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This summer, Showtime must bid a sad farewell to "Dexter," which launches its eighth and final season on Sunday. The serial-killer saga was a signature show, one that delivered as much buzz as it did blood for the pay-cable network.
The good news for Showtime is that it has "Ray Donovan" waiting in the wings. It's a muscular, instantly riveting series that features sensational performances by Liev Schreiber and Jon Voight. Based on the early episodes, we could be looking at television's next great character-based drama.
Schreiber, taking on his first lead TV role, plays the title character. He's a hard-nosed South Boston native now working as a professional "fixer" for celebrities in Los Angeles.
Ray is the guy who leaps into cleanup mode during a crisis. Did you wake up this morning next to a naked corpse? Get blackmailed by a hooker? Have a drug problem? Just call Ray and he'll keep TMZ at bay.
As deftly played by Schreiber, Ray is a man of few words. He talks softly and carries a big baseball bat. Literally. When everyone else around him is freaking out, he remains calm and cool.
Unfortunately, Ray also has some complications on the family front that aren't so easily fixed. There are tensions with his wife, Abby (Paula Malcomson), and it's having a corrosive effect on their two children.
Then there's Ray's brother, Bunchy (Dash Mihok), who was molested in his youth by a Boston priest and now battles addiction and depression. Meanwhile, another brother, Terry (Eddie Marsan), spent too long in the boxing ring getting his head pounded into mulch, and is suffering from Parkinson's. All of the siblings are haunted by the ghost of their little sister, who committed suicide when she was a teen.
In Ray's mind, these problems can be traced to one man: his father. Mickey Donovan (Voight), a lousy parent and former gangster, has spent the past 20 years in prison. Now, Mickey is being sprung from his cage -- five years earlier than expected -- and he's on his way to L.A., hoping to reconnect with his family.
While the other Donovans seem willing to give Mickey another chance, Ray wants absolutely nothing to do with him. There is unfinished emotional business between father and son, and Ray has made it a point to keep his distance from this menacing, manipulative thug.
Schreiber plays Ray with striking conviction. He's a guy's guy who exudes a rugged resolve and steely authority, but also reveals glimpses of a compassionate core. Voight, meanwhile, has been handed his best role in years and is jaw-droppingly good. When these acting heavyweights go toe to toe, you just can't take your eyes off them.
They receive quality assistance from an outstanding cast that includes Elliott Gould and Pooch Hall. And they're fortunate to be working with a complex, carefully crafted narrative pieced together by creator/executive producer Ann Biderman, who brings an observational shrewdness to the proceedings.
At first glance, "Ray Donovan" is a blend of "Entourage" and "The Sopranos," but it winds up being its own distinctive thing. Sunday's pitch-perfect opener is rich with intimate character details and sets up several juicy storylines. There are hints of dark past secrets -- secrets that have the potential to ruin people.
I could reveal more, but you'd probably hate me for it. Better to just sit back and see how this finely layered, twisted tale plays out, knowing you're in good hands.
THE END BEGINS: Coming into the final season of "Dexter" (9 p.m. Sunday, Showtime), the body count is at 125, and you just know things are going to get even messier before this sordid saga calls it a wrap. Is Dexter (Michael C. Hall) destined for his own grave?
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This topic discusses the differences between scripts and functions, and shows how to convert a script to a function.
Program files can be scripts that simply execute a series of MATLAB® statements,
or they can be functions that also accept input
arguments and produce output. Both scripts and functions contain MATLAB code,
and both are stored in text files with a
.m extension.
However, functions are more flexible and more easily extensible.
For example, create a script in a file named
triarea.m that
computes the area of a triangle:
b = 5; h = 3; a = 0.5*(b.* h)
After you save the file, you can call the script from the command line:
a = 7.5000
To calculate the area of another triangle using the same script,
you could update the values of
b and
h in
the script and rerun it. Each time you run it, the script stores the
result in a variable named
a that is in the base
However, instead of manually updating the script each time,
you can make your program more flexible by converting it to a function.
Replace the statements that assign values to
b and
h with
a function declaration statement. The declaration includes the
function keyword,
the names of input and output arguments, and the name of the function.
function a = triarea(b,h)
a = 0.5*(b.* h);
After you save the file, you can call the function with different base and height values from the command line without modifying the script:
a1 = triarea(1,5) a2 = triarea(2,10) a3 = triarea(3,6)
a1 = 2.5000 a2 = 10 a3 = 9
Functions have their own workspace, separate from the base workspace.
Therefore, none of the calls to the function
triarea overwrite
the value of
a in the base workspace. Instead,
the function assigns the results to variables

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
Time flies when you're making fun of people
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Happy Anniversary to one of my favorite bloggers! Very nice pictures, too!ReplyDelete
Happy Anniversary!ReplyDelete
Good stuff, man.
One year? Feels like I just found out about you last month. ;)ReplyDelete
Where is that mural? Looks nice.Too bad we don't have any of those in SOJOCO.
Speaking of getting peed on, took my 110lb German Shepherd to the vet this week. He's now on some medication that makes him drink and pee - ALOT! So last night at the beginning of our walk, the neighbor across the streets parents are visiting, and the mother wants to see the dog, cause they used to raise GS's. So here's my dog just going...and going...and going. I was little embarrased.
Happy blogiversary MM. You are already an indelible part of the KC blogging community. Hope you get that call!ReplyDelete
- SavoyeeThursday, October 30, 2008
Happy anniversary MM. I'm so glad I found your blog. It brightens my day whenever I see a new you've created. Thanks for the many stories and I hope you do get a call soon. (I had to crack up a that weekly reader mention, I haven't heard that magazine name in years :-)ReplyDelete
Savoyee, I may be showing my age . Do the still have Weekly Reader? I was going to say Hi Lights, that creepy kids mag that wwas always found in the Doc's office.ReplyDelete
Pap, that particular graffitti is on the north end of the city market area, or as us old curmudgeons call it, The River Quay.
To all the well wishers, and kind commenters, Thanks and shit like that.
- SavoyeeThursday, October 30, 2008
Apparently so MM. I googled The Weekly Reader and found weeklyreader.com where you can subscribe to it. Wow, I didn't know they were still around.ReplyDelete
Happy anniversary MM!!!ReplyDelete
Awesome Kansas City Blogging for one year!!!
Congratulations. Keep up the good work!!!
Here are more exclamation points, you deserve them!!!!!!!!!!!!
- AnonymousThursday, October 30, 2008
Congratulations. I thoroughly enjoy your read and the take.ReplyDelete
Congrats! Love the fall colors on some of the trees. We don't get that much here- we have mostly sand and pine.ReplyDelete
cool pictures; happy anniversary to your blog!ReplyDelete
Happy anniversary! I got you beat by one day :-)ReplyDelete
Happy Anniv Bro.ReplyDelete
I'm always delighted when you put up a new post...and I love your stories.ReplyDelete
Happy anniversary - and thanks.
Congratulations on one year and still going strong. I'm looking forward to your next year.ReplyDelete
Sorry for the delay but I am suffering from election fatigue. Congrats on the year and keep up the great pics and stories as only you can tell.ReplyDelete
I can now say that there is at least one decent person living in Midtown.


