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No more opening and closing gates. Holds cattle, hogs, sheep and horses like an electric fence. Flexible fiberglass polyethylene arms support electrical streamers (30" in length and 6" apart) and bend in any direction. Metal never touches the tractor or vehicle, as it is covered by the fiberglass/polyethylene. Gate swings closed automatically. Easy to install. Energized with any electric fencer.
Drive-Thru Electric Gate for Livestock Holdingby Koehn MfgAs low as:$149.95
Protect your valuable horses and livestock from serious injury and unsightly scrapes. Safe-T post caps are designed to conform to a wide range of steel post sizes and stay on tight, eliminating the hazards of sharp, jagged post tops.
T-Post Safety Capsby CZ EngineeringAs low as:$10.95
Dual function tool used to check electic fence voltages and locate fence line faults. Hand-held unit allows you to quickly move down your fence line, comparing voltage and current readings as you go, to locate short circuits and faults on your fence. A significant change in current ampere readings between one point and the next indicates the presence of a fault between these two points. Unit can be used with or without sound setting, which rises in pitch with the magnitude of the current pulse. Does not require an earth leader. 1-year warranty.
Digital Fault Finder for Electric Livestock Fencingby Tru-TestPrice:$99.95
Fits the 13-19' and 18-24' gate.
Drive-Thru Electric Gate - Replacement Streamersby Koehn MfgPrice:$25.95
Vinyl sleeves slip over T-posts for safety and appearance. Complete with cap.
Safe-Fence T-Post Sleeveby PowerfieldsPrice:$7.95
Vinyl sleeve fits 4" x 4" x 5' posts including gates and corners. Complete with caps.
Safe-Fence Wood Post Sleeveby PowerfieldsPrice:$23.95
These bright white 3" x 5" plastic markers give you a safer, more visible fence, even at night. The stainless steel K-Clips instantly attaches to existing wire fences for geater visibility. Comes packed 12 flags and 12 K-Clips per bag.
Fence-Flagsby Generic (brand may vary)Price:$3.95
New improved design has numerous adjustments to keep Hi-Tensile wire coil under control. Has adjustable drag to prevent free wheeling of coil. One-inch shaft turns on greased bushing for smooth operation and long life.
Hi-Tensile Wire Spinning Jennyby North StarPrice:$109.95
In-Line strainer constructed with a galvanized steel frame and aluminum alloy spool and features a spring loaded clip to keep from unwinding. Recommended for high tensile wire use (usually 12.5 gauge wire).
Spring Clip Wire Strainerby PowerfieldsPrice:$3.29
Starts working when your fence stops. Provides an instant warning of low or intermittent voltages to detect fencing problems during hours of darkness. Attach to fences near roadways, driveways, buildings, etc., anywhere fence is passed or seen during hours of darkness. When voltage drops, fence alert flashes to notify you of problems. 1-year warranty.
Fence Alert Warning Lightby Tru-TestPrice:$23.95
Fits the 13-19' and 18-24' gate.
Drive-Thru Electric Gate - Replacement Rodby Koehn MfgPrice:$13.49
Replacement spool for winding and unwinding portable fencing.
Bayguard Wire Replacement Reelby Parker MccroryPrice:$9.39
A quick, convenient way to splice Hot Rope for a better, stronger splice. Appropriate for use with 1/8" and 1/4" electric rope.
Rope Splicerby PowerfieldsPrice:$5.95
Stainless steel clips for use with 3/8" or 1/2" fiberglass posts. Pig tail clips may be used instead of insulators.
Pig Tail Clipsby Parker MccroryAs low as:$8.99
Wind up or pay out your electric fence in minutes. Has a crank handle that operates like a ratchet for fence tension; will handle up to 1/2 mile of Bayguard. Heavy duty plastic. Designed so it can be hung from a permanent fence wire or bolted to a post.
Bayguard Wire Reelby Parker MccroryPrice:$49.99
Complete ground rod kit to get the most from your electric fence system. contains 3 six foot galvanized rods, 3 heavy duty clamps, 48' connection wire and complete instructions.
Safe-Fence Ground Rod Kitby PowerfieldsPrice:$49.95
Install at convenient locations like fence corners and gates to switch off a section of fence for maintenance and routine checks. Stainless steel contacts. Hardware not included.
Heavy Duty Cut Out Switchby Tru-TestPrice:$16.95
Connects to an end tensioner to open gate.
Safe-Fence Gate Handleby PowerfieldsPrice:$2.99
Highly conductive 12-gauge aluminum wire insulated with heavy polyethylene coating for up to 20,000 volts. Ideal for all underground applications. One 49' roll is adequate for connection of two standard gates.
12-gauge Underground Cableby Parker MccroryAs low as:$16.99
Fence compression spring is used to determine wire tension on your fence line. One inch of compression equals 150 lbs of tension. Helps absorb expansion and contraction of the fence wire. Made from 1/4" spring steel. Spring is 1 1/2" diameter, expands from 9" to 18".
Fence Compression Springby PowerfieldsPrice:$7.29
Spring loaded PVC gate handle.
Gate Handleby Parker MccroryPrice:$3.99
Enables you to test the "control factor" of your system and assist you in fault finding, at a very reasonable price. Test voltage under "load" on your fence. Reads from 1,000-10,000 volts; lights glow in sequence to indicate approximate voltage. For use with all fence energizers.
Parmak 6 Light Electric Fence Voltage Testerby Parker MccroryPrice:$11.62
Ideal when using your fence charger for the first time each season. Recharges your battery overnight, rather than waiting several days for solar energy to charge the battery completely.
12-volt Battery Chargerby Parker MccroryPrice:$20.99
Helps protect your 110-volt plug in energizer from power surges caused by lightning strikes. Plugs into any 110 volt outlet, limits high voltage spikes to 350 volts. Absorbs up to 34 watts of transient power.
Electro Gard Lightning Protectorby Parker MccroryPrice:$14.99
Complete with gate handle, 2 tensioners and 20' tape.
Safe-Fence Electric Gate Kitby PowerfieldsPrice:$14.49
Ideal when using your fence charger for the first time each season. Recharges your battery overnight, rather than waiting several days for solar energy to charge the battery completely.
6-volt Battery Chargerby Parker MccroryPrice:$20.99
Securely splices polywire to ensure that electrical current flows properly. Galvanized to prevent rust.
Double Post Polywire Splicerby Powerfields
Quick and convenient way to make a good electrical connection to your polytape or polywire. Complete with two connectors and wire to connect two strands of polytape or polywire.
Polytape to Polytape Connectorby Parker MccroryPrice:$6.29
High strength plastic ratchet tensioners for use on polywire and polytape up to 1" wide. No need to cut material to tension it, just slide it in and turn for tension.
Inline Tensioner for Polytape/Polywireby PowerfieldsPrice:$6.95
Used for adjusting wire tension with the wire strainers.
Spring Clip Wire Strainer-Handleby Zareba SystemsPrice:$5.95
Electri-Gate is a high conductive stretchable cord with a high impact plastic handle. Has an in-line length adjustor for gates from 8 ft. to 20 ft. Comes complete with two 2-way gate anchors.
Electri-Gateby Parker MccroryPrice:$24.99
3/4" stainless steel screws for Safe-Fence R-16 Insulators.
Safe-Fence Plastic Post Insulator Stainless Steel Screwsby Powerfields
A multi-purpose, high conductive connector that can be used with lead wire to provide a connection from the fencer to your fence or for connecting multiple strand fences together; also a great way to splice ½" poly tape.
Wire and Pulse Connectorby Parker MccroryPrice:$2.69
Aluminum connector with wire to connect polytape or polywire to your electric fence charger.
