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Let's establish some facts on the ground first: I have never been to Australia. I do not know if it has its own version of Reno 911. And I had to ask our resident Australian, Andrew Collins, what a "bogan" was. But the end result of this video is all of those things, and it is hysterical.
The poor Australian police officer on what looks to be that country's equivalent of COPS (just with more 'roo!), pulled a couple over for the most minor of minor driving offenses: a taillight was out.
In Australia, as in most parts of the world, that isn't really considered a crime. Just more of a "hey, you guys, your taillight is out," from the cop, and you say "oh gosh sorry officer I had no idea" even though you did have an idea, and the cops knows that, and you know that, and everyone knows that, but he's just doing his job, and after all is said and done everyone carries on their merry way.
Easy peasy.
I have no idea what, then, spurred the Bogan couple to both start with the most hilarious tantrum to make it to these shores. It's just an explosive session of verbal diarrhea, and everyone present is powerless to stop it. They get so angry, in fact, that the cop ends up giving them a ticket for offensive language, which is apparently a crime down there.
Notable Highlights Include!
- The male Bogan loudly and and shrilly exclaiming WHAT!
- The male Bogan apparently volunteering to solve the problem at the police station, for no reason
- The cop removing the keys from the ignition, in the smoothest ninja move of law enforcement the world has ever seen
- A disagreement over what part of the UV spectrum constitutes the color "red"
- An appearance from the female Bogan, proudly sporting what looks to be a glorious mullet
- Various middle fingers and other appendages being shown to the World's Most Patient Cop (remember, this is about a broken taillight)
- "I don't care what he calls me, you know, he doesn't know me. He's just having a crack at the uniform. So be it. We get over that. But there's no need to be doing that."
- "Have a nice day."
I want to go to Australia.
Note: Andrew Collins is not actually Australian. He did visit once, though, so that's cool.

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ABA: 15% - 20% of lawyers suffer from alcohol or substance abuse
CENTER CITY, Minn. – Is your high stress job driving you to drink? If so, you're not alone, especially if you're a lawyer.
The American Bar Association estimates that 15 to 20 percent of all lawyers in the U.S. suffer from alcohol or substance abuse, and stress is a major contributing factor. However, there is a treatment program designed specifically for the legal profession.
"I was drinking a bottle of wine every night," said Jessica Rugani, a prosecuting attorney.
Rugani is a recovering alcoholic.
"It was an escape. It was something to enjoy and savor. It really just let me forget my problems," she said.
Rugani prosecuted people for DWI and drug cases. So, admitting she had a drinking problem was humbling.
"I realized that the practice of law was becoming difficult for me because of my drinking," she explained.
Rugani entered a special rehab program designed specifically for legal professionals. It's at Hazelden, a leading private, not-for-profit, alcohol and drug addiction treatment center.
"Lawyers are twice as addicted as the regular population," said Link Christin, Director, Hazelden Legal Professionals Program.
Studies show 18 percent of attorneys who practiced law for two to 20 years have a drinking problem. That number increased to 25 percent for attorneys who practiced more than 25 years.
"It is very much part of the attorney culture," Christin said.
Christin is the director of the legal professionals program. He believes social influences, heavy workloads, and the stress of the job leads lawyers to addiction, but often—with treatment—they summon the motivation to sober up.
"Once you get sober you have extra hours. You have extra energy. You're thinking better," Christin explained.
That's a win-win for the lawyers and the clients they represent.
You can take a free online screening to help you determine if you have an addiction problem at www.hazelden.org.
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ATTORNEYS AND ADDICTION: Research indicates that attorneys are at a higher risk to develop substance abuse problems. A study published in the International Journal of Law and Psychiatry reported that the rate of problem drinking for attorneys was 18 percent compared to 10 percent in the general population. Evidence shows that legal professionals experience problems with substance abuse early in their careers and these problems worsen over time. One study found that eight percent of prelaw students, 15 percent of first-year law students, 24 percent of third-year law students, and 26 percent of alumni reported concern with alcohol problems. Furthermore, 18 percent of attorneys who practiced for two to twenty years reported drinking problems and this increased to 25 percent for attorneys who practiced for over 20 years. What's more, the longer attorneys with addiction problems remain untreated the more likely they are to be defendants in malpractice suits. For example, out of 100 attorneys that entered the Oregon State Bar Professional Liability attorney assistance program, 60 percent had a malpractice suit filed against them while suffering from substance abuse. (Source: www.hazelden.org)
WHY ATTORNEYS ARE AT A HIGHER RISK: One possibility is that the profession contains fundamental characteristics that may facilitate the development of addiction. These characteristics can include social influences within the work environment, heavy workloads, stress attributed to working with clients, and co-occurring psychological illnesses that precede substance abuse problems. Research shows that cultures that accept alcohol use are more likely to contain employees that are prone to alcohol problems. Reports show that the work culture of many law offices is highly permissive of drinking. In some practices, it is common for attorneys to drink with clients or coworkers during work hours. In a sample of 559 attorneys, 66 percent reported social drinking connected to work. (Source: www.hazelden.org)
STRESS: Stress is known to be one of the most important predictors of substance abuse. The addiction research indicates that attorneys and law students have excessive levels of stress. Some theorists have mentioned that the high number of work hours, unpredictable trials, and the heavy workloads contribute to their stress. They may also have an extraordinary amount of pressure to win cases. For example, losing a case could be highly publicized and could result in death or imprisonment of a client. (Source: www.hazelden.org)
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The California Department of Insurance says Blue Shield customers face an average hike of 18.5 percent and Anthem Blue Cross customers face an average 13.4 percent increase.
Anthem Blue Cross, the state's largest for profit insurer, had previously requested a boost that would have upped rates as much as 39 percent for some customers. But regulators found accounting errors in that filing.
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Learning to use Photoshop effectively is a very humbling experience. In Photoshop, "maturity" is everything, and it takes a lot of experimenting to reach a point where your photos look good without appearing overly "Photoshopped." It's a continual learning process.
I cringe when I see some of my older photos, especially those in late 2006/early 2007. My Photoshop hand was very, very heavy and I think I was just having so much fun manipulating photos that I didn't step back enough and consider whether the photos even needed much manipulating in the first place. I love (and hate) to compare older photos with some of my more recent ones, because I can see that while I'm not nearly where I want to be with Photoshop ability, I've certainly matured.
Today, though, I wanted to try a different experiment. I wanted to edit a recent photo as if I was still in late 2006, then edit the same photo as I would today and see the difference between the two. And so I turned to my guinea pig sister, Wetsy.
<span class="horiz"Here's the SOOC (Straight-out-of-Camera) version of a photo I took of Wetsy Sunday morning. The light in the kitchen was great, her face was clean and scrubbed, and the focus on her eyes was right. Really, it shouldn't require much tweaking.
But that never stopped me back in 2006.
Back in 2006, here's what I would have done.
1. Run Imagenomic's "Portraiture" filter, which softens all skin tones in a photo. Used correctly, it can be a pretty cool tool. But I never used it correctly, and everything always looked way too soft.
2. Dodged the whites of her eyes way, way too much. I always used to think, "Hey–they're the WHITES of the eyes…not the OFF WHITES." And I'd take that to the extreme.
3. Whitened the teeth. But way too much.
4. Oversharpened on top of all of that.
So I put myself back in that late-2006 frame of mind.
And here's what happened:
ACK! I'm sorry, Wetsy, but you look a little bit like a cyborg mixed with a Stepford wife. A Cyford Wife. Your skin is way too perfect, your teeth are way too white, and your eyes…eeek. Aaack. Ugh.
