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In my recent trip to Los Angeles, I attended Dr. Fariba Rofougaran’s book signing. The evening rapidly turned to a fun personality typology test that captured the crowd’s imagination. I… November 4, 2014No CommentRead More Fashion Industry’s Disruptive Moment! Over the last decade, human imagination empowered with technology advancements has produced innovations that have changed our world forever. It is a bizarre marriage of misfits, from transparent privacy and… May 7, 2014No CommentRead More Beauty Industry – An interview with Steve Sleeper, executive director of the Professional Beauty Association (PBA) Top beauty industry executives gathered at the CosmoProf North America (CPNA) 2013 convention held in Las Vegas NV on July 14th-16th. Originally, a lose gathering of distributors, this event was the 11th convention in its current form. Over… September 3, 2013No CommentRead More Innovators Gathered in Vegas On August 11th, about 1500 entrepreneurs, innovators, investors, media personnel and other interested parties attended SXSW V2V conference held at the Cosmopolitan hotel at Las Vegas. The intimate conference is… August 20, 2013No CommentRead More Fictional brands! Branding and licensing brands has proven as an incredible way to escalate growth. If you are looking to drive revenue, enter new markets, or re-position your product, brand licensing can… June 6, 2013No CommentRead More iGaming North America Conference 2013 The gaming industry is excited with legalization of state by state online gaming. Naturally, 2013 is turned to a year of conventions and events within gaming space to discuss prose…

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July may be a cold month and the weather can dampen the motivation of many spearfishers to get out and have a dive, but there is certainly plenty of reason to make the effort and brave the cold water. It’s certainly true that the basic comfort of diving in the warmer months means there are a lot more divers in the water, but for very experienced divers and the keenest enthusiasts among us there is no real off-season. Winter seems to provide some of the most stable weather patterns in terms of conditions that make for calm and clear seas, although the preceding couple of months seem to be trying to disprove that statement. On the far southwest coast of the state, Portland and Port Fairy have had plenty of favourable offshore winds, but this seems to have been accompanied by a long run of very large swell, which has made inshore diving pretty hard. Fingers crossed that July sees the normal weather and swell patterns fall back into line. Southern bluefin tuna are still very much on the minds of avid bluewater hunters this month and are certainly one of the prime targets. The rough seas haven’t been conducive to offshore diving on the southwest coast but the odd weather window has allowed for an excursion here and there. School tuna have remained quite close to shore after arriving in decent numbers in late January and early February. Winter months see an increasing build up in numbers of fish both inshore and offshore. There has also been a great run of albacore tuna this season compared to the last few years. Albacore are generally located wide in the deeper waters of the shelf and rarely venture in as shallow as bluefin do. The same basic principles and techniques used to hunt bluefin still apply to albacore. Locate them, then berley to keep the school occupied and distracted, focus your attention on targeting one piece of berley. Anticipate the approach of a fish and lead your shot. All tuna move and feed extremely quickly, which makes it very hard to target the shot accurately. Inshore diving can be exceptional at this time of year with plenty of bread and butter species on offer. Species such as snook (short fin pike), sea sweep, King George whiting, silver trevally, Australian salmon and abalone are pretty much a constant but can be even more prevalent through July. In the Melbourne/Port Phillip Bay area we will also see an influx of southern calamari laying their eggs in the shallow weed beds. July is the best month to collect scallops in the bay. Southern rock lobster is also an extremely popular target, but please keep in mind that female lobsters are in their closed season and only males can be taken. Don’t let the winter temperatures put you off, as there is plenty on offer for those willing to get out and have a dive.

http://fishingmonthly.com.au/Articles/Display/20265-Get-some-ling-bling

Hi!Sorry about the absence.I just got back from my vacation in Japan.It was great to see my family and friends, and there are a lot of things about this trip I would like to share with you, but I figure many of my blog readers are probably the most interested in food.So I am hoping to make and post some dishes for that I got inspiration from my stay in Japan.I made this black curry for dinner toni [続きを読む] 関連キーワード figurewith you...CURRY >>もっと見る 2017/05/06 03:53Rice Flour Pullman Bread ？ Veganココナッツオイル入り米粉食パン Not so long ago I made this Rice Flour Pullman Bread.It was my first time to use rice flour for bread and I really liked the texture the rice flour created, and this time I decided to make it vegan and used coconut oil in place of butter and used soy milk instead of water and powdered milk.I also made some other changes to the recipe based on my past experience.The result was amazing!Can you tell [続きを読む] 関連キーワード THIS TIMESo long!Pullman >>もっと見る 2017/05/05 04:05Orange Cranberry Cardamom Cookiesオレンジクランベリーカルダモンクッキー We were at a home decor store the other day, and they had some cookies for their customers to try.Terry had a bite and he said it was cardamom cookies and he liked them.I love anything with cardamom and decided to make cardamom cookies myself.Mine has orange zest and dry cranberries along with cardamom.This time I decided to experiment with coconut oil.I used coconut oil for cookies for the first [続きを読む] 関連キーワード TIMETHE FIRSTcoconut oil >>もっと見る 2017/05/03 23:15Edamame Veggie Sushi Roll枝豆べジ巻き What do you make when you want to clean up your fridge?Soup is usually my go-to dish in a case like that, but making sushi rolls can be a good way to use up all the things you have in the fridge, too.How beautiful is it?In this sushi roll you’ll find daikon radish, carrot, spinach, olive salad, and mashed edamame.It’s just an example, and you can be creative with ingredients.I cannot really thin [続きを読む] 関連キーワード OliveRadishSUSHI >>もっと見る 2017/05/03 07:21Big River Pizzaお昼にピザデート Pizza is definitely one of Terry’s favorite foods.On the other hand, I don’t need to eat pizza more than once a month.But when he invites me for a pizza lunch at this local pizza place, I happily go with him.I would have to say this is one of a few pizza places where I REALLY enjoy pizza.I like their simple yet open and comfortable space. Very inviting.I took pictures of their regular menu and t [続きを読む] 関連キーワード ピザFoodHand >>もっと見る 2017/05/02 03:57Strawberry French Toast苺フレンチトースト I love strawberries and I like to use them for anything everything when they are in season.So why not for french toast?It’s very simple.I just added pureed fresh strawberries to my french toast egg mixture (eggs, soy milk).You coat the bread with the strawberry egg mixture and let it cold press coffee (served hot) is the best.I now wake up looking forward to having my [続きを読む] 関連キーワード French toastフレンチトースト苺 >>もっと見る 2017/04/30 23:26Konjac Yakisoba Fried Noodlesこんにゃく焼きそば I try not to eat too much carbs at night, so my lunch can be a bit carbs-heavy at times!I love Japanese style fried noodles, Yakisoba.This is a noodle dish, but I like to add a lot of vegetables to my Yakisoba.Sprouts are one of my favorites to add to my Yakisoba.This time I used Konjac instead of meat.The texture is very unique, so this is something you either love it or hate it.Apparently, I’m [続きを読む] 関連キーワード noodlesUNIQUEAT‐TIME >>もっと見る 2017/04/29 23:47Rice Flour Pullman Bread米粉入り食パン I’ve noticed that rice flour has been popular in Japan the past few years.A lot of recipes with rice flour are everywhere.I’m not sure if it is because more people are interested in the gluten-free diet like in the U.S., but I’m not sure.Based on my casual observation, however, people simply seem to like the unique texture the flour creates.I found this recipe on the largest online recipe site [続きを読む] 関連キーワード I’vePullman食パン >>もっと見る 2017/04/29 00:32Italian “To-sage” Pizzaイタリアン豆腐ソーセージピザ Italian “To-sage”.Yep, you guessed it.Italian sausage made of tofu.It’s not only possible but also tasty!It takes a few steps to make Italian “To-sauge”First I make Italian sausage flavored tofu “meatballs”.Then I roughly crumblemi them into smaller pieces and fry them until crispy.This is what it looks like as the final result.Mise en place for my Italian “To-sage” Pizza.This is what it [続きを読む] 関連キーワード Italiaピザソーセージ >>もっと見る 2017/04/28 02:00Cookies (Chocolate Chip/Lemon I like the chewy and soft American style cookies, but once in a while I get craving for my mom’s cookies.These are light and buttery.Using my mom’s recipe as a base, I decided to make two different kinds this time.Chocolate chip cookies and lemon lavender cookies.These cookies are so cute when lined up like little soldiers. They are absolutely lovey when just out of the oven, but the lavender l [続きを読む] 関連キーワード チョコレートチップTHIS TIMECraving >>もっと見る 2017/04/27 05:45Quad-Color Bento四色弁当 Yes, it’s okay to make your bento pretty.To make a bento like this you place rice at the bottom and add different colored food on top.This is a popular way to make a bento in Japan.It’s typically called a tri-color bento because you usually have three different colors, but then I realized that mine had four colors!For this bento I had shiso tofu, yuzu radish, sugar snap peas, and sesame carrots. [続きを読む] 関連キーワード Snap!sesameRadish >>もっと見る 2017/04/25 07:50Japanese Souffle Pancakes (Success!)幸せのパンケーキ風、成功！ If you’ve been following my blog, you probably know that we’ve been working on Japanese Souffle Pancakes for a while.Well, I’m happy to announce that we finally did it!This is Terry inspecting the quality, or admiring it (lol).These got the height, the shape, the softness, the smooth edge, and the wonderful souffle texture inside, all we wanted.Yes, they are a bit tricky to make, but it was def [続きを読む] 関連キーワード pancakeadmiしあわせのパン >>もっと見る 2017/04/25 02:49Kramarczuk’s東欧デリカテッセン I had seen this place several times but I had never eaten here before.We were in a mood for a good deli sandwich, and when we looked for a good deli place on Yelp, this place showed up.I was in a mood for something different, and we thought this would be a perfect place to try.I always thought it was a Polish food place, but they actually call themselves “East European Deli”, and they have not o [続きを読む] 関連キーワード デリカテッセンFood東欧 >>もっと見る 2017/04/24 03:28Tofu Burgers豆腐バーガー I love tofu burgers.These are a smaller version, and they look adorable.Perfect for lunch or snack.First, I bake buns.This is me impatiently waiting for buns to be ready.So happy with the result.And I make tofu burgers.These are so easy to make, yet, delicious!!I like tofu burgers better compared to bean-based ones, because tofu burgers (at least this one) tend to have the texture that I prefer; b [続きを読む] 関連キーワード Adorable豆腐バーガー >>もっと見る 2017/04/21 10:29Strawberry Soup苺スープ I like fruit and I like the idea of smoothie, but I tend to like my beverage warm, not cold.Especially in the morning I like to eat/drink something that warms up my body.So here is my solution.Strawberry soup!And it’s served hot.The soup is even served with toppings!Cinnamon cardamom croutons for a little crunchiness.And cashew “cheese” for a little saltiness. I roughly pureed the strawberries [続きを読む] 関連キーワード SoupスープCHEESE >>もっと見る 2017/04/20 11:00Japanese Souffle Pancakes ？ Improved Version幸せのパンケーキ風再改良版 I’ve been trying to perfect Japanese souffle pancakes.This was my first trial.This was my last trial.I thought the last one was pretty close to what I was looking for, but then when I tried again last weekend, I realized I still had a long way to go.Now, this (photo above) is the most recent trial.This one is significantly better than the previous ones in so many ways, but mostly the texture and [続きを読む] 関連キーワード pancakeI’veMY FIRST >>もっと見る 2017/04/19 04:46Kabocha Tofu Chili南瓜と豆腐のチリスープ Chili is one of my favorite dishes to make.Especially since we stopped eating a lot of meat, I’ve become more creative and started experimenting with various ingredients.What I’ve found is that you can’t really go wrong with chili, whatever ingredients you use!This is no-meat Kabocha Tofu Chili.In this chili along with Kabocha squash and mashed extra firm tofu, you’ll find black beans and onio [続きを読む] 関連キーワード kabochaI’veat‐you >>もっと見る 2017/04/18 02:34Hola Arepa人気レストランでブランチ We’ve tried to eat here a few times but every time we were there there was a long line.Today we decided to try again for a late lunch.Finally we were able to get a table without any wait!It’s a casual restaurant.They started as a food truck, and now they have this place in South Minneapolis.Terry had Slow Roasted Pork Arepa with yuca fries.(He actually ordered Chorizo Sausage and Egg Arepa, but [続きを読む] 関連キーワード TIMELINETRY AGAIN >>もっと見る 2017/04/17 08:49Easter Brunchイースターブランチ Happy Easter everyone!We were looking for a restaurant that we could walk to for brunch, and we found that Rival House was serving a brunch buffet.They opened at 11 a.m., and we were there at 11:00.All the food looked fresh.Everything was perfectly cooked and very tasty.A great selection of dishes, too.The only thing that was not for me was their banana butter that was prepared for their french to [続きを読む] 関連キーワード EverythingイースターButter >>もっと見る 2017/04/16 00:49Raspberry and Blueberry Boucheesベリーブッセ Happy Easter everyone!My today’s post is a bouchee, a bite-sized cake dessert with a sweet cream filling.I used freeze dried raspberries and blueberries both for the mini cakes and the filling to add the berry flavors.So the colors and the flavors are all natural. Nothing artificial.They are not only delicious but also very pretty.The mini size is also perfect for a dessert table for Easter, or o [続きを読む] 関連キーワード MINIcakesCAKE >>もっと見る 2017/04/15 07:32Stinky but Tasty Tofu Bowl納豆キムチ豆腐 One of the mysterious things in the culinary world is that some stinky food tastes so good.A good example would be blue cheese.Don’t you agree?Well, in Japan there are a lot of stinky food that are so tasty like the ones you see in this bowl, Natto beans and kimchi.Kimchi, a spicy pickled Napa cabbage, is technically a Korean food, but it has been loved by many in Japan the past several decades a [続きを読む] 関連キーワード koreanFood豆腐 >>もっと見る 2017/04/14 01:00Strawberry Latte苺ラテ I’ve never been a big fan of flavored latte until recently.I like coffee and I do enjoy going to coffee shops, but I almost always order drip coffee (or chai if it doesn’t come from a box).But a few months ago a new coffee shop opened near our house, and the first time we went there we immediately knew this would be one of our favorite coffee shops.One of the reasons I don’t order flavored latt [続きを読む] 関連キーワード I’veOUR HOUSETHE FIRST >>もっと見る 2017/04/12 10:33Tofu Scramble Breakfast豆腐スクランブルな朝食風景 I love our rustic dining table.We bought it when we moved into our condo in the city.When we lived in the suburbs we had a glass-top table.Although it was pretty, I never liked that I had to be very careful whenever I had to put anything on the table.So when we moved and decided to replace most of the furniture, I knew I wanted something durable as well as cool-looking.And this was perfect!We usua [続きを読む] 関連キーワード IN THE CITYTableFurniture >>もっと見る 2017/04/10 00:32Japanese Red Bean Butter Sweet In my recent post I talked about how much more aware I’ve become about Japanese food trends since I started using Instagram.The inspiration for this sandwich was also found when I was browsing pictures on Instagram.I was instantly attracted to the red bean butter sandwich served at this cafe in Kyoto, Japan when I saw its pictures.It’s a simple sandwich.Butter and sweet red beans are sandwiched [続きを読む] 関連キーワード 苺STARtedInstagram >>もっと見る 2017/04/08 07:14Homemade Pasta with Portobello Steakホームメードパスタ Lately I’ve been watching my weight a little more carefully, and I don’t eat a large amount of carbs as I used to do.But I love pasta, and if I eat pasta I want something really good.And what’s better than homemade pasta?!This pasta was served with portobello mushroom steak, sauteed spinach, and two kinds of sauce, red and alfredo.The homemade pasta is so good in so many ways, like taste, textu [続きを読む]

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French photographer Denis Darzacq creates amazing images of people flying through air as if there was no gravity on our planet. His work, real photographs without PhotoShop trickery, can be seen in New York, yet only for two more weeks. For slightly more than two weeks, until March 27, New York’s Laurence Miller Gallery continues to show the extravagant photography of French photographer Denis Darzacq. For his latest and apparently gravity-defying images, part of a series called Hyper, Darzacq has not - as one immediately thinks - used PhotoShop or similar software in order to create them. Instead, he placed an ad in the paper of the French town Rouen, looking for acrobatic dancers to perform for him and his camera. The result is stunning, capturing bodies flying through the air, seemingly in levitation, defying earth-bound gravity with the greatest of ease, tricking the mind of the visitor into the illusion that she or he has entered a world of surreal magic. The resulting effect is like being in a dream, getting that sick feeling in one's stomach when the ground suddenly opens and one is a mere nano-second away from falling into the void, of descending into an unknown space, the mind creating visions of unknown horror it may encounter. In Darzacq's world, that horror is the depressing everyday-world of the modern super- and hypermarkets - hence the exhibition's name Hyper. Hyper, image 1 Denis Darzacq - with permission There, in front of and in between rows and rows of plastic products that seem necessities to the contemporary consumer, the dancers and Denis' camera create a surreal world that makes the 'reality' of daily consumerism as unreal as the images themselves seem.

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/288787

After visiting a deserted old ghost town with her father, Phoebe begins to have visions of an American-Indian getting beaten up by a local thug and soon starts receiving the same injuries as the man. When Prue and Piper realize that Phoebe is caught up in a time loop of that town, Prue has to go there and with the help of Cole, save Phoebe and the man before the thug kills them and break the loop.

http://www.tvmaze.com/episodes/46107/charmed-3x14-the-good-the-bad-and-the-cursed

A 20-year-old Laguna Niguel woman pleaded guilty Monday to falsely claiming to be the victim of an attempted rape. She was promptly sentenced to 60 days in jail and three years of informal probation. Danielle Rene Deichman pleaded guilty to filing a false police report and resisting arrest, both misdemeanors, according to court records. Deichman told Orange County sheriff's investigators she was attacked about 7:30 p.m. Feb. 2 while walking on La Paz Road near Kings Road in Laguna Niguel, Jim Amormino of the Orange County Sheriff's Department said when she was arrested earlier this year. Deichman claimed her attacker jumped out of some bushes and grabbed her from behind, but she escaped after kicking him in the groin, Amormino said. Deichman's story didn't add up for investigators so they pressed her, and she then admitted she made it up based on the account of another woman whose attempted rape in Laguna Hills received wide media coverage, Amormino said. When investigators told her it was a crime to file a false claim and attempted to handcuff her, she struggled with deputies, Amormino said.

http://falserapesociety.blogspot.com/2011/12/woman-sentenced-for-fake-sex-assault.html

Seeing as how my school has a two hour fog delay, I might as well up-date. Anyway, last panel was fun to draw. I like drawing under water sceanes. Also, the serpent thing is just for long distance aquatic travel, so don't expect to see it again any time soon.

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Mix, knead and roll your way to primo pizza that's so much better than takeout. The most delicious and popular pizza dough recipes are right here for your recipe box.

