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With the expected rising cost of living and the decreases in global oil prices, 2016 could be more challenging and more expensive year, compared to 2015. Beginning this year ERL have increases their ticket to RM55, that is 57% more than the usual price. So if you are traveling in group, might as well use the Airport Taxi services since hiring them is much cheaper. On the other note, car prices are expected to rise as well with Honda and Toyota already announcing their price increases. Proton and others are expected to follow suit. In addition, with the rapid decreases in oil prices, and since our country main source of income is Petronas, the government may start to think of other ways to increase its revenue; maybe by increasing the GST rate or expand its wings to other areas such as tolls or oil purchase. Furthermore, since the electricity subsidies and rebates have already been removed this year, the electricity bill is also expected to rise and etc. So get ready for a major lifestyle changes this year.
This means any unnecessary expenses need to be limited, as strictly as possible. Less eating outside and limit the holiday travels. Monthly spending, credit card expenses and so on, need to be crucially monitored. The aim is to become financially independent in 2016. So maybe need to think of ways for additional income,(Ahmad Maslan would be proud of me).
So let us all welcome 2016 with an open arms. Because like it or not, 2016 is here to stay and we have got no other choices but to be prepared for it.
On the side note, happy newlyweds Mukhlis and Salma!. The couple's wedding in Langkawi last weekend was simple and yet beautiful at the same time. May your wedding be blessed and full of joy and laughter, till Jannah, Insyaallah.
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COTTAGE GROVE, MN. -After installing the front locker on my Sidekick, I really had a problem with bending Idler arms. Even though this has been a known problem for the Sidekick enthusiast, there hasn't been a solution to fix the problem other than keeping a lot of spares and occasionally bending back the arm with a large pry bar when it got to far out of shape. Fortunately, Sky's Offroad Design has recently released a bulletproof Idler arm that solves the problem. We really abused the sample set us and feel that it would be extremely hard to bend one of these new idler arms.
The install is as simple as removing three 14mm bolts and a 17mm nut on the drag link.
I was a bit concerned about eliminating the Calmini Idler brace. The thinking was that if the Idler doesn't bend, would that just move the stress to the three 14mm bolts holding it to the frame? So just to be safe I thought Id see if I could modify something to retain the brace. This would dissipate the stress to more areas thus gaining strength. Fortunately Sky's new design works well with the Calmini idler arm brace and the two can be used together for an extremely tough package. Installing the new Sky Offroad Design's idler arm and retaining the Calmini idler arm brace is what we will demonstrate below:
Start by removing the 24mm nut on the bottom of the Sky Idler. Then removed the washer and discarded it. The Calmini bracket will take its place. Slide the Idler arm off the shaft. Take the bottom of the Idler to a belt sander and shaved off the thickness of the Calmini brace off the poly. About 1/3 inch in from the edge of the poly roll the edge of the poly with a sander. Drill out the hole in the Calmini brace to the size of the Sky Idler shaft. Slide the Calmini brace on and marked where the poly rides in the brace. Using a 2-inch round hand held sander, sand the Calmini brace down where the bend pushes up on the Idler. This sounds a little confusing but when you get that far it will be clear.
Dry assembled everything to be sure it fit.
When all was well I took it apart and greased everything by hand and reassembled it. The Sky Idler comes with a grease fitting so I also greased it there when I was done. The nut on the bottom of the Sky Idler arm can be over tightened so don't just crank it down. For those of you that are running Trackers as I am, Calmini will tell you that their Idler brace only fits Sidekicks. However it will fit a Tracker with the addition of a little tab welded onto the frame as shown in this photo.
Road response is great and handling is superb and as suspected even after several punishing weekends out wheeling, I couldn't bend it! I've been using and abusing it for several

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Wednesday, December 05, 2007
The Political Compass
Think about what this famous adage means: "If you're young and not a liberal, you're heartless. But if you're old and not a conservative, you're foolish." Do you agree?
One more question: where do you think Chris McCandless would be on the compass?
3 comments:
- Harlesbarkly said...
I went to the website to take the political compass test and was surprised by some of the questions like Women first priority is the household, there job comes second. I thought by now most people who treat both sexes equally. But i understand a little bit why that would be one of the questions, there are a lot of ignorant people in the world. When i finished the test i was shocked that i was literally a box away from Gandhi.
- December 9, 2007 at 3:02 PM
- helfmank said...
my political compass ended up being right around the middle. Except a little down and left. I thought it was intersting becuase i would have thought of myself as being more left. Yet, i guess it's sometimes better being towards the middle because agreements can come easier possibly
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Built in 1797 and restored in 2002, Heage Windmill, a Grade II* listed building, is the only working six-sailed stone tower windmill in England. She is set in the Derbyshire countryside, providing spectacular views towards the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site. Car parking is available on site. Visitors can go on tours with guides normally in costume. There is also an Interpretation Centre and a shop selling souvenirs, light refreshments and the windmill's own flour. Groups are welcome by prior arrangement. Look out for special events throughout the year.
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If you live even part of the year at one of the remote bases in Antarctica, chances are you use whatever meager resources are available to you to get by day to day as you do your work. This apparently includes renewable power, in the form of wind and solar energy systems being developed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), in conjunction with the National Science Foundation, which will contribute to new renewable energy and energy-efficient construction standards in Antarctica and other remote locations.
NREL said that the experiments it has been doing in Antarctica around renewable energy are helping the U.S. to meet stringent international environmental regulations that govern polar activities as set forth by the 47-nation Antarctic Treaty. These renewable energy systems are not unlike the wind farms and solar panels you might see around your neighborhood or state; they are, however, much tougher than those given the sheer wind forces and brutal temperatures which accompany life in this remote part of the world. The metals and plastics which make them up, explained the NREL, must be strong enough to the extreme cold or they could become brittle and snap, destroying the renewable energy system.
There seems to actually be quite a bit of renewable energy usage going on in Antarctica, according to the NREL. Examples include a 1 megawatt wind farm McMurdo Station shares with nearby New Zealanders on Scott Base and a new wind farm between the outposts on Ross Island's Crater Hill that, during one recent high wind period, "demonstrated that more than 70 percent of McMurdo's energy needs could be" generated. Also, further inland at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, both solar and wind power sources are being experimented with.
Other nations also making using of renewable power include Belgium, which was said to to have the first outpost entirely operated on renewable power starting last year, and Australia, whose Mawson Station has two turbines that provide more than 70 percent of its power needs. It should be noted, as the NREL explained, that often the combination of these two technologies is important. "Like many places, generating large amounts of renewable power in Antarctica with a single technology is unlikely. Fortunately, polar winds blow during the winter months when the sun does not shine."
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Investigations are continuing into a fire drama at a Doncaster pub which brought the town centre to a standstill on Mad Friday.
Firefighters spent much of the afternoon tackling the incident at Loaded on the corner of Printing Office Street and Cleveland Street after smoke began pouring from the building at lunchtime.
According to South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service, a builder had been working on the bar's flat roof when part of the roof and some timbers caught fire.
The fire caused lots of smoke, which filled the roof space of the premises, formerly known as Nelsons.
Four fire engines tackled the incident at its height and police and paramedics were also in attendance as the area was sealed off.
Streets were packed at the time with revellers celebrating Mad Friday - traditionally the busiest day of the year as shoppers head to the stores combined with revellers taking to the town's pubs.
Crews spent more than four hours at the scene.
The pub was not open at the time of the incident.
