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Once there was a king who decided to set aside a special day to honor his greatest subject. When the big day arrived, a large gathering took place in the palace courtyard and our finalists were brought forward.
Once there was a king who decided to set aside a special day to honor his greatest subject. When the big day arrived, a large gathering took place in the palace courtyard and our finalists were brought forward.
Psalm 1:2-3 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. […]
Last night began Tisha B'Av, the ninth day of the fifth month of the Hebrew calendar year. Some of you may know that a lot of bad things have happened to the Jewish people on this date, the first of which was when the spies returned with an evil report of Canaan, the Promised Land, recounted in Numbers 13 and 14. Both the first and the second Temple were destroyed on this exact date, hundreds of years apart. The Crusades began on this day in 1095. The Jews were expelled out of England on this day in 1290, and again were expelled from Spain and Portugal on Tisha B'Av in 1492. And there are many more examples of this infamous day in Jewish history!
Here in Israel, cell phones are all the rage. You wouldn't believe it but parents even buy cell phones for their kids and send them to school with them in their schoolbags. I'm talking about six and seven year old kids! While it is true that part of the reason for this cell phone craze stems from the fact that violence goes on here daily and people want to be able to contact one another in the event of an emergency, I would still say that it's somewhat excessive.
Have you ever heard about how the Eskimos kill wolves? You're not gonna believe this one!
How often, in all the issues we have to deal with talking with people, we know or we feel we are right; our idea, our position, our interpretation is it, and we're ready to fight for it…
Have you ever felt uneasy, unsettled or unstable? Or maybe a better question is — who hasn't? How do we overcome these feelings?
An ancient story in Church history tells of the apostle John. He would constantly repeat the words, "Little children, love one another." And his disciples became weary of the phrase. Finally, in his old age, as John was being carried to their assembly, the disciples asked him, "Why do you always repeat these same words?" "Because friends," John replied, "it is the Lord's commandment — and if only this one were fulfilled, it would be enough."
During his reign, King Frederick William III of Prussia found himself in a bind. Wars had been costly, and in trying to build the nation, he was seriously short of finances. After careful reflection, he decided to ask the women of Prussia if they would bring their jewelry of gold and silver to be melted down for their country. Each piece of jewelry he received, he would exchange for a decoration of bronze or iron as a symbol of his gratitude. These decorations would be inscribed, 'I gave gold for iron, 18l3'.
A survey asked mothers to keep track of how many times they made both negative and positive comments to their children. The surveyed mothers admitted that they criticized at least ten times for every one time they said something favorable. Another survey taken in one city's schools found that the teachers were negative seventy five per cent of the time. This study concluded that it takes four positive statements to a child from a parent or teacher to offset the effects of one negative statement. Wow, when I think about how many times I've said negative things to people in my lifetime, I have some positive paying back to do!
People read this verse, and think God is telling them to be passive — to overlook what happened. That is not a bad thing — but it isn't exactly what Yeshua (Jesus) was saying. Turning the other cheek is not about being passive. It's about being active! So active that it actually confounds your enemy! Turning the other cheek is about taking an action so revolutionary, so shocking, so out of the ordinary that it shocks everyone around. It confounds the world — and can also change it!
by George Whitten, Editor of Worthy Devotions Acts 17:22-23 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom […]
One constant pitfall we must watch for is taking credit for something that God does in or through us, or using the gifts and callings of God for self-exaltation. In that light it may be easier to handle poverty, weakness, or insignificance, than wealth, ability, power or authority, since poverty and frailty are not normally things we boast about, and they cause us to recognize our need for God. Prosperity, gifting, and anointing, on the other hand can be powerful temptations, leading to pride, covetousness, and self-sufficiency.
An elderly carpenter was ready to retire. His contractor was sorry to see such a good employee go, and asked him if he would build just one last house as a personal favor. The carpenter agreed but his heart was not in it. He resorted to bad workmanship and using cheap materials.
If He was a man of the world, Yeshua (Jesus) would have chosen the elite of His day to accomplish His mission — however He used simple fishermen. These men were considered uneducated, lacking "social status", wealth or worldly distinction of any kind — yet these "simple" men were the ones the Lord selected to build the Kingdom of God.
An aging king woke up one day to the realization that should he drop dead, there would be no male in the royal family to take his place. He was the last male in the royal family in a culture where only a male could succeed to the throne – and he was aging. He decided that if he could not give birth to a male, he would adopt a son who then could take his place but he insisted that such an adopted son must be extraordinary in every sense of the word. So he launched a competition in his kingdom, open to all boys, no matter what their background. Ten boys made it to the very top.
In December 1903, after many attempts, the Wright brothers were successful in getting their "flying machine" off the ground. Thrilled, they telegraphed this message to their sister Katherine: "We have actually flown 120 feet. Will be home for Christmas." Katherine hurried to the editor of the local newspaper and showed him the message. He glanced at it and said, "How nice. The boys will be home for Christmas."
A sailor who was shipwrecked on a desert island was captured by some of the natives of that island. They carried him off on their shoulders to their village, where he was sure he would end up being the main course. But instead, they put a crown on his head and made him king. He was enjoying all the attention he was receiving but was growing a little suspicious. He started making inquiries and discovered that their custom was to crown a stranger king for a year and at the end of that year the crowned king would be sent to a deserted island where he was allowed to starve to death.
