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Bought a gas thru and dye ultra lite barrel from him and both were received in 2-3 days. His prices are great and sometimes i wonder how he makes a profit! Excellent person to do business with!
Bought a gas thru and dye ultra lite barrel from him and both were received in 2-3 days. His prices are great and sometimes i wonder how he makes a profit! Excellent person to do business with!
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i bought one of his custom rails. had great communication the whole time. also he shiped it out fast. i had it in 3 days. NO problem what so ever with him. i highly suggest to deal with this guy when ever possible, no need to worry about him.
thanks again tuna for the great rail,
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P.S. my feedback page is: www.automags.org/forums/showthread.php?t=151361. if you ever get some extra time could you post s little something for me?
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Tunaman fixed my emag and had it back to me a day before a birthday party (paintball)
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Tunaman is a great guy , good communication and nice to talk to. I hope to give him more buiness in the furture
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this guy rocks i just bought a complete marker from him and it shipped from n.j. to utah in less than one week! also it is one of the sickest markers i have ever seen
Great Job Tuna! thanks A MILLION!
Met you for the first time at hte AO NE in Cape Cod when that Butt Munch was going to send you off for charging you a fee, i was the loud mouth that stood up and started the ball roling to get you to stay. you gave us free parts that day to hype up our guns. Marco has bought parts for me from you.
bought an intelli of him a waays back..
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i picked up a tuna pack one word awsome ... thanks again man ... and keep on fishing ..
Just picked up a Tuna Pack!
Another smoooth transaction with the Tuna
TunaMan is the best , you should deffintalty buy stuff from him , i give him A++ for being kool, his name is also pretty sweet.
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Yes he is , just got my frame back from tuna , he did a awsome job on it. It ripps like crazzy , Thanks tuna
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I'm gonna have to put my 2 cents in and agree. Because of Tuna, my E-Mag works great, and my roommate is now a Mag owner. Thanks again.Originally Posted by Soopa Villain17
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how bout u just show some pics and a thank you WHEN u get the gun.Originally Posted by Soopa Villain17
well the ups women showed up early about 20 minutea after i posted it it would 2 hours to be exact. i looked at the box and was like "that couldnt be it the package is to small" but when i opened it my jaws droped it was the most beautiful thing i have ever seen(besides my girfriend of course) well i didnt think it would be much smaller than my m98 but i like the size its nice. i do have a few questions though. the trigger kind of wobbles back in forth like its not atached to anything , is this because it is not gassed up ? and in my box i got a little package that says lvl10 low impact superbolt kit and it has 2 springs (red and silver) and a little plastic bag with these little brass colored things and a few little o-rings. and a few other things that i do not know anything about, what are these and what do they do ? what is the best number of little spacer things to have for a ule trigger kit ? one last question can i use a co2 expansion chamber with compressed air ? i have a pro team one for the m98 and it fits but will it work ? , by the way tunaman is the best , i know ive said it 500000000 times but its true. by the way this is my first mag so dont make fun of me or anything for ot knowing nothing about them , thanks
Correctthe trigger kind of wobbles back in forth like its not atached to anything , is this because it is not gassed up ?
Those are the parts for the LX kit. If it starts leaking after it breaks in you can change those brass things to stop it.and in my box i got a little package that says lvl10 low impact superbolt kit and it has 2 springs (red and silver) and a little plastic bag with these little brass colored things and a few little o-rings. and a few other things that i do not know anything about, what are these and what do they do ?
The most you can have without getting bounce.what is the best number of little spacer things to have for a ule trigger kit ?
Yes, it will work fine, it is not needed for any reason though.one last question can i use a co2 expansion chamber with compressed air
what is bounce ? what are the extra springs for ? ill post pics as soon as i get my camera hooked up if i can even find the darn thing
can anyone help me ? i love my new mag but cant use it till i get air lines and hpa tank then ill be rippin up all the kids i play with with tippy;s , junk spyders and a e-rex
sprins are for diff setups/velocities
if ur shooting 250-280 probly go with the stock one..if uwant a softer setup and shooting like 280-300 go with the red spring
silver spring should not be used in any case unles it is clipped.
leave the stock spring in.
anymore questions try the search feture it works GREAT
In the level 10 kit there is a CD. Pop it in and watch it 50 times. First read the manual.
Hooked up my old-skool E-Mag and made it a beast... Excellent workmanship... Thanks a lot!
tunaman fast shipping and a great deal on macroline
thanks again ..................
I just sent my gun in to get tuned and have a ult installed. Tuna man was there every step of the way. He answers e-mails faster than anybody I have ever seen! Even though that guy was overwhelmed with work....he still managed to find time to fix my gun up for me. My gun looks great.....and shoots 10 times as good! I can't thank him enough because I haven't even been able to shoot it for the past few months! This is a guy that will do his best to get you your gun back asap with the best work done. I am currently thinking about buying a tuna pack and an adaptor so Tuna, I will be doing business with you again!
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I bought a new minimag valve. He got it here fast before a Thursday game and it was flawless. I love this valve and I will definately do business with him again.


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20 years after attempting an epic pub crawl, five childhood friends reunite when one of them becomes hellbent on trying the drinking marathon again. They are convinced to stage an encore by mate Gary King, a 40-year old man trapped at the cigarette end of his teens, who drags his reluctant pals to their hometown and once again attempts...
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20 years after attempting an epic pub crawl, five childhood friends reunite when one of them becomes hellbent on trying the drinking marathon again. They are convinced to stage an encore by mate Gary King, a 40-year old man trapped at the cigarette end of his teens, who drags his reluctant pals to their hometown and once again attempts to reach the fabled pub - The World's End. As they attempt to reconcile the past and present, they realize the real struggle is for the future, not just theirs but humankind's. Reaching The World's End is the least of their worries.
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It's taken six years, two Star Trek movies, and one Mission: Impossible caper, but Simon Pegg is finally back where he belongs: as Edgar Wright's live-wire muse and Nick Frost's beer-soaked sidekick. The World's End is the elegiac follow-up to Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, the capper to the comedic triumvirate's Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy. If it lacks the playful exuberance of the earlier films, it's because Pegg, Frost, and Wright are all a little older and wiser now, as inclined to looking back as they are to looking forward. The World's End is still a damn funny romp, but tinted now with maturity - and a profound statement about the peril of nostalgia.
Burnt-out alcoholic Gary King (Pegg), who's still rocking the same part-punk/part-goth look he wore 20 years ago in high school, drags his old school chums Peter (Eddie Marsan), Oliver (Martin Freeman), Steven (Paddy Considine), and Andrew (Frost) back to their hometown Newton Haven to complete a pub crawl that they attempted - but never finished - when they were 17. In the course of one night, each of them must down a pint at all 12 pubs along ''The Golden Mile.'' Somehow, Gary thinks that if he completed what he started 20 years ago he'll be able to start life fresh. Because he needs to start over. Badly. He's an alcoholic mess, one of life's burnouts who peaked in his teens. It's all been downhill since.
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It seems at first, though, that Gary and his partners in crime have changed so much that their former classmates and neighbors in Newton Haven barely recognize them. Were these 20 years that hard for all of them? Of course, they quickly discover that it's not they who have changed, it's the town. Newton Haven's residents have been systematically replaced by robot doubles, Invasion of the Body Snatchers-style.
Like in Shaun of the Dead, our heroes only realize this cataclysm gradually. That zombie spoof suggested that George A. Romero's vision of civilization destroyed by undead others is no longer valid because, well, Margaret Thatcher's vision of society had come true instead: there is no society, only insulated individuals too myopic to recognize the Apocalypse. In The World's End, it's more a matter of the characters being blinded by the past, by their own selective memory of their youth. With each pint that the quintet downs, you feel their drinking becomes less about recapturing their youth, or completing the fabled Golden Mile, as it is about numbing their pain. Heavy stuff. But Chaplin once said, ''Comedy is tragedy as a long-shot,'' and Wright seems to believe it. The battles with the robots are hysterical and the welcome addition of Rosamund Pike as Oliver's sister adds an undercurrent of sexual tension.
And as he achieved in Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, there's some gentle sociological criticism of contemporary life: each pub, though given unique, highly individualistic names - the Crossed Hands, the Famous Cock, the Hole in the Wall, the Mermaid - is exactly the same. Has post-modernity given us a world so homogenous, so thoroughly bland, that it's as if we all really have been replaced by cookie-cutter robots? Maybe. The World's End is proof that laughter makes a healthy dose of social criticism go down much more easily.
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Sunday: Last Chance to Salute Double Zero
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The last basketball Sunday in the Bob Devaney Sports Center promises to be a day of worship for the best point guard in Nebraska women's basketball history … a day when Double Zero gets the unexpected opportunity to lead her Top 20 team to consecutive victory No. 11. If that happens, she will have directed the ultimate senior bookend Big Ten Conference Championship achievement to go with that freshman bookend Big 12 Conference Championship she helped engineer less than a year after receiving her high school diploma.