Polytape to Fence Charger Connectorby Parker MccroryPrice:$3.99
For use with ground rods for proper electric fence grounding.
Galvanized Ground Rod - Clampby Tru-Test
Used with Hot Rope or polywire to turn corners or as an end insulator. White only. Bolt measures 6" (measured from the 90 degree angle to the point of bolt.)
Corner & End Tensioner for Electric Ropeby PowerfieldsPrice:$7.95
Suitable for use with any model or brand of low impedance fence charger that has 1 joule or greater output. Provides necessary protection for your charger against the increased voltage surge to your fence created by lightning strikes within several miles. When a Storm Guard Module is in use, it can absorb this surge and fail, instead of causing failure to your fence charger.
Universal Storm Guard Moduleby Zareba SystemsPrice:$22.95


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The vision KG Urban equity partner Barry Gosin has for a casino on the New Bedford waterfront is far from the bright lights of Las Vegas. "I've always been intrigued by buying older buildings and creating character," Gosin said Wednesday at a New Bedford Area Chamber of Commerce breakfast at Hawthorne Country Club in Dartmouth.
The vision KG Urban equity partner Barry Gosin has for a casino on the New Bedford waterfront is far from the bright lights of Las Vegas.
"I've always been intrigued by buying older buildings and creating character," Gosin said Wednesday at a New Bedford Area Chamber of Commerce breakfast at Hawthorne Country Club in Dartmouth.
The spot he has in mind is the site of the century-old former Cannon Street power station, a building he wants to rehabilitate and incorporate into a casino complex.
"The idea is not to let the casino define the town, but to let the town define the casino," said Andrew Stern, managing director of KG Urban. "We view it as an urban development project that just happens to have a casino."
KG Urban's plans for a New Bedford casino, however, are complicated by a section of the state expanded gambling law that gives an eligible federally recognized American Indian tribe the first shot at exclusive rights to the southeastern Massachusetts market. The Mashpee Wampanoag tribe is proposing building a casino in East Taunton on land it has an option to purchase. KG Urban is challenging that section of the state law in federal court.
Describing the vision for his proposed casino, Gosin, who also serves as CEO of real estate firm Newmark Grubb Knight Frank, first discussed old buildings his company has bought over the past 30 years in New York.
"I guess the point I'm trying to make is that we are not a gaming company," he said.
Gosin, however, does have some previous experience in the casino industry. A previous foray into the business led to the development of the Sands Casino Resort on a former Bethlehem Steel plant site in Pennsylvania.
"We loved the building, but didn't know what to do with it, but we bought it," he said.
Around the same time, Gosin recalled, Pennsylvania opened its doors to expanded gambling, and he decided to work with Sands to pursue a casino on that property. Maintaining the site's historic character and connection to the community, he said, were priorities. He views the New Bedford proposal in a similar vein.
"We saw we could use gaming to do more than build a box in the middle of green space," he said. "We saw we could bring energy back to a town and bring people back into the grid."
KG Urban, Stern said, would clear the site except for the old power plant and an old foundry.
"Then we would tastefully develop the site slowly," Stern said.
The complex, he said, would eventually have two hotels, a casino and a conference center. There would also be a harbor walk that would be open to the public. He projects it would support 2,000 construction jobs and 4,000 permanent jobs.
"The first thing people here said was, 'It has to be welcoming to us, not just to people driving here from 50 miles away,'" Stern said.
KG Urban and its partners, he said, are prepared to invest $500 million in the first phase of proposed development and more than $900 million in total.
The New Bedford casino, though, is far from being built. Under the current law, which KG Urban is challenging in court, the state will only take commercial casino bids if it determines the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe won't be successful in its pursuit of land sovereignty.
"The furthest thing from our minds was to be in a courtroom right now," Stern said. "Hopefully we will be given an opportunity for bid for a license, just like companies … in other regions."
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PHOENIX (Thursday, June 7, 2012) -- Attorney General Tom Horne today announced that the Attorney General's Office will pay $420,000 to the Mohave County Sheriff for overtime pay to patrol Colorado City 16 hours per day. The hours will be staggered, so that wrongdoers can feel the presence of the Sheriff's Office 24 hours a day.
"This action is necessary because of evidence that local police placed their allegiance to Warren Jeffs over their duty to enforce the law objectively, regardless of people's religion," Horne said. "A vote to replace local Police with the Sheriff's Office narrowly failed in the Legislature this year, and this grant will serve as a bridge until next year, when hopefully the legislation with pass."
This year, the House Committee on Government heard detailed testimony that the seven members of local law enforcement: (1) All were loyal to Warren Jeffs rather than the law; (2) If one were not totally loyal to Warren Jeffs, he would lose his job, his wives and his children; (3) That when girls try to escape from their harems, local police catch them and drag them back, so that they are prisoners; (4) That local police have participated in expelling about 1,000 young men to other cities or highways (to hitchhike) so that the old men can dominate the young girls without competition; and (5) that it is useless to go after the police officers one at a time because they are replaced by other FLDS officers loyal to Jeffs.
Mohave County Sheriff Tom Sheahan said, "I sincerely appreciate the commitment and the financial resources provided by Attorney General Tom Horne. This funding will allow us to increase our patrol presence in Colorado City and provide unbiased law enforcement services that the citizens do not have with the Town Marshal's Office."
The $420,000 comes from asset forfeiture funds obtained through criminal drug prosecutions, known as Federal Asset Sharing. The Federal Government has approved this grant. It will take effect when it is accepted by the Mohave County Board of Supervisors, July 2.
Horne concluded, "I am grateful to Sheriff Sheahan for his willingness to take on these added duties to ensure that all Arizonans have access to law enforcement professionals."


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Harrison Barnes was traded mid-game from the Mavericks to the Kings. Shortly afterward, Anthony Davis was quick to like LeBron James' social media post calling out the hypocrisy of judging players for wanting to be traded. Jason Smith is not buying the outrage and explains why this is clearly damage control or a last-gasp effort by LeBron and AD to push for a trade before tomorrow's deadline.


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National Archaeological Museum of Naples
Piazza Museo, 19 - Tel. 081.4422149 - Sito web: marcheo.napolibeniculturali.it
It is the most ancient and important archaeological museum in Europe; it can boast the richest and valuable heritage of archaeological works of art and artefacts in Italy. The collections are displayed on the ground floor, the basement, mezzanine and main floor. On the ground floor, you will find the Greekroman marble sculptures; most of them Classic and Hellenistic Age copies, that are often the only ones of now lost originals. They come from several sites: First of all from the Farnese collection and then from several excavations Toro Farnese is of remarkable importance. In the basement, there are the epigraphic section and the Egyptian section. On the main floor, we start from Salone della Meridiana that originally was to host the Bourbon library named after the sundial drawn on the floor: Here the great Atlante Farnese is kept. From Salone della Meridiana you can go to the Frescoes collection leading to the rooms dedicated to Villa dei Papiri, the sumptuous Pisoni house in Herculaneum from which sculptures, bronzes and the famous papyruses with Greek texts come and are now kept at the National Library.
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Services: Disabled access; bookshop; library
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A federal study on the sexual behavior of young Americans released on Thursday countered a widespread belief that oral sex was increasing and vaginal sex decreasing among teenagers due to fears of pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.
Two in every three young Americans have engaged in oral sex, about the same percentage as those who have engaged in vaginal intercourse, the study by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's Center for Vital Statistics found.
It also showed that the rates of both practices among the U.S. youth have dropped since a decade ago.
The study showed that about equal numbers of young women and men aged between 15-24 have had oral sex, and that about a quarter – 26 percent of women and 24 percent of men – had first had oral sex before engaging in vaginal intercourse.
Around a quarter of youth had likewise had oral sex only after first experiencing vaginal intercourse, the study said.