1 Chronicles 12:32 And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their commandment. Yesterday, I had the privilege of spending time with a pastor and his wife who've […]
Matthew 6:19-21 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your […]


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My Beautiful Laundrette (tour)
Editorial Staff • West End • 4 Feb 2002
Andy Grahams' adaptation updates the tale of Omar (Havinder S Bhere), a young Asian, and Johnny (Rowan Talbot), a former National Front member, and sets it in Blairite England instead of Maggie Thatcher's era. The two young lads turn a run-down laundrette into a much-talked-about regenerated success. An unlikely love story develops and the two lads find themselves torn between where their culture states they belong and where their hearts are steering them.
Updating this fascinating landmark tale to the 'here and now' does not really work. Hanif Kureshi's original screenplay dealt with issues that were way ahead of its time. The Asian characters had clear voices and weren't seen as victims. But here they seem to revert to the same old stereotypes. This shortcoming isn't improved by Bhere's dumbed down performance. In the film, Omar evolves from naive to business-like, but in this handling here, Bhere seems to address the script like a children's TV presenter- spelling each line out clearly. As Johnny, Talbot's performance fares better but is too patchy to single out for real praise.
Where this production does impress is in its overall style and innovative techniques. There's a great use of video projection to illustrate Johnny's guilt and generally troubled state of mind, torn as he is between his racist past and his reformed present. Nancy Surman's set design is minimal but extremely effective - spanning from the dilapidated establishment to the new palace which Omar and Johnny take such pride in. The production's Bollywood influences are perhaps slightly misjudged - for instance, the instances when the cast dance across, which might have worked if the actors were enjoying themselves but they look very uncomfortable.
Ultimately, this Snap Theatre offering is a brave attempt at revisiting a ground-breaking tale of racism, politics, violence and peer pressure. But the flaws simply outweigh all the good intentions. Too many key areas are glossed over or ignored and, as such, any sense of depth is missing. The film got under your skin. The play is like a henna tattoo - smudged from your memory in the morning.
- Glenn Meads (reviewed at The Lowry in Salford)

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Debuts Top International Bestseller Lists
New titles dominated the top spots on bestseller lists across international markets in February.
Four Questions for…Australian Agent Jenny Darling
We spoke with Darling about a new epic adventure she'll be talking up at the London Book Fair, and how publishing is a "contact sport" in which it's more important than ever to maintain strong business relationships.
Why Do English Language Pubs Lag on Translating Classics?
One of the greatest post-war Dutch novels, Gerard Reve's 'De Avonden' (or 'The Evenings'), which was originally published in 1947, is finally being translated into English. What took so long?
Four Questions for…French Editor Caroline Ast
We spoke with the deputy editorial director at Paris-based Belfond about the importance of independent booksellers in her country, and the Irish debut novel she's publishing thanks a plug from to Colum McCann.
HC Expands Spanish-Language Publishing Efforts
HarperCollins is creating two new Spanish-language publishing divisions: HarperCollins Español and HarperCollins Iberica.
Plum Johnson Wins Canada's RBC Taylor Prize
Plum Johnson has won the C$25,000 RBC Taylor Prize, one of Canada's top literary awards for nonfiction for her memoir, 'They Left Us Everything.'
London's Calling for Foreign Pubs Who Want New Harper Lee
Andrew Nurnberg, the British agent who represents Lee, is taking an unusual approach to selling the foreign rights to her forthcoming novel, 'Go Set a Watchman.'
Works In Translation: If They Publish Them, Will They Buy Them?
Tom Chalmers, managing director of IPR License, talks about some of the strongest markets for selling works in translation right now.
Four Questions for...Italian Editor Giuseppe Strazzeri
We spoke with the editorial director of Longanesi Publishing about the problems with local price-cutting measures on books, and the debut by the "energetic and young" writer from Naples he's excited about publishing in May.
First-Ever Canadian Authors for Indies Day Set for May
After hearing about the Indies First campaign in the U.S., Canadian author Janie Chang decided a similar initiative should be brought to Canada. The result is Canadian Authors for Indies Day, which will take place May 2, 2015.
Houellebecq Ranks In France, Italy
New titles swept the top of France's fiction bestseller list in January, led by Marc Levy's "She and Him."
Canadian Miniseries Boosts 'Book of Negroes'
The TV miniseries adaptation of Lawrence Hill's award-winning novel is proving a major sales boost for the title, originally released in 2007.
Native Tongues: Middle East Fiction in Translation: Middle East Books 2015
In an oft-cited statistic, Chad Post, publisher of Open Letter Books at the University of Rochester and an outspoken advocate for books in translation, estimates that 3% of fiction and poetry books published in the U.S. are translations.
Audio: A Rights Market Heats Up
The rights marketplace has certainly seen 2015 begin with a bang and nowhere more so than through the glut of audiobook licensing deals being completed.
Four Questions for…Kinneret Zmora's Ziv Lewis
We spoke with Ziv Lewis, foreign rights/acquisitions manager of Kinneret Zmora in Israel, about the difficulties of dealing with his country's new Fixed Price Law, the joy of reading 'Hebrish' and the 'game-changing' novel his house is releasing this year.
Follett Climbs the International Bestseller Charts
María Dolores Redondo's novel Offering to the Storm debuted at #1 on Spain's fiction bestseller list in December.
