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2011 is quickly drawing to a close, which means that 2012 is right around the corner. With the start of a new year we often think about what personal improvements we can implement to make our lives better or to leave a stronger footprint on the world. Have you thought about what resolutions you'd like to make? If you're unsure, then USA.gov has listed several of the most common New Year's Resolutions, which include:
Drink Less Alcohol; Eat Healthy Food; Get a Better Education; Get a Better Job; Get Fit; Lose Weight; Manage Debt; Manage Stress; Quit Smoking; Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle; Save Money; Take a Trip; Volunteer to Help Others
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Quitting smoking is a difficult and rewarding task, so you want to make sure you remove all temptation and all remnants of the smell. That's why we recommend the Filters Fast MERV 8 Odor Killer Odor Filter 6 Pack, which is the perfect replacement air filter to eliminate smoke odors, cigarette odors, pet odors, gases and other contaminants from your indoor air. While many standard activated carbon odor filters or charcoal odor filters remove odors from your air, the Odor Killer uses Gray Matter, an activated granular carbon material impregnated between two sheets of MERV 8 filter media.
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I imagine I'm not the only slow-poke out there who's taking their sweet time getting to level 90. My playtime since the expansion hit has been almost non-existent until recently, and in fact I only just dinged max level this week. Still, even though time-constraints kept me from playing as much as I wanted to, it still felt like I was getting to 90 slower than I should have been. What can I say? I like to read the quest text, watch the cutscenes, listen to all the dialogue, explore the countryside. Oh, and I may have indulged in the occasional pet battle. We all have our vices. Though in this case, I'd hazard to say we all have the same vice.
But I did eventually get there, late or not. And for those of you who are still enjoying the journey rather than the destination, I've compiled a few of the thoughts and observations I had along the way into this week's column. For those of you for whom this advice comes too late, I'll start hitting the post-90 content next week. Pinkie swear.


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Weekend Cook and Tell Round Up: Feel-Bad Food
For last week's Weekend Cook and Tell challenge we wanted to know what you all like to cook and eat when you're feeling a bit rough around the edges. In a challenge we dubbed Feel Bad Food, we asked for your best recipes for when you're sick, hungover, or just a little blue. Here's a look at some of our responses that are such to detox, hydrate, comfort, and reenergize.
When theindolentcook isn't feeling well, it's all about comforting Congee topped with a Spicy Malaysian Dried Shrimp Relish. I have to concur; congee works wonders.
When somaR is feeling blue and missing home, there's nothing like Fish in Mustard Chili Sauce to bring back fond memories of family, friends, and a childhood home.
maggieesq put together various hangover helpers featured in the Chicago Tribune slideshow that inspired this week's challenge and came up with a Peanut Butter Jell-O and Banana Sandwich. Sounds crazy! Let us know if it works, maggieesq.
exflexitarian likes to battle the hangover before it begins with a plate of street meat, in exflexitarian's case it's chicken and rice from a halal cart at 4 a.m. Bring on the mysterious white sauce.
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Jeanette's Healthy Living forgoes the meat for a version of Vegetarian Phở full of clean broth and healthy vegetables that's sure to detoxify your body and jumpstart your system.
According to jfitz, Menudo, a tried and true Mexican hangover remedy of spicy tripe soup, is the only way to go when you're hungover. But jfitz warns that it should be purchased and not made at home since the cooking process will only worsen the hangover.
For troxel317, ice cream is the ultimate comfort food, created in flavors to help her reminisce, like this coconut ice cream that brings to mind comforting images of sitting on a beach, piña colada in hand.
SconnieGirl offered a comprehensive guide to hangover foods divided thoughtfully into three levels of hungoverness. Level one calls for plenty of orange Gatorade; Level two can be overcome with a chocolate malted; and the dreaded Level three (otherwise known as "Oh my GOD, what happened last night? Why is the room spinning?!") can be cured with a handful of Advil, a cheeseburger, and a big fountain soda, preferably Diet Coke or Dr. Pepper.
Of course, we also have to give a few shout-outs to other popular feel-bad foods mentioned this week: A big, greasy, eggy breakfast was tops among hangover helpers and soups, both classic chicken and hot and sour from the local Chinese place, ranked highest for when you're feeling under the weather.
Thanks to everyone who shared their edible remedies for this week's Weekend Cook and Tell challenge. Be sure to head over to Talk and read about next week's challenge: Odd Squash.
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Impact Performance of Football Helmets
It is critical that manufacturers of football helmets are able to accurately determine how their product will distribute the shock of an impact, while protecting the head. Without sophisticated testing equipment, manufactures may not be able to accurately simulate force, geometries and other impact characteristics that the helmets may be subjected to on the playing field.
To identify how the helmet will distribute the shock and absorb the energy from an impact, we set up a test on our CEAST 9350.
The amount of force transmitted through the helmet is quantified with the Force Transmission Package. In this test, the helmet is installed onto a headform, which is then mounted onto a custom Piezo Compression Platen. Data is collected through the DAS (Data Acquistion System) and Visual Impact Software.
CEAST 9300 Series
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Washington, D.C. -- The Animal Welfare Institute congratulates Governor Eddie Baza Calvo of Guam for signing Bill 44-31 into law, prohibiting any person from possessing, selling or distributing shark fins in the territory.
"We are thrilled that Guam has taken this crucial action to protect sharks" said Cathy Liss, AWI president. "Governor Calvo and the bill's champions are to be applauded," she added. AWI had submitted testimony in support of the bill in January.
Over 73 million sharks die every year to meet the demand for shark fin soup - an Asian delicacy - a level of slaughter that is severely depleting shark numbers. Sharks mature late and have few young, making them especially vulnerable to overfishing.
As apex predators, sharks are an integral part of the marine ecosystem, and their absence reverberates throughout the system - even posing a threat to other commercial fisheries. Shark finning is not only unsustainable, it is also wasteful and shockingly cruel. Fins are sliced off, often while the shark is still conscious, and the body is thrown back into the water to die a horrible death from drowning or predation.
Guam's bill was championed by Senate Vice Speaker Benjamin J. F. Cruz, Senate Majority Leader Rory J. Respicio, and Senate Speaker Judith T. Won Pat. The new law is similar to shark protection measures taken by the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and the State of Hawai'i, and follows passage of the federal Shark Conservation Act, signed by President Obama in January. The Shark Conservation Act requires sharks caught in U.S. waters to be landed with their fins attached and prohibits the transfer of shark fins at sea. The Guam law, along with those of Hawai'i and the Northern Marianas, go further by banning the possession, sale and distribution of fins altogether.
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Christmas is here, apparently. We, however, are at work, blogging away, and as such, we were a bit ambivalent about the holiday, and the holiday season as a whole. But then we saw this video of Galatasaray and Ivory Coast superstar Didier Drogba making the days of a roomful of little Turkish children, and damned if we didn't crack a smile.
Galatasaray recently hosted a New Year's celebration in which fans got to meet the club's players, and while most of the team hugged the wall, Drogba grabbed a Galatasaray TV mic and camera crew, and dove into the crowd of admirers waiting to meet him. Acting as a TV reporter, he asked the kids their names before giving and getting hugs and "I love yous" from his littlest fans. At the end of the clip, he handed the microphone back to the crew, slyly saying, "It's too easy. I want to do your job." And then we melted.
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The Goodwood Revival, which has been held at the Goodwood Motor Circuit since 1998, is a very special experience. This world-renowned meeting of pre-1966 racing cars gives visitors a taste of the 1940s, 50s and 60s. The vintage and classic races on the authentic circuit, which remains untouched by modern motor sports, are not the only spectacular feature: visitors also dress up in period clothing to immerse themselves in another world and bring the old times to life.Read more
The Techno Classica in Essen is an internationally renowned motor show for vintage, classic and prestige cars, motor sports, motorcycles, spare parts and restoration. The world-famous trade-show is therefore the international meeting point for classic cars and vintage enthusiasts.Read more
Since its inception in 2002, the "Le Mans Classic", which is held every two years, has established itself as one of the world's largest vintage car races. Here, the international racing and automobile scene meets up regularly to celebrate the historic classics at this legendary French race track.Read more
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"The Garden Of The Finzi-Continis" Is Released
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Italian: Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini) is a film adaptation of Giorgio Bassani's novel of the same name. It was directed by Vittorio de Sica in 1971. It stars Lino Capolicchio as Giorgio (the narrator).
Vittorio De Sica directs the lyrical war drama Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini (The Garden of the Finzi-Continis), based on a book by Giorgio Bassani. In Ferrara, Italy, at the beginning of WWII, anti-Semitism is spreading. Mussolini has passed several laws that forbid Jews from going to public schools, joining the army, or marrying non-Jews. While many middle-class Jewish families flee the country, the Finzi-Continis believe it's safe inside their sprawling estate. As a wealthy, aristocratic Jewish family, they think their luxurious garden walls will protect them from fascism. Micol Finzi Contini (Dominique Sanda) and her brother (Helmut Berger) invite their Jewish friends to join them in the estate for parties, tennis, and games while the war ravages on. Middle-class Jew Giorgio (Lino Capolicchio) attends the parties with his friend Malnate (Fabio Testi). Giorgio and Micol are childhood sweethearts, but she begins to reject him in favor of Malnate. She also refuses to accept that there's a war going on. Eventually they can pretend no longer, and the war closes in on them. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 1971. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
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In the GCN Lab, we probably use cloning software more often than most agency administrators — at least, if they're lucky. At the conclusion of almost every software review, we use Symantec's Norton Ghost to restore a system to a pristine state. That way the next software we test won't be influenced or disrupted by what has gone before.
Most agencies likely have to perform that cloning process en masse every couple of years — for instance, when buying new systems. By doing so, users all get the same desktop system, which makes them happy because they don't have to learn something new, and it simplifies information technology support.
When you break it down, cloning is the copying of a master image file onto other computers. You set up one system to be whatever you consider the perfect configuration. Then you make a master image of that system. When you need to add new systems, you use a program such as Norton Ghost to copy that image to the other systems. They become identical to the original system — hence, the clone moniker.
The problem is that almost no two systems are the same. In the lab, we can avoid that problem by buying a bunch of identical systems at the same time. However, we need to buy new systems every year or so, and when we do, the new systems can't take the old image because they have different drives, video cards and other equipment. Sometimes you will run into different configurations in the same purchase order. A computer manufacturer might use Western Digital or Hitachi drives, and it might mix and match them without letting the buyer know. If the drives are the same size, you might be OK, but sometimes even that bit of difference can mean an image file won't take.
Of course, making an image file on a Hewlett-Packard desktop PC and then trying to clone it to a Dell computer almost never works. And using a desktop image file for a laptop PC is nearly impossible. Improperly cloned systems often suffer the blue screen of death when critical drivers don't load or the hardware doesn't match the drivers. Another common problem is a rolling boot in which a system keeps booting but never gets to a usable state.
Until now, the only solution was to create multiple image files. You could make one for laptop PCs and one for desktop PCs and further divide them, for example, into Lenovo or Acer laptops and HP or Dell desktops. At some point, you could end up with so many image files that the advantages of cloning become lost or at least diminished.
The Universal Imaging Utility Version 4.0 from Big Bang works with many existing cloning software suites to create a single image that can be copied to multiple systems regardless of hardware. We tested it using Norton Ghost as the cloning engine, and although UIU did not eliminate all the legwork involved in the process, it did greatly simplify things, which is much appreciated in a busy lab. Most agency administrators with anything more than a handful of systems to shepherd will quickly see the advantages.
To get going, you launch the UIU discovery tool on every system that is going to become a clone. That requires some work in most cases, along with the time necessary to get the discovery tool in place. However, the utility will then discover all the critical drivers on the target machine and prepare that information for the main UIU program. When you clone your master image, the clone will maintain every driver that it needs to function and not allow any unnecessary or harmful driver to make the transition.
That means you are not getting a true clone on the other end. A user who is accustomed to a certain desktop environment probably won't notice a difference, but on the back end, you might have drivers that differ from those on the master image. We mention this only because a few agencies require perfect copies of the master image on clones for forensic or security purposes. That won't happen when using UIU.
What you will get is a functional clone that in our testing worked across several platforms. We were even able to clone a desktop PC to a tablet PC. We were given the choice to keep a lot of the tablet PC functionality or trick the system into thinking that it was still a desktop PC in a new body. Either of those options would be impossible when using just Norton Ghost.
Although cloning from a desktop PC to a tablet PC is not something you will probably want to do often, moving from one desktop to another, or a laptop to a laptop, is a common chore when new systems are purchased. With UIU in place, the master image we created on a Dell XPS desktop PC was successfully replicated to a Lenovo desktop PC. And it didn't even matter that we went from a single to a dual-core processor or from an nVidia to an ATI graphics card. Although it's not true cloning, the end result was a functional computer that worked just like the master PC did, right down to the individual settings.
UIU won't eliminate all the work involved in the cloning process, but it will save time by resolving driver and hardware conflicts before one bit of data is transferred. And it will save you even more time because you won't have to create multiple master image files. For those reasons alone, UIU could become the cloner's best friend.
Big Bang, 888-446-7898, www.binaryresearch.net/uiu
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Stalag 17
Stalag 17 is flawed, but entertaining Billy Wilder. It's not in the great director's top tier, which would include Sunset Boulevard, Double Indemnity, and Some Like It Hot. Some might put The Apartment in that top group, but I would put it in the second group with Ace In The Hole, Witness For The Prosecution, and Stalag 17 (that third level of his films is also still very interesting and might include One, Two, Three, The Major And The Minor, Kiss Me, Stupid, Sabrina, and The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes).
Stalag 17 is the story of WWII American soldiers, prisoners of war in a Nazi camp, based on a popular play by Donald Bevan and Edmund Trzcinski. In recent years there was talk that director Spike Lee was going to restage it on Broadway with British actor Clive Owen, but it never happened. The film adaptation by director Wilder and Edwin Blum is said to follow the stage version pretty closely. It's been made less stagy by opening it up, out of the barracks and into the camp around them. The POWs live a boring and cramped life, working whenever possible to put one over on their German captors. One POW, Sefton (William Holden), is an "operator" trading favors with the guards, running a still and a betting track. He is a survivor, in it for himself. When he places bets against his fellow Americans it alienates him from his prison mates even more.Continue Reading


