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This morning my husband and I had a small miscommunication. He thought that I said that I was going to make cookies this morning, and was disappointed when I said that I wasn't planning on doing that.
I felt bad about disappointing him. So when he and the boys were volunteering today at the county's Renaissance Faire, I whipped up a batch of Oatmeal Brownie Drops.
My theory about cookie recipes is that I take Nestle's and Hershey's recipes and follow them slavishly - these companies have every incentive to provide foolproof recipes so that you'll keep buying their products. For the most part, that theory has worked well for me.
This is a recipe from one of my old Hershey's cookbooks, although I was unable to find it on the Hershey's website. However, I did find it in this blogpiece - smallhomebigstart.blogspot.com/2010/07/oatmeal-brownie-dr...
Weathervane Playhouse in Akron, Ohio, presents " Don't Dress for Dinner" -- a comedy by Marc Camoleti and adapted by Robin Hawdon
Directed by Marc Moritz
See it live on stage May 1 to 18, 2014
For more information, visit www.weathervaneplayhouse.com/dont-dress-for-dinner-2014-0...
ABOUT THE SHOW
Bernard is planning a romantic weekend with his chic Parisian mistress in his charming converted French farmhouse, whilst his wife, Jacqueline, is away. He has arranged for a cordon bleu cook to prepare gourmet delights, and has invited his best friend, Robert, along, too, to provide the alibi. It's foolproof! What could possibly go wrong? Well…suppose Robert turns up not realizing quite why he has been invited? Suppose Robert and Jacqueline are secret lovers, and consequently determine that Jacqueline will NOT leave for the weekend? Suppose the cook has to pretend to be the mistress and the mistress is unable to cook? Suppose everyone's alibi gets confused with everyone else's? In this hilarious farce, an evening of hilarious confusion ensues as Bernard and Robert find that they must improvise at a break-neck speed!
THE CAST
RICHARD WORSWICK
Bernard
SCOTT DAVIS
Robert
MITCH MANTHEY
George
BERNADETTE HISEY
Jacqueline
DEDE KLEIN
Suzanne
ASHLEY BOSSARD
Suzette
(All photos in this Flickr set were shot for Weathervane Playhouse on April 30, 2014, by Scott Diese.)
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Although, I'm not sure I should just give away these secrets. Actually, I'm positive, I shouldn't. Tell you what, go out and try everything else first and when nothing has worked for you, come back.
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Das Crop-Top ist einer der angesagtesten Trends im Sommer und seit einem Jahr auch. In der Tat, ich denke, es gibt eine ziemlich gute Chance, dass das Crop-Top zu einem der neuesten Grundnahrungsmittel für die wilden Fashionistas da draußen wird. Crop Tops gibt es in allen Formen, Farben u...
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This could be a Eastern Gray Treefrog (Hyla versicolor) or a Copes gray treefrog (Hyla chrysoscelis). Most likely however it is a Copes gray because it is more common for them to be this color. But the only foolproof way to tell the difference is by the frogs call which i did not hear.
Rabbit stories from Deer-Credible Story From Snow Field chronicles.
Read the full story: Sunday afternoon I went for a hunt, but these shots haven’t hurt a single animal! For the first time, I had to settle for one single deer from behind, but for the second time, I got a foolproof tip. In the first thirty minutes, I haven’t me a single soul, then suddenly I caught a glimpse of a herd of 30-40 deer and I couldn’t believe my eyes! They were on their way fast, as you can see on the photo below.
Then I decided to go around the fishpond, so we can meet halfway, since the herd went towards the pond. However, soon I had a big surprise once more, as I found another group of 20-30 individuals.
I was planning to get closer to them and luckily, my clothes seemed suitable, since I was wearing a light gray jacket with a hoodie and a pair of jeans, and my patience proved to be effective. I’ve spent about three hours in the -4°C weather in the wilderness and I enjoyed every single moment of it, so much so, that I didn’t have time to feel the cold, if anything, I was feeling warm because I had to do one fourth of the trip squat walking. So yeah, hello, muscle soreness, but who cares after an amazing experience like this?!
When one group got scared and ran away, I started to approach the other, and yes, first I had to sneak and stealth in the snow-white field, then, as I was getting closer to the herd, I switched back once again to the beloved squat walk. After that I was trying to reduce the distance between us, meter by meter.
The real miracle happened when I was squatting and one of the deer started to gallop towards me. I couldn’t even dream of something like this, that instead of receding from the lenses of the camera, one curious individual would come closer in a rush. I was squatting in an ideal position, totally still, waiting for what will happen next as I was already seeing the headlines in front of me: „deer attacked a Hungarian photographer”. Only my clicking finger was moving – it was a truly incredible moment!
In this moment, the deer could be about twenty meters from me, but it is hard for me to remember the exact details, as I became quite emotional because of its honorific visit. After a couple seconds, it perceived the possible danger, stroke a pose from the side as well, and then, in a flash, turned its back on me and ran away.
While I was switching between the herds, I saw something on the field that looked like a tussock, but turned out to be a rabbit, a beautiful hare, to be exact. Obviously, it hasn’t hesitated for long, and went down the rabbit hole.
I found a spot on the field where the undergrowth was a bit higher and provided a perfect cover for me, even though we are talking about a 30-40-centimeter long grass, but it allowed me, for yet another time, to get incredibly close to the herd.
Thank you for your attention and for the opportunity. I apologize for the quality of certain photos, but my equipment was nowhere near a wildlife photography one – more experienced photographers simply called me determined. If you liked to pictures, please follow Gabor Matesz Photos on Facebook where I offer a diverse scale of nature photos.
Enjoy the photos! Thanks for all visits, comments and Favs.
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Attention ladies. The auction begins at 3pm. Ensure prompt attendance to stand a chance of winning a night with Captain Lothario of Orange.
The miserable, wretched, other team, that were far too pleased with themselves on winning the boat building challenge. It was only afterwards that Danny told me he'd promised them all a gold star for their wall chart if they did. Crafty. Unlike the boat.
