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Cases are a particular favourite and, with so many manufacturers looking to come up with something different - and usually failing - it made a very nice change to stumble upon MiVue. The MiVue is a tough case and camera lens combination that turns your iPhone 4 or 4S into a makeshift rugged camcorder.
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Last week: 2-13-1. Season totals: 104-99-5, Pct. .512. Best Bets: 18-23-1, Pct. .440.
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Cincinnati 27, PHILADELPHIA 14 (+3) - There have been eleven games between these two teams all told - and the Bengals have covered the spread in all eleven of them! And before we lump Nick Foles in with Robert Griffin III and Andrew Luck - or even Russell Wilson, Ryan Tannehill and Brandon Weeden for that matter - that was the worst pass defense in the entire NFL he just lit up for 381 yards. Cincinnati's pass defense, by contrast, ranks 10th, and has recorded a league-high 42 sacks, compared with Tampa Bay's 24 (of which six came last week).
N.Y. Giants 31 (+1), ATLANTA 24 - Never mind the federal government - another week like last week and I'm going off the cliff! Eli Manning was more than two years yet unborn the last time the Giants lost at Atlanta, in 1978; they're 7-0 there since, and also 15-5 straight up and 16-4 against the spread in domes dating back to 2002. So there's a reason why the 11-2 Falcons are only one-point favorites at home over the 8-5 Giants, in addition to the fact that Atlanta is already safely in the playoffs as NFC South champs while the Giants are hanging on grimly in the East.
MIAMI 17, Jacksonville 13 (+7) - Neither team is playing well so you might as well take the seven points.
Washington 20, CLEVELAND 14 (P) - "Outlaw" or "offshore" lines on this game throughout the week have ranged from Washington by three to Cleveland by seven - so draw your own conclusions as to what pick 'em says about RG3's chances of playing. Incidentally, the Redskins are already mathematically assured of winning the NFC East in case of any tie with the Giants.
BALTIMORE 30 (+3), Denver 28 - After blowing leads to Charlie Batch and Kirk Cousins in back-to-back weeks, what possible chance could the Ravens have against Peyton Manning, to whom they have lost eight straight times? But the home team has owned this series, with a six-game winning streak, and the Broncos haven't beaten The Modell Franchise on the road since a win at Cleveland in 1993, getting outscored 142-56 in five tries, all in Baltimore. Finally, Denver is 6-11 straight up and 5-12 against the line since 2007 as a visitor on the carpet, including 1-2 both ways this year, with The Older Manning Brother under center.
Green Bay 24, CHICAGO 14 (+1) - Jay Cutler, who is 10-14 in December (compared with 39-27 in the rest of his games), has gotten nothing short of tormented by the Packers, whose eleven consecutive division wins (7-3-1 against the spread) is the longest-active such streak in the league, throughout his career. Expect nothing different this week. The Bears really do miss Brian Urlacher - and now kicker Robbie Gould is hurt too.
Tampa Bay 27 (+3), NEW ORLEANS 21 - Drew Brees has been doing his Christmas shopping early, showering opposing secondaries with gifts in the form of the nine interceptions he has served up in his last three games. Josh Freeman is 11-2 against the spread as a starter on artificial turf.
Minnesota 23 (+3), ST. LOUIS 16 - In almost all variations, the Vikings would carry the tie-breaker over the Bears for a potential NFC wild-card berth, and Minnesota simply has more firepower than the Rams at this juncture.
HOUSTON 31, Indianapolis 13 (+9 1/2) - Didn't the Texans beat the Ravens by 30 the week after their other prime-time egg-laying? And with the Colts' three road losses having been by 20, 26 and 35, unless you honestly believe that they can win this game outright it makes little sense to take the points.
Seattle 27, BUFFALO 20 (+4) - This one's in Toronto, so barring a record-breaking heat wave, the retractable roof will be closed - and neither team has been particularly adept indoors (Buffalo is 7-14 against the spread since 1999, Seattle 5-15-2 since Super Bowl XL). But their overtime win in frigid Chicago two weeks ago could prove to be the defining moment for the Seahawks, who could actually win the NFC West should they win out, and their final two are both at home where they have been untouchable all season.
ARIZONA 17 (+6), Detroit 16 - What do the eight teams the Cardinals have lost to during their current nine-game losing streak (having done so twice to St. Louis) have in common? Answer: All of them have better records than the Lions, who have not won in the desert since 1993 (five straight losses, both ways) and who own the NFL's worst December record over the past dozen years, at 13-36. Furthermore, the home team in this series has covered an imposing nine in a row.
Carolina 31 (+3), SAN DIEGO 27 - But this one's just the opposite: Home team has taken an 0-for-4 lifetime collar versus the number, and NFC underdogs in inter-conference games have covered four of five since Thanksgiving.
Pittsburgh 20 (+1), DALLAS 17 - Look at what happened to the Chiefs in the second game after their tragedy; and Big Ben may have "needed a game," just like a horse that's been away for a while is often said to have "needed a race." Would feel better about the Steelers in this spot had Mike Tomlin not churlishly suspended Rashard Mendenhall.
Kansas City 14 (+1), OAKLAND 10 - The three worst teams in the NFL all reside in the AFC (these two, and Jacksonville). One simply can't ignore the home team's 1-18 spread record in this once-storied rivalry since 2003, or KC's 8-1 mark both ways in Spice One's adopted hometown over the same span. And are the Raiders good enough to beat anybody twice, having won at Arrowhead in Week 8?
NEW ENGLAND 34, San Francisco 17 (+4) - If the 49ers lose here, and next week in Seattle, they in all likelihood blow the NFC West - and they have had their problems in cold weather: 4-15 straight up and 5-12-2 against the line going back to 1998. And with this one under the lights, this would appear to be hopeless.
N.Y. Jets 16 (+1), TENNESSEE 13 - Winning doesn't get any uglier than the way the Jets have done it the last two weeks - but the schedule doesn't really get any tougher here, or in their last two (San Diego at home, at Buffalo), and they are 5-1 in their last six against Tennessee, and have covered in all six.