Should the Huskers upset No. 7 Penn State Sunday in a 5 p.m. tipoff, they will share the 2012-13 Big Ten regular-season championship with the Nittany Lions. Oh what a rare opportunity that will be to salute the recruit that changed the face of Nebraska women's basketball and helped take the Huskers where they had never been before – the school's first unbeaten regular season and the Sweet 16 in the NCAA Tournament. Here we are three years later, and that point guard is already a legend as the third-leading vote-getter in a 14-day Huskers.com online fan poll to determine the All-Time All-Devaney Team (that covers the 1976-77 inaugural season through the 2012-13 final season).
I'm no John Bishop, but the popular P.A. man for Husker Hoops undoubtedly will dig deep to dramatize his final introduction of this prodigy turned all-star late Sunday afternoon: "And now, ladies and gentlemen, a 5-foot-9 senior point guard from Kentwood High School in Covington, Washington … Nummbbberrrr Doubbbble Zeeeeero … Linnndseyyyy Moore!!"
Meghin Williams' Last Home Game Ever
Actually, that spotlight introduction will salute more than just Lindsey Moore because she represents each goal and every value that Nebraska women's basketball holds dear. Whatever roar the Devaney Center crowd gives Moore also will honor her inimitable bond with her teammates, including fellow senior Meghin Williams, who has spent a career battling chronic foot problems, but still keeps her eyes on the prize. On her Twitter account, Williams tweeted this on Friday: "Woke up excited last game ever in Devaney last home game ever for me and @seym00re this Sunday and we are playing for a title! BE THERE!
On this special day, Moore's ovation also will be a well-focused extension of the echoes for four legends joining this ultra-special leader on the All-Time All-Devaney Team. Somehow, it seems only appropriate that Moore's newest teammates on a mythical team will be honored at the last women's basketball game that will be played inside the Devaney Center. They include:
1) All-time leading vote-getter Kelsey Griffin, a 6-2 forward from Chugiak High School in Eagle River, Alaska. Talk about fate. If Griffin had not shattered an ankle during the summer of 2008, she would not have gotten the chance to play with Moore, who arrived as the top player from Washington state and a third-team Parade Magazine prep All-American. Credit Nebraska Associate Head Coach Sunny Smallwood with the recruiting catch of the decade – a freshman point guard who enabled Griffin to become a First-Team All-American, the 2010 Lowe's Senior CLASS Award Winner, the 2010 Big 12 Player of the Year and the No. 3 overall pick in the 2010 WNBA draft choice of Minnesota.
2) Second leading vote-getter Karen Jennings, a 6-2 forward from Tri-Center High School in Persia, Iowa. Jennings represents Midwestern values and is the Huskers' only female student-athlete in the most select group in all of collegiate athletics – the CoSIDA Academic All-America Hall of Fame. Nebraska football players Dave Rimington and Dr. Patrick Tyrance are the only other University of Nebraska student-athletes who have earned that elite honor. Jennings won the Wade Trophy as the women's college basketball National Player of the Year in 1993 – an honor that she still says "stunned, amazed and shocked" her.
4) Fourth-leading vote-getter Maurtice Ivy, a 5-9 guard from Omaha Central High School. It's been a quarter century since Ivy led Nebraska to its only Big Eight Conference basketball championship and its first NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament appearance in 1988. Ivy became the league's Big Eight Player of the Year at the same time she earned her third consecutive first-team All-Big Eight honor. Blessed with speed, jumping ability, talent and energy, Ivy will attend Sunday's game. as Nebraska's second all-time leading scorer behind Jennings. The top two scorers are the only Husker players to have their jerseys retired.
5) Fifth-leading vote-getter Anna DeForge, a 5-11 guard from Niagara, Wisconsin. DeForge was a two-time (1997 and '98) Honorable Mention AP All-American before becoming the first player in Nebraska history to play in the Women's National Basketball Association. After playing for several pro teams, DeForge became a 2004 WNBA All-Star and played against the USA Team. She also was a two-time First-Team All-Big 12 player, an All-Big 12 Tournament team selection and earned one of five spots on the Nebraska All-Century Team selected in 2000.
With five supremely decorated All-Time All-Devaney Team selections, Moore is right in the middle, and she has a chance to substantially enhance her national reputation Sunday. Double Zero is fully aware of the historic implications of the Penn State regular-season finale and used her unique Twitter account to rally the home crowd. "We need you Husker Nation for Sunday!!!" she tweeted. "Penn State is going to be ready for us!! Bring your friend everyone!!"
Twitter Tag Explains Moore's Double Zero
You have to love Lindsey Moore's Twitter handle … @seym00re … get it? Now you understand why she wears Double Zero … because of the two "zeros" in her last name. When you grow up watching your dad play YMCA basketball and two older sisters play the game, you have plenty of time to think about the little things, and it should surprise no one that her basketball idol/role model is Jason Kidd, a point guard who could do anything on a basketball court … dribble, drive, shoot long, shoot short, distribute the ball, keep turnovers to a minimum, steal the ball whenever possible and yes, rebound when needed. She has an unbelievable knowledge of where the ball's going and where it will end up.
Sunday will mark a school record-tying127 consecutive starts for Moore, who became the first Nebraska women's player to record a Triple-Double when she scored 12 points, snagged 10 rebounds and distributed 11 assists against Florida A&M on Jan. 2, two years ago. In her Husker bio, Jeff Griesch calls Moore "the best point guard in Nebraska history", and I would know no one who would disagree with the Nebraska women's basketball's foremost authority on that. With 4,038 minutes, she's played more than any other Husker in history, and she will tie Griffin's record of 127 consecutive starts when the ball is tipped Sunday.
Griesch lists 36 major facts/accomplishments in Moore's latest bio. And that doesn't even count his assertion that Griffin is projected to be a potential top 10 pick in the 2013 WNBA Draft. A month ago, New York Liberty General Manager Bill Laimbeer was seated courtside when Nebraska beat Ohio State in Columbus. Sitting next to him was Brian Agler, head coach of the Seattle Storm, the hometown WNBA team of a hometown girl who came to Nebraska and ended up ranked among the top 10 players in the Big Ten in eight statistical categories.
Stats Great, but Winning Most Important
Anyone who can hit more than 40 percent of her three-point shots and nearly 82 percent from the line at the same time she's directing traffic, distributing to the hottest hands and keeping her assist-to-turnover ratio as the best in the Big Ten won't have to climb mountains to reach the next level. And let's certainly not forget the only statistic that really matters … winning … a category in which Moore excels.
Nebraska has won 91 times when Moore has started the game. The Huskers have lost 35 games in which she has started. That's an overall winning percentage of .720. The headline on Steve Sipple's column in today's Lincoln Journal Star said it best: Just win, Lindsey, NU's bottom-Line PG(Per Game). That, more than anything, is why Moore is on the All-Time All-Devaney Team before she finishes her senior season. At Nebraska, no one has won more than Lindsey m00re … and no one gets more out of a team than she does. In my book, that's the truest point that rings loudest for any point guard, let alone one that would make even Jason Kidd proud.
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Parker, is a hardened professional criminal who will do whatever it takes to get what he wants, living by his own code of ethics - don't steal from people who can't afford it and don't hurt people who don't deserve it. But when he's double-crossed by his crew and left for dead, it's time for payback. Assuming a disguise and...
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Parker, is a hardened professional criminal who will do whatever it takes to get what he wants, living by his own code of ethics - don't steal from people who can't afford it and don't hurt people who don't deserve it. But when he's double-crossed by his crew and left for dead, it's time for payback. Assuming a disguise and forming an unlikely alliance with a sexy local Palm Beach resident, he tracks down the gang, aiming to take everyone out and hijack the score of their latest heist.
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Parker is a movie as bland as its title. Try as filmmakers might, even ones with a semi-distinguished pedigree like Taylor Hackford, Jason Statham remains a dead-eyed, expressionless lug. You can dress him up in a shark suit, you can give him a pair of David Caruso shades and he'll still be a blunt instrument. Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Last Stand looks like a product of the Actors Studio by comparison.
Hackford's paint-by-numbers heist thriller begins with the title character, a slick fixer-for-hire with an arsenal of lethal skills, helping stage a robbery at a San Antonio carnival. Amidst the livestock contests and funnel cake vendors is apparently a lot of money ripe for the taking. Parker's been hired by a grubby crew to make off with the cash, and so he's dressed as a priest to undermine the fairground security without suspicion. Wearing a priest's collar and frock highlights the contrast inherent in Statham's cinematic persona: a placid exterior belies the explosive dynamo of pain he's shortly to become. When the hold-up finally begins, Parker calms down a terrified security guard who's having a full-blown panic attack, and it becomes clear we're supposed to not only identify with this criminal but admire him for holding the hand of one of his victims. Of course, as soon as the heist is over, his cohorts, led by a positively reptilian Michael Chiklis, turn on him, take his share, and leave him for dead.
