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Hong Kong Days 8, 9, and 10
Thursday I hit a few malls and pet shops with the sister hoping to find a carrier for my almost-puppy. Had no luck though, they were all too ugly. In one of them there was a giant store called Muji. Usually I'm a quick shopper but when it comes to stationery or paper anything I take a long time. I'm very particular with my pens and pencils so when I find some I like, I need duplicates just in case!
We stumbled upon a Vivienne Westwood store and I found the raddest belt ever. The strange thing is, it's from Japan and is "free size"… how on earth can a belt be one size and expected to fit everybody?
On our way back to the hotel we hit a dessert stall that specialized in mango concoctions. I had what my Aunty had the night before–sago in mango with coconut milk.
After my twinny twin saw my really rad belt he wanted one of his own, too (it's a men's belt apparently). We hit another VW store since he wanted a black one with a silver pin. He couldn't find one there but he found a briefcase/messenger type bag instead.
While perusing the store my Sister showed me a fanny pack…Yes, a fanny pack. I have a new appreciation for these bags that give me two free hands. I knocked them in the past, but that was before I realized their awesomeness and convenience. I purchased it and my sister got a matching one. On the way to dinner we went back to the first VW store and luckily for the twin, that afternoon they got in a new shipment and in that shipment was a black belt with a silver pin!
Yesterday after the biggest breakfast EVER (two waffles, eggs, hashbrowns, jook, two croissants, and pineapple), I hung out in the room for what seemed like ages (it was only a few hours). I had a not-so-great chen-dohl then went to Wan Chai for lunch. I had the greatest squid in this Thai-Chinese fusion restaurant.
We had plans to go to the night market on Temple Street but it started pouring. There have been typhoon warnings for the past few days but luckily we only got the tail end of it. We went to the hotel lounge and talked for a few hours. Since the fam bam didn't have dinner, a few of us went to the McDonald's across the street. The McFlurry's are half the size they are in the US! They also have pork burgers (sister said it tasted like spam) but it's just meat and the buns. No lettuce, ketchup, mustard, mayo… nada.
Went back to the hotel and met up with my Dad at the downstairs record store and that ended the day.
This morning I went back to the first pet store I went to (the one I got Lily's leash at) and bought some toys. I went with sister to Sogo and went to the bottom floor which is the food level–I just inhaled a waffle with peanut butter and condensed milk in between. I'm surprised I haven't gained weight here! Tonight we will go to the night market provided the weather doesn't suck.


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – It's been nearly two years since Mandy Wrigley lost her son, Bryan Wrigley, when he was hit riding his bicycle in St. Johns County. Whoever hit him didn't stop and to this day hasn't been caught.
"The second year is terrible and we just want to bring justice for Bryan, and Bryan deserves justice," Mandy Wrigley said in a phone interview. "And the Good Book says you have to forgive. Well, I want this person to come to me and ask me for forgiveness. And I want to hope that I'm a big enough person that I can give forgiveness, but this person needs to own up that they have killed a person, they have killed a young man that had a great future."
Bryan Wrigley (pictured, below) is just one of several people killed in hit-and-runs in northeast Florida in recent years, and his case is also one of many that remain unsolved. In fact, according to Channel 4 records, there were 13 unsolved cases that ended in death or life-threatening injuries in just the last year.
Below is a list of those cases:
- 46-year-old killed on Westside
- 49-year-old killed in St. Augustine
- 24-year-old killed in Palm Coast
- 54-year-old killed on Northside
- 17-year-old critically hurt in Palm Coast
- 52-year-old killed in St. John's County
- 52-year-old killed in Live Oak
- 48-year-old killed in Mandarin
- 74-year-old killed on Westside
- Man of unknown age critically injured on Westside
- 53-year-old killed on Matthews Bridge
- 54-year-old killed in Arlington
- 47-year-old critically injured in Northwest Jacksonville
The cases are being investigated in many different cities, but by several agencies, such as the Florida Highway Patrol.
FHP Capt. Keith Gaston said that in his area, there are not a lot of unsolved hit-and-runs, relatively speaking. He said there are only a few left outstanding from the Jacksonville office, and he said there's good evidence in each case, making him confident arrests will be made.
"But when the person just opts to leave the scene and not take responsibility for that, we take it very personal," Gaston said. "We've got a couple of investigators that I describe as bulldogs."
RELATED: White van sought in Friday fatal hit-and-run
The list of unsolved cases, however, compiles cases from half a dozen different local agencies.
"It can be months, sometimes it can be years," Gaston said of solving hit-and-runs.
Channel 4 crime analyst Ken Jefferson says the cases aren't easy, and detectives must work extra hard to solve them. That's why they need the public to work as an extra set of eyes and ears and report what they see.
"A key element to a hit-and-run is a third party that actually witnessed it, No. 1," Jefferson said. "No. 2, physical evidence that could be a result of the crash from the other vehicle left at the scene that investigators can collect."


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Bear with me folks, it's one of those posts with no real point and not much focus. ;)
Excuse me while I ramble a bit.
You know the list? The one with a meeeellion projects I want to get done in less than 30 days? Well, I've been SUPER busy.
I've accomplished three things on the list and about ten that aren't. That is how I roll. :)
I'm gearing up for a TON of painting and need to figure out the direction I'm going in the dining room. I have been meaning to go to the fabric store and just take some time checking out potential drapery fabrics that can serve as inspiration.
I was leaning toward a blue/grey color for the back of the built ins (the someday built ins) and it's an awesome color. But then I saw this in House Beautiful:
And I can't get that combo of colors out of my mind! I think the pink color is actually a little more red in the magazine. I can't stop thinking about it and think it could be gorgeous as the background color for the bookshelves. (Here, let me say "think" one more time…think.)
I don't want it to go girly, and I don't want red, but I love the idea of an in between color like that. I just love that combo of cream, greys, brown and pinky red. It's beautiful!
Speaking of paint, remember how much I loved the Sherwin Williams paint on the kitchen island? Well their paints are 30 percent off through the weekend if you are a preferred customer. (At least at my store.) All you have to do to become a preferred customer is give an email address! (I'm pretty sure anyway. I may know nothing.)
You bet I will be stocking up on the basement paint! Yay for deals!! Nay for painting the basement!!
And speaking of girly, did you hear Jessica Simpson had her baby girl this week? Did it feel like she was pregnant for 30 months to anyone else or was it just me? Congrats to her!
On a totally different note, I picked up two new-to-me books today, and I'm really looking forward to reading this one:
I've heard it's excellent. Have you read it? I'm not big into non-fiction but every once and a while I find them very worthwhile. My hubby, on the other hand, only reads non-fiction! (I'm trying to get him to read Hunger Games to no avail.)
Thanks to you all, I have learned a TON about hydrangeas over the past 24 hours! (Check out this post for more info.) Today, thanks to the very helpful folks at a local nursery, I picked up a couple new hydrangea bushes and learned a bit more:
The staff at Andrea's Garden Center (at 65 and Binford for you Indy folks) were super helpful. (Hey Mari! Waving wildly!) I replanted three of my sad, pathetic bushes today and have the two new ones in a spot where I think they will do well. I'll be sure to give you an update on those soon! Cross your fingers! And toes.
