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WOODCLIFF LAKE, New Jersey (Reuters) - BMW has a message for the incorrigible speed freaks looking for a more politically correct set of wheels in this era of energy efficiency: switch to a diesel.
The German luxury carmaker is rolling out a new range of sporty new diesel sedans in the United States this year to complement its sole diesel on offer - the X5 xDrive 35d sport utility vehicle - and believes the hitherto unloved powertrain will find greater acceptance in an age of downsized engines.
Diesels boast roughly 25 percent improved fuel consumption versus conventional cars, but their renaissance in the U.S. market long prophesied by German automakers such as Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) and Mercedes-Benz (DAIGn.DE) has been an uphill battle due to a poor image, higher fuel prices relative to gasoline and a spotty filling station infrastructure.
"The X5 diesel is selling like hot cakes, so we know from the X5 how strong customer acceptance can be as long as you have the right product," said Ludwig Willisch, president of BMW of North America, during an interview at its Woodcliff Lake headquarters on the outskirts of New York City.
"The next step then is launching a four-cylinder diesel in the 3 Series and a six-cylinder diesel in the 5 Series in the market this year," he continued, speaking prior to this week's North American auto show in Detroit.
Roughly a quarter of the 56,800 X5 SUVs that BMW sold last year were equipped with a diesel engine rather than a conventional gasoline engine, which Willisch said makes the SUV the second-best-selling diesel in the United States after the much cheaper Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) Jetta TDI.
A German national, Willisch previously headed up the group's sales activities for Europe, where diesel penetration steadily rose from over 20 percent in 1997 to 56 percent last year, due partly to a more beneficial tax treatment in many countries.
Luxury carmakers like BMW also tend to be more dependent on diesels than their mass-market peers. Fuel bills would make the total cost of owning a large sedan or a heavy SUV much higher in Europe were the vehicles powered by gasoline. Two-thirds of BMW brand cars sold in Germany last year were diesels.
Diesels traditionally aren't found in high-revving sports cars because they already generate at lower engine revolutions the maximum amount of force they can apply to the wheels, or torque, which is so crucial to quick acceleration. Their power curve tends to drop the faster the engine runs, making diesels ideal for towing heavy loads.
Yet BMW for the first time last year rolled out its first diesel-powered line of tuned M performance cars such as the M550d to send a statement - diesels are every bit as sporty.
"Torque is especially important to Americans. Flat-out top speed doesn't really count anymore," Willisch said.
"So I cannot imagine that the advantages of a diesel in terms of both torque and fuel consumption will not find appeal with customers in the U.S."
Whereas half of the new cars in Europe run on diesel, Americans have long eschewed the alternative powertrain due to the widespread image that stuck from the 1970s of loud, smelly cars that often could not start in the cold, and when they did, clouds of black soot would belch out of the tailpipe.
Diesels are, however, often better equipped to handle the long commutes typically driven in America than the densely congested areas of Europe, where a gasoline-electric hybrid is often more suitable.
A Toyota (7203.T) Prius operates more efficiently in stop-and-go traffic, for example, since it depends on recouping kinetic energy otherwise lost when the brakes are applied.
Mercedes currently plans to add diesel versions of the C-Class sedan and GLK mid-size SUV in addition to those on offer for its larger M-Class and GL-Class SUVs.
Despite its expansion plans, sales of Mercedes BlueTEC diesels rose 7.4 percent to just 15,416 vehicles last year, lagging the brand's overall growth rate in the U.S. market. VW saw its U.S. penetration rate of diesels drop one full percentage point to 20.6 percent last year.
In an attempt to rebrand the technology, the industry has taken to calling them "Clean Diesels". Sales did increase some 25 percent in 2012 in the United States, but this still lagged the near-68 percent gain in hybrid sales, according to data cited by industry group Diesel Technology Forum.
In an interview on Tuesday, the U.S. head of Mercedes said he had only a "constrained optimistic" view on diesels.
"The U.S. market is just not going to develop like Canada or Europe, period. There is nothing on the horizon that would indicate any strong movement either from a supply or a consumer demand standpoint that is going to move us towards diesel," Stephen Cannon told Reuters.
Reporting by Christiaan Hetzner; Editing by Dale Hudson


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Kolp, who spent nearly a decade on the fair board, was recognized during the fair when the exhibit building was dedicated with its new name – the Ralph Kolp Exhibit Hall.
In late February Ralph Kolp died unexpectedly. The long-time friend of many organizations in Redwood Falls has sorely been missed by those who knew him and worked with him. Among those who had the privilege of serving with Ralph were members of the Redwood County fair board. Kolp, who spent nearly a decade on the fair board, was recognized during the fair when the exhibit building was dedicated with its new name – the Ralph Kolp Exhibit Hall. "He really enjoyed being at the fair," said Theresa Kolp, his wife.
Kolp said she and Ralph began their connection with the fair about 27 years ago when she started exhibiting her products. Every year since then the family has had a booth in the exhibit building, and over the years Kolp just got more involved. "He started volunteering and then got on the fair board," said Theresa. "I think if he saw what was going on he would be amazed. It is very nice to know there are people who are thinking of him." Theresa had a booth at the fair again this year, and she said it is great to see so many vendors displaying their products. According to Jeff Potter, Red-wood County Fair board president, the dedication of the building in Ralph Kolp's name is a small gesture the fair board can offer to someone who was a true friend of the Redwood County fair. "We wanted to do something to honor his memory," said Potter, adding Ralph took over the exhibit building when he got on the board. This past Monday afternoon Potter said he thought the 2014 county fair was a success, adding the attendance was up especially Friday night. "It might have been our best night ever," he said. Apparently, Kolp was looking down on the fair. With the fair now in the past, Potter said plans are now beginning for 2015, adding the dates for next year are going to be announced soon.

