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Demolition of old sewer plant in Hannibal begins.
The days have passed when the city of Hannibal's old sewer plant will entice children with a sense of adventure, or serve as a haven for the homeless. Despite temperatures in the low teens Tuesday morning, members of the Street Department could be found using heavy equipment to bring down three buildings near Bear Creek.
According to a person familiar with the project who spoke on the condition he not be identified, the demolition portion of the buildings will take only a couple of days. The fill from the stone buildings will be used to fill in basements in two of the structures.
While three buildings will be razed, a fourth circular structure will be left standing, according to a worker. That structure, to which there is no ground-level entrance, was filled with sand years ago.
The Street Department wants to get the buildings down as soon as possible so that the pieces of heavy equipment being used will not have to be parked overnight at the secluded site any longer than necessary.
The city will be happy to have the buildings, which last month City Manager Jeff LaGarce said represented "ongoing safety hazards," reduced to rubble as soon as possible. Despite efforts to keep them boarded up, they were frequently wide open, thanks to vandals and the curious.
The city's decision to finally bring the long-vacant buildings down might have been spurred by an incident last fall when two children became "stuck" for a time in one of the buildings before being safely removed.
The City Council approved the proposed demolition at its Dec. 18 meeting. The city, however, waited a while before moving forward with the project to give time to step forward to any private contractor interested in performing the work for the salvage rights of the stone structures. And while there was some interest in such a deal, ultimately it has fallen to Street Department personnel to complete the task.
While Leon Wallace, Street Department superintendent, did have to coordinate with the BNSF Railway to provide a flagger when city equipment was being moved across the railroad tracks to the site, that was probably the biggest procedural hurdle. No further red tape was encountered since the 8.1 acre plat of city-owned land is not in the city's historic district.

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Muscle Mustangs & Fast FordsFeatured Vehicles
1993 Mustang Cobra - My Muscle Mustang - September 2013
Matthew Schelkopf - Haverford, PA
My journey began in 1994. I was a freshman in college and wanted a Mustang more than anything. I found a black 1993 Ford Mustang GT five-speed with 18,000 miles, and I was instantly sold. My path of engine modifications was similar to most, starting with easy bolt-ons. Eventually it cascaded (over many years) into a Vortech blower, gears, an intake, suspension work, and a Tremec TKO.
I knew I wanted to do an engine swap, but was still undecided on what engine and power adder. I was searching eBay in 2006, admiring the '93 Cobras when I came across a teal Cobra with black interior (1 of 185) with 56,000 miles.
I looked a bit closer and saw that the car was only about 45 minutes from where I lived. On a whim, I sent the seller an email. I arranged to see the car that weekend. It needed some work, but it had been garage-kept its entire life. I knew it was a deal I couldn't pass up. Needless to say, I bought the car.
Over the next couple of years, I replaced the headlights, foglights, and weatherstripping, and powdercoated the wheels, brakes, shocks, and other maintenance items. The 1993 Ford Mustang Cobra became my baby and the GT took a back seat. It was mostly stock with the exception of a Flowmaster after-cat, 3:73 gears, and a MGW shifter.
My friends and I started going to Mustang Week in 2008. I was amazed by the horsepower some of these guys were pushing out of the mod motors with a simple pulley swap and tune. I started thinking about my next plan—should I sell my Foxes and look at buying a Terminator or Shelby? I realized that while the Terminators and Shelbys were awesome cars, I had way too much sentimental attachment to my GT and could never get rid of it. I also knew it would be somewhat sinful to take my beautifully running 1993 Ford Mustang Cobra and do an engine swap.
In 2010, I started researching options and was leaning towards a '03-'04 Terminator conversion in my GT. That would be the best of both worlds— reliability, driveability, and lots of power, while keeping my Fox platform.
I reached out to Paul's High Performance in Michigan to make it happen. The shop gave me an estimate and my jaw hit the floor, but I knew this was what I had been waiting years to do. As a result, unfortunately, the1993 Ford Mustang Cobra hit the market. I ended up selling it to a great guy named Eric, who lives only about 20 minutes from me. He was around my age and had the same appreciation for the '93 Cobras. We stayed in touch and he would keep my updated about the car.
The work at Paul's took about two years, but it was well worth the wait. The project took on a new life as we ventured down the road. I decided to have the engine bay smoothed and painted before we put the new engine in. When all was said and done, the car put down over 600 rwhp.
While the transformation was taking place, I started sourcing parts—like BBS Plasma wheels and Corbeau seats. I sent the wheels to Wheel Collision for a bath in Hyper Black-chrome powdercoat.
About one month before I picked up my GT from Paul's, I got a call from Eric. He had been keeping the car in his parents' garage and his dad finally said it needed to go. Since Eric lived in the city, he had little choice but to sell the car. He was giving me the first option to buy it back. We arranged to meet, and I looked at the car and fell in love with it all over again. Needless to say, I bought it back.
I now own both cars again. The 1993 Ford Mustang GT has about 69,000 original miles now, and the 1993 Ford Mustang Cobrahas about 59,000 miles. This time they are both here to stay.
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wongwf82 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 114 diseños de 20 diseñadores freelance.
Hybrid Coworking
What is coworking?
An exciting new way to work
Professional setting and structure, as well as community, that one might otherwise lack from a "real" (i.e., full-time, at an office) job
Cafe-like community/collaboration space for
- Generation Y
- solo entrepreneurs
- road warriors
- creatives
- developers
- writers
- independents
- freelancers
What is Hybrid Coworking?
Google-like office atmosphere
Everything coworking has above and more:
- flexible and customisable office space
- we offer healthy working lifestyle (activities before and after hours)
A cafe-like community/collaboration space for:
- Generation Y
- solo entrepreneurs
- road warriors
- creatives
- developers
- writers
- independents
- freelancers
Pay extra attention to who we are and who we want to target
The logos in the following links are by no means any good. We provided the links so you can get a feel of what coworking is about:
- Citizen Space - http://citizenspace.us/
- Indy Hall - http://www.indyhall.org/
- New Work City - http://www.nwcny.com/
- The Creative Space - http://www.thecreativespace.org/
- Berkeley Coworking - http://www.berkeleycoworking.com/
- Hat Factory - http://www.hatfactory.net/
- Sandbox Suites - http://www.sandboxsuites.com/
- Launchpad Coworking - http://blog.launchpadcoworking.com/
- Workspace - http://www.abetterplacetowork.com/
- Nutopia - http://www.nutopia.us/
- Cubes and Crayons - http://www.cubesandcrayons.com/
Design Brief: UPDATE 1
The logos thus far is missing the "community" and "cafe-like" feeling
We would like to express on the logo humans interacting (community feel) and perhaps exchanging ideas
And it needs to have "Hybrid Coworking" words there. They can be capitalised and make the WORKING part bold (or stand out from CO).
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- http://coworking.files.wordpress.co…entral.jpg
- http://www.openhub.com.au/images/top-logo.jpg
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- http://www.secretsoflouisvillechefs…feLogo.jpg
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Mariah Carey. Nicki Minaj. Keith Urban. Shakira. Usher. In recent years, the revolving door at the judges' table on reality singing competitions like American Idol and The Voice has seen a lot of action. And The X Factor has been no exception, cleaning house following the first season by handing pink slips to judges Paula Abdul and Nicole Scherzinger (who, in turn, replaced Cheryl Cole, who was ousted during the auditions) and hiring on Demi Lovato and Britney Spears in Season 2.
Now Simon Cowell and producers must return to the drawing board to find a replacement for L.A. Reid, who announced last week he will not return for the show's third season. So who should replace him? We asked The X Factor's Reid, Cowell and co-host Mario Lopez that very question backstage after Thursday's finale...
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Sticking with crumbing
My wife and I like to have crumbed fish and schnitzel from time to time. I know it makes me sound like a tightwad, (which I am) but it irks me to have to use a whole egg in the crumbing process when I might only have two small fillets of fish to crumb. Is there a way to make the crumbs stick to the fish without using an egg?
Cheers, Harry
It is a tricky one this, the amount of egg used to crumb a few portions of something. Unfortunately, there's very little you can do to avoid it, although you could freeze your left-over egg wash for another time. I've tried dipping the meat or fish in a paste made from flour and water, or milk and cornflour, and the crumbs do stick "sort-of", but then you end up with a slightly pasty, and definitely not light, end product. You could also use either just the white or the yolk and use the other half of the egg for something else. If you have a yolk left over you could put it in a bowl (or jam jar) with some mustard and lemon juice and then beat it with some oil and chopped capers to make a lovely dressing for the schnitzel, or you could whisk in some wasabi, grated ginger, sunflower oil and a little sesame oil to accompany the fish. If you have some egg white left over, it's quite hard to know what to do with it as they're somewhat less versatile and short of making a tiny amount of meringue or clarifying a stock, there's not a lot to be done.
It might just be that freezing the excess is your best bet.
Then of course there's the dilemma of the breadcrumbs themselves, although I imagine many reading this make their own breadcrumbs.
I rarely have any old bread hanging about in my home, so I have to say I cheat and always have a packet of panko crumbs at hand. These are the most fabulous crumbs of all (although quite pricey) and are fascinating as they are Japanese in origin. Japanese cuisine doesn't have an historical bread culture like the artisan breads we now see being made the length and breadth of the country. Bread just isn't a traditional Japanese commodity, and yet it is they who have concocted the best crumbs ever. Panko crumbs are white and resemble slightly long, coarse shavings. They are also sometimes called honey panko - hinting at honey being included in the mixture - although if you read the list of ingredients honey rarely makes an appearance. One thing they do contain is sugar, and this means that when the white crumbs are deep-fried the sugar caramelises and you end up with a glorious golden crumb, not a dense brown one if using super-fine crumbs.
The next best thing to them (less expensive and relatively easy to do) is to grate 2-3 day old crustless sourdough with a coarse grater and you'll end up with something similar - a lovely texture, and the added advantage of sourdough is the lovely sourness inherent in the bread. Many Jewish-owned fish and chip shops in London use crushed matzo crackers (eaten traditionally during Passover celebrations) to crumb their fish, and I've also enjoyed fish and chicken crusted with smashed cornflakes which are, unsurprisingly, delicious too.
When I was a kid, we'd dry left-over bread in the oven on trays, often it'd turn toasty brown in colour. We'd then blitz the dry bread in our Kenwood Chef blender until it was superfine crumbs and this is what I grew up having on the outside of wiener schnitzel, and still adore. If we'd had a food processor then, then that would have done a better job, but I doubt many New Zealand households had such fancy things back in the 60s.
Gran, on the other hand, would toast her bread in the oven the same way, then place the broken up toast in a brown paper bag and bash it to buggery using a rolling pin. Same end result, but a little more coarse and therefore more interesting texturally.
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It's been an eye-opening first year as a city council member for Leslie Knope, the wide-eyed optimism queen of Pawnee, IN, on "Parks and Recreation."
Leslie hauled trash to help open Pawnee's sanitation department to women, only to get saddled with an impossible-to-budge refrigeration unit. She stopped the shuttering of the town's art house video store, only to see it go porno. She showed off her mini-golf skills in a bid to save the beloved PPPPP (the Pawnee Palms Public Putt-Putt), only to nearly lose her idealistic soul.
In the show's most recent episode, the relentlessly upbeat Leslie – whose last name may sound like another way to say "no," but more appropriately rhymes with "hope" – uttered a rare note of disillusionment.
"Every once in a while I end up in a situation that makes my stomach queasy," she confided to her mustachioed mentor, meat-loving and government-hating bureaucrat Ron Swanson.
If Leslie Knope is getting down on public service, then what hope do Pawnee – and TV – have? Amy Poehler's maturing NBC sitcom ends its fifth and strongest season Thursday as the rare place on the tube where politics isn't a complete cesspool (even if Leslie traded her office bathroom to a fellow pol so he'd agree to extend public pool hours).
In recent TV seasons, we've seen plenty of high-level political dysfunction (in the comedies, "Veep" and "1600 Penn"), cynical pragmatism (in "The Good Wife"), treachery (in Netflix' "House of Cards") and scandal (in, well, "Scandal"). The stakes, at least on the surface, are lower in Pawnee than in the White House- and statehouse-driven shows.
But what we like to call the Audacity of Knope hits home harder – in a corny, yet affecting manner, bubble-wrapped in humor. Waffle-loving Leslie strives to stick to her values and dreams, even if she's learning that compromise and occasional humiliation (tossing her cookies while pushing for a soda tax) are part of the trade-off for progress. Still, politics isn't all bad: it helped Leslie meet her dream hunk (Vice President Biden) and marry her fellow wonk (former boy mayor Ben Wyatt).
We'll see how much more backroom wheeling-and-dealing Leslie can stomach, while providing belly laughs and the warm feeling engendered by knowing there's still someone in politics – at least on television – who at least tries to put people and principle first.
As anniversary-loving Leslie ("Cheesecake Day" and "Chicken Dance Day," to name two) prepares to mark her first year in office, check out a preview of the season finale below:
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NYCity News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992. Follow him on Twitter.


