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Fri Jan 26, 2007 7:32 pm
Don't leave me Oh dear, catch me more tightly
I feel I shall melt, I lose my force
My heart's very weak, it beats slightly
Nothing can take you; I'm with you in any course
Fly highly don't fear... like birds in the sky
Wherever you want to go, my will to go with you
Let's live a sweet life, together we must try
Even you want to die; I'll die with you too.
Persian Rose In Italy
Sat Oct 22, 2011 8:10 am
Persian Rose In Italy
Rose Persian, I see in my dreams
Dwells in Italy, in that far place
So nice, so cute and always beams..
With beauty, hope, and moony face
I spent my life search and seek
I've just found and followed the trace
I won't stop even if I feel weak
Oh rose! You're my life, my last wish
You're my heaven, my high ideal peak
Don't leave me, it'll be my finish
****************************** 1
I love you , can't you get this fact?
"You waste our time" many times, I said
You always blame for my past act
And mourn our love as mourn the dead
Our love-days pass like dust in wind
You're my roe, in my heart you bed
I loved you, pleased you, but you dinned..
"you don't love me, you love many"
You accused me, wronged me, you sinned
I'm yours and you're mine.. oh honey
****************************** 2
Take me with you, you took my heart
It beat inside me with your name
Now it's with you, we are apart
But you still lament and still blame
You can please me, you are so smart
I don't deserve you, its a shame
You're truthful, so cute and so bright
But I'm liar, unclear with my dame
You're my eyes, hands, sweet dreams in night
Blame me if this will give me fame
****************************** 3
All I have said is for your sake
And your name's written by my blood
Trust me ! my poem is not a fake
Words flow from my chest like a flood
I saw your face, I became mad
You're still so fresh like a bloom bud
So don't leave me, don't make me sad
Your love erased all the past deeds
I know you are good and I'm bad
But you always grant my needs
****************************** 4
A woman's sorrow
Thu Oct 06, 2011 3:01 pm
A woman's sorrow
How long do I have to wait?
To torture my self and blame?
I couldn't ignore you or hate
Fire inside my heart does flame
You are my love, my soul mate
All things to you seems the same
All women, like me, are weak
You don't care for my bad fire
We always search love and seek
And we try to hide our ire
Come touch my skin, it's so sleek
I have lust, I have desire
My life will not last forever
So come relax my mind
With you I feel in fever
Killing eyes, I'm like a hind
Show me your lust, don't cover
Like my charm, where will you find?
You will still my sweet lover
I loved, really love is blind
You got your wish and you went
I dream with you, spend the nights
Our days will soon end, they're lent
So come dear and burn the lights
Your home is my heart, you rent
With me you'll get touching sights
Did the bird find another nest?
So why does the dove coo alone?
For years, she looks towards the west
And hopes him stop her hard moan
She waits and waits, she does her best
None's on skyline, she won't leave groan
Tue Sep 13, 2011 12:43 am
What a lovely face shinning with youth
What sensitive depths of charming smile
What a holy beauty, I live in its truth
An angel brought me to a burning pile
I loved her since I met her in the booth
My love increased after I read her file
"Mention me" she said "if you like me a lot"
"And say a lovely poem on our story"
"Let me feel your love, do you care or not?"
"Add me to the high state of the glory"
"Keep me close, no water the rose will rot"
I've mentioned you and I won't be sorry
Wake or sleep I say your name every time
You coddle me and call me with alias name
"Sweetie" and other names, all have that chime
And I coddle you, I always do the same
Angel You took me back to my past prime
Your love gave me happiness, and gave me fame
A mole on a rosy cheek stole my mind
And put me in a puzzlement, that faint mole
Red berry on lips and neck of a hind
Your Eyes are as pearls, they relax my tired soul
On your cheeks I read holy words and find
When can I reach my desire and my goal?
You asked me to say your name in my poem
Can't you find out your name? I've just said it
For your sake, I'm ready to leave my home
And follow you, to enjoy your soft wit
To Lima of Peru or even to Rome
Save you to me, and all things can not fit
can you understand me?
Tue Sep 07, 2010 1:37 pm
Can you understand me
Oh my sweet dream! You're better than reality
There are no words can express my deep feeling
For your sake, I lost my kin, left my city
All blamed me loving you, how can one quit healing
Can I live without you? I need your pity
Oh love! Stay with me! You have good dealing
On those soft hillocks, I put my tired head
Relaxed, I slept for ever, I got a nice dream
The high sneer's voice woke me" Bad omen" he said
"Jupiter's angry, you should leave your hope beam"
If Jupiter see her, he'll fall ill in bed
Don't blame me! On chest I hold my seam
Oh my God! I wish I were her mirror
So I can look at her face every time
I wish I were her comb, in hair no horror
I wish I were her ground, touch me her prime
The dervish left his den to be her adorer
You're my hope, my pleasure, you made me write rhyme
Can you understand me and my love-words?
So you should try love again and again like birds
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Agile software teams made retrospective meetings popular, but they're great for all teams. Here's how to run basic retrospectives, and how to adapt them to suit your team. Don't miss the real-life example retrospective notes below step 4!
Provide a safe space for the team to reflect on and discuss what works well (and what doesn't!) so you can improve.
If you're struggling with velocity, team cohesiveness or tools and process on your Health Monitor, running this play might help.
4 - 8
Prep Time
15 min
30 min
Running the play
Project teams can run this at the end of each sprint, or go a little wider. Check in with the full-time owner to see if there are any specific items they'd like you to cover. Service teams can check in with a supervisor or director.
Sticky notes
Book a meeting room for at least an hour: 15 minutes to set up, 30 minutes for the session, and 15 minutes to take photos and clean up.
Come 15 minutes ahead of the rest of the team, and bring all supplies listed above. Draw the headings "What did we do well?" and "What should have we done better?" up on the whiteboard.
Use the Retrospective blueprint to create a new Confluence page in your project space, and use that to record the outputs of your session.
Pro Tip
You can turn ideas from your retro into Trello cards in three easy steps:
- Download the Post-it® App
- Take a picture of your sticky notes
- Tap the "Export to Trello" button
Step 1
Set the stage (5 min)
Welcome everyone to the retrospective meeting and establish the rules of engagement:
Embrace a positive spirit of continuous improvement and share whatever you think will help the team improve.
- Don't make it personal, don't take it personally.
- Listen with an open mind, and remember that everyone's experience is valid (even those you don't share).
- Set the boundary of your discussion – is it that last sprint? the last quarter? since the project started? Be clear how far back you're going to go.
- Encourage the team to embrace an improvement mindset, away from blame.
Pro Tip
Let someone other than the team lead facilitate. Sharing the facilitation around the team will keep your retrospectives fresh, encourage greater participation, and uncover more inconvenient truths.
Step 2
What went well? (10 min)
Start the session on a positive note. Have each team member use green sticky notes to write down what they feel went well (one idea per sticky). As people post their stickies on the whiteboard, the facilitator should group similar or duplicate ideas together.
Discuss your ideas briefly as a team.
Discussions are dominated by one or two people.
This is a sign you may need a stronger facilitator. Find an opportunity to step in and ask what one of your quieter teammates has to say on the topic.
Step 3
What needs improvement? (10 min)
Same structure as above, but using pink or red stickies. Remind your team that this is about actions and outcomes – not about specific people.
Step 4
Next steps (5 min)
Having identified what didn't go so well, what concrete actions can the team take to improve those things? Have your team use blue sticky notes to place ideas on the board. Group them and then discuss as a team, agree to which actions you will take, assign owners and a due date to get them DONE.
Thank everyone for their involvement and their honesty. Quickly run through the list of follow-up items, their owners and due dates.
Your ideas aren't leading to improvements.
Don't let this be a ritual with no real value. Do a retro on your retro! Make sure ideas are turned into tasks, and that those tasks are incorporated into your sprints – don't assume people can just squeeze them in at the edges.
The steps above are for a brief 30-minute retrospective meeting. Depending on the scope and complexity of your work, team size, and/or length of time since the last retrospective, you may need to expand this up to an hour, or possibly even two hours. Scale each section of the basic workshop as you see fit.
Alternatively, here are some variations and extra elements to try.
On the whiteboard, draw a timeline spanning the past two months. Then have team members call out significant events: iteration/sprint starts, releases, victories, discoveries, moments of great teamwork, or anything else that had an impact on your work.
Do this activity at the start of the meeting. Not only is this a great way to foster a shared sense of achievement and solidarity, it helps refresh everyone's memory and sets the stage for the rest of the retrospective.
THE 4 Ls MODEL (20 MIN)
Replace the "what worked well" and "what didn't work well" activities with a four-part format:
What did you like?
What was lacking?
What did you learn?
What do you long for going forward?
This variation works best in longer (45 - 60 min) retrospectives where you can devote five minutes or more to each question.
If time allows (and team members are willing), have each participant speak about the stickies they put up during the "What worked well", "What didn't work well", and "Next steps" activities. This helps to ensure all team members contribute evenly (even the quieter team members) and promotes an even deeper discussion.
Take a few minutes to let team members acknowledge each other's accomplishments since the last retrospective and/or express thanks for having received help from a teammate. Keep it brief, and keep it genuine. At some there might be a flood of acknowledgements, while at others there might be very few. Just roll with the ebb and flow – don't force it.
This should be a strictly peer-to-peer exercise, with only team members at the individual contributor level allowed to participate. Managers, scrum masters, etc. are asked to keep quiet.
If loads of ideas emerge during the "Next steps" activity, vote on which action items you'll prioritize in the immediate term. Everyone grabs a marker and places dots on the three ideas they'd like to see at the top of the list (no more than one dot per idea, please!). Tally up the dots, discuss the results with your team, and select owners for the top-voted items.
Note that you can also do this immediately after the "What didn't work well" activity to identify the team's top three areas for improvement. This helps guide the "Next steps" activity and keep it focused on those three areas.
To see a retrospective in action, click here.
Pro Tip
Use the "past two months" variation to help new members of the team get up to speed and put the current retrospective in context.
For example...
Here's a retro that used the 4 Ls model.
Approach dot voting with caution. If you consistently select the same areas retro after retro, you may be treating the symptoms instead of the cause.
Nailed it?
Be sure to run a full Health Monitor session or checkpoint with your team to see if you're improving.
Leadership teams
Be sure to run a retrospective after major initiatives have been rolled out. Schedule a full hour, and use that time to focus not on the particulars of how the initiative went, but on how you worked together as a team and how that can inform how you work together in the future.
Whilst project teams likely structure their work as 2-week sprints, you likely have more of a Kanban-esque, continuous flow style of working. Do your retrospectives monthly or quarterly, as suits your team.
Make sure all notes and photos are captured on the page you created for the session, making sure to list the owner's name next to each action item. If any of the action items have corresponding JIRA issues, include a link to them on the page so it's easy to see their status. Save the page and share it with your team.
Always be challenging the value of your retrospectives (y'know: in a healthy, positive way). Are follow-up tasks being completed, or forgotten? Are you getting to the root cause of problems? Would a different set of activities help you dig deeper? There are a zillion ways to approach this play – change it up and make it your own!
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Claymation: Will sparks blaze or eyes glaze?
The Background
Jeremy's a 26-year-old studying to get his teacher's certification. Live music, road trips, and eating out top his list of favorite activities, and his expectations of another person are pretty straight-forward: In addition to someone with drive and a sense of humor, Jeremy said he needs someone who's not fixated on height– he's 5'3" and reports that some women have ruled him out before they've even met him.
Chloe, a 26-year-old fourth-year med student of Asian/Filipino/Spanish descent, is not one of those women. After hearing Jeremy's description, she was enthusiastic. "I've dated guys that height before," she said, "and I actually prefer it." Because she's 5'2", she says, things like dancing tend to work better with someone not too tall.
The real question: Will they see eye to eye on romance?
The Date
Who can forget Josh and Emily (later unmasked as Joy and Trevor)? After their Blind Date Challenge back in 2002 at Glaze 'n' Blaze, the date continued– and, actually, continues still: They married about four months later. Can magic strike twice? We call it the Ghost effect (though, of course, there are no pottery wheels at Glaze 'n' Blaze), and Matchmaker had to find out. Jeremy and Chloe met for a late afternoon date at Glaze 'n' Blaze and then headed to Sheben in the Vinegar Hill Shopping Center for a fine South African dinner.
Jeremy: I was the second to arrive. I walked into Glaze 'n' Blaze about 4:35pm, and Chloe had been there for about 15 minutes.
Chloe: I sat, crossed and uncrossed my legs, twiddled my thumbs. Then, I looked for a mug I could paint. I checked my watch again. He was 10 minutes late, but this didn't bother me. I figured if he didn't show up, I could still paint a pretty mug for myself. The artist/supervisor at Glaze 'n' Blaze suggested I wait a few more minutes, but I wanted to go ahead and start painting.
Were you nervous?
Jeremy: Yeah, kinda.
Chloe: No. I had paint, my mug, and a free night. I haven't had a free night in a long time.
Did you find your date physically attractive?
Jeremy: I thought she was very attractive. I felt that she had a sophisticated elegance. When I walked into Glaze 'n' Blaze, she immediately introduced herself, and I was impressed by her confidence. But she was also very easygoing. This continued through the night.
Chloe: Unfortunately, no. But he's a very kind person. You can tell from his soft eyes and quiet demeanor. He also has a friendly, easy smile.
Anything else about the first impression?
Jeremy: I liked her style. It was formal without being overly formal. She was wearing a denim shirt with a black and brown dress with gold print all over the dress, and brown shoes. She had on a simple but nice necklace with blue stones, and a jacket with what appeared to be an eastern design on the back.
Chloe: He seemed very nervous, and when most people are nervous, they are less like themselves and more how they think you want them to be. I wasn't sure if the person I was meeting was really who he was.
So what did you paint?
Jeremy: I painted a coffee mug with primarily blue, green, and yellow overlapping each other. She painted on a latté mug using a red wine and a baby-blue color. It looked neater than mine. Chloe mentioned that the colors on the mug were the colors she wanted in a future home. She also realized toward the end of her painting that they were the colors of the blankets in the nursery at UVA hospital.
Chloe: I realized after finishing my project that the colors I picked– wine red and sky blue– were the same colors I see every day at the hospital, on the blankets in which we swaddle the babies. Yet, I think I was the only one who found this strangely funny. My sense of humor is kind of twisted, though.
Now to Sheben...
Jeremy: I had the shepherd's pie. It was pretty good, better than shepherd's pie that I had had in the past. We shared some bread pudding. I definitely liked the bread pudding. The waitress was really nice, and she checked on us enough without being too overbearing.
Chloe: I was driving that night, and it was pouring rain, so I opted not to drink. So I'm a prude. But if I drink even half a beer, I get the "Asian glow." My face turns classic beet red. I had their spicy skewered shrimp with mashed potatoes and vegetables. By the way, the shrimp is very spicy. The service was courteous, complete. Excellent.
How about the conversation?
Jeremy: We mostly talked about her time in medical school and about our interests in writing and reading. I think she was worried that she was boring me with her stories about medical school, but I found her conversation to be interesting.
Chloe: I felt as though the flow was stilted. He was very quiet, which is how he usually is. He told me this and even apologized for it. I found that I was using my job interviewing skills a lot. At one point, I was tired of small talk, so I sat quietly with him. That was fine, too.
Did you have a lot in common?
Jeremy: Well, we both like to travel, although she's been to Europe, and I'd like to go to Europe. We both like Southern literature, and we both like to write. She likes to write poetry, and I like to write short or creative fiction. We both have family that we're very close to, and we were both raised in a Catholic household. We both have loyal dogs that are of German Shepherd descent. We both also liked Inspector Gadget as kids.
Chloe: Yes. We both majored in English in college, and we both have dogs. My dog is a German Shepherd named Brain, and his dog is a German Shepherd-Retriever mix named Ziggy. We must have talked about dogs for at least a half hour. We just adore them.
Anything particularly impressive or interesting about your date?
Jeremy: I was really fascinated when she was talking about the Louvre in Paris. Makes me want to go there even more.
Chloe: He told about driving down the coast of southern California with a girl recently. Their car was a stick-shift, which he didn't know how to drive, so the girl had to drive the whole eight-hour trip. He felt bad, but he made up for it by massaging her feet. And no, he did not massage my feet that night, and I didn't expect him to; I just thought that was a pleasant story, and that more people should massage their partner's feet.
How did it end?
Jeremy: We exchanged pleasantries, shook hands, and ran out to our respective cars in the rain. I did mention to her that I'd be interested in hanging out with her in the future, so she gave me her number.
Chloe: We shook hands and made plans to meet again, but with my schedule, who knows. I'm not being elusive. My friends can attest to my disappearing acts, whether due to work or... work. I explained to him about my frenzied job interview schedule for the next three months, and, fortunately, he was very kind and understood this.
Did you have fun?
Jeremy: Even though I was nervous, yeah, I had a good time. It's always nice to get out and meet new people.
Chloe: Sure.
Would you go out again?
Jeremy: Hopefully so. I guess we'll have to see.
Chloe: I'm not sure.
How would you rate the date?
Jeremy: I would give it an 8-9. The only reason it didn't get a 10 is because I should have been more relaxed, but you live and learn, right?
Chloe: 6
Okay, so it doesn't sound like wedding bells will chime for a second time, but hey, you can't win 'em all! Plus, if Chloe and Jeremy get together to try out their new mugs, who knows the Ghost effect might yet take hold!


