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Since I get asked the same questions about this costume a lot, I figured I'd write up an FAQ for interested parties:
Q: Where did you get your wig?
A: My Finn made it for me. It was made out of two long wigs-- one 48 inch, one 60 inch. They were purchased on Ebay. I don't know the seller, sorry!
Q: How did you do the makeup?
A: It is Ben Nye Character Series cream makeup in Ghoul Grey (CB-8). It was applied using latex makeup sponges and sealed with Ben Nye Neutral Set Colorless Powder and hairspray. I do not recommend using hairspray unless you have someone helping you apply the makeup.
You can buy it here: www.frendsbeautysupplyonline.c… for only $3.40!
Q: How much makeup did you use?
A: Evicted! : Medium Coverage (face, neck, chest, shoulders, arms, hands)
Henchmen: Medium Coverage (face, neck, chest, shoulders, arms, hands)
It Came From the Nightosphere**: Minimum Coverage (face, neck, hands)
Heat Signature: Medium Coverage (face, neck, chest, shoulders, arms, hands)
Video Makers: Minimum Coverage (face, neck, hands, prosthetic ears)
What Was Missing: Minimum Coverage (face, neck, shoulders)
Go With Me: Maximum Coverage (face, neck, arms, scalp, prosthetic ears, hands)
And my guesses for her other outfits:
Memory of a Memory**: Minimum - Maximum Coverage (depending on which outfit you're doing)
Marceline's Closet**: Minimum Coverage (face, hands)
**Outfits where Marceline's legs are showing. I always wear light grey tights that match my makeup, because having to paint your legs is a giant pain and the makeup rubs off much quicker. Plus, if you're wearing it to a con, you don't want your makeup to rub off on chairs or other people. It's just easier to wear tights and looks great!
So, really, it depends on which outfit you're going to wear! I'd buy two containers to be on the safe side.
Q: Where did you get the axe bass?
A: Again, it was made for me by my Finn. It is made out of craft foam, foamcore, twine, and other easily acquired craft supplies.
Q: Will you sell me ________?
A: No. No part of my Marceline costume is for sale, nor will it ever be. I'm really glad you like it enough to offer me money, though! <3
Q: How long is the neck on the bass , from the nut to the end?
A: My axe bass is 46 inches long and 17 inches at its widest point.
Q: What kind of powder do you use?
A: I use a combination of Ben Nye Neutral Set translucent powder, hairspray (for your decolletage, arms, and hands; have a friend to help you with this), and matte grey eye shadow to do highlights and low lights.
Q: What kind of teeth do you use?
A: I use custom fit vampire teeth, made by an SFX company called Scarecrow. I use Petite Sexy Bites, because they're tiny and don't interfere with talking, eating, or smiling. :> They employ thermoplastic, which molds to your posterior teeth to create a custom fit. They usually run $14-$20, depending on where you get them. I've seen them at Hot Topic, Halloween stores and on Ebay. HERE is a miniature tutorial I made about my fangs, if you'd like more info!
Q: Where did you get the tights for your Henchmen outfit?
junkeemunky bought them on Ebay and when they arrived, I put them on and she painted the stripes on. I really want to redo this costume at some point and remake the tights, because they were done at the last minute.
Q: Do you wear colored contacts for Marceline? What color should I get?
I wear prescription contact lenses, so I wear my normal ones. My eyes are a bluish-green color, which coincides with the color that's often shown when Marceline's eyes are big (if you don't believe me, check out the AT opening and Evicted!), so I don't wear color contacts. I've heard of people doing purple, red, and black for her as well. It's up to you, but those colors don't always translate well to real life, so be careful!
Q: Where did you get your shoes for [insert Marceline outfit]?
Most of my shoes/boots were either thrifted or altered for my cosplays. If you want your shoes/boots to be absolutely perfect, you're going to have to do some hunting! Nobody said this would be easy!
Q: What did you use for the pointy ears?
I use Don Post's elf ears! I painted them with the grey body paint and contoured them with black. Stuff them with a bit of toilet paper or cotton balls to give them some volume, then apply them using spirit gum!
Q: Where did you get the gloves for your "What Was Missing" cosplay?
I bought them on Ebay. If you search for bridal, prom, or opera gloves, you should be able to find them!
Additional Advice:
Nail Polish
I use #605 Grey Matter by Rimmel London, which I apply before applying my body paint! Having painted nails adds a lot to the overall look because it's consistent with Marceline's skin tone and won't wear off. Your hands will inevitably take the most wear and tear throughout the day, and it helps to have your nails done. Just trust me!
I don't wear lipstick for Marceline. I typically apply a light, subtle layer of Ghoul Grey to my lips and do a top coat of lip stain. It makes the transition from the grey of my skin to the pink of the inside of my mouth much less dramatic and more realistic. I usually recommend against wearing black lipstick, because there's nothing canonical to back it up, and you might be mistaken for a Homestuck cosplayer!
Eye Makeup
For my eyes, I've done a couple different looks. The first time I wore this costume (Evicted!/Henchmen), we did a blue/black smokey eye (if you don't know how to do this, there are some very good tutorials on Youtube). I have also applied black Ben Nye around my eyes, which works well, too!
Vampire Bites
One of the most important aspects of Marceline's look are her bright red vampire bites! I happen to have two moles perfectly situated in the right spot on the left side of my neck, so what I usually do is dot on either red Ben Nye (if you're wondering why I have so much of this makeup, it's because junkeemunky formerly was a theatre makeup artist and she is my personal makeup artist!) or use red eyeliner or lip liner. Try not to make them too big! Just a dot should do.
Wig Care
It can be difficult to care for a wig of this length, but it's definitely doable! What I use to manage this beast is Motions Oil Sheen & Conditioning Spray. Some people pin their wig to a wig head, but I found it was easier to lay the wig out on the floor (preferably on linoleum, tile, or some other surface that is easy to clean). I start at the bottom, and work my way up by brushing in small sections. It took me about an hour to go through it last time I brushed it out!
I'll add to this as other questions come up. Feel free to leave a comment concerning my Marceline cosplay here, if you like.


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Did you have a predetermined game plan against any specific batsmen like Mahela Jayawardene and Virender Sehwag?