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'Any Old Loser Can Find a Man Here'
More In Film
- Zhang Yimou on Failure, 'House of Cards' and 'Coming Home'
- Teenage Jeremy Lin Turns Screenplay Into Movie
- Review: Nick Cave Movie Biopic '20,000 Days on Earth'
- A Chinese Awards Show Gets a Hollywood Welcome
- Chinese Blogger Han Han Takes His Writing to the Big Screen
- To Film 'Wolf Totem,' French Director Raised Chinese Wolves
In the documentary "Bachelor Mountain," San Liangzi is a middle-age, divorced logger living in China's snowy northeast province of Heilongjiang. Excessive logging and toughening environmental regulations have pushed the local economy to the edge, and many of the inhabitants — especially the women — have long since moved to the city for work.
"Any old loser can find a man here," says one of the female villagers interviewed. "Most women move to the city. They don't want to live here in the sticks. We'd all leave if we could."
Mr. San works occasional odd jobs, and he pines for one of the few single women in town. Wang Meizi — attractive but masculine—lives with her parents and runs an inn. Mr. San has carried a torch for her for years, but she has no interest in marriage. "We all know she's a lesbian," Mr. San's friends tell him in an effort to get him to move on, but he brushes them off with a wave of his hand.
The film is a slow-paced and fascinating look at the enormous changes in China as it lurches toward modernity. Director Yu Guangyi followed Mr. San — a childhood friend — for two years, getting his subject to reveal intimate details about a kind of rural life that is alien to most viewers.
"Bachelor Mountain," which had its world premiere at the Hong Kong International Film Festival last week, is the third film in a trilogy documenting the area were Mr. Yu grew up, following "Timber Gang" (also known as "The Last Lumberjacks") and "Survival Song."
"I just want to document life of people that I know best," he says. "I sympathize with them a lot. If I hadn't left the village, maybe I'd be living the same life."
Like many of those in the film, Mr. Yu left his village more than 20 years ago at the age of 26 and now lives in Daqing, the second largest city in Heilongjiang. "I didn't see a train until I was 13 years old," he says.
Mr. Yu, who has worked as an artist for two decades, came into film by chance. "I never studied film, so I make them with life experience and my heart," he said.
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In February, this column profiled filmmakers Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon and their Academy Award-nominated short documentary "The Warriors of Qiugang." While they didn't pick up an Oscar, their film about a farmer's successful legal battle to rid his village in China's Anhui province of a pesticide plant shed light on the town's plight and China's broader environmental problems. The China Daily reported last month that the government was working to clean up Qiugang of chemical residue left over after the factory was shut down.
"We are thrilled about this news," says Ms. Yang, who was in Hong Kong last week for the screening of the film at the festival.
The farmer, Zhang Gongli, has become a local hero. "He's viewed as patriotic," she says. "And he acknowledged that the film helped the village."
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Is anyone - other than myself - completely bored with our obsession with Paris Hilton? I'll be real honest - I just don't get it. But then again, maybe I do.
Poor Paris has now paid her debt to society and will be welcomed by Larry King and thousands of media sharks. The endless stream of Paris will bombard our miserable lives until the next celebrity steps on a landmine.
American soldiers are being killed in Iraq, the immigration issue is front and center but the media - and not just the junky tabloids - will focus instead on Paris.
Here's my armchair psychoanalysis. Most people are so shallow that they cannot understand the details of the war nor the impact of immigration. But they can follow Paris without too much effort. And the last thing the American public wants to do is to exercise their minds on something more complex than Paris. Talk about fiddling while Rome burns!
Quite frankly, I'm fed up with the whole mess. And I don't mean Paris. I'm fed up with the shallowness of the American public. I'm fed up with people who are too dumb to comprehend the most simple of issues. I'm fed up with an eroding society. And we have absolutely no one to blame but ourselves.
Quit blaming the media for feeding us this daily dose of garbage. If we didn't read and watch and listen, they would move elsewhere. But this is our world and welcome to it.
I will affix some of the blame to the Internet. This massive explosion of instant information has brought out the worst in us. Average wannabes now have a forum to discuss their hygiene habits and millions upon millions waste their days following this tripe.
We have ahead of us in just over a year the most important presidential election in my lifetime. But far more "voters" can tell you the intricate details of Paris much more readily than they can tell you even one simple fact about a candidate for our country's highest office. If you think I'm exaggerating, you're wrong.
Granted, life should not be constantly serious. We need lighter diversions. We need laughter and joy and a good belly laugh ever so often.
And I'll tell you one other thing. I don't believe a person who can tell you Paris' dress size and the name of her dog but cannot name two people running for president should be allowed to vote. That may sound patently un-American but just think about it. That idiot who could care less about the future of this country gets a vote equal to the millions of involved, concerned and educated voters. If that system makes sense, then something's just plain wrong.


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Lake Don Pedro: There were 104 accidents on this remote lake in Tuolumne County involving 144 boats. Ninety people suffered injuries and one was killed. Forty-four of the accidents involved collisions.
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text: The Morrigan wiki last edited by RazielWraith on 09/01/15 06:47AM View full history OriginMorrigan was deemed too powerful by her father Belial, and her power was split into three. One part she got to keep, the second Belial kept and the third was sealed away. The third part eventually became Lilith. After the death of Belial, Morrigan became one of the rulers of the Makai and the head of the Aensland family, although she was adopted.Although the responsibilities inevitably fall on her shoulders, Morrigan continues to hide from her troubles in the human world. When Jedah's castle merged with hers, Morrigan sensed Lilith within the merged castles, collectively called the Majigen, and ventured forth to find her. When the two met, they merged into one, thus Morrigan reclaimed the second third of her born power.Afterwards, Morrigan learned that her old enemy, Demitri Maximoff, had been revitalized. She used this as an opportunity to test her newly reclaimed power and challenged him. Although she defeated him quite quickly, Demitri was able to teleport away and restore his strength, waiting for the right time to strike.Comic OriginMorrigan was adopted by Belial and he dubbed her his future heir but foresaw in her future a long, arduous battle between her and Demitri Maximoff, who would seem to have the upper hand but Morrigan came from the attack unscathed and defeated him and simply smiled. Belial was afraid that if left unchecked Morrigan's full power would consume and kill her.After the vision, Belial took it upon himself to seal half of her powers away, which later became the form of Lilith. Morrigan grew and eventually became bored with her home, so she snuck into the human world having fun by trading "Eternal Bliss" for the souls of men.She returns to find out a horrible secret from her father. Finally realizing her destiny, Morrigan left to prove herself by going to take down Demitri for the last time, meanwhile, being tracked by the Hutzil robot minions of Pyron.Powers and AbilitiesMorrigan, being a succubus has the power of seduction. The bats that surround her are the souls of the men she's seduced. The bats shapeshift into wings and projectile attacks. She also lives longer than mortal beings, she is 300 years of age.Morrigan can also transform herself and her outfits, but can be revealed by mirrors. When she merges with Lilith, Morrigan becomes a dangerous force able to withstand the strongest of attacks and able to deal them out as well.