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Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder. It is a form of self-starvation. Children and teens with this health problem have a distorted body image. They think they weigh too much. This leads them to severely restrict how much food they eat. It also leads to other behavior that stops them from gaining weight. Anorexia nervosa is sometimes called anorexia.
There are 2 types of anorexia:
Researchers don't know what causes anorexia nervosa. It most often starts as regular dieting. But it slowly changes to extreme and unhealthy weight loss.
Other things that may play a role in anorexia are:
Children with anorexia are more likely to come from families with a history of:
Children with anorexia often come from families that are very rigid and critical. Parents may be intrusive and overprotective. Children with anorexia may be dependent and emotionally immature. They are also likely to cut themselves off from others. They may have other mental health problems, such as an anxiety disorder.
Most children with anorexia are girls. But that is changing. More boys are now getting it. The disorder was first seen in upper-class and middle-class families. But it is now found in all socioeconomic groups and in many ethnic and racial groups.
Each child's symptoms may vary. He or she may:
Many physical symptoms linked to anorexia are often because of starvation and malnourishment. They may include:
These symptoms may seem like other health problems. Make sure your child sees his or her healthcare provider for a diagnosis. Early diagnosis and treatment are vital. They can help prevent future problems.
Parents, teachers, and coaches may be able to spot a child or teen with anorexia. But many children with it first keep their illness very private and hidden.
A child psychiatrist or a mental health expert can diagnose anorexia. He or she will talk with parents and teachers about the child's behavior. In some cases, your child may need mental health testing.
Treatment will depend on your child's symptoms, age, and general health. It will also depend on how severe the condition is.
Treatment often involves a mix of the following:
Anorexia causes frequent health problems. It's also possible for a child with this disorder to die during treatment. Because of this, both your child's healthcare provider and a nutritionist must be active members of the care team. Parents play a vital role in any treatment. Your child may need to go to the hospital for problems linked to weight loss and malnutrition.
Anorexia and the malnutrition that results can harm nearly every organ system in the body. It can be fatal. It may lead to health problems with the:
Experts don't know how to prevent anorexia. But spotting and treating it early can lessen symptoms. It can enhance your child's normal development. It can also improve his or her quality of life. Encouraging your child to have healthy eating habits and realistic attitudes toward weight and diet may also help.
If you are worried your child has an eating disorder, talk with your child's provider right away. Here are things you can do to help your child:
Tips to help you get the most from a visit to your child's healthcare provider:
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- On April 9, the Women in Business (WIB) student organization and MBA Women International (WMBA) partnered for a Careers and Cupcakes event to showcase various opportunities for Smeal students after graduation from Penn State.
Smeal alumna Julie Infantino, '06, master of business administration, a financial reporting supervisor at ExxonMobil, as well as several students from the Dickinson School of Law's Women's Law Caucus also attended.
WMBA students who attended, including President Diane Merzbach and Angela Shershin, vice president of marketing and communications, talked to undergrads about life as an MBA student, and MBA Admissions Director Stacey Dorang Peeler talked about the admissions process.
"The students had a lot of great questions about the value of an MBA and how to differentiate themselves for the admissions process," said Merzbach. "We talked about how getting an MBA can help in career transitions or achieving greater focus in particular areas."
The WMBA is working to expand its connection with WIB to provide mentorship to the undergraduates.
"We have parallel goals with Women in Business, so it makes sense to partner with them," said Merzbach. "This is a great way for us to pass on some of the knowledge that we've gained, both in the professional world pre-MBA and now as MBA students, and to help them find ways to stand out."


