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On May 24th, Tony and I will celebrate 5 years of marriage. (more wedding posts here and here!)
I feel like it's gone by pretty quickly, yet thinking back to the sweltering late-spring day when we made it official, it seems like we were just babies. Young and happy. Naive and optimistic and a little unsure of what the world held for us.
Perhaps we've now dropped the "young" and "naive" parts, but our happiness has expanded and matured and grown in a way we couldn't have fathomed on that May day five years ago.
Five years is just a blip compared to the decades and decades that stretch out before us. Yet I do think that these five will be some of the most fondly-remembered ones of our marriage. These years stretched us. These years loved us. These years certainly blessed us and shaped us and have set our lives on a course that we can embrace.
These years saw us through jobs and new jobs and money stresses and financial blessings. These years witnessed heartache and frustration and satisfaction and joy. These first five years led us to our baby. We learned together, we grew together, we schemed and dreamed together. These past five years were real.
Tony and I aren't the public affection type. Or even much of the private affection type (kidding. sorta...). We are both so perfectly in sync on how we love each other in that neither cares for gifts or declarations or grand gestures. And in truth, that's much how our relationship started.
(And guess what?!? Here's where I belabor the story of our love...)
It was fall of my sophomore year of college at the University of Georgia. I was feeling my independence and the need for cash and had decided I needed a job. I had browsed ads half-heartedly with little success. I happened to take a short cut through our student center one day and happened to notice a sign advertising a local job fair than happened to be going on that very moment (see what tales of fate hold? lots of "happened"s).
I decided I didn't have much to lose so I gave it a try. Seeing as how the job fair was school-sponsored, it held lots of strange companies and not quite the restaurant job I had in mind. I was about to leave when I saw one booth where the woman working it had the same black flower necklace that I had which was one of my favorites. I lingered longer, simply because of that necklace. She caught my eye and I walked up to her booth.
She was pitching the Holiday Inn that was super close to campus and Athen's lively downtown area. There were positions available in the on-site restaurant. I took a flyer and went home, brushing it off a bit. Yet as my options remained slim, I decided to apply. I remember asking my friends if it would be totally lame to work at a hotel restaurant, the Holiday Inn, no less (Chingy's song was in in those days...) We all decided that it probably was, but money was money.
I interviewed, wowed them with my college-student skills and prowess, and was told to come in for my first day. I was supposed to wear black pants, a white button down shirt, and the typical terrible non-slip shoes that make your feet look like they are immersed in black cement bricks. I am already shy and nervous in new places and felt like a total idiot walking in there that day.
(I know, this is terribly long already - sorry.)
As I entered the deserted restaurant and bar (a typical scene, I would soon discover...), a guy was standing behind the bar, watching tv, eating, and doing his homework. I quietly introduced myself as the new person and he barely looked my direction. "Friendly" and "welcoming" were not how you would describe him. I already felt like a fool and he didn't help. His name was Tony.
|(Thanks Addison, for capturing this special moment... ha!)
|Don't tell the health department...
We worked together in this way for nearly a year. He had a girlfriend, that I knew, and I remember passing by him one late night as we were both enjoying Mardi Gras with friends. It was the first time I started to notice him in a non-colleague sort of way.
|I'm eternally grateful to our friend who snapped this picture - we weren't dating yet - but I think Tony was already in love. :)
I'll spare you the sappy details - but believe it or not (you wouldn't believe it if you know me in real life - I'm shy!) - I kissed him first.
Tony came into my life at a time when I needed him the most. He was unexpected. We didn't seek each other out or over-try, life simply brought us together and what blossomed was real.
We've never been sugar-coated or sappy and we like it that way. We don't take ourselves too seriously.
Tony makes me laugh every day. He supports me, he thinks of me in ways I am constantly surprised by. He knows what I like on a sandwich and knows to not give me the spoon used to scoop the ice cream because I don't like the sticky. He cares for me, and shows it in a way that is so uniquely him.
We spent the rest of our college years working together at that infamous Holiday Inn. We would bartend together and I would crack up as he won over the older single women who just wanted someone kind to talk to. He paid off my credit card balance so I wouldn't pay interest (I paid him right back!! He set us up right from the beginning, though, that's for sure...). We would go to Waffle House at 5 am after working the bar all day long on football game days and he would tip the waitress a $20 because we had a good night. He loved his dog Sandy in a way that was so very special. He painted me a music box when I insisted we do homemade gifts for Valentine's. He gave me a Christmas card that sang Feliz Navidad. He cooked for me, introducing me to a diet beyond cereal and mac and cheese. He made me happy.
Tony comes across crusty, just like he did that very first day I came to work, but spend just a few minutes getting to know him and you will see the kind, compassionate, selfless person who I have the pleasure of waking up to every single morning.
We bonded over restaurant exploring and beach trips and our dreams for the future. We didn't really talk about it, because we never needed to, but I knew I would marry him after only a few months of dating. It was just that easy. That real. No pretense, no crazy, just real. I blinked, and here we were, inextricably together with such ease.
One April Saturday, when I was out of town on a day trip for school, Tony woke up, made a decision, and drove to Atlanta and bought me a ring. When I got home that evening, he let me pick a movie (Love Actually!) and afterwards, as we were just talking, he went into his closet, nonchalantly. My heart started racing because I could just tell something was off. He emerged with some laundry and I felt silly for letting my mind get ahead. Minutes later, he was talking, telling me all of the wonderful things that were so true and so wonderful about our lives. He asked me to marry him and I said yes among tears and shaky hands. I so wish I could remember what he said (that was the first and likely the last time I will ever get that kind of emotion out of him!!)
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Risky Business adds up climate change costs
Tom Steyer certainly knows how to keep his name in circulation.
The hedge fund billionaire turned climate activist has a knack for picking projects that keep him in the public eye.
Whether he's pushing through a tax-reform ballot initiative in California or bankrolling a controversial ad against the Keystone XL pipeline, Steyer rarely drops out of sight for long.
Now he has teamed with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on a typically ambitious effort - counting up the economic costs of climate change.
Risky Business
The new project, dubbed Risky Business, will try to forecast just how much money climate change could cost the United States in years to come. It will use a combination of existing data and new research to produce its risk assessment, planned for release next summer.
Steyer hosted President Obama for a fundraiser in his Pacific Heights home this spring, and he's considered a rising force in California Democratic politics.
But Risky Business will try to straddle America's political spectrum. Henry Paulson, U.S. Treasury secretary under George W. Bush and a Republican, has signed on as co-chairman. Bloomberg, meanwhile, is an independent.
Risky Business will operate as a joint initiative of Bloomberg Philanthropies, Paulson's office and San Francisco think tank Next Generation. Steyer sits on Next Generation's board.
Granted, Steyer, Paulson and Bloomberg could have picked a better time to announce their project. Risky Business' launch this week caused barely a stir, as the federal government shutdown shoved most every other news story to the sidelines.
We'll see if the project's results get more notice, when they finally arrive. Here's betting they will.
'Tar sands tanker'
Activists fighting an oil sands pipeline project on the West Coast have come up with a novel way to grab the public's attention.
On Tuesday, they debuted a website that tracks tanker ships bringing diluted bitumen from the oil sands to refineries in California and Washington state. The site will even alert you when a "tar sands tanker" sails into your area.
The tankers get their cargo from the Trans Mountain pipeline, which connects northern Alberta to a port just outside Vancouver. The pipeline's owner, Kinder Morgan Canada, wants to nearly triple Trans Mountain's capacity, making it even larger than the hotly debated Keystone XL pipeline extension. And yet few Americans even realize that Trans Mountain exists.