Do you have any Cinco de Mayo plans? After the hubs and I are done at a high school function he has to attend, we are planning to get out for at least one margarita. It just wouldn't be right if we didn't -- gotta stay true to his heritage. :) (My father-in-law was from Mexico.)
I found this recipe the other day for margarita cupcakes and am gathering the ingredients and making them tomorrow:
Oh my goodNESS. I'm a marg girl so these sound divine to me. I'll be sure to report back and let you know how they turn out. It's my civic duty as a blogger you know. It's rough, but someone's gotta do it.
So, have you painted a wall pinkish? Tried the margarita cupcakes? Got a good non-fiction book you loved? Fun plans for the weekend? I'd love to hear!
If I don't talk to you before then, have a fabulous weekend! Adios amigos! ;)


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COROT mission strategy
After its launch in December 2006, COROT will be placed by a Soyuz launcher in a polar circular orbit around Earth at an altitude of 896 kilometres. COROT's planned mission duration will be at least 3 years. In October 2009, the mission was extended until 31 March 2013.
To accomplish its two scientific objectives – the search for extrasolar planets and the probing of stellar interiors – COROT will monitor hundreds of thousands of stars with its 30-centimetre diameter telescope from an advantageous position in space.
In fact, from the ground, the only planets detected around other stars have been giant gaseous worlds (Jupiter-like planets), over 10 times the mass of the Earth. Free from the distorting effects of the atmosphere, COROT will be the first spacecraft also capable of finding smaller worlds made of rocks.
COROT's orbit will allow for continuous observation of two large regions in opposite directions of the sky for more than 150 days each. Within each region there are many selected star fields that will be monitored in turn.
The reason for looking in opposite directions is that, because of the Earth's movement around the Sun, the sun's rays start to interfere with the observations after 150 days. COROT then rotates by 180 degrees and starts observing the other region. The first target field is towards Orion, then the spacecraft will turn towards the centre of our Galaxy, the Milky Way.
So, twice a year, when the Sun gets closer to the orbital plane and is about to blind the telescope, the spacecraft performs a reversal attitude manoeuvre, dividing the year into two 6-month periods of observation (by convention, summer and winter).
The right ascension of COROT's orbital plane (12.5 degrees) has been chosen after a preparatory ground-based observation campaign: COROT will look in the sky at 6:50 in winter and 18:50 in summer.
Thanks to the baffle efficiency, it is possible to observe close to the Earth's limb and thus orientate the satellite inside a 10-degree radius cone. When projected onto the sky, this cone draws two 'eyes' for COROT, where stellar fields will be selected for observations.
A slight orbital drift (by a housekeeping manoeuvre of inclination change) will make it possible to broaden the viewing zone and place the observed stellar fields closer to the centre of the eye, where the level of stray-light is the lowest. The instrument performance is thus optimized.
Seen from the satellite, the movement of the Sun is a rotation of one degree every day. To guarantee a sufficient level of battery charge, the solar wings are rotated every 14 days.


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Pro Bowl draws attention, but ....
Watching the Pro Bowl on Sunday? Me either. What is to be done with this monstrosity? The NFL changed it up this year moving it to the week before the Super Bowl (instead of the week after) and moving it to South Florida, the site of Super Bowl XLIV. Its the first time in three decades it hasnt been played in Honolulu. It will be back in Hawaii in 2011 and 2012, although the timing of the event has not been decided.
Certainly the NFL needs a way to honor its best players, but the Pro Bowl is just not top-notch football or even close. Some pundit has suggested moving it to August. That's crazy talk. What if a player was injured and missed the whole season because of a meaningless Pro Bowl game?
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said this week that this Pro Bowl has garnered a lot more attention. He's right on that. But the attention has not all been positive.
No Lions on the roster, I know a big surprise. If you're so inclined the Pro Bowl will be carried at 7 p.m. Sunday on ESPN.


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Cold As Ice Gift Wrap
Three large individual gift wrap sheets in a roll. Perfect for gifts, arts and crafts and drawer liners. Gift wrap artwork is created from an original watercolor painting by Missy McCullough.
-20" x 29" sheet size
-Printed full color on FSC-certified luxe 70 lb. paper
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Not many pop stars can say they've had a holiday named for them—but Lady Gaga can.
The city of Taichung in Taiwan had designated today Lady Gaga Day in honor of the pop star's first performance on the island.
The holiday's festivities were legion: Flags lining the city's streets, discounts at hotels for fans in Gaga-like garb, a performance by Tai Ya tribal children, a costume contest and a presentation to the singer of the keys to the city.
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The day's top national and international news.
Gaga performed a short set to a limited audience of only 4,000—but she promised Taiwan a full show sometime soon.
Lady Gaga is in the midst of a five-day visit to the island to promote her album "Born This Way."
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The Song of Songs (or Canticle of Canticles) is an exquisite collection of love lyrics, arranged to tell a dramatic tale of mutual desire and courtship. It presents an inspired portrayal of ideal human love, a resounding affirmation of the goodness of human sexuality that is applicable to the sacredness and the depth of married union.
Although the poem is attributed to Solomon in the traditional title (1:1), the language and style of the work, among other considerations, suggest a time after the end of the Babylonian exile (538 B.C.) when an unknown poet collected extant love poems, perhaps composing new material, and arranged the whole into the masterpiece we have before us. Some scholars argue the possibility of female authorship for at least portions of the Song.
The structure of the Song is difficult to analyze; this translation regards it as a lyric dialogue, with dramatic movement and interest. In both form and content, sections of the Song bear great similarity to the secular love songs of ancient Egypt and the "Sacred Marriage" cult songs of Mesopotamia which celebrate the union between divine partners.
While the lovers in the Song are clearly human figures, both Jewish and Christian traditions across the centuries have adopted "allegorical" interpretations. The Song is seen as a beautiful picture of the ideal Israel, the chosen people whom the Lord leads by degrees to a greater understanding and closer union in the bond of perfect love. Such readings of the Song build on Israel's covenant tradition. Isaiah (Is 5:1–7; 54:4–8; 62:5), Jeremiah (Jer 2:2, 3, 32), and Ezekiel (Ez 16; 23) all characterize the covenant between the Lord and Israel as a marriage. Hosea the prophet sees the idolatry of Israel in the adultery of Gomer (Hos 1–3). He also represents the Lord speaking to Israel's heart (Hos 2:16) and changing her into a new spiritual people, purified by the Babylonian captivity and betrothed anew to her divine Lover "in justice and uprightness, in love and mercy" (Hos 2:21). Similar imagery has also been used frequently in Jewish mystical texts. The Song offers a welcome corrective to negative applications of the theological metaphor of the marriage/covenant in some prophetic texts. It frequently proclaims a joyous reciprocity between the lovers and highlights the active role of the female partner, now a pure figure to be cherished rather than an adulterous woman to be punished and abused. See also Is 62:3–5.
