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The escape character in regexps is the backslash. To match a backslash you just need to escape it as well. Most functionality in regexps starts with a special character. If you like to match strings, that contain special characters you need to escape them with a leading backslash.
199 $ bargain.
As we have learned in anchoring the $ sign is used to anchor the regexp and the end of the string. If you need to match a $ sign you need to escape it with a backslash.
There are some other non printable characters that can be matched with an escape sequence. Please note that some of these work like a character class.
Let me introduce the most important escape sequences.
\s - white space ( not only 0x20 , but also TAB ENTER NEWLINE )
\n – new line ( well known for C programmers )
\t – tab
\d – digit – [0-9]
\w – word , alpha
The following example will make thing a little clearer.
199 $ bargain.
The 3 \d match any number with 3 digits.
The \s matches the whitespace
The \$ matches the $ because $ unescaped has a different meaning in regexps.
Then we have another whitespace \s
\w* Zero or more word characters.
\. A dot escaped because the dot unescaped is used as a wildcard in regexps.
The above regexp will also match a string like
999 $ watch.
Other special characters can be notated in hex code.
\x30 will match a character of hex 30
Monday, January 26, 2009
Escaping and special characters
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It would be really helpful to have a search and replace for event sheets. Maybe right click on a column and have the option to search and replace this column or search and replace all. Or show each one and click through with option to replace or skip. Pretty standard for editing code and could be a time saver.
I always run into bugs because I miss one thing, so even just a search for event sheets would help.

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To write about her debut food memoir, Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table (W.W. Norton), without acknowledging a personal connection to Roahen would be about as pointless as it would be for her to write about New Orleans food without mentioning her personal connection to it. Just as it was impossible for Roahen, who left Gambit in early 2005 to pursue her book idea, not to write about New Orleans food with a post-Katrina nod. Initially, she'd resisted the idea, she told me. I think she worried about not having the proper perspective upon her return from her evacuation. Her editor convinced her otherwise.
In Gumbo Tales, Roahen succeeds at managing a very difficult balancing act: one part food criticism, one part culinary anthropology and one part autobiography. The book as it evolved also became a little bit postmortem and an update about New Orleans restaurants after the flood. (Though she and her husband relocated to Philadelphia, she finds as many reasons to return as she can, including checking up on the house they still own together.)
There are chapters devoted to gumbo, the red gravy of the area's rich Italian tradition, the Vietnamese specialty pho and the sno-balls of the neighborhoods. Some chapter titles might seem painfully obvious ('Red Beans and Rice," "Coffee and Chicory," etc.), but within each chapter is a slice of the city's history, present and uncertain future, as she melds an outsider's love affair with a very insider culture.
New Orleans natives are often thought to be leery of this kind of relationship (How authentic is this outsider's love, when a native's starts at birth and rarely ends till death?), but Roahen backs up her love of the city's food with a journalist's exhaustive research. (A glance at her bibliography should either scare or embolden any aspiring food writer.)
"Crawfish have a long history in Louisiana as a poor man's food in reputation, in stigma, and in reality," she writes. "In Stir the Pot: The History of Cajun Cuisine, Marcelle Bienvenu and Carl and Ryan Brasseaux record that even as recently as the 1930s, Cajuns limited their crawfish harvests to times of flood, when they were too plentiful to ignore, and Lenten periods of fasting."
That comes from the head, but what stirs the soul is when Sara Roahen writes from the heart. One of the things I was most impressed by when watching her work was how she watched others. She seemed like a spy on a case at a restaurant, watching other diners eat and gossip, subtly quizzing servers without giving herself away. At the time, I thought it was just note-taking and general nosiness. I didn't know at the time it was the stirrings of a love letter to a city too many of us can't seem to get out of our hearts, no matter where we are.