The movie tries to become a patchwork quilt of modern-day Americana, hopscotching from dusty Texas to its polar opposite: the gleaming, pastel-hued millionaire's row of Palm Beach. Bingo halls exchanged for country clubs. One scene in particular in which Parker is assisted by a throat cancer patient with a vocoder hints at some latent desire of Hackford's to create an American picaresque, which means an ugly procession of stereotypes and grotesques.
With help from his mentor (Nick Nolte, whose voice has become a rasp for the ages), Parker slowly sniffs out his two-timing colleagues. There are only so many places to hide in Palm Beach, so he has an effervescent realtor (Jennifer Lopez, insouciant locks never seeming to lack a wind machine) show him around and let him know what Texans may have been buying up property of late. Lopez' Leslie Rodgers has a streak of larceny herself, but it never bounces off Statham to produce any heat, hormonal or otherwise. Actually, Lopez' scenes that really show chemistry are those opposite Patti Lupone, as Leslie's overbearing terror of a mother. The Broadway vet seems to be the only one actually having fun in this whole creaky affair. If Lopez had hoped that Parker would return her to sexy Out of Sight territory, she'll have to go back to the drawing board. It seems the first syllable of Taylor Hackford's last name has proven stunningly accurate.
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Thanks Igor,
When I run CAD tool it doesn't load automatically my .DLL. The linking process is executed when in the CAD (already running) I do some particular procedure called "design elaboration" (I won't go into details what it is). Probably (sorry again) during this procedure the initial CAD tool runs some other module and "this other module" links my .DLL. But Ok, I'll try your proposition concerning InitInstance.The fact that breakpoint appears inactive, and loading dll does not result in breakpoint hit makes me think that you have attached to process other than the one that actually loads your DLL. It's very unlikely that your CAD somehow prevents debugger from normal working.
Beside the dubugging issue, should I reject "DoModal approach" in favour of one, based on Create function ?as the latter blocks thread normal execution while DllMain must never be blocked.


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RuPaul's Drag Race Season 5 Launch Party intros New Cast
The long-awaited introduction of the queens participating in Season 5 of RuPaul's Drag Race was underway in New York City at the already legendary XL Nightclub in Times Square. Lining up at the starting gate for Season 5 was an impressive mix of glamour girls and pageant ladies all hungrily in pursuit of the title and cash winning prize. Hosting the evening were none other than the Jersey Shore's own MTV reality stars Snooki and Jwoww.
Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi and Jenni "JWoww" Farley were immediately impressed by the assembled new pantheon of rising talent and thrilled at the honor to finally participate in the competition introducing the new contestants. "There was no question," Snooki said. "When we heard that RuPaul called and wanted us to host tonight...we said YES! We were so excited!" Enjoying their Girls Night Out, JWoww couldn't contain her enthusiasm. "I am impressed," she said. "I think we can learn a thing or two from the ladies -- including how to apply our make-up."
The new queens appear as colorful as ever and are featured from all walks of life. They include drag acts with solid pageant chops and cabaret girls that blend in packing incredible "realness" on the runway. Coco Montrese is one of the girls thrilled by the excitement of joining the show. "I feel like I made it to the Super Bowl of Drag." Coco began her drag career while in college. "I started doing drag as a way not to call home and ask for money." Coco Montrese promises that the Season 5 challenges will be among the best audiences have seen. "Everyday is a twist and turn."
The Race is On!
The room was electrified as media was presented with the opportunity to get up close and personal with Season 5's Alyssa Edwards, Detox, Ivy Winters, Monica Beverly Hillz, Jade Jolie, Jinkx Monsoon, Lineysha Sparx, Penny Tration, Vivienne Pinay and all-ready favorite stand-outs including Honey Mahogany and Serena ChaCha.
"I love it. I love the rush!" Roxxxy Andrews said of the competitiveness among the cast. Roxxxy who represents one of the several pageant girls in this year's competition is guaranteeing that fans will gain a new respect for contestants on the pageant circuit. "We all represent all different levels of pageants, so you can expect a lot of eyelashes to go flying."
Finally joining the class of Season 5 is last season's winner Sharon Needles' paramour Alaska, who fans met via video messages that the two shared on-air. "I have the biggest blonde hair this side of RuPaul," Alaska revealed, "but I'm also the queen of taking trash and turning it into treasure. I take my nonsense where ever they'll have me."
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Past season competitors including Carmen Carrera, Manila Luzon, Phi Phi O'Hara and winners "The Other" Tyra Sanchez and BeBe Zahara Benet were also on hand taking pictures and sizing up the new cast. Also making an appearance were Mob Wives Big Ang and Drita D'Avanzo who mingled among the party goers as fans whipped out camera phones going snap happy.
All the ladies revealed that Season 5 will have its share of drama, but that it's their individual stories that will keep fans interested in what looks to be another very hot and creative competition on what some are calling "the best reality show on TV."
Don't miss the launch of RuPaul's Drag Race when the new cast embark on their path to greatness. The new season takes off with a "RuPaul Sized" 90-minute premiere on Monday, January 28 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Logo, immediately followed at 10:30 p.m. ET/PT by a new episode of Untucked: RuPaul's Drag Race.


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South East KKF Blow OutKitchen Knife, Scotch and Food Extravaganza
Im thinking about hosting a KKF party for forum members in September at house in Raleigh, NC for a South East KKF gathering? Im trying to gauge interest.
Since we need something to do with our knives other than sharpen and handle them, lets use them to cut delicious food with? I was thinking that we could choose recipes from the KKF Cookbook post?
Finally, we need something to wash down all that delicious food with and Scotch has always worked for me. For those whom want to partake, bring a bottle of decent (>$50) Scotch. My preference is toward the Isla style by I like the others too. And if Scotch isnt your bag, bring another spirit. Mescal, Bourbon .. If you dont drink, thats fine too.
I can accommodate up to about 20 people and can easily sleep ten or more. We can work out all the details once we determine that the interest is there. I live six minutes from the Raleigh Airport, RDU. All members are welcome, even/especially Dave M. Maybe hell reconsider sharpening my Moris LOL. Be great to get some folks from out of town too?
I have every kitchen cooking device imaginable except for a centrifuge and Paco Jet. So lets get creative!
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URBANA, Ill. – Senior Henrique Cunha and sophomore Raphael Hemmeler of the Duke men's tennis team advanced to the semifinals of the 2013 NCAA Individual Championships Saturday at the Atkins Tennis Center, as play was forced to move indoors due to inclement weather in the area.
Cunha and Hemmeler advanced to the semifinals with a straight-set 6-2, 6-3 win over No. 6 Andries Mies and Dan Cochrane of Auburn. In a match-up that saw the last two major ITA doubles champions go head-to-head, second-seeded Cunha and Hemmeler, the 2012 ITA National Indoors Doubles Champions, won four straight games to take a commanding 4-0 lead in the first set over No. 6 Mies and Cochrane and went on to take the set, 6-2. In the second set, Cunha and Hemmeler were able to use a late break to seal the match and the duo's 39th win of the season.
"We feel great, we're really confident right now," Cunha said. "We had a really tough second round, saved some match points, now we feel loose and comfortable. We had an unbelievable quarterfinal match and now we're looking forward to tomorrow."
With their 39 wins on the season, Cunha and Hemmeler now sit in second on Duke's all-time charts in single season wins by a doubles tandem, two wins shy of the 41 victories Cunha and Reid Carleton posted in 2010. Cunha and Hemmeler becomes the third Blue Devil tandem to reach the semifinals, as Philip King and Michael Yani were the last Duke pair to reach the semis in 2002. Current head coach Ramsey Smith and Doug Root were the first Blue Devil tandem to reach the semifinals in 2000.
Up next, Cunha and Hemmeler will face a familiar foe in Virginia's Jamere Jenkins and Mac Styslinger in Sunday's semifinals. Cunha and Hemmeler posted a 2-1 ledger against Jenkins and Styslinger for the season, including a 7-5, 6-2 win in the semifinals at ITA National Indoors in November and an 8-3 victory in Charlottesville during the dual season.
In singles, Cunha's run came to an end in three sets at the hands of No. 12 Blaz Rola of Ohio State, 4-6, 6-4, 6-1. Cunha concludes the season with a 34-5 singles ledger, including 17 wins over ranked opponents. Cunha ends his singles career at Duke with 151 career victories in singles, which stands as a program record.
