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This year more than ever, Earth Day (this Sunday, April 22) is an important day for us to all stop, think, and make a difference. With the growing interest and attention that green design and sustainability have been gathering, 2007 is really a year that the masses are motivated to gather, celebrate, and make a commitment to protecting our planet. Even though we are of the firm belief that "Earth Day" should be EVERY day – it is still nice to have an opportunity to come together and focus on our planet for a week. Read on for a list of some key events worth attending… everything from fashion shows to concerts, and even Governor Arnold pimping his ride. And stay tuned for a special Earth Day post this Sunday.
This tri-city festival is about as big and green as it gets. If you're in New York, Chicago, or San Francisco, definitely check out Green Apple's awesome lineup of music and art. Everyone from Dave Matthews to American Idol's Taylor Hicks will be there- all for a good cause.
Project Earth Day is an eco-friendly fashion event that will celebrate Earth Day. Organized by Emerging Green Builders of New York (EGBNY) and co-sponsored by o2-NYC and Green Drinks, the runway show will be held at the Teknion showroom on April 19th and will feature a stunning display of the latest eco-friendly designs by up and coming designers. We'll be covering this event this weekend.
The Green Festivals, held every year in Chicago, Washington DC, and San Francisco, are HUGE, displaying a complete array of all things green, organic, sustainable, and more. The Festival comes through Chicago this weekend. It's the IKEA of green events- enormous, accessible, and with everything you could possibly want.
3-Form, one of our favorite green manufacturers and the creator of EcoResin, is hosting a great lineup of in-house events and lectures this entire week. Highlights include Thursday's focus on Sustainable Architecture and LEED. While the events are only open to 3-Form employees, it's worth looking at the lineup and recaps of each of the lectures.
PBS/NOVA's SAVED BY THE SUN TV Special
This Sunday, PBS/NOVA airs their 'SAVED BY THE SUN' special that will literally and metaphorically shed some light on solar power, discussing how and why people across America and the world are "going solar," using radiant energy of the sun to power homes, businesses, and even entire communities. Check the website for local airing information.
If NOVA sounds a little to academic for your television taste, switch over to MTV's Pimp My Ride on Sunday at 1pm/12pm CST, where California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will be pimping out a 1965 Chevy Impala into fuel efficient, biodiesel, lean mean machine. Via Treehugger.
The Energy Star standard has done a lot to bring more efficient electronics and home appliances to consumer markets. And now, in celebration of Earth Day, ENERGY STAR has created the Earth Day Giving Tree. Pick one of 10 Easy Ways to Give to the Earth and dedicate your carbon-reducing efforts to a friend or loved one.
Most big cities have a big celebration planned for Earth Day, and Austin has combined their Saturday event with an Energy Fair, which will educate about solar panels and alternative energy for residential usage. There will also be a screening of An Inconvenient Truth.
If none of these events tickle your fancy, search for more events and Earth Day happenings in your area through the EPA website, or EarthDay.net. Regardless of your time or interests, let's all get out there and do something good this Sunday.
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April 22, 2007 at 5:50 pm
One other item I did was give one neighbors 2 dozen CFLs and offered to help install them (hopefully we will do that later today) and I am giving another friend a hot water heater blanket. I am planning on every house warming I am invited to give some CFLs as part of the gift.
This is what I posted on another blog as well…
For environmentalists what have you done except chastise your friends and neighbors who are not as aggressive as you are or are planning on being. First switch 100% of your lights to CFLs before you give grief to anyone else. Before you do anything else give your neighbors some CFLs and help them install them and help the environment and make a friend with the money they will save. Much faster impact to the environment and the economy then a donation to offset your carbon output. Remember that most people want to help just they are too busy just working to pay the bills so, if you give them a financial as well as enviromental incentive everyone can benefit.
And for those that don't believe or are on the fense in regards to global warming save energy and money and call it a bonus if it happens to help the environment. I have cut me energy utilization by ~40% (half of my Kyoto value) and the pay off with in just over a month. The CFLs and weather stripping alone saved me more then $125 a month and cost about that. Even if you don't believe in global warming that alone make it all worth while.
For my part I believe their is something to global warming and the extremists on both sides are making things better and worse then reality. In 10 years when my children look back they can a least say I am trying to help whether or not in was needed. If global warming is not a big deal I have showed them how to better use money and not support OPEC and if it is an issue then I have made progress in improving the enviroment.
For my part I am going to give away some (a dozen or so) extra CFLs I acquired as part of converting my house to 100% CFLs and will help install them if they want the help. Also, I have used what I have learned show others the financial savings and progress I have made. So, they can use it to save money and help themselves and the environment and the economy.
If you want to see all the things I have done check out my on going progress at http://baranoff.typepad.com/cheaper_electric/. You can be environmentally responsible and financially better off with minimal effort.
For all the celebrities and others who want to support global warming. Live what you preach and since you are better off financially then most of us. How about you personally pay for a few hundred or a few thousand low income houses to have all their lights switched over to CFLs and to get better weather stripping. Benefit the environment and the people by saving them money. Win/Win start at home right here in the US instead of a few thousand dollars in political donations or ads you could do something with a more meaningful impact and faster impact. Use your status to get some sponsors to expand to more people and places but, put your own money where your mouth is first.
Happy Earth Day 2007
April 22, 2007 at 2:17 pm
I'm having a quiet day in the back garden soaking up sun on one of the few clear warm days in Boston. So chill, so nice.
April 21, 2007 at 2:21 am
I have in the last ~6 weeks cut my families electrical and natural gas utilization by 35% and a similiar reduction in my home's carbon footprint while knocking a sizable amount of money off my utilities bills. My home for the summer is more sizable impacts. I put together a blog of my progress and to get more ideas in a way that everyday people and families can to in a way the one project can finance the next with minimal initial outlay.
Check out my blog and give me more ideas…
April 20, 2007 at 2:07 pm
will they be pimpin arnolds fleet of hummers to be fuel efficient too?? Least that old 65 chevy has an excuse for being a gas guzzler…in fact its an antique and its kind of a shame to be hacking it apart and damaging a vintage car no longer in production. seriously…why doesnt he donate one of his SEVEN (or all seven) hummers to go under the knife (or, er, wrench)?
April 20, 2007 at 12:46 pm
I have been collecting computers and televisons for the Electronic recycling in NYC this Sunday. I practice everyday by reducing, reusing and recycling at my office and home.
I bring my kitchens scrapes to the compost. I walk the walk and show others
April 19, 2007 at 4:31 pm
I've promised not to drive my car and sense Metro is allowing everyone to ride for free, I should have no problem getting around town. I also plan to do my part to clean up Alki beach.
April 19, 2007 at 9:37 am
I'm bringing a bunch of computer equipment to get recycled. The city is putting it on. It's a shame that this is the only day they make it easy around here to recycle electronics.


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Submission + - Anonymous Helps Find Evidence in Gang Rape Case->
jfruh writes: "Evidence of a gang rape committed by members of an Ohio high school football team, including video, was, in the way of digital native teenagers today, put online on various social media sites — and was quickly taken down as students began realizing the magnitude of the situation. The hactivist group Anonymous has been able to find archived and cached versions of the damning content, which may help prosecutors make their case."
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| Imagine for a moment you could actually read the minds of your website visitors would it not be easy to gain an unfair advantage but what if you could read their minds…
There are a lot of keyword research tools but which ones are best for producing results that you can count on to bring in traffic?
Can you find a way to get good keywords?
With the changes that are about to take place on March the first, many search engines will begin to restrict the search results in an effort to customize its product offerings to each person as they are logged into that service, the problem is that many of these services, are based on using a search criteria that is about to be eliminated.
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Research sounds like a boring, occupation however it is not boring at all in fact it can be very rewarding and even yes, exciting, one of the most used tools used by just about every "serious" webmaster is the google keyword tool. Using this tool is really all about a multiple step process, there are several different methods you can you when your developing your keyword list and you really should have a keyword list.
