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What You Missed This Morning photo competition finalists
by: Wade Wallace - January 6, 2014
For those of you just joining us, "What You Missed This Morning" started way back in the early days of this website when I simply wanted to gloat about my morning ride. Since then WYMTM has evolved into a popular hashtag on social media and is our annual photo competition that's held over the Christmas and New Year period.
We have now narrowed down the 7,000 entries into the top
100 ~150 (I couldn't pick only 100!). It was incredibly tough. We had entries from all over the world in some of the most interesting circumstances and places. I hope you had a chance to look at them all, but if not just do a search in instagram or twitter for #WYMTM and you'll see them all there.
But this is a photo competition after all, and we had to choose based on the photos' merits (but extra consideration was given for captions that help tell the story or for riding in appalling conditions!)
Now that we have a manageable pool of quality photos, it's time for you to vote on your favourites so that we can pick a readers' choice winner.
Voting is done by clicking the Facebook Likes underneath each photo. You will have until 11:59pm on Thursday January 9 (AEST) to vote for your favourite images. The photos with the most votes will be the winners of our readers' choice awards and announced on the morning of Friday January 10.
In addition to the readers' choice prizes, there will be two prize categories determined by our panel of judges, Kristof Ramon and Jered Gruber: the Exodus Travel category, and the Jaguar How Alive Are You? category. One winner will be selected in each category.
In order to be eligible for the Jaguar category, you must have submitted your photo via Twitter or Instagram using the hashtag #howaliveareyou in addition to the #WYMTM hashtag.
FinalistsHere are the top entries:
Readers' choice prizes
As already stated, the 'general classification' in the WYMTM photo competition is decided by your votes (i.e. Facebook "likes" underneath each photo). There are five prizes on offer, one for each of the five most popular photos.
Azzurri Forza Pro Ultegra 11 speedRRP: $2,999 This prize has been provided by the good folks at CyclingExpress.com. You can find out more information about the prize here.
2nd Place
Rail 52 carbon wheelset with November hubsRRP: $1,285 For more information about this wheelset, head to the November Bikes website.
3rd place
Santini prize pack: bib shorts, knicks, baselayer and moreRRP $1,079 For more information about Santini Australia, click here.
4th Place
BBB prize pack: 2 x sunglasses, minipump, floor pump and moreRRP: $1,000 For more information about the BBB prize pack, click here.
5th place
Samsung Galaxy Note IIIRRP $930 For more information about the Samsung Galaxy III, click here.
Judges' choice prizes
In addition to the five readers' choice prizes, there will also be two judges' choice prizes available. Photographers Kristof Ramon and Jered Gruber will be subjectively picking their favorite photos from all entries.
Exodus Travel
Kristof Ramon will pick his favourite photo from the competition and the winner will receive a cycling holiday in Sri Lanka courtesy of Exodus Travel.
This prize is valued at $2,646 and does not include flights. More information about this prize can be found here.
Jaguar Australia's #HowAliveAreYou
Jered Gruber will pick one photo from the competition that he deems to be the most inspiring. The winner of this category will receive a Jaguar XF Saloon to drive for a weekend.
To be eligible for this prize you must submit your photo via Twitter or Instagram (i.e. not through the site) and use the hashtag #howaliveareyou. This prize is only available to Australian readers.
Some rulesPlease take a look at the rules and T&C's on this page.
If you're wondering how we narrowed down the top 100 photos, it was highly subjective and relied on a combination of composition, caption, and context. Also, we received many outstanding photos which had duplicate compositions (eg. sun shining through the trees with riders in the foreground, bikes leaning up against fence posts with beautiful vistas in the background). What we did was take the best of those and sadly many of them didn't make it through, as good as they were.
Also, photos that we suspected weren't taken with a camera phone (eg. a GoPro was used often) we couldn't pick - although they were sensational. We had to draw the line somewhere.Good luck and let the voting begin! Voting will close on Thursday January 9 at 11:59pm (AEST) and readers' choice winners will be announced on Friday January 10. The judges awards will be announced on Friday January 10 as well.


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"Yes, God hurts when we do not love Him back, but it's not because He needs us; it is because He knows how badly we need Him."
here is the conclusion of the matter:
Fear God and keep his commandments,
for this is the duty of all mankind
Ecclesiastes 12:13
Word's of solomon, the wisest man on earth!
Good night errbody
Truffle Shuffle!
Ha hey thanks brother! I dig yours too!
Haha man.. That girl drives me crazy.
F*** it. Build a house. 'Well, I was lost. But now I live here! I have severely improved my predicament!'"
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Retail interview questions
Interview questions below can be used for retail manager, retail assistant, retail supervisor etc.
Tips to create retail interview questions by yourself: Identify retail functions, then create tasks for each functions then you can create questions by structure:
1. What are functions of retail? What are tasks that to implement each function?
2. How to do each retail task/function?
3. What are output of each retail task/function?
4. How to measure each task/function?
5. How to control each task/function? etc
Common interview questions for retail position
1. Tell me about your self?
2. What do you like about your present job for retail field?
3. What do you dislike about your present job for retail field?
4. What are your strengths?
5. What is your greatest weakness?
6. Why do you want to leave your current employer?
7. Why have you applied for this particular job for retail field?
Specialized retail interview questions
1. What is good customer service?
2. Why do customers shop at this store?
3. How would you ensure that all the goods and services are being transported properly from wholesale market to retail market?
4. What are you ideas on handling store management?
5. As a Supervisor, how would you plan your financials for your budget?
6. As a supervisor or an employee in wholesale market, what would you do to improve your services for your customers?
7. What previous experience do you have in retail?
8. A customer complains that the coffee tastes terrible, what would you do?
9. A customer leaves without paying for gas, what would you do?
10. A co-worker is rude to customers, what would you do?
11. The credit card machine is broken. What do you say to the customers?
12. As a wholesaler what are the problems you would face in ensuring the commitment to your retail suppliers?
13. Have you had experience of locking up a shop and dealing with stock ordering?
14. Can you tell of a time when you were faced with an angry customer and how you dealt with it?
15. How will you make customers feel welcome in our store?
16. A customer wants to pay for $15 worth of merchandise in quarters, do you accept it?
17. A customer wants to return a package of food that is open and half gone. What will you do?
18. What is most important – a good product or friendly, fast service?
19. You are scheduled to leave at 6 pm. Your replacement worker doesn't show up. What would you do?
20. If you were a wholesaler, how would you choose a retailer to distribute your goods and services?
21. As a supervisor for a wholesale market, what actions would you take to increase the profit?
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The study also found that black patients were prescribed fewer
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Only 20.6 of black patients were prescribed newer dopaminergic
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of white patients. There was no disparity in medication treatment,
however, tied to income and education levels.