THE STORY OF THE EISENHOWER-JOHNSON MEMORIAL TUNNELS
We went by the book, but the mountain couldn't read
--- R.C. (Rube) Hopper, 1972 ---
Colorado's scenic wonders lured settlers and tourists alike. Geography and weather placed strict limits on travel routes and seasons. Politicians, engineers, and citizens often disagreed about how to cross the Continental Divide. Between 1941 and 1943, the Department of Highways constructed the “Pioneer Bore,” the first attempted construction of a high-altitude tunnel near Loveland Pass. The 7'x7' tunnel was just over a mile long. The route was eventually abandoned as road standards changed after 1945.
In the 1950s, the Western Slope agricultural community needed reliable, year-round routes to Denver markets and railroads, while Colorado's booming tourism industry demanded improved highways. The 1956 Interstate Highway Act provided federal funding to answer these challenges. The route along Straight Creek, today's westbound Eisenhower tunnel bore, was deemed the best of eight possible routes, but construction would not begin for another decade.
Despite occasional snow flurries, and temperatures in the mid-30s, Colorado Governor John A. Love dedicated the Eisenhower Tunnel on March 8, 1973. He proclaimed the tunnel to be “the
most effective answer to tying east and west Colorado together and opening the way West.” The tunnel, open in all weather, saved motorists 9.1 miles of the slow, winding road over Loveland Pass.
Before the first tunnel opened, the Department's engineers were designing the second bore. The Eisenhower Tunnel accommodated both east and west bound traffic and the Department knew that was not a long-term solution. Excavation of today's eastbound Johnson Tunnel began in 1975. Completed and dedicated on December 21, 1979, this second tunnel was named for Colorado Governor and U.S. Senator Edwin C. Johnson.
WE KNEW THERE WAS BAD ROCK IN THERE
Problem: By 1969, all involved in construction faced a dilemma. They knew that the mountain still moved along the Loveland Fault and fragile rock could come crashing down at any time. Designed to dig and hold up the rock simultaneously, a 450-ton mining shield moved only a few yards before a combination of loose rock and pressure unintentionally seized the shield in its tracks.
Technique: The builders opted for the multiple drilling method. Crews dug 13 small tunnels, or drifts, six to eight feet tall, to form an arch. Workers filled each drift with concrete. The drifts were dug starting at the bottom of the arch so the concrete at the top of the first drift served as the second drift's floor.
Result: The multiple drilling method prevented further cave-ins and allowed subsequent excavation of the mountain's middle where crews expanded the tunnel. Tunnel engineer R.C. (Rube) Hopper observed that multiple drilling was “a little slow, but it is foolproof.”
PEOPLE
Rules for the road
An avid sportsman, Dwight Eisenhower started visiting Colorado shortly after World War II. Like the average citizen, “Ike” occasionally found himself caught in traffic on U.S. Highway 40 between Fraser and Denver. As president, he signed the Federal Interstate Highway Act of 1956. The Colorado state legislature memorialized him by naming the Straight Creek Tunnel, today's westbound bore, the Eisenhower Memorial Tunnel in 1972.
The observant engineer
From survey crew to executive director, Charles Shumate spent five decades (1924-1975) employed by the Colorado Department of Highways. Shumate was an engineer's engineer and a newspaper reporter's dream as he was always good for a quote. In 1963, as work began on the bore beneath the Continental Divide, Shumate pronounced the work “the most difficult feat ever undertaken by the Colorado Highway Department.”
A new light at the tunnel
A Department of Highways clerical error offered Janet Bonnema a tunnel engineering job in 1970, transforming the Department's workplace culture. In 1972, a state constitutional amendment guaranteed equal rights for women, superseding miners' superstitions about women underground. Eighteen months after she was hired, engineer Janet Bonnema went underground to perform her duties, prompting a walkout of about 60 workers. All but one man returned the next day.
Phillip McOllough, project engineer
Phillip McOllough was the Department of Highways' tunnel construction engineer, and later district engineer, for both the Eisenhower and Johnson bores. From July 1968 until the Johnson tunnel opened in 1979, McOllough helped create and implement new construction techniques when the workers encountered “bad rock”. His cautious work saved lives and brought both tunnels to a successful completion. He was district engineer until 1981.
The tunnel's guiding light
R. C. (Rube) Hopper served as the tunnel's district engineer during the Eisenhower bore's construction. Hopper oversaw the drilling of multiple small tunnels, or drifts, in an arch pattern and backfilled with concrete. The drifts provided necessary support to keep the mountain's “bad rock” from crashing down on workers and equipment. Reflecting on construction, Hopper joked: “We were going by the book, but the mountain couldn't read.”
Big Ed
Edwin C. “Big Ed” Johnson fought to bring an interstate highway to the Rockies. Serving three terms as U.S. Senator and two terms as Governor, Johnson used his political savvy to convince the federal government to route the interstate through Colorado. Johnson's efforts broke the decades-long stalemate over high country road construction. The state named the eastbound bore in his memory in 1979.
CHALLENGES
How to open a mountain
Challenges of tunnel construction at 11,000 feet included reduced efficiency of workers and equipment and a shorter construction season. After careful planning and a pioneer bore, engineers could not predict all rock conditions. In 1967, the winning bid was $54 million to open the Eisenhower bore. The final cost topped over $100 million. Rechanging the tunneling method due to bad rock conditions doubled the cost.
Time is money
It took less time, but it wasn't less expensive the second time around. The Eisenhower bore was still under construction when the state opened bids for the Johnson bore. The Johnson bore's final cost topped approximately $100 million. Engineers estimate that if these tunnels were built in the early 21st century they would cost around $1.5 billion.
Mining a tunnel
Excavation comprised four tasks — drilling, loading, shooting and mucking. Holes were drilled around the rock the miners wanted to remove. Explosives were then loaded into these holes and “shot,” or blasted. After each blast, miners and front-end loaders mucked out loose rock and dumped it into narrow-gauge mining cars pulled by an electric locomotive. The Department ultimately used the loose rock in road construction.
Cold, noisy and dark: Life inside the mountain
Eight hours of sensory overload may be the best way to describe a shift in the Eisenhower and Johnson bores. The Denver Post described conditions inside the mountain as “sound becomes a physical torrent,” water “leaks” from the rocks and miners wore “grimy, rubber-coated tub overalls.” At construction's peak, 1,140 people worked three shifts 24 hours a day for six days a week.