HC Folding Harlequin U.K. Into London Operation; Aligning NA Sales Forces
As HarperCollins' integration of Harlequin moves forward, HC announced that it will be making Harlequin UK (HUK) a division of its U.K. business, while in North America it will align HC's and Harlequin's sales forces.
Canadian University Acquires Novels With Oscar Wilde Link
The University of British Columbia Library has acquired two rare, 19th-century novels that scholars believe may have been written by Oscar Wilde.
Marunas Named Publisher at Quercus U.S.; Shelley to CEO at Little, Brown U.K.
Nathaniel Marunas has been named publisher of the U.S. division of British publisher Quercus, and David Shelley has been named as the successor to Ursula Mackenzie at Little, Brown U.K., with MacKenzie set to retire.
Four Questions for...Intrinseca Publisher Jorge Oakim
We talked to Oakim, publisher of the Brazilian house Intrinseca, about his knack for finding bestsellers, the challenges facing publishers in his country, and some of the titles he's most excited about on his forthcoming list.


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I just lunched http://NoteIt.me, an app built on CI. The aim of it is to help you spread notes around and keep reference of it ( short link ). It was inspired by pastie.org/ in the first place. It can become handy in tweets etc...
App is developed in less than 24 hours, took lil bit more to put on the server and fix bugs. Play around with it and tell me what you think, also if you found any bugs let me know ;)
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"The Browns' locker room was transformed into Believeland this week, with confidence and optimism permeating the air as if it had been spritzed out of the automatic air-fresheners." — Mary Kay Cabot "The vibe is really good. We really believe we can beat the Ravens, not just come close. They're a good team, but we feel like they're ripe to be beat." — Josh Cribbs "They're a beatable team." — Joe Haden "I make my living off of the Browns." — Terrell Suggs "I'm getting tired of coming close and not getting over the hump. I'm just fed up with it. With the game on the line, our offense and defense couldn't make a play." –DQwell Jackson "God damn! I'm done guys." – Joe Haden "No comment." — Brandon Weeden "I don't want to say anything I'll regret." – Josh Cribbs "It'll be a fun thing for everyone to talk about this week, just like when we lost the game (in Indianapolis) and I didn't go for it. I don't know what you're talking about, my
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Unchecked irrigation threatens Minn. groundwaterCrop irrigation has boomed in Minnesota in the past few years, increasing land values and raising yields for corn, soybeans and other crops. But hundreds of Minnesota farmers appear to be irrigating cropland without the state permits required to use large volumes of public water.
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WINDER -- A Winder landfill has been honored by the federal Landfill Methane Outreach Program for its proficiency in turning trash into clean energy.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last month announced the Oak Grove landfill's gas-to-energy initiative as the Project of the Year for 2009. It topped runner-up projects in Missouri and California.
At the Winder facility, home to more than 11 million tons of waste, landfill gases are collected, cleaned and injected into two local natural gas lines for distribution to residential and commercial consumers.
The project produces enough gas to heat more than 8,000 homes and prevents the release of 42,000 tons of carbon dioxide per year, according to the city.
The city of Winder expects to earn about $250,000 per year from its gas utility.
Winder Mayor Chip Thompson credits the project with improving the city's environment and general quality of life.
"This innovative process of turning trash into renewable, clean energy for our citizens ... is a fine example of how we can leverage public-private resources to deliver cost-effective services," Thompson said in a release.
At full capacity, the plant will supply enough fuel to heat 10,500 homes, resulting in 44,500 fewer tons of carbon dioxide released to the atmosphere each year, according to Republic Services, the company helming the landfill project.
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Thrashers start over again
Updated: July 29, 2004, 11:52 AM ETBy Scott Burnside | Special to ESPN.com
Waddell All discussions of the Atlanta Thrashers' 2003-04 season begins and ends with the tragic car accident that cost Dan Snyder his life and star forward Dany Heatley most of last season. Indeed, the personal and professional cost to Heatley may never be known.
Heatley was recently indicted on six charges by a Georgia grand jury, including first degree vehicular homicide. If convicted on all six charges he could face 20 years in prison, although it's believed a plea agreement is the ...
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Plum Sykes brought her readers into the world of privileged Mahattan socialites with her debut novel, "Bergdorf Blondes," while making them laugh, too. She does it again with her second book, "The Debutante Divorcee," where the glamorous newlywed narrator takes up with a far more glamorous new divorcee.
Sykes says she got the idea for the book while covering stories for Vogue magazine.
"I would always see these fab girls arriving out at midnight at Bungalow 8 looking incredible, and I would say, 'who's that?' " Sykes said. "And someone would tell me, 'Oh, she just got divorced yesterday.' And I couldn't believe it. She wasn't at home moping or crying, she was out having the time of her life. And I loved that concept."
Below is an excerpt from the first chapter of the book.
Married girls in New York these days put almost as much effort into losing husbands as they once didinto finding them. It's not uncommon for husbands to be mislaid almost as soon as the honeymoon begins. This is a particular hazard in locations like Capri or Harbour Island, where the glamour quotient of the early-morning beach gang rivals that of a front row at a Valentino couture show. Some husbands, like Jamie Bellangere, get forgotten as early as Barbados airport, an airline terminal so social it is considered perilous for new spouses to pass through even a whole year after marriage. As the twenty-six-and-a-half-year-old former Mrs. Jamie Bellangere always says in her defense, of course she forgot to get Jamie into the hotel's courtesy car! The concierge from Sandy Lane had just called her with a message from the Douglas Blunketts saying that they expected her on "the tub" for dinner at eight! ("the tub" being Blunkett slang for their 150-foot sailing yacht, Private Lives). Meanwhile, that lethal little airstrip in Mustique is even more notorious than Barbados: marriage vows tend to slip a new bride's mind right at the bamboo baggage carousel. This is usually because Mick Jagger has just invited her to dinner, which tends to happen the second a new wife's plane has landed.


