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CLEVELAND — Greg Walker hopes to be back in the lineup in time for the Yankee series, which begins Wednesday in New York.
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Walker has been out since April 14, when he suffered a hairline fracture of his right wrist. He took batting practice over the weekend, with mixed results.


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"I used the leftovers from my pot roast lamb for this I removed the remaining meat from the bone of the lamb. You could make this with just beef but the remaining juice and fat from the roast lamb tastes nice in the stew, you can use lamb beef or whatever you wish in this. I cooked this in the same enamel pot I used for the lamb. If your not making this with leftovers you may want to add a tablespoon of olive oil to the mix. I used my fruity African spice rub in this please see recipe on zaar"
Leftover Moroccan Style Lamb and Beef Spicy Cous Cous
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READY IN:4hrs 20mins
Ingredients Nutrition
- 0.22 lb roast lamb (Leftover from a lamb roast)
- 0.44 lb grams carrots (chunky chopped)
- 0.22 lb onions, sliced (1 onion)
- 0.22 lb spring onions (chunky sliced)
- 0.66 lb stewing beef
- 0.22 lb celery
- 0.66 lb plum tomatoes
- 2 tablespoons of african dry rub seasonings (see recipe)
- 1 beef stock cube
- 1 7⁄8 cup water
- 0.11 lb raisins
- 0.11 lb dried apricots (chopped)
- 1 cup red wine
- 0.22 lb couscous
- Soak you raisins and apricots In the red wine for about an hour.
- Heat up a non stick frying pan and sear the beef on all sides for about 5 minutes, add to the casserole dish that contained your lamb and its juices etc.
- Add the veggies and fruit and wine, stock cube the tomatoes and the spice rub, stir well . Top with water cover with lid.
- Put on lid and put in oven at gas mark 4 for approximately 4 hours check halfway through and add more water if necessary.
- Half hour before serving add the cous cous cover and bake for half hour the cous cous should absorb much of the juice.
- Serve with a squeeze of lemon or flaked almonds etc on top- I cant do this cos im allergic to nuts but ive heard its nice.
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Loeb and McGuinness on "Avengers: X-Sanction"
Following the release of a mysterious image yesterday that would seem to suggest the Avengers are in somebody's sights in December, Marvel held its latest "Next Big Thing" press conference call to reveal more details of this project, including who the creative team might be. CBR was on hand to bring you all the updates from the call.
Arune Singh, Marvel's Director of Communications, took on the role of moderator. SVP of Publishing Tom Brevoort, Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness were all on the call.
Loeb revealed the project is called "Avengers: X-Sanction," the official title of the previously-announced "Cable Reborn."
"'X-Sanction' is sort of the starting gun or the opening flare" for events coming up throughout the Marvel U, Brevoort said. Loeb added, "Ed and I were looking for, as we like to say, the next big thing, and I think a lot of folks who know my work know I have an enormous affection for Cable and not just his role in the X-Men universe but his role in the Marvel Universe proper." He also said he was "devastated" by Cable's death.
"I always saw Cable as the Captain America of the X-Men universe," Loeb said, a soldier out of his own time striving to help people.
He said McGuinness can convey "the Kirby power" inherent in Cable, noting that an important part of Cable's character is tempering power with heart. The heart of Cable's return will focus on the idea of "what do you do if you think something's going to happen to your daughter" — Hope, of course, was raised by Cable, before Nathan Summers sacrificed himself.
As to how Cable's mission relates to the Avengers, Loeb said he "doesn't want to give away too much," but "how Cable survived 'Messiah Complex' and 'Second Coming' — and I do consider those one big arc — if there had been even a hint that the Avengers had something to do with Hope's future, he would… do something to them." Loeb was very cautious, but Brevoort was happy to be slightly more forthcoming with "X-Sanction" details.
Brevoort said the event puts Cable in conflict with characters readers aren't used to seeing him with. "The definition of Cable as a father out to protect his daughter by any means necessary gives the character a weight and heft you can relate to on a very human level." There are also "some larger situations going on" for both Nate and the Avengers.
McGuinness said he enjoys drawing these match-ups and team-ups that haven't been seen before.
Talking about his longtime collaboration with McGuinness, Loeb noted that their first project was the "Wolverine '96 Annual." "It's always dangerous to evoke someone who is a titan in our business as Jack Kirby is, but like Jack, with Ed McGuinness the pages are almost too small for the action he's putting down."
Loeb also noted aspects of "Commando" and "Terminator" in Cable's history, but praised McGuinness for being able to bring out the quiet moments, as well. McGuinness said working with Loeb is "like coming back home." "We're really symbiotic with some of the ideas," McGuinness added. "It's really fun to see some of the things I've suggested, he's taken and run with them and made them really cool."
The first press question was on accessibility. Loeb noted that, yes, every comic is some fan's first, but Cable also has a huge fanbase. "What you really want to know is that this man's daughter is in danger, and he will do anything to protect her — that's all you need to know." He added, "It's the writer's responsibility to make it emotionally true," making "everything else fall together."
Asked if this would be action-oriented in the way Loeb and McGuinness' "Hulk" was, Loeb noted that Cable and Hulk are very different characters. "This is a story that has a beginning, middle and end, and a definite arc for who Cable is," Loeb said. But, "you are talking about a character who is very capable as a soldier, a strategist, and doesn't play by the same rules the other Marvel heroes do."
Cable is, Loeb confirmed, "a total badass."
Asked whether Hope's danger would come from "Schism," "Fear Itself," "Generation Hope" or someplace else, Loeb said, "yes," and her situation will play into big things happening in 2012. "We get to light the fuse," Loeb said, "but it's a long fuse to the big bang."
Asked about Cable's side in "Schism," Loeb said, "Cable's actions may create their own schism."
Regarding parallels with Bishop, the former hero who spent years hunting Cable and Hope because he believed his actions justified, Loeb said there are resonances but one difference is "we're seeing Cable up against characters we don't usually see him with." He added that, unlike "Messiah Complex" set in the X-Men universe, "this is set squarely in the middle of the Marvel universe," playing on a broader board.
"There are also real comparisons with Tony Stark, Iron Man. He sees himself as a futurist; what does that mean when he's up against someone from the future. Tony Stark knows what it's like to have his body betray him; Nathan Summers has spent his entire life with the Techno Organic Virus," Loeb said. As a result of such pairings, adversaries may understand each other better than they understand themselves.
In response to a question about Cable's appearance, Loeb clarified that Cable is not cybernetic, but the flesh in his body has metal properties, similar to the way that cancer changes cellular structure. Cable's severed arm "is back" and more powerful, and reflects the battles within his body since his earliest appearances.
"The sacrifice that Scott [Summers] made to give up Nathan in the beginning, because he knew the virus was going to kill him, has defined him. In a similar way, he took Hope into the future to protect her," Loeb said, adding that he enjoys the cyclical nature of some characters' stories that play out in different ways.
Asked if there's a gun too big for Cable, McGuinnes laughed, "We'll have to see as the series goes on. I don't think so." He noted the tone in "X-Sanction" is "a lot darker than what we did in 'Hulk.'"
"Cable knows he's going to do battle with the Avengers, so he comes loaded for bear," Brevoort said.
Loeb said that a previously-announced (and since scuttled) series "Avengers Three" did not evolve directly into "X-Sanction," but that some story beats have been incorporated into other Marvel U stories.
Asked about Deadpool, Loeb said, "this is definitely a solo mission," but the mission may "take him places he wasn't expecting."
"There are some characters from Cable's past and some current Avengers I think fans will be happy to see," Loeb concluded.
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Tamil Nadu gives tax incentives to 10 investorsFebruary 26th, 2011 - 8:50 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Feb 26 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Deputy Chief Minister M.K. Stalin Saturday handed over government orders and letters of support extending tax incentives to 10 companies including Mahindra and Mahindra (M&M), Indian Oil and Samsung India, who are setting up facilities or expanding their existing ones in the state.Auto major M&M, which has committed to invest Rs.1,800 crore in Tamil Nadu, plans to set up a 150,000-units per annum sports utility vehicle plant at Cheyyar near here.
