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JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. — Ty Carter has always felt best knowing what he was doing had a purpose.
The Army staff sergeant's purpose was clear on the morning of Oct. 3, 2009. With his unit outnumbered almost 10-to-1, the former Antioch resident fought off Taliban attackers at an outpost in eastern Afghanistan, risking his life to help an injured soldier caught in a barrage of enemy fire.
President Barack Obama will recognize Carter's valor with the military's highest award, the Medal of Honor, during a ceremony Monday at the White House.
Carter will be the fifth living service member to receive the award for actions in Afghanistan or Iraq. The event will mark the first time since 1968 that there are two living Medal of Honor recipients for the same battle. Staff Sgt. Clinton Romesha received the medal in February.
Nearly 400 Taliban attacked 54 U.S. soldiers that day at Combat Outpost Keating, killing eight Americans during a 12-hour firefight. Carter was among the 25 soldiers injured in the battle.
Excited and nervous to receive the medal, Carter, 33, said the honor recognizes the fallen and the living from that battle.
"This award is about the people that were there, the other troops that saved (Sgt. Bradley) Larson and I," he said. "Without them, I wouldn't be here."
After years of extensive counseling for post-traumatic stress disorder, Carter has only recently been able to talk about what happened.
It was about 6 a.m. when the troops, stationed below steep mountains near the town of Kamdesh, woke to "heavier than normal" machine-gun fire and explosions, Carter said.
Carter was immediately ordered to man a machine gun, so he grabbed supply packs and body armor, which he hastily threw over his T-shirt and shorts.
"Concrete, sand, everything was spitting back at me," Carter said, recalling sprinting through an open area to join fellow soldiers, resupplying them with ammunition and rifle lubrication as they took heavy fire.
Insurgents launched several rocket-propelled grenades, forcing the Americans to take cover behind a Humvee. One rocket detonated the vehicle's machine gun, spraying the interior with shrapnel.
Carter got by on adrenaline.
"I knew the slower I went, or if I stopped to think about it, I would be killed. I told myself, if you're going to live through this, you have to be hauling butt," he said.
Twice more Carter ran the gauntlet of bullets that came down like "large raindrops" — once to check on comrades and gather supplies from a second Humvee, then later to radio for help.
At times pausing to regain his composure, Carter recalled seeing Staff Sgt. Justin Gallegos be gunned down by machine-gun fire and Spc. Stephan Mace being pelted by shrapnel from a grenade. Larson and Carter stayed by the Humvee — whose roof, Carter said, had turned "completely into Swiss cheese" — providing cover fire, killing two insurgents and wounding one.
About two hours into the fight, Carter spotted Mace trying to crawl on his elbows to safety.
Carter described Mace as "having a look of pain and sorrow. He had lost so much blood and water that he could not sweat; the dust was just caked to his face."
Carter went to Mace, placed a tourniquet around his shattered leg and carried him from harm's way, but his comrade's wounds were too severe. Mace died later in surgery.
Carter and Larson warded off a third insurgent breach, while Romesha and another soldier led a counterattack and opened an evacuation route.
Despite the trauma of that day, Carter found his Army challenges more fulfilling than what he was doing before enlisting.
Carter's father, Mark, said his son moved back in with him to Antioch after being honorably discharged from the Marines in October 2002. Ty Carter enrolled in Pittsburg's Los Medanos College to study biology, but shortly thereafter met his first wife. With a child soon on the way, he dropped out to support his family.
Carter worked a series of "little odds and ends" jobs, including working at a movie theater in Antioch and scrubbing the bottoms of boats on the Delta.
"He was struggling, earning a paycheck but not much else," his father said. "His base instinct is that he wants to do something that's fulfilling."
After a divorce, Ty Carter enlisted in the Army in January 2008, where he worked on munitions and explosives. He was deployed to Afghanistan in May 2009.
Several months ago, Carter said, he was at home in Yelm, Wash., with family when he received a "weird" phone call from a lieutenant colonel in Washington, D.C., asking if he would be available in the next week to take a call.
Carter had known for some time that he had been nominated for the Medal of Honor.
"We wondered what it could be. That was the only thing we could think of," Mark Carter said.
Ty Carter planned part of his family vacation with his new wife and three kids around the call. On a Thursday morning he stopped their camper at a small-town gas station near Crater Lake in Oregon.
"At 10:20 a.m., a woman called and asked if I was available to talk. I said I could, and then he got on," Carter said. It was President Barack Obama, telling him he would receive the award.
"He sounded like he does on TV, so I knew it was him. He thanked me for my service and asked how my wife and the girls were and said he looks forward to meeting me at the White House."
Overwhelmed, Carter told his wife, Shannon.
"She kind of jumped and screamed 'No way!' so loud that passers-by actually looked," he said.
Once life settles down, Carter's next purpose will be to help those with the same post-battle stress he experienced, as he starts work in transition units treating soldiers with serious injuries and long-term illnesses.
"It's so important for service members to be able talk to somebody. A lot of them are ashamed to get help," Carter said.
It has taken years of continued counseling and his wife's understanding for Carter to overcome it.
Mace's death was the most crushing blow. Initially, it was believed he would survive after being rescued.
"I felt that I was a failure, and I didn't want others to be around me," Carter said.
He felt especially bad for Mace's mother, Vanessa, but said "absorbing her strength" has helped.
"She told me she was OK with it and that it was a great gift I had given her son — to not die on the field and be able to put his soul at peace."
The Associated Press contributed to this story. Contact Paul Burgarino at 925-779-7164. Follow him at Twitter.com/paulburgarino.


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LEGO Star Wars Boba Fett Keylight
Fire up Fett's feet
- Will help you find things in the dark
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- Batteries included & replaceable
What do you do when you have the best bounty hunter in the galaxy wrapped around your finger? You could convince him to crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of their women. Wait, wrong franchise. You should probably use him to hunt down that scruffy nerfherder you know.
The LEGO Star Wars Boba Fett Keylight is 3" tall and has two ultra-bright white LEDs in his feet. Press his chest to turn on the light and aim his feet wherever you need them. Boba comes complete with batteries, so he's ready to go. You'll need a tiny screwdriver (the kind you use to fix glasses) to replace the batteries a few parsecs down the road.
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- Batteries: 2 CR2025 3V batteries (included, replaceable)
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Burn Collector is a zine written and published by Al Burian. It is one of the more popular zines in the perzine category. The zine, currently at issue 13, contains stories both from his childhood and his life after college. Al's writing often approaches grim subject matter, like contemplating suicide, the end of the world, or just run-of-the-mill existential despair, in a superbly humorous fashion. Issues 1 through 9 were collected and released as a book by The Buddy System, which is now in its fifth printing. Burn Collector was featured in Volume Two of 1997's Zine Yearbook. Al currently lives in Chicago, and plays in the notable punk bands Milemarker and, until recently, Challenger.
Al has also published Things Are Meaning Less, a collection of comics from the '90s,a perzine/comic called Utopia, and most recently, a travel zine called Natural Disasters now in its second issue.


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Ashton Kutcher in bust-up at country music festival
The Hollywood star was watching the acts at the Stagecoach event in Indio on Saturday (27Apr13) when he was approached by a fan in the VIP area close to the stage.
Kutcher is said to have moved towards the woman to greet her when a security guard intervened and shoved the actor out of the way. The confrontation turned nasty and a heated argument is then said to have broken out between the Two and a Half Men star and the employee, with Kutcher subsequently stormed out, according to TMZ.com.
The star has been tweeting from the festival but had yet to mention the alleged incident as WENN went to press.


