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Position Sought
Live - in Housekeeper
Cooking, cleaning, windows, laundry (wash, dry and fold), toilets so sparkly Mr. Clean would be jealous (must have a clean place to puke after a good happy hour), happy hour pal, confidant and BFF.
Requirements and Compensation:
Warm climate year round, Living quarters fit for 7, love of (house broken) Weasels, unending supply of Coors Light, a 'it's 5 o'clock somewhere' attitude, in ground pool, 9-5 working hours. Must not be opposed to me blogging about you and your family. Salary negotiable.
Doesn't that sound like a great deal?
Nothing has popped yet for Mr. Weasel. He is starting to seriously going to talk to a company in Canada about a relocation package. I don't want to go to Canada. I really don't want to go to Canada. I would rather clean toilets and be warm.
Who wants a sparkly toilet?
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
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26 comments:
- OhCaptain said...
This ain't Canada and we've been looking for an Alice...tell me more about this "warm" concept you speak of. We have forced air heat. Does that count?
- January 28, 2009 at 5:21 AM
- Lisa@verybusymomwith4 said...
I could not even think of going to Canada in January--brrrrrr!
- January 28, 2009 at 6:40 AM
- Tom said...
Well... no in-ground pool here, it isn't warm year-round, and we don't even have accommodations for the six who live here regularly... but you're welcome to come and pitch in with the toilet scrubbing! Lord knows I don't much like doing it.
Hang in there. Something has to spring up soon.
- January 28, 2009 at 6:43 AM
- terri said...
Don't believe OhCaptain. It's still below zero here today. I have a better idea. Let's make a blogger commune and just live off the land and blog all day long. Of course we'll have to throw massive parties with lots of Coors Light now and then to keep the blog material lively.
- January 28, 2009 at 7:32 AM
- Daddy Dan said...
I'd hire you. We meet all of your requirements except the room for seven. Hope Mr. Weasel finds something soon!
By the way, love your new blog design!
- January 28, 2009 at 7:34 AM
- Momo Fali said...
My husband's new job keeps him at the office from 8:30 to after 10:00 PM most nights. I'm glad he has a job, but we sure miss him. Canada doesn't sound half bad.
- January 28, 2009 at 7:34 AM
- OhCaptain said...
Trust me, not Terri. My forced air heat works beautifully! We even have multiple zones and 7 day programmable thermostats. You've seen pictures of the house, lots of windows! It's toasty in our house even without the heat. Pfftt...just don't go outside. It's overrated.
- January 28, 2009 at 8:13 AM
- Weaselmomma said...
@ Captain ~ It's close to Canada to freeze my butt off! I'm not falling for that.
@ Lisa ~ It hurts just to think about, but desperate times....
@ Tom ~ Oregon is milder than here. Maybe you could think about an addition to the house, lol.
@ Terri ~ A nice warm commune sounds great. Who's going to work the land while I blog?
@ Dan ~ Thanks, CA is warm, building an addition soon?
@ Momo ~ Canada would be crazy hours too. I hope you get your hubby back soon and that he manages to find something more suitable hours wise.
- January 28, 2009 at 8:15 AM
- RhondaLue said...
Yeah my hubby's home now but was gone for over a month going to where the work was (farrr out of town). So yah...it sucked but it's a job. I totally get you not wanting to go to Canada too. What a tough spot to be in. (HUGS)
I need a maid bad. But we have 8 ppl in a 1600 sq ft house. You wanna have the front room? It has two couches and floor space for sleeping. lol But you have to cook too. haha
- January 28, 2009 at 8:18 AM
- Oscar said...
Hang in there. If you send me his resume, I'll push it for you.
- January 28, 2009 at 8:41 AM
Canada isn't so bad. They have a beautiful National Anthem! :D
- January 28, 2009 at 8:46 AM
- Melisa with one S said...
Tell you what: you work in my house for once-a-week cookie dough, and you'll still live close enough to your family to visit frequently.
- January 28, 2009 at 11:33 AM
- nonna said...
you are hired on the spot!! we will remodel the rest of the baccy barn to accomodate you. if you do all the cooking and cleaning we will handle all yard work. will have to make do with above ground pool, but there are plenty of rivers that are great to swim, fish, fu...um have fun in.
when should we expect you?
- January 28, 2009 at 1:44 PM
- Weaselmomma said...
@ Rhonda ~ Thanks for the offer, but I don't know if we would fit in 1 room.
@ Oscar ~ will send it along. I think I have your e-mail.
@ Janed ~ Canada is lovely, it's just cold.
@ Melisa ~ Not if I can't pay the mortgage. Is your basement finished?
@ Nonna ~ Let's negotiate salary! As soon as we have a place to sleep and sell the house we'll be there.
- January 28, 2009 at 2:12 PM
- Mike said...
If you guys don't mind living in a tent in the backyard and sharing it with the dog, you can come work at our house.
Of course you'd have to put up with near 70 degree weather year round. Live with sea breezes coming through the windows. More bars within walking distance than you can shake a stick at. And a fridge stocked most of the time with import beer and a wine closet.
And of course my crazy family would give you plenty to write about.
Nah, on second thought, who'd want any of that...
- January 28, 2009 at 4:06 PM
- Momisodes said...
I wish I could hire you! But the rain/sleet/snow we had today may not be what you're looking for.
We're in the same boat on the job front. I don't think we could do Cananda, though.
- January 28, 2009 at 5:50 PM
- de-I said...
I really like the idea of someone cleaning toilets but having de-childized my home some 10 years ago I'm not sure I'm ready for 5 junior weasels :)
- January 28, 2009 at 8:14 PM
- Michelle said...
Oh my. You don't want to go to Canada, although really Chicago isn't THAT far off from it (having spent enough time there). Mr Weasel isn't by chance in finance or risk is he? Fingers crossed something better and closer pops SOON.
- January 28, 2009 at 8:28 PM
- The Microblogologist said...
I am so loving the commune idea! Need to get others to do the heavy work and then that garden is mine!
I could totally fit you but definitely not the rest, two bedroom apartments with one bedroom taken over by plants does not fit too many people. And of course the weather is horrid, though you wouldn't have to go outside much, just out to the car to help carry in the Coors Light!
- January 28, 2009 at 10:14 PM
- seashore subjects said...
My sis has a lovely house for sale, with an inground pool, in a very warm climate...You can blog about whatever, but no jobs, sorry.
- January 29, 2009 at 3:35 AM
- texasholly said...
Crap. I can't fulfill ALL the obligations and that sounds like quite a deal...
Canada won't know what hit 'em.
- January 29, 2009 at 5:30 AM
- Mama Smurf said...
I live in MI...MI is neighbors with Canada....MI is cold. Very cold. But I do keep my thermostat set at 80 so let let me know if you're interested.
- January 29, 2009 at 10:04 AM
- Big Bad Daddy said...
Am I the only Canadian that reads this blog? I can't believe all the haters! Saying Canada is cold is like saying Americans are ignorant...........(did anyone throw anything at the computer?) Anyhoo moving on, Canada is cold sometimes, in some places. We haven't had snow in two weeks or more, it's even been above 0º, I mean 32º here in the last week. The sun is shining, stuff is melting. Isn't Chicago called the "Windy City"? Haven't you all been complaining about snow/sleet/freezing rain for months now?
That said we have a Treehouse.........
- January 29, 2009 at 3:33 PM
- Mrs4444 said...
Can't he work for that company but live here?! Mr.4444, too, is getting kind of desperate; there is a promising opportunity, but I'm not sure he'll be happy there. You gotta do what you gotta do, right? But I'm sure we will both land where we're supposed to be. Love you....
- January 29, 2009 at 7:54 PM
- Sue said...
We don't have warm weather year round, but supposedly it doesn't "snow" much here. (I am not sure who made up that rule). Anyway, I can offer horses in the back yard and a beach 1 1/2 miles away. I would LOVE a clean toilet and someone to help with the never ending dishes!
- January 29, 2009 at 7:56 PM
- nonna said...
wait a minute, salary? you mean i have to pay to house and feed your brood? hmmm i might have to rethink this idea. do you take a newly aspiring metal artists practice pieces as payments? i know! i will just rent you a plot of land and you can grow some of those kinky carrots and sell them on ebay. or better yet..just start selling stuff outta hubby's barns and grain bins on ebay. i'm sure it would take him years to notice :)
- January 29, 2009 at 9:28 PM


