, 4-6 A-Sun) enters the tournament on a two match winning streak after they defeated cross-town rival Jacksonville, 3-0 (25-11, 25-19, 25-23) in the Ospreys' last outing to earn the final spot in the conference tournament. Second team All-Conference selection Paige Pridgeon tallied 18 kills on .500 hitting percentage in the match while Jessica Catelano added 11 kills on .526 hitting percentage. Pridgeon leads the Ospreys this season with 3.91 kills per set and ranks second in the conference.
ETSU holds a 6-3 advantage over UNF in the all-time series. The two teams met earlier this season in Jacksonville where the Bucs secured a 3-0 (25-17, 25-21, 25-17) sweep. In that contest, Long and fellow senior Lauren Baufield (Plymouth, Minn.) combined for 18 kills without an error to lead the Bucs. Devine and Long both finished with a team-high 10 kills in the match.
Fans that are unable to make the trip to Ft. Myers can follow all the action of the Atlantic Sun Championship on ASun.TV free of charge.
No. 4 Belmont will take on No. 5 Mercer to open the Atlantic Sun Championship on Thursday at 5 p.m. The winner of that match will take on top-seeded Lipscomb on Friday at 5 p.m.
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- A win against North Florida would give the Bucs 25 wins, which would be tied for third all-time in program history. The Bucs last recorded 25 wins in 2006.
- Megan Devine became the first ETSU Freshman of the Year since the Bucs joined the Atlantic Sun Conference. Nicole Ryan won the award in 2002 when ETSU was a member of the Southern Conference.
- Alysa Long ranks 25th in the country in blocks per set, while the Bucs rank 23rd as a team in blocks per set.
- Long currently owns a .328 career attack percentage which would go down in the record books as tops in school history. Pam Farmer currently owns the school record with a .318 career mark from 1982-84.
- Libero Kiley Tamblyn has recorded 503 digs this season which ranks fourth on the school's all-time single season total.
- ETSU's last A-Sun Tournament victory came against Mercer in 2008 as the Bucs won 3-2 in Macon, Ga.
- ETSU has recorded one of the biggest turnarounds in the country this season with their 24 victories. The Bucs have already won 13 more matches than they did last season.
- The Bucs have been strong on the defensive end all season long as they finished the regular season atop the A-Sun in opponents hitting percentage and in blocking.


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LYNDORA, Pa.—Is American manufacturing dead? Those who think so point to manufacturing's plummeting share of the national economy as a predictor of its eventual demise. But they likely have never been to Butler County. Here, north of Pittsburgh, in the heart of western Pennsylvania, basic manufacturing still drives the local economy. It has survived around here—indeed, thrived—suggesting that America, too, has an industrial future.
Butler County's economy has long depended on making steel and fashioning it into precision tools, industries that most Americans think have largely fled overseas. To survive, companies here have successfully adapted, using flexible manufacturing techniques that marry computers with a skilled workforce to craft products for international markets. And in the wake of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, the unemployment rate in Butler County stood at just 6.8 percent in September, far lower than the national average.
The Obama administration's hopes for a second act for U.S. manufacturing center on high-tech, future-oriented products such as solar panels and biotechnology. There is reason to think these goods will play a big role. Their track record has been impressive, and their cutting-edge nature inspires public imagination. The wind-energy industry, for instance, is roughly a $20 billion business and is growing by leaps and bounds. Still, these technologies' contributions to the overall economy are statistically insignificant. Jobs in renewable energy, broadly defined (including wind, solar, and hydroelectricity), accounted for just 0.1 percent of total employment in the United States in 2007, according to Moody's Analytics. The makers of steel, aluminum, and other primary metals employed three times as many people.
"When it comes to new industries, it takes a while for them to grow," said Sophia Koropeckyj, a managing director at Moody's Analytics. So, for the foreseeable future, they'll be dwarfed in economic significance by existing manufacturing. Despite the near-disappearance of the American textile, apparel, and shoe industries, and the recent troubles of the auto industry, the United States remains—if tenuously so—the world's leading manufacturer, led by industries that rely more on technological precision and brainpower than on low-skilled labor—aircraft, sophisticated machinery, medical devices, and the like. But manufacturing's staying power is also thanks to old dogs, such as high-end steelmakers, that have learned new tricks.
