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At the end of Dead to the World Sookie agrees not to reveal to the police that Felton had been holding Jason hostage in exchange for Calvin's assurance that he would receive Hot Shot style justice. Felton is never heard from again, and Sookie has no doubt and no regret about what happened to him. Supes have to police their own. The human justice system wasn't designed to accommodate full moon shifting, blood drinking (pre-Great Revelation), or spell casting, for that matter.
Sookie and Jason had to come up with a story to explain Jason's disappearance to Andy and Alcee Beck. They decided the less information Jason gave, the better. As a result, both Eric and Jason returned home on the same day claiming they couldn't remember where they had been or what had been done to them. To counter Jason's innate desire to spin a good yarn, Sookie remained present in the police interview and sent silent warnings to him whenever he strayed from the rehearsed story.
The story Pam and Chow told Sookie about how Eric ended up without his memory was just as carefully edited and rehearsed. She says, "Several nights ago, we heard–at Fangtasia that a group of witches had arrived in Shreveport." When Sookie asks why they came to town, Pam responds, "They wanted–they want– to take over Eric's businesses. Witches want money as well as anyone, and they figure they can either take over the business, or make Eric pay to leave them alone."
Chow took up the story to explain the terms Hallow offered. At first she demanded half of the business but after meeting Eric, she decided to settle for a fifth, if Eric would "entertain" her for seven nights. Sookie has enough sense to realize Chow's story doesn't add up and presses him to admit that Hallow's curse only kicked in when he attacked her messenger.
Over the course of the novel, three times Sookie wonders if she's getting the whole story. She eventually, and erroneously, decides that Hallow must also intend to sell Eric's blood, which would fetch another $40,o00. Neither Pam's story nor Sookie's reasoning fully explain Hallow's motivation. If it was money she wanted, she'd be praying on wealthy humans or at the very least, weaker targets than the vampire sheriff of Area 5. Selling Eric's blood cannot be the cherry on the cake Sookie thinks it is since Eric's cash value is minuscule compared to a fifth of his profits, which require him to be alive and productive. Hallow's reduced offer to take a fifth instead of half indicates that, despite what Pam said, she is not motivated by money.
Hallow wants to get her hands on Eric, and it's not just for sex. Sookie discovered her real motivation without realizing it when she was on reconnaissance counting brain patterns before the Witch War began. One of the thoughts she read was, "I want him dead." Sookie was inside Hallow's head, reading her thoughts. Hallow doesn't want money, blood, or sex. She wants Eric dead. This is the only thing that fully explains why Hallow came to Shreveport and her single minded pursuit that even Sookie recognized as excessive.
The first clue about what is really going on between the Stonebrooks and the vampires is when Pam leaves the address of the nest she shares with Chow and Clancy on Sookie's answering machine, 714 Parchman Avenue. There is no such street in Shreveport, but there is a Parchman Road in Sunflower County, Mississsippi. In fact, there are numerous Parchman Roads in Sunflower County. (Have I mentioned that sunflowers are a bad omen in True Blood?)
Apparently every road on the 18,000 acre Parchman Farm uses that name followed by a number. And what would Pam's nest have to a farm in Mississippi? Well, Parchman Farm is no more just a farm than Pam's house is an ordinary suburban ranch. It is the oldest prison in Mississippi. Originally built at the turn of the century to operate as a plantation penitentiary for young black men, over the decades it became the main prison in the state and the hub of the Mississippi prison system.
Referred to by William Faulker as 'destination doom,' Parchman is synonymous with brutality and looms large in the artistic imagination of southern musicians and writers. In O Brother, Where Art Thou? Parchman is the prison Everett Ulysses McGill and his companions escape from. Many Freedom Riders were housed at Parchman Farm, and Elvis's father spent time there for check forgery in association with the sale of a pig.
Since the residents of Sunflower County didn't want their home to be thought of as the death county of Mississipppi, executions were carried out in the county of conviction until the 1950s when a gas chamber was installed at Parchman. It was eventually replaced with an electric chair, which gave way as the means of execution in the 1980s to lethal injection. Edward Earl Johnson was executed at Parchman for the rape of an elderly woman and the murder of the police officer who answered her distress call. There are serious questions about his guilt and the investigation and prosecution of his case. It is curious that three True Blood characters share his names, especially since they were all created to be killed, without being killers themselves. Eddie was staked by Amy in season 1. Johnson was killed because Eric lost control of his temper, and Earl will be killed to save someone's life.
In Dead to the World, after the Witch War when Sookie asks Pam why Hallow picked Shreveport, her answer is an enigmatic, "I'm going to find out." Of course she is also going to 'persuade' Hallow to remove the curse on Eric and restore his memory. Pam set fire to Hallow's bakery and flower shop immediately after the battle, so where exactly was Hallow 'worked on' til near dawn? The answer is that Pam took Hallow home to Parchman. The allusion to the nightmarish Mississippi prison reveals the location of Book Eric's Dungeon of Doom. Pam, Chow, and Clancy are not just nest mates. They are the Area 5 prison guards…and more.
Book Eric is famous for telling Sookie that he may not reveal everything, but he always tells her the truth. Listen to what he has to say about Hallow's motivation when he pays a final visit to Sookie at the end of the novel.
Her parents were jailed in Shreveport. They were witches, too, but they also ran confidence games of some kind, using their craft to make their victims more convinced of their sincerity. In Shreveport their luck ran out. The supernatural community refused to make any effort to get the older Stonebrooks out of jail. The woman ran afoul of a voodoo priestess while she was incarcerated, and the man ran afoul of a knife in some bathroom brawl.
Eric is not speaking about the human prison. Despite the supernatural community's aversion to the Stonebrooks, they would have been obligated to keep them out of the human system and punish them some other way, like the werepanthers in Hot Shot. Hallow targeted Eric and wanted him dead because of what happened to her parents in the Dungeon of Doom, a.k.a. Pam's Place. The elder Stonebrooks were incarcerated there by the sheriff of Area 5, and that's where they died. Hallow was after vengeance, not money or sex.
In Part I of this series exploring The Merchant of Venice, the focus was on the tragedy of Shylock. Before going further, a synopsis of the plot is called for.
Bassanio, a charming party boy down on his luck, seeks to fill his coffers through marriage to the beautiful and learned Portia. As luck would have it, he also appears to love her, and she him.
Portia is an heiress who lives at her ancestral home, Belmont (Beautiful Mountain). She is honor bound to a promise she made to her father before he died. Any who wish to marry her must submit to a test. When presented with a gold, a silver, and a lead casket, the man who wins Portia's hand and her fortune must choose the correct one.
Bassanio needs cash to finance his courtship of Portia. He turns to his dear friend, the merchant Antonio, for a loan, but all of Antonio's ships are at sea, which means he is strapped for cash. Antonio tells Bassanio that if someone else will give him the loan, Antonino will guarantee it. This is where Shylock, the moneylender comes in. Although there is a history of animosity between him and Antonio, Shylock gives Bassanio the loan. If it is not repaid, the forfeit is a pound of Antonio's flesh.
Bassanio takes the money and sets off for Belmont. He chooses the right casket and marries Portia; all is well. However, soon he gets word that Antonio's ships are feared lost at sea and that he won't be able to repay Bassanio's loan. When Portia learns that her husband's loan may cause the death of his friend, she immediately sends Bassanio with money to repay the loan twice over.
Because the due date is past, Shylock refuses repayment of the loan; he wants Antonio's flesh. The civil law court is assembled to see the terms of the contract are carried out. When it looks like there is nothing that the justice system can do to save Antonio's life, into the courtroom enters a brilliant young doctor of law who manages to save Antonio's life because of a loophole in the law. This legal hero is actually Portia in disguise. In addition to saving Antonio, she ruins Shylock, and cons Bassanio before heading home. As Shylock comes to terms with the ramifications of the trial in Venice, Portia, Bassanio, Antonio, and their friends reunite and celebrate at Belmont.
Antonio, may be the protagonist of the play and Shylock the antagonist, but the the play from start to finish is really about Portia, the determined, daring heiress who is paradoxically also a dutiful daughter.
So, how does Portia relate to Sookie's story? For Charlaine Harris to give her female lawyer this iconic name is no mere coincidence. Before the days when women made up more than half of the law school class, Portia was closely identified with female lawyers, so much so that the New England School of Law, which began in 1908 as a law school for women, was orignially named the Portia Law School.
Portia Bellefluer is Charlaine Harris's homage to Shakespeare's Portia. The aristocratic lady lawyer continues to live at her ancestral home, Belle Reve (Beautiful River), even after she marries. Like her namesake, Portia Bellefleur proved that she would do just about anything to keep her loved ones safe. She was even willing (gasp) to go undercover as a fangbanger and date Bill in an attempt to clear Andy of Lafayette's murder.
