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I would like to know HOW to add my sig and pics like yall have. My replies/threads look pitiful compared to yours. dianeIs your DISboard Signature Legal?
In order to keep the DISboards both friendly and efficient, there are guidelines users are to follow when developing their signatures. Many users are unaware of the guidelines and unknowingly create signatures that in many cases exceed the guidelines.
NOW is the time to check your signature and make certain you're legal.
While we send out notices to those users who have signatures that do not meet guidelines, this is time consuming for the moderators and Tech Support volunteers on these boards. In some cases when a user does not correct a signature, it is necessary for us to delete their signature entirely. This can be unfortunate if someone has put a lot of effort into creating their signature.
The MAIN violations we commonly find are listed below:
1. No more than three images are allowed. All of the following each count as an image: (1) A photo, (2) A Clipart, (3) A Countdown, (4) A 'sparkly' signature, (5) Any non DISboard smilie, (6) Eggs. Note also that WISH images each count toward the maximum of three images allowed.
Thus if you have a sparkly signature line, 2 photos, 3 countdowns, 2 eggs, and 1 WISH, your total image count is 9, or triple the allowed number.
Remember, if you add any type of Holiday decorations to your signature, it all counts toward 3-image maximum.
2. No single image may exceed 550 pixels in width nor 200 pixels in height. The old standard was that all images combined must fit within a single 400x400 square. This was changed earlier this year to the current requirement. If you have a signature developed to the old requirements, you need to fix it to meet the current requirements.
The most common item we find are users with an image that is greater than the allowed 200 pixel maximum height requirement. Be sure you check ALL your images in your signature to be sure none of them exceeds 200 pixels tall.
3. The TOTAL filespace of all your images combined must not exceed 50KB. (That's 51,200 bytes).
One item we commonly find are uses of animated gifs which can have very large filesizes. If you have an animated gif such as a sparkly signature, or other 'moving' image, be sure you add up all the filesizes for all images. If you have highly detailed photos, it's also easy to exceed the 50KB combined filespace limit.
4. The TOTAL number of lines in your signature may not exceed 12. All of the following count as a line: (1) a line of text, (2) a blank line, (3) an image of any kind on it's own line (such as photo, countdown, smilie, egg, etc), (4) any type of spacer such as a dashed line.
The most common item we find here are users with a long vertical list of their WDW trips. Instead of putting all these on separate lines, one on top of the other, it's suggested you put them on one horizontal line going across the page. Many users do this and differentiate the trips by using different colors, etc.
Note: The above items are not all inclusive. There are other signature requirements. You can see the full Signataure Guidelines with samples by clicking HERE . This also gives you an explanation on why the guidelines are important.
If you don't know if your photo, countdown, etc meets guidelines, you can look at your signature in one of your posts, and right-click directly on the image, and from the drop-down menu, select PROPERTIES. The image's properties will show. There you can get both it's filesize and it's dimensions ( Width x Height). If the height dimension is greater than 200 your image does not meet guidelines.
If you add up the filesizes of all your images, and the total exceeds 51,200 bytes, then you do not meet guidelines.
You can see a typical Properties screen in the example below.
Thank you for your cooperation. If anyone needs technical help, feel free to visit the Technical Support Forum .


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So far today no burning issues have got my adrenalin pump going and I will seize the opportunity to ramble inconsequentially.
The ugly and inaccurate usage obsessing over continues, including from respected Scottish journalists who should know better. Obsessing over makes as much sense as fascinating over, i.e. none whatsoever. Usage trumps all, so if this continues, the OED will eventually capitulate and offer it as an alternative usage, and an important word will be lost in its real sense to the language. It equally bad twin is bored of, a usage beloved of youthful chavs everywhere, and a few not so youthful.
A few email correspondents have taken me to task for describing Rory Stewart MP as a 'half Scot'. For the record, on the Newsnight debate, Rory Stewart said "I'm half-Scottish, half-English, like many people in this country …" so half-Scot is genealogically accurate. In the interests of perspective, let me say that I am a half-Scot by birth (my mother was Scottish, my father Irish) and since all my grandparents were Irish, I am a quarter-Scot. If I have an ethnic identity, it is Celtic. (My wife is a half-Scot - her mother was English.)
But I used the term for Rory Stewart, and for others of his class and background, not as an ethnic or genealogical description, but in terms of allegiance. I owe 100% allegiance to Scotland and the Scottish nation, not to the hybrid state of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: Rory Stewart, in contrast, owes 100% allegiance to that hybrid state, whatever his vaguely nostalgic ethnic Scottish leanings.
(Despite my Irish ancestry, I owe no political allegiance whatsoever to The Republic of Ireland nor to the province of Northern Ireland.)
I have contacts who are entirely English by birth and ancestry, but who have made their lives in Scotland, owe allegiance to Scotland, vote Scottish nationalist and eagerly await Scottish independence. These are political, social and economic loyalties, not misty, nostalgic ones. I am absolutely certain that is true among the many ethnic minority groups in Scotland.
For the moment, however, we must accommodate ourselves as best we can to the ugly realities of our unwilling membership of the British state and subservience to the British Establishment, and the legal and constitutional demands of that failing state, as must the English and Welsh peoples.
(The people of Northern Ireland have their own complex problems and relationships to deal with, and nothing I have to say can contribute anything useful to that debate.)
I recognised GBS from early childhood as a wise old man with a long, grey beard and a twinkle in his eye: he popped up in the newspapers and on the newsreels. He died, age 94, just as I left school. My teachers at St. Mungo's Academy, Marist Brothers in the main, thoroughly disapproved of him - he was Irish, but an atheist and a radical Socialist!
As far as I know, he was the only person ever to have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and a Hollywood Oscar, for his adaptation of his own play, Pygmalion for the cinema. It of course later achieved even greater fame as on Broadway as My Fair Lady. I knew the film, as a compulsive filmgoer in the fleapits of Dennistoun and Calton, and also the film (1945) from his play Caesar and Cleopatra (1898) which a member of the Wranglers debating society in Newcastle told me proudly in 1976 had first been staged in the city in 1899.
This film, together with Pygmalion, which I had seen much earlier, led me to borrow Three Plays for Puritans from Dennistoun library and read Shaw for the first time. I recognised his socialism and his deep feeling for the ordinary man, but was riveted by his accessible style. I then read a fair amount of his work, but it was not until my mid-twenties that I came across his collected Prefaces in a very bulky volume from Clydebank Public Library, a work that I read and re-read, borrowed and re-borrowed. (I now have my own copy.)
Then somehow I forgot Shaw for a long, long time, until a few months age I wandered into a charity shop in Corstorphine, glanced briefly across the rows of rubbish books that now form their main stock. But in a corner, quietly and inconspicuously waiting for me on the shelf were a number of volumes in the 1937 Constable edition (1950 reprint) of some of Shaw's works.
After the briefest glance at the titles, I grabbed the lot and bought them for £2 apiece. When I began to put them on my shelf next to my other Shaw books, noticing ruefully the duplicates, one caught my eye, because of its odd title. - London Music in 1888-89 as heard by Corno Di Bassetto. I had never heard of this work by Shaw, but as a musician of sorts, I recognised corno di bassetto as the basset horn, and a vague memory came to mind that Shaw had briefly been a music critic for a London newspaper, The Star.
Up till that moment, I regarded the funniest prose works in the English language as being P.G. Wodehouse and the Irish RM stories of Somerville and Ross. But now they had a rival, and I have succeeded since in annoying my family by laughing out loud at regular intervals, and boring all and sundry with the words of Corno Di Bassetto, which are about as contemporary as one can get in style, and terrifyingly knowledgeable about music in all its aspects, with savage and hysterically funny criticism of the operatic and concert performers of the day.
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Coilovers & trunk floor reinforcement - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Alignment & corner balancing specs - here
Oil discussion - pages 18 to 20
Suspension discussion - pages 21 to 23
Headers & motor mount install - here
New wheels - preview, photoshoot
Bumper respray - pages 30 & 31 - 1, 2, 3
Turbo build & VANOS rebuild - pages 34 to 50 - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Stealth gauges install - pages 52 & 53 - 1, 2, 3
Carbon fiber roof install - page 62 - video
New South Bend stage 4 clutch - pages 65 to 67 - here
Subframe reinforcement & VinceBar install - Pages 70 to 73 - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
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Hey everybody, not everyone may know me but some may remember me as the guy whose BMW was totalled at Intercity 2 summers ago, or as the guy in the VW Rabbit at a few of the Autoslalom events last year. Anyway for those that don't know me my name is David and I wanted to share with you the BMW M3 I picked up last fall.
So after 1 year and 3 months of searching after my previous 3-series got totalled, 1 Volkswagen and 1 failed purchase later I finally found my dream car, a 2005 Alpine White E46 M3 with Imola Red nappa leather interior and manual transmission. The car was located just outside of New York City and was a 2 owner car with just under 41K miles and was dealer maintained. The car was basically stock except for black powder coated wheels, a Dinan exhaust and tune, and a rasp pipe (eliminates the infamous rasp on these M3s).
The options were:
- Premium package
- Bluetooth
- BMW Assist
- full nappa leather seats
- power and memory seats
- Cold weather package
- Heated seats
- Passthrough ski bag
- Headlight washers
- Lip spoiler delete
Here are a few pictures from the ad.
My dad and I flew down on October 28th to pick up the car. I could not stop smiling for the rest of the trip after the owner picked us up in the car. The car was in fairly good condition, though the bottom of the front bumper had road rash and the car was in serious need of a detail. After we had finished the transaction, we went into part of the massive city to meet up with a friend before we started our 1800 mile journey home that night.
That night we drove for maybe 3 hours and got maybe a third of the way through Pennsylvania. We were actually very lucky as that same night New York had gotten about 8 inches of snow and where we had stopped for the night all we saw was some rain. We left early in the morning and our plan was to get to Chicago by evening and visit with some friends, so we drove about 12 hours through some nasty weather in Pennsylvania, got through Ohio and Indiana with some nice sunshine, and were in the Chicago area by night fall. In our friend's parking garage I parked next to an F430, and there was also an Audi R8, G55 AMG, and a few other high end BMWs and Benz (don't have any pictures, sorry).
The next day we stayed in the Chicago area longer than expected and left in the afternoon with the intention of making it home that night but we ended up staying in Duluth after several hours of constant rain. As we were leaving the next day I remember probably the greatest part of the trip where as we would go through the tunnels I'd slow down and drop gears and go WOT, man did it sound amazing. We got home that night, which happened to be Halloween and got some interesting looks from people as I drove around town. Here are some pictures from Chicago and as we were leaving Duluth.
I was able to drive the car for another week in town and luckily was able to complete the RIV inspection just before I had to put it away, though the tires were too worn and I couldn't get it safetied, so first thing this spring the car gets a nice new set of Michelin Pilot Super Sports. I ended up moving it to a friend's warehouse so I could park my DD in the garage and took a few pictures as we were trying to get it into our trailer.
This was definitely a trip of a lifetime and I'm very glad that I got to go with my dad and pick up this amazing machine. This was one of the longest road trips I've ever done but we had no problem with this car, it handles and rides amazingly, and I was so excited to have it that out of the 24 hours or so of driving I only let my dad get behind the wheel for 3-4 hours.
I pulled off some parts for some nice winter projects including retrofitting FXR projectors and full HID system as the car came with halogens ($750 option for Bi-xenons), custom stitching the shift boot and ebrake boot with red stitching to go with the rest of the interior. I've also ordered a few other parts and made a list of future modifications I'd like to do.
I bought this car with the intention of tracking it and participating in some HPDE events as well as autocross, and the modifications I plan on doing will be focused on that as well as some cosmetic and comfort mods here and there.
(note: If you think you have seen my car recently there are 2 other white M3s that have been brought to town recently, and they don't have a red interior)