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Wynn's Whimsical Meadow Nursery
Name: Wynn Charlotte Johnson (8 months)
Location: Utah
Room Size: 10x14
The inspiration for Wynn's room came from what might seem like an unlikely source: a thrifted rocking chair that Wynn's mom, Cate, fell in love with. Cate decided to make the butter yellow, armchair-style rocker the seed from which the whimsical meadow theme would grow. WIth nearly everything in the nursery "thrifted or gifted," Cate and her family were able to put together a special, soothing space for their new baby girl.
The yellow rocker also inspired Cate to change the room color from sunrise pink to robin's nest blue, in the process creating a serene space that works perfectly with the items she recycled and bought from thrift stores. Adding to the whimsy are the stuffed clouds, made by Cate's mom, and the beautiful wall mural her sister painted.
How would you describe the look and feel of this room?
Whimsical meadow theme. We live in the mountains and always have deer roaming our yard.
What is your favorite piece or element?
The deer mural that my older sister and I painted is by far my favorite part of Winnie's room.
What was the biggest challenge decorating this room?
Nearly everything in Winnie's room was either thrifted, gifted or recycled from other areas of my home. The biggest challenge was hoping that it would all come together.
You have a lot of accessories that look vintage or handmade. Are any of them family heirlooms? Do you make any of the handmade items? Where do you look for vintage accessories?
The cream dresser and mirror were mine from when I was a little girl. The plates hanging on the wall belonged to Winnie's great-grandmother and the vintage lace used for the bed skirt was a gift from my mother. I feel like life is far too short not to surround yourself with things you love or find beautiful! So when I am out thrift shopping, I only purchase things I really find inspiring and always end up finding a home for it. The clouds were made by my mother and I made the mobile.
We love your unique solution for a side table. How did you come up with the chair and books idea, and how is it working for you?
The chair and book idea has worked seamlessly. I wanted to incorporate the chair in the room somehow and that was what I came up with. The books were thrifted and recovered with coordinating fabric.
If money were no object, what's your dream source?
If money wasn't an issue I would be ordering everything from Land of Nod and Restoration Hardware! They have chandeliers I have been swooning over!
Source List:
• Jameson Panel Crib: Restoration Hardware
• Changing Table: Restoration Hardware
• Puzzle Patch Floral changing pad: Land of Nod
• Crystal knobs on changing table: Urban Outfitters
• Vintage Washed Chenille Rug, in pink: Restoration Hardware
• Stump foot stool and branch for mobile: T.J. Maxx
• Paint color: Benjamin Moore Robin's Nest
Thanks, Cate! See more of Wynn's room and read more of Cate's adventures at With a Touch of Pretty.
(Images: Cate Johnson and Jen Herem)


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Trump tweet: Blankenship 'can't win' general election in West Virginia
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS/WVAH) —
Blankenship is running against five other GOP candidates in the primary election Tuesday including Bo Copley, Tom Willis, Evan Jenkins, Patrick Morrisey and Jack Newbrough.
Both Trump Jr. and Trump referenced the Alabama Senate race where Democrat Doug Jones defeated republican Roy Moore in what was described as an upset.
President Donald Trump tweeted his thoughts on the U.S. Senate race Monday morning, steering voters away from Don Blankenship. Blankenship responded in a statement, vowing that he will win the primary and then go on to defeat incumbent Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin in the fall.
"To the great people of West Virginia we have, together, a really great chance to keep making a big difference," Trump tweeted. "Problem is, Don Blankenship, currently running for Senate, can't win the General Election in your State...No way! Remember Alabama. Vote Rep. Jenkins or A.G. Morrisey!"
Blankenship is running against five other GOP candidates in the primary election Tuesday including Bo Copley, Tom Willis, Evan Jenkins, Patrick Morrisey and Jack Newbrough.
One of those candidates, Newbrough, on Monday threw his support behind Blankenship in the primary because he denounces Mitch McConnell, the U.S. Senate Majority leader. He also said he believes there are too many attorneys in Congress.
"Mr. Blankenship speaks his heart, and I believe he was really treated unfairly in the UBB explosion," Newbrough said in a statement. "I believe he will work for the West Virginia people and drain the swamp just like President Trump wants. I love West Virginia, and he will do West Virginia right. Who goes to prison on a misdemeanor?"
Blankenship is the former CEO of Massey Energy. He announced his run for Senate last November. He served a year in prison for his conviction for misdemeanor conspiracy to violate federal safety standards at a West Virginia mine where 29 miners died in 2010. Blankenship has long maintained his innocence.
Morrisey was quick to agree with Trump, tweeting he is "exactly right. @DonBlankenship would be a disaster for West Virginia and would get trounced by @Sen_JoeManchin."
Blankenship issued a statement in response to the president's tweet, saying Trump is "a very busy man and he doesn't know me, and he doesn't know how flawed my two main opponents are in this primary."
"The establishment is misinforming him because they do not want me to be in the U.S. Senate and promote the president's agenda," Blankenship continued in his statement. "West Virginians are not going to vote for candidates who have failed to address the drug epidemic, aligned themselves with abortionists, and have never created a job. I will win the primary and I will beat Joe Manchin.
"West Virginians want more jobs, an end to the drug epidemic, and an honest government. I will will do the job that Morrisey and Jenkins can't do and have not done. I am the only candidate that has beaten Joe Manchin, and I have done it twice. In the history of West Virginia, no one has been more supportive of the Republican Party and conservative causes than I have been. Neither of my opponents can beat Joe Manchin without my support, but I will beat Joe Manchin even without the support of the establishment.
"West Virginia voters should remember that my enemies are Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and my opponents would not even be running as Republicans had I not resurrected the Republican Party in West Virginia. Tomorrow, West Virginia will send the swamp a message—no one, and I mean no one, will tell us how to vote. As some have said, I am Trumpier than Trump and this morning proves it."
One of Blankenship's most recent campaign ads takes a jab at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. The Eyewitness News I-Team did a fact check of the ad, which many are concerned is racist.
Donald Trump Jr. tweeted last week West Virginia voters should "reject Blankenship."
"I hate to lose," the tweet posted on May 3 said. "So I'm gonna go out on a limb here and ask the people of West Virginia to make a wise decision and reject Blankenship! No more fumbles like Alabama. We need to win in November. #wv #wvpol"
Both Trump Jr. and Trump referenced the Alabama Senate race where Democrat Doug Jones defeated republican Roy Moore in what was described as an upset.