There is an allusion to the original Portia in the first season of True Blood, too. Portia was a learned lady who had read the law on her own. In fact, she knew it so well that she was able to successfully impersonate a legal scholar and win her first and only legal case.
Rutina Wesley's Tara is a smart, action oriented, strong woman who inexplicably loves Jason, a hedonist, not unlike Bassanio, who spends his free time drinking beer and chasing women. When the sheriff's department brings Jason in for questioning during a murder investigation, Tara follows in Portia's footsteps and marches into the station to confront the indifferent legal system and make sure that the man she loves doesn't become a victim of the system.
Tara: Sheriff Dearborn. Andy. I hear you guys brought Jason in.
Andy: So?
Tara: You charging him with anything?
Bud: Not yet, no.
Andy: Asking him some questions.
Tara: I assume he's been properly Mirandized then.
Tara: Please tell me you have informed him that he has a right to have an attorney present.
Andy: Maybe. Doesn't matter though cause he's got you here now. (Andy chuckles.)
Tara: Is that funny because I'm a woman or because I'm a black woman?
Andy: I thought it was funny, you know, cuz you talk like a lawyer but you ain't one.
Bud: How do you know all this anyway? You been taking night classes?
Tara: School is for white people looking for other white people to read to them. I figure I'd save my money and read to myself.
Jason comes out of the restroom.
Jason: Tara
Tara: I'm getting you out of here.
Andy: Like hell you are.
Tara: You charging him with anything?
Bud: She's right. We can't hold him.
To highlight the parallel between Tara and Portia, Andy cracks a joke about Tara playing the part of a lawyer. To paraphrase Andy, she talks like a lawyer even though she isn't one, like Portia.
That brings us back to the Portia who really is a lawyer. Women in the legal profession may have come a long way, but Portia Bellefleur is no more than an empty shell of the original Portia. Not even Tara has the impact or importance in True Blood that Portia does in Merchant of Venice. Her presence is felt from the beginning to the end. She is the woman whose material wealth attracts a swarm of suitors, but who is also loved in her own right. She is the woman who gets drawn into the petty machinations going on in Venice because of the man she loves and leaves her beloved home to rescue him and his friend. She is the woman who has to take matters into her own hands because of an ineffectual justice system.
By now it should be clear that the real Portia is Sookie. She's the one with a plethora of suitors, most of who are also not above using her material wealth, her telepathy (and blood), for their own purposes. After her disastrous relationship with Bill, she is the one who is careful to test her suitors before giving her heart away. She is the one who usually has to leave her beloved home because of political workings that she has no interest in. She is the one who saves not only those she loves but their associates, too. She is the one who finds true love with the most unlikely candidate.
Notice the impotent judges (officers of the court) sitting idly in the background as a man is about to be killed in front of them. (And that Antonio's chair is a hybrid of Eric's s1 and s3 thrones.)
Compare them to Renard Parish's impotent officers of the law.
They are the reason Portia and Sookie have to take matters into their own hands.Part III, 'Jessica, Shylock's Daughter'
Be sure to read Sookieverse Blog's review of Dead in the Family before proceeding with this post.
Sookieverse blog is doing some great analysis exploring how Charlaine Harris characterizes Bill and Eric's love making and the significance of red to Eric.
Both of these issues relate to the alchemy that underlies Sookie's character development and to the Christian allegory at the core of the series.
Alchemically Bill and Eric symbolize the warring couple, the chemicals sulphur (passionate, explosive, unpredictable, and willful) and mercury (dual natured, accommodating, passive, and wise). The characteristics associated with these metals are reflected in the way Bill and Eric interact with Sookie, even sexually. Since Eric is the vampire who takes Sookie from the white purified state to the red enlightened one, red is always associated with Eric. Alternately Bill is connected with darkness and the colors brown and black that characterize the nigredo stage of death and decomposition.
Allegorically since Eric is the Christ figure in the series, the color red is linked with him because of its association with both passion and blood.
Sookieverse points out that the only real color associated with Bill is the blue of the topaz earring that he gives to Sookie. Like everything else about Bill, this too is deceptive since topaz is not naturally blue. Blue topaz jewelry is actually made from pale yellow or gray topaz that has been irradiated, a fitting symbol of Bill's fake persona. As the allegorical snake in the Garden of Eden who seduced the virgin, Bill is a master of disguise and an expert at deception.
The Sookie Stackhouse series is structured on an alchemical spiral similar to the Harry Potter novels. With each novel, Sookie completes the alchemical process by going through each stage: nigredo, albedo, and rubedo. This process transforms Sookie, ensuring that she is ready to successfully meet her next challenge in the upcoming book.
The alchemical journey to enlightenment begins with the black nigredostage. This is related to death and decomposition; it is the hot and dry phase. Sookie, as the prima materia, is psychologically broken down and goes through a spiritual and symbolic death. The nigredo stage in Dead Until Dark begins with Dawn Green's death, the murder of light and life and the first murder to touch Sookie personally. From this point, the dark imagery and bodies start piling up, culminating with the murder of the four vampires and fangbanger in a fire. That conflagration marks the end of the nigredo stage.
The soggy remains of the fire the morning after indicate the beginning of the albedo stage. This stage is marked by the color white, cleansing, water, wetness, clear vision, focus, and determination. In this stage the prima materia is useful in creating silver.
Sookie believes that Bill is the unidentified vampire in Malcolm, Diane, and Liam's nest. To give her something constructive to do, Sam insists that he and Sookie clean all the blinds, drapes, and windows in her house. Not only does this refer to the washing component of the albedo, it also points to Sookie's ability in to see more clearly from now on. Sam makes a point to find the ammonia to begin the process because it was one of the chemicals used by medieval alchemists.
Later that night when Sookie spots Bill's white arm coming out of the dark ground in the rain, the imagery is of the Pheonix rising to new life from the ashes. As they make love in the cemetery in the rain (the scent associated with the albedo), the imagery recalls that used by the classical Greeks to describe sex and fertility, the life giving rain falling on a newly plowed field. Sookie reinforces this when she describes herself being plowed into the mud by Bill. This sex between Bill and Sookie is life giving. He was dead but now is alive and brings her back to spiritual life. From this stage, Sookie is focused and knows how important Bill is to her.Her doubts are over, and she is totally committed to their relationship.
The white dress Sookie wears to Fangtasia is also representative of this stage. When Sookie tries to identify who has been embezzling Eric's money, for the first time, she is able to use her gift in a productive way. This gives her the confidence to later use it to help identify the killer. This usefulness relates to the albedo stage being the first one that creates something of value, silver. The albedo stage must also include an affirmation of life after a near death encounter. This occurs when Eric stakes Long Shadow and saves Sookie's life.
The rubedo stage occurs when what has been hidden is revealed and the alchemical marriage of opposites is seen. Short skinny white Kevin and tall meaty black Kenya waiting in Sookie's hospital room provide the symbolic alchemical marriage. When Sookie regains consciousness after her battle with Rene, Kevin and Kenya reveal the truth of the killings and fill in the gaps in the narrative. There is also a budding alchemical romance between the widowed Dr. Sonntag and dumb as a stump J.B. du Rone. The flower arrangement that Sookie receives from Eric are also an indication of the rubedo stage. Not only is the central flower red, but the rubedo is associated with the scent of flowers.
Dead Until Dark ends with an appearance by the three characters who symbolize the three stages of the alchemical drama. Bill represents death and the nigredo stage. Eric represents eternal life as her savior and enlightenment for teaching Sookie that telephathy is a tool she can use to help others. The rubedo stage is symbolized by Sam, with his ruddy complexion and strawberry blond hair and the revelation of his true nature as a shifter. He is the red Sun King who will eventually unite with Sookie's Moon Queen.
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Sam and, in later books, other shifters and weres are used to mark the rubedo stage, but after DITF, I no longer believe that Sam is the Red King. DITF is the first novel in the overarching rubido phase. Sam's golden red halo is shorn, and it is becoming increasingly clear that CH has switched the warring couple. Sookie is the Sun Queen and Eric is the Moon King who must resolved their differences and unite in the perfect marriage of opposites.
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1. Short for "point of view". Commonly referred too as a category of porn that specialized in first person point of view.
My favorite type of porn is POV, its so in your face and intense. I like when the male records himself receive oral POV sex.
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SpinCycle has had some very fetching Tees made featuring a laser-cut fabric stencil of the logo on the front, and the full logo on the back. They are currently only available in black with the design in white on 100% medium weight cotton tee. Sizes available are Small, Med, Large, XL amd XXL by request and the price is a paltry £15 plus a pound towards postage and packaging for UK only. To order one you can contact me via the contact form on this site, message me on facebook or email me directly firstname.lastname@example.com.