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It has come to my attention that I've neglected this space for over a year now. As of now I spend my days working and my evenings as a student. Before being a student again it was summer in the northwest which is no time to be indoors. Before that, I have no idea. I can barely remember what I had for dinner last night (oh, wait, cereal.)
A lot has happened in the last year. It's been the usual eating great food, traveling, falling face first into love (yeah! And ugh!), pushing on my career, visiting family, turned 30-something again, and in general kept my shit together enough to function as a "adult" – whatever that means.
So let's just pretend it's only been a few weeks since my last post and we're just picking up where we left off.
The cycling studio I go to now offers Dynamax Medball class that consists of throwing 6-8 pound balls at a wall. This has been incredibly therapeutic since throwing things at people is generally frowned upon. I've been going to this studio now for about 6 months, 5 – 6 days a week, now and I've got some triceps and shoulders to show for it. That's exciting. My abs are still hidden under some impermeable layer of insulation, but whatever. More importantly it keeps the crazy in check.
It's the middle of football season which is hard for born, raised, and educated in Washingtonians. The Huskies are struggling, the Seahawks are struggling, the games are generally in outdoor stadiums in miserable weather, your rival teams are generally a lot better than you, we "coug" it more often than not, and yet, we're still here, loud and proud.
My cleaning lady comes tomorrow. Yes, I have a cleaning lady for my 600 square foot apartment because some people pay for therapy, and I pay for someone to clean my house as an anxiety-reducing methods. Even I have my limits of living in my own filth. I also keep a healthy dose of chocolate in the freezer as medicine for real-time anxiety needs.
I miss writing for me and channeling my thoughts and observations. I have writing assignments due Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays which is what absorbs my writing/staring at a computer capacity. I write about 4-6 pages a week on laws, regulations, guidelines, and ethics governing the pharmaceutical industry and the FDA. It is really interesting but I cannot be as hilarious in those forums as I can here.
Hmmmm, what else….
The Mr. travels quite a bit for work and I'm pretty absorbed with work and school, but on the rare occasion we have night in my favorite thing to do it get Thai food for the corner place, settle in for the night, and watch Blacklist. It's so good and so problematic but it doesn't stop us from watching it. Does anyone else struggle with the time/space continuum they chose to employ? It makes no freakin sense.
I get a massage once a week which I cannot emphasize enough how amazing it is. I have problematic hips and shoulders, mostly because I sit like Quasimodo at my desk for 10-12 hours a day (or curled up in a ball on my couch on Pinterest- same same). Let's just all get massages and stop killing each other. The secret to world peace is being kind to yourself so you can be kind to others. Let's do that.
I discovered my second grey hair this weekend. That ruin everything. Just kidding – it just killed my youthful spirit, that's all.
Big news here in Seattle. The gum wall is gone. That shit is disgusting. So gross. Let's stop.
Well, off to that massage in which she will flatten me into a pancake and I will be technology-free, if only for an hour.
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Doors open at 11a.m and there is free bike parking
The SF Bike Expo is one of the coolest bike events in the Bay Area and it attracts quite a diverse crowd of cycling enthusiasts. It's a bit leaner and meaner this year, as the event will be held on Saturday November 16 for one day and will focus on the swap meet aspect. For the first time ever, entry to the expo hall is FREE.
Phil Segura is the main man of SF Bike Expo and he explains, "You'll find all things Cycling at the SF Bike Expo. This year we have put a strong focus on all the great products and services that the cycling industry continues to make available, and manufacturers from across the USA are coming to show. Of course our famous bike swap meet will take place, and that remains the best place to find great deals and hard-to-find parts. There is no doubt that our event helps put more bikes out in the world. It's going to be another great SF Bike Expo!"
So far, more than 50 manufacturers have signed up to show their wares along with an additional 230 booth spaces for dozens of cycling teams, bike clubs (the low rider bike club is one of my favorites) and individual sellers and traders. For a full, current list of exhibitors and sponsors, check out this list on the SF Bike Expo website. The South Hall of the Cow Palace provides 48,000 sq. ft. of expo area. RoadBikeReview.com and Mtbr.com are proud sponsors of the Expo along with Bern protective gear, Bicycle Times and Dirt Rag magazines, and Oz Racing- a soft goods brand and manufacturer in the Philippines.
Handmade bicycle enthusiasts are once again offered the opportunity of a complementary on-site photo session for their beautiful bicycles at the Handmade Bicycle Guide studio. Valet bike parking is free and will be provided by Potrero Bicycle Works, and the expo hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Auto parking is $10 and attendees are requested to arrive by bicycle or to ride share. Our advice to all those looking to score a deal on bike stuff, come early!
What: San Francisco Bicycle Expo
Where: Cow Palace, 2600 Geneva Avenue, Daly City, California
When: November 16th, 2013, 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Who: All kinds of cyclist looking for the best deals on cycling equipment of every type.
Admission: FREE
About San Francisco Bicycle Expo:
All things Cycling! Founded in 2008 and produced by rideSFO, the San Francisco Bicycle Expo represents the myriad interests of the Bay Area's vast cycling community, from fashion and apparel to backyard bicycle fabricators www.sfbikeexpo.com
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Jimmy Kimmel staged a (partial) Friends reunion on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night, debuting some of the fan fiction he wrote about the show in a set that's an exact replica of Monica's kitchen on the show.
The hardest Friends quiz you'll ever take
In the scene he wrote, Kimmel stands in for David Schwimmer to play Ross, with Rachel (an exasperated Jennifer Aniston), Monica (Courteney Cox) and Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) all remarking, naturally, on Ross' excellent skills in the sack. The result? Let's just say that Kimmel's better off sticking to talk show hosting rather than pursuing a career as a screenwriter.
Check out the skit below to see if Kimmel gets the liplock he's gunning for — and to find out what happened to Chandler (Matthew Perry) and Joey (Matt LeBlanc) in his version of the show:


