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After the difficult task of deciding who should be included on the IA 25 list, our editors are faced with the equally difficult task of cutting each honoree's profile to fit on the pages of Investment Advisor, sacrificing more than a few valuable insights from each member. Those insights aren't lost forever, though. Throughout the rest of April and May, we'll be publishing extended versions of each profile, including exclusive interviews, on AdvisorOne. See the schedule below to find out when each profile will be published.
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April 24: Elliot Weissbluth, CEO, HighTower
April 25: Amy Webber, President and COO, Cambridge Investment Research
April 26: Charles Biderman, President and CEO, TrimTabs
April 27: Chip Roame, Managing Partner, Tiburon Strategic Advisors
April 30: Dale Brown, President and CEO, Financial Services Institute
May 1: Mohamed El-Erian, CEO, PIMCO
May 2: Eric Clarke, President, Orion Advisor Services
May 3: John Bogle, Founder, Vanguard
May 4: John Peluso, President, Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network
May 7: Jon Henschen, President, Henschen & Associates
May 8: Mary Schapiro, Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission
May 9: Michael Kitces, Partner and Director of Research, Pinnacle Advisory Group
May 10: Richard Lampen, President and CEO, Ladenburg Thalmann
May 11: Robert Pozen, Chairman Emeritus, MFS Investment Management
May 14: Tom Nally, President, TD Ameritrade Institutional
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You can find this module under code name CML8GX3M2A1600C9B. Letter B at the end is for the color name (other possibilities are Special Edition Arctic White and Jet Black. It is designed to operate at 1.5V. The Special Edition Arctic White models operate at the ultra-low voltage of 1.35V.
Each module is flashed with SPD that provides basic information. Intel Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) is recognized by both the BIOS and CPU-Z. If you notice that the memory is running slower and you're not the overclocking type, just enable XMP in BIOS and it will automatically select the right settings.

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Lego Battles on the DS enables players to play through six distinct storylines in the game to create your base, buildings and team, and deploy your troops for battle! Test your strategies in single-player campaign or skirmish modes to unlock hidden treasures, or play against two of your friends to put your soldiers on the road to victory.
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LEGO Battles (Nintendo DS) Review: Strategic Block Busting in Real Time
Lego sets – the authentic ones (not the ones you've seen on the Harry Potter movie) – are all about epic battles. Just about everyone who has an ax to grind with something or someone – space men, knights, pirates, ninja, treasure hunters – has had a LEGO set at one point or another. Here's the good news for the avid fans: besides your imagination, you can now have (and hopefully, win) all those battles on the Nintendo DS. Although it has an undertone of "my-first-real-time-strategy" to it, the game is truly appealing and relatively impressive from a technical view point.
LEGO fans who've been in the know for a long time can easily distinguish some of the classic sets, such as the Space, Castle and Pirates pieces from a couple decades or so ago. LEGO Battles now makes it possible for the player to be in control of these various mini figures in a game that has a story mode of over 70 levels. The video cutscenes thankfully retain the humor charm and style that LEGO has been famous for.
Unfortunately, RTS fans who are expecting more challenging strategies aren't so lucky, as LEGO Battles are really a piece of cake. The sad thing about LEGO franchise is it seems to just cater to kids, not realizing that everybody just loves LEGO! Still, LEGO Battles isn't such a bad choice for neophytes in real time strategy. Although the six story modes are inclined to get repetitive, they are quite lengthy and maneuver the players smoothly into various units and buildings, showing each function as you go along. These are nice and helpful if you've never had any experience with an RTS in the past.
On the technical side, the touch screen controls seem to work well. At some point though, picking a single unit gets to be a little tricky, especially when a number of people and buildings appear on screen. The AI gets pretty irksome as they often get stuck somewhere when you send troops out over an extensive distance. You think you have better things to do winning a battle than babysit an AI that can't figure out how to find its way! The workers are equally annoying as they simply just cease working and have to be prodded to continue gathering lumber.
The story modes reflect varied areas of expertise of different armies; and this is where the most fun part is; when you can actually mix and match diverse armies in the free play or multiplayer. Players get to choose their own heroes, vehicles, infantry and other paraphernalia from any of the unlocked sets, with available options that range from 5 to 25 selections.
The multiplayer is actually the highlight and best part of any RTS, and LEGO Battles, for all its shortcomings, has at least done an extremely good job at this, making the game as challenging as you opponent's skills makes it. Be warned though, there are some snags in the caps on troop numbers and the maps aren't that big. But all in all the mode works great, with just a very minimal slowdown and looks pretty impressive with two dozen characters fighting each other on screen, all at one time.
If the well known LEGO charm and humor are enough reasons for you to play the game, then you won't be disappointed as there's plenty of that in LEGO Battles. However, if you're looking for more challenges, then this game probably would just bore you. It's just too much of a "cakewalk", which is such a shame as the multiplayer really is pure, solid fun and has lots of potentials. It could have been an excellent game to recommend to everyone. As it is… it's really your take!
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Ten years ago, Postmedia News reporter Douglas Quan was living in New York City when two hijacked airliners crashed into the World Trade Center towers. He spent the next several months filing reports on the city's recovery. As the tenth anniversary of 9/11 approaches, Quan revisited some of the New Yorkers he interviewed and found others who experienced the attack first-hand to talk about their recollections of that day and how it changed their lives.
NEW YORK — Each morning, Steve Cross rides an elevator up to his job in the clouds.
He is part of a team of steel-nerved ironworkers constructing the World Trade Center's signature tower, the 105-story One World Trade Center.
Not only is he working on one of the country's most significant projects, he is continuing a legacy — more than a century old — of Mohawk First Nation ironworkers from Canada helping to shape the Manhattan skyline.
"It means a lot to me, a young guy coming into the business," said Cross, who is from the Kahnawake reserve near Montreal. "My father did it, my grandfather, great-grandfather. And I have a lot of friends
doing it. Even on this job right now, there's Mohawks all over the job. It means a lot to see all these familiar faces when you're coming from so many miles away."
All across the city, the steel skeletons of some of New York's greatest landmarks — the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, the United Nations, the Chrysler Building, George Washington Bridge — have got the fingerprints and steel-toed boot prints of Mohawk "skywalkers" all over them.
It's why in the aftermath of 9/11, Mohawks were among those who rushed to Ground Zero to help dismantle and clean up the mangled steel beams that had come crashing down.
In 1930, an iconic promotional photo was taken during the construction of the famed Waldorf Astoria hotel. It shows two ironworkers straddling a girder perched high above the city. There's a white-clothed table between them, and two ironworkers — dressed as waiters — standing on either side of them holding trays.
One of the men in the photo is Cross's great-grandfather. Another is his great uncle.
"I guess it's in my blood."
The Mohawk ironworking tradition started in the mid-1880s when the Dominion Bridge Company built a railroad bridge spanning the St. Lawrence River.
A 1949 New Yorker article tracing the Mohawks' ironworking history quoted a Dominion official saying the Mohawks were initially hired to work as day labourers.
But "they were dissatisfied with this arrangement and would come out on the bridge itself every chance they got," the official said. "It was quite impossible to keep them off. As the work progressed, it became apparent to all concerned that these Indians were very odd in that they did not have any fear of heights. These Indians were as agile as goats."
As a result, more and more men from the Kahnawake reserve were hired for bridge-building projects.