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Apply A highly progressive Spalding-based Chilled Food company has a vacancy for an HSE Manager. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced candidate and a full Job Description is available. The salary is c£40/45k

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Have you ever looked back at events in your life and wonder if things would have turned out differently if you had done or said something else? Would the outcome have been what you anticipated if you had responded in a different way? Hindsight sure gives a lot of perspective; sometimes good, sometimes not so good. However, any decision made is made for a reason, whether you make it out of fear, pure reaction of another's action, or thoughtful calculated steps. There are opportunities every where and every day. Every opportunity has the potential to go many different ways. Sometimes all it takes is some planning, but then again, there are outside factors that you have no control over that come in and mess everything up, and I mean everything! And because of things in our life that do not go as we had planned, we either do one of two things; keep on putting ourselves out there and planning life or allowing life to plan us. Past experiences and what we learn from them shape who we are and how we approach things in the future. If we see life as 'always being dealt a bad hand' we try to prepare ourselves for a 'bad hand' every time. Is this really a way to approach a life where we were created to experience joy and happiness? No, of course not. Often times when the decisions you make do not create the results you desire then you become use to the idea that "disappointment is the new normal for you" and the little gray rain cloud follows you around. You find new disappointment becoming a way of life instead of something that can be changed. This means that you are numbing yourself to pain and to discomfort when there is so much love and joy to be shared. One of my favorite authors, Brene` Brown, has studied shame and vulnerability. Through her books she has given me a great new perspective on the way I view life. I'll sum it up for you, if you numb yourself to pain and discomfort, you are also numbing yourself to joy and happiness. It took a while for me to understand this concept for myself. I didn't think it was possible to numb the good things in life, but it sure is. I was numb for a while in life, because I didn't want to keep hurting so I stopped feeling everything altogether. Of course, I never allowed joy and happiness to interrupt my comfort zone of numbness, even though it was the very thing I longed for. Slowly I began to change my perspective on life, and I do mean, slowly. It took a while to teach me new ways of living, especially when I had done it wrong for so long. I sometimes look back and think of all the opportunities I missed while I was numb and wonder what could have been. Little Texas - "What Could Have Been Instead of trying to change the past, I look forward to future opportunities where I can choose joy and happiness. No, I don't always get my desired result, but hey, I am trying. I am making myself vulnerable to life. I am embracing more opportunities to choose joy and happiness, and I am not expecting pain or discomfort, though I know it is possible. No one is perfect, but when we are vulnerable to joy and happiness knowing that sometimes life does bring pain and discomfort, we can better prepare ourselves to withstand the not-so-great things in life. Once we know this and live it then we can transition more smoothly from the discomfort to the happiness that we are created to enjoy. Let's start planning life with more vulnerability instead of life planning us! How many more opportunities will pass you by because you are too numb to feel even just a sliver of unconditional love? What past experiences made you numb? How long have you been numb? What are some choices you can make now to help you start feeling again? Please watch Brene` Brown's most popular TED talk on YouTube, Brene` Brown: The Power of Vulnerability

http://lionessesatthegate.blogspot.com/2014/09/missed-opportunities.html

A: Drycleaning most simply said is cleaning garments without water. This is where the word "dry" comes into play, as the opposite is "wet" which means with water. The process is not really "dry" at all, because the garments are wetted with solvents that clean the garments. After this "washing in solvents", the garments are then "dried" where the solvent is reclaimed and used over again. The solvent is filtered and more than likely distilled to make it pure. Drycleaning is said to have started back in the 1700's when a person tipped over an oil lamp with kerosene in it, and saw how when it dried, the cloth was clean. In the early 1900's all drycleaning was done in petroleum solvents which had a high fire risk... Later benzene and carbon tetrachloride was used. In the late 1940's a synthetic solvent was developed that is used today by over 85% of the drycleaners. In the drycleaning solvent, there are usually detergents that help to suspend the soil off the garment and to carry a small amount of moisture to aid in the removal of "sweet" stains. The cleaning process itself (not counting finishing (pressing) can take between 30 minutes to 1 hour depending on the cleaning equipment, solvent used and a few other factors. Q: How do I know if my clothing and/or household items should be dry cleaned? A: Manufacturers are required to attach a permanent label to textile garments (with the exception of footwear, gloves, hats, suede and leather clothing, and household items) that provides directions for their care. Read your general care labels carefully. If you are still unsure as to how your garments should be cleaned please bring it into The Cleanery for a free consultation. Q: How do I best care for my leather and suede garments? A: Here are a few tips to keep your leather and suede garments looking good as new: • Always buy from a reputable dealer. • Wear a scarf to protect the collar from body oil and perspiration. • If leather gets wet, do not put it near heat. Always air-dry it. • Do not try to clean spots by yourself with aftermarket cleaners. Bring the item to The Cleanery, and let us make it look good as new. Q: Is dry cleaning bad for the environment? A: The Cleanery takes every precaution to ensure we are engaging in environmentally sound business practices. We use environmentally friendly cleaning products, recycle our wire hangers and offer reusable garment bags to reduce our impact on the environment. Q: Does dry cleaning wear out clothes? A: No, regular visits to the dry cleaner keeps garments looking fresh and extends their useful life. Dry cleaning can remove body perspiration and oils – elements that contribute to stains and fabric degradation. Q: Can any stain be removed? A: No, successful stain removal depends on the nature of the stain, the type of fabric and the colourfastness of the dye. Some fabrics and dyes simply will not withstand the use of cleaning or stain removal agents. Additionally, some stains (i.e., ink, dried paint) can be impossible to remove.

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Category Archives: Home Learning Home Learning 4 Growing Global Kids–Spanish for fun & early home learning I know smatterings of Russian (I can say “I don’t understand,” and I can ask where the bathroom is), German (I know how to say “the beer is good in Munich”) and a lot of French–but the French is rusty because I don’t use it much. Clearly, we Americans don’t keep up with languages we DO learn. How can we help our kids be more globally-oriented? PostsTags A Mom Reflects on 9-11

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We will be playing three exclusive dates with our old friends in ARES KINGDOM this June across western Canada. June 1st - Edmonton, AB @ The Mercury Room w/ Pathetic, Phylactery June 2nd - Calgary, AB @ The Distortion, w/ Pathetic, + TBA June 3rd - Vancouver, BC @ Pats Pub, w/ Assimilation, Pathetic For more details, check this event page here. Hibernation, New Shirts October 15, 2016 The final Begrime Exemious show of 2016 has passed, and we will be settling into our usual winter hibernation where new songs will gestate and develop onto recorded media. As always, we send our respects to all those who saw us live this year on the American west coast and throughout the Canadian prairies. Prior to our show with Gorguts, we printed up a new shirt design available in two colour schemes on both long sleeves and t-shirts. The long sleeves have since sold out (in under two weeks), with some t-shirt sizes dwindling in number as well. These items will be restocked, and you can preorder them now by emailing Special sizes (larger than 2XL) are available but must be placed before we submit the order to reprint these, so contact us immediately. The reorder will be placed later in October, preorders will ship immediately upon arrival, and available stock will be updated on our bandcamp merch page. T-shirts that are in stock, along with other various merch, can be purchased from that page right now. See you in 2017, and stay filthy. Tour: Mission Accomplished September 13, 2016 Our west coast tour, "Eviscerating Pestilential Shrines of the West MMXVI," has been complete and was a total success. Many thanks to FAMINE FEST NW and all the promoters in the American/Canadian west coast who made these dates possible. For those who weren't able to purchase merchandise on the road, click the merch link above or contact us. We have one last show this year, with the Canadian death metal legends GORGUTS at the Starlite Room on October 12th here in Edmonton. Work on our next release(s) has already been started and we will likely be recording again in the earlier half of next year. Planning for yet another American tour is commencing, email for bookings. Eviscerating Pestilential Shrines of the West MMXVI July 13, 2016 BEGRIME EXEMIOUS will be returning to the west coast USA this September thanks to the fine folks at FAMINE FEST NW. September 1 - Kamloops, BC @ The Kamloops Inn w/ Watchdog, Esker September 2 - Vancouver BC @ Astoria w/ Deathwinds, Nostrum, Fracture September 3 - Seattle, WA @ The Highline w/ Drawn & Quartered, Oxygen Destroyer, Ashen Pyre September 4 - Portland, OR @ The Panic Room w/ Shrine of the Serpent, Extirpatients, Petrifacation September 5 - Salem, OR @ The Space w/ Phobonoid, Mania September 6 - Sacramento, CA @ The Starlight Lounge w/ Crawl September 7 - Santa Cruz, CA @ The Blue Lagoon w/ Gloam, Moirai September 8 - San Diego, CA @ Brick By Brick w/ Seraphic Disgust, Xantam September 9 - Los Angeles, CA @ The 5 Star Bar w/ Funeral Smoke, Leprous, Pestilent Death September 10 - Oakland, CA @ The Golden Bull w/ Ulthar, Cartilage September 11 - Eugene, OR @ Old Nick's w/ Mortuary Drape, Predatory Light, Uada Click the above dates to see the Facebook event pages, or check out the tour event page for further details. Our new album, "The Enslavemnt Conquest," is now available on Dark Descent Records on both CD and vinyl. We will have copies with us on the tour, in addition to a new t-shirt. The Enslavement Conquest January 25, 2016 Our third album, entitled "The Enslavemnt Conquest," will be released on March 4th via Dark Descent Records on CD/digital format with vinyl following shortly after. Decibel Magazine has premiered the song "Noose for a Monarch" for streaming on their website. To support the new record, Begrime Exemious will be playing various shows throughout west Canada and will embark on a tour of the west coast US later this year. Track List: 1. Cradled in Our Hands 2. Overpowered (Under Siege) 3. Transcendence 4. Rat Amongst the Herd 5. Conscription Woes 6. Subconscious Nemesis 7. Noose for a Monarch 8. Impending Diabolical Conquest (Incantation cover) 9. Crusade Towards Self Devolution 10. When the Vultures Leave Lineup: D. Orthner � Vocals, Guitar F. Thibaudeau � Guitar, Vocals A. Rintoul � Bass L. Norland � Drums �The Enslavement Conquest� was recorded in the first half of 2015 by Lee Norland, mixed by Derek Orthner, mastered by Dan Lowndes at Resonance Sound Studio (UK), with artwork by Mark Riddick. 10 Years of Death December 1, 2015 BEGRIME EXEMIOUS has officially turned 10 years old. To mark the occasion, we will be playing a free show on January 8th. Check the event page for further details. Forming in late 2005, BEGRIME EXEMIOUS has released 2 full length albums, a mini-LP, and several EPs and splits. The band has toured multiple times across Canada and the United States, unleashing their relentless style of thrashing death metal upon city after city. 2016 will see the release of the band's third full length album, "The Enslavement Conquest" in both CD and LP formats on Dark Descent Records. Tour Success, Plans for 2016 October 24, 2015 Our cross Canada tour was a complete success, and easily our best tour to date. Cheers to all the maniacs who made it possible, we look forward to the next time we play these cities. We have some merch, including tour t-shirts, left over that we're selling for a discounted price. Check the merch page or email if you'd like to place an order. The third Begrime LP will be available in early 2016 via Dark Descent Records. Details will come forth closer to the release date. There are a couple shows already in the works for 2016, which will see us playing earlier in the year than usual. A gig in January will take place to celebrate our 10 year anniversary. More details on this to come. Cross Canada Tour & Other Shows April 21, 2015 First show of the year in Edmonton and Winnipeg (for Manitoba Metal Fest) were a raging success. As of now, we are putting the finishing touches on our new album. We'd like to announce the rest of our upcoming dates this year, including our first cross Canada campagin. June 5 - Calgary, AB (Calgary Metal Fest) @ Dickens Pub June 26 - Edmonton, AB @ DV8 Underground w/ IRN, Hardcharger, Languid July 31 - Kamloops, BC @ The Dirty Jersey w/ Hand of the Horsewitch, King Humungus Aug 1 - Vancouver, BC @ The Black Lab w/ Altered Dead, Dead Again Aug 2 - Squamish, BC @ Fourth Ave House w/ AHNA, Hoopsnake Aug 14 - Calgary, AB @ Distortion w/ Drawn And Quartered, Reverend Kill Aug 15 - Edmonton, AB @ DV8 Underground w/ Drawn And Quartered, Reverend Kill Aug 28 - Regina, SK @ The Club w/ Korperlose Stimme, Scythra Aug 29 - Winnipeg, MB @ The Windsor w/ Zombie Assault, Solanum, Cell Aug 31 - Toronto, ON @ Coalition T.O. w/ Thantifaxath, Old Witch Sept 1 - Montreal, QC @ Katacombes w/ Spectral Wound, Oath Sept 2 - Quebec City, QC @ Le Sous-Sol Du Cercle w/ Khan, Rope, Scare Sept 3 - Moncton, NB @ Plan B w/ Fear Agent, Thirty Aught Six Sept 4 - Halifax, NS @ Gus' Pub w/ Versifist, Ignightor, Thaumiel Sept 5 - Saint John, NB @ The Panic Room w/ Patient Zero Sept 6 - Trois-Rivieres, QC @ TBA Sept 7 - Sherbrooke, QC @ Le Murdoch w/ Decline of Faith Sept 8 - Ottawa, ON @ TBA Sept 9 - Peterborough, ON @ The Spill w/ Ischemic, G.O.D. Sept 11 - Winnipeg, MB @ The Windsor Sept 12 - Saskatoon, SK @ Vangelis Links will be added and information updated as available. Email if you can help us out in any way. The Battle Rages On April 4, 2015 The official Begrime Exemious website is back, now located at We have kept ourselves busy over the past six months. Since the release of the Primeval Satellite mLP on Dark Descent Records, we've also released a new split 7" with Flash Out who are from Winnipeg, MB, on Filth Regime Records. As we tend to do every winter season, we've spent our time writing and recording new material. The as of yet untilted album will be on Dark Descent Records, and features artwork by the legendary Mark Riddick. The recording process is currently underway, more information to follow. Finally, we will be embarking on a cross Canada tour in the latter half of summer. Dates will be announced soon. We have made arrangements in most cities with promoters, but feel free to email for further inqueries.

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Festival address: Mount Airy Fire Department Carnival Grounds, 1003 Twin Arch Road, Mount Airy, MD 21771 Our host hotel is the Clarion Inn located at the Francis Scott Key Mall in Frederick, MD, and is where our entertainers and athletes will be staying. Clarion Inn

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Mother Nature causes havoc, Jen goes to the gym and James, Dom, and the two Stu's break the 50 mile mark for the first time.

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I’m Kenneth Lim, an interaction designer, recently graduated from Central Saint Martins BA Graphic Design in London. My approach to design is often very experimental but deeply rooted in research, just a heads up. What do you design? I specialize in anything that uses code: creative coding, website, webapp, apps, generative design, etc. My main aim is always to creative unique experience that inspire, reveal and motivate. I also do video editing, a little special effects and sometimes prints. I love bookbinding, quite Zen. What if I want to contact you? Email me at that’s it. Reply not guaranteed, especially if you are a Nigerian prince or if I just won a lottery. Follow me on Twitter (@limzykenneth) for the occasional tweets and visit me on Github if you want to look at my sloopy code. I open source everything I made.

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I cleaned up the inside joint of the base of the lathe with a chisel. I also used a micro plane to smooth out the length of the opening. You can see the cheeks are rounded out slightly. I planed them a bit and then used a small hand axe to do a rough shaping of the cheeks. Continuous adjustments to get the cheek to slide freely the length of the opening of the lathe base. Lathe top progressing and time to move to another portion... the legs! While looking for some raw materials to use for my shave horse and some other projects I went foraging with my daughter. We drove around the neighborhood where some tree trimming was in progress. I found a recently felled maple tree. While there were no large stumps there were various sizes of branches in the piles. I pulled about a dozen branches out which were mostly straight and ranged from two to inches across. Here are the four pieces I cut and roughed out on my shave horse to use as legs. Not pretty, not true and definitely not straight. I like the rustic look. These are all cut green maple so I expect some checking as they dry but hopefully not too much so as to damage the legs.

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With all the snow around who cant resist to play in it? This faun had a good snowballfight, made snowangels and rolled around in the snow. After hours of fun you go home all covered in snow!Faun ears and antlers with snow on them. A tail with a snow and a cute little snowman on it!

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ADVERTISEMENT BONUS DETAILSThe average bonus awarded to 14 MNsure managers during the three months before the website’s launch was $1,882. The highest individual bonus was $2,569. The lowest: $962. MNsure awarded bonuses before the job was done Article by: Editorial Board Star Tribune January 31, 2014 - 6:33 PM The bad news just keeps coming for MNsure, the state’s balky, beleaguered new health insurance marketplace. The latest self-inflicted wound came less than a week after an outside review painfully confirmed that the new health insurance marketplace was plagued not just by bad software from vendors but also by its own dysfunctional management. That 14 MNsure managers were awarded performance bonuses for their work before the Oct. 1 launch understandably rankled Minnesotans. News that roughly $26,000 had been divided among the 14 based on their performance between July and September surfaced Wednesday after Rep. Joe Hoppe, R-Chaska, complained about the bonuses in a letter to Gov. Mark Dayton. Some managers also got a 3 percent annual raise in July. Hoppe went overboard comparing the incentives package to “the worst excesses of Wall Street,” but his ire was not misplaced. Consumers are still working to push their applications through the glitch-filled MNsure system or fighting the call center’s long but improving wait times. Although MNsure officials scrambled to point out that the bonuses were awarded for work done before the site’s meltdown in December and that the Legislature approved the incentive plan, this context did little to alleviate simmering anger over a website that was supposed to make it easier to buy health insurance but that too often made it a bigger headache. It’s probably just as well that MNsure officials didn’t further defend the payments by comparing state employees with their private-sector counterparts. Although IT professionals are in high demand across the country and bonuses and other perks are often part of their private-sector compensation packages, government employees are working for the taxpayers. Given the toxic politics surrounding MNsure and health reform, awarding bonuses before a successful launch was premature. The state’s patience with MNsure is already perilously thin, and news of the ill-timed incentives only deepened the deficit in public confidence. That makes the work harder for those laboring to improve the site. MNsure already has lost its executive director, April Todd-Malmlov, who resigned for personal reasons in early December after taking a two-week vacation during the site’s fall rollout. While interim executive director Scott Leitz has drawn praise from legislators, Dayton and MNsure board Chairman Brian Beutner did not inspire confidence this week with their reactions to the bonus news. Neither put the needs of consumers first. Nor did they take the “buck-stops-here” responsibility they should have. Instead, they put their reputations first as they tried to distance themselves from MNsure’s latest problem. In a Star Tribune story, a Dayton spokesman said MNsure’s governing board acts independently and handles personnel issues, adding that the governor was not aware of the incentives. Beutner, in turn, said the board approved compensation for the site’s top executive but not others — effectively blaming the departed Todd-Malmlov for the pay boosts. This exercise was a sorry reminder of how blame often rolls downhill even when it shouldn’t. Beutner, as the board’s chairman, is essentially admitting how little insight the board has into the site’s actual operations. He should have apologized for being disengaged, instead of casting blame elsewhere. Dayton’s statement conveniently neglected to point out that he appointed the MNsure board. The site is also one of the signature efforts of his first term. Saying he was far removed also doesn’t reflect well on his oversight of such a critical initiative. More important, the two “I didn’t do it” responses reflect that Dayton and Beutner don’t understand what made other states successful in launching new marketplaces. Kentucky is often cited as an example that the new websites can work well. Kynect, as the site is known, is a success for many reasons — its straightforward design and accessible community assistance, among them. But Kynect also had a governor and other state officials who were all in and worked tirelessly to promote the site and make it work. MNsure’s future doesn’t just depend on an outside fix-it firm. It also needs strong state leadership and support. Dayton and Beutner need to step up, not step away.

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Your splendid article on Penny Banks appearing in June issue of THINK in my opinion is the best story on the subject yet published. My hearty congratulations to you on it, and extending best wishes, I am Very truly Andrew Emerine August 4th. 1950. Aug 11, 1950 Mr. Andrew Emerine Fostoria, Ohio Dear Mr. Emerine: Thank you for your kind words in regard to my article in "Think". I hate to differ with you but I have seen many better articles on the subject, perhaps the most outstanding is the one which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post on your collection. The story behind the article in Think is rather interesting. After I had written it twice, they made a "few editorial changes" and at present reading, there is only one sentence in the article which was the way I had originally written it. However, writing the article was fun and the One Hundred Neediest Cases, the charitable drive sponsored by the New York Times, benefited to the tune of $75.

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Brother Ulrich Imprisioned and condemned in the GDR because of "staatsfeindliche Hetze" (sorry, no english version in wiki) to prison of four years The prison broke his backbone Paroled earlyer he 1981 jumped into death (in the underground in Berlin) sitemap

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I usually am not a collection girl. I wait when collections of polishes come out to see the reviews and pick and choose a few favorites from said collections. However, when I stumbled upon the new winter 2012 collection from Essie in the store last week I couldn't help but buy ALL of them. I don't know what came over me. So here for your viewing pleasure are all six shades of the collection! We'll start of with She's Pampered. She's Pampered is a scarlet red that is just the slightest bit opaque. You can just manage to see my visible nail line with two coats. It applied like a dream and is the perfect holiday red! Since it's the teeniest bit translucent I'm thinking mayhaps a jelly sandwich with some green glitters? :) Next up is Butler Please. Butler Please has a shade of blue that is simply and absolutely gorgeous! I was worried at first because the first coat went on a little streaky but the second coat gave it a lush, deep, cobalt blue that was even and covered the nail perfectly. In bright light you get this vivid blue as photographed and in false lighting or shade you get a deeper, robust blue. I am very excited with this shade! I've gone a little bit gaga for it. There are two glitters in this collection, each very different. This is Beyond Cozy. Beyond Cozy brings to mind the sparks off of a warm, crackling winter fire. It is a full coverage glitter, shown is two coats. The glitter is a champagne colored metallic that is very multidimensional. Finished it has a sandy texture. This shade reminds me of China Glaze I'm Not Lion from the Safari Collection but actually has lighter undertones and more metallic to it than China Glaze so they do differ. This would be a perfect new years polish or great any time of year for that mani that needs a glittery accent nail. Time to get a bit out of season with Snap Happy. I really enjoy this color. It is a bright creme coral or salmon. It has pink as well as orange tones to it. Snap Happy is slightly sheer with two coats and you can see a light visible nail line. Application was wonderful! I would have loved to sport this in the summer but I can't see myself reaching for this as my first shade choice this winter. It just doesn't say winter is in the air to me! Now for Where's My Chauffeur. I was very excited about this color! It is a gorgeous turquoise, tiffany's blue shade that is one of those colors that just looks amazing on everyones skin tone. It is slightly sheer, the first coat went on streaky and with three coats I would have gotten full coverage but I wasn't quite there with only two. Amazing shade regardless and definitely a nice icy color for the season. Finally is Leading Lady, the second glitter in the collection. This color just has the holidays written all over it! Leading Lady is a deep jelly, cranberry base with bright red glitter winking through. Coverage was great and it really sparkles and shines! I'll upload some sunshine shots and macros tomorrow to really show it off because you are not getting the full glitter effect here. Out of the entire collection I would say you must pick up Leading Lady, Butler Please and Beyond Cozy. She's Pampered and Where's My Chauffeur are great Essie colors as well but I have seen a few other colors like them around and about. Snap Happy would be a great color for other seasons but I just can't see many sales of this color for the winter season. Great job on this collection Essie! Posted by Casey D. at 8:33 PM Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Labels: Beyond Cozy, Butler Please, Collection Review, essie, Essie Winter 2012, Essie Winter 2012 Collection, glitter, Holidays, Leading Lady, review, She's Pampered, Snap Happy, Swatch, Where's My Chauffeur, Winter 2012 2 comments: Krystal CaracolOctober 19, 2012 at 8:29 PMAw! I'm so excited for this collection! :)ReplyDeleteMuffin NailsOctober 21, 2012 at 10:18 PMBeautiful swatches! I can't decide which blue I love more- they're both amazing!ReplyDeleteAdd commentLoad more...