Why didn't anyone tell me?
Well, actually…they did tell me. I just didn't listen.
Let's hit "Revert" and go back to the SOOC so we can start all over.
Fast forward to Late 2008.
Here's how I would (and did) edit the photo today:
No skin softening, no eye dodging, no teeth whitening. All I did was run the "Boost" action from PW Action Set 1—it slightly bumps the contrast and slightly sharpens an image—and "Quick Edge Burn", which darkens the surrounding margins of the photo.
Here's the Then and the Now comparison:
Here's Then, also known as "I'm Sorry, Wetsy."
And here's now. It's not perfect. But it's better.
And that's the beauty of learning Photoshop: you always have plenty of really bad old photos to make your more recent ones look great.
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GREENVILLE � Tiffany Meadows thought she and boyfriend Josh Powell, both East Carolina University alumni, came to Greenville on Dec. 14 simply to attend a holiday party for work.
GREENVILLE � Tiffany Meadows thought she and boyfriend Josh Powell, both East Carolina University alumni, came to Greenville on Dec. 14 simply to attend a holiday party for work.
Arriving in town early that evening, they spent time before the event by visiting all the old familiar places, beginning at University Book Exchange and ending up outside Fletcher Residence Hall, where they met as freshmen in 2004.
At Powell�s suggestion, she tried the door and, much to her surprise, it was unlocked so they entered. A campus employee inside told them the dorm was closed, but offered them a quick tour of the building and they accepted. He led the couple into a room where a table was set for a meal.
�We better get out of there,� Meadows said. �Someone�s about to have dinner.�
Moments later, her boyfriend of nearly eight years knelt before her and extended a ring box. She said yes.
�I never imagined something so elaborate,� Meadows gushed a few days later. �He never plans anything! I�m the planner!�
Powell came up with the idea to pop the question in Fletcher several months ago, but set the plan in motion in October. He explained that he and Meadows met while both were living on the fifth floor of that hall as freshmen. Sharing a hall � and walking together to a world politics class � led to conversations and, eventually, love.
They dated throughout college, and both graduated in 2008. Now living in New Bern, Powell is first to say that the engagement was long overdue.
�We just went to the Bahamas over Thanksgiving,� he added, laughing. �I�m sure she thought I was going to propose then.�
Powell spent a couple months attempting to figure out if the proposal he envisioned was even an option. The dorms would be closing for the holidays around the time he suggested. And he concluded fairly quickly that it�d be impossible to propose in her former dorm room: Someone else was likely living there.
Powell eventually connected with Bill McCartney, associate vice chancellor of campus living. McCartney said he was happy to help. In fact, he was the gentleman guiding the tour when they wandered in on Friday.
�His interest in coming back to the residence hall they lived and met in as freshmen speaks volumes about the impact that living on campus makes for our students, and in this case our alums,� McCartney said.
�Our students not only begin their life as a part of the Pirate family in our residence halls but the quality of the friendships and experiences that they make there last a lifetime. We had to help him make their second set of memories about Fletcher Hall as special as the first set.�
Those memories now include a four-course dinner prepared for the couple by ECU dining and catering staff and a champagne toast.
Powell and Meadows both said they appreciate the effort that went into making the night so special.
�This just makes me love ECU even more,� Meadows said.
The couple is considering dates in spring or summer 2014 for the wedding.
Kathryn Kennedy is a public communications specialist at East Carolina University.


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The STRELA KI38CYB belongs to the "KIROVA" line – it has a brushed stainless steel case with a polished bezel, polished band connections and pushers/crown. The detailed and perfectly finished watchcase has a diameter of 38mm (with crown 42mm, lug-to-lug width is 47mm), a height of 15mm, a weight of 75g incl. leather strap and a bandwidth of 19mm.
The baguette-shaped pushers are framed in little collars. A slightly curved, mineral glass provides a clear view on the black Strela dial. The dial of the KI38CYB is labeled in cyrillic and shows a white tachymeter scale, printed golden numerals and golden metallic & red hands. The date is positioned between "4" and "5" o'clock.
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Hip hop hooray! Antics continues the weekly residency at KOKO which means you can party hard with us every Friday night!
The ace Antics residents DJ Antics and Matt Terris will be bringing you the very finest hip hop, breaks, beats and floorfilling party tunes to start your weekend off right with a guest appearance from MC Warren-D! Get spreading the word - the boys are back in town! Up in the gallery bar, expect reggae, rocksteady and dancehall.
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The Flying Monkeys is the name of the biker gang that serves as the Wicked Witch of the West's henchmen in The Muppets' Wizard of Oz.
Formerly a rather peaceful group of "motorcycle enthusiasts," the Flying Monkeys were placed under the Witch's control when she took possession of their magic biker cap. Forced to do her bidding, the Monkeys rode their motorcycles through the skies of Oz, performing the Witch's dirty work. Once she was defeated, Dorothy returned the biker cap to Sal Minella, thereby restoring the Flying Monkeys' independence.
The members of the Flying Monkeys include:
Johnny Fiama, while associated with the Monkeys, is not formally a member of the group. He and Foo-Foo appear to be with the Witch by choice and are not controlled by the magic biker cap.


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Christian Aguilar buried after funeral
Family, friends say goodbye to University of Florida student
MIAMI – Family and friends gathered Tuesday to say one final goodbye to Christian Aguilar, the University of Florida student who police say was killed by his friend.
The funeral for Aguilar, 18, was held at St. Dominic Catholic Church. He was buried at Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Cemetery.
Aguilar's smile and warm spirit is what touched people who got to know him the most.
"As a mother, I feel the pain of the family," said Isabel Martinez.
The funeral mass was open to the public but no pictures or video were allowed. People inside told Local 10's Terrell Forney that it was a very emotional service.
"The service was a great service, very peaceful and everybody came with the purpose of remembering Christian as a happy, talented great man," said Dennis Rodriguez.
Aguilar disappeared last month, prompting weeks of searches near the University of Florida.
The body of Aguilar was found in rural Levy County on October 12. Police used dental records to identify him.
Pedro Bravo, who went to Doral Academy with Aguilar, is charged with first-degree murder in Aguilar's death. Bravo has pleaded not guilty.
"We keep asking the community to pray for the family because there's another process after the burial tonight," said Rodriguez. "They're going to have to go through the trial. It's going to be tough on them."
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I was crouched beneath the underpinning of the east deck, staring at a fungus that had, in four short years, firmly entrenched itself along the center of the ledger beam lag-screwed to the house. The point of my pocketknife confirmed what I'd suspected: The treated beam, despite its appearance, was essentially sound. Too bad I couldn't say the same for the structure's band joist. Where I could get the thin blade behind the warped ledger, the 2×8 rim was soft and pecky—leaving little reason to believe that the rest of the board wasn't damaged as well.
After duck-walking the 10 feet or so to daylight, I looked over the house site. A stand of old-growth evergreens on a slope that leveled out at the deck's edge. No gutter on the roof fascia above. Moving over to the railing and dropping an old Buick ball bearing onto the top of the platform, I watched as the steel ball rolled a lazy line toward the side of the house.
A Poorly Planned Deck Installation
What I'd discovered, of course, was something that occurs all the time—a poorly planned deck installation. Oversights aren't premeditated, so I suppose the real "crime" is that it wouldn't have cost much more to do the job right the first time—certainly far less than it would to do it again.