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My current research interest focuses on several questions about the conditions under which bonobos have evolved and how this development has shaped their social behaviour. What were the causes for the divergent evolution of the two Pan species, the bonobo and the chimpanzee? How different are the two sister species? Have males and females been affected differently by the divergent development and if so, what were the driving forces to induce changes in one but not the other sex? In order to tackle these questions, I am using information from wild bonobos observed at Lomako (1989-1998) and LuiKotale (since 2002). In addition, my current interest focuses on developmental processes in bonobos and chimpanzees. Integrating data on developmental changes in physiology, behavior and morphology is one way to explore the emergence of differences in social behavior that are so prominent in adult individuals.


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Yosemite celebrates all that is great about the hop Simcoe – it's bursting with Simcoe's signature notes of pine and passionfruit.- Learn more about Fourpure x Flavourly
We sent a survey out to the Flavourly community, asking you to tell us what you wanted us to brew next. You came out in your droves, telling us your favourite beers, styles and brewers. Over 2,000 responses later, we had a pretty good idea of what you wanted to drink. The next stage was to find a brewing partner who could make those beery dreams a reality. We decided to aim high and it truly paid off.
Fourpure decided they wanted to get involved too – and we couldn't say no to that!
Based in London, Fourpure are legends of the UK craft beer scene. Inspired by travel and adventure, their beers are both traditional and innovative, respecting the four core ingredients of beer. We are over the moon to partnering with them.View the Fourpure x Flavourly page
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Summertime is wonderful for so many reasons but high on my list is ice cream and popsicles. My family loves to experiment with different ingredients and make homemade popsicles with different fruit juices and yogurts. Try some of our favorite recipes and use these Norpro Ice Pop Molds. They are great because they make 10 large popsicles at a time, the plastic is dishwasher safe, and the aluminum top secures the stick in place while the ingredients are still liquid. Also, you can layer colored ingredients with the stick in place, now that's a gourmet popsicle! Plus you get that retro popsicle look which is fun for all. Get them in our shop for just $17.
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Banana Blueberry Swirl Popsicles
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NYC has the best vegan desserts – hands down!
A couple weeks ago, I blogged about Dojo, a cheap & yummy NYC eatery, where I locked eyes with the deliciously hot David Duchovny (don't tell my hubby I said that!) 😉 Well, if you ever happen to make it out to Dojo, you better save room for dessert. Just a few yards away is a scrumptious vegan friendly bakery called Little Atlas. They have some of the tastiest vegan desserts I have ever had in my life! Seriously, I fantasize about their peanut butter bomb brownie like, every day. Their desserts are affordable, too! Vegan cake slices (Death by Chocolate, Peanut Butter Bomb, Hazelnut Delight and Carrot Cake) are $4.75 each and their vegan brownies (Plain Double Chocolate, Peanut Butter Crumb, Peanut Butter Bomb and Peppermint) are $2.75 each.
I'll let these photos speak for themselves…
Little Atlas also has amazing vegan soups, salads, shakes and sandwiches… but personally, I'm all about the SUGAR!
For more info: Little Atlas
6 West 4th St.
Bet. Broadway & Mercer St.
New York, New York 10003
Tel: 212-253-5535
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This all looks pretty delicious!!
I love anything with peanut butter in it!
Hi, loved your photos and just want to let you know that the desserts carried by Little Atlas are from Vegan Treats. They are an incredible vegan bakery and I would suggest that your next trip be to their shoppe in Bethlehem, PA!
Obviously, I am a huge fan: http://a-soy-bean.blogspot.com/search/label/Vegan%20Treats
Omg, those look delicious!!
*whimper* all of it looks amazing
Holy crap! Is that 1st picture of the Peanut Butter Bomb brownie? That thing looks cra-zy good.
I'd kill for a vegan yogurt covered pretzel!


