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FARMINGVILLE, N.Y.—Stranded for hours on a snow-covered road, Priscilla Arena prayed, took out a sheet of loose-leaf paper and wrote what she thought might be her last words to her husband and children.
She told her 9 1/2-year-old daughter, Sophia, she was "picture-perfect beautiful." And she advised her 5 1/2-year-old son, John: "Remember all the things that mommy taught you. Never say you hate someone you love. Take pride in the things you do, especially your family. … Don't get angry at the small things; it's a waste of precious time and energy. Realize that all people are different, but most people are good. "
"My love will never die—remember, always," she added.
Arena, who was rescued in an Army canvas truck after about 12 hours, was one of hundreds of drivers who spent a fearful, chilly night stuck on highways in a blizzard that plastered New York's Long Island with more than 30 inches of snow, its ferocity taking many by surprise despite warnings to stay off the roads.
Even plows were mired in the snow or blocked by stuck cars, so emergency workers had to resort to snowmobiles to try to reach motorists. Four-wheel-drive vehicles, tractor-trailers and a couple of ambulances could be seen stranded along the roadway and ramps of the Long Island Expressway. Stuck drivers peeked out from time to time, running their cars intermittently to warm up as they waited for help.
With many still stranded hours after the snow stopped, Gov. Andrew Cuomo urged other communities to send plows to help dig out in eastern Long Island, which took the state's hardest hit by far in the massive Northeast storm.
In Connecticut, where the storm dumped more than 3 feet of snow in some places, the National Guard rescued about 90 stranded motorists, taking a few to hospitals with hypothermia.
The scenes came almost exactly two years after a blizzard marooned at least 1,500 cars and buses on Chicago's iconic Lake Shore Drive, leaving hundreds of people shivering in their vehicles for as long as 12 hours and questioning why the city didn't close the crucial thoroughfare earlier.
Cuomo and other officials were similarly asked why they didn't act to shut down major highways in Long Island in advance of the storm, especially given the sprawling area's reputation for gridlock. The expressway is often called "the world's longest parking lot."
"The snow just swallowed them up. It came down so hard and so fast," explained Suffolk County Executive Steven Bellone.
"That's not an easy call," added Cuomo, who noted that people wanted to get home and that officials had warned them to take precautions because the worst of the snow could start by the evening rush hour. Flashing highway signs underscored the message ahead of time: "Heavy Snow Expected. Avoid PM Travel!"
"People need to act responsibly in these situations," Cuomo said.
But many workers didn't have the option of taking off early Friday, Arena noted. The 41-year-old sales account manager headed home from an optical supply business in Ronkonkoma around 4 p.m. She soon found her SUV stuck along a road in nearby Farmingville.
"Even though we would dig ourselves out and push forward, the snow kept piling, and therefore we all got stuck, all of us," she recalled later at Brookhaven Town Hall, where several dozen stranded motorists were taken after being rescued. Many others opted to stay with their cars.
Richard Ebbrecht left his Brooklyn chiropractic office around 3 p.m. for his home in Middle Island, about 60 miles away, calculating that he could make the drive home before the worst of the blizzard set in. He was wrong.
As the snow came rushing down faster than he'd foreseen, he got stuck six or seven times on the expressway and on other roads. Drivers began helping each other shovel and push, he said, but to no avail. He finally gave up and spent the night in his car on a local thoroughfare, only about two miles from his home.
"I could run my car and keep the heat on and listen to the radio a little bit," he said.
He walked home around at 8 a.m., leaving his car.
Late-shifters including Wayne Jingo had little choice but to risk it if they wanted to get home. By early afternoon, he'd been stuck in his pickup truck alongside the Long Island Expressway for nearly 12 hours.
He'd left his job around midnight as a postal worker at Kennedy Airport and headed home to Medford, about 50 miles east. He was at an exit in Ronkonkoma—almost home—around 1:45 a.m. when another driver came barreling at him westbound, the wrong way, he said. Jingo swerved to avoid the oncoming car, missed the exit and ended up stuck on the highway's grass shoulder.
He rocked the truck back and forth to try to free it, but it only sank down deeper into the snow and shredded one of his tires. He called 911. A police officer came by at 9:30 a.m. and said he would send a tow truck.
At 1 p.m. Saturday, Jingo was still waiting.
"I would have been fine if I didn't have to swerve," he said.
In Middle Island, a Wal-Mart remained unofficially open long past midnight to accommodate more than two dozen motorists who were stranded on nearby roads.
"We're here to mind the store, but we can't let people freeze out there," manager Jerry Greek told Newsday.
Officials weren't aware of any deaths among the stranded drivers, Cuomo said. Suffolk County police said no serious injuries had been reported among stuck motorists, but officers were still systematically checking stranded vehicles late Saturday afternoon.
Even cars that weren't stuck found the going on the expressway agonizingly slow—especially for a 21-year-old mother-to-be who was trying to get to a hospital to deliver her baby Saturday morning. Her own mom was driving her, as the infant's father was snowbound elsewhere.
Suffolk County Police Officer Kevin Wustenhoff went to help and decided to drive the woman 15 miles to the hospital in his police SUV, rather than waiting for an ambulance.
As a father of three, "I was able to just kind of walk her through it—breathing and just keeping her calm," he recalled later.
Delivery appeared imminent when they arrived, but the baby hadn't yet been born when Wustenhoff checked in late Saturday night.
While the expressway eventually opened Saturday, about 30 miles of the highway was to be closed again Sunday for snow removal.
Susan Cassara left her job at a Middle Island day care center around 6:30 p.m. Friday, after driving some of the children home because their parents couldn't get there to pick them up.
She got stuck on one road until about 2:30 a.m. Then a plow helped her get out—but she got stuck again, she said. Finally, an Army National Guardsman got to her on a snowmobile after 4 a.m.
"It was so cool. Strapped on, held on and came all the way here" to the makeshift shelter at the Brookhaven Town Hall, she said. "Something for my bucket list."
Associated Press writers Mary Esch in Albany, N.Y.; Michael Melia in Hartford, Conn., and Jennifer Peltz and AP radio correspondent Julie Walker in New York contributed to this report.


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The largest group in the conservative U.S. Tea Party movement celebrated its fifth anniversary on Thursday with a pledge to push Congress further to the right and capture the White House in 2016.
At a rally in a hotel ballroom two blocks from the Capitol, lawmakers allied with the Tea Party Patriots said their movement had matured from a raucous protest against the growth of government to one that would engage with the government's machinery to promote a stronger conservative agenda.
"It's about winning a civil debate, not a civil war," said Senator Mike Lee, a Tea Party Republican from Utah elected in 2010.
At its start, he said the movement was more akin to the 1773 Boston anti-tax protest but said it should move towards the constructive work done by the framers of the Constitution, who met at Philadelphia in 1787.
"It's much more important that rather than just picking a fight, we've got to move forward with something," Lee said. "If we grasp onto an agenda, we will catch the Washington, D.C. establishment off-guard."
Many of the suggestions thrown out by lawmakers on Thursday revolved around repealing President Barack Obama's health care reform law, balancing the federal budget, rolling back regulation viewed as oppressive and replacing the tax system with a flatter, straightforward levy - goals often voiced by mainstream Republicans.
The Tea Party sprang forth as a grassroots movement from the turmoil of the 2008-2009 financial crisis, when the government launched massive bailouts in the financial sector. A February 2009 on-air rant by CNBC commentator Rick Santelli against a mortgage bailout plan from the Obama administration is credited by many with launching the movement.
"We're thinking of having a Chicago Tea Party in July," Santelli said from the floor from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, adding that mortgage derivative contracts should be dumped into Lake Michigan.
Tea Party groups sprang up all over the country to protest the bailouts and massive stimulus spending, and their growth was subsequently fueled by voters angry about Obamacare health insurance reforms. Their influence swept dozens of conservative candidates into Congress in 2010 elections, shifting control of the House of Representatives to the Republicans.