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Cullmann Foto·Audio·Video GmbH is a German marketer of photographic accessories, including flash units, tripods and bags. As far as I know, Cullmann doesn't manufacture equipment, but relies on various OEMs as a source for Cullmann-branded products.
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Louisville City Council will consider a blight designation for its largest retail building following a discussion last week about what direction to take with the vacant former Sam's Club building on McCaslin Boulevard.
Officially labeling the property as blighted would be the first step in the possible revitalization of the 127,000-square-foot building through an urban renewal plan.
Louisville leaders are divided on whether to dedicate urban renewal dollars toward the cause, particularly considering the property changed hands earlier this year.
In February, Seminole Land Holding LLC and Centennial Valley Investment LLC purchased the former Sam's Club site, which has been vacant since 2010, for $3.65 million.
The city earlier this year contracted Urban Revitalization Consulting to conduct a conditions survey on the property, and last week received a report from URC's Austin Patten.
Patten said the property appears to meet the definition of a "blighted area" as defined by Colorado state statutes. In order to create an urban renewal area based on blight, a property must meet at least four of 11 factors listed in state statutes.
The Sam's Club building, 550 S. McCaslin Blvd., has four blight factors, including its vacancy, Patten said.
Because the front doors are positioned on a narrow side of the building, Patten said it creates a long and narrow space that would be difficult to partition into multiple tenants.
The property, which includes a 600-plus car parking lot, also exhibits potholes, cracked curbs and other signs of low maintenance.
But the biggest blight factor is the restrictive covenants attached to the property, Patten said.
The Sam's Club was developed in the 1990s as part of a multi-site retail center that includes surrounding properties like Albertsons grocery store. Covenants were put in place during development to prevent competition between tenants in the same retail center.
Additional restrictions were attached to the property when it sold earlier this year, so in addition to the non-compete clauses, no entertainment, recreation or discount merchandise businesses can occupy the space.
"It's very broad and it's pretty heavy-handed," Patten said. "The ultimate result of these restrictive covenants is that many tenants who would be able to fully utilize a 127,000-square-foot facility would be prohibited from doing so."
Louisville Mayor Pro Tem Hank Dalton, who was the lone council member to oppose contracting for the conditions survey, said the city shouldn't get involved because the property owners bought the building fully aware of the restrictions attached to it.
"It's not rocket science to figure that we would go from here to findings of blight, and then from there possibly to a condemnation proceeding to eliminate these burdensome conditions of blight in favor of the owner," Dalton said. "But the current owner of the property bought the property knowing these conditions were in place and when he bought it, the additional conditions that were put in place he signed on to by buying it."
Dalton said while Louisville took a significant sales tax hit four years ago when Sam's Club pulled out, city sales tax figures have since surpassed the levels they were at when Sam's Club was still in the mix.
"It isn't as though we're on our knees and needing a financial shot in the arm that might be produced by the revitalization of this property," Dalton said.
Louisville Mayor Bob Muckle said after a four-year vacancy, revitalization of the site will require the city's help.
"Not only is the site blighted in the official use of the term under the state statutes, it's having a blighting influence on the entire McCaslin retail corridor," Muckle said. "There are many residents who are concerned about how long it's been vacant and I think it needs something in the way of help to facilitate its redevelopment. This urban renewal power I believe is what it's going to take to get that site redeveloped."
A motion by Muckle directing city staff to draft a resolution for the determination of blight for the property passed 4-3. Dalton and council members Ashley Stolzmann and Jayme Moss cast the dissenting votes.
No time table was set for the resolution to appear before council.
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Brighton's Monument to Past Generations
Proctor House is a Heritage Project supported by Save Our Heritage Organization and The Lower Trent Region Conservation Authority.
This property was donated in 1970 by John W. Proctor and the remaining heirs of Proctor House. They decided to give the property to the people of the area for their use. In a letter to the editor of the Brighton Independent, John W. Proctor stated...
"We would like to think that our ancestors were no better and hopefully no worse than any other family. Proctor House should be a memorial to the Proctor family and to the two brothers killed in WW II. It is also donated to the community as a monument to all the original families who lived through a really tough time to make this great community."
It is our hope that this web site will stir your interest, not only in Proctor House but in all the historical buildings, sites and events of our community.


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Stacy Lynne Jamieson and Douglas Edward Arling Jr. were united in marriage on July 1, 2012 by Rev. Edward J. Wilson Jr. at Sts. Rose & Clement Church in Warwick. A reception followed at the Quidnessett Country Club. Thomas Hogan was the organist.
The bride is the daughter of Louis and Diane Jamieson of Warwick. She is a graduate of Warwick Veterans Memorial Hospital and Rhode Island College. She is employed by Coastway Credit Union.
The groom is the son of Douglas Arling Sr. and Donna Lombardi of Warwick. He is a graduate of Pilgrim High School, Warwick. He is employed Lewis Tree Service in Warwick.
The bride wore an A-line ball gown accented and embroidered with crystals and pearls. She carried a bouquet of white roses with some pink and hit pink roses and peony crystals from Golden Gate Studios.
Ashley Jamieson, sister of the bride, was maid of honor. Bridesmaids were Tracy Martino, sister of the groom, and Jennifer Shaw, cousin of the bride. Junior bridesmaids were Katelyn Martino, the couple's niece, and Kaitlyn Shaw, cousin of the bride. Raelynn Tierney, the bride's goddaughter, and Hailey Heal, the couple's niece, were the flower girls.
Michael Martino, brother-in-law of the groom, was best man. Groomsmen were Steven Cirelli and Luigi Ariosto. Junior groomsmen were William Martino, the couple's nephew, and Noah Shaw, cousin of the bride.