An unlikely testing ground for the second act in American manufacturing is in western Pennsylvania, where the first act had its heyday. To the untrained eye, the two eras look much the same. Showers of sparks and unspeakable heat still mark the pouring of steel. But Andrew Carnegie would not recognize this steelmaking. To compete in an increasingly competitive world market, even traditional manufacturers must operate on the technological frontier. In its Lyndora plant, AK Steel operates the world's fastest and most productive coating and final annealing process, which chemically aligns grains on the surface of electrical steel so that—when it is used in a transformer that generates electricity—the electrons pass over it more quickly.
This is the future of American manufacturing, according to Sherle Schwenninger, who directs the economic growth program at the New America Foundation in Washington. "We need a broad-based manufacturing economy to provide jobs in the United States," he said. And it can be done, he believes, because America's competitive advantage in the world market lies in "sophisticated and higher-value-added, fundamental manufacturing—things such as earth-moving equipment and safer mining and drilling technologies—that can meet the needs of emerging economies."
"This is manufacturing's moment," said John Engler, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, "precisely the right time for manufacturing to have a comeback." A broad-based manufacturing economy, however, may well depend on the right policy environment: lower taxes, smart regulation, a weaker dollar, better training for workers, and the preservation of local industrial clusters of large and small firms that feed off one another. That, in turn, requires the public's recognition that manufacturing has a meaningful role to play in America's future and a government-guided plan to make it happen. "Without a plan," warned Leo Gerard, president of United Steelworkers International, "American manufacturing will continue to atrophy."
The departures from the first act in American manufacturing may be more than technological. The geography will change, as will its configuration. Huge facilities with tens of thousands of workers are out. Factories won't look like the gigantic River Rouge auto-making complex that Henry Ford built in Dearborn, Mich., in the 1920s. Compact plants surrounded by clusters of small firms that service them will likely populate tomorrow's manufacturing landscape. Many of the factories will be in the South, where lower wages may help establish a new industrial heartland.
This article appears in the December 11, 2010 edition of National Journal Magazine.


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Alumni and Family Weekend: September 26-28,
2014 A weekend during the fall semester for parents and
families to visit campus and participate in events such as a wine
tasting, a cruise on the Hudson, a barbecue picnic, a casino night,
lectures, sports matches, breakfast, and a Mass. Learn more at www.msmc.edu/familyweekend
Mount Olympics and Spirit Week: October 19-25,
Freshmen, sophomore, junior, and senior teams compete in various
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Each year we try to start more of our own seeds rather than buy transplants from the nursery. We're also moving away from hybrids towards more open pollinated and heritage varieties. It wasn't intentional, it just seems to be happening that way. This year we're going to try seedsaving those varieties we particularly like. We're in zone 6b, sw VA, Blue Ridge Mountains.
So far we have started:
Imperial and Violetta Artichokes: 1st time in the garden and an experiment. The imperials are bred for annual production, the Violettas supposedly are hardy enough to overwinter in our zone with protection.
Onions from seed: Never have done that before. The seedlings are doing great with the added bonus of snipping the tips to add to salads.
Lettuce: head only, we direct seed leaf
Marconi Peppers
Savoy Cabbage
Next weekend (3/13) the plastic goes on the garden to warm up the soil. Two weeks from now (3/20) we'll seed the tomatoes and eggplants indoors, and in three weeks (3/27) we'll be direct seeding the peas and spinach outdoors.
It snowed again yesterday....*sigh*
I meant to try some winter sowing (mostly flowers) but haven't started a thing yet. I did remember to buy some Pro Mix and last night, finally, ordered seeds from 3 different companies. I plan to try some onion and shallots from seed.
Last year I started a variety of things except for tomatoes and peppers. We can get heirloom plants from a local grower. I'm not sure how much of a head start I got since we had a late frost here in NH. This year it looks like we might have an early spring. The snow is disappearing quickly. I'd like to get some spinach direct seeded ASAP since it is day length sensitive. My best crops have been when I can get it in the ground very early.
Do you use lights indoors?
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I'm using my old desk lamp from college as my "grow" light since it's been grey and rainy here in Norcal. I've started:
Several varities of tomatoes and chilies
butternut squash
spaghetti squash
carving pumpkins
cooking pumpkins
I'll be directaly planting beets, carrorts, leeks, leetuce, and whatever fun transplants
I have room leftover for
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We use lights but not grow lights. We follow Nancy Bubel's suggestion and use one high and one low spectrum florescent tube in each of our fixtures. And like Miss G, I use my ancient, heavy desk lamp for my indoor pot of winter mixed greens. It accommodates 2 18" florescents.
