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Galley Resort Antigua
Antigua, Sanctuary Lagoon
Galley bay resort & spa is an adult's only All Inclusive retreat set on the tranquil west coast of Antigua. It offers guests a combination of fabulous service, 3 excellent restaurants including a Caribbean cuisine, charming accommodation and plenty of recreational facilities.
The award-winning Sea Grape restaurant is a Euro-Caribbean cuisine with European Executive Chef showcasing the finest local produce and seafood whilst taking in the tranquil setting. Spend days lazing by the pool or partake in any of the activities available, whatever your choices whilst in this Tahitian style paradise, you are sure to emerge feeling refreshed and revitalize.
Galley Bay Accommodation
Galley Resort Antigua offers the individual cottages boast private splash pools and are surrounded by lush gardens. All other rooms reside along a 3/4 stretch of white sand beach.
Gauguin Cottages with private splash pools – Situated close to the bird sanctuary lagoon approximately 50-yards from the beach. The splash pools measure a minimum of 7 ft. by 9 ft. and feature adjacent sundecks.
Superior Beachfront Rooms – Located directly on to the stunning Galley Bay beach. These traditional single level rooms feature vaulted ceilings, private terraces and ensuite bathrooms with showers.
Deluxe Beachfront Rooms – Located right on the spectacular each, these one or two-storey buildings offer more spacious accommodation, with walk-in closets, bathrooms with showers and large beach patios with beach showers.
Premium Beachfront Suites – The largest and most luxurious beachfront accommodation. Located in two-storey buildings, these contemporary split-level suites feature a sunken living room with a wet-bar, and offer spectacular views and private furnished terraces or balconies.
Galley Bay Resort & Spa Restaurants and bars
Sea Grape restaurant – Award-winning Euro-Caribbean cuisine with European Executive Chef showcasing the finest local produce and seafood.
Ismays restaurant – Offers a higher quality dining experience to be shared for that special occasion. Guests can choose from the best of the island's local flavours with everything from classic West Indian 'roti' to seafood gumbo.
Gauguin Restaurant – Intimate restaurant featuring romantic individual dining cabanas. Here you can dine a deux on delicious grill-type fare enhanced by candlelight and the sound of the surf.
Barefoot Grill – A great place to enjoy a tasty quesadilla made with resort grown produce. At sunset, hors d'oeuvres are served at the bar, which overlooks the sea from under its Tahitian-style roof.
Teepee Bar– There's nothing quite like sipping a rum punch and watching the sun slowly sink behind the Caribbean Sea.
Lounge Bar – Enjoy cocktails and hors d'oeuvres here. The bar has friendly staff and lively rhythms guaranteeing a memorable occasion.
Galley Bay Facilities and services
- Exotic freeform freshwater
- Swimming pool with cascading waterfall
- Tennis court
- Table tennis
- Non-motorized water sports such as windsurfing, sailing, snorkelling, kayaking and 'Hobie' style catamarans
- Open air library with board games & comfortable seating
- Internet access lounge
- Complementary bicycles
- Diving
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- Air conditioned fully equipped fitness room
- Fitness trail around lagoon
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Toronto-based singer, pianist and arranger Laila Biali celebrated Canada's 150 birthday by recording a cover of Neil Young's classic song "Heart of Gold."
"Neil Young is one of Canada's living legends," she said via press release, "and while 'Heart of Gold' references places that are stateside, the song has become something of a Canadian anthem. Its refrain – 'You keep me searching for a heart of gold' – is a universal and timeless message, one that resonates today as much as ever."
The cover features Biali on vocals and piano, Adam Thomas on vocals, Robi Botos on organ, George Koller on bass and Larnell Lewis on drums.
This summer you can also hear Biali guest hosting on CBC Radio 2's national jazz show, Tonic, from July 3 to 15 and Aug. 28 to Sept. 2. Find more details here.

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Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy
Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy
ISBN: 978-0-787-97093-2 April 2012 Jossey-Bass 352 Pages
Continuous improvement, understanding complex systems, and promoting innovation are all part of the landscape of learning challenges today's companies face. Amy Edmondson shows that organizations thrive, or fail to thrive, based on how well the small groups within those organizations work. In most organizations, the work that produces value for customers is carried out by teams, and increasingly, by flexible team-like entities. The pace of change and the fluidity of most work structures means that it's not really about creating effective teams anymore, but instead about leading effective teaming.
Teaming shows that organizations learn when the flexible, fluid collaborations they encompass are able to learn. The problem is teams, and other dynamic groups, don't learn naturally. Edmondson outlines the factors that prevent them from doing so, such as interpersonal fear, irrational beliefs about failure, groupthink, problematic power dynamics, and information hoarding. With Teaming, leaders can shape these factors by encouraging reflection, creating psychological safety, and overcoming defensive interpersonal dynamics that inhibit the sharing of ideas. Further, they can use practical management strategies to help organizations realize the benefits inherent in both success and failure.
- Presents a clear explanation of practical management concepts for increasing learning capability for business results
- Introduces a framework that clarifies how learning processes must be altered for different kinds of work
- Explains how Collaborative Learning works, and gives tips for how to do it well
- Includes case-study research on Intermountain healthcare, Prudential, GM, Toyota, IDEO, the IRS, and both Cincinnati and Minneapolis Children's Hospitals, among others
Based on years of research, this book shows how leaders can make organizational learning happen by building teams that learn.
Table of contents
Foreword by Edgar H. Schein xi
Introduction 1
part one teaming
1 A New Way of Working 11
Teaming Is a Verb 12
Organizing to Execute 15
The Learning Imperative 19
Learning to Team, Teaming to Learn 24
Organizing to Learn 26
Execution-as-Learning 30
The Process Knowledge Spectrum 32
A New Way of Leading 38
Leadership Summary 42
Lessons and Actions 42
2 Teaming to Learn, Innovate, and Compete 45
The Teaming Process 50
Four Pillars of Effective Teaming 51
The Benefits of Teaming 56
Social and Cognitive Barriers to Teaming 60
When Conflict Heats Up 67
Leadership Actions That Promote Teaming 75
Leadership Summary 78
Lessons and Actions 79
part two organizing to learn
3 The Power of Framing 83
Cognitive Frames 84
Framing a Change Project 89
The Leader's Role 93
Team Members' Roles 96
The Project Purpose 99
A Learning Frame Versus an Execution Frame 102
Changing Frames 104
Leadership Summary 111
Lessons and Actions 112
4 Making It Safe to Team 115
Trust and Respect 118
Psychological Safety for Teaming and Learning 125
The Effect of Hierarchy on Psychological Safety 131
Cultivating Psychological Safety 135
Leadership Summary 145
Lessons and Actions 146
5 Failing Better to Succeed Faster 149
The Inevitability of Failure 150
The Importance of Small Failures 151
Why It's Difficult to Learn from Failure 154
Failure across the Process Knowledge Spectrum 160
Matching Failure Cause and Context 164
Developing a Learning Approach to Failure 168
Strategies for Learning from Failures 170
Leadership Summary 182
Lessons and Actions 183
6 Teaming Across Boundaries 185
Teaming Despite Boundaries 191
Visible and Invisible Boundaries 193
Three Types of Boundaries 197
Teaming Across Common Boundaries 201
Leading Communication across Boundaries 212
Leadership Summary 215
Lessons and Actions 216
part three execution-as-learning
7 Putting Teaming and Learning to Work 221
Execution-as-Learning 222
Using the Process Knowledge Spectrum 229
Facing a Shifting Context at Telco 234
Learning That Never Ends 240
Keeping Learning Alive 252
Leadership Summary 254
Lessons and Actions 256
8 Leadership Makes It Happen 257
Leading Teaming in Routine Production at Simmons 258
Leading Teaming in Complex Operations at Children's Hospital 265
Leading Teaming for Innovation at IDEO 276
Leadership Summary 283
Moving Forward 285
Notes 289
Acknowledgments 309
About the Author 313
Index 315


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It has already been extensively agreed that lower company taxes will:
- create more jobs and higher wages
- support and create more Australian businesses
- increase overall economic growth and living standards
Despite the increasing evidence for a tax cut on companies, our political classes are stuck on the idea that it will give "too many benefits to foreigners."
As Michael Potter wrote on Business Insider,
"Everyone agreed the tax cut would provide a short-term benefit to foreign investors. But the Coalition and business groups presented this as a strong argument in favour of the tax cut, while the ALP and left-leaning lobby groups said it was an argument against the tax cut. The worst analysis opposing the tax cut basically assumed that any money going to a foreigner was bad, even if Australians benefited in net terms.
The absurd argument was that Australia should forego an increase in wages, investment, incomes, employment and economic growth just because some foreigners might receive a benefit."
He asks some hard hitting questions, debunking the idea that we should ignore company tax cuts simply because foreigners also benefit.
Regardless of which foreigners benefit, the broader point remains: why should a policy providing substantial benefits to Australia be dismissed because the benefit goes partly to Australians and partly to foreigners?
If we oppose policies because they benefit foreigners, why do we implement any policy that benefits any foreigner? For example, why do we provide foreign aid, particularly if there are problems with this aid?
Reducing company taxes benefits Australians and foreigners. It is simply good evidence based policy that is long overdue.