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The Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis was designed in the Romanesque style and built between 1907 and 1909. The interior is decorated with mosaics made from over 41,000,000 glass tesserae tiles using over 8,000 shades of color that took nearly 80 years to complete.
The Cathedral was designated as a Cathedral Basilica by Pope John Paul II in 1997. The Pope came to the Cathedral Basilica in 1999 during his history-making visit to the United States in October of 1999.
The United States is one of the most diverse countries on earth, jam packed full of amazing sights from St. Patrick's cathedral in New York to Mount Hollywood California.The Northeast region is where it all started. Thirteen British colonies fought the American Revolution from here and won their independence in the first successful colonial rebellion in history. Take a look at these rolling hills carpeted with foliage along the Hudson river here, north of New York City.The American south is known for its polite people and slow pace of life. Probably they move slowly because it's so hot. Southerners tend not to trust people from "up north" because they talk too fast. Here's a cemetery in Georgia where you can find graves of soldiers from the Civil War.The West Coast is sort of like another country that exists to make the east coast jealous. California is full of nothing but grizzly old miners digging for gold, a few gangster rappers, and then actors. That is to say, the West Coast functions as the imagination of the US, like a weird little brother who teases everybody then gets famous for making freaky art.The central part of the country is flat farmland all the way over to the Rocky Mountains. Up in the northwest corner you can find creative people in places like Portland and Seattle, along with awesome snowboarding and good beer. Text by Steve Smith.


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Road trips can be fun, but they often appear to go slower the closer you get to your destination. I thought up this puzzle while on a recent trip. Thought it would be good food for thought. Curious about the different approaches to solving it.
Suppose you have
D miles until you reach your destination. The rule is that the speed at which you travel is equal to the distance to your destination. So when you are 60 miles from your destination your speed must be 60 mph; 50 miles from destination, 50 mph; etc.
How long until you reach your destination?
EDIT: I'm pretty sure that the answer is infinity—you will never get to your destination because you will always be one hour away. I'm curious about how people come up with their solutions. So far, very entertaining.


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CNC Engineering, Inc.
19 Bacon Road
Enfield, CT 06082 US
- Visit Company Website
- 860-749-1780
- Contact
As Seen In Modern Machine Shop
Golf Tournament Raises Funds for Machine Technology Program
The annual tournament benefits a local community college.
Cell Control Retrofit Features Improved Operator Interface
CNC Engineering has updated its Open Vision cell control retrofit solution.
Retrofits Lift Venerable Machines to New Heights
Retrofitting nine 20-year-old skin mills at Boeing's plant in Auburn, Washington reduced machine downtime and improved both safety and productivity.
Technology Suppliers Support Community College
Fanuc FA America (Hoffman Estates, Illinois), CNC Engineering (Enfield, Connecticut) and Koma Precision (East Windsor, Connecticut) have joined forces to support the manufacturing technology program and Asnuntuck Community College in Enfield, Connecticut. For its part, CNC supplier Fanuc FA America recently donated three control systems to staff and students.
Control Provider Updates Website
CNC Engineering, a provider of FANUC control solutions, has updated and redesigned its website (cnc1.com) to include the latest product service information, including a library of FANUC brochures, specifications and CNC standard features and options.
Compliant Machining Of Composite Wings
Bell Helicopter created a systematic, scripted process to machine composite wing skins and structural components for the V-22 Osprey vertical takeoff aircraft. Custom software ensures there is no deviation from the script.
Retrofit Increases Productivity And Reduces Capital Outlay
Monitor Aerospace Corporation of Amityville is a producer of aerospace structural components for companies such as The Boeing Company. The company invested heavily in the 1970s in large expensive machinery, but more than 20 years later these aging machines were no longer keeping up with productivity demands.
Production Without Paper
Giving operators electronic access to job information was the first step. Letting operators electronically refine that information came next.
Job Shop Automates Presetting With DNC
Automating tool presetting and integrating it by DNC with the shop floor was a big step for this Connecticut job shop. Immediate payback from setup reductions proved them right.