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Urban bill would give allegedly abused animals advocates in court
Hartford — State Rep. Diana Urban, D-North Stonington, is pushing forward a bill to provide advocates for the animals involved in animal abuse cases in court.
She believes that advocates in court will increase convictions for animal abuse. "Is this about animal cruelty? Of course it is, but what it is really about is red flags," Urban said Thursday at a press conference.
The Judiciary Committee voted in favor of the bill by a 38-6 vote Tuesday, which will be sent next to the Environment Committee. If that committee passes the bill, it would head to the floor of the House and then the Senate.
If it were to become law, House Bill 6690 would allow the court or counsel to request an advocate be assigned to represent the interests of the animal. The commissioner of the Department of Agriculture would maintain a list of people with expertise in animal welfare or legal advocacy to serve on a voluntary basis, according to the bill.
Those who oppose the bill say it puts animals ahead of people, Urban said. Rather, she said, "the idea is that the animal is the indicator that this person is gonna go on and do it to a person."
Urban cited as examples the Columbine High School killers, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, who had histories of animal abuse, according to multiple animal rights organizations and news reports.
"Had we stepped in when these young men did what they did, we might have been able to save lives," Urban said. "We are looking for an early sign of mental illness, that is what our whole perspective has been on Sandy Hook. It's right here in front of our face."
The bill has 19 co-sponsors from both parties.
At the press conference Thursday, state Rep. Brenda Kupchick, R-Fairfield, said most people assume when they read about animal abuse that the person committing the abuse will face serious jail time, but research shows that often the person does not.
In the last 10 years in Connecticut, 3,699 charges were brought under the statute concerning specific animal cruelty acts, according to the state's Office of Legislative Research. Of those, 594 resulted in a conviction. About half the cases were not prosecuted.
The statute on animal abuse states that any person who maliciously and purposefully maims, mutilates, tortures, wounds or kills an animal will be fined up to $5,000 or imprisoned for up to five years or both.
At the press conference, legislators referred to a Branford animal abuse case in which the accused, Alex Wullaert, was given supervised diversionary program for people with psychiatric disabilities instead of prison time.
When in the supervised diversionary program, the Court Support Services Division with the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services places the person in a program that provides community supervision, treatment and services. The person is also subject to supervision by a probation officer.
If the person successfully completes the program, the charges are dismissed.
Erasing a charge is part of the problem, Urban said.
"I am doing everything I can think of to draw attention to the fact that this is a red flag, and if I was a parent and something happened to my child from someone given AR (accelerated rehabilitation or supervised diversionary program) or discharge because we didn't think it was important, I don't know what I would say," Urban said.
Rep. Jack Hennessy, D-Bridgeport, said of Urban's efforts: "At a time when the nation is scrutinizing laws to find ways to increase public safety, Rep. Urban's bill serves as an indispensable puzzle piece in the overall picture of addressing and preventing animal cruelty."
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Although various languages are spoken on Aruba, the word for 'sweetheart' in Papiamento is probably the cutest of all: 'dushi'. The island is an absolute paradise where old romances are rekindled and new ones born. All the same, there's plenty more to do than getting lost in each other's eyes. After all, special memories are also made by doing things together.
There is no end to the list of romantic activities to choose from, whether on land, at sea or in the air. They range from strolling along the beach and snorkelling hand in hand to floating through the air together under a tandem parachute: even the sky isn't the limit. Here are 3 suggestions for activities you can do together – outside your hotel room, of course.
Taking your 'dushi' horse-riding is a fantastic experience. Stray from the beaten path at your own pace and together explore the national park and sand dunes. Take in the landscape as your steed gallops across the fine sand. Naturally, you can also arrange a white horse for your prince or princess for that extra dash of romance.
Those wanting to see Aruba from above without the drone of an airplane engine can sail the winds from under a parachute. The views are phenomenal: the entire island spreads out below you and you feel like a bird. The best part may very well be that you can take a tandem jump together with your better half. The instructor stays on the ground while together you spent 10 unforgettable minutes in the clouds.
"Take a tandem jump and feel free as a bird"
Getting a massage together is also a special experience. The upscale spas on the island, of which there are many, offer special packages for couples, such as enjoying a therapeutic deep-tissue treatment with essential oils side by side. If you complete the experience with a pedicure, you can once again show yourself in all your beauty on the beach – whether on your way to the altar or simply a relaxing beach chair.


