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What a Normal Week Looks Like
I was thinking of getting a head start on my Project Life pages for this week, and realized that it's been quite uneventful. But uneventful in a good way because my days have been filled with "normal" stuff: cooking meals, carpooling, marathon grocery run, lunch with a friend, taking a walk on the only weather-permitting day. All that, plus the house is cleaner than it's been in quite a while. I even took over homework duty, which has been particularly strenuous since Rory spent the week preparing for the 100th day of school. (Have you ever tried to help a kindergartner come up with and write 100 words or count out 100 M&M's?)
But it's been good. My mind feels clear, and despite the normal aches and pains (and very little sleep), I feel strong. I've enjoyed having a schedule and keeping up with normal duties. It's entirely possible that Brian might disagree about my assessment of these past few days because I'm pretty sure as I was cleaning sweeping/cleaning bathrooms/dusting for the second time already this week, I *might* have done some complaining about how I was tired of keeping this house clean, but when I look back at the week, it's all good.
Our weather this week has ranged from 73 and rainy (at 10 p.m. one night) to snow and 15 degrees (this morning). I don't have any pictures to share because gray and dreary doesn't really inspire anyone to pull out their camera, right?
Or it's just entirely possible that I'm too lazy to upload what I did take.
But I have been scrapping older pictures with the new February BYOC from The Lilypad, which is predominantly pink. And I LOVE pink. The bright cheery colors were just what I needed after gloomy January days. Anyone else think that the month of January is possibly the longest month of the year?
(Okay, so this picture isn't old. And I'm planning to share the rest of these soon.)
But this picture is definitely old - all the way back from April 2010.


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By telling an Iowa audience on Tuesday night that he had opposed the Iraq war "from the beginning," Bill Clinton committed a double pratfall. Not only did he refocus attention on his wife's most hazardous issue, Iraq, just as it was receding as the nation's Topic A, but he also revived unhappy memories of the truth-dodging nadirs of the Clinton White House.Rich thinks Obama would be a more formidable match for the Republican candidate:
Whatever his caveats, Mr. Clinton did not explicitly oppose the Iraq war from the beginning. But Al Gore did unequivocally and loudly in a public speech before the beginning, as did an obscure Illinois state senator named Barack Obama. What if Mrs. Clinton had led an insurrection against the war authorization in the Senate? Might she have helped impede America's rush into one of the greatest fiascos in our history?
[T]he Republicans have fallen into a trap by continuing to cling to the Hillary-is-inevitable trope. They have not allowed themselves to think the unthinkable — that they might need a Plan B to go up against a candidate who is not she. It's far from clear that they would remotely know how to construct a Plan B to counter Mr. Obama...
Part of the Republicans' difficulty in countering Mr. Obama, should they have to, is their own cynical racial politics. For the most part, race has been the dog that hasn't barked in this campaign despite the (largely) white press's endless fretting about whether the Illinois senator is too white for black voters and too black for white voters....
An Obama candidacy would force them to engage. Or try to. A matchup between Mr. Obama and Mr. Giuliani, who was forged in the racial crucible of New York's police brutality nightmares of the 1990s, or between Mr. Obama and Mitt Romney, who was shaped by a religion that didn't give blacks equal membership until 1978, would be less a clash of races than of centuries.
Oh, yeah, go after Romney because he professes a religion that had a defect that it eradicated 3 decades ago. That will be wonderfully effective and a stunning display of enlightenment. Don't we all want to see how much religious and racial discord the 2 parties can stir up and leverage in their lust for power?
Can someone please ask Obama how he likes Rich's vision?
Maureen Dowd's column is about Obama too. But she's not really promoting him. She's up to something else.


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(Reuters) – Rescue workers called off the search for survivors at a collapsed South African building site on Wednesday, believing there are no more trapped construction workers beneath the half-built shopping mall.
One person was killed and dozens injured in Tuesday's collapse of the three-storey building in Tongaat, 30 km (20 miles) north of Durban.
