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Vitamin C is also called ascorbic acid, which is the form of vitamin C found in most foods. It is a water-soluble vitamin and cannot be stored in the body. Most plants and animals can produce their own vitamin C, but humans cannot. For this reason, humans must eat ample amounts of vitamin C every day.
Vitamin C is also a powerful antioxidant that helps boost the body's immune system, which is why people often eat oranges or a Vitamin C supplement to prevent colds.
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Good sources of vitamin C include oranges, grapefruits, lemons, limes, green and red peppers, tomatoes, strawberries, spinach, mangos, winter squash, cantaloupe, broccoli, and potatoes (sweet and white).
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Vitamin C deficiency is called scurvy. This was once a common and fatal disease among sailors who were unable to eat fresh fruits and vegetables for long periods of time. Scurvy usually starts with skin rashes and bleeding gums. The skin also becomes rough, scaly, and dry.
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I have two kittens, which I just got 5 days ago. They are so cute and lovable, and are really nice. Naturally, we are getting them adjusted to the house by having them in a room, with litter box, food, etc. I also have two chihuahua size puppies (at full size), and a 10 year old cat. Yesterday, we started to let them out. First we let them have the entire upstairs, which is simply two bedrooms, a bathroom, and a small hall. We blocked them with a gate. Our other pets had already met the kittens, and recognized their smell. The kittens were brave and longing, so following some advice, we decided to let them have the run of the house (except for now, the basement and family room). One of the cats came down, and our older cat was being better about it then I thought he would. He walked near where the kitten walked, and it was clear he was marking his territory. He didn't attack the kittens, so that was good. We let one of the dogs out from our hands, and they immediately terrified the kitten, so we decided that it was a night for the kittens, and we put them back in their room. Now, occasionally, our dogs irk our older cat, and he hisses, but this is rare. In fact, he normally plays with them. Now, our cat was lying against the wall, and one of our dogs walked a good distance away from him, that is, not too close to get angry. However, our cat jumped up and ran at the dog, almost about to attack her. Is this normal behavior in this type of situation? If not, what should I do?
I would really appreciate comments and help.
Yes, entirely normal. The older cat and the two dogs also have a lot of adjustments to make. Every situation is different. You have to remember what happened before the kittens came along so you can figure out exactly what to attribute to the "new" behaviour.
This is my absolute favourite among lots of terrific sites on how to properly introduce cats.
My take on what happened is that your cat likes the kittens and followed them and rather than being aloof and pugnacious showed that he wanted to bond with them. When the dog attacked one of the kittens, he was just getting back at it for what he did to "terrify" his kitten. Cats are good at that. Now the question is, did the dog make the connection that if he goes after the kitten again Mr. Boss Cat will even the score?
Even with my 2 cats that cuddle together and adore each other, sometimes they do get into playfights where the male trys to dominate the female by nipping at her. She doesn't like that, and will get back at him 2 times worse what he did to her---not at that moment----but usually later in the day.
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A consumer fraud lawsuit against numerous Tucson, Arizona, real estate professionals and businesses was filed alleging a sophisticated, multi-million-dollar real estate fraud scheme. The lawsuit alleges that the defendants engaged in a sophisticated system of fraud that led to the filing of foreclosure notices on more than 130 homes and caused substantial harm to investors, lenders and rent-to-own homebuyers. The defendants named in the lawsuit are:
Andrew Silverstein, former Re/Max All Executives real estate agent;
Anthony Zandonatti, owner of AZI Rent2Own and owner of RTOSearch.com;
AZI Rent2Own, LLC (d.b.a. Arizona Investments);
VinLan Ventures, LLC (d.b.a. Re/Max All Executives);
Vince Volpe, designated broker of Re/Max All Executives;
Tucson Mortgage, LLC (d.b.a.Tucson Mortgage);
William "Bill" Anastapolous, owner of Tucson Mortgage;
WGA Enterprises, LLC;
Thomas Piazza, Tucson Mortgage loan officer;
Amaury Leon, Infinity Funding loan officer;
Darren Breen, Red House Lending loan officer; and
Dave Klein, former Tucson Mortgage loan originator.
The complaint states that the defendants participated in a scheme that used deceptive tactics to entice under-qualified, novice investors into purchasing homes and then sold them to rent-to-own buyers. However, investigators say the scheme was designed to fail because it targeted rent-to-own homebuyers with credit problems and ignored whether they could qualify to purchase the homes.
The alleged scheme occurred in three parts:
1. The Arizona Investments scheme
The investment scheme consisted of defendants Silverstein, who has been recognized as one of the Tucson-area's top real estate agents [Arizona Daily Star, Jan. 30, 2007], and agents from his Re/Max team, Zandonatti and his Arizona Investments rent-to-own specialists, and defendant Leon. They allegedly identified consumers to purchase investment homes for a rent-to-own system managed by defendants Zandonatti and Arizona Investments.
These defendants allegedly deceived more than 130 investors with assurances of a legitimate and "worry free" investment system requiring little or no capital investment and virtually no involvement in the transaction or in the subsequent management of the investment.
One such assurance, a "rent guarantee," allegedly promised that the investor would receive the rent every month, whether it was collected or not. Another alleged inducement was the nominal out-of-pocket cost to the investor – a maximum of $1,000 to purchase a property.
According to the complaint, few investors read all of the loan documents presented to them for signing. The loans allegedly profited the mortgage brokers and loan originators, and often contained unfavorable terms for the investors, including high interest rates, adjustable rates, prepayment penalties, yield-spread premiums and balloon payments.
The suit also alleged that investors were told not to worry about the amount of the mortgage payments – that the sizeable non-refundable "down payments" paid by the rent-to-own homebuyers were intended to be used to offset the deficiency between the monthly rental payment and the amount of their mortgage payment. Once the down payment money was depleted, however, the investor no longer received a rental amount sufficient to cover the increasing mortgage payments.
Defendants Silverstein and Zandonatti allegedly encouraged investors who were struggling financially to purchase additional investment homes to generate income. More than half of the approximately 130 investors were induced to buy multiple properties. In some instances, consumer investors allegedly found that properties had been procured in their names without their knowledge.
2. Fraud against lenders
The second alleged deceptive scheme involved defrauding and deceiving lenders in order to fraudulently obtain the financing for the millions of dollars of "investment" properties purchased by the consumer-investors.
According to the complaint, Silverstein, Zandonatti and others took deceptive actions designed to ensure that financially under-qualified investors would obtain the loans to purchase the homes. For example, Silverstein, Zandonatti, Piazza, Klein, Leon and Breen, allegedly arranged for numerous novice investors and some straw buyers to simultaneously purchase multiple homes. In addition, defendants Silverstein, Zandonatti, and Klein are believed to have provided earnest money to some investors and straw-buyers.
Silverstein and Zandonatti allegedly directed investors to pre-selected loan officers and loan originators, including Breen, Klein, Piazza and Leon. Investigators believe these loan officers and originators assisted in taking actions to deceive lenders. These practices allegedly include processing multiple loan applications for an investor simultaneously in order to conceal pending or completed purchases from other lenders, hide the investor's true liabilities and ensure funding. On other occasions, Silverstein and Zandonatti allegedly split investors' multiple loan applications among these same loan originators for separate processing to accomplish the same result.
According to investigators, the investors' multiple loan applications were often falsely submitted to the lender as owner-occupied properties to deceptively obtain 100 percent financing as promised to the investor and obtain residential interest rates on investment properties.
