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I'm not shy about my past. After coming out the other side of a major mental health crisis I knew I needed to share my story. I speak openly quite often about my history of an exercise addiction and anorexia. I view the fact that I have bipolar disorder as one of my assets, not something that brings me down.
People say things like "you're brave for sharing your story". I disagree. The courageous part was surviving what I went through.
Why has it been so important for me to share? It's because I CAN. I won't perpetuate the shame and stigma of mental health issues that has long existed in my family and many others.
We all have a story. Telling mine helps me to feel that I'm making meaning and purpose out of the confusion I've been through. And I trust that elements of my experience will resonant with and inspire others (no matter what one's life situation is).
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Today we took DD to the hospital for a VCUG and found out that she has VUR, affecting both sides at level 3, I'm brand new to this so have no idea what to expect, I am quite concern so we are waiting to call her Ped tomorrow and find out what the next step is.
I will be reading your posts to learn and catch up with you but please feel free to give me some background and or any insight/advice to this condition such as how to cope and what to expect, hope to hear some success stories as well.
BTW, my name is Yilsi, 33. FTM and DH is Rafa 36, FTD. Our little love is Mackenzie Sofia (Kenzie), born on 9/18/2008, very healthy until her first UTI on Christmas eve
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A Dougherty County School Teacher is facing a hearing before the school board for striking a student.
Turner Elementary School teacher Tracey Drayton and her attorney went before the school board Tuesday morning.
Drayton's attorney says she admits to hitting the student, who was acting out, with an open hand.
Turner Elementary School Principal Gail Solomon recommends that she be suspended 30 days without pay, attend anger management classes, be relocated to another school, and be on probation before returning to work.
Dougherty County School Board Superintendent Joshua Murfree did not agree with the principal and recommended termination.
The ongoing meeting before the members of the school board with determine her status with the school board.
At the end of the hearing, Drayton's punishment as determined by the school board will be the recommendation from the Turner Elementary Principal Gail Solomon: suspended 30 days without pay, attend anger management classes, be relocated to another school, and be on probation before returning to work.
"She was wrong for putting her hands on the student, pulling the student, for that we agreed with the recommendation of the principal", said the school board chairman Rev. James Bush.
Bush said they took into consideration the teachers good record, when decided upon the punishment.
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I had five new sales appear for April 11th and noticed they disappeared last night.I figured they were moving them to the total for the month but instead, they are nowhere in my reports today.
This may correct within a day or two but wondered if any of you have seen your April 11th sales vanish?
I should have done like one of the members here, who said they would be taking screen shots of their sales. Might be a good idea for a while because last year I had sales vanish and they were never re-applied to my reports. I even remembered the titles for some of those that vanished but the letter from then-Pubit! Support stated that reports were running normally.
I upset forum members last year, who thought I was postting about glitchy sales reports too often but emails alone don't help to show whether or not a glitch is affecting one publisher, a few publishers or everyone. Even Nook Press should want to know this ("should" being the key word in my last sentence).
Okay...I must make apology because though the 5 sales for the 11th did not show up on the running monthly total yet that displays automatically, they do appear when I click the link that shows "monthly sales reports".
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Andy Pettitte has retired and then unretired before, but Yankees general manager Brian Cashman told Andy McCullough of the Newark Star Ledger that he won?t try to change the 41-year-old left-hander?s mind because ?I know that I won?t be able to convince him like I?ve done in the past.?
Pettitte has certainly seen his performance slip more than Rivera has, but he?s still an effective mid-rotation starter with a 3.88 ERA and 123/.46 K/BB ratio in 176 innings this season. Pettitte, who makes his home in Texas, will take the mound for the final time in Houston this weekend.
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Eagles quarterback Michael Vick denied a report by Yahoo Sports that said he told coach Andy Reid that some of the team's assistant coaches were pushing to have him benched.
Vick did have a meeting with Reid, but said after Saturday's practice that he never complained about the assistants.
"That is absolutely false," Vick said. "Coach and I never had that conversation. Everything we talked about in that room is personal, man to man."
Then for emphasis, Vick added: "That never came up."
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GM closes at the HOD...Ford....ahhh...not so much. They traded 20% of the days volume in the last 20 minutes and as usual it went something like this...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7blHxObOV0Have a great weekend all....Nutz
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Your stuff is garbage fool.You were talking noise stalker on options exp. week.Goldman ups F on Friday you are a retail fool.LOL
I am not worried about the day to day. Long term we will recover..I am looking at my options for 2014 only. $15+ by then and that's all I am concerned about as of now.
Amateur...Where you been?Ford ALWAYS drops end of day.The real fun starts next week when the Dow gives back some gains. Ford? look out below
funnny how you ran to the pool when it was going up, your still down on your short lololol


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Skip to comments.Sticking it to Rahm: Inside story Of Why Not a Single House Republican Supported the President
Posted on 01/30/2009 11:40:26 AM PST by lewisglad
From their shared loathing of Rahm Emanuel to the insurgency led by the minority leader (he took us by the throat), the inside story of why not a single House Republican supported the presidents stimulus package.
"Rahm, you don't waste a crisis," a senior Republican, speaking on the phone in a mock dialogue, pretended to tease White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel the day before the stimulus bill vote in the House of Representatives. "Rahm, you're making the Clinton mistake going for spending in a crisis. Reagan radically adjusted the tax code in his crisis. Rahm, all youre trying to do is scare people, like Hank Paulson did with the TARP. It won't work this time. We're wise to it. Rahm, you won't get ten votes from us. Not ten."
Rahm hates us and lets us know it, and we hate him back, said a senior Republican.