ForestEthics, an environmental group with branches in the United States and Canada, hopes to change that.
The group created the website http://tarsandssos.org to drive home the point that tankers filled with diluted bitumen - or dilbit - are already plying West Coast waters, about 80 ships per year.
And traffic would jump if Trans Mountain expands. Add in another proposed oil sands pipeline farther north - the Enbridge Northern Gateway - and the number of ships could rise to 600 per year.
"This is a cross-border issue," said Matt Krogh of ForestEthics. "Are we going to build a wall of opposition to these proposals? At ForestEthics, we say yes."
Diluted bitumen is a form of heavy crude mixed with lighter hydrocarbons. If spilled in water, it can sink once the lighter elements evaporate. That makes cleanup difficult.
"Your standard crude spill is bad enough," Krogh said. "But with tar sands, it's worse. We really don't know how to clean it up."
A Trans Mountain spokeswoman could not be reached for comment this week.
The new website uses identification numbers transmitted by ships to track them up and down the coast. But the site has glitches. On some computers, it shows two tankers, both near Vancouver, British Columbia. On other computers, it shows no ships at all. The source of the error has not yet been identified.
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With the help of our latest guests, a quick and fun look at what is so different, frustrating and downright wonderful about our new home…
Awesome: the most overworked word in Canada;
Bears: not just in the woods, but on the lawn and in the compost bin;
Chinese food: not found a good one yet… but we'll keep trying!
Dumpster divers: not just tramps, but an important recycling service;
Eh: the most overworked exclamation in Canada;
Flag ladies: employed to direct traffic around roadworks; upset them at your peril!
Guns: not too visible, but there are plenty around;
Hockey: is Ice Hockey and it's the National Sport – get into it!
Inukshuk: if we didn't know what it was before the Olympics, we all know now – look it up.
Knickers: I still cannot get used to calling trousers pants without giggling, and my friends and colleagues can't hear me say trousers without giggling.
Lube jobs: Jiffy Lube is still the funniest company name, even if our neighbours don't get the joke.
Math: Sorry, I know it's annoying but there is no S at the end.
Nanaimo: just one of the many place names we found impossible to pronounce. Coquihalla, Ucluelet and Coquitlam also stumped us.
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Plugs: silly low voltage, flimsy 2-pin plugs and not enough sockets.
Rick Hansen: The Man In Motion, National Hero and Treasure, motivational speaker – why is this man not Prime Minister?
Skunks: the most terrifying of all the wildlife we have met so far.
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Information theoretic bounds on the effectiveness of neural prosthetics
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© Goodman and Johnson; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2007
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- Spike Train
- Cochlear Implant
- Spike Rate
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- Aggregate Population
Capacity defines the ultimate fidelity limits of information transmission by any system, be it conveyed by digital, analog or spike train signals. Rate-distortion theory shows that regardless of how error is defined, any system having a smaller capacity than another must result in larger estimation errors. For example, this theory shows that, for bandlimited Gaussian stimuli, the smallest possible mean-squared error decays exponentially with capacity. Since a single neuron's capacity is proportional to peak spike rate, ∝ exp{-λmax/eW} (W is the stimulus bandwidth).
We conclude that stimulation prosthetics face no fundamental barriers to being effective. Neural control systems do, however. This fundamental limitation can be overcome by using spike sorting (teasing apart the gross potential into its constituents) and/or by using feedback, which has been shown to increase capacity.
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Holmes Ammidown. Softcover, 1995 reprint of this 1874 book, as new, Index, Illus., fold-out maps, 557 pages. According to the publisher: This book covers five different, yet related topics, four of which are early town histories. The towns covered are: Oxford, MA; Dudley, MA; Webster, MA; and Woodstock, CT (originally in MA). Each town's history is discussed from its formation and settlement up to the time that the book was originally published, 1874. This includes discussions of: the original land grant; the first settlers; the origin of the town's name; the first town meeting and officers; the first church; and other important historical events. Special attention is given to each town's ecclesiastical history. The first section in the book is a very in depth look at the Reformation in France. It may seem strange that the Reformation is discussed in a book of town histories, but, upon a closer look, the connection is evident. The author hoped that a look at the Reformation might provide an insight into what drove a small group of thirty Huguenot families to leave behind all that they knew and head to the wilderness of the New World to establish a place where they might worship freely. It was those same Huguenots that helped settle the town of Oxford, MA. Illustrations of key figures, foldout maps of Oxford and Dudley, and a new surname index, all add to the value of an already helpful book. Partial List of Surnames: Adams, Ainsworth, Aldrich, Allen, Almy, Ammidown, Andrews, Andros, Angell, Arkwright, Arnold, Aspinwall, Austin, Avery, Backus, Bacon, Baker, Baldwin, Ballard, Ballou, Bancroft, Barber, Bardwell, Barnes, Barrett, Barrows, Bartholomew, Bartlet, Barton, Bastow, Bates, Beach, Beecher, Belcher, Bellamont, Benedict, Bentley, Bernon, Bishop, Blackmar, Blackwell, Bondet, Bonrepose, Boomer, Boutelle, Bowdoin, Bowen, Bowles, Bowman, Boyden, Bracket, Bradford, Braman, Branch, Briggs, Brodhead, Brooks, Brown, Browning, Buck, Buckingham, Bugbee, Burgess, Burnet, Burnett, Butcher, Butler, Cady, Calvin, Campbell, Carpenter, Carroll, Carter, Chamberlain, Chandler, Chapin, Chapman, Chase, Cheney, Child, Clark, Cleveland, Coburn, Coligny, Collier, Comings, Conant, Cook, Corbin, Cornbury, Courtis, Cox, Craft, Cromwell, Daillie, Davenport, Davis, Day, Debeza, Demaintenon, Demedici, Dewitt, Dexter, Dodge, Dudley, Dupont, Dutuffeau, Dwight, Eaton, Eddy, Edmonds, Eliot, Elwell, Faneuil, Fenner, Fenwick, Fisher, Fiske, Fitch, Fitts, Fittz, Flynn, Foster, Fox, Franklin, Freak, Frissell, Fuller, Gano, Gardiner, Gary, Gilmore, Gleason, Gookin, Gordon, Gore, Green, Griggs, Grosvenor, Grow, Hageburn, Hall, Hammond, Hancock, Harrington, Harris, Haskell, Hawley, Healy, Hicks, Hill, Hodges, Holman, Holmes, Hopkins, Houghton, Hovey, Howard, Howe, Hubbard, Hudson, Hull, Hume, Humphrey, Hutchinson, Hyde, Jackson, Jennison, Jewell, Jewett, Johnson, Johonnot, Keith, Kendall, Kimball, Kingsbury, Knight, Lachaise, Lamb, Learned, Leavens, Ledoyt, Lee, Lefevre, Lemercier, Leonard, Levens, Lewis, Lillie, Lincoln, Lorimer, Louvois, Luther, Lyman, Lyon, Manning, Marcy, Marsh, Martin, Mather, Mathewson, May, Mayo, Mazarin, McClellan, Melancthon, Menzel, Merrill, Mixer, Montmorency, Moore, Morris, Morse, Moulton, Newell, Newton, Nichols, Oglethorpe, Oliver, Olney, Ormsbee, Paine, Palmer, Papillon, Parker, Parkhurst, Payne, Payson, Peak, Pease, Pemberton, Penniman, Perrin, Perry, Phillips, Phipps, Pope, Porter, Potter, Pratt, Prentice, Proctor, Putnam, Putney, Randolph, Rawson, Ribault, Rice, Rich, Richardson, Richelieu, Robbins, Robinson, Rockwood, Rogers, Ruggles, Russell, Sabin, Sanger, Sargent, Sayles, Scarborough, Sessions, Shirley, Shumway, Sibley, Sigourney, Silliman, Skinner, Slater, Smith, Smithers, Snow, Southworth, Stevens, Stiles, Stockwell, Stoddard, Stone, Stoughton, Streeter, Swift, Taylor, Thayer, Thompson, Tiffany, Tillotson, Tourtellot, Town, Trumbull, Tucker, Tufts, Turner, Twitchel, Tyler, Underwood, Upham, Vinton, Wakefield, Walker, Walter, Ward, Warren, Washington, Waters, Weaver, Webber, Webster, Weiss, Wells, Wendell, Wetherell, Wheelock, White, Whitfield, Whitmore, Whitney, Wilkinson, Williams, Wilson, Winslow, Winthrop, Wolcott, Wood, Woodford. [A001-H]


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Randall Cox and Lacey Wood, Moundville, and Gavin are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, Gabriella Rain Cox.