Live scoring and live video will be available for Sunday's semifinals
2013 NCAA Div. I Men's Tennis Singles and Doubles Championships
May 22-27, 2013 at Urbana, Ill. (Kahn Outdoor Tennis Center)
Singles – Quarterfinals
No. 12 Blaz Rola (Ohio State) def. No. 9 Henrique Cunha (Duke), 4-6, 6-4, 6-1
Doubles – Quarterfinals
No. 2 Cunha/Hemmeler (Duke) def. No. 6 MIes/Cochrane (Auburn), 6-2, 6-3


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In danger of turning into a giant slugNovember 4, 2009 at 10:35 am | Posted in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) | 2 Comments
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Them as know me might say it's too late to start worrying about that now, but I'm getting even less exercise than usual at the moment because I feel OK until I start coughing, and I don't tend to start coughing (much anyway) until I move. A few times lately I've been OK at work and then gone for a walk at lunchtime, coughed and spluttered my way around town (I could be blamed for being the disease vector for all the colds in this part of Norfolk at this rate), and felt absolutely lousy by the time I got back, all of ten minutes or so later. Exercise is supposed to make you feel GOOD! I'm getting really fed up with this!
It's not helped by the fact that poor hubby has still got a cough too, much worse than mine, and we tend to set each other off – great fun in the middle of the night!
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I always take a break from exercising when I have a cold – I think it's absolutely ok! I also feel like a slug when I do it though. I'm feeling a little slug-like lately because I've been too busy to exercise (and, ok, when I do have time I've done other things…. like lay on the couch).
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Flat Island is, in a word, flat. Being off the coast of Oahu - the Hawaiian island known for its soaring mountains and surrounding peaked islets - Flat Island is a geographical anomaly for our kayak tour group.
Most of the Hawaiian islands are the result of violent volcanic eruptions creating jagged land masses.
But Flat Island is an earthquake afterthought of coral pushed up from the ocean floor to lay parallel to the water and fossilize.
It's an anomaly we're more than willing to check out because it means we also get to hang out on Kailua Beach, the place made famous because Hawaiian-born U.S. President Barack Obama likes to frolic there with the family when they take a break from Washington.
It doesn't hurt that the Travel Channel also ranked Kailua one of the top five beaches in the world.
Sure, nearby Waikiki Beach has instant name recognition and the skyscrapers of Honolulu soaring in the background.
But Kailua's sand is thicker, softer and whiter and it's uncrowded expect for locals in the know and savvy tour operators - in this case Adventures by Disney - who introduce tourists to the long perfect crescent.
Alas, our time on Kailua is fleeting, after all, we're here to kayak.
Flat Island doesn't exactly loom in the distance because it is, by name and nature, as flat as a pancake and only about a kilometre off shore.
So we strike out in our double kayaks anticipating we'll be there in no time.
However, there's the wave and current and erratic paddling from kayak partners to contend with.
Twenty minutes in our group looks like an unorganized armada of low-lying yellow vessels going nowhere in particular.
Assembled as much as can be in the middle of the water, the group is given a pep talk and refocuses on reaching land.
We eventually pull up one by one on the small beach of Flat Island and immediately get why this place is special.
Only a couple of hundred metres long and half as wide it's covered by a blanket of succulent grass and its only inhabitants are hundreds of nesting shearwater birds.
They're what you call "ecologically naive" because they have no predators and show no fear of anything.
So they sit there and preen while we take pictures and the fuzzy chicks stare unprotected by their parents while continuing to enjoy the sunshine.
It's so idyllic that we hardly believe the story that the island's Hawaiian name is Popoia, which loosely translated to English means stinking rotten fish.
Apparently hundreds of years ago incoming fishermen piled a portion of their daily catch on the middle of the island as a gratitude offering for the gods.
It created quite the putrid waft not only for the fishermen, but the general populace just downwind on beautiful Kailua Beach.
Thankfully the ritual faded out. The kayak back to Kailua Beach is much easier and takes half the time thanks to the waves and current- and some much-needed paddle experience - working in our favour.
The hour by shuttle bus to Kailua to kayak is the only time our group leaves Disney's new Aulani Resort where we're staying.
If you're lucky enough to be bunked down at Aulani there's little reason to venture too far.
The 8.5-hectare, 1,066-room resort has incorporated everything that is unique about Hawaii and added a touch of subtle Disney magic. Sure Mickey and Minnie show up at the character breakfasts and mingle poolside a couple of times a day, but otherwise this is no over-the-top Disney theme park.
"We're not here to celebrate Disney, but celebrate families in Hawaii," Disney Parks & Resorts chairman Tom Staggs tells me at the recent grand opening for the resort.
"We're not just in the movie and theme park business, but the guest experience business."
And what a five-star resort experience it is for me, my wife and our nine-year-old daughter. As a family we ride the Volcanic Vertical and Tombstone Curl waterslides; snorkel Rainbow Reef; feed stingrays in the Makai Preserve; get shaved ices at Papalua Station; and standup paddleboard in Kohola Lagoon.
Our daughter also dropped in to fully supervised Aunty's Beach House children's' club and we disappear to the adults-only pool; dine at exclusive waterfront Ama Ama restaurant; have drinks on our room's lanai; and get a massage that mimics the waves of the Pacific Ocean at Laniwai Spa.
The only other time we step off the resort is to stroll two coves over to Lani Kohonua beach, where the giant Hawaiian green sea turtles come in with the tide every morning to swim in the shallows with the tourists.
Among them is a gentle giant we nickname Lucky because he's fortunate to even be alive having only one front flipper.
He's the first to clamour up on the beach for a rest and sunbathe, after all, being one-flippered is tiring.
If You Go
- Disney's Aulani Resort & Spa is located on the ocean in Ko Olina, 30 kilometres west of Honolulu.
- Overnight rates start at $399. Aulani.com. By the way, Aulani in Hawaiian means one who delivers messages from a higher authority.
- General information at GoHawaii.com/Oahu.


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The Academy Awards will be handed out tonight. As always, MrsBlue and I are at a disadvantage when it comes to the Oscars, since we usually only see movies after they come to cable/satellite. We did see two of the current flicks though, so based on what we know, we are picking Lincoln and Django Unchained to sweep the awards. This may be iffy when it comes to things like best animated short, but you have to stick with what you know. If you are looking for guidance from someone who knows more about this than me... well, I guess you could ask about anyone, but specifically, our old comrade loonyboi has once again posted his own picks, which are actually well-informed in general, not just in comparison with my ignorance.
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TRENTON — Suspected Galilee gunman Lawrence Sutphin is on for another bail hearing Wednesday about his alleged threats to shoot up The Trentonian after he was sprung from jail the first time.
Sutphin appeared on jailhouse video before Mercer Superior Court Judge Thomas M. Brown Tuesday morning and said he might be getting bailed out in a few minutes.
Soon after, however, a jail officer told the judge via video that Sutphin, 36, hadn't made bail after all and had been returned to his cell. Brown set a new hearing for Wednesday morning.
Tuesday marked the third hearing delay for Sutphin, who made the $50,000 bail for his lesser role in the near-deadly gunfire outside Galilee Baptist Church on April 22 during the funeral for teen murder victim Cagney Roberts.
When The Trentonian reported him free on bail, Sutphin showed at the newspaper to complain loudly and allegedly threaten to start firing away.
Later, after the first hearing delay last Wednesday, it came out that Sutphin's bail was reduced from $250,000 to $50,000, clearing the way for his release, after cops determined he was packing but didn't shoot that day when four were wounded in the gunfire at the funeral.
Assistant Mercer Prosecutor Cynthia Liccardo is pressing the case against Sutphin and three alleged cohorts who have been accused of firing their guns that day at the funeral as part of neighborhood gang rivalries.


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Certified Farmer's Market
Sample the bounty of California's harvests straight from local farms at the weekly Farmers Markets near the Sacramento Hostel.
Tuesdays, it's in Roosevelt Park, 8 blocks from the hostel.
Wednesdays, it's at Cesar Chavez Plaza, 1 block from the hostel.
Thursdays, it's on the Capitol Mall at 6th Street, 9 blocks from the hostel.
Saturdays, it's at Folsom and Sunrise boulevards.
Sundays, it's at 8th and W streets (under the freeway).
Certified Farmers Markets are an effort to re-establish the traditional link between farmers and consumers in California, by creating places where genuine farmers sell products they grow themselves directly to the public.
At these markets, farmers can offer field- and tree-ripened fruits and vegetables which are too delicate for the packing and shipping process of traditional food distribution systems. In addition, consumers are assured of obtaining only California-grown fruits and vegetables, fresh and in season, at a good price.
Various Sacramento locations
Stay at the beautiful Sacramento Hostel, a restored Victorian mansion in downtown Sacramento.


