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Real-life BFFs Emily Mortimer (Newsroom) and Dolly Wells (Bridget Jones's Diary) write and star on Doll & Em (Wednesdays at 10 p.m.), HBO's latest L.A. meta-comedy about a movie star (Mortimer) who hires her childhood pal (Wells) as an assistant. (Possible alternate title: Curb Your Enthusiasm, Ladies!) But once you clear the velvet rope, it's apparent that Doll and Em is, at its heart, a portrait of female friendship rather than a Hollywood confidential.
The comedy — which is partly improvised, but never reaches laugh-out-loud levels of funny — debuts with back-to-back episodes, and good thing, considering the premiere is a bit anemic. After the initial set-up (Doll breaks up with her boyfriend in England, hence the hop across the pond and her new responsibilities fetching coffee and yelling at the GPS), the episode's main conflict revolves around Doll getting locked out of Em's house — and who's responsible for the mix-up. Already we see small fissures in the pair's relationship, but their petty squabbling isn't exactly scintillating stuff. READ FULL STORY

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Sione Pouha seems to be getting twitter advice from Nick Mangold.... and that's a good thing. Mangold has been around for a while and is the "king" of tweet when it comes to Jets players.
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The Social Media Crisis Response Plan – how to avert the next big #Fail
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Official hologram registry launches on JeffGordon.com
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (Oct. 16, 2007) — The online registry for the Jeff Gordon Signature Hologram Program launched last week on Gordon's official website, www.JeffGordon.com.
Gordon announced the creation of the program in 2006 to authenticate his signature by placing sequentially numbered stickers containing the official "G" mark onto licensed items he signs at certain organized events. The program was designed to help protect fans and collectors from purchasing items with a forged Jeff Gordon autograph.
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Bill Ackman Unimpressed By Business Model Of Selling Diet Shakes To Your Friends; Diet Shake Salesman Unimpressed By Business Model Of Being Bill Ackman
By Matt LevineWhat is the best line from Herbalife CEO Michael Johnson's amazingly hostile call with CNBC this afternoon, in which he maintained that Bill Ackman is wrong that Herbalife is a pyramid scheme? I think the two leading contenders are:
- "Mr. Ackman's proposition that the United States would be better when Herbalife is gone? The United States will be better when Bill Ackman is gone."
- "Our customers are sometimes called distributors. That's the only confusion that we have."
Oh that's the only confusion is it? That's … confusing. "You're a pyramid scheme; you only sell products to your distributors." "No we're not, we sell real products to real customers." "Oh." "But we call the customers distributors." I'm looking forward to a confusing exchange of press releases.1
Johnson's claim is that the whole presentation, and the leak thereof to CNBC, are about market manipulation: "an extraordinary number of puts" on HLF are due to expire this Friday, he claims, and Ackman's presentation tomorrow is designed to basically juice those puts going into expiry (and, one might add, year-end). That … I mean, sure, whatever.2
Johnson wants the SEC to investigate – "who is looking out for the individual shareholder?" – and I suppose there are imaginable fact patterns where Ackman is just manipulating the stock. If in fact he was long a bunch of puts expiring on Friday, puts out an anti-HLF presentation on Thursday, HLF responds on Friday, and Monday he's all "yeah sorry I was confused about your use of the term 'distributors'; you're quite right," but has meanwhile made millions on his puts … that would seem pretty manipulative! But you can really only do that once, max.3 You can I suppose window-dress your year-end more than once.
But more likely you just, y'know, you make your case, and people believe it or they don't, and the stock goes down or it doesn't, and you make money or you don't, and it's a market and it clears. A lot of corporate CEOs believe that arguing for your long position is the American way, but that arguing for your short position is … well, at least that the United States would be better off without it, at most that you should go to jail for it. CEOs, being structurally long their stocks, would of course think that way. But it's hard to imagine the SEC concluding that that's manipulation. I mean, again.
One strange part of the brewing fight is Herbalife's claim that they "have been informed that Mr. Ackman has shorted our stock for the past 7 to 9 months." What … what does that prove? If you're just manipulating a stock for a quick buck, why wait nine months to tell anyone about it?
Herbalife Disputes Ackman's Claim of 'Pyramid Scheme' [CNBC]
Herbalife Company Statement Regarding Ackman Allegations [HLF]
1. Is Herbalife … y'know … a pyramid scheme? I SURE AS HELL DON'T KNOW. I can tell you that one or both of (1) Bill Ackman and/or (2) Michael Johnson knows better than I do, so go ask them. Or just read Herbalife's 10K, as I previously did.a Just start right at the beginning:
We are a global network marketing company that sells weight management, nutritional supplement, energy, sports & fitness products and personal care products.
To be fair here is a sober analysis by a Northwestern marketing professor concluding that Herbalife is a legit direct-marketing firm, not an illegal pyramid scheme, because it's actually based on sales of a real product rather than just recruiting.
a. Read footnote * there, from my pre-hyperlinking days. How far we've come! As has Herbalife, incidentally; it closed at $52.70 the day after Einhorn's sally, and at $37.32 today.