It turned out that this estimate was 1,000 percent too high, because Emanuels go-for-the-big-win style, even when mixed with the presidents earnest charm, did not gain even one vote from the House GOP. The caucus held together like a stone wall when it came time to vote on the Democratic-authored $825 billion stimulus packageall 177 members joined 11 Blue Dog Democrats for the 244-188 final tally. How this was done explains the sudden and surprising new discipline of the Republican Party.
"Rahm told the president that he can take care of Congress," a senior Republican reported to me. "He said, These guys will roll over, they're afraid of being called the party of No. Believe me, I know them. They'll be easy."
The day before the vote, Emanuel sent the president to the Hill to meet with the House Republicans for a generous 90-minute question-and-answer session that was well-received by the members. "He's charming," was the universal verdict, one prominent Republican told me. The president was patient, he gave us plenty of time. But he didn't convince anyone. After he left, we looked at each other, and said, How can they stick him with this garbage?
Since the beginning of his campaign for the presidency, Barack Obama has spoken repeatedly of post-partisanship. He promised that he would transcend the divisions of the past by uniting Democrats and Republicans alike. His actions, engineered by Emanuel, were intended to win enough Republican votes to claim not just a victory on the stimulus bill but also confirmation of his post-partisan leadership. The result, with not a single Republican voting in favor, despite Obamas wining and dining, joking and cajoling, reveals a Washington as polarized as it has ever been. The dream of post-partisanship did not last one vote in the Congress.
The day before the crucial vote in the House, Minority Leader John Boehner told his troops that the Republican Party is no longer a bureaucracy. "He took us by the throat and told us, You're no longer the majority, stop acting like it," a senior Republican told me about the run up to the vote. If you've got an idea, get it on MSNBC. This is an entrepreneurial insurgency. He was kicking the ball around. He wants everyone involved. If there's an amendment, he told us to offer it. If you have 48 seconds for YouTube, get it up there. Get busy and resist in every instance
Emanuel, working with his old boss and ally, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, made it easy for the Republicans to resist. Every penny in the more than 600-page bill came from a Democratic wish list of pork that dated back to the beginning of the Bush administration. "They were limited the last two years by the White House keeping firm on the cap for each bill," a congressional source reported to me, "and Nancy Pelosi told them all to send their ideas to David Obey [chairman of the House Appropriations Committee], and he just put them together in one great big earmark."
"We won the election, we wrote the bill," said Pelosi as many times as she could to an open microphone. But what was happening away from the microphone made it even easier for the Republicans to hold together. All they had to do was bring up Rahm Emanuel.
Rahm hates us and lets us know it, and we hate him back, said a senior Republican. If we had gotten together in a room and tried to write a bill that put the taxpayer together with the Republican Party, we could not have come up with this thing. It is too unbelievable.
Rahm Emanuel is the Republicans favorite piñata. Overwound and overbearing, the Chicago congressman helped destroy the Republican majority in 2006 when he acted as chief fund raiser, candidate recruiter, and stump speaker. On the night the Democrats took the House back after 12 years of Republican rule, he praised himself for delivering a thumpin. Now that hes Obamas chief of staff, the Republicans have him to poke at for at least four years.
After the vote, President Obama, at Emanuels suggestion, hosted a bipartisan reception at the White House for congressional leaders from both houses. John Boehner joked that he felt like the snake at the garden party. But the Republican leaders were not silent.
We gave the president what he asked for, a temporary stimulus bill, said a senior Republican, at half the cost of what the Democrats wrote. He knows it. They handed him a monster of spending. Rahm did this, and now he takes this to the Senate. Does Rahm want to be an honest broker, or does he want to be the guy who socks Republicans in the face? He isnt helping with the Democrats, and hes hurting with the Republicans.
Polling showed us that when we took the vote, independent support for the bill was collapsing, a senior Republican said. Democratic support was climbing while the independents ran away.
What does Rahm do? Is he going to go to the Democrats and say no to this? Or is he going to make his president sign it?
Emanuels answer to the Republican shutout is to announce that the Democratic Party will target Republicans by running campaigns in their districts to tell the voters that their representative voted against 4 million jobs.
Eight days after Obamas inauguration, the partisan battles are at full tilt.
John Batchelor is radio host of the John Batchelor Show in New York, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
I'd be willing to pay to be let in on some shares of that.
Rahm hates us and lets us know it, and we hate him back, said
a senior Republican all Americans everywhere.
Hell Boehner, they didn't act like it when they were the majority.
Hopefully we'll get to see Emanuel take a perp walk from the White House to prison before he gets a chance to do too much damage. I'm hoping Blagojevich has something on him.
Hey,Rahm stand-up-Oh,you are!
"Eight days after Obamas inauguration, the partisan battles are at full tilt."
I feel a tingle up my leg when I read that.
It's a damn good thing that the stimulus bill won't do anything at all to help the economic situation, otherwise the GOP refusal to vote for it because of their personal dislike of one man might be seen as extremely short-sighted.
I hope Rahm loses it and physically attacks someone. His ass needs to be handed to him. And the Pubes better be out in full force to expose just how irresponsible this pork package is. I mean they need to be out there like it's the end of the earth.
"Hey,Rahm stand-up-Oh,you are!"
Can you do that in your best Joe Biden voice? LOL!
The Democrats were partisan, for the bill.
The Republicans (with 10 Democrats) were bipartisan against the bill.
Sent the [P]resident? Who the hell is in charge here?
Polling showed us that when we took the vote, independent support for the bill was collapsing, a senior Republican said. Democratic support was climbing while the independents ran away.
When you have to depend on polling to tell you what to do, you are truly a lost soul. Whatever happened to principles? I guess that is so 50's that no one even makes a pretense of having values.
