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Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador. Costa Rica: widespread.
Most observations of A. flavigaster have been made in the southern Pacific lowlands of Costa Rica, in moderately seasonal evergreen forest. Azteca flavigaster is a generalist cavity nester with conspicuous surface-foraging workers. In a degraded patch of forest near Quepos, at a pasture edge, I observed abundant workers on the trunk of a live, 40cm diameter tree, emerging from a long narrow fissure at the base. Abundant workers were also on the base of another small tree in the same forest patch. This tree had a dead branch at ground level with workers, brood, and scattered alate females in two parallel cavities, each with horizontal carton partitions. Large columns of workers went up the trunk to a larger dead branch further up. In a patch of mature forest near Ciudad Neily an aggregation of workers were in cavities in the main stem of a sapling of Grias (Lecythidaceae). At Sirena in Corcovado National Park I made several observations of this species. I observed a column of foraging workers on the ground surface, flowing in and out of a 4cm diameter hole extending horizontally into the ground. I observed workers 18m high in the canopy of a Perebea trophophylla (Moraceae) tree, with an aggregation of workers in a small knot. I observed an incipient colony in an Acacia alleni tree, the common myrmecophytic acacia in Corcovado. The tree was in poor shape, without a dominant Pseudomymex colony. The Azteca occupied several of the thorns, one of which contained a physogastric queen and small brood. Finally, I observed two founding queens in a dead and tattered Costus (Costaceae) inflorescence. The inflorescence was filled with many old chambers containing dead Azteca queen remains. The two living queens were in adjacent chambers, but not in contact. Each had brood, and one had nanitic workers. When I put the queens together in the same vial, they immediately locked mandibles in combat. Other researchers at Sirena have collected founding queens in chambers of Tetrathylacium costaricensis and T. macrophyllum.
Workers with the same coloration and habitus of Azteca flavigaster occur in the Atlantic lowlands of Costa Rica, but are rare. At La Selva Biological Station these workers have been collected twice. A worker was collected in a Berlese sample of canopy soil and epiphytes, and a nest or nest fragment was found in a live branch of Coussapoa (Cecropiaceae). The nest also contained workers of Camponotus atriceps, in a parabiotic association.
Although workers matching A. flavigaster have been found on the Atlantic side of Costa Rica and in other countries, no queens have been collected to confirm these identifications. However, the new species A. quadraticeps is known only from queens from the Atlantic lowlands. It is possible that A. quadraticeps and A. flavigaster are allopatric or parapatric sister taxa with similar workers, and that the Atlantic slope workers with yellow gasters are actually the workers of A. quadraticeps.
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Azteca | Longino, J. T., 2007, A taxonomic review of the genus Azteca (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Costa Rica and a global revision of the aurita group., Zootaxa 1491, pp. 1-63: 8-10, (download) | 8-10 | 21311 | ||
Azteca flavigaster | new species | Longino, J. T., 2007, A taxonomic review of the genus Azteca (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Costa Rica and a global revision of the aurita group., Zootaxa 1491, pp. 1-63: 30-31, (download) | 30-31 | 21311 | GoogleMaps |
Found most commonly in these habitats: 1 times found in degraded wet forest edge, 4 times found in rainforest, 4 times found in lowland rainforest, 1 times found in tropical moist forest, 1 times found in lowland wet forest, 1 times found in CCL 400 m, 1 times found in wet forest canopy, 1 times found in clearing in 2nd growth rainforest, 1 times found in Edge of second growth rainforest, 1 times found in montane wet forest, ...
Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 1 times nest in dead branch, 3 times on low vegetation, 1 times St. 804, Canopy ant sample in Perebea trophophylla, 18m high. The tree was bare, 1 times on recently felled trees, 1 times night collecting along SOR. Azteca parabiotic with Camponotus; carton filling cr, 1 times live branch, 1 times forest tree trunk, 1 times ex live branch Coussapoa, parabiotic Azteca and Camponotus, 1 times Sura, 1 times Patch of lowland primary rain forest with trees being felled as we collected. Ag, 1 times Malaise trap, ...
Collected most commonly using these methods: 11 times search, 3 times Malaise, 1 times Berlese, 1 times Fogging, 1 times light trap.
Elevations: collected from 5 - 350 meters, 46 meters average
Type specimens: Holotype Azteca flavigaster: jtlc000005689; Paratype Azteca flavigaster: jtlc000005687, jtlc000005688, inbiocri001281548


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The butterfly has long been a powerful symbol of rebirth. The lowly caterpillar's emergence from its cocoon into a thing of beauty in flight is a vivid embodiment of transformation and self-realization. The title of Butterfly Blue, the stunning and soulful new album by vocalist Halie Loren, evokes those poetic images, but tinged with a sense of bittersweet melancholy.
Loren has found quite a bit of metamorphosis over the past few years, growing from a West-Coast singer-songwriter to an international jazz celebrity in Japan and Asia, where the singer has now performed dozens of sold-out concerts and found her music climbing to the pinnacle of many a sales chart, including three consecutive Billboard Jazz #1 albums in Japan. Her career and musical growth continues into 2015, the year which finds Loren spreading her proverbial wings wider than ever before with the release of Butterfly Blue, drawing inspiration from blues and soul music influences in a deeper way than she has in the past, while firmly and unapologetically planting one foot in the jazz realm and the other in pop. She does this without losing any of the warmth, charm and sensuality that has always characterized her unique vocal approach. But the thread that connects the album's mix of jazz and Songbook standards, reimagined pop songs, and original pieces is captured in that seemingly contradictory title."
"A lot of these songs were chosen because they explored different aspects of imprisonment and freedom," Loren explains. "Many of them have to do with ideas of being beholden to thoughts, feelings, and experiences from which you alone can also free yourself."
The album's title marries two original pieces that exemplify that theme. "Butterfly" was written by Loren, who imagined the insect's transformation from the caterpillar's point of view, facing the prospect of having to pass through a literal death in order to experience rebirth, relating the experience to that of human suffering being the catalyst for spiritual growth. "Blue," one of two songs penned by guitarist and songwriter Daniel Gallo, expresses empathy and promises of a brighter future to a lover in the deep throes of melancholy. Joining the two, Loren says, "really felt like an apropos combination. It's about finding the way through the pain of experience to a new, wiser, more beautiful version of yourself. But you have to go through the journey; that's where the real pain happens."
The two songs also boldly spotlight the album's musical influences: the stabbing horns and soulful pleas of "Butterfly" conjure soul touchstones like Otis Redding or Etta James, while "Blue" lives up to its name through Gallo's gut-punch guitar and Loren's powerfully communicated longing. While she's quick to say that Butterfly Blue is by no means a blues or soul album, those storied genres color the whole album. "It has touches of the things that have heavily moved me musically over the years," she says. "I've been a fan of a lot of different kinds of music my whole life, so I was interested in stretching out beyond the territory I've explored over the last few albums and digging deeper into more of my bluesy roots.
To realize those ambitions, Loren added horns and strings to the arrangements in a more extensive way than she has in the past, though with a light and always effective touch. These additional musicians, William Seiji Marsh and Gallo on guitars, David Larsen on saxophone,Joe Freuen on trombone, Dana Heitman on trumpet, Rob Birdwell on flugelhorn and trumpet, and Katherine Dudney on cello, join Loren's longtime core band, (pianist and co-producer Matt Treder, bassist Mark Schneider and drummer Brian West) featured on the majority of the singer's releases to-date. Together the ensemble subtly nods toward classic soul blues sounds within a modern jazz context.