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I am Mrs Dawata Ringor from the Philippines.I was married to late Mr Pita Ringor who was a business merchant here in Ivory Coast,He died of ulcer and he has been buried.After his death,his relatives seized all his properties and assets in Philippines with the sole aim of frustrating me.But before the death of my husband he told about some $12.3million USD. he deposited with a security company here in Ivory Coast.He said he deposited this money in a trunk box as family treasures that the security company should only release the box to his foreign partner on my approval.This means that the box can only be shipped abroad to his foreign business partner.
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Californias Energy Future
The California Council of Science and Technology has released the next in its series of studies documenting the technology required to meet radical greenhouse gas (GHG) emission cuts by 2050 (80% below 1990 levels). This report focuses on strategies for reducing energy use and greenhouse gas emissions through energy-efficient technologies and retrofits of the residential and industrial sectors. The report's authors are Jeffery Greenblatt, Max Wei and James McMahon of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).
"We found that although we couldn't solve the entire GHG problem through efficiency alone, we expected that outcome. On the positive side, we were able to conclude that although it will be very challenging, substantial levels of additional efficiency and electrification in buildings and industry are possible, with large GHG benefits," says lead author Jeffery Greenblatt, a staff scientist in the Environmental Energy Technologies Division (EETD).
Because population and economic growth are projected to roughly double the total demand for energy services by 2050, achieving 80% GHG reduction from 1990 levels actually requires a 90% reduction from 2050 emissions if nothing is done (the business-as-usual case). For the residential and commercial buildings sector, the research team examined the savings achievable through four categories of efficiency improvements: reduced capacity (down-sizing, such as smaller refrigerators, or space conditioning one room rather than the whole building), increased efficiency (often through new technology), reduced usage (a combination of technology-facilitated control and behavior change), and system integration (combining elements of several service categories).
They found that although it was possible to reduce energy use technically to meet California's 80% GHG reduction goal in the residential and commercial buildings sector, the potential is limited by economic feasibility and finite rates of implementation. However, the report's analysis provides guidance to the policy community on which energy efficiency strategies, combined with other greenhouse gas reduction policies in transportation, renewable energy, and electrification might move the state more rapidly towards its goal.
By looking at the rate of new construction, retrofit and demolition, and estimating the energy efficiency improvements that are typical of existing homes, the report concludes that a 40% efficiency savings is possible in the 2050 California building stock relative to 2010 for both the residential and commercial sectors.
In the area of industrial energy efficiency, the research team estimated that the potential for a 48% overall reduction in energy use relative to BAU was possible by 2050. The analysis included a detailed examination of the oil and gas refining (60% of industrial energy use) and the food industry (17% of energy use), for which extensive data are available. They assumed that oil demand decreases substantially by 2050, replaced by large-scale vehicle and building electrification and the increased use of biofuels.
For other industrial sectors, the research team looked at similar processes (e.g., boiler systems, process heating, motor systems) for savings potential based on commercially available technologies, and then estimated the fraction of total industrial activity involving that process by industry sector.
The study does not examine policies that can realize these reductions in emissions—that is the subject of another study now in progress called California's Energy Future Policy.
Download the report here.
Allan Chen is the leader of the Communications Office in the Environmental Energy Technologies Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California.
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Luther shot a final round of 322 and finished with a three-day total of 939, and finished ninth of 18 teams at the Gustavus Adolphus Twin Cities Classic.
University of Manitoba won the team title carding a 903. St. John's University (MN) was second at 910, while UW-Eau Claire was third with a 912.
Individually, Tobias Kohl finished in a tie for 20th from the field of 100 golfers shooting rounds of 73-74-83-230. Adam Turner (T44 - 237), Sam Grotnes (T62 - 241) and Matt Axelrod (T73 - 246) completed the Norse foursome that played all three rounds. Caleb Funke placed 90th with a 255. Andrew Peter shot an opening round of 77, but had to withdraw from round two due to back problems. He competed this afternoon and shot 80.
The Norse will wrap up the fall schedule Oct. 6-7, when they will travel to Onalaska, Wis., for the Viterbo University Invitational.
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by Anna Soref
Most people dont know or really understand how big the number a trillion is: that a trillion seconds is 32,800 years; that if you had earned a million dollars every day since Jesus was born, you still wouldnt have a trillion dollars.
We live in a society largely governed by money and yet most of us dont truly understand the numbers bandied about when discussing our countrys debt or defense budget. In many ways our relationship with money is akin to that of food: we all need both to survive, yet most of us dont know much about eithers life cycle anymore.
Response to our food disconnection has prompted a return to small farms and movements like Community Supported Agriculture and the Slow Food movement. Woody Tasch, author of Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered (Chelsea Green, 2009), wants us to apply these same principles to our economy, which is misunderstood and broken, he says. Tasch finds solutions to our economic woes, not in the government, but in the ground we stand on.
Whats Up with Our Money?
In 1960, 3 million shares were exchanged daily on the New York Stock Exchange; today that number is 5 billion. The flow of money is now going so fast that it has gotten detached from daily life or anything we really understand anymore, notes Tasch. Five billion shareswhat does that even mean?
Big number shock value aside, the issue is really about acceleration, according to Tasch. The global population in 1960 was probably only about 2.5 billion and its now 7 billion people; during that time the rate of stock market exchanges went up like a thousand- or two thousandfold, so the rate of increase is disproportionate.
Tasch acknowledges that some people might question whether such an increase in exchange is a problem, that some people embrace speeding up. You just have to use your own judgment. Theres no economist out there who is going to tell you that its too many transactions, but that is where common sense or intuition will answer these questions, Tasch says.
Alongside exponential growth of economic numbers, Americans obsession with acquiring more money and fear of losing it are also ballooning. Tasch attributes this to our reliance on consumerism.
A central characteristic thats different about todays citizen is that people produce practically nothing that they consume; we are almost all purely consumers. If you look at your house, its filled with things that you couldnt make if your life depended on it. You are completely dependent on your purchasing power for everything that you consume.
So if you live in a world like that, where theres no garden in the back and you dont know how to repair a single thing in the house, then the normal reaction is, I better have more money. Theres no such thing as too much money in that world because the only thing I have as a lifeline is money. That is whats different about being alive today, he says.
Thus, we want more money; we feel as though our lives depend upon it; and yet the numbers have become so staggeringly huge, theyre almost incomprehensible.
At many of his Slow Money talks Tasch asks the audience to do basic math problems to help them conceptualize a trillion. About half fail. The scale is already so colossal that we have kind of checked out on day-to-day understanding, he remarks. We are living in a society where transactions and dollars are dictating our future. You cant just totally check out. You have to understand numbers enough to get a sense that something is wrong so that you can take control again.
The Journey to Write It Right
The impetus for putting pencil to paper and writing the book Slow Money was not fueled by a single instance. No romantic epiphany occurred, no aha moment in the middle of the night. Rather, the book and movement evolved from decades of life experiences and Taschs work in the financial sector.
Prior to founding Slow Money, Tasch was chairman of Investors Circle, a network of angel investors, family offices, and social purpose funds and foundations that has, since 1992, invested $150 million in 230 early stage sustainability-promoting ventures and venture funds.
I could go back and say Slow Money was the result of reading Schumachers Small Is Beautiful, being introduced to Slow Food, or working in mission-related investing and the foundation world; but theres no one factorsimply a certain stubbornness around recognizing that things are just so broken, he says.
For Tasch, things began to break in the 1960s.
There was a vehement antiwar movement, people getting shot on college campuses, he recalls. There were the assassinations of both Kennedys and Martin Luther King. They were all a very big part of the fabric of American life for many years. If you werent alive then, its hard to imagine what that does to your consciousness, to have major political and cultural leaders shot. It gets your attention in a way that cannot merely be shaken off; it is not just a debate about ideology. There were broad cultural discussions about how broken things were or how inadequate institutions were, about government being brokenyou can throw Watergate in there.
Now we are here, 40 years later, and government is still broken, but even more so, according to Tasch.
Will the situation finally change? Courtesy of climate change, maybe, Tasch responds. Climate change is such a big imponderable clamp on our consciousness. And then underneath that theres Wall Street collapsing, Washington is dysfunctionalall of our systems are starting to hit limits. So weve gotten too big, too complicated, and the negative consequences are too great, he laments.
From the Ground Up
Our cultures disharmony with nature that has led to years of living unsustainably is literally at the root of our economic dysfunction, Tasch believes.
After doing some mission-related and angel investing work, I wondered why are we not having more impact? Tasch continues. The best-intentioned people and foundations are trying to do things differently, but theres just a transaction here and a transaction there and its really not yet adding up to systemic change. I had the feeling that we werent addressing the root cause.