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Other tests offered by the Career Guidance Services include: Sigi, Eureka MicroSkills, Please Understand Me, and Strong Interest Inventory® tool (this is a partial list). Students are encouraged to review the results from any assessment with a counselor. During the Fall and Spring semesters, career counselors will be assigned to the Career Center on an appointment basis. Call 949-582-4575 to schedule an appointment.
This is a program that asks you to identify and prioritize the values that are most important to you. You will also pick some areas of interest and activities that you enjoy and find rewarding. Then you will use combinations of these selections to come up with careers best suited to you. Sigi can be purchased online for a fee.
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The Strong provides you an opportunity to assess your interests in a wide range of occupations, work activities, leisure activities and school subjects. Test results provide you with a RIASEC code and diagram based on your interests, which helps you identify career options and possible academic majors. A list of possible careers is provided. There are many versions of the Strong interest tools, this test was formally the Strong-Cambell Interest inventory. Campbell has his own version following his theories of career called Campbell Interest, Skills Survey (CISS). Both of these assessments do require an appointment scheduled with a licensed master level counselor employed at Saddleback College and an agreement that it will be fully reviewed during a counseling session before it will sold. Many Counseling 140, 160 and Women Studies 120 courses use these assessment in the classroom. The other assessment from the same website is the MBTI®
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The Jazzmaster-shaped Talman was first made of fiberboard (a MDF called Resoncast) with lipstick single coils à la Dan'o, then with mini-humbuckers, humbuckers, P90s and different pickups combinations, then it shifted to different kinds of woods - this is the case of the basswood TC420 that is one of the later models. I like several things on this guitar, particularly the strat/tele control plate with one knob and the jack socket (I wish I'd find one of these for my projects - I love one knob guitars) and the perloid pickguard (I usually don't like perloid but here it fits), but in general this guitar has a good feel (and I don't hate Ibanez just because Steve Vai is a show-off)(too many brackets).
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Jimmy Turner, 32, faced up to life in prison for the first-degree felony. After the guilty verdict, he opted to have state District Judge Maria Teresa Herr assess his punishment.
Prosecutor Karl Alexander asked the judge to give Turner 50 years in prison, while defense attorney Scott Simpson asked the judge for a sentence of less than 10 years.
Turner took the stand at one point and, while maintaining his innocence, asked the judge for a sentence that would allow him to see his 10-year-old son graduate from high school.
Witnesses outside a San Antonio meat market called police in May 2012 to report that Turner was repeatedly punching the girl in the stomach in the back seat of a car, court documents state.
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The Red Light District is a district of Portland, Liberty City. It appears in Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto Advance, Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas short film "The Introduction". In GTA Advance, it is simply called Red Light. The district is bordered by Hepburn Heights to the north, Saint Mark's to the east, Chinatown to the south and an unspecified body of water to the west.
As implied, the Red Light District is the red-light district of Liberty City, housing much of the city's seedy businesses, including strip clubs, pornography stores and prostitution. It is based on "The Block" in Baltimore and 42nd Street in New York during the 1970's and 80's. The district's pedestrians are characterized by a large proportion of prostitutes, and is the only area where pimps, easily spotted by their purple jackets and hats, can be found.
The district is busy during all 24 hours of the day, although the player sees the pimps and hookers more at night. Shooting pimps has no effect on whether the prostitutes are emancipated from Luigi Goterelli's control or not. Prostitutes can be used to increase health in exchange for cash.
Whilst the district is known for its adult businesses, the western and eastern edges of the district do not appear to share this character, appearing more generic. The western edge of the district occupies part of Portland's waterfront promenade, while the eastern edge bordering Saint Mark's consists of several large buildings, including a large gray skyscraper with an unfurnished interior and scaffolding.
As of 2001, the setting of GTA III, the Leone Family has strong control over this region. There are many strip clubs, adult stores, pimps, and prostitutes. Luigi's Sex Club 7, a Leone-controlled adult business, which was earlier Paulie's Revue Bar, is the perfect place for trance music, according to Lips 106.
During the events of GTA III, Claude and 8-Ball escaped to a small apartment in Red Light District after the attacks on Callahan Bridge, and it becomes Claude's safehouse for the rest of the game.
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In 1998, the setting of GTA Liberty City Stories, it is primarily under Sindacco Family control, as it has many fronts located in the district. The Sindaccos and the Leone Family would later fight over control of the district, which would later on be controlled by the Leone Family, as the Sindaccos were wiped out of the city.
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Monday, 31 August 2009
It's a Carnival: Raising your child bilingually
The plan is that there will be a regular carnival on the topic which will support parents going through the trials and tribulations of keeping more than one language and culture alive in their households, while providing a resource of ideas and experiences for those who are or plan to bring up their children with more than one language.
The great thing about bilingual parenting is that often, the language combination doesn't matter so much because the experiences are quite similar whatever the language pair. To be fair, the blogs I've come across have given me more ideas and support than any of the books on bilingualism I bought (and believe me, I bought quite a few).
If you're interested in hosting one of the next carnivals, please go to the bilingual carnival page over at Bilingual for Fun, where you can find the schedule and register your interest.
The next carnival on raising children bilingually will be over at Blogging on Bilingualism, on 30th September 2009. Please send your contributions to whim2 @ comcast.net leaving out the spaces in the address. Above all, huge thanks, danke, gracias, spaciva, grazie, merci, go raibh maith agat, dank u well to everyone who contributed to this first raising bilingual children carnival!
Bilingual children: how to start seems to be just the right place to begin this carnival. Barbara at Barbaraland raises her children with Italian and English and dispels the myth that raising bilingual children will confuse them or may be bad for their language development.
Not so very sure about this is Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things in her hilarious post On swinging both ways, however, I always thought the 400m hurdles were the most exciting part of any athletic championship, so here's to bilingual hurdlers!
Fraught Mummy at Brits in Bosnia ponders in her post Learning Languages the way her family's move to Bosnia has affected their children's ability to speak English and how they may lay the foundations for future trouble, with their children being able to speak a language they themselves aren't fluent in.