But the Tea Party Republicans clashed with more moderate, establishment Republicans including House Speaker John Boehner, making even legislation to control budget deficits - a core issue for the movement - difficult to pass without support from Democrats.
A messy budget battle in 2011, a brawl over tax hikes in late 2012 and a 16-day government shutdown in 2013 took their toll and fed perceptions that the groups thrived more on anarchy than on promoting achievable conservative policies.
But a controversy over Internal Revenue Service targeting of Tea Party groups seeking tax exempt status, government spying scandals and problems with the launch of Obamacare have fueled a resurgence in the groups ahead of congressional elections this November.
"I'm here to show that we are still around," said Kathleen, a Tea Party member from Toledo Ohio. She declined to provide her last name, saying she was afraid that "the IRS is going to come after me."
Randy Liebo, the Tea Party Patriots state coordinator for Minnesota, said many members felt betrayed by Boehner for allowing a year-long extension of the federal debt limit to pass with mostly Democratic votes.
He said his state has added 10 Tea Party chapters in the past three months but noted that the group no longer is interested in simply complaining: It won't meet unless it has an action plan to pursue.
"In this year's elections, if we can take the Senate, it would stop Obama from proceeding along further with his liberal agenda," Liebo said. "The next thing would be to take the presidency in 2016."
A potential Republican contender for that race, Senator Rand Paul, regaled the rally with outrageous stories of government waste and pledged that his budget plan would end deficits in five years.
Paul and Lee both likened the Tea Party movement's current development stage to the backers of Ronald Reagan in the late 1970s. They had tried unsuccessfully to get him nominated in 1976, but kept at it and swept him into the White House in a landslide in 1980.
Calling Reagan a "leader for the ages," he said a similar shift could happen now if the Tea Party can focus and promote its message passionately.
But the day's biggest standing ovation came for Senator Ted Cruz, the Texas Republican who may be Paul's rival for the party's 2016 nomination.
Cruz, whose rock-star welcome was a stark contrast to the complaints from some senators after he put up procedural hurdles to the recent debt-limit hike, said he was "absolutely convinced we are going to repeal every single word of Obamacare."
"I think the Tea Party is the most exciting political development in decades," Cruz said. "The great thing about the Tea Party (is) it arose from beneath. It's not top-down, which by the way confuses the heck out of politicians."
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The 2012 Billboard Summit is adding some popular — and even a little bit surprising — names to its roster. Billboard announced that laid country legend Willie Nelson and rising star Luke Bryan will be joining the summit.
Nelson, who is no doubt one of the most popular figures in country music, will participate in a rare Q&A session on June 5. Luke Bryan will participate in the Artist Development Case Study when the Summit kicks off.
As you might expect, Willie Nelson will talk about — well, pretty much anything he wants. But Billboard executive director, content and programming, touring and live entertainment Ray Waddell will be facilitating the questions during the session.
"Being able to host a bona fide legend like Willie Nelson — and ask him questions — is a career opportunity for a journalist," says Waddell, according to Billboard. "Luke Bryan is one of the most exciting new country stars to emerge in the past several years, and he and his team have implemented some innovative and effective measures to move his career forward. We're stoked to be hosting both artists at this year's Summit."
During the Artist Development Case Study, Bryan's team will break down the strategic moves that have taken Bryan to headlining status. Needless to say, the discussion is a can't-miss event for stars who are looking for a big break.
The third-annual Country Summit will explore multiple segments of the business, including radio, touring, publishing and digital technologies. Stay tuned as more panelists are announced in the coming weeks!


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Now, thanks to Facebook's Open Compute Project, which seeks to make computing hardware more efficient and scalable, we're inching closer toward a similar reality for the data center. At OCP's most recent summit, held in January, the 50-plus members who are now part of the community proposed the latest step toward a truly modular data center: disaggregation.
More specifically, OCP (no relation to the ominously corrupt corporation that runs Detroit in1987's RoboCop) wants to see the core components of system design--processor, motherboard, network interconnects and so on--separated so that they don't depend on each other too heavily and can be upgraded independently.
"They've already done an open rack where everyone's equipment can fit in," says John Abbott, a distinguished analyst at 451 Research who authored a recently published research note based on what he heard at the January summit. "Now they want open motherboards."
Abbott believes OCP's idea could be a boon to data center operators, who are so desperate to minimize capital expenditures that they might be attracted to being able to separate motherboard components so that they can take advantage of the latest and greatest technologies on the market.
"To upgrade CPUs to the latest high-performance model would in the past have required a whole new pizza box," Abbott wrote in his research note. "With disaggregation, the upgrade process potentially becomes a lot more flexible."
Before the dream of disaggregated systems can be realized, a number of obstacles must be negotiated. For one, there are missing pieces to the puzzle, such as a fast interconnect between components, and more widely adopted standards. The former may be addressed by ongoing efforts--led by OCP member Intel--to develop optical interconnects called silicon photonics, which would enable light to carry data at very high speeds while consuming very little power. Abbott says the first such products are expected later this year.
OCP's vision also must overcome system vendors' hesitation to tear down the proprietary walls that have fed their profits for so long. It's a daunting task given the relatively limited market potential--at least at first--for modular system components.
"Buying systems at a more granular component layer isn't for everybody," Abbott wrote in the research note. "Only the largest data centers with their own systems integration capabilities will be able to take full advantage, at least until systems vendors adapt their business models--which they may be reluctant to do."
Which leaves us with a classic Catch 22: For large-scale adoption of modular systems to occur, vendors must agree to design components that interoperate with their rivals' products; meanwhile, vendors are likely to want evidence of a large-scale market opportunity before they'll make the required investments and loosen up their proprietary ways.
While it may take time to resolve that conflict, it's clear that OCP's voice is getting louder, and that vendors' ears have at least perked up.
"OCP is gathering real momentum, with user adoption taking off and vendors keen to participate because they see some real business opportunities emerging," Abbott wrote in his research note. "The open specification model and projects voted on by users gives OCP the chance to explore standardization areas where vendors by themselves will not go."


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There are five words slipped into the middle of "Night and Day" – the hyper-infectious, propulsive track that comes halfway through Hot Chip's fifth album – that in many ways sum up what's In Our Heads. Somewhere between the fizzing percussion and the relentless and addictive bassline, a processed voice intones the line, "I like Zapp not Zappa".
Although the Alexis Taylor penned words were written primarily as a reaction to ill-informed requests during the frontman's DJ gigs, if viewed as a statement of intent for the record as a whole they speak volumes. They seem to say this record is playful yet unburdened by extraneous fuss or showiness. That this is a joyous record aimed squarely at the heart and at the heart of the dancefloor.
It's an ideology that seems to subliminally seep through the rest of the tracks on In Our Heads. You can hear it on the opening track – "Motion Sickness" – where the track seems to dizzily modulate one step ahead of the listener with every four bar loop and on "How Do You Do", a celebration of the joy of life itself stretched over a backing track that sounds like a Chicago house record reinforced with titanium. It's there throughout the seven-something minutes of 'Flutes' in the chopped up rhythmic chant that runs through the heart of it while the rhythm track crackles like electrical cables in heavy weather and it's in the ocean deep melancholy of the gorgeous "Look At Where We Are". It's there in the utterly ecstatic wordless chorus of "Let Me Be Him". And it's there on the constantly evolving, Abbey Road-esque ballad "Now There Is Nothing". In fact, it's there right through the middle of In Our Heads, helping to forge something akin to the perfect synthesis of electronics and live instrumentation, a place where Alexis' beautifully soulful vocals sit as perfectly on liquid R&B backing tracks as on songs that sound like Prince beaming back from the 31st century.
