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It was an awesome day at Navarre Beach today (October 13th) for the 5th annual Run for the Reef. Results will be posted on line at http://www.eventtiming.com/
Thanks to all that came out to help keep Navarre Snorelicious
It was an awesome day at Navarre Beach today (October 13th) for the 5th annual Run for the Reef. Results will be posted on line at http://www.eventtiming.com/
Thanks to all that came out to help keep Navarre Snorelicious
Another great reason to come out to the Run for the Reef Sunday, October 13th at the Navarre Pier.
You can purchase chances to win one of two beautiful pieces by local artists.
Chances to win are $1 each or 6 for $5. Purchase on the pier deck after the race or at packet pickup Friday 2-6 and Saturday 10-2 at the Navarre Visitor Information Center.
The race starts at 7:30 AM and the party/awards ceremony follows on the pier deck.
Kid's fun run starts approximately 9 AM.
Come on out and join the fun. Your run registration gets you a one of a kind Run for the Reef 5K shirt, and free beverages and post race goodies at the awards ceremony.
Sign up today at our Marine Sanctuary booth during the Sand Sculpting competition at Navarre Beach Pier and get the early entry fee discount.
The run is only two weeks away – sign up today on at the Sand Sculpting competition, on Active.com, or download an entry form from our Run for the Reef page here.
The Run for the Reef is less than three weeks away. Event coordinators have been working on their parts of the event. It is time to get together and determine what has been done and what else needs to be done prior to that weekend.
We will meet this Thursday, September 26 at 6 pm at the Visitor Information Center/Navarre Chamber Conference room (enter through the Sound Side doors). If you are interested in helping out with the Run come on out – we'll find a place for you.
The Sea Turtle Conservation Center, located at the entrance to Navarre Beach Park will host the 2013 Kid's 1 Mile Fun Run at our 5th Annual Run for the Reef. Parents bring your kid's out and let your kid's run wild….at least for a mile along the nature path in the park. You don't even have to wake up early for this one. Race starts approximately 8:45 AM so mosey on out. It's only $15 and the race shirt is included. Download the Kid's Fun Run specific registration form here or register on Active.com.
Some recent visitors to Navarre Beach Marine Sanctuary provided this video footage via YouTube for public enjoyment.
The next Marine Sanctuary committee meeting will be Monday, August 26, 6 pm at the Hampton Inn Navarre.
Anyone interested in being involved with the Marine Sanctuary and it's activities is encouraged to attend.
Preliminary Agenda:
Hope to see you at the Hampton Inn next Monday.
Check out this brief video of just one of the 30 gulf side beach accessible reefs in Navarre….with more planned.
Committee members and others indicate more and more people are using and enjoying the reef amenities at Navarre Beach Park. Many reports of abundant sea life on and around the reefs and almost full coverage of the basic reef structures in less than one year since deployment. Mike Sandler snapped this photo on a recent dive of the Gulf Reef site.
Heads up – you're on NBMS Candid Camera.
This guy didn't seem too shy while swimming around one of the NBMS Gulf Reefs. He even gave a profile shot.


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Discover the Book of Genesis for what it is--not a myth, a fairytale, or even ancient history, but a living reality and a hope-filled promise. The first in the Hearts Aflame Scripture Study series, this book explores the first eleven chapters of Genesis, from the Garden of Eden to the Tower of Babel, in light of the Gospels and Catholic Tradition. This Bible study will lead you on a journey, step by step, through the primordial battleground of good and evil--a profoundly spiritual conflict that still wages in our souls and in our world today. Includes a comprehensive leader's guide!
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Sarah Haskins does the Super Bowl shuffle.
After divorce, men's incomes increase while women's decrease.
Gazan women tell their stories.
A group of women in Mangalore, India were attacked for simply being out in public "indecently dressed." Jill has video, and Ultra Violet has a powerful open letter to the local government.
Kenya's transgender community has recently faced several human rights violations.
Veronica started a new natural hair blog, for chemical- and color-free ladies. Her intro post is here.
Harriet's Daughter adds an inauguration caveat: No, not everything has changed. (Yup, that racial barrier is still there…)
The good news about women and children in the economic stimulus package.
Jean-Paul Gaultier used a 51-year-old fashion model in his recent runway show. Fashion models "are not just 14-year-olds," Mr. Gaultier said later. "There are no [age] barriers to beauty."
A woman in the UK had a friend paint her portrait after she had a mastectomy, and the portrait is now being shown in the Louvre.
Cara posted a great video of Andrea Gibson on "living in our stupidly gender-obsessed culture when you present your gender ambiguously."
The glass ceiling in politics, writes Jamelle, is created by "barriers of perception, entry and access rather than barriers to electoral achievement. Which means, to me at least, that we should spend less time kvetching about Caroline Kennedy, and more time doing the difficult work of recruiting more women candidates, and encouraging women's political ambition.
In areas with longer average commutes, married women are less likely to participate in the workforce.
"Push is the story of Precious Jones, an obese and illiterate teen whose mother and father are sexually, physically, and emotionally abusing her." It won accolades at Sundance, and is currently looking for a distributor.
Ashlee Simpson smacks down the media for criticizing her sister's body.
When it comes to enjoying pop culture that contradicts your personal beliefs, Tami asks, "What I want to know is : Where's your line? I mean, what separates the offensive comedy you abhor and that you tolerate and find hilarious? What criteria does a slightly sexist song have to pass to make it on to your iPod?"
Connecting the dots between climate change and unsafe working conditions for women.
Debating what the Palin phenomenon says about feminism.
Sara at F-Words is (understandably!) skeptical about MTV's ability to execute a new version of How's Your News?, a show produced by people with developmental disabilities.
Juliana at Bitch reviews Tool Academy, a VH1 show in which "women drag their truly terrible boyfriends through a relationship boot camp in hopes of turning them into nice guys."
How can The New York Times simultaneously debunk and reinforce the crack-baby myth?
I concur with MzBitca's take on Nadya Suleman, who just gave birth to octuplets. That this was her choice and she seems very happy, so that's that. (Rachel at Rachel's Tavern offers a different view.)
TransGriot on black LGBT history.
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Breastfeeding and Feminism Symposium: Registration and Call for Abstracts
Submit to the Down Under Feminists Carnival.
Encourage a young woman you know to apply for Running Start Young Women's Political Leadership Program for High School Girls.
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i know you gals have little control over it, but as im reading this, the banner ad says "hey jennifer, your leg hair is so long you could braid it. – pete"
*sigh. loves my leg and body hair. partner does too*
Jessica Simpson made her career on being thin and beautiful. I don't have any sympathy for her now that she's chunkier and people don't think she's hot anymore. I'm sick of celebrities promoting a certain beauty ideal for years and then trying to invoke size acceptance when they start getting older and putting on weight.
There isn't anything wrong with being fat, Ashlee. There's also nothing wrong with having a big nose.
Starting a Feminist Dog lover uprising: A little satire about the penchant for feminists to be into cats.
Manitoba Doctor Refuses Treatment to Lesbians: Looking at the ways homophobia and racism intersect in medicine in Canada.
Fist black mayor Charles Tyson forced to resign due to racism: Even though he received racist threats on his life people are still saying he is playing the race card, so much for post racial
Who Has The Good Hair: Looking at the ways black hair is problematized and how this effects the lives of black women.