It has been a bad year for the bar which was formerly a lap dancing club. In February, the pub was banned from playing recorded music after an inspection by royalties collection agency PPL and an application to convert the premises back to a lap dancing club was also rejected.
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BMW's decision to create the new 'i' sub-brand for the growing number of eco-conscious buyers has apparently rubbed off its partners like AC Schnitzer, as the German tuning firm will be launching a production ready concept based on the Z4 hardtop-roadster at next week's Geneva motor show.
Developed as an eco-friendly sports car that adapts to AC Schnitzer's new motto "Efficient Performance", the 99d gets its name from its CO2 emission levels and the diesel powerplant housed under its hood.
More specifically, the tuning house fitted the Z4 with the BMW 320d Efficient Dynamic's 2.0-liter four-cylinder turbocharged diesel engine. After some performance upgrades, the four-pot's output was lifted from 163HP and 380Nm, to 190HP and 420Nm.
AC Schnitzer says the 99d can go from naught to 100km/h (62mph) in 6.9 seconds en route to a top speed of 235km/h (146mph), while returning an impressive fuel consumption of 3.8lt/100km (61.9 mpg US) with CO2 emissions of just 99.18 g/km.
To achieve these striking numbers, the German tuner also reduced the roadster's weight by 230kg (507 pounds).
"With the AC Schnitzer 99d, we've succeeded in building the previously inconceivable: an up-rated performance vehicle whose CO2 emissions have been reduced to 99 g/km and which, despite its sustainability, offers pure driving pleasure. That's Efficient Performance by AC Schnitzer," the company said in a brief statement.
According to the tuner, the price of the 99d is €149,000 or about US$205,500 at today's exchange rates, but that's about all the details AC Schnitzer is willing to release before unveiling the car at the Geneva Salon.


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After the post of Bad Mothers Anonymous the news contacted me with my Mother of the Year Award. Don't be hating y'all! No need to get jealous. The President even commented LOL!Here is the link to my news interview!
CNNBC Video Mother of the Year
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
I Did It - Mother of the Year!!!
3 comments:
- Cate said...
That video was sent to me too - fantastic isn't it?? About time our greatness was acknowleged hey? :-)
Hope you had a great day.
- May 13, 2009 at 9:01 PM
- Angelena said...
Yes it is great! I just about peed my pants laughing when I watched it. lol
- May 13, 2009 at 9:05 PM
- Tatersmama said...
Hey, and who is more deserving, eh?
I enjoyed watching it, but it's kind of sad that you're in Angelina Jolie's bad books now...
- May 16, 2009 at 7:47 PM
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Friday, 12 March 2010
Reading and Writing
I have been reading like crazy lately. Out of the 30 books nominated for the Whitney Awards, I've read 22 1/2 but I'll get them all done, I think. It is always amazing to me the variety of books out there and the amount of really good writing. Doing all this reading affects my own writing as I look at the different ways other authors approach a story. It is all part of the learning process. Sometimes I wish the learning process wouldn't take so long, and I could say I did it and I'm published. Compared to some of my author friends, I feel like I am coming to the table very late in the game. But better late than never. Keep watching for me, because I will get there someday. Meanwhile, I have a little more reading to do.
Posted by Stephanie Humphreys at 12:54
Labels: 2009 Whitney Awards, writing
4 comments:
- Queen of Chaos said...
I'm watching for ya!
I've heard over and over again the reading books really helps one as a writer. I think it's great you have read so much and are learning. I know that's how I feel when I read too.
BTW- I feel the same...watch for me..I'll get there someday. :)
- 14 March 2010 at 05:11
- Barb said...
So tell us which books are your favourites. I am always on the look-out for more reading material. I'm a reader not a writer!
- 15 March 2010 at 06:50
- Julie Wright said...
I have nine books left to read for the whitney's. It has been a lot of fun to read them all. And you're never to late to the writing table.
- 16 March 2010 at 14:40
- Stephanie Humphreys said...
There are quite a few that I like Barb. I'll send you a list.
Thanks Julie.
I'm holding you to that Autumn. Can't wait to read your book when it is nominated.
- 19 March 2010 at 16:18
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I read this report about a 11 month old being brutally harassed by his nanny when I was at work a couple of days ago. And my stomach churned. I immediately called up my son's daycare to check how he was doing. I saw him happily skipping around and having a great time (they have a cctv camera).
I have questioned my decision to get back to a full time job innumerable times in the last 5 months. I have felt like a bad mother for choosing to work instead of staying at home with my son. I was a SAHM for 15 months after he was born. But I have been financially independent since I was 19 and I suddenly had to depend on the husband for money. It's not for a minute about what he said or how he made me feel. It's about my principles and how I want to lead my life.
There was a lot of self doubt – am I abandoning my child? Will he judge me for not being around? what if something happens to him because I'm not around 24*7? When he was still settling into daycare and crying quite badly when we dropped him off, I almost called my prospective employer and told him I changed my mind and that I can't do this. R, who is the more emotional parent of the two of us, told me that I'm overreacting and that I'll feel differently very soon.
Boy, am I glad I listened to him!
We're taught to be competitive, study as well as the boys do, get into a good college, work for a great organisation, earn our own living but only until a "good boy" comes into the picture. Some of these "good boys" don't want their wives' monies. Wah, what a noble intention. What they really mean to say is that they expect their wives to sit at home and wait for them to get back home. Another thing I've heard extremely often, that makes my blood boil is, "I've given my wife/daughter-in-law the freedom to do what she chooses to do in life." I want to ask these people, who made you the boss? Is it not ridiculous if I go tell my husband, I give you the permission to work in any organisation or profession you choose to and I will never stand in your way? Supportive is all anyone can be and it is biggest thing one can be.
R, who has once never come home at 6 in all these years of working, now makes it a point to pick up our son almost everyday. He's up before me almost everyday and is completely capable of handling baby S on his own. He's stood by me like a rock even when I've doubted myself. And that unflinching support makes me believe I can do this.
I'm away from my son for at least 8 hours a day. I miss him. A lot! But will I have it any other way? No. The financial independence gives me security. Is my self-worth related to money? No. But my self-worth is related to being able to hold a job and do something I'm good at and make money out of it. When I went back to work after a 2 year break, I was worried if I'd be able to work again. What if my brain has atrophied? What if I can't balance being a mother and work in a full time job at the same time? But 1 week in, I knew I was still good at my job, I was able to meet new people and have funny lunch time conversations (I missed this the most!) and still go back home 6 to cuddle with my son.
If I was a SAHM, I would've been a lousy mother. The space to be me and do something just for myself makes me a much better mother. I strongly believe this. Anyone who tells me otherwise, can go jump in the well. This is my life and I will learn to live with my life choices.


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The Avastin Cost Share Programme provides two free cycles of Avastin and caps the total cost of Avastin at eight treatment cycles. This means that eight cycles of Avastin treatment is the maximum you will pay, even if you remain on treatment for longer.
It's important to note that the costs for Avastin are spread over time, so not all of it has to be paid immediately. Patients usually pay for each cycle as they go, meaning they only pay for treatment while they benefit from it.
Remember, even if you make use of the Cost Share Programme, you will still have to pay for additional costs, such as specialist care, other chemotherapy treatments and administration of the infusion.
If you'd like more information on the Cost Share Programme, speak to your doctor. They can give you further details about the costs and eligibility.
Talking to Your Doctor About Whether Avastin is Right for You
Deciding whether to pay for treatment is a big decision and it's one that requires careful thought.
