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Longtime property trader Paul Percy Chapman has been undone by $11 million of personal guarantees, while the developer of the skinniest accommodation tower in central Auckland, Peter Chevin, has also been bankrupted.
Both men were among a list of reasonably prominent Aucklanders bankrupted in the High Court at Auckland this week.
Others included the former owner of the Hugo Boss business in New Zealand, Harry Howe, and Grant Fell, of the 1980s-90s band Headless Chickens, which was reformed in July and is holding a reunion concert at the Powerhouse in Auckland on 28 November.
Mr Chapman's bankruptcy was ordered on the application of the Oaks Law Centre Solicitors Nominee Co, of Whangarei. He was an active property trader around Auckland in the 1980s and was bankrupt from 2002 to 2005. Among his more recent property activities, Mr Chapman was involved in a company called Queenstown Alpine, retaining a 75% interest after selling the rest early this year to accountant Patrick McCormick.
Mr McCormick took over as director this year. He was struck off the register of chartered accountants on 28 July.
Mr Chevin, developer of the 18-storey Columbard apartment tower on Wyndham St in the Auckland CBD and director of a number of private property companies, got court leave to try for a creditors' debt compromise scheme but could not muster enough support.
He was banned as a company director for four years from 8 February. Before his business started to spiral downward, he tried to follow the Columbard development up with a similar shortstay apartment building on Scotia Place, off the top of Queen St, and ran into stiff opposition when he tried an intensive development on Stokes Rd, Mt Eden.
Harry Howe is a former director of Green Acres Franchise Group, Julian Reynolds Agency Co, Saks Clothes and Suit Centre NZ Ltd. After 20 years in the fashion industry, he has joined Michael Boulgaris' real estate team, which operates from an office above High St in the Metropolis apartment building in downtown Auckland.
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Rufus Wainwright, whose debut was released in 1998, recently released two albums on the same day. The first, Vibrate: The Best of Rufus Wainwright, compiles singles from his debut album, Poses, Want One, Want Two, Release The Stars and Out of The Game. The set also includes new track "Me and Liza". The album was also released with a deluxe version which includes tracks from the Brokeback Mountain and Moulin Rouge soundtracks, as well as live renditions.
He also released Rufus Wainwright: Live from the Artist's Den. And is currently working on an opera, Prima Donna.
The following list compiles the Vibrate track listing with respective music videos, information and performances of all of the singles and tracks.
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Films: Kumu Hina (documentary) : Southern Baptist Sissies, the movie : OFIR (documentary) : Ne Te Retourne Pas (short) : Halina (short) : EK (short) : Despite The Gods (documentary) : Materica (short) : Lawrence and Hollowman, the movie : No Strangers (documentary) : Meth Head, the movie : Echoes (short) : Titans of Newark (short) : A Cure (short) : Precious, the movie : This Is It (documentary)
Music: Lily Allen's Sheezus : Ingrid Michaelson's Lights Out : Kelis' Food : The Sounds' Weekend : Austra's Olympia : KENN's We Killed KENN : VV Brown's Samson & Delilah : Sammy Crawford's Reality Sets In : Melanie C's Stages : Madonna's MDNA : Nelly Furtado's Spirit Indestructible : CocoRosie's "We Are On Fire" : Stephan Nance's A Troubled Piece of Fruit
Videos: Christina Aguilera's "Your Body" : Tom Goss' "It's All Over" : Eric Himan's "Dust" : Scissor Sisters' "Only The Horses"
Concerts: Ellie Goulding : The Sounds with Blondfire & Strange Talk : Natasha Bedingfield : Andy Grammer : Kate Voegele
Stand Up: Kevin J Thornton
"Going To a Town"
This single was the lead of the 2007 album, Release The Stars. The set peaked at #2 in the UK and #23 in the US. The single only charted in the UK, peaking at #54. The [[music video]] is simple, with Rufus in a similar frames singing the song with symbols pertaining to religion and other social elements, alongside image projections. The lyrical matter touches on cultural and political elements which discuss war, human rights and self-rightiousness within the US. In it he asks 'Tell me, do you really think you go to hell for having loved?/ Tell me, enough of thinking everything that you've done is good/ I really need to know, after soaking the body of Jesus Christ in blood/ I'm so tired of America'. The song was covered by George Michael this year.
"Out of the Game"
The track seems to discuss a relationship, romantic or otherwise, where one individual feels the loss of the other. The world is tainting the path with expectations of sexuality and asks 'does your mother know what you are doing?'. [[The video]] sees actress Helena Bonham Carter as a bored librarian waiting for a new mattress to arrive whilst Rufus plays three characters who eventually wind up in a threesome. The track is the lead release of the 2012 album of the same name. The album peaked at #5 in the UK.
"Me and Liza"
The song is a response to Liza Minnelli not approving of his Judy Garland homage, from which he released Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall. Of the track he said 'I have to be very diplomatic with the track. Let's just say it's about legend and arson. It's very playful. A playful jab. Oh, and you know, possibly a hit? I'm trying to be as chivalrous as possible here. I'm a big Liza fan and a big Judy fan and I can't say that Ms Minnelli has been too thrilled by my ovations. When I performed the Judy Garland show, she really didn't really get it. I could not tell you what's wrong, I suppose anything to do with her mother makes it very difficult for her. My dad grew up with Liza for a couple of years in Beverly Hills, so they were friends as kids. I think I've become her recurring nightmare'. The song was written with Guy Chambers, who has written with big UK artists like Robbie Williams and Melanie C.
Watch the music video [[here]].
[[This cover]] of Leonard Cohen's eighties hit was part of the Shrek soundtrack in 2001.The soundtrack hit #28 in the US. The track first appeared in one of Rufus' releases as an extended, live rendition under the release, Want Two. But the greatest hits is the first time the recording has been included in an album outside of the soundtrack in 2001.