But then in 1907, tragedy struck. A section of the Quebec Bridge, which was under construction, collapsed, killing dozens, including 33 from Kahnawake.
Steelworkers' wives came together and demanded the men no longer work together in "gangs" on the same job, according to the New Yorker
article. As a result, they started spreading out — or "booming out" —
to different cities, including New York.
Many rode New York City's building boom in the 1920s and 1930s.
By the 1950s, hundreds of Mohawk ironworkers and their families were concentrated in a 10-square-block enclave of downtown Brooklyn known as "Little Caughnawaga."
"It was like a transplanted Kahnawake," said Reaghan Tarbell, who produced a documentary a few years ago, Little Caughnawaga: To Brooklyn and Back, tracing that community's history through the lens of some of the women who lived there.
As the community grew, Rev. David Cory, the pastor of the local Cuyler Presbyterian Church, learned the Mohawk language and had hymns translated.
Two bars, the Wigwam and Spar, became popular spots for Mohawks to catch up on news from home and arrange trips back across the border.
It was not uncommon then — and this is still the case today — for ironworkers to return home every weekend and during the summers.
In 1965, Canadian filmmaker Don Owen released a documentary, High Steel, showing Mohawk workers climbing and walking along — without harnesses — perilously high columns and beams on a New York City construction project.
"They say Indians have a special knack for high jobs. I don't know," the narrator says. "I guess a man takes the best thing that comes his way."
In an interview with the Montreal Gazette in 2008, Terry Phillips, a Kahnawake ironworker doing repairs on the Mercier Bridge, offered an explanation for why ironworking's appeal has lasted so long.
"Growing up, I always heard stories from elderly friends — you know, like, 'You gotta come away us and be with us, go away on the road,' "
he said.
"You make good money. It's the bragging rights, too. Just to be out there with the guys, you know?"
Steve Cross says he'd prefer to let his work "do the bragging."
On a visit by Postmedia News to One World Trade Center in late June, Cross, 35, was found working on the 70th floor, hooking up 25-foot steel columns so they could be hoisted by cranes. Sharp-edged spud wrenches dangled from his tool belt.
The job, he said, requires mental toughness, awareness of your surroundings, trust in your partner, and an ability to anticipate the "next play" — figuring out which pieces go next.
"It's a good feeling building this project," he said. "It's a long time coming. It's about time that it's here."
By the end of the year, he said, they should be on the roof.
Cross started ironworking about a decade ago. He was doing work on cellular towers, but the job security wasn't great so he looked into walking the steel.
"Turned out I loved it," he said.
He started a three-year apprenticeship program in 2002. The program involves a mix of classroom and hands-on training, and covers a wide range of topics: bolting up, plumbing up, decking, hand signals,
welding and steel erection.
According to the Ironworkers Local 40 website, starting pay for an apprentice ironworker today is $28 per hour, plus benefits.
Cross has worked on so many buildings, they've all become kind of a blur, he says. But what he's most proud of is "coming out here and making it and working steady."
"Your reputation precedes you" after all.
Over dinner at the Outback Steakhouse near his house in Brooklyn, Cross shares that when he's working he'll often have conversations in his head with his ironworker-father, who passed away when he was just four.
If he's performing a particularly dangerous task, he might ask his dad to "get my back."
He also says he wonders if his dad would be proud of him, and sometimes imagines what words of praise his dad might utter.
But in the next breath, Cross says he's happy with the career choice he made.
"There's nothing I'd rather be doing."


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Scott Austin reviews the top tech stories of the week, including Apple's rollout of its new 5C and 5S iPhones. Photo: Apple.
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1955 Buick CenturyReview
A Very Pretty Car In Factory Original Colors! — A very fast car for it's age as the smaller and lighter Century had the Roadmaster 322 cu, 264 hp, V8 4bbl engine that was needed to move the much larger and heavier Roadmaster. I have owned it since 1984 when I flew down to FL from MI to buy it and DROVE it back home! Body restoration was completed in '85-'86.
Pros: It's a vintage classic that turns heads when I cruise around!
Cons: Needs interior work!
Reviews From Other Years
2005 Buick Century Reviews
never worked right brakes are bad transmission was screwed up i never wanted this car the accelerator sucked doesnt pick up the way it should speakers suck and the car was a mess never buy this car ... Read More
Buick Century
its a great car reliable and good gas mileage the car has alittle rust inside very clean has been in an aciddent but got fixed the car is very fun to drive not horrible looking but still. Engine is fi... Read More
2004 Buick Century Reviews
It Is A Good Car.
This Buick is a well built car. it preformance is what you would expect for a car of it's type (it fortunalty has cruis control or else I would probly have gotten a ticket by now). I usley get in the ... Read More
It is the car I always wanted. Firstly a great, smooth ride, roomy and easy to handle. It has a great acceleration for moving out and good gas mileage. most people think of this as a senior citi... Read More
2003 Buick Century Reviews
Heck Of A Nice Used Car.
Traded in a 2000 Neon for this much larger more comfortable car. Much more room, comfort, power! Mileage nearly equals the old Neon, with 27 poking around town and up to 33 on the highway. Interior pi... Read More
Reliable Car With No Major Issues
Not the most stylish vehicle, but a safe one with great gas mileage and reasonable maintenance. The Buick Century is usually reasonably priced, and seems to have found a new following among college s... Read More
2002 Buick Century Reviews
Terrible Car- Do Not Ever Buy This Model, Year, And Type!
I am disgusted by this car purchase, and all of the "flaws" this car has, and it is my own fault because I didn't do the proper research on it, and found out after the fact that all the problems we ar... Read More
My Little Buick
Its a great car. Smooth ride and amazing seating. Have so much fun in this car with the entire family. It gets me to and from college. It is a blast to drive. I love this car!! So much. :) Thank you Read More
2001 Buick Century Reviews
I Love This Car
If you are looking for a solid performing, roomy reliable car at reasonable price, this is the car for you. Solid Buick make with alot of extras for the price. Great car for a growing family like mine... Read More
A Good Solid Car That Need A Better Tranny To Make It A Nice Car.
good solid family kinda car,nice options and a smooth ride, but do not like abs sensors, or those really small fuses would have been nicer if it had bigger fuses, a better tranny,a full size tire for ... Read More


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Independent Media Center
The Independent Media Center (also known as Indymedia or IMC) is an open publishing network of journalist collectives that report on political and social issues. It originated in Australia, tested also in London during the June 18th Carnival against Capital then came to wider prominence during the Seattle anti-WTO protests worldwide in 1999 and remains closely associated with the global justice movement, which criticizes neo-liberalism and its associated institutions. Several local branches of the network have been raided by law enforcement over the years.
