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Angstrom Technologies is a global technology services firm with a reputation for quality, superior technical skills, and proven, bottom-line results and main aim being providing high–end consulting services in diverse fields. Their mission is to help our clients leverage IT to solve complex business and technical challenges across the business continuum.
Armor Safe Technologies specializes in the development, deployment and servicing of the industry's most innovative cash-management systems. Our safes validate, count and secure cash in cassettes ready for delivery to your bank, establishing an effective closed-loop solution for many of your toughest challenges: loss prevention, employee accountability and financial transparency.
When AXODE was created 20 years ago, their aim was to make life easier for printers and companies publishing sensitive documents. They began a revolution based on the idea that the supervision of these documents could be automated using continuous scanning. This revolution is still underway, and today AXODE is the uncontested leader in the field.
Banknote Corporation of America
Banknote Corporation of America (BCA) is the new division of CCL Secure and the largest US-based high-security printer. From secured document origination, identification, tax stamps, secured polymers, labels to personalization and distribution, BCA collaborates closely with governments, clients and technology providers to create an innovative secure product.
BankSupplies provides the expertise, reliability, and full line of products to help our clients stay ahead of counterfeit money tactics. Their solutions range from the cost-effective iodine-based pens to state-of-the-art currency scanners with advanced detection methods. Offering detection tools that are utilized in many of the major casinos in the USA, BankSupplies is often called in to train and educate gaming and banking staff throughout the country. Their solutions are not limited to detecting bogus currency; count on them to help detect fake ID's, checks, chips, credit cards, or any other form of marked exchange media. Brands carried include: Semacon authenticators, Dri Mark products, Angstrom, and others.
Belle-Pak offers one of the most diverse lines of polyethylene and print products in Canada. They proudly deliver high-quality products and competitive pricing, coupled with superior, responsive service. The Markham Board of Trade recently honored Belle-Pak with a Business Excellence Award for extraordinary business achievement.
Boulder Imaging's RESERVE inspection system detects surface defects, non-uniformities, and characteristics in banknotes and security paper with unprecedented speed, accuracy and resolution. RESERVE's hardware and software architecture is adaptive to rapidly evolving banknote design and security features. Diverse sensor and hardware integration capabilities allow for the latest in high-performance data acquisition.
Cashmaster is a leading, global manufacturer of count-by-weight (CBW) cash management solutions. They work with businesses looking to streamline their cash management, reduce shrinkage, improve accuracy and ultimately deliver an improved customer service. From sole traders to large multi-national organizations, Cashmaster works with customers across the globe.
Cashphenix International LLC is a company established to bring to the world market a simple, robust and affordable technology for cash managing and coin recycling. 40 years of experience in the technical area and businesses have pushed them to cover this huge market space.
Cassida Corporation's innovative products empower businesses of all sizes to operate more efficiently and securely in the handling of their lifeblood– cash. Cassida's line includes business-grade bill counters, counterfeit detectors with industry-best false reject rates, top-performing coin counters/sorters and, in the Cassida Pro Series, innovative new advances in bill discriminators.
CCL Secure is the global expert in polymer banknote substrate. Their sites are solely focused on developing this technology, with dedicated Research and Development (R&D) facilities, best-of-class production lines and the world's largest polymer substrate design team. They partner closely with only the best in the industry to provide customer focused, end-to-end solutions that address the complex needs of central banks.
Complete Inspection Systems, Inc. has become the worldwide leader in providing automated inspection systems, digital proofreading and anti-counterfeiting solutions for pharmaceutical, medical device and packaging industries. Specializing in the development of custom solutions while incorporating the latest computer imaging and graphical processing technologies not only sets them apart but also allows them to meet the most demanding industry needs.
CONTROLTEK's tamper-evident security packaging helps the nation's leading banks, armored couriers and retailers transport cash safely and securely. And their inventory protection and visibility solutions help retailers protect their merchandise better and run their operations more efficiently. With a history of stable growth and a reputation for strong customer focus, CONTROLTEK continues to deliver on its mission every day: to enable commerce through innovation.
Dri Mark Products is the largest manufacturer and supplier of POP counterfeit detection products in the USA. We are the original patenter of the Counterfeit Detector Pen, but currently make a variety of machines and supplies for detection and security. Our products are widely available at office superstores, restaurant supply and bank supply distributors.
Ellenby is an engineering and manufacturing company. They work closely with service provider partners and other technology companies to create high quality, market-leading products. Ellenby products, from vending machine control boards to fully assembled smart safes, are sold through three primary channels: OEMs, Solution providers, and distributors to reach end users.
FireKing Security Group is one of the premier security and loss prevention companies in America offering a broad array of innovative products designed specifically to protect our customers' assets, people, and vital business records. FireKing offers best-in-class security products for asset protection in retail, commercial, and home office environments. Their products include fire proof files and storage cabinets, safes and cash management systems, and digital video security systems.
With design, manufacture, testing and shipping, taking place within Foster + Freeman's large modern production facility, Foster + Freeman are able to guarantee the consistent quality and performance of each and every one of its products. Foster + Freeman adhere to strict measurable quality objectives in order to meet the requirements of ISO:9001 quality management standard.
GardaWorld is the world's largest privately owned security services company offering a wide range of highly focused business solutions, including leading-edge security services and cash solutions.
As a global leader in cash technology solutions, Glory provides customers the confidence that their cash is working to build a stronger business. Their solutions help businesses in more than 100 countries optimize the handling, movement and management of cash while they engage each customer to address their unique goals.
Graphic Security Systems Corporation
Graphic Security Systems Corporation (GSSC) has provided its patented technology, Security Indicia™ to government authorized security printing firms and major corporations globally for more than thirty-five years. GSSC has a depth of experience that began in traditional banknote printing and has since extended into numerous verticles within the Document Security and Brand Protection sectors.
HD Barcode, LLC is a solutions developer, integrator, and provider of proprietary barcoding technologies. With over 30 years of experience implementing advanced systems, HD Barcode has become a trusted source for turnkey and customizable barcoding solutions that increase security measures, secures products, and prevents supply chains from becoming compromised.
IGT Testing Systems produces instruments to test printability of secure papers, inks, labels, foils and other materials since 1939. It also provides testing solutions for (high) security documents to improve wear, soiling, longevity etc. as well as laboratory facilities for testing these documents. IGT produces dedicated instruments for special demands of security printers, secure paper or ink manufacturers and central banks. IGT executes tests and develops test methods to support these institutions and industries.
INTERCRIM-PRESS offers information and reference editions dedicated to various aspects of cash circulation, currency industry, securities, numismatics, economy and finance.
International Institute of Currency Technology (IICT)
International Institute of Currency Technology (IICT) is focused to create a financial environment free from fake and forged notes by applying state of the art technologies along with Cash Automation & Modernization Technology. IICT is offering a foundation program, certificate program, diploma program and special training program for central and commercial bank officials.
JCM Global is the worldwide leader and most trusted name in currency and transaction management, and its products are used in countries around the globe. For more than 50 years, customers have trusted JCM to develop innovative currency solutions for a diverse range of industries, including gaming, vending, retail, financial, transportation, security, and custom application.
Drawing on over twenty years of expertise, KICTeam is focused on developing preventative and corrective cleaning programs for technical devices involved in the payment, currency, image processing, printing, and self-service devices. Their core products are proudly made in the U.S.A. from their manufacturing facility in Auburn, Maine.
Loomis is the largest integrated cash distribution network in the United States—with nearly 200 locations, 9,000+ employees, and 3,000+ vehicles—they are proud to provide cash-handling products and services to financial institutions and commercial/retail businesses nationwide.
At LuminoChem we develop and produce top quality luminescent materials which are applicable in the security printing industry and for brand protection purposes. Our innovative and unique products have made us the global brand to come to for world class security pigments.
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Morphis, founded in 1999, has grown to become the leading provider of currency supply chain management software in the world. Today Morphis has licensed more than 50 organizations including Central Banks, Financial Institutions, Armored Carrier/Cash-In-Transit Companies, ATM Deployers and Transaction Processors.
Founded in 1981, the Mühlbauer Group has grown to a proven one-stop-shop technology partner for the smart card, ePassport, RFID and solar back-end industry. Further business fields are the areas of micro-chip die sorting, carrier tape equipment, as well as automation, marking and traceability systems. Mühlbauer's Parts&Systems segment produces high precision components.
