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Depending on where you live, if you don't have a lot of wind in autumn, you may still have some leaves on your trees. In Northern California where I am, there are still trees laden with golden leaves. However, if your leaves are all gone but you're still in a fall mood, why not make some fall leaves and decorate with them? I designed this fun fall-themed photo holder as a way to bring all the color of fall inside where it is warm and cozy.
This is an easy fall craft project to make. I used unfinished wooden photo holders and AMACO Cloud Clay for the leaves. Cloud Clay is an air-dry clay so it's easy to use for kids and adults and it can take quite a bit of detail as you can see in my Gingko leaves. If you don't have a leaf mold in your stash, you can cut leaf shapes from Cloud Clay using regular scissors once it has dried a bit or you can use a cookie cutter. Cloud Clay colors can be mixed so you can get the colors of your choice – it's a great medium to use for a range of fun crafts.
Here's how to make this Fall photo stand :
- DecoArt Finish It Jumbo Paper Clip Photo Holders
- AMACO Cloud Clay: Orange, White
- Acrylic roller (optional)
- Leaf mold or leaf shape cookie cutter (optional)
- Gesso
- Acrylic paint: terra cotta, white
- Glaze medium
- White craft glue
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scissors, paper towel, paintbrush
Step 1
Paint the photo holders with a coat of gesso and set aside till dry.
Step 2
Paint the photo holders with two coats of terra cotta paint and set aside to dry.
Step 3
Make the leaves by mixing some Orange and White clay to get the color you want. I went for a golden color which matches the colors of the Gingko leaves. Knead the clay until it is soft and pliable. Pinch off enough Cloud Clay to fill your mold and then press the Cloud Clay into the mold to fill it. Release the Cloud Clay from the mold and set it aside to dry. You will need one leaf for each side of each photo holder.If you're not using a mold, roll the clay to make a 3/8″ sheet and cut your leaf shapes from it using a cookie cutter. Alternately, wait until the clay is dry to the touch and cut leaf shapes from it using sharp scissors.
Step 4
Mix the white paint into some glaze medium and paint the photo holder with the white glaze. Immediately wipe the paint off with a paper towel.
Step 5
When the glaze layer is dry and your Gingko leaves are dry, adhere to the photo holders using Elmer's white glue.
Step 6
Print some favorite fall photos and place in the photo holders. Sit back with a cup of hot chocolate and enjoy your personalized photo holder, perhaps contemplating other fun crafts to make this holiday season.
Check back over the next few days as we share more fun crafts for you to make and enjoy.
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We are searching for the provenance of the plaster statuette of Joseph Priestley in the collection at Priestley House in order to write an informative description for the new display case. What we learn may be useful to others who also have the statuette in their collection.
We believe statuettes were cast from a mold of the modello used the guide FJ Williamson as he sculpted the marble statue of Priestley erected in Birmingham in August 1874 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the discovery of oxygen.
The statuette is about 2 feet tall, with PRIESTLEY carved in the base and the artist's name, studio location and date inscribed in the column: WILLIAMSON, ESHER, 1874.
So far we have located information about seven statuettes
- Priestley House – This copy was given by Eagar Fahs Smith to the Priestley Museum in 1926. Wonder where he got it?
Chemical Heritage Foundation – This copy came from the Chemist Club in New York, where did they get theirs?
Dickinson College – The College acquired two copies between 1950 and 1960. Sources are being researched.
British Museum, Science Research Department – donor unknown
Royal Society of Chemistry at Burlington House – donated in 1920
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia – a statuette is listed in 1880 collections catalogue as presented for the inaugural of the Gallery by Dr. Thomas Aubrey Bowen a great-great grandson of Priestley. Whereabouts of this statuette currently unknown.
Help us in this search. Someone somewhere has information on the provenance of the Priestley statuette.
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When was this done?
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The Paiza Club is a club in the truest sense of the word: if you're not invited, you're not welcome.
Michael Kaplan
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Tiger Woods, May/June 2008
The Paiza Club is a club in the truest sense of the word: if you're not invited, you're not welcome. Nestled on the 36th floor of The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino in Las Vegas, it functions as a hotel within the hotel, designed specifically for the highest of high rollers. Only someone who blows into town with a six-figure or higher credit line will even know that the wood-paneled enclave exists.