Joe Goddard: "We tried to make something joyful and alive and that's it really. Maybe when people listen to music that's positive and joyous they might feel like that's cheesy in some way – for me though, I want to listen to records like Never Too Much by Luther Vandross. I don't want to listen to a band that's caught up in their hang-ups and problems. That's just not interesting to me. "
Alexis Taylor: "There's no point putting too much emphasis on the recording process but if the sound of the music is joyous, it's because the way the record was made was entirely enjoyable. "
Without over-analysing the recording, it's worth pointing out that it represented the first time that the band – Alexis, Joe, Al Doyle, Owen Clarke and Felix Martin – had worked collectively in a studio with an engineer (Mark Ralph).
Alexis: "Although Joe and I had each worked with Mark separately, having someone that's not in the band as a constant factor was a totally new thing for Hot Chip. "
Joe: "It was so refreshing having someone outside of the band who could organize how everything comes together without it becoming hierarchical. In the past, I've been in the studio sat there at my computer trying my very best to record what someone was playing in the room to try to get it into the track. Often I wasn't able to focus on how the actual track was sounding. This time round, I could get a much more of an objective view of what we were doing. "
As a band, they needn't have worried about validity of ideas. At Hot Chip's core is a unique songwriting partnership at its creative peak five albums in; a pairing that joins a very British tradition that arguably begins with Lennon & McCartney then stops to take in the likes of Morrissey & Marr and Tennant & Lowe. The songs Alexis and Joe wrote for In Our Heads were written in tandem with a massively hectic period of extracurricular activity (that includes albums by About Group, The 2 Bears and New Build as well as Joe's solo single "Gabriel"). That said, there was little doubt where the songs the band were to work on collectively belonged.
Alexis: "Charles Hayward (This Heat/About Group) came in to drum on a track that I thought was really different to anything we'd ever attempted before. He immediately said, "Brilliant! Sounds like Hot Chip! " It must've had almost subliminal traits. "
Joe: "It's a brilliant thing isn't it, when a band or a producer hit a trademark sound? Whether it's Brian Wilson or J Dilla, I'm often drawn towards producers with a complete sonic signature of their own. People who you recognize their sound straight off. "
As well as representing a change in the recording process, In Our Heads collects the band's first recordings for a new label. Following the completion of a three album deal with EMI, the band have moved operations to what could be seen as something of a spiritual home – Domino.
Alexis: "One of the main memories I have of Hot Chip beginning is of me and Joe listening to Smog and Will Oldham records. Joe would play me tracks he'd just picked up and that's stayed at the back of my mind the whole time. In many ways they were foundation points for Hot Chip. Domino didn't sign us originally but they wanted to. They've stayed really interested in our band. "
Joe: "From my perspective, it quickly became clear that it was the right thing to do. Going into this knowing that we've got a group of actual friends and fans who are willing to fight for the record… That's one of the most positive things you can have as a group really. "
So, a career best fifth album that's been produced via an exhilarating new way of working and released by a record label made up of friends and supporters? Slots booked across the globe closing festival stages as well as a series of already announced gigs that include a sundown headline slot at the Hollywood Bowl?
Yeah. Definitely more Zapp than Zappa.
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Google suffered its second huge embarrassment within four hours today when its YouTube site crashed mid-afternoon.
Visitors to the popular video-streaming site got an error message raising the specter of a hack attack or a severe internal malfunction.
"Sorry, a team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with this situation. If you see them, show them this information," read a message on the site at about 4 p.m.
It could not be immediately determined if the message was posted by Google or if the site was hacked.
Google's YouTube site is one of the most highly trafficked destinations on the Web across the globe. The news will no doubt roil Google's numerous business partners and advertisers.
YouTube not only hosts user-generated content but a huge volume of professional channels, which were out of action for at least a number of minutes.
"We're aware that some users are having trouble accessing YouTube," the company said in a statement. "Our engineers are looking into it and will push a fix as soon as possible."
By 4:45 p.m., the site was back up.
According to ComScore's September figures, Google video sites, of which YouTube is the biggest, generated 161 million unique users a month.
EMarketer's 2012 forecast has Google taking home $2.31 billion in US display ad revenue, up 38.5 percent from last year, which includes revenues from YouTube.
Google suffered a major blow earlier in the day when its third-quarter earnings were inadvertently posted early — in the middle of the trading day.
Google shares were halted in trading for about 2-1/2 hours.
The earnings were not as positive as expected. The stock finished the session at $695.49 down $60.49 or 8 percent.
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If you're not very familiar with what Catholics are doing on new media sites such as YouTube or Facebook, this story will get you up to date. Published in the latest edition of the Western Catholic Reporter in Edmonton, Alberta, the story is by Alicia Ambrosio, whom we're pleased to feature because last year she was an intern in our Rome bureau, contributing plenty of interesting articles to our news report, like this one.
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Venus, out! Third seed Venus Williams dropped out of the French Open in the third round for the third year in a row, losing to Agnes Szavay 6-0, 6-4.
Bracket: Szavay faces fellow blonde Dominika Cibulkova in the fourth round.
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While the Communist government neuralyzes Men in Black 3, a Chinese gadget site iGeek is claiming that the futuristic Men in Black 3 is copying a Chinese invention.
"MIB3 nakedly ripped off our country's patented technology," iGeek said via a Chinese social networking site.
Described as "an exquisite specimen of Chinese workmanship", the colourful analogue bike was discovered back in 2007 in Qingdao, and it's stamped with the following phrase in Chinese: "Patented Product. Unique in the World."
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- Javier Castillo, Bristol SS, .317 through 101 ABs. Leading club in HRs (5) and tied for doubles (6). You can never have too many shortstops who can hit.
- Jose De Los Santos, Bristol DH, .371 through 105 ABs. No home runs and only one walk. Will have to keep hitting .371 to have value.
- Evan Tartaglia, Bristol OF. Leads off, bats left. Batting .301 through 93 ABs with 24 walks and 10 SB. On the down side, has 26 strikeouts.
- Boomer Berry, Great Falls 2B. Bats left. An unimpressive .271 through 96 ABs, and very little power, but 17:10 K:BB ratio.
- Josh Hansen, Great Falls 1B. Only 51 ABs, but batting .314 with 13:9 K:BB ratio and 7 extra-base hits.
- Sony Suarez, Great Falls SP. Pitched in the organization last year, and pitched pretty well, but I haven't heard anyone talk about him. 3-1, 3.52 through 30.2 innings. 26 hits allowed, 13 walks, 30 strikeouts.
- Matt Zaleski, Great Falls RP. 13.2 innings, 1 walk, 16 strikeouts. The 19 hits are a problem.
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Lady Antebellum Fans Donate $965 to Children's Charity in Charles Kelley's Honor
Lady Antebellum fans gave singer Charles Kelley the gift that keeps on giving for his 31st birthday yesterday (Sept. 11). Dedicated Lady A'ers donated a total of $965 (so far) to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, which will use the funds to promote research and provide care for children struggling with life-threatening illnesses.
The 'Just a Kiss' hitmakers set up a fundraising page online, with the following message: "In honor of Charles Kelley of Lady Antebellum's birthday, he is asking only for one thing, a donation to St. Jude Hospital of any amount."
The trio's loyal fans took the suggestion and ran with it, and within 24 hours a diverse group of fans had donated anywhere from $10 to $100 each to raise nearly a thousand dollars for St. Jude, one of the leading children's charities in the world.
"Thanks to all who donated to St. Jude as a gift to me. Means a lot," Kelley tweeted early Wednesday morning (Sept. 12) before leaving for the studio, where the group is hard at work on their highly-anticipated fourth studio album.
Lady Antebellum's fundraising page will stay up for a few more days, with the stated goal of raising $10,000.


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For many aching backs, getting a professional massage is an infrequent luxury, leaving relief from muscle kinks and tension to the generous, if unreliable, hands of loved ones.
And so, barring such kindness, as one often must, we can knead our own knots using self-massage tools.