Gabriella was born at 8:14 a.m., Aug. 23, 2006, at Mount Carmel Regional Medical Center, Pittsburg, Kan. She weighed 7 pounds, 14 ounces, 18.75 inches.
Paternal grandparents are Randy Cox, Joplin, Mo., and Cheryl Canfield, Iola, Kan. Paternal great-grandparents Marlene and Jack Kendrick, Fort Scott, and L. Cranor, Iola. Paternal great-great-grandparent is Wade Byington, Garland, Kan.
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Read this tip to make your life smarter, better, faster and wiser. LifeTips is the place to go when you need to know about Blade Free Lasik and other LASIK topics.
The significant difference between blade free LASIK and traditional LASIK is the way in which the corneal flap is cut. However, it is also this difference which makes blade free LASIK a superior procedure capable of producing more successful results with fewer possibilities for complications. The technological advancements behind this blade free procedure make it possible for surgeons to create a more precise corneal flap which is tailored to the patient's eye. This results in a decreased risk in the potential for complications which result from the corneal flap not healing correctly.
Although complications in LASIK surgery are relatively rare, the complications which do arise are often a result of the use of a microkeratome blade to cut the corneal flap. If this cut is not made precisely, the flap may not adhere to the eye properly and cause complications, such as double vision or distorted vision which require additional procedures to correct the problems. However, blade free LASIK surgery uses an infrared laser controlled by a computer to create the flap in the cornea. This flap is created by an infrared laser passing through the eye and creating a series of microscopic bubbles just below the corneal surface at a precise location and depth. Once these bubbles are created, the surgeon can lift the flap and proceed with the surgery.
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Navien NR Water Heater
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Read more about Navien Water Heaters | NR Warranty
Overview of the NR
The Navien NR is a condensing tankless gas water heater with a 0.96 D.O.E. energy factor. It is Energy Star qualified, with a compact wall mount design which uses much less space than a traditional tank-type water heater. The unit utilizes dual corrosion-resistant stainless steel heat exchangers and can be vented with 3" schedule 40 PVC pipe. The NR uses condensing technology, which is eco-friendly and reduces NOx emissions levels, and allows cascading of up to 16 units in one group within the system. An intelligent remote control has features including touch activate backlight function, built-in recirculation timer for water and energy savings, and advanced water heater diagnosis capability and error feedback.
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Date created: 2017-07-03
Name: Greg Hefner
Location: Sneads Ferry, NC
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Had this Navien installed when we built the house 6 years ago. Worked good for about 2 years, then wham, all sorts of problems since then! We have replaced every replaceable item in the unit and still get the same error codes and shut down. Right now we are going through the same thing again. I had family over this weekend and every time someone wanted to take a shower, I had to sit in front of the display and reset it every time it stopped. That was every shower by the way. The tech on the phone can't figure out the problem along with my installer, these Navien units are truly a piece of crap!
Date created: 2016-09-30
Name: Scott Vanderploeg
Location: Michigan
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This heater is the worst idea ever. 5 years of having cold showers, shut downs, having to beat on the unit to get it to come on, one headache after another. I removed the unit to return it it and oh, guess what--now my warranty is void because I uninstalled it. So now I'm out the very high price of purchase. And I've got an 80 pound paper weight. I would suggest not buying one!
Date created: 2016-03-14
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Location: California
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As a homeowner (and end user) I can't stand Navien. Their support is awful. We just moved into our house six month ago, and the tankless unit is less than four years old. We realized that it took a long time to get hot water – over four minutes! And or house is not very big. In fact, we have one shower right next to the water heater, and it takes over three minutes for that one to get hot. It's not conducive for washing dishes and baby bottles. And it's wasteful especially when we're in a drought. We had the annual maintenance done on the unit and the plumber informed us that our recirculation pump was shot. (The pump was shot after only 3 years of being in use). We called our home warranty company and they covered the pump for us, but it took over three weeks for Navien to get us the new pump. I should add that Navien will not speak to home owners directly, only plumbers. So any time something goes wrong with the unit, you have to call a plumber. (My husband and I are both engineers, and he works on pumps and systems at the local nuclear power plant, but Navien won't troubleshoot the issue with him). Once it was installed, we got hot water right away, for a bit – then it quit working. There is an internal or external recirculation mode. We wanted to use the internal mode. (The external mode is great if you have an established routine, you can run it at the same time every day and you get hot water instantly. It basically keeps the water in the line hot all the time). If you're like us, with sporadic schedules, it's highly inefficient to keep the water in the external line hot all the time). The internal mode essentially heats a small reservoir (about a gallon). That water is always hot, it just takes a few seconds to get to the fixtures. We have had five different plumbers out here. First Navien said that the original plumber didn't flush/bleed the pump, so the second plumber did that. Again the water heater worked for about a day. Then Navien said the entire house needed to be flushed – of course everything was fine with the water heater, but there might be debris in the line. So we spent over $500 to flush our system. The water heater worked for a few hours. The water will get hot, but then it won't stay hot at all. So a shower will use a gallon of hot water, then it goes lukewarm at best. Basically we have a 1 gallon water heater. Then it won't keep heating the water. Today the plumber came out (6th time) and did the troubleshooting with Navien. Navien recommended using the recirculation pump in the external mode. So we have that set to run all day. It turns on every few minutes – I'm no expert but it can't be efficient at all. No one is able to tell us why the water heater won't work properly with the internal recircation mode. Also, no one will tell us why we can't get hot water if the recirculation pump isn't working or turned on. Before we had anyone fix the pump we could get hot water – it just took a really long time.
Date created: 2015-08-13
Name: Deborah Shanks
Location: Reno, NV
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Do not waste your money on a Navien tankless water heater. I have had my series NR 210 for 3.5 years and it has been nothing but a problem. It breaks down every 4-6 months. Save yourself the frustration and costs and purchase another brand.
Other NR Reviews
A post on terrylove.com lists consumer issues with the NR with water flow and the unit not being able to handle hot water demand. Other reviews on sites such as Amazon.com list the same type of problem, which seems to be taken care of with a recirculation line.
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The Jewellers Association of New Zealand (JANZ) is a non-profit specialist trade section within Retail NZ, comprised of jewellery retailing and wholesaling members operating in New Zealand.
JANZ is a collective voice New Zealand's jewellery industry members to advocate on issues facing the industry. JANZ is an organisation that promotes good practice within the industry. Additionally, JANZ monitors the industry to make submissions to the necessary associations or commissions on behalf of its members if there is false or misleading advertising or trading taking place within the industry.