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I will pick 2 winners Wednesday morning (2-17-10)
Friday, February 12, 2010
Thread of HOPE GiveAway
I will pick 2 winners Wednesday morning (2-17-10)
15 comments:
- ~*~Patty Szymkowicz said...
I am already one of the lucky ones to receive your special HOPE necklace, so I don't quality for your giveaway ;)
Just had to say ... again ... how very lovely and special it is ... just like you dear Queen Bee!
- February 12, 2010 at 2:43 PM
- Angie in AZ said...
Love this! I'd be thrilled to win!
- February 12, 2010 at 4:28 PM
- buzzd said...
What a creative idea.
- February 12, 2010 at 6:28 PM
- Marlynn said...
You are such a special soul and I love you for it! Love your creations which are created from your heart. hugs, girlfriend,
- February 12, 2010 at 6:29 PM
- Hoshi Ayaka said...
I'm MistressDanzig from etsy! Your blog is filled with amazing things! I love it. I should have known considering how great your prompt journals are. I'm happy to have found you here.
- February 12, 2010 at 9:09 PM
- bad penny said...
I would give this to a dear friend who's life has fallen apart through no fault of her own. Just when she thought it couldn't get any worse, it did. xx
- February 13, 2010 at 6:13 AM
- daysease said...
Nathalie, what a special giveaway... today was a rough day, could sure use some "hope". Anything to remind me of it is welcome!! God is good all the time. All the time God is good. hugs...
- February 13, 2010 at 3:20 PM
- bison61 said...
I love the hope necklace-I'd give it to a friend in church who just had surgery
tiramisu392 (at) yahoo.com
- February 13, 2010 at 6:15 PM
- ooglebloops said...
No matter their situation, everyone can use a little hope in their lives, can't they?! they are very sweet - and I love the fact that they come in a decorated matchbox!!!!
- February 14, 2010 at 4:19 PM
- Bleubeard and Elizabeth said...
I saw the ones you sent to Patty and Margaret. Just had to come and say how we often forget to provide hope to our friends, loved ones, even strangers. Thanks for the opportunity to receive some and pass some on.
- February 15, 2010 at 4:02 PM
- druga szesnaście said...
thank you for giving us Hope... :)
- February 15, 2010 at 4:02 PM
- Mary Helen-Art Saves Lives said...
Hope is often a single thread connection ...thank you for visiting my blog...we are all searching and this avenue...the blog is a gift we give ourselves! Imagine and Live in Peace, Mary Helen Fernandez Stewart
- February 15, 2010 at 7:03 PM
- Ellen said...
this is really neat. I really admire you for the "background" reason for making these, even down to the fact that the twine is bit rough to remind you to pray for those in need!
- February 15, 2010 at 9:05 PM
- JaN's ArTy AtC JouRneY said...
..what a creative and kind soul you are..
..and to give someone 'hope' would be such a precious gift!
- February 16, 2010 at 2:10 PM
- Jeanie said...
Too late to enter, but they really are wonderful!
- February 18, 2010 at 9:18 AM


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Ben Hickman on
Ooooooooooooooooooooooo....purdy pictures! They are looking good
Wolf Bergenheim on
Luv it! Keep it coming! :D One of my favorite things as a kid was to notice that the same characters adventured throughout my RoleMaster covers and interior art. And to imagine their adventures! I hope you're planning on doing something like that! ;) At least I see a few such series...
Dave Rosser Jr on
My Mother is Japanese, and for what it's worth I immediately saw that both the victim and the ghost were oriental.
Love the art!
Scott Acker on
Oh, that sounds sweet Fred. Looking forward to some family friendly fare.
Fred Hicks / Evil Hat Productions 14-time creatorSuperbackeron
We've got an eye on family friendly outside of Fate Core itself, Charles -- and once we get past the next couple stretch goals, there may be a few more showing up that you'll be happy to see.
Charles Nodell on
The quality of the art is great. I do wish, however, that it was a bit more family friendly. I plan on playing the game with my seven year old and some of this would be enough to give any kid nightmares. All personal taste though. Perhaps I will print a copy of the image free preview. Maybe I will even draw some stick figures in the empty spots...
Haakon Olav Thunestvedt on
The last three drawings is so Feng Shui, even up to the Magic Cop template for the male character. :) Hope for some serious gun-fu stunts in the Shadow of the Century.
Fred Hicks / Evil Hat Productions 14-time creatorSuperbackeron
"....Which section of the book is the HK Action Cinema art going to be in? I don't remember any examples like that."
Our examples of play are, consistently, within one particular world, the fantasy one, which the topmost images in this sample are from. Other art from other genres shows up throughout, to help remind the reader that this isn't a game that's *only* fantasy. The main threads of art are linked to the three signature characters from the cover art. The HK Action Urban Fantasy is one of those.
Fred Hicks / Evil Hat Productions 14-time creatorSuperbackeron
Tim/Alan -- Yeah, that's our Hong Kong cop character getting psychic-whammied by a ghost in our "Infernal Affairs meets Dresden Files HK actioner" suite of images. Cast is nearly 100% Asian for that family of images. I get where the concern is coming from, but I don't share it.
Matthew Fowler on
Holy crap! Just got this update! Truly awesome artwork! Hate to say it, but I gotta admit, I wasn't expecting much artwork-wise... this blows me away! Keep it up! Can't wait to get this thing in my hands!
Tim Soholt on
I think the fact that the victim in the "Fu Manchu" picture appears to be Asian (or possibly Native American) mitigates the "Yellow Peril" effect a bit.
Alan De Smet on
NIce! It's cool stuff. Props for the women in the art. Good gaming art should make me say, "That character is awesome, I want to play them," and you're clearly nailing it!
That said, the second piece from the bottom (the police officer getting his brain melted) makes me uncomfortable. It feels like a Fu Manchu/Yellow Peril stereotype, and I understand that stereotype is offensive to many. Perhaps in the context of the text or other art it's entirely reasonable, or perhaps I'm just being overly cautious.
Noe Ridgway on
Kung Fu cyberape wins everything.
Oh, and as others have mentioned, THANK YOU for creating a female character who is wearing something that doesn't look like it will fall apart within 5 seconds of a fight breaking out.
Joey Mullins on
Looks great!! Cant wait!
John C. Faludi on
It looks fabulous!
David Quick on
A+++++! Very evocative art. Very appealing.
Michael RamseySuperbackeron
Loving the art!
Joe on
As the father of an 11-year-old gamer girl, I'd like to echo Karine's thanks for both understanding and addressing the way women are commonly portrayed in RPG books. It means a lot. I'm rarely *proud* to be giving a company my business, but damn -- Evil Hat is a fine company. Between Cynere's portrayal, the use of open licenses, your "Bits'n'mortar" guarantee, and the transparency you use (and ask your expansion writers to use), there's just nothing you do that I don't like.
Sophie LagaceSuperbackeron
I think I have to second every comment left so far! Good job having dynamic, action-packed art that flows, and good job portraying characters I want to play, not just look at. I'm happy with the two signature female characters so far, and I hope we'll also continue to see diversity. Thank you!
P.S.: Clearly, you strongly believe that it's always better to add an ape on the cover! ^_^
Fred Hicks / Evil Hat Productions 14-time creatorSuperbackeron
Kurt Komoda is our artist.
Darren Brewster on
The mutant freaks attacking the gorilla is genius. It could be a really awesome wrap around cover for a comic or something similar.
Fred Hicks / Evil Hat Productions 14-time creatorSuperbackeron
Yeah, Cynere -- our "signature" fantasy character -- had to address exactly what you're talking about to be a success, IMO. I'm very pleased with how we're portraying her in the book.
Karine Charlebois on
Can I just say thank you for drawing women that are actually people, kicking ass, taking names, looking real and believable? I've been critical of art in comics and RP books, as a storyboard and comic artist myself, and it's really refreshing to see characters I can relate to and want to emulate in gaming on this art.
All the art is solid and really dynamic and evocative. Each picture tells a story and that works so well to inspire players. I'm happy and impressed. I'm so looking forward to having this book in my hands!
Mark Mealman on
Fantastic artwork.
Panagiotis Grigorakakis on
Very immersive Fred. Very nice stuff.
Calvin Jim on
Love the art. Would like to see the gorilla battle pic end to end. It pooks awesome.
H. W. McCray on
I'd like some insight into the setting the kung fu ape comes from. Or at least to see his writeup!
Overall, I am well pleased. Art does not have to be color to be awesome. Indeed, it's harder to do good grayscale art than color, since you're more limited.
Roll on, Fred, roll on.
Shawn Roske on
Nice and evocative.
Jonathan Lang on
What I'd like to know is where in the book these pieces of art are slated to appear; I'd like to judge them in context.
Walt RobillardSuperbackeron
Love this art! Very dramatic. I feel like I am looking at story boards for an upcoming big blockbuster!
Declan FeeneySuperbackeron
I love the Psi/John Woo mix in a couple of those. They have a weird 'Killer' / 'Push' mash-up feel to them - very Feng Shui. I love it. Who's the artist who did them?
Michael Bentley on
Shiny. Really like the art.
Scott Gray on
Very nice!