2. Here are December puts:
Here are January puts:
I count about 53,000 December put contracts between $25 and $50, or 5.3mm shares; if the stock goes to zero by Friday then whoever owns them will make $200mm or so. Is that an extraordinary number of puts? I dunno; it's a lot, and it's like 70% more December puts than January puts – but then there are like 120% more December calls than January calls in that same price range. I feel like "ooh magic expiration dates" is not the explanation here? HLF equity SI shows 20.7mm shares of short interest in Herbalife as of the last exchange report.
3. Are there any examples of anyone literally doing that? Like, making a big public case against a big public company with a bunch of trades that expire before the case unravels? That would be strong.
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On a serious note – it does sort of sound like a pyramid scheme re: selling to distributors, but then again aren't most macro breweries/liquor distilleries using the same business plan of maker -> distributor -> retailer -> customer?
Look we all know I'm right about everything…if only Target would have spun off their real estate into a REIT, arghhhhh!
-Bill "I've had one-to-many mojito's" Ackman
Not easy to be funny and informative/insightful Matt, but this was both.
Here's report on Shortzilla….
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How far we've come, indeed.
Yes, I believe a footnote explaining a footnote and the noting process in a previously posted article which was only referenced in a separate footnote is a new record in foot and note disease. Well done!
Ever since Jon started I seem to enjoy Matt's posts more.
That's because of a legal quirk in the marketing of alcohol post-prohibition: most states don't allow manufacturers of booze to sell directly to consumers.
Thank you Bill for my next short idea.
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So let me get this straight, I should be long a piece of shit retailer with sales declining 26% and losing money and short a company growing 13% with 16% operating margins?
Interesting true fact one oh Herbalifes founding member was tied into Amway founder for many years. Both good upstanding members of LDS church. LDS church 10% take now THATS THE NKI!
I was long HLF before I was short it.
What makes it a pyramid scheme is when there are few final customers but a multitude of distributors, with growth driven by the addition of distributors as opposed to the addition of customers. For a better example of this, read up on Visalus, a pure pyramid scheme poised to blow up at any minute.
Two long but great articles: http://www.sirf-online.org/2012/11/the-infernal-m… http://www.lazymanandmoney.com/visalus-scam/
yes, so just be quiet and do it.
I am unimpressed by both Bill Ackman's and the Diet Shake Pyramid business models…
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After hearing about this rare breed I did some research that led to a phone conversation and email messages from Rosita Thorn of Alpharetta, Ga.
Thorn is a top officer in the American Boerboel Club, founded in the United States in 2006 and accepted into the American Kennel Club in 2010.
She explained the Boerboel originated in South Africa in the 1600s when a man from another country brought his huge mastiff-type dog with him to protect his family in his new country.
His dog mated with "large, indigenous, domestic dogs of South Africa which eventually resulted in creating the breed called Boerboel (pronounced Boar Bull)."
These working dogs are known in South Africa as farm dogs, and in the U.S. they are classified in the working and utility classes.
"The American Boerboel Club is registered with three South African registries and these are the only three accepted by AKC," Thorn explained.
This ensures that ABC dogs and puppies go only to carefully screened homes following health screening, including tests for such problems as hip dysplasia along with other protective vetting procedures.
"Sadly, there are backyard breeders whose only interest in this breed or any breed is to make money. We caution potential adopters to contact only ABC members if they are interested in adopting to ensure getting a healthy dog or puppy," she emphasized.
The ABC always "takes an adopted Boerboel — dog or puppy — back into our care if all does not work out in a new home."
This is the mark of a reputable organization. The ABC "does no advertising. We are interested only in adopting into caring homes, not in the numbers we can get adopted," she said, another mark of a reputable organization.
How big do Boerboels get? "They are huge. They can weigh anywhere from 110 to 180 pounds. They are not apartment dogs," Thorn said, laughing. "But they do well indoors and outdoors. They need a nice, expansive fenced yard when they are outside. When the weather is cool, they will love to jog five miles a day with you, and they will love to play games with you such as retrieving a ball. Despite their size they are quite agile."
Grooming needs "are minimal. They have a short, dense coat of either all fawn-colored or varying shades of fawn, red or brown, and some are red with white markings."
"Boerboels are smart and very willing to learn but you need to make learning fun. Early socialization is of major significance in helping them become affectionate family dogs.
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Rampei has had a professional trainer and participated in obedience classes.
"All of this is quite costly," she said. "Even the adoption fees for Boerboels are high. Rampei was imported from Denmark. His fee was $1,200. The vet bills can also be high — up to $50 an hour. But I love this breed," she exclaimed.
"When I was growing up in Germany we always had large dogs. My uncle had five German shepherds on his farm, and the dominant one, in charge of leading the others to herd his hogs, was my favorite. He didn't like everyone but he was always so gentle with me and I loved petting him. I've always loved all animals," said the caring lady, whose lifelong passion has always been focused on all animals' physical and emotional well-being.
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Paws up this week to: the Rev. Frank and Connie Redman; Freda Ayscue; Lynn and Terry Gobble; Chandra Ramsey; Hannah Mitchell; Judy Slack; and all who adopted a rescued pet with the assurance of providing a long, wonderful life in a forever home.
