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well am here and sorry to keep you guys waitin. i'm reviewing on a self help book today, different from my usual genres. It's definitely a good book as they have scenarios and what you can do when that happens, advice and so much more.As the title goes, this book is about how to say no and still keep your frends. It contains true stories of teens whose failure to manage negative peer pressure caused them harm. It also has refusal lines to help you say no, tips to help you encourage your friends to be drug-free and so much more.It's definitely a great book as it teaches you how to stay in conrol and handle all kinds of tough situations esp with you friends and still be cool. I'd definitely recommend this book for everyone out there.

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The 43-year-old was taken to hospital with gunshot wounds after officers from the Metropolitan police specialist firearms unit CO19 opened fire at an address in north London. Police were called to Kiver Road, in Holloway, at about 9.30am after reports of gunshots. Officers were apparently confronted by a man firing from a property into the street. They opened fire before reportedly entering the house where they found a man suffering from "gunshot injuries" with a firearm by his side. A Met spokeswoman said: "A white male in his 40s has been taken to a north London hospital suffering from gunshot injuries. His condition is assessed as being serious but stable." She said it was "too early" to be clear about the events that led up to the shooting. Police confirmed they recovered a firearm at the scene. The Metropolitan police service directorate of professional standards and the Independent Police Complaints Commission have been informed of the shooting.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/oct/04/man-injured-police-shooting-holloway

Desert Prairie JazzSinatra at the Center: “The Blue Eye’d Daughter of Ol' Blue Eyes”. Enjoy an evening of music Sinatra style. Julie Sinatra, style. The daughter of Frank Sinatra entertains with jazzy/folk original compositions on guitar and piano. She also includes, true to her father’s style, some patter with the audience…”and a few of my dad’s songs”. The concert also features Bobby Cottonwood on drums, Ramon Dana at the piano and Mike Reed playing sax and flute. All are seasoned jazz players giving Julie’s music a new and wonderful edge. "They give my music a new and wonderful edge and I'm grateful for their magic when we co-create what I call 'desert prairie jazz,'" said Sinatra.Don’t miss this evening of Desert Prairie Jazz. December 7, 2002, 7:30-9:30 pm in the Great Room. Tickets $15/Advance at the Golden Word, Crystal Magic and the Worm Bookstore, Sedona Creative Life Center or $18/At the Door. Call 282-9300 for more information. True to the family heritage as a musician, Julie, blue-eyed daughter of Frank Sinatra, writes and sings her own original songs, playing the guitar and piano. "I know people are curious about me, and I do share a little of that on stage, but my real biography exists within my songs," said Sinatra. "I'm excited about this concert because it will be the first in a series I have planned to perform across Arizona with my new band."

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Every time we think we're just going to the wood for an evening walk around to take some pictures, we end up doing a job! And getting non-woodland clothes dirty....This time the job was burning - we found that the embers from Tim's fire from burning up the oak brash were still very hot (yes, from Tuesday!), so we couldn't resist turning in the stuff around the edge that hadn't burned:We saved some of the chunkier bits to build our piles of oak to rot down for wildlife, but there was also a lot more twiggy stuff lying around near the fire, so we added that too, and within 20 minutes it was raging:We also saw something Tim had told me when I popped up on Tuesday - a neat way of holding a stack of logs together. What you do is lay two big logs down as rails, and use a chainsaw to bore vertical holes into the end of them. Then you stick some smaller logs into thhose holes, so they stand up straight and hold the pile together. The advantages - no need to sharpen the posts, no need to use a hammer to drive them into the ground, and the whole thing can be picked up as a unit by a tractor by putting chains round it. Here's what it looks like:Going back down the wayleave to the car we saw loads of blue tits around, we saw a male pheasant earlier too - Tracy nearly jumped out of her skin when she disturbed it while it was poking around our base in the wood. Here's a picture of one the blue tits:Mike Posted by Mike Pepler at 12:33 Labels: birch, blue tit, fire, stacking logs, woodland Bookmark on Delicious Share on Facebook 2 comments: franklen said... not to be a stick in the mud, but is it really safe to leave burning embers out on your forest land for a couple days? I guess it's the wet season (from the ruts that your tractor is leaving) so it's probably not a big deal right now, but when the dry season rolls around? 5 May 2008 at 18:29 Mike Pepler said... We used to put the fire out, but I was advised by a forester that it's OK to leave it burning, certainly when everything's damp, as it is now. In the summer we'll put it out, as I guess there will be a higher risk then.Mike

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When I found myself pregnant at the age of 19 in an era when pregnancy without a partner was not acceptable and one was generally looked down upon for their wayward ways, and when abortion was not legal or a viable option, I decided that I would put the baby up for adoption. When my daughter was born at the old Letterman Hospital with Dr. Harry Beaver performing the delivery, I took one look at her and knew she was mine for the long haul. It turned out that I had passed on to my lovely daughter a genetic mutation that occurred spontaneously at conception and, to be discovered much later, it was so rare that there are only 17 other known cases in the world. Initially the doctors thought that the physical problems were due to rubella (german measles) that I had been exposed to while I worked as a corspeman in the hospital at Hamilton AFB. Due to this and the fact at that time the state was trying legalize therapeutic abortions, my daughter and I were interviewed by Walter Cronkite for his tv show. I was asked that if I had known that my daughter was going to have these anomalies, would I have elected to have an abortion. My daughter was, at that point, a beautiful little girl of about 18 months. And I loved her with all my heart. My daughter had to have open heart surgery early on (and by the infamous Dr. Norman Shumway at Stanford Hospital, a pioneer in cardiac surgery), she had cataracts and subsequently develped glaucoma, and multiple other problems. She was transferred to UCSF medical center initially and later followed by Dr. Tarnoff at Kaiser San Francisco. Throughout the years I discovered that althought my daughter had multiple physical problems, her brain was not affected. In fact, she is an extremely bright young woman. She managed, with limited vision, to graduate from Mercy High School with a gpa of 3.8, went on to Humboldt State University, worked in high school cleaning houses, working as a server in a food court, later in college worked in a home for very disabled people, found her way on buses, Bart, and has been generally independent throughout her life. She even at one point traveled to Europe on her own. She found herself on SSI early on in her 20's and hated it. She wanted desparately to be independent . She found that the State Department of Rehab would assist her with computer studies. She had majored in education as a student but found, at that time, it was difficult to get into this field with limited vision. After completing the computer couse that rehab offered she was able to find a job at Wells Fargo working at night in the credit card department. In the interim she met her husband and became pregnant with her first child. The morning that her daughter was born, we received a call from the hospital that her daughter had developed congestive heart failure. The feeling of dejavu was unreal for me! It was shortly after that we discovered that my daughter's physical problems were due to a spontaneous genetic defect. Her daughter had all the same anomalies that my daughter had but several that were more serious. However, the National Institute of Health invited us back to Bethesday, Maryland, several years ago to do more studies on both my daughter and grandaughter. It is still considered a very rare genetic disorder. After the birth of her daughter, my daughter's glaucoma became worse, a surgical procedure was attempted to assist the drainage of fluid in the eye. It did not work and subsequently my daughter had to have an enucliation, i.e. her right eye had to be removed! In the interim, my daughter has gone on to be promoted at Well Fargo into a vip position, after 19 years, she is currently working on her MBA, has successfully been a single parent (her husband and her separated several years ago and are still friendly) of two children ( her son was born 12 years ago, perfectly normal. The genetic mutation only affects the females conceived and about 50+% of the time. If a male is conceived he would die in utero). She is now almost completely blind but has a special computer program at Wells that allows her to do her job. She has been praised over and over by her supervisors at Wells, has received numerous awards, and is loved by her clients. She has gone though numerous surgeries due to her congenital problems and then six years ago found that she had breast cancer. She went through mastectomy, chemo therapy, radiation therapy, and lots of support groups, all this without a partner. She did have alot of family and peer support, thank God. After the breast cancer ordeal she suffered a brown recluse spider bite while playing with her children in their front yard. She was hospitalized and the infectious disease physician who cared for her said that she had never seen a recluse spider bite in real life, only in text books. Several years ago her daughter, who had also developed glaucoma at this point, was advised by her opthalmologist to have a drain put into her eye. Once again the procedure did not work and my grandaughter lost the vision completely in her right eye. She was ten years old. And until that time had vision enough that she probably could have driven a car at the age of 16. But that is no longer so. However, she is now 15 and is taking courses this summer to be a camp counselor and wants very much to work next year, if possible, at Enchanted Hills Camp in Napa. This is a camp started by Rose Resnick/Lighthouse for the Blind. My grandaughter has attended that camp every year for the past four years. My grandaughter also skis, she is going to Colorado this summer to rock climb, white water rafting on the Colorado river, horseback riding, and, of course, she will fly to Denver on her own. I decided to write this article because my daughter and grandaughter are miracles to me and my family. My husband, who adopted my daughter when she was three, and I are proud of all of our children, but we feel so incredibly blessed with these two miraculous people, especially our daugher. 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Posted on July 23, 2012 by Kelly Urich The Power & Light Building in downtown Kansas City is under contract to a Minneapolis developer who wants to turn the historic building into more than 200 apartments. Great. Now I’ll have to park even farther away to get free parking for the Boat Show. ******* The Royals rebuilding program is in high gear. In fact, several of the team’s starting pitchers at the beginning of the season will assist in converting the Power & Light building into apartments. ******* Bradley Wiggins became Great Britain’s first Tour de France winner and he did it drug-free. Wiggins even tested negative for fluoride! ******* Olympic gold medals are actually 93% silver, but don’t worry. Michael Phelps says his is 100% Columbian Gold. Kelly Urich is the morning show host on The Point 99.7 FM This entry was posted in Starbeams. Bookmark the permalink. ← Donnelly: Sporting Offense Sputters @ Home but Defense Best in MLS

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We are a woman's group that meets on the fourth Monday evening of each month at different member's homes. A fresh, deep, honest space for a new generation of women to wrestle with the essential question: IF God is real THEN what? How to live out the calling God has placed on our lives.

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A classic picture - this is what always happens when trying to get pictures. Especially when they are sooo friendy! Playing Kids: All tired out... Livestock Guardian Dogs at work... The puppy who Really, REALLY wants to play! (Dixie and the doeling, Grace, are best friends to this day)

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Katharine Kerr — that’s me — was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1944 to a family which considered itself British in-exile far more than American, especially when it came to brewing a proper pot of tea. Since I was taught to read on British books, these sentiments resulted in my inability to spell properly in either system, British or American, though fortunately there were no other lasting effects. Cleveland at that time was not a Rust Belt city, but a prosperous place with a great school system. When my family moved to Santa Barbara, California, I was 9 years old. Although the move left me disoriented at first, it only took 1 winter without having to deal with snow, a coal furnace, more snow, a freezing wind from Canada, and canned orange juice for me to become a confirmed Californian. I did miss my beloved Cleveland Indian baseball team. When I moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1962, the Giants had yet to arrive. When they did, two years later, I transferred most of my allegiance to them. Our wedding photo After dropping out of Stanford University in the mid-60s to join several of the revolutions then in progress, I worked at a number of low-paying jobs, including a stint in the post office, while I read extensively in the fields of classical archaeology and literature, Medieval and Dark Ages history, and modern fiction. (I can muddle along in Latin and several modern languages, including the speech of rock-and-roll musicians.) When I tell people that I was educated in the San Francisco Public Library, I’m not kidding. I lived with a number of cats and, of course, attended baseball games. Eventually I had the good fortune to meet up with an old friend from secondary school, Howard Kerr, who loves cats, books, and baseball as much as I do. We were married in 1973 and still are, somewhat to our surprise, here in 2015. Here is our official wedding photo. Why, yes, we were hippies back then, when the name meant social revolutionary. Howard at that time was a member of a comedy team, The Congress of Wonders, which played up down the West Coast. Many of their routines are still funny and available on the Internet, should you wish to hear them. In 1979, a friend gave me what became known as “the fatal gift,” my first fantasy role-playing game. I became so intrigued with both gaming and the fantasy field as a whole that I began writing articles for gaming magazines, and for some time was a contributing editor to DRAGON magazine, as well as contributing to gaming modules for both TSR, Inc. and Chaosium Inc. One bad habit led to another. From gaming modules I went to writing fiction. Mainlining fantasy became an addiction that’s lasted ever since. You can see the results on this website, under Books.

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I live in the Renton/Kent area. I haven't been doing as many costumes for myself anymore, but I'm trying to get back into the hobby.

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October 11, 2011 · 5:35 pm Dog Gone It, I Love this Dog Blog I love dogs!!! I don’t understand people who don’t love dogs. My advice to any adult is to get a dog. Life gets hard. All people and all circumstances can become difficult (from mildly to extremely). If you need a reprieve. And you just want to feel loved. Get a dog! They are worth caring, feeding, worrying about and cleaning-up after. With all that said, for you dog lovers and care(r) for(s) you must visit the Dog Blog. I’m normally not a big fan of corporate blogs, they’re impersonal…and…well corporate(y). But Dogster has seemed to dodged that bullet. They have some of the cutest and most special dogs (minus my own…and your’s of course) to see. If you want to know about dogie Halloween costumes, dog park etiquette or the “Fresh Patch” (it is how it sounds only it’s for the house) to name a few topics, visit the blog. If I can’t convince you, then maybe the picture above from the Dog Blog will. If dogie eyes still don’t convince you, your heart may very well be made of stone. Leave a comment Filed under Animal blogs, Dogs Tagged as a blog about dogs, choosing a dog, dog blog, dog park, dog park etiquette, dogster, everything you wanted to know about dogs, pictures of dogs, taking care of a dog October 6, 2011 · 5:32 pm Steve Jobs-a Lesson on How to Use a Life I need to preface this post by saying I’m not here to get on the morbid ban wagon, or to increase my viewership by posting about the subject de jour. In fact, I don’t own a Mac, an IPhone or an IPad…but I do have IPod. However I, as most people, often get contemplative when someone whom has forged a great presence in the world dies. When this occurs (as is often the case but its only in some cases that we really sit up and take notice) I’m reminded of two things. First, we all have the ability to consciously be like a Steve Jobs, leaving a positive massive worldly, city wide, or familial footprint. However, very few of us will actively choose to do so. Secondly, times like these remind me of the inevitable. We will all die. For most we don’t ever want to think about that. It’s just too awful to contemplate. So we walk around day after day, week after week, assuming we have all the time in the world. Never really coming to grips with the fact that we don’t have all the time in the world. For others, the fact of death is an impetus to action and relaxation. These people move because they know their time is limited. These people relax because they know that every ‘thing’ is transitory as is every ‘body.’ There are great life lessons being said by great living people, famous and not famous. Unfortunately, it’s not until they die that we often listen. So here are some of Steve Jobs’s great life lessons learned from the mountains and valleys of his own life. Mr. Jobs has died. But maybe now we’ll start to listen to him a little more closely, and take what he has to say to heart. Here is his complete Stanford Commencement Address from 2005. Continue reading → Leave a comment Filed under Editorial Tagged as complete steve jobs commencement address, life lessons, mountains and valleys of life, stanford commencement address, steve jobs October 4, 2011 · 3:23 pm Entitlement: The Perfect Pick-Me-Up Not getting what you want? Feeling the sting of the global recession? Are you wondering what the way out is? I have a suggestion. Start acting Entitled. Start acting like you are too Entitled to be the victim of economic circumstance. Act so Entitled that the mere thought of it is a bore. Act as if you are owned pleasure, increase in everything, and favor with people. Act as if you are bored with anything less than these. Sounds crazy? Maybe. But what you believe becomes you’re world. We are master creators, most of us just don’t know it yet. Entitlement seems to be a dirty word to most. We think it is synonymous with wealth and rudeness. There is nothing wrong with wealth, rudeness however is an entirely different matter. We also seem to think that Entitlement is only bestowed on those of a certain family or class. I beg to differ. Being here, alive, entitles all of us think and live well. You don’t have to take my word for it. Ask anyone who lives Entitlement just how their world is, and I bet it will be easier than yours. However, this pick-me-up isn’t for everyone. If you want to stay in the drudgery of martyrdom, go ahead. But I guarantee if you try it for one day, less will seem to bother you and more will come to you. You’ll be different. You’ll feel different. I’ve said it before, believing is seeing. Leave a comment Filed under Editorial Tagged as how to be happier, how to become successful, how to worry less October 1, 2011 · 8:06 pm Oh, Mrs. O…That Look is Fabulous on You I love fashion. I love first ladies. With the recent release of the Jackie O. recordings it got me thinking again about fashion and first ladies. Now I can admit that not all first ladies are fashionable. Therefore, they all don’t deserve fashion blogs and/or books dedicated to their style. I also have to admit that for my taste, I’ve never been alive during a presidency in which I truly observed the first lady to be fashionable. I’ve done two things with the latter statement: 1) dated myself, and 2) excluded princesses (Diana) to be exact. Now regardless of your political views we have another real fashionable first lady. Luckily for people like me, Mary Tomer Byun, or “Mrs. T” saw early on what many of us would want… a chronicle of Mrs. Obama’s style in a blog called Mrs. O. An online picture book of sorts. What I love the most is how up-to-date all the images are. We don’t just get to see Mrs. Obama’s fashion sense during formal appearances or occasions but also at the local Target store. Because, she like us has to get some necessities. If you like style attached to a first lady I suggest Mrs. O. There’s no better way to see how one of the most influential women in the world dresses from day to day. 1 Comment Filed under Fashion, First Lady Tagged as fashion of the first lady, first ladies, first lady fashion, first lady Michelle Obama, Mary Tomer Byun, michelle obama fashion, mrs. o, Mrs. Obama September 27, 2011 · 2:13 pm We are Really Very Small I think that there is something that we all inherently know, despite our resistance to acknowledge it. We are all inherently really very small. Like a bug. We may have big personalities and big impressive jobs, homes, and accomplishments. But we’re really at the mercy of something much greater. It may be a hurricane, tornado, job loss, death of a friend or family member, or the unexpected arrival of a baby. Big events, with maximum impact, with very little input from us. These events can erode our physical and mental foundations, and bring upheaval into our seemingly ordered worlds. Have you ever noticed an ant as you walk in its path? You’re the unexpected presence from which it attempts to run away. Once you’ve gone I can only expect that ant goes back to doing what it was doing in the first place. Does it then ponder its existence and the meaning of what it does. I doubt it. That gift is specifically reserved for us. Unlike a bug we rarely have the same amount of life snuffing footsteps to contend with, but contend with them we do nonetheless. So what gives?Instead of deriving positive energy out of our size realization, moving as briskly as possible in the direction we know we want to head doing what we know we can, we do the complete opposite. We make ourselves smaller by berating our inability to control the big events. We never could control them. The only problem is now we have to acknowledge it. We are really very small. The question now remains if we want our actions to stay that way? Leave a comment Filed under Editorial Tagged as a bug's life, the meaning of life September 18, 2011 · 2:30 pm Simple Advice for a Simple Sunday: Stop Saying You’re Old Already Do you know that the most used word in the English language is “I”. I’m sure I’ve used it more than its fair share here. Do you know what “I” think is the most popular phrase in the English language? “I’m getting old.” Actually, what’s getting old is people above the age of 55 (even 60) saying their getting old. We live in a culture where we are living longer and better than former generations. Yet persons, many persons, of a certain mindset feel the need to proclaim that they are getting old. Seriously? You’re OLD at 38, 40, 45, 50, 55? While the response may be, well I am getting older each year numerically, that’s not the implied meaning when you say “I’m getting old.” It’s implication is that you can’t do what you used to be able to do when you were younger, in your 20s. What may that have been? Eating too much crap and washing it down with too much alcohol, but still being able to get up the next morning relatively skinny and less the worse for wear? I would venture to say that you have more capability, intelligence, knowledge, guts, individuality and common sense than you did when you weren’t old. But in our culture we fail to give credence to such things, instead opting for the popular sound bite of “I’m getting old.” But you know what, I guess you’re right. You are old in the important ways…in spirit and mindset. But please, don’t tell me how old you are there’s no need. All I have to do is listen to you for about 5 minutes to know the obvious. 2 Comments Filed under Editorial, Simple Sunday Post Tagged as aging, aging in america, editorial, getting old, getting older, simple sunday September 14, 2011 · 9:09 pm I KWID You Not: Kelly Wearstler’s My Vibe My Life I used to be fascinated with “celebrity” until I decided my time was much more valuable than reading about famous people going to the supermarket, or discussing their personal lives….again. But, there are some things that I never get tired of. I’m enthralled with the work of people, and learning about how they see what they do and what motivates them in their work. That I have tolerance for, whether they are known or unknown to the world. I have some interior design interest, as do many of you. Although I don’t have enough interest to actually do it. Anyway you may have heard of KWID or Kelly Wearstler Interior Design, or you may have seen Ms. Wearstler on some Bravo channel design show (at least I think it’s Bravo). In the world of interiors, she is a very well known designer. If you know of her even more than that, she definitively has her own obviously unique style and vibe-which I really like about her. Which might be the reason why her blog is called My Vibe My Life. It’s Ms. Wearstler, her life, style, and work-with big fat glossy pictures. The text is minimal but the pictures are plentiful and say a lot about her world. Take a look! It’s always interesting to feel someone else’s Vibe and peek into their life. 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By cardsand03 10 / Jan / 2017 One who possess a BMW is the one that rules the streets. ’The ultimate driving machine’ is what a BMW is known as. Bavarian Motor Works is an independent German companyand manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles. It also owns BMW Mini, and Rolls-Royce car brands. And thus is the symbol of success. The world’s largest premium car-maker offers a strong curved body loaded with a powerful engine, high quality comfortable interior, great performance, high tech features and tires. A BMW comes loaded with all these features but there is one thing that can change the complete scenario of your BMW, and that are wheels. Wheels are the most important feature believe it or not. A car can have the most powerful, highly expensive engine, beautifully carved body andinterior. But all these won’t matter if your car doesn’t have the perfect wheels that would make your car a BMW. And these wheelsare BMW Custom Wheels. The wheels that come intact in a brand new BMW are good if you want to settle for just good. But if you own a BMW then there is no argument about whether you want to settle for just good. A beast is a beast when it is in the open and not in a cage. And that’s exactly what a BMW is, it’s a beast which is meant to break the rules and Bmw Tuning Wheels are those wheels that will free it from that cage of limits. These tuning wheels can definitely set your car apart from the rest. Don’t worry about your car’s look, from the wide range of tuning wheels you can find the perfect match for your BMW. And not only that, one can get the best in class BMW Concave Wheels that compliments any BMW’s appearance: stainless steel, chrome-plated, glossy and matt black, machined, you name it, get it customized according to your taste.With these wheels your car will turn every head on the road glazing at the beauty of your beast. But what's best about these wheels is that they are not only about looks, they are engineered to stand on the name BMW and deliver beastly performance. Not only that, these wheels are durable and can withstand for a long time under constant exposure of extreme heat and pressure, so you don’t have to worry aboutperformance and changing these wheels due to constant braking, dragging, and what not.Category: Autos User login

