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Frugal Traveler
Boston, for Richer but Mostly for Poorer
By KATHERINE ZOEPF
Published: October 12, 2003
MY trip to Boston last month began, as so many of my trips do these days, with a wedding invitation. My boyfriend, Dan, and I have reached the age when our friends are starting to get married, and the arrival of those heavy envelopes with their clean-linen smell often means that it's time to book some reservations.
The trip to the wedding, we have learned, is a style of travel unto itself. For one thing, the expense of being a wedding guest (the gift, the formal clothes, the various celebrations before the ceremony) can make it essential to keep other costs to a minimum.
Then there's the question of whose friend's wedding it actually is. A weekend that is, for one of us, a series of joyous reunions can, for the other, mean hours spent smiling gamely at relative strangers. A side excursion or a nice evening out can turn what may feel like a command performance into a short vacation.
So when Dan was invited to be the best man at a wedding on Labor Day weekend, he sent his old college-orchestra tuxedo to the dry cleaners, and we planned three days and nights in the city, building in time when I could wander on my own.
Since Dan was a principal, he decided to take the Acela train from New York and I planned to follow him in the evening by bus. I wanted to take the Fung Wah, the $10 bus that runs between Chinatown in New York and Chinatown in Boston, and was advised by Fung Wah veterans that reservations weren't necessary. Alas, with thousands of students heading back to colleges in Boston in early September, Labor Day weekend is flood season for the budget-friendly Fung Wah and two similar services, the Lucky Star and the Sunshine.
Greyhound it would have to be. The Fung Wah disappointment rankled, but at $32 one way, I was still doing considerably better than Dan's $99 Acela fare. I found my way down into the grimy, tiled bowels of the Port Authority terminal, and waited glumly at the express bus dock with about 50 other Boston-bound passengers. I found a seat near the back, and settled down in anticipation of a four-hour nap.
We were scarcely out of the city when the trouble started. The man sitting diagonally in front of me became enraged whenever someone in the vicinity tried to use a cellphone. As we drove through Westchester, the man became more and more incensed, standing in the aisle and waving his own cellphone in the air.
"See, I have a cellphone, too!" he yelled. "I can use my cellphone, too!"
My seatmate expounded an elaborate theory on why crazy people like to ride buses, complete with similar anecdotes from previous trips. So much for a nap. I wondered: Was there such a thing as being too frugal a traveler?
I wondered this again about an hour later, when I arrived at the Casa do Zequita, the bed-and-breakfast I'd reserved in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston. The little three-bedroom place had sounded charming in its online listings, and for $80 a night, I reasoned, we wouldn't mind being 20 minutes from the center of the city. But as a clapboard exterior gave way to scruffy rugs and an ugly mishmash of battered Victorian furniture, my spirits dropped even further. At least the place seemed clean and, fresh from the bus ordeal, that was about all I was asking of it at the moment.
Neither of us slept that night. Dan came in late from the bachelor party, and between the hard mattress, a deafening rattle from the air-conditioner and a loud early-morning argument between the Brazilian-American couple who ran the place, we both tossed and turned.
The next morning, puffy-eyed and giddy from lack of sleep, I nibbled an orange-glazed scone from the plate of baked goods that had been left out in the Casa's kitchen, and made an early start for the South End to visit my friend Sarah.
It was turning into a beautiful day, so we decided to take a long walk through Sarah's neighborhood with her Italian greyhound puppy, Petra. When Sarah was growing up there in the 1980's, she said, the area was considered somewhat dangerous. Then, in the early 1990's, it became the heart of the Boston gay community, and gentrification soon followed. Today, the South End is reminiscent of the West Village in Manhattan, with narrow, tree-shaded streets, brick town houses fronted by neat pocket gardens and small boutiques.
We stopped at the Flour Bakery for cappuccinos, then walked past the old South End Burying Ground, and past the imposing Cathedral of the Holy Cross. With Petra in tow, we stopped at the Polka Dog Bakery, whose bakers are entirely devoted to the production of artisanal dog biscuits, and whose walls are plastered with black-and-white snapshots of tail-wagging customers.
I was charmed by the area, with its odd specialty shops and sprinkling of Amsterdam-style rooftops, but Sarah fretted that the neighborhood has lost its on-the-edge character. The South End has become more expensive, she said, and most of the gay and immigrant families have moved on. Where? I asked. Sarah said that Jamaica Plain was up-and-coming and fun, and so we headed there next.


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A downtown medical office is on track to be completed and open in early August.
Indianapolis-based Franciscan St. Francis Health is building a 8,709-square-foot, one-story office at 123 Second St., where the former Columbus Goodyear Tire was located.
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Best of the bunch. Immediately recognizable as a wine glass. Should have done a martini glass too instead of the beer glass – would have been more obvious – or they could have done a beer mug.
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I spoke on the phone with a Nanny who had 30 years of experience. I asked if she had ever worked with a kid who had Ds, special needs or needed therapy.
She said no but thought she could help with Evelyn's PT anyhow. I said "OK, the therapist would show you how. And Evelyn likes doing it so it's not hard."
She then interrupted and said "Oh, wait, I have had a little experience with Down syndrome, a friend had a son who had it and I sometimes watched him."
Me: "OK, that's great."
Nanny: "Yeah, it was the saddest thing. They tried to teach him to sign and someone taught him the sign for 'stupid' and he would use it all the time. It was just the saddest thing! It was just so sad!"
Me, really fumbling for a way to respond: "Um, I really don't know what to say...um, we love Evelyn and we are excited she is here. She has made us so happy and we are really crazy about her."
Nanny: changes tone and says "Oh, well they are a Blessing!"
Me: "Yes, all children are."
Nanny: "Uh, of course."
Me: "Yeah, well, I'll let you know."
She tried to patch it up a little. I think I got through to her. But still, I got off the phone and balled for an hour. I love my kid and my husband and I are so happy with her. I have been trying to take the advice that people will follow your lead and if you are upbeat then they will be but that is not working. On the otherhand, I am so glad to find out their thoughts BEFORE hiring them!


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I have decided to take a bit of a hiatus from Die2Nite, as the last-minute misanthropy bummed me out a bit. Hope those who've tried didn't think it was a complete waste of time, but feel free to talk negative or positive impressions in the comments (or in your own blogs, of course). I'm going to start it up again once I feel the urge, but like I said before, there is a bit of that timed-demand that sort of rubs me the wrong way, where I resent not being able to pause or step away until I die. My "soul" will be in limbo until I decide to go in again.
In the meantime, other than rediscovering non-game related stuff (books and old TV shows!, mainly) my gaming experience has been one of strange purchases. I bought a Red Baron compilation from GOG as part of a one-day promotion that helped rope me one of my favorite game manuals (and I'll be up for playing the game, too, since that means seeing it with the details cranked up for the first time. I love World War I aviation).