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MEMORY TEXT: "Holy and reverend is his name" (Psalm 111:9).
HISTORIANS AND PUNDITS often try to give names and labels to various eras: the Age of Reason, the Age of Aquarius, the Lost Generation, the Age of Deceit, the Modem Era, the Post Modern Era, and so forth. The labels only loosely fit, because they describe only a part of the whole, rarely the whole itself.
If, however, we were to try to label our time, perhaps one label could catch, if not the whole, at least a good part of it, and that would be: the Age of Irreverence. Nothing is sacred these days. In books and magazines, on television, radios, and billboards, few things are taboo. Religion, sex, faith, familyeverything is fair game to be mocked, satirized, teased, and distorted. Recently a famous politician's marriage infidelities were the subject of a comedian's actwhile the politician and his wife sat in the audience, listened, and laughed!
Is nothing sacred? Fortunately, not everyone has lost a sense of reverence. For followers of Jesus, reverence should be one of the premier manifestations of faith. This week, as we continue to look at the results of being forgiven, we'll look at a subject that deserves, especially in this, the Age of Irreverence, a whole quarter's study.
THE WEEK AT A GLANCE: Why should we show God reverence? How does the Cross play into the idea of reverence? How is obedience linked to the concept of reverence?
*Please study this weeks lesson to prepare for Sabbath, May 31.
Sunday May 25
"Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts" (Isa. 6:5).
Read Isaiah 6:1-5, which gives the context of Isaiah's outburst in verse 5. What makes it even more remarkable is that Isaiah is a chosen prophet of the Lord, someone who obviously had a divine calling. Yet, when presented with a vision of God, he recoiled in personal shame.
What was the one word Isaiah used twice to describe himself and his people? Was he talking about something physical or spiritual? Explain your answer. How do these few verses help us understand what he meant: Isaiah 64:6, Zechariah 3:3, and Revelation 3:18?
The big problem, particularly in the modern world, is that people do not see their own uncleanliness, their own sinfulness. That is because they are comparing themselves to others or to the world around them. People always can find others to compare themselves with who are worse then they are. After all, it is hard to see dirt against a dark background.
Contrasted against the background of God's righteousness and holiness, however, that problem vanishes. On the contrary, as Isaiah's example shows, no one who comes into contact with God in such a manner comes away unaware of his or her own personal sinfulness.
Perhaps that is what the world needs: a glimpse of the holiness of God. Because only then will individuals not only see their true state, they will seek a remedy. Which, of course, is where Christ, the Cross, and the gospel come in. Indeed, God's revelation of His holiness was not intended to devastate Isaiah or us. God reveals Himself to us in order to humble us, not to humiliate us. There is a difference. When we are humbled, we sense our need and seek to have that need supplied; we feel helpless but not hopeless. When we are humiliated, we feel devastated and beyond hope. The revelation of God's holiness never devastates. It brings healing.
|Read Isaiah 6:6, 7. What happened to Isaiah after he acknowledged his sinful state? What did the Lord do for him? How do we understand what that means? How do we understand the coal on the lips in the context of the gospel? How is our iniquity taken away and our sins purged?
"But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man" (Heb. 2:9).
Look at the above text. What is it saying? What are the implications of it, particularly in the context of reverence toward God?
Sure, we revere God because He is the Creator, and we are His creatures (Ps. 100:3). Sure, we revere God because He is a consuming fire (Deut. 4:24), because He is a merciful God (Deut. 4:31), because He is mighty (Deut. 7:21), a powerful God (Ps. 29:4), and because He can do all things (Luke 1:37).
Yet, however good all those reasons are, there is one reason that is by far the best, and that is because He is a forgiving God, a God who does not impute our trespasses against us, a God who will blot out our sins, a God who through the sacrifice of Himself has opened the way for such miserable and sinful creatures as ourselves to be granted eternal life in His presence and the presence of the holy angels for eternity.
Think about it: Jesus, the One who sustains and upholds all things (Acts 17:28), who died as a Substitute for the sins of the whole world (1 Cor. 5:7), who is equal with God (Phil. 2:6), the One who made all things (Col. 1:16), who became a human being and lived a life of perfect holiness (Heb. 2:10). When you look at the Cross and realize that this was God, the Creator, hanging there, dying for His own creation, how can we not have a sense of reverence, of awe? Sure, by virtue of who God is, as God, as Creator, we would owe Him awe and reverence. Even if He didn't die for us, His exalted status in contrast to us alone would make Him worthy of praise and reverence.
But when you add the element of the Cross, when you add the element of what was done at the Cross for us, the forgiveness of sin that was made available to us because of the Crossthe awe, the reverence, the love can only grow.
|Of all the reasons we have to revere the Lord, whyfrom our perspective (that of fallen, sinful creatures)is the fact that He is a forgiving God the best reason for us to revere Him?
Look up the following texts. What does each one say about "the name of the Lord" that helps us understand what that concept means and what's contained in it?
Exod. 20:7 ____________________________________________________________
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Job 1:21 ______________________________________________________________
Ps. 20:7 _______________________________________________________________
Ps. 116:4 ______________________________________________________________
Matt. 6:9 ______________________________________________________________
Rom. 10:13 ____________________________________________________________
James 5:14 ____________________________________________________________
A mong modern Orthodox Jews today, the name of the Lord is considered so sacred that it's deemed blasphemy to say it. Instead, they often call the Lord HaShem, which simply means in Hebrew "the name."
Nevertheless, it is clear from the above texts that the name of the Lord is deemed as something important, something sacred, something powerful. It is not that any inherent magical powers emanate from the name itself; instead, it's what the name represents that evokes the kind of awe and reverence the Bible says it deserves.
In Bible times, a name was often closely linked with what it named, more so than now. Look, for example, at Romans 10:13. There is no salvation in the name itself; salvation is found in Whom it represents, Jesus. Look at Psalm 20:7. Deliverance is found not in the name of God itself (as though something in the sound of the vowels and consonants had power) but in the God who is named there. In the Bible, God is so closely associated with His names that they are often used in a manner that is indistinguishable. That is why the Bible is so clear about why we should use the name with reverence. To profane the name is, in an indirect sense, to profane the One who is named.
|So often, in many languages, the name of God is used as a curse. Why would the devil be glad to have people use God's name in such a manner?
"Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters" (Rev. 14:7).
If the first and most important commandment is to love God with all our heart and soul (Matt. 22:37), why, then, does the first angel's message tell us to "fear God"? Can we love what we fear? The answer depends upon our understanding of fear. A few times in the Hebrew Bible, the word translated "reverence" (Lev. 19:30; 26:2; Ps. 89:7) comes from the same word that is commonly translated "fear."
Look up those two verses in Leviticus. They can help us see that the idea of "fearing" God isn't to be afraid of Him in the same way we might be afraid of a poisonous snake; instead, to fear God is to hold him in reverence for whom He is in contrast to who we are. To reverence God, to fear Him, is simply to acknowledge how we, as fallen beings, stand in relationship to Him. It is simply to acknowledge the Creator-creature relationship as it should be acknowledged. It is understanding how great, how powerful, and how holy He is in contrast to how small, how weak, and how unholy we really are. This reverence, of course, grows even deeper as we understand our relationship to Him as our Redeemer, as well.
"True reverence for God is inspired by a sense of His infinite greatness and a realization of His presence. With this sense of the Unseen, every heart should be deeply impressed. The hour and place of prayer are sacred, because God is there. And as reverence is manifested in attitude and demeanor, the feeling that inspires it will be deepened. 'Holy and reverend is His name,' the psalmist declares. Psalm 111:9. Angels, when they speak that name, veil their faces. With what reverence, then, should we, who are fallen and sinful, take it upon our lips!"Ellen G. White, Prophets and Kings, pp. 48, 49.
|It is one thing to say we reverence God; it is another to manifest
it. How are we to show that reverence? Is it merely lowering our heads in
prayer or bowing on our knees when we pray (a few places in the Old Testament
the Hebrew word translated to do "reverence" comes from a verb that means
"to bow down"). Or is there more to it? If so, what?
"Ye shall walk after the Lord your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him" (Deut. 13:4).
"Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man" (Eccles. 12:13).
As followers of Christ, above and beyond everything else, we stand forgiven.
No matter what we have done, we can, by faith, claim the righteousness of Jesus, a righteousness He not only wrought out in His own life but freely offers to us. All we have to do is accept it, and then, no matter how sinful our lives have been, we can stand before God as perfect in His sight as was Jesus. Our sins are no longer held against us. They are forgiven.
As a result, our lives are transformed (How could they not be?), and we determine, by His grace, to "shew forth the praises of him who hath called [us] out of darkness into his marvellous light" (1 Pet. 2:9). We will want to be the kind of persons He desires His people to be "in all holy conversation and godliness, looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God." We will look "according to his promise... for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness" and will "be diligent" in order that we "may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless" (2 Pet. 3:11-14).
All this, of course, means obedience. There is no question that if we love God we will reverence Him, and reverence implies more than just uttering praises to Him or bowing down when we pray. We truly cannot revere God without obeying Him.
|Notice how the two texts for today clearly link fear or reverence
of God with obedience to His commandments (it also does the same thing with
love for God, as well: see
John 5:2, 3). How can one show respect, or reverence, to someone or something
and then blatantly defy the will of the one they claim to revere? It's like
telling someone you love him or her but then overtly and blatantly defying
all that you know that person stands for. Why can we not truly revere God
while being openly disobedient to Him? How does the Sabbath play into this
whole concept of reverence?
Write out in your own words why you believe true reverence for God will be manifested in obedience.
Humility and reverence should characterize the deportment of all who come into the presence of God. In the name of Jesus we may come before Him with confidence, but we must not approach Him with the boldness of presumption, as though He were on a level with ourselves. There are those who address the great and all-powerful and holy God, who dwelleth in light unapproachable, as they would address an equal, or even an inferior. There are those who conduct themselves in His house as they would not presume to do in the audience chamber of an earthly ruler. These should remember that they are in His sight whom seraphim adore, before whom angels veil their faces. God is greatly to be reverenced; all who truly realize His presence will bow in humility before Him, and, like Jacob beholding the vision of God, they will cry out, 'How dreadful is this place! This is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven."Ellen G. White, Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 252.
J. H. Zachary
When Pravadras learned that the God of heaven sent Jesus to die for the sins of the world, he and his wife decided to become Christians. After a year of Bible study, his pastor urged him to share his faith with others. Pravadras helped his pastor on weekends and evenings and eventually studied theology and became a Protestant minister.
After graduation, he moved to a large village and began door-to-door evangelism, looking for Hindus who would come to Jesus. As interest grew, he raised funds and constructed a church.
Among Pravadras's members was a woman who had been praying for help for her church family. One day she dreamed that a helicopter landed in the center of her village. A man stepped out and told her, "All the villagers have dirty spots in their lives. God will remove the spots and make you clean if you follow His teachings."
When she told Pastor Pravadras about the dream, he replied, "Yes, God has more light for us, which we will follow."
A few days later, Pastor Pravadras went to another city to attend a wedding. While there, he heard about a Christian meeting being conducted by a pastor from America. He decided that he would go to one meeting before returning home. However, the meetings were so interesting that he decided to attend the entire series. He was amazed at the Bible knowledge of the pastor and noted that every point was clearly based on Scripture.
Pravadras realized that for 36 years he had not been keeping the Bible Sabbath. Late into the night he reviewed the Bible verses the pastor had presented. How could he have been teaching error for so long and leading others in error too? He asked God to forgive him and decided to follow this new truth God had revealed from the Bible.
At the close of the meetings Pravadras returned home to share the news with his wife and church members. Soon he and his wife were rebaptized. As he presented the new truths to his congregation, they joined him in commitment to God's new light and also joined the Adventist Church. Since Pravadras built his own church, it did not belong to any denomination. The church became the Adventist church.
"My wife and I have dedicated the rest of our lives to sharing the new Bible truths we have learned," Pastor Pavadras testified. He and his wife are sharing the new truths in 14 nearby villages.
J. H. Zachary is coordinator of international evangelism for The Quiet Hour.
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Sunday, June 14, 2009
No Words....There Are No Words
Thank you Los Angeles Lakers....thank you, what an amazing season and an incredible ride.
Very Proud Fan
3 comments:
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Congratulations, Gorgeous!
When I knew that the Lakers had clinched Game 5 the first person I thought of was you. I would have loved to have been the guy pouring Champagne over you in celebration--cheap Champagne, mind you, the good stuff goes down the gullet.
I'm hoping the Laker luck continues on through the Dodgers. If Pittsburgh can win the Super Bowl and the Stanley Cup, LA can take basketball and baseball.
Enjoy the moment, Sam, Darling. I hope you are able to celebrate in the tried and true, traditional method of great basketball fans everywhere--set a cop car on fire!
Your HoseMaster
- June 15, 2009 at 8:41 AM
- Ashley Lauren said...
I love my Lakers from afar, San Diego to be exact. Never thought about combining them into my blog but you've shown me that wine gets put with any damn thing I want.
Game 5 rules!
- June 15, 2009 at 9:25 AM
- Samantha Dugan said...
Thank you so much for thinking of me and the virtual bubble bath! I was such a dork, started tearing up in the last minute...like I told ya, life long fan, could not have been happier. I take that back, I would have been happier if a bunch of douchebags had NOT caused a bunch of damage in the name of a Lakers victory, hate that shit. Now I'm sportsless until football season, not a baseball fan. But my love of the Colts is nothing like my love of the Lakers.
It's ALL about passion right? Wine, food, sports...they all have the ability to thrill, and break your heart...what is sexier than that?! Thanks for taking the time to post and game 5 did indeed RULE!
- June 15, 2009 at 4:19 PM


