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I am an engineering student studying towards a BEng degree. As part of my design course I am required to design a draw bench that is...

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65532108-27-2003, 09:26 AMI just tried Bawls and it blew me away! after only getting 5 hours of sleep, mowing 2 lawns, putting 2 hours in at the skatepark and sitting around until 10, I drank some bawls. I was about to fall asleep and I noticed an immediate pep. I was up and running and toiling in dos, and bawls kept me going for a good 2.5 hours. That might not seem like much, but I had a full day behind me and little sleep. Also THIS IS A FORUM FOR ENERGY DRINKS! YOU FIGHT LIKE CHILDREN OVER EVERYTHING Take the good with the bad. sodasommelier09-06-2003, 02:03 PMSounds like you had more than just one... Bawls is good because it tastes good too; has some pep but either you had been in caffeine withdrawals or you had a whole case of Bawls because although it does pack a kick, I've never gotten any reaction like that. I find Bawls to be particularly refreshing on a hot humid day; an ice-cold Bawls is a nice pickup and refreshment. And it's in a glass bottle; nuff sed! Shatter09-10-2003, 12:50 AMI like the taste of the drink myself. It doesn't have the awful flavor of taurine and ginseng to screw it up. Just good old caffeine. It's usually what i'll pick up when i'm dragging in the morning and need a little more caffeine boost than other sodas can provide. boodoo09-10-2003, 02:10 PMMan I sure wish Hoby would extend the product line with new flavors. Hmmm....how about "Snow Bawls"(vanilla) "Fuzzy Bawls" (peach) "Beach Bawls" (pineapple or coconut would work)...and the hits just keep on comming!! sodasommelier09-27-2003, 12:37 PMI get first dibs... smile.gif Great idea boodoo! RunWithDaLilGuy08-17-2004, 10:49 PMi just found bawls in michigan. bought one and i will try it in the morning smile.gif Surge-n-Citra08-24-2004, 07:50 PMbawls is really good i drink about one a day sodasommelier08-26-2004, 11:57 PMDon't forget the Guaranexx (sugarfree Bawls with Splenda)! It tastes great and it's perfect for all those 'low carb' diets! turtleboy09-01-2004, 08:08 PMI just saw a Bawls advertisement in a paintball magazine. It looks like Bawls is now "the official drink of paintballers". toby109-01-2004, 09:19 PMare you sure its not "PAINTBAWLERS"? lol MD12131012-07-2004, 07:18 PMit is, they have like their own team or something. its all over

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Black-Rose23 chapter 1 . 2/7/2012 Aw, how cute, and it seems Jack's taking after his father a little bit. Dishon chapter 1 . 10/22/2011 Aww~~ that'S just so sweet 3 I feel like I'm in a pink cotton candy world where everything's full of fluffy things and story's... no, seriously I really like you're story, it's just... too cute for words ) KitsuneDango chapter 1 . 1/15/2011 i almost cried sooo cute! Gabrielle Alan chapter 1 . 1/8/2009 That story wins as the cutest story EVER. EVER. Phoebe-Jeebies chapter 1 . 10/11/2008 Aww, that is so cute! Love it, well done. Soralikespie chapter 1 . 7/3/2008 That was cute! Good Job. WarpedMinded chapter 1 . 6/30/2008 That was almost beyond cute! *squee!* I loved it. Bells of Tomorrow chapter 1 . 4/9/2008 That was undeniably cute. Good job! little dumpling chapter 1 . 9/13/2007 awe! that was so cute! and so in character too. well done, i really enjoyed it. especially the line: "The phrase 'helping him sleep' was a G-rated version of 'I'm going to screw Newbie unconscious.'" quite humorous. XD The Sylver Lining chapter 1 . 6/8/2007 OH. WELLNOW. This is just one of the cutest things I have ever read. Ever. I believe I shall have to get over my principle-based aversion to dental hygenists (it's not the dentists or mouth-tools that scare me, it's the fish in the waiting rooms; they look so... dazed. Finding Nemo only intensified that little quirk, eh? ... erh, forgive, it's 1:12 AM and I'm not entirely sure this isn't a dream in itself.) and have myself checked for cavities. It's that sweet. Oh well, nice laughing gas for me... No, in all srsness, this is one of the best-written Scrubs-fics I've come across on - nitpicking grammar nazi that I am, I couldn't find a single comma splice, run-on sentence, NO TYPOS FOR GOODNESS' SAKE - and the actual CONTENT was, well, brilliant. Houseboy. /Lunchmeat/. It can't be healthy to hold in laughter of that magnitude. It just can't be. Anyway, that was just so perfectly Jordan, and the rest was just - utterly in-character, truly. Jack calling JD "Janice" was a lovely, lovely touch to an unbelievably adorable sequence of... words. Yes, that. WELL DONE. XAngst-PrincessX chapter 1 . 4/29/2007 Adorable! Aseret Kitsune chapter 1 . 4/29/2007 Aww, amazingly cute. Forgotten Fairytale chapter 1 . 4/6/2007 Yay! Again, My FAVORITE ship! Yay! chibineko chan4 chapter 1 . 4/2/2007 Aw! that was the cutest fic ever! . I love Jack making JD sleep. Please, continue writting

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"I wonder if they have a special alert phrase for when we walk in here," I wondered aloud to my Man as we, for the second time in as many visits found ourselves exiting the local bookstore with a partially dressed child in our arms. Last time, the mess for the bookstore employees was minimal, the mess for the parents...maximum. The last time we'd entered the hallowed aisles of our local bookstore, we fell into our usual habit where each family member enters the front door, looking like a normal person and then, once inside, picks up an irresponsible amount of speed with which to reach his or her favorite section. Molly charges to the "kids' section" with Kate at her heels, Cole heads to the shelves that hold his favorite authors, Meg can be found heading toward the series books near the kids' section and is always looking for something fresh and new. My Man makes a beeline for the religion section and I bid the whole gang adieu and get lost in the literature/fiction section and then in the cookbook aisles. The religion section is near the children's section, so the kids are in close proximity to their Dad, and he can keep half an ear on them while scanning the shelves and all of us can look at our favorite books. This practice has worked well for us in the years since the bookstore has been in business UNTIL last time... ...last time when from the kids' section we heard, "Oh no! Momeeeeeeee, there's poooopeeeee in my pants! Oh no Momeeeeeeeee!" we all bolted. Poor Molly was in dire straits, obviously still plagued by a stomach virus that I mistakenly thought had run its complete course. All six of us appeared in the center aisle of the store and then Kate and I followed Molly on her awkward course toward the bathrooms. The bathrooms are in the very back of the store. The.Very.Back. The entire way through the store Molly chanted loudly, "This can't be happening, this can't happen, please don't let this happen...Mommy, I need a fresh pair...did you bring a fresh pair? Mommy, I need a fresh pair, did you bring a fresh pair? Ohhhhhhhhh this can't be happening, don't let this happen." Poor kid. I didn't pick her up and go running because I was afraid of making things worse for her by rearranging the mess. So knees locked together in penguin-like fashion, Molly finally reached the bathroom and we went inside and got to the work of assessing the situation. It became clear that Molly's less-than-fresh pair would have to be discarded and her jeans would need to be carried home in a biohazard container. I considered wrapping my scarf around her southern end to provide adequate cover, but soon decided that my scarf would not cover enough territory. Kate was dispatched to get her Dad who had returned to the religion section. When I gave my Man the situation report, he headed to the car to get the emergency blanket. I told Molly that we were going to have to leave the store and go home. "Yike (like) dis?" she exclaimed, looking at her uncovered parts? I explained that her Dad was on his way with a blanket and that she would be sufficiently covered as we exited the store. And exit the store we did, heads bowed slightly, we all filed out offering silent apologies to the unfortunate employee that was responsible for emptying the bathroom garbage cans that evening. {For a week after this particular bookstore debacle, Molly never left the house without a backpack full of "fresh pairs" which she had packed on her own..."Jutht in case," she told me with a knowing look.} This time while we were at the store, a telling ruckus drew my Man and I from our prospective corners to find white foam covering two little girls with surprised expressions on their faces. Foam also covered most of the section of the aisle where the girls were standing. Kate handed my Man a deflated version of this... ...Blobby Robby, now Blobless Robby, had exploded. Kate was thoroughly covered and had to make a trip to the bathroom and remove her sweater and replace it with her puffer vest which would leave her skinny little arms totally exposed on our trip to the car. White foam dripped from Kate's hair and was sprinkled over Molly's head as well. While my Man was helping Kate with her clothing, Cole was helping me clean up what foam we could with toilet paper from the restrooms. It soon became apparent that our efforts were in vain, the more we tried, the worse the mess became. I walked to the front desk and explained what had happened and offered to purchase Blobless Robby. Happily, the employee said that that wouldn't be necessary. Kate and Darrin soon joined the rest of us at the center of the store, and after a short pause for a purchase, we again made our head-bowed walk out of the store. "If they don't have a code word for us, they should," said he, "I felt like I had to buy something for the trouble we've left them with THIS time." {Blobby Robby's insides mixed with high quality bathroom toilet paper.} Pretty Huh? Last week, my Man and I went on a date. We enjoyed an early dinner out and a movie. Still not quite ready to call it an evening, we headed in the direction of the bookstore. As we approached we noticed lights on and saw employees with vacuum cleaners in action. The employees may or may not have spotted our approaching van from afar and yelled a single word to one another which, of course, we were unable to hear as we got closer. All I know is that when we got to the store, the doors were locked and the lights were out. Not a soul remained in sight. Posted by Gretchen at 12:39 PM 5 comments: Becky said... The Adventures of Motherhood. Only you can tell these the way you do! January 16, 2012 at 1:59 PM Deborah Ware said... This made me laugh so hard, I cried. Which, made Jay laugh. Thanks! January 16, 2012 at 9:21 PM Anonymous said... Oh my! This was such a great post. Made me laugh! (and don't worry, we've DEFINITELY had accidents in public places. ;)) January 17, 2012 at 8:06 AM Leanne said... Funny! I have a son named Robbie and I thought about getting him a blobby for his stocking at Christmas. Now I'm VERY glad I didn't. Love the post! January 18, 2012 at 11:16 PM Sudeana said... I finally got to read this post in its entirety. Way. too. funny!! I bet your kiddos will have some crazy stories when they come home after working their part time jobs at the bookstore!! They will be experts by then!

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Forward: Choose Life by joe.dawsonScenario Concepts: We considered various scenarios and settings that would provide relevance with our target audience and referenced what we have been introduced to through the duration of the module. We examined several different concepts, before deciding on what would generate the most interest between our desired age category - University / Societies - Building on the popularity of shows like Skins, The Inbetweeners and Hollyoaks but basing the theme on universities and societies. Emergency Services - An alternative to Casualty, Scrubs, ER and London's Burning that incorporates every service. Sailing Community - A glamorous setting that could be the UK alternative to The Hills. Cartoon - This option would provide flexibility, creative freedom and unlimited boundaries to create any setting and culture. Olympics - This would promote the games, athletics - what happens during the build up to games. Rap Scene (East London) - Struggle for acceptance - pioneering a music scene. We decided that the University / Societies setting was the most attractive concept for our target audience. This was because it would build on a genre that they would be familiar with and tackle issues that were important. We felt that the show should be UK based and provide an alternative perspective on how UK universities differ from their American counterpart. We also felt that through education we would be able to incorporate aspects of the other scenarios - studying to become a doctor; the athletics star working towards the Olympics; music production and attempting to make a break in the industry. Title Semiotics: We choose the title Forward because the definition provided semiotics that we felt were relevant to our show. As sign users we were able to identify many meanings that we felt were relevant. We applied the theory that Ferdinand de Saussure, a Swiss linguistic, introduced and founded for many significant developments in linguistics in the twentieth century. A few examples from the free dictionary definition - The notion of progress; being in front: moving towards a point Being in front of trends: student protests being a political example Deviating radically from convention or tradition: providing a different, possibly extreme approach to tackling issues Moving in a prescribed direction: A clock and cassette are mentioned which we have referenced in our radio advert Sports references which relate to the various sports played by societies Promotion / Airplay: Ask some businesses about radio advertising and they will tell you it's the greatest investment they have ever made, while others will tell you it's a complete waste of time and money. We feel that radio isn't an ideal method of advertising a television show, especially when the radio commercial would be paired with multiple advertisements aiming to stand out! This meant that we needed to inspire and also extend the listening experience. We wrote down a detailed description of our core audience and the potential time they would be listening to the radio. As the advert would be aired on national syndicated radio, we decided on the 19:00 - 00:00 time slot. We also wanted to extend the listening experience for our audience and make the radio advert more interactive. We opted for social media channels, they're easily accessible and provide scalable publishing techniques. This would provide additional content for the show and enable them to share with their network, thus raising exposure of the show. Production: We used Cubase 4 which is music software, developed by Steinberg for music recording, arranging and editing as part of Digital Audio Workstation to produce the advert. Music: The intro to the advert is Imagine (1971) by John Lennon, with lyrics 'you may say that I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one,' we felt that it signified aspirations and dreams about achievement. The lyrics mention not being the 'only one' which we felt related; being at university with others and working towards a better future. The chords for Imagine were later sampled by Oasis, in their track Don't Look Back In Anger (1996). The voices of my children accompanied the sample to imply childhood memories and not looking back in anger! The second sample is the Gives You Hell (2008) chords by All American Rejects, selected because the track implies rebellion and being given hell when being confronted! Media Studies: We wanted to portray images of 'youth-as-trouble' and 'youth-as-fun' through the advert, suggested in wider reading material from Media studies: texts, institutions, and audiences. By Lisa Taylor and Andrew Willis. Narratives: The voices provide the dreams of a child and the struggles of a teenager trying to make the right choices. Movie References: We referenced movie dialogue throughout the script that would be instantly recognisable within the advert. These were the movies Fight Club (1999) and Trainspotting (1996), the repetition providing the listener with choices. Sound Effects: We added cassette fast forward and vinyl fade out sound effects. Both being retro and iconic from youth, and Forward being the name of the show also influenced this decision!Related articlesSemiotics Information, Semiotics Reference Articles - CanadaSpace Reference Semiotics " The "Meta" Internet: The genesis of a "virtual" Silicon Valleys leveraging the power of the Internet.

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After a pair of unsuccessful attempts at making Aussie ISP iiNet responsible for the copyright infringing activities of their users, the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft is refusing to give in. The Hollywood-backed group is now taking its case to the High Court, claiming that two of the three judges in the appeal did not apply legal tests correctly. Today’s press release from AFACT, the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft, needs to be read very carefully. While seasoned readers of TorrentFreak and other publications which are becoming increasingly suspicious of the propaganda war down under, to the casual passer-by it might appear that AFACT had come out on top in their recent case against ISP iiNet. “Despite being successful on many grounds in their appeal to the Full Federal Court, the film companies will seek to overturn the ruling that iiNet did not authorise the acts of infringement that it knew occurred on its internet service,” the release reads. For those on the other side of the debate, “successful on many grounds” actually grinds down to “lost the case for a second time” as in February the Full Bench of the Federal Court dismissed the movie industry’s appeal against last year’s judgment which found that ISP iiNet did not authorize the copyright infringements of its file-sharing customers. Not that AFACT don’t have a point, though. If the movie industry had provided iiNet with better infringement notices in the first instance and the ISP had still not acted on them, the outcome of the case may have been different, the court decided. “Prior to the case, iiNet was provided with substantial evidence of copyright infringement by users on its network, which iiNet accepted was 100% accurate,” said AFACT this morning. Although the words “100% accurate” don’t appear to have been used by iiNet verbatim, in court the ISP did use the word “compelling” to describe AFACT notices. Nevertheless, two of three judges in the Federal Court found that iiNet had not authorized the infringing activities of their file-sharing subscribers and it is against this majority decision that AFACT are appealing. “We say [the judges] did not apply the legal test for authorisation correctly,” AFACT chief Neil Gane said. Furthermore, AFACT says that the Court’s conclusion – that iiNet did not have enough knowledge of infringements taking place in order to be found as authorizing them – was also wrong. “We are confident of our grounds for appeal and hopeful that special leave to the High Court will be granted,” Gane concludes. However, while AFACT are like a dog with a bone in pursuing this legal action, iiNet continues to call for the movie industry to spend their money on something more creative. “It’s time for the film industry and copyright holders to work with the industry to make their content legitimately available,” iiNet’s Chief Executive Officer Michael Malone said today in response to AFACT’s announcement. Malone said iiNet had received positive feedback “from both consumers and the industry” following the publication of its ‘Encouraging Legitimate use of Online Content‘ report earlier this month and that all parties should consider moving forward on that basis. If the case does indeed move to the High Court, no decision is expected until late 2011 or early 2012.

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The DS3 is a premium supermini from Citroen that rivals the MINI and Alfa Romeo MiTo. It's based on the C3, but has a more upmarket interior and exciting driving experience. The THP engine is punchy, and this model is more composed through bends than lesser DS3s. Dsport cars come with climate a/c, Bluetooth connectivity and a rear spoiler All car offers are based on Car Leasing, 10k miles per annum - followed by 17 Monthly payments as appropriate. Business leasing deal Plus VAT / Personal contract hire inc VAT. All car Images are for illustration purposes only.Other terms and miles available upon request.

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Houston. It's Worth It because of iconic institutions like Rice University. Celebrate Rice's 100th Anniversary with our newest HIWI book...Now at special 25% off holiday pricing too! (Reg. price: $29.99)HIWI: Rice, published in honor of Rice University's centennial. HIWI:Rice is part love letter, part roast, and part remembrance of this venerable institution's lively presence in our city. Like HIWI's other books, HIWI:Rice is a crowd-sourced publication comprised of stories and photographs submitted by current and former Rice students as well as Houstonians who didn't attend Rice. Special limited time holiday pricing!

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Inspired by vintage workshirts, we sourced the linen for this top from Ireland's famous Baird McNutt mill, known for fine-quality linen with an unbelievably soft feel, thanks to a special weaving process it's been perfecting since 1912.

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Stream Invoker's Remix Of Beyoncé Posted Apr 22nd, 2014 (9:25 am) by James Hughes French house producer Invoker has released his remix of the famed Beyoncé track "Partition." play pause Beyoncé - Partition (Invoker Remix) Dinosaur Jr. Reminds Us to Watch the Corners Posted Jul 2nd, 2012 (6:00 pm) by Ross Condit Remember Dinosaur Jr.? Well, they remember you, and want to make you happy.... play pause Dinosaur Jr. - Watch the Corners Deastro Tour Dates Announced Posted Sep 21st, 2009 (4:12 pm) by John-Ross Boyce Randolph Chabot, the man behind the electro-heavy psychedelia that is Deastro, has been a busy beaver the last few months. His newest album, Moondagger - a spacey, full-band concept album about a prince searching for the mythical, epoonymous Moondagger that will destroy the King of Darkness - was released last June on Ghostly International. The release of the album's first single “Tone Adventure #3” will be accompanied by a... Video: Foals' release new video for "Bad Habit" Posted Jun 17th, 2013 (2:16 pm) by Alyssa Kropp Bad habits are usually mundane things like biting your nails or forgetting to vacuum your room. However, in the Foals' new video for "Bad Habit," it appears that the bad habit in question is traipsing across the desert sans clothes. Video Roundup: Make Out! Launches New One - "I Don't Want Anybody That Wants Me" Posted Mar 9th, 2011 (6:20 pm) by Ross Condit The delicious, new-ish group, Make Out, is an edgy punk/'80s new wave band that crushes it on every track! play pause Make Out - I Don’t Want Anybody That Wants Me Alex Smoke: RS1043 EP Posted on May 19th, 2014 (9:00 am) by Jake Cappuccino Alex Smoke’s RS1043 has great beats and some good samples, but the EP does not innovate otherwise. That said, there is far worse house music in the electronic world. play pause Alex Smoke - LSD Pavement to Reunite! Posted Sep 17th, 2009 (1:23 am) by Henry Harboe Yes! According to our sources, the big news in the world of independent music really is true. Stephen Malkmus, Bob Nastanovich, Sott Kannberg, Steve West and Mark Ibold, members of one of the most defining bands of 1990s indie rock, Pavement, are reforming this decade to enchant all the slantedness of our lives yet again. Back in 1999, the band broke up mid-tour due to interband emotional tension and... The Aptly Named High Summer Posted Jun 25th, 2012 (5:55 pm) by Ross Condit This is a gorgeous musical duo, despite somewhat course, and immature lyrical content. There are a mere five songs on the High Summer EP. It’s chill, yet evocative of summer, and all songs are solid, including the 50 second “My Name.” Standouts for me included the title track, “High Summer,” with its magical opening that reminded me of a Gaelic chant, and “Big Hearts, Big Dreams” that’s musically pretty great. play pause JJ - High Summer Reinventing the RickRoll Posted Jul 15th, 2015 (2:41 pm) by Staff There’s a new trend in DJing—trolling the audience. Painted Zeros: X (Flatline) Posted Mar 28th, 2012 (10:30 am) by Kirk Maltais Upon first listen, "X (Flatline)" sounds like a cross between the psychedelic rock of the Black Angels and the sensibility of the Pixies. If this sounds like an appealing mix to you, then rejoice. play pause Painted Zeros - X (Flatline) Cursive: Mama, I’m Swollen Posted on March 20th, 2009 (1:37 pm) by Sean Morrissey Tim Kasher and Co. may have now delivered a damn fine silver keepsake for those who just can’t step out of yesteryear, in the form of Mama, I’m Swollen. JJ's slow stunner "My Boyz" gets a video Posted Dec 27th, 2013 (12:05 pm) by Alyssa Kropp Swedish group JJ have released a new video for their song "My Boyz." Gladkill - Neverafter Posted Mar 3rd, 2015 (6:07 pm) by Derek Duoba Gladkill, the Oakland-based master of chilled-out electronic music, dropped a new album today. The record's title track, "Neverafter," provides more of what we've come to expect from this producer: breakbeats, and slowly rolling synths abound. play pause Gladkill - Neverafter ASTR Share Music Video For "Activate Me" Posted May 25th, 2015 (9:30 am) by Brendon Hogan New York duo ASTR have released the music video for their song "Activate Me." MIA finally releases cover art and songs for upcoming album Posted Sep 25th, 2013 (10:04 am) by Alyssa Kropp With the many delays of this album, it's been a long wait for any sort of insight into MIA's new album.