I also bought a game that I actually can't play with any sizeable degree of reasonable performance: Minecraft. Apparently Minecraft will, on December 20th, officially enter the Beta stage, which means doubling the price (10 Euros goes to 20 Euros), as well as changing the user contract, which means everyone who buys the thing after the closing date won't get updates for free necessarily. THIS is something not everyone knows, but I guess Notch is doing this to make sure his new company doesn't suddenly go bust when all the people who would have bought the game DID already, and the income sorta stops.
Speaking of Minecraft, this mod gets the game closer to one of my ideal game concepts:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/12/17/promised-lands-minecraft-biometerrain-mod/ The concept being of the user exploring a random, computer-generated environment that makes some sort of internal sense and is actually fun and varied. The stuff in that link is straight out of a Roger Dean painting-- now all these biomes need is variable wildlife :)
Finally, I acquired a PC port of Golden Axe from Gamers Gate as part of a free, limited promotion discussed on gaming site Quarter to Three... except it wanted to update DirectX without my permission, which, with this graphics card, could spell serious trouble. So I have the thing on my hard drive, waiting... waiting. All the hoops I had to jump through just to have to stop made me wish it was on GOG :)
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Guru Larry has a fascinating profile of Contra ports in Europe:
(I really do wish he would get rid of that interminable opening title music, though. Ugh.)
Through RPS I learned about one of the cooler (if not-yet completed) sword-duelling games I have ever seen (even though it looks damned crazy):
Nidhogg, by awesome weirdo Messhof.
And I think they were the ones that showed the reincarnation of the Humble Bundle:
5 Good games plus 2 causes to donate to, and you can pay what you like to whom you like using a bunch of sliders like you were setting starting statistics in an RPG. Pretty smart way to go about it, smarter than the linear "pay what you like" scheme that I think might be more likely to scare people off. If you have more control, it's easier to imagine the money going where you want it to, even if you're only forking out pocket change.
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I think the single most played game for me this week is Spelunky. It wasn't until this second massive playthrough (just unlocked all the warp tunnels) that I realized I like this game better than any Mario game I've ever played. I think the reward is greater when I beat a Mario level, because you get that rush of getting away with it/perfecting the level completion that you can't get when the levels are random like they are in Spelunky. But man, is Spelunky fun. I'm a bit iffy about its XBLA graphical facelift, so I'm happy with what I've got. The game is smooth, always fun to explore, always full of surprises and deaths that make me laugh (well, often enough) instead of making my eyes bug out. Even starting the levels over again isn't as big of a problem because I know that the randomization won't force me to do the same thing over and over again until I get it right; there are ELEMENTS I need to master, skills that I need to improve, but I don't have to memorize levels, don't have to time everything the same way like I'm being tutored to pass a test. Derek Yu is great.
Since we got the XBox running again, Gladius has been the game of choice there still. I saw that my old team was there waiting for me, including my best buddy the Yeti, who likes crushing things. One problem, though: our TV is sorta new now, and the graphics are a bit fuzzy. Anyone know how A/V cables work? Would I have to hunt down an old XBox cable, or are there universal cables out there that will still work with the old XBox?
My hand-me-down phone runs Symbian, and I've been trying to get software for it. So far I found a neat little open source flashcard teaching system with way too many options, and a live-updated star chart that includes planet positions (great for stargazing EDIT: except the Moon is in entirely the wrong place on this thing, so now I'm wondering if the planets are too). Naturally I want games, too, since all I got with this damned phone are demos (would it hurt you guys to let me play backgammon for free like on my old phone? O, Decadent Western Culture! DAMN YOU!!! (</irony>)). No luck so far as far as open source stuff goes, but I was happy to see that there's a version of ScummVM that actually works on Symbian. Crazy.
Finally, I'll leave you this week with a video of some multiplayer hilarity in Mount & Blade: Warband. I can't get over how Mount & Blade still looks like a better medieval combat simulator than just about everything out there (except for the lack gangrene and sucking chest wounds).


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By Staff Sgt. Crista Yazzie, 311th Signal Command (theater) Public Affairs
Story Highlights
- Nearly 200 Soldiers assigned to the 307th's Headquarters and Headquarters Co. and Bravo Co. returned home to Hawaii.
- This was the unit's first deployment since the Vietnam conflict.
- These Soldiers did a phenomenal job," said Battalion Commander Lt. Col. Jacqueline D. Brown.
HONOLULU, Hawaii- If accomplishing a communications mission from one location sounds hard enough, imagine providing command, control, communications and computer capabilities for two theaters from four separate locations.
This was the exact mission accomplished by the 307th Expeditionary Signal Battalion in the past year.
Nearly 200 Soldiers assigned to the 307th's Headquarters and Headquarters Co. and Bravo Co. returned home to Hawaii after a year-long deployment to Afghanistan, providing communications support as part of the Presidential Force Uplift supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
"These Soldiers did a phenomenal job," said Battalion Commander Lt. Col. Jacqueline D. Brown. "Not only did they prepare to deploy in 120 days, but we went out there as part of the Presidential Uplift. What this means is between HHC and Bravo Co., they deployed to austere locations, to not yet established Forward Operating Bases, so they went in there and set up from scratch."
While deployed, the 307th ESB split and simultaneous supported two regions in Afghanistan. HHC, 307th ESB provided Signal support for Regional Command (North) in the northern region of Afghanistan and B Co., 307th ESB deployed to the southern region of Afghanistan and was headquartered in Kandahar.
"Their accomplishments have been monumentous, and says a lot about the Soldiers and their professionalism. They never quit," said Brown. "We always say, 'if it was easy, they wouldn't have sent us.' "
During this wartime mission, the 307th ESB established tactical communications for 16 newly established FOBs, trained Afghan National Army Soldiers on proper communication equipment usage, built a computer laboratory to expedite training, and established the largest Morale, Welfare and Recreation facility in Regional Command-South.
While completing this mission in Afghanistan, the remainder of the battalion continued their vast Pacific communications mission.
"What the 307th was able to accomplish with a modular structure was to deploy parts to Afghanistan while leaving other parts engaged in the Pacific theater, both in Alaska and Hawaii, and that is impressive," said Brig. Gen. William Scott, commanding general of the 311th Signal Command (Theater).
The 307th is responsible for the tactical command, control, communications, and computers capability in the Pacific. Prior to the deployment, the battalion's four companies supported the U.S. Army, Pacific's Theater Cooperation and Security Program. During the deployment, the remaining two companies, Alpha Co. and Charlie Co., continued to support the U.S. Army Pacific Signal needs by attaching Alpha Co. to the 59th Signal Battalion in Alaska and Charlie Co. to the 30th Signal Battalion in Hawaii.