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I hear rumors the Lions traded Tyler Polumbus to Seattle, but have yet to hear anything official or who the Lions received in return. I'm sure it wasn't anything much since Detroit just picked him up off waivers last week. Any help to the back seven though would be great to hear.
Anyone in Detroit or Seattle hearing any more reports on this?


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I've (Chelsea) been making a bit of an assorted collection of smaller assets to add a little bit more interest to some of our streets.
|Farriner's Bakery Board - I made the texture with composite layers, so I left my layer details on the render for Luc. But since we're not really sure how to translate to Cry, I'm probably gonna have to remake this simpler. Doh.
|Stray planks - Tudor streets were lined with these for use as pathways amongst the mud and filth.
|Tavern signs and the sign for Farriner's Bakery. Based off real documented taverns.
|Market Cross
|Fish Stall Set-up - I've started merging my produce assets with our stalls to create individual merchants
|He made two more wooden textures for use on the warehouses as well as any of our other upcoming props
|Storage shed
|Warehouse building
Dan Hargreaves has been focusing on ground details in particular, such as remaking the cobblestones and making grass.
|New and improved - The previous cobblestones looked a bit more like beach pebbles in our level, so this new texture was a much needed upgrade
|Planes of grass, which blow in the breeze and add a little more movement and life to our level.
|Misc - Guts and Manure. Nice surprises to find in our streets.
|A standard crate - for use basically everywhere.
|Draining pig - appetising
|Bakery goods
|Blacksmith utensils
Luc's mostly been improving our lighting and importing/placing our props as they are made, but he's also took up the responsibilty of constructing London Bridge and the gate in particular.
|Concept of London Bridge - The gate.
|He also made a brick texture especially for the bridge.
|Lighting upgrade - new shadows and cubemaps are making our level look a lot more atmospheric and a lot less flat.


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What Are Your 'Dollar Menu' Favorites?
Would you like fries (or onion rings or chicken tenders) with that?
One dollar doesn't buy you much anymore. (I don't even put dollar bills in my wallet these days; I just stuff them in my pocket with the quarters and dimes.) Inflation has worked its magic, to the point where a dollar doesn't buy you the burgers it used to. Still, there are good deals to be found on various dollar menus.
John's Dollar Menu Favorites
For my money, the place to go value-wise is Wendy's. Their $0.99 Everyday Value Menu features some of the strongest options; in the one-dollar burger department, theirs is the best. The Doublestack, effectively a double junior hamburger with cheese, costs only $0.99. I've always found their meat ends up tasting much better than either BK or McDonald's, and when you're talking about classic toppings only (ketchup, mustard, cheese, pickles), burger quality really counts. It's fresh grilled meat (a little saltier than the competition) and it's delicious.
You can also order a small Frosty for a dollar—easily my favorite fast-food shake. It's not quite a milkshake, not quite soft-serve, and tastes great on French Fries. The Spicy Chicken Nuggets cost under a buck, too, with the same spice as the Spicy Chicken Sandwich; I've also found that the inside of these nuggets looks a little more like white meat than whatever the McNuggets are made out of. (I recommend eating them without sauce; Wendy's barbeque sauce tastes way too sweet.)
What's New On Serious Eats
Though McDonald's Dollar Menu isn't what it used to be, you can still get two Apple Pies for $1—and more often than not, they're flaky and hot. We all know the sugar dusted crust and the apple-cinnamon gel interior. I don't want to think about what's actually in it, but if you can stand the sweet, it's delicious.
Taco Bell's Beefy Crunch Burrito may not have impressed me in all ways, but it thoroughly impressed me with its value. For $1.06 after tax, I chomped into a full burrito; no thin soft taco was this.
Though Burger King has seemed recently like it's having an existential crisis—jalapeño burgers?—I'd be happy if they just rebranded themselves "Fry King" and focus on what they do best.
What About Yours?
Any other dollar-menu items you guys love? What about at some of the regional chains?


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Rascal Flatts and actress Hayden Panettiere, star of ABC's Nashville, will honor the top country acts of 2012 as hosts of the third annual CMT Artists of the Year special premiering Dec. 8 at 10 p.m. ET/PT.
The 90-minute special is the most exclusive gathering of country music superstars of the year and celebrates the class of 2012 with an evening of wall-to-wall performances and special appearances from others in the entertainment field. For the first time ever, CMT is keeping the list of honorees top secret until they are revealed on the night of the telecast.
Widely known for her role as cheerleader Claire Bennett in the hit NBC series, Heroes, Panettiere is currently starring with Connie Britton on Nashville.
"We are honored to be co-hosting the CMT Artists of The Year show with Hayden," Rascal Flatts member Jay DeMarcus said. "Save the cheerleader, host a TV show! We're gonna have a blast!"
"Nashville is my second home now," Panettiere added. "I am so happy to be embraced by the country community and to be included in such a big event, especially with Rascal Flatts. I can't wait to see how the evening unfolds!"


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About the Collection
While creating the Christopher Knight Home brand, Christopher Knight sought to reinvent the way people shop for home furnishings. He brought together a number of furniture industry veterans, a lineup of talented designers and a posse of key internet marketing wizards and revolutionized the industry. From neutral brown leathers, to floral linen-blend fabrics, the collection offers a variety of unique furniture pieces for your home that can be purchased online.
"Our aim is to evolve the experience of buying home furnishing so that shopping for furniture online becomes a consistently satisfying experience" says Christopher.
With the Christopher Knight Home Collection, discover stylish furniture so affordably priced, you can change your décor seasonally...or sooner.