There was no specific plan made against a particular batsman. The only plan before the game was to bowl in the right areas and try to get crucial wickets by building up pressure. Getting Jayawardene and Sehwag out early was instrumental in our victory.
Sehwag looked in good form so how did you manage to get him out?
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Windows 8 opened up new possibilities for mobile computing and the Asus Taichi 21 takes advantage of this. It has dual 11.6-inch 1080p displays where the second on the back of the primary display acts as a tablet when closed. Both of the displays look really good but the battery life is short.
Asus really tried to keep the Taichi 21 light and compact and they certainly succeeded. It measures 12.1 x 7.8 x 0.7-inches (wdh) and weighs just shy of 3-pounds. The design is also eye-pleasing with an aluminum keyboard deck, sides and bottom with tapering edges to finish it off. Our only design question was why Asus put such a thick bezel around the primary display.
The back of the laptop's lid has a 11.6-inch display that has glass with a "9H" hardness rating according to Asus for durability. When in use, a Windows-button lights up under the display. When this secondary display is powered off, it looks like a typical laptop lid with a glossy surface.
This second display can be used in a variety of ways. Asus provides four different display modes: notebook mode (traditional laptop use), tablet mode (lid screen only), mirror mode (both displays mirrored) and dual-screen mode (the lid display acts as a second display). These modes are "hot-swappable", meaning you can boot up the laptop in notebook mode and close the lid later and use it in tablet mode or vise-versa. You can also toggle between modes by hitting a dedicated Taichi key on the keyboard.
Both of these displays have a 1920 x 1080-pixel full HD resolution and an 11.6-inch size. The quality of both displays were very good with vibrant colors and good brightness (the notebook display looked a little brighter than the lid display). Because of the large resolution on a smaller display, some small text sizes can be difficult to see at times. It's important to note that only the lid display supports touch (10-finger). The Taichi 21 also comes with an active stylus for text or drawing. This stylus only comes with the higher configurations and cannot be stored within the laptop itself.
The keyboard did feel a little small, but that's fairly typical on an 11.6-inch laptop. The keys did provide good feedback and are backlit with three brightness levels. The surprisingly large touch pad was comfortable to use and worked well in our use.
For ports, the Asus Taichi 21 offers two USB 3.0 ports, mini-HDMI out, VGA out and a headphone/microphone combo jack. Noticeably lacking is an SD card slot, which may disappoint avid camera users. Asus does provide two adapters: one USB to Ethernet and one mini-VGA to VGA. Wireless connectivity includes both 802.11n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
Our review Taichi 21's configuration included an Intel Core i5-3517U (1.9GHz) CPU, 4GB of RAM, a 256GB solid-state hard drive and integrated Intel 4000 HD graphics. A PCMark 7 benchmark returned a result of 5,090, which is more than 1,500 points higher than the Windows 8 Ultrabook category average. Real-world use also backed up that test with no problems to report, even while streaming 1080p HD video and doing heavy multitasking.
Battery life is limited at just over 4-hours with only the notebook display enabled. In tablet mode, life was even less at 3.5-hours. Battery life is definitely this notebook hybrid's Achilles heel.
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Unpublished Disposition, 852 F.2d 1290 (9th Cir. 1988)
Annotate this CaseBefore SKOPIL, SCHROEDER and ALARCON, Circuit Judges.
Stanley Forbes Jacox III appeals after pleading guilty to possession with intent to distribute methaqualone, conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, manufacture of methamphetamine, and tax evasion. Jacox contends that his presentence report contained incorrect information and that the district court failed to treat this information in compliance with Fed.R.Crim.P. 32(c)(3)(D).
At Jacox's sentencing proceedings, Chief Judge Karlton acknowledged the existence of disputed facts in the presentence report. Judge Karlton stated: "My opinion is that I am not going to rely upon the matters that are contested in [Jacox's] letter. I am not going to do so because it doesn't make any difference to me given what [Jacox] freely admits to." Judge Karlton later added that he was not considering the disputed matters in sentencing Jacox. Judge Karlton ordered that Jacox's letter containing the objection to the presentence report "be attached to the probation report to be forwarded to the Bureau of Prisons, and that the report specifically note that the court has not resolved those factual issues." The court's determination that it would not consider the controverted matters in sentencing Jacox was not attached to the presentence report.
When a defendant challenges information in the presentence report, the district court must meet two requirements imposed by Fed.R.Crim.P. 32(c)(3)(D). United States v. Edwards, 800 F.2d 878, 881 (9th Cir.1986). First, the court must either make written findings as to the controverted information, or state that such findings are unnecessary because the court will not rely on the disputed information when sentencing the defendant. Fed.R.Crim.P. 32(c)(3)(D); Edwards, 800 F.2d at 881. Second, the court must append to the presentence report a written copy of its determination regarding the disputed information. Fed.R.Crim.P. 32(c)(3)(D); Edwards, 800 F.2d at 881. Strict compliance with Rule 32(c)(3)(D) is required, and failure to comply results in remand. Edwards, 800 F.2d at 881.
The district court did not strictly comply with the provision of Rule 32 requiring the court to attach its findings to the presentence report. The court ordered that Jacox's letter containing the objections to the presentence report "be attached to the probation report to be forwarded to the Bureau of Prisons, and that the report specifically note that the court had not resolved those factual issues." While Jacox's factual contentions were attached, as well as a statement that the court has not resolved the disputed information, the court did not attach its determination that it did not rely on the disputed information in sentencing Jacox. The written record provision of Rule 32 was intended to ensure that a record "as to exactly what resolution occurred as to the controverted matter ... comes to the attention of the Bureau [of Prisons] or [Parole] Commission when these agencies utilize the presentence investigation report." Fed.R.Crim.P. 32(c)(3)(D) advisory committee's note.
The judgment is REMANDED for the sole purpose of requiring the court to attach to the presentence report its determination that it did not rely on the contested information in sentencing Jacox.


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Eminem is back after three years with his latest album, "The Marshall Mathers LP 2". This album came out thirteen years after "The Marshall Mathers LP". It is Eminem's eighth studio album, which was released on 5th November this year and includes sixteen songs.