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2000 City return to the Premiership following back-to-back promotions. A 4-1 victory over Blackburn at Ewood Park to seal promotion is followed by a celebratory pitch invasion by the Blues' enormous travelling support.
2002 Future manager Stuart Pearce captains City as they are promoted back to the Premiership, breaking club records for the most goals scored and most points gained in a season along the way.
2003 It's an emotional farewell to Maine Road as City's home for 80 years stages its last football match, City vs. Southampton on Sunday 11th May. The club make the move to the impressive, 48,000 capacity, City of Manchester Stadium.
2007 Sven Goran Eriksson replaces Stuart Pearce as manager, and on 15th December City establish a 'top flight' club-record of nine straight home League wins at the start of the season.
2008 The Abu Dhabi United Group become the new owners of Manchester City. Former Wales, Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Manchester United star Mark Hughes becomes the new City Manager. The club break the British transfer record for the second time with the £32.5m signing of Robinho from Real Madrid.
2009 Roberto Mancini, former manager of Inter Milan replaces Mark Hughes in December.
2010 The Blues enjoy their best ever Premier League campaign, finishing 5th and qualifying for the Europa League in the process, as well as reaching the League Cup semi finals.
2011 The long wait for a trophy ends when the Blues beat Stoke 1-0 to lift the FA Cup, and they qualify for the 2011/12 Champions League for the first time too!
2012 City win the League Championship for the first time in 44 years following a thrilling Premier League campaign. A last-gasp Sergio Aguero goal against QPR secures the title in the most dramatic of fashions at a jubilant Etihad Stadium.
2014 Manuel Pellegrini's side clinch two trophies in one season for the first time since 1970, lifting the Capital One Cup and Premier League title. A 3-1 win over Sunderland at Wembley in March earns the Club's first League Cup win since 1976 before the Blues go on to win the League Championship by two points.
2016 In February, City lift the League Cup for the second time in three seasons, winning a shootout against Liverpool following a 1-1 draw at Wembley. Willy Caballero saves three penalties in a row to clinch the third trophy of Manuel Pellegrini's reign. Earlier in the same month it's announced that Pep Guardiola will replace Pellegrini in the summer after agreeing a three-year contract with the Club.
2018: City beat Arsenal 3-0 to win the Carabao Cup at Wembley.
2018: City crowned Premier League champions for the fifth time after a record-breaking campaign under Pep Guardiola.
2019: City beat Chelsea on penalties to win Carabao Cup at Wembley.
2019: City beat Brighton and are confirmed as Premier League champions for the sixth time in the Club's history.
2019: City win FA Cup with record-equalling 6-0 win over Watford
2020: City win third-successive League Cup with 2-1 win over Aston Villa.
European Cup Winners Cup
Football League Runners-Up
1903-04, 1920-21, 1976-77, 2012-13
Division One Runners-Up
Division Two Runners-up (original)
1895-96, 1950-51, 1988-89
FA Cup Winners
1904, 1934, 1956, 1969, 2011, 2019
League Cup Winners
1970, 1976, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020
FA Community/Charity Shield Winners
1937-38, 1968-69, 1972-73, 2012-13, 2018-19, 2019-20
FA Youth Cup Winners
1986, 2008
Most league goals in a season
108 in Division Two 1926-27 (42 games) & Division One 2001-02 (46 games)
Most points (2 for a win)
62 in Division Two 1946-47
Most capped player
David Silva (Spain)
League Champions
1936-37, 1967-68, 2011-12, 2013-14, 2017-18, 2018-19
Division One Champions
Division Two Champions (original)
1898-99, 1902-03, 1909-10, 1927-28, 1946-47, 1965-66
Division Two Play-Off Winners
FA Cup Runners-up
1926, 1933, 1955, 1981, 2013
League Cup Runners-up
Full Members Cup Runners-up
Reserve League Champions
1977-78, 1986-87, 1999-2000
FA Women's Super League Champions
Continental Tyres Cup Winners
2014, 2016, 2019
Continental Tyres Cup Runners-Up
FA Women's Cup Winners
2017, 2019
Most League goals by one player in a season
38 by Tommy Johnson in Division One 1928-29
Most points (3 for a win)
100 in Premier League 2017-18
1992 The FA Premier League is formed, with City v QPR being the first ever live Monday night Sky game.
1994 City say farewell to the much loved Kippax Stand as legislation forces the closure of terracing at Premier League grounds. In its day the 'Kippax' was the largest standing area in the country.
1995/96 A dramatic season sees City appoint three different managers; Alan Ball, Steve Coppell and Frank Clark as well as significant spells as caretaker for Asa Hartford and Phil Neal.
1997 City unveil a new club badge. This new design features the Latin motto "Superbia in proelio" meaning 'Pride in battle'.
1999 One of the most dramatic games ever played at Wembley sees City promoted after a penalty shoot-out against Gillingham in the Division Two Play-Off.
1981 City reach the 100th FA Cup final against Spurs. Following a 1-1 draw on the Saturday, a replay was played again at Wembley, regarded as one of the most entertaining Cup finals ever. City were narrowly defeated 3-2 following a famous Ricky Villa goal but for City fans, Steve Mackenzie's 30 yard volley was the better strike.
1986 City play in the inaugural Full Members' Cup final at Wembley before a crowd of 68,000.
1987 A club record 10-1 demolition of Huddersfield Town is recorded at Maine Road in 1987.
1989 City are promoted in dramatic style in the last game of the season at Bradford. The highest-ever Maine Road derby win is recorded with City thumping neighbours United 5-1.
1970 City complete a brilliant European and domestic cup double by winning the European Cup Winners Cup and the League Cup.
1972 The City badge is replaced with the red rose of Lancashire.
1974 City lose the League Cup final to Wovles.
1976 The Blues beat Newcastle United 2-1 at Wembley, with goals goals from Peter Barnes and a spectacular over-head kick from Dennis Tueart.
1979 The club break the transfer record, signing Steve Daley for £1,450,277. Within 2 years the Blues became the first side to sign three individual £1m+ players (Kevin Reeves & Trevor Francis were the other two).
1965 A new club badge is developed in 1965, based around the central part of the City of Manchester coat of arms.
1966 City are promoted as champions of Division Two, under the management team of Joe Mercer and Malcolm Allison.
1968 The Blues defeat Newcastle United on the final day of the season to clinch the League Championship for the second time.
1969 Manchester City beat Leicester City 1-0 at Wembley to win the FA Cup.
1955 City lose to Newcastle in the 1955 FA Cup Final at Wembley
1956 The Blues play their second successive FA Cup Final, this time beating Birmingham 3-1 to lift the trophy – their homecoming parade is the first outside transmission by Granada Television.
1958 The Munich AirDisaster devastates Manchester United's first team squad and also kills several journalists including former City goalkeeper Frank Swift.
1947 City are promoted as Champions of Division Two.
1949 The MCFC Official Supporters Club is formed.
1939 to 1945 World War 2
A Wartime League is set up with City playing in the Northern division. Substantial damage to Old Trafford means United are forced to play their home games at Maine Road. However City would never allow United usage of the home team changing room when the two teams met!
1934 After losing the final last year, City beat Portsmouth 2-1 to lift the FA Cup.
1934 A record provincial crowd of 84,569 is recorded at Maine Road when the Blues entertain Stoke City.
1937 Manchester City win the League Championship for the first time.
1920 City's Hyde Road ground becomes the first provincial football stadium to be visited by a reigning monarch.
1923 After Hyde Road is destroyed by fire, the club moves to the 85,000 capacity Maine Road.
1926 A topsy-turvy year for the Blues – manager-less City become first Manchester side to play at Wembley (FA Cup runners-up), record the highest Manchester derby victory (6-1 at Old Trafford) and suffer relegation in the same season.
1928 City promoted as Champions of Division Two – and are the Football League's best-supported club.
1914 to 1918 World War 1
League football is suspended from 1915-1919, though regional Subsidiary tournaments are still in place with City taking part in the Lancashire division.
1875 - 1910
1880 St Mark's Church forms a football team which would later evolve into MCFC.
1884 The first known 'City shirt' is created – in black, with a Maltese-style cross. Some say this is because of the club's strong links with Freemasonry in the 1880s, others believe the white cross proves the link with St Mark's was still strong.
1887 St Mark's team evolves into Ardwick AFC and moves to Hyde Road.
1889 An explosion at the nearby Hyde Road coal mine results in the death of 23 miners – Ardwick and Newton Heath play a friendly match under floodlights in aid of the disaster fund.
1892 The second division of the English Football League is created, with Ardwick AFC as founder members.
1894 Ardwick AFC reforms as Manchester City Football Club, in a bid to represent the whole city.
1889 City finish champions of Division Two, becoming the first team to gain automatic promotion.
1904 The Blues beat Bolton Wanderers in the FA Cup final at Crystal Palace, becoming the first Manchester side to win a major trophy.