Butterfly Blue begins on a more winsome note, however, with the wordless vocal melody of Loren's "Yellow Bird." Despite the playfulness of the song's Tin Pan Alley feel, however, the lyrics fit the album's darker theme. "The idea of freedom being an internal feeling rather than an external reality came to me in the image of a bird in a cage," Loren says. "I thought, 'What might they dream about?' On the surface, it's kind of a cute song with a cute melody, but the meaning of the lyric goes deeper into more esoteric notions of how subjective our perceptions of 'reality' are, and to what degree we are masters of our own experiences in this life."
The notion of using animals to express deep-felt emotion comes easily to Loren, who has always felt a strong connection to the natural world. Born and raised in Alaska, she's lived for the last 17 years in Oregon, where she maintains a strong connection to the outdoors.
Loren's rendition of Charles Trenet's "I Wish You Love" is a unique hybrid of the original French lyrics, with a brief detour into the better-known but less expressive English lyrics. "Stormy Weather" is stretched into a sultry, teasingly languorous blues, while "Our Love Is Here To Stay" offers a sense of familial nostalgia.
"After The Fall", the second song penned by Gallo, tells a story of a woman in the winter of life, reminiscing about a long lost love through music that formed the soundtrack for those precious memories of youth. "I had the rare opportunity to hear this song as it was coming into being through hands other than my own: an original song I didn't write but that was entirely new to the world, crafted with such a richly emotional story and vivid imagery – it was love at first listen."
"I've Got You Under My Skin" continues the album's theme of emotional or spiritual imprisonment, here captured in the song's tale of uncontrollable obsession, heightened by the spare, snake-charmer tone of the arrangement. "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" is given a darker-than-usual perspective that illustrates the thoroughfare's hopeless denizens.
Loren's "Danger in Loving You" is reprised from her 2010 live recording Stages, and is included as both a long-overdue studio version of the song as well as a tribute to the vocalist's longtime songwriting partner, Larry Wayne Clark, who passed away in 2013. "Carry Us Through," lifts the spirits by adding New Orleans accents to singer-songwriter Sarah Masen's song of survival, and the set ends on a hopeful note with the late Horace Silver's classic, "Peace."
Loren explains, "The idea of the song is that if you can find peace inside, everything will be all right with the world outside. I love that it embodies a zen-like quality in both message and music while so beautifully reiterating the concept of freedom being a choice, an internal experience. I thought it would really round out the feeling of the album nicely and bring it back to this place of simplicity."

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Diana Ross made her much-anticipated appearance on Friday's (Feb. 25) episode of "The Oprah Show" and brought the house down. And in true final season flavor, Oprah Winfrey took it up a notch with all of Ross' kids joining, a reunion, some tearful confessions and a performance showing Miss Ross is still quite the entertainer.
Ross brought all five of her kids, including "Girlfriends" star, Tracee Ellis Ross, and Evan Ross, who's currently starring on The CW's "90210." And for the first time ever on TV, she brought along her first grandson, Raif Henok Emmanuel Kendrick, who was born in 2009.
Oprah shared how much Diana meant to her when at 10 years old she saw The Supremes perform on "The Ed Sullivan Show" in 1964. Through tears, Oprah said that seeing African American women on television literally changed her life. Probably one of the more touching confessions by Ross was when Oprah asked her when she had felt she had "made it."
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Other highlights for us? Oprah reunited Ross with Billy Dee Williams, her costar from "Lady Sings The Blues," for which Ross was nominated for an Oscar. And of course, it was a big thrill for us when Miss Ross took the stage and sang "Ain't No Mountain High Enough." She still has it, doesn't she?
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The Story on This 1979 Ford F1-150..I Got this Truck in 2002..Before i Could Drive of Course...It was Used on the Farm After Being Bought From a Fathers Friend...This Truck Sat and Sat For Years Till 2008, When I brought it Home and Started tearin her down...What a Task....This Truck was all stock at the time...Still had a Box and What not...I was Inlove at First Sight when i Saw it...I Wouldnt Trade my truck for the world...Even if i had too....Now Its Under Construction...
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This isn't "my" vehicle, it belongs to my step dad, its his wood hauling truck, this is the first vehicle that i learned to drive a stick shift. It was built from the ground up by my step dad, and its the first truck he owned in his logging business. It sure doesn't look like much but this truck is a work-a-holic, it never gets a day off to take a joy ride, and the days it isn't doing its job, its usually broke down or getting something new put in it, but this ole boy sure does suck gas and hauls ass. LOLZ
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The Spencer County Homemakers caught up with each other last month, as well as 16th president Abraham Lincoln and his wife, Mary Todd.
The 2011 Louisville Area Communications Day was held on Saturday, April 16, at the Ballardsville Baptist Church in Oldham County. I am so proud to say that everyone from Spencer County did an outstanding job.
The carpenter bees are doing a number on our house. We perfectly fit the profile of a desirable place to lay your eggs for this rather docile bee, and they are busy around the frame of the garage as I write. But, I do have a plan. Carpenter bees are essentially harmless. The male, who hovers about, has no stinger. The female tunnels and lays her eggs; when she does come out, you would have to handle her for her to sting.
Although horse farm owners by nature are jacks of all trade, they can easily overlook the importance of developing appropriate plans for environmental systems. Heavy rains throughout April and at the beginning of May provide a striking visual aide: There is no better time to see how heavy rain and run-off can erode fields and paths, which makes spring the perfect time to take the necessary steps to prevent further soil loss, erosion, loss of forage, damage to pasture, and contamination of waterways.
The Spencer County High School 2011 Project Graduation committee is hosting a Women's Empowerment Course fundraiser Saturday from 5 until 6:30 p.m. The course, entitled "Invest in Yourself," will teach students how to de-escalate a bad situation. Gracie Jiu Jitsu of Kentucky's chief instructor, Scott Smith, will be conducting the self defense course. The course will be at Spencer County High School for ages 13 and older. Participants should wear a t-shirt, sweats and shorts.
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I have grandchildren now; an amazing thought to me, how could I be that old? And I know from experience that you can love someone long before you meet them. I loved my grandchildren before they were born. I also know that you can love someone before they are worthy of love. Let's face it, a newborn baby cannot do anything deserving of love, unless dirty diapers and crying count. And yet our tender affection for these littlest people is real.
Today I want us to take a look at ourselves and see how real we think Jesus is to us. Are we willing to do what he leads us to do? If we have accepted Jesus as our savior we belong to the family of Jesus Christ.


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In an industrial park in Philadelphia sits a new machine that can change almost anything into oil.
"This is a solution to three of the biggest problems facing mankind," says Brian Appel, chairman and CEO of Changing World Technologies, the company that built this pilot plant and has just completed its first industrial-size installation in Missouri. "This process can deal with the world's waste. It can supplement our dwindling supplies of oil. And it can slow down global warming."
Pardon me, says a reporter, shivering in the frigid dawn, but that sounds too good to be true. "Everybody says that," says Appel. He is a tall, affable entrepreneur who has assembled a team of scientists, former government leaders, and deep-pocketed investors to develop and sell what he calls the thermal depolymerization process, or TDP. The process is designed to handle almost any waste product imaginable, including turkey offal, tires, plastic bottles, harbor-dredged muck, old computers, municipal garbage, cornstalks, paper-pulp effluent, infectious medical waste, oil-refinery residues, even biological weapons such as anthrax spores. According to Appel, waste goes in one end and comes out the other as three products, all valuable and environmentally benign: high-quality oil, clean-burning gas, and purified minerals that can be used as fuels, fertilizers, or specialty chemicals for manufacturing.
Unlike other solid-to-liquid-fuel processes such as cornstarch into ethanol, this one will accept almost any carbon-based feedstock. If a 175-pound man fell into one end, he would come out the other end as 38 pounds of oil, 7 pounds of gas, and 7 pounds of minerals, as well as 123 pounds of sterilized water. While no one plans to put people into a thermal depolymerization machine, an intimate human creation could become a prime feedstock. "There is no reason why we can't turn sewage, including human excrement, into a glorious oil," says engineer Terry Adams, a project consultant. So the city of Philadelphia is in discussion with Changing World Technologies to begin doing exactly that.