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Eleanor Poola, 93, of Raccoon Twp., passed away Monday, August 26, 2013 in Heritage Valley, Beaver.
Born March 7, 1920, in Natrona, a daughter of the late Frank and Clara (Pizorski) Ziemkiewicz, she was Catholic by faith. Mrs. Poola was a former member of St. Joseph Catholic Church in West Aliquippa and the St. Joseph Confraternity of Christian Mothers. She served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II as a WAAC.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her beloved husband, Peter 'Pecky' Poola, on July 8, 1995; three brothers, Henry, Frank and Leonard Ziemkiewicz, and two sisters, Helen Abraham and Betty Kerns.
Surviving are two sons and a daughter-in-law, Edward Poola of Leetsdale, and Sam and Mary Jane Poola of Raccoon Twp.; four grandchildren, Sammy Poola, Lisa (Tim) Fedorka, Victoria (Shad) Anderson and Eddie Poola; six great-grandchildren, Francesca, Nick, Jonathan, Lillian, Joseph and Emily, and a niece, Jane Cheatwood.
Friends will be received Saturday from 1 p.m. until 4:45 p.m. in the TATALOVICH FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATION SERVICES, INC., 2205 McMinn St., Aliquippa, www.tatalovichfuneralhome.com, where the Beaver County Special Unit will conduct military honors, followed by a blessing service at 5 p.m., with her nephew, Father Frank Ziemkiewicz, officiating.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital.
The family would like to thank Dr. K.N. Shetty for all of his kindness and loving care over the years.


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Just a quick note as I am just coming back from a small vacation and saw the news that LEAP-X reportedly got their first two customers - ILFC for the remaining 40 of their 100 A320NEO order and Virgin America for 30 A320neo. The latter is no real surprise, as it was CFM to loose as the incumbent here. Lessors tend to split their A320 orders anyway, so one could anticipate that, too.
The next very-likely-LEAP-X-powered-A320neo-order should be from AirAsia. As Tony Fernandes wants to convert some of the "Classic"-orders and the current Air Asia order is CFM56-powered, a deal including a conversion of orders is only thinkable with CFM.
Still open are TAM with their MoU for 22 A320neo.
During the Paris Air Show we will probably see orders from Republic and Qatar for the A320neo. I would expect Qatar to choose the GTF, as they are also likely to order the CSeries, which is exclusively powered by the GTF. Republic as one of the existing CSeries customers is also a good candidate for the GTF on the A320neo.
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If Tony has received our offer and has acted as has been recommended to him from this end, then very likely Tony will have arranged with Leahy for contractual type swapping flexibilty from A32X Series to H2XQR Series, which in practical terms actually re-opens the engine issue : it would give him the free option to go from eg A321 (3+3) (with classical CFMI engines) to eg H21QR (or H22QR, if relevant ?) (1+3+1) NEO (Leap-X or PurePower, open choice in theory, but the likely combination for Tony is the Leap-X, correct !). Time will tell if Tony did arrange for/wants to avail himself of such contractual flexibility ?ReplyDelete
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"I love the Red Sox!"
- Egon Spengler; Ghostbusters Volume 2 Issue #6
The Wall-Trap[1] is a voice-activated Trap.[2]
The Wall-Trap is an idea thought of by Ray Stantz.[3] A modified Super Slammer Muon Trap was placed behind a panel above the kitchen sink on the second floor of the Firehouse. When activated by the verbal pass code "I love the Red Sox!", the panel slides open and the Wall-Trap activates. Trapped ghosts are instantly transferred into the Containment Unit down in the basement.
During a summer, while Egon Spengler and Roger Baugh were trying to revive Janine Melnitz, their attempts caught the attention of three Draugar who were part of a group planning to offer her soul to Hel. They found Egon's threat amusing but he activated the Wall-Trap and captured two Draugar. The last refused to back down and showed Egon and Roger what happened to Janine. Once the three were all restored to normal, the remaining nine Draugar appeared and swore they would have their revenge. Egon simply activated the Wall-Trap again. Egon went to check the Containment Unit to see if the larger than usual load of ghosts were all properly deposited.
Kylie Griffin sacrificed the Wall-Trap to distract the Cerberus Manifestation while some of the Ghostbusters retreated downstairs. Since the manifestation had P.K.E., the trap was able to pull the entity towards it. The manifestation eventually resisted its pull and tore the trap apart.
- Peter Venkman suggested the pass code because it was less likely to be spoken accidentally.[4]
- The pass code is a nod to the rivalry between the Major League Baseball teams, the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees.
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- ↑ Egon Spengler (2013). IDW Comics- "Ghostbusters Volume 2 Issue #6" (2013) (Comic p.19). Egon says: "I really should check to make sure that Wall-Trap properly deposited everything into the Containment Unit."
- ↑ Kylie Griffin (2015). IDW Comics- "Ghostbusters: Get Real Issue #3" (2015) (Comic p.17). Kylie says: "It's a voice-activated failsafe."
- ↑ Janine Melnitz (2013). IDW Comics- "Ghostbusters Volume 2 Issue #6" (2013) (Comic p.19). Janine says: "I gotta hand it to Ray. I never thought those things would come in handy."
- ↑ Egon Spengler (2013). IDW Comics- "Ghostbusters Volume 2 Issue #6" (2013) (Comic p.6). Egon says: "That was the trigger for a voice-activated trap. Venkman felt that that particular passcode was less likely to be spoken accidentally."


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No, you're crying! EIGHT MONTHS. How. How did this happen!? Just one more month and Tyler will have been out in the world for as long as he was in my tummy! I've just gone all tingly writing that. Anyway, howdy, how has your month been? Tyler is now a fully fledged crawling, babbling, thriving eight month old and I just don't believe it! If you missed it, you can read Tyler's 7 month update here.
I have some bad mum news again.. I still haven't had Tyler weighed! I will do this Friday though, I promise myself ha! Place your bets now ladies and gentlemen.
Tyler's reflux has really settled and is one million times better than it was thanks to the anti-reflux milk. There have now even been a couple of days where he hasn't been sick at all. Most days there are one or two little "dribbly" bits of sick which is just amazing in comparison! I honestly can't tell you how happy I am that my little man is no longer spending his day constantly vomiting!
I'm not sure if this is related to the reflux or not but Tyler seems to have a lot of hiccups at the moment, if anyone else has a baby with reflux, did they seem to have an increase of hiccups once they were on anti-reflux milk? I'd be interested to know if you've experienced this!
Last month I shared a post about 5 things that I wish I had known about weaning and it went down super well! With regards to weaning, Tyler is still doing super well with it. We're slowly but surely getting into more textured purees and we recently discovered that Tyler loves grapes!(cut in half of course). He doesn't seem to be too fond of anything that's heavily tomato based, which is odd because I have ketchup or tomatoes with pretty much every meal.. ha! We've also discovered the wonders of baby rice cakes and I say we because I may or may not have eaten half a pack of the Aldi Mamia apple rice cakes last week, just saying.
I need to get my arse into gear and sort out Tyler's 9-12 month wardrobe as some of his his 6-9 month tops and vest are beginning to get a little tight. There still seems to be a lot of room in his trousers but not a lot of length, he's a tall boy!
Last month I spoke about Tyler's crawling abilities, well he's now fully blown crawling, argh! He loves to give me mini heart attacks and silently crawl off into the bathroom. Although, most of the time he likes to shout and "sing" whilst he's on the move. Ah yes, singing! I'm not saying we've got a child prodigy on our hands but the boy has tone.. well, as much tone as an 8 month old can have I suppose. I've not lost the plot I swear.