I know it's a while in advance but we already know what a great time we're gonna have at UMF 2013! The festival will be in a beautiful and secluded part of the Surrey or Sussex countryside, and will be fully licensed. It will feature an outdoor stage, several big-top main stages and a SpinCycle afterparty and Chill-out tent. Much more detail is in the pipeline including an awesome lineup so please keep an eye on the shiny new website for the Festival by clicking the artwork above, and make sure you've got the dates free in your diary.SpinCycle reaches 700 members FREE MIX to Download
It's hard to believe that we only started SpinCycle just over a year ago with just 32 friends as members. Now a year or so later we have 700 people joined up in our little Facebook community, and more coming out to party with the rig. As a thankyou here's a mix of stuff from the random folder, expect some house, breaks and whatnot. Click the artwork below to go get the download.DjTAB Mix Chillin' in a Field
I'll have to take this down soon as it's taking up quite a lot of space on this site. It's a two and a half hour wander through some chilled, eclectic vibes from last years Underground Music festival in Horsham. Right click and save as on the artwork below for the mix, and under it is a link to the full artwork with tracklist. UMF 2013 is scheduled for 13th to 16th of September, and will be in the Surrey or Sussex area. SpinCycle will be there, you should come.Right click and Save as to Download CD Sleeve Artwork
We've built 4k of Sub-bass cabinets loaded with Void V-18 drivers, and coupled with an oldskool Crown MA5002vz amplifier the new and improved rig really has to be heard to be believed! Keep an eye on this page for details of our upcoming ventures out and about with the rig. For the inner geek, or anyone else who is interested in building speakers click the picture below to visit my speaker geekery gallery on Facebook.
The show on interFACE radio is back on your internetz on Sunday evenings from 5pm to 8pm GMT. Hosted by a rota of underground party dj's the shows will be diverse, and feature lots of great music. The current rota is posted below.
Thanks to all the people who help organise and come to our parties, all those who tune into interFACE or who download the mixes we put up. This isn't about money, (although a little would be nice!) it's about doing something you love doing. It's really cool to know there are people listening and enjoying what you do!
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Kilburn Pub Jukebox circa 1978.
The drummer in my brothers band gave me a manky stack of 7's a few years back. They had been liberated from a jukebox in a pub in Kilburn, London around 1978. These are some of the ones in a playable condition, there are still a few scratches though! This is less of a mix, more a selection of tunes that needed recording before they got into a worse condition, although I'm impressed that after several owners and thirty odd years they play at all...! So stick it on and get skankin'...!
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The Hammock Mix. This is the second HouseBreakin' Mix. The brief set by Tendril was a selection of your favourite tunes to lie in a hammock on some tropical shore watching the sun set. I decided on a selection of old classics from a good few years back which is probably a bit upbeat for lying in a hammock! It's a good mix though sure to keep your toes tapping!
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City Lights is a mix of some of my favourite House tunes from the last few years. I wanted the mix to have the feel of a night out in the city so get yourself out there throwing some shapes.
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Deviant is a dark and moody mix inspired by some of the more interesting aspects of human interaction. The mix fuses Dubstep, Techno, House and Breaks to create a world of contrast and paradox that you may or may not like! So would you care to slip into something less comfortable?
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Vestax Blisters is a right old mish-mash of the old and new, to achieve some of the mixes some serious pitch control abuse had to be undertaken in order to shoe-horn the tunes together! It's another dark selection that includes some lighter moments incuding a silly mash-up of The Sabres of Paradise's classic Wilmot.
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80's Mixtape. Well some of the best new tunes are re-edits and mash-ups of classic old tunes. This is a silly, cheese-ridden bit of fun I did a few years back that will have you wanting to get your flourescent leg-warmers and global-hypercolour t-shirts on. Hitman and Her anyone?
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Crystalline. A truly stonkin' selection of phat nu-skool breaks, and very much a HouseBreakin' style mix. This really does keep on rockin' right the way to the end, and should definitely be on your personal music device!
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As soon as you walk in, you're not sure if you're in downtown Toronto anymore. The place has a distinctly chill vibe and we're not sure if it's just the dimly lit interior, birch tables, or the friendly staff but it feels natural to make yourself at home in the cozy restaurant.
|Deep Fried Freshly Grated Squash Fritters ($7)
|Crispy Shrimp Chips with Tamarind Dip ($4)
|Crispy Fish with Homemade Sweet & Tangy Tamarind Reduction ($8)
For our mains, we got the Crispy Fish with Homemade Sweet & Tangy Tamarind Reduction ($8), Grilled Chicken Wings with Sabai Sabai House Marinade ($7), and the Grilled Northern Thai Pork Skewers with Spicy Nam Chip Dip ($8). We only wish the dishes were as big as their names. Each serving was minuscule and unfairly addictive so that you either end up ordering a ridiculous quantity of dishes or staring longingly at your empty plate(s).
|Grilled Chicken Wings, Sabai Sabai House Marinade ($7)
The sweet and tangy sauce complemented the crispy fish perfectly and the Sabai Sabai house marinade was a match made in heaven for the grilled chicken wings. The skewers were flawlessly grilled, each bite was blissfully succulent, and of course, the Spicy Nam Chip Dip was basically its soulmate. It's clear this place knows what they're doing when it comes to sauces.
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Use dull in a sentence
- His blue eyes, which usually sparkled so brightly, now looked dull and bleared, and there were white spots on his copper-coloured cheeks. [10]
- Ten steps away was a little wickiup, a dim and formless shelter of rags and old horse-blankets, a dull light showing through its chinks. [5]
- Now single shrill trumpet notes echoed from afar amid the trombones and the dull roll of the drums, the noise increasing every moment. [10]
- She had wept to see him dull and quiet. [12]
- We may happen to be very dull folks, you and I, and probably are, unless there is some particular reason to suppose the contrary. [6]
- In dull seasons they are too large; in times of brisk advertising, and in the sudden access of important news, they are too small. [4]
- During the night the dull indifference which she showed in the day abandoned her, and her attentive companion often heard her sobbing aloud. [10]
- To the observation that Union seemed to be a dull place: The great republic cannot yet take itself seriously. [4]
- The snow was still dazzling, though it no longer sparkled and glittered, but covered every object with the dull whiteness of chalk. [10]
- So the wide space, dim with smoke, was illumined only by a dull, varying glimmer. [10]
- His dull weariness slipped off him, as it were; a confident smile parted his lips and he seized the wax with a firm hand. [10]
- It was a sleepy, dull Sunday afternoon, and no one was stirring. [5]
- Only the dull senses of men are dead to it as to the music of the spheres. [6]
- And when the sense of physical weariness came back, that seemed to dull the acuteness of his spiritual torment. [4]
- The flashing, the rustling, the dull footfall on parched earth followed the barge all through the night like a sinister, lurid, and muttering shadow. [10]
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In our Linux server we have implemented password aging policy. On expiration SSH gives prompt for changing password on successful authentication.
However SFTP doesn't give the prompt to change password. It will disconnect with
Connection closed error. So users have to connect to SSH to change password.
Any way to make SFTP also prompt for password change like SSH ?


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Ford rolled out their "reinvented" version of the wildly popular F-150 pick-up on Monday, revealing some interesting new details about the future of America's best-selling truck.
The biggest change is Ford's switch to a lighter steel frame and high-strength aluminum-alloy body, which the company says will shave 700 pounds off the vehicle without sacrificing any durability.
MORE: Ford unwraps new look for the 2015 Mustang
The change will save fuel and increase the vehicle's towing capabilities. For anyone who panics when they hear the world aluminum, Ford assures that they are using "high-strength, military-grade, aluminum alloys [that are] already used in aerospace, commercial transportation, energy and many other rugged industries."
ALSO: Newly reborn Saab eyes electric vehicles as path to relevance
"We have a unique connection with our customers," said Joe Hinrichs, Ford executive vice president and president of The Americas. "Time and again, F-150 has delivered the tougher, smarter features they want along with the capabilities they need for work or play. We build our trucks to their high standards."
Several nifty features found on the new 2015 model will include...
- Curve Control, which automatically provides more aggressive four-wheel braking when the truck is going into a corner too fast.
- Lane-Keeping System, which is designed to help avert unintentional drifting of the vehicle outside the intended driving lane by automatically detecting the left- or right-hand road lane markings using a camera mounted between the windshield and interior rearview mirror.
- Blind Spot Information System with cross-traffic alert, which uses radar hidden in the taillamps to detect a vehicle entering a driver's blind spot while driving or backing up.
- 360-degree Camera View, using exterior cameras to create a bird's-eye view of the truck to help the driver park, maneuver in tight spots and navigate down narrow roads and trails.
