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If you're a hardcore Street Fighter fan and you're not excited about Street Fighter IV, you're either playing too much Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, or you're crazy. Regardless, Street Fighter IV is shipping out on February 17th and is one of the most anticipated titles of 2009. Not only does the game bring fan favorites like Ken and Ryu back into the ring, but new fighters are on the way as well to make this an extremely appetizing roster. With so many fighters to talk about, we decided to go hands-on with each character on a daily basis, leading up to the game's release in February. If you've been wondering how the newcomers feel or what sort of changes the series veterans have undergone, we'll let you know.
One of Street Fighter IV's newest characters might be a ridiculously passionate chef, but he also happens to be a versatile fighter and one of the most complex warriors to master. El Fuerte is on a journey to find the greatest recipes in the world, but is taking the opportunity to test his lucha libre skills in the process. El Fuerte is very quick on his feet and just glancing at his command list can be immensely intimidating, but the techniques themselves are easy to pull off. El Fuerte fights almost entirely with two basic springboard moves which can subsequently be modified into a host of different attacks. By performing El Fuerte's Habanero Dash or his Habanero Back Dash, the wrestler will sprint forward or backwards respectively and you can follow-up with a secondary command to pull off the actual attack (the dash itself is harmless).
From the Habanero Dashes, El Fuerte can perform one of eight different moves, all of which boast some amazing names. If you've ever wanted to bring classics like the Tostada Press or the Fajita Buster into the ring, now's your chance. The former move will cause El Fuerte to leap up into the air -- to about head height -- and crash down on his opponent with a body slam. Alternatively, the Fajita Buster makes El Fuerte jump forward, latch onto his opponent's upper body and perform an intricate throw maneuver. El Fuerte can also execute moves like slides and spin kicks from his Habanero Dash as well.
The charismatic fighter can also back flip out of the Habanero Dash (or more precisely, he can do a "Picadillo Jump"), which works brilliantly when combined with his Wall Jump. This can help El Fuerte cover the entire length of the stage and can keep him on the move.
What's most interesting about El Fuerte is how important motion is to him as a character, whereas other grappling characters will rarely try and move around excessively. Traditionally, you'd want to bring a grappler in close and keep him/her there, but El Fuerte is different. While there's certainly many ways to play, it seems like the most effective El Fuerte player maximizes his Habanero Dash usage to keep moving and make the fighter difficult to hit. You can even cancel out of the dash and string together the different directions to keep your opponent guessing. But we shouldn't forget to mention that El Fuerte also has an incredible grab which can be pulled off from the ground in order to snag an opponent in the air. This "Guacamole Leg Throw" makes a jumping opponent an easy target.
Simple experimentation with El Fuerte immediately reveals just how much potential he has for combo creation. Players interested in mastering his play style certainly have a long road ahead of them, but it's a road that's clearly worth taking.


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With a stay at Extended Stay America - San Ramon - Bishop Ranch - East in San Ramon, you'll be close to Bridges Golf Club and Bishop Ranch Regional Preserve. This hotel is within the vicinity of Blackhawk Automotive Museum and Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site.
Make yourself at home in one of the 128 air-conditioned rooms featuring kitchens with refrigerators and stovetops. 32-inch flat-screen televisions with cable programming provide entertainment, while complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected. Conveniences include desks and microwaves, as well as phones with free local calls.
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Spatially structured habitats challenge populations to have positive growth rates and species often rely on dispersing propagules to occupy habitats outside their fundamental niche. Most marine species show two main life stages, a dispersing stage and a sedentary stage affecting distribution and abundance patterns. An experimental study on Corophium acherusicum, a colonial tube-building amphipod, showed the strong influence that a source population can have on new habitats. More importantly, this study shows the effect of temporal sinks where newly established populations can show reduced growth rates if the propagule supply from a source is removed. Sink populations had a reduction in abundance and became male-biased as females left colonies. The consequences arising from short-term dispersal and temporal sinks could be due to different selection pressures at the source and sink populations. These consequences can become reflected in long-term dynamics of marine populations if we shift focus to non-random dispersal models incorporating behaviour and stage-dependent dispersal.
1. Introduction
Propagule dispersal is a critical mechanism that links spatially structured communities and maintains segregated populations. Ecological theory suggests that populations exhibiting negative growth or occurring on habitats outside the species' fundamental niche can only be rescued via dispersing individuals coming from populations having excess propagule production [1]. Such coupling of population sources with sinks is fundamental for understanding and managing spatially structured systems [2,3] and has been applied to both terrestrial and marine systems [1,4,5]. Yet the challenge resides in incorporating dispersal behaviour with demographic and habitat qualities in spatially structured populations.
Source–sink populations can have long-term consequences arising from short-term events. For example, different dispersal abilities among individuals of different life-history stages or sexes can affect population structure in newly established habitats [6]. Differential dispersal can also cause a delay in population growth rate, which can be reflected in a temporary creation of a sink. In many systems temporal sinks can arise because of rapid shifts in habitat quality or because new populations require a constant supply of propagules until a steady growth rate is achieved [7,8]. A ubiquitous example would be invasive species, where newly invaded habitats require a steady supply of propagules before the population can become established; it is speculated that invasion success is often lower than expected because there is no constant supply of propagules to establish new populations [9,10]. Thus, temporal sinks occur either because habitats have a shift in resources or because a population requires overcoming a density threshold before becoming self-sustaining [11], yet most source–sink studies focus on permanent sinks [12].
In marine habitats, species exhibit a variety of dispersal strategies [13]. Because both the ultimate and proximate causes of dispersal vary based on a species' life history and ecology, dispersal strategy and dispersal ability can be variable between closely related groups of species [6,14]. Species may disperse at different life-history stages, leading to differences in initial population sizes, population growth rates and habitat occupancy. Defining a source or a sink can be problematic in sexually reproducing species where mate availability fluctuates if sexes have different dispersing ability or if individuals use conspecific cues to identify suitable habitats. Focus on behavioural decisions and stage-dependent dispersal can help develop non-random dispersal models [15] or help explain shifts in diversity associated with spatially structured systems [16].
