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Year 10? As in 15 years old? Forget tailor made mate. You're still growing. Unless you are really minted. In whcih case, go for it!
What's your budget for the whole outfit (inc shirt, shoes, tie, accessories etc)?
Hey guys first post on the forum so still consider myself a major rookie
So here's the problem, I have a year 10 formal coming up and I don't know what to wear. Im thinking of getting it tailor made. Any suggestions would help. I want to be the eye turner and hopeful catch the eyes of a special someone. Thanks
Year 10? As in 15 years old? Forget tailor made mate. You're still growing. Unless you are really minted. In whcih case, go for it!
What's your budget for the whole outfit (inc shirt, shoes, tie, accessories etc)?
I dont want to say "minted" but ive saved up quite a bit. Its mostly styling tips.
If it's your own money, and you haven't stopped growing, then definitely think twice about made-to-measure or bespoke. For anything decent, you are looking at big money. It's not just your body that will change. Your personal style will too, so it might not be a decent investment at this stage.
What will set you apart is getting something half decent that fits you well, then styling it properly. So go round a load of high street and tailoring shops, and try on a range of suits. Try to find one that fits perfectly on the shoulder (snug, but not too tight, doesn't leave shoulder dimples or collar gap), and fairly well through the body. The most important thing is the shoulders, as you can get the waist taken in by a tailor.
Same goes for the trousers. Get something that fits on the waist. As long as the fit through the leg isn't too bad, this also can be tweaked by tailor.
What are you thinking of colour wise? For a formal, you would normally go dark, but I don't think you need to be restricted too much, especially at your age.
All your mates will go grey, so why not navy - classy, timeless colour, and can be accessorised really well. White shirt with a colour bar, pale pink tie, white pocket square, well-polished brown derbies or oxfords. Then rock the shit out of it.
Check these links about fit...
Garment Doctor Series: Jacket Collar Gap | TSBmen
Garment Doctor Series: Pocket Flare | TSBmen
And a couple about alterations....
Get To Know Your Tailor | TSBmen - Part 2
Men's Fashion Basics – Part 93 – What Tailoring A Suit Can Do For You | FashionBeans
Hope that's helpful. Sure others will chip in too, especially when you come back for styling tips.
All the best.
Thanks for the tips. So I'm thinking dark purple shirt and an orange pocket square to contrast with the purple. Comments?
How re-usable is that though? Would buy something more classic if I was you. You want to stand out by having something good quality, that fits well, and is styled impeccably, not by being "wacky". No problem with dressing young (because you are), but don't be gimmicky, you get me?
I agree with Nat. I'd go for a slim and well fitted navy suit and white shirt. Will look great and will stand out as I expect most will buy from Next and won't fit them properly.
Alright looks like im going with a navy suit then. Thanks. Any tips on ties and pocket squares?
Nothing wrong with a suit from Next, mind, if it fits well, with some alterations.
In terms of shirts/ties/squares, Navy is a good colour to match with. Think lighter blues, white, light pinks, burgundy.
White shirt with burgundy tie is a classic combo, but might be a bit "office wear".
In terms of accessories, have fun but don't overdo it. E.g. if you opted for a collar bar, then maybe forgo the tie bar, and vice versa.
Also, don't get too "matchy". Wear a contrasting or complementing pocket square, or a white one to match the shirt, rather than getting one that exactly matches your tie. that can look a bit 80s.
Think about your socks too. And decent shoes. Little finishes touches like that can make or ruin an outfit.
Good luck. I expect some bloody pics after this too! ;-)
With this sort of thing the question you want to ask is 'do I want an outfit I'll look back with pride in a few years as still stylish or do I want an outfit that was great fun (even if with the benefit of hindsight I'd never wear it now)?'
If you are going for a look that in ten years time you still think was stylish then go for something pretty timeless and elegant - crisp white shirt, solid silk tie, white linen pocket square. If you want a one off explosion go for your purple shirt with whatever you want.
I would go for something that I thought timeless - but then I'm more than twice your age now. When younger I would have worn things that I'd blush at now. That's part of the point of being young.
Having said that, I'd still advise something pretty paired back and elegant. I've always liked that style even at your age. Think of black tie and dinner jackets - it is the contrast of black and white that makes the look. Too much colour and pattern and its not so striking. SImilarly, think of Connery's Bond - simple well put together suits with a limited colour palate. But remember, these events are there so that you can have fun, so make sure you do.