PRIDE
Before the Tunnels
In the 1960s, Charles Shumate witnessed “50 to 75 cars going around and around the capitol building honking their horns and with signs saying, 'The Western Slope Needs to Tunnel Under the Continental Divide'.” The completed tunnels linked eastern and western Colorado with a year-round reliable route. Approximately 310 million vehicles drove the tunnels from the late 1970s to the early 21st century.
The tunnels today
The Eisenhower-Johnson Memorial Tunnels are the largest structures built with Interstate funds and stand at an elevation of 11,158 feet, the highest on the Interstate system. Construction took 13 years and $220 million to mine the tunnels, build the ventilation buildings, and the highway approaches to the tunnels.
A staff of approximately 50 persons perform critical operations and maintenance duties at the tunnels at every hour of every day to keep traffic moving across Colorado. Every day, workers watch for and immediately respond to vehicle breakdowns or other problems that might slow down or stop traffic, or lead to more serious accidents. In fact, there has never been a fatal accident in the tunnels in 40+ years of operation.
BY THE NUMBERS
• 1 million cubic yards blasted and cleared for each bore
• 190,000 cubic yards of concrete for each bore
•1.693 mile westbound and 1.697 eastbound
• 236 feet greatest distance between tunnels
• 44.3 x 47.5 total feet high and wide for each tunnel
• 13.6 x 28.5 total feet high and wide for the finished roadway
[Timeline]
1879 William Loveland builds a wagon road over the mountain pass named later in his honor
1929 First automobile crosses Loveland Pass
1938 Colorado completes US Highway 40 over Berthoud Pass
1941 The Colorado Department of Highways begins the first, or pioneer, bore under Loveland Pass
1943 Department of Highways advertised for bids to tunnel under Loveland Pass but all bids come in over the $10 million the department anticipated
1950 The State Highway Department paves U.S. Highway 6 over Loveland Pass
1963 Contractors begin pioneer bore of the westbound Straight Creek Tunnel
1964 First 2.6-mile section of I-70 opens from Floyd Hill to Idaho Springs
1967 Straight Creek Constructors submit the winning low bid of $54.1 million for the first tunnel
1973 Eisenhower Tunnel opens on March 8, 1973
1975 Colorado Department of Highways approves low bid of $102.8 million for the second bore, later named the Johnson Tunnel
1979 The Johnson Tunnel opens for eastbound traffic
1984 The Department of Highways completes the last segment of I-70 through Glenwood Canyon
[Captions:]
Left side, clockwise from top left
• President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Colorado Governor Ed Johnson in the Oval Office, about 1953
• Janet Bonnema laughing with R.C. (Rube) Hopper on her first trip into the tunnel, 1972
• Former Colorado Governor and Senator, “Big Ed” Johnson, center, with unidentified men at the tunnel worksite, early 1960s Photo taken by the Colorado State Patrol. Courtesy of the Denver Public Library, Western History Collection. Unnumbered.
• The Eisenhower bore's opening on March 8, 1973. From left to right, R.C. (Rube) Hopper, Colorado First Lady Ann Love, Charles Shumate and Red Gillette.
• An ecstatic Phil Mcollough, Department of Highways District Engineer, is surrounded by contractors from Peter Kiewit & Sons. Dozens of state employees and hundreds of contractors worked for over 10 years constructing the Eisenhower and Johnson bores. It took another 16 months after the “hole-through,” shown in this picture, before the Johnson bore opened to traffic.
Front: Rod Nickerson, Phil McOllough, and Bill Roberts; Center: Marv Bishop, L.D. Bowerman, and Ray Poulsen; Back: Joe Jaudon. 8/17/1978
Right side, clockwise from top left
• The simple act of walking required extra [indecipherable] “This mountain leaks. If the pedestrian watches where he is putting his feet he finds cold water running down his neck.” – The Denver Post, 1978.
• Miners preparing charges for a blast, 1977.
• Crews install additional tracks to haul people, supplies, and muck, 1977]
• Opening Day 1973: Two-way traffic flowed in the Eisenhower bore until the Johnson bore opened in 1979.
• Workers construct a drill jumbo for the next segment of tunneling, 1977
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Drama series about a group of con artists.
The gang are left in shock as the unthinkable happens - Mickey is conned! Some lowlife rips him off by selling him a useless mobile phone online. According to the age-old laws of grifting, when a grifter is conned he's guaranteed a run of bad luck. What will the gang do if Mickey loses his mojo? They head to Eddie's to drown their sorrows, only to find it heaving with customers. It seems Lady Luck has switched her allegiance and the chums need to do something to restore the balance.
The hustlers set about researching the company that conned Mickey, leading them to Mervyn Lloyd, an outrageously cocky and slimy businessman who would sell his own grandmother to make a fast buck. Mervyn sells the latest mod cons through the internet but, unlike more reputable retailers, he doesn't worry if they work or not. Mervyn dreams of working with famous entrepreneurs like Dragons' Den's Deborah Meaden, Peter Jones and Duncan Bannatyne but he has none of their integrity or morals.
The gang work on a plan to reel Mervyn in. Mickey is forced to step aside thanks to his rotten luck, so the con-running baton passes to Ash. His brief is to convince Mervyn that Albert is on the verge of creating the next big thing - but what? The team need to hatch a foolproof plan to snare Mervyn in order to get Mickey's mojo back, otherwise his bad luck may be here to stay.
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Prevention's Fiber Up Slim Down
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Betty Crocker Win At Weight Loss Cookbook
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Two Meatballs in the Italian Kitchen
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One Cake, One Hundred Desserts: Learn One Foolproof Cake Recipe and Make One Hundred Desserts (Hardcover)
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You know that stirring's not coming out of my budget, right? I mean, you should have your own budget for the stirring you do, because that's, like, not part of my project. Anyway, how long does it take to stir? Can we get someone it to stir it? You probably shouldn't be doing the stirring but you should be getting someone else to do the stirring. No, I don't know how I'm expected to fund you taking the time to get someone else to do the stirring you're already doing, but it's not coming out of my budget I know that much and anyway, you're not actually stirring. Strictly speaking, you're just overseeing the cooking from a higher level but of course you'll be expected to stir occasionally but I'm not paying for it etc.