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Arch Classroom is a project to develop and host teaching materials that can be used by the wider Arch Linux community. These class materials can then be used by anyone with the will and knowledge to teach a class. The goal of Arch Classroom is to help increase the knowledge base of our users, and give resources to teachers. Classes are made to be taught either in person or online through a chat medium like IRC.
To get involved with Arch Classroom, try adding to the Arch wiki documentation, creating a class lesson plan, or using the materials hosted here to teach a class. If you are interested in taking a class on a particular topic, make requests on the Arch Linux Forums, in the Arch mailing list or in the Classroom discussion page.
Class List
list of all classes that are created
Beginners Guide to Package Maintaining
How to Pity the Fool: A Mr. T philosophy course
How to Create a Lesson Plan
Start your lesson plan with a goal or objective in mind. What should students be expected to learn in this class? Decide what sort of students you are targeting -- Beginning Linux users or People familiar with particular software, etc. Make a materials list with all the software requirements the class will need, and a list of prerequisites with the knowledge students should have before taking the class. Create lesson plans with topics of discussion, reading lists, and activities that help to achieve the goal of the class. Classes may be in a reading and lecture format, group discussion, or independent activities. Choose a format that will best suit the information you are teaching. A programming class could be taught with a series of follow by example lectures plus some group problem solving. A class on the history of Linux and free open source software could be reading and discussion based.
Upcoming Classes
Arch Linux Women is currently trying to organize a class on package maintaining. For more information go to #archlinux-women @ irc.freenode.net
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webbeetle needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 177 designs submitted by 45 freelance designers.
webbeetle.com.au is the newly registered domain of a one person internet start up. The main focus of this business will be two-fold:
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Why webbeetle?
I decided on the name through a reverse search. There seems to be no 'negative baggage' or current trade mark connected with the name, only the US .com domain is taken, but redirects to a company which doesn't pose any conflict.
My initial association was the classic VW Beetle, a simple a robust vehicle which is/was easy to maintain - just like the BurgundySky web sites. I have since developed some doubt (will VW bother me re trade mark?) but I still consider the VW an option. Otherwise most other beetles (insect world) seem to have a positive notion connected with them in peoples' minds.
Colour Scheme:
Currently I'm playing with two colour schemes for the web site; one is in shades of green with black text and some warm yellow and orange for highlights, the second is black and white with some burgundy-red shades. As I haven't decided yet this is not fixed.
I definitely do NOT want the over-used corporate blue and white, and with both my ideas shades of pink to lilac won't work.
Everything else is open to your creativity.
You can use 'webbeetle' as one word or as two: web beetle - this is up to you! I see NO need to include the domain extension ".com.au" or include any reference to Australia.
Current clients (of BurgundySky.com) are mainly small to medium businesses, from small retailers to craft people to hotels/motels.
!! Another significant group of clients are artists (paintings and sculpture) and writers, so it's important that the logo will appeal to 'arty people' !!
Last but not least several small community groups are using the system.
Part of the logo should be a clear symbol/emblem NOT based on typography, eg NO "wb"!
The emblem/symbol should be strong and stand out in it's own right. I prefer clear and bold (as opposed to intricate); brands like NIKE, APPLE, and WINDOWS come to mind... I would like to have a modern looking logo which doesn't date too quickly. Make it the shape of a beetle (car or insect) or something else... I do NOT want a generic emblem, which could as well sell insurance or a law firm!
The final logo should be either square or horizontal; vertical logos take up too much room on a web site.
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If you are using gradients or reflection/lighting effects please include a second version in flat colours (better contrast makes them easier to resize to very small). I do NOT want an upside-down reflection which became so fashionable with the Apple iPhone (I believe this is being over used and has dated already)!
I would like to repeat the typeface in some web graphics like buttons. Hence with final version I will require the font name and a download link. I prefer something affordable (~$25 max., better free, WINDOWS format).
The final logo
1. header for web site pages (= psd file)
2. for print advertising (an .ai or 300+dpi pdf file)
3. important: (part of) the logo as a 16x16 pixel favicon (please supply in your final version)
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Kealakekua Bay Bed & Breakfast is a luxurious Mediterranean-Polynesian-style villa overlooking the pristine Kealakekua Bay on the sunny South Kona coast of the Big Island of Hawaii. The Villa is in the heart of Kona's lush coffee country on a five-acre tropical estate of colorful, fragrant flowers, plants, fruit trees and exotic palms.
The park-like grounds and gardens of the villa and separate guest house provide all guests with a secluded sojourn from the tensions of our busy lives.
The setting of the Bed and Breakfast is peaceful, romantic and yet still only a few minutes to the stores and restaurants of the small mauka (up country) communities of Kealakekua and Captain Cook, where the people still live the slow paced life of days gone by. We are only a five-minute walk from the ocean.
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You might not have thought so, but gourds are actually an ideal cash crop for the small-scale gardener/farmer: You not only got the pleasure of watching the colorful "fruits" grow, but — if you're at all artistically inclined — you can also paint the mature gourds and sell them for as much as $15 each. (When you consider that a single vine can produce 30 fruits in a season, you can see that you've got a potential moneymaker on your hands.)
There are two main varieties of gourds: Cucurbita and Lagenaria. The first kind — the cucurbits — are the small striped or warted ones that you see strung up with Indian corn in the fall. These fruits, which are closely related to squash and pumpkins, have thin shells and bright colors that quickly fade. You can sell them at the local farmers' market in the autumn and make enough profit to pay for your Thanksgiving dinner, but the selling season for the cucurbits is short and the price per gourd is low.
We make our $15 objets d'art from the other variety of gourd, Lagenaria. Those hard-shelled beauties have traditionally been used to make canteens, storage vessels, and water dippers ... you've undoubtedly seen them many times. The fruits grow on long vines that have large, saucer-shaped leaves and fragrant white flowers which open in the evening.
You can purchase seeds of the more common Lagenarias (such as Birdhouse or Dumbbell) through any seed catalog. (A packet of 50 seeds is enough to grow over 1,000 gourds.)
For best results, the soil where you intend to plant the seeds should be rich and well-drained. (Dig a wheelbarrow-load of compost into the ground where each vine is to grow, and you'll be sure to have a bountiful crop.) Also, the plants do their best when they're grown on trellises in full sunlight. (The vines will produce a crop if they're shaded part of the day, but they'll give you a lot more fruit if they're allowed to pack in those rays from sunrise to sunset.) Make the trellis large — about 10 or 12 feet of trellis per plant is adequate, although the vines can grow 30 or 40 feet — and above all, make the support strong ... unripe gourds are heavy! (If you've got a fence or a dead tree on your property, you won't have to make a trellis at all: Lagenaria vines will climb any object that they can wrap their tendrils around.)
Plant the seeds an inch deep after all danger of frost is past. I sow about four seeds in a hill and space my hills at least eight feet apart, then thin the seedlings to one strong plant per hill a week or two after the tiny green shoots have poked up through the ground. (A single healthy vine will produce more gourds over its life span than several small ones growing in the same area.)
Within a couple weeks of the time the seedlings break into the sunlight, the vines will begin to grow at an incredible speed. They'll branch and rebranch, form tendrils, and start up the trellis, and then the first flowers — the long-stemmed male blossoms — will form. Female flowers will follow shortly (you'll recognize them by their shorter sterns and the embryonic gourdlets hidden below their petals).
Of course before gourds can begin to form, the male flowers and the female flowers have to get together somehow. This is normally taken care of by late-working honeybees or moonlighting moths, but if nightflying insects seem to be scarce in your area, you can always help fertilization along by breaking off a male flower and rubbing it against several female blooms.
From this point on, you have to make sure that your plants don't go thirsty. A gourd vine — with its dozens of platter-sized leaves — transpires (or "sweats") an unbelievable amount of water during those dry, 100 degree midsummer days, and if it starts to wilt under the afternoon sun, you can kiss part of your crop goodbye since the smallest gourds will dry up and fall off.
Unless you got a heavy rain at least once a week In the summer, then, your vines will have to be irrigated. This is a simple matter, though: Just use your hoe to build a low 6-feet-by-6-feet dike around the base of each plant, and fill the 36-square-foot area with about 2 inches of water once a week (or more often, if the plants' leaves start to go limp during the hot part of the day). By fall, you'll have a bumper crop for sure.
We usually harvest our gourds after the first autumn frost. (The cold air causes the plants' leaves to shrivel up, exposing the fruit.) You can harvest your crop earlier than this if you want, however. You'll recognize the mature gourds by their matte surface and dull-green color. (Immature gourds are dark green, shiny, and covered with "down.")
The next step is to let the gourds dry out. We start curing ours in the sun on our porch roof until we can get around to bringing them indoors, then we [1] pierce the stems with a nail, [2] string the fruits together on a wire, and [3] festoon them from the ceiling next to the heater. About four months later, they're bone-dry and ready to be converted into $15 "works of art." Here — briefly — is how we work that conversion:
First, we select a symmetrical, blemish-free gourd and cut off its top with a hacksaw. (A regular carpenter's saw will do the job — if it's sharp, that is — but we prefer the narrower cut that a hacksaw makes.) Next, we take a stick and ream all the seeds out of the gourd. (Our goats and chickens consider these a delicacy.) Then we sand off the shiny outer skin since paint adheres best to a slightly rough surface and smooth off the saw cut at the top of the gourd.
At this point, Judy begins to paint her design(s) onto the gourd carcass using acrylic paint. When the acrylic is dry, we cover the gourd with a coat of low-gloss varnish to bring out the paint's colors and the gourd's texture. And — finally — we sell it.
The selling of art objects — as we've learned so well — is an art unto Itself ... unpredictable, frustrating, and (occasionally) lucrative. Judy sells her gourds by several routes: to individuals (for $10 to $15), to gift shops outright (for $7.50 to $10), or on consignment (for $17.50 to $25, minus a commission to the store of 40 percent).
There's money to be made from gourds, all right. It's not a regular source of income by any means, but we aren't choosy. Income's income as far as we're concerned. And gourd-dealing is one of the more pleasant ways of making a part-time buck that I can think of.
So how 'bout it? Why not put a little extra fun in your gardening (and extra money in your pocket) this summer? You can if you grow gourds!
Gourd Growers of the World, Unite!
Every gourd grower should know about the American Gourd Society, P.O. Box 2186, Kokomo, IN 46904. The Society publishes a quarterly magazine called (that's right) The Gourd, which tells of the experiences of gourd raisers, discusses gourd shows, and lists sources of seed. The subscription price is $7.50 per issue.
The Society also puts out a number of lowcost bulletins on the finer points of gourd raising: hand pollination, the training of vines, etc.


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Did the editors at Vogue go too far?
Kate Winslet is Vogue's November cover girl ... and her spread with the magazine has started one big Internet backlash.
On the cover Kate looks much younger than her 38 years -- she hardly has any smile lines on her face, and one of her moles is seemingly absent.
While the Photoshop used in Vogue doesn't seem any more sever than those in other magazine spreads, Kate's recent cover has sparked plenty of Twitter debates.
Here's just a few of the things the Twitter-verse has had to say about Winselt's latest cover:
"Kate Winslet Doesn't Resemble Kate Winslet's Vogue Cover."
"Kate Winslet on the cover of Nov. issue Vogue is SO BAD. Holy Photoshop- who is that woman?!"
"Why the F--k Would You Photoshop Kate Winslet for?!"
"Photoshop Intervention: Kate Winslet."
"Kate Winslet has always been v outspoken about Photoshop. So how did she let UK Vogue do this?"
"Please explain to me why certain photographers feel the need to use Photoshop on Kate Winslet. #mostperfectfaceontheplanet."
Winslet isn't the only one facing airbrushing backlash this week. Britney Spears is also under fire after some leaked photos from her "Work Bitch" video shoot showed her looking different from the final product.
What do you think of Kate's Vogue spread? Sound off below, and see even more photos from her shoot with Mario Testino by clicking "Launch Gallery" above!


