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There really are so many amazing food & wine events happening around the country. This free event which will be hosted by the New Zealand wine brand, Brancott Estate, came to my attention and I just had to share it with you. It sounds like a really spectacular foodie adventure, which I'm sure there will be great interest in, so register with www.brancottestatestaycurious.
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Brancott Estate 'A Curious Feast for the Senses'
Four Top Restaurants, Four Nights of Discovery, One Pioneering Wine Brand
This March, pioneering New Zealand wine brand, Brancott Estate will take wine and food enthusiasts on a voyage of discovery where all their senses will be stimulated as part of a four night food and wine event. From the dressing of the room, to the food on the plate to the matching visual and aural effects, the entire evening will challenge guests' perceptions of food and ensure that their curiosity is piqued from the very beginning. The event called 'A Curious Feast for the Senses' runs from 5th– 8th March 2012 in the theatrical surroundings of the Sugar Club, Dublin 2.
Food duo Cully & Sully will guide guests on the culinary adventure over four nights as top Irish restaurants Pichet, Campagne, Tankardstown House and Locks Brasserie create a range of gastronomic delights that will tickle the palate and delight the senses in front of a live audience. Each night a different chef from one of the restaurants will take to the stage to create a three course sampling menu of discovery, which will explore food combinations that shouldn't work together, but do! Food on the night will be matched to wines from the Brancott Estate range and guests will sample four wines; three from the classic range; Brancott Estate Sauvignon Blanc, Brancott Estate Pinot Grigio and Brancott Estate Pinot Noir and one of the newest varietals to the range, the sparkling Brancott Estate Sauvignon Blanc Brut NV. Cully & Sully will challenge guests' curiosity throughout the night with food trivia quizzes, blindfold tasting games and more.
A night of intrigue and wonder awaits 100 curious diners each night who will have the opportunity to attend the pioneering food and wine event. Guests can register for a chance to win tickets by logging onto www.brancottestatestaycurious.
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Winning guests will be notified of attendance by 28th February and two tickets will be allocated per-person.
'The Brancott Estate, Curious Feast for the Senses' takes place in the Sugar Club from 5th -8th March 2012.


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Richard caught up with PDC and MIX 'owner' Mike Swanson, and talked about the Mix09 Keynotes, and plans for the next PDC. Taken from Podcast #70
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[Rich] well I'm back in the corridor again and I've managed to corner Mike Swanson, hes the man behind Mix09.. Mike how are you doing.
[Mike Swanson] I'm doing fine thank you Richard, and by the way I don't have a cool accent like that, I hope you're OK with my lack of accent.
[Rich] Did I just put on a posh voice just then?
[Mike Swanson] yeah I thought it was great, a great little voice.
[Rich] so for the benefit of the listeners do you want to tell us who you are what you do?
[Mike Swanson] I'm happy too. my name is Michael Swanson, by day I work for Developer and Platform Evangelism at Microsoft, which is a big mouthful. I work with a lot of technical evangelists, and specifically I work on our events team. our events team own 2 events, we own MIX which means the team I'm on helps execute the event we are at right now. We also do PDC. so we are responsible for PDC and of course PDC 2008 for anyone who attended we did that as well and will do future PDC and future MIX's of course. my role specifically this year, as it varies from year to year it seems. this year for this conference in addition to what we call our core team and the core team is a few individuals that basically makes sure everything goes right, we decide what we do. I specifically own keynotes. I was Keynote owner this year. so it was like what we gonna say, what's the theme of our conference, who are we gonna get, what demos we gonna show, what partners are we gonna show and basically leading that through to execution on the stage.
[Rich] Wow, that's a lot of stuff to do, trying to keep the keynotes in order and to time aswell.
[Mike Swanson] Oh yes, it's funny, in rehearsal, because we do reherse, a lot of people don't realise we do rehearsals, usually its the day before the actual keynote in the keynote room and we often know we are gonna go over a little bit but we are always surprised of course, at least it wasn't a bladder buster this time. We went over by 20 mins on day 1 but today we didn't. we started a little late but ended on time. that's wierd though. We call them bladder busting keynotes, but it turns out attendees at least tell us, that as long as you have good stuff, then we'll sit a bit longer.
[Rich] And that is the case I think this year...
[Mike Swanson] Yeah.
[Rich] The keynotes were just full you didn't want them to end..its like a good movie and you just want it to carry on dont you.
[Mike Swanson] Well thats good to hear isn't it? It's not like your waiting for the credits to roll so that's good. from a keynote perspective we tried a couple of different things this year. One was instead of getting someone like a Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer or Ray Ozzie, who normally headlines the opening 20 mins or so of our day 1 keynote, we decided to go a little different this year, were trying to push a bit more on user experience and design. We have more and more products and technologies, people who have the ability to create user experience using tools which is now comming closer to reality so we said, can we get more of a design element in the conference which led to our discussion by Bill Buxton. By all measures everyone who has given us feedback that they love Bill Buxton and he was great, so he's walking around now like a little bit of a star, a bit of a legend, then we had Deborah Adler of course today which was a completely non technical risk, honestly because we wasn't sure how our developers, designers would take that story but the feedback so far is very strong from designers, a couple of developers may have said. 'i dont really really get it but a lot of them did so overall I think it was good and the other one the tri-fector here is the special screening of objectify which was all about industrial design and not about software, so were trying to push design a little bit more and I think it worked for us this year..
[Rich] I think it worked as well I mean Bill Buxton was at ReMIX in the UK last year and he went down a storm then so he was kind of safe risky bet and I think the other one was really good the Deborah one.. that was interesting because even as a peer developer to understand the problem and see it through you can appreciate the main points.
[Mike Swanson] Yes absolutely, and the one thing I think about Bill that people have repeated back to me was his mountain bike example. you know.. it's not about the bike its almost like there is no spoon in the matrix, its not about the bike its about the experience that a person gets by riding the bike and if you think in design for that your doing the right thing, its not about the physical object its self.
[Rich] careering down the hill, changing your diapers.
[Mike Swanson] Exactly.
[Rich] So MIX this year, its been a hard year economically but it seems to have gone really well we have good people here and everything.
[Mike Swanson] yeah were actually near packed especially if you looked out into the keynote audience because I popped my head out occasionally just to see if people are engaged or if they are walking out, but we have had an engaged audience this year . it was nearly full I saw people sitting along the edges with is kind of wierd on a keynote as we usually have the room for it. so feedback is great we've had a lot of attendace im glad to see it. your right the...the economy did make things challenging. a lot of conferences are not able to pull this off right now. somehow we were able to so we are happy about that.
[Rich] There's lots of other things going on like the 'Show off' and the 10k challenge and the design stuff they all help to promote don't they?