Oil major Indian Oil Corporation and Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation (TIDCO) will be jointly setting up a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal at an outlay of Rs.4,320 crore.
The 10 companies would involve an investment of around Rs.24,235 crore creating 15,920 direct jobs.
The others who got the support letters include Madras Cements (investment outlay Rs.1,143 crore for expansion), Samsung India (Rs.350 crore), KPR Mills (Rs.328 crore, spinning mill expansion), Bekaert Industries (Rs.700 crore, making steel rod), Apollo Tyres (Rs.2,100 crore, tyres), Sundareswarar Alloy and Stainless Steel (Rs.2,262 crore, forging and foundry), Synergy Enterprises (Rs.10,980 crore, solar panels) and Cheyyur SEZ Developers (Rs.250 crore).
- Chennai will be world's largest auto-manufacturing hub: Stalin - Feb 10, 2011
- M&M; mulls Rs.4,000 crore investment in Tamil Nadu - Jun 01, 2012
- Apollo Tyres ups new plant investment to Rs.2,100 crore (Lead) - Jan 11, 2011
- Karunanidhi to inaugurate Tamil Nadu Newsprint's new projects - Jan 18, 2011
- M&M to set up passenger vehicle plant in Tamil Nadu - Nov 09, 2010
- Samsung India to expand Chennai facility at Rs.350 crore - Nov 03, 2010
- Apollo Tyres raises new plant investment to Rs.2,100 crore - Jan 11, 2011
- Tamil Nadu signs three MOUs worth Rs.13,000 crore - Aug 04, 2010
- Samsung urged to invest in photo-voltaic cell facility in Tamil Nadu - Nov 27, 2010
- Tamil Nadu's three new SEZs eye Rs.3,400 crore investments - Feb 19, 2011
- Emami eyes 15 percent share in packaged edible oil market - Aug 19, 2010
- Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh may get ultra-mega power plants - Aug 15, 2011
- Tamil Nadu Newsprint's expansion goes on stream - Jan 19, 2011
- Gail, Tidco to set up a JV power plant in Tamil Nadu - May 11, 2012
- Metro Tyres to invest Rs.100 crore to expand production - Jul 05, 2012
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Indiana has become the 11th state to re-legalize industrial Hemp production. State Governor Mike Pence signed bill S.B. 357, the "Industrial Hemp" bill, late last week with the hope that "Hemp will potentially create thousands of new, sustainable, and green jobs for Hoosiers."
Given Indiana's immense farm industry (and space to farm), we hope the midwestern state becomes a hotbed for Hem production and helps stop the wheels of prohibition from running in the Midwest.
Here's the great announcement from Indiana's NORML Chapter:
Indiana has a long history with Hemp. The earliest report of Hemp farming in Indiana is in the early 1800's from Union County. At one time there were over 20 rope walks along the Wabash and Ohio rivers. During World War II, Jasper County, Indiana, received an award from the United States Department of Agriculture for prolific Hemp production for the war effort.
Hemp was de facto made illegal in 1937, but it wasn't until Hemp was lumped in with Marijuana in the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 that it was actually made illegal to grow in the U.S. Possession of Hemp goods such as clothing, bags, seed oil and plastic has always been legal, but we couldn't grow anywhere in the United States.
This law will be administered by Dr. Robert Waltz, the Indiana Seed Commissioner, working out of Perdue University. No plan has yet been unveiled.
S.B. 357 also is dependent upon approval of the federal government. Under the recent federal farm bill, the 10 states that had already relegalized industrial Hemp could proceed with test crops. Indiana will have to be added to that list before we can grow Hemp again in Indiana. [Indiana NORML]
Hemp can move everything around us–literally. And it's a damn shame Hemp production hasn't yet gone federally legal–because it can seriously provide America (and the world) with a valuable resource for energy and sustainability.


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Building a product is fun. Building a dynamic platform is even more fun. Did you know that Scoop.it has the best engineering team in the entire world, and that they put out a new release of the platform almost every week?
In each of these releases, there are little new features and hacks that aren't always announced. Some are data-backed and meant to help our team figure out what works and what doesn't within the platform, but others are little gifts to you, the curators, and I've compiled a few so that you can all get up to date on what you might have been missing.Read More


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Market in Bahlil / Photo FanackWith a population of 32 million, Morocco is one of the larger Arab states (about the same size as Iraq), with a society and culture that has Arab and Berber origins and strong Jewish and European influences. Because of rapid urbanization, the distinctions between Arab and Berber have become both more blurred and politically more distinct: Berber identity is an important political consideration in modern Morocco.
The Moroccan population is almost entirely Sunni Muslim, though this has not always been true. While Christianity has been confined almost entirely to expatriate residents, there was a historically important Jewish community that remains influential, although its numbers declined steeply in the second part of the twentieth century. The interaction between the Jewish and Muslim communities has always been important politically, culturally, and economically.
Morocco has a history of authoritarian and repressive government, particularly under the late King Hassan II (r. 1961-1999), but even during that period an appearance of democracy was preserved. In the final years of his life and under the rule of his son Mohammed VI, there was a political opening: the press is now theoretically free, although it is restricted by a myriad of regulations and pressures.
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2012 is becoming the year of the Bone Luge even faster than I'd anticipated. The official Bone Luge Tumblr blog is taking submissions. Metrovino has Bone Luge pairing suggestions on the menu. In Denver, Tim Tebow fever has led to T-Boning, taking a Manhattan cocktail down a bone while assuming the Tebow position. And today Tasting Table picked up the story, introducing the Bone Luge to a sometimes skeptical world.
For the record, credit for taking the very first Bone Luge that I'm aware of goes to Danny Ronen on a night when he and I were enjoying copious amounts of tequila at Laurelhurst Market. It started as a joke, spread to the dining room via Twitter, and is now hitting the big time.
Ultimately, the Bone Luge is about increasing happiness in the world. Read the manifesto here. Above: Things get even sillier at Irvington Bierstube with the crab leg luge, paired with a late harvest riesling.


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You'd vote for George Clooney for U.S. President, think you can beat Mitt Romney in a fistfight, and loyalty is the most important part of choosing a girlfriend. This is just the tip of the iceberg of the complex lives and minds of real men today, as revealed in AskMen's 2012 Great Male Survey.
When it comes to sex, most men prefer to walk right up to a woman he's interested in, but to find a woman with relationship potential, he'd rather go through a mutual friend. And while more than half of men are somewhat or completely satisfied with their sex lives, 22 percent reported no sex life at all, with a small number admitting they've paid for much-needed sexual release.
But what makes real men? For 56 percent, it's the drink that you order. For others, it's colorful socks or vintage glasses frames to express their personality and unique style.
Real men also think about their health, eating less fast food than last year (58 percent), and being bold enough to think they can complete a marathon sometime in their life. They also tend to work out alone (70 percent), most likely on their abs because many think that's what women find the most attractive.
Still, when it comes down to it, more than half believe that real men are great fathers and husbands who take care of their family. They are also sick of hearing about Justin Bieber and Kim Kardashian.
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I just got home from Best Buy and looked at both models. The Samsung looked better. Less blurry/grainy during fast movements (i.e. sports). Both pictures looked excellent, bright colors, excellent inputs, etc. But I'm going to buy the Samsung.
which one is better between the TH-42PD50U (panasonic) and SP-R4232 (samsung)
i am really confused which one to buy ... please suggest
the panasonic ones have been reputed for their sharpness but this new gen samsung has more features 10000:1 contrast and looks awesome...
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First and most important, I can confirm that
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Barclays currently has more than eight hundred
customers in the country who fall within our larger, medium and
smaller business segments and who are served by teams based in
Glasgow, Aberdeen, Kelso and Edinburgh. A new head of Barclays
Business Banking in Scotland, Rikki Griffiths, is due to start
on the 1 July.
