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Salvatore's Birth Date
When is Salvatore's birthday of July 27, 1929 mentioned? Grand Theft AJ 21:30, November 28, 2009 (UTC)
It isn't to my knowledge. I've never even seen a year of birth given for Salvatore, let alone a specific date. A-Dust 22:24, November 28, 2009 (UTC)
- Exactly, best just to get rid of that. If I ever come across that I'll let you know the details. Grand Theft AJ 22:51, November 28, 2009 (UTC)


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September 2012 Dear Office of Management and Budget Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs staff and leadership:
The undersigned organizations, representing family farmers, ranchers, and consumers, urge you to return USDA's final rule on Animal Disease Traceability (ADT) to the agency for a legally adequate, thorough, and complete cost analysis. ADT has been criticized by thousands of individuals and organizations because of the undue burdens that it will impose on producers. The cost of tagging and the extensive recordkeeping requirements under the rule will impact farmers and ranchers, as well as related businesses such as sale barns and veterinarians, and will ripple through our rural economies. As detailed in our letter of July 24, the USDA has significantly underestimated the costs of its rule to both cattle producers and poultry producers. While the agency claims that the costs are under $100 million annually, independent studies indicate that the costs could be three to five times that high for cattle producers alone. Moreover, the USDA failed to even attempt to estimate the costs to small-scale poultry farmers, a failure that, by itself, is sufficient cause to reject the rule. Ultimately, the cost will be more than dollars and cents. If producers cannot afford to meet the new requirements, they will be unable to purchase new animals or market their animals out of state, which could lead to more of them going out of business. Farmers and ranchers nationwide are already struggling just to keep their cattle alive through the drought. Over 75 percent of the contiguous U.S. is experiencing drought conditions, and almost half the country is in severe or worse drought, including the major farming and ranching regions. The impact on livestock and poultry producers has been devastating. The forage and feed situation is the worst this country has seen since the 1930s Depression, as producers with parched pastures, rangelands, and crops face expensive hay, grain, and shipping costs. Increased feed costs have led to a reduction in profits per livestock animal by more than $100 just since June 1. One agricultural economist has estimated that 2013 feed prices could triple the 1990-2004 average. Rapidly depleting livestock water is forcing many producers to haul water, which is also expensive and time-consuming. Families who have been the agricultural backbone of this nation are now at the breaking point. Many have already sold a large part of their herds, and the slaughter of many breeding age cows will mean that it will take a decade of normal rainfall to rebuild the cattle population in America. Traceability programs, such as USDA's ADT rule, also impose costs on livestock-related businesses, such as sale barns and veterinarians. It was recently reported that sale barns in New Zealand have added a new surcharge for cattle sales due to the additional equipment, staffing and administrative costs required for their NAIT (national animal identification and tracing) program It is likely that similar costs under ADT will be passed on to U.S. farmers and ranchers. Like the sale barns, those producers who are able to stay in business will have to find a way to pass on the costs, which will mean higher prices for consumers, who are already facing higher prices at the grocery store. In contrast to the clear costs of the program, the benefits remain vague. The USDA's Regulatory Impact Analysis focused almost entirely on the monetary benefits from exports, but this approach is fundamentally flawed for several reasons. First, the benefits are based on models of varying degrees of traceability, yet tagging is not synonymous with traceability: an animal with an ear tag attached prior to crossing state lines may become untraceable later through lost tags or poor recordkeeping by state agencies. Second, as has been shown repeatedly and acknowledged by USDA officials, market access often depends more on politics than on traceability or other measures. Finally, the financial benefits of exports accrue almost entirely to the companies who sell the exports. Since the costs of the program will rest almost entirely on livestock producers and related businesses, it is inappropriate to justify those costs on the basis of benefits to other entities. We urge you not to impose new, unnecessary costs during these difficult times. The ADT rule should be sent back to the agency for a thorough and comprehensive review of the costs of the rule on American farmers and ranchers. 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In case the welcome break in tweets-sharing Instagram photos of food-truck cuisine or complaining Austinites trying to cope with rain didn't give it away, the city's Fantastic Fest is happening right now. Amongst the many celebrations at the Texas genre geek's gathering is Fantastic Fest's bumper contest, where filmmakers — and anyone with a camera — edit together entertaining 30-second video nibbles that play before every screening during the festival. They're usually bizarre, humorous and representative of the uniqueness of the event. Each clip always ends the same way: "That's fantastic!" Badass Digest has announced the top six bumpers from this year's fest. The theme for this year's contest was time travel, and filmmakers were free to interpret it however they liked.
Reel Distraction's Back to the Time When Steve Ruined the Dinner Party combines found footage from a stranger's awkward home movie and Back to the Future. Jim and Them's Dire Consequences makes Looper look like a Disney movie — so yeah, don't watch this at work. Alix Bannon and Jenn Murphy's Doctor Meow was the audience vote winner and combines two of the greatest things in life: synth and cats. Yarvo's Sean and Carl Rule the World for 20 Seconds is pretty self-explanatory. Also, coke whores. Jon Huebner delivers a Looper homage in Super Looper, and BenDavid Grabinski's untitled submission employs time travel to correct an embarrassing party faux pas. Check 'em out below, and find out who wins top prize when all six play at tonight's awards ceremony. The audience votes for a bumper champ.
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Tenderloins, bowling, and 50 years of Culver memories
--Dewitt family's quarter-century at Lake Shore Lanes and beyond--
Not long ago, Jim Dewitt was in the Culver post office when the topic of the beloved tenderloins he served at the Lake Shore Lanes bowling alley between 1953 and 1978 came up. Soon, various folks in line were speaking up in favor of their favorite menu item, and the nearly 35 years since the popular spot closed seemed to melt away.
Jim Dewitt and his late wife Mary, and their family, has been so quintessentially Culver, it might come as a surprise that the 91-year old Pearl Harbor survivor came here by way of an adventurous and world-traveling -- even nomadic -- past, pre-Culver life (see accompanying story this page).
By 1953, Jim and Mary Dewitt had decided to sell the grocery store they'd operated for the past seven years in Wawaka, and were contemplating their next move.
Fate played its hand, since Dewitt, who rarely read the classified ads, found himself perusing them in the South Bend Tribune, where he saw for sale a bowling alley in Culver.
"I said (to Mary), 'I'm going to Culver tomorrow.' Mary said, 'What's in Culver?' I brought (daughter) Karen over and we looked at it."
Dewitt purchased the bowling alley, on Lake Shore Drive, May 23, 1953 from George Robinson, who had bought it from Jerome Zechiel not long before. Robinson had added the electric grill and French fryers.
Dewitt believes the alleys in the building were unmatched because part of the facilities had come from the bowling alley which once existed west of the old Kruezberger saloon (today the Jim and Diane Greene home at the south end of State Street). Some of that alley had utilized parts of a Logansport alley (possibly also the property of the Kruezberger family, which ran a large Logansport operation) damaged in famous 1913 flood in Logansport, at which Culver Academy cadets rescued many.