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When Anne Freitas was a little girl she was very skinny. However, after seeing the bodies of other women in a sports magazine she was inspired to start exercising. See the results of her years of intense workouts.

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My mom requested that I write something to be shared for my beloved great-aunt Laverne's funeral this weekend... she passed away just several days ago, after a very long and loving and fulfilling life of eighty-seven years. And, well, this short little essay will say the rest, as I hope it will touch others as it touched me to write it. --------------- My earliest memories of my Aunt Laverne must be of the time that I spent, as a child, staying with her and my Uncle Wayne. I was very young, and I don’t remember much very clearly, but a few situations definitely stand out—perhaps the most striking of which is going garage sale exploring, and usually returning to their home with a new jigsaw puzzle to spend the next couple days putting together. Sometimes she would come and help me, but always she would praise and encourage my efforts. I remember eating ice cream with her and my Uncle Wayne in the living room, and watching some old TV show, and I remember going shopping with them, and one time being allowed to pick out a can of Pringles for myself. I also remember one particular time visiting my Uncle Wayne at the Captain D’s where he was working, and him yelling at me because I tried to come behind the counter to talk to him. I think I cried, but I didn’t know any better and I always had (and still have) a tendency to cry. In fact I am crying right now. I hope it didn’t make them feel bad. I never knew my Aunt Laverne very well, as far as “knowing” a person relates to how much one knows of another person’s deepest thoughts and feelings and opinions and interests and beliefs. But I can confidently say that I have always had a profound respect for her, because she always struck me as a genuinely kindhearted and caring person. I don’t think I ever heard anything from her other than soft and kindly-spoken words. Granted, I only knew her during her elderly years, and even so very sparingly, but still, it is very much worth noting. Because such is the imprint that she has left upon me, and for this she will always hold a favorable spot in my heart and in my memories. And, similarly, but inconceivably to me, for these same incredible traits and more, I can only imagine how lucky a man my Uncle Wayne is—because he undoubtedly knew her better than anybody and was the happy recipient of her love and influence and everything that made her her for fifty-plus blissful years. I would have liked to probe her mind for insights into her thoughts of this crazy world we all live in—what her most cherished memories were, her thoughts on how much the world had changed in her lifetime, what sorts of advice she might want to pass on to a “youngin’” like me, what sorts of aspirations she felt had, so much later in life, proven to be the most worthwhile of all. I feel like so much wisdom might be gleaned from such a person who has lived such a long, full, glorious life. I may have missed such a chance, but she has left a legacy for herself, buried deep within all of the people she ever touched… most deeply of all, I imagine, with the person who was there with her for practically every step of the way, her lifelong husband, my uncle Wayne. In a way they are powerful role models for me, because I hope that the love that is in my future can be as true and as long-lasting as theirs has been. Fifty years seems like almost an eternity to me, sitting here with the vast majority of my life ahead of me, but I imagine that at this moment, from my uncle’s vantage point, the very same amount of time must seem almost like a fleeting glimpse. And so I hope that he still believes, after all this time, as I do, after almost no such time, that the best is yet to come. Not only in this life, with our loved ones, but also after this life, also with our loved ones, once again. My heart goes out to him and I wish him all of the hope and goodwill I possibly can. Because I wish for him to still experience all of the joys and glories that this worldly life has to offer him, in his friends and his family and in his passions, before at last ascending into the heavens where his true glory awaits him, and offers him her arms once more.

http://elistanley-wanderingsofacuriousmind.blogspot.com/2011/09/unfortunate-but-fortunate-passing.html

Self-taught and unable to read music, Garner came up with a style that was all his own, seeming sometimes to strum the piano like a gigantic guitar: jovial and hugely entertaining. Picture: DAVID MAGNUS / Rex Features

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Let me elaborate. The fun part was that the past weeks was that I had a great time playing with my camera. From engagements to covering events (big thanks to Ipin for inviting me) and a few other interesting occasions (that I will probably let out the details in coming days). One thing I realize though, is that I really need a speed light, a 70-300mm zoom lens and off course, my most wanted list: 10-22mm ultra wide lens from your truly.Now the stress part - work is currently not forgiving for the past 2 weeks. Major hiccups and glitches is really taking the toll. Coming to the office on my off days, starting the work earlier... well the list goes on. But I am glad to have a hobby which does not involve computers anymore, well at least when it is not post-processing time :-)Here are some of the pictures that I manage to post. Mind you, I am running out of hard drive space - FAST! And there are still a lot of them yet to be processed.Sunset in blue at Mutiara DamansaraAt KLIA - those lines are making me dizzy!Securities Commission - A different way of looking at it.That babe from The SUN.A Model at a recent product launching of a product from an international oil & gas company.Big F*cking barrel!London's Eye vs. Eye of Malaysia.One fine morning at Titiwangsa.I am so glad that I have another interest rather computers alone now.-v- posted by vedd, 8:59 AM 11 Comments: U were in SC?? Laaaaa...awat tak habaq? Im working on the 3rd floor la dude :P commented by Cosmic_GurL, 1:39 PM cosmic_gurl: Tak sempat le bam. Was covering an event and by lunch had to leave for a training at the office. Next Time! commented by vedd, 5:59 PM vedd,Love the 1st landscape. Didn't know that one can make Ikea/Tesco this good.. commented by marjan, 10:08 PM Vedd...Ape kata one day i ajak u pegi dating......treat u a nice dinner and u treat me a good leson and practical of hdr suma2 nih....haaa okay tak hehehe ur hdr superb lah commented by The Queen, 12:39 PM marjan & the queen: Thank you for the compliments :) I've posted a tutorial on this at my previous post - then, a nice dinner sounds tempting! hahaha commented by vedd, 8:08 PM Love the Sunset in Blue!! Thanks for dropping by :) commented by Naz Sunshine, 10:57 PM Wow...nice pixs. Always interested nak belajar pasal ambik gambar ni but don't have the gadget...cam hilang stress looking at all the pixs...great stuffs commented by Red Raven, 10:09 PM naz: Thanks and the pleasure is mine :-)red raven: There's always a start to something :) Yeah, one of the main reason of me taking photography as a hobby is to escape the mundane and stress of working infront of computers almost all the time hehe.. Thanks for dropping by! commented by vedd, 5:45 PM Aaaaaaahhh awesome..... commented by Frankensteina, 12:24 PM what camera did u use to take the pixs? commented by Anonymous, 3:29 AM frankie: Thanks :)anonymous: Canon EOS 400D + 18-55m kit lens. commented by vedd, 6:41 PM Add a comment

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I am reasearching Monore Abernathy. He lived and I believe was in some way conected to founding Oakridge MO. He married Margaret Fulbright May 13, 1877 Probably in MO. they had 4 children Freddy Dixie Presha Gurtrude. Presha married John Schmidt Jan. 27, 1909 in Cape Girardeau MO. This is all I have. Presha was my Great Grandmother. I hope someone has a connection! Thanks:)

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Comments on all things journalism and answers to questions from readers about news coverage and operations at the Tracy Press. Tuesday, September 02, 2008 We got the grant! The American Society of Newspaper Editors has selected the Tracy Press and Millennium High School for an ASNE Partnership grant. The money — $2,500 — will be used for video equipment and software.The grant is part of an ASNE initiative to promote the next generation of digital journalists and news consumers, funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.The Millennium class, meanwhile, will create an online newspaper, a key component of which will be video journalism. And the Tracy Press also will add video to its site, thanks to this grant.All suggestions for software and equipment accepted here! Posted by Cheri at 2:25 PM 1 comment: Labels: Video Saturday, August 30, 2008 Week 4: A copy editor For the scoop on Jon Mendelson's take on this day's class, go to his blog, Second Thoughts. Posted by Cheri at 10:09 AM No comments: Labels: Copy editing Posted by Cheri at 10:09 AM No comments: Friday, August 15, 2008 Week 3: A photographer Glenn Moore is scheduled to talk about newspaper photography — and also take a look at the class cameras. And we'll have a surprise for Mr. Eddy!- Cheri Posted by Cheri at 9:19 PM No comments: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 Week 2: A reporter Aaron Rognstad, our newest reporter, shared his experiences as a reporter, both for newspapers and the military.Here's his notes on today's class:Jack asked me what the most important things about being a journalist were, and I told him to make sure the information you write is accurate and free of factual errors. I told the students to always double-check spellings of names (something I should do more of!) and to make sure they get the technical details correct. Most importantly though, I stressed integrity and honesty in your writing, because without that, a journalist isn’t worth his word, and that’s everything in journalism. I also went a little into my background and how I came to be a journalist. I told the class it was the military that got me into reporting, and I expressed a desire to be a war correspondent at some point down the road. I told the students if they want to a future in the journalism biz, they should immediately try to write for their student newspaper and get published as soon as possible to begin to get experience and some clips under their belts. I also told them to get on with their college newspaper when they go off to university, and then after that to get an internship. I stressed these stepping stones as crucial to landing a job as a reporter some day. Any questions comments about the class today? Feel free to leave some!

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Yuvraj Human Bangalore, India Yuvraj Human is currently working in an IT company as a Sales and Marketing Executive. He completed his MBA in HR and Marketing from IBS Business School, Gurgaon (2013–15) and did his Graduation in commerce, (B Com Honors) from St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata, 2009–12. Apart from his credentials, he is very passionate about interacting with people of all ages, listening to their stories and making each individual feel important. BOOKS PUBLISHED

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Katherine Roberts and Susan Price have launched the webpage to boost ebook sales and support authors struggling in the narrowing paper print publishing arena. They are looking for authors with a proven publishing record. They are keen to support both children's book and adult book authors. Roberts is quoted saying 'The whole of the paper-based publishing is now set up for bestsellers and instant profits, while e-books offer a better opportunity to build a long term career.'Price went on to say that books which would have easily been bought by editors are now homeless, and she would like to turn this around.

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My kids are almost at 20 minutes in Read to Self! Yay! I still have a few who are having trouble building stamina, but they will be the kiddos who will sit closer to me during Daily 5 so I can check on them and keep them focused. When I have a child who is having trouble staying focused, I often have them join me at my guided reading table while I am taking a small group. I can manage and support them with minimal effort while also teaching my guided reading group. Those are also the kiddos who tend to need more support in other areas of literacy so I will be meeting with them more often anyways, which cuts down on the amount of independent practice time they need to sustain. Here is our Read to Self Poster: We also started Work on Writing a few days ago and we are up to 6 minutes. I always find this one the hardest. Most of my students have no letter/sound correlation and a few can’t identify all their letters. This makes it difficult for them during this time. I model what good writers do in these very first few days to make sure all of us feel like writers!!Good Writers:Think, Draw, Write. We will later add in label, add details etc. But this has been able to get them started for now! The only thing is I have a few who will draw the whole time. I don’t want to take the drawing piece away as I feel it is important for young writers, but how do I get them to move to the writing piece without telling them directly?Hmm…I was thinking of maybe getting some sand timers with a longer time span such as 5 minutes. They take a timer with them, flip it over and they have 5 minutes to draw. When the sand timer is up, you must get started on writing. When you are done writing you can always go back and add details to the picture you didn’t get to finish. How is everybody else running Work on Writing? This is my 4th year with Daily 5 and I have changed the writing every year! Posted by

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UH’s Barton Smith Examines ‘Houston Recession’Economic Symposium to be Held May 5 at Hyatt Hotel Houston By Richard Bonnin 713-743-8155April 29, 2009 During his much-anticipated biannual forecast, Dr. Barton Smith, University of Houston economics professor and director of the Institute for Regional Forecasting (IRF), will examine the likelihood of alternative scenarios regarding the future of the global, national and local economies during these times of serious stress and fear, but the primary focus will be on how the global meltdown is now spreading its tentacles to Houston. Smith's presentation, "Houston Without Energy Growth: Implications for Jobs and Real Estate," will be held Tuesday, May 5, in the Imperial Ballroom of the Hyatt Regency Houston Hotel, 1200 Louisiana St., in downtown Houston. Arrangements for media representatives to both attend the symposium luncheon and interview Smith have been made. Smith will be available for one-on-one interviews with individual members of the media and print reporters from 10:30-11:40 a.m. prior to the presentation and at 1:30 pm after the symposium. Contact Richard Bonnin at 713-743-8155 or rbonnin@uh.edu for more information. In this symposium, Smith will present the newest economic statistics on the Houston economy as the local region begins to shed jobs. He also will discuss his assessment of the severity and longevity of the current national and global economic crisis, whether recent policy initiatives are likely to turn the tide, and how in the interim Houston will weather this serious recession. In particular, Dr. Smith will discuss how the new economic environment has and will continue to affect Houstonians in terms of the value of their homes, the value of their stock-oriented retirement plans and the security of their local jobs. While rejecting the notion of a depression, Smith will show that this current economic reversal will prove to be the worst recession since the "Great Depression" and why the road to recovery will likely be bumpy and extended. Smith also will provide many statistics showing exactly why the region's energy boom will turn into an energy bust, at least as severe as the bust of the late 90s when oil prices temporarily fell below $10/barrel. Equally important, he will show that for many of Houston's real estate markets, the timing of this economic reversal couldn't have come at a worse time with plenty of new retail and office space coming on line this year. Surprisingly however, Smith suggests that despite the fact that the local recession is just now beginning to unfold, this year may be the best time to buy a home for Houstonians who can clearly qualify for owner-occupied housing. Smith has conducted numerous studies on urban issues, housing, transportation and the environment. During the past 20 years, he has gained national recognition for his analyses of the Houston economy and real estate markets. Smith wrote "Handbook on the Houston Economy" and continues to present and publish two symposium reports a year on Houston's economy and real estate markets. For more information, go to ABOUT THE EVENT: WHO: Barton Smith, UH professor of economics and director of the UH Institute for Regional Forecasting WHAT: "Houston Without Energy Growth: Implications for Jobs and Real Estate" WHEN: Tuesday, May 5, 2009Media availability: 10:30 - 11:30 a.m.; 1:30 - 2 p.m.Luncheon: 11:30 a.m. - 12:10 p.m., Imperial BallroomPresentation: 12:10 - 1:30 p.m., Imperial Ballroom

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October 2, 2011October 2, 2011 ~ alicenyong Hey so you know how I said I was starting my own label. Called NKOYO? yeah well you can buy some of it now! I have a little bigcartel site up and running to sell my wears and have a gander at what I’ve been doing… The collection is unisex, with long and square scarves, all made from designs hand-drawn by ME! Nkoyo is my middle name, a word in Ibibio language (Southern Nigeria if you don’t know your West African regional dialects) meaning ‘Beautiful One’. I’m in the process of making a more all-encompassing website… But for now, do check it out, and buy one! I’m actually super proud of them. Any questions about them holla at yo girl hello@nkoyo.co.uk xxxx Advertisements Like this:Like Loading... Related Posted in Uncategorized Alice scarves Post navigation < Previous A La Disposition A La AmeliaNext > Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here...

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Elevate day and night ensembles with the Erin lariat necklace. Available in both gold and silver, the long, knotted chain is accented with lustrous pearls for a contemporary take on a classic style. Casually drape it over a tailored dress to let it take centre stage, or wear it with a simple crew neck jumper and jeans for off-duty luxury. Necklaces. Color: metallic

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An official decision to change the legal driving age has not been made. The current legal driving age is 16+ years old. If and when the legal driving age does change we will post it here. The most common thought answer to this question is that the DMV has set up a cutoff birth year. For example, anyone born after a specific year will be required to wait until they are 18 years old to get a drivers license. This hasn't happened and it's untrue.