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Crafting ideas revisited
I'm sure you are sick of hearing about how I'm sick of the sweltering heat wave we are having here in St. Louis.
I've hardly even turned my oven on in the last month.
So what's a girl to do when it's to hot to bake?
Get started on some holiday gift projects.
I shared these Monogrammed Canvas bags last year. They would make great teacher gifts for back to school, holiday gifts or I told a friend they'd be perfect for the attendants in her wedding.
Monogram Stenciled Canvas Bag
I have some nieces who would love these t-shirt scarves. My 15 year old is going to make some for a few of her friends as well, there's no sewing required! – you can't get any easier than this!
How to make an easy t-shirt scarf
My mom and I love the key fob I made 2 years ago…….we both need a new one, and they make great gifts too!
Fabulous Fabric Key fob
When I get thru with these, I'm digging thru my Crafting Pinterest folder for more ideas!!
I'd love to hear what you've been crafting! Is anyone else getting a jump start on holiday gifts or is it just me? lol
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Jams and relishes. Just made sweet pepper relish this weekend. LOVE homemade gifts for Christmas. Love the picture of YOU with the pin 🙂
I was *just* going to post a Christmas in July idea. Oops. 🙂
I love that bag!!!
I have been wanting to make one of those canvas bags for quite some time now! They are so pretty!
I still haven't made that scarf and I really, really need to! Thanks for the reminder!
Love that canvas bag! I'd seen something like that before and was planning on trying it but I forgot where I'd seen it, lol. So this time around I'm bookmarking this page!
I LOVE that canvas bag ~ super cute! And the key fobs ~ I've made quite a few for myself and for gifts. They are always a hit!
That scarf is still one of my favorites!!
I like the white bag. Glad to discover you on Circle of Moms.
So cute! I especially love that t-shirt scarf, it's such a clever idea.
I just love the canvas bag idea! How creative and easy!
back to school is on my mind now…{b/c my son starts year-round preK tomorrow!}
but…I've already started thinking about Halloween…and Christmas. Going to start EARLY and OFTEN this year…


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Anthills of the Savannah
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Anthills of the Savannah is a 1987 novel by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe. It was his fifth novel, first published in the UK 21 years after Achebe's previous one (A Man of the People in 1966), and was credited with having "revived his reputation in Britain".[1] A finalist for the 1987 Booker Prize for Fiction, Anthills of the Savannah has been described as the "most important novel to come out of Africa in the [1980s]".[2]
Anthills of the Savannah takes place in the imaginary West African country of Kangan, where a Sandhurst-trained officer, identified only as Sam and known as "His Excellency", has taken power following a military coup. Achebe describes the political situation through the experiences of three friends: Chris Oriko, the government's Commissioner for Information; Beatrice Okoh, an official in the Ministry of Finance and girlfriend of Chris; and Ikem Osodi, a newspaper editor critical of the regime. Other characters include Elewa, Ikem's girlfriend and Major "Samsonite" Ossai, a military official known for stapling hands with a Samsonite stapler. Tensions escalate through the novel, culminating in the assassination of Ikem by the regime, the toppling and death of Sam and finally the murder of Chris. The book ends with a non-traditional naming ceremony for Elewa and Ikem's month-old daughter, organized by Beatrice.
- ^ Maya Jaggi, "Storyteller of the savannah", The Guardian, 18 November 2000.
- ^ Holger G. Ehling. Critical Approaches to Anthills of the Savannah. The Netherlands: Rodopi, 1991. 1.
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- D. A. N. Jones, "Powerful People" (review), London Review of Books, Vol. 9, No. 18, 15 October 1987, pp. 24–25.
- Charles Johnson, "'Anthills of the Savannah' by Chinua Achebe" (review), Washington Post, 22 March 2013; reprinted from 7 February 1988.
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A Quote by Bernard Mannes Baruch on efficiency, nature, separation, thinking, and thought
Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.
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While the Philadelphia Flyers sat back and waited for their chance to score at one end of the ice, Brett Connolly took full advantage of his own opportunity down at the other.
Connolly's game-winning goal 2:30 into overtime gave the Tampa Bay Lightning a 2-1 victory over Philadelphia Wednesday night at the St. Pete Times Forum, capping a game that saw the Lightning overcome at least a one-goal deficit for the third consecutive time to win.
The rookie forward's third of the season came off Dominic Moore's shot as he skated in on Flyers net minder Ilya Bryzgalov. After Bryzgalov made an initial save, the puck kicked out in the slot right to Connolly, who buried it in the top left corner of the net.
"It always feels great to score," Connolly said. "For the team to get the win too is great."
Dwayne Roloson stopped 14 of 15 shots on the night and Marc-Andre Bergeron also scored for Tampa Bay, winners of five straight at home.
With the Lightning on the power play, a one-timer from Bergeron at the point erased a one-goal deficit to even things up at one with just over 12 minutes to go in regulation. The goal vaulted Bergeron into the NHL lead among defensemen with 16 points on the year.
Each of Tampa Bay's past three wins have come in extra time, either in overtime or the shootout. With Wednesday's victory, the Lightning collected their 18th point of the season, tying them with the Washington Capitals for first place in the Southeast Division.
"I think part of our success is not getting sidetracked from our game plan," Moore said. "We have stuck with it enough times and have had success that we know we have the ability to make those plays when we have to. That's a good sign."
A scoreless first period manifested itself in part due to Tampa Bays neutral zone defensive scheme, which caused Philadelphia to stall in its own zone several times, drawing the ire of the home crowd with the St. Pete Times Forum.
As a result, following 20 minutes, Tampa Bay held a slight advantage in shots over Philadelphia, managing just seven and six, respectively. Heading into the overtime period, Philadelphia had registered just 14 shots throughout the entire night, which marked the fewest Tampa Bay has allowed in regulation all season.
As the two clubs spent a good portion of the game staring each other down in a stalemate on each side of the blue line, the debate on Twitter heated up as to whether the Flyers stall tactics were justified.
The officials consulted over at the bench with Flyers head coach Peter Laviolette several times after blowing the whistle to counter the lack of puck movement. Upon ensuing faceoff after faceoff, the Flyers continued the routine by passing the puck back and forth in their own zone, daring a Tampa Bay forechecker to make the first move.
"I think the rule needs some clarification," Laviolette said. "The officials said the puck needs to be moving and there was movement, but the play was blown dead again."
While the strategy tested the patience of the sellout crowd of 19,204 at the Times Forum, not many players over in the Lightning locker room seemed to mind.
"You can't blame anybody for that," Moore added. "We have our own system, they have their own system, and that's the way it is. You can't get frustrated by it, you just have to continue to play your game and not worry about it.
An attempt to pick up the pace of play resulted in four Philadelphia power-play chances during the second period, as the Lightning were whistled for eight penalty minutes after being called for just one infraction through the opening 20 minutes.
It seemed to work.
Scott Hartnell notched the game's opening goal with the man advantage after tipping in a Jakub Voracek shot from the point with 10:26 left.