This is for air travelers at LaGuardia who present their boarding pass on their electronic device. Something tells me this isn't so foolproof...
Donated by Rick von Holdt of the Foolproof Press for the benefit auction / holiday party to raise money for the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum.
the day i posted my last photo from rio i went to a brazilian bar to watch brazil play chile. i took my camera hoping to get some fan shots, however my camera had other ideas and promptly stopped working. i tried to google a fix, but all the methods seemed too complicated, so instead i started googling for new cameras. as my d60 was over 6 years old all of the results were hugely superior and i started to get excited at the prospect of an upgrade. i won enough money at the last world cup to buy a new camera, so i thought there would be a romantic symmetry of doing the same after a south american world cup. the good news was that after the final i had won £805. the bad news was that i had also lost £797. those of you who are quick with maths will work out that left me with an overall profit of £8... and you can't get many cameras for £8. i spent a couple of weeks annoyed that my seemingly foolproof plan of winning a new camera had failed. and then i had a revelation: it wasn't just a new camera that i got before my travels 4 years ago... i also got a credit card. and as of yesterday i now have a brand new toy.
here's one of the originals
Wali Khan Babar laid to rest in the presence of hundreds of mourners.
By Rafiullah Mandokhail.
ZHOB:
Slain Journalist Wali Khan Babar laid to rest, who was shot dead by snipers in Karachi on Jan 13th.
According to detail, the funeral prayer was offered last night in his ancestral village Garda Babar at 6:00 PM last night. He was laid to rest in the presence of hundreds of mourned, relatives, politicians and friends. Deputy Commissioner Hamid Al-Karim, Assistant Commissioner Suhail Hashmi, DPO Raz Muhammad Tareen, DSP Sheikh Zia Mandokhail, renowned politicians including Secretary Information Pk-MAP Raza Muhammad Raza, Central Leader ANP Sheikh Muhammad Yar Khan Mandokhail, JUI Nazaryati Leader Hafiz Hazrat Gul, JUI (F) Leader Molvi Shams u Din and elites participated in his last rites. It was very emotional scene and people were weeping.
It is to be mentioned that Journalists, Pk-MAP and ANP activists staged a protest demonstration against the brutal killing of Wali Khan Babar. Journalists raised black flag on press club building, while they wore black arm bands to condemn Wali Khan Babar’s killing.
The protesters marched on various roads of the city caring banners and placards, they chanted slogans against the government and MQM. Addressing the protesters Raza Muhammad Raza, Sheikh Muhammad Yar Khan Mandokhail, Abdul Qayum Advocate, Dr. Aurangzeb Ehsas and Muhammad Rafiq Mandokhail condemned the cold-blooded murder of the young and promising journalist Wali Babar. They said “The government is shielding the professional killers in Karachi and awarding them a licence to kill anyone in the city”, adding that the government was patronizing the MQM, they accused. The protesters further said that the Karachi-based political party was resorting to “ethic cleansing of Pashtoons, Sindhis, Baloch and the Punjabis”, adding that none of the perpetrators of such blatant targeted killings had ever been arrested or punished.
They demanded of the government to investigate the incident and award exemplary punishment to the killers and provide foolproof security to media persons.
Now this is a real camera. You dictate what it does, everything is dependant on you, and to an extent on luck. Can do stuff on this which a digital won't. Even if you get ten zilion pixels into a digital, it is an inferior machine. Basically, a digital is a foolproof toy. And whatever anybody says, scanning from a print taken with a film will be beter than taking direct with the best digital in the world and downloading the result to the computer.
It's Friday, the sun is shining and the art is free. Come on down! We have prepared a whole load of stuff which is hopefully already in the clutches of our good man My Dog Sighs for his upcoming Free Art Friday event in Southsea this Sunday. As far as i'm aware he has hundreds of pieces from a wide variety of artists and all you have to do to snag one is head to Southsea and grab one for yourself. It's a foolproof plan! We've provided a variety of pieces (mainly on cardboard) and all come complete with the 'id-iom certified' stamp that guarantees authenticity. My main concern is whether i'll be able to get down in order to snag something for myself...
Cheers
id-iom
As a continuation of my prior work I built these:
When the armory experts at Section 31 got a hold of the attachments for the Bullpup SF PHASER rifle family they immediately set out to create unique weapons for their own uses, the first two products of this project were these stand alone revolving multiple grenade launcher & Plasma Burst Shotgun Each of these can be easily handled by even the least experienced of users with a minimum of training thanks in large part due to the advanced nearly foolproof sights, & the grenade launcher has almost every amenity of the 21st century MK.33 MGL, with the addition of ultra-lightweight composite and tritanimum construction materials, so in conclusion when empty the grenade launcher weighs in at 4 Kilograms, and only 6 Kilograms loaded. The Plasma Burst Shotgun though a little odd in appearance and purpose to contemporary forces is a good portable area clearance weapon with the ability to be discharged 100 times at a semi-automatic rate of fire, has an integrated foregrip to avoid snagging and maintain compactness, is equipped with a set of BUIS, and has a maximum lethal range of 75 meters.
Special thanks to Decado2010 for his(her) underslung masterkey's shell, mag receiver, & repurposed charging handle.
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When Kelsey vows revenge, she gets more than she bargains for!
Tangling with perfection is a dangerous game!
Making an enemy of Taffy Foster, Pom-Pom Queen and golden-haired wonder of Balboa High, is Kelsey's first mistake. Vowing revenge after Taffy humiliates her in front of gorgeous senior Cal Lindsey is her second. She's positive her plot is foolproof, but she couldn't be more wrong!
Then Kelsey discovers Magic Male Grabbers - everything she needs to know to win boys and popularity. Finally she's on her way to a dazzling social life - and headed straight for trouble!
Six Apps That Help You Lose Weight
Rachel Grumman Bender
Nov 9, 2011
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Anyone who has ever struggled to get off the couch and hit the gym knows it’s much harder to pull a no-show when someone—a friend, a trainer—is waiting to meet you there. It’s called accountability and for some people who are looking to shed excess pounds or shape up, it can give them the edge they need to reach their goal.
