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Can you feel fall in the air like I can? This is the LAST week of August you know. The summer went too fast, but I sure love fall so I guess its a good trade. This pillow was made from some fall inspired fabrics with a pattern from Stitch magazine. Now its time to make a cute table runner to match. Last year about this time I made this table runner. It was the second thing I ever quilted myself and I was amazed it actually worked. Sewing and I were NOT friends before last fall…but more on that later. I have the most massive pile of laundry on my bed to fold and you can not even imagine how excited to be the lucky folder. Sigh.
Sunday, August 23, 2009
50 comments:
- Care said...
LLLLOVE the fabrics!! Are they all from the same designer, or is the grouping YOUR genius eye's doing??
....Methinks I spy an Amy Butler print......?
- August 23, 2009 at 10:05 PM
- Trisha said...
I love fall too and can't wait for it to come. Your pillow is wonderful! Very cute, very fall.
- August 23, 2009 at 10:07 PM
- Blue is Bleu said...
That pillow is SO cute!!!
You're going to hate me but I like anything laundry related... it's a sickness, I know.
- August 23, 2009 at 10:10 PM
- Pikku- Kettu said...
What a gorgeous pillow!!
- August 23, 2009 at 10:11 PM
- Lisa said...
Love the pillow, I think I'm going to have to make one.
- August 23, 2009 at 10:17 PM
- allsewnup said...
I'm looking forward to fall too, I just love the colours and the crisp nip in the air! This pillow is definitely a fall cache of those colours.
- August 23, 2009 at 10:41 PM
Yours is way prettier. The big button is my favorite! It's the added touch that makes the pillow special. The brown with white dots was an excellent choice too. I wish I had your sense of colors...sigh.
Can't wait to see the table runner...maybe a lap quilt to go with the pillow (?).
- August 23, 2009 at 11:17 PM
Yours is way prettier. The big button is my favorite! It's the added touch that makes the pillow special. The brown with white dots was an excellent choice too. I wish I had your sense of colors...sigh.
Can't wait to see the table runner...maybe a lap quilt to go with the pillow (?).
- August 23, 2009 at 11:17 PM
- Jessica said...
Love the pillow and LOVE the colors of the fabric! :) Nice job!
- August 24, 2009 at 12:30 AM
- badlandsquilts said...
That pillow just leaves me speechless...WoW! Is it a form or stuffed?
- August 24, 2009 at 1:01 AM
- little pink room said...
Your cushion is brilliant! Much better than the one pictured in the magazine. A x
- August 24, 2009 at 1:53 AM
- Terriaw said...
This is the coolest pillow! I love the design! I have that magazine and forgot the design was in that issue. I especially love the fabrics you put together. Great job!
- August 24, 2009 at 5:25 AM
- Peanut Blossom said...
Gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous!! What a wonderful stash you must have in order to pull together a palette like this one. Love the button accent, too!!
- August 24, 2009 at 6:13 AM
- Danielle said...
Love it! It is so fall... the big button and the side seems are way cool! (although I am not to happy about it almost being fall already*****sigh**** Maybe if I make something fallish I will be happy)
- August 24, 2009 at 6:34 AM
- beth said...
i LOVE this pillow. the fabrics are GREAT! enjoy!
- August 24, 2009 at 6:48 AM
- Donna said...
I can't believe you only started sewing last fall. Amazing! Made a shirt based on a recent pillow of yours .. you're inspiring!
- August 24, 2009 at 6:52 AM
- goosiegirls said...
Lovely pillow. You did a great job! If you hadn't said, no one would ever know that you've only been sewing for a year. You do fantastic work!
- August 24, 2009 at 7:18 AM
- Rannyjean said...
Simply beautiful!
- August 24, 2009 at 7:20 AM
- Anita said...
Great job! I just love the fabric combination.
- August 24, 2009 at 7:30 AM
- Domestic Designer said...
I just LOVE it!
- August 24, 2009 at 7:31 AM
- I Love Baby Quilts! said...
Love it, great job! You can make one for every season.
- August 24, 2009 at 7:53 AM
- D.H.L.O. said...
- August 24, 2009 at 7:56 AM
- Pink Little Ladies said...
That is such a cute pillow! I need to get some fun quilting/sewing magazines, are there any that you would recommend as being better than the others?
- August 24, 2009 at 7:57 AM
- Julie said...
great pillow
what stitch magazine is this from?
thanks julie
- August 24, 2009 at 8:21 AM
- Cheryl Arkison said...
You've come a LONG way in a year! Great job.
- August 24, 2009 at 8:26 AM
- Allie said...
I NEED that pillow...although I'm not to excited for fall. Where did the summer go?
- August 24, 2009 at 10:11 AM
- Sharla said...
I agree, your version is way cuter. Can you tell us how you added the button? So cute!
- August 24, 2009 at 11:19 AM
- Erin, Kaitlyn and Henry said...
That pillow is so great Allison! You have such a great eye for fabric. It is interesting to know you have only been at it for a year. Gives me hope that I can one day be as successful as you!
- August 24, 2009 at 1:18 PM
- erica said...
This pillow inspires me! Thanks.
- August 24, 2009 at 4:34 PM
- Di~ said...
That! is an awesome pillow! love love love it. mmmm those fabrics!!!I am coveting, can I buy your scraps?joking serious!
- August 24, 2009 at 4:53 PM
- Terri said...
Your pillow is way better than the one in the book. I absolutely adore your pillow. I cant wait to see your table runner!
- August 25, 2009 at 1:04 AM
I adore your pillow.When i saw it i just wanted to make one would you have the pattern.
i love your table runner, the colours are fabulous
- August 25, 2009 at 1:23 AM
- Christina said...
Oh I love it! Great job putting the fabrics together - that is of course the part I always struggle with. I need to be more adventurous!
- August 25, 2009 at 8:37 AM
- Amy said...
I love fall as well and the pillow is lovely *but* couldn't we wait a few more weeks...
- August 26, 2009 at 4:52 AM
- amandajean said...
that is so cute!!! i love the button. :)
- August 26, 2009 at 6:41 AM
- Pumpkin Head Baby Co said...
Ooh, the pillow is gorgeous. I recognize some of the fabrics but not all. Would you be willing to list the fabrics you used?
- August 26, 2009 at 7:14 AM
- Cindy said...
Great looking pillow. I LOVE FALL and fall colors
- August 26, 2009 at 8:15 AM
- kikiverde said...
I just love the color combination and the flow of all of the graphics. You did a fantastic job!
- August 26, 2009 at 8:25 AM
Could you send me this pattern? I love this pillow! and what fabrics are these?
- August 26, 2009 at 1:56 PM
- Megs said...
yours is so much nicer, just beautiful!
- August 26, 2009 at 11:10 PM
- Michell said...
wow, its amazing...
I love it,thanks for this post..
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- August 27, 2009 at 12:09 AM
- cathleen said...
Your pillow makes me happy just to look at it. Great job.