After Bergeron drew the Lightning even, Tampa Bay nearly went up by one in the final six minutes when a rebound bounced out in front right onto the stick of Connolly, who fanned on the shot before having the puck dumped down in the other end.
The overtime winner was Connolly's third goal in the past four games for the Lightning, who have won seven of their past nine games.
"There's a lot of character in this room," Connolly said. "We have guys that never quit and there are a lot of veterans in here who have been here before and who are great leaders."
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DEXTER - Emma Pearl Cathey, 95, died Dec. 29, 2001, at Cypress Point Healthcare in Dexter.
Born Aug. 7, 1906, in Portageville, she was the daughter of the late Albert and Maude Funkhouse Adams.
On Nov. 21, 1925, at New Madrid, she married Fred Monroe Cathey who preceded her in death on Feb. 6, 1991.
One daughter, Louise Price, also preceded her in death.
She is survived by one granddaughter, Linda Harris of Dexter; and two great-grandchildren, Jeffrey Bowling and Sherri Bowling.
Services were conducted at 11 a.m. today at Rainey Funeral Home in Dexter with the Rev. Clifford Wray officiating.
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Florida Trades Parros To Montreal
by Paul on 07/05/13 at 04:00 PM ET
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Parros still plays in the NHL? Huh.
Posted by Wings_in_NYC on 07/05/13 at 04:02 PM ET
Yeah, because Montreal needs protection against Detroit this year.
Posted by Chris in Hockey Hell from Ann Arbor, MI but LIVING in Columbia, TN on 07/05/13 at 04:02 PM ET
Had enough of that guy in ANA and now we see that Harvard-degreed wanker eight times again.
Posted by SYF from Twerkin' with Anastasia Ashley on 07/05/13 at 04:03 PM ET
The big mean mustache is gonna be a pain in the ass for us. Maybe we should see what Commie's up to these days.
Posted by Vladimir16 from Grand River Valley on 07/05/13 at 04:08 PM ET
Prust, Parros, Moen and short fuse Subban, yikes. Habs going to be pain in the bum to play against.
Parros was laying low in south Florida probably wrestling gators for kicks and bedding babes he'd meet on the beaches.
Now he will have open season on easy Montreal girls. This guy has had a tough life
Posted by Slumpy from Detroit on 07/05/13 at 04:19 PM ET
Montreal's gonna live on the PK next season, hopefully with Weiss and Alfy we'll have a good PP again.
Posted by HockeytownOverhaul on 07/05/13 at 04:22 PM ET
SYF, close, he actually went to Princeton.
Posted by NHLJeff from Pens fan in Chicago, IL on 07/05/13 at 04:56 PM ET
The fact that there are still NHL teams willing to offer Parros a contract to play hockey is both hilarious and terrifying.
Posted by godblender on 07/05/13 at 05:49 PM ET
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Fans of Harry Potter can't wait for the seventh book in the series to be released.
By one o'clock Friday afternoon there was already a line at the Lansing Mall Barnes and Noble. And some of those people got in line at eight in the morning.
"It's the last book. I mean everything happens in there," says Jarrod Glennon. "You get to figure out about the deaths and all that and what happens to Harry and his friends."
"It's really exciting because it's the last one. But it's also kind of sad cause I've enjoyed reading the series over the past few years," says Kelsey Dembowski.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is the seventh in the series. According to Meijer store manager, Fred Silva, the books came in Thursday night. But all he could say about their whereabouts was, "They're in a safe place in the back. They're actually shrink-wrapped in black plastic."
It may be the last book for Harry Potter fans to enjoy.
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by Pregnancy.org Staff
After reflecting on the past ten years of Pregnancy.org's journey, we recognize that the true moments to celebrate are the join date anniversaries of our members! We've invited a few to look back and share what brought them to Pregnancy.org, and more importantly, what has kept them here! Here's what they had to say:
From Our Early Years 2001 to 2003
During this time, Pregnancy.org was in our "infant" to "toddler" stage. We were amazed at how swiftly word-of-mouth spread about our site. We knew we had hit the right niche as members were craving a site that was connected to the people it served - that talked with them and not at them.
Rebecca aka feelinfroggie: My Pregnancy.org anniversary date is September 2001 (maybe before that...I can't remember. It was before the site actually launched). I left the boards in 2005 and came back in 2007 while pregnant with my second daughter. I've been here with each of my pregnancies and have learned a lot! What keeps me here (or coming back) is the great sense of support and community.
Rachel aka rachelrazzle: I joined Pregnancy.org in January 2002 after getting my first positive pregnancy test. Ironically enough, I didn't feel very bonded on my birth board, September 2002, and left half way through my pregnancy. Once I had my daughter I wanted to see everyone else's baby and show off my own, so I came back. Now I am so very bonded to all those ladies. We've been friends for over nine years! I have met so many wonderful ladies through these boards. More than I few I've met in person. Many of my in-real-life friends know how much I talk about my online friends and what's going on in their lives. I love it here!
Julie aka julieanddanny: I joined March 2003 just days before our first big fat positive with our now almost eight-year-old girl. My husband actually joined searching for information as we'd already been trying for six months. Maybe joining was part of our good luck charm! Why still here? Look at the list of Birth boards -- I'm on November 2003, July 2005 and May 2010...need I say more?
Angel aka Angelshere: My anniversary date is July 2003. I was fresh out of high school and in a new relationship. I became pregnant and was part of the March 2004 board though I didn't stay due to a loss. Life was throwing me curveballs and Pregnancy.org gave me somewhere to turn. Through two losses, domestic violence and a divorce, there was always someone to help, even if just with a smiley. I ventured away for a while but still lurked until 2008 when I became pregnant again and joined the November 2009 mommies! They are great support and honestly we talk about EVERYTHING! Thanks, Pregnancy.org, for giving us the chance to bond and know one another.
During the Middle Years 2004 to 2007
Like curious preschoolers, we explored various avenues staying firm in our mission to educate, empower, and inspire one another to be the best parents/parents-to-be possible! We enjoyed our members continued contributions to achieving our goals!
HorseMomma: My join date was June 2004. I was curious about getting pregnant...and didn't want to ask any friends. I felt very comfortable here and thought the advice I received was AWESOME! Now I check in every day! I love Pregnancy.org!
momaof2boys: October 2005. I joined after having my second son in July. I was just sitting at work looking for stuff about newborns when I came across this site. I've been here since and have two more children. I've made wonderful friends and always know that I can come here for any advice I need, to vent or just for fun.
pico83: September 2006 is my Pregnancy.org anniversary -- five years this month! My husband and I had gotten married, settled into our first apartment and he had started grad school. I wanted a baby right away, but he wanted to wait several years. I found the Thinking of Conceiving board a perfect fit and made some wonderful friends. Six months later, he changed his mind. I was thrilled to get to join one the December 2007 board. Since then we've added two more boys and I have been so lucky to share my pregnancies, births, and growing boys with such an amazing group of women. We've moved several times, so I haven't been able to form many long-term friendships in real life. It's so helpful knowing the ladies on here are always around when I need them. Thanks so much.
