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Pep Guardiola felt Manchester United's defensive nature made life difficult for Bayern Munich in Tuesday's 1-1 draw at Old Trafford.
The first leg of their UEFA Champions League quarter-final ended level following second-half goals from Nemanja Vidic and Bastian Schweinsteiger.
While the latter was sent off late on after picking up a second yellow card, Bayern remain favourites to progress having secured an away goal ahead of next week's second leg in Munich.
Coach Guardiola, who is looking to emulate predecessor Jupp Heynckes by securing a treble, acknowledged the challenge his side faced in attempting to break down a disciplined United outfit.
"It's not easy against a team that put so many bodies behind the ball. We scored an away goal. That's important," he said.
"We will try to win the return leg. I have complete faith in my players.
"We scored an away goal, which is important, but we also got lucky that efforts from (Danny) Welbeck and (Wayne) Rooney did not go in. The goal we conceded was difficult to defend.
"It is always dangerous when you go into the second leg with a 1-1 draw, but even a 2-1 victory would have been dangerous.
"I am sure we can do it. I have full confidence in my players and hope the fans in Munich will push us like the United supporters did for their team."
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Be A Better Writer--ANTAGONISTS
These lessons, by one of our most consistent FaithWriters' Challenge Champions, should not be missed. So we're making a permanent home for them here.
Moderators: mikeedwards, glorybee
Be A Better Writer--ANTAGONISTS
Darth Vader…the wicked witch of the west…Professor Moriarity…Inspector Javert…the evil stepmother.
It's not too difficult to determine what these folks all have in common. They're the bad guys, the ones who cause so much trouble for the main character of the story. In literary terms, these people are called antagonists, and they've got a very important role to play.
First, a tiny bit of foundation: one of the essential elements of good fiction is conflict. It's conflict that draws your readers in as they search for resolution, just as your ear longs for resolution when you hear a dissonant chord. And the person who causes all that conflict is the antagonist.
Let's start with the simplest sort of antagonist—a fellow who's just plain bad, whose obvious role in the story is to cause all kinds of trouble for a main character who is all good. Think of the Big Bad Wolf from the story of Little Red Riding Hood. There's nothing subtle about that guy; he's just BAD inside and out.
Sometimes, when you're writing a very short story (like for the writing challenge), you don't really have time to develop your characters, and so your antagonist will have to be like the Big Bad Wolf—total malicious intent, with no shades of gray.
I've got an example of this kind of antagonist—almost—in Terrorizing Rachel. The narrator, Lisa, has almost no redeeming characteristics, and she bullies her Christian classmate mercilessly. This sort of antagonist is fairly easy to write; you don't have to give her any nuances of emotion or of motivation. Her purpose is to provide conflict for the main character, and she does it very well.
But a simple antagonist like this is a flat character—another literary term—a character who, unlike real people, may have only one or two personality characteristics. You can do better than that and you should, unless your audience is children, who don't always catch nuances (although even children do better than you'd think). You'll notice, in the story I linked to above, that even horrible Lisa had a slight change of heart toward the end.
And that's a better kind of antagonist to write: one who is a rounded character, with complicated motivations and nuanced emotions, one who is not all bad, just as your main character is probably not all good. This kind of character is far more interesting to read, because he or she will set up a bit of conflict not only in your story, but in your reader's spirit. Do I root against this person? But he's not all bad! Will he change his ways?
I wrote a sympathetic antagonist in Little One, Relax. The little boy in this story caused tremendous conflict for his foster mother, yet no one would say that he was malicious or evil.
Obviously, there will be a continuum of degrees of evilness and sympathy for any antagonist.
Some Christian writers have a certain amount of queasiness when writing an antagonist. It's difficult and unpleasant to put oneself into the soul of a bad person, to write that person doing sinful acts or saying sinful things.
But none of us live in a world without conflict, and your writing will feel bland and pale without it. It's not necessary to be graphic in your descriptions of antagonists' behaviors; practice a kind of writing that implies sin or negativity without being offensive. The antagonist in Hope, With Wings couches her evil (and that of her godless society) in an official manner and overly-sweet speech.
An antagonist is not always a person—it may be a group of people or a society, an animal or a force of nature, one's own self, or some supernatural being. Each of those could be a lesson in itself (and perhaps they will be, at some point).
To summarize: almost all fiction will have conflict, and therefore an antagonist. The antagonist is a person (or thing) that is acting against the main character. Most antagonists are not entirely malicious; there will be varying degrees of sympathy or goodness in them, making them more interesting for readers. The writer's job is to write the antagonist as a rounded character with complex motivations and emotions.
You may wonder why I've included this lesson, which doesn't really have a lot of practical writing suggestions. I just believe that writers need to be familiar with the particular language of writing—it will help us to be better readers, to better analyze other writers' works, and therefore to become better writers ourselves.
1. You don't have to post these, but think about the following books, and who (or what) the antagonist is. To Kill a Mockingbird…The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe…The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn…The Old Man and the Sea…the Harry Potter Series…the Little House on the Prairie series…Gone With the Wind…The Scarlet Letter…The Crucible.
If you have comments or questions about any of those, post them here.
2. Make a comment or ask a question in general about anything in this lesson.
3. Post a link to a challenge entry in which you had a clear antagonist, and say something about that character.
A reminder that I'm always open to suggestions about new topics. Next week I'll cover the second judging criterion for the writing challenge: creativity. Also, please spread the word about this class to any FaithWriters you may know (I especially hope to reach Level 1 and 2 writers), and feel free to join the discussion on Facebook (search for "Faithwriters Writing Lessons").
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Dear Jan,
Thanks for your Writing Basics series. I read all your lessons even though this is the first time that I have posted a reply.
Regarding those who were "taken aback" by your invitation posted on Challenge entries: All they had to do was a bit of clicking and they would have seen that you posted the same invitation on all the other entries. I don't see any reason for you to apologize
I myself was rather flattered by the invitation. Until I clicked around and realized that I wasn't special.
Thanks for all that you do for Faithwriters.
Cinnamon Bear
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Now to respond to Jan's post.
Hmm...I'm not as well read as some of you. As everyone knows biologists never read anything. Or if they do actually read something it is probably not worth reading.