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RU:Yahoo! Aerial Imagery
Yahoo Imagery is no longer available as of 13 September 2011.[1]
Yahoo Imagery больше не существует на 13 сентября 2011
Yahoo! provides Vertical Aerial Photographs as part of their map services, and allowed this to be used within Potlatch and formerly standalone OpenStreetMap editors. We were able to trace from yahoo to more quickly and accurately create maps in some parts of the world, and we are very grateful to Yahoo! for this support during the crucial early years of our project's development between 2007 and 2011.
In September 2011 Yahoo partially shut down their aerial imagery service and/or replaced their imagery with such from a new source. WE DO NOT HAVE PERMISSION TO USE ANY CURRENT YAHOO IMAGERY! Luckily we have, since 2010, had a similar agreement with Bing (Microsoft). On the whole bing's imagery is superior, although not everywhere. Cities in Pakistan for example were covered by the no-longer-available Yahoo imagery, but are not available (at hi res) in bing.
Yahoo! never exactly gave us explicit permission, but stated that their terms and conditions allow using their aerial imagery (blog announcement about it) for the purposes of tracing. We could use any of the three main OSM editors (Potlatch, Merkaartor, or JOSM), to edit OSM map data over the Yahoo! imagery. Further back in history, it was originally brought into the Java Applet editor.
Sadly metacarta no longer provide their opaque layer view [2]
The availability of the Yahoo! imagery has made possible a number of tasks which would most be almost impossible without it. Some of these achievements are listed here:
The whole of the original London Congestion Charging Zone was mapped over a single weekend by a team of people using Yahoo! imagery. London is notoriously difficult to map using conventional GPS-based methods due to the urban corridor effect giving poor traces.
- Baghdad maps
The whole road and rail network of the Baghdad area has been mapped using the Yahoo! imagery. As have some parks, forested areas, etc. People on the street are showing real interest in filling in the road names to make this an actually useful map, it's not just a promotion piece.
- Mashhad, Iran
The whole road and rail network of the Mashhad, Iran area has been mapped using the Yahoo! imagery. As have some parks, forested areas, etc. Street and place names are slowly coming in as well. A GPS-track was used to verify that the Yahoo! imagery indeed was accurate and has very little (<2m) offset in that area
- St Albans and surrounding area
Not quite so grand as the above cases, but every last bit of woodland, every golf course, every lake and the main rivers/streams/lakes were mapped, which isn't possible with Landsat and would be very laborious by ground-based surveys.
- Sydney and surrounding area
Completion of the greater metropolitan railway network, completion of the inner city unclassified road network, many arterial major roads that were previously in as stretches here and there, several complex road interchanges not practical to map on the bike, several major rivers (also strangely difficult to map on a bike) and adjusted many problems due to inner city urban canyoning. Plus a good few golf courses, parks and sports pitches. At the AU$160/км² rate quoted for Australian 2m resolution imagery, that would have cost AU$300,000.
- Darwin to Port Augusta (Australia)
Using the new Potlatch editor the highway between Darwin and Port Augusta (ie the whole of the central North — South Highway), together with the highway to Ayers Rock & the Olgas, has been completed. Most of the imagery is low resolution. (The road has now been surveyed along stretches and has been nudged and tagged accordingly.)
The imagery coverage was documented at Yahoo! Aerial Imagery/Coverage.
Yahoo!'s aerial imagery is pretty accurate. More so than consumer GPS units in general. In some parts of the world (e.g. Italy) there is noticable offset though, much more than simple consumer GPS units. For more detail see: Yahoo! Aerial Imagery/Accuracy.
Note that as of late 2011, Yahoo have shut down their mapping unit. The following does not apply to any new yahoo offerings and new editing activity within OSM. The details are kept here for historical interest, and because the nature of these past agreements is pertinent to existing OpenStreetMap data.
Yahoo took the position that if we derive vector-based map data from the aerial photos owned by Yahoo! they are no longer copyright Yahoo!, so we could release our data under any license we want, CC-BY-SA, ODbL, ... Anyone who has traced from Yahoo imagery may accept our new contributor terms and does not have to change their contributions.
We were permitted to display the aerial photos alongside our data in Potlatch and the Java Applet (and any other online mapping tools).
We were also permitted to use plug-ins within JOSM (as of 13th July 2007 - See mailing list post). Similar uses within other off-line mapping tools also were likely to be permitted.
Yahoo's last statement on the legalities, from Scott Regan, was..
On the usage of our Aerials API, again I can reiterate that the OSM's usage of the free API for overlaying GPS and tracings appears to be well within the terms of use.
To address some other questions that have been raised, we don't see any red flags with the GPX files overlays approach that is used by OSM community members vs. our restriction on plotting real time GPS coordinates or points that are less than 6 hours old. And the other question regarding the mechanics of how imagery is cached in a transient manner by the OSM tracing app also does not violate the constraint preventing the capture of individual images for commercial purposes. Again, our assessment is that this is well within the terms of use.
I hope this helps address some of the concerns of the community, please continue to let us know how we can help as things progress.
Mikel originally worked on liaising with Yahoo! people about this agreement. His comment was:
- "Even though there are open questions, I suggest that we can continue as we have confidently. OSM continues on even with the outstanding questions about attribution, etc. The use of Yahoo! imagery can continue as well. The spirit of what we are doing is sound, there are only particulars which need sorting out"
We didn't have a written agreement explaining exactly what was permitted. It seemed to be more a case of agreeing an interpretation of their Terms of Use.
- Also from Mikel: "There's multiple individuals, project managers and lawyers, involved in the decision. The first pass on the subject was a more cautious reading of the ToU, but at request, they (Yahoo) invested significant time in re-examining the particulars."


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RV/Boat/ATV Purchases on Rise in Wisconsin
June 18, 2010 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on RV/Boat/ATV Purchases on Rise in Wisconsin
Among the most popular recreational vehicles Wisconsin consumers purchase are motor boats, ATVs and motorhomes. But sales were in the doldrums until recently, according to Mike Prosser of Prosser RV on Milwaukee's far south side. He even plowed his own salary into the business in order to retain his employees and keep the company operating, according to a report from WUWM Public Radio, Milwaukee.
"When people aren't working they don't buy our stuff, and when people are afraid of losing their jobs, they're not going to buy stuff. But as people begin to see there's light at the end of the tunnel, their pent up demand for products like we sell comes to market and our sales increase," Prosser says.
And Prosser says he has noticed a dramatic jump in sales of his mothomes and campers over the past five months. In fact, he's had customers purchase $50,000 to $80,000 RVs. The secret, according to Prosser, is to be consumer-friendly. He's increased his credit line with a few banks in order to purchase and keep more vehicles on the lot, so buyers can drive away in them and he's reduced the traditional 30% markup on motorhomes.
"Those of us that are more aggressive in the market have aligned our margin expectations to the reality of the current situation and we're actually selling stuff. (We're) not making as much money on that perhaps, but we're moving products and keeping the doors open and keeping customers happy," Prosser says.
Prosser says at the present time, it's often possible to purchase a new motorhome as cheaply as a used one. But he expects that trend to be short term. There are good deals out there, at least for now, according to Daniel Burdett. He's general manager of Action Sports in Waukesha. It sells ATVs and dirt bikes. Burdett says there's now a surplus of some bikes, so prices are dropping.
"You might be able to buy a new ATV, a really nice ATV for $4,500 to $5,500, and in a lot of cases, that's what a used one is costing. It might not be first choice as far as features or equipment, that type of thing, but definitely in the area of what the customer is looking for," Burdett says.
Burdett has noticed fewer customers entering his shop these days, but those who do, are serious about buying.
"And many times, the customers will just tell you what it takes to do business with them," Burdett says.
Burdett describes his business as brisk, not stellar, but brisk. However, sales are still about 40% lower than before the recession hit. John Kukuk is in the same boat. He owns Nestage Marine in Marinette, Wisconsin. Kukuk says business is improving in 2010 but still down considerably from five years ago. In order to survive the downturn, his company has cut back on inventory. It used to have several large boats on hand, but now has only one or two. Kukuk says he's also begun pursuing potential customers, because there are still people out there, able to buy.
"We're using new methodologies associated with the internet, more direct contact. We're still using the old boat show methodology, but waiting for the walk-in customer, that's a thing of the past and it's not going to work," Kukuk says.
Kukuk says he's trying to be optimistic, knowing the marina industry is slower to rebound than others. His latest worry is that the oil spill in the Gulf could slow boating use and sales there and eventually have a ripple effect on companies like his.