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We have a choice. We are here, in the brief, wild weeks after Thanksgiving and before Hanukkah and Christmas, and we get to decide how to survive this interlude. I've always known that we can categorize people as good and bad, ugly and beautiful, decaf and high-octane, hot-blooded and cold-hearted, but I realize, too, that folks can be fast or slow.
I'm not referring to mental ability or morals. I'm referring to how quickly people move. It's remarkable that two individuals, members of the same species, can move at rates so different that they seem attuned to their own inner metronomes, set to different speeds.
I walked into a local food market recently, saw the lines, observed the stress etched on the faces of shoppers, noticed that there weren't any carts left, listened briefly to the shrieking Christmas music, heard a 2-year-old screamer demanding licorice, and I bolted. I can bustle along when I need to; I'm organized and efficient as I go about my work. However, I short-circuit at a certain speed and have to step back. In the case of the market, I walked out, frazzled by the sensory overload.
A friend just came off a week of preparing not one but two Thanksgivings for the various branches of her family. This was after several weeks of feeding and housing refugees from the storm. Now she's obsessing about her Christmas tree and when to decorate and what kind of meal to prepare for Christmas dinner. She has a look in her eyes like Claire Danes in "Homeland." Not good.
Another pal has been spending most of her time in local toy stores. Basically she just goes home for a meal and a brief nap. She has 12 grandkids, and apparently they all need gifts for all eight nights of Hanukkah. Never mind the potato latke meal she's planning for 32 people, with three frying pans, pounds of Yukon Golds and a crate of onions. A third friend has been cooking food for a soup kitchen, running to malls for her family gifts and trying to pack for herself, her three kids and her husband so they can visit the grandparents in California.
These women — and it is mostly women — are moving at superhuman speed through these days. Truly, I fear for their health and safety.