Avastin is not a cure, but it may give you more time before your cancer grows and spreads. For many people, Avastin may be able to offer a few extra months and for others it may be able to offer more.
Speak with your doctor about your specific case and the pros and cons of taking Avastin.
If you're not sure how to have this discussion with your doctor, we've developed a list of common questions which might help you. Have a look at these here.
Remember, Avastin is not right for everyone and your doctor will need to ask you a number of questions to see if it's suitable for you.
If you're considering Avastin and you want to want to know more about private providers, you can check out a list here.
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If you'd like more information about Avastin, you can look at the following:
Avastin® (bevacizumab), 100 mg/4mL and 400 mg/16 mL vials, is a Prescription Medicine used to treat metastatic (spreading) colorectal, kidney, breast, brain, lung, ovarian and cervical cancers. Avastin has risks and benefits. Ask your oncologist if Avastin is right for you. Use strictly as directed. If symptoms continue or you have side effects, see your healthcare professional. For further information on Avastin, please talk to your health professional or visit www.medsafe.govt.nz for Avastin Consumer Medicine Information. Avastin is not funded by PHARMAC. You will need to pay the full cost of this medicine. A prescription charge and normal oncologist fees may apply.
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Beyoncé Releases New Surprise Visual Album on Taylor Swift's Birthday
Beyoncé came out of nowhere and released an entire album with 14 songs and 17 videos, without any marketing hype, leaks, or interviews. She just did it. Bam.
Beyoncé has said she was tired of how her albums were being marketed, and she was over how the music industry puts the emphasis on hyping a single at the expense of the album as a listening experience or an event.
She released it on a day when some other things were happening, but they received much less attention due to Beyoncé's new album. The internet was pretty much like:
And only had that energy for The Queen alone.
Lorde released her own surprise in the form of a single the same night, only a few hours after Beyoncé's big reveal.
We doubt Lorde really minds being upstaged by Beyoncé, because as she said in a past interview, "Oh. I would rather be the daughter of Beyoncé and Jay Z. Because, if Beyoncé is your mom? No words." This was in response to a question asking Lorde whether she'd rather have Kim Kardashian or Beyoncé as a mom. How is that even a question for anyone? Oh, maybe because one of those comes with being on a reality television show, which is probably desirable to some (crazy) people? Whatever.
Oh, and it was Taylor Swift's birthday.
Tee hee.
Beyoncé did not hype the album at all, which is in stark contrast to Lady Gaga's constant hyping of Art Pop. And Beyoncé did the whole entire-album-as-a-visual-experience thing.
Gaga wishes she came up with that.
Today, Apple announced that Beyoncé new self-titled album was the fastest-selling album in the history of iTunes.
It sold over 828,000 digital copies in only 3 days and hit number one in over 100 countries. Taylor Swift's Red held the previous record, selling 465,000 in a full week. This is Beyoncé's fifth consecutive studio album to debut at number one—a first for any female artist. Beyoncé is also the biggest album debut since Taylor Swift's Red back in 2012. Billboard reports her selling 617,213 in the first tracking week. She totally eclipsed Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus, and Lady Gaga's 2013 first-week album sales–all of which were under 300,000.
Katy Perry is all about Beyoncé, though.
And it hasn't even been a true week–Taylor Swift's Red had a full seven days. Tracking weeks are based on a Monday-Sunday sales performance. Going by tracking weeks, Beyoncé is only behind Lady Gaga's Born This Way in digital sales, which sold just over 650,000 copies. It's important to keep in mind that Gaga also sold her album on Amazon, which had a special sale selling her entire set for only 99 cents for two days during the debut-week. nearly 450,000 sales came from Amazon.
Check out the track list for Beyoncé:
The album has received wide critical acclaim due to its presentation, experimental style, social messages, and art direction.
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Hi All.
A Cold Freezin' Night also came very early in the process of making 'The Way Out'. The Talkboy tapes, as I described in my blog entry of June 23, were another highlight of Paul's sample library. Since we leaked this track last month, the responses have ranged from unbridled joy, to bitter commentary on my parenting skills. (It's funny how many people assume that these are our kids and we scripted the whole thing). I found a tape recorder for my boys, not a talkboy, but a Fisher Price… so far the highlight has been Sepp singing variations on the theme-song for NPR's 'All Things Considered" entirely using the word 'poop', over and over. He's 4. His most prized possession is his Fischer Price turntable:
On constant rotation recently: J. Geils – 'Freeze Frame', Bobby Vinton – 'Is There a Place (Where I Can Go)', and '5 Minute Hoe-Down', which he calls the 'fiddle one'. Sometimes Sepp complains about having to 'work all day, everyday". If you ask him what his work is he says "I have to play my record player". He must think that's what I do all day out here. And he's right, pretty much.
Since I covered the backstory of this track before, I want to write about the creation of the percussion part, which involved my 'electro-acoustic poly-rhythm generator'. This is the part of the track that sounds like a cross between a 'nail gun set to automatic' and 'a guy in a subway, banging on a five gallon bucket, on methamphetamines'. I've never taken speed, but I do own a nailgun, a Bostitch F28WW pneumatic, which I love, but it was not used in the making of this track, at least not directly.
Here are pictures of the rhythm-generator:
It's a four inch subwoofer attached to an oddly shaped flexible mirror using a copper plumbing fixture. Why a mirror? No reason, it was the best piece of plastic I could find for the job at the Autozone. When you put a low frequency sound through the woofer, it sets the mirror vibrating, and since it is oddly shaped, different areas of the mirror move in different ways given the chaotic relationship between the root frequency and their own set of resonant frequencies. What I did for 'A Cold Freezin' Night' is send a 20 hz sound and a 30 hz sound through the mirror simultaneously, and held a ball point pen gently against different parts of the mirror and recorded the result. Of course at this point it just sounds like a buzzing nightmare (i'll try to post the sound later tonight), but if you slow the sound down by two octaves all of this amazing rhythmic structure becomes apparent. The chaotic relationship between the 2/3 sound wave, the vibrating mirror and the tip of the pen gives an astonishingly expressive, and superhumanly accurate drum solo. It was pretty easy to massage the rhythm into shape using my wave-editor after that.
There's no real way to reproduce it live, so for the purposes of the show, we use it as it is. Gene has been working on copping that crazy harmonica solo on his fiddle, so that's fun to watch.
I remember first listening to Aphex Twin and Squarepusher in college. Drill-and-Bass was all the rage back in the late nineties, like Aphex Twins 'Girl-Boy Song' and Tom Jenkinson's 'Feed Me Weird Things' and 'Big Loada'. Very Guyish, Very Awesome. It was a great paradigm shift in music. The drums, through some kind of coup d'etat, usurped the role of the melody as lead attention grabber in music, and the melody slunk back into the role of holding time together. It was a very freeing moment for music. Drums didn't have to be humanly playable anymore. People were beginning to accept cyborgs as just another member of the band. It was key for setting up the musical landscape that made 'the Books' possible, and I think of 'a Cold Freezin' Night' as a bit of a throwback to this era, and maybe sort of an updated version of this aesthetic.
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The Peking Acrobats will be at the Long Center Sunday, Feb. 9 at 3 pm. See China's most amazing acrobats without interruption. Who needs a net when you have hundreds of years of tradition and countless hours of practice, preparation and mastery under your belt? Not the Peking Acrobats. If you have never seen this show before, it's a feast for the eyes and a thrill ride for people of all ages!