One shudders to think of Jimmy Stewart going to Washington today. He would look like Martin Lawrence, be sucking up as much pork as he could and never listening to the people who elected him.
Bi-partisanship we can believe in, or from which we can believe. Maybe Billy-the-Bomber can rewrite that slogan for a better read, maybe with a nautical theme.
Screw "post-partisanship," "bipartisanship," and "nonpartisanship." We want full-tilt partisanship, and damn well better get it.
Handcuffing Congress is the only way to retain personal liberty. Gridlock is security.
And partisanship is diversity. Put that in your crack pipe, Rahm.
If his Veep gig doesn't workout,there's always stand-up comedy!
Principles?!!Principles?!We don't need no steenkin' Principles!!! We hate Rahm. THAT'S GONNA win a LOT of COngressional Districts for the Pubbies in 2010:) NOT
]If they were sure it would create 4 million jobs they'd be more than happy to pass it without Republican support. They'd own it and shout it from the rooftops.
The only story we're hearing now is about no support.
In 4 years the Republicans should run campaigns asking where the 4 million jobs are.
"After he left, we looked at each other, and said, How can they stick him with this garbage?
LUV it!
"Emanuels answer to the Republican shutout is to announce that the Democratic Party will target Republicans by running campaigns in their districts to tell the voters that their representative voted against 4 million jobs. "
Please DO bring that up and OFTEN Rahm Conservatives HATE this bill. Its Carter and Clinton all rolled into One. Rahm has made a BIG mistake, called EGO. Whats funny is that he doesn't even see it yet. LMAO
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What, you think a no-talent clown-shoes like The Zero is cunning enough to get himself elected President?
He's a puppet for the same people he's always been a puppet for. The Chicago machine.
The Kick A** GOP lives!
"When you have to depend on polling to tell you what to do, you are truly a lost soul. "
Oh come on, cut them some slack. They made the decision EARLIER to oppose the bill, before the polls turned. And then *during* the votes they get polling data telling them THEIR OPPOSITION TO THE BILL resonated.
This is just good news all around. Give the GOP credit for doing the right thing.
So says John Batchelor, and only John Batchelor. So then, so say you?
"The Kick A** GOP lives!"
Sorry to rain on your parade, but that's not the case. These are the same spineless souls they've always been. As another poster pointed out, the Republicans used Emanuel as their focus, and waited for polls showing declining public support before they dug in.
The reason for this show of spine? The Republicans are the minority and wish to be the majority.
What happens if/when the Republicans regain the minority? Without conviction, or principles, they will follow polls and kiss up to the MSM to try to keep their jobs.
MOTS - More Of The Same
Rahm hates us and lets us know it, and we hate him back, said a senior Republican......
Good!.....Go to hell Rahmie!
There's still room under the bus.
voted against 4 million jobs.
Good luck with that one Rahm. The stimulus will pass and jobs will continue to decline because of it. You bought it, you own it Rahm.
I am starting to really like these Repubs.
"...we hate him back."
"It turned out that this estimate was 1,000 percent too high, ...."
Just to be persnickety — it was an infinite percentage too high.
Better get a bigger bus; they're gonna need more room if this keeps up!
I don't think that it is the sole reason. But Batchelor's article makes it sound like the GOP is a bunch of 12 year olds who are having a playground feud - irresponsible.
He is not doing the Republicans any favors by publishing this stuff - at least not with Americans who are more interested in the economy and their financial situation than in Rahm Emanuel.
Strings pulled and honeypot sweetened by George Soros.
Silly question.
Karma's a beeeyotch! ping...
Hopefully the House Repubs will hang together and perhaps the SenateCritters will find some courage to do the same.
#17. You are exactly correct. Even when the GOP leadership gets something right they do it for all the wrong reasons. I honestly do not see much hope for the Republican Party as presently constituted except as a mostly white southern splinter party.
"you think a no-talent clown-shoes like The Zero"
Come on! The Prefident One wears regular shoes! Here they are!
That picture should be mandatory in every thread that mentions rahm .
One word for Rahm- PUNK
Thanks for the ping. I'm glad the Pubs stayed together, but as this vote shows, it doesn't really matter because the Rats have an overwhelming majority in the House of Representatives.
OK, that's very nice.
The really importan question, though, is whether or not Republicans can figure out what we stand for, and then figure out how to communicate it effectively to the taxpayers.
We've already been down the wrong path with this sort of thing with Newt Gingrich's "Contract for America."
Regardless of what it was meant to be, it ended up being little more than a lightning rod for what we were opposed to, where Bill Clinton was concerned. Clinton's mistakes, and Democrat hubris, led to the Republican victories in '94 -- the Contract fed voter disgust with the ruling party.
But -- and we forget this at our peril -- Bill Clinton went on to use the Contract fact to feed Gingrich his own teeth. Clinton's re-election was primarily enabled by Mr. Gingrich's inept attempts to force the Contract through, and by the Republicans' inability to convince the voters that it meant anything positive.
Neither do I.
He is not doing the Republicans any favors by publishing this stuff - at least not with Americans who are more interested in the economy and their financial situation than in Rahm Emanuel.
Agreed. Emanuel's acknowledged to be obnoxious, and possibly playing good-cop/bad-cop for his boss, but in the long run, who cares? It's the result that counts.
Batchelor's trying to feed some unsourced gossip into the mill -- the situation's a bit too grim for that silliness.
Soon, 0bama will realize that success while having Rahm E on his team is like scoring on a first date with a parasitic twin hanging bareass from your cheek.
It would be nice if Blagojevich brought Rahm down, but I'm not counting on it.
Obama's COS, Rahm Emanuel, pledging allegiance to the USA on inaguration day.