In this case, the evidence was plain: The beam connecting the deck to the house was installed without metal flashing, which would have directed water away from untreated wooden members. Haphazardly spaced lag screws were on the verge of losing their grip in several spots. An eastern exposure, shaded by trees for a good part of each misty morning, encouraged condensation. And finally—the kiss of death—the unguttered roof worked hand in hand with a deck pitch that sent water toward, rather than away from, the house wall.
Start with the Building Code Handbook
Imagine a deck as being the floor of a house without the walls attached. The structure must be able to support its own weight plus that of people and any furniture. That means the support posts should be sized and mounted properly, the beams set in the right places and the joists sized and spaced according to load. That, in a word, means planning.
A great place to start is with your local residential building code handbook. I paid $2 for our newest state-published text, which includes 134 pages of explanation, amendments and detail drawings. Individual counties may adopt specific requirements, but, broadly speaking, the code book offers two things in one neat package: the regulations (so you won't be in violation because of some neglected detail, even if you intentionally overbuild the structure) and some clear illustrations of various building techniques (which clarify, in many cases, what's being described).
It shouldn't be too difficult to request variations from the code for specific reasons, but be forewarned that changes may have to be approved by a structural engineer. Those who want some structural references for planning should consult an engineering text or reference manual. From the Walls In by Charles Wing (Atlantic-Little, Brown Co.) contains an excellent section for beginners on understanding the elements of structural analysis.
Parts of a Deck: Foundation, Framing, and Details
For our purposes let's assume all decks have three parts: the foundation, made up of the piers and posts; the framing, including beams, joists and decking boards; and what I'll call the details—necessary extras such as railings, steps and benches.
Over the long term, the foundation is the most important because it supports the whole works. The foundation members can be designed for an attached deck (in which the platform is bolted to the house on one or more sides) or a freestanding structure, separated from the house by an inch or more.
The number of posts needed depends on the size of the deck, or more specifically on the length of clear (unsupported) span between each post. This in turn depends on the dimension of the beams being used to frame the platform. The size of the posts, in depth and width, should increase as they get longer, or as they bear the greater "tributary" weight of a larger beam-an engineer's way of saying that a stronger girder will channel more stress to fewer posts.
In specific terms, a 4×4 post placed every 8' is OK if the exposed portion isn't over 8' in height and if the rest of it extends 2' into the ground. But the same post supporting a 12' section would be near capacity; it should be upgraded to a 4×6.
However, at a 14' height and the same span, a 4×6 is too small. just as a tape measure is at greater risk of bending as it's extended, a post is more susceptible to buckling as it gets longer. Hence, decks over 20' off the ground generally need the blessing of a professional.
Piers or footings are the solid anchors that posts need to remain in place. A pillar embedded in the ground should have 20% of its total length buried, or no less than 2'. If a concrete footing is poured, it's supposed to be at least 8" deep and four times as wide as the broadest side of the post. Occasionally, a block wall might be used as an anchoring point; in this case, the cores in the block should be filled with concrete and reinforcing bar.
Deck Framework
Most people think of the deck framing as the platform itself, but where it's really happening is underneath the planks. The framework is the skeleton of the structure, and, like the bones of the body, it determines what the surface will look like.
If, for example, straight planking doesn't suit your taste, you might prefer a herringbone or alternating pattern. But you've got to know in advance how far apart to space the deck joists (the ribs that hold the platform "skin" in place) to determine how wide to make each section. Joists spaced 16" or 24" on center are common; 12" to 16" spacing is needed when 1-by (3/4" -thick) or any diagonal decking is used.
My code book says that decks "shall be designed for a live load of 40 pounds per square foot"—the same figure given for house floors. (Decks larger than 100 square feet are boosted to a 60-psf limit.) Live load is the weight of everything but the building materials themselves; to put things in perspective, a 10'×10' deck should support two well-distributed tons, or twenty-five 160-pound friends standing roughly shoulder to shoulder.
If you take a look beneath your house sometime, you'll see what that means in lumber: a line of 2×10s fastened between a rim joist and a girder or another perimeter joist. By the same method, 2×8s would more likely represent a 30-psf capacity.
How those boards are put together is a whole different story. The conventional method is to frame the entire platform with a doubled 2-by perimeter and hang the joists in between. They can be nailed to the rims on a ledger strip or connected with galvanized-steel joist hangers.
In some situations, the joists might rest on a girder made of two 2×10s fastened side by side. This beam doesn't necessarily have to be at the unattached end of the platform but can be positioned back by several feet so the deck is cantilevered slightly. Usually, it's set parallel to the end of the platform, with the joists running across it.
The part of the perimeter connected to the house--the ledger beam-may be the most critical member of the framing. That board must be pressure-treated for above-ground use, and unless the band on the house is treated, it also has to be covered with flashing to keep water away from the unprotected wood. If the ledger is attached to masonry or concrete, it should be treated for ground-contact use but doesn't need a flashing.
Be aware that many building codes require that, when connected, the deck and structure beams touch each other, with no siding or blocking in between. That ledger beam is bolted to the house with nuts and washers, their size and spacing being determined by the joist span.
If, for example, your deck extends 16' from your back door, you'd want to use 1/8" galvanized bolts placed 20" apart, or use 1/4" bolts spaced 2' apart and a vertical row of three 12-penny nails every 6". A connection to brick is a bit different, since no nails are used. Here, 3/4" bolts are used every 16", attached through the veneer and the band joist behind it. One precaution: If the band joist is parallel to the other floor joists, it should be strengthened with solid blocking or cross bridging every couple of feet along its length, with the braces attached to the adjacent joists.
A freestanding deck eliminates all the trouble of bolting, flashing and water drainage, but it brings up new concerns. Diagonal 2×6 cross bracing might be needed for stability on decks standing taller than 4' or so. Knee braces—4×4s bolted diagonally across the corners where the posts meet the perimeter joists—are another option when the posts are large.
One meet-in-the-middle approach may be acceptable; that's to attach the deck, but to use nylon or plastic-pipe collars around the bolts as spacers to separate the ledger beam from the house. The connection is sound, and water can run off without puddling.
The rest of the deck framing will shed moisture easily if it's set up right. Some builders pitch the far end of the platform slightly--no more than 1/2" in 10'—for drainage, but this is really necessary only with porch-type tongue-and-groove decking. Normally, drainage is ensured with round-edged deck planks spaced 3/16" apart (about the width of a 16-penny nail) and held down with at least two nails per joist.
Too, all deck lumber should be either pressure treated or of a decay-resistant species such as redwood. Any wood in contact with the earth or concrete must be listed for below-ground use. If you use untreated lumber, you can afford some protection to the joists and other problem areas with silicone caulk and simple cap flashing made from strips of thin-gauge galvanized sheet metal. This is especially true at the top of doubled beams, where water would otherwise gather in the seam.
Details: Railings and Benches
At a certain point, you may face an option which could make your life easier. Where I live, any deck or platform less than 3' off the ground doesn't need a railing. Eliminating that part of the structure can free up funds for upgrading other parts of the deck and may even improve appearance in some cases.
Strategically placed backless benches can define the deck's edge, or—from the other view—benches and rails can be built as one. Generally, railings are set between 30" and 38 " high and are fastened to stanchions and balusters for support.
There are several ways to accomplish this, but one method that's simple and produces a sturdy rail is to bolt the stanchions directly to the outside of the perimeter joists no farther than 6' apart, and to nail the balusters between at an equal spacing of 10" to 24".