NASPO INTERNATIONAL was founded in 2002 by companies and individuals in the security products industry that recognized the need for the control of secure products and technologies. To provide a recognized framework, the organization developed an authoritative set of standards and auditing practices focused on the principle of control using the concept of risk management.
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The NCR Corporation (originally National Cash Register) is an American computer hardware, software and electronics company that makes self-service kiosks, point-of-sale terminals, automated teller machines, check processing systems, barcode scanners, and business consumables. They also provide IT maintenance support services. NCR had been based in Dayton, Ohio, starting in 1884, but in June 2009 the company sold most of the Dayton properties and moved its headquarters to the Atlanta metropolitan area in unincorporated Gwinnett County, Georgia, near Duluth and Alpharetta.[4][5] In early January 2018, new headquarters opened at Technology Square (adjacent to the Georgia Institute of Technology) located in Atlanta.
With roots stretching back well over three century's, PNO Global are not only a company with a history but a company with a strong heritage. Part of that heritage is a distinct set of principles passed down from our families company's founders. These same principles are fundamental for today's PNO Global: a most valuable and energetic supplier of banknote varnishes and solutions for improved fitness sorting, quality control and counterfeit analysis.
Precision Converting Technologies
Precision Converting Technologies, LLC is dedicated to combining a variety of substrates, inks, and materials into specialty security applications for Government & Commercial Identification to protect, track, and authenticate goods from being counterfeited, altered, or simulated. The product complexity of this market segment requires the combination of unique capabilities and features.
Quantag Nanotechnologies delivers high-end nano-products to specific markets. Their strength is based on the ability to design advanced products/solutions delicately customized to meet industry/customer needs. The company currently focuses on its Quantum Tagging Technology, which enables tracking and authentication of products/brands via tailored quantum dots and ultra-sensitive sensors.
Rapid Armored Corporation has been serving the needs of Tri-state area (New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut) banks and businesses since 1970. Rapid is licensed as an Armored Car Carrier by the United States Department of Transportation and the New York State Department of State. Rapid is fully insured portal-to-portal by Lloyd's of London. They offer a wide variety of very affordable currency services (including servicing gaming boats).
For four decades, Reldom Corporation has been the premier supplier of money transportation and storage systems to the entire casino gaming industry. Reldom utilizes 100% in house manufacturing for their entire product line which allows them to design and produce carts, cabinets and plastic products tailored to each casinos specifications and needs.
Royal Sovereign International Inc
Royal Sovereign is the global leader in cash management solutions. For over 30 years, Royal Sovereign has provided high quality and innovative products to enhance life at the office and at home. Royal Sovereign offers logical assortments based on consumer needs and new, exciting, sleek designs, with high quality performance and features.
Roymal was founded in 1962 in by Roy Malool. Located in Newport, New Hampshire, the corporate headquarters is home to more than 3,000 square ft. of custom coating technology and performance testing laboratories.
As an independent family owned business they're not constrained by outside interests. Security Papers UK can assure you of confidentiality - they wouldn't have such an enviable client base, had they not earned their loyalty through their integrity and reputation for innovation and quality. You'll see many of their products used in Passports and Banknotes throughout the world as well as for other Security Paper Grades such as Lottery Papers and Tax Stamps. They're the market leader in this area and have an exciting program of new developments underway - keeping them ahead of not only the competition but also, more importantly, the counterfeiter.
Shields Tamper Activated Technology (STAT) is the single solution to tamper evidence! Every STAT closure uses the same distinct warning indicator against multiple types of intrusion. No confusion about what color or level of security to buy, and no confusion throughout the chain of custody as to whether tampering may be indicated. STAT technology may be complex but knowing your contents are protected is simple.
The Smithers Group is an independent global leader in delivering trusted solutions by integrating science, technology, and business expertise. Their companies are innovative in adding value throughout the life cycle of our clients' products, utilizing testing, consulting, information, and compliance services.
Spectra Systems is an established world leader in providing technology for secure transactions, from banknotes and products to electronic gaming. Their high-speed, machine-readable banknote authentication technology is utilized by many central banks to prevent sophisticated counterfeiting of their currency. Their complete solutions include engineered materials, reliable high speed sensors and quality control equipment. They manufacture their products under secure conditions and build their own equipment to meet their customers' needs.
As an innovator of secure technologies, Spinnaker is a recognized world leader in the manufacture of cash protection systems and asset tracking security. Spinnaker's British engineering has protected clients' cash against loss and their people from harm. When you need to securely track, transport and store your cash and valuables and protect your ATMs, you need Spinnaker.
SOUTH Automation is the headquarter of an international group specialized in the field of automation and security. Their core activities are the development production and distribution of solutions for banks, retailers, and everywhere else where cash needs to be processed. In their industrial solutions department, they develop specialized solutions for mints and other demanding customers – the places where the money is made.
The SPL Group is a multinational corporation headquartered in Bramsche, that supplies quality new and remanufactured banking and financial equipment to customers in over 50 countries. The SPL Group has a wide product range of new and refurbished ATM machines, ATM parts, ATM consumables and related banking and financial equipment by brands like Wincor Nixdorf, NCR, Triton, Diebold and Glory.
Stardust Materials is a Research and Development firm whose mission is to protect the integrity of your brand through full-service strategic and technological solutions. With their combined experience, their elite Stardust Materials team of physicists, engineers, supply-chain experts, and investigators possess the passionate drive necessary to combat the ever-encroaching problem of global counterfeiting and diversion.
SUZOHAPP is a technology company providing software and hardware for cash handling automation and self-service solutions to more than 25,000 customers throughout the world. SUZOHAPP's technology enables automation for customers operating in a variety of end markets including retail, transportation, gaming, banking, vending and amusement. SUZOHAPP's solutions include cash deposit, recycling, processing and payment systems as well as a broad range of self-service component technologies.
The Challenge Printing Company
The Challenge Printing Company uses cutting-edge technologies, managing to find unique ways to add value to labels, inserts or any other packaging components that they produce. They've moved beyond merely printing and folding, using Information Technology to transform FDA initiatives into packaging solutions.
Tidel is one of the world's leading manufacturers of cash management systems and robbery deterrent products for the retail industry. They provide retail organizations best in class solutions that secure, automate, and streamline their cash management environment.
TraceTag™, the leading provider of high security marking and tracing technology to combat, theft, counterfeit, fraud and parallel trading. TraceTag™ delivers security. Our prime focus is to solve our clients' security challenges and to maximize their return on investment in our solutions by close cooperation and implementation of the most appropriate solution to their needs in a cost-effective manner.
Founded in 1963, TROY has provided secure printing solutions to key accounts including the United States Treasury Office and most of the large banks and insurance companies throughout the United States. Hundreds of hospitals, thousands of small businesses, and worldwide organizations are using TROY solutions to print secure documents.
U-NICA, a Swiss corporation, focuses on truly innovative global brand protection solutions for brands, customs, retailers, and consumers, that ensure you're always one step ahead of the threats to your brand. They help you beat forgeries and grey markets. They give brands and their customers the power to authenticate products and engage with new product experiences.
Vaultex's aim is to provide the best in end-to-end cash management solutions and seamless cash services for our customers. Whether they're taking existing products to the next level, or creating brand new ones to stay apace with evolving technology and emerging need, they deliver an integrated, reliable and accountable service with simple, customer-focused metrics.
For more than 40 years, Volumatic have been pioneering cash handling products that enhance security, reduce shrinkage and deliver process efficiencies to the retail, banking and leisure sectors. Volumatic products are used to count and protect over $4 billion dollars.
For over 20 years, Zhonghong Machine has supplied hologram machinery to produce holograms from hologram master shooting to die-cutting, includes hologram master shooting system(2D/3D master and Dot-matrix master), recombination machine, electronic forming machine, hologram embosser, laminator and die-cutting machine.


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I have signed up specifically to seek advice as my 5 year old (nearly 6) dd who was a fantastic sleeper as a baby, has gradually become worse at staying asleep. When she wakes, she almost enjoys any attention positive or negative. She throws herself in to a rage which can last anything up to two hours.
She is otherwise a well balanced, intelligent child doing well at school. We have tried to ensure she has had plenty of fresh air and excerise to tire her out physically. We have always followed the same bedtime routine which is calm and soothing but she is obsessed with bedtime rituals and having things just so.