- August 27, 2009 at 10:31 AM
- lalepop said...
I usually don't talk to my computer when reading blogs. But, tonight I did. When I saw this pillow, I said "Ooooohhhhhh, Wow....." Love it! I'm going to have to go through my stash and find the goodies necessary to make this!
- August 27, 2009 at 10:16 PM
- Libby said...
Love it!!
- August 28, 2009 at 5:44 AM
- Teri said...
I LOVE that pillow!! Methinks I have another project on my to-do list!
- September 1, 2009 at 9:27 AM
- Rachelle said...
I love that pillow! Darling fabrics, what a great job! :)
- September 7, 2009 at 9:19 PM
- Kristine McKowen said...
Love the fabrics!
- September 9, 2009 at 10:09 AM
- Mary Lou Weidman said...
OH my goodness- that is the prettiest pillow I have ever seen and I mean it. Thanks for the inspiration!
- September 16, 2009 at 12:53 AM
- Sandy said...
The pillow is amazing! I too love all the fabrics together.
- October 1, 2009 at 7:55 AM
- Judy said...
Your pillow is stunning. We all would like that pattern. Any hints?
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Sunday, October 15, 2006
Dialogue With an Atheist on the "Basics": Creation, Freedom, Rebellion, Suffering, Etc.) (vs. Daniel Morgan)
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"God desired to love and be loved by other beings. God created human beings with this end in view. To make us capable of such fellowship, God had to give us the freedom to choose, since love cannot be either automatic or coerced. This sort of free will, however, entailed the danger that we would use it to go our own way in defiance of both God and our own best interests."
[I think this is from Christian philosopher Alvin Plantinga ]
This argument is well-known. I thought there was something I was missing. First, the question of how and why God would choose to create at all is a good one.
Yep, but not the topic at hand.
Perfection would only seek higher perfection, or maintaining its own perfection.
On what basis do you conclude that?
Why, if God foreknew all that was to come, did It then decide to disrupt the perfection of Its own existence by instantiating evil, pain, and suffering (choosing not to love God is not necessarily evil, btw, that is an onus for the theist to show)? How is that plausible?
Existence is better than nonexistence. Creation allows more sentient beings to enter into love and the good things we know in life and to eternal life if all goes right. That's self-evidently a good thing, just as when we are enjoying a baseball game (as when our Detroit Tigers took the pennant yesterday), we like it when more people share our enjoyment. This is why going to sports events or concerts are fun. Imagine sitting there all by yourself in the stands. Not quite the same, is it?
So I take existence as a good thing. The question then becomes: was the evil and suffering entailed by free will worth it, so that God could (or should) create? He thought so, and I believe in faith that it was good to create, based on many reasons I have to believe that He exists and that He is good. Not that it ain't difficult to comprehend; very few Christians would say evil is not perplexing.
When I think of all the love and enjoyment and pleasure I receive from my wife and three sons and a daughter, it is immediately self-evident that they should exist rather than not exist. The more children the merrier. I love children. They bring joy to one's life. But they are valuable in and of themselves, not simply because they bring me pleasure. That is just one benefit among many to their existing. Likewise, God and His creation. It's better for you to be here than not be here. It's better for me, and so forth. Therefore, creation itself was a good thing. The bad things do not outweigh it (so we believe).
God wanted to be loved so bad that It said, "Well, it's worth having a few people suffer in torment for eternity if a few other people can live in paradise with me for eternity and worship me."???
If you frame the issue in these ridiculous, caricatured terms, of course no one will believe it. But this isn't serious analysis. If you think Christianity is that ridiculous why do you bother attempting to talk to a Christian at all? It'd be like me seeking out conversation with a flat-earther or someone who thinks he is Michelangelo, in a rubber room in a mental asylum. I have neither the desire nor the time to do that.
Freedom of will and freedom of action are two separate things. This is a serious refutation of the free will theodicy, as we can carefully go through and show that the freedom of action that humans possess to do evil is completely unnecessary and unrelated to the question of whether they will to love God (or not).
I see.
And, as I hinted above, God determines (supposedly) what is evil (eating the fruit), as well as the consequences thereof (or the method of redemption). Therefore, all of the things that the theist takes for granted from the Bible can be shown to be completely unnecessary and, in many ways, illogical for a creature that would want what is best for other creatures.
Unless I saw that argument, what could I say?
e.g. The idea of "original sin" and "federal headship" are taken for granted because they are the only way to make sense of how (supposedly) it is that we are affected and afflicted with evil when we do not have the same situation as our supposed perfect great-great-grandpa did. The question of fleshing out how fair or just this scenario is, relative to other scenarios (wherein God does not let Adam breed, and starts over, so that instead of "sin" affected roughly 15 billion people throughout earth's history (or more), it only affects 2 people...We always take things for granted without remembering that God makes the rules (in your worldview) and holding God to making those rules which minimize pain, suffering, and evil . . .
And the conclusion is? Let me guess . . . . (drum roll) God doesn't exist! Right!
Et cetera. We can examine all of these sorts of ancillary and contingency issues to see if they make sense and are consistent with perfection, omniscience, and omnipotence, and I find them quite lacking.
Yes we can, and many thoughtful people find theism perfectly plausible and atheism perfectly implausible. All we can do is keep making our arguments. But argument itself is not enough to convince an atheist. They need to be shown love. Say, if I saved your life at great risk to my own, or gave up something for your sake, then that might get you wondering, "why did he do that?" And I would say because it was right and because this is what God teaches me to do. Some profound event like that is what changes hearts and minds, usually. Not abstract argumentation.
Likewise, I think Christians become atheists oftentimes because they are sick of some hypocrisy among Christians that they see, or were treated abominably by professed Christians, or were in a corner of Christianity that doesn't represent the mainstream and they got a wrong impression of the whole.
Further, the question of whether or not people in heaven can choose to love God, or will love God whether they want to or not, is always an interesting parallel: if they will love God eternally, and no second "fall" is possible, then I would argue this cannot be considered "free will". If that is true (that there is no FW in heaven), then I would ask why it is that the price of FW (evil) is somehow "accounted for" on earth and for 70 years, but the price of FW (evil) is not "accounted for" in heaven?
I think this is an excellent aspect of the "problem" and one I wonder about a lot myself. At this point my understanding is that freedom need not involve the necessity of actual (or even potential?) contrary choice. Christians believe that the angels were created sinless and free, and most of them never rebelled. So they have remained sinless all this time since they were created. It is possible. We also believe God is free, but He not only never sins; He is unable to do so because this contradicts His own nature. Evil and sinnning are not essential to the definition of freedom.
As for heaven, it is clear that God has to bring about a change in creatures so that there is no more sin (we Catholics think purgatory is the process by which that happens). The difference between heaven and this life is that we somehow "passed the test" of this life and achieved salvation with the necessary help of God's grace, so that He can now transform us. We freely followed; then we were transformed and freely follow without sin henceforth. Therefore it wasn't just a bunch of robots, where "following" is existentially meaningless.