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Want an iPhone but unwilling to deal with the sticker shock that comes with the perks of being an owner?
No worries, Best Buy has you covered. On Monday, the tech store is offering free iPhone 3GS phones to customers who are eligible and willing to sign a two-year contract with AT&T.
The deal is only valid in Best Buy stores and Best Buy Mobile. AT&T normally sells the 3GS iPhone for $49 with a new two year contract.
Although you can get a refurbished iPhone 3GS from AT&T's website for $9.


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Obama's 11th-hour strategy shift
Everything was going great for Barack Obama until about 9:04 on the night of Oct. 3, when Mitt Romney startled everybody by refusing to live up to his caricature as The Worst Candidate Ever.
Romney's late-game comeback — an unexpected assertion of presidential competence in front of 67 million viewers — robbed Obama of his momentum and forced the president's team to make a subtle yet significant change to their closing argument in the critical last two weeks of the 2012 campaign.
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( Also on POLITICO: 7 takeaways from final debate)
Obama's Chicago-based brain trust had intended to highlight four years of "solid, steady progress" in the final days of the race, several Democrats told POLITICO, with a healthy dose of hammering Romney — a strategy that had given Obama a lead going into that fateful first debate.
Instead, the pressure is now on Obama to prove himself — and oh so late in the game. That led his campaign on Tuesday to release a detailed, bullet-point plan for his second term — a formal agenda his team had long resisted despite appeals from the likes of Bill Clinton, Nancy Pelosi and James Carville, and an army of basic-cable liberals, who said the president needed to spend less time cutting down Romney and more time elevating himself.
"Had to do it … It's all about earning people's votes," emailed a Democrat close to the campaign when the plan was unveiled hours after the third and final presidential debate in Boca Raton, Fla.
( Also on POLITICO: Obama vs. Romney: How they plan to win)
Obama will keep slamming Romney as the campaign comes to an end. Drawing "the contrast" as Obama's team calls it, is still the campaign's engine.
Obama officials publicly claim the plan was in the works all along and doesn't represent a major change. But many Democrats and observers see the Tuesday messaging switch as proof Obama leaned too heavily for too long on a negative "Hit Mitt" strategy, at the expense of a sustained push to convince skeptical voters the president deserves another four years.
( See also: POLITICO's swing-state map)
"The Obama organization did the single best job of destroying a candidate I have ever seen in my career, from May to September," said pollster Peter Brown, who conducts the Quinnipiac University poll of battleground states.
"But that all went out the window when Romney showed people that the caricature of him as a clown was false. … Now he's got to make the case for himself. If he was ahead now, my guess is he wouldn't have taken the chance of putting all of this out there."
People close to the president wouldn't say why he hadn't put out a compact, comprehensible list sooner — a task that is the policy equivalent of making sure the candidate's name is spelled correctly on yard signs.
But several Democrats behind the scenes said Obama was reluctant to be hemmed in by a campaign-year agenda if he were reelected — and he saw no need to put a detailed plan on the table earlier this year when Romney was squirming.


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The remote transducer protector (RTP) 3034 uses a hybrid, 3-stage clamping circuit to protect sensitive transducers from transient currents with minimal added loop resistance. The device provides common- and differential-mode transient protection for two-wire transducers and features a maximum surge rating of 20kA 8/20ms. It can be installed in a "T" configuration or in line and supports line currents as high as 145mA for protection of 24VDC-powered transducers.
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harpestrings brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 137 Designs von 25 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
We are a unique, upscale furniture and home accessories business. We want a catchy, yet classy logo that can be presented professionally in print ads, billboards, signage, business cards, letterhead, etc.
Wooden Acorn -www.woodenacorn.net
furnishings, home accessories & gifts
Desired Color Scheme:
Autumn colors; see main description
Desired Style:
Catchy, yet classy, even whimsical
Accepted File Formats:
Hi-res PSD, AI, All Vector - will need for large media use.
We are a new furniture and accessories store selling unique, eclectic, rustic elegance pieces on the Cumberland Plateau in East Tennessee. We are \"everyone\'s hometown\". We hope to draw our clientele from surrounding communities. Our logo design should reflect an image of warmth and comfort, a feeling our customers will experience the moment they walk through the doors. We want them to take that feeling home with them and tell their friends about us.
Our thoughts are an acorn in the place of the \"o\". Autumn colors, with brown, cream and pumpkin being dominant. Of course, YOU are the designers and that\'s why we\'re asking for your help! Open to diverse ideas!
We will be housed in an historic building on Main Street. An oval sign hanging from a filigree bracket above the inviting double front door is planned.
Please, NO clipart, stock photography, or stock artwork that would require royalty fees, etc.
We look forward to interacting with all the designers who participate!
Larry & Lori
This contest was originally listed in multiple categories:
- Logo Design
- Stationery Design
Finden Sie heraus, wie ein Designwettbewerb funktioniert, oder lernen Sie mehr über unsere Logo-Design-Angebote.


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|HOF Class of '95
Upon his induction into the Kings Point Athletic Hall of Fame, John ReShore is the highest scoring kicker in the history of the Academy's football program. From 1971-75 he set six kicking records, including most career points by a kicker (135), most career field goals (25), and longest field goal (48). ReShore's unique combination of strength and accuracy earned him spots on the ECAC All-East Division-III Team, the New York State Colleges All-Star Team, the College Division All-America Team, and he also won the Alder/CBS Golden Tow Award as the best kicker in the east.
ReShore's talents were not limited to football alone. In addition to the four varsity letters he earned with the gridiron squad, ReShore also won two varsity letters with the baseball team, and one as a member of the tennis team.