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RUSH: We welcome to the program this afternoon Senator Rand Paul from Kentucky. Senator, you got some sleep last night, I trust?As anyone at all familiar with the Rush Limbaugh show would know, Rush does 3 hours. (If you subtract the commercials, it's less than 2 hours.) So right at the outset, Rush knows Paul doesn't pay much attention to the show.
PAUL: Well, I did, but, you know, I was thinking of you when I was in the middle of this 13-hours. I got about five hours into it and I was like, "Well, Rush does four hours of this every day. Certainly I can do four more hours."
RUSH: (chuckling) That's awfully nice of you to say, but I doubt that I was in your thoughts last night, although I appreciate the comment.This seems like a corresponding self-deprecating pleasantry, but listening to the podcast, I translated "I doubt that I was in your thoughts" to: I know you don't care about me.


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A Sandwich A Day: Vegetable & Goat Cheese Panino at Rubirosa
A new sandwich every day.
In this great city of ours, one could eat a different sandwich every day of the year—so that's what we'll do. Here's A Sandwich a Day, our daily look at sandwiches around New York. Got a sandwich we should check out? Let us know. —The Mgmt.
We've enjoyed Rubirosa's killer Italian sandwiches several times before, so when we heard that they were adding a couple new friends to the lunch menu, we were eager to try them out. On paper, the Vegetable & Goat Cheese Panino ($10) seems like a straightforward vegetarian option—a handful of vegetables to replace juicy meats. The actual result is a veggie sandwich done incredibly right.
The mix of peppers, zucchini, eggplant, yellow squash, and onion is a relatively standard selection, but grilling elevates them to quality sandwich material. These veggies, unlike many supposedly 'grilled' or 'roasted' preparations, feature the mix of sweetness and slightly charred grill flavor from what is likely a rather lengthy stint of actual grilling in the kitchen. We would have preferred a bit more seasoning on the veggies, but this is a tiny complaint, especially with the added saltiness of both pesto and goat cheese. Stacked up on two slices of nutty, toasted wheat bread, the filling spills out from the edges and quickly saturate the bottom slice. Despite these structural difficulties, this vegetarian sandwich is a joy to eat.
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I have a lovely habit of wasting time on one of my favorite websites : ShopStyle. It's like having the world as a closet and being able to create outfits form millions and millions of articles. It's addicting. I am warning you now.
I am also a big fan of Dita. You know who I am talking about. She inspires me and well frankly, I wish I had her waredrobe and work-out regime!
I created some looks from pictures of Dita Von Teese found off of Google. It was time-consuming but fun to browse thousands of pieces of clothing and accessories, looking for that one perfect piece to illustrate her outfits.


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PHOTOPHILE- Getting personal: Holiday visitors meet a 'President'
Monday was Presidents Day, and at Ash Lawn Highland, people came from all over to visit President James Monroe (Dennis Bigelow) and tour his home. About 120 people of various ages came for a personal introduction to the man and life in the 1800s. Although it was a bit brisk outside, the sun was shining and it was a gorgeous day to visit the home of our fifth president.
President James Monroe (Dennis Bigelow) prepares to welcome his guests.
E.T. Pedersen and Kirsten Fosdal from Alexandria listen attentively to "President Monroe"
Richmonders Craig Coffey and sons, Davis and Sy, enjoy the President's stories
Kent Diduch from Staunton
The Diduch girls learn about 1800s cooking techniques.


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Ol' Myrt here was quickly reading her Google Reader between SLIG classes this morning, when I noticed the Genealogy Insider Diane Haddad of Family Tree Magazine had posted a blog entry titled Ancestry.com Adds Swedish Church Records From Genline.
First, this concerns me, because I've always liked the viewer at Genline.
Secondly, I've learned most about Mr. Myrt's Swedish ancestry by talking with Genline's North American contact Kathy Meade at national and regional genealogy conferences at the Genline booth. I am worried that with the Ancestry.com acquisition of Genline, Kathy and her expertise may get lost in the shuffle.
Now, I have a new concern brought to my attention by well-regarded Swedish research specialist Elisabeth Thorsell via Facebook email. I am quoting only in part until I have Elisabeth's permission to publish her full email. Elisabeth states:
Ancestry.com describes this collection saying: "About Sweden, Church Records, 1500-1937 - The Sweden Church Records collection contains nearly 18 million images scanned from microfilm/microfiche of the original church records. The microfilms are direct copies of the masters housed at the Swedish National Archives in Stockholm."
Elisabeth explains "The Genline records are not housed in the Swedish National Archives in Stockholm. The originals are instead kept in the 10 Regional Archives throughout Sweden.
The Genline pictures are not scanned from the original books, they are scanned from 3rd or 4th generations of the microfilms, that were filmed by the LDS Church during the 1950s and 1960s. That the pictures are copies of copies of copies is why they often are of poor quality."
Elizabeth Thorsell has served many years as the secretary of the Swedish Federation of Genealogical Societies (also one of the founders) and served nine years editor of their journal Släkthistoriskt Forum.
Ol' Myrt here doesn't care if the records are scanned from the original, or from a copy as long as the descriptive text explains the true origin.
I hope Ancestry.com will take head from established Swedish research professionals.
Happy family tree climbing!
Myrt :)
Your friend in genealogy.


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LONDON, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- A map prepared by a coalition of advocacy groups shows a wide disparity in child poverty rates in areas in Britain.
The map is based on parliamentary districts, the Daily Mirror reported. The highest rate, 47 percent, was in Manchester Central, while five districts had a rate of only 5 percent.
Manchester was followed by other urban areas: Belfast West in Northern Ireland and Glasgow North East in Scotland at 43 percent. The Ladywood district in Birmingham, Bethnal Green and Bow in London and the Riverside District in Liverpool had rates of 42 percent.
Sheffield Hallam, believed to be the wealthiest district in northern England, Kenilworth and Southam in Warwickshire, Haltemprice and Howden in the East Riding of Yorkshire, South Northamptonshire and Rushcliffe in Nottinghamshire had poverty rates of 5 percent. Sheffield Hallam is represented by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrats.
The map was prepared by End Child Poverty. Enver Solomon, chairman of the campaign, predicted cuts in government benefits will increase the rate of child poverty and leave many families stuck.
"The huge disparities that exist across the country have become more entrenched and are now an enduring reality as many more children are set to become trapped in long term poverty and disadvantage," he said.