Defendants RE/MAX and Tucson Mortgage, and their respective owners and/or supervisors allegedly profited from the scheme and either knew or should have known of the fraud being perpetrated against lenders in these real estate transactions.
3. Fraud against rent-to-own consumers
In the rent-to-own scheme, Zandonatti, Silverstein, Arizona Investments and others allegedly offered the investment homes purchased by investors as legitimate rent-to-own opportunities with the offer of "no qualifying" and the promise of easy home ownership.
The complaint states that the rent-to-own scheme deceptively targeted unqualified or under-qualified consumers and relied on a high turnover to obtain new "down-payments" as profit. Out of hundreds of rent-to-own transactions, apparently only one consumer out of 270 or more was able to buy a home in the fraudulent rent-to-own system.
According to court documents, defendants Zandonatti, Arizona Investments, and RE/MAX agents deceived Arizona Investments' rent-to-own consumers with false advertising and misleading purchase contracts which led consumers to believe they were getting an unprecedented opportunity to buy a home through a legitimate "no qualifying" or "no credit-check" rent-to-own program.
Zandonatti and Arizona Investments also allegedly solicited consumers to pay substantial down-payments ($1,500 to $10,000) on rent-to-own homes the buyers could not ultimately qualify for. Despite promises of "no qualifying," consumers still needed financing but could not repair their credit or qualify for financing to buy the home.
In the complaint, Arizona Attorney General's Office is seeking to have the defendants stop all deceptive practices that violate the Consumer Fraud Act, a penalty of up to $10,000 for each violation of the Arizona Consumer Fraud Act, treble damages and attorneys' fees.
Attorney General Terry Goddard filed the lawsuit. "The violations alleged in this lawsuit are among the worst abuses of vulnerable consumers that I've seen in my time as Attorney General. These kinds of abusive practices have contributed to the mortgage meltdown that now finds Arizona ranked among the top four states in the country for foreclosures," Goddard said. "This sort of behavior is unconscionable."


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Stylish alloy wheels are a great looking design but built tough for all terrains with LS‑U & LS‑T featuring 18" alloys and 16" alloys on the LS‑M.
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An eight speaker audio system featuring a touchscreen satellite navigation system with live traffic updates is standard across MU-X LS-T and LS-U models. LS-T models also come standard with afold-down 10" monitor to keep backseat passengers entertained
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Prepares English-as-a-second language students to understand sustained conversation and instructions and to communicate independently in various situations. Students apply reading strategies and critical thinking skills when reading materials from authentic sources. Students write and edit organized paragraphs. This is low advanced ESL. Students must show progress in three quarters of instruction. Course is credit/no-credit. Prerequisite: Placement by assessment.
After completing this class, students should be able to:
- Apply active listening strategies to understand and respond to the gist of extended and relatively unstructured conversations and presentations of moderate length, detailed instructions, and more complex conversations when language is not adjusted for English language learners.
- Effectively use a wide range of strategies to repair gaps in understanding and give feedback, tailoring the response to the purpose of the communication, the audience, the level of formality of the situation and other socio-cultural factors.
- Speak so others can understand using a range of common vocabulary related to personal experience and everyday activities, some idioms as well as control of basic grammar and a variety of sentence types and registers in a range of familiar to somewhat unfamiliar or unpredictable communication tasks with audiences that may not be entirely familiar when provided with some support (guided practice, modeling, and advance organizers.)
- Apply a range of strategies (including attention to appropriate register, repetition of information, adjustments in pace, tone, volume, eye contact, body language based on listener's response and needs) to monitor and enhance effectiveness of communication and to meet the speaking purpose.
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We are all inspired to learn and practice primitive technologies for different reasons. Some are weekend hobbyists who want to expand their feeling of self-reliance in the woods. Some are anthropologists, botanists, teachers, hunters, and students of the American Indian and aboriginal ways of life. My initial interest in the "survival skills" was stimulated by a desire to know what to do should I ever get lost in the woods. And, yes, a lot of us are at least partially motivated by such a desire. Should our car ever fail on a remote road, or if we took a wrong turn on a wilderness trail, we'd want to know how to provide warmth, water, shelter, and food until we were found or got rescued. That is, very few of us ever expect to actually practice these skills for more than a few days -- maybe a week at the most. We expect to return to our homes, to "civilization." In fact, primitive skills and technologies are not "dead" or "lost" arts. Though the spread of western technology over the face of the earth has rendered many of the old arts seemingly less useful, they are by no means forgotten or unnecessary. Some of the many situations that seem to affect people in any part of the world at any given time are wars, famines, forced evacuations (often the result of war), hurricanes, erupting volcanoes, plagues, severe economic hardships, poor leadership which causes undue suffering of the people, etc. etc. etc. Knowledge of specific survival skills can make all the difference in such circumstances, until the normal of society can return. But can you imagine practicing your survival skills, completely living off the land, not for a summer, not for a year, but for 30 years? Two men did just that for 28 and 30 years. Both were World War II Japanese soldiers who steadfastly held to their orders to not surrender. Though most Japanese soldiers preferred death to surrender, there were pockets of men who managed to hide out and survive. Two of the more extreme cases were Shoichi Yokoi who was discovered in 1972, and Hiroo Onoda who finally came out in 1974. Both Yokoi and Onoda were on different islands with different circumstances, and neither would not surrender. Though the underlying philosophy that compelled these men to stay hidden even though each knew the war was long over is a fascinating topic in itself, we are going to focus primarily upon some of the skills and technologies used by both men to stay alive and meet their needs. After all, if these men could do it for up to 30 years, all the while avoiding detection, they are the real "survival skills" experts. All of our modern "survival experts" pale in comparison to what these two men actually did. By exploring the details of Yokoi and Onoda, we can learn some practical lessons regarding how they met their most fundamental needs and how they overcame their challenges.
On January 24, 1972, two residents of the village of Talofofo in the southern part of Guam were out hunting along the Talofofo River when they heard a sound in the tall reeds. They thought it was an animal or maybe a child in the bushes, but out came a very old and wild appearing Japanese man carrying a shrimp trap. The hunters were started at first, and after a few confused words, they subdued 56-year-old Shoichi Yokoi and took him back to their corrugated metal home in the jungle, about an hour's walk away. Eventually, the police were summoned, and the story of Shoichi Yokoi's saga became known. During WWII, Yokoi had been transferred from Manchuria to Guam, and he served as a sergeant in the supply corps. When the Americans came, he and nine other men hid in the jungle. Their numbers gradually dwindled to three, and they shared a cave for a while. He knew from a leaflet he found in 1952 that the war was over but never gave himself up because "we Japanese soldiers were told to prefer death to the disgrace of getting captured alive." Eight years before he was found, the other two men died, leaving him alone. How did Yokoi handle the basics necessities of life? Food? Water? Clothing? Shelter? Tools? Let's explore, one by one, how he managed to provide these necessities in a situation where he had no hope (or desire) of returning to "civilization."
According to Yokoi, obtaining necessary food was "a continuous hardship." He described it as his single hardest on-going task, despite the fact that food in the jungle is said to be plentiful. His diet included mangoes, various nuts, crabs, prawns, snails, rats, eels, pigeons, and wild hog. Though he had no salt for flavoring or as a preservative, he boiled coconuts in coconut milk. He built little traps and caught shrimp and eel from the river. He put grated coconut into the traps to serve as bait. He would then skewer the eel and shrimp and grill them over his fire. Yokoi had fashioned a rat trap from wire, based on a design that was formerly very common in Japan. Yokoi's trap measured about 10 by 6 by 4 inches, and just the slightest touch of the bait causes the lid to shut. He said he liked rat meat, especially the liver. However, he added that he could not afford to be concerned with whether or not he "liked" any of the food he obtained. He ate it all. On one occasion, he caught a wild pig and became ill. Apparently, he hadn't cooked it well enough and he experienced severe stomach pains for a month.