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Soda and healthy in the same sentence? Could it be true? Someone get me a flight to Japan because I absolutely must try this alleged "fat-blocking" Pepsi from the land of the rising sun.
Appropriately titled Pepsi Special, this magical edition of the carbonated goodness claims to have fat-blocking powers thanks to the addition of dextrin, a soluble fiber that gives off the effect of fullness. This means the more you drink Pepsi Special, the quicker you'll feel full – in turn curbing your portion sizes and reducing your body's overall fat absorption. Simply put, it's a caramelized Benefiber of sorts, complete with an hourglass-shaped bottle and an aftertaste that's "crisp, refreshing, and unique."
Although Pepsi Special does seem like a wacky diet fad, the rationale behind it is somewhat supported by scientific claims. According to Forbes, a 2006 Japanese experiment conducted on rats found that rats fed dextrin absorbed "significantly" less fat than those that weren't fed dextrin. Just how well this research translates to the human body is up for discussion, since dextrin is a synthetic type of fiber unlike stuff naturally found in oats, barley, and vegetables.
Still, putting Pepsi Special on this year's Christmas wish list sounds ideal, isn't it? Here's a food for thought: Before you plan to order wholesale imports straight from Japan, take a second to imagine what it'd be like to drink gallons of carbonated Metamucil a day. Fiber, as you may already know, helps move your digestive tracks along… so just envision yourself at the movies, running out of Skyfall to drop a big one, or even visualize buying what is basically a literal Poopsi. Suddenly, it ain't all sexy anymore.
But if you are going to be in Japan, the product officially launched this week at approximately $2 a bottle so give it a try, if you dare, and let us know how it tastes. If the miraculous claims hold true, maybe this is one way we can convince New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to lift the ban of giant-sized sodas and spend the extra tax dollars on public bathrooms. The world knows we'll need 'em.


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Test of an Intervention to Improve HIV Care
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01103856
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : April 15, 2010
Last Update Posted : June 22, 2016
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|Condition or disease
|HIV Infection
|Behavioral: Patient Mentor Intervention Behavioral: HIV transmission risk reduction
|Not Applicable
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|460 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Single (Outcomes Assessor)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Test of an Intervention to Improve HIV Care
|Study Start Date :
|May 2010
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|June 2015
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|May 2016
Experimental: Patient Mentor Intervention
The patient mentor intervention from TSHC has been adapted to the inpatient setting. Participants randomized to that arm will receive 2 sessions with a patient mentor during their hospitalization, as well as 5 phone call sessions over the 10 weeks after discharge and a brief meeting between the subject and the mentor when the subject attends their first outpatient visit at TSHC after discharge.
Behavioral: Patient Mentor Intervention
The first session includes an exploration of needs, barriers, and facilitators to HIV care. HIV educational materials are introduced to identify areas of need. Mentors will address concerns and possible barriers to care using their own experiences. Mentors will encourage participants to set goals related to acquisition of care following discharge and how to address possible barriers to that goal. The second session will reinforce the first session. Mentors will call the patient 5 times over the 10 weeks after discharge. These phone calls will be brief and goal centered, to either reinforce positive behavior if the patient is in care, or continue to help the patient re-engage in outpatient HIV care.
Other Names:
Placebo Comparator: HIV transmission risk reduction
Participants randomized to the control arm will receive an attention control intervention delivered by a patient educator who is not an HIV patient mentor. We will use a modified version of the RESPECT intervention for our attention control group. Similar to the active intervention, these patients will receive 2 sessions in the hospital and 5 phone calls over 10 weeks after discharge.
Behavioral: HIV transmission risk reduction
The control intervention is a modification of the project RESPECT intervention. We will use material from sessions 1, 2, and 3 of the RESPECT enhanced counseling intervention. These interactions will include a personalized assessment of risk behaviors and changing condom use self-efficacy. The second interaction will build on material covered during the first interaction, with additional focus on condom use attitudes. The counselors will call the patient 5 times in the 10 weeks after discharge. These phone-based sessions will be brief and goal centered, to reinforce safe HIV transmission behaviors.
Other Name: RESPECT
- Engaged in outpatient HIV care [ Time Frame: 6 Months ]A composite of attending at least one HIV primary care visit within 30 days of discharge AND at least one between 31 and 180 days AND, for patient with an indication for ART, achieving a one log10 decrease in HIV VL or maintaining a VL <400 c/mL at 180 days after discharge.
- Completion of at least one HIV primary care visit at TSHC within 30 days of discharge, health services use, changes in CD4 cell count and HIV VL, and quality of life. [ Time Frame: 6 Months ]
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
1) Hospitalized at BTGH; 2) expected to be in the hospital for at least one more night at the time of enrollment; 3) at least 18 years of age at enrollment; 4) able to speak English or Spanish; 5) HIV infected, whether previously diagnosed or diagnosed this hospital stay; 6) cognitively aware enough to provide informed consent and participate in the study. Patients who are temporarily cognitively incapacitated (e.g., from an acute process) will be followed and approached for enrollment if and when they are cognitively and physically capable of participating in the study.
Exclusion Criteria:
1) Intending to use a source of HIV primary care other than TSHC after discharge from the hospital, because TSHC-specific mentoring is not relevant to them and the data on their appointments after discharge cannot be tracked; 2) in the opinion of the primary medical team, likely to be discharged to an institutional setting; 3) in the opinion of the primary medical team caring for the patient, likely to die in the hospital or be discharged to hospice; 4) cognitive impairment that in the opinion of the primary medical team caring for the patient is not expected to improve by discharge; 5) prisoner at admission and expected to be discharged back to prison or jail; 6) having had an HIV primary care visit in at least 3 of the 4 previous quarter-years AND having had at least 3 consecutive HIV VL<400 c/mL over at least 6 months, the most recent of which is within 3 months of enrollment; 7) enrolled in any other research project with prospective follow-up; 8) already enrolled in this study at any time.
For the purposes of this study, "prisoner" will be defined in accordance with Federal regulations, as "any individual involuntarily confined or detained in a penal institution...[including] individuals sentenced to such an institution under a criminal or civil statute, individuals detained in other facilities by virtue of statutes or commitment procedures which provide alternatives to criminal prosecution or incarceration in a penal institution, and individuals detained pending arraignment, trial, or sentencing…Parolees who are detained in a treatment center as a condition of parole are prisoners; however, persons living in the community and sentenced to community-supervised monitoring, including parolees, are not prisoners." Parolees meeting the definition of prisoner will be ineligible for the study.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01103856
|United States, Texas
|Ben Taub General Hospital
|Houston, Texas, United States, 77030
|Principal Investigator:
|Thomas P Giordano, MD, MPH
|Baylor College of Medicine
Publications of Results:
|Responsible Party:
|Thomas Giordano, Associate Professor of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01103856 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
1R01MH085527-01A1 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
1R01MH085527-01A1 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|First Posted:
|April 15, 2010 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|June 22, 2016
|Last Verified:
|June 2016
Keywords provided by Thomas Giordano, Baylor College of Medicine:
adherence to care
retention in care
patient navigation
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases


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As part of our Enhanced Dining Services, our dietitian picks a different food each month to be incorporated into resident meals, and each facility provides a display to educate residents, family and staff.
This month is Blueberries - Blueberries can be added to many different recipes to give an additional nutritional boost - from muffins to salads. Some of the great nutritional value of blueberries include dietary fiber and vitamin C, antioxidants to help protect agains cancer, heart disease and other age-related diseases, and compounds that help prevent urinary tract infection.
In addition to their sweet, delectiable flavor and visual appeal, blueberries are jam-packed with good nutrition. They're a convenient little berry - at home in pies and pancakes, salads, smoothies, and sauces. Or, simply wash and eat - no peeling, pitting or slicing needed!
Eat blueberries this month!!
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WordGirl "Hello New Year, Goodbye Moon/Art in the Park" HELLO NEW YEAR, GOODBYE MOON - It's New Years Eve! While the Botsfords celebrate with the greatest party ever, Dr. Two Brains is planning to turn the moon into cheese. Will the new year begin with Two Brains acting on his resolution to feast on a cheesy moon, or will WordGirl be able to stop him in time? Vocabulary Words: Massive, Resolution. ART IN THE PARK - Becky agrees to help out Violet with her poetry/painting/music performance. D
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Saturday, January 14, 2012
Circular and Joy (This week's Photo Hunt theme)
A little less than a month ago, I wrote about my friend Joy for a tnchick-organized Photo Hunt entry in which I had also mentioned taking a mutual friend of ours and her family along a circular walk around Victoria Peak. But rather than repeat or elaborate on those subjects, I've elected to go another route for this Photo Hunt entry that once again combines themes for the week separately chosen by Sandi and Gattina -- and focus on things capable of giving me substantial joy that are often served up on circular dishes, with the bonus being that some of these things are themselves circular-shaped!
With regards to this blog entry's top-most photo: I'd like to call attention to not just the quantity of food in it but, also, the occasion at which that home-cooked feast was served up. For, as it so happens, that picture was taken at the home of a local friend who was good enough to invite me -- along with another friend who she subsequently got engaged to, then married, within 11 months of the photo being taken! -- to dine with her and her family one Chinese New Year evening.
Foodie that I am though, it's also true enough that I often can derive great joy from consuming particular foods, not just the social and communal aspects of meals -- and that's where the two other photos in this entry come in. More specifically, the photo of what look like Chinese versions of sandwiches is actually a photo of the decadent traditional Hong Kong delicacy known as gold coin chicken (that is so rich that it really is recommended that each diner only have just one of these circular concoctions at a seating!) while the photo of circular green goodness in small plastic packets are of a Malaysian delicacy known as onde-onde (or ondeh-ondeh or, as I actually pronounce it, oondeh-oondeh!) whose outer doughy green casings (garnished with bits of grated coconut) hide -- and balance, taste-wise -- wonderfully sweet gula melaka (palm sugar) centers.
And yes, now that I think about it, how wonderful it would be to have a meal consisting of one gold coin chicken followed by one packet -- or, hmm, maybe two -- of onde-onde... Alas, however, I don't think gold coin chicken is served in Penang and onde-onde can be found in Hong Kong -- or, to qualify, examples of these dishes that would be well made enough to truly bring me great dining joy! ;(
26 comments:
- magiceye said...
love this joyous circular post!
- January 14, 2012 at 12:10:00 PM GMT+8
- Kay L. Davies said...
Oh, yum! I'd love to try that dessert. But I think the most joyous part was the two friends getting married!
- January 14, 2012 at 1:21:00 PM GMT+8
- Life Ramblings said...
looks like a delicious spread. ondeh-ondeh has always been my favourite kueh. love the texture and flavour.
- January 14, 2012 at 1:45:00 PM GMT+8
- YTSL said...
Hi magiceye --
Thanks for loving it. :)
Hi Kay --
I must confess to being a bit shocked that those two friends decided so soon to get married. Most people I know are together for more than a year before they decide to get hitch -- but guess these two really got serious quick! :D
Hi Life Ramblings --
It was very nice. The dishes may look heavy but they went great with rice and fun company. :)
- January 14, 2012 at 2:33:00 PM GMT+8
- Raine said...
Just ate a late lunch and all of the sudden I see this mouth-watering post. Quite a feast and congrats to your friend and Happy Chinese New Year. The gold chicken was intriguing since I thought it was cake at first look. :D
- January 14, 2012 at 2:41:00 PM GMT+8
- Gattina said...
If only I could reach through the screen all your food would be gone in a minute !!
- January 14, 2012 at 6:15:00 PM GMT+8
- CherryPie said...
That looks a delicious spread. You have some very interesting instances of circular.
- January 14, 2012 at 6:32:00 PM GMT+8
- Luna Miranda said...
i just had my diner but this spread makes me hungry!
- January 14, 2012 at 8:06:00 PM GMT+8
- YTSL said...
Hi Raine --
I think it'd be better to see the photos on this entry with a full rather than empty stomach... Glad you clicked the provided link to find out what gold coin chicken is. ;b
Hi Gattina --
Your comment got me laughing. So you really do love Asian food! ;D
Hi CherryPie --
Thanks, am glad it looks appetizing to you. :)
Hi Luna Miranda --
Wow... I didn't quite realize my photos would have the effect they do. Am rather tickled to discover this, actually! :b
- January 14, 2012 at 8:22:00 PM GMT+8
- Kim, USA said...
Hmmm that is all yummy!! Happy New Year!
- January 14, 2012 at 8:28:00 PM GMT+8
- Liz said...
That made me very hungry. :)
Have a fabulous weekend.
Liz @ MLC
- January 14, 2012 at 8:44:00 PM GMT+8
- Trekcapri said...
Hi YTSL, great combined theme post. Everything looks so delicious. At what a feast your friend prepared, its cool that food also brought love. Great story.
What a cool name, gold coin chicken. Looks delicious too.
Wonderful post. Have a great weekend. And now I'm off to think about what to make for breakfast.
- January 14, 2012 at 9:06:00 PM GMT+8
- Carver said...
Great way to combine the two theme. I'd like to sample some of that food.
- January 14, 2012 at 9:28:00 PM GMT+8
- Annie said...
Love your photos. I've never heard of gold coin chicken - very interesting! Hope you have a great weekend.
- January 14, 2012 at 9:35:00 PM GMT+8
- Sandi @the WhistleStop Cafe said...
Fabulous photos!
Thanks for joining The Saturday PhotoHunt.
I hope to see y'all next Saturday... to share in your Bliss!
- January 14, 2012 at 10:50:00 PM GMT+8
- A. @ A Changing Life said...
I couldn't agree more - there is so much joy in a beautiful dish! And of course dishes tend to be circular. Gold coin chicken sounds wonderful! I didn't think along these lines at all. :)
- January 14, 2012 at 10:59:00 PM GMT+8
- YTSL said...
Hi Kim --
Yes, indeedy, re the yummy! :b
Hi Liz --
The photos whet my appetite too! :)
Hi Trekcapri --
Actually, it wasn't my friend who prepared the feast. She invited me and the man who's now her husband to her family home -- but it was her mother who did the (great bulk of the) cooking! ;b
Hi Carver --
Are there any Cantonese or Malaysian restaurants near you? (I know that there was a Malaysian restaurant in Atlanta years ago called Penang. Am not sure if it's still there though!)
Hi Annie --
I have to confess that I hadn't heard of gold coin chicken either until only a few months ago! ;O
Hi Sandi --
Thanks and yep, hope to be playing again next Saturday. ;b
Hi A. --
I guess it was the foodie in me... when leafing through my photo archive, pretty much all the candidates for this week's Photo Hunt were food pics! ;b
- January 14, 2012 at 11:15:00 PM GMT+8
- Sue St Clair said...
They look delicious!!!! Unfortunately I developed an allergy to sesame oil and salt and although I love Asian foods I have to be very careful. They don't love me back :( Happy photo hunting!
- January 15, 2012 at 12:07:00 AM GMT+8
- ancient one said...
Makes me hungry looking at all those wonderful foods on those circular plates. Now if I could eat that, I'm sure it would bring me JOY. ;)
- January 15, 2012 at 5:54:00 AM GMT+8
- YTSL said...
Hi Sue --
You're allergic to all salt? Oh my... I could see being able to avoid sesame oil but salt...
Hi ancient one --
Yeah, unless you have allergies like Sue (see above comment), I'd think you'd get joy from eating the food in the photos -- like I did! :)
- January 15, 2012 at 11:46:00 AM GMT+8
- Anonymous said...
i went the same way too with the circular and joy tandem. hope you have a good week ahead.
- January 15, 2012 at 2:34:00 PM GMT+8
- YTSL said...
Hi ewok1993 --
Seems from our takes on the themes that joy is derived from getting to enjoy good food (that sometimes is indeed circular shaped)! :b
- January 15, 2012 at 11:25:00 PM GMT+8
- Anonymous said...
We were thinking alike!
- January 16, 2012 at 4:24:00 AM GMT+8
- YTSL said...
Hi azahar --
We certainly do have appeared to have done so with regards to the themes. :)
- January 16, 2012 at 11:09:00 PM GMT+8
- Rambling Woods said...
This was such a lovely post and interesting too..thank you..
- January 17, 2012 at 11:01:00 AM GMT+8
- YTSL said...
Hi Rambling Woods --
Thanks for reading as well as looking (and for your flurry of comments on my blog today). :)
- January 17, 2012 at 10:53:00 PM GMT+8


