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Chowdown With Chip – Win Free Lunch From Fresh Mex Of Rome
Hey, Chip Douglas here. I hope everyone had a safe, fun and relaxing Fourth of July! Welcome back to another work week. I know you dreaded coming in to work this morning, but this week I will try to make your work week a little less stressful. All this week I will be giving away free eats from Fresh Mex on East Dominick Street in Rome. Listen out during the lunch hour, when you hear me ask for caller six, just be caller six at 768-9600. Simple as that.
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I danced like an absolute crazy person who can't be bothered to change out of her running clothes.
I danced like an absolute crazy person who can't be bothered to change out of her running clothes.
It is rare for me to take a ton of time off work in a row because I like to hoard my PTO like an episode of Hoarders. You never know what can happen throughout a year and I like to be a doomsday prepper when it comes to PTO. Which inevitably leads to having a large accumulation of time left for the month of December. I took Wednesday->Friday off from work this week to use some time up. I figured it would help me to finally feel like I was ready in both heart, mind, and soul to celebrate Christmas. Tack on the weekend and I have 5 days off from work.
On the first day of vacation (yesterday), I chose to do 4 loads of laundry. People watched the hell out of the laundromat. Got my oil changed in my car. Did a ton of grocery shopping for my holiday cooking/baking. Ran 6.5 miles. And was in my pajamas by 3:00 PM. Watched 3 Family Channel made-for-TV Christmas movies. Drank a beer. Had 99 Bananas and made awful faces. And then promptly passed out. Oh the amazing life I lead.
On my second day of vacation (today), I chose to crack the whip on some holiday baking. Hubs needs some goodies for his work shin-dig tomorrow, so I chose 2 of my favorite recipes. Yes, THIS girl *points two thumbs at self* can bake AND cook pretty well when time allows.
I am pretty sure that maybe everyone has eaten or made Oreo Truffles at some point. They are super popular around the Holidays. And super awesomely easy to make. The above picture is my Mom's recipe.
You start by placing all the Oreo's in a food processor and grinding until they are like Oreo dust. Mix with the softened cream cheese. This results in this.
Now comes the fun part. Rolling the above concoction into tiny balls. Tiny brown balls.
The balls must be refrigerated for 1 hour before proceeding. Once cold, the balls can be dipped into melted dark chocolate and placed onto waxed paper. You can choose to use festive sprinkles on top.
Once I was done playing finger paint with chocolate, I cleaned up the kitchen for Round 2. Since I started making these particular cookies, whenever I get invited anywhere I am not allowed to make anything BUT these. I can hardly take credit for the recipe, I got it from Picky Palate. However, at my work place it's a given that I have to make these every 1-2 months or else the natives get restless. What can I say? They and I love S'mores Chocolate Chip Cookies!
Now for the fun part. This is where I deviate from the actual recipe. The Picky Palate version calls for making a s'more and surrounding it in cookie dough. From experience, this results in this recipe only making like 6 Frisbee sized cookies. So, I like to make my balls of dough on the cookie sheet and place the s'more ingredients on top. Making sure to add the ever important last dollop of dough on top so that it will bake over.
After baking at 350 degrees for 15 minutes, the end result!
What will the next 3 Days of vacation bring? I plan to fly by the seat of my pants on those. And try not to blow away in the 50 mph sustained winds tomorrow.
I'm hustler, baby. I just want you to know.
The Santa Hustle was something I had marked on my racing calendar since a Groupon offer came about and I had to pounce on it. I couldn't turn a chance to run a holiday themed race (centered around my favorite holiday) in my own backyard. I chose to run the 5K because I am a giant wussy kid and thought the weather in December could be cold, windy, and downright miserable. So instead of enduring 1.5 hours +, I elected to choose 22-23 minutes of misery. And then it decided to be 50 degrees out on December 16. Blasphemy.
I still had a blast doing the 5K. I convinced my parents to register and was super pumped that 2 of my besties from college also decided to partake (Jess was a total BAMF and ran the Half Marathon. She obviously is not a giant wussy kid like me.)
The race started and finished at Castaway Bay. I was concerned that parking would become an issue, so we got to the race extra early and got to pass off Jess her race packet.
Before starting my own warm-up, I wanted to watch Jess and the other Half Marathoners start.
Once the Half Marathon was off and out of Castaway, I started getting warmed up. I felt pretty good, I was just worried about the 20 mph wind that was coming out of the South that was sure to majorly suck anus. And boy was I right.
We took off right on time and even though I lined up towards the front, I still found myself getting out rather slow and having to weave around so many slow runners. I didn't find clearance from the pack until well beyond Breakers Express. Yuck. I pushed and felt comfortable. I was sure that given the right conditions I would have been able to hold pace. My goal was to stick to a 7:00/mile pace. And I did until I hit the turnaround.
And then I quit holding pace and started thinking I would rather eat cookies and walk. I just wanted to finish. My body felt like it was going to blow off the causeway. There was no letting up from the wind. It hurt my body to lean forward into it. It just plain sucked to run into the 20 mph wind for over a mile. My thoughts wandered to poor Jess stuck out on the Half Marathon course and how she was going to have to run into this wind for over 3 miles. So I made up my mind to finish, take pictures of my family and friends, and then help her finish. I crossed the finish line in 22:48.
Good enough to place 3rd in my Age Group, 12th Female Overall. Happy with it, but not what I was aiming for certainly. Had it not been so windy, I think I would have been awfully close to breaking 22 again.
Once my picture fiesta was over, I ran out along the course again and settled into a spot about 1.5 miles from the finish. And waited for a flash of neon green.
And together we ran the last 1+ mile together and hopefully helped keep her going through that horrendous wind.
My overall race experience was great. The location was wonderful, I loved the Christmas theme and seeing all the clever costumes, and I loved running into family/friends. The course was fairly flat and the only drawback was the horrible wind. My age group medal was cute and good quality. Next year I would love to do the Half and get to venture through Cedar Point. This race is definitely a must do!


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Chi Guy's Feet features a mix of guys, mostly amateurs as well as a few adult performers like Joey D and Johnny V, who have never showed off their feet on camera before. There's plenty of variety; you'll find lots of attractive average guys as well as a few muscle hunks, twinks, athletes, and slender, stylish types, and there's a mix of gay, bi, and straight guys showing off their feet. Many of the performers here are clean-cut all-American dudes who just happen to be showing off their feet (some hairy, others smooth) on camera, but there are guys with tattoos - a couple with lots of tats - as well as a mix of clean-shaven men and others who have some sexy face scruff. The guys are in their twenties and thirties, and while most are white or black, there are a couple Latino and Asian guys.
This site is all about drooling over all sorts of male feet in shoes, in socks, and totally bare. The guys often stay dressed, although some go shirtless and others may be wearing workout shorts, so we do sometimes see some skin. But the centerpiece of each photo session are those feet, often so we can see the underneath of the soles and toes, but for those who are into guys wearing their socks, you'll find some in athletic socks, a few in dress socks and often these are the socks they wore to the shoots, which means dirty and sometimes sweaty socks and feet.
Let's talk about some of the models here. Joe is a masculine guy; he's clean cut, straight and sports size 12 feet. Jason is bearded, slender, black and sexy whether he's wearing his flip flops, athletic shoes or bare feet. Brad has a slim body and boyish, twink look with just a little hair on his toes. Kory says he's straight and a stripper, and he's got a masculine, muscular and beefy look, dark hair, is heavily inked and his feet are size 12. And there are guys who are more alternative, like Master J with his Mohawk, slight build and punky attitude - he flips off the camera, and has no issues playing with his dirty toes.
Chi Guy's Feet focus on foot pictures rather than videos. There are 151 pic sets (a new one is added once a week) from 49 different models, as most of the guys return to do more than one shoot or do multiple shoots on the same day. The photos are digital stills sized at 673x1085 (or vise versa) to 690x1228 (again, or vise versa), and they're good amateur quality or better, sharp and clear. The vertical pics may be displayed smaller to fit your browser, but it's easy enough to enlarge them to full size, and if you download the pictures individually, that larger size is what you'll get. The galleries don't have downloadable zip files or screencaps, but you can navigate from pic to pic. Most sets have from 50 to well over 100 pictures that really show off those feet.
While Chi Guy's Feet doesn't have any videos, don't panic - members get access to a couple more sites in the Chicago Footage Network, and they DO have videos that can be downloaded or streamed. First is Chi Soles Exposed with 50 exclusive videos of amateurs like the guys inside Chi Guy's Feet (there could be some of the same guys). And there's Chi Guy's Footwork with 113 videos of guys' feet as the drive cars or trucks. Although I can't tell if either of the bonus sites update, there's definitely enough content to keep you busy for a month or two.