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Hahah, I'm a little over excited but this thing is going to be FUN once it's complete!
I ordered the 2400kv castle motor a while ago, taken from a Traxxas "funny car" and I didn't check the specs so I thought it would be good enough for my summit, long story short it fits on the minis, just get a big block mount and you're good to go.
other than that, this things going to be tricked out with a gyro and the traxxas telemetry expander, gps module and the heat/votage meters. going to be running two 2s 50c 2500mah lipos in series! which I don't think the motor is rated for but it should be able to handle it. Just waiting on the telemetry expander, gps module, and the heat/voltage sensor from tower (they will be stocked and sending it soon). Also only have a 31t pinion so I'll be getting the largest one I can find, even running parallel 2s this thing should rock and roll!
So here's what the motor looks like bolted on
Extra little stuff that just came in
Then Baboom! it's gunna look something scary like this when I'm done.. only more wires and mess
Thinking double sided sticky tape on the servo and motor mount to hold the esc, DS sticky tape for the gyro, and DS sticky tape for the rx/rx expander, and gps unit. It's gunna be ridiculous
Here's where the build started but the title wasn't doing it any justice
I'll put more pics up A.S.A.P., really just waiting on the release of this gps module to put everything together. Oh, have to go pick up an iPod as well.


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House and Senate proposals now on the table would end the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula that has confounded adequate payment to Medicare providers since its inception. The Senate version also suggests a permanent repeal of the Medicare therapy cap. The proposals are scheduled for discussion this week.
Both proposals—created by the Senate Finance and House Ways and Means committees—repeal the current SGR formula and freeze payment rates for 10 years. During this 10-year period providers are eligible to earn payment above the base level through value-based performance programs and alternative payment models.
The Senate Finance Committee proposal also includes a full and immediate repeal of the Medicare therapy cap. However, manual medical review would remain in place at the $3,700 level through 2014, followed by the development of a modified medical review process beginning in 2015.
The Senate proposal also calls for the creation of a new data collection system to replace the current functional limitation reporting system and includes language directing the Secretary of Health and Human Services to explore new payment models for outpatient therapy. The bill also requires that beginning in 2015, claims for outpatient therapy include data on whether a physical therapist assistant provided the service.
The House Ways and Means proposal focuses solely on repeal of the SGR formula and does not include a repeal of the therapy cap or any Medicare extenders. The House committee is expected to discuss its proposal sometime this week before adjourning on Friday, December 13.
APTA continues to work with legislators and staff on the Senate Finance and House Ways and Means committees as these proposals make their way through the legislative process. APTA will provide additional resources for members and an analysis of the impacts on the physical therapy profession after this week's discussions.
Today's mothers are spending an average of 12.5 hours less per week on physical activity (PA) than mothers in the 1960s—a difference that researchers are describing as a "significant reallocation" of time to sedentary activities that could contribute to a potential public health crisis.
The findings, published in the December Mayo Clinic Proceedings, examined data contained in the American Heritage Time and Use Study, an activity log program that has captured more than 50,000 diary days and 90 behavioral categories from mothers beginning in 1965.
Researchers divided the mothers into 2 groups—those with children between the ages of 5 and 18 (mothers with older children or MOC), and those with children younger than 5 (mothers with younger children, MYC)—and reviewed activity logs over a 45-year period, 1965–2010.What they found, according to the authors, was alarming:
Researchers attributed most of the difference to a significant rise in "screen-based media use" and wrote that "with each passing generation, mothers have become increasingly physically inactive, sedentary, and obese, thereby potentially predisposing children to an increased risk of inactivity, adiposity, and chronic [non-communicable diseases]."
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued revised portions of the Medicare Benefits Policy and Claims Processing manuals to clarify coverage of skilled therapy services in maintenance care. The revisions were mandated as a result of the Jimmo v Sibelius settlement agreement reached in US District Court earlier this year.
In the transmittal (.pdf), CMS reiterates its longstanding policy that skilled therapy services still may be covered even in situations where no improvement is possible, including when skilled services are needed to prevent deterioration. The transmittal also contains information on the documentation necessary for coverage determinations in skilled maintenance therapy.
APTA is reviewing the transmittal and will provide a detailed summary in the coming days.
Join CMS from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm December 19 for a Medicare Learning Network conference call on how the Jimmo v Sibelius agreement will affect the services provided by physical therapists. Registration is open now, but spaces are likely to fill up quickly.
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(Release: August 8, 2011) - Two clients of the Technical Innovation Center, DocuTrac, Inc. and Tox Path Specialists, LLC, have recently added new staff positions.