"Oh What a World"
[[The track]] was the second release from his 2003 album, Want One. The album hit #60 in the US. It was listed as the #1 album of 2003 on VH1's list. The song questions the fast-paced state of the world. Rufus utters 'Still I think I'm doin' fine/ Wouldn't it be a lovely headline/ Life is/ Beautiful on a New York Times'.
"April Fools"
The [[music video]] sees Rufus spending the day with five women who eventually, as the melancholic lyrics dictate that love is for fools, kill themselves in one way or another. Eventually the video finishes as it began. Part of it was filmed in Gwen Stefani's home, which is why she made an appearance as the brunette waitress at the restaurant.
[[The song]], the lead track from the same album in 2001, discusses the superficiality of finding self-esteem and a place in the world. Rufus sings 'All these poses such beautiful poses/ Makes any boy feel like picking up roses/ All these poses such beautiful poses/ Makes any boy feel as pretty as princes'. The album chart on the Billboard 200 two different years, in 2001 (#117) and 2004 (#103).
"Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk"
This other release from Poses discusses his cravings, hobbies and the social acceptance of substance abuse and the stigma of doing things deemed 'strange', 'not smart' or 'deadly'. The [[music video]] sees him playing the piano and walking around the city.
[[This song]], which inspired the title of this greatest hits compilation, was part of his third album, 2003's Want One. The album charted at #60 in the US. The song mentions Britney Spears as it mentions simple things about Rufus as he tells another person to call him as his phone is available and on 'vibrate'.
"The One You Love"
The sole release to the 2004 release, Want Two, discusses the intensity of love and its consequence on the emotional heart. The [[music video]] follows Rufus backstage and as he walking around town.
"I Don't Know What It Is"
The track appears on the 2003 release, Want One. Here is a live performance of the single on [[David Letterman's show]]. Rufus has said of the lyrics When I first came up with the lines, I don't know what it is, but you got to do it/ I don't know where to go but you got to be there, I was at this party for The Strokes. There was this prevailing sense of, 'We're not quite sure what's happening or what is cool, but we know that it's somewhere around here, in this room.' It was this vague confusion, with everybody kind of sniffing for blood. It wasn't that it was a bad party, or that I don't like The Strokes; I just think there's a lot of confusion right now in the music business. Then, later on, I realized the song was really personal. I didn't know where I was, and I didn't know I was actually lost. It wasn't about the party at all; it's about searching but not knowing what you're searching for'.
"The Art Teacher"
The lyrics tell of a student in love with an art teacher. [[The song]] is part of the 2004 release, Want Two. The album peaked at #21 in the UK and #103 in the US.
'He was not that much older than I was/ He had taken our class to the Metropolitan Museum/ He asked us what our favorite work of art was/ But never could I tell it was him/ Oh, I wish I could tell him.'
"Go or Go Ahead"
[[The song]] was inspired by a crystal meth binge in San Francisco, Rufus has said. In it he says 'Vanity fairgrounds and rebel angels/ You can't be trusted with feathers so hollow'. The track appeared on Want One.
"Dinner At Eight"
[[The track]], part of Want One, depicts a relationship of longing and despair. When trying to deal with painful love and how to deal with loss. The lyrics begin and end with 'No matter how strong/ I'm gonna take you down/ With one little stone/ I'm gonna break you down/ And see what you're worth/ What you're really worth to me'.
"Foolish Love"
[[The track]] is part of his debut, released in 1998. The lyrics discuss the emptiness of a relationship, despite the passion and intent. He paints a picture as he utters 'I twist like a corkscrew/ The sweetness rising/ I drink from the bottle, weeping/ Why won't you last'.
"Sometimes You Need"
The parent album, Out of The Game, reached #5 in the UK. The 2012 album parented the single of the same name, [["Sometimes You Need"]], and "Jericho".
"Grey Gardens"
[[The song]] is a tribute to the documentary film. Written as if the character Tadzio is in the Beales' mansion and Wainwright is Little Edie. The album chart on the Billboard 200 two different years, in 2001 (#117) and 2004 (#103).
[[The song]] was inspired by his time in Germany. He has said of the recording process 'Basically, a huge wave of German Romanticism descended on the recording process, and almost drowned me.' The song did not chart anywhere, but the album hit #2 in the UK and #23 in the US.


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The National Hurricane Center will introduce new maps this hurricane season, intended to show where potential storm surge may flood areas well inland from a storm's landfall point. The news maps will appear on the agency website when a tropical storm or hurricane watch is issued.
The storm surge maps were showcased earlier this week at the National Hurricane Conference in Orlando, Florida and forecasters hope that it will easily highlight areas most vulnerable to storm surge flooding and make evacuations more precise.
Many factors can impact the storm surge created by a particular tropical storm or hurricane, but the maps are supposed to perform well in all situations according to forecasters. Storm surge is the seawater rise pushed against the coastline by a land-falling tropical system and can be vastly different depending on a storm's intensity, speed, size, angle of approach to the coastline, and characteristics of the coastline.
In the new storm surge maps, a color key code will be utilized to differentiate the threats with a red shading indicating areas expected to be covered with more than 9 feet of water, an orange shading to indicate areas with potentially six feet or more of water, and a yellow shading indicating inundation of water at least three feet. Finally, a blue shading would indicate up to three feet of storm surge expected.
These maps will be an easy to understand visual representation of the greatest threat areas and forecasters hope that is will allow people to immediately take action to protect their life and property in a potentially dangerous situation. Emergency responders at the conference welcomed the new online tool, though it has not yet shown what it can do in action and further analysis will likely be needed at the conclusion of the hurricane season to determine how informative and helpful it really was.
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Are the two phrases'time is up' and 'time is over' used in different contexts or can be used to convey the same meaning
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"Time is over" seems to refer to time as a period that has passed. "Time is up" seems to refer to time as a certain deadline that has been reached. So when one says that the time to submit applications is over, it means that the opportunity to submit an application is missed, and when one says that the time is up, it means that you should submit your application ASAP, since it is your last chance.