She will wake in the night and come through to us with an issue, such as needing the toilet, leg ache, tummy ache etc. she refuses to settle, she may go back to bed but then get up minutes later and come back through. We have tried softly softly, ignoring her, putting her back in bed without conversation. She can become so angry in the night, she's evening hit us. In the morning she's remorseful so she remembers as we have considered she's asleep but don't beleive this to be the case.
After a year of this, I need help. I've done everything to give her the best start in life and feel pretty downhearted that I'm struggling to know how to deal with this effectively.
I don't have any answers but wanted to say you're not the only one who has a 5 year old with sleeping problems. I browse this section occasionally but find it frustrating that most of the discussions relate to babies and younger toddlers....
Anyway, after a horrendous Christmas, I have decided that it is now time to take my (nearly) 5 year old to the GP to see if there is an underlying issue. At the moment we get around it by co-sleeping, made easier by the fact I am on my own. She cannot self-settle but does go to sleep in her own bed every night. Most nights she will wander in to me between 1am and 3am, and then sleep next to me for the rest of the night. She almost always complains of "scary dreams" as the reason she wakes up. Before Christmas she was managing to sleep in her own bed for extended periods and we used a reward chart for this, but now we seem to be back to old habits and I think it's time for professional help.
Thanks for messaging. Its so reassuring to know it happens to other people. You can feel such a failure in the middle of the night. It must be so hard on your own. I would definitely have gone down the co-sleeping route if it was just me but I'm good cop and hubby is bad cop!
Its interesting you're thinking of seeking advice. I took my dd to the GP this week. No underlying health problems. She enquired about her diet, bedtime routine, no tv/ipad etc in the bedroom, not giving her late night drinks to discourage toilet visits etc. To be honest as lovely as the GP was, she had no idea.
I have two children and its always hard to spend time with the first on her own so I decided to ask someone to look after my youngest and I took my five year old out for a piece of cake and a grown up natter just the two of us. Ive spent this week putting my youngest to bed and letting my five year old stay up a bit longer. We have school reading book time, Ive been reading to her and have a little chat about our day. I do this in my room with low lighting and try to really praise her for being grown up etc. For the past two nights she has gone down perfectly and only been up once in the night for the loo.
I'm wondering whether its just a good old fashioned attention thing. I realise I'm only two days in and it could all go pear-shaped tonight, but I'm hopeful that giving her some grown up one-to-one time will help her feel 'grown up and special'. I really praised her this morning so I'm hoping the positive feedback will be more effective than chastising the bad behaviour! Fingers crossed.
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Confoundingly buggy? Miserably humid? We were only going to get up to the Northwest corner of the state once this year, so even if we were burned by the sun, eaten by bugs and swept away by a flash flood, we had to hit a number of Elly Vortexhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5771053596865949695.post-78018571696731905532015-07-14T10:00:00.000-05:002015-07-20T20:23:28.190-05:00Minnesota Valley Recreation Area: June 14th, 2015 Hi, Everybody! This is Thunderdog, writing a Guest Post for my humans Michele and Joe. I've been wanting to write a blog post for years and they are finally letting me do it. We went on a big walk to Minnesota Valley State Recreation Area. That's my human Michele! It was a hot day out but I didn't mind. Anything for a big walk. Minnesota Valley State Recreation Area isn't Elly Vortexhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5771053596865949695.post-67921478598747252252015-07-07T10:00:00.000-05:002015-07-20T20:22:48.449-05:00Lake Louise State Park: May 24th, 2015When we began plotting out our hikes for the summer, we knew that we would have just one shot at many of them. For example, odds were slim that we'd be by Lake Louise State Park and it's 1.3 mile Hiking Club Trail again anytime soon. We had just the one morning to hike it, and so we did - in the pouring rain. Our first intention for the weekend was to hike Myre-Big Island as well, but the Elly Vortexhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5771053596865949695.post-82030920990785043702015-06-30T10:00:00.000-05:002015-07-05T18:54:42.583-05:00Kilen Woods State Park: May 23rd, 2015After our morning trip to Lake Shetek and our trip to see Jeffers Petroglyphs, we embarked on our second Little Park of the day: Kilen Woods State Park. At 228 acres, it's one of the smallest State Parks in Minnesota. Would it live up to wonderful little Franz Jevne's 118 acres on the Rainy River, or be kind of meh, like Monson Lake? Kilen Woods State Park sign: almost actual size! Deer Elly Vortexhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5771053596865949695.post-31520245032506452502015-06-23T10:00:00.000-05:002015-06-23T10:00:02.208-05:00Jeffers Petroglyphs: May 23rd, 2015 After visiting Lake Shetek, we decided to check out Jeffers Petroglyphs State Historic Site. Neither of us really knew much about the petroglyphs, but we'd heard about them and thought, "Why not? We're already in the neighborhood." So we took a slight detour and a little walk out on the prairie. Path out to the petroglyphs, as seen from the Visitor Center Since it is a site run Elly Vortexhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5771053596865949695.post-25847496282307090172015-06-16T10:00:00.000-05:002015-07-05T18:55:06.367-05:00Lake Shetek State Park: May 23rd, 2015 Lake Shetek State Park is - as the name suggests - a lake-focused park. It is the source of the Des Moines river and is reportedly an excellent place to fish. There was a small settlement in the area during the 1850s, but it disappeared during the U.S./Dakota conflict of 1862. Fifteen settlers were killed and the rest moved away from the area. The State Park was created in 1937 to honor Elly Vortexhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5771053596865949695.post-89654001278767644642015-06-09T10:00:00.000-05:002015-07-05T18:55:34.181-05:00Camden State Park: May 22nd, 2015After our trip to Fort Ridgely, we headed to our hotel in Marshall and then off for an evening hike at Camden State Park. We haven't done a lot of evening hikes - Glacial Lakes was the best of the few - and I was looking forward to it. Camden State Park's Hiking Club trail is 2.4 miles long, and it starts at the Beach House. Well, there was no "Beach House" on the map, so we just headed Elly Vortexhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5771053596865949695.post-17298014264479943182015-06-02T10:00:00.000-05:002015-07-05T18:55:58.223-05:00Fort Ridgely State Park: May 22nd, 2015Our first stop on the first Hiking Club Weekend of 2015 was Fort Ridgely State Park, located in Southwestern Minnesota by the small town of Fairfax. There is an Interpretive Center in addition to the park - we decided to check it out as well as hike. One think to keep in mind is that the Interpretive Center is run by the Minnesota Historical Society, and you will therefore be required to pay Elly Vortexhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5771053596865949695.post-22480234634217215612015-05-26T10:00:00.000-05:002015-05-26T10:00:00.201-05:00On the Trail Again...and we're back!! Memorial Day weekend is winding down, and we've been busy on this unofficial first weekend of summer. Instead of going out for a hike every weekend as in previous years, this year we're going to be doing several mega-hiking weekends. This is a result of me having to work every other weekend (boooo) and us living in the Cities and not having a base camp on the North Shore (Elly Vortexhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5771053596865949695.post-58309887115440429392015-02-23T08:00:00.000-06:002015-02-23T08:00:01.082-06:00Favorite Pictures of 2014 (and plans for 2015)We have some plans for 2015. Let's see if we can stick to them! 1. We have 17 Hiking Club Trails left before getting our All Miles patches. That's pretty incredible - and we are determined to get it done! This means that our vacation weekends are going to be taken around Minnesota this year, so we will probably not take any big out-of-state trips. But we shall see... 2. We have really Elly Vortexhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5771053596865949695.post-87115293269928252072015-02-22T19:16:00.001-06:002015-02-22T19:16:43.549-06:002014 in ReviewHere we are, almost 3 months into 2015 and I am just now putting up the 2014 Retrospectravaganza. I blame it on all of the changes that have happened in the last few months. Don't worry, faithful readers, we'll get the end-of-year stuff up before we start the 2015 hiking season! 2014 by the numbers: Total miles logged on this Blog in 2014: 40.8. That's kind of puny, really. We plan to up Elly Vortexhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5771053596865949695.post-19503459975773356732015-01-31T15:24:00.002-06:002015-01-31T15:24:25.184-06:00An Update from Elly, Joe, and ThunderdogYou may have noticed a bit of radio silence since...oh...last fall. There are a few very good reasons for that. First, Thunderdog and I left Two Harbors and moved to Joe's House in St. Cloud. Then we got married a week later. We're both wearing our hiking boots for that hike down the aisle. Then I got a new job in the Cities, doing what I love most: shushing people. Elly Vortexhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com


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Darley-bred 2010 Gr1 Arlington Million Stakes winner Debussy (Diesis-Opera Comique, by Singspiel) "has been retired to stand at the Llety Stud in Carmathenshire, Wales", reports racingpost.com. His initial fee has been set at £3,500 "filly foal-free return". Debussy is from Gr3 Curragh Park Stakes placegetter Opera Comique, while grand-dam Grace Note (Top Ville-Val de Grace, by Val de Loir) was runner-up at Gr3 level in the Lingfield Oaks Trial Stakes. Debussy also hails "from the family of King George winner Belmez and other stakes performers including Dowland, Forward Lass, Model Girl and River Valley." In a 22 start career, Debussy was also 3rd in the Gr1 Champion Stakes and saluted in the Gr2 Prix Eugene Adam accruing prize-money of £825,000. Llety Stud owner David Hodge enthused, "We are truly delighted to stand a Gr1-winning horse of Debussy's calibre on behalf of our new client, here at Llety. He is an attractive, athletic, well balanced horse with a fantastic attitude and we believe he should to appeal to all levels of the market. We have set his fee at what we feel is a competitive and fair level."