Regarding the recent media coverage, it is true
that one of our Relationship Managers in Scotland contacted three
business customers asking them to move their banking arrangements
elsewhere. He gave as his reason that we were exiting one specific
sector of the market on his retirement from the Bank. It is fair
to say that the letter written to two of these customers was a
poorly worded description of the changes to our overall service.
As you would expect, we continually review our
service propositions and refine them to provide the best combination
of products and services to meet our customers' requirements.
On deciding to introduce changes to our service, we successfully
transferred the great majority of our customers to alternative
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We stated then and confirm now that we will work closely with
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We are committed to all the customers we serve
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Every time I post for WIPocalypse I always feel like I haven't done a darned thing. I then have to go back to last time to see what I've done for my WIPs and still feel like not enough progress has been made.
I did finish Lizzie Kate's Spring right after the last WIPocalypse posting. So bonus points there!
I have since spent much of my time working on floss pads, sewing up things and getting my product organized for the not very anticipated re-launch of my Etsy store.
During all of that crazy sewing, I pushed everything aside and got back to work on Odd Clover then threw that aside and went crazy berserker stitching on the Fire and Ember SAL.
I finished two pages and am now working on another. I am officially 12 months behind on this SAL but should be caught up and on track by the end of May.
The question of the month is: Talk to us about your longest running WIP or UFO.
I have blabbed about these two in the past and brought them out to be worked on every once in awhile, but never seem to get very far.
Both of them were started in 2009. They are my two guilt projects.
Celtic Goddess on the left and COSMOS on the right. Celtic Goddess was supposed to be a model stitch for a designer and it is a beautiful piece. For some reason I cannot seem to motivate myself to stitch her. She has been put back in the box and remains a UFO for the duration.
COSMOS is the worst offender. I have entirely too much guilt associated with this one and feel ashamed I haven't finished it. It was/IS an exchange piece where I traded Tim Tams for converting an artists work into pattern to create a pillow out of the finished piece. I have 100 stitches in and that is where it has stayed. They are both beautiful patterns and I really like them, but they remain UFO's until I suck it up and get it done.
It's difficult to show my shame, but if I continue to pull these two projects out I feel that one day they will be completed and sent on to the rightful owners!
For now, I'm tackling the Fire and Ember piece (lovingly referred to as THORDAK because of Critical Role and the Chroma Conclave). This SAL will be finished in October when we stitchers will begin the next SAL which is called the Dead Sea SAL.
All good, good fun! If I stay on track and finish the smaller projects while working on the larger ones, I just might get back to Celtic Goddess and COSMOS sooner rather than never 😁
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Ben Noble, the USA Rice Federation's new vice president for government affairs and a native of Ethel, Ark., told growers the Federation will fight to maintain funding for farm programs, as well as work to secure disaster assistance for U.S. rice producers.
"While we're going to be aggressively seeking funding for many farm programs, the budget realities are tough," Noble said. "We'll be playing a lot of defense just to protect what we already have."
More than 350 rice producers, millers and industry leaders discussed pressing issues on Capitol Hill, improving domestic rice consumption and expanding overseas markets at the joint annual membership meeting of the two rice groups.
"Maintaining federal safety net programs is critical, especially now during some of the roughest economic times our industry has ever seen," said Stuart Proctor, president and CEO of the USA Rice Federation. "At the same time, we will continue to maximize our dollars to implement effective domestic and international promotions to market our way to profitability."
The biggest challenge, Noble says, is going to be convincing the non-farm state members of Congress that continued farm support is necessary. "There was a large misperception last year that agriculture received more than its fair share of the budget pie. We know this is not true, and we're working to educate members of Congress about the need for continued funding."
"We're going to continue working with our allies in Congress to stress the importance of the farm income safety net," he says.
Securing disaster assistance for producers, Proctor says, is more critical now than ever. "If the federal government had not imposed embargoes on our top former markets – Cuba, Iran and Iraq – the rice industry would not be the position of needing additional support now," he says.
Also at the meeting, Joe Mencer, president of the Arkansas Rice Council, announced the results from the group's 2003 board of director's election.
This year's representatives are: District 1, Tommy Hoskyn of Stuttgart; District 2, John King III of Helena; District 3, Steve Orlicek of Stuttgart; District 4, Robert Petter Jr. of Duvall's Bluff; District 5, David Carter of England; District 6, Marvin Hare Jr. of Newport; District 7, John Cooper of Wynne; District 8, Roger Pohlner of Fisher; District 9, Dean Wall of Walnut Ridge; and District 10, Kyle Baltz of Pocahontas.


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Deadhead now for luscious fall blooms The middle of August is the time to take a stand, rise from your lawn chair and tend to routine maintenance. What you do now in the garden will determine how your landscape will look all autumn. Tops on the to-do list is deadheading and fertilizing summer blooming annuals.
Your geraniums, petunias and other bloomers will flower until October if you remove their faded flowers and snip back their leggy branches. Then give your annual plants a shot of liquid fertilizer to quickly encourage new growth and new buds.
Next, consider your lawn. Instead of daily water that keeps a lawn green but lazy switch to watering your lawn less often but more slowly allowing the water to soak deep into the top two feet of soil. One way to get water to penetrate the soil is to set the sprinkler for 10 minutes, then turn it off for an hour. The magic of capillary action then will draw the second application of water down deep into the soil and the grass roots will learn to follow.
August is not the time to fertilize roses, vines or tender perennials that may not survive the winter if they put on new growth this late in the summer. August is not the time to get snippy with wisteria, hardy fuchsias, rhodies or azaleas. Instead you want to encourage trees and shrubs to start going dormant as the days grow shorter. Pruning and feeding always stimulates growth.
I planted two Hawthorn trees three years ago. They looked OK at first but this summer almost all of the leaves have fallen from the trees. They also have never bloomed. Is there anything I can do to fix these trees or should I just get rid of them? P.P., Olympia
Dear P.P.: I vote for the shovel solution when it comes to Hawthorn trees in Western Washington. This means to dig them out and consider your loss a learning lesson. Hawthorns have lovely blooms and fine foliage in climates that get less rain but in our area they almost always suffer from leaf blight and drop leaves all summer in their struggle to survive. Not only are your leafless Hawthorns guilty of looking ugly but they even refuse to bloom. Life is too short to put up with ugly plants, or trees and shrubs that need spraying and pampering to keep them healthy. Consider the many varieties of Japanese maples, smoke trees or cedars that thrive in our climate to replace your haughty hawthorns.
I have tried planting a second crop of lettuce, spinach and kale in my vegetable garden as you suggested in an earlier column. It seems to me the seedlings are getting too hot in the summer sun and the new leaves look scorched. What am I doing wrong? – F., Email, Kent
Dear F.: Summer planting is often a shady deal and requires a bit of temporary covering to get the young upstarts off to a cool start. Poke some sticks into the ground around your newly seeded beds then drape cheese cloth or shade cloth over the sticks so that the soil remains shaded but air can still circulate. Be sure to keep the soil moist as the seeds sprout and a second crop begins. Once the cooler days of autumn arrive in mid-September you can remove the shade cloth and enjoy a second spring as you harvest lettuce, spinach and other leafy crops until snow fall.
Quick question on coleus plants. Does one have to remove the flowering spikes? What about hosta plants that send up flowers that then dry up and turn ugly? I am a new gardener and love your column. – N.G., Yelm
Dear N.G.: Quick answer – it is up to you. Any plant with lovely leaves such as coleus and hosta will look better if you remove the flowering spikes as soon as they appear so that the plant can put all its energy into producing the fancy foliage. But some gardeners enjoy the flowers on coleus plants and hosta and leave them be. One of the joys of gardening is that you can putter about on a summer day snipping off faded blooms and yellowing leaves and then see how the plant responds. A rule of green thumb is to remove anything dead, diseased or damaged no matter what time of year.