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Pulse: Nationals, Rangers showing resilience
Washington responds to tragedy with twin-bill sweep; tie atop AL Wild Card
Like a metronome, the Pulse of the Postseason has been ticking again today.
It began in the afternoon when the Nationals rallied for a walk-off win with three runs in the ninth inning off Braves closer Craig Kimbrel for an emotional victory a day after a tragic shooting incident in D.C. Looking to trim their magic number to clinch the National League East to two with a win in the nightcap, the Braves instead dropped Game 2, 4-0. With both wins, the Nationals closed to within 4 1/2 games of the second NL Wild Card berth. That spot is currently held by the Reds, who routed the Astros, 10-0, on Tuesday night.
DC SPAN! @thisisdspan shoots one through Simmons' legs, both runs score. #Nats walk-off, 6-5!- Washington Nationals (@Nationals) September 17, 2013
Meanwhile, at PNC Park, the Pirates took a 5-2 loss to the Padres, falling out of a tie for the NL Central's top spot. The Cardinals, in first place alone with Pittsburgh's loss, erupted for six third-inning runs en route to an 11-4 win over the Rockies that extended their Central lead to a game.
In the American League, the Rangers snapped a seven-game losing streak with a 7-1 win over the Rays, with whom they're once again locked in a flat-footed AL Wild Card tie.
The AL East-leading Red Sox entered Tuesday with a chance to clinch a postseason berth -- with a victory and a Royals win over Cleveland -- but Boston dropped its series opener with the Orioles, who remained in the thick of the AL Wild Card race with their 3-2 win.
The Indians sit a half-game behind the second AL Wild Card berth thanks to a come-from-behind, 5-3 win over the Royals, who fell to 3 1/2 games back with the loss.
The Wild Card-hopeful Yankees were looking forward to facing the struggling Blue Jays, but they were silenced at Rogers Centre by knuckleballer R.A. Dickey, who earned his 13th win of the year. New York is even with Kansas City, 3 1/2 games out.
The Tigers got closer to AL Central pay dirt by topping the Mariners, 6-2, and the Dodgers are in solid clinching range by beating the D-backs, 9-3, in a game that saw Los Angeles jump out with four first-inning runs against Patrick Corbin.
The A's bounced back against the Angels with a walk-off, 2-1 win and are closing in on their second straight AL West title.
If the postseason started today ...
Wild Card: Rays at Rangers
Division Series: Wild Card at Red Sox | Tigers at A's
Wild Card: Reds at Pirates
Division Series: Wild Card at Braves | Cardinals at Dodgers
Postseason 101
Magic numbers
To calculate a team's magic number, take the number of games it has remaining and add one. Then subtract the difference in the number of losses between that team and its closest pursuer.
Tiebreaker scenarios
A tiebreaker game will be played to determine a division winner, even if the tied clubs are assured of participating in the postseason. If a division championship tiebreaker is necessary, the head-to-head record between the clubs will determine home-field advantage. If the head-to-head record is tied, then division record will be the next tiebreaker.
If two clubs are tied for the two Wild Card berths, home-field advantage will be determined by the head-to-head record between the clubs. If the head-to-head record is tied, then division record will be the next tiebreaker.
2013 postseason schedule
NL Wild Card Game: Oct. 1
AL Wild Card Game: Oct. 2
NL Division Series begin: Oct. 3
AL Division Series begin: Oct. 4
NL Championship Series begins: Oct. 11
AL Championship Series begins: Oct. 12
World Series begins: Oct. 23


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First there was FERRARI, followed FT WORTH and T-DALLAS, RANGERS and COWBOYS along with 27 other custom, high-profile Texas license plates. Now, My Plates is ready for their next auction.
On Jan. 25, 2013, at Reliant Center in Houston, My Plates will auction off another vanity plate -- HOUSTON.
HOUSTON isn't the only plate to be auctioned, the company will also auction off nine other plates -- though exactly what those plates are they won't say just yet. The other plates to be auctioned will be announced over the next few weeks, though if history is any indicator, then ASTROS, ROCKETS and TEXANS may be good bets.
The latest news from around North Texas.
Of a mind to make a bid? T-DALLAS sold for $1,500, FT WORTH for $5,000, RANGERS for $10,000, COWBOYS for $11,500 and FERRARI for $15,000. So take your checkbook.
With a win, you'll get the plate for 10 years along with first right of refusal for every renewal period thereafter -- which will come every 10 years. The owner could, essentially, own the plate forever or, since they are transferable, sell it to a collector.
"Texas has had personalized license plates since 1965 but only recently added a 7th character for personalization. That 7th character opened up a very valuable inventory of plate messages for the State, messages deemed too valuable to sell at regular market prices," said My Plates in a news release Wednesday. "Proceeds benefit chosen charities and the state's general revenue fund, which helps pay for services for all Texans. My Plates will donate its auction proceeds to charity."
In the first auction, My Plates said Texans spent $139,400 on 33 plates, $78,195 of which went to the state's general fund. Since Nov., 2009, Texans have bought more than 120,000 My Plates -- bringing more than $14 million into the state's general revenue fund.
The Great Plate Auction 2013 is open to the public with free admission inside the Hall B rotunda at Reliant Center. Register your interest at www.myplates.com/auction


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The official dates for the 2009 GOURMET INSTITUTE event in NYC.
SAVE THE DATES: October 23-25, 2009.
Peter and I had a great time when we went, especially mingling with the likes of Eric Ripert and the great Mario Batali!
Check out the promo video from last year. I was totally surprised to see myself and Peter featured on the video! Actually, him more than me… I'm standing behind him (tipsy from wine tasting!) when he's speaking on camera.
I'm definitely going again this year!


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MIAMI (AP) — When Massimiliano Gerina donated his sperm to a lesbian couple nearly three years ago, the gay hair dresser wanted to be a father, not just a donor. Several months into his friend's pregnancy, though, he said the couple tried to force him out, leading to a lengthy court battle.
After years of heartbreak and distrust and tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees, the couple approached Gerina with an agreement last week. Three names would appear on Emma's birth certificate, and Maria Italiano and her partner, Cher Filippazzo, were given sole parental responsibility, which means they get to make decisions about Emma's health and well-being, according to their attorneys.
Gerina missed Emma's birth and her first words, but now he gets weekly visits with his daughter, who is almost 2.
"We created this family that is very unusual," Gerina said. "Love doesn't have sex or color. If you have love to give to a child, please just do it."
Gerina, a 35-year-old stylist who cuts hair at a trendy salon, moved to Miami in 2005 from Italy. He said he always wanted to be a father, but worried it wouldn't happen because he was gay. And he said he didn't have a relationship with his own father.
He became friends with the couple after a few years of styling Italiano's hair. When she and Filippazzo approached him in 2010 about donating sperm and being a father, it seemed ideal, Gerina said.
"We went in always with the intention that Emma is going to know who her dad is ... we wanted him to have a role in her life but not as a parent," Filippazzo, 38, said.
The women, who were married in Connecticut, had spent thousands of dollars trying to get pregnant through in-vitro fertilization, but it never took. So the trio worked out the arrangement at a pizzeria and a few weeks later Italiano, 43, was pregnant.
"I never took this lightly. I knew that there was going to be money involved, time, emotions ... and I was ready for it," Gerina said Friday, sitting in an outdoor cafe in front of the salon where he works.
Gerina was on the phone with the couple almost daily. He went to the ultrasound and friends threw him a baby shower. Everything seemed fine.
But seven months into the pregnancy, Gerina said the couple asked him to sign legal documents that essentially gave away his rights.
"Of course, I was hurt," he said.
He hired a lawyer, who drew up legal papers describing the situation he thought had agreed to, but he said the women refused to sign it. In the meantime, he sued the couple and got a tattoo in honor of Emma on his arm.
Then, a few weeks before the trial, he said Filippazzo called him and said she only cared about doing what was right for her daughter.
"Emma needs you and you need Emma," he recalled Filippazzo saying. "I want her to know that we came out between us with an agreement. I don't want a judge, a stranger, to decide."
A judge signed off on the arrangement on Jan. 31. In two years, the couple will consider letting Gerina have overnight visits with Emma.
Steve Majors, spokesman for the Family Equality Council in Massachusetts, said there weren't any national statistics on couples who decide to co-parent, but he said the Florida case was significant.
"The fact that we have a dad who is playing a role in the upbringing of a child and being recognized on a birth certificate is very important because it speaks to the larger problem of many couples out there who do not have legal ties to their own children," said Majors, whose group advocates on behalf of same-sex families.
Gerina's attorney, Karyn Begin, said the three will navigate their future on their own terms.
"What's important right now is that we have conditions that exist for this family to be together and only time will tell how it plays out for them," Begin said.
For now, the three are busy planning Emma's second birthday. They need to find a bounce house and decide whether to have an Elmo or Dora the Explorer cake, Gerina said.
"I love Massimo," Filippazzo said tearfully, referring to Gerina. "I think he needed to feel that I love and appreciate him and that we could forgive and go forward."