I didn't run into any real issues here. True, the site has no videos but the bonus sites do, and besides, this site focuses on images of guys and their feet. If that's something you like, you'll find it here. There's no nudity; again, not a problem if you're looking for guys' feet. Next, while I was able to find dates on the content, the only way to do this is to either go through the model index, where each guy's shoot is dated or spot the latest updates and then check the guys in those updates. Many of the shoots have similar poses with regard to feet, but honestly I liked them and thought they showed off toes, soles, socks, and shoes well. One complaint I do have is that the gallery thumbs are very small at 75x75, so they don't really preview the pics well.
Chi Guy's Feet offers an exclusive collection amateur guys (and a few strippers and porn performers) showing off their feet. Each shoot features the guy in shoes, then in socks and finally fully barefoot; many of the guys stay dressed, but some do go shirtless. There are 151 photo sets of good quality digital stills and a new set is added once a week. The bonus sites offer male foot videos, so you will have vids to watch, and the subscription price is quite reasonable. If you're looking for a nice mix of men men showing off their feet, Chi Guy's Feet is definitely worth a visit.
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You can send us a message through our Contact Form with your name, phone number, email address, and any other contact information you wish to provide, and someone will get back to you as soon as possible.
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You may return the product to the retail location where it was purchased. Please refer to our Store Locator resource for a retailer near you.
How do I (or my group) get sponsored by Outback?
Due to the number of requests for sponsorship, Outback can only sponsor national level professional athletes and nationally recognized events. If you fit this profile, please send a sponsorship proposal via our Contact Form.
How can I become a model for Outback?
Outback typically uses professional models. Occasionally we need amateur models. You must be a size 33 and over 18 years old. If this fits you, please send a request with a link to your portfolio via our Contact Form., or mail to the address listed in the footer of this page.
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Outback Trading Company has vowed never to sell advertising space in its website, in order to provide customers and retailers with a more pleasant and less incumbered experience.
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Franchise opportunities and/or licensing to operate an Outback retail outlet are not available. We have no plans to franchise the operations at this time.
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At this time, we don't offer gift certificates. If we have a demand for them, we may offer them at a future date. Certain retailers may offer gift certificates for their establishment, which can be used to purchase Outback Trading products.
Why are not all options available on all products?
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Outback Trading Company provides a Contact Form for the general public to reach our customer support and management staff. Retailers who order and sell Outback products are given access to our telephone number for ease of communication.
What is oilskin?
Few people know that Australia's famous Oilskin was actually born at sea. Sailors learned that treating old sails with linseed and whale oil would produce incredible protective wet weather gear. Technology has come a long way since then, and Outback's Oilskin is engineered to keep the wearer dry in the heaviest of thunder storms, while being strong enough to withstand working life on the land. Outback Oilskin is produced from 100% Cotton, enabling the fabric to breathe. This property lends the fabric to not only high performance wet weather gear, but stylish casual clothing such as jackets and vests as well.
What can I expect from a brand new oilskin product?
Your oilskin garment may have a light oil surface residue from the manufacturing process. This is normal, and it will evaporate over time with normal wear. You can speed up the process by using a hair dryer. Care should be taken so the garment does not come into contact with other fabric or leather items until the surface oil has evaporated.
How do I clean my oilskin product?
1) soak in a tub of cold water, or hang outside and hose down
2) remove debris by brushing with a stiff brush
3) rinse in cold water
4) allow the coat to dry naturally — good air circulation, not in direct sunlight or close to a heat source
How do I reproof my oilskin product?
Periodic application of Duck Back Reproofing cream to the seams, friction points, and any dry areas will prolong the life and waterproof nature of your coat.
1) start with a clean, dry coat and a warm (hot) day
2) place coat in the sunshine for several minutes to allow it to heat up so it feels warm and supple to the touch. Do not leave unattended fabrics, extended exposure to sunlight will sun-bleach the fabric.
3) warm up the Duck Back dressing by putting the jar in the sun or in a pan of hot water
4) apply dressing sparingly to the coat using a clean cloth — a little extra to the seams and friction points
5) the sun will spread the dressing evenly and quickly through the coat fabric
6) a hand-held hair drier can be used to work the dressing into the cloth if you are reproofing when it is not hot and sunny
What do I do if it becomes stiff?
Clean and dry according to instructions and then apply a treatment of Duck Back Reproofer (see previous question for instructions). This will make the coat more supple.
How do I store my oilskin product?
Clean and dry your coat according to instructions. Be sure it is completely dry before storing away for the season by hanging it in an area with unrestricted air circulation.
How do I remove mildew?
Your coat may develop mildew if it is stored wet without being thoroughly dried or in a high humidity environment.
1) it is best to work outside if possible; however this can be done in a tub indoors if the weather outside will not permit
2) make a solution of 1/3 white vinegar + 2/3 water
3) apply this solution with a spray bottle while brushing the coat with a stiff brush — you can also put the solution in a bucket and use your brush to apply the solution from the bucket.
4) be sure to scrub all oilskin areas that you can reach — both sides of the fabric when possible
5) hang the coat up, hose off, and allow to dry thoroughly
*extreme cases may require a 2nd application of the vinegar solution - or - soaking in the solution for several hours after scrubbing.


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Spots and spills are a fact of life. Be prepared. Make sure you have the proper tools ready to clean up accidents quickly. Also, make sure you know the right way to clean. Otherwise, you may further harm your Carpet. It's important to test any cleaning method in an inconspicuous area first.
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GRAPHIC NYC relaunches today with a profile of Brian Wood.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Graphic NYC site update
Posted by Seth Kushner News at 9/10/2009 03:46:00 PM
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- Loi An Le said...
The photo on the right has a relief overlooking the subject. It is as though the statue is blessing the person.
- September 15, 2009 at 7:58 PM
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Worktop Installation Kit - Clear Sealant
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It has been a few interesting days, from India to Britain. Goes to show the ocean may divide us physically but when it comes to one of your own, that's all it is. A physical divide and you can change all of that with your voice. Speak out. When the government of a nation speaks out about one of its citizens, then you are pretty special. The burning of effigies in protest to the treatment of Shilpa Shetty, the Bollywood star in Celebrity Big Brother and the 22,000 people that have called Ofcom to date, complaining about racism on the show. Yet CBB is still on our screens and we are glued to it. Thank goodness we don't pay TV license for Channel 4 because this will be one very good reason to scrap it.
Ignorance has been on earth for as long as I can remember; well for the few years I have been here that is. I don't think it can be eradicated and that is disturbing but then again, naivety is just as bad.
When you agree to sell your soul on reality TV in order to make grade D celebrity status, be classy about it. The least expected of you would be to do it gracefully. No disrespect intended just an observation.
So, here we are, embroiled in a race row, one or two people are beginning to feel the pain in their pockets. A contestant, no name calling just lost a lucrative modelling contract. Ouch! That hurts, sorry but next time think before you speak.
Racism, lets take a minute to define the word. Then again, there is no need for that. We all know the meaning don't we? Say no more. I don't think you can change people but you can change how they make you feel. Yes it hurts and it's real hard to deal with but you must learn to rise above it and refuse to be boxed up by their mentality.
When I experienced what is termed racism, it was in the most unusual circumstance and that is why to date, it remains an ironic experience. I remember ever so clearly. His words were, "Go back to your Africa and..................." I will say no more and guess what he was a doctor. A desensitised doctor, I wish I had him struck off but you know the beauty of that experience. I'm here and I still see him around in his cheap suit, no disrespect, just an observation and guess what I can laugh and say how do you like me now? One day real soon, I'll remind him and tell him I am not bitter. I am too blessed to be bitter and because of him, I am better off. My mind is educated enough to know he was just a little glitch on the part of life and he does not matter. Meanwhile I will continue writing my story on the pages of life. He is too small to turn me into a myopic b**ch. Sorry but that's the word that came to me and no I didn't have to use it but it describes what I am not. So swallow and stick with me on this.
This old age disease called racism will never go away. If it can get into politics; you don't mind if I ask, who is your local councillor? I'll say no more. It is ingrained deep in the veins of a minority but then again, we can't be so sure. Can we?
I have worked in a predominantly white environment before and yes that can be daunting because it can be hard due to the cultural differences and way of life but they treated me like a human being and with respect. If anything at all, I needed the culture shock to get me out of my comfort zone. When you have no respect for another life, you think it's okay to say whatever you like and that's one of the problems. Some people don't know what it means to have respect for another person regardless of race, colour and creed or where their crib is at. Hillary Clinton was right after all, 'It takes a village to raise a child.'