The belief that oral sex was being practiced more and vaginal sex less to avoid pregnancy and STDs has gained traction in recent years.
"Now we know that's not necessarily true," Monica Rodriguez, president and chief executive of the nonprofit group, the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States, told Reuters.
"Now we have some real data," she said after reviewing the new study based on 6,346 interviews conducted between 2007-2010.
Teenage oral sex has declined slightly since 2002, as has vaginal sex, the author of the CDC study Casey Copen said. She attributed the drop to a "decreasing trend in sexual experience among teens."
The study also revealed differences in experiences linked to race, education and income.
White youth and those from more educated, two-parent homes are more likely than others their age to engage in oral sex first, the study showed. It found that 44 percent of white youth had oral sex before vaginal sex, compared to 30 percent of black youth.
"A higher percentage of females and males who had oral sex, but not yet had vaginal intercourse, had mothers who had some college education or higher," the study found.
Also, females who had oral sex, but had not yet had vaginal intercourse, were more likely than others their age to live with two biological parents, according to the study.
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Moderately high in fat content, Sturgeon has a mild, delicate flavour with lean flesh that is firm and meaty, similar in texture to chicken breast or veal. It takes well to marinades and dry rubs, like this delicious recipe for Indian Spice-Crusted Grilled Sturgeon. Coated in an aromatic mixture of coriander seeds, cumin, cardamom, cloves, black peppercorns, cinnamon and fresh thyme, the filets are then sautéed quickly in a a little olive oil then roasted in the oven for 10-15 minutes. The rich succulent flesh turns white when cooked, becoming wonderfully crunchy on the surface and deliciously moist in the centre.
Spice Crusted Grilled Sturgeon
Serves 2
3/4lb sturgeon fillet, cut into two pieces
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp cumin seed
1/2 tsp coriander seed
2 cloves
2 green cardamon pods, seeds removed and kept, pods discarded
5 black peppercorns
1/2 tsp sea salt
1 bunch of rapini, trimmed and washed
olive oil
1 lemon
fresh dill for garnish
Preheat oven to 450°F. Place the spices in a small food processor or spice grinder, and pulse until the mixture becomes a coarse powder, then pour onto a large plate. Brush the sturgeon filets in a little olive oil, then dredge the sturgeon, flesh side down, in the spices.
In a non-stick pan over a medium heat, add a little olive oil. When the oil is hot enough, place the sturgeon, spice side down and sear until the spices are golden, about 5 minutes. Flip the fish over, and place the pan into the oven. Turn the oven down to 350°F, and continue cooking for about 15 minutes, until the sturgeon is cooked all the way through.
While the sturgeon is cooking, steam the rapini over high heat until the leaves are wilted and the stalks are al dente, about 10 minutes. Once cooked, squeeze a little lemon juice over top and toss to combine.
To plate, place the rapini on a platter and top with sturgeon fillet, spice side up. Garnish with a little fresh dill and slices of fresh lemon.


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Young Living's Inner Defense reinforces systemic defenses, creates unfriendly terrain for yeast/fungus, promotes healthy respiratory function, and contains potent essential oils like oregano, thyme, and Thieves oil blend which is rich in thymol, carvacrol, and eugenol for immune support. The liquid softgels dissolve quickly for maximum results. Softgel capsule has been reformulated with fish gelatin to remove the need for carrageenan and beeswax used in the porcine gelatin based softgel.
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Young Living Inner Defense Softgels
Inner Defense softgels reinforce systemic defenses. This creates unfriendly terrain for yeast and fungus, promotes healthy respiratory function. Inner Defense soft gels contain potent essential oils like oregano, thyme, and Thieves® which are rich in thymol, carvacrol, and eugenol for immune support. The liquid softgels dissolve quickly for maximum results.
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- Creates unfriendly terrain for yeast and fungus*
- Promotes healthy respiratory function*
- Rich in thymol, carvacrol, and eugenol for immune support*
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Many people think essential oils are the same as herbs, but there is a huge difference. Essential oils are far more potent. Essential oils are highly concentrated forms of fresh or dried herbs. To illustrate, it often takes many pounds of herbs to make a mere ounce of essential oil. Because of their concentrated potency, it takes only a very small amount of essential oil to support the body systems and improve immune health.*
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- Ahmad, et al., "Antimicrobial activity of clove oil and its potential in the treatment of vaginal candidiasis," J Drug Target. 2005; 13(10):555–561.
- H. G. Meeker, et al., "Antibacterial action of eugenol, thyme oil, and related essential oils used in dentistry," Compendium. 1988; 9(1):32, 34–5, 38 passim.
- Didry et al., "Activity of thymol, carvacrol, cinnamaldehyde, and eugenol on oral bacteria. Pharm Acta Helv. 1994; 69(1):25–28.
- G. Q. Zheng, et al., "Sesquiterpenes from clove (Eugenia caryophyllata) as potential anticarcinogenic agents," J Nat Prod. 1992; 55(7):999–1003.
- Youdim, et al. "Dietary supplementation of thyme (Thymus vulgaris L.) essential oil during the lifetime of the rat: its effects on the antioxidant status in liver, kidney, and heart tissues." Mech Ageing Dev. 1999; 109(3):163–175.
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Athletes, fans just look at things differently
Blackhawks winger Patrick Kane became the latest person to comment on whether Bulls point guard Derrick Rose should return to play this season on a surgically repaired knee.
That leaves only a few people on the planet who haven't given an opinion on the subject.
Two of them are the current pope and the previous pope, both of whom likely are too busy praying for Rose. Another is the president of Florida Gulf Coast University, who is too busy texting other college presidents saying, "We're in the Sweet Sixteen and you're not." Another is the last sheep herder in New Zealand without ESPN.
Otherwise, all precincts have been heard from concerning Rose.
Kane, an NHL most valuable player candidate this season, reportedly said Monday that Rose should sit out the rest of this season for the long-term well-being of both him and the Bulls.
Many agree. Others like me believe Rose, weeks ago cleared to play, should have already played at least a couple of games to continue the rehabilitation process.
It became clear to me long ago that athletes aren't like us and we aren't like them.
We go to work for something like 40 or 50 hours a week for something like 40 or 50 years, hopefully are able to pay this month's bills, save a few thousand dollars for emergencies and in retirement rely on Social Security to feed our goldfish.
Big-time athletes like Kane and Rose have a different perspective. They go to work for anywhere from 16 games to 82 games to 162 games a year, do it for a decade or so, are paid more in a year than we are in a lifetime, walk away with millions of dollars and ultimately in retirement use their pension plans to feed their strings of polo ponies.
As much time as I have spent around these basketball, hockey, football and baseball players, I never pretend to be able to relate to them, and a good guess is that most working stiffs can't.
We don't have long-term contracts. We don't have annual salaries ranging from the collectively bargained minimum of a few hundred thousand dollars to the individually negotiated tens of millions of dollars.
But we do have advantages like being able to work at what we do best longer than they do. We get to eat at Denny's with nobody bothering us while they have to hide out in VIP areas just to have a quiet sip of champagne. We can make financial decisions without being pestered by downtown CPAs, stockbrokers, lawyers, portfolio managers and money launderers.
Athletes and fans live in different worlds. Many of them reside in gated communities to protect them from jewel thieves and some of their worshippers have steel bars on bedroom windows to protect them from petty thieves.
That explains why the thinking varies so much on what Derrick Rose should do.
Many athletes tend to believe that Rose, with so few working years to expand his approximate net worth of $400 million, should be cautious about jeopardizing his future.
Many common folk believe Rose should do what they have to do, which is get back into the office or the factory or the farm fields and help the people with whom they normally work with to get the job done.