Cherokee Purple, Sicilian Giant saucer, Black KRim, Omars Lebanese, Voyager {"smart tomato" looks like small cluster of brains}, Sausage tomato {looks like Annehiem pepper} .... and as soon as I get the next seed shipment, Purple Calabash, White something or other, Green Zebra, and Brandywine
Bhut Jolokia {the hottest pepper on the planet you are standing on}, Peter Pepper {most unique looking XXX rated pepper}, Purple Tiger, Chinese Giant Bells, Hungarian Paprika, and Alma Paprika.
Purple Artichoke, Peanuts for the dog, cannabis vine {Hops}, Giant Sunflower, Elephant Head Amaranth, Black Mammoth Wrapper leaf tobacco, Havana filler tobacco, and some Kenaf {looks like Hemp}
Indoors, I am trying a dwarf Banana. In the Aerogarden I am trying Piper Nigrum {black pepper}
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I live in Toronto, Ontario. Too much snow & too cold. Too early to start seeds inside.
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Here is my set-up. I am trying "Sure to grow" cubes, the white stuff in the flat with the large dome. Hydroponic stores have both. So far I like the cubes. The wine jug is my CO2 enrichment system. Its just water, sugar and yeast.
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I see you have an air lock on the jug. Is it venting into the room in general or do you have it running somehow to the seed dome? I'm curious because I just happen to have a jug of mead fermenting next to my starter shelves. It was the only place I had to stash it.
So far, sugar snap peas, and potatoes. On trees. pluots, apricots, nectarines, figs are flowering/budding. And two grape vines, two meyer lemons, two blood orabge trees,but no flowers on those yet. Just laid a lasagna bed; not sure what's going in it. Something that doesn't mind 100 degree temps.
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Eating my first sugar sups!
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Woohoo! Ours just started blooming. I'm jonesin' !
Here in Zone 5, I've started spinach, rainbow swiss chard, and dwarf kale indoors to be transplanted in ~ two weeks. My strawberries from last year are peaking up.
As for tomatoes and peppers I will start the seeds in April for late May planting. While we are having unseasonably warm weather, it's still Ohio. (Drastic changes in weather without notice.) Will probably plant snake beans and squash as well.
I have five varietes of tomatoes in the green house, they have just started to come up in the seed mix. Also peas are coming up, basil, thyme, got some beets started and cabbage. Also have 2 flats of sun flowers and 12 flats of annuals that are starting to grow.
Planted potatoes today in some mounds that I prepared last fall, two blue varieties, a yukon and some fingerlings.
trying to propagate some more fig trees, no roots yet so I will leave them wrapped up in the plastic and wet paper towels until they get ready to pot.
Nice having a gas heated green house this time of year, I can be growing things early and get a jump on the season.


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Chemotherapy is a systemic (total body) treatment and can affect many parts of the body including how the muscles and nerves function. It can also affect thinking, an effect many refer to as "chemobrain."
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Numbness or tingling of the hands or feet (Lung Cancer Alliance)
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Learn about the effect of chemotherapy on the brain
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Get an overview of this hotelArt Deco Brooklyn hotel in Bedford-Stuyvesant, near Brooklyn Public Library
Located in Bedford-Stuyvesant, this hotel is 0.5 mi (0.7 km) from Brooklyn Children's Museum and 1.5 mi (2.4 km) from Brooklyn Public Library. Brower Park and Jewish Children's Museum are also within 1 mi (2 km).
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This smoke-free hotel features a 24-hour fitness center, a 24-hour business center, and a meeting room. Free continental breakfast, free WiFi in public areas, and free self parking are also provided. Additionally, dry cleaning, a 24-hour front desk, and limo/town car service are onsite.
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All 56 individually decorated rooms provide free WiFi, free wired Internet, and pillowtop beds. Comforts include Egyptian cotton sheets and premium bedding, and guests will also find conveniences like refrigerators and microwaves.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
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Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wired and wireless Internet access. This hotel offers access to a 24-hour business center, limo/town car service, and a meeting room. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast each morning. Event facilities measure 400 square feet (37 square meters). This Art Deco hotel also offers a 24-hour fitness center, tour/ticket assistance, and multilingual staff. Limited complimentary onsite parking is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
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- Number of floors - 5
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Flushing, NY (Sports Network) - Madison Bumgarner struck out 10 over seven strong innings to lead the San Francisco Giants over the New York Mets, 2-1, in the finale of a three-game set at Citi Field.