A performance by The Peking Acrobats brings with it the opportunity to experience the epitome of a rich and ancient folk art tradition combined with the pageantry and spectacle of modern Chinese Theatrical Circus. Each movement or action takes many years to practice and perfect. Those who have seen The Peking Acrobats on any of their previous tours can be assured that they will see new, exciting acts and new twists to old favorites.
Here's a video of a pretty amazing display of strength, courage and skill:
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Hi all and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge
Thank you for joining us for our Lets Do The Polka Challenge and we hope you will join in with our new theme!
We will be back soon with the names of the lucky winner of the $50 Voucher.
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We are showcasing HERO ARTS PRODUCTS this week. You don't have to use them to join in with the challenge, but if you have them we would love to see them used!
As always Simon Says Stamp will be giving away $50 voucher to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Store
I made a colourful flowery background girlie card.
I have used Layering for you Flowers stamp set from Hero Arts to stamp and create my pretty background. LOVE layering stamp sets. They make the best background giving the images shading and depth. I used MISTI and Altenew inks to get even coverage and precision stamping of layers.
For the focal point, I have bunched up thread, then gold foiled Scribble Heart die cut from Simon Says Stamp followed by a strip of black card stock with "MUM" die cut using the Block Alphabet die from Simon Says Stamp. I brushed Wink of Stella shimmer on the black strip of cardstock. Finally embellished with Gold Sequins from Pretty Pink Posh.
I absolutely LOVE LOVE this stamp set from Hero Arts. Such a beautiful set and with various colour combination and same layout, I made a bunch of them. Unfortunately they were given away before I could take photos. Maybe I will make another set.
Now it's YOUR turn, Happy Crafting
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I have this rather strange habit of picking up alcohol/liqueurs when I am on vacation. I generally pick up something that is unique to the region as it is usually a great price and a fun souvenir. This isn't really that strange except that I keep picking up things that I don't really drink! Like Guavaberry liqueur from St Martin, or Curacao (from Curacao – I also got a delicious pistachio liqueur from there too). Most of these things I really do enjoy but I don't actually frequently (EVER) make drinks with them (what do you do with pistachio liqueur???). Wine is my drink of choice and yet I keep buying these things on every vacation! I am learning though, my last trip I bought Disaronno from Italy (which I enjoy a lot AND it is great for baking) rather than Limoncello (which would be another one I wouldn't drink).
My point here is that although I have rum from a similar purchase (although no special meaning, just duty free), I actually really like the taste of rum! So it was actually a good purchase! And pair it with chocolate, yum!
I realized something recently. Rum balls are really just the original cake balls/pops. Although there are many ways to make rum balls, my recipe has you bake brownies, break them up, add rums and roll them into balls. With cake balls you would then chill them and dip them in chocolate, while with rum balls you roll them in sprinkles (at least that is how I like them).
As another of my Christmas Whoopie Pie flavours, I thought rum balls would be a delicious twist on an all chocolate Whoopie Pie. Chocolate-rum Whoopie Pie with chocolate-rum filling! I realized while making this that this is my first chocolate on chocolate whoopie pie! Considering how much I love chocolate it is surprising that it took this long! Anyways, I thought these turned out quite good! A good smack of chocolate kept from being overwhelming by the delicious smoothness of rum. I thought it was kind of brilliant really 🙂 (and I took them to a party hosted by a personal trainer from my gym and so everyone there was from the gym – even the healthiest ones there thought they were fantastic!)
Chocolate Rum Whoopie Pies
adapted from Whoopie Pies by Sarah Billingsley & Amy Treadwell
makes about 24-30 filled Whoopie Pies depending how big you make them
1 2/3 cups flour
- 2/3 cup cocoa
- 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup butter, softened at room temp
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/2 tsp vanilla
- 1 tsp rum extract
- 1 cup milk
- 2 Tb rum
- 1/4 cup chocolate sprinkles
- Preheat oven to 375°F. Line baking sheets with parchment paper.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer (or just a large bowl with a hand mixer), beat the butter and brown sugar together until fluffy and smooth – about 3 minutes. Add the egg and extracts and beat another 2 minutes.
- In the measuring cup used to measure the milk, add the rum and stir. Add half of the flour mix and half of the milk mix to the batter and beat on low. Continue to beat as you add the rest of the milk and finally the rest of the flour mix. Beat until combined.
- Using a spoon/scoop/piping bag, put about 1.5 Tb of batter for each Whoopie about 2 inches apart on the prepared baking sheets. (You can make them bigger or smaller if you like – 1.5 Tb makes 2 inch Whoopies.)
- Sprinkle sprinkles over the top of each. I tried to evenly sprinkle them and put as many as I could on top of each Whoopie.
- Bake for 9-11 minutes or until the whoopie springs back when lightly pressed (it shouldn't leave an indent).
- Let them cool for 2-3 minutes before removing to a rack to cool completely.
Chocolate Rum Filling
- 1 cup butter, room temp
- 1/3 cup cocoa, sifted
- 3 1/2 cups (may need more) icing/confectioner's sugar
- 2 Tb rum
- 2 tsp rum extract
- 1-2 Tb milk
- Beat butter for 3 minutes or so until fluffy and light.
- With the beater off, sift in the cocoa. Start the mixer on low and add the sugar 1/2 cup at a time. It will end up VERY dry. Add the rum and extract and continue beating. Make sure you have the desired rum taste too, add more rum instead of milk in the next step if desired. Add milk as needed to get it to a medium consistency (if you put a spoon in the icing, it should stand up but fall over if pushed).
- Beat another 2 minutes or so once you get a good texture. The colour may lighten at this point (not sure why) but will get darker once sitting.
Assemble by filling two equally sized Whoopie Pies with as much icing as you used for the batter of the Whoopie. So if you used 1.5 Tb per Whoopie, put 1.5Tb of filling between the cookies.
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Friday, June 23, 2006
They can buy ink by the barrel, but we can fight back now with bandwidth by the terrabyte. I'm getting inundated with furious readers' letters to the Times, most of which the editors won't bother to read or publish--since they're not in, you know, the "public (Pulitzer) interest." So I'm reprinting a representative sample here and I'll keep adding to it. Don't forget that it's both the NYTimes and the LATimes that blew off security concerns in favor of blowing the cover of the terrorist finance tracking program.Send a letter to the editor by e-mailing firstname.lastname@example.com or faxing (212)556-3622. Snail mail:Letters to the EditorThe New York Times229 West 43rd StreetNew York, NY 10036LATimes e-mail form here.
The White House and Treasury Department issued statements about the secret subpoenas after The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times posted stories about the program on their Web sites.
The Times' they are a-hangin' together. Both the NY and the LA Times are flogging the Swift story. Both Times have published this leak that helps terrorists dodge the law "in the public interest." By which they actually mean, in their own and in the terrorists' interest. The public gains nothing from the disclosure of this program other than increased political acrimony and increase anxiety over the rising possibility of losing this war thanks to the treasonous Times. Both of them.


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German/Samoa Digitization Project
The Government of Samoa through the Minister of MESC signed a Cooperation Agreement with the Federal Republic of Germany in December 2008 to undertake a Digitization Project (previously referred to as the Microfilming Project). Archives New Zealand is the third partner in this project that is fully funded by the Federal Republic of Germany. The project commenced in December 2008 and scheduled to be completed in December 2010.