Lake Shore Lanes bordered the Lake View Tavern to the west, with about 20 inches between the two buildings, but shared a wall to the east with the coffee shop long at 622 Lake Shore Drive (at least as far back as the 1920s).
The Dewitt family's first full year running the place, 1954, yielded only $3,000, and that was with two people working seven days per week.
"It was discouraging," Jim Dewitt admits.
Customers didn't begin trickling in, in those days, until the sky darkened since it was difficult to tell if the business was open until then. At that time Culver had no less than two taxis, and Dewitt says they would order food from the restaurant, as would Culver Academy's waiters living in temporary housing near the campus, whose food would be delivered by taxi.
In spite of the uphill battle to make a go of it, "Mary, bless her heart, stuck with me every step of the way," says her husband.
Of all the food served at the bowling alley, "everybody remembers the tenderloins," acknowledges Dewitt. That was on the menu when he first bought the business, and initially pork loin was used (the actual tenderloin wasn't useful in a sandwich, he notes). The unique taste and texture folks remember, he says, came about out of practical necessity.
"We'd have (the butcher) slice the meat to the size we wanted. Then we'd get bread crumbs and the batter mix and work it in. Mary's fingers weren't strong enough to do it very easy, so I took the serrated thing we cut French fries with, and then I would hammer over the tenderloin so she could work it in. That was a lot of trouble so I said, 'Why couldn't (the butcher) run the meat through the cuber?' Later I did my own cubing; I ran them each way and crosswise. That makes the difference. I got bread crumbs from Creamo Bakery. It's really flakes rather than crumbs -- it's easier to work in and it looks nice."
The immense popularity of the resultant dish is evident whenever the topic of the bowling alley comes up, as it did at that recent encounter at the Culver Post Office. The conversation started with a fellow customer asking Dewitt if he still makes the alley's lemonade, and would he give out the recipe (he will, and does).
"Then the lady in front of me moved over and says, 'You can have the lemonade, but my husband and I liked the tenderloins.' Then Rhonda (Anderson, of the Post Office) said, 'You can have the lemonade and tenderloins, but my family liked the cheeseburgers and French fries.' It makes you feel good when you've done something people like."
In fact, during the alley's open days, Dewitt says people "five to one talked about the hamburgers and cheeseburgers, which were the simplest thing in the world to make."
Interestingly, the whole row of Lake Shore Drive businesses operating in the 1950s and `60s were known for their hamburgers: from Hansen's, a few doors west, to the Lakeview Tavern and coffee shop next door. In fact, smiles Dewitt, Katy May of the Lakeview came to the bowling alley one day to get a burger. When asked why she didn't eat them at her own establishment, she replied, "It costs me more where I am!"
Through the years, the Dewitts made various changes to the business, installing automatic pinspotters in 1959, remodeling the grill area in 1966, and in 1969 installing new lanes and pinspotters.
The limited number of bowling lanes -- four -- "made it bad," Dewitt says.
"We were too small to hire help, and we had no room to put things in to cook in. I got so tired of standing there waiting on that fryer to catch up, I built a fryer out around it which also gave us room to have another, smaller refrigerator. That made it so I wasn't out in the open."
Prior to those automatic pinspotters, balls had to be manually picked up, put on the track, and pushed back.
"I tackled everything," recalls Dewitt. "It was ridiculous. I had to have kids setting the pins and those balls were 16 pounds. So I got a place out of Chicago that had automatic pinsetters. And dumb me, by myself, decided I was going to install them. I had to loosen those bowling alleys, which had a three-inch screw every 20 inches on every side. I had to jack up the alleys. I wanted to do that because when teams were bowling, people had to wait to get their ball while people were on the next lane."
Later, when he replaces the bowling alleys themselves, Dewitt had six feet added to the back of the building, which also allowed moving the restrooms upstairs from their former home in the basement.
When the Dewitts took over the alley, Culver didn't have full leagues, says Jim. Within the first year, bowling leagues were at it four nights a week, with Saturday and Sunday reserved for open bowling, and mixed doubles on Sunday afternoons and evenings, "so that was a busy, busy day!"
Team bowling lasted 32 weeks out of the year, followed by three weeks of tournament bowling. Initially, Dewitt says, it didn't pay to hold tournaments, but he made it part of the league schedule that every team had to take part, which gave the business 35 solid weeks of bowling.
In 1953, it cost 35 cents a line to bowl, with league bowling at $1.10 for three. When the family sold the business in late 1977, says Dewitt, "we still got 35 cents for bowling! We never changed the price in all those years."
On a league night, the bowling alley would take in $44 for bowling, but it also cost 10 cents per line for pinspotters.
In those days, bowling was still popular enough to keep league bowling active year by year, though Dewitt admits "you might sweat it out to get teams some years."
Many teachers, he points out, didn't bowl due to commitments to other activities, which eliminated a number of Culver residents teaching at the town school or Academy. When McGill's factory opened in Culver, it utilized swing shift scheduling, which didn't yield many bowlers.
Jim Dewitt himself was secretary of both leagues, free of charge, with Eileen Butler (and later, Jean Triplet) acting as secretary of the ladies' leagues.
"The amazing thing was, the league (bowling) would end in mid-May...then I'd close for a week or ten days and we'd go to Florida. Then we'd open up. You'd think after bowling ended, the grill business would drop off but you couldn't tell the difference. We'd open on the weekend and it would darn near kill us!"
Specifically, staff from Culver Academy's summer schools would pack the place all summer, eliminating any loss in business, says Dewitt.
The dining area included five booths and two tables, capable of seating 29 people at a time. There was also a soda fountain with three seats. Carryout business boomed to the point that, at some especially busy moments, the Dewitts would simply leave the phone off the hook to avoid calls.
The first of two fires to hit Lake Shore Lanes took place in the early 1970s, Dewitt recalls. At that time, the coffee shop next door caught fire.
"I went back to the bowling alley and called Mary and said, 'The coffee shop's on fire. We'll probably lose the alley -- don't come down.'"
Jack Kowatch helped him remove some of the paintings from the wall, and others helped him move the bowling balls out of the building and over to the depot. The coffee shop fryer, which had started it all, was up against the buildings' common wall, which was comprised of thick paper rather than drywall. Things didn't look good.
Dewitt, however, had placed plastic sheets over the bowling alleys and five gallon buckets under where fire-fighting water dripped down. Amazingly, other than some paneling pulling away from the wall, the bowling alley had no real damage, and was able to open the next night.
Jim and Mary's children, Jim Jr., Karen, Kathy, and John, helped out.
"The kids, when they were little -- Mary would make cute aprons for them," says Jim, "and they would wait on people. That was in the early years before there was that much grill business."