Christian tradition has followed Israel's example in using marriage as an image for the relationship with God. This image is found extensively in the New Testament (Mt 9:15; 25:1–13; Jn 3:29; 2 Cor 11:2; Eph 5:23–32; Rev 19:7–9; 21:9–11). Thus the Song has been read as a sublime portrayal and praise of this mutual love of the Lord and his people. Christian writers have interpreted the Song in terms of the union between Christ and the Church and of the union between Christ and the individual soul, particularly in the writings of Origen and St. Bernard.
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Q. How do I apply to become a high school student at any of the technical high schools?
A. You must fill out an application and take the Connecticut Mastery Test. Then give the application to the school you are now attending. Your present school will send us your grades and attendance records. Contact your guidance office or the nearest technical high schools for more information.
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A. If you are a resident of Connecticut, it's free.
Q. How do I know which career technical education program to choose?
A. Our ninth-grade Exploratory Program will help you decide. All Grade 9 students participate in this program, which allows them to spend time working and studying in each of our trade offerings. After completing the Exploratory Program, freshmen choose the technical field they would like to pursue.
Q. Is there transportation from my town to the technical high schools?
A. Yes. All towns provide transportation to the technical high schools serving their region. Check with your local school system for specific times and pick-up points.
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A. Yes. In addition to receiving instruction, experience and a certificate in your Career and Technical Education area, you will also earn a Connecticut high school diploma.
Q. Are there any extracurricular activities at the technical high schools?
A. Yes! Basketball, soccer, volleyball, baseball and softball are just a few of the sports available to male and female students. Club activities include yearbook, newspaper, student council, dance committee, SkillsUSA and National Honor Society.
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Sony announces Cyber-shot DSC-T77 touch-screen ultracompact
Sony has expanded its Cyber-shot T series, as well as its range of automated shooting functions, with the addition of the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T77.
Building on the popular T70 and sharing most of its shooting technology with the flagship T700, the T77 features a 10.1 megapixel CCD sensor, 4x Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar optics with image stabilization, a large touch-screen LCD, and a Bionz image processor packing Sony's latest image capture technologies.
Updates under the hood include ten scene modes (with an iSCN intelligent scene selection system that now automatically chooses from among eight of the presets based on shooting situation), an improved Smile Shutter system for capturing smiling faces, and new retouching and slide show tools. Sony's D-Range Optimizer works to provide balanced contrast and properly exposed midtone and shadow values in situations with wide dynamic range.
A 1080i output via the T77's multifunction connector allows for high-definition playback on HDTVs.
Touch-screen cameras have become a bit less cutting edge since they first came to Sony's T models, but the T77 continues to boast some respectable numbers in this area. The T77's touch-sensitive panel measures 3.0 inches and provides 230,000 dots of resolution.
All of this comes housed in a sleek brushed metal body that's available in one of five trendy colors and, at 0.6 inches thick, is impressively compact to boot.
The T77 will officially replace the current T70 in stores in late September. Suggested pricing is around $300.
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T77 Specifications:
|10.1 megapixel, 1/2.3″ Super HAD CCD
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Loco for Locali
All right peeps, if you live in LA, you've prolly eaten vegan reubens up the yin yang—they are everywhere (dog bless America)!
Whether they be tempeh, tofu, TVP, Tofurkey, seitan or other incarnations of tasty-ass wheat meatiness, there is no argument that LA does a vegan reuben right… Now as far as the best vegan reuben goes, we vegans are petty much in consensus that Locali takes the [vegan] cake. Speaking of, they have some pretty amazing, floofy icing topped vegan cupcakes (below: orange on the left; smores on the right) that'll make any sweet-toothed lassie drool.
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Dude, $9.75? I hope that comes with a side for that price. I've never been to Locali (CAN you believe?!) but I think the best reuben is Flore's. Real Food Daily's is pretty bomb, though.
I haven't had the Spiral Diner Ruben but the Spiral Diner is amazing in it's own right. Speaking of diners, (and rubens), Chicago Diner DOES have the best ruben I ever tasted.
Both are reviewed on my blog, Marty's Flying Vegan Review.
I want to visit all of these damn vegan restaurants!
In Orlando there's this amazing family owned restaurant called Etho's Vegan Kitchen. My sister and I sneak out every week to get some lunch, because we're addicted.
Not to mention that Loving Hut is amazing as well, and it's an international chain so there's probably one near you! Check it out!
I still like the FYH with vegan cheese better but the Locali sandwich is in second place for me. (and closer) They are both so good!
I've yet to try a vegan reuben that wasn't tasty!
Dallas has a place called Spiral Diner that is to die for! They had a reuben as the special for a little while, and I was begging them to add it to the main menu. Now I'm craving one… (Oh, and they also have some damn good cupcakes; I make my fiance buy me one to go every time we eat there)
For me, the Follow Your Heart Reuben with vegan cheese (not cottage-style tofu…eew) still takes the cake. It's hands down the best I've tasted!
Chicago Diner's Radical Reuben! But to be fair, that's the only one I've ever tasted. 😀 When we live out our dream of moving to Portland, I'm sure I can make up for the lack of tasty vegan food (other than what I make myself)in my life!


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You're looking at the largest prime number ever discovered. That's 257,885,161 – 1, to be exact. If you're looking for the the individual numbers, you'll have to work for it. "Former designer" Philip Bump dissected the prime six digits at a time and converted each chunk into RGB colors. The end result is an image reminiscent of the opening line from William Gibson's Neuromancer. It's weirdly arresting stuff. [Click here to see in hi res]
Like all primes, the newly discovered 257,885,161 – 1 is divisible only by itself and 1. But this prime is special. It's a Mersenne prime — so called because it can be written in the form 2p - 1, where p is also prime. Prime numbers of this form are named after French monk/mathematician Marin Mersenne, who studied them at the beginning of the 17th century.
Searching for Mersenne primes is reportedly among the most efficient ways to look for high primes — a tradition carried on today by number-crunching computers in the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, known affectionately as "Gimps." Like Mersenne himself, the people at Gimps study primes not because they are inherently useful, but rather because they are there. Sort of like the Mount Everest of mathematics.
Read more about 257,885,161 – 1 and other Mersenne primes at The Guardian.


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The viral video posted to YouTube by one of the riders of the incident is quite disturbing, but we bet thousands of drivers this past Sunday witnessed other motorcycle groups antagonizing motorists throughout Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan.
The centerpiece of this chaotic event was the Youtube video millions have now seen. The video shows two minutes of what must have been pure hell for the driver of the black SUV, not to mention his wife and two-year-old daughter who were also in the car.
It shows motorcyclists stopping on the Manhattan highway, boxing him in, getting off their bikes to confront the man and the SUV peeling off, running over one of the bikers. Then a chase follows, ending with a beating.
It's terrifying to watch. Anyone can empathize with what the driver of the SUV must have been going through.
But if you were driving on Sunday, you might have seen a large group of motorcyclists driving like thuggish daredevils on a number of major roads in Brooklyn and Queens.
On the most eastern end of the BQE at about 1 p.m., more than 100 menacing motorcyclists were weaving in and out of exit and on-ramps in an attempt to "frighten the heck out of us," one witness told us.