Wanna bet?
Hope. Change.
Now what Zero?
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A UTAH woman has been charged with the murder of six infants after seven bodies were found packed in cardboard boxes at her former home.
ABC America reports that Megan Huntsman of Pleasant Grove has been arrested and charged with the monstrous crime.
Police believe that the 39-year-old had given birth to seven babies between 1996 and 2006.
The new occupants of the home Huntsman lived in up until 2011 made the first gruesome discovery on Saturday.
A subsequent police search found other bodies.
ABC reported that police had no comment when asked why seven bodies had been discovered but only six murder charges were laid.


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After breaking out in the second half last season following his trade to Orlando, Tobias Harris is a player many assumed would be the starting power forward for the Magic this season. Or, at the very least, until Glen Davis (left foot) returned to the court. That may not be the slam dunk it seemed to be, however.
Orlando coach Jacque Vaughn has experimented with using Kyle O'Quinn, a second rounder in 2012, as the starter during the team's first two preseason games, and Josh Robbins of the Orlando Sentinel writes that it's possible he could stick with that again tonight in the exhibition game against Dallas.
"... O?Quinn gives the Magic more size, and he can set effective screens," Robbins writes.
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Mayor Debra McCartt recently met some outstanding students from Sunrise, Whittier, Woodlands, Ridgecrest and Paramount Terrace elementary schools and de Zavala Middle School as she had lunch with the youngsters at the Big Texan Steak Ranch.
The brainchild of Big Texan co-owners Bobby and Danny Lee with the support of the Education Credit Union, the Lunch With the Mayor program sends the restaurant's limousines to campuses in each Amarillo Independent School District cluster to pick up the kids for an informative lunch with McCartt and members of the city government.
"This is one of the best things I do as mayor - having lunch with you all," she told the students. "But my No. 1 job as mayor is to make sure you're safe, that we have enough police and firemen to keep you safe."
Representatives of the city's Parks and Recreation Department told the kids about the retirement of mascots Gus and Goldie and the introduction of the department's new mascot, Sammy the Seal, at Sammy's birthday party, 5 to 9:30 p.m. Monday at Southwest Pool in John Stiff Memorial Park.
Those who attended the Lunch With the Mayor included:
Sunrise: fifth-graders Robert Lucero, Aaron Urias, Zxa Price, Mason Stewart, Dominique Trevino, Kristen Henry and counselor Terrie Stroud.
Ridgecrest: Tori Pickens, Jarrod Horne, Melina Quesada, Evan Gray, Rylee Moore, Sarah Jones and fifth-grade teacher Janna Ducan.
Paramount Terrace: Fourth-graders Max Preston, Christian Alexander and Miranda Parvin; and fifth-graders McKenzie Ivey, Jason Conway, Kayla Jones and fifth-grade teacher Carissa Arias
de Zavala: Beau Gray, Abby Vermillion, Jamel Brown and teacher Cindy Taylor.
Woodlands: Celeste Barton, Shoeb Kazi, Colby McCahan and fourth-grade teacher Cathy Moore.
Whittier: Justin Ek, Tasia Wilson, Alexis Narvaez, Ariel Johnson, Matthan Green, Zachary Lopez and Principal Kelly Simpson.
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Adding Culture to Exercise
Hip new exercise classes incorporate ethnic themes.
WebMD Feature It's Friday night and the sound of Latin salsa is pulsating from a studio on Manhattan's Lower West Side. But the people inside aren't swaying to the music; they're working out on stationary bicycles: "indoor cycling." Instructor Giovanni Ortiz urges his class on, shouting "Muevetelo! Move it!" with a swivel of his hips.
As the country's population continues to diversify, so too does the demographic of those who teach workout classes. Bringing their cultures to the job, Ortiz and other instructors are reinventing the fitness craze popularized by Jane Fonda and Richard Simmons 20 years ago.
Ortiz first taught indoor cycling using meditative music filled with wind-like sounds and eerie flutes. But he quickly discovered the power of Latin music. "You need enthusiasm to do [indoor cycling]," he says. "Latin music gets to the heart of the matter. It gets into your soul."
Some instructors say they develop new classes from a desire for a change of pace. Others want to distinguish themselves in the booming fitness market.
"The easiest way to be different is to go back to your roots," explains Ken Alan, spokesman for the American Council on Exercise. "I think we're going to be seeing more and more of these kinds of programs in the future."


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The BIDBI Bee
The BIDBI Bee is written by Julia Gash, the founder and CEO of BIDBI, with guest bloggers from inside and outside the BIDBI hive. In her blog, Julia gives a behind the scenes look at eco-bag production in the BIDBI engine room, speaks out on topical issues and celebrates her favourite bag art. She waves the flag for eco-ethical business and the tote as a wonderful, creative medium.