Like its Sands Macau counterpart, the Paiza at The Venetian has its own casino, its own 8,000-square-foot suites and its own staff. The private restaurant within its walls is a round-the-clock operation, serving sublime dim sum, Peking duck and shark fin soup, thus allowing players from around the world to remain in their local time zones as they put small fortunes at risk. Waiters discreetly push silver serving carts, loaded with delicacies that appear to have time-traveled straight from a gourmet room in Hong Kong to this skyscraping sprawl in Vegas. The wine list boasts bottles of 1982 Château Lafite, 1982 Château Pétrus and 1999 Harlan. A glass-fronted humidor showcases Davidoffs, Fuentes and Ashtons. As is the custom in Macau —and this floor most assuredly caters to Asian players —private dining rooms are outfitted with large, flat-screen TVs. Patrons enjoy their elaborate banquets with programming from the homeland blaring away.
Best of all: your money is no good here. The Paiza, which was built at a cost of $30 million, is strictly for players who have been given the run of the house. Everything within its walls is comped and the place illustrates the degree to which Vegas casinos must now go to land highly coveted, free-spending whales. From one end of the Strip to the other, VIP hosts grapple in an environment that has become increasingly competitive and mind-numbingly luxe. In a world in which outre suites (the Palms has one that boasts full-size bowling lanes), famous eateries (Le Cirque's Sirio Maccioni just announced plans to open an eponymous eatery at the MGM Grand) and cool nightclubs (Vegas arguably has the largest concentration of happening spots in the world) are de rigueur, this form of exclusivity is what's required to stand out from the crowd.
Nevertheless, the Paiza is not completely unique —at the MGM Grand, for example, the ultra-exclusive Mansion provides discreet luxuries that rival those of any four-star resort in the world —but it is indicative of an increasing de-emphasis on attracting the mid-level guys who were once bread-and-butter moneymakers for Vegas casinos. "Traditionally, a $100-per-hand bettor could always get a free room and dinner," says Max Rubin, author of Comp City: A Guide to Free Casino Vacations, the handbook to snagging casino freebies. "Now it might not even get you a discounted room rate. With what they are charging for rooms, it makes no sense to give anything away to the smaller players."
That's because rooms and amenities currently account for more profits in Vegas than gambling. With accommodations routinely going for $300 per night and dinner entrées selling at Manhattan prices (in restaurants that are increasingly owned by outside entities, which means that casinos need to pay full freight for the most delectable meals that they comp), the bar has been raised dramatically. "Vegas has gotten a little arrogant," admits Steve Cyr, the high-roller host at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino and coauthor of the book Whale Hunt in the Desert. "It's hard for me to do something for a $5,000 guy [that is, a player who puts $5,000 on deposit or takes out the same amount in markers]. At $10,000, we're starting. And if you put up $25,000 and bet an average of $250 a hand for three hours a day, then the world starts to become your oyster. Your wife goes to the spa and we give you limos to go wherever you want."
In the heart of what might be called New Comp City —the leaner, meaner, dizzyingly upscale Vegas —I am enjoying the Paiza's impossibly tender Kobe beef alongside my dining companion, Marshall Sylver. If you've spent any time in Las Vegas, you've probably seen Sylver's smiling face on those light-up ads that top taxis around town. He's famous for producing a hypnosis show at Harrah's and for leading self-improvement seminars across the country.
Among the town's VIP hosts and casino managers, however, Sylver is known for something beyond his act. He is regarded as a major player, a guy who'll wager $3,000 to $4,000 per hand at blackjack. Blinged out, meticulously groomed, armed tonight with a half-dozen Fuente Fuente OpusXs, Sylver is indicative of Vegas's new generation of big players. Acknowledging that casino games are unbeatable in the long term, he recognizes his value in a sophisticated way and works hard to leverage it. He may lose money at the table, but he knows he'll get some of it back through comps. Not content with what the casino happily offers him in exchange for gambling against daunting odds, he goes after what he wants in an organized manner that was once extremely rare.