They were looking for a fight. They were defiant of any traffic rules and they obviously felt empowered by the fact they were in a large group.
If you saw them on Sunday, then what you saw in that video might not come as much of a surprise. The fact that this video was shot and posted by one of the motorcyclists himself is just an indication of how oblivious they were to their actions being criminal.
Motorcycling is a lifestyle, and some of these groups have been doing great things for charity and aren't anything like the notoriously criminal gangs epitomized by the Hell's Angels. But this incident turns back the clock on the views of motorcycle groups, and that's a shame.
But as one cop we know fairly well says about terrorizing motorcycle groups, "our gang is bigger than their gang."


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After finding the maiden name and parents of Mary Swavely Dilliplane, I am now down to one 3rd great-grandparent for whom I have not been able to identify either parent. This one is Jacob Garber (aka Gerber, Garver, Carver, Garvey). As you can see, one of the problems is the various spellings of the last name as recorded in various church and civil records for him and his children.
Jacob was born about 1800 in Pennsylvania, probably Berks County. He was married to Ann Campbell in 1825. They had five known daughters and one known son: Mary Ann (b. 1825), Rachael (b. 1827), Elmira (b. 1829), Catherine (b. 1832), Harriet (b. 1836) and Samuel (b. abt 1842). Jacob was enumerated in the 1850 census in Amity, Berks, PA with daughter Elmira and son Samuel. Ann was not with the family and may have died in March of that year. The 1860 and 1870 census show a Jacob Carver in the area, but I am uncertain if he is my Jacob.
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I visited and had a great time at Exquisite Gift Baskets and The Soap Crate in Kingston Washington today.
This two dimensional studio style store is owned by artists Donna Schambron (The Soap Crate) and Connie Obee (Exquisite Gift Baskets). The pair recently decided to join forces using Connie's gift basket design skills and Donna s soap making skills to create a wonderful and unique shopping experience with great gift baskets of food, soaps, and gifts for any occasion that are professionally decorated and adorned with bows, flowers in absolutely gorgeous arrangements for any occasion.
I also had the opportunity to view a soap pouring demonstration that was pretty amazing. Glycerine soaps were made and decorated and we even got to take home a sample of pretty Halloween soap.
I saw soap treats of many kinds- to include shampoo bars for hair, pet soap, and man soap that smells like expensive beer, plus olive oil infused, sweet, luxurious soap that we all love!
Not to mention I had some scrumptious grand opening food that was Halloween themed!
Thank you ladies!
Oh and I almost forgot…They frequently have raffle drawings on special occasions and today we witnessed a very special Poulsbo resident Rochelle Cramer win a tasty gift basket of chocolates, coffee plus cheese and cracker delights!
If you like handpicking gifts this is a great place to visit at 26252 Lindvog Road Suite #110, Kingston, WA 98346. Both shops also have websites where online ordering is also available, they service both corporate and consumer clients and are known throughout Kitsap County as the place to go for gorgeous gifts AND delivery is available.
Both businesses are very active on facebook ( which I love), so interact and enjoy the pictures they post and see what they are up to! Both shops work together AND independently to meet customers gift needs. So check both of them if you want something designed in a unique theme for any occasion. I visit Exquisite Gift Baskets Facebook Page and The SoapCrate Facebook Page daily to see the latest in gifts and designs. Enjoy!
Lisa Jachimowicz
Suquamish/Poulsbo, Washington
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Country singer Randy Travis was arrested Monday morning in Sanger, Texas on suspicion of public intoxication.
Travis, who has a ranch in nearby Tioga, was spotted in front of the First Baptist Church in Sanger with an open bottle of wine, police said.
According to Sanger police, an officer noticed a car parked in front of the church early Monday morning and, thinking that was unusual, made contact with the driver. That's when, according to police, Travis was found with an open bottle of wine. Officers also reported a distinct smell of alcohol.
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Tom Reedy with the Denton County Sheriff's Department said Sanger officers took him to Denton where he was booked into the county jail at 1:30 a.m. Monday. Travis was released a few hours later.
"They take you to jail for at least four hours, time to sober up," Reedy explained about the Class C misdemeanor, for which Travis was cited.
Sanger police said Travis was at his girlfriend's house prior to his arrest.
Travis collapsed last September during a performance at the Huguley Memorial Center's 18th annual Crystal Heart Gala. According to the Burleson Star, the singer was in the middle of singing his hit "Three Wooden Crosses" when he stopped and said something about his vocal cords giving out.
He then reportedly tried to join in again but stopped, stumbled and "pitched forward" onto the front of the stage, witnesses said.
Travis later walked off stage while giving a thumbs up.
His publicist said dehydration and over-the-counter allergy medications contributed to his collapse last year.


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Is there a flu vaccine shortage?
No, there is not a flu vaccine shortage at this time. People who have not been vaccinated yet should get their vaccine as soon as possible. Given that we are in the middle of this year's flu season, many will be trying to get vaccinated in a short period of time, therefore individual providers or pharmacies might deplete their supply of vaccine, and you might need to call ahead or call more than one provider to locate the vaccine.
Is there a shortage of Tamiflu?
No shortages have been confirmed by the manufacturer at this time. However, some specific pharmacies might have limited supplies of the liquid form for children. You might need to call more than one provider to locate the medication.
Antiviral treatment is recommended as early as possible after the onset of symptoms for some people who get the flu, especially if they have certain medical conditions that increase their risk for complications of influenza. We recommend that you call your doctor to ask if you should receive treatment. Tamiflu is not the only flu antiviral; there is also Zanamivir, and both work well for the treatment of influenza.
Should pregnant women get a "preventative" prescription for Tamiflu in case they get the flu?
No. Pregnant women need to get vaccinated if they have not already done so. If a pregnant woman becomes sick with flu-like symptoms, she should go to her doctor for an evaluation. Pregnant women can be treated with Tamiflu if recommended by a doctor.
If you get the flu, should you get a prescription for an antiviral for your family members?
People should ask their doctor if they need to give antiviral prevention treatment for their family members once there is a confirmed case in the household. The decision will be based on risk for the people in the house.
Once you get a flu shot, how long does it take before you are protected?
With the flu shot (inactivated virus vaccine), it may take 10 to 14 days to have good immunity. With the FluMist, protection is practically immediate. FluMist, a nasal spray vaccine made with the live attenuated virus, is available only for healthy people 2 to 49 year of age. Everyone else should get the flu shot.
Can you get the flu from taking a flu shot?
No. There is no live virus in the inactivated vaccine so you can't get the flu from the shot. Only a few people who get flu shots experience a low-grade fever and mild aches and pains, but they do not have the flu, which has much more severe symptoms. Others will experience nothing more than a sore arm from the shot.
Since it takes about two weeks for the shot to impart full immunity, it is possible that a recently vaccinated person could still catch the flu. The timing might make that person mistakenly think it was the shot that caused the illness, especially when there is a good chance of being exposed to the flu while the epidemic is ongoing. Also, it is possible that the person getting the shot had already been exposed to the flu or other common cold virus.