If your children are approaching school age, Letizia at Bilingual for Fun offers a comprehensive guide on chosing the right schooling for your bilingual child.
Jan at Babelkid (what an aptly named blog - in his household the children speak French, Arabic and German) has his kids telling him off for using an English word at the breakfast table in a very clever turn of usual events, when he is told that English is not spoken here.
Similarly, Ju at Double Trouble is told off by her daughter for speaking Portuguese at the school in her post Ingles/Portugues (apologies for lack of Portuguese characters, I haven't figured out how to use special language characters in blogger).
Kathryn at Life in Italy writes about her experience of raising two children bilingually in Italy, with English as the "other" language having found out that text book approaches are just that but real life is a different story altogether.
Along similar lines, the Perfectly Happy Mum Peggy will make you laugh out loud in How the hell am I going to teach these kids French where she tells us about her attempts to establish the one parent one language approach in her house. Life's never that straight forward and there are always a number of reasons not to be consistent, I say nodding my head in "been there, know what you mean" agreement at every paragraph.
Emily at Maternal Tales From the South Coast too struggles as she explains in her experience of raising her children French/English in England. It's not as easy as she thought, but not all hope is lost as she will tell you in her post Bilingual Children erm not quite.
And to add to that, I'm including my own first post on the topic of bilingualism, one child, two languages where I explain why raising Cubling bilingual is so important to me and why at the same time in spite of my determination, well, it could be going better.
You can find out all about a bilingual kindergarten on Blogging on Bilingualism where Eve interviews a local German woman who runs a bilingual kindergarten. A fascinating idea, and one that would really help us struggling parents keep up the weaker language (I for my part would be welcoming a German childminder with open arms).
Finally, Smashed Pea at Intrepidly Bilingual looks back on her experience of raising her children bilingually with hindsight in If only I had known..., a great resource for anyone starting out on the bilingual kiddo route or parents at a head scratching phase who are looking for some encouragement and ideas on how to keep going.
That's it for now, hope to see you all at the next carnival on Blogging on Bilingualism!
25 comments:
- Dorset Dispatches said...
Thanks for getting this all together. I shall be reading with interest! My two are a long way from bilingual, but they are getting there slowly. We shall see how it goes, but in the meantime, I'm very keen to read about how others are tackling the problems of learning 2 languages at once.
- 31 August 2009 at 08:33
- Very Bored in Catalunya said...
This sounds like a great idea and I will be watching with huge interest and reading all the blogs listed when I get some spare time, currently raising our son (3) with English at home and Catalan at nursery soon to be school, whilst struggling myself to learn Spanish. I definitely feel that my Son's English has been held back by only hearing it from my & OH.
- 31 August 2009 at 09:11
- Ju said...
This carnival is looking great. So many useful tips. The actual post for my blog should be this one: http://maialarasaid.blogspot.com/2008/11/inglsportugus.html
At home I speak only in Portuguese while hubby speaks in English to the kids. They are fluent now but I think we're quite lucky. My older one prefers talking in English and things will get more difficult now that she will starts school.
Congratulations on putting all of this together :D
- 31 August 2009 at 09:23
- Bilingual For Fun said...
thank you very much for this. You had a great idea!
I'll be happy to host after Blogging On Bilingualism, i.e. around October 30th. As discussed I think it would be best to have a static page for the schedule and exchanging other infos, here it is: www.bilingualforfun.com/about/blogging-carnival-on-bilingualism/. Let's use it coordinate. If you want to host let me know and I will update the schedule.
Thanks all!
- 31 August 2009 at 09:27
- slugs on the refrigerator said...
Loks fantastic! Can't wait to read all of the posts. Well done putting it together.
- 31 August 2009 at 09:31
- julochka said...
very interesting...i'm raising a bilingual child, but haven't written that much about it. it will be interesting to read some of these links you've provided and perhaps feel less alone. our daughter is 8 now and is being raised with danish and english. one of the things i've done to improve her english and expose her to my native culture is that i found a girl of a similar age to her in the US and they blog together (or rather, me and the other girls mom blog for them). you can check that out here: http://addieandsabin.blogspot.com/
on that blog, i have written on one occasion about how our daughter copes with two languages: http://addieandsabin.blogspot.com/2009/04/growing-up-with-two-languages.html
i think you've actually inspired me to write a post on my own blog about this today. thank you for that! and now i'm off to check out the links. :-)
- 31 August 2009 at 09:33
- barbaraland said...
It is very interesting to share our experiences of raising bilingual children! a great idea. Thank you. I'm going to read all the posts with interest. When I have a minute today,I will post an article with a link to this event. Barbara
- 31 August 2009 at 12:01
- Maternal Tales said...
Right I'm finally home...can't wait to read all the posts now as I need all the help I can get!! x
- 31 August 2009 at 23:10
- smashedpea said...
Thanks for pulling this together! It's coming at the worst week for me and I won't have time to read everything all in one shot, but at least I know where to find it all :)
- 1 September 2009 at 03:38
This really is a great idea. Thank you very much. Looking forward to the next one already.
- 1 September 2009 at 12:31
- Mwa said...
Thank you for doing this. I'm very interested to read all the posts.
I want to apologise for not doing one myself. I started about ten times, and just could not get anything interesting down. Maybe next time?
- 1 September 2009 at 20:51
- cartside said...
thanks everyone, hope you all enjoy the posts as much as I did! I definitely spilled some tea for bursting out laughing, and lots of oh's and ah's too.
Mwa, would be lovely if you joined in next time.
www.bilingualforfun.com/about/blogging-carnival-on-bilingualism/ has all the info
- 1 September 2009 at 21:15
- Isabelle said...
Glad I stumbled upon this carnival. Thanks for all the information and pointing to other blogs/moms who have experience with raising bilingual kids. We are just at the beginning of our journey, with our 19-month old son. But I can already relate to some of the experiences and concerns discussed. Very useful. I look forward to future carnivals, and maybe I can contribute once my son really starts talking?
- 2 September 2009 at 06:58
- Perfectly Happy Mum said...