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Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel has already won a Heisman Trophy and still has three years of NCAA eligibility, but his coaches are just grateful that he'll get a second season as the Aggies' starter this year, and they're not expecting him to hang around long enough to start for three seasons, let alone four.
Clarence McKinney, the offensive coordinator at A&M, told a group of Aggies boosters that Manziel, who redshirted in 2011, may forego his final two seasons of college football and enter next year's NFL draft, when he'll be eligible for the first time. McKinney said A&M is recruiting quarterbacks with the expectations that it will need a new starter in 2014.
"With the uncertainty of Johnny's situation because of the way the NFL is going — his stock is rising," McKinney said, via the San Antonio Express-News.
It wasn't long ago that people would have looked at the 6-foot-1, 200-pound Manziel, who makes as many plays with his feet as he does with his arm, and said he's not a great fit for NFL offenses and isn't a lock to be an NFL starter at any point, let alone a high first-round pick after just two seasons as a college starter. But the success of smaller, more mobile quarterbacks like Russell Wilson and Robert Griffin III, and the success that NFL offenses have had incorporating many of the same concepts that Manziel thrives in at Texas A&M, have caused a shift in the way people look at quarterback prospects.
So while Manziel isn't quite the sure-thing top-pick that South Carolina defensive end Jadeveon Clowney is, he's another college star who may just be counting the days until he's eligible for the NFL draft.


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Junior Boys | REWIG35 | Released: 12/11/07
On Last Exit, Ontario Canada based Jeremy Greenspan and his collaborators Matt Didemus and Johnny Dark dared to mix 80's retro pop with minimalist UK garage, two-step and electronica. What make the album truly unique are Jeremy's gently vulnerable vocal hooks, which glide over synthesiser melodies creating a sensuous, melancholic and very human sound. With influences as diverse as Hall & Oates, Japan and Timbaland, Last Exit is one of the most sublime albums of 2004, a lost classic that demands to be revisited.
Since 2004, Johnny has left to concentrate on other musical projects. Jeremy and Matt have released the universally acclaimed second album So This Is Goodbye on Domino (2006) and continue to win over a worldwide audience with their mesmeric live show.


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Pay Attention to Julian Keith's Neurofeedback Research
Though two and a half million American children currently take medication for ADHD, as well as one and a half million adults, individuals with the disorder face several difficult truths. Prescription medication will not provide relief for as many as forty percent of them. The remainder may experience adverse side effects that outlast or overshadow benefits. Among students, meanwhile, evidence is slim that prescription medication leads to better academic performance. But Professor Julian Keith, a neuroscientist in the Department of Psychology, has good news to share.
Keith is conducting research into neurofeedback, a treatment model unlike medication in that it targets the symptoms of ADHD and the underlying condition itself. Participants in his study, each of whom have an ADHD diagnosis, have volunteered for their brains to be monitored by sensors placed on the scalp-one on the temple, another on the earlobe. For two dozen 30-minute sessions over the course of about two months, participants are asked to keep their attention focused on their present state. If they are successful, sensors will record high-frequency brain waves and reward them points for their concentration. If participants' attention wanes, however, those same sensors will detect lower-frequency brain waves, alert subjects back to self-awareness, and subtract points for a lapse of attention. The goal is to accumulate as many points as possible.
"When we drift off," Keith explains, "we often don't notice. But we lose contact with what's happening right here and now. When that happens, [brain] patterns change." To monitor these patterns, Keith relies on software capable of displaying them to subjects on a computer monitor, in real time. "You're actually monitoring physiologically what they're doing, and you're giving them feedback," he explains.
Most participants in Keith's study begin to notice improvement in their attention after 12 or so sessions. As well as become more mindful of precisely where their attention is directed, they also learn to self-correct if they notice a lapse in concentration. Alongside these habits of greater cognitive self-awareness, participants exercise the stamina required to follow through with them. "Thirty minutes is a long time for someone with ADHD to sit and concentrate on one thing," Keith describes. "It's just like anything else. It takes practice."
Keith is quick to acknowledge that occasional lapses in concentration occur for everyone, and are not inherently harmful in moderation. But the frequency of these lapses in an ADHD mind can distract a person too frequently from his surroundings, which is the central challenge of the disorder. At their best, medications can mitigate these lapses, but they cannot offer the opportunity of neurofeedback: to empower a healthy retraining of the brain.
Neurofeedback is already in use clinically in some parts of the United States, and initial research has already suggested its potential. But no study-until now-has included a placebo mechanism sophisticated enough to support a double-blind, placebo-controlled study. In collaboration with a manufacturer in California, Keith has helped to design precisely such a mechanism: a method deliberately generating counterfeit feedback, indistinguishable to participants and test administrators from the real thing. This innovation has allowed Keith to measure the effect of neurofeedback in an unprecedented and quantifiable way.
In addition to identifying a more effective ADHD treatment, Keith intends for his research to provide a framework for that treatment's implementation. Due to its exciting possibilities, Keith describes that some clinicians have rushed to administer neurofeedback without fully understanding how it works. Keith plans to address this misapplication by codifying an ideal treatment model. "Part of what we're doing is trying to establish a standard for the way people administer it," Keith explains. "We want systems that are known to work, and a system to train people."
Already Keith's research has yielded new understanding of neurofeedback and its potential. His research has also yielded a personal call from the National Institutes of Health that expressed interest in his work. Another result has been opportunity for economically disadvantaged North Carolina families, for whom a treatment like neurofeedback would otherwise be unaffordable. For these families, whose options can be limited by requirements for medical insurance and prescription co-pays, Keith established an on-campus clinic aimed at providing what has until now eluded them: a chance not only to treat their children, but potentially to cure them. Collaborating on these families' behalf have been Rich Ogle, professor and chair, and Kate Nooner, associate professor, of the UNCW Department of Psychology.
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Great article, Jim. I slid all around the first time I used my Tarptent with silnylon floor. Found your directions, mixed by weight as you direct, and one thin coat cured it. Henry Shires ought to link to your site.
One thing you might make note of - "low-odor" is not the same as "odorless" mineral spirits. I think either will work the same but true odorless spirits are much more pleasant to use.
Thanks for sharing your excellent research.