Sandra aka sandraleigh: My anniversary with Pregnancy.org is November 2006! I was a few months pregnant and decided I wanted to keep an online pregnancy journal so I searched around and found the Pregnancy Journals forum. Within a couple of days, I got a private message from someone who had read my journal, and invited me to join the July 2007 Birth Board. I felt so welcomed and made some wonderful friends! Since then I've posted actively on birth boards for all three of my children, and a handful of other boards as well. Pregnancy.org is so much a part of my daily routine that my husband asks when he gets home from work, "Anything new and exciting on the boards today?" I feel like I know so many of these wonderful women personally even though we have never met. This site is the first place I come for help and answers when I need it!
Kristi aka Minz_Kristi: As soon as I discovered I was pregnant I scoured the web and found Pregnancy.org (luckily!). I've stayed because one day I hope to have another little one. Experiencing the whole pregnancy with other women, to me, was amazing. Any questions I had, there was always someone who could answer for me. When my daughter was in hospital after her birth, the support I got from the ladies was so heart-warming. I don't know, it just feels like a little family and you don't have to be pregnant to enjoy this wonderful community.
Joee aka girlisrad: I had been aching for a little one, and without my husband knowing I started tracking cycles and "planning!" I found Pregnancy.org after trying out a few other places (which were awful). I remember lurking on the February 2008 board PRAYING it would be mine...but I had to wait a few more months, and landed in July 2008 where I made amazing friendships! I was also honored to be part of November 2009...where I did not get to stay, but STILL, again, have amazing friends from there. And my final home, July 2010! The ORG has been my everything these years. This is the place I go for comfort, for laughs, for support. Without it, I am not sure I would be who I am today!
The Later Years 2008 to 2011
Pamela aka MrsHooah2U: I joined the Org shortly after my husband left for his second deployment to Iraq. We were hoping to conceive before he deployed but that did not work He was gone from December 2007 to Feburary 2009 and the Org kept me going. I needed the support of these women to get me through my lonely days. They helped me obsess and dream and keep hope that pregnancy and my husband's return was on my horizon! Then we conceived our son and these girls walked me through him leaving for his third deployment. He deployed for his third and final time, leaving me and our five- month-old son behind to wait. He came home to visit us for his mid-tour break and we got pregnant with our daughter! I have cried with these girls, laughed with this girls and disagreed with them, but most of all, I have formed "mom" bonds that are stronger than those of my IRL friends!
Mary aka marymoonu: I joined Pregnancy.org in early 2008. A soon as I started taking the pill to PREVENT pregnancy, it ignited a gigantic baby fever that has really never faded. I started looking up pregnancy online, and was particularly fascinated by the week-by-week updates on fetal development. On Pregnancy.org, I read article after article on all things pregnancy. I learned how to chart my cycles and ended up quitting the birth control pills I had just started. I wanted to be ready when the time came to start trying! It took a while before I discovered the forums and then I "met" some wonderful girls that I still talk to almost every day. They were there for me through my miscarriage, and I've cried for their losses as well. Since joining, I've had two amazing little boys and have had the pleasure of sharing my pregnancies with other girls, as well as getting to share in their joy all the way from TTC to new baby and beyond.
Leigh aka cactuswren: My Pregnancy.org anniversary is October 2009. After two very early miscarriages, we were trying again, and extra nervous! I was hunting for any and all information and support I could find about TTC after a miscarriage. I found the Pregnancy.org forums, and never looked back. And it turned out I got my positive that very month and was able to move very quickly to the June 2010 birth board, and Birthing Naturally board soon after that. The rest is history! I have even made in-real-life friends on Pregnancy.org. It's a resource that's sustained me through one of the biggest changes in life, and I don't know what I would have done without it!
Wendy aka ange84: December 2009 is my Pregnancy.org anniversary. I had lost my Grandad in October and we had moved back closer to family not long after. I told hubby on our wedding anniversary I wanted to trying to conceive. I started searching the internet for information on charting and getting pregnant. I found a birth board and started posting and now the ladies on my board are like friends or family. This site has been an amazing support from trying to conceive to raising my little man and everything between.
Elizabeth aka yellow.rose.of.canada: I joined in Jan 2010. I was pregnant at the time and had experienced bleeding and was looking for answers. Because of the bleeding, I lurked on the June 2010 board for a few months before being assured of a healthy pregnancy and joining. The women I met on the June 2010 board are amazing. A lot of them are firm believers in natural childbirth, and actually taught me a lot about having a natural childbirth myself. I think I really owe them for that. After having a miscarriage this May, I've gotten to know the girls on the Trying to Conceive After a Loss board. They have been so supportive and encouraging. It's helped me heal from that heartbreak and prepare myself to try again.
Looking Forward to the Future
Pregnancy.org has many wonderful plans in store. We remain committed to our original and on-going mission developed so many years ago. As a "veteran" parenting and pregnancy site, we recognize there's still lots to do together! Thank you for choosing to join our site and being part of our Pregnancy.org family! We invite you to share your own "Pregnancy.org Anniversary" story in the comments below. We alway love to hear from you!
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Parent Leadership Training Institute (PLTI)
Many Connecticut children live in households headed by grandparents. To assist these grandparents, three agencies—the Connecticut Commission on Children, AARP Connecticut, and Generations United—hosted a conference where a panel of experts offered useful information on issues like subsidized guardianship, child psychology, child health, child development, education, and probate.
Nearly 300 grandparents attended, creating a powerful presence at the Capitol.
The speakers included:
A panel discussion followed, with the speakers joined by:
Afterward, grandparents were invited to lunch in the Old Judiciary Room of the state Capitol, where they had an opportunity to gather everything from gift books for their grandchildren to recipes for healthy meals. Handouts on school readiness, the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program, the HUSKY health insurance program, and other resources were also available.


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The Iliad
by Homer
The Iliad Theme of Religion
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In the world of the Iliad, gods and goddesses are a daily presence in people's lives. In fact, many of the book's characters are either children of divinities and mortals – like Achilleus, Aineias, Sarpedon, and Helen – or descended from gods a few generations back – like Tlepolemos. (No one with any mortal blood inherits immortality, however.)
The form of worship that this gives rise to is usually less about following a code of morality than about maintaining contracts: the mortals honor the gods with sacrifices, but they expect favors in return. That said, the gods do preserve certain basic standards of human conduct, such as hospitality, the keeping of oaths, and the proper treatment of the dead.
Questions About Religion
- Does the Iliad portray the gods in a favorable or unfavorable light?
- How would the story of the Iliad be different if the gods were not involved?
- Some scholars have argued that the gods in the Iliad are metaphors for the processes of thought (e.g. Athene stopping Achilleus from killing Agamemnon is a metaphor for Achilleus's better judgment). Can this be true, and, if so, to what extent?
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In the Iliad, honoring the gods pays off more often than not.
In the Iliad, the gods usually provide comic relief.