While working on the book I was trying to think of the cause, and I came around to this idea that the soil is somehow the ultimate metric. If we cant take care of our soil, if we cant grow our food without destroying soil fertility, what kind of civilization do we have? Its like the ultimate artificial subsidy, he says.
Not taking care of the soil means not taking care of the air and water, as well. If we cant take care of those things so as not to destroy the fertility of the soil that took eons to create, then we are going down a dead-end road, Tasch warns.
Alongside soil fertility, Tasch points to soil erosion. Every year we are losing between one half and one percent of the arable land on the planet due to soil erosion, he says. A half to one percent! That means we have somewhere between X years and Y years before we have lost it all.
While these statistics are very frightening, Tasch stresses that we must look beyond our own reaction of fear for survival. He believes the negative social and cultural consequences to living in a world that is destroying the soil in order to exist are linked to many of todays problems, such as political dysfunction, terrorism, and economic collapse and dysfunction.
They are all interrelated, he tells us. I think that living in a time when life is taking subsidies from eons of history on the one hand and future generations on the other, just so that we can have an economy thats growing, has broad implications. So, to me, the soil is a very powerful metaphor.
To explain our shortsighted economic structure, Tasch uses a plant analogyGMOs. Weve created ways of making food that we dont really understand fully, just as we have with our economy, he says.
We are changing the genetic nature of plants so that they will produce more but with significant long-term risk. Thats kind of what our economy is doingyou put debt in to create some growth, but long term you dont have a fertile or healthy situation. We keep pushing out the day of reckoning; we sort of all know in the back of our minds that one day these unhealthy consequences are going to come home to roost.
That the health of the planets soil is intrinsically linked to money is reflected in the Slow Money movements six principles; for example, Slow Money Principle I: We must bring money back down to earth.
This means not merely bringing money back down to earth so that we can understand it, which it does mean, but it also denotes thinking about all of the impacts of what we are doing on soil fertility, says Tasch. And the good news is that its not an abstraction, because a growing number of food enterprises are doing just that. They are bringing money back down to earth and creating economic activity in a way that can preserve our soil fertility.
Forget Solutions from Washington
When you discuss next steps or solutions with Tasch, government doesnt make the short list. He believes that national politics is not the right tool for our century.
The chances of real fixes coming from Washington or any election are so small that I think its somewhere in the realm of a national tragedy that so many billions of dollars are spent and so many zillions of hours are used tracking and arguing about politics, Tasch remarks. Our institutions have shown us that response to the changing realities on the planet is not a priority.
In the twenty-first century we need something in addition to philanthropy and government, he states. Our challenge is to create a new kind of economy that is creating jobs but is also healing social and environmental wounds. Not an economy that says, Go as fast as we can and then at some time in the future we will try and clean up whats broken. That was OK before we knew about climate change, or at least you could still make the argument that it was.
So Slow Money is a manifestation of thata group of investors who are willing to make less money than they have historically been able to make by investing in smoke stacks in China, Tasch says. We are willing to take some of our money out of that other system and put it to work in a way which seems destined to give us less financial return, but we feel the imperative to start having this discussion.
Building a New Solution
Instead of looking to government for solutions, Tasch advocates proactive steps that build the type of alternative future we want to see. He admits thats a pretty abstract thing but says that when you start talking about building one enterprise at a time, it quickly becomes concrete. So Slow Money is not trying to get into a fight with Monsanto or influence the farm bill or anything like that. Some of our members are; but we are really just on the path of getting investment into small food enterprise, Tasch explains.
One of the six Slow Money principles asks, What would the world be like if we invested 50% of our assets within 50 miles of where we live? This means researching where to put that money by collaborating with neighborsgoing down the street to figure out where the good things are to invest in. It would take time and energy, and its going to be harder and you might earn less, but its going to be infinitely more rewarding, predicts Tasch. Its like whats more enjoyable: eating a meal made of vegetables from the store or from your own garden? Its more work, but the experience is more rewarding.
Tasch emphasizes that Slow Money is not a rigid philosophy. We are not either-or. Im not saying that we should all quit going to the store and grow all our own food. And its the same thing with money: we shouldnt take all of our money out of the other system, but maybe we should take 50 percent out.
Again, Community Supported Agriculture: We have to work in radically smaller units. And in Slow Money we are talking about the most radical of all, which is a CSA, says Tasch. It allows you to directly connect to the things you are investing in and directly bypass all those big macro scary things that no one can control anymore.
So far Slow Money has catalyzed $10 million of new investment in small food enterprises. Its small in comparison, but weve engaged thousands of people around the country in small enterprises and its beginning to feel like the start of something thats getting important, Tasch reports.
The second annual Slow Money conference last October in San Francisco hosted more than 100 speakers and 850 attendees, who ranged from complete non-investors to high-level angel investors. Its very high energy and were all focusing on small food entrepreneurs around the country. Its incredibly inspiring when you see 30 small food entrepreneurs on the same stage within a couple of hours, says Tasch.
Businesses included everything from a grain mill in Maine trying to resurrect local milling to a company growing indigenous varieties of rice and one making non-antibiotic treatments for treating organic dairy.
In addition to the book and website, local Slow Money chapters are opening across the nation. Chapter meetings encourage discussion, reflection and action, Tasch says.
Looking Forward
For Tasch, part of building the Slow Money movement is accepting the unknowns but moving forward with the seemingly simple doctrine of slowing down. If my son looked at me and asked, What are we supposed to do? Id say, I dunno. But I do know that taking our foot off the accelerator and trying to slow down and get some control of what is going on is the path forwardeven though any one thing we do is woefully inadequate.
Taschs personal commitment to Slow Money is strong, even when his family questions his direction. My son recently asked me why I was doing what I am when I still have such earning power in the conventional investment realm. I told him I am on a mission now; I am not in control of my own life. This job has captured me and I need to see it through. But I understand its just frustrating as hell to know he has a dad who could be getting rich but is doing this other thing.
A pessimist at heart, Tasch credits his determination to improve the world to waking up on the right side of the bed each day. Im 99 percent pessimist and 1 percent optimist. But each day I wake up on the optimist side of the bed.
I really believe, based on the experience Ive had with Slow Money for the past three years, that theres a difference between how much money you make and what kind of a reward you get, Tasch concludes. And sometimes doing a different kind of investing can be far more rewarding even if it generates less money.
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Holiday activities might even take a toll on your overall health and attitude.
What can you do to make sure it's enjoyable without undue stress?
Be realistic:
As families grow and change, family traditions also might change.
Take time before the holidays to pick out two or three traditions or rituals which are really important to you and your family.
Then focus on those and maybe even add a new tradition which comes from your children's spouse's families.
Don't try to do all the things you did in younger years.
Pace your work load:
If you don't have the energy you used to, don't do so much that you'll be physically exhausted.
Allow for extra time to do what is necessary and enjoy the holidays rather than feel rushed and pressured.
Be sure to allow time for a break or nap.
If you normally get up later in the day or take an afternoon nap -- keep that as part of your daily schedule.
Share the work:
Seriously consider hiring some things done, or give out assignments to family members who are willing to help with decorating, baking desserts, maybe even doing some of the heavy shopping.
Don't be shy about telling others where you need help.
You can also host a "party" to decorate, wrap packages or make special foods. That way others are helping you with the work.
Plan ahead:
While some holiday preparations have to be done on the last day, there are lots of things that can be done ahead.
If you're the head chef for the day, don't wait until the day before to shop. Other than fresh fruits and vegetables, many foods can be purchased ahead of time.
Perishable foods can be refrigerated for a week or more and, if frozen, will keep much longer.
Ignore the white-glove test:
While everyone wants their home to be spic-and-span clean for company, most of the company you will have won't be checking out the corners or under the couch to see if you did it. They came to see you.
Do any serious cleaning at least a week ahead of time.
Then, you'll only have to do a light dusting and vacuuming of the traffic pathways the day before.
Stick to a budget:
Whether it's food, gifts or decorations, make a budget early before the holiday season rolls around.
If your family has grown to a size where you worry about paying for all the gifts, it may be time to start new traditions.
Some families draw names and only give one gift. In some, the kids draw names for each other; others only have gifts for children.
You decide what fits for your situation and your budget.
Food and beverage can also overwhelm the budget. Just because you usually provide the entire holiday meal, it doesn't mean you need to do it this year.
If you're the host family, prepare the meat dish and have others bring the rest.
If your family consumes alcoholic beverages, let everyone bring their own.
Then you don't have to buy lots of items to be sure everyone has what he or she likes.
Keep healthy habits:
Just because it's a busy time of the year, don't abandon your healthy habits.
If you normally take a daily walk, swim, attend an exercise program, or play a round of golf -- keep it in your schedule. Exercise will actually increase your metabolism and give you extra energy, which helps both the mind and body.