The album opens with "Bad Guy", a sequel of "Stan". The number shines for its storytelling; Stan's younger brother Matthew seeks revenge on Eminem for Stan's death. The skit, "Parking Lot", is also a continuation from MMLP. "Legacy" and "Brainless" both talk about Eminem's childhood, about how he was bullied and how that rendered him to be who he is now. "So Much Better" and "Stronger Than I Was" are both about the rapper's unsuccessful romantic endeavours; the former is as angst-filled as any Eminem rap about a former lover who cheated on him, and the latter is an honest portrayal of a failed relationship. The track "So Far" is where a rather humble Eminem comes to term with his immature past self. It has reworked lines from MMLP's famed "The Real Slim Shady" and samples Joe Walsh's "Life's Been Good".
The four singles leading to the album were pretty different from each other. Eminem's "Survival" in the more-competitive-than-ever rap industry is accompanied by Liz Rodrigues' chorus. Eminem and Rihanna ponder about the side-effects of life under the limelight in "The Monster". Eminem pays homage to old-school hip-hop in "Berzerk", which is considered one of the weakest tracks of the album. But he reminisces old conflicts and other rappers on the scene in "Rap God" which was critically acclaimed for Eminem's speed in the track, as well as for the lyrics.
"Headlights", featuring Nate Reuss, is probably the shocker in this album. Any Eminem fan knows his turbulent relationship with his mother, Debbie Mathers. In this track, Marshall apologises to his mother for all the curses he threw her way all these years and especially for the verses from his old track, "Cleaning out My Closet". He praises her for having played the role of both a mother and a father in absence of Eminem's actual father, stating that this struggle is what tore them apart. This is a very heart-warming song that witnesses Eminem's enhanced maturity and humility.
"The Marshall Mathers LP 2" has several guest artists and samples quite a few songs as beats or choruses. MMLP2 has been critically acclaimed, although many still wonder if making a sequel to one of his most celebrated albums was a good idea or not. Surely Eminem had foreseen that speculation when he said, "To me, it's more about the vibe, and it's more about the nostalgia."
Personally, I didn't like the album on the first go as it seemed a bit incoherent to me but it slowly started making sense after consequent listens. Then again, I'm biased towards Eminem.


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Grand Opening of the Lomography Store Los Angeles
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Photographs from the opening party at Lomography Los Angeles. We (alpacaangel and blue-dog) met lots of people and a few lomographers. We even gave a short, mini interview how lomography is for "…fun, non pretentious fun.." to Karen Maze of the Los Angeles Examiner.com We showed off our Diana Mini's and how alpacaangel modified them so as not to lose the lens cap. We ate some really great tacos camarones and had something nice to drink. And the Mariachi Band was great and endured graciously, lots of picture taking. We had a blast at this opening alpacaangel and me, blue-dog.
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Plants vs. Zombies 2 has been downloaded more than 200 million times across Android and iOS – it's free-to-play, which makes having a green (rotting) thumb easier than ever.
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Zombie Killers, the wait is over! The latest update from Plants vs. Zombies 2 introduces Medieval Zombies that want nothing more than to eat brains in the dark of night. The update, which introduces a whole new world of levels to the popular strategy game, also brings the return of fan-favorite plants Sun-shroom, Puff-shroom, and Hypno-shroom, as well as the debut of the new Sun Bean. As for new Zombies, watch out for Knight Zombie, Jester Zombie and more.
With over 200 million downloads to date, Plants vs. Zombies 2, available on the App Store and Google Play is an ever-expanding universe of fun! And zombies – lots and lots of zombies.


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Bess and Kaisa land on top of the Knight Academy in the late hours of day, her golden hair and his golden feathers illuminated by the orange light of dusk. The navy storm clouds glow with the eerie light as the sun falls below the horizon, leaving a trail of rosy blood in its wake.
Suppressing a giggle, Bess hops off Kaisa and lowers herself over the eave of the building.
"Stay quiet Kaisa, or you'll ruin it!" Bess whispers to her loftwing before dropping down to land on the windowsill.
She steps lightly into the room, placing her feet delicately so to keep the floorboards from creaking.
Her toes wiggle on the red plush carpet as she opens the single wardrobe in the room. On the bottom of the wardrobe, wrapped in red cloth, is the prize. Bess picks it up and replaces it with a garment of the same colour from the back of the cupboard, arranging it so that the missing object still appears to be there.
Snorting with laughter, Bess tip-toes out of the room.
On the roof, Bess sits-down cross-legged and unwraps the prize. The metal glints orange as the pieces chink against eachother. Kaisa bends his head down and Bess puts the helmet on him, grinning.
"You nearly look as grumpy as Seige," Bess mutters. Kaisa narrows his eyes and stares at Bess, making a low growl-like noise in his throat.
Bess scrambles back, eyes wide, "Woah, woah! Better!"
The duo settle down and Bess attaches the battle claws to Kaisa's feet before flying down to the front of the Sparring Hall, where the Residents of Skyloft are trailing in. The space is ringed with lanterns and tables of food. Arren, a new student at the Knight Academy, is playing the lyre and Kina is singing a song called 'Farore's Courage'.
"Hey!" Zyke calls out, "Look who we have here!"
People call out and cheer as Kaisa beats air down on them with his wings. Bess and Kaisa land among the people and are greeted by slaps on the back and laughter.
"How in Skyloft did you get Siege's armour?!?"
"You little rascals!"
"Where's Wren?"
Bess grins, "She's in the bath ... she should be finished about now. Seige is probably hiding somewhere, ready to come out when Wren is ready. He's not very social."
There's an explosion of laughter as Kaisa stomps around with his wings slightly spread, glaring at people and growling in his throat. A perfect immitation of Seige.
Then everything goes quiet. Even Arren and Kina stop. Arren raises his eyebrows at Bess and she turns around.
Wren and Seige.
Wren has her arms crossed, but Bess can tell she's laughing on the inside. "How'd you get into my room?" she asks Bess, and then her voice betrays her and she bursts out laughing. She gives Bess a friendly shove and grins as Kaisa stomps around again, then gives a startled squawk as Seige takes chase. Wren and Bess leap onto their loftwings as the crowd cheers them on. Zyke's loftwing Brillo swoops in and he joins in. Eventually Arren hands the lyre over to Kina and jumps onto his loftwing, Dee.
The yelling of the crowd grows distant as the three loftwings and their riders chase Kaisa and Bess into the storm front.