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In the Pacific Northwest, coastal Native American tribes regarded salmon as a culinary cornerstone of the potlatch—a lavish ceremonial feast. For centuries, cooks would catch salmon at the mouths of rivers, where the freshwater streams meet the sea. They'd season the fillets with wild herbs, then grill the fish over a crackling driftwood fire on the beach. With our classic blend, we've made it easy to recreate these rich, smoky flavors at home.
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This family-friendly Panama City resort is located near the airport, within 1 mi (2 km) of ATLAPA Conventions Center, Multiplaza Pacific Mall, and Omar Torrijos Recreational Park. Colonial Religious Art Museum and Panama Canal Murals are also within 2 mi (3 km).
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Along with 3 restaurants, this smoke-free resort has a full-service spa and a casino. Free WiFi in public areas and free valet parking are also provided. Additionally, an outdoor pool, 2 bars/lounges, and a health club are onsite.
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In addition to a full-service spa, Sheraton Grand Panama features outdoor tennis courts and an outdoor pool. Dining is available at one of the resort's 3 restaurants and guests can grab coffee at the coffee shop/café. The property also has a snack bar/deli. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of the resort's bars, which include 2 bars/lounges and a poolside bar. A computer station is located on site and wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary.
This 4.5-star property offers access to a business center, limo/town car service, and meeting rooms. This Art Deco resort also offers a casino, a health club, and a sauna. For a surcharge, the property provides a roundtrip airport shuttle (available 24 hours) and a beach shuttle. Onsite self parking and valet parking are complimentary.
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- Total number of rooms - 356
- Number of floors - 15
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
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- Tennis on site
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- Barbecue grill(s)
- Number of bars/lounges - 2
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Buffet breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 6 AM and 10 AM.
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24-hour room service is available.
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Outdoor tennis courts and a health club are featured at the resort. In addition to an outdoor pool, other recreational amenities include a sauna.
Children under 12 years old are not allowed in the swimming pool, health club, or fitness facility without adult supervision.
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Ygia Spa y Fitness Center has 2 treatment rooms including rooms for couples. Services include massages, facials, body scrubs, and body treatments. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy and hydrotherapy. The spa is equipped with a sauna, a spa tub, and Turkish bath/hammam.
Children under 16 years old are not allowed in the spa without adult supervision. Guests under 16 years old are not allowed in the spa.
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Check-in time ends at midnight
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Minimum check-in age is 18
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Check-out time is noon
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Children and extra beds
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- Pets allowed for an extra charge of PAB 25 per pet, per night
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Optional extras
- Fee for buffet breakfast: PAB 21.68 for adults and PAB 10.84 for children (approximately)
- Airport shuttle fee: PAB 70 per person (roundtrip)
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This property's policy is to refuse certain bookings for the purpose of group events or parties, including pre-wedding stag/bachelor and hen/bachelorette parties. This property offers transfers from the cruise terminal and airport (surcharges may apply). Guests must contact the property with arrival details 24 hours prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments. Reservations can be made by contacting the resort prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Up to 2 children 12 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation. Construction is underway at a neighboring building and there may be noise disturbance from the construction work.
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The glamor of a brothel raid
Rich Stearns, president of World Vision U.S., shares a story from his recent visit to Cambodia that highlights the numerous interventions required to fight poverty, injustice, and oppression -- those that are dramatic and highly-publicized, as well as those that are less conspicuous but equally critical.
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In Cambodia last month, I met a young woman who, in a dramatic raid, had been rescued from the sex trade. Local police alongside the International Justice Mission stormed into the brothel where Ruse (not her real name) had been kept as a slave -- and where she had been forced to sleep with roughly 700 men a year.
We sat in Ruse's simple one-room apartment, where she took care of two younger brothers. Her bed was covered with a pink comforter decorated with cartoon tigers. Piled high on one end were pillows and blankets. On the wall hung a picture of her uncle and a Winnie the Pooh clock. It appeared as if Ruse was only now able to experience the childhood that was stolen from her.
She told us the story of her father's absence, her mother's illness, and Ruse's own desperate decision to sell the only thing of value that her family had -- her virginity -- to help her ailing mother.
Having sold it, however, Ruse had nothing left that her society valued. Like more than 30,000 women in cities across Cambodia, she was trapped in the brothel, selling her body for just $1 or $2. (Some experts estimate that there are up to 100,000 women trapped in this hidden underworld of sexual slavery.)
Ruse's life was suddenly changed on the day that the International Justice Mission and the police raided her brothel, freeing her from a life of forced sex. But her dramatic rescue doesn't explain how Ruse now lives in her own apartment, cares for her family, has a job, and is able to take English classes in hopes of earning an even better living in the future.
Rich Stearns, president of World Vision U.S. (in blue shirt), visits with Ruse at World Vision's trauma recovery center in Cambodia.
Like so many other components of fighting poverty, the rescue was just one step -- in this case, a very visible one -- in a long process. When we seek to lift people from the fires of evil and injustice, we need a whole bucket brigade of caring people who perform less dramatic, but no less important work.
Having been forced for many years to routinely have sex with often-abusive men, Ruse was in no shape to leave the brothel and begin life on her own. She was immediately counseled by World Vision and put into a group home alongside other women, all of whom had escaped the sex trade and were on the path to recovery. After roughly two years, Ruse received job training from World Hope. Now, she receives spiritual nurture from her Baptist church.
It's easy for us to get excited about the dramatic fight against poverty and injustice. We all like to hear the story of a woman rescued, or a gushing well irrigating arid farmland, or the medication that restores to health an HIV-positive mother.
Often, however, the real work is done when few people are looking. Water wells can bring instant relief to a suffering community. But the well itself isn't enough; it must be adequately maintained and repaired -- work that happens out of the spotlight but is absolutely essential. And although brothel raids provide instant relief from suffering, they don't actually rescue people unless they're followed by years of counseling and retraining.
If Ruse's story is like a precious vase that has been broken and glued back together, the solution isn't simply a matter of trying to restore the vase's original beauty. It's a matter of preventing the vase from being broken in the first place.
Prevention work is often the most difficult, because it requires us to address factors like culture, as well as a community's values, morals, and beliefs. In the end, it's often extremely difficult to tell whether or not you've been successful. After all, it's much easier to know when something happens -- such as a woman being rescued from a brothel -- than it is to know when something didn't happen but might have, such as a girl whose parents chose not to sell her into the sex trade.
Development work is often like an iceberg. The portion that we see -- that gets covered in the press or promoted online -- is just the tip of what we must do in order to transform lives. However, it is what's unseen that really makes a difference. Yes, brothel raids are often necessary. But I'd always rather see investment made in the less glamorous and hard work of prevention and long-term recovery.
What other important components of fighting poverty and injustice should receive more attention? Share your thoughts with us!
Make a one-time gift today to help provide hope for sexually exploited girls. Your donation will help deliver a wide range of interventions in the fight against this tragic practice, like safe shelter, medical care, informal education, vocational training, compassionate counseling, and more.
Also, contact your members of Congress today and express your support for the Trafficking Victims Protection Act. The most recent version of this federal legislation expired on September 30, 2011, and must be renewed immediately to keep the United States positioned as a leader in the fight against modern-day slavery around the world.


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Earlier this month we presented the card's Mike Kyle vs. Travis Wiuff fight, and today, we look at UFC veteran Rich Clementi's bout with fast-rising welterweight Quinn Mulhern.
The Feb. 12 HDNet-televised event gave Mulhern (8-1 at the time) a perfect opportunity to score a highly publicized win over an established veteran of 61 professional fights. Clementi (45-15-1), though, entered the fight with a three-fight win streak and three consecutive submission wins.
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The church is located at the intersection of State Highway 333 and Augsburg Road, north of London and northwest of Dover. The festival runs from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and the admission is free.
The festival will begin with a turkey shoot from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. and the second annual Tour de Augsburg Bike Ride also from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. Live musical entertainment will begin at 10 a.m.
Competition in the adult shoot will be with a 12-gauge shotgun. Shells will be provided. Cost of entry in each shoot will run from $2 to $20, depending on the value of the prize offered for that shoot. There will be eight shoots for adults. The grand prize will be a .22-magnum rifle.
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The target will be at a distance of 30 yards. For further information, contact Tony Waldo at 264-4549.
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Tickets for the beef drawing can be purchased before the festival by calling Earl Schrock at 331-3483 or Rusty Dorn 747-6676.
All day food will be available for purchase. Featured food is German bratwurst with sauerkraut served on a homemade bun, hot German potato salad and dessert.
The Augsburg Fall Fest Committee members invite everyone to join them for a day of fun, entertainment, and learning for the whole family.
All proceeds from the festival are equally divided between the River Valley Christian Clinic in Dardanelle, which provides free medical and dental services to the citizens of the Arkansas River Valley, and the Augsburg Food Pantry, which distributes food to those in need on the third Saturday of every month. In September, the Augsburg Food Pantry provided food for 488 people.