Don't feel like you are ignoring family or company you might have. Rather, invite them along. They would enjoy seeing how you stay healthy.
Don't overeat:
Just because it's the holidays, you don't have a license to overindulge. It will only add to your stress and guilt, especially if you have a chronic illness such as diabetes or heart disease.
If you're preparing food, make sure you have some low-calorie foods and beverages which all can enjoy.
If going to a party, have a healthy snack before you leave home so you'll not be tempted to go overboard on sweets, cheeses and drinks.
Take a breather:
If the house seems to have gotten too small for everyone and you want to escape -- go for it.
Sometimes spending just 15 minutes alone without any distractions can refresh you enough to handle all the things you need to do.
This might be going to a bedroom and close the door, or enjoying a walk outdoors or just sitting on the porch or patio.
Take time now to plan what you'll do this year to take the stress out of the holiday season. It may turn out to be the best holiday ever.


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Caroline Danjuma & Christina Aguilera... Can You See the Resemblance?
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well maybe if they had d same skin tone and Caroline goes blonde.ReplyDelete
- DR VAN BAY17 January, 2013 16:48
Ladun beacuase weve been hailing you that you are on fire you now want to use mumu posts to roast urself abi? anyways there is no resemblance. shikena.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous17 January, 2013 20:54
Lmao hahahDelete
- Anonymous17 January, 2013 22:11
- Anonymous18 January, 2013 11:49
Yes ladun is begining to behave foolishDelete
I see the resemblance. On point.ReplyDelete
Check out the picture of Laide Bakare and her mum on naijaPOSE
ladun are u a learner?ReplyDelete
- lagos is my Home17 January, 2013 16:57
Ladun you should have gone to spec savers , your eyes need checking ...... They are both beautiful especially Caroline but look nothing alike . I don't see one and get reminded of the otherReplyDelete
yeah right... BTW Love wat u did with d "chizy K" ish, giving credit to whom it is due!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous17 January, 2013 17:05
The transformation of Caroline is a good example that money is goood oooo. Nobody should cry in a bicycle when you can cry in a bentley.ReplyDelete
The way she has so polish herself compared to the days we were classmate in Oyo is amazing . She was light because she is half but no where glowing like she is now. Her skin is way ligher. My dear continue what you are doing , it is working for u and i pray i too go marry a rich old man who will take me to that level.Replies
Pls shut it! ur chatting shit, want to familiarize, do u lOok d same now, from when u claim u were classmates? Hiss. Dust yarner.Delete
- Anonymous18 January, 2013 15:11
Yeah she has really changed....money sure is goodDelete
- Anonymous17 January, 2013 17:11
- Anonymous17 January, 2013 17:17
for christs sake ladunReplyDelete
you could at least get a flattering picture of christina
that aside , they do look alike kinda
- Anonymous17 January, 2013 17:20
Ladun dis is RUBBISH!ReplyDelete
Not worthy of a POST!
Billie jeanReplies
- dr van bay17 January, 2013 18:14
Billie jean ejo what is *rme?Delete
- Anonymous17 January, 2013 19:15
whats the meaning of this rme sef?Delete
- Anonymous17 January, 2013 19:31
rme means*rolling my eyes*Delete
- Anonymous17 January, 2013 22:24
dr van bay, did you just ask that? You had me fooled. I thought you were exposed. Na only sex matter you sabi. *rme*Delete
- DR VAN BAY18 January, 2013 10:40
ANON 22:24 so i dont have better things to do other than abbreviating bb smileys abi? now u have taught me: *ttth figure that out! ihihihihihihhiDelete
u no try at all mtchew talk to the handDelete
talk to the hand na wetin dem dey try figure out, u no try at allDelete
Mtchew..derez obviously a gist drought.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous17 January, 2013 17:51
Caroline is finerReplyDelete
- Anonymous17 January, 2013 17:52
Caroline is finer. No I won't.ReplyDelete
Ladun run fast to the nearest optician . Go get those eyes checked and don't let the door hit you on the way out ..... LolReplyDelete
That been said I love Caroline shape, even after two, she is still smoking slim. Christina is way too big . She needs too lose weight and eat less
There's actually a semblance.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous17 January, 2013 18:44
You and Aloba of Maestro Media must be going blind! Resemblance ko!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous17 January, 2013 18:54
Carolina ekanem's father is from Scotland. She is therefore not 100 per cent africanReplyDeleteReplies
- dr van bay17 January, 2013 20:16
Who asked you? Nigeria info! Tatafo!Delete
- Anonymous18 January, 2013 08:36
Why does she have a Nigerian last name (madien name) if her father is scotish ????Delete
- Anonymous18 January, 2013 13:53
Na wa for the dumbness of some people. Did Ladun say 100%? Ode.Delete
- Anonymous17 January, 2013 19:07
You and Aloba of Maestro Media must be going blind! Resemblance ko!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous17 January, 2013 20:07
I am sure that when she got pregnant first,she wasnt proud,now she is flaunting her daughter,issokay oooReplyDelete
- Anonymous17 January, 2013 20:10
yes! they r both FAT!ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous17 January, 2013 21:55
beefer calling Caroline fat. oshi. you need specs.Delete
- Anonymous18 January, 2013 03:16
Really? I love that kind of fat then. And yes I'm a guy. Give a man something to hold onto.Delete
- Anonymous17 January, 2013 20:14
resemblance my ass,are u a learner?ReplyDelete
- Anonymous17 January, 2013 20:53
Ladun, one single suggestion for u and all will be well------> LASER EYE SURGERY!ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous17 January, 2013 23:58
Sharap! Bufoon!Delete
- Anonymous17 January, 2013 21:23
They dont look anything alikeReplyDelete
- dayogirlee17 January, 2013 21:43
ahnahn aunty Ladun,even if maestromedia said it,must u concur?how do they look alike?their complexion is faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar different from eachotherReplyDelete
- dayogirlee17 January, 2013 22:14
Carolina Ekanem is from scotland?are u deaf? does Ekanem sound like a a scottish name?otondoReplyDelete
- Anonymous17 January, 2013 22:26
Total crap, how can u put carolina and xtiana together?Carolina is far beautiful that that baby mama dollReplyDelete
Carolina is hot,even after two kids and let this be the last time u will compare her with someone fat and uglyReplyDelete
Caroline is far prettier jorReplyDelete
- Anonymous17 January, 2013 22:45
i wonr even mistake them for distant cousins,nt to mention sistersReplyDelete
- Anonymous17 January, 2013 22:49
Xtiana has never reminded me of Carolina in anyway,but now that you are bringing their pics together, i think i kind of see a close resemblanceReplyDelete
- Anonymous18 January, 2013 07:39
I see no resemblance but I see an insult to all african women...How BLONDE Christina go get yansh pass African woman?...*SMH* Gone are the days when curves were exclusive preserves of Africans and Latinos(if you believe in the Earth's evolution, they are Africans too) Now peeps like Kim are stealing the spotlight with their booty while Nigerian girls are dieting.ReplyDelete
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- Anonymous18 January, 2013 09:46
So seriously, they both look alike to me, maybe because I did not know them b4 now... the only diff i can c is their hair and skin colour.ReplyDelete
Caroline is looking stunning tho..but i really do not see the resemblance..ReplyDelete
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- Anonymous18 January, 2013 10:53
ladun, i think most Nigerians are jobless.however, when we say semblance must they look completely alike? the only big difference i see is there heir colour aside these, they almost the same.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous18 January, 2013 15:51
you sound dumb sha.Delete


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Houma's Regional Military Museum, which is at capacity, will add another 12,000-square-foot building early next year to provide for better displays and group functions.
Houma's Regional Military Museum, which is at capacity, will add another 12,000-square-foot building early next year to provide for better displays and group functions.
The museum on Barrow Street has more than 4,000 artifacts that range from President Dwight Eisenhower's Air Force One plane to various uniforms, photos, medals, vehicles and weapons, many from local veterans.
Much of that is in storage, including a true-to-size World War II Avenger Torpedo Bomber model that hung inside the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans for about nine years. Three jeeps, two working tracked vehicles and a bevy of firearms and swords are also in storage in various parts of the parish.
"We are increasing display space for those and many more items, which is only part of the projected growth of the museum," said C.J. Christ, museum founder and Veterans District board member.
The museum honors the men and women of this region who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces and educates the public about the sacrifices made by veterans, Christ said.
Christ said the new building will provide for a much-needed expansion to the museum, which cannot contain all the artifacts that have been donated over the years.
Gulf South Engineers Associates of Houma will build the building, which is expected to be three stories tall, in a lot next to the current one.
The mostly glass-and-steel structure will be constructed in two phases and cost roughly $3 million, said Will Theriot, museum vice president.