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WIP: Dark Eldar Haemonculus #1
While my Avatar is waiting for his transfers to show up in the post, I started working on this Dark Eldar Haemonculus. I haven't painted something for my Dark Eldar collection in a while, and when the new Dark Eldar models were released, I knew I had to get this sculpt. It's stunning. It draws a lot of inspiration from Urien Rakarth and the Finecast Haemonculus, but takes it to a new level. It's so 3D and consists of so many different layers, yet it's also the most difficult model to assemble of this size I've ever worked with.
It's so frail and delicate, I've put it on a 32mm base to prevent it from toppling over. Yet I managed to snap off and lose a piece, so I had to rebuild some areas (won't tell you which lol). GW is definately moving away from gaming pieces to collector pieces. It also shows on the recent Mechanicus and Skitarii models, which fall apart if you give them a mean glance. While I count myself as a collector more than a gamer, I think with GW's skills of making plastic miniatures they should be able to design cool models that stand the stress of gaming. What do you think?


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Whatever is your reason, welcome to this journey of self discovery and exploration. I am Angie, your intimacy coach and I support busy professionals to live a fulfilled, ecstatic and successful life.
Every human desire love, intimacy and connection. Whether you are single or in a relationship, deep down you long for a deeper connection and be seen and heard. You do not need to be in a relationship to experience intimacy. Being intimate means "in-to-me-see", it means to be willing to be vulnerable and open, first to yourself, than to another person. In the act of intimacy, you reveal your heart and your authentic self. True intimacy requires self-revelation. It requires you to look inward and accept that you are whole and complete. All problems, fears and unhappiness in relationships came from the feeling that we are not whole and we busy search outside of ourselves to complete the unfulfilled parts of us.
Though we yearn for intimacy, we may also unconsciously armour and block ourselves from experiencing true intimacy; due to past trauma, hurt or upbringing. Any obstacle to achieving true intimacy becomes an obstacle to achieving self fulfilment and happiness.
Tantric Intimacy is not just physical, but also involve connecting at the emotional, mental and spiritual level. Whether you are single, currently in a blissful relationship or currently in a sexless relationship, you could unlearn and learn about intimacy and sexuality and have a better relationship with yourself and your loved ones through here. The goal is to live life every moment in ecstatic bliss where you are happy, authentic, uninhibited and living in present time instead of the past or future.
Feel free to contact me for a non obligatory consultation. Rest assured that all information shared are private and confidential. Private sessions with me are held in safe, private space where you will be supported with nurturing and loving energy and with boundaries clearly defined.
Healing begins when the mind opens and accepts without judgements all that there is. Angie lives this in each breath and each touch. Leave expectations at the door and take it home later if you wish, and let her take you on a beautiful journey.
In the Tantra session with Angie I was seeking something intimate where I could truly be free to slowly enjoy her guidance. From the moment I arrived I felt comfortable to give myself to her process. There is something about Angie which just calms me down. Physically it's not easy to explain how it felt but it was incredible, prolonged and exquisite pleasure from head to toe. I'll be seeing her again. Afterwards I felt almost spiritually unblocked. Unforgettable."
Tantra for Men
What do I most need to feel fulfilled as a man?
Premature ejaculation, not able to maintain an erection, addictions to porn or ejaculation, performance anxiety, feeling of guilt, shame or loneliness, frustration due to lack of intimacy, relationship challenges, need to be in control and be the strong man as defined by society, money worries, unable to feel or express one's emotions, low libido......these are common issues that men faced.........
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Tantra for Women
What do I most need to feel fulfilled as a woman?
Body image issues, feeling of shame and guilt, lack of sexual appetite, unable to have orgasm, past sexual trauma, inhibition, fear of intimacy, frustration due to lack of intimacy, overwhelmed with family and work life, relationship challenges, money worries., discomfort and pain from monthly menstruation, hormonal imbalance .....these are common issues that women faced........
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Tantra for Couple
What do we most need to feel fulfilled as a couple?
Lost of sparks, lack of communication, not enough sex, sex becomes a routine act, lost of trust with one another, challenges with children, money worries, different sexual needs, lack of intimacy..... it takes lots of effort to build and maintain a relationship. Many marriages gradually erode to one with no intimacy and communication when is neglected.......
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Saturday, January 28, 2006
Sacred Hoop AND Motion Man!
Luke Sick and DJ Marz, San Jose
Tonight at the Elbo Room: Red Wine Presents: Motion Man plus
Fat Hed, Sacred Hoop and DJ Toph One. Like whoa. Big ups to Toph for putting this dope lineup together on a Saturday night.
Motion Man is great live (I wish he'd put on a cape and do "Mo' Like Flows On" just once.), and I've been fiending for some live Sacred Hoop action since Luke Sick returned to the Bay from Arizona. DJ Raw B will be providing the beats for Luke to spit to. Not sure if KutMasta Kurt will be DJing for Motion Man. Hope so.
DJ Ayres, Catchdubs, VinSol
Damn, had a blast at the premiere of the Superfriends party at Milk last weekend. Vin got me in free, Nick gave me THREE (count 'em, three) drink tickets and Ayres blessed me with a New Year's Eve at The Rub CD and a 10-Deep/The Rub tank top. "What nice boys," as my mom would say. In the words of the late, great Robin Harris, "Thank you, please come again." The Superfriends party now happens every Thursday night at Milk. I think I want to try and catch Mark Ronson on February 23rd.
A big Matthew Africa fan (me) and Matthew Africa @ Superfriends
So when I first ordered this Funkadelic shirt, it got lost in the mail and they sent another one. Both eventually made it to my mailbox, so now I have an extra. I know, I should send it back. But I don't have much time for the ol' post office, so if any of my friends out there want the extra, let me know. It's a lavender women's large. Speaking of Funkadelic, here's a good interview with Bernie Worrell.
EXCITING news: The VE Radio show will be on the actual radio dial, thanks to KULT Radio at 89.9 FM in San Francisco. Tentative air times are Wednesday nights 7-8 and Saturday nights 10-11. You can listen live online if you can't get it on your radio dial. My radio dreams are soon to come true. Thanks to any of you who've taken the time to listen to my dusty old records, self-serving drops and rambling on VE Radio.
Saturday, January 21, 2006
Catchdubs in SF 1/21
NYer and Fader editor Nick Catchdubs is back at Milk tonight, this time with DJ Ayres of The Rub. Can't wait to hear what they'll play. Nick was last here back in September for Westside Gangbang with Roxy, and it was hyphy to the height of hyphe-tivity. Let's see if the alleged Milk "hyphy ban" has any effect on tonight's selection. Side note: Does anyone remember the Milk Bar in Berkeley, circa 1990, if I remember correctly? DJs played hip-hop and I think they didn't serve alcohol, hence the name. Milk on Haight certainly does, thank goodness.
Last weeks XXXPlosive tour was just that, explosive. After Ross Hogg's opening set, Pase Rock and Cosmo Baker ripped shit with Spank Rock sprinkling vocals. Pase had us pose for pictures with his Scion bag for some reason, Serg actually danced, and I still have a bruise on the top of my foot from the girl (or ONE of the girls, I should say) who was freaking DJ Marz at the bar.
We have our tickets, hotel and car reserved for SXSW. I can't wait. We're flying in and out of Houston and hanging with the one Matt Sonzala So Real.
VE Radio may actually be on the radio soon. We may be hooking up with a local pirate station. Stay tuned.
Thursday, January 12, 2006
Spindig Happy Hour::Friday 1/13
The Spindig happy hour party is this Friday, January 13th at 330 Ritch Street. Spindig goes down every 2nd Friday from 6 to 9 pm. It's free, pints are 3 bucks, there's pizza and the music is good. What more could you ask for? I'll be playing some new and old hip-hop and R&B joints, some 80s new wave and ska, and some late 80s-early 90s LA rap. I think.
After that I think we're heading over to Milk to say what's up to Pase Rock. He's on the XXXPlosive Tour with Cosmo Baker and Spank Rock. Our pal Ross Hogg is opening. Should be fun and of a high musical caliber.
DJ Morse Code told me that DJ Premier is playing at Fluid tonight, but I've seen nor heard nothing to confirm that.
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Throughout the year, Twin Hills hosts several tournaments and golf clinics for the enjoyment of our members and their guests. For our younger members, we offer a fun-filled Junior Golf Program that starts in June.
Twin Hills Golf & Country Club participates in the Private Club Network, which features golf privileges at over 200 clubs nationwide.
Twin Hills Golf & Country Club has a very rich history in Joplin, MO. Our course opened in 1911 with only nine holes and 25 members. By 1921, the country club had grown to 160 members and by 1947 we were a full 18-hole course!
The Golf Shop is responsible for stocking a full service shop that offers the best all-around selection of goods and services at a reasonable price.