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What should I do about their large orders? They will absolutely NOT switch to FedEx, though I know there's a FedEx Freight contrib somewhere out there. Bite the bullet and tell them to add shipping charges into the prices? Maybe some sort of zone-based shipping setup based on the weight of the order? It's the only thing I can think of at this point; they're going to use PayPal as the merchant so going back and charging their credit card once they've calculated the freight charges won't be an option. Plus they were thrilled when I told them the cart would calculate their UPS charges for them (this was before they dropped the bomb that they expect to ship several-hundred-pound pallet orders).
How do other online stores handle shipping charges on large-freight orders? I tried asking directly on the osCommerce forums a few weeks ago, but got zero responses.
Since no one that I know of has come up with a contribution for UPS freight, I would suggest that you use the zones. It may not be exact, but it's the best thing you can use since your client doesn't want to use FedEx freight.


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Dennis and his wife Lenora started the company in early 2007 and decided to focus on sustainable packaging: namely, biodegradable, highly recycled content and reusable packaging products. They looked for a brand that would encompass a wide variety of eco-friendly packaging products, and the name Globe Guard stuck. "Soon after, we created the very first web store focused on green packaging products," says Dennis.
Dennis says that although there are many online companies dabbling in sustainable packaging, what separates Globe Guard is that green packaging is their major focus. "We firmly believe that if you give consumers a choice, and if quality and cost are competitive, most people will choose greener packaging products," he says.
The company's most popular product is their corrugated boxes, which are either 100 percent recycled content or 100 percent post-consumer waste (PCW). Both are 100 percent recyclable. In addition, Globe Guard also offers mailer envelopes, cushioning materials, box sealing tapes and other green alternatives to "standard" packaging products. "As our business has evolved, we have developed green packaging solutions in the area of reusable, custom/branded and temperature-controlled packaging," says Dennis.
In addition to the corrugated boxes, stretch wrapping film and tape, Dennis says the company's most unique product designed for the moving industry is the Globe Guard® Reusable Box Sealer™, which slips over the major flaps of a box, making it simple to pack and unpack at the other end. (Check out the video to see how it works).
Dennis says that there are two major motivating factors for using green packaging products: For the eco-minded, these products minimize the negative impact on the environment by reducing carbon and water footprints. For the financially motivated, Dennis says that in most cases, green packaging products actually reduce costs and save money.
Dennis has offered a 10-percent discount for My Move readers who would like to visit the Globe Guard store and try any products. Use the promo code MYMOVE at checkout—even on sale items. Also, if anyone mentions the My Move blog, Dennis and his team will provide a free, no-obligation consultation when it comes to ordering a custom product (rather than a stock item).
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CORPUS CHRISTI – The Texas A&M - Corpus Christi Cheer & Dance Teams along with Izzy the Islander began preparations this week for the Universal Cheer Association (UCA) and Universal Dance Association (UDA) camp, hosted by Texas State. The Islanders will compete in the four-day camp on July 11-14 in San Marcos, Texas.
Lee Rowland, Director of Strength and Conditioning, at the Island University, has prepared both of the squads for the camp with unique morning workouts at the Dugan Family Soccer & Track Stadium and at the beach on campus.
"When I work with the full cheer and dance squads I like to utilize the different facilities available such as the Dugan Soccer/Track Stadium and the beach," Rowland said. "The beach can be an excellent place to conduct a workout because the sand can provide a unique training stimulus the body is not accustom to."
Last season at camp, the dance team earned 47 blue superior ribbons in Division I, while the cheer team garnered three first-place awards in Small Co-ed Division I. Izzy also represented the Island University with an exceptional weekend. The Islanders' mascot garnered three superior blue ribbons and earned the Division I up and coming award.
The dance team returns six veterans from last season's team while the cheer team welcomes back seven.
For the latest on Islanders Dance and Islanders Cheer, like the team on Facebook (Islanders Dance, Islanders Cheer), follow them on Twitter (@IslandersDance, @islander_cheer) and Instagram (@Islandersdanceteam, @Islanderscheerteam) and visit www.GoIslanders.com.


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Sony believes that reducing environmental impact throughout the life cycle of its products is a commitment that must extend to the procurement of materials and parts. To date, Sony and its suppliers have cooperated closely in the management of chemical substances. Efforts have now been expanded to include measures to save energy and resources. Sony will continue working closely with its suppliers as it strives to achieve its goal of a zero environmental footprint.
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This little light of mine
Some people really get nervous when they see joy, it's a sad fact, but an even sadder fact is that sometimes they try to squelch that joy to feel better about themselves.
It takes all the courage in the world to not let that happen.
Let the light shine brighter on them so they can see their own darkness.
It's the only way someone can grow.
Think about if u take on their dark, then there's more darkness but if u hold onto your light, well u know.


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Back in April, we brought you the news when Keanu Reeves (47 Ronin) spoke about the third Bill & Ted installment, revealing that the project was not only in motion but, the writers were just weeks away from turning in a draft of the script that will follow 1989's Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and 1991's Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey.
Reeves said,
"I believe the writers are six weeks away from a draft. No pressure, guys! When we last got together, part of it was that Bill and Ted were supposed to have written the song that saved the world, and it hasn't happened. So they've now become kind of possessed by trying to do that. Then there's an element of time and they have to go back."
Now, while speaking with the UK's Independent, Mr. Reeves offered the following update:
"Yeah, we have a script," he said. "We're trying to put it together. It's a good script, too."
Reeves' partner in crime, also known as actor/director Alex Winter (Ben 10: Alien Swarm, The Gate) had this to say, when asked about Bill & Ted 3 on Twitter:
"@kelly_carlin: is it true? Bill & Ted's 3?" > Hey Kelly.-Script done? Check. -We love it? Check. -Green light? Working on it!
— Alex Winter (@alxwinter) March 5, 2012
So, we're just waiting on a greenlight before Wyld Stallyns hit the big screen again… Excellent! We'll keep you up to date on everything going down in San Dimas, right here on SciFi Mafia!


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Inter dominated the first hour and missed a flurry of chances including one incredible effort from Brazilian Jonathan who contrived to fire wide from six metres out in the 54th minute with the goal at his mercy.
Rodrigo Palacio was also guilty when he slipped and fired wildly over when he had a clear run on goal.
Di Natale made them pay in the 63rd minute when he ran onto Andrea Lazzarri's chipped pass to score with a diagonal shot and put Udinese ahead.
Inter had Brazilian defender Juan Jesus dismissed two minutes later for a second bookable office before Luis Muriel and Di Natale, who took his Serie A tally to 12 goals, struck twice in a four-minute spell.
Serie A leaders Juventus slumped to a 2-1 defeat at home to lowly Sampdoria who came from behind to win despite playing for an hour with 10 men.
Juve appeared to be set for a routine win when Sebastian Giovinco put them ahead with a 24th minute penalty and Sampdoria had Gaetano Berardi dismissed for a second bookable offence seven minutes later.
Instead Mauro Icardi scored twice in the second half as Sampdoria hit back.
Third-placed Fiorentina also went down to a surprise home defeat, losing 2-0 to relegation-threatened Pescara.