The 2015 model will go on sale late this year. Five primary trims are expected to be available: XL, XLT, Lariat, Platinum and King Ranch. Chrome appearance packages will be available with XL, XLT, Lariat and King Ranch. Monochromatic sport appearance packages are available with XL, XLT and Lariat.


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I recently took my daughter and two of her friends to Boomers in Boca Raton, Fla. The girls, all 13, loved the arcade, go karts, bumper boats, rock climbing wall, laser tag and more. In fact, they loved it so much they begged to stay all day, which meant we had to stay for lunch.
Lunch at Boomers is typical concession stand food. You order at a counter in the arcade area and pick up at a window outside, where there are plenty of picnic tables. Offerings include hot dogs, cheeseburgers, giant soft pretzels, churros, frozen Coke slushies, chicken tenders, fries and nachos.
The girls all had cheeseburgers and fries. They each had a slushie to drink – blue raspberry, pina colada and Coke were their flavor choices. They drenched the food in ketchup and deemed it "fine." They ate quickly and went back to playing.
I had the deluxe cheese steak with fries and a soda. It was called deluxe because it came with lettuce, tomato and mayo. It was okay at best.
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The after years. when these kids start growing up and leaving high school, what happens to them? i've never seen a goth in a business suit on the bus going to work or something. they just seem to fade away.
The after years. when these kids start growing up and leaving high school, what happens to them? i've never seen a goth in a business suit on the bus going to work or something. they just seem to fade away.
They either trade one conformity for another, or they don't, or they grow the fuck up and dress themselves.
Get jiggy with it, eternally.
both answers so far make a lot of sense.
Two words, pornography industry.
Your an absolutely wonderful man, any girl that is yours is lucky and I know that from personal experience. ~KMT
that also makes sense. i'm going to be upset when someone has a bad answer now since we've made a lot of progress.
My friend in college is an assistant teacher, training to be a teacher. Hes a goth
who is a goth anymore? it's all emos nowadays
That would most likely be because goths eventually became mainstream, and thus gave way to emos, and so now, anyone who would have possibly been a legit goth, isn't because they aren't a pussy.
as for wiggers, I assume they hide in the ghettos, occasionally venturing out when there's only a very small chance of getting beat up by real gangsters.
"I can't explain just how it feels,
the thoughts of my premature burial.
Inside this oblong box I lie,
with the hope I'll be buried alive."
They all end up in community colleges and working unskilled or semi-skilled labor jobs. Usually the emos and goths live at home a while whereas the wiggers work in menial labor.
"I prefer a sane world where you are rewarded by providing people with something they want. Not arbitrarily rewarded in a status game that reminds me of chimpanzees." - nazgulnarsil
Here I am with my empire
Ill bring you to your knees
Ebb and flow with my desire
Cause its all that youve been taught to be
And I should pay for these type of people's health care whhyyyyyyy?
Your an absolutely wonderful man, any girl that is yours is lucky and I know that from personal experience. ~KMT
The whole goth and emo movement is just a teenage rebellion thing. So, once they grow up and learn that everything they've been rebelling against is there for a reason, the fads fade. I guess some might remain, but don't a lot of them end up in asylums for hurting themselves?
And what the hell is a wigger?
My Pokemon Story
Not a Pokemon story, but...
The need for teenage rebellion disappears.
Real rebellion would be nice for a change.
Get jiggy with it, eternally.
Well, to quote the Beatles:
"You say you want a revolution. Well, y'know...."
the rest of it goes, "well y'know....ya better slap a bumper sticka on ya car"
Get jiggy with it, eternally.
To be gothic isn't to rebel... While what you say might be true for emos... Goths never hurt themselves. They are just morose people, enjoy wearing black, etc.
Edgar Allen Poe was the original Goth. He was born a goth and died a goth.
I'm goth by nature, but I don't wear black clothes or any crap like that. Gothic fashion is what these kids who can't find their identity do. They become the shallow goths who ruin the image of real goths.
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Today is man love Thursday... A LTC in Iraq did say that he wanted his SGM to to always cover his ass by grabbing it. And that a memorandum should be made to make Thursdays "Man Love Thursdays"
The Army is weird like that, but hell, it's funny.
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But anyway, Goths are way different from Emo.
Think of it this way: The Nightmare before Christmas is gothic, most of Tim Burton's movies are.
Emo is... the Twilight series.
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poe was when being a goth was fashionable. now it's just something a lot of ugly kids do because they want attention, but then say they aren't doing it for attention.
emo kids are just awful. these middle class suburbian dwellers have nothing to be depressed over. the hell happened to them anyway. did daddy say they can only use the acura to go out with friends? BUT THEY WANT TO USE THE MERCEDES. better go cut yourself deep enough to draw blood. nothing potentially fatal though, that could be dangerous.
wiggers are just a fucking scourge on this earth. when i was in high school there was this wigger who always hung around the tech lab at lunch. i was shocked when someone told me it was a girl. that's just another bag of WTF.


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Apollo Nida has entered a guilty plea for conspiracy to commit mail, wire, and bank fraud. The shocking part of it all is Nida's excuse for committing the high level fraud scheme that he and colleagues had carried on for years. According to a Wednesday report by Reality Tea, Nida claims the pressure to keep up with other cast members on "Real Housewives of Atlanta" led to his criminal activities.
Nida is already a felon and his previous crimes included fraud, much like the scheme leading to his most recent guilty plea. He says pressure to keep up with the Leakes' and others in terms of affluence caused him to revert back to a criminal life.
Though the reason he gave for the fraud scheme was pretty bad, Apollo did take responsibility for the crimes. Of course he didn't have much choice, former best friend and co-conspirator Gayla St. Julien outed him with the feds in exchange for her own 5-year sentence. She did even more damage earlier in the month when she released a statement that pointed the finger at Nida again and hinted that though she protected their spouses, they weren't so innocent either.
"Real Housewives of Atlanta" husband Apollo's fraudulent company operated by using stolen identities to receive and cash government checks for unclaimed funds. They also had set up a fake auto dealership in order to obtain fraudulent auto loans. Checks were mailed to a variety of mailboxes located in Northern Georgia. It has been estimated that Nida's crimes affected as many as 50 people and was worth well over $2 million.
Phaedra Parks should definitely be gearing up for the life of a single mom because his crimes could net Nida up to 30 years in prison. He has spent five years behind bars already for previous crimes and this return to prison will likely be longer. Apollo won't go back for sentencing until July.
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The Artist
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Memories of Sussex
The Premiere Portfolio of Celebrity Art
"Memories of Sussex"
by Richard Chamberlain
The career of Richard Chamberlain on television, film, and the stage has been one to try the ingenuity of the critics and the celebrity-watchers alike. For five years he was not only TV's
Dr. Kildare, but for all practical purposes "Richard Chamberlain, M.D." - so linked was this one role with his entire professional career. For five years he was the "up-and-coming young medic," the television idol who received as many as
12,000 fan letters a week.
But within another five years, Richard Chamberlain finds himself acclaimed on the British and American stage in a variety of parts, from contemporary playwright Christopher Fry
to the Bard of Avon himself.
Chamberlain obviously has the critics puzzled. Some may come to scoff, but all remain to praise. While everything did not begin with the Kildare series, this was an important milestone for the young actor, if eventually it did become a millstone, as well. Chamberlain says he looks back on Dr. Kildare with a great deal of nostalgia now that he is free of that image. It seems so recent that TV viewers in the hundreds of thousands watched, wanting their young doctors to look, act and dress exactly like
Richard Chamberlain.
Untouched by the growing furies of the sixties, his stock in trade was the neat haircut, the white coat, a stethoscope carelessly suspended from the collar for constant use, the proper hospital manner and a handsome face. "It was a terrific experience. A great break for a young actor who had done very little professionally. But it was never satisfying in terms of being an ultimate goal because I had my eyes on other things."
Perhaps the Kildare formula was not one destined to last forever, and it collapsed in 1966. Chamberlain, summarily deprived of his "medical degree," did not.
There was, however, a professional disaster that followed shortly after. Chamberlain appeared in Breakfast at Tiffany's, and when it closed during the previews, he was deeply struck by the "barrage of audience hostility."
Therein lay a new beginning, a period of self-analysis, a withdrawal from the familiar American scene, and learning. Really learning about acting - by studying and performing. Chamberlain remembers that during his Kildare heyday, the distinguished British actor Sir Cedric Hardwicke told him, "You're doing it all backwards. You're a star and you don't know how to act."
His professional turning point, Chamberlain admits, was a transfer to England. It is from this time, this creative period, that Chamberlain's watercolor Memories of Sussex stems. The painting is an important recollection of a rich and fertile personal and professional experience. Perhaps it represents an unfolding of talent, a renaissance.