Another terrifying thing that our little munchkin now does is pull himself up to standing. HOW. I've never known a baby to have so much strength, it's actually insane. Currently his favourite things to pull himself up on are the corner of the coffee table, our glass tv stand and our clothes horse. No, you're sweating.
The last of the new skills for this month is aided walking.. sort of. Tyler has always loved being held up right and has held his weight for months and months now, but very recently he has started to take Bambi like steps if you hold his hands and it's so adorable to watch! Sometimes he even goes backwards which is even more adorable. I'm calling it now that he'll be taking his first steps very close to Christmas.
We still have no teeth cutting through! I'm pretty sure that I can see 6 under the gums now(four at the bottom and two at the top, eek) but nothing is actually coming through just yet, despite the insane amount of dribble and hours spent chewing on everything and anything. I'm almost certain that teething has made Tyler very clingy, especially to me. To the point where there have been many nights in the last 4 weeks or so that he's slept in our bed.
Speaking of sleep, Tyler has been all over the place this month. The poor soul had a terrible cold about two weeks ago which meant we had two nights with night feeds(which he dropped around 6 weeks old) and lots of calpol, cuddles and coffee(for me not Tyler, obviously). I think above all, Tyler was just frustrated because he was so bunged up and so whenever he tried to eat or drink he'd have to stop every couple of seconds to be able to breath properly. This also meant that he couldn't have his dummy at night for a couple of days which he was not happy about in the slightest.
Thankfully.. the last week Tyler has slept a little better and had some longer stretches alone in his cot, let's just hope it stays that way!(Who am I trying to kid? We all know it won't!)
Two cute things to mention this month, firstly Tyler's eyes! They've been blue since he was born and I'm 99% sure that they will stay that way as Jack and I both have blue eyes, but over the last month they seem to have gotten so much bigger and bluer! I just know he's going to have his daddy's eyes. Cuteness number two is that Tyler will reach out to me when I bend down to pick him up, which is adorable! I mean, most of the time he's crying and looking at me as if I'm the worlds worst human being but as soon as he sees that I'm coming down to give him a cuddle, he reaches out and eeeeek, my heart ^_^!
Way back when Tyler was just 10 days old, we travelled three hours to see some of my family as it was my Nana's 80th birthday, so Tyler has already had the pleasure of meeting his great grandparents, but last week my mum, Tyler and I decided to pay them a now overdue visit! They were so besotted with him and it was honestly so heart warming to see my grandparents with him again. I am very lucky to have my grandparents and Tyler is extremely lucky to have great grandparents and I will never take that for granted.
We hope you've all had a great month and we will see you in a couple of weeks for Tyler's 9 month update, NO, YOU'RE CRYING.


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Location: Headquarters, 3605 Highmarket Street, Georgetown S.C. 29440
Phone: (843) 545-3271
Fax: (843) 545-3646
Email: Georgetown Fire
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. , Monday through Friday (except for legal holidays)
Mailing Address: 3605 Highmarket Street, Georgetown S.C. 29440
Mack Reed, Fire Chief
Traci Hessler, Administrative Assistant
Tony Hucks, Assistant Chief
To protect life, limb, property, and the environment, in a timely and professional manner, with the highest quality of fire and emergency medical services for the citizens and visitors of Georgetown County.
County Fire/EMS provides advanced life support and emergency transport for the sick and injured, fire protection and suppression, inspections of commercial structures, public education, and community support and training.
The department is comprised of 73 full-time personnel and 90 volunteer members.
Q: What happens when I call 911?
A: Your call is answered by a trained telecommunicator assigned to gather your information, initiate an appropriate response and provide instructions on how you can help before the ambulance arrives. The call will last approximately two minutes or until the ambulance arrives.
Q: What kind of assistance can I expect when I call for an ambulance?
A: In Georgetown County, an ambulance is staffed by a certified paramedic and emergency medical technician (EMT). In some cases, where additional assistance is needed, "first responders" from Georgetown County Fire/EMS who have medical training will also respond.
Q: Why does a fire truck come to my house when I call for an ambulance?
A: Most of the firefighters that work on an engine are also cross trained as EMTs. We send a fire engine to provide initial patient care until the ambulance arrives on scene.
Q: Will I get a bill when a fire truck or an ambulance comes to my house?
A: Georgetown County Fire/EMS does not charge when a fire truck comes to your house. However, when an ambulance responds to a call and the crew member provide patient care and transports a patient to the hospital, the patient will receive a bill for the care he or she received.
Q: How can I get a free home fire inspection?
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If you receive an EMS bill from us and have questions regarding your billing statement, please contact our billing company (Lowcountry Billing) at 1-800-533-3915. If you received service prior to May 1, 2016, you should contact Carolina Ambulance Billing at 1-800-741-6920.
Since July 1, 2018, the Insurance Services Organization (ISO) rating for the Georgetown County Fire Department has been a Class 04/4x. This change affected properties depending upon the type of building construction, the hazards of occupancy and other factors. Insurance policyholders should contact their insurance agent or company to determine the effect of the rating on their homeowner policies.
The Class 04 applies to properties in the district within 1,000 feet of a public fire hydrant or recognized water supply suction point, within five road miles or less of the responding fire station, and with the needed fire flow of 3,500 gallons per minute. The Class 4x applies to properties within five road miles of the responding fire station but beyond 1,000 feet of the fire hydrant or suction point. The Class 10 applies to properties beyond five road miles of the fire station. Evaluated individually, the private and public protections may vary from the district classification.
Did you know free smoke detectors are available from Georgetown County Fire/EMS? Free smoke detectors are offered to low income, disabled and elderly individuals. The Fire Department will install the smoke detector upon request if no one else is available to install it. Individuals must complete and sign a short form stating they meet the requirements. Call (843) 545-3271 for more information.
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Uses and Disclosures of PHI: Georgetown County EMS may use PHI for the purposes of treatment, payment and health care operations, in most cases without your written permission. See the link below to view and print our HIPAA Privacy Notice.
A campaign encouraging people to enter an emergency contact number in their mobile phone´s memory under the heading "ICE" (for "In Case of Emergency") has spread throughout the world. Originally established as a nation-wide campaign in the UK, ICE allows paramedics or police to be able to contact a designated relative/next-of-kin in an emergency situation.
The idea was the brainchild of an East Anglian Ambulance Service paramedic, Bob Brotchie.
"I was reflecting on some of the calls I´ve attended at the roadside where I had to look through the mobile phone contacts struggling for information on a shocked or injured person," Brotchie recalled. Almost everyone carries a mobile phone now, and with ICE we´d know immediately who to contact and what number to ring. The person may even know of their medical history."
By adopting the ICE advice, your mobile will help rescue services quickly contact a friend or relative — which could be vital in a life or death situation. It only takes a few seconds to do, and it could easily help save your life.
Why not put ICE in your phone now?
Simply select a new contact in your phone book, enter the word ´ICE´ and the number of the person you wish to be contacted. For more than one contact name ICE1, ICE2, ICE3 etc.
It´s so simple that everyone can do it. Please do, and please pass this on.......it may save a life.
If you are interested in a job with Georgetown County Fire/EMS, please contact Battalion Chief Deborah Johnson or visit our website at Georgetown County Fire/EMS
If you are interested in a job with the Georgetown County Fire/EMS, please contact Human Resources at (843) 545-3074.


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Recently, I had a conversation with a friend who works for a landscape company without a maintenance division. They'd tried it in the past, he told me, and found it was "too much work."