"The entire operation has been stopped and handed over to the Department of Labour," police spokeswoman Mandy Govender told reporters at the site.
Initial reports suggested as many as 50 workers might have been trapped under the rubble but rescue officials, working through the night with sniffer dogs, recovered only one body and discovered no survivors.
The cause of the collapse remains unclear. District mayor James Nxumalo said local authorities had obtained a series of court injunctions, the latest on November 14, to halt construction.
The owner of the site has been identified as a South African businessman who is well-known in Durban, the second-largest city in South Africa and home to a large ethnic Indian population.
If safety regulations are found to have been flouted, the accident could damage the ruling African National Congress (ANC) as it moves toward an election next year because of widespread perceptions of incompetence and corruption in local government.
Durban and the surrounding province of KwaZulu-Natal are also the home of President Jacob Zuma and the region has enjoyed a construction boom in the last few years, based in part on government investment.
Of the 29 injured, two are in a critical condition in hospital, health officials said.
The ANC is expected to win an election in April or May next year but its share of the vote is likely to drop as young post-apartheid South Africans with no knowledge of white-minority rule come of age.
(Reporting by Zandi Shabalala and David Dolan; Writing by Ed Cropley; Editing by Janet Lawrence)
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So why not make it more and start drinking out of one?
Yes, now you too can have the same drinking privileges your dog does!
If you enjoy coffee, experiment with adding different amounts of cream, and guess what GI disturbance they could be.
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Thanks, but I have enough trouble keeping the dogs and toddler out of the commode as it is. It would definitely be good for the swill we drink at work though. hmmmmmmm
I think you should mix hot cocoa mix in it. You know how it doesn't all dissolve at first and it's all clumpy...
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A few more gift ideas and my Holiday Shopping will be Complete. Any thought on this?
Bet your wondering who will be getting the Doody Head Game?
And the Toilet Mug, a must have this "CHEW HAN U CA" (my friend spelled it that way in an email). Crazy?
Thanks for a "dribble" of humor in the midst of all the heartbreaking news the past few days.
lol, Rajiv on Outsourced always drinks his coffee and tea out of a toilet cup, and I think Todd does at times too. It just reminded me of that.
Not even my dog will drink out of a toilet bowl. Her water dish is just around the corner, and when it's empty, she sits and whines.
We just picked names for Secret Santa so I sent this wonderful gift idea around.
I can't believe it doesn't have a lid....
@23- it is only for guys because it doesn't have a lid.
Really, though, this even crosses the line for an ED staff member. I mean, we are known to eat things out of bedpans and emesis basins. There are times when I think our floor friends come down to eat with us, and turn and walk away when they see some of our serving bowls.
***disclaimer- they are all unused, but the idea is still gross
BinkRN- I've seen floor nurses eat out of the same things.
Just wait til you see what we do with the barium enema bags in radiology....mwah ah ah ah
Would you drink diet coke out of that?
If I had to drink out of that thing, I'm fairly certain that I
would lose my breakfast(etc) into it.Very unappealing.
More crappy gifts show up at this time of the year.
To complete your ensemble, there's an online store that sells a tie, tastefully imprinted with tiny toilet bowls.
Yes, I bought it for my husband. Why do you ask?
mother- you have a remarkable pooch. all of mine have slurped the loo. but one of my supposedly dumber than a dog felines would regularly hop up and pee in the toilet.
wont these go nicely with the dishes with the rectum or bowels on them you posted earlier?
I can just see this with a serving of butterscotch or chocolate pudding in it.
wv: matrat -- would that be a rat that sat on a mat?
may be why they have to put up signs in the bathroom telling people not to drink from the toilet.
That guy in the ad looks like a serial killer assessing his prey.
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Several US national team players' parents will be happy with the report card from Saturday night's 1-1 rally draw with Chile at the Home Depot Center.