"The potential is unbelievable," says Michael Roberts, a senior chemical engineer for the Gas Technology Institute, an energy research group. "You're not only cleaning up waste; you're talking about distributed generation of oil all over the world."
"This is not an incremental change. This is a big, new step," agrees Alf Andreassen, a venture capitalist with the Paladin Capital Group and a former Bell Laboratories director. The offal-derived oil, is chemically almost identical to a number two fuel oil used to heat homes.
Andreassen and others anticipate that a large chunk of the world's agricultural, industrial, and municipal waste may someday go into thermal depolymerization machines scattered all over the globe. If the process works as well as its creators claim, not only would most toxic waste problems become history, so would imported oil. Just converting all the U.S. agricultural waste into oil and gas would yield the energy equivalent of 4 billion barrels of oil annually. In 2001 the United States imported 4.2 billion barrels of oil. Referring to U.S. dependence on oil from the volatile Middle East, R. James Woolsey, former CIA director and an adviser to Changing World Technologies, says, "This technology offers a beginning of a way away from this."
But first things first. Today, here at the plant at Philadelphia's Naval Business Center, the experimental feedstock is turkey processing-plant waste: feathers, bones, skin, blood, fat, guts. A forklift dumps 1,400 pounds of the nasty stuff into the machine's first stage, a 350-horsepower grinder that masticates it into gray brown slurry. From there it flows into a series of tanks and pipes, which hum and hiss as they heat, digest, and break down the mixture. Two hours later, a white-jacketed technician turns a spigot. Out pours a honey-colored fluid, steaming a bit in the cold warehouse as it fills a glass beaker.
It really is a lovely oil. "The longest carbon chains are C-18 or so," says Appel, admiring the liquid. "That's a very light oil. It is essentially the same as a mix of half fuel oil, half gasoline."
Private investors, who have chipped in $40 million to develop the process, aren't the only ones who are impressed. The federal government has granted more than $12 million to push the work along. "We will be able to make oil for $8 to $12 a barrel," says Paul Baskis, the inventor of the process. "We are going to be able to switch to a carbohydrate economy."
Making oil and gas from hydrocarbon-based waste is a trick that Earth mastered long ago. Most crude oil comes from one-celled plants and animals that die, settle to ocean floors, decompose, and are mashed by sliding tectonic plates, a process geologists call subduction. Under pressure and heat, the dead creatures' long chains of hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon-bearing molecules, known as polymers, decompose into short-chain petroleum hydrocarbons. However, Earth takes its own sweet time doing thisgenerally thousands or millions of yearsbecause subterranean heat and pressure changes are chaotic. Thermal depolymerization machines turbocharge the process by precisely raising heat and pressure to levels that break the feedstock's long molecular bonds.
Many scientists have tried to convert organic solids to liquid fuel using waste products before, but their efforts have been notoriously inefficient. "The problem with most of these methods was that they tried to do the transformation in one stepsuperheat the material to drive off the water and simultaneously break down the molecules," says Appel. That leads to profligate energy use and makes it possible for hazardous substances to pollute the finished product.
Very wet wasteand much of the world's waste is wetis particularly difficult to process efficiently because driving off the water requires so much energy. Usually, the Btu content in the resulting oil or gas barely exceeds the amount needed to make the stuff.
That's the challenge that Baskis, a microbiologist and inventor who lives in Rantoul, Illinois, confronted in the late 1980s. He says he "had a flash" of insight about how to improve the basic ideas behind another inventor's waste-reforming process. "The prototype I saw produced a heavy, burned oil," recalls Baskis. "I drew up an improvement and filed the first patents." He spent the early 1990s wooing investors and, in 1996, met Appel, a former commodities trader. "I saw what this could be and took over the patents," says Appel, who formed a partnership with the Gas Technology Institute and had a demonstration plant up and running by 1999.
Thermal depolymerization, Appel says, has proved to be 85 percent energy efficient for complex feedstocks, such as turkey offal: "That means for every 100 Btus in the feedstock, we use only 15 Btus to run the process." He contends the efficiency is even better for relatively dry raw materials, such as plastics.
So how does it work? In the cold Philadelphia warehouse, Appel waves a long arm at the apparatus, which looks surprisingly low tech: a tangle of pressure vessels, pipes, valves, and heat exchangers terminating in storage tanks. It resembles the oil refineries that stretch to the horizon on either side of the New Jersey Turnpike, and in part, that's exactly what it is.
Appel strides to a silver gray pressure tank that is 20 feet long, three feet wide, heavily insulated, and wrapped with electric heating coils. He raps on its side. "The chief difference in our process is that we make water a friend rather than an enemy," he says. "The other processes all tried to drive out water. We drive it in, inside this tank, with heat and pressure. We super-hydrate the material." Thus temperatures and pressures need only be modest, because water helps to convey heat into the feedstock. "We're talking about temperatures of 500 degrees Fahrenheit and pressures of about 600 pounds for most organic materialnot at all extreme or energy intensive. And the cooking times are pretty short, usually about 15 minutes."
Once the organic soup is heated and partially depolymerized in the reactor vessel, phase two begins. "We quickly drop the slurry to a lower pressure," says Appel, pointing at a branching series of pipes. The rapid depressurization releases about 90 percent of the slurry's free water. Dehydration via depressurization is far cheaper in terms of energy consumed than is heating and boiling off the water, particularly because no heat is wasted. "We send the flashed-off water back up there," Appel says, pointing to a pipe that leads to the beginning of the process, "to heat the incoming stream."
At this stage, the mineralsin turkey waste, they come mostly from bonessettle out and are shunted to storage tanks. Rich in calcium and magnesium, the dried brown powder "is a perfect balanced fertilizer," Appel says.
The remaining concentrated organic soup gushes into a second-stage reactor similar to the coke ovens used to refine oil into gasoline. "This technology is as old as the hills," says Appel, grinning broadly. The reactor heats the soup to about 900 degrees Fahrenheit to further break apart long molecular chains. Next, in vertical distillation columns, hot vapor flows up, condenses, and flows out from different levels: gases from the top of the column, light oils from the upper middle, heavier oils from the middle, water from the lower middle, and powdered carbonused to manufacture tires, filters, and printer tonersfrom the bottom. "Gas is expensive to transport, so we use it on-site in the plant to heat the process," Appel says. The oil, minerals, and carbon are sold to the highest bidders.
Depending on the feedstock and the cooking and coking times, the process can be tweaked to make other specialty chemicals that may be even more profitable than oil. Turkey offal, for example, can be used to produce fatty acids for soap, tires, paints, and lubricants. Polyvinyl chloride, or PVCthe stuff of house siding, wallpapers, and plastic pipesyields hydrochloric acid, a relatively benign and industrially valuable chemical used to make cleaners and solvents. "That's what's so great about making water a friend," says Appel. "The hydrogen in water combines with the chlorine in PVC to make it safe. If you burn PVC [in a municipal-waste incinerator], you get dioxinvery toxic."
Brian Appel, CEO of Changing World Technologies, strolls through a thermal depolymerization plant in Philadelphia. Experiments at the pilot facility revealed that the process is scalableplants can sprawl over acres and handle 4,000 tons of waste a day or be "small enough to go on the back of a flatbed truck" and handle just one ton daily, says Appel.
The technicians here have spent three years feeding different kinds of waste into their machinery to formulate recipes. In a little trailer next to the plant, Appel picks up a handful of one-gallon plastic bags sent by a potential customer in Japan. The first is full of ground-up appliances, each piece no larger than a pea. "Put a computer and a refrigerator into a grinder, and that's what you get," he says, shaking the bag. "It's PVC, wood, fiberglass, metal, just a mess of different things. This process handles mixed waste beautifully." Next to the ground-up appliances is a plastic bucket of municipal sewage. Appel pops the lid and instantly regrets it. "Whew," he says. "That is nasty."