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Livestrong Sporting Park's stadium deal benefits others
Not all naming-rights deals produce revenue for the stadium's tenant.
In the case of Livestrong Sporting Park, the new home of Major League Soccer club Sporting Kansas City, the team will donate about $7.5 million of all stadium revenues, including ticket sales and concessions, to cyclist Lance Armstrong's foundation that serves those battling cancer.
"Access to Livestrong's partners, contacts and donors will help garner events, concerts, charitable functions and meetings utilizing our spaces," Robb Heineman, Sporting Club's chief executive officer, said in an email.
"We have had a strong identity from the very opening, which has been great for the brand and the cause. Since we both have/use a strong digital presence, we have increased our social media followers vastly through the partnership."
Sporting Kansas City's neighbor, Kansas Speedway, has had discussions about a naming-rights partner since it opened in 2001, but has not found the right fit.
"We would definitely entertain naming rights, but the right partnership hasn't come about," said Chris Schwartz, vice president of marketing and sales.
In a sport that is defined by sponsorships and marketing, only two NASCAR tracks, Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif. — owned by Kansas Speedway's parent company, ISC — and Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, Calif., have naming rights.
But all of Kansas Speedway's races have title sponsors, including STP and Hollywood Casino for the two Sprint Cup races. The Kansas Lottery sponsors the Nationwide Series race, and Specialty Fertilizer Products, an Overland Park-based company in the agriculture business, will sponsor the 2012 Camping World Truck Series race.
"You need the sponsor dollars to make the entire model make sense," Schwartz said. "We budget with dollars in place from those entitlements. Our roster of companies range from an agriculture company to a consumer goods company like STP and the Hollywood Casino, which is utilizing the program for the awareness of the property opening this February."


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Laila Ali Launches New Hair and Skin Care Lines
Knockout Laila Ali continues to show the range of her talents. The new mom is known for the boxing skills she inherited from her famous dad, but outside of the ring she's in touch with her feminine side and recently launched a haircare and skincare line. Her skincare line Laila Ali Derm Essentials and hair care line Laila Ali Professionals are made of 100 percent organic materials and specifically created for women of color. The hair products are all professional grade quality and sulfate-free so that your hair won't be stripped of moisture. Both lines are budget friendly, priced from $13 to $18, and all of the products are currently available online now, but are scheduled to hit drugstores this fall.
Check out the line at Black Voices!


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When God says no to my short-sighted demands, He shows me the beauty beyond.
Do you ever feel God doesn't hear your prayers, that He doesn't care? Have you been praying a specific prayer for forever, and nothing has happened?
I'm not promising easy answers to those questions. I'm still seeking answers myself. No cookie cutter solutions–which I'm sure you've already given up on, but I hope this blog site and author website can provide hope while we both wait for the God of the universe to finish His work behind the scenes.
Once a month, I post an excerpt from my novel-in-progress. Debbie and her family are waiting on God, too. I may also add photos of my sister and our family, the real-life Debbie, Krista, Phil, and Wayne!
Also once a month, I post an article related to thoughts on God and people and the universe–spiritual metaphors most often.
I trust He has a perfect plan for me–and for you, plans to make us better than we ever dreamed.
The God who set the galaxies in motion and who put together all the parts of an atom is more than worthy of our praise!


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Dually Enrolled and/or Transfer Students
For dually enrolled students, you can only use your financial aid at one school during an academic term. If you are seeking your degree through LCCC and attending another school during a term, you will need to complete LCCC's Consortium Agreement to have benefit of maximum financial aid. See your Financial Services Assistant for details.
- Make sure that you've added LCCC's Federal School Code on your current FAFSA. LCCC's School Code is 003068. To add LCCC's school code, call the Federal processor at 1-800-4FEDAID.
- LCCC transfers in the credit hours and not the GPA. Your transfer hours will be counted toward your Satisfactory Academic Progress.
- Our policies and procedures for disbursing financial aid may be different from your previous school. Make sure that you are familiar with LCCC's Satisfactory Academic Progress Policy, enrollment requirements, and disbursement methods.
- LCCC's Cost of Education may be different than your previous school. This may affect the amount of Stafford Loans or Federal Work Study you are eligible for at LCCC.
- Quarter to Semester Conversion – You will receive .67 semester hour credit for each one quarter hour credit.


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Rapier Squadron was a T-85 X-wing starfighter squadron that served as part of the New Republic's starfleet. The squadron was led by Commander Poe Dameron.[1] The four-member squadron was assigned to patrol the Mirrin sector and protect its trade lanes from the Hutts, the Guavian Death Gang,[1] and Kanjiklub.[2] Following the Skirmish in OR-Kappa-2722, Rapier Squadron transferred to the Resistance and was based on the refitted MC80 Star Cruiser Echo of Hope.[1]
New RepublicEdit
Rapier Squadron was a New Republic X-Wing squadron led by Poe Dameron before his move to the Resistance. They participated in patrols for the Republic and witnessed the capture of the Yissira Zyde by the First Order in the Mirrin sector. Rapier Squadron engaged the hijackers, but the First Order successfully commandeered the ship and entered hyperspace. Muran was caught in the ship's wake, and his X-wing starfighter was destroyed before he could eject.[1]
- Before the Awakening (First appearance)
- Poe and the Missing Ship


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I grew up in Ohio and haven't spent nearly enough time in Tennessee or North Carolina but here are some images from those states. Cuyahoga Valley National Park and Great Smoky Mountains National Park are favorites as well as the amazing Old Man's Cave area of Hocking Hills State Park.
Fall Forest
Late Fall Forest, Rain
Fall Forest
Fall Forest
Fall Forest
Fall Forest Detail
Autumn Snow
Autumn Snow
Autumn Snow
Fall Forest Detail
Oconaluftee Fall Morning
Forest Edge Fall, Chimney Tops area
Dogwood and Early Spring Forest
Dogwood and Redbud
Dogwood, Rain
Forest Edge, Dawn
Flowering Dogwood, Middle Prong, Little River
Sunset, Clingman's Dome
Sunset, Clingman's Dome
Sunset, Clingman's Dome
Sunset, Clingman's Dome
Window Detail, Dan Lawson Place
Porch Detail, Tipton Place
Detail, Middle Prong, Little River
Fall Forest near Newark, Ohio
Lacebark Pine
Sunrise at The Ledges
Devil's Bathtub
Springtime Stream
Black Ice
Forest Detail
Two Trees, Old Man's Cave
Sculpted Waterfall
Rock, lichen and stream
Spring Foliage, Little River
Spring Foliage, Little River
Little River Panoramic
Storm, Cades Cove
Fog, Cades Cove
Fog, Cades Cove
Dogwood, Foothills Parkway
Sunrise, Clingman's Dome
Sunset, Clingmans Dome
Sunset, Clingmans Dome
After Sundown, Clingmans Dome
Dogwood, Cades Cove
Rocks on Clingmans Dome
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Book of a Thousand Days
by Shannon Hale
The beautiful language of this book evokes an appealing fantasy world, with eight realms such as Titor's Garden, Beloved of Ris, and Song for Evela. The cover shows a beautiful young Asian woman, and many of the details are borrowed from medieval Mongolia. The main character, Dashti, grew up on the steppes, lived in a "gher" and wore a traditional outfit called a "deel."
In this story, Dashti works as a lady's maid for Lady Saren, and they are shut in a stone tower for seven years because Lady Saren refused to marry the man her father chose for her. It is a challenge to keep the story lively for the first 100 pages of the book, with two girls locked in a dark tower. After they escape, the story takes some surprising turns, and both girls evolve and grow.
Dashti excels in a traditional (fantasy) art of healing people by signing songs – one of many details that make this book enchanting and lovely.
Readers who enjoyed this book, a Teenreads.com "best book" and YALSA "best book for young adults," may be fascinated to learn about real historical customs of the Mongols of medieval days, in Daughter of Xanadu.
Shannon Hale, Newbery Honor-winning author of Princess Academy, has a website with the intriguing name of squeetus.com.