So they aren't like us, we aren't like them, and it would be interesting to know whether Derrick Rose's predicament ever is discussed at the Vatican.


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I am intrigued with living and conceptualizing the emerging paradigm of the Sacred Feminine. May you experience this blog as a Circle where you can breathe in to who you are. May you find new dimensions to yourself.
How to Stay Out of Drama
Our sacred space gets cluttered when we go into drama. What actually happens in the ind then? How do you stay out of it? I recently had the chance to practice during a blow-up of a good friend. It was a painful moment, and I knew I didn't want to get triggered into old behaviors. This is how I worked with my new understanding of the working of mind, and how it is helping me to NOT get pulled into drama.
So here is what I witness in me: the moment she says: 'I had expected you to say sorry, but as you are not doing that I see no other road than to break up', it hurts. A lot is happening in me. It all happens in a flash, but using the Buddhist understanding of the layers of the ego, also called the skandha's, helps me to tease it apart and not get sucked in.
The first skandha is called the Birth of Ignorance. In this situation, what I witness is: I sense distancing. My ego makes out of that that she is distancing herself from me. That is a perception, and thereby I separate myself off from the living situations she and I are both part of.
It is called the Birth of Ignorance because once you go with this, the rest follows suit.
The second skandha is that I throw my perception of this distancing into the category 'threatening', and it immediately raises fear of losing the friendship. I don't relate anymore to this unique moment and person, I start reacting to 'threat of losing relationship'.
Then the third skandha kicks in, which has various contradictory elements: I really love her, so I want to 'save the relationship', giving in my ego rise to lying low, pulling and tugging. At the same time, I am indignant at being 'treated' like this, which in my ego gives rise to closing down. If I let this all happen, my resulting behavior would be pretty awful... As I write it down things start shifting, but let's stay with this enquiry a moment longer.
Like a layered cake, the fourth skandha comes on top of that: my ego rationalizes: 'because my friend is threatening me, I have no choice but to lie low and pull and tug, and it is natural that my heart wouldn't be open anymore'.
Then comes the fifth which is like the sugaring which covers all, hides what is within and keeps it together: the stream of consciousness. The flow of my thoughts and feelings starts repeating over and over these same five layers: 'she threatens to end the relationship, that scares me, I got to do something about that, better say sorry , say even more sorry, oh how can I prevent her breaking up, that would be terrible, but really this is too much, I don't like being threatened, who does she think she is, but what if it really ends,…' , and on and on, gluing the layers ever tighter together.
Teasing it apart, I see so many of my reactions are actually not towards my friend or the situation, but towards the grid that I lay over the situation. Exactly that is the Birth of Ignorance! And with it comes all confusion, misunderstandings, blow-ups, drama, ....
Seeing through it, suddenly there is so much space and heart! I see how it all started with the deeper current that is moving through our friendship, where there is more distance. I realize I never allowed my sorrow over that, and never enquired into why that happened. I realize she too must have sensed it, and I start wondering how that has been for her, and what her ego has been making out of it. I sense now I have been missing her, and realizing how seldom I reached out to her in the past year. I feel myself entering a very different place.
Perceiving is an art. It asks that you are both capable of being with the whole range of your feelings, and of analyzing what is happening in your mind.
Learning more about this art opens the heart, creates space and connects. For many years, I invested in finding and celebrating that state of open surrender and connection, and I know I am good at it. But it was hard for me to tap into it in my daily life, and to stay with it when challenging things like now with my friend happened. I am so happy that in the course of the last few years this has changed! I know many of us are dealing with exactly that same challenge: we know that state of opennness and heart, but we lose it too often, at work and in daily life... I feel eager and ready to share now an integrated approach, having in it both the keys to celebrate your unique magic and to keep that openness when triggered.
Let's bring more beauty, soul and magic into our lives. Enjoy your sacred space, Bless you,
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KIEV, Ukraine – Pro-Russia rebels fired missiles Friday at government troops near the Russian border, killing at least 19 servicemen, Ukraine's Defense Ministry said, adding that four other troops died elsewhere in eastern Ukraine.
The statement revised an earlier ministry report of 30 troops killed in the pre-dawn attack at a forward operating base in eastern Ukraine.
Defense Ministry spokesman Vladislav Seleznev gave the figure of 19 on his Facebook account and reported the four other troop deaths. He did not elaborate on those circumstances.
Ukrainian government troops have been fighting for more than three months against separatists in eastern Ukraine. In the last two weeks, however, they have cut the territory held by the rebels in half and forced them out of their stronghold in the city of Slovyansk. The rebels have since regrouped in Donetsk, an eastern industrial city of 1 million, and Ukraine has vowed to cordon the area.
The Defense Ministry said the troops struck in Friday's attack had been trying to secure the porous border with Russia, which Ukraine says has been crossed by large numbers of militants transporting armored vehicles and weapons. It said 93 soldiers were injured in the clash.
Rockets were fired from a Grad missile launcher around 15 kilometers (nearly 10 miles) away, the ministry said.
The operating base was located near one of three border crossings whose closure Russian officials had announced Friday.
Border crossings are of particular concern to both sides. Ukraine says Russia is supporting and arming the rebels, but Russia denies the charges. The rebels have captured a few of the border crossings and Ukraine has demanded them back.
Russian news agencies quoted Vasily Malayev, spokesman for the Federal Security Service in the Rostov region, as saying the border crossings east of Donetsk were temporarily closed late Thursday because of fighting.
Ukraine on Friday said it had regained control of one of those rebel-held crossings.


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toss (one's) hat in(to) the ring
To announce or make known one's intention to compete against others for something, especially in a political race. After Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor of California, it seemed like all sorts of celebrities tried tossing their hats in the ring.
toss one's hat into the ringand throw one's hat in the ring
Fig. to announce that one is running for an elective office. Jane wanted to run for treasurer, so she tossed her hat into the ring. I won't throw my hat into the ring until the last minute.


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Rainy season brings along the ample desired respite from the heat, nonetheless, the season likewise throws a challenge at you when it comes to dressing up. One at all times wants to appear modish but to ruin your shoes and attires in the drizzly climate is not an option.
Wear light garments
One should dress light and breathable cloths like Cotton. Synthetic clothes should be evaded totally. A fashionable slicker or trench coat is a necessity to turn heads this Monsoon. You can likewise enhance to Gum Boots in vibrant colors to appear chic.
Go short
You can as well wear shorts, short Skirts, and dresses that are the utmost suitable to carry in monsoon. In any case, you can as well team up quirky accessories to add more life to your style statement and looks more practical.
Play with colors
Opt dark colors as rain marks tend to show in light colors. It besides works well to uplift one's mood and personality. For this monsoon, you can be fashionable yet cozy by wearing Playsuits, as they are easy to go, breathable and favorable.
Colors like splendid pink, blue, orange and yellow are a perfect pick when combined with neutrals.
Nylon bags
Keeping everything harmless yet flaunt your fashion this monsoon by opting for nylon and transparent bags that will keep all your valuables secure and dry when it rains.
Vibrant feet!
Fashion expert and brand influencer, Bandana Sondhi said, "When it comes to footwear, wear vibrant Flip Flops and sandals. Light comfortable flip flops and jelly flats save you from the unpredictable puddles and muddy streets. They can be worn easily with almost any outfit."
Skin care
In monsoon, skin care is very necessary. It is advantageous to stay hydrated and saturate your skin at the same time. When it comes to makeup, light and natural looks are perfect to prevent your skin from getting gluey.
"Get your hands on gel-based foundations and concealers as they will make your face look hydrated and even toned. Opt for light shades in matte lipsticks and not very dark ones because it may leave marks during the downpour. Waterproof varieties are also a must," added Bandana.
Don't forget your umbrella!