Since the decking planks usually extend beyond the perimeter by 1" or so, the uprights or decking may need to be notched, or else both can be nocked to an even depth to make what's called an edge cross-lap joint. After the railing cap is fastened to the stanchions, the balusters can be installed. They, too, can be nailed to the perimeter's face or to a horizontal barrier board attached several inches off the deck between stanchions.
For a more secure anchor, railing stanchions can be made from 2×6s turned edgewise and bolted through the deck planking to the joists below. This asks for a bit of planning, both for spacing and because those stanchions perpendicular to the joists need to be mounted on solid blocking fastened within the joist space and sized to match the joists. Two 5/8" galvanized bolts will hold each stanchion securely.
Steps require a bit more calculation and may be needed for a deck with limited access. First, some guidelines: Stringers, the supports for stair treads, are made of 2×10s or 2×12s spaced between 30" and 36" apart. They can be notched to seat the treads and form the risers (the vertical part of the step) or cleated with 2×4s on the inside to support the treads alone.
One accepted tread-to-riser ratio is 2:1—12" treads and 6" risers. Normally, though, a range is provided for each to ease the pain of calculation, so tread width might fall between 10 " and 12 " and riser height between 5 1/2" and 8 1/4" Notched stringers sometimes have closed risers; to encourage drainage, those boards can be fitted to fall just short of meeting the treads.
Deck stairs use 2-by treads almost exclusively, so appropriate-width planking is cut to slightly overhang the stringers at the sides. The front of each tread is allowed a projection of 1" to 1 1/4" called nosing, but this isn't included when cutting out the notches in the stringers. It's critical that at least 3 1/2" remain between any notch point and a line drawn perpendicular to the lower edge of the stringer plank.
Ideally, the stair should rise at a "preferred angle"—between 30º and 35º. There are a series of formulas used to calculate this and the tread-to-riser ratio on a finished surface, but we'll just go through the basics to get a start in the right direction.
First, measure the rise—the vertical distance between the deck surface and the ground. On a slope, you'll have to add any vertical drop to the rise to take into account about where the stair will end.
Then, divide the rise by seven and drop any fraction to determine the number of risers. (Trust me!) That number divided into the rise gives the exact height of each riser. To figure the bearing width of the treads subtract that height from 18. (Still with me?) This number, when multiplied by one less than the total number of risers, will yield the run, or the horizontal distance from the perimeter joist to the foot of the stair. From there, you can use a tape measure or good old a2 + b2 = c2 to determine the length of the stringer planks.
The stringers can be fastened to the deck with galvanized-steel hangers or by nailing into the perimeter joist. For added strength, a stair-width ledger board can be nailed to the face of the deck framing to help support the stringers from below.
At the foot of the steps, it's best to pour a small pad or individual concrete piers. The stringers can then be attached to anchor bolts embedded in the concrete or be butted against a treated plate bolted to the pad with anchor shields.
Handrails can be fastened to posts bolted to the outside of the stringers, just behind the edge of the risers. They're usually 30" to 34" high and are always used on a staircase with more than four risers.
An untreated deck or porch can be sanded, then primed and painted right away. For durability, a deck-and-floor paint is the best choice, though a too-glossy surface can be slippery. If you prefer stain, follow the manufacturer's preparation instructions, and use a product meant for horizontal exterior surfaces.
Pressure-treated lumber is a different story. The people at Weyerhaeuser recommend that you wait at least three months to give the wood a chance to open its pores and "breathe" before applying anything to it. After that, a latex paint, a stain or a water-repellent sealant can be used to coat it.
They say practice makes perfect. But if you're a one-time builder, one good planning session will help you avoid the kind of practice you may not want to deal with later.
Deck Tech
1. When planning holes for the concrete piers, use batter boards to keep the excavations aligned. This involves nothing more than stretching nylon lines between horizontal boards nailed to stakes positioned just beyond the corners you wish to establish. The juncture of the strings should fall over the post points. Lines can be pulled at any point between the comers, too. Always measure for equal diagonals to check a four-sided figure for square.
2. Posts can be fastened to doubled beams using a tongue-and-socket technique. The tongue is cut into the top of the post, leaving 1 1/2" shoulders at the sides for each plank of the beam to rest on. The planks are attached to both sides of the post with two 3/4" bolts, creating a "socket" in the finished beam.
3. A circular saw will be your best friend for this job, but a good handsaw will finish the deep cuts cleanly. Use a 2' framing square to mark your lines and a carpenter's level to check your work. Be prepared to buy a couple of long, spade-tipped drill bits and a 1/8" electric drill if you don't already have one.
4. Eye protection is a good idea when doing any carpentry. Cut pressure-treated wood outdoors, and wear a dust mask while doing it. Don't burn the scraps when you're through, and don't use them for food-gardening projects.
5. Unless a particular pattern is planned, longer decking boards make a smoother, more consistent surface because there are fewer joints. Never butt decking boards tightly together, and always place the wood's cupped side down. Bevel the tops of uncapped uprights to shed standing water. Use zinc-galvanized nails and fasteners.
6. To trim a row of deck boards cleanly, let them overhang a bit when putting them down, then snap a chalk line to mark the cut. Use a utility knife and a straightedge to score the surface, then saw just outside the groove to prevent splintering.
7. Use your framing square to mark the notches on your stair stringers. You can buy clamp-on gauges that'll let you position the square at the exact tread and riser dimensions. Once the first notch is marked, repeat the process along the length of the stringer, always matching the end of the next tread with the top of the previous riser.
For more about building steps and stairs, see How to Build Stairs: Step by Step. For more about building decks, see Build a Deck: A Step-by-Step Guide from Start to Finish.


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GARDEN PRAIRIE — A man died Tuesday afternoon after his truck hit a tree in the 9600 block of Lawrenceville Road.
The Boone County Sheriff's Department was called about 3:45 p.m. The westbound truck left the roadway and killed the driver, who was alone in the vehicle.
The man's name has not been released.
Deputies said the man needed to be extricated from the vehicle. Responders requested a helicopter, but the weather prevented the chopper from flying the man to a hospital. He was taken to a Rockford hospital where he died.
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I installed the newest Nvidia-Linux drivers version number 304.43 on 12.04 installation and all Flash Videos now show me "accelerated video rendering".
Previous Nvidia drivers + Adobe Flash only rendered in software, at least since Adobe officially said they turned off "hardware acceleration" for Linux, because of unstable and unsecure drivers.
Has this changed? Is hardware acceleration really back? Can anyone verify this as well?
The Nvidia driver 304.43 patch notes said:
Fixed a bug that caused VDPAU to hang when expanding the YouTube Flash Player.
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The Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania has launched a start-up incubator specifically designed to help education business ideas get off the ground. The Education Design Studio Inc. (EDSi), as it's called, has received $2.1 million in funding as well as support from a number of investors, including McGraw-Hill Education. Most of the initial round of start-up participants were finalists in an education business-plan competition that ran earlier this year.
The idea of the Studio is to give education start-ups a way to collaborate with others in the education segment, including investors, researchers, practitioners, and entrepreneurs. "It's a natural fit for Penn [Graduate School of Ed] because its emphasis on incorporating cutting-edge education research into innovative education start-ups plays to our strengths, including building upon our success with the Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition," said Andy Porter, dean of the school.
Five start-ups will be participating during the initial year:
Besides receiving financial capital for their first year of operation, the new companies will also receive help in financial, legal, marketing, and technology areas from the graduate school's faculty and the program's sponsors. They'll also get the chance to try out their technologies, where appropriate, with prospective customers in schools or companies. Start-up principals have committed to attending training sessions and doing online collaboration during the program for six months.