I think 'time is up' is more recent, more immediate and so tends to refer to the moment of reaching a deadline or soon after i.e. still relevant, while 'time is over' is more broad and general and so tends to refer to a period of time that is in the past and not of current relevance. The immediateness of 'time is up' is what I think gives it its relative abruptness and so its negativity in some contexts.
They both express the same essential meaning: A period of time has ended.
The connotations of the two are slightly different. "Time's up" is very similar to the phrase "time's run out." It conveys an environment where time is a limited resource and someone is attempting to accomplish a particular task before the resource is used up or runs out.
"Time is over" signals the end of a longer period; one that could have conceivably lasted forever. If it is associated with a deadline for a particular task than the deadline is not typically rushed -- the allotted amount should be more than enough time to complete the task.
This usage is very similar to phrases such as "time has ended" or "time has gone" or even "from another time."
"Time is over" seems to be somewhat rarer. I see a few examples from a quick Google in contexts like:
So "time is over" can apply to both longer fixed time periods (many days or more) and is used with phrases like "break time" or "excuse time", whereas "time is up" typically means that a short time period has expired, such as to complete a test, and only seems to be used for periods of a few hours or less.
I would say that '(the) time is up' is more informal and emotional than '(the) time is over'.
For that reason Your time is up! (as in playing a game) is going to be more common than Your time is over! and "The time period for applications is over" is going to be more common than "The time period for applications is up." ("The time period for applications has passed" is even better in my view.)
Also notice the following contrast: "Your time at the company is up" is more threatening or at least more dismissive than "Your time at the company is over."
Similarly 'X's time is up' is a somewhat rude euphemism for the idea that somebody is about to die; you can even use it to make a threat ("Your time is up!"). That can't be done with over.
'Time is up' is used to show that the time allocated in carrying out an activity has ended and you should therefore stop and submit it wherelse the phrase 'Time is over' means that the long time allocated in carrying out an activity and submitting has ended thus the whole of the work/activity is rendered useless and of no significance.
i think time is up refer to the term "up" which means thoroughly.i.e the period of time is well expired .E.g i have to put an end to a class at five sharp so, i say to the students "time is up". whereas, the term over is refer to something more .so , time is over implies that a\some minutes are just added.


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Women deal with periods for such a significant part of their lives that you'd think they'd be experts on the subject, right? Wrong. Even after years of Aunt Flo's monthly visits, it's still difficult to know the difference between fact and some very ubiquitous myths.
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For example, is it true that you can't swim during your period, or that you should avoid sex? Or that you shouldn't relax your hair? Or exercise? Are you supposed to have a period every month? Can you get pregnant during your period? And what's a "normal" cycle?
"Many women are clueless about their menstrual cycles," says Joyce Weckl, NSM, a certified-nurse midwife with California HealthFirst Physicians in Camarillo, Calif. "But it makes sense. How many women sit around talking about the number of pads they soak through, or exactly how long their cycle lasts for each month?"
If you're curious about your cycle, here's the truth behind some of the most confusing myths.
1. Skipping a period means you're unhealthy.
Healthy women occasionally skip a month or two. That's because hormones don't fluctuate much in some women, says Mary Rosser, M.D., an ob-gyn with Montefiore Medical Center in New York City.
"You can go up to three months without having a period, and we're not concerned," she says.
Doctors, however, prefer premenopausal women have periods at least every three months to make sure the uterus is shedding its lining.
Hormonal birth control – for example, injectable Depo-Provera, the IUD Mirena or the pill Seasonale – is an exception to the three-month rule because the uterine lining is controlled by hormones, so there's often little or no build-up.
You also can stop periods with birth control pills by skipping the placebo week and starting the next pack immediately.
That safely eliminates withdrawal bleeding, Rosser says.
2. Food cravings are totally hormonal.
Does your period have you reaching for a Hershey's bar? You're not alone: About half of American women report craving chocolate, and about half of those say they crave it when their periods start.
Despite the anecdotal evidence, you can't blame cravings on pre-period hormone fluctuations, according to a 2009 University of Pennsylvania study published in the journal Appetite. When comparing menstruating and post-menopausal women, the researchers found a difference of only 13% in chocolate cravings.
That means even after menopause, many women still have chocolate cravings.
3. You can't get pregnant on your period.
You can get pregnant, but it's rare. Pregnancy occurs when you release an egg (ovulate) and that egg is fertilized by sperm. Normally, a period happens when the egg isn't fertilized, and you shed the lining of your uterus, along with the non-fertilized egg.
But sometimes you can menstruate without ovulation and ovulation can occur without a period. It's even possible to release an egg during your period, says Rosser.
You could get pregnant anytime until ovulation ends (and even then, you're not 100% safe without birth control)!
4. You shouldn't have sex during your period.
There's no reason to abstain from sex during menstruation, Rosser says. But use a condom during menstruation to guard against sexually transmitted diseases.
"Blood can (transmit) bacteria and sexually transmitted diseases," Rosser warns.
And to avoid staining the sheets, "use dark-colored sheets and towels," she says.


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Chihuly Drawing, Essay by Nathan Kernan. Seattle, WA, Portland
Chihuly Gardens & Glass, Essays by Barbara Rose, Lisa C.
Roberts, and Mark McDonnell. Seattle, WA, Portland Press.
Dale Chihuly Selected Works, Atlanta, Ga., Lowe Gallery.
Dale Chihuly, Monte-Carlo, Monaco, Marlborough Monaco.
Chihuly Marlborough Essay by Phyllis Tuchman. (New York, Marlborough
Chihuly at the V&A, Essays by Jennifer Hawkins Opie, Reino
Liefkes, and Dan Klein. Seattle, WA, Portland Press; London,
V&A Publications.