Palm Tree Alert: Do not cover tops of palm trees or wrap them in the winter. In an update to the earlier article I wrote about growing palm trees in Western Washington I heard from a local grower and expert who claims that wrapping or covering your palm trees will only cause fungal infections. He suggests just fertilizing palm trees twice a year and leaving them alone. For more details, go to palmsnorthwest.com.
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Several states want to "break the glass" to save their public pensions from fiscal ruin. The only question is, will the courts allow them to do so?
For decades, the defined-benefit retirement plans relied on by millions of government employees such as schoolteachers, police, and transit workers have been sacrosanct; few if any state lawmakers dared to suggest adjusting benefits promised to retirees as a way to save money and ensure the long-term viability of the pensions for fear of enraging the politically powerful public employees unions. The most any state has been willing to do is adjust benefits for new government employees, as Illinois and New Jersey did earlier this year.
But times have changed. A new study by the National Center for Policy Analysis shows that the public employee pensions are underfunded by an estimated $3.1 trillion – three times higher than reported previously. There are now whispers in some circles that the states, already overwhelmed by the recession and years of overspending, cannot afford the pensions and plan on seeking a federal bailout of the pensions. Besides the economic ramifications, a federal bailout of public pensions also has political, legal, and social aspects that we are only beginning to understand. In these extraordinary times, states must take extraordinary measures.
Now, some states are willing to adjust benefits for future and current retirees because no good alternative exists for shoring up the pensions. This year, Minnesota, Colorado, and South Dakota voted to limit cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) enacted in previous years because they cannot afford to pay them. According to Stateline, Colorado, in the face of projections that the state's pensions will run out of money within 30 years eliminated the 3.5 percent COLA planned for this year. All future increases will be set at 2 percent, unless the funds investments experience another huge decline in value. Meanwhile, Minnesota eliminated a 2.5 percent COLA and set any future increase for its pension plans to between 1 and 2 percent. South Dakota reduced its COLA by 1 percent and tied future increases to the market.
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Bilsky, a three-time All-Ivy guard, captained the 1970-71 basketball team. The team went undefeated in the regular season, but lost in the East Regional final in the NCAA tournament.
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Monday August 21, 2006
My Favorite German Words
Since we're going to be spending ten weeks in Germany this fall, The Wife and I took six weeks of intensive German classes this summer. Before the classes, I knew almost no German, except for a few phrases from comic books (i.e. Nightcrawler) and WWII movies. Now, I know enough German to realize that there's way too much grammar in German. (Whose idea was grammatical gender, anyway? Could I take a pass on that?) Anyway, over the course of the class I kept track of German words that I thought were, well, funny-sounding. [If you're German, you might want to bail out now before I make fun of your language.]
The top five:
Kleiderschrank 'wardrobe, armoire' (lit. 'clothes-closet')
This one's just fun to say, especially if you really lay into the uvular /r/. Try it with me: Ja, das ist ein Kleiderschrrrrrank. I like it because it sounds very German, and it feels like it could mean anything. Now, whenever I find myself reaching for a word and failing to find it, I substitute Kleiderschrank.
Flugzeug 'airplane' (lit. 'fly-thing')
A fine example of the formation of a technical term by compounding basic German vocabulary instead of borrowing from Latin or Greek. Why say something vaguely foreign-sounding like aero-plane when you can say fly-thing?
Krankenschwester 'nurse' (lit. 'sick-sister')
This one is self-explanatory. It would never have occurred to me to call a nurse a sick sister—thanks, Germans! I asked our teacher what they call a male nurse in Germany, thinking it might be Krankenbruder, but no such luck. Apparently, the non-gender-specific term is Krankenwärter.
Mannschaft 'team'
OK, I know this is juvenile, but I think this word is awesome. That mannschaft is very strong. It is my favorite mannschaft. See? That never gets old. Best of all, it also has the meaning 'crew' in the nautical sense, which means there's a chance it might be possible to translate the pun in my favorite joke about submarines—you know, the one whose punchline is "long and hard and full of seamen".
Brustwarze 'nipples'
A Spaniard, a Frenchman, and a German are arguing about which of their native tongues is the most beautiful. The Spaniard say, "Spanish is the most beautiful. Think of the Spanish word for butterfly: mariposa." The Frenchman says, "Ah, but what about ze French word: papillon. Surely French is ze most beautiful!" The German says, "OK, you got me, the German word for butterfly is schmetterling, which I admit is lame—but that's not the half of it. I swear to God, we call nipples 'breast-warts'. Seriously! German is full of stuff like that. You have no idea."
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Hihi, it's always funny to hear what others think of German or Germany ...
But actually, there is no non-gender-specific term for nurse*.
Female nurses are called "Krankenschwester", male nurses are called "Krankenpfleger". But I think that recently, the - official - name for the profession of female nurses is "Krankenpflegerin". "-in" is the generic female suffix for people.
Greetings from Germany :-)
* that's always complicated with job titles: the word "Lehrer" (teacher) is a male word. The corresponding female term is "Lehrerin". So, in order to speak correctly, when you mean every teacher, you have to say "Lehrerinnen und Lehrer" (plural). But since this is very long and uncomfortable, some people write "LehrerInnen" as abbreviation. Some other people say, that "Lehrer" just means both, the female and male teachers ... Well ... complicated ;-)
Posted by: nils at Aug 21, 2006 2:33:06 AM
mairposa should be mariposa, of course.
Posted by: Der Typografischerrorkorrektionsmann at Aug 21, 2006 10:55:31 AM
Furthermore, with 'Krankenschwester' u.s.w., the genitive plural article 'der' of 'Kranken' is implied (i.e. 'Schwester der Kranken'); this sounds pretty straightforward to me.
Posted by: Stefan at Aug 21, 2006 12:20:00 PM
Tensor, since you mention Nightcrawler: Foreign languages in American comics are more often than not spotty affairs, and I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of Nightcrawler's German utterings are taking huge liberties with the language - Nightcrawler's howlers, so to speak (smile).
There are also a couple of issues of Alan Moore's Tom Strong where erratic German is used. (Tom Strong battles - in this series' ironic spirit - Nazi villains.)
In Joe Casey's amusing "Godland" one of the main protagonists' name was spelled "Freidrich Nickelhead" for nearly 10 issues. Meanwhile the correct spelling "Friedrich" is being used.
Posted by: FrF at Aug 21, 2006 4:26:17 PM
I thought "a submarine" was the punchline.
Posted by: Neal Whitman at Aug 21, 2006 7:11:24 PM
If you like Flugzeug, you might also like Fahrzeug (vehicle), Spielzeug (toy), and Werkzeug (tool).
Posted by: Andrew at Aug 22, 2006 9:13:13 PM
I was thinking of using Spielzeug until I remembered plaything, which kind of takes the wind out of its sails.
Posted by: The Tensor at Aug 22, 2006 10:46:48 PM
I like Wolfsschlucht for its incredible concatenation of consonants.
Posted by: theophylact at Aug 25, 2006 5:48:07 PM
Posted by: David Moles at Aug 28, 2006 10:20:53 AM
did you just say concatenation?
Posted by: Eavan at Aug 30, 2006 4:17:08 PM
My favorite -zeug word is Schlagzeug (hit thing)
for percussion instruments.
My favorite string of consonants was in a word
I saw on a sign for cherries that you picked
yourself off the trees: selbstpflücken.