"Parkinsonism reduces quality of life and results in disability and premature mortality [death]. The results of this study suggest we need to better understand the cause of parkinsonism and to find remedies for disparate outcomes among patients with parkinsonian disease who are of different backgrounds and means," the researchers concluded.
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Four days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany. At its controls was a 21-year-old pilot. Half his crew lay wounded or dead. It was their first mission. Suddenly, a sleek, dark shape pulled up on the bombers tail—a German Messerschmitt fighter. Worse, the German pilot was an ace, a man able to destroy the American bomber in the squeeze of a trigger. What happened next would defy imagination and later be called the most incredible encounter between enemies in World War II.
This is the true story of the two pilots whose lives collided in the skies that day—the American—2nd Lieutenant Charlie Brown, a former farm boy from West Virginia who came to captain a B-17—and the German—2nd Lieutenant Franz Stigler, a former airline pilot from Bavaria who sought to avoid fighting in World War II.
A Higher Call follows both Charlie and Franzs harrowing missions. Charlie would face takeoffs in English fog over the flaming wreckage of his buddies planes, flak bursts so close they would light his cockpit, and packs of enemy fighters that would circle his plane like sharks. Franz would face sandstorms in the desert, a crash alone at sea, and the spectacle of 1,000 bombers each with eleven guns, waiting for his attack.
Ultimately, Charlie and Franz would stare across the frozen skies at one another. What happened between them, the American 8th Air Force would later classify as top secret." It was an act that Franz could never mention or else face a firing squad. It was the encounter that would haunt both Charlie and Franz for forty years until, as old men, they would search for one another, a last mission that could change their lives forever.
"Military historian and aviation enthusiast Makos, along with WWII biographer Alexander (In the Footsteps of the Band of Brothers), delivers a top-notch narrative of the unlikely encounter between one of Germany's leading fighter aces, Franz Stigler, and the rookie crew of an American bomber in the frigid skies of Germany in December 1943 — upon engaging the already damaged American plane, Stigler had mercy on his enemies and escorted them to safety. Building on the events of that encounter, Makos crafts a multifaceted story, relating the career of Stigler from his first taste of combat in North Africa to his final assignment flying jet fighters in the waning battles of the war in Europe. He also follows American Lt. Charlie Brown and his crew through training and to the successful completion of their combat tour in April 1944. Based on thousands of hours of interviews and an evident knowledge of his subject, Makos details the frantic life of the German fighter pilots living on the edge, and the American bomber crews, far from home, fighting to survive. The book is a riveting story of humanity and mercy set against the ghastly backdrop of war. Agent: Greg Johnson, Wordserve Literary Agency." Publishers Weekly Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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An inspiring walk through World War II history from the national bestselling author of Biggest Brother.
On the eve of the 65th anniversary of the end of the war in Europe, Larry Alexander returns to the very battlefields that made Easy Company a legend. Accompanied by Easy veteran Sgt. Forrest Guth on his final tour, Alexander crosses an ocean and a continent to follow the path to victory taken by the famed Band of Brothers, exploring the living history of the places where they went into action, and revealing what makes their story so meaningful for us to this day.
Part travelogue, part historical perspective, In the Footsteps of the Band of Brothers is an unforgettable memorial to those who shined in our country's finest hour.
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Veterans with a medic certification now can earn an associate's degree in nursing through a new imitative at Collin College.
The Fast Track Program in Nursing will allow veterans with the medic certification or its equivalent to earn an associate degree in as little as three semesters, officials announced Monday.
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Charles Edgen "Pickle" Heathman, age 87, of Pleasant View, died Sunday, March 9th, 2014 at Northcrest Medical Center in Springfield. Funeral mass will be conducted Wednesday, March 12th at 11 o'clock am at St. Michael's Catholic Church with Father Prentice Dean serving as Celebrant. Burial will follow in St. Michael's Cemetery with Matt Heathman, Lee Bracey, Russell Boak, Josh West, Kevin Thompson, and Elmer Heathman serving as pallbearers. Honorary pallbearers will be Robert Justice, Bernard "Pete" Murphy, Mike Bracey, Robert Head, and Dr. Matt Browning. The family will receive friends on Tuesday from 4-8:00PM and again on Wednesday from 9-10:00AM at the funeral home. A Rosary Service will be held at the funeral home at 7:30PM Tuesday.
Mr. Heathman was born October 22, 1926 in Cheatham County, Tennessee to the late Homer and Iva Edgen Heathman. He retired from Genesco after more than 50 years of service and was a U.S. Army veteran having served in the Korean War. He was a communicant of St. Michael's Catholic Church.
In addition to his parents he is preceded in death by his son, Charles Murphy Heathman; brothers, Hilliard and Ralph Heathman; sisters, Mildred Woodson, Julia Glover, and Earline Potts. He is survived by his wife of 64 years, Mary Elizabeth "Pat" Heathman; son, Mark (Cathy) Heathman of Springfield; daughter, Diane (Mike) Bracey of Ashland City; daughter-in-law, Myra Heathman of Pleasant View; grandchildren; Shelly (Kevin) Thompson, Leslie (Russell) Boak, Kim (Josh) West, Matt Heathman, Lee (Laura) Bracey; and great-grandchildren, Parker, Kala, & Shelby Thompson and Adam & Lucas Boak.
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What Makes a Great Community?