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Carl Russo of WGRF 96.9-FM (97 Rock) was the winner Tuesday in the Chef's Restaurant "Media Meatball Eating Challenge." He consumed 11 meatballs in the first ever meatball-eating contest in Buffalo, which was hosted by "Wing King" and food marketing icon Drew Cerza.
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The pristine Cascadian jewel called Clear Lake, was forged in the fires of a volcanic eruption, three centuries ago. The lave flow that dammed the lake still occupies stretches of the shoreline. A loop trail around Clear Lake weaves through resilient old growth forests and fields of volcanic rock, offering beautiful lake views around almost every turn. The 5-mile loop hike combines Clear... Read more.
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California Schools Brace for Fiscal Fallout
Midyear budget cuts force administrators to plan for the worst
Thousands of California public schools face the prospect of slashing up to a week of instruction, canceling bus services, or laying off nonteaching staff in the middle of this school year because state revenues are expected to fall below what the governor and lawmakers counted on when they approved an $86 billion general fund budget last June.
The Legislative Analyst's Office—the nonpartisan fiscal adviser to California's state lawmakers—predicts the state treasury will be down as much as $3.7 billion, which would automatically trigger up to $2 billion in midyear spending cuts in public programs that will fall hard on K-12 education. The analyst is also projecting a $13 billion shortfall in next year's budget.
It's a scenario that could push some school districts into insolvency. They include San Diego Unified, the second-largest district in California, with 132,000 students. Late last week, Gov. Jerry Brown was poised to file papers to qualify a ballot initiative for November 2012 that would raise taxes on the wealthy and boost the sales tax by a half cent to help stave off even deeper cuts to schools next year, according to the Associated Press.
A final verdict on the possible midyear cuts will come Dec. 15 when the governor, a Democrat, releases a final forecast for the remainder of the fiscal year, which ends June 30. While it's possible that the governor's finance team could reach a more optimistic conclusion about the level of state income than the legislative analyst, school districts are bracing for the worst.
On average, school districts are facing a loss of between $180 and $200 per student. (The average per-pupil spending statewide for the current fiscal year is $7,700, according to the Legislative Analyst's Office). That cut would come on top of the state zeroing out all funding for transportation, which totals nearly $250 million.
"The impact will be really severe for classrooms and students," said Paul Hefner, a spokesman for Tom Torlakson, California's superintendent of public instruction. "Everyone recognizes that times are difficult, but school districts have already done everything they can to trim their budgets."
A recent poll by the University of Southern California and the Los Angeles Times newspaper found that a strong majority of California voters would be willing to pay higher taxes to support public schools. Those results could bode well for efforts to place an initiative for increased school funding on the November 2012 ballot.
'Just Awful'
California public K-12 schools have endured five straight years of spending cuts, totaling about $18 billion. They also have had to operate without another $10 billion that state lawmakers have deferred in recent years but promised to pay back in future years.
Funding for public schools in the current fiscal year—$34.7 billion in general fund dollars—along with expenditures for health and human services account for well more than half of the state's general-fund spending.
In many school districts, the academic calendar already was cut by a week in the last two years and could be pared even more. Instructional days can be cut under the mid-year budget reductions.
Districts can opt to reduce their school year by up to seven instructional days, down to as low as 168. That would put the amount of instructional time that California students receive near or at the bottom when compared with other states, said Arun Ramanathan, the executive director of the Education Trust-West, an Oakland-based nonprofit that advocates for poor and minority children.
"It's just awful," said Mr. Ramanathan. "And the rationale for it was, 'Well, nothing happens during the last week of school anyway.' But California is home to 1.8 million English-language learners for whom every one of those days would count."
Only districts that can reopen negotiations with their public-employee bargaining units will be able to make an adjustment to the calendar in the middle of the school year. State law prevents districts from laying off teachers in the middle of the school year.
Still, with another massive shortfall projected for the 2012-13 fiscal year, teachers are likely to lose jobs, said Dean E. Vogel, the president of the 300,000-member California Teachers Association. Roughly 30,000 educators have been laid off in the last two years, he said.
"People want schools to have what they need in terms of good teachers, low class sizes, and other resources," Mr. Vogel said. "The challenge is drawing the connection for people that schools won't get what they need until there is more revenue flowing into the general fund."
Looking Ahead
For districts that planned their budgets based on the worst-case scenario, there will be enough money in reserves to avoid shrinking the school year or making reductions that will disrupt their educational programs, said Michael Ricketts, an associate vice president for School Services of California, a Sacramento-based company that provides financial, business, and governmental advocacy services to school systems.
Districts without reserves to draw on or that didn't plan for midyear cuts will have to rely on options such as canceling bus services and laying off nonteaching staff members, Mr. Ricketts said.
"If these midyear cuts go through, I think we are going to see many districts that will be in cash trouble," Mr. Ricketts said. "If districts don't have enough to make payroll, they'll be insolvent."
San Diego Unified is facing that possibility if it cannot bridge a projected $92 million shortfall next year, according to Bernie Rhinerson, the chief of staff to Bill Kowba, San Diego's superintendent.
The district planned as if the additional state revenues would materialize. The district laid off between 200 and 300 teachers last year, then rehired most after the state budget was approved in June, Mr. Rhinerson said. Now, the district's leadership is focused on how it might reach agreements with its employee unions on deferring raises set to take place in the fiscal year that begins on July 1 and implementing—for the third straight year—a five-day furlough.
"We would like to see a revenue solution after five years of cuts and more cuts," Mr. Rhinerson said. "We've cut all that we can."
Vol. 31, Issue 13, Pages 24, 26Published in Print: December 7, 2011, as California Schools Girding for Fiscal Fallout
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After arriving at the Crescent Spur lodge on Saturday evening, we were greeted with an incredibly friendly and welcoming staff and treated to a delicious dinner. The lodge, with all of the fixtures, doorframes, and woodwork homecrafted with British Columbian wood, provides a remarkably warm and amicable atmosphere to relax and enjoy the time here. I knew I was in for a luxury ski holiday.
Sunday - day 1 of heliskiing, proved to be much more than I was used to after growing up skiing on the east coast. I was not nearly prepared for the humbling conditions that awaited me in the Caribou mountain range. Crescent Spur has over 1,500 square miles of privately leased skiing area with only 20 skiers per week - if you don't get in some good turns here, you won't anywhere.
Tip 1 - Safety Orientation
Heliskiing presents a unique set of hazards you will not find anywhere else. It is very important to go over safety and emergency information to prepare for the worst. After warming up with a brief indoor presentation on safety fundamentals and learning about the types of dangers, we went outside for some on-snow training.
Tip 2 - Safety Equipment
Crescent Spur is a great organization when it comes to skier safety. All guests are provided with a two-way radio, a transponder beacon, a snow shovel, and a probe. These tools are invaluable, and the knowledge of how to use them correctly can make the difference between life and death.
Tip 3 - Feet together, skis weighted equally
Although I consider myself a fair skier on-piste, there are some essential adjustments to make when backcountry skiing. First, make sure you keep a narrower stance than normal to account for variable snow conditions. When your skis are closer together, it makes it more likely that your skis will go through the same snow condition. This also helps to keep your skis more equally weighted than you normally would on-piste. Carving doesn't exist when skiing powder. The forces interacting between your skis and the snow are substantially different in powder conditions than packed snow conditions. Basically, you want to think of your skis floating on the snow and banking against the snow througout turns. This is more of a passive turn - you are just using the snow as a bank to push your skis against than actively turning and edging your skis.