That said, I think I can at least take a stab at Little House On the Prairie. In my view the antagonists were:
1) Mrs. Oleson and Nellie
2) Bad weather and other natural disasters such as fires
3) Medical and safety issues: Infectious disease, complications from injuries
4) Laura's envy of Mary--that is before Mary became blind.
Some more antagonists in LHOP maybe?
The Bear
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You're exactly right! Bravo for naming antagonists other than people.
Do you have a challenge entry you'd like to link to for comment on antagonists?
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Many of my entries are set in totalitarian societies or feature wild animals, fires, drunk drivers and the like. So for those entries the antagonists are obvious.
On the other hand some of my entries don't feature enough conflict--just nice stories.
So I chose two entries that do feature antagonists. But who or what is the antagonist is not immediately obvious.
"Teen Town"
My one and only E.C.
and the much more recent "Santa Fe Journey":
Who or what are the antagonists in these entries? (Red Ink welcome)
Cinnamon Bear
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Virginia, thanks for sharing these links! Both of those fall under the category of "Man vs. Society" conflict, where the antagonist is a group of people rather than just one person. In the first one, it would be the prevailing teen culture of self-indulgence, and in the second, the snooty Boston family.
Is that what you think?
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Thanks Jan, for reading my entries.
I agree with you regarding the antagonists for both entries.
In the case of "Santa Fe Journey" an additional antagonist was the inability of Emily's parents to show her affection.
Her parents had additional issues. Her father was in love with Molly but it was his older brother that she married. Emily's mother may have sensed that her husband had been in love with Molly. Both parents hid their respective jealousies under an anti Irish veneer and refused to allow Emily to get to know her cousin.
The Bear
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Antagonists, yay! Great subject
In the novel I'm writing, I've chosen to write out the details of the antagonist's parts last because I know he's going to be the hardest. I want him to come across as worthless and horrid, but I don't want him to be a cliché. I still need to put a lot of thought into his motivations.
In your piece Terrorizing Rachel, I didn't find the MC flat at all. In fact, the mere fact that the reader was inside her head (I believe) leant a great deal of dimension to her actions. If I had only read her actions from an outside perspective, I may have thought she was flat--just plain mean. But 'hearing' her thoughts and seeing how driven she was to mess with Rachel made me sympathize with her. We all know that someone that driven to terrorize another person...has issues. And we see those issues in one clear sentence, indicating the abuse that the MC faces at home. This and the internal dialogue (in my humble opinion) leant depth to the MC. If anyone was flat, it was Rachel. I only got an outside POV of her and to me, she was a cliché portrayal of a 'good Christian,' turning the other cheek. I didn't get to see if Rachel struggled at all with her decision.
(I'm thinking of a story a pastor at church told about when she was getting in the car line at Starbucks and she got into a car-to-car battle with another impatient woman. There was all sorts of nasty nonverbal communication coming from the other woman's car and the pastor, our 'Rachel' here, really fought with her emotions. She wanted to get out of her car and pound on the other woman, but she calmed herself down and started recalling Scripture. It was a process, but by the time she got to the window, she'd decided to do the right thing. She paid for her own coffee and also paid for the order of the angry woman behind her in line. Then she drove off, more than a little satisfied that though her action was a decent thing to do, she also knew that being kind to her enemy was like "pouring hot coals on her head." All the other woman knows was that the woman she'd been cursing out...just bought her coffee, so she only got to see the cliche'd Christian side of the story. What I got to hear was the real story and all the internal conflict that came with the 'good deed.')
Anyway, I think the only reason I'm being critical here is because I'm thinking of my novel. When I told a friend my story line (Antagonist was an abuser. Victim has a face-off with him toward the end.), my friend responded, "Your MC is not going to just forgive him, is she? I hate that in Christian novels, when the victim (especially in sexual abuse cases) just forgives the attacker because that's what Christians are supposed to do. Forgiveness is a process and it's a struggle, even for Christians.
In your story, I would have liked to see something like a swollen, red, or tear-streaked face when Rachel exited the office. In my story, I'm not yet sure how I'm going to handle the "finale" but I'm considering having my MC not forgive the attacker, and instead, ending the story with her working toward forgiveness.
I LOVE Hope With Wings. Sometimes I daydream about writing a sci-fi novel and this novel's plot is eerily similar to HWW. In the opening scene, I have a pregnant woman hiding behind a barricade as she reloads her semi-automatic weapon. The government is after her because she did not comply with required genetic modifications and they want to terminate the pregnancy...
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Thanks, Theresa. That image--a pregnant woman with a weapon, defending her pregnancy--is awesome. I'd read that book!
Do you have a link with an interesting antagonist for us to read?
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Several times I've used some pretty dark characters for my antagonist. But other times, my dark character is the PROTAGONIST. And sometimes they are BOTH dark. Here are some of those plus a few other interesting antagonists (including in one case, God!).
At least one of these has some glaring typos—sorry.
If this is overkill, I'd just read the first 2.
Rain Drop
The Black Book
The Difference
The Hound of Heaven Runs into a Bar (also posted recently for a different lesson).
Collision Course Day
"When the Round Table is broken every man must follow Galahad or Mordred; middle
things are gone." C.S. Lewis
"The chief purpose of life … is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all the means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks. To do as we say in the Gloria in Excelsis ... We praise you, we call you holy, we worship you, we proclaim your glory, we thank you for the greatness of your splendor." J.R.R. Tolkien
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Okay, here's one with a flat antagonist: http://www.faithwriters.com/wc-article-level4-previous.php?id=44721 This antagonist is mean just to be mean because, well...he's the devil's advocate. Reading this piece now, I can see how flat he is! In this case, how would you suggest I give him more dimension?
And here's one with a more interesting antagonist: http://www.faithwriters.com/wc-article-level4-previous.php?id=42762 In this one, the antagonist is "Logic" and to me, seems to have a lot more dimension than the devil's advocate above.
Then again, logic always did have more dimension than the devil's advocate...ba-dum-cha!
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Thanks for sharing these, Steve. In my lesson, I considered talking about times when the roles of protagonist and antagonist are mixed, but it started to get too long and complicated for an introductory lesson, so I stopped with the concept of sympathetic antagonist.