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Where I grew up in Rock County, Nebraska
Some readers may recognize the buildings in this photo. This is the ranch where I grew up, in the Duff Valley of southern Rock County, Nebraska.
I took this photo about five years ago from the road near the long-vacant Duff School. I used a zoom lens to look across the meadows that used to be the School Section, and another half mile or so of what we called the Little Meadow and the Milkcow Pasture.
There's my dad's big metal shop building on the left. There's one of his little blue spruce trees, big now and towering over everything. There's the bin with the spout in the bottom of it so you can drive under it with the pickup and fill sacks with cattle feed.
And there's our house on the right. Behind the house, almost entirely hidden by the trees, is one of the biggest barns in that part of the county. It was in sad need of repair when I last saw it.
This photo shows the original stucco house that was on the ranch when we moved there in 1957. That's the back side of the house. A few years after we moved there, my parents remodeled the house and added a large living room and garage on the west side of the house, facing the barn. That side of the house is the front because that's where the entrance doors are.
Here's a bit of trivia for those who will appreciate it. My dad bought the leftover limestone from the (then) new Nazarene Church in Ainsworth, Nebraska, to use for the exterior of the addition and a stone planter in front of the house.
About eight or nine years ago, I wrote to the people who owned the ranch and asked permission to visit with my kids. A young woman (daughter of the owner) and her son were living there, and they graciously permitted me to show my kids around the buildings and even invited us into the house.
By then, the ranch had changed hands several times. Many things were as I remembered, yet the place was greatly changed and there was much clear evidence of hard times. I was happy that the house was still in fairly good shape. It had a new door on the south side and different floor coverings, and of course it looked much different without my mother's furniture in it. I can't say that it felt like home.
That was the only time I've been back to the ranch buildings since my family moved to Missouri when I was 21. I've driven through the neighborhood with the kids a few other times, and the photo above is from one of those excursions. I wanted them to see where I grew up and to develop some appreciation of their own Sandhill heritage.
There are other places on the ranch I wish I could see again. I'd like to go back to our bridge over the Skull Creek where I spent many, many hours fishing. I'd like to see some of the shelter belts that my dad and mom planted. I'd like to drive back to the top of the big hill. (From its summit, we saw the distant glow of flames when Halsey Forest burned in the 1960's.) And my list of places to see could go on and on.
My brother told me that he heard that someone else owns the place now. I don't suppose I'll go back again. I learned when I visited last time that it isn't my home anymore. It's probably best just to enjoy my memories.


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BOSTON, Mass.—UMass Boston men's tennis is set to kick off their spring title defense Friday, when the Beacons travel to take on the MIT Engineers at 4 p.m.
The defending Little East Conference Regular Season and Tournament Champions return three All-Conference players and four total players from their 14-4 title team. Last year's squad reached the NCAA Tournament for the first time in program history and set new program-records for wins in a season (14) and consecutive victories (12).
Reigning Little East Conference Coach of the Year Eric Berg will rely heavily on his top three returners, as seniors Charles Lai (Boston, Mass.), Sean Cullen (Medway, Mass.) and Eglis Bizhoti (Kucovë, Albania) are expected to slot into the top three spots this season.
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Joining the Beacons' three returning All-Conference players, are seniors Lyle Analetto (Belmont, Mass.) and Brian Sou (Revere, Mass.). While Analetto didn't appear in many matches last season and Sou took a year off, both players played major roles on the 2012 team that finished 8-7.
The Beacons also welcome newcomers Julio Baez (Jamaica Plains, Mass.), Jack Wang (Suzhou, China) and Jon Feng (Waukesha, Wisc.).
After Friday's match, UMass Boston will have two weeks off, before traveling to Orlando, Florida for their spring trip. UMass Boston will host Eastern Nazarene College on Thursday March 27 in their home opener, and then two days later (March 29) they will open their Little East Conference slate at home against the University of Southern Maine.


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THE loan window reopens this week and while Bury manager David Flitcroft will be looking at making a short-term gain with two defensive signings, he will also have one eye on a long-term aim.
The Shakers boss would like to add a centre-back and left-sided wing-back to complete his squad before the run-in, with Nathan Cameron and one other squad member possibly loaned out to create space.
But Flitcroft is hoping any new arrivals could be convinced to extend their stay once they have sampled life at the JD Stadium.
"We are looking at the short-term, but if we get someone in on loan then they can have a good look at us," he said.
"If they come and see us and what we are about and not just look at the league table, they might want to come and join this ride and that's what we will be looking at for potential loan signings."
The Bury manager was pipped to two potential permanent signings on deadline day by clubs from a higher division.
And it is clear he rates his chances of pulling off another transfer coup higher if he can first tempt players to the club on short-term contracts.
That ploy worked on Daniel Nardiello, who swapped a loan deal for an 18-month contract last week after being released by League One Rotherham United.
It looks like Championship defender Frederic Veseli is next on the manager's radar.
The Ipswich player's month-long loan deal was extended to February 22 on transfer deadline day, with Flitcroft keen on convincing the 21-year-old former Manchester United trainee to stay until the end of the season.
"The first month of a loan is always difficult because he is sussing us out and we are sussing him out and the fit has got to be right," he said.
"One important question was did Freddie want to stay? And he was desperate to be a part of this.
"His latest deal will take us up to the 93 days, which is the maximum we can get him for (on loan), so, all being well, that should take us up to the end of the season."
Bury's form under Flitcroft could also be a key bargaining tool in the loan market.
The Shakers stretched their unbeaten home record to nine matches with last Saturday's victory over Wycombe and a draw against promotion hopefuls Oxford United on Tuesday night.
Those four points saw Bury move up to 17th in the table – three points above the drop zone.
They now face two key away games – against second-bottom Torquay on Saturday and at 20th-placed Mansfield next Tuesday.
"We are delighted with where we are at, but two back-to-back wins would really propel us up the league and start putting pressure on teams above us," he said.
Nardiello should be available for selection after recovering from a hamstring injury to play 40 minutes on Tuesday night, while winger Danny Mayor returns from suspension.


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Played Like a Raven – Joe Flacco & Ray Rice
The Ravens' top two draft picks from 2008 are quickly becoming NFL superstars. It was impossible to choose just one of the pair for this week's honors, as they both played crucial roles in the team's near-comeback win.
In throwing for 385 yards and 2 touchdowns, Flacco broke his own single-game yardage record that he set in Week 3 against Cleveland. Joe Cool is currently 4th in the NFL with 1674 yards, tied for 4th with 11 touchdown passes, and his 93.8 rating is 11th in the league. Just two small knocks on Flacco this week: First, as he has all season, he got off to a bit of a slow start. Once he figures out what defense are throwing at him, he seems to get into a nice rhythm. Unfortunately, the way the Ravens defense has been playing in 2009, the team may be much better served to get out to an early lead. Second, Flacco may have been a bit too "Cool" at the end of each half, especially the first. I'll put equal blame on the coaching staff, but with under 2 minutes to play in the second quarter, Flacco was meandering around like he had more like 12 minutes. His 1st-down pass with 12 seconds to go needed to go into the end zone, or fall incomplete, so John Harbaugh wasn't faced with the decision to kick a FG or not, with only 6 seconds left to work with.
And Ray Rice…damn, that guy is coming into his own with a fury this season. Sunday, he led the team in both rushing and receiving, and his 766 yards from scrimmage currently lead the NFL. His 33 yard touchdown run gave the Ravens their only lead of the day, unfortunately one that they were unable to hold for even 2 minutes of game time thanks to….
Did Not Play Like a Raven – Secondary
Good. Lord. We've singled out Dominique Foxworth and Fabian Washington (also Chris Carr, but that was more return-related) individually here before, but the whole group deserved to be running wind sprints at the Metrodome after Sunday's game. This now makes 4/5 "Play Like a Ravens" in which we've called out Ravens DBs (actually 4/4, considering in Week 3 there was nobody selected).
And don't think that, based on the photo, Ed Reed is above criticism here at the Nest. He is suspect #1 in leaving Frank Walker to cover Sidney Rice 1-on-1 60 yards down the field two plays after the Ravens took the lead in the 4th. Fact is, though, without Reed, we shudder to think just how atrocious this Ravens defensive backfield has the potential to be. Regardless, we have to think that John Harbaugh will only put up with his freelancing for so much longer, especially after calling him out publicly to play more "team" defense.
Washington, Foxworth, Carr, Walker…what more is there to say about this group? Throw in Dawan Landry as well, who looks thoroughly lost in coverage, and who hasn't played the run nearly as well as he did prior to his injury last year.
Rookie Ledarius Webb is sure to see some more action as a CB after they bye, but what about at safety? Can Webb take a crack at SS in the NFL? Or can Haruki Nakamura or Tom Zbikowski step in and provide some relief? We would like to think so, but there is a reason they are backups, Ravens fans.
The Ravens are now 22nd in the NFL in passing defense, behind the likes of the Buccaneers, Raiders, and Texans. Fixing (or at least finding a way to mask) the leaks in the secondary is, unquestionably, priority numero uno for B'More during the bye week.