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Senate Bill 2349 would add a new section within the Hawaii Revised Statutes to allow homeschool students to participate in extracurricular activities in their local public school. Any student who wanted to participate in an extracurricular activity would have to meet all the requirements and restrictions for that activity. This would include maintaining the appropriate grade point average and paying any fees associated with the activity.
Under Senate Bill 2349 the Department of Education will adopt rules to implement the policy and procedures for how a homeschool student would apply to participate in the extracurricular activities at the local school. The Department would also define which school programs would qualify as extracurricular activities. Under the bill, extracurricular activities is defined as "a school-authorized or education-related activity occurring during or outside the regular instruction school day, including sports, cheerleading, clubs, and other programs."
HSLDA is neutral on legislation that allows participation in extracurricular activities by homeschooled students.
1/22/2010 S Introduced.
1/22/2010 S Passed First Reading.
1/22/2010 S Referred to Committee on Education and Housing, Committee on Ways and Means.
1/27/2010 S The Committee on Education and Housing has scheduled a public hearing on Feb. 3, 2010 at 1:15 p.m. in conference room 225.
3/16/2010 S Defeated in Committee
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The Exceptional Woman
The prevailing cult of the normal or average individual and the normal or average adjustment makes it difficult for the person of exceptional ability to achieve a form of adjustment which is normal for him. The average group, which is the majority group, assumes the prerogatives of its position and attempts to impose its standards of life and adjustment upon all those in minority groups. Non-conformity is punished in various and insidious ways and to such an extent that many students of social adjustment regard an above-average intelligence in a child not as a gift but as a handicap. It is assumed that unusual intelligence will cause him to be unhappy, maladjusted, and tragic. Educators hasten to camouflage any exceptional aptitude under the cloak of the average and to hold back the exceptional child's normal deyelopment to the norm of another group, the average group. Girls particularly are subjected to this form of mental stunting both by the schools and by their parents in the interests of their "normal" adjustment. The exaggerated cult of the genius which preyailed in earlier eras has given way to an even more exaggerated cult of the average which makes it difficult for the individual of above-average endowments to use his abilities for the common good. And yet, in this era of social disintegration, social reyaluation and change, unusual ability in leaders is needed in an unusually urgent way. Is it possible to assume that the average majority can be expected to learn the lesson of tolerance toward those who differ in any way from its average or normal adjustment? For is not our democracy, for whose preservation we are fighting this second war, really based upon an assumption of tolerance of diversity rather than upon the worship of that average person or majority type which is now so much in vogue?
The learned women with whom we talked were for the most part associated with university life. Very few of them were types which the student of human nature would designate as "good, all-round women." On the contrary, they were frankly specialists and unembarrassed about being so. A woman chemist, who has a national reputation in the field of her specialty, stated simply and with no trace of embarrassment or apology that she spends all of the time which she has free from her teaching in the laboratory. Her outside interests are few. She stated that her work of research gave her more pleasure than anything else she could do and that the hours spent in her laboratory were the happiest intervals she knew. She liked teaching too but less than research, but she had continued in her teaching position in order to have leisure for research. She had used a sabbatical year just passed to do research in the laboratory of a famous specialist whose methods she wanted to know. The two weeks vacation which she permitted herself each summer she spent with her mother whom she has supported since the death of her father fifteen years previously. A younger sister whose college expenses in her own institution she had paid had just graduated and was ready to return to the home town to teach and to live in the home with the mother.
This woman lives alone in a small stone cottage which she had built herself to suit her own needs and wishes. It consists of a large well-lighted study, two bedrooms, bath and kitchen. She entertains occasionally for other members of the staff or for an out-of-town guest. For exercise she goes for long walks over the surrounding hills with her dogs. On Saturday evenings she plays poker, always with the same group, and she seldom loses. She is generally liked on the campus both by her associates and by the students. She is handsome and healthy in appearance but she wears the same clothes year after year.
One of the girl students remarked of her, "When I see Miss Jones at lectures in the class room I think what a wonderful woman she is. But when I see her crossing the campus I wonder how any woman in her right mind could wear those clothes."
Another single woman of outstanding achievement in the field of literature was known as a solitary on the school campus. Her study in the attic of one of the school halls was seldom seen either by her colleagues or by the students. Her school work was conducted from her office adjoining her classroom and it was kept strictly within her published office hours. Her literary achievements, however, have brought international renown both to her and the institution at which she teaches. Students of great promise may be admitted in their senior year to one of her seminars and the privilege is an unforgettable experience. Several women now outstanding as writers are her former students. Her personal life is simple in the extreme, she makes her home with her parents when they are at home, which is seldom, since her father's work requires him to travel. When she has a day free from her teaching in fine weather she goes with her sketch book and lunch for a solitary tramp through the surrounding fields. She appears a happy person, well-adjusted to her mode of life, but little concerned about it. She travels with her parents or alone, as seems convenient, and she has seen many strange corners of the world.
For the woman who has the aptitude or the wish for scholarly or creative work the single life offers the much needed detachment and leisure. The life at "Cross Creek," as described in the book by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, needs to be known in order to be understood, but many unattached women have sought to achieve that balance between solitude and the surrounding life which allows proper working conditions without isolation from the stream of living. For an individual cannot live long alone and retain the "common touch," which is essentially human and social, without partaking of the common life. But neither can he find the time nor the mental and spiritual strength necessary for intense and concentrated effort if the demands made upon his time and his spiritual resources are such as to absorb his strength. Particularly is this true in the case of women who lack the calm and the power of detachment from immediate personal demands that men seem to possess in greater measure. But the woman who is single, whether that singleness be voluntary or involuntary, has a resource in her detachment which she can use, if she will, for an achievement which is highly satisfying in return.
Under Green Apple Boughs tells the story of how one woman met the economic and personal situation which confronted her by a life temporarily apart from gregarious living. Her confidence and her sense of personal security seem to have been restored by large doses of healing solitude and communion with nature. The restorative powers of personal solitude for some individuals appear to have been over-looked in an era of intense sociability and high-powered organization. Much of the strength of living is drawn from association with others but much of it is lost in the same way and some "center of solitude," either within the individual himself or in the organization of his personal life, appears to be necessary to the maintenance of a normal balance and a sane outlook on life. Home is a place of relative solitude which provides all that the average individual needs of rest and detachment for the restoration to a normal strength of his mental and spiritual resources and for their regroupment into the array which constitutes the distinguishing characteristic of his individuality. But not all homes provide these rest facilities and some individuals need more solitude than even the best home provides.
These individuals who tend toward solitariness and detachment appear not to make good marriage partners, if they marry. Their personal wish for solitude and independence is thwarted by the demands which marriage makes upon them and they appear unhappy and maladjusted in marriage, even if they remain married, and many of them divorce. It is often assumed that all these individuals are self-centered "introverts" and that they wish to remain unmarried in order to have the leisure to think about themselves and analyze their own feelings. Yet observation shows that many of these people are interested in some pursuit which is in no way connected with their personal welfare but which is nevertheless thwarted by their life in a family home. As single persons they may make a very good and a very satisfactory adjustment but they do not wish to be married and it is evident that they should not marry. But social convention exercises many compulsions upon them in this direction and it is clear that some of them marry reluctantly and that they repent at leisure.
The woman whose cultural or general interests outweigh her personal and feminine interests is often designated as the "blue stocking." In our era she is known on the college or university campus as the "frump" who neglects her personal appearance and her personal life for her books or her laboratory. Stu-dents usually like her in class, and they may wish to emulate her scholarship while they fervently pray that they may never come to resemble her in appearance. As a rule she is a good-natured person who knows her subject well, she is interested in research or writing, she travels widely, she lives alone or with aged parents, and she supports relatives or contributes to the support of an assortment of relatives. She may be and she usually is highly regarded for her success in teaching and for her scholarship but she often hears the statement that she is a "failure as a woman" because she neglects her personal life and her personal appearance. Her relatives and friends try to smarten her appearance and they may succeed for a time but when they relax their efforts she relaxes too and goes back to her comfortable old clothes. Universities have shown a concern in recent years for the personal life and appearance of women graduate students and they seem to have made some progress. Women teachers, and professors, women physicians, and other women in business and professional life today are as a rule smart and well dressed if for no other reason than because they realize the value in their work of a smart personal appearance.
But the woman who is able and willing to devote the major share of her life and interests to professional work or independent scholarly or artistic endeavor is not the norm for other women. Many women who have the native ability to pursue studies are not willing to forego a more active personal and social life which devotion to a profession or the arts involves. For that and other reasons the number of women in semi-professional pursuits has increased more rapidly in recent years. Women serve as able assistants to men in the professional field and to men research workers because of the increase in the employment opportunities in such work and because they do not wish the work or responsibility involved in an independent career. For the woman whose interest in scholarly pursuits is less, a position as an assistant relieves her of that prolonged tedium of the school experience which preparation for a life in the professions entails and it permits also a larger measure of personal freedom once her work experience has begun.


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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Of, or like, cord; having cords or cordlike parts.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Stringy; in glass manufacturing, noting a defective condition resulting from impurities. See also wreath, 4.
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Mon 08/04/08 3:59 PM ok.. what petition do i have to sign to get this series created? though, i kinda agree about "oh no, not the High School days again" comment, but.. it would certainly be cool to have the whole gang back.. cordy too!
Some felt of the animal's mane and touched his streaming flanks and cordy legs to see if it were really a horse and not an apparition, while
The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills
"What for?" asked the voice, which Dickie now perceived came from a gentleman in rumpled hair and a very loose pink flannel suit, with cordy things on it such as soldiers have.
He rides a horse all day an 'is as cordy as a Roman gladiator.
Look lak dat ar cricket over dar in de cornder done tuck it up, en now he gwine, '_Shucky-cordy!
Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation
On the other hand, if the vessel appears to the feel hard, more or less cordy, and pulseless, or giving a sensation of fluttering, as of
It seldom succeeds in men of great natural strength, of tense fibre, of warm skin, of florid complexion, or in those with a tight and cordy pulse.
An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases
I also watched it online here 2 times! cordy Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 06: 19 AM EST
Flexicords aren't sproingy; rather, they have "patent-pending Memory Cord ™ Technology" that holds the cord in whatever position you bend it into, which opens up all kinds of exciting cordy art project possibilities.
At present NITM produces 18 commercial products like cordy plus, cordy active and herbal tea (Tsheringma) for the domestic market.


