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I think I have an addiction... lol. Cold weather has really arrived. After working on DH's throw most of the weekend and my cousin's chemo cap, I wanted to make me a little something.
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I'm getting there. The most important part is complete. I just need to add some length to it ... DH is 6'2 and he wants it to cover the length of his legs. As you can see its a lapghan size for the moment
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This past fall, my cousin was diagnosed with breast cancer. She recently began chemo and losing her hair. I am not one for words or did not know what to say (she told me via text message), so I made this cap in her favorite color.
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It's been a slow progress due to other projects I am trying to complete. Although it will not be done by Christmas, I plan to complete for his birthday in January ... that buys me a little more time, lol.
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My Neon has eight (8) blossoms on one scape. Is that the norm for Neon?
But we want to see pictures!!!
I did well hiding all my pots for Christmas... Good thing I have a "Grow Room" haha. The house I recently bought has 4 bedrooms so I dedicated one to my plants. I used lots of artificial lighting, I have it climate controlled with heaters, coolers, humidifies and such. My plants do quite well but they do much, much better outside in the summer. When things are blooming my family things they're the most beautiful plants in the world. When they're not in bloom their opinions quickly change!
Joshy - I want a separate room! I have all of the outdoors, but it is not enough. You are fortunate to have a hiding place for your hobby/passion.
I grabbed some quick photos of Neon earlier today. Knew it would be too late if I waited for the weekend. I will upload and post in a few days. For someone like me who almost never purchases bulbs, Neon was a really wonderful choice.
Dear fellow growers, what do you make of the flower color? Would you say this is typical Neon? The reason I'm asking is because the flowers I see in the pic on the package are much more pink-saturated and there's much less white in the color scheme. Mine could have come out lighter because of poor light it has been receiving - we haven't seen sun in weeks, and my ineptitude with the camera... Still, it seems much lighter than the flowers in the picture I bought the plant with.
Hi Lena,
Your Neon is the same as mine. Here are some pictures from several different years in the past and as you can see they do have the same amount of white as yours does.
Any pictures that you see on the packages are to my mind not to be trusted not to have been color enhanced.
Six flowers is normal and like Evergreen they can have up to 8!! Yours is very beautiful and it looks like you have a very healthy bulb!
this was taken in 2011
thanks a lot for posting pics - you did put my mind at ease, yours looks exactly like mine - not that i was disappointed with mine or anything, just curious. I guess you are also right about not trusting the color saturation of flowers in the package pics - will always have to keep that in mind.
The bulb is really healthy and beautiful and I hope I can enjoy this plant fro many years to come.
Wow, I didn't realize Neon was so tall! I've read that "Neon," "Neon Rose," "Neon Eon," and "Eon" are all the same plant, is this correct?
Both of you take good pictures, I can see how gorgeous this hippi is. I received one as a gift this month. Mine is labeled "Neon Rose." The bulb is small but is sending up two scapes. Can't wait to see how mine turns out.
I'm not sure if the scape got so tall because it's supposed to be so or because in its final stage of growth we had rather dreary weather and it became a bit elongated. Anyway, it looks absolutely healthy and sturdy.
Donna, was yours as tall?
The cardboard package of the bulb read Amaryllis Galaxy 'Neon'. It is a Dutch bulb, size 30/32 cm. Cost 7.99 euro.
I guess i have seen a number of times Neon and Neon Rose used interchangeably.
Please, post pictures when your bulb blooms!
Looks like I got 4 blooms. Just moved the pots into the greenhouse, so it spent the last 8 months growing. I got blooms last year from it as well. I may have seen a couple offsets. I'm not totally obsessive but I inventory them as the go into the GH, note offsets when I cut the necks and then monitor blooms. Unfortunately, my dog has gotten into the GH the past 2 years and shredded the list of bloomers, with dates, number of scapes and blooms per scape. I am convinced that Laka is very jealous of the amount of attention that the bulbs and the greenhouse get. She will sit in the chair just outside the greenhouse and glare at me as I'm working inside it!
Macroclemys, have you kept the plant in a lot of direct sunlight? I guess the scapes on mine got so long because we had a very dark and rainy spell when they were growing. Nevertheless, both scapes are rather thick and sturdy. I'm also waiting for the second scape to bloom - should be a matter of a day or two. Wonder, how many flowers the second one will have.
