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"1984 is, I believe a quite terrifying masterpiece"
"Something like 1984 could, actually happen
This is the direction the world is going at the present time
Always there will be the intoxication of power
It depends on you"
I only kick it if it's
Push the fuckin pedal to the floor of that Dolorean
Never going broke again
2 live shit got me feelin like '84 again
Stormin' like a trooper when I'm goin in
I was in that old school, 64 Nintendo Impala
With the trunk like a rumble pack
So as I ride through the city til it break dawn
Pumpin on the brakes kill the drums and cut the bass
Then mofucka bring the rumble back
Playin' can I kick it before I could even kick it
Kickin in the womb when Hova was cutting that coke with Bisquick
Now I pay my rent check
Eating good waffles, maple syrup
Eggs, bacon, fried chicken and a biscuit
I remember when we was novices
Got a couple hundred you ain't pay your bills notices
Was cold as shit
Now why you think I gotta do shit?
Make a fuckin killing for my wallet, Wilkes Booth shit
I'm ruthless
And still they tell me I got no pain? Why?
Cause I'm more Coltrane than Cobain?
The dome was any brighter than I'd blow brains
Fire up the cannons, build a mountain outta cocaine
Dilla boi you lookin kinda like street fighter with the Yoga flame
Cause I spit fire with my Yoda brain
So insane
Dark Saber Jedis
Only pray to gods that like 10 arms, 10 eyes
"But he left one final warning"
"In our world, there will be no emotions
Expect fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement"
"Is that what you've demonstrated in 1984
By drawing and accurate portrait of the future?"
Fast lane
Old flow
Midas touch
Been gold
Puff pass
Puff pass
Murder tint
Whip slow
New York
Cause I
Rep that
Til I
Fuckin die
Pushaman do it til the break of dawn
Dilla how you goin 80 when the brakes is on?
Dilla why you sippin Henney when the race is on?
Tiremarks where I been today
Jet stream where I been tomorrow
Rolex and Audemar
Rio for the Carnaval
Used to ride bikes
Three years later gotta flip it for a armored car
And that's life
Fast lane
Old flow
Midas touch
Been gold
Puff pass
Puff pass
Murder tint
Whip slow
New York
Cause I
Rep that
Til I
Fuckin die
I Sip that 40 OZ OEther
You don't like us? We don't fuck with you neither
Bring that message to your leaders
Battle crying through my speakers
Going boom boom that pow pow
Rappin for while boi but who you, now now?
Ain't shit shoulda got the diploma
If you moved caine then you wouldn't meet the quota
Used to play ball with the boys in the cul-de-sac
Now you ball when you using a controlla
I feel bad for you and that's all
Warfare life the name that they call
One wrong move today and you gone
One wrong move today and you, ha ha ha
That's part of the practice
More fame gotta switch the name back to Cassius
Cash is, just a state of mind that I rap in
Brain's just weapon for my gang when I tap em
Black panthers. Huey and Cam
Newton bring the fuckin truth like he was slaying a lamb
Wanna take over the game?
Shoulda checked with us before you made the plan
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Fed Clears French Banking Aquisition
The Federal Reserve cleared the way Wednesday for France's largest bank to acquire United California Bank in Los Angeles.
France's BNP Paribas is buying the Los Angeles bank from UFJ Holdings of Osaka, Japan.
Once the acquistion is completed it will make BNP Paribas-controlled BancWest Corp. _ now the 35th largest bank in the United States _ the 29th largest bank in the country with total assets of $30.6 billion, the Fed said.
BNP Paribas has total assets of $709.2 billion and operates branches in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco.

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We're getting closer to lift off
27 March, 2015
As a growing national caterer, Jasper's has always understood the pressure to be at the top of its game. We know our obligation to lead the market place and enhance the customer experience and expectations of a caterer.
That is why we have dedicated the last 12 months to the reinvention of what a caterer looks like, and the results are impressive. We have created a range of very different products, with a beautiful online ordering platform that gives the customer complete control and choice.
So far those lucky people that have tried the new offerings and seen the new website have been blown away. We haven't just tinkered with a few new products here and there, we are aiming to future proof Jasper's for its customers. The choice from caterers has been the same for too long. Not anymore. There is a real alternative coming your way soon and we can't wait to launch it! Keep your eyes peeled.


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You may remember my series from 2014 in Payerne, when the Swiss Air Force was celebrating their 100 year anniversary over two weekends with an unbelievably good event.
Payerne 2014 - 30.08.2014
Payerne 2014 - 31.08.2014
Payerne 2014 - 06.09.2014
Payerne 2014 - 07.09.2014 - The sunny day Part 1
Payerne 2014 - 07.09.2014 - The sunny day Part 2
Payerne 2014 - 07.09.2014 - The sunny day Part 3
Back then I said that some day I would go and see the public shooting training on the Axalp. The Axalp is 2250 m above sea high up in the Swiss mountains. This year I finally managed to get there, and here are some of the pictures I have taken.
Eurocopter EC635 - while some special guests been flown up, the rest of the ~7.500 people have to climb for hours, and I don't talk tracking trails!
Two F/A-18 coming in with flares
Since the F-5 will be decommissioned soon this is most likely one of the last big displays together
The paratroopers were jumping from two Pilatus PC-6
Two Super Pumas on a fire fighting mission
While the Super Puma is going off, the Eurocpter shows a mountain SAR mission
A Super Puma releasing flares and doing some impressive mountain climbing
F/A-18 Solo Display with low pass, flares, climb display and more
The Patrouille Suisse giving another of her stunning shows
The Super Pumas coming for a final great display
I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did!


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ICM's Mission
Our mission is to provide innovative technologies, solutions and services to sustain agriculture and advance renewable energy, including food and feed technologies that will increase the supply of world protein.
ICM's Vision
We will:
- Maintain our reputation of quality, integrity, and commitment to the industry.
- Encourage creativity and the development of new technology for renewable energy.
- Use our expertise and partner with others to make advancements in renewable energy.
- Develop a culture of employee commitment and excellence, rewarded through personal development and incentive programs.
- Actively support those less fortunate through charitable stewardship.


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Hidden Easter Eggs in Classic Works of Art That You Had No Idea Were There
Trying to find hidden meaning in the things from our collective past is nothing new, especially when it comes to some of the more recognizable works of art that the world has seen. Just ask Dan Brown — the guy has made millions off of finding tiny details in Leonardo da Vinci's work. But da Vinci isn't the only artist out there who liked hiding things in his paintings. Here are some of the coolest Easter eggs in famous art.


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Here is a proposal for how to proceed on issues 29 and 74. 1. OWL datatypes are RDF datatypes, as in http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-mt/#dtype_interp and http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-concepts/#section-Datatypes, and thus not necessarily XML Schema 1.0 datatypes (but it may be that RDF datatypes conform with XML Schema 1.1 datatypes). 2. OWL also has complex data ranges, e.g., data one-of, data complement, and facet-restricted data ranges, which are not necessarily RDF datatypes (because they need not have a URI). 3. In OWL Full a) complex data ranges (and datatypes) are instances of rdf:Datatype, which is OK because not all instances of rdf:Datatype need be RDF datatypes (from RDF Semantics http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-mt/#dtype_interp); and b) facets in facet-restricted data ranges use the XML Schema URLs, which should be OK as far as the XML Schema WG is concerned, but probably needs to be cleared with them. 4. In OWL Full, owl:Datarange is deprecated (and made equivalent to rdfs:Datatype). peterReceived on Monday, 7 January 2008 09:51:40 UTC
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text: Cecilia Bolocco is a former Miss Universe winner (1987) from Chili that was married to Carlos Menem who use to be President of Argentina. Hopefully he is not singing "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" now that his trophy wife has been caught banging a younger businessman at her Miami home. Read more about this story at Bumpshack.com