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Orthodontic treatment planning for healthy or periodontally compromised adults can be challenging. This lecture will demonstrate individualized orthodontic treatment planning perspectives. An understanding of contemporary periodontal and implant treatment modalities as well as recent advancements in restorative care allows the clinician to further complement the final outcome. The pres�entation will demonstrate interspecialty relationships in adult treatment planning. Participants will also learn how to establish stable, esthetic, and functional outcomes with less treatment time.
Roger J. Wise, DDS, is a faculty member and lecturer of the Department of Orthodontics and Periodontics at Harvard School of Dental Medicine. He also lectures at the Department of Periodontics at Tufts University. He has presented more than 200 lectures throughout the United States and abroad on adult orthodontics and the interrelationship of periodontics, orthodontics, and restorative dentistry. He has written three textbook chapters and has authored numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals. Dr Wise served 15 years as a consultant for the American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics and is a diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology. He maintains a practice specializing in periodontics, adult orthodontics, and implant dentistry in Swampscott and Boston, Massachusetts.
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Spain drops David Villa, Fernando Torres for Italy friendly
Diego Costa called up
Brazilian-born forward Diego Costa was called up by Spain on Friday for next week's friendly against Italy, and veteran strikers David Villa and Fernando Torres were not wanted.
Dropping Villa and Torres for Wednesday's match at Vicente Calderon Stadium in Madrid does not mean they will not make the squad for the World Cup, coach Vicente del Bosque said.
"This list is exclusively for the game against Italy," Del Bosque said after announcing his 22 players. "There are three months left of competition, and many things can happen to convince us to bring other players. We don't close the door to anything."
Spain part of North American series ahead of World Cup
Spain will play an exhibition game against El Salvador on June 7 at FedEx Field in Landover, Md., before heading to the World Cup in Brazil.
Seven matches involving six World Cup teams were announced Friday by Soccer United Marketing, an affiliate of Major League Soccer.
Spain's game will be part of a doubleheader that includes an MLS match between D.C. United and Columbus, originally scheduled for RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C.
Honduras plays Israel on June 1 at Houston's BBVA Compass Stadium, and Greece and Nigeria meet June 3 at PPL Park in Chester, Pa. Ivory Coast faces El Salvador on June 4 at Toyota Stadium in Frisco, Texas, and Greece plays Bolivia on June 6 at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, N.J.
Diego Costa, a naturalized Spanish citizen, was summoned for a pair of November friendlies, but injury kept the Atletico Madrid striker sidelined.
"I'm very happy to have been called up," Diego Costa said. "Besides, it will be very special to play Italy in our stadium, the Vicente Calderon."
He has been at the centre of a few ill-tempered encounters with Real Madrid players, soon to be his new teammates in the national side.
Del Bosque said he wasn't concerned, adding that the latest run-ins were not as serious as the tension between Barcelona and Madrid players from recent years that didn't stop Spain from winning the World Cup and two European Championships.
"We don't make a big deal of it," the former Madrid manager said. "We know that there are conflicts, but I don't think it is the same case [as Barcelona and Madrid]. There was a recent match between Madrid and Atletico and no incidents occurred."
Del Bosque said Italy was Spain's "last great test" before he names his final 23-man World Cup squad on May 25.
Spain will play Bolivia in a friendly on May 30 and then take on El Salvador on June 7 in the United States before it faces the Netherlands in its opening World Cup match on June 13.
While Del Bosque was adamant that he has yet to pick his final squad, the group he has chosen to face Italy appears to indicate he may opt to rejuvenate a side that lost handily to Brazil in the final of last year's Confederations Cup.
Even so, the squad is still loaded with midfielders, meaning Spain's control-based passing style won't change.
Besides Diego Costa, Del Bosque will have only Alvaro Negredo and Pedro Rodriguez as traditional forwards with Villa, Spain's all-time leading scorer, and Torres left at home.
Del Bosque summoned the young Bayern Munich pair of Thiago Alcantara and Javi Martinez, while Chelsea defender Cesar Azpilicueta returned for the first time since the Confederations Cup.
Juan Mata and Alvaro Arbeloa were also dropped. Gerard Pique was unavailable due to injury, while Barcelona teammate Carles Puyol was left out as he struggles to return from nagging injuries.
Goalkeepers: Iker Casillas (Real Madrid), Victor Valdes (Barcelona), Pepe Reina (Napoli)
Defenders: Juanfran Torres (Atletico Madrid), Cesar Azpilicueta (Chelsea), Jordi Alba (Barcelona), Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid), Raul Albiol (Napoli)
Midfielders: Sergio Busquets (Barcelona), Javi Martinez (Bayern Munich), Xabi Alonso (Real Madrid), Xavi Hernandez (Barcelona), Jorge "Koke" Resurreccion (Atletico Madrid), Thiago Alcantara (Bayern Munich), Jesus Navas (Manchester City), Cesc Fabregas (Barcelona), David Silva (Manchester City), Andres Iniesta (Barcelona), Santi Cazorla (Arsenal)
Forwards: Pedro Rodriguez (Barcelona), Alvaro Negredo (Manchester City), Diego Costa (Atletico Madrid)
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Vehicle: Automotive Suspension & Steering: Suspension Systems
- Course Format
- Product ID
- dlmrass1
- Training Time ?
- 127 to 254 minutes
- Language(s)
- English
- Video Format
- Standard Definition
- Devices Supported
- Browsers Supported
- IE Desktop
- Required Plugins
- MasteryNet Player
- Lesson Interactions
- 14
- Quiz Questions
- 40
- Interactive Producer
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- Original Content Producer
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This training , part one of a two part series, introduces the learner to automotive suspension and steering basics. The learner is guided to a more complete understanding of important theory as well as the diagnosis, troubleshooting, and repair procedures used by today's automotive technicians. Topics include suspensions - the basics of tires and wheels, shock absorbers and struts, plus front- and rear-suspensions.
This course is in the Advantage™ format, to read about Advantage™ features click here.
- Install on any SCORM LMS
- Rich multimedia presentation with interactions and quiz
- Print certificate and wallet card
- You have 60 days to complete the course
Training for anyone interested in, learning about or gaining an increased knowledge as an automotive technician. Part 1 of 2.
The course presents the following topical areas:
Suspension Systems
- Introduction
- Suspension system components
- Coil springs
- Torsion bars
- Multiple leaf springs
- Ball joints
- Stabilizer bars
- Strut rods
- Short and long arm suspension systems
- Steering knuckle
- Coil springs and shock absorbers
- MacPherson strut front suspension systems
- Torsion bar suspensions
- Types of rear suspension systems
- Coil spring live axle rear suspensions
- Semi-independent rear suspension systems
- Independent rear suspension systems
- With lower control arms and ball joints
- Rear wheel drive vehicles
- Multilink systems: rear wheel drive
- Multilink systems: front wheel drive
Shock Absorbers and Struts
- Introduction
- Shock absorbers
- Heavy duty shock absorbers
- Shock absorber diagnosis
- Jounce test
- Manual test
- Shock absorber replacement
- MacPherson strut front suspension systems
- Modified MacPherson strut suspension
- Independent rear suspension systems
- MacPherson strut systems
- Modified MacPherson strut systems
- Strut design
- Strut diagnosis and repair
- Strut removal and disassembly
Four Wheel Allignment - Part 1
- Introduction
- Preliminary inspection
- Tire wear pattern diagnosis
- Symptom based diagnosis
- Wheel alignment angles
- Toe
- Camber
- Caster
- Steering axis inclination (SAI) and included angle
- Rear thrust angle
- Rear wheel toe
- Causes of improper rear toe
Four Wheel Allignment - Part 2
- Introduction
- Alignment machines
- Four wheel computerized alignment procedure
- Four wheel alignment sequence
- Rear camber measurement and adjustment
- Rear toe measurement and adjustment
- Front camber measurement and adjustment
- Front caster measurement and adjustment
- Front toe measurement and adjustment
Intended Performance Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course you will be better prepared to:
- Identify the major types of front and rear suspension systems used on passenger vehicles..
- Identify the components in a front short arm or long arm suspension system.
- Identify the components in a macpherson strut suspension system.
- Identify the components in a live axle rear suspension system.
- Identify the components in an independent rear suspension system.
- Describe the operation of a shock absorber.
- Identify the components of a macpherson strut suspension system.
- Identify the types of suspensions that use shock absorbers.
- Test the operation of a shock absorber.
- Describe the steps necessary to rebuild a macpherson strut assembly.
- Perform a pre-alignment inspection.
- Identify causes of tire wear pattern.
- Identify alignment problems related to suspension component wear.
- Inspect rear suspension systems.
- Define the major suspension alignment angles.
- Describe the sequence for a four-wheel alignment.
- Describe the procedures for performing a caster steer.
- Describe the procedures for adjusting caster.
- Describe the procedures for adjusting camber
- Describe the adjustments to the rear suspension that affect thrust line.
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MENTASTA LAKE (AP) -- When the earthquake struck this rural community in Interior Alaska, 20-foot-tall spruce trees whipped back and forth, slapping the ground on each side like windshield blades.
Tree trunks split open. Water squirted from the earth. A wave shattered ice on the lake and threw thick blocks on the shore. Mountains slumped. Roads buckled and cracks yawned in the earth. Houses rocked and jumped, shattering dishes and toppling TVs. Tap water turned brown, sewer lines broke, oil tanks toppled.