Many of these tools, such as the Original Backnobber, apply direct and sustained pressure to trigger points, which are hyperirritable spots on taut muscle that are painful upon compression. The sensitive spots, thought to be caused by overuse of the muscle, can radiate pain to other areas, cause muscle weakness and restrict range of motion.
Others, such as the Original Body Stick or The Grid, roll over surrounding muscle and connective tissue (fascia) as well as trigger and reflex points, which helps loosen the whole area.
"The combination of both is what you really want to do," said massage therapist Maureen Moon, who is based in Boulder, Colo. "Roll around the muscle on the fascia first, then do some trigger points, then go back to the rolling."
As a general guideline, Moon recommends using self-massagers every three days or so, and it helps to apply ice and soak in a hot Epsom-salt bath for 20 minutes each before and after the massage. Have a trigger-point chart on hand so you know where to focus.
Beware of overuse, which can cause bruising or exhaust other muscles, and do not apply pressure to bony areas, Moon said.
Before using any tools, check with a health care or fitness provider to discuss how and how often you should use them, Moon said. Some people who bruise easily or have inflammation, or who have conditions such as fibromyalgia or multiple sclerosis, might be advised to use caution.
If possible, it helps to still see a licensed massage therapist on a regular basis to identify and address the most relevant muscle systems, Moon said.
Back Roller
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Moon: "Lie on a yoga mat with your knees up to keep pressure off of the low back. Because it's wood, it can be inflexible. Be careful if you have kyphosis, lordosis or scoliosis (severe spine curvatures)."
We thought: Ouch! Too painful.
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Moon: "The balls should straddle the spine, resting on the muscles and not on the spine itself. Helps to relax the muscles that support and rotate the spine. I suggest extreme caution for those with severe curvatures of the spine."
We thought: Similar to the Back Roller but less painful. Nice to lean back on while sitting at your desk.
Body Back Sticks Percussion Massagers
$11.95 at bodyback.com
Moon: "Can be used for light tapotement (percussive strokes) over muscles to increase circulation, penetrate deep muscular tissues and energize the nervous system."
We thought: Fun, but for back pain it's better if someone else taps on you.
AccuMassage Trigger Point Massager
$24.95 at bodyback.com
Moon: "Great for the muscles of the neck and shoulder blades as well as the calf and thigh muscles. It is excellent for focus on trigger points and has the feature of squeezing the handles together to achieve the desired pressure."
We thought: Excellent for pinching neck and shoulder muscles to relieve acute pain.
Original Body Stick
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Moon: "The spindles that roll independently over your muscles, and the flexibility of the stick, make it easier on your body than some of the others."
We thought: The movement, like a rolling pin, is gentler than the Backnobber and feels good. A little awkward to use on your back because you have to engage your muscles to roll it there.
Original Backnobber II
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Moon: "Especially good for releasing tightened knots in those areas difficult to massage by yourself, such as the shoulder blade region, base of the skull and low back. I love using it on my calf muscles and feet as well. It is also useful for cross-fiber friction on tendon attachments in rotator cuff injures and the like."
We thought: Relieves pain well, discrete to use while sitting at work.
Body Back Buddy
$34.95 at bodyback.com
Moon: "Similar to the Backnobber, but lighter."
We thought: At first confusing, but the handles make it easier to apply pressure, and the extra knobs offer versatility for targeting different trigger points.
The Grid
$39.99 at tptherapy.com
Moon: "Great for deep tissue self-massage. Be sure it is safe for you to use. It does get in quite deep, and you have to use your body weight to maneuver this tool, so it can cause stress on various muscles and other body parts."
We thought: Feels good on the back, but it hurts quite a bit on iliotibial (IT) bands on outer thighs.


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- Toro Rosso news
Ricciardo not banking on Red Bull seat
Daniel Ricciardo says he is not banking on getting the vacant seat at Red Bull despite Kimi Raikkonen's manager saying talks have ended.
Raikkonen and Ricciardo were named as the two main candidates to replace Mark Webber at the end of 2013, but Raikkonen's manager Steve Robertson said earlier this week that talks had ended unsuccessfully some time ago. Speaking before Christian Horner confirmed that he wasn't ruling out any driver, Ricciardo said he wasn't counting himself as the clear favourite for the seat.
"I think I've learned that until something is signed, sealed, delivered then nothing is ever concrete," Ricciardo said. "Particularly in this environment, or any elite sport or big business. Whether that's true or not, I don't know. Obviously there's still my team-mate Jean-Eric who as far as I'm concerned isn't out of the picture, and there's a lot of other F1 drivers on the grid with pretty good credentials. As I said, until something's done I'm not going to start celebrating or getting my hopes up."
Ricciardo also said that there was no contact from Red Bull during the mid-season break but that he wasn't overly excited by reports that had been surfacing.
"It didn't come. Obviously there's a bit of excitement around; maybe everyone gets a bit bored on the August break - I get bored, don't worry - so nothing yet, nothing further to say from what I knew in Budapest. Until it comes from someone over that side, whichever decision they make, as far as I know I'm still here for this year and don't know anything about next year."


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The box office rebounded substantially this weekend thanks to a record-setting debut from Hotel Transylvania and a solid start for trippy time travel movie Looper. Pitch Perfect also impressed in limited release, while Won't Back Down had one of the worst nationwide openings in years. The Top 12 earned $106.7 million, which is up 19 percent from the same frame last year.Hotel Transylvania took first place with $42.5 million. That tops Sweet Home Alabama's $35.6 million to set a new record for a September opening. It's also the best debut ever for a Sony Pictures Animation movie ahead of The Smurfs ($35.6 million) and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs ($30.3 million). Finally, and perhaps most remarkably, it's star Adam Sandler's second-highest debut ever behind 2005's The Longest Yard ($47.6 million). There was a feeling that Sandler's brand was weakened following the underwhelming performance of Jack and Jill ($74.2 million) and the disastrous run of That's My Boy ($36.9 million), but that appears to have been overblown. The product, not Sandler, is to blame there: the obnoxious trailers for Jack and Jill never made the movie seem remotely worthwhile, while the R-rated That's My Boy wasn't made for Sandler's family audience. Even though it was animated, Hotel Transylvania's mix of slapstick humor, outlandish characters, mildly rude jokes and funny voices fit perfectly in to the Sandler brand, which is clearly alive and well. Hotel Transylvania's audience was primarily made up of families (78 percent), and they awarded the movie an "A-" CinemaScore (that improved to a solid "A" among women and children). A 3D share is not currently available. Hotel Transylvania is Sony's eighth movie to finish in first place this year, and this marked the ninth weekend that the company has held the top spot (more than any other studio). The combined strength of Hotel Transylvania and Looper pushed Sony's yearly domestic total past $1.3 billion, which makes it the first studio to reach that mark in 2012. Looper, Sony's other movie this weekend, opened in second place with $20.8 million. That's noticeably up from Surrogates ($14.9 million) and Source Code ($14.8 million), among similar sci-fi movies. Still, it's nowhere close to Sony/TriStar's last major sci-fi hit, District 9 ($37.4 million), and it also sold fewer initial tickets than Bruce Willis's last foray in to time travel, 12 Monkeys. Looper's good-not-great opening inforces the challenges inherent in selling an original, R-rated sci-fi movie. Previews were jam-packed with quality information: they clearly articulated the movie's unique premise, showed off a few high-profile cast members, and even threw in some action as well. Anyone on the fence after that should have been pushed over thanks to the outstanding reviews (93 percent fresh on Rotten Tomatoes) and insane buzz on social media. To only make it to $21.2 million (again, that's good, not great) with all of those positives illustrates just how difficult it is to get the key older male demographic excited about rushing out on opening weekend for something completely new. As expected, the audience skewed male (59 percent) and older (70 percent were 25 years of age and up). They weren't quite as fond of the movie as critics were, as it only received a "B" CinemaScore ("B+" among men). It's also worth briefly noting that Looper is projected to earn between $23 and $25 million this weekend in China, which would make it the first international movie to open higher in China than anywhere else in the world (with the exception of re-release Titanic 3D). More information will be available in the Around-the-World Roundup on Tuesday.End of Watch eased 41 percent