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According to the umbrella homepage, "Indymedia is a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage."[1] It aims to be an alternative to government and corporate media, and seeks to facilitate people being able to publish their media as directly as possible.[2]
The origins of Indymedia can be traced to the global justice protest Carnival Against Capitalism, which took place in over forty countries on June 18, 1999.[3] Activists had networked globally using the internet, and had seen its publishing potential. Events could be reported as they happened, unmediated and without the need for the traditional news outlets. Plans came together for an Independent Media Centre to cover the upcoming Seattle WTO protests in November. The open publishing software used by the centre was developed from that used to report the carnival in Sydney.[4][5][6]
In late November 1999, the first Indymedia project was ready to cover the protests against the WTO meeting in Seattle, Washington. It acted as an alternative news source publishing up-to-the-minute reports on the protest days. Additionally it produced a newspaper and five documentaries.[7][6][8]
After Seattle the idea and network spread rapidly. By 2002, there were 89 Indymedia websites in 31 countries (including Palestine),[9] growing to over 150 by January 2006. The number of active centres grew from 142, in 2004, to 175 in 2010.[10]:426 However, by 2014 the network had declined significantly, with the number of active sites down to 68.[10]:426 A number of reasons for the decline have been put forward. In an article published by the journal Convergence Eva Giraud summarised some of the different arguments that had been made by academics and activists, which included informal hierarchy, bureaucracy, security issues including IP address logging, lack of regional engagement, lack of class politics, increase in web 2.0 social media use, website underdevelopment, decline in volunteers and decline in the global justice movement.[10]
Alternative Bristol pointed to security reasons for the decline. It stated that since server seizures Indymedia UK has been used less and less with on average only one new posting per week. It added activists are moving to alternative media content providers and more secure methods since the Snowden leaks.[11] Most obviously, the rise of corporate social media sites and the massification of 'open publishing' appropriated Indymedia's key innovations for the cultural industry.[12]
United Kingdom
In 2011, the UK national site saw a conflict in which direction it should take. One side wanted the site to remain the same, another group wanted it to become an aggregator for the regional centers.[10][13]
In February 2013, Ceasefire magazine noted a decline in the use of Nottingham Indymedia, stating that activist use of commercial social media had increased.[14]
In 2014, the Bristol site was archived and closed after police server seizures.[15][16]
Police and legal action against IMCs
United Kingdom
Bristol server seizure 2005
Servers in the UK were seized by police in June 2005. An anonymous post on the Bristol Indymedia server, came to police attention for suggesting an "action" against a freight train carrying new cars as part of a protest against cars and climate change in the run up to that year's Gleneagles G8 summit.[17] The police claimed that the poster broke the law by "incitement to criminal damage", and sought access logs from the server operators. Despite being warned by lawyers that the servers were "journalistic equipment" and subject to special laws,[18] the police proceeded with the seizure and a member of the Bristol Indymedia group was arrested.[19] Indymedia was supported in this matter by the National Union of Journalists, Liberty,[20] and Privacy International, along with others. This incident ended several months later with no charges being brought by the police and the equipment returned.[21]
Prior to the original server being returned, Bristol Indymedia was donated a replacement server by local IT co-operative, Bristol Wireless.[22]
Bristol server seizure 2014
In August 2014, Bristol Indymedia's servers were seized by police after arsonists used the site to claim responsibility for a fire at firearms training centre.[16] Bristol Indymedia stated that they will not cooperate with the authorities and that they "do not intend to voluntarily hand over information to the police as they have requested".[23]
United States
On August 15, 2000, the Los Angeles Police Department temporarily shut down the satellite uplink and production studio of the Los Angeles Independent Media Center on its first night of Democratic National Convention coverage, claiming explosives were in a van in the adjacent parking lot.[25]
Seizure of servers by the FBI 2004
On October 7, 2004, the FBI took possession of several server hard drives used by a number of IMCs and hosted by US-based Rackspace Managed Hosting. The servers in question were located in the United Kingdom and managed by the British arm of Rackspace, but some 20 mainly European IMC websites were affected, and several unrelated websites were affected, including the website of a Linux distribution.[26] No reasons were given at first by the FBI and Rackspace for the seizure; in particular IMC was not informed. Rackspace claimed that it was banned from giving further information about the incident.[27] Some, but not all, of the legal documents relating to the confiscation of the servers were unsealed by a Texas district court in August 2005, following legal action by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The documents revealed that the only action requested by the government was to surrender server log files.[28][29]
A statement by Rackspace[30] stated that the company had been forced to comply with a court order under the procedures laid out by the Mutual legal assistance treaty, which governs international police co-operation on "international terrorism, kidnapping and money laundering". The investigation that led to the court order was said to have arisen outside of the U.S. Rackspace stated that they were prohibited on giving further detail. Agence France-Presse reported FBI spokesman Joe Parris,[31] who said the incident was not an FBI operation, but that the subpoena had been issued at the request of the Italian and the Swiss governments. Again, no further details on specific allegations were given. UK involvement was denied in an answer given to a parliamentary question posed by Richard Allan, Liberal Democrat MP.[32]
Indymedia pointed out that they were not contacted by the FBI and that no specific information was released on the reasons for seizing the servers. Indymedia also sees the incident in the context of "numerous attacks on independent media by the US Federal Government", including a subpoena to obtain IP logs from Indymedia at the occasion of the Republican National Conference,[33] the shut-down of several community radio stations in the US by the FCC, and a request by the FBI to remove a post on Nantes IMC containing a photograph of alleged undercover Swiss police.[34]
The move was condemned by the International Federation of Journalists, who stated that "The way this has been done smacks more of intimidation of legitimate journalistic inquiry than crime-busting" and called for an investigation.[35] Criticism was also voiced by European civil liberties organisation Statewatch[36] and the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC).[37] Mathew Honan commented in Salon that "This kind of thing doesn't happen to Wolf Blitzer".[38] EFF attorney Kurt Opsahl compared the case with Steve Jackson Games, Inc. v. United States Secret Service.[38]
Subpoena for IP addresses
On January 30, 2009, one of the system administrators of the server that hosts indymedia.us received a grand jury subpoena from the Southern District of Indiana federal court. The subpoena asked the administrator to provide all "IP addresses, times, and any other identifying information" for every visitor to the site on June 25, 2008.[39] The subpoena also included a gag order that stated that the recipient is "not to disclose the existence of this request unless authorized by the Assistant U.S. Attorney."[39] The administrator of indymedia.us could not have provided the information because Indymedia sites generally do not keep IP address logs. The Electronic Frontier Foundation determined that there was no legal basis for the gag order, and that the subpoena request "violated the SCA's restrictions on what types of data the government could obtain using a subpoena."[39] Under Justice Department guidelines, subpoenas to news media must have the authorization of the attorney general. According to a CBS News blog, the subpoena of indymedia.us was never submitted to the Attorney General for review.[40] On February 25, 2009, a United States Attorney sent a letter to an attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation stating that the subpoena had been withdrawn.[40]
In July, 2001 at the 27th G8 summit in Genoa, Italian police assaulted Indymedia journalists at the Armando Diaz School where Indymedia had set up a temporary office and radio station. Twenty-nine police officers were indicted for beating people, planting evidence and wrongful arrest during the night-time raid. Thirteen were convicted.[41][42]
In Italy, the federal prosecutor of Bologna Marina Plazzi confirmed that an investigation against Indymedia had been opened because of suspected "support of terrorism", in the context of Italian troops in the Iraqi city of Nasiriyah. The investigation was triggered after 17 members of the coalition government belonging to the right-wing Alleanza Nazionale, including Alessandra Mussolini, demanded that Indymedia be shut down. A senior party member and government official had announced co-operation with US authorities, and party spokesman Mario Landolfi welcomed the FBI's seizure of the Indymedia servers. Left-wing Italian politicians denounced the move and called for an investigation.[43]
In the aftermath of the violent 2017 G20 Hamburg summit protests, the German Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community banned the German chapter of the network, Linksunten.indymedia. The ministry described the network as "the central communications platform among far-left extremists prone to violence" and stated that it was used to spread information about violent protest tactics. German internet service providers were ordered to block communication to the website. The German police also raided the addresses of several leading members and supporters of the Indymedia network in the Baden-Württemberg region. They seized knives, batons, pipes and slingshots from the apartments of the activists.[44][45]
Brad Will shooting
On October 27, 2006, New York–based journalist and Indymedia volunteer Bradley Roland Will was killed along with two Mexican protesters in the city of Oaxaca. People had been demonstrating in the city since May as part of an uprising prompted by a teachers strike. Lizbeth Cana, attorney general of Oaxaca, claimed the conflict was caused by the protesters and that the gunmen who engaged them were upset residents from the area. The U.S. ambassador to Mexico, Tony Garza, however, claimed the men may have been local police. Reporters Without Borders condemned the actions of the Mexican government in allowing the accused to go free.[46] Protesters also allege that the men were police and not local residents. Associated Press alleged that the protesters also had guns, describing the conflict as a "shootout".