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THE LONELIEST WHALE, my first children's book, is a story I've had in my heart for a long time, and it was inspired by a real whale. If you haven't heard of The Loneliest Whale, feel free to look him up, I'm sure you'll quickly fall in love with him. I did, and with that I felt compelled to write him a happy ending.
I first heard of the whale in a BBC article my husband showed me:
In 1989 US Naval ships were using hydrophones called SOSUS to pick up enemy submarine signals. Instead of finding enemy ships, they picked up strange whale songs. One specific whale song in fact.
This specific whale was calling out at a frequency not used by any other whale. It's song was different, identifying him as one of a kind.
"It is perhaps difficult to accept that if this was a whale, that there could have been only one of this kind in this large oceanic expanse," Watkins and his colleagues wrote. "Yet in spite of comprehensive careful monitoring year-round, only one call with these characteristics has been found anywhere, and there has been only one source each season."The Loneliest Whale has made quite a name for himself. In fact, a foundation called 52 The Search went on an oceanic voyage to find the whale. They'll be releasing their documentary in the fall.
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South African Journal of Science
On-line version ISSN 1996-7489
Print version ISSN 0038-2353
S. Afr. j. sci. vol.105 n.7-8 Pretoria Jul./Aug. 2009
Not real funding?
SirI was very interested to read Dr Albert van Jaarsveld's letter on the 'Trajectory of NRF Funding' in your May/June issue, for a number of reasons.First, I was eager to see what the NRF had to say regarding the correspondence that has recently appeared in the pages of the SAJSand especially what the official response would be to the very serious points raised by your leader (SAJS 105, 2; 2009) and Professors Illing and Gibbons' letter (SAJS 105, 10; 2009).
Second, I was curious to see just how the NRF could explain its apparent failure as our premier science funding agency to actually fund science in a meaningful way.
I was disappointed on both counts. Dr van Jaarsveld signally failed to address the 'Blue Skies' issue, where new applicants to the programme were not informed that only novel research proposalsthat is, not building on previous work (itself a nonsensical idea)would be considered; and proposals that were considered were not subject to external review. He also failed to give any explanation of how the NRF could allow itself to be caught in the trap of not having any money to fund new 'Blue Skies' proposals, while honouring old commitments.
Anyone familiar with the old FRDtalk discussion group on the Web will know I have had a great deal to say on similar issues in the past: a similar paroxysmal organizational reset in and around 2001 resulted in my funding getting cut tenfold despite excellent progress. I wrote at the timealthough the SAJS refused to publish itthe following:
I leapt to my trusty friend, my Netscape Messenger, and raced off indignant letters into the ether. I phoned colleagues in Pretoria, in Stellenbosch, I talked to people down the corridor. An interesting picture emerged, over several days, and from all over the country. People who I consider to be leaders in their fields have had their research awards slashed; people who I know to be good researchers have received no money at all. Other people, on the other hand, have had no complaints: however, the overall picture seems to be of bewildered researchers wondering what they had done wrong, and high-up people in university faculties scrambling to demand explanations of the NRF.
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose ... Does no-one except us poor researchers learn from these experiences. There are real consequences to this crisis: one of the most important is that good programmes which train students are being terminated, with all of the knock-on effects that this implies, such as alienation from research for students who get cut loose, and unfunded researchers simply abandoning the NRF and basic science. As it is, I survived the 2001 crunch by switching fields and funding bodies: I shifted my focus to mainly medical-related applied research, and discoveredas many had before methat you could get a lot more money by so doing.
As for refereeing, I was wryly amused to read the following in Dr van Jaarsveld's letter:
We intend to open our peer review processes to public and stakeholder scrutiny. As peer review and transparent and accountable decision-making are key principles of the NRF, it is important to ensure that our peer review processes are benchmarked against the best international practices. It is intended that this process will be completed by the end of 2009.
Rightso the peer review processes have not been either transparent, or up to international standards in the past then? As an example, if I pool all of the referees' comments I have received from the FRD/NRF since 1985 on all of the project proposals and personal reviews I have been subjected to, I doubt I could fill three A4 pagesin Arial 14 pt double-spaced. I have also had occasion to seriously doubt in correspondence with the FRD/NRF both the competence and relevance to my work of people who have reviewed my projects. I found, after repeated questioning of the person responsible, that very few projects were ever sent out to overseas reviewers, despite this supposedly being a major feature of the FRD/NRF's peer review process.
I note that a July 17th article in the Mail & Guardian online (http://www.mg.co.za/article/ 2009-07-17-research-put-on-hold-to-fund-world-cup) claimed that
The [NRF]recently canned a joint project involving researchers from South Africa and Spain, citing a diversion of public funds to preparations for the 2010 World Cup and the global economic crisis as the primary reasons for cancellation...'.
Let's hope there is a long and lasting economic benefit to SA from the 2010 World Cupbecause there may well be a long and lasting research deficit to offset.
Ed Rybicki
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa.
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I'm the Director of Developer Community at The Echo Nest, a research-focused music intelligence startup that provides music information services to developers and partners through a data mining and machine listening platform. I am especially interested in hybrid music recommenders and using visualizations to aid music discovery.
The World's First MachineLearning-enabled musical keyboard !?!
Today Amazon released AWS DeepComposer which is a keyboard that will let you "create a melody that will transform into a completely original song in seconds".
To me it looks like an Arturia Keystep knock-off. I'm still puzzling over whether or not there's any special ML-related features – or is it just a MIDI keyboard that comes with some AWS credits. Anyone with any insights, please let me know.
How Generative Music Works
Tero Parvianen has en excellent introduction to Generative Music with lots of live examples. Well worth 20 minutes of your time with lots of food for thought.
Music Machinery Chapter 2
Posted in generative music, Music, synthesis on December 2, 2019
I've spent the last 15 or so years thinking mostly about the machinery that gets music from the bits in an audio recording into the ears of a listener. There are dozens of examples of tools for music discovery, organization and listening in the sidebar at the right on this blog. But lately I've been thinking quite a bit more about the machinery that goes into getting the bits into an audio recording in the first place. I'm particularly interested in two aspects of this: (1) music synthesis – the machinery that can create the sounds from scratch and (2) generative music – machinery that can generate the music from scratch.
If you are interested in synthesis and generative music, feel free to follow along in Music Machinery Chapter 2. I'm a newbie at it all so pointers and guidance will be greatly appreciated.
Is this thing on …
Posted in Music on December 2, 2019
Woah, its been a while since I've posted to this blog (three and a half years to be exact). I think it's time for a bit of a reboot on this blog. Stay tuned!
Girl Talk In A Box update
Posted in Music on April 30, 2016
I've pushed out some updates to GirlTalkInABox – there are now some nifty filters (chorus, phaser, delay and wahwah), and you can interactively adjust the playback rate of the song. A few other minor changes as well to make live performances a little easier. Check it out at GirlTalkInABox.
Smarter Playlists – My Top Tracks
Posted in Music on March 13, 2016
I've just added a new Smarter Playlists component called My Top Tracks. This track source will generate a list of the top 50 tracks from your recent listening history. You can choose from 3 different time ranges:
- short term – the last month or so
- medium term – the last half year or so
- long term – the last several years
The component configuration looks like this:
Here's an example program using the new component to surface up tracks that I've listened to a lot in the past that haven't been getting a lot of play time in the last half-year.
Feel free to try out the new component and send me feedback via the google group.
update – to use the new component, you will need to logout and then log back into SmarterPlaylists to grant it the extra permissions it needs to read your recent play history.
Most popular SmarterPlaylists components
As of this morning, there have been 1,363 SmarterPlaylist programs written. Currently there are 300 SmarterPlaylist jobs running periodically. I was wondering what were the most popular components, so I took inventory by looking at all of those 1,363 programs to see which components were used the most often. Here's the list:
4046 SpotifyPlaylist
1276 Sample
709 EchoNestGenreRadio
673 Concatenate
563 DeDup
499 PlaylistSave
455 Shuffler
441 TrackFilter
394 EchoNestArtistRadio
325 comment
248 Sorter
225 RelativeDatedSpotifyPlaylist
222 MySavedTracks
218 ArtistTopTracks
217 Alternate
200 PlaylistSaveToNew
194 LongerThan
155 EchoNestArtist
141 First
129 AlbumSource
125 DatedSpotifyPlaylist
117 Mixer
116 ReleaseDateFilter
111 Danceable
108 SeparateArtists
89 MyFollowedArtists
82 AttributeRangeFilter
79 RandomSelector
77 Energy
72 Tempo
69 ArtistDeDup
68 ArtistFilter
56 Explicit
42 MixIn
39 MySavedAlbums
37 IsDayOfWeek
30 TrackSourceByName
25 SimpleArtistFilter
24 AllButTheFirst
20 ArtistSeparation
19 Weighted Shuffler
19 ShorterThan
18 Spoken Word
16 TrackSource
12 RandomStreamSelector
10 Last
5 IsWeekend
4 Live
4 AllButTheLast
4 YesNo
3 Annotator
3 Reverse
1 TextFilter
The big surprises for me were to see how often the Echo Nest Artist and Genre radio are being used, and even after being around for only a week, how often the RelativeDatedSpotifyPlaylist is being used.
Title filtering in SmarterPlaylists
This morning I added a 'title filter' component to SmarterPlaylists. This component lets you filter tracks based on regex string matching of the track title. This is useful for filtering out certain types of track – such as remixes, radio edits or songs with 9 in the title.
The title filter allows you to invert the sense of the filter, and makes it easy to ignore case in your matches as well:
Using this filter we can take our favorite dubstep playlist and eliminate all the radio edits.
To try this yourself, you can import the program.
Thanks to Drew Davidson for the component suggestion.
Filtering playlists by relative date added to the playlist
Posted in Music on February 21, 2016
A common #smarterplaylists feature request has been to filter playlists by the relative date in which a track was added to the playlist. Relative date filtering would allow you to do things like extract all the tracks in my "favs playlist" that have been added in the last six months. Using a relative date like 'six months ago' versus an absolute date like 'August 21, 2015' makes it possible to write a #smarterplaylists program that will continue to surface up the tracks from the most recent six months, no matter how far in the future it is run.
This weekend, I've added support for a Playlist (Rel Date) component that will filter playlists by the relative date added. Here's an example configuration for the component:
Relative dates are given as you would say them. Some examples of the type of relative dates supported are:
- 1 month
- 2 days 2 hours
- 3 years 2 months 2 days
- 3 years 2 months and 2 days ago
- 3 years, 2 months and 22 days ago!
- 1 h 3 w 2 d
- last week
- last month
- last year and three weeks ago
- six weeks
- a week ago
- twenty days ago
- 6 mnths, 2 wks
Keeping it Fresh
Here's an example of how we can use the relative date filter to help us keep a periodically updating playlist filled with fresh tracks.
Here's my Gothic Metal sampler. It collects songs from a number of gothic metal playlists, selects songs at random and adds them to a playlist called Gothic Metal Sampler:
This program is scheduled to run once a day, giving me a fresh playlist of gothic metal to listen to on my morning commute. Unfortunately, the playlist isn't always so fresh. There's nothing to prevent the same songs from appearing over and over. We are relying totally on the throw of the virtual dice to keep the playlist fresh.
With the new relative date support, this is very easy to fix. The idea is to simultaneously update a separate archive playlist that keeps track of all the songs that have been ever added to my gothic metal sampler. I can then use the new relative date support to extract all the tracks that have been added to that playlist in the last week and use that set of tracks as input to the mixer track filter which will ensure that those tracks will not be included in the output. The result is that the Gothic Metal Sampler is updated every day while no song will appear more frequently than once a week in the playlist.
Feel free to import the program for study and use.
Using the relative date filtering in this fashion is a pretty handy way for you to incorporate history into your programs.
yet another SmarterPlaylists component
Posted in Music on February 14, 2016
Today I added a new SmarterPlaylists component. It has the catchy name playlist (abs date). It works similarly to the standard playlist component that sources tracks from a Spotify playlist, but it lets you order and filter the tracks based upon when they were added to the playlist. With playlist (abs date) you can specify that you want the tracks returned in normal playlist order, or in the order in which tracks were added to the playlist. You can also filter the tracks so that only tracks that were added between a range of dates are returned.
Here's what the configuration looks like for the component:
Some possible use cases:
Let's just listen to the most recent 20 tracks in my "Fav songs playlist". To do this I add the Playlist (Abs Date) component, and configure it to read songs from Fav Songs and return them in date added order:
I then connect it up to a component that extracts the last 20 songs from its source:
Here's a Valentine's Day use case – you want to generate a romantic list of songs that you and your SO were listening to when you first started dating last summer. You can build a playlist of songs that you added to each of your fav songs playlist during that time like so:
where both Playlist (abs date) components are configured similarly:
This doesn't handle all date related use cases yet. For instance, it'd be great if we could extract out songs from a playlist based upon a relative time scale … such as all the tracks that were added in the last week. Support for relative dates will be coming soon.