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We understand that feeling of getting to the end of the day and wondering how you went from drinking your morning coffee to making dinner (substituting a glass of wine for the coffee). You've blown through the day, taking care of kids, work, pets, the gym, spouses. Basically taking care of everyone and everything. We get that because we do it too. In caramel, we wanted to treat you to an experience, not just a piece of candy. You deserve it. And we wanted the word “treat” to do double duty. I mean, you multi/triple-task, why shouldn’t your caramel? Our caramel does that double duty. As a sweet treat, it's big enough to satisfy without feeling overindulgent, has flavors rich enough to create a moment, and a melt-in-your-mouth consistency so you can finish and move on with your day. And, we created a unique size – bigger than your average caramel – because we want you to treat yourself with a minute to yourself, to give you the opportunity to eat it slowly and savor. Savor the flavor, savor the time - Tahana caramels give you all that because you deserve all that. And because we're pretty sure you don't take it for yourself. So, we make unforgettable caramel. You make your moment. And then go back to ruling the world. Because if you won't, who will?

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George Lewis Eisman, age 66, of Watkins Glen NY, died at home of cancer on April 23, 2017. George was born on August 5, 1950 in Miami, FL, to Leo and Rose Eisman. George grew up in Miami Beach and attended Central Beach Elementary and Ida M. Fisher Junior High. He was a leader among his peers and served as Student Council President at Fisher. A brilliant student, he graduated early from Miami Beach Senior High and went directly to Middlebury College in Vermont after 11th grade in 1967. After a year at Middlebury, he returned to Florida and earned his bachelor's degree from Florida State University. He received a Master's degree in Geography from the University of Toronto in 1975 and a second Master's degree in Nutrition from Florida International University in 1976. A remarkably kind man and a natural teacher, George was a pioneering vegan nutritionist. He taught the first college level vegan nutrition course in the U.S. at Miami-Dade College in Florida, and co-founded the Vegetarian Nutrition Practice Group of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. In addition to his work as a registered dietitian and public health nutritionist, George was a passionate advocate for more fair food supply systems around the world, issues he explored in his book The Most Noble Diet (1994). He was a great supporter of local, organic, and especially veganic farmers. George was a sought-after speaker on nutrition and food issues all over the U.S. Beginning in 1982, he spoke at the NAVS Vegetarian Summerfest every year except the year when his daughter Sarah was born. In his public talks and in everyday life, George gently enlightened thousands about the health, environmental, and ethical consequences of our food choices. He wrote A Basic Course in Vegetarian and Vegan Nutrition (2001, republished in 2015 as A Guide to Vegan Nutrition), a course book on the science of healthy plant-based diets. Extremely knowledgeable about the plant world, he led walks to identify wild edible plants. He was deeply curious about the world around him and many people say that they always learned something new from every talk with George. His legacy is a strong foundation for the vegan movement and the deep gratitude of those who strive for a better world through compassion for all of its inhabitants, human and animal. George was a very loving and generous son, brother, husband, father, uncle, and participant in the life of his extended family. He is survived and greatly missed by his son Thomas Eisman, daughter Sarah Schlueter-Eisman, their mother Shelly Schlueter, wife Claire Holzner, brother Michael (Harriet) Eisman, niece Emily (Rocci Aguirre) Eisman, nephews Lael (Jaclyn) Eisman and Jacob (Phoebe Van Vleet) Eisman, great niece Zia Eisman, aunts Vivian Miller and Rhea Eisman, as well as countless friends and admirers. The world has lost one of its kindest souls. Contributions in George's memory may be made to Wildkind Care wildlife rehabilitation facility, P.O. Box 465, Montour Falls NY 14865.

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I was supposed to wait 6 weeks before doing any real exercising. They told me not to do anything more than walking. Well, today I went out for a "walk." I decided I'd try running a little just to see how it felt, though.As soon as I popped my earbuds in and started off down the sidewalk, I just couldn't help but smile. It just felt so good to be out doing my thing again! I made it a whole 2 minutes before I just had to run, and it felt so good! I had planned on just running (I mean walking) outside, but after a few blocks, I found myself turning towards the rec. center where to run on their indoor track because it was really cold! I had a long sleeve shirt and jacket, but no gloves or ear covers. I probably would have gotten used to it after a little while, but I also liked the idea of staying close to home in case Pete called to tell me I needed to get home and feed the baby or if I got some weird pain or something.I ran for 30 minutes, taking a couple walk breaks for a minute or so each. I wasn't really too worried about distance or time or anything, I just wanted to try it out. It was really fun running again, though I still felt kind of tentative, and didn't go too hard. I also noticed that my heart is what felt it the most, and was the reason I would decide to stop and walk. I didn't wear my heart rate monitor, but maybe I will next time. Since I was being such a rebel today, I decided to go one step farther and vacuum. That felt good too! :)And now, George wants to eat again. Goodnight. Posted by Colleen at 9:55 PM Reactions: 1 comment: tribirdieFebruary 12, 2011 at 5:55 AMWhoo hooo!! I bet that felt good! I'm sure you are being smart about it so I'm not going to lecture you on the whole "6 weeks" thing :DHigh five from across the country!ReplyDeleteAdd commentLoad more...

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My contents page could be improved, but for a school's contents page I believe it to be quite sufficient. I again used yellow and blue as these are the school colours. I re-arranged the pictures to break the traditional layout and make it more interesting to look at this means I have broken conventions of a typical contents page.I put shadow around the title 'Contents ...' to make it protrude off the page and catch the reader's eye. I put pictures that I believe to be eye-catching and to make the reader want to read about these specific things. I labelled the pictures with page numbers, so that if people were to quickly skim through and want to read one of those stories, it's easy to find out what page they are on. My content's page is quite bland so now I have learned in the real work to make the front cover and contents page a bit more exciting. I shall use more titles and pictures, this gives the reader the impression of being packed with lots of exciting things to read about. Doing the front cover and contents page has taught me a lot of things to do in my real work to improve it. Posted by

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Samsung is launching yet another Corby phone in India – the Samsung Corby TV, which, as its name suggests, lets users watch live TV. The Corby TV comes with a MimobiTV Mobile TV application (developed by Apalya) that provides access to more than 40 TV channels. Other than that, the Corby TV is similar to the CDMA Corby Speed launched earlier this year, featuring a 2.8 inch QVGA touchscreen display, OHM support, FM radio, Bluetooth, 2MP camera and MicroSD card support. Interestingly, it looks like owners of the Corby Speed will be able to access the new mobile TV features, too. Another phone announced by Samsung in India is the Metro TV, which also comes with the MimobiTV app. The Metro TV is a candybar that features a 2 inch screen, FM radio, Bluetooth, mobile tracker, 2MP camera, MicroSD card slot, and support for 9 regional Indian languages. The Samsung Corby TV costs 9,699 INR ($218), while the Samsung Metro TV will be sold for 6,999 INR ($158)

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Yes, I realize this is a bit overdue. I have been sick and without a lot of internet access, but I think it's worth a post, regardless! Firstly, I need to show you my 4 foot bubblegum pink tree smothered in beautiful sparkling vintage ornaments and little stars. (Which you cannot see, but they were there. Just imagine.) It was the greatest. But, mostly, I want to show off this shirt Amanda made for me. She took the knowledge of my favor toward foxes and elbow patches, found a shirt on a great Asian website, painted me a fox, then transferred it onto said shirt all on her own. Such a cool and thoughtful gift. The best kind. I apologize for the photo quality. The only digital I have on me, at the time, is my little phone. Hopefully that will change soon, but we'll see!

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Watching Itazura na Kiss has become almost an episode-by-episode hate-fest for me, not so much for the series itself (although I suppose perhaps I do dislike it by association to some degree) but for the various characters on show within it. Despite Naoki's conversion into really rather a decent husband (which still leads me to suspect that the real Naoki is being held hostage by aliens), it seems that the dislike I felt for him has simply been spread around to others.On this occasion, the main source of my irritation has to be Kotoko's so-called friends, who rile her up into a frenzy with their talk of the husbands of pregnant women having affairs - You could argue that it isn't their fault that Kotoko goes off at the deep end, but these people could at least show a little decency for Kotoko's situation rather than gossiping idly. Naoki's mother isn't much better, with her constant spying and interfering once again managing to raise my blood pressure quite substantially.To top it all, we also see another example of domestic violence as pre-cursor to romance, as Yuuko Matsumoto gets a slap from Sudou which indirectly leads to her falling for him. This is the second time we've seen a woman fall in love with a guy who slaps her in this series, and frankly it baffles me.Finally, with Chris and Kinnosuke still planning to get married (just how many ill-matched couples does this series want?), Chris' mother proves to be pretty annoying too.Yes, yes, I know I just sound like "Angry of Dorset" in this entry, but if this series only had one or maybe two characters that I didn't like I could live with it. Instead, Itazura na Kiss has frequently seemed to leave Kotoko virtually alone in an unending sea of absolute assholes of different types and degrees, and I suppose the chivalrous male in me just feels that isn't on. Oh well, only two more episodes to go and then you won't have to hear me complaining about the characters I don't like in this series any more. Posted by Andy Hanley at 22:52 Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Labels: itazura na kiss 4 comments: Martin said... Kudos to you for making it this far - I jumped ship halfway through because Kotoko was the only endearing character. Actually, her amiability made it worse because, like you, I couldn't stand such a pleasant character being treated so badly for no good reason.Allison and Lillia isn't great but even its stupidity adds another level to the entertainment value. This? I honestly don't know whether I could enjoy it at all. You must have the patience of a saint! 18 September 2008 at 23:55 usagijen said... I've come to hate (or lose respect for?) Kotoko throughout the 17 episodes I watched... it's not just about her stupidity, but the fact that she allows herself to be treated _that_ way by Irie. Call me mean or apathetic, but I think Kotoko is partially to blame for Irie's treatment of her. She tolerates it, and despite everything, she still "loves" him~ meh I say T__TI wonder if I should post a Kotoko rant so I can at least, 'rest in peace' =___= 19 September 2008 at 02:52 Hanners said... Martin, just call me Saint Hanners of Anime. ;) I suppose if nothing else this series has become like my Two Minutes Hate every week.usagijen, I somewhat agree that Kotoko has brought much of the woe upon herself for allowing Naoki to run roughshod over here - There's being a poor, innocent girl, and then there's being a glutton for punishment. 19 September 2008 at 12:26 Maddie said... I completely agree! I get so angry with all of the guys who slap girls in this anime. I wish Kotoko would slap back like Matsumoto! And each situation has such a predictable line of events-Kotoko messes up, she's afraid Naoki will be mad(which is just awful!), she cries, he comforts her. Yet I keep watching hoping it'll get better. And you're totally right about Naoki. He bugs me, though he's a tiny bit better, but he still hardly seems to care at all! He didn't care about Kotoko, suddenly wanted to marry her and then went back to not caring. I get it, he doesn't show his emotions or whatever, but even the quietest people have their own ways of showing they care!

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When you file bankruptcy you should expect to receive a discharge and a fresh financial start. In a perfect world your credit reports would be properly updated to show that your debts have been discharged. That is important if you wish to reestablish your credit following the bankruptcy. Unfortunately many creditors do not contact the credit bureaus to provide them with the updated status of the ... Posted By The Golden Law Group Continue Reading 15 Jan 2014 Federal government proposes new student loan repayment plan These days, it is nearly impossible to leave college without having taken out some student loans. Unfortunately, given the job market, finding a job to pay back those loans can seem like an equally daunting task. The federal government is considering a change to the student loan repayment system, hoping that the move could reduce default rates while improving fairness in the system. The proposal, ...

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I am trying to figure out this new device, looking for a simple answer. I have cable Internet with a proven speed of 30Mbits speed which is pretty good for watching TV programs from Internet sites. I also have a router for my home network. The router also works fine. Beside the desktop I also have a laptop which mostly use with network. On each PCs I watch for instance foreign TV programs when they are made available by the TV stations, i.e. ARD from Germany or BBC from the UK. Can I use the Chromecast from GOOGLE to watch these programs by plugging in the device into an available HDMI port since the device works on Wi-Fi. Can anyone explain whether this would work or not: getting to the website on the laptop for instance, switch the TV to the HDMI port were the Chromecast is connected. So far I have not found a clear-cut answer to this question. August 30th, 2013, 12:14 PM Shinma A review/link, The honest Chromecast review... August 30th, 2013, 05:00 PM MKR Thanks Shinma. I'd like to believe what the guys says in his article. I have Google Chrome installed and therefore I should be able to use Chromecast to watch TV programs directly from the website to the TV. Am I right by expressing it this way? August 30th, 2013, 07:01 PM Shinma From the article, "This kind of remote control capability only works with apps and sites that directly support Chromecast..." And that device is still a work in progress. Google Is Crippling Chromecast's Best Feature August 30th, 2013, 09:52 PM MKR Thanks Shinma. Now I am getting really confused. My understanding now is, it would not work as I described it. Right? August 31st, 2013, 12:01 AM Shinma Short answer, Officially NOT supported. With that said, If you purchased one before/without the recent update plus using third party app, it should work. If you purchase/use a recent/updated one, it will not work. Unless another third party app has been developed & distributes a workaround. Keep in mind that third party developer(s) may or may not create/distribute new apps depending on circumstances. e.g. If developer(s) get fed up with Google frequently changing it with updates and intentionally breaking the apps, not profitable... August 31st, 2013, 12:19 AM MKR Thanks Shinma. That was clear enough for me. It does not work!!! What a sh...!! Have to use the old method with my laptop and an HDMI cable. I know there are devices that one can plu-in a TV and use Wi-Fi but my flat screen 37" does not have a plug for this device. The next TV will have all of this. September 2nd, 2013, 02:40 AM Shinma You're welcome. Quote: Originally Posted by MKR ... I know there are devices that one can plu-in a TV and use Wi-Fi ... The next TV will have all of this. WiFi capability may be justified, if wireless is a must, but a full out "Smart TV" may or may not be of interest, depending on your situation. Smart TVs: Not Such A Smart Idea Keep in mind that wireless standards/specifications change so The effectiveness/lifespan of the wireless component of the tv is anyone's guess. September 2nd, 2013, 12:58 PM equinoxe3d Yeah, I'd rather "waste" $35 on Chromecast to have a great Netflix/YouTube app than have a crappy version embedded in my TV. "Smart" TVs are IMO an horrible idea from the start.

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By: Skylar Hart The countries are getting sick of everyone fighting so America brings up a rather rash idea. Some decide to follow him but others lean to Russia. Oneshot Not historically correct. 2 POVs Rated: Fiction K - English - England/Britain, America, China, France - Chapters: 2 - Words: 1,108 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 3 - Published: 4/16/2013 - Status: Complete - id: 9208041 + - Full 3/4 1/2 Expand Tighten < Prev 1. America's POV2. Russia's POV Russia's ViewDid this imbecile really expect me to contribute to this petty argument?"I think you are all bumbling idiots. America is a young country still. Even if he is maturing nice at the moment, that does not mean he will continue on that path. And you say he takes after his teacher? Then why, exactly, are we trusting him?""Russia-chan?!" Exclaimed China who sat to my left. "That is the most I think I have ever heard you speak in your own opinion!" I shrugged, flinching inside with all the acid retorts that flew through my mind. Not wanted to hurt his feelings, I chose my words carefully.After a dramatic pause, I stated, "It's not that I don't want you all dead. It is just the fact that I want to be the one to watch your faces twist in gruesome pain as your death is slow and painful." I gave my best smile which was the opposite of what I truly felt. America coughed quietly and all the other countries stared at me with appalled looks on their grotesque faces. Keeping my smile firmly in place, I gave a small chuckle to myself as everyone tried to hide the mortification that showed. Even China looked at me strangely as he fixed my hair in a sort of maternal brush."Actually, he's totally right." Poland stood up quickly, his chair screeching. The others plugged their ears and I smiled. But why in all of Vodka was he defending me. His stupidity was only seconded by America. "I mean, not about the dead stuff, that's just gross bro. But what if the mighty America has his downfall. Everyone does eventually. We need someone who can hold the reigns when the riding gets totally tough." He inspected his finger nails and cleared his throat meaningfully. No one seemed to notice as they thought about what he said. China brushed his hand across my own and spoke up as well."Sadly, I agree with Poland's addition. If the country we choose to rule us falls, the world will be in chaos!" France fondled England's hand lovingly."Wi! So, here is what we will do. Let us vote between Russia and America. All for America?" A variety of I's sounded from behind America and some from behind me who stood up and left."Russia?"Scattered I's sounded and two of America's countries came to me. America left in a hurry, his group following him out the North door. England stuck out his tongue and closed the door when France yanked him along. I went out the South door, followed by The Baltics, Ukraine, Belarus, China, Finland, Poland, and a few other small countries followed. The door slammed and echoed into the room. The windows were open and a bird chirped outside on a branch. The room lit up, a serene sanctuary that no one ever noticed. A small sigh sounded from the corner. "Hello?" Asked a quiet voice. Another sigh followed. I guess I should have expected this." Canada dug his fingers into Kumajirou's slick white fur. The bear peered back at him, licking his paw and washing his face."Who are you again?" He asked, his stone black eyes innocent."I'm Canada." He responded patiently as if he'd done it a million times. The bear licked his nose, settled down and curled in Canada's lap for a nap. Soon, the bears snores filled the room and Canada watched out the window at the birds. He sighed again and began to nap in a stray beam of sun. And how do I know < Prev 1. America's POV2. Russia's POV The author would like to thank you for your continued support. Your review has been posted.