God thought 70 years (or so) of FW was enough for humans to have, but then decided to make them into auto-God-loving-robots for eternity?
They're not robots; that's the whole point. They freely accepted God's grace in this life so that they could make it to heaven in the first place, after having corporately rebelled against God (original sin). Now God gives them enough grace (having ceased their rebellion) to be both free and sinless again, as human beings were originally.
It is logically implausible. (note I'm not saying "impossible" - but it's just not very believable)
I think it is quite difficult to comprehend and mysterious indeed, but it is not technically contradictory for a free creature to somehow never sin.
Evil resulting from present human choices and evil resulting from God's present choices must also be addressed - natural evil. I know you mentioned you had a paper on this and I'll try to get around to reading it.
Here is that paper. I argued that it is incoherent to argue on the one hand that God hardly ever (perhaps never) intervenes in natural law, but that He must intervene 10,000 times a second to prevent every imaginable human suffering. I think that is a silly notion of how the world sensibly operates. Rather, God lets the world go on as it does, with its natural laws, intervening only rarely in a miraculous way. We are responsible to make the world a better place.
We're not a bunch of helpless babies, requiring our "daddy" (God) to do everything for us. Every baby reaches a place where it gets a diaper rash or gas pains or scrapes its knee or bumps its head on an end table corner. Parents can't take that away. But they can comfort and understand the pain. Likewise, by analogy, with God and us.
We find that wills are acted on towards desires - that is, we will things that we desire. Human nature, supposedly perfect before some "fall" event, still had the desire to do the one and only thing God decided to make a violation of goodness (eating the fruit - it "looked good, etc.").
The sin was rebellion against God. The word picture of fruit is only a means by which to illustrate that mankind decided to foolishly go its own way by not obeying the Creator. Again, it's just like parents and children. We all understand this. Everyone knows that a mother and father have incomprehensibly more knowledge and wisdom than a one-year-old. You can tell a young child not to touch the flame on the stove or play with knives or put its head through a window, etc. Some will listen (we had great success with ours in that way) but some won't and will do it, thinking they know better.
But yet when it comes to God, atheists can't seem to comprehend that a Being of that sort, Who is omniscient, is infinitely above us. Why would we expect to understand everything about such a fabulous Being? But suppose this God chooses to communicate Himself to us in terms we can understand? So we believe God did so in history (with direct communication and miracles) and in the Bible.
God told the first humans to obey Him, because of Who He was and who they were. They chose not to. We believe that this rebellion was corporate in some mysterious sense, and that all mankind is involved in it. A cosmic change occurred.
But the principle behind it is as simple as understanding that a baby is utterly foolish to disobey his or her parents in simple matters of health and safety. They choose to obey by some intuitive sense ("this person feeds me and seems to love and care for me, so maybe I can trust them when they say I can't do this thing that makes me curious and gives me a desire to do") or disobey ("I know better than this big person. I don't care if they feed and clothe me. So what? I'm gonna disobey them because I want to. Period.").
It has been pointed out on here before that those desires are controlled by God,
They are, huh? So there is no free will and determinism is the thing?
and that although we are all free to cut off our own arm with a rusty saw blade, we choose not to act on that, because it conflicts with our desire to be pain-free and happy and functional.
Of course.
For whatever reason, you think it is more believable that God gave Adam and Eve some sort of "sin" to choose that was easy for them to want to choose. That makes little sense.
I just explained it. It is the irrationality and desire of a child that any parent is aware of. There is this desire for independence and thinking one knows better than the "guardian" that they happen to be left to deal with. Child to parent is as creature-human to God.
There is absolutely no good reason that God cannot say, "The only thing I don't want you to do is cut off your own arm with a rusty spoon." Choosing to allow freedom, and create a good/evil dichotomy, in such a way that lessens the likelihood that humans will fall into it and bring about all this pain and suffering is necessary for a good God.
As Alvin Plantinga has shown, it is impossible for even an omnipotent and good God to make a world with free will and make it impossible for there to be suffering and evil. He proves this by inexorable logic, not speculation. You disagree? Great; show me where his logic went astray.
I can go on and on,
So could I. I've already gone on and on here. LOL
but suffice it to say that I (and others) have thought much about this defense. In the end, although Plantinga presents us with something to try to excuse God for allowing evil, it just doesn't stand up as believable an option (as some alternative options would be) under scrutiny.
"Believable" or "plausibility" is a subjective judgment involving premises which can themselves be questioned. We Christians have lots and lots of premises, and we build upon them. Most if not all premises can be questioned at some point, unless they are absolutely basic, or laws of logic or mathematics. This is true for atheists as well.
I have argued for years that we are all basically in the same epistemological boat. If you question my premises as an atheist, I can turn around and question yours. We can play that game all day. You will be in no better shape in the end than any Christian, and perhaps much worse off, and more inconsistent and incoherent, or left without meaning that can be objectively established.
Faith or some sort of inductive leap comes in, with any viewpoint. No exceptions. Now, how we arrive at our viewpoints despite this inability of everyone to construct an absolutely airtight, unquestionable system is what I find truly fascinating. Why does the atheist go the way he does, the Christian another way, a Buddhist a third way, etc.?
I know that many factors are involved. That is a given. But insofar as we can seek some epistemological super-reason for why people believe as they do, I would go again with Plantinga and his explanation of other minds and his contention that certain things (including belief in God) are "properly basic" and that it is not irrational to hold them as such.
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- Fred said...
Now, the implication (subtle, but quite real and definite) is that Christians are either anti-science or irrational or dogmatic in the blind sense, or all of the above (or quantitatively much more so than atheists, at the least). This is common atheist polemic: they are the "scientific" ones, while we flounder around in gullible irrationality.
But it's simply untrue. The materialist atheist is, I would argue, more dogmatic than the Christian. To show this is very simple. Take, for instance, the evolution / creation controversy.
The Christian can adopt either position (I have held both myself, at different times, as a Christian). But the atheist cannot possibly accept a creationist outlook in any way, shape, or form (even fairly secular Intelligent Design has to be derisively dismissed), because his dogma precludes it from the outset.
You misunderstand the atheist viewpoint. You imply the Christian position is superior because it is more open minded, allowing for more possibilities because they allow for the supernatural Christian explanations, whereas dogmatic atheists refuse to consider these supernatural possibilities. Let me clear this up: I don't reject possibilities. The problem is that it's not possible to seriously consider all of the infinite possibilities that exist, so one sets aside those that lack objective support. There is no objective support for a Christian position. This isn't dogmatism, it is practicality. Contrast this with Christian dogmatism which demands specific beliefs, and requires rejection of alternatives that contradict a core religious belief.