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Jesse Baget has always been a fan of cult movies and when the opportunity arose for him to make one himself, he turned to the unique world of Mexican wrestling to cut his teeth.
Baget directed the 2007 release Wrestlemaniac, starring Rey Mysterio, Sr. and former WWE Diva Search contestant Leyla Milani. The film itself is a gore-fest as El Mascarado (Mysterio) haunts a ghost town and brutalizes a porn film cast in the process.
"I wanted to make a cult film like those from the '60s and '70s and I think the concept we came up with was unique and it worked well," Baget said. "I tried to make it a Tarantino style."
Admittedly not a wrestling fan, Baget said using Rey Mysterio, Sr., as the main character came from him hearing about Rey's wrestling character. He ventured down to Compton, Calif., and saw Rey wrestle to get a feel for what he was all about.
"Mil Mascaras was who we wanted at first because he had been in movies before," said Baget. "But that didn't work out for us, so we sought out Rey. We had a good talk with his manager and went from there. The arena in Compton (Arena de Compton) was a hardcore scene and I just became immersed in it."
Mysterio, dressed in full wrestling gear for his part in the movie, plays the ultimate slasher killer who seems to kill for no reason other than to just kill. That's the effect Baget wanted.
"Having him in his tights and mask was done tongue-in-cheek," laughed Baget, based in Los Angeles. "And he's not your typical wrestler with the buff six-pack. He kind of lumbers around. Horror films lately have been a lot like this where the killer isn't exactly 'dressed' to kill. Look at Michael Myers [of Halloween]. In our movie, he just kills and no one knows why. In some movies where we alreddy know why the killer is killing, that takes away from the concept of the movie I think."
The making of the movie back in September 2006 almost didn't happen, however, as Baget explains.
"We were originally going to shoot in an insane asylum, but a ghost town made more sense," Baget said. "Then we were one day from starting shooting and someone on the crew discovered asbestos on our set, so we were screwed. We had to change everything. Two days later we found the ghost town setting in Valencia and worked for 13 days with no script. It was insanely quick. Most of the film was all improvisation. Like, we saw a bus in the town and said, 'OK, we'll have a bus scene.' Some of the movie suffered, but some of it still made sense. It's still a creepy movie in general, but it is what it is."
There was also no shortage of fake blood in the movie.
"I don't know how many gallons we used, but it was quite a bit," Baget said. "After two days of shooting, it was sticking to our shoes and the floor was coming up."
"The last scene is El Mascarado just driving away in a van," he said. "How could we not do that? It was different."
The movie was released on DVD in the United States March 11 and came out in the United Kingdom, Germany and Japan last summer and last fall. Based on how sales go, Baget said a sequel may be in the works.
"We'll see how it does," noted Baget. "Maybe we have more wrestling in the next one or more effects or midgets. I don't know. I'd like to go back to this concept, though."


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ChiDrew needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 98 designs submitted by 17 freelance designers.
The Libertarian Party of Chicago needs a fresh new logo for use on the web, business cards, flyers, and other print media. A clean logo with web2.0 in mind.
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We are looking for a logo that we can use on our website, meetup, and facebook page. We want something bold, powerful, clean, web2.0, that makes you think of Liberty, and Chicago.
If you feel there might be trouble printing the logo, please provide a second version of the logo that will print well on business cards and flyers.
If you'd like you can use traditional symbols of freedom such as the statue of liberty, or an a eagle. We really look forward to seeing something more unique and original though (think corporate logo).
- The words "Libertarian Party" and "Chicago" in the logo
- if possible, the website LPChicago.org but it's not required.
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- Do not use the Chicago Flag. (You can use the same colors, just not the flag)
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List of Hawick based agencies offering offering professional web, print advertising (brochure, leaflet, flyer) and corporate brand identity graphic design services.
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I undertake many types of work from starting from a clean slate to assisting you to bring forward a previously forgotten project. Being a small company too I understand the needs of a sole trader and small company. On the flip side my working experience from within a large organisation has given me the skills required to present to a board of directors, which offers me the unique perspective to cater
Various is a small, collaborative and highly creative team. We help start-up companies enter the market with confidence and flair. We build rock solid, unique brands that engage and inspire. We help changing companies evolve into stronger and more coherent businesses. And then we help them to grow. We bring clarity to complex corporate communications.
Adam Design, located in the Edinburgh area, is a long-established graphic design business offering an extensive range of services to help businesses or individuals to communicate visually. When a client comes to Adam Design they always deal direct with an experienced, friendly designer and receive personal attention to every detail. Every client is important, no matter how small or big their business
21nine Advertising & Design, a consultancy in brand strategy, advertising, design, interactive, marketing and web services in Edinburgh, Scotland. Jim Divine, Creative Director has over 25 years of broad-based marketing communications experience. His pragmatic approach to business are qualities that have added tremendous value to his work with such companies as Motorola, Johnson & Johnson, Hyundai,
KOG Design was formed in 2008 and have behind us over 20 years experience in graphic design, having delivered effective solutions to clients throughout the UK. We specialise in corporate identity and print design and due to extremely low overheads, are able to offer unbeatable value for money.
8 billion brand is a creative studio based in Scotland hell bent on building brands with a beat. Our brand identity services are aimed at companies large and small, all over the world. The name '8 Billion Brand' is a vision that we chase after; to build brands that cross continents and find new ways of connecting to billions of people all over the planet. The 8 is used as a bold symbol of our obsession
A website and graphic design company who will bring your ideas for corporate materials to life. No matter what you need designing, our team can create a masterpiece for you. We can also arrange your printing, from leaflets to catalogues. Whether you require a website or just a business card design, Grandeur Graphics will design your artwork tailor made to your specifications.
Lucid Media International specialise in creativity, synergy and strategy. We create integrated marketing communication that is uniquely engineered to further the aims of your product or service. Using relevant media and promotional elements that may include advertising, graphic design, branding, product launching, multimedia, post production, new media and interactive aspects. Our goal is to bring
Located in Midlothian, Edinburgh PIXAL Graphic Solutions supply Canvas & Digital Prints, Litho Printing; Flyers, Menus, Business Cards & more, Banners, Posters, Graphic Design, Corporate Branding & Merchandising to clients throughout the UK and Overseas. High Quality Graphic Solutions at Competitive Rates.
Copland Creative is a professional graphic design agency based in Edinburgh. We offer creative marketing solutions for a wide range of businesses including start-ups. With over 10 years' experience in the design industry we specialise in print media, corporate identity, web design, artwork and illustration, photography and copywriting. Get creative with Copland Creative.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - MIT sophomore Doria Holbrook became the first diver and only the second swimming and diving team member in the history of the Institute to earn ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America honors after being named to the third national team on Wednesday.
Holbrook, who finished second overall in the three-meter diving finals and fourth overall on the one-meter board at the 2006 NCAA Championships, paced MIT to its best national finish in 17 years. Holbrook earned All-America honors in both events as the Engineers finished 20th in the final team standings.
In two seasons, Holbrook has won an NCAA national title and has earned four All-America honors. After a dazzling rookie season in 2005, Holbrook was named NEWMAC Diver of the Year and NCAA Diver of the Meet.
Holbrook's selection gives MIT its fifth Academic All-America selection for the year and its first in the incredibly difficult at-large division since fencer Caroline Purcell copped the honor following a national title in 2002. The only other women's swimming and diving team member to earn the prestigious national Academic award was Yvonne Grierson, who garnered accolades after securing an NCAA championship of her own in 1990.