The bowling alley never advertised, he notes, and never needed to. He recalls working one night with Mary and their two daughters, to serve 64 people packed into the place, which in the early years would stay open until 3 a.m. (later it was midnight). The business was popular with teens, he notes, who spread the word among themselves that if they "talked dirty" or misbehaved, they wouldn't be welcome back.
At some point in the 1970s, Dewitt recalls, the bowling alley was recognized with a preservation award for his work in maintaining the historic building.
After nearly 25 years of late nights and hard work, says Jim Dewitt, "it was getting to be; my nerves were shot."
He turned the business for a while over to his son John, but continued to have a role.
"I was feeling so bad, really I thought I was going to die," he recalls.
Don Neidlinger had asked repeatedly to buy the business, and one day Dewitt says he was "really feeling lousy...and I said, 'OK...I literally gave it to him."
After Neidlinger took over the alley in early 1978, Mary Dewitt agreed to manage it for $2.50 an hour; Jim would go help her, free of charge, and within a few weeks, business was good.
One Sunday in October, 1978, a new fryer caught fire and the building -- and the adjacent coffee shop -- was soon in flames. The Lakeview Tavern next door, in fact, wound up replacing its roof and sidewalk as a result of the spectacular fire.
Mary and Jim Dewitt retired then, Jim lending a hand to nearby Poppe's appliances on occasion, as needed, for a time. Mary passed away in 2005, and Jim – Culver's last Pearl Harbor survivor – celebrated his 90th birthday with a flood of well wishers in the summer of 2011.
In the early 1980s, the (much larger) bowling alley on State Road 10 was built by James Sarna, who told Dewitt he'd had a chance to procure 14 lanes, quite a lot, says Dewitt, for Culver. Don Neidlinger would later buy the alley.
Looking back, Jim Dewitt recalls the patronage of the people of Culver with perhaps as much fondness as they have for the Dewitt family -- and of course the food they sold!
Exemplary of this, he says, are a few incidents. Once, during the first few years of his ownership of the alley, a customer asked if he planned to go to Florida over the holidays to visit Mary's family, only to be told by Dewitt that the business kept the family too busy to do so. Shortly thereafter, he was told in no uncertain terms that the Dewitt family would, after all, spend the holidays in Florida....with a handful of loyal customers running the alley for them!
Another time, some years later, Dewitt undertook the arduous task of replacing the floor in the bowling alley. A group of customers showed up to inform him he wasn't doing it alone, and began the reflooring work.
"I think that just goes to show you," says Jim Dewitt, "how things can be in a small town."


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Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Bernie Fuchs' FAC Lessons, Part 3
Those interested in reading the text should click on each image to see a larger version of the scan.
The Famous Artists School continues to this day! Please visit the school's website for details.
The school also hosts a page devoted to guiding faculty member, Bernie Fuchs on their site, which includes a biography of the artist and a gallery of his work.
Many thanks again to Matt Dicke for providing this week's scans.
* My Bernie Fuchs Flickr set.
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I agree with Thomas, keep 'em coming!. They are fascinating and insightful. What really hit home for me, was Fuchs' willingness to get further input and opinions from the AD. Even though, by this time, he was one of the top illustrators, he wasn't telling ADs to leave him alone, and wait until he finished the illustration, or at least resolve it all by himself. Unlike some self important narcissistic big name illustrators, Fuchs must have had a modest ego, and very enjoyable to work with. The idea that the AD stymied growth and creativity, didn't seem to prevail in Fuchs' work. The title "art director" explains their function, and Bernie Fuchs seemed to understand that, and used their opinions and insight to come up with the right solution for both. That goes beyond just having a lot of artistic talent, and impresses me just as much.ReplyDelete
Tom Watson
I agree with Thomas -- this is indeed "pure gold". It also, for me, makes Mr. Fuchs seem a bit more accessible, more human. I've always admired his amazing and occasionally shocking composition sense, and it's somehow gratifying to see how much work -- and a surprising amount of collaboration with the art director -- went into those beautiful paintings.ReplyDelete


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The new EU legislation that forces manufacturers to reduce the amount of harmful chemicals and materials in their products will affect the Iyonix. The computer's motherboard will require a costly resdesign in order to meet the requirements of the new RoHS rules, especially to meet the low-lead levels in the PCB solder, say contacts close to Castle. Well placed sources say that items manufactured before the July 1 deadline can still be shipped and sold. It is understood that the AdvantageSix A9 range is RoHS compliant. Castle have declined to comment. My take: It's a bird, it's a plane... No, it's the RoHS which Castle could've seen coming since 2003.


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With exhaust emissions being targeted by Government, one Farmer in Scotland has found a way to keep the air fresh on his farm!!
Aberdeenshire based David Barron was quick to apply for a Government grant so he could test the claims that an oxy-hydrogen electrolyser could reduce the emissions on his farm vehicles. The unit was fitted to his JCB loader.
After just 4 weeks he was making fuel savings of around 18% and emissions had been reduced by 80%.
"This is incredible", said David. "I was paying £12.99 for 5 litres of Ad-Blue too, but that's not needed now and my filters are clean".
"As farmers, we're under intense pressure to switch to green fuel, but our work means we NEED diesel. The Electrolyser fitted to my vehicle allows us to continue to use diesel but it hybridises the engine by producing oxy-hydrogen simply from water."
"I still need to fill up with regular fuel; just not as often".
The Scottish Government has backed the project and is expected to rollout the programme in the new year.


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At age 10, my tama's battery ran out, and i didnt replace it cuz i was gonna wait to do that when my bro and sis got theres, and that took about a week. When i put the battery back in and downloaded, it was still lvl 10, but in a few minutes it evolved! It was so weird, i knew they werent sposed to do that till age 16...but it did. Maybe it was because i set the time and date to the current time and date?
Tama turned old-timer at age 10....
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At the hospital Patrick questions Sabrina about her feelings for him. Liz interrupts, much to Sabrina's relief. Patrick takes a page and Sabrina giddily tells Liz every delicious detail of Britt and Patrick's split. Liz thinks it wouldn't be bad if Patrick knew how Sabrina really felt about him and encourages her to go for it. She'll never know unless she tries. Patrick returns from his call and Liz tells him Sabrina has something to tell him.
What Did I Miss?
Britt has a plan, Rafe is booked, and Caleb is back in Port Charles.
Britt throws a tantrum in the exam room as Lulu and Maxie arrive for their appointment. She tells Lulu that Maxie has been lying to her and slept with Spin on New Year's Eve. Lulu already knows, and in fact, is very mad at Britt for not telling her sooner. Britt apologizes and assures her it will not happen again. Lulu gets called away for an emergency at the Haunted Star. Alone, Britt tells Maxie to she is going to tell Lulu about the baby if she doesn't. Maxie offers to do whatever Britt wants as long as she keeps quiet. She will even help her get Patrick back. Britt considers and wants Maxie to help her destroy Sabrina.