[Mike Swanson] Yes they do, its the fun element, part of what we like about MIX is that its not just developers that show up and we wanna have fun...it is Vegas , part of it is a chance to unwind, you know....its that time when folks can get time away from the office because thats just as important as the networking component or the educational component .. even if we just made a DVD of all these sessions and just shipped them out to you youd probably never have to time to just sit down and watch them... you'd have great intentions and you'd want to but the reality is you'd probably never have time to do it...your boss probably isn't gonna send you to Florida to sit and watch a DVD so we may as well have some fun whilst were here and do things like show off or the rock band tournament of course is all about pure fun.
[Rich] Yes, I saw someone one the Twitter feed which was live in the keynote saying we need a drummer. I was tempted but I thought no..
[Mike Swanson] Are you a drummer on Rock Band then?
[Rich] Yes but only on easy/medium.
[Mike Swanson] Ok, ok that's about my speed as well.
[Rich] So straight after MIX then are you starting to plan PDC?
[Mike Swanson] Absolutely, weve announced PDC as in November, mid November I don't remember the exact date around the 15th in Los Angeles so it's a little later in the year than the October event we had last year. so usually what we do after the conference is we all kind of take a week off or at least a slow week right, relax a little bit, and then pick up planning for PDC, and we have already been planning PDC as it takes. well I never really calculate it, but its about 9 months from first discussion right through to execution a lot of times we have to reserve the facility way in advance its not like reserving a room somewhere so we have to make some predictions about that, but...yes....absolutely weve already started talking about that and when we get back that's what our focus will be...
[Rich] Well that sounds fantastic. Mike, I'm not gonna hold you any longer. I know you got to dash off again onto your next..
[Mike Swanson] well yes that is the job..
[Rich] Thanks for your time....
[Mike Swanson] Thank you Richard, its been a pleasure,
[Rich] Thanks
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"Where the Walker runs down into the Carson Valley plain/There lived a maiden, Darcy Farrow was her name.... " The year was 1966, and Steve Gillette was studying at UCLA and playing banjo and guitar in the local folk clubs. He met Tom Campbell, who was also studying music, and legend has it the two wrote "Darcy Farrow" to fulfill an assignment for a traditional-music course. Such is the folk process, the weird creaky engine of what we call tradition. As Gillette continued performing that simple, timeless song of a beautiful girl who died young, fallen from a horse, recording it a year later on his Vanguard debut, the song slowly crept into the American tradition -- and beyond. You'll hear it frequently at bluegrass and old-time festivals; Irish bands play it, as did Townes Van Zandt. Some may have heard of the author, but most assume it's just an anonymous folksong, part of the public domain like "In the Pines" or "Down in the Valley." And indeed it is -- "Darcy Farrow" is a perfect folk song.
Gillette has been writing terse, elegant and utterly time-defying story-songs for three decades. If you don't know him, you're missing one of the masters, a writer and performer every bit the equal of his better-known contemporaries Guy Clark and Tom Paxton. He has such an intuitive grasp of the mythic element of folk music -- the images of death, birth, nature, travel and time that we hearken to to make sense of our lives -- that he builds and pushes the American tradition of storytelling in song as if he were anonymous, as if he had no personal history and was instead telling the deep and collective biography of everyone in his songs. And indeed he does. Gillette hasn't played St. Louis in years, and his appearance with his wife, Cindy Mangsen -- an exquisite singer, clawhammer banjoist and songwriter herself -- continues a killer run of singer/songwriter dates at the Focal Point. Here's to more of the same. (RK)
Imperial Teen
Saturday, March 27; Side Door
I defy any fan of the modern guitar-pop song to spin the opening cut on Imperial Teen's recent What Is Not to Love? (Slash), "Open Season." Like all great pop songs, the melody is simple and sticky, the hooks both surprising and inevitable, and the entirety as solid and complete as one clay brick. In fact, most of this, the band's second critically acclaimed, publicly ignored (at least for the time being -- I've got a good feeling, though) album contains these wonderful songs, replete with lots of backing shoop-shoops and ba-ba-badas, a cheesy organ here and there and an overall good vibration. When singer Roddy Bottum (great rock-star name) sings, "Why you gotta be so proud? I'm the one with lipstick on" -- a song probably about Courtney Love, or at least about celebrity -- you wanna stumble over chairs and step on feet just to get close enough to the stage to touch him.
Imperial Teen seems to have it all -- the hooks and the looks, the androgyny and the philosophy -- that makes geeks like me giddy. You like 'em on the surface and you like 'em under scrutiny; you like 'em as you bounce around the apartment and you like 'em as you strike your best rock-star pose in front of the mirror.
Of course, too much of everything, like a finished Rubik's Cube, is at times quite boring. Why else would multimillionaires want to fly around the world in a balloon? For the adventure of it, of course, and herein lies my only complaint with Imperial Teen: The music they make is quite safe, almost too uniformly palatable -- where's the adventure? Not here. But if I want some ice cream, I sure as hell ain't gonna ask for pepper-flavored. I'll ask for mint chocolate chip, just like when I want some sugary guitar pop, I'll have some Imperial Teen. (RR)
Bobby Conn
Monday, March 29; Rocket Bar
The unfortunate truth about The Rock Opera as a viable creative outlet: The only artists with gumption enough to play with the rock-opera format are those famous few, hot-air-balloon-sized heads and all, who actually believe they have something very important, something -- God forbid -- literary to say with rock music. History tells us that they're (deaf, dumb and) blind, that if you have something important to say, you need to write a book, make a movie or, er, be a music critic. If you want to shake your ass and sing about copulating, play rock. The general formula is as follows: big head + famous rock star = rock opera. The only true mystery is how come Bono hasn't written one yet.
Bobby Conn actually believes he has something important to say -- about Armageddon, no less -- and he's got the requisite big head. But he's not famous, and he doesn't need a smack upside said head. Maybe it's because he's deluded and thinks he's a famous rock star, maybe he's just practicing for the time when he actually is one, or maybe he's just gettin' all postmodern on our asses. Whichever, his recent album Rise Up! (Atavistic) is a freak-show performance on which Conn, who's from Chicago, constructs a genuine rock opus out of titles like "Twilight of the Empire," "Axis '67 pt. 2," "United Nations" and "Rise Up, Now!" The result is truly baffling in a wonderful way, which is more than I can say about Tommy, which is truly baffling in an embarrassing way.
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This Image !, in hues of oil.
A painting
There is this Lovely Lady, who's posterior so beautiful,
lies before my eyes - it becomes ( as I gaze upon )
more alive then the life she has put before me – given to me.