For starters, Sylver understands the math. "If a casino is attempting to lure me in, they say that they'll comp me for 40 percent of my theoretical loss; for me, for three hours of play, it comes to $9,600 that they have to give me in comps regardless of whether I win or lose," says Sylver, who has been affectionately dubbed Mr. Cristal Whore by one host. "Plus, I negotiate a rebate on losses, and then there's the walking-in money. Some players can get five percent of their bankroll just for entering a place. Ask for cash, though, or else they give you a one-play chip, and the odds are that you'll lose."
Sylver's host at the Hard Rock, aggressively operating Cyr, acknowledges that the Rolls Royce-driving hypnotist has worked out a seemingly nifty deal for himself in terms of rebates, which have become the norm for high-flying gamblers. "If he loses six figures in 24 hours, we give him back 10 percent of his losses as opposed to working it out on a per-trip basis," explains Cyr, breaking it down to show that the casino is not exactly taking the worst of it. "Most people think that's not such a good deal, but here's how it works. Let's say he wins 100 grand on Monday. No problem. Then, if he comes back on Wednesday and loses 100 grand, we give him $10,000. By doing this, he comes in here all the time and we'll be ahead in the long run. I did this because I was pissed about guys winning and then going to play someplace else where they can get rebates on losses [since they'd be starting from zero at the next place]. There's nothing worse than getting a call from a competing casino that's about to cash your check."
Cyr can do all this —and Sylver can benefit from it —because new technology allows him to be intimate with the play of his clients and their patterns. In the old days, Vegas was such a discreet destination that last names were dispensed with —pit bosses would have called me Mr. K back then. Today, however, they ask to see your driver's license (so you can get a plalyer's card) before you make your first bet and require a Social Security number —often written out on a government document to insure that you're not lying —if you want to buy in for more than $10,000. Little is left to chance and management quickly figures out exactly how much you win or lose. The era of being a good guy, using a winning personality and gifting hosts to enhance your comps is pretty much over.
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File this under close encounters of the aquatic kind. As reported by the Associated Press, a California man had to be rescued after a whale struck his 50-foot sailboat 40 miles off the shore of Mexico.
Max Young, 67, of Sacramento, was forced to activate an emergency beacon to alert the Coast Guard when the whale collision disabled his boat's steering system and caused the vessel to take on water. He used a mattress to plug a hole caused by the crash and four bilge pumps to bail water while waiting to be rescued.
"He was steering the boat and trying to get it back on course," Young's wife Debra Young told the Associated Press about the initial moments of the ordeal. "It took him a while to realize he didn't have any steerage at all. It took him a bit longer to realize he was taking on water."


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Brooklyn >Food & Dining > Kiku King Inc
361 7th Ave, Brooklyn, NY | Directions 1121540.665802 -73.982156
Monday 11:30 AM - 3:00 PM
Tuesday 11:30 AM - 3:00 PM
Wednesday 11:30 AM - 3:00 PM
Thursday 11:30 AM - 3:00 PM
Friday 11:30 AM - 3:00 PM
Saturday 1:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Sunday 1:00 PM - 10:30 PM
Neighborhoods: Park Slope
Worst Delivery Experience Ever. – Ruined our Valentines Day Dinner. Ordered from there tonight at 8:30. Food took 1 hour to arrive and turned out to be the completely wrong order. We called to complain & they said they would check it out & call back. They didn't. Then we called again and they admitted there was a mistake and they would redeliver. Half hour later and we were still waiting. We call them and they say "the guy is on his way". 15 minutes later, no guy. Finally, at 10:10, a delivery man shows up with NO FOOD. He asks us for the food we received (in error) back, so he could switch it with the people they actually delivered our order to. And then bring back our order to us. Our order, with raw fish, that had been opened by someone else and had been sitting around (unrefrigerated) for an hour. Gross, and also (presumably) Completely Illegal & Totally Unsanitary. Nasty! This place obviously practices horrible customer service and poor food safety handling. They were obviously unwilling to pay for their mistake by remaking our order, but they paid for it by losing a repeat customer. Never will we order there again. Happy Valentines Day!
The best tempura ever! – Tempura is always my favorite Japanese food. Whenever I go to a Japanese restaurant, I always order the same food: TEMPURA! This restaurant serves very good tempura. The price is reasonable and the service is not bad. Their california roll is tasty and worth trying. I have to apologize to the waiter because I ''forgot'' to leave tips for him. SORRY.