This week we hear from Sarah, from The Glass Gardener who answers our questions on her eco bags, running a small business and pizza. 1) How did you come up with the design for your tote bag? The design for the tote bag is the logo for The Glass Gardener. The design lends itself perfectly to being stamped on a simple cotton bag. I find it looks particularly good when the ink pad... Read More »
This week we hear from Jo Polack, an artist based in Cornwall who produces beautiful pieces of artwork inspired by the sealife around her. I'm a lucky lass! I create my textile art from my Studio Gallery in St Agnes, Cornwall; a fantastic community with a stunning coast - both of which inspires my work! Most of my artwork becomes large framed wall pieces or hangings and so it... Read More »
Tory of Fox & Moon, designs beautiful (and hilarious) weightloss planners, homewares and bags. Tory kindly answered a few of our questions. Tell us a bit more about Fox & Moon: I create fun accessories to help with the struggle that is dieting! I spend most of my time creating hilariously inapropriate planners that reflect how I (and many other women) feel about maybe needing... Read More »
Hello, we would like to introduce you to our company Hippofeet! Our team includes myself (Andrea) and my husband Bryan White. We got the initial idea to sell baby shoes in 2011. At this time we decided that we would like to start a family and as a bit of a lucky charm we bought a pair of baby shoes. The pair of shoes were so cute, made from 100% leather and very... Read More »
For the past few years, when August arrives our sister company, Talented, makes the journey across the Atlantic to showcase its sustainable canvas tote bag collection at NY Now trade show in New York. As Company Director of both BIDBI and Talented, of which I am also head designer, I front up the show together with our USA sales agent, Sara. Once the stand is set up and products are... Read More »
Last week I made my way down to Devon to visit some customers for 3 days and got to spend time with Julia. It was lovely weather which always puts everyone in a great mood and I got to see some lovely sites. On the first day Julia and I visited Honiton went to see the Thelma Hulbert Gallery which was lovely and then went to visit Moshulu who had on display all the bags BIDBI have created.... Read More »
This weeks blog is written by our new recruit Arnika Bhupal, and we tasked her with writing something a bit different... What did you do before BIDBI? Before joining BIDBI I lived in the South of France for a year doing Business Development for a tech company. I was a real high flyer, I always had parties on my billion dollar yacht. What Do You Enjoy Most About Working for BIDBI? There's... Read More »
We recently put together the first in a series of blogs focusing on our team here at BIDBI. Having interviewed our Sales Co-ordinator Sarah last time round, we're now turning the spotlight on Richard Robinson, who is responsible for design and marketing. Having spent 8 years with BIDBI, Richard has become an irreplaceable part of the company. About Richard's Role From making... Read More »
Plastic bag use in England has plummeted by 85% since the 5p tax was introduced in October of last year according to figures just released by the government. That's 6 billion bags less plastic bags that people have been taken at the checkout since the government brought in the charge, only 9 months ago. The result is staggering and a victory for common sense and the planet. Source:... Read More »
Hi my names Abi, and for the past week and a half I have been completing my work experience at Bag it Don't Bin it. Walking in on Monday morning I was a bag of nerves, however as soon as I entered the main office I was pleasantly overwhelmed with greetings, everyone was so kind and welcoming and my nerves suddenly went. After being introduced I started to get a feel of working life... Read More »


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Asian-Style Scallion Pancakes
Total Time
Prep 3 hrs
Cook 24 mins
Yummy Asian pancakes and a delicious dipping sauce of sesame oil, sugar and soy sauce. My mother used to make these for me when I was a little girl. I recently found this recipe in the October 2009 Food Network Magazine. Prep time includes chill time.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 1⁄2 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting
- 3⁄4 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 -2 tablespoon vegetable shortening, at room temperature
- 5 scallions, finely chopped
- vegetable oil, for frying
Dipping Sauce
- 1 tablespoon sesame oil
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 2 tablespoons water
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- sliced scallion
- Sift the flour and 3/4 teaspoon salt into a large bowl. Stir in 1/2 cup hot water until blended. If the dough is dry, add up to 2 more tablespoons water. Knead on a lightly floured surface until elastic yet firm, about 5 minutes. Cover with a damp cloth and set aside for 30 minutes.
- Divide the dough into 6 pieces and keep covered. One at a time, roll each piece into a 4-inch-long log, then stretch into a 14-inch-long rope. Brush with shortening and sprinkle with about 1 tablespoon scallion. Coil the dough into a circle, cover and set aside. Repeat with remaining dough.
- Flatten the coils with your hand on a floured surface, then roll with a floured rolling pin into a thin circle. Cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
- Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a 10-inch nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add 1 pancake and cook until golden brown, about 2 minutes per side. Drain on paper towls and repeat with remaining pancakes, adding more oil as needed. Cut into wedges to serve.
- Mix all ingredients for dipping sauce and serve with pancakes.
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Interesting. I would enjoy more scallions and a thicker dipping sauce. Made for Best of 2013 tag, based on the recommendation of sophie-a-toast.
We really enjoyed these, though my skills at kneading and rolling need a little work. I will make them again, and next time add a few sesame seeds to the pancakes (I add a few to the sauce this time!) Thanks for sharing a great recipe, Crafty Lady 13.
This is a wonderful bread recipe. It was much easier than expected and the flavor was really delicious. Of course, the dipping sauce was just as delicious and I will definitely make these scallion "pancakes" again. They would be great with any cuisine and can be eaten just as they are with or without the sauce. Made for the Best of 2012 tag.


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Tony Matelli talks about his process
If you look around, there's a sort of quiet, cosmic war going on all around us. You can see it in the cracks of a sidewalk, on attic junk and down the gradual sag of a face. It's our effort against the beat of time. And it seems to be what, at least in part, Tony Matelli is exploring in his sculptural work at the Green Gallery East.
From the outside of the exhibition space, it may seem like you missed the opening night by a few years. Dusty mirrors propped against walls bear the handprints and doodles of bygone humans. Walking up to them for a moment almost channels a quieting, humanistic experience of a cave drawing. And it is then the liminal space you just trounced in on begins to move into focus. »Read Full Blog Post(1)
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Adam Richman, late of the eating-challenge show "Man v. Food," has been filming around Milwaukee this weekend for his new show on the Travel Channel, "Fandemonium."
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Riverwest is just one exceedingly cool neighborhood, but never as much as during the Riverwest 24, an around-the-clock, full-day bike ride. Born through the movement of community block watches, the event is fun whether you're riding or not. It also brings new faces into the neighborhood, strengthens ties among neighbors and encourages the notion of urban biking.