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The Writer's FAQs is a clear and ultra-portable reference for style, grammar, punctuation, mechanics, research and documentation that enables writers quickly to find the material they need with only minimal knowledge of terminology. The contents are presented both conventionally, and by lists of frequently asked questions about writing concerns as students are inclined to phrase them. Especially noteworthy are a generous section for multilingual writers, and "source maps" to demystify documentation visually.

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workContact workContact Brotherly Love | Skegness Newborn Photography I had a fantastic time working with Keiran and Findlay at their photoshoot. Kieran is very much the doting big brother, and the smiles in these pictures were 110% geniune. I don’t think he could have stopped if I’d asked him to! Sometimes I just love to do away with the props, keep everything natural, and in this case, let the brotherly love do the talking!

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Abiotic :Mountains, cold or hot temperature, sunshine, snow, ice, low air, high altitude, rocks, soil Biotic:Goats,Mountain Carrying Capacity Carrying capacity is the limit to how many organisms of a certain species can live in one habitat.It is determined by the amount of resources in a habitat.The resources Space(area to find food,water,and shelter) Population size is easily determined by carrying capacity,such as in goats.The less grass and water there is, the less goats survive and the same relationship goes for high resources. Limiting Factors A limiting factor is any factor or condition that limits the growth of a population in an ecosystem.Ex. Disease,Extreme Weather,Shift in species' population. A predator/prey relationship in my ecosystem is mountain lions and goats.The less goats,the less mountain lions will survive and the same relationship for many goats. Energy Roles Primary Consumer:Insects,Goats Secondary Consumer:Fox Tertiary Consumer:Mountain Lion,Vulture Each role of energy gets its energy from the level below itself.Producers are vital,because they are the only ones who can take the sun's energy and turn it into chemical energy.If they're were none,they're would be no energy in an ecosystem. Food Chains and Webs Food webs are more realistic because they show more possibility in an ecosystem. If we removed a population such as the fox, there would be one less organism to predate the herbivores.The herbivore population would grow to large eat all the producers and die off and force the animals that eat them to starve. Energy Pyramid Energy pyramids are pyramids because they show how there is less energy in the higher trophic levels.Producers are the biggest level because they have the most energy and top predators the smallest level because they have the least energy. Photosynthesis The formula for photosynthesis is 6CO2 + H2O (light)= C6H12O6 + O2 The substances needed for photosynthesis are water(H20),radiant energy, and Carbon Dioxide(CO2).The end product of photosynthesis is Glucose. Photosynthesis energy transformation Tropisms A tropism is a turning or bending of an organism toward or away from an external stimulus.Ex.Grass bending toward light,trees turning upward do to gravity Summer Stretch! by Francisco Marty These tropisms help the plant survive by helping them find resources and make it hard for herbivores to get to them. Decomposers Decomposers are vital to the ecosystem because they recycle minerals in the environment.Examples of mountain decomposers Fungi Adaptations Adaptations are important because they help the organisms survive in the environment.Types of adaptations include:size,ways to find food,camouflage,energy storage,diet.Ex. of what organisms need in a mountain:yaks have larger hearts and lungs for the high elevation,the alpine marmot hibernates 9 months of the year to save energy,mountain plants have deep stems to store energy,and mountain plants above 3,000 feet to stay below being pelted by the snow pack. If I were to place an alpine marmot in another environment it would over-hibernate and get eaten by a predator or under-eat and die from malnutrition. Natural Selection Natural selection is the process in which the organisms better-fitted to the environment survive and populate the ecosystem while the organisms with traits less-fitted to the environment die-off or migrate.Goats are an organism came from the process of natural selection.The formations of mountains caused the food to be lifted to be a higher elevation.The goats, which had hooves to grip on the rock, could get to the food more easily reproduced while the animals that couldn't get to the food died off. Comment Stream

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We have to let them explore their boundaries and themselves. Not get 'connected' with the internet and let TV rule their lives. They need fresh air and sunshine...and yes, mud too. Let kids be kids and have adventures. If they don't live in the country, let them play supervised at a playground...take time to invest in their well being and future. Let them experience life. Let them be kids. I wrote this after talking with someone about how they 'can't get their kids' to do anything. All they want to do is mess with their phones and text...or play games on an Xbox.

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Shane Morrow plays piano and sings in the sunroom of his Brainerd home. Morrow is founder of the artist networking group The Creative Underground. Photo by Jake Daniels /Times Free Press. Shane Morrow has come a long way from "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star." On a recent afternoon he sat at the 19th-century Emerson piano in the sunroom of his Brainerd home, playing and singing jazz classics such as "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" and "Summertime." Morrow, a 42-year-old performing artist, has been playing music since he was a child in Fairfield County, Conn. His great-grandmother insisted he learn. "She told me at a very young age, 'You're going to learn how to play that piano, because that piano will not only bring you peace, that piano will always keep you working.' " "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" was the first song he learned. From there, he developed a love of performing and ventured beyond the piano. "I did my first audition at the age of 12 and started performing at the same time. I was just about 13 when my great-grandmother finally allowed me to move outside of church and really venture into showcasing my own talent. I just had the performance bug." Morrow was raised in Connecticut by his grandmother and great-grandmother. His mother was a teenager when he was born and his father, barely in his 20s, was a Black Panther who was shot and killed, he said. Morrow said he always had a relationship with his mother, who lives in Atlanta, but sought to strengthen it in his 20s, after his grandmothers died. "I realized I would not be able to grow spiritually, mentally without being able to recapture some type of bond. I'm very blessed," he said. "My grandmother and my great-grandmother gave my mom a great alternative. We have a better understanding now that I'm older." It was the desire to be closer to family, including his mother and some relatives in Cleveland, Tenn., that brought Morrow to Chattanooga in 2003. After earning a bachelor's degree in social services from the University of Connecticut, he had spent years working for an HIV and AIDS organization, first as a volunteer, then as a case manager and finally as its director. Years of working with HIV/AIDS patients helped drive him to want to continue to make a contribution to his community. "My first passion was always performing arts," he said. "I think community outreach is universal. Trying to make a positive impact within your community can go in many different ways. So what I tied in was how to spread the word to underserved populations. How can I reach out to become a bridge?" He has found a way to bridge what he loves to do with his desire to serve his community. Upon his arrival in Chattanooga, Morrow sought out a network for performance and creative endeavors. His search took him to the Chattanooga Theatre Centre, where he earned a role in "A Raisin in the Sun." Following that, he looked for other opportunities within the city, especially for minority artists. "I didn't see much," he said. "So I thought to myself, 'Is it because I don't know where the network is inside this city, or is it because we have a lack of those types of venues?'" And thus The Creative Underground was born. Morrow's goal, he said, is to create diversity through creativity. "There are so many ways we can be a community," he said, "I hope at the end of the day that folks will say The Creative Undergound made a difference in trying to unite us together, exposing the contributions from underserved populations and exposing that to the community at large." His original intent, to begin a networking group, "blossomed" into showcases around town. Morrow worked to form alliances with established organizations, like the Bessie Smith Cultural Center and the Hunter Museum of American Art. Recently, he wrapped up "Sing, Mahalia, Sing," a gospel musical about the life of Mahalia Jackson, and he has established monthly showcases at Blue Orleans restaurant. Morrow seeks to provide opportunities for young people through the performing arts. For each project, he said, he works to actively recruit a young person to be involved with the production. "I feel that if we can give these young folks an opportunity to learn about the lighting, to learn about the technical support, giving them an opportunity to look beyond the parameters of their communities," he said. FactFile * Career: Performing artist and founder of The Creative Underground. * Age: 42. * Hometown: Fairfield County, Conn. * Favorite role: Othello. * Favorite musicians: Sarah Vaughan and Nat King Cole. * Hobbies: Cooking and vintage record collecting. Last year, Morrow was dealt a blow that affected his perspective. He was diagnosed with lymphoma. He's in treatment now, but he calls himself a cancer survivor. "I'm still in it," he said. "I don't mind sharing that. I'm living with cancer. I'm beating cancer, and I'm blessed with that. I want it out there." He remembers a line his grandmother used to tell him, a Geoffrey Chaucer quote: "Time and tide wait for no man." Years ago, he said, a client told him HIV was a lifesaver. Morrow didn't understand it at the time. "He said, 'I realize now the joy of living.' " He gets it now. "I realize now the joy of living." * On working with young people: "I started working with a young man about two months ago. We've been taking a look at not just the piano but listening to music in general. I try to stay as open as possible to his questions. He's 13 years of age; there are many different directions this young man could go. He's from a single-parent home; she just wanted to find something for him to be actively involved in before he gets onto another road. What better for me to do than to assist this young lady with her child and to do it through music? His focus before was never on trying to find alternatives; it was on trying to stay out of trouble." * On cutting funding for the arts: "If we decide we cut funding totally, what alternative do these children have? We have folks complaining that kids are out too late at night. Perhaps if we had some active programs, that could be an alternative for the kids." * On how he became involved with HIV/AIDS work: "I had a good friend who died of AIDS. Toward the end, he did share that he was dying. I look back and think that if he'd given us an opportunity to help him during his rough days, his quality of life would have been better. That's when I started to volunteer heavily. Then I worked in pediatric AIDS. I had a child who was 12 years old [who] was born with it. His parents had died, and he lived with his grandmother. There were so many similarities to myself to a certain degree. I connected to this child. It changed my whole life." * On what he's learned from his mother, who was badly burned in an accident when she was 3: "You can never judge anyone on the physical level. I never saw the scars because she was my mother. She helped me understand about the inner strength of your spirit. She's comfortable. I think she found the inner peace she needed. I think it's hard to live your life with those scars. I can't imagine. It's one thing to be African-American, but to be African-American and handicapped in a way that's always seen, I can't imagine."

http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/life/entertainment/story/2011/nov/15/15e-performance-artist-unites-his-love-with/63888/

A map of the layout of Ballybane Industrial Estate is now available - joining the various other industrial estate, business park and major workplaces plans.

http://news.galwaytransport.info/2011/06/site-map-of-ballybane-industrial-estate.html

This week's wake up song is from the German band 17 Hippies (actually, there are only 13 of them !). I've recently discovered this band & it's hard to choose one song because their music is so diverse & vibrant , however, I've settled upon 'Frau Von Ungefahr'. 2.27 minutes into this live performance there's a lovely moment that only really makes sense in front of a live audience & you can feel the audience's excitement as the band builds the crescendo. Hope you enjoy ! lots of love, tt

http://tanitatikaramblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/17-hippies-frau-von-ungefahr.html

Australian Foreign Minister Senator Bob Carr was a friend of the late Gore Vidal. The American writer and historian gave a number of extended interviews to Lateline over the years. Transcript TONY JONES, PRESENTER: Well just a short time ago I spoke to Gore Vidal's friend, the Australian Foreign Minister and Americaphile Bob Carr, who was in Abu Dhabi, fresh from a visit to Australian troops at an air base in the desert.Bob Carr, thanks for being there.BOB CARR, FOREIGN MINISTER: Pleasure.TONY JONES: Now, before they fell out with each other, Christopher Hitchens once described Gore Vidal as the 20th Century's answer to Oscar Wilde. Is that a fitting analogy?BOB CARR: I think the difference is that Gore Vidal had a consistent view of power and was far more realistic than anything Oscar Wilde as a Fabian socialist evinced.Gore Vidal's significance is that he was a lonely voice against America being an empire, and that is the central idea that's woven through his big historical novels and I think the idea remains as radical a challenge to the way we see America today as it did any time in the last 50 years when he was writing.TONY JONES: He went to his grave pretty much convinced that America's time had passed, that the political system was as bankrupt as the economy and that both were headed for imminent collapse. Where did his deep cynicism about the American experiment come from?BOB CARR: Well he was deeply rooted in the old Washington, the sleepy pre-World War II Washington, a city described as being equatorial, African, its big African-American population, and a city where power was pretty intimate, where he as a boy in the 1920s was able to wander in his swimming costume onto the floor of the Senate to talk to his legendary grandfather, Senator Gore from Oklahoma, a blind senator to whom young Gore would read.He'd read The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and other heavy tomes and that was his political education. And as he saw it, America has been in a long decline since it inherited imperial responsibilities after World War II. He was an isolationist to his bootstraps, someone who in the tradition of Mark Twain and others opposed the notion of American empire, and he saw that as inevitably resulting in a decline of American democracy.Just as the Roman Empire collapsed under the strain of attempting to govern the known world, so he thought the American empire was headed for collapse. America would cease to be a republic as Rome ceased to be a republic under the strains of overseas conquest.TONY JONES: I've got to argue - I've got to ask: did you argue the toss with him on that point? Did you share that view in any way?BOB CARR: Well that's interesting. On one occasion I tried to explain why Australia was quite happy in many respects to have America exercise a world role. For example, the acquisition of the Philippines by the United States in the wake of Spanish-American War of 1898 was a very happy thing for Australia because it anchored American power to our north.And when the Japanese came south, when they took Singapore in February 1942, we were very relieved that General Macarthur, expelled from Japan by the Japanese, made Australia his base for taking back Asia.I pointed out to Gore on one occasion that sometimes empires have happy collaborators, happy allies. Gaul did very well out of being associated with the Roman Empire and countries like Australia and Canada feel a similar collegial relationship towards what he would call the American Empire.We're beneficiaries, if you like, of American world ambitions.TONY JONES: Yeah, but of our country he wasn't very complimentary. He had this to say on one occasion: "The trouble of Australian politics is that you only see the tip of the ice cube." Did you ever ask him what he meant when he said that?BOB CARR: No, I didn't - I don't recall that quote. I know he was very fond of Gough Whitlam and the late senator John Wheeldon, who'd been a minister in the Whitlam Government.He got on very well with them when he came out here on the first occasion in the 1970s. And when I sent him an invitation in 1996 or '97 to come to Australia and to participate in literary events, he replied from Ravello in the south of Italy and he said, "Dear premier, clearly an invitation. As they say hereabouts, one cannot refuse."TONY JONES: Let's go back to 2005 because you did have this long relationship with him, and you wrote the forward in his book Inventing a Nation in which he came to the conclusion that Benjamin Franklin, the same conclusion as Benjamin Franklin, that the US Constitution would inevitably fail due to the corruption of the people and it would end in despotism.And he expressed the view quite strongly that that despotism would be seen, or was seen in president George W. Bush. Yet at that time you were defending him.BOB CARR: Yes, he wrote a very strong polemic and it was - the war in Iraq, the invasion of Iraq seemed to confirm to him all the forebodings he had about America losing democracy at home, losing its republican government as imperial responsibilities bore down on it.And as a classicist, as someone who knew the ancient world, this seemed to be an echo of what happened to Rome, the journey of republic to empire to dictatorship. And I - I mean, I was an opponent of the invasion of Iraq in March 2005 - March 2003; so was the Australian Labor Party and so was the current president of the United States, Barack Obama, who really won the nomination for president in 2008 because he did have a reputation of opposition to the war in Iraq.TONY JONES: Yes, I remember when you sprang to his defence, you castigated the blundering neo-cons and ultra-nationalists who were criticising your friend Gore Vidal.BOB CARR: Yes, well that was a view I held at the time. I couldn't possibly pass judgment now, speaking for Australia. Australia must have cordial relations with all sides of American politics, and we do. I can say that having just returned from the Bohemian Grove where I rubbed shoulders with four former Republican secretaries of state.But certainly, as he would see it, as the Gore Vidal world view was etched in his writings, his essays, his polemics, Iraq captured all his fears about the way the American empire, as he saw it, as he defined it, was headed.TONY JONES: Yes, I think you regard his novel Lincoln as his greatest work. It's interesting because he portrays Lincoln as a very cunning politician and a pragmatist who he has saying, "If I could save the union by freeing all the slaves, I would do it. If I could save the union by freeing no slaves, I would do that."It's a strange thing to put in the mouth of this mythical historical figure who America believes had only this one thing in mind.BOB CARR: Yes, but that's - Lincoln actually said that, actually said that in a letter to Horace Greeley, a New York editor and politically influential figure of his day.Lincoln actually said that. Probably - and that would be the conventional historical view. There wouldn't be any historians who would challenge the view that Lincoln's goal was to save the Union - that was the first goal - and do away with slavery as a secondary goal.And that secondary goal grew to figure larger in Northern war aims only towards the end of the war.But his portrayal of Lincoln is a very fine one and I would recommend the novel Lincoln probably in advance of most of the Lincoln biographies. It's painstakingly accurate and any argument with historians has been won by Gore Vidal when it comes to that Lincoln interpretation.But, yes, you are right: he portrayed Lincoln as a master politician, not as an icon sitting there in the monument, but as a - not as an Olympian figure, but as a politician who got his hands dirty and outmanoeuvred at least two very prominent rivals who sat in his cabinet, who outmanoeuvred them at every point. He only became a statesman because he was a master politician first.TONY JONES: Do you know why it is that he became so bitter that he even appeared to hate America in his latter years? I mean, he was - as I said, he was convinced it was going to be bankrupted, he was convinced it was going to be humiliated in Afghanistan.He was convinced China would emerge as the superior country. He even suggested that the American people would end up as being the yellow man's burden.BOB CARR: Yes, some of those views are terribly exaggerated and not supported by any review of the facts as we know them.But it was disillusioned love. His knowledge of history is unrivalled. I don't think anyone, no academic, historian, no other novelist certainly, no amateur idler in libraries or bookshops would know more about American history.I mean, his grandfather would talk to him about conversations he had with Lincoln's eldest son, Robert. His grandfather told him that in one conversation with Robert Lincoln, Robert Lincoln referred to his father as a terribly cold man.Gore knew a lot of the great American families. He knew the gossip, the gossip of Washington as well as the hard history. He read the textbooks, he read the historical series and he knew the people and he had a great sense for the people he was writing about - Teddy Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt - all of them, all of the people who figured, and he had a love of politics, a deep love of politics.He was politician manqu He would have - in another part of his mind he would have had a political career and stood for president and been a great oratorical president. He said to me once, 1976, he said, "That would have been my year," that is, the year he would have run for president had he opted to go in for a political career.But, because he loved the history of his country so deeply, because he knew its - the personalities of its history, he knew the very flavour of American history, he allowed himself a deep disillusion with the way America had turned out.In a sense America failed him and his dreams, it had ceased to be - long since ceased to be the Jeffersonian republic, and had become a - as he saw it, a mega state, a very powerful centralised state, Washington run by the corporations, a lousy education system, no national healthcare for its people because it was spending so much on the military. This was his view, a very uncharitable view of the United States.TONY JONES: Just finally, on an actual contemporary political question that does have to do with the US-Australian Defence relationship. There was a report in The Age newspaper today the US military is considering a report recommending a massive expansion of US facilities in Perth so that it could become a base for a US aircraft carrier and fleet. Are you aware of such plans?BOB CARR: No, I'm not. We've had references of course to more port-related activity by America. That was part of the announcement in November last year of the rotating marine presence in northern Australia.I would imagine that this is some speculation about the scale of that commitment and it could well be that an exaggerated or a distorted view of that November announcement has found its way onto the front page. But I haven't seen it.TONY JONES: Bob Carr, we'll have to leave you there. We won't press you on something you haven't seen. Thank you very much for coming in to join us.BOB CARR: My pleasure, Tony. Thank you.