I've been hearing about the Jessica Simpson story all week on the radio on my way to work. Boy it really pisses me off. Most women are closer to a size 8 than a size 2, it's not a big deal. Female celebreties can't seem to win when it comes to their weight, if Jessica Simpson were to suddenly drop back down to a size 2, the media would feign concern about her health because pseudo concern about stars and eating disorders seems to sell these days, but that pseudo concern never changes a damn thing. Even pregnant stars can't escape this, because how dare they gain weight like every other woman does when they're pregnant
I made a similar point to my husband last night when we were watching (of all things) "Meet the Spartans" because there was a spoof of Tyra Banks telling people to kiss her fat ass and it made me think of when she was in People and did that show promoting body acceptance. While body acceptance is a good thing, the point I made that it was ironic that Tyra Banks ran with this because of her career as a model and other show America's Next Top model. Not only did they tear down the contestant's weight, but her entire profession promotes an unrealistic ideal that most american women cannot reach. Now the tables turned and she realized all the BS that media puts out about women's bodies. HOw many stars have to gain weight and call BS on this treatment before people stop buying the issues of Star and US weekly etc that take part in it?
About the Mangalore pub story, I wrote about it on my blog.(http://virtualityforreal.blogspot.com/2009/01/am-i-glad-i-left-that-place.html) And one of the comments I got was "you can either run away or do something about it". But what is a woman to do? Protest? Or approach the police. There is a law in place you know- nothing is enforced. It is a situation of helpless anarchy that has been forced upon us- and we cannot do much about it. As women we fight battles all the time- just to be accorded a human dignity- why? Can we just live like human beings and not have to labor for each breath we take or apologise all the time.
As far as the octuplets story goes, I'm with BritGirl on this one!
This week we wrote about how old people are apparently no longer allowed to have good sex.
We got called "morally void" for defending sex workers (stay tuned for more on this subject in February).
We celebrated Barack Obama's signing of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act (yay!)
And the Republicans have some good news and bad news all their own).
We also did a monthly wrap-up: A look back at January 2009
Good point.
However, I'm happy that someone is saying that it's okay to gain a few pounds as you get older, because so many people say the opposite and the less we let them get away with that, the better. Jessica Simpson isn't our enemy, and no matter how much she supported that culture I dislike to see it turn on her. Also, I imagine (because I'm not into this area of pop culture) that a lot of young girls read and respect Ashlee and this might help them.
I don't recall ever reading any comments from Jessica Simpson where she criticised other people's size. Sure, she works in an industry where she has capitalized on the fact that she has had big boobs and a small figure, but I don't see why now we have to shame her for that or aren't able to sympathize with her when people slam her for gaining a few pounds. We can still point out how wrong it is for people to point their finger at her and call her fat. That's like how most of us completely disagreed with Sarah Palin's ideas but we could still admit when people said sexist things about her.
I heard this piece on NPR this morning, entitled "Despite Odds, Women's Movement Persists in Iran".
It includes commentary from Azar Nafisi, author of _Reading Lolita in Tehran_. Every time I learn more about Iran's history and the current situation of women there I get this knot in my stomach. What if that happened to us, here in the U.S.? What happened to that whole generation of women? What is happening to them now?
I have to disagree about the octuplets story, but more as a future practitioner. I have no problem with women having as many children as they want, but there were medical interventions involved. If there were a number of embryos transferred that are above the standard of care, which is based on a significant increase of risk to the mothers and the embryos-fetuses-future babies, then this is a medical ethics issue.
Medicine is not ordering off of a menu. Yes, it is a slippery slope telling women what to do with their reproduction, but health care practitioners should be able to refuse to perform medical interventions that are unsafe and elective. I don't care if she had 6 kids, declared bankruptcy, was single, etc. and had one or two embryos transferred. It is the unsafe nature of a extreme multiple pregnancy I have a problem with, and that it was definitely cause by a medical practitioner.
Oh, and as for my own link, I wrote a letter to my senator complaining about his sponsoring an amendment to the SCHIP bill trying to reinstate the Global Gag Rule.
(And a twitchy typo fix: In my post above, in the last line, "cause" should say "caused".)
Over at our blog Pink Scare …
- Arvilla laments that the apparent existence of Dating a Banker Anonymous (DABA) helps the New York Times play up the "oldest and lamest gender stereotypes."
- LN blogs for choice, and discusses the diversity of reproductive choices that people in her life have made.
Shameless self-promotion:
I've been writing a lot about feminist stuff. http://misanthropicslut.blogspot.com/
I'm not shaming her for having large breasts and a small waist, I just can't say I feel sorry for her when the exclusive beauty culture she supported and benefited from turns against her. She made millions off of it while her body was working in her favor. Those millions depended on the exclusivity of the current beauty standards and the rest of our sexist culture. It just seems hypocritical for her or her sister to turn around now and say it's wrong to be so critical of women's bodies. Her body is what she based her flippin' career on!
Our bizarre beauty standards and fatphobia are wrong. That said, I just can't say I feel sorry for someone who capitalized on sexism only to have sexism bite her in the ass later.
I would agree with you if she had been out there promoting that thin and whatnot is the ideal beauty all those years. But in fact she was not. She just happened to fit that ideal for a while and thus it helped her career. Actually when her sister started out in the biz she was a bit heavier and Jessica would defend her and say the same kind of stuff that Ashlee is saying about Jess now. Same with her nose.
I just think that the way you are phrasing your comment seems to suggest that if a woman has worked in the entertainment industry they are not worthy of our sympathy in this matter and I just cannot agree.
If you like hard rock then it is impossible not to like Led Zepplin's songs like "Whole Lotta' Love" but it's pretty overtly objectifying.
Same goes for any devotee of standup comedy, Lenny Bruce was funny and able to make unfunny concepts funny.
Art and artists who excel do so in unsafe ways and often express concepts and ideas antithetical to your own in a way that still makes them enjoyable.
I'm a cooperative anarchist, but I read a lot of Heinlein who always vacillated between fascism and corporatism. But his writing was still enjoyable for a fan of the genre.
She probably wouldntve been able to be as famous as she was, or at least thats what she mightve erroneously believed at the helping of her father and other handlers.
(forgot to add)…..if she was a larger size. Those responsible for her endorsement might not have publicised her as much.
Similar to Afghanistan. The women in Kabul used to be similar to American women in the 70′s. They were wearing short skirts, challenging old constructs of female identity,educating themselves for employment and getting ready to have a say in their own society.
I read an excerpt from Push in The New Yorker several years ago — actually, I'm not sure whether it was an excerpt, or if what I read was a short story which was later expanded into a novel. Either way, it was excellent.
word. we don't let anyone else off the hook with "i choose my choice!", so why are we doing so with this lady?
to me, it's really evident that she got some unethical medical care….according to her mother, the woman is mentally unstable and "obsessed" with having children, which a competent fertility doc would have caught, just as competent, ethical plastic surgeons don't continue to operate on people they know to have image disorders. not to mention, the transfer of that many embryos is, ahem, ILL-ADVISED. (apparently someone related to the case said the woman transferred three that then "split", but none of them have been reported to be identical, according to what i've read.)
i'm sorry, i can't imagine any circumstance in which a woman raising 14 children essentially alone is mentally healthy. and i can't see how it's possible for her to be there for that many kids. seems to me she is filling a void in herself the way some people do with alcohol or drugs or sex or serial monogamy, and in any of those cases, we don't throw up our hands and pat those people on the back and say, "it's your choice, do what you want!!!" we encourage those people to seek the help they need and try to reform the system that contributed to that void in their hearts in the first place.
Excerpts from a few Feminist Reviews of the Week:
AIDS Sutra: Untold Stories From India: Negar Akhavi has masterfully edited multiple voices and rhetorical devices to show us how HIV and AIDS have affected Indian society. Half the contributors traverse the deep faultlines of misogyny, poverty, and religious hierarchy. The other half shows what it's like in India in the time of AIDS to be faithful wives and daughters-in-law (and HIV-infected), poor and low-caste, overburdened healthcare workers, cast-off and orphaned, and non-heterosexual.