Her beauty lies upon a blanket of red passion,
her back to the universe, to me and my world,
her torso, her left leg and foot buried deep into passions colour,
her right leg cocked, caressing passions, red carpeted fringes
as her right foot pushes into the blackness it lays in,
as does her left arm, her head and hands - mind ?
Can it be ?, that this beautiful body craves passion,
while her head ( mind ) denies – all the time, reaching into
the blackness of fear, the blackness of indifference,
the blackness of past pains, heartaches, disappointments
as she thinks ( intellectualizes ) her way out of
her bodies, her soul's, her spirit's need
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Here, the pecan brittle adds the excitement to the caramel ice cream sandwiched between the banana bread by providing the crunch. But don't add the brittle too far in advance, as it will begin to dissolve into the ice cream. If pecans are not your favorite, you can substitute a nut that'll make a brittle more to your liking.–Tom Colicchio
Banana Bread with Caramel Ice Cream and Pecan Brittle Recipe
- Quick Glance
- Makes 4 ice cream sandwiches
- For the banana bread
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 3/4 cup grapeseed oil
- 3/4 cup banana puree (1 1/2 medium bananas, pureed until smooth in a blender)
- 3/4 cup mashed bananas (1 1/2 medium bananas, mashed with a fork)
- 3 large eggs, preferably pasture-raised
- 3/4 cup sour cream
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 3/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- For the caramel ice cream
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 1 tablespoon water
- 2 cups heavy cream
- 2 cups milk
- 9 large egg yolks, preferably pasture-raised
- 3/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- For the pecan brittle
- 1 1/2 cups shelled pecans
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup water
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 6 tablespoons light corn syrup
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- Sea salt
- 1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C). Brush a 9 x 5-inch loaf pan with butter and line the bottom of the pan with parchment paper.
- Make the banana bread
- 2. Whisk together the sugar and oil in a medium bowl. Add the bananas, eggs, sour cream, and vanilla and whisk together until smooth.
- 3. Sift the flour, baking soda, and salt into the banana mixture. Using a rubber spatula, fold the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients until just combined. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and set on a baking sheet.
- 4. Bake for 50 minutes to 1 hour, rotating the pan 90 degrees after 30 minutes, until golden and firm to the touch and a cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean. Remove the cake from the oven, let rest in the pan for 5 minutes, then remove from the pan and transfer to a cooling rack.
- Make the caramel ice cream
- 5. Place 1 3/4 cups of the sugar in a large saucepan with about 1 tablespoon of water; it should look like damp sand. Cook over high heat until the sugar melts and becomes a very dark, smoking caramel.
- 6. Remove the pan from the heat and very carefully whisk in the cream and then the milk. Return the pan to the heat and bring the liquid to a rolling boil.
- 7. Whisk together the egg yolks and the remaining 1/4 cup sugar. Temper the yolks by gradually whisking about half of the hot cream into the yolks and then returning it all to the pan and whisking it together. Add the salt and the vanilla. Strain through a fine-mesh sieve.
- 8. Chill this mixture over ice and transfer to an ice cream maker. Process according to the manufacturer's instructions. Transfer the ice cream to a covered container and place in the freezer for about 2 hours, until firm.
- Make the peanut brittle
- 9. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C) and butter a sheet pan.
- 10. Spread the pecans on a baking sheet and toast in the oven until they are fragrant and dark brown.
- 11. In a 4-quart pot, mix the sugar, water, butter, and corn syrup and bring to a boil. Cook over high heat, stirring occasionally to avoid sticking to the bottom, until a light caramel color [or, if using a candy thermometer, until it reaches 300°F (150°C)].
- 12. Remove from the heat and very carefully stir in the baking soda, pecans, and salt. Working very quickly before it cools, spread the mixture over the buttered sheet pan using a heat-resistant rubber spatula. Once it is completely cooled, break into small pieces.
- 13. When ready to assemble, let the ice cream defrost at room temperature for 15 minutes. Mix the brittle into the softened ice cream. Evenly spread the ice cream over 4 (1/2-inch-thick) slices of banana bread, covering them all the way to the edge. (The ice cream must be soft enough to avoid ripping the bread.) Sprinkle some sea salt over the ice cream, close the sandwiches with a matching 4 slices of banana bread, and place in the freezer for at least 1 hour before serving.
Hungry for more? Chow down on these:
- Biscoff Banana Bread with Biscoff Cookie Streusel from Two Peas and Their Pod
- Peanut Butter-Banana Bread with Chocolate Chips from Brown Eyed Baker
- Banana Bread French Toast from Leite's Culinaria
- Chocolate Bourbon-Spiked Banana Bread from Leite's Culinaria
Banana Bread with Caramel Ice Cream and Pecan Brittle Recipe © 2009 TC Enterprises. Photo © 2009 Bill Bettencourt. All rights reserved.


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Dave Gretton: Time trial changes over 50 years
Posted: May 24, 2014|
Dave Gretton from Gedling, former chairman of Nottingham Track Cycling Association, recalls how different things were in time trials half a century ago
AS a junior racing cyclist in the 1960s, I was persuaded by my club-mates that we should enter an Open Junior 25-mile time trial at Blyth in north Notts.
The Hucknall Road Club had a few juniors, and we figured we could win the team prize.
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Having no transport other than our bikes we had to ride to Blyth and stay overnight as the start was in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Accommodation in Blyth was at 'Walt's Ranch House', a wooden shack on the edge of the village where all the racing men stayed.
In those days I played cricket on Saturdays, and cycled up to Blyth in the early evening. On arrival I was shown to the communal dormitory by 'Walt' and informed that the lads were at the pub.
The only other occupant of the dorm pointed to a bed in the corner, which was not taken.
The bed was supported by two beer crates and collapsed when I sat on it. Not one to complain, I mended it and was woken from dozing by the other returning occupants.
'Walt' was heard moaning that you couldn't get a good game of cards after midnight since 'Simmy' (Tom Simpson, of Tour de France fame) went to race in France.
The next thing I remember it was 5am and it was up and ready to ride to the start at Barnby Moor after bread, jam and tea for sustenance.
Outside it was raining heavily and the individual time trial was a damp traipse up the A614 – right turn in Bawtry and turn round in the road at what is now Robin Hood Airport to go back to the start.
Although soaking by this time, we had Walt's full breakfast to look forward to as a reward before riding back still in the rain to Nottingham.
These days it is customary for time trials riders to have special bikes, like Sir Bradley's Olympic gold medal machine, for use on fast dual carriageway roads; and it would be sacrilege for the riders of today to attach a saddle bag full of overnight things to their carbon-fibre dream machine and ride 40 miles to the start! (Mind you, tea, bread and jam before the event might still be welcome.)