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With God on my side and Jesus in my cupholder, Ace and I passed through the Texas panhandle Wednesday, revisiting the site where, 18 years ago, almost to the day, I nearly got myself killed.
This time around, the roads weren't icy, there was no snow; only vicious winds that tried to blow me off the road.
Just to be extra safe — well before my dreaded approach to the tiny town of Groom — I stopped to fill my thermos with coffee at the Jesus Christ is Lord Travel Center, on the east side of Amarillo.
It was opened less than two years ago by Sam Kohli, who also runs a Jesus Christ is Lord trucking line, whose 100-plus trucks are all emblazoned with that phrase.
"He just felt there were a lot of people who didn't know Jesus Christ is Lord," the woman at the cash register explained to me, charging me a mere $1.18 to fill my thermos and wishing me safe travels.
Between the caffiene, her well wishes, and Bobblehead Jesus, who has accompanied us on all of our 20,000-plus miles, I felt prepared for what was ahead — namely Groom, Texas.
In 1993, returning to Philadelphia after a three-year assignment in California, my Isuzu Trooper slid off icy I-40, turning over twice before coming to rest, right side up, at the bottom of an embankment.
To your left is how that embankment looks today, not nearly as steep and rugged as it was in my memory.
Anyway, back 18 years ago, I managed to restart the crumpled vehicle and drive half a mile to the nearest motel, where I checked in, along with my dog at the time, a mutt named Hobo.
As I stood in the lobby, trying to contact my insurance company on the pay phone, the desk clerk kept pointing me out to new arrivals, and each time he told the story he added one more roll: "That's him over there, rolled over four times, he's lucky to be alive."
For the next three days, the dog and I licked our wounds and waited for the motel owners to come through with a ride they promised to the Amarillo airport, where I could rent a car for the rest of the trip. The Isuzu was totaled, and I'd been ticketed for reckless driving, though I was driving slower than anyone else on the road.
I kept waiting for our ride to the airport, and I started fearing there was a conspiracy to make me a permanent resident of the town of 500. Groom, coincidentally, is where much of the filming was done for the 1992 movie "Leap of Faith," about a faith healer who bilks believers out of their money.
Finally, on day four — my room bill rising, my faith waning — I left the dog in the room, walked to a truck stop (it's gone, now, burned down, they say) and hitched a ride on a chicken truck to the Amarillo airport to get a rental car. Then I went back to the motel, picked Hobo up and drove on.
Back to the present: My original plan was to avoid Groom, on this trip and for eternity, but Wednesday, on a route that was sending me right past it, I decided to confront my fears.
The first Groom exit, when one is eastbound, is the site of what bills itself as the largest cross in America.
It's made of steel, 19 stories tall, with a cross arm that spans 110 feet. It took 250 welders eight months to complete, and weighs 1,250 tons. The man behind it is Steve Thomas, who was disgusted with billboards advertising "pornographic" services and decided to send travelers a different message.
It wasn't there on my earlier trip — not being finished until two years later — so it took me by surprise. At first I thought that America's largest cross (Effingham, Illinois, claims it has one eight feet taller) had been built at the precise spot of my accident.
I realized later, though, that the spot where I almost met my maker was a mile ahead, at the next exit.
Rather than get back on I-40, I took the back route, turning left on Route 66, driving through town, and approaching the scene of the accident from a side road.
I parked on the side of the road and left Ace in the car — not wanting him anywhere near the Interstate, or the accursed spot. I did grab my camera and pulled Bobblehead Jesus (B. Jesus, for short) from the cupholder so that he could accompany me.
I felt chills as I gazed at the spot, though maybe that was from the 60 mile per hour winds.
Feeling I had successfully confronted my fears — that I had found closure (not that I'm a big fan of closure; it's so … final) — I went off in search of the motel that held me hostage.
Turns out it is now a storage facility, its rooms no longer holding people — only people's stuff.
Next door, I stopped in at a restaurant called The Grill, asking what happened to the motel. The owner told me that what used to be called the Golden Spread Motel stopped being a motel about 15 years ago, changed hands a few times and ended up as a storage facility.
I told her Golden Spread sounded like something you'd put on a sandwich — or maybe a pornographic term describing some act with which I'm not familiar.
I stepped back outside, into the wind, and thought about the gigantic, non-pornographic cross, which, without any guy wires, can withstand gusts of up to 140 miles per hour. In the car, I gave B. Jesus a pat, sending his head to bobbing. Then I gave Ace one.
I was still a little sour on Groom, but I felt a vague sense of gratitude, and gave God that conditional nod I'm prone to giving him or her: I'm not sure I believe in you, but if you're the reason Hobo and I survived that accident, thanks so much for the ensuing 18 years (in Hobo's case, about four).
By then I was back on I-40, traveling eastbound, buffeted by winds, bolstered by Jesus Christ is Lord coffee, strengthened by having confronted my demons, and inspired by a giant cross.
Ace looked around, as if confused: What were all those stops about? I'm not sure I know. I get overwhelmed when I start thinking about God and the hereafter. I have enough trouble handling the here and now.
But this much I know I do have: A deep and abiding faith in dog.


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Today we take a look at the pairing of Marconi Gomes Lima's Adriane and Hans Samuelson's Brooklyn Samuels.
A recent expansion of the Brooklyn Samuels family gives us four new numbered widths from (if I were to name them) compressed to normal. Its unusual constructions and softened corners create a casual and inviting texture. Adriane's strong Neoclassical core gives it the ability to play it straight, though its lively gestures serve as a strong unifier.
The two create a nice cohesive relationship. Brooklyn Samuels irons out much of the bounce in Adriane, and gives its eccentric italic and swash forms license to relax and be themselves. The text preceding No. 4 above is tracked open slightly to allow its setting of a short passage at a smaller size.
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Conservation of Matter: Heavy Whipping Cream
I found a new way to teach the conservation of mass/matter this past year. Previously I taught it by having steel wool (iron) react with oxygen. Since our periods are shorter this year, I couldn't really do that reaction anymore. Now students mix heavy whipping cream and vinegar in an open system. The vinegar reacts with the casein proteins in the heavy whipping cream to form a solid cheese-like substance (basically it is cheese). It's not a very glamourous reaction, but is also a way to teach students about precipitation. Students have a difficult time understanding the concept of two liquids reacting to make a solid. This is a simple way for students to visualize that type of chemical change.