In April 2008, in Brazil, IMC and (posthumously) Brad Will received the Medalha Chico Mendes de Resistência (Chico Mendes Resistance Medal in Portuguese) from the Brazilian humanitarian group Tortura Nunca Mais (No more torture in Portuguese) for their contributions to human rights and a more fair society.[47][48]
The Active software that was used as the basis for the first Indymedia centers' websites was written for Active Sydney. It went live in January 1999 featuring open publishing, calendars, events and contacts. In March, around one hundred Sydney organisations were listed.[49] The Active software consisted of a number of scripts and used the LAMP software stack.[50][49]
In June 1999, the software's news feed feature was used to published stories, pictures and videos from the Carnival Against Capitalism.[4][5] The Active software was then further developed by an international collective of activists that included personnel from Active Sydney and Free Speech TV. It was readied to be used for the Seattle Indymedia center set up to cover the WTO protests that November.[4][5][51][52][53][31][54]
In 2001, Matthew Arnison, one of the original authors of Active compared open publishing to libre software.[55]
The original Active software has been forked a number of times.[56] Other Indymedia content management systems have been written from the ground up. By 2004, the most widely adopted CMS software solutions were Mir (developed by Indymedia, not the later Mir display server developed by Canonical), active-sf and dadaIMC.[57] Hyperactive was used by Demark, London and Nottingham centers.[58]
Some centers, such as Bolivia and Quebec Indymedia, use general purpose content management systems such as Drupal.[59]
Notable custom Indymedia content management systems include Oscailt used by Ireland indymedia; version 3.6 was released in March 2016.[60]
Indymedia collectives distribute print, audio, photographic, and video media. They run open publishing websites which allow anyone to upload news articles. The content of an Indymedia collectives is determined by its participants, both the users who post content, and members of the local collective who administer the site. Centres worldwide are run autonomously, however they all provide copyleft content. This rule means content on Indymedia sites can be freely reproduced for non-commercial purposes.[61]
Streamed Indymedia content was shown on Free Speech TV in 2004.[62]
Indymedia websites publish in a number of languages, including English, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Greek, French, Russian, Arabic and Hebrew.[63]
Content and focus
The origins of Indymedia centres themselves came out of protests against the concentrated ownership and perceived biases in corporate media reporting. The first Indymedia node, attached as it was to the Seattle anti-corporate globalization protests, was seen by activists as an alternative news source to that of the corporate media, which they accused of only showing violence and confrontation, and portraying all protesters negatively.[64][65][66][67][68][69]
Reports between 1999 and 2001 tended to focus on up-to-the-minute coverage of protests, from local demonstrations to summits where anti-globalization movement protests were occurring.. In 2007, protest coverage was still published.[70]
Indymedia run a global radio project which aggregates audio RSS feeds from around the world.[71]
Organizational structure
Indymedia is formed of local collectives. They are run autonomously, but common rules include openness, inclusiveness and diversity. Editorial policies, locally chosen by any Indymedia collectives often involve removing articles which are believed to promote racism, sexism, hate speech, and homophobia.[72] A clearly stated editorial policy is expected to be available on collectives' websites.[72]
Views on Israel and Jews
In 2002, the Swiss edition of Indymedia was accused of anti-Semitism by Aktion Kinder des Holocaust, which unsuccessfully sued them for publishing a Carlos Latuff cartoon of a Jewish boy in the Warsaw Ghetto saying "I am Palestinian". This was criticized by IMC as an attempt to stifle criticism of Israel in Switzerland.[73][74][75]
Google temporarily stopped including some IMCs in Google News searches due to the use of the term "zionazi". Marissa Mayer, at the time the product manager of Google News, explained the removal by describing the term as a "degrading, hateful slur" and refused to index the Bay Area IMC because it had appeared there. While SF Bay Area Indymedia agreed that it "could be considered hate speech", they considered this a double standard due to Google News indexing articles using language they considered racist and defamatory against Arabs and Muslims, such as the term "Islamofascism".[76]
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- FBI seizes Indymedia servers in the United Kingdom, bulletin, October 8, 2004, Retrieved August 28, 2007
- Who nabbed Indymedia's computers? The freewheeling network of Web sites has a history of clashing with authority. But usually it knows who is trying to shut it up. By Mathew Honan, Nov 9, 2004
- Electronic Frontier Foundation "Anatomy of a Bogus Subpoena", Retrieved on 2009-11-11.
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Further reading
- Digital Rebellion: The Birth of the Cyber Left (2014), by Todd Wolfson, University of Illinois Press[1]
- Future Active: Media Activism and the Internet (2003, 2014), by Graham Meikle, Routledge (publisher)[2]
External links
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Indymedia.
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- IndependentMedia.ca
- "The Birth Of Digital Indy Media". February 9, 2015.
- Meikle, Graham (February 4, 2014). Future Active: Media Activism and the Internet. Routledge. ISBN 9781136727016 – via Google Books.


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Dear Osama Bin Laden's former driver Salim Hamdan: you had the right idea, sleeping through your court appearance this morning. Seven years you've resided in Guantanamo, yet somehow the Pyrrhic victories you score against the idiocracy do not cease. You won a Supreme Court case against one of the most loathed men in the most loathed presidency in US history; then the guards moved you into solitary confinement. Your empathetic lawyer was named one of the 100 most influential in America; then he got fired from the Navy. Outside your cell walls yesterday George W. Bush heaped new praise on ethanol subsidies and gas tax relief and the World Bank President wondered whether we were really opting to feed our cars before we fed our stomachs. (The answer to that is yes.) So yeah, we'll wake you when the world is just a little less absurd. Till then Megan and I will parse Jeremiah Wright and whether "pansy" is a gay slur and all that usual crap we do after the jump.
MEGAN: I have decided that drunkorexia is best practiced by professionals.
MOE: You gotta just remember it is beer that is your friend. Although apparently rising in cost these days. Are they showing this cop kicking dog video on your news channels? Because I bet they're not showing the Paula Abdul memory lapse clip...
MEGAN: They just spent 10 minutes discussing Carly Simon and Joni Mitchell and whatever on MSNBC. Apparently, there's nothing important in the world today.
MEGAN: I'll try out the beer thing next time. I went with my normal red wine this time.