I just wanted to say thank you so much for putting this carnival together, there are some great articles, very inspiring and informative. brilliant job! :)
- 2 September 2009 at 08:33
- Dorset Dispatches said...
Hi. Just to let you know that I put a short post up on the expat mums blog about the carnival. x
- 3 September 2009 at 09:29
- JDI Daddy said...
Great idea - count me in!
Every time I go abroad I spend my last £20 equivalent of foreign currency on a children's book or two in the language of that country - some excellent colourful children's books in Spanish, French etc that it doesn't take a lot of imagination from adults to understand (and you can always look up strange words online anyway).
Here's my 1st contribution - http://jdidaddy.blogspot.com/2010/07/count-to-ten-in-nine-languages-then.html
If interested, please add any stories or translations of key expressions for children to my group Multilingual Families.
I'll get writing for the Carnival now!
Keep up the good work.
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Hi, I, too, raise two bilingual children and shall be following your blog with interest.
I don't know if you still struggle with all the special charcters when typing blogs, but here is a page that might help. If you hold down the "Alt" key whilst typing the number in the table, you should be able to produce special characters and symbols. http://www.forlang.wsu.edu/help/keyboards.asp
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Sweet corn, Feta and Mango pakora
Is there ever a time which is not emotional or filled with guilt of some sort when you are a parent?
Well, I am embracing (perhaps reluctantly) another emotional time in the life with my two year old sweetheart because we have been viewing nurseries for next year, when he will be old enough to join a proper, actual nursery. Really.
There will be someone else there, to tell him to take his shoes off and listen to his fabulously demonstrative story-telling about planets, squirrels and cars and someone else will be listening to why Neptune is blue and why we can't go on Mars. There will be animated enacting, I am sure, for all the other children on the bubbling volcanic scenes that make Mars red but my boy's imaginary friend will be there I hear, but of course. He will play and interact with other little people and I won't really know them, or be there for any awkward or charming moments. I won't see his face broaden with that adorable glee upon discovering something new, though he may turn around and say, 'look mumma'. I will miss the cheeky charm of those moments where he will just grab my head and exclaim, 'I love you so much mumma; you are a genius'. But this is growth.
So today, I treated my tiny boy with some much requested crunchy, crispy pakora of Indian food influence (vegetarian fritters) with sweet bite of sweet corn, small nuggets of salty feta that oozes when hot and some chewy baked pieces of sunny and happy mango that the folk from Urban fruit sent me. All in all, the sensations left me feeling like another holiday. Alas, sunny treats like these golden and sumptuous pakora must keep me going.
If you are cooking a vegetarian Christmas meal, this is always a crowd-pleaser. If you are not cooking a vegetarian Christmas meal this recipe pleases nonetheless for a tempting and fun starter, canape or side dish.
Ingredients to serve 4-6
175g sweet corn
One large red onion, finely diced
100g feta cheese cut into small cubes
100g baked mango chunks from Urban fruits
1 tsp. cumin seeds
1 tsp. minced ginger
Salt to taste (remember that the feta is salty)
½ tsp. turmeric powder
½ tsp. garam masala
2 green chillies, choppped
100g gram flour
125ml water
Oil for deep frying
- Heat the oil on a medium flame.
- Combine the sweet corn, red onion, feta with all the spices, salt, chillies and mango chunks and combine well.
- Mix in the gram flour and coat all the vegetables, combining well.
- Add the water to make a thick batter and then drop a small amount into the oil to check that the oil is hot enough to fry; if the batter sizzles and rises to the surface then add the pakora in small mounds with your fingers, equivalent to the size of a couple of tablespoons of batter.
- Fry the pakora until they are golden brown and crisp before removing them onto kitchen paper to absorb any excess oil.
- Serve with chutney such as tomato, tamarind or chilli and coriander chutney.


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While it's relatively cheap to buy, the Iiyama nevertheless maintains a high-quality look, with a thin bezel and an attractive, black, eggshell finish, while a curvy bottom edge plays host to a couple of 1W speakers. The only thing letting it down in the looks department is the clip-on stand base, which looks and feels a bit cheap and nasty.
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Driver who killed winemaker Neumeister pleads guilty
The man whose Earlysville Road car wreck killed motorcycling winemaker Dan Neumeister last fall has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and drunk driving charges, the Newsplex reports.
Fifty-eight-year-old William T. Thompson of Ruckersville made the plea Wednesday, April 13 in Albemarle Circuit Court, reports the Newsplex, noting that investigators found an empty pint of Jack Daniels along with a receipt for the whiskey's purchase in Thompson's briefcase– and that investigators even obtained surveillance-camera video showing Thompson shopping for liquor on the morning of the crash.
Neumeister, 31, was a newlywed and an award-winning winemaker. Ironically, he had also been such a stickler for motorcycle safety, that– as Lisa Provence reported after his death– he once adorned a sharp curve on another wreck-marred road with safety reflectors.
The crash that took Neumeister's life occurred under clear skies around 2pm on October 4. The Newsplex reports that sentencing for the out-on-bail Thompson has been set for August 30.Read more on: Dan Neumeister
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i cannot believe they are gonna let that remorseless jerk walk around till the end of august. what a disgrace! if you pull out a gun and shoot someone you go right to jail. if you get hammered and run someone over with your car you get to walk around for almost a year? i hope he gets the maximum sentence.
and they definately should not have dropped some of the charges!!!!!!!


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Grains were mixed for Columbus Day. December corn closed 6 cents lower at $7.42, November soybeans ½ cent lower at $15.51, and December wheat up 3 ½ cents at $8.61.
The USDA was closed for the holiday which means all sale announcements, export inspections, and crop progress were delayed until Tuesday. The lack of any fresh news left grains following the outsides. The US Dollar Index was higher while stocks and crude oil were lower.
The market is focused on the upcoming October Supply and Demand report this Thursday. Last week FC Stone and Informa released their estimates which were generally considered "bearish". This week we have the Reuters' poll results from 28 agricultural analysts. On average they are estimating corn production at 10.601 billion bushels (122.884 average yield). They are estimating soybean production at 2.759 billion bushels (37.006 average yield). There is a massive range between the high and low estimates which could result in high volatility on report day.