to $7.8 million this weekend. With a 10-day total of $26 million, the movie is now only a day away from passing the final gross of writer-director David Ayer's last cop drama Street Kings ($26.4 million). Trouble with the Curve also held well, dipping 40 percent to $7.3 million this weekend. The Clint Eastwood baseball drama has now earned $23.5 million. House at the End of The Street rounded out the Top Five with $7.1 million. That's off 42 percent from last weekend, which is a pretty good hold for a horror movie. It's now earned $22.2 million, and could end up with around $35 million by the end of its run. In sixth place, Pitch Perfect scored $5.15 million from just 335 locations. That translates to an outstanding per-theater average of $15,371. The audience was 74 percent female, and they gave the movie a strong "A" CinemaScore. That score improved to "A+" among women under 25, suggesting the movie will be generating great word-of-mouth among that key demographic leading to its nationwide release on Friday. With cash in the bank already, strong buzz and nearly half of its media budget still remaining, Universal has got to be feeling pretty good about Pitch Perfect's long-term prospects right now. Won't Back Down opened in nearly eight times as many theaters as Pitch Perfect, but could only muster a $2.6 million debut this weekend (good for 10th place). That's the worst opening ever for a movie in 2,500+ locations� the previous "record" holder was The Rocker with $2.64 million. Distributor 20th Century Fox clearly realized they had a dud on their hands a while ago, and pushed it out without the backing of a substantial marketing effort. Don't worry too much about Fox, though: they'll be in fine shape after Taken 2 blows up the box office next weekend. The Perks of Being a Wallflower expanded to 102 locations and moved up to 13th place with $1.1 million. With a solid $10,823 per-theater average, the movie will definitely be expanding in to many more venues in the coming days, and a nationwide expansion (600+ theaters) seems possible at this point.Discuss this story with fellow Box Office Mojo fans on Facebook. On Twitter, follow us at @boxofficemojo, and follow author Ray Subers at @raysubers. 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Baruch Professor Stan Altman Receives Grant from The Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation to Support Study of Undergraduate Education
NEW YORK, NY-February 21, 2013 � Dr. Stan Altman, professor of Public Affairs at Baruch College, has been awarded a $160,000 grant from the Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation in support of a study to explore new ways to address the needs of undergraduates in higher education.
Dr. Altman, who is also campus director of Baruch's Nonprofit Leadership Alliance Program for preparing students for careers in the non-profit sector, is leading a pioneering partnership between Baruch College and the Rubin Museum of Art, and is co-PI of a U.S. State Department funded project in climate control education for Pan Asian countries.
"This is the first time that the Rubin Foundation has given us this grant," Dr. Altman said. "We look forward to exploring the kinds of experiences that undergraduate students are having across the nation."
In the grant proposal, the team identified challenges in undergraduate education that are most common in U.S. colleges and universities. These challenges will be addressed during the study:
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Dr. Altman said the overall goal of the project is to foster a new paradigm of undergraduate education, to empower students to pursue their passions, to address issues of social change and social justice, invention and creativity.�
In addition to partnering with The Rubin Foundation, Baruch will be working with representatives from IBM and other groups on this project.
"We are going to bring in thought leaders who are out there trying to change the way undergraduate education is delivered," Dr. Altman said. "Our plan is to spend a year fostering forums and discussions, building a community of academics, writers, and philanthropists who can help us analyze and judge the best efforts we can identify.� At the same time, we will ask this study group to recommend mechanisms � contests, prizes, financial and work incentives, and reform movements � that offer the quickest pathways to change."
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My all-time favorite handlebar shape is the old AVA Randonneur:
The Randonneur shape makes the "behind the hoods" position even more comfortable than the Philippe Professionel. When you look at your hand as you hold the bars, your palm forms a cup-shape. Well-designed Randonneur handlebars curve upward to fit into that shape perfectly. When we rode PBP on a tandem with these bars in 2003, my hands were in great shape after 52 hours on the road, even though I held onto the bars pretty much the whole time. Here is a photo of the position "behind the hoods" with the Grand Bois Randonneur bars:
The tops are not horizontal, but slope up from the stem, making the hand position on the tops (next to the stem) a little less comfortable. It's a compromise: If you ride a lot behind the hoods, choose the Randonneur bars. If you climb a lot on the tops, the Professionel (or its modern incarnation, the Grand Bois Maes) may be better. I use both positions, yet I prefer the Randonneur.
In the 1920s, even racers used this handlebar shape. By the 1940s, it was specific enough to long-distance cyclists that it was called "Randonneur." When you look at the best bikes in Paris-Brest-Paris, at touring bikes equipped for long trips, or at tandems of that era, you usually see them equipped with the AVA Randonneur handlebars.
The Randonneur handlebar shape is very subtle, and it's important to get it just right. Nitto's Randonneur handlebars copy the general shape, but they do not support the hands well. In fact, I find the Nitto's model (slightly) less comfortable than standard bars. The Grand Bois Randonneur handlebar is based on careful measurements of the AVA, and Grand Bois went through a lot of effort to get the shape right.


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I moved to the San Fernando Valley at the worst possible time. Right after the financial crisis hit at the beginning of 2009, Los Angeles was probably running at about 50% unemployment. My friend Kate worked at Trader Joe's, and they received 300 applications for one job opening. The only people working regularly were the Mexican fruit pickers standing outside Home Depot, and even they would sometimes wait half a day before anyone drove by. The counseling center I volunteered at started to fill up with clients who had been unemployed for a year and were deeply depressed, considering suicide. Los Angeles is a terrible city to be desperate in.
I was sending out ten resumes a day to Craigslist jobs, with no responses. I assumed that the moment they clicked "Post," HR directors were immediately inundated with resumes and panicked, choosing new employees at random. My boyfriend, Jason, was struggling to pay his part of the rent by selling musical instruments on eBay. We were living in a pool house and eating street-cart tacos every day because it was cheaper than buying groceries.
So I went to the fallback job: internet porn.
I signed up with a third-party website to be a cam model. It works like this: you have a webcam. Guys go to the website, pick you out of a lineup, and instant message with you a little bit. When they decide they want to fork over $3 a minute, they click the "Pay Now" button and take you to a private chat room, where you can do whatever you want. I got half of the money for each minute, and grew quite adept at stripping slowly. The guys mostly just wanted straightforward tits and ass; I learned how to pull my pussy lips open, how to use camera tricks so it looked like I was shoving four fingers in my asshole.
As porn work goes, it was incredibly low maintenance. I didn't have to shave my legs or wear high heels, or even put on lipstick; I didn't have to actually touch or talk to any of the guys who were watching me take my clothes off. I spoke into a microphone and never heard their voices. Sometimes I got strange requests: put a can of hairspray in your pussy. Let me hypnotize you. One guy wanted me to pee in a cup and pour it on my chest. I said no to anything I didn't want to do. Jason walked back and forth through the house as I worked on the living-room sofa. I'd wave at him over the top of the camera, while showing close-ups of my ass cheeks to some unseen guy jerking it in his darkened office. It was a steady paycheck, and these gullible souls all believed I was twenty-two years old and my name was Samantha.
Except for one guy. Screen name: THEPROFESSOR. He showed up one day and immediately made me laugh — really laugh, not the fake "tee hee" that actually meant "Just click the button, asshole, time is money." His repartee was witty, and his vocabulary was huge. All the other guys sounded like panting idiots hoping to trick me into a free show, begging me to shove things in my ass or dramatically fellate a dildo. The Professor enjoyed being the smart one, the one who knew the truth behind the facade, who I really was. It was only a few messages before he said, "You're not 22. How old are you really?" I tried to pass it off, as I'd learned to do with private questions — keep them on the hook, believing the fantasy, and you make more money. Make them think they have a chance with you. But he wanted to know, really, so I told him how old I was, what I liked to read, that I wasn't actually in university anymore. He hoarded the information I gave him; he was always careful never to say anything where the other guys could see.