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Monday, January 7, 2013
Not alright.
My grandmother was admitted to the hospital about a week ago with pneumonia and they discovered lung cancer in the course of her treatment. It's not allowing the treatment for the peumonia to be effective and she's being placed in hospice on Wednesday.
I went up to spend the weekend with family after working from home on Friday. Kenny wasn't able to come with me because he's sick, and we didn't think it was a good idea. My sister flew in from Colorado and we all just sort of huddled. I knew, philosophically, that this would be difficult when the time came, but it is so so so much harder than I ever thought it would be.
My boss gave me leave to work from home (seriously the most understanding and flexible team ever, such a blessing in all this) but I went to the office anyway. I need to not just sit at home and feel sad. I need the distraction and routine. But the bad news is that my emotions are barely contained and the most trivial little things are pushing me close to the edge. I don't know if this is normal or of I am just not dealing that well.
I am so grateful for getting to see her this weekend.
I am scared and heartbroken over what's happening.
I am grateful to have Kenny and my family and friends to lean on.
I'm worried for my sister, hundreds of miles away from all of us and by herself.
I am worried about my dad and mom and how they are dealing when they aren't trying to be strong and take care of everything.
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But God, this is so hard.
Please keep us in your thoughts. I am trying really hard to put on a brave face to get through this, but we could all use some happy thoughts right now.
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- AnonymousJanuary 8, 2013 at 8:41 PM
I have never posted before but just wanted to say that everything you are feeling is SO totally normal. I had a very similar situation with my grandma- she was diagnosed with cancer and was gone within weeks. We all got to say goodbye but it was the hardest time ever. I remember going to work and crying at anything. Grief is a strange thing- even now almost 6 years later, there are moments that I miss her so much it hurts and the emotions feel like it was yesterday. Hug your family tight and know that slowly it will get better. Praying for all of you- for strength and peace in the days and weeks to come. From one Central IL raised girl to another- hang in there!! -Lauren
ReplyDelete - AnonymousJanuary 9, 2013 at 7:23 AM
I was young when my grandmother pasted...I am now old enough to be your Mother...I still miss her...I live her on the holidays...she was full of tradition and love of family...so because of my love for her I still live her traditons and love of things good...this way I keep her alive and me happy even though there are still those soft spots and I cry...the end is a hard slap in the face..you are never prepared for it..but remember she is with you in ways you have yet to understand...my prayers are with you and your family at this difficult time....
ReplyDelete - JenniferJanuary 9, 2013 at 11:18 AM
I am so sorry to hear this. It's hard when you feel so helpless and sad and scred. I'm glad you have a good support system in place, it certainly helps a lot. You and your family are in my thoughts.
ReplyDelete Meagan, I'm so sorry you're going through this. I lost my Nana a few years ago & I still get teary thinking or speaking of her (and sometimes I still just straight up just break down & allow myself a cry). I'm sorry for your pain, it's not easy. I'm glad you have Kenny & the rest of your family.
It's not much, I know - but we're here too, to listen if you need to vent. Hugs!


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She had been singing for her supper on the streets for most of her life. But as far as France was concerned, La Mome Piaf (''Kid Sparrow'') was born anew in 1935, nicknamed by a Parisian cabaret owner when she sang onstage for the first time, in his club the Gerny. An enormous voice, deep and raw, searching and soulful, welled up from the hollows of this tiny gamine with huge, hungry eyes. When she finished, there was silence and then thunderous applause.
Maurice Chevalier was in the audience that night. ''That kid,'' he said after the performance, ''she's got it inside.''
But it was what she didn't have inside that made Edith Giovanna Gassion beloved. Born in the doorway of a Parisian tenement, she lived for years in a brothel run by her grandmother. By the time she was ''discovered'' at the age of 19, she had survived blindness (she was healed, she said, by a religious miracle) and the death of her daughter.
Over the next 25 years, Piaf toured Europe and the U.S. singing about tragic love: love lost, love unrequited, love for sale. It was her own ''La Vie en Rose,'' a song celebrating the ''rosiness'' of a life that seemed to elude her, which became Piaf's signature and France's second national anthem.
By the time she reached her 40s, Piaf intent on living her lyrics had become almost as famous for her excesses, scandalous love affairs, and illnesses as for her music. She died of cirrhosis on Oct. 11, 1963, at the age of 47. When she was buried, 15,000 Parisians stood at her grave site, while 40,000 more lined the streets outside the Pere Lachaise cemetery.
Devotees can hear her songs on The Voice of the Sparrow: The Very Best of Edith Piaf and Edith Piaf at Carnegie Hall January 13, 1957. Play Piaf when you want to hurt a little: ''Pain,'' she once said, ''is an obligation.''
Oct. 11, 1963
America watched Lassie come home every week on television, while crooner Bobby Vinton sang ''Blue Velvet.'' Mary McCarthy's novel The Group ushered in a new era in female bonding, and the movie Tom Jones brought new meaning to the idea of finger food.