Last but not the least, a pleasant and vibrant collection of umbrellas is a must have in monsoon. The small and foldaway varieties can be put in your bag easily as they are very compact.
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Natalie in Venice
Duana and I disagree on many things – Michael Phelps, her hair, my hair, Anne Hathaway – but we are most diametrically opposed on the subject of Natalie Portman. Duey can't bear Natalie Portman. I, on the other hand, worship Natalie Portman.
Here she is, at various engagements during the Venice Film Festival, looking impossibly beautiful and natural and effortless, dressed down or dressed up. Major hard-on.
Natalie will also be headed to TIFF to promote New York, I Love You. Her Boleyn sister Scarlett Johansson is expected at the festival too, as is her ex, Gael Garcia Bernal for Blindness.
She and Gael once shared a flat together in Toronto a couple of years ago during an ON period of their On/Off relationship. Interestingly enough, Toronto is also where Gael experienced some assistant issues which have hopefully been resolved now that he's pregnant.
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Poisonous pet food. Lead paint on children's toys. The latest potentially defective Chinese import to hit American shores: tire-valve stems, the rubber shafts that allow motorists to fill their tires with air.
There are at least 36 million of the imported valve stems on tires on American roads. Any of them could cause dangerous tire failures this summer.
Already, a lawsuit has blamed a defective tire-valve stem for a crash that killed a Florida driver. One US importer issued a formal recall this month; another alerted the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), which has begun an investigation. Earlier this month, the federal agency issued an advisory to motorists to check their tires for wear but said nothing about valve stems.
Most of the valves in question, which are said to crack prematurely, appear to be on tires sold between September 2006 and June 2007.
The extent of the problem won't be known until NHTSA completes its investigation, says an agency spokesman. But some independent safety experts say motorists should be warned to inspect the tire-valve stems immediately.
"The company [that imported most of the tires] has issued a technical bulletin, but nobody seems to know about it," says Sean Kane, an auto-safety consultant with Safety Research & Strategies in Rehoboth, Mass., which issued its own public warning Thursday. "We need to know because the public is entering the high-risk summer season, and this is a real problem that potentially affects millions of vehicles."
'A potential defect' noted
The investigation appears to stem from a lawsuit filed after the fatal crash in November of Robert Monk of Orlando, Fla. In March, his widow sued Dill Air Controls Products, blaming its tire-valve stem for causing the right rear tire of her husband's SUV to fail, precipitating the vehicle's rollover. Shortly after the suit was filed, the Oxford, N.C., company approached NHTSA with a report of "a potential defect." The agency last month began investigating the valve stems the company distributes in the US.
Some 30 million suspect valve stems were manufactured over a five-month period in 2006 for Dill by Topseal, a subsidiary of Shanghai Baolong Automotive Corp., based in Shanghai, according to NHTSA's preliminary summary of its investigation. In May, Dill issued a technical bulletin to its customers: "We have received a number of parts showing surface cracks on the outside of the rubber near the rim hole.... Out of an abundance of caution, we are recommending that when customers return to your stores for regular service, you inspect the valve stems on vehicles who received valve stems during the period September 2006-June 2007."
The Orlando attorney for Mr. Monk's widow says more should be done.
"They talk about an 'abundance of caution' but aren't really following through," says Richard Newsome. "With summer vacation coming up and families taking trips, the right thing to do for consumers is issue an order to check valves and look for cracks."
The company counters that it is taking appropriate action.
"We are working with an independent rubber laboratory to determine exactly which lots during the suspect time period may crack due to ozone exposure, which will be a small portion of the total. When the results are in, we can determine our next steps," says Brian Rigney, general manager for Dill Air Control Products in an e-mail. "In the interim, we plan to publish a bulletin on our website with instructions on how a consumer can inspect their valve stems (regardless of the manufacturer), since it can be seen on the rubber portion of the stem outside the wheel." [Editor's note: The original omitted the company's response.]
Mr. Kane, the auto-safety consultant, says the valves could deteriorate and crack in as few as six months. Dill's suspect valves were manufactured more than 1-1/2 years ago, from July through November 2006, according to the company.
On June 2, another auto-parts importer, Tech International of Johnstown, Ohio, issued a formal recall notice for 6 million valve stems made by a Chinese company with nearly the same name – Shanghai Baolong Industries Co., Ltd. – and the same address. Dates of manufacture of the defective product are also the same.
In its recall notice, Tech said, "the defect is such that after the valve stem has been in service approximately six months or more, the rubber compound may undergo cracking," resulting in loss of tire pressure. It blamed the defect on "improper mixing of the rubber compound in the manufacturer's facility." Calls Friday to Tech International and an attorney representing the company were not returned.
No basis yet for national alert
For its part, NHTSA says the Tech recall is a good enough reason for consumers to have tire valves checked. But until the Dill investigation is complete, there's not enough basis for a national alert.
"We monitor all forms of vehicle equipment, and we're always on the lookout out for abnormal rates of failure," says Rae Tyson, a NHTSA spokesman. "We are looking at every aspect of these valve stems.... We can't presume defects till we've completed an investigation."
In response to public outrage over contaminated pet food and lead paint on toys made in China, Congress moved last year to bolster the US Consumer Product Safety Commission. But a bill to boost commission funding and force it to notify consumers of unsafe products more quickly has not yet passed.
The agency does not oversee tires.
"Congress and whatever agency [involved in overseeing Chinese imports] don't do enough," says Peter Navarro, a business professor at the University of California at Irvine. "It's very hard because they're understaffed and underbudgeted."


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Electric Playground takes its name from Electchester Homes, a housing development opened from 1951 to 1954 through the efforts of Harry Van Arsdale (1903-1986), head of Local 3 of the Brotherhood of Electric Workers. The 38-building community was built in response to the housing shortage faced by city residents after World War II. Electchester homes rest on the former grounds of the 136-acre Pomonok Country Club, whose 300 members voted to disband in 1949. The members of the union each contributed $100 towards the Electchester's construction, with the union matching the amount raised. The Brotherhood of Electrical Workers also donated land on the grounds for the construction of P.S. 200 and Electric Playground.
The kite with key, light bulbs, and eels that adorn the play equipment at Electric Playground are linked by the common theme of electricity. Electric eels (Electrophorus electrius) are able to produce high voltages in order to stun prey. The light bulb and kite with key symbolize two important achievements in the understanding of electricity. Humankind's awareness of electricity began with the Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, who was the first person to record his experiments with electricity. In the fifth century BC, Thales noted that amber could acquire the power to attract small objects. Three centuries later, another Greek thinker, Theophrastus, wrote that this power is common to other objects as well.
The word "electricity" was coined by the English scientist William Gilbert and is derived from the Greek word elektron, meaning amber. In the 17th century Gilbert conducted the first major scientific study of electricity, cataloguing the forces that different objects acquire when rubbed. The first electrical condenser, the Leyden Jar, developed in 1745, consisted of two pieces of tinfoil attached to either side of a glass jar. The contraption produced a spark when touched to a device that created static electricity.
However, a unified electric theory was not proposed until 1747 when the acclaimed scientist and American statesman Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) developed a "fluid" theory of electricity. Franklin postulated that lightning was an electrical phenomenon and was made of the same "fluid" present in the spark of a Leyden jar. Franklin's theory called for two forms of electricity, positive and negative, and was proven by experimentation in England and France before Franklin's famous kite experiment in 1752. In his experiment, Franklin flew a kite in a lightning storm so that charge from the lightning flowed down his kite's string to a key attached to the end. A piece of metal attached to the key then acted as one pole of a Leyden Jar, creating the same spark as other forms of static electricity.