People found themselves knocked down for at least 80 seconds of up-down, side-to-side washing-machine action.
''It was like riding a boat on the roughest sea,'' said Angela Pete, at home with her seven children and niece. ''When it stopped moving, the house came down hard.''
But when one of the most powerful quakes ever recorded in the United States eased a few minutes later, no one was killed and few were hurt. The most serious injury reported so far occurred when Mentasta elder Cherry Nicolai fell on the ice and broke an arm as she fled her home, said tribal officials.
''We believe in God, we believe in Jesus,'' said Mentasta Lake tribal administrator Kathryn Martin. ''We just know that God was watching over us here.''
The Slana-Mentasta Lake region, about 250 miles northeast of Anchorage, is a country of log cabins hunkered deep in spruce forest, bounded by the snow-covered foothills of the Alaska Range.
For days after a 7.9 earthquake ruptured along the Denali fault on Nov. 3, shocks continued to jolt residents of the area. People waded into homes and businesses awash in dishes, bottles, cans, books and knickknacks. Crews began repairing a highway rumpled with crevices that reached up to 8 feet down.
Representatives from state and federal agencies were inspecting homes and buildings and investigating reports of damage. The American Red Cross had sent teams to several communities, and other agencies were delivering donated food, clothing and building supplies.
''The remote location of this (quake) was a godsend,'' said Anchorage engineer John Aho. Aho was in Mentasta Lake with the state Division of Emergency Services to make sure buildings were safe. Much of the damage was cosmetic, but could be costly to repair, Aho said.
''What I've seen so far is absolutely amazing,'' Paul Whipple, a consultant working with the Copper River Basin Regional Housing Authority, told about 100 people at a community meeting in Mentasta Lake. ''All of the structures in this community were basically acting like boats riding out a storm.''
The quake hit at 1:12 p.m. on Nov. 3 at a depth of about three miles.
Over the next 80 seconds, the new rupture ''unzipped'' the Denali fault through nearly 150 miles of the Alaska Range, said state seismologist Roger Hansen.
People in 143 North American zip codes, from Louisiana to New York, from California to Alaska, reported feeling the motion. The energy released made it the largest quake yet measured in the world in 2002.
It sliced right through Mentasta.
At the Mentasta Lodge, located on the fault, owner Linda Lester was in the kitchen when an employee shouted ''Earthquake!'' She bolted outside and immediately lost her footing on a glaze left by freezing rain.
Crouched on bare hands and bruised knees, Lester watched cracks rupture the parking lot, producing ridges in the chip-seal that looked like the traces of giant gophers. Chunks rose up, the highway wrenched away from the driveway, a log guest cabin tilted over backward.
From inside the lodge came the clamor of dumping freezers and spilling shelves. An ATM leapt from its bolts. Bottles of syrup and sauce and beer shattered, covering surfaces with sticky, smelly goo. Sewer and water lines snapped in the basement. Walls bulged, floors heaved, Sheetrock cracked.
But Lester's attention was drawn to her Chevy van. It was prancing toward her on successive jolts.
''I thought, 'Oh my god, I'm going to get run over by my own van,' '' she said.
A few miles to the northwest along Mentasta Lake, Benny Funk, 61, and his dog, Pal, burst from his log home. He fell to the icy ground and watched as an avalanche roared down a mountain and his porch shifted and buckled.
But then Funk saw something he'd never imagined -- a big wave surging from the benign lake he had known all his life.
''As I was sliding around on the ice, it looked like a tsunami wave came up into the yard,'' he said. ''It washed some huge ice chucks up in the yard.''
Some of the worst cracks sheared through the ground beneath the home of the Pete family. David Pete was outdoors.
''All of a sudden, I got shocked to the ground, and all I could see was trees touching the ground like windshield blades swishing back and forth. I've never seen such great power.''
As the land under his house sank, his driveway buckled. A hole wrenched open in the forest floor, exposing roots and boulders, a spruce tree ripped up the middle like a twig twisted too far. As the shaking eased, he ran inside the family's small cabin.
Six of the eight kids had been watching TV and eating a late breakfast of cereal in a bedroom. The other two had been in the kitchen with their mother, Angela, who held on as the house ''bounced'' and landed hard.
''All my dishes, all my food, everything thing was tossed -- the TV, the VCR, the refrigerator,'' she said.
In the bedroom, 13-year-old Savannah and 12-year-old Sarah had gathered the other children and had them sitting quietly on the bed. It turned out they were studying earthquakes at the Mentasta School and knew what they should do.
''I'm very proud of them,'' Pete said.
''It was really scary,'' Sarah added. ''Every time there was an aftershock, we all piled on the bed.''
In an hour, the family caught a ride into the village and joined others at the community hall.
Angela Pete says she has been watching her children closely since the quake. Her 4-year-old son has been sleeping with and some of her older children have been waking up at night.
''I was crying this morning -- it all got to me this morning,'' Pete said. ''There's little possibility of going back to the house. I really don't know what we're going to do.''
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'The Face of Deception' follows Sarah and her friends as they struggle to maintain identity in a group overrun with treachery and betrayal. The book poses readers with the question, who is the face of deception?
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Sarah O'Connor is the only child of an interracial couple who have different ideas about how to raise her. Her Irish father believes she should have freedom, but her East Indian mother believes in keeping her in the house and practices physical punishment. Sarah's boyfriend and two best friends do all they can to help her, but horrible circumstances beyond her control force her into a life she never could have imagined. Sabrina Ali's new novel, "The Face of Deception" (published by Trafford Publishing), follows Sarah through a life filled with lies, betrayal and deceit.
Sarah is ecstatic to have a boyfriend and what she thinks are great friends. Her happiness is short-lived, however, when her friend's very disturbed, malicious, older cousin enters the group. While he appears to be looking for friends, his ulterior motive threatens to destroy the group's bond as they know it.
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ATLANTA (AP) -- Freddie Freeman and David Ross hit home runs as the Atlanta Braves made the most of their three hits to beat the San Francisco Giants 3-2 on Thursday to avoid a sweep. Tim Hudson (8-4) helped an Atlanta bullpen that was drained by Wednesday night's 9-4 loss in 11 innings. He gave up eight hits and two runs in 7 1-3 innings to outpitch Giants left-hander Madison Bumgarner. The Giants were denied their first sweep at Turner Field. They haven't swept a series of at least three games in Atlanta since 1988 at old Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium. The NL West-leading Giants' five-game winning streak ended with their first loss since the All-Star break. They began the day a season-best three games ahead of the second-place Dodgers. The Braves were held to three hits, none after the fourth inning. Craig Kimbrel pitched a perfect ninth inning for his NL-leading 28th save. Bumgarner couldn't extend his streak of wins in seven straight decisions. Bumgarner (11-6) gave up only three hits but allowed three runs, two earned, in seven innings. He had eight strikeouts and no walks in his first loss since May 26. He fell to 4-5 away from San Francisco. Freeman led off the second inning with his 13th homer, giving him a 10-game hitting streak. The Braves scored an unearned run off Bumgarner in the third when Paul Janish reached on third baseman Pablo Sandoval's fielding error and scored on Michael Bourn's triple. Ross pushed Atlanta's lead to 3-1 in the fourth with his fifth homer, a long shot to centerfield. It was Atlanta's third and final hit of the game. Sandoval led off the second with a single and scored on a single by Emmanuel Burris. The Giants didn't score another run until the eighth when Melky Cabrera tripled and scored on Buster Posey's flyball to center, cutting Atlanta's lead to 3-2. NOTES: Giants SS Brandon Crawford, who fouled a ball off his right knee before hitting a go-ahead, three-run homer in the 11th inning on Wednesday night, started Thursday and said the knee is fine. ... The Braves are listing Ben Sheets as the starting pitcher in the first game of Saturday's doubleheader at Washington. Randall Delgado will be recalled from Triple-A Gwinnett to start the second game. ... The Braves open the series against the Nationals on Friday night when Tommy Hanson faces Stephen Strasburg in a matchup of 10-game winners. ... The Giants open a series at Philadelphia on Friday night with Tim Lincecum, only 3-10, facing Vance Worley.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7029419017923677229.post6257306665868727577..comments2013-12-06T04:46:02.365-05:00Comments on TeachPaperless: Ten Reasons to Have a Paperless ClassroomShelly email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7029419017923677229.post-46144000135856453622012-06-06T18:00:30.565-04:002012-06-06T18:00:30.565-04:00Thanks to sharing nice information through your bl...Thanks to sharing nice information through your blog I think, it would help to complete study from
distance learning.Mobiushttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7029419017923677229.post-74512601986367950492011-01-30T06:56:10.848-05:002011-01-30T06:56:10.848-05:00Since starting to use online materials for teachin...Since starting to use online materials for teaching several years ago, my quest has been to find an efficient way to mark students' writing without having physical print-outs to work with. Does anyone know of a system (either a program or a set of macros or some other arrangement) that would allow me to mark up students' assignments and papers without printing them out?