Three debutants put on enticing displays, while Red Bull New York teammates Tim Ream and Juan Agudelo continued forcing their way into the US picture. Here are the ratings for the game:
Nick Rimando (7) - The Real Salt Lake backstop didn't have a great deal to do, but handled a couple of tricky assignments with great ease.
Sean Franklin (6) - The debutant had a few problems with losing the ball or his man in bad locations during the first half, but worked nice and clean after the break. The Galaxy defender showed enough poise for more looks.
Omar Gonzalez (5) - The Los Angeles policeman was a bit clumsy with the ball early, but his mistakes went unpunished. The last half of his 45 minutes went smoother.
Tim Ream (7.5) - Say hello to Clarence Goodson's understudy? With his organizational skills and passing out of the back, that doesn't seem a stretch – at least until Jay DeMerit is finally back in action.
Zach Loyd (7) - The FC Dallas handyman was a buzzing bee on his debut, to say the least. Loyd got up and down his wing with abandon and even wandered inside to make a couple plays. There were a couple of flubs and his energy level showed a downside with the card, but we'll see more of him soon.
Jeff Larentowicz (6.5) - It wasn't a star show, but the debut international showed that a call-up was overdue. He calmed things down several times, broke up some Chile rushes and sprayed a few fine outlet passes.
Dax McCarty (5) - It was, in many ways, a rather untypical showing by the night's captain. McCarty did test the 'keeper with a long bomb and teed up a good second-half chance, but there were far too many poor passes. He battled his way back from a slow start to close the first half strong, then regressed in the second.
Alejandro Bedoya (5.5) - With play going down the left for much of the opening half hour, Bedoya had long waits for touches and was late getting into the game. He was more involved in the second half and finally able to create some danger.
[inline_node:327001]Mikkel Diskerud (5.5) - After a good start to the match characterized by easy touches, Mix had troubles executing technically for much of the evening. Even with his playmaking somewhat on the fritz, Diskerud still managed to run Chile defenders mad and pop up in smart linking locations to open up lanes.
Brek Shea (7) - Before he departed, was there a US move he wasn't heavily involved in? There was no end product, but Shea impressed with several fine turns, use of his size in the build and challenging runs at a defender. He even supplied a pair of excellent pressure valve plays in his end.
Chris Wondolowski (5) - It was a fairly anonymous debut for the San Jose ace, who got the ball stuck in his feet on his lone chance to breach the area. To be fair, he didn't get much service and routinely dropped back to help with possession.
Coach Bob Bradley (5.5) - This match wasn't about the result, so let's grade the boss more on how well he organized a green group while teaching the USMNT way. While most of the defensive headaches were caused by individual errors, the consistent lack of proper attack shape after a long camp is of concern. Most prominently, the wide midfielders still need to refrain from squeezing inside quite so much.
One also has to question starting the wanderer Wondolowski on top of this formation. Teal Bunbury (pictured at top) is clearly more suited to that role. Sure, the final score didn't matter here, but there is a noticeable pattern of Bradley making influential changes to turn matches.
It begs the question: Are his subs too often more effective than the starters they relieve? Despite my couple of particular complaints, there were also plenty of encouraging signs of another helpful Camp Cupcake on display.
Sean Johnson (6) - Though he can't be faulted for the goal, the Chicago Fire netminder did look a bit wide-eyed on a couple of occasions.
Marvell Wynne (4.5) - Alright, we've seen enough of him as a US center back for the time being. Aside from the odd flailing on the Chile goal, Wynne was exposed at the back far too many times for 45 minutes of work. Truth be told, it was more nerve-racking when he made plays.
Juan Agudelo (7) - Once again complicit in turning a game off the bench, the RBNY prodigy may already have an inside track on the 2014 World Cup impact sub role. You've got to love the way Agudelo hustles his tail off to keep 40-60 balls alive for his side. That kind of thing is always bound to pay off in the attack zone sooner or later.
Teal Bunbury (7) - The penalty stroke was true, and besides that, Bunbury offered good value for a half hour in causing Chile problems. His blend of strength and silkiness is impressive.