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I'm finally back. I finally decided that I am going to focus my love and passion for fashion. I am currently working on my new blog to make it more interesting and compelling. I want to add value into your feed and life. Feel free to follow my personal instagram for more of my normal day...and once I get my blog going, I will be sharing with you more style and tips. :)

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Eliot Wadopian Welcome everyone! Eliot Wadopian furnishes performance, recording and instruction on string bass as well as fretted and fretless bass guitars. A professional musician since 1977, no musical idiom is out of bounds. Eliot loves the exploration of music in it’s entirety whether improvised or notated. Enjoying the richness of multiple musical styles from Jazz, Rock, Blues, Country, Folk, Symphonic Classical literature as well as Opera. In addition ethnic styles from India, the Middle East, Latin America and Eastern Europe. Eliot is one of those extraordinary musicians that can bring a lifetime of varied musical experiences to any performance venue, educational setting or recording opportunity. As a two time Grammy Award winner, his extensive career has taken him throughout the United States, Europe and Asia with several professional ensembles and has contributed his talents to well over 100 professionally released record albums. Connect with me on:LinkedInFacebook

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Today, Linux desktops have diverged to the point where exchanging one for another can feel like switching to another operating system. KDE is no exception. Although it remains the single most popular desktop, a higher percentage of desktops use GNOME technology, and for many users of GNOME, Linux Mint, or Unity, KDE might hardly exist. At most, users of GNOME technology might have a vague impression of KDE. If pressed, they might say that KDE is configurable to a fault and offers a daunting array of features, in contrast to GNOME's minimalist approach. Too often, they dismiss KDE as being concerned only with eye-candy, claiming that GNOME is all about efficiency. However, the awareness rarely goes further. Faced with a problem to solve, users of GNOME, Mint, or Unity will rarely think of KDE as an alternative, despite the fact that most KDE apps run almost as well in these interfaces as in KDE. This limited vision is unfortunate, because KDE includes many features that have no counterpart in any corner of the GNOME ecosystem. For example, you can: 7. Configure Virtual Desktops Separately Virtual desktops are standard on the major Linux desktops. In most cases, a similar widget, configurable by rows and columns, is used to manage them. However, only KDE allows you to configure them separately. Go to the menu, and select Settings -> System Settings -> Workspace Behavior -> Virtual Desktops -> Different widgets for each desktop box. Immediately, you'll be able to give each workspace its own widgets and wallpapers. You'll have no trouble telling your virtual desktops apart, and you can customize them for different purposes. In effect, you'll be able to use Virtual desktops in much the same way as you would Activities. 6. Choose Desktop Layouts In KDE, interfaces are a separate sub-system. This arrangement makes it easy to change the desktop layout. From Desktop Settings -> View -> Layout on the desktop's right-click menu, you can select a traditional desktop, a Search and Launch menu (originally Plasma Netbook), a Newspaper Launch designed to arrange widgets in columns, and several more. Unfortunately, desktop layouts lack documentation, so you'll need to experiment with them to learn exactly what distinguishes them. However, once you learn about them, you can set up Virtual Desktops or Activities differently for each of the tasks that you do. For example, you can set up one Newspaper Launch desktop for news, time, and weather, and another one for monitoring your hardware. Another could be a Folder View set to display the directory where you keep your working files. A fourth could be your main desktop, set to display the Desktop directory. 5. Swap Icon Sets Many other desktops are de-emphasizing the desktop, limiting the icons you can place on them to templates and documents assuming that you can add any at all. By contrast, KDE not only continues to allow any sort of launcher on the desktop, but allows you to exchange icon sets quickly. To take advantage of this feature, right-click on the desktop and select Desktop Settings -> View -> Layout -> Folder View. Drop down to the Location tab, and you can display any folder in your home directory. If you want a traditional desktop, select Show the Desktop folder. To use multiple sets of icons, you have two choices. The simplest is to create additional top level folders to which you add icons for a specific task. The only drawback of this method is that each icon displays with a suffix of .desktop. The second method is add each set of icons to the Desktop folder with a distinguishing suffix or prefix, and then reveal or hide each set using the Filter tab. Either way, you can easily change icons within ten seconds. 4. Choose from Three Menus KDE defaults to a menu confined within a single window. However, it also comes with a classic menu and Lancelot, which is best described as a compromise between the other two. All are available as widgets, without any need to hunt out an extension. KRunner, which is best described as a menu for advanced users combined with utilities and controls for running processes, is also part of the standard install. Incidentally, this kind of selection is characteristic of many KDE features. For example, the System Settings window defaults to a series of icons divided into categories, but with a few clicks users can view the same features in the tree view that was standard in the KDE 3 release series. 3. Configure Multiple Item Clipboards Clipboards for cutting, copying and pasting must be as old as computing. Yet on most desktops, the clipboard of today is identical to the clipboard of twenty years ago. The exception is KDE's Klipper, which has been a standard feature for over a decade. Not only can it store multiple items, but its behavior is fully configurable by right-clicking on the notification tray. 2. Manage Fonts from the Desktop The earliest users of Linux desktops were developers. One of the few remaining signs of this origin is the lack of desktop tools for developers. To this day, a surprising number of users load fonts specifically for LibreOffice, but not for the system as a whole. As with the clipboard, KDE is the exception. For years, its system settings have included a Font Management dialogue. From this dialogue, you can install fonts for the current user accounts, or for all of them. It's a basic feature, but one that's essential for any design work. 1. Use Multiple Desktops Activities are one of the most under-sold innovations of the KDE 4 release series. Activities are a super-set of virtual desktops, each of which can be configured with its own icons and widgets. Instead of having one desktop, with Activities you can have as many as you want. Activities can be arranged in several different ways. You can have a separate Activity for work, school, and home. Alternatively, you have one for each of your most common tasks, such as programming, playing games, or designing graphics. If you are a professional, you could have a separate Activity for each active client, each displaying a different directory. Some Activities can be highly organized, with specific launchers, widgets, and links. Others can be a dumping ground for material you mean to read later, or arrange as sources for an article or essay. If you make use of Activities, look at the widgets you can add to your desktop to switch between them. You may also want to set up keyboard shortcuts, either so you can jump directly to specific desktops, or else cycle back and forth between them. The Minor and Once Unique This list includes only the most useful features. I could easily have mentioned another half dozen minor features, such as Account Details that include password setup and shortcuts for the Konqueror web browser, or configuration mode that appears only when you unlick the desktop, preventing accidental changes. The list also includes only unique KDE features. A few other features, such as desktop hot spots and on-desk widgets, were unique a couple of years ago, but are starting to appear on other desktops. Yet even now, KDE generally offers more choices with features that are no longer unique. For example, Cinnamon offers four hot spots compared to KDE's eight, and offers two responses per hot spot to KDE's seven (twelve if you have hardware acceleration). Similarly, while Cinnamon offers three desklets, KDE offers ninety widgets, ranging from standard utilities and monitors to alternative menus and links for social networking. And while Ubuntu uses a flashing icon background as launch notification, for years KDE has offered a choice of launch notifications, including the option to shut it off altogether. Some users might consider KDE's options overkill. But you can pick and choose the ones you want and ignore the rest -- which is very much the point. KDE's perspective on innovation is to offer features that extend the desktop metaphor without forcing you to adapt them. Still, even if you are satisfied with a traditional desktop, consider giving KDE's unique features a thorough survey. The odds are, you'll find a feature or two that will immediately become essential for your daily activities. Share:

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St George's Cathedral has a well-established musical tradition, with a diversity of styles represented at the different Masses, ranging from congregational hymns and unison Mass settings at the 10.00 Family Mass, through plainsong and polyphony at the 11.30 Solemn Mass, to occasionally instrumental and contemporary music from across the world at the 18:00 Mass on Sundays. The Cathedral Choirs sing at the Sunday morning Masses and on major events of the year, such as Advent, Christmas, Holy Week and Easter. Repertoire ranges from music by the medieval abbess St Hildegard von Bingen, through to 21st Century compositions by Nicholas O'Neill and Timothy Craig Harrison. Traditionally, cathedral choirs have provided an opportunity for children from all types of social background to become choristers solely by virtue of their outstanding musical promise. If your child is aged between 7-13 years of age, loves singing, lives within commuting distance of Southwark and would like to take an active part in services, concerts, broadcasts and recordings in the inspiring surroundings of St George's Cathedral, then we would like to hear from you. We welcome all enquiries. A new Voluntary Choir has also been formed and will sing services occasionally when the Cathedral Choirs are on holiday. Department Contacts: Church Music Links: Music News highlights: 020 7202 2154 music@stgeorges.org.uk Norman Harper Director of Music Frederick Stocken Organist & Assistant Director of Music Organ Recitals Comprehensive list of concerts. RSCM Southwark & East Surrey Website of the RSCM Southwark and East Surrey Area Committee Society of St Gregory The national society for liturgy and music in the Roman Catholic Church in Britain. The Academy of St Cecilia A social and learned music society, which has it's annual convocation at St George's Cathedral. Norman Harper (organ recitals) Our Cathedral Director of Music's organ recital listings page. Frederick Stocken Our Cathedral Organist's website, including contact details. Cathedral Choristers' Recruitment The Cathedral Choirs always welcome boys and girls who love singing, and on Saturday 20 May there will be a Choir Day in the Song Room for all who are interested in joining. Come along any time between 10am and 4pm and show us what you can do with your voice. Enquiries to the Director of Music, Norman Harper by music@stgeorges.org.uk. Full details about the choirs can be found on our website. Easter Term 2017 Music List A full music list for the current Easter Term is available to download here (PDF) Read more>> Full Music news and events may be found on the News & Events pages. © St George’s Cathedral 2017 | Tel: 020 7928 5256 | Email us | Follow us on Facebook and Twitter St George's Cathedral is part of the Archdiocese of Southwark, a registered charity In England no. 235468

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The other day I was startled by an unexpected visitor in the yard. It was a snapping turtle. Sometimes in the spring they crawl forth from their usual haunts, those being the mud at the bottom of ponds and creeks, and travel about by night, in search of who knows what - better hunting grounds perhaps, or mates. It spent the day in the shade of the ancient oak tree by our house, then moved on. This one is fairly big, but I've seen much larger ones. I remember one such, dredged up when we enlarged our pond, bigger than a washtub, that splintered a broomstick handle in half with a single snap. Gladiator Gladys got that one, and, presumably, ate him. I thought they all were marvelously monstrous, and made terrariums to keep the baby ones in.The story is that if one gets ahold of your toe, it won't let loose until it thunders, which, luckily, is quite frequent this time of year.I wouldn't advise testing for myth. Considering what I've seen it would be the toe that comes loose first. But the image did keep its grip on my imagination, and now I consider these turtles symbols of persistence, and because of that reminder, just when I needed it, welcome. Posted by Dan Dutton at 5:38 PM 5 comments: Cathy said... I want yarn dyed that color. May 27, 2009 at 9:02 PM Dan Dutton said... I think the color is called "turtle"... May 28, 2009 at 8:55 AM Nancy said... He probably outgrew your little pond and is moving to the big one. May 28, 2009 at 2:25 PM Mary Beth said... The turtles up at the vernal pool I haunt lay their eggs on land a few yards from the edge of the pond. A few years ago a skunk dug up their nests and feasted on the eggs. I was heartbroken.I wounder if this old gal hid her eggs under the moist and rotting oak leaves of the giant Oak. Not a bad place to begin life!

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Black Hills Wolves: Happy Book Birthday to Debut Author @MerrynDexter A Mate's Healing Touch is Here! More Great Info Series List & Reading Order Join the Black Hills Wolves Conversation Friday, December 11, 2015 Happy Book Birthday to Debut Author @MerrynDexter A Mate's Healing Touch is Here! Kindle | Kobo | iBooks | ARe She has a secret the wrong people know… Hannah Fuentes has graduated Magna Cum Laude from the School of Hard Knocks. Beaten, pregnant and betrayed at seventeen, she has slowly built a life for herself and her daughter Jessie in the small town of Hennessey, South Dakota. He faces a future he doesn’t want… Caleb Burrows is leaving town. His parents long to return to Los Lobos and pack life, lured by the promise of change under the new Alpha, Drew Tao. The most vivid memories that Caleb and his twin siblings have of pack life are ones of betrayal, pain and horror. They do not remember a time when the pack was at peace. A chance meeting… Caleb has one final job to complete for the family construction business – the refurbishment of the local diner in Hennessey. He gets more than he bargained for, however. One look, one scent tells him that Hannah, the 'pocket rocket' waitress, is his mate. Caleb is determined that nothing will stop him from claiming her as his own. The first touch... An explosive encounter lays bare the secrets they have both fought so hard to keep hidden. Caleb must prove he can protect Hannah and her adorable little girl who steals his heart with one look. Can he persuade her to give up the safe life she has worked so hard for? Her burgeoning relationship with Caleb shows there are untold wonders to be explored in the hands of a man who understands her true worth. The past will test them... When Hannah’s past rears its ugly head, they must face it side by side. Only united can they save what is most precious to them. Together they will learn that family comes in many guises and there is nothing they won’t sacrifice when one of their own is threatened. Posted by Heather Long at 7:26 AM Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Labels: a mate's healing touch, alpha male, debut author, healer, new release 1 comment: ParisMarch 25, 2016 at 11:44 AMCongratulations on your debut story! I can't wait to read it:)ReplyDeleteAdd commentLoad more...

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Baby girl's room is just about complete! To see the complete process to get it here look back at the Before and In Progress post. Reese's crib. We reused a crib that we had and I made the ruffled bed skirt out of the inspiration fabric for her nursery colors. I also used those fabrics with a few extras for the garland hanging over her bed. The accent wall. We replaced the blinds. And added the farmhouse trim around the window. The gallery wall. We added the wire basket for book storage and built the side table. And the lamp to make a comfy spot to read. We reused a dresser that we had and I lightened it up a bit with the girly glass knobs. The pieces I used in the gallery arrangement are so fun and special to me. Reese already loves to look up at those pieces! And I'll continue to add pieces to it when we get her newborn pictures printed and framed. The closet. I know it's kinda silly to include pictures of a closet in a nursery reveal, but it's kind of a big deal to me! Ha! This was the before of the closet: It's hard to tell from this picture, but those are ugly orange bifold doors and shelves on the right and left sides of the closet that stuck out past the closet opening. I chose to maximize that space a different way... Built in cubbies with baskets for storage and two levels for hanging clothes. We updated the doors and added the same farmhouse trim like around the window. I still need to paint the closet doors and trim and put on the door knobs. (That's what Spring Break is for right?!) We replaced the baseboards. And other little things like updating the ceiling fan and outlets/light switches really completed the new look! One day I'll add crown moulding in here too. So there you have it! Reesey girl's room. I found myself just sitting in there before she was here. Just taking it all in. It's good to have it pretty much finished from top to bottom! Posted by Katy Mitchell at 12:20 PM No comments: Labels: Our Fixer Upper Friday, January 1, 2016 Mitchell Mob 25 Days of Christmas A few years back I did 25 Days of Christmas with the boys. Some days had really big treats while others had a craft or a book to unwrap. When we got into fostering and had FOUR KIDS and then FIVE KIDS the thought of the 25 Days of Christmas was just too much. We were surviving at that point! I thought since they boys' world was about to be rocked with the addition of baby sister we would make this last Christmas as a family of four fun for them. Here are the Mitchell Mob's 25 Days of Christmas 2015: Day 1: Setting up their Christmas tree Day 2: Making twig stars for their tree Day 3: Coffee filter snowflakes Day 4: Watching Polar Express Day 5: Riding the Polar Express Train Day 6: Christmas Cards for packages Day 7: Unwrapping Christmas books Day 8: Paper strips Christmas tree Day 9: Christmas color by number Day 10: Edible Christmas trees Day 11: Cotton ball snow garland Day 12: SFA basketball game Day 13: Christmas shaped rice krispies Day 14: Unwrapping Christmas books Day 15: Playing with snow Day 16: Looking at Christmas lights Day 17: Christmas cookies with friends Day 18: Candy Day 19: Mitchell Christmas Day 20: Cotton ball snowmen Day 21: Cardboard gingerbread houses Day 22: Christmas Family Game Night Day 23: Judges for Taylor Cutthroat Kitchen Day 24: Taylor Christmas Day 25: CHRISTMAS! I don't post these to make you think I'm a cool mom. Because the fact that something happened every day for 25 days is miraculous. And let's be honest I threw in candy as Day 18 and bummed other people's holiday activities (Day 5, 17, 19, 23, 24) to make it through. There were days that my kids weren't grateful because they had just gotten to ride the Polar Express and then the next day they were getting Christmas books that they've had for years. Parker man just wasn't always feeling it (see Day 20). My hope is that they can look back on these times and feel special. It wasn't a lot but it was fun. Here's to a new year of adjusting to a baby girl in the house and being the best big brothers ever! Posted by Katy Mitchell at 8:15 PM No comments: Labels: FAMILY Our Fixer Upper - Nursery When we bought this house the nursery was very dark and had lots of holes all over the walls. I honestly don't know what they did in there! It looked like what would happen if I let Luke and Parker loose in a room with push pins... The before pictures: First thing I did was patch all the holes. Each dot of mud covered about 3-4 holes. It was insane. And after painting the walls I saw many that I missed! Then we scraped the popcorn ceiling in there and sanded it down. I tell you what I don't mind the scraping part anymore after all the heck we've been through trying to sand, texture and paint these dad gum things! Then Mom added some texture back and painted the ceiling and the walls for me. That oil base paint is way too strong for me to do in my current preggo state :) [Mom's going to love that I included this picture of her! Ha!] In between one of the many clean ups working on the ceiling I noticed the carpet was pretty messed up. I decided to rip up the carpet and buy new flooring. I totally lucked out too because I caught a sale at Lumber Liquidators for flooring $0.89/square foot! Score!! Before I laid any new flooring I wanted to finish all the painting. That included the accent wall. When I showed my mom and SIL my inspiration pic they called me crazy. Now that it is all done I can agree with them...but in the moment my pride took over :) Inspiration picture: I didn't have a protractor and the angles on my ruler I did have weren't what I wanted so I had to make my own.. Once I got my tools worked out it didn't take that long. Just a little difficult getting down low.. haha! Then came the flooring. We had never laid flooring before so I was a little anxious about it. We also didn't have a table saw or a jigsaw so that meant we had to get creative when we had to make our cuts around the closet and the length of a whole board. But we did it! And I love the look of it! When we laid the flooring, we had to take off all the trim and doors and door frames. Which is fine by me because I was planning on updating those as well. If you can't tell I was on a mission to have this be the first all the way finished room in the house! All the outlets and light switches got updated (it's the little things). The trim went up around the window and baseboards were purchased, painted, installed and caulked. We've gotten the new door for her room just have to paint it and install it. And I would love to get her closet re-worked for better storage and hang the new closet doors. I have a few more things to add for the decor to be done. At this point I don't know if the "finished nursery" post will be coming before Reese does! Almost there!