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Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 31
August 25 - 30
Florence Italy
(Abstract and Field Trip deadline April 12)
Dear Goldschmidt Delegate,
The Goldschmidt conferences are now the most important forum for the discussion of recent results in geochemistry and related fields. Florence is one of the most beautiful and culturally rich cities in the world. It is with great pleasure that we have been able to bring these two together this year. We hope you will enjoy it.
The abstract submission and registration pages for Goldschmidt2013 are now all live. Abstract submission will remain open until April 12th, and early registration will end on June 25th.
Abstract Submission:
200 sessions in 24 themes covering the whole range of geochemistry and related fields have been organised, and there are three general sessions for the science that does not fit into these. Each delegate may submit one abstract as presenting author; keynote speakers alone of these delegates may submit two abstracts. Abstracts should be completed on the templates provided, and should be no longer than a single column if they are to be accepted. Full instructions on how to submit an abstract are available on the website.
Forms for registering for Goldschmidt2013 are now open. Delegates may obtain a lower registration rate by being a member of the European Association of Geochemistry, the Geochemical Society or the Geochemical Society of Japan (EAG, GS or GSJ); note that membership should be valid at the time of the conference. To rejoin one of the societies, please visit the EAG, GS or GSJ websites, or (perhaps more conveniently) simply pay the non-member rate for Goldschmidt2013 which will provide EAG membership for the following 23 months. Membership of the EAG or GS will include a subscription to Elements magazine and EAG membership will also include a subscription to Geochemical Perspectives.
Assistance and Grants:
A limited amount has been made available to support graduate students and delegates from low-income countries. Application forms will be available from 1 March and will close on 12 April.
Workshops and Field Trips:
A range of exciting workshops and field trips has been arranged around the conference. Registration for field trips will close on the Abstract deadline (April 12th). Registration for workshops will remain open until June 25th, where abstracts for the workshops are invited, these should be submitted directly to the workshop organisers, and arrive no later than April 12th. Space on many of the field trips and workshops is limited, so delegates are advised to register early.
Social Events and Tours:
A wine and cheese tasting event, a classical concert, and a conference banquet have been organised for delegates. Details of these can be found through the social events pages, and places can be booked via the registration pages. Space at some of these is limited, so we recommend early booking. Florence is famous all over the world for its unique beauties and for having been the cradle of Renaissance. We have therefore arranged for a range of interesting and thematic tours to be available to give delegates the chance to visit the most famous monuments, such as, for example, the Cathedral, the Uffizi Gallery, the David by Michelangelo etc. together with hidden corners and the unexpected art treasures that only Florence can offer. These are being arranged by a local agency, Bloom, and details are available from the website, booking will be available from the middle of March.
There is a wide range of hotel accommodation near the Convention Center. Some of this accommodation will fill quite quickly, so early booking is recommended. Delegates may arrange their own accommodation, or book it through the Bloom agency in Florence if they prefer. From the middle of March, Bloom's site will enable delegates to book their accommodation at three, four and five star hotels selected at very good rates and centrally located. Downtown apartments and nice farmhouses near the city center will also be available for bookings for delegates who prefer to be independent, or to bring their family for a great vacation. Information will also be available for group hotel reservations: please email Bloom at
for further details. Economy student accommodation has also been arranged, and can be booked through the conference accommodation pages before June 25th.
There is a wide range of restaurants within easy walking distance of the Convention Center. However, the conference has also arranged for economy boxed lunches, or more substantial buffet lunches to be available for delegates. These can be booked during the registration process before June 25th.
Travel and Visas:
Travel to Florence is very easy, and the Convention Center is located near the center of the city, and immediately adjacent to the main railway station. Flights can be conveniently taken either direct to Florence, or to Pisa which is less than 1 hour away by train. Delegates requiring visas to enter Italy (Schengen Zone) should complete the relevant sections of the registration form once payment has been made; letters of invitation will then be sent from Italy by the Bloom agency. It can take embassies a considerable time to process visa requests, so delegates are advised to register early.
Goldschmidt2013 looks set to be a great conference, building on the tradition of conferences built up over recent years, and we expect 3500 - 4000 delegates from all disciplines in the subject. We do hope you will join us to participate in this exciting event.
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1st June - 6th July 11.00am-12.30pm
A six-week course designed to give you a firm grounding in the psychic tarot. We will be looking at the cards individually, investigating the symbolism and meanings but we will also be working psychically in readings, concentrating on how to link with our clients and how to use the cards to investigate our clients' needs. There will be coursework in which you will continue your explorations; by the end of the course you will have learned simple spreads and be able to give a basic meaningful reading.
One to one tuition is also available.


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Tp smapi
tp_smapi is a set of kernel modules that retrieves information from and conveys commands to the hardware of many ThinkPad laptops. This information is presented through the
/sys/devices/platform/smapi filesystem. Much like the
/proc filesystem, you can read and write information to these files to get information about and send commands to the hardware. tp_smapi is highly recommended if you're using a supported ThinkPad laptop.
Supported Laptops
First check whether your laptop is supported. Thinkwiki has a comprehensive list of all supported Thinkpads. In case your TP does not support stop_threshold but only start_threshold please go here Tp_smapi#Workaround for Partially Supported Laptops for a decent workaround.
If you are installing on a recent Thinkpad that has an Ivy Bridge processor (X230, T430, T530, etc.), tp_smapi will not work. Use tpacpi-bat or tpacpi-bat-git.
Install the tp_smapi package that recently moved to the community repository. For the custom linux-ck kernel there exist the tp_smapi-ckAUR which can be installed from the AUR.
It's providing you 3 new Kernel modules.
|Kernel Module
ThinkPad SMAPI Support
IBM Hard Drive Active Protection System (HDAPS) driver
ThinkPad embedded controller hardware access (tp_smapi and hdaps both depend on it)
After a reboot, tp_smapi and its dependencies will get autoloaded and the sysfs-interface under
/sys/devices/platform/smapi should be fully functional.
Here are a couple of useful things you can do using tp_smapi. Please feel free to add your own.
Control Battery Charging
It's bad for most laptop batteries to hold a full charge for long periods of time. You should try to keep your battery in the 40-80% charged range, unless you need the battery life for extended periods of time.
General Way
tp_smapi lets you control the start and stop charging threshold to do just that. Run these commands to set these to good values:
echo 40 > /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/start_charge_thresh echo 80 > /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/stop_charge_thresh
This will cause the battery to begin charging when it falls below 40% charge and stop charging once it exceeds 80% charge. This will extend the lifetime of your battery.
Note that when you remove and re-insert the battery, these thresholds may be reset to their default values. To work around this, create a script to set these values, and make this script run both at startup and when a battery is inserted. More specific instructions follow.
Create a script
#!/bin/sh # set the battery charging thresholds to extend battery lifespan echo ${2:-40} > /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT${1:-0}/start_charge_thresh echo ${3:-80} > /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT${1:-0}/stop_charge_thresh
With this script to set a battery threshold is very simple, just type (if set_bat_thresh is the name of the script):
set_battery_thresholds 0 96 100
Or run it with no arguments to default to BAT0, and thresholds of 40% and 80%.
NB: if you let the battery discharge below 40%, you will get problems, since it is not charged anymore. A solution consists in setting only the parameter stop_charge_thresh and control manually the lower battery value.
Set it runnable:
[root ~]# chmod 744 /usr/sbin/set_battery_thresholds
Let systemd execute the script at startup (Using rc.local from initscripts is deprecated). Thus, create
[Unit] Description=Set Battery Charge Thresholds by tp_smapi [Service] Type=oneshot ExecStart=/usr/sbin/set_battery_thresholds RemainAfterExit=yes [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target
Enable it in systemd:
[root ~]# systemctl enable tp_smapi_set_battery_thresholds.service
You can also make it run when a battery is inserted. This requires that acpid is installed and running. Edit
#... other ACPI stuff battery) case "$2" in BAT0) case "$4" in 00000000) ;; 00000001) /usr/sbin/set_battery_thresholds ;; #... more ACPI stuff
Check whether settings were accepted
To check whether your settings were accepted check the output of the following:
cat /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/start_charge_thresh cat /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/stop_charge_thresh
Protect the Hard Disk from Drops
tp_smapi includes a driver to read the accelerometer in your laptop to detect drops and other events that could cause damage to your hard drive. See the HDAPS page for more information on this useful feature.
Workaround for Partially Supported Laptops
For partially supported laptops you can still gain control over your battery. First check what is actually supported:
cat /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/start_charge_thresh cat /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/stop_charge_thresh
If start-charge_thresh is supported but not stop_charge_thresh but you still want to have your computer stop charging your battery you have two options.
Note : none of the two options works on T42p.
1st Option
- create the script
/usr/sbin/set_battery_thresholdsas above
- copy the original
- edit
/etc/acpi/handler.shas above and copy it to
Now copy the following script, make it executable, adjust the values to your liking and run it every couple of minutes as a root cron.
#!/bin/bash CURRENTCHARGE=$(acpitool -b | cut -d, -f2 | cut -d. -f1 | cut -b2-) if [ $CURRENTCHARGE -gt 80 ]; then cp /etc/acpi/handler.sh.stop /etc/acpi/handler.sh echo 99 > /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/start_charge_thresh exit 0 fi if [ $CURRENTCHARGE -lt 60 ]; then cp /etc/acpi/handler.sh.start /etc/acpi/handler.sh echo 99 > /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/start_charge_thresh echo 0 > /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/start_charge_thresh exit 0 fi exit 0
2nd Option
To control the battery charging thresholds, install the Perl script tpacpi-bat or tpacpi-bat-git from the AUR.
Insert the acpi_call kernel module by running
modprobe acpi_call
or by adding it to the MODULES array in /etc/rc.config.
Manually set the thresholds by calling
perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/tpacpi-bat -v startChargeThreshold 0 40 perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/tpacpi-bat -v stopChargeThreshold 0 80
The example values 40 and 80 given here are in percent of the full battery capacity. Adjust them to your own needs. You may also want to add these lines to /etc/rc.local to set the at startup. While these values should be permanent, they will be reset any time the battery is removed.
perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/tpacpi-bat -h.