Painting was one of Chamberlain's early interests. He was first of all an artist, and majored in art at Pomona College where he "just dabbled" in dramatics. ("I did five lines from King Lear.") A Los Angelino by birth - "but," he claims, "from the wrong side of Wilshire Boulevard" - he excelled in track; and then, as an army draftee in Korea, he rose to the rank of a sergeant. After the army he thought of being a painter but decided it was too lonely. "So I waited on tables, worked as a chauffeur, collected unemployment checks. I didn't have much money. My mother owned a small percentage in an oil well that only produced enough to send me through college before it ran dry. I started doing bits on television. Then I sort of fell into the Kildare series. That's when I first started thinking seriously about acting."
After Kildare and Breakfast at Tiffany's, Chamberlain starred in Petulia for English director Richard Lester. ("It made me want to work more for the British.") In London he appeared on British TV in Henry James' Portrait of a Lady, playing the complex tolerant, kindly, unfulfilled and doomed-to-die Ralph Touchett. Another important change of dramatic pace.
It is interesting that Henry James, an intensely American writer, found his niche as an expatriate, and that Richard Chamberlain, an intensely American actor, found his new start in England as an actor and as a painter.
The early and total identification in the public's mind with Dr. Kildare left its mark on Chamberlain, and he is obviously determined to avoid future type casting. His current movie is a romantic period piece, Lady Caroline Lamb, in which the actor plays George Gordon, Lord Byron, the arrogant and aristocratic author of best-seller poems who gave his name to the Byronic way of life and behavior: in the words of G. B. Shaw, "a brooding, cynical, half-tragic, half-ironic, scornful playing with life
and the emotions."
Indeed in the intervening years Chamberlain has provided the public and critics with rich fodder by playing an acclaimed Hamlet with the Birmingham Repertory Company . . . this in Shakespeare's very own county of Warwickshire; also by doing two separate and distinct readings of King Richard II, one in Seattle and one in Los Angeles.
Richard Chamberlain has really had two professional careers. First in American television, and then - all that followed.
As an actor, Chamberlain has now reached a sufficient level of critical approval to belie any charge of an undeserved early success. His performance as Tchaikovsky in Ken Russell's The Music Lovers was hailed. More recently he has sought a variety of rolls - singing and dancing in a Chicago production of The Fantasticks (his second musical) and playing King Edward VIII, opposite Faye Dunaway as Wallis Simpson, on the TV special
The Woman I Love.
Today, Richard Chamberlain is a divided man. He spends some of his time in England, the rest of it in the United States; when he is not acting on the stage, he is working on a film.
That's the way he likes it.
In all, Chamberlain has had little time to pursue his original choice of the visual arts. Memories of Sussex is one of the rare watercolors that he has recently completed. Sussex was painted from memory back in California, and portrays the view from a peaceful and quiet country retreat on the Sussex Downs, the rolling hills stretching from the outskirts of London to the English Channel coast, facing the Continent. The painting took several weeks to complete and was done as a tribute to Britain where Chamberlain found such strong empathy. "I sat for hours trying to perfect the flower garden in the foreground," he relates.
Sussex is a pastorale and the Sussex Downs seem as far from Chamberlain's native California hills as it is possible to imagine. The flower garden would not have surprised Shakespeare, for it is a perfect sixteenth-century tapestry of carefully drawn shapes and colors. Perhaps this same tradition inspires Chamberlain's renderings of stained glass windows - an additional accomplishment of his.
In his watercolor, the Sussex fields are orderly and manicured. Spotted bovines browse and drowse in a field to the right.
All is peace and quiet.
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Anthony Wilson: Mezcal
Anthony Wilson (guitar)
Jack Of Hearts (GRV 1046)
Anthony Wilson (guitar),
Larry Goldings (organ), Jim Keltner (drums).
Composed by Anthony Wilson & Larry Goldings.
Recorded: Hollywood, CA, January 27th & 28th, 2009
Rating: 87/100 (learn more)
Picture yourself in a dusty Mexican bar, where the tequila flows freely and the crowd is in the mood to boogie. In the corner, across the sawdust strewn floor is a trio in their own zone. A well-worn Hammond B-3 with some twirling Leslie speakers, a honey toned vintage Gibson guitar and a simple set of drums. They seem strangely out of place here, except that they have the crowd of locals on their feet, yelping and shaking their booties to the infectious beat. Did I mention the tequila was flowing freely?
Although this track was played in January somewhere in Hollywood, guitarist Anthony Wilson has captured this feeling with an understated style that is rooted in the blues and the jazz guitar/organ trio tradition. On "Mezcal", behind the pulsating organ accompaniment of Larry Goldings and the heavy backbeat sound of session drummer Jim Keltner, Wilson shows off some facile octave phrasing. Goldings, master of the B3, makes his instrument sing with a decidedly time warped sound. Old reliable Keltner keeps the beat rock steady as the trio grooves a la Medeski, Martin & Wood. A fun south of the border diversion from a January in LA.
Reviewer: Ralph A. Miriello
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What is the best connection pooling library available for Java/JDBC?
I'm considering the 2 main candidates (free / open-source):
Following is my helper class to get DB connection:
I've used the C3P0 connection pooling as described here.
public class DBConnection {
private static DataSource dataSource;
I'm trying to implement a solution with c3p0 for the first time. I understand how to initialize the connection pool and "checkout" a Connection from the pool as follows:
ComboPooledDataSource cpds = ...
Can anyone share the origin and meaning of the jdbc connection pool named c3p0.
Was it inspired from star wars?.
I have heavy loaded java application using hirbernate. And I used to use as connection pool DBCP, but it had problems with connections lossing. Than I switched to c3p0. But now ...
I am developing a web application with database access using Spring, JDBCTemplate and c3p0.
I often have a server freeze, and I am pretty sure it comes from the number of busy ...
This falls under the category of 'reinventing the wheel'. There are people spending a lot of time and energy building things like database connection pools and unless you have a strong belief these implementations are flawed, better to use their work. Reminds me of an old programmer adage... "Good programmers write good code, great programmers steal good code. "


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It's alive!: 'Zombie Western' filmmakers show N.C. is still attractive to auteurs, but some say it's an uphill battle to earn a living making movies in the state
By Sam Boykin Light was fading fast and Ryan Gary had a big problem. He needed more zombies. The 15 or so he had, dressed in dirty tatters with dead, gray skin and gaping wounds, were all well and good, but he needed more lumbering undead to really give the scene the right jolt of horror. Lucky for Gary, he was able to recruit some of the locals to fill in as zombie extras, and cameras rolled as a mob of flesh-eating monsters attacked the gun-toting hero. It was all just another day at the office for Gary, the 23-year-old writer and director of "Hell's Crossing," a "zombie Western" produced by a group of Charlotte filmmakers. "Hell's Crossing," which premiers in Charlotte Aug. 12, is Gary's directorial debut, but he's hoping it will be the first of many as he tries to break into the movie business. And he has no plans to move to Hollywood or New York to make his mark, but instead wants to stay in Charlotte. But some folks, including several longtime Charlotte filmmakers, warn that's easier said than done. While Charlotte has a long history of film and TV production, many complain that the city doesn't do enough to support local talent, focusing instead on big-budget production companies that blow into town for a few months and then jet back to Los Angeles or New York. And the reality is that Charlotteans clamoring to be in show business often have to work other jobs to make ends meet. Still, that still doesn't stop young upstarts like Gary from giving it a shot.


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>Brookings Oregon News, Sports, & Weather | The Curry Coastal Pilot
Saturday, June 14
■ The 10th anniversary Second Saturday Art Walk will be from 3 to 6 p.m. at venues within walking distance of Chetco Avenue, Oak Street and Art Walk Alley.
■ TeaPhotographypresents an open house on behalf of
The Shelter Project from 4 to 7:30 p.m. at the South Coast Humane Society shelter, 828 Railroad St., Brookings. Handcrafted jewelry and photo greeting cards; framed prints; photo stickers, magnets and mugs will be availableforsale.Proceeds benefit the shelter.
Monday, June 16
■ SummerArtCampwill be from 9 a.m. to noon at Wright's Custom Framing and Art Supplies, 810 Chetco Ave., Brookings.The camp will also be onTuesdays andWednesdays and continue through June 30. The camp is open to everyone 7 and older and teaches the basics of watercolor. All supplies are included.The cost is $6 per day. A family discount is offered.There is no signup — just come to the first class.
■ "Creative Mondays" take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Crescent Harbor Gallery, 140 Marine Way, Crescent City. Attendees may come for only part of the day if wished; a 3 p.m. critique is encouraged.This is not limited to painters, but for any artwork a person wants to work on. For more information, call 707-464-9133.