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Melissa Etheridge has definitely had an interesting life: coming out, becoming a mother, recovering from breast cancer. Saturday night at the Riverside Theater, she mentioned being cancer-free for nine years, but her performance was almost entirely informed by being a girl from Kansas who was raised on classic rock, rather than by her later experiences.
Playing for more than two hours, Etheridge clearly wanted her show to be as much about the music as possible. She touched on pretty much every minor and major hit, and the resulting set was like a huge meal of ham and eggs, burgers and fries or any other basic meat-and-potatoes combination. »Read Full Article(5)


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Seagull Maritime SWS Rosewood SG Acoustic Guitar
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The Maritime SWS Rosewood SG Acoustic Guitar offers luxurious all solid tonewood construction with a select pressure-tested solid spruce top and soli...Read More
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A steel-string acoustic guitar made with quality materials and superb construction.
The Maritime SWS Rosewood SG Acoustic Guitar offers luxurious all solid tonewood construction with a select pressure-tested solid spruce top and solid rosewood back and sides. The Maritime SWS RW SG also boasts a semi-gloss custom polished finish with a beautiful satin sheen. The finish provides excellent protection and at the same time is extremely light and elastic. This is a crucial point in both the sound of the Maritime SWS guitar and its ability to age-a thick finish muffles a guitar's vibration and blocks aging.
Body style
Slightly smaller than a typical dreadnought guitar, the Maritime SWS Rosewood SG Acoustic Guitar is narrower in the upper bout. This shape discourages unwanted boominess in the sound and is one of the factors that results in Seagulls being such excellent recording guitars.
Select Pressure Tested Solid Tops
A guitar produces sound as a result of the vibration of its strings. What's not so obvious is the role that the guitar top plays in amplifying these vibrations. In fact, the vibration of the top is the most important factor in a guitar's sound. Solid top guitars offer richer sound and wider dynamic range (they play better at both soft and loud volume levels). The most interesting thing about a solid top guitar is that it will actually sound better over time.
All Seagull guitars are made with select pressure-tested solid tonewood tops. Each solid top is crafted from a single layer of spruce or cedar and is pressure-tested to ensure its highest level of rigidity and stiffness along with maximum harmonic vibration. The extraordinary wood used in Seagull guitars comes from trees that are hundreds of years old. The tight, straight grain in this wood produces a unique combination of strength and flexibility. The top is strong enough-in the direction of the grain-to withstand the pull of the strings, while at the same time it's flexible enough-across the grain-to vibrate freely.
The perfect neck angle
Neck angle has a tremendous effect on guitar tone. The Seagull re-design served as the impetus for several refinements to Godin's neck matching technology. Seagull guitar bodies and necks are now matched with incredible precision and the new compound curve in the top provides the additional stability necessary to achieve and maintain optimum neck pitch
The Tapered Headstock - Tuning Made Easy
Tuning can be a pain-in-the-neck (sorry). You may have wondered why it is that even after you have carefully tuned each string, it is often necessary to go back and make further adjustments on a few of the strings. This is because the guitar neck moves slightly as you change the tension of the strings. Therefore you don't just tune the strings, you balance the guitar's neck at the same time.
The tapered headstock on Seagull guitars provides straight string pull, minimizing the effect of neck twisting. This makes it much easier to get your guitar in tune and to keep it that way. The Seagull Maritime SWS guitar's tapered headstock is particularly advantageous for the growing ranks of players who use open tunings. Case sold separately.
- Top: Select Pressure Tested Solid Spruce
- Back & Sides: Solid Rosewood
- Neck: Mahogany
- Fingerboard & Bridge: Rosewood
- Tusq nut and compensated saddle
- Finish: Semi-Gloss Custom Polished Finish
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Maritime SWS Rosewood SG Acoustic Guitar
- Nut Width: 1.72"
Upper Bout: 11.38"
Waist: 10.54"
Lower Bout: 15.87"
Body Length: 19.8"
Body Depth: 4.9"
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Comments about Seagull Maritime SWS Rosewood SG Acoustic Guitar:
Just stopping by to pay my respects. I have paid five times more for guitars that didn't sound or play as well as this guitar. Overall quality and construction is excellent, the sound is rich and dynamic, playability is very good, made in North America, stays in tune, very comfortable to play. The rosewood fretboard is very hard and has grain as tight as top shelf ebony. The tone is truly gorgeous. I'm a guitar snob, I freely admit, and I am proud of this one. Keep it strung with Cleartone 11's and enjoy. Nothing else comes close for the money.
- Great Sustain
- Rich Sound
- Requires Set-up
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After weeks of research, I landed on this guitar. There is not a Seagull dealer in my neck of the woods so I bought it without having played it first. I could not be more pleased with the sound. It has good solid bass but it doesn't overpower the mids and highs. It is exactly what I wanted.
The action on the guitar, however, was so high out of the box that it was almost unplayable. Consulting the owner's manual, I read where one should not adjust a guitar unless one is a professional tech. This meant I had to get the guitar set up. I emailed Seagull informing them of the situation hoping to get some suggestion/explanation. The fact that they never replied tells me all I need to know about how they could deliver a product with such a bad setup.
Bottom line: by the time you pay to have the guitar set up and purchase a hard shell case, you're very near the same cost of a Martin Custom D. The Martin comes with a case and is playable out of the box. That stated, having owned both,I can honestly say that I would not trade this guitar for the Martin.