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Lately I feel like I have time for nothing. I don't cook until Ava is sleep which is usually 9pm and by the time I am done it is 11:30, 12, which means it's time for bed. I have been trying to use my Crock Pot more and I think it's going to work out.
What I love about the crock pot is it's not messy, there aren't many dishes to do after and you don't have to stand by the store stirring, flipping, etc. The best part about it is you dump everything in and walk away. You can go to work, the mall, clean, do whatever you need to do. Not to mention, your house is going to smell AMAZE BALLS!!!
I found the recipe on Pinterest.
1½ lbs. chicken breasts $2.90
1 (16 oz.) jar salsa $1.99
1 (15 oz.) can black beans, drained $1.19
½ lb. (8 oz.) frozen corn $0.57
1 Tbsp chili powder $0.15
½ Tbsp cumin $0.07
½ Tbsp minced garlic $0.10
½ tsp dried oregano $0.03
¼ tsp cayenne pepper $0.02
¼ tsp salt $0.02
to taste cracked pepper $0.02
2 cups dry rice $0.66
8 oz. shredded cheddar $2.49
½ bunch cilantro (optional) $0.45
Now, I did not have Salsa so I made some really quick.
I had canned tomatoes cut up, i put a bit of green peppers in there, onions, cilantro, and red peppers. Close enough right? Then i mixed it all together in a pan and let it cook for a bit.
Black Beans need to be drained all the way, Mix all the seasonings together, I used a little more corn than needed but that's because I love corn. Now the cilantro is not needed until the entire meal is ready.
(Red Peppers, Green Peppers, Yellow Onion, Cilantro, Lemon juice, and canned tomatoes) These are the products I used to make the salsa that is needed for the recipe.
Salsa in the making.
Place chicken in the crock pot. Dump all other ingredients over top, mix, cover and cook.
The recipe said to have it on for 8 hours. I set mine for 6 hours and I used a liner so I wouldn't have to scrub the crock pot. Close to the end of the 6 hours start making rice. Also for those that like cheese it is amazing sprinkled over top of the meal when it is served.
Bon Appetite!


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I am a little disappointed in this book overall, as I had high expectations after seeing some very good reviews. Also disappointing that I didn't like this more because my library has several more audios of this author's books on Overdrive. It started out well, at least, with a brutal murder occurring from the anonymous murderer's POV, and it kept me interested enough to keep pulling me along with the story and trying to guess at the murderer. But… I felt myself growing more distanced from all the characters as the story progressed, which really should not happen. By the end, I really didn't care much about any of them, but was only curious to see how the story resolved and if any of my guesses at the murderer were right. I'm fine with a book peopled by unlikeable characters, because it's absolutely possible for them still to be drawn in a way that the reader can still connect with them. I don't feel the author accomplished that here. The mystery reveal was a disappointment, too, as it turned out that
the murderer is a minor character whom we aren't even introduced to in the war storyline until close to the end.
I will still try other books by this author, though. Maybe I'll like another better.
Audiobook from my public library via Overdrive. I read this for The 16 Tasks of the Festive Season, for my first Light Joker: Read a book that has the words "light", "candle", "lamp", "sun" or "fire" in its title or features any of these five things on its cover. This book fits, obviously, because it has "Light" in the title. I'll use this for square 4: Book themes for Thanksgiving Day: Books with a theme of coming together to help a community or family in need. –OR– Books with a turkey or pumpkin on the cover.


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I've discovered a litmus test to seperate the true hardcore fans from the soulless bandwagon-jumpers we wish had been aboard the Challenger. I call it, "The Fellatio Test." It works like this: if someone could promise your team an undefeated season and a national title on the condition you put another guy's dick in your mouth, what would you say? If your immediate reaction is "Hell, no! That's disgusting and I'm offended you would ask that," then you're not a true fan. A true fan doesn't have to actually do the deed, but he'll ask a couple of questions first. Like, "It doesn't have to be an ugly guy, right?" Or, "Jeez. I don't know. How many points would we beat Auburn by?" Of course, ideally, even the true fan stops short of homosexuality. Especially when he's already fallen for that trick four times in five years. (Incidentally, if a Genie ever offers you three wishes on the condition of performing oral, there's a strong chance he's not really a Genie. He's probably just a homosexual con-artist in a really authentic looking costume with a fake Arabic accent. Hindsight is 20/20, you judgemental hypocrites.)
The old "Mr. Peepers" skits on SNL are hands-down the unfunniest sketches in the history of the show. I'm even including the non-Lorne Michaels years where Anthony Michael Hall and Robert Downey Jr. were regulars. I like to think that Chris Kattan is huddled in the corner of a one room New York shanty, shivering underneath a bare burning lightbulb, thinking to himself "Corky Romano was such a good script…I….I don't know where I went wrong." And, no, I'm not bitter that Kattan almost single-handedly ruined the "Will Ferrell years" of Saturday Night Live.
Before I gave up boozing, I was drinking about 2500 calories a day. Naturally, I've lost a couple pounds since I went on the wagon. For those of you concerned about my relinquishing obesity without a fight, please don't worry. Men's Health has a BMI (body mass index) calculator used by physicians worldwide to determine physical fitness. Feeling pretty good about myself, I logged on today just to see what my BMI might be. I don't think it's relevant to this discussion for me to bother with the details of what that magic number was, but suffice it to say I played with the BMI calculator long enough for it to tell me I needed to be about 7′ 6″ in order to not die of heart disease/ diabetes within two years. If I could find a way to enter my two-pack-a-day Marlboro Reds habit into that calculator, I'll bet it would sound-off like a slot machine.
Adam Morrison's unbelievable play is being seriously undermined by the pencil-thin moustache he's wearing. Against Santa Clara last night, he was on the receiving end of the greatest burn in collegiate sports when the student section chanted "Dir-ty San-chez" everytime he went to the penalty stripe. (Although, it didn't seem to rattle him too much since he dropped a forty spot without even trying. Warrants mentioning.)
Today, I was on the receiving end of the worst haircut ever given since barbers quit doing surgery in the Dark Ages. How hard is "clipper setting two for the head, trimmer setting one for the beard"? When he spun the barber chair to the mirror, I cackled in disbelief like a post-plastic surgery Joker. He gave me some sort of pseudo- 'high and tight' Marine haircut, with a little fade thrown in on the sideburns. So I'm 27, I have a hairline receding like the French in battle, I'm about seventy-five pounds overweight, I wear glasses, and I have a sweet 'Jarhead' hairstyle. Basically, I'm Private Pyle from Full Metal Jacket. I'm definitely photoshoping my Match.com picture.