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While the boys lugged bamboo stalks from the forest and envisioned a new shelter, the old Tandang girls got together for a little chit chat. "We're not one big happy family," RC sniped at Abi-Maria and Lisa. "We can pretend all we want, but we haven't [been] for 17 days." Girl was ready to grab Skupin and jump on the Kalabaw bandwagon right away. Apparently feeling uncomfortable with the conversation, Lisa decided to take on a new task — making sure everyone's clothes would dry in the sun, since the rain had finally subsided for the day. It was a genuinely kind gesture.
But then it happened -- my favorite moment of this whole season. As Lisa shuffled through everyone's gear and hung their shirts and pants across the tribe sign, she came across Malcolm's immunity idol, hidden beneath his flannel. "I thought an hour would be a safe amount of time to assume people would be eating and drinking and getting to know each other," said a frustrated Malcolm, who saw Lisa going through everyone's gear. "Apparently estrogen kicked in and we had to get our freakin' clothes hung." Zing!
After consulting with his old Matsing ally, Denise, Malcolm realized he had some major damage control to do. He pulled Lisa aside for a romantic stroll on the beach. (Or at least it looked like it would be romantic judging from the way he held her hand and guided her out of the jungle.) Lisa, being the sweet "new Momma" figure for Malcolm that she is (I take back that romantic stuff!), instantly apologized to her adopted son. "I'm sorry," she said repeatedly, though I didn't sense too much remorse in her facial expression. Lisa had inadvertently locked herself into a mandatory truce with Denise and Malcolm, two of the strongest players in the game, and she knew she instantly had a secret that they needed kept under wraps. That's power. Malcolm was a bit concerned, since he thinks that Lisa and Denise, with their kind demeanors, could beat him in a final tribal council, but for the time being, he felt relatively calm about the whole thing. "Hallelujah. The church lady found it," he said in his second zinger of the night. I can't wait to see how Lisa's discovery plays out over the next few weeks.
Later on in the day, everyone went into full on strategy mode, which is why this season of Survivor has been such a pleasure to watch. These people love playing the game! RC and Skupin discussed the possibility of aligning with Kalabaw. Pete and Malcolm, meanwhile, wondered how the old Tandang alliance could flush out an immunity idol by splitting votes between Penner (who they correctly guessed had an idol) and potential flip-flopper, RC. Jeff, of course, whined some more about Skupin and Penner's existence in the game. And Lisa built her relationship with Penner, thanking him for keeping her The Facts of Life past a secret.
But those conversations had to be cut short because it was time for the immunity challenge. As Jeff Probst explained to the tribe, two immunity necklaces were up for grabs -- one for a man, one for a woman. The challenge involved keeping a bucket, which weighed 25 percent of each cast member's body weight, elevated above (what else?) a clay shard. The heavy buckets were attached to ropes that were wound around a spool that each competitor had to grip for as long as possible. When the bucket falls, you're out. Basically, it was a really intense forearm workout.
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Even the crows sound different out here. Sitting in front of the Warmun Roadhouse in Warmun, Western Australia, I note how their strangled clacking has a higher timbre and a more staccato rhythm than that of their larger cousins back in my hemisphere. The cry of these birds, clustered in the gray gum trees that shade this dusty pit stop on the Great Northern Highway, triggers memories of a year I once spent in Fremantle, another town on the outback's verge. It was a rough little seaport in a region that Australians, who perennially apologize for their remove from society, call the "back of beyond." The real bush—with its sore-throated birds, blackened stumps, and searing light—wasn't far from my door. I could head there on a fast horse, riding fence lines until the animal was lathered in foamy sweat and my face was caked with sand. All this time later, I figure my familiarity with the outlying realm's cadences has prepared me for an even stranger landscape of ocher escarpments and Aboriginal Dreamings. Little did I know.
The stretch of northern Australia known colloquially as the Top End covers more than a half-million square miles within the neighboring states of Western Australia and the Northern Territory, between the pearl-farming town of Broome on the Indian Ocean and the subtropical Cape York Peninsula. It encompasses some of the world's least populated but most climatically diverse regions—saltwater estuaries, arid savanna, hidden thermal springs, and impassable peaks. Film director Baz Luhrmann, who was raised in rural New South Wales, recently spent more than a month in the Top End (as well as time in Sydney) shooting Australia, a pre–World War II epic set on the cattle ranches of the outback, starring Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman. (It is slated to open in the United States on November 26.) Luhrmann used the landscape to reveal an Australia most people have never seen. "This is an untouched frontier with a rare abundance of nothingness," Luhrmann says. "You have your Wild West. We have the Wild North."
Luhrmann chose to rough it on the range during filming. "I decided that instead of traveling to the location and back every day, why don't I just camp there?" he says. "I didn't leave for the whole five weeks. This is what I had come looking for, to be forced by the power and scale of the landscape to be still, to be in the moment. There was a unique magic in this place on the edge of the world."
