Heavy Snow Claims Eight Lives In Northern Japan

Posted on March 5, 2013 by Kneeknee

Heavy Snow Claims Eight Lives In Northern Japan

(CNN) — Heavy snow in northern Japan claimed the lives of eight people over the weekend, while a blizzard forced a high-speed bullet train to derail.

In one incident, a woman and her three children were found dead on Saturday after becoming trapped in their car in Nakashibetsu, a town in eastern Hokkaido prefecture, police told CNN.

Authorities believe they died of carbon monoxide poisoning as the car’s engine was left running and filled with exhaust fumes. The vehicle’s exhaust pipe and windows were buried under snow.

A 23-year-old woman, also from Nakashibetsu, died Sunday after she was found collapsed on farmland near the town. Police said she had abandoned her car, which was found a few hundred meters away.

Elsewhere in the region, a 53-year-old man and his nine-year-old daughter were discovered unconscious after being buried in snow on farmland near Yubetsu in Monbetsu district. The father was pronounced dead at hospital, but his daughter is now conscious and does not have any life-threatening injuries, police said.

The two went missing after leaving their home Saturday afternoon in a truck to visit a friend of the father. Police and rescue workers found the truck on a road Saturday evening and the man and his daughter Sunday morning. According to local media, the father had covered his daughter with his body to try to warm her under heavy snow.

The bodies of two other men — ages 74 and 54 — were also found outside Sunday. They are believed to have gotten lost after leaving their snow-trapped cars, and police say the elder man froze to death; the other’s man’s death is under investigation.

Meanwhile, a six-car bullet train en route from Tokyo to Akita on the high-speed Akita Shinkansen line derailed on Saturday afternoon after the front wheels of the train’s first car left the track in blizzard conditions near Daisen in Akita prefecture. Nobody on board was injured, and the service resumed on Monday, a spokesperson for operator JR East told CNN.

News Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/03/04/world/asia/japan-snow-deaths/index.html?hpt=wo_c2

Loaded Potato Soup Recipe

Posted on March 5, 2013 by Kneeknee

Loaded Potato Soup Recipe

Ingredients
4 (6-ounce) red potatoes
2 teaspoons olive oil
1 1/4 cups fat-free, lower-sodium chicken broth
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
2 cups 1% low-fat milk, divided
1/4 cup reduced-fat sour cream
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
3 bacon slices,
halved 1.5 ounces cheddar cheese, shredded (about 1/3 cup)
4 teaspoons thinly sliced green onions

Preparation

1. Pierce potatoes with a fork. Microwave on HIGH 13 minutes or until tender. Cut in half; cool slightly.
2. While potatoes cook, heat oil in a saucepan over medium-high heat. Add onion; sauté 3 minutes. Add broth. Combine flour and 1/2 cup milk; add to pan with 1 1/2 cups milk.
Bring to a boil; stir often. Cook 1 minute. Remove from heat; stir in sour cream, salt, and pepper.
3. Arrange bacon on a paper towel on a microwave-safe plate. Cover with a paper towel; microwave on HIGH for 4 minutes. Crumble bacon.
4. Discard potato skins. Coarsely mash potatoes into soup. Top with cheese, green onions, and bacon.

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The Living End – All Torn Down

Posted on March 5, 2013 by Kneeknee

The Living End – All Torn Down

The Living End - All Torn Down

Six albums. Each one, a milestone: The time we thought we were indestructible. The time we lit a fire under the establishment. The time we wondered if it was all worth it. No.6, if we put it under the scalpel, is the album that hunts down the truth, asks the big questions and demands answers. THE ENDING IS JUST THE BEGINNING REPEATING is The Living End’s most honest album yet.

Chris Cheney, Scott Owen and Andy Strachan have always forged their own path, irrespective of passing fads, haircuts, and any vogue for keytar-wielding debutantes. Their songs require of the listener a social conscience and mosh pit stamina, and give in return a visceral experience that’s flawlessly executed. It’s this attitude that’s earned the band four platinum and one gold albums.

Winding up the tour cycle that followed 2008’s WHITE NOISE, Cheney went to New York to buckle down and write, before the songs were jammed out organically in a South Melbourne rehearsal room. Finally the demos were taken to 301 Studios in Byron Bay and Chris’s studio Red Door Sounds in Collingwood for a reworking with producer Nick DiDia — who has put the Midas touch on records by The Living End-approved Bruce Springsteen and Rage Against the Machine — imported especially for the occasion from Atlanta. Brendan O’Brien (Pearl Jam, Powderfinger, AC/DC) took the reigns as mixer. The results are astonishing.