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103 suspected gang members charged in NYC case
NEW YORK (AP) — More than 100 alleged gang members were charged Wednesday for what law enforcement officials called a decades-old feud that wreaked violence and death over two public housing developments in Manhattan's Harlem section.
The 103 suspected gang members face charges including conspiracy to commit murder, attempted murder and gang assault.
"These three gangs were not sophisticated drug-trafficking organizations," said Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance in announcing the two indictments. "Far from it, they were young people protecting their territories from imaginary threats and avenging the murders of fellow gang members and loved ones."
Forty suspects from three gangs were arrested in early morning raids in Harlem, 39 were already jailed on other offenses and the rest were being sought in what Vance called the largest gang case in New York City history.
The crews warred over territory for two city housing developments, the General Grant Houses and the Manhattanville Houses, and their feuding and vendetta attacks are thought to have resulted in the 2011 shooting death of a nationally-ranked high school basketball star named Tayshana "Chicken" Murphy, Vance said.
Murphy, 18, was shot and killed in the General Grant Houses. Two men convicted and sentenced to 25 years to life for her slaying were members of the Make It Happen Boys crew, Vance said. But Murphy's brother is alleged in the indictment as being a member of 3Stacks, Vance said, and is charged with conspiracy of the first degree.
Commissioner William Bratton, who attended the early morning raids Wednesday, said much of the violence was senseless.
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Investigators from Vance's office worked with gang squad detectives and Department of Correction officials to review more than 1 million Facebook pages, tens of thousands of phone calls from the Rikers Island jail complex and hundreds of hours of video footage in preparing the case, Vance said.
Surveillance video, taken from cameras in the buildings' elevators, hallways and grounds, were a major benefit to investigators, Bratton said. But not all public housing developments have video. Nearly 60 percent of the city's public housing buildings don't have a single camera installed — including one in Brooklyn where two small children were stabbed Sunday, one fatally.
The crews — called 3Stacks, Make it Happen Boys and Money Avenue — are alleged to have used more than 50 weapons over the past four years, some of which were transported by kids as young as 10, and are responsible for two killings and 19 nonfatal shootings, among other crimes, Vance said. The youngest gang member charged is 15 years old, he said.
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Delaware State Police Financial Crimes detectives are reminding the public to be on alert for phone scammers that have recently been targeting the elderly.
Delaware State Police Financial Crimes detectives are reminding the public to be on alert for phone scammers that have recently been targeting the elderly.
The DSP is investigating several cases in which elderly residents of Sussex County have received calls from someone purporting to be a grandson and claiming to be in Mexico in need of money. The caller often claims the money is needed for bail, due to a car accident, or to purchase an airline ticket to leave the country. The caller usually says he is too embarrassed to call his parents.
Several victims have wired money to Mexico, only to realize their grandson was never in that country. The DSP said these victims have suffered substantial financial losses, often wiring thousands of dollars at a time.
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This is just my most recent encounter with a ghostie...it took place about five days ago, the first day of my summer vacation.
I was planning to stay up all night, so I was enlisting the help of bored.com to entertain me. I was happily surfing the net, typing some emails out to my friends, etc, pretty much focusing on my computer. I even gave up my paranoia, which is a pretty good feat. I have a nasty habit of checking behind me, even if I know I'm alone and no one could have possibly sneaked behind me.
I was in the middle of reading an email when I got a bad chill. I turned around quickly, and nearly screamed.
A dark shadow had fallen over the other half of my bedroom, which was odd, because all the lights were on that side of the room. It swept quickly from the top right corner of that side of my room, across my bed, and dissapeared in the blink of an eye.
Mind you, this thing was BIG. I thought for awhile it could have been a shadow from some cars headlights, but now that I look back on it, no cars went up or down my street the entire night. I know because a light would have shone across the wall in front of me.
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Combining three-chord punk rock with ska and just a dash of country to create a unique sound all their own, Left Alone has used their DIY ethos to move up the ranks from backyard band to Hellcat Records staple. The Wilmington-based three-piece is now set to release their third full-length studio album April 7.
After being welcomed into the Hellcat family in 2005, the group released their debut full-length, the ska-punk classic "Lonely Starts and Broken Hearts", then followed it up with their diverse sophomore LP "Dead American Radio". Sights set on a more cohesive third album, the band began working on and practicing the first incarnations of what would become the self-titled effort, then time off from their touring and rehearsing schedule.
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Fans of Left Alone's distinct ska sound need not fear, the band hasn't forgotten their old signature and features it on the made-for-skanking romp "Sad Story", dealing with true life events living within the confines of gang-infested Wilmington.
Radically changing the personal tones of the album is the politically charged "Bombs Away", dealing with the rampant destabilization of Western civilization. The song is a stark departure for Cortez lyrically, and deals with subject matter usually non-existent for Left Alone.
"The album to me sounds like one full project, each song compliments the others," summarizes Cortez. "I feel like these are the best I've written and have the best production value, and a lot of that comes from going and living in the studio."
The group left Wilmington for almost a month to head to a studio in Fontana, a rural town in the Inland Empire, with limited distractions and a complete focus on recording the album with the same audio engineer who worked with the band on Dead American Radio.
With solid months of touring lined up, and their new album slated for a March release, the band shows no signs of slowing down or letting grass grow under their TUK-clad feet. Left Alone has always walked the road less traveled by, and without a doubt, it's a road with no end in sight.
Dead American Radio
- 01 The Sinner
- 02 City To City (Feat. Tim Armstrong of RANCID)
- 03 Every Night
- 04 Done Wrong
- 05 La Pregunta (Feat. Patricia Day of HORRORPOPS)
- 06 Waiting For You
- 07 Drunk Again
- 08 New York City
- 09 4 Weeks
- 10 She's The Only One
- 11 Wash Away
- 12 Bastard Son
- 13 Justino
- 14 Dead American Radio
- 15 No One Likes Us
- 16 I Hate Emo
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- EU Rel. Date: 08/07/2006
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Oct. 6, 2008
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Junior Jacqui Wentz has been named the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Runner of the Week after leading nationally-ranked No.10 MIT to an impressive team victory at the NCAA Division III Pre-Nationals, held Saturday at Hanover College.
Wentz finished the six-kilometer course in a time of 22:47, good for seventh out of 172 runners. The Engineers edged Bethel University by two points for the best team finish at a national meet in the program's history.
Wentz, along with men's runner Hemagiri Arumugam, helped the Engineers sweep the conference weekly honors for the second time this year. They were both named Runners of the Week on September 16 as well.