The crows eventually settle as dusk fades. I finish a cup of bitter black tea and watch the people hovering by the roadhouse's gas pumps: blond German girls in a battered Wicked rental camper, two Aboriginal drovers in Akubra hats, "truckies" clutching hypercaffeinated sodas. This roadhouse, like many of its kind along the Top End's barren highways, is a gathering point where travelers can stop for insulated souvenir beer cozies, basic bed-and-shower facilities, and carb-heavy fried dinners. (Whoever invented Chiko spring rolls should be boiled in his own vat of grease.) I'm waiting for Nora Saliba, the Sydney-based casting director who managed the 50 or so indigenous extras on Luhrmann's film and who continues to be welcomed into their communities, where some of the world's most ancient narrative traditions still flourish. Aboriginal mythology has been sustained by an unbroken line of storytellers, generation after generation, since the Stone Age. No oral history quite like it exists in the era of YouTube and Amazon Kindle electronic books. Saliba has agreed to a trek around the Top End, which makes entrée to this closed world possible for me.
Teeth clamped on her cigarette, Saliba pulls up in her four-wheel-drive. "Get in, Shane-o," she yells over the rumble of a passing road train, those supersized trucks that haul supplies between Aussie outposts. Tonight we are meeting the singer and celebrated artist Peggy Patrick, an Aboriginal elder. Patrick also instructs young girls in joonba, or ceremonial performances. Saliba spins out of the lot and drives to a nearby cluster of concrete ranch dwellings and trailers belonging to the Gidja people, who are considered the East Kimberley region's traditional owners, or "TO's." She stops at a lot where several women are surrounded by children chasing a soccer ball. As some of the women rake a clearing under a paperbark tree, Patrick, tall and wiry with a gaunt face, asks me in pidgin English to sit next to her on the bare ground, close to a fire that's staving off mosquitoes and the evening chill.


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Servicing receivables in excess of about €23 billion, GFKL is a leading debt collection services provider in Germany. Since 2008, the company, which is headquartered in Essen, has undergone a comprehensive strategic refocusing following the decision to discontinue its leasing and systems business. The focus now is on debt collection and debt purchasing as well as software applications.
GFKL's debt collection services include both trust administration and the purchase of non-performing receivables. Classes of receivables range from secured real estate receivables to unsecured receivables from consumers' credits as well as from other sectors such as insurance, mail order and telecommunications. GFKL's software segment covers applications for the credit and receivables management of banks, savings banks, industries and the public sector; moreover, it includes tailored and standardised applications for the core business of insurance companies.
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I usually visit the garden, kitchen and other forums. I am recently single, separated after 15 years of marriage,and loving it. I usually don't have a lot to do on weekends. So,50+ singles, what do you do on weekends? I am also retired and work part time which means that I am at home a lot during the week. I am considering a part time job or volunteering, just haven't made the move yet. I am still enjoying my time alone. |
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My weekends are very exciting.....I do my laundry and cleaning on the week ends. I do my running around during the week because stores/restaurants are less busy. I lunch out eat early and usually have the place to myself. Very nice. I also enjoy my single life. |
Sadly, I have been alone since 2007. I retired in 2008. I don't think of what day it is - I have a big yard and house to keep up and grandbabies living around the corner. My weekends (and every day) consist of getting up at around 6 a.m., thanking God for another day, feeding my dog, drinking my coffee, getting dressed, walking my dog, working in the yard for a bit, then coming indoors to do what few chores may need done. Once a week I do a good house-cleaning and once a week I mow my 1/3 acre yard. One or both of my granchildren come over around 10 a.m. and I fix their meals. At 4 p.m., it's time to feed and walk the dog, take the kids home, eat a light dinner and put my feet up to relax. I take my bath at 7 p.m. or so, then I take care of the dog one more time at 9 p.m., may talk with a friend on the phone for 30 minutes, then head for bed, where I read for an hour then lights out. As you can see, I keep fairly busy! I do this day after day - no matter what the day. On Wed. night I go to church and on Sunday morning I go to church - I keep BUSY! |
Pash. I'm 50+ but why dry up and die? Join Facebook and reconnect with your old high school/college friends. They will also find you quickly, trust me. Take a class in whatever your interests may be; gardening, foreign language, cooking etc, and be open to meeting new friends, both much younger and older than yourself. Go to cinema see the new stuff, foreign and independents, even if you go alone, who cares? It's not a social occasion just get out of the house, already. Try ballroom or salsa dancing, it's fun! Volunteer political, social, environmental just do it. Go to the gym or join a walking club, exercise on a regular basis, I love my book club. If you can afford to travel, organize some friends and go or join a tour, you will meet a few people you will stay in touch with trust me. I'm so busy I can't imagine not having anything to do! Rejoice because you don't get this day back ever again and you've got plenty of time for the "grandbabies" and a TV tray and endless re-runs of Bonanza. Carpi Diem, baby. |
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The Justification of God in The Destruction of The Amalekites
"Samuel also said unto Saul, The LORD sent me to anoint thee to be king over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of the LORD. Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt. Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass." (1Sam 15:1-3) KJV
The reason that this article is being written is because there are some skeptics and God-hating atheists who declare that the God of the Bible is immoral. They also claim that He is not consistent in His morals, because He sanctioned the killing of infants when Amalek was destroyed. This article is an answer to their claims.