Walt's Ranch House is a hotel and conference centre these days, with no cyclists in evidence, but it brings back lots of memories all the same, even after so many years.
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How to Make These Vegetables Taste Like Candy
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As a kid, I loathed vegetables. Iceberg lettuce, boiled-to-death cabbage, and not-quite-baked-enough potatoes dominated our Irish-American dinner table (although my mom was, and is, a crack fish cook).
It wasn't till my 20s, at a friend's birthday picnic, that I tried a veggie dish that really, truly floored me. A trained cook and food writer, he'd spent all afternoon cooking down the best August produce (eggplants, tomatoes, zucchini, and summer squash. He packed the results into a jar, passing it around with a spoon. And everyone who tasted it looked astonished.
Have you ever had great ratatouille? The restaurant version typically pales in comparison to the one you can make yourself. The base comprises garlic, shallots, sweet red peppers, and the most fragrant tomatoes at the market. Texture and an extra hit of sweetness come from lightly caramelized eggplant and zucchini, which you fold in right at the end.
You'll spend a few hours cooking it, yes, but thanks to that caramelization, all the vegetables are the best they can be—the going-to-prom-decked-out versions of themselves.
This ratatouille is straight-up vegetable candy, designed to convert former vegetable haters like me.
If you're wise, you'll make it before the summer is out. Save a little batch and pop it in the freezer. "It'll still be awesome in the dead of winter," wrote the birthday boy, who gave us his recipe below, "when tomatoes taste about as good as tennis balls." (As it saved one Valentine's Day, we can vouch for that.)
It ain't pretty, but it sure is tasty. Photo credit: Alex Van Buren
Weapons-Grade Ratatouille
by Francis Lam for Salon.com
Makes about 1/2 gallon
1 head garlic, minced
3 shallots, minced
1 large onion (about 12 ounces), minced
½ cup of extra-virgin olive oil (yes, that much. Summertime is living it up time.)
A couple more glugs of olive oil. Hell, just keep the bottle handy.
Salt and pepper
2 large red peppers, puréed in the food processor
4 pounds of very good regular field tomatoes, or fancy heirlooms if you're rich. Just make sure they're the kind you eat a piece of … and then involuntarily eat another piece of a minute later. Oh, and purée them in the food processor too.
2½ pounds of summer squash and zucchini, ½-inch dice
1½ pounds of eggplant, diced into ½-inch cubes
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 14, 2010 - The wife of the nation's vice president walked into a crowded gym at a dusty Army base in the Iraqi desert and was greeted like a rock star.
Soldiers were crowded onto bleachers -- a sea of camouflage uniforms – and let out a thunderous cheer and applause at the sight of Dr. Jill Biden, who glided in with her signature warm smile. She was dressed to the nines in a chic dress and heels, seemingly unaffected by the rocky terrain and egg-boiling July temperatures.
The soldiers quickly formed a huge, snaking line to meet her, each with a camera or smart phone in hand. Biden warmly greeted each soldier with a few words and a motherly hug, and posed for photo after photo with anyone who asked.
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I may be quiet, but I am being very creative at the moment and getting my head into Christmas while dealing with sunburn (yes, I'm glowing like Sellafield on a dark night) is a bit weird. But it's gotta be done, Christmas stamps will be released to trade next month!
Anyhow, this card has been a work in progress for a long time. I created the stamped panel for a workshop last year using one of my all time favourite stamp sets, Breath of Spring which really is a beautiful set. The background is the leafy flourish from the set, stamped with Adirondack dye inks and misted with lots of water. The image is stamped with Versafine and coloured with Inktense pencils (not water blended, just dry). I then covered the butterfly with glossy accents and stamped the sentiment with Versafine. The paper is from the Essence of Nature CD.
It has been sat in my 'bits box' for ages and finally got made into a card. The twiddly bit at the bottom is from one of the Nestability pendant die borders and the pearls on it have been coloured to match the paper with Copic markers. Click on the image for a closer view.
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ECHO COMMENT: Tewkesbury councillors must learn a simple lesson - flood bunkers need sand
Posted: December 11, 2012|
ON the face of it having sand bunkers in flood-risk areas is a great idea.
When the waters start to rise, local residents always have to act independently to protect their homes.
And if they know there is a sand bunker nearby, they can fill up bags themselves without having to get anybody else involved.
It was always going to make sense to have bunkers in Tewkesbury after the chaos the floods caused in 2007.
So bunkers were set up in Station Road, Gloucester Road and at Tewkesbury School.
But it only works if a constant supply of sand is kept in the bunkers.
Astonishingly, when the floods returned last month, all three bunkers were empty.
And the response from local councils is nothing short of pathetic.
The town council, which put in the bunkers, seems to be saying that it does not know how the system was due to work and assumed the borough council was responsible for keeping them topped up. The borough council says it is nothing to do with them.
So, in short, the town council had a good idea but completely ignored the practicalities of making it work.
It's no wonder the poor taxpayers in the town, many of whose homes were again at risk of flooding, were left scratching their heads.
The town council must get this sorted and quickly.
THREE friends having a chat over a pint late at night at their local social club.
It's a scenario that is repeated all over the county.
But for the three regulars at the New Social and Services Club in Cirencester, this one ended rather differently.
They were confronted by three robbers who wanted the weekend's takings, and, when they tried to stand in their way, were given a beating.
The men deserve the highest praise for their actions even though they would have been advised not to get involved.
To them, their very way of life was being attacked and it is no surprise they acted as they did.
The details of the intruders who are sketchy but if you know anything and want to contact the police anonymously, use the Crimestoppers number 0800 555111.
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Valcourt, Québec, February 20, 2011. — Nicholas Van Strydonk of Tomahawk, Wisconsin repeated as the grand winner of the 29th running of the Grand Prix Ski-Doo of Valcourt presented by La Capitale General Insurance. The final race of the day on Circuit Yvon Duhamel's ice oval track featured the 12 best racers in the Pro Champ 440 class that made it through the qualifying rounds on Sunday. The race produced two leaders with 17-year old Travis MacDonald from Winnipeg leading the first five before being passed by Van Strydonk who led the rest of the way. Joel Diamond of Lapeer, Michigan was the third man on the podium. Jason Lavallée of Drummondville was the top Quebec rider with a seven-place finish.
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What a nice story! Enjoy your garden, Sal.
Totally agree with you ez4real....I would love to see some donations to the poor and homeless white children. It does not matter what part of the Island you live on, there are underprivileged and poor white children throughout Staten Island. I help in my own Community where I know the items are appreciated and the parents are NOT coming for help with salon manicures, brand new haircuts and dye jobs, Coach accessories and the like.