It receives maybe a hour or two of sun per day. It seems more likely that mine is stressed. According to the grower, the stem length should be about 55 cm. (http://nlvangeest.nl/wp/en/midi-2/)
Here is a link that might be useful: van Geest
I have just measured my Neon's first scape (the one you can see in the picture in this thread) - you won't believe it, but its over 65 cm, the other currently measures close to 65, might still grow more... If yours is stressed, mine is definitely high on something...
If you like that, here are a couple of sites from other breeders that provide photos and measurements of their products:
My hippeastrum Neon, whose pictures I posted on this thread earlier, has bloomed for me again! Perfect straight scape, 8 flowers! One flower is a bit wilted, unfortunately, as I caught it this way after I came back from a long vacation. Just wanted to share my joy and ask a question: this second blooming - is it a result of the previous growing season ( hence kudos to the seller) or I can attribute it to my own care and good (?) growing conditions? I bought this bulb in October last year.
Here's view from above:
All my three bulbs purchased last fall bloomed second time - one in July, and the other two now. So, all in all, during this growing season my Christmas Gift produced 3 scapes, another 3 appeared on a dark red Hippi and Neon had 2.
Kristi, do your bulbs go dormant at such high temps?
Nope they thrive in the heat! The leaves grow 4 feet or longer! In the autumn I cut them back to about 8 inches and they go dormant from there. They bloom again in the spring. Sometimes I get blooms in the autumn. I check them when I trim them and get the occasional surprise.
Lena, what are your daytime high temperatures right now?
Go down the linked thread to see my hippis enjoying their summer home!
Here is a link that might be useful: hippi (fertilizers) and summer pasture
you have a real hippi plantation there - love it! Found the thread itself also very interesting, thanks!
We enjoyed some hot days - in high 80s - hot by our standards - in July, now it has cooled off a bit so we are in high 60s - low 70s, with enough sunshine but also quite a bit of rain.
Would you say because my Neon has just bloomed the second time (first was late October'13) I shouldn't expect any flowers this winter/spring?
Lena, I think your bulb looks plump and healthy and you have nothing to fear. The way that one layer is splitting in the photo suggests your bulb is growing. I don't know how long it takes to form a flower bud within the bulb, but that fan of leaves is definitely the product of your TLC. Be proud. And enjoy the flowers.
Meanwhile, my Neon has dropped all but one leaf. I thought it wanted a rest, but there's a scape coming. :-)
Edie, thanks for the comments! I never realized that the splitting top layer of the bulb was a sign of growth, which now seems to be a pretty obvious fact. Glad yours is getting ready to put on a show! Please post pictures!
Just wanted to post one last update on my Neon this year. The scape in the picture posted on Oct. 8 did fully develop and bloom, although I only had 6 flowers on this one. They bloomed one after another and the last 2 opened after I'd taken the plant in and were rather pale. Amazingly, it bloomed despite rather low night temps (falling all the way to 3-5 deg. C) and day temps in the range of 8-15 deg. C. The shot was taken on Oct. 26.
I took it in in mid November and pinched off last wilted flower yesterday. The bottom couple of leaves have gone yellow and I took the bulb into my plants' winter quarters were the temps are around 3-10 deg. C.
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Disaster recovery-as-a-service (DRaaS), in my opinion, is one of the most exciting areas I look at. To me, using the cloud for disaster recovery (DR) purposes makes perfect sense: the cloud is an on-demand resource that you pay for as you need it (i.e., during a disaster or testing). Up until now, there haven't been many solutions out there that truly offered DRaaS--replicating physical or virtual servers to the cloud and the ability to failover production to the cloud provider's environment (you can read more about my definition of DRaaS in my recent TechRadar report), but so far today, we've seen TWO new DRaaS platforms announced from VMware and SunGard! Here's a quick roundup of what was announced today:
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We are learning once again that what people want most is to be free
John Quincy Adams (sixth President of the US) said: "Who but shall learn that freedom is the prize…and on the oppressor's head to break the chain." Glorious change. Monumental change. Empowerment and Freedom. I submit humbly but with absolute conviction to all of you that we are in the midst of revolution in personal computing - the extent of which we will only fully comprehend once it's over, and established vendors and IT leaders alike are scattered on the side of the road.