College Girl: While reading, I couldn't help thinking Natalie might have benefited from taking a Women's Studies course. Perhaps instead of throwing around words like "slut" and "whore" and buying into the idea of sex as a form of "leverage" in relationships, she could have stood up for herself a lot sooner. Instead, she keeps quiet about unwanted sexual attention from her roommate's boyfriend, and caves to her own "boyfriend" when he pressures her into performing oral sex despite her protests.
One Fifth Avenue: I prefer not to make New Year's Resolutions. However, there is one that I intend to make and keep. I will never read a "chick lit" book again. For years, the vapidity of this genre has enthralled millions of women and kept the printing presses running at publishers' establishments. I frankly refuse to even glance through something of this standard ever. I read One Fifth Avenue on a whim. A college friend suggested it to me after I admitted that I had never watched Sex and the City. "It's Candace Bushnell, you'll love it!" she exclaimed.
How's about giving credit where credit is due on that UltraViolet link folks?
The link about the lesbian lady discriminated against by the mean doctor upset me. What further annoyed me was how the article emphasized blame on foreign physicians with different cultures. Homophobia breeds in Canada too, for one thing. Second of all, Manitoba is hurting badly for more physicians. They really can't afford to discriminate based on where they come from or their religious backgrounds. If they're qualified, let them practice.
This is one of the downsides to socialized health care. Even shitty doctors get paid.
I kind of had that initial response at first because I do think Jessica Simpson worked very hard to make her appearance conform to those standards and used her conformity to those standards to make a lot of money. However, (and despite the fact that she annoys the hell out of me) I do have sympathy for her because though by "playing the game" she helps to keep it running she had and has an enormous amount of pressure on her to look a certain way and keep her body at a certain weight and I agree that if she had not I don't think she would have had the same level of success. At the beginning of her career when she was very young and not at all heavy she was told to lose weight. I can't state that I, myself, if faced with that kind of pressure and scrutiny at her age would not also have succumbed or used my image when I could to further my career. Maybe now that she is a little older and wiser she is beginning to do what is healthy and right for her and "see the light" and I don't think that means we should turn on her now; I think that means we should be supportive. Tyra, on the other hand, I don't feel quite the same way about because while she talks about body acceptance she still is in charge of a show for models where the majority fit the stereotype of being tall and thin and some have been called "too heavy".
Oh I think that was very well put Cicada.
Whoa. That's a very slippery slope you're proposing. The poster whose blog you linked to is saying that people don't have the "right" to have the number of children that they want. Ok so maybe she didn't make the most responsible decision, maybe she is putting her needs ahead of the children she is having. But if you say it's OK for restrictions to be put on how many children a woman CAN have you are opening the door to women being told they HAVE to have children. Is that really what you want – to be told what you can and cannot do with YOUR body? All women have the right (RIGHT) to control their own bodies that means terminating unwanted pregnancies as well as having as many babies as her womb will hold if that's what she wants. My body my choice cannot be selectively applied just because you don't agree with the choice.
Must say I don't quite get your "off the hook" bit. As we're assigning blame then why didn't her mother get her treatment for her "obsession" that began in her teens?
I haven't been on Feministing long but I'm assuming that there have been numerous conversation about the "baby glorification" in our culture. So it's not really all that surprising that a sister would be swayed by it. Your and MOMTFH's call for doctors to be more ethical means the doctor is making the decision for the woman. You want to make restrictions, based on one of the rarest of cases, that could domino down to affect all women. Please re-think this position.
Session at World Economic Forum focuses on girls:
And just, ugh:
Do her rights create a responsibility in society to care for all of her children? This isn't a case of her making reproductive decisions that affect no other person. She has no ability to pay for any of the tremendous costs that were involved in keeping her and her children alive through this ordeal, and she almost certainly won't be able to support all of these children with even the basic necessities of life, much less give them the attention and upbringing that they deserve. That means that her decisions are now affecting the community from which each person must sacrifice in order to pay for her excess. They in turn have the right to regulate her behavior if she expects to glean the benefits of their support.
um, restrictions? i didn't advocate that she be under any legal restrictions. (maybe her doctor should, though.) i think this woman has some mental issues that should have been caught, and that an ethical medical provider would have declined to treat her, or at the very least not transfer 8 embryos….you know, first do no harm, and all that. honestly, this case should fall within the bounds of malpractice in my eyes because of the absolutely ridiculous risks taken with this woman's health (not to mention her children), and to act like i'm all of a sudden infringing on women's rights to bear their families the way they want to is pretty offensive. this lady has the right to do whatever the hell she wants with her body, but we have basic standards for medical care in this country. just because no one died in this situation (thank whatever you believe in!) doesn't mean that this was a good idea.
I remember hearing quite a bit about how Jessica Simpson was "too big" earlier in her career and was pressured to lose weight by her record company so they could market her better. She lost 15 pounds or something like that from her first cd to her second. She also did interviews during Dukes of Hazard where she mentioned she was working out 2 hours a day for the role.
Seems to me like those beauty standards were biting her in the ass the whole time. Maybe she finally just had it. I can't see how you can pin the blame on her.
Sure, if they're qualified, let them practice, but make it clear that they are not to impose their own values on their patients.


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Andrew's Brain
Andrew's Brain
A Novel
This brilliant new novel by an American master, the author of Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, Billy Bathgate, and The March, takes us on a radical trip into the mind of a man who, more than once in his...More
This brilliant new novel by an American master, the author of Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, Billy Bathgate, and The March, takes us on a radical trip into the mind of a man who, more than once in his...More
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This brilliant new novel by an American master, the author of Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, Billy Bathgate, and The March, takes us on a radical trip into the mind of a man who, more than once in his life, has been the inadvertent agent of disaster.
Speaking from an unknown place and to an unknown interlocutor, Andrew is thinking, Andrew is talking, Andrew is telling the story of his life, his loves, and the tragedies that have led him to this place and point in time. And as he confesses, peeling back the layers of his strange story, we are led to question what we know about truth and memory, brain and mind, personality and fate, about one another and ourselves. Written with psychological depth and great lyrical precision, this suspenseful and groundbreaking novel delivers a voice for our times--funny, probing, skeptical, mischievous, profound. Andrew's Brain is a surprising turn and a singular achievement in the canon of a writer whose prose has the power to create its own landscape, and whose great topic, in the words of Don DeLillo, is "the reach of American possibility, in which plain lives take on the cadences of history."
Praise for Andrew's Brain
"Too compelling to put down . . . fascinating, sometimes funny, often profound . . . Andrew is a provocatively interesting and even sympathetic character. . . . The novel seamlessly combines Doctorow's remarkable prowess as a literary stylist with deep psychological storytelling pitting truth against delusion, memory and perception, consciousness and craziness. . . . [Doctorow] takes huge creative risks--the best kind."--USA Today
"Andrew's Brain is cunning. . . . [A] sly book . . . This babbling Andrew is a casualty of his times, binding his wounds with thick wrappings of words, ideas, bits of story, whatever his spinning mind can unspool for him. . . . One of the things that makes [Andrew] such a terrific comic creation is that he's both maddeningly self-delusive and scarily self-aware: He's a fool, but he's no innocent. . . . Andrew may not be able to enjoy his brain, but Doctorow, freely choosing to inhabit this character's whirligig consciousness, can."--The New York Times Book Review
"A tantalising tour de force . . . a journey worth taking . . . With exhilarating brio, the book plays off . . . two contrasting takes on mind and brain. . . . [Andrew's Brain encompasses] an astonishing range of modes: vaudeville humour, tragic romance, philosophical speculation. . . . It fizzes with intellectual energy, verbal pyrotechnics and satiric flair."--The Sunday Times (London)
"Dramatic . . . cunning and beautiful . . . strange and oddly fascinating, this book: a musing, a conjecture, a frivolity, a deep interrogatory, a hymn."--San Francisco Chronicle
"Provocative . . . a story aswirl in a whirlpool of neuroscience, human relations, loss, guilt and recent American history . . . Doctorow reveals his mastery in the sheen of a text that is both window and mirror. Reading his work is akin to soaring in a glider. Buoyed by invisible breath, readers encounter stunning vistas stretching to horizons they've never imagined."--The Plain Dealer
"Andrew's ruminations can be funny, and his descriptions gorgeous."--Associated Press
"[An] evocative, suspenseful novel about the deceptive nature of human consciousness."--More
"A quick and acutely intelligent read."--Entertainment Weekly
From the Hardcover edition.