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MyAudio 1008B firmware update / firmware upgrade
1. Download the firmware update files from the official website.2. Copy the files to a microSD memory card.
3. Turn the tablet off.
4. Insert the memory card in the SD card slot.
5. Press and hold the Volume Down button and the Power button together until the MyAudio Logo displays on the screen.
6. The update procedure will begin. Wait until the process is over, the device will restart after the update.
DO NOT power off the device during the update process.
Make sure to backup all your important data before you update your device!
other method
Recovery from the device recovery partition
1. Power off the device.
2. Press and hold Volume DOWN and POWER buttons until the RED text displays on the screen. Release all keys.
3. Press POWER button for a few seconds.
4. Wait until the device reinstall it's firmware. Do not interrupt the process in any way. Do not power off the device.
5. After the recovery process finished the device will restart. Done. All data will be lost!


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Between the Sheets Cocktail
Not many cocktails contain more than one base spirit, let alone three (unless they are created by Jamie Boudreau). The Between the Sheets cocktail is one exception.
1 ounce brandy
1 ounce light rum
1 ounce Cointreau
1 dash lemon juice
jellydonut 16 Aug 2011
10:29 am
It's not a boozy drink? Dude, it's 40% with a bar spoon of lemon juice! And, alright, the sugar of the Cointreau.
I doubt I'll be making this any time soon, too strong for my blood. Still appreciate the video!
Robert Hess 16 Aug 2011
11:06 am
Jelly… by "not boozy" I meant that it isn't boozy in flavor like a Manhattan or Martini would be. It will still pack a punch, since all three ingredients are essentially 80proof products. If the amount of alcohol in a drink like this looks like it is too much, then you can very easily scale the recipe back to something a little more appropriate. Especially in a drink like this with equal parts of everything.
blair frodelius 17 Aug 2011
12:17 pm
I always place this cocktail along with the sidecar as a highly drinkable and yet pretty darn potent concoction. It's amazing how much just a dash of lemon juice adds. Yet another reason to measure your ingredients!
Stephen Botting 18 Aug 2011
2:32 am
A wonderful cocktail Robert, very similar to a Sidecar when using Mount Gay extra old. I suppose you could play with the flavour a little by adding a different rum. Quite a strong cocktail without tasting boozy as you outlined, but after 2 of these you really can feel it, 3 and your well on your way!
Robert Hess 18 Aug 2011
5:30 am
Stephen, changing the rum around in this drink would indeed take it into different places. Rum is perhaps one of the more diverse spirits, with flavor profiles all over the place. Some rums can be almost as bland as vodka, while others can taste like you are drinking molasses (in a good way). I think the vast majority of rums you see being used in bars these days is unfortunately on the light and uninteresting side, but we are starting to see places get into some of the more robust varieties, and we are also seeing more of them coming onto the market as well.
blair frodelius 18 Aug 2011
6:38 am
I've been using Banks 5 Island Rum in recipes calling for a light style. It adds a depth that I haven't found in Havana Club, Bacardi or Cruzan.
Nucleozoid 17 Aug 2012
9:34 pm
I tried this one, but It was overwhelmingly boozy for my taste. Sorry.
Dale Stoltzfus 9 Mar 2013
2:38 pm
I have a question on this one: The recipe in the description calls for "light rum," which I am assuming would be the same as white rum - i.e. Bacardi and similar. The rum I see you use in the video has a brown color to it (definitely not clear like Bacardi) but not as dark as Myers', which has become my go-to rum. I am afraid Myers' would just take over a drink like this. Is that type of rum even appropriate or should I be using Bacardi or something in between?
Robert Hess 9 Mar 2013
7:49 pm
Dale, it can often get confusing when selecting the "right" rum for a recipe. I'd hazard to say that the variations between the various rums is probably more diverse than any of the other spirits. Sometimes you'll see recipes say "Jamaican Rum" or "Barbados Rum" or various other designations, which might mean something to somebody that has a deep understanding of rums, but not to somebody who doesn't. "light rum" is the way the recipe I started with listed it, and I take that as meaning a rum with an overall light body flavor, it could be all the way down to a white Bacardi, or it could be up to an amber rum with a little age on it. Here I am using Mount Gay. Myer's would definitely be too heavy.


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Thursday, October 22, 2009
Five Fantastic Magazine Racks
Looking for a very special way to save and display your current - or special - magazines? This revolving magazine rack/table might do! But there are a number of other very nice choices, too. Update on April 16, 2014: I'm no longer finding this product, which seems to come from Usha Lexus in India, available for sale on any websites.
Staying with beautiful wood pieces, let's admire this magazine rack from Niels Jensen of Quebec.
And here's a magazine tree from Indiana for Modern. Update on March 5, 2011: I'm no longer seeing this piece on the Indiana for Modern web site. But here's the piece it seems to have been based upon: the Edward Wormley for Dunbar magazine tree stand rack, from the 1950s.
For a very different approach, see the Motion magazine stand from Innersmile. [via netspaze] Update on March 5, 2010: You can buy this magazine rack directly from Innersmile.
And finally, here's a leather magazine rack - one of a number made by the Asis family.
Related Posts:
Magazine Racks: Some Mighty Fine Choices
Magazine Racks for Any Room
Posted by Jeri Dansky at 6:33 AM
Labels: organizing products
5 comments:
- kbfenner said...
I especially love the top one, but when I clicked on the link, I couldn't figure out how much it cost or how to buy it.
- October 22, 2009 at 8:58:00 AM PDT
- Jeri Dansky said...
kbfenner, I think you'd need to contact the company for that. It's in the U.K.
- October 22, 2009 at 9:09:00 AM PDT
- The Accessory Lady said...
That first one is fantastic! It's both functional and stylish. Great picks!
- October 23, 2009 at 6:36:00 AM PDT
- Jeri Dansky said...
Glad you enjoyed them, Accessory Lady!
- October 24, 2009 at 1:57:00 PM PDT
- Anonymous said...
These modern Magazine Racks feature innovative designs while having enough space to hold plenty of literature.
- December 29, 2009 at 11:48:00 PM PST
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Last week we introduced the first part of our blog series on educating car buyers about credit checks. In case you missed it, you can catch up on part 1 here. In this post, we continue our conversation on credit checks by answering five common questions car buyers have when it comes to financing and running credit reports. We hope you've enjoyed this series and learned a little bit in the process. Be sure to contact Bachman Chevrolet with any additional questions you have. We'll be happy to talk to you!
Can A Dealership Run My Credit Without My Knowledge?
The dealership is required to get your permission before running a credit report. Usually, the salesperson asks you to sign a credit application and provide your Social Security Number before the check is run. Other means of doing so are done electronically where you may submit an application via the dealership's website, or the salesperson may, given your permission, enter this information for you at the dealership and in your presence. By providing your information in such a manner, you have given your implied consent to obtain a credit report for the purpose of potentially doing business. The fact that a credit report has been run or an application has been submitted does not obligate you to purchase a vehicle should you determine otherwise.
Will My FICO Score Drop if the Dealer Runs My Credit?
The first request for a credit report or "inquiry" has a very small impact on your credit score, but subsequent inquiries "do not", according to financial experts at Experian. Since it is well known that consumers shop around when they are buying a car, multiple inquiries occurring within a 30 day period won't have any further effect on a consumer's credit score. According to Experian, "10% of your credit score is based on inquiries or 'credit checks.' Each time you apply for different types of credit, (i.e. a credit card, mortgage, or auto loan) a 'hard inquiry' is placed on your credit report. Having too many hard inquiries outside of that initial 30 day window (while you are shopping) could indicate to lenders that you're trying to overspend."
What Can I Do Concerning My Credit Before Shopping?
The most recommended piece of advice given by dealership representatives and consumer advocates is to check your credit report yourself before you begin your car search. If you check the report yourself, you have the opportunity to clear up any mistakes or challenge any discrepancies. Resolving these problems ahead of time could raise your credit score and give you access to a wider or perhaps a more competitive range of finance options.
How Can I Obtain A Copy Of My Credit Report?
Under federal law, you have the right to obtain a free copy of your credit report from each of the nationwide consumer reporting agencies once a year.
To order your free annual credit report:
By telephone: Call toll-free: 1-877-322-8228
On the web: Visit https://www.annualcreditreport.com/index.action
By mail: Mail your completed Annual Credit Report Request Form* to:
Annual Credit Report Request Service
P.O. Box 105281
Atlanta, GA 30348-5281
* You can obtain the required form from the Federal Trade Commission's web site at https://www.ftc.gov/faq/consumer-protection/get-my-free-credit-report
How Can I Get Pre-Approved For An Auto Loan?
Bachman Chevrolet offers an easy pre-approval process as well as experienced financial representatives that can answer any questions you have and make this part of the process quick and painless. We invite you to call us or stop in; we're here to help and to answer any questions you may have!