The first thing that is necessary for us to do is learn who the Amalekites were. The Amalekites were descendants of Esau (See Gen 36:15,16). The average Bible reader will recall that Esau was the father of the Edomites and Jacob the father of the Israelites. We are told that the two nations would have tensions between them for a long time (Gen 25:21-26). Amalek, being descendants of Esau/Edom, would obviously have been antagonistic toward Israel. When Israel was leaving Egypt, headed for Canaan, they were in great need of water and no doubt in a weakened condition. It was at this time that God supplied them with water from a rock. Before they could regain their strength Amalek attacked them. At this time God granted Israel a hard won, but decisive victory (See Ex 17:1-16). At this time two things happened: 1) God said, "Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven." (Ex 17:14) KJV 2) "Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovahnissi: For he said, Because the LORD hath sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation." (Ex 17:15-16) KJV It is especially interesting to note that this would not simply be a war between Israel and Amalek, but between YWH and Amalek. When the LORD, at a later time, told Israel to remember Amalek's attack and blot them out more is revealed to us about what happened when Amalek attacked Israel. "Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt; How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God. Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it." (Deu 25:17-19) KJV Amalek's attack on Israel was not only when they were weak, but it was also an unprovoked ambush!
An even greater issue is before us when we consider the enmity between Israel and Amalek, however. That issue is Amalek's attitude toward YWH. You see, God had worked in Egypt to show Israel, Pharaoh, and all of Egypt that He was the true God (See Ex 6:7;7:5;9:16;12;12). In fact, YWH did not only do this to show the aforementioned that He was God alone, but He did it to show all of the world that He was God alone. He spoke to Pharaoh saying, "in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to shew in thee my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth." (Ex 9:16) KJV The fame of YWH did spread due to the deeds done in Egypt. The inhabitants of Jericho trembled knowing that Israel was nearby, because they had heard of the glorious deeds of YWH in Egypt (See Josh 2:1-11). The determination of YWH was that His glorious name be recognized by all men. Why? Because there is none other who is as He. That is why He told Moses, "I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you. 15 And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations." (Ex 3:14-15) KJV YHW alone will be remembered and honored as the eternal, self-existent, self-sufficient, all-sufficient God. To not honor Him, then, is great sin. That was the sin of Amalek. "Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt; How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God." (Deu 25:17-18) KJV
Not only did Amalek sin by not honoring God, but Amalek attacked God's people. This people, because of God's grace and their choice to worship YWH, were recipients of great promises. Among these promises was the promise that God would be against their enemies. "I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed." (Ge 12:3) KJV We know from New Testament teachings that the mistreatment of God's people is counted by God as disrespectful toward God (See Lk 10:16;Acts 9:1-5). It is no wonder, then that YWH was against Amalek.
In the times of the judges Amalek gave Israel much trouble (See Judges 6:1-6). They came against Israel, not simply in battle, but they destroyed their crops and their livestock. Because of this, Israel was greatly impoverished. This was more than an act of war, it was a crime against humanity. They destroyed their food sources and left them to go hungry. Let us entertain no illusions about the goodness of this people. They were a dastardly group, to be sure.
When we come to the time of King Saul, it is time to finally deal with Amalek. God says that there are two reasons for eradicating Amalek: 1) Retribution for their terrorist type attack against Israel when they were in Rephidim (See Ex 17). 2) Because they were, as a whole, sinners. (See 1Sam 15:1-18) Sadly, Saul rebelled against God and did not fulfill His command.
In the latter part of the reign of Saul David did battle with Amalek. The reader will notice that at this time, Amalek does more than destroy crops and livestock; they destroyed a city and took away men's wives and children (See 1Sam 30:1-20). This would have been avoided had Saul killed all the Amalekites when he was commanded to do so. Thus we can certainly call God's commandment to Saul a good thing for Israel, had Saul carried it out. Finally, during the days of Hezekiah, the rest of the Amalekites were destroyed (See 1Chron 4:43).
With all of this in mind, let us consider how YWH was justified in this. First of all, He promised to bring blessings upon the world through Israel. Having done so, YWH pledged to protect them and oppose their enemies, because the enemies of God's people are God's enemies. We then should consider the fact that Amalek was destroyed so that they would not destroy Israel and prevent God's promise from coming to fruition. Finally, and most important of all, Amalek consistently refused to honor YWH. This may not seem like much of a reason to annihilate a people, but the Creator is due glory and honor. He is worthy of glory and honor. That is, YWH is not only great in might,holiness, and righteousness but He is majestic in beauty. There is none any kinder, none who is more loving, gracious, benevolent, merciful, longsuffering, and forgiving than He. To not worship Him; to not be attracted to Him, to refuse to acknowledge Him is the greatest sin that could ever be committed. When an individual or a nation consistently refuses to honor God, He will justly and righteously destroy them. He will often be very patient with them. There is an end, however, to how long God will allow sinners to breath the air that He gives them, enjoy the world that He has made, and yet live in rebellion against Him. Judgment is not an issue of God throwing a temper tantrum. It is the King of the universe stamping out rebellion and treason. For these reasons, YWH was justified in destroying the Amalekites.