Tip 4 - Make sure your video camera is on video mode
Somehow my camera turned out to be on photo mode instead of video mode, so instead of four great videos I was expecting to find at the end of the day, I found four shoddy photographs. Hopefully the rest of this week will work out better.


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Stanford Economist Gavin Wright to present, "The Civil Rights Revolution in the South: Who Won, Who Lost?"
Harold Vatter Memorial Lecture at PSU May 10, 2012, 4:30 p.m.
(Portland, Ore.) April 2, 2012 — The American Civil Rights revolution has been an inspiration to oppressed minorities around the world and is now an essential component of both national and regional civic culture.
But was it also a revolution in economic life? Do such movements improve prospects for marginalized communities at the expense of others, or is there a net benefit to all members of society?
Stanford University's Gavin Wright will address these topics in his invited talk, "The Civil Rights Revolution in the South: Who Won, Who Lost?"at PSU's annual Harold Vatter Memorial Lecture.
WHEN: Thursday, May 10, 4:30–6:30 p.m. Gavin Wright's talk will be followed by a question-and-answer period and a reception.
WHERE: Gathering Room, Native American Student and Community Center, Portland State University, 710 S.W. Jackson St., Portland, Ore. (Map it: http://bit.ly/NASCC-Map)
COST: This event is sponsored by the Department of Economics at Portland State University, and is free and open to the public.
ABOUT: Contrary to many pessimistic accounts, economic gains for black Southerners were real and substantial, sufficient to reverse a 50-year pattern of black migration out of the South, Wright says. He will also argue that with few exceptions Southern whites also benefited economically from desegregation. Thus the Civil Rights Revolution was not a program of redistribution, but rather reintegration of African-Americans into the economy of the South.
"Gavin Wright is one of those excellent economic historians whose work not only helps us to understand our past and the way it shapes the present—as in his notable book Old South, New South describing the one hundred year legacy of slavery for the economy of the U.S. South—but also provides insight into enduring questions relevant for the future," said Mary King, professor of Economics at Portland State.
"In his study of the economic impact of the 'Civil Rights Revolution,' Professor Wright demonstrates the widespread economic benefit of inclusion, that almost everyone and the society as a whole is better off when previously marginalized groups are more fully incorporated into economic life," King said.
Gavin Wright is the William Robertson Coe Professor of American Economic History at Stanford University, and an internationally recognized expert on topics such as American economic history; the U.S. South; technology; natural resources and economic development, and the economics of the Civil Rights revolution.
This event is sponsored by the Department of Economics (http://www.pdx.edu/econ/) at Portland State University, and is free and open to the public. Wright's talk will be followed by a question-and-answer period and a reception.
NOTE: Wright will also lead an economics seminar on Friday, May 11, at 3 p.m., (Cramer Hall, room 150, 1721 S.W. Broadway, Portland, Ore.), at which he'll present "Desegregating Southern Labor Markets." This event is also free and open to the public.
The Harold Vatter Memorial Lecture was established in 2006 to honor PSU Professor of Economics Harold Goodhue Vatter, a pioneer of New Economic History. By integrating economic theory with history, Vatter achieved a level of thinking on par with the great economists. He taught at several universities, including the University of Chicago and Oregon State University, before coming to Portland State University in 1965. He passed away in 2000 at age 89.
Additional sponsors of Gavin Wright's talk at PSU include Black Studies, History, Sociology, Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning, the Portland Center for Public Humanities and the PSU Library.
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One of the most taken for granted products on many a short tracker's car is the starter. They are often a second thought, one that comes to mind only after a failure. But a starter failure is the last thing that any one of us wants to experience. And thanks to Quarter Master's new Hi-Torque Ultra-Duty Starter we don't have to any longer.
Every hand-built Hi-Torque Ultra-Duty starter starts with top-quality Hitachi components and features heavy-duty solenoid and ball bearing construction to withstand higher engine temperatures and more extreme operating conditions found in racing. The solenoid plunger is chamfered to assure that the in-and-out movement will not bind. This free movement of the plunger is mandatory for reliable starting. In addition, the end of the solenoid spring is sanded to ensure that it is flat and will seat accurately.
The coil unit boasts a fiber packing ring that serves as a barrier between the coil case and armature brush unit providing assurance that electric current from the coil brush unit to the coil case is eliminated, thus preventing starter failure.
Each armature brush unit is modified by elevating the copper wiring up from the base of the unit. This small but important step ensures that no contact of electricity will occur to the base, thereby eliminating electric arcing that could cause operational failure. The addition of a chamfer to the edges of the armature brush unit further eliminates any sharp edge that might do damage to coil wiring. Finally, each gear case is micrometer-checked before the final step of applying Loctite to all screw attachments on the starter.
Ultra-Duty Starters also include gear reduction for increased ring gear torque and 1.4kw of power output. The adapter mounts are CNC-machined for precise flywheel fit and the unique pinion gear with a lightweight head enables much tighter tolerance in run-out, which makes for a highly efficient flywheel engagement.
These American-built, fully blueprinted gear reduction starters also come with a dyno sheet (below), and are fully rebuildable and available for all brands of bellhousings and mounting configurations.
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Consorcio de Turismo de Córdoba
Christ of the Lanterns. Plaza de los Capuchinos square, Cordoba.
Consorcio de Turismo de Córdoba
Christ of the Lanterns. Cordoba.
Plaza de los Capuchinos
14001 Córdoba, Cordoba (Andalusia)
El Cristo de los Dolores
This monument was crafted by Friar Diego José de Cádiz, from the Capuchin-Franciscan Order. It was originally called Cristo de los Desagravios y Misericordia.
It is situated in one of the most beautiful squares in Córdoba. It is a stone cross with Christ crucified, the monument is enclosed by a small railing with streetlamps, which explains why the popular feeling has changed the name and it is now known as the Cristo de los Faroles (the Christ of the Streetlamps). It was the work of Juan Navarro León, in the year 1794.
- 建造物: Sculpture groups
- 芸術的時代: Baroque
- 歴史的時期: 18th century
- 周辺: Franciscan Convent.


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Statement from UH Interim President David McClain in response to UH efficiency report by the National Center for Higher Education Management SystemsUniversity of Hawaiʻi
External Affairs & University Relations
"Dennis Jones, one of the co-authors of this study and the president of the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems, is one of the foremost analysts of higher education in the nation, and we take his work seriously. This study relates to the performance of all higher education institutions in Hawaii, public and private, and the analysis is of data describing the status quo in the years 2000 and 2002-2003.
"That said, Mr. Jones' work suggests that performance of state higher education systems varies directly with the preparation of high school students entering those systems, a conclusion with which we would certainly concur. We find that, of those students entering our open-enrollment community college system after graduation from high schools within the State of Hawaii Department of Education, more than 80% need remediation in math, and between 60% and 80% need remediation in reading and writing.
"Noting that Alaska and Maine are also in the underperforming group suggests another factor that may be important, but is unexamined in the Jones study -- the high fixed costs of providing education at a number of small sites distributed around a state to serve a geographically disperse population. Only three of our 10 campuses (Manoa, Leeward and Kapiolani) have more than the 5,000 students which are needed to fully realize all the available economies of scale.