All three units report to the 516th Signal Brigade, which reports to the 311th Signal Command (Theater), both headquartered in Hawaii.
After a year of deployment, the returning 307th Soldiers were glad to have completed the mission and be back home.
"It made the whole year worth it to see my family," said Spc. Anthony Wooley, an installations management operator whose wife and two children, ages 18 months and seven years, greeted him at the 307th's welcome home ceremony June 5. "Marching in and seeing them waiting for me and hugging them for the first time made all the stress and all the hard times down range worth it."
Brown, proud of the battalion and equally happy to be home, expressed the necessity to focus on the final part of the mission.
"It's great to be home, now we just have to continue to be professional and while our mission is complete as far as coming home from Afghanistan, however the next 90 days is the most critical, because it's when our Soldiers and equipment must be reintegrated," said Brown.
This was the unit's first deployment since the Vietnam conflict. According to Scott, what is even more significant about the 307th's story is its unique mission accomplished during the time in between, and the transformation the unit underwent as a test group for an Army-wide initiative toward a more modular force.
"The 307th was dedicated to the Korean peninsula for decades, and because of this unique experience, the Army looked at how to make them a part of its global deployable force," Scott said. "They trained on new equipment, were redesignated as an Expeditionary Signal Battalion, and their new modular structure allowed us to accomplish the signal mission here in Hawaii, Alaska and Pakistan at the same time as the deployment."
While half the battalion was deployed, the 307th's Alpha Company in Alaska deployed to Pakistan to provide communication capabilities for Task Force Denali.
"When we say 'Mission accomplished,' yes we're celebrating HHC and Bravo's deployment, but we're also celebrating the Army's decision to add these units to the pool of deployable assets," said Scott. "This reduces the burden of all the other Signal units and that represents a bigger mission accomplished."


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Q2 2011 Earnings Call
July 22, 2011 10:00 am ET
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Kathy Martin
Good morning, and thanks for joining us, everyone.
With me on the call today are Chief Operating Officer, Don Thompson; and Chief Financial Officer Pete Bensen. Today's conference call is being webcast live and recorded for replay via phone, webcast and podcast.
Before I turn it over to Don, I want to remind everyone that, as always, the forward-looking statements in our earnings release and the 8-K filing also apply to our comments. Both documents are available at www.investor.mcdonalds.com as our reconciliations of any non-GAAP financial measures mentioned on today's call with their corresponding GAAP measures.
And now, I'd like to turn it over to Don.
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Thanks, Kathy, and good morning, everyone. I'm pleased to share our latest business results, which continue to be strong. For the second quarter, global comparable sales were up 5.6%. Operating income increased 11% in constant currencies and EPS reached $1.35, an 11% increase in constant currencies. We also returned $1.4 billion to shareholders through share repurchases and dividends during the quarter. Our momentum continues, with July global comparable sales expected to be about 4% to 5%.
Our performance is broad-based. We continue to grow share in every area of the world despite an informal eating-out market that remains relatively flat overall.
Now I've had an opportunity to spend time in many of our major markets around the world over the past several months, and I'm pleased to say that we're focused on taking our business to the next level. The system is aligned around 3 global growth priorities that support our Plan to Win. And we're confident that our emphasis on optimizing and evolving our menu, modernizing the customer experience and broadening accessibility to our brand will continue to move our business forward.
Now when it comes to optimizing and evolving the menu, we are leveraging our iconic products and billion-dollar brands, we're innovating in key menu categories like beverages and chicken, and we're elevating our food image around the world.
Our second priority, which is modernizing the customer experience, is really all about improving both how our restaurants look and feel and how they operate. We keep looking for ways to create efficiencies and build capacity so that we can accommodate our continued guest count growth.
In addition to reimaging our restaurants, we're leveraging technology to enhance the customer experience to make the jobs of our managers and crew easier. For example, innovations like our new point-of-sale system and self-order kiosks, enable restaurant employees to focus on what matters most, the customer experience, and what we call the moment of truth.
Our third priority, which is broadening accessibility to our brand, is about driving growth through value and convenience. You see, to us, value means a great customer experience delivered at a great price so that our customers get the biggest bang for their buck, their yen, euro or pound. The second component of accessibility, which is convenience, is about daypart expansion and continuing to open new restaurants when and where appropriate.
Ensuring our plan's focus on these 3 global priorities enables our teams to be more effective in terms of integrating and aligning their initiatives under the Plan to Win. This is particularly important as we execute against our biggest opportunities by leveraging one of our core competencies, operations excellence.
Now I'd like to share a few highlights from each of the areas of the world. Let's begin with the U.S., where comparable sales for the quarter increased 4.5% and operating income grew 6%. We continue to take share in the IEO marketplace even as the overall industry traffic has been relatively flat.
These are strong results, especially in today's environment, where unemployment levels are still high and consumer confidence continues to waver. Our performance has been driven by a combination of everyday value, the introduction of compelling new menu items, a sustained focus on core favorites and an ongoing emphasis on improving restaurant operations.
We continue to capture an even greater share of the beverage market with the introduction of Frozen Strawberry Lemonade to our McCafé line up. To keep the news coming, we added another great tasting smoothie flavor, Mango Pineapple, at the end of June.
Total McCafé beverage sales rose 29% over second quarter 2010 on top of the gains realized last year. And we're still featuring dollar soft drinks and sweet tea in a majority of our restaurants.
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I have a 2 year old so this could be way off base. But this is what my mom did.
Disengage from the argument. You do not argue with an 8 year old. If she has a fit, she goes to her room, when she can express her thoughts, even have her write them down if she can't articulate them verbally, maybe writting with work. But she can come out when she is ready to talk. So this is about her and her inability to express her emotions appropriately. Remain consistant. Go back to basics. Leave whereever you are, go back to the car, same as a 2 year old. But you can argue with yourself so if she is talking back and such, do not engage her. Send her to somewhere pivate for her to collect herself. And apologies are important. She needs to learn how to do that.
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I haven't read it. But your 8 year old sounds just like my 6 year old. She is impossible. I like SnarkyMama's ideas and I'm going to try some of them out. Everything with her is an arguement. I need to figure out how to nip this in the bud before she gets older because I can't tolerate it for much longer.
DD talked back this weekend and immediately lost Family Movie Night which just about devastated her. And, she kept begging for me to give it back, promising she wouldn't talk back again. I didn't cave and I disengaged. Here's to hoping she learned a valuable lesson, but if not the consequences will be immediate and swift. I doubt she'll enjoy losing too many privaleges.