When you have several large search engines begin to compete with each other like bing.com and google along with yahoo and other smaller search engines, you have the unique opportunity to develop a list of hot keywords, that is something that you should be doing on a regular basis, just like you get up in the morning for coffee, you should also be doing keyword research and taking action on the use of that data.
The number one reason why you should be actively building up your list and database of keyword research is because every time you do research you are improving your bottom line in keyword marketing that can have a multiplied impact.
You can even use some free services, to add to your keyword list.
Google has a good tool, considering what you can do with an adwords account it is an amazing opportunity to discover the best keywords to use when developing content for your websites.
Word tracker is also another good tool that you can use to help create and generate excellent data. One thing to remember you may not always get the best and the most accurate information and that is why you should compare your data using other sources, when you do that you can improve your website and develop a good relationship with the search engines.


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Peterborough expo shows visions of a greener lifestyle
PETERBOROUGH - Natural burial, solar panels, local produce, downtown Saturday the sixth annual Greenerborough "Green Living" Expo and Festival was bursting with ways to make life a little bit greener.
Vendors toting everything from locally grown seeds to residential wind turbines filled Grove Street, which was closed from Main Street to School Street, as well as the upper hall of the Town House.
Feeding the fire of a wood-burning oven and baking pizza on Grove Street, Shana Brautigam who makes pottery and teaches art at her studio, Rooted in Clay in Rindge, said she was at the expo to promote the benefits of cooking in wood-fired ovens.
"We've been selling pizza non-stop," she said.
Brautigam has three wood-fired ovens at her studio and has worked with many schools and community gardens in the region such as The Well and South school in Peterborough and the Norway Hill Kids Garden in Hancock.
"It's a great community building activity; get outside, feed the fire, and cook the veggies straight from the garden," she said.
Inside the Town House, local funeral homes Cournoyer of Jaffrey and Jellison of Peterborough teamed for the first time to host a booth to provide information about natural burials.
A solid all-natural pine casket with an oil finish and muslin cloth lining was on display as well a sample wicker casket.
"It's been amazing how many people are here just seeking information," said Mark Cournoyer.
While many people assume natural burial is a new process, it is really a throwback to how people were buried in the past, he said.
"It's how it always used to be and now we've come full circle."
Many of the vendors on Grove Street were from local farms such as Fox Den Farm of Lyndeborough and Hungry Bear Farm of Wilton. Both farms, hoping to expand into Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farming, have joined forces this year as a single CSA to offer local produce shoppers more variety and avoid overlap.
The farms bill the enterprise as two CSAs for the price of one.
"It's two farms teaming together, instead of fighting, trying to work together," said Amy Trudeau of Fox Den Farm. "We can focus on growing a couple of different things and really impress the customers.
"Greenerborough is a great opportunity for the famers to meet with the public, she said. "I live in a small town.
"A lot of people don't know I'm there. They could be my neighbors" she said. "(Greenerborough) opens people's eyes to everything that's going on."
Though she has been busy at her booth, Trudeau said she was eager to visit the Grid Be Gone booth down the street to discuss installing solar panels in her farm' water well.
Peterborough-based Grid Be Gone sells and installs renewable energy equipment, including solar, wood and wind power.
President Marc Spinale of Hancock said he got the impetus to start the business after the 2008 ice storm.
"I went for two weeks without utilities at my house," he said. "Off-grid is our specialty, but we do anything that is associated with renewable energies. We provide solutions that involve multiple technologies."
Spinale had several products on display including a solar-powered street light and residential wind turbines manufactured by upstate New York-based Kohilo Wind.
"It's a great local community-orientated event," Spinale said. "This is a great event for us. It's also an important one and it's right in our backyard and it's a very green-orientated.
"During the expo, the Peterborough Historical Society hosted Grange speakers and workshops, while Sunnyfield Farm of Peterborough presented a sheepdog herding demonstration on the green behind the Town House.
Originated by the Greater Peterborough Chamber of Commerce in 2008, the Peterborough Grange partnered with the chamber to produce the expo this year with event sponsor Nature's Green Grocer of West Peterborough.
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Summary: The purpose of this study was to determine the feasibility of a Lunar Geophysical Network (LGN) mission to the Moon. It was conducted by Marshall Space Flight Center''s, Robotic Lunar Lander Development Project team in partnership with the Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL). This study was documented based on previous trades, analysis and options for concepts developed by the team over the last 18 months, with a goal of determining whether such a mission could be accomplished within a Principal Investigator (PI)-led mission cost cap (e.g. New Frontiers). The mission focuses on the scientific rationale for deploying a global, long-lived network of geophysical instruments on the surface of the Moon to understand the nature and evolution of the lunar interior from the crust to the core.
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U.S. 89 Utah Line to Montpelier Corridor Plan
U.S. 89 Utah Line to Montpelier Corridor Plan
Project Facts
Key Number: 08450
Project Number: NH-1530 (101)
The Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) is developing a 20-year corridor plan to guide future management of U.S. Highway 89. The plan will consider a broad range of potential improvements to the corridor to assure that it continues to serve the region and remains a vital link in the state and national highway system. This big picture approach leads to good, cost-effective solutions.
Study BackgroundDesignated as part of the National Highway System, U.S. 89 provides service from the Mexican border at Nogales to the Canadian border at Glacier National Park in the state of Montana. U.S. 89 is an important gateway to Idaho, entering the state at the Utah-Idaho border alongside Bear Lake just north of Garden City, Utah. From there it continues north-northeast through several small communities to the town of Montpelier, then east through Montpelier Canyon in the Caribou National Forest to the Wyoming border. Whether viewing its entire length from Mexico to Canada or any section in between U.S. 89 links important recreational, scenic, and historic sites. It also functions as Main Street for several communities along the route.
Study DescriptionThe corridor plan examines a broad range of questions:
This long-range planning process helps ITD identify and resolve transportation issues prior to developing individual roadway improvement projects. By working with affected communities and stakeholders, a broad range of issues and alternatives can be addressed in a comprehensive way, rather than on a site-specific basis.
The planning process documents and evaluates existing highway conditions, traffic, land use plans, the natural environment, and the needs and expectations of stakeholders and jurisdictions that are served by U.S. 89. The process looks to the future based on local land use plans, proposed developments and forecasts of future traffic volumes.
A long-range plan for the U.S. 89 highway corridor will be the end product. It will identify both near-term and long-term improvements that will be needed to meet existing and future travel needs of residents, businesses, visitors, and through travelers.
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- An annual permit must be obtained. The cost is $10 per year.
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Collection of these fees provides recovery of city expenses when public safety professionals respond to chargeable alarms.
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- A newly-installed alarm system is exempt from service charges for activations that occur within the first 30 days after system installation (if the alarm user has obtained the alarm user permit within the time frame specified).
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Oops, no Yuzu and Kanako, a bit disappointing! well at least Adelina did on the list then.
Normally the cast of The Ice would be released at three different times. For instance, The Ice 2012, 23rd April, 11th May and 29th June. The Ice 2011, 6th May, 27th May and 28th June.
So I guess there's still final shot lol. Plus, averagely complete cast list of The Ice includes 18 skaters and now just 15 or 16 if counting Mai.


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'Inside Buc Sports' radio edition debuts Wednesday night with special guests
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Head volleyball coach Lindsey Devine and head soccer coach Heather Henson will be guests via phone during the show, and head men's basketball coach Murry Bartow and head women's basketball coach Karen Kemp will join Sandos in person as part of the broadcast.
Fans who would like to submit questions for any of the head coaches will have three separate opportunities to do so, as the Mountain States Health Alliance Buccaneer Sports Network staff will be fielding inquiries via email, phone as well as onsite at Fanatics throughout the broadcast.