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Fun ways to make tax refunds count
April 14 - The average IRS tax refund check is $3,000 prompting a personal finance expert to ponder some unconventional and fun ways tax payers could use the money the government has been sitting on this year. Jill Bennett reports.
Tax day is fast approaching....and the overwhelming majority of Americans will receive a refund check, averaging $3,000 from the government. Most taxpayers seem to have plans for every last cent of it. SOUNDBITE: BETH SHEVITZ, TAXPAYER, MARYLAND (ENGLISH) SAYING: "I'm going to buy an iPad." SOUNDBITE: PAMELA DAVIS, TAXPAYER, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK (ENGLISH) SAYING: "I had wanted to go on a cruise but I needed a sofa." Personal finance experts, including Gary Schatsky, President of ObjectiveAdvice.com, urge taxpayers to use their refund checks towards retirement savings and high interest debt. We urged Schatsky to ditch the rational advice and come up instead with some fun splurges: SOUNDBITE: GARY SCHATSKY, PRESIDENT, OBJECTIVEADVICE.COM (ENGLISH) SAYING: "If you had $3,000 you could buy 5 shares of Apple, a year ago you'd probably be able to buy 10, when Facebook comes out you might be able to purchase it but we don't know the price yet." While Facebook may be risky, the Apple advice may pay off. According to Thomson Reuters data, Wall Street has a high price target of $910 a share, at current levels that would make a 50 percent return. SOUNDBITE: GARY SCHATSKY, PRESIDENT, OBJECTIVEADVICE.COM (ENGLISH) SAYING: "The only thing that's truly fun might be a trip, a vacation, some clothing, something you've denied yourself." Other options: splurge for 2 VIP tickets to a Madonna concert at Yankee stadium for 3-grand....buy 600 Mocha Frappuchinos at Starbucks, or pick up 3,000 Mega Millions tickets and cross your fingers. STANDUP: JILL BENNETT, REUTERS (ENGLISH) SAYING: "If you are looking to spend that $3,000 tax refund check in a matter of hours you can rent a 250 seat theater at AMC Empire Theater in New York City. The seats are $13 a pop." You will pay extra for the popcorn, but you may need it if you are watching the blockbuster hit "Hunger Games" in your private theater, or if a trio of knuckleheads is more your speed - the "Three Stooges" movie opens this weekend. If you need transportation to get to the movie theater...the Nano from Tata Motors, one of the smallest and cheapest cars in the world, will set you back about 3-grand. But, you'll need next year's tax refund to ship it back from India. Jill Bennett, Reuters


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Interview With A Dude: Sean Johnson [VIDEO]
We've started a new video series called "Interview With A Dude". Basically, we grab random folks from around Casper, and give them their own moment to shine.
Before you pull out the sexist card, we will also be doing "Interview With A Chick" videos, as well. If you see us wandering around, and are interested in doing a video with us, let us know! If you want to nominate somebody who you think would be a great interview, hit us up on our Facebook page, or contact us here.
I was at a buddy's house enjoying some home-made green chili, decent weather, and good conversation. After shootin' the breeze with Sean Johnson, I pulled out my iPhone, made him sit down, and answer my questions. This new arrival to our windy little city has a fresh view of Casper. Check out the interview, and subscribe to our YouTube channel for more killer local videos. Enjoy!


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Dear Mr Tanner,
I'll spare you the form-letter bullet points of why the Government's proposed internet filtering scheme is illconsidered, ineffective and unwanted. You've heard them all before.
However primary among them is the reality that it just won't work. Every time someone creates a 'wall' to block internet traffic, it is virtually guaranteed that someone else will find a way around it. I currently have no "need" to use various technologies to avoid/bypass the kind of filtering proposed by the Government, but I assure you I already have the technology to do so literally at the click of my mouse.
If the Government's filter comes anywhere close to causing the slow-down OR false-positives that various lobby groups are suggesting it will, I guarantee you that the technology/know-how to bypass this filter will spread into the mainstrream faster than you can say "but 99.99% of Australia's population aren't trying to access illegal material".
And in so doing you will have completely undermined the good intentions of the proposed filter scheme.
As an IT consultant to small business in Melbourne, I perceive the "digital divide" to be growing, not shrinking. The divide I'm talk about isn't the haves and have-nots, it's those who know how to protect themselves and their children from undesirable material, and those who don't (they are the vast majority). These are the same people who don't know how to recognise a malicious spam/phishing email and thus get their computer infected with a spam-bot (or worse), which makes the internet a more dangerous or unpleasant place for all of us.
These are two good reasons why spending money on educating ordinary PC users on how to keep _themselves_ as well as their computers safe is more important than ever. Frankly, the technology to _effectively_ implement the kind of filter you desire simply doesn't exist (and for the foreseeable future never will) – it is just too easy to bypass, and the "only" ones negatively impacted are those 99.99% of Australians NOT trying to access illegal material.
I voted for Labor in the last election primarily based on issues relating to environmental and financial management. I never for one moment considered the ALP's internet filtering scheme as acceptable collateral damage, but rather as a vote-grabber to be fought *now*.
I call upon you to take whatever steps are necessary to not proceed with this bone-headed scheme, but rather to direct the funds at genuinely _educating_ Australian computer users on how to keep themselves safe on the internet.
Like, how about a perpetual, Government-funded multi-media education campaign, on TV, radio, newspapers, website, Youtube, Twitter, all that and beyond, educating Australian computer users on how to keep themselves, their children and computers safe – to whatever level is appropriate for the individual/family. Make it ubiquitous, brand it well & consistently, make it comprehensive yet easy, and you will achieve the goal, and more.
And pursue the 0.01% of illicit users far more intelligently than a dumb bypassable filter across the entire population.
Thank you for your time,
Yours sincerely,


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On behalf of the local organizing committee, we would like to extend an invitation to join us for the 14th meeting of the International Mesothelioma Interest Group (iMig 2018) to be held in Ottawa, Canada in May 2018. Our multidisciplinary meeting will bring together over 500 delegates from around the world, and feature the most up-to-date research, diverse topics of interest, and educational sessions with leading experts. The meeting will offer plenty of networking opportunities with leading scientists and researchers, friends and colleagues.
We are very proud and excited to be hosting iMig for the first time in Canada in our nation's capital. Springtime in Ottawa is beautiful, and offers a variety of cultural and family-friendly activities for you to enjoy.
We look forward to hosting you at iMig 2018.
The International Mesothelioma Interest Group (iMig) is an independent international group of scientists and clinicians working to understand, cure and prevent mesothelioma.