It's not about Microsoft vs. Apple or Google vs. Apple. It's about freedom. Freedom from control. Freedom from establishments. Freedom of identity. Freedom from IT departments too understaffed and ill-equipped to help. Freedom from layers of management agents and miscellaneous junk that sap minutes to hours of productive time from our lives every day. The price of compliance and security you say? Hogwash.
End user experience is at an all-time low
The end user experience has deteriorated to the point that we sit and wait while the hourglass spins, as IT's remote bots take inventory, or install software updates while we're frantically trying to get our slides together for a customer meeting. The mindless bots scan for threats and lock the cursor while we're trying to write an e-mail, and we get embarrassing pop-up reminders while we're presenting to rooms full of people to make sure we know to update Adobe Acrobat. We're as mad as hell, and we're not going to take it any more! Who gave someone the right to assume that what their tool needs to do at any given moment is more important than the work we have to get done?
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Posted by Stephen Mann on August 26, 2011
In a "spare" hour this afternoon I needed to create a list of the Top 20 ITIL adoption mistakes for a Forrester client. An hour later (I made sure I time boxed myself to avoid scope creep … oh dear, scope creep could be included below too) I had 50. Quite scary really.
Anyway, IMO it's an interesting list and most likely incomplete. What it is, however, is something that could potentially be used as a tick list for organizations starting out with ITIL or considering a change of IT service management (ITSM) tool. Please take a read and let me know what I missed (or if you think I am making bits up).
Understanding and Vision
1. Believing the ITIL hype or, for my American friends, "drinking the Kool-Aid". It's about improving the business not adopting ITIL
2. Not understanding what ITIL is, i.e. that it is only a framework. There is no such thing as ITIL-compliance. Oh and ITIL does not equal ITSM and vice versa
3. Not understanding that it isn't about "doing ITIL" but rather that it is about "using ITIL"
4. Thinking that either ITIL is a silver bullet or that it is "the only fruit". What about ISO 20000, COBIT, USMBOK, Six Sigma, and CMMi?
5. Not fully understanding the breadth and depth of the changes it will require across people, process, and technology
6. Not understanding the level of resources (including cost) and commitment needed to adopt it
7. Not understanding the criticality of people to success
Posted by Richard Fichera on August 25, 2011
Intel Raises the Curtain on Poulson
At the Hot Chips conference last week, Intel disclosed additional details about the upcoming Poulson Itanium CPU due for shipment early next year. For Itanium loyalists (essentially committed HP-UX customers) the disclosures are a ray of sunshine among the gloomy news that has been the lot of Itanium devotees recently.
Poulson will bring several significant improvements to Itanium in both performance and reliability. On the performance side, we have significant improvements on several fronts:
Posted by JP Gownder on August 24, 2011
First off, let me say this: I hope that Steve Jobs' health improves, and that he comes out of whatever challenges he's going through in the best of health. He's an amazing, visionary leader of a dynamic company -- and he's also a person with a family. Let's all wish him well.
While famously a CEO, Steve Jobs is also, it should be known, a product strategist par excellence. He's clearly been involved, in a deep way, in the development of Apple's product ideas, product designs, business models, go-to-market strategies, and responses to competition. These are the job responsibilities of product strategists. In his (and Apple's) case, product strategy has risen to the very top of the organization.
Product strategists of two different flavors are wondering how they might be affected by his resignation as CEO (and concomitant request to become chairman):
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For the past few months, I've been heads down talking to our clients about storage refreshes. There have been some technology refreshes, primarily from some product coming up on end of life. However, for the most part, I've been consistently hearing the pain that I&O professionals have been suffering, which is from the storage capacity overload of server virtualization. Many today, however, are suffering even more, because not only do they have the server virtualization storage growth problems, but now it's compounded with VDI, AND the overall private cloud initiatives many organizations have in place. Not only has their storage grown by 50% in the last 12 months, but it's now projected to grow another 50% in the next 12 months. Before another million dollars plus investment is made, many are asking (as should you) the question: Is throwing more hardware going to really solve the problem?