- Affordable
- Beautiful finish
- Consistent
- Fun To Play
- Good Feel
- Quality Tuners
- Rich Sound
- Stays In Tune
- Hard To Fit With Case
Best Uses
- Jamming
- Practicing
Comments about Seagull Maritime SWS Rosewood SG Acoustic Guitar:
A friend introduced me to Seagull guitars. As a group they are excellent for the price in all respects. I think this one is the pick of the litter all things considered.
Comments about Seagull Maritime SWS Rosewood SG Acoustic Guitar:
I know that you will be impressed by this guitar. It's got it all: tone...quality...price! It is an extremely light guitar which is another great feature. However, it might not be an ax that you want to take out on the road. It looks and feels delicate, but I can't confirm this observation. Instead, I would recommend a Gibson or Fender that are heavy and built like a tank. However, if you're not touring, this maybe the guitar for you. Impress yourself and your friends with a fantastic guitar by Seagull.
This acoustic features a solid-wood, rosewood body. However, the back of the guitar is two-piece and that is why I gave it a "9" instead of a "10". Other than that, the tone is excellent! It produces a rich, sweet sound. The notes are very distinctive and chording is a dream. The neck is fantastic too...easy to play and extremely comfortable. Seagull boasts that the body has been slightly redesigned in the upper bout. It is smaller, but it practically eliminates the "boxy" sound on other solid wood dreadnaughts. THIS IS A BIG IMPROVEMENT. Also, Seagull's headstock is tapered inward so it allows the strings a straighter alignment from the bridge. ANOTHER FEATURE OF ADVANCED DESIGN. Yes, the guitar does stay in tune better. Finally, the top is "white" which is not my favorite color, but it goes well with the dark, rosewood sides and back.
SEMI-GLOSS FINISH made me think twice before I ordered this guitar, but it does allow for more tone to get out. Because of this, I would recommend this guitar be played only indoors.
No problems here. I am impressed! It seems to be put together extremely well.
The value of this acoustic cannot be understated. I looked at quite a few guitars, but none were even close at this price with this quality. The solid-wood Martins are twice as much.
Most other guitars were laminates at this price range.
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Julie Driscoll: He's a hypocrite and a coward, and if he had any integrity at all, he'd tell his son, "Sorry, kid, just like everybody else, you don't deserve the same rights as the man-on-top/woman-on-bottom crowd get.
We Don't Need a Law to Stop Cyber-Cowards
Berry Craig: But if this old reporter were a blogsite boss he'd exercise his First Amendment right to make bloggers tack their names on what they write or they wouldn't get posted.
Love Letter to Arizona: Your Appointed Governor Is a Coward
Tina Dupuy: In fact, everything about SB 1070, Arizona's new ruthless immigration law signed last week seems refried. It's the same bill Governor Janet Napolitano vetoed twice. It's a three-peat of a bad idea. And it's a political cliché: when the economy is struggling, scapegoat "illegals." In 1994 California's then-Governor Pete Wilson knew the drill: His notorious re-election commercials showed immigrants running over the border like invading pathogens and he got to appear responsive to voters' fears.
End of the Era of the Dicks
Steve Ybarra: This year at age 62, a newborn child entered my life. Now, I may not be around for the blue moon next decade or to watch him get married, have children, graduate from law school, medical school or to become an auto mechanic, but I will resolve this – he will grow up in an America that will not be a country run by Dicks – if I have anything to say about it.
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Republicans are Cowards
I have concluded that Republicans are, by their very nature, cowards. Let us look at the evidence. First, instead of fighting a war that we really should have been fighting (like addressing real issues about who we are in the world community), we went to a trumped up war based upon lies and innuendo in […]


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Kumble will teach India to deal with 'tough moments' - Tendulkar
Jul 12, 2016: Sachin Tendulkar believes the Indian team has a reservoir of experience to tap into in the form of Anil Kumble, the new head coach
India news
BCCI cuts India-coach longlist to 21
Jun 15, 2016: The list of 57 candidates for the post of India coach has been cut to 21, the BCCI announced on Wednesday
Cricket All-Stars, 3rd T20, Los Angeles
Noise levels trump numbers as stars wind up roadshow
Nov 15, 2015:
A Friday the 13th for British Airways
Nov 13, 2015: Twitter gets into the act after Tendulkar is 'angry, disappointed and frustrated'
Watching America watch cricket
Nov 11, 2015: Might the game have found a foothold in the USA if not for Babe Ruth?
Sachin's Blasters v Warne's Warriors, Cricket All-Stars Series, New York
Nov 8, 2015: For many Indians across North America, the three-match All-Star series has turned into a chance for a pilgrimage - partly to watch legendary cricketers playing but mostly to see one man
Cricket All-Stars Series
'T20 is the right format to globalise the game' - Tendulkar
Nov 5, 2015: Sachin Tendulkar has said that the T20 format is most suited for cricket to expand into new markets
Cricket All-Stars Series
Tendulkar to play alongside Lara in Cricket All-Stars
Nov 5, 2015: The two greatest batsmen of their generation will now get a chance to bat together as captain Sachin Tendulkar drew Brian Lara's to play in the Sachin's Blasters squad for the Cricket All-Stars series
South Africa in India 2015-16
ODI rule changes causing bigger totals - Tendulkar
Oct 27, 2015: Two days after South Africa piled up the highest total in an ODI on Indian soil, Sachin Tendulkar has said that allowing only four fielders outside the 30-yard circle has paved the way for bigger totals
USA news
Tendulkar-Warne exhibition T20s in November
Oct 6, 2015: Shane Warne and Sachin Tendulkar will captain opposing teams in a three-match T20 exhibition tour of the USA in November
The making of a sporting icon lies in the timing
Oct 5, 2015: The legend of great sportsmen like WG Grace, Babe Ruth and Sachin Tendulkar is partly to do with the eras they lived in
England v Australia, 2nd Investec Ashes Test, Lord's
Arjun Tendulkar bowls in England nets
Jul 15, 2015: There was a familiar name at England's training session at Lord's on Wednesday. The Tendulkar on show this time, however, was not Sachin, but his son Arjun
India news
MCA enlists Tendulkar's services
Jun 25, 2015: Less than a month after joining the BCCI's cricket advisory committee, Sachin Tendulkar has agreed to be a part of the Mumbai Cricket Association's Cricket Improvement Committee (CIC) as a special invitee
India news
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I'm a new investor in DDE. What are this board's thoughts on getting back to the 52 week high?
when indeed
I am new also,and this is a dead board. Hellow out there, some one tell us something.