The event begins at with the Lady Bucs, who just wrapped up their first perfect conference season in 15 years, signing autographs, and will be immediately followed by the radio broadcast from to
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Life-long learners, students and art lovers should be sure to check out the Oglethorpe University Museum of Art's three new exhibitions, now on view through December 8, 2013:
- Picasso, Braque, and Léger: 20th CENTURY MODERN MASTERS
- VICTOR HUGO: Selections from the Schlossberg Collection
- HADDON SUNDBLOM: Santa Paintings
The 20th Century Modern Masters exhibition features more than 80 works by three of the 20th century's modernist leaders. The lithographs, etchings and aquatints on display were inspired by collaborations or interpretations of major literary works by post WWII writers and poets. Each work on display introduces visitors to rhythmic beauty in function and form and gives insight into the artist's thought process concerning life and literature.
The French political activist Victor Hugo is best known for his books Les Miserables and Notre Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame). His literature and discourse has since inspired many an artist to celebrate the life and abilities of this literary master. This exhibition is on display in the Center Gallery and features drawings, prints and sculptures by a variety of artists.Most notable among these artists are Jean-François Raffaëlli and Frederick Hendrik Kaemmerer, who were both students of Jean-Léon Gerôme.
Christmas comes early this year at OUMA with Haddon Sundblom's Santa Paintings. Sundblom is responsible for the quintessential look of The Coca-Cola Company's seasonal Santa style, inspired by Clement Clarke Moore 1822 poem, "A Visit from St. Nicholas". His paintings of the jolly and plump Santa we know today were created between the 1930s and 1950s. Sundblom also is known for creating the "Quaker Man" for Quaker Oats and did work for Maxwell House, Colgate, Palmolive and Nabisco.
A Wednesday Lecture Series also accompanies the exhibitions:
- September 25, 7 p.m. "'Crommelynck's Le Cocu Magnifique (The Magnificent Cuckold)' illustrated by Picasso and Robert Andrew Parker," by Dr. Jay Lutz, Professor of French, Oglethorpe University
- October 2, 7 p.m. "Victor Hugo and French Romanticism" by Mr. John Daniel Tilford, Collections Manager, OU Museum of Art.
- October 16, 7 p.m. "Léger, Le Corbusier, Italian Futurists, Machines, and the Dynamic City" by Dr. Jeffrey Collins, Assistant Professor of Art History, Oglethorpe University.
- November 6, 7 p.m. "Léger's Modernist Take on Rimbaud's Illuminations" by Dr. Jay Lutz, Professor of French, Oglethorpe University.
- November 20, 7 p.m. "Georges Braque Paintings and Prints" by Ms. Renée Maurer, Assistant Curator, The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
- December 4, 7 p.m. "Keeping Christmas: From Pagan to Puritan to Popular Culture" by Ms. Elizabeth Peterson, Director, OU Museum of Art.
View the first lecture,"The Right and Left Bank of Parisian Artists: The Bateau Lavoir and the Ruche," by OU Professor of French Jay Lutz:
The Oglethorpe University Museum of Art is open Tuesday-Sunday, 12 noon to 5 p.m. and closed Mondays and university holidays. General admission is $5; free admission for OUMA members, children under 12 and with a Petrel Pass. For more information, visit museum.oglethorpe.edu or call 404-364-8555.


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That seems really high for Robert Woods. I would prefer Keenan Allen there. Still think Miami gets a pass rusher in the first and then maybe trades up for a receiver.
Robert Woods is good but he isn't even the best WR on his team! I don't want to re-live the Ronnie Brown PICK AND EXPLANATION AND LACK of production!
I'd rather Justin hunter, dude is AJ green!!! Best WR prospect hands down, pass rush is deep
in this draft, you can nab some freaks in the 2 rd or trade back in the first. Either way I think fins end up with 3 top 40 players!!!
They're not very good at predicting draft order given that Arizona is 3-0 so far this year.
Would rather have Allen. I think we go pass rusher first round though.
I agree, a pass rusher first , then a wide receiver or cornerback.


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Fast facts
Language: Hungarian (though German is also widely spoken)
Currency: Hungarian Forint (HUF)
Population: 9,976,062
Size: 35,918 square miles (93,028 square kilometers) - slightly smaller than Indiana
Border countries: Austria, Croatia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Ukraine
National tourist office: www.hungary.com
At a glance
Hungary, a small, landlocked country in Central Europe, has much to offer visitors. Its capital, Budapest, is referred to as both the "Pearl of Danube" and "Little Paris of Middle Europe." Overlooking the Danube River, the two communities of Buda and Pest were connected by the Chain Bridge in the 19th century forming Budapest. Highlights of the city include Castle Hill on which Buda Castle sits, Hungarian State Opera House, Fisherman's Bastion and Hungarian Parliament Building. Hungary also boasts Lake Balaton, Europe's largest freshwater lake. A major outdoor destination for locals and tourists, the fifty-mile lake offers countless trails for cycling and hiking along with a wide-range of water sports. Vineyards surround the lake where you can enjoy Hungary's famous white wines while tasting Hungarian goulash and strudel.
Why cyclists love it
With more than 1,242 miles (2,000 km) of cycle track in the countryside and 124 miles (200 km) in Budapest, Hungary has become a popular destination for cyclists. Traveling through the countryside is a great way to see the diverse landscape. The most popular biking in Hungary is in the Lake Balaton region and along the Danube Bike Path. The Danube Bike Path is Europe's most popular bike path, traveling through Germany and Austria before reaching Hungary.
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Lake Balaton
Called the "Hungarian Sea" by locals, Lake Balaton is an ideal spot for outdoor activities, especially cycling, and family trips. Highlights of the surrounding area include Badacsony Hill reaching 1,312 feet (400 meters), the peninsula of Tihany and the Balaton Uplands National Park.
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Hungarian Danube Bicycle Tour
On this tour you will cycle along the beautiful scenery of the Danube River in Northwest Hungary. Highlights of the tour include the lakes of Tata, medieval castles at Visegrad and Tata and Hungary's largest cathedral in Esztergom.
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Vienna to Budapest Bike Tour (Self-Guided)
Starting in Austria's elegant capital, Vienna, this self-guided tour travels on flat roads with slight hills till it reaches Budapest. Vienna to Budapest Spa and Bike Traveling from Vienna to Budapest, this tour allows cyclists to enjoy a ride in the morning before relaxing in wellness facilities or hot springs in the afternoon.
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Vienna to Budapest Cycling Tour, with Bratislava
This tour's scenery includes the wonderful landscapes along the Danube River while also visiting three cities: Vienna, Budapest and Bratislava, Slovakia. Other highlights of the tour include the Danube Floodplains National Park and the Archaeological Park Carnuntum.
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Wine and Bike in Hungary's Balaton Uplands
Along with cycling through the Balaton Uplands National Park, this wine and bike tour includes lunch and wine tasting at family owned vineyards and homemade traditional Hungarian dishes.
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It just hit me that I haven't qualified for the Southern Nationals this year and was looking for a qualifier in Georgia and there isn't one. The closest one is nearly 5 hours away.
So I am posing the question to y'alls, is there anyone else that would want to play in a Southern Nats qualifier this year to be eligible to play in the finals Labor Day weekend in Little Rock Arkansas? Or perhaps just want to play in a 1 day sanctioned event down on the southside of the ATL?
I would be willing to throw one together as a small (low entry) 1 day C-Tier (probably here on the Southside). But if there is no interest I would probably just bite the bullet and make the haul to one of the events in MS. It would have to be before May 31st to qualify for this years final.
Any feedback will be appreciated.


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From Kornfield Kounty to The Big Apple — "Hee Haw" is going to Broadway.