I'm a college instructor, and my students are writing two- to four-page assignments regularly, so I need a way to correct and comment on a lot of text, and with a certain degree of sophistication.

Thanks -firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7029419017923677229.post-87640521703021283242011-01-22T23:56:20.113-05:002011-01-22T23:56:20.113-05:00@Jessica 85% is a pretty great start. Prepare col...@Jessica

85% is a pretty great start. Prepare collaborative work and let kids share the tech you do have. If possible, open up your classroom to cellphone/SMS/smartphone use as well.

And remember 100% paperlessness is only as important as the connections your students are able to make. So focus on bringing the network to them and on bringing them to the network. Let their voices and inquiries go beyond the classroom walls.

ShellyShelly Blake-Plockhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7029419017923677229.post-13642332377847740362011-01-22T23:11:11.239-05:002011-01-22T23:11:11.239-05:00What do you do if you have students who do not hav...What do you do if you have students who do not have computer/internet access? I would say that about 85% of my students do, but 15% don't. I would love to go paperless, but I don't think I can ever go completely without. Thoughts?Jessica Hodgsonhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7029419017923677229.post-15170761161789280132011-01-21T14:30:47.992-05:002011-01-21T14:30:47.992-05:00I completely agree with this IF you're student...I completely agree with this IF you're students have access to technology. If they don't, this is impossible. If you're not 1:1, students don't have the flexibility to complete their work on the bus, in the car, at the basketball game, etc.IMC Guyhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7029419017923677229.post-61094789116168092472011-01-21T11:52:35.316-05:002011-01-21T11:52:35.316-05:00google docs = complete cloud computing but if you ...google docs = complete cloud computing but if you need more admin/control ebackpack does what dropbox is made for but just for teachersDrewhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7029419017923677229.post-84250301811776443532011-01-19T16:48:11.620-05:002011-01-19T16:48:11.620-05:00I am planning a Paperless Classroom workshop on Ap...I am planning a Paperless Classroom workshop on April 15. Now I am psyched to tie it into Earth Day. I welcome any ideas.Janethttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7029419017923677229.post-19461999209485690342011-01-19T11:21:10.031-05:002011-01-19T11:21:10.031-05:00@gasstationwithoutpumps Don't have your stude...@gasstationwithoutpumps

Don't have your students turn in work. Rather, have them create the work on the cloud. (ie don't have them submit a word doc to you or to a dropbox, rather have them create the doc on Google Docs and just add you as an editor). Google Docs are searchable -- which eliminates 95% of "losing things" problems.

As for editing, if you are added as an editor to a Doc, it's as easy as marking up any word doc using editing features/commenting etc.

Easy fix.

ShellyShelly Blake-Plockhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7029419017923677229.post-9916213921847108622011-01-19T10:58:05.110-05:002011-01-19T10:58:05.110-05:00I've been requiring (college) students to turn...I've been requiring (college) students to turn in work electronically for years. Managing a filing system on computers is just as difficult as managing a filing cabinet. If things aren't filed immediately in the right place they can be lost for years. Students can accidentally delete files or portions of files irretrievably (which is worse than the lost-in-the-backpack or dog-ate-the-homework excuse).

Students forget to save to a shared server and so lose their work.

Going paperless does not solve any of the executive function problems—it just changes them so that the conventional solutions taught to kids don't work and they need to learn new ones.

Incidentally, I've found that for grading writing and computer programs, I do need to have paper copies. I tried a couple of times marking up electronic copies, but it was far too slow and inefficient. I require electronic submission of programs so that I can test them, but for providing detailed feedback, I still need paper.

Perhaps if you don't do detailed feedback on homework, then electronic markup is not such a barrier.gasstationwithoutpumpshttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7029419017923677229.post-32803025484009967672011-01-19T10:49:57.799-05:002011-01-19T10:49:57.799-05:00Great list! And, if students use cloud backup and ...Great list! And, if students use cloud backup and syncing, then they will have access to their work even if their device is lost, broken, or left at home.Davehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7029419017923677229.post-88209527996531692292011-01-19T09:45:22.747-05:002011-01-19T09:45:22.747-05:00Love your tips - I know my own children could have...Love your tips - I know my own children could have used this especially in eliminating excuses #10, #8, and #4. Since there is so much teaching about saving the Earth, it only makes sense to live it and teach by example.Mary Beth @SchoolSpringhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7029419017923677229.post-63669788092504633252011-01-19T05:50:35.823-05:002011-01-19T05:50:35.823-05:00lol; Mel I was thinking the same thing.lol; Mel I was thinking the same thing.Promotional Penshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7029419017923677229.post-39417304040803697052011-01-18T21:00:29.812-05:002011-01-18T21:00:29.812-05:00Ha ha ha!! This is so good that my first thought ...Ha ha ha!! This is so good that my first thought was to print this and post it in the room!!! I guess I will have to email this to my students now!!
Ha ha ha!Melhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7029419017923677229.post-57921338271335051532011-01-18T18:49:23.858-05:002011-01-18T18:49:23.858-05:00Fun tips, Steve. I'm glad you said something ...Fun tips, Steve. I'm glad you said something about reducing use as well. I've been trying to cut back for 1.5 years, but I think it is near impossible to go completely paperless without a 1: 1 environment.

- @newfirewithinJustinhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7029419017923677229.post-7761531539577904532011-01-18T18:43:41.081-05:002011-01-18T18:43:41.081-05:00It's also easier to grade work. Can keep in ...It's also easier to grade work.

Can keep in touch with kids at all times.

Can create a community for even the most shy kid to participate.

Students can participate even when absent.

Don't have to rely on subs to give out work, can assign it online!English Teaching Chickhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com


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Letters seized from Osama Bin Laden's Pakistani hideout expose the Al Qaeda leader's frustration with his jihadi "brothers" and his inability to control their "incompetence."
Bin Laden's correspondance reveals him battling in vain to control a disorganised network of jihadi groups, not "the puppet master" of jihadi groups as was previously thought, reports Reuters.
Bin Laden is seen as a weakened leader, trying desperately to reclaim support for those who had lost trust in Al Qaeda. Bin Laden conveys his pain at domestic attacks that caused Muslim civilian casualties, urging disparate Al Qaeda groups to focus on the United States, "our desired goal."
"In doing so, we shall reclaim, God willing, the trust of a large segment of those who lost their trust in the jihadis," Bin Laden writes in a letter from 2010, reports the BBC.
The contrast between Bin Laden's private thoughts and his public statements is stressed by analysts from the U.S. Army's Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) who published the documents, under the title 'Letters from Abbottabad: Bin Ladin Sidelined?'.
The 17 documents, released in a US election year, have been dismissed as a political move by some. It is in America's interest to reveal Osama Bin Laden in such a light, claims the BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner.
The documents reveal that despite Somali based al Shabab's pledge of allegiance to Al Qaeda, Bin Laden was dispassionate about registering their support, believing them to be too strict in enforcing Sharia law, reports news agency AP.
A collection of 75 pages in the original Arabic and 197 pages in the English translation, were published. They can be downloaded here.
British terrorism expert Sajan Gohel told BBC news that the release of these 17 documents was important in showing how Al Qaeda operates in Pakistan, within a network of terrorist groups.
He told BBC news that more documents may end up circulating on the internet, and some may be leaked.
Osama Bin Laden evaded American forces for ten years after 11 September attacks on the World Trade Center – his hiding skill became a decade-long-joke.
One year ago on 5 April Osama bin Laden was shot dead by US Navy Seals during a raid on his home in Abbottbad Pakistan. There a still a number of unanswered questions that hover over the death of the man that evaded capture for so long.