Is this a sudden change in behavior, or has she always been this challenging?
It can be ordered from www.omnipotentchild.com/order.html
Does anyone recommend it? it is a bit pricey.
SAHM to Aug '09 girl and Oct '11 boy
sweet. looking forward to some input
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Sorry it has taken so long to get back here. I have not finished reading the book, but I have read quite a bit so far.
To the question about is this geard more towards toddlers, I say no. It really reads more towards older kids. It could be quite useful for parents of toddlers, though, to try to head it off.
My gut reactions to this book so far are:
1) I feel like he is placing a LOT of blame on the mother. He barely talks about father/child interaction, it's all about the mother.
2) You want ideas on how to deal with behavior problems? Setting Limits with your Strong-Willed Child has a lot of the same fundamental suggestions, without the "how did we get here" that can make you defensive.
3) I see a lot of what my son does in his examples. But I'm struggling with the things he says the parents (mother) has done wrong to get them to this point.
It is totally worth the $4 I paid for it. Now, the one I got is the 2nd edition and there is a newer edition out there. I had to chuckle about some of the stuff he said about Freud.
There are some good techniques that I have already put into play and it has worked - much better than he says they will. But at the same time, my DS's behavior has degraded. So maybe he is fighting back in other ways?
Anyway, I'll check in again when I have finished reading the book.
Ok, I'm finally finished reading it. He has 1 chapter dealing with preschool-aged children - basically how not to raise an omipotent child. He gears the rest of the book more towards elementary or middle school children.
He scoffs at food additive issues (like food dyes causing hyperactivity). He did make a few comments in the preschooler chapter that kinda hit home, but I'm still not sure that I agree fully.
That said, the "getting dressed" technique is working for us, big-time. I have learned to disengage more often, though I'm still working on that. He also scoffs at the idea of "natural consequences" - but I think the "Setting Limits" book I mentioned above uses natural - and, more importantly, logical - consequences in a manner that I don't believe this author has seen recommended.
What I liked:
1) punishment cards - he suggests you pre-define a set of punishments so you won't over-punish and are more likley to stick with the punishment. This, I need to do.
2) "Supervision" - the technique I have been using for a few weeks for getting DS ready for school in the morning comes straight from this book. He is only 4, so most of the time I go in, pick out his clothes, and give him a time limit (10 or so minutes), tell him the time on his Mater clock by his bed that he has to be dressed - potty, hands washed, dressed in underwear, pants, shirt - or I will come supervise, and then I leave. If I have to supervise, he cannot wear his cool Lightning McQueen light-up shoes, instead he has to wear his boring, non-lighting sneakers. He has gone without those shoes ONE time since we started this. Most days he beats the clock by 5 min and comes running out, fully dressed. I'm trying to come up with a variation for getting ready for bed, but I haven't come up with a good "cost" for supervising yet, I feel like I need one that is immediate, and really don't want to give up reading to him.
3) there is a good section on getting behavior improved in the classroom, which is a big issue for us. Now I need to talk to his teacher about it and see if I can get her on board with it. RIght now, most days he gets sent out of the room to sit up front or in the kitchen during circle time because he won't sit still. I feel like that is rewarding him and encouraging him to do it more. I think if I can get he to go along with this, we can get him to behave better. But maybe I need to implement a similar thing at home first so he is used to it? Basically, it's like the 3 token rule - you work on one issue at a time, and each time the teacher has to correct that behavior, she marks it in a journal. After 3, he loses a priviledge (like playing at the lego table, or computer time). At 4, she calls us and we issue a punishment card when he gets home.
4) Temper tantrums - we don't have them too badly anymore, but they do happen on occasion. This book has what looks like a good system for temper tantrums.
What I didn't like:
1) Everything is focused on the mother, basically laying blame on her. They don't even give any examples of father/child interaction.
2) Other things, like food sensitivities, are ridiculed.
3) His final 2 chapters (ok, I didn't really read the last one, it was optional) were disturbing. He makes some pretty sweeping generalizations about babies who come from orphanages and even some children who are put into daycare early, that are scary at best.


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Very creative!
I like Baby Scout! He looks like a love sick puppy following Pyro. Like he really adores him. Very cute pic!
Pyro: Mmpha mmph mh*Translation* Imma strut it
bon travail !
Thought of the chaos from Sonic Adventure 2 where you need to take care of them little fellas
Spy developed bad habits at a young age...
No he didn't he's smoking love,look at them hearts! 8D
Well...that's too much love over a life time for one human being.
He'll die from love cancer
He'll die from love cancer
You can't DIE from love cancer silly,love cancer is love cancelling cancer! CB Abuuuu nobody can have too much looooooooove- unless it's overly attached stuffs
"love cancer is love cancelling cancer!"
That right there just blew my mind.
And I think that one can die from too much love, either:
1. He simply has too much love an all his bodily fluids ooze out of him or
2. He blows up in a pink, heart-filled explosion.
Whichever one sounds more realistic...
.................Love should be a TF2 class. It will contage two of them enemy mercs and they will fall in love and kill each other more painfully because it's always harder to kill someone you love.....well shit how did it go from pyro love to this.
I have absolutely no idea but I love that concept, you should take that up with Valve.
I don't think Valve would approve that since it would make things...homosexual xDDD...though then again they DID make unicorn hats for every merc and called it pretty unicorn magic...perhaps this could be a valentines day event where you have to stay the fuck away from loveclouds or lovefogs that appear around the map randomly and stay away from other people......poor heavy and medic are stuck in a love chain xDDDDDDDD
LOL, that smoke from Spy's cigarete is cute!
I love it
I love it
the memories of meet the pyro just come right back don't they?...help D:
And then everyone died.
I just realized, you even put in
the garder socks spy was wearing in the video.
the garder socks spy was wearing in the video.
baby's with beards...besides scout.
Pyrovision makes everything better
idk but they all look like they wanna rape pyro.
I love Pyro's "Haters Gonna Hate" walk!
now, put Justin Bieber in it.
Your forgetting the infernal orchestra
but at the same time, this is about 10x better than what I can draw
but at the same time, this is about 10x better than what I can draw
I saw this and looked at Scout and all I could think of is him whining saying " I made a poopy in my pants!"
Haha... I love how Pyro takes Heavy calling the entire team babies literally. Pyro kind of reminds me of Barney in this picture for some reason...
XD that was funny
You're a freakin' hero.
I love those babies. Their ridiculously over-sized bodies are just so cartoony. I love it!
Jesus Christ those babies were creepy I love how you made a Pyrovision and non-Pyrovision version of this. Just adds that extra does of... YEESH. O_O I can no longer listen to the Lovin' Spoonful after that video.
La bande de stalker *-*
Love the bongos.