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Saltstacks is a powerful and robust remote execution tool
Saltstacks using simple RSA keypairs for authentication.
Saltstacks configs are stored in a readable yaml format
Unlike both Chef and Puppet -- which store configurations in a Rubyesque way -- configurations in Saltstack are yaml and very easy to read. You can also use simple yaml parsing programs to check the syntax of your configuration file.
Saltstack provides top-down execution order in configurations
This is something that drives a lot of people insane when using Puppet. Puppet manifests are executed in an declarative way that seems to just jump all around the manifest, so you end up writing dependencies for all sorts of executions. This leads to significant bloat of config files as well as some serious heartache when attempting to troubleshoot manifests.
Saltstack has a lively and active development community
Saltstack is the new kid on the block and is generating a lot of buzz. Unlike both Chef and Puppet, the salt community is lively and active. Mailing lists are busy and users on the irc channel are quick to offer help. This makes a huge difference when getting help.
Saltstack will not try and sell you hosting
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Largest Cities In The United States In 1776, And In 2076
At the time of the nation's independence the total population in the U.S. was 2.5 million. Philadelphia was the largest city with 40,000 residents – which would only fill about half the capacity at Lincoln Financial Field where its football team plays home games today. The Quaker-populated city back then was very peaceful and civil, very unlike the Eagle fans of today.
In 1776, the next largest cities were New York City (25,000 people), Boston (15,000), Charleston (12,000), and Newport (11,000). All are rough estimates as the U.S. Census enumeration did not begin until the 1790.
Today, in 2012, the U.S. population has blossomed to 311 million. The largest metropolitan areas are, in order, (1) New York City, (2) Los Angeles, (3) Chicago, (4) Dallas, and (5) Houston. The metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) are used for comparison rather than city geographic boundaries because suburban populations matter in today's local economy, as evidenced by daily traffic jams in these metro areas.
By the 300th anniversary of the nation's birth in 2076, the U.S. population will have grown to anywhere between 520 million and 590 million, depending upon whether the population growth rate is somewhat slow at 0.8 percent each year or matches the recent average of 1.0 percent each year.
But which city will be the largest in 2076? So much can change between now and then, but my best guess is that southern cities will see most of the gains while northern cities lag behind. Job growth has been consistently much faster in Sun Belt cities. For example, Buffalo was considered a large city with nearly ½ million workers in the region in 1950. But Buffalo has about the same number of jobs today while Charlotte zoomed from 200,000 jobs in 1970 to over 800,000 today.
Other similar examples abound of faster growth in sunnier places. Big-shouldered Chicago had more jobs than all of mighty Texas back in 1950. But not anymore. Pittsburgh offers another example of past glory. A thick accented Scottish immigrant named Carnegie literally built Pittsburgh and the city was full of mansions and wealth well into the 1950s. Today, people are heading to the desert in Phoenix with their retirement money.
My prediction, therefore, is that the biggest cities in the U.S. in 2076 will be:
(1) New York
(2) Houston
(3) Atlanta
(4) Washington, D.C.
(5) Phoenix
Real estate values in prime locations of these cities will be especially high. Chicago and Pittsburgh do not make the list, though they can comfort in the fact that there will still be plenty of Bears and Steelers fans cheering at football games played in Phoenix.
So you say that Atlanta and Phoenix will be among the largest? With temperatures rising well above 100 degrees in Phoenix and Atlanta, and with the trend of getting even hottter in 60 years, do you really think that those cities will even be habitable?
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Jacques Villeneuve will start from the back of the grid after using illegal fuel in qualifying.
Coulthard stalls on the grid!
Frentzen got ahead of Hill
Schumacher is now 3rd with Barrichello and Hakkinen in front of him
Hakkinen is beginning to creep away from Barrichello
Coulthard in the pits.
Hakkinen in trouble - he's slowing Barrichello is leading
Barrichello is leading on Schumacher...Hakkinen back to proper speed
Hakkinen is now sandwiched between Ferraris
Hakkinen is now right behind Schumacher
Barrichello has a lead of 3 seconds and increasing
hill and wurz touch in trouble
Panis gets 10 second penalty for a jump start
Coulthard has been blue flagged to let Schumacher past!
Schumacher is grinding out Barrichello's lead, while Hakkinen is right behind him
Alesi passes Fisichella for 5th position
Barrichello pits as Schumacher takes over the lead (26 laps)
Irvine is now 3rd in front of Barrichello
Barrichello takes Irvine in the Senna S
Hakkinen takes the lead as schuie pits
Schumacher is out in front of Barrichello
Hakkinen pits 9.1 secs(40th lap)comes out ahead of schuie
Barrichello out of race smoke comes out of engine
Irvine pits. Frentzen in 3rd spot
Ralf Schumacher in front of Irvine who is 5th
Irvine catches up to ralf
Hakkinen fastest lap on 71st lap
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Hiding for boomerangs
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And again... the flew got me. The third time in two months... is this the same flew boomeranging back to me or am I that unlucky to catch three different ones?
Anyway, what I want to say is this: I'll be hiding in bed untill it's over...
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A tough road ahead
In his 10-year-long run as a member of the legislative assembly (MLA), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) heavyweight Madan Kaushik seems to have made more enemies than friends.india Updated: Jan 09, 2012 20:24 IST
Hindustan Times
In his 10-year-long run as a member of the legislative assembly (MLA), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) heavyweight Madan Kaushik seems to have made more enemies than friends.
The MLA from Haridwar, by mobilising a big force of youth behind him, has evidently annoyed his own partymen who appear to be wanting to settle scores with him.
It seems the leader will first have to battle it out within his saffron fraternity before taking on his rival Congress candidate Satpal Brahmchari in the coming assembly election.Not only the local BJP office-bearers, affiliates of the saffron brigade too are highly disenchanted with Kaushik. Accusing him of being more interested in mobilising youths in his support, they say he has paid little attention to development works.
BJP office-bearers appear a little reluctant in expressing their disapproval on record but members of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) are more forthright.
They openly declare that anti-social elements have taken over the city in the past decade and Kaushik has failed to check it despite being the state cabinet minister.
"People cannot get pure drinking water despite river Ganga flowing right in the middle of the city, not to mention the colossal amount of fund being invested for the same. Sanctity of the holy city of Haridwar too is being threatened with bootlegging of liquor in full swing despite a blanket ban by the state government, all thanks to the minister's supporters involved in illegal liquor business," alleged Virendra Kirtipal, senior VHP office-bearer.
"We will have to cut a sorry figure in the coming elections before the voters as the party has nothing to bank upon on the development front in the city. On the contrary, we have to be answerable to them on Kumbh scam, encroachment and the flourishing land mafia in Haridwar," stated a local BJP office bearer on condition of anonymity.
"All the works he has done were for himself and his near and dear ones. I am yet to see any concrete developmental work done by him throughout his decade-long stint as our representative," said RP Jakhmola, Khanna Nagar Area resident that Kaushik belongs to.
Not everyone is as negative though. There are many who hail him for his accessibility to the public. "He always stands for his people in their times of sorrow and happiness. People like him," said Shiv Prasad Baluni, a local.
However, the admirers seem to be few and far between.
A petrol pump owner, who didn't wish to be named, said, "Kaushik's regime as a legislator has put the party's prospects in question in this assembly election as the public is not convinced with his works."
Interestingly, public anger against the MLA was so intense that a section of Khanna Nagar residents were planning to a raise a hoarding asking him to leave the colony.