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Fox Contributor Erick Erickson Labels Wendy Davis "Abortion Barbie"
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Fox News contributor Erick Erickson called Texas State Senator and choice advocate Wendy Davis "Abortion Barbie" after The Weekly Standard attacked her for not responding to a question that linked legal abortion to the crimes of doctor Kermit Gosnell.
During an event at the National Press Club, The Weekly Standard asked Davis to respond to claims that there is no difference between some types of legal abortion and the crimes of convicted murderer Kermit Gosnell. After retweeting a link to the post, Erickson tweeted that it's "a bit embarrassing that Abortion Barbie doesn't even have her facts straight on Kermit Gosnell considering abortion is her issue":
Erickson has a history of inflammatory comments, including directing liberals to a coat hanger sales site after a restrictive Texas abortion bill passed, later responding to criticism by offering his "Sincere Apologies to the Kid Killing caucus." Erickson defended Republican Missouri Rep. Todd Akin after he claimed it was "really rare" for victims of "legitimate rape" to become pregnant and called the opening of the 2012 Democratic National Convention the "First night of the Vagina Monologues."
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I picked up a grapefruit sized carnival squash yesterday while at Trader Joe's. I've never cooked or even had a carnival squash before but, it is a winter squash and similar shape and size to acorn squash so I figured it would be similar in texture and taste as well…and it is. I'm already crazy Thanksgiving food and knew I wanted to bake and stuff this little carnival squash (it was about the size of a very large grapefruit) so I picked up some ground turkey, dried cranberries, and a big bag of kale to go with ingredients I already had back at the Annex.
This is a really simple recipe that can be adapted to whatever your diet restriction might be – dairy free, gluten-free, nut-free, vegetarian, low sodium, etc. It is very customizable, you just have to be creative in your stuffing fillings. My stuffing was pretty simple, but so delicious. There was no added salt to this either (except what small amount is in the spice blend I used). The flavors are that of Thanksgiving and perfect to make with leftovers, or if you are just craving a little bit of Thanksgiving throughout the year.
Stuffed Carnival Squash
- 2 medium carnival squash – cut in half and seeds removed/discarded (you can roast these as well!)
- 1/2 cup short grain brown rice
- 1 cup chicken stock (low sodium, or no sodium added)
- 2 tablespoons olive oil, divided
- 1 cup diced baby portabella mushrooms
- 2 tablespoons sliced green onions
- 2 tablespoons Spiceologist Greek Freak Seasoning, divided
- 1 1/2 cup chopped kale
- 1/2 pound ground turkey breast
- 1/4 cup pine nuts
- 1/3 cup dried cranberries
- 1/4 cup shredded Cabot Cheese – Alpine Cheddar
Method of Preparation
- Preheat oven to 375°F
- Place cut and cleaned squash face down in a baking dish, add about 1/4 inch of water and cover with aluminum foil
- Roast squash for 30-45 minutes until fork tender, remove from oven and drain water
- In a small pot, bring brown rice and chicken stock to a boil, and cook according to rice specifications
- In a saute pan, add 1/2 cup of water and bring to a boil, add kale and cover for five minutes until kale is tender.
- Drain water, and place kale on a paper towel to drain (you want to remove as much excess water that you can)
- In the same saute pan, add 1 tablespoon of olive oil, and heat pan to medium heat
- Add mushrooms, green onions, and 1 tablespoon of the seasoning mixture, saute until mushrooms are lightly browned and tender
- Add mushrooms and green onions to the kale that has been set aside
- In the same saute pan, add the remaining 1 tablespoon of olive oil and heat pan to medium heat
- Add ground turkey and remaining 1 tablespoon of seasoning mixture
- Brown turkey and add in pine nuts to toast during the last few minutes of cooking
- Once the turkey is cooked throughout, add in the cooked brown rice, dried cranberries, kale, mushrooms, and green onions, stir to combine
- Remove from heat and stuff cooked squash halves (you may have a little extra filling, but you can use that for another meal or snack)
- Top stuffed squash halves with shredded cheese and return to the oven to bake for 10-15 minutes
- Remove from oven, and enjoy!


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Steven Page buys house near his arrest site
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FAYETTEVILLE, N.Y. - Former Barenaked Ladies singer Steven Page has bought a new home in central New York next to the apartment where he and his girlfriend were arrested last July for cocaine possession.
Onondaga County real estate records show Page and girlfriend Christine Benedicto paid $265,000 for the four-bedroom house in Fayetteville, in suburban Syracuse. The sale closed June 30.
Cocaine possession charges against Page, Benedicto and Benedicto's roommate were dismissed in April after they sought counseling and passed drug tests.
Benedicto says Page decided to settle in Fayetteville to accommodate her. Her daughter attends school there.
Page quit the Barenaked Ladies this year to pursue a solo career. The Canadian alternative rock band's hits include "If I Had $1,000,000" and "Brian Wilson."
And here's the Canadian coverage of what Page has been up to since his split from BNL.
Steven Page stripped bare
Former Barenaked Lady opens up about his split with the band that made him famous
Former Barenaked Lady Steven Page split with his band after a much publicized drug bust.
Photograph by: Courtesy, DavidBergman.net
Calgary Folk Music Festival
Steven Page performs Saturday at the Calgary Folk Music Festival. For full details and ticket information go to calgaryfolkfest. com
Would Steven Page still be a member of the Barenaked Ladies had it not been for that notorious drug bust in July 2008? That's the million-dollar question put to the very man who famously sang a silly pop song about the joys of possessing such cash with the Ladies' breezy 1992 hit If I Had $1,000,000.
And Page's reply?
The bespectacled singer-song-writer, who will be performing as a solo artist July 25 at the Calgary Folk Music Festival, says that in all likelihood he would still be a Barenaked Lady had it not been for his high-profile, all too uncomfortable brush with the law.
We all know the story. In July 2008 Page, his girlfriend and her roommate were arrested in Fayetteville, N. Y. and charged with cocaine possession. Page found himself facing up to 5½ years in prison.
The charges were dropped last May, but not before Page found himself embarrassingly dragged through the media mud.
That unfortunate incident was most certainly a catalyst, acknowledges Page, hastening his departure from the beloved, humour-oriented Toronto band that brought him fame on an international scale.
But talking to the 39-year-old, it's clear that his eventual split with the Ladies was inevitable.
"The band started when (co-founder) Ed (Robertson) and I were 18. We grew up together," says Page in an interview from his home in Syracuse, N. Y. "At a certain point you grow apart and you have to deal with that. We worked together as a great unit for a long time. . . . But we ended up having different goals. It reaches a point where you think 'How long do we do this for the sake of making it sustainable if, in the end of the day, we don't want the status quo?'
"It's a painful place to come to but . . . you have to make that break."
And now that the break has been made, the differences between Page and his former bandmates are becoming glaringly apparent.
Of his last disc with the Ladies, the children's record Snacktime! (released just two months before the not so kid-friendly drug scandal) Page says: "It was a lot of fun to do, but it wasn't my idea. I was along for the ride."
He felt a similar way about the band's Christmas record in 2004 and the theme song they wrote for the CBS-TV nerd sitcom The Big Bang Theory.
"It wasn't where I imagined I wanted to be," he says.
It might be said that Page had loftier goals for himself as a songwriter.
Since leaving the Barenaked Ladies last February, after accompanying the band on its Ships and Dips tour--in which they played for their fans on a cruise ship--Page has scored music for Ontario's prestigious Stratford Shakespeare Festival.
He's also recorded an orchestral chamber-pop record with a group called the Art of Time Ensemble, which will include interpretations of songs by the highbrow likes of Leonard Cohen, Radiohead and The Weakerthans. "Some of it's very challenging . . . more on the avant-garde side," Page says.
All of that is a world away from the Barenaked Ladies' stock in trade, the group known for such cleverly goofy, offbeat pop hits as Be My Yoko Ono, One Week and Brian Wilson.
Page is well aware that no matter what happens with his solo career, people will be loudly requesting that he play those songs for the rest of his life.
He's fine with that, he says, and he's planning to play a fair selection of Barenaked Ladies material when he performs his solo acoustic set at the Calgary Folk Music Festival this weekend.
"I'm not going to do something like One Week," he clarifies. "That's kind of Ed's thing. And (If I Had $1,000,000) is a duet between me and Ed. I can't imagine doing it on my own or with somebody else. But stuff like Brian Wilson and What A Good Boy easily falls into everything else I do. It's part of my identity. It's where I come from and I'm certainly not ashamed of that by any means.
"It would be false for me to pretend that stuff wasn't a part of me."
While Page admits that he's terrified to be venturing out on his own, he's also relieved to be away from a band that he feels was often unfairly stigmatized.
"The fun, goofy, quirky thing we did, we did incredibly well," he says of the Barenaked Ladies.
"But we were also really proud of the songcraft and the range of emotions and ideas that we explored. I think diehard fans understood, but casual observers didn't give us a lot of opportunities to express those things. . . . We felt like a lot of what we did that was really good didn't get the attention it merited."
One particular attack from a critic packed a sting that Page still feels today.
"He said 'The only thing worse than a comedy band are a comedy band's serious songs,' " Page recalls. "I thought 'Oh God, that hurts.' "
The Barenaked Ladies had a lot more to offer than just giggles, Page says. They had depth, and that's a side he hopes to delve deeper into as a solo artist.
"A lot of my favourite artists, whether it's Leonard Cohen or Tom Waits or Elvis Costello . . . they all have a sense of humour in their music even though they're not necessarily known as humorists. But they have moments of levity and black humour . . . and I feel like I have to explore more of that. Not that I'm on their level, but the place they come from is a place I identify with."
Even so, had it not been for the drug arrest, Page believes he'd still be trying to make his artistic visions work within the context of the Barenaked Ladies.
"(The breakup) wouldn't have happened when it did," he says.
Page regrets the impact his ordeal had on his former bandmates, the group cancelling a string of Disney Music Block Party gigs following the bust.
"They were scared just like I was," he says. "They were nervous. But they were willing to wait and see what happened. . . . This is not how anybody imagined our life together or our image going and it was tough for everybody. . . . You just kind of roll with it as friends and brothers do."
But once the smoke cleared, it was time for everybody to sit down together and figure out whether or not Page had a future with the Barenaked Ladies.
"When you're on the career treadmill together, you keep moving forward," he explains. "But when something like this derails you, it forces you to take a good hard look.
"The criminal charges for me, and for those guys too, it made us take a really hard look at what we wanted and didn't want."