It's about 9 p.m. on a Friday night, and all my friends are out with their wives while I'm at home writing on the internet. While my married friends are free to enjoy the lifetime benefits of their respective soulmates such as compassion, friendship, and intimacy; I am stuck alphabetizing grandpa's pharmaceutical grade laxatives. But now that I'm single, I can openly keep teenvagina.net on my "favorites" list! Clearly, I'm getting the better end of the bargain.
I've got to quit calling my friends so much. I've somehow become "The Guy who shows up on caller I.D. but you don't answer because he talks too much." Everyone has someone in their life like this, and this person is universally disliked. I don't know how it happened. The revelation of my metamorphosis became clear when I called my buddy Mysterioso today. We usually watch sports together, but he didn't answer his phone all day. Finally, he picked up the phone after I had called about five times and told me he couldn't answer my calls because he was moving his refrigerator all afternoon. Ouch. Admittedly, I'm grateful he lied instead of telling me "Dude, this is sad. You know I know you've called five times. I just can't keep pretending to care about a three-game parlay you hit in Arena League, or how you can't believe the Comets are only laying four points tonight in WNBA. We can't go on like this. I'm sorry." Because there's nothing more painful than being dumped in a heterosexual friendship.
These are the things that keep me awake at night.


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Today is Friday and what else should I be doing but traveling?!
I am leaving shortly to beat the
4 hours million hours worth of traffic we would get in if we left after work today. This morning I was not feeling very well–I have been under the weather since Sunday. I think it is just allergies but either way doesn't feel great.
This morning I had some PB Cheerios, aka the loves of my breakfast/lunch/snack/dinner lives and some coffee (thanks mama) and then set out of a run an hour or so later. I ran through the town of Babylon again and around the lake about 5 times. I ended up running 6 miles, which shocked me. The weather is gorgeous and running actually got my mind off of not feeling so great.
Has anyone else had the problem of pollen spores literally attacking when you are running lately?? The spores get in my eyes to the point where I have to stop rrunning and it feels like there is a bug in my eye (gross I know!) It is horrible. I do have sunglasses for running but I haven't been wearing them, stupid on so many levels. What am I going to do about this pollen problem? It is so annoying! I could see them diving in on my face today when I was running, grrr!!
So far this Friday has been fantastic and I am looking forward to summer Fridays at work (leave by 2 p.m., I think yes!) It is a great way to enjoy the beautiful weather of the season.
Later I am going to learn the proper deadlift/squat technique from my Army Brother–eek he is going to kill me!!!! Can't wait to see my family and have a fun-filled weekend. Sorry no pictures this post, but stay tuned for some prettiness later!
Final word: Good Luck to my boss, and my friend, Danielle who are both running the Brooklyn Half Marathon tomorrow!! There is a heat advisory so everyone be prepared—GOOD LUCK to everyone else running the BHM and other races this weekend!!
Happy Friday 🙂


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Head has been pounding for the entire day.
Could be partly due to the huge argument we had in the wee hours of the morning. Totally wrecked plans to do work today, spent a good part of the morning curled up in bed watching inane tv – just because the head was pounding so bad I just wanted to cry.
I'm not sure if I can do it anymore. I never liked being excluded since young, and I seriously swear honest to god that I am a friendly person and have no troubles making friends unless they step right on my foot before we ever get to the friends stage.
Am so frustrated, so drained and so tired. So disappointed.
Inane queueing at the banks didn't help too. DBS made me stand in their queue for a good hour before I could withdraw cash to pay off the travel payments accumulated on the credit cards. I forgot that there was a limit to my daily withdrawal on my atm card. Shucks. UOB and OCBC were so much more efficient. Perhaps I should change my savings account to UOB – they were extremely fast and efficient.
Am sitting at Starbucks after claiming my 26th free drink (13th drink for the second time since I received the Starbucks card) and blogging with Kindle in front of me. Finally dropped my coat for drycleaning earlier, and contemplating if I should buy the necessities that I would bring to school tomorrow i.e. a huge jug for the table, a clear folder for FT matters and 3m strong tape and hooks for my ickle&Lardee project (which has come to a standstill actually). If I were to go buy the necessities, then I won't have time for some work. There's a departmental meeting in school tomorrow anyways.
Reality is slowly sinking in again, in just less than 6 days.
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Ouch! Oh, and the giveaway winner!
I'm a bit late in choosing a winner for our Lovecraft giveaway, but I'll get to why in a minute. First, to announce our winner! We made a chart, and Dave pulled out his trusty d20, and the winner of our Lovecraft giveaway is : The Zombie Crafter! Congratulations! Thanks to everyone who participated, be sure to come back often for other giveaways.
Now, to the ouch, and the reason it's taken a few days to announce our winner. David and I went out to sneak a peek at the new Games Workshop opening in our little town last Tuesday, then ran off to the theater to catch a showing of Raiders of the Lost Ark. After the movie, we got up to leave, and my back said no. I'm not sure what I did to it, but it put me down for nearly a week. I spent several days in bed, and took several trips to the chiropractor, but I'm up and walking again just in time for the Oklahoma Horror Film Festival! Still not back 100%, but feeling much better now than I did a week ago.
We watched several movies over the past week - not much else to do when you're stuck in bed - and we worked through a bunch of the random horror movies we've had on our Netflix queue for awhile now. Most of them were really bad, but we did find one gem.
First, we watched The Hunger, a movie featuring David Bowie from 1983. This movie was awful, which is sad, because it started out with something that could have turned into a really interesting film. Somewhere in the middle, the first story is tossed aside, and I got an eyefull of far more Susan Sarandon than I ever needed to see. It was disjointed, and bad, but not the sort of bad that I usually enjoy in a horror film.
We watched Suspiria, a 1977 film which was directed by Dario Argento. Joan Bennett, of Dark Shadows fame, played the head mistress of a prestigious ballet school. The art design was really striking, and disorienting, and it seemed like everything in the movie was red. It had a fairly interesting plot, but was told haphazardly and left several holes in the story.
Dead Snow is a Norwegian zombie film that mixed elements of classic slasher movies with zombies. From the start you know they're not going to take the plot too seriously, as all of the zombies are Nazis, and the college kids are on vacation in a cabin in the woods. This was hilarious, and totally enjoyable. I didn't think I'd care for it from the start, because the main characters aren't terribly likable, but it was a perfect bad zombie flick.
Fright Night... oh, what to say about this one... It's a vampire movie, it's terrible, and it's packed full of 80's. BUT if you're interested in special effects in horror films, I think it's worth watching. Some of the vampire transformations were really cool.
Purely out of morbid curiosity, we watched the first 30 seconds of Thankskilling. David insisted he had to see what a homicidal turkey looked like. 29 seconds of boob, 1 second of homicidal turkey, 5 full minutes of laughter. I'm sure this movie is just as awful all the way through.
We re-watched Bram Stoker's Dracula, which brought up the question that's been plaguing me for the past 18 years... who in their right mind would cast Gary Oldman and Anthony Hopkins next to Keanu Reves and Winona Ryder? Why?
And, for the diamond in the rough. Tonight, we sat down to what we had expected to be a typical slasher or haunting type movie; Session 9. From the start, I wasn't expecting much. The movie takes place in an abandoned asylum, and the film quality says from the get-go "Low Budget." However, they really make the best of it. The plot is interesting, and I got really drawn in to the story. There are several striking shots, and shots that make you uncomfortable. They had me hooked to the very last sentence. In my opinion, a good horror film is very difficult to make. You either have to focus more on character development and allow the horror to come second, or you have to keep the horror out of sight, allowing the mind to fill in the dark places. This movie successfully did both.
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Nerddom New and Old
On the way to lunch today, Valorie and I spotted a new, temporary sign up in one of the shopping centers for Games Workshop. I excitedly pulled over to check it out. They had just put the sign up this morning and weren't even open for business yet; but the manager let us come in and poke around and we talked to him for an hour or so. They're opening for business on Thursday so you Denton, TX nerds should check that out. They'll be doing game nights and model paintings nights once they're open.
Then tonight we went to The Movie Tavern for their retro movie summer series and saw Raiders of the Lost Ark. All in all a pretty nerdy day.
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Friday, August 20, 2010
Happy 120th Birthday Lovecraft! A Giveaway.
David and I have been reading a lot of Lovecraft recently, usually while we're winding down for the night (as you can imagine, that has a fun effect on dreams :P).