Closed, by order of Board of Health – Walked by kiku tonight, thinking about getting some of their awesome sushi...only to find the place closed, grate strategically positioned over a "closed, by order of the board of health" sign. gak. won't be going there again!
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Advancing our forest economyOctober 10,2013In August, the Vermont Council on Rural Development was honored to serve as a partner with the Windham Foundation to facilitate their 35th Grafton Conference. On the 50-year anniversary of the foundation, they wisely chose to bring together key industry and policy leaders to address the topic: Vermonts Forest Economy: Advancing Creativity and Entrepreneurship in Value-Added Forest Products.
You can see the results of these discussions on the Windham Foundation website: www.windham-foundation.org/programs/grafton-conferences/reports.
The working forest in Vermont is no accident; it is the result of innumerable economic decisions made by generations of rural families as they make a living from the land. Their stewardship contributes so much to us all through recreation, beauty, natural habitats, clean air and water, and a creative variety of wood products, but their role as stewards, and their importance in providing an economic foundation to our working landscape, has been underappreciated.
One of the gravest dangers confronting the future of Vermonts working landscape is the threat to the economic vitality of the forest products industry. In recent decades weve seen mill closings and the loss of capacity throughout the industry. This is accompanied, unfortunately, by the breakup of forested tracks for other development: often sprawling housing units that take land permanently out of production.
Its wonderful to see the forest products economy celebrated by the Windham Foundation, and to see forward thinking about how it is innovating to support the ecology and prosperity of Vermont into the future.
It is encouraging to see a growing recognition and respect for the hardworking Vermonters who work in our forests and build their livelihood from them. In our global economy, managing our forests will mean conservation in action. Vermonters told VCRD through the Council on the Future of Vermont that they did not want the state to become a parkland for the well-to-do or an inauthentic rural Disneyland.
I believe that Vermonters are committed to a strong and ecological economy that sustains our farms and our forests in active use as their best use, and so keeps the strong working landscape vital for all it does for us as individuals and as our brand signature to attract tourism, other businesses, and residents. We all choose to live here for a reason, and the forested backdrop to our lives is part of it.
But to keep forests as forests, we will need to define and advance opportunities for businesses to build profit margins at each component part of the industry, including landowners, loggers, trucking, milling; and the rich diversity of value-added products, from furniture and buildings to bowls, toys, and works of art.
The industry and the public will need to work in greater unity: building bridges between the components of the industry, supporting profitability through the chain of production, and ensuring financial viability of good land use practices.
The partnership needs to be deeper than just the businesses in this industry. We ought to buy local (Local Wood, Local Good) but also to support the opportunities of entrepreneurs to seize global opportunities. We need to work as a team to strengthen the Vermont brand for mutual benefit. We should work as environmentalists to recognize and respect entrepreneurs and innovators who advance this economy, thereby advancing all that it contributes to all of us.
Not to be maudlin, but remember the old line, Have you thanked your farmer today? Maybe we should thank the landowner who gives us free run of his woods, the logger whose hard labor brings out the wood, the mill owner whose business is a local economic anchor, and the value added artisan who constructs beautiful Vermont products that, just like local foods, let us connect back to the land.
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Two features immediately strike the first-time visitor to Harrogate: the open space of The Stray, a common of some 200 acres in the centre of the town, and the sheer wealth of Regency and Victorian buildings, which lend an old-fashioned, prosperous air. The spa town came into its own in the Victorian era, thanks to the curative powers of its mineral wells, but the place has now established itself as a centre for shows (from the agricultural – the Great Yorkshire Show – to antiques, flowers and toys) and conferences, with the Harrogate International Centre a magnet for businesses. The Montpellier Quarter, mainly centred on the renovated Royal Baths development, is the place to find some of the best restaurants in Harrogate, including one of the town's famous landmarks, Betty's Café Tea Rooms. Here too, is the contemporary Van Zeller, and seafood stalwart Drum and Monkey, which has plied its trade since 1971.