MOE: Oh man that book. Carole King is the missing piece, although she doesn't seem to have much to do with the other two. Hey before I tire of the subject — oh wait, that happened two months ago — Obama joined Trinity for the gays.
MEGAN: Well, I mean, who doesn't like the gays? Um, well, I mean, except North Carolina Governor Mike Easley.
MOE: Oh good lord. I saw that quote. Tell me, when you saw that quote, did you think, "I am offended on behalf of homokind" or did you think, "New levels of rhetorical idiocy"? Because I think you know where I came down but I'm a certified insensitive person.
MEGAN: Well, I mean, personally I saw him, like, air punching out of the corner of my eye with the mute on and decided he was quite possibly insane. But, also, I guess I never thought about "pansy" as a gay slur but Aravosis is right, it is.
MOE: Yeah I thought it could also convey the proverbial 98 pound weakling? Butt sex totally optional?
MEGAN: I think it's both?
MEGAN: Butt sex: always totally optional, by the way, in my opinion.
MOE: Either way, gays, hear that? Obama became inextricably wound up with that crazy egotistical preacher who may sabotage his presidential ambitions for you people! Are you going to keep clinging to Hillary like PANSIES?
MEGAN: I keep having this conversation, I know, but I really, really don't understand the LGBT community's unabashed Hillary love. I really, really don't.
MEGAN: Anyways, so, by the way, the stupid do-not-fly list also grounds air marshalls. Can we now admit that this is a stupid clusterfuck of an idea and quit doing it now?
MOE: OH my God that is the most hilarious story ever. Who knew there were air marshals with the same names as terror suspects? What I love, too, is that the names are probably like "John Walker" and "Richard Reid" ...one thing I noticed when I used to be on the mailing list for those terror suspect lists was that they still had names of dudes who had, like, died before USS Cole.
MEGAN: Our government, protecting the skies from air marshalls! And Ted Kennedy, Congressman Darrell Issa, Congressman John Lewis, Congressman Don Young and Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren's husband.
MOE: And speaking of Not Flying for reasons other than general airline logistical ineptitude, Osama Bin Laden's super sweet son married to that sassy cougar is not allowed to come to the UK.
MEGAN: Aw! And we're still trying to put OBL's driver on trial, unsuccessfully.
MOE: Wow, and she totally wears the pants too.
"We have a nice house in Cairo, but we have no real place to call home. I need my family and I need medical attention in the UK. Our only chance to be together was to live in Britain. We have vowed never to be parted. Omar will never take another wife as long as I am alive."
Although I have to wonder what sort of medical attention she's seeking (cough eye job cough)
MEGAN: Or, um, in vitro maybe?
MEGAN: I love, also, that the assumption is that he could/would take another wife. Maybe that's why she wants to go back to Britain? Since he was still married to the first wife when they met and got married?
MEGAN: Whoa, MSNBC is reporting breaking news that Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm is undergoing emergency surgery.
MOE: I don't know much about Jennifer Granholm. I know GM reported some disappointing earnings or something, but how disappointing could they be in the context of all that previous disappointment?
MEGAN: Well, and disappointing enough to cause the governor to need surgery?
MEGAN: Granholm, btw, can never be President because she's Canadian-born, and she's a Hillary supporter. Obama doesn't get all the female governors.
MEGAN: It's for a bowel obstruction.
MOE: We should do a video on that. A companion piece to Tracie's colonic video. That story about Osama Bin Laden's driver Salim Hamdan...is it about the fact that he chose to show up to court in prison clothes? Or how his exchanges with the judge at the military tribunal were somehow friendly and human and good-naturedly resigned after seven years of pointless interminable detention? I couldn't quite tell but it's interesting.
Looking down across the makeshift courtroom on Tuesday, Judge Allred told Mr. Hamdan he wanted to give him a fair trial. He coaxed his famous defendant, who was once Osama bin Laden's driver, to stick with the process.
"Mr. Hamdan," Judge Allred said, "I think you should have great faith in American law. You have already been to the Supreme Court."
"The Supreme Court of the United States," he continued, "said to the president, 'You can't do that to Mr. Hamdan.' You were the winner. Your name is printed in our law books."
The detainee, a handsome man with curly brown hair and a quick grin, was noncommittal. Mr. Hamdan, in his seventh year of captivity, noted that despite the judge's literal words, he had not been to the Supreme Court himself. The lawyers, he said, had not taken him with them.
MEGAN: It was, I sort of liked the story.
MEGAN: And then the judge and the detainee laughed! And then he continued boycotting.
MOE: Yeah it's like some Russian play I read once or imagined reading or something.
MEGAN: Only it's sadly real, and that dude is going to spend the rest of his life in captivity whether he participates or not.
MOE: I had this theory that they're too sleep deprived to figure out how to kill themselves, or even muster the will.
MEGAN: plus, they're totally guarded against doing that.
MOE: Did Bush actually reiterate his support of ethanol subsidies in the face of massive opposition from the reality based community yesterday? Because that is also bad. Will the food crisis actually make this into an issue? It seems like the media is trying.k
MOE: Faustian bargains sigh.
No place demonstrates the competing demands on corn better than Iowa, one of the two biggest corn-exporting states. Iowa is home to 28 ethanol plants, which consume more than a quarter of its corn crop; two dozen others are under construction or in planning stages.
MEGAN: Everyone loves them the ethanol subsidies! Plus, we don't have a food shortage here, what do we care?
MOE: Oh forget what I said about sleep deprivation...Hamdan slept in!
MEGAN: I wish I had slept in! Luckily, that's what naps are made for.


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The biggest upgrade to the company's mobile strategy is likely the addition of more activity in the users home stream. The new app includes LinkedIn news, Dow Jones monitory, a calendar box that pulls from your Apple calendar and more. [Read more…]


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Eight Ways to Boost Employee Productivity
Eight Ways to Boost Employee Productivity
Workplace productivity continues to decline—for a number of reasons. Here are simple steps enterprises can take to create a more efficient workforce.
Define Your Goals and Reassess Continuously
Take a look at the current state of your workflow and determine which processes could be streamlined. To start, look at departments that are consumed by time-intensive, tedious procedures to get a better sense of the daily workflow to help identify the potential problems or processes that should be reorganized. Oftentimes, employees do things a certain way simply because it's always been done that way. Consider challenging employees to speak up and question the status quo.
Every Department Has a Unique Agenda
While it's important to define corporate goals, every department will have unique, personalized processes with different issues. After you've found something that can be optimized and have set your goals, create a roadmap for improving the process and reassess progress on a regular basis so you can fine-tune and re-engineer the new procedures to ensure employees are benefiting from the updated workflow.
Equip Employees With the Right IT
Misconfigured or legacy technology can create its own set of bottlenecks and slow down the flow of information in an organization, ultimately decreasing productivity and profitability. Taking a look at the technology your employees are using on a daily basis can uncover inefficiencies. Once you've evaluated your technology environment, look for new solutions to meet your employees' needs and ensure that they have the right equipment to get the job done efficiently.
Make Sure Employees Know How to Use New Tools
When introducing new technology to a workplace, it's also important that employees are properly trained so it is used to properly. When employees are not confident in using new technology, they waste an exorbitant amount of time trying to answer questions or solve issues. Additionally, they won't fully understand the added featured and functionalities of the technology, and the tool will not be used to its fullest potential. Without proper training, new technology can be a drain on productivity; therefore, this is a critical step that can't be overlooked.