My latest post is online at GoLocalProv and is called "What Makes a Great Community?" This one goes beyond the Providence specific to take a look generally at what makes a great place to live. I discuss the debates over what metrics to look at, as well as the emotional and cultural appeal of place. Here's an excerpt:
There appear to be two fundamentally different views of what makes a successful community, the "horizontal" model and the "vertical" model. The horizontal model focuses on quantitative metrics like population and job growth. The vertical model emphasizes qualitative ones like per capita income or GDP.
Unsurprisingly, cities tend to fall into one or the other of these categories. And the partisans of the different models tend to be very vocal about their "team." Vertical success cities include Boston, New York, and San Francisco. Horizontal success cities include Dallas, Charlotte, and Nashville.
The people, culture, and lifestyle, things that are difficult to quantify and capture in ranking systems, are what distinguish most of New England. But exactly what it is about these can be frustratingly difficult to articulate. I have found this to be the case almost everywhere. For example, I am from the Midwest. Most of the Midwest has a rather plain vanilla reputation and most cities there find it almost impossible to describe themselves other than with platitudes like "a great place to raise a family" or "big city amenities without the price tag and hassles." But go to say Ohio and visit Cincinnati, Columbus, and Cleveland and you will experience three radically different places. Yet is hard to really describe the uniqueness of each one. I know it when I experience it, but it's hard to articulate.
I have found this similarly to be the case in much of New England. Where I live in Rhode Island, I hear people describe its best assets as the coast, the food, the fact that everything is close, and the historic architecture. The coast is very nice, I agree. But to be blunt I don't find the other three items very compelling. They are nice things, but not overwhelming distinctives.
This is a difficult problem. Not because of anything unique to the community or New England, but because it's a hard problem generally for places that are not used to being introspective. Lots of places struggle with it. Almost everyplace struggles with it to be honest. It requires digging deep into the local soil. It's like going on an anthropology or archeology expedition.
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Great for whom? Beyond some very basic measures like really high violent crime or massive unemployment it's very hard to quantify.
The Berlin video showed a place that likely doesn't look so good by most standard measures, but has been chosen by tens of thousands of artists and creatives as the best relative choice. Does Portland, Oregon measure very well by standards like per-capita GDP? It's famous for underemployment, but still has a pull.
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Choice. A place can't be great unless there are meaningfully different ways of living, working, and socializing.
The other big problem is that in many cases the unemployment and income numbers don't give an accurate view of what's really going on.
In spite of the vast flows of immigrants and underground economy- Aaron rarely mentions the informal sector in his posts.
My total experience in NY was about living with people hustling at the margins of law- off the books income, informal sublets, Illegal loft conversions (Often successful people live that way). In that context, population stats can't be accurate.
I think people are finally questioning the Fed's "job" statistics which counts people working 1 hour a week as employed.
I understand Aaron's interest in quantifying things but he needs a better grip on the truth behind the numbers.
What I mean is that in many dynamic places, the important things that are driving a local economy are poorly captured in the numbers- or at least the official numbers.
I always laugh at people using 5- 10 year old census data to understand NY neighborhoods they could walk around.
Paul Lindemeyer says:
We lack the language to talk about cities in terms of anything but numbers. The hearts of cities are about undefinables like culture, and unmentionables like class and ethnicity.
Aaron M. Renn says:
@John Morris,
I think the informal economy is important and teaches us a lot about what we could accomplish if we got some of these regs out of the way. And of course there's a place for observational surveys. I've always said you can tell a lot about a city just by looking around.
The problem is that when you start doing analysis by anecdote, the temptation to cherry pick in a way biased towards favored outcomes is overwhelming. In fact, I think that when communities start rejecting or challenging government data, that's generally a huge danger sign. We absolutely need to include hard data, imperfect though it may be.
Imperfect "hard data" is often worse than no numbers at all.
I am not advocating analysis by anecdote, but you rarely even include caveats.
As you no doubt know, a number like GDP only measures current spending/ cash flowing through an economy which could be based on sustainable investment or government induced mal-investment or transfers. Las Vegas, Phoenix and The Inland Empire looked great by the numbers right up until the bubble burst and they looked really bad.
More importantly, official data usually underplays really important social changes, new industries and turning points.
It was the fetish for surface prettiness and easy answers that lead to the destruction of Pittsburgh's Hill District or The South Bronx. Often urban "renewal" projects gave a "boost" to GNP as would digging a trench or hole to China. Only wise people willing to look at the details saw the disaster in the making.
And yes, 10 year old census data in rapidly changing cities is pure garbage.
Sorry, but the increasing trend of government putting out self serving and willfully distorted figures is too strong to ignore.
Charles Biderman of Trim Tabs has done a good job at hacking away at garbage data.
Here's Biderman talking about garbage government retail sales data which amazingly is based on very small sample polling.
"The US Census Bureau mails surveys to a mere 5,000 retailers and from the responses mailed back guesses at the fraction of a percent change in month to month retail activity. Wow! One would think that the Census people never heard of credit, debit and cash cards. Actual cash is much less than 10% of sales these days and I would rather have all the credit and debit card data than a survey of 5,000 outfits, wouldn't you? Believe it or not, Master Card and Visa sell their data to the public and I am sure all would give summary data to the government, if asked."
Other data like the employment numbers relies on "black-box" adjustment assumptions. The BLS still doesn't show it makes them.
No surprise that people who believe much of this garbage are shocked when tax reciepts don't match with official data.
Ziggy says:
Matthew Hall nailed it – having choices a significant differentiator for cities, neighborhoods and business districts. Communities without the public and private resources to affect meaningful change are at a severe disadvantage from those that do.
Having choices does not ensure a great place. But great places cannot exist without the ability to choose strategies based on the "tyranny of the marketplace."
Corrinn says:
This post has got me wondering…I'm not sure which category Chicago would fall into. I think it is difficult because large cities tend to be fragmented (usually by neighborhoods). So the qualities that may make one area of the city a "great" place to live, may not be existent in another.
To a certain extent I would like for my neighborhood – which many would consider a not so great place to live, whether you look at it from a horizontal or vertical model – to have both. I want more opportunities for all groups of people to improve their livelihoods. The dilemma is where to start? Do we focus on improving urban communities vertically, hoping that higher income, white-collar professionals will help improve qualities like education, crime, etc.? Or do we start with the horizontal model in hopes of reducing the ills of poverty and violence?