From the book
II can tell you about my friend Andrew, the cognitive scientist. But it's not pretty. One evening he appeared with an infant in his arms at the door of his ex-wife, Martha. Because Briony, his lovely young wife after Martha, had died.
Of what?
We'll get to that. I can't do this alone, Andrew said, as Martha stared at him from the open doorway. It happened to have been snowing that night, and Martha was transfixed by the soft creature-like snowflakes alighting on Andrew's NY Yankees hat brim. Martha was like that, enrapt by the peripheral things as if setting them to music. Even in ordinary times, she was slow to respond, looking at you with her large dark rolling protuberant eyes. Then the smile would come, or the nod, or the shake of the head. Meanwhile the heat from her home drifted through the open door and fogged up Andrew's eyeglasses. He stood there behind his foggy lenses like a blind man in the snowfall and was without volition when at last she reached out, gently took the swaddled infant from him, stepped back, and closed the door in his face.
This was where?
Martha lived then in New Rochelle, a suburb of New York, in a neighborhood of large homes of different styles--Tudor, Dutch Colonial, Greek Revival--most of them built in the 1920s and '30s, houses set back from the street with tall old Norway maples the predominant trees. Andrew ran to his car and came back with a baby carrier, a valise, two plastic bags filled with baby needs. He banged on the door: Martha, Martha! She is six months old, she has a name, she has a birth certificate. I have it here, open the door please, Martha, I am not abandoning my daughter, I just need some help, I need help!
The door opened and Martha's husband, a large man, stood there. Put those things down, Andrew, he said. Andrew did as he was told and Martha's large husband thrust the baby back into his arms. You've always been a fuck-up, Martha's large husband said. I'm sorry your young wife has died but I expect that she's dead of some stupid mistake on your part, some untimely negligence, one of your thought experiments, or famous intellectual distractions, but in any event something to remind us all of that gift you have of leaving disaster in your wake.
Andrew put the baby in the baby carrier that lay on the ground, lifted the carrier with the baby, and walked slowly back to his car, nearly losing his balance on the slick path. He fastened a seat belt around the carrier in the backseat, returned to the house, picked up the plastic bags and the valise and carried them to the car. When everything was secured, he closed the car door, drew himself up, turned, and found Martha standing there with a shawl around her shoulders. All right, she said.
Go on. . . .
No, I'm just thinking of something I read about the pathogenesis of schizophrenia and bipolar disease. The brain biologists are going to get to that with their gene sequencing, finding the variations in the genome--those protein suckers attached to the teleology. They'll give them numbers and letters, snipping away a letter here, adding a number there, and behold the disease will be no more. So, Doc, you're in trouble with your talking cure.
Don't be too sure.
Trust me, you'll be on unemployment. What else can we do as eaters of the fruit of the tree of knowledge but biologize ourselves? Expunge the pain, extend the life. You want another eye, say, in the back of your head? That can be arranged. Put your rectum in your knee? Not a problem. Even give you wings if you want, though the result would not be flying aloft but more like giant skips, floating megastrides as on those tracks that are...
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E. L. Doctorow's works of fiction include Homer & Langley, The March, Billy Bathgate, Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, City of God, Welcome to Hard Times, Loon Lake, World's Fair, The Waterworks, and All the Time in the World. Among his honors are the National Book Award, three National Book Critics Circle awards, two PEN/Faulkner awards, and the presidentially conferred National Humanities Medal. In 2009 he was short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize honoring a writer's lifetime achievement in fiction, and in 2012 he won the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, given to an author whose "scale of achievement over a sustained career [places] him . . . in the highest rank of American literature." In 2013 the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded him the Gold Medal for Fiction.
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We're not even six episodes into American Horror Story: Coven and already FX is signing themselves up for more witchcraft and horror. According to Variety, FX has renewed American Horror Story for a fourth season which will air likely in the same fall slot in 2014.
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"American Horror Story" will continue to scare FX viewers, as the net announced today that it has ordered a fourth installment of the franchise from Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk.
This is something we expected to happen as there really was no reason for FX to walk away from American Horror Story or the insane ratings that it draws in. In addition to that, series creator Ryan Murphy has already been talking publicly about a fourth season of the show and how series star Jessica Lange is pretty much in the bag in terms of returning to the series again.
But the question now is where will the series go after this season. Nothing is really connected from season to season expect for actors returning in different roles, but the stories have varied from season to season and the themes are always shifting.
The bottom line though is that we have loved the first three seasons of American Horror Story and news that a fourth season is coming is something everyone can be happy about.
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Hello M4TE and welcome to Seven Forums. Sorry for the delay in responding but I just came across your question.
Most newer manufactured computers have a hidden recovery partition on the hard drive. The manufacturer provides specific instructions on how to access that partition in case you want to restore your machine to the exact condition it was in when it left the factory. That means you'd have to go through the time consuming process of cleaning out factory bloatware (like free trials of programs you'll never need), installing programs you do need, updating everything, creating your personal settings, etc. Here is a general idea of how to access the hidden recovery partition.
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Let's say it took you a day or two to set up your machine to your liking using the hidden recovery partition. A System Image is like a snapshot of your entire hard drive. It will include everything from the operating system to all your programs, files, photos, music, all updates ... everything. Most folks keep it on a separate external hard drive. Let's say a week later you get a virus or your machine crashes for some reason. You can use that System Image to return your machine to the exact condition it was in when you made the image. Usually takes about 30 minutes or so and you're back in business. It's a lot faster and more convenient to only worry about a week of updates compared to probably months with the hidden recovery partition. The newer a System Image is the less you have to worry about.
But one caution: since a System Image is, for all purposes, an exact duplicate of the hard drive, it will also include any malware that may be on the machine. So if in doubt, it might be best to use the hidden recovery partition to start off with a clean slate and then make a System Image immediately following all customizing.
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Epiphany has a long history of reaching out to people who are suffering in our local community and around the world. We learned about the widespread poverty and discrimination against our Roma (also known as "Gypsyâ€) brothers and sisters in Cefa, Romania through Epiphany Music Director Joe Burt, who has known and worked with Romanian Pastor Alex Stroie for many years. Pastor Alex serves churches in Cefa and Berechiu, two small villages in northwestern Romania, near the Hungarian border.
Cefa and Berechiu are both rural communities in which Roma and non-Roma families live very different lives. Roma face persistent discrimination in employment and basic community services, and Roma children receive inferior educations, nutrition and health care compared to non-Roma children. Statistically, the school dropout rate among Roma children is quite high, since the Romanian teachers do not offer them any help with understanding their schoolwork.