TJ and Molly stumble across the crime scene at Pier 52. They learn a boy is accused of killing his mother. Molly is concerned it was Rafe and TJ encourages her to go to the station.
At PCPD, Anna questions Rafe. He tells her he and his mom came here to find Lucy. His mom had strange ideas and thought Lucy was the only answer. She left him with the arrow for protection. But he left with a girl he met, Molly. When he returned, Alison was struggling with someone who looked just like John, but with longer hair. He stabbed Alison. Rafe pulled out the arrow and when he looked up, the man who stabbed her was then holding a gun. He begs Anna to believe him. Meanwhile, Sam debriefs McBain about her chat with Lucy after he tells her that Alison was killed. Lucy told Sam that Alison's son was not fathered by her husband Rafe, but by Caleb. When Rafe found out he went after Caleb and it is the last anyone has heard or seen of her husband. Molly comes by the station with Danny and tells them about her meal with Rafe. He told her that sometimes her wished he could be free of his mom. John goes into the holding room and Rafe attacks him, accusing him of killing his mom. They take him out for booking.
At the Rib, Felicia wonders how Maxie will look during pregnancy - Frisco used to call her an overripe peach. Mac is jealous but she assures him he is the only man in her life. Kevin shows up and Felicia is glad he is here to help Lucy. He acknowledges that Lucy became obsessed with the idea she was a slayer. When they broke up it seemed to go away for a while. But coming back to Port Charles brought back all these emotions and Lucy is convinced all the fantasies are real. Felicia tells him that Lucy was truly terrified when she saw John, so how could it all be in her head? Kevin still loves her but things change. Felicia thinks love defies all odds. Kevin commends her and Mac for finding that love, but his situation is different. They don't have a vampire between them. Mac wonders if Frisco counts. Later, Mac goes to the stockroom. Frisco walks in and finds Felicia alone.
At Ferncliff, Todd was found sane during his evaluation. Now he has to go back to PCPD and await trial. Lucy is concerned that the longer she is locked up, the more people will be hurt by Caleb. Heather shows up and is curious as to what she missed. Todd freaks when he sees her but she accuses him of overreacting. She has a plan that will get them out and Todd reluctantly wants in. Heather is cool with that as long as he knows she is the boss. She made friends with the staff and encouraged them to start a revolution. There will be a massive walk out tonight, and they will be right behind them. Later, the trio walks out with the staff but run into Kevin.
Caleb trespasses at the pier crime scene.
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Sports Illustrated have released their list of the highest earning athletes in sport.
Alongside a top 50 from American citizens or athletes competing in the country, the US-based magazine has also produced a list of the top 20 'international earners' spanning all sports.
'Soccer' players, as they like to say across the pond, dominate the list. Indeed, of the top 20, exactly half play the most popular game in the world.
Roger Federer and Fernando Alonso are second and third on the list respectively, whilst boxer Manny Pacquiao comes in sixth. US pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather was the highest-earning athlete in the world.
We're focusing on football players in this list however, so enjoy the top ten players who earn the big bucks whilst putting a smile on the faces of fans.
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Recycled Paper Turned Beautiful Tech Sculptures
What can you make with recycled magazines, newspapers and sheet music? The first thing that comes to mind probably isn't tech. Artist Jennifer Collier finds and collects paper materials to sew, wax and bond into beautiful one-off objects. Have a look at Jennifer's wide array of paper made tech objects.
Jennifer's chooses materials based on the type of object she is making.
Map SLR: For crafting an SLR, Jennifer chose an old map to represent the thought of traveling and taking photos.
Letter SLR: Called the "Letter SLR" because this one is covered in an old written letter.
Super 8 Camera: The Super 8 camera is covered with theatre and play showings.
Roliflex: The Roliflex is made with what seems like a love letter written in romantic script.
Typewriter: The typewriter is made out of newspapers.
Telephone: The telephone is covered in phonebook listings.
Sewing Machines
Singer: The Singer sewing machine was crafted with an old pattern.
Bernina: The Bernina machine was made with a fabric-like rose patterned paper.
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The Dovecraft Time to Sparkle plastic glitter buttons are the perfect way to add glitz and glamour to your scrapbooks, cards and banners. This pack includes 60 plastic buttons with a magical golden shimmer excellent for capturing the festive spirit on your projects.
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Welcome in the festive season with Dovecrafts luxurious Papercraft collection, Time to Sparkle. Contemporary and enchanting, the majestic black and gold papers designed by Katie Pertiet feature illustrations of reindeer, snowflakes, and elegant stripes and polka dot patterns. To add to the stylish collection of papers, the pads also feature a scintillating foil and glitter effect to make each Christmas craft twinkle! Coordinating with the pretty papers, the collection also includes Washi Tape, Glitter Enamel Dots, clear stamps, cutting dies, wooden shapes, sequins glitter buttons, sentiment toppers and more. This wonderful selection will be a joy to craft with and will make each festive project glow!


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Change the parallel port setting from LPT1 to LPT2.
To get the printer to function properly, change the parallel port setting to LPT2 from the default setting, LPT1. Otherwise, the operating system will have to be reinstalled because LPT1 cannot be recovered due to a corrupt entry in the registry.
To change the parallel port setting from LPT1 to LPT2, perform the following steps:
|In Windows 2000 and Windows XP Classic Start Menu view, My Computer is located on the desktop. Otherwise, My Computer appears in the start menu of Windows XP by default.
|The above procedure will enable the printer to be installed on LPT2 and should not cause any conflicts or problems. If the port must be set to LPT1, however, the only solution will be to reinstall the operating system.
The parallel port printers seem to be affected while the Printer Installation Wizard is being used to reinstall the printer driver.
In the Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, or Microsoft Windows XP operating systems, the following error message may appear either during printer driver reinstallation or if the printer stops responding:
An error has occurred during the installation of the device. The printer name is invalid.
Parallel port printers seem to be affected. While Printer Installation Wizard is being used to reinstall the printer driver, the printer name may change to include invalid characters, such as /, !, \, ,. The option to select LPT1 may also be missing from the list of available ports.
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Let's get something straight. As much as Ford Motor may not want to admit it, the new Transit Connect Wagon is basically a minivan.
Whether you call it a wagon, minivan or people mover (yes, Ford has used that term), what matters is whether the Transit Connect Wagon actually connects with buyers.
It is not like the typical minivan, which could open it up to a wider variety of potential customers beyond the traditional minivan buyers — families in suburban America.
Different From a Minivan
Ford has gone to great lengths to say the Transit Connect Wagon is not a traditional minivan. It is smaller, more fuel-efficient, with design cues that are more upright than a typical minivan. (Read More: Mulally Sets the Stage for His Final Act at Ford.)