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Earth : North America : Canada : Atlantic Provinces : New Brunswick : Miramichi River Valley : Miramichi
Miramichi is a town in the Miramichi River Valley, and the largest town in northern New Brunswick.
Get in
The nearest major airport is at Moncton, some 100 minutes south by car.
Get around
A great place to visit in Miramichi is Middle Island. This small island in the Miramichi is where Irish immigrants were quarantined when they got sick crossing the Atlantic to escape the potato famine in the late 1840s.
Also worth seeing is the MacDonald Farm, a National Historic site. This is on the north side of the river, about 7 miles downstream from the Centennial Bridge. Made of stone from Scotland, this farmhouse was built by Colonel Alexander MacDonald, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War.
Guides in period costumes explain the various exhibits. Transportation to the home, which lies in the banks of the Miramichi River, close to where the Bartibogue River joins it, is by horse drawn wagon. just off the shore is Bartibogue Island.
The Enclosure, where the Northwest Miramichi joins the Southwest Miramichi, makes for an interesting stop. This small Provincial Park contains the graves of the earliest Scottish and English settlers on the Miramichi, including the resting place of William Davidson, the first permanent European settler.
The most dramatic building in the Miramichi Valley is St. Michael's Basilica in the former Chatham neighbourhood. This imposing neoGothic structure is built on a hill and dominates the former town of Chatham. Until Newfoundland joined Confederation in 1949, it was the largest church in Canada, east of Quebec City.
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|2006-12-20, 05:57
|Link #2081
♪~ Daydreaming ~♪
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Italy
Cyz: I'm not fond of the timing, neither of the cropping. 7/10
suwayya: Nice main picture, lacks a border though.8/10
Deathkillz: Probably your best on the last I've seen. There's just a little jump when the leaf pops in .. but .. not the case of being too picky ^^ 8/10
KiNA: Do you change one at day now ? Anyway, this one looks better than the previous, but I can see the whiteish leftovers of the cutting work 7/10
CrYsYs: Kinda.. mesmerizing ... and maybe a little jerky. Plus because I love Maho-chan ^_^ 8/10
SweetHoney: That is the awesomeness made into avatar. 10/10
Riker: Hmmm... is this new? I remember a similar one ... anyway funny ^^ .. 7,5/10
|2006-12-20, 12:07
|Link #2084
Sexy Tornado
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: The European Bunion
Age: 40
Pell - cute as always 9/10
SweetHoney - heh, xmas avatar ftw. 8/10
Cyz - kawaii! Sleepy faces are the best, and it's Ayu-chan so additional bonus point 10/10
+rep to the first person to correctly identify my new one (and the anime it's taken from)
|2006-12-20, 23:47
|Link #2085
"Show it to me"
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: In solitude, where we are least alone
Radiosity: Still trying to figure out who your avie is. The img is cute but the animation is a little awkward in a way. Not a good loop scene IMO. 7/10
--> Current avie: Aya from Lovely Idol. Oh! before you comment on the whiteness on the avie..that was part of the scene. It kinda matches my sig...in a way
|2006-12-21, 00:23
|Link #2086
Sexy Tornado
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: The European Bunion
Age: 40
Trust me, I'd have picked a better scene if there was one, but it's a very short OAV and while she has a lot of scenes, the scenes themselves don't work well for avvies. But since I'm stubborn I decided to try it anyway, since I rather like her
Cyz - Nice animation but the transition at the end is a little choppy. I imagine that was due to size constraints more than anything though. 8/10
|2006-12-21, 05:32
|Link #2088
~ You're dead ^__^* ~
Graphic Designer
cyz ~ ooh nice have to say she looks a bit like primula but the animation on the final frame is pretty bad ~ 8/10
Radiosity ~ damit i dont know who she is >.< nice loop 8/10
sana jisushi ~ fiacca looks stunning but no boarder >.< 7.5/10
|2006-12-21, 06:04
|Link #2089
The Warrior Princess
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Tusukuru
Age: 26
How's mine? Just a simple Xenogear's avatar from me.Hehehe,please rate mine! Thank you very much!
Radiosity :My,what a nice avie.She? is cute!Moe,moe,moe,moe,moe,moe~!With sunset scene as the background,it brings up the cuteness within her and her shocking feeling?.Well done!I'll give you 8/10!!!!How's that,nice?
Kira_Naruto:Cool evil looking girl!I think I've seen this character from an anime somewhere but I cannot remember her well,sorry.About the rating I'll give you 8 or 9/10!!!I think you have make it small,right?Of course you would,if not you will break the law of this forum.If it is in it's original state,the character could be seen clearly and beautifully!The character is balanced in the center,very good!Put some background to make it much more beautiful!I admire you!
Last edited by Elhaym Van Houten; 2006-12-21 at 09:07. Reason: Forgot to rate!Sorry!
|2006-12-21, 07:04
|Link #2090
Sexy Tornado
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: The European Bunion
Age: 40
Sana Jisushi - very nice indeed 9/10
Deathkillz - Ayako Bias rating +1 for a 9/10. It would be 10 but the leaf floating past every time detracts from the overall sex factor (not your fault of course, silly animators ruining the good shots like that! )
Elhaym Van Houten - I'm not going to rate yours for now because your post will likely be deleted fairly soon. See the rules in the first post in the thread: You must rate another person's avatar or you risk post deletion.
|2006-12-21, 07:28
|Link #2091
Kira_Naruto, the ecchi
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: http://www.exciting-tits.com/
@ Rad .. Forget the anime name or her name .. I couldnt even tell that she's a she ... Cute.. but really nothing really astonishing about it o_O .. so so mark =x
@ KiNA .. desu~ done, nano~ done .. gin = uguu~ O_O .. Really hard to find a full body shoot .. Next kashira~ .. or boku .. and then Stinku >.< .. but i prolly wont use the laast one
|2006-12-21, 11:25
|Link #2093
Sexy Tornado
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: The European Bunion
Age: 40
No-one guessed (well, one person did but he will remain annonymous ) so no rep I'm afraid She was Arche from the Tales of Phantasia OAV.
New one now, non-animated because I'm fed up with the gif format and wish someone would put together a new standard animation format that doesn't suck quite so much. Doubt it'll happen any time soon though...
Elhaym Van Houten - glad you edited before it was deleted Nice and simple av but it really could use a border (people are big on borders around here heh.) 6.5/10. It'd be more like 7.5 with the border.
KiNa... hmm, dissing Arche is a hanging offense Well, the Gin av gives you a stay of excecution 8.5/10
|2006-12-21, 12:13
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♪~ Daydreaming ~♪
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Italy
Rad: Kawaii pic, but I'm not fond of the border at all. It shouldn't have the same colour of the main pic colour. As consequence, in the bottom right corner they kinda cross. I'd suggest the option 3px white + 1 px colour. (To separate pic and border. I would't use straight red though, but a shade of it, like the darkish red on the top of her hairs). Again, a very cute subject nevertheless 7,5/10
KiNA: Yay, even smaller! , at this pace ... in a month you will be avatar-less ... but kudos since this time it hasn't the whiteish leftovers (and the more you make it smaller, the most difficult will be to see errors ^^) 7/10
Elhaym Van Houten: Heh, it's small. Since there's a 100x100 available to use, why not to fill it all ? ^^ 6/10
Sana Jisushi: The border (?) is clumsy, the pic a bit blurry and the text under "wrath" unreadable. At least she is blonde ^^ 6/10
|2006-12-23, 02:33
|Link #2096
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Australia
Age: 30
Radiosity - Cute! But I think the colored border is a bit too thick for my liking. - 8.5/10
Cyz - As expected from Pellissier avatars, animation is quite smooth. Though I agree that the tween is abit far, but looking at the size of the file, I guess it's hard to add another frame or 2 in. - 9/10
Flo - She looks... scary :O. I like the color of the pic though :O. 8/10.
@Me - Static Mikuru avatar to fit my sig. :P
|2006-12-23, 02:48
|Link #2097
~Nanchatte Renai
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Australia
Age: 25
saphyre: Aww Mikuru is cute. Still in trial and error? lol I am for sure! 10/10
KiNa: Oooh Gin right? probaly one of my favourite characters 9.9/10
Deathkillz: It looks like the loop was hard in that GIF. still points for trying hard 8.9/10
Me: Hmm lets say the *ahem* of minds KiNa probaly find something dirty about this. Well that is what you get for 5:21 a.m. job lol.
|2006-12-23, 05:47
|Link #2099
♪~ Daydreaming ~♪
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Italy
Flo: Lol... creepier than Chisa XD 7/10
SweetHoney: Ah.. the corruptors.. ... anyway Mai is wonderful there. 8/10
saphyre: Nice work, although I don't particularly like that picture of Mikuru :x 7,5/10
As for me, this is always little Momoko from Sumomomo Momomo , and the avatar is a sequel of the previous
|2006-12-23, 06:19
|Link #2100
~ You're dead ^__^* ~
Graphic Designer
flo ~ bias 10/10
saphyre ~ i love the picture frame effect 8.5/10
sweetHoney ~ dont listen to those two! you are still innocent 9/10
kiNa ~ focus more on her pretty face plz ^_^ 8/10
pellissier ~ lol i was waiting for you to make this scene ouch >.< 9/10
mine? seen as there is a sudden uprising in mai avies i figured i should use one as well hungry hungry mai
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text: Here's a little something our pal Charles Brubaker shared with me on Facebook. This is a set of Looney Tunes stickers from 1993 that broke the trend of using stock clip art and actually seems to have taken poses from the actual cartoons. If you grew up in the 90's, chances are you or someone at your school had these plastered on binders and other stuff. They were everywhere!