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This same soft-on-crime voting bloc apparently does give a flying fuck about young Perez. �The day after [Judge] Kaye's ruling, when I turned on my computer, I had received hundreds of e-mails. More than 300!� Perez said following last week's forum. �Now, some of them were critical, saying, �You got what you deserved.' But most of them -- nearly all of them -- were very, very supportive.�
Like Hernandez, both Perez and his father �are old-style Cuban politicians,� says Armando Pomar, one of the defeated District 7 school board candidates. �[They] appeal to the Cuban voters, the old Cubans who remain nostalgic for their country. And with a turnout of less than 30 percent, most of these people that went to vote were these older Cubans.�
Those aging exiles were primed for voting by the elder Perez, a long-time Miami politician who's engine remains perpetually stuck in campaign mode. The Perez name is well-known in the Cuban community from the elder's frequent visits to nursing homes and senior centers, and by his high-profile ownership of Lincoln-Martí, the private school chain attended by Elian Gonzalez. The elder Perez appears regularly on Radio Mambí. His face and name are plastered all over each week's copy of his Libre newspaper -- ostensibly a nonprofit educational vehicle.
Demetrio J. is so dependent on his father's name and political machinery, he makes George W. Bush look like an orphan. In recent weeks Demetrio J.'s face has begun competing for space in Libre. The younger Perez put his name on the ballot as Demetrio Perez, prompting obvious confusion with his father. His father cut radio commercials for his son, which only served to confuse potential voters further.
It was the father who outfitted young Demetrio for a political career in the first place, giving him a one-dollar-per-year position on the elder's school board staff. Thanks to his father, the son, a full-time law student who has never run for office and who entered the District 7 race at the last minute, has been able to raise more than $76,000 for his campaign. As of the last financial reporting-period deadline, August 31, opponent Jacqueline Pepper had collected a mere $1500 in donations.
Like father, like son regarding ethics, too, especially when it comes to residency. Four years ago, during his initial campaign for the school board's District 5 seat, the elder Perez claimed on his voter registration form to live with friends in an apartment near the Orange Bowl, inside District 5. But his concealed-weapon permit indicated he lived outside the district, at the Palace Condominium on Brickell Avenue, where he has actually resided for more than a decade. His driver's license and other public documents were linked to the headquarters of his private school chain, which is also outside District 5. �I can change my residence like I change my watch,� he told New Times back in 1997. �I move from one to another. It doesn't make any difference.�
Such brazen opportunism, coupled with his arrest last year for trying to carry two loaded handguns onto an airplane at Miami International Airport, did nothing to diminish the elder Perez's popularity; he was re-elected on September 5. No one dared run against him.
The father's invincibility even in the face of scandal has been passed down a generation and is reflected in the son's campaign literature. Despite all his troubles explaining his residency, the younger Perez still made �honesty� the centerpiece of his campaign platform.
�I've always been honest with everybody,� Demetrio J. explained in the Palmetto auditorium as a handful of potential voters lingered after the event, sipping coffee or soda from plastic cups. �From the first moment, I said I was doing it [changing residences] to qualify. It's unusual. I don't think there's anybody else out there who moved themselves three times in one week like I did.�
Last week the Herald and WPLG-TV (Channel 10) reported the State Attorney's investigation of Demetrio J.'s campaign. Both news organizations also chipped away further at the credibility of the young candidate's residency claims. Apparently there is no farmhouse on the ten-acre property where Perez claimed to have spent a week. Nor is there residential electricity or running water.
Perez's twenty-year-old girlfriend, Susan Brown, testified in court that Perez lived on the farm for a week, saying �there was a bathroom there, shoes there, he had ... clothes there, a bed there, stuff to eat, some juice.� Yet the only structures on the property are a thatched chickee and a small tool shed. A neighbor swears nobody even camped out there during the week Perez alleges he called it home.
At the forum, a day before the new developments were publicized, Perez insisted he did live on the farm as he claims. �There is a house,� he said, expressing bafflement at how someone could claim otherwise. �It has running water, electricity, everything. The only reason I moved [off the farm] is because it was too far away. I had to get up at 4:30 in the morning.
�It's unusual, I'll grant you that,� he repeated, referring to his living arrangements. �But my entire political history is completely unique.�
Not exactly.


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Our dearest Dr. Jerry Blaylock went to be with her Lord and Savior on May 16, 2011 at Christopher House Hospice in Austin. Jerry was born on March 21, 1930 in San Angelo, TX. She was the daughter of the late William Arley and Alpha Spencer Blaylock of Eldorado, TX.
Dr. Blaylock enjoyed a varied and distinguished career in nursing.
She received four academic degrees including a baccalaureate degree in physical education from Sul Ross University in Alpine, TX; a baccalaureate degree in nursing from Baylor University in Waco, TX; a master's degree in nursing from The University of Texas Medical Branch School of Nursing in Galveston, TX; and a doctoral degree in Nursing Education from Teachers College, Columbia University in New York.
Dr. Blaylock started her long nursing career in public health in the South Texas valley, and then she worked at M. D. Anderson Cancer Hospital in Houston. She entered the field of nursing education at the University of South Carolina in Columbia; from there she went to the School of Nursing at the UT Medical Branch in Galveston.
From 1968 to her retirement in 1991, she was an Associate Professor at the School of Nursing at The University of Texas at Austin. She endeared herself to her many undergraduate and graduate students through her never-ending commitment to quality care for patients. Through her high standards, support, guidance, and wonderful gift of wit, she helped numerous novice nurses achieve goals they never dreamed possible. As an outstanding teacher and clinical role model, she was thrilled to be recognized with awards for teaching excellence eight times over her career. Consequently, many in the nursing profession remember her today as an important mentor and friend.
Dr. Blaylock also received numerous other honors. Among them was induction as a Fellow into the prestigious American Academy of Nursing. Additionally, she was recognized for her contributions to the rehabilitation of the mentally retarded by being named Outstanding Educator of the Year by the Association for Retarded Citizens.
Over the years, Jerry served on numerous professional committees and assumed leadership roles in various groups. Among them, she served as Faculty Adviser for The University of Texas at Austin Nursing Students' Association. She also was Chairperson of the Committee to develop the Alternate Entry to the Master's Program in Nursing, an alternative route for preparing well-qualified persons to enter the profession. This program remains extremely popular and its graduates are highly regarded by varied health care facilities.