As far as I am concerned, yes I am black but that's not all there is to me. No matter how negative the energy around me gets, I refuse to give in and accept that I am not an equal. If you have one head, two hands, two legs, one heart, one liver and the same red blood flows through our veins. Then it doesn't matter what colour you are; as long as your blood is red, we are equal. We have been equipped with the same body features. You may be taller or shorter, let's just say the big man upstairs knew better on that one.


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Timeline for Recieving I-20
Process for receiving the I-20, Certificate of Eligibility from the University of Oregon
Admissions Review. It takes about six weeks after the application deadline date for the department admissions committee to review the applications. The committee will only review complete applications. When the applicant is accepted, the department recommends to the Graduate School the applicant be admitted into the program.
Graduate School and Office of Admissions approval. The next step is the Graduate School and Office of Admissions reviews the applications to see if all required documents have been received and all requirements have been met. The Office of Admissions will not formally admit or send an I-20 until all required documents have been received and approved. Please note the department is not responsible for issuing the I-20.
Required documents for international students include (these are in addition to the documents required by the department):
- Financial Statement. US Government regulations require that the University of Oregon verify the availability of sufficient financial support for non-immigrant students before the I-20 can be issued. International students must submit supporting financial documents (e.g., Graduate Teaching Fellowship (GTF) appointment contract, scholarship award letter and/or bank statements).
- Official Transcripts. To be admitted to the Graduate School for the purpose of seeking an advanced degree or certificate, the applicant must have an accredited degree equivalent to a U.S. bachelors degree from an institution of recognized standing. Official transcripts with certified English translations are required.
- English Language Proficiency. A satisfactory command of the English language is required for admission to the University of Oregon. Applicants whose native language is not English must show proof of language proficiency through one of the following three methods: TOEFL, IELTS or a degree from an English-speaking country. Scores should be sent directly from ETS to the University of Oregon. The institution code is 4846.
Approximate timeline. After admittance by the department the rest of the approval cycle can take 6-8 weeks, provided the required documentation has been sent the Office of Admissions.
Sending the I-20. Once admitted by the Office of Admissions, the applicant will receive a letter and immigration packet from the University of Oregon. The packet is sent by express mail and usually takes a week or two. Most students will receive an I-20 (Certificate of Eligibility) to apply for an F-1 visa.


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Cheese! Mama!
He thinks about balls a lot. Doors a good bit. And playing Duck, duck, goose some as well.
Musings by the proud mommy of Little Elvis, Baby Plum and Cheese Puff
Great picture of CP and those beatiful eyes. He looks so clean and neat(how do you do it) and such expressive eyes. How nice that he is "sharing his thoughts" with you at such an early
age. Happy Mothers Day.
Grandpa Stew
Wow! It's going to feel crazy to have all three boys walking, huh? What will you do with your hands? ;-)
Very cute photos!


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A Terrible Sunday Breakfast
Nothing can beat waking up on a Sunday morning and seeing the sun shining. Keen to make the most of the day, my boyfriend and I decided to head into town and have a some breakfast near the beach. We choose the Merewether Surfhouse Cafe; but we shouldn't have!
First off, this place ain't the cheapest to eat. My boyfriend and I both ordered a beverage and meal and it came to a total of $50. I don't mind paying a bit more for food if you're getting a good quality meal, but this is one time I was pretty disappointed with forking out that $50.
It was a busy Sunday morning so I knew we would probably be in for a little bit of wait, and that doesn't bother me. What bothers me is when people around you, who ordered after you, all begin to get their meals as you continue to sit there, and after you've already been sitting there for about half an hour. To show that I wasn't the only one thinking waiting times were getting a bit ridiculous, while we were waiting for the food another guy had to actually get a refund because he had been waiting so long and had to leave the restaurant to go elsewhere.
Once I mentioned to a waitress how long we'd been waiting, within the next couple of minutes our food was on the table; and the disappointment continued.
My boyfriend got the Egg's Benedict with Salmon and I got the Smashed Avocado without the poached egg they usually put on top (I'm not an egg fan).
The Egg's Benedict was completely cold, which made us think it had been sitting around for some time before it was served to us. The taste was there, but the fact it was cold made the meal quite off-putting.
My avocado toast was the tiniest avocado toast have ever been served. The amount of avocado that was on there was minimal; similar to how you might spread a little bit of butter over toast, and there were massive chucks of red onion scattered on top. I generally don't mind onion, but the chucks were so big I had to pick them off; I just couldn't deal.
The only up-side to the morning was the coffee frappes both me and my boyfriend got; they were delicious but I wouldn't be buying them regularly considering that each cost $6 and are only the size of a small/regular drink.
Overall I 10/10 DO NOT recommend the Merewether Surfhouse Cafe. They have a restaurant upstairs which I have been to on numerous occasion and love, but the downstairs section really, really disappointed me and is somewhere I'll be steering well clear of from now on.
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Barcode Scanners
Retail chains, airlines, public offices and hospitality companies are just few of the sectors where there is a growing demand for barcode scanners for improving efficiency and productivity. When it comes to efficiency, companies are entirely focused on eliminating manual errors and deliver a level of customer service that keeps them coming back. Maxworth offers some of the most sophisticated general purpose – handsfree and handheld barcode scanners to meet the requirements of all the industries.
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Our handheld barcode scanners are designed to deliver fast and reliable scanning in the most ergonomic design. Your staff can use these scanners across a wide operational range, from 0 to 17 inches. They can be used in all types of settings, from retail to government, from medical to airlines. There are several on-board interfaces for integrating with a wide range of host systems.
The scanners are ideally suited for being used in a wide range of settings including:
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Our general purpose barcode scanners are designed to deliver superior, first-pass scan reading rates without concern for the angle. The next time your staff will record faster checkouts and a more productive point of sale with the help of the wide range of barcode scanners from Maxworth.


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When your screen suddenly goes off and any attempt to restart your computer ends up in a whining sounds like "whiiii shtAK!", it most probably means that your hard drive crashed. If you had no backup, you've just lost all your data!
Philippe Starck is a world famous French product designer. His most famous product is undoubtedly the Juicy Salif. You know, the aluminum lemon squeezer that looks like Tintin's rocket with longer legs. Starck said that it was actually
not meant to squeeze lemons (...) but to start conversations. One day I almost bought one, but I had second thoughts: I felt I do not have the right house to put around it.
A fascinating person
To be honest I am usually not really attracted by what he creates. I tend to like his Aprilia Moto 6.5 motorbike, although I suspect that not too many bikers like it. But in general I don't like much what he does, however I think that he is a fascinating person.
A few years ago he gave an inspirational talk at TED (the ideas worth spreading) about "Why design?". To explain what is the essence of product design, in 15 minutes and with great humor, he is going through the last 5 billion years on Earth and the successive human mutations, and finally he opens the door to the next 5 billion years on Earth. You must see Starck playing the "primordial soup" and the appearance of life, it is priceless. I listened to the talk many times and it still makes me laugh. Give it 15 minutes!
Useful and beautiful
Some times ago I was in need of an external hard drive to backup my data (what a weird idea, isn't it?). Among other brands I checked LaCie hard drives. LaCie is a French company that has been investing massively in product design since its early days. Each of their products received intense attention from industrial product designers. This is something that counts for me.
I was nicely surprised to see that Starck contributed to their product line, and even more because I liked his product immediately. The product shapes an informal magma enclosed into a strong protective box. A very practical aspect is that its USB cable is embedded into the shell, so you never have to look for it.
This informal magma recalls the valuable data we store into hard drives, like personal information, administrative documents, projects files, music, photos, videos, etc. The strong aluminium case around it tends to inspire protection and safety from external aggressions. But what about a threat from inside? Hard drive is not a fully reliable technology. It is very sensitive and sometimes it fails hard, destroying all your data. So I think that here the design somehow mislead the user.
There are two kinds of people: those who do regular backups and those who never had a hard drive failure.
I once lost plenty of data after a hard drive failure. When your screen suddenly goes off and any attempt to restart your computer ends up in a whining sounds like "whiiii shtAK!", it most probably means that your hard drive crashed. If you had no backup, congratulation, you've just lost all your data! When it happens it's clearly a shock. You think to your ongoing work and all your valuable data. That's gone. Especially loosing your ongoing work is a pain, it's like loosing your ID and credit cards.
But after all, surprisingly, I felt lighter. It's hard to explain but I felt relieved. Maybe because I realized that this data was not so important. Maybe also because I was relieved from the fear of loosing my data, since I did not have it anymore!