I know there isn't any right or wrong answer, I'm mostly just thinking aloud. Good post.
I think when this choice comes up in a big way in a large metro area it is failing.
At what point does the contradiction crack the foundations? NY for example was once both a good place to make art and a good place to sell it. Now, as more artists and grass roots dealers close or leave, it's only a good place to sell some very established art and more people are wondering about that.
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|Dodge Charger R/T
Toretto driving the R/T
|1970 Charger R/T
|Dominic Toretto, Brian O'Connor, Hayley Marshall
|Crashed into a semi truck (First Film), then crashed into a wall destroying it (Fourth Film), Dom's Classic Charger was Destroyed by Hobbs Armored Truck and one of the twin black chargers was destroyed by the vault (in the Fifth Film)
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Rescuing Dom from Prison Transport
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The Dodge Charger R/T is the main car that Dominic Toretto drives in the series. It has been destroyed and rebuilt and then destroyed again. The Charger made a return in the fifth film. The classic and the newer version appeared. A Charger Daytona appeared in the sixth installment of the series.
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Dom has a 1970 Classic Dodge Charger that used to belong to his father. Dom says that he and his father built it together when he was young. The car is famed for its incredible power at 900hp and holding a record 1/4 mile time at just nine seconds flat, set by Dom's father. Years ago Dom's Father was forced into a wall at 120mph and killed while racing the car, causing Dom to fear the Charger. However, after he finds out Brian's a cop he gets up the nerve to drive it, but is interrupted when Brian shows up. When Johnny Tran does a drive by and kills Jesse, a pursuit starts with Brian and Dom chasing after him. When Johnny is killed Brian and Dom meet up at a red light ready to race. They race a quarter mile nearly being wrecked by a train; after everything looks fine Dom accidentally runs into a semi truck. This sends him and his car airborne and totals his charger.
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The 1970 Charger is partially rebuilt by Dom's girlfriend Letty before her presumed death. After mourning over her death, Dom finishes rebuilding the car. When they go to capture Braga a big chase starts when Braga's entire crew goes after Brian & Dom. During the chase they enter a tunnel; Dom is then boxed in and is about to crash into a wall; he then jumps into the car next to him and the Charger crashes into the wall, violently bursting into flames. Towards the end of the film, the Charger R/T is revealed again in mint condition with Brian behind the wheel as he, Mia, Tego and Rico make an attempt to rescue Dom off of a bus en route to a penitentiary.
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At the start of the film(in continuation of the last film), Brian drives the R/T in front of a prison bus with Dom onboard and suddenly brakes; causing the bus to crash into the rear of the Charger and violently flipping the bus, in what aids and abets Dom's escape. Dom uses the Charger to drive to Rio. The Charger R/T is seen again on the Rio racing scene and was used to win an off-screen pink slip race for a Porsche 996 GT3 RS. Dom's Classic Charger is later destroyed by Agent Hobb's armored car.
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The Charger R/T returns in Fast & Furious 6, in the form of a scale model, which is given to Jack. The scale model is an exact replication of the original Charger R/T that was used in the films series' first film.
- Dominic's original Charger R/T is used by some of his friends as his contact image.
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AUSTIN, TX (KTRK) — It's a neighborhood that could set to trend for others in the future. It's helping companies look at the use of energy. Several folks in Austin are now part of this study, so we went to see how it may help people save money in the future. In an idyllic neighborhood in the middle of Austin, Grant Fisher is playing the perfect guinea pig.
"I'm passionate about the research they're doing. I think it's going to have a lot of long-lasting implications," he said. Fisher is part of what's called the Pecan Street Project. It's an effort, that in part, studies how people use energy. "Right now, we're producing 1.24 kilowatts, right now," Fisher said.
As part of the study, Fisher put large solar panels on the roof of his house. "We actually don't have an electric bill. Nine months out of the year, we actually sell power back to Austin Energy," Fisher said.
Fisher, though, is not the only guinea pig on his street or his neighborhood. An incredible one in three homes here have solar panels and are part of the Pecan Street Project.
"The people in our research trials, like this one, the best and another one that we're going with that are smaller," said Brewster McCracken, who runs Pecan Street. McCracken says their research helps companies figure out the best way to market and sell emerging technology, most of which has an energy-related component.
"We're working with these companies and real customers to find out what it is that people like enough that they'll go spend their own dollars buying," McCracken said.
To that end, Pecan Street gave homeowners an average of $2,500 towards the purchase of their solar panels, which can cost up to $25,000 but with rebates can pay for themselves in as little as five years. They also give up to $7,500 to purchase electric cars. But it's more than about money.
To be successful, Pecan Street picked a specific trial community — Mueller, which is on the site of the old Austin airport. It's a place designed to encourage green living with large parks and sidewalks and nearby shopping.
"All in all, it's great for the world. It's an environmental impact, but it's also from a sense of community, a sense of health and sustainability, it's a smart thing," said.
Smart enough that Pecan Street knows when and how much electricity Fisher is creating and using. He's already adjusted his habits.
"Honestly, my A/C is only 40 percent of my bill and so everything else was 60 percent. It wasn't any one particular thing. It was just a lot of little things," Fisher said. They're little things that will someday help all of us conserve or better use energy in our homes — long after Fisher's guinea pig days are over.


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Buddhism in Russia
Duration: 03:21
Tibetan Buddhism is found in southern Russia. This clip offers a brief examination of how Buddhist belief and practice have survived persecution in this part of the world.
Buddhist beliefs (pt 1/2)
Duration: 01:49
An introduction to key beliefs of Buddhism.
Buddhist beliefs (pt 2/2)
Duration: 03:47
Ordination day in a Buddhist temple in Bangkok, Thailand.
Buddhist beliefs about suffering
An introduction to Buddhist beliefs about suffering.
Buddhist prayer and meditation
Duration: 04:36
See how Buddhists pray by following a group of school children visiting a monastery, as they find out about life as a Buddhist.
Buddhist rituals
Duration: 02:35
Novice monks at a Shingon Buddhist monastery in Japan practice their austere daily routines of meditation and prayer.