Experimentation revealed that different waste streams require different cooking and coking times and yield different finished products. "It's a two-step process, and you do more in step one or step two depending on what you are processing," Terry Adams says. "With the turkey guts, you do the lion's share in the first stage. With mixed plastics, most of the breakdown happens in the second stage." The oil-to-mineral ratios vary too. Plastic bottles, for example, yield copious amounts of oil, while tires yield more minerals and other solids. So far, says Adams, "nothing hazardous comes out from any feedstock we try."
"The only thing this process can't handle is nuclear waste," Appel says. "If it contains carbon, we can do it."
This Philadelphia pilot plant can handle only seven tons of waste a day, but 1,054 miles to the west, in Carthage, Missouri, about 100 yards from one of ConAgra Foods' massive Butterball Turkey plants, sits the company's first commercial-scale thermal depolymerization plant. The $20 million facility, scheduled to go online any day, is expected to digest more than 200 tons of turkey-processing waste every 24 hours.
The north side of Carthage smells like Thanksgiving all the time. At the Butterball plant, workers slaughter, pluck, parcook, and package 30,000 turkeys each workday, filling the air with the distinctive tang of boiling bird. A factory tour reveals the grisly realities of large-scale poultry processing. Inside, an endless chain of hanging carcasses clanks past knife-wielding laborers who slash away. Outside, a tanker truck idles, full to the top with fresh turkey blood. For many years, ConAgra Foods has trucked the plant's wastefeathers, organs, and other nonusable partsto a rendering facility where it was ground and dried to make animal feed, fertilizer, and other chemical products. But bovine spongiform encephalopathy, also known as mad cow disease, can spread among cattle from recycled feed, and although no similar disease has been found in poultry, regulators are becoming skittish about feeding animals to animals.
In Europe the practice is illegal for all livestock. Since 1997, the United States has prohibited the feeding of most recycled animal waste to cattle. Ultimately, the specter of European-style mad-cow regulations may kick-start the acceptance of thermal depolymerization. "In Europe, there are mountains of bones piling up," says Alf Andreassen. "When recycling waste into feed stops in this country, it will change everything."
Because depolymerization takes apart materials at the molecular level, Appel says, it is "the perfect process for destroying pathogens." On a wet afternoon in Carthage, he smiles at the new plantan artless assemblage of gray and dun-colored buildingsas if it were his favorite child.
"This plant will make 10 tons of gas per day, which will go back into the system to make heat to power the system," he says. "It will make 21,000 gallons of water, which will be clean enough to discharge into a municipal sewage system. Pathological vectors will be completely gone. It will make 11 tons of minerals and 600 barrels of oil, high-quality stuff, the same specs as a number two heating oil." He shakes his head almost as if he can't believe it. "It's amazing.
The Environmental Protection Agency doesn't even consider us waste handlers. We are actually manufacturersthat's what our permit says. This process changes the whole industrial equation. Waste goes from a cost to a profit."
He watches as burly men in coveralls weld and grind the complex loops of piping. A group of 15 investors and corporate advisers, including Howard Buffett, son of billionaire investor Warren Buffett, stroll among the sparks and hissing torches, listening to a tour led by plant manager Don Sanders. A veteran of the refinery business, Sanders emphasizes that once the pressurized water is flashed off, "the process is similar to oil refining. The equipment, the procedures, the safety factors, the maintenanceit's all proven technology."
And it will be profitable, promises Appel. "We've done so much testing in Philadelphia, we already know the costs," he says. "This is our first-out plant, and we estimate we'll make oil at $15 a barrel. In three to five years, we'll drop that to $10, the same as a medium-size oil exploration and production company. And it will get cheaper from there."
"We've got a lot of confidence in this," Buffett says. "I represent ConAgra's investment. We wouldn't be doing this if we didn't anticipate success." Buffett isn't alone. Appel has lined up federal grant money to help build demonstration plants to process chicken offal and manure in Alabama and crop residuals and grease in Nevada. Also in the works are plants to process turkey waste and manure in Colorado and pork and cheese waste in Italy. He says the first generation of depolymerization centers will be up and running in 2005. By then it should be clear whether the technology is as miraculous as its backers claim.
I'll second that!
Read on. 100 pounds of discarded plasic bottles yields 70 pounds of clean burning oil.
Oooookay. And they can make lemonade out of it too.
That's what I was thinking too.
I encourage you to read the entire article. This is not a hypothetical theory. There is an industrial size fully operational plant in Carthage, MO. Most of the energy required in the process is produced from the waste going in. How's 80% efficiency sound when your raw material is stuff headed for a landfill.
Carthage Commercial Facility
This working plant that is operational today solves our to biggest problems. What do we do with all the garbage we produce that is overwhelming our landfills and how do we decrease our dependence on foreign oil.
Has built a commercial plant that is operational today in Carthage, MO.
This thing looks real.
I bet any money the environmental wackos will find something wrong with it though.
A group of 15 investors and corporate advisers, including Howard Buffett, son of billionaire investor Warren Buffett, stroll among the sparks and hissing torches, listening to a tour led by plant manager Don Sanders. A veteran of the refinery business, Sanders emphasizes that once the pressurized water is flashed off, "the process is similar to oil refining. The equipment, the procedures, the safety factors, the maintenanceit's all proven technology."
And it will be profitable, promises Appel. "We've done so much testing in Philadelphia, we already know the costs," he says. "This is our first-out plant, and we estimate we'll make oil at $15 a barrel. In three to five years, we'll drop that to $10, the same as a medium-size oil exploration and production company. And it will get cheaper from there."
"We've got a lot of confidence in this," Buffett says. "I represent ConAgra's investment. We wouldn't be doing this if we didn't anticipate success." Buffett isn't alone.
Anytime you see the Buffets buying into something, that's a good indicator that this might be for real. His old man didn't get to be the 2nd richest man in the world by investing in perpetual motion.
This has been known for at least a hundred years.
As I once described here, I was asked to evaluate a German patent which fed a wire of pure aluminum into a tank of water. A high voltage created a spark, which caused the reaction: 2Al +3H2O --> Al2O3 + 3H2. This reaction is an interesting 'redox' one, in which aluminum is oxidized and water is reduced (a neat trick). The resulting hydrogen was used in a modified car engine and burned with air.
No question it would work. BMW tested it.
The teensy little problem(s): All of the oxygen in the water was wasted; sequestered in the dense "ash" of Al2O3 (aluminum oxide) which had to be periodically removed in the form of sludge. Also, with pure aluminum at 70 cents per pound, gasoline would have to cost $12-$15 per gallon to make this scheme economically feasible.
In essence, it is a big storage battery which is charged up at the aluminum smelter by the huge amounts of energy needed to get the aluminum metal out of rock. Indeed, electrical prices and aluminum prices interact in a complex manner; each affecting the other. Some smelters have their own dedicated power plants.
It's working, just not running in full production mode. It takes quite a while to bring any facility "on-line" for every day business operations. Incoming and outgoing logistics and internal procedures have to be set up for the operation to run at full capacity.
Thanks for pointing that out.I will look for a source that confirms it's operational.
matter of fact, the entire ME oil industry could become non essential.
plus we won't have to drill alaska!
p.s. tyson industries & all the illinois river floaters will love it!
The fly in the ointment is that you might need more energy than can be recovered from the fuel you make.
It appears they have solved this problem by using the gas produced in the process to provide the energy requirements.