Here I highlight the short-term source–sink dynamics in a tube-building marine amphipod and the consequences arising from differential dispersal between sexes. If sex-biased dispersal is important [4], it should be reflected in the influence of a source population; additionally these biases could reduce population growth rate and colonization of sinks. Corophium acherusicum (hereafter Corophium) is a relatively common tube-building benthic amphipod in the Gulf of Mexico where immature and mature adults carry out dispersal and can form relatively large colonies. This species can produce between 7 and 15 offspring per female and females are iteroparous [17]. Specific objectives were to test the influence of a well-established population on a temporal sink and the effect that a temporal sink can have on newly established populations when isolated from a constant source of propagule supply. Using this amphipod as an example, I discuss the effects that temporal sinks can have on selection pressures in marine populations.
2. Material and methods
Field experiments were set up at the University of Texas Marine Science Institute marina (Port Aransas, TX, USA) during the 2009 and 2010 summers. The marina provided shelter and reduced wave action while still supplying propagules from broader spatial scales coming from both estuarine and coastal environments. PVC tiles (10 × 10 cm) commonly used in experimental studies [18] were deployed at 1.5 m depth and at least 5 m apart to create source communities. After four weeks, communities were well established and the following treatments were initiated: a source tile paired with a new tile (sink), two new tiles in close proximity to each other (electronic supplementary material, Appendix A). Newly paired tiles were facing each other approximately 5 cm apart without opposite tiles physically touching. This forced individual amphipods to swim when migrating between neighbouring tiles. Ten days after deploying the sink tiles all tiles were collected and all Corophium individuals were counted; this time length is long enough to observe the initial effect of a source.
In a second experiment, I tested the effect of isolation from a source by paired source–sink tiles created as above with a treatment of new tiles alone to monitor background recruitment to account for random colonization. After 10 days, half the source–sink tiles were split and the source removed (electronic supplementary material, Appendix A). Ten days later all tiles were collected and all amphipods counted. In both experiments, the sample size was n = 10 per treatment.
First, I tested the effect of a source on a newly established habitat by comparing amphipod abundance on lone tiles against new tiles that had a source population nearby with a t-test (experiment 1). Next, a one-way ANOVA compared the effect of a sink on amphipod populations by comparing new lone tiles with isolated sinks and sinks next to a source (experiment 2). This last test used abundance and sex ratios as dependent variables; tiles that were not colonized by Corophium (n = 4) were omitted from the sex-ratio analysis. Finally, well-established populations were compared in both isolated old tiles and old source tiles associated with a sink to observe population recovery (experiment 2; electronic supplementary material, Appendix B).
3. Results
Corophium populations establish relatively fast and by four weeks an average of 112 individuals occurred on source tiles (electronic supplementary material, Appendix B), with the largest population having 281 individuals. However, in a 10-day period extremely few individuals colonized the new tiles, unless these new tiles were in close proximity to a source tile (figure 1; t-test, t = 3.24, p = 0.005).
When sink habitats were isolated from their source, Corophium populations were immediately affected relative to those sinks that remained paired with sources. Isolation caused populations to decrease threefold (F2,18 = 6.73, p = 0.007; figure 2a) and sex ratios became male-biased (F2,14 = 5.33, p = 0.019; figure 2b) as fewer females occurred in isolated sinks.
4. Discussion
The relationship between source and sink populations can have strong repercussions on population viability and trait quality [5]. Most studies exploring source–sink dynamics focus on long time scales with the aim of understanding rescue events and colonization probability [4,12,19,20]. Yet, marine populations such as the amphipod in this study can be strongly affected by temporal source–sink dynamics often leading to individuals rapidly sorting themselves among neighbouring habitats [21,22]. Similar to the model presented by Amarasekare [15], this non-random dispersal can have strong effects on population and community structure by segregating individuals and species among habitats.
Results from this experiment highlight the effects of source populations on temporal sinks created by recently established populations. Corophium's colonial lifestyle coupled with the differential dispersal between males and females causes a strong shift to male-dominated populations if sinks are decoupled from their source during the early stages of colony formation. This rapid shift in population structure can have strong implications on the quality of propagules within the temporal sink and can delay population growth rate if sinks become isolated from sources. By reducing the number of available females, males have stronger competition for access to mates resulting in strong selection at the temporal sink, which can affect gene flow [23] even if the population recovers. This outcome is similar to the founder effect observed in marine crab and fish metapopulations [9,23]. However, the mechanisms that trigger differential dispersal and temporal sinks in marine species require further exploration.
Spatially structured populations can differ in growth rates or traits [5]. These implications translate to different selection pressures arising from each habitat, whether it is a source or a sink (table 1). The evolutionary (ultimate) causes of dispersal have been the focus of much theoretical work, and hypothesized drivers of dispersal include kin competition, inbreeding, resource competition and environmental stochasticity [24]. This often results in trade-offs between dispersal and life-history traits such as reproduction or growth. Trade-offs between dispersal ability and reproduction have been studied extensively in insect systems [4,25,26], though are relatively unstudied in marine organisms. The differential dispersal and behavioural decisions of migrating individuals can have repercussions at both short- and long-term scales. In a marine mesocosm study, dispersal did not increase abundance of mesograzers within habitat patches that were resource-limited [27]. Here, Corophium can recover to large population sizes, but only when there is weak competition for space which depends on the propagule supply of other sessile species [16,21].
Sources and sinks have been studied at population (e.g. genetic diversity, genetic quality, population structure), community (e.g. species diversity) and ecosystem (e.g. resource heterogeneity) scales, which all depend on the dispersal stage [6] and can have consequences for community composition, diversity and ecosystem function [21,27]. A temporal scale warrants attention given the short-term effects arising from temporal sinks and the effects of dispersal and quality of source populations on selection. In contrast to terrestrial systems or most models [19], many marine populations disperse in large pulse events [18] reflecting strong temporal source–sink dynamics.
Dispersal has often been considered and modelled as a single, unconditional process in which some constant fraction of the population disperses during each generation independent of conditions being experienced by that generation. In most cases, however, dispersal is a conditional process that depends on each disperser's experiences [24]. As the proximate causes of dispersal vary, so too will the consequences of dispersal.