Juventus, with 44 points from 19 games, still reached the halfway mark in the championship with a five-point lead over Lazio, who beat Cagliari 2-1 on Saturday. Fiorentina and Inter have 35 points.
In other matches, two goals by Marco Boriello gave Genoa a 2-0 win over Bologna which lifted them out of the relegation zone while Bojan Krkic and Giampaolo Pazzini scored to give seventh-placed AC Milan a 2-1 win at home to bottom club Siena.
Chievo Verona beat Atalanta 1-0 in a midtable clash and a stoppage-time goal from Amauri gave Parma a 2-1 win over Palermo which left the Sicilians one place off the bottom with 15 points, one below Cagliari and two adrift of 17th-placed Genoa.
Igor Budan had put Palermo level in the 85th minute, wiping out Ishak Belfodil's opening goal.
Fiorentina should have been several goals clear at halftime against Pescara but Perin brilliantly kept the hosts at bay with saves from Alberto Aquilani, twice, and Borja Valero.
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How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Line). Every time a character talks counts as one line, even if what they say turns into a long monologue. We used the translation by S. Gilbert found in No Exit and Three Other Plays, published by Vintage International in 1989.
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[She falls silent, gazing at Estelle, who has buried her head in her hands.] (360)
Estelle has learned from Garcin the same way Garcin has learned from Inez. She's repeating his actions.
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INEZ: You'd do better to watch your own interests. But, if you will leave us in peace, this child and me, I'll see I don't do you any harm.
GARCIN: [gazes at her for a moment, then shrugs his shoulders] Very well. (370-1)
Garcin is still trying to be accommodating, even after the others in the room have proven to be torturous.
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[Inez has come up and is standing behind Estelle, but without touching her. During the dialogue that follows she speaks almost in her ear. But Estelle keeps her eyes on Garcin, who observes her without speaking, and she addresses her answers to him, as if it were he who is questioning her.] (376)
This action really speaks to Estelle's ability to deceive herself. She is willing to distort her perceptions of reality to be happy. This is bad faith, since her happiness depends on being objectified by the only man in the room.


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Song Of The Day: Elbow's 'Lippy Kids' from new album
Hey: 'Build a Rocket Boys!' is a pretty good record title
British rockers Elbow are returning with a new album on March and have led things off with a firecracker of a preview track. And by firecracker I mean a stupendous sad bastard of a song. Just the kind of stuff I like from Elbow.
A live version of "Lippy Kids" went up this month in advance of "Build a Rocket Boys!", out on March 7 in the U.K. A U.S. release date will be announced later.
The band has a dozen tour dates overseas scheduled. Guy Garvey is one hell of a charismatic frontman (apart from channeling Peter Gabriel); I recommend snapping up a ticket once they head over here.
"Build a Rocket Boys!" is an insanely good album title and the set will be the follow-up to Elbow's last "The Seldom Seen Kid" (2008).
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Welcome to the Church of England's online parish return system.
The system is designed to improve the way in which the Church collects annual parish statistical and financial data. Parish representatives are now able to enter the 'Return for Parish Finance' and 'Statistics for Mission' forms for January to December 2015 via the internet. This can be done using either a computer within your parish office, at home or in a library using a unique login and password managed by your parish representative.
When entering the data, a certain amount of verification will be operating which will query any values which are clearly outside what might normally be expected. It will also check your adding up, which will help give you confidence that the figures submitted are reasonable. Furthermore the system will produce a report giving you instant feedback on how the church's data has changed over the last ten years. These reports will be available to treasurers and others to use in presentations at church meetings and hopefully will help bring to life what is currently a rather sterile exercise. If successful the system will be expanded to allow other data to be collected in time, but the emphasis at present is the capture of this key data.
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Padma Lakshmi has a wise bit of advice to share. And it has nothing to do with cooking.
While in Dallas Tuesday night for a party to promote the Nespresso line of gourmet coffee, the Top Chef co-host confessed that she gains 10 or 15 pounds each season, thanks to all of the eating required for her gig.
"We literally just have bigger dresses so I don't look like I'm gaining weight," she says during a break from the party, which took place at Private/Social, the restaurant helmed by former Top Chef contestant Tiffany Derry. "It's a good tip for how to dress, because you want to be in a size 2, but you should be in a size 6. No one's going to read the tag on the back of your dress."
After sweating through last summer to film Top Chef: Texas, Lakshmi was back for another visit, this time to share her love of coffee — or as she put it, "this sumptuous, dark, beautiful liquid."
She says she signed on as Nespresso "ambassador" because of the company's attention to detail: "It's like harvesting peppercorns or grapes for wine. There's a great amount of science to it, but there's also a great amount of art and alchemy and mystery and creativity. I just love how persnickety they are."
If anyone knows persnickety, it's a Top Chef judge. Did she think that filming in different Texas cities — Dallas, Austin and San Antonio — worked as a concept?
"Oh, yeah. I think it was our best season yet," Lakshmi says. "But I have to be honest: I was really scared. To add travel within our very packed schedule was something that really frightened me. But it was really great, and it allowed me to see an area of the country that I really hadn't immersed myself in properly before."
Her fondest memory of the season took place in San Antonio, when Charlize Theron arrived as a guest judge.
"We'd finished filming and had all eaten like pigs," she says. "We knew the next day was going to be long, so she, Tom [Colicchio] and I went out to a Mexican restaurant. We went out and just drank a lot and had so much fun. It was so hot that I think we just kept drinking! It was fantastic."
Derry says she also has good memories from her time as a contestant.
"On the other hand," she adds with a laugh, "you are always being judged, and everyone's taste buds are different. Sometimes mine wasn't judged quite as favorably as I thought it was, depending on who was judging."
After nine seasons on the show, Lakshmi has done a lot of judging. And eating. She then shares a downside to what appears to be the most fun job ever.
"I don't bounce back right after; I mean, I'm 40," says the former model, who doesn't look 40. "What takes me six weeks to put on takes me 11 or 12 weeks to take off."


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Last week, the House of Representatives passed, with my support, important legislation, the Supplemental Appropriations Bill, which continues to fund our military operations abroad and expands the education benefits for our returning service members, without raising taxes on the American people.
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In what shapes up as an extremely difficult year for national Republicans, the Virginia Republican Party is facing a tough task of its own.
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Gilmore was a one-note governor who got into office on an anti-tax scheme that was never going to work and never did work. The mission was to wage war on taxes, regardless of the importance of the revenue.
Last week, Al Gore finally got around to endorsing Barack Obama, his own presidential aspirations being even more unrealistic than Hillary Clinton's. In the endorsement, he blasted President Bush, blaming him for just about everything from the war in Iraq to athlete's foot. Liberals so hate Bush that they almost become incoherent when talking about him.
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poke How's everyone's winter training going? I say winter because I'm in Germany at the moment:) I'm really happy with how my training's been going this year. I've been focusing on consistency, getting out there every day, and it's paying dividends:) I've done 4 weeks of 50-70mpw, and in 4 days I'm hitting the slopes for 3 weeks of XC skiing:) Can't wait.