Studies show that using tools to hold yourself accountable, such as keeping a food journal or working out with a buddy, help people successfully stick to a weight loss plan or exercise routine. And the Internet has only made it easier to stay on track. A 2010 study in the Journal of Medical Internet Research looked at a web-based weight maintenance intervention program and found that the more frequently people logged onto weight loss sites, the more pounds they shed. In the study, users who went online and recorded their weight at least once a month for 24 months maintained the highest amount of weight loss—an average of nine pounds—compared to those who went online at least once a month for 14 months and kept off five pounds on average. Those who logged on less often maintained an average weight loss of a mere three pounds.
But not all experts agree that accountability is the best way to meet a weight-loss goal. “The problem with accountability is that in order to turn your goal into something that you can hold yourself accountable for, you almost always have to focus on an outcome rather than a process,” notes Art Markman, Ph.D., YouBeauty Psychology Advisor “Successful weight loss means both losing weight and also maintaining that weight. In order to do that successfully, you have to make significant and sustainable changes to your lifestyle. You have to eat differently in a way that you can continue even after you reach your target weight. And you have to add regular exercise into the routine.”
Adds Markman, “you're better off focusing on creating healthy habits that are sustainable. The focus should always be on process rather than outcome.”
Although Edward Abramson, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist and author of "It's Not Just Baby Fat: 10 Steps to Help Your Child" to a Healthy Weight, agrees that accountability isn’t a foolproof weight loss tool, he says it can help you stay motivated by providing social support to get you through the rough patches, such as when that pint of ice cream is calling your name. “Motivation is really the key, given that weight loss is effortful and that you don’t always see immediate benefits,” says Dr. Abramson. “Often social support is a great motivator—someone who will be supportive and encouraging—and can be very useful in maintaining healthy eating habits and exercise.”
If you’re looking to lose five pounds or run for longer than five minutes without getting winded, check out these high tech ways to help you reach your weight-loss and fitness goals:
* The Eatery. This new app (available on iTunes) lets you take a photo of your food, rate it and share the information with other people also using the app or your friends on Facebook to get their feedback (they can rate your meals from “fit” to “fat”). The point? Sharing what you’re eating may make you more likely to think twice before diving into that mac ‘n’ cheese over a healthy salad. What’s more, you’ll be able to track your food trends, such as you’re more likely to reach for a donut at 3p.m. every day (try taking a walk instead), and become more aware of what you are eating so that you can change your behavior and choose healthier foods.
* The Withings Wifi Body Scale. The scale measures your weight, BMI, lean and fat mass and transfers the information to your smartphone or computer so you can keep track of your progress (or if you’re falling into old, bad habits). To raise the accountability stakes, the scale even lets you Tweet your weight so you can share it with anyone following you on Twitter, if you feel so bold. Talk about accountability!
* The BodyMedia Fit system. The BodyMedia Fit system includes an armband that’s worn day and night, which automatically clocks the calories you burn during daily activities—from running on the treadmill to running errands—and monitors your quality of sleep, which is another key factor in successful weight loss. Although wearing an armband 24 hours a day may not be the most convenient thing, this may make it all worth it: The BodyMedia Fit system boasts that users can lose up to three times the amount of weight compared to people trying to shed excess pounds on their own.
* Lose It! The free app (available on iTunes and the Lose It! website) is your virtual food and exercise journal, helping you monitor what you eat and how often you break a sweat. Based on your personal information, Lose It! calculates how many calories you should be eating daily. As you log in your food intake, it deducts calories from your total daily “budget.” The app lets you share how many pounds you’ve lost as well as your weight loss and fitness goals with friends to help you stay motivated. It will even remind you when you forget to log your meals. The result? The average Lose It! user drops more than 12 pounds.
* iMapMyFitness+. Whether you’re into biking or running, you can easily set goals and measure your progress with this fitness tracking app. Thanks to its GPS technology, iMapMyFitness+ easily tracks your time, distance, speed and pace on an interactive map when running or cycling. You can also email or Tweet your workout data to fitness buddies, friends and family.
* SocialGym. This straight-forward app helps you track your cardio and strength training workouts (from walking on the treadmill to biceps curls), chart your progress and share your workouts with your friends on Facebook to garner positive feedback to keep you going.
Recipe Link: asmallbite.com/plain-dosa-recipe-dosa-batter-in-mixie/
If you are a die hard fan of crispy, golden coloured, ghee drizzling dosa but don’t want to grind in wet grinder? or don’t have it?, then just hop into this post, dosa batter in mixie as the whole grinding process will be finished within 10 minutes. There is no need of lifting the grinder stone in between, or cleaning the stone is really a laborious task, you can grind it frequently in a breeze and use fresh batter also. I have already shared another post, soft idli recipe which can be used for preparing both idli and dosa but this plain dosa recipe is completely different from that. Please read the recipe till the end, as I have shared lots of tricks and tips and this is a foolproof recipe, if you follow the proportions correctly. It tastes heavenly with hotel style tiffin sambar and urad dal chutney.
I have been eyeing up these tasty treats on many, many cooking blogs and decided to have a bash at making them myself. They were wonderful, crispy, chewy and creamy, what more can you ask of a sugar laden treat
Adapted from here
The downside to concrete block foundation walls is the fact that they are porous. International building code laws require that the outside of foundation walls be covered with a water repellent tar-like material. That is a good step to try to waterproof your block foundation wall, but it is not foolproof. It is simply the first step of many you will end up taking to keep your basement dry. Keep your dream home design simple yet very effective, this helps you every way in getting the project done in time.
Mex cooked Delia's Chocolate Bread & Butter Pudding - she said it's foolproof
www.deliaonline.com/recipes/cuisine/european/english/choc...
With chocolate from Paul a Young and day old sour dough bread
I still had this piece of pork fillet (250g) in my freezer. Today I vacuum packed it (still frozen) with a lump of butter, some salt and pepper and a small toffee-like-wrapped bundle of cling foil with a few sprigs of thyme, a few needles of rosemary and half a clove or garlic.
Cooked it for 90 minutes at 65°C in warm water. (Check my blog to see my alternative for a Roner) Then quickly pan fried it just to give it a bit of color. Resting not needed. Add the juices from the vacuum pack to the pan for a little bit of sauce/jus.