Having grown up on a ranch, Jerry became an accomplished horseback rider in her early years. She participated in rodeos in Texas and South Carolina, winning several blue ribbons. Additionally, while competing against top riders from seven states, she won a regional championship in barrel racing.
Since her retirement, Jerry continued various humanistic endeavors. She remained active with the Association for Retarded Citizens, Special Olympics, and summer campaigns for Fans for the Elderly. She also served as a volunteer for Meals on Wheels, and ran errands and did grocery shopping for homebound elderly. Her compassion for older persons further extended to driving them to doctors' appointments and visiting them in hospitals and nursing homes. Additionally, she always carried miniature cars and Dora dolls in her pocket to give young children in restaurants and other public places. Sometimes she rewarded them for their good behavior. On other occasions, the small gifts were used to distract children who were acting out. Either way, the surprised parents were pleased and grateful.
Jerry enjoyed traveling to Eldorado, TX to visit family and to Galveston, TX. She loved to feed the seagulls along the seawall and watch the brown pelicans dive for fish in the Gulf of Mexico. She was also fond of New Mexico, especially Red River.
Jerry has always been a true humanitarian whose presence made the world a better place, a consummate professional with a wonderful sense of humor and a fun story to tell, and a thoughtful and generous sister, aunt, and friend who will be greatly missed. Besides her parents, her brother, Billy Frank Blaylock, a younger sister, Judy Blaylock, and a nephew, Mark Nikolauk, predeceased her. She is survived by her sister and brother-in-law, Ebba and John Nikolauk of Eldorado; nephews Mike, Bill, and Brett Nikolauk of San Angelo and Steve Blaylock of Midland; nieces Frankie Hardy of Irving, TX, Billie Gayle Gray of Kerrville, TX, and Eva Jo Sessom of Eldorado and their families, and her sister-in-law Mabel Blaylock of San Angelo. Additionally, she leaves her life-long and devoted friend, Dr. Bonnie Rickelman of Austin. Further, a host of faculty colleagues, former nursing students, and community friends mourn her loss.
Jerry's family and Dr. Rickelman extend heartfelt thanks to the nurses, doctors, and staff at Hospice Austin's Christopher House and to the dear friends who were steadfast at her side—SR. Joan Reisch, Dr. Barbara Petrosino, Dr. Marlene Weitzel, Jeanette Wolf and Betty Thomas.
The family will receive friends from 3:00 P.M. to 4:00 P.M., Thursday, May 19, 2011 with Services to follow at 4:00 P.M. in the Chapel of Cook-Walden/Forest Oaks Funeral Home with Rev. Peter Castles officiating.
Graveside Services will be at 10:30 A.M., Saturday, May 21, 2011 at Eldorado Cemetery in Eldorado, TX.
Those wishing to make memorial contributions in honor of Dr. Blaylock may do so by sending them to the School of Nursing, The University of Texas at Austin, 1700 Red River, Austin, TX 78701, (512)471-7311, www.utexas.edu/nursing or to Hospice Austin, 4107 Spicewood Springs Road, Suite 100, Austin, TX 78759, (512)342-4700, www.hospiceaustin.org.
Condolences may be made at www.cookwaldenforestoaks.com.
Arrangements under the care of Cook-Walden/Forest Oaks Funeral Home, 6300 W. William Cannon Drive, Austin, Texas 78749, (512) 892-1172.


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Sony have announced that LittleBigPlanet 2 is to get several very special DLC packs over the course of the next couple of months.
The new DLC packs are the Final Fantasy VII pack; which contains Sephiroth, Cloud, Aeris, Tifa and bonus Vincent costume, there's also a Toy Story 3, infamous 3 and a Killzone 3 mini-pack. The Final Fantasy VII DLC pack will be priced as follows:
- €1.99 / £1.59 each:Sephiroth costume, Cloud costume ,Aeris costume, Tifa costume
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Culture Clash: THE STORIES
South Africa and its many CULTURES.
South Africa boasts 11 (ELEVEN) OFFICIAL LANGUAGES and just as many CULTURES.
The current REGIME, the ANC, practices a policy of INTEGRATION as a solution to the wrongs of APARTHEID.
It is however ignoring the differences in CULTURAL GOODS portrayed and adhered to by the different GROUPS.
Take the following stories for instance.
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Flies cause Sangoma to Disappear
Sangoma arrested for Animal Cruelty
My dad cooked my Dog:
Enoch Receives his "Kingship" certificate:
Witchcraft and possession: My girl is possessed!
Blame the witch doctor for South Africa's dismal performance at the 2010 Soccer World Cup:
Desmond Tutu grants first class tickets to heaven:
Witch doctor looses his special snake:
African Justice is swift and brutal:
Viewing wild life as a menace:
Witch doctor bewitches journalists:
Being haunted by the Ancestors because you STOLE from the POOR:
Zombies exist!:
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Every single report made me SICK. These are not civilised people. These are people who still require at least 300 years of 'evolution.'


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TODAY: Quiet and mild today before series of Pacific storms move through the state this weekend! We'll start the day with some clouds, but are expecting mostly sunny skies by afternoon with a bit of a breezy and our mildest temps for the next week! High for Colorado Springs will reach 51 degrees...Pueblo, Canon and the plains make it to near 60. There will be spots east of I-25 around La Junta and Lamar that could have some wind gusts over 40 mph. Later this afternoon snow showers will begin for the central and southwest mountains. Most of the high country, west of the Continental Divide, are covered by advisories through late Sunday or Monday. 12" of snow possible around Vail & Beaver Creek. 16" of snow are possible around Monarch, Crested Butte, Wolf Creek and Telluride. Good news for skiers, but bad news if you plans to try and travel over any of the mountain passes.
TONIGHT: As the first storm slams into the mountains we'll still see quiet conditions and milder temps here overnight. Upper 20's in the Springs to around 30 in Canon City, Walsenburg and Trinidad. A bit gusty at times as well through Saturday. Pueblo tonight will be a touch milder also with lows in the 20's.