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Queens, N.Y.-based NY&A was the first railroad in the New York metro area to restore service after Hurricane Sandy struck the New York metropolitan area, including Long Island, on Oct. 29, 2012. "Thanks to the extraordinary efforts of our employees and remarkable support from the Long Island Rail Road, we were able to inspect tracks the next day and resume limited service to our customers just two days later," said NY&A President Paul Victor.
NY&A delivered cars of propane, as well as food and beverage items, to Long Island customers. "Normally the first train on the line was ours," Victor said. "There were no delays because there were no passenger trains anywhere." LIRR granted waivers allowing the NY&A to bring in heavier shipments of building products and clearing outbound shipments of debris.
NY&A won the "Most Improved Safety Record Award" for its demonstrated progress over a three-year period, as verified by the Federal Railroad Administration.
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Your Day 21 prompt is... (because this barmaid has just been in one)EDIT: I have to leave this in because it makes me LOL. I haven't literally been in a Yule Log, but one has been in me ...
Yule Log
Yule logs, in this competition, are a type of cake eaten at Christmas. Although there are many variations, they are basically a swiss roll covered in chocolate butter icing (frosting) and decorated to look as if it has been snowing, or whatever.
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Just 10 LBS
by Brad Lamm
In Just 10 LBS, intervention specialist Brad Lamm brings a fresh eye to weight loss, focusing not on the what of eating, but on the how and why. As a companion piece to The Dr. Oz Show's major, year-long initiative to change the health of America, this book discards the notion of overhauling life with the vague dream of being thin and challenges the reader to focus on losing just 10 pounds.
What Lamm understands is that managing weight isn't just about doing crunches, running miles, or cutting calories; in fact, one of the most powerful parts of success is generally overlooked — a healthy relationship with oneself is key to any weight-loss program. In Just 10 LBS, Lamm outlines ten easy steps to help readers heal their relationship with themselves and thus change their relationship with food, breaking destructive cycles of disordered and unhealthy eating.
Covering everything from body image to restrictive beliefs to developing a quiet, focusing daily practice, Lamm discusses all aspects of the emotional and self-esteem issues surrounding weight and food. And he puts them together into a 10-step program that begins with identifying your eating style—emotional eater, pleasure eater, energy eater, external eater, or critical eater—and ends with a discussion on the importance of "paying it forward," or giving back the gifts you've gotten. Also included is an action-oriented 30-day plan to help readers get a jump start on their weight-loss efforts.
The effective, easy-to-follow steps in Just 10 LBS will help readers reclaim their power over food; open emotional blockages that clutter their lives; and create a lifestyle that emphasizes the mind, body, emotions, relationships, and spirit.
I'm fascinated by how many people are seduced into believing a certain type of food is the reason behind their extra poundage. The French, Italians, and other cultures eat and enjoy delicious food without hysteria or much obesity, so why can't we?
We demonize and deify certain foods and have done so for quite some time. There are "good foods," "bad foods," and "really, super bad foods." And if we eat one of these, we are "bad" or "weak" people. Eating becomes a test of moral character.
Our struggles with what we think are the forces of good foods and evil foods have backfired. The so-called illegal foods become more and more alluring and suddenly you find yourself thinking about how you are going to sneak a bowl of pasta, which you have been told is almost as bad as doing drugs.
We're being irrational in our food beliefs. What we eat, or don't eat, certainly doesn't determine our character. As long as we tend to view food as good or bad, we will stay hopelessly chained to unhealthy feelings toward food—and toward ourselves, really.
We're also too obsessive in our food beliefs. While nutritional labeling is a wonderful public service, I think I read those labels more intently than Moses read the 10 Commandments. There was a time when I would spend 20 minutes in the grocery store comparing the fat content of various salad dressings.
High-octane diet gurus preach on and on about food being "fuel," but who do they think they're kidding? For human beings food is much more than fuel, and to ignore that fact is just plain crazy. Food is a source of physical nourishment, yes, but it's also a source of emotional sustenance, and it's supposed to be a pleasurable experience. But when the enjoyment of sitting down to a deliciously prepared meal is overridden by fear, guilt, or anxiety, there's a problem. A healthful diet is a critically important key component, but not the be all to end all of a healthy lifestyle. Mentally badgering ourselves over what we have eaten, should eat, or didn't eat is not doing our minds or bodies any good.
I love the idea of "Sweating to the Oldies" but if you're eating the same portions and volume that's got you heavy in the first place, it's unlikely you'll exercise yourself thin.
Food is a life-giving gift and if we can be strong and make the right choices, we win more than health. We win life. Look at food in this light—approach it nonjudgmentally—and you will be freed to savor each meal rather than overeating or undereating and thus experiencing the downward spiral that goes along with those behaviors. Your body and your life will improve dramatically when you realize that you must change your personal thinking about food, rather than the foods themselves.
More often than not, people with food conflicts believe that they are bad or unworthy. They feel inadequate and play down their gifts, talents, and abilities. They suffer under pessimism and low self-esteem and find it challenging to love themselves with consistency and vigor. Some of the dark, disempowering beliefs here include: "I'll never be able to lose weight," "I'm a weak person," "I'll never succeed in life," "I'm a bad person because I eat too much," "I am just big boned," "Momma was big, too," and "That pregnancy weight just won't come off."
Capability beliefs produce destructive "I can't" excuses. When you use the phrase "I can't" as an excuse, you send a negative, self-limiting message to your brain. Consciously, you might just pass it off as a simple excuse, but to your subconscious mind it sends a message about our abilities or inabilities. Telling yourself repeatedly that you can't do this, and can't do that, will have you believing that you can't do much of anything after a while.
How you view yourself and your capabilities definitely affects your weight and health. Research in the March 2005 Journal of the American Dietetic Association supports this assertion. Participants in a university weight-loss program all went on the same diet and exercise routine and received the same amount of support. The individuals in the group that was able to lose the most weight had a much stronger belief about being successful than their more pessimistic counterparts.
We filter so much through our capability beliefs, from the way we see ourselves in the mirror to an offhand comment a co-worker makes. If one of your capability beliefs is "I'm incompetent," experiences support that while those that contradict it are summarily discounted.
Everyone develops beliefs about who they are and what they can do. This is known as your self-concept. How much you like or don't like your self-concept is called self-esteem. People with low self-esteem may focus on appearance, weight, and dieting to try to feel better about themselves, but focusing on these things won't fix the bad feelings. It is important to remember that who you are and what you can accomplish in life is not defined by the shape and size of your body. It is defined by your thoughts, feelings, and actions.
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Pittsfield veterinarian's trip to Mexico to help save sea turtles satisfying
PITTSFIELD -- Dogs in southern coastal Mexico have it pretty good: A warm climate, plenty of rain water, lots of other dogs and really nice beaches to run wild on.
If you're a sea turtle egg or a hatchling leaving the nest and crossing the beach for the ocean, life is good, too -- as long as you don't become lunch before your maiden voyage. As fate would have it, baby sea turtles make tasty meals for dogs. At one point, the sea turtle population was threatened because so many dogs dined on them.
So 12 years ago, Richard Rodger, a Massachusetts veterinarian familiar with the southern Mexico Pacific coastal region, worked with other New England veterinarians to launch the Mazunte Turtle Project.
Dr. John Reynolds, a veterinarian at the Pittsfield Veterinary Hospital, recently returned from the latest annual excursion to the Mazunte area. That's where he and about a dozen other vets and technicians visited 15 villages to spay and neuter 304 dogs, an effort to stabilize the burgeoning dog population and the shrinking turtle population at the same time.
The vets and technicians have to pay their own way to a remote, rural community of Mazunte in the southern most tip of the country, in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. They arrived Jan. 3 and left Jan. 14.
In Mexico, Reynolds observed, few dogs are allowed in people's homes. Dogs and their owners are more like friends who share lunch every now and then. The dogs roam free, coming home for a meal and to check in with the humans on most days.
"It's a very different mentality regarding dog ownership," Reynolds said.
Naturally, these dogs tend to gather in groups of friends, and when the time is right they roam down to the beach for some fresh baby turtle. At the turn of the century, Reynolds said, it was not unusual to see packs of 30 or more dogs heading down the beach to scare up and scarf down baby turtles.
Since then, many in the small communities around Mazunte have taken up the cause of protecting the turtles, Reynolds said, by getting their dogs "fixed" and by collecting disposable containers that often might end up on the beach or in the ocean, where they can cause damage or death when swallowed by a turtle.
Mazunte is also the home of Centro Mexicana del Tortuga, the National Mexican Turtle Center, a museum and research center focused on the sea turtle.
The vets experienced plenty of support from the local folks. And even when they were not working, they were approached by people whose dogs were suffering some ailment. The vets would stop what they were doing and help out when they could, Reynolds said.
For the spay/neuter clinics, they would set up whatever surgical tables they could with the materials at hand. One was made with brick legs and a section of corrugated metal roofing for the table top. For shelter they would work outdoors under the overhang of a building's entryway, for example.
The dogs are largely unaccustomed to being extensively handled by humans. So they had to be muzzled and sedated right away.
"They're not used to being touched -- they're very fearful of being touched and have not been socialized," Reynolds said.
The owners typically stood nearby watching the entire procedure, chatting with their friends and neighbors. When school let out, kids would swarm the open air surgical tables, watching the Americano vets performing surgery.
Lots of antibiotics were administered -- it was not the most sterile of operating facilities. The vets and techs had to shoo flies away from the open wounds during surgery, Reynolds noted.
All the dogs were also treated for intestinal parasites, ticks, and any others ailments they might have had.
"We were not worried about these dogs," Reynolds recalled. "You know these dogs are going to be fine because they're just so tough."
By spaying or neutering 304 dogs, more than 2,000 offspring have been avoided for this year alone. So annual visits like this can make a significant impact on the rural canine population, Reynolds said.
The service was so popular this year, that by the end of the 10-day trip, the vets had to turn folks away because they had used all their supplies.
This was Reynolds' first trip for the Mazunte Turtle Project, but it won't be his last.
"We were helping people, helping turtles and helping dogs," Reynolds said. "We were having fun, doing what we love, eating great food and hanging around a beautiful beach. What could be better? I can't wait to go again next year."
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San Juan Range > Climber's Log
San Juan Range Climber's Log
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|Favourite Range!
Date Climbed: Aug 25, 2014
|Been on so many hiking and climbing trips down here, I can't remember. Excellent off-roading and photography as well.
|Posted Nov 14, 2017 1:12 am
|First of hopefully many trips
Date Climbed: Dec 21, 2016
|Did some ice climbing for my first adventure into the San Juans. Too much fresh snow to grab a peak, but I will hopefully be back. Very remote and beautiful.
|Posted Jan 16, 2017 10:47 am
|Rocky Alps
|Best of Colorado
|Hiked Mount Sneffels and explored around Ouray the first time, then explored around Silverton the next time with a family hike of Ice Lake Basin. The San Juans are definitely my favorite range in Colorado, and there are still many hikes I'd like to come back and do in the future.
|Posted Sep 11, 2016 1:34 am
|Our new home after 15 years of climbing in the North Cascades. Fun, beautiful mountains right next door to the desert! Pure vida
|Posted Aug 2, 2015 10:33 am
|San Juan's Easy Access
|One of the easiest ranges to get into and out of.
Awesome grouping of mountains.
|Posted Mar 3, 2015 1:36 pm
|The best
Date Climbed: Jun 15, 2014
|Most beautiful and spectacular mountain range in Colorado.
|Posted Jun 15, 2014 11:07 pm
|More views..,
|then one could hope to see in a lifetime!
|Posted Nov 10, 2013 11:22 am
|King Daddy of CO ranges
|From day hikes to car camping to backpacking.... Can't beat the San Juan Range. Courthouse Mountain was my first climb there. Explored Noname Basin last summer.
|Posted Sep 27, 2013 6:43 am
|many visits
|many hikes and many visits, we basically live in San Juans.
|Posted Dec 9, 2012 9:29 pm
|Seven 14ers In Eight Days
Date Climbed: Sep 4, 2010
|Took a motorcycle trip visiting 5 Colorado ranges and climbing 7 peaks. I'll be back for more some day.
|Posted Nov 14, 2012 11:43 pm
|Liba Kopeckova
|my favorite mountains
|I live close to San Juans and this is my favorite range. I did hike numerous trails and peaks here, many overnights, ski trips and ice climbs.
|Posted Nov 5, 2012 10:35 am
|Saint John's Mountains are bathed in glory
|Baptize your soul in the American Alps.. The Sulfur Range.
|Posted Aug 20, 2012 2:11 pm
|Golden Horn
|Thunderstorm around 9 am but cliembed successful
|Posted Jun 26, 2012 10:21 pm
|Pentitente Canyon
|This area has some nice trad routes - easily accessible from Hwy 285, on the eastern edge of the San Juans. Great day trip from the Sangres, or make a week of it - you choose!
|Posted Jan 18, 2012 11:31 pm
|Distinctive Range
Date Climbed: Aug 10, 2011
|I'm starting to explore this range and it is very distinctive!
|Posted Nov 24, 2011 8:58 am
|oh, the san juans!
|are my favorite colorado mountain range, and the grenadiers are my favorite section of this massive collaboration of mountains.
|Posted Aug 15, 2011 1:26 pm
|Awesome range
|Posted Jan 5, 2011 9:05 pm