Tuesday, June 17
■ ChetcoPelicanPlayerswill hold auditions for "The Lion,The Witch and theWardrobe" at 6:30 p.m. at the Chetco Playhouse, 1240 Chetco Ave., Brookings. Auditions will continue at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 18.
Friday, June 20
■ Brookings-Harbor CommunityTheater presents the junior production of "The Quest: A FairyTale With An
Attitude" at 7 p.m. at the Harbor Performing Arts Center, 97900 Shopping Center Ave. Additional shows will be at 7 p.m. Saturday, June 21, and 2 p.m. Sunday, June 22, as well as the following weekend.Tickets are $8 for adults, $5 for students and children, and free for children 3 and younger.Tickets are available at Wright's Custom Framing and Art Supplies in Brookings, NewWaveVideo in Harbor and at the door. For more information, call 541-661- 2473.
■ Chetco Pelican Players presents the musical production "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" at 7:30 p.m. at the Chetco Playhouse, 1240 Chetco Ave., Brookings. Additional shows will be at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 14, and 2 p.m. Sunday, June 15, as well as the following two weekends.Tickets are $15 for
adults and $7 for children and are available in Brookings at Wright's Custom Framing and Arts Supplies, in Harbor at New Wave Video, and at the door. For more information, call 541- 469-1857.
Saturday, June 21
■ The Pistol River Concert Association presentsTim Erickson and theTrio de Pumpkintown in concert at 8 p.m. at the Pistol River Friendship Hall, 24252 Carpenterville Road, Pistol River.Tickets are $15 and are available atWright's Custom Framing and Art Supplies in Brookings, Gold Beach Books inGoldBeach,athttp://www. pistolriver.com or by calling 541- 247-2848.
■ Singing telegrams by Georgia Blank, who specializes in old hymns, are being offered to lift spirits at no charge.To schedule a singing telegram, call 541-469-5625.
■ PelicanBayArtsAssociation offers an art rental program for businesses with empty wall space. For more information about the program, call the Manley Art Center and Gallery at 541-469-1807.


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Motorola ordered up to 800,000 Xoom Android tablets for this quarter?
Announced last week at CES 2011, Motorola Xoom is one of the world's first Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablets.
In the US, it will be available only via Verizon Wireless, so you're probably wondering if it's going to be as successful as Samsung's Galaxy Tab Android Froyo tablet (available via most US carriers and sold in more than 1 million units around the world).
Well, if we're to believe DigiTimes and its "sources from upstream component makers", Motorola has already ordered about 700,000-800,000 Xooms. Reportedly, up to 1 million units may be ordered until the end of this quarter.
Sure enough, ordering 800K tablets in a quarter doesn't mean you'll sell them in that quarter. In fact, the Xoom may not be commercially available until March (or even late March), so it's rather unlikely for Verizon to sell this number of Xoom tablets before the quarter ends. But Q2 sales should be high anyway, and it will probably not take long for the 1 million units sold mark to be reached.
Acer and LG have also showcased Android Honeycomb tablets at CES last week: the Iconia Tab A500 and the T-Mobile G-slate, respectively.


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Finney County officials have identified a body found after a fire in Holcomb.
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Hey y'all! Today I've got another Blog of the Month to introduce you to!
Say hi to Jenni from A Well Crafted Party! Isn't she adorable?
Jenni is a stay-at-home mama to her adorable son and husband. Her husband even has his own part in the blog - he is the Well Crafted Man! I can't wait to read his posts!
She shares a little bit of everything on her blog! As her blog title will suggest, you will find a lot of inspiration for crafting and parties on her blog. But if that isn't your thing, not to worry! Jenni also shares about motherhood and having a toddler. Still not your thing? Again, don't worry! She's got stuff for us single and toddler-less followers too! One of my favorite things she features is her cocktail recipes!
How yummy does that sound? She even provides some recipes for one serving! PERFECT for me!
Jenni doesn't just share party inspiration but she shares real parties that she actually throws. One of my favorites is the "You are my Sunshine" Party she threw for her son's 1st birthday!
My mom used to sing that song to me when I was little so this party really touched my heart! I definitely pinned this one for use in a few years when I have kids of my own! All the details are adorable and perfect for a 1st birthday!
Something that I have been able to use right away are the blog planning printables she created! You've probably seen these floating around Pinterest (I had these pinned and didn't even know they were from her!). You definitely need to check them out! They have been really helpful and perfect for a blogger!
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Storm Water Fact Sheet
Storm water is any precipitation that falls during any storm event. Complications arise when this rainwater collects oils, grease, fertilizers, pesticides, trash, and other debris as it travels along engineered and natural conveyances, eventually ending up in waters of the state. This addition of polluted water to streams has detrimental effects on the flora and fauna associated with them; not to mention our enjoyment of the serene beauty a stream ecosystem provides.
What is the difference between a sewer and storm drain?
The main difference between sanitary sewer drains and storm drains is that the contents of the sanitary sewer drain go through various treatment processes at a wastewater treatment facility in order to meet state and federal regulations regarding the quality of water being released back into circulation. Storm drains on the other hand, act as channels to funnel rainwater away from urbanized areas quickly as possible to prevent flooding and deposits the untreated water into nearby waterways. The duration between rain events, the amount of vehicle traffic, the amount of impervious surfaces, and the quantity of various debris materials lying around is positively correlated to biological and physical stream degradation.
What is UW-L doing to help reduce storm water pollution?
UW-L recognizes that its daily operations may impact the health of our watershed, and has taken action to manage storm water runoff in order to minimize any adverse effects associated with its discharge. One such action taken by UW-L has been to develop a Storm water Management Program Plan (SWMPP) in accordance with the Environmental Protection Agency's NPDES Phase II requirements which were interpreted for the state of Wisconsin by the WI Department of Natural Resources, 327IAC15-13. Outlined within this permit are six minimum control measures that act as guidelines for municipalities, universities, and correction institutions to follow to minimize the harmful effects of storm water runoff. The six minimum control measures are:
- Public Education and Outreach
- Public Participation and Involvement
- Illicit Discharge Detection and Elimination
- Construction site Runoff Control
- Post-Construction Runoff Control
- Pollution Prevention/Good Housekeeping
The actual application outlining UW-L's commitment under this regulation can be viewed at NPDES Phase II Storm water Management Program Plan.
What types of pollutants contaminate storm water runoff?
Some common contaminates include: motor oil, pesticides, pet waste, paint, household chemicals, trash and construction debris. Rainwater comes in contact with these contaminates and washes them into the storm drain system. In addition, improper disposal of substances into the storm drain system, such as food waste, paint waste, construction material, oil, antifreeze and landscaping chemicals also cause contamination of storm water runoff.
What if there is a spill of hazardous materials?
In the event of a hazardous materials spill on campus, contact the UW-L Police at 789-9999(Emergency) or 789-9000(non-emergency). If it is safe to do so, try to prevent spilled hazardous materials from entering storm drains.
How are hazardous materials disposed?
All hazardous materials waste generated from campus operations must be disposed of through the campus Hazardous Waste Program administered by the UW-L Facilities Management Department.
What is an illicit discharge?
An illicit discharge is any discharge to the UW-L storm water system that is not comprised of runoff from precipitation (rainfall or snowfall) events. Examples of illicit discharges are wash water from clothes washing, vehicle and equipment wash water, improper disposal of paint brush rinse water, sanitary sewage, and mop rinse water.
What is a BMP?
A BMP is a best management practice for managing or treating
storm water runoff. BMPs can be structural, such as a
constructed wetland or porous pavement parking lot, or
non-structural. Examples of non-structural BMPs include properly
disposing of used oil and paint, converting land cover types to
increase the capture of runoff, application of fertilizers only
when the need is indicated by soil testing, and proper disposal
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To God Be The GloryAn easy-going rendition of the famous hymn featuring horn section interludes.https://www.smartsound.com/strata/images/STRATHYR_200.jpgSingle63309-ST$ 39.9563309-EX$ 59.9563309-W$ 149.95Genre: Traditional, Themes, Smooth Jazz, Religious, Easy-Going, Gospel, Specialty Production Types: Religion Emotions: Happy, Positive, Uplifting, Lilting, Upbeat, Church Instrument: Instrumental
To God Be The Glory from the album Hymns Revisited
Crown HimA bright and gleaming arrangement of 'Crown Him With My Glory'.https://www.smartsound.com/strata/images/STRATHYR_200.jpgSingle63304-ST$ 39.9563304-EX$ 59.9563304-W$ 149.95Genre: Traditional, Themes, Rock, Easy-Going, Specialty Production Types: Religion Emotions: Happy, Positive, Uplifting, Motivating, Upbeat, Church Instrument: Guitar (Electric), Instrumental, Guitar
Crown Him from the album Hymns Revisited
When We All Get To HeavenA bright and positive country-tinged arrangement of the famous hymn.https://www.smartsound.com/strata/images/STRATHYR_200.jpgSingle63310-ST$ 39.9563310-EX$ 59.9563310-W$ 149.95Genre: Spiritual, Traditional, Themes, Country/Folk, Religious, Easy-Going, Pop Rock, Specialty Production Types: Religion Emotions: Happy, Positive, Uplifting, Upbeat, Church Instrument: Guitar (Electric), Instrumental, Guitar
When We All Get To Heaven from the album Hymns Revisited
DoxologyThis hip rendition of 'Old 100th' has a bright, cheerful mood. Featuring sax and trumpet, it can work great for upbeat, motivational applications.https://www.smartsound.com/strata/images/strataSO_200.jpgSingle53105-ST$ 39.9553105-EX$ 59.9553105-W$ 149.95
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Reports surfaced earlier today that Janice Carter sent a memo out to TNA Wrestling employees about the whole company shaking "for sale" rumor that most wrestling NEWZ sites covered earlier this week. Richard Gray touched on the subject in Monday's Ask WNW and I wrote a whole article on the subject here.