They were even ready to repay his house loans if he was willing to go. This was because of the rising levels of hooliganism in the area and dominance of the land mafia in the colony that he failed to check.
On the contrary, Congress candidate Satpal Brahmchari is remembered for his regime of comparatively better-administered Haridwar Municipal Committee although Congress party will have to control dissidence from other ticket seekers.
"We have to accept the party high command's verdict and work unitedly for the organisation," said Sanjay Paliwal, Congress leader.
First Published: Jan 09, 2012 18:44 IST


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Just Wordz- Christmas + snowflake
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Merry Christmas!
Just Wordz- Christmas + snowflake
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Pretty card! I love the bow and the glitter on the snowflake! :)ReplyDelete
You have been practicing & getting very good at bow tying. I've been practicing but have to practice more before I get this good. Especially like the sparkly tinsel glitter on the Snowflake.ReplyDelete
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this is so pretty!ReplyDelete
Your bow is beautiful .. For a beautiful card.. I love the blueReplyDelete
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Such a pretty card, Carri! And your bow is beautiful! Terrific job!--PatReplyDelete
I love your snowflake card! Love those colors and the bow just sets it off. Thanks for joining Just Wordz Challenge..Good Luck! Hugs! Leah AnnReplyDelete
This is so pretty! Thanks so much for playing along with us. :)ReplyDelete
Very beautiful. Love the pearls you added to your flake.ReplyDelete
This is so absolutely gorgeous!! I love the colour combination and that ribbon is such a perfect match - with a fantastic bow too!ReplyDelete
Thanks for your comment on my blog. Commenting is something for me as much as it is for you. It's a fun way to spend my free time!
Carri I love the colors and this-- it is so different from your usual style yet so lovely and eye catchingReplyDelete
This is a pretty card Carri! The ribbon is perfect... I still need a lot of practice! BTW- the blue and green is awesome!ReplyDelete
So pretty and I love the glitter:)ReplyDelete
I want to be more prepared this year as well! I love the colors you chose for this card! Awesome job with this sketch!!ReplyDelete
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OH WOW this card is absolutely beautiful... I love love it.ReplyDelete
Beautiful card!! :)ReplyDelete
This is SO pretty Carri! I really like the colors-sp sofe looking. AWESOME bow!!ReplyDelete
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Great color combo, and that snowflake is totall pretty.... love that stylish ribbon too!ReplyDelete
beautiful! i love that translucent, glittery, pearly, snowflake!ReplyDelete
Your bow looks great! So does the card. How many Christmas cards do you have made? I need to get busy on mine. We just got back to the hotel after eating a fabulous dinner. I am stuffed! Ha. We head back home tomorrow.ReplyDelete
Your bow looks great. I better get busy and start making some holiday cards. I have NONE! Yikes! Love that snowflake.ReplyDelete
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Hi Carri you are too funny I am hoping for the same things! you card is beautiful love love love that snowflakeReplyDelete
OH my goodness! I did not hear about the rubber stamp expo! I will have to get the details from you:)ReplyDelete
Great card! That bow is tied great too. I always have the hardest time with bows.ReplyDelete
really pretty.like the touch of pearls and the glitter.i need to get some glitter makes the cards look very pretty for the holidays.tfsReplyDelete
Very pretty card, and good bow tying!!ReplyDelete
beautiful card I love the colors you used.ReplyDelete
This is so pretty I love the pearls and the liquid applique . The snowflake is just beautiful.ReplyDelete
Oh my gosh, this is gorgeous, Carri! I love the green and blue for a Christmas card! All of the texture is just fabulous and I am so jealous of that bow!! I need to know how you did that!! :DReplyDelete
This is so pretty, I love the pearls! And, yes, I can see that you've been practicing your bows... It's perfect! :)ReplyDelete
Oh this is so elegant...thank you so much for joining in on the first challenge for JUSTWORDZ.CAReplyDelete
Love the tinsil glitter, your bow is fab and i really like the embossing folder you used...
Such a pretty card, great job on the bow! I need to follow your lead and get going on my Christmas cards too, thanks for the inspiration!ReplyDelete
What a beautiful card!!! I love the snowflake with the pearls and the beautiful color combination!!! Love it!!!ReplyDelete
love your color combo!!! What a gorgeous wintery card!!ReplyDelete
Your bow is beautiful, as is your card! Love that shimmery snowflake, wow!ReplyDelete
Hi Carri!ReplyDelete
Your card is so pretty! I love how you added the pearls to the snowflake.
Thanks so much for playing along with us at Peachy Keen Stamps sketch challenge!
Ruthie :)
Carri, your card is just beautiful! It's always great to see your work, and have you join us for the PKS Challenge! Thanks for playing!!!ReplyDelete
What a cute card! I love that ribbon!!!ReplyDelete
Thanks for palying along in the RRR challenge!
This is fabulous! Loving all those pearls! Thanks for entering in the Justwordz challenge!ReplyDelete
I love that glittery snowflake and the non-traditional colours you've used! Fabulous job!ReplyDelete
Thanks for playing in the JustWordz challenge!
great card! Thanks for joing in the Really Reasonable Ribbon challenge!ReplyDelete
What a beautiufl card. I need to get going so my cards will be done and mailed by Christmas. Thank you for joining us at the JustWordz first challenge.ReplyDelete


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- New design: the aubergine and orange theme is good. I was getting a bit sick of the yellow and brown anyway.
- Ubuntu One is now core: 2gb of cloud-based file storage means the same files are available to me on my work laptop and desktop, home desktop and netbook. No more carrying files around on a USB stick.
- Speed: the aim was to get a 10 second boot time. My old P4 doesn't quite get there, but it's nice to have an operating system get faster with each upgrade, not slower and more bloated.
- Social: twitter/identi.ca, IM and chat are all rolled up into the operating system so you can keep track of all your social networking in one place. (I'm loving Gwibber as an identi.ca client too).
Looking for software that is free for students to install on any computer they have access to? I started this blog because I believe that all students and teachers should be able to use software for learning regardless of their ability to pay software licence fees. Open source software = community-owned software.
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx is here
Christmas comes twice a year for Ubuntu fans. New releases come out on the 4th and 10th months of the year (hence the numbering 10.04 came out in 2010 on the 04th month. There are a number of really good new features which The Silent Number summarises here. Off the top of my head, here's what I'm thankful for this Christmas:
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One instruction that my father gave that was wrong, and I had to learn his wrongness the hard way, was to always run from trouble. If someone challenges you to a fight, my father said, run to the nearest police station and report the people who are trying to get you.
My father had a story about a crowd of kids who would follow him and his brother, Freddie, home from their school in Fremont, a neighborhood in Seattle. They lived in Interlake then in a tiny house that has since been turned into a storage facility for Ben Law Appliance. They lived near the dump that is now a mini-golf course. Every day these kids would follow him and his brother home. We started to run home. When the bell rang we were ready and we just ran home as quickly as they could. "Those kids never got us." I tried to apply my father rule growing up.
In elementary school in Fall City I was the weird kid and because I'd grown up with those kids they accepted me for what I was: the weird kid. I wore a velour sweater in brown and orange colors. I had a massive Beatles style bowl cut. I wore a blue hoodie on the playground and played with my best friends Wyatt, an asthmatic, and Sam Sudore. Sam's father was a hairdresser and owned a couple of hair salons. Wyatt's dad was a dairy farmer.