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Pentax 28-50mm F/3.5-4.5 SMC M 2-Touch K Mount Manual Focus Lens {52} Description
This series of zoom lenses was created to give a lightweight lens that could be wide angle or telephoto or in-between. The focal length rules still apply to zoom lenses. The focal length is for the format the lens was designed for. This focal length is based on 35mm full-frame cameras or digital full-frame cameras. An SLR that uses a lens such as DX or APS-C most be multiplied by a factor to see the actual focal length that comes from using a sensor that is smaller than 24x36 size. If the lens is used with a full-frame SLR, the first number is the widest angle, the second the maximum focal length. If the second is less than 50mm, then it is a wide-angle zoom. If it goes higher than 50mm, it is a wide-angle to telephoto zoom. If the base maximum f/stop is a fixed number, the f/stop range will remain constant throughout the zoom range. If this number is two part, such as f/2.8-f/4, then the lens will only be an f/2.8 lens at the smallest millimeter. This will vary throughout the zoom range and will end at the maximum telephoto at the second f/stop. With a camera that meters through the lens, this change will be automatically adjusted. If you are using a flash that is not coupled to the meter, you must adjust the f/stop to compensate for the change. If not a TTL meter, then this must be adjusted in setting the exposure.
KEH Specifications
- Focal Length: 28-50mm
- Aperture Maximum: f/3.5/4.5
- Aperture Minimum: f/22/32
- Camera Mount Type: Pentax K Bayonet
- Format Compatibility: 35mm
- Minimum Focus Distance: 23.62 inches
- Elements/Groups: 10/10
- Diaphragm Blades: 6
- Tripod Collar: No
- Filter Thread: 52mm
- Length: 2.04 inches
- Weight: 10.93 oz (310g)
General information
|Brand Name
|Product information
|Lens Type
|Wide to Standard Zoom
Technical Information
|Zoom Min Focal Length
|Zoom Max Focal Length
|Max Aperture
Physical Characteristics
|Lens Mount
|Pentax K (SMC, SMC-M)


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Penny Martin
Shelf Appeal
Dec 15 2004
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And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt
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Mar 3 2005
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Ada Fung and Stephen Willats
Multiple Clothing
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Dress Me Up, Dress Me Down
Jun 28 2005
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Junya Watanabe
Design Download: Junya Watanabe
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Derek Michael and Tom Zambaz
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The Sound Of Clothes: Anechoic
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Nick Knight, Gareth Pugh, !WOWOW!, Mandi Lennard, Eugene Souleiman and Alex Box
Jun 8 2006
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Mike Figgis
Cannes 2006
Jun 12 2006
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Ross Phillips, Marie O'Connor and Laura Bradley
The Sound Of Clothes: Blow, Clap, Talk & Hum
Jul 24 2006
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Phonecarte: Lily Cole
Oct 1 2006
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Nick Knight, Gareth Pugh, Simon Foxton, Rebecca & Mike, Paul Bruty, Marios Schwab, Jonathan Kaye, Giles, Fred Butler, Francesca Burns, Christopher Kane and Alexis Marguerite Teplin
Twelve Days
Dec 6 2006
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Nick Knight, Asia Argento and Moët & Chandon
Bal Masqué
Dec 14 2006
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Nick Knight, Naomi Campbell, Kev Stenning and Daniel Brown
Naomi Campbell: Statuesque
Dec 25 2006
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Craig McDean
48 Girls
Jan 10 2007
'48 Girls' is taken from footage captured on the set of Craig McDean's shoot for the September 2006 issue of Paris Vogue, featuring 48 motion portraits...
Penny Martin and Benjamin Seroussi
Haute Couture S/S 2007
Jan 18 2007
Sent directly from the opulent venues, taxis en route to the shows and after les defilés, SHOWstudio Editor in Chief Penny Martin captured the magic of...
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It seems IT is stacked up against users these days, doesn't it? As Adam Pisoni, co-founder of Yammer put it recently at the info360 conference in New York, "Enterprise software is like going to a restaurant and being given a fork to eat soup. Users know a spoon exists," Pisoni said.
And they're angry that you're not giving it to them.
Pisoni says, on the other hand, IT sees users as lazy and ungrateful. You go to all this trouble to carefully choose a software package for your company and users are simply too lazy to use it.
For users, it's just another monolithic piece of software sent down from above and forced upon them. It's clunky and difficult to use and it probably doesn't even integrate into the single sign-on system.
Users then blame you in IT for not having good software. They may even believe you sat around and planned how to make their lives more difficult by thrusting another package upon them that's too hard to use.
Pisoni points to the consumerization trend (as you would expect from an executive whose company is a cloud vendor built on the freemium model ). He said tools are changing and indeed they are — and companies like Yammer are bringing about that change.
He says new technology is coming along that's better suited to do a particular job. Maybe it's simpler. Maybe it's easier to use, but it does what users need it to do and is not bloated with functionality nobody needs or wants.
That's why Pisoni says, "If you want to find the least efficient part of your company, look where the employees are breaking the rules the most." That means they are trying to work around your carefully crafted systems, my friends.
Instead of fighting them, give the people what they want, and in the end Pisoni says everyone will win. IT will be more in line with using technology to fulfill the mission of the company, rather than getting in the way, which sadly, it often does — even with the best of intentions.
Says Pisoni, "Companies that learn to embrace volatility in the rapid pace of change, will be the most successful and you need your employees help to do it." He adds, "Your employees are on the front line. They are in the best position to innovate."
As IT pros, you need to give them the tools to help them do that and increasingly those tools are ones in the cloud, much like Yammer, ones that do a job and simplify not just user's lives, but yours too.
Sounds like win-in to me.
Photo by bark. Used under Creative Commons License.