Regarding evolution/creation and your assertion that the Christian can "adopt either position": All you're really saying is that the Creation account is not dogma, not required, core belief. This is the position of some, but certainly not all Christians. Christian fundamentalists disagree with you: they insist it IS required dogma, and reject any scientific theory that disputes the dogma. Your version of Christianity simply has fewer dogma, but those you do have are every bit as rigid as the fundamentalists. You are a Catholic and therefore required to believe in things that most protestants scoff at, such as the transsubstantiation of the eucharist, perpetual virginity of Mary, and papal infallibility. Whether fundmentalist, Catholic, or Mormon, the respective dogma of each serves as roadblocks to rationality. In summary: a Christian is free to think anything he likes as long as it doesn't conflict with his dogma; this dogma restricts rationality, and you can't question the dogma. A scientific viewpoint allows anything to be questioned.
- Thu Nov 19, 09:33:00 PM EST
- Randy said...
Everyone arrives at conclusions they think are solid and they don't expect to ever change. The question is whether you behave rationally when considering evidence that does not fit. Tkae a tory like this one
Do you dismiss it without looking at the evidence because we KNOW miracles don't happen? Many atheists do. Maybe you are less dogmatic than them. But the reality is there are a lot of miracles that have very good evidence behind them. Sure there are some hoaxes as well. But the many credible accounts do pose a problem for the atheist dogma. Starting with the biblical stories and going right up to the present day they have to discount what many rational people have found to be quite convincing.
- Fri Nov 20, 02:58:00 PM EST
- Fred said...
I am curious: do you accept the story thoroughly, and without question? Why? If you "know" miracles happen, aren't you going to be more likely to accept it? Wouldn't the religious people on site at the time also be more willing to accept the events as miraculous?
I'd be extremely interested it examining the evidence about this reported miracle, if there is any available. I wonder how thoroughly and objectively the events were examined at the time. Since the baby came out OK, there was no reason to interrogate the people involved and ensure the reports were accurate.
"Specialists summoned to the scene soon determined it was hopeless," but did these specialists actually examine the eyes themselves? Did multiple specialists directly verify the corneas were damaged?
How was the pneumonia diagnosed? How accurate was this diagnostic method?
Regarding the 108 degree temperature: was the reading of the thermometer corroborated? Were multiple thermometers used, or was at least the single thermometer's accuracy verified? Regardless, I read that temperatures of over 107.6 are dangerous only if they persist. (see: http://www.baby-medical-questions-and-answers.com/toddler-fever.html)
Even when I was a Catholic, I thought it strange that people would pray to saints rather than God, and that these saints would work miracles. Are the saints doing something that God wouldn't have done? My understanding was that the saints interceded with God, but why is an intercession necessary? What is the saint telling God that the original requester isn't saying? This never made any sense, and that's a good reason to be skeptical that Cabrini had anything to do with it even if a miracle DID occur. And why would it require prayer for Cabrini or God to do this good deed? God is theoretically aware of everything happening. Why does he answer such a small percentage of prayers? The miracles of the saints are always minor things usually affecting one person and noticed by religious people.If he truly does miracles, why doesn't he demonstrate his existence in an objectively verifiable way?
- Sun Nov 22, 01:57:00 AM EST
- Fred said...
"Starting with the biblical stories and going right up to the present day they have to discount what many rational people have found to be quite convincing."
You are mis-characterizing when you say people found the bible stories "convincing." In fact, they simply accepted them without question. Jews accept the Torah, Christians the Old and New Testaments, Mormons accept the Book of Mormon, and Muslims accept the Quran.
What caused you to become a Christian? Had you objectively examined all other religions and their scripture before you settled on it?
- Sun Nov 22, 02:07:00 AM EST


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I could see some of this talk if he still was on moriphine (spelling) but its been too long. As that stuff had me seeing shirts dance and many other things.
I could see some of this talk if he still was on moriphine (spelling) but its been too long. As that stuff had me seeing shirts dance and many other things.
Morphine is a helluva drug.
Yeah, as much of a Silva fan that I am just no...no good sir you lost. Though he has the ability to pull shit out of thin air and surprise us, unless he scored a ko I honestly see that fight continuing in the manner it was.
Those who do not appreciate life, do not deserve life.
By his logic, does that mean he should have also lost to Sonnen the first time?
et noli esse incredulus sed fidelis
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. Albert Einstein
I respectfully disagree with Anderson's assessment.
You have to know what you don't know.
Go home Anderson you're drunk.
cross sport translation "i made a mistake throwing that interception. i learned from it. i didnt lose possession i deserve the ball back, replay 4th and goal guys! cmon!"
Great fighter, but what a clown.
Welcome to Sunnyvale.
No, wait..Fuck you!
Brazilian Excuse on a whole other trippy parallel universe level.
This is pure pr. Of course he lost. He lost because his leg snapped in half. So weidman gets a win. That's just how it works. He can debate wether or not weidman "beat" him... He can make assumptions on what might have happened if his leg had not snapped in half. But it did. So he lost. I'd eventually like to see a rematch if he earns it. But I don't believe he should have gotten an immediate rematch to begin with.
So many things wrong with what he says in this article... but if he's looking for what he's supposed to be taught out of his fights with Weidman maybe he should learn that his pride an arrogance needs to be checked.
And seriously he has to go out and cry still ?
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From the personal touch to the caring nature of the Irish, business visitors to Ireland have plenty to praise following a trip to Ireland.
In this section, you will find honest feedback about the memorable association conferences, corporate meetings and incentives that organisations worldwide have enjoyed in Ireland.
Organised by Golf & Incentive Travel
I have the distinct pleasure of writing a letter of recommendation for Golf & Incentive Travel. I have worked with Eamon and Averil over the past 10 years helping us conduct business incentive trips to Ireland for our Diageo-Guinness USA customers. Their attention to detail is second to none combined with their creative and exciting activities that truly portray the history, culture and friendliness of Ireland and the Irish people.
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Thank you so much for a wonderful time in Killarney. You did an outstanding job! The golfing arrangements you made for us were excellent and very much appreciated. We thoroughly enjoyed our time and have vowed to return again soon. All the best to you.
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Organised by MCI
I think we can be very happy that the conference was a complete success. I have received nothing but positive feedback on all aspects – location, business session, organisation, food and weather!
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Organised by Advantage ICO
I would like to take this opportunity to thank you, Advantage ICO, once again for all your help and professionalism and sweetness. You really made our stay a great experience and I think the whole group share my opinion. We look forward to coming back again and I will definitely recommend Ireland as an incentive destination to some of our future groups.
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I want to thank you, Deirbhile and the entire team from A Touch of Ireland, on behalf of the Diageo Global Licensing team for making our program a tremendous success.
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We had a wonderful time in sunny Dublin...the activities were very enjoyable. We will definitely look at returning to Dublin and contracting Eirebus DMC for our future incentive groups. Your staff were very pleasant and took care of every last detail.
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If anyone would consider coming to Ireland for a conference or an event or an incentive, I would just highly recommend it because it's just so special. You can really treat your clients to a professional work atmosphere, but also a great incentive part with the ability to play golf or to visit beautiful sites and cultural things and so it's a perfect destination for events. This is where easy-going meets hard-working... We have done really hard work so far but we also had great times... this is the great atmosphere to have both.