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On 03/01/2011 18:15, John Cowan wrote: > On the contrary, names in the HTML namespace should be treated by HTML > output mode as if they were in no namespace (which is what triggers the > magic treatment of void elements in html output mode). if a new html5 serialisation mode was specified that treated no-namespace and xhtml in similar ways then most of the differences between the existing html and xhtml output methods would be gone, the only difference being described here is whether you describe html5 serialisation as a variant of the existing xhtml or html serialisation methods, I don't think it actually affects the behaviour. > XML serializers, including those used by XSLT, are free to use xmlns > attributes exclusively and never generate a prefix. > xslt1 serialisation allowed prefixes to be changed (or dropped) but XSLT2 serialisation requires that prefixes be kept (so that documents using qnames-in-content) may be reliably produced. Of course, the generating templates may be written not to generate prefixes, but I don't think that's what you meant. > In XSLT, output-escaping is suppressed by the generative mechanism, > not by the output mode. > Not exactly, currently the html serialisation http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-xquery-serialization-30/#HTML_MARKUP says The HTML output method MUST NOT perform escaping for any text node descendant, nor for any attribute of an element node descendant, of a script or style element. I think Henri is correct to say that that list could be extended to include more than just script and style. DavidReceived on Monday, 3 January 2011 18:37:37 UTC
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Cowboy Dreams, Long-Ago Brides
Friday we took off to that antique mecca, Mechanicsville on Route 301. This time it was my husband's idea. I'm redoing his office and we saw something in Through the Garden Gate a few weeks ago that he decided he wanted for his room after all. First stop, the Hanover Cafe for lunch. Slap next door is the historic Hanover Tavern which has a fine restaurant. But we both prefer funky places the locals frequent, where everybody knows your name and how you like your burger.
I have always wanted a carousel horse in my house.
And I'd kill for this 1930s wooden Hoosier cabinet used as a condiment station. The painted detailing is so Art Deco!
The specials of the day. Their banana puddin' is good but I was in the mood for devil's food cake with white icing.
My husband always goes for the chicken rice soup, worth the drive for, he says.
This is inside Through the Garden Gate. Can you guess what theme my husband's renovated office will be? We bought one of these. The last time we were here, two weeks ago, there was a leather cowgirl vest. Turns out my sister bought it!
I bought these. No, I'm not still not getting married again. These are good luck charms for my next novel.
Look at this wedding tiara (lace scarf is mine). The orange blossoms are made of wax and the whole thing, headband and all, was dipped in wax (why, I don't know). Wax tiaras were popular in the 20s and 30s.
This long-ago wedding–November, 1939–took place in Fredericksburg. When I got the announcement home, I noticed something odd. The bride and groom aren't printed as part of the announcement. No, the figures were hand-painted around the lettering. A wedding gift from an artist friend? [Click on the photo to enlarge it–the hand-painting is amazing.]
This was on the floor of an ephemera booth, crammed back in the corner under a table. When I pulled it out, opened it, and realized what it was, I clutched it to my heart and said, "Mines!" like my niece Susan used to say. I love this as much as the 1933 World's Fair scrapbook I found earlier this year. Maybe more. It's the story of Edna's marriage to Bill on Sept. 12, 1936, told in cards and one telegram.
Each shower card was saved and lovingly glued in the pages. Edna had a slew of showers–kitchen, lingerie, "rags," handkerchief. When was the last time you attended a handkerchief shower and bridge luncheon? Some of her friends and workmates wrote (or copied from magazines) little poems. The shower cards are tiny–2 by 2 inches. And so precious. Kittens and Scotties were a big theme in the 30s.
Next are bridge tallies and the place mat from Mrs. K's Toll House in Maryland where they had a dinner party. Then come pages of wedding cards, congratulating the happy couple. Edna wrote out their honeymoon intinerary, all the hotels from Harrisonburg, PA, through New England, and finally stopping at the Willard Hotel in D.C. on their way home to Richmond.
Then come anniversary cards. One month. One year, their "paper" anniversary. Their second anniversary. The album ends with a single birthday card from Bill, the envelope addressed to his "sweetest one."
Oh, how I love this album. I would have knocked down old ladies and paid double just to have it. I still don't understand how such things like the framed wedding announcement and someone's lovingly-created scrapbook wind up in dusty corners of junk shops. Surely people's lives are deserve better treatment. I'm glad I can rescue them and give them a good home. If I can beat my sister to them!
Winchester's Revenge, or How to Pill a Cat
For nearly three years, Winchester was the star of my other blog, Ellsworth's Journal. He wore funny hats and shirts and had quite a little following for his sarcastic world view. Then Winchester got sick with a chronic respiratory ailment. He sleeps a lot and is quiet when he's awake, very unWinchester-like. To both our dismay, he must take medication every day for the rest of his (and my) life.
The vet cheerfuly gave him omega-3 capsules "to pour over his food" every day, a slimy supplement to "smear on his paws" twice a day, and the worst, a dry bitter antihistimine pill once a day. Our other cat, Persnickety, is also on a daily pill for her thyroid. Hers is a tiny pill that is crushed and put in her food. She eats it or not, the way she does everything. But Winchester lives for his food. And now at every meal, I'm doing something to his food or to him.
The slimy supplement isn't too bad. I just swipe a fingerful on his gums. As for "smearing it on his paws," I know from experience cats will walk all over the carpet instead of licking it off. The omega-3 ruined his appetite, even when I poured the fish oil over Wegman's deluxe duck-flavored cat food. (I stocked up and now have 50 cans of duck cat food that neither cat will touch. They are bored with duck!)
But the pill. Oh, the pill. Every day Winchester and I wake up filled with dread. I have tried every way imaginable to get it down him. I wrapped him in a towel. One shredded towel and many bleeding fingers later, I gave that up. I have tried pouncing on him between meals but he can smell my desperation and hides. I've tried wheedling. I've given him treats. People tuna. Canned salmon. I bought the Pill Popper. It would work fine if I had two more hands–who's going to push the plunger that's ten inches from his mouth?
There are several videos on YouTube in which vets demonstrate how to pill a cat. These invariably show a cat lying in a zen state on the examining table and an equally calm vet efficiently dropping a pill in the cat's mouth. Often there is another person holding the cat. Yes, you can pill a cat once. Cats carry grudges, you know.
In the end, I have become Cat Wrangler. I throw Winchester to the floor and sit on him. With one hand I pull his head back and push down his flailing front paws. With the other I pry open his steel-trap jaws and throw the pill in. He spits it out. I throw it in again. He pushes it out between his teeth. I throw, he spits until the pill is a drooly nasty mess. Some days I win. Some days I don't. Winchester is now wary as a snow leopard. He doesn't visit my office. He doesn't sit on my lap any more. He doesn't play.
So now I bring him upstairs to my office, the one place he won't associate with medicine and unpleasantness. I get out his file box of toys. The antihistimine makes him dopey so he doesn't chase after Mousie like he used to. When the pill wears off, he's too snuffly to pick up Mousie. So he lies on the floor and I play Mousie with him.
Seven years ago when Winchester showed up on our porch, thin as a bed slat and bedraggled from a cat fight that nearly cost him his eye, I never thought the Feline Ping-pong Ball would ever settle down. He did. Now he's too subdued. You can see how bright-eyed he is in the first three photos. The last three pictures I took yesterday.
I miss the old Winchester, but everyone changes. Even cats.
Tea for Two
A late birthday celebration is better than none at all. My husband wasn't able to come to Hollins this summer for the weekend of my birthday. So, six weeks later, we went to Pinkadilly, our favorite place to celebrate our Valentine's Day anniversary and Christmas.
It was a typical hot summer Friday in Fredericksburg. The town was filled with tourists, doing tourist-y things.
Pinkadilly was busy, but we had booked our favorite table. Sometimes we come here just for lunch. We'll have Earl Grey creme tea and scones and quiche or a sandwich. But when it's time for a big blow-out, only Tea for Two will do.
The second we are seated, I swap teacups from other tables. All the cups and saucers are different, but sometimes the ones at our reserved table are uninspired. I make sure I have a vintage cup and saucer from England. After all, it's a tea shop! This time I swapped the sugar bowl too. My husband is amused by this practice (and maybe a little embarrassed). Then we are served a pot of hot tea.
Next comes the quiche and soup of the day. My husband usually opts for the salad they created just for him instead of the soup. He also is unable to take a normal photograph.
Then comes the tea service. The scones of the day (we get one of each) were cinnamon raisin and vanilla with individual pots of Devonshire cream and lemon curd. Usually we fight over the Devonshire cream (never enough) but this time we were quite civilized. The second tier holds savories: cucumber cream cheese rounds, spinach-artichoke dip in a teeny tortilla chip, pineapple ham salad in pita, and their signature chicken salad with grapes.
The top tier–oh! the desserts! Homemade chocolate truffles (when my husband's back was turned, I scarfed his), blackberry bruchetta (wonderfully tart and crunchy), strawberry cake with cream cheese icing, and Pinkadilly's signature Pinkadilly pie (think pink lemonade in a pie crust) layered in a shot glass.
We have never seen another man in here, except for the tatooed waiter. I suppose all that overwhelming pinkness threatens their manhood or something. Pink walls, pink tablecloths, flowers and delicate china things wherever you look. Plus all that itty-bitty food.
But they are missing out. We're stuffed when we leave this place.
Full and happy, my husband even takes a normal picture.
Better Than Prozac