If you're not sure who H. P. Lovecraft is, chances are you've heard of some of his creations. The Necronomicon for example, Cthulhu, and all manner of weird creatures and myths. He's a well loved horror and science fiction writer from the early 1900's, and his work has inspired a huge following of horror writers, game designers, toy lines, and even several of the decals we have in our shop.
If you would like to find out more about Lovecraft, you can find all sorts of information on hplovecraft.com, including full texts of a lot of his public domain writings.
What's really amazing to me about Lovecraft is that over 70 years after his death he's remained a very relevant influence in his genre. As a celebration of his life work, I'd like to feature some of the modern things that he's influenced, and do a little giveaway.
These two videos, both made by badadvicegoodtimes on Youtube, are just great:
Then there's the plush Cthulhu, everyone's favorite Elder God, designed by Toy Vault. My daughter had her very first little stuffed Cthulhu before she was a year old :) This isn't the only stuffed version of Cthulhu out there, and he and several of the other Elder Gods have been turned into statuary and miniature models, from companies like Reaper Minis, among others.
Then there's the endless line of games. Arkham Horror is a fantastic board game, and Call of Cthulhu is a horror role playing game in the vein of Dungeons and Dragons. There are video games for several different consoles, from games based directly on Lovecraft lore, to games that are heavily influenced by his work.
One of my favorite movies made from a Lovecraft story is Reanimator, where Jeffrey Combs has earned a special fangirl slot in my heart for his portrayal of Dr. Herbert West, a doctor who has found a way to beat death. And of course there are the Evil Dead movies, and In the Mouth of Madness. There are tons of really bad horror adaptations of his short stories roaming around too, so if you love really bad horror films as much as I do, they're worth looking for.
His work is featured in several modern songs, including Call of Ktulu and The Thing That Should Not Be by Metallica, Behind the Wall of Sleep by Black Sabbath, as well as inspiring the work of bands like Morbid Angel, Nile, and Cradle of Filth.
He's also inspired other writers in his genre, allowing the Cthulhu Mythos to grow. Brian Lumley has written several books using Lovecraft's mythos, Donald Tyson has turned the Necronomicon into a memoir of the bizarre life of the Mad Arab, Alhazred.
The Giveaway!
As a happy birthday gift, we're offering up one of our Cthulhu decals! The winner can choose from either the Nom, or the O'Rlyeh decals, or any of our Miskatonic University decals, in whatever color they'd prefer.
There are three different ways to enter:
1) Leave a comment telling me your favorite Lovecraft story, or your favorite thing that his work inspired. (Required)
2) Become a follower of our blog! (Optional)
3) Become a fan of us on Facebook (Optional)
Leave one separate comment for each entry, and be sure to leave your E-mail address so that I can contact you if you win! I will choose the winner on August 27th, at 12:00 noon central time. The winner has 48 hours to claim their prize, or a new winner will be chosen. This giveaway is open to participants world wide!
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Thursday, August 19, 2010
Ender's Game
A few years ago, I read through a few of the books in the Ender's Game series. I was introduced to the series in my Science Fiction Literature class while at college, and have really enjoyed reading it. I recently picked up a book in another of Orson Scott Card's series, The Seventh Son, and it rekindled my love for his writing style. I ran out to the used book store to find the second book in the series, and finding that it wasn't available, I came home with Ender's Shadow.
There are two story lines in the Ender's Game series and there are a number of short stories that flesh things out. I haven't read all of these (though I plan to in the future), and have stuck to the Ender Series so far. I have been curious about reading Ender's Shadow, which focuses around another boy in Battle School named Bean. I was also a little hesitant because Ender's Game doesn't really give Bean much of a personality, and so I didn't find him particularly endearing, or know what his story could add to the story line.
Well, I read it, and I loved it. Card succeeded in making Bean a genuinely interesting character, and even though a good portion of the book centers around things that were already talked about in Ender's Game, having it from another view point really rounded out the story.
After reading Ender's Shadow, I dug out my old beat up copy of Ender's Game, and started to re-read it. Ender tends to examine things internally, he's wrapped up in emotion and fear. Bean, on the other hand, is interested in analyzing other people, and so his story examines other people, and why the events in the first book happened as they did.
All of this has also reminded me about how much of a story I forget over time, and I'm considering re-reading some of my other old favorites.
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010
I love inspiration!
We get inspiration for our decals from so many places, but mostly it happens at conventions. Those fantastic places where the nerds come out to play, and put all of their inhibitions aside. We were contacted by the Oklahoma Horror Film Festival a while back and asked to be a vendor at their show this year, and really, who can pass up an entire FESTIVAL centered around indie horror films? Not me. That's who.
We've already got a pretty good selection of horror themed decals, but there's always room for more, and so we set to work brainstorming for new additions. The first one is a lot of fun, and was made to work with some of our existing zombie decals, or as a stand alone.
I think David had fun making this one. It started out in our studio with his hand dipped in paint of different consistencies, and the image is actually made up of two separate hand prints. He cleaned the design up a bit to make it friendlier to our vinyl cutter. I can't wait to see how it's going to look on the back of our Jeep :D
The second new design inspired by this show is a little more girly. I've long lamented that we don't have a vampire themed decal. I'm a big fan of vampires, and one of my very early movie crushes was Gary Oldman as Dracula (young and sexy Vlad traipsing around London, not ancient Vlad with the bouffant). I can honestly say that the Twilight phenomena has completely passed me by, but I'm glad to see the love affair with vampires in American culture continues.
I'm getting more into designing multi colored layered decals, and having a lot of fun with it. I put one of these together the other night, and it's just adorable.
Both of these decals are in the horror section of our shop, and we hope to add a few more before the festival in two weeks!
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Thursday, August 12, 2010
Welcome to our blog! There's not much to see here yet, but we've got plans for this little place on the net.
Valorie and David here, ready to share all of our random geeky thoughts on video games, books, conventions, movies, and anything else that strikes our fancy. Of course, you'll also get updates on when we have new decals up in our shop, when we're running sales, giveaways, or when we'll be traveling to conventions.
We're planning our first give away next month, so be sure to follow us here and on Facebook. The first one's going to be BIG!
Valorie and David here, ready to share all of our random geeky thoughts on video games, books, conventions, movies, and anything else that strikes our fancy. Of course, you'll also get updates on when we have new decals up in our shop, when we're running sales, giveaways, or when we'll be traveling to conventions.
We're planning our first give away next month, so be sure to follow us here and on Facebook. The first one's going to be BIG!
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Arkansas Nuclear One near Russellville is in the process of restarting a reactor after it was shut down on Tuesday. One of the plant's two reactors was manually shut down after Entergy found that part of a system that generates steam for its turbines was malfunctioning. Sarah Millard, a spokeswoman for Arkansas Nuclear One, said "feedwater oscillations" were the problem.
"After that shut down all the equipment required for safe shutdown of the plant operated exactly as it's designed. And that allowed us to do some investigating…to understand the cause," she said.
Millard said the she did not have details about the cause of the malfunction. She couldn't say the exact time and date the reactor would return to service because it was "confidential information for our company."
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's website defines feedwater as:
"Water supplied to the reactor pressure vessel in a boiling-water reactor (BWR) or the steam generator in a pressurized-water reactor (PWR)that removes heat from the reactor fuel rods by boiling and becoming steam. The steam becomes the driving force for the plant's turbine generator."
Victor Dricks, a spokesman for Region IV of the NRC, said in an email that on-site inspectors are monitoring Entergy's response:
"After the reactor shut down Entergy officials filed a four-hour non-emergency notification with the NRC as required by Title 10CFR 50.72(b)(2)(iv)(B)
Our resident inspectors who work at the site each day are monitoring the licensee's review of the event to ensure that the root cause is properly identified and any corrective actions that are needed are taken. If they have any findings they will be documented in a quarterly inspection report that will be made publicly available," said Dricks.
The NRC is to conduct a major inspection at Arkansas Nuclear One early next year, a result of the agency giving the plant one of the poorest ratings in the nation.