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O God, it's morning!
And once again, you're up before I am.
It never fails: I turn off the alarm clock
and there you are, sitting at the foot of my bed,
waiting, watching, wanting to be
the first thought of my day...
Please forgive me, Lord,
but most days I don't have a first thought
until I've had my first cup of coffee.
So, please, be patient with me,
as you always are,
and give me time to wake
to your presence...
And you know, Lord:
it's not only morning - it's MONDAY!
Another week stretches ahead of me
and oh, how I wish the weekend
were another day longer...
Where am I going this week, Lord?
Where will you lead me?
What path will you light for me?
Please, Lord, when I walk astray
or try to take the short-cut,
prod me, pull me, push me back
where I belong, where I should be heading,
even if that path seems the one
I'm least inclined to walk...
Most of all, walk with me, Lord!
Guide me when I'm confused and lost...
Shine a light on my road
when darkness shades my steps...
Teach me to ask you for directions
when I am lost and cannot find the way...
Whisper encouragement in my ears
when I don't want to take another step -
when I don't want to take the first step!
Give me your hand to hold
when the path frightens me...
Give me your shoulder to rest on
when my spirit flags and my pace slows...
Show me where to turn
when I need to turn -
and teach me not to look back...
Take me down the just path, Lord;
lead me on the road to truth;
guide me along the highway of honesty;
give me strength to walk with proper pride
in the ways of integrity...
Help me to see that the only path worth walking
is the one that leads me to you
and takes me to love and serve my neighbor.
It's morning, Lord!
I'm getting up now to have that cup of coffee...
Will you join me?
(Some time ago I downloaded the graphic at the top of this post. Unfortunately, I have lost its URL and would be happy to credit the artist if anyone can lead me in the right direction. Thank you!)
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Ah - what a lovely way to begin a Monday (and everyday!)
Thanks for the beautiful reflection with words, music, and images. May your day be a blessed, peaceful one.
- Karuna
- July 7, 2008 at 10:52 AM
Love the cartoon! I envision prayer to be a little like that sometimes.
- July 7, 2008 at 10:59 AM
- ConcordPastor said...
Karuna: thanks for your response! My hope is to write a weekly "Monday Morning Offering."
- July 7, 2008 at 11:00 AM
I read this entry 1st thing when I woke up. It is a great way to set the tone for a Monday am. I love the music and scenes too. Thanks. hope your Monday is going well.
- July 7, 2008 at 12:51 PM
Concord Pastor,
Your Monday morning reflections are extraordinary. You are a generous and gifted writer and pray-er. Thank you for sharing. Looking forward to seeing these on a regular basis.
- July 7, 2008 at 1:45 PM
LOVE the graphic and the prayer says SOOO much that I needed to hear this Monday. All that and a little Cat Stevens, Morning Has Broken,(which jolted me back into my younger days!!!) made this post especially pertinent to me! Thanks CP!!
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- July 8, 2008 at 3:57 AM
Well, I read and listened to this on Tuesday morning and it was equally as wonderful. My response, though, was tears which I interpret to be tears of joy or didn't St. Ignatius say, tears of consolation?
- July 8, 2008 at 7:55 AM
- ruthie said...
This was beautiful and a wonderful way to start any morning. Thank you.
- July 8, 2008 at 9:27 PM
I just had a chance to view the video and listen to "Morning Has Broken." Absolutely lovely! Any chance we could sing in church?
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Those of us who have modified our cars for more performance for two or three decades know that in some respects the "good old days" really weren't all that good. There were some great aspects: cruising was actually semi-respectable, an occasional street race wasn't regarded as a grossly antisocial act, old Chevys were inexpensive and easy to work on, and 100-octane gas cost less than half a buck a gallon!
There weren't smog laws to worry about, but a lot of the modifications made in the name of more power made our cars run slower, use more gas, and occasionally ruined their driveability. A big part of the problem was that not many people really had a clue as to what worked and what didn't. If, for instance, you were fortunate enough to own a '61 Corvette with the base 230hp engine and you wanted to pump up the power output, you could be pretty sure that by utilizing the factory dual-quad intake and carburetors, and factory 270-horse cam, you'd end up with something roughly equivalent to a 270-horse 283. That was because you were, for the most part, re-creating a higher horsepower, factory-engineered package.
On the other hand, if you bought parts from the local speed merchant, the process was kind of like going to a Chinese restaurant and ordering one item from column A, two from column B, and one from column C; sometimes the combo tasted great, and sometimes it wasn't fit to eat. Using our hypothetical '61 Corvette with the 230-horse engine, you might luck out with a combination of parts, usually from a number of different manufacturers, that actually improved the old 283's performance. You could just as easily wind up spending a lot of your hard-earned dollars to get a setup that was an over-carbed and over-cammed, barely driveable eight-cylinder disaster that guzzled gas like a wino on cheap port, and couldn't outrun a six-cylinder '55 Ford.
The problem was an assemblage of parts that wouldn't-or couldn't-work together harmoniously. It could be caused by either the buyer or seller's pure ignorance-or both. Maybe the blame could be pinned only on the speed shop owner's greed; sell the customer the most expensive parts available, and who cares if the end result works. Lots of speed shop customers believed the old adage that if a little was good, more had to be better, and a whole lot would be just about perfect. Thinking along the lines of, "If a 230-horse 283 uses one four-barrel and a 270-horse has two small 'fours' on a low-rise manifold, then I'm gonna get a lot more power if I slap two big fours on a tunnel ram." Or, "A Duntov cam has more lift and duration than the 230-horse engine's cam, so if I get a cam with gazillion degrees of duration and a couple feet of lift, I'm gonna get way more power than with the Duntov." Yeah, right!
That's not to say that the individual parts were no good; they just weren't right together. The key to a good-running modified engine is the right blend or combination of components-not a random selection of items that may not work well together.
One of the greatest performance developments in recent years is the engineered performance packages that eliminate the old "by guess or by golly" approach to buying high-performance parts for your classic Bow-Tie. Engineered packages are the result of a manufacturer designing and testing cams, intake manifolds, even cylinder heads to work together as optimized assemblies. These "packages" may be listed as individual components that are engineered to work well together or as an essentially complete system that can be ordered under a single part number. Best of all, many of these are 50-state smog legal. If aftermarket performance parts can get the blessing of the California Air Resources Board, they have to be good, at least from the environmental standpoint. And for said aftermarket performance parts to be environmentally friendly enough to satisfy the Golden State's clean air cops, you can bet they've been carefully and well engineered.
The best way to describe a performance engine system is as a total air and fuel management system. Cylinder heads, intake manifold, and camshaft are all designed and engineered to work well together. The heads are crafted to optimize the airflow ratios between the intake and exhaust runners, and airflow characteristics of the heads and intake are matched as closely as possible. A camshaft is configured so its lift and duration work harmoniously with the heads and intake to provide a powerband that's appropriate for the intended use of the system. A well-engineered street system should return better gas mileage (assuming the driver can keep from slamming the pedal to the floorboards too often) than stock.