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"I think both sex and death are eternal themes," says Pedro Almodovar, the renowned Spanish filmmaker who's once again chosen to explore both topics in his latest cinematic work, "Los amantes pasajeros" – or as it's titled in English, "I'm So Excited."
"I think you could make thousands of movies on these themes," he continues ahead of the film's release in the United States on June 28. "If you don't have any of these artistic expressions, sex is one of the only gifts that our nature gave us for free, so it is very important to celebrate it. And then, with death – we are condemned to that. This is absolutely present in our lives."
Almodovar admits that he tries to consider both topics from a very free point of view in his work, but struggles to come at them without baggage or barriers. "With sex, I think I can manage with that," he chuckles. "With death…this is a more difficult theme for me. I'm not a believer even though I'm baptized – I don't practice, I don't believe in God, so I feel really very alone facing death…"
"When I made 'Matador,' I tried to discover myself dealing with this theme, and what I discovered is that the only way for me to recognize death is just if it were part of life, if you link it with sexual pleasure…Death is there, everywhere. But I feel like a child: I cannot really understand why this cycle is like it is."
Perhaps that's why after a recent period of work that drew inspiration from noir potboilers, thrillers, horror films, ghost stories and the stylized, baroque storytelling that characterizes those forms, the 63-year-old writer-director chose to confront those enduring sex and death through-lines with laughter and a light comedic touch that harks back to his earliest works.
"I think really all the films that you make, whether you realize it or not, are part of a chain and they're all linked together in one way or another," he says, unblinkingly embracing the thematic ties between his works in ways that other filmmakers often recoil from.
"I am conscious that this is almost the opposite movie of 'The Skin I Live In' or 'Broken Embraces' or 'Volver,' but I identified very much with it – I mean, it belongs more to the decade of the '80s when I started making movies. I think I wanted to recover my youth or to recover that kind of explosion of freedom that we experimented with in Spain and in Madrid after Franco died and the new democracy arrived."
By the time he finished shooting the film, he says, he realized that in a way, "I'm So Excited" was a kind of a tribute film – "not to my career, but to the decade of the '80s in Spain. Spain has changed a lot, for worse – for much worse now. The whole world has changed, and also I'm 33 years older than I was in the 80s. I think I missed that atmosphere that we lived in, in Madrid of the early 80s."
Unlike many of his previous films which have largely focused on one or two characters, "I'm So Excited" centers around multiple characters and multiple plots, but pushes them all together in a single space – almost all of the action occurs on a Spanish airliner where the passengers and crew's personal dramas come to a head when they realize the jet may face a catastrophic fate.
The filmmaker found inspiration using the severe economic crisis in Spain as a background element that would also have metaphoric importance without, he believes, a heavy-handed message.
"In this movie, there is a metaphor about the Spanish society – you don't need to see that, but it is there," he says. "That fear and uncertainty are both feelings that I experience in my country and I feel it represents the Spanish society. We are frightened of what is happening. We need an emergency landing. We also are traveling in a circle without knowing exactly what will be or where we will find the right place to land."


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Location: Dairy Forage ResearchTitle: Yield and nutritive value differences among cool-season grasses Author
Submitted to: Forage and Grazinglands
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 6/5/2012
Publication Date: 6/28/2012
Publication URL: http://handle.nal.usda.gov/10113/56493
Citation: Brink, G.E., Casler, M.D. 2012. Yield and nutritive value differences among cool-season grasses. Forage and Grazinglands. DOI:10.1094/FG-2012-0619-01-RS. Interpretive Summary: Because grasses lose nutritive value as they mature, pasture management is often a balancing act between letting the plants grow long enough for adequate growth but not so long that the nutritive value declines appreciably. The leaf portion of a grass has more nutrient value than the stem, and livestock prefer to consume the leaf portion; but the leaf's contribution to forage growth depends on the type of grass and season of the year. Depending on the location, a wide variety of cool-season grasses are used in pastures. We conducted a study to determine what differences in growth and nutritive value exist among the grasses typically grown in the Northeastern and Midwestern United States. These grasses were grown in two different environments and sampled during the spring, summer, and fall. We found that nutritive value of grass leaves declines slightly in the spring, but changes little during the summer and fall. The production of stems during the spring was the primary factor contributing to the increase in yield and decline in quality of the total forage. Meadow fescue and timothy generally maintained the highest nutritive value. Depending on livestock nutrition needs, producers should utilize most grasses before appreciable stems are produced in the spring. Pasture management during the remainder of the season can be flexible because nutritive value changes very little. This information will help grazing-based livestock producers better manage their pasture grasses for both adequate growth and nutritive value.
Technical Abstract: Grasses are typically utilized at a vegetative stage of maturity under managed intensive rotational grazing. We compared the yield and nutritive value of the leaf and stem fraction, and total herbage of eight erect-growing, perennial cool-season grasses during 30-day intervals in the spring, summer, and fall at two Wisconsin locations. Total herbage production of all grasses was greatest during the spring, as expected, but, with the exception of smooth bromegrass, differences in leaf yield were relatively small. During the summer and fall, endophyte-infected and endophyte-free tall fescue produced the greatest leaf yield, and quackgrass and smooth bromegrass the least. Significant leaf crude protein (CP) concentration differences among the eight grasses occurred during the spring, summer, and fall, but leaf CP of all grasses exceeded 16% and any differences would likely be inconsequential. Lowest neutral detergent fiber (NDF) and greatest NDF digestibility were measured in leaves of meadow fescue or timothy. Because yield differences among these grasses during the spring can be attributed primarily to the stem fraction, and spring yield constitutes a large proportion of annual yield, a producer's perception of value to a grazing system may be biased by total yield estimates. The greater nutritive value of grasses like meadow fescue must be balanced against slightly lower productivity.