The popular television program that showcased country music, comedic skits and featured overalls as the height of fashion is the basis for the musical, which is in its early stages. "Hee Haw the Musical" is a re-imagined version of the franchise, which ran from 1969 through 1997, and is expected to include a new generation of the straw-chewing characters while paying homage to beloved, iconic ones.
"We are very excited about bringing this new incarnation of 'Hee Haw' to the stage," said Steve Buchanan, president of the Opry Entertainment Group and executive producer for the ABC series "Nashville." Buchanan and Sally Williams, Opry Entertainment Group vice president of development, are the musical's producers.


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The 2015 Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo is under way and almost immediately the rodeo starts killing animals in the name of "entertainment" and to sell Coca-Cola, the "Official Soft Drink" of all this abuse and death.
Calf appears to have a broken neck
These are the four television spots that will be airing in Cheyenne and Denver starting Tuesday, July 14, through July 24. More than 600 ads will be airing on CNN, FoxNews, MSNBC, Entertainment, MTV and HGTV, among other cable networks.
For more information on what you can do to stop this, please visit Fish Feel here.
MECHANICSVILLE, MD – Graphic undercover video taken here of a killing "contest" this past weekend, and now being made public, documents a horrific slaughter of Cownose Rays, who were shot by arrows at point-blank range. The rays were then gaffed and repeatedly clubbed with bats before slowly suffocating to death.
Hundreds of indigenous Cownose Rays – many of them pregnant – were mutilated, killed and then dumped as garbage into the river. The so-called "Battle of the Rays" tournament was held Saturday, June 13, 2015 near Mechanicsville, on the Patuxent River tributary of Chesapeake Bay. Over a hundred bowfishers participated.
Much more to follow in the coming days. Here is the raw footage SHARK and Fish Feel is providing the media:
In 2011 SHARK's cameras documented the Reno Rodeo shocking horses with 5,000 volts of painful electricity to make then appear wild. You can see the video below. The rodeo promised to make changes for the next year.
In 2012 SHARK returned to the Reno Rodeo and and again documented them shocking horses to perform. The only change they made was to try and do it secretly now. The rodeo thugs had hidden a shocking device inside a glove and were shocking horses, some right in the face, with their hidden torture device that the manufacturer says shouldn't be used in a rodeo setting and NEVER on horses. Video below.
Please call or mail (see bottom of page for emails) the Forest Preserve District of Will County at 815-727-8700, and very politely ask that the killing stop, and that nonlethal options be explored.
Read Steve Hindi's Statement to the Will County Forest Preserve's Board of Commissioners here.
Read SHARK's Press Release here.
Read a Chicago Tribune story here: Animal rights group questions deer kill (3-12-15)
Read a CBS Chicago story here: Animal Rights Group Wants Will County To End Deer Culling (3-13-15)
Read another Chicago Tribune story here: SHARK has at least one ally on Will County board (3-18-15)
Chicago Tribune Story here: Animal activists spur review of deer culling (4-9-15)
Herald-News story here: Animal rights group questions Forest Preserve District's deer culling program (4-9-15)


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PAYT Bulletin: Spring 2004
Big City, Big State, Big Results: Fort Worth, Texas, Adopts PAYT
When it officially launched its PAYT program on July 1, 2003, the city of Fort Worth was no stranger to PAYT. After conducting an extended, seven-year pilot program, city officials had the basic principles of PAYT down pat. But even that level familiarity wouldn't prepare them for the success the East Texas city of 502,369 residents would achieve when it introduced the program citywide.
Dramatic Changes, Dramatic Results
Though still a bit less than a year old, the results of Fort Worth's PAYT program have been staggering. Under the PAYT system and corresponding curbside recycling programimplemented in March 2003Fort Worth's recycling rate has jumped from 6 percent to 20 percent, and 70 percent of households now recycle, up from just 38 percent. The economic effects are just as encouraging. Under PAYT, 92 percent of residents pay less for garbage disposal than they did under the old system, and the city is saving, too. The cost for municipal solid waste disposal has dropped from almost $32 million under the old system to approximately $24 to $25 million under PAYT, and the city earned $540,000 from the sale of recycled materials over the course of a year. With a promising first year under its belt, the program continues to expand. The program now serves 163,000 households, and a new route is being added every six weeks.
The 30-Year Switch
Prior to switching to PAYT, Fort Worth had been using its standard municipal solid waste (MSW) disposal program for over 30 years. Residents paid $13.75 per month for twice weekly collection of unlimited amounts of trash, with monthly bulk pickup. So, after 30 years, what prompted Fort Worth to take the PAYT plunge?
"Back in 1995, we put together a solid waste management plan," said Brian Boerner, the city's director of environmental management. "It was a public process, with a citizens committee and the whole nine yards, and one of the things they looked at was our landfill capacity in this area and going to a volume-based pay-as-you-throw systemfirst of all to try to control the volume of waste we're generating, but secondly, to make solid waste the utility that it is, like gas and water and everything else, and actually paying for the volume of waste that you produce."
In Fort Worth's case, requests from residents helped bring PAYT to the fore.
"We had a lot of elderly folks looking to cut their budgets because they're on fixed incomes, and they wanted to know if they had to pay that much for garbage since they only throw away a bag every two or three weeks," said Boerner.
Tailoring a Solution
To design a PAYT system that best suited the needs of its residents, Fort Worth consulted a number of resources, including EPA's PAYT materials, a solid waste consulting firm, and a supplier of waste disposal carts. The city also considered extensive data gathered from its seven year pilot project, which presented 8,000 residents with various combinations of recycling, cart, and rate options. Gathering information from a variety of sources allowed the city to define its budget, select containers, set rates, and design an outreach program that would make the transition easier on residents.
Fort Worth decided on a cart system with 32-, 64-, and 96-gallon cart options, with monthly fees of $8, $13, and $18, respectively. Residents can purchase a second cart of any size for the standard rate, but citizens who have already purchased two 96-gallon carts may leave additional bags of waste at the curb for no extra fee. All residents receive free recycling services, free yard waste disposal, and can call the city for bulky item pick-up.
"All in all, they would still like to have a bag system rather than have a cart system and have to move the carts out once a week," Boerner said of the immediate resident reaction. "Like anything, use is going to build familiarity, and they're actually finding that the new system is as good or better than the older system."
Saving Landfill Space and Tax Dollars
In keeping with the goals of the 1995 solid waste management plan, PAYT has also helped Fort Worth make the most of its landfill spacea long-term concern for any MSW program. By separating its waste through PAYT, Fort Worth is also managing its waste more efficiently.
"Unfortunately, a lot of cities with these take-all-kinds services send all their waste to a Type 1 landfill," said Boerner. "By sending brush to a chipping facility and using that appropriately and by sending bulk waste to a Type 4 facility instead of a Type 1 facility, we've reduced the amount of garbage we're sending to a Type 1 landfill by about 45 percent. That's not to say we're generating 45 percent less waste, but we're managing it more appropriately, sending it to the right type of disposal facility."
Combined with increased recycling, Fort Worth's landfill management efforts are paying off. Since March 2003, the city has kept 30,791 tons of recyclables, 11,369 tons of yard trimmings, and 2,618 tons of brush out of landfills. That extension of landfill life will ease taxpayer burden in the long run.
Teaching the Fundamentals
So what is the key to Fort Worth's success? According to Boerner, it's education, and Fort Worth didn't skimp when it came to getting the word out to residents about the myriad changes to their garbage service. Prior to implementation, the city cast a wide net with its outreach efforts, using direct mail and local media to teach residents the ins and outs of the new system. City officials also identified community groups and attended their meetings to keep the public informed, and took to the streets as well.
"We went as far as going and putting yard signs in each route saying 'Your new garbage day is ," said Boerner. "And everything that went into an area, whether it was direct mail or whatever, was color coded to that day, so you knew if you were Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday."