Over the past several years their company has atrophied, continually losing construction clients as full service maintenance contractors took over their projects. Since his company doesn't offer maintenance services, he continually finds the construction work they leave behind ages poorly. With no one to maintain their work at a skilled level, their clients' homes look bad and their work is poorly represented. But in an attempt to build their client base, they've devoted a large line item to slick marketing and promotional materials to make themselves look great in print. His complaint: their marketing pieces look better than their job sites.
The end result of a landscaper's work is not a piece of paper, but a living, breathing place. We don't build a structure that is changeless over time, like the work of an architect or a home builder. Our living spaces are dynamic; they age, mature, grow, live, and sometimes, die. Taking care of those places is a vital part of their continued success, well beyond their warranty period. Maintaining a garden ensures the design intent is carried out over time, like an investment advisor coaching a professional from her early years into retirement.
But it has the added benefit of earning a relationship with clients themselves.
For years, University horticulture programs have seen declining enrollment as fewer and fewer young people find careers in the green industry attractive, or are drawn to the "sexier" roles of design or construction. Societally, we elevate the designer, tolerate the builder, and denigrate the maintainer, but we conveniently forget the design left on paper is merely a guide to the place where we will eat, drink, and be merry. It does not exist until it is built, and it will not last if it is uncared for.
It's one of the reasons we place a high value on training and growing personal skill sets. One of our top foremen, Francisco, learned side by side with our company's owner for the first few seasons of his employment. From his previous manufacturing background, he learned the horticultural best practices of pruning times and techniques, fertilization, and volumes more, and continues to steward and care for our clients with skill and precision. Without a Francisco, it doesn't matter how nice the design or the construction is--a property needs to be cared for in order to age gracefully and have any longevity.
Landscape maintenance is "service," and is a far better form of marketing a business than traditional advertising. It is stewardship of a client's resources, it meets their needs seasonally, and maximizes a property's value by making it work for its owner's needs as they both mature. More than an email blast or glossy brochure, live marketing benefits a landscape business by meeting a need and being capably available.
A consultant from Houzz forwarded me a pair of articles this week on the power of compelling photography in generating design sales, which brought me back full circle to my friend's comment about his marketing materials looking better than their clients' properties. Images used to convey an idea are great, but they'll quickly be found lacking if not backed up by the ability to construct or care for the real thing.


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At last the long wait is over, StarCraft Remastered is going to be released august 14 2017. Blizzard have polished and updated the original game for modern computers and graphics. Enabling support for 4K UHD and modern operating systems including the Mac.
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StarCraft Remastered Features:
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- Updated audio / music.
- Higher resolutions.
- Core gameplay true to the original and not changed.
The game is available 14 august 2017 and you can check out more on Blizzards website: StarCraft Remastered.
This game was a big part of my youth and one of the games I loved playing with my friends during our LAN sessions on the weekends. Apparently a lot of Mac users are searching for ways to get this game working on their Macs. Soon that will be possible and with updated music, graphics as well. Now we wait.


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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) –- The Philadelphia Union hit a low note, but the US National team is flying.
This week on the KYW Philly Soccer Show, KYW's Greg Orlandini and Philly Soccer Page writer Eli Pearlman-Storch first talk Union as they crash out of the US Open Cup with a 3-1 loss to DC United in Maryland.
The team was in the semifinals of the competition last year. The Union have some time to lick their wounds, since they don't return to MLS play until June 23rd at PPL Park, against the dreaded New York Red Bulls.
We then shift gears to something much more positive: the US Men's National Team. Philly Soccer Page national team writer Jeremy Lane joins the show as we discuss the Yanks' great form in recent World Cup Qualifying with a 2-1 win at Jamiaca and a dominant 2-0 against Panama in Seattle.
The USA are at the top of the qualifying group and are very close to booking their trip to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
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Denver's best independent coffeehouses, according to Lane
Top 10 Coffee Shops in Denver
…in no particular order
By Lane Walsh of Dwell Real Estate on Friday, January 4th, 2013
We are literally buzzing with excitement after visiting coffee shops all over the Denver area and sampling their fresh-brewed wares. Thanks to all who made suggestions on our Facebook page – read on to see if your favorite made the list! Did we miss your favorite haunt? Leave a comment and we'll be sure to head their way! Just a side note – we gave points for ambiance as well as flavor profile. Serious fun.
TOP 10 COFFEESHOPS IN DENVER…in no particular order
1. Crema Coffee House (The coffee enthusiast's coffee house of choice)
2. KJ's Coffee Bar (Quaint and unassuming; a solid choice)
3. St. Marks Coffee House (Our favorite high school haunt holds up to time; coffee is swell and people watching is tops)
4. Buchi Cafe Cubano (Cafe con leche…do it)
5. Drip Denver (Their cappuccino is art and the baristas are the nicest in town)
6. The Laughing Latte (Best location, and a mean Chai for our tea drinking pals)
7. Hooked on Colfax (Best name, and the perfect spot for students or writers to park it for a while)
8. Happy Coffee (Strongest drip coffee and totally hip(ster) atmosphere)
9. Aviano Coffee (Come for the Brew Bar, stay for the desserts)
10. Black Eye Coffee Shop (Gorgeous digs, smoothest latte)
And three more that are worth the drive…
11. Lost Coffee in Castle Rock (A consistently good cup of coffee or espresso…what a rare delight)
12. Bean Fosters in Golden (Feel good coffee in real mugs surrounded by a flesh-and-blood used bookstore)
13. Solid Grounds in Littleton (Great espresso in a bigger, squishier version of your own living room)


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Should our view of near term economic growth impact how we invest? Opinions about future economic growth often differ across market participants. For example, in a survey of more than 60 economists conducted by the Wall Street Journal in June 2016, estimates of US GDP growth for 2017 ranged from 0.2% to 3.7%.1 So how should we use this data to invest in the stock market? In this regard, investors may be surprised to find that the historical link between annual GDP growth and equity returns has been quite weak.
Exhibit 1 shows annual GDP growth vs. annual returns for developed and emerging markets. These plots indicate that there has not been a strong relation between GDP growth and equity returns in the same year. For example, in developed markets country/year combinations2 when GDP growth was positive, the spread in returns was substantial: 323 country/year combinations had returns above 10% while 192 country/year combinations had returns below −10%. We see a similar pattern in realized returns for developed markets country/year combinations when GDP growth was negative. Emerging markets show a similar pattern.
Despite this weak relation between GDP growth and stock returns in the historical data, investors often ask whether shorter-term fluctuations in economic cycles influence stock returns in the near term. Stated
differently, while on the surface Exhibit 1 presents a weak picture of GDP growth and stock returns in the same year, is there a relationship between the two that is not obvious from this exhibit?
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Exhibit 2 shows that, historically, differences in GDP growth over the past year contained little information about differences in equity returns this year. In both developed and emerging markets, average annual returns were similar for high and low growth countries. However, in fact, low growth countries had slightly higher average returns than high growth countries. In other words, there is no evidence that this return difference occurred by anything other than random chance.
Can superior forecasts of short-term future economic growth help improve investment decisions? To address this question, we extend the analysis and assume perfect foresight about GDP growth over the next year. We now study the returns of high and low growth countries over the same year we measure GDP growth. This is not an implementable strategy because investors do not have the advantage of knowing economic growth in advance. They must rely on GDP forecasts, adding additional uncertainty. Exhibit 2 shows that even under the assumption of perfect foresight, using GDP data would not have generated reliable excess returns for investors. In developed markets, low growth countries had higher average annual returns than high growth countries, whereas in emerging markets, high growth countries had higher average annual returns than low growth countries. Neither difference in returns was reliably different from zero. This suggests that markets quickly incorporate expectations about future economic growth, making it difficult for investors to benefit from growth forecasts even with the advantage of perfect foresight. Thus predicting stock market returns based on economic assumptions is about as hard as trying to figure out which characters on Game of Thrones will survive each season. Many different variables can influence stock prices besides just the actual GDP number, including the cost of capital, inflation rates, valuation and actual growth relative to expectations.