These three BIG initiatives have a significant impact on how storage architectures change. But the reality is that storage has been an afterthought for a long time, and today, there is much change that has to happen. Features such as thin provisioning, deduplication (for primary environments), and compression have all been available for some time now and must be a part of common practice and procedures for managing storage that is supporting virtualization environments. And this is key. Having tools and solutions in place that understand your virtualization environment are critical to the overall success of your private cloud initiative, because storage is one of the integrated foundational blocks of establishing a private cloud environment in your data center. Today, it's difficult to manage your storage without understanding what's happening in the network as well in your server virtualization environment.
Posted by David Johnson on August 21, 2011
Most I&O professionals travel far less than the road warriors they serve, which means they could be missing an important personal connection with new forms of client computing. After years of lugging boat anchor-class laptops around and a broken shoulder from a skiing accident, I gave in last month and bought a new MacBook Air (yup, 13", i7, 4GB, 256GB SSD), and then spent the next month's worth of weekends getting it to work for my job. Here's why I did it, and why people in your firm are doing it too:
"Veev been vaiting for you," the Frau at the front of the 747 hissed as I stepped through the door with a sweat stain on my shirt roughly the shape of Alaska. Those of you who fly frequently on Star Alliance carriers may have noticed that Lufthansa is the only one that doesn't seem to care who you think you are on any other airline. I could be George Clooney (see "Up in the Air") with 10 million miles and a gold card from the chief pilot, and I'd still have to sit in a center seat -- 54F -- in the last row. No matter, it's where I always get to meet fun people like Ginny -- the wisecracking 101 year old grandmother from Wyoming, and Jim -- the head of desktop infrastructure for a large retail chain, who later became a customer.
Posted by John Rakowski on August 19, 2011
Did the word 'free' prompt you to read this post :-) ?
Stephen Mann's post a couple of weeks ago on 'Giving Back To The IT Service Management Community' got me thinking in regards to ways in which the industry could give something back easily. The reality, I believe, is that we need to take ITSM back to its roots, back to focusing on IT customers.
One of the problems I see with ITSM adoption is that it is all too easy to get lost in a framework such as ITIL and to lose focus on the customer element. Unfortunately, ITSM adoption is not a one-size-fits-all approach and so adoption can be different from company A to company B, which means that trying to adopt a process from a guide can be difficult and can feel impossible.
The answer to good ITSM adoption practices lies within those practitioners who have implemented processes, experienced the highs, the lows, the sweat and even the tears. In order to really build best practices these people need to share these experiences back to the rest of the community. So one way I think we could do this is to arrange a 'Free ITSM Practitioner Meet Up' which I thought could maybe be called ITSMME (me=meet up). This would follow the successful Cloudcamp format and would be an evening, free to attend event with an agenda like this:
Posted by Andre Kindness on August 18, 2011
Even though CiscoLive was a month ago, I'm getting a lot of inquiry calls from clients asking me what I thought and what does Cisco's megalaunch mean to them. I feel Cisco's emerging out of their teenage years of taking things for granted and is getting down to business. But is it too late? I don't think so, but Cisco has a lot of work ahead of them to win the hearts and minds of infrastructure and operations personnel. On some strong indicators that positive change is in action, I&O managers can hang their hats on Cisco in three areas:
Posted by Stephen Mann on August 18, 2011
A "bonus" blog today (and hence it is quickly constructed) and the subject area will need to be returned to at a later date. The reason for the bonus blog is that I am a little bit excited.
SysAid, a provider of IT help desk and customer service software solutions, has provided me with a subset of the service desk benchmarking information captured through its customers' use of its software (on an opt-in basis, of course).
To me, this is the sort of stuff that the ITSM community (see my previous blog) is crying out for – information that helps them to understand where they are and what they should aspire to. More information about the SysAid benchmarking is available at http://www.ilient.com/it-performance-benchmark.htm (link is provided for more detail on the definitions for the benchmarks below).
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Important note: If you follow the above link, the assumptions show that the SRs are "incidents."
Quick comment – I am assuming that this is per day but I am seeking clarification. As with all the slides in this blog, please treat with care in the absence of sample sizes.
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Wang Yan Cheng (王衍成, sometime wrote 王衍城) is a Chinese painter born January 9, 1960 in Guangdong province, living and working in France.[1]
Wang Yan Cheng was born in Guangdong province, China in 1960. He graduated from the Shandong Institute of Fine Arts in Yantai in 1985; he then studied in the Chinese Central Institute of Fine Arts between 1986 to 1988; Wang Yan Chen then moved to France to complete his studies at the Saint-Etienne Plastic Arts University, from 1990 to 1992.