Though water was abundant, and clear, Yokoi said that he always boiled the water before drinking it as a precaution.
Reporters who saw Yokoi's clothing were amazed. They were unable to determine from what sort of materials they had been made. He even had home-made buttons! His clothes were made by beating the bark of the pago tree into flat pieces of fabric. The pago tree is very common in the mountains of Guam. He then beat pieces of brass in order to create a needle shape, and gradually drilled holes in his sewing needle using an awl. His thread also came from the beaten bark of the island's pago trees. He wove cloth from the beaten fibre, and sewed the pieces together to make a total of three "suits" during his 28 years on the island. By the way, Yokoi had been a tailor before the war, a craft that served him well. His 3 sets of pants and shirts were hand-made and then he would constantly repair them to keep them serviceable. On each of his shirts, he made outside pockets for carrying things. His pants even had belt loops! And he took plastic from a flashlight and fashioned buttons, button-holes and all. He manufactured one belt by weaving the pago fibres, and onto the belt he had a hand-made buckle that he'd fashioned from wire. It turned out that in the past, the people of Guam used to manufacture a rough cloth from the pago fibre, and they turned these into something like burlap bags. It is said that this is no longer done today, so Yokoi out of necessity -- rediscovered one of nature's secrets.
In the beginning, Yokoi used a lens for fire-starting. It was a flashlight lens manufactured by the Japan Optics Company. At some point he lost this lens and he is said to have made his fire by "rubbing two sticks together." This was apparently a description of a hand drill, or some variation. In order to keep a coal, he wove a rope from coconut fibre and used this as a punk.
Yokoi lived in different shelters during his 28 years. One of his shelters was a small house made from rushes he collected. He also lived in a hole that he dug under a bamboo grove. Yokoi said that he chose that particular site because it was well hidden and because the ground is more solid under a grove of bamboos. Officials had reported that it was nearly impossible to see the opening to his cave even when you were right next to it. The entire cave was dug with a trowel that Yokoi fashioned from an old cannon shell. He carried the excavated soil, handful by handful, to a nearby grassy area and scattered it so that no one would notice. After one month of digging, he was able to move in, even though he continually expanded the interior space. The opening to his cave was about two foot square, which he kept well-camouflaged. A bamboo ladder led eight or nine feet into the inside. The inside of this cave, even at its highest point, was still just slightly more than three feet tall, which meant that Yokoi always had to squat. Inside, he had a toilet hole so well designed that it would flow off naturally to the river below. On another end of the cave -- the "kitchen" -- Yokoi had some shelves, and a hearth with a cooking pot. Keep in mind that the interior of this cave was pitch-black, so Yokoi had devised a coconut shell lantern which burned oils. He had fitted the cave with a ventilation hole, and kept bamboo leaves on the floor.
Yokoi described the acquiring of food as his single greatest hardship; the second greatest hardship was the production of tools and other articles of daily use. Remember, no hardware store, no supermarket, no K-mart. All he had to work with was raw nature, and whatever metal and other objects he could scavenge from the island. Yokoi collected whatever he found, such as discarded cans. He carefully cut a Japanese canteen in two, and made a frying pan from one half and a plate from the other half. He found a water kettle and repaired the leaks so he could use it. He took cylinders of bamboo and used them to collect rainwater and as dippers to collect water from the river.
Doctors who examine Yokoi after he was found said that he was fine both physically and mentally. Though the two hunters who initially discovered Yokoi thought he was much older than 56, they did report that he seemed quite strong for his size. Apparently, he remained healthier in the jungle than most folks do in front of their televisions and behind the wheel of their smog-belchers.
Hiroo Onoda was sent to the jungle of Lubang Island of the Phillippines in December of 1944. His intelligence duties consisted of gathering information about the enemy movements and sabotaging the enemy rear. Within eight months the war was over, but Onoda refused to surrender until he had a direct order from his old commander. So Onoda and three enlisted men hid out on the island; one of the three others surrendered in 1950, and the two others died in a shootout with Philippine police in 1954 and 1972. But it would be 30 years before Onoda would be found, and convinced to surrender when they brought in his old commander. Onoda survived by setting up a series of hideouts on the 74 square mile island, and by stealing food (the island was occupied), and making sure his caches of live ammo were kept intact. After returning home to Japan, Onoda said that the toughest part of the experience was losing his comrades. He added that there was nothing at all pleasant that happened to him during the entire 30 years. But, he added "My country today is rich and great. When my purpose in the war has been attained, in the fact that Japan today is rich and great, to have won or lost the war is entirely beside the point."
Onoda survived on boiled bananas, and coconuts. He would occasionally pilfer rice and salt from the nearby village. But the main staple was boiled bananas. They would pick the bananas as needed, cut it all up, skin and all, and boil it. The green bananas lost their bitterness this way, and they were often cooked in coconut milk or dried meats. "The result tasted like overcooked sweet potatoes. It was not good. But we ate this most of the time." Next to bananas, cows on the island provided meat for Onoda and his comrades. They killed about three a year. They would shoot cows that wandered away from the village, and shoot it in the evening, and best would be when there was a rain so the noise would be muffled. It took them about an hour to dismember a cow, then they would discard what was left in a place that wouldn't reveal their whereabouts. They ate fresh meat for about three days, and then dried the rest on drying racks they built. One cow provided about 250 pieces of dried beef, and generally they each ate only one piece a day. Though they had some rice, they did not each much because it was difficult to hull. The rice was typically stolen from the villagers. Other food supplies included occasional coffee and canned goods stolen from the homes of the villagers. When Onoda and his comrades went to steal these things, they said they were "stepping out for the evening."
There was always plenty of water on Lubang, and the water was so clear you could see the bottom of the streams. However, Onoda always boiled the water since they believed it may have been contaminated by cattle.
Onoda noted that his clothes were always rotting. He made a needle from some wire netting that he found, which he straightened and managed to put an eye on one end. He made thread from the fibres of a hemp-like plant that grew wild in the forest. Fishing line was also used for thread. He would patch and patch, and then even take pieces of canvas from the edges of his tents. After his clothes could no longer be patched, he would steal fabric or clothing from the village whenever he could. Much of the fabric that he would steal he'd use to add linings to his existing clothes, or to double the knees or seats, any places where there were weaknesses. He would take old shoes and make sandals. He had a jacket which he could turn inside-out and attach branches to little loops he'd sewn. This made the jacket into a camouflage coat. He also wove straw sandals.
Onoda did have ammunition which was used to make fire. He would remove the powder from ammo that was rusty and ignite it with a lens. He also would make fire using two dried pieces of split bamboo. One piece was hammered into the ground, and the other piece, held horizontally, would be stroked up and down to produce the coal. (He had plenty of time to practice!)