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Dec. 28: The coming new year brings intensified shipping difficulties for barge operators on the stretch of the Mississippi River just south of St. Louis. With ice on the river's northernmost stretch reducing water levels already seriously affected by the drought, traffic on the nation's largest waterway could come to a halt by Friday of next week.
"While the drought is at the core of the current issues on the Mississippi, this situation also highlights the dire need for infrastructure improvements," said National Corn Growers Association Chairman Garry Niemeyer, a grower from Auburn, Ill. "At NCGA, we have been pushing for upgrades the locks and dams since 1993, but our federal government has failed to respond. If we continue to ignore our infrastructure, we will lose valuable markets."
Persistent drought has already caused the river to reach low-water points not seen in decades. Despite efforts to keep the waterway open for commerce, such as releasing water reserves from Carlyle Lake, the Army Corps of Engineers expects that new limitations on river traffic will go into place when the river level is projected to drop to three feet at the gauge in Thebes, Ill. on Jan.7. A three-foot gauge in Thebes equates to a ten-oot deep channel, or a nine-foot operating draft on barges.
The National Weather Service's long-range forecast does not indicate any relief in the near future. Instead, predictions indicate that river levels will continue to fall, causing the river gauge at Thebes to reach one (indicating an eight-foot depth) on Jan. 23.
While the Coast Guard has indicated that the traffic will remain open, both the Waterways Council, Inc., of which NCGA is a member, and the American Waterways Operators, released a statement indicating that placing further limitations on barges would result in a de facto closure as commercial traffic grinds to a halt.
The section of river most impacted by traffic restrictions, a 180-mile stretch from St. Louis to Thebes, presents challenges in addition to low-water levels such as hazardous rock formations and a large bend in the path of the waterway. Impediments lessen past Cairo, Ill., where the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers converge.
The Corps launched two projects in mid-December in an effort to maintain river commerce. On December 15, the Corps began releasing water from Carlyle Lake in Illinois into the river. Designed to increase river navigability, the release is expected to raise water levels six inches by January 6. On December 18, the Corps commenced demolition of the hazardous rock formations approximately two months ahead of schedule. This project, which will not be completed until mid- to late-January at the earliest, began incorporating the use of excavators on barges following a series of explosions last Friday.
The importance of the Mississippi River to agriculture is difficult to understate, with $52 billion in grain and other farmed goods produced in its watershed annually. Allowing the movement of 125 million tons of commodities in 2008, the most recent year for which data is available, failure to repair and improve river infrastructure would likely jeopardize the movement of those commodities to market.
Southbound barges on the Mississippi River carry grain destined for world markets. Those barges regularly pass northbound tows with thousands of tons of fertilizer heading to Midwestern ports and, later, to farmers' fields. With shipping on the Mississippi already impeded and the problem likely to worsen, fertilizer shipments for the 2013 spring planting season could face delays.


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The quality of source water for irrigation is crucial for any greenhouse operation.
This is especially true for floatbed greenhouses, where Styrofoam trays filled with tobacco transplants float in bays of water. Well water is typically used to fill the bays, and its pH and mineral levels can vary somewhat from year to year, with the potential to significantly impact plant growth.
Vigilant growers check their well water annually by sending samples to the Agronomic Services Division of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, which assesses the suitability of water for plant production through a laboratory test known as solution analysis. This test includes measurements of pH; electrical conductivity; total alkalinity (a measure of carbonate and bicarbonate ions); hardness; sodium adsorption ratio; and levels of nutrients, sodium and chloride.
The solution analysis report often points out potential problems and provides management recommendations. Regional agronomists provide further assistance by making site visits, explaining report findings and offering advice.
Solution analysis is a useful monitoring tool because water quality may change in response to environmental conditions such as drought or heavy rain.
Wells close to each other can also have vastly different characteristics depending on their depth. For these reasons, NCDA&CS recommends that growers have their well water tested at least once a year.
Tommy Castelow of Castelow Farms in Hertford County routinely uses solution analysis and other agronomic tests to help prevent production problems.
Castelow is a veteran tobacco grower who is in the process of expanding his floatbed operation. To supply sufficient water for that effort, he recently invested in drilling a new, deeper well to supplement several shallow wells.
Equal volume, lower quality
"I had hoped the new well would provide better output, but the volume was about the same," Castelow said. "Unfortunately, the quality was not. When I had the water tested, my report indicated high sodium levels and suggested that I contact regional agronomist Wayne Nixon for management advice. The transplant seedlings were not growing a good stem. They were real wiry."
Nixon made a site visit to assess the situation.
"Tommy is one of my best tobacco growers," Nixon said. "He was concerned about high levels of sodium and bicarbonates in the water and how he could overcome that. The deeper the well went, the worse the water quality was. I had never seen sodium levels so high. Excess sodium leads to spindly, yellow transplants."
Excess sodium is a water problem that tends to occur in eastern counties of North Carolina. Two values on a solution analysis report relate to sodium: one is Na, which is a measure of sodium in parts per million; the other is SAR, which stands for sodium adsorption ratio.
Na values of 70 or greater are higher than recommended.
SAR values greater than 4.0 indicate that sodium uptake may be interfering with uptake of calcium and magnesium. These two nutrients are required for optimal plant growth; sodium is not.
Management usually involves application of soluble materials high in calcium because plants will preferentially take up calcium over sodium. Gypsum, also know as calcium sulfate, is usually used in these cases. It is not very water soluble, however, which poses a challenge in floatbed situations.
In working to solve Castelow's problem, Nixon decided to try using plaster from a home improvement store instead of gypsum. It is essentially the same compound, but goes into solution more readily because particles are much finer.
"Adding plaster to the floatbed water was a phenomenal success," Nixon said. "We saw right off with the first solution sample that it had made a big difference. We achieved at least a 50 percent reduction in SAR values. We also found it is much easier to get plaster into solution if it is spread out in the bays before water is added."
The other water problem Castelow wanted to address was high total alkalinity, indicated by the value of 385 ppm on his solution report. The higher the total alkalinity value, the more difficult it is to lower pH.
If pH remains high, then micronutrients become less available to plants. The remedy is to add battery acid (35 percent sulfuric acid) to the floatbed water as recommended on the report.
"Many growers think they are adding battery acid to lower pH. That is true, but only in an indirect way," Nixon said. "Adding battery acid lowers bicarbonate levels, which then lowers pH. That is what is going on."
"Adding plaster and battery acid has helped make my water more suitable for plant production," Castelow said. "Nixon's advice has been a real asset. I called him in mid-stream to work on this problem last year, but this year he's been with me from the beginning. We've seen improvement in the water and in the plants, too."
Nixon and Castelow are continuing to look for better solutions to this well water problem. Adding plaster can be messy, and battery acid tends to be expensive, driving up costs. The two are intrigued by endorsements they have heard regarding reverse osmosis filtration systems and plan to investigate this option.
"Regardless of how we decide to fix the problem, we will continue to collect solution samples regularly so we know where we stand with water quality," Nixon said.
"In dealing with this problem, Tommy has realized the need to test more often, and in doing so, he has been able to significantly fine-tune and improve his fertilizer applications. Overall, it has been a beneficial learning experience."
For more information on solution analysis testing through the NCDA&CS Agronomic Services Division, visit http://www.ncagr.gov/agronomi/uyrsoln.htm.
Any North Carolina greenhouse management operation with source water issues is also encouraged to request an on-site visit from a regional agronomist. To contact the agronomist for your area, go to http://www.ncagr.gov/agronomi/rahome.htm.