Posted by: Tom Ace at Sep 9, 2006 10:21:57 AM
lol, u lot r funny
Posted by: i'drathernot at Mar 19, 2007 11:47:57 AM
whoever said kleiderschrank was a gd word for replacing others, i find that verbesserung is better
Posted by: lkfidfugbskla at Mar 19, 2007 11:51:04 AM
my favorite word is
Kreuzschlitzschraubenzieher (Philip's screw driver, lit. cross-slit-screw-puller)
seriously.. it rocks
Posted by: at Jun 24, 2007 1:44:19 AM
flesh (fleisch) for meat.
schnellzeug (fastthing) for express-train
Posted by: paperpusher at Jun 24, 2007 2:55:27 AM
@everyone: I hate to spoil the fun, but Zeug does NOT mean "thing". If anything, it means something like "stuff", but even that is a fairly recent development. It originally meant something like "equipment", which accounts for most of the uses you mention here (you can still see this use in the word Zeugmeister, which refers to someone in charge of equipment).
@paperpusher: the word for "express train" is Schnellzug, where Zug means "train". The word Schnellzeug does not exist, nor would it be a possible coinage, since all words ending in -zeug take a verb stem or a noun stem as their first constituent.
Posted by: Frank at Jul 1, 2007 11:54:49 PM
When I studied German in high school, we used the word Eichhörnchen (squirrel) to replace words we couldn't remember. Try saying it repeatedly on a fast pace - what could be more fun?
Posted by: Marjut at Aug 14, 2007 4:19:55 PM
My favorite was always funkelnagelneu(r) -- 'brand spanking new' Rolls right off the tongue.
Posted by: Barzotti at Aug 31, 2007 2:14:52 PM
My favorite was always funkelnagelneu(r) -- 'brand spanking new' Rolls right off the tongue.
Posted by: Barzotti at Aug 31, 2007 2:15:09 PM
I think the best one has got to be 'winkelmesser' or protractor in English
Posted by: paul at Nov 4, 2007 2:31:39 PM
Flugzeug 'airplane' (lit. 'fly-thing')
Flight-stuff. ("Equipment" is not a meaning that people are aware of. And somewhere along the Rhine Zeug means "clothes".)
Furthermore, with 'Krankenschwester' u.s.w., the genitive plural article 'der' of 'Kranken' is implied (i.e. 'Schwester der Kranken'); this sounds pretty straightforward to me.
Yes, this is historically correct, but only linguists ever notice. That's because for most such compound words it's not straightforward anymore. Take Sonnenschein "sunshine": it once was der Sonnen Schein "the sun's shine" (incidentally, this word order is purely poetic today), but nowadays, der Sonnen would be interpreted as "the suns'", plural, because the -n has been reanalyzed as a plural marker. The genitive singular today is der Sonne. So, what the naive native speaker knows about making compound nouns is that the first noun has to be turned into a prefix by adding nothing, -n or -s in an unpredictable fashion.
German has way too few different endings for its grammar! Everything is -e, -en or -n...
I'm Austrian, BTW.
Posted by: David Marjanović at Sep 4, 2008 4:32:50 PM
I think the best one has got to be 'winkelmesser' or protractor in English
"Angle measurer".
Posted by: David Marjanović at Sep 4, 2008 4:34:43 PM
These are some of my favorites:
Bürgermeister- mayor
Pampelmuse- grapefruit
Doof- stupid
Schlange- snake
Schlampe- slut
Moin moin!- a Fischkopf (northern German) greeting meaning hello
Kreuzspinne- spider
Posted by: Di at Dec 24, 2008 4:51:05 PM
Machig which means mushy is the best word. It enhances any sentence instantly!
Posted by: Ellen at Apr 7, 2009 9:18:17 PM
My favourite is regenbogen (ray-gen-bow-gen). It means rainbow :)
Posted by: zzz at May 31, 2009 7:21:56 PM
Two I like.
1) Glove = der Handschuh
2) birth control pill = die Antibabypille
Posted by: Octopus Grigori at Jun 9, 2009 2:08:57 PM
Top dirty sounding German words
hell - bright
damit - with it
dick - fat
Fuchs - fox
Schlange - snake
Fahrt - (noun)drive or ride
Mannschaft - team
sich entpuppen - nope, not "to poop yourself", rather to turn out to be something unexpected
bekannt - well known
Posted by: Günther Leichengau at Sep 3, 2009 2:44:57 PM
My favourite German words:
1. Schildkroete
shield - creature aka a tortoise!
2. Luftkissenfahrzeug
air - pillow - travel - thing aka a hovercraft!
Love it. Am using the Kreuzschlitzschraubenzieher as the word of the week for my year 7 German class tomorrow!
Posted by: jennifer liebchen at Dec 8, 2009 8:22:24 AM
grosse lange hose schlange ;)
Posted by: ricky at Jan 4, 2010 1:19:25 PM
Did you ever try to pronounce that one: "Streichholzschächtelchen"
It is a belittlement of the word of "Streichholzschachtel" (= match box).
I looove to make Americans saying that word :)
Posted by: Cornelia at Jan 8, 2010 9:24:39 AM
I haven't spoken much German since I left school 10 years ago, but I've never forgotten Ausgebauten Dachgeschoss (attic conversion). I memorised it for an exam. I still enjoy saying it to myself under my breath.
Posted by: Aoife at Mar 23, 2010 1:45:42 PM
Schnauzbart = mustache
Schlafsack = sleeping bag
Augenbraugen = Eyebrows
Ellenbogen = Elbows
Posted by: Nelly at Sep 15, 2010 7:56:38 AM
try this: Schilddrüsenüberfunktion
it means "thyroid hyperfunction". i'm german and it's my favourite word ^^
but i know another nice term for something you don't remember: Dingenskirchen. "ding(ens)" means thing, and "kirchen" is a popular ending for a town, such as "ville" in english
Posted by: Simon at Dec 17, 2010 12:28:07 PM
The German word for a male nurse is Krankenpfleger (Krank meaning sick and Pfleger, from the German verb pflegen, meaning one who tends to things).
Posted by: Lloydster9000 at May 19, 2011 5:52:42 AM
Danke schoen fuer deine information. I lived in Germany from 1980-1988 and myself and one of my coworkers (he took German in high school for three years, and actually speaks quite well, considering it was in fact high school
German, and he has recently turned 20, asked me today the German word for nurse. I told him Krankenschwester, he then asked what was a male nurse called and I was stunned. I did not know. I consider myself to be fairly fluent in the language but had never heard the word for a male nurse. I don't get to speak German much anymore but I also love the way that they name things what they are no matter how long the actual word itself becomes, such as the word Strassenbahnhaltestelle. A 23 letter long word that means streetcar stop. There are only 26 letters in the entire alphabet. Ich liebe deutsch, tschuess!
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The game is six degrees of Canadian history. Take two seemingly unrelated pieces of Canadian culture and connect the dots through various people, places and events to discover how they're distantly — or maybe not so distantly — related. Along the way, we visit the quizzical and curious, the tragic and comic, and everything in between.
Many animals in Canada face the risk of extinction. The major factors that put Canadian animal species at risk include the conversion of forest and grassland to urban and agricultural uses, commercial timber harvesting, hunting, fishing and the pollution of lakes and rivers (see Water Pollution). As of 2017, a total of 735 species were considered at risk in Canada, including 502 kinds of animals. (Other species at risk include plants; see also Endangered Plants.)
The Lac La Croix Indigenous pony, also known as the Lac La Croix Indian pony or the Ojibwa pony, is thought to be the only existing breed of horse developed by Indigenous people in Canada. It takes its name from Lac La Croix First Nation in northwestern Ontario, where it was last found in the wild. Known in the Ojibwa language as bebezhigooganzhii or mishdatim (meaning "one big toenail"), it is a small, semi-feral horse that once lived in the wild and worked as a service animal — but is also considered a spirit animal — for the Ojibwa people of northwestern Ontario and northern Minnesota. Today, this friendly, all-purpose breed is used in equine therapy, Indigenous heritage programs and tourism. Conservation efforts in Canada and the United States strive to protect the breed, which is critically endangered.