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The Committees of Advertising Practice (CAP), who write and maintain the advertising codes in the UK that are administered by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), have published the outcome of a consultation to amend the Gambling section of the CAP Code. From Tuesday 17 September 2013, betting websites regulated by the Gambling Commission will be permitted to use individuals under the age of 25 in marketing communications if they are the subject of a bet being offered provided that the depiction shows the individual in the context of the bet being offered and not in a manner that promotes gambling. Kokyee Ng (DLA Piper, London) comments on CAP's amendment to rule 16.3.14 of the CAP Code.
Following a period of public consultation in response to the Gambling industry's concerns over the impact of CAP's Online Remit Extension (ORE), which extended the ASA's remit to regulate marketing communications on advertisers' own websites and other non-paid-for space online under their control, CAP have decided to amend rule 16.3.14 of the Code to allow marketers to feature individuals under the age of 25 on betting websites where they illustrate the bet being offered e.g. a footballer to score first in a match. Prior to the consultation, rule 16.3.14 prohibited individuals who are or appear to be under 25 from appearing in marketing communications for gambling products. This prevented operators from using images of sportsmen and women who are or appeared to be under 25 to illustrate a bet offered on sports betting websites where they were the subject of a bet.
As part of the consultation, CAP received submissions from interested parties both for and against the proposal including but not limited to the Advertising Association, Gambling Commission, Betfair, and Gambling Watch UK. However, CAP was satisfied that the amend, which is narrow in scope, simply restores the position that existed prior to the ORE on 1 March 2011, which permitted the use of individuals under the age of 25 provided they were the subject of a bet being offered and were depicted in the context of the bet being offered, and not in a manner that promotes gambling or the gambling operator. Accordingly, CAP are of the view that the change is very unlikely to result in harm to children or young people.
The existing CAP Code rule 16.3.14 is therefore amended as follows:
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[…] include a child or a young person. No-one who is, or seems to be, under-25 years old may be featured gambling or playing a significant role. No-one may behave in an adolescent, juvenile or loutish way.
Individuals who are, or seem to be under 25 years old (18-24 years old) may be featured playing a significant role only in marketing communications that appear in a place where a bet can be placed directly through a transactional facility, for instance, a gambling operator's own website. The individual may only be used to illustrate specific betting selections where that individual is the subject of the bet offered. The image or other depiction used must show them in the context of the bet and not in a gambling context."
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By age three, he had stepped into his first Kumon Center; by age 13, he had completed the Kumon Reading Program; and by age 16, Alan was the first student at Kumon of Eugene, Oregon to reach Level X in mathematics and become a Dual Program Completer. This summer, Alan is making the transition from Kumon Student to Kumon Assistant by helping the kids he was sitting among not so long ago.
Born in Japan, Alan began his Kumon career studying math, reading, and Japanese in the Junior Kumon Program across the Pacific Ocean. At age five, Alan and his family moved to California, and he continued his Kumon curriculum, pacing himself ahead of his classmates. In third grade, Alan moved once again and began attending O'Hara Catholic School in Eugene, Oregon where he continued his Kumon studies. Moving and changing schools can be tough on kids, especially in keeping up with their academic studies, but Alan says, "Kumon helps you get started in school, transitioning with new topics, as well as progressing and staying above par."
Alan completed the Kumon Reading Program, which reaches the equivalent of high school Advanced Placement courses, in eighth grade. While Alan may not have always loved attending Kumon and completing the worksheets, he says he's appreciative of the program. "Yes, it's more work on top of school, but it definitely helped. Algebra was made much easier in school since I already saw it in Kumon," explains Alan.
Now, after becoming an official Kumon Dual Program Completer, Alan is taking on the additional challenge of starting his first job – as a Kumon Assistant. Instead of sitting among the round tables and stools with Kumon Students, Alan will be sitting behind a desk in the grading center where he will be helping others achieve their highest potential – just like he did.


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Growing Flower Bulbs
If you plan ahead, you could have bulbs flowering in your garden nearly year-round. Bulbs can be left to naturalize in lawns or to carpet shaded woodland areas in spring. They also provide the early season's show in your borders, before herbaceous plants have stirred into growth, and make excellent companions for perennials and deciduous shrubs, filling the gaps between these plants.
Growing Bulbs
Bulbs are easy to grow, as long as you follow a few simple rules. In the wild, most bulbs grow in climates with hot, dry seasons, and prefer light, free-draining soils in full sun. Bulbs from woodlands need moist, rich, but free-draining soil, and dappled sun or part shade. In short, if you know where your bulbs come from, it's easier to provide a home for them in the garden. For example, woodland bulbs, such as bluebells, colchicums, cyclamen, and snowdrops, come into growth when the weather is sunny and wet—this will be when overhanging trees are leafless, since the foliage reduces the amount of light and rainwater reaching the bulbs. The bulbs come into leaf, flower, and set seed between late fall and spring, and are dormant again by the time the trees are in full leaf.
What Is a Bulb?
It can be confusing when you discover that the word "bulb" is often used as a blanket term for any plant that has an underground food-storage organ. So as well as true bulbs (as in snowdrops and lilies), there are three other forms: corms (crocuses), rhizomes (irises), and tubers (cyclamen). Each type of bulb has evolved to cope with distinct growing conditions.
- True bulbs are made of leaves layered as in an onion, with a papery skin. Lily bulbs are looser in form, and lack a papery skin.
- Corms are the thickened base of the stem; they have 1–2 buds at their apex. Tiny cormlets may grow around the base.
- Rhizomes are swollen stems, which usually grow horizontally near the soil surface, and have several buds along them.
- Tubers come in two types. Root tubers (as in dahlias) have buds at the stem base. Stem tubers (as in cyclamen) have surface buds.


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After reviewing thousands of images of cows on Google Earth, the new gold standard in data collection, scientists have determined that cows generally point north. Lest you think this is some crap news my brother grabbed from the Daily Mail, Dr. Sabine Begall and colleagues from the University of Duisburg-Essen published this discovery in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal.
When you Google "Cow Compass" this is what happens.
After factoring out variations like wind, terrain, sun, time of day, time of year, temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, dew point, breed of cow, ethnicity, religion, sexual preference, and specific density, Begall and company determined that the cows must get their innate bearings from the earth's magnetic field. They theorize this adaptation must have come in handy when cows wild ancestors wandered the earth freely, looking for a good time.
Which way am I facing now Einstein?
Thanks to Chris Cleveland for sending along.


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4 reviews of Philippe the Original, first by Kero.
June 15, 2015
Love their franch dip sandwich!!
February 22, 2014
Home of the original French dip sandwich. Get the French dip sandwich double dip or single dip depending how juicy you want it
February 6, 2014
One of the claimed originators of the French Dip, this place is delicious and a nice detour from more typical dining, with it's retro feel.
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- The sinus-clearing hot mustard gives Philippe's French-dipped sandwiches their powerful, distinctive flavor. If you want to add a culinary punch to any meal, you can buy this combustible condiment by the jar at the restaurant.
- Private rooms are available for large groups and tours. Please call ahead for reservations and details.
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Tim Stich wrote:Just insert a sterilized needle underneath the toe nail and it will pierce the blood blister and drain that way. The nail is already partially lifted from the nail so you don't have far to go. This should be painless, also.
I'll disagree here. The needle would be painless if the nail if fully lifted at the tip (but wouldn't it then have drained already?). And supercautious that I am, the needle seems to introduce a higher infection risk by penetrating flesh, while I've never in several episodes had the red-hot paperclip go to the flesh, the floor under the blood blister.
The need for a mechanical drill escapes me.