Lately I've been frequenting Goodwill, on the hunt for vintage furniture. My husband's office–the worst of our three cluttered upstairs rooms–is last to be made-over. Because his office is tiny, I'm on the lookout for small pieces of furniture with drawers. While at the Hollins Goodwill this summer, I found a 1950s Bassett desk for $30. Yesterday at our local Goodwill I nabbed a same-style nightstand for $3.50!
I was also looking for a used wedding dress. Hold the phone, am I getting married again? No. Then why on earth would I want a wedding dress? For my well-being, of course!
One of my friends at Hollins–a Goodwill junkie–scored a gorgeous wedding gown for a mere $60 (we figured the gown originally cost between $1500 and $2000). In her apartment back on campus, I helped her climb into it. You've never seen such a dress: miles of tulle, a slipper satin overskirt, a wicked tight sweetheart bodice with re-embroidered lace and sequins. My friend is tall and willowy and the dress, a size 2 or 3, fit her like a dream. I struggled to attach the separate cathedral train, more clouds of tulle. The dress and train must have weighed 20 pounds. We were both sweating and laughing by the time she was well and truly in the gown. She ran out of her room to look at herself in the hall mirror, hair straggling, barefoot. Then she jumped up and down with glee. She looked beautiful. She felt wonderful!
The truth: my friend isn't getting married. At least not in the immediate future. Although she doesn't look it, she is in her early 50s, an age when one should tie the knot in something more sedate. Sedate, heck. Why should young brides have all the glory wearing fabulous wedding dresses? In fact, we should all–young and old, married and unmarried–have a fabulous wedding dress! (Not your own wedding dress–you want one you can wear around the house). Something to slip into when we're feeling down.
We could throw away our Prozac and quit seeing our therapists. I guarantee you that swishing around your house once a week in a wedding dress will make you feel like Cinderella.
So that's why I was pawing through the dress racks at Goodwill yesterday. I'll keep looking. Maybe I'll stumble on a vintage debutante gown. Or one like that delectable 1950s pink wedding ensemble pictured above. And when I find the perfect dress (any one that fits), I'll bring it home and tell my husband the dress is the latest prescription for mental health.
New Book, First Look
The Twelve Days of Christmas in Washington, D.C. is part of the "Twelve Days of Christmas in America" series. This book was a lot of fun to write–a guidebook of the nation's capital during it's best season!
Sarah Hollander, an Alexandria illustrator, did the briliant illustrations.
The book will be out in October, in time for the holiday season, but Sarah and I received our "first look" copies last week.
Only 131 days until Christmas!
Gold Stars for Writing?
Everybody loves rewards. People sign up for credit cards that offer cash back. They use their frequent-flyer miles. They check in hotels with hot cookies in the lobby and only-read-once books that previous guests pass along. Dogs get treats for obeying commands like "sit" and "stay." Cats get treats, well, because they're cats (which reminds me, this morning I heard Winchester hacking up his before-breakfast-treats and I know I'll find the mess on one of our busy-patterned "Oriental" rugs, usually by stepping in it).
Kids, of course, get gold stars. Their charts fill up for lining up quickly-no-talking. For erasing the board (black? green? white? so Smart it erases itself?). For helping another student with their times tables, without being asked. All day long they have opportunities to fill a whole galaxy with gold stars.
Why shouldn't writers? Should we give ourselves a gold star for doing what we're supposed to be doing? After all, writing is our job. No one gives my husband a gold star for going to work every day. And no one gave me a gold star for showing up at my computer nearly every day for nearly 30 years. Why start now?
I didn't think up the Star Chart. Credit goes to Heather Sellers who blogged about it a few years ago. She says, "I am supposed to write every day. It's good training. I like to have a system. I like to know where I am in the little scheme of things." So do I. But often, in the little scheme of things I let work slide.
So I created a calendar just for my gold stars. I got the idea for a "prettified planner" from the new issue of Somerset Life. Yesterday I went to Office Depot and bought this cheap school calendar. (Right now you can buy calendars from July 2010 to July 2011.) And in the teacher's section, I picked up a packet of gold stars. It felt so good to hold in my hand–all those gold stars to dispense at will!
Last night, while I was watching "CSI: Miami," I cut out squares of scrapbook paper and glued them on the August calendar page. Then I doodled and colored (using sparkle gel pens and Copic markers–sometimes you just wanna play!). You can cut up magazines or even add little photographs to your Star Chart. You can even put birthdays and appointments on yours, but I'm keeping mine strictly for writing.
And not just any writing. No blog writing, no journaling, no note-taking, no research trips. I only get a gold star if I do two hours of from-the-gut-original writing. Two hours. And then I get a gold star. I suspect the Star Chart will reveal that I don't spend as many days doing as much of that hard original writing as I think. Yesterday I did and got a gold star. Today, I'm off on a research trip. No gold star. I doubt I'll like seeing that one gold star floating on my chart and will probably get cracking this weekend.
It's all about the work. However we get it done. And why shouldn't we get a little reward at the end of the day?
Fixin' to Get Ready: Next Book Project
My chapter book workshop for the SCBWI Carolinas conference next month is in the bag. Yesterday I finished the group exercise and handouts. After a summer of critiquing and talking about picture books, I feel putting together this workshop is the writing equivalent of easing into the Chesapeake Bay. In May, the water is on the nippy side. By August (especially this summer), the Bay is like a bathtub, warm and inviting.
The sequel to my chapter book Iva Honeysuckle Discovers the World is due in November. It's called Iva Honeysuckle Discovers Her Match and is set in a beach town along the Chesapeake Bay where Iva and her family spend a one-week vacation. My vintage blackboard announces to all who walk into my office what book project I am working on. That's the first step in my fixin'-to-get-ready process.
Back when I was writing between four and six books a year (not that long ago), I would finish a book, straighten my office, then start the next contractual project by turning on my computer and typing, "Chapter One. The…" I'm over-simplifying my process, of course, but aside from outlines and research, I did very little up-front work.
Nowadays I spend six months or more planning a book. This is either because I'm older and slower or the books I'm writing now require me to build a sturdier keel. So what do I do in those six months? Write notes on the plot, the story, the character's situation. I create the setting, make maps and a town history. I write lengthy character sketches. And I wait for my main character's voice. Sometimes I try to coax her voice and she'll answer or she won't.
After a while I have too many files on my computer in the book's folder. So I print off that material and put it in a notebook with a clear plastic insert on the cover. Here's where the scrapbooker takes over: I create a collage to slide into that insert. Each notebook has the name of the main character and each collage relates to the background of the story. Here is the notebook for IVA 2. Gaudy, isn't it? It's bright, even a little sunburnt. The cover is like those tee-shirts you buy at the beach that say funny, off-color things that are fine on the boardwalk but you'd never wear at home. It makes me smile.
Next, I gather totems. These are objects I keep on my desk to remind me of my book when I'm not working on it. My book totems are always vintage and always specific to the project.
Here are two very old National Geographic magazines, from 1925 and 1928. Iva has inherited her great-grandfather Ludwell's collection. She cherishes these magazines because she plans to be a great discoverer. Of course, she takes her magazines to the beach. The Vacation Church School certificate is mine. It says that on "June 1957 Candice Ferris [last name misspelled, usually it's my first name] of Manassas has
regularly attended the sessions of Vacation Church School . . ." Yes, the word "regularly" is crossed out. Like me, Iva is a vacation Bible school drop-out,, but she's all over a real vacation. The charm bracelet is mine, too. My father sent it to me on one of his trips to Key West. I never wore it. But Iva's almost-the-exact-same-age cousin will covet a bracelet just like this in a boardwalk gift shop.
In my mind, Iva's family is staying in the beach house my family rented in Ocean City when I was 11. Last night I was rooting around in my mother's things and found two postcards showing that very same house. On the back, my mother wrote the rates–$35 a night! I took that uninspiring gray beach scene photograph in Ocean City with my very first camera (my photography skills haven't improved much). I found another postcard from our last all-girl (my mother, my sister, my nieces, and me) trip to Rehoboth Beach, 1980. My sister gave me the egg timer with the seahorse, a souvenir of her trip to Virginia Beach. And the tiny purse made from a mollusk shell is a flea market find. I imagine it was a souvenir from some girl's long-ago vacation, maybe to Jamestown where she also bought that tiny little plate.
It's time to fill the notebook, arrange the totems on my desk. Time to imagine the taste of Dolly's saltwater taffy, feel strong August sun burning my shoulders and hot sand beneath my bare toes, hear the crash of waves and wheek-wheek of gulls overhead.
Iva, grab the sand pail. Let's go.
Farmstand Goodness
On Saturday mornings, I go to our farmer's market, a half a mile from my house. I buy corn, beets, new potatoes, string beans, yellow squash, zucchini, purple and sweet onions, tomatoes. From the Mennonites', I buy good wheat bread, rolls, whoopie pies, and sometimes oatmeal cookies. From the dealer at the very end, I buy Cut-and-Come-Again zinnias and other field-grown flowers, three big bunches at a dollar each.
The farmer's market makes me feel happy. I spend money in nearly every booth, spreading my "wealth," but getting back far greater riches. I listen to the farmers talk about their growing season. This year, very dry and hot. I understand their struggle every week to us bring beautiful tomatoes, earthy-tasting beets, corn so sweet it could be served for dessert. I understand because I was once a farmstand kid.