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Mr. Vaz: This has been an excellent debate, if a little quiet. I had expected the hon. Members for Buckingham (Mr. Bercow) and for Stone (Mr. Cash) to join the hon. Member for Ruislip-Northwood, but they did not. We nevertheless had a thoughtful, intelligent debate about an issue of great importance to MEPs and the public. It is not a burning issue that people in Luton town centre, Bury St. Edmunds or, indeed, the centre of Leicester rush up to talk about, but it is one that can easily get out of control because the way in which things are done is perceived in a certain way. That is why it is important that we conclude a statutewe hope as soon as possiblethat will stay with us for many years to come.
I want to pay tribute to the speeches of my hon. Friend the Member for Luton, North and the hon. Members for Ruislip, North and for West Suffolk. We keep saying that he is from Bury St. Edmunds, but as he points out, we have got his constituency wrong.
Mr. Spring: It is the saintliness.
Mr. Vaz: Indeed. I understand that Bury St. Edmunds is near the hon. Gentleman's constituency and that is why we make this mistake.
The Government are pro-Europe and pro-reform. The adoption of a statute has been one of the matters that has most concerned us. It is important that we look for ways to ensure complete transparency from those who receive European funds. The Government are at the forefront of initiatives to improve financial management and to fight fraud. The European Parliament has taken steps to ensure that changes are made, but we believe that it must do more. It must get its house in order. We want the statute to be agreed as quickly as possible, but we do not want it at any price. We must have thorough expenses reform and we believe that United Kingdom MEPs should pay UK tax. From the general murmuring that I heard when I first mentioned this, I assume that the hon. Member for West Suffolk concurs.
Mr. Spring: I realise that these are difficult times. I just want to make it plain that we are opposed to the idea that MEPs should pay different taxes from their electors. I said that during my speech and I appreciate that it may not grab the Minister's attention, but I should just like to reinforce it.
Mr. Vaz: My mind may have wandered temporarily to the metric legal action. I am glad of that support and to hear that there is at last Opposition unity on a European policy. The salaries must be fair. The formula that we have proposed will result in a fair salary. It will not be as high as the Italians or as low as the Spanish, but it will be decent and the same as an MP's parliamentary salary.
Mr. Spring: This point simply has to be made. European MEPs get the identical salary to MPs. If we agree to this proposal, we lose control over the ability to accept those salaries, both for ourselves and for the European MEPs. There are already enough problems of disengagement from the EU and the sense of distance of European institutions; if that linkage is lost, it will simply make matters worse. I make that point sincerely and I ask the Minister to take that on board. This is an important point.
Mr. Vaz: I assume that the hon. Gentleman always makes his points sincerely. Of course I note his comments, but I think that the system that we have suggested is right. I will look at the matter. I understand the point that he is making. I understand the need to reassure the public that that link is still there. However, if by some miracle the Senior Salaries Review Body suggested that the salary of MPs should be increased, and that was supported by the Opposition, the average salary of the 15 would increase.
Mr. Wilkinson: Is there not another dimension at issue? The formula that the Government suggest to decide the salary of MEPs is to take the average salary of MPs in the 15 member states. If that proved to be significantly higher than the salary of British MPs, it would be a ratchet for the augmentation of our salaries, which the British public would not wish.
Mr. Vaz: I understand the hon. Gentleman's point. I will not turn this into a debate about whether we are paid a decent salary as this is about a statute applying to MEPs. I think that all hon. Members would accept that other issues must be discussed elsewhere. I understand the point that the hon. Gentleman is making, but I do not think that we need to make too much of the linkage. I believe that our suggestion is the right one, but I have noted the points made by both hon. Members.
On the funding of political parties, I must re-emphasise to the hon. Member for West Suffolk that there is no question of funding for the Labour party or the Liberal Democrats and not the Conservative party. We want no domestic political party to have funds channelled to it for national political purposes. The Conservative party is allied to the EPP parliamentary group, which is funded from public money allocated by the European Parliament. The Conservative party is also a member of the European Democratic Union, which shares offices, staff and equipment with the EPP at their joint headquarters in Brussels. The hon. Gentleman has probably visited them.
The recent European Democratic Union leaders' meeting, which was attended by William Hague, the leader of the Conservative party, was held in Berlin at the same time as the EPP congress on 11 January 2001. The right hon. Member for Richmond, Yorks (Mr. Hague)--you were about to correct me, Mr. McWilliam--has been invited to, and has attended, meetings of EPP leaders before European summits, although we missed him at Nice because he was otherwise engaged. The point is that no party should receive national funding, not that one should do so or not do so because it does or does not belong to a particular group. No party should receive such funding as a result of what the European Commission or Parliament does.
On the taxation point, it is important to remember the declaration that we secured at Nice, but it is also important to continue to work on the reform agenda. The kind words of the hon. Member for West Suffolk about the former leader of the Labour party, Mr. Neil Kinnock, will be welcomed in Brussels when I show him the Hansard report. It is good to know that Conservative Members support wholeheartedly the excellent work that is being done by Neil Kinnock. The souffle is about to rise and Conservative Members--I remember what they used to say about Mr. Kinnock--now accept that he is going a good job in the European Commission. He wants what the Labour Government want: reform of the European Union. What will most impress the British people is to achieve the consensus that we have achieved today. The institution is worth while, but it needs to be reformed and we shall continue our efforts to drive that reform agenda forward.
Question put and agreed to.
That this Committee takes note of European Union documents Nos. 9712/00, relating to a statute for Members of the European Parliament, and 9560/00, relating to an audit of expenditure of European Parliament Political groups.[Mr. Vaz.]
Committee rose at twenty-two minutes to Six o'clock.
The following Members attended the Committee:
The following also attended, pursuant to Standing Order No. 119(2):
Day, Mr. Stephen (Cheadle)
Joyce, Mr. Eric (Falkirk, West)
McNulty, Mr. Tony (Harrow, East)
MacShane, Mr. Dennis (Rotherham)
Spring, Mr. Richard (West Suffolk)
Vaz, Mr. Keith (Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office)
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At Superior Outdoor Structures we understand the importance of having a safe, reliable, and sturdy barn for your horses and other furry critters. Be it for Quarter Horses, Thoroughbred racers, Arabians, Clydesdales, Morgan's or Tennessee Walkers we can build you a barn to meet each unique need while being appealing and stylish, give us a call. Many Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Arkansas. Missouri and Colorado horse owners choose us for their horse barn construction needs.
When imagining a horse barn, safety should be the first thing that comes to mind. This is the highest priority and one we don't take lightly. However, we also understand that many owners would prefer a more stylish barn to a plain, traditional barn. Plus the needs for each breed and type of horse or livestock is different. Superior Outdoor Structures has a variety of options and features for our horse barns that provide the peace-of-mind you deserve.
When working with Superior Outdoor Structures for your horse barn will be an experience both enjoyable but relaxing we know what we're doing. The details of every post frame building we construct are highly important because we aim to satisfy our customers. From the very first consultation, you can be confident in us because your barn is backed by a Years of experience from an established company with one of the best reputation in the industry.
We know you're concerned about your horse barn being able to withstand abuse from the horses or the weather, our horse barns can withstand the typical abuse that occurs to a horse's surroundings while being safe and functional. The layout, ventilation and overall flow of traffic through your building comes in to play from the beginning stages of your horse barn construction, up until it is final cupola is installed we will be there until the end.
It's not easy taking care of horses we know that since we own a few, but if you love horses like we do you know it's worth it. If you needing a new pole barn / post frame building for your horses you can trust Superior Outdoor Structures to help you create the ideal horse barn that is safe, sturdy, and compliments that of your existing buildings or home. We know what you're thinking because we own these beautiful creatures as well.
HOMEWORK EQUESTRIAN POLE BARN'S aka HORSE BARN'S
Get a tablet and a pencil you're going to need them to take notes, and sketch or draw a layout or floor plan. It will also help to get a measuring tape of at least 30' and sometimes a 100' tape would be better. Plus look through our frequently asked questions to help guide you through this process before you call.