I also seem to recall a quote (can't remember the exact source) of Wilber Write declaring that secrets of powered flight were unlikely to be discovered within his lifetime. A couple of years later they were taking turns piloting the Write Flyer. Even in the weeks and months after their success, there were still a lot of people in the media claiming that it was a scam. The only thing that shut them up was when people actually started buying and flying the damn things.
You are correct.
So much for the world's water "crisis".
Interesting Technology.
Ya know, I've been of the opinion for quite a long time, that all we need to solve just about any problem is an american with an idea and investors looking to make a profit.
If the process is as efficient as they are claiming, it could very well have serious geopolitical ramifications over the next 30 years. Just about every large agribusiness would find this process to be useful. I can even imagine the possibility of having folx who grow crops specifically for the purpose of rendering them into oil. These people rock, and I hope for 2 things. First, that it works as stated in the article. Second, for developing it, I hope the investors make obscene amounts of money.
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WANTED: Mustad size 32 hooks
Thought you guys might still have some of the old REALLY FREAKING TINY mustad size 32 fly hooks laying around that you'd sell me.
I need to match this durned TINY hatch at my fav stream and even the Tiemco 518 size 32 won't do it. Please let me know dudes and dudettes-- Joe |
Hi Joe.
I dont have any for sale, I only have the one and it is in a frame next to a 10/0 Salmon iron above my desk. Just out of curiosity, what are you trying to match in a #32???? No-see-ums? I am a salmon guy and anything under a #12 is small for me so i am just curious. I personally wouldnt think tackle this small is practicle, but thats just me. Good luck and enjoy it man, if that's what your after. As for the hooks themselves? Havent seen them in so long, or even seen them mentioned that i couldnt begin to give you a direction. Flytyer may have an idea. Good luck Salmon Chaser aka Dwayne ><)))*> |
I haven't seen them in 20 years. I think the closest you are going to get to them is #26 hooks unless you can find someone or some shop with some unsold #32's layng around. You can always do what Rube Wood did when he needed small hooks back before WWI, tie the fly only 1/2 or 3/4 of the shank to get the smaller fly. In effect, you tie a small #24 trout fly as a sort of low-water fly. Wood tied his with the tail positioned normally; but he left a lot of bare shank before the hook's eye. This style of tying insures the fly will land and float properly.
Hen's teeth
Yeah, these buggers are rare. I actually just found someone who has some, but they ain't cheap.
The day I luck into a fly shop with a box of size 32 mustads just laying around is the day I am struck dead :hehe: I am matching a flourescent white midg-y thing that has been hatching so much that it looks like someone sprinkled cork dust on the little stream. The trout go wild for it. They won't touch my #26 grey-wispy nor my Tiemco #32 grey whispy. I see them rise and just take a mouthful of the little things. I think perhaps a #10 White Wulff is actually the answer :D I also like tiny flies. I need a reason to use my 12x tippet. You comment about using only part of the shank is really excellent and I'm going to try it. I DO think that mustad makes a true 28, but my TMC 32s are about a true 28 in size. Hey, thanks all for the help. One day when I need to match a hatch of ermines, I'll perster you about the 10/0. Cheers- Brooklyn |
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Hey Joe...
Are you using that 12X on your "BIG D"stick?:devil: |
John D- Another great idea. I tried tiny griffith's gnats and they would not take those, so I was wary to try another "midge-cluster kind of thing." You idea, however is excellent and I will try it.
MJC--- Yes, this is all with an 18' Daiwa. You had to ask? Best- Joe |
John's suggestion is excellent. In Montana is it very common practice to tie two Tricos on the same #16 or #18 hook in order to get a small size fly and have it appear like two flies lying together on the water while giving the angler a larger hook gap for better hookups. No reason the same thing wouldn't work with the smaller midges you're trying to imitate. |
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I've never seen any thing lighter than 9x. What pound test is this stuff? |
Varivas is it
A japanese company makes 8x-12x in their Midge tippet.
Their tippet is, IMHO, the best no matter the size. I'm not sure it is a "true" 12x. I believe there is some formula to determine the X rating that came from the old silk gut days and around 10x, the diameter is around 0. So a TRUE 10x is not even possible. The 12x is, however the thinnest tippet available, regardless of x rating. The 12x is a remarkable 1.06lb test. I think they use it for yamame fishing. Do a search for varivas tippet for info. I'm sure one of our sponsors can get it if they don't stock it. I make long midge leaders down to 12x and they are great fun for small fish of the sort I am often fishing for in little Pennsylvania streams. I've also been thinking about trying to carp fish with 12x. Would be great for those super wary carp. And the test is so low that if I hook into one too big, I can easily break him off before he's fought to death. I bought 8-12x and have been happily tying leaders with them for a ffew years. Joe |
Thanks for the information Joe. It sounds like alot of fun tying into a fish with. I just might have to look into it some more out of curiosity...
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Hi, sorry to jump in here but I've been looking at moving away from having a sound card all together. The reason for this is I DO play games but they are all modern (BF3, Far Cry 3 etc) and they all use software decoding.......so...
I know an external DAC is better for music but will I be missing anything in games if the games I play only use software decoding and therefor don't take advantage of the sound card hardware??
Thanks in advance.
Read the specs on my previous HD2 Advanced link. If your card or external can't match it (ex. 120db range, exchangeable OPAMPs, headphone amp) or come close then you are probably missing something sound wise. Software decoding or not, the signal still has to travel through circuitry before arriving to the final analog phase (speaker). Good DACs, capacitors, OPAMPS, shielding, etc. all add to the final sounds. Changing out OPAMPS to suit your own personal tastes is the most rewarding experience.
I tried a few cards like ASUS and SB lines, they just sound so dark and muddy to me and I wasn't going to take a chance on $200 card. Sold or sent them back. Stand alone dedicated sound still is an improvement over motherboard sound chips (except that old Sound Storm chip was pretty good until they kill it off but I digress).
Anyway, if you spend most of your time listening through headphones or speakers then you might have to take the plunge into better audio output. Helps from anything from gaming to movies to music to recording to TV station listening playbacks.


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Just curious as to which one most would prefer and why. The heavier round seems more suited to the AK design, yet I have seen vids of guys shooting the ak74 with no muzzle rise or recoil whatsoever. Not many discussions on this, and it seems like a viable topic.....
I've never shot an AK-74, but I have an AK-47. From what I hear, each have thier pros and cons. Alot of it depends on the round. That's probably the biggest difference between the two rifles. 7.62 has more recoil, and packs a bigger punch. 5.45 has less recoil, but isn't as powerful a round as the 7.62. I think the caliber just depends on your preference, because I think they are pretty much the same rifle. My AK is a WASR-10 in 7.62. Ammo is cheap and plentiful around here, and recoil isnt really an issue with me. I love my AK. But, again, that's just my opinion, and what I've read around here. As I said, I've never even laid eyes on an AK-74, let alone shot one, so I could very well be wrong.
They're about the same to me, although you wouldn't know it by my lopsided collection with all but two shooting the 7.62x39. They each have their merits as has been mentioned already. I'll probably get a few more AKMs and at least one AK-47, then start collecting AK-74s more aggressively. In the AK-74 world, there really isn't as much variety to choose from as there is with AKMs. You're pretty much going to get a SAR (Romanian), Tantal (Polish), Saiga SGL series (Russian), or one of the many Bulgarian variants.
74 = cheaper ammo, flatter trajectory, less ammo variety, not for game. 47 = more money, harder hitting, more availability (you can get it made by american companies not named after animals) you could take game with it with the right ammo.
Carlos I'm trying to think what my next AK should be, I have really good AK mags (radoms, Bulgarian already0 I just purchased a sgl20 Arsenal, I like it even though the front sight post has to be all the way left for a zero. My Yugo M70 is just sweet..... I have seriously been considering a Lancaster arms 74 build, I have heard nothing but good things about them, so for me its between that and the yugo M72 RPK. Always wanted one...just because....