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Free Search Engine Submission Search Engine Optimization and Free Submission Search Engine Marketing Download ZipGenius FREE Indexed by the FreeFind Search Engine. <>------<> FreeFind Help & Contact Information <>-----------< Home Articles Appeal to all ETC employees Believe it or not! ETC and Corruption ETC CEO: Corrupt extraordinaire A Chemist Telecom Regulator??? A Bizzare Understanding of IS... Please promote our website Our Objective Focus on corruption at ETC By Ewnetu Tessema January 2, 2007 We at the Ethiopian Telecommunications Corp (ETC) are investigating the current so-called “supplier’s credit” or “vendor financing” contract that involves U.S. $1.5 billion dollars. The project was initially earmarked for three Chinese companies. The two companies have either been expelled or they distanced themselves. We have now one sole Chinese supplier. This sole company which has been handpicked to do “business” with ETC for the next 5 years has already taken the whole project worth $1.5 billion. We do have credible information the ‘under the table transaction’ is very massive and the "stake holders" are high-ranking officials in the Weyane power structure. Many credible sources and very giant telecom companies are anonymously expressing their suspicion that refurbished used telecom equipment dismantled from South East Asia telecom network could be delivered to the Ethiopian Telecom Corporation. More to the point, it is to be recalled Chinese-made equipment worth 400 million Ethiopian Birr was dismantled and stored as a derelict at the ETC's warehouse by the previous CEO. It is that same Chinese company that has now signed with ETC for the current $1.5 billion project. Hailegaber Sibhatu, in his article under the title “The Ethiopian Telecom and the Chinese syndrome” hinted that there is a 10% commission reserved for EPRDF. The 10% commission hinted in that article is just the tip of the ice berg. We are doing our best to reach out to all relevant documents related to this transaction. However, we need unreserved and full cooperation of the Ethiopian Telecom Corporation employees. At present, we don’t want to hide it that we are facing hefty impediment cropping up from a new culture of non-co-operation within the Ethiopian Telecom Corporation. This can be described as a “fiddle reticence” where some employees try to feign trustworthiness to their colleague at the expense of the 77 million Ethiopian people and support is withheld from us. Some even tend to believe the way to survive (some say jokingly, “live to tell the tale”) is simply to put your head down and be not ready to give a helping hand to anti corruption activists. This group of employees is uncommunicative fearing loss of job. If they speak up and identified, they may lose their job. If they don't speak up, they lose their soul. I leave the choice to those employees who do have valuable info and documents in their possession. The other hurdle, as indicated above, is that the way of thinking or the mind-set towards corruption whistleblowers has by, misunderstanding, misinterpreting or deliberately distorting tradition, been hostile or at least unsympathetic, and informing is being perceived as having traitorous qualities. The ex-corrupt officials of ETC used to encourage “two-timing” quality among the employees and some still seem to be in that state of mind. Actually, they were the ones with traitorous qualities manifested in their prostitution of character. They were the ones determined to perfect the “art” of “survival” by dancing to the tunes of Weyane and at the same time pretending to be sympathetic with the opposition like CUD and others in their public life. By Ethiopian tradition those hated and ostracized are the political spies of an oppressive regime who sell out their brothers and sisters for purely dirty money. Such spies (better known as “joro tebi”) for sure are regarded or judged as weak of integrity and character, but not corruption whistleblowers defending mother Ethiopia from blood suckers. It is humanely impossible to resolve disagreements between corrupt officials backed by the government and anti corruption activists without recourse to entities like that of ours unfortunately perceived as outside bodies by some gullible individuals. I urge all employees of ETC to drop such harmful mode of thinking or attitude towards exposing corruption and have the audacity to wage war against corruption at this time when our beloved country is being looted to death. We hope this call will effectively clear the hurdle. ---If you have any information, please feel free to reach us at: OR use the info request form at the bottom of our website: The simplest way to access our website is just to write ewnetu tessema on Google search engine. Ethiopian Telecom, the Mother of All Corruption, is praised? By Ewnetu Tessema September 14, 2005 It was with disbelief and great shock that I read Russell Southwood's article: Ethiopia puts off privatizing ETC but rolls out nationwide fibre network. I am an ETC Senior Engineer who has been with ETC for 20 solid years, and during all these years, I have been working with seven CEOs, including Tesfaye Biru. ETC prior to Tesfaye Biru had a well streamlined, highly structured and a well thought out modern administration as was initially established by the Swedish and later on upgraded and refined by the previous seasoned and internationally renowned CEOs. ETC used to employ internationally acknowledged procurement and bidding procedures. The drawback the preceding ETC CEOs wrestled with was one and only one i.e. finance. Despite the serious financial dearth the CEOs prior to Tesfaye Biru could bring in Internet, Mobile service, DDN and others into the country. The CEOs prior to Tesfaye Biru had all the strength of character, knowledge and the necessary technical and management capability to do the job to the required professional standard. It is a shame when one lies in such a naked manner and dares to present himself as one who brought all these new technologies to the country. Even fiber optic was considered by the previous managers and discarded as unwise investment from economic return point of view. In January 2003 the present CEO came into the picture. To begin with Tesfaye Biru is a Mathematics graduate with no knowledge about the telecom and ICT. His appointment was the beginning of all subsequent debacles as clearly verified during the last two and a half years. Many predicted Tesfaye Biru’s appointment was a recipe for disaster. As predicted the disaster exceeded the magnitude of many concerned persons fear and worry. The writer, I presume, should be from a company that should have sold some equipment to ETC. The article for sure is written in consultation with Tesfaye Biru. The writer has surprisingly attached an interview with Tesfaye Biru. Nobody can tell who interviewed Tesfaye Biru, when he was interviewed and the circumstances in which he was interviewed is not also known. It is weird. Is it not???!!! I again presume Tesfaye Biru wants to use the Weyane useless regime as a escapegoat for all series of blunders and deliberate corrupt practices under his leadership for the last two and a half years, and seems determined to use the government as a perfect excuse. Yes, that is true the Ethiopian government policies all round are a recipe for disaster. Tesfaye Biru perfectly knows this. He accepted the appointment with full knowledge about the government. Now, he is trying to tell us via a certain foreigner that it is not Tesfaye Biru who is at fault, but the government. It is a very attractive argument. For unwary reader Tesfaye Biru’s cheap trick works excellently. But under close scrutiny one should ask only one question: "Where has our US $1.7 billion gone?" We are looted and plundered to death. It is very surprising that apparently a foreigner has come to a rescue of Tesfaye Biru by attacking the Weyane government. It is very easy. Tesfaye Biru thought it is a good way out and begged one of his companies men to do his best to polish his tarnished image. The writer to make his fabricated story about ETC credible mixed up a big truth about the government’s misguided policy on the telecom. This is repeatedly said. The government, as it is always the case, is adamant enough not to accept good advices about telecom. It is in all other economic sectors too. ETC is no exception. The issue regarding the telecom is the money spent during the last two and half years under the leadership of Tesfaye Biru. Let me give you a simple example. Say you bought a nice jacket. Friends and acquaintances may appreciate the quality. But any admiration should be contingent on the price of the jacket vis a vis its quality. By the same token one may say the number of mobile phones and internet users has increased. It has not as such increased much when compared with the population. Besides the quality of the service deserves more emphasis than the sheer numbers which at the end of the year Tesfaye Biru uses it for a meaningless statistics. Now, one here should ask how much money Tesfaye Biru spent on purchase during the last two and a half years. Tesfaye Biru spent 1.9 Billion United States Dollars during the last two and half years. I visualise many of you shooting up from your seat in a great shock. And also I know many of you say this is a lie. I don’t blame you. It is humanely impossible to imagine a poor country living on food hand out coming from the west could afford to spend this much money within two and half years. This in NOT the tragedy. The real tragedy is the fact all bought gadgets are inferior quality and/or incompatible with the system. The writer mentioned about school net. ETC purchased a VSAT for 30 Million USD for the purpose of the school net. Actually, we have NO school net at present. Schools receive no teaching program directly from anywhere via satellite. What we have now is education via TV. What schools do is insert a recorded video cassette and watch a recorded teaching program. What is the use of the VSAT then???. Even if we had a school net it was not designed to be interactive. Not only that. 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Needless to say I now had a PERFECT and totally unobstructed view of all her lower anatomy. My pants were beginning to feel a little small, but I won't elaborate on that before the moderator kills my post! I bent down a little to get the perfect angle, and she giggled and began to pee. It was a strong but thin yellow stream, and it made a combination hissing-splashing noise as it exited her and hit the soil. Soon her anus began to dome outward and the most beauitful(yes I know this sounds weird but I know some of you will understand) thich, round, brown piece of poop emerged. It snaked its way slowly out of her with crackling noises, mixed with the sound of her giggling. At about 9 inches I estimated it broke off and hit the ground. She sight a little and her anus contracted back, and as her little hole closed, little pieces of poop were still stuck on the outside, on her anal ring. She grunted a little and soon her anus domed out again and another piece slowly crackled out, it was a little lighter and it was about 11 inches! I was amazed. It fell half onto the other piece lying on the ground. My girlfriend made a slight moaning sort of sound and she began to get up but I told her to hang on. I got a tissue from my pocket and wiped her reddened anus, making sure to get those little rogue pieces of poop that I just mentioned. What happened next is a bit too much for this board, but let's just say that her poop wasn't the only thing in her rectum that day. Well that's the entire story of what happened, I hope you liked it. I have a question for the females on here, I hope it isn't too risque. Have any of you ever had any experiences with anal sex where something poop related happened? I don't mean any of that crap like scat, but since well we all know what the anus is for, poop must come up at least in some discussions with a partner before you attempt it? And I've known a friend, she's female, who was really embarassed because after anal sex her muscles were relaxed and after the guy pulled out some poop followed. Anybody have similar incidents happen to them? Sorry for the many questions on this topic, but if you are going to have anal sex, will you tell the guy that you need to go to the bathroom to empty your bowels? Just really wondering about the finer points of these things in other people's lives. Well thanks for listening to my story, feel free to reply. Bye! Nicola Hello, just to make matters straight, Im NOT the Nicki who did a poo in her white panties. The short versions of my names are Nicky or Nicks. I HAVE in the past done a poo in my panties but not that recently. Ileo. My sympathies to you on having to have an ileo-rectal anastomosis, effectively losing your colon and having permanent diarrhea. I honestly dont know if the alternative of the ileostomy where the diarrhea goes into a plastic bag on the side of the abdomen and can then be disposed of is a better option than having it passed out of your arse in the "normal" manner. At least if the bag doesnt leak you have far less chance of a messy accident than if a load of uncontrollable diarrhea arrives suddenly at the end of your GI tract. I believe there are medicines one can take which solidify the feces to a soft paste type of consistency a bit like a soft to loose stool. Anyway, I hope your general health and quality of life is improved by this operation and I really feel for anyone who has to have this type of surgery. It would be a terrible blow to most of the people who post here. Logger, Im afraid in like circumstances I would have used the toilet and dropped my bomb, or would have found somewhere off the road to stop and do it. I dont break up my jobbies, what I pass stays or goes and anyone who sees it stuck in the pan afterwards is very welcome. One of these days I have the horrible feeling that your diffidence in doing a motion when the need arrives will land you with a very big, messy and embarassing accident in the seat of your panties. I hope not, but you can can only get away with it so many times. We all shit, so why be coy about using a public toilet. PFP. Im a bit puzzled by your post. You deliberately hold it in then complain that it was painful to pass. What did you expect? Those of us who are sometimes constipated naturally know that a big hard lumpy jobbie that has been up there for a couple of days or more is likely to hurt the sphincter as it comes out. Its part of the deal as it where. If you DONT like this, keep regular, drink more, eat more bulky foods full of fibre. You wanted to hold in your motions to have a big poo, so dont complain if it was difficult and uncomfortable to pass. As to your idea of taking laxatives to clear out your bowels, yes often after a heavy purging the bowels "rest" as it were for a day or two before another consequently larger and solid motion is passed. This effect led people in the bad old days when taking laxatives was the custom to indulge in increasing doses of more and more powerful purgatives as they mistakenly thought themselves to be Constipated. In the end some couldnt hav! e a bowel movement at all unless they took a dose of "opening medicine" as the normal action of their bowels had been replaced by a dependence on laxatives. If you want to experiment with your body, then try a powerful purgative like Picolax (Picosulf). This is Sodium Picosulfate and is a fast acting repetative purgative which will result in several attacks of watery diarrhea and really clear you out. It usually hits within an hour of taking the dose. You have to drink plenty of water while it is working as you will otherwise get dehydrated and suffer cramps and other nasty effects, apart of course from the horrible diarrhea that this laxative causes. It is used to clear the bowels before internal examinations or abdominal operations. Bear in mind this stuff is high power and you would be advised to stay at home near the toilet, you wont be able to go out or indulge in any of your normal activities that day. Afterwards you probably wont have a motion for 2 or 3 days. Now I w! ouldnt recommend taking laxatives of any type unless prescribed by a doctor or nurse, but I think you have to get this out of your system both metaphorically and literally. By the way, what gender are you? In the end my advice to anyone is to go to the toilet and have a BM when your body tells you it needs. We all have occasions when we have to hold it in sometimes for a few hours but I really would not advise deliberately holding it in as this can cause problems such as anal fissure, piles, etc to say nothing of the chance of a big accident in your knickers if you can hold it any longer and are not near a toilet. Also, there is the paradoxical effect of overflow or spurious diarrhea which can occur if a large mass of solid stool is blocking the lower bowel. The further back up the bowel the lesser the absorbtion of water from the feces which are diarrhea when they enter the colon at the Ileo-caecal valve from the small intestine near the appendix and get more solid as they a! re slowly passed along the colon until they emerge hopefully as a good normal healthy solid turd from the rectum when we do a motion. In spurious diarrhea the lower part of the bowel being bloked by a large mass of solid stool there will be a load of watery stool above it which may leak round the hard mass and appear as diarrhea when the person defecates. If the hard lump doesnt also come out then they will think they had the runs and take imodium and actually make matters worse. So all in all, I advise, dont mess about with your digestion. I dont. I simply eat well and wisely, drink sufficient fluid, take a lot of exercise and do the what comes naturally. Happily, usually nice big well formed jobbies that are relatively easy to pass. kim & scott hello all! my man scott and i hope everyone is feeling great like the feeling you get when you pass a monster log!! TO MARKY- you say this site seems to be slicing and dicing the line between bodily functions and eroticism? well your right! especially with the kim & scott stories and if you like the combination of eroticism and huge bowel -movements you should read the kim & scott posts with relish! take care marky.TO SHY PAM-thats great that your family set up a great vacation for you where you went to DisneyworlD and williamsburg virginia and six flags. believe it or not my man scotts family has traveled all the states except hawaii and alaska and been to Disney six flags-in st. louise , the six flags in georgia and the one in texas and other big amusement parks along with sites like the grand canyon,niagra falls,mount rushmore,yellowstone park. scott is one lucky guy. maybe europe is next.?/ maybe he will visit STEVE & LOUISE! in ENGLAND HAHAHAHAHOHOHO!! scotts dad is a school principal he has alot of free time off in the summer to travel.TAKE CARE PAM! PLUS RATHERNOTSAY-scott and I hope you are feeling better from your diArrehea. KEEP US POSTED WILL YA? TO NO NAME GRRL- scott and I like your post too bad your male friend has moved but i know you can still churn out great stories.TAKE CARE NO NAME GRRL. well thats all for now take care of yourselves and each other.PLUS BEN FROM NY -you still around.??Havent heard from you in a while. scott and i liked your post from awhile ago about the pretty ladies you had in your classes that loved to fart. you should ask one of em out BEN! CIAO everyone!!! Tailspin Hi Sandra What ever happened to the girl you met in a ladiesroom that also has a interest in her own pooping? That story was particularly stimulating and promising sounding. I would like to thank you, and all the other girls that give us guys an insight into the events that go on in a ladies room, especially the pooping. It's always been a big turn on to me, and I think to allot of guys. You reports are always so candid. I thank you again. Tom Sunday, July 30, 2000 ileo Don't you hate those houses with the really thin doors , you can like hear people outside the door as if they are in the bathroom with you . My girlfriends parents house was like that . They were always really quiet too , no T.V. , no talking and one bathroom right off the room where her mom read some granny mag and her dad clipped his toenails . I knew I was feeling sick and didn't want to hang out at her house but she was tired of hanging around the 7-11 . When we got there I figured I would head straight to the bathroom and just get a grip on how I was feeling , sit on the toilet and see how it felt . The whole house was stone silent , except the mantle clock next to her old man . I sat down and started shuffleing through a few hunting mags of her dads and wasn't paying attention to my locked tight fanny hole . It shot open for a split second and released a huge load of stinky gas and a whistling howl ! I sorta freaked , dropped the mag and tried to get some control of it but a huge flood of wet bowel sauce had filled my butt canal and was pushing and leaking through my puckered anus . I was gritting my teeth and starting to rock back and forth , but I was making so much noise and starting to wimper ! Her mom didn't know who was in the bathroom and started to knock on the door , but I hadn't closed it all the way and her knock caused that stupid wafer thin door to start opening ! I knew if I lost concentration for one second that I would blow ! She still didn't see me or smell the gas and just walked in , and I shuddered and felt a pinhole opening in my ass start to spray the side of the bowl ! I called for Annie in a little yelp as a torrent of hideous gas and pus flew into the water ! The chunks followed , I saw my girlfriends arm dragging her mom out but no one closed the door right away , so the whole housed was filled with this putred gas ! I felt I was at a point that I could stop the flow and try to compose myself a little bit . I wiped like 15 times , because my whole butt was wet . I got up and flushed , and watched the water rise . The conversation in the living room was about the broken toilet . My smelly goop topped the edge and started to run over onto the carpet and I could here her dad yelling as he went to the garage to get something . . . . I can't even tell you the rest . I wanted to be dead ! Nikki My girlfriend Sara and me were at a concert, Santana, it was like wow. The lineups for the toilets were so long that by the time we got in and went pee they had already started playing. I had to poo as well but not wanting to miss them decided to wait. Man what a mistake that was. Sara was like go by yourself, I'm not going standing back there again. I didn't want to go stand in line either, specially by myself so I stayed and whatched the concert. I'm glad I did stay even though I ended up doing a poop in my panties. I tried holding it but kept getting these spasms and then it just started coming out and I couldn't stop it. I don't think Sara knew even though we hung out most of the day together. Lucky I had a loose skirt on, it was a bit short but didn't show anything. When I got home and looked my poo was like a round ball between my butt cheeks and my white panties were pretty stained where the poop was. I had to throw them away. Anyway I'm surprised that actually pooping myself like that didn't really bother me too much, like wasn't freaked out or anything, just didn't want anybody to see it is all. Guess it's because I'm fascinated with toilet stuff which is why I read this board all the time. Anybody else ever pooped their panties in public like that? Logger I've missed all the British and American female big dump stories. I guess the ladies are all plugged up. Anyway, here's another true life adventure. I was had been on vacation for four days, and wanted to go and see a certain museum and historic site. It was next to the highway on the way home, so it was no big deal to stop there. The site was very enjoyable, and, before leaving, I wanted to buy some books and souvenirs. So, I went to the gift shop and was browsing the book section when I was reminded by my body that it had completely forgotten about taking a dump for the entire stay. The cramps weren't too bad. "I can make it home," I thought, since home was less than two hours away on the interstate. Five minutes later, the next set of cramps said:"no way." I didn't know what to do. The hotel keys were already returned, so I couldn't go back and unload there. "Get to the car and leave," I said to myself. "I'll find a spot at an interstate rest area,and crap in the ! woods." Good plan- bad timing; As the third and heaviest set of cramps rose up, I was panicked. No way could I use their single stall employees bathroom! I could plug up a toilet with one of my regular logs; what the hell was this one going to do to God knows which type of toilet was in there? Too late-I had to hurriedly ask for the key. If only the poor woman knew what I was about to unload in there, she would never have given it to me. Flushed and sweaty, I turned on the light and opened the toilet lid. Aha! A nice big oval bowl Kohler toilet! This could handle it, no problem, I thought. Quickly sliding down my pants, I gave the handle a test pull; "OH NO!, the water pressure was terrible; it will hardly flush when empty! What can I do now?" Luckily, the door locked from the inside. Almost reflexively, I grabbed the end of the toilet paper and yanked. I must have reeled off about twelve feet of it. Now I spread it, folded ribbon-like, on the floor as another se! t of cramps welled up. I crouched down, like I had seen years before, and carefully lined up my ass with the expected landing pattern upon the toilet paper runway. I relaxed and very soon felt the head of a monster log pushing against the inside of my asshole. As I relaxed more, the head stretched my ass to a very large size. Then, all by itself, the "train started pulling out of the station" under its own power. I was just going along for the ride was what it felt like. The big monster slowly and smoothly slid its way out onto the toilet paper, and after what seemed like forever,(and me extending my posture about as much as could be), I heard a small but heavy thud on the floor. As I stood up, I wheeled around and saw a two inch by twenty inch log perfectly landed upon the toilet paper! "Now what do I do? I know; grab some more toilet paper paper, wrap it up, and break it up". After five flushes and twenty minutes in their bathroom, the last of the "vacation" log was o! n its way to be recycled! Needless to say, after quickly returning the keys to the poor woman, I "beat feet" out the door. I jumped in my car and drove off, never to return. Oh yeah, there was no vent fan in there! Louise BUCK (IL) - Yeah you are damn right about the urinals in the dorms. If I was in a dorm and there were urinals I would be really thrilled to bits! Putting plants in them? Oh no, do they not have any idea of what to do to use them? PV - Hi sister!!! Oh, really do not be so down. It must be *when* not *if* you get lucky. I bet you must get lots of guys who would want to be with you! Hehehe team pish. Well, we had a team squatting pish behind the bushes like we usually do now except for one of us who I bet was saving her wee for later, the cheat. Hehe but the numbers were more than made up by 3 girls from the other team who came and had a wee with us. Two of them were black girls which was interesting because I had not seen one with her knicks down before. They all squirted quite big floods and it did feel very good to all be able to just do it together. I bet one of the black girls was trying ! to have a shit too because she was still squatting even having finished pissing, but she gave up and pulled her knickers back up in the end. On my team there were 5 of us who had been having a good drink of water before the game. By the end of the game I needed a wee, and I saw the 16 year old and the 36 year old crossing their legs a little bit sometimes. So when the game was finished I went to Steve and gave him a little kiss. Yes just a little kiss hehe and I went with the other girls into the changing rooms to go in the showers. We took off all our clothes and went in. The 36 year old was really crossing her legs and pressing her fingers hard on her pussy and the 16 year old was doing a bit of a pee dance as well. I was not far behind those two needing to go, so we had to get right on with it. The idea was to stand 3 feet away and aim for a drain in the floor. Our 36 year old teammate went first, age and d! esperation before youth you know. She pissed hard but she could not do the 3 foot distance so she finished just standing over the drain with big relief on her face. Her wee did not go gooey this time either hehe. The 16 year old went next and she too pissed hard and she over shot the drain a bit until she aimed a bit better. She is real good at shooting her wee forwards. I went next and my weeing went a bit short until I really got going and I hit the drain very well. Two of the other 3 girls who had a try were not as good and they weed all over the place. The last one did better but she had to stand over the drain and a lot of her wee went down her legs because she dribbled as much as she squirted in her weak stream. We had to wash the floor after! Your beach stories were good to read! I bet there will be more to come eh? A walking wee? I have done that too and it is a sure way to get your legs wet isn't it?! Hehe best change your car washing water! I forgot about Sunday when I hovered over a bucket at home. I did not keep my wee in the bucket though, I threw it on the flowers which have not had any water for a bit. The punching is making my elbows hurt a bit. Steve says it is normal and the pain will go away when my joints get stronger. I do see what he means about the fitness side. I have not used my elbows that way before. Yeah, my boss and the other girl are toilet bound girls I think. My boss had a wee in the stall next to me on Thursday and she was not so glum and we were talking girl talk while we were doing it. When we pissed in the alley during the trip away she did not say anything at all. Grafiti removing? Hehehehe we could try to wash off the painted height marks on the wall they use to judge us couldn't we?!! Oh yeah, about when we were last at the swimming pool. The showe! r we used near the pool is in the corridor around the corner, so we could not be seen. No we were not peeing in the open but I bet that would have been fun. There was a teensy weensy bit of a risk that we would get caught by somebody leaving the pool or going to it but we did not have that happen to us. It was still a lot of fun. I had a wee in a urinal in another men's toilet today. The thing that was different about it was the way the pipes made a lot of loud gurgling noises and I am still laughing about it. I bet Steve will think I have gone nutty! I have not had a shit for nearly 3 days now. I bet I do a real monster log soon and I will tell you about it! Aim high, dear! Louise. Buzzy TO SANDRA-That's a cool story with you watching that girl pooing in the stall-yes,sometimes i wonder when you see stuff like that if that person is letting you see it on purpose and that's kinda nice too-In the gym that i go to sometimes i see guys sitting there with the door open across from me with their newspaper with their legs spread apart and sometimes you can see the turds coming out and that's cool-one time few months ago, this guy was doing that as i went in the sit on the bowl and i could see it all and i had my reading glasses on the i was looking down but i could still see it all and when i sat down,he looked over at me and kept pooing with his legs spread open-so i sat down and reciprocated and farted and opened my legs and started pooing and pretended to read the paper,and i could see him looking at me poop and in a way,i got into it and for a while we were pooing with our legs open at the same time and i noticed that we both had semi-erections and i was a bit em! barrased about that I definititly didn't want to give this guy the wrong idea-i hoped that's the way he felt too-it was fun in a weird sort of way-then i finished first and wiped as he pooed a bit more and then i wiped and went to the shower and that was that-but it was fun TO POOPING FOR PLEASURE-I'd be so afraid of being caught-that's one thing i don't want to do is offend somone if they are not into it and get arrested or something,but good story--I myself an not into seeing folfs puke-the only thing that will do is make me puke too,but to each his own-enjoy One thing i've noticed both on this forum and at the gym-seems like us guys are more into pooing around each other and watcthing each other than the women-now i could be wrong but that's just my observation-Gotta go dump now as reading this forum so often does to me in the a.m-sometimes it's better that drinking a hot cup of coffee!!BYE Pooping-For-Pleasure Hello, Well folks, I TRIED to go 3 days without having a bowl movement, but I just couldn't do it! I was able to make it a day and a half without dropping my logs, but alas, at around 6:60 pm yesterday I began having abdomninal (spelling???) SOOOOO, bad I literly began to have trouble standing up!!! DAMN! Well, I am going to try again. I am thinking that maybe if I take a laxitive and empty myself out first and then try with a nearly empty colon then my chances of succeeding will be much better!!! Who knows?!? BTW, when I did deliver my load of logs to the porcelin swamp (LOL), after holding it for a day and a half, I really had to push grunt and strain to get it out. My butthole (anus) was stretched almost beyond it's limit and I am here to tell you that it HURT!!! Oh well, such is the price that you have to pay. Like I said, I will try again and let you all know how it goes! Happy Crapping, Pooping-For-Pleasure (PFP) I'm just Wondering If there was a pooping contest set up, who would win? I think there are a number of contenders that could win here. And that's no lie. Manda I've been looking at old posts and it pleases me to see I'm not the only BSB fan here. I've always wanted to see Nick pee. It's a fantasy I've had for more than a year now. I also wanna see AJ pee. I also pee in the shower occasionally. Peeing in the shower I have found to be extremely difficult. I don't know why. Oh well.... Michelle I had the most embarrassing accident in my panties today - I'm a regular 12 year-old girl, and any type of shame dealing with my underwear is horrifying. I often go over to my neighbor's condo and play video games - he has a Sega Dreamcast, and I often go over there and he lets me play his latest video games. I usually wear white slacks and blue panties when I go over there, and my dad always tells me that my panties are visible and that I shouldn't wear colored panties underneath white slacks. He says that I have a "taller/slender" build, so that I should wear things that show off my legs. So the other day, I bought a little loose-fitting white mini-skirt, and wore that over to my neighbor's condo with my blue panties underneath. My dad didn't complain, because at least he wasn't able to see my panties underneath my little loose-fitting skirt, like he did with my tight white slacks. Then the embarrassing part started. Inside my neighbor's condo, I sat Indian-style/cross-legged as I was playing the video games. It wasn't embarrassing sitting like this before when I was wearing my slacks, but this time it was because I knew he could see my panties as I was sitting like this wearing my little mini-skirt. He's probably 15 years older than me, so at least he was a gentleman about it, and looked the other way when he walked past me. So he was too polite to peek at my panties - this was a relief. Then the crapping sensations started. I had to crap so bad, that I felt a tingling throughout my abdomen. I felt so sick, that I wanted to get up and run to the bathroom. But my neighbor was behind me and curling my hair around, and saying "Michelle, you have such pretty long brown hair - my girlfriend is a hairstylist and I bet she could twist it in a cute little ponytails for you." And then the doorbell rang, so my neighbor got up to answer it. I thought this would be a good time to get up and rush to the bathroom, but then my neighbor's girlfriend burst in, and after a few seconds, she came marching towards me. She said "oh, what a pretty little brunette girl, I'm going to make her hair up really cool." She started twirling my hair, and at that point, I couldn't hold it anymore. Warm gushes of crap filled my panties. For a few seconds, all I felt was warm bubbles flowing out of my butt and into my! panties. I simutaneously felt relief and guilt as the crap flowed out of body and into my undewear. I felt shameful enough, sitting there Indian-style in a mini-skirt with my panties exposed, but the panty-crapping incident made me feel even more embarrassed. At that point, I said "whatever - gotta go!" and ran back home. I don't think that my neighbor or his girlfriend knew what had just hadppened (with my panty-crapping), because as I was running back to my condo, I looked back at them, and they both just had a clueless grin on their faces, as they were waving "bye" to me. When I got home and got inside, at least my dad wasn't around, so I was able to get in the bathroom and clean up that embarrassing mess! Friday, July 28, 2000Redneck Justin, I enjoyed your dumping story at the beach in CA with the 2 teen guys. I envy you, I bet it was fun joking with them while all of you were taking a shit. The downside is I would have been pissed at the impatient Latino's if I was there. Today, I got all my hours in at 1 pm so instead of a microwave lunch, I went to the Korean place to eat. I had the Beef (Bul-Gogi) and the many v????e dishes including kimche. Good food :) After I was done, I came home to work on the computer and I had an excellent dump with a nice sound of farting reverberating the bowl. I had to do it again not too long ago as well. Unfortunately, there was no one to enjoy it with. It would have been fun sharing it with some late teen kids since they don't take life seriously like us folks who are in our 20's & 30's. BTW, for "No Name Grrl", I am sorry you will miss your friend Jason. Later y'all............. Next page: Old Posts page 395 ><Previous page: 397 Back to the Toilet "Boldly bringing .com to your bodily functions." Go to Page... Forum Survey