All three musicians share a craftsmanlike love of songwriting, on an eternal quest to find the ultimate hook, most danceable tempo, the chord progression to break your heart. “With this album we were searching for really spine-tingling bits,” says Cheney, who namechecks classic songwriters like Glen Campbell, Springsteen and the Bee Gees.

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Talking Beaver – Welcome To Canada

Posted on March 5, 2013 by Kneeknee

Talking Beaver – Welcome To Canada

Talking Beaver - Welcome To Canada

The quest for religious and political freedom is often cited as the reasons Europeans colonized North America, but natural resources were another major draw. These included whales, vast schools of cod, and towering lodgepole pines used for ship’s masts. But the resource that lured explorers across the continent was ACTUALLY the beaver.

After the early European explorers realized that Canada was not the spice-rich Orient, the main mercantile attraction was the beaver, then a population numbering in the millions. In the late 1600s and early 1700s, the fashion of the day demanded fur top-hats, which needed beaver pelts. As these hats became more popular, the demand for the pelts grew. Explorers were dispatched deep into the North American wilderness to trap and trade for furs with local natives.

King Henry IV of France saw the fur trade as an opportunity to acquire much-needed revenue and to establish his North American empire. Both English and French fur traders were soon selling beaver pelts in Europe at 20 times their original purchase price.

The first North American coat of arms to depict a beaver was created by Sir William Alexander, who was granted title in 1621 to the area now known as Nova Scotia.

Nouvelle Vague – Making plans for Nigel

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Kneeknee

Nouvelle Vague – Making plans for Nigel

Nouvelle Vague - Making plans for Nigel

New Wave, New Wave Bossa Nova: three words in their respective languages mean exactly the same thing.Three passions that Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux endeavor since 2004, married together in the collective Nouvelle Vague, or, swaying elegance of Bossa Nova, writing melancholy of the New Wave and distanced view movies New Wave.

The group’s approach is as follows: transpose standard directory punk / new wave and (re) discover obscure titles more or less 80 years, offering an original rereading rooted in modernity.

The cover art is tricky … but 3 albums (“New Wave” – 2004, “Bande à Part” – 2006, “3” – 2009), reinterpretations of Nouvelle Vague toured the world.
700,000 albums sold hundreds of complete concerts around the globe, the respect of many original artists (Martin Gore, Terry Hall, Ian McCulloch … also on the album “3”).

The female performers contribute significantly to the success of Nouvelle Vague, the originality of Camille, the elegance of Mélanie Pain, the sensuality of Phoebe Killdeer, madness scenic Nadeah Miranda had flipped the international public. A chic aesthetic extended by Helena Noguerra or Mareva Galanter, who accompanied the band on stage today.

If the three previous games clung directory new wave and post punk Anglo-Saxon “Colors of Paris’ 4th album but the first group on the Barclay label, revisits this” New Wave “that swept the French late 70 and extended over most of the next decade.
This spontaneous generation – the Current magazine named “Young people modern”-extended the Anglo-Saxon heritage in France. More than current musical set (new wave, post punk, pop, cold wave, Novo …), this scene – which was the heyday of the Palace – is illustrated by a line of thought rejecting the values and sixty-eighters aesthetics, which in taming synths and drum machines, overthrew the 80s.

Kas Product / Marc Seberg or Lio / Indochina? Black and white or colorful? Rage punk dandy aesthetic? Or underground hit singles?
many differences but a movement with complex ramifications and incestuous.

To celebrate the new wave “made in France” , it is no longer only the New Wave singers are invited. Each title is revisited by an artist of the contemporary French scene, which grew out of the ashes of this movement and assumes inheritance.

Source: http://www.nouvellesvagues.com/ABOUT_texte.html

Driving Dogs in New Zealand

Posted on March 3, 2013 by Kneeknee

Driving Dogs in New Zealand

Rescued stray dogs in New Zealand learn to drive

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IN a world already full of road hogs this is perhaps the last thing you want to see in the rear view mirror. Animal experts are teaching dogs how to drive.