The artist has decorated the Beijing Opera with a giant artwork in 2007. In 2008, he was named Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government.
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- French Pavilion, The World Expo 2010 in Shanghai, China
- Musée du Montparnasse, 2010 in Paris, France
- Wang Yan Cheng, Lydia Harambourg et Dong Qiang, Cercle d'Art, 2010
- ^ Wang Yan Cheng, Lydia Harambourg et Dong Qiang, Cercle d'Art, 2010
External link[edit]
- Video documentary on Wang Yancheng on CNTV, Chinese national TV site.
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Found about 2 dozen DEAD Flies in house
I hope someone can come up with a possible answer as to why I found about 2 dozen dead flies in my livingroom today. i found about 8 or 10 on the floor, 1 on the coach, & the remainder on my window sill. I have not sprayed any kind of pesticides or anything inside or out of the house. I can't imagine how they got in. I have seen in the last few days 1 or 2 flying around but the fact that i found so many dead concerns me. I also found a dead bird outside today as well & a few months ago a homing pidgeon died outside my house close to where the bird died. If anyone has any suggestions I'd like to hear them. I am overly concerned as I do have 3 dogs.
Just a wild guess because you didn't give any description of the flies -- most likely from the corpses of the dead animals you've found. The flies arrive after the animal dies and are part of the clean-up crew.
When the maggots have done their part, they leave the body and migrate to a drier place. Since the dead animals were close to your house, they may have ended up in the crawl space or indoors. The next stage is the pupa, then the adult fly.
If the bodies are the origin of the flies, the flies won't be interested in your dogs.
Well do I have one for you. About every 4 months I find about 60 dead flies or soon to be dead flies in my kitchen on the window sill or floor beneath the window. We have looked for something dead under/near the house and can't find anything. This happens for about a week. When I get up in the morning I sweep up about 60 flies. Before I go to bed I sweep up about 60 more. Like I said this goes on for about a week every 4 months. I have been told that this house is haunted. Other than the flies, the TV in my room between the hours 9:30pm-11:30 pm the tv will turn channels by it's self. Other than that nothing else has happened here. We are moving out of this house in 2 weeks. We have not started packing yet. I keep sweeping up dead flies just to sweep up a lot more hours later. This even happens in the fall when it is getting cold out. It is just crazy!!!
silly, silly people. The dead flies have nothing to do with your house being haunted. Active and dead flies found in your house is most likely from dead animals in your walls. Mice and rodents can easily get into the walls of your home and die and the flies feed off of them. And as for t.vs turning off and on... maybe check your menu and see if you have a timer set.


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LeAnn Rimes and Her Trainer Defend Thin Frame
According to PEOPLE, Rimes has said that the "hoopla about my body" has been hurtful.
Recently, the criticism intensified after she tweeted a photo of herself in a skimpy blue bikini while she was on her honeymoon with husband Eddie Cibrian.
Rimes is quoted saying, "For someone like me who is healthy, who works hard for my body, it's very frustrating. I work out and take care of myself, and not in an over-obsessive way."
The 28-year-old country singer also talks about the various names people have called her after seeing the pictures. "People are calling me bulimic or anorexic and these are real issues and diseases – that I don't have."
Rimes' trainer, named Michael Jackson, also adds, "My main concern with her is that she's toned and healthy. And she is."
Get more details on Rimes's diet, workout and health in the latest PEOPLE magazine on stands Friday.
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- Friday 10 JuneBy Amy
Interesting her trainer is named Michael Jackson-someone who was also in denail about his lifestyle choices. She's probably bangin this trainer too. So its hurtful what folks are saying about her-ahhh-poor widdle baby-sort of like how hurtful it was for Eddie's wife when the pictures surfaced when you guys were out in public kissing-when the too of you denied anything was going on? Suck it up and deal with it-you're not get any sympathy from me.
- Thursday 09 JuneBy Annie
Who cares, Leann is nasty and has pretty low morals. Yuck on looks too.
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- Friday 10 JuneBy PHigh Rank Vote downVote upReport this
Right on! She's a home wrecker who doesn't deserve any sympathy. That's not to say that those who are struggling with eating disorders (and she's DEFINITELY one of them - even if she wants to deny it) don't deserve our support. It's a tough disease and some people work very hard at getting over it. Good luck to them!