When the women gymnasts started their floor routine, vault, etc., same for the male gymnasts, women mountain biking, etc, the camera was on their face, not their body movements, course, track, etc. Get with it NBC. You already got rid of televising live events. If you are going to make the public wait for the intern on the SNL sound stage to edit the hours of tape, lets see the sport and the not just the face.
Totally agree on the synchronized male diving....IOC - lose the porn please, the Olympics are a family event.
Cop who got shot is a cheating NYPD police officer, husband, SHOCKER! NYPD, they are all the same! Commissioner Kelly should be ashamed of his "Finest". "Finest" they are NOT.
The game is being held this Sunday, August 5, 2012 immediately following the scheduled 4pm SI Yankees game against the Lowell Spinners. Those ticket holders can stay for both games. If you only want to attend the Wounded Warrior softball game, tickets are $10.00 at the box office.
@ walkalot - yes, this is a nice area. For those of us who live near here, shop in this store as well as all of the others in the plaza, we need to be more vigilant. This plaza is normally bustling at any given time of the day. The worst I have witnessed on a few occasions is a car hopping drug deal. Anything can happen anywhere.
I sincerely pray that no low income housing will be assigned to Mount Manresa. There are enough low-lives on Staten Island on welfare - not working, stealing and doing drugs. Stay away and make Staten Island a respectable place to live and visit.
I knew as soon as the city buses started servicing the shopping area that the degenerates would come in droves. These two scum of the earth had a car, but they would sell it soon enough to get their fixes. Get rid of the city buses to Veteran's Road! Keep those who commit crimes behind bars and the Island would be safer.
There were definite issues with the way the camp handled the situation, but Mrs. Reitano should not have been confrontational nor should she have boarded the bus. Also, if Jacklyn is at camp all day, isn't being outside for too long part of the heat issue? I am a mother as well and sometimes the kids just need to come indoors after playing outside for a few hours if it is a high heat day. I do hope Jacklyn enjoys the rest of her camp season.
Paid my $5.50 this morning.....the air conditioning went from cooling the left side of the bus to the right side of the bus, back and forth, the whole ride in.
Why would the department of buildings allow this structure to start the building process in the first place. Tear this monstrasity down! It is a huge eyesore in the midst of well kept ranch-style homes.


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RUSSELL Osman has called on Ipswich Town's promising batch of Under-18s to prove they can be part of Mick McCarthy's first-team in the years to come.
The Blues' youngsters tonight take their first steps in the FA Youth Cup at Bristol City (7pm ko).
And Osman, part of the Town team that twice won the competition in the 1970s before the club achieved a third success in 2005, has backed academy director Bryan Klug's belief that some of the age group can make the grade.
Osman, the Blues' Under-18s boss and a former manager at Ashton Gate, said: "Bryan has done a magnificent job since coming back as academy director. He has his certain ideas about how he wants to play, which is the way Ipswich have always played.
"The next step is the first-team and a few might not be too far away from that. They have got to look at that and say they need to get a pro contract.
"They need to be trying to be the next left-back in the first-team, for instance, if Aaron Cresswell gets injured. Someone like David October needs to be banging on the door to say I'm good enough to be considered rather than the manager going out and looking for a loan signing."
Osman wants to keep his young players' grounded but with Byron Lawrence remaining in and around the first-team and Jack Marriott scoring for fun at Under-21 and Under-18 level, supporters are starting to get excited.
But Osman revealed: "You could go through the squad.
"Our keeper Michael Crowe is 16-years old and 6ft 4ins. There have been a lot of demands on him – he has played a number of games for the Under-21s all ready – but he has done exceptionally well. He is coming on leaps and bounds.
"Kyle Hammond, a first-year pro, has more or less made the right-back slot his own at the moment while George Fowler, a young lad at centre-half, has come in and done very well after missing the first third of the season with a couple of injuries.
"We are asking him to play a style of football that an (older player) would find hard. George has made a few mistakes, come back and done even better. It has not affected his confidence and he is a great prospect.
We have players who are catching the eye and the nucleus of a nice squad."
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Some Town supporters old enough to remember those far-off days when Town were committed to youth (and gave them a chance) actually remember seeing the FA Youth Cup final between Town and Bristol City which was a fantastic game between teams who had a number of players who would play in the top division. Sadly, when Town last reached the final of this competition, they let every single player drift away - whilst taking the club backwards with an army of ridiculous mercenary loans. Has anything changed since that shameful sequence of events?
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
This is encouraging - we never had one comment that I can remember from Osman during Jewells reign. It seems that with MM keeping an eye on the youngsters then RO feels empowered to sing their praises. We also have the first mention of Klug & what a good job he is doing. This is what we want to hear - that the future may indeed be bright & there could be a return to the days when our academy produced our team & loanees were an infrequent & short term measure.
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Well done lads. Great win last night. So it seems there is still quaility youth yet to break through to the first team ranks at Portman Rd. Contrary to the Norwich Internet Keyboard Warrior's, tedious comments.
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So I live in Phoenix. Yayy. My birthday is May 21st, so obviously that's pretty soon. I'm also going to the Red Tour on May 29th, and I seriously cry every time I realize I'm actually going. I also like to say cRyN. I like TLC, Dance Moms, Tic Tacs, THG, Christmas, and cereal. Yes, cereal. Did I mention food. I recently found a stash of my old lotions from B&BW that have all retired and I feel cool. And I got some lotion stuck up my nose when I opened it and that's all I've been smelling for a week. Oops.
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It's impossible to say what exactly will happen during the lame-duck session without knowing the outcome of the election. Sure, President Obama and the current Congress will preside over the fiscal To Do list during those six weeks after the election, but their actions (or inaction) will depend on the government's makeup in 2013.
Still, some likely scenarios can be sketched out. Below, NJ looks at out how the November election might influence the debate's biggest pieces: the expiring Bush-era tax cuts, and budget sequestration—spending cuts triggered by the failure of the so-called super committee to reach a deficit-reduction agreement.


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Kvelertak premiered a live video for their song "Evig Vandrar" with The AV Club this week—watch it above now!
Kvelertak's North American tour with High On Fire begins this Sunday, November 10; find a show near you!
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We love a good rumor as much as the next pop-culture junkie, but thanks to the internet, gossip has sort of spiraled out of control, and sometimes, we like to think of ourselves as rumor-busters—like when we busted rumors about Beyoncé's album getting pushed back…by calling her publicist, which no rumor-monger had yet bothered to do.
Now we have more evidence to support our continuing "Destiny's Child are not beefing" coverage. We're not so naïve that we blindly believe everything that Beyoncé and Kelly Rowland have to say on the topic, of course, but the rumors have been getting more and more ridiculous in the face of what seemed to be growing evidence to the contrary.