Chihuly Projects, By Dale Chihuly, essays by Barbara Rose, Dale
Lanzone. Seattle, WA, Portland Press; New York, Harry N. Abrams,
Inc. (distributor).
Chihuly Jerusalem 2000, Seattle, WA, Portland Press.
Chihuly's Pendletons, and their influence on his work,
Essays by Charles J. Lohrmann, Dale Chihuly. Seattle, WA, Portland
Press ; (Tucson, Ariz.), University of Arizona Press (distributor).
The Essential Dale Chihuly, Text by William Warmus. New York,
Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
Chihuly Atlantis, Seattle, WA, Portland Press.
Chihuly Bellagio, Seattle, WA, Portland Press.
Chihuly-Glass Master, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Hsinchu Municipal Cultural
Chihuly in the Light of Jerusalem 2000, Commentary by William
Warmus. Seattle, WA, Portland Press.
Chihuly Jerusalem Cylinders, Seattle, WA, Portland Press.
Chihuly Taos Pueblo, Introduction by Lloyd Kiva New. Seattle,
WA, Portland Press.
Chihuly. 2nd ed., rev. and expanded, Essay by Donald B. Kuspit
with an introd. by Jack Cowart. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc.;
Seattle, WA, Portland Press.
Icicles, the Icicle Creek Chandelier, Foreword by Harriet Bullett,
text by Wilfred R. Woods, Dale Chihuly. Seattle, WA, Portland
Chihuly, Essay by Donald B. Kuspit with an introd. by Jack Cowart.
New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc.; Seattle, WA, Portland Press.
Chihuly, the George R. Stroemple Collection, Essays by Donald
Kuspit, Kathryn Kanjo. Portland, Or., Portland Art Museum.
Dale Chihuly, With essays by Shigeru Ichihara, Dale Chihuly,
Tomas S. Buechner, Bryan Kei Ohno. Nagoya, Japan, Daiichi Museum.
Magic of Chihuly Glass, Essays by Patterson Sims, Oka Yasumasa,
Tsuchida Ruriko. (Osaka, Japan), Yomiuri Shimbun.
Chihuly Over Venice, Text by William Warmus, Dana Self. (Seattle,
WA), Portland Press.
Chihuly Persians, Essay by Tina Oldknow. Seattle, WA, Portland
Dale Chihuly, Thirty Years in Glass, 1966-1996, Text by Henry
Adams. Kansas City, MO, UMB Financial Corp.
Chihuly Over Venice, Nuutajärvi, Finland, Part 1, June
1995, Seattle, WA, Portland Press.
Chihuly Seaforms, Text by Sylvia Earle, Joan Seeman Robinson.
Seattle, WA, Portland Press.
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Seoul, Korea, The Gallery.
Angels & Saints, Dale Chihuly & Italo Scanga, Text by
Susan Duval. Aspen, CO, Susan Duval Gallery.
Chihuly Baskets, Essays by Linda Norden, Murray Morgan. Seattle,
WA, Portland Press.
Chihuly, Glass in Architecture, Essay by Sarah Bremser. Kaohsiung,
Taiwan, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts.
Chihuly, a Night at the Opera, Aspen, CO, Susan Duval Gallery.
Chihuly alla Macchia, from the George R. Stroemple Collection,
Essay by Robert Hobbs. Beaumont, Tex., Art Museum of Southeast
Chihuly, Form from Fire, Essays by Walter Darby Bannard, Henry
Geldzahler. Daytona Beach, Fla., Museum of Arts and Sciences;
(Seattle, WA), University of Washington Press.
Chihuly in Australia, Glass and Works on Paper, Essay by Geoffrey
Edwards. (Seattle, WA), Portland Press.
Dale Chihuly, Essay by Henry Geldzahler. Hong Kong, Plum Blossoms.
Dale Chihuly, Virtuose Spiele in Glas, Zurich, Sanske Galerie;
Sarnen, Switerland, Sarner Cristal.
Pelléas + Mélisande + Chihuly, Libretto by Claude
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WA), Seattle Opera in association with University of Washington
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Honolulu Academy of Arts.
Dale Chihuly, Glass, Essay by Henry Geldzahler. Taipei, Taiwan,
Taipei Fine Arts Museum.
Dale Chihuly, Installations, 1964-1992, Essay by Patterson Sims.
(Seattle, WA), Seattle Art Museum.
Dale Chihuly Niijima Floats, American Craft Museum, January
30, 1992-August 2, 1992, (New York), The Museum.
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Dale Chihuly, October 10-October 30, 1992, Farmington Hills,
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Essays by Karen S. Chambers, Helmut Ricke. Ebeltoft, Denmark,
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Hobbs. Bridgehampton, N.Y., Dia Art Foundation.
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essays by Dale Chihuly, Karen Chambers, Michael Monroe. Tokyo,
Kodansha International.
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Palais du Louvre, 5 décembre 1986 - 18 janvier 1987,
Essays by Henry Geldzahler, Robert Hobbs. (Paris), Le Musée.
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Bellevue, WA, Bellevue Art Museum.
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Day #306 - 60 days to make it to one year
Monday, April 29, 2013
That's like two months to make some adjustments and keep it moving forward. I know I can - because I've made it this far by faith, determination and plenty of self motivation and Spark Friends motivation.
I rested yesterday no exercising but I'll be back at it today. I'm feeling a little soreness in my thighs after my walking/wogging Friday and Saturday but that's a positive thing.
I'm starting my morning off pretty good as a co-worker asked me this morning if I was losing weight and then she quickly changed that to you're losing weight right?