This cut of pork can be very dry. (it's not pork tenderloin, I'm not sure how it's called in english) Today I think it was still a bit on the dry side, but maybe that's because it had been in the freezer for months. I will try this again soon with some nice, fresh pork. This sous-vide cooking is really dead-easy and foolproof.
Donated by Rick von Holdt of the Foolproof Press for the benefit auction / holiday party to raise money for the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum.
This was the worlds first communication satellite, it worked as a passive radio reflector for the brief time it was visible to both the sender and receiver
To me it is almost a work of art.
Two of these connected by a tether would make a sublime art project in orbit. Spinning around as they cross the sky, they would be an awe inspiring sight. They would not go in a straight line.
Sometimes they would even appear to change direction and go backwards. If you did not know beforehand what this was it would freak you out.
This would be cheap and effective. Perfect for crowdfunding.
Just think of the pictures that you could take of this! Even a fairly short tether would provide an object visibly spanning several degrees from the ground. I remember seeing these in the 1960's as they crossed the sky. They were as bright as Venus sometimes. Two of them connected is the important part, that way it just won't be a star moving across the sky. It will be something almost alive. Friction with atmosphere will keep it spinning and probably get it going pretty fast. What is shown above is the smaller of the two Echo satellites and it is 135 feet in diameter. They are practically foolproof and inflate themselves due to the residual air in the balloon. This is just begging to be done.
There are even valid scientific reasons to do this....
A - zero gee structural studies
This is the best way to build large living spaces quickly. Blow one of these up and spray a quick dry foam over the inside surfaces. I think the later Echo satellite actually had something like this on the interior to help it retain shape.
B - tether dynamics
We need to know how to control something like this, it could be of great use down the line as a way to send raw material back from distant asteroids. Let's say you have a target with a fair amount of metal that you mine and refine with robotic devices. Put your goodies in a bag and spin up the bag and the asteroids rotation. At the proper moment you cut the tether. Instant free dV!
C - orbital debris removal
There will be nothing better than something like this filled completely with a energy absorbing foam material to suck up all that nasty space debris in low earth orbit. Just maneuver it into the proper orbit and let the laws of physics do the rest.
Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle
The Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle, designed for NASA’s Project Mercury, was the first American manned space booster. It was used for six sub-orbital Mercury flights from 1960–61; culminating with the launch of the first, and 11 weeks later, the second American (and the second and third humans) in space.
A member of the Redstone rocket family, it was derived from the U.S. Army’s Redstone ballistic missile and the first stage of the related Jupiter-C launch vehicle; but to human-rate it, the structure and systems were modified to improve safety and reliability.
The four subsequent Mercury human spaceflights used the more powerful Atlas booster to enter low Earth orbit.
•General Specifications:
oFunction: Human-Rated Sub-Orbital Launch Vehicle
oManufacturer: Chrysler Corporation
oCountry of Origin: United States
•Size:
oHeight: 25.41 m (83.38 ft)
oDiameter: 1.78 m (5.83 ft)
oMass: 30,000 kg (66,000 lb)
oStages: 1
•Capacity:
oPayload to Sub-Orbital Trajectory: 1,800 kg (4,000 lb)
•Launch History:
oStatus: Retired
oLaunch Sites: Launch Complex 5, Cape Canaveral, Florida
oTotal Launches: 6
oSuccesses: 5
oFailures: 1
oFirst Flight: November 21, 1960
oLast Flight: July 21, 1961
oNotable Payloads: Mercury Spacecraft
•Single Stage:
oEngines: 1 Rocketdyne A-7
oThrust: 350 kN (78,000 lbf)
oSpecific Impulse: 215 sec
oBurn Time: 143.5 seconds
oFuel: LOX/ethyl alcohol
Modifications from the Redstone Missile
NASA chose the U.S. Army’s Redstone liquid-fueled ballistic missile for its suborbital flights as it was the oldest one in the US fleet, having been active since 1953 and had many successful test flights.
The standard military Redstone lacked sufficient thrust to lift a Mercury capsule into the ballistic suborbital trajectory needed for the project; however, the first stage of the Jupiter-C, which was a modified Redstone with lengthened tanks, could carry enough propellant to reach the desired trajectory. Therefore, this Jupiter-C first stage was used as the starting point for the Mercury-Redstone design. The Jupiter-C’s engine, however, was being phased out by the Army, so to avoid potential complications such as parts shortages or design revisions, the Mercury-Redstone designers chose the Rocketdyne A-7 engine used on the latest military Redstones. Hans Paul and William Davidson, propulsion engineers at the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA), were assigned the task of modifying the A-7 to be safe and reliable for manned flights.
During 1959, most of ABMA were preoccupied with the Saturn project, but those engineers who could find enough free time in their schedule were invited to work on man-rating the Jupiter-C. As a starting point, the most obvious step was getting rid of its staging capability as the Mercury-Redstone would not utilize upper stages. Many of the more advanced Jupiter-C components were also removed for reliability reasons or because they were not necessary for Project Mercury.
The standard Redstone was fueled with a 75 percent ethyl alcohol 25 percent water solution, essentially the same propellants as the V-2, but the Jupiter-C first stage had used hydyne fuel, a blend of 60 percent unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine (UDMH) and 40 percent diethylenetriamine (DETA). This was a more powerful fuel than ethyl alcohol, but it was also more toxic, which could be hazardous for an astronaut in a launch pad emergency. Furthermore, hydyne had never been used with the new A-7 engine. The Mercury-Redstone designers rejected hydyne and returned to the standard ethyl alcohol fuel. The lengthened propellant tanks were thus also necessary in lieu of using less powerful fuel.
Use of alcohol created a problem with the Mercury-Redstone in that the graphite thrust vector vanes could be eroded due to the significantly longer burn time, hence NASA put out a requirement that the launch vehicles needed high quality vanes.
Because Mercury-Redstone had larger propellant tanks than the Redstone missile, an additional nitrogen bottle was added for tank pressurization, and an extra hydrogen peroxide tank for powering the turbopump due to the longer burn time.