In 1880 Alessandro Volta created the battery, the first artificial electrochemical source of potential difference. The battery was improved upon by Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), who was responsible for most of the advances in electric technology that took place over the next fifty years. Working from his laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey, Edison invented the phonograph in 1877, the Kinetoscope (a precursor to the motion picture projector) in 1888 and the world's first incandescent light bulb in 1879. Over the next decade, Edison worked to make the implementation of his light bulb invention more feasible by improving the generators and dynamos necessary to deliver current to the bulb. Because of its practical nature, electric lighting grew in popularity and, in 1882, Edison was commissioned to build the world's first centralized power station, located in New York City.
The City acquired the property for Electric Playground on November 15, 1951, and Parks immediately obtained jurisdiction over the property. Commissioner Stern named the playground on April 8, 1998 before a $550,000 renovation, funded by Council Member Morton Povman, which gave the park its current electric theme in 1999. Electric Playground also features a Franklinia tree (Franklinia alatamaba), named in honor of Ben Franklin, street lamp, and wire shaped play equipment, one full and two half basketball courts, two handball courts, and a backstop for games of baseball. Despite the park's name, all play equipment is electrically neutral and thus safe for children of all ages.
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- Project Address: June Washam Road (south of the "S" turn), Davidson NC 28036
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- Acres: 51.62
- Building Type: Detached House
- Development Description: NVR-Ryan homes "the Applicant" intends to develop the 52± acre site for a detached, single-family residential community. In conjunction with this development, the Applicant is coordinating with the North Carolina Department of Transportation and The Town of Davidson regarding the realignment of a portion of June Washam Road in order to provide additional traffic calming measures to support safer mobility in the area.
- The Washam neighborhood is located on the south side of June Washam Road. The proposed development includes property located within the Neighborhood Edge and Rural planning areas. As proposed, the +/-52 acre Washam neighborhood will feature 82 housing units with +/- 20.9 acres of open space, yielding 1.6 units per acre with 40% open space.
- Developer: NVR – Ryan Homes
A site plan was received on May 13, 2016. A complete application was received on May 27, 2016.
Timeline of review:
- Public Input Session: July 13, 2016.
- Planning Board: September 26, 2016.
- Master Plan Approved: December 1, 2016.
Development Update (September 25, 2017):
- When will erosion control installation take place? Scheduled 10/16/17 – 11/24/17
- When will the parcel be cleared? Partial 10/1/17 – 10/27/17, remainder 11/27/17 – 1/5/18
- How long do you anticipate construction to occur (to begin selling houses)? Phase 1 Land Development will take approximately 8 months. Home construction will follow (4-5 months for first units coming online). Phase 2 anticipated to begin in fall of 2018. See phasing plan here.
Master Plan Set (First Submittal)
Master Plan (For Public Input Session 7/13/16)
Notes and Additional Site Exhibits
Architectural Boards (Illustrative Only)
Perspective of Community Green
Revised Master Plan for Planning Board Review and Comment (9/16/16)
Master Plan Approved (12/1/16)
- Developer: C2 Design and Development - Project Manager: Sean Calloway, email@example.com, 704-965-4686
- Builder: Ryan Homes - Project Manager: Paul Patyk, firstname.lastname@example.com, 704-201-9745
- Site Design: Cole Jenest & Stone - Project Manager: Joel Causey, firstname.lastname@example.com, 704-971-4519
- Town Contact: Planning Department, email@example.com


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If I may, I would like to suggest a contest: Find the worst soundfont you can (MuseScore 1 is acceptable if you don't want to download a new one - just use oboe, accordion, or another really bad-sounding instrument soundfont), then write a short song for it and see if you can make it sound good! It can be for any instrument.
The idea is credit of Benjamin Basford (https://musescore.com/basfordmedia - discussion here: https://musescore.com/basfordmedia/moriartys-grip#comment-1049596). The deadline is August 9th, so you have a full month to do it. The judges (me and whoever else would like to be one) can enter but may not judge themselves.
Good luck!
Hey guys, I'm new. I was wondering if you could help put some lyrics I've written to some music. I will be adding more to the sheet but bear with me please. Thank you so much and I look forward to your ideas.
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Switzerland and the Netherlands are strong and innovative countries with a long history in precision engineering. To increase the cooperation between the countries, this report has reviewed the respective precision engineering industries in both countries. This report could therefore serve as an introduction and reference manual on the relevant R&D-landscape in both countries for those parties who want to cooperate. The report focusses on 'Mechatronics and Manufacturing', 'Components and Circuits' and 'Nanotechnology', and the application-areas 'Health-tech', 'Advanced Instrumentation' and 'Semiconductor equipment'.
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C# delegates allows to use a method like an object. This means that you are able to pass the method as an argument to some other method. This is done by pointing a delegate to a method and passing the delegate as an argument. Then using the delegate you are able to call the method that the delegate is pointing to.
The useful part of delegates is so a method can be passed from one object to another.
As we know a method represents some type of action that an object can do. That action is implemented in the method definition itself within the class the method is declared. With a delegate the implementation of the method or part of the method contained in the class, can be delegated to another class.
Aici, we have a simple example to understand delegates. We have a Playlist class that allows to add songs to a playlist. The Playlist class provides a method called ShowPlaylist that prints out all the songs in the playlist.
class Playlist { // code eliminated for brevity public void ShowPlaylist() { foreach (Song song in this.list) { Console.WriteLine("Song Title: {0}". song.Title); } } }
Using the Playlist class ShowPlaylist method will get the full playlist printed.
Let's introduce delegates to the Playlist class. Using a delegate will allow the the consumer of the Playlist class to implement the logic for showing the playlist.
Here we declare a delegate in the Playlist class which has a sing parameter of type Song
class Playlist { // code eliminated for brevity // delegate for showing song public delegate bool ProcessPlaylistDelegate(Song song); ...
We need to adjust the ShowPlayList() method to use the ProcessPlaylistDelegate. The ShowPlayList method takes the ProcessPlaylistDelegate as a parameter. Now we can process the Playlist before printing it.
//show the playlist using another function attached to ProcessPlaylistDelegate public void ShowPlaylist(ProcessPlaylistDelegate processPlaylist) { foreach (Song song in this.list) { if (processPlaylist(song)) { Console.WriteLine("Song Title: {0}", song.Title); } } }
Now this class can delegate any processing to another method as long as the return type and parameter type matches the delegate. Below the Program class is using the Playlist class. We declare a new Playlist.ProcessPlaylistDelegate and then we are attaching the getMp3Songs to the delegate.
class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { Playlist playlist1 = new Playlist(); //add some songs to the playlist //use the delegate to process the list before it is printed on the screen playlist1.ShowPlaylist(new Playlist.ProcessPlaylistDelegate(GetMp3Songs)); } }
Below is the getMp3Songs method definition. This method only returns the mp3 songs. Therefore the ShowPlaylist will ony print the mp3 songs.
public static bool GetMp3Songs(Song song) { //more logic goes here return (song.Format == "mp3"); }
The power of delegates happens when we can process the playlist differently without having to touch the Playlist class. Below we declare 2 other methods in the Program class.
public static bool GetCdSongs(Song song) { //more logic goes here return (song.Format == "CD"); } public static bool GetAllSongs(Song song) { //more logic goes here return true; }
Now we just need to attach these to the delegates in the Main method. These methods will process the playlist differently. The first method will only include cd songs and the second method will include all the songs. This is just a simple example but we can add as much processing as we require without having to touch the class Playlist.
playlist1.ShowPlaylist(new Playlist.ProcessPlaylistDelegate(GetCdSongs)); playlist1.ShowPlaylist(new Playlist.ProcessPlaylistDelegate(GetAllSongs));


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text: Baguettes, croissants, 10-grain bread and fruit pastries. These are a few of the wonderfully tasty baked goods available at Carlton Bakery in Carlton, Oregon. Tim and Ahmee Corrigan own and operate the bakery at 305 W. Main St. Equipped with a custom-made, three-deck oven manufactured in Germany, the bakery has won fans in Carlton and beyond. After just one year of operation, the Corrigans supply some of the top restaurants in the area with delicious breads. These include The Painted Lady and The Dundee Bistro. Guests of the R. R. Thompson House Bed and Breakfast, three short blocks down Kutch Street, have raved about the breads and sweet treats; many have enjoyed lunch at the bake shop, open Wednesday through Sunday. The bakery is proving to be a good fit in Carlton and the wider Wine Country community. Come enjoy!