DocuTrac, Inc., a developer of behavioral health software, has just announced advancements for their QuicDoc® EHR and Office Therapy PMS software. In addition, they recently became the very first software company to be New York State Clinical Records Initiative (NYSCRI) certified. The following positions have been added to the DocuTrac staff:
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Tox Path Specialists, LLC develops and carries out safety assessments of new drugs and devices targeting diseases of the human central and peripheral nervous systems. They also perform safety assessments of new therapies for a variety of other organ systems. They have added the following position:
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The Technical Innovation Center (TIC) is Washington County's full service technology business incubator at Hagerstown Community College. The mission of the TIC is to foster entrepreneurship and technology business creation in the region to help diversify the local economy and to promote the creation of higher wage employment opportunities for HCC students and the citizens of Washington County. For more information on the Technical Innovation Center, call 301-790-2800, ext. 399, or visit www.technicalinnovationcenter.com.


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At a high level, that's how I think about our patterns & practices Application Architecture Guide and Application Architecture KB.
The work has become a focal point both internally and externally as a playbook for the Microsoft application platform. It's less of a guide, and more of a platform. Essentially, we've framed out a durable, evolvable backdrop for application architecture that we can build on in terms of products, tooling, services and experiences. I get daily/weekly mails from folks inside and outside the company that want to align their efforts with the frames and approach.
I think of the frames as collection of hot spots. The frames help cut through information overload and provide a common mental model. They also help identify hot spots in architecture and design that are opportunities for improvement. They also help map existing bodies of pattern work to relevant decisions that shape applications.
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Yes, it is very useful. Thank your for sharing!
It give us lots of best practise on how to design an architecture on Microsoft's tech.
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LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles comedian apparently decided to bake cookies that looked eerily like iPhones to lure cops into pulling him over for talking on what appears to be a phone while driving – but the joke was on him.
Randy Liedtke decided to narrate his publicity stunt/prank via Twitter – pictures and all. His intention, according to his Tumblr page, was to take a bite of his phone-shaped cookie in front of the officer that pulled him over and ask if cookies were against the law.
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Love the look! Ok the product is sturdy and I think it will hold up just fine. It has great coverage over my ears...I know but I don't have to wear earplugs anymore! It feels durable and fits well.
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I bought this for my son who is 6, and its a tad big but overall fits perfect!
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Works great and easy to spot when there are a bunch of swimmers. My 7 yr old loves it, silicone cap can be a little slippery so try putting goggles under the cap for a race Instead of outside.
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I bought it for my son, who is 10. He has quite a bit of hair so the adult size fit perfectly. It is a very good looking one, the first day in the pool he got some compliments :) It comes in a little ouch with a zipper for storage, which is nice. Great purchase!
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I really like how the band is about an inch thick on the ends but thinner at the cap part and it does not squeeze my head so much. I've only used it once so I will see how long it lasts but Im sure the flames make me swim faster! : )
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The most important thing is the fit! It fits well and its Blue...my daughters favorite color.
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I wore this product once successfully and on the second attempt it split in half upon attempt to put it on. I was very disappointed!
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Super cool cap for your best flaming swim friends!
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A little fun! If you're looking for something different, give it a go. This cap is a little stiff and feels thicker than most, so it doesn't have as much stretch or go on quite as easily. Still, it's something different and will help you pick you your swimmer at a glance. Besides, who doesn't want to be a hot-head now and again? ;-)
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Cap looks great. Kids loved the look. I purchased 9 for our swim team to go to district championship meet. Durring a event the cap came off ! other swimmers with this cap have complained about it sliding back when flip turning or while in stream line off the wall... this cap will work fine for a practice cap but I will not recomend for a swim meet.
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Silicone feels strong and durable. However, the 1st time we tried on the cap; it tore in half. Swim outlet was absolutely wonderful and is sending us another with no questions asked. With this kind of service, I will return again and again. Our other silicone hat has lasted through hundreds of uses, hope the 2nd one we receive is not defective.
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Ordered for my grandson, he was so excited when it came in. Third time he used it the entire side ripped out. Ordered it again because he cried when the first one ripped. Hope the 2nd one holds up better than the 1st one did.
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Our team ordered a dozen of these caps. They are easy for the kids to get on and look great, but two of the 12 ripped within days.
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My son loves the cap. He calls it Hot Rod flames.
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This cap ripped badly after my son used it for one meet. SwimOutlet, though, replaced it immediately, without a shipping charge. So far so good, but service like that ensures that we'll be buying more for our swimmers.
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This is a story that i want to tell about SWG.
After Wathcing that Exodus movie i was thinking about SWG and what made it greate.
I started SWG a couple of months befor the CU, and i guess i was lucky, but i found myself in the middle of a great Roleplaying guild on Valcyn. The guild itself had a detailed history, that was passed from member to member over the last 2 years of play. It wasa great tale of Triumph and Faliure (tho it is probably embelished a little). Basicly we had plans to ressurect the guild to its former glory.
The reason SWG was fun was not the combat, (maybee space) and it was not making money. The fun of SWG was living in Star Wars, Seeing people make deals, Lines for doc buffs in Cornet spamming products in other langueges. The ability to not worry about leveling, becuase there was no Levels, You could have almost no experience in combat, but besidse your combat people wouldnt know........
But the reason i had the most fun on SWG was the roleplaying.
Here is a story of my first day playing SWG:
The day befor my charecter landed in theed, My good freind in RL known as Olev had hapend to be apart of the assasination of an Imperial guild leader at her wedding! The weding was set up over the watterfalls of Theed, in the Shadow of the Palace. Olev and several other rebels had set up in the palace with rifles and proceded to shoot the imperial leader after they said 'I do" (a reble spy was there just to make sure the timing was perfect)
Needless to say the plan went off without a hitch, though in the end they were trapped and forced to jump to their most certain doom, but thats what clonning is for. anyway My toon ,Hem, lands in theed and i follow Olev to our the location of our town. The town was called vorbis and would eventually grow to over 30 members untill we hit the population cap but thats for another day.