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It's been some time since I last posted, mainly because a lot of things have been going on IRL – I've moved from freelancing back into agency work, and with my kidlet now in high school, time is tight in general. As a result of this, I've been spending much less time in game, and found myself quite burnt out late last year, to the point where I wasn't really logging on much outside of raids, and even took a month-long break over December.
Jeez – was that the worst thing I could have ever done.
In my absence, the 'special snowflakes' lurking in our guild took over. Literally tried to cause a guild coup. We managed that for a time, but the behind-the-scenes lies and bullshit that continued throughout caused us to take a 'sit back and wait' approach, rather than buying into drama we had no time for.
We couldn't believe how a group of 'adults' (read – most are 30+ at the very least) could do what they were doing, and knew people were being manipulated, so we just waited. There were screenshots of flat out lies sent around to other raiders via email, feelings were hurt for no good reason, and people were generally behaving like I was the enemy.
Funny thing was, I wasn't even around for most of it, nor was I in any way involved. I was used as the whipping girl by a number of people who took issue with my burnout, which had unfortunately translated into me being cranky and over it on a number of occasions during raids, hence why I took a break from the game – I was sick and tired of the ongoing whinging from a number of people behind the scenes, and that was showing in my attitude.
They were also using it as an excuse to 'be unhappy'. Reality is, you create your own happiness, so I was gobsmacked at the amount of 'power' I apparently have to fuck with people's enjoyment of a game I love, and actually want to enjoy myself!
The result? Insidious is no longer progression raiding, and 6 of our core raiders left with our 'second team' over a period of weeks and joined a guild we took in last year to help them survive with our extras. Effectively, after almost 6 years of managing, running and maintaining Insidious, it's all over, and we're now a social guild of mainly alts with a few non-raiding mains.
Myself and four other guys made the decision to leave Nagrand, which has been my home since I started playing WoW, and it was the hardest thing I've ever had to do. I was literally crying when I was speaking with the guys about joining our new guild on Caelestrasz, but luckily for me, I already knew a number of them from when they were raiding on Nagrand, so they were nothing but supportive and understanding of my angst.
They knew all about our good reputation as a guild over a period of YEARS, and welcomed us with open arms. It's hard to let something you've worked so hard to build go, and it's even harder to let go when you know people are being cajoled and manipulated into leaving by some of the people we previously trusted 100%, but I think we've made the best decision for us.
So how did it all come about?
Effing WoD, and 'mythic' raiding.
As soon as the announcement was made about 20 man mythic raiding in WoD, a few people in our core team got all fired up about 'switching up to 25s now so we have a good team for WoD'.
Errrrr – excuse me? WoD is HOW far away people?!
The leader of our 'second team' (I shall call him 'Fucknuckle' in the interests of storytelling) had originally wanted to join us to move up to 25 man raiding, but was denied that opportunity for both himself and his team based on his horrendous attitude towards the officers of Insidious and me (who recruited them, mind you) in particular. He started getting in people's ears over Christmas/New Year and that's where it all began. We came back to raiding to a lot of chatter about 'we have to switch up or the guild will die', and there was pressure to look at combining the two teams or joining other guilds to do so.
There was a slight problem with this, however.
Fucknuckle is a misogynistic, egotistical and downright nasty prick. He wanted to switch up to 25s desperately so 'his team' could be carried through content we'd already mastered – they didn't even kill Garrosh N until 3 weeks ago for the first time, and they've been raiding MoP since release.
There had been early discussions on sharing experienced and lesser experienced raiders between teams, but our core team had zero interest in that, so we made the decision as an officer group to intentionally keep the teams separate, and recruit separately (that's a whole other story I won't go into here).
This essentially left Fucknuckle powerless in our guild, and cut off from any access to the main raid team. Hence the bullshit over Christmas, when a few combined runs were done and a 'few' people started talking about WoD, and he somehow managed to convince them his team was the better option for heroic raiding.
He even went to the effort of demanding a 'change of leadership' on our guild forums because we DARED to take a short break from the game over the holiday period, and approached people who are long-term real life friends, trying to poach them to his re-formed guild once they left. He and others were whispering them saying 'you've been abandoned', when our friends were fully aware of the entire situation, and found it endlessly amusing.
This from the 'leader' of a team who always started raids late, had people afk'ing constantly mid-raid, and couldn't maintain a stable roster to save his life. No guild website, no paid voice server, no effort – wanted us to go to all the effort of recruiting for him, but wanted veto power over who was trialled in OUR guild.
Sounds appealing for successful heroic raiding, doesn't it?
Well now he has all the ongoing pains in our arses (plus a few 'friends' who joined them to keep raiding), and it's only a matter of time until the 'special snowflakes' start causing the same drama they're well known for – people always revert to type once the honeymoon period is over. We wish them – well, something.
Special snowflakes are a pain in any officer's ass.
There is no place for special snowflakes in a progression raiding guild – full stop. As soon as people start making demands as individuals rather than thinking of the team first and foremost, the slippery path to mutually-assured destruction is set.
We had a number of them, and they came and left and came back again like the guild was their own revolving door. They thought the grass was greener elsewhere, but overestimated their ability and were often benched in 'more progressed guilds' so begged to come back, time after time.
And I let them – I forgave them.
I'm a good person who cares for the FRIENDS I play with, so I forgive. And get kicked in the face. Good behaviour for a while, then straight back to the bullshit that being a shut-in recluse with nothing else in life than work and WoW creates.
When one person in particular got into cahoots with Fucknuckle, I knew the inevitable would happen. We WANTED it to happen – we were totally over the ongoing demands to 'not take undergeared people' or 'not take people who are shit' – people too easily forget that you NEED to give people chances, and often they surprise even the most elitist asshat with the work they do to improve. GOOD PEOPLE>EXPERIENCE any day.
What's funny is…
There was always a back up plan.
As engaged and responsible officers, we always had a Plan B. That was to find a new home who could accommodate us as a group with the loyal people who stayed. A few of us had already had discussions with a number of guilds off-server about it, and we had a loose plan in mind, as well as a couple of options, though many meant moving to the Horde, and we weren't particularly keen on that.
We weren't going to divulge Plan B openly until we knew what would happen with our guild however, as we wanted it to survive if possible, but that wasn't to be the case.
We're now happily ensconced in a 25 man heroic raiding guild on Caelestrasz, and in the period of two weeks are already 7/14H, soon to be 9/14H.
That feels good.
REALLY good.
I love not having any responsibility other than my own job as a melee, and the guild we're in now have policies and rules that mirror our own in Insidious (the problem we had was people not respecting those rules, and often overtly flaunting them with no real repercussions). There's an added bonus for us now of having a GM who genuinely believes a guild is NOT a democracy, and that is SO. REFRESHING.
On a sad and pathetic note however, 'someone' took it upon themselves to send this to our GM on Cael this week and promptly delete the toon…
We know who did it. My new GM thought it was hilarious, and sent it to me straight away with a 'oooooh someone doesn't like you'. Understandably, I was quite pissed about it, but was given the following sage advice from a friend,
"Don't mud wrestle a pig, you just get filthy and the pig likes it."
Well you know what, you coward? I'm not going to mud wrestle you, but…
You failed, and made a total dick of yourself to boot. Enough said, really.
Oh wait…
From 3/14H to 7/14H in two weeks, with zero drama to deal with, and a team of like-minded people with no tolerance for egotistical asshattery. Pure win.