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The after-school homework project is thriving! The classroom is full to the rafters, there are plenty of books and supplies, and the snacks are nutritious. Roma (Gypsy) and non-Roma children are learning together. A lovely, energetic woman named Mariana (at right, in purple) leads the tutoring program assisted by her daughter (in pink). Pastor Alex has had to turn away children because the program has become so popular. Mariana and her daughter genuinely enjoy working with the children.
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BERKELEY, Calif., Oct.8, 2012 – Amy M. Vogelsang, M.B.A., of Berkeley, Calif., is the new Vice President for Finance and Operations at Church Divinity School of the Pacific, the Very Rev. Dr. W. Mark Richardson, President and Dean of the Episcopal seminary, announced today.
In announcing the appointment to the newly created position, Richardson praised Vogelsang's financial management skills in both the non-profit and corporate sectors. She began her duties today.
"Amy is ready to offer strategic planning with respect to both personnel and facilities systems," he said. Richardson said the new vice president position strengthens the seminary's ability to more effectively and strategically manage its resources.
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November 3, 2010 Posted by Barbara Bray in 21st Century Skills, Change, Learning Environments
Changing the ParadigmI mentioned Sir Ken Robinson and his talk about "Schools kill Creativity" in my webinar. I just watched this animation where he explains why the current education system is failing our kids. Some questions he brings up:
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A few years ago, these chicks couldn't point East Africa on a map, if their lives depended on it. Now that it's a trend, they still can't point it on a map, but they take pride in it.
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Over the last month or so, there have been some encouraging signs that state governments are inching away from the toughest economic crisis in decades.
Combined, the states have trimmed a half-trillion dollars since 2007, but the days of cutting much more appear over, at least for now. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, new budgetary gaps "are practically non-existent."
Early one Saturday morning I was on the treadmill at the gym watching "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" on the TV in front of me.
TLWW is the first of C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia allegorical series about a wonderland that's taken hostage by an evil witch.
In the part of the movie that caught my attention, the boy Edmund finds himself in Narnia, in the snow, shivering in his p.j.s, robe and slippers.
If I had a nickel for every time my grandfather prompted me with the rhetorical question, "when the going gets tough?" . . . well, let's just say that I wouldn't be driving a 10 year old Volkswagen. If you were reared as I was, the CORRECT answer was, "the tough get going." It seems that these days, the answer is often to simply throw in the towel.
"Thou great I AM," the Puritans wrote in "The Valley of Vision," "I acknowledge and confess that all things come of Thee — life, breath, happiness, advancement, sight, touch, hearing, goodness, truth, beauty — all that makes existence amiable."
Thou truly are a great and gracious God who has been truly good to me.
Thank you, Lord, for the pleasures of life, for work and sleep, for irritants that refine my rough edges, for hard times that make me tough and good times that make me smile.
As we take time out of our schedule this week to enjoy the kick-off to the holiday season, I want to wish each of you a Happy Thanksgiving.
We are now just one decade away from the 400th anniversary of that famous feast enjoyed by the Pilgrims and the Native Americans who helped them weather especially tough times.
Though that harvest meal is the foundation for the holiday, it didn't settle into its familiar place on the calendar until nearly 150 years ago, when President Lincoln declared it should be held on the last Thursday of November.
I recently watched an episode of "Our America with Lisa Ling" about a faith healing ministry in Fort Mill, S.C.
Ling, a television journalist, took a camera crew to document the very Pentecostal healing meetings to which hundreds of people came, some traveling hundreds of miles.
Two sisters came with their mother who had terminal cancer, as did Steve, a man in a wheelchair, paralyzed from the waist down.
When the General Assembly opens the 2012 Regular Session in early January, there is no doubt what the top issue will be: enacting the state's budget for the next two years. Redrawing state House, Senate and congressional districts, something done after each Census, will likely be prominent as well, especially in the session's opening weeks.
As the New Year approaches, it is a time of Autumn Harvest and a closure of the last quarter of 2011. As winter approaches, it provides the opportunity to review and contemplate our relationships and our interactions. This is a season of 'bringing together loose ends' in our lives. It is a time to start looking objectively so that in January we can implement new resolutions.
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Last week my friend Mike got baptized.
As the only adult being baptized, he was upstaged by some cute little kids and a baby, but he still shined.
We baptize babies and grownups at my church because we believe baptism is not so much us declaring our commitment to follow Jesus, but it's our declaration that we're in desperate need of his cleansing.
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Strikeforce: Nashville HighlightsCategory: MMA
After a brief stopover at Miami, Strikeforce is coming to the "Music City".
This April 17, 2010, Strikeforce: Nashville was held at the Bridgestone Arena (formerly known as Sommet Center) in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
The event marked the Strikeforce debut of former UFC and Pride middleweight champion, Dan "Hendo" Henderson after he signed a four-fight, 16-month deal with Strikeforce on December 5, 2009 when his contract with UFC expired.
In the main card, Henderson had his first assignment when he faced Jake Shields but failed to capture his Strikeforce middleweight championship title.
Two other championship bouts was featured in the main cards as well which was televised LIVE at CBS.
Here's the official fight card:
Main Cards (watch on CBS)
* Middleweight Championship bout: Jake Shields (c) vs. Dan Henderson – Shields defeated Henderson via unanimous decision (49-46, 49-45, 48-45) to retain the Strikeforce Middleweight championship
* Light Heavyweight Championship bout: Gegard Mousasi (c) vs. Muhammed Lawal – Lawal defeated Mousasi via unanimous decision (49-45, 49-45, 49-45) to become the new Strikeforce Light heavyweight champion
* Lightweight Championship bout: Gilbert Melendez (c) vs. Shinya Aoki – Melendez defeated Aoki via unanimous decision (50-45, 50-45, 50-45) to retain the Strikeforce Lightweight championship
Preliminary Card
* Middleweight bout: Jason Miller vs. Tim Stout – Miller defeated Stout via TKO (punches) at 3:09 of round 1
* Light Heavyweight bout: Chris Hawk vs. Ovince St. Preux – St. Preux defeated Hawk via TKO (punches) at 0:44 of round 1
* Welterweight bout: Dustin West vs. Andrew Uhrich – Uhrich defeated West via submission (rear naked choke) at 1:36 of round 1
* Light Heavyweight bout: Josh Schockman vs. Cale Yarbrough – Yarbrough defeated Schockman via TKO (knee and punches) in round 2
* Middleweight bout: Zach Underwood vs. Hunter Worsham – Underwood defeated Worsham via unanimous decision
* Flyweight bout: Dustin Ortiz vs. Justin Pennington – Ortiz defeated Pennington via submission (rear naked choke) at 4:27 of round 1
* Featherweight bout: Cody Floyd vs. Thomas Campbell - Floyd defeated Campbell via KO (knee) in round 3
This MMA event was aired on network television at CBS LIVE in the United States last April 17, 2010.
Check out below the Strikeforce: Nashville replay highlights:
Jake Shields vs Dan Henderson highlights and the Strikeforce brawl
Gegard Mousasi vs Muhammed Lawal highlights
You can also watch the following Strikeforce: Nashville matchups once available:
Jake Shields vs Dan Henderson video
Gegard Mousasi vs Muhammed Lawal video
Gilbert Melendez vs Shinya Aoki video
Please read my related posts:
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- Hendo Knocks Out Babalu in Rematch at Strikeforce: St. Louis At Strikeforce: Nashville, Dan "Hendo" Henderson made his debut in the Strikeforce organization after he signed a four-fight, 16-month deal...
- Strikeforce Houston: King Mo vs Feijao Results Can King Mo make his first successful title defense? Will Rafael "Feijão" Cavalcante be able to tarnish Lawal's perfect record?...