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Map 2: Seattle's Pioneer Square today.
Building name, date constructed, use during gold rush:
In 1889, Pioneer Square, the area of Seattle's original settlement, was destroyed by fire. Businesses quickly rebuilt, this time with fireproof buildings of stone and brick. By 1897, Pioneer Square was again the commercial and social center of Seattle.
Questions for Map 2
1. According to Map 2, how many hotels were operating during the gold rush?
2. What other businesses were dedicated to the needs of stampeders?
3. What do you notice about the construction dates of these buildings?
4. What evidence on the map (and key) indicates Seattle's role as a transportation center?
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It is now forty-three years since Newcastle United last won a major trophy, but last season saw Alan Pardew restore a little pride to the club with a fifth place finish in the Premier League which brought with it the return of European football to St James Park next season. On todays match of the past, though, we are going back to when silverware was just part of life for the supporters of this club, starting with a compilation of highlights from their FA Cup final appearances of 1951, 1952 and 1955. Next up is the second leg of the final of the 1969 Inter-City Fairs Cup against the Hungarian side Ujpest Dozsa. Newcastle had won the first leg bu three goals to nil, before travelling to Budapest for the return match.
Newcastles next appearance in a cup final came five years later and, while they ended up losing the 1974 FA Cup final to Liverpool, their run included one of the most infamous matches of the mid-1970s, a We then skip forward to the start of the 1980s, and extended highlights of a Second Division match from October 1982 against Rotherham United. Newcastle failed to win promotion at the end of that season, but they did a year later, and the next video is a compilation of goals from the season that turned out to be Kevin Keegans last as a player. Last but not least, we go forward to the 1992/93 season, another season that ended with the club winning promotion, this time to the Premier League, and an away match against Brentford.
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Justin Clifford Rhody is the proprietor of Friends and Relatives Records, a Ypsilanti, Michigan-based music and zine label. I first became acquainted with Rhody through Smut, his powerviolence band, and through his eponymous acoustic project. He currently plays in (D)(B)(H) but has turned most of his creative energy toward photography. His photos capture the melancholy of declinist America; the decaying Fords in the moldering suburbs of the Rust Belt, the plastic-casts of statuary standing sentry over the overgrown lawn – the physical forms of our economic and spiritual malaise.
2012 looks to be busy for Rhody: a book of his photography, Sliding Glass Door, is slated to be published this spring by Bathetic Records, a solo exhibition of Rhody's photography opens at Skylab Gallery this March in Columbus, Ohio, and Rhody has an exhibit with the painter Peter Shear planned for the summer in Bloomington, Indiana.
In the meantime, Rhody plans to continue touring the states with his slideshow and to revisit Guatemala, the setting of a few of the photographs found after the jump.


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Admit It: The Surge Worked
It's no longer a close call: President Bush was right about the surge. According to Michael O'Hanlon and Jason Campbell of the Brookings Institution, the number of Iraqi war dead was 500 in November of 2008, compared with 3,475 in November of 2006. That same month, 69 Americans died in Iraq; in November 2008, 12 did.
Violence in Anbar province is down more than 90 percent over the past two years, the New York Times reports. Returning to Iraq after long absences, respected journalists Anthony Shadid and Dexter Filkins say they barely recognize the place.
Is the surge solely responsible for the turnaround? Of course not. Al-Qaeda alienated the Sunni tribes; Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army decided to stand down; the United States assassinated key insurgent and militia leaders, all of which mattered as much if not more than the increase in U.S. troops. And the decline in violence isn't necessarily permanent. Iraq watchers warn that communal distrust remains high; if someone strikes a match, civil war could again rage out of control.
Moreover, even if the calm endures, that still doesn't justify the Bush administration's initial decision to go to war, which remains one of the great blunders in American foreign policy history. But if Iraq overall represents a massive stain on Bush's record, his decision to increase America's troop presence in late 2006 now looks like his finest hour. Given the mood in Washington and the country as a whole, it would have been far easier to do the opposite. Politically, Bush took the path of most resistance. He endured an avalanche of scorn, and now he has been vindicated. He was not only right; he was courageous.
It's time for Democrats to say so. During the campaign they rarely did for fear of jeopardizing Barack Obama's chances of winning the presidency. But today, the hesitation is less tactical than emotional. Most Democrats think Bush has been an atrocious president, and they want to usher him out of office with the jeers he so richly deserves. Even if they suspect, in their heart of hearts, that he was right about the surge, they don't want to give him the satisfaction.
Yet they should -- not for his sake but for their own. Because Bush has been such an unusually bad president, an entire generation of Democrats now takes it for granted that on the big questions, the right is always wrong. Older liberals remember the Persian Gulf War, which most congressional Democrats opposed and most congressional Republicans supported -- and the Republicans were proven right. They also remember the welfare reform debate of the mid-1990s, when prominent liberals predicted disaster, and disaster didn't happen.
Younger liberals, by contrast, have had no such chastening experiences. Watching the Bush administration flit from disaster to disaster, they have grown increasingly dismissive of conservatives in the process. They consume partisan media, where Republican malevolence is taken for granted. They laugh along with the "Colbert Report," the whole premise of which is that conservatives are bombastic, chauvinistic and dumb. They have never had the ideologically humbling experience of watching the people whose politics they loathe be proven right.
In this way, they are a little like the Bushies themselves. One reason the Bush administration fell prey to such monumental hubris was that it didn't take its critics seriously. Convinced that the Reagan years had forever vindicated deregulated capitalism and unfettered American might, the Bushies blithely dismissed liberals who warned about deregulation, or Europeans who warned about military force, on the grounds that history had consistently proved those critics wrong. "You want to know what I really think of the Europeans?" a top Bush official declared during the Iraq debate. "I think they have been wrong on just about every major international issue for the past 20 years."
Today, by contrast, it is conservatives who have been proven wrong again and again. Politically and intellectually, the right is discredited, and the arguments of its rump minority in Congress will be easy to dismiss. Liberal self-confidence is sky-high.
That's why it's important to admit that Bush was right about the surge. Doing so would remind Democrats that no one political party, or ideological perspective, has a monopoly on wisdom. That recognition can be the difference between ambition -- which the Obama presidency must exhibit -- and hubris, which it can ill afford.
Being proven right too many times is dangerous. It breeds intellectual arrogance and complacency. As the Democrats prepare to take over Washington, they should publicly acknowledge that on the surge, they were wrong. That acknowledgment may not do much for Bush's legacy, but it could do wonders for their own.
Peter Beinart, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, writes a monthly column for The Post.


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- "It was definitely a curse that killed her - probably the Transmogrifian Torture. I've seen it used many times, so unlucky I wasn't there, I know the very counter-curse that would have saved her..."
- —Gilderoy Lockhart[src]
The Transmogrifian Torture (incantation unknown) is a curse that which presumably tortures it victims to death over time. It is different from the Cruciatus Curse in that it can kill. Professor Gilderoy Lockhart claimed that this was the spell to have killed Mrs Norris before it was revealed that she had only been petrified.[1]
Transmogrifian comes from the English "transmogrify," meaning "to change or alter greatly, often to grotesque effect," possibly implying that the curse changes the shape of the victim to cause pain.
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- Seeing that this curse eventually kills, it is similar to the Killing Curse. The difference could be that, like the Cruciatus Curse, this one causes torturous effects as opposed to outright death. And unlike the Killing Curse, there is a counter-curse for this one.
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (First mentioned)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film) (Mentioned in the script)
- Pottermore (Mentioned only)
Notes and references
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 9 (The Writing on the Wall)