Data accessibility
Data are available in the supplementary material.
I would like to thank K. Duszak and C. Heron for field assistance, and M. Leibold, B. Walther and W. White for stimulating conversations.
One contribution to the special feature 'Frontiers in marine movement ecology' organized by Lee Fuiman, Benjamin Walther and Pablo Munguia.
Invited to commemorate 350 years of scientific publishing at the Royal Society.
- Received October 20, 2014.
- Accepted January 21, 2015.
- © 2015 The Author(s) Published by the Royal Society. All rights reserved.


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If the state doesn't allocate more money to public transit this year, SEPTA's current routes could drastically change, officials said today.
Joseph Casey, SEPTA's general manager, testified in front of the Senate Transportation Committee today, producing two very revealing maps: SEPTA's current transit routes, and a map that shows the possible elimination of nine rail lines, the closure of a subway line and the conversion of trolley routes to bus routes.
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A bill that would provide more than $500 million — enough to maintain service — was passed by the Senate in June, before summer recess. But the bill has yet to move forward in the House.
SEPTA is implementing what it is calling a Service Realignment Plan that could leave nearly 90,000 daily riders without rail service. Bridges are in poor condition, subway cars are aging, and other new vehicles are needed, Casey said.
"We have a backlog of repairs of $5 billion," Casey said. "That's with equipment and facilities well past their useful life. Under the current funding scenario, the capital program we have is $300 million. As that proceeds over the next 10 years, that $5 billion will grow to $6.5 billion."
The realignment plan won't be rolled out immediately, but parts of it could happen as early as next year. The Cynwyd line could be eliminated in 2014, followed by Media/Elwyn in 2015 and Chestnut West in 2018. The West Trenton, Airport Warminster, Wilmington/Newark, Fox Chase and Chestnut East lines would close eight years after that.
It's sounds too far away to worry about now, but Casey assures that it's not.
"Power substations, if they go out, there's no money now," he said.
It's not a wish list, he added, it's what SEPTA needs."Hopefully the House gets their act together and tries to pass a bill," Casey said. "I just don't know if it will happen."
Other services that would be affected over the next decade include:
- Truncating service on the Lansdale/Doylestown Line by 2018 and the Paoli/Thorndale Line by 2023
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Turkey time - The Salvation Army's annual community Thanksgiving meal will be served from 11:30 to 1 p.m. at 414 NE Jefferson Ave., Peoria. Dinners are free.
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- The Salvation Army's annual community Thanksgiving meal will be served from 11:30 to 1 p.m. at 414 NE Jefferson Ave., Peoria. Dinners are free.
- Pekin Township will serve turkey dinners form 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Pekin Township Community Room, 420 Elizabeth St. Dinners are free.
- Happy Thought Coffee will serve a community Thanksgiving dinner from noon to 4 p.m. at 953 N. Second St., Chillicothe. Dinners are free. Donations will go to Chillicothe Community Needs Agency.
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In 1953, playwright Eugene O'Neill died in Boston at age 65.
In 1970, Pope Paul VI, visiting the Philippines, was slightly wounded at the Manila airport by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest.
In 1973, the Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who'd resigned.
In 1978, San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist, were shot to death inside City Hall by former supervisor Dan White.
In 1983, 181 people were killed when a Colombian Avianca Airlines Boeing 747 crashed near Madrid's Barajas airport.
In 1988, actor John Carradine, known for his roles in horror films, died in Milan, Italy, at age 82.
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Following reagents were weighted out: 20g of LB Agar powder from Teknova® 5g of tryptone from Teknova® 2.5g of yeast extract from BD® 5g of NaCl from Fisher Scientific® 7.5g agar from BD® Above were placed into a 800mL Erlenmeyer flask. 500mL distilled water was added to reagents. The solution was autoclaved under liquid cycle (see 2012/11/03 for protocol for liquid cycle) After cooling to ~50°C, 50mg ampicillin was poured into autoclaved solution, swirled to mix Under sterile condition, the solution was poured into separate petri dish when temperature reaches ~40°C Plates were left under sterile condition to solidify
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How To Program A TiVo Universal Remote
If you are tired of getting up and down to trot across the room to your entertainment center, you probably need to learn how to program a TiVo universal remote. Sure, technology encourages laziness and you probably need the exercise you would get by actually going over to your TiVo, but where is the fun in that? Besides, the remote was made just for your convenience.
- Point the remote at the device and press the TiVo button. In TiVo Central, choose "Message and Settings" and then "Settings." Select "Remote, CableCARD, & Devices" then "Remote Control."
- Select "Part 1: TV Power" from the menu. Search the list of TV brands for yours and select it. Using the codes that are displayed, follow the directions on the screen until you have found the right code for your TV. You may have to go through numerous codes before you find yours. After finding the right code, you can program your other devices in the same manner.
- Newer devices may not have codes listed. For these devices, you will have to manually program the device. Hold the TiVo button and "Select" buttons together for three seconds.
- Press the button representing the device you want to program on the TiVo universal remote. The activity light on the remote should flash and remain lit.
- Place the TiVo universal remote within four inches of the device you are programming. Press and hold the button representing the device. If the TiVo remote light flashes four quick times, the device has been successfully programmed. If not, you must repeat the process.
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Sony has announced the return of their online service more than one month after Sony's PlayStation Network was taken offline by hackers. It is estimated that 100 million PSN accounts were compromised in this unprecedented attack.
From my perspective it is interesting to see how both Microsoft and Sony have been hit in the areas of their business where they've tried to "save money." From a hardware perspective the Xbox 360's billion dollar recall cost Microsoft (and the user) because of Microsoft's desire to save money on chips. My Xbox 360 red-ringed about a year ago and has been gathering dust ever since while my launch 60GB PS3 continues to chug away running Folding@Home (join Team GadgetMadness 55267) 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year with zero problems whatsoever. From a network perspective Microsoft has always charged for Xbox Live and their online offering is generally considered superior to Sony's free PSN service. One can assume Sony didn't invest heavily in network infrastructure or security until now. I'm a believer in both systems – competition is a good thing. Full press release from Sony after the jump.