Ford will give more specifics such as pricing when it gets closer to the Transit Connect rollout in late 2013, but here are some of the wagon's key metrics:
• Equipped with either 5 or 7 seats
• Estimated MPG will be greater than 30 MPG
• Comes with conventional four-cylinder engine or 1.6 liter EcoBoost engine
Stiff Competition for Soccer Moms
While the minivan market is not what it once was, it is still a substantial market generating about 4 percent of all auto sales in the U.S.
Unfortunately for Ford, it's a segment the company gave up on in 2007 when it stopped selling the Freestar. At the time, I was among those who thought Ford was making a smart move. The Freestar was an also-ran in the minivan market. Its styling was weak and it lacked the appeal, performance and special features you could find in the Honda Odyssey, Toyota Sienna, Chrysler Town and Country or Dodge Caravan. (Read More: Ford Profit Beats Forecasts on Record Northern America Margins.)
Since then, the big 3 in minivans (Chrysler, Honda and Toyota) have all ramped up their models. To quote a friend of mine who bought a Sienna last year, "I love it. It's perfect for me and my family."
So can the Transit Connect Wagon cut into the dominance of the minivan market leaders? Maybe, but it won't be easy. Yes, the fuel efficiency will make it appealing and if Ford can price it under the traditional minivan the Transit Connect Wagon could find a niche.
On the other hand, the Odyssey, Town and Country and other minivans all have a strong reputations. (Read More: Ford Falls Further in Reliability Survey; Toyota Gains.)
The Transit Connect Wagon comes out late next year. Between now and then watch Ford work hard not to call it a minivan, but you and I will know what it really is.
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Several of Poe's writings are said to be about Virginia. The most popular is the poem, Annabel Lee, where it's believed she was the inspiration for the main character. The poem, Lenore was also inspired by Virginia, as was the short story, Eleonora.
|Virginia's Grave
|Washington College Hospital
|Poe in 1849
|Written by a rival- Rufus Griswold
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A note from 1993 says, "The torch will be passed." In 1999 another note left at the grave declared that the original toaster had died in 1998, and his son would be continuing the tradition.
The Toaster's last official visit to Poe's grave was January 19, 2009, 150 years after Poe's death, and the 200th Anniversary of Poe's birth. Fans have continued to wait for the Toaster for the past three years; on January 19th, 2010, again in 2011, and finally, last year, declared that if he did not appear in 2012, the tradition was officially over.
And so it appears we may never know who the Poe Toaster was, nor what influence Poe had on his life to keep him coming back each year to celebrate the writer's birthday.
But there are so few mysteries left in this world, I for one, would like to think his identity is safe with the ages, even if his visits shall be Nevermore…
But there are so few mysteries left in this world, I for one, would like to think his identity is safe with the ages, even if his visits shall be Nevermore…
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* Please note: The Poe House and Museum is currently closed to the public until some time in late 2013. Find out more on their Facebook page @ https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Edgar-Allan-Poe-House-Museum/10150113128020459?ref=mf
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In a recent interview with Mercury News, Google's VP of Engineering for Android, Andy Rubin, acknowledged that the current pace of Android OS development is not sustainable long term and that they will scale back to a yearly update when "things start settling down."
Rubin explains in the interview that the speed of updates to date has been due to their need to bring the "product up to market spec."
OEMs and developers will likely be the most gladdened by this news, but users will hopefully realize that long term this is necessary for the well-being of the platform. Talk of fragmentation constantly dogs Android and it will not stop until there are at most two versions of the OS, whereas the release of Froyo has us sitting again at four.
I suspect we all loved watching Google I/O and hearing of the innovation coming in Froyo and beyond — but each time there is a new OS release the joy is always tempered by the question of when current Android device owners are going to actually see these updates.
Some lag is inevitable in an update process that involves so many players, but it would be more tolerable if you didn't have to see three more versions of the OS ship before you finally managed to get your update, just in time to be once again passed up by the newest version of the OS.
App developers are also likely as weary of hearing about their apps only supporting the most recent versions of the OS as users are of finding that the latest and greatest app they heard about doesn't support their version of the OS. This should be a win for both sides of that equation.
Do you agree that this is a necessary move for Android and if you think that a year is too long to wait between updates what do you think the ideal update timeline would be?
So we launched it, and from our internal 0.8, we got to 1.0 pretty quickly, and we went through this iteration cycle. You've noticed, probably, that that's slowed down a little bit. Our product cycle is now, basically twice a year, and it will probably end up being once a year when things start settling down, because a platform that's moving – it's hard for developers to keep up. I want developers to basically leverage the innovation. I don't want developers to have to predict the innovation.Andy RubinVP of Engineering for Android at Google


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CHARLOTTE, N.C., March 20 (UPI) -- Byron Mullens made four free throws in the final 11 seconds Wednesday to create a rare Charlotte winning streak in the Bobcats' 107-101 win over Toronto.
Charlotte, owner of the worst record in the NBA, won for just the 16th time this season. The Bobcats have captured two in a row for the first time since claiming three straight Nov. 10-14. The back-to-back victories follow a stretch in which Charlotte lost 12-of-13.
Toronto pulled within two with 12 seconds left, but Mullens then hit two foul shots, came up with a key steal and made two more to secure the victory.
Mullens made 7-of-11 from the field and scored 25 points to pace the Bobcats. He is averaging 11 points a game this season. Gerald Henderson added 21 points and was one of six Charlotte players in double figures.
It was Charlotte's 10th home win of the campaign in 35 tries.
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To accelerate loading times and thus your work, Yellowtools integrated the powerful "pre-cache" option. You can pre-load Layers into Independence which are available immediately when you activate them - without any additional loading time and no additionally required RAM (like streaming) or other system resources. Combined with the new "MIDI program change" feature you can switch between the currently loaded Layer patches directly with your MIDI keyboard in real time.


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Horse flies (insect family Tabanidae) are probably the most severe fly pests of cattle on Missouri pasture and range (Figures 1 and 2). Only the females "bite," but the blood-feeding activities of these large, agile insects can constitute a serious threat to economical cattle performance when populations are large.
Figure 1T. equalis. Illustration by David G. Hall in Bulletin 256 of the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station (1930).
Figure 2Tabanus atratus is one of the most easily recognized and notorious horse flies in eastern North America. This large, bluish-black fly with black wings can exceed 1 inch in length and inflict a very painful bite. The "blue-tailed fly" of early American ballad fame, this species readily attacks cattle, people and other hosts throughout Missouri during the summer. Illustration by David G. Hall in Bulletin 256 of the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station (1930).