The most important change in making the Mercury-Redstone a suitable vehicle for an astronaut was the addition of an automatic in-flight abort sensing system. In an emergency where the rocket was about to suffer a catastrophic failure, an abort would activate the launch escape system attached to the Mercury capsule, which would rapidly eject it from the booster. Either the astronaut or the ground controllers could initiate an abort manually, but some potential failures during flight might lead to disaster before an abort could be manually triggered.
The Mercury-Redstone’s automatic in-flight abort sensing system solved this problem by monitoring the rocket’s performance during flight. If it detected an anomaly which might threaten the astronaut, such as loss of flight control, engine thrust, or electrical power, it would automatically abort, shutting down the engine and activating the capsule’s escape system. The abort system could not shut off the engine until at least 30 seconds after liftoff in order to prevent a malfunctioning launch vehicle from coming down on or near the pad; during the initial 30 seconds, only the Range Safety Officer could terminate the flight. Review of flight data from the more than 60 Redstone and Jupiter C launches since 1953 was used to analyze the most likely failure modes of this launch vehicle family. In the interest of simplicity, the abort sensing system had to be kept as simple as possible and only monitor parameters that were vital to booster operation. An automatic abort could be triggered by any of the following conditions, all of which could be indicative of a catastrophic launch vehicle malfunction:
•Pitch, yaw, or roll angle deviating too far from the programmed flight profile,
•Pitch or yaw angle changing too rapidly,
•Pressure in the engine’s combustion chamber falling below a critical level,
•Loss of electrical power for the flight control system, or
•Loss of general electrical power (including power for the abort sensing system itself), which could indicate a catastrophic failure.
Instant abort capability was important because certain failure modes such as loss of thrust upon liftoff (for example the third Redstone test flight in May 1954) could result in an immediate catastrophic situation. Other failure modes such as deviation from the proper flight path or a drop in engine chamber pressure during ascent did not necessarily present an immediate risk to the astronaut’s safety and he could either initial a manual abort by pulling a lever in the capsule to activate the Launch Escape System or ground control could send a command to activate it.
The range safety system was modified slightly in that a three-second delay would take place between engine cutoff and missile destruct so as to give the escape tower enough time to pull the capsule away.
Schematic View
The most visible difference between the Jupiter-C first stage and the Mercury-Redstone was in the section just below the Mercury capsule and above the propellant tanks. This section was known as the aft section, a term which was inherited from the military Redstone. (The actual rear end of the rocket was called the tail section.) The aft section held most of the Mercury-Redstone’s electronics and instrumentation, including the guidance system, as well as the adapter for the Mercury capsule. In the military Redstone and the Jupiter-C first stage, when the rocket had burned out, its lower portion, containing the rocket engine and propellant tanks, would separate from the aft section and be discarded, and the aft section, with its guidance system, would direct the top half of the rocket during its unpowered ballistic flight. However, in the Mercury-Redstone, the aft section was permanently attached to the lower portion of the rocket. When the rocket had shut down, the Mercury capsule would separate from the aft section and would rely on its own guidance.
Other changes were made to improve the Mercury-Redstone’s reliability. The standard Redstone’s ST-80 inertial guidance system was replaced in the Mercury-Redstone with the simpler LEV-3 autopilot. The LEV-3, whose design dated back to the German V-2 missile, was not as sophisticated or as precise as the ST-80, but it was accurate enough for the Mercury mission and its simplicity made it more reliable. A special instrument compartment was built in the “aft section” to hold the most important instrumentation and electronics, including the guidance system, the abort and destruct systems, the telemetry instrumentation, and the electrical power supplies. To reduce the chance of failure in this equipment, this compartment was cooled before launch and kept pressurized during flight.
The fuel prevalves were deleted from the Mercury-Redstone in the interest of improved reliability, since if they closed during a launch, an abort condition could be triggered. On the three unmanned flights, it was discovered that the Mercury-Redstone exhibited a roll transient of 8° per second versus 4° for the Redstone missile. Although this was below the 12° per second roll transient required to trigger an abort, the roll rate sensor was removed from the two manned flights to reduce the chances of an accidental abort (the booster still retained the roll attitude angle sensor which would be triggered at 10°).
Mercury-Redstone 1A and Mercury-Redstone 2 both experienced overacceleration in flight, the former due to a problem with an accelerometer, the latter due to a problem with the LOX regulator which oversupplied the engine with oxidizer and caused thrust termination to occur 1.2 seconds early. The ASIS system activated and the escape tower yanked the capsule away, subjecting its chimpanzee passenger to high G loads. The third flight, Mercury-Redstone BD, was designed as an engineering test to correct these problems before the booster could be considered man-rated.
The space between the pressurized instrument compartment and the capsule was originally intended to hold a parachute recovery system for the rocket, but it had been left empty after this system was abandoned. The three unmanned Mercury-Redstone flights exhibited high vibration levels and structural bending in the adapter area, so Alan Shepard’s flight included 340 pounds of lead-infused plastic in the adapter section along with additional bracing and stiffeners. After Shepard still reported noticeable vibration during launch, Gus Grissom’s booster included even more ballast. The Atlas booster used for orbital Mercury flights had also experienced this issue, but with more catastrophic results as Mercury-Atlas 1 was destroyed in-flight due to structural failure caused by excessive flexing at the point where the booster mated with the capsule adapter.
In total, some 800 modifications were made to the Redstone design in the process of adapting it for the Mercury program. The process of man-rating Redstone was so extensive that NASA quickly found themselves not using an off-the-shelf rocket, but what was in effect a completely new one and thus negating all of the hardware and flight test data from previous Redstone and Jupiter-C launches. This created a series of disputes between Von Braun’s team at ABMA and NASA, as the former preferred simply making the abort system as foolproof as possible so as to guarantee that the astronaut would be bailed out of a malfunctioning launch vehicle, while the latter favored maximum booster reliability to minimize the chance of aborts happening at all.
Proposed Parachute Recovery System
The Mercury-Redstone designers originally planned for the rocket to be recovered by parachute after its separation from the Mercury capsule. This was the first significant effort to develop a recoverable launch vehicle and the first to reach the testing phase.