Fort Worth redoubled its efforts as roll-out approached. "As we started distributing the carts, we had cart flyers that showed what could go in, what couldn't go in, and how to set it out. As we approached the day of service, we had more direct mail pieces and a comprehensive book in English and Spanish that redefines what the whole system is," said Boerner.
Once the program was up and running, the city took immediate actions to correct any misconceptions and put its residents on the right path. According to Boerner, the city had educators in problem areas go door-to-door and talk with people, and had a team of specialists identify misuses of the system, leave flyers, and record addresses for code officials to follow up on.
After 30 years of the previous system, PAYT isn't quite second
nature to Fort Worth residents yet, but Boerner believes citizens
are catching on. "We're still in the infancy, and I think still
in the initial education phase. But we're getting through to a lot
of people. Now, when people call our call center, it's not 'what
do I do?'" Rather, Boerner says, residents know the PAYT rules,
and simply have questions about perceived discrepancies in their
service. "They're able to quote the rules back to us, and we
just have to make the contractor fully responsible and responsive
to the requests of the citizens."
Setting an Example
Based on Fort Worth's experience, Boerner also believes that implementing PAYT is an achievable goals for other large citiesprovided they follow a few ground rules. "First of all, don't box yourself in by timing. This is not something you're going to do in six months. If you're contracting currently on three year schedules, start now. Give yourself three years. Also, don't shortchange your education dollars. A lot of solid waste programming is figuring out how much everything is going to cost, and how much you can afford. Education needs to be one of the first things you should look at."
Dubuque Reaches Out to Iowa Neighbors
Public involvement has always been an important step in designing PAYT programsa fact that wasn't lost on city officials in Dubuque, Iowa. By the time the city implemented its successful program in 2002, they had conducted surveys with residents, landlords, and business owners and listened to concerns about illegal dumping, blowing trash can lids, and maneuvering garbage carts through the city's frequent snowfalls. But while most communities scale back their outreach after implementing their program, Dubuque kept goingjoining a partnership with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and Barker Lemar, an engineering consulting firm, to spread the PAYT message statewide.
"We came on board being one of the larger communities to implement PAYT recently, so it was fresh for us," said Paul Schultz, Dubuque's solid waste management supervisor. "We had done more extensive statistical models and used the full-fledged process in designing our program. We thought some of those might be useful to interested communities." It isn't hard to see why the state government wanted Dubuque involved in the project. The city's careful design work has paid incredible dividendssince implementation in 2002, PAYT has reduced the average Dubuque household's trash by 28 percent and boosted the recycling rate to 38 percent, all while achieving an 84 percent customer satisfaction rating.
Iowa already had one of the highest proportions of PAYT communities
in the nation, but the state wanted to further expand PAYT in communities
that are not required to implement it. DNR funded the effort to
provide interested communities with an assessment of their solid
waste program and a list of recommendations for the adoption of
PAYT through landfill fees set aside for special projects. Seven
communities representing some 25,000 residents ultimately moved
forward with the assessment.
Through an initial survey and meetings with community officials and other stakeholders, the project team assembled a comprehensive data set that would allow them to assess the current state of MSW operations in each community. After analyzing all of the data, the team held proposal presentations with each of the seven communities during October and November of 2003. The presentations were designed to give communities a complete view of their current MSW situation and how a PAYT system might help them run more efficientlyboth financially and environmentally. Team members, along with community decisionmakers, reviewed each community's existing municipal solid waste (MSW) system, the potential waste reduction and financial effects of a PAYT system, the PAYT design elements that would best fit the community's situation.
Dubuque's recent experience in implementing one of the state's
largest PAYT systems proved invaluable when it came time to formulate
explicit recommendations to the communities considering unit-based
"It seems as though one of the problems with many communities is the way that they handle their bulky itemsthrough doing a spring or fall cleanup," said Schultz. "Putting a PAYT program and a free spring cleanup together is not a good combination. You're giving people incentive to stockpile and store material, then get rid of it all for free at one time. That's a weak design. You need to have year-round collection for a reasonable fee."
Dubuque's experience also helped out when making recommendations regarding rate-setting. Says Schultz, "One key thing is to keep the rates for large and bulky items as reasonable as you can, because if you set the rates too high, there's a greater tenancy for illegal dumping. Ultimately, someone still has to pick up those bulky items, and its much more expensive to pick them up out of ditches and off of industrial land."
Currently, three of the communitiesMoravia, Moulton, and Newtonrepresenting 16,931 residents, are moving forward with plans to implement PAYT systems. Though the remaining communities are not planning to implement PAYT within the next several months, the project has supplied them with a wealth of information that can be called on whenever they next reconsider their MSW management system. Team members hope that, armed with the information, these communities may return to considering PAYT. With Dubuque using PAYT to dramatically reduce its waste output, boost its recycling rate, and lower the MSW bill of 75 percent of its customers, they may do just that.
"Pay-By-Use" Adopted in Ireland
Not only was Ireland the first country in the world to implement a tax on plastic shopping bags, thereby cutting their use by 90 percent, it has also imposed taxes on polystyrene food wrappers, cash machine receipts, and other waste to fund litter cleanup and recycling centers. But the land of the Blarney Stone reached new heights in implementing waste reduction incentives when Environmental Minister Martin Cullen announced a nationwide mandate in March for the implementation of "Pay-By-Use" residential waste collection services.
The mandate requires all local authorities and private waste haulers throughout the country to restructure their billing procedures by January 1, 2005, so that residents are rewarded for waste reduction. Residents will be charged by the weight of their trash, though specific rate structures and formulas are not included in the mandate. By not including prescriptive details, the mandate allows waste collectors some freedom to design their own systems, which can take into consideration unique regional circumstances. Several local authorities in Ireland have already implemented Pay-By-Use systems and are beginning to realize reduced waste volumes.
"Pay-By-Use means the householder will have the power to influence the extent of their total waste charges," Cullen said recently. "It benefits our environment and people's pocket'sa classic win-win situation."
Ireland's transition to a variable-rate pricing system for waste collection is just one example of the explosion of interest in PAYT-like programs in the United States and around the world. More than 6,000 communities in the United States are already using PAYT systems, and several other countries, including Germany, Austria, Sweden, and the Netherlands, have begun implementing PAYT.
International Organization Recommends PAYT
The Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), a group of 30 member countries whose work covers economic and social issues ranging from trade and education to environmental concerns, recently released a new report that recommends the use of PAYT. Specifically, it encourages the use of a PAYT model as a long-term strategy for household waste disposal, including offering a reduced fee to a number of households who compost.
This report is the result of a multi-year project, begun by OECD in 2000, devoted to examining waste prevention performance indicators. The report also details other waste prevention activities that can be implemented on a state and local level to further reduce waste. In general, waste prevention and minimization objectives have been widely embraced by OECD as key elements of a strategy aiming for environmental sustainability.
PAYT Joins the Ivy League
In March, Harvard University's Extension School hosted a week-long online bulletin board discussion on PAYT as part of a course called Strategies for Environmental Management: The Path to Sustainable Development. More than 50 undergraduate and graduate students, including distance-learning students from as far away as Africa, Asia, and Europe, were enrolled in the class, taught by Adjunct Professor Robert Pojasek.
The live discussion forum focused on the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, which once considered adopting PAYT, rejected it, and is now considering it againand facing resistance. Students joined with local government participants, including a former selectman from Martha's Vineyard who once voted against PAYT but now believes that was the wrong decision, to debate such issues as the potential for illegal dumping, educating residents about proper recycling, and whether Arlington's PAYT proposal goes far enough to promote waste reduction.
"The class brought up many issues that could lead to the reduction in the total amount of solid waste generated in the town," said Pojasek. "This is the intention of sustainable development at the local level."
The class will present information and recommendations to the Arlington town government and the Arlington Recycling Committee (the PAYT advocate) at a Chamber of Commerce symposium in June.