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Once you launch a satellite, its orbit will take it over most of every single other country and probably travel over your head. The space activity of a country can become the business of some other country. For instance, you can use satellites to verify compliance to specific international treaties like, for example, the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM).FF: In a nutshell, what do you do?DG: I manage the team in charge of the European and international relations of CNES. Part of my team deals with the European countries and their Agencies (like DLR in Germany, ASI in Italy and UKSA in the United Kingdom), the European Space Agency and the European Union. The other part deals with the rest of the world, other countries and their space agencies and the multilateral international entities, like the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs. Basically, with my team, we manage all the relations between my agency and the rest of the space world outside France.Also, space science is international by definition. Whatever team of space scientists you meet; you always find an international team. And these are just two examples.FF: What do you see as the future of space? DG: There is both competition and collaboration. Collaboration is essential. Whenever you want to build something that you cannot afford on your own, and/or you want to strengthen relations with your partners, you open yourself up for cooperation. The International Space Station, the largest international program in space so far, was built by the US with its international partners. Later on, it became a tool to show that the world changed and we could work with former USSR. This clearly shows how cooperation is one of the essentials of space, providing mutual benefits.FF: Who are the space competitors now?DG: No doubt that China, in a few years, will have nothing for anyone else to envy. India is no longer an “emerging” power. Europe traditionally is one of the major contributors to space activity, Russia and Japan and, of course the US. These are the established space powers. But more and more countries develop their space activities, eager to grasp the benefits that space can provide in terms of economic growth, strategic autonomy, pride and inspiration of the young generation. They are partners and, at the same time, actual or potential competitors on the international arena, notably on the satellites or launch services market.FF: Would you say the French are one of the more collaborative nations in terms of space?DG: Well, that’s a big statement, but it’s true, we are very active. We cooperate with all the space powers and develop our relations with most of the countries eager to invest in space. We believe that it's very important to talk to others, because space international cooperation is necessary and provides a real added value to space programs on several aspects, like science, technology and diplomacy too. In fact, space, for its strategic nature, can be a supporting tool for the international action of governments.It seems like the space policies of Europe mirror their international relations in other ways. Whereas NASA acts unilaterally, it doesn’t need as much collaboration as much as Europe or up and coming space powers. How are European and other space priorities unique from NASA's space priorities?In Europe, we build our priorities based on a win-win approach. Every country has specific interests. ESA has 22 member states, the EU has 28 member states, when you have to define a priority, it takes time.FF: So priorities shift more slowly than in the U.S.? DG: In general, yes. And the good thing in Europe is that whenever you make a decision on a program, the program will be completed. For example, a though decision like the reorientation of the Constellation program in the U.S. would be very difficult to make in Europe. Decision making is based on consensus, and once you make consensus, you rarely go back.FF: What is the state of U.S.-E.U. space collaboration? What are the challenges going forward? DG: The relation between the US and the European countries, notably between France and the US, is the most traditional, oldest relationship. And these relations are still very strong. Of course, we‘re in a wait and see mode: whenever you change presidents in the US, the administrator of NASA changes, and the goals of NASA and space exploration can change accordingly.FF: Trump has made it clear that he is pro-space. What is your response to that? DG: I am very glad to hear that and I hope he will support space. We will continue to wait and see and keep on strengthening our cooperation with the US and continue to express friendship to the U.S. We are curious about the priorities of the new administration. However, looking at his platform from a few months ago, there was no detailed mention of space. NASA is our first international partner so it will be really important for the space activities of Europe and France.FF: What about France’s own domestic political situation? If Le Pen wins the election, what does that mean for the French space program? 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Day one of Handmade was super duper awesomely amazing! We're here all ready to go for day 2, pumped full of coffee and excited about hanging out with everyone. Here's a few highlights: Belinda created a new group of keen knitters Our knit lounge was filled with knitters and crocheters... Today we'll be spinning and drum carding and eating chocolate and drinking coffee. If you're around, feel free to come down and join in the fun - and you can still book classes for today. We had a great time at Pecha Kucha last night - for just $10 you can hear a bunch of great people talk about what they love.

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Here's a little birdhouse that I created. Thought I would share the tutorial on how I created it. Hope you enjoy!What you will need:(1) 11-½"x6" piece of CS(4) pieces of 2-½"x2-¾" DSP (Designer Paper)(1) 6"x3-½" piece of CS (for roof)(10) pieces of 3-⅝"x1-¼" CS (roof tiles)(1) 3-⅝"x2-½" CS (roof top tile)(1) 3-½"x3-½" CS (base)Sticky Strip or Score TapeScissorsPunch (for door)Crop-a-dileRibbon approx. 10"Okey dokey...take your 11-½"x6" piece of CS and score it at: 2-¾", 5-½", 8-¼ & 11" along the 11-½ side:Now turn and score on the 6" side at: ½" & 3-½"Turn back to 11" side, using a pencil, mark at: 1-⅜" & 6-⅞"Take a ruler and score from the pencil mark to the score line below at an angle and then repeat to the other side (this creates a triangle).Cut off tabs without trianlges. Your CS should look like the following now:Using your punch, punch out a little door on the first panel:Fold on score lines and place Sticky Strip on sides indicated:Take your (4) pieces of DSP and punch one of them out with punch. Apply to all four sides of birdhouse:Remove Sticky Strip on side only (leave the bottom on) and put together:Roof:Take your 6"x3-½" piece of CS, (10) pieces of 3-⅝"x1-¼" CS and (1) 3-⅝"x2-½" CS. Punch out the roof tiles on one side only. Punch out both sides of the top piece (3-⅝"x2-½"):Adhere one tile at a time to one side of the 6"x3-½" piece of CS to create roof:Repeat on opposite and top off with (1) 3-⅝"x2-½" CS:Fold in half and Crop-a-Dile a hole through it:Pull ribbon through and tie in knot:Place Sticky Strip on places indicated on Birdhouse base:Adhere the roof to the birdhouse base:Now attach your birdhouse to the 3-1/2"x 3-1/2" cs base.There you go, a little birdhouse to keep or give to someone. Hope this tutorial was helpful and would love to hear comments/suggestions on it! Aloha! Posted by Michelle Alejandro at 7:36 AM 23 comments: charlotte said... TFS the tutorial - good idea to use the tag punch for the opening. I think I'll try it with the milk carton die and make some modifications and see if it comes out as cute as yours. April 26, 2010 at 2:24 PM Denise said... OMGosh, CUTE,CUTE,CUTE!! Thanks for sharing the tutorial. Love the tag punch for the door way.Hugs,Denise April 26, 2010 at 2:47 PM Brenda said... Thanks for the tutorial, but I think I would just rather you make mines instead...LOL! What a great idea! April 26, 2010 at 2:55 PM Sparkle said... This is such a darling creation! Thanks for sharing how to make it. April 26, 2010 at 2:58 PM Shirley N said... You sure are creative, great idea using that punch for the door. So very cute, great tutorial!!! April 26, 2010 at 3:05 PM Joy said... okie dokie...this is totally awesome but retarded! love that its so cute...but it's too damn hard for me! lol! so many things to do...I am overwhelmed! when do you come up with these kinds of things? when you are sleeping? I wish ideas would pop into my head! well, should be fun tomorrow. I may want to grab something to eat before we play. I haven't had time out for myself in a while...well like shopping w/o my baby! should be fun! can't wait! TTYL! April 26, 2010 at 3:20 PM Cyndi said... very nice birdhouse! thanks for sharing your tutorial! April 26, 2010 at 4:01 PM Berenice said... Super cute project Michelle! Thank you so much for sharing the tutorial. Big hugs :) April 26, 2010 at 4:37 PM 1LuvnMama said... OMGosh! How the heck? Hey, you should've played in my challenge with this 3D project! :) Luv the detailed tutorial! April 26, 2010 at 5:38 PM Anonymous said... Hi there~That is some gorgeous bird house!What great imagination you came up with? I will have to invest in that tag punch so I can try to make this birdhouse. I love my birds got 6 cockatiels and 2 parakeets.lol ~ shirl April 26, 2010 at 7:39 PM ShaniKulani said... love the tutorial! too cute :) April 26, 2010 at 8:48 PM Colleen said... What a cute house. I especially like the fancy roof. :) Thanks for the tutorial. April 26, 2010 at 9:50 PM Shir Benovich said... Great tutorial! Thanks for Sharing!! April 26, 2010 at 11:17 PM Islander Girl said... OMG, thanks so much for the tutorial! I can't wait to try this1 You are uber talented!!!! April 27, 2010 at 12:25 AM Cami said... How cute is this, Michelle!!! EXCELLENT TUTORIAL! Great pics and instructions! I love birdhouses, especially for Christmas and will definitely try this out! You are a creative genius, Michelle! I don't know how you figure things out but you always do and thanks so much for sharing your talent and creativity. I wish I could craft with you more often so I can learn! Hugs, Cami April 27, 2010 at 1:05 AM ☼ Cheryl* said... That is so cute!!! Thanks for the tutorial :) April 27, 2010 at 1:35 AM Jodi said... Oh Michelle! This is just too cute!! I love this and hope to create one soon! What a wonderful idea and great tutorial!HugsJodi =) April 27, 2010 at 4:46 AM Cathy Y. said... Wow, what a cute birdhouse you made! That is very creative and thanks for sharing your tutorial w/us. Good job!

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I was in Saskatoon last week to visit my sister. I finally had the chance to meet her dog Echo. She’s a lovely lab/husky mix. Echo lives for food, her family, food, going for walks, food and meeting other dogs.

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A rectal suppository is a small cone-shaped semisolid substance that is inserted into the rectum. A physician’s order provides for a rectal suppository to be given to assist a person to evacuate the bowel. Nursing assistants may or may not be allowed to insert non-medicated suppositories, depending on each state’s scope of practice for nursing assistants. Know and follow the scope of practice for your state, and follow your facility’s policy regarding suppositories.Preparation: Wash hands Assemble supplies Identify and introduce yourself Identify patient and explain procedure Provide privacyBefore inserting a suppository, be sure to perform hand hygiene. Assemble the supplies that you will need, including the suppository the physician has ordered, a lubricant, a bedpan with a cover, disposable gloves, toilet tissue, and a protective pad.Knock and identify yourself when entering the patient’s room. Once inside, identify the individual and explain the procedure, speaking clearly, slowly and directly while maintaining face-to-face contact whenever possible.Before you begin, provide privacy. Raise the bed to a comfortable working height. Then lower the head of the bed.The ProcedureAssist the resident to turn to his left side. This allows the suppository to be inserted more directly into the internal pathway of the rectum.Pull back the covers and pull aside any articles of clothing to uncover the buttocks. Put on the disposable gloves. Open the lubricant and apply it to your index finger and to the suppository.Explain to the individual that it will help relax his anal sphincter muscles and ease the insertion if he takes several quick, short breaths as you are inserting the suppository.Use a small amount of lubricant on your index finger to lubricate the anus. Hold the suppository between your thumb and index finger of your dominant hand and spread the buttocks with the other.Insert the suppository slowly and gently with a rotating motion. Insert it approximately two to three inches into the rectum. Withdraw your finger and hold some toilet tissue briefly against the anus. Remove the gloves by turning them inside out, and discard them along with the tissue and suppository wrapper.Reposition the resident and ask him to retain the suppository as long as possible -- usually 15 to 20 minutes. Encourage him to take deep breaths and relax until the need to defecate is experienced. Monitor him every few minutes until he has a bowel movement. Make sure that the call bell is in place. Perform hand hygiene if you are going to leave the room to attend other duties.When he is ready for a bowel movement, provide a bedpan or assist him to the bathroom, or bedside commode. When he is finished with the bowel movement, collect the bedpan and provide whatever assistance is necessary. Completing Care: Help patient wash hands Place call signal Observe bedpan contents Wash bedpan Perform hand hygiene DocumentThen help him wash his hands. Reposition him if necessary and make sure he is comfortable. Be sure the call signal is within reach and the bed is in the lowest position.Observe the contents of the bedpan before emptying it. After performing hand hygiene, record the time and type of suppository you gave, and record the results.

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Her father was John Wilson of Levens, who married Ann Robinson of Shap, and they lived at Cut Side, then a thatched house. They had four daughters and one son, John Wilson. One of the daughters was accidentally shot when young. Mrs Gibson's other sisters became Mrs Mary Thexton and Mrs Margaret Walker. These four were living in the village at the same time, each over 80 years of age. Their mother died when comparatively a young woman. Mrs Gibson went to school to Peggy Poo [Powley], the village schoolmistress, and afterwards finished her education under a master at Helsington. When a young woman she was for a short time in service in Whitechapel, London, but she spent nearly the whole of her life in her native county. In appearance she was one of those well–built strong–looking individuals, walking very erect, with a firm step, and only indulged in the use of a walking-stick very late in life. A few years before her death – perhaps five or six – she had a fall in her own house, owing to an old shoe, when she remarked that she thought she was going to be lame all the [remaining] days of her life, and so it proved, for she could never walk without assistance afterwards. She retained her senses to the last. Her sight was getting rather dim, but her recollection was surprising, and her conversation on remote events happening in her lifetime was most interesting. For many years she carted and sold peats in Kendal, where she will no doubt be remembered well by some of the older inhabitants. She may be said to have never had a days sickness, and was unacquainted with doctors professionally, with one exception which she used to relate. This was when she went to Doctor Kitchen of Milnthorpe, to have a tooth extracted. She took to bed about ten days before her death, and peacefully passed away without pain. During this period a little stimulant was being administered, when she remarked that she did not want the nasty stuff; it would 'ruin her constitution'. The greater the distance in time the clearer seemed her recollection. She well remembered the making of the new road leading from Levens Bridge towards Whitbarrow, and then on towards Grange; also the full use of the old roads such as the one over Sizergh Fell, by the Old Causeway through Grindle Wood below the screes at Whitbarrow. She could also speak about the inclosure of the common and village green, previous to which a horse might wander as far as Crosthwaite. The war of Bonaparte had made considerable impression on her, and she related how she once went to the old 'Duke of York Inn', over Sizergh Fell, for yeast with a jug bearing a portrait of 'Boney', and some men threatened to break it. She had a vivid recollection of the great election contests between the 'yellows' and the 'blues', the Lowthers and Broughams of those days, and would relate stories in connection therewith. In her mode of living she was very simple. She cared little for luxuries. Her principal fare was porridge and milk, cheese and bread, and beer; she preferred home brewed. Tea in her early years was a great luxury, only indulged in on Sundays. She would tell of the 'Old Wife Hakes' when they had tea, and dancing on the village green. Her husband predeceased her by about 28 years. He it was who discovered on the Moss the beautiful bronze spear head, which was purchased by Canon Rogers Gandy, and presented to the Kendal Museum. Mrs Gibson was very fond of horses. She leaves two sons and one daughter, viz Mr George Gibson of Belfast, Mr John Gibson of Levens, and Mrs Shepherd of Staveley. One unmarried daughter died some years since. top Harold Stabler Harold Stabler, who was born in Levens in 1872 and died in London in 1945, was the son of George Stabler the schoolmaster at Levens Boys School. George was a Yorkshire man, born about 1840 in Craike, who came to the school in about 1858 and married Sarah Wilson, a local girl, in 1869. George's sister Hannah was also a teacher, but at Levens Girls School. She had come with him to Levens when he was first appointed and, in 1861, is recorded as his housekeeper. In addition to Harold, George and Sarah had other children; Edgar, Bertha, and Oswald, who remained a 'village character' all his days . George died in 1910 and Hannah in 1917. George lived at South View, Levens, and is buried at Heversham, but Sarah, Hannah, Bertha and Oswald are buried at Levens. George and Sarah were not blessed with grandchildren. On leaving Levens School Harold was apprenticed to Arthur Simpson, the famous Kendal wood turner, and trained in stone and wood carving at Kendal School of Art where he obtained his Teacher's Certificate. His skills were recognised early and he ran the Simpson's summer school at Gill Head, Windermere. At some time he became known to John Ruskin, and indeed made a sketch of Ruskin, whom he describes as frail and leaning on the arm of his housekeeper, Mrs Twelves, in the week before Ruskin died. In 1898 he came to the attention of Mrs Edith Rawnsley, the wife of Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley, one of the founders of the National Trust, who had founded and managed the Keswick School of Industrial Art. Harold left Simpsons and became the School's first permanent Director. He stayed less than two years, but was highly influential in its metal work and designs, raising the public profile of the School, and continuing to promote it after he left. The Studio reported in 1905 that the School was still producing and selling Stabler designed pieces, notably jugs, ewers and screens. In early 1900 he went to join Richard Llewellyn Rathbone at the metalwork department of the Liverpool School of Art, where he met his wife, Phoebe, the daughter of one of his pupils. He followed Rathbone to London in about 1902 and taught and became head of the Department of Arts and Crafts at the John Cass Technical Institute, London (1907-1937) and also at the Royal College of Art (1912-1926). Harold married Phoebe McCleish in 1906. Phoebe McCleish came from an artistic family, her father had studied metalwork in Liverpool as a student of Harold's, and her sister was the textile and ceramic designer Minnie McCleish. She studied at Liverpool University and the Royal College of Arts. She was already a noted ceramic figure modeller when she married Harold. In 1912, they set up a business in their home, The Mall, Hammersmith. They were a very successful design partnership and worked together on many projects. Their leisure time was spent drawing at the zoo or studying older pieces in museums. Phoebe produced a series of colourful figure models, mainly of women and children, fired in their own kiln. Whilst Harold's skill was, primarily, in working metals, including gold and silver; producing jewellery, sculptural presentation pieces, and cloisonné work, he was also a gifted modeller of figures, both human and animal, and of della Robbia plaques. Their pooled skills meant that they became one of the most prominent and important design partnerships of the early and mid twentieth century, but they also maintained their individual artistic applications. Among Harold's commissions were the Ascot Gold Cup and the gold plate for Government House, Delhi. Phoebe appears to have dealt with the business aspects of their production. The moulds of figures that were produced by them were later sold to mass producers. For example, her design 'The Picardy Peasant' was licensed to Royal Doulton from 1911 to 1938 whilst being produced by Poole Pottery during part of this period. Again 'The Madonna of the Square' was licensed to Royal Doulton in 1913, and again to Poole Pottery in 1920, where it was named 'The Lavender Woman'. Her model, 'Shy', was simultaneously produced as a ceramic, and as a lead statue by the Bromsgrove Guild. She obtained similar agreements with the Ashtead and Royal Worcester potteries. From 1906 they were regular exhibitors at the Royal Academy, the Arts & Crafts Exhibition Society, the British Industries Fair, and similar exhibitions. As members of the Arts Workers Guild they attended the exhibition of British Arts & Crafts at the Louvre in 1914. Their work was widely reviewed in The Studio, The Studio Yearbook of Decorative Art and The Pottery and Glass Trade Review. Harold did not lose his support for arts and crafts in Westmorland. In April 1909 he and Phoebe supported an exhibition and competition at Levens School. Phoebe displayed some small statuettes and a portrait bust of George Stabler, and Harold, described as 'head of art at the John Cass Institute', showed 'a fine little panel'. The Westmorland Gazette reported that the exhibition was primarily of woodwork by members of the Levens 'class'. George Dobson was the teacher and it is reasonable to suppose that arts and crafts lessons were taking place in the village, along the lines of Simpson's classes in Windermere. The exhibition was 'an object lesson ... of the great amount of talent and skill possessed by the people of an English village'. Other villagers' collections were also shown; Miss E Benson of Hyning exhibited her Sevres China, Mr Gudgeon showed a collection of 98 butterflies and moths, and Captain and Mrs Bagot showed an 18th century patchwork quilt. The exhibition raised 25 shillings for the Children's Penny Dinners. In 1915, with Ambrose Heal (of Heal & Son), C H St John Hornby, (of W H Smith & Son), Ernest Jackson, W.B.Dalton (head of the Camberwell School of Arts) and others including Frank Pick (of London Transport), Harold co-founded the Design and Industries Association. The DIA put together a display of mass-produced objects at the 1916 Arts and Crafts Exhibition. It included stoneware jars by Crosse and Blackwell, Wedgwood pottery, and colourful machine-printed cottons by the Bolton firm of Charles Sixsmith set for export to Africa. Their aim was 'to improve the quality and fitness of goods on sale to the general public' and their slogan was 'fitness for use'. The DIA was based upon a German model, the Deutscher Werkbund, whose virtues it embraced, and was set up after an exhibition of the German work was held in London in 1915 under the auspices of the Board of Trade. Later, in 1919, the British Institute of Industrial Art, a government backed organisation was formed with Harold as a founder member. Involvement in these organisations undoubtedly added to Harold and Phoebe's network of influence, and, moreover, gave them access to the Victoria and Albert Museum where the BIIA's collection was held. Additionally, Harold was a design consultant to many companies and public bodies. He was the first Designer for Industry [for 'Pottery, Enamelling &Silversmithing'], appointed by the Royal Society of Arts in 1936. [Royal Designer for Industry is a distinction established by the Royal Society of Arts to encourage a high standard of industrial design and enhance the status of designers. It is still awarded to people who have achieved "sustained excellence in aesthetic and efficient design for industry". Those who are British citizens take the letters RDI after their names, and everyone who holds the distinction is a Member of The Faculty of Royal Designers for Industry.] In 1919 he was introduced to Charles Carter. Charles and his brother, Owen, had a very successful pottery business in Poole, but Owen, the designer, had recently died, and Harold was asked to recommend a new designer. His knowledge of who's who in the art world enabled him to introduce John Adams who joined Carter's firm. In 1921, Harold, John Adams and Cyril Carter, established a subsidiary company called "Carter, Stabler & Adams". Truda Adams, Phoebe Stabler and others, acted as additional designers. CSA became a highly successful business for the production of ornamental and domestic pottery and was later known as the 'Poole Pottery'. According to Phoebe's own account there had been many problems with the Hammersmith firings of her work, and this continued until the moulds were taken over by Carter at the Poole works. Harold and Phoebe designed architectural ceramics through the Carter Tile Works, most notably a series of War Memorials of which the largest is the Durban War Memorial for which Phoebe modelled the ceramic figures. Others include the Rugby School war memorial (1930). In 1922, Frank Pick, commissioned Harold to design a rabbit mascot for the London General's country buses. His remit was expanded to develope large-scale architectural ceramics and Pick commissioned the production of tiles with moulded decoration for new underground stations for London Transport, including 18 heraldic designs representing the counties served by the Underground network. Examples of the tiles can be seen at St Paul's, Aldgate East, Bethnal Green, St. John's Wood and Swiss Cottage Underground stations. Other commissions included an Art Deco Tile Panel for Rugby School, now in the Rugby Art Gallery Museum & Library; a range of octagonal-shaped, heat-resistant ovenware for the firm Chance [later Pyrex]; Old Hall stainless steel tea and coffee services for Firth Brown and many Della-Robbia plaques including one for the Mortuary Chapel at St. Mary Abbots Hospital. Harold and Phoebe's work is now highly sought after and collectable. They are represented in most major art galleries and museums and in particular in the Victoria and Albert Museum and their place in design history is assured. BIBLIOGRAPHY Jennifer Hawkins, The Poole Potteries, Barrie & Jenkins, 1980 Lucien Myers, Poole Pottery, The First 100 Years, Poole Pottery, 1973 Sara E Haslam, John Ruskin and the Lakeland Arts Revival, 1880-1920, Merton, 2004 Barrie & Wendy Armstrong, 'The Arts and Crafts Movement in the North West of England', Oblong, 2006 Collections of Harold Stabler's papers are deposited with the Glasgow School of Art Archive under reference GB/NNAF/P26927, the RIBA library under reference PeH/6/18, and the Victoria & Albert Museum under reference MA/1/S2994.