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- Strikeforce | The Dreamcatcher To Defend Title From King Mo Gegard "The Dreamcatcher" Mousasi is an Armenian MMA fighter who is the reigning Strikeforce light-heavyweight champion. At Strikeforce: Nashville, he...
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Photo for illustration (Source: ktdt.com.vn) (CPV) - The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) on June 12 issued document 4142/NHNN-TD on loans to purchase 1 million tonnes of rice of the summer-autumn crop in the Mekong Delta for temporary reserves. Under the document, SBV allowed 14 commercial joint-stock banks to lend to businesses for purchasing, under the direction of the Prime Minister in Decision 850/QD-TTg. They are Bank of Agriculture and Rural Development, Bank of Foreign Trade, Bank for … [Read more...]
14 commercial banks to lend for summer-autumn rice purchases
Ba To marks its 40th anniversary on the Liberation Day
In the morning of October 30th, at the March 11 Square, the Ba To district's Party Committee, People's Council, People's Committee, Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee formally organized the ceremony to mark the 40th anniversary of the district's Liberation Day (October 30th 1972 - October 30th 2012). Nguyen Hoa Binh - Central party Committee's Member, Chairman of Supreme People's Procuracy of Vietnam; Vo Van Thuong - Central party Committee's Member, the Quang Ngai provincial Party Committee's … [Read more...]
Ninh Binh, Lien Viet Bank win volleyball tourney
Ninh Binh and Lien Viet Bank won men's and women's titles respectively at the 2010 National Volleyball Championships that ended Tuesday. Lien Viet Bank took the title after beating Vietsov Petro 3-1 in the final match in Hai Duong on Tuesday. … [Read more...]
Lien Viet Bank changes moniker following merger
The central bank has allowed Lien Viet Bank to change its name to Lien Viet Post Joint-Stock Commercial Bank after joining forces with a subsidiary of state-owned Vietnam Post Corporation. Lien Viet Bank is now known as LienViet Post Bank … [Read more...]
IFC puts $505 mln towards trade finance for small businesses in Vietnam
The World Bank's International Finance Corporation (IFC) has committed US$505 million in funding that has helped Vietnamese banks increase lending to small local companies engaged in import and export activities. The record funding is part of IFC's Global Trade Finance Program, which since late 2007 has helped nine local banks improve their capacity to cover the payment risk in granting trade financing to local companies, mostly small and medium enterprises, according to an IFC announcement … [Read more...]
Forest planting to help poor province
HA GIANG - (VNS) An afforestation project covering nearly 1,000ha has begun in northern Ha Giang Province's Xin Man highland area, one of the poorest districts in Viet Nam. Investment capital amounting to VND75 billion (US$3.6 million) has been provided by Lien Viet Post Bank and the State. This follows a Government resolution in December 2008 to help 62 districts escape dire poverty and involves the entire political hierarchy, business community and public. The project is expected to … [Read more...]
14 teams take part in open volleyball tournament 2012
PANO - The Military Open Volleyball Tournament 2012 started on July 12th in Phu Dien Commune, Tu Lien District, Hanoi, with the participation of 238 athletes from six women's and eight men's volleyball teams from military and civilian units in Hanoi. During the tournament, the teams will be divided in two groups for the men's and the women's. The top team from each group will compete for the first prize, worth VND 15 million. The first match, between the Air Defense-Air Forces and Lien Viet … [Read more...]
Hau Giang Offers Golden Investment Opportunities
Could you tell the results of investment attraction in Hau Giang province in 2011? Last year, many projects were behind schedule and many companies operated ineffectively. This reality was the result to objective factors like economic crisis, tightened monetary policies and high interest rates. However, Hau Giang always provided the most favourable conditions for business expansion, economic restructuring, infrastructure investment, and investment promotion in a bid to attract more investment … [Read more...]
Rice prices surge as Government begins stockpiling
Businesses begun purchasing and stockpiling one million tonnes of rice on Thursday, as directed by the Government, which caused a surge in rice prices after a long period of slump in the Mekong Delta. Rice prices surge as Government begins stockpiling (Photo: SGGP) Rice prices increased by VND100-300 per kilogram since last weekend in Can Tho City and in Hau Giang, Vinh Long, Soc Trang, Tra Vinh and Dong Thap Provinces, where traders have stepped up purchase. Large volumes of unsold low-quality … [Read more...]
Hau Giang to host international women's volleyball championships
The sixth VTV Binh Dien International Women's Volleyball Tournament will take place in the southern Province of Hau Giang between February 18th and 26th. The event draws participation of eight teams, including the China's Jiangsu, Australian team, Pacific Petro Construction and Installation Corporation and VTV-Binh Dien Long An (Group A), and Thailand's youth team, Yang Sang (Republic of Korea), Viettinbank and Lien Viet Bank (Group B). All matches will be broadcast live on VTV2, VTV3 and … [Read more...]


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Blockhead - 'Interludes After Midnight' Out Now
Blockhead's fifth album Interludes After Midnight is out today on 2LP, CD (both available with a bonus 7" vinyl) and download.Read More
This week's giveaway is something we've been very excited about since commissioning its creation several months ago. The brand new video for Blockhead's 'The Music Scene' is an animation by Anthony Schepperd, the man behind Ape School's 'Wail to God'. The result of the pairing is a masterful, absorbing object that far exceeds the remit of a music video. The wreckage of a city re-taken by nature becomes a playground for Plasticine-brained mannequins, mechanical spiders, eye-screens and tentacles; and, of course, the animals from the Blockhead album artwork.
We hope you enjoy it as much as we have. It's here for free and is iPhone compatible.
As an added extra, you can also download a snippet of Blockhead's brand new track, 'Ugly Brown', exclusive to our massive box set out this September. Also expect a Blockhead remix by one of hip-hop's all-time innovators, EL-P, as part of our XX releases too!
Blockhead's fifth album Interludes After Midnight is out today on 2LP, CD (both available with a bonus 7" vinyl) and download.Read More
With Interludes After Midnight, Blockhead proudly presents his fifth LP, released 30 April on Ninja Tune.Read More
FaltyDL recently interviewed Blockhead at length for Juno Download, discussing the similarities and contrasts between the pair's musical styles and histories, the wider industry in general, and new artists coming up.Read More
Bristol bass-head and Punch Drunk label boss Peverelist turns in an exclusive mix for Solid Steel this week, ahead of Japanese producer Daisuke Tanabe in Hour 2, listen in below the drop.Read More
DELS premieres new track Burning Beaches alongside an interview with Impose.Read More
Kevin Martin aka The Bug drops another visual delivery from his Angels & Devils opus, the new video for eerie dub rattle Mi Lost featuring Miss Red, shot through a muddy focus of her hometown's Haifa City.
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She's back with the release of new EP, Everything You Never Had Pt. II, out November 17 on Counter. The title track and new single is the first to be lifted off her highly anticipated album, due out in 2015. Listen to B-side, Superlove, below.
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What's the June project?
It's a little project with us sending George a rubik's cube and we still have to figure out how to make others participate..
I know lots of you guys have sent a number of queries via ask and answering them now may be quite useless but I will get to them sometime around soon, I just happen to get pretty busy and I apologize for leaving this site without notice.
The June Project will be sent out at the near end of June.
The site will be up and running soon!
This list is just for the links of where you can buy the audiobook narrated by George. None of these links include the ebook. The audiobook will be released on May 21st.
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Additional Websites you can buy from on May 21st
You can also order it through Itunes, as long as you have the iBooks app installed, just make sure you search in Itunes (not through the iBooks app), click more at the bottom and then select AudioBooks, then search for The Runaway Queen.