I was told by my source inside the company that a memo was indeed sent out by Janice Carter. My source told me that the memo consisted of two things. First, she praised the whole new creative path they are going. The company is planning to continue the "24/7 Where the Action Never Ends" creative direction. Second, Janice confronted the "for sale" rumors and said the company is, "Not for sale," and that, "They were in it for the long haul."


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Download and install Android 4.2 Quick Settings Menu on any Android Version running on your Phone or Tablet.
Fancy to see the all-time favorite Android 4.2 Quick Settings Menu on your current device with older version of OS? One of the best feature in Android 4.2 is the quick-settings menu accessible from the jelly bean notifications tray. It gives access to your profile settings along with shortcuts to the most common used functions such as turning on WiFi or Bluetooth.
The problem however with the Quick Settings menu in Android 4.2 is that it can't be extended to provide more shortcuts. Though Google has done a great job (finally) implementing the feature, it lacks certain options that would have made it great. The developer community has acted upon this principle and extended it for devices running Android 4.2. For the other devices running Android 2.2 and up there is the app called QuickSettings. It works unexpectedly well and provides the closest experience to Android 4.2 Jelly Bean. It even brings the same animations when opening it or a setting.
QuickSettings for Android places a persisted and ongoing notification in he tray. Tap it to open the quick-settings menu along with shortcuts not even Android 4.2 provides. There is a configure button that lets you set the toggles you want displayed, their order and options for notifications. There is even a theme sub-menu for ICS users to purchase for about $0.99 from the Store. The shortcuts respond with long and short press. A short press toggles the function while a long one takes you to the device settings menu. These actions can also be customized.
The app provides shortcuts for Task killer, Settings panel, Ringer mode (normal/vibrate/silent), Auto-brightness switch (auto/normal), Screen dimmer (black transparent overlay), Rotation toggle (Autorotate/off), Airplane mode, Wi-Fi and a lot more.
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What do you do when you've read a book you REALLY love?
Do you want to get all your friends to and family and even strangers to read it too?? We do here at Birmingham young libraries!
Here are some wonderful recommendations from young reviewer Heena Pala Let us know if you agree with her by emailing: email@example.com
Secrets of the Henna Girl by Sufiya Ahmed
Secrets of the Henna Girl is a book full of a mixture of feelings; sometimes you laugh sometimes you just sit in shock and sometimes you cry.
Zeeba Khan was just a regular sixteen-year-old girl from Yorkshire. She spent her time revising for exams, relaxing in the park and watching films with her best friend, Susan. But an unexpected trip to Pakistan leaves her thinking her life may not turn out the way she planned. It was supposed to be a holiday but Zeeba's parents seemed to be acting suspiciously. She can sense tension in the air but things turn out to be a thousand times worse than she thought. It is a few days into the "holiday" when she finds out the truth: she is forced to marry someone of her dad's choice to protect his honour. Will she follow her instinct and escape while she can or will she accept that she will never live the same Yorkshire life again?
Personally, I think that the book was an eye-opener. Young girls who live lives of freedom don't realise how lucky they are. It was the kind of book where you couldn't wait to get to the ending to see what happens. Sufiya Ahmed has done a marvellous job in creating such a realistic environment. A criticism of the book would be that it is not a unique story. There are many books which are about forced marriages that follow the same storyline. The book could have done with a slight twist in the tale. The book is for more of a mature read. If you already know about the field of forced marriages then this is the book for you.
Coping with Chloe by Rosalie Warren
Coping with Chloe is a gripping book about 12-year-old twins, Anna and Chloe. When tragedy strikes and Chloe is killed in an accident, Anna's journey of grieving is not easy as she struggles to cope with life after her sister's death. Anna still finds that Chloe talks to her and helps her with dealing with the school bully, Lisa. At many points in the book, I wondered if Anna is keeping Chloe psychologically alive or whether she is really there…
I think that Rosalie Warren has done a brilliant job in writing this book; the thought of death and grieving makes you think that it is a heavy read, but Rosalie has a magnificent way of making it funny at times as well as embracing the happy memories in Anna's mind. It was very difficult to put this book down once I finished reading the first page. I would be very keen to read more of Rosalie Warren's books in the future.
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
"Flowers for Algernon" is a Science-fiction book narrated as a diary by Charlie Gordon. Charlie has a low IQ. He finds himself involved in an experiment; this involves undergoing an operation along with a lab mouse, Algernon. As part of assessments, Charlie and Algernon have to compete in races and mazes. Charlie gets frustrated with Algernon for always beating him, but soon becomes his friend. The operation is to increase his intelligence.
Charlie works in a plastic box factory. There, his colleagues are nasty to him and take advantage of his misunderstanding of the world around him. The operation works a success, but as Charlie's intelligence increases, he begins to spot a difference in the way people behave around him.
Overall, I enjoyed Flowers for Algernon. One thing that the author could have improved on is the ending. It ended on a cliff-hanger and was also a little too slow-moving for me. I think that the author has achieved his goal of opening the reader's eyes about how we take our everyday abilities for granted.
Holes by Louis Sachar
"Holes" is a book about a young boy around my age (11) who is accused of stealing a famous baseball player's sneakers. Not being able to prove he hadn't taken them, he has to be punished, he is given a choice of jail or a juvenile detention centre called Camp Green Lake. He chooses to go to the camp, where he has to dig a hole a day, five feet deep and five feet across to "build character" or so they say.
Stanley makes a loyal friend, unlike in school where he was continuously bullied for being overweight. One morning, when he finds his friend missing, he decides to go and look for him. After managing to escape from the camp, Stanley finds his friends, but they are both stranded in the desert for a week. Starving and surviving on onions and dirty water, the two boys give in and make their way back to camp, only to discover what the motive to digging holes in is.
I like this book because it was so in depth that once I picked it up it was glued to my hands! This book at times has made me fill up with tears but burst out with laughter at the same time. It has also made me think about how lucky I am just to have loving friends and family around, which most of the boys in this book haven't. Please make time to read this book and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
Dizzy by Cathy Cassidy
Dizzy is a twelve-year-old girl who lives with her single Dad. Every year on her birthday, Dizzy receives a birthday present from her Mum, who ran away when Dizzy was four years old. This is what happened: One night, Dizzy's Mum kissed her extra hard and whispered "I love you" her ear. When Dizzy awoke the next morning, her Mum was gone.
Dizzy and her Dad managed to live together until her twelfth birthday. The morning of her birthday was going perfectly normal and included all of Dizzy's birthday traditions: cheese on toast carved into a number, depending on how old she was, a flower in a jam-jar, a banana milkshake and a tube of smarties wrapped in blue tissue paper. When the birthday girl goes down, there is usually a present from her Mum waiting in the post. But not today. Dizzy comes home from school to find a grubby, purple VW van in her driveway. Whose could it be? As Dizzy goes into the living room, she finds a small, tanned woman sitting on her couch. She has a pierced eyebrow and about a thousand earings on the same ear. "Hello Dizzy, Happy Birthday! Gosh, how much you've grown!" said the woman. "Hello, Mum." Dizzy Says, through tears.
It is a birthday tradition for Dizzy and her Dad to order a mushroom Pizza, but because Dizzy's Mum is a vegan, she makes Miso soup, read-bean stew and muesli cake. During the evening, Storm (Dizzy's Mum's nickname) gives Dizzy's dad a lot to drink. This is because Storm wants Dizzy to come with her to her hippy-festivals, but Dizzy's dad disagrees. So, Storm gets Dizzy's dad drunk. Without knowing, he agrees. Dizzy is under the impression that he really has let her go, so she goes along with Storm.