I love your "Rain Drop" story. In my opinion, the conflict there is Man vs. self, so the antagonist is Jim, the narrator, as he struggles with guilt. Was that your intention? And just out of curiosity, when I read this, I was picturing Jenny as Jim's wife, but I see that one of your commenters thought that Jenny was his daughter. So...which was it?
I have my own theory about "The Black Book," but I'd love to read your thoughts on that one.
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Theresa, I think you struck the right note with your devil's advocate. A "character" like that has to be painted in broad strokes, because you really can't mitigate the damage of the personality of Satan or one of his minions.
By the way, the more I read of your writing, the more I appreciate your range.
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Your comments on both the pieces raise that age old question: who "controls" the meaning of a story, the writer or the reader? In Rain Drop, I did intend Jenny to be his wife and noted with interest the comment you mentioned in which one reader took Jenny as his child. And, yes, this is a man vs. self piece, with debilitating grief as the antagonist.
And, of course, your comment about your theory on Black Box is again the writer vs. reader question. The genesis of this article was this: The topic was "Black," and I decided to do a piece on "the black arts," i.e., occult practices. Based on ministry with several real people who had gotten sucked into this world, I wanted the moral to be "you don't mess with this stuff, no matter what." I don't remember how the idea came to me to do it as a period piece. Anyway, I knew the MC would be someone who resisted at first, but eventually gave in and became a very "powerful" (in the occult sense) person, but a very evil person. So the moral kicked in when he paid the ultimate price when his grandfather "sacrificed" him, as indicated by the story ending with his letter writing being interrupted mid-word. By definition, the MC is the protagonist, even though he has become evil. The grandfather could be seen as the antagonist, with the moral being don't mess with the occult. Or the lure of the occult could be seen directly as the antagonist. Or both ideas could be combined: the grandfather is the antagonist, but as a proxy for the lure of the occult. In my mind, it was the last option as I was writing it. But it would be hard to argue with a reader who thought it was one of the other two.
I'm really interested in your theory.
By the way, this is the story I was referring to when I mentioned that BOTH antagonist and protagonist were "dark." "The Difference" is the one in which only the protagonist is dark.
"When the Round Table is broken every man must follow Galahad or Mordred; middle
things are gone." C.S. Lewis
"The chief purpose of life … is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all the means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks. To do as we say in the Gloria in Excelsis ... We praise you, we call you holy, we worship you, we proclaim your glory, we thank you for the greatness of your splendor." J.R.R. Tolkien
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For "Rain Drop," I should have said "debilitating grief AND guilt."
"When the Round Table is broken every man must follow Galahad or Mordred; middle
things are gone." C.S. Lewis
"The chief purpose of life … is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all the means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks. To do as we say in the Gloria in Excelsis ... We praise you, we call you holy, we worship you, we proclaim your glory, we thank you for the greatness of your splendor." J.R.R. Tolkien
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I've been having issues streaming my FLAC music files, I just got them to stream using the latest Snapshot build. The problem is that they are 24bit 96khz 5.1 FLAC files which is listed as being supported by PMS but from what I can gather I can't find that anyone is actual able to stream these files without them being downsampled so none of the surround sound is left intact and it's quality is diminished. The last mention I've found of someone streaming multi channel FLAC files is from years ago... and their last post was that a new version of PMS broke the streaming of such files. Now I'll be honest I have very little idea of the procedure for trying to stream them, from what I can gather your supposed to be able to do so under the video section in the XMB but most of my albums' files are missing when I view them in the video section and the ones that show up won't play and says "file is corrupted."
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See Matthew 24:35;
Luke 21:33; and Mark 13:31.
As directed by early revelations, church members "gathered" in communities. A revelation dated September 1830, for instance, instructed elders "to bring to pass the gathering of mine elect" who would "be gathered in unto one place, upon the face of this land...
Those who were not members of the House of Israel. More specifically, members of the church identified gentiles as those whose lineage was not of the Jews or Lamanites (understood to be the American Indians in JS's day). Certain prophecies indicated that ...
See Luke
See Luke 21:9.
See Matthew
See Isaiah
See Isaiah
See Matthew 24:7;
Luke 21:11; and Book of Mormon, 1830 ed., 534
[Mormon 8:30].
Whitmer copied the text into Revelation Book 1, where it is designated "A prophecy March 7th. 1831." Edward Partridge and William E.
McLellin also made copies in 1831, but they
assigned the date of 6 March 1831. The 1833
Book of
Commandments dates this revelation to March 1831
and locates it at Kirtland,
Ohio, while the 1835
Doctrine and
Covenants specifies the date as 7 March
but gives no location. (Revelations Collection, CHL; McLellin, Copies of Revelations, [1]–7; Book
of Commandments 48; Doctrine and Covenants 15,
1835 ed.)
Revelations Collection,
1831–ca. 1844, 1847, 1861, ca. 1876. CHL.
McLellin, William E. Copies of Revelations, early Nov. 1831. In "W. E.
Mc.Lellan Jan— 1877," 1877, William E. McLellin, Papers, 1831–1878. CHL. MS 13538,
box 1, fd. 7.
History, vol. A-1, 104.
The Book of Mormon indicated that, in preparation for Jesus Christ's second coming, a city should be built on the American continent and called the New Jerusalem. The Book of Mormon further explained that the remnant of the seed of Joseph (understood to be...
To produce a text from one written in another language; in JS's usage, most often through divine means. JS considered the ability to translate to be a gift of the spirit, like the gift of interpreting tongues. He recounted that he translated "reformed Egyptian...
See, for example, Book of Mormon,
1830 ed., 501 [3 Nephi 21:23–25];
and Revelation, 9 Feb.
1831 [D&C 42:9, 35, 62, 67]; see also Book of Mormon, 1830 ed., 566 [Ether 13:3–5]. One revelation foretold the destruction to come and urged the
gathering of "mine Elect" to a designated place of safety. Another indicated
that the sacred city was to be built "among the Lamanites," or the American Indians. Two
months later, in December 1830, JS
dictated a passage that described the founding of the city of Zion by the
patriarch Enoch and prophesied that there would be another Zion. In that text, God
declared that he would "gether out mine own elect from the four quarters of the
earth unto a place which I shall prepare an holy City that my people may gird up
their loins and be looking fourth for the time of my coming for there shall be my
tabernicle and it shall be called Zion a New Jerusalem." (Revelation, Sept.