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This Week on Xbox Live: February 18, 2010
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Poultney walkway project to move forwardBy Lucia Suarez
STAFF WRITER | January 19,2013POULTNEY The quarter-million-dollar pedestrian enhancement project along the historic East Poultney green is moving forward after several years in the works.
Town Manager Jonas Rosenthal said Friday the town is finalizing a contract with Lamoureaux & Dickinson of Essex Junction for engineering services. The project will then move into the design phase so it can go out to bid early next year.
We are hoping by February or March 2014 (to go out to bid), Rosenthal said. Construction would begin in summer of 2014.
The project includes a new pedestrian sidewalk that will run from Route 140, down Bird Street, then to On the Green before connecting to Thrall Bridge. The sidewalk would be 4 to 5 feet wide with a 3-foot green strip.
Thrall Bridge will become a single lane with two pedestrian lanes with rubber bollards on each side. It will also include a flashing beacon and a stoplight on River Street.
The project is estimated to cost $276,000. To pay for the project, the town received a $230,000 transportation enhancement grant from the state Agency of Transportation last year.
Concerns for pedestrian safety on the bridge and near the East Poultney green pushed the town to pursue the project.
The town considered a similar project in the early 1990s for the historic 1929 bridge that included a footbridge crossing the Poultney River and a sidewalk on East Main Street. A revived effort by residents concerned with pedestrian safety began several years ago after a fatal hit-and-run.
It will slow down traffic, Rosenthal said of the new project.
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What are the biggest transformers out there (not a combo like Devastator)?
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Rugged chassis, waterproof, good voice calling
Clunky web browsing and social networking, bulky, small screen, lame camera
Samsung has been been very busy lately, mainly launching its slick Galaxy S II smartphone - which was met with lots of praise. But, as well as top-tier smartphones, the brand also offers a comprehensive range of mobiles for all wallets, including budget handsets. It offers something a little bit different with the Samsung Solid Immerse GT-B2710, as this is a rugged mobile that's been designed to stay in one piece no matter how much mud, water and punishment you sling at it. It's pitched at outdoorsy types so the idea is that you can take it camping, rockclimbing or onto a building site without having to worry about whether your phone will survive the trip.
Firstly, the Solid Immerse isn't a smartphone. If you want the whole app-based experience then you're better off going for an rugged Android phone like the Motorola Defy. It might be built like a tank, but the Immerse won't offer you a touchscreen, Wi-Fi, a QWERTY keyboard, or hardly any of the other features that you might associate with a smartphone. It's got 3G connectivity, but not HSDPA so anything web-based is pretty slow. However - what it lacks in flash features, it makes up for in durability.
Sporting a no-frills candybar design, the phone measures 120.8 x 52.1 x 17.9mm, so it's not exactly slim. In fact, it's pretty chunky (it weighs 116.12g) and the design looks a little dated but that's largely due to the rugged nature of the build quality. The chassis is crafted from tough plastic for durability, while the rubberised finish means that it has plenty of grip. The top also includes a hole where you can attach the phone to a lanyard or a belt clip to keep it handy and stop it from ending up at the bottom of a mountain if its slips while you're halfway up a rockface. Also on the top of the handset, is a small LED torch. It's not really powerful enough for full-on night time navigation, but you could use it to find your keys in the dark or to locate the zip of the tent door in the middle of the night.
The Solid Immerse is also waterproof up to 1m for up to 30 minutes, so if you accidentally dunk it into a mountain stream or simply drop it into a pub toilet by mistake, then it should survive unscathed. Unfortunately the Pocket-lint review budget wouldn't stretch to a trip to the Lake District to try the phone out in a mountain-based environment, but we did give it a long soak in a jug of water (and also accidentally dropped it on a hard floor) and there weren't any noticeable signs of damage afterwards. We also took it outside into the open and covered it in mud to see how it would fare. The handset still worked fine and didn't appear to suffer any ill effects, so we reckon that it can take most forms of punishment that you can throw at it. The water (and dust protection) is IP67 certified and also up to US military standard, says Samsung.
The handset's basic layout sees a classic alphanumeric keypad taking up half of the front fascia. It has a convex buttons and a matte finish and the buttons are decently sized so that they're easy to operate, even with gloves on. The four-way navigation key that surrounds the central 'confirm' button is a different matter. We found it to be a little on the small size and often pressed one of the two buttons on either side of it by mistake.
The left-hand edge of the phone reveals volume up and down controls, while the right-hand side includes a hidden mini USB for charging and attaching the supplied headphones. There's no universal 3.5mm jack, so you won't be able to plug in any old headphones. The back panel is home to the 2MP camera and speaker.
Although designed to be scratch-proof, the tiny screen 2-inch screen doesn't have many other plus points. The small size and low resolution of 320 x 240 mean that it's not ideal for anything beyond reading texts as you're likely to strain your eyes if you try and catch up on the day's news. You really need to zoom in most pieces of text to have any chance of being able to read them.
When it comes to the home screen, you won't find the sort of customisation options that you'd get on a smartphone. There are a few basic things that you can tinker with, such as the background colour, but not much else. You can add a small selection of shortcuts to the home screen, including Facebook and Twitter clients, a calendar, a pedometer and Search. Some of these can already be found on the top bar of the home screen, which can be scrolled left and right.
Both the Facebook and Twitter widgets are funcitonal but not great. In particular, the Facebook client bears so little resemblance to the desktop experience or the available smartphone apps that it's a bit of a chore to navigate around. Twitter is also a bit of a nightmare as full tweets don't fit across the screen. You can only really see the username and about the first few words of each tweet to you have to select each one separately to read them in full. If you're after a handset with decent social networking capability, then the Solid Immerse isn't it.
You'll also find links for Flickr, Picasa, YouTube and Bebo which take you to the relevant web page for each site. However, the general browser-related niggles apply here too - namely, the slow loading of pages and small screen. There's a Google option that offers access to the search engine giant's search, mail and maps but while it's easy to setup your gmail account, usability is pretty poor and simply reading and replying to an email is a rather arduous process. You can also set up Yahoo! and Hotmail/Windows Live accounts, but the limited usability is much the same.
Web browsing is infuriatingly poor. To be fair, the Solid Immerse isn't a smartphone so surfing the web isn't really what it's set up for. Pages take an age to load and navigating around using the buttons under the screen is far from zippy. And the screen is simply too small for a comfortable browsing experience.
The rear-facing 2MP camera is functional, but pretty poor compared to what top-tier smartphones are offering nowadays. Despite the automatic white balance (which can also be changed manually), even on a relatively bright day, pictures taken outdoors still look very gloomy, colours are washed out and there's not a great deal of definition on edges. Believe it or not, the picture above was taken just after 11am on a relatively bright day in London. There were clouds in the sky but in reality, the capital city certainly didn't look like it was on the verge of an apocalypse as it does in the photo. The low quality of the screen also makes it hard to line up and review shots.