The soybean demand estimates have been dramatically reduced by the USDA since May, but we haven't seen the actual demand pace show any signs of weakness. Virtually all of the analysts in the survey are looking for soybean production to increase, the question is will it outpace the demand? The real demand question revolves around China and the record pace they have set for contracting US soybeans. Have they stacked most of their 2012 bookings up front or is the actual export demand going to be well above the current USDA projections? For Thursday we assume that any 'reasonable' increase in soybean production will be offset by increasing the export demand estimate. This would give the USDA a little more demand room for the export estimates leaving the carryout mostly unchanged from September.
After seeing Informa's estimates on Friday I figured that the average private estimate of corn production would come in higher than 10.6 billion. Is an average yield estimate of 122.9 an adequate representation of the actual market's expectations and current trading models? If this is the case and everyone is stacked in one bullish direction it may set the stage for a disappointing report day for the longs. Obviously if we see another production reduction from the USDA this will most likely result in another move higher but I would not discount Informa's estimate. We are now just past a quarter of the way through setting the fall crop insurance price level. So far the average corn price for October is $7.53 and the average soybean price is $15.46. We want to stay in sustainable hedges through harvest. To sign up for a free EHedger trial please click on the link below. Have a great week!
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| 14th March 2012
Top Museums in Vietnam
War Remnants Museum
War Remnants Museum, formerly known as Saigon's Exhibition House of American War Crimes, portrays the horrors and details of the Vietnam War. At present it is located within an assemblage of warehouses. However its new building adjacent to its present location is under construction. This museum standing near the city's famous Reunification palace, with its halls filled with gruesome photographs and a real guillotine, depicts some of the worst brutality that happened during the Vietnam War.
For its graphic descriptions of napalm, photographs of victims and actual weapons, Agent Orange and phosphorus bombs, it is the most crowded of all the museums in Ho Chi Minh City. One room of this museum is devoted to the protest that went on across the globe during those days of war. The disturbing displays of the museum depict the cruelties involved in the killing of innocent civilians, torturing of prisoners, the spreading of poisonous defoliant and the effects of the war in the north.
Tanks, bombs, planes, helicopters used during the Vietnam War are also kept in the Saigon's War Remnants Museum. Some rooms outside the museum exhibit cultural products, giving you a glimpse of the Vietnamese culture. Since its inception more than six million people have visited this famous museum in Saigon. Among its millions of visitors around one million are foreign tourists.
Vietnam National Museum of history
The National Museum of Vietnamese History is housed in a magnificent example of Indochinese architecture, which were until 1910 the French consulate and the residence of the governor general.
The building was also home to the Ecole Francaise d'Extreme Orient (EFEO), during which time it became a museum to exhibit EFEO finds. Over time the building deteriorated, and it was not until the early 1930s, following a seven-year renovation, that what you can see now was realized. The entrance gives on to an impressive two-storey rotunda with exhibits all around and in many galleries to the rear.
The contents are as fascinating as the building. The ground floor traces Vietnam's ancient history, from the first Neolithic finds through to those of the 15th century. Some items date back as far as 10,000 BC and feature more than just the requisite pottery shards and axe heads. The jeweler, tools and household items archaeologists have unearthed -- along with human and animal remains -- paint a compelling picture of the people who inhabited the region long ago, and provide a sense of how they are tied to Vietnam's modern inhabitants. There's also an excellent selection of bronze drums dating back as far as 500 BC. Ancient military history is also touched on. Corny dioramas of famous battles aside, some of the wooden spikes used by Tran Hung Dao to skewer the Mongolian fleet in 1288 are on display.
The upstairs of the rotunda has a small though impressive collection of Champa pieces -- if you missed the Champa Museum in Da Nang, now is your chance. The rest of the second floor goes from the 15th century up to the 20th. Some familiar sights are here in terms of temple statuary and pearl-inlay furniture, but the statue of Guan Yin -- the 'thousand armed, thousand eyed' manifestation of the Bodhisattva -- is second only to the one in the Fine Arts Museum
Vietnam National Museum of Ethnology
This is the most recent yet probably the largest and undoubtedly the most interesting Museums in Hanoi and Vietnam. The Museum comes out of the recognition that Vietnam is a multi - ethnic country and that more attention should be paid to promote socio - cultural diversity. Despite being out of the way compared with other museums in Hanoi, Vietnam Museum of Ethnology is worth a thorough visit, for those who are keen to learn about the multiculturalists of Vietnam and for those would appreciate some green apace.
There are indoors section while the in - housed exhibition is particularize, the outdoors display and actives make the museum stand out from the rest. There is a number of house modeling after the traditional architecture of ethnic minorities, especially those while live in Northern and Central highlands
You will be blown away by the elaboration of these architectures, at the same time being thoroughly need in traditional mages and activities such as water puppet show, calligraphy, stone game (O An Quan). The museum is especially a great choice for those who cannot find time to visit remote areas where live the majority of Vietnam ethnic minorities.
Hue Museum of Royal Fine Arts
The Royal Fine Arts Museum has been relocated from nearby the citadel to a former royal residence downtown known as Cung An Dinh or An Dinh Palace. It's an impressive building that was commissioned by Khai Dinh, Vietnam's second last king in the early twentieth century. It was almost totally ruined during its post 1975 life as the Hue Labour Union headquarters.
The museum is modest given its subject matter but it's definitely worth a visit. It's located in a small structure in the grounds of the main palace and the collection includes pottery, porcelain and costumes from the Nguyen Dynasty.
The main palace building has recently been restored as part of a German Government aid project with the help of German specialists. It contains a number of large murals and other ornate wall decorations.
You can easily combine a visit here with a visit to the Tu Cung residence a couple of hundred meters away westward along the canal. Information here is even scarcer than at most of Hue's historical sites but it seems both the last two queens lived here at different times during the twentieth century. There are photos and other memorabilia of Vietnam's final two imperial families.