Be careful and make sure you are using one of these links or ensuring you're downloading the audiobook, because you can get the ebook separately without the audio and, of course, this post is intended for people wanting George Blagden's recording.
On the publisher's Canadian site, there was only links to download the ebook and I couldn't find anything on the publisher's UK site about it being released there, so be careful if downloading outside of the USA to make sure you're downloading the audiobook.
Yes, he would. He always replies to mails as long as you provide the appropriate amount of stamps and the proper return address :)
He'll be back in LA for work and some stuff, I guess.
He'll be back there in June. :)
All you can do foe now is wait… or send him another one, if you'd like.
He's still figuring out if his former agent would still forward mails addressed to him.
I'll update you guys regarding this issue when we get around it. :)
He just changed UK agents yesterday and will no longer be repped by Lou Coulson Associates.
He's still not sure if the mails sent to the previous address will be forwarded to him, but he's hoping for it.
The new address is:
FAO Abi Harris
Ken McReddie Associates
101 Finsbury Pavement
London EC2A 1RS UK
Please spread the word. Thank you!
PS. He apologizes to everyone he wasn't able to answer regarding this for the last couple of days.
Oh darling! I'm sorry if I'm only answering now, thia ask somehow got buried and the answer would be probably useless by now if you needed it for something… but anyway…
I do believe that he does like Harry Potter, I think He's tweeted about it/answered a similar question positively.
Well, I hope this still helps in one way or another? ..
Tweet it to @trinaweena for she will be interviewing him this week for @spoilertv!
For those who do not have twitter, send your questions via her tumblr ask: http://worriedducks.tumblr.com/ask or email her at firstname.lastname@example.com
The deadline will be tomorrow at 5PM EST.
Keep the questions coming, make the interview more interesting!
Please do keep in mind that the questions will be filtered and not all may be asked, but my friend Trina will do what she can to include your submissions!
Thank you.


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Debbie Chandler - 10/02/2002
I have looked through the other reviews to this dance before submitting my own. I am vey disappointed in the way that some people think that Linedancing should be to Country music & nothing else. If that were the case, it would have died a death years ago! I am lucky as I belong to a club who enjoys dancing to all kinds of music from country - to the modern day. This dance is great, not too difficult for everyone to pick up and the funky type of music that I love. This is one of my favourite dances at the moment and has been for quite some time. It will be around for a while yet I think!
Give Me A Reason
Karen S - 10/02/2002
I really like this dance, fits well to the music, keep em coming!!!
Give Me A Reason
Rachael Burgis - 10/02/2002
This is yet another great dance from Dave, the dance fits really well to the music and its fun 2 dance to!!!!
Would You Dance (If I Asked You To Dance)
Dave"The Rave" - 10/02/2002
What a cracking feel this dance has, flows very well, well done Hazel!
Steal Yer' Wheel
Mike Toe The Line - 10/02/2002
What a great 48 count Dance just love the music aswell keep them comming Dave
This Will Be
Joey Prieur - 10/02/2002
Several groups are doing this dance in Ottawa, Cornwall and Montreal. We love it. It should be tought even if it looks difficult. Great dance!!! Our demo group, The Roadhouse Dancers, perform it in our demos as a routine. Great response from audiences.
Hero (We All Have One)
Anne Hewitt (From Toe the Line with Mike and Anne) - 10/02/2002
Taught this dance a few weeks ago, was a little weary at first because its fast...but perservered with it.....our class danced it at our last social and they looked great.....what a good dance! nice to have something fast and challenging sometimes to stretch the dancers abilities. The music speaks for itself.......great !
Follow Me
Anne from Toe the Line with Mike and Anne - 10/02/2002
I just love this nice easy to do int. dance. fits and flows well one you can get lost in after doing some other upbeat ones. Its a dance that grows on you.
M.J. Moves
Anne from Toe the Line with Mike and Anne - 10/02/2002
A dancers dance, its my favorite at the moment, those that dance it in our class love it . Timing is excellent.
Mean 2 Me
Rachael Burgis - 09/02/2002
I really like this one. It's a Nice dance and it fits well to the music.
Mean 2 Me
Karen S - 09/02/2002
This is a great dance, fits well to the music. Hope to see many more dances by Dave in the future!
Karen S - 09/02/2002
This is a great dance, fits nicely to the music. Keep up the good work Dave & Jen.
rachael burgis - 09/02/2002
I think this is a really good dance and I love the latino music, keep up the good work.
Mean 2 Me
Maggie Sumner - 09/02/2002
Nice, easy beginner dance. Love the music, fits really well to this track. Keep them coming, Dave.
Country Roads
jonny key - 09/02/2002
great dance well written love the music


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Wednesday, January 23, 2013, 06:04 pm PT (09:04 pm ET)
Twitter-owned video sharing startup Vine may launch standalone app tomorrowA tweet sent out by Twitter CEO Dick Costolo contained a video created from Vine, a startup that Twitter purchased in 2012, suggesting the app may soon be ready for launch.
Citing people familiar with the matter, All Things D's Peter Kafka reports that Vine could hit the iOS App Store as soon as Thursday, but notes it is unlikely to be fully integrated with parent company Twitter's app.
According to the sources, Vine will debut a standalone app as was planned before Twitter acquired the company in October. The startup is operating as a separate entity and will reportedly offer an initial service not directly tied to Twitter. These people say there will be no Twitter branding on the app.
Similar to YouTube's Capture app, Vine allows for quick video clips, up to six seconds in length, to be uploaded to the company's servers for viewing by followers, friends or users just browsing for videos. Kafka likens the system to the popular photo sharing app Instagram.
People who have used the app say operation is simple, as users need only to press and hold a record button to start a clip's creation. When the button is released, the video pauses, allowing for a full six-second long clip or a series of "vignettes" that provide for a smash cut effect. Uploaded videos can be posted through Twitter, as seen below.
Steak tartare in six seconds. vine.co/v/bOIqn6rLeIDvia @dhof dick costolo (@dickc) January 23, 2013
Vine has yet to see an official release date and the company's website shows only a static placeholder reading "coming soon."
On Topic: General
- Former head of Android Andy Rubin leaves Google to start tech hardware incubator
- Seth Rogen to play Steve Wozniak alongside Christian Bale's Steve Jobs
- President Bill Clinton, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella & others praise Apple CEO Tim Cook for publicly announcing he is gay
- 'I'm proud to be gay,' Apple CEO Tim Cook says in open letter supporting equality
- Microsoft inadvertently leaks 'Band' fitness wearable in new app, reveals 'Microsoft Health' [update: confirmed]


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Step 1: Clean & Prepare
Step 2: Base Coat
Step 3: 3 Layers Of White
Step 4: Add Colour
Step 5: 4/5 Layers Of Colour
Step 6: Tadaa!! Fully Dry
I did mine without tire removal a year ago and they still look good. Did my chrome grill and bumper in black too.
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Wagner & Me
Stephen Fry is one of Britain's best loved performers - a multi-talented actor, presenter and writer. He played the title role in the Hollywood movie Wilde, presents the cult quiz-show QI, and makes regular appearances in the hit US drama Bones. He is a lifelong fan of the music of Richard Wagner - the world's most controversial composer.But Stephen is also Jewish and, as he is acutely aware, the intensity of his enthusiasm for the composer was matched - or even surpassed - by that of Hitler.In… Show more
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To truly appreciate "Wagner & Me," a BBC documentary getting a spotty theatrical release in this country, you have to cherish the music of Richard Wagner with the same quivering intensity as host Stephen Fry. A writer, actor, and beloved British television personality — think Oscar Wilde with the rough edges sanded off — Fry was apparently floored by a recording of "Tannhäuser" as a child; to him, the Ring Cycle and Wagner's other operas are the alpha and omega of Western Civilization's artistic expression.(Full review)
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Hello friends and family!