Bumgarner (13-9) allowed just one run on four hits while walking three to help the Giants win two of three from the Mets. The lefty has now won two straight starts, allowing three runs on nine hits and striking out 16 in 13 innings over that span.
"I felt like the command of all the pitches was pretty good," Bumgarner said. "They happened to hit the ball at a lot of our guys when they hit it so it worked out in our favor."
Juan Perez went 3-for-3 with and RBI for San Francisco, which has won five of six and improved to 5-2 on a 10-game road trip that ends with three games against the Yankees starting Friday.
Daniel Murphy drove in the lone run for the Mets, who ended an 11-game homestand with just three wins.
New York starting pitcher Jon Niese (7-8) suffered the loss, allowing two runs on seven hits in seven innings. The left-hander struck out four and walked two.
"It's a tough one," said Niese. "(Catcher) Travis d'Arnaud and I did a good job of staying on the same page. Unfortunately we came up short."
The Giants jumped ahead in the fourth, scoring a pair of runs. The first came when Perez singled home Hector Sanchez, while the second was courtesy of Ehire Adrianza's groundout that scored Joaquin Arias.
Murphy cut the Mets' deficit in half in the bottom of the frame when he singled home Josh Satin, who led off the frame with a double.
Javier Lopez worked the final two outs to pick up his first save of the season.
Tony Abreu had two hits for the Giants ... New York won the season series from
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In July 2009, a special little dog with big brown eyes was found abandoned in a box outside Angels for Animals Animal Center in Canfield, Ohio, a participant in the 2011 ASPCA $100K Challenge. She was alone and in desperate need of a loving home. Luckily, Elizabeth Stark's family decided to adopt the homeless pup and give her a fresh start.
They chose to call her Chooey, a name they picked to commemorate this sweet dog's endearing snaggletooth. Elizabeth's family also thought Chooey's shiny blonde coat gave her a stylish look, so they adapted the spelling of her name to match the famed shoe designer, Jimmy Choo. One of Chooey's favorite past times is to chew on her pet parents' shoes, so the name is very fitting.
It didn't take long before the Starks were head over heels for their furry new addition.
"How could anyone not enjoy the company of such a sweet little companion?" Elizabeth says. "Chooey is unlike any other dog I have ever encountered. Sometimes I'm not even sure if she is really a dog. She stretches like a cat, howls like a wolf, dances like a monkey, and smiles like a toddler."
But whatever animal personality Chooey chooses, she is an energetic and steadfast companion.
"Sometimes the best things really do come in small packages—and they're covered with fur and filled with love," Elizabeth says.
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The Art of Rhythm and Expression
The dance program at the Conservatory of Performing Arts is one of the best in the country and attracts students who are dedicated, driven, committed and dream about being the best.
At Point Park University, you will get a combination of rigorous training and hands-on, real-world experience that not many other colleges offer. Resident faculty and guest artists and choreographers will help you develop a solid foundation of skills, and Point Park's state-of-the-art George Rowland White Performance Center and Pittsburgh Playhouse offer you professional-caliber venues to hone your skills.
Dance Concentrations Offered:
- Ballet, B.A. and B.F.A.
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Softball goes 4-1 at Ringor Invite, Gaynord earns all-tournament honors
Monday, March 15, 2004ROCK HILL, S.C. (Mar. 12-14, 2004) -- East Tennessee State softball won its first four contests at last weekend's Ringor Invitational hosted by Winthrop before falling to eventual tournament champion, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. ETSU got off to a thrilling start on Friday, Mar. 12 by coming from behind to defeat Central Florida, 9-5, in the opening game. The Bucs then went on to beat Hartford 10-9 in the bottom of the seventh inning. On Saturday, Mar. 13, the Bucs rallied to knock off Pittsburgh, 5-3. Later that day, ETSU prevailed 6-3 over Towson led by a remarkable performance by sophomore pitcher Belinda Barrera (Fayetteville, N.C.), who set a school record with 15 strikeouts. The Bucs struggled on Sunday, Mar. 14 against Texas A&M-CC. The Islanders were led by tournament MVP Sarah Pauly, who posted 13 strikeouts in a 3-0 shutout against ETSU. Texas A&M-CC went on to defeat Ohio State, 6-0, in the championship game. Freshman Stephanie Gaynord (Manassas, Va.) took home all-tournament accolades. Gaynord hit a pair of homeruns and batted .375 with six RBI in five contests. Junior Danielle Spetar (Knoxville, Tenn.) led the team in batting, hitting a .471 clip, followed by sophomore Jessica Lonsinger (Dale City, Va.) who hit .462 over the weekend. ETSU will have some time off from playing before this weekend's 2004 Hokie Classic hosted by Virginia Tech. The Buccaneers are set to face the Hokies, along with Marshall, Southern Conference foe Appalachian State, Mt. Saint Mary's, and St. Francis.