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2012-08-01/bob-carr-recalls-vidal-as-a-friend/4170776?pfm=sm

Movement is life. This may sound a bit strange at first but if you think about it for a moment the truth of this statement begins to become more and more apparent. Without movement you could not sustain life: blood cells that don’t move cannot transport oxygen, lungs that don’t move can’t breath, hearts that don’t move can’t pump blood, and spines that don’t move can’t create the motion required for proper joint nutrition, for the activities of daily living, or for the stimulation of the joint-brain pathways required for proper brain and body function. You heard correctly, movement (especially of the spine) is required for proper brain function for the coordination of activities such as concentration and learning, emotions, motor control, and organ function (including immune organs).1-2 Roger Sperry the recipient of the Nobel prize in 1982 for his work in brain research stated that the importance of movement of the spine in relation to brain function could be equated to that of a windmill that generates electricity for a powerplant. He also stated that the more structurally distorted we are, the less energy we have for metabolism, for healing, and for thinking. In fact research has shown that if you cut off the supply of somatosensory information going to the brain, the brain will actually reach a state of coma!! 3 That’s right, the brain does not simply control the body, the brain requires constant stimulation; it requires constant input from movement to keep the batteries charged. Did you know that over half of all the nerve impulses being sent between your brain and body in your spinal cord are for the delivery of movement stimulation to the brain? 4 Movement charges your brain’s battery and makes you able to think better, feel better, and function better. Sound a bit too good to be true? Don’t just take my word for it, read the work of some of the most prominent neurologists, physiologists, psychologists, and educators in the world. Messages to your brain created by proper movement (especially of your spine) have been called an essential nutrient for brain function and development.5 In fact, research is now showing that people who do not properly stimulate their brain with joint movement have learning, memory, emotional, behavioral, and overall health deficits. This is especially true for children because spinal joint receptor stimulation plays an integral role in the development of the child’s brain and nervous system and the effects of decreased stimulation of the brain in childhood have been linked to central motor impairment, developmental impairments, learning disabilities, concentration problems, behavioral problems such as violence and increased illnesses such as ear, nose, and throat infections, sleeping difficulties, and colic. 6-7 “Connectivity is a crucial feature of brain development because the neural pathways formed during the early years carry signals that allow us to process information throughout our lives (Dixon and Shore).” 7 At first researchers thought that it was just the exercise that improved brain and overall health due to increased blood flow and oxygen supply etc. Further research has shown that aerobic activity is not what is responsible for the amazing benefits of proper movement stimulation of the brain. It is the neurological stimulation of the pathways between moving joints, especially spinal joints, and the brain that are responsible. “At a major neuroscience symposium in Chicago where experts in the field of movement and cognition met the message was clear: Our body enriches our mind”. 7 Chiropractic Delivers! It should be obvious why it is so important to ensure every child has a properly moving and aligned spine as the spinal joints are the main source of sensory movement stimulation to the brain. If there is subluxation in the spine, movement and therefore essential nutrient delivery to the brain are compromised. The upper neck has been found to be particularly important to examine because it is the most easily damaged (birth trauma, falls, poor sleeping postures) and it has by far the most movement receptors to stimulate the brain. 4,6 These findings have been confirmed by clinical studies performed by both chiropractors and medical doctors. In fact after examining thousands of children one medical researcher concluded that “observations of motor development and manual control of the occipito-atlanto-axial (upper neck) joint complex should be obligatory after every difficult birth”. He also states that the upper neck “should be examined and, if required, specifically adjusted … (as) the success of adjustment overshadows every other type of treatment.” 6 Of course it does, a specific adjustment is the ONLY way to correct a subluxation! As pediatric chiropractors we are all very familiar with this type of work and have all personally seen great results with the care we provide to children. The problem is that much of society is unaware of the pathogenic potential of subluxation and far too many children are suffering needlessly. It is up to all of us as individuals to disseminate this information and to support organizations such as the I.C.P.A. that are dedicated to educating both the public and the chiropractors in the field. I recommend combining specific adjustments with some sound nutritional advice and some fun ‘Brain Gym’ exercises to ensure that each child gets the best possible chance to have a healthy body and mind. Not only does proper spinal movement increase overall health, decrease dis-ease and improve the ability to create feelings of happiness and well-being, it also helps to reduce pain and discomfort and to diminish feelings of anxiety and stress. When it comes right down to it we are creatures designed for virtually constant movement living in a society that involves almost constant sitting. We are also clearly designed to have properly moving and aligned spines and many of our citizens are unknowingly walking around with subluxation in their spines because they have NEVER HAD A SPINAL HEALTH EXAM!! This is not a healthy combination and the result is that we have a population that is much less healthy and much more sick, tired, and dis-ease ridden than is necessary. Please get yourselves and the children out and moving around. Everyone will feel better, think better, have a healthier spine, have increased overall health, and enjoy a much greater quality of life. All children (and adults of course) deserve a wonderful quality of life and proper spinal movement is an integral part of this. Motion is lotion, movement is life, and chiropractic delivers so get out there and get those spines moving!

http://entertogetwell.ca/movement-is-life/

David Whannel was born in Jefferson, Iowa in 1970. He graduated from Iowa State University in 1994 with a BFA in drawing and painting. He moved to Iowa City after college and took some pre-graduate classes at Iowa. He later moved to Minneapolis in June of 2001 and was a member of Rosalux Gallery from 2001-05.About his work, David writes, "Making art for me is all about the process. I draw and paint together, so when I'm working I must be doing both. Each piece is unique to itself, only the process is consistent.By using addition, subtraction, collage, landscape, distorted perspective, found objects, and explosive energy I attempt to create pictures that are not only fun and exciting for me to create, but offer the viewer the same pleasure.Obviously I'm influenced by most abstract and pop artists of the 50's - 80's. ButI get a lot of influence from my peers here in Minneapolis. One of the reasons I moved here. Now, Iowa has come a long way, in offering opportunities, since I left."David Whannel's website

http://dp.uiowa.edu/index.php?artwork=1590

Good for one Beer Gardens Concert at the Daines Ranch after the rodeo has completed (drew Gregory Friday, Steve Arsenault Saturday). This ticket not required if previous performance ticket had been bought. Ticket/Receipt must be printed or screenshot.

http://www.innisfailprorodeo.com/store/p11/Beer_Gardens_Concert.html

If the drop-in schedule does not meet your needs, you may request up to two hours per week of one-on-one scheduled tutoring: Sign up on-line for one-on-one tutoring. For further assistance: 417-625-3725 or thompson-craig@mssu.edu The Student Success Center strives to enhance the mission of Missouri Southern State University by further developing, expanding, and articulating its support services for students. We will foster the potential of each student by providing tutoring, College Academic Skills, the Tutor Training Course, and Disability Services Accommodations for Disabilities.

http://www.mssu.edu/student-affairs/student-success-center/tutoring-schedules.php

The comany blames low NAND flash memory prices for the drop, but at least it's doing more than well on the CPU side. Apart from the NAND hiccup, everything else seems to be going smoothly and Intel's expectations are consistent with the first quarter Business Outlook published in Q4.

http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/2429-intel-lowers-q1-gross-margin-forecast

Creative Concern was borne out of a belief that communications could change the world. That was in 2002 and this belief remains at the core of our business; it’s what gets us up in the morning. We summarise our approach as: communications for a sustainable future. We are a creative communications agency, based in Manchester's Northern Quarter, providing design, web, film, branding, strategic PR, copywriting and marketing services. We have grown from a team of 2 to 23, working with a diverse range of clients across the public, private and charitable sectors. As a company, we are driven by our ethical outlook as well as our ideas and creative edge. We care about what we do. We deliver projects with intelligence and enthusiasm across different disciplines and platforms: whether the job is to lead a rallying cry for action, engage the community through consultation or delivering a viral advertising campaign, we have the skills and the team in place. Above all, we are about generating results for our clients. All of our projects and campaigns are delivered with a tight focus on the aims and objectives.

http://thecreativeexchange.org/partners/creative-concern

We serve the 4 main airports nearest to Oxford; Heathrow, Gatwick, Luton, and Stansted with standard prices. And any other airports around the UK upon requests. There is also an exclusive 10% discount for HOC members! Rider Training Skills The Oxford Branch of the Honda Owners Club proudly supports Dilligaf Racing 20 New Horizon House Greenham Business Park Newbury RG19 6HW 01635 817402 Offering Discounts to HOC members! Overland magazine celebrates travel by motorcycle, whether it’s a week exploring another county, or a year discovering the beauty of another continent. Full of stunning photography and great writing talent, Overland is informative, entertaining and inspiring. Currently published three times a year, Overland contains 112 heavyweight pages and has quality production values that compliment the beautiful imagery.

http://www.oxford.hoc.org.uk/links/

Great Work on these, I think I prefer the red one over the blue one as Batman really stands out more than Superman does on the blue.

http://forums.superherohype.com/showpost.php?p=28560015&postcount=624

Lawnwood Memorial Park was started in 1954 by Lewis D. Caldwell and Samuel G. Cowan. The original purchase was only a small number of acres, but over the last few decades has expanded to a little over 60 acres. Lawnwood has continued to offer a peaceful and caring place to serve as the final resting place for the loved ones of four generations. A perpetual care cemetery, organized under the law and guidelines of the Secretary of the State of Georgia, Lawnwood Memorial Park provides rolling hills of green lawn that are kept neatly manicured year round. Our flat bronze gardens, and newly developed upright bronze and granite gardens, provide families options to satisfy most requests. Billy Crawford, General Manager Billy Crawford is General Manager of Lawnwood Memorial Park, a position he’s held since September of 2013. Billy came to Lawnwood after 19 years of employment with Newton County Government. He is a 1985 graduate of Newton County High School, and attended Dekalb College from 1986-1988, where he studied Business. Billy is an active and longtime member of Julia A. Porter United Methodist Church in Porterdale, where he has served in many areas. A compassionate advocate for children, he has been Children’s Director at Julia A. Porter for more than 24 years. Billy and his wife Lila have one son, and reside in Oxford. Crystal Milligan, Administrative Assistant Crystal L. Milligan is Administrative Assistant for Lawnwood Memorial Park. She has been employed with Lawnwood since July of 2004, and is available to assist families with both Preneed and At Need sales and services. Crystal is a native of Covington, and is married to Steve Milligan, who has been employed with Lawnwood since 1997. She is a Volunteer Firefighter and Emergency Medical Responder, and volunteers with the Central Georgia Chapter of the Red Cross/Jasper County. Crystal has two children, Nichole and Michael.

http://www.lawnwoodmemorialpark.com/about-us/

(KFYI News) — A Maricopa County Sheriff's volunteer posse member who was shot and critically injured on New Year's Eve while coming to the aid of a Phoenix police officer was finally released from the hospital on Wednesday. 63-year-old Philip Grigg was off duty and passing through the intersection of 56th St. and Thomas Rd. on Dec. 31 when his pickup truck was hit by a car carrying two suspects being pursued by Phoenix police officer Scott Sefranka after an alleged armed robbery. Grigg got out his truck to help when he saw Sefranka struggling with one of the suspects. Grigg ended up getting shot, and spent two months in intensive care, most of it in a medically-induced coma. Since then, he's had numerous surgeries and other treatments, followed by inpatient rehab. Sefranka was also injured, but was released from the hospital after a few days. On Wednesday, Grigg was finally discharged from the hospital. He told reporters at Scottsdale Healthcare Osborn that he was "ecstatic" and feels he's at about fifty percent in his recovery, "and that's something I can deal with." Asked what he has missed the most during his six months in the hospital, Grigg responded "my cooking". Grigg says he remembers part of what happened. "I think I remember seeing the officer in trouble, and that's when I charged the 'mountain'... and he was a mountain." Grigg also said he remembers the burning sensation when he was shot, but after that his mind is blank until he woke up in acute care, which is where he went after his two months in ICU, and figured he'd been in some type of accident. Dr. Frank Mitchell, trauma medical director of the hospital, says Grigg's injuries were critical after the bullet tore through many of his major organs. "He certainly had an extremely high chance of not surviving that evening," Mitchell said, noting that part of the reason Grigg was treated so quickly was that the hospital had three trauma surgeons on duty at the time, and they all worked on him. Sheriff Arpaio says the last six months have been "a tough journey and an emotional ride, not just for the family but for my office." He noted that it's the first time a sheriff's posse member has been shot. Arpaio says once Grigg is ready to return to duty, he'll be assigned to work with abused animals in the sheriff's MASH unit. Grigg responded, "Sheriff Arpaio has told me I need to get strong quick because he has a lot of work for me, so I'm gonna be busy doin' that."

http://kfyi.iheart.com/articles/arizona-news-118695/sheriffs-posse-member-goes-home-from-12527629/

How can I make a new page look like the same as the shop pages? Guess I need to change the page template. Please help. Thanks a lot.

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HISTORY REALITY WD POWERS WHERE WE ARE History The day was moody and cloudy. Dinkan swirled on his bed, lazing to get up. But the empty stomach didn’t let him sleep anymore. Dinkan got out from his hay bed and inspected the kitchen. Sadly, it resembled his stomach. Craving, he got out from the gnawed hole and began to seek for food. In the process, he lost the way and ended up in the undergrounds of an IT Hub. Drooling to all those colorful wires, Dinkan chomped one among them. Upon nipping it, he felt a sort of power passing through the spine. But quite to a surprise, he didn’t die. Instead, he went woozy and dozed off. Waking up, Dinkan found that he has cumulated an Uber-Digital-Power! Later on, naming himself as Web Dinkan, he started to render digital services across the globe. Facing an issue? Have queries? Shoot Web Dinkan a mail and he'll fly down to help you. TestiMonials All I wanna say is Web Dinkan is available 24*7 and delivers prompt service to his customers. Nessa, Europe Social Media is the next-gen marketing strategy. Web Dinkan can obviously bring a change in all the leading Social Media platforms. Best wishes! Vijay Babu, Vice President at Sun Network The people working behind Web Dinkan are smart enough to make things happen. They came up with some 'Out Of the Box' ideas to promote our business. Shamier Marickar, CEO – Nest Infratech Putting creativity into action - Web Dinkan does it. Sandra Thomas Managing Director Friday Film Concepts Branding was my dream. Web Dinkan made it happen. Nazrul, Managing Director NDE Projects Web Dinkan – A perfect example for teamwork. Mohammed Shihab Managing Director Crescent International Group © 2017 Web Dinkan Pvt Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Home | History | Reality | WD Powers | Where We Are

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An opportunity for members of the parish family to come together and learn more about their faith and Catholic tradition.Michele Riolo - 758-1984 Altar Servers Group of dedicated men, women and children called to serve by assisting at Mass.Tim Regan - 755-7768 Bereavement Reception Committee A ministry to assist families in the parish who wish to have a gathering of family and friends at the church following the funeral of a loved one.Paul & Laura Cardelli - 755-5589Howard & Lucy Giffin - 754-3389 Caring Cooks Volunteers prepare and deliver meals to families in crisis such as illness or other tragedy.Kathleen Edelmuth - 756-7703 Careers in Transition Provides a network of support, counseling and resources to those in transition between jobs.Pat Hayden - 759-9591 Cell Groups Groups that meet in the homes for prayer, learning and growing in our Catholic faith under the leadership of our pastor with the purpose of evangelizing. For more information contact John Moskal at or go online to Children’s Liturgy of the Word Work with the children during the Liturgy of the Word on Sunday to help them better understand the message of God.Craig DeMille 754-1204 Ext 316 Choirs Children’s, Spirit, Young Adult Ensemble & Adult Choir.Ben Legett - 754-1204, Ext. 330 Fishers of Men Small prayer/fellowship groups to strengthen men inwardly so that they become godly men who make a difference in their homes, parishes, workplaces and communities. Meets Tuesday mornings after 6:15 mass in the chapel. Leader: Fritz Ruthling "Night Fishing- Fishers of men at Night"Meets Wednesday evenings at 7:15 in Fr. Gresham Hall on the OLPH campus. Leader: Mike D'Addabbo 901-481-3855. Health Ministry/Life Blood Coordinates health related needs and outreach of the parish, including the semiannual parish Life Blood Drive.Mary Cay Oyler His Will Prayer Group His Will is an intercessory prayer group that focuses on praying for the various civil and religious matters that impact our world today. Join us in prayer and study afterwards, Tuesday at 9:30 am or Thursday at 7:00 pm. Jean Carr Liturgical Ministries Individuals who serve as Eucharistic Ministers, Lectors, Altar Servers & Ushers that are committed to serve in the gathering of the Body of Christ in liturgical celebration. Click Here to download the Liturgical Minister Schedule. Ministry of Praise An ongoing spiritual journey and commitment that originated especially for the homebound in our parish. Each month, members receive a letter that contains special intentions – the needs and concerns of our Parish and Community as well as items of joy and thanksgiving. Ministry of the Sick Members visit and take communion to hospital patients and shut-ins.Mary Beth Lazek - 758-1458 Newcomer Committee Welcomes new families to the parish.Ministries Office - 754-1204, Ext. 306 Pantry Committee Volunteers who gather and sort food and all items donated to the parish pantry.Bill & Virginia Kilgore Parish Pastoral Council The Parish Pastoral Council advises the pastor and helps frame and realize the parish vision. The Commissions within the Council are: Communications, Evangelization/Ecumenical, Family Life, Liturgical, Parish Religious Education, Parish School, Peace & Justice, Youth and Athletic. Parish Outreach People that would like to participate in various programs throughout the diocese that assist the poor and needy.Ministries Office-Deacon Moskal - 754-1204, Ext. 306 Prayer Group Come together to pray the rosary and grow spiritually as a community.Calma Hobson Prayer Partner Prays, sends cards to, and affirms children in First Eucharist class.P.R.E. Office - 754-1204, Ext. 316 Prison Ministry Individuals willing to assist at prison liturgies and spend time with prisoners.Bill Erneste - (662) 895-8576 R.C.I.A. Welcomes and assists adult inquirers to become active participants in the Catholic Church.Mary Hamblen - 237-6837 Rosary Makers A group of people who meet to make rosaries and provide them for the parish and community needs.Mike & Janelle Taylor AttachmentSize Minister_Schedule.pdf266.66 KB (c)2010 Our Lady of Perpetual Help | contact webmaster

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Safe Lagoon protects kids from viewing inappropriate sites while the Safe Lagoon App in Parental Mode lets parents monitor their children's overall device activity. Safe Lagoon is not spyware, we designed it as a tool for parents to assist them and their kids in navigating the online world together. On first installation you are asked if you are installing on the child's or in the parent's telephone - so the one app will work in kid and parent mode. When Safe Lagoon blocks a site, or a time limit is reached, the child is informed by a friendly message with a short explanation. They then have the opportunity to send a request to mom or dad to grant them a little more time. What you can do with Safe Lagoon: - Real time remote management of your child's device- Monitor Instant Messaging: WhatsApp, Skype, Viber, Facebook Messenger-!!!- Monitor Social Network Activity: Instagram, YouTube, etc.- Track your child’s location on a map and create a virtual perimeter - we tell you when they go out of bounds- Block Applications and Games- Monitor Calls and SMS – receive notifications when your child is contacted by strangers- Schedule it: set healthy limits on App and Internet usage Instant Messaging Monitoring: This is our secret sauce! Safe Lagoon uses a unique and patented method for monitoring your child's IM conversations on the post popular messengers: Whatsapp, Viber, Skype, Facebook and more. Find your Child:Safe Lagoon provides you location information of your child's device using the GPS of their telephone and keeps you updated on their movements. Healthy Time Management: Safe Lagoon allows parents to schedule game, app and Internet access for their children with our easy to configure interface. Remote Control by Parent App: Safe Lagoon's Parental App is the interactive control centre to set up and manage all online activity. From the palm of your hand! Very convenient! Safe Lagoon also works on Windows and Mac computers and there is a version for IPhone and iPad users as well – and the good news is all these different devices can be monitored by a single Parental app! Last updated 26 Jun 2016 Less Editor's review Page 1 of 3 Published 25 Jun 2016 You might have seen an app review that FeedMyApp ran not so long back where we lamented the number of child monitoring apps that are appearing on the app market these days. It would appear that the more technically savvy we become, the more online danger looms - especially for more vulnerable users. Namely, our kids. There are now heaps of apps out there that offer everything from monitoring to video surveillance. However, there aren't that many that offer a complete service to oversee their children's online activities. Safe Lagoon not only protects our kids from harmful and inappropriate websites, it also offers a complete management program to monitor and control all of your kids device activity. I guess the main difference between this and similar apps is that Safe Lagoon doesn't use the same old spyware to keep your kids safe. Rather than surreptitiously 'looking over your child's shoulder' the app is designed as a set of tools to assist parents in helping their children navigate their way through an often dangerous online world. Apart from simply blocking inappropriate sites from your kids eyes on the Internet, the app also controls time limits for Internet use, monitors SMS on all the obvious messaging and social networks, blocks certain apps and games, tracks your child's location and monitors incoming calls and messages. When you first install the app you will be asked whether you are installing on the child's or the parental device because the...