Most of the other kids in the school dads fell trees for Weyerhaeuser. Their Moms' worked as waitresses. That's what my Mom did too.My dad was the local pot dealer. Our dad's had the traditional non-traditional jobs of rural Washington State.
When my Mom got a job at Boeing and we moved to the upper Snoqualmie valley in the 1981, even further way way from Seattle, our household suddenly joined the bedroom community invaders who had been changing the valley. The Snoqualmie kids began to attack me. I had a button down shirt. "What are the buttons for?" a gigantic kid asked me. To hold down the collar, and my being new and having a button down collar meant I was targeted for violence at recess. Three or four kids would gather around me and hit me and push against me and press against me in the hidden spots on the playground. I was just too big and too strong for them to do anything else to me. I didn't know it then but I was a lot stronger than other kids my age. I didn't think about it, because I wasn't a particular fast runner nor was I very agile. Instead I was just a block of flesh and bone and these kids would wheeze and press against me in a knot of arms and legs for about fifteen minutes and then disheveled we would return to the classroom. The strategy of not fighting back seemed to encourage them. They kept at it and I got kind of used to it. I didn't look forward to it. I would wait until they exhausted themselves. I would adjust the buttons on my button down shirt and go back to class.
After school, I put on my soccer clothes and jogged or walked the two and half miles from our subdivision way out beyond the city limits to the athletic fields where soccer practice was held near the County Pool. The field was under Mount Si. Sometimes an electrical storm would cause our hair to rise and we would run around the soccer field with our hair raised up. Two kids united in their position at the bottom of the social ladder were eager to climb at least one rung by having me below them. They began to follow me home to "beat me up." I tried to ignore them. They would block me or call me names or tell time they were going to stick things in my ass. Sometimes they would try to physically intimidate me and I would just shrug them off and get home. I felt like crying every time I got home because it was like walking through very thick manure. Finally after two months of this, I said to the leader of the two kids at the end of soccer. Okay, I'll have to beat the shit out of you so that you I can walk home in peace. I'm tired of this. I kept my backpack on and it swung around. I clocked the kid in the face and he winced, and he hit me about six times and I didn't really feel it. It was going to be a long and ineffectual fight, but I wasn't going to listen to my dad's instruction about how to deal with bullies anymore. If someone bullied me, I was just going to fight them.
An adult intervened and drove me home. But the kids never bullied me again. I'd learned then if you encounter a bully the only option you have is violence, most likely the lame attempt of the bully to hurt you.
On the bus, there was a kid who would hit all of the other kids. He kept the back seat cleared and spread out. His younger sister was a waifish blond girl that all of the boys in my class wanted to go out with because they came from the poorest part of town and for some reason this poverty registered as the idea that she was somehow easy. In sixth grade we kind of knew what this meant, but we also had no clue. The bully had been held back because of his obvious mental deficiency. He could only express himself in banal absolutes and a kind of casual violence. He would also often declaim his love of milk. He sat in the back of the bus swigging from a half gallon of carton. One day he was drinking his milk with huge gulps and smacking the kids who kept telling him to stop. He said, "shut the hell up," and started boxing us. So I slowly brought my fist up and he nearly spit out his milk. He thought it was hilarious. So I socked him in the face. Milk came out of his noise. He began to cry. He did however stop hitting us after that.
The advice of my father had given to me about bullies was wrong.
In grade school I had played the flute. I chose it because it was a complicated instrument and I thought hell I will learn the most complicated instrument. It seemed like a manly choice, being technically complicated. All of those buttons. A man would choose the difficult to play instrument. I even went to a band camp and sat with a bunch of girls and one of the girls and I began to flirt and talk. Every day we would flirt and talk. She was a year older than me and was going was already going to my new school. I was so excited when I saw her at the school, but she wouldn't talk to me. Maybe it was because of my button down shirt?
When my parents divorced in 1983, my mom moved my brother and I from the wilds of Snoqualmie to the deep suburbs of Renton, about twenty minutes south of Seattle. I switched from the flute to the French horn thinking the French horn protect me from the bullies. I would get beat up less. But on the first week as the new kid in school I accidently brushed the school bully, a crazy kid named Jeff Giberson, with the horn case while standing in line for school. Jeff was known for coming from a family of thugs, and although Jeff was small by his brother's standards he was still much larger than anyone else in seventh grade. Jeff pushed me, and tried to grab my horn. And remembering the bully lesson I learned about the milk bully, I put down my horn case and got read to fight. I still had my backpack and on it and it swung around. The fight was quickly formalized by the other kids in line chanting "fight fight fight" eager to see Jeff demolish a band geek. Jeff and I circled around each other. I made a couple of stabs at hitting him and then Jeff walked up to him to and planted a solid, crushing blow right in my left eye. My cheekbone broke Jeff's fist, and I got an instant and intense black eye. A girl named Kirstin Custer broke up the fight. I took my French horn to band, and then was called out of class to get sentenced by the Vice Principle to three days of suspension.
I walked home and called my Mom. The school had already called her. I spent three days and home and went back to school. No one bothered me after that at that school. Jeff had to walk around with a bandaged hand for a month or two. I would say later that I broke the school bullies fist with my face.


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Monday, October 18, 2010
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Getting into the shoes of each other is an exercise, which some facilitators do in communication workshops. I saw this for the first time when Dr. Benjamin Lozare of the Johns Hopkins University did it with us in a workshop. I have been doing it since then and find it very effective. It goes like this: get two volunteers to come up and ask them to get into each other's shoes. It takes them a while to start. They have known it as a phrase but haven't really thought about it in practical terms. The exercise provides very useful insights on effective listening.
Some people attempt to get into the other person's shoes without taking off their own. It does not work and makes the message clear: take off your own shoes first, if you want to get into someone's shoes. Often we don't listen well because we are preoccupied with our own thoughts.
Some people don't make an attempt as they believe they have a different shoe size and any effort will be in vain. Just like the difference in shoe sizes is a hindrance in allowing people to get into the shoes of each other, difference in age, gender, experience and perceptions between speaker and receiver becomes a barrier in effective communication. This explains the challenges of communication between parents and children, men and women, teacher and student, boss and his employees and many more situations.
What do we do then to be a good listener despite these very practical challenges? Instead of criticizing the speaker, a practical thing would be to remember taking off our shoes and make an attempt to listen. And then, listen for information that is important and useful to us. We may be able to find it invariably. James Nathan Miller summarizes it very well. "There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation."


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MAGAZINE February 2009
By Frida
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Asus has launched the new S121 notebook, which comes with the latest Intel Atom Processor Z520 and optional 512GB SSD hard drive. The standard hard disk drive can store up to 250GB, but users who travel frequently and need instantaneous data access on the move can choose a Solid State Drive (SSD) of up to 512GB. This feature makes turning on and off the computer much faster. It also features an exclusive power-saving technology and an operating system that will meet your needs. The S121 has up to eight hours of battery life.
With the approach of the romantic Valentine's Day season, DKNY has the perfect gift idea for you and your loved one. This gift set comes with the NY4484 wrist watch and a branded bracelet. From now until Valentine's Day (2/14), buy the DKNY Valentine's Day Gift Set (limited-edition items) and you'll get another free gift from them (for a limited time only, one free gift per person). Recommended retail price is NT$6,180 (special price discounted from NT$8,880).
Do you still have no clue about how to spend your cash vouchers this year? Goldenlife Gold Jewelry is introducing its "Money" pinky rings made from pure gold. These shiny rings come as a pair and weigh the same. Although the usual retail price is not lower than NT$4,800, you can purchase them this season with your NT$3,600 cash voucher--a very special deal that won't have you worrying about spending an extra NT dollar.