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It's no secret that carrying a smartphone reveals information about where you are. As the phone pings cell towers so it can maintain a connection, its location is noted and logged.
Most smartphone users also leave Wi-Fi turned on, which lets them quickly connect to available networks and use less cellular data. But that practice may also be giving some retailers detailed information about what you're doing in their stores.
The New York Times reports on retailers who are using a combination of shoppers' Wi-Fi signals and video cameras to track customer behavior in their stores. It's a real-life version of the concept used by websites to figure out how their users behave, and it's got some customers rattled.
In fact, customer complaints about the practice are one reason why Nordstrom's – which has stores in Houston – abandoned an experiment with shopper tracking in May, according to Times reporters Stephanie Clifford and Quentin Hardy.
"Way over the line," one consumer posted to Facebook in response to a local news story about Nordstrom's efforts at some of its stores. Nordstrom says the counts were made anonymous. Technology specialists, though, say the tracking is worrisome.
The stores are hiring businesses that specialize in customer tracking, and the technology used and approaches taken are sophisticated:
One, RetailNext, uses video footage to study how shoppers navigate, determining, say, that men spend only one minute in the coat department, which may help a store streamline its men's outerwear layout. It also differentiates men from women, and children from adults.
RetailNext, based in San Jose, Calif., adds data from shoppers' smartphones to deduce even more specific patterns. If a shopper's phone is set to look for Wi-Fi networks, a store that offers Wi-Fi can pinpoint where the shopper is in the store, within a 10-foot radius, even if the shopper does not connect to the network, said Tim Callan, RetailNext's chief marketing officer.
The store can also recognize returning shoppers, because mobile devices send unique identification codes when they search for networks. That means stores can now tell how repeat customers behave and the average time between visits.
Another company, Brickstream, uses an advanced stereoscopic camera that can separate adults from children. Some cameras can even tell the expression on a shopper's face, allowing the retailer to guess at his or her mood:
For example, Realeyes, based in London, which analyzes facial cues for responses to online ads, monitors shoppers' so-called happiness levels in stores and their reactions at the register. Synqera, a start-up in St. Petersburg, Russia, is selling software for checkout devices or computers that tailors marketing messages to a customer's gender, age and mood, measured by facial recognition.
"If you are an angry man of 30, and it is Friday evening, it may offer you a bottle of whiskey," said Ekaterina Savchenko, the company's head of marketing.
Brick-and-mortar retailers who buy into these tracking services feel like this is necessary to compete with online competitors, who can glean large amounts of behavioral data using Web browser tracking. Stores can use the data to make changes to floor layouts or determine how many registers to keep open. They can also be used to offer coupons to shoppers who linger in one part of a store for a long period of time.
Of course, just as you can block cookies or opt out of online tracking, you can take steps to prevent physical retailers from learning about your behavior. You can turn off the Wi-Fi feature of your smartphone before you enter a store, or put your phone on airplane mode.
How do you feel about this practice? Is the benefit of a more convenient retail store worth your being tracked? Let us know in the comments.


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This June, join Circuit Club for yet another awesome trackday at Wakefield Park Raceway. Drive your own car at the 2.2km motor racing circuit located near Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia.
All cars welcome! Official Natsoft Timing and Driver Training is included.
When: Sunday, 18th June, 2017, 13th May, 2017
Where: Wakefield Park
How Much: $265 per driver, $90 per secondary driver, $35 per passenger, spectators FREE!
Booking Online: http://circuitclub.com.au/event/88
Please note that when booking you will only receive a Paypal confirmation notice and that's all you need!
Itinerary: Sign in from 8am. Drivers briefing at 8:45am. Track open from 9am to 4pm.
Frequently Asked Questions: http://circuitclub.com.au/page/faq
All drivers must hold a current AASA or CAMS licence. Day licences are available on the day from Wakefield Park for $25. No cancellations within 7 days of the event.


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The Kindle Paperwhite is Amazon's latest Kindle and comes with a frontlit screen so you can read it in bed. Fantastic, that's just what we all want. But at the moment Amazon doesn't sell the Kindle Paperwhite in the UK, so just how can you get one?
You might think that the easiest answer is to fly to the US, walk into a Staples, and hope that they have one on the shelf waiting for you to pick up and take to the cashier.
READ: Amazon Kindle Paperwhite reader arrives to brighten your day, but UK will miss out
There are a lot of things in that statement that might not be possible: the getting on a plane, for instance.
Other options include bribing a friend in the US to buy one for you and ship it over, although you might not have any friends; how about scouring eBay and hoping that someone has already imported one, then buy it off them at an inflated rate? Nah.
A simpler option is to buy it direct from Amazon.com in the US and have it delivered to a US mailbox which will then forward it on to you. It's not as far-fetched as it sounds, as we found out.
Step one: Get yourself a BundleBox account
We used BundleBox for the sake of this experiment: there are other services available, but BundleBox had been recommended to us. The urge to order the Kindle Paperwhite was overwhelming and a great opportunity to test the service. We haven't been disappointed.
Simply put, BundleBox provides you with as personal US parcel-forwarding address. You register, pay a $15 subscription fee - which is refunded with your first shipment - and in return get an address you can use to shop at any US website.
Once your purchase arrives at your BundleBox, you're notified by email and can keep your items in your BundleBox for 30 days, free of charge. After that storage is charged.
BundleBox offers a Fedex express delivery service of two-three days (which we used) and a Fedex regular delivery service of four-five days.
Step two: Buy what you are after
We bought the Kindle Paperwhite, Amazon's new ebook reader. It is currently sold only in the US, with Amazon in the UK not detailing when it might be available here.
Of course you don't have to buy electronics: the BundleBox service allows you to send anything to the mailbox, but remember you'll then have to ship it from there to the UK and that's where it can get expensive.
It's also worth noting that taking this "very above board" approach isn't going to mean you are saving bundles of cash. It might even cost you more money when you factor in shipping costs.
You will have to ship it to BundleBox in the US, then pay customs and excise duties, and the Fedex costs to get it to the UK. We would recommend you use this service for items you can't get in the UK rather than trying to save a couple of quid because of favourable US pricing.
Step three: Getting it to the UK
Once you've ordered your gadget, toy, or clothes from a specific US store, it will be sent to the BundleBox depot. In our case, somewhere in Kentucky. If you live in the UK you will have to pay duty on deliveries and to speed things along you can pre-pay this so it doesn't get held up at Customs - very handy.
To make things simple BundleBox has the dimensions of the most current objects it sends on file. For us that meant telling BundleBox we had received a Kindle Paperwhite and it knowing exactly how much that would cost to send on to us.
In the case of the Paperwhite we paid £26.75 in shipping and £20.09 in taxes. Add that to the cost of the Kindle (£80.93) and the experiment has cost us £127.77. As we said, no real saving, but you can't get it here so worth the premium - we can now read in bed with the lights out, tee-hee.
Step four: Wait for the Fedex man to turn up
The service constantly keeps you up to date with what's going on, giving you the chance to track the Fedex parcel if you want, but also to let you know that it has left the building and will turn up on a set date.
Et voila! Two days after it left Kentucky we have an Amazon Kindle Paperwhite on our desk, safely, legally, and without any issues. The best part is that you simply sign-in with your Amazon account and you're set to use it like any other Kindle.


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The Met Office has re-assessed its gale warning which is now only for today (Friday February 3) across Sussex.
The yellow (be aware) alert, which previously was for today and tomorrow, reads: "Gales are expected to affect some southern parts of England and Wales during today; inland locations are likely to see a relatively short period of 40-50 mph gusts, whilst windward coastal areas will see a longer period of 50 to 60mph gusts with isolated gusts to 70mph.
"Occasionally heavy rain will also affect south-west England and southwest Wales for a time, with a narrow band of locally heavy rain moving east across other southern areas through the evening, which combined with the gusty winds may lead to some travel disruption. This could include localised problems for high-sided vehicles on prone routes and roads affected by spray and standing water.