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Man Won't Let Cops or Fires Stop Him From Eating His Taco Bell
After drinking enough to allegedly register a .227 on a blood alcohol content test, Florida person Matthew Falkner went to a Jensen Beach Taco Bell, ordered some tacos, then passed out in his pick-up truck while waiting in the drive-thru—just like you sometimes do! Taco Bell drive-thrus are comforting.
According to a police report posted by TCPalm, a Taco Bell manager called the cops after noticing that "[Falkner's] head was face down," and that his "engine was revving and there was smoke coming out of the engine and underneath the vehicle." When 5-0 arrived, they found an "unresponsive" Falkner. One officer reached into the truck, pulled Falkner's foot off the gas pedal, turned off the engine, and—after a few tries—finally woke him up. Then:
[The officer] asked the driver what he was doing and the driver stared at both of us with a blank stare. I asked the driver if he knew he fell asleep with his foot on the gas pedal and he stated he didn't know. The driver looked ahead, then began to fumble with his Taco Bell bag. He seemed not to care that there were Deputies out with him.
Aw, Falkner was just playing it cool. Unfortunately, the officers smelled alcohol and asked him for ID. Falkner allegedly responded by saying "no"—police officers' favorite word!—then "stared" at one of the officers "with a blank stare" again, took out a taco, and began eating it. "[An officer] advised the driver that we did not in fact ask for a taco, but that we asked for his identification," states the report. The officers did the breath test and arrested Falkner for DUI. At least he got to eat his food.
The next time something similar happens to you, offer to walk for the cops. They can identify you that way.


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I'm generally a "lurker" here, and I've been following this thread pretty much since it started (which also prompted me to visit the MM we have here in Tempe). I've thoroughly enjoyed observing the effort and passion you guys put into it - "geekness" and all
Norma,In Reply 870, you indicated that you had made a four dough ball batch, with the intention to use same at market today. Did you actually use them all today, and did you offer your MM clone for sale? BTW, which MM clone dough formulation did you use?Peter
Also interesting to hear the very nice side effect of your experiment was that you produced your best tasting pizza in this thread.
Norma,It is hard to say if that was the best pizza I made in the course of this thread but it certainly was one of the best. I had a reheated leftover slice for lunch today and it was still good. Of the other MM clones, I though the one with all Grandma's Original molasses and one with honey and Grandma's Original molasses and one with raw cane sugar (Turbinado) and Grandma's Original molasses were also very good. My notes say that the honey/Grandma's Original molasses version was the closest to what I recall of the MM pizza I had in Florida. However, the one I made yesterday with all Brer Rabbit Full Flavor molasses had a lot of the characteristics of an MM pizza, but for the color and flavor (the flavor of yesterday's pizza was more pronounced).BTW, while I was out shopping today, I checked out the oils in two supermarkets, one a high-end supermarket and the other a low-end supermarket, and I could not find any cottonseed oils. I know that cottonseed oils can be bought online but it seems that supermarkets do not carry them for some reason. As I mentioned before, I don't think it matters all that much what oil is used to make an MM clone dough. It may well be that MM is using a commercial product that has specs that are a bit different than the ones I looked at recently at the nutritiondata.self.com website. This project has certainly taught us a lot about a lot of things, hasn't it?Peter
Norma,I found a product that you might find useful and want to sample if you decide to make MM clone pizzas at market. It is called Whirl. I first heard of that product when one of our members who went on to become a professional pizza operator with his own pizzeria reported over at the PMQ Think Tank that he used Whirl in one of the dough formulations that he took from our forum to his business. Whirl is a liquid butter-flavored product that, among other uses, can be brushed on the rim of a baked pizza crust. However, there is no real butter, or even margarine, in the product. It is basically an oil-based product, using either soybean oil or a high oleic sunflower oil with soybean lecithin. There is even a "butter"/garlic version of Whirl that is made of a vegetable oil with artificial and natural garlic flavor. You can read more about the Whirl products at http://www.stratasfoods.com/brandOverview.aspx?brand_id=39, including the links toward the bottom right of the page. Naturally, it did occur to me that MM might be using a Whirl product, especially since it a time saver, it is fluid and pourable at room temperature, it does not require refrigeration and it is about half the cost of butter. However, after studying the MM Allergens pdf document at http://mellowmushroom.com/public/allergens102411.pdf, I could not find any evidence of the use of a Whirl product. For example, the Butter & Garlic base (at page 7) that is used to brush the rims of pizzas and one of the pretzel options (the butter and salt option) is indicated as having a "Milk" component, most likely the milk component of real butter. Also, where a product includes soybean lecithin, the MM Allergens document so indicates in the Soy column. Further, if you look at the MM Dustin YouTube video, at about 0:35 at , you will see what appears to be melted butter with the milk solids separated out at the bottom of the contaner. The grated parmesan cheese is in a separate small bowl. If the Whirl product is of any interest to you, there is a "Send me a FREE SAMPLE" button at http://www.todayswhirl.com/index.htm.BTW, there is no reason why a Whirl product can't also be used on your preferment Lehmann pizzas at market. If you get the version with the sunflower oil, that is a good oil from a nutritional and health standpoint. Peter
Norma,You may recall that one of the unsolved mysteries about the MM pizzas is that some of the rims look shiny. I was looking at one of the MM videos again, at , and I noticed in that video that a worker to the right of the oven is shown applying something to the baked pizza with a brush, most likely the garlic butter base. The grated parmesan cheese is in a shaker. However, if you look more closely, you will see that the worker also looks to be using the brush to transfer what I would imagine are fats or oils from the middle of the pizza to the rim. If that is what he is doing, I can see how the rims might have a shine to them. If the rims are coated with butter before oils or fats from the middle of the pizza are added, the butter can serve as a barrier to the oils and fats and create a shine on the rim.Peter
Do you now think the fats from the pizza make the shiny crust which has eluded us until now? That could be the link we have been missing.


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Of Grudem, Green Dragons And Dr. Seuss: The Religious Right's War On Environmentalism
Sunday is Earth Day, a time when a lot of us will be thinking about how we can better care for our planet to ensure it remains habitable for future generations.
Well, not all of us. Some people will be thinking about how the Bible says it's all right to pretty much do whatever we want with the Earth and not worry about a thing.