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Doesn't it seem that every available job is an unpaid internship? As someone attempting to break into the industry, I understand that most jobs I'm applying to are internships. And most of those internships will be unpaid positions where I would be expected to work 15-20 hours or so a week. Most young people entering any industry are prepared to work for a few months for free if that means creating contacts and a resume that leads to a full-time paid job.. But a New York judge ruled that Fox Searchlight Pictures violated the state's minimum wage laws during the production of Black Swan. Unpaid interns have become almost the norm around movie productions and among most other industries. The judge ruled that the work done by the two prosecuting interns was indeed work and that they deserved to be paid by the studio. Their responsibilities were close enough to the other employees to warrant being paid. Although Fox plans to pursue a reversal on the ruling, many agree with the Court's decision. In most cases, interns are working as many hours as employed workers and are receiving none of the benefits besides experience and possibly college credit. Eric Glatt, one of the Black Swan interns who brought the case forward stated: “I’m absolutely thrilled. I hope that this sends a very loud and clear message to employers and to students doing these internships, and to the colleges that are cooperating in creating this large pool of free labor — for most for-profit employers, this is illegal. It shouldn’t be up to the least powerful person in the arrangement to have to bring a lawsuit to stop this.” The New York State judge based his ruling on the belief that there are very few times when Internships are legal. Unpaid internships should remain in learning environment and not job positions that could be filled by a regular employee. This is the first step the country has taken to stop the recent trend of unpaid internships. It seems every job a college student/recent grad can apply to are all unpaid positions. As a recent graduate, I'm not sure how I, or any of my just-graduated-peers, can afford to live on an unpaid salary. This new standard may decrease the availabe entry positions in the industry at first, but hopefully studios understand how beneficial and coveted internships are to passionate young people looking to enter the industry. For years the trend of doing the unglorified grunt work (Answering phones, answering mail, getting coffees, etc.) has been reserved for unpaid interns. The consequences of the Court's ruling have yet to be properly understood. Will studios still offer unpaid internship positions with strict guidelines that would place it in the unpaid category? Or will the Court's ruling begin to strike down unpaid internship positions on the grounds that the work done is equivalent to a paid employees? What does this ruling mean for the future of film production? Source: Cinemablend

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The Denver area is a hotbed of bright and talented entrepreneurial individuals. With the uptick in new start-ups around the region, these organizations face the challenge of attracting and retaining the best IT talent, while competing heavily with much larger companies for the finest information technology resources. On February 28th, John Kingdeski of EdgeLink will be Innovations Pavilion’s key presenter at their Ecosystem for Entrepreneurs Meetup. John’s presentation will address the “Top 10 Mistakes Start-ups Should Avoid.” John has recently presented this similar topic for Rockies Venture Club and continues to receive accolades from his presentation and insider tips for building a successful start-up organization. John’s presentation will explain how a start-up can position themselves to succeed by hiring the right talent. He believes that people are the most important component of a company, saying: “If you get the people part right, everything else will fall into place.” Yet so many start-ups fail to acquire the talent they need to succeed. In John’s frequent conversations with start-ups, the common underlying challenge has always been hiring and team building. By following the processes outlined in his presentation, a company can avoid many of the common mistakes in the hiring process, and thus secure a solid start-up team to help them succeed.

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On Thursday 6 December 2007 our delegation met with Bishop Dr Munib A. Younan, of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land, at the offices of the Jerusalem Inter-Church Center.Bishop Younan told us that, in his opinion, the root cause of all the present Israeli-Palestinian problems is Israel's illegal occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. He suggested that there were ultimately two options: either Israel or Palestine will eliminate the other, or they will work out a two-state solution. He expressed a preference for a return to the pre-1967 border (the famous "Green line") and for two separate, internationally recognised states. On the state of the Churches in Jerusalem, Bishop Younan believed that relationships between church leaders were currently positive, and that it was vital to capitalise on that before changes in personnel took place and the opportunity for progress on long-running disputes was lost.He said the great challenge for Israel/Palestine was not Islam but extremism (Jewish, Christian, and Muslim). "It's OK to disagree around the table on the theology of Israel, but as soon as it becomes an ideology it destroys us," he said, possibly alluding to Christian Zionism. "My Christianity is that of the cross, not the sword." He saw four areas for short-term action by Christians:(a) establishment of a hotline for rapid response to controversial comments/actions by local clergy;(b) reform of Palestinian and Israeli education curricula (especially aimed at eliminating racism);(c) working to achieve an acceptable political/religious outcome on the future of Jerusalem;(d) establishment of a Christian reference group to assist future peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine.An indication of Bishop Younan's standing in the Palestinian (and international) community is that he was to meet former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright that evening for talks on the Israel/Palestinian conflict. Albright has a strong interest in Middle East politics - see, for example, here and here.

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Top It Off co-owners Zach Smith, left, and Tyler Forrest talk about rotating 10 different frozen yogurts and 50 toppings every two weeks to keep their customers interested at the Broad Street shop. Photo by Tim Barber /Times Free Press. • Name: Top It Off • Location: 401 Broad St., in the former Rock Point Books building at the corner of Fourth and Broad streets. • Products/services: The company offers 10 flavors of gravity-fed frozen yogurt, differentiated from the more widely available pressure-fed yogurt by its creaminess and intense flavor. Owners Zach Smith and Tyler Forrest rotate the flavors and 50 toppings every two weeks, and offer a variety of hot and cold syrups in their art deco-inspired downtown storefront. While they won't give out the secret of where their yogurt comes from, they claim it's nothing like what's available elsewhere in Chattanooga. • Age: Launched June 10 • Startup investment: $175,000 • Estimated annual sales: $400,000 • Target market: Women 18 to 50 are the primary customer, but Smith and Forrest designed the restaurant not to be overly feminine to appeal to a broader demographic. • Biggest hurdle: Getting the requisite permits from the city, and dealing with the fact that "everyone gives you different answers" was the hardest part, Forrest said. "Other than that, it was a breeze." • Biggest reward: Seeing repeat customers bringing in their friends and family to try the frozen yogurt. • Challenges in the future: They've already had eight franchise requests. As the duo look to franchise their concept, the legal paperwork increases exponentially, they said. • Lesson learned: "Everybody said we couldn't get it open by June 10, with everything that's involved in the construction and permitting process, but we were well prepared," Smith said. "We opened just four hours late on June 10."

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Louis Benoit, real name of this US born Hammond player, spent most of his professional career in Europe, where he moved to in 1960. France and Spain became the main territories for his musical activities along his mythical Hammond B3 (later substituted by a highly customized and lighter keyboard he would refer to as the “Bennett Machine”) and renowned musicians such as Kenny Clarke, Rene Thomas or Philip Caterine.

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We had over a week ending earlier this week when it must have rained well over an inch on average every day. Fortunately, we didn't suffer any noticeable washing or other long-term damage, but we've never before stayed this wet this long in the middle of the growing season. In all but our very best drained soils that meant continually water-logged soils, and the roots of most garden plants can't stand that very long. So all the rain put an end to some crops, left others

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Fatal Fast Track SexSeptember 25, 2008A couple going at it on a usually unused train track in South Africa have been killed by a freight train. As the train coursed towards them, Mduduzi Michael Bandezi, 28, and Sibongile Radebe, 25 were in the midst of sexual intercourse that can only be described as “to die for”. (more details after the jump)According to Superintendent Abie Khoabane, the train driver repeatedly hooted "but they continued with their business". The area is known as a haven for sex workers and was littered with used condoms when police arrived at the scene. The two had met that night at a local tavern.So kids, the lesson here is don’t have sex on railway tracks. Instead, do it ON the train. A conductor in Europe did and forgot to turn their microphone off, meaning the whole train heard it. Hear it in the video News