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What’s in stock.. Since a lot of Work wheels are made to order from Japan, here is a chance for you guys to pick up a set that’s in stock @ our office:

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The whole concept of equalizing belay anchors has been discussed heavily lately, both over on and also on I've also had some correspondance with Jim Ewing over at Sterling, who did much of the actual lab work referenced. The basic concept is that it's very difficult to effectively equalize multiple pieces in a belay, and that shock loading when one piece pulls is surprisingly minimal. We all want to do the "right" thing when building anchors, but as I've written previously, the "right" thing often isn't. This picture is lifted from where a user lifted it from John Long's new book (I still need to buy a copy of that, hopefully he won't mind posting it here as it's promo for his book--I've known Long for years, he's not the sort of individual you really want pissed at you, not because of his iron addiction but because he flips words with style). I thought people might enjoy seeing the data, when I got it from Jim it wasn't in a viewer-friendly format. I find the whole discussion sort of humorous because we all used the "sliding X" years ago, then were told that the cordellette was plus bon, now it's pretty clear that the old sliding X is pretty darn good in comparison. I've played with the "equallette," overall it seems like it's more prone to mis-rigging and requires more biners than I'm likely to carry for its performance advantage over a simple sliding X. Might use it on nice sunny days when I have unlimited time to set up an anchor, but for winter climbing it's a right pain. One of the main problems with cordellettes is that the central knot often becomes set for the day after only one use, I see the equalette as being worse. At least with a sliding X frozen knots aren't a problem. I'll likely go with a sliding X with the biner clipped directly into the rope, and the rope then clipped into a third piece as a "All hell breaks loose" backup to the two primary pieces. Or something else depending on what the situation callls for, the bottom line is that no one system for building belays will be the best for all possible circumstances. I'll continue to carry a cordellette as they are very useful for slinging pillars or other features, chopping up for V-threads, rigging rap anchors, etc., but less useful than I always thought for building equalized anchors.All of this discussion has also changed my viewpoint that tying together some "OK" pieces will make a "really good" belay. I'm now more interested in having at least one "bomber" piece in the belay, and then backing that up with with at least one and hopefully two "OK" or better pieces. I've always built my rap anchors around one "bomber" piece (Abalakov or super solid pin/nut/bush/whatever) with a backup, I'm starting to look at belays more like this given how relatively poorly even the best equalized anchor works in the lab. In combat situations systems are likely to work even less well in my experience. Lots of good gear is a good thing, this whole climbing thing is pretty unpredictable when it comes right down to it. I'm very fond of 3.5 inch stainless bolts that I've placed, grin. Posted by Will Gadd at 9:45 AM Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest 6 comments: john said... When I take a big fall on my green Camelot way below, that’s way more force than me and my partner usually put on the belay anchor. Really the worst case situation is when your buddy runs it out from the belay and takes a whipper onto your belay fall factor 2 style. Never has happened to me. Ouch. Isn’t that by far the hardest force on your anchor?? I'm smart enough to avoid climbing with such "buddies". 2 years ago I talked to a guy who said his friend took a big fall onto the belay anchor (ice screws) on Nemesis.......oh and lived?? Maybe he was full of shit. You would have probably heard of such mayhem. We need to look at what forces will in real life be applied to the belay anchor.If the leader takes a big fall on lead gear the belay will get pulled up of course. Most people I see don't set their belays for upward pulls anyway. So on a huge fall at best the belayer will get pulled up at least 5 ft (he'll be at least a few ft below his pieces, then get pulled past them) smash himself into the rock and hopefully not let go of the ATC. Luckily all this upward movement of the belayer will help reduce some of the force on the sketchy nut the leader just fell on behind the funny flake. I know the friction and rope “absorb” lots of force too.If your 2nd falls as he's following up he will put some weight on the system, but really it’s not much compared to a lead fall on a single measly piece of gear.I've fallen hundreds of times on 1 piece of lead gear and it has never pulled. So the 3 pieces I place for a belay that usually take less weight are very unlikely to pull. It’s too late for me; hopefully some of this makes sense. 12:11 AM Will Gadd said... Makes sense to me. I've caught two factor two falls in all my years of climbing, and never taken one.The reason we don't set our belays specifically for upward forces is, as you note, if it's an upward force then there's gear up there somewhere and so the impact will be lower. It's always the direct super-nasty fall onto the below that's the most worrisome. 9:20 AM john said... I should have said in my last post that I’ve never had much faith in any “perfect” equalized anchor. It’s almost impossible; some gear will take more weight than others. So the 2 or 3 or more pieces of gear that are placed must all be good. OK pieces are bad. Good is good. Its very poor climbing if part of your belay anchor comes apart during a fall.Also I know I’m stepping into tricky water here, but the whole shock loading thing doesn’t always make sense. Hopefully you could clear it up for me.Lets use a top rope anchor with 2 pieces of gear connected to a cordelette not equalized correctly so one side is say half a foot longer than the other. For a side note even if they were perfectly equalized for a straight down pull, once the climber moves way over to one side all of the weight will go onto one piece of gear anyway. A self equalizing anchor may be better.Back to my point with the cordelette. So if 1 piece pulls the climber falls the extra half foot until the other side of the anchor tightens, and the system holds. This is no different than a climber talking a little lead fall. The rope absorbs lots of impact. If you can’t place gear to hold a lead fall, even a short fall, well than you need to pick up another sport like golfing or surfing. If the system doesn’t hold and you die, then Darwin weeded you out of the gene pool which may not be so bad anyway. I feel I must really be missing something because I have so many friends that talk about shock loading a system like it’s the worst thing in the world. If a piece of lead gear pulls you may fall an extra 10 or much more feet to the next piece before it catches you. We usually don’t call that shock loading. Maybe shocking and unlucky/stupid.john 4:08 PM paulraphael said... Just a few thoughts ...people get pretty dogmatic about these issues, even though (as Will suggests) dogma often doesn't work out in the real world.A big problem is the word "equalization." Half the guys are saying that if you don't equalize, you're dead, the other half are saying that it's impossible to equalize so you shouldn't even bother. We should rethink this. A better word might be "shared." It really doesn't matter if the load is shared equally, but it's obviously helpful if it's shared somewhat. A lot of the traditional setups (cordelette and X included) are capable of sharing the load, and we should take advantage when we can. It's important to look at the tradeoffs. can you predict the direction of pull, or will it vary? Do you have dodgy pieces that could get yanked by a change of direction or by a shockload that suddenly gives them all the weight? do the rock/ice conditions call for 2, 3, 4 or more pieces to postpone your impending heart attack?the other issue is redundancy. which just means not putting all your eggs in one basket, no matter how good the basket seems to be. here's where the simple ideas like a bomber piece with some kind of backup make sense.an unrelated note on cordelettes: i learned a trick that makes the knot easy to untie. just stick a biner through the back loops of the fig. 8 knot (the loops opposite the power point). no matter how welded the knot gets, you can untie it by yanking on the biner. i've used this for topropes i set up for ice climbs. always comes right out. 1:33 PM pete harrison. said... With the cordelette knot freezing up thing; you could always use a fig-9 instead of a fig-8, much easier to untie and as strong and easy to tie correctly. Used pretty much as standard now in industrial rope access where you've got long term heavy loads on the anchor point tie-ins.But yeah, sliding x works just fine for me so fuck it. 9:31 AM Kamagra said... you have to take into account the position of the sound, the size of the place, how close is the place in where you are going to play tje music, anyway many others factors.

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Right after the ribbon-cutting ceremonies, Angelo went over to check out the food vendors and stopped to give his opinion on the event. Live music was in the air. Here are Calico & Fred giving the audience some love! Beautify CNMI Family members: Jun Flores (BC - FMI); Rep. Cinta Kaipat; Angelo Villagomez (BC-MINA-RC&D); and Marites Castillo (BC-FMI). The FMI and BC gang with Mike Manglona, Director of Youth Affairs, next to Angelo.Come out this Friday and every Friday and enjoy yourselves.

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Scientists say our personality is set by the time we turn 6. However, Our character - our ability to be kind, respectful, committed, etc. - is built by our choices. Think of this app like a p90x for your character - an opportunity to practice being the best person you can be. I developed the iOS application and web API. Houston Kraft designed the interface and graphics.

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PRAVIN PENDKALKARwrote on Jan 13 2010 11:15AMChance Pe Dance is a story of handsome hero shahid kapoor (sameer) who came to become hero three year back from his home town, even though his dad (Parikshit Sahani) have his own shop, but Shahid wanted to become hero so he came to mumbai, he stay on rent at a bawa's house and he has not paid rents for months,his friend phukut khao always takes money from him and never returns, shahid gives more that 130 auditions but he never gets work, one day he gets an hero offer from Mohnish Behl, and our herione gets an offer to be a choreographer in the said movie, at the same time he is thrown out of the house, and he stays in his car, and he ready an advertisement that a dance teacher is needed so he goes and give interview and he is selected, he has to teach the students the dance who have come 22nd in their previous competition and on the otherside Mohnish behl breaks the promise and how shahid kapoor helps the school kids to won the dance competition.Superb songs, good music , and I think performances of shahid and genelia shall be fantastic and my god KEN GHOSH is one director who is a fantastic director. I am eagerly waiting to see the movie on the BIG SCREEN ONLY with my entire family. I am praying this film becomes a huge hit. Is this synopsis useful?

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It is about to be 5 in the morning. The sun will come up in about two hours and then the worker bees will be on their way. There is no better feeling in the world than going to bed with all windows wide open at 8 in the morning listening to the rain and sounds of the city and starting of the day time world. The warm rich vibration of going to bed for a long rest amidst the chaos of the rat race getting to work on time. The crispness of the air on your nose. The cars are louder in the rain and wet...Val pointed that out earlier today. I am getting a bit off track here reminiscing about a time that is far off at this point. And that my friend is all that matters. Be true to yourself young Buck, never back down, never apologize and always hit them where it hurts. Stand back you savage brutes...This one is not to be touched. Moments later: Right now it is quiet all I can hear is the faint sound of Val breathing from the bedroom and...fuck wham! The Elephant Neighbors just slammed the goddamn door on their way in. Or was it out? Yes it was out because I didn’t hear them stomp up the stairs, but I didn’t hear them stomp down the stairs either...hmmm. Whatever, never mind. Kurt Cobain said that. He named the album Nevermind as well. I heard on the radio earlier today this DJ (that used to run the board for the live feed of the Howard Stern Show out of the east coast and then re-play it later at 6 in the morning west coast time after I got done with the Late Night shift) was saying that Kurt Cobain’s catch phrase when he would go to a house party was: “Here we are now, entertain us.” Val said she used to think he was saying: “Here we are now entertainers.” When I was doing late night radio @ KISW, I would say, "He used to live in Kurt Cobain's old castle" every time I played a Nirvana song. Once at 4 am when I was done with my show and getting some food at QFC, the cashier told me that he hates this guy on the the radio that says, "He used to live in Kurt Cobain's old castle" every time Nirvana comes on. The clerk felt the radio guy was laying it on too thick. I nodded my head, kinda chuckled and walked out. A recent study found that overnight third shift workers have a higher occurrence of cancer and are generally less healthy. My mom used to say I had a green look to my skin when I was doing the overnight thing. I lasted almost five years and loved the magical feeling of being up and creating when the rest of the city slept...especially a city like Seattle. People stay up here, but not out. A legendary rock DJ named Steve Slaton was talking about the report on the health risks of overnight workers and he remarked about how when he started out he did an overnight radio show and that schedule almost made him go insane certifiably crazy. I can’t argue with his findings, but I do firmly believe a person must create as late as possible or early as possible to soak in some of the creatively crazy juices that may otherwise never be tapped into if you only work the nine to five hour routine. Truth is never told during those hours and that is a rule of thumb I firmly believe in. Ahh, the truth hours. No, I am not talking about the Limbaugh station here in Seattle AM 770 KTTH “The Truth.” There will be no truth telling on that frequency except by accident...Look to Mike Malloy after 10pm and way farther down the dial at AM 1090. Mike Malloy is a National Treasure and he should be treated as such... he broadcasts until 1 in the morning, so yes he is in the truth hours, and all his Truth Seekers are up with him. Those are his listeners and they are faithful...Somewhere in the blue mountains of rural Georgia Mr. Malloy is pounding on the bastards and giving them Hell and no one can do it better. Mike Malloy will fill you up with hope. There have been many a night when he filled me up like a hot air balloon and I hovered around the ceiling feeling giddy for three hours. I am a stronger and wiser man for it. Never let anyone tell you what is good information and who you should listen to. Listen for yourself, see for yourself and do it yourself. C’est la verite. Reed Wacker: Took this in front of Kurt Cobain's house. Obama yard sign in front of Kurt Cobain's Old Castle.

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I wrote quite a deep, honest starting paragraph for this post. Then I looked at it and figured – this post is about a cookie. An almightily delicious and irresistible cookie yes, but a cookie nonetheless. So whilst there maybe a time for deep opening up, today I’m keeping it simple (I have a very delicious post coming up towards the end of the week) and just saying: you really must make these cookies.I don’t know how I originally came across this recipe as it is, rather embarrassingly, from the Carnation website. I have had the recipe saved for ages and every time I checked my ever growing list of links stored in my Recipes to Try file I’d remember them and remind myself to make them. Then I would promptly forget. Until one very rainy day last week when I got a huge craving for these – so much so that I was willing to go out in the rain to buy condensed milk, the key ingredient for these cookies as it ensures their really soft centres.These are rich – because of the sweet melting white chocolate and the rich dough – but that doesn’t stop them being moreish. Plus, the raspberries are nicely tart and if it’s pouring with rain in the middle of July then who doesn’t deserve a delicious cookie?! Or three. The actual dough was very quick to make but the repetitive process of making all the balls of dough, flattening them and adding the halved raspberries does take a little time. Beware – these cookie spread a lot. For my first batch (luckily only four or five) I made normal sized little balls of dough and the cookies turned out huge: over saucer sized. The recipe makes a lot but that really will not be a problem because like I say, they are very addictive. There will be fights over who gets the biggest one, trust me! Enjoy :) Posted by Lucy at 10:01 pm Labels: biscuit, biscuits, chocolate, cookies, fruit, raspberry, white chocolate 12 comments: La Table De Nana said... You are right..I must make these..Gorgeous! 25 July 2011 at 22:51 Rosa's Yummy Yums said... Nice cookies! I really like the idea. Raspberries pair wonderfully well with white chocolate.Cheers,Rosa 25 July 2011 at 22:54 The Caked Crusader said... These look lovely - I prefer raspberry and white chocolate, to any other chocolate.No shame about where the recipe came from - a good recipe is a good recipe! 26 July 2011 at 11:03 Faith said... Lovely cookies! The white chocolate and raspberry compliment each other so nicely. 27 July 2011 at 03:24 Apples and Butter said... Ooooh. I have never used condensed milk in a cookie. They sound delicious! 27 July 2011 at 05:00 Xinmei @ Pudding Pie Lane said... Are carnation the people who make that tinned milk? If so, they're genuises! These raspberries look good too, I'm waiting for that heartfelt post next :p 27 July 2011 at 21:10 Nancy said... Hi lucy!!These sound fabulous and since I am always looking for new cookies to try I will definitely be giving these a go!! 30 July 2011 at 03:52 Elra's cooking and baking said... Yum! I truly adore cookie with fresh fruit in it, which I must say pretty rare to find in cookie recipe. 30 July 2011 at 20:54 retriever said... Oooh,This cookies seen nicegreeting from Belgium 31 July 2011 at 04:52 Anh said... I love the look of these cookies!! 31 July 2011 at 08:59 Poires au Chocolat said... I love the idea of using fresh raspberries in cookies - they look delicious! I think these might be next on my baking list as I have some raspberries waiting on the side. 1 August 2011 at 10:10 Hazel said... These look amazing! I've never seen raspberry and white chocolate cookies like this before. I want, I want, I want! :)

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The world is horrible and insane. It always has been, and it always will be.You only have this life to live. Make the most of it. Don't be a latrine-filler.Watch out for those with a little amount of power, the petty officials. They come in all shapes, sizes, and guises.Watch out for those on the make. They are distressingly common.

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By LINDSEY ELLERSON ABC News' Jon Garcia Reports: The sun rose this morning on day 2,921 of the Bush administration, the last full day of the Bush administration. It happens to be Martin Luther King Day, a federal holiday, so the streets were eerily quiet. Inside the White House it's just as quiet. A handful of staffers remain and they're boxing up their personal belongings. The walls, normally covered with large pictures of the president, first family, staff and even the press, called "jumbos," are now bare. The staff was given the option to buy the jumbos they liked or the ones which hung in their respective offices, each which runs about $100. Between taking phone calls, Press Secretary Dana Perino found time to turn in her West Wing parking pass and IDs. In the lower press office, just off the White House briefing room, a huge orange storage box sits open, half filled with office supplies, stationary, envelops and magazines. It's slowly filling up. Deputy press secretaries Scott Stanzel and Gordon Johndroe filled their own boxes with personal mementos and souvenirs. The duo walked through the briefing room to say goodbye to the handful of journalists who remain. They shook hands and there were some hugs. Johndroe, who was a bag handler and press wrangler for the Bush campaign in 2000, is the iron man of the administration. After eight years in the White House, he will fly back to Texas with the former president tomorrow before heading on vacation. The place looks clean, no trash on the floor and the computer keyboards appear to be intact. (Remember the missing "W" keys from eight years ago?) It looks like everything will be ready for a whole new staff, who will move in sometime around noon on Tuesday. And at 5:50pm the overhead speaker chirped with the voice of the lone remaining press aide, Stuart Siciliano: "For the final time in the Bush administration, we have a paper lid. Goodnight everybody."