Never much action on this board.I am admittedly an amateur with a small (recent also) position in this company. I thought it looked like an attractive small cap gaming co. w/ decent profits, low p/e ratio and a price that had been beaten down to a pretty good value over the last 12 months. Yes, I think it could head back to it's highs. Good Luck!


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I don't think so. I'm sure this boat's gonna be as wet as the original and there's not a lot of room inside for the stuff required to make it work. I also think I'm gonna have my hands full sailing her.
I'll be looking into making at least some guns fire on Macedonian and if I can figure out a repeating system - one of Constellation's pivots.
A couple of weeks with a nasty chest cold and now prepping to move have cut into working on the model, but I did sneak some time into attaching fairleads for the bunts and leechlines on the square tops'l.
There weren't any reef points on the square when I was aboard, but the holes were there.
I'm moving. Moving 10 pounds of stuff into a 2 pound bag actually, and it's been a major pain in the, well, you know which part.
The models are in their new location, and if I can get my shop moved, I can do something to them.
Jib sheeting
This one is going to St Michael's with me to be displayed at the Maritime Museum's model expo. I don't have her ballast mounted on her fin, or a steering system set up as yet, so she'll just sit and look pretty.
On another note: Back in #207 I was looking at an idea for handling the sheets on the over-lapping sails. DanL, somewhere, suggested turning the servo around (I think, it sounds like something Dan would suggest). Well, I finally got to taking that suggestion and preliminary tests look very very promising.
In the attached drawing the sail-arm servo happens to be mounted with a 2.5" arm with two "slave arms" of 4.5" length on either side. When the arm is rotated to it's 90° limit on one side, pushing the slave arm with the sheet attached outward, it nets, in this case, about 5.25" of sheet pulled in, potentially doubled to 10.5"
Mean while, the opposite sheet is completely slack - which is what I'm after.
The sheet relies on the wind to pull it out when the arms are slack/centered, but that shouldn't be an issue.
Multiple mounting holes at the ends of the slave arms will allow more than one sail, with different sheet length requirements, to be controlled from the same arm. Of course, the length and pivot points of all three arms need to be adjusted to get the most from the set-up as well as fitting in the hull. This example would be about 9" wide with both arms spread, well within the 12" in Constellation or the 10" in Pride.
I could even add a non-overlapping sail, like Constellation's spanker, to the servo arm itself.
I'm hoping this will solve the plethora of overlapping sails on Pride and even Constellation, it sure looks like it might.
Tried the system out in Constellation and it appeared to function as hoped. A spring or bungee to return the arms to center would be nice, as the wind isn't always enough to haul out the slack sheet. A cleat mounted on the arms near their pivot points would make adjusting the sheets' length much easier too.
Neat design, well done Dan and Jerry.
You might think about a fairlead to keep the line away from the servo arm's brass post. I could envision slack (due to seas or slatting sails), flipping a line over the brass post.
Ok, thank's for bumping this back to the top!
I just finished re-reading the entire build log, which I didn't follow before, as its construction started after I wasn't active here. Very gorgeous work here Todd!
I'm especially interested in the hand made blocks (which I might decided to make more of. Also I'm extremely interested in the double armed, servo head sail system that you should.
Is it working as intended? I think I might be able to get that much space in Providence possibly. Something for me to tinker with in the CAD program to test configurations and rigging possibilities!
Thanks again for posting that!
A peek at this neglected model
It's been a useless summer model-wise, haven't gotten much of anything done.
Today, I opened up Pride to do some measuring, hoping to figure out the sheeting setup. A pair of sail-arm servos with "Servo-Stretchers" in-line will handle all the sheets and running stays. One servo for the heads'ls, and the other for the fore and main. The tops'l braces will be attached to the heads'l servo arm.
Sheeting Arms
Let's hope this works....
I cut 4 sticks 6-1/2" long, 3/4" wide, and 3/16" thick from pine.
I tapered and sanded them. They stacked, two each, on a bit of brass tubing as a bushing to keep the pivot holes from wearing larger. A pan-head screw serves as a pivot pin and holds them to a common block so it's all one assembly.
There's a thin styrene "washer" between them and on top, and they sit on a 1/4" Delrin block to lift them over the servo arm.
The block will be screwed to the servo-tray between the two sail-arm servos, one pair facing port, the other starboard.
The servo arms need posts with a bushing to push the arms and all of it has to be able to slip under the shelf in the hatch opening - it's gonna be close.
Tracking shows the new Servo Stretcher should arrive today, so I may have some more to post tonight.
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The stock is your first base of flavor. Heat it up in a saucepan, as a warm stock will cook into the risotto more quickly and evenly. While that's heating up, sauté onions or shallots in a heavy bottomed pan. After those aromatics have softened, add the rice and "toast" it in the pan. You'll know it's ready when the rice turns translucent at the edges. If the recipe calls for any wine, add it now to continue building the flavor. The slight acidity of a Sauvignon Blanc blends wonderfully in a risotto.
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