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Drugs burning ceremony opens meeting on NATO-Russia counter-narcotics training project
High-level representatives from countries involved in the NATO-Russia Council (NRC) counter-narcotics training initiative gathered in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on Tuesday 26 June, to chart the future course of the project.
The meeting opened with a drugs burning ceremony to mark the UN International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. 1,650 tons of drugs, including 499 kilos of heroin and 597 kilos of opium, seized by graduates of the NRC training initiative, were burned in the ceremony organized by the Uzbek government.
The sixth high-level steering session was attended by representatives of the project's NRC donor countries and Ukraine, and the beneficiary countries – Afghanistan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Pakistan - as well as staff from NATO and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). The session focused on the future of the project and provided a forum for discussion about lessons learnt from the project so far.
"It was a valuable opportunity to mark our achievements, but more importantly to chart our course going forward," says Radoslava Stefanova, Chair of the Executive Steering Committee. "We need to ensure that this important project maintains its momentum and builds upon the strong foundation we have created for strengthening counter-narcotics capacity across the region".
The meeting provided an excellent opportunity for the beneficiary countries to share their views on the training provided by this NRC project. This is important for NRC donor nations to understand where the project is fulfilling real needs, and where it can do more. Exchanges from the meeting will be central to the roadmap for the future of the project being developed by the UNODC.
Working together to combat the threat of narcotics
The threat from narcotics is a serious threat to global security which is more effectively addressed by working together.
The NRC Counter-Narcotics Training Project is a key joint effort to combat counter-narcotics trafficking by building up regional capacity in Afghanistan, Central Asia and Pakistan. The project is a joint endeavour of several countries of the NRC (Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States), as well as non-NRC nations Finland and Ukraine, plus the project's beneficiary countries: Afghanistan, the Central Asian nations and Pakistan.
"Since its start in 2006, NATO-Russia Council nations have been providing training to counter-narcotics officers from Afghanistan, the Central Asian nations and, since 2010, Pakistan," explains Radoslava Stefanova. "The training continues to take place at fixed training sites in Russia, Turkey and the United States as well as in mobile training workshops throughout the Central Asian region."
The NRC counter-narcotics training project aims to build regional capacity by providing tactical training on counter-narcotics to officers from the region. As well as training courses at fixed centres and mobile training in the region, a first mentoring project began at the Anti-Narcotics Forces Academy in Islamabad at the end of 2011. The project also provides valuable networking opportunities between counter-narcotics agencies across the region, which in turn facilitate closer cooperation and encourage a regional approach to combating narcotics trafficking.
Since its start in 2006, the project has proved its value. It has shown tangible results against the drugs trade and trainees have been involved in significant drugs seizures across the region. In 2010, Pakistan joined the project and in 2011, the second independent evaluation of the project concluded that it remains relevant, unique in scope, and is fulfilling a real need. By April 2012, 2000 officers had been trained under the project.
At the meeting in Tashkent, Uzbekistan's representative highlighted how this NRC initiative has helped strengthen his country's capacity to counter drug trafficking. "Seventy officers trained under the project have been promoted in service and 36 officers have been shifted to executive positions. Our trainees have participated in the larger seizures made in 2011 (5, 404 kilos)," he said.


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The man who hired Jodi Arias to model his clothing line talked with HLN's Nancy Grace on Thursday night, detailing how Arias at first seemed smart and bubbly, but became more distant as their working relationship progressed.
Paul O'Keefe discovered Arias when she was his waitress, and was so taken by the "All-American blonde" that he and his partners offered her a job modeling for their clothing line. O'Keefe told Grace that Arias at first seemed very bright, but became more aloof after they arrived in Las Vegas for a trade show, preferring to take photographs on her own.
O'Keefe also revealed that Arias discussed her relationship, calling it "rocky" and claiming that she was not being treated right. Jodi Arias has accused ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander of physical assault and emotional abuse since taking the stand in her murder trial. Arias and her defense team claim that Alexander's killing was self-defense, although Arias' stories have changed numerous times. Immediately following Alexander's murder in June, 2008 Arias claimed she was not involved, but later claimed to witness two intruders break in and kill Alexander.
O'Keefe told Nancy Grace producers that Arias "seemed like she was all over the place with her relationships". He continued, "She seemed socially awkward… After it happened we all kind of said we weren't that surprised. We all thought she was a little bit kooky."


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Jimi Hendrix recorded an huge amount of music during his short lifetime, and in the four decades since his passing, there have been a mind-boggling number of releases bearing his name, as well as films, magazine articles and books.
When the Jimi Hendrix Estate commissioned Bob Smeaton to direct Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train A Comin', a documentary set to air this week (November 5) as part of PBS's American Masters series, he had a question for Experience Hendrix CEO/President Janie Hendrix (Jimi's sister) and John McDermott (Hendrix biographer).
"I asked, 'What's gonna be different?'" he tells Radio.com. "John McDermott said, 'I think we need to find out as much as we can about the man.'" That editorial direction led to a different kind of Hendrix documentary, one that dug a little deeper for unseen footage, and focused more on the man behind his backwards guitar.
Which is what Smeaton wanted. He's done a number of Hendrix documentaries in the past (including Live At Woodstock, Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child and Band Of Gypsys) as well as The Beatles Anthology and a couple of episodes of the Classic Albums DVD series. He knew that this Hendrix documentary had to be different, if only to appeal to the PBS audience. It couldn't just talk about his music, it had to also speak to the man himself.
He also knew he had to appeal to die-hard fans and those who aren't as familiar with Hendrix's entire catalog. "We found a lot of footage no one had seen," said Smeaton, "and interviewed people who were never interviewed before, like some of the women in the film, his schoolfriends, his uncle."
This marked a slight change from past Hendrix films, as former girlfriends hadn't been included in projects commissioned by the Hendrix Estate. Janie Hendrix has been famously protective of her brother's image, to the point of being accused of whitewashing his story of all sex and drugs, and sticking only with rock and roll.
Smeaton worked with her on his prior Hendrix projects."She is protective, and that's her call. It's not a secret that she's very protective of Jimi's image." To be fair, the other Hendrix films that Smeaton worked on centered on an event or an era, such as Live At Woodstock and Band Of Gypsys. Whereas Hear My Train A Comin' is about the man's life, and that story had to be told by the people who actually knew him.
Some of those women interviewed included Linda Keith (who introduced Jimi to future manager Chas Chandler), Faye Pridgeon (who "befriended" Hendrix in Harlem in the early 1960s) and Colette Mimram (one of the era's most influential fashion trendsetters who helped Hendrix develop his "look").
Smeaton points out, "If you're going to interview the women from back then, Hendrix had relationships with these women. You don't have to go into the details, but you cannot deny their attraction to Hendrix. Linda Keith knew him before he was famous. And she said even before he became famous, he had this magnetism. And I thought, 'Well, she had the hots for the guy.' But Faye Pridgeon said the exact same thing. She met him in Harlem in '64, '65, when he was just a struggling guy trying to make it. Anyone who gets famous becomes attractive to women. But Jimi had that magnetism before he was famous!"
The film doesn't get too salacious — it is being produced for PBS, after all — and Smeaton says that his editorial direction was to talk to people who knew Hendrix, and let them tell their stories: "John McDermott said, 'Look Bob, if there's people who knew Jimi really well, and they want to say stuff, we won't stop them from saying it. Or if [Jimi] says something on film, we will use it. But what we don't want to do in this film is to get people who never met the guy paying lip service to what they read in books."
The film does speak to some of the usual suspects from the Hendrix mythos: there are interviews with Chas Chandler, Hendrix's producer Eddie Kramer and Band Of Gypsys bassist Billy Cox, plus archival interviews with late Experience members Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell. There's also mega-fans Vernon Reid of Living Colour and Dweezil Zappa, as well as Billy Gibbons, who opened for Hendrix in his pre-ZZ Top band the Moving Sidewalks.
Traffic members Steve Winwood and Dave Mason both appear in the film; Mason played acoustic guitar on "All Along The Watchtower," while Winwood played organ on "Voodoo Chile." But the big "get" that brings the film to the next level is Paul McCartney. He describes going to see Hendrix at a club, where Jimi performed the Beatles' then-new song "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band" just days after it was released. That's cool in and of itself. Even better is the fact that viewers get to see footage, including the reaction of both McCartney and John Lennon who were in the audience. In his interview, McCartney talks extensively and candidly about Hendrix.
— Brian Ives, Radio.com