Buddhist view of Karma
Duration: 2:52
A visit to an island community demonstrates Buddhist teachings about interconnectedness and karma.
Expressing spirituality
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A Buddhist visual artist works with students to explore the life of Buddha to identify the 'turning point' of the story creatively.
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Martin Becomes a monk
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A young monk explains the difference Buddhism has made to him and talks about the importance of prayer and worship.
Meditation for Buddhists
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The purposes, technique and challenges of Buddhist meditation are introduced.
Ruth prepares to move
Duration: 2:40
Ruth explains how she is preparing to move from her Buddhist primary school to a high school and how her faith helps her.
The Story of Prince Siddhartha, founder of Buddhism
Duration: 3:49
Prince Siddhartha leaves the comfort of the palace and sees 'Four Sights' that will set him on a journey to discover the meaning of life.
The story of the mustard seed
Duration: 01:52
The story of the mustard seed demonstrates that death and suffering is everywhere, but so is the chance to change and find happiness.
Tibetan Buddhist beliefs about life after death (pt 1/2)
Duration: 02:45
An exploration of Tibetan Buddhist beliefs about life after death.
Tibetan Buddhist beliefs about life after death (pt 2/2)
Duration: 04:17
An exploration of Tibetan Buddhist beliefs about life after death.
You shall have no other gods before me
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A reflection by a Buddhist on the commandment 'You shall have no other gods before me'.
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Hooray for our batch outing! 😸😹😊 #batch2012 #jtvcluster #happiness #100happydays #day18 (at Casa Primera Hot Spring Resort)
Hooray for our batch outing! 😸😹😊 #batch2012 #jtvcluster #happiness #100happydays #day18 (at Casa Primera Hot Spring Resort)
Selfie with Sycip. Tumalikod sya sayang. :( Hahahaha. 😊😊😊 (at SGV & Co.)
Verse for the day. 😊🌞 Have a blessed day! 😊
The 1975 <3
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"It was probably nothing but it felt like the world."
Morrissey, Autobiography (p. 141)
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"Any darn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple."
Albert Einstein
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- Palagi mong tatandaan na ang "You complete me" ay isang figure of speech lang. Hindi mo kayang kumpletuhin ang kabuuan ng isang tao. Mas okay pang sabihin na "You make me feel complete" para hindi korny.
- Sa isang relasyon, iwasan mong makipagtalo. Pakikipagtalo ang tawag dyan dahil sa huli, ikaw…
"Whoever is happy will make others happy, too."
Mark Twain
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"Have you ever thought that you meant a lot to someone and then suddenly, it turns out they just played you all along?"
"Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't."
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
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I can hold my breath
I can bite my tongue
I can stay awake for days
If that's what you want
Be your number one
I can fake a smile
I can force a laugh
I can dance and play the part
If that's what you ask
Give you all I am
I can do it
I can do it
I can do it
But I'm only human
And I bleed when I fall down
I'm only human
And I crash and I break down
Your words in my head, knives in my heart
You build me up and then I fall apart
I'm only human, yeah
I can turn it on
Be a good machine
I can hold the weight of worlds
If that's what you need
Be your everything
I can do it
I can do it
I'll get through it
But I'm only human
And I bleed when I fall down
I'm only human
And I crash and I break down
Your words in my head, knives in my heart
You build me up and then I fall apart
I'm only human, yeah
I'm only human
I'm only human
Just a little human
I can take so much
Until I've had enough
'Cause I'm only human
And I bleed when I fall down
I'm only human
And I crash and I break down
Your words in my head, knives in my heart
You build me up and then I fall apart
'Cause I'm only human, yeah.
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
Write, for example, 'The night is shattered
and the blue stars shiver in the distance.'
The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
Through nights like this one I held her in my arms
I kissed her again and again under the endless sky.
She loved me sometimes, and I loved her too.
How could one not have loved her great still eyes.
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her.
To hear the immense night, still more immense without her.
And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture.
What does it matter that my love could not keep her.
The night is shattered and she is not with me.
This is all. In the distance someone is singing. In the distance.
My soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.
My sight searches for her as though to go to her.
My heart looks for her, and she is not with me.
The same night whitening the same trees.
We, of that time, are no longer the same.
I no longer love her, that's certain, but how I loved her.
My voice tried to find the wind to touch her hearing.
Another's. She will be another's. Like my kisses before.
Her voice. Her bright body. Her infinite eyes.
I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her.
Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
Because through nights like this one I held her in my arms
my soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.
Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer
and these the last verses that I write for her.
- Pablo Neruda
Pen in hand. Ink on paper. Clammy hands try to shakily scrawl an avalanche of thoughts…
Words, struggling with words. Empty sentences, incomplete phrases, overlapping ideas…
I stop. Emotions, sickening emotions rampantly crush my insides.
I await the suffocating tide of jealousy… slow, then all at once.
I drop my pen. I could no longer write.
But now my mind beckons to be heard.
I love you. Unspoken words, incessantly nagging at the back of my head.
Longing to be spoken out loud, to be felt, to be reciprocated.
I look across and see the expression of joy painted on that face.
I stop. I cringe inwardly. My heart dies.
T'was not me behind that smile. T'was not me who brought joy.