Among the most scientific workout equipment to date, kickbikes not only help you train your cardiovascular muscles, but also allow you to fully enjoy the fun of sliding across the floor. From now to the end of February, enjoy a 15% discount on all styles of kickbikes. Check: http://www.wretch.cc/mypage/kickbike
Sing-ya's Dorayaki and Pound Cake are made with naturally pure cream, for a soft, white inside texture. When you take a bite, the rich, creamy flavors are truly tempting, but not overly sweet! Retail price: NT$350. Special price: NT$320. The Dorayaki (cake) variety has a new strawberry flavor, available from February and certainly worth a try!
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The St. Regis Langkawi Resort set for April opening in Malaysia
St. Regis Hotels & Resorts, part of Starwood Hotels & Resorts, has announced the brand's debut property in Malaysia.
Scheduled to open on April 6th, The St. Regis Langkawi Resort will become the first luxury resort to open within the last decade in Malaysia's coveted "Island Jewel of Southeast Asia".
Located in the 99-island archipelago of Langkawi, a UNESCO's World First Geopark, the resort is composed of resplendent architecture, landscape, and interior design and is a masterpiece of Indonesia's Rajawali Property Group and the St. Regis brand.
Envisioned by a group of world-class designers and architects - including San Francisco-based leading architectural firm, Gensler, Bangkok-based landscape architect, Bill Bensley, and UK-based hospitality design specialist, G.A. Design - The St. Regis Langkawi Resort weaves a compelling story of discovery and is designed around the concept: Paradise Found and Refined: Rainforest Meets Riviera Lifestyle.
The resort embodies a harmony of contrasts where tropical splendour blends seamlessly with the style and energy of a European mansion, thoughtfully accented by Middle Eastern finishes.
"Expanding on the concept of a paradise found and refined, the design team sought to provide a resort to strengthen Langkawi's position in the luxury tourist market.
"Our compelling architectural vision for The St. Regis Langkawi defines the entire resort experience as a journey of discovery - of sanctuary, of vistas, of wellness, of cuisine, of fresh water, and of salt water," said Tom Lindblom, principal architect at Gensler.
The architectural footprint of the resort closely adheres to that of a luxurious private residential palace nestled within steep rocky hills forming two small peninsulas along a sandy shore.
In keeping with the design concept, the resort thoughtfully blends indoor spaces naturally with the outdoors, and consists of a six-storey central mansion with two lagoon suite wings cascading outwards towards the shorelines.


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Wheelers Corner Eavesdropper SIS / GCSB inside agent once again accompanied John Key on yet another holiday trip to Hawaii [his sixth or seventh in the last three years]. Only this time our man was asked to act above and beyond his normal duties of protecting the PM from any terrorist assassination attempt. He was forced to protect the PM from himself. A task he has now grown used to. This is his latest report:
The PM invited Obama to a round of golf, and I was to act as his caddy. According to the PM this was to be a photo opportunity of a life-time, it was in his words even more important than having a scone with the Queen.
The Presidents security crew already knew this was going to happen because they had been listening in to the PM's cell phone traffic via our own GCSB.
On the golf course a strange thing happened, that won't appear in any of the main stream media especially Fox News Media, APN or Fairfax etc.
'I was walking just ahead of the PM, to protect him from terrorists, and as we moved toward President Obama and his half dozen security guards, Obama suddenly advanced toward me and said, "Good to meet you again, you are looking fit, are you enjoying your vacation here in my beautiful Hawaii".
I was dumb founded, but managed to utter, "I'm not the PM Mr. President, and he is the chap behind me, the one in the baggy shorts".
"Oh really", said Obama, "You look very much like the chap I met in South Africa at the service for Nelson Mandela, are you sure we haven't met".
I never got a chance to answer the President because the PM came running toward the President with such gusto that the half dozen security men all dropped to their knees and drew their automatic weapons.
The President kept his cool and stepped forward to greet the little chap wearing the baggy shorts that no self respecting terrorist would be seen dead wearing.
"Nice to see you again Michael said the President"…
Now that stopped the PM dead in his tracks, for he was about to give the President a massive hug, one of the security guys, a six foot six black American stepped forward and frisked the PM, smiling to himself when he saw the whiteness of the PM's knees.
"I'm not Michael"…stuttered the PM an octave or two higher than normal.
"I'm sorry Bill", said the President, "but I meet so many people in my travels around the world, and I thought I met you in South Africa at wonderful President Nelson Mandela funeral Service", but I must admit I've never met anyone wearing shorts like yours, so what's your name", he said smiling.
The PM was dumb struck, he had completely forgotten who he was…even where he was…he just stood there with his mouth open, arms at his side and for a moment I thought he might pee his pants. So I took over to protect my leader and said, "Let me introduce the New Zealand Prime Minister… John Key Mr. President".
"Thank you, I knew his name had four letters, I just couldn't remember which four, thank you for clearing up that small mystery", he then turned to the PM and said "I remember now, you're the wee chap that lost his name tag at the funeral in that massive stadium in South Africa", he said as he patted the PM on his head, you see the PM was knelling down as would a loyal servant to HRH the Queen of England, I think he was imagining that he was back in Buckingham Palace having lunch with…she who rules,
"For heavens sake stand up John or whatever your name is, I'm sure you would not have been this humble when you protested against the South African Grid-iron tour back in 1981, Kiwi's were a brave lot back then, I'm sure you must have been among those brave chaps", said the President as he helped Key to his feet.
The PM was lost for words for all of about ten seconds then suddenly he puffed out his chest, pulled up his shorts and said, "Yes I remember now, how I battled the Red-Squad in Hamilton, Oh those were the days, a hero on every Street corner standing up against apartheid, and I was leading the charge you know".
There was just no stopping him, his love of Mandela, all black people, even Martin Luther-King. He was finally brought to a halt when the President interrupted his rant saying:
"For Gods sake shut up and tell me what your handicap is".
"Handicap, I don't have any handicap; I'm perfect in every way, well so I'm told by all my cabinet and back benchers", he said proudly.
"You mean your golf handicap is God damn zero", said the President as he turned to the senior FBI agent and whispered, "You never told me that he had a zero handicap, you know I never play against anyone I can't beat".
Any way at last the game got under way and I carried out my caddy duties as best I could, the President went round the course in one hundred and one strokes, the PM took two hundred and eleven, but the President knew the chap in the shorts lost on purpose and didn't accept his offer of a cup of tea at the Key mansion.
You see the President remembered the secret report from the five eyes spy team that told him that having a cup of tea with the NZ PM was dangerous to ones political health.
PS; The PM hopes to have completed his application for US Citizenship before departing for NZ, he wants approval before mid 2014, he requested that I keep that bit of news secret and naturally I agreed…yeah right.
Signed: Agent X [Name with held for security and health reasons]
The Editor of the Manawatu Standard wrote this on Saturday the 4th of January 2014:
'Prime Minister John Key got to play a round of golf with US President Barack Obama in Hawaii yesterday. Whatever your political outlook is, that's a pretty cool story for any Kiwi to tell their grandkids'.
No wonder NZ is being overrun by spin experts rather that journalists with integrity when they produce such tripe…I'd prefer to tell my grandkids about real hero's rather than jacked up photo opportunities, but still there is no accounting for bad taste I suppose.