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We're an award winning Austin hair salon featuring the best in hair cutting and color, and hair extension services in a friendly professional atmosphere.
We're considered a "high end" or "luxury" salon, but you won't find much pretense here. What you will find is a group of talented down to earth hair stylists who understand that what they do involves more than making you look your best. It's also about listening and caring, running on time and making it easy for you to do business with us.
You won't see "and up", "from", or "+" pricing on our hair color services. We don't charge extra for a blowout, toners, glazes, end color or anything else your hair needs to look it's best. The price you see is the price you pay, because we don't like surprises at check-out and we're guessing you don't either. We recycle almost everything, including hair color and we treat everybody the way we want to be treated. Our salon is near downtown Austin, on Bee Cave Road next to Trader Joe's. Give us a call. You'll love your hair.


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About Dottie and Ann
Why would you choose Dottie Dooley and V. Ann Rozier to represent your next Real Estate endeavor?
Here are a few reasons:
Passion to meet and exceed your expectations of a job well done!
After serving as REALTORs for many years, We have grown to know and love the Roanoke Valley and surrounding area.
We can help you find that special home you thought you would never find.
We are here to serve you and your Real Estate Needs!


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Sai Paranjpye
Born in Lucknow into an illustrious family associated with social reform movements, Sai Paranjpye was educated in Australia, where her grandfather was High Commissioner. She published a collection of fairy tales in Marathi when 8 years old. She became well known for her Marathi plays, as a playwright and stage director, especially her plays for children. She started directing for television during the 60s and worked as a producer for Doordarshan in the early 70s. She started with films during 1970s.
Selected Filmography:
Sparsh - 1979 - Hindi
Sai Paranjpye's first full length feature film, Sparsh tells a love story set among the blind. The blind Anirudh Parmar runs a school for blind children and is particularly touchy about the notion that the children might be perceived as less than self-sufficient. Kavita, who takes up charitable causes after the death of her husband, becomes involved with the school and falls in love with Anirudh. They are to marry, but Anirudh cannot get rid of the suspicion that she is doing it out of pity.
Direction & Screenplay: Sai Paranjpye
Katha - 1982 - Hindi
Katha, a satire adapted from the director's own play Sakkhe Shejari and inspired by the tale of the hare and the tortoise is set in a lower-middle-class tenement in Bombay. Rajaram is a slow but sure upwardly mobile clerk, who is in love with her neighbour Sandhya. The energetic Basu arrives and dazzles everyone with his go-getting charm. He rapidly acquires three girlfriends: Sandhya, Anuradha, Rajaram's boss's 2nd wife and Jojo, the boss's daughter. When things get too hot, Basu departs for new pastures and life settles down again in the tenement.
Direction & Screenplay: Sai Paranjpye
Disha - 1990 - Hindi
Disha is a sentimental tale of migrant workers in Bombay, caught between urban displacement and a changing rural reality. Farm labourers Vasant and Soma move to Bombay following drought in their village. Soma becomes a millhand. Vasant, who has come mainly to pay off his marriage debts, returns to find his wife having an affir with her employer, the owner of a bidi factory. Soma also plans to go home, because his brother has finally dug a well which yields water.
Direction & Screenplay: Sai Paranjpye
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Rise of the Planet of the Apes' Rupert Wyatt does a fine job of directing the talky drama around Los Angeles with fine support from the likes of Jessica Lange as his estranged mother and Brie Larson as his student. Simon Rhee from Best of the Best shows up as a Korean bruiser and George Kennedy (Cool Hand Luke, The Delta Force) shows up for a quick minute as a family patriarch. I didn't even know the guy was still alive! Great to see you, George! A massive and bald headed John Goodman gets to drop some of the film's greatest dialog in a pair of scenes as he questions how a successful, good looking smart guy like Bennett could destroy his life with such idiotic abandonment. With a little CGI muscle, Goodman should play The Kingpin whenever the villain shows up on Daredevil. Wahlberg is handed some very provocative and near poetic lines throughout, especially during an early scene in the classroom where he moves around the space, questioning and belittling his students in what was a more exciting class than I ever had in 4 years. Some actors can't handle a lot of dialog but Wahlberg takes it all on with surprisingly ease and aplomb. While I'm not too surprised The Gambler hasn't garnered any major award attention, I do feel it got lost in the Holiday shuffle and deserves more credit than it's being given.
I won't bore you with too many thoughts on Into the Woods, it wasn't for me and I just didn't dig it. Beautifully shot yet a bit boring to watch. Maybe if you're into musicals. Next up was A Most Violent Year, a flick I had no opinion on and hadn't even seen a full trailer. From the title, cast and look of the picture, I figured it was about mobsters in New York. Written and directed by J.C. Chandor, who gave us the fascinating Margin Call in 2011, a look at the inner workings of an investment bank during the first part of the financial crisis followed up by the lauded but overrated "man on a boat VS nature" All Is Lost starring Bobby Redford in 2013. A Most Violent Year stars up and comer Oscar Isaac (Drive) as Abel Morales, a mostly by the book immigrant businessman who owns a heating oil business in New York during 1981, one of the most violent years on record. Abel has vast ambition to expand his company but his trucks keep getting hijacked and his product sold to various mystery buyers. He must tread lightly as the local District Attorney is about to begin investigating his business while wife Anna (Jessica Chastain) keeps pushing him to man up and protect his empire and family.