Most Missouri horse flies have aquatic larval stages. The mother flies affix their eggs to vegetation near ponds and streams and the hatching larvae drop into the mud or water, where they live as predators for up to several years, depending on the species. When they are ready to pupate, they move from the water to terrestrial sites and generally emerge synchronously; that is, adults of a particular species all emerge at once, which facilitates mate-finding. Horse flies seem to be present all summer long. In fact, synchronous emergences result in one species being present for a time, then being replaced by another species, and so on. To cattle, however, it means being bitten the entire summer.
Female horse flies seek blood as raw material for energy and to manufacture eggs. The flies are evidently sensitive to parts of the electromagnetic spectrum that humans cannot see. Possibly their sight is like the "thermal vision" cameras used to detect heat leaks in houses. Horse flies are adept at locating warm-blooded animals; cattle, horses and similar large creatures are favored hosts. Humans are often bitten, especially around swimming pools, streams and ponds and on walks in the woods. The female fly uses her sharp mouthparts to slash a wound in the host's skin and then laps up the blood that results. This produces pain and annoyance to the host, plus economically significant blood loss when horse fly populations are large and their feeding pressure is severe. Horse flies have been implicated in transmission of cattle anaplasmosis and other blood-borne diseases in livestock.
Because most horse flies are day-feeders, it is theoretically possible to protect Missouri cattle, horses and people from attack by staying inside during daylight hours. Because this is not practical for pastured beef cattle, producers need information on control techniques that will reduce horse fly biting rates on their livestock. Recommendations useful in other areas of the world, such as moving cattle from low-lying to high pasture in the summer, are ineffective in Missouri because the state's geography is unsuitable.
The biology of horse flies is such that they are not easily controlled by insecticides. Theoretically, it would be possible to kill the larvae by poisoning ponds and streams, but this is both illegal and logistically unworkable. Because the adult flies are large, robust insects that move quickly from host to host, it is difficult to apply enough insecticide to cattle to produce control without overdosing the cattle themselves. However, field trials have demonstrated that daily treatment of cattle with synergized pyrethrins (a natural insecticide extracted from plants of the genus Chrysanthemum) will reduce biting rates by horse flies without adversely affecting cattle. Generally, this has been feasible only for dairy cattle (and for horses) because of their high management level. Few producers are capable of, or willing to, round up beef herds every day, and even if this could be accomplished, the disruption of grazing might actually result in a greater economic loss than that caused by horse flies.
This economic equation changes, however, if the cattle can be made to treat themselves. Almost 50 years ago, MU entomologists Curtis Wingo and Stirling Kyd described an economical cattle self-spraying approach that produced effective horse fly control. It will still do so today.
Obtain a concentrated pyrethrins insecticide labeled for direct application to beef or dairy cattle. For beef cattle, it should contain about 1 percent pyrethrins plus piperonyl butoxide (a synergist that improves the pyrethrins' effect). Materials labeled for dairy cattle will contain less insecticide. Appropriate formulations are sold under various trade names by farm supply or agricultural chemical firms. If you plan to treat horses, be sure that you use a formulation labeled specifically for them.
The insecticide must be sprayed on the cattle daily for best results, although partial control can be achieved by spraying it on every other day. If necessary, this can be done by hand. With horses or show cattle, it may be possible to rub or sponge the material on.
Use the insecticidal concentrate undiluted if so labeled, because a small amount of the undiluted material will give better protection than will larger amounts of spray diluted with water. On dairy cattle, the spray can be applied after the morning milking, by using a pump-up or atomizer hand sprayer. Direct the spray so that it wets the ends of the cow's hair coat and do not apply so much spray that it wets the hide, or else blistering of the skin may occur. Only a few milliliters of spray per animal are required.
On beef cattle, the only practical method of applying a spray every day is to use an automatic treadle-type sprayer. This sprayer is installed in a chute constructed in a gate or similar opening that the cattle must pass through daily. On some farms, water tanks can be fenced to provide such a situation, or watering ponds may be used. In recent years, cattle sprayers using battery or solar power have been marketed, but these all incorporate mineral or similar bait and do not exploit forced-use placement.
Figure 3 presents a front-view diagram of a sprayer that can be constructed by most cattle producers using readily available materials. The pump device, copper or plastic tubing, nozzles, springs and other hardware are available from most farm supply or other stores dealing in sprayer parts.
Figure 3Front view of a treadle sprayer for cattle.
Construction of the sprayer described by Wingo and Kyd proceeds as follows, using galvanized metal and CCA-treated lumber wherever possible.
Figure 4Top view of treadle sprayer.
The treadle sprayer, properly constructed, installed and filled with an appropriate insecticide, will reduce the number of horse flies biting pastured cattle. While the pyrethrins probably kill some of the flies, the compound also acts as a repellent. The sprayer will also control horn flies and face flies, so it is not necessary to use additional treatments against these pests.
Some cattle producers want to reduce horse flies without using any insecticide at all. In the late 1970s, MU Extension entomologist Jim Huggans tested an umbrella-type horse fly trap under Missouri pasture and range conditions and demonstrated that it could provide measurable control for a few cattle or horses.
Insect traps usually function by taking advantage of the insect's behavior. With horse flies, the behaviors exploited are their tendency to "home in" on objects they perceive as hosts, plus a natural inclination to fly or crawl upward (negative geotropism). An umbrella or "Manitoba-type" horse fly trap is easily constructed, but it may require several such traps to reduce biting rates.
The trap consists of four panels made from plastic sheeting, plastic screening or mosquito netting. These are sewn, stapled, glued or fused into a tent shape (Figure 5). The general size of the "tent" is a pyramid about 4 feet high and 3 feet wide along each of the four bases. A grommet or ring may be attached to each lower corner to attach guy lines that hold the trap up. The "tent" canopy is supported in the center by a pole about 6 feet high (Figure 6). This pole also serves to attach the trap's "bait," which is a rubber or plastic beach ball 16 to 20 inches in diameter spray painted black. This ball is affixed to a cord and allowed to hang free under the canopy. Clothesline or other cord may be attached to rubber or plastic balls by using any of several glue-type products sold to make repairs on the soles of athletic shoes. Large copper float balls, often used in agricultural plumbing applications, are a good choice if available. When the trap is fully erected, the ball should be suspended to hang just below the bottom margin of the "tent."
Figure 5Canopy assembly for construction of an umbrella-type horse fly trap. The "tent" is made from four pieces of plastic sheeting, screening or mosquito netting cut in triangles 4 x 4 x 3 feet and stapled or fused into a pyramid shape.
Figure 6The umbrella-type horse fly trap in operation. Note how the center post holds the canopy off the ground, and how the guy lines are used like tent ropes to hold it up. The black-painted beach ball hangs just below the canopy itself.