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Administrative Resources - Executive Officer
The Interim President is Cecil Lucy, who leads the administration of the university. The diverse areas that come under this structure require the dedication and support from a wide range of professional individuals to meet the needs of our unique students. The executive officers are members of the President's Executive Council (PEC), a twenty-member team that helps all operations of the university run smoothly.
Board of Trustees
Chicago State University is governed by a seven-member Board of Trustees, six members appointed by the Governor, and a student elected by the general student body. The Board's primary objective is to commence service in the public interest to promote and foster the ability of the University to offer courses of instruction, conduct research and offer public services as are now provided and may be prescribed in the future by the Board and to promote and foster the general welfare of the university, students, faculty, and staff.
College Administration
The academic areas come under the leadership of the Provost for Academic and Student Affairs, ably assisted by the individual deans, associate and assistant deans, and directors. The administrative structure areas come under the leadership of both an Executive Vice President for Administrative and External Affairs, and a Vice President of Planning, Research and Sponsored Programs, also assisted by various directors and associate, assistant directors.
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Campus Preparedness
Campus evacuation plans and keep informed about important changes in campus climate.


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Since it gained significant acclaim at the Sundance film festival (where it won the Grand Jury prize), Primer has become known in SF fan circles primarily for its opacity. It is a film that simply cannot be digested after a single viewing--a minimum of two are required simply to figure out the most fundamental principles of its story and invented science, and listening to the commentary from Carruth (who also wrote the script, produced the film, and plays Aaron) is highly recommended. Primer, in other words, is a work that can be appreciated best--perhaps solely--in its secondary format, DVD (which, unfortunately, is not an option for me--my local rental place doesn't carry it. I taped the film off TV and have therefore not listened to the commentary tracks). This is a very strange approach for a filmmaker to take (I remember reading at least one review of the film whose author wondered whether Carruth wasn't at the forefront of a profound change in our perception and consumption of the medium), but it starts to make more sense if one classes the film as a short story--specifically, a time travel story. The good ones are rare, but if you've been lucky enough to come across one, you'll remember how heady and pleasurable the experience of going back and back again to unpick and puzzle out a linear narrative about non-linear characters can be. Primer--short, meticulously plotted, and demanding--has earned its place within this exclusive pantheon.
Part of the reason that Primer is so hard to parse is Carruth's dialogue, almost none of which is expository or explanatory. When they're not referring obliquely to incidents in their shared past to which the viewers are not--and will not become--privy, Abe and Aaron speak almost exclusively in technical jargon. The two are technology workers who, along with two friends, run a side-business out of Aaron's garage, toying with whatever idea catches their fancy, hoping that through hard work and determination they can light upon the next big thing and skyrocket to wealth and fame. Abe and Aaron's project involves retro-engineering a low-temperature superconductor, which they hope to be able to run at room temperature, but what they end up discovering is a practical form of time travel. Once again, there is a standard template, an emotional palette, to this kind of story, one which Carruth eschews completely. He relentlessly downplays Abe and Aaron's research even as it approaches its most frenzied point, and frequently cuts away just as they're about to make an important discovery. Decagrams, volts, the names of elements and of scientific and electronic paraphernalia feature heavily in these scenes, and even as they begin to grasp the magnitude of what they've discovered, Abe and Aaron are focused on the minutiae of their experiments, on the reliability of their equipment or on a method for safely documenting their results.
I'm reminded, once again, of Peter Watts's Blindsight, which makes a similar--although by no means as extensive or as dedicated--a use of technical jargon. In his not-so-positive review of the book at The New York Review of Science Fiction, John Clute writes (first quoting from the book itself):
I'm somewhat in agreement with Clute when it comes to Watts's novel, but the same approach is eerily effective in Carruth's film. Partly, I suspect, it's the visual medium and the live actors delivering the lines that keep them from being entirely dry. Partly, it's that Carruth simply has more courage, more faith in his material than Watts does. There are no "holy shit"s in Primer, and perversely enough it is the absence of such expressions of fear and dismay that engender these feelings in an audience already jaded by fleets of paint-by-numbers technological thrillers. A sense of menace builds precisely because Abe and Aaron are so matter-of-fact, so unemotional, about a discovery that one of them terms "the most important thing a living organism has ever seen," and which they end up using in order to get ahead in the stock market. To my great surprise, Carruth's version of the 'deincentivizing fug of unverb' even serves to reveal the characters' personalities--Aaron, a family man frustrated by the mediocrity of his existence; Abe, lonely and longing for a family of his own--in spite of the fact that these buttoned down (even in their most casual moments, the characters rarely abandon their standard uniform of black slacks, white dress shirt and nondescript tie), fundamentally unremarkable young men rarely react to shock or betrayal with anything more powerful than a sullen silence (credit, obviously, should also be given to Carruth and costar David Sullivan, both of whom imbue these silences with a significant weight of emotion)."Probe's fried," Bates reported. "Spike there at the end. Like it hitAnd so on. (We are never told, by the way, if 11.2 Tesla is right or wrong, or why it matters.) ... most of what I quoted above is undigested geek static, a deincentivizing fug of unverb, as depressive as old cigarette smoke: another iteration of the old NO GRILS ALOUD treehouse argot of hard sf -- I mean, if you don't already know the holy shit significance of 11.2 Tesla you don't belong in *my* tree.
a Parker Spiral, but with a really tight wind."
I didn't need to call up subtitles. It was obvious in the set of her
face, the sudden creases between her eyebrows: she was talking about a
magnetic field.
"It's—" she began, and stopped as a number popped up in ConSensus: 11.2 Tesla.
"Holy shit," Szpindel whispered. "Is that right?"
When things start to go awry for Aaron and Abe, the film's plot goes from complicated to hopelessly knotted, and even after a second viewing I was left with more questions that answers. In the end I resorted to this Wikipedia entry, which neatly breaks down the film to its component timelines. Once I understood the film's events, however, I found myself even more hopelessly confused about its characters' motivations. At the beginning of this piece, I wrote that Aaron and Abe are primarily occupied with the acquisition of knowledge, but that knowledge isn't an end in its own right. For Aaron and Abe, knowledge is the tool that they, as educated people living through the frenzy of the dot com revolution, use to get the things they truly want--wealth, respect, comfort. Which is why each of them, in their turn, betrays the other, traveling further and further back into their past in an attempt to safeguard their possession of the knowledge of time travel. The climax of the film, however, arrives when Aaron carefully orchestrates an act of heroics--when the disgruntled ex-boyfriend of a mutual friend arrives at a party with a shotgun, Aaron rushes him. The voiceover tells us that Aaron goes through several iterations to create a perfect version of this moment, even though in the original reality, in which he didn't even attend the party, no one was hurt. "Don't tell me I did all this for nothing," Aaron desperately tells Abe right before the party's final iteration, but why did he bother to do all this in the first place? What does he--a man who wants nothing more than to escape a life of drudgery, to gain maximal returns from minimal investments--gain from all of his exertions?
In the process of decrypting Primer, I was reminded of another cult time-travel film whose plot doesn't make a whole lot of sense without the addition of external data, Richard Kelly's Donnie Darko. Kelly's film isn't nearly as well-plotted as Carruth's, and it isn't until one reads a booklet titled The Philosophy of Time Travel, which appears in the film and is an extra on the DVD, that its events even begin to make sense. Nevertheless, Donnie Darko works as a piece of fiction--albeit a manipulative, at times almost overwrought piece of fiction--even after a single viewing and even without any additional data (a truth which seems to have escaped Kelly, who squandered the opportunity to make a director's cut of the film by awkwardly interspersing the action with excerpts from the book instead of reinstating some beautiful character moments which had originally been left on the cutting room floor). It's not entirely fair to compare Primer to Donnie Darko, since the two films have very different aims. Primer appeals to the intellect; Donnie Darko to emotion. Both are excellent films, but at the end of the day Primer's missing piece is greater than Donnie Darko's. "How?" is the question most often asked by the characters in Carruth's film--how can they travel through time? How can they use time travel in order to profit? How do they manage to deceive each other? How do cellphones work?--but at the very heart of the film, there's a missing why.