You also cannot get the flu from the FluMist. Because the vaccine contains an attenuated live virus that replicates in the nose, some people will have a runny nose and congestion for a few days after vaccination, and even a sore throat can occur. However, this virus has been altered and is incapable of causing the flu or more severe symptoms.
Who is at most risk for getting the flu?
There are three categories of people who are at most risk, including:
- People with chronic medical conditions, especially asthma
- Very young (younger than 2 years old) and the elderly (older than 65 years)
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People in the same household with those at high-risk should also be vaccinated.
What should you do if you catch the flu?
Get plenty of bed rest.
Drink lots of fluids.
Take ibuprofen or acetaminophen for the aches and pains and to bring down fever. Children who catch the flu (or chicken pox) should not take aspirin because it has been associated with Reye's (pronounced RISE) syndrome. Reye's syndrome can cause vomiting, convulsions, brain damage and even death. Children can safely take medicine containing ibuprofen or acetaminophen for fever.
Call your doctor to ask if you should take antiviral medications within 48 hours of feeling flu symptoms.
Why is flu season when it is?
The seasonality of influenza virus is typical of the Northern hemisphere. The virus seems to spread better during cold weather. Children in school contribute to the spread of influenza in homes and in the community because they are more likely to catch it and spread it with so much interaction.
Why is flu season when it is?
The seasonality of influenza virus is typical of the Northern hemisphere. The virus seems to spread better during cold weather. Children in school contribute to the spread of influenza in homes and in the community because they are more likely to catch it and spread it with so much interaction.
What is the flu strain this season?
This year the predominant influenza strain is an H3N2 influenza A virus, which is co-circulating with influenza B strain. The 2009 H1N1 influenza A virus so far is not very prominent. All these strains are included in this year's flu vaccine.
Should flu vaccines be repeated annually?
Yes. The protection lasts only one season because the type of viruses change every year and the vaccine is made to try to match those viruses. Influenza viruses continually mutate or change, making people susceptible to the flu throughout their lives. It is important to remember, the flu vaccine is not a guarantee against getting the flu. It reduces your chances of getting the flu and lessens the severity of the illness should you become sick. Preliminary estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate that this year's vaccine can reduce the chance of having influenza that results in needing medical attention by at least 62 percent.
Why does it seem that this year's flu season is worse?
This particular variant subtype, H3N2, is known to produce more severe epidemics than the other flu viruses (Flu B and H1N1) because it causes a lot of Flu in all age groups. It has not been prevalent over the past few years and this year's version is changed from the last H3N2 virus circulating. More people will be susceptible so more become sick from influenza. However, this subtype is covered by this year's vaccine which means that, even if you get the flu, you should experience a less severe illness than if you did not get the vaccine.
Which flu season was the most severe?
The 1918 worldwide flu epidemic infected over 500 million people, and killed 50 million. In the United States, more than 500,000 died. The 1918 flu epidemic killed more people in less time than any disease in modern history. It ranks with the Black Death of the 14th Century as one of the few events in recorded history to reduce the population of the earth by as much as one percent.
Although such a severe influenza season has not been seen since, every annual epidemic of influenza results in hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations and hundreds of deaths in the United States. Therefore, we urge you to get your flu vaccine to reduce your chances of becoming ill, and to start early antiviral treatment should you get the flu.


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Kenneth S. Alexander (University of Southern California)
Subgaussian concentration and rates of convergence in directed polymers
Nikolaos Zygouras (University of Warwick)
We consider directed random polymers in $(d+1)$ dimensions with nearly gamma i.i.d. disorder. We study the partition function $Z_{N,\omega}$ and establish exponential concentration of $\log Z_{N,\omega}$ about its mean on the subgaussian scale $\sqrt{N/\log N}$ . This is used to show that $\mathbb{E}[ \log Z_{N,\omega}]$ differs from $N$ times the free energy by an amount which is also subgaussian (i.e. $o(\sqrt{N})$), specifically $O( \sqrt{\frac{N}{\log N}}\log \log N)$
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Chrissie posted this on UKS so I just had to play! :)
The idea is to highlight all the ones you've done, mine are highlighted in purple! 54/150 at the age of 22 isn't bad i don't think, although some of those on the list are definately not things i would like to do, but some i would love to!
1. Bought everyone in the bar a drink
2. Swam with wild dolphins
3. Climbed a mountain
4. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
5. Been inside the Great Pyramid
6. Held a tarantula
7. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
8. Said "I love you' and meant it
9. Hugged a tree
10. Bungee jumped
11. Visited Paris
12. Watched a lightning storm at sea
13. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise
14. Seen the Northern Lights
15. Gone to a huge sports game (and survived the crush afterwards)
16. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
17. Grown and eaten your own vegetables
18. Touched an iceberg
19. Slept under the stars
20. Changed a baby's diaper
21. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
22. Watched a meteor shower
23. Gotten drunk on champagne
24. Given more than you can afford to charity
25. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
26. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
27. Had a food fight
28. Bet on a winning horse
29. Asked out a stranger
30. Had a snowball fight
31. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
32. Held a lamb
33. Seen a total eclipse
34. Ridden a roller coaster
35. Hit a home run
36. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
37. Adopted an accent for an entire day
38. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
39. Had two hard drives for your computer
40. Visited all 50 states
41. Taken care of someone who was drunk
42. Had amazing friends
43. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
44. Watched wild whales
45. Stolen a sign
46. Backpacked in Europe
47. Taken a road-trip
48. Gone rock climbing
49. Midnight walk on the beach
50. Gone sky diving
51. Visited Ireland
52. Been heartbroken longer than you were actually in love
53. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger's table and had a meal with them