When we heard that, at the launch party for Rowland's Here I Am, the duo (and Michelle Williams) had been as friendly as Rowland claimed on Tuesday that they always had been, we reported as much. But one thing puzzled us: why was Beyoncé only photographed entering and leaving the party, and not at all with Rowland, inside? The New York Daily News gossip blog Gatecrasher gave us an answer this morning, which may also explain what has continued to fuel rumors.
In short: blame B's bodyguards. According to Gatecrasher, Beyoncé intended to approach Rowland where she was stationed at the back of the club, but her security detail "seemed to think better" based on the stir that her appearance caused. "Instead, they installed the diva in one of the club's front banquettes and brought Rowland to her," Gatecrasher reports. They've also got an explanation for the absence of photographic evidence of Rowland and Beyoncé together: "The security detail also set about preventing anyone from snapping Sasha Fierce's picture," they say. "One bodyguard went so far as to shine his flashlight in the faces of would-be shutterbugs." We suspect that Beyoncé came late—Gatecrasher notes that by the time she arrived at 1 a.m., "the crowd had thinned considerably"—to avoid upstaging her friend and former bandmate, but when you're Beyoncé, apparently it's unavoidable.
We do feel for Rowland in the situation—it's gotta be a little uncomfortable to have to take orders from your friend's employees at your own party—but again, if there's any bad blood in Destiny's Child, the trio did a heck of a job disguising it. Rowland allegedly gave Beyoncé "a very long hug" and Williams quickly followed. Notwithstanding the security imbroglio, "the trio hung out for nearly an hour," letting close friends (not professional photographers) photograph them, before all leaving at about the same time. That's quite a performance if the three really are beefing.
Beyonce does Destiny's Child reunion at Kelly Rowland's fete, steals thunder from 'Here I Am' singer [Gatecrasher]
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The Truth About Educational TV
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When it comes to joint care for dogs, one thing I believe is that most of the joint supplements for dogs out there contain many of the same ingredients, but it's the amount and quality of those ingredients combined with our dog's needs that will determine if the joint supplement will work for our dog.
As I stated in my first post about Natural Stride, we tried many joint supplements for dogs before finding one that worked for my dog. Although we're happy with the supplement we use, I think it's a great idea for families to have at least two go to supplements for their dogs. Just like humans, their bodies change and who knows when one may not work as well and we may need to switch them to another. Who wants to go through the process of finding a new supplement – why not already have one ready when your dog is ready?
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When I went to check out the active ingredients, my brain started swimming as I scrolled down, trying to pronounce all the words. What I found was that the active ingredients in Natural Stride act as anti-inflammatory, relieves pain, helps to rebuild cartilage, and strengthens and lubricates joints. Natural Stride for Dogs Ingredients – click here!
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Although I'm a fan of Natural Stride based on our brief experience, I still suggest that you take it to your vet to get their input on the supplement. I've found our vet's knowledge to be invaluable and your vet can help you determine which dosage is right for your dog, because one thing I learned is that each dog is different and although the package gives serving suggestions, these are just suggestions. A veterinarian can help you choose what's right for your dog.
When we were trying to manage Sydney and Rodrigo's joint pain, I was surprised to learn that I was giving them too little and our vet upped the daily dosage and it worked.
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This is pretty fantastic, because you can plan your budget around your dog's size so that he never goes without joint care. Learn from my example with our littermates and don't wait to start your dog on a good joint care supplement.
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The nine states still participating in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative are getting ready for the first auction of RGGI's second compliance period, scheduled for March 14th. In the auction notice released last week, they announced 4 changes to the program, and analysts are predicting there are far more significant changes to come -- namely adjustments to the total emissions cap.
The first change: which we knew was coming; New Jersey is officially out. The second: the reserve price, the lowest price at which allowances may sell, has been increased by 4 cents to $1.93, in line with the Consumer Price Index. The third: although RGGI usually offers allowances from two different compliance periods for sale at each auction, March's auction will offer only 2012 allowances, raising some questions about RGGI's own view of its future past this compliance period's end in 2014. The fourth change: the participating states announced that they will retire 87 million of the allowances that went unsold during the 2009-2011 auctions, a move that may indicate the states' willingness to set the cap for 2012 below the earlier levels, to avoid such over-allocation of allowances in future years.
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Google has recently added a new device to their own branded range of Nexus devices, the Google Nexus 4. Although this smartphone has been manufactured by LG, but it has the world's most popular search engine Google at its core. This smartphone contains a great collection of the pre-installed Google applications with a newly revised Android 4.2 Jelly Bean operating system. The smartphones that were manufactured earlier under the Nexus brand name had tried to push the boundaries of smartphones Continue reading
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At the same time they introduced the Google Nexus 10, Google introduced their successor in the phone family, the Google Nexus 4. This phone has been made with collaboration with LG and it deserves to be named, a great phone. When compared to its predecessors it has a lot to offer and as the Google Nexus 10 it is made so that it will be used as a benchmark for how future phones should look like and to push developers to make new software in that manner. Continue reading
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This Chinese company is not that well known outside its country, but they have introduced phablet (phone-tablet), that is nothing but revolutionary, in today's sense of the word. Their product has stirred a lot of dust, because of the performances and its overall dimensions that are not matched so far.
The phablet is called Oppo Find 5 and it has a 5 inch screen that has a resolution, which even Apples products dream of. Its 5 inch screen works in full HD (1920×1024) 1080p resolution that measures 441ppi, which are more than 100 pixels per inch, when compared to Apples iPhone 5. Continue reading
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LG has announced and now confirmed their new flagship model, the one to lead the next generation of LG phones, in design as in performances. This phone is still not out yet, but firstly it will find its place in Korea (in its birth place) and after that it is expected to continue its tour in England. The phone by itself is a marble, whilst it keeps LG's previous design with certain upgrades.
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Native Plant Sales To Benefit Local Watershed Group
(April 29, 2011) — The Savage River Watershed Association (SRWA) will
sponsor two native plant sales this spring to help gardeners create eco-friendly
landscapes around their homes, schools and businesses. The events will take
place April 30th and May 28th, where all proceeds will benefit SRWA.
"The two events will offer a variety of plants native to Allegany and Garrett Counties available for purchase including; grasses, sedges, wildflowers, shrubs and trees," said Liz McDowell, SRWA native plant sale coordinator. "This is a great opportunity to take home a local plant and get some landscaping tips and ideas."
The first event will take place Saturday, April 30 at New Germany State Park from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. SRWA volunteers will be available to answer your questions about native plants, conservation landscaping and backyard wildlife habitat practices.