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Aphelocoma californica (western scrub jay)
Melospiza melodia (song sparrow)
April 29, 2008
Escondido, San Diego County, California
Western scrub jay (Aphelocoma californica) taking a nestling song sparrow (Melospiza melodia) out of its nest.
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A driver believed to be in his late teens was shot dead during an apparent carjacking in a neighborhood not far from UTSA's main campus.
San Antonio police responded to the 300 block of Allendale Oak around 11:15 p.m. for a report of a shooting, and found the victim dead outside a home.
Officers at the scene said it appears he was shot by someone who was attempting to steal his car.
They said the victim then went to a home on Allendale Oak, looking for help.
As of 6 a.m., the staff at the Bexar County Medical Examiner's office had made only a tentative identification of the victim but did confirm he is in his late teens.
Police have released very little information about the shooter, only saying that he drove off in a silver or light colored Toyota.
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Hello! I have a Compaq Presario c700 (c792ev model) and i want to install MacOSX. I tried to install Snow Leopard with 2 methods.
1.With Rebel Efi boot loader
2.With lifehacker's guide
but both without success. Then i read tutorials from here about installing Snow Leopard. Almost all the guides said that i will need an exsisting MacOSX installation. Well, look for it and now i download the iAtkos 5i. The only thing i want to know if i can install it. My laptop specs are:
*Intel Pentium Dual-Core Inside
*Intel GMA950-x3100
*Atheros AR5007
(i believe you don't want to give you the other specs cause i believe are useless.)
So? what do you believe?


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People.. ARE awesome. Remember that every person has no limits.
An experience is something that you feel and learn from. I created my bucket list so that I would know how life really felt like. One of the things that I am afraid of most is heights. I am always trying to push my limits when it comes to my fears. I used to live behind a wall because fear made me think about what I said or did. Not any more. Learning from my experiences, I have realized that I will not live forever, and that I cannot be afraid of what someone will think or say about me. For the reasoning, that they haven't lived in my shoes, they do not understand my logic, they cannot possibly imagine the pain that I have seen. So therefore, I will live my life according to the plan that was handed to me.
This video is me accomplishing one of the many things on my bucket list.. Cliff Jumping. Enjoy, and please, excuse the language haha
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I have a dirty little secret. I miss penis enlargement ads. Between the successful takedown of several large spammers and my own efforts, I get almost no spam any more. Believe me, I don't miss 99.999% of it. Just the best of the make her long for your schlong ads sent by people in countries for whom English is not to be speaking the language of primary. Many of these foreign fraudsters possessed all the communication skills of the friendly folks who brought us All Your Base Are Belong To Us or Engrish.
I adored the way they tried to find new and unique ways to refer to a man's pride and joy without actually using the clinical term for it. (And I have to admit the cleverness lacking in calling it a 'man's pride and joy' would not make it into Nicole's Hall of Sham(e) below.)
I don't think anyone went broke underestimating the number of males who suspect they're under-endowed, or who believe that having a perfectly normal 'love cannon' is simply not acceptable to modern females who want it to be no less than the size of the rod in a Tom of Finland cartoon. What was a wank fantasy for post-War gay males, apparently, is only good enough for today's voracious woman.
As much as we might laugh at the ridiculous claim that some miracle pill can produce three inches in a month or a thicker girth in seven days, articles I've read over the years indicate that not only men respond to these, but women as well. I am so curious about this! Do you hand them to your lover, a tacit admission that he's not satisfying you? Or do you tell him they're "vitamin supplements"? Or do you crush them into powder and mix them in with his mashed potatoes?
Every once in awhile some spammer's servers got hacked and customer data was exposed for all the world to see just how massive and imposing some men's…….gullibility really was. Several years ago I read of a case where an enlargement spammer's customers included men with college educations and prominent jobs on Wall Street. (As Xaviera Hollander, the Happy Hooker once put it, "When the stocks go up, the cocks go up!") You'd think these people would be smart enough not to fall for one-eyed trouser snake oil, but apparently the fear of not measuring up, as it were, overrides any logic circuits in the male brain and they whip out……..the ol' credit card.
For awhile I kept a list of some of my favourite enlargement spam headlines. A few are more for, er, performance issues rather than size.
Make your love torpedo drive all the way to her tanker
Your girl very likes to be engaged in love! And can not you do love long?