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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) - A Missouri judge has rejected a request from news organizations for access to documents in the guardianship case of wealthy hotel magnate John Q. Hammons. Greene County Probate Judge Michael Cordonnier heard arguments Friday from an attorney for The Springfield News-Leader and television station KYTV, then ordered the court file sealed. The 92-year-old Springfield businessman is a prominent civic leader whose company operates more than 80 hotels in 25 states. Hammons now lives in a Springfield nursing home. Several friends went to court last year asking probate officials to appoint a guardian to oversee his care. Their petition accuses his company's current CEO of keeping Hammons in involuntary seclusion. The news organizations argued there is legitimate public interest in Hammons because of his long involvement, including financial commitments, in public and private projects.

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This fall, one of the strategies I invented against the economic crisis was to scavenge pumpkins. The week after Halloween, people were as glad to get rid of them as my chickens were to eat them. Last week, however, when everything froze up, I noticed that it was taking the chickens a lot longer to eat their pumpkin. It must have hurt their beaks to bang them over and over into that block of orange ice. Still, when a friend offered her leftover pumpkins, I could not turn them down. They were beautiful pumpkins, bright orange, and not a mark on them. And they were frozen solid. Driving home, I considered the situation. If I put the frozen pumpkins in the chicken house, the hens wouldn't touch them. Then a thaw would come, the pumpkins would get squishy, and the chickens might eat one or two before everything froze again, or the pumpkins rotted. A shameful waste of pumpkins, either way. I took the five pumpkins in the house and put them on the kitchen counter to defrost overnight. What would I find in the morning? Would the pumpkins deliquesce like Dali watches? Would they explode and spatter everything with juice and seeds? Next morning the pumpkins still sat, orange and intact, on my blue counter. They were not rotten or moldy or icky in anyway--just a bit soft. No way was I going to throw them on the compost. They were food, filled with vitamins and calories, and somebody—the chickens or the dogs—would benefit from them. But I would have to cook them. I took a deep breath, sharpened my Chinese chopper, and set my big stock pot on the stove. I chopped the five pumpkins--saving the seeds for the chickens--and steamed them (this took a long time). When they were done, I cooled them and strained them and stuffed them into sixteen quart-sized jars, which I wedged into our overflowing freezer. Then I scrubbed the stock pot in the sink and wiped my brow. There, I said, that's done! Waste not, want not. That will show AIG and those other malefactors.... But wait. Waste not? How many hours had I spent trying not to waste the five pumpkins? How much of my unique spirit and creative energy had gone into those sixteen jars? “An expense of spirit in a waste of shame,” Shakespeare wrote. He was talking about lust. I am talking about pumpkins. Still, if we're talking economics here, the expense of spirit has definitely got to be accounted for. Posted by

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Following the introduction of the sole-sourced 80386 microprocessor, Intel discouraged customers from continuing to use the older 80286 that was also being made by other manufacturers.

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Aaargh. I am supposed to be spending today cleaning, in anticipation of having houseguests. What have I been doing instead? Frittering away the whole damned day playing this stupid Doctor Who-themed game on my phone. And it really is pretty stupid. I mean, it looks very nice. But the gameplay consists of nothing but endlessly attacking things by, essentially, playing Bejeweled. Which a) makes no sense, and b) hardly seems appropriate for Doctor Who. Also, I suck at Bejeweled. And yet, I cannot stop playing. I am beginning to suspect it is part of some evil plot. Possibly by the Cybermen. Send help. Posted by Betty at 4:45 PM 2 comments: Labels: bits of my life, doctor who Sunday, September 20, 2015 To Quote The Fourth Doctor: Sleep Is For Tortoises. In the space between two twelve-hour night shifts, I have traded an adequate amount of sleep for the opportunity to watch the season premiere of Doctor Who. I regret nothing! I probably will, late tonight, but for now, I regret nothing. Except for how long I have to wait for part 2. Posted by Betty at 5:11 PM No comments: Labels: doctor who Friday, September 18, 2015 Woo Who! We won the Doctor Who trivia quiz!!!! Rather to our surprise, really. I mean, I was optimistic going in, and we started out reasonably strong, but there were a disturbing number of questions we missed due to misinterpreting the question, or picking the wrong person's guess, or, most annoyingly, writing down the correct answer and then erasing it and putting down something else instead. (Hey, Telos is almost Mondas, right?) And then there was that one question that was just plain wrong. Seriously, Prisoner Zero is an individual (well, sort of), not a species. Doggone it. So, we were falling behind quite a lot in the middle, but managed to pull a turn-around in the end. I think it helped, oddly, that the last round turned out to be all about behind-the-scenes and non-canon stuff. We weren't expecting that, but probably neither was anybody else, and some of us happened to have the right kind of random knowledge there. So we ended up tied for first! Which led to a five-question sudden death round... Which we tied again! Apparently both teams got the same question wrong. (Stupid Torchwood.) The tie-breaking tie-breaker was then a ridiculous arithmetic question. Something like: take the total screen time of the 9th, 10th and 11th doctors according to io9, multiply by the number of years Rose traveled into the future in "The End of the World," and divide by the number of letters in "Raxacoricofallapatorius." Though I think there were more terms than that; it's all become something of a blur now. Interestingly enough, both team's answers were pretty close to each other but we were closest to the actual answer. Thus, VICTORY! (Not of the Daleks). Ha! Take that everybody who ever shook their head over me remembering "useless" things. MY KNOWLEDGE OF DOCTOR WHO IS WORTH ACTUAL MONEY! I feel as if my whole life has been vindicated. Heh. Posted by Betty at 1:35 AM 2 comments: Labels: bits of my life, doctor who Sunday, September 06, 2015 September Currentlies Here it is, September, and suddenly it's obvious that we're on the descending arc of the year. It's still summer here, no question, but there's something in the air that makes you think the world is finally remembering the idea of winter. But enough waxing poetic about the weather. Here's the usual meme thingy. Current clothes: Red sweatpants. Black t-shirt from LibraryThing What's on your bookshelf?"), because LibraryThing is freaking awesome. Black socks. Brown boots. Current mood: OK. A teensy bit tired or groggy, as I've just switched off night shifts, and my circadian rhythms are currently less traditionally rhythmic and more like one of those weird avant-garde modern compositions. Current music: In addition to the usual I've also been listening to a lot of actual albums lately, while doing various things around the house. Most recently Warren Zevon's My Ride's Here and Chameleon Circuit by Chameleon Circuit. That second one being a manifestation of my excited anticipation for the new season of Doctor Who. Current annoyance: Mosquitos. I have a mosquito bite on my hand. On the palm. How the hell does that even happen? Current thing: Yeah, I have definitely been in a state of Who-fannish excitement lately. Not only am I very much looking forward to the season premiere, but I'm also going to be participating in this nationwide Doctor Who trivia quiz. We did really well on the Star Trek one, so, hey, maybe we can take home the prize this time! Current desktop picture: Still this. I have been vaguely thinking about changing it again, but we'll see whether I ever actually do it. Current book: Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff Vandermeer, which is an omnibus compilation of Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance. Very weird and interesting, but it's kind of slow-going. I'm thinking I really shouldn't have started it while I was on nights; it's not a good book for tired brains. Current song in head: All kinds of odd stuff has been drifting in and out, but it's pretty quiet now. I think most recently was "Radioactive" by Imagine Dragons, which I am now going to try not to think about too much, lest it come back, ridiculously sticky tune that it is. Current refreshment: Nothing, but I'm thinking of going out for a bacon cheeseburger soon. Current DVD in player: Disk one of season 3 of The Legend of Korra. It's not as good as Avatar: The Last Airbender -- which sets an extremely high bar -- but I am enjoying it. And season 3, so far, actually does feel like it has more of the sensibility of the original show, in ways that I can't quite pin down yet. Current worry: I've got the crack where water was coming into my house all sealed up, in such a way that I really can't see how there could be more problems with it, but I nevertheless can't shake the worry that my bedroom will somehow get wet again the next time we have a good-sized rainstorm. And then I won't know what to do. Current thought: I could have gone with a different "current thing," which is that I am slowly but surely making improvements to my material environment by replacing old, worn-out, or non-existent furniture and appliances. I just bought a new headboard for my bed, because the old one finally fell apart completely. I'm much happier with this one, in part because it actually bolts to my bedframe -- the old one was the wrong size -- and thus does not immediately fall over whenever you move the mattress away. (This was, needless to say, one of the reasons why the old one was in bad shape.)

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Note: I DO still do the traditional wash/lanolizing on wool that is feeling not-so-soft after the felting process...but if you are talking about knits, crochet, or interlock, I see no reason why a spray lanolizing wouldn't work. Its worth a try anyway! I got a tub of lanolin from Crow Mountain Crafts, and then a bag of her wool wash bits...but I'm sure you could work with what you have....just don't only use the wool wash bits, that won't be enough lanolin to sufficiently lanolize. You need that solid lanolin in there, and you need it to get VERY melted, and broken down by the soap in the wool wash bits....its really stinkin' amazing! Like I said, worth a try So if I understand well, the thing is that the wool wash helps the solid lanolin to melt well? Would it actually melt better than just heating the lansinoh in water? So I would still use lansinoh tube and I would get a wool wash bar to use with it? Thank you, you help a lot!

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A blog dedicated to documenting the assorted details regarding the business dealings of Ken Whitman within the Role-Playing-Game industry. Pages Home Chronology Pseudonyms Ken Sez A Brief Introduction to this Page's Purpose Not Another Dime! is dedicated to documenting the assorted, and sometimes wild, details of Mr. Ken Whitman's business dealings within the Role Playing Game (RPG) industry. This place is NOT intended to be a medium of discussion about Mr. Whitman, pro or con, but instead be a "jumping off" point to enable the reader to make their own informed decision about Mr. Whitman's history and business character.Whenever possible, links to the original source material will be provided, but in many cases that information may have been deleted or secured behind restricted-access (like a private Facebook page) accounts.Anything posted here is the opinion of the retrospective author and any content shown is to be considered "fair use" and posted for educational purposes only.Note to authors: Please begin each post with the original date of creation in the format of YYYY.MM.DD (i.e. 2015.08.08) so readers can use the Chronology page to find specific information. Please use appropriate tags when possible for the same reason.Note to contributors: If you have some valid data to send, screenshots, links to other Ken Whitman stories, etc., please feel free to send a gmail to notanotherdimeblog. We'll look into it and post if appropriate. Friday, September 2, 2016 2016.09.02 A Twofer of Ken "Whit" Whitman Goodness Thanks to a head's up from Tenkar's Tavern, we learned that Ken "Whit" Whitman is trying once again to fleece scam extract solicit funds from the pool of people that contributed to his Spinward Traveller Kickstarter. Of course that project is coming up on two years late (December 2014 was the "estimated delivery" date), but Ken "Whit" Whitman has the end credits done.....kind of. For the low, low price of only $10 you can get your name added as a backer. This is quite the bargain because during the actual fundraising campaign, you had to pledge at least $40 to get your name in the credits. 486 people pledged less than $40, so Ken "Whit" Whitman has a potential take of $4,860. Of course so much of the fundraising for this particular project was done off-books from the official Kickstarter campaign and this little attempt at an add-on is also off-book as Ken "Whit" Whitman is using a Square Store for this additional "funding" source. We highly suspect that anybody who wants to send Ken "Whit" Whitman $10 can have their name added to the movie that may never see the light of day, no need to be part of the 486 allegedly-eligible backers from 2014.... "Hey Everyone, First let me say that I am sorry it has taken so long to get Spinward Traveller off the ground, I am work with Far Future Enterprises to get this project into your hands as soon as possible. As you know we have released the end credits with all the backers names that paid $40 or more, more than a few of you have asked if you can get your name in the credits. So, for an additional $10 we would be happy to include you name, in the credits. These additional money will be used to help me spend more time editing, and speeding up the edit process. With a little luck and tenacity, I play to have a finished product by the end of this year. Look for an announcement from FFE in the next few months. Thank you for being understanding. You can log on to my new store at Whit Studios. (weblink removed, -Editor) The credit purchase in on the main page. Thank you for your time, Ken Whitman" After the initial shock of a) Ken "Whit" Whitman asking for more money and b) Ken "Whit" Whitman screwing over the 107 backers who pledged at the "NAME CREDIT PACKAGE" specifically to get their name in the credits, our first real question was, "Does Far Future Enterprises know about this?" Of course this leads to more questions. What is their role? What do they stand to gain from this? Who knows......we, don't! On a slightly related front, Ken "Whit" Whitman is sharing his "expertise" at workshops for TDH Talent Unlimited. While it is great news, at least for him, that he is getting some work, we can't help but wonder where is his expertise stemming from? He wrote/acted in a season and a half of Brother's Barbarian and directed three Kickstarter projects that are unfulfilled. He's also done some one-off extra work. One could easily argue he's never really gone "back" to anything......at least not enough to be an expert. If TDH Talent Unlimited is happy, and their clients/actors are happy, it probably doesn't matter...... Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest 4 comments : Ken WhitmanSeptember 3, 2016 at 6:18 AMI see no news about my Emergency Gallbladder removal or the fact I taught my class two days after it, because I have to work so I can release my Kickstarters. My expertise comes from over 10k hours of shooting, writing & editing. I have filmed two feature length movies, two tv pilots and over 50 two minute demos, so I might actually know some shit. Also, I am SAG elegable, because I have speaking lines in upcoming movies. Do you guys really think I would have gotten this far without talent? Keep me in the front of gammers minds, then when I get everything back in order, well i will have you to help thank! Be 3, 2016 at 11:43 PMOut of curiosity, what are the two feature length movies you've filmed? And the TV pilots? ReplyDeleteRichard CrowleySeptember 4, 2016 at 3:12 PMScreen actors guild membership is based on an annual fee paid to the organization/union (have money, get membership). Of course Ken "Whit" Whitman is eligible. He lives off of other people's money. Just take the money from your off-book scams and sign up, Ken. ReplyDeleteJeriFebruary 8, 2017 at 12:33 AMIn my opinion as one of the Knights of the Dinner Table kickstarter backers who have yet to see anything after three years, if Ken Whitman knew "some shit" he wouldn't be perpetually unemployed/underemployed and running from creditors and unfinished projects! Nothing has stopped him from fulfilling his legal obligations and broken promises but himself! His car, money, relationship, housing, cash-flow, medical, equipment issues and all the other excuses he's given over these past few years are not the fault of the defrauded backers and should not be our problem! We don't care, don't feel sympathy for him and only want what we paid for and were promised. How he makes that happen shouldn't be our problem. Everything I've read about him and his continuing failures due to less than ethical business dealings makes it highly unlikely he can redeem himself if he continues as he has been. "When I get everything back in order," how much longer does he think that will take? ReplyDeleteAdd commentLoad more... The comments on this blog are heavily moderated as this location is simply a one-stop-shop for finding pertinent information otherwise scattered across the internet. If you need to comment on a particular post, please try to do it where the information originated. 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Hamtaro Character :Hamtaro (, Hamutarō?): (Seiyū: Kurumi Mamiya, Voice Actress: Chiara Zanni) - Owned by Laura, Hamtaro is a courageous Ham-Ham who's always ready to help out his friends and his owner Laura. However, he cannot stand being ignored by Laura. He is clueless about many things being that he is of an innocent nature, especially love (much to Bijou's dismay). There is a lot of evidence in the show that Hamtaro most likely has an enormous crush on Bijou. Hamtaro makes the most at of his life as a small hamster and lives each day in happiness hoping to make more friends and have fun. In the original anime, Hamtaro ends his sentences with 'na no da', a phrase often used by playful characters. This is changed to, "ham-ha!", "Pakapaka", and "kush kush" in the English version.Read More in :

http://bestwallpapers-lux.blogspot.com/2009/02/hamtaro-character-and-wallpaper.html

A unified, multidiscipline hypothesis is proposed to explain the anomalous pattern by which chloride has been found in water of the Upper Floridan aquifer in Brunswick, Glynn County, Georgia. Analyses of geophysical, hydraulic, water chemistry, and aquifer test data using the equivalent porous medium (EPM) approach are used to support the hypothesis and to improve further the understanding of the fracture-flow system in this area. Using the data presented herein we show that: (1) four major northeast-southwest trending faults, capable of affecting the flow system of the Upper Floridan aquifer, can be inferred from structural analysis of geophysical data and from regional fault patterns; (2) the proposed faults account for the anomalous northeastward elongation of the potentiometric surface of the Upper Floridan aquifer; (3) the faults breach the nearly impermeable units that confine the Upper Floridan aquifer from below, allowing substantial quantities of water to leak vertically upward; as a result, aquifer transmissivity need not be excessively large (as previously reported) to sustain the heavy, long-term pumpage at Brunswick without developing a steep cone of depression in the potentiometric surface; (4) increased fracturing at the intersection of the faults enhances the development of conduits that allow the upward migration of high-chloride water in response to pumping from the Upper Floridan aquifer; and (5) the anomalous movement of the chloride plume is almost entirely controlled by the faults. ?? 1990.

https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/70016336

After launching the careers of a number of prominent comic creators over the years, New York’s School of Visual Arts is launching a free digital magazine app exclusively devoted to comics. Titled INK, its first issue already boasts some impressive talent and is available on your computer or iPad free of charge. INK‘s first issue in split between both comics newcomers as well as tenured professionals. Several comic pros who teach at SVA contribute, including Klaus Janson, Nick Bertozzi and Joey Cavalieri, but it’s the work of these talented unknowns that really make the magazine memorable. Check it out! Tags:

http://www.cbr.com/new-yorks-school-of-visual-arts-launches-online-magazine-ink/

Rihanna made a quick stop on ITV's Saturday night show Cheryl Cole's night in to perform her lead single from Rated R "Russian roulette". I've not been too hot on The Forehead's recent string of "Russian roulette" performances. But this one was really good. Not brilliant. But good. When you're set to perform after the likes of Cheryl Bum-Hole. It's not like the bar is set particularly high...As if it wasn't official already: The Forehead is now a bit of a style icon. I can't even hate on her. Some of the shit she wears is questionable. But The Forehead keeps it moving with the fashion. I liked what she wore for this performance, and the whole dark dungeon meets Opera belle shit she went with for the whole thing. Lord knows how she didn't catch a hit from the floor in those heels though. They didn't look like they were offering her much support. But she managed to stay upright. She probabaly gave herself some bunions and shit though.This performance is The Forehead's best so far in terms of her vocals. Her not attempting to belt the first run of the chorus made things easier on the ears and allowed her to keep things in a register she can actually sing in and control. But as soon as she started walking towards the front of the stage, I was thinking "Oh, Lawd. She's gonna take it there..." and then the horrid screech of ♪ You can see my haaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrt ♪ kicked in. Aside from the nasty deliver of that line, everything else was nice and controlled.

http://randomjpop.blogspot.com/2009/12/rihannas-russian-roulette-performance.html