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We are a rural Midwest Chevrolet dealer being given the boot by General Motors. We need to re-brand ourselves as an exciting place to purchase used cars and trucks from many different manufactures. I'm looking for a continuation or similar re-invention of our current logo to leverage our 10 years of displaying it in our newspaper ads and car decals.
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Special to the Ukiah Daily Journal
Coro is both Italian and Spanish for chorus.
Coro Mendocino is a wine program unique in the entire United States, where geographically related wineries make wine following a protocol as is done in Bordeaux, Burgundy, Chianti, virtually everywhere throughout Europe, but nowhere else here. Each Coro Mendocino winery produces a wine featuring Zinfandel, the county"s heritage grape, and each wine contains between 40 and 70 percent Zinfandel, with the blending grapes being traditional Mendocino County blending grapes – typically Rhone or Italian varietals.
The wines get blind tasted several times in panel tastings by the program winemakers, with the intent to make the best possible wines, and each wine must survive a pass/fail independent blind tasting to become Coro. There is more that goes into the program, but take my word for it, the Coro wines are as special as the program is unique, and the 2009 vintage Coro wines are spectacular, every single one.
Ten wineries made a 2009 Coro Mendocino, no two are the same and the variations in style are amazing, ranging from lighter to big and dense.
On Saturday June 23, the tiny town of Little River on the Mendocino Coast played host to the 2009 vintage Coro Release Party. The sold out dinner at the Little River Inn was a huge success as an event; the wines, food, and people gathered made for an incredibly memorable evening. The 2009 vintage was poured by ten wineries: Barra, Brutocao, Claudia Springs, Fetzer, Golden, Mendocino Vineyards, McFadden, McNab, Parducci, and Philo Ridge.
In perhaps the most absurd twist of fate, the best way to tell you about last night"s release party dinner for the 2009 vintage Coro Mendocino wines, and the entire Coro Mendocino program itself, is to tell you about an 11th wine that wasn"t poured.
I mentioned that a wine needs a "thumbs up" from a blind tasting panel to be called Coro. I didn"t point out that a "thumbs down" vote would mean not only do you not have a Coro, but because there isn"t the 75 percent minimum quantity required by labeling law you also don"t have a bottle you could call Zinfandel. As an example, if Guinness McFadden came up short in his Coro making efforts, he might be forced to call the resulting wine, "Guinness"s Random Red," which is a much tougher sell, even at a lower price, than the quality assured Coro he might have hoped to make.
This year, Owen Smith of Weibel made a wine that was Coro in all respects.
The wine adhered to the strict protocol of Consortium Mendocino, the collective name of the Coro producers, and had secured the all-important vote from the independent panel that allowed his wine to be called Coro.
In what Monte Hill, member of the Consortium board, described as a comedy of errors (tragedy of errors might be more accurate), two unfortunate events followed: special bottles used only for Coro were accidentally not ordered by another program winery for Weibel"s wine, and then while waiting for fulfillment of an emergency special bottle order, the wine changed through oxidation.
Weibel"s winemaker Smith made adjustments to the wine and saved it but, when tasted alongside the other 2009 Coro wines, he determined that the wine was no longer Coro. There is a high expectation of quality, and he felt his wine no longer met that high standard. Although the wine could very rightly have been called Coro, and Smith could have been insisted that it be labeled so, honor was paramount. Weibel and Smith both took a hit, but gained nothing but respect for their defense of the Coro program.
I"ve tasted Weibel"s 2009 almost-Coro wine, and while not Coro, I think it drinks nicely. I have suggested the wine be called Integrity and sell for around $15 alongside the other 2009 Coro wines.
Owen Smith and Weibel elevated every 2009 vintage Coro wine released last night, and I was thrilled to be able to sit between Owen and Guinness at the release dinner party, two of Consortium Mendocino"s best Coro winemakers – even if one may not see his name grace a Coro bottle.
Okay, now on to the fantastic event and the ten 2009 Coro wines that were there:
The five course sixth annual Coro Producers Release Party Dinner started with a passed appetizer tartar trio of wild king salmon gravlax with sweet onion and dill aioli, red beet with goat cheese and cilantro vinaigrette, and cherrywood cold smoked sturgeon with cucumber chives and cr?me fraiche, paired with sparkling, white and ros? selections from the Coro producers.
The saltiness of the goat cheese and earthiness of the beets paired nicely with many of the ros? wines poured, and the smoked sturgeon was reminiscent of many of Mendocino County"s 2008 vintage wines.
Non Coro wines poured at the reception that captured my attention included the 2011 McNab Ridge Ros? of Syrah, 2011 Barra Pinot Noir Ros?, Parducci"s Ros? of Grenache & Zinfandel, 2010 Bonterra Sauvignon Blanc (I absolutely loved it), NV (2009) McFadden Sparkling Brut (this poured out in no time), and 2011 McNab Ridge French Colombard.
Margaret Pedroni, Consortium board member and marketing powerhouse, met with Little River Inn Chef Marc Dym in advance to make sensible food and wine pairings. The Coro wines were split into three groupings, lighter, medium, and bigger.
Monte Hill was the evening"s master of ceremonies, and in his welcoming comments described Coro Mendocino as a "showcase for Mendocino Country"s heritage grape, Zinfandel." Hill also described the cooperative winemaking process, with blind tastings starting in January with comments from each winemaker, offering constructive criticism and continuing through three more tastings before the big pass/fail tasting the following May.
The Consortium Mendocino is led by an elected officer, the Coro Commander.
Commander George Phelan of Mendocino Vineyards commented that in addition to Chorus, "Coro also means community," then introduced Monte Hill, Margaret Pedroni, and Julie Golden "secretary and czar" from the board.
The first course paired the lighter styled 2009 Coro wines of McFadden, Mendocino Vineyards, and Brutocao with consumm? of Little River shitake mushrooms with fennel and pork dumplings.
Our table included Guinness McFadden, his girlfriend Judith Bailey, two of Judith"s sisters and their husbands, and me – plus Monte Hill and his wife Kay, and Owen Smith. With seven strong McFadden fans at our table (I manage the McFadden tasting room in Hopland), we probably should have had a second bottle of McFadden Coro. I thought it had a lovely cherry noted easy drinkability, and while it paired great with the consumm?, I would love to have had some McFadden Coro remaining to try with the second course"s pork belly.
Guinness McFadden said that his farm produces cool climate Zinfandel, and the lighter style McFadden Coro tasted great with the consumm?. McFadden also noted that while Phelan is the Coro Commander, Julie Golden does so much work for the Consortium that "Golden is really the Coro Admiral, as Admirals outrank Commanders."
The second course paired the medium weight 2009 Coro wines from McNab Ridge, Philo Ridge, Golden, and Barra with Coleman natural pork belly with wilted escarole and soft creamy polenta. I love pork belly and polenta, and really enjoyed this entire flight of wines.
The entr?e paired the bigger 2009 Coro wines from Claudia Springs, Fetzer, and Parducci with "cinghiale" wild boar ragout over pappardelle pasta with red chile garlic broccolini.
Bob Klindt of Claudia Springs spoke about the experience of making a Coro, the fellowship, the experience of offering somewhat harsh criticism of a wine in blind tasting only to find it was his own wine that he felt needed improvement.
I have heard the exact same thing from nearly all of the Coro producers at one time or another. The humbling experience of offering yourself notes for improvement in early blind tastings of your own Coro candidate wine.
Zindanelia Arcidiacono, better known as Z, and Coro winemaker for Fetzer, spoke of the experience of making the best wine she could, of putting so much of herself into the process, that now she could invite us to taste Z in the glass.
I think of Coro wines as brilliant food wines as the different grapes blended in with the base Zinfandel add more flavor notes allowing for pairing magic. Claudia Springs" Coro stood out for me because it was so big and "Zinny," tasting the most like a big Zin and least like a blend. I also loved the smooth rich integrated oak meeting rich supple fruit in Fetzer"s Coro.
Dessert was an Olallieberry galette with Meyer Lemon curd and was enjoyed with whatever Coro wine you wanted to pour with it.
Chef Marc Dym, of the Little River Inn, put together an incredibly successful meal around the various wines being featured.
I liked every 2009 vintage Coro Mendocino, each and every one richly deserving of the name, all perfect ambassadors for Mendocino County"s grape growing and wine making prowess.
If you missed the 2009 vintage release dinner party, there is another opportunity to taste these excellent Coro Mendocino wines in a special showcase event:
Join the Consortium Mendocino at the 2009 Coro Wines Farm to Table Dinner for an evening of great food and wine, followed by dancing under the stars late into the night on the bank of the upper Russian River, Saturday, Aug. 18 from 5:30 to 11 p.m. at McFadden Farm, 16000 Powerhouse Road, Potter Valley, CA 95469.
Tickets are $125 per couple, $65 per single. The stars of the evening, the 2009 vintage of Coro Mendocino wines, will be paired with grilled organic grass fed McFadden Farm beef and seasonal local farm fare. Each Coro Mendocino producer will bring a white, rose, or sparkling wine to complement the organic farm to table fare as well. Seating is limited, call to secure your spot today; McFadden Farm Stand & Tasting Room, (707) 744-8463.