Since I do regular backups and I also invested into a large SSD drive. Solid State Drives are still pretty expensive but they are much more reliable. In addition they are significantly faster, so they bring a clear boost to your computer. A good investment I believe.


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Some old ladies bake cookies. Others plot the destruction of the town that exiled them. Elziba Caulwik is the latter. The Vampire's Vengeance is a story in four parts as a simple treasure-hunt uncovers evidence of Elziba's scheme. Before the heroes can mete out justice to the crone of Tanglethorn Manor, they'll have to rescue their kin from a burning guard tower, assault a stronghold of marsh-bound freaks, and navigate the sewers of their dying city. Heroes should be warned: old Elizba is not the mere crazed botanist she once was. Her pawns are many, her fangs are sharp, and her thirst for vengeance is not easily thwarted!
Rules Set: 4E
Writer: Adrian Pommier
Cover Art: Jeremy McHugh
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Mindfulness for creativity...
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- Anna International said...
This book sounds a little staid in the way it delivers the message, but I am a firm believer that mindfulness and becoming more open to really experiencing things can be a life changer. A little over a year ago I took a creative meditation course, thinking it would give me some respite from my stressed out existence as a lawyer, and it proved to be a pivotal experience in my life. I finally acknowledged to myself that I really didn't like law, and I really wanted to be spending my time writing and creating. It was terrifying, but so cathartic. Of course, actually making the change took gradual baby steps, and I'm still on the path now, but I've swapped the law for freelance editing, and blogging, and I'm dedicating all my free time to creating things for my new home. Mindfulness can really help you to figure out what you value in life, it certainly did me!
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I like bright and shiny things… Don't you?
Nope, I'm not talking about jewelry (though, if my husband is asking, I do like jewelry!)… I'm talking about pots and pans, my stainless steel pots and pans!
I love to cook with my heavy stainless steel pots and pans. You have probably realized that because you see them in my photos all the time. It does take some getting used to, but once you go stainless, I don't think you'll ever go back… Except maybe for eggs. I still can't cook eggs in a stainless steel pan, and I have one nonstick pan in my collection reserved specifically for eggs.
One of the things I love most about my stainless steel cookware is that it can stand up to just about anything. Sometimes I joke that I could probably drive my car over it. I've definitely put mine to the test over the years… I've had scorched caramel stuck in the bottom of my favorite saucepan… I've burned my share of potatoes in my large skillet… And, of course, there are the countless times that I've been searing meat and filled the house with smoke, leaving a nice black crusted pan.
Here's the thing… After the beating my pots and pans have taken, they are still bright and shiny… Just like new!
So, since today's Works for Me Wednesday theme is spring cleaning, I thought I'd share my secret for keeping stainless steel cookware as good as new!
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Even when I am on my best cooking behavior, and I don't burn or scorch anything in my pans, I find that dish soap and water just aren't enough. Fat and oil are a necessity when cooking on stainless steel, and they can leave a residue behind on pots and pans.
I have done my share of scrubbing, but over time, I've learned that, to keep my pans at their best, I need an additional cleaner – Bar Keeper's Friend. It's a powder cleaner that you can just sprinkle in the bottom of your pots and pans. When it mixes with a small amount of water, it will form a paste. Then, I use a wet sponge or scouring pad to scrub the pans.
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Want to give it a try? My local grocery store has recently started carrying Bar Keeper's Friend in the cleaning aisle… It's with the other powdered kitchen and bathroom cleaners. If you can't find it at your local store, you can order it from Amazon, as well.
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My name is Kim Adams, and I'm known as "WhitePineLane" most places online. I'm a blogger, a content writer, a Squidoo lensmaster and an eBay seller. I've just recently left my position as Social Media Coordinator for a multi-channel retailer and gone back to the best job I ever had: stay-at-home mom! I have the two best kids ever (one tween and one teen), and I've been married to my best friend for 24 years.
I had always been somewhat interested in genealogy, but that interest really blossomed a couple years ago when my family gave me the genealogy program Reunion for Mac for my birthday. At that same time I joined Ancestry.com, and my new passion exploded!
When that passion for finding my ancestors combined with my existing fascination for cemeteries, "graveyard hopping" became a regular hobby of mine. (I thought the term was especially fitting for a blog belonging to the Association of Graveyard Rabbits, and that's how this blog was named!)
My two best graveyard-hopping buddies are my mom Marilyn and my daughter Lauren, who often go along on these little jaunts with me - enthusiastically, for the most part! I do a lot of genealogy work with my husband's Aunt Phooey, and when I told her one day that I had been out graveyard hopping with my mom, she showed me some notes that she and her mom had made one day while visiting cemeteries and said, "I wish my mom were still here to go graveyard hopping with me." I know what she means. I am incredibly lucky have these two, and I never forget it for a minute! <3 <3
Left: Lauren trying to read the tombstone of Oliver Mann, the younger brother of Lauren's great, great, great grandmother. Woodside Cemetery, Shorewood, Hennepin, Minnesota
Left: Marilyn admiring the family stone of her great grandparents, Edwin and Ann Mann Aldritt. Woodside Cemetery, Shorewood, Hennepin, Minnesota


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BARNETT Francis married Miriam BLENCOWE 1877
Information Journal.
Groom: Francis BARNETT.
Birth place: Given as Bendigo.
Bride: Miriam Mary BLENCOWE.
Birth place: Given as Richmond.
Year married: 1877.
Place: Victoria, Australia.
Francis died 1884 in Prahran, Victoria.
Age: 29 years.
Parents named as Daniel BARNETT and Elizabeth DREWETT.
Birth note.
Francis was born 1854 in Bendigo, Victoria.
Parents named as Daniel BARNETT and Elizabeth DREWITT.
Miriam died 1913 in Cheltenham, Victoria.
Age: 59 years.
Parents named as John Abraham BLENCOWE and Eliza HORNER.
Birth note.
Miriam was born 1854 in Richmond, Victoria.
Parents named as John BLENCOWE and Elizabeth HORNER.
See Post: BLENCOWE John married Elizabeth HORNER 1846
Five children located Victorian records for Francis and Miriam.
Emily Elizabeth BARNETT.
Born: 1878 Cheltenham, Victoria.
Died: 1952 Melbourne, Victoria.
Age: 75 years.
Arthur Leonard George BARNETT.
Born: 1879 Cheltenham, Victoria.
Died: 1970 Prahran, Victoria.
Age: 31 years.
Henry Clarence BARNETT.
Born: 1881 Cheltenham, Victoria.
Died: 1881 Cheltenham, Victoria.
Age: 01 year.
Francis Frederick BARNETT.
Born: 1882 Cheltenham, Victoria.
Died: 1905 Sandringham, Victoria.
Age: 23 years.
Hilda Victoria BARNETT.
Born: 1884 Cheltenham, Victoria.
Died: 1952 Hastings, Victoria.
Age: 68 years.
Married: Alfred Hewett GIBSON.
Year: 1905.
Place: Victoria.
See Post: GIBSON Alfred married Hilda BARNETT 1905
Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria.
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WrestleMania 32
Charlotte vs Becky Lynch vs Sasha Banks (Triple Threat Match for the WWE Women's Championship
We see Lita in the ring holding the new title, which will be presented to the winner of this match. Sasha Banks' music hits next and fans pop big. WWE Hall of Famer Snoop Dogg comes out with Raven Felix, who sings Sasha's theme. Snoop starts rapping to introduce his cousin and out she comes to a big pop. Snoop escorts her to the ring. Cole tells us Sasha's gear is inspired by Eddie Guerrero, her hero. Purple confetti falls in the stadium as Snoop and Sasha head to ringside. They stop and give each other love as Sasha hits the ring and Snoop heads back up. Out next comes the last WWE Divas Champion Charlotte in a robe that's made out of pieces her dad wore at WrestleMania 32 in his retirement match. Charlotte heads to the ring with WWE Hall of Famer Ric Flair right behind her. She stops and raises her arms as pyro goes off behind her. Cole confirms the title will be retired tonight. Flair takes the robe at ringside as we see crew members cleaning confetti up from the ring area. Charlotte raises the title and we get formal ring introductions from Lilian.