To tourists, San Diego is a mecca. To denizens of the Los Angeles Basin, it's their favorite weekend getaway. But to government wonks, San Diego is ground-zero for the growing national debate about whether taxpayers can -- or should -- continue to provide the pensions and retiree health benefits that public employees were promised during more prosperous (and more confident) times. After years of litigating, negotiating and arguing, the city still has a $2.2-billion unfunded pension liability and a $1.3-billion unfunded liability for retiree health benefits, according to a recent grand jury report. Progress toward whittling down those numbers was largely wiped out by the real estate bust and global recession. Pension payments could gobble up half the city's annual budget in 15 years, the grand jury said. In other regions, talk of pension reform is something that pops up at budget season and then recedes. In San Diego, it's year-round. The editorial page of the San Diego Union-Tribune acts as the command-and-control center for the forces demanding that pensions be reduced. Take last month:+The grand jury suggested the city may need to file for bankruptcy (an idea dismissed by the city attorney, who says no legal precedent exists for reducing pension obligations that way).+City Atty. Jan Goldsmith launched a lawsuit to whittle down the city’s share of pension fund payments based on a half-century-old legal opinion found gathering dust in the files.+The taxpayers association released a report showing city pensions are better than military pensions.+ A City Council member began a petition drive to qualify a ballot measure to outsource as many city jobs as possible so that city employees can be fired and replaced by cheaper private-sector workers. (The drive flopped but he promised to renew his efforts). “City employees feel under assault,” said Bill Craig, 55, a city employee for 28 years, now an associate land surveyor at the city landfill. And around and around it goes in San Diego: with employees fighting to save their pensions and benefits; residents unwilling to pay higher taxes; the libertarian-themed San Diego media ever vigilant; and elected officials trying to keep the city government afloat without angering anyone or endangering their political futures. Jay M. Goldstone, the city’s chief operating officer, admits being flummoxed by San Diego’s political culture and its resistance to change. He’s a relative newcomer, having worked in Pasadena before being hired by Mayor Jerry Sanders. “I call San Diego the anti-Reno,” Goldstone said. “Reno calls itself ‘the biggest little city’ in the world. San Diego is the ‘littlest big city.’ It has a very small-town mentality.” With contracts, seniority protection and political clout, city employees are resistant to the idea of sacrificing their families’ futures to help bail out a city whose residents seem to believe good city services at bargain prices are a birth-right and where the politicians are afraid to oppose the anti-tax zeitgeist. Attempts to end-run employee contracts and vested pension benefits through litigation have largely flopped. So has outsourcing. The city’s pension deficit stems from decisions in 1996, 2000 and 2002 by the City Council to increase pensions while simultaneously decreasing the amount the city pays into the pension fund -- banking on a rising stock market to make up the difference. When the market tanked and the value of the pension fund’s investments declined, the deficit ballooned. What made San Diego the poster child for pension problems was not necessarily the deficit; lots of city and county governments have pension deficits. What made San Diego different was that it failed to acknowledge that deficit in proposed bond offerings in 2004. When that deliberate omission by city officials was discovered, it set off a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation, a sharp decline in the city’s bond rating and a hunt by prosecutors for the malefactors. The city’s preening self-description as America’s Finest City and its reputation for fiscal conservatism made the story of its financial woes too delicious for the national press to ignore. In 2005 the mayor, Dick Murphy, was driven to resign amid criticism that he was too slow to recognize the pension deficit problem. Adding to the city employees' sense of being unfairly attacked were failed attempts by the U.S. attorney and the district attorney to prosecute former pension board members who voted to increase pensions. In both cases, the allegations were dismissed by judges who said they were based on flimsy evidence and oddball interpretations of the law. Sanders, elected in 2005 and easily reelected in 2008, soldiers on, talking confidently of plans for a new downtown library, a new city hall and an expanded convention center and announcing a major program to fix pothole-beset streets using bond funds. His middle-of-the-road approach has brought criticism from opposing sides of the pension dispute -- employees who believe he has betrayed them, and the impatient “just fix it" lobby that wants a more robust approach, possibly including bankruptcy, massive layoffs, and outsourcing. Without a new source of revenue flowing to City Hall, the Sanders’ approach has been to trim, cut and squeeze the budget and wrestle city employees into new contracts and lower pensions for new hires. Some 1,400 positions have been cut but most were empty; only about 200 employees have been laid off. The idea of a sales tax boost was floated this month but quickly abandoned. Service cuts have been mostly niche: reduction in library hours, closure of neighborhood community service offices and the sale of the Police Department’s horses. Fire pits at city beaches were saved through private contributions. Firefighter overtime has been trimmed, leading to some stations being unmanned during certain hours. And the city continues to have fewer police officers per capita than any big-city in the country, although the crime rate continues to plummet. Sanders has promised a more comprehensive plan some time soon. Mayoral staffers believe the false hope of bankruptcy sweeping away the city’s financial problems may have made San Diego residents even more reluctant than usual to think about paying higher taxes. Not so, say the critics. “Bankruptcy hangs around as an issue because the mayor has failed to put forth any comprehensive plan on how to solve the city’s financial problem,” said Andrew Donohue, editor of an Internet news organization established in 2005 with the goal of riding herd on City Hall finances. For a look at San Diego’s pension-go-round, and the national debate over pension reform, look here: -- Tony Perry in San Diego Photo: A rider aboard the ferry on San Diego Bay admires the city skyline in the morning. Credit: Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/07/san-diego-pandas-padres-and-pension-problems.html

Industrial athletes have to keep their body in proper condition. It can be a life or death situation if they don’t.

http://theinnercirclegym.com/fighting-back

Course 6-3 I'm Rachel, possibly more frequently referred to by my Athena username, rfong, although we have to be at least Facebook friends before that's socially acceptable. I spent the first 18 years of my life frolicking in San Jose, CA, untouched by the rigors of real work and uninflated grades. Now, I... read more » Recent blog entries Aug 9, 2014 Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch Mar 10, 2014 Pi(e) Day: The Baking Of Jul 5, 2013 A Postcard From The Green Building Sep 3, 2012 Life After: A Collage Jun 13, 2012 The Last All-Nighter see complete archives » Recent Entries Complete Archives Profile rfongspeaks [at] mit [dot] edu RSS Jan 10, 2012 One Wheel To Rule Them All Posted in: Academics & Research, Life & Culture My friend Stephan’13 exploded into Internet fame over the holidays after he built a motorized, self-balancing unicycle that a slew of tech aggregators instantly pounced on and reblogged. His own blog (incidentally, a good read for the amateur type theorist or functional programming geek) does a pretty thorough job technically documenting the project, but you guys probably want to hear more about the man behind on the machine. Normally, I like to write rags-to-riches posts in which students struggle through weeks of continuous all-nighters to emerge baggy-eyed but victorious on the turf of knowledge, or begin life as blindly wandering, major-less frosh and rise over four years of undergraduatehood to become masters of their domains. Stephan, on the other hand, has indubitably been an EECS badass since his graduation from the womb. When he Facebook friended me as a prefrosh, mistaking me for another 2013, I was ready to cruelly reject him as I do all strange Facebook friend requests, but he seemed nice and had some thought-provoking statuses about compilers, so I let him live. Then, I rushed him during orientation and found out that he had written a rendering engine -- three years before I took my first computer graphics class here. Currently, he’s building his own functional programming language (because the myriad others didn’t completely satisfy his ideal vision, of course), working part-time for two startups, and UROPing with CSAIL to help develop a high-performance scientific computing language. And of course, there's his unicycle, which he now uses to travel to work and all around campus. The frame is welded from scrap he found in his ex-UROP lab. One painstaking session of hand-soldering SMDs (really teeny-tiny electronic components), an electric scooter motor, a gyro and accelerometer, and some kinematics equations later, he had a jittery but working unicycle, which he iterated into the glorious conveyance you see today. The Discovery Channel brought a camera crew out to Stata to interview him today! I stuck around because I was configuring a web server and didn't feel like moving, and in passively routing people around the filming area to the elevators, I unintentionally and for a few brief seconds impeded the ambulatory progress of David Karger, resident god of algorithms. Alas, such is life at MIT -- all of us caught up in such dense torrents of nerditude that we can't help but collide with luminous points of prolific brilliance everywhere we turn on our homemade electric unicycles. Comments (Closed after 30 days to reduce spam) WOW. :] thanks for sharing Posted by: Jenny X. '13 on January 10, 2012 omgg yayy stephan yayy! Posted by: Sheila on January 10, 2012 He should totally mass-produce those. I would buy it. Posted by: Christi on January 11, 2012 There should be an international statute that regulates how awesome one person can be, in the interest of the sanity and self-respect of the rest. Posted by: Aravind on January 11, 2012 This is why I want to go to MIT. Posted by: Henry Chan on January 11, 2012 Soooo funny! Posted by: Barbara on January 11, 2012 @Christi: Me too. One wheel would definitely cost a lot less than two! Btw, is there no sound in this video? I couldn't hear anything even when I had twisted the volume knobs so hard that they almost came off! Posted by: Kshitij on January 12, 2012 Come on Rachel! Your photo is great! :D Posted by: Kshitij on January 12, 2012 dude that's awesome!!!! I never really felt like enginieering, I am more the one for the theoretical stuff (like physics). But what I see here ... this awesome thing .... that is soooo cool .... Posted by: Max on January 13, 2012 This is amazing! I had an idea just like this one, but with two side-by-side wheels for stability - maybe we could work on that together next year =) Posted by: Harry on January 15, 2012 can i get a load of that site ...am a prospective inventor an i need to met people like him...please people dont get scare of those equations they are just moment balace...

http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/one-wheel-to-rule-them-all

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The applicant is required first to contact a desired supervisor in a postgraduate advisory team and obtain the approval on his/her study in the master's degree program. Schedule

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At Venture Visuals, we’re storytellers first, image makers second. If an image doesn’t prompt a reaction, it’s not ours. When a brand, any brand, can look directly in the mirror and know exactly who they are, that’s powerful. This is where it starts. We combine technical mastery and basic human instinct to create brand advocates, believers and friends. FEATURED WORK 02 SECTION 02 / our approach NEVER AFRAID Once we establish the structure of a story, we mine the fringes, explore the margins and see what else can be found. Our goal is to uncover those honest, magical, unpredictable moments—from fingerprints and unkempt hair to blurred focus, spattered lenses and chocolate-covered kids. Our approach, simplified: Always make an impression. Never play it safe. create a project 03 SECTION 03 / our team OUR TEAM TOMKRANZLE FOUNDER, DIRECTOR Tom Kranzle, eternally smiling and deeply optimistic, founded Venture Visuals in 2005, believing a small, creatively-driven studio could be useful to some of the world’s most iconic brands. (He was right, of course.) Personally, he’s a picture of grace, perennially unperturbed, easygoing, attentive. Professionally, this Brooks alum has been directing and shooting commercials, music videos, feature-length docs and shareable entertainment for the past ten years. BENJAMINROY DIRECTOR, ECD Benjamin Roy is a writer, director and wonderfully decisive creative lead. In the past decade, he developed the GoPro brand, introduced Intel to Vice, authored a book for Google and created the Olympics of D1 college sports for ESPN. Previously, he was an editor-at-large for Skateboarder and Strength. More previously, he was snowboarding against some of the biggest names in the sport, and losing. C’est la vie, no? It’s all downhill from here. CHRISMUNDELL PRODUCTION MANAGER Chris Mundell, our Production Manager slash ace in our sleeve, has a mind set ablaze; the kindle comprised of classic films, bluegrass music, Boba Fett, family and God. Care for tri-tip and micheladas on a Tuesday? Chris is your man. Our clients unanimously love him, and why wouldn’t they? He keeps the team in high spirits, and right on time. TYEFRENCH DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Tye French (who is, strangely enough, neither bohemian nor francophile) is a true gunslinger behind the camera and cinematographer sine qua non. Technical to a fault, this human Swiss Army knife is also newly-married, deeply-committed and sweetly in love. On location, however, he transforms into into a light-splaying, drone-flying, habanero-flavored, take-no-prisoners DP. SUSANKEMP EDITOR A second-gen filmmaker, gifted writer and graduate from NYC’s School of Visual Arts, we safely refer to Susan as the brains of the operation. When it comes to storytelling, she’s a surgeon indeed. Under her watchful eye, no nuance goes undiscovered, no stone unturned. Her parents owned a local theater in North Carolina, and it was there she learned the craft. Today, she influences projects in both pre and post, ensuring the impact on the viewer is fully felt. CLINTON KYLEHOLLISTER POST PRODUCTION Raised on the rough and tumble Gaviota Coast, Clinton stems from a long line of enterprising California Natives. With degrees in both engineering and photography, he straddles the warring spheres of creativity and technical expertise with a delicate, yet masculine touch. As a Colorist and Post-Production Supervisor, Clinton has worked on HBO docs, commercials, feature films and more. 04

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Just got back from a very painful dengue fever episode. Where I live, it’s quite a common disease. It’s rainy season, which equals to dengue season. It’s rarely fatal, but it’s really, really painful. Anyway, what was the article about again? Oh, yeah.. Alternative Singing Styles. Anyway, after I was discharged, I took a peek in my inbox and got this email from a reader way over in Alaska. She was curious about weather or not my Free Singing Course could help in terms of learning non-western style singing. I find that ironic, because of two things: 1) Non-western singing styles have been around for a much longer time than western style techniques. A lot of stuff that modern singing considers “advanced”, are actually done on a daily basis by the practitioners of the more ancient arts! 2) The other, bigger, irony is that the opposite is actually true. If you practice the effortless methods of the ancient arts, it’ll actually help you in your modern singing. Let’s use the example she cited in her email. She mentioned the inuit style of singing as her target subject. Here’s an excerpt of what it sounds like: Isn’t that the coolest thing!? You have to be soulless to not have any appreciation for that! It’s music that’s very conversational, everything happens in real-time. Just two people communicating in a different medium just to see if they can still understand each other. This is the essence of what human beings have been doing for centuries! But look closer! Look at the technique involved. Listen to: 1) the breath control. Try doing that for at least a minute, I dare you! That’s major league breath control right there! 2) watch the how they alternate the pitches so effortlessly. Earthy, smoky, growls, then the next second it’s really high-pitched and then back and forth as the conversation dictates. 3) That growl. There’s some blues-like raspiness to it, there’s also that sharp, guttural RnB style attack. 4) The throat. Most modern singing gurus will advise against using the throat. Look how these guys do it so effortlessly. Granted, the russians, and Tuvans have been doing it too for ages now. Tuvan throat singing How cool is that!? They actually learned to manipulate the facial muscles in order to amplify the overtones. Sounds like 3 different instruments playing all at once, except that all those sounds are from one human voice! I have no experience singing in Inuit style throat singing, but a while back I was so fascinated by Tuvan throat singers that I tried a few exercises just to see what kind of results I would get. I was attracted to the effortless bass tones they produced just by using the throat. And sure enough, after a few weeks of trying it out, my bass tones improved dramatically. I didn’t go on to master the overtones, but the experience taught me that those ancient techniques are not only effective, but they are safer than most modern techniques. Another thing I love about the ancient styles is how they remind us about what singing is all about. It’s about communication, and expression. It’s about having fun! The techniques are really simple, so there’s no room for over-complicating things, and lots of room for actually singing! I love that! Anyway, if you’re interested to learn about overtone singing, this guy knows his stuff: Listen to what your soul wants to express. Really listen. Sit in silence and stillness. Being busy all the time doesn’t help you listen. And then explore your voice. Use the throat, head, chest, grunt, growl. Use everything! Listen to what your soul is saying, and use your voice to relay the message to the world! If your voice isn’t ready yet, get some practise. You’ll get there. In the meantime, just sing!

http://nonotesinging.com/alternative-singing-styles/

The mysterious Genji in development at Game Republic, while Sony also announces possible Ico sequelHaving just revealed development of what could be a second Ico game - entitled Wanda and the Giant (or Colossus, depending on your translation skills) - Sony of Japan has also reportedly announced plans for another brand new PS2 project, this time with ex-Capcom producer Yoshiki Okamoto's Game Republic.Entitled Genji, details on the game are inevitably in short supply, although reports are speculating that it will be set in historical Japan, with large lashings of mythological storytelling thrown in. Not surprising really, considering the obvious Capcom influence. News source: Computer And Video Games

https://www.neowin.net/news/ex-capcom-bods-develop-new-ps2-game

So, I've received a few emails about my last post. The predominant reaction was "hmmm? that was weird." Good weird or bad weird? Whatever, it doesn't matter because it wasn't weird at all for me to wake up with a children's rhyme in my head. Not when you compare it to this weird.... Now that's weird. No, I didn't make it. I could have done but then I wouldn't be including it in a weird-themed blog. It wouldn't be weird if I made that because I make stuff like that. It's weird because it was a gift to me from David's barber. Yep, David went to have all the hairs from his neck up trimmed and came home with that origami dragon, made by his barber. Let me back up a little.... A few weeks ago we had a forno aperto with about 15 people. Among the 15 where Pino the Barber and his wife, who had walked (4 hours over the mountains) from the next village up called Badalucco. It was the first time the Barber and his wife had been to Maberga. Wandering through the house Pino stumbled upon my papier mache (probably quite literally since it is currently consuming all available house space). He got inspired. Last week we were at a birthday party lunch and who shows up but Pino the Barber! Ok, that's not a big surprise since Badalucco has a population around 1200, of which only about 200 are under 70 years old**...so the chance of our being at the same birthday party are pretty high. Anyway, Pino the Barber says to me, "I made you something!" And then we proceeded to discuss paper mache recipes throughout lunch. Ok, I don't know if that's weird or not? Maybe everyone's barber is into arts and crafts? Yeah, ok, it's weird. But it certainly is good weird. **I totally made up all those statistic. That's just what it feels like. Posted by Olive Knitting at 12:18 PM 3 comments: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 Ya know, I really couldn't live here, on top of a mountain, in a country that is not mine by birth, in a country whose mother tongue is not english, if it weren't for the internet. This morning I woke up with the line of a song on replay in my head: She swallowed the spider to catch the fly So while I was doing my pre-turn-the-computer-on routine that involves cajoling the embers in the wood stove back into fire, letting the dogs out to pee, and making my coffee, I was thinking about that Old Lady. What did she swallow to catch the spider? a mouse? a snake? a shoe? Then David came downstairs. L: David, what did the Old Lady swallow to catch the spider? D: good morning to you. ummm, I think a mouse because she swallowed the cat to catch the mouse. But I don't know the rhyme. L: It's maddening not to remember. When that annoying song is first burned into your brain you think, god this thing is going to take up precious brain space for the rest of my life. I"m never going to forget it. And then one morning you wake up and you can't even remember the third verse. I mean, the Old Lade and the Fly is nothing like the 12 days of Christmas. That one is impossible to remember even though you hear it or sing it at least once a year. 11 Lords a Leaping but how many Maids a Milking?! And 10 , 10, 10 what? And 12, we should be able to remember that one because that means that the long-ass song is almost over. 12 what? See, that's nothing like the Old Lady. 12 Days of Christmas is just random. there's no reason that he gave her 2 turtle doves instead of 10. But the Old Lady, that has some logic. There's the whole food chain progression to it - or at least animal size progression. D: I'm pretty sure we can look it up. Phew, thank god for the internet. If we didn't have the internet what would I have done? What did any of us do before the internet? I guess I would have started asking everyone I saw what caught the spider until I found someone who remembered. Not very likely found in Italy. Or maybe I would go to the library or a book store and look in the children's section. Again, tough to imagine finding here. I could have called a family member or friend in America, but with out skype that would be some expensive research for a pointless factoid. So, let's all thank Al Gore for having invented the internet. And you all can thank me for putting that song into your head first thing this morning. Have a nice day. It was a bird, by the way. No mouse. She never swallowed a mouse. Posted by Olive Knitting at 8:36 AM 1 comment: Thursday, January 15, 2015 Better late than... It's another late-themed blog post. It doesn't bode well for 2015 that everything I'm doing is late. Or maybe, another way to look at it is that 2015 is not "the late year" but rather "the year I get shit done". Yeah, that's better. I've just finished the ornaments for our Christmas tree They are little papier mache birds, painted and repainted. I think they are lovely, but then I would...I made them. That tree that they are posing in was not our Christmas tree but rather one of the many olive trees in the Lane Olive Orchard. Remember the Lane Olive Orchard? Of course you don't because I said in that post 2 years ago that I'd tell you more about that later. Well, I guess now is later.... Anyway, the Lane Olive Orchard is the new collection of olive trees gifted to us by my auntie and uncle as a big thank you to David and me for hosting their daughter's wedding. How cool is that?! Very cool, is the correct answer. Thank you thank you thank you to my thoughtful aunt and uncle. You'll get the first bottle of oil, which you will probably receive on Bump and Dong's 20th wedding anniversary.* Over the holidays we planted our fava beans (aka: broad beans. totally delicious eaten raw with salami and a glass of red wine, also consumed raw). I think we were only 2 months late in getting that job done. Remember when all the shelves in my pantry fell down when my parents were visiting? Yeah, probably not because that was 3 years ago, which makes this the "better late than..." winner. When I cleared away all the shit that had pulled down the shelves, I found one of our steps with a huge chunk broken off. Imagine you chip one of your front teeth, say, on a beer bottle. Then imagine that you don't go to the dentist for 3 years to get it fixed. You don't fix it even though you see it 10 times a day when you look in the mirror, and think 'I need to fix that.' You don't take action even though you have to delicately brush it twice a day, and think 'damn, I gotta fix that'. You don't fix it even though you run your tongue over all day everyday for 3 years all the while thinking 'dentist dentist gotta go to the dentist'. Yeah, that was our step for 3 years. It's a bit ridiculous that it took us so long to call the step dentist because in 2 hours it was done. Yeah, it's a different color than the other steps but, well, it's like that chipped tooth - you can't expect the enamel filling to match your beer stained original tooth. Nor can you expect the filler to make all your other teeth any straighter. * we've been told that it will only take a couple of years for the trees to produce olives. This is hard for me to believe, but then, a lot of things I don't believe actually happen. Posted by Olive Knitting at 8:47 AM 2 comments: Saturday, January 10, 2015 a little late Oh...is it New Year already? Happy New Year. I'm a little late. Or maybe I'm early for next year. I didn't say which new year I wish you happiness. Like that stale, yet painfully true Italian joke about tradesmen: man A: my plumber said he'd come to do the work on Tuesday. Today is Saturday and I still haven't heard from him! man B: ah, but he didn't say WHICH Tuesday. If you're wondering where I've been for the past month since it's obviously been better than hanging out on a computer blogging, I just have two words - pizza oven. We've revived an old italian tradition (or is it a custom? I always confuse the two). In the olden days, each little mountain village had a communal wood oven for baking bread. It would be fired up once a week and everyone brought their bread to bake. David's been playing around with tons of new bread recipes and he thought this sounded like a good plan. Forno Aperto we call it -- open oven. In the past month we've had 3. An Open Oven day goes something like this: For several days before the event, David makes pizza dough, just a little. (yeah, I way oversimplified what David does to prepare dough, but that's his story. He can post that on his blog) On the day of, people come with their dough to prepare.... while someone (usually Gino and David) prepares some farinata (a kind of pancake made from chickpea flour, baked and covered with olive oil, salt and pepper). So we start eating, and maybe have a glass of wine (or two) Then everyone has to chip in. The pizza dough comes out and one by one everyone makes a pizza with all sorts of toppings of their choice. And we eat them. Once everyone has had enough, then it's time to take the coals out of the oven and put the bread in. Some people just stand around and watch at this point... Then we have the obligatory hang out time whilst the bead is baking And then, ecco ci qua bread. So that's where I've been. That and, well, the whole Christmas thing happened which looked like this Yeah, ok, crappy photos. Sorry about that. Except for that one of Lina with the homemade noodles. That's a cool picture (David made that one). Great noodles.