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You can't manage what you can't measure. That's a favorite expression of Steve Robisky, product manager of John Deere Ag Management Solutions.
With new equipment from the company, you can monitor tractors and drivers from a computer in your office. It's called JDLink Machine Messenger and is available now on John Deere Twenty series tractors with cabs.
JDLink doesn't add any sensors, but it does allow you to keep track of the data from the current ones on your tractor via a Web site, according to Robisky. "We can tap into the CCD or CAN bus and pull off whatever information is in there," he says.
Collected data
The JDLink hardware consists of a communications controller, a cellular antenna and a GPS package. The components tap into the tractor's electrical system to monitor machine functions and collect the data. The system is separate from GreenStar.
The data are forwarded to a central John Deere server. From there the producer can access the information via the JDLink Web site. It's cataloged into four different reports.
The Status and Location Report identifies where each tractor is, via GPS, whether it's operating, idling or in transport, engine hours and fuel level.
A Summary Report breaks engine hours into total time spent idling, working and transporting, fuel use, average ground speed and average percent engine load. It also will tell how many hours the MFWD and Implement Management System (IMS) have been used.
"We're finding row-crop tractors that idle 50% of the time," Robisky says. "But other rental fleets idle only 9%. Again, you can't manage what you can't measure. This system allows farmers to access data that will help them operate more productively and more profitably."
The Alert Log keeps a list of all "warning" and "stop engine" alerts generated by the tractor's computer, along with a short description of the alert code. "Stop engine" alerts are e-mailed immediately to the producer. A Maintenance Log may be used to keep track of all services performed.
Machinery management
JDLink, obviously, is geared toward large operations. "We don't know where it will fit as far as different farm sizes," says Gary Cranston, general manager at Modern Farm Equipment, Gordon, NE. He does have a client with 50,000 acres that is very interested.
"This farm leases 28 tractors from us — 12 4-wds and 16 row-crop tractors," he says. "The farm is spread out across an area 35 miles by 15 miles, so they're interested in the ability to locate each tractor at any given time.
"They're also interested in the system's ability to help them identify what tractors they really need," Cranston continues. "Right now they tend to go with the biggest tractor because they know it will do the job.
"With the collected data, they'll be able to see how often their tractors work under efficient load. If they can get by with smaller tractors, it will save them money on the lease and on fuel. It's a management tool to assess their needs and fine-tune their operation on the machinery side."
All that information comes at a price, of course. The JDLink hardware lists at $2,495 per tractor plus a $495 annual service fee that provides 24-hr. access to the Web site-based data.
"We look at it that over five years, the producer will pay $2,500 for the hardware and $2,500 for the service, or $1,000/yr. for each unit," Robisky says. "It may also be available through dealers as a fee-based service, or be included as part of the lease."
"We're looking at including JDLink in the lease price, for operators who want it," Cranston says. "It allows us, as well as the producer, to monitor the machines. We had a 9200 that lost an engine recently. I can't say that JDLink would definitely have prevented that, but with the alert system, the odds are that it certainly would have helped."


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"Don't underestimate this man," we're told in the "MacGruber" trailer which has just hit the internet.
Cue the image of Will Forte walking all dramatic with the fate of the free world on his shoulders and the world's most awesome mullet on his head.
There's always the fear (and it's a big fear) that this is just another one of those skits that never should have left its Saturday night home. Even on SNL they played the very good "MacGruber" gag a few beats too many.
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And sure enough, it even takes a while to muster up a good laugh in the "MacGruber" promo: Forte takes a close look at one of the Russian missiles about to head for Washington D.C., with a completely baffled expression. "There's like a million wires in here," he announces. "I'm like a three-wire guy."
Appropriate for an action caper, this preview comes with a grim warning -- the site requires log-in enrollment and the preview has its share of potty language (none of it funny). It also features a very fleshy Val Kilmer. There, you've been warned.


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Life Fitness' Parent Expands
Franklin Park, Ill. — Brunswick Corp., Life Fitness's parent company, has expanded its family. Brunswick recently acquired Omni Fitness (Stamford, Conn.), Life Fitness's largest retail dealer, with 60 stores across the United States. This transaction follows the partnership agreement made in 1999 in which Life Fitness took a minority position in Omni as part of a strategy to expand distribution.
"The dealer channel remains strategically important to our success in the commercial and consumer segments," said Kevin Grodzki, president of Life Fitness, in a company statement. "This acquisition affords us the opportunity to gain additional knowledge of the operations and management of a commercial and retail business, ultimately broadening our understanding of the needs and wishes of our customers, and improving their buying experience. This will assist us in developing and marketing products and services that will help our customers meet their fitness and wellness goals."
The Omni Fitness company will be run as a completely separate business, with a dedicated management team responsible for handling day-to-day operations. A board of directors including representatives from Brunswick, Life Fitness and the Omni Fitness management team will guide the strategic direction of the enterprise. Tom Stark, former Omni Fitness CEO, will serve in a consultative role, while Kimberly Bors of Brunswick will serve as acting general manager until Stark's replacement is named.
Omni will be operated as an independent dealer of Life Fitness products and other complementary equipment and accessories, continuing to provide the products and services it has always provided. No plans have been made to change the inventory or the names of the stores, and Omni will be treated the same as when it was an independent dealer of Life Fitness and the same as all of Life Fitness's partner dealers.
"Brunswick and Life Fitness are very commmitted to the strategic, long-term success of our dealer network and will continue to support all our dealers," said Grodzki. "At this point, there are no plans to purchase any other dealers or to sever any relationships. We will continue to conduct business with all our dealers as we have in the past. Based on the structure of the dealer agreements, there is no territorial overlap between Omni Fitness and our other dealers, so we will continue to support all of them."
Best-of-Breed Companies Join Forces
BALTIMORE — Legend Information Systems, Belmont Financial Services, FitnessInsite.com, FutureLink Corp., BookingPlus and First Credit Services recently announced that they've formed a strategic partnership called Legend, in order to offer a one-stop club management solution for technology and customer relationships in the health and fitness industry.
These companies had joined forces to provide a comprehensive management and technology solution to Gold's Gym International. It was the success of this effort that prompted the formation of this partnership.
The Legend solution reportedly simplifies the necessary daily management processes for club operators. The Legend solution has been designed to allow clubs to manage all aspects of their business. Legend provides club operators a flexible answer for everything: membership database management, point-of-sale purchasing, Web-based customer retention tools, interactive fitness and nutrition programs with a full e-commerce solution, and billing and processing capabilities.
The solution's ability to be managed internally or externally through the Internet gives clubs the ability to handle millions of transactions and members spanning thousands of clubs and workstations.
"The more services that can be provided which seamlessly integrate from a single source, the more time that club owners have to concentrate on their business: selling memberships, servicing members and creating a new revenue stream, through its e-commerce solution," said Steve Williams, COO for Legend Information Systems, in a statement. "That is where our clients truly make their living, not being computer professionals, billing collectors or bookkeepers."


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Fairfax Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney appeared in Fairfax, Thursday, Sept. 13, bringing almost 3,000 supporters out to Van Dyck Park. Attendees packed the streets surrounding the park all morning, and stayed in line even if they weren't able to get in throughout Romney's speech.
Romney, who said that "Northern Virginia could very well determine who the next president is," drew many locals who said they hoped to ensure he won Virginia.
"It's going to come down to Virginia, Florida and Ohio in November, so I think, and hope, we'll be seeing a lot more of Mitt around here," said Dennis Blatt of Fairfax, who got in line first thing in the morning. "I think in Virginia it's going to come down to Northern Virginia, so hopefully he can start connecting with people who are ready for a change."
Debbie Munoz, the vice president of a small construction company, said she came out to support Romney because of his pro-business policies.
"Under the economy Obama presented with us, we've seen opportunities dwindle because of the size of our business," she said. "EPA regulations have strangled businesses like ours, we used to build gas stations, and I don't know if you've looked around to see how many have been built lately, but in 2008 we built our last gas station in Ashburn, Va. because Exxon and Shell and companies like those decided it just wasn't worth it to fight with the regulations the EPA was confronting them with."
"It's been a popular notion to dismiss Gov. Romney for his lack of foreign policy experience, but Obama came into office without a lot, and to be honest, I think the president has acquitted himself well in that field," said Sharon Finnegan of Falls Church. "So there's no reason to think Mitt can't learn on the job."
ROMNEY ADDRESSED foreign policy during his speech, bringing it close to home for many Americans who are affected by the economy.
"When China manipulates their currency by holding down their currency, what it does is make their products in this country artificially cheap. And that makes American manufacturers and producers out of business and kills job. The president has had a chance for years to label China a currency manipulator, but he hasn't done so. I will label China the currency manipulator they are on my fist day in office."
Romney cited a recent USA Today article as an example of the way the economy has affected employment and income over the past few years.
"These are tough times for American families who have work, and there are 23 million without work, or have stopped looking for work, or are underemployed," he said. "What our president has done the last four years has not helped, it has led to a $4,300 decline in median income, it's led to unemployment being above eight percent for 43 straight months."
Natalie Enoch, who lives nearby in Fairfax City, said she came to get a little better sense of who Romney the person was.
"I think in sounds bites and short clips he might come across as a little awkward, but I really saw his ability to address and connect with a large crowd," she said. "It's hard to separate rhetoric, because both candidates sort of say the same thing a lot of the time, but I think Mr. Romney has a clear vision, and if he can execute it we'll all be in a better place."