We are currently gearing up for our first trip as a family back to the USA to reconnect with many of you! Next week we will start making our way over for a 3-pronged trip.
The first week, our family will be spending some much-needed time in Fairfax with JR's side of the family. We have not seen JR's sister's family since July of 2012 and his grandparents from California since January the same year. Debby (JR's mother) will also be joining us after a 16 month gap in visits. Excitement is really building for our reunion!
The second week of our trip, 6 young adults from Peterhead will join us in Fairfax. (If you would like to read more about the plans for the Peterhead Mission Trip to the States/DR, please CLICK HERE.)
The third week, JR and 3 of the Scots will head to the Dominican Republic with a team from Fairfax. At that time, the children and Daisha will head to Arkansas to reconnect with the Stockstill-side of the family. Daisha's sister's family will be meeting up with them in Searcy where Gideon and Naomi will get to meet their youngest cousin for the first time! There is also a plan to head up to Branson and connect with many more Stockstills. :)
Fairfax church of Christ's involvement in our ministry here in Peterhead continues to be the blessing we prayed for from the beginning of our exploration into being full-time, supported missionaries. Far from being just a name on a payroll, we truly feel cared about and supported. Their handling of our fund-raising has lifted a responsibility from our plates that frees us up for more on-the-ground ministry.
Here is a truth that we acknowledge everyday:
We could not be here doing the work we are doing without your love, support, and generosity.
Thank you.
Fairfax is changing on-line giving systems.
For those of you who are already giving:
You will need to go in and create a new account. This system may recognise your e-mail address, it will not know your password.
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If you currently do not contribute to the mission here, but would like to, this is a perfect opportunity to partner with us.
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December 13, 2012 // 15:45 // 1 year ago
I'm just sad and disappointed.
Apparently after having their asses handed to them, Republicans decided to return said asses.
I guess it's John Kerry for the taking.
From nbcnightlynews: Says she is "highly honored to be considered" for the position but is also saddened by partisan...
mad that this is a 'win' for mccain and his fuckery, but i could never get behind susan rice and her terrible foreign...
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Bill's Gay Nineties, a Prohibition-era piano bar and restaurant in Midtown Manhattan, closed last week. But as regulars mourned the loss, the owner, Barbara Bart Olmsted, assured them that the watering hole would rise again: She would simply move the pub's signature wooden bar top, swinging doors and assorted memorabilia to a new home.
To which one of the owners of the town house that has housed Bill's since its inception in 1924 replied: Not so fast.
On March 14, Noel Tynan, an Irishman who bought the town house in 2003 with Anthony Kearns, one of the Irish Tenors, sought an injunction in bankruptcy court to stop Ms. Olmsted from removing the antique bar, vintage street lamp, jockey statue and other memorabilia that gave the building its singular feel. In court papers, Mr. Tynan claimed that the and fixtures belonged to him. Both sides agreed to keep things as they were, and the next court date is April 10.
Opened as a speakeasy, Bill's Gay Nineties from the start felt like a relic from a more colorful past. Its original owner was paying homage to the 1890s, and over the decades the town house, at 57 East 54th Street, maintained its speakeasy look and feel as Midtown changed around it and grew increasingly sleek. Read more…


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Mo & Ballz look ahead to this weekend's WWE Hell in a Cell pay-per-view, recap Raw, wonder what happened to Ring of Honor & talk about pro wrestling hipsters.
After years of anticipation, the expectations were high for WWE's "The Best of Sting" DVD - Did it live up to the hype? Dangerous Dave shares his thoughts.
Stardust gets compared to Ebola while The Walking Dead shows Rusev how it's done.. Mo & Ballz get a little off-course as they recap this week's edition of WWE Raw!
Justin Roberts exits the building as Kurt Angle tries to find his way back in! Mo & Gregg talk these items, TNA's next big announcement, how to break kids hearts, Daniel Bryan's road to recovery and many other WWE & pro wrestling rumors.
Last weekend, lead host Mo Lightning had the honor of hosting the 1st ever Q&A for WWE diva Paige at Austin Comic Con. This is the entire panel start-to-finish!
"Bobby Lashley has sensitive skin." Mo & Ballz recap Impact Wrestling, preview Sunday's Bound for Glory, talk being invited to WWE Diva's parties, speculate on the Rock vs Triple H at Mania & much more!
The Rock returns to WWE Raw, Stone Cold could return for WrestleMania, rage over the Nitro Girls, another 40-man Royal Rumble & more - Mo & Gregg have your latest wrestling-related news and rumors!
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- Publisher: Electronic Arts
- Release Date: Jan 22, 2013
- Summary: Give your Sims the hottest looks and coolest decor from yesteryear with The Sims 3 70s, 80s, & 90s Stuff. Rock all-new outfits, crazy hairstyles, and facial hair. Sport a 70s disco look with a wide-collared suit and bell-bottom pants, go 80s glam with shoulder pads and bangle earrings, or throw on a rumpled flannel shirt for a wild 90s grunge look. And don't forget to redecorate your Sims' homes to suit the decade! The Starlight Party Ball or the Neonis Foosball Table will totally give your Sims' homes that perfect flashback touch. Bring back all the crazy trends, from feathered hair to parachute pants to console stereos as your Sims warp back in time.… Expand
- Developer: The Sims Studio
- Genre(s): Virtual Life
- Cheats: On GameFAQs
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Score distribution:
Positive: 1 out of 2
Mixed: 1 out of 2
Negative: 0 out of 2
Mar 8, 2013The clothing and furniture in The Sims 3 70s, 80s, and 90s Stuff pack are great additions to any Sims household as they successfully combine retro and modern visual styles. Ultimately, the stuff pack is lacking in content and is better recommended as a purchase when it's included in a sale.
Feb 6, 2013Unfortunately this new pack goes through the motions again, without adding too much validity to the franchise. On a brighter note, The Sims 3 70s, 80s & 90s Stuff Pack is quite affordably priced and if you grew up in the 70s, 80s or 90s, it's still worth checking out but don't expect to be blown away.
Score distribution:
Positive: 0 out of 1
Mixed: 0 out of 1
Negative: 1 out of 1
Jan 25, 2013Like most Sims 3 Stuff Packs, I didn't expect this one to be phenomenal whatsoever, as generally they aren't in my opinion. I was, however, expecting a little more than what was given. It appears that EA ignores the male sims in the game most of the time new content is added; maybe it's not as fun to make content for the men, but should they be excluded? Doubtful.
This stuff pack claimed to add content from the 70s, 80s, and 90s, all three with their own distinct style. Now the women basically received a fair amount of items scattered out over those decades (although very very cliché), however men received next to nothing. Two new tops, two new bottoms, about four or five outfits. Worse yet, unless you plan on having a sim who is also a rising rock star, then it's highly unlikely you will find any use at all for the content added.
As for the couple of new hairs and makeup added, they are very subpar. Again, not much use to the ordinary, everyday sim. Though perhaps that is the point of this stuff pack (to make rock sims instead of everyday sims). But in my opinion, if I can't use it on my legacy sims, then what use is it at all?
Now as for any of the other gimmicks or additions to the game ,I have not yet explored, so I have no opinion over. My main focus with this stuff pack was the clothes, but beings how the clothes fell flat, I can only assume the rest of the additions will follow suit.
I give the stuff pack a 3 out of 10, because there are at least two or three pieces of female clothing that was added to the game which I did like. I say get the Stuff Pack if you truly want to create a generic looking rocker from the past; otherwise, pass this Stuff Pack up.… Collapse
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