There are a few basic shooting modes including a panoramic option. Using on-screen guides, this takes six shots which are then stitched together to create a panorama measuring just 1072 x 207 pixels. It's a nice idea and the stitching is really impressive so it's a real shame that the picture resolution is so low. According to the spec sheet, the camera mode offers watercolour, grey, negative and sepia but we spent a long time looking through all of the camera settings and we simply couldn't find an option screen for the effects.
When it comes to straightforward voice calling, it's almost refreshing to use a phone where you can just pick it up and punch in the number to make a phone call rather than first having to tap a phone call icon and then pull up a virtual, touchscreen keypad. Contacts can be accessed from the right-hand soft key under the screen and can be put into groups and marked as favourites.
Call quality is pretty good and thanks to some on-board noise-cancelling tech, Samsung claims that you should be able to make audible calls even if you're "next to a construction site or roaring waterfall". We didn't have access to either of those, but it fared well on a noisy London street packed with buses and lorries and it also did the trick in a crowded pub. The Immerse also supports video calling, albeit only one-way as there's no front-facing camera on the handset. While it's unlikely to win any awards for high-end audio, the built-in speaker is actually pretty strong and offers a clear sound at a reasonably high volume.
Text messaging is also fairly straightforward - the predictive text function works well if you like that kind of thing, but it can easily be switched off if you find it annoying beyond belief. Texts are displayed in a nifty smartphone-style conversation view, offeing a hint of the smartphone experience that is otherwise lacking on this handset.
The Solid Immerse is equipped with a 1300mAh battery, which the maker says will give you up to 870 minutes of talk time (up to 380 minutes on 3G) and up to 10 hours on standby (up to 590 on 3G). Although it wasn't bad, we found the battery life took a fair battering while we were playing around with the web browsing and built-in apps. Rgular use probably wouldn't drain the battery quite as much, but if you're planning on taking it to a remote area with no plug points, then you might want to consider getting yourself a spare battery.
Overall, the Samsung Solid Immerse isn't a bad phone at all, as long as you're after something basic for phone calls and texts and not much else besides. The actual voice calling function is great and a lot better than on many much more highly priced handsets. Available from around £25 on contract or £100 SIM free, the Immerse is fairly affordable although perhaps not quite as cheap as we might have expected. It's great for keen campers and outdoorsy types who don't want to be worrying about the welfare of their phone while they're trying to enjoy the great outdoors. Even if you do drop it into a ravine, or off some scaffolding then it won't be that pricey to replace.
However, if you want a smartphone then this isn't the handset for you. Both web browsing and social networking are clunky to the point of being almost unusable. It's fine for checking the odd online fact or train time, but it's simply not set up for regular browsing. The camera function is also pretty lame. However, if you simply want a phone that works and can be taken into the wilderness or onto a building site without worry, then the Samsung Solid Immerse is a good choice. And it's even got a built-in torch.


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City Hall Reporter's Notebook: Post-Election Shuffle editionMarch 25,2013Mayor Christopher Louras said that it was sitting Department of Public Works Commissioner Evan Pilachowskis idea to return to his previous role as city engineer and appoint former Mayor Jeffrey Wennberg to take over as commissioner.
Louras opened his announcement of the shuffle Monday with a display that backed up that story.
Evan, he asked, are you happy?
I suppose, if you are prone to conspiracy theories, you might try to argue that Pilachowskis wide grin could have been an act. The glint in his eyes, though, looked pretty hard to fake.
I am today, Pilachowski replied.
Friday, Pilachowski stressed that he preferred being city engineer to public works commissioner.
It was something I really wanted to try, he said of his promotion last year to head of the department. Its impossible to know what the jobs really going to be before youre doing it. There are a lot of parts of the job I really liked, but by and large I thought I could do the city more good as city engineer.
Try as I might, I couldnt get him to dish on the parts of the job he didnt like.
Its worth noting this will not be the first time Wennberg and Pilachowski have worked together.
Pilachowski was in the air pollution division when Wennberg ran the Department of Environmental Conservation. While Wennberg did not supervise Pilachowski directly, he said he was impressed with him and holds him in extremely high regard.
What about the water?
Right, now for the big unanswered question: Where does Wennberg stand on chloramine?
From the sounds of it, in roughly the same place Pilachowski did.
Wennberg said that he has a lot of catching up and homework to do, but that his understanding was that the smartest and most cost-effective move for the city was to keep disinfection byproduct levels down.
Should the levels come back up, though, or should federal standards become even more stringent, the city will have to change something to come into compliance.
If there are alternatives available to the city, we should consider them all, he said. If it comes down to a straight choice of adding chloramines or paying federal fines ... chloramines will be the only option thats available.
Convincing Donahue
At the top of my call list this week was the man speculated to be the swing vote in electing the president of the Board of Aldermen.
Alderman Gary Donahue, who joined the majority in re-electing President David Allaire over challenger Alderman William Notte, said he was lobbied quite heavily.
I wavered on that a little bit, Donahue said after the vote. I told Dave early on I would support him. Then I talked to Bill and he had me convinced. My head tells me we need to start getting the younger people on there but my heart wouldnt let me not vote for Dave.
Donahue said he made no attempts at political horse-trading, and that neither side offered him committee chairmanships or any other inducement.
I consider that a point of honor nobody thought they could buy me, he said. Im not qualified to be a chairman. You know that as well as I do. ... They tried to sell me on the points only, the good points.
Donahue did say that he was surprised by the number of non-board members who lobbied him, though he wouldnt name names.
Really, it doesnt make any difference to anyone whose outside the aldermanic chambers who the board president is, he said. Nobody threatened me or did anything bad. I just found it surprising that outsiders would give a hoot.
I also asked Donahue if he thought the board members would still be able to get along after the sometimes snarky election.
I hope so, he said. It seems like the young folks and the older crew are I dont want to say at odds. I sincerely hope we dont go in that direction. I didnt see that in my first year on the board.
While Donahue isnt the first person Ive heard seeing the board divided into generational factions of sorts, Im not sure I can see it myself. Sure, there have been some quarrels over specific proposals in the last couple years, but on all of the big-picture issues (infrastructure improvements, the recreation bond, the new hires in next years budget), it seems like the board members are all headed in roughly the same direction.
What do you think, dear readers? My email address is at the bottom of the column.
Tuesday, the Rutland Region Chamber of Commerce holds its March mixer from 5 to 7 p.m. at College of St. Joseph. The event was supposed to be last week, but was canceled due to the snowstorm.
Wednesday, the Rutland Planning Commission holds a forum from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Rutland Free Library on the upcoming rewrite of the citys master plan.
Thursday, Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., is coming to town. The congressman is scheduled, as of Friday, to attend a Rotary meeting at 7:30 a.m., a Congress in Your Community event at 9 a.m. at the Coffee Exchange and a roundtable discussion on college affordability at 10:15 a.m. at the Community College of Vermont.