SATURDAY: Mostly cloudy and chilly temps. Highs of only 43 and 50 for Colorado Springs and Pueblo. More clouds during the afternoon and a chance, thanks to storm number 1, of some light snow across the mountains close to home and maybe a light shower or two after 3 pm for El Paso County and the Springs. This first storm will likely pass to far to the north to bring much hope of moisture to Pueblo or the plains...instead we expect mostly dry skies and gusty winds. By evening a stray light snow shower will be possible for all of eastern Colorado overnight and to start Sunday.
SUNDAY: Colder still with another slight chance about only 20-30% of a light snow shower or two. Chances for snow will be higher over mountains west of I-25..including Teller County, the Wets and Sangre's. Storm number two begins dropping more snow for the mountains across the Divide and by late in the day and evening across eastern Colorado. High temps only make it to the 30's for almost all of the lower elevations. Mountain temps only reach the 20's!
MONDAY: Snow showers are possible to start the day for the lower and higher elevations and it will be even colder still. Max temps only in the twenties for the Springs and Pueblo....mostly teens in the mountains.
TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY: Quieter and slightly warmer weather returns. Temps in the 30's on Monday with partly cloudy skies...warming into the 40's and lower 50's by Wednesday with sunny conditions. Overnight another storm will start to bring some more light snow for the mountains.
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. --- The top 25 teams in the country remained the same in the ESPN.com/USA Softball Collegiate Top 25 Poll as announced today by the Amateur Softball Association. After six weeks of action, the Washington Huskies stay at No. 1 with all 25 first place votes despite its second loss of the season coming from DePaul. The Arizona Wildcats remained close behind at No. 2 while Michigan moved into the No. 3 spot with a 4-1 record at the Judi Garman Classic including win over Arizona. Click here to view the entire poll. Tied for No. 9 are Oklahoma, who recorded a 5-3 weekend, and Stanford who climbed two spots after a 5-0 run at the Stanford Louisville Slugger Classic. LSU jumped up to No. 12 with five SEC victories and currently is riding a 21-game win streak. The Tar Heels fell three notches suffering three losses, two coming from ACC foe then No. 9 Georgia Tech. The University of Illinois who recorded a 5-1 weekend performance advanced from No. 22 to No. 20 this week. Ohio State fell to No. 22 after going 2-3 at the USF "The Game" Tournament. About ASA The Amateur Softball Association, founded in 1933, is the National Governing Body of softball in the United States and a member of the United States Olympic Committee. The ASA has become one of the nation's largest sports organizations and now sanctions competition in every state through a network of 76 local associations. The ASA has grown from a few hundred teams in the early days to over 210,000 teams today, representing a membership of more than three million. For more information on the ASA, visit www.asasoftball.com. About USA Softball USA Softball is the brand created, operated and owned by the ASA that links the USA Men's, Women's, Junior Boys' and Junior Girls' National Team programs together. USA Softball is responsible for training, equipping and promoting these four National Teams to compete in international and domestic competitions. The USA Softball Women's National Team is one of the only two women's sports involved in the Olympic movement to capture three consecutive gold medals at the Olympic Games since 1996. The U.S. women have also won eight World Championship titles including the last six consecutive as well as claimed two World Cup of Softball titles. For more information about USA Softball, please visit www.usasoftball.com.
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With an announcement on the future of council housing finance due this month, social housing lawyer Kate Silverman examines what the current proposals would mean for local authorities and housing associations.
Housing and local government minister Grant Shapps' recent announcement that the coalition government is committed to an overhaul of the council house financing system will be welcomed by many.
The current housing revenue account subsidy system requires local authorities to record all income and expenditure in relation to their housing stock in their housing revenue account. This system is also the method by which central government determines the level of subsidy local housing authorities require. Where authorities' assumed expenditure exceeds their assumed income, they are deemed to be 'in deficit' and where their income exceeds expenditure, they are deemed to be 'in surplus'.
Critically, where an authority is in surplus, the surplus is required to be transferred along with up to 75 per cent of all right to buy receipts to central government, where the receipts are pooled and paid to housing authorities which are 'in deficit' - and therein lies the issue.
For many years local authorities in surplus have expressed the view that they are financing local housing authorities that are in deficit. It has somewhat unjustifiably been viewed by residents (who are themselves heavily subsidised) to be a 'tenants tax' where tenants in one housing authority are paying for tenants in another housing authority through their rent.
Somewhat ironically given the current economic climate and the historical debt burdening some local authorities, the HRA subsidy system at a national level is predicted to make a surplus of £34 billion over the next 30 years. Even after taking into account the current debt and servicing costs of £21 billion this still leaves a healthy surplus of £13 billion.
It is probably this more than anything which has led to calls that the system is no longer 'fit for purpose' and has meant that the time is now right for reform.
Plans for reform
It was against this background in June 2009, that John Healey, the then Labour housing minister announced the government's intention to dismantle the current system.
Published earlier this year, the proposals in effect put a deal on the table whereby local authorities could buy the right to future surpluses, in return for taking on extra debt now. The amount of total debt would be determined on a notionally discounted stock valuation and divided amongst local authorities in accordance with their ability to pay, based on assumed rental income.
The notional discount is intended to give council's headroom to start building new council housing. However, crucially, borrowing would be capped at a level equivalent to the initial debt allocation.
So what does all this mean for housing associations? There is no doubt that the drive towards localism, the opening up of access to capital grant, and the recent announcement by the coalition of the new homes bonus (the scheme to match council tax raised from new homes for six years) shows the political will to devolve power to local authorities and to see local authorities build more homes.
Local authorities have started building again, and there is undoubtedly an appetite on their part for house building. If the current proposals are implemented, however, local authorities are simply not going to have access to enough capital to seriously compete with housing associations unless the cap on borrowing is lifted, which seems unlikely given current levels of public debt.
However, housing associations cannot afford to be complacent. If reform goes ahead, local authorities could be able to fund replacement housing through revenue and right to buy receipts as soon as 2011/12. This represents both a challenge and an opportunity for housing associations. Local authorities may need to deploy housing associations' expertise, but they may not be quite so willing to sell or gift public land to housing associations in future, if they can build new housing themselves.
For more information please contact Kate Silverman on 020 3465 4167. Kate is a specialist social housing lawyer at law firm TLT.
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I understood the phrase "tax on tenants" to mean the situation whereby rent levels are higher than is necessary to keep the national Housing Revenue Account balanced. Where you have HM Treasury creaming off any national HRA surplus from CLG, then tenants could rightly claim that they are funding non-housing expenditure from their rents - i,e, paying a kind of stealth tax. Whether you agree with that analysis or not, it strikes me as a bit patronising to characterise that view as "somewhat unjustifably" held.