Revelation, Sept.
1830–B [D&C 28:9]; Old Testament Revision 1,
p. 19 [Moses 7:62].)
Revelation, 9 Feb.
French explored area, 1669. British took possession following French and Indian War, 1763. Ceded to U.S., 1783. First permanent white settlement established, 1788. Northeastern portion maintained as part of Connecticut, 1786, and called Connecticut Western...
Compare Matthew 24:6.
27 Aug. 1793–27 May 1840. Hatter. Born at Pittsfield, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts. Son of William Partridge and Jemima Bidwell. Moved to Painesville, Geauga Co., Ohio. Married Lydia Clisbee, 22 Aug. 1819, at Painesville. Initially a Universal Restorationist...
Revelation, ca. 7 Mar. 1831,
in Revelations Collection, CHL.
Revelations Collection, 1831–ca. 1844,
1847, 1861, ca. 1876. CHL.
18 Jan. 1806–14 Mar. 1883. Schoolteacher, physician, publisher. Born at Smith Co., Tennessee. Son of Charles McLellin and Sarah (a Cherokee Indian). Married first Cynthia Ann, 30 July 1829. Wife died, by summer 1831. Baptized into LDS church by Hyrum Smith...
McLellin, Copies of Revelations,
Located ten miles south of Lake Erie. Settled by 1811. Organized by 1818. Population in 1830 about 55 Latter-day Saints and 1,000 others; in 1838 about 2,000 Saints and 1,200 others; in 1839 about 100 Saints and 1,500 others. Mormon missionaries visited township...
27 Aug. 1802–11 July 1878. Farmer, stock raiser, newspaper editor. Born in Pennsylvania. Son of Peter Whitmer Sr. and Mary Musselman. Member of German Reformed Church, Fayette, Seneca Co., New York. Baptized by Oliver Cowdery, June 1829, most likely in Seneca...


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Determine if the integral converges or diverges. What integral are you using for comparison in each case?
The integrand is a constant multiple of the function . We know that
diverges because 0.2 < 1,
and we know that
diverges because changing the lower limit of integration doesn't change whether the integral converges or diverges.
This means the integral
Since -1 < sin x < 1, we know
diverges, the integral
also diverges. Since the original integrand
is greater than , the original integral
also diverges.
If we make the denominator smaller we make the fraction bigger, so
Since we know
converges, the integral with smaller integrand,
also converges.
for x > 1, we know sin x < x and )
Since the integrand looks sort of like , we're going to guess this integral diverges. To show divergence for certain, we need to find a function that is less than
whose integral diverges. Following the first hint, let's make the denominator bigger (and the function smaller) by replacing sin x with x:
Now following the second hint, make the denominator bigger again (and the function smaller again) by replacing square root with x:
We know that
diverges. Since
is a constant multiple of , this means
diverges also. Finally, we conclude
For x > 1 we know that sin x < x2. This means
0 <
converges, so does
and therefore so does
While we can't integrate this integral exactly, for x > 1 we know that x2 > x. This means
Since ln x < x, we know . Since
diverges, so does
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- 1 package yellow cake mix (regular size), divided
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 package (1/4 ounce) active dry yeast
- 2/3 cup warm water (120° to 130°)
- 2 eggs, lightly beaten
- 1 can (21 ounces) cherry pie filling
- 1/3 cup butter, melted
- 1 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1 tablespoon corn syrup
- 1 to 2 tablespoons water
- Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, combine 1-1/2 cups cake mix, flour, yeast and water until smooth. Stir in eggs until blended. Transfer to a greased 13x9-in. baking dish. Gently spoon pie filling over top.
- In a small bowl, mix butter and remaining cake mix; sprinkle over filling.
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"does the yeast have to be prepared first or just pour it in?"
"Delicious and very easy. I will definitely make this again. The only change I would make was to make one and one-half times the amount of glaze and I put it on the cake right as it came out of the oven. Next time, I will mix cold butter with the remaining cake mix and sprinkle it over the top. The melted butter mixed with the remaining cake mix turned into batter which I just evenly dropped by tablespoonfuls over the top of the coffee cake. That was good, but a true streusel topping would be good, too."
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"I've made this coffee cake a # of times and I LOVE this recipe! Today I decided to experiment & I prepared the batter and used two greased and floured 9" layer pans (foil pans). I used one can jellied cranberry sauce, 1/4 cup ground navel orange and about 1-1/2 cups fresh cranberries for the filling. I prepared the crumb topping, evenly divided the batter, filling and crumb topping and baked for 45 to 50 minutes. I thought that this could be an alternative to making one large cake! Dawn E. Lowenstein"
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Europe's financial markets opened weaker Thursday, weighed down by concerns the impasse over the U.S. budget negotiations will continue right to wire.
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JPMorgan Cazenove has initiated coverage on the European car manufacturers, saying Europe will remain the largest incentive battleground in 2013. "Achieving positive earnings momentum will depend on pricing discipline, effective implementation of cost cutting measures, and the ability to capture growth in China," said the U.S. banking giant.
Its analysts believe that only Volkswagen and BMW tick all these boxes.
JPMorgan also initiated coverage on Daimler , Fiat Porsche Automobil Holding and Renault , all with a "neutral" rating as it sees higher execution risks in 2013 as well as limited earnings potential.
In addition Citigroup has cast its eye over the European aerospace and defense sector, saying 2013 looks like being positive for the civil market, but less so for the defense area. It has upgraded GKN to "buy", citing potential upside in margins in aerospace, its relatively strong position in autos and attractive valuation.
On the flip side, Citi has downgraded Rheinmetal to "sell", citing concern about the outlook for its exposure to predominantly European-exposed autos and its defense business. The U.S. bank has also cut Safran to "neutral" from "buy", citing its recent strong share price performance and some concerns over mergers and acquisitions.
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Texas coach Mack Brown said he went looking for defensive coordinator Manny Diaz on Monday morning, just before he set off for his weekly news conference because he likes to remain on the same page with his staff prior to things like that.
"I've been down there three times,'' Brown said, '' and he's got his door closed and he's under his desk. It's been hard to communicate with the defensive staff so far they're just sick.''
That's because they've been tasked, in a six-day span, to find a way to stop a West Virginia offense that went for 807 yards and 70 points last weekend, scored 10 touchdowns for the third time in five games, and is ranked No. 3 in the nation in total offense at 598.5 yards an outing.