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Having reviewed the original Burris Eliminator some time ago, it was with some excitement I received the news from Tony Saros of Beretta Australia that the new Eliminator III scopes had landed and one was on the way for me to put through it's paces. When I picked up the Eliminator III box, my initial thought was "holy crap it's huge, they've built a Hubble telescope". As it turns out my fears were unfounded and whilst the Eliminator III at 400mm long is 70mm longer than the original, it is a much more elegant design and of course magnification has been increased to a 4-16x range and a 50mm adjustable objective lens added for good measure. Weight remains at the same 737 grams which is no mean feat considering the changes from the original Eliminator. Other major changes include the extra turret on the left hand side which is not a side focus adjustment but the new housing for the Lithium CR123 battery which now provides enough juice for a claimed 5000 laser actuations, well up from the 1100 cycles of the original. The integrated mounting rail has also been extended to 215mm which provides much greater flexibility in mounting the scope on a variety of action lengths and bases or rails. The Eliminator III ships with the mounting brackets & spanner needed for the rail, a sunshade, battery, micro fibre cloth, stickers to note load details, Eliminator logos you can put on or not, instruction manual and ballistic charts for most commercial loads and a front mounting plate (if required) should you need it to sight in the scope. What is not included is the remote! This has been dropped from the Eliminator III...more on this later. The biggest change though is the improved laser performance and enhanced ballistics of this scope. Laser range is now a claimed 1200 yds on reflective targets and 750 yds on less reflective surfaces. The scope will calculate an accurate hold over point automatically adjusted for an uphill or downhill shot as well as displaying a suggested amount of hold off for a 10mph cross wind (if a hold off for wind is required of course). And it will do all this at any magnification, not just the maximum magnification like the original Eliminator. A rubber covered 4 way switch provides input for setting up the scope to the exact ballistics of the load being used, it is based on zeroing the rifle at 100 yds and entering a drop number (in inches) of the load at 750 yds. There are 4000 ballistic curves provided or you can measure the actual drop at 750 yds and enter that yourself, and this what is recommended for best precision. There are also supplied instructions for correcting the drop number to take into account shooting at altitude. The scope also accepts input for the Ballistic Coefficient of the particular bullet you are using and choice of working in metres or yards. Getting hands on with the scope I got the impression that build quality has improved. The deep green bloom of the lenses suggest quality coatings and the redesign of the scope looks great finished in a flat black exterior. The adjustment turrets are now a more precise 1/8 MOA per click and have 40 MOA of adjustment and feel pretty good. The rubber armoured caps and battery cover cap are a nice touch and the equally grippy power change ring and quick focus eye piece are firm and smooth and stay where you set them. There are two rubber covered actuation buttons either side of the lower scope body at the 7 o'clock and 5 o'clock positions. Mounting the Eliminator III to my heavy barrelled Winchester Mod 70 .270 WSM was a very straight forward exercise and it is an impressive looking bit of gear. The boresighter showed extremely close alignment to the actual bore. This was reinforced by the first shot being only a few cm's from the bull at 100 yds and I had the scope dialled in with just a few more shots. The X96 reticle in the Eliminator III featuring a series of dots below the horizontal stadia which are used to hold off for wind. The small illuminated display to the right is the calculated windage hold off for a 10 mph crosswind, in this case it is 1.7 and so you would hold 1.7 dots into the wind. It certainly works.....if you have a 10 mph crosswind. The reality is for most of us it will be a guess at doping the wind. I am not a fan of the windage dots in this reticle, the same could be achieved with the mildots already on the horizontal stadia without the clutter of the pyramid of dots. Add to those dots you can see fine lines along each row of dots (not shown in example image) going across the reticle, I assume these are micro circuit tracks used to light the illuminated hold over point at various levels. It all adds up to a somewhat degraded viewing image particularly noticeable in poor light as if the lower half of the image was a little dimmer or not as sharp. They have also introduced a dimmer control for the display via the down arrow on the 4 way switch. This is something I wished for with the original Eliminator. Unfortunately it seems the display intensity selected is not stored in non volatile memory and after the scope powers down and not being activated for a lengthy period of time, on the next activation the display would illuminate at full brightness and I had to dim, it again...and again. So an epic fail on this feature. The laser performance of the Eliminator III is very good and as expected fast and accurate, with the ballistic calculations performed seamlessly. The Eliminator was always within 1m + or - to a Leica 1000 CRF that I used as a control. At the start of the review I could reliably range to 750m which was a little shy of the claimed performance, however there was extensive burning off being conducted all over the district and a permanent haze for weeks on end. Once conditions cleared the range increased to a routine 900m+ on good solid targets and 650m on fur. The beam divergence at long range is something I had to watch as it gets quite broad and can have interference from objects between the scope and target and this is true for most any laser rangefinder on the market. The optics are quite nice in good light but do drop off above 10x in dusk/dawn situations and this is not helped by the proliferation of those windage dots in the X96 reticle. During a cold misty morning hunt I did experience external lens fogging on a couple of occasion whilst trying to get a bead on some Fallow deer. Otherwise the scope performed very well in some light showers and warm then cold days in the field. The Adjustable Objective allowed me to get a nice crisp image on the higher magnifications, though on most occasion I left it set at 200 yds for a perfectly satisfactory image. Eye relief is generous, though eye position is fairly critical to get a good clear image. Once I started using the rifle in the prone position with a bipod, I soon realised what a mistake it was to leave the Eliminator III without a remote means of activation. It is both frustrating and difficult to try and maintain the crosshairs on a distant target while breaking your hold to reach forward to press one of the activation buttons to fire the laser. To my mind this is the bread & butter scenario for a scope such as this and an easy means of accurately firing the laser is a must, as much the same technique is required to accurately range a distant target as it is to take a long range shot. Anything that disturbs the hold is undesirable, and using a bipod, your non master hand is usually under the buttstock of the rifle controlling fine elevation. The simplest solution is to equip this scope with a wired pressure/tactical switch which can then be taped or attached with Velcro into a position of the shooter's choice. I had toyed with the idea of wiring such a switch into one of the activation buttons, but with a RRP of around $1600 for the scope I was not that keen. My longest kill with the Eliminator III was a cross gully shot of 445m on a fox sunning itself in the morning light. I was lucky he was in no hurry as it took a few goes to get him ranged properly from a hastily assumed prone position. On another hunt, I did a sit and watch on an open basin and through my Zeiss binos spotted a large Sambar hind emerge from the tree line just on last light. There were quite a few cows feeding towards her and both deer and cows would wonder in and out of the tree line and shadows. I ranged her at 570m in poor light but opted not to take the shot, just too dark to be 100% sure. The higher 16x magnification and enhanced ballistics and laser performance allow this scope to reach out a long way. If you can shoot and make the wind your friend, the Eliminator III will do the rest. Out past 400m or so the reticle is getting a little coarse for varminting of small pests and is really at it's best on medium to large game. The Eliminator III performed well over the last month or so that I've been taking it into the hills and it appears solid and well built and I can't praise the accuracy of the ballistics programme in this scope enough. Time after time I made first round hits well beyond 350m on rabbits and some steel ram silhouettes out to 500m. I would feel confident on a deer sized animal at this range or even a bit further. To me the ethics of it all balance out with the reality that a well placed shot on a stationary animal at 500m is at least as ethical as a hastily taken one on a bouncing deer at 100m and having shot a few deer at both these sorts of ranges I am happy with what I do. I think this sort of integrated optics/ballistics technology is going to be more commonplace in the future and already the Eliminator family is growing with 3 models currently listed as available in Australia. The 4-16x50 Eliminator III I've just been writing about, the 4-12x42 Eliminator II which now has the enhanced ballistics on all magnifications too, and the smaller 3.5-10x40 Eliminator which is the newest model to arrive. I would think this last model may be of most interest to the mobile stalker hunter but I haven't been able to find accurate specs on it and the Burris site lists the same weight as the bigger models. Probably a typo I'm guessing. Tony Saros from Beretta Australia will no doubt know, and a big thank you to Tony for his continued support and arranging for AHN members the first hands on look at the Eliminator III. And so in summing up, just like the original Eliminator the Eliminator III is more of a good thing and a pretty good solution for the accomplished shooter looking to reach out to longer range without the fuss & distraction of adjusting turrets, holding over or number crunching drop charts. Short of reading the wind squeezing the trigger, this scope will take care of the rest. Obviously a subjective observation, but I really hope Burris address the omission of a wired pressure switch remote as the lack of one was a deal breaker for me. Australian Hunting Net ©2013

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Josh P.11-06-2009, 11:29 AMNeed a rec for a reasonable (around $200, less is better) tire with good summer grip, good wet traction, quiet ride, and can be used year round. I currently have Dunlop SP 5000s that need replacement. They've lasted 25k miles which is very good, but wondering if there's a better option. My car is not a daily driver, nor does it see track work, but I do sometimes have to take it out in slush, though rarely snow. Thx for your input.

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The Central Coast is home to some of California’s best beaches: Avila Beach, Pismo Beach, and beyond! Hidden among these more popular spots in the secluded corners of the Central Coast are less popular spots, usually only known by locals or regulars. These beaches provide a more natural beach experience, being able to listen to the gentle waves crash and the birds chirp away. We have gathered our three favorite hidden beaches so during your next stay with us, you can truly relax in your own personal paradise. Palisades Beach Palisades Park Beach lies beneath a popular park in Pismo Beach, South Palisades Park. When arriving atop this beach many don’t realize the lookout spot above leads down to one of the best spots on the Central Coast! Take the stairs down to the oceanfront and you’ll be greeted by a serene stretch of beach, complete with unique rock formations and tide pools. Often less crowded than the popular beaches by the Pismo and Avila Piers, this spot is perfect for a quiet morning stroll or a quick cat nap in the sun. When the tide is low you can even explore the many native sea creatures hiding in the tide pools! (c) Pirate’s Cove Many residents know Pirate’s Cove as the cliff side spot perfect for watching a sunset or relaxing with friends, becoming very popular with Cal Poly students. What makes this spot even more incredible though is the small stretch of beach that lies below the lookout spot. Situated between Shell Beach and Avila Beach, Pirate’s Cove’s south-facing location allows it to be protected from some undesirable weather conditions, like chilly winds and breezes. Perched atop the cove is a community of gorgeous, oceanfront mansions, perfect for admiring during a mid-day stroll. Watch out though, this is also a clothing optional beach! (c) Coon Creek Beach Probably the most hidden of these three beaches is Coon Creek Beach, the most southern beach access point in Montana de Oro State Park. Although a part of this state park, Coon Creek unfortunately has no direct access from the roads built to allow visitors to enjoy these spots. This just adds to the adventure, though! To reach Coon Creek Beach, you must take a short hike through Point Buchon Trail or the Bluff Trail. The walk is definitely worth it though, as Coon Creek provides amazing sea caves available to explore at low tides and a large sink hole! The perfect option for adventurers looking to experience the natural beauty of the Central Coast, Coon Creek Beach provides a beach day like no other. (c) Posted on November 17, 2016 by admin Leave Your Mark Leave Your Mark Cancel replyYou must be logged in to post a comment. ← Thanksgiving Dining on the Central Coast

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Yes, it was. A while ago, I won a night in the Ace Hotel in Shoreditch simply by choosing a good seat at the Women's Room Salon. On Saturday we packed our best hipster clothes (sadly there wasn't enough time for Simon to grow a beard, buy a beanie and turn up his best dark jeans) and went in search of Shoreditch style. The place oozes it. The hotel is full of attention to detail, textures and interesting materials. Concrete, cork, denim, wood, poems on walls, newspapers everywhere, serious coffee, and beautiful hipster people on beautiful mid-century modern furniture. It's a photoshoot without a camera, a hymn to styling, and not a spot of pink or purple or orange anywhere. It's all very 'curated' and it works. It's humming (buzzing would be too energetic for hipsters, I imagine) and the huge social area in the lobby is packed. The rooms are incredibly tasteful, too, and we loved the way they are like apartments rather than sterile transitory places. And even though we are not exactly target market age group we did not feel uncomfortable or even out of place without a beard between us. The staff couldn't be nicer, and the relaxed atmosphere extends to all guests who are actually a pretty mixed bunch. (This is as it should be, but it doesn't always happen in cool/smart/posh hotels.) Tom, Alice and Phoebe joined us in the evening. We had pizzas and and they took photos in the photobooth in the hotel lobby, inspected the room and used the hotel stationery, and disappeared into the night. We had a wonderful twenty four hours in Shoreditch, but the real highlight was the hotel. Thanks very much to the Ace for their generosity, and to Jane and Amanda at The Women's Room for making it happen. [ I took this article about the hotel's design to read in situ. It made me appreciate the incredible amount of thought and planning that goes into creating a place like the Ace.] Permalink Reblog (0) | | | Comments Dou you have any recommendations on what to see in Shoreditch or Barbican areas of London? Posted by: Nicky | January 27, 2014 at 20:10 No comment sorry, except it felt rude to be excluded from your blog as if we were worthless, when it was your readers who supported your work and made your career possible. But just as you moved on from us, I also moved on. From what I can see from your comments restarting again, not even a welcome and hello! Posted by: Nelly | January 29, 2014 at 00:29 The real highlight was the hotel!? Not seeing your beautiful offspring!?!?!?!?!?! mwah xxx Posted by: Vladimir Putin | January 31, 2014 at 13:17 Coincidentally we also stayed it the Ace Hotel on Saturday night! We are now nearer 70 than 60 & were also made to feel very welcome; the staff were really helpful & friendly. Loved the urban chic decor. Downside was that it was incredibly noisy overnight as our room was at the front, albeit on the 5th floor, so we thought might have made it quieter. Also the bar is very small & we couldn't get a drink at 9pm as the crush was 10 deep. Despite these details would certainly stay there again.

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Just listened to Louis Zamperini on facing hardships on Digital SUCCESSI think no.......I KNOW you'll get something out of this like I did!!!!

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My HV came out to see us yesterday to see how we were getting on. I was filling her in again on P and how she has days where she cries inconsolably for hours on end and others where she is happy and queried yet again milk allergy or lactose intolerance. She suspects lactose intolerance. I then broke down after another horrendous day yesterday and told her about how P just never sleeps during the day. I scored quite high on the PND questionnaire so she said she would come back and see me again in 4 weeks. She called my GP surgery later that day to make sure they gave me an appt for today. So saw the GP and discussed how i was feeling. I dont think i have PND as i only feel low and cry all day when P is really bad so just keeping an eye on that. As far as P is concerned she doesnt think its a milk issue as her bad days are so random but at last she has been referred to a paediatrician so we may finally be getting somewhere. I am wondering now if its sonething i am eating that is upsetting her but we shall see what they say. I finally feel like soneone is starting to listen to me after 3 months of me saying somethings not right. Helpful 0 Report Reply Sunny Days Smile 13/08/2013 at 18:07 PM Biggest of hugs to you MM! You've really had a time of it with P. I'm glad to hear that you're finally getting somewhere. Hopefully you'll get some answers from the pediatriction as to what's causing P's bad days. Chin up though lovely! You're doing really well! I don't think I'd be able to keep it together half as good as you do! Xxx Helpful 0 Report Reply workinghard 13/08/2013 at 18:08 PM Glad you feel like there's some progress. Can you start keeping a food diary? Helpful 0 Report Reply feelingsad 13/08/2013 at 18:47 PM RKB I am really not holding it together well at all!! On P's bad days i just cry and cry. One day last week i said to H i could have run away from it all. Its so exhausting seeing your beautiful little baby crying like that and no amount of comfort from me makes any difference. WH i am definitely going to start keeping a food diary. I had fajitas on Sunday night and P was really bad yesterday so i wonder if spicy food could be one thing although i dont eat enough spicy food for it to just be that. Helpful 0 Report Reply JRJ 13/08/2013 at 19:34 PM Glad to hear you are getting somewhere but sorry you are having such a tough time. Hopefully things will be on the up for here. Helpful 0 Report Reply HJLmumdrum 13/08/2013 at 19:36 PM Oh poor you Maisie... Glad you finally got a referral.. Lets hope you get some answers...look after yourself Hun Helpful 0 Report Reply AutumnRose 13/08/2013 at 20:26 PM So pleased you are getting somewhere. I hope the appointment comes through soon. Helpful 0 Report Reply veryexcited 14/08/2013 at 08:28 PM You have had such a tough ride, I hope this is the start of sorting things out. Lack of sleep / screaming baby is killer. X

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Most pre-race posts are made to give the audience a run-down of who's entered in the race and who I think will take first, second, third and so on. There are a bunch of fast people running the Grindstone 100 this year. And I'm sure they will have fun battling it out up front. For me, Grindstone is a remption race for me this year. Last year I DNF'ed and it was my first one so it stung. There were several completely logical reasons for it, but it didn't make it hurt any less. In the two weeks prior to the race last year I ran a 12 hour race where I pushed hard and ran 71.5 miles and the week before I ran a mountain 100k and pushed hard. Going into Grindstone I wasn't recovered. Physically I had an ache in my foot/ankle that started hurting within the first 5 miles. Mentally this drained me. Also, because I had pushed hard in the previous two races and it had come out to my favor, I pushed early on in Grindstone. I had won the 12 hour and I had come in 2nd in the 100k. I went out harder than I should have for my amount of recovery. I ran mountains I should have walked and tried to stay up with people who had properly "tapered" for the race. This combined with the reasons listed above I was physically and mentally done with the race at mile 35. Especially when I was told after the first weigh in that I was down 6 lbs, which translates to: "you're dehydrated."This year is a new year. I finished the 2553 miles across the country, finished the Western States 100 as well as a 50k. While compared to the amount of races I did last year, this year should have been a drop in the bucket. I'm afraid it has not been. Since I got back from the cross country run, I have had little aches and pains that have popped up and stayed with me. I believe it to be a result of pounding on pavement for between 3-7 hours everyday for the first 4 months of the year. Normally they subside after I get going and warm up, but they have put a damper on the amount of enjoyment I get from my runs because I am constantly wondering if I am ultimately doing myself a disservice by continuing to run on them. I got through Western States just fine, and I plan on finishing Grindstone in an unspectacular time simply to prove to myself that this race can not beat me two years in a row. Finishing under 24 hours is of course always one goal because it's running 100 miles in a day, I'm not going for anything particular time-wise. Don't get me wrong, I am very excited to run this race. It is a great experience starting at 6 pm to level the playing field so everyone runs in the dark. I'm simply stating that after Grindstone, I believe I am going to slow down a bit and make sure my body is working properly and is properly recovered before jumping back into higher mileage weeks just because that's what I feel like I "should be" doing. I'm 22. I'm still young and I'm not trying to set myself up for destruction by the time I'm 40. Getting back to the real world after being on the road for 4 months has been a bit tough to say the least. I couldn't believe that yesterday marked the date that I had been done for 5 months. That means that if I had followed my gut and simply turned around when I got to the water I would have reached the Pacific Ocean a full month ago. It feels like a long time ago that I finished but time has really flown. It is also a time in my life where I'm supposed to be figuring out what to do with the next 90 years of my life. (That's right, I plan on living to be 112) So far I'm unimpressed with the real world and I now know what they mean when they say, "You gotta find something you love doing because if you do, you'll never work a day in your life." Let's just say, I've yet to find that. I started an office job in June and have already decided that office life isn't for me. Sitting for 8 hours a day has given me a new perspective on why some people are as grouchy as they are, why some people are as obese as they are, but makes me wonder how there aren't more shooting sprees in the hours between 5 pm-9pm. Because of my general distain for being in a town with traffic 24/7 and an office environment, and because of my desire to do something cool while I still can I'm moving to Aspen, Colorado. I got a job at the ski resort and will work there for the winter. I'm really stoked to be living in the mountains and to get out of Virginia even just for a little while. I think skiing will provide me a good physical actvity that will allow me to still exercise and lay off a heavy volume of running. Anyway, Grindstone starts one week from today and will have a full run down of that race as it comes. Posted by Patrick McGlade at 1:27 PM 4 comments: Monday, September 13, 2010 40 miles and a waterbottle Last weekend I ran the Ring. Well, I'll be honest, I started the Ring. The Ring is a free race that takes place on the Massanutten trail. 70 miles of rocks. The beginning went pretty well. I started off and didn't feel very good or strong. But I was running well enough and was enjoying the break from the heat we've had lately. The first place to refill my water bottles was mile 13 and the second spot was mile 25ish. I felt terrible by mile 25. I just sat there for a bit. I reached that aid station in second place but wasn't so sure of the outcome at that point.After some calories and water and encouragement from Katie, my dad and Kevin, my brother, I left the aid station for the next aid 9 mostly uphill miles away. As soon as I left I zoned out and tried to forget how badly I was feeling. It was very strange. I had energy, my legs felt fine, and yet my stomach felt funny and I just felt generally "off" of my normal self. Upon reaching the third aid station I decided I would continue until I wasn't having fun anymore. Unfortunately, the next section was incredibly rough and the sharp rocks that we had delt with all morning were really aggrivating the bones in my feet. When i reached the third aid station at mile 40ish I decided I wasn't having fun anymore and if I kept going I would probably start running funny in order to protect my sore feet which could prepare the sure recipe for injury. With Grindstone just around the corner for me, I'm not trying to do anything to jeopardize that.In other news I was sent a water bottle that i was able to personalize! It is sick! It is a Sigg bottle and it is BPA free and keeps my water nice and chilly.Sick water bottlesThis is the website where you can find about a million different designs of water bottles and other personalized stuff. And if they don't have what you're looking for you can just design it yourself. Pretty good idea.Anyway, Grindstone is in a couple weeks and I'm stoked for it. This year, that race will be finished.-- Patrick

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"A" has made a couple of the recipes from the January 2007 issue of Family Circle magazine. Now it's my turn. I wanted to try the Orange Pound cake. I like pound cake and I'm always on the lookout for cake recipes that aren't chocolate. Citrus is not one of my favorites, but I can tolerate orange. I won't eat an orange, but I enjoy orange juice, orange sherbet and orange popsicles. Orange Pound cake sounded like another winner.The recipe calls for a tube pan. This is the second recipe I have tried that called for a tube pan rather than a bundt pan. The other was the Bacardi Rum Cake recipe. Both times I struck out looking for a tube pan. Does no one bake any more? So I crossed my fingers and made this in my bundt pan.The batter was easy to make and tasted delicious. Just orange-y enough without being overwhelming. The cake baked up beautifully but I had a heck of a time getting it out of the pan. Loosening the sides with a knife was not sufficient. I literally had to pry it out. Fortunately, it came out in one piece. The icing was also easy and only slightly orange-y tasting. I wish I could say the same for the finished cake. It lost a lot of its orange flavor in the baking process. Even the second day when most baked goods have developed their best flavor, there was precious little orange taste to this. And it was greasy, probably from all the butter. I prefer moist cakes over dry ones, but I don't care for greasy. All in all, very disappointing.Verdict: Not bad, but I probably won't be making this again.Orange Pound Cake(source: Family Circle Magazine, January 2007)1 3/4 cups (3 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened2 3/4 cups granulated sugar8 eggs1 teaspoon orange extract2 teaspoons grated orange rind3 cups all-purpose flour1 tablespoon baking powder1 teaspoon salt3/4 cup fresh orange juice (from 3 oranges)Drizzle:3/4 cup confectioners' sugar1 tablespoon orange juice plus 1 teaspoon water1. Het oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour 10-inch tube pan. Tap out excess flour.2. Beat butter in bowl until creamy. Gradually beat in sugar until fluffy, scraping down bowl. Add eggs, one at a time. Beat in extract and rind.3. Combine flour, baking powder and salt in small bowl. Gradually beat into butter mixture on medium speed alternating with orange juice. Beat 2 minutes, scraping down bowl occasionally, until thick and creamy. Pour into prepared pan.4. Bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes. Lower heat to 300 degrees. Bake 45 to 50 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean. Cool in pan on rack 15 minutes; turn cake out on rack; cool completely.5. Drizzle: In a bowl, whisk confectioners' sugar and thinned juice until smooth. Drizzle over cooled cake. Let dry before slicing and serving.Recycle: orange extract bottleCompost: eggshells

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The Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of the Pázmány Péter Catholic University is a unique institution among the law schools in Hungary. Having a solid fundament – believing that truth has to be beyond the law – makes our institution a place of real freedom. High quality scholarship, a committed teaching staff, a wide range of international relations provide for a well established institution of legal training and beyond: we also offer courses in international administration and a number of post-graduate courses besides our doctoral school. At graduate level, every semester about 50 courses are offered in languages other than Hungarian.