The big lacuna in Ms Silverman's analysis is that the figure for housing benefit is not keyed into the equation.
In many inner London boroughs 70% of the tenants are on housing benefit.
The surplus therefore on the national account is purely notional.
Money taken from the taxpayer is used to subsidise tenants which results in a billion-pound surplus.
This is accountancy worthy of planet adventurers such as Progressive Solutions Required but for bog-standard earthlngs this transubstantiation exercise to generate a surplus is a tenant subsidy.Indeed. Although the author does not buy into the overt falsehoods spread by the likes of DCH that these benefit dependent tenants in HRA surplus boroughs are somehow "subsidising" the taxpayer - as various mathematically challenged Spartist loons have claimed in the pages of this forum and elsewhere. "It has somewhat unjustifiably been viewed by residents (who are themselves heavily subsidised)" she says. Quite. Heavily subsidised Sparts. Got that?
The author makes reference to building through RTB receipts. RTB is dead. Prescott killed it with his £16K cap. As IH figures have revealed RTB is at an all time low, thanks solely to Prescott. The only place RTB is healthy is in Scotland where old style tenancies still attract the full discounts. Unless Prescott's cap is scrapped, forget about RTB.
In terms of where Government is going with the settlement for HRA dismantling, it is difficult the see the earlier proposals sailing through without dissent. The Trowers & Hamlin excel file breakdown published here earlier showed 5 out of 5 of the Top 5 HRA debtors are £3.2Bn in debt to the national HRA and are all Labour Councils. That debt was to be distributed across the other 167 councils in system with 16 out of the top 20 HRA surplus boroughs who were to receive that debt being Tory. Whether Pickles will stomach that proposal is open to question especially being that 3 out of the 5 top debtors are inner London municipalised boroughs with vast portfolios of social housing that vastly London average of 26%. The boroughs could be instructed to sell some of their portfolios to pay down their unsustainable debt rather than expecting more prudent councils, elsewhere in London and around the country, to pay for their past spending sprees. That would be true Localism in action...What's the betting that Pickles is going to take a typical Tory attitude on rights and responsibilities.
Those spendthrift Labour councils which have built up massive deficits are going to have to eat humble pie and pay down their debts with stock sales.I wouldn't want to be labelled a 'spart' but the facts on council housing subsidy contradict what is being said here.
Council housing nationally makes a surplus, there is no cash injection. There is what economists like to call an 'economic subsidy' that reflects the opportunity cost, which is the difference between the market and the social rent. But you would also have take into account the fact that the current value of the estate is so much greater than its original cost, so you end up going round in semantic circles. It's much more sensible to see subsidy as a cash injection or a relief against a specific tax designed to achieve a policy objective.
The HRA system is virtually neutral in the national subsidy/tax calculation. It takes from some councils and gives to others, mostly due to historical accident - who built what under which regime and who sold what under which regime. But over time it had become a monster that no-one understood or could rationally explain. The Labour government spent a long time talking to tenants, landlords and experts before devising a way out of this system and into something that would be locally managed and would give council housing a secure future - and even opened up the possibility of new council house building. Shapps should implement it without delay.
The point about housing benefit is just a diversion. There are subsidies in all tenures that help individuals afford to pay for their homes - Labour went a long way in extending the system beyond social and private tenants to give help to home owners as well. One day we might have a system that applies equally to all tenures based on need. But it is not right or fair to pick out social tenants as if they were the sole beneficiaries of income support for housing costs.
Whatever its problems, and there are many, council housing has proved to be an extraordinarily effective financial model, with surpluses on some homes cross subsidising the cost of other homes that make a deficit. It has made a huge contribution to meeting the nation's housing needs, and will do so again given the chance.So Len White wants the freedom to walk, talk and think like a Spart without being labelled a Spart. The duck that would rather be a hobbit.
I'll keep it simple. Where does £12.5bn worth of housing benefit for social tenants go if it doesn't go into the housing revenue account? Better still, why do the CEs of social housing providers scream blue murder if there is the suggestion of a reduction in HB.So this is what it is like to be savaged by anonymous. Reminds me of the story about Geoffrey Howe and the dead sheep.
I did not say that council tenants do not receive HB. What I said was that there is an income related benefit available in each tenure to help meet their housing costs. The availability of ISMI – income support for mortgage interest – does not mean that home ownership is 'subsidised' just as the availability of local housing allowance and housing benefit do not mean that private renting and social renting are subsidised. It simply means that people on low incomes are given help to meet their housing costs – I would prefer it to be even more tenure-blind than it is already.
Council housing has suffered from narrow ideology and stigmatisation for far too long. The baby has been thrown out with the bathwater. It could make a huge contribution to meeting housing needs if a little common sense was applied in place of bigotry.
Labour's HRA reform package is attractive to many Conservatives – localist, business-like, covering costs whilst opening up the possibility of more housebuilding. The coalition talks a lot about the new politics – implementing HRA reform would be a very good example of new politics in action.So what are the figures for ISMI versus HB? More pertinently, is ISMI remotely in the £12.6bn category? The difference in support is of such a degree that it is clearly a difference of kind.
Labour's HRA reform package was a pille of freshly-minted pooh. It wanted to lumber well-managed Conservative-run housing authorities with the reckless deficits of piss-poor Labour-run ones. See the Trower and Hamblin Excel spreadsheet on this site.
What is attractive about that apart from to a numpty Sparty, unfairly stigmatised as a dead sheep drowned in bath water and suffering narrow ideology in search of a little common sense in place of bigotry and new politics.A pathetic post as usual from anonymous. What kind of mind produces such insulting rubbish? Please get help. Nobody with any experience of Westminster and Hammersmith Councils will recognise the phrase 'well-managed Conservative Councils'. The councils with deficits were those that built homes for their people in times past. Councils generally accepted the HRA reform proposals as the best way forward. Even Tory ones.
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Curtain call: 'Cats' slinks its way to Houston this spring
By by aprill brandon
Jan. 18, 2011 at 7:04 p.m.
Updated Jan. 18, 2011 at 7:19 p.m.