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My husband and I were excited to check out the new, fabu bowling alley in Riverhead, The All Star…for the food. Chef Keith Luce is the executive chef, he helped to create the menu and overall feel of the restaurant. We'd follow him anywhere to eat his food—but this place is actually slightly closer to our Sag Harbor home than Jamesport's Jedediah Hawkins Inn where we've often enjoyed his handiwork. We hear he's no longer in the kitchen at the Jedediah Hawkins Inn, fingers crossed he's moving to Sag Harbor Village, but I doubt it.
Back to the food at the Stadium restaurant in the All Star. It's called "Stadium" because it's set up on several steep levels. Our server Amanda was very good-natured about this design. We sat on the highest level on a big, comfy banquette as she happily ran back and forth to kitchen and bar. The restaurant includes a wood-burning brick oven and an impressive 24-foot video wall utilizing 15 high-definition flat screens.
The bowling lanes also boast huge video screens. There's no other place like The All Star on the East End. Plus there's a game arcade for kids—or the kid inside you. Upbeat music pumps throughout the huge building.
Of course we had to try the Ewings, Buffalo style. Impressive. They taste right AND they're less messy than most Buffalo wings. You can have your food served right on the lanes if you wish. It's already a popular spot for childrens birthday parties. Private lanes are available.
Back to the wings—rich bleu cheese dressing, check. Celery AND carrots, classy. Plenty o' napkins.
We shared a special, Cajun Shrimp on a skewer. The shrimp were tender and quite mild, with a hint of smoke.
Husband got into the spirit of the All Star's Vortex Bar with a Riverhead Rattlesnake of cucumber, mint and lime with mango and a dry bite of gin. He approved. The bar is adjacent to the restaurant and boasts an array of signature cocktails, 12 inverted beer taps and eight more high definition flat screens suspended from the ceiling.
I ordered the Chicken Thai Cobb, a salad of chopped romaine, tasty chicken, carrots, sweet red peppers topped with crispy rice noodles and a sweet chili vinaigrette. I loved it. I could have eaten it all night but instead had most of it wrapped for lunch the next day.
Husband ordered The Classic, which is a basic pizza. He chose to have mushrooms and red peppers on his entrée. While we waited for its arrival, we enjoyed an order of Nachos Locos. Red, blue and yellow chips served with a bowl of chili, cheese sauce, scallions, shredded jack and cheddar cheese with guacamole, thick sour cream and salsa. It's handy to dip the chips—you could do that with one hand and bowl with the other! Yum.
Husband's pizza arrived piping hot. It had all the classic elements including a nice, sexy-ugly crust, but the sauce was oddly bland.
Somewhere during this feast Husband moved on to a Martha Clara Vineyards' Chardonnay. Other local beverages at hand include: Peconic Bay Riesling, Macari Vineyards Merlot, Long Ireland Seasonal Beer and Southampton Ale.
Sadly, we failed to save room for a dessert of mini zeppoles or s'mores…
The All Star really has it all. Bowling leagues are forming and will begin competing next month—so you can eat, drink and exercise all in one place.
The All Star, 96 Main Road, Riverhead, www.theallstar.com, 631-998-3565


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The first reading today is from the Prophet Isaiah. Always his words are strong and very often they touch our feelings and our spiritual sensibilities. He tells us today: Say to those whose hearts are frightened: Be strong, fear not!
We can know that we don't have to be frightened. We can be upset, we can be lazy, we can be against God. Whatever! God is still going to seek us out in some way and we will have a choice to believe in Him. We don't even know how God will come into our lives. For those of us who already believe, there are still surprises ahead of us. God never abandons us. God never gets us to one point in live and says: that is enough. No! God wants us fully alive and fully in love with Him. Isaiah tells us: with divine recompense he comes to save you.
Divine recompense! Recompense is compensation or reward given for loss or harm suffered or effort made. Divine recompense is surely mercy upon mercy upon mercy - and yet always trying to entice from us a divine response to His divine love.
The Gospel of Mark today is about the healing of the deaf man who had a speech impediment. Again this account is put here to show us that God wants us whole and alive. Perhaps we will never be entirely whole in this life or entirely alive, but God is always there with us, enticing us, drawing us and seeking to gain our attention and our response. When we do feel small touches of healing and wholeness and life, then at times we are like this deaf man and cannot restrain ourselves from telling others. Jesus still will not reject us.
The Letter of James draws these themes together today by asking us not to make distinctions among people. Everyone is worthy of our love because all have the love of God. Social standing, beliefs, relationships, etc., should not stand in the way of our love. That never means abandoning the message of Jesus about how to live. Rather it implies that because we know the teachings of Jesus and of His Church, we are able to love even better and to show others the path of life.
We know that if we get preachy, others will lose interest in the path of life. We know that if we do not live joyful and humanly rewarding lives, others will not want such a path. Our best preaching is simply living the joy of the presence of Lord in every aspect of our lives and in the way we love others. Let us draw others to the Lord so that they too will know the Divine recompense.
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by Jean-Bernard Hyppolite
Walking into the Video Library, 7141 Germantown Ave., one immediately notices that it's not the typical movie rental store. There's an ice cream stand to the left of the entrance by the name of Scoop that features Philadelphia's own Bassetts Ice Cream. To the right there are a few sets of cozy chairs and table stands. In the back left there's a movie theater, called The Little Theater, which seats 25 people. In the middle lie hundreds and hundreds of classic and modern movies. Betty Ann Fellner, 72, co-owner, has a plate full of ambitious ideas for an already ambitious store.
Mt. Airy has been The Video Library's home for the better part of four years. In that time, it has sought to offer a communal vibe that complements the main commercial strip of Mt. Airy. However, despite its extra amenities, the place isn't called The Video Library for nothing. "We have a vast collection of classic movies as well as contemporary. A lot of people don't know," said Betty Ann about her immense inventory.
In today's world of On-Demand, Netflix and other forms of home entertainment, it's useful to know there is still a movie rental store in the area that can cater to people on an individual basis. People don't need to have a membership at The Video Library in order to rent movies. If the movie is overdue, a letter will go out to the culprit, explaining that he/she is being charged for lateness.
"That's the only way where we could have a little bit of hope that we'll get mostly everything back," said Betty Ann. "It's not foolproof, but if someone comes in and says 'I know I returned it,' which has happened, there are times when we'll assume he's right. Once somebody who had insisted he had returned the movie came in and said, 'I'm so embarrassed, I just found it.'"
A movie rental at The Video Library can cost as little as $2. On weekends a two-night rental is only $3.50, and even that can be cheaper during the week! The Video Library looks to offer a sense of community, and with that comes trust in its customers. Betty mentioned that last year a woman rented out The Video Library's Little Theater only to have the process be interrupted due to the two huge snow storms that occurred within two weeks of each other. The woman recently came back to hold an event for her daughter, and she showed Betty Ann that she had already paid a year beforehand (for the event that was snowed out). As a result, she didn't have to pay at all for the current event.