When I grew up, my mother and stepfather raised a huge garden that covered three sides of our property. All summer we ate what they grew. In July and August, my mother canned tomatoes, beans, pole limas in a sweltering kitchen, and made tomato juice, ketchup, grape jelly for winter suppers when the garden was under snow. But they sold most of the vegetables to pay real estate taxes. We didn't have an actual farmstand. Instead people called in their orders and came to our house to pick them up. Friends, neighbors, co-workers, relatives. The prices were low and the vegetables were handed over clean and wrapped. Sometimes the corn was husked and the limas were hulled–a tedious job I despised.
As a kid who preferred indoor sports like reading, it's no surprise I hated working in the garden. It had nothing to recommend it. Hot, buggy, itchy. Even walking through the corn patches made my skin break out. To me, the garden represented a lot of work for very little return. Seed catalogs arrived in February. I did enjoy poring over those with my stepfather after supper. I'd pick out outlandish things like Giant Max pumpkins (I longed to raise a 500-pound pumpkin) while my stepfather mulled over the virtues of Big Boy over Early Girl tomatoes. My mother raised tomatoes and peppers in the house, moving the seedlings from window to window to catch the warm sun. In March, if the soil was dry enough, my stepfather cranked up his tractor. I'd ride with him when he plowed. He planted by the signs. I studied the almanac, too, trying to fathom why he planted potatoes in the dark of the moon. Then came a spring trip to a man who grew cabbage and onion sets in coldframes.
My parents lived by the weather. Too much rain would wash the seeds out or cause them to rot. Too little and we'd have to carry water to the baby plants. A thunderstorm could flatten an entire corn crop. Tomatoes would burst. Potatoes got black spot. The only thing that grew regardless of the weather was cucumbers. We picked them by the carload. Squash was pretty hardy, too. My parents grew white patty pan squash. In later years, they grew yellow crookneck which "made" faster than pattypan.
In those days the rhythm of summers, which seemed gloriously long, rose and fell by the garden. Someone phoned in an order for corn and beans–my mother went to the garden to pick them. My stepfather came home from his job and went straight to the garden to hoe weeds in the bush limas or haul buckets of water to the tomatoes. If anyone asked where somebody was, the standard answer, "In the garden."
The summer I was eleven I quit the garden. I declared I didn't eat anything from the garden–a bald-faced lie–and I shouldn't have to work in it. In truth, I kept my mother chained to the stove every single Friday night fixing fried squash. This delicacy is something like fried green tomatoes, only much better. Though we had fried squash during the week, on Fridays I was allowed to eat nothing but fried squash. My mother stood over her iron skillet, frying thin slices of squash that had been dipped in milk then dredged in cornmeal. I ate plate after plate, like our hogs who feasted on the squash peelings.
White pattypan squash is best for frying. Yellow squash is too watery. When I stumbled on some at the farmer's market Saturday, I knew I was gonna fry me some squash Sunday night. The best way to make fried squash (or fried anything) is in a seasoned iron skillet using Crisco. Peel your squash and slice thin. Soak the slices in milk, then dredge in cornmeal and drop into the hot skillet. Sprinkle with salt. Turn once until crispy and brown. Drain on paper bags. I had to make do with a Teflon skillet, vegetable oil, skim milk, and paper towels. I was also making corn-on-the-cob and trying to peel cooked beets without giving myself third degree burns, set the table, and pour iced tea. How did my mother do it?
My husband politely ate one slice of my fried squash (he's a Yankee, what can you expect?) but that left more for me. My squash didn't taste as good as my mama's, but it was good enough. I could almost hear her slam out the back door, wearing an old shirt of my stepfather's, calling, "I'll be in the garden."
Wait for me. This time, I'll come, too.
Sisters Are Forever
On Wednesday of this week I went to my sister's in Richmond to get my hair done. My sister has been my hairdresser, on and off, much of my life. Even before she became a professional, she gave me a "Vidal Sassoon" haircut that I tore myself to have, only she didn't have real scissors or training and my hair is naturally curly so when my cut didn't look exactly like Twiggy's, I pitched a royal fit and kicked the footboard off our mother's bed. I was 14. Patricia was 20. Amazingly enough, she still does my hair.
I usually get my hair cut and colored while I'm at Hollins because it's a long stretch between visits to my sister. I didn't this time. My sister met me at the door when I pulled up in her driveway, declaring she could see my white roots shining clear to Fredericksburg. Sometimes when I go to have my hair done, we go junkin'.
We both love to go junkin', even if we don't have any money. The top photo is of my sister taking a picture of me while I'm taking a picture of her. We'd been antiquin' that whole live long day. Antiquin' with my sister is often quite an experience. If we go to an antique mall or a huge flea market, the first thing Pat will latch onto is a table or a heavy chair. And we have to lug it around the entire trip. Pat is the type to examine every teeny little thing in a booth, while I tend to rip through them (missing most of the good stuff). We have the same taste and even collect the same things, but we never squabble over finds. Almost never.
But this time we just stayed put at her house. Her dogs, Sugar and Spike (remember that comic book?), swam around underfoot like goldfish. She caught me up on the doins' of her daughters, Susan and Stephanie, and their kids, Taylor, Sherri, Ashley, and Alex. Then, as always, talk turned to the old days when we were kids. We try to recreate the good parts of our childhoods and piece together the puzzle of the bad parts.
We sat in her den and watched "I Love Lucy" and she talked about the second house our father built, the big brick one in Manassas on Sudley Road. Although I was born in that house (not literally), I don't remember it all. Pat described the house room by room–the three TVs, including one in our parents' bedroom and a built-inTV in the paneled rec room in the basement, the leather bar, the hearth that went across one end of the rec room, the Duncan Phyfe furniture in the dining room, the screened-in porches with gliders, the patio and big brick barbeque. A house made for parties and entertaining. My sister's words rose and fell, like listening to a fairy tale.
Shortly after I was born, the party ended and my father lost that house. We moved to a small white house behind it. And then a little later, to my aunt's and uncle's house next door after my father left us.
Through it all my sister and I have remained close. As the youngest, I've always wanted to be just like her: tough, kind, creative, and a good cook (I've fallen down in a few departments). Wednesday she painted my toenails–a wicked dark green OPI shade like hers. I put my foot up on her knee and flashed back to the days when she would lie on her back in the yard and I would stand on her knees and grip her hands and she'd raise her legs so I'd be up in the air, one of the "tricks" we did together.
Then we watched Lucy and Ricky and Ethel and Fred going to California. We've been watching "I Love Lucy" together for about 45 years. It's our favorite show and it still makes us laugh.
I'm lucky to have a sister who remembers things I don't. Who understands the siren call of antiques and agrees that yes, I should buy that vintage child's booster seat even though I have no place for it. Who I can trust with childhood secrets, with problems, with my hair. Even if she can't give me a Sassoon cut.
Working Small
Whenever I come back from a Hollins summer, I suffer from re-entry into the real world. My house hasn't been cleaned in six weeks (my husband does vacuum and sweep), at least one cat is sick, and I have the feeling I need to be someplace important but I'm staring at the wrong bus schedule.
The same is true this summer. My house is straight, but names scrawled in the dust on the furniture can be viewed from Landsat. Winchester had to go to the vet for a chronic respiratory ailment which involves new medications he'll be on the rest of his life–and a lot of subterfuge on the part of mine. And I need to re-enter my work zone of major projects. What to do first? The memoir? The current novel? The novel I put off to start the current novel? The novel that's due in November that I insanely believe I can write in six weeks? Or maybe I should start working on the workshop for next month's conference? Or what about that idea for a paper for next year's Children's Literature Association conference? Or . . .?
Two days ago I was in our new Joseph-Beth bookstore, meeting with the marketing person about an upcoming event. I couldn't remember her name (or mine) and was so tired I felt stupid. All I wanted to do was lie down on the comfy sofa by the waterwall and take a little nap. I had only been home three days. I wasn't ready to be my public self. Not yet.
I have learned the hard way it does me no good to beat myself up. If I frantically throw myself into trying to clean the whole house in a weekend, I get cranky, Winchester ducks under the ottoman (no easy feat considering he gained a pound this summer), and my husband starts looking at the classifieds for vacations for one. If I tell myself, "Today I must scrub all the bathrooms, go to Wegman's, write chapter one of the novel and research the paper idea and outline my workshop," most likely I will read a Dorothea Benton Frank novel and eat Cool Ranch Doritoes and then be grumpy because I didn't do anything on my list.
Instead I will Work Small.
Working small means going to a funky little diner instead of a swanky restaurant where you are ushered to a table with too many forks and presented with a wine list and the waiter rattles off fifteen specials of the day. Working small means taking a stool at the counter. It means ignoring the long menu (though the fried bologna sandwich is tempting) and ordering one small thing, like a piece of pie.
Today I will edit the "musts" and "shoulds" to a very small list. I will work on one writing project and not all day. This morning I will write for fifteen minutes. No longer. This afternoon I'll write another fifteen minutes. Then I'll take notes on the book.
But first I will bake a yellow cake, before it gets too hot. After my fifteen minutes of morning writing, I'll go to the library. Then I'll go back to the Joseph-Beth bookstore, but I won't talk to anyone. I'm still not ready to be my public self. I won't browse the whole store either. Instead I'll pick out two magazines and curl up in a chair in a corner and look at them. I'll buy one of them.
I won't go to the big fancy grocery store either. Too many people, too many choices. Instead I may go to our version of the funky little diner and order one thing, a piece of pie. Because it's a funky little place, they will be out of everything but coconut cream and lemon meringue.
Lemon meringue, definitely. I'll eat the pointy part first and make a wish.