All that this will ever be is a memory, immortalized in words.
|Shift letter para intense na, with effrot pa
|I love you =) :
|May smiley para cute hihi
|♪ ♫ I love you ♪ ♫ :
|Kinanta ko para hindi boring
|I love you:
|Simple present tense kasi permanent
|I love You:
|Capital 'Y' kasi proper noun
|I have loved you since I-don't-know :
|Present perfect tense kasi at present, my love for you is perfect
|I am loving you:
|Present progressive tense kasi tuloy-tuloy lang
|I do love you :
|May "do" para may emphasis
|I looovee youuu oohh:
|Malandi para seductive
|Er lerv yer:
|Conyo para sossy
|I love you with eyeliner:
|para emo...
|I love you with eyes closed:
|kasi damang-dama ko
|I love you with eyes wide open:
|kasi kitang-kita kong mahal kita
|Walang space para wala nang sisingit
|I love you! :
|May exclamation point kasi strong feeling
|I love you I love I love you :
|Walang comma kasi walang pahinga
|I love you. :
|May period kasi wala ng kasunod. Ito lang 'yun.
|I love you :
|Walang period kasi hindi ito matatapos.
|Aku cinta padamu:
|Malay ito kasi may malay man ako o wala, mahal kita
|Miluji tě:
|Czech ito kasi ang pag-ibig ko sa'yo ay Czech na Czech
|Te Amo:
|Italian ito kasi gusto ko sa'yo itong ITALY.
|Je t'aime:
|French kasi nasa iyo ang ka-PARIS
|Sarang Heyo:
|Korean para tumagos sa iyong SEOUL
|I love you:
|English para maintindihan ng buong mundo
|Mahal kita:
|Tagalog para maintindihan mo
|asdfghjkl :
|Hindi mo maintindihan, at hindi ko rin maintindihan, kasi ang pag-ibig ko sa'yo--hindi ko maintindihan
|Kiss na lang kasi sabi nila, "Actions speak louder than words."


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Can you guess what one of these naughty Koalas is up to?
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Location: Tasmania, Australia | Leaked: Dec-24-2011 in WTF, Other Entertainment
The first confirmed footage of a THYLACINE, thought to be extinct since 1936!
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Location: Tasmania, Australia | Leaked: Dec-15-2011 in Other Entertainment, Other
Screaming Tasmanian Devils
Arriving at the East Coast Natureworld wildlife park in Bicheno, Tasmania BEFORE feeding time for these feisty Tasmanian Devils-- that screaming sent chills up our spines! Not to worry, they were in
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Leaked: Dec-11-2011 in Creative, Other Entertainment
When a kangaroo stops hopping, its butt starts popping!
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Location: Tasmania, Australia | Leaked: Dec-10-2011 in WTF, Other Entertainment
Kangaroo Nursing Baby Joey!!!
Mama kanga and her baby roo spending a lazy afternoon together!
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Location: Tasmania, Australia | Leaked: Dec-7-2011 in Creative, Other Entertainment
Disappearing Baby Joey Kangaroo!!!
While at at Wildlife Park out in Bicheno, this little joey decided he wasn't too keen to be seen!
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Location: Tasmania, Australia | Leaked: Nov-25-2011 in Other Entertainment
Sugar glider finds a new home
My sugar glider --(fly boy)-- got out of his cage, I found him here...
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Location: Florida, United States | Leaked: Jul-8-2011 in Other Items from Liveleakers
Possum Gives Birth On Toronto Stoop
Cameras captured a mother possum giving birth early Tuesday on a door step at Parliament and Gerrard streets. Police stood by to observe the process. Possums are North America's only marsupial.
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The marsupial is native to Australia
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Kangaroo Evades Pasco County, FL Sherriffs for Hours
Reports state that the kangaroo was NOT from a nearby kangaroo farm. WTF? Published on Jun 3, 2013 Kangaroo Marsupial Melee Bystander And Cops Jump 250 lb Beast After Drugs Kick In
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Zero Dark Thirty actor Julian Lewis Jones saves drowning wallaby
Heaps of crocs in those waters. The struggling marsupial was treading water near Weed Reef when it was spotted by a camera crew filming a British fishing documentary. Julian Lewis Jones, who appear
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Scientists Want to Bring Some Animals Back from Extinction
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Slightly Off
Hey, I'm going to hope everyone who's following me or hopes to keep in touch with me reads this. I made a new tumblr blog. This one seems to have attracted quite a bit of useless junk and I felt like I needed to shed the old skin and feel reborn. I guess this is my madonna phase, but anyway. Here's the new tumblr:
You're welcome to follow me or not.
All my love, Slightly.
Its not really a secret, I've got some big animals in my life, and I'm not just talking about my pets.
If you still remember, an ex girlfriend named Dana(who left us around the time we started getting to know Regina), was in some sorts a very spiritual woman.
Sometimes I do regret what happened between her and I considering the problems I've been having recently but she doesn't want to forgive me or Bryan for what happened.
When we were together though, she had told me and Josh that we had 'split souls'.
I won't go into details on Josh's but that one of them, Reaper, is a wolf in nature.
My splits consist of Scarlette(A fairy), Midnight(A wolf), and Mavrick(An unknown).
The reason Josh and I were attracted to eachother back at the lake was because we both knew eachother was different(he was more receptive to it than myself of course).
Most recently, I've been talking to another wolf on Okcupid who has been serving as my councellor since the incident with my Dad. Since then I've vented, cried, vented some more and yelled all about my feelings to anyone who had the misfortune of passing by. One of the things the wolf had mentioned though, was that I was holding onto a fantasy. That it was clear my father has no respect for me and no love for me. Me clinging to the idea that I could have my dad back was doing nothing but hurting myself. I've been slowly rebuilding myself and finding joy in my life without him in it. I've been content with the one-two words he says to me as he waddles back to his bedroom for more pain pills.
Dana had also said that Bryan had some very wolf-like qualities but that they weren't as prominant as mine and Josh's. I think its becoming more and more vivid as his mind is changing though.
Both of them have been so good to me, its hard to believe we've been doing this for almost a year. As a side note though, our family is growing. I found out I was pregnant on 12|12|12(Right? Thats never going to happen again! lol) and the nurse has estimated that right now I'm about 6-7 weeks along in my pregnancy.
I've gotten so much love and support from the boys and my closest friends and I know I'll never have to face this alone.
More recently, Jacob has been officially removed from my life. I came to the realization that I don't need his negativity or his hate toward me and since I started my relationship with Josh, Jacob has done nothing but bully me around. Finding out I was pregnant was the last straw for him. He expressed extreme jealousy because I will be taking a paternity test when the baby is born to discover which of the boys is the biological father and because its proof that I was having sex with someone other than him. He was clearly dillusional and his words hurt me so much that I found myself crying alone in my bed. Josh jumped to my aid and went after Jacob on facebook and I deleted/blocked his profile from my own. This however, didn't stop him from making a second AND a third facebook profile to continue the harassment. His final message was the most hurtfull and looking back at it, I'm genuinely happy I've erased him from my future. He was not good for me at all.