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Monday, February 16, 2015
In response to the many, many requests I receive for vintage vinyl by the late and great Cowboy Copas, I am posting an LP with that very title! A previous post featured the second Copas collection released on Starday's Nashville subsidiary (NLP 2036, downloadable here); presented now is the first, Nashville NLP 2013, "The Late and Great Cowboy Copas".
Cowboy recorded for Starday from 1959 until shortly before his death in 1963 and this 1964 album is a great cross section of his work for the label. Two tracks in particular stand out as classic Copas. "South Pacific Shore" seems to have been inspired by his classic "Filipino Baby" while "Sal" is clearly a continuation of the talking blues Cope took to number one on the Billboard country chart in 1960, "Alabam". From start to finish, this is a highly enjoyable collection of classic country music. Starday honcho Don Pierce's notes in memory of Cowboy Copas are transcribed below:
The tragic death of Cowboy Copas on March 5, 1963 brought profound sorrow to Country Music people throughout the world.
In a stormy and forbidding twilight, Cowboy Copas along with his fellow Grand Ole Opry performers Patsy Cline and Hawkshaw Hawkins climbed into a single engine plane piloted by Randy Hughes. They took off for home in Nashville following a benefit performance in Kansas City that raised $3,000 for the family of a country music disc jockey who had lost his life in an auto accident. In foul weather, the plane crashed near Camden, Tennessee, and there were no survivors.
As fate would have it, Randy Hughes, the pilot, was the son-in-law of Cowboy Copas and the husband of Cathy Copas who recorded many song favorites with her daddy. Randy was also Patsy Cline's personal manager and an accomplished guitarist who backed up Copas and many other stars on their recording sessions.
Only thirty days prior to the tragedy, a Cowboy Copas album entitled "Beyond the Sunset" was released and contained many songs of life and the hereafter.
About 24 hours after the plane crash, another Grand Ole Opry star, Jack Anglin, of the Johnny and Jack and Kitty Wells show, was killed when his car ran off the road while enroute to prayer services for Patsy Cline.
Although Cowboy Copas has joined Hank Williams, Johnny Horton, Jimmie Rodgers, and the other great stars in the next world, he has left a treasury of songs and Country Music for posterity.
Cowboy Copas was an All Time Country Music Great. The Copas story is well known. Starting on an Oklahoma farm, he rose to Country Music fame as a Grand Ole Opry star with such hits as SIGNED, SEALED AND DELIVERED, TENNESSEE WALTZ, FILIPINO BABY, TRAGIC ROMANCE, and many others following World War II. Then in 1960, his tremendous smash hit recording ALABAM brought new fame and popularity and pressure for more and more personal appearances. Always a trooper, and true to the show business tradition, he traveled up to 200,000 miles per year entertaining, and making friends. Hs records were solid sellers and Copas excelled at singing love ballads or honky tonk songs. The people loved his open string, unamplified, flat top Martin guitar pickin'. He was a real pro as a master of ceremonies. His duet recordings with daughter, Cathy Copas, were extremely popular. And last, but by no means least, he was a standout performer on the sincere and happy "hand clapping" gospel songs that all Country Music fans love.
If there is a "Hillbilly Heaven", we feel that Cowboy Copas will be enthroned there in honor. Starday joins with Country Music fans everywhere in recognition of the great Country Music heritage left us by the one and only Cowboy Copas.
1. South Pacific Shore
2. The Gypsy Girl
3. There'll Come A Time (Duet with Cathy Copas)
4. A Satisfied Mind
5. Pickin' The Blues (Instrumental)
6. Wings Of The Great Speckled Bird
7. You Are The One (Duet with Cathy Copas)
8. Mom And Dad's Affair
9. Sal
10. Cope's Wildwood Flower
11. A Thousand Miles Of Ocean
12. Wherever He Leads I'll Go
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Celebrate Christ Recovery is dedicated to the idea that a person's values and purpose are the main navigational tools in life. People overcome hurts, habits and hang-ups out of purpose-based motivation -- they better themselves when they recognize how their habits, violate who they were, what they want to be, where they want to go in life. All change ultimately occurs because of decisions (Thinking) people make for themselves. People change when they HURT enough and have to or when they LEARN enough and want to. People change when they are, "Motivated," to change and they choose to change. The Bible is the book that contains this template for purpose based motivation, mindfulness, character, values and tenets for life. (Sermon on the Mount-The Eight Beatitudes). Empower yourself and choose to allow the philosophical values and principles of Jesus Christ to TRANSFORM your thinking and change the very essence of your life-forever.
Celebrate Christ Recovery, is based on the premise that feelings and behaviors are caused by a person's thoughts, not on outside stimuli like people, situations and events. People may not be able to control their external circumstances, but they can change how they think about them and therefore change how they feel and behave (Romans 12:2). There are three things you can own and control: Feelings, Attitudes (Thinking)and Behaviors. No other person can control those. The way you feel emanates from how you think. Behind everything you do is a thought. Every behavior is motivated by a belief. Every action is prompted by an attitude. Pay attention to how you THINK, for everything you do flows from the heart. Proverbs 4:20-23.
This is an online forum about, "Thinking with Christ and applying it to your daily life." This is a unique forum that involves the, "Marriage of Science and Scripture." This is place for anyone who doesn't live or have a perfect life, it's simply for everyone.Don't be misled by the word, "Recovery." America has created two neologisms—"recovery" and "sobriety"—both of which are taken to mean abstinence. Neither term is accurate. Sobriety is not abstinence: the word literally means not being intoxicated or, in its broad sense, taking a serious approach to life. Recovery does not necessarily mean avoiding a substance forever. It means regaining a foothold in life by finding purpose and meaning. Recovery refers to a return of a normal God oriented healthy state of mind, body and spirit. Living life from the perspective of, "Exercise some of the time, Eat healthy most of the time, Think well by pursuing God ALL of the time." Sobriety is where, "Values trump feelings," (the need for a quick fix or mood changer). Sobriety lasts when we have, "Purpose," when we are not conformed to this world, but transformed with new thinking (Romans 12:2). Sobriety occurs when we get our values from the Bible and not from how we, "Feel." Life is fraught with overwhelming and uncontrollable-helpless situations and events that cause stress. Recovery refers to the action or process of regaining possession or control of your life, by how you think. How you think determines how you feel. How you feel influences your actions, your behavior, your compulsions.
When we have a relationship with Jesus Christ we learn Building and Maintaining Motivation, Coping with Urges, Managing Thoughts, Feelings and Behaviors, Living a Balanced Life. When we retrain our brain with direct Christ Driven Behavior, (CDB) we learn to change our thinking (neural engrams), our motivation, our values and purpose and that changes our character and our lives (Romans 12:2). We don't react with displaced compulsive behavior but instead react with healthy direct behavior, that is Christ Driven Behavior based on a personal relationship that empowers us with the values and virtues of Jesus Christ. When we practice these values, we find motivation and purpose, joy and competence.
Most addiction experts perceive that Science and Scripture are antithetical; this is a misconception. We need scientific explanation to understand nature. We need meaning to understand human behavior. We need God to know the answers to both. Jesus Christ taught His basic psychotherapy over 2000 years ago. He authored by proxy, 66 books on it. Read the Bible to be wise, believe it to be saved and practice it to be holy and healthy.
Consider this forum as an adjunct tool, to face to face Celebrate Recovery Meetings. Consider putting the, "values," of Jesus Christ into habit- the best definition of, "Character".
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Behind everything you do is a THOUGHT.
Every BEHAVIOR is motivated by a BELIEF.
Every ACTION is prompted by an ATTITUDE.
With respect to behavior, life is about, emotions, beliefs, thinking and control.
"A fool vents all his feelings, But a wise man holds them back."Proverbs 29:11 (Displaced Behaviors)
"Do not be conformed by this world but instead by the renewing of your mind." Romans 12:2 (Direct Behavior)
When you think and empower yourself and surrender control to God, when you Intelligently Delegate Control to God (2 Corinthians 12:9-10),
God returns that control to you with a, "Helper," the Holy Spirit, (John 14:16) a form of Reciprocal Innervation.
You regain control: "the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.
No longer are you subject to corrupted displaced thinking but instead are transformed by the renewing of your mind (Romans 12:2).
This is where science and scripture intertwine, where Christ Driven Behavior brings, values, control, cause, character and purpose driven behavior, the fruits of the spirit Galatians 5:22-23 .
"If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new." 2 Corinthians 5:17.
Proverbs 29:11 "A fool vents all his feelings, But a wise man holds them back."
Romans 12:2: Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
2 Corinthians 12-9:"My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness."
John 14:16: "He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever—"
Philippians 2:13: "for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure."
Galatians 5:22-23 "the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.
Ephesians 4:22-23 "...put away the old person you used to be. Have nothing to do with your old sinful life. It was sinful because of being fooled into following bad desires. Let your minds and hearts be made new."
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This such an easy and delicious dish! Whenever people here want to knock up something quick and tasty, Lahanorizo is usually what they decide on. It can be eaten as a main dish or as a midday (or midnight!) snack.
½ medium size tender cabbage
1 cup rice suitable for risotto
1 onion chopped
2 medium carrots chopped
2 leeks chopped
2 tablespoons chopped celery leaves
Juice from ½ lemon
100 ml olive oil
Salt and pepper
Chop the cabbage into squares 2cm x 2cm.
In a shallow pan gently fry the onion in the olive oil for 3 minutes.
Add the chopped cabbage, leeks and carrots, stir and continue frying for 3 minutes.
Add the rice and stir.
Add lemon juice, salt, pepper and celery and then 2 cups of water.
Simmer for about 20 minutes until the rice is cooked, stirring once or twice.
Can be served hot or cold.
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On Tuesday, Oct. 16, at the request of Supervisor Catherine M. Hudgins (D-Hunter Mill), the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors appointed three Reston residents to the nine-member Reston Community Center Board of Governors: returning Board member William G. Bouie, and new Board members Lisa Ehrhardt and Gerald Zavala.
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Voting begins officially on Sept. 28.
The Reston Community Center (RCC) Board of Governors announces three candidates for its 2012 Preference Poll. This year's candidates include one incumbent, William G. Bouie, and two new candidates, Lisa Ehrhardt and Gerald Zavala. The candidates' statements in this article are presented in alphabetical order; voters are urged to review all statements to make their best selection.
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Blindspot featured gasp-inducing reveals and non-stop action in season one, but things are just getting started. How do we know? Because the exclusive season two first look below—it'll blow you out of the water.
"It's going to send you on a massive emotional roller coaster," Jaimie Alexander teases in the new preview below.
Get a peek at season two, including new addition Archie Panjabi (who appears to be up to no good…or lots of good?), now. There's also a recap to refresh your memory. If only Jane Doe had a video recap for her life…
"We have a lot of new faces who are going to help clarify who Jane Doe really is," Alexander says.
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The Planning Commission meets on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month at 6:00 PM as scheduled. Please view the City Calendar for any updates or cancellations. The Planning Commission is responsible for long-range planning activities including major use permits, commercial planned development permits, zone changes, code amendments, and modification to long-range planning documents including the City's General Plan and Local Coastal Plan.
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Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Domestic Partner Benefits in Peril
3 comments:
- David Bernstein said...
Is there some particular reason (preferably somehow related to legal history) that people who choose not to make a binding legal commitment to each other should get the same rights as privileges as those who do? I'm certainly open to the argument, but you seem to assume that your readers will think this is obviously true, and it's not. The counter-argument is easy: society has an interest in encouraging marriages, because marriages are less likely to break up than cohabitation, and family stability is good for society. W/r/t to health benefits, there is also a significant element of fraud prevention involved--anyone can claim to have cohabitator, but marriage is rather harder to fake.
- September 4, 2012 at 10:19:00 AM EDT
- Elizabeth Pleck said...
The argument in favor of promotion of marriage or special privileges for marriage is indeed that (legal) marriage is the foundation of society, that marriage promotes stability,that it is good for children,that it is based on religious beliefs in the sanctity of marriage.
As one might expect, the arguments on behalf of rights for cohabitors have evolved and closely track the evolution of liberalism, privacy rights, and the use of the 14th amendment to argue for rights.
1. The main argument of Marvin v. Marvin(1976) was a version of liberalism, that law had to evolve to keep up with new patterns of behavior and that the law could not be used to police morality because moral standards were diverse and changing.
2. The main argument of domestic partnership legislation is a version of the"new" common law, that relationships should be judged on the basis of function, not form, and that many cohabiting relationships, if analyzed based on function, would fulfill the same public and private functions as legal marriage.
3. Some state courts have ruled that housing discrimination against cohabitors constitutes "marital status discrimination," prohibited under state law.
4. Lawrence v. Texas (2003) has been used to rule that criminal penalties against cohabitation are unconstitutional. Lawrence is usually seen as asserting a right to freedom of association and has been applied to cohabitation as well as homosexual relations conducted in private.
5. Just as the argument for same-sex marriage, as in Perry v. Schwarzegger, is a 14th amendment argument, so, too, the argument for rights for cohabitors is that to treat them differently is a deprivation of due process and equal protection of the law.
6. In most European and Commonwealth countries, cohabitants have greater legal rights and access to greater entitlements than in the U.S.
Because of concern about fraud, employers ask domestic partners to file an affidavit or proof of domestic registration. Marriage is by no means a fraud-free institution; in fact, "sham marriage" refers to the practice of entering into legal marriage for fraudulent purposes. See Ariela Dubler, "Immoral Purposes: Marriage and the Genesis of Illicit Sex, 115 Yale Law Journal 75 (2006).
- September 4, 2012 at 4:12:00 PM EDT
- David Bernstein said...
Thanks. I think we need to distinguish among (1) laws that penalize people for cohabitating; (2) laws that deny people benefits for cohabitating that they'd get if they were married (e.g., public employee health benefits); (3) and private actions that discriminate against cohabitating couples (refusing to rent to them, denying private company insurance benefits, refusing to allow your cohabitating children to sleep together when visiting your house).
The case for prohibiting (1) seems strong on the basis of the right to privacy. (2) less so. (3) not at all.
Thanks again for your response, I do think it makes your case stronger if you don't simply assume that your readers are offended by (2) and (3).
- September 4, 2012 at 8:29:00 PM EDT