54. Visited Japan
55. Milked a cow
56. Alphabetized your CDs
57. Pretended to be a superhero
58. Sung karaoke
59. Lounged around in bed all day
60. Posed nude in front of strangers
61. Gone scuba diving
62. Kissed in the rain
63. Played in the mud
64. Played in the rain
65. Gone to a drive-in theater
66. Visited the Great Wall of China
67. Started a business
68. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
69. Toured ancient sites
70. Taken a martial arts class
71. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
72. Gotten married
73. Been in a movie
74. Crashed a party
75. Gotten divorced
76. Gone without food for 5 days
77. Made cookies from scratch
78. Won first prize in a costume contest
79. Ridden a gondola in Venice
80. Gotten a tattoo
81. Rafted the Snake River
82. Been on television news programs as an "expert"
83. Got flowers for no reason
84. Performed on stage
85. Been to Las Vegas
86. Recorded music
87. Eaten shark
88. Had a one-night stand
89. Gone to Thailand
90. Bought a house
91. Been in a combat zone
92. Buried one/both of your parents
93. Been on a cruise ship
94. Spoken more than one language fluently
95. Performed in Rocky Horror
96. Raised children (or…raising children)
97. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour
98. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
100. Picked up and moved to another city to start over
101. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
102. Sang loudly in the car, and didn't stop when you knew someone was looking
103. Had plastic surgery
104. Survived an accident that you shouldn't have survived
105. Wrote articles for a large publication
106. Lost over 100 pounds (cumulatively, if you count pregnancy! lol!)
107. Held someone while they were having a flashback
108. Piloted an airplane
109. Petted a stingray
110. Broken someone's heart
111. Helped an animal give birth
112. Won money on a T.V. game show
113. Broken a bone
114. Gone on an African photo safari
115. Had a body part of yours below the neck pierced
116. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol
117. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
118. Ridden a horse
119. Had major surgery
120. Had a snake as a pet
121. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
122. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours
123. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states
124. Visited all 7 continents
125. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
126. Eaten kangaroo meat
127. Eaten sushi
128. Had your picture in the newspaper
129. Changed someone's mind about something you care deeply about
130. Gone back to school
131. Parasailed
132. Petted a cockroach
133. Eaten fried green tomatoes ... yum!
134. Read The Iliad - and the Odyssey
135. Selected one "important" author who you missed in school, and read
136. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
137. Skipped all your school reunions
138. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
139. Been elected to public office
140. Written your own computer language
141. Thought to yourself that you're living your dream
142. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
143. Built your own PC from parts
144. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn't know you
145. Had a booth at a street fair
146. Dyed your hair
147. Been a DJ
148. Shaved your head
149. Caused a car accident
150. Saved someone's life
Jen tagged me, so while I'm here I'd better complete that too!
A - Available or taken: Taken, engaged to Michael :)
B - Best friend(s): Cat, Amy, Meera
C - Cake or pie: Cake, every time!
D - Drink of choice: Archers and pineapple juice - yummy!
E - Essential item you use every day: lip balm, i get really dry lips!
F - Favorite colour: It has to be pink, but i also love purple and blue
G - Gummy bears or worms: Gummy bears, but i'd rather have chocolate!
H - Hometown: Currently living in Leeds, originally from Witham, Essex
I - Indulgence: scrapping, eating chocolates and watching a good chick flick
J - January or February: January - new beginnings!
K - Karma - hmm, the question has gone missing!
L - Life is incomplete without: love
M - Marriage Date: 21st June 2008, can't wait! :D
N - Number of siblings: one younger sister
O - Oranges or Apples: Apples
P - Phobias or Fears: Mud, i have a fear of sinking due to a past experience, and peas, i have a phobia of them
Q - Fave Quote: "Dream as if you'll live forever, live like you'll die today" James Dean
R - Reason to smile: Life is good
S - Season: Summer if its hot, winter if its snowy, spring for the flowers, autumn for the colours
T - Tag 3 or 4 people: Caz, Dolly, Taz
U - Unknown fact about me: I love the Sims
V - Vegetable you don't like: Pretty much all of them!
W - Worst habit: Nail biting, every year i resolve to stop, every year i carry on. Must stop this year!
X - x-rays: Lots - arms, legs, chest, MRIs, CTs
Y - Your fave food: It's a toss up between chocolate and cookies
Z - Zodiac sign: Taurus
Saturday, 30 December 2006
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1 comments:
- Chrissie said...
Wow! Whose life did you save? How, when, where! Very cool!
And I'm jealous you've been on an African safari!!
Thanks for playing along :D
- 30 December 2006 at 20:31
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PARIS (AP) — Governments around the world expelled Syrian ambassadors and diplomats Tuesday, an unusual, coordinated blow to Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime following a gruesome massacre that the United Nations said involved close-range shootings of scores of children and parents in their homes.
The United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands took action Tuesday against Syrian diplomats. Britain's foreign secretary said the countries involved in Tuesday's expulsions would also push for tougher sanctions against Syria.
The move came after the killings Friday in Houla, a collection of farming villages in Syria's Homs province — one of the deadliest single events in a 15-month-old uprising against Assad that has killed thousands.
A U.N. report Tuesday said 49 children and 34 women were among the 108 people who died, but it did not decisively say who carried out most of the killings.
"This is the most effective way we've got of sending a message of revulsion of what has happened in Syria," Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr said in Canberra. In a statement, he called the Houla killings a "hideous and brutal crime" and said Australia would not engage with the Syrian government unless it abides by a U.N. cease-fire plan.
Diplomats at the U.N., the European Union and the Arab League have been working since the Houla massacre to coordinate new action against Syria's government, French Foreign Ministry spokesman Bernard Valero said.
It was not clear whether other countries — among them Syrian allies such as Russia — would join in the expulsions. Russian President Vladimir Putin is traveling to Germany and France this week and is likely to come under even greater pressure to soften his Syria-supportive stance.
"We have to continue our work with the Russians," British Foreign Secretary William Hague said. "We will continue to discuss this with Russia. Russia has particular leverage on the regime and therefore has a particular role in this crisis."
Hague said that the situation in Syria is more complicated than what international powers faced in Libya last year, when the United Nations approved intervention against dictator Moammar Gadhafi's regime.
The State Department said Tuesday that the charge d'affaires at the Syrian Embassy has been given 72 hours to leave the United States. Syria has not had an ambassador in the United States since the previous envoy left last year to take another post.
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the U.S. holds "the Syrian government responsible for this slaughter of innocent lives."
Britain is expelling three Syrian diplomats to protest the Houla killings, among them Charge d'Affaires Ghassan Dalla — the country's top ranking diplomat in London.
In Canada, Foreign Minister John Baird said all Syrian diplomats and their families have five days to leave. Another Syrian diplomat expected in Canada will be refused entry.
In France, Syria's former colonial ruler, new President Francois Hollande showed that he is not backing down from his predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy's tough line on Syria.
Ambassador Lamia Shakkour was notified Tuesday that she is persona non grata, along with two other embassy officials, the French Foreign Ministry said. Hollande said Shakkour is being expelled but that the timing is complicated by her dual status as Syria's ambassador to Paris-based UNESCO.
Hollande said that after high-level discussions with British Prime Minister David Cameron and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, it had been decided to deploy "a certain number of ... pressure tactics," against Syria, including the expulsion of the ambassador.
Germany on Tuesday announced Syria's ambassador, Radwan Loutfi, had 72 hours to leave. Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said Germany and its allies hope "that this unambiguous message does not fall on deaf ears in Damascus."
"The Syrian regime bears responsibility for the terrible events in Houla," Westerwelle said in a statement. Westerwelle said Germany will push for the U.N. Security Council to consider the situation in Syria again.
"It has been clear not just since Houla that Syria has no future under Assad," Westerwelle said. "He must clear the way for peaceful change in Syria."
The Italian Foreign Ministry said Ambassador Khaddour Hassan was summoned and informed that he must leave. Spain said it was giving Syrian Ambassador Hussam Edin Aala and four other diplomats based in Madrid three days to leave the country.
Baird said these "Syrian representatives are not welcome in our countries while their masters in Damascus continue to perpetrate their heinous and murderous acts."
Australia gave Syrian Charge d'Affaires Jawdat Ali, the most senior Syrian diplomat in Australia, and another diplomat from the Syrian Embassy, 72 hours to leave the country.
Dutch Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal declared the Syrian ambassador to his country "persona non grata." ''It is no longer possible to work with a country with such a president," Rosenthal said on the ministry's official Twitter feed.
In Vienna, Foreign Ministry spokesman Nikolaus Lutterotti said the Syrian ambassador is being summoned to the ministry where officials will deliver a very hard protest about the massacre.