Many investors look to economic growth as an indicator of future equity returns. However, the relation between economic growth and returns in the historical data has been shown to be weak. This should not come as a surprise given that future stock market returns are determined by a number of different factors, besides just GDP growth. The evidence presented here suggests that differences in GDP growth contain little information about differences in stock returns in the same year and over the subsequent year. This means that it is difficult for investors to earn excess returns by relying on estimates of current or future GDP growth—even estimates that perfectly forecast GDP growth over the next 12 months. Therefore, as we have stated many times in the past, a better strategy is to have a globally diversified portfolio with an overall asset allocation strategy in line with your long-term goals and objectives vs. trying to predict short- term stock price movements based upon changes in economic growth.
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DETROIT - Chalk it up to beauty, shock or hunger pangs; there are few things that spread online as quickly as pictures of food.
From a friend's Facebook photo of a perfectly torched creme brulee to a shot of a classic Detroit Coney dog to the Luther - a cheeseburger between two Krispy Kreme donuts - images of culinary creations circle the Web faster than you can reach for an antacid.
"Food speaks to us," says Dave Benjamin, 40, of Troy, Mich., a contributor to the Hungry Dudes - a food blog that specializes in sharing photos of metro Detroit cuisine.
"When you think of apple pie, you might think back to when your grandmother made apple pie. And then it's not just the food, it's the experiences that surround that food."
In the lore of extreme Web food, there may be no bigger star than the turbaconducken.
That's a chicken, inside a duck, inside a turkey, wrapped in a layer of salty, smoky bacon.
The gut-busting creation hit the Web courtesy of Bacon Today, a food blog specializing in often extreme creations.
The site is the brainchild of Rocco Loosbrock, 38, of Moorpark, Calif., who began dabbling in Web-based food ventures when he created an online wine club.
He quickly found the world of wine, in which he still operates, to be stuffy, as customers tried to one-up each other with their informed parlance.
"With bacon, all that disappeared," he says. "It was all about: 'I like bacon.' 'Bacon tastes good.' 'What can we do with bacon?' "
Some of the other creations on Bacon Today, which has seen as many as 2.5 million visitors in a month, include bacon cinnamon rolls, bacon coffee and bacon cupcakes.
Loosbrock, who was laid off from the banking industry more than two years ago, uses the viral nature of his posts to fuel his ventures selling bacon merchandise, including a Bacon of the Month Club.


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I'm in the Lakes again. After today, 18 to go. The picture is taken on Middle Fell, near Wast Water, but in the background is Yewbarrow, and if there was a super-dooper 100x zoom you may well be able to see the same sight as depicted way back on Sept 2nd, as that's Great Door over there. More to come from the Lakes for the next few days, I'm here until Thursday.
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The West Suburban Symphony of Hinsdale returns to Wheaton's Cantigny Park to perform music inspired by comedy, on the grounds of the park's First Division Museum. The outdoor concert, led by Maestro Peter Lipari, features high-energy music from stage and screen as well as classics. The music ranges from Khachaturian's Masquerade Suite and Smetana's Dance of the Comedians to Schickele's 1712 Overture (PDQ Bach and the Monty Python theme song. The concert begins at 8 p.m., but the park opens for picnics at 6 p.m.; concert-goers should bring their own chairs or blankets. Tickets are sold exclusively through Cantigny Park, $12 in advance or $18 on concert day. Advance sales online, by phone, at the Cantigny gift shop, or at the Cantigny parking booth. For more information, see http://westsubsymphony.org or http://cantigny.org.


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"Persona 3 the Movie" Site and Twitter Account Open
P3 adaptation originally teased after P4 film credits
While it appears it's still in the early stages of production, the Persona 3 movie—which was originally teased after the credits of the Persona 4 movie—now has an official website, as well as a Japanese Twitter account.
The site currently just displays a teaser image and a clock showing the time in Japan.
Heads up, we'll probably want to keep an eye on that Twitter account for more info!
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We're used to the idea of "peak oil" – that there's only a finite amount of that stuff in the ground. What's the equivalent in the computing field? Two of them seem to be happening at the same time: "peak desktop" and "peak search" – both of which raise serious questions for two titans of the business, Microsoft and Google, which reported their quarterly results on Thursday.
Peak desktop is a big threat for Microsoft. It saw its revenues and income dip year on year, by 8% and 26% respectively, as a slowdown in the PC business (ahead of next week's launch of Windows 8) took hold.
In the Windows division, revenues were down 33%, and profits by 50%, the latter to $1.6bn (£997m). Even though the mood music emanating from the company is positive, the reality is that the world is changing, and Windows 8 is Microsoft's only chance to keep up with it.
That's because the world is shifting to mobile formats: smartphones have been outselling PCs since the end of 2010, and tablet sales (of the iPad and dozens of Android tablets) are rocketing in scale, so that this quarter they could be at least a 25% share of the worldwide total for PCs.
And even though Google's Android mobile operating system is the most widely sold for smartphones, the search giant isn't immune from this shift either. The results announced prematurely through a slip of the finger at its printers showed that the shift to mobile is hitting Google hard too.
"Cost-per-click" – how much advertisers pay on average when someone clicks on an ad – has been dropping for the past four quarters, after rising for eight previous quarters. There's no reason to expect it to rise again.
Why? Google explained three months ago in its previous results: "The decrease in the average cost-per-click paid by our advertisers was driven by various factors, such as the general strengthening of the US dollar compared to certain foreign currencies (primarily the Euro), the changes in platform mix due to traffic growth in mobile devices, where the average cost-per-click is typically lower compared to desktop computers and tablets, and the changes in geographical mix due to traffic growth in emerging markets, where the average cost-per-click is typically lower compared to more mature markets."
Leave aside the currency issue (though Google's people played up the effect of currency fluctuations; less discussed is what sort of taxes should be paid on those foreign revenues), and you have the stark position: people aren't using desktops or laptops so much; they're using smartphones, and mobile isn't such a great advertising platform for search.
Plus, the places where people are now going online just don't pay as much. The mature economies are tapped out. After years where Google's revenue growth is slowing down; "Peak Google" might be in sight.
Certainly, some analysts think we've hit peak search – at least on the desktop. Ben Schachter from Macquarie Securities noted that in September, desktop search volume fell in the US for the first time ever.
We're all peering at our smartphones, or swiping around on tablets, and sometimes we'll even do those in preference to firing up a laptop. For a number of tablet users, portability trumps power, so they use them during the evening rather than sitting with a laptop
Even worse is that "search" isn't so important on mobile. In the modern age, people use apps on smartphones: if they want train times they'll get an app that tells them, rather than searching. If they want to find a restaurant, they might search – or they might bring up a restaurant app such as Yelp. It's that closed nature of mobile apps that really has Google worried, just as much as it worries about Facebook.
Sergey Brin, Google's co-founder, admitted as much while making the more general point about government threats to the web when speaking to the Guardian in April: "all the information in apps – that data is not crawlable by web crawlers," he said. "You can't search it." And for Google, if you can't search it, you can't sell ads against it. Collapse of stout business model.