Fans chant "this is wrestling" before the bell. Charlotte fights them both off to start. It comes down to Sasha and Becky going at it. Charlotte stops a pin. Sasha gets a close pin on Becky. More back and forth and pins. Becky runs into a big boot from Charlotte. Charlotte points at Sasha and the fans pop as Becky rolls to the floor. Sasha ends up taking Charlotte down with a hurricanrana. Charlotte drops Sasha into the corner and thrusts her. Becky comes in and Germans Charlotte but Sasha takes a pin for a 2 count. Sasha and Becky go at it now. Becky with an arm drags. She keeps Sasha grounded now. Charlotte drags Sasha out of the ring with a wheelbarrow and slingshots her back into the ropes, to the floor. Becky takes Sasha out on the floor and brings her back in. Charlotte goes for a Figure Four but Becky kicks her off and hits more shots. Becky with an inverted DDT for a 2 count. Charlotte sells an arm injury. Becky goes to the corner but Charlotte cuts her off and brings her to the mat with a Rude Awakening for a 2 count.
Charlotte keeps control for another 2 count. Charlotte works on Becky's legs now. Becky fights off a Figure Four and in comes Sasha. Sasha with shoulder thrusts on Charlotte in the corner. She lays Charlotte across the middle rope and goes for the knees but Becky runs over and sends Sasha to the floor hard. Charlotte moves out of the way and rolls Becky up for 2. Becky ends up getting the Disarm Her applied and Flair jumps on the apron to provide distraction but has no luck. Flair hops back down and the referee checks on Charlotte. Sasha runs in and breaks the hold. Becky tosses Sasha back to the floor. Charlotte drives Becky's back into her knee. Charlotte applies the Figure Four but can't bridge it. Sasha comes off the top with an Eddie Guerrero frogsplash on both of them and covers Charlotte for a close 2 count.
Sasha catches Charlotte with double knees for a 2 count as Becky breaks it. Becky with a big German on Sasha. More back and forth. Becky with a Rock Bottom on Charlotte but Sasha breaks the pin. Sasha and Becky go at it now. Becky with a roll up for 2. Sasha with double knees in the corner. Sasha plays to the crowd and gets a pop. Sasha runs the ropes with Becky but leaps out onto Charlotte on the floor. F;air gets in Charlotte's face and "whooos" at him. Becky dives out and takes just Flair down to a big pop. Everyone is down as Charlotte pulls herself to the apron. She goes to the top and nails a nice moonsault on Becky and Sasha. Charlotte is hype as fans give her an applause. Fans chant "this is wrestling" as we get several replays. Charlotte brings them both in the ring as the same time and hits a double Natural Selection. She covers Becky for a 2 count. She covers Sasha for a 2 count. Charlotte is frustrated now. She covers for two more pin attempts.
Flair is back to his feet now. Charlotte sends Becky into the ring post. She goes to powerbomb Sasha but Sasha counters and ends back up on her shoulders in an electric chair position. Becky takes them both down with a missile dropkick from the top. Becky with a close 2 count on Charlotte. Becky with the Dis-arm-Her on Charlotte for a big pop. Sasha breaks it and gets the Banks Statement on Becky. Charlotte applies the Figure Four on Sasha and Becky goes to the floor. Sasha fights it and reveres the Figure Four. Charlotte bridges into the Figure Eight but Becky pulls Sasha from the floor and breaks the hold. Charlotte chops each opponent while all three are on their knee snow. Sasha and Becky unload and both hammer away on her. They end up getting to their feet and Charlotte spears Sasha. Becky takes Charlotte to the corner for thrusts. Becky takes Charlotte to the top but Charlotte fights her. Sasha comes over and pushes Becky to the mat. Sasha beats on Charlotte on the top. Becky kicks Sasha's feet out and she's hung upside down. Becky hits a big superplex on Charlotte. Sasha ends up hitting the Backstabber and Banks Statement on Becky again. Charlotte sends Sasha to the floor and fans boo. Charlotte applies the Figure Four and bridges it on Becky for the win.
Winner: Charlotte
Match Rating: 3.5/5
WWE Monday Night Raw
Sasha Banks vs Summer Rae
Charlotte accepts the new WWE Women's Championship
Summer uses a distraction to get the upper hand to star the match. She then hits a big spinning heel kick and then slaps Sasha across the face. Bad move. Sasha loses her mind and takes it to Summer with a double knee stomp for two-count. Summer goes for another spin kick, but Sasha turns it into a Bank Statement for the submission win.
The formal introduction of the new WWE Womens Championship to the rightful owner, Charlotte. All the WWE Divas are in the ring along side Hall of Famer Lita! Lita talks about how she didn't have many women to look up to in the business, but this is a new era of womens wrestling with great superstars. She then introduces Charlotte. The crowd is chanting for Bayley as Charlotte grabs a mic. Charlotte then says that this title wouldn't be what it is without the women standing in the ring, and the crowd. They have changed womens wrestling forever. This even gets a " Womens wrestling!" chant going throughout the ring. Then Charlotte thanks her dad for helping her win the last night and helping her become immortalized. Charlotte then starts in on Becky and Sasha and says she is better than everyone, and then every superstar in the ring leaves. Natty grabs a mic next, she says Charlotte needs to learn a little about humility. Natty then says she would love a match, but Charlotte declines. Saying "This belt on my shoulder says my family will always be better than your family." and Natty attacks. Charlotte escapes to fight another day!
Winner: Sasha Banks
Match Rating: 1/5
TNA Impact Wrestling
Gail Kim vs Madison Rayne vs Jade (Triple Threat Match for the TNA Knockouts Title)
All three girls trade shots at the beginning, and Gail briefly is disposed of as Madison and Jade trade pinfall attempts. Gail comes back in to interject, but Jade turns her inside out with a German suplex and trades shots with Madison. Gail with a DDT/flatliner combo on both girls, then continues dishing out offense to both opponents by herself. Madison rolls out to the floor and Jade takes her out with a dive through the ropes, then knocks Gail on her butt with a kick to the skull. Jade chokes Madison and actually carries her around ringside by the neck, then drills her with a shotgun dropkick on the floor. The referee is paying attention to them as Maria comes out and hits Gail with the Knockouts Title belt, and Jade hits Gail with an STO and picks up the win.
Winner: Jade
Match Rating: 2.5/5
WWE NXT TakeOver: Dallas
Bailey vs Asuka (NXT Women's Championship Match)
We get formal ring introductions from Greg Hamilton and the fans are really going at it early. Bayley avoids a kick to start. They lock up and Bayley takes the arm. Asuka counters and they trade more holds, going to the mat with Bayley in control of the arm. More back and forth. They run the ropes and do more counters. Bayley avoids a kick and we have a stalemate. Asuka with kicks. Bayley with a shot to the face. Asuka with a forearm and the flying hip attack. Asuka with a kick to the head. Asuka goes to hit a hip attack on the apron but Bayley moves and she gets caught in the ropes. Bayley nails her and goes to the second rope for another 2 count. Bayley takes Asuka to the corner with shoulder thrusts. Asuka sends Bayley to the apron but Bayley goes to the top for a crossbody and a 2 count. Bayley drops a knee and keeps control but Asuka catches her in a Fujiwara armbar. It's broken but Asuka unloads in the corner. Bayley ducks a kick in the corner and turns Asuka upside down. Bayley with kicks. Bayley uses the bottom rope to drop an elbow while Asuka is upside down. Bayley with a 2 count.
Asuka goes to the top but Bayley rocks her with forearms. Fans with dueling chants now. Bayley with a top rope hurricanrana for a 2 count. Bayley locks in her guillotine choke now. She tightens it in the middle of the ring. Asuka breaks it and applies the ankle lock. Bayley rolls through and sends Asuka out to the floor. Bayley sells an ankle injury but ends up diving through the ropes and taking Asuka down with a scissors. Bayley brings it back in the ring for a 2 count. Bayley rocks Asuka with shots but Asuka just yells at her. They run the ropes and Asuka hits a dropkick. Asuka with kicks. Asuka counters in the corner and nails a missile dropkick. Asuka with more kicks with Bayley on her knees. Bayley counters and hits a forearm. Asuka drops her again and hits a running knee for a 2 count.
Bayley with a 2 count. More dueling chants, more back and forth. Bayley with a big suplex. Bayley ducks one kick but gets caught with another and goes down. Fans chant "this is awesome" as the referee counts. They get up and both go for dropkicks at the same time. They get up trading forearms. Asuka nails a big one to the face. Bayley gets mad and fires back. Bayley drops her into Asuka's kneebar. Asuka makes it to the bottom rope but Bayley pulls her back and slams the knee. Asuka fights to her feet but Bayley elbows her other knee. Bayley continues working on the legs now as fans cheer her.