Measure the area you are going to construct your Superior Outdoor Structures pole barn width, length, and height for obstructions. Make a note of these numbers to give to us when you call. Knowing your size is the starting point and most important information to know. We can help advise you once you give us these dimensions. This will be the first thing we ask you when you call. It's best to add 5' around the building when measuring for dirt and site prep and room to perform the construction of the pole barn. Also determine the roof pitch you desire from 3/12 to 5/12. For roof pitches 6/12 and up there is and additional equipment charge to build these buildings.
Next decide 29 gauge or 26 gauge sheet metal.
Now measure the width, length, and height of the items that will be going in your Superior Outdoor Structures pole barn. Make sure to allow enough space between two vehicles if you're parking two or more items side by side to open doors and to walk among them comfortably. Do not forget to leave room for your Mac and Matco tool boxes and Miller welding equipment when measuring just to name a few things. Allow enough room also to place that Harbor Freight Air Compressor in the corner out of the way of doors and such.
Now determine if you are going to build any lean-to's on the side's or end's on your Superior Outdoor Structures pole barn. Determine the minimum height under the eave to drive and walk under. We will use a 2/12 pitch on most lean-to's. Determine if you want them partial closed in or open all the way around.
Now determine the number and size of your large openings for access or doors and determine their location. Next decide if you wish to have us install our garage doors, slider doors, dutch doors, or custom sliders. Keep in mind if you're going to want to install a door opener a conventional garage door will be your only choice. Also note when putting doors on the eve sides of the buildings you will need 18" taller than the door. We can install up to an 18' wide garage doors standard in the gable ends and eaves we will need to install a L.V.L. header when putting the wider doors on the eave side. Next determine if you want insulated or non insulated doors and possibly any windows in the garage doors.
Next is to decide if you are going to insulate your building and if you're going to heat only or heat and cool the pole barn as well.
Next step is walk through doors and windows. Number of personal doors and type, steel jamb/steel door or aluminum jamb/steel door. Next is windows 2x3, 3x3, 3x4, or 3x5 and locations. Pencil them in on your drawing.
Next is to decide if you want a solid wall color or wainscot.
Now comes the time to decide if you want 12" soffits, or standard metal overhang, and any other option's as well.
Now if you have the ability, get some stakes and string and stake it off in the location you're going to build it in, then drive the items inside the staked off area to verify you are going to be able to accommodate all the items you are going to store and walk about comfortably is one of the best ideas to confirm your needs.
Determine if you're going to construct your building with concrete inside and out.
Make sure there are no utilities that will be harmed or in the way when building the structure or driving the anchors. In Oklahoma call Okie "811" if you are in doubt. Other states just contact your local utility company they will advise you from there.
Check grade and verify how far off level the area is. Determine how you want to level the area beforehand. We have contractors that we can recommend in most cases to help you. All bids are made considering you have a flat and level pad, we very seldom include dirt and site prep in our bids unless it's specifically noted and initialed by you.
Now put it all on paper and decide if you need more room to grow. In all the years of advising customers and selling buildings I have never heard anyone say they wish they had built a smaller building. But it's very seldom a day goes by without these words spoken to me. "I
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if possible at this point. Roof, trim, walls and if you're going to wainscot the sides. Wainscot is when you see a building that has the first 3' or 4' a different color than the rest of the wall and usually matches the trim and or roof.
If you are financing determine the method you wish to use. Let us know which finance option you are looking at and we will advise you from there. See "
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Now it is time to call us and you should have the information we need to help you get that A+ grade. 918-224-4334 for a final to the penny price you must call us or come into the office at 901 N Mission, Sapulpa, Oklahoma 74066. It is best to call to make sure we are in the office and not out at a jobsite. Appointments can be made as well.
Please keep in mind that it is up to you when purchasing a Superior Outdoor Structures pole barn to research and obtain any permits that your particular state, county, and city require. *Superior Outdoor Structures and its contractors do not require that you have a permit to build and we take no responsibility in the event that one was not obtained before construction. If permits are to be obtained you will likely need to have an engineer drawings of some sort for your local codes, please inform us of this when purchasing or pricing so we may assist you in obtaining the proper paperwork and price the pole barn correctly.
NOTE: For post frame homes we will require that you have a basic drawing and in most cases come into our office to discuss these buildings, there are many variables when designing and constructing pole barns that are to be use for homes that need to be discussed in person. Be sure to tell us if you are constructing your pole barn for a residence when you call or come in.
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Friday, October 12, 2012
Friday's Fancies + A Winner!
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Hallmark Holiday Open House Brings Disney Magic to the Holidays
Hallmark Gold Crown® stores feature Disney holiday products at annual in-store event, Nov. 8-11
KANSAS CITY, Mo. Disney fans and shoppers of all ages are invited to the Hallmark Gold Crown® Holiday Open House, Nov. 8-11. This annual event gets the holiday shopping season underway with great deals in stores. This year, Disney characters are starring in dozens of products in Hallmark Gold Crown stores, and families can join in the fun at Holiday Open House.
We think customers will be excited to see all our fun Disney products that are available only at Hallmark Gold Crown stores, says Jen Seyller, Hallmark Gold Crown product director. Weve added technology and a touch of magic to many of our products to help these cherished Disney characters and their stories come to life and make the holidays brighter for our customers.
Featured Disney products include:
Disney Wireless Band currently featuring Minnie, Donald and Goofy. (Daisy and Mickey join the band later in November.) Each character holds an instrument and plays two songs and joins in on the other characters songs. The band plays 10 songs together as a group. $15.95 each with any purchase.
Disney Nutcracker Sweets featuring Mickey, Minnie, Donald and Goofy. Candy details adorn each button-activated plush character. Each one plays a segment of one of the songs from The Nutcracker. Specially priced at $14.95 each during Holiday Open House only.
Winnie the Pooh Interactive Story Buddy®. A plush Winnie the Pooh listens and responds as an adult reads Poohs stories to a child. Each bundle comes with the plush Pooh, a storybook and an audio CD that Pooh also responds to for $34.95. A second Pooh storybook also is available. Selected interactive Story Buddy books and accessories are 25 percent off during Holiday Open House.
itty bittys® featuring several Disney Princess characters, Tinker Bell, Minnie, Mickey, Pooh, Tigger, Bambi, Thumper, Mike and Sulley from Monsters Inc., plus a special limited-edition Mickey Claus and Minnie Claus. These pint-sized plush characters are fun to play with and collect and make perfect stocking stuffers. $6.95 each.
Totally Ticklish Goofy. This tickle and push-button activated plush Goofy sings a parody of Up on the Housetop. If you tickle him at any point during the song, hell erupt into laughter. $15.95 with each purchase of three Hallmark cards.
Hallmark Keepsake Ornaments make decking your tree with Disney magic a breeze. More than 25 Keepsake Ornaments feature characters from some of your favorite Disney and Disney●Pixar movies and cartoons, including Jake and the Never Land Pirates, Planes, Toy Story, Cars, Finding Nemo, The Little Mermaid, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Tangled, Brave, Beauty and the Beast, The Princess and the Frog, Cinderella, Disney Fairies, Monsters Inc., Peter Pan, The Muppets, Phineas and Ferb, Tim Burtons The Nightmare Before Christmas, Pirates of the Caribbean, plus classic characters Mickey, Minnie, Pooh and Tigger. Prices start at $12.95.
Recordable Storybooks. Two Disney titles: You Can Count on Me featuring Disney●Pixar Toy Story characters and Youre My Favorite Guest featuring Beauty and the Beast characters are available, as well as a host of other holiday and everyday titles. Record an adult or childs voice reading the book, and the voice plays back with every turn of the page. Receive $5 off any Recordable Storybook title during Holiday Open House only.
Be a Part of the Story® Interactive Storybooks. Mickey stars in Mickeys Treasure Hunt, and Minnie appears in Minnies Surprise Bow-Nanza. When an adult reads Mickey or Minnies story aloud, the characters chime in with a special question or choice for the child to make. The childs answer triggers a magical response from Mickey or Minnie. $24.95 each.