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Peanut butter or chocolate chip? These peanut butter chocolate chip cookies will make everyone happy.
Many folks claim — and sometimes it's hard to argue — that cakes or brownies made from a mix are just as good as those made from scratch. But no one can reasonably maintain that a chocolate chip cookie made with refrigerated dough or a mix beats the from-scratch version. As for packaged, store-bought chocolate chip cookies? Entenmann's fans will (quite rightly) put up a good fight. But in the end: no contest.
Even as an 11-year-old, Kathleen King understood the almost druglike appeal of homemade chocolate chip cookies. She began selling homemade cookies at her family's farm stand in Southampton, N.Y., and soon was selling more cookies than her father was selling eggs. A baking star was born.
King is now the successful owner of Tate's Bake Shop in her hometown, a bakery that has drawn praise from food megastars such as Ina Garten and Rachael Ray. She is the proud author of three stylish, self-published baking books, the most recent called "Tate's Bake Shop: Baking for Friends" (2012).
I got hung up on the cookies chapter, drooling over the many variations of chocolate chip cookies. They're made with mint, macadamia nuts or pumpkin, and there's a variation with raisins that King says is reminiscent of a Nestle's Chunky candy bar.
But her biggest contribution may be her recipe for Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies. If you've ever had to struggle to choose between the two homemade goodies, you will be supremely grateful.
King also contributes tips for baking cookies. These include:
Always allow the baking sheets to cool between batches. But don't rinse hot baking sheets under cold water to cool them because they may warp. To get parchment paper to lie flat on a cookie sheet, dab a bit of butter under each corner. If your cookies brown too quickly on the bottom, stack the sheet of cookies on a second sheet for insulation. Always rotate the cookie sheets from top to bottom and front to back midway through the baking time. Most cookies are not meant to be light and fluffy, so mix the butter and sugar only until combined and beginning to turn pale, about 1 minute.
Recipe from: "Tate's Bake Shop: Baking for Friends" by Kathleen King (Tate's Bake Shop LLC, 2012)
Yield: 2� dozen cookies
1� cups unbleached all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
� teaspoon salt
1 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar
4 tablespoons salted butter, at room temperature
� cup vegetable shortening or coconut oil (see note)
1 large egg plus 1 large egg yolk, at room temperature
� teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 cup creamy peanut butter*
1� cups (9 ounces) chocolate chips
Position the oven racks in the top third and center of the oven and preheat oven to 325 degrees. Line 2 large rimmed baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats.
In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda and salt. In a large bowl, beat sugar, butter and shortening with an electric mixer set on high speed until combined, about 1 minute. Beat in the egg, followed by the egg yolk and vanilla. Add peanut butter and mix well. With the mixer on low speed, mix in the flour mixture just until combined. Mix in chocolate chips.
Roll dough into 30 walnut-sized balls. Arrange about 2 inches apart on the prepared baking sheets. Using a dinner fork, press an X into the top of each cookie, flattening it to about half its original thickness. Refrigerate the remaining dough balls on a plate while you bake the first batch.
Bake, rotating the positions of the sheets from top to bottom and front to back halfway through baking, until the cookies are golden brown, 18 to 20 minutes. Let cool on the baking sheets for 5 minutes. Transfer to a wire cooling rack and cool completely. Repeat with the remaining dough balls, using cooled baking sheets.
*Notes: Consider using virgin (not hydrogenated) coconut oil, for taste and for its purported healthful properties. Likewise, a peanut butter without any additives but salt (e.g., Smucker's Natural) is a good bet.


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Pictured: Terry White had the first hat trick of his career
in the victory.
Photo courtesy: Gil Talbot
AMHERST, Mass. – Terry White recorded his first career hat trick, and Jeff Cohen and Dean Gibbons netted two goals apiece, as the No. 12 Harvard men's lacrosse team improved to 3-1 on the season with a 14-13 win at No. 18 Massachusetts Saturday afternoon. Harry Krieger earned his second straight win in net, making a career-high 13 saves, while Christian Oberbeck and Andrew Parchman each won eight faceoffs. Daniel DiMaria collected a career-best eight ground balls in the winning effort.
Harvard opened up a 3-0 lead as Jeff Molinari, Gibbons, who had three assists on the day, and Jack Doyle notched goals in the first seven minutes of the game. Alex White and Oberbeck also tacked on scores in the first quarter, as the Crimson held a 5-3 advantage on the scoreboard after the first 15 minutes of play.
The Crimson, which scored only three times in its loss against
the Minutemen in Cambridge last season, headed into the half tied,
6-6. Jason Duboe ended a 3-0 run for UMass (3-2) by beating
goalkeeper Tim McCormack with a shot with 1:28 remaining in the
second to knot the contest.
Cohen opened the second half with Harvard's third man-up goal of the game, putting the Crimson back on top, 7-6, at 13:16 of the third. Cohen netted his second man-up goal of the quarter at 7:12, stopping another 3-0 scoring run for UMass, as he made it a 9-8 contest in favor of the Minutemen. After Terry White knotted the game, 9-9, with 5:21 to play in the third, he added another goal in the final seconds of the stanza to put the Crimson ahead, 10-9, entering the fourth.
In the final quarter, Travis Burr and Gibbons netted
back-to-back goals, as Harvard notched five straight to take a 12-9
lead with 12:09 remaining. The Crimson continued its
offensive surge, as White and Kevin Vaughan scored to make it a
five-goal game, 14-9, at the 5:59 mark. The Minutemen went on
a 4-0 run in the final minutes, but could not find the equalizer,
as Harvard held on for the win.
The Crimson finished the game 4-for-7 on man-up opportunities and won 16-of-30 faceoff chances. UMass held the advantage in ground balls, 36-30, and shots, 44-35. Harvard will return home to host Colgate Tuesday, March 16 at 4 p.m. The game will be held at Cumnock Turf.