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The "Pilgrim Longman Resource Books" series provide a range of practical lessons in recipe format. They are written by experienced English language teachers. The activities can be used as the basis for lessons, as a departure point for classroom development and creativity, or as last minute time fillers. This book is for anyone interested in teacher training, whether trainer, trainee, organizer or administrator. It is for teachers who help each other in staffrooms, who sit in on each other's classes, or who want to share ideas with others. It is mostly concerned with modern language teacher training, but contains much of interest for people involved in other kinds of training too. The book does not deal with the content of teacher training courses directly. It focuses rather on ways of sharing information, ideas, opinions and awareness in teacher training. There is also a chapter on analyzing the ideas in the book so that they can be adapted to suit individual training / learning styles and situations. The book deals with the following core areas of training: trainer, group and experiential input; interacting with training materials; consolidating input and experience and transforming these into productivity and creativity; planning, observing and discussing teaching; finding out about yourself and others, and the job of language teaching; ways of reducing stress on training courses.
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It is generally accepted that the improvement of the viscosity-temperature relationship by the addition of long chain molecules (LCM) to lubricating oils, at low rates of shear, is practically lost at high rates of shear.It is the aim of the present work to show that, although the viscosity of oils containing LCM does fall with increasing rates of shear, the V. I. improvement found at low rates of shear is maintained and even increased at high rates of shear provided the lubricant is classified as a lower viscosity oil.Furthermore, assuming that the multigrade oils are mixtures of two independent phases and that each phase responds independently to temperature and rate of shear, it is concluded that these oils are superior to simple mineral oils in many other respects.
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The F'in Hunger Games
Alright, besides being a pretty obvious rip off of the foreign film "Battle Royale" (see my post on American remakes to see how I feel about that), the "Hunger Games" is one of those movies that makes me shake my head. The kids in this movie (or the book) range from 12 to 18 and they are pitted together in a death match. So where are the outraged parents or the ever-enraged Christian Coalition? It's not that I have a problem with violence…but honestly, WTF?
One of the first death scenes is a kid spitting blood onto another kid's face because he's just been stabbed in the back and killed. Granted, this is from the book and it is yet to be seen if it is going to be in the movie, but do me a favor: whenever a kid gets killed in the movie, replace the kid that killed them with an adult. Picture Jason or Freddy or that creepy guy that lives on your street. Is the scene still ok? Can you watch a movie where an adult is murdering a bunch of 14 year olds? I can't.
People threw a huge fit at some scene in Harry Potter where the villains killed and ate a unicorn…
Why isn't anyone saying anything about a movie where the entire plot is kids killing kids? Unicorns and evil wizards are completely imaginary and people flipped out! Come on people! Where the heck are the people who care?
By the way, people get pissed off when they see a couple of 15 year old characters in a movie get a little sexual. Why? Why do people get more upset with kids (by kids I mean teens) acting out of good feelings then they do when they see a movie where the whole plot is kids brutally slashing other kids?
Somebody please say something! I won't be seeing these films.


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One of the greatest things about living in southern Ohio, in my opinion, would have to be the rich history that can be seen not just in textbooks but also in person. Each historic town has a different story to tell and contributes to the larger picture of Ohio's history. I had the privilege of visiting the town of Franklin for the day and quickly found out that it was no exception when it comes to the beautiful and friendly southern Ohio.
As I entered the town of Franklin driving on Ohio Route 123, I was immediately greeted by a large mural portraying an Ohio bicentennial logo painted on the side of a building. The logo was painted to celebrate the 200 year anniversary of Ohio becoming the 17th state to join the union. Not knowing this mural was one of 12 other murals around the town, I got my camera out and snapped a picture thinking I found a hidden gem located on the edge of downtown Franklin. It wasn't but a few minutes later that I came upon the next mural that seemed even grander than the first. This collection of murals, known as the Franklin Murals, has been a popular attraction over the years for locals and visitors alike.
These murals not only cover sides of buildings, but they also appear three dimensional giving it a realistic facade that can trick even the best of us from a distance. After seeing just two murals thus far, I was determined to get some more information on who painted them and why. Doing some research from my smartphone definitely called for a pit-stop at the local pizza place. Little did I know, the local pizza place, Pisanello's, is known as one of the most treasured dining attractions in Franklin, Ohio. I was in for a treat!
Pisanello's is located in the heart of downtown Franklin and has one of the most unique atmospheres I've seen when it comes to a pizza place. As I walked in to take a look at the menu, I noticed another mural painted on the back wall giving this restaurant a true Italian feel. One of the workers told me that Eric Henn was the muralist responsible for the beautiful pieces of art displayed not just all over Franklin, but around the world as well. His inspiring work in the town of Franklin alone is really something to see.
Now back to this amazing pizza establishment. I started off with a slice of their classic pepperoni pizza and realized I would be cheating myself if I didn't try some of their freshly baked bread sticks too. Their single slice of pizza was bigger than I thought and filled me up pretty fast. I must say, it truly was one of the best slices of pizza I've had in a long time. Among other items on the menu include sandwiches, salads, wings, and even desserts. With great food and a friendly staff, Pisanello's quickly became my number one referral for great pizza in Warren County!
After filling up my stomach and seeing the remaining Franklin Murals, I drove through the rest of the town as I made my way to the last stop of the day, JD Legends. The scenery was picturesque as I drove down Main Street. Located just a few minutes down the road, JD Legends is one of the hot spots for fun and entertainment in Franklin, OH. With glow-in-the-dark bowling, pool, darts, a full-service restaurant and bar, karaoke and live entertainment, as well as 3 sand volleyball courts, JD Legends is the perfect venue the whole family will enjoy!
Exploring famous artwork, eating some of the best pizza, and enjoying some entertainment at JD Legends ended up being the perfect way to spend a beautiful day in Franklin, Ohio. With still much more of the town to explore, I was left planning out my return visit with more things to do and see.
If you haven't explored Franklin for yourself, I would definitely recommend the trip. Get the family together and start planning your visit to Franklin, Ohio!
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
3eme sexe
Oh and I thought that I would never get into that british , rock'n'roll , boyish style . Well my new favourite dress is my dad's old white tank top . Maybe it's that I'm so tired of all that dressing up and make up or maybe it's just Agyness .
I used to wake up 6.30 ( Lessons start at 8/9 ) and pick up my outfit and do the make-up - just for an ordinary day at school . Now the usual things I wear to school is just skinny jeans , tank top and a jacket or leggings and cardigan but always with heels ( even if they're not higher than 4 cm , like my sneaker-style navy blue wedges )oh and my wayfarer style shades . I don't do make up , sometimes concealer maybe .
At least I haven't taken up smoking and I still don't drink (hot)coffee .
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Nüüd on tavaline, mida ma kandma, et kool on just Luiseva TEKSAD, paagi kaanel ja PÄÄSTEVEST või säärised ja kampsun, kuid et alati kannul (isegi kui nad ei ole suurem kui 4 cm, nagu mu kets-stiilis Tumesinine kiilud) oh ja minu Wayfarer stiilis toone. I don't do make up , sometimes concealer maybe . Ma ei teha, mõnikord concealer võibolla.ReplyDelete
At least I haven't taken up smoking and I still don't drink (hot)coffee . Vähemalt ma ei ole asunud suitsetamise ja ma siiski ei joo (hot) kohvi.
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Ernst Mayr, the world renowned evolutionary biologist who died recently at the age of 100, spent most of the 20th Century studying and promoting Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. But if you've followed American media in recent months, you might think Mayr and his colleagues were failures, and that evolutionary theory is suspect, full of holes in evidence and logic, and kind of a religion of its own.
Despite its--and other--scientific advances in the 20th Century, evolution is under assault in America. People with thinly disguised religious and political agendas are demanding that alternative "theories" with euphemistic names such as "creation science" and "intelligent design" be given the same or greater weight than evolution in our textbooks and classrooms.