Though the Video Library has been around for four years, in Betty Ann's opinion there's still a lot to be done in terms of further establishing its presence in Mt. Airy. "Mt. Airy itself is huge. There are a lot of people who don't know what we have to offer." Betty Ann's husband, David, built the Little Theater and Scoop in an effort to provide that "extra special something" to lure people away from the cozy confines of Netflix, On-Demand, etc.
Up until last June The Video Library played movies in The Little Theater. Nowadays parties rent out the 25-seat theater to provide a particular screening or presentation; food is welcome. In addition, local movie critic Adam Lippe, who was recently profiled in Local Life, has begun screening rare movies from time to time at The Little Theater.
"Ultimately we would like people to rent the space for their friends or for their organizations. Sometimes there's a movie coming out that really pinpoints whatever issue they're dealing with. If a group of 15 come in and they pay $5 each, well there's your rental."
Betty Ann would also like to have upcoming filmmakers use the theater to showcase their films to potential backers. It costs $75 to rent out The Little Theater for 2 ½ hours. Every half hour after that, it goes up 15 dollars. "Whoever likes things that have an artistic quality, whether the movies are known or not known, whether they're contemporary or classic, whether they're foreign or American, it doesn't matter," she said.
Betty Ann Fellner was born in Baltimore; she majored in history at Goucher College, earned her Masters in history at Penn and has three children with her husband. The Fellners, who also own other properties on the 7100 block of Germantown Avenue, have resided in Mt. Airy for 34 years.
Betty Ann and those involved with the Video Library are looking to improve their website tenfold by spring. Until then they can be contacted at 215-247-3020.


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David Ambinder spent nearly a quarter-century in the banking industry before Wall Street caved in on him last summer.
"You kind of knew it was coming," says the former executive at a host of major financial firms, "you just didn't know when."
Like hundreds of thousands of other professionals there, Ambinder was stunned by the rapidity with which the credit crisis swept through some of the world's most venerable financial institutions institutions.
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His career as he knew it, which most recently took him to Lehman Brothers but previously had landed him at Goldman Sachs and Salomon Brothers/Smith Barney, was over.
And like many in his position, Ambinder isn't waiting around for his job to come back.
Ambinder, in fact, has put Wall Street behind him, mindful that in the new economic paradigm, he is best off planning for the future than ruminating about the past.
"Wall Street has changed," says Ambinder, who most recently worked as a senior vice president for global support services at Lehman before being laid off. "The investment banking culture is gone to a large extent or is under a microscope right now. I just don't see it returning to the way it was."
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Indeed, job placement professionals and former Wall Street titans themselves agree that while this is hardly the first time Wall Street has been socked with large cuts in workforce, this is different.
In the past, the jobs came back, like when 116,000 positions were cut in 2001. This time, with federal scrutiny intensifying of the investment banking industry and mass consolidation among the Street's top firms, things are different.
The financial sector has lost a whopping 413,000 jobs in the past two years, and more than 260,000 in 2008 alone, according to figures compiled by outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Last year's total represented about four times the typical amount.
Gone are some of the Street's most esteemed companies—Lehman, Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch and Washington Mutual among them.
Layoffs have been stunning both in number and location: More than 50,000 at Citigroup (NYSE: C); 35,000 at Bank of America (NYSE: BAC), which swallowed Merrill; 18,000 at JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM); 16,000 at Lehman, more than 11,000 at Wachovia.
It's a once-in-a-lifetime tectonic business shift that has the nation's top investment and banking leaders groping to adjust.
"The world has certainly changed and the massive growth industry that was Wall Street for the past 20 to 25 years is probably a thing of the past," says Kurt Harrison, a senior executive at Russell Reynolds' global banking and markets practice. "What we are seeing, however, is a couple of very definitive and distinct trends in the environment."
The New Normal
Essentially, those trends break into three categories: A surge in demand for qualified investment advisers that some ex-Wall Streeters are likely to fill; a cottage industry for regional and boutique banks who have access now to displaced personnel whom they couldn't have approached before; and a move by some to use their knowledge from the financial pits to grow other businesses.
Ambinder falls into the latter category.
Rather than hold out hope that when the economy turns, Wall Street will start hiring again, he decided to take matters into his own hands.
That's how Ambinder met Mr. Handyman.
The household repair franchise has more than 300 locations across the country, but Ambinder said there was a need in the northern New Jersey suburbs for people who don't have enough time or expertise to handle home fix-it projects.
He researched the franchise, liked what he saw, and decided to open an outlet near his home where he now gets to spend more time.
While going from the heights of the nation's financial industry to dispatching technicians to repair leaky pipes might seem like a difficult transition, Ambinder says he's enjoying the new normal in his life.
"When I heard about this Mr. Handyman thing it just clicked for me," he says. "You can easily create a great business model that will work."
Restoring Faith
To be sure, Ambinder's move completely out of the financial world is the exception among displaced Wall Street professionals.
Most are still looking to find meaningful employment in their field, and those who haven't latched onto one of the other titans on the block are in some cases getting out of the trading environment and into positions where they can help investors recoup some of the stunning losses in the 2008 stock market decline.
"I think the role of the independent entrepreneurial adviser who knows how to build a business, counsel, guide and provide advice to others is somebody who's going to succeed in a major way," says Ray Sclafani, president of ClientWise, a coaching firm that works with Wall Street financial firms and investment advisors.
"I actually see an expansion among financial service advisers in the US."
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A crisis of confidence not only in the stock market but also in the advice dispensed by many investment pros actually could benefit those who can show they stayed above the risk fray and minimized losses.
Ironically, several placement experts said the scandal surrounding Bernie Madoff, who is accused of running a $50 billion Ponzi scheme, will help investment experts who have maintained their reputations.
"A big demand is unmet for trustworthy advice," says Bob Frank, a professor at the Johnson School of Cornell University. "There's a widespread perception that people were convinced to buy things based not on the best interests of the buyer but on the best interests of the seller."
Smaller Firms to Benefit
Many of those advisers, then, will shift away from Wall Street and are likely to wind up at some of the smaller, regional institutions who haven't suffered like the big Wall Street names.
In some respects, it's like the fabled career choice for most workers--being a small fish in a big pond or a big fish in a small pond.
The small ponds are about to get more crowded.
"There's been a natural gravitation toward smaller firms, with less bureaucracy, less entrenched ... a much smaller, collegial type firm," says Harrison, of Russell Reynolds. "You can really move the needle at some of these smaller firms who have had strong risk management and are looking to take advantage of that fact."
At the same time, some of the more aggressive displaced workers are looking to hone their skills and fit into what looks to be a new, more personal environment.
"Investors are savvy enough to know that the role their advisor needs to play is to guide them to make more powerful decisions about their life and their future and their money," Sclafani says. "The advisor who knows not just how to provide advice but also to create a partnership with their client and help them be prepared to make smarter decisions will be the adviser who rises above. This is a major movement among financial advisers."
Gone Forever?
But are things really as bad as the conventional wisdom seems to be dictating?
Not everyone thinks so, with some saying that jobs will come back when the economy improves, and there's also sentiment that Wall Street firms have gone too far on layoffs and will realize as things stabilize that the cuts didn't need to be so severe.
"Times rise and times fall and it always feels during the depths of the recession like it's never going to return," says John Challenger, of Challenger, Gray & Christmas. "Certainly the landscape will be changed and maybe the jobs will be spread out to other areas of the country and the world. ... But I'm not convinced the jobs have disappeared forever."
And even if many of the jobs don't come back, Challenger says that's not a completely bad thing as some firms may have hired too many during peak times. He also predicts the jobs picture to get better in the second half of this year as the economy recovers.
But for many of those displaced things will never be the same, marking the end of an era.
"I don't think I miss it yet," says Ambinder. "But down the road, who knows?"For more stories from CNBC, go to cnbc.com.