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Three weeks into home run king Barry Bonds's perjury trial, testimony from some of the prosecution's witnesses has exposed how the lives of some of those in Bonds's inner circle have been torn apart in the eight years since the steroid scandal emerged.
If the testimonies are true, Bonds's ex-mistress views her extramarital affair with the former San Francisco Giants slugger as taking years out of her life, leaving her with little to show for them.
Two of Bonds's childhood friends, a brother and a sister, are now estranged from Bonds and the sister feels betrayed by the brother.
And his former personal trainer is now in jail.
While the tales of players and their entourages have become standard fare for the modern American professional sports fan, the stories unfolding in a federal courtroom in San Francisco in some ways represent something unique. They have offered an intimate and unvarnished look at how money and celebrity can become corrupting influences in the lives of the people surrounding them.
"There's a saying among financial analysts: The more money that's involved, the less likelihood for an ethical outcome," said Marianne Jennings, a professor of legal and ethical studies at Arizona State University who has written about Bonds and the steroid scandal.
All four of these individuals had become dependent on Bonds for "a lifestyle that they could not have paid for on their own and, once they got a taste of that, they can't give it up no matter what they see," she says.
Bonds faces one count of obstruction of justice and three counts of making false statements to a federal grand jury in 2003, when he denied knowingly using banned performance-enhancing anabolic steroids.
Bonds's defense team rested Wednesday without calling a witness, meaning closing arguments will be Thursday and the jury could render a verdict Friday. Also Wednesday, prosecutors dropped a fourth charge of perjury against Bonds because US District Judge Susan Illston was prepared to dismiss it.
The former mistress
During their 2-1/2 weeks of calling witnesses, prosecutors called Bonds's former mistress, Kimberly Bell, to testify about physical and emotional changes in Bonds that, they say, point to steroid use. In one instance, Ms. Bell said, Bonds attributed an injury to steroid use.
Bell said she has no intention of becoming the next Mrs. Bonds when the two met in 1994 and started dating.
"He was a handsome guy. He was charming and I was attracted to him," Bell testified on Monday.
Yet when Bonds told her in 1997 that he would marry another woman, she said she was "shocked," "upset," and "blindsided" by the news.
Still, she continued seeing Bonds because "I just didn't think he was going to go through with the marriage."
When Bonds did get married, she settled for the role of "road-trip girlfriend," seeing him while the Giants played away games.
Bonds bought her cars, took her on trips, paid for crowns in her teeth and breast implants, gave her shopping money, and even provided money for a down payment on a house in Arizona.
But she also described changes in Bonds as time went on, like hair loss, increased muscle mass, and bloating, all of which might indicate the use of steroids.
There were also changes in his character, she testified, when he became increasingly hostile, irritable, and aggressive.
Near the end of their relationship in 2003, it got so bad that he threatened to cut off her head, throw her in a ditch and remove her breast implants "because he paid for them."
After the breakup she tried to publish a book and planned on calling it either "In The Shadow Of A Giant" or "Giant Mistake."
She denied she was trying to embarrass Bonds. Instead, she wanted to write about "how someone like me could get caught up in something like this and couldn't get out."
To promote the book, which in the end she never actually wrote, she posed for Playboy.
She also appeared on both Geraldo Rivera's and Howard Stern's shows.
"I wanted what [Bonds] promised and what I lost," she explained, fighting back tears and struggling to keep her composure after hours of testimony last week.
She ended up selling her Arizona house to pay off debts and moved back to California.
Most people who start out in similar situations don't initially realize what they're getting into until they're in too deep, says Dr. Jennings.
"It's a lot like riding a tiger," she says. "They want to get off but have no idea how to do it without getting hurt, and the sad part of it is they are going to get hurt."
The friend
The woman who had introduced Bell to Bonds back in 1994, Katherine Hoskins, also took the stand.
She and her brother, Steve, have known Bonds since childhood.
Her brother was Bonds's personal assistant, making appointments for him, while she became his "shopper," particularly of his clothing. She also packed his clothes at his home before he went on road trips.
She testified that every time she packed for Bonds, she saw his trainer, Greg Anderson, with him and they'd "go into the office for one or two minutes, come back out."
One day in 2002, she said, they came into the bedroom where she was packing and Bonds told Mr. Anderson "let's do it right here," according to Ms. Hoskins's testimony.
When Anderson seemed nervous about this, Bonds told him, "This is Katie. She's my girl. She won't tell anybody."
She said she saw Anderson inject Bonds in his navel area with something from a syringe, she didn't know what, and then Bonds turned to her and said, "That's a little somethin' somethin' for when I go on the road. You can't detect it."
In 2003, Bonds accused Mr. Hoskins of stealing from him and the friendship ended abruptly. Bonds banished Steve from his life, although Katherine packed for Bonds a couple of times after that.
The last time she spoke to Bonds was at his father Bobby Bonds' funeral in August of that year.
Her brother, however, wasn't allowed at the funeral.
At this point in the cross-examination, Ms. Hoskins's demeanor, which had been feisty, began to crack and she lifted her glasses up to wipe tears away with a paper napkin.
Bonds eventually contacted the FBI about his allegation against Mr. Hoskins.
In response, Ms. Hoskins said on the stand, her brother contacted the FBI and told agents about the injection his sister had witnessed.
When later it became clear that the FBI was going to ask her about the incident, she got a lawyer because her brother "threw me under the bus, and that's why I'm over here," she said.
When prosecutor Matthew Parrella questioned her, he asked her: "Are you testifying here just to back your brother up?"
"Absolutely not," she responded.
"Are you happy being here?"
"No," she said, choking up and lifting her glasses to wipe more tears away. "I was put in the middle of this."
Ms. Hoskins's story is particularly poignant, says Derek Van Rheenen, director of Cultural Studies of Sport in Education at the University of California at Berkeley.
"She was witnessing unethical behavior and turning a blind eye," he says. "We need to ask ourselves, what investment do I have in this person that's causing me to ignore my own values?"
"If you're turning a blind eye because you'll be out of a job or feeling like you'll betray someone, that's a challenging position to be in, particularly if your livelihood depends upon it," he adds.
The trainer
Yet, in some ways, Dr. Rheenen sees Anderson's situation as the most intriguing. Anderson has not appeared at the trial because he has been in jail more than a year for refusing to cooperate with federal investigators.
But his name has been ubiquitous at the proceedings. Four witnesses – Jason Giambi; his brother, Jeremy; Marvin Bernard; and Randy Velarde, all current or former professional baseball players – testified that they used banned steroids, some of which they bought from Anderson, who apparently used his association with Bonds to find new clients for a dubious concoction he called "the cream and the clear."
"He's the only one who has paid any price for his behavior so far, certainly with going to prison," says Rheenen. "In a way that's honorable."
But on the other hand, "sometimes loyalty runs face to face up against ethics," Rheenen says. "We really honor loyalty, but if your loyalty is part of unethical behavior then that loyalty has to come into question."