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The FLT3 receptor is a member of the class III receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) subfamily, and is activated by mutations in about 30% of patients with acute myeloblastic leukemia (AML). The most common of these mutations are insertions of variable length in the juxtamembrane domain, but about 7% of AML patients have point mutations in the activation loop of the kinase. As part of a systematic tyrosine kinase gene exon resequencing study, 19 of the 24 exons of the Flt3 gene were sequenced in 65 AML samples without known insertion mutations in FLT3. Six of the AML samples contained previously identified activating mutations in D835. In addition, AML cells from three patients were found to have novel point mutations at residue N841 resulting in a change to isoleucine in two samples and tyrosine in one sample. In order to determine whether alteration of this residue resulted in kinase activation, a cDNA encoding the FLT3-N841I protein was introduced into the growth factor dependent murine BaF3 cell line. Three independent sublines that stably expressed the FLT3 N841I mutant were selected for further study. Here, we found that the Ba/F3-FLT3N841I cells proliferated in the absence of exogenous IL3, that the mutated receptor was heavily autophosphorylated, and that introduction of the mutated receptor led to the constitutive activation of Stat5 and Erk kinase. These data are consistent with the notion that the N841I mutation confers constitutive activity to the receptor. Exposure to the FLT3 inhibitor PKC412 (Novartis Pharma AG), inhibited the growth of Ba/F3-FLT3N841I cells with an LD50 of 10 nM, but not wild type Ba/F3 cells grown in the presence of exogenous IL3; reduced the autophosphorylation of the mutant receptor, and inhibited STAT5 phosphorylation. Together these results suggest that mutations at N841 represent a significant new activating mutation in patients with AML with an incidence of about 5%, and that patients with AML harboring such mutations may respond to small molecule FLT3 inhibitors such as PKC412, currently in clinical trials.
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Wallabies utility forward Hugh McMeniman has been ruled out of the rest of the Rugby Championship after injuring his shoulder in the 29-47 defeat at the hands of the All Blacks last weekend.
The 22 cap veteran needs shoulder reconstruction which will sideline him for at least 6 months.
This is devastating news for the Force star after returning to international rugby last weekend after a 5 year absence.
This will hamper the Wallabies hopes of bouncing back from last weekend's result as they travel to Wellington to take on the All Blacks once again.


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Abilene Police Need Help Finding a Missing 12-Year-Old Girl
ABILENE, TX — Abilene Police Department is asking the public for help to locate a missing 12-year-old runaway.
Nevaeh Medina was last seen in Abilene on Feb. 15 and is believed to be staying with relatives or "friends of relatives" in the area, according to a post by Abilene PD.
The social media post describes Medina as a Hispanic female with brown hair and brown eyes. She is about 5'1" tall and weighs about 108 pounds.
Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Nevaeh Medina or has seen the young girl, is asked to contact the Abilene Police Department at 325-673-8331.
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I blasted P90X Back & Biceps yesterday and kept my time down to 75 min as planned. Long workouts can temporarily lower testosterone which is bad for not only muscle gain, but muscle recovery.
Time has always been an issue with me when doing P90X because I require longer breaks now from all my heavier lifting. So that means making some necessary cuts to the program.
I had to skip some B&B exercises to keep my time down and this is what I did:
Skip Open Arm Curls
Skip Congdon Locomotive
Skip In & Out Hammer Curls
I should also point out that I stopped doing Corn Cobs and Towel pull ups a long time ago. I replace Corn cobs with Neutral Grip Pullups, which I love. This is a great pull up exercise that is not in the P90X program. Just grab the bars in the middle that come out towards you. This exercise is great for the back, triceps, biceps, AND especially forearms.
Instead of Towel Pullups, I do Mulit-Grip pull ups, another new move. Do a standard pull up with one arm as a chin up and the other as a pull up. Be careful not to cheat! This move takes some focus to not lean to heavily on one side.


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Skies will stay mostly clear Monday night with mild overnight temperatures in the low 70s.
It's going to be another hot one Tuesday with highs in the low 90s under a mix of sun and clouds.
A dryline will set up out west with showers and storms developing out ahead of it in the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles. These will move east, northeast Tuesday evening with hail and damaging wind possible.
These storms will likely weaken late Tuesday night as they try to move into central Oklahoma.


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This week at our house…
…Audrey made a turkey (again). Since November, Audrey has wanted to make a turkey with Katie every week when she comes to babysit. And ever since November, Katie has gently tried to encourage Audrey to make other animals, but to no avail. The next morning, Audrey bounds out of bed and runs out to the kitchen to show us her handiwork from the night before.
Audrey adores her books so I have been trying to take her to the library once a week to check out a stack (between books for her and books for my school work, we currently have almost 70 out. Wow!). We find a stack and then a window seat to read through them together, before picking out our favorites to take home.
This week it was especially chaotic and Audrey surprised me by plopping down and calmly looking through her book. The girl loves books! Her favorite from this week's haul is "We are going to the Zoo."
One day this week, we went to the park after nap and then walked over to Gannett House (the Law Review building) to meet Alex and walk home with him. I captured this shot of Audrey greeting Alex.
We also got to check out the science museum this week, compliments of friends with a membership.
Audrey has three moose stuffed animals, all gifts from her Poppa. One time recently she took them with her to check the mail and now she wants to take them every time we go out in the hall to get the mail.
This week we also received the invitation to Corbin and Sheila's wedding! Audrey talks about the wedding a lot and carried the invitation around until it was well-worn.
Speaking of mail, Audrey has also developed an affinity for catalogs and magazines. Here she is perusing the Costco catalog, of all things.
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I returned home on Tuesday, around 8pm. We sat down for a minute looking around, then heaved a sigh and unloaded the car. The next day, we cleaned the car, cleaned a little of the house, tried to remember to do laundry, started school, went back to work, interviewed a nanny, and fell into a very deep sleep, only to wake up this morning bright and early, getting ready for work, return the car, and hit the grind again.
I leave town this weekend for a wedding, and next weekend for a party, all while beginning the new teaching session at the Brookfield Dance Academy which means every Sunday I'm driving to Wisconsin to teach.
All summer I've been looking forward to adventure, and the sense of peace that would follow. In my head, my thoughts have been "I went out there, I did that, and then I go home and rest." But the rest hasn't come yet. The back to back travelling of the past few months has taken it's toll, and I'm not sure how long it is going to take me to return to what constitutes normal.
This latest adventure has been the most interesting, eye-opening, strange and intense yet. As soon as I had returned to cellphone service, I was getting excited texts and emails from friends and family. Was it awesome??? They ask. I'm so jealous! It must have been a blast!!
The multiple question marks and exclamation points are disorienting. Contain your excitement, please. I'm still decompressing.
Decompressing – a very common state after burns, and renaissance festivals, and theatre shows, and other intense, time and labor intensive endeavors. I am trying to find the order beneath the chaos, clean the dust out of my sinuses, figure out what my routine ought to be, and catch my breath.
When people ask me what happened, did I have fun, will I show them my photos, I feel myself shrinking in my shoes. I feel guilty for not having an answer right away, and for not having the excitement and enthusiasm they expect me to have.
What happened? Stuff.
Did I have fun? I think so. Mostly.
Photos? Ok, but I don't have the energy to explain them.
There is just so much information to process, so much pondering that needs to be sorted and emotions to reflect on. It was, in its simplest form, everything I expected it to be. And yet, I wasn't ready for not being able to handle my expectations. I had fun, but I'm trying to figure out what made me happy, what made me scared, what I would do differently.
Last night, my roommates asked me to tell them a little about what happened, what was it like. I stared at my hands trying to figure out what happened, to pick out a singular piece, to put the feelings into words. After some babbling, and with the help of someone else who was there, I eventually started forming cohesive sequences of events and the related emotions and thoughts that went with them.
It is going to take some time, but I will be writing about this adventure, and it may come in spurts, and it may be interspersed with my normal (now seemingly mundane) knitting updates (I finished "a" sock while there), you will find out all about it.
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my best so far
This is a discussion on Post best upgrades from Event within the Media forums, part of the Knight Online (ko4life.com) category; my best so far...
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also +4 sse and dual roms +9 raptor and deepscar
kewl u dlvled xDmy best so far
and fak im non prem i wanna be in that event too
cool nick ^^my best so far [/b]
Its a 12am Western so i would have to stay up untill 3am my time bullshit. Whats the best class boys?
i made ii+9 and mage complete +9
also, there are few shells +9 in clan, ib+9, one more ii+9. rappy+9, mirage sword +9, and.... GLASS BELT +4
Shard +9 and SS +9
one girl from my clan made for me elixir +9 :wub:
can i say that was me? :P
Out of all the items apart from shell for my character class i burned all while a friend of mine made about 5 +9 items so far Raptor,Graham,Tota,Rogue Shell gloves and priest shell. He is turkish too h34r: conspiracy i say!
i made mage shell boots +9 <_<
im playin a warrior h34r:
gyft plys?!i made mage shell boots +9 <_<
im playin a warrior h34r:[/b]