Be in no doubt that this is a serious problem for Google. Larry Page (his voice only partly restored after a mysterious throat ailment) insisted that everything is good, and told analysts that Google now has a $8bn "annual mobile run rate". That was contrasted with a $2.5bn "run rate" a year ago– but neither figure indicates how much is actually going into Google's coffers.
Last year, Google only included revenue from mobile ads (but didn't say how much is split with carriers or companies such as Apple, which offers Google's search on the iPhone and iPad). For the bigger number, Google threw in the kitchen sink – gross revenue from mobile ads and gross revenue from mobile sales of Google Play content (apps, ebooks, music and movies). A big chunk of those – between 45% and 70% – gets shared with partners.
Page is undaunted: "we are really starting to live in the new reality," he told analysts, "[a] kind of ambiguity of the [desktop and mobile] screens. Apps users really move from intent to action much more faster and more seamlessly. So I think this will create a huge new universe of opportunities for advertisers if they can focus on the platform."
Talking about desktop or mobile wouldn't make much sense, he suggested: "advertisers will be dynamically adopting across so many different devices to reach the right audiences at the right time."
You wouldn't want to bet against Page – who with Brin is one of the brightest minds around – but equally, it's a giant challenge to make this shift effectively without seeing your business model stolen away by a nimbler upstart, or even distributed far and wide among app developers.
The same challenge lies ahead for Microsoft, which has recognised – like everyone else – that the future of computing is mobile. It began working on Windows 8, its upcoming version to be released next week, even before Windows 7 was released; and Steve Sinofsky, the head of the Windows division, could see the writing on the wall. Mobile is the future. But what does that mean for the PCs that have made Microsoft rich, and once the most valuable listed company in the world?
A problem, that's what. We have definitely seen peak desktop – the number of desk-bound computers being shipped is gradually falling away. The number of laptops being made is still growing, but there's the hint of danger in this pause before Windows 8, allied to economic problems, and the fact that tablets are for the main part just cheaper, have longer battery life, do much of the same jobs (email, web browsing, spreadsheets, document composition and reading) and can include mobile broadband connections – something most laptops still don't.
If we stop buying desktops and laptops, and if Windows 8 on a tablet such as Microsoft's Surface (which has the same sort of British-designed ARM chip as a smartphone) is just as effective, will we need PCs?
It's as though we've been driving around in trucks, and suddenly someone discovered how to build cars, instead. But for Microsoft, which (if we extend the metaphor) has been making the fuel for those trucks, the change is a problem.
"A computer on every desktop and every home, running Microsoft software" was the original vision. Well, mission accomplished, Mr Gates. Now, though, Windows is less of a force than before: the Windows division brought in $3.2bn in revenues in the past quarter, which is dwarfed by the $9.2bn Apple got from iPads from April to June (we don't have the latest figures; they'll be announced next Thursday) or $16.2bn from iPhones.
True, that's not like-with-like: Apple's numbers include hardware, not just software. But Apple's model – sell hardware and software – begins to looks more robust in that light.
But does it? Is selling hardware really the way to adapt to the mobile world? Even there, it's not clear. Only Samsung and Apple are making serious money in the mobile handset world; HTC is keeping its head above water, just about, but even it is troubled.
Everywhere else, handset makers are bleeding money – notably including Nokia and RIM, which show that being there at the start of the shift to mobile doesn't necessarily help. Both had smartphones, or smartphone functionality, well before Apple, and years before the first Android phone. Yet both have been left in the dust by the rapid changes.
Is there an answer? A simple one? No – only that we have trouble wrapping our heads around the changes that are going on. Perhaps in five years, and certainly in 10, anyone who wants to buy a smartphone will be able to, even in the poorest countries. (Whether they'll be able to afford internet data is a different question.)
We might think Google and Microsoft have problems, but we – and our governments – haven't even begun to think about what such connectivity is going to do to our learning, communication, businesses, civilisation.
A printer's slip of the finger might have hurt Google's shares temporarily, but it's silicon that will have the biggest effect in the coming years.
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Our four in July 2017
We are now one week away from breaking up for the summer holidays and I think it's come around just in time. The past month I've seen the relationships between our four develop so much, anything from being extra snugly, bickering over absolutely anything, caring for one another, telling on each other and just a complete variety that comes with having four little children, especially so close in age.
The bigger girls have been up & down, being the best of friends one minute, and the next having a row over belongings etc. I think the 'end-of-term-it-is' has well and truly kicked in, they're both so worn out from school, overwhelmed and I think it just gets a big much some days, not everyday but this week has been challenging.
The little two have been blossoming so much, Didi is loving the attention she gets from her siblings, (not the picking up sometimes as it restricts her from getting up to no good! 😉 ) but more so as its her & Phoenix during the week, they play together so nicely most of the time or they just do their own thing. The favourite thing recently is the sand table in the garden where you'll mostly find them being a double act tipping son each other while finding it hilarious, making castles, or usually Didi will be standing up on the table in the sand – testing my heart rate of course! They remind me so much of what it was like to have the big girls these ages, and again with Halle being three and Phoenix being the baby.
As Phoenix has now been doing two mornings at nursery per week, he lets me know if he gets to see either of the girls at the gate which is a little novelty, that paired with if we get "our parking space" at the school where he can watch them play and talk to them at the fence on the afternoon play!
On the whole, I am looking forward to them spending time together without the rushed element of life that school routines bring. With having all five of us at home, their Daddy will still be working it's obviously not going to be sunshine and roses everyday but we are going to try our best to embrace it all.
These summer holidays come around so quickly, and I read something quite bittersweet recently, that 'we only get 18 summers of their childhood' – now when you think about it like that, as much as motherhood can bring challenging times, i'm going to try my hardest to keep this at the back of my mind. So i'm happy to be joining Lucy, Kerri-Anne, Katie, Carie, Amber and Donna this year so make sure you check out their posts and do pop by some of the ones linked up below! If you're sharing via Instagram, be sure to use the hashtag #siblingsproject so we can all have a look at your wonderful images and share the love.


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Losurdo Foods, Inc. was founded in 1959, by Mr. and Mrs. Michael Losurdo Sr., and is a leading manufacturer and distributor of Italian style food products. The company is headquartered in Hackensack, NJ. It has production facilities in Amsterdam, NY and Heuvelton, NY. The Amsterdam, NY facility manufactures Fresh Frozen Pizza Dough, while the Heuvelton, NY facility manufactures Fresh Mozzarella, Mozzarella Curd, and Ricotta.
The company is currently run by two of the founder's children; Marc J.X. Losurdo is the company's President and CEO, while Maria Losurdo acts as Secretary and Treasurer.
Losurdo Foods, Inc. has a customer base consisting of national food service distributors, national restaurant chains and entrée manufacturers. Products are shipped via company owned vehicles, as well as, contracted carriers.
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In 1959, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Losurdo Sr. established Losurdo Foods, Inc. Mr. Michael Losurdo, Sr. is the son of Italian immigrant parents. His passion for cheese making started at the age of seven in the back of his parent's Lodi, NJ store. After watching his father for sometime, he perfected the art of reworking curd into Fresh Mozzarella cheese. In his late teens, he decided to venture out on his own. He quickly developed a customer base and began selling cheese to area stores and pizzerias. After gaining an understanding of the pizza business, he decided to expand his business beyond cheese. He convinced his existing customers that they could get everything they needed from him rather than buying from multiple suppliers. He and his wife Mary became distributors of tomatoes, cheese, flour, and other related items. A few years later, they founded Losurdo Foods, Inc. The company's reputation for producing the highest quality Italian style food products is known and highly regarded throughout the industry.