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10 popular summer gardening questions
With so much in bloom, summer is a great time to be working in the garden, but you might encounter a number of puzzling issues. Here are answers to 10 popular summer gardening questions.
1. Can I save seed from my tomatoes and start my own plants next year?
If you are growing heirloom tomatoes or other varieties that aren't hybrids, you can save the seeds from ripe tomatoes and grow identical plants next year from them. Remember that seeds saved from hybrids may not produce plants that are the same as the parent plant. The first hard frost of fall will kill your Tomato plants, so collect seed for next year before then.
2. Should I prune my tomatoes?
Pruning tomatoes is better described as reducing the number of side branches. The purpose of pruning is to remove small, weak growth and allow more light to reach the fruit as it matures. Do not cut the tops off of the main stems, but carefully remove the weaker side stems instead.
3. What type of fertilizer is best for tomatoes?
An all-purpose fertilizer designed for vegetables and flowers will work. Avoid fertilizers that are high in nitrogen, because they stimulate stem and leaf growth, rather than flowers and fruit. For more fruit, try a bloom-boosting fertilizer (one with a higher amount of phosphorus). Make sure that you follow the manufacturer's directions carefully and fertilize less often when the plants begin to set fruit.
4. When can I cut back the leaves of daffodils and tulips?
Wait until the leaves have turned yellow before cutting them back with scissors. Don't pull on the leaves, or the bulb may come up with them.
5. Do tulips come back every year?
Many of the large, colorful tulips will not come back every year. Tulips labeled as perennial can come back for 3-5 years. After that, they become weak and will need to be replaced. Certain types of tulips, such as Fosteriana, Greigii, Kaufmanniana, Darwin Hybrid, and Species, can return if planted in well-drained soil that stays drier over the summer when the bulbs are dormant.
6. Do I need to stake my lilies?
Oriental and trumpet lilies produce large perfumed flowers and will need some support as they come in to bloom. Place tall bamboo stakes or sturdy wire supports near the stems (avoid skewering the bulbs) and tie the stems to the supports with garden tape or twine. Place several ties along the stem, starting a foot below the lowest blooms, to prevent the weight of the blooms from snapping the stem.
7. When should I cut back my rhododendrons?
Early midsummer is the best time to cut back your rhododendrons. Cutting them back right after they bloom allows new growth to develop. New flower buds will form by the end of the growing season.
8. How often do annuals in containers need to be fertilized?
Every 10 days to two weeks during the warmest part of the growing season will give the best results. To encourage more flowers, try a blossom-boosting fertilizer (one that is higher in phosphorus).
9. How much mulch should I use?
Applying three to four inches of mulch around your plants will help keep weeds down and will preserve soil moisture. Never place mulch directly around the base of your plants; keep mulch several inches away from the stems and leaves to avoid rot.
10. How can I get rid of slugs?
Snip them with garden scissors or place shallow containers of beer as bait in the garden so slugs will crawl into them and drown. Or, put on a pair of gloves and pick slugs up by hand late in the day or evening and drop them into soapy water.
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mun2, the fastest growing Hispanic Entertainment cable network in January and 2012, will premiere the third season of I Love Jenni, the original, Hispanic celebrity reality series focused on Latin music superstar Jenni Rivera, on Sunday, April 14 at 9 p.m. EST/8 p.m. CST. mun2.tv will stream episode one the day after air on http://mun2.tv/jenni.
I Love Jenni season 3 talent photo, Shown, left to right: Johnny Lopez; Chiquis Marin; Rosie Rivera; Jacqui Marin, Jaylah Hope; Jenicka Lopez; Michael Marin holding Luna Marin. Photo credit: mun2/Robson Muzel
The new season will feature footage shot in the month prior to Rivera's untimely death, as well as new episodes featuring her family as they create their life and preserve the legacy of their mother, sister and daughter. Featured in the series will be Rivera, her children: Chiquis, Jacqui, Michael, Jenicka and Johnny, as well as her sister Rosie.
As part of its premiere month, mun2 will air We Love Jenni, a new, one-hour special celebrating the life of Rivera, the week prior, on Sunday, April 7 at 9 p.m. "We Love Jenni" features interviews with many of Rivera's celebrity friends and supporters including Thalia, Snoop Lion, Diana Reyes, Regional Mexican stars Tucanes de Tijuana, Horoscopos de Durango and Larry Hernandez, The Voice host Carson Daly, Extras Mario Lopez and more.
I Love Jenni is Executive Produced by Jenni Rivera, Pete Salgado for Jenni Rivera Productions, Shari Scorca, Director, Programming, for mun2, and Edward Paige and Liane Su for Blank Page Productions. The series is an original mun2 production, and airs with English language subtitles.
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YATF - The Young Arab Theatre Fund
The Young Arab Theatre Fund (YATF) is an international organization designed to serve independent young artists living and working in the Arab World. The long term goal of YATF is to encourage the sustainability of the independent artistic scene in the Arab World and to nurture and sustain its development.
Yoox Group
YOOX Group è un'azienda italiana che si occupa di e-commerce, nel settore della moda e del design.


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So, I did my mile repeats at the track on Tuesday (those were quite miserable, but it's the effort that counts, and the fact that actually did them despite the track being locked in, me climbing over the fences, not feeling while warming up, and having first repeat being in time I can't even tell you about...) - pretty darn proud. Did my 2x30min 6% Dreadmill hill repeats on Thursday mid-day (sneaked out of work), and yes, I stayed on that evil machine for an hour and half...those felt easy for some reason. The Bootcamps prosper, my weight rouitne is fine, my easy runs are, thank God, easy...
My friend Eman asked me to support her group of freshman students and get on their team for Longhorn 10k. So, I did...what the heck, right, tempo runs are an important part of the training...
It was rather large (per trail standards, 1000 people and a few), and 90% of them were UT students (kids the age of my kids, ha!). I felt really old and odd and lonely. But the band played the UT anthem, there was a Harlem shake-out, and a canon, and some fire, and we were off...
I felt pretty crappy, like my legs were lead, and every step was requiring effort. But at mile 1.5 I saw my sweetie Larry, who showed up to support me and take photos, and I perked up and resolved to keep giving my best. There were more hills than I knew existed in mid-town Austin, and most of them in the second half. I didn't smile on the run, I focused on each step and arm pump, and grunted, and worked...They put worst hills at mile 5.7, and then 6.1. Right.
Of course, I can never do math, and only when I rested that last hill, saw Larry, did I look at the clock on top of the finisher's banner and realized I am PRing.
I ran 47:26, a 36 sec improvement from the 10k a month ago (and a negative split on the course by 40 sec). A week after a 25k race in PR and a week worth of workouts. I was surely impressed.
Oh, and I was 16th female out of 507 (and about 150th overall out of a touch over 1000 runners) - there were 2 gal (31 and 32 yo) in front of me, and next "older than 20's" was somewhere in 90 spots below...I am an old mama to those children, but I still kick ass. That felt good!
(Actually, it felt kind of sad, if you think about it, that 18-20-something kids are so out of shape, because I am no fast by any definition, the female winner came in 34 minutes. As I walk on the campus each day, I am overwhelmed of how this generation doesn't care about their health, yet along what they look like, and they are uncomfortable walking, breathing hard, pulling their super-short running (!) shorts down and yet holding a huge sugar drink in hands. It is sad that their moms and dads are physically more fit and are healthier.)
But I paid for it on today's "long trail run", which, after suddenly being overwhelmed with feeling drained, I cut short and went back home. And no, I am not feeling guilty for this either. Gotta listen to my body.
I got a little trip next weekend. I am going to pretend to be Dorothy and get my behind to Kansas. For a little race put on by Ben Holmes and Trail Nerds. Called Free States 100k.
And yes, I got a plan too.
I don't know if I hit it, but I will give it my best shot.