Someone may say, "Wait a minute! What about the babies who were killed?" The answer is this: As much as we pity the children that were killed we must also understand that they would have been very likely to have grown up to be embittered against the very ones who spared their lives and graciously took them into their homes and raised them. Children often make idols out of their absent parents, no matter how bad the parents are. These same children could have grown up to reject YWH just as their parents did. They could also have become terrorist like warriors as their parents were. What is more important for us to consider is, not what the children may have grown up to be, but the fact that in every society children are affected by their parents' choices. Whether those choices are good or bad, the children face the consequences of those choices. For this reason it would serve us well to consider how we live and relate to God. Our children will face the consequences of our choices. What will those consequences be?


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Top Ten Strangest Questions I've Been Asked While Working at a University Library Front Desk
Posted: September 24, 2013 Filed under: Books, College Students, Teachers & Teaching, Top 10 | Tags: books, librarians, library, literature, novels, students, teachers, top ten, university library 2 Comments10. Patron: If I was feeling particularly existentialist, what book would you recommend for me?
9. Patron: Hi. I'm looking for a book called Bay Wolves. Can you help me find it?
Me: Sure, let me look it up for you… Hmmm, sorry we don't have any books by that name. Do you know the author's name, maybe?
Patron: No, but I think it's spelled kind of weird, like B-E-O… wolves.
Me: …Do you mean Beowulf?
8. Patron: Can you help me find the Law Library?
Me: [pulls out a map] The Law Library is right here. You just walk down this street, turn this corner, and you'll be there.
Patron: Thanks, hopefully they'll have a book about Newton's Laws.
Me: Uh, maybe you're looking for the Physics Library instead…?
Top Ten Books Recycled for Art
Posted: August 21, 2013 Filed under: Arts, Books, Top 10 | Tags: art, art made from books, arts, book art, book sculptures 2 CommentsThese artists give books a second life as beautiful works of art, converting everything from outdated computing books to children's classics into visual masterpieces, all using little more than a scalpel and some imagination. In no particular order (they're too awesome to rank) here are the top ten artworks created from old books:
"Pandora Opens Box" by Sue Blackwell.
It is the delicacy, the slight feeling of claustrophobia, as if these characters, the landscape have been trapped inside the book all this time and are now suddenly released. A number of the compositions have an urgency about them, the choices made for the cut-out people from the illustrations seem to lean towards people on their way somewhere, about to discover something, or perhaps escaping from something. And the landscapes speak of a bleak mystery, a rising, an awareness of the air.
A landscape created out of cut up paper by Scottish artist Georgia Russell.
One of the masterfully crafted book landscapes from Canadian interdisciplinary artist (and part time anthropologist) Guy Laramée.
We are currently told that the paper book is bound to die. The library, as a place, is finished. One might ask so what? Do we really believe that "new technologies" will change anything concerning our existential dilemma, our human condition? And even if we could change the content of all the books on earth, would this change anything in relation to the domination of analytical knowledge over intuitive knowledge? What is it in ourselves that insists on grabbing, on casting the flow of experience into concepts?
"Eight Million Stories": Humans of New York Project
Posted: August 5, 2013 Filed under: Arts, Top 10 | Tags: brandon stanton, f. scott fitzgerald, great gatsby, hony, humans of new york, naked city, photography 3 Comments"There are eight million stories in the Naked City. This has been one of them." – From The Naked City
In 2010, Brandon Stanton lost his job as a trader in Chicago. Despite his mother's objections, Stanton moved to New York City to pursue the latest thing with which he had become "borderline-obsessed": photography.
At first, Stanton was only snapping pictures of the city's residents. His original goal was simply "to photograph 10,000 New Yorkers and plot their photos on a map." But after a few months, Stanton began adding captions and commentary to the photographs. "Taken together," the photographer explains, "these portraits and captions became the subject of a vibrant blog, which over the past two years has gained a large daily following. With nearly one million collective followers on Facebook and Tumblr, HONY now provides a worldwide audience with glimpses into the lives of strangers in New York City."
In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald called New York City the "wild promise of all the mystery and beauty in the world." Some eighty-eight years later, it still holds all that mystery and beauty, and through his lens and careful attention, Stanton helps develop those stories in colorful resolution.
The following are just a few of my favorite images and stories. Follow Humans of New York here.
The World's Top 10 Bookstore Ads
Posted: July 25, 2013 Filed under: Books, Novels, Top 10 | Tags: advertising, books, bookstore ads, bookstores, independent bookstores, marketing, novels, Publishing, top 10 1 CommentThese days the world of independent bookstores (and giant chains of bookstores) just has to get more and more eye catching to compete with readers' shrunken attention spans. What to do? Hire the entire cast of Mad Men and come up with one of these genius spots, to start:
1. Mint Vinetu, Vilnius, 2011.
2. Whitcoullis, New Zealand, 2011. Amazingly the poster includes all the words to A Clockwork Orange. (Because it's just the kind of novel you want to read in really tiny script…)
3. L'Echange, Montreal, 2007. See another here. An ingenious marketing strategy for a popular secondhand book store.


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I am just getting into hydroponics and researching as much as I can before I dive into starting my first system. Does anyone know of any books or in depth websites that explain a lot. I have found forums and some sites that explain basics however I want to know more then just how to build a system and run it.