Elk Ridge Native Plant Preserve will host the second event May 28 from 10 am to 2 pm. Starting promptly at 11 am and 1 pm, visitors will be able to take a free guided tour of the wildlife habitat garden to see a variety of conservation landscaping and wildlife habitat practices that can be used to enhance biodiversity.
The Savage River Watershed Association invites everyone to "go native" and experience the joys of conservation landscaping: a garden filled with bees, birds, butterflies and beautiful plants. For more information about any of these events call Liz McDowell, at 301-895-3686.
For general information about SRWA contact Laura Haynes at firstname.lastname@example.com or 301-689-7156. The SRWA is a non profit charitable organization. Donations may be sent to: Savage River Watershed Association, PO Box 355, Frostburg, MD 21532.
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Phoestivus Market
Find holiday gifts at the third annual Phoestivus open-air market, which features more than 80 vendors from around Arizona. Participating arts-and-crafts businesses include Bertie's of Arcadia, Three Little Birds Design Co. and Retro Spectacular. Look for food products from Awesome Cookie Co., Paletas Betty and Wei of Chocolate. Phoenix Ale Brewery will sponsor a beer garden featuring the specialty seasonal brew called Phoestivus Ale. Food trucks, including Aji Mobile Foods, Buzz n' Bees Good Food Truck and Emerson Fry Bread, will be on site.
Details: 4-8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 12. Phoenix Public Market, 14 E. Pierce St., Phoenix. phoestivus.com.
Food City Tamale Festival
Celebrate the Southwestern flavors of the season this weekend at the 12th annual festival featuring tamale vendors, ballet folklorico dancers, mariachi groups and carnival rides.
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White House Christmas special
Catch HGTV's White House Christmas special. At 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8, first lady Michelle Obama and HGTV host Genevieve Gorder will give a behind-the-scenes look at Christmas in the White House during the network's annual one-hour holiday special. Obama talks about remembering the contributions of troops and military families and Gorder follows the hundreds of volunteers who create the holiday decor. Find even more photos and content online at HGTV.com.
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National Technical LibraryA modern and monumental building, opened in 2009, which houses the Library of Prague. It looks like a huge glass cube, over six floors, with the central part that looks like a place for the idea of providing a meeting point for the public as well as study.
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Richardson's Point
Distance: 35 miles from Nauvoo
Suffering through ten days of downpour, the Camp of Israel stalled here while awaiting improved weather. Some of the first deaths on the trail occurred here. The effect of the rain on immediate travel led to the decision to cache some artillery ordnance and also allowed many who wished to return to Nauvoo for family members to do so. At least 30 men took advantage of the opportunity.
Journal Entries
Erastus Snow
"The company, crossing the Des Moines river at Bonaparte succeeded in reaching a point of timber 20 miles above called Richardson's Point. . . . Here they were compelled to remain until the 16th. During this time it rained almost incessantly and the roads were rendered impassable, and our encampment being trod into a perfect Mortar bed by ourselves & stock was far from being a pleasant one" (Journal of Erastus Snow, 1835–1857, 6 vols., Family and church History Department Archives, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints [n.d.], microfilm, 3:62).
Horace K. Whitney
18 March 1846
"The weather continued showery through the day till evening when it cleared off pleasant. The corpse of Bro. Edwin Little was brought into camp and interred to-day. He was taken sick here a few days ago and conveyed into the country in order to have the advantage of skillful treatment and to be shielded from the inclemency of the weather; but notwithstanding all was done for his relief that human aid could afford he died today while in the wagon on the way to the camp. His disease was quick consumption. He appeared to be reconciled to his death, and died in the full faith of the Gospel" (Journal of Horace K. Whitney, vol. 1, 18 March 1846, Family and Church History Department Archives, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, microfilm, 15–16).
Eliza R. Snow
11 March 1846
"My good friend Sister Miller brought me a slice of beautiful white light bread and butter, that would have done honor to a more convenient bakery than and out-of-door fire in the wilderness" (Extracts from Eliza R. Snow's private journal, 4 March 1846, Family and Church History Department Archives, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, typescript [n.d.], microfilm, 6).
Brigham Young
"With some 200 teams then scattered over the wet flat Pararies for three milds the rain increased the roads soon became impassable teams ware stauled in every direction men Doubling and thribling teams but to no effect with many wagons left stalled in the mud in every direction many families remained on the pararie over the night with out fire with their clothing wet and cold. . . . Spent one of the most uncomfortable nights that so many of the church ever suffered in one night rained steady all night verry cold and a high wind the ground filled with water the mud ne deep around our tents and Little or no feed one cow through fatique Laid down by the waggon on the paraie chilled and died A general sene of suffering for man and beast" (Brigham Young as quoted in Wallace Stegner, The Gathering of Zion: The Story of the Mormon Trail [1964], 61-62).
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Well the title is kind of a misdirect too, because you're almost waiting the whole film to figure out what the title means and then it's kind of thrown in with this last little bit with Vince. Was that always the title or did you guys kinda vacillate a little bit?
Rel: No, not at all. That was always the end of the film, but it never occurred to us as the title until this buddy Ben Younger who made Boiler Room…
Oh, great film.
Rel: Yeah, great film. We showed him the movie, we said "we have no idea what the title of the movie is."
Nev: Wait is he on our list?
Henry: Yeah.
Nev. OK, good. For the premiere.
Rel: We have no idea what the title is, check it out and if you have any ideas let us know. We were just calling it sort of like
Nev: Yaniv's Internet Girlfriend
[everyone laughs]
Rel: Sort of an untitled Facebook thing…
No no, that's great, because that sounds more like a Sundance title.
Rel: We had all these indie, Sundance names like…
Henry: It's All Down Hill From Here
Rel: The Facebook Family or like…
Nev: Iceberg actually.
Rel: Iceberg…or like How Facebook Broke My Heart. Just like sad, indie titles.
So what about your conversation with Ben made you settle on Catfish?
Rel: Well he finished the movie and he was like "guys…"
Henry: He just predicted that we would call it that.
Rel: …he goes, "I got your title." And we're like what is it, what is it? "Catfish."
And you're like, "what the fuck are you talking about?"
Rel: [We're like] very funny man, yeah.
Nev: But it was on the list of like 30 names that we struggled with until two days before Sundance when they called and they're like "we're printing the programs, what do you want your movie to be called?"
Rel: And it was like, let's just call it something that no other movie's been called.
Nev: Except for a very bad short film. [everyone laughs] Have you seen it?
No, but you gotta look up on IMDb and see what else is…
Rel: And actually it's not even on IMDb.
Oh wow.