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Tokyo, May 31, 2011 Sony Corporation and Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) announced today that Sony Network Entertainment International (SNEI, the company) will fully restore all PlayStation®Network services in the Americas, Europe/PAL territories and Asia, excluding Japan, Hong Kong, and South Korea by the end of this week. The company will also resume Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity for PlayStation®3 (PS3®), PSP® (PlayStation®Portable), VAIO and other PCs. Details for Japan, Hong Kong, and South Korea as well as the remaining services on Qriocity will be announced as they become available.
The company implemented considerable security enhancements to the network infrastructure, as well as conducted testing of the payment process and commerce functions. The first phase of PlayStation Network and Qriocity restoration began on May 15 in the Americas and Europe/PAL territories, followed by Japan and Asian countries and regions on May 28, when the company brought partial services back online. With this partial restoration users were able to access to some of the services such as online game play, account management, friend lists and chat functionality were restored. The full restoration of PlayStation Network as well as part of services to become available on Qriocity will include:
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Customers will be able to purchase and download games and video content from the PlayStation®Store on PS3 or PSP. In addition, consumers will have full access to Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity through PS3, PSP, VAIO and other PC's. Service restoration of Video on Demand powered by Qriocity and Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity for a variety of network-enabled Sony devices will be announced later.
We have been conducting additional testing and further security verification of our commerce functions in order to bring the PlayStation Network completely back online so that our fans can again enjoy the first class entertainment experience they have come to love, said Kazuo Hirai, Executive Deputy President, Sony Corporation. We appreciate the patience and support shown during this time.
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The other day we reported on Parachute Panic, the fun little skill game, receiving a Mango bump. The game now supports fast app resume and that 60FPS increase, which really smooths out the game's hand-drawn and charming graphics.
One bonus feature that we missed was the unique ringtone that FDG Entertainment created for Windows Phone users. To refresh, one new feature of Mango is the ability for developers to make apps that pull down and allow you to save music as a ringtone--anyone can do this. FDG took their awesome and catchy barbershop-style music and made one right in the game.
We show it how it works and how it sounds (which is brilliant and hilarious). Our hats off to FDG for adding this little bonus.
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"We see three times more crashes here than at the Terwilliger Curves," said Oregon Department of Transportation spokesperson Don Hamilton. "We would not put interchanges that close together today."
"It tries to provide a little room for all the mixing that goes on between the two intersections," said Oregon Department of Transportation Major Project Manager Andrew Johnson. "That's the cause of most of the accidents."
A hillside that slopes down to the freeway would be replaced with a retaining wall in order to create more space.
Mike Warwick, land use committee chairman for the Eliot Neighborhood Association, said that his group, believed the plan would harm the neighborhood to the north of the area.
"This proposal promises far more damage to inner city neighborhoods than the benefits it is purported to provide," he said in a prepared statement. "Surface street improvements that may accompany the project, while attractive, do not offset the obvious negative consequences of the freeway proposal."
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Older Dodge trucks are available from private owners, used car dealers and auction houses. Websites such as Craigslist, ClassicCars.com and Auto Trader also offer a listing of vintage Dodge trucks.
The buyer should thoroughly research and prepare for negotiations before meeting with a private owner or dealer. Knowing the average price of the truck before the meeting aids the buyer in obtaining a fair price. Though some websites offer the ability to purchase the vehicle online, it is best to see the truck in person before buying. Finding the history of the vehicle is also advised to uncover possible problems that a test drive may miss.


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NCEA English Programmes: This section includes an overview of each course, which gives you information about what to expect in terms of content and learning, as well as assessments and due dates.
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Here are resources for Year 9 English. Your teacher will have more specific information about the teaching and learning taking place in your class.
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Below are important handouts to support you with your learning this year. Your classroom teacher will give you more specific information about the teaching and learning taking place in your class.
Independent Reading: some ideas for 2.9
1. Read the NZQA booklet to understand the task and the standard [you can find this below].
2. Read the NZQA exemplars in the booklet. These give you an idea of the grade boundaries and what to do for an Achievement, Merit or Excellence response.
3. Read, view or listen to a text and take active reading / viewing / listening notes. Think about WHAT your response is, HOW the text made you respond [supporting evidence] and WHY [the purpose].
What do I read, view or listen to?
Ulimately, it is your choice, as long as the text is age-appropriate [R-ratings and content]. Try and choose texts that make you think and respond. They will allow you to develop a quality response. Always ask your teacher, if you need guidance and the librarians are great, also!
If you are stuck for ideas about what to read or listen to for your independent reading log assessment, below are some links [click on the title] to great websites that have articles and podcasts you can read or listen to:
TED talks: TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design.
Radio New Zealand: New Zealand's public radio station has some excellent programmes with podcasts to listen to.
The Wireless: Radio New Zealand's public radio station aimed at youth. The Wireless aims to produce inspiring, insightful and entertaining stories for New Zealanders who have grown up in the digital age.
National Geographic: The National Geographic Society has been inspiring people to care about the planet since 1888. It is one of the largest nonprofit scientific and educational institutions in the world. Its interests include geography, archaeology and natural science, and the promotion of environmental and historical conservation.
What a great speech by Ashton Kutcher! What do you think?
Check out this interesting spoken word poem by Sarah Kay. In it, she gives advice she would give to her [future] daughter. What do you think?
How do you measure a man? This is the subject of the poem below, performed by the South Auckland Poet's Collective.
I am me: a spoken word poem by Brian Gashema, a young Auckland poet:
How is this for inspiring?
What is the price of social media? - A spoken word film for an online generation.
'Look Up' is a lesson taught to us through a love story, in a world where we continue to find ways to make it easier for us to connect with one another, but always results in us spending more time alone. Written, Performed & Directed by Gary Turk.
Let me be more specific: How can you tell whether a movie does a sucky job with its female characters? Well, pretty easily really: If it can't answer the three questions asked in this video, then it fails the Bechdel Test.
Here's what the test is, who created it, and why it's important for female representation in movies:
Since when did doing something 'like a girl' become an insult? Watch this thought-provoking video.
Useful Websites
Here are useful websites for English Skills and Revision.