Cham Museum in Danang
The Cham Museum in Danang is the largest collection of Cham sculpture and artwork in the world. Whenever visiting the museum, you still perceive an individual atmosphere particular to this place, the reverie of reminiscences.
Situated in a quiet area of Da Nang City, Cham Museum was built in 1915 according to the motifs of ancient Cham Architecture. At first it was named the Henry Parmenties Museum. The museum is officially known as the Museum of Champa Sculpture. The kingdom of Champa (or Lin-yi in Chinese records) controlled what is now south and central Vietnam from approximately 192 through 1697. The empire began to decline in the late 15th century, became a Vietnamese vassal state in 1697, and was finally dissolved in 1832. At present, the museum houses 297 stone and terracotta sculptural works made between the 7th and the 15th centuries. These are impressive works typical of the Cham culture.
According to Chinese chronicles, the Champa kingdom was founded in 192 A.D and had different names such as Lin-Yi, Huang-Wang and Chang-Chen. Its territories stretched from south of the Ngang Pass in Quang Binh Province to the delta area of the Dong Nai River in Binh Thuan Province. It included the coastal plains, highland and mountain ranges.
Influenced by the early Hindu civilization, the Champa kingdom was a federation of several smaller states called Mandala and comprised several ethnic groups.
The most important legacy of the Champa kingdom is located in Central Vietnam in the form of brick temples and towers which are scattered over the coastal lowlands and highlands. The structures date from between the 7th and 8th centuries to the 16th and 17th centuries and are concentrated in Quang Nam, Danang, Binh Dinh, Khanh Hoa, Ninh Thuan and Binh Thuan.
The Cham Museum was built in Cham architectural style, using thin lines that are simple and gentle. The museum displays an intensive and diverse collection of Champa sculpture dating from the 7th to the 15th centuries, when a matriarchal society prevailed.
The museum was established at the end of the 19th century by the Ecole Francaise d'Extreme Orient with a collection of artifacts gathered in central Vietnam, from Quang Binh to Binh Dinh. They were then displayed at Le Jardin de Tourane on a small hill by the Han River. This is the site of the present museum. The building was designed by two French architects, Delaval and Auclair, in imitation of the most commonly used aspects of Champa towers and temples. At present, the museum displays approximately 300 sandstone and terra-cotta sculptures, among which some are made from terracotta. Most of the artifacts are masterpieces of Champa art and some are considered to be equal to works anywhere in the world. The sculptures were collected from Cham temples and towers throughout Central Vietnam, more specifically the area stretching from Quang Binh to Binh Thuan. All the sculptures are displayed in ten showrooms named after the localities where the pieces have been discovered.
After viewing the pieces in the showrooms, you can visit exterior exhibitions. The arts of the Champa were chiefly sculpture, but the sculptures are only part of the religious architecture. The temples and towers themselves are considered to be sculptural artifacts. They are decorated on the exterior of their brick walls with bas-relief columns, flowers and leaves and worshipping figures between brick pillars. The tympana, lintels and the ornamental corner pieces are of sandstones carved with the figures of gods, the holy animals of the Hindus and flowers and leaves.
The artifacts displayed at the museum are altars, statues and decorative works collected from Hindu and Buddhist temples and towers. Champa sculpture displays various styles. Sometimes they were influenced by other cultures but no matter at what period or in what style the Champa artifacts were made they always displayed original characteristics.
Visitors to the museum will have the opportunity to appreciate the eight centuries of evolution of Champa sculpture from its golden age to its decline. In their own way, the artifacts exemplify the rise and fall of the Champa civilization. When we stand before these artistic masterpieces we can comprehend the noblest ideal of art, the creation of the infinite from the finite. The eight centuries of art at the Champa museum is a thick history book reflecting the ups and downs of Champa art. From inanimate stones came living art, and from these wonderful invaluable artifacts we can get the feeling that the warmth from the Champa artists' hand is still there, on the fine skin of the stone-timeless.
The sculptures displayed here almost have the same drifting life as the very destiny of the once-glorious culture that generated them. Through the ruins of time, war and even the oblivion, such original Champa sculptures were hardly collected and brought here by many human generations. And in this systematic collection, these works of the ancient Champa artists again have a new life.
Coming to visit the museum, it seems that you can see again the glorious time of the past of a nation for whom both the passion for art and the creative talent were already at a very high level. The mysterious world of deities, the pictorial legends, the religious symbols, the curving lines of the bodies of dancing girls, the features of full swelling breasts, the smiles of a vague time, all of these are shown very lively and in much in details.
The art of Champa, although influenced by the Hindu themes of India and Southeast Asia, has many elements that make it distinctive. Temples in Champa were made of bricks. As a result, artists did not have long expanses of wall to decorate with bas-reliefs depicting Hindu epics or phases of Buddhist life as seen, for example, at Angkor Wat. The Chams incorporated their sculptures into their temple architecture by carving them separately and making them part of the construction. These carvings are classified into four main groups: Icons; Pedestals; Pediments; Fragments of architectural decorations at the base or on various ties of the temple.
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Facebook acquired Friend.ly, a social question-and-answer service, in an apparent move to bolster Facebook Questions.
The 2-year-old startup received $5 million in funding early this year and was sold to Facebook for an undisclosed amount. However, the odd part is that Friend.ly doesn't differ very much from Facebook Questions, which relies on short answers to mostly superficial questions. PCMag highlights the vapid similarities:
"Are long distance relationships possible?" The answer ("Love knows no distance.") uses the real name of the respondent plus the options to label the response "Funny," "Smart," "Cool," "Me Too!" and "Hug". Facebook's Answers feature filters responses to feature the answers of friends first.
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So why the Seventeen-style questions and answers? Wouldn't it behoove Facebook to become a little more like Quora, which ponders questions, both deep and banal? That leads us to believe that this was a talent acquisition and apparently ZDNet agrees. If you don't believe it, check out the response from Facebook: "We've admired the team's efforts for some time now, and we're looking forward to having Ed and his colleagues make a big impact on the way millions of people connect and engage with each other on Facebook."