I vote AK47 in 7.62x39. I own three, and love them. My vote is biased though as I don't yet own an AK-74 (I am eyeballing kits to rebuild though....). I figured (for now) if I want a smaller round with flatter fight path I'll shoot my ARs.
Shot my first 7.62x39mm AK in the 1970's the 5.45x39mm AK in the 1990's, own quite a few of each and have fired thousands of rounds out of both calibers, if I had to pick one it would be the 5.45x39mm same caliber the Afghan Mujahideen nicknamed "the poison bullet"-it does the job.
Both Finland and Yugoslavia did quite a bit of testing of smaller calibers and never felt warm and fuzzy about them. The Russians weren't happy with the 5.45's performance in urban combat areas in Chechnya and requested 7.62x39 AK's for troops there. The Russians developed a special bullet for urban combat in 7.62x39. It has a flat base lead core, both features that reduce ricochets over boat tail and steel core bullets. 5.45 has less recoil, less weight and seems slightly more accurate which may make it more enjoyable to shoot. Recent testing has shown that 22 caliber rifle bullets that don't expand and don't break up have about the same wounding effect as handgun bullets and yaw and tumble don't benefit 22 caliber rifle bullets as much as 30 caliber rifle bullets.
Interesting information. Thanks for posting it. It's based on military applications. I wonder how it would carry over to civilian SHTF situations.
Everything I have is 7.62x39mm. However the next AK I get will be 5.45. If I had to start from scratch today I would get a 5.45 AK. And I'd order a PILE of ammo.
If you're going to hunt with it get 7.62 X 39. If not, get 5.45. Well, there is one thing to consider: in all the likelihood 7.62 X 39 barrel will outlast 5.45 X 39. You should treat the claims along the lines of "Russian troops want 7.62 X 39 back" the same as "US troops want .308 back" i.e. as mostly BS. I get a chuckle out of troops prefer this, troops prefer that. Russian troops prefer what is issued to them by the Ministry of Defense. And the Ministry of Defense is very much happy with 5.45, is phasing out AKMs as fast as the money allows and is not looking back. The development of 7.62 X 39 urban round has nothing to do with a rekindled popularity. Fact of the matter is this particular 7.62 X 39 is just a part of a recently developed low ricochet ammo line that includes ALL small-arms calibers currently in employ by the Russian Military/ LE, from Makarov to Mosin. Exception being 9 X 39 which is considered inherently low ricocheting. This ammo line, coded PRS, was designed by Barnaul primarily with AKS-74U and 9mm Para sub-guns in mind and Ministry of Interior, not the army, being the customer. To my knowledge 7.62 X 39 PRS had never even been officially accepted, let alone issued. 5.45 PRS is at least authorized by the Ministry of Interior for some people like Court bailiffs.


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Landolfi and Corless to Wed
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Landolfi of Cold Spring announce the engagement of their daughter Andrea to Thomas Corless of Cold Spring. Thomas is the son of Mrs. Marie Corless, wife of the late James Corless, of Cold Spring.
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text: Oeiras Gallery: Carla & Sveta's Epic Showdown Carla Suárez Navarro and Svetlana Kuznetsova went toe-to-toe in an epic championship clash at the Portugal Open on Saturday afternoon. See all the best pics from the big clash right here. Published May 03, 2014 12:10 Svetlana Kuznetsova came into the final - her first WTA final since 2011 - looking very strong. The No.7-seeded Kuznetsova had taken out Eugenie Bouchard, who was seeded No.2, en route to the final. But Carla Suárez Navarro was just too tough, rallying from 4-1 down in the third to win, 64 36 64. Kuznetsova had won nine of 11 games in a runaway mid-match stretch to build that 4-1 third set lead. Suárez Navarro, who was the No.1 seed at the Portugal Open, had been 0-5 in WTA finals beforehand. The Spanish No.1 had also been 0-2 in finals in Oeiras - she was runner-up the last two years. Suárez Navarro lost to Kaia Kanepi in the final in 2012 and to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova last year. She is Spain's third Top 15 player, after WTA legends Arantxa Sánchez-Vicario and Conchita Martínez. Topics: 2014, tournaments, home photo gallery, news, photos or videos, carla suarez navarro, svetlana kuznetsova, oeiras (estoril) [+] More Share this page! Print Email Related photos Venus & Garbiñe's New York City Showdown March 07, 2017 Before heading to the desert for Indian Wells, Garbiñe Muguruza and Venus Williams stopped at Madison Square Garden for the BNP Paribas Showdown. Who came out on top? Serena & Caro's New York Showdown March 09, 2016 Before the tour hits the desert in Indian Wells, good friends Serena Williams and Caroline Wozniacki headed to Madison Square Garden for the BNP Paribas Showdown. Who came out on top? AO Gallery: 10 Epic Fist Pumps January 28, 2015 The fist pump - it's become the universal celebration gesture in tennis, and the WTA stars have been using it all fortnight long at the Australian Open. Check out 10 of the best here. To The Top 3


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Hindenburg omen in stock market suggests upcoming slump
Hindenburg omen and other technical indicators seem named just to see how much fear they can provoke.
CHICAGO — Take the "Hindenburg Omen," an indicator that depends on a number of variables that was triggered on Thursday in the stock market, portending a sharp correction in coming months.
Named after the zeppelin disaster that took place over Lakehurst, New Jersey, in 1937, the pattern is a "rare but potent" sell signal, said Jay Shartsis, director of option trading at R.F. Lafferty & Co.
For this to be activated, it requires at least 2.2 percent of the market to reach new 52-week highs and 52-week lows on the New York Stock Exchange on the same day, which happened yesterday, suggesting a lack of conviction among investors.
However, it also needs to happen in a rising market, based on certain indicators, including a 10-week moving average of the NYSE Composite, which has to be rising.
Shartsis said the indicator "speaks for itself," noting that when confirmed by a second occurrence within 36 days, "every crash (since 1985) was preceded by such a signal."
Other strategists said they hadn't heard of the indicator, which has been discussed on financial blogs during Friday's trading.


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One of the more eagerly awaited films at the Sundance Film Festival has been The Trip to Italy - a sequel to Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon's 2010 adventures.
The duo are once again on a road trip visiting various culinary establishments doing restaurant reviews, this time in Italy.
However, their celebrity impersonations are arguably more of a draw than their views on food, as Talking Movies' Tom Brook reports.


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Bollywood celebs attend Mona Kapoor's prayer meet
B-town celebs were spotted paying homage to Mona Kapoor at her prayer meet held yesterday
Mona Kapoor was quite well acquainted with the industry and had a lot of friends in B-town. And that wasn't 'coz she was Boney Kapoor's ex-wife, but also the CEO of Future Studio, one of the largest indoor shooting studios in Mumbai. When she passed away on Sunday (March 25), Bollywood mourned. And they mourned again at the prayer meet held yesterday, March 28. Industry insiders have always described her as a very warm and affectionate person and that was pretty much evident as virtually the whole industry appeared for the chautha and prayed for her soul. Kareena Kapoor and Karisma Kapur attended with their parents Babita and Randhir Kapoor. Priyanka Chopra came along with her father Ashok Chopra to offer her condolences to the bereaved family. Even cousin Parineeti Chopra was seen attending the meet. She stars opposite the late Mona Kapoor's son Arjun Kapoor in her next film Ishaqzaade. Click here to read more -


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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Bombardier says it will put about 300 of its Learjet employees on furlough during the first half of the year.
The company said in a memo to employees that the furloughs will take place in two-week blocks over a six-week span.
The memo from vice president and general manager Ralph Acs on Friday that the furloughs involve production of the Learjet 70 and 75 and direct support staff members.