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I ran around the blog and got into a slight discussion about Spirituality that incorporated opinions about atheists and Christians. I ran into an atheist event that discussed male and female points of view. The theme for today is clearly labels.
To illustrate what is right and wrong with labels, let's imagine a scene where a man is talking about women. Let's say he says women don't know how to act. An immediate series of problems comes into play.
- How should a woman act?
- How does a man know how a woman should act?
- Does the man think all men need to act like a certain type of man?
- If there are proper gender roles, how much are this man's ideas of roles like the correct roles?
- How representative of a common situation is this in ordinary life
And so on… who is this man to be discussing women?


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Washington Wizards forward Paul Pierce said before the playoffs started that neither the Toronto Raptors nor the Atlanta Hawks had the "it factor" that frightened adversaries. He's since gone about demonstrating that regardless he still has it. The 37-year-old sunk the Raptors in game 3 of the first round with a couple of backbreaking 3-pointers, and he beat himself on Saturday in game 3 of the second round.
With 14.1 seconds left and the game tied 101-101 – the Hawks had returned from a 20-point shortfall – Pierce number was called. He had a mismatch against the smaller Dennis Schroder, and he got to his sweet spot at the left elbow. Kent Bazemore gave help, however it was past the point of no return. Like Derrick Rose the prior night in Chicago, Penetrated and Money!!!!