Writing @ St Andrew's College
Aside from the writing done as part of normal English programmes, students have several opportunities to produce and get help with their creative writing. These include:
- A weekly creative writing "Masterclass", also known as "Writing for Publication", held every Monday lunchtime in AB301. All students are welcome to attend. These sessions are taken by our Writer-in-Residence, Mrs Kerrin Davidson (see below).
- Students are encouraged to enter competitions, promoted at the Masterclass, on noticeboards and by teachers
- Once or twice a year, a Middle School and Senior College workshop may be held where writing is produced in a morning session.
- The College has a creative writing competition each year and a Cup is awarded to the best entry.
- The Senior College options programme offers a creative writing module – again run by Mrs Kerrin Davidson.
Our Writer-in-Residence, Kerrin Davidson
We are extremely lucky to have a Writer-in-Residence, Mrs Kerrin Davidson, who works in both the Preparatory and Secondary Schools in and out of classrooms to foster writing talent.
Kerrin is a published poet and one of New Zealand's most promising poets. Her recent collection, "Three Days in a Wishing Well", was named by Metro magazine as one of the top ten books published in 2012. She has been included in both New Zealand and international poetry anthologies.
Kerrin loves to help students achieve publication and competition success.
Check out the details for STAC's writing competition for 2016:
English Speech Bookings
Use this booking form to organise a time to present your speech to your teacher.
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Death Metal machine SEVERE TORTURE comes crushing down on this godforsaken planet to slaughter everything that stands in its way. Razor sharp riffing and massive machinegun fire drums, duel at an awe inspiring rate while fierce guttural growls grind down the last pockets of resistance. It is no secret that SEVERE TORTURE have taken their inspiration from the original US Death Metal heralded in blood and gore by bands like Cannibal Corpse. Assembled in 1997 by guitarist Thijs, drummer Seth van de Loo and bass player Patrick Boleij, this fearsome beast of blood and steel has since helped shape the course of brutal Death Metal.
With the founding members remaining firmly at the wheel, SEVERE TORTURE stayed true to their own ripping style until today. It is this stubborn persistence through all short lived trends, which earned the Dutch their dedicated and extremely loyal fan base. A first demo "Baptized..." was released on tape in 1998 and shortly after vocalist Dennis Schreurs, whose fierce growls have since then become a trademark item for SEVERE TORTURE. A two-song promo recorded a year later and released as the 7" single "Pray for Nothing" (1999) earned the band their first record deal. This was followed by single "Lambs of a God" (2000) and the first tour with Damnation from Poland in the year 2000 after the release of their debut "Feasting on Blood" (2000).
This album demonstrated the Dutch's cunning knack for melodies and catchy songwriting and their immediate success became obvious, when SEVERE TORTURE accepted invitations to tour Europe with Macabre and Broken Hope in Europe as well as to the Ohio Death Fest and more shows in the USA during the year 2001. Surfing on this wave of success, the band recorded second full-length "Misanthropic Carnage" in March 2002 and hit the roads in the US and Europe again, where they had the honour to open for CANNIBAL CORPSE. Due to a desire to add more instrumental fire-power, SEVERE TORTURE added guitarist Marvin Vriesde to their line-up in 2003. The Dutch returned after a change of label with their ultra heavy album number three "Fall of the Despised" (2005), which led them to play the prestigious Maryland Deathfest as well as Party.San Open Air, Kaltenbach Open Air and several other festivals in Europe.
Having gained new momentum on the road with Vader and God Dethroned, the band unleashed "Sworn Vengeance" (2007). This time they joined Grave and Nile on the tour, which increased their monstrous live reputation. In the following year 2009, SEVERE TORTURE took a small creative break to charge their batteries. With renewed power the band signed to Season of Mist, where they released the critically acclaimed "Slaughtered". This album saw the Dutch adding more dimensions in their quest for every increasing quality within their still traditional approach towards Death Metal. Their fifth masterpiece reveals SEVERE TORTURE reaching a new peak: more brutal, eclectic and darker than ever, "Slaughtered" will blow you away!
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JSA en Espanol, Los Angeles, will debut in November InternetMercado Magazine, a bilingual title focusing on connectivity and e-commerce in the U.S. Hispanic community. The magazine will be distributed to 500,000 upper-income Hispanic households. A color page is $30,000.
Carolina Guevara Lightcap to VP-sales and marketing, Sky Multi-Country Partners, Miami, a direct-to-home satellite TV provider, from executive director of marketing, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Latin America. Ms. Lightcap will be responsible for developing and coordinating commercial and promotional plans for the Sky service throughout Latin America, except for Brazil and Mexico. She succeeds Miro Copic, who left.
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This module contains the latest Windows 98/98SE drivers required for all Iomega CD-RW USB and/or FireWire drives. This module also contains the latest Windows 98/98SE drivers required for all HDD gray and silver USB and/or FireWire drives that have a proprietary interface module or cable. The module also contains Microsoft's own patches to fix many USB (for Windows 98/98SE) and FireWire (for Windows 98/98SE/Me) problems with system hangs, blue screens, and slowdowns. For Iomega CD-RW users, it helps your CD-RW drive become detected by both Iomega HotBurn CD-Recording software and/or your operating system by installing a driver.


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It's amazing what a couple of simple tweaks can do. In his video for rapper/producer Big K.R.I.T.'s single "I Got This," director Todd A builds on the swollen '70s-soul undercurrents in K.R.I.T.'s music by taking standard rap-video shots — K.R.I.T. driving around his hometown and reveling among his supporters — and shooting them like a blaxploitation opening-credits montage, complete with fake film-crackles. It's a fun gimmick, and the video also captures K.R.I.T.'s irrepressible bouncy energy. If videos still made stars, I'd call this a starmaking video. Watch the video and download the song below.
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The videos below feature a great psychedelic soul act known as the Monophonics from their latest album titled Sound of Sinning. The album was produced by Kelly Finnigan (son of the legendary session/touring keyboardist/vocalist and recording artist Mike Finnigan) & Ian McDonald and recorded on an old Tascam eight-track 1/4" tape machine at Transistor Sound Studios in San Rafael, California.