When asked if the expulsions were EU-wide, Lutterotti said this had not yet been decided. He said the ambassador to Austria would not be expelled as he holds an additional function as the representative to the U.N. organizations in Vienna.
There was no public Syrian reaction to the coordinated expulsions. Phone calls to Syria's embassy in Paris were not answered, and an official at the Syrian delegation to UNESCO refused to comment.
The U.N. estimates 9,000 people have been killed since the uprising began in March 2011.
Hollande said Tuesday that Paris will host a meeting in early July of the so-called Friends of Syria seeking a diplomatic solution to the conflict. The ambassador's expulsion came amid increasing diplomatic efforts to end the bloodshed in Syria and put pressure on Syrian President Bashar Assad.
The United States, Britain and France are among countries that have closed their embassies in Syria since the crackdown on protesters began last year.
Associated Press reporters across Europe, in Australia and Canada contributed to this story.


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The Gibson Moderne is the closest guitar equivalent of the Bigfoot, in the sense that there is little evidence to prove its existence and there is yet to be solid proof of a real one anywhere on Earth. Guitar collectors consider the original Moderne the holy grail of Gibson collectable guitars. This is because the prototype designed in the late 50s as part of the 'Futura' range, along with the Flying V and the Explorer, failed to make it into production and simply vanished with no other prototypes appearing in pawnshops or even any trace of its existence until 1982 where it was released as part of the 'Heritage Series', and again later by Epiphone in Korea. Now decades later Gibson have released a new rendition of the fabled Moderne to start the hype, the mystery and the rumours all over again.
From what we know of this mystical creature, it appears to be almost identical to the original guitar. The very distinctive body, which looks like the cross-breed result of the Flying V and the Explorer, is made from mahogany along with its neck, which features a rosewood fingerboard and dot inlays. The Moderne is then finished off with a very cool forked headstock and to make sure it can replicate that vintage Gibson tone it has two '57 Classic humbuckers.
The Gibson Moderne is going to pretty popular with collectors, as it's the next best thing to the original, and people who simply like unique guitars. The guitar will be available in amber with a black scratchplate, or ebony with a tortoiseshell scratchplate. For more information on this guitar and its release date check out this site or sign up to the newsletter to be kept posted.
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We know that internet memes generally have a very particular shelf life, and we respect that Rebecca Black's "Friday" phenomenon might have worn out its welcome by now. When we first posted the video to accompany another meme, it had 200,000 views; it now has 61 million views and a dedicated Tumblr following. But none of that stopped the Buffalo Sabres from torturing their fans' with it two weeks ago, and it certainly did not stop this Ottawa Senators fan from using it for his JumboTron moment of fame last Friday. And so it appears we have now reached the inevitable meme moment in which the meme morphs into a meta-meme: "Friday" playing at Friday NHL games. Let's move on.
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A 40 percent jump in theft of Apple products is the main reason why crime rates in New York City have not declined this year, NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly writes in a speech set to be delivered later Tuesday.
"Overall crime is up 4 percent. In the absence of the Apple thefts, we would be experiencing a decline," Kelly wrote.
Kelly said there were 11,447 thefts of Apple products so far in 2012, an increase of 3,280 over the same period last year.
Related story: Thefts of iPhones, other Apple gadgets spike in New York
Automatic shut off technology when a phone is stolen making it unusable and tracking systems like the "find my iphone" application can help reduce this growing crime problem and aide police in finding thieves, Kelly said.
Additional undercover officers will be soon be assigned to patrol the subways where some of the robberies are taking place.
Related story: NYPD urges iPhone 5 owners to be smart, register devices
The NYPD is also set to announce a new crackdown on street gangs in an attempt to try to further reduce violence and robberies across the city.
Dubbed "Operation Crew Cut", the NYPD will double the size of its anti-gang unit to 300 officers to stop local street crews that are increasingly responsible for committing violent crimes.
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Police Commissioner Ray Kelly is expected to announce 150 additional detectives will join the gang unit. "We'll focus those resources not on large, established gangs such as the Bloods and Crips, but on the looser associations of younger men who identify themselves by the block they live on, or on which side of a housing development they reside," Kelly wrote in a speech set to be delivered to the International Association of Chiefs of Police Conference in San Diego.
NYPD Transit and Housing Bureau officers will also assist in increasing patrols to try to keep local street crews in check. Detectives will also increase their monitoring of social media where crew members sometimes boast of the shootings or robberies they committed or plan to commit, Kelly said.
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On Christmas day, the US Patent & Trademark Office slipped a little present under our collective trees: an Apple patent application entitled "Swipe Gestures for Touch Screen Keyboards."
Originally filed on June 27, 2007, the application describes "Systems, methods, and devices for interpreting manual swipe gestures as input in connection with touch-sensitive user interfaces."
More specifically, Apple has applied for a patent to replace some tap-based gestures on the multi-touch displays of a variety of computing devices, phones, and media players with "swipe gestures" - that is, making a device's display responsive to a finger being drawn across it rather than simply tapping it.
Swipe gestures, of course, currently exist on the iPhone and iPod touch for rudimentary tasks such as moving from one home screen to another or pinching images, but this new patent would extend that capability to enhancing what's now keyboard-based input.
Swipe down, insert a return - simple
An iPhone with such a display could, for example, allow a user to simply swipe down to insert a return rather than tap the "Return" button or swipe left to delete a character rather than tap the tiny "X-marks-the-delete" button on the iPhone's wee keyboard. The application, in fact, specifically refers to swipe gestures as providing "a nice break from the sensorimotor and cognitive load of targeting very tiny keys."
The patent describes single and multiple-finger swipes, with the number of swiping digits invoking different actions. A single-finger swipe could thus delete a single character, while a double-finger swipe could delete a word and a three-finger swipe an entire line or sentence.
Left, right, upward, and downward swipes are described, each with the ability to invoke one or more actions depending upon the number of fingers used. The actions invoked could range from a simple new-line insertion to displaying an "alternate keyboard." The application also describes a single-finger upward swipe invoking "Shift," and a two-finger upward swipe invoking "Caps Lock."
Touch-swiping isn't the only user-generated activity described in the application. It also covers "touch, force, or proximity" sensing, thus building on proximity-sensing patents filed earlier by Apple - including one filed way back in 2005.
The gestures, according to the application "may also be customized by the user." We assume this to mean that the user would be able not only to choose which actions the gestures perform, but also ignore them if they want, making swipe gestures useful as "power user" enhancements to a basic, more-easily learned (and memorized) interface.
The application's illo of supported devices is pleasantly retro
The lead name on the application is Apple engineer Wayne Westerman, formerly of Fingerworks, which Apple quietly acquired in 2007.
Westerman is widely credited with much of the heavy lifting that went into the iPhone's touch-screen interface and has been focused on multitouch interfaces since 1996. (If you're up for some heavy lifting of your own, a PDF of his 333-page doctoral dissertation of 1999, "Hand Tracking, Finger Identification, and Chordic Manipulation on a Multi-Touch Surface" can be downloaded here.)