"Since I began leading this university in mid-2004, I've emphasized increasing our productivity for the taxpayers, students and parents who finance our operations. Manoa Vice Chancellor Smatresk's success last spring in offering 8% more classes for students without any increase in funding is an example of the attention I and our chancellors have been giving to this issue."
For more information, visit: http://www.hawaii.edu/offices/op/2006/0119commentonreport.html


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This post is in response to Carnival of Genealogy #88: Volunteerism.
I am a volunteer reference librarian with the Internet Public Library. As with a brick-and-mortar library, the service provides resources to which patrons can help themselves or they may submit questions to trained librarians for help.
I have a Masters in Library Science — all volunteers on the IPL either already have an MLS degree or are MLS students in reference services classes around the country. I learned about the IPL through such a class in library school and really enjoyed helping out IPL patrons. After my class ended, I stayed on as a volunteer. Volunteers must work on practice questions and have their answers evaluated before they can answer real questions from the public. We are trained to answer questions from kindergartners, Ph.D. candidates and beyond.
The IPL receives questions on all kinds of topics, but of course, I especially enjoy answering the history- and genealogy-related questions. I've helped genealogy-focused patrons track down elusive obituaries and find free resources for getting started in genealogy research and for mapping out their family trees. On the historical end of things, I've dug up information on 1950s Andean railway motor cars, an 1800s insane asylum in Pennsylvania and the religious leanings of a U.S. president. In an "Antiques Roadshow" moment, I got to help a patron identify what type of pottery he had (Blue Willow, in case you were wondering). You never know what patrons are going to ask for next.
The best part about answering an IPL question is not just finding the answer a patron needs, but teaching them how I found it so they can find facts more easily next time. We don't just give you an answer, we point you to it. And for any concerned parents or teachers out there, rest assured that we only use trusted sources.
I've relied on some of the IPL's aggregated resources for my personal research. Of interest to genealogists: the General Reference section on the Pathfinders page.


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By DAN SEUFERT
Union Leader Correspondent
FRANKLIN — Those in the city who were saddened by the closure of the Bessie Rowell School three years ago might want to take a look at what's happening at the historic building these days.
The building is now the Bessie Rowell Community Center, and it's as busy, or busier, than ever, said Krystal Alpers, the city's Parks and Recreation director. It is now home to the Parks and Recreation Department, the Tiny Twisters Day Care Center, and the city's Head Start and Early Head Start programs.
The two-story brick building, which once housed 182 students, is now bustling with activity. The center also fosters good health and supports healthy eating and active lifestyle, or HEAL, practices.
"This is a building that sat unused, but in the past year we've turned it into a vital building again," Alpers said. "There are so many things going on, it's busy here until 9 p.m. on some nights."
The school was built in the 1950s and was named after former principal Bessie C. Rowell in 1958. In 2011, facing a budget shortfall of more than $1.6 million, the Franklin School Board closed the school and lay off 25 employees.
Last March, Alpers and the other agencies began moving into the city-owned building. Staff members of the organizations also formed a HEAL-focused peer network group. This group meets on a monthly basis and is collaborating to improve their work in areas such as increasing physical activity and healthy food options, limiting screen time, as well as making health-focused environment and policy changes.
The HEAL group hopes to improve the quality of life of those using the center.
"Our local coalition continues to work towards the overall goals of the HEAL program, and certainly changing and focusing on policy and practice is what we're aiming to do. We want to make change on a broad level," said Melissa Rizzo, a Lakes Region General Hospital healthcare community educator and the Greater Franklin HEAL co-coordinator.
Staff members from the three organizations also attended training sessions focused on obesity prevention, role modeling and parent education.
The community center has a number of other healthy eating and active living initiatives in place, including a new natural playground and the Early Sprouts seed-to-table gardening curriculum. They also plan to add raised gardens and a mural depicting the center's HEAL philosophy.
There is talk of holding an event for families and community members.
"This spring there will be a celebration event that will help bring awareness to the community about the initiatives focused on healthy eating and physical activity at Bessie Rowell Community Center. We want to let the community know that this place is about healthy families."


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Drinking the Bottom Shelf: Emmets Irish Cream
Will Gordon drinks his way through the bottom shelf of the liquor store...so you don't have to.
I spill enough pixels here extolling Bottom Shelf research fiancé Emily's many charms and virtues that I think I can get away with a quick gripe about one of her very few faults: The woman can't shop her way out of a paper bag.
I recently told one of our friends that I've never been to Ikea, and she said, "You're kidding me. In the past couple of years you and Emily have lived in three different apartments with a grand total of six rooms. She dresses very nicely and you...are engaged to someone who dresses very nicely. You two are the very embodiment of half-fashionable faux-poverty, and as such you have most certainly been to Ikea."
I assured her that I haven't, because I shop very locally—not as a hippie does, but in the manner of a basically-innocent-but-things-happen man practicing for modified house arrest—and Emily, despite her proud Swedish heritage, would sooner spend an afternoon eating mayonnaise sandwiches at a kitten slaughterhouse than shopping at a furniture store so big it needs its own meatball concession. She simply has no stomach for the acquisition end of the consumer process.
But even though Emily does not enjoy the acts of selecting and paying for things, she has a normal appetite for the actual possession of things. Her favorite things to possess are various sizes, shapes, and colors of foot coverings. She receives a lot of these things as gifts, but as our family does not exchange Columbus Day presents, she was left to her own retail devices when she found her feet to be insufficiently rubber-coated at the onset of the fall rainy season.
Last year she sloshed around in a cute pair of polka dotted Target boots, which were adorably priced at $20 but after two years of meritorious service had begun to leak every time the sky turned off-blue. This year, she vowed, would be different, because she was gainfully employed and apparently some terrible harridan in her office recommended a line of boots that cost $125. You know how many $2 beers you can buy with $125? ROUGHLY ONE THOUSAND. But I love her and she loves boots and it's her money anyway, so off to the bootery she went one fine Sunday afternoon.
Since Emily shops so infrequently, she rightly figures she can afford brand-name stuff; I do most of the shopping in our house and make nearly all of the financially ruinous decisions, so I try to limit myself to sales and generics and unattended loading docks.
The immoral of this story is that Emily's expensive boots sprung a leak, and she is so enraged that I've had to resist the urge to tell her so. Plus I don't actually think generics are always the way to go. Take imitation Nyquil capsules, for instance. They may have the exact same ingredients as the original, but the half-assed perforation of the inferior packaging is too big a hassle for a sick man in need of a bedtime fix.
But buying generic always saves you money (at least in the short term), and often gets you just as good a product. And in the glorious world of the Bottom Shelf, it can even get you a better product. In the past couple of months, we've stumbled upon superior knockoffs of Captain Morgan's (Lady Bligh) and Kahlua (Kapali), as well as a fake Malibu (Admiral Nelson) that's essentially as good as the original.
Since the coffee liqueur's been settled and everyone knows you can get decent cheap vodka, it makes sense to hunt down a serviceable-or-better imitator of Baileys Irish Cream to round out the last third of a thrift-store Mudslide. There are several on the market—including Carolans, Molly's, and Brady's—and I tried Emmets first.
My soggy-footed research assistant conducted a blind tasting that revealed this to be a Target boot/thousand-beer boot situation: Neither is very good, but the cheap one's better before price is even factored in.
Baileys has a one-note smell of melted vanilla ice cream, whereas Emmets suggests a darker, more complex drink, with a bit of caramel and pleasant evidence of alcohol. They are similarly and disconcertingly viscous, with the major distinction being that Baileys reveals way too much cheap alcohol for a 34 proof liqueur. It tastes like a White Russian made with Popov and malice.