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International Association of Outsourcing Professionals ranks Jones Lang LaSalle as one of the world's leading real estate outsourcing providers
SINGAPORE, 22 February 2011 — Jones Lang LaSalle announced today that it has been named as one of the world's top 100 outsourcing providers as part of the 2011 Global Outsourcing 100®, the annual ranking of high-quality service providers across all industries as determined by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals® (IAOP®).
The 2011 Global Outsourcing 100 and The World's Best Outsourcing Advisors recognizes the world's best outsourcing service providers and advisors. These rankings are based on applications received and evaluated by an independent judging panel organized by IAOP and led by IAOP Chairman Michael F. Corbett.
"Revenue data supplied by applicants for the Global Outsourcing 100 shows the size and strength of the outsourcing industry. Outsourcing is enjoying strong growth and companies are outsourcing more of their operations than ever before," said Corbett.
"The companies on The Global Outsourcing 100 and The World's Best Outsourcing Advisors lists are proven leaders and rising stars," said Corbett. "They are the companies you want to partner with to achieve success and better outsourcing outcomes."
"It is a great honor to receive IAOP's highly regarded distinction for the third consecutive year," said John Forrest, CEO of Corporate Solutions, Asia Pacific for Jones Lang LaSalle. "As more companies realize the benefit of strategic outsourcing partnerships, we continue to enhance our integrated service platform to deliver solutions that cut costs and maximize productivity across our corporate real estate partners' departments, global portfolios, and organizations."
"As Asian companies grow and expand beyond their traditional domestic markets they are grappling with the opposing forces of business growth and cost reduction in order to be competitive globally," said Mr Forrest. "In response, they are increasingly adopting vendor-partnering models to outsource tactical service delivery to specialist real estate service providers."
"Just as the outsourcing wave moved through the US and Australia, we expect to see the next wave of outsourcing come from European and Asian companies over the next five years."
The Global Outsourcing 100 is an essential reference for companies seeking new and expanded relationships with the best companies in the industry. The lists include companies from around the world that provide the full spectrum of outsourcing services — not just information technology and business process outsourcing, but also facility services, real estate and capital asset management, manufacturing and logistics. They include not only today's leaders, but tomorrow's rising stars.
As part of The Global Outsourcing 100, IAOP also introduced a new list in 2009, The World's Best Outsourcing Advisors, geared specifically to companies that are outstanding global outsourcing advisors and consultants. In addition to being part of The Global Outsourcing 100, the new list of advisors ranks the top consultant, legal and related advisory firms globally, and is a valuable reference tool for companies needing expert advice and guidance with their outsourcing projects.
"The Global Outsourcing 100 and The World's Best Outsourcing Advisors rankings help companies make better informed purchasing decisions with confidence because these companies have gone through a rigorous process that has put their credentials through objective scrutiny," said Deborah Hamill, senior managing director global membership of IAOP.
Other members of the judging panel include:
About IAOP The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals® (IAOP®) is the global, standard-setting organization and advocate for the outsourcing profession. With more than 110,000 members and affiliates worldwide, IAOP helps companies increase their outsourcing success rate, improve their outsourcing ROI, and expand the opportunities for outsourcing across their businesses. To learn more, visit http://www.iaop.org.
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|...Woo-hoo! Everything was covered in snow!
|What's happened to all my prize plants?!?
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A New York teacher could be in hot water after sending a note home with her pre-kindergarten students saying some of them were showing up to school so dirty she didn't want to touch them.
Parents say the handwritten note was sent home by a teacher at the Buffalo School District's BUILD Academy. The Nov. 14 letter says several of the 3- and 4-year-old children "also give off unpleasant smells."
The letter also requests the signatures of parent and child to confirm it was received.
The Buffalo News reports the school board concluded the teacher should face disciplinary action.
Kimberly Wells says she was shocked by the letter her granddaughter brought home. She says it made the girl ask if her teacher thinks she stinks.


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A Family Tradition since 1895
Since 1895, five generations of funeral directors at the J.S. Burkholder Funeral Home have been serving families of the Lehigh Valley in their time of need. Our family has developed a tradition of caring by assisting the community with funeral services and by helping people to prearrange their own funeral services.
J.S. Burkholder Funeral Home, Inc. is family-owned and operated since 1895. We are the only funeral home in Allentown selected for membership by Selected Independent Funeral Homes, an invitation extended only after a thorough evaluation of out character, service, performance and facilities.
For over 115 years, the J.S. Burkholder Funeral Home, Inc., has served the families of the Lehigh Valley. We appreciate the trust that has been placed in us. It is the policy of Burkholder's never to refuse services based on the ability to pay. Additionally, we feel that no one should go into debt for a funeral service. It is our responsibility to assist you in making an intelligent and reasonable decision, and to this, we are dedicated.
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Texas House: Students can carry concealed handguns on college campus
The Texas House Saturday passed a bill that would allow students with concealed handgun licenses to carry firearms in classrooms and buildings.
House Bill 972 would allow students, faculty and staff of a public college or university who are licensed to carry concealed handguns to bring them into classrooms. However, a provision in the bill would allow schools to opt-out of the mandate if they consider input from students, staff and faculty, which wasn't included in the Senate's version.
The body provided preliminary approval to the measure and it will likely move to the Senate upon third reading. Members of the Senate have recently declared the proposal dead.
Democrats attempted to block the bill with six point of orders, but each was overruled.
"The idea that this bill will increase violence is unfounded," said the bill's author Rep. Allen Fletcher, R-Cypress. "I did not file this bill so CHL can be heroes in mass murders, but rather so they can protect themselves from" sexual assaults, robberies, burglaries and car thefts.