Checking this site for the first time in weeks. Forgot my old account email/password (Bugmenot , I think they added some #s to it).
Good to see you bruncle. Pretty much everyone has left.
My winter training is going good, hoping to break 4:10 this outdoor season.
Yeah it's pretty dead at the moment:( Makes me sad, I liked the community we had in this forum.
Wow nice, that's really impressive. You've got a good chance at it too with your 5k PB being what it is.
EDIT: Oh also, did anyone actually download the pdf of 'Once a runner'? I just opened it and read it within the web-browser, so didn't store a copy of it, and I'd like to read it again, but the site that was hosting it removed the file:( Anyone know of another source/be willing to upload their copy onto one of those free upload sites like uploadit.com
Yea, the link stopped working 1-2 months ago :(. It was working fine when it was first posted in October/November? But when I checked it sometime in December to read it, it was gone.
I think you can find a lot of people on here on dyestat though.
Anyone running indoor by the way?
if i can find where my copy of it went ill try and upload it for you..
Going well. Training for Boston. Weather has been off & on. For me it's the toughest season to stay right on track, you have to dig deep for the motivation at times, I don't feel the majority of runs are fun, enjoyable, or 'great' as I do in the Spring & Fall. BUT, I feel much stronger (mentally & physically) after every workout because I know how much discipline it took for me to do it. And I know from experience - you get what you put in ... if I want to love my Spring running - I need to do my homework now! It's worth it to me! Keep it up! Conquer the cold!!!
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As we head into the holiday weekend in Hong Kong (yes, Saturday is still technically classed as a working day here, so if a public holiday falls on a Saturday we don't get a day off on the Monday), I thought a spot of navel-gazing was in order. This seemed even more appropriate given that the chap to celebrate whose birthday we're being given the day off (or not) must have spent many an hour gazing at his navel as he attempted to empty his mind of all earthly cares. Well, in his youth, anyway, before he became so Zen-like that his metabolism went from merely laid-back to catatonic and the fat started to accumulate.
Taking a look at the 20 most popular entry pages for this blog this month, I discovered an extraordinary thing: every single one of those posts related to one or more (or all – how exciting does it get?) of those three topics that one is not allowed to discuss in polite society – sex, politics and religion.
Coming in at number one is "CYLeung 99% Certain to be Next Chief Executive", followed closely by another Leung-related post, which I won't bother to name since they're all much the same really. At number three we have a sleeper hit, "Leon Panetta a Clone Secret Files Claim". Next we have "Susan Li, a Brief Snatch", which Foamier has clicked on 178 times – just how many boxes of Tempo does that constitute? – followed by "Good Golly!" (nice to see that anti-political correctness, or common sense as I like to call it, is still alive and kicking).
Looking further down the list, I see that at number 14 there is an entry that combines each of the three taboo topics: Sun Hung Kai's "Sixth Wonder of the World". Enough to bring loathed footballer turned beloved pundit Gary Neville to scorgasm:
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My wife the sports loverPosted Tuesday, November 27, 2007, at 11:37 PM
Okay, so what did I miss? Here's a quick runthrough, as I can recall it: Congrats to the Lady Clovers on a Putnam County title ... boys' basketball, swimming and wrestling begin ... IU takes the Bucket back where it belongs ... Happy Turkey Day ... Packers go to 10-1! ... LSU loses as No. 1, again ... Hoosier hoops off to good start ... Eric Gordon off to outstanding start ... and, what else?
Oh yeah, I got married on Nov. 17. It was an event that dwarfed my second-biggest accomplishment of 2007 -- becoming sports editor of the BannerGraphic.
So, I spent the last week-and-a-half in my hometown (Williamsport), Lafayette and Gatlinburg, Tenn. We had a beautiful ceremony, a great reception and a relaxing honeymoon in the mountains (the 50 lb. raccoon who visited our cabin's front porch, notwithstanding).
And in the ultimate display that it truly is just a game, I spent a week (almost) devoid of sports. Although Nicole may not always believe me, sports is my second love.
What's encouraging to me, though, is that watching sports seems to be moving up her list of ways she actually enjoys spending her time (rather than just tolerates).
Three events from last week illustrate the ups and downs of a sports writer trying to be a good newlywed.
1.) The Old Oaken Bucket game was played at the same time as our ceremony and reception.
I didn't have a major problem with this. In my mind, the important thing was that the Monon Bell game was a week earlier. All the same, I'm an IU fan who grew up in Purdue country. Anytime the Hoosiers have a chance to stick it to the Boilers, I want to know about it.
My cousin and a couple of friends had kept me updated on the game in the early part of the reception, but with the game in the fourth quarter, everyone had apparently lost all touch with the outside world.
This was no problem for me. I simply checked the score on my cell phone. I didn't see the issue, as the reception had hit that lull where we in the wedding party were done eating, but many of the guests had barely even sat down with their food. I was simply doing a favor for friends, right?
When Cole found out about this (a week later, as I can't keep my mouth shut), she was none too pleased. My defense ("It's not like it was during the ceremony!") was of no help. My beautiful bride was upset, and I can see why. I apologized, and things were better.
(And at least IU pulled it off. I'd really hate to get in trouble over a game that wasn't worth it.)
Also worthy of note, this was the only negative sports event of the week for us.
2.) My beloved Packers played on Thanksgiving.
This doesn't happen every year, so I politely asked if we might watch the game on Thursday, in spite of it being the middle of our honeymoon. She immediately said yes.
Now, I must admit I hit her in a weak spot here. Although Cole may not have the years of devotion to the Green and Gold that I do, she loves Brett Favre for all the same reasons I do -- he can really wing that ball and he's an all-around goofy guy. (And, yes, she may also think he's cute. I can live with that.)
So, the Pack made turkeys of the Lions on their special day. We were happy. Matt Millen wasn't. Oh, well.
3.) We spent over two hours of our trip back home listening to the Tennessee vs. Kentucky football game.
These are the moments that most endear my blossoming sports fan to me. I'm not sure if it's true fanhood or just the desire to survive in my world, but my bride seems to enjoy learning the little differences between the various sports and levels of competition that I love so much.
So when the Vols/Cats game went to overtime, Cole wanted me to explain to her how overtime works in college. She already knew the NFL format because of the Packers/Broncos game a few weeks back. When this was obviously a different scenario, she wanted to know more.
You see, I know people who consider themselves sports fans who'd have to strain to tell you which level of play uses which OT format. On the other hand, my wife, who probably still doesn't think of herself as much of a fan, could now easily recite the differences.
Right or wrong, there is something about this which makes me lover her even more. When she asks this type of question, she is even more attractive. (Does this make me twisted and sick? Probably. I don't really care.)
Additionally, I think she was a crestfallen as I was when the Cats failed to pull off the upset. I liked seeing that.
To leave this blog off with that would be wrong, though.
The point is this -- it is only a game and it is only a job. I get to come to work every day and do something I really like for a living. That is very nice.
But when I go home, I go home to someone I truly love, someone I want to spend the rest of my life with. That is truly special.
P.S. -- Keep Sean Taylor's family in your prayers. What a tragedy.
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