Keep Your Employees in the Loop
When researching and implementing new technology, it's critical that the employees who will be using it every day are included in all stages of the process. Start by understanding exactly what your employees are looking for and give them a chance to suggest what tools they would find useful. After the initial research stage, give employees a chance to participate in a pilot program that will allow them to use the tool first-hand and provide real-time feedback.
Listen to Your Employees' Opinions on New IT Tools
Receiving and evaluating employees' opinions during the research and implementation phases of new tech tools will give you invaluable feedback. They are the ones who have to understand, like and use the technology day in and day out, so getting their reactions before investing in a solution can help you understand if a new technology will fit within the business workflows. Once the technology is implemented, it's important to continue to solicit feedback on an ongoing basis so issues can be remedied.
Provide Easy Access to Critical Information
Information on customers, buying decisions and industry trends can help inform future business decisions. Data is the lifeblood of every organization, so it's important to manage, secure and store that critical information in a universal, secure content management system that is easily accessible for employees. This is to ensure employees are able to find and analyze it easily. By giving employees fast, efficient access to information no matter where they are, work can get done faster and business productivity improves.
Empower Your Mobile Employees
Work today is no longer confined to the four walls of an office. Employees are increasingly working on the go, and this trend isn't going away anytime soon. To keep employees satisfied and productive, it's important for businesses to find ways to empower their workers to get work done anywhere. Choose from a variety of mobile productivity tools. For example, real estate agents and sales employees spend most of their time outside the office and deal with a number of different vendors and documents throughout the sales cycle. New mobile scanners the size of a rolled up magazine allow them to digitize and route information to the correct vendor, department or employee to keep business moving so productivity doesn't halt when they don't have access to the right equipment.


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Does Your German Shepherd Dog Eat Grass?
Grass Eating Habit in German Shepherds
If your German Shepherd Dog is eating grass, he is certainly not the only dog on the Earth that exhibits such strange behavior. There are many schools of thoughts and theories as to why a German Shepherd Dog eat grass, but there's no proven and confirmed conclusion as to why they eat grass. Dogs, irrespective of breed, gender and age eat grass at some point of time.
Veterinary researchers have been pounding on the mystery of dogs eating grass. Dr. Benjamin Hart, DVM, PhD, has studying on animal behavior for over 50 years and according to him one of the questions he is hit with most frequently from dog owners is: "Why does my dog eat grass?" Researchers have carried out study on the dogs eating grass. A number of 49 dogs were exposed to vegetation and grassland. It was observed that around 39 out of 49 dogs had consumed plants at some point of time. It noticed that the grass was preferred more than other plants by most of the dogs. Now the question is: Why Do Dogs Eat Grass?
This behavior that is characterized by knowingly eating things by a species that are not their food is called "Pica". If your German shepherd Dog or any other dog or mongrel is eating grass, this is a kind of pica, a behavior that is not necessarily fatal or harmful, as long as you garden is free from poisonous pants along with the grass that your dog can accidentally ingest.
There are different reasons but none of them have been scientifically proven and confirmed. Some the probable reasons that many canine experts have laid down are as follows:
Settling their stomach: Those there in the veterinary profession would clearly say that your GSD eats grass because he has a natural instinct to use grass as a medicinal herb, whenever they feel irritation or ache inside their stomach. According to some people (especially those directly or indirectly related the veterinary profession) believe that dogs – irrespective of breed – eat grass and then vomit in order to settle their stomach.
Controversy: Many dogs, most of the times, do not vomit after eating grass. This goes a long way to prove that grass is not used by the dogs to vomit in order to settle their stomach. Moreover, in a survey it has been noticed that grass eating and vomit do not always go together… nor grass eating and illness are always associated. In the study of clients and veterinary students it was observed that 18% of the clients' dogs that ate grass vomited after eating. On the other hand, 9% of the dogs owned by the veterinary-students showed some symptoms of illness before eating grass.
Nutritional deficiency: Some experts consider that dogs eat grass because of nutritional deficiency in their regular diet. Since dogs are not purely carnivorous they needs plant fibers as a part of their diet. Some dogs eat grass probably because their food doesn't meet their requirement of veg nutrition which they try to compensate by eating grass.
Controversy: Many dogs that are fed on purely non-commercial food, without any vegetables also eat grass. Home made food usually consist of meat, eggs, fruits, veggies etc. that are quite nutritious. Many dogs that are give enough of vegetables of different types also eat grass. Moreover, if it's a question of nutritional benefits, there wouldn't have any reason for some dogs to vomit after eating grass.
Natural instinct: Grass eating habit of dogs is a natural instinct. Their ancestors used to eat small amount of grass and plants nutrients as a part of their natural diet indirectly by eating the intestines of herbivorous prey for instance deer, goat, sheep etc. This is considered as the instinctual craving for the roughage or minerals or fiber present in the vegetation
They love to eat grass: Some canine experts conclude that dogs love to eat grass because they like the taste. Grass and plants or weeds contains a vegetable sap that is a sometimes tastes sweet. Your German Shepherds probably like eating grass because of the taste.
We do not have any solid explanation as to why dogs eat grass. There are different school of thought and theoretical statements and believes. Researchers have been burning their midnight oil to come up to a rock solid reason for dogs' grass eating habits. Now the question is: Is there anything to be worried about? Dog's grass eating habit doesn't always cause for alarm. Dogs usually do not eat grass excessively. If you notice your GSD eating grass in excessive quantity you should consult your vet instantly. Grass eating by dogs is something not to be worried about as long as your lawn is not treated with poisonous substances like fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides or any other chemical components.
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Almost everyone seems to love Fox's hit musical series, Glee. Celebrities from Anne Hathaway to Gwyneth Paltrow to Paul McCartney have clamored to be involved with the show in one way or another.
Everyone, that is, except the Kings of Leon.
The swaggering Southern rockers balked last year at the opportunity to have the Glee cast cover their songs, saying that doing so would be tantamount to "selling out."
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But now the show's creator is lashing out at the band, reports New York.
"#$%# you, Kings of Leon," Glee's Ryan Murphy said in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter. "They're self-centered a%$holes, and they missed the big picture. They missed that a 7-year-old kid can see someone close to their age singing a Kings of Leon song, which will maybe make them want to join a glee club or pick up a musical instrument. It's like, OK, hate on arts education. You can make fun of Glee all you want, but at its heart, what we really do is turn kids on to music."
Kings of Leon frontman Caleb Followill was floored by Murphy's harsh remarks.
"This whole Glee thing is a shock to us. It's gotten out of hand. At the time of the request, we hadn't even seen the show. It came at the end of that record cycle, as we were over promoting ["Use Somebody"]. This was never meant as a slap in the face of Glee or to music eduction or to fans of the show. We're not sure where the anger is coming from."