To us, saying "we've admired the team's efforts for some time now," means we want to hire them. It's likely that Facebook probably bought the startup for just a little more than $5 million, but we would be surprised if the price tag was $10 million or more.


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Rock and roller Bret Michael, who trolled through trailers full of groupies looking for love on a reality TV show, has realized his future wife was there all along.
The Poison singer proposed to his longtime girlfriend, Kristi Gibson, on the finale of his latest TV show, VH1's "Bret Michaels: Life as I Know It."
The blond-tressed singer, who won Donald Trump's "Celebrity Apprentice" earlier this year after battling an assortment of life-threatening maladies, got down on one knee and asked Gibson, his girlfriend of 16 years, to be his wife.
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"Please say yes or the rejection will kill me right now," he pleaded.
Gibson obliged, tying a bow around one of rock's oddest relationships. Gibson has stuck by the rocker for years, even while he cavorted with a cavalcade of surgically-enhanced, artificially blonde babes on his "Rock of Love" TV show, whose ostensible purpose was to find him a serious mate.
But the brain hemorrhage he suffered earlier this year, along with news he'll need heart surgery early next year, seems to have changed the 47-year-old performer.
The couple has two daughters together: Raine Elizabeth, 10, and Jorja Bleu, 5.
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CARVE - Skip the boring gym workout and get cardio and strength training while doing your favorite yoga poses with weights. Sweat tons to the house genre music beat. It's like a three mile run, weight workout and yoga class in one. You'll see the body/mind benefits build week after week and feel the endorphin high in each practice.
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The Conchords are back, and as if that isn't good enough, they're on a mission to help sick children. Bret and Jemaine interview some adorable New Zealand kids, enlisting their aid to write a new song.
Go to 5:05 to see the resulting tune, Feel Inside (And Stuff Like That). Buy the single on iTunes, and support a good cause.


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I usually don't post on Saturday nights, but we are just relaxing at home and I was in the mood to blog. We've been enjoying our weekend so far and I hope you have too!
Earlier this week, I shot this photo while walking to the bus stop. I had just finished an interview on the radio (taped, not live, luckily) and I was so relieved to be done and heading into work. The leaves under my fantastic and comfortable Tsubo boots were just too pretty not to capture.
I go through phases where I become obsessed with cottage cheese. This week, I put it on everything and also ate it plain. I really enjoyed it on toast as an after work snack and in my lentil soup.
Last night, we walked around the mall after enjoying a dinner out. I almost always take stairs vs. the escalator when I can, so I loved how Aurora Healthcare encouraged people to be well and take the mere 30 steps to the top with their "30 steps to a healthier you" slogan.
This morning, we woke up and packed our gym bags for a trip out to Mukwonago. We met my parents at the beautiful new YMCA and enjoyed working out by doing cardio and weights and then hitting the pool. I am not much of a swimmer, but I did love their walking pool, the water slide, chilling in the whirlpool and swimming with the kick board. We had a lot of fun with my parents and I hope it's something we can do more often.
Once we got home, I wanted to chill on the couch and read My Berlin Kitchen. I am only 55 pages in so far, but I like Luisa's story and recipes. There is a recipe that really sounds delicious and uses quark–it's called quarkauflauf. I had actually just read about it in Alysha's article on quark that was featured in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Entree section on Sunday. I hadn't read Luisa's blog, The Wednesday Chef, before picking up this book, but I am following her site now because I like the way she writes and I love Berlin.
I think reading about Germany made me crave pretzels. Luckily, I had picked up this Deutsche Kuche pretzel dough at Aldi a couple of weeks ago.
This is the pretzel I was most proud of, although I realized after that the ends didn't need to extend down so far.
The verdict? They turned out pretty good. They didn't taste like the "bretzeln" we adored in Germany and reminded us more of bread.
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Here is where the beauty lies. We've taken that extra mile and crafted an advanced, but simple to use shortcodes plugin that will allow you to give structure to your pages and posts. To ensure ease of use, everything is visual, nicely packed in a modal window accessible from the WordPress editor. Everything starts with the funky P button.
The main shortcode that will be the workhorse of your pages is the Columns shortcode. This enables you to divide the content into a multitude of columns via a simple and intuitive slider interface. Simply choose how many columns do you want and then drag the sliders to select the proportions of each column.
Once you are done, hit the Insert button and we will generate for you the shortcode, with some dummy content for each column. From here you can add what content you desire in each column like text, images or even other shortcodes.
You can have multiple rows of columns on one page with different column configurations, but we urge you to take the time and think things over, so you don't clutter your pages with too much content.
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If someone is taking money from your paycheck, or has taken money out of your bank account, you have a right to try to get the money back if you can show you need it. Neighborhood Legal Services can help you file a "claim of exemption" to do this at most of its self-help centers. After you are helped with the paperwork, you will also be offered a free "hearing preparation" workshop to help you prepare to argue before a judge. Please call 1-800-433-6251 to find the closest self-help center that can assist you with the paperwork and sign you up for the clinic.


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Robert J. Ockun
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Mr. Robert J. Ockun, upon his graduation from Michigan Tech with a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering in 1963, joined Hercules Powder Company in Applications Research in Wilmington, Delaware, becoming an authority on corrosion prevention coatings, specialty coatings for the US Military, and adhesion promoters for plastics. In 1967 he transferred to Chicago in plastic sales, eventually becoming Product Director for Hercules in 1982.
With the formation of HIMONT in 1983, a worldwide joint venture of Hercules and Montedison's plastic businesses, Robert became the first Director of Sales and Marketing for HIMONT USA. In 1987, he became Worldwide Business Director, Resins, responsible for developing the global business strategy for polypropylene resin and worldwide acquisition of strategic feedstocks. As Vice President of Resins in 1988, he was responsible for initiating and managing joint venture projects around the world. In 1991 he was named Senior Vice President of HIMONT NA, President of HIMONT USA, and Chairman and President of HIMONT Canada, responsible for all of HIMONT's one billion dollar North American business operations. Retiring in 1999, he signed on for a two-year restructuring assignment as President and CEO of Epsilon Products Company.