Onoda and the others would build a shelter during the wet season, and then just sleep in the open during the rest of the year. Site selection of the shelter was important. It had to be near food, but not too far from where the cows grazed. It had to be on the opposite side of the hill from the village so their fire or smoke would not be seen. They also built it on sloping ground. They would find one secure tree, and then build a pole structure that was secured to at least this one tree. Rafters were placed slantwise on the ridgepole and covered with coconut leaves. Everything was tied together with vines. The upper part of the shelter was the "bedroom" and the lower part was the "kitchen." The stove consisted of two piles of flat rocks stacked close so that a fire could be built between them and a pole secured above to hang a pot. Onoda and a partner could build such a hut in seven or eight hours. They said that these huts, called a "bahai," was more comfortable than the tents they had, but the roof began to leak in the bahai by the end of each season. Onoda states that "during my entire 30 years on Lubang, I never once slept soundly through the night."
Using wire, cans, and other materials, he constructed rat traps, snares, and traps for other small game.
Onoda noted that if he ate much meat after they'd killed a cow, his temperature would soar. He found that if he drank the milk of green coconuts, his temperature would return to normal. Onoda constantly would monitor his physical well-being, and would adjust his diet or activities if he did not feel well. Onoda says he was sick "in bed" with a fever only once. Much time was spent digging and covering latrines; they used palm leaves for toilet paper. Though he had no soap, he often washed his clothes just in plain water and sometimes with kelp or lye from wood ashes. He washed his face daily, and brushed his teeth with the fibre from the palm trees. A doctor who examined Onoda after he came out of the jungle noted that he had no cavities.
Writing in Newsweek on March 25, 1974, Kermit Lansner states "As someone who is just about Onoda's age and served in the Great Pacific War (as the Japanese call it), I have spent most of my patrimony on dentists. There is not much I admire about Onoda, but I do hope we learn something from his teeth."
We never know what the future will bring. Still, it seems unlikely
that most readers will ever undergo anything as intense as the
years spent in the jungle by Shoichi Yokoi and Hiroo Onoda. But
by carefully examining the methods they did employ for up to 30
years, we can all learn at least a few new ideas that can enhance
our lives. At the very least, they demonstrated that one doesn't
need the trinkets of modern society to remain healthy. By studying
the rigors they underwent, we all should be able to see the folly
of so many of our preferences and preconceptions, and should discover
that most of our "limits" are far beyond what we have
chosen to accept.
E-mail your comments to "Christopher Nyerges" at
This article also appeared in "Wilderness Way", Volume 4, Issue 3. Christopher Nyerges wrote under his "trail name", Victor Woodenturtle.
Nyerges is the author of Guide to Wild Foods ($17), Testing Your Outdoor Survival Skills ($15), and Enter the Forest ($10). These are available from the School of Self-Reliance, Box 41834, Eagle Rock, CA 90041. Nyerges has led survival skills classes since 1974. For more information, see the School of Self-Reliance website at www.self-reliance.net or www.home.earthlink.net/~cnyerges.
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The Shriners Hospitals for Children Open, Three Tied at the Top October 06 2012
Justin Timberlakes Shriners Hospitals for Children Open has three players tied at the top of the leaderboard after the third round at TPC Summerlin, Las Vegas, Nevada. Jonas Blixt/getty images Rookie Jonas Blixt roared back into contention here at TPC Summerlin converting six birdies in his last seven holes to be tied at the top of the leaderboard with Ryan Moore and Brendon de Jonge at -19 under par for the tournament. Jonas is trying to join John Huh and Ted Potter Jr. as the only rookie winners this season. These three players have a five-shot cushion between them and Jimmy Walker and Tim Herron, who are tied for fourth at -14 under par for the tournament. Two shots further back are Colt Knost, Jason Day, Jason Bohn and Russell Knox at -12 under par. I wish good luck to Jonas Blixt in his quest for his first win on the PGA Tour.


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Social & Emotional Activity Finder
PBS KIDS' beloved characters model behavior and provide strategies that help kids manage their emotions, build friendships and develop good character. Use this activity finder to further foster your child's growth.
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A Mousy Predicament
Your child can see Martha model good neighbor behavior as she offers to help Mr. Hangburn with his mouse "PREDICAMENT.
A Show for Puppies
Your child can learn about "BRAINSTORMING" as the kids explore ideas for awesome puppy TV shows.
A Snack for Santa
Your child can practice printing letters and sounding out words with Princess Presto in this clip where she spells the word "SNACK" to entice Santa to visit!
A Spring Is Not the Thing
Pig and Duck learn that a spring is not the thing to make a frosting machine stop bouncing! Your child will learn about phoneme sounds and spelling the word "spring.
A Vocabulary Match Made in Heaven
Ham Johnson and Kit Luntanne are going to make a vocabulary calendar together! Your child will learn that preferably, positively, and definitely, all mean yes!
A Winter Day in Wagstaff City
Your child will learn about how news reports provide information, and the meaning of "blackout".
A' Astronaut Adventure
In this A-dventure, your child will learn about the letter 'A' and all the words that start with the first letter of the alphabet.
Ages and Eras
Helen and Alice can teach your child about the words "AGE" and "ERA" as they take T.D. to their favorite parts of the past.
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Alice's storytelling troubles come from the fact that she loves to "DIGRESS." Your child can learn about digressions and storytelling from Martha in this clip.
Alice's Story
Alice has some trouble telling her story to the class. In this clip, your child can learn about storytelling and the word "COMPREHEND.
Alpha Pig and the Grumpy Mice
Your child can spell "FLY" with Alpha Pig to help Clara and the Nutcracker escape the Mouse King.


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Bring Back Your Old Paint On The Cheap Instead Of An Expensive Repaint
In a perfect world, everyone would drive a classic Mopar, and they would all have flawless show-car paint. But for the average street driver, the real world means real paint problems. With use it's inevitable-a chip here, a ding there, and the progression of time and the elements take their toll. Let's face it, cosmetics can only get worse from where you started unless some effort is expended. Care and maintenance can keep a finish looking good for years, but sometimes we're faced with neglected and hurting paint. The surest cure for problem paint is just wiping the slate clean and starting over with new pigment; but sometimes, at least for the time being, it's not in the cards. It might be a matter of cost (priced a quality paint job lately?), or just practicalities-maybe having the car down for weeks or even months for a repaint just isn't likely when having that car laid up means hoofing it.
Our 'Cuda is an extreme example of neglected paint. When it was shot with quality DuPont Centari acrylic enamel back in 1990 it looked good, but now the ten-year-old paint is trashed. It didn't have to be. Left in the hands of others, it was smacked up front, bodyshop repainted on the front fill panel and fender sides, and then left outside to cook in the Bakersfield sun for two years: "Here's your car back." Thanks a lot.
No question; to get it looking the way we want it, a total repaint is in order. But with several resto projects underway, pulling the 'Cuda down for what will be a bare-tub rebuild will have to wait. In the meanwhile, it runs and drives, so it gets used-but going down the road in what looks like rolling junk is getting old. Rather than repaint, the solution for now is to work with what's there and repair the existing paint.
Just about any finish can be made to look decent with some effort and the right techniques. On this car, the basic paint was still sound, but it suffered from a wide range of maladies: chips, scratches, gouged paint, cracked plastic filler, a dented door, and extreme oxidation; all these things can be fixed. Fortunately we didn't have unfixable problems such as blistering, checking, peeling, or puckered paint or clearcoat. We'll go through the problems and the cures, and from junker to jewel.
Fading And Surface Flaws:Cutting
Fading or oxidized paint comes in different degrees, but the cure is always the same: removing the oxidized outer layer of paint to expose a fresh one below. Some colors are more prone to fading than others; red, like on this 'Cuda, is one of the worst. Removing the oxidized layer makes the presumption that the paint is sufficiently thick to get down to good paint without running through it to the primer. Which technique is used for cutting depends on the extent of the problem. Sometimes a mild abrasive cleaner wax and some handwork can do the job. For more serious problems, a cut-and-buff is the serious solution.