Notable Professor Promotes PAYT
"There is little question that [the PAYT] approach to municipal solid waste management is here to stay and can be expected to expand and become more sophisticated over time," states Peter S. Menell, professor of law at University of California Berkeley, who has been promoting PAYT through his research and writings. In fact, at a recent presentation of his paper, An Economic Assessment of Market-Based Approaches to Regulating the Municipal Solid Waste Stream, at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC, he praised PAYT as one of the most effective incentive-based environmental programs. "The PAYT program represents one of the most successful partnerships among federal, state, and local officials in improving environmental performance," he said of his findings.
According to Menell, PAYT has been instrumental in decreasing the amount of waste destined for landfills and incinerators, reducing the total cost of disposal for municipalities, and nearly doubling the national recycling rate. In his paper, he concludes that PAYT has been "remarkably successful as a means of achieving high diversion rates. . . [and] has also fostered the development of recycling markets, which may yield even larger environmental benefits over the long run in terms of reduced adverse impacts from virgin resource extraction and more efficient resource use."
Menell admits that implementing PAYT in big cities remains a challenge, but indicates that "there have been notable successes in larger cities such as Seattle, San Francisco, San Jose, and Austin." Based on his research, he concludes that "the economic theory underlying variable rate pricing has proven. . . to be quite workable in practice."
We Want to Hear from You!
EPA would like to promote YOU and your PAYT successes and experiences. Whether you are a community just starting PAYT, one that has been doing it for years, or anywhere in between, we want to hear from you!
We are interested in information on new programs, program expansions, lessons learned, challenges overcome, advice, changes, trends, new documents or reports, community reactions, or any other aspect of your PAYT experiences that could be useful to others.
Please send us an email at firstname.lastname@example.com with your name, affiliation/community, address, phone number, email address, and a brief synopsis of your news. Please also let us know the population of your community and when you started PAYT. We will contact you for more information and include you in our online PAYT Bulletin and/or other informational materials about PAYT. One of the benefits of being part of a progressive, conservation-minded municipal program is the recognition you receive. Don't pass up this opportunity!
Spread the Word!
Please spread the word about PAYT to your neighboring communities, association members, and others in the solid waste arena. Because all of our correspondence will be via email from now on, please send an email to us at firstname.lastname@example.com with email addresses of anyone you think would be interested in joining our mailing list and receiving the PAYT Bulletin.


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Monday, December 15, 2003CLEMSON, S.C. (Dec. 15, 2003) - Clemson used its size advantage Monday to oust the East Tennessee State women's basketball team, as the host Tigers rolled to an 82-43 victory from Littlejohn Coliseum. "Their strength and size just wore us down," said ETSU head coach Karen Kemp. "They just have bigger and stronger players than we have right now, but we're getting better every game. That's our goal against teams like this." For just the second time this season the Lady Bucs were out-rebounded by their opponent. Clemson totaled 12 more boards than ETSU. The Tigers also had 17 offensive rebounds, which led to 15 second-chance points. ETSU was in the contest early and took its second lead of the game with 15:15 to go in the first half. Tiffani Mayes (Sumter, S.C.) scored a layup to make the score 9-8 in favor of the Lady Bucs, which forced a 30-second timeout by Clemson head coach Jim Davis. The Tigers came out of the short break and connected on back-to-back three pointers to go up 14-9 and they never looked back. Clemson took a 41-26 lead into the locker room at the half en route the 37-point victory. Mayes led ETSU with 12 points, but as a team the Lady Bucs shot just over 30 percent from the floor. Kiya Verdell (Hartwell, Ga.) added 10 points to go along with team-highs in assists (4), steals (3), and blocks (3). Meanwhile, senior Lauren Trantham (Asheville, N.C.) continued to do what she does best in tallying a game-high 10 rebounds. Trantham now has an even 700 rebounds for her career and has moved into 7th place among the school's all-time leaders. Clemson (7-1) has won all six meetings versus the Lady Bucs, a series that goes back to 1980. As a team the Tigers shot 46.6 percent from the field and were led by four players scoring in double digits led by Lakeia Stokes' 18-point performance. Amanda White, a 6-foot-4 center, contributed 13 points, while Julie Aderhold and Julie Talley pitched in 11 and 10 points, respectively. East Tennessee State (1-6, 1-1 SoCon) will head back home to host Elon (3-4, 0-0 SoCon) this Thursday, Dec. 18. Tip-off is scheduled for 3 p.m. in Memorial Center. The Lady Bucs were victorious in their home opener last Saturday against UNC Greensboro and look to win their third straight at home dating back to last season.
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For weeks, people have stood around water coolers and walked through far-off legislative halls, pontificating about whether the negative impact of steep federal budget cuts, called sequestration, have been exaggerated. But the fiscal crisis couldn't be more real for a team of transportation workers at Patuxent River Naval Air Station.
Four shuttle bus drivers are scheduled to be laid off today, March 15, and others who work for the company that holds the transportation contract, IAP World Services, face potential pay reductions as Pax River tries to drastically reduce spending this fiscal year.
Pax River spans more than 14,500 acres, has about 850 buildings, and often has limited parking at major buildings. The base is notifying more than 22,400 workers that shuttle service will end after Friday.
Several IAP workers and representatives declined to comment for the record.
IAP has been awarded several government contracts, each totaling anywhere from $9 million to $17.4 million, over the years to support Navy operations for facilities at Pax River, Webster Field, Solomons and Point Lookout, according to a listing of Defense Department contracts. Services provided have included waste collection, as well as facility, water and environmental maintenance.
The Navy has been telling commands across the region to look at cost-cutting measures, "and the base taxi is one of those," said County Commissioner Todd Morgan (R), who also works as a defense contractor. The budget cutting is not "Pax-specific," he said.
When Congress allowed sequestration to go into effect March 1, the government began making spending adjustments. Many of those adjustments include changes in staffing. Some defense contracting company workers in St. Mary's have been notified that their salaries will be, or could be, reduced. Some are also wondering whether they'll have jobs by the time the fiscal year ends this September as the Department of Defense tries to cut about $47 billion from its budget during the next six months. If Congress allows sequestration to stay intact, the federal government will trim more than $1 trillion from its budget during the next decade.
In addition to the sequester budget cuts now taking effect, the federal government is operating under a resolution that helped avoid a government shutdown while Congress delayed developing a current budget. That agreement keeps the government operating at 2012 funding levels, and restricts agencies' ability to transfer money across accounts, even to areas where cash is needed. The resolution expires March 27 and Congress is working to extend it.
One person interviewed, who didn't want to be named, suggested Congress lay off four of their own members, rather than the four transportation contract employees at Pax River.
Federal civilian workers aren't shielded from the financial cutbacks, either. They face a 20 percent salary reduction this year, with furloughs reducing their work week to 32 hours, expected go into effect next month. And small companies, dependent on defense contracts, are wondering if they'll be able to stay in business over the long term, as the government alters contracts.
People at Pax River are also standing by to see how other services, such as security personnel to man base gates, and hours at facilities like the commissary or recreation center, might be affected.
Capt. Ted Mills, commanding officer at Pax River, said in a statement that "reduction decisions, though difficult, have been prudent and in most cases reversible." As the year goes on, Mills said, "we will prioritize continued funding towards those activities that support life, safety and critical security, as well as those programs that support Wounded Warriors. Although sequestration has been triggered," Mills said, "we are still hopeful that Congress will pass a balanced deficit reduction plan that the president can sign, and sequestration is ultimately reversed."


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Kosher Dairy Dishes
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Adapted from Emile Henry recipe.
This is an easy recipe for homemade pizza dough with directions for making a Cheese, Pesto or Mushrooms pizza. Also included, direction for grilling the pizza on an outdoor gas, charcoal, or natural wood grills.