Would you like to be a sculptor of your own penis?
(Does this involve plaster-of-Paris?)
Literally become a monster snake in my pants
(This just scares me. I don't want to be a monster snake & I'm very sure if I was I wouldn't fit in your pants even if your name was Michael Moore!)
Hoist your darling sexual times
The One Secret to Giving Your Woman Paralyzing Orrgasms That Will Have Her Brainwashed
(Does that mean I'll turn into a Teabagger?)
Capture rapturous girls' looks on your zipper protuberance!
(Jim is bustin' out all ohhh-ver!)
Deeper in her shaft
Doping for your porksword…Be her mighty night predator!
(H1N1 isn't now an STD, is it, you swine?)
2 Steamy Small penis sex Positions – Supercharge Her Pleasure No Matter How mSall You Are!
(Not an enlargement ad, obviously, but if all else fails…)
Don't let porksword rust – Support your custard launcher – It's like having a female catcher
(Three utterly unrelated mental images. I mean WTF is a 'female catcher'?)
Make your tentacle work well – Prosperity in banging – Cures bed fast finish
(Attention all hentai lovers!)
Negroes admire with the of the size – we will surpass them!
(I have read that the real reason many men want bigger you-know-whats is to impress the guys in the locker room. Yes really. You can draw your own conclusions about the Average Male from that.)
Power up your pork rocket – Neither rod will stay so long – Nail her like a youngster
(How many rods do you have, exactly?)
Harder banging is real
(Good to know. I was afraid it was all a fig newton of my imagination!)
Your wood will be prefect for her fornicator – Lite your bedroom with fire once and for all!
(We're gonna have to hurry before we die of smoke inhalation!)
Stop repelling your manliness – Get hot in a while – Make your intruder the best for her – If she is tired of your night games you can rock her world using our products!
You'll brake walls with your boner
(Does this mean you can use your boner to brake your car so you don't hit a wall?)
Your shlong can be shlonger
(Oh, that's original.)
Virtual Sax can not be compared with real pleasure!
(Sex is still better than jazz music)
Make your weapon of love shoot twice more at one night! With our goods it isn't a limit!
(Hope you've got a permit for that thing)
Your unstoppable love force will be all about you
(May the Love Force be with you, young Skywalker)
Desire will literally circulate in your wang
(That's gotta feel weird)
Do not let your intentions in love go flop anymore!
(Heaven forfend)
Three girls at one night? It is easy for your manhood when you know our address in Internet!
(Because, like, the women who will agree to ménage-à-quatres live at your place?)
Get incredible sizing profit in pants
(Ironically this was for a thyroid drug!)
You can drill ladies better! Faster rod boosting!
Women will see your talent in drilling and banging
(Who knew carpentry was so erotic?)
Breakthrough in wang-liftin!
(Is this an Olympic event?)
Impulse for manliness ideals of bed-marathons
You'll be able to invade so deep into woman, she'll scream and shout like crazy
Be her wild banger!
(But don't mash her potatoes)
The quicker pecker picker-upper!
(Someone's showing their age)
You'll fap with eager on it
(WTF? I'm fairly certain 'fap' is a reference to masturbation, but why would you want to get bigger if you're by yourself? Maybe you need to shoot over a few of those Hot Filpnio grils who are dying to meet YOU!!! spams)
If you aren't American you may have missed the classic "Smilin' Bob" Enzyte commercials:
Don'cha think if it was possible for medical science to give you a longer, thicker, harder, more massive Pied Piper that most men today would be forced to go everywhere pushing a wheelbarrow in front of them? Believe me, the marketing success is guaranteed. As soon as a REAL enlargement pill works, Pfizer and Eli Lilly will be all over it like a banker on a bailout!
Now if your problem is erectile dysfunction, and you're short of cash, there is an alleged cure that's a lot cheaper than Viagra…however, you're not gonna like it…


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Christmas at Hamlet's Castle
Christmas at "Hamlet's Castle" Kronborg 2013
Once again Kronborg Castle invites you to a cheerful Christmas throughout December, focusing on quality, design and evocative experiences. A highlight is the Arts and Crafts Christmas Market which now extends over the first two weekends of December. A new feature is the Food & Drink Christmas Market for the gourmet in the third weekend. And, as always, you can buy delicious mulled wine and home-made Danish doughnuts, drive in horse-drawn carriage, enjoy the Christmas ball and do the Christmas tour of the castle.