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CAIRO — As Egypt's economy crumbles and its democratic transition falters, some opponents of the country's Islamist president are pinning their hopes on unlikely saviors: the powerful generals who have been mostly sidelined since last year's elections.
An argument rapidly gaining traction here holds that Egypt could soon slide into economic collapse, or even civil war, unless the military steps in to reassert a dominant role. And among those calling for some kind of coup d'etat are a few of the liberal and secular activists who campaigned to end military rule when the generals ran the country in the aftermath of Hosni Mubarak's fall.
"I think the army has an important role to play in this phase — to get us out of this tragedy that the Muslim Brotherhood has put us in," said Shadi al-Ghazali Harb, a prominent liberal activist, referring to the Islamist movement allied with President Mohamed Morsi, who took power after the elections.
It's not that memories of military abuse and the institution's wholly undemocratic opacity are so fleeting, Harb and other anti-Islamist activists said. But Egypt's disorganized and deeply divided opposition has struggled to find agreement on a means to best curb the Islamists' rising influence in recent months. And some see an opportunity in what they believe is a growing popular sentiment for the kind of intervention that would stop Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood in their tracks.
In February, violent clashes between police and protesters in the Suez Canal city of Port Said yielded an initial wave of local voices calling for a military coup. The demands, some of which came from middle-class residents who had voted for Morsi, gave a second wind to an opposition movement that had weathered a winter of defeats and divisions after losing a battle with the Islamists to define the country's new constitution.
"If law and order is absent, they have a national duty to intervene, and they've said that," opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei said of the army in an interview with the BBC in February.
"Nobody wants the army to come back, and I don't think if the army were to come back they would come back to govern, because they had an awful experience in mismanaging the transition themselves," he added. "But they will just come back to stabilize, and then we will start all over again."
Starting over is a popular concept among opposition politicians this spring, as if the best or the only answer to unfavorable democratic results is a return to square one.
"We can start over again,'' said Hoda Abdelbaset, a member of the leftist Popular Current party who, while opposed to military rule, envisioned a solution in which Morsi would step down and a coalition of popular leaders would take control until all could reach agreement on a new constitution.
Impatience and regret are not uncommon in countries going through the transition from long-term dictatorships to first-time democracies. Frustrated citizens from Iraq to the Arab Spring states to Latin America have, at turns, greeted post-conflict turbulence with a nostalgic hunger for the authoritarian but more orderly past.
In Egypt, the backlash to the Muslim Brotherhood and to Morsi, the country's first Islamist president, is rooted in post-revolution economic frustration, widening insecurity in the streets, a fear of religious intolerance, and a sense of disenfranchisement among many of the old political elite and the country's liberal youths, who helped overthrow Mubarak.
And to some activists, the assumption that deepening chaos could prompt military intervention is enough of a reason to keep protesting — and to abstain from direct negotiations with the president and his allies to forge compromises on economic and other badly needed reforms.
Egyptians "see that the Muslim Brotherhood has power, guns and militias, so no one can face them without the army," Harb said. "And in Egyptian culture, the army is the one to save the country from any occupation."
The opposition could not achieve its goals of national leadership through last year's elections, losing the parliamentary and presidential votes — the country's first democratic elections — to the better-organized Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist groups.
The military, which helped uphold Mubarak's fiercely anti-Islamist regime for decades, may be the opposition's easiest path to redemption.
"People see the military as the antithesis of the Muslim Brotherhood," said Samer Shehata, a political scientist at Georgetown University and an expert on Egyptian politics. "And, at the same time, [the military] is viewed as the only way out, and people are looking for a way out."
Human rights groups documented extensive military abuses during the generals' 11 / 2-year tenure as transitional rulers, including the arbitrary detention and torture of protesters and the trials of thousands of Egyptians by closed military tribunals.
But even then, the military, which had long been a symbol of Egyptian cultural pride, never lost the country's favor. As protests against the military heated up a year after Mubarak's fall, about 88 percent of Egyptians still viewed the military with confidence, a Gallup poll reported at the time.
No recent polls are available to indicate the extent of the army's popularity today, but calls for the generals to save a desperate nation are increasingly heard on street corners, in protest chants and on talk shows.
"If the army doesn't come and alleviate our misery, then this country is going to turn out like Syria," said Rafaat Said, a Cairo cabdriver who, like many Egyptians, laments the rising inflation and deep insecurity in the streets.
Many members of the Christian minority also have invoked the neutralizing power of an army that many had said they lost faith in after it took part in an October 2011 massacre of mostly Christian protesters in downtown Cairo.
A spate of sectarian attacks on Christians this month, including clashes outside Cairo's main cathedral, helped cement the Islamists' position as a far more worrying foe.
But some analysts and diplomats dismiss the critics' calls as wishful thinking, saying the military would have little incentive to wade back into the political sphere. They say the generals' top priority may be to maintain their immunity from prosecution and to preserve a vast, military-run economic empire — perks that are preserved under the Islamist-backed constitution.
"The military will only go down [to the streets] when there is chaos . . . that the country cannot control," said Mohamed Habib, a former deputy head of the Muslim Brotherhood.
A Western diplomat who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject echoed that view. "They have zero interest in getting back into the political environment," the diplomat said.
Sharaf al-Hourani and Lara El Gibaly contributed to this report.


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Army inflicts heavy losses upon terrorists in Hama northwestern countryside
Hama - Army units inflicted heavy losses upon the terrorist organizations on the direction of al-Zalaqiyat village in Hama northwestern countryside.
SANA said that the army units on Thursday clashed with the terrorist groups which attempted to infiltrate through the direction of al-Zalaqiyat village in Mhardeh area in Hama northwestern countryside, killing a number of terrorists, injuring others and destroying their weapons and ammunition.
SANA added that terrorists Mohammad al-Eleiwi and Ahmad al-Khalaf were identified among the killed .
The army units carried out various bombardments targeting the terrorists' movements and supply routes and destroyed a number of their hideouts, while other terrorists fled away, SANA said.