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MINGO COUNTY – Casy Smith scored 30 points and hit a jumper with one second left on the clock to enable the Ripley High cagers to notch their third victory in a row, 71-70 at Mingo Central.
Ripley (5-8) went on a 27-15 run in the final period to secure the victory, largely because of Smith's heroics.
The senior guard hit 8-of-14 shots from the field including a spectacular 4-of-5 from 3-point range. Smith hit a 3-pointer with 18 seconds left to bring Ripley to within 69-67. A Drew Harpold bucket made it 70-69 setting up Smith's game winner.
Smith had a tremendous game for Ripley the previous night as he scored 14 in a victory over Ravenswood in the Jackson County Shootout.
Kade Harrison added 13, Jacob Haynes 12, Drew Harpold five, Cody Sanders and Chuck Sleboda four, Luke Layhew two and Austin Parsons one.
Ripley hosts Princeton on Tuesday.


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A contractor was awarded a contract to build a hydraulic system that needed 60 gpm flow at up to 1000 psi, then a controlled flow from 20 down to 3 gpm in 12 sec, then up again to 2200 psi. It then had to return at full speed with a maximum required return pressure of 600 psi. They were told to build the entire system with a total maximum height of 24 in. The width and length of the complete system needed to be as small as possible. The cylinder was not specified or ordered from the contractor.
The circuit was designed and built per the accompanying schematic. The system was tested and inspected by the Dept. of Defense and shipped overseas.
About two months after shipment, the contractor received a call about a problem during start-up. They could not exceed 300 psi from the pump, and the return line filter element kept coming loose and leaking. They also told the contractor that they were able to set the load-sensing adjustment to a maximum of 500 psi and could cycle the cylinder somewhat. They wanted to know what could be causing the two problems.
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The military project, with the 60-gpm pump and 40-hp electric motor, had two problems. The first was the lack of pressure. A load-sense compensator needs external pilot pressure to function above the original 300-psi load sense spring setting. The pressure needed to move a cylinder is fed to the load-sense spring chamber and is additive to the spring. The control orifice was probably blocked with contaminants, but the pump was still okay because the spring could increase the pressure to its limit of 500 psi.
The second problem with the leaking return line filter is a common problem when the return flow from the cap end of the cylinder is intensified due to the area ratio of the cylinder. If you divided the cap-end area by the rod-end area and multiplied the quotient by the pump flow going into the rod side, you would determine the flow leaving the cap end and going through the filter. A 2:1 area cylinder would result in a 120-gpm flow through the directional valve, filter, and heat exchanger. The contractor needed to find out the cylinder areas and determine if the components were rated for the return flow.
Spin-on element threads tend to stretch, making it feel like the element is loose. You can turn the element about 1⁄16 to 1⁄8 of a turn, and it will feel tight. Shortly after running the system, though, the element will start leaking again and can be tightened again. However, the stretched stud the element is attached to could break or the element threads could strip, causing the assembly to blow apart.