Monophonics is Austin Bohlman (Drums), Myles O'Mahony (Bass/Background Vocals), Ian McDonald (Guitar/Background Vocals), Ryan Scott (Trumpet/Back- ground Vocals/Percussion) & Kelly Finnigan (Keys/Lead Vocals) along with a rotating 2nd horn usually filled by Nadav Nirenberg (Trombone) from Ikebe Shakedown and Breakdown Brass.
Click here for tickets or the list of U.S. dates and a German date through October 2016.
"Promises" is the third track on Monophonics new album, Sound of Sinning.
"Strange Love" is the eighth track on Monophonics album titled Sound of Sinning.
"Lying Eyes" is the first track off Monophonics new album Sound of Sinning.
Connect direct with Monophonics at Monophonics.Com, facebook.com/monophonics, twitter.com/monophonicsfunk and instagram.com/monophonicsphoto
See another Monophonics music video from a previous post on our site here: MusicLoad.com/2012/09/monophonics.html
This post was created by Gregory J. Chamberlain on June 9, 2016, with subsequent edits and updates by Mariana L. Villanueva for The Indies Network.
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As we mature, we all get used to making the daily compromises with our society that we have to in order to get through everyday life. Sometimes the craziness becomes so egregious that we feel like we can't stand it anymore. One such opportunity may well be television on an early June Sunday night, when an already desperate medium reaches the bottom of its low barrel to tear viewers away from Facebook, YouTube or, perchance, outdoor activities (a likely scenario on this nearly perfect Wisconsin day). At 9 o'clock--an hour no longer considered late by anyone over age 6 except my Dad--an unbelievably violent and graphic show, CSI:Miami, has its place.
Automakers, shitty chain restaurants and multinational companies consider the program a perfectly fine vehicle for advertising their wares. At the expense of our minds and spirits, these entities engage in their prime-time circle jerk. After all, what better opportunity to persuade Joe and Jill American that they ought to be driving around in a steel HOUSE--never mind that they'll be driving said house over the frickin' SURFACE OF THE MOON half the time, as our vision of a white utopia does not include reasonably well-maintained streets.
And what a boon urban sprawl has been for godawful Applebee's, Chili's, the Olive Garden and that steakhouse with the incredibly annoying fake Australian accent. I can't claim to remember what Marc's Big Boy's food tasted like, but I'm sure it was at least as good as any of the aforementioned. Chain restaurants want an outlot building built to spec or at least part of one. Voilà, more sprawl--and never mind when a closed restaurant sits fallow as an eyesore for five years, even in a wealthy area, like the old Outback Steakhouse in Fox Point.
If I were a parent, I'd rather have nudity aired at 9 p.m. than violence.


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By Craig Perrin
Craig is AchieveGlobal's Senior Product Manager, Leadership Portfolio. Since 1986, he has helped develop many of AchieveGlobal's performance improvement solutions.
While "getting work done through others" may have merit as a baseline definition of leadership, it says nothing about how effective leaders sustain high performance and strong business results.
Some leaders rely on external motivators. Whether lashings and beer in Lower Egypt or fines and bonuses in Lower Manhattan, threats and rewards remain proven motivational tools.
Or so they seem.
Consider a recent Yale study that confirmed this unsettling fact: external motivators actually undermine long-term effort and success in both low and high performers. This finding supports 30 years of related research, as well as the daily experience of thoughtful leaders, likely since ancient Egyptian times. Yet today, that truth is neither widely accepted nor often applied.
Over-reliance on external motivators may help explain the results of a recent AchieveGlobal poll. We asked, "Which is the more difficult leadership challenge, improving a low performer or inspiring a high performer?" Here's what respondents said:
An intriguing point here: leaders struggle, if not equally, with both groups. Perhaps the sixty-six percent rely too often on threats, and the thirty-four percent rely too often on rewards. If it's true that external motivators bring short-term gains, it's also true that performance drops when a threat fades or a reward is achieved.
In fact, most high performers are not primarily motivated by threats or incentives. Instead, they strive to satisfy three deeply human needs: to apply their skills, connect with others, and guide their own actions. What some leaders fail to see is that every employee – every human being – has these same needs.
So, to improve long-term effort and achievement in both high and low performers, a leader is well advised to develop their talents, encourage their collaboration, and offer them choices.
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Charlotte Crosby's fling with Alex Mytton
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Charlotte Crosby has confessed to having a one night fling with 'Made In Chelsea' star Alex Mytton last year after they partied in Cannes, France together
Charlotte Crosby had a one night fling with Alex Mytton.
The 27-year-old television personality has revealed she got up close and personal with 'Made In Chelsea' star Alex last year after they were introduced by his co-star Jamie Laing.
Alex was DJ-ing at a boat party in Cannes, France when Jamie came up to Charlotte and told her that "Alex fancies" her.
She wrote: "I didn't really think I was going to go there with Alex. Anyway, considering the state I was in, I don't know how the next part happened.
"Somehow we all went back to Alex's friends villa. Jamie had disappeared somewhere else so it was just me and Alex. Alex and I spent the whole night there at the villa together."
And the 'Geordie Shore' star - who is currently dating Stephen Bear - knew her one night romance with Alex was just that and says it was "quite liberating".
Writing in her new biography 'Brand New Me', she wrote: "At no point were we trying to impress each other because we both knew where we stood. It was just one night and we both understood that. It was actually quite liberating actually."
Meanwhile, Charlotte's relationship with Stephen is going from strength to strength and she recently revealed she is looking forward to changing her name when they do eventually tie the knot.
She explained: "We've only officially been together four months, so the next stage is very far away. We've been in each other's lives for so long but we haven't actually been together that long. We always talk about our future together but right now we're just enjoying being together and having fun ... I can't wait to be Charlotte Bear. I'm so excited for it. It sounds so cute."


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Charles Hamilton said it best: "There Ain't Nothing Like a Brooklyn Girl!" Seems to me Elaine de Kooning knew her borough was destined for greatness way before Charles was a twinkle in his father's eye. Brooklyn born and bred, Elaine Marie Fried blessed the BK on March 12, 1918. Her mother was excited to have a little one and wasted no time instilling artistic appreciation in the young Elaine.