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Former Lipscomb University shortstop Jorge Gutierrez was promoted to the Omaha Royals, Class AAA affiliate of the Kansas City Royals, Monday.
Gutierrez signed a minor league contract with Kansas City in June and was assigned to the Burlington (NC) Royals, the Rookie-level affiliate for Kansas City.
Gutierrez batted .233 in 38 games for Burlington this summer.
"You're always surprised when they call you in and they give you the news," Gutierrez told Burlington Times News. "Everybody is packing (for the end of the Appalachian League season). I was almost done packing. Now the season's is not over."
Gutierrez played his senior season at Lipscomb in 2008 after transferring from the University of Alabama-Birmingham. The Miami, Fla., native batted .286 as the leadoff batter in all 63 games for Lipscomb. He also belted 21 extra base hits and stole 18 bases.
He did not appear in Monday's game versus New Orleans.


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Brantley Gilbert Recalls First Song He Ever Wrote
When you think of Brantley Gilbert, you think singer and hit songwriter. In addition to writing his own chart-topping hit, 'Country Must Be Country Wide,' Gilbert is also responsible for penning Jason Aldean's 'My Kinda Party' and co-writing 'Dirt Road Anthem' with Colt Ford.
Not even Gilbert envisioned he would be where he is today in regards to being one of Nashville's most respected tunesmiths, especially judging by his very first song, which he wrote at the ripe age of 13.
"[That song] didn't make any sense at all," Gilbert tells Taste of Country with laughter. "It was a song called 'Red Bird Drive.' It talked about everything from having family problems to girl problems … it wasn't about anything, really … it was about everything [laughs]! Just whatever rhymed."
But Gilbert stuck to the craft of songwriting as he fell deeper in love with music, and for very good reasons. "I was just too lazy to learn anybody else's songs," he admits. "It was that, and it gets girls, too. It works [laughs]! No, I always had an itch to write my own stuff. I don't really know where that came from. It's just something that I've always enjoyed doing. It's therapy for me."
After 'Dirt Road Anthem' topped the charts, Gilbert experienced what it was like to have his first No. 1 as a songwriter, which helped brace him for how it felt to be the writer and artist of his own chart-topping hit.
"It was a little strange," Gilbert says of the commotion surrounding his songwriting successes. "It caught me off guard. It was a lot of fun, and it was really exciting. To hear some of the things that people had to say about me was definitely really cool. People had a lot of really good things to say. It made me feel good."
Gilbert's latest single, 'You Don't Know Her Like I Do,' is the second release from his current album, 'Halfway to Heaven.' Click here to read the inspiration behind the song's lyrics.


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NWSB Insider and Seattle Supersonics' blogger Peter Edlund gives us his top 5 Sonics moments in time, well 5-3 in this edition at least. A great look at a fan throughout his childhood, and the memories that he attached to each game on the list. Starting from a very young age, not knowing if it were real or not, to a high school aged Peter enjoying hearing a player get the business from his coach. Good times were definitely had by the Edlund family at the Key.
My top five Seattle Sonics moments (No.5 to No. 3)
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Amanda Seyfried: 'Lovelace' Promo Work in New York!
Amanda Seyfried heads into the Ed Sullivan Theatre for an appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman on Tuesday afternoon (July 30) in New York City.
Earlier in the day, the 27-year-old actress attended a press conference for her new film Lovelace along with her co-stars Peter Sarsgaard, Sharon Stone, Adam Brody, Hank Azaria, Chris Noth, and Debi Mazur.
Amanda was seen the day before petting a friend's dog in the West Village neighborhood of the city. She is wearing Ancient Greek Sandals.
FYI: Amanda is wearing a Balmain ensemble and Rupert Sanderson heels at Letterman. She is wearing a Tibi dress and Givenchy heels at the press conference.
35+ pictures inside of Amanda Seyfried promoting her new film…


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With President Obama's dramatic address to Congress now behind us – and the public reaction, both supportive and critical, rolling in from all quarters – it is now clear that health care reform will be the main domestic policy issue throughout the fall (and perhaps beyond).
At my own organization, where our focus is the one million or so people who live with Parkinson's and their families, we have received numerous expressions of concern and confusion from website visitors and constituents (and readers of our last blog post) about the meaning of various legislative proposals for health care reform, and their implications for the interests of the Parkinson's community.
As a non-partisan organization, we support a balanced, bipartisan and comprehensive approach to the needs of the people we serve. We don't know what the final form of the health care reform legislation will be, but we do think we know something about what should be in that legislation, whatever form it may take, if people with Parkinson's are to be well served. We believe that these provisions, which we express on our website, www.pdf.org, as a list of "Principles," transcend the specific and often contentious issues of government plan vs. private insurance, or Republican vs. Democrat, and are in this respect "non-partisan" in the true meaning of the term.
We encourage you to take a look at, Parkinson's Disease: Principles for Health Care Reform.
We hope they will provide some common language for our community as they participate in the national conversation. And let's hear your reflections and reactions!


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In the dark days of the end of World War Two amidst the ruins of Berlin, one bullet can change history... Sniper Elite V2 is the eagerly-awaited sequel to the highly-acclaimed Sniper Elite, giving gamers the most authentic World War II sniping experience available. You are elite US sniper Karl Fairburne. Parachuted into Berlin amidst the Germans' final stand, your mission is to prevent Nazi V2 rocket program technology from falling into the hands of the besieging Red Army. You must aid key scientists keen to defect to the US, and terminate those who would help the Russians.
Only registered members can share their thoughts. So come on! Join the community today (totally free - or sign in with your social account on the right) and join in the conversation.