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Queen to Play (Joueuse)
Lovely, repressed and quietly intelligent, French chambermaid Hélène discovers she has a knack for chess. This obsession- much to the chagrin of her husband and teenage daughter- leads her to seek the clandestine tutelage of a reclusive American doctor, a liaison that radically transforms both of their lackluster lives."
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Ana herself may be too humble to talk about being one of the world's best and most marketable tennis players, but the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour certainly is not – she has been named a Gold Exempt player for the 2006 season.
During each off-season, as the players recharge their batteries, reflect on the year gone by, and perhaps grab some turkey and cranberry sauce on the go (such is the paucity of the Christmas break), the governing body of the women's game draws up a list of its 20 most valuable players. Known as Gold Exempt Players, they receive a host of benefits, such as unlimited wildcards and late tournament entries. Likewise they must fulfill a number of commitments, for example competing in a given number of tournaments.
The top 16 ranked players after the each year's US Open are automatically selected as Gold Exempt performers for the following season. On 12 September 2005 Ana was ranked 18, so she had to rely on one of the four wildcards – a mark of the reverence the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour has for Ana.
"I cannot express enough my happiness becoming a Gold Exempt player after only one year competing on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour," said Ana.
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I ask because I connect to Gmail over HTTPS and if emails sent from one account to another (or the same account, just to back something up) don't actually leave Google then it's end-to-end email encryption. Is this the case?
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It depends on the network setup Google has. You can check the route your email took by checking the message headers. In GMail, you can do this by[1]:
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even mayock said it's rarely called but hartline didn't have to push off.. 1st and 10 and buffalo 30.. instead 1st and 20, next play picked off
even mayock said it's rarely called but hartline didn't have to push off.. 1st and 10 and buffalo 30.. instead 1st and 20, next play picked off
That was not pass interference on Hartline, if it was no NFL game would ever end.
We are terrible....
That play is made by all WR in the NFL and never gets called. It was a bull**** call.
He extended his arms if he doesn't then it doesn't get called
"When we play in Buffalo, our fans come to support us, and they get beat up". "When we play them in Miami, the Buffalo fans come down here and beat up our fans in our own stadium" - Bryan Cox
Hartline has been pushing off every since he got into the league, he had about as many offensive PI's his first preseason as he did catches. I didn't see anything glaring, but we literally only saw the play from one angle, which also happens to be the one angle which isn't going to be able to show the defender being moved.
Can't make this **** up, that kinda play happens all the time with no call. And yet the refs decide to call it on the final drive of the game. Truly unbelievable.
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yep...NFL hates us because we stopped making money
What about the missed FG. The Drive before the last one would have made it 20-19 with a game winner. Carpenter strikes again. We really are hexed


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By: Melissa Sattley
For 2,000 years, diabetes has been recognized as a devastating and deadly disease. A Greek by the name of Aretaeus described its destructive nature in the first century AD, naming the affliction "diabetes," the Greek word for "siphon." Eugene J. Leopold, in his text "Aretaeus the Cappodacian," described Aretaeus' diagnosis: "…For fluids do not remain in the body, but use the body only as a channel through which they may flow out. Life lasts only for a time, but not very long. For they urinate with pain, and painful is the emaciation. For no essential part of the drink is absorbed by the body, while great masses of the flesh are liquefied into urine."
In the 17th century, a London physician named Dr. Thomas Willis determined whether his patients had diabetes by sampling their urine. If it had a sweet taste, he diagnosed them with diabetes mellitus, or "honeyed" diabetes. This method of monitoring blood sugars went largely unchanged until the 20th century.