3 cups all-purpose flour
Combine flour, yeast, sugar and salt in mixing bowl. Whisk until ingredients are blended.
Stir in water and 2 tablespoons olive oil until well blended.
Place dough on a lightly floured counter, baking mat or cutting board. Knead 10 minutes. Cover with towel and let rest for 20 minutes.
Sprinkle Pizza Peel * with 2 tablespoons corn meal. Place dough on peel and press into a circle. Stretch and roll dough shaping a 14 inch circle and add toppings.
Bake at 425 degrees for 15-20 min., or until crust is crispy.
GAS GRILL: Light burners, put Emile Henry Pizza Stone on grill grate, let stone heat up to cooking temperature, 500-700 degrees F, depending upon your recipe instructions.
Meanwhile, rollout pizza dough onto a pizza peel. Add sauce, cheese and toppings.
Just before cooking, sprinkle 2 tablespoons of corn meal on Pizza Stone. Slide pizza directly onto hot Pizza Stone. Cover the grill and cook over high heat for 15-20 min., or until crust is lightly browned and the top is bubbly.
When pizza is done, remove it with pizza peel. If you're making another right away, place on a platter; or serve pizza right on the Pizza Stone. Lift up Pizza Stone at handles using potholders. The handles will be very hot.
*Also called a pizza paddle. A flat, broad sheet of wood or metal with a handle used to slide breads and pizza onto a baking stone in the oven.
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Kathy J. Wolfgang, 51, of 784 Gibbs Hill Rd., died Tuesday, March 22, 2011, at Hamot Medical Center in Erie.
Born Sept. 28, 1959, in Kane, she was a daughter of Richard and Rita Donachy Wolfgang.
Ms. Wolfgang had been employed at Kane Screen.
Surviving, in addition to her mother, Rita Wolfgang, of Sheffield, are a daughter, Julie Wolfgang of Warren; a son Joe Wolfgang of Kane; a sister, Mary (Bob) Marasco of Warren; three brothers, Dan (Cheri) Wolfgang of Scandia, Dave Wolfgang and Gary Wolfgang, both of Sheffield; a granddaughter, Jenna Wolfgang of Warren; and her longtime companion, Bill Dana of Kane.
She was preceded in death by her father.
Friends may attend a memorial service at 11 a.m. Friday at the Cummings Funeral Home, Inc.
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What drives a seemingly mundane man to commit a series of acts so heinous that it captured the attention of a horrified nation? In the summer of 1991 Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested in Milwaukee and sentenced to 957 years in prison for killing 17 people and dismembering their bodies. THE JEFFREY DAHMER FILES explores this Midwestern city by meeting those surrounding Dahmer during and after his hidden spree. Recollections from Milwaukee Medical Examiner Jeffrey Jentzen, Police Detective Patrick Kennedy, and neighbor Pamela Bass are interwoven with archival footage and everyday scenes from Dahmer's life, working collectively to disassemble the facade of an ordinary man leading an ordinary existence.
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Laura Joh Rowland
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The Overlook Press generously sent us an advanced copy of The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Brontë, by Laura Joh Rowland, which is released today, March 13. Their kindness didn't stop there so stay tuned to BrontëBlog in the coming days!
Laura Joh Rowland takes Charlotte Brontë for a big, compelling ride in her new novel The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Brontë. Helpfully enough, the novel is described as 'a novel' on the cover to avoid confusion. And unlike some predecessors who were made to publish their actual theories on the Brontë family as fiction, Ms Rowland never tries to sell that these are facts. In fact, she clearly differentiates what is fact from what is imagination at the end of the book. We are immensely grateful for this, since there are very gullible people out there.
With that out of the way, we must say we found the novel extremely grabbing and could hardly bear to put it down. Her version of Charlotte as a spy for the Crown may or may not be in accordance to your - probably more traditional - idea of Charlotte Brontë, but the story is so well-written that the transition from one to the other is very smooth. Immediately after a preface written by this fictional Charlotte herself, we are taken to the fateful summer of 1848, when Charlotte and Anne Brontë embark on a brief journey to London to prove that the Bell writers are not the same person. Of course this and many other facts which appear along the book are true to life. We believe it's this carefully-researched platform that helps Ms Rowland take the reader to where he/she never thought to follow Charlotte Brontë.
In July 1848, Charlotte Brontë witnesses a murder whose consequences will turn her and her family into spies for the Crown. Charlotte Brontë will travel all over the United Kingdom, and also back to Belgium in search for a mysterious man who doesn't hesitate to use violence and stir revolution in an already agitated Europe for unknown reasons. Under the guidance of the experienced, and wholly fictional, John Slade, she will aim to unmask a conspiracy which could have disastrous consequences for England.
Except for a couple of hardly-noticeable and rather insignificant mistakes (such as claiming that Charlotte's mother died of consumption instead of cancer), Laura Joh Rowland shows she has done her homework and read up a lot on the Brontës, Haworth and their time. The descriptions always ring true, as if Ms Rowland was talking about Victorian London with the ease of one of its inhabitants or as if she was as knowledgeable about the moors as Emily Brontë herself would be.
Many contemporary novels purporting to be written by classic authors fail on the count of style because they either become a mere mimicry of the author's voice or go miserably wrong and sound nothing like the author. However, one of the first things we noticed about this book was that Ms Rowland was truly apt at echoing Charlotte Brontë's style in a most convincing way. Chapter-openings especially are very like Charlotte's. The only thing we found somewhat strange - and rather comically so - was reading a Charlotte Brontë who wrote with an American turn of phrase. The style of Emily and Anne Brontë, however, is not so well developed in our opinion, but since it's Charlotte's narrative - with some exceptions - that is not such a big issue.
Personalities are an altogether different matter. Laura Joh Rowland relies on well-known descriptions of the Brontës to shape her own creations. And while most of the time - given the unusual scenario - we follow her decisions, a couple of times they make us cringe. We find this Charlotte Brontë to be all too ready to fall in love with any male that crosses paths with her and all too ready to wave convention away. And although we see her reflecting on the propriety of her acts, we think that there are some things that a parson's daughter would just never do in Victorian England, and we have especially one very particular scene in mind when we say that. At some point, Emily Brontë is made to beg for forgiveness on her kness, which clashes with her legendary personality. However, except for that, and with yet another particular scene in mind, we find her to be pretty accurate. Anne is rather well-depicted, though a little smug at times. Branwell gets better and better as one reads on. We regret, though, that Patrick Brontë is quite a shadowy figure.
Other 'usual suspects' of the Brontë story also make brief appearances: Arthur Bell Nicholls, George Smith and his family and even M. Heger, who sounds pleasantly Rochester-like.
Small details gleaned from Charlotte's novels and life have been subtly introduced into the story, making it all the more entertaining for any Brontëite.
Our suggestion to the Brontëites out there is that they get the book, suspend disbelief for a few hundred pages and read about the adventures of this other, could-have-been Charlotte Brontë. They will be transported into a scenario that Charlotte Brontë never even dreamed of. It will be a highly unputdownable and unforgettable secret adventure, much worth it for many reasons, not least for reaching the final sentence, which is pure gold.
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The fight for the Republican presidential nomination has entered a phase Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton would find familiar. From now until a candidate actually clinches the nomination, the race will become a contest for delegates, fought more in the trenches of individual congressional districts than on the national stage.
That fact gives former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney a fundamental advantage: He has a lead in delegates won that will be difficult, if not impossible, for his rivals to surmount.
Santorum and Gingrich deserve credit for extending the race as long as they have, and they each have no reason to drop out now. Gingrich's big win in his home state of Georgia seems to validate his Southern strategy. And with Alabama and Mississippi voting next week, he may repeat his performance. Santorum's victories in Oklahoma and Tennessee and his close second-place finish in Ohio give him the media coverage and the delegates to continue his torrid fundraising pace (he raised $9 million last month).