One day, he finally clicked "Pay Now" and took me to a private room. But I don't think he knew what to do with me. We just talked for a while, at $3 a minute. By then, I knew him a little bit, and liked him. I asked him what he wanted to see. He said he just wanted to watch me get off. So I did, and for once, I wasn't faking it.
The pattern continued: he'd come in almost every day and message me for hours, throwing out comments about the other guys that they couldn't see, sometimes taking me to a private room when he could afford it. He wanted to see me enjoying myself, instead of simulating bad porn. He wanted to see my face when I came.
I started getting to know him. His name was Arthur. I found out he was a real professor — he taught at a small liberal-arts college, which is why he was online all day, grading papers. I found out he was occasionally cranky, often bitter, but always receptive to banter. He mentioned children, in passing. I mentioned Jason, which, since I pretended to be single online, was another slice of my real self.
Finally, I told him one day that I couldn't keep taking his money. It wasn't fair. I liked him too much. I wrote him a long email from my personal email account, the real one, told him my real name, and said I couldn't keep our interactions financial. It felt wrong. We were friends.
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Santa arrives in new Beaumont Fire & Rescue ladder truck
At the Children's Holiday Museum Party and Tree Lighting at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Santa arrived in the the new Beaumont Fire & Rescue ladder truck. The annual event ended with Santa lighting the Children's Tree at 6 p.m. The event has been hosted by area museums, the Tyrrell Library, local attractions, Beaumont Main Street and local tourism agencies for over 15 years.
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Four Time Melges 24 World Champion To Run Tuning Clinics For Melges 24 Sailors At All Levels
31 May 2011
Four time Melges 24 World Champion and CEO of Melges Europe Federico Michetti will be hosting a coaching clinic in association with this weekend's 2011 Austrian Melges 24 Championship at Seewalchen, Attersee, Austria. This will be run tomorrow (Wednesday) and Thursday of this week and all competitors in the Austrian Championship are invited to take part. Fed will be running both shoreside and on water sessions focused helping teams with their tuning, boat speed and boat handling. If you would like more information about taking part in this tuning session please contact Austrian Class Chairman Michael Scheiness on firstname.lastname@example.com.
Later this year Fed will also be running coaching clinics in Japan and Norway aimed at sailors of all levels. The date for the Japanese session is yet to be set but the Norwegian clinic will be run in association with the Norwegian National Championship which is taking place in Hanko from 2-4 September. We'll more publish details of these forthcoming events as soon as they are available
If you cannot attend any of the above clinics but your Melges 24 group would like help from Fed he would be happy to arrange a coaching session in association with one of your main events. Please note that Fed makes no personal charge for his services and just needs accommodation, subsistence and a RIB from which to coach. This really is a fantastic service that he is offering as no one in the fleet knows more about how to make your Melges 24 go fast than him. He also has the knowledge and communication skills to help sailors at all levels and is as keen to coach sailors entirely new to the Melges 24 as those who want to fine tune their skills. For more information, contact Federico on e-mail.


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The DMC-FP3 can record motion images in high-definition (1,280 x 720 pixels at 30 fps in Motion JPEG format). The pixel mixed readout method enables bright motion-image recording even in low-light settings. The DMC-FP3 can also record full-size motion images in WVGA (848 x 480 pixels at 30 fps) or standard motion images in VGA (640 x 480 pixels at 30 fps) and QVGA (320 x 240 pixels at 30 fps).
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Fermentation Issues
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Fermentation Issues
I recently brewed a wheat beer and used 32 oz. of pure maple syrup in the 60 minute boil. The primary fermentation lasted 1 week, then I racked the beer off to the secondary fermenter and it has continued to have a steady pace of small-champagne size bubbles rising to the top of the carboy and it is now almost 2 weeks in the secondary. Anything I should be concerned with, and /or how long should I expect this to last before suspecting contamination. I have been brewing for 15+ years and I am pretty meticulous with cleaning and sterilization.
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fermentation woes
Could just be dissolved c02 from fermentation.I've bottled completely fermented beer that was slightly carbonated straight from the fermenter.You can't do anything if it is infected now so I would wait until bottling/kegging day(when the gravity stabilized) and taste it.If it don't taste crappy you know what to do.If it were infected causing fermentation to contine too long then your final gravity reading will be way too low.
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Take a hydrometer reading
That's the sure way to know that it's done fermenting. After you measure the gravity, taste the stuff. Yah, it's flat but it will tell you generally of something is not right. I have never used maple syrup in a beer but the books say that it is 65% fermentable comprised mostly of sucrose with some invert sugar.
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Storage sheds aren't just made out of wood anymore. There's a huge assortment of metal, plastic, and vinyl options in addition to the wooden ones most people think of. You'll also find a great variety of styles, ranging from the simple to the detailed and ornate. It's even possible to have an outdoor storage building that looks like a miniature house! But regardless of whether you choose a traditional wood model or a modern plastic one, you can rest assured that it won't make your property an eyesore. Even the most basic sheds are now designed with an emphasis on appearance; gone are the days when adding economical outdoor storage meant that it looked like someone had dropped a gigantic bin in your yard.
This is the part no one really likes to think about. Do I go with the shed that has the features I want or the one that best fits my budget? Fortunately, there are now so many options that you don't have to compromise. No matter whether you're just looking for a small structure to house some odds and ends or a larger building that can double as a workshop, there's something you can afford. Even if you need something very specific, such as a portable shelter or a compact design, you've still got a lot of choices.
And the best part about finding the right storage shed? Peace of mind. With all of your valuables stored safely out of the way you'll be able to enjoy all of the parts or your home and maybe, just maybe be able to do something crazy like actually store your car in your garage.


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Latest Westport property transfers: $35.3M total
The Town Clerk's office reports the following property transfers took place Aug. 26-30:
131 Compo Road North, sold to Hilary Nordholm and Adrian Hinojos-Ruiz by Aly Hemdan-Abdalla and Ingi A. Soliman, $770,000.
62 Morningside Drive South, sold to Venkat Sampath and Carol E. Alexander by Thomas S. and Adilia D. Douglas, $1,447,000.
4 Carolyn Place, sold to Sandra Lantz and Craig Early by Anne U. Lantz, $665,000.
6 Pamela Place, sold to Brian Rebello and Jennifer D'Cunha by Jack C. and Gayle M. Henry, $772,000.
9 Baldwin Place, sold to Mark P. and Michelle Barnes by Joseph P. and Rebecca F. Cerroni, $1,776,000.
Real Estate Listings
22 Blue Ribbon Drive, sold to Steven and Catherine April by Linda Amos, $3,000.
7 Sprucewood Lane, sold to Richard and Melissa Birns by Mattera Construction 7, $3,570,000.
27 Woods Grove Road, sold to Janet E. Davis by Catherine Goldschmidt, $762,500.
62 Valley Road, sold to Michael G. and Kara Sullivan by Janet E. Davis revocable trust, $635,000.
20 Terra Nova Circle, sold to Robert A. and Karen H. Hoffman by Edward J. and Mary Jane Holm, $1,300,000.
50 Whitney Glen Drive, sold to Wanda M. France by Anne Marie Revey trustee, $410,000.
59 Compo Road North, sold to Megan and Gregory Rutstein by Mark L. and Mary C. Friedman, $1,285,000.
24 Surf Road, sold to Jon D. and Polly Derow Litner by Pegeen G. Genader, $3,650,000.
7 Wakeman Road, sold to Pranav and Deepti Mohindroo by Eugene F. and Renae S. Martin, $1,510,000.
17 Greens Farms Hollow, sold to Holger and Imke I. Lohs by Richard Duff and Sharon Jordan, $1,069,000.
3 Sheila Lane, sold to April L. and Albert Ritcher by Unitarian Church in Westport Inc., $815,000.
11 Bay Street, sold to 180 Westport Partners LLC by Jo-Ann Price and Edward J. Capasse trustees, $400,000.
180 Post Road East, sold to 180 Westport Partners LLC by Baystreet Properties LLC, $10,600,000.
Darbrook Road Lot 5, sold to Robert Bowman trustee by Westport Building Co. LLC, $425,000.