The recovery system, at the top of the rocket, would have used two stages of parachutes. In the first stage, a single parachute, 17 feet (5.2 m) in diameter, would stabilize the rocket’s fall and slow its descent. This parachute would then draw out a set of three main parachutes, each 67 feet (20 m) across. The rocket would come down in the Atlantic Ocean, to be recovered by ship.
To determine the feasibility of this system, several tests were performed on full-sized Redstones, including water impact and flotation tests, and an exercise at sea in which a floating Redstone was picked up by a Navy recovery ship. All these tests showed recovery of the rocket to be workable. Further development was halted, however, due to lack of funding, so the parachute system was not tested.
Flights
Mercury-Redstone flights were designated with the prefix “MR-”. Confusingly, the Mercury-Redstone boosters used for these flights were designated in the same way, usually with different numbers. (In photographs, this designation can sometimes be seen on the rocket’s tail end.) Two rockets, MR-4 and MR-6, were never flown. Although there had been rumors that NASA in the very beginning of Project Mercury had intended to launch each astronaut on a suborbital mission before beginning orbital Atlas flights, they only purchased eight Mercury-Redstone boosters, one of which was damaged in the unsuccessful MR-1 launch and not reused, and another used for the MR-BD flight (the original schedule was for one unmanned Mercury-Redstone flight, one chimpanzee flight, and six manned flights). Since Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom’s flights were successful and since the Soviet Union had flown two orbital manned space flights by the late summer of 1961, there was no need to continue with Redstone missions.
•MR-1
oRocket Designation: MR-1
oLaunch Date: November 21, 1960
oComments: Empty capsule; launch abort; rocket shut down at liftoff due to electrical fault.
•MR-1A
oRocket Designation: MR-3
oLaunch Date: December 19, 1960
oComments: Empty capsule.
•MR-2
oRocket Designation: MR-2
oLaunch Date: January 31, 1961
oComments: Carried chimpanzee Ham.
•MR-BD
oRocket Designation: MR-5
oLaunch Date: March 24, 1961
oComments: Empty nonfunctional “boilerplate” capsule.
•MR-3
oRocket Designation: MR-7
oLaunch Date: May 5, 1961
oComments: Carried astronaut Alan Shepard.
•MR-4
oRocket Designation: MR-8
oLaunch Date: July 21, 1961
oComments: Carried astronaut Gus Grissom.
A panorama of 4 images stitched in photoshop. Taken with a Minolta MC Rokkor PG 50mm 1:1.4 manual focus lens on a Sony NEX7. Trying out some heritage glass on my NEX and quite pleased with the results. Focus peaking helps but is not foolproof .
"Every photograph is a self portrait"
Shot at the zoological institute in the city of Leuven (louvain) belgium.
Now let me tell you something : "When I was 12 years old, and did my holy communion, my grandmother gave me a agfamatic camera.A metal silver small pocketcamera, I still have the thing, that was completely foolproof.
At 15 or 16 my mother finally bought me a real single reflex camera (forgot what brand ) from a friend of the family who sold of all his gear so he could pay back his drinking debts. The seeds where planted to get me hooked on photography.
I photographed motorcycles with my agfamatic.
I was a curious youth and for some reason allways hit my head against a brick wall.When I was seventeen I got hooked on drugs. After 20 odd years I got off drugs.
While I was in a state of dismay, a mere slave I atempted to go to art school ; 2 or 3 times. It worked for a month or 2 months but no more. Everything I started I gave up after a while.
It's a curious thing, somehow this photography thing keeps popping up.I'm in art school now (4 years already, 3 more to go ) doing, yes, photography.
I have photos of me as a baby, portraits my parents had made of me by a local studio photographer and on one of those portraits I'm holding an empty box of agfa isopan film ( the photographer must have given it to me or my parents to keep me focused )
Maybe I am predestined to take photographs ? Who knows.
The thing is, I feel I have found my "Thing" ; that what drives me.Maybe 30 years to late but as they say...never to old to learn and change your live around.
Never to late ?
Weathervane Playhouse in Akron, Ohio, presents " Don't Dress for Dinner" -- a comedy by Marc Camoleti and adapted by Robin Hawdon
Directed by Marc Moritz
See it live on stage May 1 to 18, 2014
For more information, visit www.weathervaneplayhouse.com/dont-dress-for-dinner-2014-0...
ABOUT THE SHOW
Bernard is planning a romantic weekend with his chic Parisian mistress in his charming converted French farmhouse, whilst his wife, Jacqueline, is away. He has arranged for a cordon bleu cook to prepare gourmet delights, and has invited his best friend, Robert, along, too, to provide the alibi. It's foolproof! What could possibly go wrong? Well…suppose Robert turns up not realizing quite why he has been invited? Suppose Robert and Jacqueline are secret lovers, and consequently determine that Jacqueline will NOT leave for the weekend? Suppose the cook has to pretend to be the mistress and the mistress is unable to cook? Suppose everyone's alibi gets confused with everyone else's? In this hilarious farce, an evening of hilarious confusion ensues as Bernard and Robert find that they must improvise at a break-neck speed!
THE CAST
RICHARD WORSWICK
Bernard
SCOTT DAVIS
Robert
MITCH MANTHEY
George
BERNADETTE HISEY
Jacqueline
DEDE KLEIN
Suzanne
ASHLEY BOSSARD
Suzette
(All photos in this Flickr set were shot for Weathervane Playhouse on April 30, 2014, by Scott Diese.)
The Vickers machine gun or Vickers gun is a name primarily used to refer to the water-cooled .303 British (7.7 mm) machine gun produced by Vickers Limited, originally for the British Army. The machine gun typically required a six to eight-man team to operate: one fired, one fed the ammunition, the rest helped to carry the weapon, its ammunition, and spare parts. It was in service from before the First World War until the 1960s, with air-cooled versions of it on many Allied World War I fighter aircraft.
The weapon had a reputation for great solidity and reliability. Ian V. Hogg, in Weapons & War Machines, describes an action that took place in August 1916, during which the British 100th Company of the Machine Gun Corps fired their ten Vickers guns continuously for twelve hours. Using 100 barrels, they fired a million rounds without a failure. "It was this absolute foolproof reliability which endeared the Vickers to every British soldier who ever fired one."Machine gun post
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