An exact timetable for construction has not been determined.
Phase 1, the front half of the building, will be an open atrium allowing for large display exhibits and group functions, Theriot said. Phase 2, the rear of the building, will contain three levels to provide space for small artifact displays, a revamped and expanded library and meeting rooms.
Money for the new building comes from the Terrebonne Parish Veterans Memorial District tax collections.
The atrium will offer an auditorium setting for large events such as Memorial Day and Veterans Day, Christ said.
The old building is prone to flooding, Theriot said. But the new museum will be constructed 7 feet above sea level.
"We are doing this to honor all of our veterans who served this country," Theriot said. "This is how we honor them, by preserving their artifacts and their history."
Christ wants to suspend the Avenger Torpedo Bomber from the ceiling.
"This amazing plane … will be visible to anyone passing the building on Barrow Street, and hopefully it will serve as an invitation to visitors," he said.
The old museum, which will remain, serves as more of a research facility on military topics — mostly Houma oriented — such as Houma's Naval Blimp Base during World War II and other war events in the Gulf of Mexico.
Christ said he is grateful for the support from the Memorial District and the community.
"Without the help and generosity of the public, the museum would not be where it is today," he said.
In November 2010, voters approved the property tax that will allow the district to collect about $3.8 million over a decade.
For the owner of a $100,000 home, the half-mill veterans-district tax costs $1.25 annually. The tax costs the owner of a $250,000 house $8.75 annually and the owner of a $500,000 house pays $21.25 annually. This takes into account the first $75,000 of a property's value being tax exempt.


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State police's eyes in the sky foil feet of leadBy MICHAEL COUSINEAU
New Hampshire Sunday News
December 29. 2012 10:38PM
When a state police trooper clocked a car going 100 mph on Interstate 93 north this month, a state-owned plane tracked the speeding vehicle, which tried to elude police by pulling into a gas station.
When authorities worked to find the body of murdered University of New Hampshire student Elizabeth Marriott, they called on the state helicopter to help cover more ground by searching the Portsmouth area by air.
And when a hiker suffered a heart attack on a mountaintop, the state's helicopter rescued the man, who authorities said would likely have died otherwise.
Welcome to the state's air force, of sorts.
Flying along the state's busiest highways, state police use a state-owned Cessna to clock speeders and spot reckless drivers, radioing their locations to waiting troopers below.
"There are so many high speeds we've been getting recently, and many of these (drivers) wouldn't be apprehended by conventional radar or laser because of traffic volume," state police Director Col. Robert Quinn said last week.
Just last Sunday, Trooper 1st Class (Tfc.) Timothy Stearns, clocking vehicle speeds from the plane, said he recorded nine vehicles traveling at least 90 mph in a 65-mph zone on Interstate 89 in Sunapee. A total of 55 drivers were pulled over for alleged speeding over several hours, he said.
Stearns believes "the speeds have started to pick up a bit" recently, and he suspects cheaper gas prices means "they're not thinking about conserving fuel."
Six of those drivers exceeded the speed limit by at least 26 mph and face a possible 30-day loss of their license and up to a $1,000 fine plus other penalties, he said. Those hitting 100 mph often are charged with reckless operation and face up to a 60-day loss of license plus fines and penalties, Stearns said.
"The results that they're getting are phenomenal," said Peter Thomson, coordinator of the New Hampshire Highway Safety Agency. The agency provides the state Department of Safety with nearly $100,000 in federal funds yearly to use for highway enforcement purposes.
The plane flies about 190 days a year, and the trooper teams have pulled over 5,115 vehicles with the aid of the aircraft as of Friday, according to state police Sgt. Matthew Shapiro, commander of the Special Enforcement Unit. The plane also flies for investigators to take pictures of serious crash and crime scenes.
On days the plane doesn't fly, troopers conduct highway enforcement on the ground.
The 2008 Cessna was purchased in 2008 for $361,385 plus $70,385 in special radio equipment, principally from money from the federal Street Sweeper grant and an additional $70,000 in federal drug forfeiture funds, according to Assistant Safety Commissioner Earl Sweeney.
The state also owns a Bell helicopter, used primarily for rescues, purchased for $1.6 million from a combination of federal drug forfeiture, state drug forfeiture, federal Street Sweeper grant funds and some state highway and turnpike funds, Sweeney said.
Sweeney said the helicopter - which is equipped with forward-facing infrared equipment that enables it to detect a person's body heat - costs a lot less than the expense involved in using only people on foot.
One ground search that covered 2 square miles required 110 searchers and took 921.5 person/hours to complete at a cost of $75,000. "By contrast, the copter can cover 30 miles during a three-hour flight at a cost of $2,064," Sweeney said in an email.
"On another occasion, a hiker having a heart attack on a mountaintop was rescued quickly at a cost to the state of $1,921, where an exclusively ground rescue mission would have taken at least 18 people eight hours at a cost of $9,936 for manpower, or 417 percent more, and the hiker would have likely died," Sweeney wrote.
Renting a helicopter and loading the required gear "would be impractical," he said.
The operating budget for the aviation unit is $177,590 a year in current expenses, repairs and maintenance, aviation fuel and other expenses, he said. He estimates the salaries and benefits of the two pilots could add up to an additional $150,000 annually.
Former Rep. Beverly Rodeschin, R-Newport, said she questioned the purchase of the helicopter.
"I'm a conservative; I just wondered whether all these things were new toys for them or are they really in need of them," said Rodeschin, who lost her seat in 2010. "I didn't really think they were in need of it."
She said using federal grants still is money collected from the public.
Rep. Neal Kurk, R-Weare, said he thinks a case can be made for either the helicopter or the airplane.
"I think the helicopter has a better case. I don't think you can make the case for both," Kurk said. "Maybe there is an economic case that can be made for the airplane in addition to the helicopter."
The helicopter is used for helping put up roadblocks for escaped prisoners or fleeing criminals, monitoring illegal drug operations, delivering SWAT team members and assisting during floods and catastrophes. It is often used during visits by the President, vice president and presidential candidates, Sweeney said.
By using the plane to enforce highway laws, state police said troopers have an easier time stopping high-speed vehicles. That's because a trooper by air tracks a vehicle's speed within a series of white-marked areas on the highway. After those marked-off zones, signs are posted to warn drivers that the area is being monitored by air, forcing the herd of cars to slow. The trooper in the plane keeps his eyes constantly on the alleged speeder, relaying the speeder's position, so troopers just past the area with the signs can stop the correct vehicle going at a slower speed because of the slowing traffic, Shapiro said.
"Once you lock on to a car, you don't take your eyes off of it," Stearns said. "There's no mistake."
Without the plane, a trooper parked along a highway with radar must start his pursuit at zero mph. The trooper also doesn't have a team of troopers ahead to slow traffic.
Manchester attorney Michael Iacopino, immediate past president of the New Hampshire Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, said he has handled a couple of speeding tickets resulting from monitoring aircraft.
"My experience is it doesn't make a difference whether it's an airport case or a regular radar type of case," Iacopino said. "There are obvious areas of cross-examination for both. ... Neither is fool-proof."
An attorney can challenge whether the trooper spotting from the air kept constant visual contact and police pulled over the correct car.
Stearns said there have been guys who sneezed and closed their eyes, resulting in them giving up on that vehicle.
In cases that go to trial, the alleged speeders sometimes ask how police can tell whether it was them speeding.
"Most people aren't ducking in and out. They're staying in the same lane," Stearns said.
Gov-elect Maggie Hassan was noncommittal about the aviation unit, according to her spokesman, Marc Goldberg.
"As part of her fiscally responsible budget instructions, Governor-elect Hassan has encouraged all agencies, including the Department of Safety, to evaluate innovative ways to identify efficiencies and will work closely with agencies to make the difficult decisions needed to submit a balanced budget to the Legislature by February 15th," he said in an email.
Areas clocked by air include Interstate 93 in Bow, Canterbury, Northfield and Campton; Interstate 89 in Hopkinton, Sutton, Sunapee, Grantham and New London; Route 101 in Candia and Raymond, Interstate 95 in Greenland and Hampton, and Route 16 in Dover and Rochester.
Quinn said speed isn't the only thing the plane is helping to thwart.
"The other thing I think is important is the aircraft has been getting drunk and drugged drivers during the day," Quinn said.
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The Adair County Public Library is hosting its annual Children's Holiday Crafts Fair as an open workshop opportunity for kids to make something special for Christmas.
Standing in for Santa's elves, members of the Tau Lambda Sigma sorority at Truman State will assist children ages 2 to 12 in making gifts from beads, baubles, baby food jars and more.
The event is free and scheduled for Saturday from 1 to 3 p.m.
For more information, contact the library at (660) 665-6038.