- Thursday 09 JuneBy sandy
As someone who has wrestled with anorexia and bulimia for nearly a lifetime, AND who has appeared fit and healthy all the while, this constant discussion tweaks the sleeping lion: Eating disorders love to be heard, and Leann's incessant whining and self-defense alerts the radar of those of us who have done the same thing. YES, perhaps she is a teeny creature who is now toned, but the I doubt that the amount of food she eats is sufficient for the number of calories she expends in her training and performing. It would be great to give her the benefit of the doubt, but her approach is not inspiring sympathy; she should opt for silence and getting on with her life.
- Thursday 09 JuneBy nibblett
well said, Sandy!!!!
- Friday 10 JuneBy Cathy
you sound like you know what you're talking about. I like everyone else thinks that there is a problem with her. She just doesn't look healthy, and like you said, it "loves to be heard".
I hope she sees the problem before it's too late. I also hope you are doing well:)
- Friday 10 JuneBy AmyHigh Rank Vote downVote upReport this
Sandy, I too suffered with anorexia at 27 years of age and I denied that anything was wrong with me even though I was at a size I had NEVER been in my entire life. My therapy was to work out to relieve the stress levels in my life however, my food intake was strictly monitored, if I failed to eat my calories in a day I could not work out. Seeing these pictures remind me of me and I think that Leann does have a problem and her trainer is not seeing it either.
- Friday 10 JuneBy dan
Eating disorders are a choice.You either eat or you don't.It's a way to get attention.
- Thursday 09 June
I just wish I could make millions for being ugly and yodeling
- Thursday 09 JuneBy Krejaton
Well you are halfway there...but can you yodel?
- Friday 10 JuneBy amused
You probably could if you just learn to yodel.
- Thursday 09 JuneBy mari
@Sandy, you've said it so eloquently...She should shut her pie hole and eat a couple of pies...She is scarry skinny and it's a shame she can't see that when she looks in the mirror..and that's part of the problem.
- Thursday 09 JuneBy smartmolly
She's still talking about her stupid picture? Nobody cares if she's skinny or fat, or ugly, or happy or sad. She screwed up big time when she cheated, lied, and broke up a family. The nerve she had to disturb Eddie's wife. What a loser!
- Thursday 09 JuneBy methatswho
Eddie's a loser too...did the wife a favor...
- Friday 10 JuneBy Vicky
You are so right. Perhaps it's guilt eating away at her. Can't blame anyone on who they fall in love with but the way it's handled in the end can be helped. She should be ashamed of herself.
- Thursday 09 JuneBy dlmc68
If everyone is saying that you are too skinny then you are too skinny. That is not healthy regardless of what some trainer might think. She needs to find a new trainer and start taking better care of herself.
- Thursday 09 JuneBy smartmolly
I know right? She pays the trainer. He works for her. What is he going to say, you are too skinny and should stop working out and starving yourself so much?
- Thursday 09 JuneBy mannequin
Whatever. A thousand people on the internet criticizing her isn't going to force her to eat. She'll eat when she's hungry and she'll get help when and if she decides she needs it. If she does have a problem, that's up to family to intervene.
- Thursday 09 JuneBy Tammy
Haters, stop being so jealous.
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AITEN March meeting on Wed. 18th 1900~2100 at the Pinnacle Japan office (DSK's office) in Nishi Azabu. We'll be letter-writing to support prisoners of conscience and protest against torture. We will keep on preparing for our next fundraising event to be hold around mid-May. Recently many people have joined the group ! Don't hesitate to …View full post
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Bigotry Determined Webster's New World Dictionary defines "bigot" as "a person who holds blindly and intolerantly to a particular creed, opinion, etc." and "bigotry" as "the behavior, attitude, or beliefs of a bigot."
Police State Thomas Kachadurian's column might get the facts right but misses the story.
Oppose The Shell Game Is this a Shell Game? As a Democrat, I support increased taxes on motor fuels and vehicles to provide funding for our transportation infrastructure.
Sugars On The Way Senator Patrick Colbeck from Canton introduced a bill and the Senate passed it allowing schools and Girl & Boy Scout troops to have up to 3 bake sales per week.