At the time Vorbis consisted of 3 crappy Corellia style houses. It was at this location that i Learned the History of our guild, i would love to tell you it, but you must be apart of our guild to know it I think (correct me if im wrong former Ikeda members if any =)) But i can tell you it was long and exciting, our guild was steeped in tradition and symbolism, it was a great guiild and it was alot of fun. That same night olev Led me to an Excluded area of Naboo, there he told me that this deserted location once stood our original home. It wa almost strange how he talked about it, like it really meant somthing to him, and now i know exactly why.
This is ware the Trouble began. It was here that he was informed by some scource i never met, that we were being traked by a bounty hunter. He made the three of us split up and go to different towns in different directions.
At first I was apprehensive about the bounty hunter untill i saw a Speeder following me acroos the countryside, somehow the bounty Hunter had mistaken me for Olev. This is when he told me the story of the assasination, and that the bounty hunter was sent by the Imperial guild to kill everyone involved with the assasination.
I acted like i didnt see him, continued to the town of Southern Citadel ware i met up with Olev. This is ware we devised a plan to kill the bounty hunter befor he killed us! We distracted him and the plan was working perfectly untill he figured it out. He took the opourtunity to use his jetpack to fly out of our reach and be gone.
Now i know that that isnt that exciting, but actually exoerincing this kind of player driven story coming from a few moths oof EQlive and planetside, it was increadable, and that was just the FIRST DAY!!!!!
The reason i ended up leaving SWG was not the CU or the NGE or anything SOE did, We left because the guild fell apart, And it is the NGE that is keeping me away.
Part of me wants to go back, but the other part of me knows that it just wont be the same.
Anyone else had a similar experience as mine, or am I all alone in thinking that it wasnt the combat that made SWG great, but the social aspect that did?
And if so, why did the NGE ruin it?
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Sorry to be so negative, I'm just a burnt-out SWG vet who's seen too many broken promises.
It was always the community that made the game fun for me.
It looks like they have and are doing everything they can to destroy the communities, short of closing the game that is, and I bet that's coming soon.
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I never got that involved. I was more an observer and what I observed were people who were having a blast in their SW world, kind of like you described.
Jolen the Bot dancer. Missed Jolen, she was the link to life and death in the field. Never made you tip her, I always did.
The Docs, some in it for the creds, some in it for more. You knew because they were there, day in and day out, not at the good times, at their time. One, I tipped him after CU in hopes he would stay. He vanished. There was no need for him.
I loved playing Oggat when he was a misfit Arti/ Scout/ Brawler. I loved playing Oggat when he was a Master Swordy with uber melee moves that would pound down the foes or cot him a fortune in armor when he got too sassy. His Scythe, the one he got from his quest was on the wall at 1/1 con. I was proud of that.
Oggat after CU was digits and Polygons. SOE wrecked the fantasy. If you can't imagine, why play?
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If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness. -FDR
What I find truely ironic is when I tried to tell people on these boards that SWG let you do this type of thing, I was flamed and called all sorts of colorful names. Believe me now Ico?
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"Hmm I need bigger sword!" - Minsc BG SoA
The social aspect definitely made the game for me, there was always some banter going on in our guild (Kabar, E-Chim) chat, it was great.
We had different kinds of players too, some real hard core grinders, some old hands from day 1 the game came out, newbies etc We were quite a large guild too, there was nearly always somebody on, even in the early hours of the morning, we had female players which at first I found strange for a sci-fi game, people from all over the world it seemed too.
Advice and opinions were given freely, discussions and arguments raged, people fell out, people made up, it was basically a cool online community, something was always going on.
I was not a hard core grinder, and never have been, my two greatest achievements in SWG were getting Master CH through tame and release only (well 95%), it took me about 5 weeks lol, and the other was getting my Hero of Tatooine, but I didn't care because I really enjoyed the game.
Our guild was not unique in these things I know, but it was my first MMORPG, and my first guild and it just blew me away. I became mad for it, I played for hours, way too many to be healthy, but damn it was fun.
We had our Imperial enemies, the Guild KDS were our villains, there was a lot of history and politics involved there that predated me joining the game so from my first day I was on somebody's death list, though I was not very good at PVP so rarely went overt.
I thought EQ2 could be the beginning of the end, a lot of people started playing that when it came out and spending less time on SWG, but then people gradually came back, they said it was cool for the first so many levels then got boring. To me it was like a new lease of life in the guild, lots of people deciding they wanted to grind Jedi before the CU came out, there were fears that it would make getting XP harder. I was always ready to help someone with the Village exit quest with my rifle and a rancor.
Still, they had been promising a CU for ages and nothing ever came of it. The JTL expansion, well I didn't like it, but hey I was a CH, I know queuing for a ship at the starport could be frustrating at times, but it did make good passing trade for the doctors, slicers and well me too. People moaned about the lag at Coronet, but I loved the seething masses there, meeting friends and associates from other guilds and stuff while waiting for the ride, a "Hello" from the crowd, it really felt like a capital city spaceport.