But the very rules changes that have forced the contest into extended trench warfare and have kept Santorum alive are now conspiring against him.
Those rules, which the Republican National Committee finalized only last year, mean the rest of the GOP primary fight will play out in one of four ways. Absent an improbable surge by either Santorum or Gingrich, Romney, through sheer attrition, will secure the nomination by June at the latest (the likeliest scenario). Romney could score surprising wins in several states that hold contests over the next few weeks, making clear to Santorum and Gingrich they have no path forward (unlikely, given the way each candidate has performed well in certain regions). Santorum and Gingrich could continue to collect delegates, making sure Romney is never able to reach the 1,144 delegates necessary to clinch the nomination and forcing the issue at a brokered convention (unlikely, given the rate at which Romney is winning delegates). Or one of Romney's rivals could surge, take the lead, and secure the nomination (the unlikeliest scenario of all).
First, some basic facts: Romney's campaign claims it has captured 430 delegates, a combination of the delegates he has won through early contests, those he expects to win at state Republican conventions based on early caucus results, and the RNC members who have committed to backing his campaign. Romney's camp credits Santorum with 185 delegates and Gingrich with 106. Internal RNC delegate-counters say Romney has secured 336 delegates (they're not counting caucus states that have yet to allocate actual delegates or RNC members), compared with 113 for Gingrich and 96 for Santorum.
So Romney has between 29 percent (based on the RNC's count) and 38 percent (based on his own count) of the delegates he needs to win the nomination outright. The states that have held nominating contests so far have awarded 35.8 percent of the total delegates to be had — 820 of 2,286. Romney must win at least 714 and possibly as many as 808 of the 1,466 remaining delegates.
By contrast, after Super Tuesday on Feb. 5, 2008, 60 percent of the delegates available on the Democratic side had been awarded, and Clinton held a slim 20-delegate lead over Obama (Obama would surpass Clinton later in February, when he won 11 straight contests and netted 120 delegates. Obama's 100-delegate lead, just 4 percent of the total number of delegates awarded by the end of February, held up throughout the rest of the contest).
Let's take the four scenarios for the GOP race one at a time.
Romney Wins By Attrition
The most likely scenario will not become obvious for a few weeks. Romney's campaign will struggle in March, but by April it will become clear that he has the institutional advantage.
The RNC rules changes, meant to allow the presidential nominating process to continue past the early states, allowed any state that held its contest in March to award delegates only on a proportional basis (though several states ignored the rule). States that hold their nominating contests in April may award delegates on a winner-take-all basis, boosting their stature and increasing the possibility that the race would wrap up that month. Importantly, many states didn't take the RNC up on that offer — and that helps Romney tremendously.
The states that will vote over the next few weeks, which will award delegates proportionally, would seem to benefit Santorum and Gingrich: Alabama and Mississippi vote next week, with Louisiana holding a primary on March 24; Romney has had trouble in the South against Gingrich, who has emerged as a regional candidate. Kansas has caucuses this weekend and Missouri will hold them over the course of the following week. Santorum has already won caucuses throughout the Plains states.
But all of those states award delegates on a proportional basis, which means that even as Romney is losing states, he will accumulate delegates. Georgia proved the perfect example of how the rest of the campaign is likely to go. Though Gingrich won with nearly 50 percent of the vote, Romney was able to win 21 delegates, mostly in the Atlanta metro area.


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Two Fish Divers is a small and friendly PADI 5 Star Instructor Development Dive operation with two dive resorts that offer some of the best diving in Indonesia:
Bunaken Island, Manado - right in the heart of the award-winning Bunaken Marine Park, the diving offers beautiful corals, lots of fish, amazing small critters, and some larger exciting creatures including reef sharks, turtles and barracudas.
Lembeh Straits - hunting for amazing critters in Lembeh Straits, the muck diving capital of the world. From Lembeh we can also offer great day-trips to nearby Bangka Island or Gangga Island (about an hour away) where there are some stunning soft-coral dives.
Each small and cosy resort is characterised by:
* Beach-side accommodation - wooden cottages or rooms that are clean and comfortable, with cooling fan and western-style toilets. Facilities include 24 hour electricity, computers for viewing pictures and burning cd's, large balconies with hammocks for relaxing, internet service and a book swap facility. NEW – hot water showers now available in our resort in Lembeh.
* Personal & friendly - our resorts are small, flexible and personal with really friendly staff.
* European management - Two Fish Bunaken is managed by Tina and Nigel, and Two Fish Lembeh is managed by Helen and Gizmo. They have all been diving for many years, and they run each resort as they would like it if they went on a dive holiday.
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This is the cordless prelit holiday poinsettia basket that can be hung anywhere indoors or outside without requiring connection to a power outlet. The basket has evergreen branch tips that have the look and texture of a real conifer and it is decorated with 19 floral silk poinsettias. The basket is strung with battery-powered LEDs that produce a warm white glow, and if one breaks or burns out the rest of the strand will remain illuminated. A timer automatically turns the lights on for 6 hours and off for 18 hours. The 14"-diameter basket is made from molded plastic with a coconut fiber exterior. Includes a weather-resistant metal chain and hook. Requires four AA batteries that will power the lights for an entire season. With 19 poinsettias, 70 branch tips, and 35 LEDs. 22" H x 25" Diam. (5 1/2 lbs.)
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Nice for the Holidays!
By Raygolf
from Iowa
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This hanging poinsettia is just gorgeous. It is quite full and looks very realistic. I love the lights being in a timer, too.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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A Real Christmas Gift At Sale Price
By CarolT
from Watertown MA
I will use as outdoor holiday decor..front porch..either hanging or in an urn by the front door
photo deceiving
By Lee
from Venice FL
I have not used the product yet, but I was very disappointed in it so far. It was packed upside down and everything is smashed together. I worked on it for a while and gave up. Will try again another day.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
Very Pretty Basket
By emmajane1
from TX
The basket is very festive and the look is real.The lining of the basket is natural like my summer baskets that had real flowers. The battery compartment is well sealed for use outside. I hung mine out right away just to check the lights.Have had it out over a week in rain, wind and below freezing weather. It is still looking pretty.
Like it!
By Not a gardener
from Vancouver, BC
It brings colour and life to our backyard during the day, and the lights brighten things up at night as well.
Nice addition to your Christmas decor
By Casey
from Fresno, CA
Looks nice in the daytime and at night.
Not great.
By suzfriends us
from Newburgh, in
Not great. The lights don't show very well. Wouldn't buy again.
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Help with .htaccess RewriteRule regex
There's a page on my website to view a user's profile. The username is passed in through the URL and since that's all that's needed in the URL I simply pass it as the query string, such as
I thought it would be nice to get rid of the question mark in the URL by using the Apache RewriteEngine, so the URL could be like this
But I am having trougble with the regular expression that RewriteRule needs. I thought I could use -
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ ?$1 [QSA,L]
but this causes an internal server error.
Doing some testing I found that this will pass through a number the way I need it to -
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)$ ?$1 [QSA,L]
so that if the URL is
http://example.com/profile/123456then in PHP the $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] value becomes 123456. From this test I know that the overall structure of the RewriteRule is correct, it's just the regular expression that needs fixing.
What should be used instead of
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could you use
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^profile/(.*).html$ /index.php?username=$1 [QSA,L]
<DmncAtrny> I will write on a huge cement block "BY ACCEPTING THIS BRICK THROUGH YOUR WINDOW, YOU ACCEPT IT AS IS AND AGREE TO MY DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS WELL AS DISCLAIMERS OF ALL LIABILITY, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL, THAT MAY ARISE FROM THE INSTALLATION OF THIS BRICK INTO YOUR BUILDING."
<DmncAtrny> And then hurl it through the window of a Sony officer
<DmncAtrny> and run like hell
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That doesn't fit my specific case.