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David A. deSilva, Ph.D.
Dr. David A. deSilva, PhD is Trustees' Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Greek at Ashland Theological Seminary and an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church. He is the author of over twenty-five books, including Day of Atonement: A Novel of the Maccabean Revolt (Kregel, 2015), The Jewish Teachers of Jesus, James, and Jude: What Earliest Christianity Learned from the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha (Oxford, 2012), Seeing Things John's Way: The Rhetoric of Revelation (Westminster John Knox, 2009), An Introduction to the New Testament: Contexts, Methods & Ministry Formation (InterVaristy, 2004), Introducing the Apocrypha (Baker Academic, 2002), Honor, Patronage, Kinship & Purity: Unlocking New Testament Culture (InterVarsity, 2000), and Perseverance in Gratitude: A Socio-rhetorical Commentary on the Letter "to the Hebrews" (Eerdmans, 2000).
He was involved in several major Bible translation projects, serving as the Apocrypha Editor for the Common English Bible and working on the revision of the Apocrypha for the English Standard Version. He has also created several video resources and Mobile Ed courses, including "The Apocrypha: Witness Between the Testaments", "The Cultural World of the New Testament", and "Interpreting the Epistle to the Hebrews".
Dr. deSilva leads his students into challenging and rewarding topics, not just for the sake of learning but also for the sake of transformation. One of his many contributions to the Kingdom is his collection of published works. In particular, he is most proud of the Introduction to the New Testament, which has nurtured countless Christian workers even beyond the walls of Ashland Theological Seminary.
Jayson Georges, M.Div.
Jayson Georges (M.Div. Talbot) is the founding editor of HonorShame.com. He has lived in Central Asia for 9 years doing church-planting and microenterprise-development. He currently works as Missiologist-in-Residence in at an evangelical missions organization. Now based in Atlanta, he travels internationally to research and train on the topic of honor and shame.
Jayson has authored The 3D Gospel (2014) and Ministering in Honor-Shame Cultures (2016, with Mark Baker). He has published articles in Missiology, EMQ, Scottish Journal of Theology, and Mission Frontiers.
Paul R. Gupta, Ph.D.
Paul Rajkumar Gupta completed his B.Th from Piedmont Bible College, in 1977 ; M.Div in 1980 from Talbot Seminary, and his Th.M and PhD in Intercultural Studies from Fuller Seminary, in 1992.
Dr. Gupta serves as the President and Director of Hindustan Bible Institute & College, India. His primary vision is to see the Gospel is accessible to every man, woman, boy and girl by establishing worshiping communities everywhere. His main thrust is:
- church planting through the equipping of national missionary teams to reach unreached people groups;
- mobilizing the Church to a vision of discipling the nation through saturation church planting;
- mobilizing the global church for missions and experiential learning, and
- developing next-generation transformational leaders for the nations.
Dr. Gupta developed the HBI International ministries now known as HBI Global Partners in USA and he serves as the President of HBI Global Partners. He also serves as the one of the teaching pastors of New Calvary Church in India, which has been instrumental in planting six churches in the city of Chennai. In 2005, Dr. Gupta was honoured as the Alumnus of the year by Fuller Seminary.
In 2006, Dr. Gupta authored Breaking Tradition to Accomplish Vision: Training Leaders for a Church-Planting Movement. Dr. Sherwood Lingenfelter, then Provost and Senior Vice President of Fuller Theological Seminary, co-authored the book.
In the 30-plus years of Paul's ministry as the President of Hindustan Bible Institute & College, God enabled Dr. Gupta to start a movement that has planted 8,266 churches through the mobilization of 761 national missionaries, with a membership of over 460,000 believers in 23 states of India and Nepal.
Steve Hawthorne, Ph.D.
Steve Hawthorne co-edited the book and course called Perspectives on the World Christian Movement with Ralph Winter. In the 1980s he initiated and led a series of teams doing field research to identify unreached people groups in world-class cities. He holds a PhD from Fuller Seminary's School of Intercultural Studies. Steve lives in Austin, Texas, leading a prayer and mission mobilization group called WayMakers. He speaks with living passion for the greater glory of Jesus among the nations. Steve says of his ministry, "I like to commit arson of the heart."
D. Brent Sandy, Ph.D.
D. Brent Sandy (Ph.D. in Classical Studies, Duke University) has taught at Wheaton College since 2010. He was previously professor and chair of the Department of Religious Studies at Grace College and Theological Seminary. His current research focuses on the thinking and values of the NT world, in particular, orality and honor-shame. He has authored, co-authored, or edited six books, most recently The Lost World of Scripture (InterVarsity). He and his wife Cheryl have been married 45 years and have two sons, both married internationally and living in Europe.
Jackson Wu, Ph.D.
Jackson Wu teaches theology and missiology for Chinese church leaders in Asia. His books include Saving God's Face: A Chinese Contextualization of Salvation through Honor and Shame and One Gospel for All Nations: A Practical Approach to Biblical Contextualization (2015). A forthcoming book with IVP explores how honor-shame influences our understanding of Paul's letter to the Romans.
He consistently writes on his blog jacksonwu.org. He is a regular blogger for Training Leaders International, and has guest written for Scot McKnight, Ed Stetzer, and the Missio blog. He serves on the steering committee for the Asian-American Theology Consultation for the Evangelical Theological Society. In addition, he is the book reviews editor of the mission and culture section for Themelios from The Gospel Coalition.
He earned a PhD in Applied Theology (Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary), after gaining an M.Div (Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary), M.A. in philosophy (Texas A&M), and B.S. in Applied Mathematics (Texas A&M).
Jackson's primary research interests include contextualization, honor & shame, Romans and missiology. He labors to equip the church to contextualize the gospel in a way that is both biblically faithful and culturally meaningful.
The Honor-Shame Conference is not a function of Wheaton College.
Banner image by Nikolay Guenov. Used by permission. http://travel.china-finds.com


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Countries have submitted their commitments to emissions cuts, but there is consensus that the aggregate cuts are still not enough. UN climate chief Christiana Figueres has called on countries to ramp up emissions cuts every few years.
During Holland's visit to China on Monday, Beijing agreed in principle that at the very least, countries should have to show what they are doing to meet their initial commitments.
In a joint statement both France and China said progress should be reviewed every five years. Beijing called for the checks to be "non-intrusive, non-punitive and respecting national sovereignty".
Hollande's visit to China is part of a drive to secure commitments.
According to Cyril Cassisa, a project manager for the French energy consultant Enerdata who was recently working on climate issues for French foreign affairs in Beijing, Hollande's trip to China shows he is communicating with the Chinese.
"I don't think the visit by Francois Hollande will help to change the China's commitments," says Cassisa, "but French diplomacy will help a better communication on what's behind the commitments."
In June the world's biggest polluter and the second-biggest economy pledged to reduce emissions by 60 to 65 per cent over 15 years. China was one of 146 countries to submit an Intended Nationally Determined Contribution, or INDC, in October, indicating their emissions cutting goals.
China wants market solutions, for example, and has been experimenting with cap-and-trade policies. By endorsing such policies, says Cassisa, France could help China move forward.
Business as usual
The French president is travelling with a delegation of 40 French business leaders.
"The fight against global warming is a humanitarian issue, as well as a considerable economic issue," Hollande said on Monday, evoking green growth. "France wants this agreement on the climate to succeed, but we also want to bring all of our companies to what will be a big reconversion of the Chinese economy."
France is among other major EU countries including Germany and Britain wooing China in the hope of winning business.
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"The whole benefit of trial consist in silence, patience, rest and resignation. In this condition divine strength is found for the hard warfare, because GOD HIMSELF fights for the soul."
"In vain you will let your mind run out after help in times of trouble; it is like putting out to sea in a storm. Sit still, and feel after your principles; and if you find none that furnish you with somewhat of a stay and prop, and which point you to quietness and silent submission, … you have never yet learned the Truth from the Spirit of Truth…"
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So you have your shiny new NUC. You have everything set up and it's working great. But it's sitting there next to your TV or monitor and as nice looking as it is you want it to be out of site. It's time to mount it and get it out of the way. If you're using a computer monitor with VESA holes on the back you're in great shape. The included bracket attaches to the back of the monitor in seconds and you have a nice all-in-one look to your setup. But what if you have your monitor mounted on the wall? You're already using the VESA holes for the wall mount. Now what? Do you duct tape it to the back of the monitor, going for a steam punk look? Do you start drilling new holes in the back of your monitor? (Um, the answer to that one is NO). Double-stick tape? I started thinking about a good way to mount the NUC on the back of a wall-mounted monitor. Initially I envisioned an elaborate "cage" assembly that wrapped around the NUC. From there I thought a mount within a mount would be nice. Then I realized I was making it more complicated than it needed to be. A simple generic plate with VESA holes could work and end up looking great. You'd need a plate about 4" by 10" with VESA holes on both ends. Then you could attach the place between the monitor and the wall mount on one end and attach the NUCs mounting plate on the other. That would put the NUC off to the side but still well out of view.
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Or, and I'm just getting crazy now, you could mount the NUC plate to the wall next to your TV. It looks surprisingly nice on the wall, especially if you have a minimum number of cables coming off of it. If you have a skin-it skin on your NUC, all the better. Now it's displayed loud and proud.
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Recent studies have shown that one in every six people is going through alcoholism in the USA. Sadly in such a case, there is no strength in figures just heartache. Specialists believe that there is always a factor that triggers a person to drink so heavily, to begin with. There are thousands of people in the States who never become alcoholics, and yet they have the alcoholic genes.
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If you're into watching beauty videos on YouTube, then you know the makeup technique called contouring. You're probably even familiar with strobing your face too. Well, now, there's a new makeup technique all the beauty gurus are trying, called baking. According to Cosmopolitan, it originated from the drag community and is the magic behind their flawless faces. What baking does is cover fine lines & unflattering pores, highlight particular areas on your face, and set your concealer so it doesn't move. The great part about this is that you won't need any cooking materials, and it doesn't involve pointing your face towards the sun to let it bake.
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No? Neither would I, however they are still out there doing stupid things. Such as? This story from the Sydney Morning Herald details how a server the bank sold on Ebay still had confidential client information. Um, like how is that supposed to happen? An "honest error" and an "isolated incident" according to the bank. Yeah, right.
Being involved in recycling technology myself for worthy causes I can't tell you how much "interesting" data I have found on machines individuals and businesses have donated. Now I make sure that every machine that I recycle has its information thoroughly wiped to military standards before it is resold, so if I can do that why can't the bank? It is simply a matter of booting to a CD and allowing to run an erase program. Still, it amazes me how little people value their information.
The problem is, think of all the establishments that have information about you stored somewhere on computer. What do they do with their old systems? Do they have a data destruction policy? What about your home PC's? What happens after they have served their dues? Do you just throw them out? Ah, what about the data? It doesn't suddenly become unreadable just because the PC is a little slow.
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Police activity week of 11-12-12 through 11-18-12
11-12-12 13:36 hours – Ptl. J. McGowan – Assaults
Unit block W. Baltimore Ave. – Offender taken into custody after a physical domestic with girlfriend.
Victim refused treatment when the EMS arrived on the scene. The victim was advised of how to obtain a Protection from Abuse Order.
11-15-12 09:20 hours – Ptl. C. Brown – Narcotics-possession-marijuana
100 block Green Ave. (PWHS) – Police called to PWHS for a student with drugs on her person. Offender had 18 small green glassine baggies possibly containing marijuana. Offender was transported to LPD processed and a juvenile petition will be completed. The offender was released to her mother.
11-15-12 21:32 hours – Ptl. K. McDermott – Twp ord- all other
Unit block W. Stratford Ave. – Responded to the listed location for the barking dog complaint. Upon arrival could hear a small dog barking from the rear of the property. Observed a small dog chained up inside the garage. Made contact with the owner who stated he was at work and could not come home and did not see the issued with his dog barking all night while being chained up to the wall in an unheated garage. The complainant stated the dog has been left inside the garage since Tuesday night. The offender was cited accordingly.
11-16-12 17:05 hours – Ptl. C. Schiazza – Theft=$50 to #200 from buildings
Unit block E. Baltimore Ave. – Complainant reported her daughter's Hewlett Packard laptop computer was missing from her Cyber School on E. Baltimore AVE. The computer was received from the Cyber School. The complainant will call and provide me with the serial number of the computer.
11-17-12 09:50 hours – Ptl. J. McGowan – Twp ord- all other
Unit block W. Stratford Ave. – Police received a complaint of a barking dog. Upon arrival I did hear a dog barking and attempted to make contact with the owner with negative results. The reporting party reported that he has called several times and the dog continues to bark thought out the day and night hours. The offender has been cited previously for this offense and will again be cited today.
11-17-12 07:48 hours – Ptl. T. Selimis – Theft- $50 to $200 all other
Unit block N. Lansdowne Ave. – The victim stated that approximately twenty minutes ago she was at the Wawa and forgot her orange wallet on the deli counter. She left and headed home when she discovered she forgot her wallet. The General Manager of the Wawa observed the wallet sitting on the deli counter; he observed an unknown female near the wallet and asked her it she had forgotten her wallet. She grabbed the wallet and left the store. Approximately five minutes later she came back into the store stating the wallet did not belong to her and handed it to the General Manager. The victim returned to Wawa and did receive her wallet back and she discovered that $60 was stolen. Police will review the video tape from the store. Investigation to continue.