In his book The Discovery of Insulin, Michael Bliss described the painful wasting death of people with diabetes throughout most of history: "Food and drink no longer mattered, often could not be taken. A restless drowsiness shaded into semi-consciousness. As the lungs heaved desperately to expel carbonic acid (as carbon dioxide), the dying diabetic took huge gasps of air to try to increase his capacity. 'Air hunger' the doctors called it, and the whole process was sometimes described as 'internal suffocation.' The gasping and sighing and sweet smell lingered on as the unconsciousness became a deep diabetic coma. At that point the family could make its arrangements with the undertaker, for within a few hours death would end the suffering."
Human Guinea Pigs
Despite the valiant efforts of early physicians to combat diabetes, their patients long remained little more than human guinea pigs. In effect, the most a person afflicted with diabetes could do was blindly offer himself to the medical establishment and pray for a cure.
Aretaeus himself recommended oil of roses, dates, raw quinces, and gruel. As late as the 17th century, doctors prescribed "gelly of viper's flesh, broken red coral, sweet almonds, and fresh flowers of blind nettles."
Things had not progressed much even by the early 20th century, when diabetologists such as Dr. Frederick Allen prescribed low calorie diets that restricted patients to as few as 450 calories per day. Dr. Allen's diet prolonged the lives of people with diabetes, but kept them weak and suffering from near starvation.
The Miraculous Discovery-Insulin
Then, in 1921, something truly miraculous occurred in Ontario, Canada. A young surgeon, Frederick Banting, and his assistant, Charles Best, kept a severely diabetic dog alive for 70 days by injecting it with a murky concoction of canine pancreas extract. With the help of Dr. Collip and Dr. Macleod, Banting and Best then administered a more refined extract of insulin to Leonard Thompson, a young boy dying of diabetes. Within 24 hours, Leonard's dangerously high blood sugars had dropped to near normal levels.
Until the discovery of insulin, most children diagnosed with diabetes were expected to live less than a year. Now, in a matter of 24 hours, the boy's life had been saved. News of the miracle extract, insulin, spread like wildfire across the world.
Since insulin's discovery, medical breakthroughs have continued to prolong and ease the lives of people with diabetes. In 1935 Roger Hinsworth discovered there were two types of diabetes: "insulin sensitive" (type 1) and "insulin insensitive" (type 2). By differentiating between the two types of diabetes, Hinsworth opened up new avenues of treatment.
Starting in the late 1930s, new types of pork and beef insulin were created to better manage diabetes. PZI, a longer acting insulin, was created in 1936. In 1938, NPH insulin was marketed, and in 1952, Lente was invented, containing high levels of zinc which promote a longer duration of action.
In the 1950s, oral medications called sulfonylureas were developed for people with type 2 diabetes. These drugs stimulate the pancreas to produce more insulin, helping people with type 2 keep tighter control over their blood sugars.
In the 1960s, urine strips were developed. Dorothy Frank, who has had type 1 diabetes since 1929, remembers, "In order to test your blood sugars, there were these do-it-yourself urine kits. Blue meant there was no sugar present, and orange meant you were positive." With the invention of urine strips, it was no longer necessary to play chemist with a collection of test tubes lined up on the bathroom sink, waiting for results.
Becton-Dickinson introduced the single use syringe in 1961. This greatly reduced the amount of pain from injections as well as the time-consuming ritual of boiling needles and glass syringes. Diabetes Health board member Dr. Nancy Bohannon describes the early syringes: "The needles were enormous, and they came with little pumice stones so that you could sharpen them. They often became dull and developed barbs on the end. And in order to sterilize them, they had to be boiled for twenty minutes."
From King-Size to Streamlined
The first portable glucose meter was created in 1969 by Ames Diagnostics. In one of his books, Diabetes Health board member Dr. Richard Bernstein described his first Ames meter: "In October of 1969, I came across an advertisement for a new device to help emergency rooms distinguish between unconscious diabetics and unconscious drunks when the laboratories were closed at night..The instrument had a four-inch galvanometer with a jeweled bearing, weighed three pounds, and cost $650."
Dr. Bernstein described one particularly bizarre incident that he experienced while carrying his Ames Eyetone Meter. "One day I arrived early at our attorney's office for a meeting of the board of directors. I was carrying my meter in a bag, and I hung it up in the coat room. A few minutes later everyone was in a panic, saying a bomb had been found in the coat room. The entire 24-story building was being evacuated. It took me some time to convince the bomb squad not to blow up my meter."