Then she was like you're doing it by eating less, watching your portions huh? I was like yes and a lot of exercising. The funny thing is she had this ugly frowned up look on her face the entire time she was talking to me. I was thinking what's that all about...but it was like she was feeling pain as if she couldn't see herself exercising. Did I ever tell you all that this woman farted in my face one day? Yeah, she didn't know I was walking behind her or she thought I had turned off but even when she realized I was behind her she like smiled and kept going into the bathroom, while I'm in a fog wondering what the HEEEEYYYYY. Anywhoooo...I said to her even the littlest adjustments and 5 minutes more of movement helps you get closer to your goal. Yeah she's quite a bit overweight but...I try to encourage even though I know she talked about me like a dog to one of my friends (she didn't know we were friends at the time). But I hold no grudges and will encourage whomever I can.
My Pastor announced yesterday that on Tuesday nite he's going to be sharing with us and praying a special prayer for those that truly desire to lose weight. This road has been travelled so I'm not excited about it. I'm praying for guidance as to whether I want to get involved with it. Typically we have a group prayer for everyone that's committing to it. Then he'll tell you about what to eat and what we're going to do for "X" days. They'll talk about getting a scale and weighing in after church. That works for about a week and you never hear anything else about it. That's my problem with it. So I'm praying for guidance as to whether I should link up with this or keep doing me. I have no problem with the prayer but my focus is on being consistent and I don't want to start with ya'll and you're not going to do something to keep this going. Heck I'll even stand up and take the reigns if that means we're going to stick with it (I was asked before -but they just wanted to pick my brain but never let me lead or say anything) Come - on I need you as much as you're going to need my support!!!
Ya'll pray for me I try to hold my tongue a lot but you just don't know how many times this has been started by the person that knows very little about the journey but acts like they know a lot about ALL things. Help me Lord. I don't mine sharing the little wisdom I've gained through years of working through this, reading, blogging and sharing with my SparkFriends and just the knowledge that so many of you have shared here on Spark. Everyones journey is different ...Okay I'm about to vent again. Have a great day people.
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O my! I don't really know what to say about your co-worker. Encourage her if she needs it & listen when she wants to talk. Other than that, stay clear unless she wants advice or an exercise buddy! She seems like she might be trouble.
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I say continue to do what you need to do for you and cheer on their group from afar. As much as we want to encourage others, it can also be detrimental to our journey when other people don't live up to our expectations.
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Information about the herb Gravel Root
Eupatorium purpureum, also known as Gravelweed is part of the Compositae plant family. Gravel Root is indigenous to North America, growing in southern Canada
and from Maine to Florida and Texas.
Botanical Name: Eupatorium purpureum
Plant Family: Compositae
Common Names: Gravelweed, Joe-pye Weed, Jopi Weed, Kidney Root, Purple Boneset, Queen-of-the-Meadow Root, Trumpet Weed
History: The botanical name comes from Mithridates Eupator, King of Pontus, who is said to have used it medicinally.
The name Joe-pye Weed comes from a New England Indian named Joe Pye who became famous by curing typhus with 'Joe-pye weed'
Tradition: One American Indian tribe considered the plant to be useful as an aphrodisiac
Plant Constituents of Gravel root
Medicinal Parts Used: Fresh root, flowering herb
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Ole it's almost Cinco de Mayo when Mexicans celebrate their Independence Day which was achieved by the Mexican army's victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862. It is also a time, especially in Los Angeles when margaritas and shots of tequila flow freely during festivals and parties which often means crudas (hangovers).
If you're planning to tie one on in honor of the occasion this coming Monday, you need to stock up on Resqwater Anti-Hangover Drink. Amigos, it works. How do I know this? Well okay after having a little too much wine one night last week, waking up with a mondo headache, and having received samples from the couples I drank a bottle with my breakfast the next morning. I felt better almost immediately.
I went to the company's web site to find out how this miracle remedy works and it listed ingredients and their benefits:
- N-Acetal L-Cysteine--a non-essential amino acid, NAC that helps your liver convert something called acetaldehyde—a substance that is up to 30 times more damaging to your body than alcohol—into acetic acid, which is harmless to your body.
- Water—alcohol can act as a diuretic—meaning your body uses more water to process them than you're taking in. That's why water is the basis of RESQWATER, and eight ounces at that. The goal is to keep you from feeling the unpleasant side effects of dehydration—a very common result from drinking.
- Sucrose--the liver requires a lot of sugar to process drinks—particularly when you've tossed back a few. Consequently, if you don't replenish that sugar, you may feel the effects of hypoglycemia, which include things like feeling dizzy, disoriented, or slurring your speech.
- Prickly Pear Cactus Fruit Extract--Research has shown Prickly Pear extract to be helpful in terms of decreasing inflammation and thus—reducing some of the after-effects of drinking—such as, nausea, lack of appetite and dry mouth.
- Electrolytes—following many trips to the bathroom (we sure hope you make it to the bathroom) deplete your body of its electrolytes, which are needed to keep your muscular and nervous systems running at tip-top and to avoid dehydration.
- B Vitamins—the company developed a new appreciation of the B Vitamin group when it discovered that a number of scientific studies have shown that both B1 (Thiamin) and B6 ease the symptoms one experiences after having had a number of drinks.
- Milk Thistle--Thistles are a bear to milk, but well worth it. Milk thistle contains an active ingredient called silymarin which is both an anti-inflammatory and antioxidant. Experts believe milk thistle helps promote healthy liver function and even benefit livers that have been damaged by toxins.
Read more at: http://www.resqwater.com/how-it-works.html#sthash.y5hCg5UZ.dpuf.
Resqwater was created in 2007 in Scottsdale, Arizona, where Steve, a local businessman was enjoying a few belts with friends. The next morning Steve didn't feel so good having developed, what he called, "A Grand Canyon-sized hangover."
"Why does this happen," Steve asked no one in particular until he decided to do some research and learned that there were some substances and ingredients that the medical field uses to help the body combat the negative effects of alcohol, but there was not a beverage that formulated the ingredients together. He knew he was on to something, enlisted a chemist and after two years Resqwater was born at the Big Pour (a brew fest) in Scottsdale.