''They're as good an offense as I've ever seen, anywhere,'' Brown said. ''They're just unbelievable.''
If the Longhorns have any edge (other than the 101,000 fans in their home stadium), it's that they just '' held'' the nation's top offense, Oklahoma State, to 576 yards and 36 points a week earlier. The Cowboys' offense was installed by the man who is now West Virginia's head coach, Dana Holgorsen.
At the very least, they should be used to preparing for it, though Holgorsen pointed out his guys "have an entire film on how Texas defended that offense.''
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Who: West Virginia (4-0)
at Texas (4-0)
What: Big 12 Conference Game
When: 7 p.m. today
Where: Darrell K. Royal Stadium, Austin, Texas
"We've watched (Holgorsen) and watched that offense grow,'' Brown said. ''We probably will have some advantages in having some of the same thing to work on in two straight weeks.''
"We just played against a team that had scored 62 (in its previous game), and now we're playing a team that just scored 70,'' Brown added. ''It's crazy.''
Oklahoma State put up its numbers against Texas primarily because the Longhorns' tackling left something to be desired. Brown figures it will get worse before it gets better if they don't find a way to fix that.
"We'll give up 70 this weekend if we don't tackle better than we did (against the Cowboys),'' Brown said.
Then again, Brown and Diaz don't have nearly the issues that Holgorsen and WVU defensive coordinator Joe deforest do. At the moment, only 14 teams in the entire tbs have bigger problems stopping people than West Virginia (Baylor is now dead last in total defense).
Somehow, after watching the film, Holgorsen came away feeling better about his defense Sunday afternoon than he did Saturday night. He promised this one would be different, if for no other reason, Texas plays a more traditional power-running type of offense and doesn't feel the need to play every snap as if its hair were on fire.
"We played well against the run,'' Holgorsen said. ''They had over 40-some attempts and we held them to around 2 yards per carry. Our pass defense was atrocious, but to find a positive our run defense was really good.''
It will have to get better in a hurry. This game features the nation's two most efficient passers, as Texas' David Ash is right on the heels of West Virginia's Geno Smith (208.37 to 184.03).
Brown, by the way, mentioned Smith is the Heisman front-runner in his eyes and '' as good as (Big 12) quarterbacks have been, (Smith) is playing as good or better than any we've had. It's unbelievable. (With the Heisman hype), It's a very difficult thing to do. He just seems unbothered by it. And he's got three of the best receivers I've ever seen. He has absolutely no weaknesses. It's just amazing to watch him. ''
Ash, a sophomore whose career statts coming into this season were four touchdowns and eight interceptions, has cleaned that up in a big way. He finished 30 of 37 for 304 yards, three touchdowns and his first interception against Oklahoma State.
"Ash is playing at a high level,'' Holgorsen said. ''He's doing a good job taking care of the football. They've got backs that are fast. They're a good, talented Texas offense.''
The Longhorns' leading rusher is junior Joe Bergeron, who averages 64 yards per game, with Malcom Brown right behind him at 62. All told, Texas is 19th in rushing offense (228 yards per game), 40th in passing offense (267.75) and 23rd overall at 495.75 yards per game, 103 per contest fewer than West Virginia.
The leading receivers are Juxon Shipley and Mike Davis, who combine to catch 108 yards worth of passes per game.
It's a different story with the always-stingy Texas defense, which is giving up 390 yards a game, or 85 fewer than the Mountaineers. The Longhorns give up 21 points per game.
"They're really, really fast,'' Holgorsen said. ''They have tons of speed. We have to be prepared for a lot of blitz and a lot of man coverage.''
Both of these offenses rank inside the top four in the country in third-down conversions (WVU is first, Texas is fourth and they're both above 58 percent).


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Sought by Authorities: March 17, 2013
Published: Sunday, March 17, 2013 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, March 17, 2013 at 12:10 a.m.
NAME: Joshua Leo Brown
DATE OF BIRTH: Dec. 30, 1980
CHARGES: Failure to appear in court, careless operation, hit and run driving, distribution of powder cocaine
AGENCY: Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office
LAST KNOWN ADDRESS: 5102 Gable Ave., Chauvin
STILL AT LARGE: Tate Paul Allemand, Elroy O. Allridge, Carlos Andrew Alvis, Linda Marie Bland, Byron Gerard Brown, Joshua Leo Brown, Stephen Patrick Callahan, Anthony James Collins, Jamie Howard Davis, Christopher Lawrence Diggs, Isaias Alvarran Escobar, Rosella Angela Foret, Resendiz Jose Francisco, Randy Joseph Gorley, Columbus Kennedy, Matthew Basin Mitchell, Dirk Ion Mousseau, Peter Long Nguyen, Tyron Anthony Rainey, Kristen Wallace Rios, Akeem Jermall Ross, James Earl Samuels, Byron Charles Shelby, Paul Kenneth Smith Jr., and Kedar Aska Wallis.
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The Texas A&M - Corpus Christi men's basketball team finishes off the Continental Tire Las Vegas Classic with a pair of games in the City of Lights this week. On Thursday, Dec. 22, the Islanders open against Bethune-Cookman at noon PT/2 p.m. CT, and then will play either Kennesaw State or Tennessee Tech on Friday, Dec. 23, depending on the outcomes of Thursday's contest. Other teams participating in the Classic are West Virginia, Missouri State, St. Mary's and Baylor.
The Islanders are 1-8 on the season, having lost five straight contests. That said, the schedule has been the toughest of any Southland Conference team and one of the strongest in the nation. Among its nine games, A&M - Corpus Christi has played five teams that advanced to the postseason a year ago in addition to Big 12 foe Texas Tech.
Bethune-Cookman is now 3-9 on the season, and is on an even longer road trip than the Islanders, facing UCF, Baylor, St. Mary's and Stanford before heading to Vegas.
• Terence Jones has caught fire over the last five games, shooting 57.6 percent from beyond the arc, 50 percent from the field and averaging 18.8 points per game.
• This is the fourth game in eight days for Texas A&M - Corpus Christi and is in a cluster of five games in nine days.
• The Islanders are 2-1 against Bethune-Cookman all time, with a 69-65 win last year in Las Vegas.