Asuka catches Bayley in an armbar out of nowhere. Bayley fights it but Asuka reverses it and sits on her. Bayley rolls her up for a 2 count. Bayley ducks kicks and rolls Asuka up for a 2 count. Bayley avoids the Asuka Lock and nails a suplex. Bayley with a low clothesline for another 2 count. Bayley struggles to get a submission applied as we get more back and forth. Asuka escapes and kicks out. Asuka blocks the Belly-to-Bayley. Asuka with a kick that dazes Bayley. Asuka with a suplex and an armbar. Bayley gets to her feet and tries to break the Asuka Lock. Bayley is reaching for the ropes but Asuka drops her to the mat and tightens the hold. Asuka pulls them back up as Bayley is still trying to get all the way out. Asuka takes them back to the mat and tightens it. Bayley is fading as the referee checks on her. She passes out for the win.
Winner: Bailey
Match Rating: 3.5/5
WWE SmackDown
Natalya vs Summer Rae
Waist locks and reversals early on transitioned to a nice suplex and seated drop kicks from Natalya. Summer fired back with some kicks and sent Natalya through the first and second rope. Summer hit a snap suplex on the floor and tossed Natalya back in the ring for a two count. She continued with more kicks and sent Natalya into the corner. Nattie caught a kick and applied a Sharpshooter for the quick tap out victory.
Winner: Natalya
Match Rating: 1/5
So there you have it, the breakdown for the week in women's wrestling. What were some of your favorite and least favorite moments from these women? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below!
MATCH OF THE WEEK: Charlotte vs Becky Lynch vs Sasha Banks (Triple Threat Match for the WWE Women's Championship: WrestleMania 32)
WOMAN OF THE WEEK: Charlotte


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"I could go on about the choices I've made," Eloise Klein Healy writes in her 1991 poetry collection, Artemis in Echo Park, "and all the other elements of my landscape / emotionally carved out or artfully decorated, / but the real truth is, here you can see / the ribs showing through." Healy, who was recently named Los Angeles' first poet laureate by outgoing mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, has made the kind of choices that define a career, although perhaps that has become clear only in retrospect — as is often the case with the choices that define us.
Now 69, Healy has had a long and successful academic career, directing the women's studies program at Cal State Northridge, founding the MFA program in creative writing at Antioch University Los Angeles, where she is now a professor emeritus, and founding Arktoi Books, a Red Hen Press imprint that specializes in the work of lesbian authors. She's written seven books of poetry, the most recent of which, A Wild Surmise, was published in March. And then there's the poet laureate honor, which Healy says took her by complete surprise, "because I didn't think they'd choose a white lesbian."
This last comment tells you something about the choices Healy made in both in her personal and her professional life. To come out in the early 1970s, and to pursue a career as a feminist poet. To keep writing poetry, long before the days of poetry slams and the hundreds of poetry programs and writers' colonies that now litter the country, and to do it in Los Angeles. "Back then there was one place to go, Beyond Baroque, which was about the size of the men's bathroom. There was nobody publishing anything," she says. And to keep teaching, as she has done continuously since she graduated from Immaculate Heart College in Hollywood. "Poetry doesn't pay. I'd be long dead if I'd lived on that." So Healy taught and wrote, wrote and taught, at schools and in evening private workshops. "I missed Roseanne entirely. I've had to catch up."
What makes Healy perfectly suited to her new title is the way she writes about the city she's lived in since she was 10, when her parents came West from their home in small-town Iowa to visit relatives and decided to stay. Healy grew up in the San Fernando Valley, in Hollywood and Echo Park ("before it was trendy, it was cheap"); she and her partner, Colleen Rooney, have lived in the same house in Sherman Oaks since 1988. And it's this landscape that Healy writes about, her poems repeating compositions of place in which you can see the emotions and the art but also the street corners and the neighborhoods and their specific occupants, "the ribs showing through."
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Sex's role in athletic performance has been hotly debated for decades—especially when it comes to the love lives of Olympic athletes. In light of the upcoming Olympic games in Rio, adult store Adam & Eve teamed up with Dr. Mike Young, an Olympic coach, to determine exactly how sex and masturbation influence a person's athletic ability. The duo monitored the sexual activities of 21 male and female collegiate and national athletes over the course of three weeks, reporting on their performance in speed, strength, and agility exercises during that same period.
Despite the small focus group (21 athletes can hardly be representative of the human population), the resulting report provides a fascinating look into the physiological and psychological side effects of sex—whether with a partner or by oneself. In summation, sex's impact on athletic performance is entirely dependent on the individual person, and could be considered a mind game more than anything else.
"When it comes to sexual activity and athletic performance, it really is a case where an individual's perception is the same as their reality," said Dr. Young in his concluding statement. Despite this somewhat generalized finding, the study did uncover some interesting highlights. For example, more frequent sex and masturbation was correlated with lower running times, higher vertical jump heights, and greater overall strength in both women and men.
But if anecdotal evidence is any indication, many Olympic athletes seem to believe that sex positively influences their performance in the games. "There's a lot of sex going on at the Olympics," Hope Solo, goalkeeper of the U.S. women's soccer team, once said. "I've seen people having sex right out in the open, getting down and dirty on the grass, between buildings." Similar stories were reported by athletes from the table tennis team and the Olympic organizers.
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Captured: 21st September 2006, 6:07pm,
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012
The Purple Runner by Paul Christman
There is a very short list of classic running stories. Once a Runner a novel by John Parker has held the esteemed number one position for years, but there was always the mention of another book The Purple Runner first published in 1983 and written by Paul Christman. I have read and enjoyed Once a Runner and even sold a copy for $250 before it had been reprinted, but I have never had a chance to read The Purple Runnerdue to it long ago being out of print (I will sell a book for a lot, but do not want to spend a lot for an out of print book). The good news is that The Purple Runner is back in print and you are in for a treat if you enjoy reading stories with interesting characters who are involved with the sport of running.
The Purple Runner has always seemed sort of mysterious to me. I had seen ads for it in the back of running magazines in the 1980s, but never had a chance to even remotely find out what the story was about. Well, the story is sort of mysterious too, or at least one character is, that being the title character. The purple runner is a world class running talent who strives to remain anonymous as he speedily trains through the Hampstead Heath in England. Due to his disfigured face, he remains reclusive, but throughout the story my imagination was piqued as to which former American distance runner who died in an automobile accident in the Pacific Northwest could this mysterious runner actually be possibly modeled after.
Imaginations are free to run wild with this story. Could the reclusive runner venture forth and enter the London Marathon? Could he finish the race in under 2 hours. Remember this story took place in the 1980s when the world record had not seen the recent assault by the Kenyan and Ethiopian runners of the present age. What was once so preposterous is now something that could actually happen. The story leaves you wondering what the purple runner might do as well as who he might be.
Another main character in the story is a Kiwi (New Zealand) female runner. Will she learn the dedication that is required to become a champion runner after a move to England. There is a wily old hard-core 50+ year old runner who trains to break 2:30 in the marathon and a couple of other American runners who also end up running on the Hampstead Heath and who intertwine their lives with the other main characters.
The book was written by an author well versed in the running sub-culture. The workout times and distances, the races, and the numerous mentions of the the great runners of the 1970s and 1980s add an element of authenticity and delight to the story. I do not want to give away the mysteries of the book. At times, the book sounds like it could have been written recently and at other times you know you are reading a somewhat dated story. None of this detracts from the intricacies of the plot and by the end of the story, all elements start blending together towards the dramatic conclusion making the book extremely difficult to put down until its conclusion.
Without giving away something that happens in the London Marathon at the end of the story, I am extremely curious if that one bit of action was added to the story during a revision based on an actual event that happened at a later Olympic marathon. All in all it is a satisfying read. One, because I know now what The Purple Runner is about and two, it was an entertaining read right to the dramatic end.
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Kevin Durant was spotted rocking a special edition Nike KD 10 What The PE on-court, and that style will be available at select House of Hoops locations today. The sneaker features a mixture of classic designed like the "Aunt Pearl" with White angels wings and floral accents, "Multicolor" and All Star "Santa Monica" on the Flyknit upper, "City Edition" with the Chinese script detailing on the midsole, and others.
Foot Locker's Twitter account, made an announcement saying that this Nike KD 10 What The PE will only drop at three locations today. House of Hoops in Harlem, San Francisco, and Serramonte Center. Always keep it locked to KicksOnFire for the latest in sneaker news, release dates and where to purchase your favorite kicks.
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For weeks, not one television network took the trouble to examine the context in which Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor made the "make policy" and "wise latina" remarks that fed this summer's 24-hour news cycle. I can only imagine how they'll handle footage captured from the forthcoming Modern Warfare 2 in which players unconscionably massacre civilians during a terrorist attack on an airport. If they weren't willing to sit through the Duke University and Berkeley Law School speeches from which Sotomayor's commentary was stripped, they certainly aren't about to play a videogame before using it to tar an entire medium by association.