Since then, new technologies have brought us glucose meters the size of calculators that can be easily carried in a pocket or purse. Thankfully, the days of hefting around a three-pound glucose meter are over.
In the late 1970s, the insulin pump was designed to mimic the body's normal release of insulin. The pump dispenses a continuous insulin dosage through a cannula (plastic tube), using a small needle that is inserted into the skin. The first pumps, created in 1979, were large and bulky and had to be carried in a backpack. Linda Fredrickson, RN, director of the Professional Education and Clinical Services at MiniMed, describes her first insulin pump: "My first pump in 1980 was an Auto-Syringe, which weighed 17 ounces and had blinking red lights. People nicknamed them the 'blue brick.'"
Luckily, technology has allowed for great leaps in pump design. The pumps of today are light and compact and can easily be carried in a pocket or clipped to a belt.
The hemoglobin A1c test was devised in 1979 in order to create a more precise blood sugar measurement. With the A1c, hemoglobin, the oxygen-carrying pigment in red blood cells, is used to track glucose changes over a period of four months, the lifespan of the cell. Hemoglobin links with the glucose in blood; the more glucose present, the greater amount of hemoglobin that links with glucose. The A1c became a standard measurement for blood sugar control in the comprehensive ten-year study from 1983 to 1993: the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT).
With the conclusion of the DCCT in 1993, it was clear that people who were able to keep their blood glucose levels as close to normal as possible had less chance of developing complications such as eye, kidney, and nerve disease. Before the DCCT, many doctors had not put much emphasis on tight control of blood glucose levels. The common belief for decades had been that diligent monitoring of blood sugars and intensive insulin therapy had little consequence for people with diabetes. The DCCT statistics, however, proved that tight blood glucose control can be extremely beneficial.
In May of 1995, metformin, an oral medication for people with type 2 diabetes, was finally approved for use in the United States by the FDA. Unlike sulfonylurea drugs, which stimulate insulin release, metformin does not increase insulin production. Instead, it heightens sensitivity to insulin and increases the muscles' ability to use the insulin. Because metformin promotes weight loss, decreases hyperglycemia, and improves lipid levels, it is an effective tool for people with type 2 diabetes when used in conjunction with sulfonylureas.
Precose, an oral medication, was approved for use by people with type 2 diabetes in September 1995. Precose delays the digestion of carbohydrates, thereby reducing the sudden rise in blood glucose after eating a meal. Precose can be used in conjunction with diet to lower blood sugars in people with type 2 whose glucose levels cannot be regulated through diet alone.
Lispro, a new fast-acting insulin, was released in August of 1996 by Eli Lilly under the brand name Humalog. Lispro is designed to simulate the body's natural insulin output. Because of lispro's fast-acting tendencies, patients can take this insulin 15 minutes or less before eating a meal, instead of waiting as they would with Regular insulin.
The Future of Diabetes?
Three thousand years have passed since Aretaeus spoke of diabetes as "the mysterious sickness." It has been a long and arduous process of discovery, as generations of physicians and scientists have added their collective knowledge to finding a cure. It was from this wealth of knowledge that the discovery of insulin emerged in a small laboratory in Canada. Since insulin saved the life of young Leonard Thompson 75 years ago, medical innovations have continued to make life easier for people with diabetes, including continuous glucose monitors, stem cell therapies, and new drugs.
As the 21st century rapidly approaches, diabetes researchers continue to pave the road toward a cure. It is unclear, however, what shape the road will take. Maybe another dramatic discovery like insulin waits around the corner, or possibly researchers will have to be content with the slow grind of progress. Perhaps diabetes researchers should heed Hippocrate's humble warning to future physicians, written in his Corpus Hippocraticum in the first century BC, as quoted in Hans Shadewaldt's The History of Diabetes Mellitus: "Life is short, art is long, the right moment soon speeds past, experience deceives, judgment is difficult!"


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Twilight Saga Tuesdays: New Moon
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NCM Fathom and Summit Entertainment present The Twilight Saga: New Moon on November 8, 2011 at 7:30 pm (local time). The event will begin with exclusive introductions from the cast members, compelling interviews with the stars answering the questions that Twilight Saga aficionados have always wanted answered and amazing clips from the many fan fests over the years. This special behind-the-scenes content will be immediately followed by The Twilight Saga: New Moon.
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, Robert Pattinson, Jackson Rathbone, Ashley Greene
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