Elaine's first artistic endeavors began as a child when she would frequent museums with her mother. Looking at art soon turned into creating art because Elaine's mother taught her to draw everything she saw
After high school graduation and a brief period studying at Hunter College, Elaine followed her calling by studying at the Leonardo da Vinci Art School in New York in 1936. She finished her studies at American Artists School as a transfer student.
In 1938 fate kicked in and Elaine met a Dutch immigrant artist who began to tutor her. Five years later Willem de Kooning became Elaine's husband. As a result of the merging, Elaine's fame took a slight backseat because Willem was already an established painter. To balance his fame, Elaine became a noted critic and artist for ARTnews. A 1940s Jay and Bey maybe? I mean, they did upgrade each other.
Elaine de Kooning is known for her abstract expressionist style of painting. Her sketches are also popular in the art world. She painted everything from still life paintings to portraits and was damn good at it. Her most famous piece is a portrait of John F. Kennedy for the Truman Library. Outside of creating, Elaine taught at Yale and Carnegie Mellon University.
Despite the fame of the couple, they lived in poverty during the 1940s. Under the pressures of life, the duo found comfort in alcohol and became alcoholics and eventually drifted apart. Although they lived separately from the 1950s to the 1970s, they never divorced. In 1976, Elaine found sobriety and was reunited with Willem. She then helped him recover as well.
The couple lived happily for the next 20 years until Elaine lost her battle with lung cancer in 1989 at the age of 70. To make matters worse, Willem suffered from Alzheimer's and was unaware of his wife's passing.
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Dilla's thrillas are his lasting legacy
It's six years to the day that the producer born James Yancey and known to us as J Dilla died at the age of 32 from a rare blood disease. During his lifetime, he was one of the most prolific …
It's six years to the day that the producer born James Yancey and known to us as J Dilla died at the age of 32 from a rare blood disease. During his lifetime, he was one of the most prolific maestros in the beats business, but it's how his blueprints have gone on to inform the handiwork of countless other acts and producers which is Dilla's real legacy.
From The xx to Flying Lotus to every wide-eyed maverick producer aiming to record the buckwild sounds they hear in their heads, Dilla's soundscapes have cast a wide net. There are times when you're check out the work of the new school that it feels like Dilla never went away.
As with any act who dies in their prime, you can speculate until the cows come home about what might have been. Dilla worked with renowned hip-hop and soul acts like Erykah Badu, Common, The Roots, Q-Tip, the Pharcyde, Ghostface Killah and dozens more, but imagine what would have happened if he had been paired with a pop act.
Could Dilla's mix and match of electronic noises, eerie samples and warm, evocative instrumental snatches have worked in tandem with a pop voice and tune? Listening back to his work on Q-Tip's "Amplified" album during the week, there's no doubt that he has the skills and smarts to make such a big splash.
The first stop for anyone who wants to know more about Dilla is probably "Donuts", the album he recorded on a portable sound system on his death-bed in hospital when he knew that time was running out. It's the performance of a real master at work, sculpting eerie, leftfield swirls and stabs which are as deep in soul as they are wide in funk. Remember him this way.
Some Dilla tributes for yo' ears: Dazboy's recent Underground Elements show on the producer on RTE Pulse, a brilliant Dilla tribute on Hot 97 from ?uestlove, SertOne's Quesadillas EP, clip from Miguel Atwood-Ferguson's "Timeless: Suite For Ma Dukes" session for Mochilla, DIlla's 10 greatest remixes and Dilla's top 10 beats. And finally, the Far Side Of Dilla from the radio show the other night is now playing here


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With the indices revisiting the all-time highs for the first half of the week, it begs the question 'Why are bond prices remaining so elevated?' and 'How can I take advantage of this anomaly?' The energy markets have shown some renewed volatility with the ebb and flow of possible hostilities in the Ukraine while the metals markets continue their relative flat line price discovery.
The indices continue to remain within striking distance of new highs after last week's sharp sell off with the S&P 500 (CME:SPM14) nearly breaching the key 1800 price level. This was seemingly and over reaction to the Russia-Ukraine conflict as the market nearly immediately took back half of the decline and has spent the subsequent six sessions grinding higher. The most interesting bi product of this has been the reaction in the 30 year bond futures.
As one would expect, there was a sharp spike in the bond pricing (inverse of the yield, see chart below) as the equities sold off and the correction was reasonable as well, trading back down two full handles (32 tics per handle, $31.25 per tic on the $100,000.00 contract). Since then, we have seen the bond market trade slightly higher in tandem with the S and P which is not the normal relationship for those two normally opposite moving commodities. As the U.S. economy moves closer toward the finalizing of the QE bond purchasing (est. September 2014 for the final taper) allowing the economy to attempt to stand on its own two feet, the possibility of rising interest rates would seem to put pressure on the 30-year instrument, particularly with the equity indices doing so well. That seeming inevitability has not been playing out as one would have expected. Prior to QE 3 the bond market was trading between a 105 handle and 125 handle.
During the record asset purchasing of the FOMC over the past several years, we saw the 30 year bond trade as high as 154 handle. It currently is stymied in the mid 130's. While that pricing is well off the highs, it seems to have a long way to go to get back to where the market had fairly priced it prior to QE 3. This is a development in the market that, at some point, should return to the mean. The difficultly is figuring out the most effective method (options, futures, spread, combo, etc.) in attempting to take advantage of the eventual correction. The reluctance of the 30 year bond price to decline dramatically has led me to think that there could potentially be a more effective method for participating in this potentially significant market event.
Through use of the yield curve spread (different durations of U.S. note and bond futures spread against one and another) we can 'fade' the 'flattening' curve (in terms of price, flattening is when the long term price trades dramatically higher than the short term price making the rates between the two closer). Thus, selling the 30-year bond and buying the 10-year note would position one for when the curve began to normalize, in this case steepening. Therefore, the trade can make a profit by either the 10-year rallying more than the bonds or the bonds declining more than the ten year. Utilizing a ratio between the two instruments can further enhance the risk profile for the position as well as create more maneuverability in the price discovery (please click here and here to see detailed descriptions of this). This type trading can produce a profit in the right environment whether the market goes up or down.