On another note, and this is the last one, some time back me and the boys were out shopping. I know I was the only one in the group that noticed her and meeting her eyes, seeing her smile just once, made me feel so good about everything that had been going on. I was so afraid to say anything and I kept it to myself. Tonight my curiosity spiked and I noticed she is still following my blog here on tumblr. I went further, reading over her most recent posts and I'm happy to know she's doing so well for herself. Something bubbled in my stomache when I saw her post about seeing me at the store as well. I couldn't help but grin ear to ear and part of me knows, she'll see this, she'll know. I don't think I could ever stop caring about her, what happened in the past stung so hard, she was the first girl I actually fell for, she was something so much deeper than the dirty shows in front of horny boyfriends. All the same, it was the past and I've been able to forgive her, I know that her actions were based on her illness and not being able to take her antidepressants and I've moved on. She's made it clear that she's moved on as well and I'm happy that she's happy. Her life is her own and more than anything, I'm proud of her for thinking of herself and doing what makes her feel wonderfull. I hope she knows, I'm doing the same, then maybe, we can be eachother's passing blurs, shadows behind the isles at the grocery store, always somehow touched by eachothers presence yet never aware of the effect until so much later.
Thats everything though, all balled up into one big snuggley me!
Always, Slightly
Okay, so here's the most recent low-down.
Things are… okay, I guess. I think.. I hope. <3
My Parents:
My parents fight, its a normal reaction to being a couple I think. My dad is a horrible person and everybody already knew it but recently he got a hold of my mom and beat the shit out of her. There's no pretty way to say it, she looked really rough. He reached a point where he was showing up at her work to harass her which was embarassing and frightening.
This was when I saw some good men's true colors. I know for a fact that if I hadn't have pushed him away, Josh would have ripped my dad apart. To be honest, I wanted to too. At the time though, I felt like I had something to prove I guess. I wanted to prove that we were human, that we could be better than what we wanted to show in that moment if anger. Long story short, she got a restraining order against my dad, me and the boys moved in to help her and not long after, dad moved back in as well. He's mentioned that he prefers it with me and the boys living here(regardless of all the nasty words he called me before regarding my relationships). He keeps saying that he and I are exactly the same. I think it may be because he still believes that I am cheating on Bryan with Josh. Even though I've told him that its consensual, that the boys have had other relationships and none of us consider it cheating, it seems a bit stretched for him to believe it.
So far, he's been under control. He and Mom have patched things up and they both know I don't think I have it in me to hold Josh back should the mood strike again.
Bryan(My husband) has gotten a new job working at a 24 hr casino. The pay is good considering the amount of work he's doing and he seems to be making friends. He had an interest in a girl named Crystal but found out that she had a boyfriend and dropped the interest. The only thing I don't like about him working there is the 10 hr late night shifts and the distance we have to drive. He usually leaves in the afternoon-evening hours when everyone else is off work and need the truck(thus I take him to work), and then he gets off work in the wee hours of the morning, usually 2am-4am ish. The problem? I've gotten to where I'm tired and ready for bed at 10pm. -_-; Everyone else works early day shifts and aren't able to go get him, thus I have to stay up long past my bedtime and drive a far distance down a two-lane highway with no streetlights. -___-; So far I've managed to be safe, trying to stay up later at night but it doesn't work, I still get up in the AM.
Josh(My Boyfriend) has managed to strike out with four different women in a matter of weeks, two of which were my best friends.
Part of me knows the reason those two denied him were because of me, they don't want to see me as competition and they don't like the idea of being 'secondary'. I should feel bad, I did nothing to console those thoughts in them. Rachel had been in the midst of a horrible breakup and Sherrita's husband had just left her… Both of them have started up their relationships with their original significant others(Which I knew was going to happen due to their track record and warned Josh about this). He and I have talked it over, he feels like he doesn't want another romantic relationship, he wants a 'fuck-buddy', just that no one seems to have that sort of attraction to him. He knows I consider him on equal footing with Bryan and that they are both my 'primaries', but he doesn't like the idea of having some sort of ceremony to show dedication to eachother like a wedding. I've opted that he and I get matching tattoos. I've never had a tattoo before and I'm scared out of my mind, but I love the idea of security to eachother. We've agreed that its going to be a Beetles lyric but which one hasn't been decided yet. The more I think about it the better I feel. Its something that can't be stolen or misplaced, its eternal like us.
I've tried discussing something of that nature for Bryan as well. He's very against getting a tatto(which is fine) and neither of us ever had an official wedding ring before(at the courthouse he put a plastic silver ring on my finger). He seems just more apt to agree with everything I say instead of giving me his opinion which I find upsetting. I don't think he likes it that Josh and I are getting tattoos but when I try to talk about it with him he pushes me away.
Since the incident with my Dad I've wanted to talk to a counselor. I know its mostly for me, I know that I'm still very angry with him. I've talked to my mom about it but she seems to have misplaced the idea in the shuffle of things and I feel bad that the whole situation is just a flicker of the past as opposed to proof that something needs to be fixed. I shouldn't hate my father the way I do. I know there was a time, years ago, when we got along, actually had some sort of friendship but now its just gone. I want to forgive him, not just for what he did to mom but for everything, my ruined childhood, the bowls of cereal thrown at me as punishment for staying home sick from school, the people migrating in and out of the house and the phones ringing at all hours of the night. The barely dressed women and the locked doors. I just want to feel like I have a father again but it doesn't seem like that is going to happen anytime soon. There's a long list of things that he's done to me and I'm not sure I'm ready to forgive him for everything.
There's no telling what all I've blocked out.
As for the DD/lg part of mine and Bryan's relationship, it seems to be on hold, mostly because we're living with my parents and there's little-no privacy and with his new job, time is limited.
I am now, however, unemployed. I'm in charge of the money on my triad's corner of the house/finances and playing stay at home wife with my Dad. We don't talk though, maybe one or two words in passing but thats what our relationship has turned into.
That's pretty much everything though, since my last post at least.