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The Radio NZ links can be tricky ....so we've uploaded our acoustic session from last week for your listening pleasure. Mean.
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Thanks for posting that, 4ever. The link to the live music doesn't work for me.
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What is WeGoMil?
WeGoMil is a new concept in carpooling where commuters offer their unused seats to riders in real-time through a web application or "Web App" which can be accessed on most desktop and mobile devices. Participants can use WeGoMil as part of their existing carpool or use the system to connect with your community and create a new carpool. Based on the distance traveled, the automated payment system allows sharing commuting costs to easy and efficient. The system is flexible and designed around your schedule, you can depart as early or as late as you desire, use the system daily taking advantage of the HOV lanes, or skip a day or two and be the driver one day or the rider the next.
The program's goal is to bring real-time ridesharing to DoD employees and contractors who were directly impacted by the re-locations from the base re-alignment and closure (BRAC), who traveling along the I-95/395/495 and Route One Corridors. The program serves these seven BRAC sites: Defense Health Headquarters (DHHQ), Fort Belvoir, National Geospatial Agency (NGA) or Fort Belvoir North, the Mark Center, Marine Corps Base Quantico, the Navy Yard, and Arlington Hall. Click here to read more…
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When I'm asked about realtime ride share, I usually say, It's the newest and most equitable way to carpool."
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I heard about WeGoMil from an article featured in the Washington Post and went on line to learn more. I previously slugged from Woodbridge to Walter Reed Hospital and have since been BRACed to Fort Belvoir at the new Community Hospital. The WeGoMil App is a genius idea and the software is revolutionary for addressing my commuting needs into Fort Belvoir. The app is nicely put together and looks great on the screen as well. My main driver for carpooling is the expense and time savings by using HOV-3. It's easy to get two people to access HOV-3, and so the app will be great at finding that third person. An added benefit is knowing that you are traveling with a co-worker also adds a sense of safety and security."
WeGoMil matching provided the best commute day of my life – 25 minutes to get to work."
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Yeah, right…I'll smile for the camera!"
Mollie says: "Nahnny-nahnny-poo-poo!"
Thanks to Denise ;)
love this shot….shelties are so adorable…..
Absolutely to-o-o cute!
That is just too special!
What a Cutie!!!! Nice picture and funny! Makes you want to know what she is really thinking!
With the leeeetle pink tongue poking out! How impish!
Now isn't this better than the Olan Mills version???
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Eastlake, OH - Clinton LumberKings' left-hander James Paxton is headed to the 2011 Midwest League All-Star Game at Modern Woodmen Park in Davenport, IA. Paxton was named as Clinton's lone representative on the West Division Roster as both East and West All-Stars were announced yesterday evening by the Midwest League.
The 23-year-old Paxton, Seattle's fourth-round pick in 2010 out of the independent American Association, is 1-2 with a 2.43 ERA, 21 walks, 45 strikeouts over 33.1 innings spanning six starts for the LumberKings. He has held Midwest League opponents to a .228 average this season, his first in affiliated Minor League Baseball after pitching for Grand Prairie of the independent American Association last year.
A native of Ladner, British Columbia, Canada, Paxton played collegiately at the University of Kentucky from 2007 to 2009, compiling a record of 11-5, a 4.91 ERA and 168 strikeouts in 55 games, 24 starts.
The 2011 Midwest League All-Star Game is set for Tuesday, June 21st at 7:00 PM at Modern Woodmen Park, home of the Quad Cities River Bandits.
Paxton makes his seventh start for the LumberKings tonight in game two of a three-game series against the Lake County Captains. Listen to the game on AM 1390 KCLN in Clinton or live on the web at 1390kcln.com.
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text: How To Break Out of a Career Rut in Four WeeksLynze Wardle Lenio5/28/13 2:00pmFiled to: jobscareersstresshappinessemploymentworkjob searchrepublishedshutterstock98EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink Think you might be stuck in a career rut? The good news is, career ruts are easy to spot. There's that telltale sick feeling in your stomach every Monday morning, jealousy when a friend gets a new job that they're excited about, and a tendency to quickly change the subject when someone asks you what you do for a living. Advertisement The bad news? Career ruts are much harder to fix. You might not even know exactly why you're so miserable, let alone how to solve the problem. Although it can seem like you're stuck in never-ending career limbo, your time is valuable, and there's no need to waste it feeling unmotivated, unappreciated, or just plain unhappy. So we've created a simple four-week plan to put you on the path to career improvement. Just think—one month from today, you could be well on your way to a job that you're truly passionate about.Before we delve into the week-by-week plan, here's a quick tip to make your time as productive as possible: Schedule time for your career improvement, and stick to it. We'll be focusing on one task per week, so be sure to set aside a few chunks of time to accomplish it (and commit to keeping these dates with yourself, even if your friends want to grab dinner or the treadmill is calling your name!). In just one month, you—and your career—will be really glad you did.Week 1: Identify the ProblemDedicate the first week to focusing on what's behind your dissatisfaction. Sure, you don't like your job, but what specifically is bothering you? Do you have too much time on your hands, or are you run ragged from 10-hour days? Maybe you're stuck in a field that you're not passionate about or you're sick of making a long commute to your least-favorite part of the city. It's important to be as specific and honest as possible. Advertisement In addition to identifying the big changes you'd like to make, spend time at the end of each day jotting down things that you don't like about your current job, as well as things you do. This will help you narrow in on what to look for—and what to avoid—when you make your next move.Week 2: Research, Research, ResearchThis will be the most time-intensive week, as you'll figure out what potential jobs or career moves will be the right fit. You may event want to extend the process to two or three weeks, especially if you want to make a big change.In any case, your goal is to look for positions and places that will capitalize on the things you like about your current role while avoiding the things you don't like. Start browsing job openings and companies in your field. Does anything sound like it will meet your "great job" criteria? (Hey, you might even realize that you don't need a new job, you just need to tweak a few aspects of your current position.) Advertisement Sponsored Or, maybe you want to think about a complete career overhaul, like going back to school or changing careers. If this is the case, take some time to think about your interests, hobbies, and passions. Is there something that you love doing that you could look for in a job? Don't be afraid to think outside the box and explore some ideas that might be a big departure from your current career. A friend of mine had a traditional office job, but realized that her favorite part of the day was when she left work and headed to the gym. She's now a part-time personal trainer, and hopes to eventually leave the corporate world behind forever and train clients five days a week.Career-savvy friends, former collegues, college professors, and professional mentors can also be great assets when you're trying to revamp your career. Let them know what you're looking for, and ask if they have any recommendations. Advice from someone who knows you (and your local job market) can be more beneficial than 50 Google searches.Week 3: Create a Game PlanThis week is all about choosing a goal and creating a game plan to achieve it. First, hone in on what direction you really want to pursue: Look at all of your options and see which excites you the most or seems most feasible at this point in your life. You might have a couple of potential goals, and that's OK—just follow this part of the process for each one. Once you've chosen a goal, start mapping out what you'll need to do to achieve it. Let's say, for example, that you're a PR professional currently working at a small agency, and your goal is to get a job with one of the top three firms in your city within six months. Your game plan might look something like this:Evaluate my skills. Do I have everything I need to qualify for Account Executive positions at big firms, or should I enroll in classes or take on some pro bono projects to get more experience?Update my resume, portfolio, and LinkedIn profile to reflect my latest and greatest work and accomplishments.Browse LinkedIn and send an email to my network to see if I have any contacts within the firms who might be willing to put in a good word for me. Set coffee dates with each of these contacts.Check out open positions at each firm. Draft targeted cover letters and applications for each firm, and apply.Attend at least one networking event per week to make new connections at these firms.Obviously, everyone's game plan will look different. The point is that you can achieve almost any task—even ones as big as landing a new gig—by breaking it up into small, manageable bites.Week 4: Get StartedNow it's time to get the ball rolling on your career plan. In week three, you listed all the tasks you'd need to finish to complete your goal. Now, it's time to get out your calendar and actually schedule those steps. Depending on how much free time you have (and how desperate you are to get out of your current rut), you might want to try to complete part of your game plan every two or three days, every week, or every other week. It might seem silly or tedious to write out what you want to accomplish on your calendar, but it will keep you accountable to achieving your goal. Advertisement Advertisement Of course, actually achieving all the parts of your "game plan" might take weeks or even months. The key is to make sure that you're setting manageable goals and then committing yourself to accomplishing them. Don't let yourself lose momentum during this part of the process, and continue to carve out time to achieve your weekly or daily goals. Keep a reminder of why you're working so hard—maybe a picture of your dream office or a motivational note to yourself—nearby to keep you focused on what you're trying to accomplish.After you've completed this four-week program, give yourself a well-deserved pat on the back. In a single month, you've done what some people never accomplish—put yourself on the path to a career that is truly right for you.How to Break Out of a Career Rut in a Month | The Daily MuseLynze Wardle Lenio is a freelance journalist from Salt Lake City, Utah. When she's not investigating workplace relationships, she enjoys skiing and traveling with her husband. You can follow her adventures at home and abroad at www.thetravelogueblog.com. Advertisement Want more from The Daily Muse? Check out: 5 Ways to Find Jobs Without Using a Job Board Advertisement 3 Signs You Should Definitely Quit Your JobImage via Pressmaster (Shutterstock). Advertisement Want to see your work on Lifehacker? 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In less than a week, one of the greatest radio careers ever will end one journey and begin another. Howard Stern, nemesis of the prudish and faint of heart, will leave New York's WXRK, and a large syndicated network spanning the country, to begin broadcasting on Sirius satellite Radio in January.