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I invented a Wildtree freezer meal this week after looking over countless roast recipes on the internet. I wanted to create a recipe using the Wildtree Apple Balsamic Vinegar.
Sweet Mustard Beef Roast
Recipe by: me :)
2-3 pounds beef or pork roast
1/3 cup dijon mustard
2 TBSP. Wildtree Apple Balsamic Vinegar
1 tsp. Wildtree Garlic Galore
1/3 cup molasses
1 tsp. California Garlic & Pepper Blend
Put all ingredients in a freezer bag and label.
When ready to prepare, empty contents of freezer bag into crockpot. Add 1 1/2 cups water in crockpot. Heat on high in crockpot for 4 hours.
Remove roast.
Put drippings from crockpot into a glass dish and remove fat from top. Put drippings into saucepan and heat on high. Put 1 TBSP of corn starch in small bowl with 1 tsp. of water. Add into saucepan once drippings start to boil. Stir until thicken to make gravy. Add salt and pepper if desired.
I served the meal with roasted potatoes and broccoli.
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Pretend you're designing the future Bike Style Spokane catalog. What would you want to see in it?
As we look for additional products to add to the mix, we've identified some ideas and need your help as our online focus group to tell us which ones are worth hunting down. We just asked this in a much shorter version on Facebook too; no harm done if you answer in both spots.
As always, we're looking for things not readily available in local bike shops; we cater to a more specialized/niche market and have to find manufacturers willing to supply our very small volume. They also need to fit the values/philosophy outlined in Thoughts on Shopping and Shopping for a Better World: Made as close to home as possible with components and a manufacturing process that keep health and sustainability in mind.
Some of the items aren't for riding per se–they would answer the question, "What do I buy as a gift for that friend of mine who rides a bike when I don't know what she/he needs for riding?"
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Jeff Dunham Atlantic City Tickets
Atlantic City is hosting an event featuring his popular dummies and hilarious acts. Renowned standup comedian, Jeff Dunham would be showcasing his talents at the Borgata Events Center. Jeff Dunham Atlantic City tickets are open for sale now. The uproarious performance will entertain the audience with back to back jokes and a parade of ventriloquist's dummies. Popular dummy characters of Jeff Dunham include Walter, Peanut, José Jalapeño on a Stick, Bubba J, Sweet Daddy Dee, Melvin the Superhero Guy, Achmed the Dead Terrorist, Diane, Achmed Junior and others. The popular comedian received over three hundred and fifty million hits on YouTube and sold over four million DVDs by October 2009.
America's favorite comedian as referred by Slate.com, stand-up comedian Jeff Dunham was born in 1962. The talented ventriloquist made an appearance on several television shows such as 'Comedy Central Presents', 'Sonny With a Chance', 'Late Show with David Letterman' and 'The Tonight Show'. Five of his stage performances have been running successfully on Comedy Central. The performances include 'Jeff Dunham: Minding the Monsters', 'Jeff Dunham: Spark of Insanity', 'Jeff Dunham: Controlled Chaos', 'Jeff Dunham: Arguing with Myself' and 'Jeff Dunham's Very Special Christmas Special'.
Credited for the revival of ventriloquism, Jeff is doing something much bigger than just making people laugh; he is trying to promote the art form. This talented artist seems to be following the footsteps of Edgar Bergen, a famous ventriloquist of his times. As per Forbes.com, this comedian is the United State's third highest-paid comedian after Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock. Earning about thirty million dollars, Jeff was ranked amongst the highest-earning comics for the period June 2008 to June 2009.
According to the concert industry publication Pollstar, Jeff was categorized amongst North America's top-grossing standup act. And not only that, Jeff has created a big name for himself in Europe as well. This famed artist is coming to the Atlantic City next to spread laughter. Get your Jeff Dunham Atlantic City tickets to enjoy this distinct form of art by the talented artist at the Borgata Events Center.


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Right in the heart of Central Jersey is Monmouth County – one of the most important parts of New Jersey, and a popular place for families to live. While it may have been in the news recently for negative reasons, within Monmouth County is an intelligent community of homeowners and workers that take a great deal of pride in their cities.
Green Pest Solutions understands that pride. We're a local pest control company that has been working in areas of Monmouth County for many years, including areas such as:
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From Eatontown to Loch Arbour, the most important part of living in a home is feeling the safety and security that comes from home ownership, and when pests take away that security we want to be there to help get it back.
Our thorough pest control solutions are aimed at ensuring that your home is as close to pest free as possible. Whether you already have a pest – like termites, bed bugs, and wasps – or you simply want to keep your home free of pests all throughout the year, contact Green Pest Solutions today at 877-636-9469, and find out more about our Monmouth County pest control.
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Heres another plate from yesterday using the Watson Studio camera. You can see clearly my silver bath need some work doing to it. I don't actually mind all the mess/scratches too much on this plate though.
This image has had a little bit of Photoshop done to it as it was fairly fogged along the top of the frame.
Whole plate CGA, 10 seconds f4.5 Ross Xpres lens.