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Schneider Electric DMS NS LLC Novi Sad is a joint venture IT company for research, development and engineering in the field of the electrical power engineering management software. Our main product, the ADMS Software encompasses a variety of analytical functions for calculation and optimization of the electrical distribution utilities operation and provides the tools necessary for efficient monitoring, managing and design of distribution systems. This package is the most advanced software system in the World (confirmed by leading consultancy house in US) for performing all technical tasks in distribution utilities in an efficient and optimal way that fulfils modern power industry development requirements across the World. This software tool enables utility personnel to: achieve high-quality knowledge about their power distribution network, efficiently utilize, design and develop distribution facilities, optimize all resources and reduce operation costs, raise the profit of the utility and improve both availability and quality of electricity for customers. Schneider Electric DMS NS LLC Novi Sad is a fast growing company, gathering over 1000 experts (30 PhD) in power and computer engineering with a long lasting cooperation with universities, power utilities, manufacturers and IT integrators worldwide. In cooperation with Schneider Electric and its network of subsidiaries and affiliates worldwide, we continue to develop, enhance market globally, implement, and support the DMS software product. ADMS solution has been deployed in 170 Control Centers in 80 Utilities worldwide, supplying 400 million customers (meters). The Gartner Magic Quadrant is regarded industry-wide as the authoritative source for competitive comparisons in the information technology industry, offering in-depth analyses and visual summaries of the direction and maturity of markets and key vendors. Schneider Electric’s ADMS has been recognized in both the Magic Quadrant and the new Critical Capability reports, which we know reinforces our strong position to help utility customers run more efficient and smarter operations.

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Vindu Dara Singh's custody is ending on Friday, but the Mumbai Police will seek an extension of his custody as they believe they have a watertight case against the actor. Vindu's lawyer though will move court for bail. Vindu has been singing in custody, and is believed to have named several other celebrities and actors. According to the sources in Mumbai Crime Branch, Vindu has claimed that he knows three players from Chennai Super Kings. He also said that he knows Harbhajan Singh. But the players' role in fixing and betting has not been confirmed. The latest casualty of Vindu Dara Singh's confessions is Pakistani umpire Asad Rauf. He is now under the scanner for officiating a controversial Rajasthan Royals match. Vindu has alleged that Rauf gave inside information to bookies. But the most crucial name in Vindu's confession is that of BCCI chief's son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan. Headlines Today has accessed details of mobile numbers of Meiyappan and Vindu. The call record details have revealed that the duo spoke around 130 times in two months. Police also claims that the two used some sort of a code language during their conversation on phone.

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Family is gone, my beloved is sacked out, and here I am for the umpteenth Christmas Eve of my life - being kept company by the fire which is slowly dying, and the tree filling the living room with muted shades of green, red and blue. This is my absolute favorite time of the Holiday season, late on the night before Christmas. Everything is blessed silence, contentment and calm. Presents remain untouched, expectations are high, Santa is still riding the dark winter sky... I wish I could bottle this feeling and open it up whenever I need it. Wherever you are, whoever you are with, whatever your circumstances, I trust you are feeling at least a touch of this impossible serenity now, I trust you feel , even if it's only momentarily, what I am feeling. I wish you a Joyous Christmas, I wish you a Brave New Year. All anguish pain and sadness leave your heart and let your road be clear. Thank you Keith Emerson. And to all a goodnight. Posted by Pax Romano at 10:00 PM Labels: Xmas 3 comments: missmagnoliathunderpussy said... Darling Pax, thank you for your kind wishes, sweet sentiments and for bringing on a diabetic reaction. ;) 11:33 PM Merci said... 'fraid I left my bit of serenity for the month (maybe the year) under a palm tree by a pool in Mexico. Glad you're having yours now. Those moments are rare and precious. Merry Christmas and love to you and whatshisname. 11:44 PM Cheekies said... beautiful post and i know the feeling of which you speak - shortly after reaching adulthood I began to feel that all of the christmas magic is in the night before - after all the work was done but before the big days morning commotion.

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Nicholas David tells Laura Saltman he gave it his all with every kick and dance for “The Voice” finale. Also, whose idea was it to bring a mini Cee Lo on stage? Plus, Nicholas talks about the emotional tribute to the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy.

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raised to call your attention to its purpose -- it is reserved to honor our missing loved ones [or missing comrades in arms, for veterans]. Set for six, the empty places represent Americans still [our men] missing from each of the five services -- Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, Coast Guard – and civilians. This Honors Ceremony symbolizes that they are with us, here in spirit. Some [here] in this room were very young when they were sent into combat; however, all Americans should never forget the brave men and women who answered our nation's call [to serve] and served the cause of freedom in a special way. I would like to ask you to stand, and remain standing for a moment of silent prayer, as the Honor Guard places the five service covers and a civilian cap on each empty plate. Honor Guard: (In silence or with dignified, quiet music as background, the Honor Guard moves into position around the table and simultaneously places the covers of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force and Coast Guard, and a civilian hat, on the dinner plate at each table setting. The Honor Guard then

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YOU ARE HERE: Daily Pilot Home→Collections→Newport BeachA funny thing happened at the fundraiserLocal residents will be in a comedic play that helps Children's Hospital of Orange County.March 01, 2011|By Britney Barnes, MESA — Local residents will lace up their dancing shoes and put their singing voices to the test as they join more than 100 Orange County residents in support of Children's Hospital of Orange County.The residents will play the part of Greek gods and goddesses in "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Follies," for the 14th annual CHOC Follies March 31 to April 2."It's always a hilariously funny show with singing and dancing," said show founder Gloria Zigner, of Newport Beach.The show is an Orange County adaptation of the Broadway classic, "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," said performer Rebecca Hall, president and CEO of Costa Mesa-based Idea Hall, a marketing agency.AdvertisementIt will feature locals singing everything from Broadway tunes to pop hits as the actors travel from the 1920s to the 1980s to the present, the Newport Beach resident said.The show pulls in uniquely Orange County elements and inside jokes, said performer Julie Leigh, of Newport Beach."People will just be laughing a lot," she said. "You definitely go there to be entertained."Part of the show's appeal is seeing friends and community members up onstage singing and dancing, Hall said.She will be joined on stage by fellow Newport Beach residents Tim Bercovitz, Leslie Cancellieri, Kathleen Duffy, Victoria Groskreutz, Gerry Hardin, Kristina Kleczko, Mia Maffei, Diane Mondini, Eric Nicoll, Pascal Olhats, Joanne Pittman, Dale Skiles, Kay Sparks, Carol Strauss and Jeanne Walker,Costa Mesa locals Janice Horn, Kirsten Mangers, Fred Pellicciotti and Juliet Fischer-Schulein will also join the cast.Corona del Mar residents Sue Ann Cross and Christi Mottola-Bettingen, and Newport Coast resident Sandy Segerstrom Daniels will be performing.To be in the show, each actor pledged to donate $1,000, or raise as much, for CHOC, Zigner said.All of the money raised will go toward a more than 1,000-square-foot radiology waiting room on the first floor of the hospital's new patient care tower, she said.Zigner said she hopes to raise $1 million this year.The show has raised more than $5 million for CHOC since it started in 1998, Zigner said.They money helped support the hospital, which cares for children regardless of their ability to pay, she said."There's no child that's ever turned away from [CHOC], whether their parents can pay or not," she said.If you goWhat: 14th annual CHOC FolliesWhen: 8 p.m. March 31 and April 1 and 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. April 2Where: Robert B. Moore Theatre at Orange Coast College, 2701 Fairview Road in Costa Mesa.Cost: Tickets are $35 to $125.Info: or call (714) 532-8690 FIND MORE STORIES ABOUTNewport BeachOrange Coast CollegeFEATURED ARTICLESThe Crowd: Follies revving up for another yearFebruary 10, 2012The Crowd: Another year CHOC-ful of folliesApril 13, 2012A communal effort turns 15March 22, 2012

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The North American Insulation Manufacturers Association (NAIMA) recently introduced Version 4.1 of 3E Plus, a free computer program said to quickly and accurately determine where additional insulation can improve the process efficiency of pipes, boilers, tanks, and ducts. Operating in Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7 environments, 3E Plus performs a wide range of energy, economic, and environmental calculations to help specifiers, engineers, plant managers, and facility-management personnel determine cost savings through increased insulation thickness. Version 4.1 of 3E Plus: • Provides simple-payback calculations starting with thermal performance and cost of energy for both insulated and uninsulated piping and equipment. • Performs calculations for most types of insulation materials and accepts user-provided performance data for other materials. Customized program details can be retained when the program is updated. • Provides calculations for many fuel types and five surface orientations. • Translates British-thermal-unit losses into dollars. • Calculates greenhouse-gas emissions and reductions. • Allows users to export insulation-audit data to an Excel spreadsheet. • Includes the latest thermal curves and new insulation materials contained in ASTM International standards. • Automatically calculates thickness tables. • Works in metric and inch-pound units. The program and a screen-by-screen user guide can be downloaded by clicking here.

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It is always worth taking care around cattle for they are not as docile as they look. Only last week, I was seen off by an irate Hereford cow who really didn’t want me or Dora, my staffie dog, within a country mile of her precious calf. As she bellowed at us from the field gate, we didn’t argue back. Out in the African savanna, from where all the world’s cattle came originally, roam vast herds of wild buffalo. Sadly now, most are corralled for their protection in national parks, depredated by poachers and psychopathic trophy hunters, but that’s another story. People should be wary of these mighty beasts: just like domestic cattle in our fields, they are exceptionally canny creatures, they watch and remember. Hunter turned conservationist Lindsay Hunt says touchingly of the Cape Buffalo, ‘they have exceptional memories. I have often been approached by buffalo that I have not seen for many years, which are tactile and demand affection.’ Female buffalos are social animals, bonded like close sisters, fiercely protective of each other and their young. Nor do they shrink from a fight: armed with formidable horns and neck hide several centimeters thick, they are magnificently fearless, and will drive off a pride of marauding lions with ease. Satisfyingly perhaps, they can also exact a terrible revenge on their main foe: humankind. More people are killed in Africa, by buffalo than any other animal, barring human beings that is. They have great skill in seeking out hunters in particular, even stealthily setting out to ambush them. It is said that they can recognise and attack a person who had injured them, even years later. Be kind to buffalo, as with most creatures, and they will repay you with trust and respect. But do not expect to hurt or molest one and imagine that being stupid or brutish, you will ever be safe in its company. As far as gun-toting macho men are concerned, buffalos never forget, nor do they forgive. 0 Comments magnifence and dust: The dinosaurs' tale 24/8/2015 0 Comments Childish playthings. Nothing in this life is forever. Few species in earth’s history can surpass the dramatic tale of the dinosaurs: their majestic size, their carnivorous savagery, and most famously, their spectacular extinction 65 million years ago. From the slothful brontosaurus munching and wallowing in the swamplands, to the ferocious iron-jawed tyrannosaurus (an unfortunate creature said to have appalling halitosis), these lumbering behemoths ruled the planet for an eternity, a 100 million years or more, inhabiting land, sea and air.Then something happened, and they disappeared, every single one of them; now just scattered bones and teeth, a few giant eggs buried in rock, are all that we know them by. Paleontologists disagree about their miserable end. Yes, there was an asteroid impact, perhaps several, which provoked first a nuclear winter and then a climatic greenhouse inferno. The fossil record also suggests another story: the age of the dinosaurs had been waning for millions of years before the coup de grâce. Their time, it seems, had come because other orders of life, more supple and adaptable than they, had evolved in the earth’s gently cooling climate and all the specialist food chains upon which the old order had depended were being choked off.What did for the dinosaurs its seems was less a single cataclysmic incident, than a slowly unfolding evolutionary process. They had became supernumerary, ill-equipped, and incompetent in the face of contending forces and changing conditions. If only they could have downsized and changed their diets, have learned to adapt. Alas they were not as clever as the mammals, snapping at their evolutionary heels.Their memory lingers in the popular imagination: the world’s most powerful creatures turned to dust, nothing much more these days than plastic playthings, an ignominious fall from glory.Thus it is that the mighty and powerful, blinded by their magnificence, can rarely foresee their impending downfall. Note: these silly musings were suggested by reports of the Councillors Noel and Jayne Roberts playfully sporting plastic dinosaur toys at the Ledbury Town Council meeting on 22 July 2015. Ha, ha. What a delightful sense of humour they have. 0 Comments Lying Toads? 20/8/2015 0 Comments Are toads the most misunderstood and maligned of creatures? Between frogs and toads, there is a fine taxonomic division. Amphibians both, they breed in water and can breathe through their damp skin, creatures of a demi-monde between land and pond. But frogs are smooth while toads are rough textured. Frogspawn is laid in untidy clumps and mounds whereas the toad’s spawn is strung out in elegant chains, like ghostly pearl necklaces. Across roads and car-parks, phalanxes of brave, strong toads march resolutely to their watery breeding places, undaunted by hazard. No heroic migration attends the unruly frog, which lurks year round in the murky depths. Emerging from the mud when the weather seems clement, they set to their violent copulations in great frenzies of aqautic sex, three or four males clamped to a single hapless female. The toad seems an altogether more evolved, resourceful little beast, happy and thriving on land or in water. It can also deliver a toxic kick to any creature foolish enough to attack: those little textured bumps on its back are full of venom, sufficient to stop any predator in its tracks. Never squeeze a toad therefore. With beautiful eyes the colour of amber and a calm, docile temperament, it is strange and somehow tragic that gentle Bufo Bufo is forever linked with evil and moral ugliness in the popular imagination, a by-word for deceit and low cunning. Feel sorrow and pity for the lying toad. 0 Comments The Tale of the delicate, deadly spinning spider 1/7/2015 0 Comments As we have observed before, nature is clever; species have evolved remarkable ways to outwit their predators and prosper.Take the daddy long legs spider (Pholcus phalangiodes), bane of house-husbands throughout Herefordshire. Flimsy-legged, with a diminutive body, they spin prolific webs in corners and around beams. Looking hardly big enough to bother a fly, their venom packs a lethal punch. By winter's end, there won't be a single insect or spider remaining in their domain. All will have been consumed.The thing about the delicate Pholcus spider is its remarkable ability to tackle prey much larger than its size would seemingly allow. With elongated front legs and the ability to throw the stickiest of silk threads from a distance, they can snare a comparatively massive house spider or a raging wasp with considerable facility. When alarmed, the Pholcus also has a clever trick up its sleeve. Dangling from a thread, the spider throws itself into a dervish spin and becomes an invisible blur. Confusion and deception is its friend. Yes, politicians and wrongdoers down the ages have emulated the crafty pholcus, surviving many a close shave. But like every other living creature finally, they too will return to dust. 0 Comments There be Dragons 1/5/2015 0 Comments There’s a lot to be said for Komodo Dragons. Handsome creatures, the world’s largest lizard, even so, they do have something of a halitosis problem it seems. This is because their mouths are teeming with lively bacteria, a useful biological weapon system.What they do is quietly to approach their prey and then deliver an unexpected bite, not necessarily a serious one. The victim typically flees to somewhere it can lie low and lick its wound. Unfortunately its ordeal has only just begun for within a matter of a few hours, a terrible infection will have begun to take hold. The stealthy komodo meanwhile, with the keenest of nostrils, has been tracking the injured prey, and attracted by the scent of physical corruption, when assured that its prospective meal is sufficiently weakened, makes its move. Komodo dragons bide their time. They follow the whiff of rottenness. They do not give up because they know their moment will come. When they are satisfied that the time is right, so as to minimise any possible risk to themselves, they move in and overwhelm their adversary.Nature is clever. Just when you think you have got away with it, your nemesis is waiting round the corner. Politicians might usefully ponder the ways of the komodo dragon.

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Topic: We are asked often for an opinion about running one printer to print both color and black films so here are all the factors for you to consider to make the best decision for your needs. Resolve: To begin you must understand that there are two types of ink on the market: dye which is water based and pigment with is solvent based. Especially when it comes to "color" accuracy you should not mix dye with pigment. That is not to say that if you load dye ink and flush out pigment that there will be an issue, it's more about how the inks work together or rather "don't" work together when printed. Very few Epson printers today are "dye" ink printers, the Epson 1400 is one such printer. Most other Epson printers use K3 Ultra Chrome or HDR inks which are pigment style. We at Freehand are dedicated to the screen print market and make AccuRIP to handle that very specific process so Black Ink is all we need to make films. We see great value for a screen printer to dedicate a printer to the important task of making films for screen making. Setting up and handling equipment properly will make for a better business day each day. It is much more efficient to operate an inkjet with All Black Inks ensuring that all nozzles operate each and every print keeping the machine healthy and reducing the chance of clogs. It also makes economic sense. All the ink you purchase will be used to produce films that make you money in your business. You can't say that if you run your printer with a single black ink and the remaining tanks filled with color. Lets get into the details starting with the fact that Epson printers demand a full load of ink on board before it will operate. It does not care what ink is in it, it just wants ink. Lets say you purchase a dye or pigment based printer and want to use it for making both film and color prints using the stock ink; this is a good setup because the inks are good for making film and the black ink will match and perform properly with the remaining color inks. As long as you use a proper pigment or dye ready film you will make good screen print films. In this case you can easily operate one printer for both color and black film printing. Most screen printers use dye ink. Dye ink is more available in the market so they switch a pigment printer like the 4880, 7880 over to dye inks. Here is where you must make a decision. You can either switch a single black tank over to dye leaving pigment in the rest of the printer or switch all the inks over to the All BLACK dye ink system. If you switch just a single black cartridge over to black dye on a pigment printer you might as well switch the entire printer over the ALL BLACK. The printer will make great films using just the single black dye ink, but if you really need the best color print you can get then mixing the black dye into a color print with pigment inks is going to be less than great. They are completely different ink systems (dye is water and pigment is solvent based) and will not mix properly. Another thing to consider if running only one black dye cartridge in a pigment based printer is that you will need to replace expensive color inks as they run out due to regular cleaning and maintenance just so the printer will operate and remain free of clogs. That is very expensive and time consuming for you. Switching to ALL BLACK INK will reduce or remove the need for maintenance and you will not need to flush away valuable ink. In the end, it makes more sense and costs less to dedicate an inkjet printer to a purpose, either film making or color output. If you will be printing volume of each then it can work well as long as you match the ink system to both needs, but also consider then that your volume warrants two printers dedicated to a specific important task. We like dedicated solutions. Think your needs through thoroughly and make a wise business decision, one that gives you the greatest possibility of repeated success.