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AmeriCARna - Celebrating USA car culture in New Zealand.
This 140 page book contains a collection of photos from AmeriCARna car show events held in Taranaki, New Zealand between 2007 and 2012.
These events are run by car enthusiasts over several days with various activities and trips around the Taranaki region resulting in an enjoyable time for participants and spectators.
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All of a sudden, one of the worst shooting teams in America isn't, well, one of the worst shooting teams in America.
OK, so it's not exactly one of the best, but it's doing a pretty good imitation.
On Saturday here in front of a smallish crowd (announced as 5,192, but not) at Daniel-Meyer Arena, West Virginia shot 51.2 percent from the floor. It was no hot-streak fluke, either. The Mountaineers shot 52.6 percent in the first half and 50 in the second in beating TCU 63-50.
Full Article at: The Charleston Gazette
Also from The Charleston Gazette:
Raese wants 2nd look at WVU media deal
Morgantown businessman John Raese has asked West Virginia University President Jim Clements to reconsider plans to award a lucrative media rights contract to IMG College and West Virginia Media Holdings.
Raese, who has run unsuccessfully for West Virginia governor and the U.S. Senate, fired off a letter Friday afternoon to Clements and state Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, who recently set up a public-corruption unit.
"It's a state contract, and there are questions about it," said Bob Wynne, a lawyer for Raese-owned Greer Industries. "We believe the attorney general for the state of West Virginia should be informed."
Full Article at: The Charleston Gazette


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"How I got into doing Security for a living"
By davew on Nov 19, 2009
...or, if you want to put it another way, "Limited Confessions of a Security Geek".
It's been almost precisely a decade, now, since I found myself working in computer security.
I've been asked, on occasion, how I ended up doing what I do - after all, for the most part, security folk can be divided into two categories; those who started out trying to prove a point by doing things to expose inadequate practices (such as my pal Alec, who wrote Crack to expose standard 8-char Unix passwords for the insecure things they are), or my pal Darren, who came from a background of formal security training in terms of protective markings, etc, and now gives us civilians the benefit of his knowledge.
(There's also the crypto illuminati and general anomalies such as Whit, but it's to our misfortune that such folk surface so infrequently.)
I wonder whether security folk are made, or born. I note with considerable interest that a course on "thinking like a security geek" is now being taught at Washington Uni, and I was also pointed at an interesting article comparing the mindset of a security geek, to that of a mathematician skilled in formal analysis. It's also interesting to note that, of the many security folk I know, few took degrees in CompSci.
In my case, interest in security, followed from interest in networking. I may be showing my age by admitting to being a Micronet 800 subscriber, back in the early to mid '80s . My interest in communications was such that I got my first modem before I even got a floppy disk drive, for my BBC Micro - CommStar had to be modified on my behalf, to fix bugs associated with saving things to cassette tape - but once I realised that one computer could talk to another, it's wasn't long before I figured out that, where a computer had multiple levels of privilege on various accounts (hey, bear in mind that I was in my early teens, and back then and there wasn't such a thing as a remotely-affordable home computer with a time-sharing environment), then nefarious things could be done, to elevate one's privilege on the system at the other end of the 'phone. Of course, while I figured this out in theory, I was a good boy, really :-).
I didn't go hacking while at University - indeed, I was a sysadmin for the Computer Society's shared Unix box, for a while. Granted, I expect it was completely riddled with security holes and hope it has long since been removed from JANET, but it worked.
I first really got interested in security during my last couple of years in my first job at Acorn; if you remember Larry Ellison jumping up and down and getting hugely enthused about thin-client computing in the late '90s, it's a little-known fact that the Oracle Network Computer (abbreviated NC; the original post-dumb-terminal thin client) was a reference design from Acorn, based on an ARM 250 and running a cut-down and embedded RISC OS.
Guess who used to do a bunch of work on the demo-environment server end, where the servers were frequently Risc PCs running RiscBSD :-). In fact, pretty much the last thing I was doing before I was RIFfed, was working on securing NC-to-server communications.
However, I'll hold my hands up and say I'm sad to admit, that's actually the last occasion on which I did any Real Programming. After my days (5 and a half years, come to think of it) at Acorn, I haven't written any actual code. I can still readily go down to the level of designing and debugging state machines, but it's not the same.
After Acorn effectively imploded in the Autumn of 1998, I went through some doldrums and small-time contract work before being picked up by Sun, at the start of '99 - and Sun is where I've been, ever since.
I joined Sun as a general jobbing Project Engineer; after a bit of a learning curve, I was sent off doing Solaris installs, various builds and generally delivering standard services, etc, until I ended up on a gig at one of the UK national newspaper publishers, initially doing enterprise-wide Y2K patching. Their security was, frankly, appalling - some systems didn't even have root passwords, and others had root passwords known to almost the entire IT element of the organisation, and these passwords were which were never changed. It's the latter case, which nearly cost them their business.
Once I'd done all the patching - involving being in their offices at very strange hours and often at weekends, owing to the downtimes they were able to schedule for their systems (the Sunday editions have to come out, after all) - I basically became recognised as "a face in the office of the internal IT group", and started to overhear all sorts of discussions around security. When the Sun project manager was replaced, for political reasons (the replacement, Kevin, became and remains a very good pal of mine), the security agenda was escalated so Kevin had visibility of it; so, a contractor was hired in to develop a security strategy and policy, for the enterprise.
After a few weeks, the contractor submitted a draft security policy. I asked to see it, and saw it for the pile of cut-and-paste crap that it was. I told Kevin that I could give him something better by close of business that Friday, and at 16:50 on the Friday, I hit "Send" on my mail client.
Kevin, bless him, agreed I'd done a better job, got rid of the consultant, and took me on as a security proto-geek. Fundamentally, that's why I'm where I am, today.