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I recently came across the following in something I'm working on, and I'd never seen it before. Consider \begin{align*} f_1(x) &= (1+x)^{1/1} \\\ f_2(x) &= (1+x)^{2/1} (1+2x)^{-1/2} \\\ f_3(x) &= (1+x)^{3/1} (1+2x)^{-3/2} (1+3x)^{1/3} \\\ f_4(x) &= (1+x)^{4/1} (1+2x)^{-6/2} (1+3x)^{4/3} (1+4x)^{-1/4} \\\ & \cdots \\\ f_n(x) &= \prod_{k=1}^n (1+kx)^{(-1)^{k-1}\binom{n}{k}/k}. \end{align*} Think of these as formal power series with coefficients in $\mathbb{Q}$. It turns out that these series approximate the Taylor expansion for the exponential, in the sense that $$ f_n(x) = 1 + x + \frac{x^2}{2!} + \cdots + \frac{x^n}{n!} +O(x^{n+1}).$$
(This isn't too hard to prove, using a logarithmic derivative: \begin{align*} 1-f_n'(x)/f_n(x) &= \sum_{k=0}^n (-1)^k\binom{n}{k}(1+kx)^{-1} \\\ &= \sum_j \biggl(\sum_k (-1)^k\binom{n}{k}k^j\biggr) (-x)^j. \end{align*} The coefficient of $x^j$ calculates the number of surjections $\{1,\dots,j\}\to \{1,\dots,n\}$ (up to a sign), and so is $0$ if $j<n$.)
My questions include (but are not limited to): Do these things have a name? Is there some kind of combinatorial interpretation of the $f_n(x)$ (e.g., as a generating function of some kind)? Is there a more direct proof that $f_n(x)$ agrees with $e^x$ to order $n+1$?


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So much has changed since I was in third grade.
First of all, sitting on the floor with your legs crossed in front of you was 'Indian style'. Nowadays that's called sitting 'criss cross apple sauce'.
Second, every morning I tell my kids to go get their backpacks off the hook that stands right next to the back door. Every afternoon as we pull in to the garage I remind them to put their backpacks back on the hook where they belong. And every time I say this The Girl reminds me that what she is carrying is not a backpack... even though she puts all her stuff in it and throws it on her bag with the shoulder strap...It's now called a "book bag".
So with all this change I began to think that perhaps the new thing in education was to not force kids to memorize their math facts with the use of flash cards. These days the math instruction is all about "thinking", not just rote memorization so I thought that perhaps we wouldn't have need the flash cards.
It seems that I was wrong.
Two days ago The Boy came home and said that he needed to find some flash cards and get his facts memorized. So I hauled out the old flash cards that I bought when he was three months old.
I was a new Mom who had read an article about the miracle of teaching your baby how to do algebra before he cuts his first teeth would increase their IQ and make them geniuses. Of course I also boiled everything that came within twenty feet of that poor child, and flash cards don't hold up to boiling so I scrapped the idea.
The point being that I had addition and subtraction flash cards that have seen more moves than Madonna in a yoga class. Somehow, 9 years and three houses later, I have still managed to keep them in a place that I could readily find them. But I digress...
Here is the sad part...as a child I memorized my multiplication facts, but never really got around to memorizing my addition and subtraction facts. So while my son is doing a fantastic job of memorizing his flash cards, his math deficient mother is still adding on her fingers.
Honestly, it's kind of scary. On a different subject, things have been so very crazy here that I completely missed the first day of fall. Which is very sad because I love recognizing the first days of the season changes. The weather is beautiful and the leaves are starting to change, and as I write I am wearing my super soft and fuzzy, lilac colored wind jacket that the Hubby bought for my birthday last year. It just makes me happy to be snuggled in its coziness.
Yesterday I hauled out the brown corduroy pants that I bought last season and it was fun to be dressed in fallish clothes. I almost pulled out my favorite pinkish red sweatshirt but we can't pull all the favorite cold weather clothes out too early because winter isn't exactly my favorite time of year, and I get a little sick of being cooped up in warm clothes...So it's better to hold out as long as I can.
I am greatly anticipating the un-veiling of Cookie though. Cookie is my cookie-monster-blue heating blanket that is almost makes me as happy from November to March as a cup coffee and chocolate chip cookies. I blogged about that last year though so I will spare you another post about my love of blankets.
Ok, last but not least, I am running in another little 5k this weekend and, as with all races, whether long or short, I always hope that I can finish without embarrassing myself! You know you getting old when you run and then have to come home a take a nap.
Which is what I feel like doing after this mornings run. But there is no time for naps.
I have to go brush up on my addition...3rd grade is killing me.
Thursday, September 28, 2006
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Monday, September 25, 2006
Nine Years
It was nine years ago at this time when I awoke to the realization that my water had broke and, ready or not, I was about to become a Mom.
My sweet boy is growin' up. Although his official birthday is today he received a gift that he never thought he would get for a birthday present on Friday night. His Grannie and Paw and the hubby and I went in on a combined gift of a PS2 gaming system and the excitement on that boys face when he opened it was really more of a gift for me.
Last month when he asked for it we had told him that that was a pretty pricey gift for a birthday and that we would have to think about it for Christmas. He was very sweet about it and said he would think of something else that he would ask for his birthday.
He couldn't believe it when he opened the gift. He still can't believe it...Waking up this morning he told me he had a dream that I had really just rented it and was going to take it back today!
I really don't have too much time for blogging this morning as everything in my life feels a little bit chaotic....Mostly because the next month is day after day of activities that grow more adventuresome than the next, ending with the wedding of my brother and his wife to be. After October 21st I will breathe a sigh of relief that will be heard across the country...of course since that is my birthday it may be a scream that says I can't believe I am 34 years old!
Speaking of weddings, the Hubby and I were talking about what it takes to make a marriage harmonious. He, of course had some very thoughtful and meaningful ideas on this subject and then he sat quietly thinking. After a pause he says, "Oh, and his and her closets are essential to peace in the marriage."
And, although he had a playful smile on his face, I am pretty sure he meant it.
At first I felt defensive, as if that was a slam on the way I kept my closet, but then I decided I couldn't have loved him more than right at that moment.
La Vida Dulce
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Monday, September 18, 2006
New Blog Design
Hey for all my blogger friends that are interested go check out www.bluebirdblogs.blogspot.com.
Y'all know how i am forever trying to find a blog template that most depicts who I am... and I have missed a few times. When Becky was here last week she was telling me she was so glad I was over the blue adn hot pink "Malibu Barbie" theme....which I loved but she said didn't really say "Kellie". The thing is that there aren't many "free" templates out there that say "coffee lovin', guitar playing, sometime crafting stay at home mom" in a way that's clean, warm and cozy. And until I came across this site I hadn't found any blog designers that were exactly affordable.
So, I am going to try to win her contest....but if I don't, I think I may be buying myself a little birthday gift in October!
Go check her out.
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Sunday, September 17, 2006
Christmas Thinkin'
Meet Olive and Archie...they are my latest crafting project. My First one was made with Grey felt for her hair and the hubby said she looked like a granny so I went out and bought some brown and black wool felt on Friday and whipped these two kids up over the weekend. I think they are so cute...if I don't say so myself.
They are also what my nieces are getting for Christmas this year. Although The Girl has already laid claim to these.
The picture below is also of O and A in a tote bag I made for a certain friend of mine who lives in a very northern and cold place ( I get cold just thinking about it). What she really needs is a very thick warm quilt made of buffalo hide for those crazy winters, but she will have to live with a handmade tote. Maybe there will be treat or two sent in the tote to get her through some cold days. Who knows? Anyway, today is her birthday. Happy Birthday M! Your package is going to be late!
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Thursday, September 14, 2006
Yesterdays post was filled with a synopsis of the rest of my day at the beach last weekend. But after I spell checked and tried to post, the computer decided it didn't want to cooperate so my post was dumped, and then I had niether the time, nor the attitude, to repost.