Anthony Wallace (-) One of three Colorado Rapids involved on the night, the left back was not overly involved over 17 minutes. He did show a willingness to get forward.
Eric Alexander (-) His appearance was too short to grade, but do note that he played two dangerous balls into the area in just seven minutes.


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Curt Schilling's 38 Studios pulled together some of the biggest names in fantasy to create Kingdom of Amalur: Reckoning, so it should come as no surprise that the game in motion looks like several excellent fantasy role-playing games rolled into one.
So this is what happens when comic book artist and toy designer Todd McFarlane, acclaimed novelist R.A. Salvatore, and The Elder Scrolls' Ken Rolston team up to create an epic fantasy game. What we're seeing here is the direct result of Salvatore's story, McFarlane's art, and Rolston's design.
It looks like they've created God of War meets Fable.
That's not meant to disparage their combined efforts. I love the art style of Fable, comfortably resting somewhere between realistic and cartoony. If allows for the sort of fluid animations that make an action-fueled game like this really sing. It's a sexy combination of elements that will hopefully coalesce into a truly epic work of fantasy.
Expect to see Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC sometime in 2012.


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Welder's spark likely source of Grantham fire, say firies
UPDATE: 'Snappy-Brown' fuel with absolutely no moisture made firefighting conditions tough for emergency services at Grantham, yesterday.
With minimal wind and humidity, QFES area director for West Moreton Peter Roberts said it was the fuel itself that drove the Philps road fire and escalated its intensity.
The blaze was mostly contained to one property, but did cross the Warrego Highway, which Mr Roberts said was brought under control quickly.
It also impacted the Queensland Railway corridor, but Mr Roberts said there was no requirement to stop rail transport.
He said QFES continued to investigate the cause of the fire, but it was believed to be started by a welder on the property.
"The dryness of the fuel at the moment is probably as close to record of how dry it really can be," Mr Roberts said.
"There is no moisture in the soil (or fuel) at all … that fuel is just ready to go with any ignition source whatsoever."
A total of 21 firefighting appliances, six command vehicles and two aircraft battled the blaze, which was brought under control late Thursday evening.
Mr Roberts commended the efforts of paid and volunteer firefighters.
"They did some brilliant work out there, they fought very hard and very long," he said.
But with much of the state and nation impacted by the drought, Mr Roberts said it was shaping up to be a particularly volatile season.
"All these elements (fuel loads, moisture, humidity) go into the mix to create a more dangerous season compared to ones we've seen in the past," he said.
He urged all residents living in or alongside rural areas to have a bushfire plan ready.
"As many firefighters as we have, we do not have one for each house," he said.
"It is absolutely imperative that people have a plan in place and know what they are going to do in case of a bushfire coming through."
EARLIER 7am: Firefighters will return to the site of the Grantham blaze this morning to ensure the fire has not jumped containment lines.
At about 10.30pm last night (Thursday) the fire was under control and was burning within containment lines, a Queensland Fire and Emergency Services spokesperson said.
It was downgraded from a watch-and-act message to an alert.
The spokesperson said for a short time, the grass fire, which burnt through 123 hectares, the equivalent of 123 rugby fields, did cross the Warrego Highway.
Crews managed to prevent the fire spreading through back-burning operations and aerial water bombing support.
Crews also performed back-burning operations along the Warrego Hwy.
The fire originated at Philps Rd, Grantham, and no buildings or structures were damaged.
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Coffee Tree to Cup in Brazil: Part 4, The Roasting
Author's note: In early June, I attended the coffee harvest in Pedregulho, Brazil, with leading specialty coffee producer Octavio Café and Dallis Coffee, the highly respected New York coffee roaster Octavio recently acquired. Down at Octavio's Nossa Senhora Aparecida farm, I leaned how coffee goes from the plant to your French press—as millions of coffee trees are picked, sifted, seeded, dried, roasted, and brewed into the coffee that wakes you up every morning. Here's Phase 4: all about roasting. —CJ
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We last saw our coffee beans—picked, sifted, cleaned, seperated, shelled, dried, and sorted—back in the processing plant. But in order to turn those green beans into the black, crunchy coffee beans you think of, there's one more step: roasting.