Cutting-and-buffing begins with sanding the paint with ultra-fine sandpaper, then buffing the finish to a high polish. To remove minute surface imperfections, most show-quality paint jobs receive a cut-and-buff as the final step to that glass-smooth finish. Sanding is done by hand and has to be done wet, which keeps the sandpaper from loading up and clears the debris from the surface being worked. Generally, 1500-grit paper is used because it removes the surface and leaves sanding scratches fine enough to be machine-polished out. A foam hand-sanding pad backs the sandpaper strip.
Sanding can be ruinous if certain mistakes are made. First is the cut-through. Obviously, if the color coat is sanded too far and you've gone through the paint, or even made it too thin, the primer will show through. Use care around any edge or character line, since the raised edge will cut-through easily. Solid colors and clearcoats lend themselves to cutting, but non-clearcoated metalics can present problems.
Metalics get the metallic effect from small particles in the paint. Sanding can disturb the metallic particles in a visible pattern, and it won't readily buff out. Dark metalics are more sensitive than light ones to this phenomena. If the paint is burned out with oxidation, there may be no other alternative than to try an area and see if it will sand and buff out uniformly. Using the finest paper available reduces the chances of streaking the metallic in the sanding process.
None of the original factory musclecar paint jobs were clearcoated, but for a number of years now, clearcoating has become routine. Clearcoats cut-and-buff well, but if the clear is cut-through and the paint is exposed, the hole will be visible a mile away. Even respraying clear over the cut-through won't hide it, since the underlying basecoat will always shift color when disturbed. Our 'Cuda was painted in a solid color without clear.
No matter which type of paint surface is being worked, sand only enough to remove the oxidation and surface flaws, and leave a uniformly de-glossed surface. Don't chase deep imperfections with concentrated sanding in one area, but take a uniform cut over the entire surface. It's difficult to tell if you've gone far enough when the surface is wet (unless you're working in bright sunlight), but wiping the area dry shows the remaining flaws and shiny areas that need more sanding. The paint revival on this 'Cuda began with a cut using 1500-grit paper. Sanding serves as the first step in the buff job and provides an ideal surface for paint adherence. The heavy oxidation is clearly visible, even wet, so it's easy to tell from the distinct color change when the surface is sanded sufficiently.
Fix It
Touch-ups can range from dabbing in some paint from those little car dealer's bottles to blending-in a repaired panel. In most cases a repair is just that, a fix, and perfection isn't always possible, though certain colors are easier than others. Solids such as the red on this 'Cuda are easier than metalics, and dark metalics can be nearly impossible. The paint should be the same type as that being repaired, preferably the same batch that was used in the first place. Barring using the same paint, take a sample of the original color to the paint jobber and have the paint-match verified at the time of purchase and the tint adjusted if required. Formula tints won't typically be a perfect match. If the paint doesn't match, the repair will stand out.
Achieving a perfect blend into a panel is much tougher than painting a panel section to a character line. Lines or panel gaps break the surface plane to the eye, making it difficult to perceive subtle variations in the paint. With difficult metalics, cutting-in to a line is probably the best way to hide the repair. To paint to a line, back-mask-rather than laying the tape flat to the edge-so it's folded back in the middle at the line, giving it a soft edge.
For very small chips, a paint-brush dab is probably the best quick repair, but not a perfect one. For the best result, try to fill the hole with multiple applications until it's even with the surface. Avoid building up a ridge of paint outside the hole. After filling, the spot can be color sanded and buffed. Larger flaws like surface gouges or large chips can be filled with spot putty. Traditionally, these are quick-drying nitrocellulose (lacquer) products. Spot putty shrinks slightly and cannot be effectively used in thick layers, since drying time goes up exponentially as thickness increases. Catalyzed spot putties are available, but the grain generally is not as fine as the nitrocellulose formulas, and if you have many small repairs, constantly mixing fresh batches slows progress. Fill ever-so-slightly higher than the surface of the chip or gouge. Don't cake the putty on or it will be impossible to sand it level without sanding through the adjacent paint and distorting the paint's surface.
Once the flaw is filled and sanded, it can be touched up with paint. If the spot putty is smooth and sanded dead-level, usually no primer is necessary. Some distortion will be visible, but this will be filled by the paint and sanded-out once it dries. Larger repairs may need some surfacer to help achieve a perfect finish, but the painted area has to be extended over a larger area to cover the primer. Small touch-ups (chips and small gouges) can be done with an airbrush. We use a $5 unit from Harbor Freight Tools which works great. Larger repairs (panel blends) are handled with a touch-up gun. For small repairs, we like to over-reduce (double the normal reduction) the paint and use a slower than normal reducer. With this mix, use multiple light coats to color-up without excessive gluggy buildup. After it's colored-up, reduce it further (up to four times normal reduction) so that it almost sprays tinted solvents to blend-in the repair. Larger repairs use a more conventional mix, but thinned-down for blending, extending the repainted area.
Buff Dude
The final buffing should be done only after all the repairs are made. There are countless products on the market for buffing paint. After cutting, machine buffing is required to bring back the gloss. Use the professional bodyshop compounds made for machine polishing. 3M makes an excellent line of compounds for a variety of applications. The buff-out is a two-step process starting with a coarser cutting compound to remove the sanding scratches. Next, a polishing compound, called a finishing glaze, is used. The finishing glaze removes the swirl marks from the compounding step and gives a super high-gloss finish.
Buff with a dedicated buffing machine. Though it looks like a sander, it turns the slower rpm (1500-2000 rpm) necessary to reduce the chances of burning the paint. Paint buffers are rotary, not the orbital machines sold for Saturday wax jobs. Quality buffing pads are a necessity, and are usually made from wool. Two types of pads are required: a coarse cutting pad for the compounding and a fine polishing pad for the final finishing glaze. Foam final finish pads are available, but we prefer wool.
The compound usually has instructions on applying the sauce, but handling the machine correctly takes skill and experience. Avoid using too much pressure and let the compound do the work. The main danger is catching an edge that can burn through the paint in an instant. When buffing, hold the machine at a slight angle, so only one side of the pad works the surface at any given time. Pay attention to the direction the pad is rotating and make sure it always rotates off the edge or body line rather than into it. In areas such as around doors, the hood, or trunk, slightly open the piece to raise the edge so the pad can ski over it without going directly into the edge of the adjacent panel. Where it's not possible to rotate off the edge, orient the buffer so the outside of the pad wipes over in line with the edge.
After a while the pad begins to load up with dried compound and needs to be spurred periodically to keep the surface clear of buildup. Turn it on and run the point of a screwdriver it across the surface of the pad. When switching from the cutting sauce to the polishing formula, thoroughly wash the car to remove the remnants and dust from the cutting compound. Particles are picked up by the polishing pad, introducing them into the fine polishing operation. Buffing slings compound all over, and if it's allowed to dry, it will adhere to the paint. Always clean the jambs, glass, and other areas while it's fresh, using plain soap and water.
Repairing paint may have been a stop-gap measure in our case, but the resulting glass-like finish is worth it. The car has a totally renewed look. Since the paint was so flawed to begin with, the repairs took three days to complete. It isn't a Saturday afternoon's work, but it's a lot quicker than a respray. The larger panel blends with our solid color are no less than perfect, with not even a haze of an edge visible where it meets the old paint. This was partly because we still had a half-quart of the paint used the last time the car was shot. It had been on the shelf for ten years, but still worked fine and matched perfectly. Some of the smaller repairs weren't quite invisible, but much less apparent than the original flaw, while others blended perfectly. Going down the road, the 'Cuda looks red-hot.