The chart shows a Black Line Bond Yield and Red Line Bond Price.
The crude oil (NYMEX:CLM14) and gasoline markets have shown some big moves to the upside due in part to the Russian concerns and possibly in part to the seasonality of the energy products. The 'fear' rallies based on geo political strife are normally discounted rather quickly as we saw with the 2 dollar decline in the crude oil yesterday. However, there does appear to be some seasonal support below the current pricing in both crude and RBOB. Normally, the seasonal play in the futures should be priced in to the value of the contract, though this particular spring could produce a sharper bid effect as consumers may have a larger appetite where fuel consumption is concerned following such a harsh winter that has left many with significant 'cabin fever'.
This support can be taken advantage of in several ways, depending on the participants risk profile. Long calls are the safest form though must be the most precise. Out right futures are the riskiest though the most profitable. Some amalgamation of these tools probably achieves the greatest opportunity while still representing a reasonable risk.
The precious metals markets have been just the opposite, having spent seemingly months mired in a relatively tight range. The gold (COMEX:GCM14) and silver (COMEX:SIM14) both have shown great opportunities to write premium in the options, particularly to the down side as the support in the 1100 handle for gold and the high teens for the silver seems very strong.
However, this strategy does have unlimited theoretical risk, so it is not one that should be utilized without some other form of a spread to limit that risk.


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Dallas Mavericks game previews between October 31 and November 6, including games against: Milwaukee Bucks, Portland Trail Blazers, Utah Jazz.
The Mavericks are off to a rough 0-3 start to the season. They fell to the Pacers after forcing overtime and then dropped two games against Houston. Dallas faced the Rockets without Nowitzki for both games, as the future Hall of Famer sat out with an illness. Standout performances by Harrison Barnes on Friday and Wesley Matthews on Sunday were encouraging but ultimately not enough to bring home a win.
Wednesday, 2 November 2016 at 09:00 PM ET Away
The Mavericks travel to face the 1-2 Utah Jazz at Vivint Smart Home Arena on Wednesday. With a two-day break from their Sunday game versus the Rockets, hopefully Dirk Nowitzki will be recovered from his illness and will travel for the game. The consolation for the Mavs is that even if Nowitzki is still unavailable, the Jazz are also not at full strength as Gordon Hayward is still out following a broken finger and Derrick Favors is coming off the bench on a minutes restriction due to recurring issues with his knee.
The Jazz are very active on defense and loaded with versatile, long defenders. The veteran Mavs will need to find ways to stretch and stress the defense to be successful. On the other side of the ball, Dallas will need to contain George Hill, who has been excellent at running the offense and creating opportunities for Utah even with Favors on limited minutes and no Hayward.
Friday, 4 November 2016 at 08:30 PM ET Home
On Friday, Dallas hosts the high-octane offense of the Portland Trailblazers. Led by Damian Lillard, the Blazers have youth and ambitions of climbing into the elite of the West. With the exception of new acquisition Festus Ezeli, the Blazers are starting the season healthy. The starting backcourt of Lillard and C.J. McCollum will apply a lot of pressure to the Mavericks defense while the versatility of Portland's wings on the other side of the ball will also present a challenge.
Expect Carlisle to continue to give big minutes to J.J. Barea off the bench, as his play thus far this season has been excellent. Lillard and McCollum are not solid defenders, though the Blazers defend well enough as a whole to cover some mistakes. The Mavericks' offense will need to find its rhythm and make the shots go down to keep pace with Portland.
Sunday, 6 November 2016 at 07:00 PM ET Home
Hopefully the Mavericks will earn their first win of the season against Utah or Portland, but if not, Sunday night against the Milwaukee Bucks will be their best opportunity this week. Milwaukee will travel to Dallas for the second half of a back-to-back, while the Mavericks will have a day of rest between home games. What's more is that the Bucks are without Khris Middleton, their lead scorer from last season who is likely out until March. But the news isn't all good for the Mavericks as the Point Giannis experiment has yielded pretty fantastic results for the Bucks.
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I built this for our dining area last winter to give my wife a place other than our dining table to store all her knitting supplies. I ran a few sketch-up designs past her before settling on this and am very happy with it.
This is mostly constructed out of walnut plywood with edge banding. The doors are raised panels and there is a walnut frame, with routed profiles, around the bottom cabinet. I made the template for the top shelves with a jigsaw and then used a template bit on the router table to cut the shelves out of the walnut ply. The top and bottom were built as separate units and I had intended to screw them together once installed, but the top fit perfectly in that corner and weighed enough that it wasn't necessary.
The cabinet case is rabbeted together with the frame attached to case with tongue and groove joints. The walls up top are rabbeted and I used the tongue and groove joints to attach the shelves up top. I would have preferred a full dado but my table saw at the time couldn't handle a 3/4 dado set. It's still very stable and plenty strong for its intended use.
Total construction time was 3-4 hours a day for a week of my vacation + 2 or 3 days for a few coats of tung oil finish + poly. Interior was finished with cedar oil to discourage any critters that may otherwise be attracted to a cabinet full of wool yarn.
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#1 posted 11-04-2013 10:20 PM
Project well done, compliments
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#2 posted 11-04-2013 10:27 PM
The picture caught my eye, due to the design of this cabinet. However after viewing the pictures, I have to say fantastic craftsmanship! Nice work, really like the grain figure. I'm sure the wife is very happy.
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#3 posted 11-07-2013 05:52 PM
Wonderful and well crafted corner cabinet! Great design, like the look of the wood with banding and the finish is beautiful. Great job!
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The New Hampshire Department of Transportation announces that sections of I-93 southbound between the weigh station and Exit 3 in Windham will be reduced to one travel lane during weekday nighttime hours (7:00pm to 5:00am) beginning Monday, September 14, 2009 and continuing for four weeks.
Motorists using I-93 Southbound in this area during these nighttime hours can expect minor delays as traffic reduces to one lane through the work zone. Exit 3 on and off ramps will not be impacted by the lane closure.
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Dieting is like trench warfare in World War I.
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