Over the past few years, Westerman has contributed to Apple patents that have been far less user-friendly than this one - witness, for example, "Multi-Touch Gesture Dictionary," which would have required all of us to become, in effect, court stenographers. This year's Christmas gift, however, seems to be one that might very well find its way into an upcoming iPhone software update. ®


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Monday night's Oz Kafe chef appreciation was absolutely, perfectly, delightfully … delicious.
And I have Simon Bell and Sam Long to thank.
They created a menu that was finger-licking, lip-smacking good. It's true. There's no other way to describe it … it wasn't fancy; but it was exactly perfect: four courses of sheer perfection.
We started with a platter of Goi Cuon (springrolls), Trung Cay (deviled eggs) and Chim Cut Roti (bbq'd quail). I loved it all: fresh springrolls accompanied with a good spoonful of hot sauce; smooth and rich deviled eggs; and the bbq'd quail coated in a sticky sweet hoisin glaze and topped with crunchy salty peanuts.
I admit … I could probably eat my way through a bucket of the bbq'd quail … and still crave more. Just look at them!
The second course was a delicate Ca Nuong :bbq'd trout paired with a mayo, tamari ponzu, rice crispies, bahn mi pickles and aplhalpha sprouts.
Delightful. The crispy skin and the moist meat of the trout, combined with the creamy mayo and crunch of the rice crispies; a pleasurable bite of food that lingers in your mouth.
Then I was served one of the greatest bowls of Pho I've ever eaten.
Beautiful cuts of raw beef, rice noodles, a few sprouts and herbs, a wedge of lime and a clear broth. No MSG headache. Nope.
I will never be able to eat another bowl of Pho and not compare it this one. I think that Oz Kafe should make it and sell it by the enormous bowl full. It was the absolute perfect bowl of food. This is what comfort food is all about. Simple. Each bite as delightful as the last. My only regret was not getting a second bowl of it.
The meal was finished with kem tuoi. A deconstructed ice cream sandwich; pizzelle (Italian waffle cookies), green tea ice cream, and sweet red bean paste. I liked to pile a little of the green tea ice cream and red bean paste onto the pizzelle: a mouthful of crunch, smooth, sweet, bitter. A little bit of everything.
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President Obama has launched an educational and economic initiative targeted for boys and men of color (specifically of African- and Hispanic-American descent). It is called My Brother's Keeper Initiative to Build Ladders of Hope for Boys and Young Men of Color. Now, that is a mouth full to say and remember. However, I pray that the president moves this initiative from idea to reality.
President Obama is seeking the support of businesses, foundations and celebrities to implement this program to improve the plight of boys and men of color in the USA.
I fully support this type of public advocacy. However, it is a shame that our president has to introduce this form of civic stimuli. Our dysfunctional Congress should lay aside grievances and collaborate on passing sustainable legislation which will incent businesses, banking and hedge-fund institutions to educate, enlighten and empower our black and brown boys and men.
This presidential initiative benefits all Americans. Why? This initiative is a positive step forward toward reducing societal illiteracy, family and public violence, rising expenses of incarceration and generational poverty among minorities because of the absence and failures of male people of color.
It could contribute in the rise of our national productivity and will increase our ranking in the global village.
It can also decrease the level of division and ignorance in our race-baited society by providing opportunities to all Americans to reflect on how the oppressed begin to flourish. Ultimately, it can reduce psychological and civic stressors because all American people will feel safer due to an empowered male people of color.
It is a program that all Americans can support because it challenges the prevailing social ills: parents who do not parent, male people of color who lag behind in reading and math and those who stoop to violence and mischief. The initiative is aptly named "Brother's Keeper" because we are each other's keepers by virtue of the fact that we are Americans. We are interconnected by nationality and commonality.
Our local school administrators are hard at work already to increase the number of all children enrolled in pre-K and after school programs so that we do not lose them academically by third grade. Now, we must develop programs to address poor and no parental involvement. The presidential initiative will address these issues for males of color.
We spend too much money on bloated police forces, erecting more jails and courts to fight crime and violence rather than developing programs to reverse the public drain caused by male people of color being locked out of educational and economic opportunities. Yes, I am aware that inadequate parenting skills and parental involvement play a role in this pandemic. However, we cannot continue to blame the parents instead of developing altruistic measures and using common sense to eradicate this social problem. Otherwise, we are saying, "Let the rich and connected prosper off the backs of the disconnected and the ill-equipped." This is a lose-lose philosophy which promotes enmity, ignorance and dissension.
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Thank you, President Obama for having the courage to serve the least of our society, regardless of the price that you have to pay. I wholeheartedly support this initiative and pray that others will encourage President Obama to move forward. What do you think?
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Our Honorary Chairman Rick Boucher talked with Ted Gotsch for (subscription only) TR Daily about the coming IP Transition. From Gotsch's story:
Rick Boucher, now a partner and head of the government strategies group at law firm Sidley Austin as well as honorary chairman of the Internet Innovation Alliance (IIA), told TRDaily in an interview that the FCC is largely on the right track when it comes to proceeding with the public switched telephone network-to-IP transition, but that the agency needs to help figure out how to facilitate the transition.
"Having a single, transparent proceeding where these various policy questions are involved provides a more meaningful way to participate than having many to follow," the former Democratic House member said.


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Cloud 2.0 "Platform-as-a-Service"
Looking beyond "Software-as-a-Service" (SaaS), cloud providers now offer "Platform-as-a-Service" (PaaS) capabilities. That is, they provide a platform that can accommodate a changing variety of applications. This approach makes it possible to have an ecosystem of collaborating companies using the platform to create new solutions.
Based on HR Technology trends, all major HR platforms in the future may only be delivered via SaaS. Investment in upgrading existing on-premise solutions today delays the cost of moving to SaaS at a later point.
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Article by: Will Brown
This time last week, the East Georgia State College Lady Bobcats softball team was riding high with a 7-1 mark in the conference. Now though, the team is reeling after losing five straight games in the conference.
The bats have fallen off completely while the pitching has remained solid. This was evident in their last two game set against ABAC as they lost by scores of 3-1 and 1-0.
This follows losses to West Georgia Tech by a score of 1-0 (though they did win game one 10-0), and Georgia Perimeter by scores of 2-1 and 2-0.
The Lady Bobcats have scored two runs in their last five games after scoring 159 in their first 32, nearly five runs a game.
The good news is that the team still has a ERA of 2.19, one of the best in the entire country. With that level pitching, they will always have a chance to beat anybody that they play.
The Lady Bobcats have slipped from first place to fifth in a week, but can hopefully right the shit just in time for conference tournament time as they get ready to play Gordon State College on April 20th to finish out the regular season.


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Ok, so I checked mail and it downloaded from the server (i.e. the mail is no longer on the server) and I was starting to process my new mail when the system crashed.
I have the following files in the PocoMail/Mail directory:
In Poco I have an In box though it is completely empty!!! All other folders appear to be fine.
A compress did not help at all.
I need to know how to resolve this and get my lost emails back immediately!! This is a business and I have lost valuable communications!!
I have version 22.214.171.12400