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Basic SWT widgets enhancement
Personal Info
Name: Zhong Nanhai
GTalk: email@example.com
Mentor: Ivar Meikas
SWT has been developed as a light-weight library to establish rich java GUI programmes, but there still are some popular features that current widget does not have. For example,the combo box widget still does not support an image item or a mix(image and text).Actually,there are many aspects for basic SWT widgets to be enhanced. Here, my work is just to add some basic and popular features to some widgets in SWT or Nebula.
Primary goals
Enhance some basic widgets in SWT or Nebula
- rich combo box: this combo box will support image and mix(image and text)
I have found that there are two ways of implements such a extended combobox widget:
Enhancing the Combo-Widget with Images: you can see it on page http://www.richclient2.eu/2006_03_03/enhancing-the-combo-widget-with-images/ ComboBoxEx: you can see the introduction of this widget on page http://www.milewski.ws/2009/04/combo-box-with-images-in-swt/
The first implementation is a good way to fulfil such a function,in which it just make some modifications of combobox source code in swt.It is simple and we do not need consider much about cross-platform problem,because it just builds on basic widgets afforded by swt like primary combobox widget.But what the problem is: maybe the SWT group does not like this coding style and it is just a workaround to implement a function,thus should not be as a part of SWT.
The second implementation may be a good style that SWT group likes.But there are many problems in it,of which the most import is the cross-platform and we will deal much with Java Native Access library.
- rich list: this list will also support image and mix
There are not many solutions to solve this problem.I think it's a good and very fundamental function that SWT should support.And if this problem were well settled, a rich combo box supporting image,shown above,will be easily implemented.Because the combo box is just composed of three basic widgets:Text,Button,List,we can simplely replace the basic list widget with our rich list widget.The 'text' area may still only show texts;to solve this,the CLabel can be introduced to support image and text.
I have reported this as an enhancement bug and you can see the details of it at Bug 275285
- cell merging capabilities in Grid: enhance this widget to support row merge
A Grid widget of Nebula has been created to offer features like cell selection,column grouping,column spanning,row headers and so on,which are not currently supported in the base SWT Table.But this Nebula widget currently only supports column merge,but not row merge.So I think it would be a good idea to enhance this widget.(This idea comes from Ivar Meikas,who is my mentor in this google summer code.Then many thanks to him!)
Fix bugs
- Bug 189888[Nebula]Request for IP Address input widget control
There should be a widget control to input an ip address for SWT package,then I found it is just a bug in Nebula.But I haven't found that somebody has fixed this bug.Inputting an ip address is a popular and often used function,so I'll try to fix it.
Add some functionality
- a batch of rich buttons: e.g. if the button style as been set style_ok, a button containing a "ok" image will be created.And there are many styles will be supported:style_ok,style_cancel,style_info,style_err,etc.
You can see the snapshot of these buttons in the following pic as a sample that our rich buttons would be implemented.If you ever used C++ Builder to developement desk GUIs,you will be familiar with these buttons containing a small image showing its apparent meaning.
Source code
The code will be hosted on google code.


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By Quentin Fottrell
Half-off deals are the first deal of many, now that industry leader Groupon has started offering rewards for repeat customers.
Groupon said Wednesday that it would start offering rewards to encourage consumers to go back to businesses where they've redeemed a voucher. Took advantage of a 50%-off massage? Maybe there's a free manicure if you go back. Or a restaurant might offer free dessert, or a steep discount on a bottle of wine. Groupon says any offers made will be up to the retailer. "We will email customers to tell them they're approaching a reward target, and track your purchases so you don't have to carry a reward card," says Groupon spokeswoman Julie Anne Mossler.
The program is likely meant to entice more businesses than consumers. Judging by the several hundred sites on the market, consumers just can't get enough of 50%-off facials, kickboxing, Thai takeout and other cheap luxuries. Yet studies show that less than a quarter of customers go back to that business for a second, full-price visit. And why would they, when there's another spa, gym, or restaurant offering that enticing 50%-off deal? That poses a problem for sites trying to entice retailers, and retailers hoping to gain new customers by offering that steep discount.
But Dan Hess, founder of DealRadar.com, a daily deal site aggregator, says it's a win-win for bargain-hunters, too, "except if they over-stretch their budget or are disappointed by the product or service they've bought." Matt Wallaert, social and behavior psychologist of digital strategy firm Churnless.com, says daily deal rewards make more sense for a "need" (grocery store) than a "want" (head massage): "Try to separate the discount from your decision to make the purchase," he says.
Readers, what does it take for you to go back to a business after you're out of daily deals?


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Iraq WMD search stepped up
(CNN) -- The search for Iraq's suspected weapons of mass destruction is being stepped up as international pressure mounts for the coalition to produce evidence that would support its decision to wage war on Iraq.
A task force of more than 1,300 experts has been formed in an expansion of efforts to find proof that Iraq had a program of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons.
The Iraq Survey Group comprises experts from the United States, Britain and Australia.
Between 250 and 300 of those team members -- including some inspectors who were in Iraq before U.N. teams were expelled in 1998 -- will visit suspected weapons sites, said U.S. Maj. Gen. Keith Dayton, who will lead the team.
Dayton estimated that slightly fewer than 200 U.S. personnel have so far checked about a third of Iraq's suspected weapons sites.
Dayton said his team would be better prepared to respond quickly to intelligence reports and would no longer simply check off a list of suspect sites.
"The Iraq Survey Group represents a significant expansion in the hunt for weapons of mass destruction," he said, adding that it would be "a deliberate process and a long-term effort."
Russia -- which opposed the U.S.-led war on Iraq -- on Friday urged the coalition to give an early account of the WMD search.
"We expect our U.S. and British colleagues to present this information in the nearest future," Itar-Tass news agency quoted Russia's U.N. ambassador Sergei Lavrov as saying.
Lavrov said a briefing by chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix to the Security Council on Thursday would offer a good opportunity for the United States and Britain to present their latest findings.
"After all, we are working for a common cause, and it is absolutely clear that to draw a line under the Iraq problem one must take into account both what the coalition is doing there and assessments by (U.N. monitors)," he said.
U.S. President George W. Bush will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg on Sunday as part of a trip aimed at mending ties with European countries that opposed the Iraq war. (Full story)
Australian Defense Minister Robert Hill said Saturday the purpose of the expanded search team was to get the full picture of the WMD situation in Iraq.
Speaking at an Asian Security Conference in Singapore, Hill said the search was already yielding evidence but "whether these so-called smoking guns as such can be found, I don't know."
"I've no doubt at all that the picture at the end of this process will be of somebody who believed in weapons of mass destruction as a strategic tool ... and was clearly prepared to use them," Hill said.
IAEA to return next week
Meanwhile, the International Atomic Energy Agency plans to send a team to Iraq for the first time since the end of the war to conduct a safety inspection at an Iraqi nuclear facility that might have been looted, an agency spokesman said Friday.
IAEA spokesman Mark Gwozdecky cautioned: "These are not weapons inspections.
"We are planning to send a team to Iraq tentatively next Wednesday, June 4, with the purpose of verifying nuclear material held at the Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Center," Gwozdecky said.
"This work flows from Iraq's obligations under the nuclear non-proliferation treaty," he added.
IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei told CNN on Friday: "We don't know what to expect. We have seen a lot of reports about looting. We are going to focus on nuclear materials that would [be] under verification. The coalition, however, says that they will take care of the safety and the security of radioactive sources.
"I would, again, continue to say that we are ready to help in case our help is needed."


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The face of her is grey, but she looks younger than she is, if you think about dogs and how they are 7 times older than people. Bronwyn was loved from the moment she walked in through my front door. She'd had a bit of trouble in her early life, before we met. Starved and wandered all through downtown, skinny and scared but still loving, the old girl was much younger then. Even though she and Ralph, the main dog in my life at the time, didn't always see dog eye to dog eye, they agreed to disagree and stayed at opposite ends of the house for many months.
I write mostly of Ralph, his dog spirit hovering around me like the ghost of dog-mas past. I can't resist writing about him, because I miss him, and conjuring up words about him will conjure up the dog himself, majestic and wooly, beast of my heart. Then I write about Gudrun, tiny and new, the alpha dog and the littlest member of the family. I can't help but talk about her because she is so HERE. Her presence is huge, even though she weighs all of 7 lbs. But Bronwyn, quiet, pleasing, polite, mid-size bronnie – is no squeaky wheel and therefore she doesn't get greased. She is loved of course but that love is contained. It doesn't spill out into poetry as readily. It is a love that doesn't need to announce itself. It just exists, day in, day out. Good dog.
The first few days of Bronnie bursting into our lives were hectic, like a drug coming on, fast and wild. She had been found downtown. Someone drew a picture of her and faxed it. I said of course, please, send her asap. She came cageless and disheveled in the back of an old station wagon. She ran up the stairs and deep into the house. She jumped up on the bed and stayed there with me. her fur fell out of her in clumps and haystacks. There was a faint network of scars all over her dog body, like a map of pain, showing me what had happened and where. Gradually her blonde fur grew over the scars. I can't see them anymore, as if they had never occurred.
I will sometimes actually rest both my nostrils on her graying snout, soft as anything, snorting her up into my face. The smell of her is bracing, electric and warm, the dogness and the love jolting me back. Bronnie's not a licker, like Gudrun is – Chihuahua to the bone. Bronnie holds back and waits. If you stick your face out for her to lick, she might touch her nose to you one time, but that will be all you get.


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Sunrise on the Clouds
Leslie McLain 7/27/2012 6:31:01 PMAmazing capture, Ann. #1477275
Carol Flisak 7/27/2012 7:05:23 PMFantastic image, Ann... love the color and the composition! That was such a stunning sunrise that morning! #10247222
Ellen Hodges 7/28/2012 8:23:49 AMGorgeous capture and the title fit sooooo beautifully!! A huge WOW!! #10247707
Ann Lyssenko 7/28/2012 2:10:10 PMThanks Leslie, Carol, and Ellen! It was a beautiful morning! Ann #10248019
Carolyn J. Connolly 8/6/2012 6:33:46 AMAbsolutely LOVELY, Ann!! WOW!! :-) #10264811
Lindley Johnson 8/6/2012 12:57:36 PMStunning color and amazing POV. Gorgeous, Ann! #10265195
Ann Lyssenko 8/6/2012 1:05:28 PMThanks Carolyn and Lindley! Ann #10265212
Randy D. Dinkins 8/29/2012 2:40:18 AMGreat shot. Right time and place (and most importantly, with camera in hand :). Congratulations! #10294910
Ellen Hodges 8/29/2012 4:14:14 AMHuge congrats and very best luck with this beauty, Ann!!! #10295128
Lindley Johnson 8/29/2012 6:19:27 AMBig congratulations on your amazing finalist, Ann. Absolutely gorgeous! #10295588
Carol Flisak 8/29/2012 10:07:04 AMHuge congrats on your beautiful finalist, Ann! Best of luck in the next round! #10296569
Leslie McLain 8/29/2012 10:24:48 AMCongrats on a beautiful finalist, Ann. #10296627
Lou Taylor 8/29/2012 7:23:31 PMCongratulations on this gorgeous finalist! #10298251
Ann Lyssenko 8/30/2012 12:10:48 PMThanks to all of you for your kind words! Photography does offer us the opportunity to share beautiful moments! Ann #10299597
Carol Flisak 8/31/2012 7:18:02 PMHuge congratulations on this stunning winner, Ann! It was a very special morning! #10302319
Ellen Hodges 8/31/2012 7:42:08 PMHuge congrats on a gorgeous winner, Ann!! Fabulous in every way!!!! #10302391
Leslie McLain 9/1/2012 4:46:32 AMCongrats on a stunning winner, Ann. #10303033
Diane Dupuis 9/1/2012 5:06:20 AMstunning!!! Congrats! #10303120
Ann Lyssenko 9/1/2012 6:14:34 AMThanks to all of you for your kind words! It was a special moment to witness. Ann #10303297
JO ANN CLEVELAND 9/1/2012 12:54:10 PMCongratulations on this fantastic 2nd Place Gold Winner Ann!
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Lindley Johnson 9/2/2012 11:00:52 AMBig congratulations on your gorgeous winner, Ann! #10305360
Lydia Williams 9/3/2012 10:19:35 AMWow, great image, Ann...congratulations! #10306752
Ann Lyssenko 9/6/2012 4:56:25 PMThanks JO ANN, Lindley, and Lydia! Sorry I have not been timely with my response...internet gremlins. Thanks again, Ann #10311904
Carol C. Harris 11/7/2012 3:49:14 AMOh, Ann.... this is a stunning image and so deserving of the honor! It was a beautiful morning and you captured this unique event perfectly. Congratulations! #10408109
Carol Flisak 11/7/2012 5:28:24 AMIt's a pleaseure to see this gorgeous image again in Snapshot! Congrats, Ann! #10408211
Leslie McLain 11/7/2012 7:23:49 AMCongrats on your featured photo, Ann. #10408304
Rona L. Schwarz 11/7/2012 8:56:18 AMSorry I missed congratulating you on this fabulous Finalist, but huge congrats now for being featured in Snapshot, Ann! This is stunning and very wondrous. We drove the Blue Ridge Parkway last month around midnight...no chance for photography, LOL! #10408373
Ann Lyssenko 11/7/2012 3:08:31 PMThanks to all of you! It was a special moment! Surprise! ANn #10408729
Lindley Johnson 11/8/2012 6:53:36 AMCongratulations again, Ann! It's a stunning featured photo. #10409622
Ann Lyssenko 11/8/2012 7:43:06 PMThanks Lindley! I have been editing images from both New Hampshire and North Carolina. Challenging and fun. Ann #10410640
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Profile Draft for Handwoven's Weave-Along
This two-block design is from Mary Meigs Atwater's Shuttle-Craft Book of American Handweaving. The possibilities for four shaft weavers include designs in summer and winter, Atwater-Bronson lace, overshot, warp rep, taquete', and crackle. Those with eight shafts can use doubleweave, various extensions of tied unit weaves, turned twill, huck lace, and more. If you have ten, twelve, or sixteen shafts, you can weave the design in different variations of damask, and more.
You can make adjustments to the design or its proportions to fit your requirements as long as you maintain its basic look.
The Weave-Along will end on August 1. Please post your finished pieces to the Weave-Along gallery.
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In the November/December 2011 Handwoven, it was written that more profile drafts for the Weave-along would be posted in the Weave-along gallery and blog. I have only been able to find one profile draft related to the Weave-along, the original, and I would like to know where the others are that were referenced in the magazine. Thank you
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jasonmarnie1901 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 186 designs submitted by 28 freelance designers.