Heavy has said it all along, and we never listened... entire team really is babies o.o


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Just havin' some fun with pink lately.
Nice pink.
Wow. This is so pretty! <3 I love the pink! She looks gorgeous.
absolutely beautiful
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having fun with Pink
Pink can be a lovely color!
This is beautifully done, as always. Keep up the amazing work.
Very beautiful and cheerful.
Beautiful! When you paint do you use a hard brush typically, or a more soft brush?
I use a combination of both, really. I use harder brushes to lay down colors, and then softer brushes in overlay layers and blending.
this is beautiful!
I love her lips the best. <3
Kinda different from your usual style, I think it's because it's more "polished". I really love how you did her face features!
I actually just approached it a different way than normal. Like, I was really following my line work instead of using it as a general guideline. There's a few problems, but, more or less, seems to have turned out alright!
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10 Best Dressed of 2012: Celebrity Mom Edition! (Photos)Sunny Chanel
People Magazine just came out with their Best Dressed of 2012 list. Yes, there are still three months left in the year, but nine months is plenty of time to determine one's "best- dressed" worthiness.
People's list of ten included several moms such as Gwyneth Paltrow and Jessica Alba among non-moms such as Kate Middleton and Rihanna. But I thought there were some other all moms who should have made the list. So I have taken upon myself to declare the Best Dressed of 2012: Mom Edition!
I not only took into consideration their red carpet looks but how they dressed day-to-day while doing errands, going to meetings and playing with their kids. Another aspect we put into consideration was that they were women who dressed age appropriately, who looked comfortable and confident in their outfits.
Check out who made the list right here:
Miranda Kerr 1 of 10Miranda Kerr's outfits often ride the line between sexy and sensible. She always looks fresh, stylish and very now.
People Pick for "Street Style Pro" here.
Elizabeth Banks 2 of 10The Hunger Games star does not play it safe as we saw with her pics for the red carpet events leading up to The Hunger Games release. She does casual and red carpet with the same measure of style. And this is one lady who is not afraid of color.
Michelle Williams 3 of 10One thing about Michelle Williams is that she always looks youthful, sweet and stylish. Three things that don't always go together, but Michelle Williams makes it work.
Victoria Beckham 4 of 10Her nickname "Posh" is still so very appropriate for this mom of four. She has a timeless and classic style that is chic and stunning.
Jessica Alba 5 of 10Jessica Alba loves her fashions and embraces the trends of the season and makes them her own. She may be a mom of two, but she still dresses like a hip young adult.
People named her, "The Jean" here.
Gwen Stefani 6 of 10Gwen Stefani is edgy and although her style wouldn't work for everyone, it looks great on her. She can play pretty or tough and often mixes both of those styles together.
Katherine Heigl 7 of 10Katherine Heigl has a very pulled together look, a style that is part Grace Kelly, part ladies who lunch but with a bit of an edge.
Rachel Zoe 8 of 10She gets paid to get the stars to the best dressed list, and although she isn't one to wear show stopping styles, she still has a chic and effortless looking appearance.
Reese Witherspoon 9 of 10Reese Witherspoon has been pregnant for a big chunk of the year, and has dressed her baby bump very nicely. Reese is known for her simple, classic and toned down look. Never shocking but always timeless.
Named "Hot Mama" by People here.
Bethenny Frankel 10 of 10Bethenny Frankel may be a reality TV star (and businesswoman) but she also has a fab, simple very New York City style. From the playground to her new talk show, Bethenny keeps it stylish where ever she goes.
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I've struggled with my weight my whole life. I've always been chunky. Diet after diet, work out plan after work out plan. I always get off to a great start and then something happens, and it's like I no longer care.
I used sparkpeople at the beginning of the year and lost over 20 lbs. I was feeling great about myself. I got over confident and lazy about tracking my food and fitness.
After a while I noticed my weight creeping back up. I ignored it and eventually stopped weighing myself again. This morning, I wanted to see where I was at, just out of curiosity. I wasn't surprised to see I gained all I had lost at the beginning of the year back.
My eating habits are very poor. I love to eat... all the time. There isn't a second that goes by without my mind wondering to food. I'm addicted.
I need to make changes. I need to be healthy for myself and my family. I want to set a good example for my son. I don't want him to ever have the weight problems that his father and I have.
I'm ready. It's never too late.
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First, WAY TO GO. You can do this.
First, I was on spark people, started losing, gave up... decided to start again a few months later, got pregnant. So weight loss not an option. So, I start back up after a 6 months after I delivered. After a few months again, I gave up. Finally, I came back this year after about a year off.
Here is why it didn't work. I worked out, but didn't change. I ate less, but still garbage.
Here is why it is working NOW, and will continue.
I am making this a forever thing. I started eating whole foods, and cutting out more and more processed food. (I occasionally have some now, but RARELY) I didn't have sugar for a month. I have allowed it back, but only once a week or less. I will once again after a couple of birthdays over the next few weeks, cut it out. I will allow it in again, but sugar is my trigger and if I don't do this every so often, I will end up with a binge.
First, make small changes. One step at a time. FInd a workout you like, and can see doing for the rest of your life. No, this does not mean that if you find and like Insanity (my next workout of choice) that you have to do it forever. It means more along the lines that you need to start and keep with it. I also walk, do yoga and pilates, and lift weights or do body weight exercises. Any combinations of this will work. Cardio and weights. You got this!
Next, or concurrently with the upper changes, also make changes with your diet. Start subbing whole fruits and veggies for snacks and adding more to meals instead of processed foods. For example, if you have cereal for breakfast, have yogurt and fruits and or whole oatmeal. Or any combination thereof. Lunches. Lean meats, fruits and veggies, add some starches and such. Same things with dinner. Obviously I'm not a nutritionist or telling you this is what you HAVE to eat. I'm just telling you that by changing one meal a day by adding whole foods, you will be amazed at how great you feel, and how you will want to change the rest of your meals too!
I will say, when I started with the whole foods, I didn't know how long I would be able to stick with it. It is over 10 weeks. The reason? I FEEL AMAZING. Food did that. The fuel for my body is fruits, veggies and etc. I love them. I haven't felt this good in forever!
My daughter will be two at the end of the month. As she grows, I want to show her health, nutrition and fitness by example. She rarely has sugar or anything. In fact, her favorite foods are fruits and veggies. I never want her to struggle with her weight like I do.