As an alternative method of constructing the canopy frame, use three 8.5-foot lengths of electrical conduit pipe to form the legs of a tripod. Flatten the final 3 inches of one end of each pipe, drill two 3/8-inch holes through the flattened portion and bolt to the underside of the wooden base plate. (See below.) Bend the legs at a point near the edge of the base plate to form a tripod with the plate about 6 feet above the ground when the assembly is upright. Near the midpoint of each leg, drill a 1/8-inch hole, and then thread a piece of sturdy wire through each hole so that it connects each leg. The top half of this frame should be covered with plastic screen or heavy-gauge clear plastic sheeting, stapled to the periphery of the base plate and then wired or otherwise affixed to the heavy wire passing through the legs of the tripod. The "bait" ball should be hung from the center such that half the ball is below the bottom edge of the canopy covering.
The "trap" portion consists of a 1-gallon transparent or translucent jar (such as a plastic mayonnaise jar) or container that has a metal screw ring-top and an inverted cone installed in its entrance way (Figure 7). This cone is most effectively constructed of transparent material, such as a plastic drinking cup, with the bottom cut out. The base plate can be made from an 8-inch square of plywood; the jar lid is screwed or nailed to it, and a hole is cut through the base plate and lid. The inverted cone is then glued in place inside the jar lid, and the jar is screwed upside down into its lid. See Figure 7 for details.
Cut the canopy at its apex to accommodate the plywood square and fasten the two together. The wooden post that holds the canopy up can be nailed or screwed to the underside of the plywood square.
Figure 7The "trap" portion of the umbrella-type horse fly trap. Fasten a jar lid upside down on a wooden base plate. Cut a hole through the base plate and lid, and glue a plastic cone inside the lid. Replace the jar.
Once the trap is in operation, movement and heat radiating from the black-painted beach ball seem to attract female horse flies. In many cases, they leave cattle or horses and fly to "inspect" the ball. After discovering that it isn't a host animal, they typically fly abruptly upward and thus become caught under the trap's "tent" canopy. They usually continue crawling upward and eventually progress through the hole in the plywood base, through the inverted funnel and into the plastic jar where they cannot escape and return to the host animals. A trapping program can remove enough female flies from an area to decrease the horse fly biting rate.
The location of the trap often seems critical and best determined by trial and error. Well-traveled cattle paths, natural fly-ways through woods or brush, and livestock watering or feeding areas have been productive sites. Livestock will be curious to inspect the trap and will destroy it if they are not excluded by fencing. Barbed wire can be strung around the trap, or electric fencing will do the job. In some cases, it is possible to install the trap on a productive site just outside the cattle or horse pastures.
It is important to empty the capture jar regularly or dead flies will block the entrance. A small piece of insecticide-impregnated resin can be placed into the capture jar to kill the flies rapidly, but they will die in a day or so during midsummer. Field trials have indicated that it usually requires several such traps surrounding a pasture to afford measurable reduction in the horse fly population. Therefore, trapping horse flies may be best suited to protecting a few horses or show cattle confined to small lots or pastures.
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3 � Teens will surely respond to this arrestingly reimagined origin story of the 75-year-old DC Comics� hero, Superman. Director Zack Snyder and co-writers David S. Goyer and Christopher Nolan weave in religious imagery and phrases, which lend the film a kind of weight that may be overdone, but has the power to move and impress teens in search of depth in their movies.
Snyder tells the story in flashbacks and flash-forwards, forcing an audience to pay close attention. It opens on Superman�s home planet of Krypton. Lara (Ayelet Zurer) gives painful birth to him. Her husband Jor-El (Russell Crowe) notes that their planet, its resources depleted, is about to disintegrate. He sends baby Kal-El in a space pod toward Earth, in hopes he will grow into someone Earthlings can learn from. He predicts they�ll see Kal-El as a god. A longtime rival of Jor-El, Gen. Zod (Michael Shannon), stages a failed coup on Krypton. He kills Jor-El and vows to trace Kal-El, retrieve the Kryptonian �codex� Jor-El sent with him, and get revenge.
Cut to the Midwestern farm where baby Kal-El lands. His adoptive parents, Jonathan and Martha Kent (Kevin Costner and Diane Lane), urge the boy to keep his emerging powers secret until he discovers his purpose.
The adult Clark/Kal-El (now Henry Cavill), rather a lost soul, meets Daily Planet reporter Lois Lane (Amy Adams) at an Arctic dig where an alien spacecraft has been discovered. Inside it, Clark/Kal-El learns his history.
Gen. Zod and his minions land on Earth and threaten to destroy humanity. Jor-El advises his son from beyond to save humankind: �Guide them. Give them hope ... you will accomplish wonders.� The last third of the film runs too long and the aerial battles are impossible to follow. Yet the overall effect of �Man of Steel� is highly satisfying.
THE BOTTOM LINE: The violence becomes highly destructive at the film�s climax. Thousands surely die, though we see no victims up close, except for one person alive and pinned under wreckage. The climactic battle over Metropolis recalls images of 9-11. Clark�s adoptive dad dies during a tornado, not allowing Clark to save him. Nine-year-old Clark (Cooper Timberline) freaks out at school when his X-ray vision kicks in. Thirteen-year-old Clark (Dylan Sprayberry) saves a school bus sinking in a river. Characters use occasional crude language and toilet humor and a modified, abbreviated use of the F-word
�This Is The End� R � This knock-down-drag-out, profane and monumentally crude farce aims its humor at 20-something guys and older. It is SO not for under-17s, though many will doubtless see it. The stars and creators of �Superbad� (R, 2007), �Pineapple Express� (R, 2008), and other bad-boy/stoner flicks play versions of themselves in �This Is the End.�
If profundity through comedy was a goal of co-directors and co-writers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, they mostly miss their target, but the movie is a guilty pleasure for adults who still love frat-house humor. Expanded from a 2007 short titled �Jay and Seth Versus The Apocalypse,� the film brings Canadian-born actor-pals Jay Baruchel and Seth Rogen together as themselves. Jay comes to visit Seth in L.A. Though he hates Hollywood types, Seth drags him to a party at James Franco�s house, where cocaine, pot and mini-orgies abound.
High-profile Hollywood folk Michael Cera, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Mindy Kaling, Rihanna, Paul Rudd and Emma Watson mingle with Seth�s buds Jonah Hill, Danny McBride and Craig Robinson. Suddenly, there�s a huge earthquake. Chasms open up and swallow people, public order disintegrates, a huge satanic demon appears and mayhem ensues. Jay argues the Apocalypse has begun. (Later, we see people beamed up to Heaven in columns of blue light.)
Seth, Jay, Hill, McBride and Robinson hole up with Franco in his hopefully impregnable mansion. Things go quickly �Lord of the Flies,� until Seth and Jay realize they need to be better people to get to Heaven.
THE BOTTOM LINE: �This Is the End� includes gory horror-movie-style violence, such as a beheading, a demonic monster with a prominent phallus, and a cannibalism joke. Characters engage in drug use and drinking and use continual strong profanity, graphic sexual slang, crude sexual innuendo and rape jokes. There is much gross toilet humor and a nude photo from a porn magazine. The movie�s irreverent spoof of the Apocalypse is bound to offend some on religious grounds.