Parcel Jockey
We are specialists in online retail store delivery offering Business to Business and Business to Consumer Delivery.
Our product is IT focused and plugs into the back of a website, like Paypal, we focus on fast delivery of small packages, Domestically as well as Internationally.
We are a young and dynamic team looking to separate ourselves from traditional and stuffy parcel delivery companies.
Our product leverages cheap rates from UPS / FEDEX / DHL as well as Postal companies, Airlines and Shipping companies, providing online integration Domestically and Internationally
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Our logo needs to illustrate who we are and what we do.
Our MOTO is "Small Packages; FAST"
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I am looking for something edgy, we think that the company name has some great factors to play around with and we are excited to see what you come up with
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text: > Ultimately though, to update the aphorism: "nobody ever got fired for > recommending MS" that aphorism just reflects the strength of the policy of opposing change: because the MS network effect is large, it's a bit of a risk to go against the current. which is fine, assuming you want to go where the current takes you. the thing you have to realize about the Windows world (WW) is that it's not a real ecosystem, with equilibrium between predator and prey, feedback, etc. non-MS people in the Windows world are more like competing ant colonies in the same terrarium. for those of us outside WW, there are two challenges: - do exciting new things that don't recapitulate WW. after all, if what we wanted was already inside WW, we'd just be reinventing the same old wheel. the goal is _better_wheels_ (or wings, etc). - somehow make it obvious to people stuck in the terrarium that there are unique (disruptive) things outside. personally, I think the clustering world is a bit complacent, not unlike how unix was before Linux. the terrarium is a barrier in both directions - because we are, for the most part structurally incompatible with WW, the competition is more tectonic, rather than teeth-at-neck. so, getting back to the point, I don't really see from SC05, where WW will gain much from HPC clustering. multiple vendors said that MSFT's goal was to insinuate itself into the low-end cluster market first, then move up. no real surprise there, but I have doubts about whether this makes sense. why? because low-end clusters are mostly a mistake. at a university like mine, for instance, nearly _everyone_ realizes that it's insane for each researcher to buy/use/maintain his own little $50-500K cluster. I see three clear reasons for this: - the value of a cluster is some superlinear function of its size. - the maintenance cost of a cluster is very sub-linear. - most workloads are bursty. the first two factors encourage larger clusters; the latter means that bursts can be overlapped in a shared resource very nicely. but the punchline is that this argues against MS's strategy of gaining a million tiny toeholds, since those small clusters are a bad idea in the first place. in Canada, at least, funding agencies understand the three factors above, at least fuzzily, and are quite encouraging of HPC consortia. I don't see why business CIO's wouldn't realize the same things, and force some amount of coalesced clusters. maybe we should talk about clustering in terms of virtualized parallel machines, or rename batch schedulers as "on-demand resource allocators". not all clusters should be treated this way, of course. some workloads are steady, so you don't get any benefit out of resource-sharing (just potential screwups if someones burstiness crimps your constant demand.) the other aspect of the MSFT-SC05 thing is that there doesn't appear to be any real synergy between the WW software ethos and clustering. WW is all about plugging applications together - embedding activeX controls, etc. what would you plug into in a cluster? there's nothing wrong with MSFT's plan to do a cluster environment based on SQL server, visual studio and MPI, but there's no real skeleton there, just connective tissue. no Word/Excel standards that give shape to the environment. regards, mark hahn.


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Kale is a straight-up mutant-the guy goes huge. It's arguable whether anyone could go toe-to-toe with his super-sized backcountry hucks. But I'll tell you this: nobody can stomach the career-ending crashes he absorbs on the regular. Unbreakable? Hardly. While whiplash seems unbelievable as this daredevil's worst riding injury to date-stranger still are the circumstances of how Kale gets owned.
How you doin'?
But you just had a gnarly accident.
Yep, I took my nose off basically-and bit through my tongue.
That's nasty dude-you weren't even snowboarding?
No, I was just loading the sled in back of my truck with a sketchy aluminum ramp at a friend's. I set it on the bumper, and when my sled skis hit it, they pushed the bottom of the ramp forward and it slipped under the truck. The top of the ramp flipped back as the bumper acted as a lever, and took my nose off from the top down. It happened so quick, and it was just hanging there by my upper lip.
Damn! I'm sorry to hear that.
Yeah (laughter), my nose is back on now, though-the swelling won't go down for a couple months.
They just stuck it back on?
Yep, The Whistler hospital cleaned me out and put a few stitches to hold things in place. Then a plastic surgeon reattached everything from the inside out and realigned my nasal passages. He sewed me all back up, and I'm fine.
It took off the cartilage?
Oh, totally-right through everything. We've got wicked pictures, crazy photos, like, ridiculous shots of my nose hanging off my face.
You cut off your tongue as well.
My two front teeth bit about three quarters of an inch off, but it was still connected at the corners. The tongue is still really swollen, but at first my whole face was huge-my eyes were swollen shut. You know when the whites of your eyes go bloody?
Did you pass out?
I wasn't that bad, but my buddy puked a few times.
For a tragedy, you recovered awful quick.
Definitely. Only two weeks and it's all healed back on-the stitches have been out for seven days already. I had perfect blood flow from my lip, so the tissue didn't go into shock or anything. I'm f-kin' fine-I went sledding yesterday.
I guess you took out Devun's missing fronts.
Yeah (laughter). I'm just lucky it didn't hit me in the eyes, split my head open, or take my jaw off. Really, this was the best possible scenario for what could have happened.
That sledneck shit is dangerous
But I was just loading the sled, man.
Over it-I'm sick enough. Break down the Shithawks.
Our f-kin' snowmobile gang? We all put upside-down crosses on our windshields and wrote Shithawks on 'em. It's Browner, Devun, Kearns, Dano, Dionne, and Dufficy.
That's a pretty hard crew.
Oh yeah, we'll roll up and siphon all your gas, steal your belt-then high mark your kicker's landing (laughter).


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GRP flat roofing Prose and cons
- Now easily available in DIY shops
- Good and strong
- Tested over many ears to perform
- Comes in any colour
- Can be formed into any shape
- Will hold standing water
- Very rigid and brittle if laid to thin
- Has to be laid by experienced people
- Has to be built up to form a good surface and this takes time and materials
- Weather and temperature dependable
Other options to consider
- GacoRoof
- Kemper
All three are based on the principles of GRP resins and glass fiber but they have been modified to be flexible.
My opinion.
If the GRP roof is laid correctly and to the correct depth they are good roofs however I only ever see well laid GRP roofs when Im down the coats these are normally laid by boat builders and are formed from may layers of GRP, forming a good strong shell.
If you have lots of money and want a really nice looking roof then GRP is the way to go.
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Paul says, "All of you together are Christ's body, and each of you is a part of it" (1 Corinthians 12:27). Jesus has commissioned us to be His heart, His hands, His voice. Through praying, giving and going, Southern Baptists have fulfilled this legacy for more than 160 years.
If you are a follower of Jesus, you are part of the task to fulfill the Great Commission.
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O'Shea Builders recently completed an expansion of LRS's current campus along West Monroe Street as well as new construction for 55,940 SF of office space and 100,095 SF of parking garage.Read More
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New 6,000 square-foot main bank facility, located in Springfield, Illinois. The development of this new branch was intended to make banking options as convenient and accessible as possible for their customers.Read More
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