At the festivals, Dizzy is re-united with an old friend called Fin. She also meets her Mum's boyfriend, Zak, along with his son, nicknamed Mouse. Dizzy becomes very good friends with Fin and Mouse but she is not too sure about Zak. Although she was really looking forward to the festivals, she hates them. The air is always thick with cannabis and all they ever eat is peanut butter on mouldy bread. She really wishes she could go back home.
Whenever Dizzy moves festivals, she sends a post-card to her Dad. Storm tells Dizzy to always give the post-card to her, so that she can "add her own few words". But does she really post them? Near the end, Storm and Zak travel to India to help Zak's brother to open a fortune-telling centre. While they are there, Dizzy stays with Fin, his Mum and Mouse. She likes Fin's Mum, but really, really misses her Dad. Will she ever find him? This book made me feel sorry for Dizzy, as Storm doesn't pay attention to her, even at the Festivals. It also made me realise that there are a lot of children in this World that live like this. My favourite part was when Dizzy and Fin go to the Beach for Fin's birthday. I WISH I WAS THERE!!!!
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
Around the World in Eighty Days is a fascinating book set in the time of 1872. It is about a very wealthy, yet modest, man called Phileas Fogg. He lives at no. 7, Saville Row in London. Phileas Fogg is a man who never likes to attract attention, but is extremely clever and takes great interest in science and maths. With such a great mind, you would think that he is a member of a group, maybe a university; but he isn't. The only thing he is a member of is the Reform Club. Phileas is a man who is very precise and in-fact has not one but two clocks by his bedside and both tick at exactly the same second.
Being as rich as he is, Phileas Fogg, at the start of the book, searches for a servant. He is recommended one called Jean Passpartout. Phileas likes Passpartout and employs him on Wednesday 2nd October. Passpartout is a man about forty years of age. He is a tall Frenchman with fair hair.
When Phileas and Passpartout make a visit to the Reform Club, Phileas makes a bet of twenty thousand pounds to the rest of the club that he could travel around the World in eighty days using steamers and rails.
The first places that Mr Fogg and Passpartout go to are Dover and Calais, both in France. On the way there, they meet a detective called Fix. Fix has been sent out to look for suspicious passengers at the train station. This because of a Bank of England robbery that took place; fifty-five thousand pounds was stolen. He thinks that the robbers were Phileas and Passpartout as they are carrying a large amount of money. Mr Fogg agrees to let Detective Fix follow him throughout his journey, just to prove that they aren't guilty.
Next, Phileas Fogg and Passpartout go to Bombay. In Bombay, they meet (or rescue) a widow called Aouda. Aouda travels with them for the rest of the journey and she comes as a great help to them. Phileas, Passpartout and Aouda also buy an elephant in Bombay and travel around the different Indian rainforests. They enjoy themselves a lot!
Phileas Fogg, Passpartout and Aouda enjoy the rest of their journey around the world. But do they make it back in time? A heart-warming classic that you want to read over and over!
Suggested age range: 9-13
Dognapped by Karen King
Dognapped is a fantastic book written in the point of view of Amy Carter who goes to visit her grandma in her bed and breakfast in Cornwall. Amy's Gran owns a Bichon Frise dog, Fluffy. When Fluffy goes missing under Amy's care, Amy is determined to use her detective skills to find her.
I don't think the author is trying to put any point across in writing this book; it's just a fun, light-hearted story to read. As it is being narrated, it is written in an informal style. I think a suitable audience would be younger readers due to the fact that it contains easy language.
I think Karen King has done an excellent job with this book; it is very hard for me to make any criticism!
If I was writing this book, I would have made it a little longer with more description of characters and the setting. The reason I have given it a nine out of ten is because it is a bit out of my age range. If I was a younger reader, I would have definitely given it ten.
Suggested age range: 8+


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Do you spend more eating in than you would spend eating out?
My husband was convinced that I spend more money on groceries for homemade meals than I would spend if we ate out every night. He thought that even fast food would be cheaper than what I spend on ingredients for our meals. This may be true in some cases where recipes call for more expensive meats or exotic ingredients, but I was able to prove him wrong in a little experiment.
I made a grocery list for 5 of our favorite weeknight meals, and I shopped for only those ingredients. To be fair, I did not count what I consider "pantry staples". If you had to restock your pantry staples every time you cooked, of course we'd all spend a fortune.
What I discovered is that I can make a meal every night during the week for less than $50! I left a little wiggle room for grocery store price variations. I did my shopping at Wal-Mart here in Pearland, and this also gave me the idea to do some grocery store price comparisons, but we can explore that together at a later date.
Below, you will find the links for each recipe that I made, along with individual pricing for each recipe, minus pantry staples. I have also included a list of what I consider pantry staples in these recipes, as well as a grocery list with Wal-Mart prices, and a grand total at the bottom. Happy shopping!
Monday: Tuna Sandwiches, by Matt Sechrist
Solid White Albacore Tuna, Tomato, Green leaf lettuce, Onion, Cheese (use shredded from Tamale Pie/Taco salad recipes)
Tuesday: Tamale Pie, by Sharon Price
Onion, Ground beef chuck (buy a 2.25lb container, use 1lb for Taco Salad, 1.25lbs for Tamale Pie), 3 15-oz cans diced tomatoes (28-oz cans are cheaper, so buy 1 of those and 1 15-oz can), 1 can corn, Small can sliced black olives, 2 cups grated cheese (I buy in bulk, so I spent $7.58 for 8 cups. This bag will serve all these recipes with plenty of cheese leftover for your freezer
Wednesday: Amatriciana, from AllRecipes.com
Wal-Mart has pricey prosciutto right now, so I only bought 1 package. Kroger usually has them for less, but I paid $3.98 for 3oz., Onion, Angel Hair pasta, 28oz can diced tomatoes, 14.5oz can diced tomatoes
Thursday: Taco Salad, by Carol & Gary Morgan-Gohlke
Ground beef chuck (bought a 2.25lb container, use 1.25 lbs for Tamale Pie, 1lb for Taco Salad), 1 onion, 1 bell pepper, 1 can kidney beans, 1 package taco seasoning, 1 tomato, Cheddar cheese (use some of the big bag from the Tamale Pie recipe), sliced black olives, Green Leaf Lettuce.
Optional: Thousand Island, Pace Picante Sauce, Sour Cream, tortilla Chips (not included in the grand total below)
Friday: Chicken Stir Fry, by Katie Sechrist
Chicken breasts, Broccoli, Ginger Root, onion, Water Chestnuts, Zucchini, Green Bell Pepper
Pantry Staples:
Bread, sweet pickles, Ranch dressing, minced garlic in a jar, salt, chili powder, corn meal, milk, eggs, red pepper flakes, basil, corn starch, soy sauce
Grocery List:
1 can Solid White Albacore Tuna ($3.00 each)
2 tomatoes ($0.47 each)
2 heads green leaf lettuce ($1.68 per head)
5 onions ($0.46 each)
Ground beef chuck ($5.58 for a 2.25lb container, use 1 lb for Taco Salad, 1.25 lbs for Tamale Pie)
3 15-oz cans diced tomatoes (28-oz cans are cheaper, so buy 1 of those and 1 15-oz can for $1.63 total)
28oz can diced tomatoes ($1)
14.5oz can diced tomatoes ($0.63)
1 can corn ($0.60)
2 small can sliced black olives ($0.97)
2 cups grated cheese (I buy in bulk, so I spent $7.58 for 8 cups)
3oz prosciutto ($3.98)
Angel Hair pasta ($1)
2 bell peppers ($0.78 each)
1 can kidney beans ($0.62)
1 package taco seasoning ($0.50)
Chicken breasts ($6.48 for a 3lb bag)
Broccoli ($1.87 for a head)
Ginger Root ($0.12)
Water Chestnuts ($0.72)
Zucchini ($0.79)


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Seat will present the new Toledo Concept at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show. The prototype showcases very similar details to those of the future series, displaying a clean, simple design typical of the latest Spanish manufacturer's style; yet recalling the model's defining look over the years.
The Toledo Concept, a compact saloon 4.48m long, incorporates the version's classic style reinterpreted in a modern key. The compact dimensions make the car agile in town while the spacious interior allows 5 people to travel comfortably. The 500 litres boot can be extended by reversing the rear seats, to accommodate large and bulky objects.
Inside the sleek clean design of the passenger compartment remind of the elegant yet simple body outline. The dashboard has a minimalist design and integrates a GPS system and automatic air-conditioner, controlled by very few keys. The combination between bright colours and contrasting stitching in the same shade as the bodywork, enhance the modern look of the car. The new Toledo, with its clear SEAT identity, will continue 20 years of history of the model.


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