• Johnathan Jordan has rapidly climbed the rankings in the Southland in assists, as he leads the league with 4.2 per game.
• Chris Hawkins-Mast scored a career-high 22 points at West Virginia and went 8-for-10 from the free-throw line.
Terence Jones continued his scoring binge with 19 points, but Missouri State jumped out to a big early lead and never looked back in knocking off the Texas A&M – Corpus Christi men's basketball team 66-53 on Monday. Missouri State (7-3) placed four players in double figures. The Islanders (1-8) hit a season-high 10 three-pointers in the loss, with Jones' five leading the way. Ted Wang had a strong contest, posting a career-high four points, five rebounds and 23 minutes.
Bethune-Cookman comes into Las Vegas having lost four straight road contests with a 3-9 overall record. The Wildcats have fallen to UCF, Baylor, St. Mary's and Stanford in the midst of a road swing that started on Dec. 10. Two of the three wins for B-CU came against non-Division I opponents and the third was a conference victory over Florida A&M.
Kennesaw State has a 2-8 record, with wins over Chattanooga and Reinhardt to its credit. The Owls have lost six straight since toppling Reinhardt, and they have played just two home games all year. Tennessee Tech is 6-5 on the year with a loss to West Virginia snapping a three-game winning streak. All but one of its wins has been by double digits.
The Islanders are 2-1 all-time against Bethune-Cookman, splitting a home-and-home with the Wildcats in the first two years of the Islanders program. The Islanders won 87-72 in Corpus Christi on Feb. 3, 2000, but fell 93-92 in overtime in Daytona Beach. Last year, the teams squared off in the same round of the Las Vegas Invitational, and the Islanders took a 69-65 win behind 23 points and 15 boards from Demond Watt.
Texas A&M - Corpus Christi has never faced Kennesaw State or Tennessee Tech in program history.
This will be the second straight season that the Islanders take part in a Las Vegas-based exempt tournament, as they took part in the Las Vegas Invitational last season. A year ago, the Islanders fell at Ohio and Kansas before splitting affairs in Vegas with Bethune-Cookman and Valparaiso.
This year, Texas A&M - Corpus Christi takes part in the Continental Tire Las Vegas Classic, which sees them travel to West Virginia, Missouri State and play two games in the City of Lights.
Over the trip, the Islanders will log over 5,000 air miles. Including Thursday's game against USA, the Islanders will play five games in a span of nine days.
Junior Terence Jones is the team's leading returning scorer from last season, but had struggled to heat up in the offensive end over the first four games of the season. But December has shone brightly on him, starting against Texas Tech, as the Baltimore native went off for a career-high 26 points on 9-of-19 shooting.
It was the most points for an Islanders player since Justin Reynolds scored 26 against UT-Arlington on March 2, 2011.
At Houston, he went 5-for-9 from the field and scored a pedestrian 12 points. In the South Alabama affair, Jones upped the ante from the outside, burying his first four threes en route to 17 more points. At West Virginia, he went 4-for-5 from beyond the arc and tallied his second 20-point game of the season. He then matched his career high at Missouri State with five triples and led all scorers with 19 points.
Over the last five contests, the Baltimore native has averaged 18.8 points and shot 57.6 percent from beyond the arc.and 50 percent from the field overall. He now has 102 career threes, the seventh player in school history to top 100.


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News 12 at 11 o'clock / Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Shatara Brown had to stay at Knights Inn off Boy Scout Road in Augusta for several days but says her stay cost her more than the nightly rates.
"I had just been itching, so I noticed some bumps on her neck. I'm thinking it's mosquito bites from outside," she said.
That was until Brown saw this: "He flipped the pillow over, it was a lot of them. He moved the covers, it was a lot of them under the covers."
These critters are ones Brown says she and her children were sleeping with for a week at Knights Inn.
"When I woke up, I seen them all over my baby's arm, bleeding, puss, everything. And then, all over my forehead," Brown said.
She and her family went from the hotel to a hospital. They received bites to the forehead, to the arms, to the face. Bites that left marks seen in photos.
News 12 took her claims to the Health Department.
Richmond County Environmental Health Manager Randy Wishard told News 12, "Our office did receive a complaint and the inspector that inspects the hotel on a normal basis was given it and had gone out and spoke with management."
"So, we have confirmed there were bed bugs in the room?" asked News 12's Sheli Muniz.
"Yes, mmhmm," Wishard replied.
Bed bugs that have left a little one itchy, left one scarred and a mother looking for answers.
The owners of Knights Inn told News 12 it is not their fault.
They say Brown didn't complain until her sixth day at the hotel and by that point there was no way to prove she didn't bring them in.
Wishard says those bugs don't generate in a room. He says they have to be carried there. Wishard urged hotel guests to check their sheets and pillows for anything that looks like ground pepper.
Meanwhile, the Knights Inn owners say that room is empty until they can be absolutely certain the bed bugs are gone.


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CORPUS CHRISTI – Lauren Molinaro has been hired as the Texas A&M – Corpus Christi women's soccer program's first assistant coach, head coach Shanna Caldwell announced today. Molinaro, who has coached at both the professional and collegiate levels, officially joined the Islanders family today.
"I'm ecstatic to have as accomplished and enthusiastic a person as Lauren become our assistant coach," Caldwell said. "I've known Lauren for over 10 years, and she has the drive and personality that embody a successful collegiate coach and recruiter. She also is a strong teacher of the game and gets the most out of her players on the field. She will be a tremendous addition, not just for Islanders Soccer, but for Texas A&M – Corpus Christi."
Most recently, Molinaro served as the head coach of the New England Mutiny of the Women's Professional Soccer League, a position she has held since 2010. She is also the team's summer camp director and an assistant coach for Manchester (Conn.) High School.
"Shanna and I have known each other since we were teammates in college, and I'm eager to start working with her to build the Islanders program," Molinaro said. "This is such a unique opportunity for me, to join a program that is in its infancy, but in a wonderful location and with a strong support system from the university. Working with a clean slate alongside someone I respect so much as Shanna is a thrilling endeavor for me at this point in my career."
In addition to her professional experience, Molinaro spent three years as an assistant coach for the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, R.I. There, she developed and implemented technical team training as well as individual player development sessions for her teams. She also served as a national recruiter for the Rams as well as coordinating team travel and scheduling along with fundraising activities.