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HI , I have recently bought a new bike . it's a Cannondale bad boy 700 disc ( european model )
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Intestinal malrotation occurs when there is a disruption in the normal embryological development of the bowel. The majority of patients present with clinical features in childhood, though rarely a first presentation can take place in adulthood. Recurrent bowel obstruction in patients with previous abdominal operation for midgut malrotation is mostly due to adhesions but very few reported cases have been due to recurrent volvulus. We present the case of a 22-year-old gentleman who had laparotomy in childhood for small bowel volvulus and then presented with acute bowel obstruction. Preoperative computerised tomography scan showed small bowel obstruction and features in keeping with midgut malrotation. Emergency laparotomy findings confirmed midgut malrotation with absent appendix, abnormal location of caecum, ascending colon and small bowel. In addition, there were small bowel volvulus and a segment of terminal ileal stricture. Limited right hemicolectomy was performed with excellent postoperative recovery. This case is presented to illustrate a rare occurrence and raise an awareness of the possibility of dreadful recurrent volvulus even several years following an initial Ladd's procedure for midgut malrotation. Therefore, one will need to exercise a high index of suspicion and this becomes very crucial in order to ensure prompt surgical intervention and thereby preventing an attendant bowel ischaemia with its associated high fatality.
Intestinal malrotation occurs when there is a disruption in the normal embryological development of the bowel rotation, elongation and fixation. Normal developmental gut rotation takes place around the superior mesenteric artery (SMA) which supplies the midgut. Disturbance of this process will lead to incomplete or non-rotation of the foetal midgut. This condition affects approximately 1 in 500 live births with the vast majority of the associated complications presenting in the first month of life when its diagnosis is made[1-3]. It has been reported that well over 90% of the affected individuals manifest by the time of their first birthday[1-5].
The diagnosis of midgut malrotation is rarely reported in adults[2,4-9]. A small proportion of the cases go undetected until adulthood when they are incidentally diagnosed in the course of radiological investigations or operative interventions for acute bowel obstruction or other unrelated conditions[3-6]. There is even a lesser group of patients presenting later in life with intermittent non-specific acute or chronic symptoms where the diagnosis is particularly difficult to make and the condition can go on for life undetected[2,5-9].
This is a report of a young adult who previously underwent a laparotomy three weeks of age for bowel volvulus and represented later with acute small bowel obstruction due to recurrent volvulus in the setting of midgut malrotation. This unique case is reported to illustrate a rare occurrence of recurrent volvulus following Ladd's procedure for midgut malrotation. Therefore, a high index of suspicion is required for early diagnosis and prompt surgical intervention in order to prevent the risk of bowel gangrene and its associated high fatality.
A 22-year-old gentleman presented with three days history of an acute onset central abdominal pain, progressive distension and vomiting. Patient has been experiencing intermittent abdominal pain for weeks and erratic bowel habit with scanty pellet-like stool prior to presentation. He had presented 2 wk earlier and underwent an emergency left inguinal hernia repair which was misdiagnosed as the cause of the intermittent abdominal pain. There was a background history of laparotomy for "twisted" bowel when he was 3-wk-old.
Physical examination at this presentation showed dehydration, distended abdomen with tenderness around the umbilicus. There was no peritonitis and bowel sounds were high pitched and hyperactive. Rectum was empty.
Blood tests were unremarkable with normal parameters for full blood count, urea and electrolytes, liver function tests, arterial blood gases, C-reactive protein and lactate. The abdominal radiograph showed features of a small bowel obstruction. This was subsequently confirmed on the abdominal computerised tomography (CT) scan. The caecum was located to the upper left quadrant with the large bowel on the left of the abdomen and most of the small bowel loops were on the right side (Figure 1A). There was failure of progress of the duodenum to the left side of the spines and aorta (Figure 1B). There was also a reversal of the relationship between the mesenteric artery and vein (Figure 1C). A diagnosis of adhesions causing bowel obstruction in the setting of midgut malrotation was made.
The patient was adequately resuscitated and underwent an emergency laparotomy and limited right hemicolectomy with ileocolic anastomosis. The findings at operation were consistent with midgut malrotation, with small bowel on the right side and pelvis, caecum and ascending colon on the left upper abdomen and the duodenal-jejunal flexure on the right side of the ascending colon. The appendix was absent presumably removed at the previous laparotomy. There were minimal intra-abdominal adhesions. The cause of obstruction was small bowel volvulus with dilated, congested but viable bowel and a segment of chronically thickened and strictured terminal ileum presumably the site of previous ileoileal anastomosis in childhood (Figure 2). The patient made a good recovery postoperatively and was discharged home a week after the operation. Follow up in the clinic showed no recurrence of symptoms up until 6 mo after surgery.
Midgut malrotation is a rare cause of intestinal obstruction in adult life and only few of such cases have been reported in the literature[2,4-11]. Recurrent intestinal obstruction is even rarer in adults who have been previously operated for gut malrotation and few of such cases have been reported. Features of intestinal obstruction in patients who have had previous laparotomy always raise the suspicion of adhesions as the aetiological factor. The other possible causes to consider are either postoperative midgut volvulus or internal herniation and few of the latter have been reported following laparoscopic appendicectomy, cholecystectomy and gastric banding operations[12-14]. The reason(s) for this rare phenomenon following laparoscopic operations is not well understood. Biko et al[15] in their retrospective review of obstructive symptoms in patients post Ladd's procedure showed that adhesive small bowel obstruction was more common than the most dreaded recurrent gut volvulus.
Midgut malrotation is rarely considered as an underlying diagnosis in adults and may present in various ways. Our patient had a history of abdominal surgery as a child for volvulus but there was no knowledge of the aetiological factor at the time of this presentation. He presented initially two weeks earlier with features of subacute obstruction and finding of a left inguinal hernia. He had a presumed diagnosis of an obstructed left inguinal hernia and underwent an emergency hernia operation. However, this treatment did not resolve his symptoms hence necessitating a representation with an acute bowel obstruction. The initial diagnosis of acute adhesive bowel obstruction was made on the background history of previous laparotomy he had as a 3-wk-old child. The clinical diagnosis of midgut malrotation in adolescents and adults is difficult because it is rarely considered on clinical grounds. Beside, many of these patients remain asymptomatic and majority of them are only discovered incidentally during investigations or laparotomy. Dietz et al[9] in a series of 10 adults with intestinal malrotation showed that 4 and 5 of them presented with acute and chronic bowel obstructive symptoms respectively and one patient had an acute abdomen due to appendicitis.
Recurrent volvulus as a cause of bowel obstruction following Ladd's operation for midgut malrotation is very rare both in children and adult life and very few of such cases have been reported in literature[15-21] (Table 1). Recurrent symptoms in such cases are usually considered to be due to adhesions and one may be inclined to adopt a non-operative approach. Fu et al[16] reported only two recurrences in a series of 12 adults treated for symptomatic malrotation with one of them requiring a reoperation and the other managed conservatively. It is believed that the increasing use of CT scan will enable one to make such diagnosis with certainty preoperatively as this has the overall advantage of detecting the abnormal location of the midgut as well as any other intra-abdominal anomalies. The finding of midgut malrotation should make one to suspect a possible diagnosis of intestinal volvulus which may require an early surgical intervention so as to prevent the most dreadful and life threatening bowel ischaemia and infarction.