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“Many people experienced problems with training mastery, where training mastery did not infact GIVE you mastery. (The spellbook still said to go see your trainer). I (Sunfyre) figured out a way to make it work, using the following method. I suggest you do the same just as a precaution. When you first load into 4.0, before you talent, head to Moonglade. At the trainer, learn mastery and leather specialization before any other ability.” So, we have confirmation from mmo-champion that tomorrow is patch day, with about 99% certainty. To help you get ready for patch day, the blogging community has been working hard at writing guides to help you through this confusing transition period. Just remember one thing… On this blog, I have two guides available for your patch day viewing pleasure: Druid leveling guide for 1 to 79 (with a feral cat, moonkin, and restoration talent build). Druid healing guide for level 80 PvE I also have a little bit of glyph & gem info for moonkin in my preparing for patch day guide Also note that I will be updating things with every second of time I can spare over the next few days. My scrolling blogroll has been disabled on the side-bar of my blog, in addition to optimizing a few things so that my blog won’t totally explode on patch day. Moonkin resources for 4.0.1 (talents, glyphs, gems, etc) Graylo from Gray Matter has a 4.0.1 moonkin guide up now. Relevart’s Moonkin class guide for 4.0.1 Qieth’s Quips has a very comprehensive 4.0 moonkin guide. Sunfyre’s Nest also has a 4.0 moonkin guide for rotation and such. Syrco Owl’s blog also has a moonkin 4.0.1 guide. Tastes Like Battlechicken has a Noobkin to Boomkin guide! Feral druid resources for 4.0.1 (talents, glyphs, gems, etc): Kalon at Think Tank has the basics on his blog for both cat and bear Alaron at the Fluid Druid has cat info Vallen at Feral Agression has more cat info, too! Restoration druid resources for 4.0.1: My guide here at restokin! What’s up with haste for resto druids? Click here to find out! Keeva at TBJ has a comprehensive resto druid guide Rank 4 Healing Touch has and Icc25 Hard Mode Advice Resto Dude has a resto druid healing guide with lots of pretty pictures For other classes, see this resource list at Jaded alt! Epic Raid Warning podcast Roundtable! The Raid Warning podcast roundable is finally up! Listen to a great podcast while you wait for the servers to come back up! ‹ Leveling guide changes & updates 4.0.1 FAQ for Resto & moonkin druids › Posted in Cataclysm, Druid - General, Feral Bear tanking, Feral DPS Cat, Leveling, Moonkin Balance DPS, Patch 4.0.1, Restoration Healing Trees 14 comments on “Druid Resource list for 4.0.1” Moonra says: October 12, 2010 at 1:46 am thnkx for the link love! I also noticed that almost everyone on my feed is from the US cause I don’t get a patch today… I have to wait a day longer… meh! Lazy EU Blizz aramis says: October 12, 2010 at 3:32 am Let the record show: Druid, Permanent Tree of Life Form, died 12 October 2010 at 0000hrs. *a moment of silence, please* Farwell my rootybuht-shakin’ friend. Many alaugh were had. Dance your way into that sweet hereafter. Lissanna says: October 12, 2010 at 12:13 pm we’ll get used to the new cooldown tree soon enough. 🙂 Zeme says: October 12, 2010 at 7:52 am Thank you for all of the guides, they’ve been very helpful. Just wanted to say that I love the picture at the top, my guild mates made quite a bit of fun of my “Praise the Lord” pose when I got stuck in a frost tomb while casting 🙂 Dawnhoof says: October 12, 2010 at 9:24 am NE an Tauren druids gathered outside Org to celebrate the last night of the tree. It was an epic scene where two factions came together in harmony to honor the earth mother, Ciarne Bloodhoof, and Tyrande Whisperwind. What a wonderful thing it was. No war no death just peace at least for one night. Shealle says: October 12, 2010 at 11:46 am Holy cow Lissanna! I was compiling my list and came here to get your link & found you did all the hard work for me. Thank you so much! Many internet cookies for you! Shea Lissanna says: October 12, 2010 at 12:13 pm You’re welcome, lol Windsoar says: October 12, 2010 at 1:37 pm Thanks for the link. Looks like you have a couple I missed! Zantherua says: October 12, 2010 at 4:18 pm Is the magic haste number 1015 for level 80 or 85? Lissanna says: October 12, 2010 at 4:52 pm All the guides are JUST for level 80. Not all resto druids will hit that 1015 haste number, however. This guide has the other haste breaking points & explains more about how haste works in 4.0.1. It gives you haste % breakdowns of when each HOT gains a new tick. The 1015 haste for resto druids is the number that it takes to get the second extra rejuv tick (37.5% haste) after raid buffs are taken into consideration. At 25% haste, you get another lifebloom & wild growth tick, so that’s probably the minimum to shoot for. Nightwhisp says: October 12, 2010 at 11:58 pm Thanks for the link to the talent bug, but I found one of my own 🙁 In my bal spec, my spell book says I need to train Insectswarm but My trainer says I already know it. . .But I don’t have it. . .even without it my moonkin is doing huge dps using Greylo’s spec! Lissanna says: October 13, 2010 at 8:38 am Yeah, the devs know about the insect swarm “bug”. Hopefully they’ll do a bug fix patch “soon”. aramis says: October 13, 2010 at 3:07 am Ok, Miss Liss! My intial reactions…are like WoW! *pun intended* Just getting a feel for the spells, they do feel different, but things still flow all the same. My first loves: EFFLORESCENCE! What a nice animation. And if you stagger WG with EFF, you pretty much can do what we used to do with WG up every 6 seconds…at least for now. Don’t know how that will work in Cata. But it’s a good way to ween off spamming WG in preparation for other healing adjustments. My manaregen is nuts at the moment, so a RG spam during ToL is barely noticeable (like seriously, my close to 40K mana wasn’t going anywhere…the only time I saw it even move was when i hit the WG button and HT). Definitely have to be careful with that in Cata, I’m sure. But the boost to heals in ToL are quite welcome. It’ll take some getting used to healing not in permatreeform. My dislikes (which may change after time): The readjustments in cast times to accomodate the new “healing model”. I don’t understand why Nourish couldn’t have remained the “flash” heal and kept RG as the moderate heal with a decent HoT. I’m pretty sure there’s a justification there on part of the Blues, but I haven’t seen it. Just in trying to readjust my healing rotation, I kept spamming that nourish on my guildie after a few HoTs and while that will work when they actually need the boost in heals from the HoTs, a simple RG would be better as the flash heal and argh if I’m going to do that! LOL. Overall: Just slight adjustments here and there and things aren’t too different (other than the not-treeness). I’m glad you and other bloggers insisted on the “don’t panic” meme. So in these last weeks of LK…do I need to even worry about mastery rating? Reforging seems to be about the only way to do that but I don’t even think I would need to until Cataclysm hits. Is that a good line of thought? Lissanna says: October 13, 2010 at 8:37 am For ICC, most people will probably still HOT around the raid in a way that the mastery isn’t intended to support. So, I’m only recommending reforging for mastery if you are a tank healer for now. 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worth will very likely be recognized by the market within a reasonable (two or three years) period because its merits will be plain to even the most casual observer; that does not conflict with a current holding; and that allows for regular evaluation of the investment’s premise If the idea has all of these features -- safety, upside, robustness, and timeliness; more on these later -- I feel comfortable allocating a meaningful (10% to 25%) share of my funds to it. How many good ideas one is able to find (or recognize) in any given year is of course a function of one’s level of effort, experience, “circle of competence”, account size, and so on. I look at maybe a hundred and fifty to two hundred ideas a year spending fifteen to twenty hours a week to do so. In about half of these ideas I can see how I could lose money. In approximately a third of them I can't see a reasonable upside. Of the remainder, most are, when push comes to shove, just a little too complicated for me to really get behind or just a little too abstract; I can see that they're probably safe and I can also see that they will probably perform well, but I'm not sure. Of the remainder -- we are in single digits now -- I eliminate those that conflict with a current holding and buy those that I think are the most time-certain. In this way I figure that I am able to find two or three good ideas in an average year. So in my highly stylized view of how I’d like things things to look, I ought, at any one time, have six good ideas in my portfolio paying out more or less in alternate years. In the real world, of course, some ideas will work out better and sooner than one expects, and some worse or later, but the central tendency should approximate this outline. If the security doesn’t look as promising as when one bought shares in it, one can sell it and move on. If its price falls in the interim, one has the choice of adding to it or of lowering one’s cost basis by trading around the volatility in the stock price. But, for me, the principal advantage of doing things in this way is that selectivity helps keep my standards reasonably high (and the error rate reasonably low). [The 20% cash position is there for use during important market declines – it is important psychologically and, if invested in a reasonable manner during a market decline, should help keep one’s full cycle CAGR at an elevated level]. Cash gains are reinvested and therefore compounded. Mark-to-market losses should, in theory, not matter – if one invests in a discounted security it is, by definition, underestimated and anything could happen to its share price until one’s appointment with it two or three years hence. In practice it matters – psychologically. That’s why it is important to do the necessary work beforehand, to avoid blind coat-tailing, to not be seduced by potential upside alone, and to know the limits of one's technical and emotional competence. This, then, is a kind of road map that I use in charting my investment strategy, such as it is, and every major decision that I make is subject to its constraints and possibilities. If I lay out the positions that I've written about that have constituted at least 15% of my portfolio by cost – that is, my highest conviction positions – they correspond to the outline as follows: Note the color coding: I replaced CEGID with Northgate, Lamprell with Emeco, Lombard Risk with Future Bright -- in each case because I thought the newer security lower risk than the one being replaced. Therefore my investments in CEGID, Lamprell and Lombard Risk did not last long enough to either reap the rewards or suffer the indignity of losses at the appointed hour. Spare a thought also for Consciencefood Holdings which was in spirit one of my highest conviction positions and would have been sized at 15% or 20% had I the opportunity to buy more shares. It was taken out by the owner-manager before I managed to do so. This is how they would have played out : RISK MANAGEMENT If one is not serious about risk management this road map leads straight to the poorhouse. Investment returns are therefore meaningless without a consideration of the risks taken to achieve them. There are, I think, four ways to manage risk: knowing what you own, applying a “margin of safety”, hedging as necessary, and diversification. The appropriate balance between them will vary from person to person and will depend also on the nature of the securities involved. I, for example, prefer a heavier emphasis on MOS than I do on broad diversification because I think that I can apply MOS correctly most (though certainly not all) of the time. Four to six more or less equal positions and twenty percent cash is my sweet spot. I hope to attain a level of competence that will allow me to one day hold 8 or 12 names on average without increasing my risk profile. SECURITY SELECTION Safety first. Upside second. Timeliness third. I am not persuaded that “margin of safety” is simply an x% discount applied to either some metric derived from the financial statements. Instead, I try to imagine the worst case scenario that can reasonably come about for the business’ (or assets’) prospects over the relevant investment horizon. I then overlay the least attractive capital allocation decisions consistent with management’s prior behavior, and value that. That’s the margin of safety value at a particular point in time: provisional, inexact, contestable though not controversial, and sufficient for the time-frame that I'm concerned with -- two or three years. Again, for context, here are my contemporaneous attempts at MOS assessments of my high conviction ideas. Two prefatory points first: First, I am far more strident when talking to myself than I would ever be in a blog post and the tone of what follows reflects that I'm afraid. I also think now, in hindsight, that I was on at least a little less sure ground in sizing up the safety of some of these names than I imagined at the time. Second, the premises vary according to the nature of the business but I am in each case looking for something that can be absolutely counted on to permit a net present value of cash payouts greater than the price paid for the security. An asset-light business that could cover its operating expenses from maintenance service contracts alone, engaged in a line of work that is both non-discretionary and not subject to near-term technological obsolescence. Sixteen years of dividends are covered by cash already in the bank. Sustainable free cash flow is 105% of enterprise value and this at a low point for infrastructure spending in France. Although dominant in France, it is also exposed to emerging markets where revenues are growing and margins are much fatter. Toll roads are everywhere a growth business. There is a verifiable backlog. There is customer concentration but the relationship between it and its customers seems as much partnership as client-supplier. So revenue probably won't fall by much. If it does fall, operating profit won't fall by much more than that. The only effect of a share price decline would be to increase the efficacy of the buyback program and therefore make the equity more valuable still. All things considered I find it hard to imagine how the net present value of the dividends received by GEA shareholders will not exceed 45/share. An unusually high and stable gross margin combined with accelerating sales growth through the 2007-9 period is the most obvious sign that economic conditions would have to get a great deal more desperate than they have recently been for this business to suffer even minor indignities along its long term growth trajectory. Hospitals would have to stop being built even in emerging markets. Replacement of installed flooring in preexisting hospitals would have to be deferred. A rock solid dividend policy means that all discretionary cash flow not invested for growth has been and would be paid as dividends. No growth therefore would mean a 9% inflation-protected dividend yield for a very long time, longer certainly than the time to recover the value paid for the shares. 90% market share in interisland traffic means pricing power. Oil goes up, fares go up by more. Oil goes down, fares go down by less. Meaningful competition in this segment would require 100 additional daily flights and would therefore require additional airport capacity to be built. But the main airport has already just been extended by the state -- and partly paid for, and occupied by, Hawaiian. This interisland business generates $220 million in EBITDAR. It's not particularly cyclical but give it a haircut anyway and call it $200m. Alaska Air Group is larger and better capitalized than Hawaiian, is structured in a similar way, and is also its direct competitor. It trades at 5x EBITDAR. If Hawaiian's West Coast and International businesses were to fail, it would make compelling economic sense for ALK to purchase Hawaiian. If ALK were to acquire Hawaiian at a full turn less than its own EBITDAR multiple, close down the West Coast and International operations, and liquidate the associated aircraft, the effective purchase price of the interisland franchise would be $700m or 4x FCF. Doing so would also lead to reduced capacity -- and therefore higher fares -- in the West Coast-to-Hawaii routes, allowing ALK two ways to benefit. So Hawaiian's "acquisition put", or low-end "private market value" is ~$17. .. to be continued in next post. I'll also talk about upside and timing, tie the three (safety, upside, timing) together, and relate them back to the road map idea. In the post after that, I'll give my current holdings the same treatment as I did the names that have played out and see how they stack up. I'll then say something about how and where I look for ideas. I don't want anyone to get the impression that my approach is appropriate for most people or even for most active investors. It is not. My last post in this "series" will be about that. Posted by red. at 9:10 PM 40 comments: AnonymousJanuary 13, 2015 at 11:02 AMI enjoyed this write up on 14, 2015 at 12:45 AMRed - Really enjoy these investing style write ups in addition to the specific investment analysis on a company. Looking forward to the next write up on where you think Texhong, Future Bright etc. stand. Also appreciate that you put it all out there and accept that there will be a few idiots out that go beyond trying to show an opposite hypothesis and stray into borderline insults. Here's hoping that 2015 brings you some good returns. ReplyDeleteBarryJanuary 15, 2015 at 7:42 AMNice post, really enjoy reading some of these posts in addition to straight write-ups..looking fwd to more!On James Halstead, curious how you got the NPV of dividends of 300m? And what calculation you used to view it as a "9% inflation-protected dividend 15, 2015 at 11:18 AMThanks for reading, Barry.I'm not sure I understand the 1st question exactly so correct me if I'm off. 2010 FCF = 23, dividend policy of 2/3 implies 2010 dividend of 15. I assumed 3% LT growth in line with what most reasonable people would say was the LT growth rate of the world economy in real terms. You can therefore back out my implied cost of capital at 8%: [15/(8%-3%)] = 300--Inflation protected means that I thought that JHD has pricing power. It's a conclusion that I arrived at after looking into what it does exactly, who it sells to, what its customers are likely to prioritize in the quality--price spectrum that constitutes "value" etc.Big picture: This is 2009/10, the worst environment seen in 30 years for commercial / institutional flooring, which was down 25% to 30%. The public sector institutional flooring sub-market was in even worse shape, as you can imagine. Against that background, JHD grew by 11% and (plus/minus sterling devaluation and raw material inflation) kept its gross margin intact. That was startling to me at the time and made it worth a look. Imagine that it is late 2015 and a midcap spare parts supplier to deepwater O&G not only grew revenue but accelerated its revenue growth. Imagine also that it gets back 50c every year on every $1 that it invests in growth. And imagine that it has a dividend policy trailing back a generation wherein 2/3 to 75% of FCF is dividended out.That's the starting point and the conclusion. In the middle is the hours of work that it takes trying to make sure that it is neither a probable dud (like, say, Dialight) or resting on uncertain ground(like, say, Xaar).I think now that I wouldn't buy JHD again at that valuation. Truth is that I wanted to own something that had the whiff of quality about it after owning lots of mispriced garbage in 2008-2009 and I didn't hold out for similar quality at a better 15, 2015 at 12:19 PMHi Red,What about Pan Orien Energy Corp.?They have no debt and fantastic onshore wells in Indonesia and Thailand starting to produce this year and in the comings.It´s difficult for me to analyce it well but maybe a great oportunity very close catalyst.Thanks in 15, 2015 at 12:26 PMDid you look up what FB is worth without Macau 15, 2015 at 4:52 PMRed,I looked it up. I saw that the revenues of FB are more influenced by the visitors inflow to Macau than the reveneu of the gambling.In the first half 2014 the total restaurant sq.ft operated were 142.000 of wich: Hotel Lisboa 7.000 (has a casino),Hotel Venecia 21.500 (has a casino),City of dreams 8.000 (It´s a casino), Sands Macau 4.500 (hotel-casino), Sands Cotai central 6.800 (hotel-casino), Rio Hotel 15.500 (hotel-casino).So more or less 30% FB restaurants are in hotel-casino. Maybe the strong drop of the revenues in gaming it´s going to affect to FB revenues but I think is very dificult to calculate.How do you see it?And Real Madrid knock out by Atletico... :(ReplyDeleteDavidJanuary 15, 2015 at 5:24 PMBut I 'm confidente because the occpancy rate in hotels grow a little bit respect 2013. So maybe the drop in gaming revenus it isn't 19, 2015 at 1:22 PMRed FB looks really interesting now. Except I don't like the whole Hengqin project. It feels like a state planned project to me that could fail horribly. 1.5-2 hours away from Macau. And that is what will eat up most , if not all of their cash. You have any insights on that? If that has a high probability to succeed, then obviously the stock is a complete bargain. Otherwhise it seems just cheap. ReplyDeletered.January 19, 2015 at 1:44 PMWell Galaxy is spending US $1.6bn there, Shun Tak has been investing heavily etc. It's a "build it and they will come" approach for sure but then that has been the history of Macau and its environs. And Vegas too, I suppose.FB's value doesn't rest on Hengqin. I think what we'll see is that the company will sell 1/2 of its development right to a bigger cash-rich player with property development experience. (It's what I would do, anyway, and the CEO seems like a sensible fellow).The sale of that stake, if it happens, may mean a cash receipt equal to the company's current cap.Other than that, there are the Hong Kong and Zuhai eateries, the airport and school/University cafeteria, the franchised restaurant concepts, the moon cakes,the investment property, the Japanese food wholesale operations and so on. I suspect those are worth something, too.Expansion of industrial catering to casino workers would be a plus but it's just a free option.Who knows where it trades first, though? ReplyDeleteDavidJanuary 23, 2015 at 2:16 AMAny idea of the reason for such a drop in FB?ReplyDeleteandy arizonaJanuary 24, 2015 at 3:14 AMDavid,Maybe this , but who 3, 2015 at 6:13 PMRed why buy calls for HA on such short notice? Seems the market can do a lot of things over such a short time? Why not just buy the 5, 2015 at 1:24 PMHey Red,Any chance we will see a Paradise Entertainment writeup? You certainly seem to have some conviction in the idea. I was sorry to see AIQ replaced.I also wanted to say that this is by far the best investing blog I have ever read, and your research has generated very considerable sums in my PA.That said, a streak of bad luck can make any process look invalid in the short term, and you've certainly had your share of that in recent times. I can't wait for that luck to mean revert, and sincerely hope you continue to keep this blog alive and humming with brilliant investment ideas. Thank you for your contributions to the investing 5, 2015 at 1:40 PMVery kind of you and thanks for reading.I'm okay with the draw down, though. Emeco has been unlucky, I think -- I had been relying on oil and copper to offset iron and coal so that disposals could occur in at least a somewhat orderly fashion. But there you have it -- they don't always work out. As for the rest, I'm comfortable with them. Too many names, though, and keeping track of them all is starting to approximate proper work. I keep promising myself that I'll get down to 6 x 15% and let them ride.Paradise: Sure, writing it up now and will post within the next couple of days.Thanks for 8, 2015 at 11:05 AMRed, Emeco can buy back their bonds early right? They don't have to wait untill maturation in 2019? Otherwhise it seems like an extremely shitty deal to me. If utilization hangs around 55%, that is ebitda of about 75m$? That is only just enough to pay interest and maintenance capex. And after that they would need to raise over 300m$ from selling equipment. Looking forward to read your thoughts on Paradise :) . 12, 2015 at 8:19 PMHey red, might find this guys just upped their position in Emeco. Their commentary is interesting. ReplyDeletered.February 13, 2015 at 5:01 AMThanks for the link. EHL's diversification is of course why I preferred it to other mining services names in OZ in the first place.But this formulation "The Canadian operations have 12 major customers, all which are profitable at oil prices of even $50/barrel" is misleading and, if intended to encourage other money managers to look at EHL, counterproductive. 13, 2015 at 9:43 AMyeah saying cash flow profitable would be more accurate. They did put their money where their mouth is though. ReplyDeletered.February 13, 2015 at 9:51 AMNo - I don't mean that. I mean that talking about the customers being profitable at $50 is not the same thing as talking about whether their mining operations are profitable at $50. Those customers have a wide range of operations -- SAGD, pipes, refining, etc -- that are profitable at $50 and below but have nothing to do with 13, 2015 at 10:26 AMright, thanks for clearing it up :) 18, 2015 at 1:40 PMHey Red,Have you ever taken a look at RCAP?Complex capital structure, Schorsch overhang, but seems very inexpensive on a forward basis-about 5x cash earnings including synergy projections, which appear reasonable at first glance.The rate sensitivity is also attractive and asymmetric, as cash accounts are producing almost nothing currently. Insiders have been buying, and future acquisition potential including tax shields are free options.Selling monthly puts generates pretty unreal IRR's also.Hope perhaps it interests you. ReplyDeletered.February 18, 2015 at 1:53 PMSure, I've looked at it but thanks in any case for mentioning it. How are you thinking about Schorsch, the veracity of the financials, and the risk of indictments? 18, 2015 at 2:30 PMI see the issue at ARCP as more of a window-dressing event than outright misrepresentation of financial results as seen in Chinese frauds etc. So, I expect the economic impact, if there is some misrepresentation, to likely be insignificant relative to the current stock price and the earnings it implies.The managers involved in RCAP have good long term records at ING, LPL etc, know Schorsch, and have been buying stock. Corvex involvement in ARCP is also possibly worth noting given their depth of due diligence and track record.If you have any thoughts on the issues you noted, I would love to hear them. Both my forensic accounting and general investment knowledge are quite limited, as I have only begun investing seriously this past year.Looking at Hogg Robinson, the valuation seems similar to RCAP, but without the fraud overhang. Do you mind sharing your 1000 ft view on it? That is if you are not intending to write it up formally.I also noted your sale of Future Bright-having recently entered a significant position I would love to know if your decision was driven by opportunity cost, a lack of cash, or some impairment to the equity value?Thanks for your 18, 2015 at 3:42 PMre: HoggI guess the 1000ft view would be that: (1) SpendVision's worth something like 60 million so, setting aside the pension liability for a moment, I've paid just over 3x FCF for the travel management business.(2) It seems to me that they've guided a 28 million cut in annual operating expenses so that cash flows will go up if unless revenue goes down by a lot. I don't think it likely that revenue can fall all that far from here. (a) The function that TMCs fulfill will always be necessary and that function is more efficiently/effectively outsourced than performed in-house by Hogg's clients;(b) net contract wins seems to bear this out; (c)they are only now really focusing on what one would have thought was their natural client base -- global multinationals with out of the ordinary travel management needs, like O&G companies etc. So, if we split the difference -- 300 in fwd run rate travel revenue and 252 in travel opex -- we'd get to 2x FCF for the consolidated travel business.The unconslidated JVs, NCIs etc have value also. Of the 85m in cumulative retained profits accruing to HRG virtually all of it has been reinvested for growth.With respect to the pension liability, a 2% rise in corporate bond yields more or less eliminates the net liability and also the 7 million in associated pension financing charges on the income statement. That's the fundamental picture as I see it -- more or less: inexpensive, sturdy cash flows with an interest rate hedge attached.I invested in it b/c I think the resolution in the valuation discrepancy might be quicker than average. I'd like to see 80p in relatively short order.Future Bright, on the other hand, can wait a few months. I'm okay with a ~20% position for now. If I can see the catalysts coming -- Macau sentiment, sale of part interest in Hengqin -- I'll bulk up again. So yes, it's just a cash management issue. ReplyDeletered.February 18, 2015 at 3:44 PMI'll look at RCAP 21, 2015 at 1:37 PMHi Red, I'm loving all your recent posts, so thanks so much for taking the time to write them! I was wondering whether you had any plans to continue this series about method (particularly re where you find ideas); it's especially useful for us younger and relatively more inexperienced investors out there (in a teach a man to fish sort of way). I of course understand if you're too busy/prefer the specific writeups so you can get feedback on your ideas, but just thought I'd ask. ReplyDeletered.February 21, 2015 at 1:58 PMI will, Toby. I'm trying to keep a balance between writing up ideas and writing about method. I suspect it'll take me three or four weeks to finish the remaining chapters of the method series. There's a also a series on business models I need to finish.Thanks for the prod & for having been 22, 2015 at 2:24 PMThanks Red! I hadn't actually noticed the business model series, but it looks fascinating too. 24, 2015 at 11:21 AMHey red I looked at Texhong and Future bright, and what I noticed is that they were so cheap on an price earnings basis. They kept growing earnings and returning capital, but between 2005 and 2010 it seems as if the market did not really care. Seems like those Chinese only look at dividend yield? It seems to have traded no higher then 7-8x earnings, and often at 3-5x earnings, despite rapidly growing. ReplyDeletered.February 24, 2015 at 11:32 AMAsian markets look at NPV of dividend stream, yes. Plus, (1) if it pays out less than 20% of earnings it will trade at a heavy discount to NPV of dividends (2) if it pays out > 50% it will trade at a premium to NPV of dividends.I understand it; it's an entirely reasonable means of accounting for the uncertainty and risk inherent to equities. ReplyDeleteBarryMarch 1, 2015 at 12:24 PMInteresting discussion on premium vs. discounted NPV of dividends in Asia...how do you view a stock like Pico Far East (752 HK)? Trades at 6-7x EV/NOPAT, pays out 50-60% as dividends, and growing at 9-10% per year. Seems like no premium?Also, really enjoy the posts on investment process / strategy in addition to individual write-ups. Keep it up!ReplyDeletered.March 1, 2015 at 12:35 PMRight, one would look at PICO and 70% payout on trailing $0.15 in earnings = $0.10 dividend and 5% payout = $2/share.No traling 5 year growth, really, so you'd expect a 6% or 7% yield other things being equal. So there's some premium there and that's due entirely to the quality of Pico's mgmt and it's outlook as it transitions into an Asia-wide business.Good deal if you could pick it up at $1.20 to $1.40 per 7, 2015 at 4:33 PMRed how do you take into account overall China happens in the case of a revolution with companies like keck seng and texhong? So not some property bubble, but full blown political 7, 2015 at 5:16 PMAllthough some of the arguments in that argument are rather weak, I have to admit. ReplyDeletePeterApril 21, 2016 at 5:04 PMHey red,Any plans to continue this series? I don't think I've seen anything come out on it since this post but might've missed something. Would be really interested in hearing more about your process, especially the idea sourcing 22, 2016 at 10:16 AMWill do, Peter. Sorry it's taken me so long to figure out what to say and how to say it. The blog will be 4 years old in July so I'll write it up at that time and in that context.DeletePeterApril 25, 2016 at 9:43 AMGlad to hear it! Looking forward to 16, 2016 at 9:13 AMAlso would like to heard how you managed to keep up with everything. Most of us has a full time job and other responsibilities. It's mindblowing that you research and followup so much for stocks in your watch list. DeleteReplyyingNovember 1, 2016 at 9:18 AMHi Red, any follow-up on the series? Would it be possible to write a little bit about the difference between your method vs warren's method, in terms of valuation, moat, etc? I learned a lot from your blog. Very much appreciated. ReplyDeleteAdd commentLoad more...

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The crew figures are from GHQ, and I suspect they're going to be too tall for the guns (as GHQ infantry are wont to be). I'd rather be using Heroics & Ros figures really, in spite of the lower level of detail, but they're taking a very long time about fulfilling orders these days and I don't want to wait another six weeks to get the bases done. Something I realised when I was gluing the guns down is that there's no actual gunner. He should be sitting on the seat on the left of the gun, crouched over the sights — I think I might have to revisit the file and add one. I'm using 25x25mm bases (cut down from old credit cards and the like), which would make the standard 8-man crew a bit crowded. However, the official "low establishment" crew was only four, so I've got a bit of leeway. Couple of days later I've finished painting and basing the guns and limbers. As I suspected, the GHQ crew are a bit too tall, but they'll just have to do. I'll probably glue some magnetic sheet underneath the plastic bases at some stage. Considering the size of games we're usually playing, it's unlikely I'll ever need to field a whole twelve-gun battery, but if I need to, I now can. There's a comfort in that.

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Category: Blog BlackBerry Curve 8900 makes BlackBerry platform with 512 MHz processor while Nokia E72 works on Symbian getting.3 operating system with series S60 3.2 edition software and ARM 11 600 MHz processor. QWERTY keyboard is the common feature carried by these widgets.Blackberry has designed its phone with to.4 inches TFT LCD screen that can display 65k colours with 480 x 360 Pixels rez. It measures 109 x 60 x 13.5 mm and weighs 110 grams. On the contrary, Nokia has designed its device with operates 2.4 inches TFT screen but this particular resolution is 320 x 240 Pixels and an excellent 16 Million colours. It carries 128 grams and casing measures 114 x 58 x 10 millimeter.Easy When considering phone insurance . You do not have to be able to worried about the car dying on you while a person driving. Plus it does not take much try to take short drives.Vivaz contains an internal memory of 75 MB. The memory could enhanced through a Micro SD card for that your slot is there in the phone. Memory can be extended up to 16 Gigabytes. A 8 GB card is protected in buy of the handset.Overall, Blackberry Q10 contracts are really. This astonishing device is also packed with rear-facing 8-megapixel digital camera that features auto-focus, LED flash, geo-tagging, image stabilization, and face detection. Users can also shoot videos at 1080p from this snapper. Front-facing 2MP camera is also perfect for video labeling. Phone delivers great, fast and smooth performance, thanks to dual-core a person particular.5GHz Cortex-A9 processor. It is essential to achieve greatest device at and once because there are various quad-core devices also easily available. But, it is great when comparing it along with other blackberry units. Powerful Li-Ion 2100mAh battery looks perfect and gives good talk and standby time. Overall, this phone is getting mix reactions of buyers.One on the sites was very odd. They asked for my own engagement ring mobile number if they were to supply the details with the number that i wanted. I never give out my cell number, because I know it's like inviting most of trouble (telemarketers and identity thieves), so A single thing. However, I put in a fake number figure out what happens next, chances are they asked me for my name and address. I don't want to refer to this as a 'Phishing' website, nevertheless know that's what these sites do in the process. Get your personal information and then ultimately they rob you.And this thus brings us to selecting your network service or tariff. There are many in order to consider as expected but most will boil in order to How and where will you utilize your mobile phone each year? When you have the answer to that question, a new decision process over your tariff plan would come in a lot simpler. If anything, could to that question will allow you see whether you should pick a network tariff which includes free minutes or free texts or both.It offers several data transfer and connectivity options. This GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 compatible phone supports Class 10 GPRS along with Class 10 EDGE. In order to connect the phone to another compatible device, the users have two options at hand, how they can choose from, dependent on the qualification. These are v2.1 Bluetooth with A2DP and v2.0 Usb. For surfing the world wide web, this you with a WAP several.0 browser that supports HTML and xHTML. Report this page