That's where Dallis Coffee comes in.
Octavio does roast and grind a portion of its own coffee crop, for the Brazilian internal market. But whereas unroasted coffee beans remain essentially stable for six months or more, when stored properly, roasted coffee beans can decline in quality after just two weeks. So if you're drinking Octavio Coffee in New York City, chances are it's gone from green to black in Ozone Park, Queens.
Abe and Morris Dallis started Dallis Brothers Coffee in 1913, delivering beans across the boroughs in horse-drawn carriages. They later opened up their own roastery, and a few decades later, grew the business into a supplier for cafés and restaurants all over New York City.
Fast-forward to this century, and today's Dallis Coffee finds itself at a unique place in the coffee culture. Sure, it's an old-world New York supplier whose client base dates to decades before anyone started talking about single-origin espresso and Stumptown and The Slayer; but it's also a thoroughly modern roastery, as highly respected (and as willing to geek out) as any name in the business.
Which explains some of the funny sights out in Ozone Park. In the display up front, you've got micro-batches of single origin beans, roasting up in the window; in the back, their larger batches are funneled into 1950s-era cast-iron Probats, the vintage gold standard.
Roasting 101
Roasting coffee could be its own 5-part series, but we'll just give you the basics. In any coffee roasting process, the green beans are gradually heated, while kept in constant motion; the heat changes their taste, smell, color, and feel to become what most of us recognize as "coffee beans." While the characteristics of the finished coffee depend on the beans you start with, of course, the roasting process also plays an enormous part. Generally speaking, a lighter roast lets the bean's inherent properties shine through; the essential oils start to release, resulting in coffee's distinctive aromatics. While heat releases these oils, however, the roast also imparts a flavor of its own; in a darker roast, one ends up tasting the properties of the roast itself.
After the Roast
When stored and handled well, unroasted coffee beans are stable for at least six months; once roasted, however, they deteriorate far more quickly. It's not that fresh-roasted coffee is always the best; the day out of the roaster, John Moore explained, it can taste somewhat flat, as the beans are loaded with so much carbon dioxide that it can "block the exits" through the coffee bean pores, not allowing aromatics to escape.
Generally, between two days and two weeks out of the roaster is prime coffee time. As with so much in coffee, though, it varies; beans slated for espresso may be aged longer, as espresso is so intense an extraction, it can be better to let the sharp, stark flavors mellow a bit before they're distilled so strongly.
"Treat Your Beans As You Would Your Tomatoes."
There are ways to preserve roasted coffee a bit longer than two weeks; some packages have a one-way valve so that carbon dioxide from the beans can escape, without letting oxygen and moisture, sworn bean enemies, into the bag. That said, in the words of John Moore, "Your coffee shelf is not a liquor cabinet."
Supermarkets may stock coffee beans far longer than they should, and don't want bags to display a "roasted on" date. From their perspective, since beans don't display any clear signs of decline—that is, they don't rot—they're viable for sale indefinitely. But flavors drop off long before the coffee shows any visible sign of wear. Your best bet? Buy from a coffee shop you trust, and buy in small batches. Or, as Moore says, "Treat your coffee beans the way you would your tomatoes."
Last step: drinking, of course! Stay tuned tomorrow for Part 5.
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World Superbike
yamaha-racing.com: World Championship winning Yamaha team wrap up their first test with Crutchlow and Toesland
motorsport-magazine.com: Weary Warrior
Haga and Fabrizio pleased with tests
motorsport.com: Ducati test notes
superbike-news.co.uk: Suzuki Alstare conclude positive tests
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the result of (this time) a fun filled morning. the idea to make a demo commercial came after it was shot. so this has officially nothing to do with ducati. still enjoy!
dealernews.com: Honda two wheeler sales to NA dealers drop 51%
The percentage drop in sales is staggering. Then consider that the 2009 numbers are down compared to 2008 which were down from 2007. The Japanese big four started reporting occasional runs of declines before 2006 but the drop off has been steady for 23 months now.