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The 'Promised Land'. The extent of Canaan, composed of independent towns and villages before the domination of the Israelites, included what is now modern Israel and Lebanon. Agriculture was the main occupation, and this was reflected in the harvest festivals, which Israel inherited (Exod. 23: 14–17). But much of Canaanite religion and morality was decisively repudiated by the conquering Israelites according to the Deuteronomist historian (Deut. 20: 16–18), whose narrative was prejudiced, polemical, and partial; it is silent about any corresponding history of territories occupied.
In the NT the land is mentioned in Stephen's speech (Acts 7: 11), and where Mark (7: 26) refers to a Syro‐Phoenician woman, Matthew (15: 22) calls her a Canaanite, which is a simplification of the more precise Marcan term, and also carries rather derogatory overtones. See also tyre.


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Image editing has definitely grown from being a desktop only task, today there are tons of online image editing services, which not only bring the same familiarity of a desktop environment, but are also easy to use. To top it, they are absolutely free to use.
So which are the best online image / photo / picture editors? Well, if you are looking to get a answer to that questions, we have compiled a list of the best of the lot, to make it easier for you.
FotoFlexer – FotoFlexer is one of most advanced online image editors you will find on the internet. FotoFlexer allows you to add several effects, decorate images, animations and more in a easy to use way. You can also easily edit images from sites like Photobucket, MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, Picasa and other sites.
SplashUp SplashUp previously known as Fauxto, is another great editor which is also closest Photoshop clone on the web. You can work with multiple layers just like Photoshop along with the other image editing features.
Picnik Another old contender which falls in our best list of Free Online Image Editors, Picnik is definitely a very good at what it is supposed to do, another good thing about Picnik is direct integration with Firefox with a handy extension.
Picture2Life Picture2Life is another free online image editing service we had reviewed some time back, it has extensions available for Firefox and also a add-in you can use with Internet Explorer.
FlauntR FlauntR is a professional photo editing service which you can use for absolutely free, you can store unlimited photos online. There are also over 1000s of designs you can apply to your photos.
Pixlr – Pixlr is a free online image editor, jump in and start edit, adjust, filter. It's just what you imagine.
Did we miss something? Do let us know about it so that we can include it in the list. Don't forge to visit the Image Tools section to find more interesting tools for editing and having fun with your pictures.


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Happy birthday early!
Happy Birthday! I hope it was a good one!
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I have a room?
Kidding - just came to your "room" to look around!
Have you been smoking cigars in here?
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