Arts and Crafts Christmas Market 1 and 2 Advent weekend
Do not miss the great Arts and Crafts Christmas Market 30 November - 1 December and again 7 - 8 December. In evocative historical settings you can experience more than 40 stands with unique arts and crafts, design and visual arts, including jewellery, textiles, glass, ceramics and wicker. Find the unique design Christmas-gift, enjoy the workshops and taste the hot mulled wine and home-made Danish doughnuts in the rustic spaces. Admission free to the Arts and Crafts Christmas Market.
Food & Drink Christmas Market 3 Advent weekend
When Christmas approaches, you start planning what to put on the Christmas table. So, in the 3 advent weekend we focus on food and drink. Hear about the traditions of brewing beer at Kronborg Castle and taste a true Kronborg beer developed with inspiration from the Renaissance. Admission free to the Food and Drink Christmas market.
Horse-drawn carriage between Kronborg and Helsingør city's Christmas markets
In addition to the Christmas markets at Kronborg Castle there are Christmas markets at the central square Axeltorv and in the Scandlines ferry terminal. In all weekends in December horse-drawn carriages will provide evocative transportation between the markets.
Christmas ball, Christmas bazaar and Christmas jazz
Christmas at Kronborg Castle is also a lot of activities in which you can participate. Kronborg's Santa Claus throw a Christmas ball in the castle's impressive banqueting hall with music, singing, dancing and lots of fun for children and adults. In the Christmas workshop you can make decorations as they did 100 years ago. You can enjoy Christmas jazz concert, and more. Every day in December you can join the Christmas tours of Kronborg Castle and learn about the food, celebration and superstition of the Renaissance Christmas.
All activities are free when normal admission is paid.
Read more on www.kronborg.dk
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|26/12/2013 - 29/12/2013
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COLLINGWOOD – This weekend, the Toronto Argonauts and Calgary Stampeders will square off in the 100th Grey Cup.
The CCI Fighting Owls Alumni are hoping you come celebrate with them.
The organization is holding its annual party on Grey Cup Sunday this weekend. The event has raised thousands of dollars for the CCI football program.
The event takes place at the Royal Canadian Legion in Collingwood, with doors opening at 4 p.m. Admission is $10. The party features a silent auction, door prizes and tailgate food.
Alumni president Wayne Hunwicks says everyone is welcome and you don't have to be a member of the alumni to attend.
"Our first goal as an organization is to purchase equipment and subsidize the cost for players," Hunwicks said. "Beyond that, we are going to purchase an electronic scoreboard and hope to buy permanent bleacher seats before the unveiling of the new field in September 2013."
Tickets are available at Christie's Men's Wear on Hurontario Street.
For more information visit www.fightingowlsfootball.com


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News Annual Wendell-Judd Cup Cross-Country Ski Event, February 20
MARLBORO, VT - (February 10, 2010) - Cross-country skiers and snowshoe enthusiasts are invited to participate in the 44th Annual Wendell-Judd Cup, scheduled for 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, February 20 at Marlboro College.
The groomed, 5.5 mile (8 km) course is suitable for all ages and skill levels. The trail itself follows a beautiful route out to South Pond before looping back to campus. Free registration occurs in the Marlboro College Campus Center from 1:00-1:45 p.m.
Prizes will be awarded in youth, men's, women's, seniors' and pedestrian categories. Mid-point starts and shuttle are available. Refreshments will be served at the end of the race during the awards ceremony.
In the event of rain, an alternate date has been scheduled for Saturday, March 6. For more information, contact Randy Knaggs at 802-258-9253 or email@example.com.
For more than 60 years, Marlboro College has offered undergraduate education in the liberal arts. Its 330 undergraduate students enjoy an 8:1 student-faculty ratio, a voice in governing the community and individualized courses of study on a 300-acre campus in the hills of southern Vermont. Marlboro College has also offered graduate degrees and certificate programs for working adults at the Marlboro College Graduate School, located in downtown Brattleboro, Vermont, since 1997.