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A good mother, a good father!
Children love to "Birds Adventure_KidsLink"
Cute and cool Birds could meet them in the palm of your hand.
Smartphone touch! Brings out the animation and sound effects that kids like.
In order to draw a line and meet friends.
The kids really love it.
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Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 helps you create professional quality documents, spreadsheets and presentations, it may use extensively and very reliable. And the Outlook ®, Word, Excel ® and PowerPoint ® for Mac 2011 and other applications that are familiar to use, to help you play endless creativity. In addition, the Office for Mac and Office for Windows are combined with each other. So you can cooperate with other person with no restrictions in Mac or PC. Save the file in a safe and reliable online SkyDrive ® folder and use the free Office Web App to access, edit, or share files with the person from any corner of the world. Here are some features of Office for Mac Home and Business 2011. I hope you can get some useful information after this introduction.
(1) Outlook for Mac 2011
With powerful features, Office for Mac Home and Business 2011 can help you manage e-mail and calendars easily, contact with others without a break, and it is never out of date. And you can make the e-mail dialogue to single dialogue to make your inbox looks cleaner. You can also manage your calendar and address book without start the Outlook. What's more, you can enter to your Outlook's files easier when set up a new Mac computer with Office for Mac Home and Business 2011. In addition, you can use Quick Look to view attachments, use the Time Machine and Spotlight search archive e-mail.
(2) Word for Mac 2011
The powerful writing tools help you create outstanding documents, then store, edit, and share your work easily on the web. And you can create visually rich newsletters, brochures, and documents in Publishing Layout view as well. At the same time, with this version, you may
see styles applied in your document with Visual Styles Instantly. What's more, you may
Work in Full Screen view to maximize space for reading and writing documents and Share coauthor Word documents with virtually anyone, whether they're using Office on a Mac or PC.
(3) Excel for Mac 2011
First of all, with this version, you may clarify your financial picture with easy-to-analyze spreadsheets you can post online to view, edit, share, or co-author with your team from virtually anywhere. Second, you can clarify your data using Conditional Formatting with icons, data bars, and color scales. Third, you may increase efficiency and save time by automating repetitive tasks using Visual Basic. The last but not list, you can share and coauthor Excel spreadsheets with virtually anyone, whether they're using Office on a Mac or PC.
(4) PowerPoint for Mac 2011
With Office for Mac Home and Business 2011, you can create powerful, professional presentations that engage and inspire your audience, and present online as effectively as in person and Remove backgrounds or add color filters to your photos right within PowerPoint. Also, you can broadcast your presentations online when move beyond the conference room. At the same time, you can use this version to rearrange layers of text, photos, and graphics quickly with Dynamic Reordering. What's more, you can share and co-author PowerPoint presentations with virtually anyone, whether they're using Office on a Mac or PC.
After this brief introduction, you may find this version is really amazing to use, especially for the families and business people. And this is the latest version, so it's worth to have a try.


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Gourmet Mushroom Cultivation
Saturday, 24 February 2018 at 9:00 am - Sunday, 25 February 2018 at 5:00 pm (AEDT)
Event Details
Join us for two jam-packed days of hands-on skills in edible mushroom propagation. Learn how to grow delicious oyster, shiitake, pioppino, enoki, reishi (lingzhi), lion's mane, king stropharia and many other mushrooms at home, organically!
This practical workshop will take you through the details of home mushroom propagation and introduce you to the fascinating world of fungi. You'll also receive a host of take-home mushroom resources to get you growing.
Our approach is designed to give you the knowledge and tools to grow a sustainable, diverse mushroom supply at home – all year round.
We use minimal intervention with our mushroom propagation and focus on teaching resilient processes that are better suited to home cultivation, rather than the climate-controlled approach of conventional large-scale mushroom propagation.
By the end of this course you will have the skills to take any suitable store-bought or foraged mushroom, clone and propagate it in a variety of ways, and create a lifetime supply of free mushrooms with minimal start up costs.
In this workshop you will learn:
- The biology & ecology of Fungi
- 'Cloning' store-bought mushrooms to make your own pure culture on agar plates
- Producing spore prints and using them to produce new varieties of mushrooms
- Duplicating agar cultures so you can keep a master bank of different species
- Using agar cultures to inoculate organic grain or sawdust to make mushroom spawn
- How to use that spawn to inoculate freely available materials to grow massive amounts of mushrooms
- How to create the conditions to encourage your fungi to produce the best mushrooms
- How to inoculate logs with sawdust & dowel spawn in order to grow the highest quality shiitake mushrooms
- How to create a garden of giant mushrooms in your backyard
Growing your own organic mushrooms is a great way to introduce important trace minerals to your family's diet, as well as being a fun and extremely interesting thing to do.
Growing organic mushrooms can lead to a successful micro-enterprise that fits well with many small farms, homesteads and urban growers. Once you know how to do it, there is very little ongoing cost.
So if you're curious about how to start growing mushrooms in bags, logs or in the ground and how to propagate your own strains of mycelium for a lifetime supply, join us!
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The first salvo of the Great Burger-Beer-Bourbon Skirmish of 2012 was fired June 8. The last salvo was also fired June 8. There were no casualties or damage, and to be honest, it was a one-sided skirmish.
Via Twitter, Owen & Engine in Logan Square fired on Publican Quality Meats in Fulton Market. Aside from a handful of retweets and stray comments, the war itself remained mercifully passive-aggressive, dumb and brief. PQM never bothered to fire back, or even respond, though it certainly had reason to. O&E tweeted: "So PQM can't come up with their own specials, gotta steal ours. Least we know where BBB started."
Oh, snap!
The BBB it alluded to was its Tuesday night burger, beer and bourbon special. PQM had recently announced its own Tuesday night burger, beer and bourbon special. So in subsequent tweets (none of which PQM responded to), O&E began referring to its own BBB special as the original Chicago BBB special.
"You know, I think the average person understands offering a burger, beer and bourbon special one night a week isn't an incredibly original idea in the first place. But I guess they were trying to instigate something," said Andrea Tambourine, PQM assistant manager, who has not-so-surreptitious plans to check out O&E's Tuesday night BBB special. Indeed, there has even been very tentative talk between the burger slingers to settle this — patty-to-patty, or as the O&E tweet stream suggested, "Fisticuffs on the Flattop."
Until that happens, here's our take.
Publican Quality Meats
The deal: $10 burgers (the Publican burger and a weekly special); $5 bourbon shots; usual beer prices.
The burger:
The nice thing about eating a burger in a deli/butcher shop is that you know the meat will look all screwy and idiosyncratic — like a mom's attempt at replicating McDonald's — and Publican's gnarled, craggy patties have a lot of personality. The signature burger comes with a square yellow slice of American cheese, ample mustard, a spicy dill relish and a pile of balsamic red onion, held in place with a white-dusted potato bun. It's not too big, not too small, a perfectly sloppy blend of sirloin, skirt steak and chuck. Also, each week there is a special second burger. The week we attended, Justin Large (of Big Star) contributed a "'Fun' Dido Burger" topped with house-made chorizo, roasted salsa, Chihuahua cheese and poblano pepper. (Oh, almost forgot: Burgers come with crisp, excellent fries and a house-cured pickle delivering a bit of kick.)
The booze:
The Tuesday night we went, they poured a strong and caramelly Old Weller Antique bourbon. As for the beer: Generally, two drafts (one light, one dark) are offered and a smallish but well-chosen selection of bottles. (For example, Three Floyds' terrific and vaguely citrus-esque Zombie Dust pale ale, which is $6.)
Mitigating factors:
Pleasant outdoor patio. Offering a choice of burgers (and beers) is thoughtful. And despite the a la carte nature of this special, our tab for two wasn't significantly higher than the O&E bill.
Publican Quality Meats, 825 W. Fulton Market; 312-445-8977. Special runs 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesdays.
Owen & Engine
The deal: And what a deal. The burger, fries, pickle, beer and bourbon shot — $15.
The burger:
The kind of burger that bleeds, that leaves a pool of beef juice on the plate (and on your chin). A patty is a half-pound Slagel Farm grind of short ribs and brisket, dropped between a toasted, house-baked potato "bap" — or a crinkled, airy English-style bun. It's all topped with a second burger's worth of caramelized onions. Comes with textbook fries (crisp outside, molten in) and a creamy malt-vinegar aioli.
The booze:
Everything arrives at once. We received a black, malty German Kostritzer Schwarzbier holding a thick white head of foam; and the bourbon was a smallish shot of mildish Old Overholt rye whiskey. (The offered beer, our server explained, tends to be "something smooth and drinkable with a huge burger.")
Mitigating factor:
The beer and bourbon are selected by the bartender.
Owen & Engine, 2700 N. Western Ave.; 773-235-2930. Special runs 5 p.m. Tuesdays to 2 a.m. Wednesdays.
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Owen & Engine. The price is crazy, the burger is one of the city's unsung treasures and the beer selection is can't-miss. That said, it's quality burgers and booze for cheap — if we could call a tie, we would.