Darbrook Road Lot 4, sold to Robert Bowman trustee by Westport Building Co. LLC, $725,000.
32 Hogan Trail, sold to Brian D. and Lauren A. Simons by Paul and Delyth Hirtle, $837,000.
401 Bradley Lane, sold to Dawn and Todd Lusk by Lauren A. and Brian D. Simons, $630,000.
½ interest 4 Scherer Court, sold to Sara Burke by Dudley Speros estate, $634,000.
½ interest 4 Scherer Court, sold to Sara Burke by Carol Ann Gladue Speros, $634,000.
Total value of the properties sold is $35,324,500, generating conveyance taxes of $88,311.25.


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Tuesday, August 06, 2013
Mr. Propre
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Buy Genie wash in the tube for hand washing. It is the best, I always buy three or four tubes and carry them back to California (although that was in the days where you could have two huge suitcases and no extra charges).
Susan Levine
PErsonally i adore Ace ,double use x clean and whitening wc ,floor etc and in the whyte clothes . very cheap and very good stuff!ReplyDelete
gnammi gnammi oh how can you stay without sugar x a month!???in Paris too...I couldn't do it..but Iam very lucky I can eat lots of pastry and food without put on a gramms...thanks mummy!!!!
adorable post as usal and great pics ,thank You!!!
I really, really hate being scolded, even if I am guilty. :)ReplyDelete
I always say right away..:"you are right..I am sorry"ReplyDelete
Our products... in QC.. have to be written in French so this is the norm for me..
That pool looks GREAT.Brings back very youthful memories.
Cleaning...I use baking soda.. vinegar.. but some products..I admit I use for the scent..Mrs Meyers..I stock up in the states.
PS I once wore OVER the knee black suede boots with hot pants.
I now wear..long skirts and flat naturalizers..flip flops..ballerinas..flat boots.
Bought a color wheel today to replace my old one ..and.. it was one of my grandson's 8th bday..one of his gifts?
A hamster..
Name? BEAR.
I told them all about you:)
Carol, best wishes to you in your new home. M Propre does look a lot like that retro fellow Mr Clean. Trademarks must have very long lives.ReplyDelete
As August arrives, do you notice lots of Parisiens leaving town? I am thinking you might do some fashion reportage from one of the train stations.
Over here in NYC, a Look for young folks with great legs involves boots with tiny shorts. I can think of many inspirations for this Look, most of which predate the birth dates of the boot-wearing ladies.
At least the current weather is cool enough to make the concept wearable.
We once lived in army housing on an army base....when a family moves out of military housing, they are inspected by military inspectors....very particular inspectors. I have heard many horror stories of failing inspection, not being able to leave the base on time, forfeiting all future promotions, huge fines....in short, we hired the usual crew of professional army cleaners. These are civilians who live near army posts and know exactly what will be inspected and what you need to pass. They charge a lot of money, but guarantee you will pass, no additional charges, no matter how may times they have to re-clean to pass inspection. Whew! It still puts me into a cold sweat.ReplyDelete
And I am so impressed by your dedication this month! Those gorgeous greens are calling to me.
Picky Picky Picky..Did you give him one of those French shrugs and pout??:)Nice pool. Hope you enjoy your new digs.ReplyDelete
I'm usually lost if the label doesn't offer some sort of clue, like a pic/image. However, a photo of a toilet probably won't do much for sales.ReplyDelete
Enjoy your new place...love the piscine! xx Katie
- cyndi from SD10:36 AM
No sugar for a month. I've done that, but not while I'm in Paris. Though, the good news is, those pastries will be waiting for you in Sept.ReplyDelete
Have a wonderful SF day.
By the way, in April the stores here had SF peeps . A little scary, but not bad if that's all you can do.
Carol, you're too funny--I am laughing out loud at the white residue you left--I'm with you--better than black dirt! You must be excited. Is the pool near your new place? I may have missed that if you said so--sorry. Very nice. Good luck with the big move! Sounds great.ReplyDelete
The pool is a 7 minute walk by the park. It was pouring today so the pool was near empty. My locker did seize up and wouldn't open but an attendant helped me get my clothes back! ;))ReplyDelete
Hoping you will enjoy your new place!Not to mention the pool! A 7 minute walk sounds almost ideal, especially because it such a great one!ReplyDelete
You are a brave lady to face cleaning your old apartment without any sugar to brighten the day!
When we moved out of our place (near the Parc du Prince),the landlord(and his wife) were nothing short of a pain in the derriere.In retrospect it almost makes the memory more humorous (almost).


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FOREST GROVE, Ore. - Pacific Lutheran took a 28-2 lead into the fourth quarter and added two late touchdowns as a knockout punch to beat the Pacific Boxers, 41-23, in a Northwest Conference football game played Saturday at Lincoln Park Stadium.
With the victory the Lutes move above the .500 mark for the first time this season with a 3-2 record, and they are 2-1 in the conference. Pacific is now 2-4 overall and 1-2 in the NWC.
As they did a year ago, the Lutes built a big early lead and then held off a comeback effort by the pesky Boxers.
PLU scored four of its touchdowns on running plays, another on a pass, and the final one when nose tackle Mychael Tuiasosopo intercepted a pass and returned it 22 yards for PLU's final touchdown with 2:36 remaining in the game.
Brandon James capped a seven-play, 75-yard drive by scoring on a 2-yard run with 45 seconds left in the first quarter to get the Lutes on the board. James scored the second touchdown on a 1-yard pass from Dalton Ritchey, finishing off a nine-play, 58-yard drive, but failed conversions after those scores kept the score at 12-0. Pacific Lutheran's third consecutive sustained drive, this one a six-play, 62-yard journey, ended with Niko Madison's 4-yard run. One of the Boxers' few first half highlights came on the PAT when the kick was blocked and returned for a two-point scored by Craig Bailey.
The Lutes took their 18-2 lead into the third period and added a 22-yard field goal by Nick Kaylor and a 1-yard touchdown run by Dalton Ritchey, making the score 28-2.
Pacific tallied back-to-back touchdowns on a pair of 6-yard scoring passes by P.J. Minaya, the second coming after a successful onside kick recovery.
The next onside kick was recovered by PLU's Connor Cummings, and the Lutes proceeded to drive 46 yards on eight plays with Cody Pohren crashing into the end zone from the 3-yard line. That made the score 35-16, but it stayed that way for only one play after the ensuing kickoff because Tuiasosopo was in the right place to pick off a Minaya and take it to the house. The "pick six" was the second of the season for the PLU defense.
Pacific added its final score with 16 seconds remaining, Minaya throwing his third scoring pass of the period to cap an 80-yard drive.
By the time the game ended Pacific owned a 415-413 advantage in total yards, but the Lutes held the ball for nearly 36 minutes to just 24 for the home team.
James led the Lutes with 70 rushing yards on 11 carries, while Ritchey was 24-for-31 for 262 yards with one touchdown and no interceptions. Kyle Warner was his favorite receiver with 11 catches for 142 yards.
Greg Hibbard had seven tackles and Cummings ended up with four tackles, an interception and a fumble recovery. Minaya was 32-for-45 for 342 yards with three interceptions and his three touchdowns, and the PLU defense limited Pacific to 73 rushing yards on 23 attempts.