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This is the third part about my efforts to refurbish a mobile home my mom has where the last renters TORE IT UP big time. I have basically given you the back story and what I thought would be needed to get the place in a decent enough state to rent out. This post and the next took place on the weekend of July 2nd and 3rd. My wife worked that weekend so I decided to go out to the house 2 days in a row to catch up. I have had to take off a few weekends so it really slow going. On Saturday I began doing some smaller items all over the house and finishing up the floor I started the whole project with. In the end it seems doing all the little stuff is what gets things done in the end. The first thing I got to work on was the water connection in the kitchen. The washer connection was rusted on and when they moved out they just cut off the hose. This wouldn't be such a big thing but the connection's shut off doesn't work so I would need to put a new cutoff on the end. I couldn't get the rusty hose off so I couldn't add a cutoff. I tried letting it soak in WD-40 but that didn't work either. I was really pissed about this because you can't do much cleaning up if you can't use the water. The broken cutoff was broken in the 'open' position so once you turned on the water to the house the washer hose would just shoot out water. I gave up after an hour or so and went to Home Depot and bought the parts to replace it. One of the things you run across with old mobile homes is that back in the 80's they used a type of PVC that was shitty. So shitty that it was eventually recalled. This stuff if really hard to fix. It had to do some really complicated stuff to get the patch to the new cutoff to work. It was only a temporary fix and I will have to go back and fix it right later. I could now at least turn the water on. With running water I started by scrubbing the bathtub. It looked horrible. I don't understand how people can live like this. I only took me twenty minutes to make it look decent, why couldn't they have done that? I also replaced the toilet seat and generally cleaned up the bathroom.Looking into the bathroom (no carpet in hall) and texture and no paint... sheesh. Between all these smaller items I worked on finishing the floor in the smaller bedroom. If you remember I had to tear it out and put new floor in. With the strange cuts that I had to make it made for a LOT of supporting boards to be added below. I finally got them all and put the plywood down but there several places where the old floor and the new one met up that were really off. The expansion of the crappy particle board made the floor 'thicker' in several places. I would have to think about how to fix this while I worked on other stuff. I started peeling some home made wallpaper off the wall in the main bedroom which is a big mess. They laid it on top of the raw wall (it was never painted after it was textured). The one way you take wallpaper off the wall is to soak it with water. The problem is that the texture (when it gets wet) will just start to get soft again. When you are trying to take off wallpaper you start gouging the wall. I stopped after awhile and will have to come back to it. I also worked on some of the holes I started patching last time. I touched them up and looked for more spots to patch. A big hole now patched. I also stopped and did some cleanup outside. There was (and is still) quite a bit of trash in the yard. I got a full trash bag worth (a contractor trash bag at that!) and will need to do some more cleaning. I called it quits that day and went back the next day (which I will cover in the next part).

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In this twisted thriller, a young detective becomes an unwilling participant in a sadistic game of cat-and-mouse when he is kidnapped by a masked serial killer. In order to survive, the detective must use the wisdom imparted to him by senior detectives on their regular poker night. This is another example of the less you know about a story the better off you are. "Poker Night" is not your ordinary serial killer film. The way the story is told with the characters telling their own stories to a rookie detective during their weekly poker night and the way he uses what he learned to help himself is both original and refreshing. The story over-all is clever, well-written and very well acted. The is the type of thriller that gets you engaged right from the start and it keeps you glued to your seat until the shocking ending. There are also numerous twists and turns along the way as well. I never had so much fun attempting to keep up with a story that has time shifting in it as I did this one.Credit must go out to Writer/Director, Greg Francis for breathing new film into the genre and to his amazing ensemble cast that includes, Ron Perlman, Beau Mirchoff, Giancarlo Esposito, Alex Cross and Ron Eldard. If you like a good thriller that makes you think then I highly recommend checking out this little gem. It is unique, twisted, disturbing and lots of fun.Released by XLRator Media**** 1/2 Out Of *****

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This entry was posted in Diary by karlhyde. Bookmark the permalink. One thought on “Tuesday 18th August” karen on August 19, 2015 at 7:03 pm said:

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$450.00 Japanese Edo period woodblock depicting the poetess Gon Chunagon Atsutada (906-943) gathering sea shells from the series "Lessons for the Young from Thirty-six Poetic Immortals" by Kuniyoshi (1797-1861) dated circa 1842. Vertical oban size (14"V x 9 3/4"H). Very good overall condition. A few tiny wormholes and a few slightly thinned areas in the paper. This series is illustrated in plate 106 of "Utagawa Kuniyoshi," an exhibition catalogue based upon the Raymond A. Bidwell collection of Japanese prints at the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, MA, 1980. Similar Items from this seller

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Scald one ounce of Jordan almonds and six bitter almonds; and, having freed them from their hulls or skins, put them in a mortar with four ounces of sugar and a tablespoonful of orange- flower water: bruise them into a pulp, and then remove this into a small stewpan ; add a gill of cream and two yolks of raw eggs, and with a wire whisk whip the sauce over a very slow heat until it becomes a substantial smooth froth. This sauce is for puddings. No. 93 Want to link to this recipe? Easy! Just copy the code below and paste it into your web page. <a Almond Cream Sauce</a> ~

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Strudel is an easy and accommodating sort of pastry. If you start with premade phyllo dough and use ricotta as a foundation for your filling, a strudel can be adapted to all kinds of flavor experiments. For example, last weekend I needed a vegetarian dish to round out a meal. I had some garlic that needed to be used up, so I roasted it and mashed it to a paste with roasted acorn squash. With a little ricotta this made a delicious filling inside the crisp, flaky strudel. There was the sweet, pungent taste of garlic, and the earthy flavors of squash and sage, with a little crunch from toasted pinenuts. This can serve as a main dish, or a side dish. It's good re-crisped for breakfast or lunch, too. I mainly like the contrast in textures and tastes: soft, creamy filling and light, crispy pastry layers. Pulling together the various components of this strudel does take a little time, but it's mostly hands-off. If you bake the squash in the oven instead of the microwave, just put both the squash and the garlic, wrapped in foil and drizzled with olive oil, in a 350°F oven for about an hour. Acorn Squash and Roasted Garlic Strudelmakes 3 strudels, or 18-24 slices 1 head garlic, roasted2 small acorn squashSalt and pepperOlive oil1/4 cup fresh sage leaves, chopped1/4 teaspoon fresh nutmeg1 cup whole milk ricotta1/3 cup pinenuts, toasted1/2 package (about 30 sheets) of frozen phyllo dough, defrosted 1 tablespoon butter3 tablespoons olive oil Split the acorn squash in half, scoop out the strings and seeds, and put the halves in a glass baking dish. Drizzle with olive oil and a little salt and pepper, then either bake in a 350°F oven for about 50 minutes, or in a microwave for about 20 minutes, until the flesh is very soft and can be removed from the skin with a fork. Scrape the acorn squash out of its skin and mash very well with a fork. Squeeze the garlic out of out of the cloves and mash with a fork. Put the garlic in a large frying pan over medium heat and add the sage leaves. Fry until fragrant, then add the acorn squash and cook until squash is warmed through. Set aside until slightly cooled. In a large bowl, combine the cooked squash and garlic with the nutmeg, ricotta, and pinenuts. Stir well and taste. Add more salt and pepper if it needs it. Preheat the oven to 400°F. Melt the butter in a small bowl and add the olive oil. On a large piece of wax paper, lay out your first sheet of phyllo dough. Brush it with the butter, then stack another sheet on top. Repeat until you have about 10 layers. (You can use less than this; I just like to make mine a little thicker.) Spread about a third of the squash mixture over the sheet of phyllo, leaving an inch of room at the edges, then roll up from the long side, tucking the ends in. Pick up the wax paper and carefully roll the strudel off the paper and on to a large baking sheet. Repeat to make two more strudels. Bake for about 20 minutes, or until they are golden and crispy. Cut into slice and serve right away. Or, if these have to wait a little, you can recrisp them in the oven at 400°F.

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Education In Ireland › How Do I Apply? › Tuition Costs & Scholarships › Fees for Non-EU Students › Non-EU Postgraduate Tuition Costs Text Size: A A A Non-EU Postgraduate Tuition CostsShare:Tuition costs vary considerably depending on the institution and the study programme. Tuition costs do not remain static, so it is important to double check fees with the Institution(s) you are considering applying to.Tuition fees for 2016/2017 for Postgraduate, non-E.U. students at a higher education institution are as follows:Course average fees Medicine and related€4,000 - €31,000Engineering€9,250 - €24,000Science & Technology€9,250 - €45,000Arts & Humanities€9,250 - €22,000Business€9,250 - €34,500 Qualifications RecognitionApply for a CourseGet Your Student VisaTuition Costs & ScholarshipsFees for EU StudentsFees for Non-EU StudentsScholarships

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I am sure that you, too, have fantasized about what “The Meeting” would be like. Perhaps there is a small crowd of fans outside an event, with you at the front. Your fingers brush his as you hand him a Sharpie to sign his name and you exchange meaningful looks and maybe a “hello” or “thank you.” Or you pass him on the street and you manage to both acknowledge his presence and respect his privacy with a quick wink and nod of the head. Or he saves your life on a busy London street by pulling you out of the way of a speeding car. Or he comes up to you at the launch party for your new book to tell you how much he wants to play the main character in the movie version. I am just saying — it could happen. In reality, “The Meeting” will not really be a meeting at all, and it will go down like this: By some weird, uncharacteristic stroke of luck, you score tickets for you and a friend in New York City for a screening of his new movie, The Imitation Game, followed by a Q&A with him. It’s only two hours away from where you live! It promises to be a fabulous evening with dinner and drinks and a city shimmering in early Christmas excitement and lights. You get ready. You wear skinny pants and big earrings and sparkly eye shadow, because if any occasion calls for sparkly eye shadow, it’s this one. You draw the line at wearing Spanx. A girl has to be comfortable for “The Meeting.” You accidentally spray perfume in your mouth right before you leave the house, so for the rest of the evening everything tastes slightly of daisies and alcohol. Read the rest of the story on The Huffington Post Advertisements Share this:Like Loading... Related Benedict Cumberbatch Post navigation Previous Post A year of writing seriouslyNext Post Things Every Household Should Have 4 Comments Add yours Barbara Dignan says: November 19, 2014 at 2:12 am Loved this so much. The younger woman inside me “gets” what you’re saying and feeling. Sent from my iPhone > Reply zsmc says: November 19, 2014 at 1:44 pm Thank you! Reply Elizabeth says: November 20, 2014 at 7:23 pm I really love your post, and the most interesting thing is that could apply in any situation where you “met” someone that you admire.

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kalaeb12-03-2011, 01:42 PMYup, clean it up, put a new edge on it and re-handle it. J/K I would start hand sanding and see how much of the rust you can get off. I hear soaking in molasses and water loosens the rust. The I would take the handle to a belt sander to remove the tops of the rivets and then take off the scales. Next I would pick a rocking piece of wood from Burl Source, make sure the tang and the scales are flat, then the attach the scales. Shape it and then work on the edge. Looks like a pretty cool winter project. That vintage 1095 carbon takes a nice edge adn is very durable...I don't see any reason why the knife won't provide years more service. tk5912-03-2011, 05:53 PMWhy do you want to fix it? @kalaeb: How do you know it's 1095? kalaeb12-03-2011, 06:02 PMI would assume it is either a Forgecraft or Dexter. Both of which I thought were 1095. Eamon Burke12-03-2011, 06:04 PMAll you need is an assortment pack of 3m wet/dry sandpaper, your stones, and some mineral oil. Scrub it clean. Lay the roughest paper on a flat surface and grind down the handle flush with the rivets, which will get a nice shiny(but scratchy) new finish. Sandpaper the handle until everything is smooth, then sandpaper out the scratches. Refinish the blade with the sandpaper. Start with the coarsest, stop at 800, single direction strokes, with a little oil and it'll look great. Polish the handle with the fine sandpaper until it's buffed(somewhat...this isn't stablized burl, after all), spritz with water, let it air dry, buff it again. oil the handle, let it dry, oil it again. Grind in a new edge, sharpen it up. BAM. Nothing involved but time and care. I love doing these. Citizen Snips12-03-2011, 07:46 PMto any other set of people on earth, this is garbage. kinda funny... anyway, ever since i have done work on restoring a yanagi for my wifes boss, i have had the itch to repair something in a big way. unfortunately i will have the pleasure of fixing some damage i did to a moritaka cleaver that belongs to a friend and fellow member. the thing is, i want to do some full restorations on something someone thought was ruined forever. the looks, praise, and sense of self-accomplishment you get from that is a very rare feeling. tk5912-03-2011, 07:48 PMto any other set of people on earth, this is garbage. kinda funny... ...sense of self-accomplishment you get from that is a very rare feeling.+1. Do it. rulesnut12-03-2011, 10:00 PMWhy do you want to fix it? Because its there. Seriously, I work at a golf course so I have the winter off. SpikeC12-03-2011, 10:19 PMRestoring old tools is its own reward. If you don't understand it you just don't.

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AdmissionYou are here: Home / Our Schools / Kodaikanal / AdmissionThe academic year commences in the month of June every year. Admissions are open from kindergarten upwards. Application and prospectus can be obtained from the head of the school by sending Rs.300/- by MO or pay order, made payable to Brindavan Public School, Kodaikanal. On receipt of the application form with the registration fee of Rs. 1200/- the name of the applicant will be registered. Children registered for admission will be invited to a basic simple assessment test to assess their placement in correct class. The decision of the school’s management on all matters pertaining to the admission process and payment of fees will be final and binding on all concerned. Admission will be based on interview. Click here to Download the Admission Form After filling up the form please email the same to or courier it to the following address:

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It's Homecoming! And I am psyched! This is me after today's mini-workout haha :) Since I had to go to the hospital this morning and I was going to dance later anyways, I decided to start this morning with a quickie! ************** Workout 15 minutes abs 15 minutes arms 5 minutes lunges, squats, and calf raises Nice and easy was the game today. *************** Breakfast was delish as always<3 I've been digging the sweet and savory combo! Egg whites, mozzarella, and jam in a La Tortilla wrap :) Snack Between the 4 hours of helping awesome patients, I got hungry and devoured a pluot. Nuts for some protein and fat! Lunch I wasn't that hungry when I arrived home but Mama Smile had things hot and ready for me! Jazzed up spicy noodles! I only could eat about half. I needed more filling power so I wanted some Fage. But I was craving nut butter too! What do I do? Try. This. Now! It's time for Homecoming preparation. Where has the time gone?! Pictures will be up soon! Love y'all :)

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Charlottesville Company with a Global Health Mission Addresses Safe Drinking Water Issues A public benefit company with a global health mission that was inspired by a research project at the University of Virginia has opened a small production facility in Charlottesville. MadiDrop PBC will produce ceramic water disinfection tablets called MadiDrops for people in developing countries who have poor access to clean drinking water. The company grew out of a UVa project through a nonprofit organization called PureMadi. The MadiDrops use silver to disinfect the water and can be used repeatedly for up to six months just by sitting in a household water storage container. “We wanted to maximize production and distribution of MadiDrop, to make this technology available to the world at very low cost, so we developed this public-benefit company,” said James Smith, a UVa civil and environmental engineer who helped develop and test the MadiDrop. “The goal of MadiDrop PBC is to maximize health benefits, not to maximize profits.” They were developed and tested by scientists and students at UVa, and the school will maintain ownership of the intellectual property rights for the technology. Lab testing showed the tablet causes a 99.99-percent reduction in infectious water-borne bacteria, including cholera, e.Coli and other coliform bacteria as well as reducing the infectivity or pathogens like Giardia lamblia. The ceramic tablets, which do not dissolve in the water like chemical tablets do, gradually release silver ions that disrupt cell division and thus kills pathogens. A Virginia Innovation Grant was used to help move the technology out of the laband to the marketplace. The company is expected to begin production in January and produce between 100,000 and 200,000 tablets in the first year, primarily for sale to non-governmental aid organizations, such as the International Rescue Committee, Habitat for Humanity and Catholic Relief Services. Such entities could distribute the tablets as needed to developing counties, especially during times of crisis, such as a natural disaster. The company expects to eventually build up to a production capacity of one to two million tablets per year and it will explore domestic applications for the technology too.

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The jeep was originally powered by a 231 that has lasted for about 4 years. Then it began to smoke and make noise, as the result of being run on it's side a few times. The final straw was a winter freeze that cracked the block. 231 Buick V6, the engine for the first 4 years

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Free Martial arts class for children (5 years and older) hosted at Alexandra Park BJJ. Martial arts is great way to give children confidence, get fit and learn how to defend themselves.

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Hello, I am Eunji.I am an opera singer who have sung for 10 years.I would love to share joy of singing with people and make a choir in Bangkok.Wonder how many people are willing to join in the choir.My plan is to start it with 4 people minimum(Practice is going to be once a week). And if more than 20 people want to join, I plan to have a concert once a year. Is there anybody wants to join? Please let me know.Thank you.

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Year: 2008 Reflections on coding style I’ve been monitoring my coding style for quite a while and I noticed that I often prefer chaining method calls to normal control flow. Now I think it might not always be such a good idea. To give you an example, today I had a task of reflecting over constants in a class and stuffing… December 31, 200815 ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ Goodbye productivity… December 26, 20082 ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ New IDE features in VS 2010 We have announced a list of new IDE features for managed languages in Visual Studio 2010: December 23, 20080 ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ F# No Longer Vaporware Chris Smith from the F# team has recently posted some "interesting" news: December 20, 20081 ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ Webcast on Visual Studio Tips &amp; Tricks Mike Benkovich from and my fellow C# QA team member Eric Maino have talked me into doing a webcast on Visual Studio Tips & Tricks. Mike was the host, and Eric and I were showing VS features that we like and use often in our day-to-day coding. Here’s a list of tips that Eric… December 19, 20085 ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ How to debug crashes and hangs At my job on the C# IDE QA team I’ve learned some useful things about debugging in Visual Studio, which I’d like to summarize in this post. Although the screenshots were made using Visual Studio 2008 SP1, this pretty much applies to other versions of VS as well. Rich debugging support When you develop your… December 7, 200840 ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ A one-line program to count lines of code I wanted to sum the total lines of code in files in a given folder. I thought that writing my own program to do this would be faster than looking for it on the internet, so here’s what I came up with (1 line broken into 7 lines to fit into your blog reader): using… November 30, 200810 ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ Links about Visual Studio 2010 and C# 4.0 A while ago we announced Visual Studio 2010 and C# 4.0. In case you’d like to catch up and read articles or watch videos about the upcoming new features, I wanted to gather some links here. PDC is a great link about PDC, where you can watch a lot of interesting videos, such as:… November 21, 20088 ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ NDepend Static analysis tools allow us to measure code quality and better understand the design and architecture of software. There are things about source code that are not visible to eye in our day-to-day work: dependencies between components, cyclomatic complexity of methods, hidden and indirect dependencies. There are dangers that a method or a type will… November 10, 20084 ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ Book review: Essential C# 3.0 by Mark Michaelis Sometimes I’m being asked what book I’d recommend for learning C#. Until recently, I was hesitant and didn’t know what to answer. It depends, among other things, on the following factors: Whether the learner has existing programming background Whether he or she wants to learn the language, or the .NET framework as well Whether the…

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Scott Mills has been employed as a police officer, from 1990-2002 with the Peel Regional Police (Brampton/Mississauga, Ontario) and from 2002-present with the Toronto Police Service. Scott’s current assignment is the Social Media Officer for the Toronto Police Service.Previously he served as Community Youth Officer for the Toronto Police Crime Stopps program where his mandate was to build healthy relationships between youth, the community and police. Constable Mills is also the social media technical advisor to Crime Stoppers International.