Penn State's punishment
"...the fundamental chapter of this horrific story should focus on the innocent children and the powerful people who let them down."
-- Ed Ray, chairman of the NCAA's executive committee
A months-long coma would have been the only way to have escaped hearing of the tragic events at Penn State. At first, the sickening realization that former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky sexually abused at least eight underage boys on or near university property. Then the deep disappointment in learning an investigation by former FBI director Louis Freeh found school officials, including the school president and vice president, head football coach Joe Paterno, and athletic director had known about the allegations of child abuse as early as 1998, but failed to disclose them.
Now the NCAA has handed down penalties that some say are close to a "death penalty" for the school's football program, including a $60 million fine, four year bowl-ban, loss of some scholarships and withdrawal of wins dating back to 1998. The statue honoring Joe Paterno has been removed by the university. Sadly ironic, the statue's inscription reads, "Educator, Coach, Humanitarian."
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IBM's Teri-is-a-Girl-and-Terry-is-a-Boy Patent 277
from the how-about-lee-and-robin dept.
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who is going to be very irritated when it's assumed she's a boy.
The filing date is February 28, 2008.
The only way a patent gets through that quick is 'Accelerated Examination' (decision in 1 year or less).
Xie would be the last name. Unless you mean is Xie Hua male or female. Either way, Hua sounds feminine to me.
Francis is a boy. Frances is a girl. HTH HAND.
When ever you try to assign gender on anything except the Chromosomes it will fail.
Actually it fails pretty spectacularly when you try to determine it based on chromosomes, too. There are XY women with androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS), and both XXY and XYY men. In many cases, especially those of AIS, they may go their whole lives without knowing that their chromosomes convey something different than their sex organs.
And using sex organs starts to fail as well when you get into intersexed and transgendered people; someone's sex organs may not match the gender they 'pass' as in social contexts, or that they prefer to be treated as.
It is anything but a black and white issue.
an expansive list of names compiled from those used in many different cultures catalogued according to gender (that is, male, female, or unisex), a list of rules for associating a username not included in the list of names with a particular culture, and a list of rules derived from naming conventions that are employed in many different cultures catalogued culturally, linguistically, nationally, regionally, and/or according to other relevant anthroponomastic criteria.
Why would Xie be the last name? I know someone by this name, and Hua happens to be the family name (I'm Chinese btw). I also know someone by the name of Xie Chen. (obviously Chen is the last name here). In the first case, Xie Hua is a guy, in the second case, Xie Chen is a girl.
I wonder what the origin of that difference is?
American girls keep stealing boys' names. No, seriously. Check out chapter 6 of Freakonomics [wikipedia.org].
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Dem. Candidate for U.S. Senate, Nels Mitchell
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Situated in the heart of Poznan, Apartment Elite is within walking distance of Pranger of Poznan, Old Town Square, and Musical Instrument Museum. Also nearby are Parish of St. Stanislaus Kostka and Poznan Palm House.
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Help with changes to our first draft of house plans...
We are building a home and wanted to get feedback from all.
Its the first draft from our builder based on what we provided them in terms of criteria. It is a 4000+ sq ft home, and we want 5 bedrooms, and a study and playroom downstairs and one of the bedrooms there.
All feedback welcome and highly appreciated...
It looks like all the traffic funnels through either the dining room or the kitchen. If you are in the great room, breakfast room, or screen porch, you have to go through the kitchen to get to the power room. (Well, I guess you could go through the foyer and then the dining room.) When you come in from the garage, if you are headed anywhere other than the study, you have to go through either the kitchen or the dining room and foyer.
The mud room is just a hallway. It does not look useful.
Why is there a cut out corner in the master closet?
Can you post larger pictures? I can't read the dimensions.
Hey there
Thanks for the feedback. Yes most of the traffic is around the kitchen as that is always the focal point of our houses. Agree about the mudroom, we just wanted a place to put our coats and bags as we come into the house.
For the cut out corner do you mean by the closet?
thanks to you and all regarding any other suggestions.
I'm not understanding the staircase....it looks like to goes up from the foyer, but upstairs, it looks like it goes up the other way?
There seems to me to be some inefficiencies in design....is that steps to get down into the master bedroom?
That niche in the master closet is odd...no idea what's going on on the outside there.
Also consider which way is south and north....are you placing the house with windows and such to capture the light you want?