Disney characters also are featured on a variety of snow globes; gift items such as mugs, figurines and plaques; gift books; gift wrap; and holiday greeting cards. In addition, shoppers will find special prices on many other products throughout the store during Holiday Open House, Nov. 8-11.
All things holiday can be found at Hallmark Gold Crown® stores nationwide. Use the store locator on Hallmark.com to find the nearest Hallmark Gold Crown store.
About Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Hallmark makes the world a more caring place by helping people express whats in their hearts and spend time together a privilege few other companies in the world enjoy. Hallmark greeting cards and other products are found in more than 39,000 retail outlets in the United States, including the network of flagship Hallmark Gold Crown® stores. The brand also reaches people online at Hallmark.com and on television through Hallmark Hall of Fame original movies and cables top-rated Hallmark Channel. Worldwide, Hallmark offers products in more than 30 languages available in 100 countries. This privately held company is based in Kansas City, Mo., and is led by the third generation of the founding Hall family. Visit http://corporate.hallmark.com for more details.
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Commonwealth Games – Really worth it?
Hosting the Commonwealth Games in Delhi is not just about portraying the country's image to the world but much beyond. Also its success not only depends on the preparations but also how the investment is tackled with after the games are over. Read all about it and much more.Details


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New decision division for consumer protection -
The 9th Amendment to the German Competition Act confers new competences upon the Bundeskartellamt
With the 9th Amendment to the German Competition Act, which was promulgated on 8 June 2017, the Bundeskartellamt has been given new competences in the area of consumer protection.
Andreas Mundt, President of the Bundeskartellamt:
"We are glad that, in a first step, the legislator has granted us new investigative tools for consumer protection. In the digital economy, in particular, it only takes one illegal measure by a company to harm millions of consumers. This is why it makes sense to back up the already well-established system of privately enforced consumer protection. With the help of sector inquiries we will now start to make a tangible contribution towards better consumer protection and identify possible shortcomings. We will do this in close collaboration with the consumer protection organisations."
From now on the Bundeskartellamt can launch a sector inquiry where there is a reasonable suspicion that consumer law provisions have been severely violated, such as the Act against Unfair Competition (Gesetz gegen den unlauteren Wettbewerb (UWG)) or legal requirements for general terms and conditions. Sector inquiries are not targeted against individual companies, their purpose is to thoroughly examine the conditions on a specific market. In recent years, the Bundeskartellamt has identified competition restraints with the help of sector inquiries and developed solutions to the issues identified, for example in the petrol station, district heating, milk or submetering service markets.
In future, such inquiries can also be launched with a view to consumer protection if there is reason to suspect that significant, permanent or repeated infringements have occurred which affect a large number of consumers. In addition, the Bundeskartellamt can now act as amicus curiae in court proceedings relating to such infringements. To meet its new responsibilities, the Bundeskartellamt has set up a new decision division for consumer protection which will shortly commence its work.
The chair of the new decision division will be Professor Dr Carsten Becker who until now was in charge of the 8th Decision Division responsible for the energy and mineral oil sector.


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Ryan Thomas is swapping Coronation Street for Ramsay Street as he's joining the cast of Neighbours.
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Raising the Bar on Service Excellence concentrates on five crucial leadership actions that will shift your organization from good to great. Once again, Baird pushes the reader out of the theory mode and into action. Each chapter features case examples and concludes with specific leadership action steps that will bring the organization closer to living the mission, vision, values and brand promise.... back tears when she told the story of how her manager demanded that every person amake customer service their number one priority. ... in the hearts and minds of the managers whose feet were held to the fire throughout the budget cycle.
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Subtitle: New arrangement for SATB by Iain Farrington
Arranger: Farrington, Iain
Series: Boosey & Hawkes Contemporary Choral Series
Department: Choral - Choral Mixed Voices
Instrumentation: SSAATTBB, Piano
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes (London)
for mixed choir (SSAATTBB) & piano
Text: English (Walter de la Mare)
Duration: 4'30''
Difficulty: 3/5
This new arrangement of Howells's 1919 solo song transfers the composer's stirring harmonies and masterful word-painting to a choral texture. Howells's music, especially his considerable output of sacred choral music, is considered some of the finest written in the 20th century, and this arrangement captures the part-writing and intricate textures so iconic in his music.
This choral arrangement has been supported by a grant from the Herbert Howells Society.
The original song for voice & piano is also available from Boosey & Hawkes, ISMN 979-0-060-03341-4.
Iain Farrington
Iain Farrington has an exceptionally busy and diverse career as a pianist, organist, composer and arranger. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music and St John's College, Cambridge University.
Iain has performed as a solo pianist, accompanist, chamber musician and organist at the major venues in the UK, including the Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Purcell Room, the Proms 2007, the Royal Opera House, and abroad in South Africa, Japan, Jordan and across Europe. He has worked with some of the country's leading musicians, including Bryn Terfel, Lesley Garrett, John Mark Ainsley, the Royal Ballet, the BBC Singers, Sir Simon Rattle and Sir Colin Davis.
As a creative musician, Iain has arranged over one hundred works from Mozart to Gershwin, and his compositions have been performed in the USA, New Zealand, Sweden, and across the UK.
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NORTH RICHLAND HILLS (CBSDFW.COM) – North Richland Hills Police have arrested a man for murdering his mother early Saturday morning.
Police say 23-year old Justin Cody Collins is charged with murdering his 45-year old mother Angela Lozano in their home. The cause of death is yet to be determined.
Another son of Lozano made the phone call to police to report the incident at their apartment in the 6700 block of Buenos Aires Drive.
After detectives interview Collins, they determined he would be taken into custody.
Collins remains jailed while he awaits his arraignment, police said in a statement.
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Boats took passengers up and down the canal, stopping at such places as Lockport, Joliet, Morris and LaSalle-Peru. As boatmen shouted from ship to shore, mules walked along the adjacent tow path, pulling barges and ferries loaded with such cargo as lumber, stone, iron ore, grain and coal.


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Some of the benefits of going to the VFW include social opportunities to connect with other veterans as well as service opportunities to help current armed service members and the greater community. In addition to benefits directly from the VFW, members of the VFW enjoy external benefits such as discounts on various types of insurance and retail discounts on a variety of products including television service and prescription medications.Continue Reading
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4) Zoning and land use permits
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Last Year at a Glance
We are proud to announce that the following list contains just some of the LOCAL organizations that we have helped over the past twelve months.
- Had great fun raising over £17,000.00 for charitable purposes.
- Organised a Lions Den inter school competition encouraging teams of local students to present their ideas to a panel of judges about where the £1,600.00 should be spent in our community
- Have captured the imagination and creativity of nearly 100 students locally who entered our Lions International Peace Poster Competition.
- Have endorsed the applications of 3 local students to travel abroad as part of the Lions International Youth Camp & Exchange Program for 2014.
- Helped collect food for our local foodbank.
- Were privileged to donate nearly £15,000.00 to charitable causes including a local Young Persons Homeless Project (New Forest Nightstop), Hampshire & IOW Air Ambulance, New Forest Young Carers, Wessex Heartbeat, sponsorship of a local 17 year old for the team GB under 17 International Championships, and the Lions Disisater appeal for the Philippines.
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The ABCs of Love
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A personal Valentine from Phil Hansen (featured previously at Neatorama). He posted the lyrics and the elaborate process of writing the song and making the video at Goodbye Art. http://philinthecircle.com/goodbyeart/2008/01/29/abc-love-song-pictures-made-with-sweethearts/
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cheeeesy <3
Too bad that song sucked so bad.
Ah, that was great! Phil Hansen is awesome.
Great song and poem! Although, I must say I HATE heart candy! So chalky! ;)
what a sweet poem :-/