The percentage drop in revenue is staggering but the drop for Honda in revenue for the first six months of its business year is a jaw dropping 79%.
MotoCiclismo.it is reporting that things are better at Yamaha yet the president has resigned due to poor results.
motorcycledaily .com ran a piece on a report by the Cleveland Group.that the number of motorcycles that will be sold worldwide by 2013. The study assumes a growth in world wide sales of 7.6% and is dominated by below 350cc bikes and the Asian-China-India markets lead the way.
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HADES Singer To Be Joined By OVERKILL, SEVEN WITCHES Members For German Festival Appearance
HADES singer Alan Tecchio has released the following statement regarding the band's previously announced appearance at this year's edition of the Headbangers Open Air festival, set to take place July 26-28 in Brande-Hörnerkirchen, Germany:
"I just wanted to clear the air on the upcoming HADES gig at the Headbangers Open Air festival in Germany. Get it — clear the 'air'… LOL.
"Anyway, unfortunately, [HADES guitarist] Dan Lorenzo decided not to play the show and no one else in the band wanted to do it without him since he is the band's founder. I felt the same way initially. However, since the promoters had already been advertising us for over eight months, I felt an obligation to deliver on our promise to play. We finally came to an agreement that our set will be billed as 'A Night Of Hades Music With Alan Tecchio Friends' and we will exclusively play music from the first two HADES records.
"In all fairness, bassist Kevin Bolembach, who has been in HADES now for the past few years, will be on bass and Ron Lipnicki from OVERKILL (who was also on one HADES CD — 'DamNation') will be on drums, so there is at least some related HADES history there for two of the players and myself.
"Personally, I hate it when I see a band and there is only one original member left so I came as close to getting former members as I could.
"On guitar, Jack Frost [SEVEN WITCHES, ex-SAVATAGE] immediately offered to help since I am in the early stages of writing a new SEVEN WITCHES CD with him anyway. He suggested his friend and bandmate in a local cover band, Sean Tarr, as the second guitarist. I checked out Sean at a gig and he really blew me away. So that took care of the axemen.
"We have not started rehearsals yet so I cannot say how we sound at this point, but I am confident we will be able to pull the gig off.
"Hopefully the fans will now understand the story behind this strange lineup."
Lorenzo issued a statement earlier in the month saying that he was pulling out of the Headbangers Open Air gig because it would have required of him "to work at least an hour or two a day for months to play the songs adequately." He added, "Playing 25-year-old songs just isn't where my head and heart is this year."


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text: AMMAN - Syrian rebels on Sunday seized a Syrian military intelligence compound in the southern Hauran Plain near the Golan Heights, rebel commanders said.The frontier, quiet since Israel and Syria agreed on a US-brokered ceasefire in 1974, has turned volatile in recent weeks, after opposition brigades stepped up attacks against army and intelligence compounds dotting the agricultural plain stretching from the border with Jordan to the Damascus outskirts.Another rebel commander said the aim of the attacks in Western Hauran is to open a new front in the fight against President Bashar Assad that would stretch troops deployed in Hauran, cradle of the two-year revolt, and to secure a supply route to the western approaches of Damascus.The compound near the Yarmouk River in the town of Shagara, 8 km (5 miles) from a ceasefire line with Israel, fell after a five-day siege, the sources said."We have completely taken over this security compound this morning. It's a command center for the shabbiha (pro-Assad militia). They retreated after strong blows dealt to them during a five day siege," said Abu Iyas al-Haurani, a member of the Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade."Anyone who was arrested in the Yarmouk Valley was sent to this military intelligence headquarters to be tortured and it has a strategic importance. With its fall we have completed our liberation of the town of Shagara," he added.