Of course, without that context it's impossible to come to any worthwhile conclusions (including whether developer Infinity Ward was courageous to include intellectually challenging content that can sustain complicated readings; foolhardy in its assumption that meaningfully violent videogames can come of age in the present reporting climate; or crass in its belief that no press is bad press). It is, however, fair to frame questions. A few that come to my mind include:
Would an alternative approach effectively "establish the depth of evil and the cold-bloodedness of a rogue Russian villain" and "add to the urgency of the player's mission to stop them." What if the scene, for example, cast the players as a counter-terrorist who monitors the massacre while en route to the airport where he will engage the enemy? And what, if anything, will the answer tell us about the differences in reading a novel narrated from a monster's point of view, and in acting monstrously in a videogame where the player presumably has other options?
What happens when the player turns and attacks the terrorists? Do they die, or does the game end then and there (since the story sustains only one outcome and the bad guys need to live in order to play their part in the escape scene at end of the level)? If the latter, must we comply with the terrorists to complete the mission and continue the story? I don't see why not when the character we play is destined to die.
Must we commit mass murder to appreciate the extent of its evil?
Is the scene's ending intended to serve as absolution not only for the character -- a CIA agent complicit in mass murder even should he never fire a shot -- but also for the player who presumably will want to "kill" the part of himself that played such a role?
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Trinity Buoy Wharf in the Docklands, London ... October 2007... paul g. mattiuzzi, ph.d.
paul g. mattiuzzi, ph.d.
can be found on the web at
the psychology resource information system:
and at the blog:
and at:
About this page ...
it's just something
A number of the ideas and perspectives on this page
Lizzy couldn't join me on the day I visited. She was busy registering for classes. But as soon as she saw the pictures, she understood immediately why I wanted to make this journey. Indeed, she has since visited Trinity Buoy Wharf on her own, and she's thinking she might write a paper about it.
More about Container City
The Trinity Buoy Wharf developments are three of a larger group of projects that share the Container City (tm) name. The others can be found at the Container City webpage.
These projects are the work of London's Urban Space Management group (USM), which "is known for the economic renewal of run down or under utilised space for retail, workshop and community uses, in imaginative and cost effective ways."
More about Fatboy's Diner ...
Larry goes on to explain what happened to the stools after that ... Larry publishes regularly in the Journal of the Society of Commercial Archeology.
More examples of container architecture
can be found at the containerbay website
In London, you can catch the Docklands Light Rail Line just across the street from the Tower Underground Station. This rail line will take you to Greenwich, where you can see time and space begin at the prime meridian. If you exit the train at the East India Station - before you get to Greenwich - you will be just a few blocks away from the Container City developments at Trinity Buoy Wharf. All along this rail line, you will notice that this is where the past intersects with the future.
This is an aerial view of Trinity Buoy Wharf and where you can find it on a map ... zoom in for a closer look, or zoom out and scroll to the left to see where it sits relative to the City of London.
On foot, from the East India Station, and just a few blocks from Trinity Bouy Wharf, you will find a modern neighborhood along the Thames.
At Trinity Buoy Wharf, you will find an enclave of old industry mixed with new, alternative architectural design.
If Container City had been constructed in California, it would be described as an exemplar of the "pre-fab modern" design movement. Or at least the funky component of that movement. But in an old city like London, it is understood to represent "post-industrial industrial modernism."
In reality, Container City represents modern industrial housing. It exemplifies housing that is manufactured and affordable, that is modern in design, and that is traditional in its ability to satisfy a need for place and community.
In London, Container City represents a space for artists, a place to live for those who are comfortable living on the edge between old industry and modern design.
This is where you approach: a walled entrance warning you (in the small sign on the right) not to take photos without permission, and welcoming you to enjoy a fifties era diner.
Fatboy's Diner is exactly the type of "working man's" palace that one would expect to see "On the Waterfront." It reminded me of the Fog City Diner (shown here along with others of this type) in San Francisco. This diner was used as a backdrop in the film Sliding Doors with Gweneth Paltrow.
I read somewhere that Trinity Buoy Wharf is home to London's only lighthouse. Although it is certainly an industrial aesthetic, it has an elegant design that speaks to the artistry of the craftsman builder.
The other lighthouse on the site was designed for functionality.
Here you see that this is also where new building modules are being fabricated from cargo containers. Notice that the spaces being created are not confined to the 8' wide dimension of the building block.
And you will notice below that the modules do not confine themselves to their intended purpose, which was to serve as boxes to be stacked efficiently on a ship. What makes these units attractive from a structural perspective is that they were designed to be stacked. Their structural utility and uniformity is what allows for design flexibility.
There are actually three projects at this site. Container City I uses a color scheme that is familiar in applications where steel is exposed to wind, water and rust. It also maintains the cargo container's own aesthetic, celebrating its functional heritage.
Although different in its feel, Container City II is not disconnected or removed from the initial project. It is just across a skywalk.
Visiting Trinity Buoy Wharf on foot and without an invitation means that you will not see what lies behind any of the doors or in any of the living spaces. What you can read and what you will notice, however, is that it is a colony of artists and that their works appear here and there throughout the site.
I think one of the most important design features at Container City is
the use of the round windows. You can find other container structures
that seek to hide their structural heritage. One vendor of container
homes in California dresses them with a pitched roof and shuttered
windows, making them look like little cottages. Instead, they look
like little homes that were made from an old box. The round windows used here
not only provide a contrasting shape, but in this environment, they
evoke the nautical theme. Here, you see a container shelter on a barge that is used as a classroom.
On the day I visited, there was one studio open. Unfortunately, it was closed when I came back to visit. Ordinarily, this is a working space and a space to live, not a curiosity for tourists. There are days when the Wharf is open, but on the day I visited, it had the feel of a private enclave.
I did, however, have the good fortune to strike up a conversation with a young architect who was exiting the Docklands Light Rail at the East India Station as I did. Ted Birch was kind enough to show me his office, which is in the third and most recent development on the Wharf.
Here is another view of the office and a better view of Ted. You can see how spacious and comfortable it feels inside the structures, nothing at all like being in a box, and certainly a space that could form a comfortable living habitat.
Again, notice how effective the round windows are in reducing the otherwise stark angularity of the space. And notice the effect of the light in opening the space up.
The office building has a very clean and modern feel - but not at all sterile in the sense of true modernism. The spaces below are a water feature when not leaking.
Bridging back, from office to home.
This is the path I took when I left. Through an alley with old
industrial shops. Back in time a hundred years, but really no
different at all from where I had been a few minutes before.


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Day 5: 2011 Christmas Tour/
Day 5 of our Christmas tour, and a day that has brought us into a whole new nation. Canada! We passed the border of the two North American countries early in the morning, and were immediately greeted with a strange dichotomy of samenesses and differences. The surroundings were very similar to what we had just come from in Michigan, but then there was that very vague difference of feeling and accent that seems to come along with the coming into a new country. Thoughts of Canadian bacon, Canada dry, Celine Dion, Mark Steyn, Michael Buble, moose, snowy forests, and the French language flitted across our minds as we tried to peer out the foggy frosted windows at this new terrain. We pulled into Heritage Park Alliance Church, where we met our very friendly hosts and hostesses of the day. After loading in, working, sound-checking, and practicing, we hurried to the hotel to get dressed and prepped. Soon we came back to the church for an utterly delicious supper of roasted harvesty foods: sweet butternut squash, roasted mushrooms, carrots, & peppers, rotisserie chicken, and other such delectables.
Thus fed and warmed by good food and hot coffee and tea, we prayed and emerged to a packed house for our first concert in Canada. The room was full of Christmas trees, garlands, wreaths, holly, ornaments, lights, and other accents of red and green, and the atmosphere, coupled with all the Christmas music, was delightful.
After the concert we went out to the tables, where we were able to meet a lot of new Canadians friends, with whom we shared accents, customs, and our kindred similarities. Once the audience had departed to their different abodes, we were fed a bountiful array of berries, cherries, and cheeses, were thus fortified enough to tear down, and returned to the hotel in a heavenly flurry of thick, white snow.
And so ended our first day in Canada, north of the border, south of Detroit. See if you can figure that one out. :) We hope to see you all in Harrisonburg, VA at the Harrisonburg First Church of the Nazarene on December 7 at 7:00 PM! Merry Christmas and Happy Advent!