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Founded in 1938, Columbia Sportswear Company has grown from a small family-owned hat distributor to one of the world's largest outerwear brands and the leading seller of skiwear in the United States. Columbia's extensive product line includes a wide variety of outerwear, sportswear, rugged footwear and accessories. Columbia specializes in developing innovative products that are functional yet stylish and offer great value. Eighty-year-old matriarch Gert Boyle, Chairman of the Board, and her son, Tim Boyle, President and CEO, lead the company.
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In the first Canadian exhibition of Althoffs work, the Gallerys presentation will focus primarily on new material. Central to the exhibition will be a collaborative installation entitled the Weaving Place. Althoff will design this space to display and experience the work of San Francisco-based artist Travis Joseph Meinolf, whose manifesto and invention of the Laser-Loom explores issues related to alternative modes of production and the distribution of goods. Other new work will include sculptures made solely for this presentation and a collaborative dance-theatre piece, entitled I will be last. Read More
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I?ve had four different partners during that time. The first was my first wife and the last is my current wife, with two others in between.
This one is with my first wife.
The first time we ventured out we met with a friend of mind. A client and his girl friend. We played spin the bottle which allowed kisses between men and women and the women if they wanted too, with a second choice to leave the room together for one minute for a anything goes minute. It was fun as not much you can do in minute. There was probably 5 one minute sessions for each of us guys and gals during the evening and one with the two women, with longer and longer kisses on each succeeding minute.. It was a lot of fun and it is amazing how long a minute really is and what you can do in a minute.
What happened was that each succeeding minute you started where you left off the previous minute as the comfort level got better, so progressively more and more happened. The first time with her we kissed and felt her up and she wanted more kisses. By the time we got to the 5th minute we had our hands inside each others clothes. That was it for that evening. Afterwards I talked to Merrian about what happened for her and it was the same and she said she really had fun and good time. Liked the kissing and enjoyed my friend putting his hands on her.
So I talked to my friend and asked if he was into swinging all the way and he said he was as he had had a fun time with Merrian but his girl friend would not. His ex-wife was also a client of mine and they had remained friends for 10 years and apparently renewed old good times once in awhile. He said he would ask her if she was interested as she had been single for along time and had several men friends over the years. I said ok, I also need to talk to Merrian for we were talking about a far different experience. To say the least I was excited at the prospect of having sex with his ex-wife as she was really attractive inside and out. We had talked many times over the years and were friendly as being one of my clients. Well he did talk to her and we did get together and talk about the subject and the ladies went off by themselves to talk about it. We all decided to think about it and maybe at a later date talk about it again. So I thought probably no.
I talked with Merrian and asked her did she want to get together with my friend and do a threesome and she said that might be fun so I took that as a yes. So time went by and I had an chance to talk with my friend and told him that Merrian was willing to do a threesome if he was interested.
He said he would be but wanted to check with his ex-wife about what we had talked about sometime ago.(couple of months) He'd let me know.
His ex-wife told him as she new and liked me and was curious about what we had discussed that she would like to try it.
So we planned a get together. We went to his house and sat around awhile wonder who was going to make the first move and I suggested spin the bottle and that is where we started. We ageed that the first time would be 1 minute alone, the secong time 5 minutes and the third time with no time limit with a right of refusal anywhere along the way. So we spun the bottle and It landed on carol and i took her hand and we left for 1 minute, all we did was kiss several times and both got alittle turned on. The it took several spins to land on my friend and he and Merrian had their minute. Then came the 5 minute and Merrian landed on my friend and off they went, 5 minutes is a long time and when the came back they were obviously both turned on. Finally my spin landed on carol s. She stood took my hand and and I wondered if she would d go with me as this time would be longer with more possibilite we had our 5 minutes of heavy kissing and felling each other up. We came back and it was obvious that my friend and Merrian had not been sitting aroud waiting for us. I said break time and I pulled Merrian aside and asked her if she wanted to continue as the next spin would be for the real thing. She wanted to know if it was ok with me because she really wanted to see what it was like, but only if i was ok with it. I said well that is what we had talked about before and I certainly wanted to as well so we spun the bottle. Well Merrian spun the bottle and it landed on my Friend and he looked at me and I nodded and off they went. Carol and I sat and talked and she said she had never did anything like this although had had several sexual relationships over the years. So while we waited for my wife and friend to return we did a little kissing and feeling and I told her I was really looking forward to being with her. She said she was nervous but curious about what it would be like and wondered how Merrian felt about it. I said, ask her. Probably would mbe ok as she was probably having sex with Dan right now. She said yes probably, and I said lets go listen and we got closer to the bedroom door and could here them getting it on and I heard Merrian saying ?yes that?s ok? and than more love making noises and I was as hard as a rock and carol was obviously turned on as well.
They came back to the living room after about 30 minutes and sat down and we spun the bottle again and Carol landed on Merrian and offered her a hand and they left to another room, which really surprised me and Dan. So we Waited for them to returned wondering what they were doing. They came back in about 10 minutes and we kidded them on what were they doing and they said ?just talking?. Lol Are you sure I asked and they just smiled and said well you just never know.
So we spun the bottle and it landed on carol and it was our turn to go into the bedroom and play. She said that Merrian was ok with what we were doing as she had asked, so she was willing to have sex with me.
We moved over to the bed and I undressed her and myself. She was sitting on the edge of the bed and I walked up to her with my hard on and she took me in hand and than in mouth and we were in a 69 right away. It didn?t take long before we both came and laid there catching our breath. Wow. We both needed some recovery time as we were not done with what we ultimately both wanted to do which was fuck of course. So we laid there kissing and touching and suddenly heard noises from the living room and went over to listen and motioned Carol over and said lets peek.
We peeked around the corner and Dan had Merrian on her hands and knees screwing her from behind and we just watched and I was at the ready and moved behind Carol and slipped into her from behind and was a wild ride to say the least. We moved to the bed and fucked each other for the first time and it was great and then we both came We had taken a long time to finish and when we went back to the loving Merrian and my friend were there. She told me later that they were listening to us have sex and got turned on again and he had screwed her again in the living room knowing we might walk in on them which really turned her and him on. I said I know we were watching. She said well how do you feel about watching me with another man and I said strange but it really turned me on and Carol and I had really had a good time after watching her and Dan screwing and than asked her if she had a good time and she said yes that he had made her cum and was that ok with me. I said it didn't make much sense not to as that was the goal.
Merrian and I went outside to talk about what had happened.
I asked her if she had had a good time and she said yes very much.
Do you want to do it again and she said yes as long as I was ok with what had happened. I said looks like we are both ok. We had joined the swing life.
I asked her what happened between her and Carol while they were alone.
She said Carol just wanted to make sure it was ok with her if she had sex with me. I told her that was what we there for and that I had had sex with Dan and had a lot of fun and to go for it.
She also told me she had had sex with another woman a number of years ago and what did I think. I told her it never had occurred to me till this very moment and didn?t know what I thought about it. She said it was a one time thing but had had a good time although it was just kissing and using their hands on each other and hadn?t got undressed but she did climax and had thought about doing it again someday. She also said that Dan knew about it and had encouraged her if she wanted to do it again. I told her I wasn?t sure if I wanted to, but would talk to me about it. I said well what do you think. She said what do you think. I said I had seen it in some xxx movies and it turned me on, but she would have to decide that for herself. She said do you want me to? I said yes, but only if she wanted, we had come full circle. We sat quietly for a few minutes and she said ok, I want to see what it is like to have sex stuff with Carol if she wants to with me.
We went back inside and sat back in the circle and Merrian spun the bottle again and it landed on carol and she said lets talk again and whispered in my ear look in later and watch. After the left I told Dan what was happening and he was delighted with the idea. I asked how the evening had gone for him so far and he said he had really enjoyed Merrian and how did I feel about it all, I said we came here for what had happened and had both had a great time and Merrian had really enjoyed screwing him and what they had done and I had seen some of it as it was happening. I asked if she had gone down on him and he said no as they had been to busy doing other things. Lol Maybe later than. I said lets go see what the ladies are doing.
We walked to the doorway and Merrian and Carol were sitting close together talking and we just stood in the doorway quietly.
Carol than turned to Merrian leaned over to her and gave her a kiss on the lips. I could see Merrian was hesitant but allowed the moment and kissed Carol back.
They both glanced in our direction and smiled and than forgot us.lol The kissing in earnest began and you could tell the tongues became involved and the breathing increased. After awhile Carol?s hand moved to Merrians top and she unbuttoned a couple of buttons and slipped her hand in side and merrian moved in closer and obviously was enjoying the touching. This went on for quite awhile and than Merrian unbuttoned carol?s top and slipped her had inside and Carol became really turned on and her had slipped between her legs and she began to play with herself. She whisper in Merrian?s ear and her hand slipped down and she began to play with herself as well. What a sight, two women feeling each other up and playing with themselves and continuing the kissing. They still had their clothes on.
Somewhere along the way Merrian went from rubbing herself through her clothes to slipping her had under her skirt and you could tell she was skin to skin fingering herself. Carol noticed and lifted her skirt to do the same. More kissing and petting and fingering and hips moving back and forth approaching climax. Carol leaned forward and said something to Merrian and Merrian hesitated a moment and nodded yes. Than the scene changed as they had agreed to move toward each other in a new and exciting way as Carol moved Merrian?s hand and replaced it with hers and was fingering Merrian, playing with her boob and kissing her. Merrian by this time was so hot she couldn?t have stopped even if she wanted too. She reached over to Carol, replaced her hand with hers and began fingering her as well. Soon the ladies were totally into each other getting close to getting each other off. By this me and Dan are panting with hard on?s rubbing ourselves thru our clothes.
The ladies were by this time both lost in their passion for each other, intensely kissing each other intensely fingering each other, only aware of each other and their climax soon to cum. Than it happened, first Carol shuttered and said yes and lost control and her whole body gave in to the pleasure of the climax. She grabbed Merrian and intensified her fingering and it was Merrian?s turn to cum and than she lost it grabbed Carol?s hand and pressed herself against Carol?s hand lost control and Intensely climaxed. The ladies sat there panting and continued to kiss each other still turned on and I said Blow Job time ladies and Dan moved to Merrian and me to Carol and the BJ?s began. It didn?t take long for both of us to cum.
Later we talked about the experience and discovered it had been ok and she said she had had a really great time. I asked her if we were ok with each other and she said she really loved me and would do it again if I wanted. I said I wanted. Lol


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Admit it: You wouldn't be surprised, at this point, if Carson Palmer was nailed for sticking up a Dairy Queen somewhere just outside Blue Ash, would you?
Continuing their rather outstanding string of off-season malfeasance, the Bengals announced today that linebacker Odell Thurman, their
first second-round draft pick last season, will miss the first four games for failing a drug test. He is one of six — count 'em! — Bengals who have "embarrassed" the team in the offseason.
In case you've forgotten, the biggest hero of this was Chris Henry, who was arrested four times in six months, culminating in a trifecta of 18-year-old, 17-year-old and 15-year-old goodness.
We know not to call them the Trail Blazers of the NFL, so we'll simply say this: We full expect Carl Monday to be sitting outside Bengals training camp. Something has to be going on.
Thurman Suspended By NFL [Cincinnati Enquirer]
Chris Henry Keeps Himself Busy [Deadspin]
(UPDATE: Bengal Stripes has a nasty rumor attached to this.)