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Delta Proving Grounds is the Premier Off-Road Track in the Intermountain Area. Competition Classes are listed below:
Unlimited Class
Wildly modified rigs that are too much for the other classes.
Pro Mod
This is the front engine tube buggy class.
Legend Class
Modified trail vehicles that may not have a tubular chassis. These vehicles have front mounted engines and generally resemble a production vehicle.
Street Stock Class
Just what the name implies, these vehicles can be driven on the street.
JK Class
Trail worthy JKs are what this class is about.
Formula Toyota or F Toy Class
These highly modified vehicles use Toyota running gear in a modified chassis.
UTV Class
Stock UTVs Welcome.
ATV Class
No rules developed yet.
Blades must be removed.


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Tips to Stay Safe during Winter Weather
EASTERN, NC, Feb. 11, 2014 – As the southeast once again braces for winter storms, the Eastern NC Region of the American Red Cross is preparing to respond if needed. Five teams of Red Cross shelter volunteers are on standby in the Cape Fear, Coastal Carolina and Onslow County Chapter areas in the event that shelters need to be opened. Emergency Response Vehicle (ERV) crews are also on standby to drive Red Cross disaster relief vehicles located in Wilmington, New Bern, Goldsboro, Rocky Mount, and Elizabeth City. These vehicles can be mobilized to transport and distribute food, drinks, and supplies into disaster affected areas when travel becomes safe.
With several inches of snow and poor driving conditions predicted for many of our communities, the American Red Cross has steps everyone should follow to stay safe during this latest winter storm.
WINTER DRIVING SAFETY TIPS The best thing to do during a winter storm is stay off the roads if possible. If you have to drive, the Red Cross offers these tips about how to drive safely during a winter storm or what to do if you become stuck in your vehicle:
- Make sure your vehicle is ready for winter with a window scraper, kitty litter or sand in case you get stuck, extra clothes and a Disaster Supplies Kit in your trunk. Pack high-protein snacks, water, first aid kit, flashlight, small battery-operated radio, an emergency contact card with names and phone numbers, extra prescription medications, blankets and important documents or information you may need.
- Fill the vehicle's gas tank and clean the lights and windows to help you see.
- Find out what disasters may occur where you are traveling and pay attention to the weather forecast. Before you leave, let someone know where you are going, the route you plan to take, and when you expect to get there. If your car gets stuck, help can be sent along your predetermined route.
- If you can, avoid driving in sleet, freezing rain, snow or dense fog. If you have to drive, make sure everyone has their seat belts on and give your full attention to the road. Avoid distractions such as cell phones.
- Don't follow other vehicles too closely. Sudden stops are difficult on snowy roadways.
- Don't use cruise control when driving in winter weather.
- Don't pass snow plows.
- Know that ramps, bridges and overpasses will freeze before roadways.
- Don't run your engine and heater constantly to help avoid running out of gas. Don't use things like lights or the radio without the engine running so the battery doesn't conk out.
- If you can, move your vehicle off the roadway. Stay with it – don't abandon it. If you have to get out of your vehicle, use the side away from traffic.
COLD WEATHER SAFETY TIPS Follow these steps to stay safe as the winter onslaught continues:
- Wear layers of lightweight clothing to stay warm. Gloves and a hat will help prevent losing body heat.
- Someone should seek medical attention immediately if they have symptoms of hypothermia, including confusion, dizziness, exhaustion and severe shivering.
- Watch for symptoms of frostbite, including numbness, flushed gray, white, blue or yellow skin discoloration, numbness, or waxy feeling skin.
- Don't forget family pets – bring them indoors. If they can't come inside, make sure they have enough shelter to keep them warm and that they can get to unfrozen water.
- Avoid frozen pipes – run water, even at a trickle, to help prevent them from freezing. Open the kitchen and bathroom cabinet doors to allow warmer air to circulate around the plumbing. Be sure to move any harmful cleaners and household chemicals out of the reach of children. Keep the garage doors closed if there are water lines in the garage.
- Keep the thermostat at the same temperature day and night to help avoid freezing pipes.
- Download the Red Cross First Aid App for quick, expert advice on what to do in case of an emergency. This free app is available on the Apple iTunes or Google Play stores.
For more disaster preparedness information and latest updates, visit redcross.org.
About the American Red Cross:
The American Red Cross shelters, feeds and provides emotional support to victims of disasters; supplies about 40 percent of the nation's blood; teaches skills that save lives; provides international humanitarian aid; and supports military members and their families. The Red Cross is a not-for-profit organization that depends on volunteers and the generosity of the American public to perform its mission. For more information, please visit redcross.org or visit us on Twitter at @RedCross.


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Rokita's Office Asked to Participate in National Summit on Web Resources for Voters
Contact: AJ Freeney-Ruiz
Indianapolis, IN - Today, Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita's office will share its successful e-Services program, which provides voters with information on and around Election Day at a summit sponsored by the federal Election Assistance Commission (EAC) in Washington, D.C. In May, Rokita announced a website to answer voter questions on Election Day and for Hoosiers to report cases of election fraud and accessibility problems during the Primary Election. The resource assisted Indiana voters on Election Day and helped maintain the integrity of the state's electoral process.
The "2006 Primary Election Day HQ," which still can be accessed via Rokita's official website found at www.sos.IN.gov, is part of Rokita's ongoing e-Services effort to incorporate technology into initiatives and duties undertaken by the Secretary of State's office. A member of Rokita's office will help to create a set of "best practices" with regard to voting information websites.
"For the first time ever in an Indiana election, our 'Election Day HQ' website provides a variety of Election Day resources at the fingertips of Indiana voters," Rokita said in May. "By accessing the site, Hoosiers can find out where they are supposed to vote, provide easy to understand answers on the new Voter ID law, and even access videos on how to use the new electronic voting systems found throughout the state." The site also allows voters to submit questions directly to Secretary of State staff members on Election Day.
This is the third time in the last month Rokita and the office have been asked to participate in working groups affecting election reform and practices at the national level. Since taking office, Rokita has been called to Washington on multiple occasions. As both Indiana's Chief Election Officer and as a member of the Executive Board of the EAC's Standards Board, which advises the Commission on election administration issues, Rokita has showcased Indiana's efforts in statewide election administration with fellow local and national officials.
"As Indiana is again asked to present our reform efforts, we are honored to share our experiences in creating the Election Day Headquarters and our online Polling Place Locator which received almost a half-million hits on Election Day," Rokita said. "Additionally, I am excited to present our efforts to prepare for Election Day webcasts, enabling the Secretary and the office to present, through live video feeds on the website, additional training and education as needed.