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The conditions at Berkeley Hall continued to get tougher as players completed the third round Saturday afternoon.
Difficult pin placement, thick rough and fast greens made scoring as difficult as ever.
"The conditions are tough," tournament leader Daniel Nisbet said. "These greens are getting faster. You've really got to adjust to the pins. The rough isn't getting any thicker, at least."
And that's coming from the guy who is -11 par.
Michael Weaver of California played with Nisbet on Saturday and found it hard to follow the
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Nisbet, Weaver and Florida State's Daniel Berger ran into some trouble early on the par-3 fifth hole.
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The hole set the tone for Weaver's and Berger's days. Only Nisbet bounced back, and finished the round alone in the lead.
"For me, I didn't putt well and I didn't hit it great. That's a bad combination," Weaver said. "It was a tough setup, and the wind picked up some. That made it difficult as well."
Bluffton's Luke McClellan and Mike Balzer just missed the cut into the final round.
McClellan, a recent USC Beaufort graduate and West Columbia native, and USCB student Balzer finished the first three rounds at 8-over par.
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McClellan played Saturday's first 14 holes at 2-under par, but went 4 over for the last four holes. Balzer finished with a bogey on No. 18.
The youngest player and the oldest player in the field were part of the first group to tee off Saturday.
Fifteen-year-old Peter Mathison and 67-year-old Rick LaRose shot identical rounds of 90 in the first round Friday, then paired up with Stanford senior Steven Kearney in the third round.
Mathison, a rising high school junior from Jupiter, Fla., entered the weekend at 37-over par.
LaRose recently retired as director of golf and men's head coach at the University of Arizona. He is the only coach to win men's and women's national championships in NCAA history. LaRose was 31-over par when he teed off with Mathison.
Another Pac-12 Conference head coach joined LaRose in the field: Stanford's Conrad Ray.
Ray, 37, was playing one group behind LaRose and Mathison early Saturday morning. Ray, who was 16-over par, played alongside one of his Stanford players, rising sophomore Marcel Puyat. A 19-year-old from Indio, Calif., Puyat was one shot better than his head coach entering the weekend.
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President Barack Obama gave NASCAR Sprint Cup champ Tony Stewart plenty of light-hearted ribbing during his remarks at the champion's tour of the White House on Tuesday. But he did seem pretty serious about one thing.
He really wants to drive the car.
"It's good to see No. 14 back on the South Lawn," Obama said. "Every year, I try to take a lap. Nobody lets me do it. But I am still holding out hope that at some point, I'm going to be able to get behind the wheel."
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"This was Tony's year," Obama said, "and Smoke gave us one of the most dramatic finishes that we've ever seen."
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"That's what I was worried about when he went over to it and was looking. That's why I never took the window net down," Stewart said. "I can imagine Secret Service coming out of the woodwork as soon as we put him in that car. So yeah, I think that would be something he'd be genuinely interested in.
"He mentioned how nice a job we did at not tearing the lawn up. I don't think it would remain that way if he was driving the car. But, it's your yard, so ..."
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"We got to do this twice as a champion before this, luckily, but it was kind of the same show for the last five years with Jimmie," Stewart joked. "Like I say, it's not only an honor to be here, but it's the first time that we've been here and had the other drivers with us winning the championship."
Obama also took time out to make mention of the NASCAR Unites — America Salutes initiative for patriotism and military support.
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The dynamic and diverse green technology sector has had a bumpy, and in some cases, rough year. The solar and nuclear industries, in particular, have struggled. While venture capital investment has been strong, investors in many exchange-traded funds have seen their investments suffer. Some of the biggest funds have notched deep double-digit losses — and that's after a strong October showing.
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While on vacation for Thanksgiving, I dug up my Grandmother's old sewing machine and walked my cousin Julie through a pair of slippers. She's always loved crafting with me, and now that she's nearly ten we're onto much trickier projects. We kind of rushed on these, but they turned out great considering how little time we spent. When I hand-stitched the insoles into the slippers it ended up causing some substantial puckering, but she decided she liked it better that way so we'll just pretend we meant for it to happen.
OOOOHHH and I got a digital camera on the cheap at around 4am on Black Friday, so from this project forward I shall have NICE detailed photos. yay:)
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Really beautiful. I too would love to see a how to and/or pattern.
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oh how i wish it were my own pattern so i could post it, but unfortunately that's not the case. i've credited the etsy shop i purchased the PDF pattern from, however:)
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