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SNOW HILL — In a case of "who watches the watchmen," one Worcester County Commissioner is pushing for the county's Ethics Board to be included in the list of agencies affected by the new ethics law.
"I just think they ought to be included … to me it just makes sense," said Commissioner Virgil Shockley.
Legislation passed by the Maryland General Assembly last year is forcing counties to amend their current ethics laws to be at least equivalent to, if not stricter than, the standard state law.
"The bottom line is that the state ethics law has always been more stringent than what was required of counties," said county attorney Sonny Bloxom.
It was Bloxom's job to draft appropriate changes to the county's former ethics law in order to bring it up to code. However, he informed the commission that the changes are relatively minor.
The ethics law covers everything from dealing with conflict of interest to use of prestige of office to solicitation and acceptance of gifts, among other issues. The main changes, according to Bloxom, are about elected officials and selected employees need to make financial disclosures.
"These things will be on record," he said.
Also mentioned in Bloxom's draft is the county Ethics Board, which is the entity responsible for reviewing complaints lodged against officials and employees suspected of ethics violations. The board is appointed by the commissioners and advised by the county attorney.
"That board is the complaint source," said Shockley.
Because of its authority and involvement in investigating possible ethics violations, Shockley argued that it was only logical that the board adhere to the same rules.
"To me, holding the ethics board to the same principles and standards … it's not even something I have a question about," Shockley said. "This is a jury of your peers."
Besides Shockley's concern, Commissioner Louise Gulyas felt the new, stricter law was somewhat invasive.
"They don't need to know everything about me," she said.
However, Gulyas called the law "a necessary evil" and should serve to keep "everybody basically honest."
Bloxom reminded the commission the law needs to be on the books by Oct. 1 and thus should be reviewed quickly.
"It's got to be passed," he said.
The law will be revisited on Sept. 20 at a hearing where any further concerns can be discussed, including a possible expansion of the law to include the ethics board.


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Friday, May 16, 2014
(Washington, DC) The Department of Public Works announced today it is resuming street sweeping in the 2100 block of O Street, NW now that construction is completed. Additionally, parking enforcement will resume there to ensure the curb lane is clear of parked vehicles so the sweepers can do their job.
DPW will continue to notify the public about other areas where street sweeping is suspended due to construction and when sweeping resumes once construction is completed.


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Our OL could be much better by guys just playing better, this was the same unit that was really good in 2010. Brick can play like a elite LT, that will help big time. Moore can play like a top tier RG, which would help big time. Hunter can get more consistent, which would help. Mangold staying healthy will help.
We needed to take a pass rusher period, the Jets felt like Coples was the guy so we'll see.


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Empowering deserving military families with educational support and opportunities.
Thought this might be nice to let other community members know about, last year a group of guys that all go on a golf trip together created a group on www.oobgolf.com. Its a really neat way to keep up with guys that you might not get to play with very often to see where they are playing and what they are scoring. Its super easy to set up and there are a lot of options wtih it.
Thanks for the tip CW
Another place to do similar stuff is on Facebook at Golf Nation. It's connected to golf.com, and lets you score your rounds, plot fairways, greens, putts, and such. Also gives you back a handicap.
Appreciate the tip.
Thanks for the post, good site.
Good info guys, thanks for the heads up.
Great info Thanks
Also forgot to mention that those of you who sport a iphone or blackberry both have applications to link stats and scores directly to oob, its pretty nice easy way to keep track of your stats.
went to the site and checked it out, very informative and could be very useful in finding new places to play and local people to give input...


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"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart." ~William Wordsworth
girl, fifteen. an autumn baby. short, brunette, blue eyes. loves to read, write. doesn't mind school, ambitious. wants to be a librarian someday, even though people look at her funny when she says that. sophomore in high school. wants to go to a college nobody's ever heard of. kind of shy, pretty laid back. has been in a relationship with the most amazing man in the world since 9-19-09 b29;. loves her friends and family more than anything else. gets along with just about anybody. would love to get to know you :)


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Controllers of the infamous Conficker worm released another update recently, shifting its update strategy towards a completely different direction. It no longer needs to check a web page to receive updates, as it can now receive them directly from other infected computers.
Additions to a lengthy, in-depth analysis of the worm by research institute SRI's Malware Threat Center indicate that a new variant of Conficker was spotted on February 16, which it dubbed "Conficker B++" pending a further review of its capabilities.
Previously, computers infected with Conficker A and B – also known under the names Downadup or Kido – frequently check for updates from a randomly-generated list of 250 internet domains, which is synchronized and updated regularly between the entire Conficker botnet. Efforts from the Microsoft-led Conficker Cabal appear to have foiled this technique: the randomization algorithm was successfully reverse-engineered, prompting Microsoft and the Cabal to secure every domain the group expects the botnet to hit.
In response, Conficker B++ completely removes the need to check for updates, moving instead towards a structure that resembles a peer-to-peer filesharing network. A URL pointing to updated Conficker code – or a patched version of the Conficker binary – can be sent directly to infected machines through a pair of new backdoors that B++ opens.
SRI notes that while older versions of Conficker also had the ability to accept updates in this fashion, its implementation behaved in such a way that made recognizing the process a trivial affair for anti-malware software.
Conficker's controllers, in an effort to prevent competing hackers from delivering patches of their own, digitally sign the entire update process.
Compared to the upgrade from Conficker A to Conficker B, writes SRI, the changes that Conficker B++ introduces appear to be a relatively "minor". In-house metrics indicate that Conficker B++ had an "86.4% similarity" to Conficker B, with the update only modifying three of the original version's 297 subroutines and adding an additional 39.
Conficker has become such a problem for businesses that Microsoft recently placed a $250,000 bounty on its creators, offering a share of the reward to anyone who can help track them down. In January, the worm spread so fast it infected 8 million business computers within a week.


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Every year I get asked the same question before Valentine's Day, "What is the easiest way of finding someone so I can enjoy Valentine's Day with someone?"
You might think I would recommend my services at Maureen Tara Nelson Private Matchmaking as the only way to be successful, but I never do that.
In fact, I suggest to all single people that you first start the dating process on your own, and I will also give some helpful suggestions on how to make it easier on yourself to be successful.
I recommend giving yourself six months on your own. If you take my advice, and you are lucky, you hopefully will find someone on your own.
After six months of trying, if you are still single and are running into the same obstacles that most singles do during the dating process, then I suggest speeding up the process and making it much easier for yourself. Come in for your free consultation and see for yourself if we can help you.
In my now 12 years of matchmaking, I have over 1,000 success stories of people just like yourself who are very happy they came in and let me do the work for them. But again, first give yourself six months of trying to meet Mr./Ms. Right on your own.
Here are some helpful suggestions that will hopefully make it easier for you:
When you are ready for a committed relationship, let everyone you know you are ready and looking for someone who shares the same interests as you.
Make sure you are at a healthy and happy place in your life. You need to love yourself first before someone else can love you.
Be sure you are portraying yourself in a positive light. (No one likes someone who is negative.)
Stop looking for perfection. No one is perfect, not even you.
Decide on the five most important attributes your partner must have.
(If someone doesn't posses something which is number seven on your list let it go; you are being too picky.)
Always leave the house looking and feeling your best. Confidence is a huge turn-on.
Do not get disappointed if you are not successful in your own search for six months. It truly is very difficult for everyone to find the right person.
For a match to be "made in heaven" you must have two characteristics. You need to be compatible with one another, and you need to have chemistry with each other.
Does that sound easy? Yes, but in reality the typical "single person" who is successful, attractive, funny, faithful and loyal is usually also very busy with his/her job and tired after work. In my program I find that my singles go to work and then just go home. They do not want to find someone in the bar scene.
If you meet someone in a bar, typically one of you is going to want to continue that activity of going out and drinking. While most people think they will just go to a bar to find someone and then once they do, they'll both stop going to bars and spend time together, usually that's not the case.
Either one or both of the people that meet in bars wish to continue hanging out in them. So you need to tell yourself, if you do not wish to spend your time together in bars, then don't go to bars to meet someone.
Then there is the very dangerous internet, where almost everyone "lies." Sure, you might get a lot of "hits" in the beginning if you show an outdated picture of when you were younger, and you might shave five years off your age, but once you meet the person, it typically ends up being a one date scenario.
You need to be honest with yourself and realize this isn't going to get you want you want – that is, if you are looking for a committed relationship. When you are ready to find the right person, using the internet is a big waste of time.
My clients come to me because they don't have any extra time, and they certainly don't want to waste it dating the wrong people.
What can you expect if you come in for your complimentary appointment with my service?
Number one is the truth. We offer you a free consultation because we will let you know honestly if we feel we can make you successful or not.
Who wouldn't qualify? Someone who is unrealistic, negative, conceited, disrespectful and not ready for a committed relationship/or marriage.
Who will qualify? Someone who is a nice, decent, quality person, successful, realistic and open to our advice, financially and emotionally successful. Also, you must be looking for a committed relationship/ or marriage.
For more information on the services of Maureen Tara Nelson, Private Matchmaking, check out mtnmatchmaking.com.