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If you've ever practiced any form of martial arts, or merely had an infatuation with overdubbed '60s kung fu movies, the Martial Arts History Museum surely will make an impression. Opened in Burbank in 2011, it is the first museum in the world to focus on the history of martial arts as a whole, rather than on one specific discipline, such as karate, judo or taekwondo. The place is full of compelling and colorful exhibits, which break down each individual martial art by the country that practiced it, plus fascinating examples of authentic weaponry and wardrobe and an informative timeline. A room devoted to martial arts in pop culture nicely ties in our American obsession through films, TV shows, comics, songs and cartoons. Those who know martial arts only from The Karate Kid or Hanna-Barbera's '70s cartoon Hong Kong Phooey will have a much broader understanding of it after visiting this gem of a museum. —Nikki Kreuzer
2319 W. Magnolia Blvd., Burbank, 91506. (818) 478-1722, martialartsmuseum.com.
In just two years, Christian Chavez has created an oasis of chill under the Sunset Boulevard bridge in Echo Park. Echoes Under Sunset is nothing like the Laugh Factory or the Comedy Store. No comic's friends laughing too much at his lame jokes, no two-drink minimum, no limits on obscenity or political incorrectness. Instead you'll find free entry, cheap drinks and an ethereal decor that feels like a sort of voodoo taqueria. The space used to be a Korean clothing business until Chavez rented it in 2012 and converted it, almost entirely with his own hands, into an art space. He experimented with an open-mic night, and local comics loved the intimate vibe so much that they started hanging out there all the time. Now there's an open-mic every weekday, among other high-profile comedy acts. "Comics like it because there's no rules," Chavez says. "Do whatever you want, just don't light my place on fire." —Isaac Simpson
1310 Glendale Blvd., Echo Park, 90026. (213) 446-5466, echoesundersunset.com.
If someone had told you 10 years ago that the brightest and funniest minds of our generation soon would be offering up free radio shows every week — which you could hear on your phone whenever you wanted — would you have believed him? In our opinion, the best podcast going is The Champs, hosted by Chappelle's Show co-creator Neal Brennan and comedian Moshe Kasher. The premise is a bit un-PC: The pair, who are white, interview almost exclusively black guests, drawn largely from the realms of television, movies, music and sports. But what could be an hour of face-palms almost always turns into something poignant, revealing and downright inspirational. The guests are often famous (Chris Rock, Blake Griffin, Questlove), but Brennan and Kasher frequently steal the show with their personal insights. Before your ears, Brennan comes to terms with the fact that he's an asshole, and Kasher realizes that his insane childhood has probably scarred him for life. It's as cathartic as it is funny. —Ben Westhoff
Located in an industrial area of Glassell Park, this unassuming-looking building originally housed a liquor distributor in the 1950s and '60s. It also functioned as a haberdashery, a fine-furniture distribution hub and a rental facility for production companies before becoming Keystone Art Space, which has been around for about two years. The 50,000-square-foot area is a collection of 60 rented artist studios for those working in numerous creative disciplines, from watercolorists, video-game designers and jewelers to woodworkers, welders, sculptors and collage artists. The massive building features classrooms, membership-based workshops for hobbyists, a full-scale gallery and even a decent-sized film/photography shooting space, complete with makeup and wardrobe areas. Already nearly all the workspaces are occupied, enabling the building's artists to practice, teach and exhibit their art in a communal setting. Keystone also is the headquarters of the Create L.A. nonprofit, which hosts free classes for community youth, priming the proverbial canvas for future generations of budding artists. —Tanja M. Laden
2558 N. San Fernando Road, Glassell Park, 90065. firstname.lastname@example.com, keystoneartspace.com.
On a tree-lined hillside west of Santa Monica Airport, one resident has been dealing out of her garage — dealing art, that is. Emma Gray is a curator, editor and impresario who adores unconventional spaces, most recently Five Car Garage, an accurately named, surprisingly well-appointed structure in her alleyway. Previously belonging to a classic car aficionado, it's tricked out like a Chelsea gallery, with sealed concrete floors and wide roll-up doors. Gray doesn't so much represent artists as produce projects with them, joking, "I'm a gallery in denial, happy to provide a platform. Fuck convention." Her crew includes Hammer and Whitney Biennial artists and emerging talent, whom Gray asks for "impossible" ideas — fanciful, site-specific visions a proper gallery couldn't sell. The in-crowd has gotten with the program of afternoon receptions for shows such as David Hendren's elaborate, inconvenient mechanical sculptures, and Megan Daalder's upcoming small-audience "performance-sculpture." Address provided by appointment, and for events. —Shana Nys Dambrot
Santa Monica, 90405. (310) 497-6895, emmagrayhq.com.
We didn't know we needed one until it came here. Velveteria is a velvet-painting museum curated by Caren Anderson and Carl Baldwin, who relocated from Portland, Oregon, to open their new space in Chinatown late last year. This storefront gallery displays about 500 paintings — Baldwin likes to say "about 420 wink wink" — cherry-picked from the couple's 3,000-piece collection, bringing a welcome note of eccentricity to the growing hip-ification of the neighborhood. "See the '60s on velvet: black power, JFK, Beatles, Stones, rock 'n' roll, Vietnam and tiki," screams the website, and it's all true — plus a plethora of unicorns, religious icons, Liberace and the Hall of Elvis. More than a hobby, Velveteria purports to make a serious study of the genre as interpreted around the world. Best of all is a special blacklight room, packed floor to ceiling with glowing works of art, where cushions are provided for your hanging-out pleasure, upholstered in (of course) zebra velvet. —Suzy Beal
711 New High St., Chinatown, 90012. (503) 309-9299, velveteria.com.
There's always something good playing at the Sundance Sunset Cinema, at least if you're a grown-up. Bucking the PG-13 trend that's dominating most multiplexes, the theater has a strict 21-and-older policy, with movies to match. Why the age limit? So you can bring a glass of beer or wine into the theater, rest it on the side table next to your reclining seat and enjoy your choice of flick from among five well-curated screens like a goddamned adult. Show up after 4 p.m. when the kitchen opens, and add on a made-to-order lobster roll or gourmet pizza. Like the festival that shares its name, the Sundance specializes in indie and foreign fare, so odds are you'll leave feeling smarter than when you entered (if you limit yourself to one bottle of wine per person, that is). And if you've got highbrow tastes but a low balance in your checking account, on Tuesdays tickets are just $5. —Amy Nicholson
8000 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hlywd., 90046. (323) 654-2217, sundancecinemas.com.
If you're looking for a sure-fire retread of a recent New York–anointed stage hit or a comforting reboot of a canonical classic, do not drive out to Atwater Village and lay your money down at Echo Theater Company. Producing artistic director Chris Fields and managing artistic director Drew Dalzell didn't become the city's premier producers of dark and daring new work from emerging playwrights by playing short-odds favorites. Rather, they've perfected unerring early-warning artistic radar for identifying tomorrow's Theresa Rebeck or Stephen Adly Guirgis or Suzan-Lori Parks or Will Eno before they get too agented up and unaffordable for 99-seat economies. Echo's acumen for matching state-of-the-art writing with top-of-their-game actors has already resulted in acclaimed and ballsy world premieres by Matthew Benjamin & Logan Brown, Padraic Duffy , Gary Lennon , Mickey Birnbaum and Tommy Smith. This season they're readying another new play from Smith (writer of this year's acclaimed pedophilic-romance play Firemen) as well as from Houston-based comer Miki Johnson, and are promising more. —Bill Raden
3269 Casitas Ave., Atwater Village, 90039. (310) 307-3753, echotheatercompany.com.
Playing Scrabble or Jenga at your local coffee shop is nothing new, but Game Häus Café is a real game changer. For a $5 cover charge (good for all day), grab a spot at one of the cozy leather couches or sit at one of the extra-long, extra-wide tables built with gamers in mind. Then choose from a huge collection of board games — 834 and growing — from Agricola to Zombicide and everything in between, all neatly arranged on Game Haüs' custom shelving. Knowledgeable, friendly staff will help you pick out a game and even teach you how to play. A selection of themed sandwiches (like the Turkey to Ride), coffee drinks and pastries will keep you satiated. The cozy atmosphere and huge selection make this spacious, brick-walled cafe the perfect place to slaughter zombies. Or, you know, just work on your farm. —Sascha Bos
1800 S. Brand Ave. #107, Glendale, 91204. (818) 937-9061, gamehauscafe.com.
L.A. is filled with dance companies, especially contemporary dance companies, but few gain a public profile beyond the local dance community. Jacques Heim's Diavolo and Benjamin Millepied's L.A. Dance Project are two that emerged from the pack. BODYTRAFFIC is the latest contemporary dance troupe to make the move toward the big league. Founded in 2007, its emphatically all-caps name references both L.A.'s distinctive vehicular movement and dance's human motion. The planets aligned in the best way when BODYTRAFFIC artistic directors Lillian Barbeito and Tina Finkelman Berkett persuaded New York "it" choreographer Kyle Abraham to create a new work for their young troupe, and the premiere of the resulting Kollide collided with Abraham receiving a coveted MacArthur genius grant. BODYTRAFFIC's rave reviews from The New York Times, invitations to prestigious dance festivals and selection as one of Dance Magazine's "25 to watch" have created a rising tide of well-deserved attention. —Ann Haskins
(310) 923-2766, bodytraffic.com.
Held in Hollywood Forever's gothic-gorgeous Masonic Lodge, the 16th incarnation of the on-again-off-again-since-2008 Comedy Is Dead rejoined the land of the living June 6 after a two-year hiatus. Linchpin producer/booker Samantha Varela welcomed sketch group WOMEN as regular hosts, plus a lineup featuring Maria Bamford, Matt Besser, Steve Agee and Andy Kindler. (Aug. 21's guests included Eric André, Rory Scovel, Joe Mande and founder Duncan Trussell.) "It's not haunted or ghostly, but it's almost like you can feel the power of the Masons," Varela says of the venue. "Mixed with the energy in the room from over 300 excited people, it's almost overwhelming. It's truly the best room I've ever seen for comedy. Everyone leaves feeling inspired and renewed with life ... which is ironic, since it's at a cemetery." Comedy Is Dead returns Oct. 9. —Julie Seabaugh
6000 Santa Monica Blvd., Hlywd., 90038. (323) 469-1181, hollywoodforever.com.
When it comes to outdoor amphitheaters around L.A., the Hollywood Bowl and the Greek Theatre get all the love. But the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre also has great music and natural beauty, with only a fraction of the hassle. It's shocking just how friendly the staff is, how easy the venue is to navigate and how quickly you can park. (It's stacked parking, so you can't leave until the show's over, but still.) The facility includes an 87-seat indoor stage, but even the main, 1,200-seat outdoor amphitheater feels intimate. The sound is first-rate, as is the stunning backdrop of trees and hillside, illuminated by colored lights. The performances tend toward world music, family-friendly festivals, and folk, with some rock and hip-hop thrown in. Good stuff but, to be honest, it doesn't really matter what's playing. The Ford is just that breathtaking. —Ben Westhoff
2580 Cahuenga Blvd. East, Hollywood Hills, 90068, (323) 461-3673, fordtheatres.org.


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Ipswich have been given permission to extend Bradley Orr's loan deal until the end of the season.
The defender has made 10 appearances for the Tractor Boys since arriving from Blackburn in November.
His three-month stay was due to finish at the end of the month but Town boss Mick McCarthy has revealed the clubs have come to an agreement on an extension.
"We've spoken to Blackburn and they've said we can keep Bradley until the end of the season," McCarthy told the club's official website.
"He's brought us some experience and I think he's got better and better with each game."
The right-back made 24 appearances for Rovers after joining last January but he fell out of favour under former boss Henning Berg in October.


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Claxton Bakery, Inc.
Phone(912) 739-3441
- Admission Fee: $0.00
Hours of Operation
- Monday : 8:00am - 5:00pm
- Tuesday : 8:00am - 5:00pm
- Wednesday : 8:00am - 5:00pm
- Thursday : 8:00am - 5:00pm
- Friday : 8:00am - 5:00pm
The world-famous Claxton Bakery is the home of the Claxton Fruit Cake, filled with sun-ripened California raisins, delicious pineapple, crunchy Georgia pecans, plump juicy cherries, freshly shelled walnuts and almonds, tangy lemon and orange peel blended into a rich pound cake batter and baked to a golden brown. The company bakes and distributes millions of pounds of the fruit cakes annually.
Baking season is September through December. The bakery is located on Main Street, three blocks west of U.S. Highway 301 in downtown Claxton, the Fruit Cake Capital of the World. Customers can sample the fruit cakes and view the bakery's massive ovens from the storefront. Shop for fruit cakes, pecans, fruit preserves and other Claxton treats online at http://www.claxtonfruitcake.com/products.php.
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