There are a lot of odd angle, like in the DR and the study.
If you are in the office, where will you go to the bathroom...across the house to the powder room? or around into the bedroom? Can you do a jack n jill with the office to make that more convenient?
The mudroom at the least should have a closet.
Thanks for the continued feedback.
Yes the staircase goes up to a finished attic room.
There are 3 small steps to get down into the master bedroom, too allow for the roof line at that part of the house.
That niche by the master closet is because we extended the master closet - any thoughts of how to make it look less odd, perhaps french doors in the middle?
Also consider which way is south and north....are you placing the house with windows and such to capture the light you want?
Great idea about the jack n jill for the office to make that more convenient. Agree the mudroom will have a closet where the cubbies are.
Thanks again
The thing I notice upstairs is the lack of any linen closets. Will the laundry room be large enough or have space for extra towels, bedding, etc?
The cutout in the master doesn't bother me as I suspect it will not be evident from the exterior. You lose a bit of space, but it sounds like you've gained more space by extending it.
The other thing I notice is that the master is over the garage. Make sure there is plenty of insulation in the garage ceiling and surrounding walls or heating/cooling will become an issue. I've been in lots of houses with a room over the garage and it's often a problem.
I'm not one to quickly makeover plans, but the other thing that would bother me is the upstairs jack and jill bath and walk-in closet configurations. Is there some way to fit in two sinks or at least separate the sink area from the bath and toliet space?
Agree on the insulation in the garage ceiling and surrounding walls - hugely important and will be discussed with the builder. Another similar home they have built has a bonus room over the garage and we noted it was nice and cool in there even in 100F outside but we shall track it during build.
Ref the linen cupboard, we have one in the master behind the shower area but that is it for now. Great point though.
We contemplated the jack and jill for the upstairs - just couldnt find an effective way of having a seperate sink from the bath/toilet - ideas welcomed though as its a great point.


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I would like the world to recognize Chelsea FC star striker Didier Drogba (Didier Yves Drogba Tébily).
Your first thought is likely a mental image of his recent successes; scoring the game-tying and game winning goal in this year's champions league final against Bayern Munich. He is oft-considered amongst the best strikers of the decade, with good reason. But for me, what makes Drogba special, and this is coming from a United fan, is Didier's humanitarian efforts. He is a class-act as a man, and that trumps the fact that he is a football legend.
Weeks before the World Cup 2006 in Germany, his native Ivory Coast was in a state of upheaval as civil war spread throughout his homeland. Using his star power, Drogba announced that he would not compete in the tournament unless the fighting would stop. Quite a bold move when you consider the violence, and how he might just have put himself in the crosshairs. The citizens of Ivory Coast responded to his request and put down their weapons. Quite literally, he had the star power to make a difference, and did just that, saving countless lives along the way. We will never know how many generations in Cote D'Ivoire owe their lives to Didier Drogba.
This week Drogba was at it again. Pepsi endorsed him $3 million USD for his MVP role in helping Chelsea FC to a Champions League title. Drogba had plans for the money, but they weren't to buy a car or fund the purchase of a yacht or some other high-falutent purchase. Rather, on the same day he received the money, he donated it, all $3 million, to help build a badly-needed hospital in his hometown of Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
These selfless acts prove his character. He truly believes in helping others. In the world today, I believe athletes in major sports are making way too much money, and as a result, I think it becomes increasingly important that they give back to their community. I wish more athletes, celebrities and CEO's would give back to the community like Drogba has done, whether that is through financial contributions as Drogba has done, or by acting as role models for our children. If they did, the world would be a better place.
Kudos, Didier Drogba, you are a truly classy man.
… and thats the last word.
Admirable acts off the pitch, pathetic antics on it. I'm surprised these causes aren't embarrassed to be endorsed by this serial diver.
"He builds hospitals for his home town, has single handedly stopped a war for a month, and has saved countless lives.
I can't believe the sponsors would want anything to do with someone who dives on a football pitch."
Sometimes stupidity frustrates me.
Are you kidding? Are you so close minded that you can't see how he's using his athletic talent to actually change the world? This guys literally putting in millions to make sure his home is a better place for millions and your complaining about how he made that money, which by the way he's one of the greatest African players ever and one of the greatest strikers in the Premier League so its not like he didn't earn it. Your pathetic
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