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A linguistic fiction: Searching for the mother tongue of our first-ancestors, and trying for a grand-unification of all language-families भाषा-वैज्ञानिक कल्पना: हम सभी के प्रथम-पुरखों की मातृभाषा की खोज, और सभी भाषा-परिवारों के महा-मिलन का प्रयास
Friday, January 20, 2012
How panda might have got its name पांडा का नामकरण कैसे हुआ होगा
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Thanks Aniket. While the giant panda's diet is 99% bamboo, the diet of the red panda is about two-thirds bamboo and one third a eggs, mushrooms, birds, small mammals and insect.Delete
I agree with your comments about the coining of a word that would mean 'related to VANSH. Accordingly, the word for Panda could have been VAMSHEYA. While VANSH/VAMSH are the words in formal scholarly Sanskrit, the original word for PANDA could also have been derived from a spoken dialect or slang, e.g.the words BANJA बांज or BANS बाँस. A Sanskrit word piNDaveNu (पिण्डवेणु) means a species of bamboo. Panda could also be based on 'pindvenu'. However, the fact is that despite consistent attempts by the Pundits of ancient India to preserve the scientific character of the language and its mathematical precision, the language itself flew like a mighty river breaking all boundaries of Paninian grammarians. Even today, when we call the Australian cricket team as the 'kangaroos',we don't use a word that would mean 'from the land of the kangaroos'. Hence both VAMSHEYA and VANSHA/VANSHA should be OK. The basic idea is that Panda was names after the plant that it eats, that is bamboo (VANSH वंश)
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Very good example to show that even the so called perfect Sanskrit doesn't follow all the rules all the time. If it were to follow the rules rigidly, its daughter languages would not have evolved.Delete
pan= leaves and da from danda = bamboo stem so Panda...........a wild guessReplyDelete
My my , it is that simple! I never thought of itReplyDelete
- AnonymousSunday, May 06, 2012 7:39:00 PM
Hello, I would like to know. Why in the title, the word panda is translated : पांडा whereas in the explanation it is said that panda is VANSHAA : वंशा ?ReplyDelete
To translate "panda panda", would it be वंशावंशा or पांडापांडा ?
Thank you for all your articles and explanations
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Panda is known by the same word in English and Hindi; hence the use of word पांडा in the Hindi translation of the title. VANSHAA वंशा is not a word for panda in any language. I have used the word VANSHAA वंशा as an imaginary original word that might have been used by the first human beings who saw panda. I have imagined that our ancestors must have observed this animal's inseparable association with the bamboo plants and named it after the Sanskrit word VANSHA for bamboo. This series is an exercise in imagining the feelings of our pre-historic ancestors while they were coining words to describe plants, animals and things around them; and the path by which the putative original words changed into modern words.
Thanks for your interest. Welcome to the walks with ancestors in search of DNA of Words.
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Yes .......... very true .................
... despite consistent attempts by the Pundits of ancient India to preserve the scientific character of the language and its mathematical precision, the language itself flew like a mighty river breaking all boundaries of Paninian grammarians. ............Replies
Exactly. There is saying "भाषा बहता नीर" i.e. language is like a river.Delete


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Rihanna's two-episode Bates Motel stint as the iconic shower-stabbing victim Marion Crane came to a close on Monday night—and the Psycho prequel series totally rewrote Hitchcock history.
Watch below to see how the scene from the 1960 film was rejiggered for Robyn Rihanna Fenty in 2017. But stop now if you don't want ANY spoilers, and stop after the video if you don't want all the spoilers.
So after ditching her shower with a Bad Girl RiRi–ish "screw this shit," Marion hits the road and her cheating bae gets the famous Norman Bates acupuncture treatment in her stead. The intrepid YouTubers at Before the Credits have already cut the two scenes side by side:
"We did not want to just do what the movie did," said executive producer Carlton Cuse. "And we didn't feel like Marion would come across as a particularly empowered character if she was murdered in the shower. We wanted her to be a fundamentally stronger, more decisive character."
Last week Rihanna went live on Instagram to stream her reaction to debut on the A&E series, booze included. Next year she'll appear in the female-centric Ocean's Eight alongside Cate Blanchett, Sandra Bullock, Mindy Kaling, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter and more.
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McDonalds Inviting Questions About Food, WTO Sides with U.S.
- In a new campaign, McDonalds is inviting its customers to ask questions about the food they purchase at McDonalds.
The campaign, "Our Food, Your Question's," is encouraging people to ask questions via social media like "what is in my hamburger?" McDonald's Kevin Newell, chief brand and strategy officer, stated "We look forward to the opportunity to have an open conversation and to show people firsthand how we make our most iconic menu items."
These efforts are not new for the global company. Similar efforts have previously launched in countries such as Canada and Australia.
- U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman announced that the United States has won a major victory at the World Trade Organization on behalf of U.S. farmers, including the U.S. poultry industry.
A WTO dispute settlement panel has found in favor of the United States in a dispute challenging India's ban on various U.S. agricultural products – such as poultry meat, eggs, and live pigs – allegedly to protect against avian influenza. The panel agreed with the United States that India's ban breached numerous international trade rules, including because it was imposed without sufficient scientific evidence.


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Monday, April 9, 2012
What I Wore | Pastel Love
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Love the Color Combo.. I will be getting that polish today :) thanksReplyDelete
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So Springy. Love your lip color too.ReplyDelete
great coloursReplyDelete
Oh my gosh, this outfit is gorgeous (I think it's the unexpected color combo). Love the entire look!ReplyDelete
Those pastel colors look great on you and the accessories are a perfect fit *__*!ReplyDelete
Great pastelsReplyDelete
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Pink is an awesome color on your skin tone. YOu look so spring-y!!!ReplyDelete
I just came across your blog a few days ago and I am absolutely in love!! Love your style and the fact that you sew is a HUGE bonus. I've always been interested in sewing my own clothes, my mom used to when I was younger. You're so inspirational, don't ever stop what you're doing!ReplyDelete
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I absolutely love everything the colors are gorgeous the nail polish the bomb!! the accessories to die for !!!ReplyDelete
I just found your blog and I have to say, I think I have a major crush on you! ;) You're gorgeous! I think we may have been separated at birth (style wise) because we're so on the same page...now if only I had more money to spend on clothes... Thanks for making me smile, seriously you're rocking those clothes!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous as always mimi!ReplyDelete
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I love the color combo!! I so need that handbag..love it.ReplyDelete
Just realized I'm wearing the exact same nail color.... Love it!ReplyDelete