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(Also known as Primary Care Physician) Progression Testimonial A GP, or General Practitioner, is a medical doctor who diagnoses, treats and refers patients suffering from a range of illnesses. A GP is the vital first point of contact for anyone suffering from an illness, except in immediately serious cases where a patient will go directly to hospital. GPs diagnose and treat diseases, sometimes referring the patient on to other specialists. As such, GPs must have a very broad medical knowledge. GPs use a range of specialist equipment including a number of diagnostic devices to investigate the ear cavities, the nose and the eyes, and a stethoscope to hear the heartbeat. Salary Remuneration for qualified GPs is comparatively high. The biggest salaries are earned by those who go into business as owners of their own practice. A qualified doctor working through their GP foundation year can expect to earn up to £40,000 + per annum. A qualified GP employed by a practice is likely to earn between £40,000 and £80,000 per annum. A GP who owns or part-owns their own practice can earn up to £120,000 per annum. Responsibilities A GP sees patients in a number of different ways, including on an appointment basis, in drop-in clinics and by making home visits to those considered too infirm to travel. A GP has a great deal of responsibility as it is down to them to diagnose and treat a large number of ailments. Their main responsibilities are as follows: Meet patients and make a diagnosis based on symptoms, case history and patient feedback. Prescribe medicines to treat specific conditions. Administer general health and lifestyle advice to prevent illness and/or speed recovery. Recommend and refer patients for further tests or treatment with other specialists for conditions that are not treatable by a GP. Administrative duties such as writing sick notes, updating patient records and writing referrals. Qualifications Becoming a GP in the UK takes a minimum of 10 years, which is comprised of five years studying medicine at medical school and five years on-the-job training. In order to qualify for medical school, high results in at least five GCSEs are required, as well as a minimum of three A-levels at grades AAB including maths and other science subjects. Competition for places at medical school is generally high, and prospective students must demonstrate a high level of academic ability. Graduates of medical school are then required to work in an NHS general hospital for two years, where they are exposed to a number of different medical specialities. Once this period is complete, recent graduates must then choose a speciality. In the case of deciding to become a GP the graduate must undertake to study 'Specialist Training in General Practice' which takes around three years to complete. Here the trainee will rotate through a number of specialist areas such as paediatrics, psychiatry, GUM (Genito Urinary Medicine) and general medicine, as well as working as an NHS registrar for 12 months. During this period frequent assessments are undertaken, which will eventually lead to the CCT (Completion of Training) being awarded. It is then possible to join the General Medical Councils GP register and practice as an independent doctor. All GPs are required to further their skills throughout their careers by completing specialist courses and keeping up-to-date on developments in medicine. Skills Working as a GP is a challenging and rewarding role, and is suited only to high academic achievers who also have good social skills. Other essential skills include: An excellent long-term factual memory. An ability to analyse complex problems. A natural empathy and a desire to help people. Patience. The ability to work under extreme pressure in less than ideal circumstances. Confidence when making tough decisions. High levels of numeracy and mathematical ability. Working Conditions As it is geared towards making the general public feel at ease, a GP's surgery is a clean, calm and comfortable place to work. Hours are usually from 9am to 5pm, although they may be later in order to accommodate people visiting the practice after work. GPs use some practical equipment such as blood pressure sphygmamometers, auroscopes (for ear exams) and ophthalmoscopes (for eye examinations). With a high volume of patients to see, each with a completely new set of problems and circumstances, a GP's job can be both mentally and emotionally stressful. Generally speaking, a GP's surgery is busy and the workload is high. Experience GPs gain most of the clinical experience they need whilst as undergraduate and then postgraduate medical students. Useful experience could also be gained by getting involved in medical or community rebuilding charity work schemes in disadvantaged areas of the UK or the rest of the world. Employers A GP's main employer is the NHS. Although GPs can go into private medical practice, they must have initially worked for the NHS as a GP for one year and as a medical house officer for three. In addition to working from a private practice, GPs may be based in hospital drop-in clinics, stationed with the armed forces or working within local communities on a visiting basis. Career Progression In order to reach the upper echelon of salaries, a GP needs to own or part-own their own practice which is generally the aim for most. However, experienced GPs may also move into advisory roles for pharmaceutical companies or hospitals. Michelle Mckeown, 32 years old, has been working as a GP in Edinburgh for three years. Before qualifying as a GP she worked in various hospital jobs throughout Glasgow and Edinburgh. Michelle, can you describe to us a typical day in the life of a GP. I go in at 8.15am and I do paperwork until 9am. From 9am until 10.30am I see patients in an open-access clinic, then I have a tea break for fifteen minutes or so. From 11am until 12pm I see more patients, and then from 12pm until 2pm I do house calls, which usually involves seeing one or two people who are too ill to come into the surgery. Up until 4pm I have an afternoon surgery in the same clinic. From 4.30pm until 5.30pm I do paperwork and any referrals, which means speaking to any other specialist that I might need to. I may need to call patients back if abnormal results show up in their tests and that's it. Very busy! What do you like about being a GP? It's very flexible as regards time. For example, I have decided to work a four-day week. If I wanted to I could take a pay cut and take less, or work more and get more money. I like the fact that you have a set amount of work to get through for the day, so your day is finished when you go home and there's nothing hanging over you. I like that you get to interact with lots of different people. I may see about thirty patients a day. After a while you get to build a relationship with patients over time. Is there anything you don't like about being a GP? Personally I dislike time wasters and hypochondriacs. Most of all I don't like working within the financial constraints of the NHS, having to make a clinical decision which is based on the financial resources available. What advice would you give to someone thinking about becoming a GP? As a GP Locum you can travel all around the world and throughout the UK, for several years if you like. The exorbitant GP salaries you hear about in the newspapers refer in general to rich partnerships, so don’t be misled by promises of sky-high salaries. Perhaps the most important thing to remember if you ever become a GP is to treat a person holistically. You often have to look at a person's whole life to get a complete answer to their problems. Where do you see yourself going on from here career wise? The next logical step would be to buy into a partnership where you are equal members of a business and you part-own the business and the premises.

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News on the recently-passed Farm Bill is a mixed bag for conservation. See a good summary at the American Bird Conservancy page on this topic, here.Highlights from the Farm Bill include: "The Farm Bill reauthorization will provide $4 billion more for conservation over ten years. This will be split among current programs, fund a new program to pay farmers to conserve wetlands, and add new incentives for endangered species habitat improvement, conservation easements, and forest conservation. The Bill reauthorizes the important Grassland Reserve Program, and expands the popular Conservation Stewardship Program to 80 million acres from the current 16 about wetland conservation at the site of Wetlands International, range of arctic conservation issues are described at WWF's page on this topic - here.

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You know you’re in the West Country [UK] when you can browse the magazine shelf at the local filling [gas] station and study titles like Practical Tractor, Tractor Monthly, My Tractor, or perhaps Truly Tantalising Tractor Tales, even Tractor Attractor (all right, so I may have made up a couple of those), and all the aforementioned carry full-colour photographs on their covers of Massey Fergusons or John Deeres enough to have a rustics mouth salivating in seconds. I was waiting for the bloke to deal with the paperwork for my hire car. He was still on the blower. A few years ago I made the cardinal error of booking a hire car over the internet before leaving Greece with an apparently multi-national and therefore one would have thought reputable company, only to find having taken a half-hour bus ride into Bath, followed by a walk of about the same time to arrive it the company’s office and be told by the butter-wouldn’t-melt girl behind the desk that I’d of course be wanting the extra £85 worth of insurance cover wouldn’t I. Read more here

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I think... I'm afraid to blog. I'm not sure why. I've had a bit more free time, I have pictures that I can upload... I just haven't. It's strange really. I get a thought in my head that I should write a post, come to the computer, and just decide I'm too busy. Or that I'll do it later, soon, this weekend, tomorrow. I've also been pulling away from Twitter, Facebook, and even Ravelry. Maybe I just spend too much time on computers daily. On the bright side though, I have had more time to knit. I will reveal my swap partner project soon as it has been received (and loved!) Right now I am resting my Moss and Bluebells scarf and working on the ABABA scarf using a Zauberball. I'm loving the color changes!

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We can write a long article about how beautiful and vibrant Kwa-Zulu Natal is, and all the things that make it so wonderful. But, let’s be honest here, half of us don’t read that stuff, and the other half probably don’t believe the things those articles say anyway. Enter Hotspot KZN! This website has been created to give you the facts, plain and simple, so you can decide whether these places are worth visiting. No fluff, less fuss, and even better tons of pictures!

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Oh my goodness! That song is awesome - I've never heard it! Thank you so much for posting. It conveys exactly my thoughts too! God bless November 30, 2007 at 9:36 AM Joy said... AMEN!!! Merry Christmas November 30, 2007 at 3:15 PM Pam said... This is soooo awesome! Thank you soooo much for posting this. I can never listen to this too often. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

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-- Main Menu --Interior Design PortfolioVermont Interior Design ServicesAbout the Furniture Home / gift shopping Tender, Sweet and Useful – Handmade Jewelry Boxes By Helene Craft on February 29, 2012 in Art Jewelry, Gifts for Special Occasions, Stowe Craft Gallery, Unique Gifts tags: fine art, gift shopping, handmade jewelry boxes | Leave a Comment Women love pretty little things, especially jewelry. Stunning pieces of jewelry make the most marvelous accessories to complete one’s look. You can’t help but admire a woman who looks beautiful and classy wearing pieces that complement her clothing. To ensure that no harm comes to these striking pieces of art, it’s important that they’re kept in a safe place. You want to make sure that your jewelries are protected so they don’t get any scratches, bumps or bruises. This is why jewelry boxes were invented. At Stowecraft’s, we don’t carry your typical jewelry box. Ours are handmade wood jewelry boxes, beautifully crafted and stunningly made. The exteriors are classic in appearance while the interiors are wonderfully etched to make the perfect bed for your jewels. With fabric lines that are thick and soft, these jewelry boxes ensure that each piece of your jewelry stands alone so that it won’t hit or scratch another piece. Our jewelry boxes make a beautiful gift. They are wonderful to behold, and would make a great heirloom to be passed on to succeeding generations. High quality and exquisitely made, you can ensure that your jewelries will be safely cocooned within it, free from any harm or danger. The Perfect Valentine’s Day Gift By Helene Craft on February 29, 2012 in Art Jewelry, Gifts for Special Occasions, Shopping in Vermont, Unique Gifts tags: dana kellin jewelry, gift shopping, valentine's gift | Leave a Comment With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, have you picked out a gift for your sweetheart yet? At Stowecraft, we carry so many unique and stunning works of art that it can be difficult to choose the perfect gift for Valentine’s Day. If you’re running out of ideas, here are some suggestions… For Women You can never go wrong with giving jewelry, and we carry some of the most beautiful pieces of handmade jewelry that can be found in the US. Dana Kellin is a popular choice, as her pieces are stylish, modern and timeless. From classy necklaces to sophisticated earrings, your chosen valentine will definitely appreciate receiving these jewelry. Or if you want something more dramatic, a piece from Ed Levin Jewelrymay do the trick. Colorful gemstones are the hallmark of these pieces, set in white and yellow gold. Here’s a stunning Ruby Lighthouse Lens Cut Ring… Another gift option that your sweetheart can definitely appreciate is a classic, wooden, handmade jewelry box. Our jewelry boxes are a wonder to behold, and she will enjoy the craftsmanship of these pieces and how each has been lovingly made. For Men Choosing a gift for your man can be a bit tricky, but here at Stowecraft, we carry a wide array of potential gifts for men. A wine caddy can make an excellent gift (make sure to include the wine when you give it). You will enjoy browsing through the amusing and striking wine caddy sculptures that we carry – make sure to choose one that’s significant to the one you’re giving it to. We also carry unique jewelry that your man can surely appreciate. Sergio Lub Copper Bracelets, for example, are handmade and wonderfully made, and you also get the added benefit of them being good for one’s health. Copper is said to treat inflammation and improve circulation, and your sweetheart will be appreciative of the fact that you’re thinking of his health as well. You can definitely find the perfect Valentine’s Gift here at Stowecraft. So browse around, and find something unique for the person you love. The Timeless Elegance of Simon Pearce Glassware By Helene Craft on February 29, 2012 in Gifts for Special Occasions, Stowe Craft Gallery tags: dining accessories, gift shopping, kitchen accessories, simon pearce glassware | Leave a Comment Nothing signifies elegance more than using classic glassware in your dining room and kitchen. Glass is so wonderful to behold – delicate yet sturdy; can easily break, but can also last a very long time if taken care of properly. Simon Pearce Glass is the best known glass blower in Vermont. Each piece is delicately crafted using brilliant, crystal clear glass. Simon Pearce Glassware make wonderful home accessories as well as delightful gifts. Any homeowner will appreciate how these dining and kitchen pieces are so unique and beautifully made. Here at Stowecraft, we carry their serving bowls, candlesticks, pitchers, vases, and stem barware. 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Neue Weltumfassende Resistance was founded in 2004 by Gabi Delgado (Daf) and Marc Hurtado (Etant Donnés, Sol Ixent). They work during one year for recording their first record finalized in Berlin in September 2005. This particular work is based in the exchange of electronic music and poetry between Marc Hurtado and Gabi Delgado, a kind of 360 ° movie very fast filmed in the travel Paris-Berlin going and return. Putting the emphasis in the meeting /combat between two persons using subliminal effects, one give music the other put words on it and vice versa. A movement of resistance to be totally free in the organisation of the creation, the idea is to extend this movement to other artists and to found a kind of alliance for the people who work with poetry and electronic in all kind of media. + info ...

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Jack-O-Lantern ContestThursday, October 30th5:00-6:00pmWeather permittingThis October in celebration of All Hallows’ Eve the Dedee Shattuck Gallery will be hosting a Jack-O-Lantern Contest. All are welcome to submit a carved pumpkin to the gallery on Wednesday October 29th from 10-5pm. Whether elegantly carved with patterns of swirly snowflakes or with a freighting Frankensteinesque portrait, all pumpkins are welcome. On October 30th from 5-7pm pumpkins will be illuminated outside in the Dedee Shattuck Gallery sculpture garden. During that time pumpkin carvers, friends, and family are invited to vote for their favorite pumpkin. At the end of the evening, all votes will be cast and counted, the winner will receive a special prize. Pumpkins can be submitted to the Dedee Shattuck Gallery at 1 Partners’ Lane, Westport, MA 02719, during open hours 10:00-5:00pm beginning Wednesday October 29th. Pumpkins must be carved before submitting and have a sufficient opening to insert a tea candle to be submitted. Back to Top

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musings from Sadie while working with OurGreatestTeam at astronomy outreach and public engagement events. The SotonAstrodome is the planetarium that started it all, explore the astrophysics of the Universe with us! Pages Home About The Website Wednesday, 12 November 2014 Rosetta and Philae #CometLanding The Philae Lander has left the Rosetta spacecraft and is moving at normal walking place to the comet right now. It should,we hope, touch down successfully on Comet 67P Churyumov- Gerasimenko at 335pm today – however, because we on Earth are 300 million miles away from the comet we won't receive the signal from the lander till 4pm. NASA and ESA are live streaming the mission control room. The controllers received radio contact with Philae at 11am today – and at 125pm today they have said that they have received pictures from it on its descent and have all the data they were expecting at this stage. The surface of the comet is unknown it could be anything from rock hard to powder soft. Why this mission is important? Well firstly, if successful, this will be the first ever soft landing of a robotic probe on a comet. Past exploration has only involved flying past comets and taking pictures so actually landing on one will be an amazing achievement given its equivalent to transferring an object from one speeding bullet to another. It's going to require some incredible parking skills that's for sure! The comet is moving at 33,000 mph and it's gravity is 100,000 times weaker than Earth's, because of this lack of gravity this means that the Philae probe will have to attach itself firmly to the comet on impact. The probe will need to use landing leg screws and 2 harpoons to lock onto the surface and not bounce back into space! It also has some thrusters to stop it rebounding but whether they are working can not be confirmed. Even if the landing attempt should fail, all is not lost however, as Rosetta has been taken many pictures and measurements of the comet in recent weeks and all this new data on comet is new science! What do we hope to find? Comets are bits of rock and ice left over from the creation of our solar system 4.5 billion years ago. They are literally bits of the past that have been frozen in time. So understanding what they are made of is important. There are also some scientific theories that comets may have played a part seeding the Earth with water and the other basic ingredients for life and all the science data from this mission will help to understand these theories. What the lander will do on the comet? If the Philae probe successfully attaches to the surface then it will begin a series of experiments to analyse the composition and structure of the comet. It will drill into the soil, take pictures with its onboard cameras and detect a radar signal sent through the comet from Rosetta.

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The feelings...they're all coming back to me. After some time. But why now?? When I'm almost gotten over him completely..and here they come again. I wonder...when we were 16, you did talk to me, but I couldn't catch a thing, because you're not even facing me. I..I..had never understood anything you tried to talk to me, because to me, it sounded that you're mumbling. When we were 17, you had the first sneak peek of our class's Biology mark. You came to me only to tell me about my marks. And I said thanks. Now that I'm trying to gather all the memories, I realise, they aren't many of them tho. [I was backing away from the so-called friendship, because I knew very well, I would simply ruin another friendship.] [I convinced myself that everything you did to me, you just did the same to other girls. In a much better way.] [I fought with you through the phone because I needed to hide my nervous voice.] [I kept telling myself at that time, Shim Changmin was my ultimate soulmate, that's why my blog entries were all about him back then.] [I even made Shim Changmin as my imaginary friend, because that's the only way to keep myself away from you.] [I deleted your phone number, your messages in my inbox, just to forget you.] [I tried so hard to have a crush on my classmates, just because I wanted to avoid you, only to find out that the features my crushes had, were all reminding me back to you.] But why I can't just get over you...why do you keep coming back into my life in such an unexpected way...??? I really wish we had stayed they way we were back in high school. It's such a regret I chose to converse with you through YM, only to see myself being like this. It's a mistake.. I hate you..I hope I would forget you completely. I wonder once in a while, do you ever remember anything..have you ever felt the same thing as I always have.. I guess, the answer is NO. F says : I blame that specific chapter of the novel for making me like this.Thanks, Dorothy Koomson. Posted by fikah © at 6:55 AM Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest 3 comments: Sarah Kushairi said... Yeah! I've read the book.The ending is quite sad! I want them to be together! :(As for you, yeah I know it's hard to forget your first crush. But bear this in mind, once you've found someone who's really meant for you, you would forget almost everything about your 1st crush. Hehe. Gaya mcm ada experience pulak, LOL.

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Old Hall Caravan Park is one of the most peaceful caravan sites in the North West of England, and has received numerous accolades, including a 5-star rating from Visit England, and approval from the NCC (National Caravan Council), the AA and the British Holiday Home Parks Association. The park is ideally situated in the quiet hamlet of Capernwray, in Lancashire, and has received the David Bellamy Conservation Award for protecting and enhancing the natural environment of Britain, so you can rest assured of a stay in a fantastic location. Not only is it minutes away from the M6, but it’s just two miles from the village of Over Kellet and three miles from the market town of Carnforth, as well as being within easy distance of Lancaster. In addition, our caravan park is near the Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales, as well as charming local towns such as Kirkby Lonsdale and Ambleside, making it your perfect base for exploring everything that the region has to offer. A Beautiful Caravan Park in Easy Access of Lancaster & The Lake District Located within seventy acres of stunning private woodland, we offer a serene and secure environment to relax in during your holidays. Old Hall’s location offers fantastic views and all of the privacy you need to unwind in the Lancashire countryside. You can benefit from local amenities whilst also experiencing the tranquillity you need to make the most of your time away. At Old Hall, we don’t just offer holiday homes; we also have a fantastic touring caravan site, open to both short stay tourers and seasonal caravan owners, depending on the time of year. Regardless of your holiday preference for a caravan site, our first-class facilities – such as our laundrette, electricity and TV hook up and fast Wi-Fi – provide that little bit of extra comfort. Our woodland walks are a great option if you don’t feel like straying too far as well! We even have a play area for the children, so why not check our rates and availability? Book Your Stay With Us Now Contact us today to enquire about availability. We are always happy to answer any queries you may have. We are extremely proud of our park, so why not have a look at what some of our customers have said, and then make your plans to come and visit us? We hope to see you very soon at Old Hall Caravan Park. New & pre-owned holiday homes for sale 2009 Carnaby Ridgeway POA Pre-owned holiday home EXPLORE THIS HOLIDAY HOME 2016 Atlas Status £44,585 NOW £38,000 New Holiday home EXPLORE THIS HOLIDAY HOME 2017 ABI Clarendon £44,497 New Holiday home EXPLORE THIS HOLIDAY HOME COMING SOON: 2017 Victory Echo £35,838 New Holiday home EXPLORE THIS HOLIDAY HOME 2017 Carnaby Lifestyle £41,128 New Holiday home EXPLORE THIS HOLIDAY HOME COMING SOON: 2017 Pemberton Rivington £51,084 New Holiday home EXPLORE THIS HOLIDAY HOME COMING SOON: 2017 Willerby Sheraton £50,581 New Holiday home EXPLORE THIS HOLIDAY HOME 70 acres of woodland, designated walks & total tranquillity [video_lightbox_youtube video_id="wjqicdH8oqc" width="640" height="480" anchor="TAKE A VIDEO TOUR"] Get in touch Our friendly staff are here to help you with queries, just fill in the form, below, and we'll be in touch. Latest news, tips, recipes & more May 24th Summertime Water Activities READ MORE May 15th What Are the Top Things to Do in Carnforth This Summer? READ MORE May 8th Kendal Events in May READ MORE Sitemap Home About Access Statement Holiday Homes Tourers What to See & Do Contact Contact Us OLD HALL CARAVAN PARK, CAPERNWRAY, CARNFORTH, LANCASHIRE, LA6 1AD | +44 (0)1524 733276 |

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This Sunday, it's all about the number-one woman in your life. She cleaned up after you, dried your tears, and is still your biggest fan — so doesn't she deserve to be pampered a little bit? We've rounded up a few gifts to give Mom the A-list treatment. All that's left for you to do is sign the card. Source: Flickr user seanmcgrath Shop Brands Viktor & Rolf · Bobbi Brown A Manicure Must Give Mom a hand with Chanel's Body Excellence hand cream ($48). Not only does the moisturizing formula have a pleasantly fresh scent, it also includes licorice extract to reduce dark spots. Body Excellence hand cream $48 from Buy Now Garden Greats Inspired by a Gucci floral print originally designed for Grace Kelly, these new Flora Garden fragrances ($70–$100) are like a bouquet in a bottle. All are lovely and nuanced, but Gorgeous Gardenia is a can't-miss choice. Plus, with names that incorporate the most complimentary of words — gracious, generous, gorgeous, glamorous, and glorious — there's something to describe Mom as well. Flora Garden fragrances $70 from Buy Now Petal Perfection How elegant is Jason Wu's orchid-scented candle ($48)? Adorned with a floral print from the designer's Spring 2012 collection, the porcelain container is so pretty, so feminine. Jason Wu's orchid-scented candle $48 from Buy Now Phenomenal Women For a coffee-table book she'll actually want to read, pick up Pioneers of the Possible ($45). Writer Angella Nazarian combines gorgeous photography with thoughtful profiles of visionary women ranging from Ella Fitzgerald to Estée Lauder. If your mother ever encouraged you to attempt the impossible, it's a perfect fit. Pioneers of the Possible $45 from Buy Now Bright Buy For a gift that looks more expensive than it really is, pick up this Sonia Kashuk cosmetic bag ($10). Toss in a lipstick or two, and you're good to go. Sonia Kashuk cosmetic bag $10 from Buy Now Bathing Beauty Especially for a busy mom, there's nothing more luxurious than a long bath. So help her indulge in some child-free spa time with these Viktor & Rolf Flowerbomb perfumed bath pearls ($65). The pretty jar is a beautiful ornament for any tub. Viktor & Rolf Flowerbomb Perfumed Bath Pearls $65 from Bergdorf Goodman Buy Now See more Viktor & Rolf Body Cleansers Pink and Green If Mom is a makeup maven, this lip and cheek trio from Tarte ($42) is sure to delight. The pink shades are so easy to wear, and the floral packaging is simply feminine. Sephora Lipstick Gifts From The Lipstick Tree Achiote Color Collection $71 from Sephora Buy Now See more Sephora Lipstick The Eyes Have It Go for the (rose) gold with this Bobbi Brown eye makeup set ($85). The shadow, mascara, and liner will last through tears and giggles alike. Bobbi Brown Exclusive Rose Gold Set $85 from Bergdorf Goodman Buy Now See more Bobbi Brown Makeup Sets The Fits-Everyone Gift It's hard to go wrong with a gift certificate for a spa or salon. Need a little direction? Spafinder offers electronic and paper gift certificates good at spas around the country, and Drybar allows Mom to be pampered with a blowout ($35). A Little Aromatherapy Ideal for a mother who needs a little bit of serenity now, June Jacobs's citrus and bergamot gift set ($100) pairs a room spray with a scented soy candle. That might sound ho-hum, but the fragrance — a warm citrus with accents of honey and vanilla — is anything but. citrus and bergamot gift set $100 from Buy Now Face Facts If you can't take Mom to the spa, bring the spa to her with these SK-II cotton masks ($90/set of six). A favorite of Cate Blanchett, the masks are infused with Pitera, a blend of acids, minerals, and proteins. The impressive result — hydrated, dewy, glowing skin — might be as good as a day with a facialist.