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To improve the quality of life of low-income and disadvantaged individuals and families by advocating for their needs and rights; providing services; educating the community; building a community of support; participating in coalitions with other advocates and searching for new resources and partnerships.
We surpassed both of our goals! Thanks to you, this year's Purple Passion 5K/Run 3K/Walk and 18th Annual SMOC Golf Tournament were the most successful yet!
The time, effort and funds you contributed will provide quality services to victims and survivors of domestic and sexual violence in our community. They will also extend Voices Against Violence's hotline services to those in need of direct help. Additionally, SMOC's Common Ground Resource Center will be able to provide more individualized housing services, warm meals, and direct assistances to our single adult population. Again, we are sincerely grateful to our donors, sponsors, event participants, and volunteers that made it happen. Thank You!
On June 12, 2019, staff, board members and friends came together to plant the seeds, remembered Moses and enjoyed the fellowship of the SMOC community. The event was opportunely ended with an ice cream social event for all participants. Watch for the sunflowers to bloom along Bishop Street in Framingham within the next few weeks.
Jerry Desilets was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at this year's MetroWest Community Advocacy Breakfast. Diane Gould, President of Advocates; Eric Masi, President and CEO of Wayside Youth & Family Support Network; and Jim Cuddy, Executive Director of SMOC presented him with the award. The Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes an individual that has passionately dedicated his/her life to public service.
Jerry has been the Director of Planning, Policy, and Community Relations at SMOC for the last 19 years and has been a vocal advocate for the most vulnerable people in our communities. His advocacy has been instrumental in passing legislation; in developing and maintaining strong and stable partnerships with local service providers, legislators, and community leaders; and in bringing communities together on challenging subject matters that need attention but are not always popular. His innate ability to lead and facilitate conversations and to make positive change in the community has made him a deeply admired leader at SMOC and in the community at large. Congratulations Jerry for this well-deserved award!
On November 14th, we celebrated the opening of Serenity House's new location in downtown Framingham. Serenity House, a flagship program of SMOC, is a residential program for women in recovery, funded by the MA Dept. of Public Health. The event was held at 228 Concord St. with guests including Senate President Karen Spilka, Framingham City Council, Dennis Giombetti, Representative Jack Patrick Lewis, and Deputy Director of Bureau of Substance Addiction Services, Jim Cremer.
SMOC renovated the newly purchased 28,000 square foot former nursing home built in 1960. The significantly improved facility is now licensed to house up to 36 women, an increased capacity compared to the previous Serenity House in Hopkinton. There are 5 single occupancy bedrooms dedicated to accommodate pregnant or post-partum mothers on the first floor and 15 double bedrooms on the first floor for the other program's participants.
We celebrated the newly installed Playground at our Pearl Street Family Shelter on October 22, with a ribbon cutting ceremony. This "Bright Spaces" project was made possible by Jane Gibbon from Bright Horizons Foundation for Children, Ben and Heather Bergeron from CrossFit New England, and Amie Turrill Owens Kettlebells4Kids, who raised all the funds for the project and organized volunteers to complete all of the labor required to make the beautiful new playground. They, along with staff and families staying at the shelter were present for the event. SMOC is profoundly grateful for the time and dedication these organizations have put in to making new enriching play spaces for Pearl Street Family Shelter as well as several of our other family programs. The children at Pearl Street will now have a fun, safe, and inviting space to play.
On October 15, 2018, we held the 3rd Annual Women's Wellness Fair in the SMOC Café. With a theme of "Ladies, Your Wings are Ready", the Women's Wellness Fair strives to empower women with fundamental tools to excel in career and essential life skills.
Partner organizations, such as Planned Parenthood, WIC, A Place to Turn, Dignity Matters, Program RISE, and TEMPO were present to offer assistances and information, Dignity Matters graciously provided free bras to the women attending the event.
Women's Wellness Fair seeded from an idea that sprouted three years ago, it has grown and become one of the most important events in SMOC Calendar. We are looking forward to having another one in 2019.
On August 17, 2018, we celebrated the graduation of participants in this year's Summer Jobs for Youth Program. The program has been held successfully for more than 10 years to welcome bright and young talents and introduce them to social services field. This year, participants worked in the agency's Housing Consumer Education Center, Housing Operations, Workforce Development and Finance departments to help with managing resources and clerical works, including research, filing and preparing important presentation packets.
The Summer Jobs for Youth Program provides a holistic introductory experience for high school-aged youth to the nonprofit world. With many departments that target specific issues in the community, participants have the liberty to choose and apply their skills to further amplify SMOC's mission. Summer Jobs for Youth is held annually during the summer months from June-August. Pictured, Ryan (one of the 5 program graduates) receiving his Certificate of Completion with the SMOC Housing team.
We are proud to be one of the recipients of the 2018 Preservation Achievement Awards, presented by Framingham Historical Commission on May 31 at the Framingham Historical Society. SMOC purchased and rehabilitated one of the buildings of Dennison Manufacturing Company, undertaking significant rejuvenations to the interior and creating office space to serve as SMOC's headquarters. Pictured are (from left to right) Frederic Wallace, Chair of the Framingham Historical Commission, Bruce Hulme, SMOC Board Chair, Dennis Giombetti, Framingham City Council and Representative Jack Patrick Lewis.
On April 6th, SMOC celebrated the launch of more than $400,000 in renovations to 73-75 Hollis Street, a SMOC owned and operated building. The Groundbreaking event was held at the 73-75 Hollis Street Police Substation and guests included Framingham Mayor Yvonne Spicer; Nathalie Jean, Framingham Community Development Coordinator; and Framingham Police Chief Kenneth Ferguson, along with board members, staff and other community partners. The improvements are subsidized by HOME funds, a city resource for community development that are allocated by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. Renovations will include interior, exterior, mechanical, and electrical repairs to the building, located in Downtown Framingham.
SMOC's history has been published by local author and Board member Hugo "Holly" Hollerorth. The book is called "Building a Culture of Care: The Ongoing Saga of the South Middlesex Opportunity Council." It is an in-depth look at the origins, history and evolution of the organization through the years. Pictured here are the author (center) with staff members Susan Gentili (left) and Darlene Assencoa (right).
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ORLANDO, FLA. (April 16, 1:20 p.m. ET) — Indian firm Rajiv Plastics Ltd., which says it is one of Asia's largest masterbatch makers, expanded capacity earlier this year by 40 percent, to 34,000 metric tons annually, in response to what it says growth in India's durable goods markets.
Mumbai, India-based Rajiv said it is seeing more demand from multinational companies manufacturing in India, including Whirlpool and Electrolux, and from customers in the packaging and automotive industry.
"There is a lot of growth in engineering plastics compounds," said Director Hemant Minocha, in an interview at NPE2012 in Orlando. "We want to be able to turn around and give our customers material in a few days."
Minocha said the company supplies color and additive masterbatches for commodity and engineering plastics, polymer compounds and alloys and pre-colored engineering compounds, along with doing toll compounding.
The company has factories in Silvassa, north of Mumbai, and in Pune, India. The Pune factory is very close to that city's automobile manufacturing base, including factories for General Motors, VW, Mercedes and Fiat, along with India's Tata Motors.
"We are right in the middle of the action," he said.