In her three seasons at URI, the Rams had nine Atlantic 10 All-Conference selections, including four honorees to the league's All-Rookie Team. Among those was 2007 Rookie of the Year Jessica Babice. The 2006 Rams also set a school record with six players honored by the A-10.
Molinaro has also spent significant time working on the club and Olympic Development Program levels. She served as a Region I ODP staff coach from 2004-06, then joined the Rhode Island ODP staff from 2007-09. The native of Ellicott City, Md., served as the head coach of the Eagle Elite U-17/U-18 Program from 2004-06 and was an assistant for Fortuna Rhode Island from 2006-09.
Molinaro played four years for the University of Connecticut, serving as the team captain in the 2000 season. She was also a standout off the field, earning a Scholar-Athlete Award in each of her four seasons and being named the Outstanding Senior Scholar-Athlete in 2000. She was a member of the Dean's List every semester at UConn and earned recognition as a Scholar-Athlete All-American in 2000. Following her collegiate career, she was one of the top draft picks for the Bay Area Cyber Rays of the Women's United Soccer Association.
Following her playing career, she spent the 2001-02 season as a graduate assistant coach at her alma mater. She holds both bachelor's (2001) and master's degrees (2002) from Connecticut in education.


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Deep in the forests of Finland, on the borders with Russia, brown bears roam. Slightly smaller than their Alaskan cousins, European Brown Bears are very shy and avoid human contact where possible. This bear scene was captured during rainy season of summer from the hide located in stunning forests of Kuhmo in Oulu Finland. The young bear was found wondering alone on the edge of beautiful woodland, as raindrops falling on its thick fury black coat.
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BEACON FALLS -- Woodland High sophomore Coby Vaccarelli is back after suffering a season-ending injury last year.
Vaccarelli started at safety for the Hawks on Friday night in their 25-22 Naugatuck Valley League Copper Division win over Naugatuck in the first George Pinho Memorial Trophy game. He made three solo tackles, assisted on four more and deflected a pass.
Through five games last season, Vaccarelli was the team's third-leading tackler and among the leaders in receptions. Then came the last play of the Hawks' game against Naugatuck. Running downfield on a punt return, Vaccarelli collided with a player, and his right leg bent awkwardly.
"I was screaming in pain and was on the ground for about five minutes," recalled Vaccarelli. "But later the pain subsided and I didn't go to the doctor right away. The leg kep feeling better and better each day. I thought it was only a minor injury. But finally, I went to get it checked. An MRI revealed an ACL injury."
Vaccarelli had surgery performed Nov. 19, 2012 at Waterbury Hospital.
"At first, I was really depressed and then I got really motivated," said Vaccarelli. "After a while, I went through a swing of emotions. I was so used to playing sports year-round and now I was stuck. It got so bad that I wouldn't even go to the basketball or baseball games because I didn't feel like I was a part of the team anymore."
With the help of his doctor, physical therapists, family and friends — especially teammate Joe Fancher, who also had an ACL injury in 2012 — Vaccarelli slowly recovered and knew he would return for his sophomore year in 2013.
He attended spring practice, but was kept out of contact drills.
"When I was medically cleared to play right before the first day of practice (Aug. 19), I was ready to go," he said. "I turn 16 on Nov. 3 and it will be the best birthday present to be back on the field and doing what I love. I am so proud of myself the way I have handled things."
"Coby has a real nose for the ball and is a very good open-field tackler. He made some big plays against Naugatuck," said Woodland coach Tim Shea. "There was absolutely no hesitation on his part. He's fast and explosive and a good open-field tackler, and that is why he played last year."
In the season opener against Branford on Sept. 13, Vaccarelli rushed for 112 yards and had seven tackles and an interception in a 44-19 win. He followed that up with four solo tackles, four assists and an interception in a 40-6 win over Crosby a week later. He didn't play against Kennedy in a 34-26 win so he could rest the leg in preparation for the Greyhounds.
"Coby was very anxious and eager to get started after last season was over," said Shea. "We had to sort of slow him down and keep him from trying to do too much, even during last spring's practice. Once he was cleared medically, we started to get him involved in as many activities as possible."
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Still, all of the above, but you're residing and working in downtown Frisco for December and January.
Welcome to Cheryl Kauvar's life.
"I am a managing partner at eThink Education LLC," she offers. "We are a technology company that provides learning management systems to colleges and universities."
Cheryl has a bachelor's from George Washington University in Washington D.C., and an MBA from the University of Maryland.
She is rising at 6 a.m., to get online and meet the East Coast's workday schedule, but is able to get out to run and ski.
During the holidays, her mother, Barbara, came out to visit. They walked Frisco, and rented a car to hit Breckenridge and see Vail. The duo experienced a sleigh ride dinner with Two Below Zero.
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"I'm very much enjoying the small-town atmosphere Frisco provides. Everyone I've met is friendly and helpful. The mountain atmosphere is beautiful and such a change from the scenery on the East Coast. I'm enjoying my time here very much and being able to ski world-class mountains whenever I want."
She had previously visited Denver and Colorado Springs, but this two-month stay marks her first visit to Summit County.
"I wanted to be close to the mountains," she says. "Frisco seemed ideally located in the middle of it all. Matt and Kristen Moore's Bear's Den condo was appealing because I knew I wouldn't have a car out here and this location offers easy access to Main Street and the free Summit Stage."
"I've skied all over the East Coast, primarily in New Hampshire and Vermont," says Cheryl.
While here, she is keeping up her marathon-training regimen.
"I've been running most of my life, although I've gotten more interested in long distance running in the past five years," she comments. "I've completed two marathons: the Philadelphia Marathon and the Bay State Marathon in Lowell, Mass. I'm training to run the Boston Marathon this coming April, which is a life-long goal of mine having grown up in the Boston area."