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Yesterday I got my robot's wheels turning. Now I am working my way through the programming of the driver software and the ultrasonic range finder. After I do a little more mounting my robot will be complete (Took me long enough :) )...
I might post some images to my blog (http://briansrobotics.blogspot.com)
In other news I have recently created a SourceForge project. It's called Getix (dx-voice-conf). Getix uses Direct X extensions for voice conferencing. The goal of this project is to create a program (for Windows) that will allow lobbiable multi-user voice conferencing over LAN or the Internet.
You can check it out at https://sourceforge.net/projects/dx-voice-conf/ and the project HomePage at http://dx-voice-conf.sourceforge.net/


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I guess we are on our way to 8 wins out of the next 10 games
I guess we are on our way to 8 wins out of the next 10 games
Well we have to go to Indy and show them this game tonight was no fluke... Hammer them again
Bout time we had a quality thread.
OMG Nash is amazing. His fifth assist was spectacular.
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I left out the images on your quote for the sake of our bandwidthly challenged brethren...very nice though bro.
I hope you all like my new sig BTW.
@ClydeFacts "When one of his ladys asked clyde why he doesnt text he said if you dont get the message by now a phone aint gonna help." Except for Kate. Wobble Wobble!
Hey guys just a reminder, there are kids watching these threads, nudity is inappropriate for a public game thread. Make a separate thread for those things, maybe even a sticky.
Nash with seven assists in the first quarter.
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This is the best I could find on short notice. There is a whole photoshoot of this, Rosie Jones is in it also I believe. They have a foam Knicks hand and stuff...


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Start Losing Weight Day One
Today is the day that I start recording the steps I am undertaking on the road to a slimmer and healthier person. I will write down my goals for all to see and make a daily record in the blog on what I have done for the day toward achieving that goal. As this is the first post, I need to put down my starting weight so that you can see my progress. I will weigh in once a week, every week until I reach my goal.
Starting Weight: 97.2 Kilograms - 213.8 lbs
Goal Weight: 75 kilos - 165 lbs
Desired Weight Loss = 22.2 kilos - 48.8 lbs
Finish Date: 06/30/2008
Well there it is. I have put that all down and now you can see if I keep to my word. If there ever was motivation for losing weight, then telling the world what you are about to do is certainly way up there.
It feels good to write down your goals and make a firm decision to undertake any life changing event. If you want to save money, find a new job or lose weight, like I an doing, write down all your goals so that you know firmly what you want to achieve. You may not have to go to the trouble of starting a blog to tell the world, but show what you want to achieve to your partner or a close friend so they can support you. It's easier if you have somebody in your corner to keep you motivated and to encourage you to stick to your plan.
Please come back often and leave a comment in the blog to encourage me. If you have a few hints that can help, share it with us all. There are many who might like to join the challenge and work toward their own goals that you can help.


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Allen will perform Friday at 7 p.m. in his home state on a tour that has taken him all across the nation.
"Coming back to Arkansas to perform is always a good time," Allen said. "I think the people of Arkansas have a sort of pride about me. That time when I was on the show was a happy time for everyone around here, and I think that people always love to come out to these shows and have a sort of reunion celebration."
Allen will perform songs from both his self-titled album and his second CD, Thank you Camellia, in addition to some new tracks.
After winning American Idol, Allen predictably found his life change dramatically, as he catapulted to fame.
"Life has changed for sure," he said. "I'm playing music around the globe for a living. It doesn't get any better than this."
Being one of the few celebrities from Arkansas, Allen finds a certain pride in being able to represent his home state.
"It makes me feel proud," he said. "It makes me want to do right by Arkansas and represent this state, whenever I can, in the best light." Nik and Sam, a country music duo consisting of two sisters from Dover, will open the concert for Allen.
Tickets are $20. To order tickets, or for more information, visit www.russellvillecenter.net


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Mangaung celebrations
Jacob Zuma's supporters cheer him ahead of the announcement of the President ANC. (Greg Marinovich, Newsfire)
Delegates use tablet computers to film as Jacob Zuma is elected President ANC. (Greg Marinovich, Newsfire)
Delegates at the ANC's national elective conference celebrate the re-election of President Jacob Zuma, over Kgalema Motlanthe (centre). (Greg Nicolson, Newsfire)
Presdient Jacob Zuma, Cyril Ramaphosa, Gwede Mantashe, Zweli Mkhize, Jessie Duarte and Baleka Mbete win ANC top six positions in the party's elective conference. They bow their head in prayer. (Greg Nicolson, Newsfire)
A delegate at the ANC's national elective conference prays after the announcement of the party's top six positions. (Greg Nicolson, Newsfire)
Kgalema Motlanthe leaves the ANC National Conference afer being beaten by President Jacob Zuma in the election race. Motlanthe must wait to see if he is elected to the ANC's national executive committee. (Greg Nicolson, Newsfire)
Jacob Zuma sings after being reelected as the head of the nation's dominant political force, more than likely guaranteeing the politician another five years in the country's presidency. (Jerome Delay, AP)
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Newly elected deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa, left, congratulated by Baleka Mbete, chairperson. (Themba Hadebe, AFP)
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Kgalema Motlanthe said he was "elated" that Jacob Zuma was reelected as President of the ANC. (Greg Marinovich, Newsfire)
The newly elected top 6 celebrate. (ANC, Twitter)
President Jacob Zuma and his former deputy Kgalema Motlanthe embrace as Zuma is announced winner of a second term as ANC president. (Greg Nicolson, Newsfire)


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News Stars GM Jim Nill on if the NHL is ready for a gay player: 'I don't know if we're ready for it, but the world is different now'
New Dallas Stars general manager Jim Nill joined the Fitzsimmons & Durrett Show on ESPN Radio 103.3 FM on Wednesday. Here are some highlights from the interview.
On if the NHL is ready for a gay player:
"I don't know if we're ready for it, but the world is different now and I guess it's not for us to judge. People, they have their free will, they're going to do what they want, we can't judge that and we just have to accept that and love them for what they are."
On his philosophy for building a team:
"In the NHL once we went to the new CBA and even before that really for successful teams, you have to draft and develop to be successful. You have to create you own culture and it's hard to win without that nowadays. With this new CBA you only have three or four high-level players and then the hole after that."


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Gray/Hindsman/Whorton finished two strokes clear of the field, which included 32 teams and a total of 96 individuals playing in support of the Arkansas Tech Alumni Association Scholarship.
Proceeds from the Homecoming Golf Classic have helped the Arkansas Tech Alumni Association fund more than $37,000 in scholarships over the past two years.
The winning team made 15 birdies and three pars on Friday. They finished strong with consecutive birdies on their final three holes of the day.
The team of Scott Dorminy, Bryan Fisher and Heath Styles finished second with a round of 58. Third place went to the Will Berry, Matt McCoy and Ed McSpadden. They fired a 59.
The shot of the day was executed by Kyle Johnson, who holed out his team's second shot from 160 yards away on the par-5 17th hole for a double eagle.
Closest to the hole competitions were won by Eric Laffoon on the seventh hole and Tom Wald on the 11th hole.