Robert is a founding member of the American Plastics Council, chairing the advertising committee responsible for the national television and media campaign "Plastics Make it Possible." He was also the corporate executive member of the Chemical Manufacturers Association and member of the Society of Plastics Industry. He has served on the Board of Directors of several North American and European companies and has been inducted into Who's Who in Executives and Professionals.
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OCEAN CITY- The Ocean City Recreation and Parks Department was well represented last week at the Mid-Atlantic Recreation and Parks Alliance GoodSport Awards Ceremony with two recipients including a student-athlete and a long-time local coach among the recipients at the event held in Annapolis.
At the annual event hosted by Speaker of the House Michael Busch at the State House in Annapolis, MARPSA honored Stephen Decatur High School senior Jordan Taylor as a student-athlete and Mike Meekins, a father of three who coaches numerous sports for the Ocean City Recreation and Parks Department, as a coach. The MARPSA GoodSports Award program provides an opportunity for member agencies to recognize both young athletes and coaches who have modeled GoodSports behaviors in their local programs.
Taylor is a dedicated individual who has displayed outstanding sportsmanship over the several years he has been involved with Ocean City Recreation and Parks. He has participated and volunteered his time in many programs over the years including the Play it Safe activities, Seaside 10 races, basketball and soccer leagues and clinics and the flag football league as well as numerous camps for volleyball, basketball, soccer and baseball.
As a senior at Decatur, Taylor has been a member of the varsity football team. His accomplishments go beyond the fields and gyms of the local sports programs, however. He is currently the Ocean City Volunteer Fire Company Cadet President and it the youth representative on the Worcester County Local Management Board.
"Jordan has a great and giving attitude and has earned the respect of players and coaches," said Recreation Supervisor Kate Gaddis. "He is so likable that attracts the younger kids' attention immediately. Jordan is respectful, honest and a true team player that is more than deserving of this award."
Meanwhile, Meekins is the father of three boys all deeply involved in the local sports programs and has been involved with the Ocean City Recreation Program for 13 years, coaching at different times baseball, basketball, lacrosse and indoor and outdoor soccer, at times coaching two teams in the same league. In addition, Meekins helps the department in securing team sponsorships.
"Mike never fails to make a donation when requested," said Recreation Supervisor Al "Hondo" Handy. "Above all else, Mike coaches his teams no matter what sport with pride. He teaches the kids to play hard and fair, take turns, be good winners and losers and to hold their heads high. Mike is a great example for others and an excellent role model for children."
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The 2-year-old son of Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson has died of severe head injuries he suffered in an alleged assault, Sioux Falls, S.D. police said Friday.
According to police, the boy had suffered those injuries in an alleged aggravated assault by the boyfriend of the child's mother, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported.
Police declined to identify the boy out of respect for his family and said it would release his name next week.
"Thank you to my family, my fans and fans of other teams for their support," Peterson tweeted soon after the police announcement. "The NFL is a fraternity of brothers, and I am thankful for the tweets, phone calls and text messages from my fellow players."
Earlier in the afternoon, before his son passed away, Peterson had said he was certain he would play Sunday, despite the serious personal matter that caused him to miss practice earlier this week.
Peterson had declined to speak Friday specifically about the situation, asking reporters to respect his and his family's privacy. His father, Nelson Peterson, had told local newspapers that one of Peterson's sons was in critical condition at a hospital in South Dakota.
The man accused in the case, Joseph Patterson, 27, is charged in Lincoln County with aggravated assault and aggravated battery on an infant. He had a court appearance Friday and was ordered held on $750,000 cash bond.
Jane Bammert, owner of the Little Coalinga Bar, confirmed to The Associated Press that Peterson stopped by the Sioux Falls restaurant Thursday for a turkey sandwich. He was not at practice that day for what the Vikings described only as a personal matter.
Peterson is second in the NFL with 421 yards rushing and first in the league with five touchdowns.
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I love Newsweek. I disagree with it's slant and politics 96.7% of the time, but I still love it. Can't help myself. I regularly cancel my subscription in protest of their liberal bias--then see an intriguing cover story while waiting in the check-out line and re-subscribe.
The other day, I stumbled on a short gem of a piece that made all of my conflicting feelings worth it.
When I went to find the digital copy, I couldn't remember the title and therefore had to sift through dozens of bleak articles all related to money (or the lack thereof)--stories that may never have been written if more people were like the parents of Steve Tuttle.
I, for one, am going to start trying harder!
The Frugal Family Guide
Be like my mom and dad: buy stuff you can afford.
Published Mar 7, 2009
From the magazine issue dated Mar 16, 2009
Last summer I was at my parents' cabin in rural Virginia and I noticed a dead mouse in a rusty old trap. I tossed it in the trash. Later that day I told my dad about the mouse, and he asked, "Where's the trap?" I told him it looked as though it were falling apart, and I'd thrown it out with the mouse still attached. He looked at me as if I'd punched him in the face. My mom chimed in: "We've had that trap since we got married!" I wasn't sure she was joking, and they got married almost 50 years ago. I sheepishly dug it out of the garbage and loaded it up with cheese again. Now it's become one of those perennial things they bring up every time I go home: "Remember when Steve threw out the mousetrap, mouse and all!?" This is followed by shuddering and head shaking, as they silently wonder where it all went wrong....
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Hi there everyone, my name is Manya and welcome to our new home. We were almost two years in our last one so this will take a bit of getting used to. But we have our memories, and that is all that matters... ahem...
This Guild is EVEN GREATER!!! We will celebrate all things good, and dodgy, about our beloved country and unite in Tolkien fanaticism.
Too many big words for this time of night. Now don't all rush the place at once...
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Relive the Memories - The First Great Aussie Guild
Edit: 22/07/2011 Now linking to the actual first Aussie Guild forum. It reeks of nostalgia and teenage dreams
Edit: 07/04/2012 Can't believe it's ten years ago that I made that first post. Thanks for the memories all!


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"This lake has been drained and they are building multi-family housing and a large shopping center here...." Hickman Lake
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