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Author: Vivek Singh, Founder, Jazzfactory.in
If you are a startup looking to raise capital, you surely are ready with your presentation. But before you go ahead and present it, it would be wise to go through the list of 6 common mistakes that startups make while presenting their business plan to potential investors.
Mistake 1: Team slide is simply a brief bio
If your team slide is only comprised of headshots, degrees and work experience, welcome to the club of below average presentations. Your investor is not only interested in your degree. He is putting in millions of dollars in your team and his biggest worry is, "Will this team pull it off? Ideas and plans are fine, but will you be able to execute?"
What makes your team qualified to do this job? Talk about the chemistry, past achievements and domain expertise. Have some of you worked together before? Do you have complimentary skills? Look at each team member and figure out what in his CV makes him an important part of the team. Relevance is the key word here.
Mistake 2: Failing to understand the objective of your presentation
The objective of your first presentation to an investor is to communicate just enough information so that you can get to the next meeting (the next stage of discussions). All you need to do is to excite them about your startup so that they want to meet you again. With that in mind, do not try to tell them 'everything' about your startup. There is a saying in Japanese Hara Hachi Bu; "eat until 80% full". Follow this rule and feed your investors a bit less. They will not only relish it, but also ask for more.
Mistake 3: Not preparing for the tough questions
Preparing for possible questions is a top priority. Once you are done with your presentation, go on every slide and ask, "What are they going to ask me?" Take the help of a mentor or friend and let me play the role of an investor who does not want to invest in your startup. What reasons will he come up with? How will you convince him? Preparing for the worst usually makes the matter easy. If you are unable to defend something, do not get overly emotional about it.
Mistake 4: Top down approach to market sizing
Assume that, as per Gartner, the polish-my-shoe-at-my-home-business is worth $100 million dollars in India. While Gartner is correct in their calculation, you cannot use this as the only measure of market size. Did you choose to start this business because of what Gartner said? You chose because you saw a problem which you could solve better than many others and there was a sizable opportunity. "If there are 1 million office goers in my city and I can attract 5% of them, I will earn 1 crore a month if I polish their shoes 20 days a month". This bottoms up approach to market sizing is what makes the cut and shows the true potential of your market.
Mistake 5: Undermining competition
It is surprising how many startup decks do not even mention competition. Some claim to have no competition while some claim minimal competition. This is where you start losing trust with your investors. Look at the market in the totality and mention all your competitor names. You can then go niche, talk about a sub-segment and highlight absence of competition there. For 99% of businesses in the world, there is always a competition. As one investor told me, "If there is really no competition, I might not even want to invest."
Mistake 6: Tell me a story. Appeal to my emotions
Maya Angelou has famously said, "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." Pitching expert Tyler Crowley suggests a story telling approach which can appeal to emotions. Your presentation, while appealing to logic, must also appeal to emotions. You need to make the investor feel that you are onto something big and something meaningful. Narrate these emotions through a story; how you solved the problem of Ananya (your user / customer) and made a difference to her life. Here is a beautiful startup presentation which uses this approach.
Prepare well and keep your slides clutter free. Catch the attention of the investor early on and do not overwhelm them with information. Have fun while you present your startup to investors. It's a way to showcase to the world your vision for a better future.
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Monday, August 17, 2009
Second Winner of the Aprovecho A Mexican American Border Cookbook
Ali Beauchamp, from the Divine Domesticity blog is the second winner of the August weekly sweepstakes prize of the Aprovecho, A Mexican American Border Cookbook. Congratulations! Please go to her blog and congratulate her and check out her beautiful blog. She rocks. Ali, your cookbook should arrive to you shortly – it's in the mail.
There will be 2 more winners this month. Good luck.
Lack of blogging was not my intention after coming back from Dallas. I felt the old fire for desire to cook, take pics and write welling up within me. HA! The technical Gods thought differently. It's amazing how much we depend on technology to get through the day. And when it breaks down, we find ourselves lost. But no worries, I spent my time configuring how I'm going to convert Lily's old computer room into Bob's new computer room. A little paint, some new drapes, repairing broken floor tile, etc. He'll be happy. What I'm not moving in there is his collection of vinyl albums; they total about 1700! He's got rock albums dating back 30-35 years. He keeps them alphabetized, so I'm not touching them.
So now that my kids have once again saved me from the computer demons in their quest to antagonize me with unspeakable viruses and spy ware, I will attempt to begin once again with my passion for all the cooking and baking and taking pictures and writing about my adventures in the kitchen. (As long as the techno-devils stay out of my house!)
Meanwhile, you guys know I'm from El Paso, Texas. I got this email from my "sis" Stella. She enclosed a wonderful tidbit written about Texas. It's really long, so I'll share it with you in segments. Here's the first part of it. Have a great week my friends.
It's True; Texas has Everything!!
Need to be cheered up?
Happy, Texas 79042
Pep , Texas 79353
Smiley , Texas 78159
Paradise , Texas 76073
Rainbow , Texas 76077
Sweet Home , Texas 77987
Comfort , Texas 78013
Friendship, Texas 76530
Love the Sun?
Sun City , Texas 78628
Sunrise , Texas 76661
Sunset, Texas 76270
Sundown, Texas 79372
Sunray , Texas 79086
Sunny Side , Texas 77423
Want something to eat?
Bacon , Texas 76301
Noodle , Texas 79536
Oatmeal , Texas 78605
Turkey , Texas 79261
Trout , Texas 75789
Sugar Land , Texas 77479
Salty, Texas 76567
Rice , Texas 75155
And top it off with:
Sweetwater , Texas 79556
Why travel to other cities? Texas has them all!
Detroit , Texas 75436
Colorado City , Texas 79512
Denver City , Texas 79323
Klondike , Texas 75448
Nevada , Texas 75173
Memphis , Texas 79245
Miami , Texas 79059
Boston , Texas 75570
Santa Fe , Texas 77517
Tennessee Colony , Texas 75861
Reno , Texas 75462
Feel like traveling outside the country? Don't bother
buying a plane ticket!
Athens , Texas 75751
Canadian, Texas 79014
China , Texas 77613
Egypt , Texas 77436
Ireland , Texas 76538
Turkey , Texas 79261
London , Texas 76854
New London , Texas 75682
Paris , Texas 75460
No need to travel to Washington D.C.
Whitehouse , Texas 75791
We even have a city named after our planet!
Earth , Texas 79031
And a city named after our State!
Texas City , Texas 77590
10 comments:
- JennDZ - The Leftover Queen said...
Congrats Ali!!! You are gonna love your new book!
- August 17, 2009 at 4:38 PM
- Jen of A2eatwrite said...
Glad you'll be up and running again! The Texas lists were a hoot. Congrats to Ali!
- August 17, 2009 at 5:04 PM
- Reeni♥ said...
Congrats to Ali!! And what cool Texas names. Glad your back!
- August 17, 2009 at 6:34 PM
- girlichef said...
That's hilarious...love those facts!! Congrats to the winner...color me jealous...guess I'll have to buy it ;P!
- August 17, 2009 at 7:41 PM
- Adam said...
With a state that large, I'm not surprised with that at all... very interesting :)
I've missed your posts, but then again... it is ONLY the internet. I think you hit it right on when you said we rely on it too much. The important fact is that you had fun with your family and are getting some projects done.
- August 18, 2009 at 6:05 AM
- Ben said...
1700 vinyl records??? WOW! You have a small (or maybe huge) fortune right there.I'd be looking into selling them on ebay :-p
Congrats Ali! I am sure you are going to love your cookbook :D
- August 18, 2009 at 9:10 AM
- Gloria Chadwick said...
Those computer demons got me, too. Don't you hate when that happens!? One of my favorite cities in Texas is Buda... I feel like meditating whenever I drive through there. :)
- August 18, 2009 at 2:44 PM
- ARLENE said...
I love your posts, Teresa. I learn so much!
- August 18, 2009 at 3:44 PM
- Dee said...
Love it! Texas list made my day! I'm so proud of our state, we are quirky & proud of it. Looks great, Congrats to Ali.
- August 19, 2009 at 2:23 PM
- samantha said...
Hello. This post is likeable, and your blog is very interesting, congratulations :-).
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Sky Vegas unveils its latest sticky game from Net Ent
Net Ent is the driving force behind plenty of online casino games and recently the software developer has produced a couple of games that can now be played at Sky Vegas.
The agreement enables the online casino to be among the first to offer these titles and occasionally they've got exclusive deals with the developer.
The players are obviously the main beneficiaries of this agreement, as they get to experience the thrills of these games before their counterparts from other casinos.
If you want to conjure up childhood memories and play a slot machine that has an excellent payout ratio, then the newly released Stickers is the game for you.
This slot brilliantly succeeds at combining the thrills of playing a classic video game with a modern title that has 243 winning combinations and a plethora of wild and stacked symbols. The scene is original and you won't get the feeling that you are playing the same game over and over again, with the graphics slightly tweaked.
The best-selling point of this game are the Sticky Spins which triggered massive profits and they depend on wild symbols appearing on an active pay line. The Wild Substitution symbol is always a pleasant sight, because this is the one responsible for introducing bigger payouts. As players spin the reels, they are also invited to contemplate the possibility of competing against their counterparts in massive tournaments.
This is a trend at Sky Vegas and several of the recent press releases are highlighting the lady of such events. In 2015, the number of players attending slot machine tournaments greatly exceeded expectations and there is no reason to expect 2016 to be any worse.
The advantage of participating in these events is that you are not only winning prizes when you hit the winning combination, but you also in the race for bonuses if you finish high in the leaderboard.
The rules are straightforward and whether you play the single player format or put your luck and skill to the test against other players, the game is just as easy to beat.
The payout ratio of more than 97% is significantly better than what most online casinos can brag about, so you only need to be a little lucky to finish about the profitability line. It is sufficient to hit a winning sequence of wild symbols and scattered signs, to win an amount that is several times higher than your investment.
Speaking of which, this game as well as all the other slot machines that can be played here have very flexible wagering patterns, ranging from a few cents to several dollars. The chance of receiving free spins stays the same and the only thing that differs is the amount you win, which is linked to the size of your stakes. Last but definitely not least, Stickers can be played on all smartphones and tablets, regardless of what operating system they use.
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Love to play racing games in your Android phone or tablet? Listed here are our top choices to find the best Android racing games. Whether your likes tend toward ultra-realistic street racers or even more fantastical game titles, these games will your motor running. If you want much more racing suggestions, take a look at our top 5 listing of Android racing games. Pull on to the beginning line, and look for these outstanding free racing games for Android.
- CSR Racing
Available on Google Play – CSR Racing features smooth rendering gorgeous cars like the Audi, BMW and Chevy Corvette. The game also boasts formally licensed cars from Bentley, Mercedes, GM, Ford, Mini, Pagani, McLaren and Nissan.
What sets this game apart is the chance to fully personalize your ride. From unique license plates to aerodynamic tweaks to racing tires could be added to your car. A present update added the chance to set up your garage, turbocharge your season, and buy a bigger car gas tank. This game easy and easy on your wallet also. If you're looking for any racing game that actually captures the look and feel from the favorite real-world cars, here is your best option.
- Smash Bandits Racing
Available on Google Play – Smash Bandits Racing 2014 has some mixed reviews. However, we argue that it's worth suggesting for racing fans preferring their games to become demolition-focused.
Smash Bandits Racing offers a brand new racing league, two new cars, and a few seriously badass enemies by means of police helicopters which have been outfitted with missiles. If carnage and mayhem is your favorite part of a great racing game.
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- Need for Speed Most Wanted
Available on Google Play – Need for Speed Most Wanted isn't exactly a new application, nor has it been recently updated. Still, it's a good title which will attract fans of both the requirement for Speed film and also the number of video games. This makes our list due to its responsive controls and variety of unique cars.
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- Groove Racer
Available on Google Play – Groove Racer was launched this year. This racing game appeals to kids, in addition to fans more casual games. This isn't a racing game for auto fans or gear heads. The training curve here's exceedingly gentle, making this a good game for enjoying during your morning commute.
This game boasts 66 free tracks (plus another 22 premium tracks) alongside 16 cars. The main one-finger controls make Groove Racer a distinctive racing application. By this writing, Groove Racer includes a rating of 4.1 on Google Play store.
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- Drag Racing
Available on Google Play – Drag Racing was updated this year. Drag Racing presently includes a rating of 4.5, and it was released by Creative Mobile Games. Drag Racing has 50 plus cars you can test. You are able to take part in real-time races against 9 other drivers at the same time.
As the graphics aren't the most wonderful we've observed in an Android game, the opportunity to race against a lot of other live competitors really makes this game an enjoyable experience. If you are searching for an Android racing game that's best experienced like a multi-player title, this really is one game worth installing.
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LGBTQ South Florida
'Will & Grace' co-star Leslie Jordan will keep it real at the Cabaret South Beach
Leslie Jordan, the Emmy-winning Will & Grace guest star, is a stalwart of Broward theater, but he's never played South Beach. That changes this weekend.
"I love, love, love South Florida. I feel as if I've been to Miami a million times because I do so many cruises out of Miami," says Jordan, who performs Saturday and Sunday at The Cabaret South Beach. "It's funny. I've found you can do the Parker Playhouse, you can do things in Fort Lauderdale, but the Miami queens ain't coming — they just don't come up there! And when you do Miami, these Fort Lauderdale queens don't come down there!"
Tennessee-born Jordan, 60, says the engagement is convenient, too.
"I'm going to be in Lakeland the night before for Polk County Pride, then zip down to Miami," he says. "What worked out really well is that it's my mother's 80th birthday in Tennessee. So I can zip from Miami up to my mother for a couple of days. Then I've got a gig in Lexington, Kentucky, where I went to college."
Jordan's specialty is telling stories — always folksy, often bawdy and usually politically incorrect.
"My media people ask me every year, 'What is the name of this show?' I just make up a name. I say, 'Oh, let's see: Full of Gin and Regret.' They say, 'Oh, wonderful.' Well, it's the same show, it's just me yammering about whatever's going on in my life," Jordan says. "The next show, they'll call and say 'What is this one called?' 'From Whence I Came, and I'll talk about being from the South.' Same show."
Jordan — who won a 2006 Emmy playing Beverley Leslie on Will & Grace and co-starred as Brother Boy in Del Shores' Sordid Lives — says he prefers working live in an intimate venue. The Cabaret South Beach has only 120 seats.
"He's going to have people rolling in their chairs because he's so funny," Cabaret co-owner Edison Farrow says. "He's very out and flamboyant and fun, with special Southern-charm delivery."
Throughout his show, Jordan spends much time talking about a disastrous 2014 stint on British reality television — and trashing his co-stars.
"I had an awful experience where I went to the UK and did reality," Jordan says. "I can't even get into it — it was called Celebrity Big Brother UK. You can go to YouTube and see me spit on Gary Busey! I was at my worst behavior. They took away my food. They gave everybody alcohol and you know, I don't drink."
Among his worst experiences: "I was up against a French stripper who cut my underpants to ribbons with a pair of scissors because she got mad at me," Jordan says. "I had a huge fight with a transgender boxing promoter named Kellie [Maloney]. I was accused of transphobia which absolutely blew my mind. I've never been so angry in my life. They said, 'You keep calling her a he.' I said, 'Well when SHE takes her wig off and puts it on a nail tries to bust me in the mouth, I don't see her. I see he!'
"Then they said, 'transphobia, transphobia.' I said, 'Listen. I've been a tireless champion of the LGBT community when you kids were s---ting in your diapers, so I'm not buying this crap.'"
The worst, he says, was working with Busey: "He has a lovely wife. She's a lot younger than him, and she's so beautiful. I thought, it's not the money because he doesn't have any. If he had money he wouldn't be doing these awful reality shows," Jordan says. "That's the sad part. To see this wreck. He's done so much cocaine, his face fell in. He fell off a motorcycle and his brains came out."
Jordan took the job in reality TV because he needed the money, too.
"I got six healthy figures. That's the only reason. I could take care of some IRS problems. I'm completely out of debt now. I paid off all my credit cards," Jordan says. "I use this in my show. It gets a big laugh, but it's true. I say, 'People think that because I'm in entertainment I make a lot of money.' Honey, if I made a lot of money, I wouldn't be ... in Miami at the Cabaret club. Let's just get real here. I love what I do, but I'd just as soon be home watching Forensic Files at my age."
Jordan says his "love life has dwindled."
"I just love the rent boys. I just love them. I'm a gay man, I've got a few dollars. I like them young and pretty. I don't mind throwing out a few dollars to buy them new tennis shoes, whatever," he says. "That's what my accountant always says. You know when Mr. Jordan's working — there ain't a boy on the boulevard who don't have on brand new tennis shoes."
If you go
What: 'An Evening of Laughter With Leslie Jordan.'
Where: The Cabaret South Beach, 233 12th St., Miami Beach.
When: 8 p.m. Saturday-Sunday.
Cost: $40 and $50 (plus two-drink minimum).
Information:305-763-8799 or www.reactionshows.com.


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Twitter – Keeping Up With The Conversation!
Twitter is probably my favourite communication tool. It is a social tool and is allows me to communicate with a wide group of friends, across the world. Even the 140 character limit for tweets doesn't faze me, I have learned how to be succinct! Today, I learnt of another tool in the Twitter tool kit [...]Read more


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Carlo Ancelotti will welcome goalkeeper Alex Meret into his active squad after the international break, with Napoli announcing that the player has been given the green light and can resume playing after an arm injury suffered in training.
The stopper moved to Naples from Udinese for a reported €35m during the summer but broke a bone in his arm during his first practice session with his new team. Having missed all of their matches so far this season, the 21-year-old is now set to return to active duty but could find it hard to displace an in-form David Ospina.
"The goalkeeper has fully recovered from injury," the Serie A side announced via their official website
The player was already working on the training ground and had been diving on his injured arm without pain, but he still needed the all-clear from the surgeon who operated on him earlier this year. Napoli
Alex Meret è stato sottoposto a una visita di controllo con tac dal chirurgo che lo ha operato, il quale ha dichiarato che il giocatore è guarito e può riprendere completamente la sua attività agonistica. #ForzaNapoliSempre— Official SSC Napoli (@sscnapoli) October 11, 2018
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