The standard surgical intervention in patients with obstructive symptoms and gut malrotation is Ladd procedure which was originally described in paediatric population by Ladd[22]. This procedure consists of 4 elements including the division of Ladd's bands overlying the duodenum; widening of the narrowed root of the small bowel mesentery by mobilising the duodenum and division of the adhesions around the SMA to prevent further volvulus; counterclockwise detorsioning of the midgut volvulus if present and appendicectomy to prevent future diagnostic dilemma of an abnormally located inflamed appendix[22]. Most authors are of the opinion that Ladd's procedure is an adequate treatment for intestinal malrotation but various modifications of this operation have been reported. The full components of this procedure may not be required in the adult group to deal with the bowel obstruction[5,8,9,22]. One of the clear objectives of surgical management of midgut malrotation is to prevent recurrent volvulus and there are various techniques used to prevent such complication. This includes re-establishment of the normal gut anatomy by duodenopexy, caecopexy and suture fixation of the ascending colon to the right abdominal wall, in the retroperitoneal position[8,9]. There are reports of increasing use of laparoscopic approach to Ladd's operation in the literature[2,5,7] with excellent outcome.
It was difficult to ascertain the full details of the procedure(s) performed in our patient in childhood as the operation took place in a different hospital with unavailable medical records. Our best guess is that he may have had the standard Ladd's procedure at that age as the appendix and the classical Ladd's bands were absent at laparotomy. We presumed he may have also had a bowel resection for ischaemic bowel resulting from volvulus as evident by strictured distal ileum. There was no evidence that a caecopexy and/or fixation of the ascending colon to the right abdominal wall were performed. This patient had a recurrent small bowel volvulus and chronic stricture of the distal ileum causing acute bowel obstruction. Recurrent small bowel volvulus also may have been encouraged by the minimal adhesion formation following the laparotomy he had in childhood. He then underwent a limited right hemicolectomy and ileocolic anastomosis with an uneventful postoperative recovery.
In conclusion, midgut malrotation is rare in adult population but an important factor contributing to bowel obstruction in that group. The most dreadful and life threatening complication of intestinal malrotation both in children and adults is gut volvulus with possible ischaemic changes and associated high mortality. However, recurrent volvulus resulting from intestinal malrotation is uncommon after treatment with Ladd's procedure and only very few of such cases have been reported in the literature. Majority of recurrent bowel obstructive symptoms are due to adhesions from previous laparotomy. Therefore, one will need to exercise a high index of suspicion and an awareness of the possibility of recurrent volvulus even several years following an initial Ladd's procedure. This is crucial to ensure prompt surgical intervention in order to prevent attendant bowel ischaemia and a high fatality rate.
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As soon as we left this movie, DH looks at me and says so what would BBC ladies have to say about it?
If you haven't seen this yet- its a movie about an old war vet who's neighborhood in Michigan has been overtaken by Asian families. Of course, he uses Chink, Gook, Zipperhead, etc to describe them. To their faces. Even after he becomes their friend and protector.
I kept thinking... NO. WAY.
But as a white chick... I don't have people calling me things like that, so I don't know if I would care if my different race friend called me those names.
If any of my Hispanic or AA friends started calling me honkey or cracker in a loving way... I don't think that has the same effect or power as some of these other terms.
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The book I am reading is meet kit the first book in the kit sery's. Meet kit is about a real girl during the great depresion she has to face ton's of obsticals such as her dad loses his job and they have to find a way to keep there house. My favorite part in the book is when kit spilled the tea all over Mrs. howard and her mom comes in and she trys to explain it to her mom. I would recomed this bok to any one ho likes real stores about history but with a little twist . In some parts this story was sad but in other parts it was very joyfull and you wanted to know what was going to come next. this was a great book i can not wait to move on to the secound book in the kit story serys.
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Actress Kareena Kapoor, who tied the knot with actor Saif Ali Khan four months ago, will be busy shooting for Prakash Jha's film, "Satyagraha", in Bhopal on Valentine's Day (Feb 14).
"This year, my Valentine's Day will be with Amit-ji (Amitabh Bachchan), Ajay Devgn and Prakash Jha. So it's not bad," Kareena told reporters at an event Wednesday.
On what gift she give to Saif on V-Day, she said: "This year, Saif will have to gift me, I gave him the biggest gift in October. I have transformed myself into a 'begum' (wife). He should come and give me a gift."
The actress, who is fond of diamonds, said there was no special day to gift diamonds.
"There is no special day to gift diamonds to a women. So there is no particular day. Any time, whenever he (Saif) feels like.
Asked if gifting diamonds would affect Saif's budget, Kareena said: "This question you should ask him. But now that 'Race 2' is also a hit, I don't think there should be any budget issue."
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I work for Computer Weekly, but believe me that doesn't mean I am very good with technology. Writing a blog post about a new piece of technology is not my usual forte, I prefer the controversy that IT outsourcing causes.
So here I am, out of my comfort zone writing about smartphones...
About four years ago I upgraded my basic Nokia handset for a real life smartphone - an Apple iPhone 3G to be precise. It changed my life; email and web browsing on the move - what could be better? But being terrified of change and a tight fisted 'so-and-so' I still had the same phone until last week.
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I knew I had to change and not being a member of the Apple's dogmatic fan club, and I thought I would go for something cheaper. A Samsung Galaxy type device was favourite but I was always put off by the frailty of many devices. The Apple 3G was a solid lump of metal that would seemingly last forever. But the Samsung Galaxy felt that it would break the first time I dropped it (at least once every two months).
I was close to moving to a Samsung one Friday afternoon, while on Tottenham Court Road, but I thought I would give it another week after eyeing up my colleague's new BlackBerry Z10.
I had always seen BlackBerry as the phone that a salesperson would carry around so never really thought about it. I didn't used to like the look of the devices. But when my far more mobile-savvy colleague teased me with her Z10 I knew it was the phone for me - a solid yet tablet-like device.
So I went for it. As much as O2 tried through its crappy customer service (setting up a new account rather than transferring the existing one) to convince me to call the whole thing off, I stuck with it.
I have to say after two days using it, the BB Z10 is The Daddy. I can't compare it to anything really if I am honest because my Apple was pretty old and congested.