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to a bunch of folks spotted out and about in a variety of settings:
Jim and Maureen Reis, Ray and Pooh Bishop, Thomas Davidson, Gary Wilkinson and Joyce Burford, David and Cathy Cunningham, Chris and Maya Eby, Jackie and John Moberly, Bob (another Omaha oracle) Root, Dennis Johnson, Betsy Cuthbertson, Rick Hein and Linda Roberts, Mark McCrerey, Tracy Glass, Abby Stetson, Rick and Judi Amico, Larry and Pat Schmidt, Peter Siegel, Jim Farquhar and Carolyn Kosabucki, Bob Bloch, Sally Husson, Danny (The Weatherman) Moroz, Alice and Andy Hayes, Teri Booth, Maureen Keefe, Betsy and Don Sather, Frank Walter, Phil Kopp, Cindy Lundquist, Dan and Marian Kibbie, Dot Vanderbeck, Janet Carter, and Bob Hartzell.
And Tim Thompson, Terry and Traci McGeehan, Danny Pins and Sandy Sheffield, Jeannette Gongloff, Renee Imamura, Russ Wolfe, Simone Belz, Jim and Connie Bull, Thom Emrick and Sherri Nielsen, Kathy Jones, Bruce Lew, Jerry Miner, Dr. John Warner and Dr. Darcy Rehn, Dr. Karl Heggland, Wildernest Property Management's Pat Miller, Nicky Soupal, Jon Obel, Pam Smith, Sean Creasman, Tony Snyder and Karen Harsch; Resort Internet's Lynn Johnson, Cheryl Parkinson, Mark Wentzlaff, Brian Schultz, Alisha Lawrence, Bernie Reynoso, Mike Hess, Brandon Bruegger, Chris Proctor, Kyle Postema and Colby Ransom.
And Frisco Town Manager Bill Efting, Jim and Maryann Annuziata, Walter Wiersonski, Amy and Joel Levy, Dr. Chuck Lackey, Otero Jr. College's Ron Davis, Washington, D.C.'s Nicholas Zeisler and Ron Milette; Matt and Laura Zeisler, Tom and Sheila Flanagan, Lauren Scott, Janice Kurbjun, Ryan Wondercheck, Ben Trollinger, Mark Fox, Matt Sandberg, that British ski and snowboard national team staying at Mark and Liz McManis' River House, and the Dartmouth Men's Ski Team camped over at Bob and Nancy Downey's Keystone residence.
And thanks for Spike's Facebook birthday wishes from: Francie Ton, Dorothy Nobis, Jim Conder, Rolando Cuadrado, Brian Johnson, Holly Lowder, Michael Longueira, Kathy Holmes, Leon Joseph Littlebird, Tom Fricke, Matt Lit, Lenny Martinez, Dan Gibbs, Dr. Jim Bachman, Kim Orr, Carrie Welch, Kim Fancher, Linda Axelrod, Kathy Ewing, The Magills, mpfv, Lou Culman, Gary Sonnett, Rudy Papaco, compa Felix, Marilyn Leuszler, Joe Jefferson and Sylvia Lobato.
Miles F. Porter IV, nicknamed "Spike," a Coloradan since 1949, is an Army veteran, former Climax miner, graduate of Adams State College, and a local since 1982. An award-winning investigative reporter, he and wife Mary E. Staby owned newspapers here for 20 years.
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I see some Kona Coal in your secret project. Or am I mistaken. I love that colour. It is just the right dark shade of grey without being too dark.
I love your new profile picture!
I have had my email account hacked it really sucks.
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Love your new profile pic!!! Awesome shot! And Look at all of those HSTs, holy cow! Have you tried out those Thangles things yet? Looks like you're making some good progress so far!
My Yahoo got hacked a couple of months ago too. I changed my password hoping that would help. BTW I love your star block and your triangles are intriguing!!
Sorry to hear you got hacked, Lee. My hotmail account got hacked a couple of weeks ago too. It's so frustrating! Your block is beautiful! Great fabric and colour choices!
Just love your star block! Such pretty colors…wouldn't it be nice to have everything off the WIP list? lol I seriously appreciate you hosting WIP Wednesday. Each week it motivates me to get off my butt and sew! Thanks!
I got that email from you! 🙂 Luckily, I know a hacked email when I see one. SOrry you got hacked. That's not fun.
I love that basket of triangles. I look forward to seeing it someday! 🙂
Thanks for hosting!
I got that email! But it happens a lot. Sorry it had to happen to you. I can't wait to see your secret project!
I too got the email, just ignored it. I really like that lovely star and I just looked at your bee blocks from yesterday's post, they are all so wonderful.
I got the email but I knew right away what it was. I had the same thing happen to me. I was able to re-claim my account thankfully.
Love that farmers wife block and congrats on a secret project, I'm sure it's going to be awesome.
Oh dang, no iPhone offers here, I feel left out… ;o) Love the tantalising peek of the secret project, looking forward to seeing what it turns into!
well I got a e mail from you but it wasn't for a phone, it was porn related 🙂 I knew it wasn't from you but that you had to have been hacked and deleted it without opening it. I hate that people can do that with our e mail accounts.
Your star block is really cute. I have a neglected QAL using some of those same fabrics. After the first of the year I want to get it out and get it done!
Sorry to hear you were hacked. What a pain. I do love the colors for your secret quilt, looking forward to seeing it together!
Dang, and that Australian iPhone seemed like such a good deal! The star block is really cute, and that looks like a whole lot of HST!
Can anyone join in on your WIP Wednesday link up Lee?
: ( So lame about the hacker.
I'm sad about your hacker! 🙁 I'm glad you were (presumably) able to get your account back!
Fun to have a secret project to sew on, as I'm sure many of us will have some things like that this holiday season. Sorry about your hacker. As a professor in a community college, about twice a semester a student's account is hacked. I think this is part of the territory in our online life. You seem remarkably calm for this having happened–I hope you got your account back!
Elizabeth E.
Boo about the hacker! I'm intrigued by your secret projects.
Sorry about the hacker Lee! That happened to me a few months ago, also with Yahoo. Gmail is totally the way to go…and no worries, I resisted the urge to cash in on an Australian iPhone on your recommendation, haha. Yay for secret projects, looks yummy!
You are such a tease with that secret quilt!
Oh…and I noticed your profile photo right away…gorgeous! Did your friend take it! So flattering!!
I joined our local Quilt Guild this week and I am so excited. Now I need to find out how to make a 12 1/2 inch star square in red white and blue to add to a military quilt they are making!
Love the fabrics for your Charmed Prints QA. Great colors!!
So funny… not the hacker, but the fact that now all day I keep thinking about how everything is doing.