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RAC – Hollywood ft. Penguin Prison *must-download SMOOTH soundMay 3rd, 2012 by Siegz | Dance, Pop |
Andre Allen Anjos known as RAC (Remix Artist Collective) is up-and-coming producer whose popularity has soared for taking songs and remixing them in a different direction of the song. Now he's releasing something brand new… and originally produced track and guess what, it's SMOOTH as fuck!
With more than 200 remixes to date, along with a Soundcloud community of nearly 12,000 followers, its surprising that, until now, an original single had not yet been released. Green Label Sound approached Anjos about working together and he was ready, "the thing that really sold me was the reputation, you know, with the other songs they've already done. People that I really like have released music on this label, so I'm very proud to be part of that." He also immediately brought up Penguin Prison, "it was such an obvious choice…We like the same things, same chords, same sounds." The two had previously worked together on a track in 2009 ("Worse It Gets") when Penguin Prison liked Anjos' remix so much they actually replaced the original version on the album with it.
Here's RAC's 1st originally produced track featuring Penguin Prison called "Hollywood".
Read more to hear RAC's remix to Penguin Prison's "Worse It Gets" and a 140+ soundcloud stream set of RAC's other remixes.


text: Tune in to Cereal Music this Thursday morning, May 29th at 9:30am for an interview with Spanish conductor Pablo Heras-Casado, principal conductor of the Orchestra of St. Luke's. He joins us to talk about the upcoming New York Philharmonic Biennial, during which he will lead the Orchestra of St. Luke's in two programs titled Circles of Influence: Boulez and Benjamin. To learn more about the NY PHIL Biennial, which runs May 28th to June 7th, go to nyphil.org/biennial.


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The biographical facts are simple and easily told. Alfred Dorn was the only child of an Austrian father and an Alsatian-German mother, both of whom had immigrated to the United States in the teens of the last century.
Dorn was raised and educated in New York, a city where he spent all of his life. His primary residence was in Flushing, a section of Queens County with deep roots in the Dutch colonial past. Like myself, Dorn remembered when all of Queens was still considered part of the geographical whole called "Long Island," and local mail was still addressed in that way. Queens remained partially rural in those days, with stretches of uncleared forest, and even some small farms. Going "into the city" meant only one thing: a trip to Manhattan.
And go to Manhattan he did—Dorn attended The Dwight School on Park Avenue, and then did his undergraduate work at New York University. He remained at the latter college to complete his Ph.D. studies in Renaissance English literature before embarking on the career of a teacher, scholar, and poet. As a graduate student in the late 1940s and early 50s, Dorn was immersed in the then vital artistic and literary life of Greenwich Village and the Washington Square environs of N.Y.U. He studied and wrote, and served as an editor and consultant for several small publications. Most prominent among them was The New Orlando Poetry Series, which he helped to organize and edit, and which always included some of his own work. Dorn also labored strenuously to publish (and publicize) Joseph Tusiani's powerful multi-volume anthology of Italian poetry in translation. Dorn's first two books, Flamenco Dancer and Wine in Stone, appeared in 1959. Today they are collector's items.
Dorn demonstrated even then, as a young man, the innate generosity and helpfulness that marked him as a nurturer of poetic talent. He never refused to read someone's manuscript, or to offer genuine suggestions and commentary. He was naturally congenial and gregarious, almost to the point of whimsicality. Like one of the ebullient and rosy-cheeked characters from Dickens' Pickwick Club, Dorn was of another time—comical, facetious, profoundly verbal, a natural wit and conversationalist, and amiable right down to his marrow. Sometimes, with his flamboyance, high dramatic style, and punctiliousness in dress, he put me in mind of The Wizard of Oz as portrayed by Frank Morgan in the movie, though Dorn had no falsity or humbug about him. He was well read and erudite, and had a connoisseur's taste in painting, classical music, and the fine arts in general.
He could talk on most any subject with an ease that was both assuring and welcoming to his interlocutors—I recall one evening in the early 1990s when the after-dinner conversation at his magnificently appointed home in Flushing touched on the paintings of Archimboldo, the making of the atomic bomb, the music of Bizet's Carmen, Doctor Johnson's trip to the Hebrides, Hart Crane's The Bridge, the proper use of the ablative case, and—I kid you not—whether it was possible to top-load a round into the chamber of a U.S. Army .45. There was certainly even more than the above listing contains, but that's all I can recall after so many years.
One never felt more kindly treated and intellectually stimulated than in his home, where a long dinner and even longer round of coffee and drinks seemed to go by all too quickly. The unfailing courtesy, the high level of discussion, the sheer breadth of Dorn's interests and enthusiasms—all of this made one think "This is what Plato's symposia must have been like; or the conversations at Castiglione's Urbino." You wanted it to go on and on.
And Dorn brought these qualities to his work as a teacher. The little seminars and workshops that he held in the 1980s and 90s served to resuscitate formal poetry at a time when one would have been hard pressed to find anyone in academia who would have deigned to devote attention to it. For what was a purely nominal fee, Dorn labored to bring the techniques and examples of formal poetry to the attention of private students, and more than a few practitioners of the New Formalism owe their skill to his efforts, and to the no-fee contests that he personally sponsored and financed. But like many who give selflessly and generously of themselves, Dorn's only reward was the satisfaction of seeing others produce good work. Never bitter or resentful, he continued as an advisor and mentor, even when ignored or slighted by those who went on to become more well known and honored than himself. His treatment at the hands of the West Chester mafia was nothing short of shameful.
Apart from a long and distinguished teaching career, Dorn served for a time as Vice President of The Poetry Society of America, and for several decades as the Director of The World Order of Narrative and Formalist Poets. There was an irrepressible energy about the man—I recall his seventieth birthday celebration in 1999, held at a Long Island restaurant, where he was the undisputed life of the party. He dominated whatever table he sat at, and seemed as vibrant as a new bridegroom.
His publication record is of a fugitive kind; apart from the two 1959 volumes, there were three others published by Arthur Mortensen at Somers Rocks Press and Pivot Press: Voices from Rooms, From Cells to Mindspace, and Claire and Christmas Village. A small limited edition of his e-book, Visions and Vistas, was published by The New Formalist Press in 2005. Other than this, Dorn's work appeared haphazardly in small magazines, many of them of limited circulation and now gone with the wind. I spent years scouring the internet book search services to dredge up copies of these forgotten magazines in order to save many Dorn poems from oblivion.
The death of his beloved wife Anita in 2005 devastated Dorn, and a long decline and withdrawal from the world began in that year. Despite the efforts of old friends and teaching colleagues, he grew less and less inclined to go out, or even to get dressed and leave his bedroom. Slowly he became what was unthinkable for those of us who knew him in the past—silent and unresponsive. When death came finally, he was but a shell of the talented and energetic poet who had almost single-handedly served as a standard bearer for traditional verse, when po-biz hucksters and on-the-make careerists despised it as passé.
But rather than remember him that way, I prefer to picture Alfred Dorn as he was in 1985, when we first met. I see him in his meticulously tailored suit, carefully dapper with a carnation in his lapel, or perhaps even a cameo, with that magnificent moustache and wavy hair, leaning on one of his elegant walking sticks—all six feet two of him, as svelte and chic as a Parisian boulevardier in the Jardin des Tuileries, or as a dandy in Oscar Wilde's London. He'll be quoting a passage from his beloved Milton or Donne; or talking animatedly about Inigo Jones and masques; or laying down the law about French vintages. We will not see his like again, not in this deracinated and culturally degraded world.
I cannot thank him enough, or repay the debt I owe him. Next to my grandfather, he was my principal lodestar in the art of poetry. All I can do here is quote from the wonderful James Russell Lowell poem "Aladdin," the piece that in 1939, when Dorn was a mere ten years old, set him on the path of versecraft:
When I was a beggarly boy
And lived in a cellar damp,
I had not a friend nor a toy,
But I had Aladdin's lamp;
When I could not sleep for the cold,
I had fire enough in my brain,
And builded, with roofs of gold,
My beautiful castles in Spain!
Alfred, dear friend, you built castle after castle for us—all of them golden, all of them beautiful. Sleep well, and may the earth rest lightly upon you.


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The original plan, when starting this site, was to not include any pre-HDR photos. I've changed my mind. My trip to Romania inspired me to invest more in my camera equipment and I like a lot of the pictures I took there. Today's photo was taken on the way down a mountain headed toward 7 Ladder Gorge with my old Canon Rebel. Topaz Adjust has allowed me to recover some of the details in the shadows and a few extra tweaks (including applying Unsharp Mask, which I never used to use) have allowed me to improve this photo a bit form the original. Going forward, I'll release a few more of my older pictures every once in a while.
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