I really feel JTL was mistake number one for SWG, but I never actually did anything with it, maybe if I actually got into the whole flying gig, I would feel different, perhaps they could have implemented it differently, i.e. you still have to wait 5 mins for your ship to be towed from a hanger or something, I mean the flight is still free, but the community is bottlenecked a bit at spaceports.
Then finally it actually happened, the CU really was going to come out after all. We discussed it in the guild, some old timers said things like: "I remember when it took a load of us to take down one Voritor, maybe it will go back to being like that, that would be so much fun" …ooookaay I wasn't convinced anybody would really put up with that, but maybe the gods of SWG were listening L
Weakening characters is never popular, I think that was the main grump about the CU, and some of the tradeskills felt a bit shafted too, my main source of income was hunting, and I liked to do it alone, it was like a single player mini-game within SWG that went well with my other hobbies, looking for good creatures to tame and exploring the planets.
Seriously nobody would actually enjoy coming out traipsing all over a planet with me, just for the fun of the landscapes and critters, not that the guild chat ever let up, so I never felt like I was alone, I mean I liked group activities/parties etc too, but the option was always there for me to just sod off and hunt if I felt like it.
The CU arrived…. Well that went down well… NOT. I thought ok, its just an end of an era, it is a different game now that is all, I mean if you compare the taste of diet coke to original coke you are always going to be disappointed, you have to just forget about the original sugary stuff, and learn to like diet coke as a different drink altogether, after a while you get used to it and enjoy the new taste.
My guildies felt differently about it, we struggled on as a guild, people leaving all over the place, I was still annoyed that I was going to get eaten every time I went to Endor, so I stopped playing as frequently, one time I logged on and my guild had disbanded.
Soon after I left the game because I couldn't face the sight of my guild town with nobody in it anymore, mine wasn't the only player town like it either, the server was emptying so fast, empty player cities, empty vendors, empty cantinas, I just couldn't take it any more, and I didn't want to move into another guild.
So for me the CU did destroy the game, indirectly maybe, and JTL sapped it a bit too. Combat did make the game fun for enough of the player base that when they got the hump and left, those who were left noticed it.
When something like that ends, it is like losing a..er well I don't want to insult anybody who has actually lost anything real, so I wont say, but damn, it stings a bit.
I heard lots of people liked the CU and things were settling down and player numbers were up again, I was pleased for the people still playing. I don't know much about this NGE thing, but maybe it will settle down again? I don't begrudge anybody who enjoys the game as it stands now, I hope that they get as much out of the game as I did when I played.
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Star Wars Galaxies, R.I.P. NGE was your final death blow.
This is probably all of our story....I also loved the community with a true passion....I tried WoW, Flyff, and then WoW.....community is pathetic compared to what SWG's community was....
They ripped the soul out of the game....
We've go to keep the heat on SOE...we've got to keep getting the media to report on it.....we can't let them win this.....all MMO's future are at stake.
Faxx of Bria....(I chose that server BECAUSE it was over-populated)....lag isn't a problem when combat isn't a priority....guess maybe all the other folks on Bria felt the same too, no?
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I find I miss the skylines... especially of Corellia, my home planet. As I watched the Exodus video, I felt the same sadness as all of you. I truly miss what the game was... pre-CU. It had flaws that needed to be fixed, but what the game is now is no fix. If they were to go back t the spirit of what the game once was, I would sign up immediately. This game was and is a part of me. It was my first MMORPG, so maybe some of it is the fondness of that. But this game seems to have touched so many in the same way it touched me, otherwise we who had left so long ago wouldn't still be coming to these forums hoping that ONE DAY we will see that SOE has decided to go back to the pre-CU days. And when and if that day comes, I, just like a lot of you out there, will re-install my SWG discs and re-subscribe. I tried the NGE... I wanted so bad to like it, but it was worse than the CU which was garbage IMO. I just want my game back.
Whoever is responsible for destroying this game probably has no idea how bad they screwed up, aside from the financial ramifications they are reaping right now. /sigh
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I was a wife of a powerful guild leader imperial back early game that pvp was strong.
We had a rebel guild that loved to torment us nightly especially after cities came out and we put our bases out. it became a nightly event.
Myself and friend from the rebel guild got together planed my "kidnapping" . That friday night most of both guilds were online. I was taken from my place of business, at the cantina and escorted to a place i didn't know where i was. ( at that time i was straight entertainer dancer/ musician and did not leave the cantina much, ( gnorts scared the ebbie jebbies out of me )
The rebel guild sent a message out to hubby that didn't know what the heck was going on. ( voice chat went down, guild chat wasn't working ( on my pc) chat, tells weren't working at the time just spatial.....
An call went out on spatial of them searching high and low for the guild leaders wife taken against her will.
After about an hour shots were ringing out blasts were going off (i got teffed) shot and eventually dragged out of ah basement . My guild showed up saved me. They discovered through informants where i was and went to destroy the rebel guild. By the end of the night i was safely back at home. Getting royally chewed out by hubby for leaving cantina ( i reminded him he could have walked across the hall to see where i was ( his pc in other room) . A good time was had by all, many folks got involved we ended up in a guild war with rebel guild that they had tons of fun in.
I then learned about wounds that night My lines were totally blackened, and at one point i was such into the story role playing i felt my toons fear....