I haven't seen anything that explains what each systsm is good for other then Deep Water is good for leafy plants like lettuce. I am wating to start with some hot peppers and was wanting to do either a drip system or a ebb and flow. |
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- Posted by Cole_Robbie none (My Page) on Wed, Nov 14, 12 at 21:14
Most of the free resources come from university extension programs and are aimed at helping small farmers. There are also a lot of free youtube videos that will at least show you examples of different systems. |
And the reality is all systems work great for all plants. It comes down to what type of system you like to run. For/To me: NFT: light weight, tight and flexible spacing, less nutrient but its more subject to crop failure is a pump goes bad and is a bit more technical in nature. doesn't work well with plants with large root systems. EnF: tight, though fixed plant spacing. should retain water well so only needs watering a couple times a day. if plants are in individual containers, they can be moved and transplanted easily. don't have to worry about aeration. But, they're heavy. they can build up salts in the medium causing uptake issues. you have to make sure your drain system doesn't get clogged. but, they're the heaviest of systems. you have to make sure the water is aerated. they're more susceptible to moisture related infections such as pythium. That being said, I started out using DWC and still use it, but I really like NFT for smaller plants or vine type plants and I really like EnF starting larger plants in pots (to transplant later) and for plants that need a bit more space. I still, generally, grow tomatoes in DWC cause a full grown plant can just suck down some juice. There is also recirculating DWC which has potential, but I'm not sold on it because of nutrient change issues and that's a lot of holes that need waterproofing. more holes means more chance to leak. I know i didn't answer your Q directly, but deciding a system/style you like is probably most important in enjoying what you're doing. For learning, I would start with DWC, then EnF, then NFT. Oh! IMO, a drip system is most like an EnF system. |
- Posted by eircsmith none (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Thu, Jan 24, 13 at 1:28
Thanks for the reply "grizzman" and sharing the information about the systems which work great for all plants. NFT, EnF and DWC are the systems but I prefer DWC system for my plant. |
- Posted by ethnobotany (My Page) on Fri, Jan 25, 13 at 1:12
Learn about the types of systems first(grizzman did a great job of explaining them already) and then look up commercial products and figure out the parts they use. Do a google search on the following: - pH in hydroponics This should get you started. Really, though, its best to to just start building a system and stick some plants in it if you want to learn fast! |
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NORWICH, England (AP) -Wigan remained bottom of the Premier League on Sunday despite rallying to draw 1-1 at Norwich.
Wes Hoolahan clipped in Simeon Jackson's cross to put the Canaries in front after 10 minutes at Carrow Road.
However, Wigan grew into the match and eventually scored a deserved equalizer through a well-taken finish by Victor Moses in the 68th.
Wigan almost snatched victory with four minutes left when Shaun Maloney broke down the left and crossed for Mohamed Diame, who put the ball over from six yards (meters).
Wigan goalkeeper Ali Al Habsi then produced a brilliant one-handed save to keep out Wales striker Steve Morison's goalbound header.
Both sides went for victory during five minutes of stoppage time, but had to be content with a share of the points.
"We want to win, but we need to know how," Wigan manager Roberto Martinez said. "Forget about the table, we're going to take every game as a unique opportunity to show what we can do."
Despite a recent dip in form, with successive league defeats, Norwich has impressed on its return to the top flight and could have climbed back up to eighth with a victory.
Norwich went in front with its first meaningful attack. Al Habsi skewed his clearance straight out of play, with Adam Drury taking a quick throw which sent Jackson clear into the left side of the penalty area.
The Canada forward floated a ball into the six-yard box, where Hoolahan snuck in between two defenders to hook the ball up into the far corner.
Wigan equalized when Maloney put through Moses, who held off the Norwich defense to round goalkeeper John Ruddy and slot home.
"We could have lost it at the end, so it is another point for us to be safe," Norwich manager Paul Lambert said. "I have always thought that if you can't win it, don't lose it."
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Now that football season is upon us, I thought I'd check out the Game Finder app I've seen advertised at the bottom of the screen. After messing with it for a half hour, I'm ready to give up. No matter how many times I pick NFL as a favorite sport and Redskins as a favorite team, I can't get it to display Monday night's Steelers Skins game, or indeed any NFL football at all.
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Posted 21 August 2013 - 09:54 AM
Does nobody know how this app works?
Posted 21 August 2013 - 01:26 PM
Pretty straightforward to me.
"Belligerent and numerous."
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Posted 21 August 2013 - 02:38 PM
its a known issue
Posted 21 August 2013 - 05:44 PM
Pretty straightforward to me.
You would think... The only sports it seems to want to show are MLB and Soccer. And there are no motorsports even on the list.