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Ice Text
In this tutorial, i'll show you how to make your text freezing cold. This tutorial will also show you how to use this ice text on any colored background..
Start a new document 700x400px with blue HEX: #043A79 background.
Switch over to the Channel's Pallete and create a new channel. (if the channel pallete is not visible, go to "Windows » Channels".
While still in the channels pallete and with the new channel (Alpha 1) selected, select the Type Tool and type your text. Make it as big as possible.
Now duplicate this new text channel, to do this, drag the channel into the "create new channel" icon. This will not be Alpha 1 copy.
Go to Filter » Pixelate » Fragment. Repeat this step for 3 times.
Then go to Filter » pixelate » crystalize. Enter 6. (This depends on the size of your text. play around)
Go to Select » Select All, then Edit » Copy
Then go back to the layers pallete. Then Edit » Paste
Then go to Image » Adjustments » Hue/Saturation. Match the following settings:
|Go to Image » Rotate Canvas » 90CW
Go to Filter » Stylize » Wind
Method: Wind
|Go to image » Rotate Canvas » 90CCW
Go back to the Channels Pallete. and click on the original text channel (Alpha 1) to select it.
Then go to Filter » Blur » Guassian Blur.
Enter: 8.0
Go to Image » Adjustments » Levels
Input Levels: [ 0 ] [ 0.15 ] [ 60 ]
CTRL+Click on Alpha 1 (the original text channel) to make a selection around the text.
Then go back to the Layer's Pallete
Create a new layer.
Press D and X on the keyboard to reset the colors back to default white and black.
Go to Filter » Render » Clouds
Go to Filter » Sketch » Chrome
You can play around with this to get different effects.
Apply Inner Glow layer style to this chrome layer. (Blue used: #39C5FF )
Change the blending mode of the chrome layer to overlay, and set the opacity to about 80%
Now you are done, but what if we want to place our text on another color background? we cant, because it is already on a colored background.
The following steps will show you how to overcome that.
Go back to the Channels Pallete, CTRL click on Alpha 1 to select the original text channel, then go back to the layers pallete.
Go to Select » Inverse, then hit delete to delete, then deselect.
Go to Image » Rotate Canvas » 90CW.
Go to Filter » Stylize » Wind.
Method: Wind
|Go to image » rotate Canvas » 90CCW.
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To survive without GMO
Well that GMOs we are eventually banned, on the day the President of the relevant law was signed.
The sound kind of unappetizing — genetically modified education. Education, as we know, happens primary, secondary and tertiary, and sometimes benign or malignant. What's the food? Can, of course, be with it, if long time to eat. But scientists do not yet know.
What food gets a neuter, honestly, not very embarrassing. There are some good products are neuter, for example, beer, wine, or meat, milk. Although with the latter recently without any GMOs different miracles happen. It seemed a little of powder to make it, now, say, a car came up that grass like a cow, grinds it and the milk gives to the surface.
But it's the Americans invent, we still can't do it, the cow help in a simple way, mixing in milk, but water, starch, chalk, soap, soda, lime, boric or salicylic acid and even plaster. This was recently reported people on its website of the Rosselkhoznadzor. Whether the substitution is such that if the producers care that the milk does not turn sour. Now, if it is from the American car was, it just would not spoiled and sour, damn. And poisoning to happen.
Cheese, it seems, too, without the cows do. As reported by the media, on the shelves of stores in Russia recently there was a mass of white color production Lev-tolstovskiy dairy plant that burns if ignited.
Tolstoy himself hardly expected such posthumous fame when he was mowing the grass in his peasant shirt. And in his head could not come that in the future Russia his "War and peace" on the scale will block epic by adding dairy products and vegetable fat. And fats these burn perfectly, the same canola oil. It is used worldwide as a biofuel, it is possible to fill a diesel engine, and it will work and spoil the atmosphere not worse than a cow with its methane emissions. So in case of destruction of the environment without cows, too it is possible to do.
It may, of course, leotolstoy decided Americans beat and added cheese in some plastic to the waste from packaging came out, like in a Japanese toilet? And then with the waste from modern food is also a solid issue. According to the accounting chamber, Russia annually produces 90 billion tons of waste that accumulate on the territory of 4 million hectares. That is, we could all Switzerland debris to fall asleep, and Luxembourg so about ten. Annually for placement of waste is allocated 0.4 million hectares of land, the total volume of waste increases every year by 5 billion tons.
Of course, if things go well, the cows soon, just have nowhere to graze. Floodplain meadows is long gone, so Makar, in General any does not remain. And even zealous vegetarians will suffer, because the vegetables will have nowhere to grow.
Like it or not, there will have new technology to implement, and they seem to have is getting into the food chain. Recently, a resident of the Urals, misleading, bought on the market cucumbers, so they have three days in the fridge growing up. In other words, it was two pounds, three. Profitable, and even greenhouses are not needed.
Probably, the Chinese came up with, a lot of them, and space for the crops they have little. It may, of course, and our scientists have tried. But if it's not GMO, then maybe the "SKOLKOVO" or, more likely, nanotechnology?
In short, we have all realized there we'll be something quite different from what they ate before. This is the first piece of news is bad. Second, good — this will be a lot, enough for everyone.
And the new human race will generate those as soon as possible move on to artificial food, and not those rich people who still cling to the natural products.
Simon Semyonitch
While fans anxiously
House swallowed validol
Champagne flowed like a river
In honor of those who betrayed our football.
I claim: in the Eurozone
That hardly anyone knew:
To spend a quarter of a million,
To celebrate his failure.
Though something it is necessary to be the first
Time can money not take it
And their wobbly Euro
(Know ours!) contribution to support.
Other people in our time,
They have a particular arrogance,
Not that yasenskoe tribe
Knew duty, courage and honor.
And what is this that on the field
They're not very visible…
Give the players our will —
They cut the country's budget.
Ivan Ivanyuk
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|Drawn to Death (2017)
|(Art Director)
|Landmark (2016)
|(Additional Art)
|Free Realms (2009)
|(Character Artist)
|Rampage: Total Destruction (2006)
|(Additional Art)
|Xiaolin Showdown (2006)
|(Additional Modeling)
|Rise of the Kasai (2005)
|The Mark of Kri (2002)
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Organisers of this year's Poppy Appeal in Spalding are celebrating after raising more than £20,000.
They report that many areas equalled or even surpassed last year's amounts.
So far £21,500 has come in, which goes someway to meeting the Royal British Legion's national goal this year of £43m.
Honorary Poppy Appeal organiser Peter Lyon said: "I am very pleased to say that the annual call for collectors culminated in more fresh blood to assist in this mammoth collection task.
"I'm also pleased to say that by all accounts they thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Please remember this when the call goes out next year."
Largest contributors were Sainsbury's with £6,098.68 and £2,562.68 at Baytree, where Robin Hancox of TFL also raised £50 with the sale of reindeer carrots.
Mr Lyon added: "The other £13,000 was raised by wreath sales, poppy merchandise and at pubs, clubs, shops and workplaces where donations have ranged from £20 notes to one little girl's pocket money of 15p (and she was so proud to put it in the collection tin it really made my whole campaign worthwhile).
"I also need to highlight the efforts put in by our fantastic distribution teams from Bakkavor, who managed to deliver over 400 poppy boxes and attendant cans in a little over ten hours."
He said the collectors also deserve a special mention for their dedication in collecting during the miserable weather .
"Thank you Spalding, Weston, Weston Hills, Moulton Chapel, Pode Hole and everyone who so loyally supports this worthy and honourable cause in showing our armed forces that we care about their welfare and appreciate their sacrifices on our behalf."


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Thousands of commuters inconvenienced because of copper wires
The high price of copper caused a problem for thousands of commuters in Melbourne this morning. The rail operator, Metro, says copper thieves seem to be targeting its infrastructure.
ELEANOR HALL: Thousands of Melbourne commuters had a longer journey to work than normal today because of a problem which is being experienced worldwide - the theft of copper.
The Melbourne thieves targeted cabling between some of the railway stations in the city's west.
Globally the theft of copper is driven by high world prices for the metal, as Simon Lauder reports.
SIMON LAUDER: This morning on the Sunbury railway line, which cuts through Melbourne's western suburbs, thousands of commuters had to get on a bus instead of the usual train because of some missing cables.
Daniel Hoare is a spokesman for the company which runs the Melbourne rail network, Metro.
DANIEL HOARE: The disruptions are ongoing, they've been going since early this morning due to the theft of a number of a our copper cables, so basically we've spent the entire morning trying to work to repair those, to put new cables in those areas.
SIMON LAUDER: I understand that this isn't the first time that copper thieves have targeted the railway infrastructure?
DANIEL HOARE: The theft of copper is an ongoing problem, it's obviously a commodity that's sought after. We have thieves stealing cables, have done over the years. We've noticed a bit of a spike of late, not sure what the reason is for that but we've certainly had two incidents in the last couple of days and obviously overnight that was a very significant one for us, having not been able to run trains on that line for the whole morning.
SIMON LAUDER: The secretary of the Metal Recycling Industry Association, Paul Ryan, says copper is now worth between $5,000 and $6,000 a tonne. He calls it poor man's gold and says the theft of copper cables from railways is not unusual.
PAUL RYAN: Look it's not only typical for Melbourne, it's typical around the world unfortunately.
SIMON LAUDER: What are some typical targets for copper thieves?
PAUL RYAN: Copper pipes from installation of new buildings, I had another one over the weekend where somebody has stolen a large diameter copper tube from a factory being built and it's the type of material you'd use to put in sprinkler systems.
There's people taking wire from substations. There's a few examples of crooks getting their hands on poor man's gold.
SIMON LAUDER: Do you think that this is a problem which is still on the rise in Australia?
PAUL RYAN: No, if anything it's quietened off over the last couple of years, but I'll say it again, if you get on the internet and have a look at new services around the world, you'll find that it's a problem in the US and the UK and each different government has tried different mechanisms for reducing the incidents.
SIMON LAUDER: Mr Ryan says the industry has close links with police, so any suspicious copper sales can be investigated.
PAUL RYAN: When we're notified that copper has been stolen we send a notice of theft out to the dealers in Victoria just to say that this material has been stolen and we have had some successes where the crooks have showed up at a dealers with some material and the material has been identified and the police are called and the crooks are arrested.
SIMON LAUDER: The problem with that system is that any piece of twisted, crushed or melted copper can look just like another one.
Mr Ryan says there's another proposal which would leave a paper trail for sales of scrap copper, but he doesn't think it'd work.
PAUL RYAN: The New South Wales Attorney General's Department had a meeting two weeks ago to try and address this problem, and one of the things that came out there for discussion was eliminating the use of cash to pay people and that's been considered on and off by different governments over time.
But the problem is that our constitution says that cash is legal tender, so it would be quite difficult to enforce that.
SIMON LAUDER: For now, copper thieves are taking significant risks to continue making a profit. Daniel Hoare from Metro Trains.
DANIEL HOARE: There's no doubt that anybody who steals cabling of any sort around railway network is putting their lives in danger. It's an extremely dangerous thing to do. There's very high voltage going through all of these cables at certain times, and they are literally dicing with death.
ELEANOR HALL: That's Daniel Hoare from Metro trains in Melbourne, ending that report from Simon Lauder.
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