The Lutes return to Northwest Conference action, and to Sparks Stadium in Puyallup, when they host the unbeaten Willamette Bearcats at 12:30 next Saturday.


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Adream that once seemed remote has become reality for American flue-cured tobacco growers: The People's Republic of China is becoming a dependable customer for their leaf.
Now, with this strong and relatively new overseas market — and with a new cigarette to market in the United States — members of the Flue-Cured Tobacco Cooperative are facing the 2007 sales season with renewed optimism.
At its annual meeting in Timberlake, N.C., the cooperative's president, grower Albert Johnson of Galivants Ferry, S.C., announced that 60 percent of the co-op's inventory of 2006 leaf had been sold to China.
And more sales could be coming. "We have the opportunity to expand our business with China," said Johnson. "China has said it will increase purchases here."
In fact, there will be a Chinese delegation in the states this summer, Johnson said, so cooperative members may get a chance to host some of these Asian buyers on their farms.
The significance of all this was not lost on the farmers, who knew that China had bought no significant volume of American flue-cured tobacco in modern times until the cooperative made its first sale in 2005.
Richard Jenks, a flue-cured grower from Apex, N.C., and a member of the cooperative's board, said, "The next big challenge to the co-op is going to be to find a way to continue to work with the Chinese," he said. "I think we may have to partner with them a bit in some areas."
The Chinese, like all modern cigarette manufacturers, are very concerned about the amount of foreign material-or as it is called now, non-tobacco-related material (NTRM) — in the tobacco they purchase, and the cooperative is taking steps to educate its growers about how to address the Chinese concerns.
"Stabilization has implemented a product integrity program to help member/growers understand some of the problems," said Arnold Hamm, general manager of the cooperative. "The intent is not to embarrass or chastise any farmer, but to assist in understanding what can be done on the farm to minimize NTRM."
He said members of the cooperative's leaf operations department will be visiting growers in coming weeks. "The effort is to insure product integrity to our customers," Hamm said.
If tobacco has to be rejected at the marketing center because of NTRM, penalties are possible, perhaps extending to contract cancellation.
Among undesirable NTRMs are organic materials like grasses, tobacco stalks, paper and cotton strings; and non-organic materials like styrofoam, plastics, metals, hydraulic fluid and nylon.
On another issue related to quality, Hamm urged growers to maintain the moisture content of their baled tobacco in the recommended range.
Moisture in the baled leaf affects the ability of the purchaser to efficiently process the tobacco and to safely store the tobacco until processing, according to Extension Service recommendations.
A level below 12 percent may result in excessive leaf shatter during baling. Excessive moisture will impact the ability to store the bale without damage to the tobacco.
In other news from the meeting:
The cooperative has contracted 55 million pounds from the 2007 crop.
The cooperative has begun marketing an American-blend cigarette called 1839. Last year, it introduced a roll-your-own mixture, also called 1839.
The relatively weak dollar is helping American leaf compete with its strongest competitor, Brazil, said Hamm. The exchange rate for the Brazilian Real versus the US dollar is now about two to one. As recently as 2002 it was four to one.
There are about 850 members of the cooperative. Only one type of contract is offered now: The distinction between exclusive and non-exclusive contracts has been abandoned.
There will be no changes in the location or number of cooperative market centers. They are the same ones as last year: Nashville, Ga., Statesboro ,Ga., Lake City, S.C., Mullins, S.C., Clinton, N.C., Williamston, N.C., Rural Hall, N.C., Danville, Va. and South Hill, Va.
The cooperative's factory in Timberlake is being used extensively for custom manufacturing, said Hamm. Among the manufacturing customers are Premier International Holding Company with its cigarette brands Wildhorse and Shield, and The New Century Tobacco Group with its brands Traffic, Stampede, Passport and Fact. It is also producing an RYO mixture called Kentucky Select as well as its own 1839 brand.
The cooperative has enjoyed good success selling blended strips overseas last year, said Hamm. Major customers were China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Turkey, Singapore and the European Union.
A new member was added to the board. Jimmy Crews of Oxford, N.C., took the place of Richard Jenks, who gave up his seat after 24 years.


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I just bought a 23hp Lumbermate 2000 and plan on starting a new business.
Here is the first tree given to me.
The City I live in had a very large [White Oak "I think"] tree fall in the park and they will give it to me If I take it all.
I am not real sure I can pick it up, but if I pull it off, does any on know if it would be worth it?
I wont be able to mill it unless I rip it into 1/4. I am assuming Diameter Slabs for the trunk would be best for tables. The center is rotted out.
There will be some nice lumber in just the limbs but I might have to buy a very large chainsaw just to make table slabs.
Can any one give me Ideas if it would be worth all this energy to get this thing?
I probably wont be able to sell table slabs locally. They would have to be shipped.
Is there a market for it? If so whats the best way to cut it?
I have a website but it will be a few months before its ready and who knows how long before I get traffic.
Dr. Sam Sherrill of Cincinnati (area), Ohio, is the author of "Harvesting Urban Timber" (you can 'google' his website) and he has some experience in this area. He has made over 20 pieces of furnture form the LIMBS of a 500 year old bur oak tree. So to answer one of your questions, Yes, it can be worth all the energy...but it won't necessarily be easy.
You might want to check with the city where you got the tree and see if they would be interested in purchasing some benches or other products (lumber?) from the tree. This approach has been used recently in cities impacted by the emerald ash borer (Monroe, Michigan and Gross Pointe park, Michigan are two examples).
Good luck, Steve
Thanks Steve
Someone already promised to take the whole tree and most of the limbs are already gone to fire wood :(.
Just the trunk and the slash. Plus two limbs are left.
Any idea how to get ahold of Sam Sherrill? I'd like to put an article about him and the book on Smallwoodnews.com and TimberBuySell.com, but his web site has no contact information.
General hint - if you have a web site, make sure that people can get ahold of you!
If you go to the Harvesting Urban Timber website, you can click on "email" at the bottom of the homepage to reach Sam Sherrill.
Have you been able to get ahold of him through that link? It's just to "webmaster."
Have you been able to reach Sam through his Harvesting Urban Timber website?
If you want to learn more about all the possibilities of utilizing urban trees, check out the above referenced website.
Swingblade time.
If I had that log, first I would make sure that it it is, indeed white oak. Foolin around with red oak just ain't worth what I am going to tell you. An old Sawyer down the road a piece, who shall remain nameless told me how to do the first method. What you do is to take a chainsaw and plunge cut the width of the bar to half or just a little more than halfway through the center of the log, about a foot from the bottom end of the log. Like sticking a toothpick halfway deep in a cucumber, near the end. Then you put into the bar cut about a shot glass full of bullseye pistol powder, a good length of cannon fuse, some folded newspaper wadding, and a wooden wedge. Pound the wedge in good, making sure to not flatten or cut the fuse. The wedge needs to completely fill the hole, without interfering with the fuse. A word about safety here- the amount of powder is not much more than about 3 12 gauge rounds, if we were to compare to ammo, but always respect the power of powder! the fuse should be long enough to allow you time to safely walk away a couple of hundred feet. Another safety factor is to not go near the log for a whole day if it doesn't go off. Also, you can't do this on wet, green logs, as your powder will get wet, unless you put the powder into a foil packet, made to fit into the bar cut. The next step is obvious- light the fuse, and walk to a place far away. Generally what happens is that the log cracks deeply through the center, with the widest gap being a couple of inches wide. There will be noise, like black powder rifle being fired. There will be smoke, about a billowing cloud 20-30' in diameter. Lastly, Do Not do this in a populated area, people are a lot more touchy about loud noises and smoke since 9/11/01. I have seen this technique used quite safely, but if it scares you-Don't do it! The other method uses a special tool that I will describe in another post, if there is enough interest.
dont split it unless you have no options... youtube. search blackpowder splitting......they have a picture there that will bring ya back to reality when dealing with black powder.......
im in California? where'd ya say ya were?