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Laser alignment is a tool use to align machinery to improve overall performance. A machine not aligned correctly can cause problems from minor issues and repairs to serious problems, which can cost you money in the long run. As with any company, you want to save money wherever possible, so paying for laser alignment or carrying out this alignment in house is the only way to ensure your machinery runs at its best on a daily basis. Laser alignment uses a laser to identify where the alignment is needed with complete accuracy. There are many benefits that you will find when taking advantage of this type of machinery or service. One of the main benefits to effective laser alignment is you will notice an improvement in your power consumption. When your machinery is misaligned, it works harder, putting undue wear and tear on the machinery. The harder the machine works the more power it uses. This costs you money in the long run, but when you choose to have alignment done, you will notice that the machinery starts to use less power, enabling you to control your consumption moving forward. Another benefit to laser alignment is that you will reduce unnecessary wear and tear on bearings and seals. In the event you have a machine which requires you changing the bearings and seals every couple of months, then it’s time to consider alignment of the machinery. Once you have carried out the alignment, you will notice that the smaller operating parts start to wear slower, so you will save money by only having to replace seals and bearings every six months, a year and in some cases, even longer. Most companies these days choose laser alignment over the more traditional forms of alignment due to it being so easy to use. Whether you call in a service or you purchase the laser alignment tools, you will find that the process can be carried out quickly and with complete accuracy time and time again. The final benefit you will enjoy knowing when it comes to laser alignment is the reliability of the equipment. You can count on this equipment to provide you with accurate results at all times. This can give you complete peace of mind when carrying out alignment on your machinery, knowing with complete confidence that you will have a well performing machine moving forward. It is imperative when choosing a company to carry out your laser alignment service, that you choose a company with a wealth of industry experience that you know you can rely on and trust. Do your research and identify the company’s you feel will provide you with the best level of service and support. You will want to compare the companies against each other to leave you with a short list of companies that have experienced technicians who will carry out the laser alignment with ease and confidence, leaving you with a machine that is performing well and that you know will reduce your power consumption and reduce the wear and tear on bearings and seals in the future. Ensure you make sure that any companies you are looking at have a stellar reputation in the industry. The best way to do this is to conduct your own research, speak to other companies that use laser alignment services and find companies that come with good reputations and top customer reviews. The final consideration when choosing laser alignment specialists is to identify the price to see what is going to work best within your budget. Source by Pete Beaumont tech guru · tech news · techcrunch · techfest · techgig · technology Previous Article Supercharger Calculators Explained Next Article What Is The Spirit Of Perversion? Related Articles & Comments

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Juanita F. Bridges, Daniel Brignac, Sequria Thomas, Carmen Kent, Marilyn Ogbuli, Jeanne Draper, Helen Rasumssen, Akane Daniels, Darlene Cook, Caroline Chartier, Lauren Brewer, Hani MesakMed Sci Monit 2012; 18(12): CR693-697 DOI: 10.12659/MSM.883594Published: 2012-12-01 Background: The primary objective of our study is to compare HgA1C to self monitoring frequency in diabetes subjects. A secondary objective is to evaluate the influence of family support and gender on glucose monitoring frequency and HgA1C. Material/Methods: We studied the glucose monitoring frequency and HgA1c outcome of 67 subjects treated with diet alone, 350 subjects treated with tablets, 155 subjects treated with insulin, and 228 subjects treated with both tablets and insulin. Results: Eleven percent of the subjects monitoring 4–7 times per week produced a positive significant coefficient (p&lt;.05). Self monitoring less than 4 times per week showed no statistical significance and self monitoring more than 8 times per week showed no statistical significance. Forty-eight percent of subjects treating with insulin alone and tablet plus insulin produced positive significant coefficients (p&lt;.05). The percentage lowering of HgA1C of tablet plus insulin is 15.64% as the mean HgA1C at the first visit was 9.35 compared to 7.89. The percentage lowering of HgA1C for insulin alone was 12.24% as the mean HgA1C at the first visit was 9.37 compared to 8.23 at the later visit. Conclusions: We conclude that (1) frequency of self monitoring should be based on individualized goals and willingness to participate, (2) both insulin alone and tablet plus insulin levels of medication are effective at lowering HgA1C levels; however, using the tablet and insulin combined produced lower HgA1C levels than using insulin alone; (3) family support and gender have no effect on glucose monitoring frequency and lowering HgA1C levels. Keywords: Humans, Insulin - therapeutic use, Hemoglobin A, Glycosylated - metabolism, Female, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 - drug therapy, Blood Glucose Self-Monitoring, Linear Models, Male Full Text Order reprints Export Article

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Just bought a new butz choquin mayflower and was wondering if anyone has experience with these pipes and if so what do you think of them? ryan65, Jan 4, 2011 #1 jpberg Moderator Moderator Joined: Feb 9, 2010 Messages: 11,080 I've had probably a dozen of them over the years. Overall, they end up in the less than stellar catagory - maybe two were really good pipes. Did you pick it up in person? If you got to inspect it, you probably didn't get a dud, but drilling and fitment were issues in most of mine. Good Luck. jpberg, Jan 4, 2011 #2 ryan65 Member Joined: Jun 5, 2010 Messages: 637 Im smoking it now and it seems fine so far, i did inspect it before buying and the drilling wasnt off center. I guess i will get a better feel for it once its broken in ryan65, Jan 4, 2011 #3 t-bear Well-Known Member Joined: Dec 21, 2009 Messages: 5,010 BC's are decent mid-range pipes. As stated, their Q/C is a bit iffy. I've owned a few over the years...none in the collection (read "conglomeration") at the moment. t-bear, Jan 4, 2011 #4 Bri2k Active Member Joined: Mar 12, 2010 Messages: 1,484 That's some good info! Thanks, gents! I see BCs on ebay often for reasonable prices. Now I know to give them a pass unless I can see them in the flesh first. Bri2k, Jan 4, 2011 #5 ryan65 Member Joined: Jun 5, 2010 Messages: 637 Finished my second bowl of old gowerie in it and seems to be smoking quite well so im happy about the purchase. So just make sure you inspect it before buying as quality has been an issue with other members ryan65, Jan 10, 2011 #6 ryan65 Member Joined: Jun 5, 2010 Messages: 637 update: well after 30 plus smokes in this pipe, it just isn't smoking to the level that I am expecting with pipes in this price range (savi's and petes) and still gurgles towards the end of the bowl and doesn't bring out the flavor of my tobacco as it should with a nicely formed cake. so I'm putting it back in the box were it shall sit and collect dust until I figure out what to do with it. ryan65, May 15, 2011 #7 SmokeyJoe Active Member Joined: Feb 20, 2011 Messages: 4,064 That's too bad, I have several B/Cs and they all smoke just fine. The one in regular rotation is 35 years old, so perhaps the newer ones aren't made to the older standards. SmokeyJoe, May 15, 2011 #8 Marc Active Member Joined: Jan 30, 2010 Messages: 2,126 In years past I have owned a few and always thought them to be a mediocre pipe, sorry! Marc, May 15, 2011 #9 Snake permanent ankle biter Joined: Jun 13, 2010 Messages: 8,460 Good info to know for future pruchases. Snake, May 15, 2011 #10 Icepick Member Joined: Dec 25, 2010 Messages: 47 SmokeyJoe said: ↑ That's too bad, I have several B/Cs and they all smoke just fine.Click to expand... Same here. Love my French pipes. I think that with many pipe brands smokers buy the low end/cheaper pipe a brand offers and then judge the maker overall based on the experience with the lower grade pipe. Not saying that's unfair or even the case here, just something I've noticed over the years. Icepick, May 16, 2011 #11 Alejo Member Joined: May 27, 2011 Messages: 30 I probably have a dozen, there are all qualities and prices. There are B / Cs extremely good with straight grain, I have a billiard spectacular. Also I have a bulldog with a giant piece of putty. Alejo, May 27, 2011 #12 len smetona Member Joined: Oct 16, 2010 Messages: 370 I have perhaps half a doxen BCs, overall, I like then a lot. My first introduction was buying a lot of 3 pipes off ebay. A Calabach, a freehand, and a un-smoked egg. These were my first "fancy" shapes. I liked them enough to put Butz on my standard search list, and since then have bought a few more, most notable to me is a billiard style which is one of my best smoking pipes.

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By: Gamayunee Haruka, who has always been a tomboy, will become a true lady! Why? Because of Akimoto Kaito of course! With whose help? With her new friend Shizikura Chika! Who is her obstacle? Ushiko Jun! Why? How about you read and find out, ne? Rated: Fiction T - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 2 - Words: 2,852 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 2 - Updated: 4/10/2010 - Published: 4/4/2010 - id: 2792934 + - Full 3/4 1/2 Expand Tighten 1. Chapter 1 Haruka's Perspective2. Chapter 2 Puppy Love Next > He He, another story! I've recently tried to find some good shoujo anime/manga but the results were pretty... dissatisfactory. However after watching Kimi ni Todoke (God I love it so much! Best anime ever!), Kare Kano (Dammit I have to finnish it already) and Ultra Cute (Almost finnished reading it!) I had my own idea of a shoujo. This is basically my first atempt at shoujo so please be kind with me!'Okay I can do it! There's no going back now!' Haruka thought as she continued her work. 'Just a little bit and... OUCH!'"Ouch!" She let a yell as the wand poked her eye. She let the items in her hand fall down and rubed her eye as footsteps were heard outside the door. A few seconds later the door opened revealling a tall boy with hazel eyes and brown messy hair. His handsome face had a look of surprise as his taned body straighened up and looked at Haruka to see what's wrong with her."What are doing?" He asked as she continued to rub her eye stopping when the pain went away. Blushing slighty she answered in a weak voice."I... I was trying to... apply mascara...""Huh?" He asked as he went squiggly eyed and almost fell over. She blushed even more and a hand over her mouth. How she wanted to hide with that long hair of hers but the only problem was... she didn't have long hair. The bot quickly recovered before he smieked michevously."Really? What is the reason?" He asked as she blushed even more before yelling to him."N-No reason!"Miyazawa Haruka. A freshman in Tanichika High School. Brown looks complimented with light grey eyes and a nice tan. Her nice figure made her a very good looking girl and her short hair fit with her face perfectly. One word that could definitaly described her was pretty. However Haruka never had a boyfriend because she lived under only a formula and that formula was 'Me = Tomboy'. Haruka was the definition of this word but it was understandble since she grew up with five brothers as her parents were often on trips. She was the youngest in the family and a girl too making her older brothers being overprotective of her.Miyazawa Tooru. Haruka's older brother by two years. He is pretty popular in school as the sorccer team captain and because of his boyish looks. He is the most michevous of the sibilngs and loves pranking people however he is extremly protective of his little sister, a trait he shares with the rest of the males in the family. He also goes to Tanichika High School.Miyazawa Akira. Haruka's brother older with five years. He is already in college and along with the rest of the family a looker. Dark brown hair with dark eyes were a deadly weapon in his arms. He wasn't as taned as Tooru with still it was there. He is the smart one in the family and will become a lawyer once he finishes college. He is often calm and rational but will show agressivity at anything is a treath to his family.Miyazawa Yahiro. Is Haruka's 23 years old brother. Yahiro was a great artist but the biggest flirt Haruka ever saw. He would never jump a chace to flirt with any women he met and his looks weren't helping either. Brown-reddish hair with dark grey eyes were making women melt at his feet. However as much of a flirt he is Yahiro would never let Haruka had any boyfriends and set in her mind from a young that if you kiss/hug/touch a boy that isn't from your family you will die in seven days straight. Haruka, a young and clueless girl, belived him and such never had any contact with a boy outside her family.Miyazawa Ichiro. The oldest brother, Ichiro is 25 and engaged. He works at a ramen shop in Nagasaki along with his fiance. He is very friendly and smiles a lot. He is by far the nicest one in the family but like Akira develops a dark side to things he consideres dangerous. He also has the same brownish hair as the rest of the family but it goes for a more blonde shade and along with his grey-black eyes he is also quite a catch. He rarely comes home but when he does he brings lots of suvenirs.Haruka's life has always been complicated since her brother scared away any potential friend or boyfriend but she didn't see this as a bad thing. She had her family and didn't need anyone else. At least that's what she thought...It started 3 moths ago... under the cherry blossoms... her first infantuation...Akimoto Kaito. Prince of Tanichika. The most handsome boy in the school. Member of the school orchestra, playing the violin and piano. With a cool and calm attitudine Kaito was every's girls dream. And Haruka's perfect prince. She wasn't exactly sure what this feeling was but she was sure it was pretty strong. It was a feeling that made her go red when he was around. That made her heartbeat a little bit faster and left her no words.'Damn it... what do I do?' Haruka thought as she sat on her back in the bed. She stared at the celling contemplatting on what should she do to catch his attention. It was only a week ago when she found the strange need she had to catch his attention. She ignored it at first but it always poped up in her head. She didn't know what possesed her this afternoon to try make up but she had a suspicion that it had to do with this feeling. She once heard from Yahiro that boys liked girls who wore make up... maybe that's why the reason she tried. But Haruka didn't like him she was just simply infantuated with him. It was normal for her age... right?Haruka sighed. How she wished her mother was here. Maybe she knew what strange flu she had and find the cure to it. But her mother was hundreds of miles away with her father taking photografs for the magazine they worked at.Glass Kiss was one of the most popular magazine among young girls. It had fashion and love advice, a page for help and sugestions, a topic of forgein lifestyles, fashion and places and a weekly horoscope. Her parents, Michiko and Takashi, were the ones who worked on the forgein topic. Her mother would write articles and her dad would take pictures. Of course they would have to travel along the world a lot but they always came back for holidays and vacantions. They were very kind and loving and the whole family would have a great time at the gatterings.She sighed again at took the magazine that lay on the desk next to her. It was Glass Kiss. She would always get a copy of the magazine from her mother however she never paid attention to them only now. Skipping the page with fasdhion, love and forgein things she opened to the horoscope page. Looking for her sign she checked her horoscope for tomorrow.Leo: If you don't exert a little old-fashioned forget-me-not discipline on yourself, you could end up feeling like an octopus who can't remember which arm he's holding his glasses with. That is: confused!Haruka raised an eyebrow. What would that mean? Trying to find the answer to her question Haruka could feel her head boilling. Grunting she trew the magazine away before rolling on the other side and closing her eyes.'This a load of bull.' Was her last thought as she sliped away in dramland. However she couldn't get out of her that the horoscope was right of one thing. She was truly confused.Hope you liked the first chapter it's mostly introductions so... yeah. Anyways remember! Reviews are love! So share love!Alice: Is she on sugar rush again?Chris (sniker): More like on crazy rush.Me: Hey! That's mean!Sousuke: Stop it you two! It's not nice to make fun of others...Me: Aww! Thank you Sou-nii!Sousuke: No matter how crazy or stupid they are.Me: Hey!Alice: Uh Oh! They're at it again!Chris: Oh yeah! Sou-baka is getting his butt kicked!Alice: Well she is our creator... she can basically do what she wants.Chris: Who cares?! I wanna see some fighting! Oh yeah! K.O.!!Alice (sigh): Morons.

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Equipment is defined as an item with a value of $5,000 or more that has a useful life of more than one year. The cost of an item includes the cost of any expenses necessary to have the item in working order. These expenses include installation, modifications, attachments, accessories, or apparatus necessary to make it usable for the purpose acquired. If a sponsor regulation defines equipment differently or with a lower dollar threshold that definition and lower dollar threshold will apply to purchases on that specific award.The purchase requisition should provide detail such as manufacturer, model number, vendors who can supply the product and it should note any required features/specifications. The information provided on the requisition should be detailed enough to ensure that the award can be made to a vendor meeting all of the features/specifications. Once the equipment is received, a New Asset Receipt form will need to be completed and filed with the Office of Equipment Management.If older equipment is traded in when new equipment is purchased, the trade-in is to be noted on the requisition. Please note that sponsor approval may be needed prior to the trading in of any equipment. Please consult the Staff of the Office of Purchasing and Contracts prior to agreeing to trade-in equipment. The information about the trade-in must include the asset number or tag color from the item and the value of the credit. Trade-in transactions must be made directly with the provider of the goods or services being procured and cannot be deferred or credited against future transactions. The value of the trade-in cannot exceed the value of the item being purchased. State owned equipment cannot be traded in for a Research Funded purchase. Once the Office of Purchasing and Contracts receives the requisition, they will confirm all details of the transaction with the vendor and they may seek other vendors. In addition, they will notify the Office of Equipment Management of the pending transaction and the need to retire the traded in equipment from the University's Property Control System. A Property Status Change Request Form will need to be completed and filed with the Office of Equipment Management.If the equipment is purchased with state and Research funds, the equipment will become the property of the State of New York. A State purchase requisition must be submitted. The State and Research accounts must be noted on the requisition and be accompanied by the appropriate signature for the State and Research accounts. The nature of such an order requires the Office of Purchasing and Contracts to follow both State and Research procurement regulations and guidelines. A state purchase order will be issued to the vendor with the Research account being referenced. A Research Foundation purchase order is issued to the state for the Research Foundation portion of the purchase. Section .44 of the White House Office of Management and Budget Circular A-110 requires the establishment of procedures that assure the avoidance of “purchasing unnecessary items". Prior to the procurement of items in excess of $25,000, a search will be conducted of campus inventory by the Property Control Officer. The project director is responsible to ensure that purchases are appropriate and necessary to the conduct of their project. The completion of the Equipment Screening Certificate is a necessary part of the process.The Office of Purchasing and Contracts is responsible for negotiating all contracts and agreements, including equipment maintenance agreements and lease and rental agreements. Prior to the issuance of a purchase order, the Office of Purchasing and Contracts will secure all the necessary signatures. Once the agreement has been finalized the end user will receive a fully executed copy of the agreement and a copy of the purchase order.Insurance for Research Foundation and sponsor-owned equipment is available through the Research Foundation Central Office. The Research Foundation offers property insurance, project related property insurance and administrative property insurance. Information can be obtained by contacting Sponsored Funds Financial Management at 518-442-3196 or by completing and submitting to Sponsored Funds Financial Management an Equipment Floater form. University at Albany Home Page

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What little girl could refuse these miniature Barbie gems! Tiny, yet chunky, these 2 little books fit perfectly in the delightful transparent bag, giving Barbie fans all the latest advice at their fingertips. Designed for little princesses who love all things sparkly, these books are indispensable and ultimately collectable. Excellent value at only [pound]3.99!show more

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We don't have a summary for Barcelona - Bullfighting And Cathedrals yet. Hang in there, or go ahead and contribute one.

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Chet Baker: Chet Baker Sings, Plays Sated by biographer James Gavin’s gustily thorough Deep in a Dream, I need no further reminders of that swirling eddy that was Chet Baker’s self-destructiveness. Yet arrive they do in wave after wave of bootleg sessions and long-lost live recordings. The latest in this dismally freakish parade is Chet Baker Sings, Plays (HighNote), recorded just over a quarter-century ago at San Francisco’s notorious Keystone Korner but only now seeing the light of day. This four-track, 50-minute session might better be named The Ghost of Beauty Past since the hollowed-out, emasculated Baker heard here is a mere shadow of his once stunning cocksureness. I’ve always been enchanted by young Chet’s angelically atonal voice. Those, however, who agree with the way Metronome reviewer Mimi Clar maligned Baker’s “abysmal vocal deficiencies” in 1954 will be delighted to know that the Sings portion of this 1978 program, featuring Roger Rosenberg (on soprano and baritone saxes), pianist Phil Markowitz, bassist Jon Burr, drummer Jeff Brillinger and an unidentified tenor player-all of whom run musical circles around their faded leader-is limited to a 10-minute meander through “But Not for Me.” Gone is the arrogantly cosmetic wistfulness that made the ’54 original, from Chet Baker Sings, so dangerously attractive. In its place is the fallen idol’s pained acceptance of his self-prescribed wastefulness. Better is Baker’s moodily cacophonous flugelhorn lope through Richie Beirach’s “Broken Wing” and the scorching, set-closing “Blue ‘n’ Boogie” on which the likely exhausted Chet ascribes himself a tiny but impressive supporting role. Most disappointing is Baker’s lackluster treatment of “Secret Love.” Once upon a time the teasing sexual ambiguity of Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster’s Oscar-winner would have suited the dazzling young Chet as well as it did buckskin-clad Doris Day. Here it sounds neither playful nor seductive, but just plain sad.

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Since I like to keep up on current events I do my reading while eating breakfast. My mom takes too many pictures of me...give me a break! I then take the bus to work in the morning (sometimes the drop off is a little rough). I think the bus driver doesn't like me. My parents started me working a few months back because they thought I was mooching off them too much. I started a online baby chat site that actually has become very lucrative. Its called babybook. I am on the computer a lot chatting with other hot babes online. I also answer calls but sometimes I get bad connection. During the week I cook dinner a few times a week with my dad. Since I am a messy cook I prefer to be naked with only diaper and cooking gloves. It helps me focus. This is me in laughing at my parents when they say I have to go to bed. When going to bed I got in big trouble cause I got caught reading one of my moms romance novels. Do I look guilty? Hope you enjoyed my day!

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