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If you see this please answer me! I need to write a personal statment for an application for a school. I am totally clueless on what to write, and the the deadline is on Sunday! I am so dead!!!

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last day in montreal:i woke up in panic, had someone from work dropping off a box of my personal stuff, met aaron on mont-royal, went out for breakfast at beauty's (eggs and bacon, yumm, it seems like ages ago), went downtown looking everywhere for korean currency (finally found one place), rolled up aaron's canadian coins at second cup, went shopping at zara (got a last outfit, boots and a sweater), met sarah for dinner, went to the gym (probably spent most of it in the sauna), finished packing my suitcase, called my mom, wrote a few emails, took a shower, realized i had a small bottle of veuve cliquot left and got a bit drunk, did not get any sleep, waited for aaron to show up, got to the airport at 4am, freaked out in chicago when realized there was no turning back, then watched breakfast at tiffany's on the plane to seoul.first day in seoul:arrived in incheon late afternoon, got picked up by the recruiter, ate most of the chewing gum in the car ride to seoul, got stuck in seoul traffic for two hours, was dying from hunger, got to the school early evening, was greeted by the over-enthusiastic director, was told we had to sleep in the school's guest house for the weekend, freaked out a bit but then saw the nice quarters and wanted to live there for good, got presented with pastries and jam when we told the director we didn't have dinner, finally went out for a real dinner and caught a glimpse of the neighbourhood, watched some korean game shows, and passed out for the night.... then woke up at 6am, jet-lagged, and not knowing where i was.good times, good times. seems like so long ago now!

http://vivianlostinseoul.blogspot.com/2008/05/my-last-day-in-montreal-first-day-in.html

Now the story of a show that lost everything and the one streaming service that had no choice but to keep it together, again. Netflix is reportedly "positive" that "Arrested Development" is coming back for Season 5, according to Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos. Though the timing of the show is unclear, Sarandos said, "It’s just a matter of when,” reports USA Today.

http://www.newshub.org/m/netflix-positive-arrested-development-returning-season-5-2572163.html

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We follow Alice down the rabbit hole to Wonderland once again to see how things have changed in the 11 years since her last visit. Author: Parjanya C. Holtz Published: July 15, 2011 In a time when few dark and twisted games tend to be platformers, Alice: Madness Returns, sequel to almost 11-year-old PC exclusive American McGee's Alice, stands out as a uniquely refreshing take on old-school 3D platforming, even if the brilliant concept of taking a classic children's novel and turning it into a dark and bloody tale about a young girl and her struggle to overcome the terrible trauma of losing her parents is quite a bit ahead of its often unoriginal, repetitive and bland feeling gameplay. Picking up shortly after the events of the first game, Madness Returns takes place somewhere in London around the time of the industrial revolution. Alice has awoken from her coma and left Rutledge Asylum for a new home, an orphanage run by psychiatrist Doctor Angus Bumby. But as the title implies, the trauma of her family's death still haunts her, and Alice is far from having regained sanity. Suffering under increasingly bloody visions of her past and a burning Wonderland, she once again embarks on a journey through her own subconscious to face what may be her greatest fear; the truth behind what really happened the night of the fire her family died in. With its 15 or so hours, Alice: Madness Returns is a rather long game, one that could have easily done itself a grand favor by cutting around a third of its entirety and instead focusing on polishing what's left of it. As a result, Madness Returns has a somewhat nostalgic vibe to it, one that will remind you of games you probably have played about a decade ago, a time when videogames still felt a little more gimmicky, and a little less like interactive summer blockbusters. But the industry has learned much in recent years, among which the rather basic realization of the importance of a story's pacing clearly stands out. The plot requires almost four hours to begin making any sense at all, or rather to reveal its direction, giving players far too many opportunities to get frustrated with the often uninspired and repetitive gameplay. Shining with an obvious lack of creativity in both level design and combat scenarios, the first half of the game stands in stark contrast to the twisted fantasy world the game is trying to convey. The world may be pretty to look at, but a sense of discovery is nowhere to be found. At least the second half of the game draws back the curtain on some of that creative genius you'd expect to find in such a dark take on Lewis Carroll's classic novel.

http://totalplaystation.com/ps3/alice-madness-returns/reviews/9938/

Genuine points code generator. Used by support staff at nintendo. Not the fake one others are passing about. This connects to a Nintendo server and obtains a valid code. WARNING: Someone has copied my video and is offering a download of an OLD version of this. If you download it from them it does not work. The one on my link works and will be kept up to date.

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Our Sacred Service Team of the Month is one that isn't very much visible. After each of our Sunday Services though, they quickly go into our Accounting Office and help receive and prepare for the deposit our Love Offerings and Tithes from the service. Recently they changed their team name to Count the Blessings Team - well one of the blessings we can count on at Unity on the Bay is them!Thank you Count the Blessings Team! You are our Service Team of the Month. Newer PostSacred Server of the Month for April 2017Older PostSacred Server of the Month for March 2017

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New York or Chicago? While I've only gorged on Chicago deep-dish I can confidently tell you that I prefer neither of America's pizza powerhouses. That's right, the two headlining pizza cities can piss off. I tell you the best pie resides in St. Louis, Missouri! St. Louis pizza dons a thin, crispy crust loaded with toppings; leaving little to no room for an outer crust. The cracker like crust demands that the pie be cut into squares; not triangle shaped cuts like a normal pizza. If you're a fan of thin crust, STL style pizza is a must. If you're curious and conveniently find yourself in the Overland Park/KC area do yourself a favor and check out Imo's Pizza. I've sat here drooling for too long, dreaming of my perfect pizza. With a lack of *great* pizza joints in Manhattan, I set off to build my own pie.I knew from the get go that I wanted a classic pizza. What's more classic than a pizza margherita? Nothing. Except maybe peanut butter and gumball pizza. A margherita pizza is simple. Fresh mozzarella, tomatoes, basil, and olive oil. Perfection. It's real deal, authentic pizza. The way they made it in the old country.With toppings out of the way, it was time to focus on the crust. This was the nerve racking part. If I duke the crust then the pie is ruined. I found solace in this website, . The website is great, with a lot of helpful hints and years of pie making experience. I should've felt comfortable cranking out a stellar crust. But I wasn't. I've never been into the whole baking thing. But I mean how do you make a bad pizza? Pizza rules! No matter what kind of funk possesses it. I used the dough recipe on the webpage and had a fine time whipping up the dough. The only downfall was that I had to wait 24 hours to see how it turned out.Well, 24 hours later, after rolling out and docking the dough I was ready to prep my pie for the oven. I drizzled the dough with olive oil and proceeded to layer tomatoes and mozzarella. Once prepped, I threw the pie into a scorching 500 degree oven and waited. About 13 minutes later I was staring at a beautiful homemade pizza margherita. Almost too sexy to eat. ALMOST. So snarf I did. The pizza turned out great and much better than anything I could've had delivered. If you're ever in the mood for a damn good pizza pie, forget ordering, and make your own.I snarfed like Dr. ZoidbergI want pizza now. Posted by Zachary Bass Caby at 10:19 AM 4 comments: Monday, July 6, 2009 Fish Tacos w/ Spicy Southwestern Slaw and Roasted Chile and Avocado Salsa My, my it's been far too long. Sorry for the post-educational blog drought.This past weekend I had the pleasure to cook with my pal Amber (w/ Carianne and Matt). This is the woman who taught me how to make homemade tortillas; so you know she's special. The last time we cooked we whipped up a batch of Chile Verde, so the next logical step is obviously fish tacos, right? Ever since coming home from Tampa, Fl. over spring break I've been craving fish tacos. Amber sounded interested when I brought them up in conversation so we decided to go ahead and try our luck. Surprisingly, Amber had never eaten fish tacos. I curse myself for this geographical isolation I've been born into. You just don't come in contact with fresh seafood out here in the Heartland.Fish taco virgin, no more!It doesn't matter if it's ground beef, steak, or fish; tacos are easy. One and a half pounds of tilapia provided the foundation for our tacos. White fish is bland and takes whatever flavors you throw at it. So I took olive oil, salt, pepper, red pepper, cumin, cilantro, jalapenos, garlic, and lime juice and let all of those flavors mingle with the fish. After allowing the fish to marinade for 30 minutes, Matt and I cooked the filets on a foil lined grill (as to deter any sticking of the fish). That's it! The fish turned out good, too.The roasted chile and avocado salsa took these tacos to a whole other level. I wish I always had a jar of this stuff in the fridge. I wouldn't hesitate to eat a pile of peapod gravel if it was topped with this concoction. Amber bummed this one off our good buddy, Emeril. Here are the ingredients:1/2 Hass avocado, flesh removed from peel2 poblano peppers, roasted, peeled and seeded1 jalapeno, roasted, peeled and seeded1/4 cup plus 3 tablespoons olive oil, divided3/4 cup chopped yellow onion, divided3/4 cup fresh cilantro leaves, divided1 lime, juiced1 1/4 teaspoons kosher salt, divided3 tablespoons waterI thought Amber made a batch of pesto when I saw the finished product. It's an earthy green color with a relatively smooth texture. It's fantastic and you HAVE to make it. That's an order, dammit.The slaw was pretty good. I think Amber and I could have created something with more flavor. But it still complimented the tacos well. Slaw adds this cool, crisp crunch that I just can't deny. Tacos are a combination of textures and a homemade slaw is an easy way to add a crunch. Here's the recipe."No only fish and pretzels!"-Jake CuevasThe fish, slaw, and salsa were all housed by homemade tortillas. Thanks to Amber and Carianne's "Uelita" (famous for her salad) for the recipe. With Uelita's permission, I'll have to feature the recipe. You'll never feel the same about store bought tortillas.Fryin' tortillas. Posted by Zachary Bass Caby at 3:27 PM 3 comments: Labels: fish, tacos Monday, April 27, 2009 Beef Chow Mein with Black Bean Sauce by Sam the Cooking Guy Sam the Cooking Guy is by far my favorite television cooking show host. If you've never seen it, you need to. The show is called Just Cook This with Sam the Cooking Guy, it's on FIT TV and Discovery Health. If you don't have those channels just Youtube: Sam the Cooking Guy. He's just an ordinary dude who films his show out of his own home. Sam frets on cooking for yourself and eating out less, which I totally agree with. Cooking at home is cheaper and better for you. Sam is an inspiration through his cooking and hilarious personality. Anyway, this is a recipe from Sam and it's a breeze to put together and tastes great. Check out his manifesto.The main flavor in this dish comes from garlic black bean sauce, which I found in the Asian section at Dillons. It's good stuff, I recommend picking some up if you like Asian cooking.It took less than 10 minutes to cook this.Ham Sandwich. Posted by Zachary Bass Caby at 5:45 PM 3 comments: Thursday, April 16, 2009 Zach's Orange Chicken and Breakfast Tacos Special two for one entry!I've been day dreaming of this spicy, sticky Asian chicken dish. Well I didn't day dream any of the ingredients, except for chicken and jasmine rice, so I was off to the store to forage ingredients. I've been curious about hoisin sauce and thought that could be the Asian twang for my sauce. Hoisin sauce has a bit thicker consistancy when compared with ketchup and contains; water, sugar, soybeans, white distilled vinegar, rice, salt, wheat flour, garlic, and red chile peppers. It's pretty good, some people describe it as Asian BBQ sauce. But don't expect it to taste like KC Masterpiece. Of course I had to pick up another bottle of Sriracha, which is Thai hot sauce. It's my favorite hot sauce. So, the Sriracha's heats things up. Now I need something sweet. Orange juice? Sure, why not, that'll be the primary base for the sauce. So, the sauce is ready to go. Grabbed some chicken, an onion, and some shiitake mushrooms to round everything off. I wanted to get a ginger root but didn't want to fork out the money for it. Five bucks and I'd probably only use a tablespoon of it. I'll have to get one sometime because that is a staple in Asian cooking.To start the cooking just get an olive-oiled pan rolling at medium to medium-high heat. (I would like to point out at this time that the stove I cook on has 5 buttons: warm, low, 3, 2, and high. I'm cooking on 2, so whatever the hell you want to call that on a normal stove top.) Cut up two chicken breasts into bite-size pieces, season (I put salt, pepper, and some onion powder. I have more spices but none of them fit with this recipe. But season it however you want. Some cayenne would've been nice), and throw it in the pan. Brown the chicken and pull it out. Add half of a diced onion and some sliced shiitake's. Cook for maybe a minute, until you see some color. Now these next couple of steps aren't exact at all, so I'm just going to rap it off like it happened. I added some OJ. A couple good gurgles, enough to constitute the base of a sauce. Next I added 1-2 tablespoons of hoisin sauce. Then I squirted in a healthy portion of Sriracha's. I zig-zagged the Sriracha's all the way across the top of the sauce, so there was quite a bit, but I like it really spicy, so add as much heat as you want. I brought this mixture up to a boil and then stirred in a little water mixed with flour. You know, thicken things up a bit. Make a nice sauce! You lika the sauce. So, once that is boiling again throw the chicken back in and let it finish cooking. Serve over jasmine rice. Alright.It was sort of sweet, and really spicy. Breakfast tacos. No frills. These would be good for a hangover. Bake off some sausage links. Scramble three eggs, with pepper jack cheese. Heat 2 taco sized tortillas. Put two sausage links on each tortilla, top each tortilla with half of the egg mixture. Drag some of that Sriracha's over top. Yeah, you."But Paul, we're having your favorite, breakfast for dinner!" Posted by Zachary Bass Caby at 7:44 PM 3 comments: Monday, April 13, 2009 Honey Chipotle Chicken I knew I was going to eat chicken for dinner tonight, I just didn't know how I was going to cook it. I could eat it over rice. Wait, no I can't because all the other pans are dirty. I have tortillas! I love tortillas, so much better than bread. So, what kind of chicken goes good with a tortilla? Spicy chicken. I have chipotles in adobo sauce in the fridge, that is spicy. Eureka! So, I cut up the chicken breast into small pieces and seasoned it. Threw it into an olive oiled pan on medium-high heat and cooked the pieces till they were about a minute from being done. I threw in about a tablespoon of the adobo sauce and a strong squeeze of honey and let the chicken finish cooking. Once the chicken was done I mixed in about a tablespoon of sour cream just to cool things off a bit. That's it and that's all, enjoy!I still have plenty for lunch tomorrow, and I onlyused one boneless skinless chicken breast. Posted by Zachary Bass Caby at 10:20 PM 3 comments: Sunday, April 12, 2009 Easter Dinner *photos were taken on my phone so they are extra crummy. Some day I'll use the office camera. :)As people gather to "celebrate" the resurrection of Jesus Christ, I sit here to write about my families most recent Easter "celebration". Attention all Caby's: Easter lunch has been rescheduled and renamed! This year Easter lunch will be dubbed Easter dinner and the approximate time of mass consumption is 5 PM on Saturday. Approximate because of the usual stragglers, *cough* Ron and Lacey *cough*. Excuse me! Anyway, the 1st Annual Caby Easter Dinner started around 5:30 PM on Saturday, April 11th. The time change came as a benefit for me because I was feeling a little weak after a Friday night of drinking in Lawrence.1st Annual Caby Easter Dinner set list. A little fuzzy but itreads: Turkey, ham, (2) hashbrown casserole, (2) corn breadcasserole, baked beans, sweet potatoes, green bean casserole, androlls. There was more on this set list, all of the deserts and othersides are listed out of the shot.So I loaded up my plate with turkey, ham, green bean casserole, corn bread casserole, hash brown casserole, beans, and two homemade rolls. There was no surface area left on the entire plate, I had to hold it from the bottom. So, I have to take a time out and tell you about two of these dishes. Corn bread casserole is some sort of funky, sorta gooey corn bread bake with pieces of corn littered through out and some other ingredients I don't know, but it is the perfect soul food side dish. It's so good, you'll have to talk to my sister Erin about it. She's obsessed with it. I think it was her birthday cake last year, or something like that. The other dish is hash brown casserole which I think may be a little more familiar to most people. But for those people who aren't familiar with it, all it is is cubed hash browns and a ton of cheese baked with a corn flake topping. I have had so many different variations of it before but no one makes it as good as my Grandma."Hey mister, guess what I had for breakfast? Beans!"The thing I absolutely love about eating at my Grandma's is the way I eat. I take little portions of EVERYTHING on my plate and eat it all at once. That's right; turkey, ham, green bean casserole, corn bread casserole, hash brown casserole, and beans all on one fork load and into my mouth. Properly followed with a bite of a roll, and washed down with a tall, cool Miller Lite. The second thing I absolutely love about eating at my Grandma's is that I still sit at the kids table, and I don't think I'll ever not want to sit there. I love the kids table. I'm the oldest at 21, Laura is 18, Erin is in 7th grade, Courtney is a sophomore in high school, Cara is in 5th grade, Billy isn't even in kindergarten. Ashley is in like 2nd grade or something? I'm not sure, but she's little. So, I just sit out there with them, stuff my face, and usually crack poop or butt jokes to Billy and he absolutely goes nut! On some occasions the poop or butt joke may only consist of saying, "Ha, poopy butt!". Once Billy cracks up, the rest of the kids start to laugh and choke on their food. It's great. My third and final thing I absolutely love about eating at my Grandma's is seeing all my family and eating in glutenous proportions. Special thoughts go out to my Mom, Austin, and Brandon who couldn't attend the 1st Annual Caby Easter Dinner. "Better watch your back Fish! Squirrel Master ain't gonna be therefor you all the time. Next time I come for you, I'm gonna wantsome cocktail... FRUIT!"Dad you should try golfing in that aprin, mightgive you a couple more yards on your drive. Posted by Zachary Bass Caby at 5:00 PM 2 comments: Monday, April 6, 2009 Southwestern Pork Chop "Curry" So, I have been on this curry kick the past couple of weeks. The couple weeks before that I was in a Tex-Mex kick, but I'm almost always in a constant state of Southwestern day dreaming. Green chiles...red chiles...green chiles, mmm. So the "curry" part comes from the realization I had after making my second batch of chicken curry. The realization: I really like preparing food in a sauce and serving it over rice. Specifically, jasmine rice. I can't get enough of that stuff. Sticky and fluffy all at the same time. Anyways, the Southwestern bit comes in because I have a can of chipotles and green chile sauce sitting in the fridge from making braised tri-tip tacos last week. Pork chops. Well I used pork chops because that is what my Mom gave me, so that is what I shall cook with, because it was free! Enjoy.Sear the pork chops on both sides in olive oil over medium-high heat. Pull the chops. Turn heat down to medium. Add some chopped onion, a couple splashes of green chile sauce, and one chipotle and bring to a boil. Throw the chops back in, turn heat to low and simmer sauce and chops covered for like, I don't know thirty minutes? Something like that. Serve over rice and a dollop o' sour cream.Pretty tasty.What could be better than eating an easy, delicious home cooked meal? Eating brownies after inhaling your home cooked meal, of course! Not only that, I didn't have to cook the brownies. Thanks, Monica.They were still hot. *Caleb salivating* Monica is special. But she can still bake brownies.

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And here's Ms.Mallow's good friend and true gentleman, Sir Cacao. Only the truest of gentlemen have a mustache like that. Reviews PhillyphilKO Rated 5 / 5 stars 2016-10-04 20:44:02 Ya know what? Fuck the bad ratings, cause this is damn good! The drawing is clean, the colors are good, and I just love how proud this chocolate gentle sir looks. That face just says, "Hmmm, would you fancy some syrup from my cockolate bar?" Helpful!

http://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/thatblackcat/sir-cacao

It' quite straightforward, Ulf. The next available hull number is reserved after a pre-payment of around 4%, which is almost fully refundable until six months before they start building the boat. Then follow fractional payments, with the last 30% due on delivery. To be honest, I must somewhat clarify the delivery in april 2012. We could already have the boat around november this year. I certainly don't mind a winter sailing trip, but we prefer not to spend two weeks test-cruising in Brittany and then sail the boat back to Belgium in december. After all, we're cruisers... Best regards, Eric Structures is pretty open (in my discussions with them), on finding that slot for the delivery date. On the 10.50, when I last spoke with them, there were a few slots that could have been available before the full 2 1/2 year wait list as some (a few) buyers wouldn't mind postponing delivery due to various reasons. I'm not sure if this is still the case because it's been a few months since I've spoke with them but I would imagine there are slots in well under 2 years.