The gist is this: I got some sun. We had fun.
Computers are invaluable and completely irritating to me!
Anyway, today is my day off and I wanted to take a minute to do something that has been on my to do list for several weeks now. My friend, and fellow blogger has given me permission to link her blog to mine. When y'all get a chance go over and give Blue Skies a Texas Howdy. In the future you will also find her link in the side bar.
Today is a perfect day to put on a fresh pot of coffee and get into the crafting room. It is drizzly and 65 degrees and it makes me want to do a lot of nothing... But that isn't going to happen, unless some magic cleaning ladies show up at the door and take over the upkeep of my home. So it's off to do some cleaning and "home-work" so that I can spend a bit of time playing in the craft room this afternoon!
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Wednesday, September 13, 2006
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A Room with a View...This is a party boat that has a disco on it. The people watching was great. We saw everybody mingling on board around 6:30. They left at 7 and came back at 10:00pm. When they came back you could see the disco lights flashing all over the harbor!
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Monday, September 11, 2006
I was excited to hear almost two weeks ago that my friend Becky had found good airfare to come see me this weekend. It went way too fast.
As I write this my sweet friend is on her way across the country back to the Ant Ranch.
What a great 48 hours we had.
Although she did laugh at me when I nearly drowned in the Atlantic ocean (I got pulled out to sea by HUGE waves and then nearly panicked when I tried to swim back but kept getting slammed under). She also tried to coax the sea gulls with potato chip crumbs to land on my head...But she did share her crab cakes with me when my red snapper tasted like rubber and I know with the certainty that she will keep the truth regarding exactly how many "fun size" Snickers bars I consumed in a 48 hour period. Because that's just the way she is.
I feel very grateful that I have gals in my life with whom I can be totally myself...And not hold it against me.
We watched a sunset and a sunrise and that says a lot...For one it says that she is getting to that age when one can't fall asleep until it's late but then wakes up early. But not so "vintage" that she can't hoof it with me when I tell her we will go for a little walk through the woods, but what I really meant was a 3 mile hike that's mostly up-hill.
We shopped at some interesting second hand stores that I had wanted to go look at because I had romantic ideas about finding "vintage" items that would look spectacular in my house. But what I remembered is that finding good stuff takes time, and a willingness to get dirty and dig through other peoples old junk. I know of people who go in there and find the best stuff. I just found that lots of clutter makes me anxious.
We did a lot of talking, and we did a lot of not talking. At one point, after having a morning walk on the beach and coming back to the hotel room for some boat watching on the harbor with bagels and cream cheese, we temporarily ran out of things to say (or perhaps it was a lull from the temporary break in Snickers eating). After a prolonged time of silence we easily slipped back into conversation as if we hadn't just completely zoned out on a 20 minute carb crash.
I got a bit of a sunburn which feels great with the fall blowing in the air.
And lastly, I appreciate a friend who will take a risk and travel over a day in the history of America that one would rather just stay in the safety of their homes and do their best to try to imagine what life was like before 4 airplanes, 3 hours, and 2 buildings changed the course of history.
It's bittersweet that the reason I get to experience the gift of friendship this weekend is because the airlines tried to boost sales on a day that will forever be a memory of fear for the country.
Thanks for coming by Becky, I had a blast.
Next time I'll come to you!
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Thursday, September 07, 2006
It Starts
The season of my favorite things.
Only this year it started early.
It began just the other day.
My little family and I are reading our way through the Little House on The Prairie series. (As a side note: we took a break from the Ingalls this summer with a book called Caddie Woodlawn. If you haven't ever read it you should...it was good. The best part being the ending...where I cried while trying to read out loud to my children.)
But back to Little House. We are currently in the 6th book entitled The Long Winter. In it there is a chapter on how Ma and the girls decided to surprise Pa with a pumpkin pie.
Then The Girl and I read a book yesterday about a pumpkin patch...and I just couldn't handle the pressure...
My baking wheels went bus-a-louie.
I have a tendency toward baking in the winter months that borders a bit on obsession...but it is one of my favorite things. I had the day off today and I had way too many things to accomplish in the 6 measly hours between drop-off and pick-up line at the kids school, but I couldn't go one more day without making some pumpkin bread. So I quick made some.
As I was reaching into my cupboard that holds my cookbooks I remembered one of my favorite ones that was given to me by an Aunt years ago (as in like, 25 years ago). I love this cookbook because it has some really great recipes in it...most specifically the recipe for vegetable soup that I live on during the cold months. Over the years this recipe has been opened so many times that the book falls open to the right page. In all honestly I don't even need the recipe anymore. But I love taking it out and seeing the old brown and orange bowl in the photo, that I swear to you, I think my mother actually owned. Now a days we call that vintage. Meaning, not so old that it's an antique, but old enough to still be hip.
This cookbook has seen some years as is marked by the message on the inside cover. My Mom owned a real estate business for much of my childhood. The boys and I were forever taking messages (by penalty of a slow and painful death. We had a pretty poor track record on keeping telephone messages) on any piece of paper we could find. (picture below) All this to say, the Betty Crocker Junior Cookbook is definitely a fall-time favorite.
Today, in celebration of cooler weather I made some soup. With a glass of my new favorite: Tazo Passion tea.
So begins the baking season and my love for all things "autumn". This is the time before I hunker down with my blue fuzzy heating blanket...the time before I spend three months in a perpetual state of varying coldness.
I have so many fall fave's that I will have to write about them as the days go by. But I will conclude with my most favoritest of favorite things (in any season): A visit from a "vintage" Texas friend. She arrives Saturday morning at the airport where I will pick her up and promptly drive east to the beach for some girlie bonding over Diet Coke and certainly chocolate of one form or another. Probably both.
And keeping our fingers crossed that another fall time activity (hurricanes) don't stop by to say hello!
Until then La Vida Dulce!
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Message Translation: Mom, Kay called and the seller accsepted the offer, he'll have the papers tomorow ath the office.
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A truthful picture of the Cake...lest you think I would actually only consume that one tiny-little-peice pictured in the opening of this post. Please people, there is the "taster", and then there is the "peice".
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Saturday, September 02, 2006
Little Lamb
Rather than sit in fear this week as we watched Ernesto approach our neighborhood I decided to be creative. I used my nervous energy to create this newest "stuffie". It helped me to take my mind off of trees falling on my house...Which has been added to my list of fears this year...Luckily the fear of tornados has gradually lost it spark...Although Mayo may not ever make it off the list...But I digress.
In case you wondered, she's a lamb. My kids both had different thoughts: somewhere between a dog and a rabbit.
Yes, she's a little rough around the edges but I think the more I make the better they will get. You all may be getting little lambs for Christmas. Actually, I am now working on a mouse that I hope to send to my niece, since my nick name for her is Mia Mouse.
So the blog has been a little blase these days. I don't even have bloggers block, but the time crunch has been hard on the old head. It's hard for me write well when I am constrained by time. Of course perhaps the creative juices are focused on wool felt and cotton right now, or homework, or meal planning, or guitar chords, or laundry, or, or, or, or,...Who knows.
Oh yeah, Happy September! When I went running this morning I had to take my light runners jacket because it was 61 degrees! The leaves are already starting to change! Yeah!
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