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The Chemistry Department offers three tracks within the chemistry major leading to a degree, as well as a
chemistry minor. The Chemistry track leads to the basic chemistry degree; two other areas of concentration
are a Pre-Med Professions track and a Materials Chemistry track. We encourage students in any concentration
to seek research study with one or more of our professors as a component of their undergraduate experience.
Our faculty members believe that undergraduate students contribute significantly to the development of
research directions and results, and seek to include them in their explorations. The partnership between
faculty and students can lead to journal publications or presentations at scientific meetings and
conferences, and also contribute strongly to opportunities to obtain supporting grants and funding to
continue on-going research.
The Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry is accredited by the American Chemical Society (ACS). This means that the degree is nationally recognized
as being of high quality and the graduate is suitable for employment in any type of chemical industry.
Employers look at applicants that have ACS-accredited chemistry degrees first. More information about
possible careers in chemistry is located on the ACS website.
This track is designed to provide a
thorough background in chemistry with coverage of all the major areas of chemistry, as well as electives to
gain breadth and depth of knowledge. An interest in how and why things work is often the driving force
motivating students to seek an education in the sciences, and often it leads to chemistry. As a central
science, chemistry plays a pivotal role in the most basic physical, biological, and allied health
disciplines. Bachelor's degree chemists can choose from many diverse paths for their short-term and lifetime
careers, including graduate study leading to advanced degrees and research in a variety of programs,
rewarding employment in industry or government labs, professional or law schools, or much-needed teaching
service in high schools. All are supported by a degree in chemistry. The track provides all of the
prerequisites for entry into most chemistry graduate programs, professional positions in the chemical
industry, and medical schools and related professions. Contact Dr. Radha Pyati for more information about the
Our Pre-Med track is designed to give
flexibility and a solid grounding to students wanting to pursue in-depth training with a biological focus.
The track is suited to students interested in pursuing a variety of medical professional programs, such as
medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, podiatry, veterinary medicine, physician's assistant or optometry to mention
a few. It is designed to provide a broad background in chemistry with an interdisciplinary emphasis by
including courses in biology. The track provides all of the prerequisites for entry into most graduate
programs in chemistry and research. You can read more about this area in the official program of study.
Contact Dr. Radha Pyati for more information about
the track.
The track is designed to provide a broad
background ideally suited to careers in research or industrial pursuits usually in the application of
physical and chemical principles leading to the design and characterization of materials (e.g. inorganic
solids, polymers, and nanoscale materials). The track acquires an interdisciplinary emphasis by requiring
courses in mathematics, computer science, and physics. It provides all of the prerequisites for entry into
most chemistry graduate programs. Careers in Materials Chemistry vary widely although graduates will be
well-suited to pursue employment in the chemical and related industries focusing on energy and the
environment, pharmaceuticals, nano- and biotechnology, chemical engineering, geo-chemistry, catalysis,
optical materials and all manner of electronic devices, and related fields. You can read more about this
area in the official program of study. Contact Dr.
Michael Lufaso for more information about the track.
Our Biochemistry track is designed for
students interested in bio-medically related research careers. Students will gain a deeper and broader
understanding of biochemical principles and techniques through the emphasis on biology and biochemistry
courses found within this track. Upon completion, students will be better prepared to pursue STEM careers
that do not fall within the traditional confines of chemistry or biology degree programs. Biochemistry is
the study of biological systems on a molecular level. Competency in the field of biochemistry requires an
in-depth understanding of chemistry, a fundamental knowledge of biology, and the ability to recognize the
interconnections between the two disciplines. This track is designed to prepare students who wish to pursue
careers in biochemical and/or biomedical research including such specific areas as pharmaceutical sciences,
disease diagnostics, drug development, DNA-based forensics, proteomics, and clinical chemistry. This program
of study fulfills the prerequisite courses required by most chemistry graduate programs. Contact Dr. Bryan Knuckley for more information about the
The minor is designed to provide a student with a broad general overview of the chemistry discipline. It
allows a student to extend the scope of their major through the selection of a complementary subject, or
balance it out by choosing an area of interest far outside the realm of their major. Regardless of the
direction, a minor increases a student's marketability and prepares him or her for employment and/or further
study in many areas.


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Congratulation to The Quincy Exchange Club For Another Successful Gus Macker
The Quincy Exchange Club just concluded the annual Gus Macker Basketball tournament for the 23rd consecutive year. That's right, 23 straight years this city has reaped the rewards of having thousands of people come to the downtown area during the Memorial Day holiday weekend.
That means for 23 years, the members of the Exchange Club have donated two days of their holiday weekend to making sure this basketball event continues. While others are with their families over the holiday, club members are working the event to ensure its success. Yes, team totals were down a little but over 400 teams participated this past weekend.
The club makes money from the event to be used for scholarships to children and veterans' activities in the area. All of the money goes right back into the community. Plus other organizations are involved in fundraising as a part of Gus Macker as well. The Exchange Club has in recent years tried to make the Macker even more of an family event than ever.
As a long time member of the Exchange Club, I would like to thank all of the other members for making this an event that thousands look forward to each and every year. Yes it takes a lot of planning and a lot of time as well but that's what the Exchange Club is all about.
On behalf of this year's Chairmen Tony Nutt and his assistants, Mel Dillman and Curt Moore, I would like to thank everyone for participating and watching the 23rd Annual Gus Macker Basketball Tournament.


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Luke Bryan Announces Dates for 2011 Farm Tour
Luke Bryan is a busy man these days, what with his new 'Tailgates and Tanlines' album, the end of his tour with Tim McGraw, and a headlining spot on the CMT on Tour extravaganza — but he isn't too busy to continue his annual Farm Tour.
And six lucky college students are about to be very thankful for that.
Bryan's Farm Tour, now heading into its third year, is a unique six-city jaunt whose proceeds go to a very worthy cause: community college scholarships benefiting a student in each town. It's the kind of thing that can make a lifetime's worth of difference to the winners, but for Bryan, it's just another day at the office.
"We just want to have a little fun in the fall," Bryan says. "I think what's cool about the Farm Tour is these things are a big event for these towns. I just love the fact that people can come out and have a big time, listen to some music. It's a fun experience all the way around. I want to do what I can to keep it rocking."
Speaking about the tour's southern run, he adds, "We look forward to bringing music into some of these areas where concert tours can't get to. There's nothing like building a tour set in the middle of a crop field."
Luke Bryan 2011 Farm Tour Dates
9/29 – Clemson, S.C.
9/30 – Athens, Ga.
10/1 – Macon, Ga.
10/5 –Statesboro, Ga.
10/6 – Valdosta, Ga.
10/7 – Carrollton, Ga.


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John Harbaugh believes he has an answer to the Baltimore Ravens' 2013 running woes.
The coach was asked if adding a big, bruising running back to complement Ray Rice and Bernard Pierce will help the Ravens' ground attack after his team struggled in short yardage and red-zone opportunities.
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"Yes, I think we need to diversify as much as we can what guys can do," Harbaugh said, per The Baltimore Sun. "I've had a lot of conversations with (general manager) Ozzie (Newsome) and with (assistant general manager) Eric (DeCosta) and our different scouts about that, and our coaches, too. Yes, we want to have as many weapons as we can at our disposal.
"Big backs, fast backs, quick backs, route-running backs that you see around the league, we want to chase all those guys. You can't always get everything you want, but those are things that we could use."
It's odd for Harbaugh to desire a LeGarrette Blount-type back, considering Pierce was viewed as the physical, change-of-pace back to Rice. Also, it's worth nothing that adding a bigger back won't help if the offensive line doesn't improve and open up actual holes to run through.
Regardless of the reasons the Ravens averaged just 3.1 yards per carry in 2013, Harbaugh wants to get back to a ground-and-pound style.
"Really, we're built -- and we philosophically believe -- in being a rough, tough, physical offense that can run the football," Harbaugh said, per the Carroll County Times. "That's the way we started (in 2008), and that hasn't changed. No matter where you go with the passing game, that has got to be a staple of what we're going to do, and it wasn't this year."
If the Ravens lose offensive coordinator Jim Caldwell to one of the coach-needy teams he's interviewed with, Harbaugh's desire to move back to a physical ground attack might foreshadow the type of coordinator he'd bring in for 2014.
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Instead Of Bad Drivers, What If Speed Cameras 'Caught' Good Drivers Instead?
from the carrot-or-the-stick dept
The idea is that the jackpot could come from the fines that were paid from speeders -- so not only do you get rewarded, you get rewarded from the pockets of worse drivers. This method may also serve to make a speeding ticket feel even more painful than just a fine alone. After all, a $500 ticket definitely stings, but a $500 ticket PLUS a little note that had you not been speeding, you could have won $10,000 instead? Ouch, that hurts a lot more.
The idea was the winning entry to VW's "The Fun Theory" competition, where applicants were tasked to design ways to change people's behavior through fun. This is a brilliantly viral campaign that showcases the fact that advertising is content, and if you make engaging content, people will beat a path to your door to watch it. The "piano stairs" entry alone has amassed over 12 million views.
Of course, rewarding good drivers with cash awards does not help governments rake in quite as much in revenue, but speed cameras are supposed to be about safety and not money, right?


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Seib & Wessel: Obama Talks College, Tunes Out Trouble Spots
WSJ's Carol E. Lee says the president is frustrated every time he tries to focus on the economy and the middle class, he gets knocked off message. That's why, as issues swirl, Obama stuck to his bus tour this week to talk about college affordability.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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