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Ethan knows enough words now that when he creates a book, only occasionally does he needs to ask how to spell a word. It’s still often enough that Eliana has picked up on the question. She can write a T and O – mostly by accident – but that’s about all. Yet her inexperience didn’t stop her cute, little voice from asking, “How spell Mommy?” She didn’t develop her book to the point where I could determine its theme, the protagonist and antagonist, or the characters’ deepest inner conflicts. But I did get to help her form the letter M. Thursday, December 4, 2014

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By Dawn J. Lipthrott, LCSW Below are suggestions before and during the telling of children about divorce, how to tell them, some tips of how to help them after the divorce has happened and things that hurt your children. Do's Parents need to work very hard at putting aside anger toward one another in order to sit down and come to some agreement about how they will tell children what is going on. Your marriage may end, but your responsibilities as parents do not end. Your anger, rage, sadness, fear, are all normal. However, both of you need to work at temporarily putting aside those intense feelings as you both work to help your children through this difficult time. Make a commitment to shield your children from parental conflict. Even if the other parent does not keep their commitment, continue your own commitment. Children need you to do that! Kids need both parents to be parents and to be adults, not acting like 10-year old children. Tell children together when decision has been made. Tell your children about your impending divorce or separation once decision has been made. Try to give at least a week or two notice of parent moving out. It is best to tell children with both parents together, which gives children reassurance that parents will parent together even if don't live together. Tell all the children at once. If there is a wide range in children's ages, it may be helpful later to talk to each one separately after the initial announcement to give more or less information according to age. Make a conscious decision to put aside your conflict for now to help the children. While it may be difficult to be calm and rational at this stage of the crisis, parents should work very hard to explain clearly, directly to children without fighting or blaming each other. Communicate clearly to the children that is not their fault. Assure children that is not their fault--it is between the parents. It helps to let them know that they (the children) are one of the best gifts of the marriage that both parents treasure. Explain what divorce means. Children need to be told clearly what is happening and what divorce means. Don't assume they know what it means just because they know the word or a friend's parents are divorced. Avoid burdening children (even older children) with info about sexual relationships and infidelities. In addition to clearly assuring them that is not their fault, let them know they cannot do anything to fix it. Communicate your understanding that this is difficult for them. Parents should also communicate understanding that this may lead to feelings of hurt and anger in the child and apologize for this difficult experience. Give children basic info about what will stay the same and what will change. Tell them where they will live right now, what school going to, etc. If it will remain the same, let them know that also. Let them know what changes are expected at this point (example, a stay-at-home Mom may need to go to work, etc.). Be clear about visitation with the parent who is leaving the home. Once the leaving parent has a new residence, children should be taken to see it, where they will sleep when they visit, etc. Let them know when and how they can contact the other parent. Set up regular times for contact agreed upon in advance for a set period of time. Example of How to Tell Children "Mommy and Daddy have had some trouble getting along with each other and although we've tried to make it better, we have not been successful at fixing it. We are both unhappy and can't seem to make it better. It has nothing to do with any of you. It's between Mommy and Daddy. You have not done anything to make it happen and while it may be a hard time for all of us, you cannot do anything to fix it either." "We are going to get a divorce. That means we will not be married anymore and we are going to be living in different houses. We will both always be your Mom and Dad and that won't change." Parent who is leaving: "I am going to move to a new place on Saturday morning. You are going to live here with (Mommy/Daddy) and keep going to the same school and be with all your friends. When I get all my stuff moved in, you can come and see my new house because sometimes you will be able to stay with me overnight. You will have a place to sleep at my house too because I will always be your Mommy/Daddy." "We have arranged right now for you to live here, but to visit (Mommy/Daddy) every _____________ . You can also stay at my house overnight on ______________ . You can talk with me on the phone on ____________ and ______________nights if you want." "We will always love you and will always take care of you." Provide continued structure and stability in every way possible. Keep their lives as normal as you can. Make sure they have their own 'space' in both parents' homes. As you progress through the divorce come up with a co-parenting plan that provides consistency for children with both parents. If their usual bedtime has been 10:00 p.m., keep that time at both homes. Both parents are responsible for providing discipline. Children need continuity, structure, routine, consistent discipline, scheduled and regular contact with both parents, familiarity, predictability as possible. They need clear explanation of what is going to happen and when. They need to see mutual respect between parents. Insure physical safety of yourself and your children. When abuse has occurred, steps must be taken to protect children from further danger. Don't try to make up for your guilt by spoiling or buying them toys and gifts. They want your time, your attention and your emotional presence. Integrating a step-parent needs to respect children's love for their parents, no matter what YOU may think of your ex. It is important to tell children this new person does not replace their mother or father, but is like an extra person who also loves them and wants them to be happy and cared for. Don'ts Worst things you or your spouse can do: Open chronic conflict in front of children. Speak in a negative way about the other parent to your children, or when children can overhear you. Prevent them from contact with the other parent (whether openly or by instilling feelings of disloyalty if they do, getting upset before/during/after they visit or speak with other parent, etc.) Abandon your children physically or emotionally. Use your children as a 'spy' or news reporter about the other parent. The most damaging thing for children is chronic open conflict, blaming, and bitterness between parents whether that occurs verbally or through vengeful litigation. This is the most consistent factor in children suffering long-term harm from divorce. One of the most common mistakes is for one parent to try to convince the child that s/he is the 'good' or 'fun' parent by letting them get away with things, buying them presents, letting them stay up as late as they want, allowing them to do things you did not allow before, etc. This is confusing and harmful to the child. One of the most important roles for children to survive divorce with the least amount of injury is to have loving and consistent parents in both households. Do not make promises you can't or won't keep. Do not promise to take a child to an event on Saturday morning and then forget it or change your mind. This goes both for the custodial and non-custodial parent. A parent 'slipping out' while children are in school, or simply finding a way to avoid the difficulty of being honest and direct with the children, does more harm. Be honest and clear up front.

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Sanitary sewer clean outs are critical for maintaining your connection to your sewer system. Should a backup occur, getting to a clean out quickly can save you money and reduce the damage from an overflow inside your house. Sewer clean outs are ugly tripping hazards But no matter how important clean outs are, they sure can be eyesores. They stick up out of the ground, are difficult to mow around, and can be tripping hazards. My sewer clean out before. My same clean out, facing front yard. So, I put my sewer clean out below ground in an irrigation box. The new covered box in place. I used an irrigation box I had left over from putting in my sprinkler system. But you can buy one for about $20 at any big box home improvement store. I set the box and its cover flush with the ground. So, no more trip hazard, and mowing is much easier – I just mow right over it. And if I get really fired up, I use the string trimmer along the edges of the cover. Cover comes off with a screwdriver and provides easy access to the clean out. Steps I took to bury my sewer clean out To do this upgrade, I used a regular shovel to excavate around the the existing above-ground pipe. Then, I cut the pipe below the cap fitting, leaving enough pipe on the cap end so that I could re-use it. I cut the remaining pipe even lower, and then used a union fitting to connect the pipe in the ground to the cap fitting, using the purple primer and green PVC glue you can buy almost anywhere. In the photo, you can see the green cap fitting that I re-used and the white union fitting. To discourage bugs, spiders, and frogs from using the box as a new home, I also set the box on a bed of gravel. So, here’s the result. No more ugly sewer clean out – until I need it. Here's the after - with landscaping grown in and a new fence. Cost of this home improvement project The cost was about $3 for the union fitting and $4 for a bag of gravel. As I said above, I already had an extra irrigation box, but they cost about $20, as I recall. The purple primer and green PVC cement come in various sizes, but you can usually get a small combo pack for about $6. So, starting from scratch – and assuming you already have a shovel – the cost would be about $33. All things considered, the wife and I think this upgrade has really improved our curb appeal. She is especially happy, since she didn’t do any digging – this time. Sanitary Sewer Easements and Eminent Domain BTW: This is, of course, a private, residential sanitary sewer project I did myself. But big sewer projects are done all the time for residential and commercial property, frequently by municipalities or other governmental agencies. They often work with private developers in joint ventures, where the developer tries to purchase the necessary sewer easements from private property owners, and if it can’t, then the government condemns those easements through eminent domain. Usually, the developer then reimburses the government for its easement acquisition costs. That’s the other side of the eminent domain joint venture. So, even a sewer eminent domain case can require help from sophisticated eminent domain lawyers. Please share your thoughts in the comment box below. Tagged as: Apex, Greenbrier, Landscaping, North Carolina", Sewer Clean Out Cancel reply Leave a Comment Name * E-mail * Website Please type "6c3444": Leave this field empty please: { 1 comment… read it below or add one } Fatal error: Cannot assign by reference to overloaded object in on line 177

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Out the door at 5:30 this morning and after a quick coffee stop, I was headed up 17. Hit the OB floor by 7:00 am. Forgot my watch. Have to admit to the most boring clinical day ever. Spent the day in OB and not one baby born today. On my last rotation to OB, I was lucky enough to help with a natural delivery and also scrubbed for a cesarean section..all in one day. Even though the day was quite uneventful, I did get the opportunity to visit the nick unit (basically an ICU for infants). Very tiny babies with many lines & monitors. I felt quite intimidated by this setting and took a moment to thank God for my healthy kids.Home by 4:00 to an empty house - Madison was visiting with my Mom, Logan was fishing and Jay was go-cart racing with his Dad. Jay had the kitchen nicely cleaned but he did something he is strictly forbidden to do...a load of laundry. I found one dark blue towel, some whites and a beach towel all washed together in a nice fluffy mess...Madison and I later went to get a few groceries and I made my Aunt Maryann's yummy squash casserole for dinner. I insisted that the four of us eat together on the deck - we don't get too many nights to have dinner together.At 9:55 , all is quiet in the Abbott home, the wine glass is empty and I'm ready to call it a day.

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This is cool.I've written letters about this in local (not available online) and international (October 2006) publications, it's great to see some serious action from people who might make something happen. The quality of life here is superb. There is a small but enthusiastic pool of talent. If you have a spectacular business idea; don't need too much funding; and the VC environment in Silicon Valley, NYC, Austin, Atlanta, or Chicago is too much of a freak show: come here. Posted by Chris McMahon at 9:09 PM No comments: Links to this post Thursday, May 24, 2007 "let your employees decide when and where to work" Time magazine has a refeshingly hype-free short article about 37signals. Half of the company works remotely. First, kill all your meetings; they waste employees' time. "Interruption is the biggest enemy of productivity," he says. "We stay away from each other as much as we can to get more stuff done." Use asynchronous communication and software instead to exchange information, ideas and solutions. Next, dump half your projects to focus on the core of your business. Too much time and effort are wasted on second-tier objectives. Third, let your employees decide when and where to work so they can be both efficient and happy. As long as their fingers are near a keyboard, they could as easily be in Caldwell, Idaho, as in Chicago. At Socialtext where I work, most of the company works remotely. Socialtext sells wikis, and internally, the entire company lives, breathes, and evolves on wikis. The part about asynchronous (PUBLIC) communication is right on. Not only is it effective communication, it is also a living knowledge base and repository for company culture. I have had a lot of jobs. It's ironic that the company culture at Socialtext is so rich when the people in the company see each other so rarely. Posted by Chris McMahon at 5:25 PM No comments: Links to this post Friday, May 11, 2007 here come the software artists Apropos of my software-as-music analogy, Jonathan Kohl has another nice non-manufacturing metaphor, software development as theater. It makes a lot of sense, especially since Jonathon's point is actually about the value of improvisation in the course of developing and testing software. In software, improvisation saves time and creates new opportunities. On the factory floor or in the supply chain, improvisation is a disruption and causes chaos. Posted by Chris McMahon at 12:30 PM No comments: Links to this post Tuesday, May 08, 2007 starting a work blog I'm starting a blog for the work I'm beginning do at Socialtext. It'll mostly be concerned with wikis, Selenium, FireWatir, Perl, and maybe a little Ruby. I'll probably be posting to this one a little less often, but you're welcome to read the other one if you'd like. A lot of the Socialtext development staff are keeping open work blogs, so mine fits right in. Posted by Chris McMahon at 10:48 PM No comments: Links to this post Sunday, May 06, 2007 oh heck yeah Posted by Chris McMahon at 10:24 PM No comments: Links to this post Saturday, May 05, 2007 an example of an analogy: monks vs music Brian Marick gives a very well-reasoned and well-researched talk on the state of agile development. In it he compares agile teams to monks. I've never liked this analogy (see the comments) and on several occasions I've suggested that agile teams are much more like jazz bands. The most important differences for me are that unlike agile teams, monks a) do the same thing in the same way over and over and b) don't have audiences.And now I've found the perfect musical agile counterexample. This is Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie doing the song One O'Clock Jump. The song is a twelve-bar blues, which is the jazz equivalent of a database app with a UI. By which I mean: just as every programmer has built a database app with a UI, every American musician has played twelve-bar blues. It is a framework on which many many many songs are hung, from Count Basie to Jimi Hendrix to the Ramones.This particular video is a great example of agile practice. Listen to how the voice and piano influence each other. This is a lot like pair programming, and it's a lot like TDD: voice does something; piano responds; piano does something; voice responds. And notice the eye contact. These people are intensely aware of what's going on instant-to-instant. They have no sheet music (BDUF). They are involved in an activity that takes intense concentration and skill, just like good software development. They are also clearly aware that there is an audience, just as good software development should be aware of the needs of the people paying the bills. I particularly love it when Ella sings "I don't know where I'm going from here". She recovers immediately, of course. It doesn't get any more agile than that. They are clearly inventing the music as they go along, using skill and experience. I like Cleveland Eaton the bass player too. I think of him as a tester. He is subtly influencing the structure of the song, changing the dynamics, tying themes together, providing little pushes to the main players. Also, his instrument is much less sophisticated than a grand piano or a human voice, much as testers' tools are less sophisticated then developers' tools. For a bonus, here's a video of the full Basie orchestra featuring a bass solo from Mr. Eaton on another twelve-bar blues. Again, the interaction between bass and piano is wonderfully agile. Apropos of not much, I had the privilege of speaking with Count Basie and Cleveland Eaton twice. The Basie band played at my high school on two occasions more than twenty years ago, and those conversations, especially with Mr. Eaton, were an enormous influence for me. Posted by Chris McMahon at 12:03 PM 1 comment: Links to this post Friday, May 04, 2007 Charley Baker has a blog! Watir Project Manager Charley Baker is blogging. First post is an example of driving scriptaculous AJAX with Watir. I know that Charley is doing really big, nifty things with Watir and Ruby. I'm looking forward to reading about them.

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From the producers of C.S. Lewis' THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS, comes the highly anticipated theatrical adaptation of THE GREAT DIVORCE. In this dantesque journey from Hell to Paradise, Lewis draws some of the most fiercely funny characters he ever created.

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Hi ! Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't find OpenVAS in the new release of BT (By the way, I saw that Nessus was included).

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Yes, it's that time on the year again where people like to look back and make a best-of-list. 2015 was another great year where I saw many great concerts, heard wonderful music and discovered some new bands on the go. So for what it's worth, here's my top 10 album list. Have a great new year's and let's make 2016 at least as good.

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It looks like once again the party hacks in the Republican party will support another retread politician. Like a punch drunk boxer that doesn't know when to quit - it appears Mike "take their guns" DeWine will be looking to run for office again! Instead of supporting candidates that share our conservative values and honor the rights protected by our Constitution - the Republican party will support an openly anti-gun candidates is par for the course. And some of you thought Kevin DeSwine (ORP Chair) would be any better than the Blob Bennet the hack that he replaced as State Party Chairman. Nope - different name - same crap... From Buckeye Firearms --In 2006, the Ohio Republican Party employed a strategy of supporting candidates with state-wide name recognition (and anti-gun records) over pro-gun candidates that were less well-known.The state party, under the control of then-Chairman Bob Bennett, backed anti-gun Jeanette Bradley over pro-gun Sandy O'Brien for Treasurer, and anti-gun candidate Betty Montgomery over pro-gun candidate Tim Grendell for Attorney General.Believing that "O'Brien can't win" in November, party leaders sunk the party's resources into Bradley. Despite having earned statewide name recognition while serving as Lt. Governor in the Taft administration, and despite her opponent having almost no resources (in comparison to the Ohio Republican Party-backed candidate), pro-gun Sandy O'Brien defeated anti-gun Jeanette Bradley in the primary.Betty Montgomery, meanwhile, who once infamously told Buckeye Firearms Association Chairman Jim Irvine she would "never be the candidate of the NRA", won her primary, but was defeated in November - by a far lesser known and less well-funded (but pro-gun!) Democrat.Is history about to repeat itself, just one state-wide election cycle later? Will the Ohio Republican party, under the new leadership of Chairman Kevin DeWine, continue the failed strategy of supporting candidates with name recognition over those with a record of strong support for gun rights?The 2010 race for Attorney General is shaping up to be an excellent bellwether.The Columbus Dispatch is reporting that former U.S. Senator Mike DeWine, who lost his seat in 2006, has filed a designation of treasurer statement with the Ohio secretary of state's office, a move which will allow him to begin raising funds.DeWine has not said what office he plans to seek, but many political observers believe he has an eye on the attorney general's office. Given that Delaware County Prosecutor Dave Yost has already declared his candidacy for the Republican nomination for Attorney General, DeWine's move could signal a 2006 deja-vu all over again, pitting vehemently anti-gun DeWine's strong name recognition against the lesser well-known, pro-gun Yost.Has the Ohio Republican Party learned its lesson? If so, they will quickly signal their support for Dave Yost's campaign, and begin funneling dollars his way. Or, rather, will they decide to back the anti-gun, name recognition candidate, Mike DeWine?Let's be clear about one thing. Even with party support, Mike DeWine is destined for the same fate Jeanette Bradley and Betty Montgomery suffered in 2006.The most likely scenario is that he will lose in the primary, leaving the party and media "experts" to once again wonder how a little-known candidate like Prosecutor Yost beat a former U.S. Senator.If DeWine somehow defeats Yost in the primary, he will find himself facing a pro-gun Democrat, incumbent Richard Cordray, come November.Either way, DeWine will go back into the political dust bin with the last two well-known anti-gun Republican candidates.Ask an Ohio Republican Party official today, and they'll be happy to tell you that Republicans are the pro-gun More...And they wonder why people are disgusted with the Republicans! They can't even stand up for what they believe!

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Coton Pre-School, set in the pleasant grounds of Coton School, has been running for more than twenty-five years. In this time, it has welcomed children from Coton, Cambridge and surrounding villages and helped to prepare them for their early years at school as part of the Foundation Stage within the National Curriculum. Our aim is to provide a safe, caring and stimulating environment where children can develop new skills and the confidence to use them. Our group ensures that each child receives individual attention and is able to socialise and make friends easily. We are open Monday to Thursday from 9:05 am to 1:05 pm, and additionally until 3:05 pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays. We offer flexible sessions – morning, morning and lunch, afternoon or 9:05 am – 3:05 pm. During the first half of the summer term, a teacher from Reception class visits the Pre-School one morning a week and in the second half, those children due to start school in the autumn of that year are taken into the reception class for a part of the morning to give them a gentle introduction to school life. Coton Pre School moved to purpose built premises in March 2015, a vast improvement from the original portcabin. Our new building is bright and welcoming with a lovely rear garden enabling free movement indoors and outdoors for the children in good weather. Staff, Parents and children have embraced the new environment and are enjoying their time there.

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The Who guitarist Pete Townshend has called on Apple, and the wider digital music industry, to find ways to support instead of exploit new talent. Among his eight suggestions for how to help—instead of being a "digital vampire"—are to fufill some of the roles traditionally held by record labels, such as providing "creative nurture" and employing talent scouts. What's the Big Idea? The music veteran also took issue with the popularity of of illegally downloading music, saying people "may as well come and steal my son's bike while they're at it". Though musicians' incomes have been eroded through illegal downloading, Townshend admitted that "a creative person would prefer their music to be stolen and enjoyed than ignored."

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Originally published on July 15, 2014 5:53 am Transcript STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: NPR's Business News starts with new auto industry jobs. The German automaker Volkswagen says it's going to spend $900 million expanding its plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Volkswagen will add 2,000 new jobs at the plant for production of a new seven-passenger SUV. You may recall that VW's Chattanooga plant was at the center of a fight over organized labor. Workers there voted against joining the United Auto Workers union in February and then fears that those new jobs would go to Mexico instead. The UAW says it will establish a local to offer representation to workers at the plant, though that local will not be recognized by the company. VW will also add 200 engineering positions - part of a strategy many foreign automakers are employing hoping that U.S.-based engineers will bring better insights into what American drivers want. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright © 2017 KTEP

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