Nev: And unfortunately one of the first articles that came out of Sundance, someone blindly linked a YouTube trailer of a film called Catfish to our article. And since then we'll never ever unassociate with that clip. It's out there and it's the woooorst film you'll ever see.
Awesome. So it's good to be associated with that, it's good to have your name on that.
Rel: Actually there was that B-horror movie from the 70s…
Henry: People were like this is the most talked about film at Sundance? Really?
What is that feeling like? To be the most talked about film at Sundance. Is that just…
Henry: It seemed like a dream.
Rel: Or a prank.
Henry: Or a prank, yeah.
Rel: I mean no one knew our names. We've never been in a film festival before. We weren't in competition. Somehow we had good enough publicity to sell out the first screening and immediately there was a standing ovation and like an hour and a half long question and answer.
Nev: Yeah, I mean I think it's fair to say that it also had a lot to do with Andrew Jarecki and Marc Smerling. Because after Capturing the Friedman's they were sort of like the Sundance kids. And I don't know if they'd been back since then…
Henry: No. I mean Andrew was on the jury…
Nev: Oh right. But then all of sudden, people see like oh Jarecki's got a new film at Sundance…
Rel: They're our producers.
Nev: …what is it? You know, it's gotta be something.
Henry: And Capturing the Friedman's was huge at Sundance.
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December 25, 2012 | 9:05 am
I can't even begin to count the number of articles I've seen over the past few weeks about the swiftly growing popularity of tablet computers. A week or two after the holiday season has ended, I suspect we'll start seeing solid proof—one way or the other—in the form of sales numbers, and we'll finally have a firm understanding of just how many tablet PCs are out there in the world today. That'll be an interesting and even important economic factoid for the digital reading community, of course. Because as we've been reminded of over and over again, this particular consumer trend—the suddenly massive...
The Disappearing Market Share of the E-Reader: Is it now a transitioning technology?
November 1, 2012 | 1:56 pm
Last weekend, Reuters ran an interesting analysis-style think piece titled "E-readers grapple with a future on the shelf." The article revolves around the idea that because tablets have grown so popular, so quickly, the lowly e-reader has essentially becoming a nearly outdated gadget. Tablets, to put it plainly, have finally replaced e-readers, once and for all. From the article's lede: Amidst our growing love affair with the tablet, spare a thought for its increasingly shelfbound sibling: the e-reader. Take Taiwan's E Ink Holdings Inc, which makes most of the monochrome displays for devices such as Amazon's Kindle and Barnes & Noble's Nook. After...


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Put the kids to bed or wait until they're off at school and pick out one of these arts and crafts projects. If you like, you can make a project for your kids to enjoy, such as a baby blanket or a hat. Otherwise, think outside the box and create fun and easy free crafts to display or wear.
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Another great way to keep it simple when you craft is by using upcycled materials. Save scraps of ribbon, old shirts and decorative paper and use them for your arts and craft projects. It's a great way to cut corners and save money. Easy craft projects for adults are meant to relieve stress, not cause anxiety over time and money.
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Ireland will pay whatever these guys want. He knows this is make or break for him. Any signing that gets him a playoff appearance, is one he will make.
Miami Dolphins under Failbin- The Epitome of Mediocrity.
1. Vincent Jackson, Buccaneers 11,000,000
2. Dwayne Bowe, Chiefs 9,515,000
3. Wes Welker, Patriots 9,515,000
4. Brandon Marshall, Bears 9,300,000
5. Santonio Holmes, Jets 7,750,000
6. Sidney Rice, Seahawks $,7,000,000
7. Anquan Boldin, Ravens $6,000,000
8. Roddy White, Falcons 5,500,000
9. Darius Heyward-Bey $5,279,000
10. Larry Fitzgerald, Cardinals $5,000,000
What Wallace is asking for isn't completely unreasonable and while no one would call him a bargain, he'd be nice to have at 10m but if it gets up to 14 or higher we should sign a cheaper option and draft a WR. And Brian Hartline is delusional if he thinks anyone is going to pay him anything more than 4 mil per year.
Now, if the bidding starts "low," say around 9M and there are not many suiters perhaps he he can be signed for 11.5 -12M.
Just my best guess.
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. I should know. I've been there.
okay, so... Hartline wants 6 mil /year... Mike Wallace wants 11 mil /year...
is there really a debate here ?
Vincent Jackson did did great and fulfilled expectations on Tampa this year. Led the NFL in YAC and overall had a great season. Good signing. Just because they didn't make the playoffs does not change that.
I agree that Wallace getting paid 14 mil a year is a little high, but if we can take him for 11-12 I'd be O.K with that. I'd be more upset if Hartline got 6....
Pay him, it's not coming out of my pocket.
Yeah if we could get Vincent Jackson production from our #1 WR for 11 mil a season, I'm signing up.
Honestly, Im just stunned you guys aren't jumping all over this. Hes a tremendous WR, he's one of the most dangerous deep threats in the NFL and he's in his prime. He'd instantly make our offense better.


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For a long time, it was being suspected that Microsoft has been planning to come up with Office Mobile, but was remaining quiet on the topic. However, it has now broken its silence and its Czech Republic subsidiary has announced that the Office Mobile application will be available for Android and iOS users from March 2013.
It shall be noted the application will first be available for iOS users and then for Android users, who will be able to try the application somewhere in May. Sources, known to the matter have revealed that the application will be cost free during initial days.
In order to have an access to Office Mobile, one would need a Microsoft account, which will further help them to have an access of the application. Some of the applications that will be supported by the application are Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Moreover, editing facilities will also be available in the application. In order to get more functionality, one has to buy Office 365 service, a subscription of Microsoft.
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This bracelet is cast in lead-free pewter. It is cast from genuine fox vertebrae. It has a stretchy band, making it adjustable and versatile. It is appropriate for both men and women, and is adorned with black Swarovski crystals.
Foxes are omnivorous mammals. They are slightly smaller than the average domestic dog, and are characterized by their long narrow snout and bushy tail. The most common and widespread species of fox is the red fox (Vulpes vulpes).
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In this section we present evidence that candidates in our B.S./B.A./B.M. initial teacher preparation programs meet professional, state, and institutional standards for content knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge and skills, pedagogical and professional knowledge and skills, and professional dispositions necessary to help all students learn.
Millikin's conceptual framework reflects our expectations for the development of this knowledge and of these skills and dispositions, expectations which are assessed through candidate assessments and program assessments. The primary sources of evidence used to demonstrate candidate learning of these knowledge, skills, and dispositions include: state content area examinations; grade point average in the candidate's major; evaluations of student teaching; course syllabi in the content areas; and surveys of school faculty.
The evidence demonstrates that our candidates meet NCATE standard 1.