We can all argue back and forth whether or not Stern is a sexist, racist and misogynist, not to mention the Anti-Christ himself. There is plenty of fodder for both sides of the debate. Yet, few can argue that Stern has not been one of the most influential entertainers of the last 25 years. His brutally honest daily dialogue with 10 million listeners per day has revolutionized the way we listen to radio. There are 100's of sub par "shock jocks" roaming FM radio across the world doing Stern's show to audiences in markets where Howard doesn't have a presence. The poor listeners don't even know they're listening to the radio equivalent of Milli Vanilli.
Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Opie and Anthony, Al Franken etc. have all benefited from the trail blazed first by Stern, who created a format that, though initially shunned by radio talking heads, was embraced by listeners, and consequently, advertisers.
The last 10 years have not been kind to The King of All Media. His divorce 6 years ago rocked his world, and made for some of the greatest radio broadcasts he ever did. It was truly amazing to listen to a man travel the emotional arc that divorce is.
Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction and FCC fines followed in 2004, ringing the death knell for Stern's show on terrestrial radio. Stern was hesitant to sign the five year deal with Infinity that started in 2001, so the further tightening of so-called "indecency" guidelines, and the lack of support from the radio industry, forced Stern to take his entire crew and flee to the safe haven of Satellite Radio–a medium un-regulated by the FCC. Stern's contract is for 5 years and $500 million. Commentators like Bill O'Reilly have made it out as though all of this money makes it to Stern's checking account. They're wrong. The total cost includes overhead, construction and other costs associated with the show.
While conservative senators talk of finding ways to regulate satellite radio, they'll be hard-pressed to do so since the listener must first buy the equipment, install it, and then pay a subscription to hear it. Built in security features make the need for the FCC to stick their nose in Satellite a complete waste of time, not to mention an abuse of power.
Stern's last few months on terrestrial radio have been eventful ones, with old show favorites returning for one last conversation with Stern and Howard rifling through piles of old tapes to listen to one more time before they are never heard again (Howard was unwilling to pay Infinity Broadcasting's $30-40 million price tag for his tapes).
The last two months have also seen Stern fighting with Infinity's bosses, a war that resulted in a one day suspension on November 8 for excessive promotion of Sirius Satellite Radio.
This coming Friday is Stern's last show on WXRK. Howard will take a 3 week vacation, and return to "Howard 100" on Sirius. Stern will also have Howard 101 as well to broadcast Howard-centric programming 24 hours a day. For the last month or so, Sirius subscribers, including myself, have been privy to many of Howard's new ideas, including "Tissue Time with Heidi Cortez"-a bedtime phone sex romp with the aforementioned Cortez. Other programs include "Meet The Shrink", where a psychologist sits different screwed up members of Howard's "Wack Pack" to do some therapy, "Howard 100 News", a hard news show aired at 6 pm daily that is complete with professional radio news anchors covering every conceivable thing happening in Howard's life, as well as at his Sirius headquarters. two stations and 48 total hours per day of programming by Howard. Buckle up.
While many will say that Howard's move to satellite is some type of victory for the social conservatives who are trying to hijack our nation, I see it the other way around. Howard is far too talented of a broadcaster to be limited to 4 hours per day of programming. He has now been given the opportunity to create his own radio network of sorts, and do the type of programming he feels he has been depriving his listeners of. Don't expect Howard to say fuck every 2 seconds though, or for him to start banging strippers on his console. He'll be nastier, but it will always be funny first.
Check out a virtual tour of Howard's new digs at the Howard Stern Studio. As a subscriber, I must say how much I love the 2 radios I have–1 for each car. The technology is dummyproof, and the non-Howard programming is fantastic. The music stations span every imaginable genre, and the talk and sports available are staggering. In fact, it's much easier to find yourself having nothing to watch on cable than having nothing to listen to on Sirius. I have tested XM satellite as well, and I definitely prefer the Sirius' technology and programming to XM's, even if Howard wasn't heafding there. That's just the icing on the cake.
Check out Sirius' lineup and radio selections at their official website.
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This commercial has been airing in the New York area for the past couple of weeks. It's 15 seconds long. I have 15 questions about it
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It's that time of year again. The time when Lexus starts airing ridiculous "December to Remember" commercials where rich white people give each other luxury cars. And they all include that song. Ah, yes.
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A dense Atlantic Ocean fog blankets the fishing village of Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia, keeping the boats tied up. July 14, 2007, Sony DSCF828 camera.
I love it George, I can hear this scene and smell that salt sea air !!
Thank you Bev, it was a very quiet day,no wind, only a few people about, with the heavy fog giving everything a ghostly appearance.
Thank you. It's a tiny fishing village on the Atlantic Coast of Nova Scotia near Halifax, very pretty and I have been going there for 50 years.
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This generation is already pretty wired with all the resolution gate stuff, Games that are todl to be 1080P but only after a patch etc But now its getting stranger, According to Digital Foundry the Frame stutter in COD:Ghosts on the PS4 is not caused by a low frame rate but actually because of a too high frame rate
Taking the affected clips and running them through our performance analysis tools, we expected the results to show clear frame-rate drops and small bouts of tearing, but surprisingly this wasn't the case at all, with the results showing us a largely locked 60FPS bar one or two minor dips and a solitary torn frame.
Furthermore, when seeking through the footage in performance-affected areas we were confronted with unique frames on a consistent basis, thus indicating a 60fps update that we just didn't feel when playing the game.
So just what is going on? Well, a close look at our captures reveals that Call of Duty: Ghosts actually runs at higher frame-rates than 60fps on a fairly frequent basis, despite the video output being limited to 60Hz
How can you not notice that.. What were these devs doing
@xyzygy It is just a bad habbit of me . I am mostly doing it with relative unimportant more funny stuff not in real serious conversations. I laugh a lot in real life maybe that is why. I really don't know^^
edit: Time for Polygon to change the PS4 COD score right guys?^^