Welchs office indicated there could be a fourth event and that a final schedule would be released this week.
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The event is hosted by the University's Center for Service and Community Engagement and the Alpha Phi Omega (APO) service fraternity along with Peter and Paul Community Services. APO is also creating a team of SLU students to compete in the tournament.
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It's that time again!!! Not happy to see Ratchet's sister is on but looking forward to seeing the other HGs!! Not sure how much I can help with updates. Big things happening in my life. My 10 month old grandson was diagnosed this week with a closing valve to his heart and may need a stint put in! Heartbreaking to watch him go through this but overall he is good and they will monitor him every 3 weeks.
Jeremy seemed like a real douche bag to me. Didn't care for him at all. Also, Jessie reminded me too much of Danielle from last season. Totally in love with herself
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Hey what is the Have Not Room? I've been somewhat following the updates and I don't know what it is.
Where is the hang out room? i.e. fortune teller room. Have I just missed it?
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Imagine you have a sensor that needs to be monitored by many people, maybe from different locations.
Using 'queues' can provide a simple way to send messages to a single receiver, but what if you want more receivers to process your data? Further more, what if you want different receivers to get only the data that is relevant to them?
This little device is a Geiger counter. It measures ionizing radiation, which is radiation that carries enough energy to liberate electrons from atoms or molecules.
In a nutshell, it measures RADIOACTIVITY. You can get a Geiger counter here: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11345
For a £80 I managed to get a new HikVision DS-2CD2032-I camera which supports a crazy 2048 x 1536 @ 20 FPS!
The camera can mount NFS as well as SMB/CIFS file shares, although a few people have had issues. And here is where my issues started (I did get it working). The camera management page has a section for NAS, and you can select you server, share, CIFS as well as credentials.
We have been playing quite a bit with the new Raspberry Pi, a previous article covered video recording using a USB Webcam and a neat little piece of software called Motion. If you haven't seen that yet, have a look at http://sjj.azurewebsites.net/?p=701.
The concept of the Internet of Things revolves around connecting everyday (household) objects to the internet. The important thing to consider is that all this data is being generated, but is only useful if something is being done with it. The Microsoft Azure Service bus allows you to process queues of such data and make it more useful.
I just managed to get my hands on the Raspberry Pi (Model B+), so now i have a spare Model B, so what to build? I also have a USB Webcam (Trust Spotlight Webcam), so a DIY CCTV sounds like a great start. Turns out there's several different applications to using the Rpi for home automation and other similar tasks. One of the most exciting projects is to use the camera for motion detection record video/images when motion is triggered. This blog posts provides a step by step guide on how I set up my PI and cameras, well as a live webcam server, and couple of other interesting things.
I have a great little RTC from Love Electronics, it uses the DS3231 chip which is similar to the DS1307 (as shown in this article http://www.l8ter.com/?p=417)
Since I am starting out using mbed (https://mbed.org) it is probably a good example to see if the DS3231 works with the LPC1768. I started by using the DS1307 library as a guide, but then noticed that there are a few differences. (Note there is an mbed DS3231 library you can import)
Ever wondered how the pro's physically manage to make a module? Well ok, you can get a fancy pick and place machine or send off for someone to assemble your module, but you can do it by hand. It is not as hard as expected.
(Module: http://gadgeteering.net/module/ghi-pir-sensor)
We met up last night to have a look at a .NET Gadgeteer module, picking a nice easy module to look at to begin with for: http://www.meetup.com/GadgeteerSouthCoast/. Despite being called the GHI PIR Sensor it is found in the toolbox as a "Motion Sensor"
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Since Oct and the RTM there hasn't been any news about this.
In my case It's have been over a month waiting for the PT-PT language pack or the ISO and no luck.
Do you guys know or have any prediction on when more languages become available?


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This has probably been asked before, but I searched and couldn't find it.
So what do you all do. Do we have anyone here with an interesting job?
I'll start the ball rolling with a world of dullness I'm afraid. I feel I should stand up like I'm at a support meeting to say this but........here goes.......
I work as an account handler for a commercial insurance broker.........sorry It's not my 1st career choice honest! but it pays the bills
I used to be a lumberjack. *sings* I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK...... ahem
Well a tree surgeon/forestor/landscaper. But a bad shoulder injury put paid to having fun swinging a chainsaw around, so now I'm chained to a desk.
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FORT WALTON BEACH — It was another time and place — 1990 at Fennigan's Dinner Theater on Okaloosa Island — when the musical comedy "Redneck Riviera" debuted locally.
Previously, it had been playing in Pensacola.
Then Lifestyle Editor Peggy May wrote the review that appeared in the Aug. 31, 1990, issue of the Daily News.
While the regional and pop culture references have been updated — Charlie Sheen and F-35s receive nods — and the venue is now the Magnolia Grill downtown, "Redneck Riviera" still packs in the laughs and the audiences.
At a June 16 performance, even some former cast members from the original production were spotted in the crowd.
The show is presented by Unexpected Company with book, music and lyrics by local talents Jim Lee and Liz Cain.
The cast of eight actors and three musicians (Lee on keyboard, Jim Garrett on bass and Dick Reinlie on percussion) take on multiple roles as the story unfolds.
It's the story of four members of the Honorable Order of Coon Hounds, aka HOOCH, visiting the Gulf Coast for beaches, babes and brew.
Played respectively by Denis Milonas, John Guzalak, David Jones and Brian Cain, Burl, Nate, Junior and Stoney take the Redneck Rover to the Southern Comfort Inn.
There they meet Merrilee, Becky and Wanda Rosa, played by Amanda Holmes, Darla Briganti and Caroline Majure.
Liz Cain plays Burl's wife, Eunice.
All of the actors are gifted comedians and excellent singers. Particularly memorable songs include the title number, "Redneck Riviera," which has a snappy syncopated rhythm, and "A Man, a Life, a Love," which features lovely harmonizing by the ladies.
There's a lot of blink-and-you'll-miss-it clever dialog ("Here comes Botox and detox.") as well as visual humor. Be sure to check out various T-shirts the characters wear.
College-rivalry riffs and one-liners fly in this boisterous good time.
The staging deserves special note as it makes full use of the historic Magnolia Grill's assets. Actors literally dance up and down aisles and between tables at times.
Costumes, makeup, lighting and sound all add to the show's light-hearted mood.
The dinner and show run about 2½ hours with dinner served at 6 and the show starting at 7. There's a 10-minute intermission.
During intermission, Magnolia Grill proprietor Tom Rice, who was chef at Fennigan's during "Redneck Riviera's" first incarnation, explained it was Operation Desert Storm that ended the original run.
"Members of the cast started getting deployed," he said.
Performances are planned throughout the summer. The next one is Sunday. Additional dates are July 14 and 28 and Aug. 11 and 25.
The basic price is $50 for dinner (choice of three entrees) and the show. Beverages, desserts, tax and gratuity are additional.
Call Magnolia Grill, 157 Brooks St. S.E., at 302-0266 for reservations.