We had a blast i eventually got healed and after a few days hubby made me swear never to do that again. lol
Hey, I AM one of the Founding members of Ikeda. Lancer Stargazer was our Tono, and I later married him (in Game only) We started out in a small city just outside of Theed, but Lancer wanted to have a Ikeda city. So he waited until he could set his town hall at 0-0 on Naboo. I met Olev in Keren. He has just finished making his character and I had just shuttled in to the spaceport, since our city was sort of close and we didn't have a shuttle yet, I was pulling out my speeder when this guy waves me down. IM's me that he is new and can I help him out. So I showed him around and then took him to our city and explained what we did. Ikeda was a Samurai guild. WE were Samurai in all respects. I had taken Olev under my wing and sort of adopted him as my son. (in game). We had many adventures, hunting trips, lessons on Samurai protocol, city celebrations and just plain fun. But as all things come to pass, and so did our leader. He was in an auto accident and a head injury kept him from playing in front of a computer for very long, he would experience severe headaches and would have to log for the night. So, he passed the leadership to me. But, as I am a woman, there were a few of the guild members that left. After that the guild wasn't the same, and I passed the Leadership unto Olev and he rebuilt what I could not.
Hey, I AM one of the Founding members of Ikeda. Lancer Stargazer was our Tono, and I later married him (in Game only) We started out in a small city just outside of Theed, but Lancer wanted to have a Ikeda city. So he waited until he could set his town hall at 0-0 on Naboo. I met Olev in Keren. He has just finished making his character and I had just shuttled in to the spaceport, since our city was sort of close and we didn't have a shuttle yet, I was pulling out my speeder when this guy waves me down. IM's me that he is new and can I help him out. So I showed him around and then took him to our city and explained what we did. Ikeda was a Samurai guild. WE were Samurai in all respects. I had taken Olev under my wing and sort of adopted him as my son. (in game). We had many adventures, hunting trips, lessons on Samurai protocol, city celebrations and just plain fun. But as all things come to pass, and so did our leader. He was in an auto accident and a head injury kept him from playing in front of a computer for very long, he would experience severe headaches and would have to log for the night. So, he passed the leadership to me. But, as I am a woman, there were a few of the guild members that left. After that the guild wasn't the same, and I passed the Leadership unto Olev and he rebuilt what I could not.
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I'm not sure why Fritzie is ignoring the mice but I can tell you that some dogs just react differently.
My Brody goes nuts when he smells/hears one. He will "work" the walls, floors and cabinets where he knows one is and until we can trap and kill the thing he will not let up. He's an excellent GTG dog by the way lol!
My other JRT could care less. Talk about Yin and Yang! Total opposite. I would have to literally put the mouse right in front of him and then he would probably do something, although outdoors he does actively hunt out rabbit nests and the like. I guess he figures if the mouse is indoors it must be okay.
I know his eyesight is fine so it's not that he can't see them, his hearing is okay too so he must hear them, he must be able to smell them but I do believe Brody has a better nose on him.
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Raising thriving, emotionally healthy sons does not require a man around the house! That's the conclusion of a groundbreaking research study that will open eyes, stir debate, and reassure nearly 10 million single mothers.
As the number of single-mom and two-mom households has grown, so have concerns about the possible damage to boys caused by the lack of a male role model in the house. Peggy F. Drexler, Ph.D., listened to all the dire warnings; but her training as a research psychologist told her she had to see the evidence. So she embarked on a long-term study comparing boys raised in female-headed families with those whose fathers were present throughout their childhood. What Dr. Drexler discovered is as heartening as it is startling:
"Single or gay mothers-whom Drexler dubs 'maverick moms'-are 'real' parents, in case anyone needed reminding. The families they create are 'as real and as legitimate as any other.' The author, an assistant professor of psychology in psychiatry at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, bases her book on an extensive research study she conducted. Though she's curiously cagey on numbers, she does reveal that she interviewed a variety of lesbian mothers, single mothers, sons of single moms and sons of two-mother families. The results of her survey serve as a refreshing antidote to critics who insist that family life today is on the verge of being atomized. In an upbeat but never preachy tone, Drexler retells anecdote after anecdote illustrating her point (namely, that female-headed households may be better for boys than households with men). The book is mostly narrative in structure, with bulleted points at the end of each chapter explaining what 'maverick moms' do that makes them successful parents (they encourage their sons to participate in a wide variety of activities; they actively recruit male figures from their families and the community to be in their sons' lives; they model the behavior they want their sons to emulate, and set examples of strength and compassion; etc.). This important work will serve as a beacon to the country's nearly 10 million single mothers. " Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
Backed by peer-reviewed research, this hotly debated bestseller (San Francisco Chronicle) continues to open eyes with its finding that raising thriving, emotionally healthy sons does not require a man in the house.
As the number of single-mom and two-mom households has grown, so have concerns about the possible damage caused by the lack of a stable male role model in the house. Determined to find the truth, research psychologist Peggy Drexler embarked on a long-term study comparing boys raised in nontraditional families with those whose fathers were present throughout their childhood. The results were startling. Female-headed households can provide even better parenting for boys than households with men. Sons from female-headed families can grow up emotionally stronger and more well-rounded than boys from "traditional" mother-father families--more in touch with their feelings yet masculine in all the ways defined by our culture.
Nominated for a Books for a Better Life Award in Parenting, Raising Boys Without Men has been featured on numerous television shows and in print, from Good Morning America to Good Housekeeping.
The author embarked on a long-term study comparing boys raised in female-headed families with those whose fathers were present throughout their childhood. Her finding: Female-headed households may be even better parents for boys than households with men.
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