My colleagues have watched me with amazement as I discover all these clever ways to make my life easier. The BlackBerry Z10 is worth it just for the finger flickingly good Swipe To Type feature on the keyboard. It recommends words and learns from experience and you just flick your finger above the letter you are already typing and you are there. I can write articles on it and sending a text is no longer a pain.
Then you have the touch screen, which you learn through osmosis. If you ask me how I get to email I couldn't tell you but if you give me the phone my fingers know what to do.
My phone had become a phone and never lived up to the business tool I hoped for. But I am beginning, after only two days, to see what all the fuss is about.
In the past my 3 and 6 year olds would pester me for my iPhone. One for angry birds and the other for writing stories. But now that I offer them the iPhone to play with whenever they wish, they are not interested. Because the Z10 is sitting in the corner unaccompanied.
Anyway there is a point to this blog other than I really like my new phone. When I got the Apple iPhone 3G there wasn't really much choice unless I wanted the newer model. But now there are loads. Apple has pioneered the market and educated users, who can now select from an ever increasing range of smartphones.
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You see, I'd just finished processing all of my email in all of my accounts, personal and professional. I have nothing in my in boxes: nada, zero, 'tis all empty, a veritable void, a staggering emptiness of bits. It feels so freeing to say that.
As I'd blogged about before (July 21, 2005), I detest, loathe, abhore, execrate, abominate, anathematize, disapprove of, am appalled, disgusted, fed up, and disabused by, have disfavor and disaffinity for, shudder at the sight of, and just generally Don't Like email. It's a terribly noisy, inefficient, often inappropriate channel of communication. Yesterday, I had an interesting chat with Carol Jones about collaboration, and she observed that there's a generational thing going on with email: while email may be the obvious medium for my generation, there's a generation after Carol and I who have a) grown up not knowing the Web never existed and b) are used to multiple channels of communication: email PLUS instant messaging PLUS text messaging, not to mention blogs, vlogs, wikis, and all the subtle things that come with social networking sites. The future has a way of blindsiding us in the present, and my take is that the assumptions we make about the centrality of email today will be proven naively wrong in the coming years.
Quote of the day (by me):
I do not like them, Sam-I-am.
I do not like them on my Linux box.
I do not like them on my Macintosh.
I do not like them when I'm home.
I do not like them on my phone.
I do not like them here or there.
I do not like them anywhere.
I do not like email and spam.
I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.
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Olivia Wilde – 1 Girl, 2 Outfits
December 11, 2009 in 1 Girl 2 Outfits, Olivia Wilde by Versus
Olivia Wilde went to 2 different events this week and she was in the mood for classic black & white.
Pretty similar styles, but which one is your favorite?
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I'm not eligable for NFCU. I am a member of IBM SEFCU so does anyone know if they will work with those of us with a BK?
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When I was a little girl, my parents encouraged my sister, brother and me to get involved in sports. My parents believed sports would be a positive influence in our lives, and they saw sports as a tool to help us sharpen the skills that we needed to succeed in school, and broadly speaking, in life.
They were so right.
Through skating, I've learned many lessons that I've been able to apply off the ice as well. I learned how to set high but realistic goals. And even during the long hours of training (six to seven days a week), I was still able to maintain a high level of self-motivation, and a positive attitude. Most athletes will tell you that competing at a high level is very nerve-racking and that in order to succeed, they need to be able to manage their emotions and anxiety during the most crucial moments.
I've also learned that sometimes you win and sometimes you lose, but even in the toughest times, you have to pick yourself back up. Competition has no guarantees, and you quickly learn to stay focused and be more determined when things become difficult. These same criteria apply in life.
As an athlete, I had the good fortune to travel all over the world representing the United States. My extensive globetrotting helped me gain insight about people with different cultures, beliefs, values and traditions. Today, those experiences allow me to effectively interact with people from different countries in my current position as an American Public Diplomacy Envoy.
The skills and lessons that I learned through sports are transportable. I believe that all successful athletes, whether they realize it or not, have the capabilities to be multidimensional people, excelling both inside and outside the sports arena. The skills acquired through sports can be applied in a variety of situations and career paths.
I look forward to continuing to discuss this topic with my fellow panelists and seeing everyone at the espnW Summit.
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The American actress and producer Renee Zellweger attended Tommy Hilfiger Limited Edition Bag Launch on April 6, 2012 in Milan for Breast Health International.
This newly single actress was found alone in the launch party. She was dazzling at Event in her Sexy Red Coat.
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Hans Knappertsbusch conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Berlioz: Invitation to the Dance; Schubert: Marche Militaire No. 1; Strauss: Annen Polka etc.; et. al.
1 CD / Guild / 2012-11-13Works: Otto Nicolai: Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor (The Merry Wives of Windsor), overture to the opera; Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a; Carl Maria von Weber: Invitation to the Dance,...
Conductors: Knappertsbusch, Hans
Ensemble: ; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
One does not associate Hans Knappertsbusch with music in the lighter vein, but this recording demonstrates not only his affinity for but also his fondness...continue...
Recording information: Sofiensaal, Vienna....continue...
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Hans Knappertsbusch Rarities - Haydn, Beethoven, Wagner, etc
1 CD / Preiser / 2000-04-01Works: Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony no 92 in G major, H 1 no 92 "Oxford"; Clemens Freiherr von Franckenstein: Variations on a Theme by Giacomo Meyerbeer; Gioachino Rossini: William Tell (Gugliemo Tell), ope...
Conductors: Knappertsbusch, Hans
Ensemble: Bavarian State Opera Orchestra; Berlin State Opera Orchestra; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Zürich Tonhalle Orchestra
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Canyons B&B: "Small B&B = Great Experience" Escalante Hotel Tip by WinInZion
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Well, it's our fourth year staying here and it was great as usual. Escalante is a small town and this is the premier B&B in town. The backyard has a huge 100 year old Apricot tree and a patio has been add beneath it. What a pleasure to sit outside, have a drink and a cigar!!
The rooms are probably as clean and nicely decorated as any place we've stayed. Every possible need is included. The rooms are themed and we try to stay in the Garden Room, this has a side deck that is nice in the evening. My brother and his wife had the Cabana Room and liked it a lot.
It's best to reserve in advance, there are only 4 rooms and it fills up fast in season.
Breakfast is amazing, here. Cate will pretty much make what you want but the stuffed French Toast with berries is awesome!!
Unique Qualities: When we're out in Utah we are usually hiking or Jeepin', this means water is needed. Canyons has a small kitchen at the guests disposal. It really helps to be able to have cold water in the AM.
Address: On RT 12 at the East end of Escalante. Don't blink
Price Comparison: about average
Price: US$120-180
Theme: Bed and Breakfast
Website: http://www.canyonsbnb.com/
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The moans were so annoying! I like it when they're different, not when they're the same thing !!
Where is the squirt???