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The Manse is quieter this day. Joanne Gervais has wrapped up her portrait workshops and moved on to sculpting. Her husband plays guitar in the corner, and the chords create a serene ambiance that washes over the rest of the building. The actors are still in the front bedroom, but today the door is closed as the final hours before the evening performance. No one on the other side of the door is entirely certain what’s happening in the room. Particularly today, the weight of what we do as an arts organization, and as artists seems to be all that more important and powerful. Charlie Hebdo is in the backs of our minds. The SALON team reflects on the events throughout the morning, trying to digest the connections between the slain artists’ work and our work at the theatre company. There is a lot of power in art. We must remember that.By the early evening, everyone moves over once again to the Kingston Frontenac Public Library for our second literary event of Macdonald Week. Gordon Henderson and Roy McSkimming chat with the guests as they flow in, thanking them for braving the snowstorm that is raging outside. The occasional whistling trickles in through the windows from the wind. Yet guests keep arriving and by the time we are ready to start the event, we have a good size, enthusiastic crowd. Gordon Henderson opens the evening’s panel. The authors are talking about the ways in which history and fiction can work together. Gordon talks, in particular about choosing a fictional main character to tell the story of Thomas D’Arcy McGee’s assassination. He suggests that people often ask him if he has an opinion about who might have killed McGee. Jokingly, he responds, I do know who the murderer is—I made him up! Everyone chuckles, but I can’t help but also think that it’s the perfect illustration of what art can do that historical fact truly cannot. Roy McSkimming speaks next and does an amazing job, painting the picture of how he made the decisions to write fiction. The care that he takes to develop the plot in his books is also evident in his words. Much of what he says is about inspiration. He talks about how going to the places where John A. Macdonald visited, lived and worked—places like Kingston—painted a picture for him that he was able to translate into a novel. We are ecstatic when, later in the evening, he pays SALON the highest compliment, suggesting that for him, our acting company was so special because the actors make Macdonald’s life real.Our own SALON actors also took part in the event, as their characters, but also as themselves. The unstoppable Anna Sudac, dressed as Calvin Hobbes has the crowd laughing throughout. Amid the laughter, she elaborates on the responsibility the SALON actors feel to their subject, particularly when performing for children. Paul Dyck, aka Sir John A. Macdonald closes the conversation, answering the difficult question of “How do you deal with the darker side of Sir John A.?” His answer is new to even me:“I play him as though he is omniscient—he is young in body, because I am young in body. But he knows everything that we know today. He knows he is dead, he knows that we celebrate him, but he also knows that some of his beliefs and actions were wrong while others were essential to making Canada what it is today.”Well said. Art and History—inseparable and invaluable. 0 Comments

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Stephen Bainbridge on what ought to happen next:The Democrats have now fumbled their opportunity, but that doesn't mean that those of us who were fed up with Bush and the K Street Gang are ready to forgive and forget the GOP failings. They are going to have to convince us that they are again worthy of our trust.How does the GOP go about doing so? Unlike some, I have no interest in seeing the GOP join hands with Obama for a few rounds of Kum Bay Yah followed by swallowing some version of Obama-lite. The GOP needs to articulate a positive program.Yep. As the Tea Party movement shows, there's a lot of voter frustration with the Democrats. And the fact that voters had to start a new movement, rather than flocking to the GOP, shows the Republicans -- least the ones in Washington -- still don't get it.

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It shows all of the grades earned by students during their K - 12 journeys in two school districts. I love this chart because it finds a way to show all of the data in a dense, but succinct, format. In The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Edward Tufte states that Above all else, show the data. While the quote was applied to a different concept for visualizing data, when I look at the chart above, the quote rises to the surface of my thinking. Showing the data is no small task, and as educators, we spend a lot of time and energy not doing that. We summarize the data into neat little one letter grades or one number test scores. As teachers, we might see a set of scores...but we are the only ones to do so and we typically view them as numbers, not visual displays.Things hide in numbers and number sets. But a recent paper shared in the Public Library of Science (PLoS) makes the case that things can be hidden in simple visuals, too. CC-BY Weissgerber, Milic, Winham, Garovic The authors of the article Beyond Bar and Line Graphs: Time for a New Data Presentation Paradigm assert that the ever-popular bar chart is a summary, and therefore "full data may suggest different conclusions from the summary statistics." (It reminds me of Anscombe's quartet.) We often claim that pie charts are used to hide data. Et tu, bar charts? I won't claim that the scatterplots and bump charts in the article are ground-breaking, but this paragraph in particular caught my interest (emphasis mine): The infrequent use of univariate scatterplots, boxplots, and histograms is a missed opportunity. The ability to independently evaluate the work of other scientists is a pillar of the scientific method. These figures facilitate this process by immediately conveying key information needed to understand the authors’ statistical analyses and interpretation of the data. This promotes critical thinking and discussion, enhances the readers’ understanding of the data, and makes the reader an active partner in the scientific process. In contrast, bar and line graphs are “visual tables” that transform the reader from an active participant into a passive consumer of statistical information. Without the opportunity for independent appraisal, the reader must rely on the authors’ statistical analyses and interpretation of the data. As educators, we might not view our work as a scientific process, but we must engage with our data. I feel pulled between the notion above that we may be oversimplifying our data presentations and some of the research about how an audience likes their data presented---which is typically charts that are the most familiar. This is not the Great Divide, mind you. We can bring these two things together with some education in the area of data literacy. Or perhaps we underestimate our audience. I've introduced cluster maps, bump charts, and box-and-whisker diagrams to various groups this year. The first two required very little explanation. Box-and-whiskers did require a bit more orientation, but I never felt like the group using them struggled with the interpretation. I do think that concept of engagement between the visualization and the reader, as posed by the article is important. It's a different way to view interaction---a key piece of a good quality visual. It's not that the visual need be physically interactive...people don't have to be able to click, sort, or filter every chart---but we need to at least cause some thinking about what is presented. After reading the PLoS article, I'm more convinced than ever that we need to when and why we share all the data. Bar and line charts may well be the fast food version of data viz, but we can begin to add to our visual diet by finding ways to show all of the ingredients. Bonus Round If you view the article on PLoS, you will have access to two Excel workbooks to help you make the charts presented in the article. I'll share some of my own attempts to "show the data" in coming posts. Visit bump charts and cluster charts to learn more.

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I'm pretty new to this community, really glad to see that dnb generates so much passion & gather so many people, great forum :)

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PAUSE, PERUSE and PONDER ; The aftermath of the President's demise has made me see reason with the shrills and passionate concerns of MR. MARTIN A.B.K AMIDU, the former attorney general under Prof Mills who was sacked for opening his mouth too wide on the Woyome saga. Accounts from close associates of the late leader have established that, the man Mills was one that sought to attain high incorruptible standards. Unfortunately he assumed the highest office of the land when his state of health had become very problematic. He became a man passionate to succeed but surrounded by a vicious 'greedy' bunch whose penchant for murky financial dealings knew no bounds. It was hence not surprising that the regime of a man who had shouted his voice horse to uproot the canker of corruption from our setting would become one of the most corrupt administrations in our country so far. Obviously his health was the derailing factor. This was a passionate man whose heath would not allow him read official documents. This was a man whose health would not allow him scrutinize the complex contractual agreements of government. The nation’s kitty was hence at the mercy of these largely young appointees and the dangerous old forces who were hell bent on milking our country dry with our passionate leader rendered helpless. It is was not so surprising that for the first time in the history of our country, ghosts were claiming Judgement debts from the poor tax payer. Martin Amidu was a man who obviously was not ready to sink with the ship. His outburst on the brazen fraud in the Mills administration in that Janaury 13 press release seemed to have evoked the irk of the powers that be. He would be given the sack and he would be seen as a bitter man. The concerns raised in the many epistles from 'THE CITIZEN VIGILANTE' will be rubbished on then premise of he being a bitter man. Today the many issues raised by Martin Amidu are pressing more than ever. The presence of this passionate man could not even save the situation. What then becomes of our nation today when it is now fully in the hands of these avaricious bunch who no limit in their craving for wealth with the passionate leader gone with the wind?? SAVE OUR NATIONAL COFFERS !!!! A NATION CALLS FOR DUTY NOW. This is the first of many thought provoking issues which I will be tabling for strict intellectual discourse. The writer is a staunch advocate for civil discourse and I always believe we must pause, peruse and ponder.

http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/features/artikel.php?ID=247665

Jackalope Bistro is under new management. The menu doesn't seem to have changed much, but the restaurant's name is now "Chef's Quest" and it's got a whole medieval theme. No word on whether or not the burgers are any better/worse than they use to be, though I can tell you the chef almost melted her face off recently. Mafia Burger--the burger joint which is more roving menu than it is an actual burger joint--has moved from Soprano's to Temple. They're open for lunch from 11-4:30PM and have added/tweaked some of the items that were on the previous Soprano's menu. They intend to open for dinner service soon, if they haven't already. Crooked Goose Bistro at Wilkinson and Interurban is now home to what I believe is Victoria's first (and only) foie gras burger. Eat Magazine reports The Crooked Goose Burger is a "blend of pork, grass-fed beef and foie gras." Reporter Gillie Easdon describes it as "feral, gamey, unusual and quietly extravagant." Given Victoria tends to pick up on other city's food trends 2-3 years late, you should have plenty of time to sample this one before the protesters start showing up.

http://vicburgers.blogspot.com/2013_01_01_archive.html

Popular Educational Twitter Hashtags - Online College Courses A fantastic infographic about the most popular education hashtags- share this. It is a very useful infographic. tags: education news twitter hashtags Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

http://bestteacherblog.blogspot.com/2012/10/daily-education-and-technology-news-for_22.html

Was Katie Holmes hand-picked to be the new Mrs. Tom Cruise by talent scouts working for the Church of Scientology? Respected celebrity writer Andrew Morton says she was. The author of the book Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography, says Holmes was one of a string of starlets selected by Scientologists trying to find a wife for Cruise shortly after his divorce from Nicole Kidman in 2001. One name at the top of the list—Sofia Vergara—before she hit it big on Modern Family. Unknown to her, "She was being auditioned for the biggest role of her life—Mrs. Tom Cruise, III," Morton claims. He says that relationship went nowhere because Vergara would not commit to Scientology, so the search intensified. "The Church of Scientology went out of their way to interview Scientology actresses to try and find him a new girlfriend," said Morton. But none fit the bill, Morton says, so the bridal scouts "had to look outside the herd" again and consider non-Scientologists too. The list reportedly included Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Alba and Jennifer Garner. "Finally the Scientology casting crew hit on Katie Holmes," Morton says in an article he wrote for the New York Post. Cruise and Holmes met for a date, and the romance was on. And from the moment Cruise leaped up on Oprah's couch to gush about Holmes, "the romance was carefully choreographed by Scientology," Morton says. US magazine Senior Editor Ian Drew says Holmes was heavily vetted for the role of Mrs. Cruise. Drew told INSIDE EDITION, "She went in for a meeting, and it was many hours. It was quite a few hours where they talked about her, they looked into her background. So, it was quite an extensive thing." But Drew says for all the screening, the marriage was ultimately doomed. "She ended it early because she just couldn't take it anymore," said Drew. One oddity about Cruise's three marriages, to Mimi Rogers, Nicole Kidman and now Katie Holmes, all ended when his wives were aged 33. Share

http://www.insideedition.com/entertainment/4638-was-katie-holmes-chosen-by-scientology-to-wed-tom-cruise

Hello all,I am well on my way to completing an electric drum brain using the Arduino. I designed a shield for this, which allows you to attach up to 32 analog drum sensors and 8 digital ones. The Arduino sends a serial signal with the drum number and velocity to the computer, which then plays back the appropriate sample.The breadboard prototype is working well, and I am expecting my first prototype PCBs to arrive in a couple of days. Hopefully I won't have made any mistakes in the routing 8-)To see more of the design and theory behind this, please see Cheers lilpunk1302 Guest Re: Electronic Drum Set #1 Jun 05, 2008, 05:53 am What are you using for your drumpads?I remember someone making one before by fusing 2 pieces of foam with foil attached, then a "polka dot" layer in the middle.I don't feel like looking over schematics, and a quick read-through mentions piezo timings, thus leading me to assume you're using piezo's to detect the hits?Then I see the problem of piezo's interfering on some surfaces, unlikely, but would require some min- config. Osamu_Iwasaki Newbie Posts: 5 Karma: 0 [add] Arduino rocks Re: Electronic Drum Set #2 Jun 05, 2008, 09:09 am Hello wyatt,I have very interesting your project.It is unique and I come out well, you don't use MIDI interface.But MIDI is very accessible to variety of musical insturuments.Do you have interest to handling MIDI interface?best, wyatt Guest Re: Electronic Drum Set #3 Jun 05, 2008, 07:02 pm I am using an acoustic set, with mesh heads and aluminum crossbars inside, with piezos mounted on the crossbars, with a sanding sponge between the mesh head and the piezo. Sounds complicated, but it's not too bad 8-) The current drum master site is concentrating on the actual brain and electronics, but once I finish all the hardware, I will make a sister site which details the constrution of the pads / cymbals.(The cymbals are still a work in progress; I have a few working ones using molded 1/8" particle board cut to shape, but I am still working on improving the sound and look of these).For now, you can look at for details on how I made the mesh heads, and for a number of different designs for the drums themselves (I used a variation of for mine).Cheers wyatt Guest Re: Electronic Drum Set #4 Jun 05, 2008, 07:12 pm Last Edit: Jun 05, 2008, 07:13 pm by wyatt Reason: 1 I chose to not use MIDI for a few reasons: 1) I wanted to keep the amount of expensive hardware to a minimum; 2) I wanted to be able to use my own samples (while I'm sure some MIDI synths allow this, there is the problem of predefined MIDI notes: for instance, I have 11 distinct samples for the hihat alone (three pizeo sensors, with three possible pedal states each: open, closed, and tight, plus closing sound and splash). I don't think that MIDI supports this. 3) MIDI supports 7 bit velocity values; I support 10 bits (in practice, this is probably not going to matter, as I am pretty sure the ADC in the Arduino is not accurate enough to matter).Now, all that being said, it would be quite trivial to modify my plans for use with MIDI, even without changing the board at all. You would need a power adaptor, since you wouldn't be using USB power; you would also need a 5 pin DIN connector (the MIDI jack). If you use the same board layout, you would need attach the MIDI jack wires to some free ports on the Arduino. The rest is just a matter of software - instead of sending the port:value tuples which I currently send, you would just need to send the MIDI signals (and change the serial pin to be the one you attached the jack to). I have seen many sample programs in these forums and on Google about how to send MIDI data from the Arduino, so you shouldn't have any problems there.The hardware design itself is quite agnostic of both input connections and output protocols. With the appropriate jacks, you should even be able to use any standard commercial drum pad instead of building your own. The shield hardware is basically just a number of multiplexers and some filters / rectifiers / amps; nothing fancy at all!Cheers idover Guest Re: Electronic Drum Set #5 Jun 05, 2008, 07:38 pm damnit... do you know how much i spent on my roland set?!... ... it may as well have been a gazillion bucks... wyatt Guest Re: Electronic Drum Set #6 Jun 05, 2008, 07:42 pm Last Edit: Jun 05, 2008, 07:42 pm by wyatt Reason: 1 Hey, sorry I didn't do this earlier! ;-)That's one of the main reasons I wanted to create this - to get as much (and more, in some cases) functionality as the multi-thousand dollar *oland sets! 8-) My Yamaha is nice, but I can't upload new samples, add more pads (well, I've added a few more, but there is a hard limit on the number of plugs), etc. Plus this project has been a lot of fun!Cheers wyatt Guest Re: Electronic Drum Set #7 Jun 09, 2008, 06:47 pm I got the shield PCBs in over the weekend, and have assembled the first production version. The website has been updated with new pictures and a short (poor quality, unfortunately) video. There are currently four sheild PCBs available if anyone is interested in creating this themselves.Cheers Osamu_Iwasaki Newbie Posts: 5 Karma: 0 [add] Arduino rocks Re: Electronic Drum Set #8 Jun 11, 2008, 05:07 pm Hello wyatt,I have seen your movie on your site.I am very impressed.PCB is also cool.If you can, I would like to hear another drum sound. wyatt Guest Re: Electronic Drum Set #9 Jun 11, 2008, 05:17 pm Well, you are completely in control of the samples which you hear. The slave software (the software running on the computer, which actually plays the sounds) lets you set up mappings between drums and .wav files. The .wav files you hear in the video are ones which I am using from Garage Band (music program on the Mac), but you are free to use anything which you want. (Since the samples from Garage Band are not licensed for redistribution, I unfortunately cannot give them away. However, you can get a number of free (CC licensed) samples from sites on the Internet (e.g. , or you can record your own. (Once I have completed the drum and cymbal pads, I am planning to rent some nice high-end cymbals, and take a bunch of samples of them.)However, you are in no way limited to drum sounds. You could play a chicken sound if you wanted to! The video is meant more to see the way that Drum Master allows you to detect the velocity of the strike, as well as to see the (lack of) latency between strike and sample playing. The specific samples used are just a vehicle to convey this information to the viewer.Hope this makes sense - let me know if you have further questions.Cheers falohao Guest Re: Electronic Drum Set #10 Mar 19, 2010, 12:45 pm where can I buy it@@actually I want to watch a video of your great work!! wyatt Guest Re: Electronic Drum Set #11 Mar 19, 2010, 03:14 pm I still have one PCB left, feel free to email me for details. I don't sell kits or pre-made ones, though. Check out my website for details and a short (old) video.Cheers zemzela Guest Re: Electronic Drum Set #12 Nov 30, 2010, 01:41 am Last Edit: Nov 30, 2010, 01:51 am by zemzela Reason: 1 Hi there:)I made a drum set using the SpikenzieLabs Drum kit kit design, but now i want to go full scale, so i have some questions.Let me start by saying that i have a very basic understanding of electronics and programing so the drum master might be out of my league, so i was thinking if its possible to combine the two projects spank me if im talking nonsense :-/Can one use the 16 analog inputs of the arduino mega, use the code and serial-to-midi software from SpikenzieLabs, but add the filter to each sensor from the Drum Master, so it has better response? This way the price is kept low and the functionality is awesome.. 16 pads, oh yeahAlso if all of this is possible (im gonna try it either way, im just having trouble with the scematics), can someone please make a drawing with wires and components in the right order just for one piezo sensor, il take it from there:P (i don't know how to read schematics). Thank you and i hope i haven't broken the rules or something

http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=8580.msg69708

Thus there developed in the midst of the polytheism in what we provincially call the ancient world two chief monotheisms, one religious and the other metaphysical. Shailer Mathews, The Growth of the Idea of God (1931) p. 116.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/monotheisms