However, much more amusement was to come.
The customer's senior management, decided that they liked the new security strategy and wanted it implemented. So, this being in the days before
JASS the Solaris Security Toolkit (SST), system hardening was done to a manual - and time-consuming - script that I'd written.
About halfway through configuration roll-out, we found that a sysadmin in the Output Services group, had resigned under "something of a cloud" when he was advised that his shift patterns were being changed to something that he considered unreasonable. He had subsequently approached a rival newspaper, with his knowledge of operating practices and access controls, and offered to disable the systems of his former employer, such that there would not be any January 1st, 2000 editions of any of their newspapers.
(A note to my readers; UK newspapers operate on extremely tight financial margins, which are governeed by their advertising revenue. In the event that a paper does not hit the news stand before or at the same time at its rivals, the contractual clauses with the advertisers are really punitive. For a group which produces several titles, a day's outage on all their titles could result in financial damages so huge, that the enterprise is effectively taken to the cleaner's.)
So, our Bad Guy (let's call him Fred, as it's not his name) was basically handing his former employer's competitor, a bankruptcy of their primary rival, on a plate.
Fortunately, newspaper editors do have some integrity. Our Man at the rival publication, notified the police.
The first I knew about any of this, was when I and the on-site Sun Technical Project Manager were summoned to the IT Director's office.
We were sworn to secrecy (even from our own Project Manager), and introduced to a couple of extremely cool gentlemen (a Detective Sergeant and Detective Inspector, respectively) from the local police force's High Tech Crime Unit.
Kevin was, therefore, shut out of everything which was going on, for a fortnight; we were still being paid for, but he couldn't know what we were doing. I consider it a measure of his character, that he trusted us to get on with the job in hand.
Forensics gigs (and I've done a few, but don't need to use more than one hand's worth of fingers to count them, even now), tend to run one of two ways; the customer either wishes to mitigate the risk of someone compromising their systems by the same attack, or they want to find the perpetrator and nail them to the fullest extent of the law.
The newspaper firm in question, wanted to do both. Usually this is next to impossible, but we had the extreme luxury of already knowing who our Bad Guy was. So, what we needed to do, was protect the systems he had access to, as best we could, and encourage him to make another attack, so we could find out where he was entering the network from and gather evidence.
Fortunately, Fred was a known entity; it was definitely known which systems he had root access to, and fortunately, these were environments which only processed transient data. For folk outside the newspaper industry, Fred had worked in Output Services; the function of this unit is to take the fully-formatted pages which emerge from Editorial, and work a little magic on them. Specifically, Output Services is where medium-resolution images, as manipulated in Editorial, are substituted for the high-resolution images from Image Services; also, it's where page pairing takes place. "Page pairing" is the process by which 4 newspaper pages are put together into a double-sided sheet a little more than twice the width of an editorially-output page; this dictates what the printers print, and also adorns the pages with the day's date and the page numbers.
So, we set about our forensics gig. We knew Fred wasn't the sharpest tool in the box, but we knew he still potentially had root access to systems vital to next-day publication. So, we got radical. As the systems Fred potentially had root access to, were both resilient system-wise - there being multiple boxes configured as failovers, to do the same job - and had mirrored disk arrays, we removed a layer of resilience by breaking the disk mirrors and offlining one set of disk arrays; even if Fred decided to do an "rm -rf /" on a system, we could potentially have it back up in the next 5 minutes and ready to receive data, in a manner which would only adversely affect data flow for less than half an hour, and would most likely confound Fred's efforts.
We couldn't apply any obvious security lock-down to the systems Fred had access to, though, as it was reckoned that he would run rampant and destroy any systems he might have access to, before we could shut him out of them, if he saw any obvious modifications. Talk about playing cat and mouse... Next, the team (comprising Muggins here, Ray the Sun Technical Project Manager, the customer's Head of Networking, the contact point for a particularly important networking application, and our two new friends from the Police) identified network segments that Fred might attack our environment through, and posted network sniffers (interesting boxes from Dolch) on them, to detect any anomalous connections.
We were also very fortunate to be able to persuade the editor of the rival paper, to contact Fred and ask for proof of his hacking capability. This seriously brave guy wore a wire, and recorded his conversation with Fred; the challenge was for Fred to hack the page pairer systems such that on a particular day, and on a particular page, "Thursday" would be changed to "Thrusday", and that would be the evidence that Fred could do what he liked, with Output Services.
The page was hacked, the change was made. The readers didn't notice.
We did, though :-).
It turned out, that Fred had got a new job with the maintainers of the newspaper printers. Now, I don't know how many of my readers, have seen a newspaper printer in action; they're pretty impressive beasts, standing up to 3 storeys high, constructed out of skyscraper-style steel I-beams and running paper at significant width, tension and velocity. Anyway, Fred had joined a firm which manufactured and maintained these beasts, and was using the dial-home fault alert line, to dial-in to the printer and hence bridge out to the enterprise IP network.
We spotted the traffic to the page pairers, once we had Output Services ring-fenced with Dolch boxes.
We had everything in Output Services not only set up for short-term service resumption in the event of system destruction, but had logging seriously cranked-up to detect Fred attempting access.
We also had an out-of-band channel detecting differences between pages submitted by Editorial and pages as paired, but that's a little bit of a trade secret, as to how we did it :-).
Anyway, Fred spent 18 months being housed by Her Majesty (for readers outside the UK, this is a euphemism for a prison sentence).
So, that's how I properly got into security. It's so interesting, I've wanted to stay there there ever since. I've pretty much succeeded, in doing so, too.