Astonishingly, it took three mutts just eight weeks to master the basics in wooden carts. They then graduated to a modified Mini in which they sat on their haunches in the driver’s seat with their paws on the steering wheel.

Their feet go on extension levers which are attached to the accelerator and the brake while their paw rests on the gearstick.

The experiment was set up by an animal welfare group in New Zealand which wanted to show the public how intelligent dogs are.

The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will put Porter, a ten-month old beardie cross, Monty, an 18-month-old schnauzer cross, and Ginny, a one-year-old beardie whippet cross to the test in a live broadcast next Monday.

Mark Vette, who is schooling the dogs, said: ‘”We train them to do different actions, touch is the first thing and then we teach them to touch the different objects with the right paw and left paw. They’ve all come through at this point and they’re all going really well”.

Rescued stray dogs in New Zealand learn to drive

Talking Dogs The Best Ever

Posted on March 3, 2013 by Kneeknee

Talking Dogs The Best Ever

Todays Puppy is Dexter The Pug Mix

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How to Train a Dog to Speak

Short, positive training sessions will serve best when you teach your dog to obey various commands. Some examples of commands are “sit,” “stay” and “speak.” The “speak” command teaches a dog to bark once or twice in response to your verbal cue. Training not only provides mental stimulation for your dog but gives you more control over his behavior. You can combine commands to teach more complicated tricks or tasks, such as “quiet” or “hush” for noisy dogs, after they first understand the command to speak. Use reward-based clicker-training techniques to train your dog to vocalize on your command.

Step 1

Train your dog to associate the sound of a clicker to a reward, using a dog treat. In short, 5- to 10-minute sessions each day, click a training device and give your dog a treat. Wait a minute or so between each click and treat. Continue this training until your dog expects a reward after hearing a click.

Step 2

Say the verbal cue, “speak,” then trigger your dog to bark by waving a favorite toy in front of the dog’s face but not allowing him to obtain it. Other ways to trigger your dog to bark is by knocking on a wall or door, or by withholding a treat from the dog. Once the dog barks, click the device and give your dog a treat.

Step 3

Train your dog for five to 10 minutes with the clicker and treats each day until he responds to the verbal command to speak by giving you at least one bark without your having to provoke him to bark with anything other than the verbal “speak” command.

Step 4

Teach your dog the “quiet” command to limit the amount of time your dog barks after being given the “speak” command. This further specifies the “speak” command to just a couple barks instead of constant barking for a longer amount of time. Give the dog the command to “speak” triggering him to bark, but don’t treat him. Say “quiet” and wait until he is quiet for a few seconds before clicking and treating him. Continue this training giving the commands “speak” and “quiet” during each training session.

Slow Cooker Pork Chops

Posted on March 2, 2013 by Kneeknee

Slow Cooker Pork Chops

Ingredients4 loin chops, lean
1 medium onion, sliced
1 teaspoon butter
salt and pepper, to taste
1 tablespoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon sage
1 teaspoon oregano
1 teaspoon basil
1 cup chicken broth
2 cloves of garlic, minced
1 tablespoon paprika
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
parsley, garnish

Instructions:

In a large bowl melt butter and whisk together the broth and seasoning. Pour mixture into slow cooker.
Place onions and garlic in slow cooker and place the pork chops on top of them.
Place a slice of butter on top if you’d like and cook on low heat for 6 to 8 hours, or until chops are tender and onions are done. When done, serve with your favorite vegetables and sprinkle on fresh or dry parsley.

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Flame Resistant Clothing

Posted on March 2, 2013 by Kneeknee

Flame Resistant Clothing

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After the opening of WorkingPerson.com, we were very pleased to begin serving an even wider array of customers on both a national and international basis, with ever increasing demand for our goods and services.
Then, in 2005, we continued our expansion with the acquisition of our new Technology Center, as well as a dramatic increase in the size and scope of our team.
Since that time, the WorkingPerson.com site has become the number one, world-wide destination for work clothing, work footwear and safety gear, serving customers on five continents daily.
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Nouvelle Vague – This Is Not A Love Song

Posted on March 2, 2013 by Kneeknee

Nouvelle Vague – This Is Not A Love Song

Nouvelle Vague - This Is Not A Love Song

The group’s approach is as follows: transpose standard directory punk / new wave and (re) discover obscure titles more or less 80 years, offering an original rereading rooted in modernity.

Source: http://www.nouvellesvagues.com/ABOUT_texte.html

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