Emmets, which cost $14 per 750 mL at a store that gets $22 for Baileys, is no great shakes, but it's smoother without being sweeter and definitely the right choice for any Irish cream shoppers with expensive boot habits or marginally discerning palates.
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We turned exactly 32-and-a-half yesterday, and that got us to thinking about how we should celebrate our 33rd birthday, because we are not one of those people who are bashful about birthdays. Karaoke party? Chevy's fiesta? Ritualistic human sacrifice? We decided to just listen to Tampa Bay Devil Rays setup man (and onetime Cardinals savior) Al Reyes, and have someone tase the shit out of us on our special day.
That's what Reyes did last night/this morning for his 38th, and it worked out right well for him.
Apparently Al was in Hyde Park Cafe when he fell against a ceramic pot. Thinking someone randomly pushed him, Al started "exchanging" words with a gentlemen. We don't know what was said, but the guy ended up punching Al in the face. Police say Al "began to spit blood on the people in the area and began to swing his arms about." The bar's bouncers were trying to control Reyes, but Al wasn't having any of it as he continued to spit blood and swing his arms around.
After not being able to calm him down Police tased him, knocking him to the floor, but that didn't stop Reyes. He refused Police commands to stay down, got up, and was tased a second time. Reyes was eventually calmed down and treated for a cut on his nose. Al was charged with affray; Mora was charged with battery. Both were released on their own recognizance.
This is yet another example of the instigating, provoking nature of clay pottery. There you are, just minding your own business, and next thing you know, what started with a simple disagreement with a ceramic pot ends with you spitting blood and being tased by police. (Twice.) Happy 38th birthday, Al!
Happy Birthday Al Reyes/Don't Tase Me Bro [Rays Anatomy]


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text: Please could you publicise this widely? Thank you.... An Introduction to Anthropology The Human Revolution Autumn 2013 Symbolic culture emerged in Africa over 100,000 years ago, in a social revolution whose echoes can still be heard in myths and rituals around the world. These talks are a general introduction to anthropology, including the latest findings from genetics, evolutionary biology, primatology, cave painting research and archaeology. There is hot food in the venue and plenty of time afterwards for socialising in local pubs. Sep 24 Decoding myths: 'The Sleeping Beauty' and other tales Chris Knight Oct 1 Claude Lévi-Strauss: The science of mythology " " Oct 8 African hunter-gatherers and the moon " " Oct 15 Darwinism and genetics: 'the science of solidarity' " " Oct 22 Egalitarian societies today Jerome Lewis Oct 29 People, animals, blood and the moon Jerome Lewis Nov 5 The revolution which worked Chris Knight Nov 11 Utopian disjunctures and participatory democracy in Bolivarian Venezuela Matt Wilde Nov 19 Bronislaw Malinowski: Sex and family life in the Trobriands Chris Knight Nov 26 Key problems in human evolution Chris Stringer Dec 3 Women in Ice Age cave art Camilla Power Dec 10 African hunter-gatherers' communal singing Ingrid Lewis Dec 17 A Christmas fairy-tale: 'The Shoes That Were Danced to Pieces' Chris Knight All talks held at the St Martin's Community Centre 43 Carol St, London NW1 0HT (2 minutes from Camden tube) Tuesday evenings, 6.30–9.00 pm. www.radicalanthropologygroup.org For regular updates on meetings and anthropology news, please follow us on Twitter (@radicalanthro) and Facebook Twitter: @radicalanthro


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ENG 497 Seminar in English Literature: Place, Space, and Community in the Novels of Charles dickens and Thomas Hardy
The following passage, appearing in The Country and the City by British cultural critic Raymond Williams, suggests the focus of this advanced seminar on place, space, and people in Victorian literature: "'Country' and 'city' are very powerful words, and this is not surprising when we remember how much they seem to stand for the experience of human communities. In English 'country' is both a nation and a part of a 'land'; the country can be the whole society or its rural area. In the long history of human settlements, this connection between the land from which directly or indirectly we all get our living and the achievements of human society has been deeply known. And one of these achievements has been the city: the capital, the large town, a distinctive form of civilization."
Such a quote suggests some of the ways in which two particular places—the city and the country—influence different views of human connection, relationships with particular places and spaces, values, and ways of life. Places (buildings) and spaces...(landscapes and streetscapes) can create community as well as social division and individual isolation. They can evoke in literature images, associations, and interpretations of life that provide entry points in understanding social, political, cultural, and artistic concerns of a particular period. Two important spaces and their related buildings in Victorian England were the countryside and the large cities. The former was undergoing continued upheaval with changes in agricultural practices and the ongoing migration of people from the country to urban centers of commerce and industry. The latter—most notably London—was also undergoing upheaval as its spaces and places changed to accommodate the influx of people, continued growth as the commercial and mercantile center of the world, and emerging urban problems. Two Victorian authors are closely associated with these changing physical and social landscapes: Charles Dickens, whose life and writings were shaped by his London experiences, and Thomas Hardy, whose life and writings were shaped by his experiences of growing up and living in rural Dorset in southwest England. Each uses his relationships with space and place to establish settings and themes in his novels-especially an examination of the themes of community along with individual and class isolation. In this advanced seminar, we will examine through relevant novels, essays, art, architecture, historical documents, 19th-century periodicals, and literary/cultural criticism, the roles of rural and urban places and spaces in the novels of Charles Dickens (London in Bleak House and Our Mutual Friend) and Thomas Hardy (rural Wessex in Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Far From the Madding Crowd). Our critical angles of examining these texts will be cultural criticism and new historicism as we focus on major themes of community and isolation within Dickens's and Hardy's novels and within the nation's changing social, political, economic, religious, and intellectual milieus. Supplemental texts will include chapters from Raymond Williams's The Country and the City, Richard Altick's Victorian People and Ideas, Howard Newby's Country Life: A Social History of Rural England, and Peter Ackroyd's London: The Biography. Class activities will include discussion, student reports, extensive library research, short writing projects, and a major seminar paper. Also part of the class will be a seven-day Thanksgiving-Break trip to London and Dorset led by Professor Herzog and Joe Herzog, M.S. in architecture from Arizona State University. Thus, the following quote from William J. Palmer's Dickens and New Historicism establishes a central metaphor for our class: "Part of the uneasiness Dickens felt was with the surface consensus of Victorian life, which one of Dicken's strenuous night walks through the city--with all its poverty, crime, and confrontation--would immediately dispel. But the uneasiness that Dickens felt was also occasioned by a personal need to understand, from the bottom up, the truth of his times expressed in the voices of the streets." As a class, we will be taking "strenuous" literal and figurative walks through the city and country. This course is offered in the fall semester.
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Tim McGraw Silver Cologne Review
Are you a fan of Tim McGraw? (How about the lovely Faith Hill??) Well, Regardless of whether you like McGraw's music or his cowboy hat, his new cologne by Coty is a great cologne. I have been wearing and testing the new fragrance – McGraw Silver – that includes an exclusive accord named "Captivate" which is comprised of unique ingredients. In McGraw Silver, I felt like I wasn't wearing just another new cologne but something distinctive. It's a fragrance that was noticed by others in a very positive manner.
The packaging caught my eye with a bold rectangular bottle that signifies Tim McGraw's country style in an urban setting. McGraw Silver has the right balance to be your everyday cologne at the right price and for all of us Tim McGraw music fans remember, "I may be a real bad boy, but baby I'm a smell good man."
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