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Through Feb. 12 at various venues
"Billy Elliot"
Feb. 23-March 13 at Hobby Center
April 12-17 at Hobby Center
"Legally Blonde: The Musical"
Through Sunday at Majestic Theatre
"All Good Things"
Through Feb. 12 at The Overtime Theater
All right, if you read the headline, you know where this is going. So let's just get these cat-related puns over with, shall we?
It's a purr-fectly divine show. In fact, you could say it's the cat's meow. At times, it's a downright hair-raising tail. Fur many people, it makes them stop and paws at the magic that is "Cats." You'll leave feline-ing good. And you'll always carry the "Memory" of the show with you.
OK, OK, I'll stop. But what better way to announce that "Cats," one of the longest running musicals in theater history, is coming to Houston in April?
Based on T.S Eliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" and featuring award-winning music composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, "Cats" has been performed all over the world since its debut in 1981 on London's West End, according to the musical's official website, www.catsthemusical.com. The show has become a pop culture phenomenon, with devotees all over the world. There are even fan-created websites devoted to the show, such as (not kidding) "CatAnna's Jellicle Jungle."
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I've playing with Zend Framework. (ZF) for a personal project at the time, and there is a lot to like about ZF but you also have to realize it can be quite a monster to wrap your head around. Especially if you're dealing with the MVC package of the framework.
The goal was to have access to easy action based caching, by utilizing any of the Zend_Cache
frontends. I'd read a bit about the plugin infrastructure of ZF components and it seemed pretty standard.
I figured an action helper helper extending Zend_Controller_Action_Helper_Abstract
would accomplish what i needed as it would give me pre and post dispatch hooks. The idea was just to hook into postDispatch
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class Helper_ActionCache
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public function preDispatch() {
public function postDispatch() {
protected function fire($when) {
$req = $this->getRequest();
$actionName = strtoupper($req->getActionName());
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It's basically just a stupid logger that appends to the content of the page
so i'd be able to figure out what time the hooks are run, and if i have access to the
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I had to perform a couple of tests to see if everything worked out in each of the different scenarios.
So i wired stuff up, creating my IndexController
and my actions and noted the results on each of them.
class IndexController extends Zend_Controller_Action {
public function init() {
$helper = $this->_helper->getHelper('actionCache');
public function indexAction() {}
public function byrenderAction() {
public function nestedAction() {}
public function outerAction() {}
public function innerAction() {}
<?= $this->action('outer', 'index') ?>'
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Um.. That was not exactly what i expected. And this was just for a plain action being called directly. Doesn't look good.
)> BYRENDER Content... < BYRENDER
Calling a plain action doesn't work, but rendering another action inside one does? Weird.
)> NESTED < NESTED > INDEX Content... < INDEX < INDEX
What the heck is going on here? Nothing from the outer
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Again. Confusing.
I set out creating a simple solution for action based caching with ZF and it seems as i've failed miserably at doing it. Is the approach wrong? I'm not sure. If the helper is not supposed to work like this (on plain actions) why is it seemingly invoked in the first place?
If you have anything to say about this, please don't hesitate to leave a comment. I'd love for this type of solution to work, as it seems like something really useful. Without a great deal of overhead. I know i will appreciate it very much.
If it turns out this is indeed not intended behaviour i might give a shot at turning it into unit tests, or even fixing it myself, if i'd be able to fully comprehend the ZF dispatch cycle.


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Gene Wu: Backyard Progressivism
Before I became involved in politics, I learned that there are real people in our communities who need hands-on assistance, people who are desperate for others to help lead them out of poverty. Beyond the typical political rhetoric of what we would like to see government do (or, in the case of some, not do) […]
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Interview with Gene Wu
The second candidate running to succeed Rep. Scott Hochberg in HD137 that I interviewed is Gene Wu. Gene is currently a felony prosecutor in the Harris County District Attorney's office, and he also has legislative experience, having previously been the Chief Clerk for the House Higher Education Committee for the Texas Legislature. He is currently […]
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quote:she wrecked her marriage? i'm shocked
quote:I work with another ugly chick who has a good body I can set you up with
quote:like she's pretty hot for a _________
quote:Over/Under months before sex tape? I'm going to say 7.5
quote: I cant stand pretentious bitches like her. If she walked up to me butt frickin naked and begged me to frick her in the arse I'd tell that bitch to get to bending over. Hey, I have standards but I'm not stupid.
quote:She has a body of a 12 year old boy.


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Kensington Palace released a new family photograph of the royals on March 29, featuring the beautiful 8-month-old Prince George with his beaming parents Prince William and Kate Middleton.
The family dog, Lupo also makes an appearance in the photo alongside the happy family. The photo was taken in mid-March and was released ahead of the family's fast approaching trips to New Zealand and Australia.
Prince George Photo Released: Royal Family Poses At Kensington Palace
The photograph, which features Prince George, was taken by Jason Bell. Jason also snapped the official portraits at Prince George's royal christening at Clarence House in October 2013. That photo was also the last time we had an official and good look at the tiny prince.
The photograph features the family looking out of the window in Apartment 1A at Kensington Palace. The Duchess of Cambridge holds her son tight, while the Duke of Cambridge puts his arm around Lupo.
The royal family is arranged in this picture the same way they were in a photo taken in early August, when Prince George was a few weeks old, at the Middleton family home in Bucklebury, Berkshire.
– Bryant Perkins
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Posted at 10:31 PM on April 11, 2014
Kate following Diana footseps will be no time until she pregnant again. I hope she figures out shes not Diana, and finds her self int he shuffle and connects with the peopke. We all want to know the real Kate.
george is adorable!!! God bless him and protect him. Good health and long life baby George!
Posted at 7:46 PM on March 29, 2014


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Food-gnashing compost container tops Grommet awards
The Ecotonix Green Cycler is a compost container for a new age. It doesn't just sit around in your kitchen, silently holding your vegetable scraps. It takes those scraps and eats them up, grinding them into little bits for faster, more convenient composting in your compost bin. The Green Cycler was just honored as a winner of product-launch platform The Grommet's product-pitch showdown, taking top honors in the ready-for-market category.
The $99 Green Cycler first launched in 2012 and has gone through some updates since then. It features a crank-powered set of shredder blades that grind food waste down into a size that composts much more quickly than big chunks.… Read more