Thanksgiving was great, I had turkey with jalepeno butter for the first time and it knocked me on my ass, drank rum, got sick and went black friday shopping where Bryan got me an art set with his tip money, as well as a diary without lines. Hopefully I can start venting some of these feelings in ways that words can't describe.
Always, Slightly.
I have been thinking about it for some time now.
Bryan and I don't play as often as I would like so I've been definately trying to bring my "little" self into more conversations. I really don't know how else to talk about my little self without referring to her as a seperate entity, because to me, she is. She is not who I present myself as in the public world.
To everyone else I am a full grown adult, I drink alchohol on occaision, I kiss my boyfriend goodnight, I clean, cook and drive cars. Granted these things are done out of a basic progression.
Then its like, I switch brains. I put on my pink rimmed glasses and I'm not the same person I was before. I get excited about toys and stuffed animals. I want to sit on a bed that is much bigger than myself(ae "Daddy's bed") and color in my coloring books. I don't answer to my real name when I wear those glasses, when I have her brain in my head, I'm not the same.
Don't get me wrong, both versions of myself come completely naturally to me. I don't have to force myself into either headspace and it helps that I'm relatively immature as an adult, I think.
There really isn't a purpose to this post though, just getting it out I guess. It was on my mind, I was curious if others felt that way about changing headspaces, if there are different perceptions from inside the fetish community. Other people who just experience a different flavor of being daddy's/mommy's little girl/boy/pet/angel/brat or whatever you come out as.
You're wise beyond your years Charlie Brown.
Children shouldn't be plagued with thoughts like this.
(via vanity-gifs)
Anonymous said: I actually saw it on your facebook page and was curious
Ahh, you're on my facebook?
If you're referring to the secret that a close friend recently took to his grave I'm afraid I can't give you the details of it. All I can really say is it was a deal made between the two of us when I was very lost to my own mind.
He made it a point to keep it private and it would be an insult to him if I were to release its intimates.
Perhaps I would be willing to tell you more on the matter if you came off of Anonymous, considering I only keep the trusted few on my facebook page.
Anonymous said: heard you learned a secret will you share with us
That depends very greatly on who you heard from about me learning a secret. I love sharing secrets dear anon, but I have so many, I need to keep my story straight. ;]
She turned her radio up higher in her dorm, dancing in a t-shirt and her underwear.
Anonymous said: Are you still giving out cuddles? I need one so bad right now.
Dearest anon, I am always giving cuddles. ;] The weather recently is definately cause for some comfy snuggles, I understand your plight.
Anonymous said: Call me Sarah, I think you should try to talk to her and see if it was a misunderstanding girls (being one myself) sometimes say things cause they don't want to deal with it you've given her space maybe see whats really going on put her under a microscope thingie and make her tell you the truth I had my ex do that and I was surprised
Sarah, I appriciate the advice but I'm afraid I've crossed too many lines with her. The last thing I would want to do is pressure her into something that she doesn't want. I know sometimes there just aren't words to describe the mind yet(living with boys, I can understand that). She's made it very clear to me though that she wants nothing to do with me, deep down though I just wish she could forgive me. We don't have to be together if she doesn't want to be, I know she can find happiness elsewhere and she doesn't need me, I just never felt the closure of it ya know?
Always, Slightly.
Watching Vier sing/dance Numa Numa to Josh in both English AND Romanian.
This is a wonderfull evening.
Anonymous said: You say you like this girl you speak of then why does she have to ask to have time with you and be with when you clearly live with the other people and you see them all the time?
She would never have had to 'ask' for time to be with me. Our schedules were simply conflicting and without a phone or internet at home, our communication time was limited as is. All I ever wanted was for her to tell me when she wasn't happy. My focus had to be on other things, at the time my grandfather was dying, I was working extra shifts(thus I could not see the boys 'all the time' as you put it) and gas money/transportation was running short. It was a tight month for everyone. I just needed her to understand that I couldn't/still can't, read her mind. I kept up with her facebook posts and made it a point to know she was okay and how her illness was affecting her but outside of that I was constantly running. I just feel like the whole thing was a misunderstanding that could have been fixed and now that I've seen her other blog, I know the truth of why she dumped me and how she didn't believe anything I said when I poured my heart out to her. All thats left now is a memory, a painfull memory that I wish could have gone a different direction, but I can't change the past, I refuse to judge her or hate her for her choice and I know that her feelings for me now are brutal and vicious. I hope that answered your question anon, I know I sort of vented and for that I apologize, it just struck a chord in me and saying 'scheduling errors' didn't seem to do the situation, or her, justice.
She's just the perfect girl and I'm just a whore.
Always, Slightly.


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I find it fascinating that a SVP of marketing and PR is devoting his
freetime to working and preparing a case in court instead of making ads,
listening to customers desires, and ensuring that the product is able
to deliver what is portrayed in the advertising communications. Phil seems mixed up. The court of public opinion is important, as he described, but he's lost his touch.
Apple's marketing staff doesn't say anything at all, makes no claims to the warranty or fitness of the product's ability to do anything. So the marketing message becomes something a 5-year old with a box of crayons can do. "You have to try it".
I'm not sure what
they're paying Mr. Schiller over there, but my guess is that for a $1.00
salary, they could replace him with someone like steve jobs. That would be a worthwhile investment..!


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25 July 2014
Photo Post Test
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The Web Font Combinator
The Web Font Combinator is an excellent tool for experimenting with Google's web fonts. I used is to create a style for this blog. You can even create a link to share your choice of styles and fonts. The font menu also displays what the font looks like, which is really helpful for picking you favourite fonts.
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15 October 2013
I am a web developer at www.i-shot-it.com. One day I would like to write regular articles to this blog. I enjoy writing, and putting my thoughts down in writing - even if no one reads what I write. I spend a lot of time staring at a computer screen. Too much time! I enjoy the work I do at I SHOT IT. Over the years I have become pretty good at churning out PHP, XHTML, CSS, and the odd bit of Javascript. I also respond to emails from people all over the world who need help using the I SHOT IT website. All of this keeps my busy, so I'm not sure if I'll have time to update this blog much. One day perhaps.
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