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Ruben Sanchez: Religion Clause recently informed us of a court ruling that states that the United Postal Service (USPS) does not need to accommodate a Seventh Day Adventist employee's request to have every Saturday off. The 8th Circuit held that if Saturday leave were granted, such a demand, made under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, would impose an undue hardship on the company, violate its collective bargaining agreement, or challenge its seniority system. Finally, since USPS is an independent government agency and not a branch of the Federal Government, the court stated that Title VII does not apply to this case, since it is "the exclusive remedy for a federal employee's claim of employment discrimination."
According to the resolution, the now-former USPS worker requested in 2006 a "religious accommodation to have every Saturday off because working at any time between sundown Friday to sundown Saturday conflicted with his religious beliefs as a Seventh-day Adventist." In 2007, he was offered a part-time leave on Saturdays to be able to attend church, a proposition he rejected.
Leaving aside any legal or moral precedent regarding who is right or wrong, this case is an opportunity to think about sacredness. We usually think of sacred objects, texts and places such as temples. These are things we can possess, trade, inhabit and, most of all, build rituals around. We decide when to deal with them and therefore, we can accommodate them to our daily busy schedule according to our needs and priorities. In these ways, time is subject to whatever is sacred.
Adventists and Jews, at least, have another dimension of sacredness, however. It is time. Time is that thing we cannot possess but measure, we cannot trade but organize, we cannot inhabit but which we just live in. And, last but not least, the rituals we build around time only make sense when the time says it is the right time.
Saturday, or Sabbath, is a sacred space in time for such believers. Which is why it would not make sense to an Adventist or a Jew employed by any company to be given just the time to go to the church and/or synagogue and come back to work. It is not the place nor the act of worshipping only that are sacred. It is not a ritual of doing–going to a place to adore–that is sacred because doing is possible every day. Accordingly it is not a person's decision when to make a ritual. It is a ritual deciding when to make a person.
For the Adventist USPS employee in this case, his demand was nothing more than a request to remember every week that, before being a worker, he was and remains a person. Therefore, by not accommodating his request, USPS did not fire a worker but discriminate against a person.
In other words and according to this case, federal law gives us the freedom to pick any religion so long as it does not mess with our boss' business.


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Oct. 11, 2013
The Crimson Tide trail tournament leader Vanderbilt by 16 shots after the Commodores posted a 3-under-par 285 while third-ranked Duke is one shot back at 2-under 286. Auburn is in third place after a 3-over-par round of 291 with Mississippi and Oklahoma tied for fourth at 4-over 292.
Sophomore Emma Talley paced the Alabama attack with a 1-under-par 71 and is tied for 10th entering Saturday's second round. The Tide started their round on the back nine and Talley made the turn at 3-under after making birdie on the 12th, 13th and 17th holes. She carded eight pars on her second nine but made double-bogey seven on the par-5 sixth.
Senior Stephanie Meadow shot 2-over 74 and is tied for 36th. She was 2-over at the turn before making birdie on the sixth. Redshirt freshman Cammie Gray carded a 4-over 76 and tied for 58th. Senior Hannah Collier and sophomore transfer Janie Jackson both tied for 72nd after 6-over-par rounds of 78.
The Tide will be paired with South Carolina and Michigan State during Saturday's second round. Jackson will be the first Alabama player off the 10th tee at 9:03 a.m. (CDT).
Follow live stats at Birdiefire.com and get all the latest information on the team by following @AlabamaWGolf, on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. General athletic news can also be found at UA_Athletics on Twitter and Instagram and AlabamaAthletics on Facebook.


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Why Don't We Pay Attention to Women in the Kitchen?
It's sexism. There, we said it.
"I see women working in restaurants all over the city," the outspoken chef Amanda Cohen writes in reaction to this week's dude-centric James Beard Awards. "So why aren't they winning awards and being celebrated by the press?" There are, as she notes, two possibilities that explain the lack of the feminine in the culinary A-list: There's the "women can't cook" conclusion. And then there's the other possibility, the one Cohen won't even name: Could it be that the world of high-end cuisine is sexist?
As Cohen — not to mention any number of thoughtful, well-reasoned articles on the subject — points out, there's a sore disparity between the number of women running kitchens, and the number of women receiving acknowledgment for same. (Nominal efforts to address the achievement gap, like last year's Barbie-hued "Women in Food" James Beard Awards, don't exactly help.) Flat-out sexism is almost never directly addressed in these articles, and so it is that the conversation tends to come back to wondering what it is that's wrong with women, rather than what it is that's wrong with the system. There's the "women cook to nurture, men cook to win" line; the insistence that a cooks' hard-living lifestyle doesn't jive with the family oriented preferences of the weaker sex; and our favorite, the frankly ridiculous notion that girls just don't like to play with fire and knives as much as boys do.
But of course, women can play with fire, and they do it brilliantly. Chefs like Cohen — not to mention folks like April Bloomfield, Gabrielle Hamilton, or brand-new Beard Award winner Koren Grieveson — poke all kinds of holes in these theories; they're as talented, badass, nuanced, tireless, and innovative as any men cooking today. And yet Cohen and Hamilton, who work independently, are largely missing from the breathless media coverage of all things food-related, and Bloomfield and Grieveson, who have managed to crack into the club, both cook under the aegis of men. Ken Friedman and Paul Kahan are emeritus members of the culinary boys' club if anyone is, and their long shadows hang over their protégés' successes.
The more a chef is written about, the more likely he is to win awards, and vice versa — so being excluded from the media-awards continuum hits female chefs coming and going. "Why would an investor back a female chef in a restaurant?" asks Cohen. "He knows that she won't get the hype and attention a male chef will get." Hype seems to be the key here, not talent: Women just don't seem to come by it as easily as men do. That points to there being an outside bias, not an inherent problem; it's a systemwide failure of inclusion. If Bloomfield, Grieveson, Hamilton, or Cohen were given the kind of attention (and subsequent funding, and subsequent more attention) lavished on young turks like Nate Appleman or David Chang, they could easily achieve comparable rock-star status. Even better, it would be without being ghettoized as "women chefs."
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