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82 comments:
- Lovers, Saints & Sailors said...
Gotta say, your ghost writes well!
I am totally in love with that pink, fuzzy cardigan. Up until now I didn't realise my life was missing a pink, fuzzy cardigan. Turns out it is.
Must. Remedy.
- February 15, 2012 7:57 PM
- brodie said...
Every time you mention Picnic at Hanging Rock I imagine it's a reference to Australia AKA me. SO THANKS GURL! LUV U 2 MWAH MWAH
- February 15, 2012 8:12 PM
- Meganne said...
Love these colorful and diverse looks, they're all so odd and diffrent, I'd like to combine certain features of every look!
- February 15, 2012 8:24 PM
- DaliR said...
The bright red dress with purple tights combination looks amazing. Your flower crown is gorgeous as well! <3
- February 15, 2012 8:31 PM
- Jazz fututa sum hic said...
my 18th was picnic at hanging rock themed and everyone draped around my backyard in long white dresses and it was magical
- February 15, 2012 8:32 PM
- Kiani-Iman said...
Your dress is so lovely!
- February 15, 2012 8:33 PM
- Mana said...
so cute! ^-^
can we meet! lol. you're totes cool.
That is not how i speak, by the way.
- February 15, 2012 8:33 PM
- hanna said...
all the outfits are so cute seriously i'm crying. ny fashion week seems so exciting!
- February 15, 2012 9:05 PM
- Leira Zetroc said...
"(Also she doesn't know it but I've adopted her as my little sister even though we are only a year apart. WHATEVER I'M TECHNICALLY HER BOSS I GET TO DO WHATEVER I WANT)"
Omg your so funny XP
And your outfit! It looks like it could have come out of a editorial shoot! Love its dreamy, romantic, dress-up vibe with the flower headband and then the unexpected twist with the edgy jacket. That torn hem is the perfect "creepy doll" touch !
- February 15, 2012 9:18 PM
- Mitchie said...
arggg i love Ruby! Im glad she is finally get recognition!
- February 15, 2012 9:23 PM
- The Fancy Teacup said...
Adore Keiko's look, and your vintage dress is an absolute gem. x
- February 15, 2012 9:47 PM
- Ana G said...
The pink dress is a whole jewel.
- February 15, 2012 10:48 PM
- Alice McGenniss-Destro said...
you look incredible! picnic at hanging rock is one of my favorite novels! x
- February 15, 2012 11:37 PM
- Aduaa said...
All of these outfits re so great! The glasses necklace is so awsome, got to have it( as well as most of the things from thos post) ! Your dress is awesome too! I just can't understand how you make these finds! Gosh I love your blog! You'r my idol <3
- February 15, 2012 11:51 PM
- Joy said...
haha i love it this is so sweet. glad to know that you're enjoying yourself.
- February 16, 2012 12:14 AM
- Josefína said...
the flowers on your head are stunning!=)
- February 16, 2012 12:40 AM
- Easy Lifestyles said...
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Very nice thanks for sharing.
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- February 16, 2012 12:53 AM
- Lailith Robyn said...
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- February 16, 2012 1:28 AM
- yea ji Kown said...
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- February 16, 2012 2:35 AM
- Sarah said...
I can't get enough of your street style photos! You always look gorgeous xxx
- February 16, 2012 3:07 AM
- Dayzee said...
it really would be quite good and pretty cool and amazing and cool to go to a Rookie meeting.
- February 16, 2012 3:15 AM
- POPTUCKSHOP said...
Well you DEFINITELY stole the show in that amazing dress! And that biker jacket is just WAAY too cool being on top. Looks like something that should be out of a modern adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream
- February 16, 2012 3:47 AM
- Tatiana said...
Fashion Week + people, who expert in a fashion = great-great looks.
- February 16, 2012 6:50 AM
- Megan said...
Your pink dress and headband made my heart smile. :-) You look like Ophelia in pink.
- February 16, 2012 7:27 AM
- Flower said...
I love this and I don't want to sound like the biggest miser guts on the planet, but are you payed to promote these sites?
- February 16, 2012 11:00 AM
- trinalunatic said...
Ruby looks so AMAZING! I can't believe she is younger than you. You should totally adopt her. How do you find these people?
- February 16, 2012 11:20 AM
- trinalunatic said...
And Tavi, you look like a reluctant princess. Too cool for the ball. Ballin' Belle.
- February 16, 2012 11:26 AM
- watchoutjoe said...
I love the way you write Tavi!!!
I juast want to snuggle snuggle snuggle with it.
- February 16, 2012 2:35 PM
- Drea said...
Love this! and omg Leeann has Shakespeare on her T-shirt.
Drea xo
- February 17, 2012 6:34 AM
- ani yasunari said...
I am the ghost of hanging rock. in fact, it was my school where those girls once lived, and dreamed... didn't realise it was the cool thing. what's not to love though ? :)
- February 19, 2012 4:19 AM
- Sabina said...
Love the floral headdress on you. And I see what you mean about Leeann having a Sweet Valley moment--I actually think it's a really cute outfit though. Nice mix of colors.
- February 19, 2012 12:41 PM
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- February 25, 2012 12:30 PM
- George's Drawers said...
I love Keikos glasses! With the hair she looks like a 90's Audrey Hepburn. LOVE the bag too.
- February 27, 2012 9:32 AM
- Cess said...
Wow!! Everyone looks so great!! I really like how many different styles there are! If its not totally creppy you and Ruby both look ardorible (which is creepy because Im a year or two younger than both of you... BUIT OH WELL!!!) I really like how your dress is ripped, it really does look nice and romantic... hehe, your gost soul... I'm sorry to hear you are dead as you are one of my favorite bloggers... But I suppose your soul is nice too...
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- March 01, 2012 11:22 AM
- Isabel said...
I am in love with your headband - florals are just so beautiful! <3
I also have some serious hair envy of you >:3
- March 03, 2012 1:23 PM
- Daisy Darling said...
May I just say; Those uber cool purple suede shoes your friend is sporting in the first picture are totally brill. I'm going to hunt down a similar pair or shoot myself in the foot.
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- March 03, 2012 9:54 PM
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- March 05, 2012 2:50 PM
- georgia97 said...
I love the glasses necklace and the scarf over the bag on the bottom right,love the shoes as well xx
- March 05, 2012 2:53 PM
- Edy Pavey said...
I really like this color combination!
- March 05, 2012 3:06 PM
- Miki's scrapbook said...
I LOVE your style and this outfit in particular.
Happy Monday!
- March 05, 2012 4:23 PM
- Alice said...
I'm just kinda in love with your dress. You look so pretty.
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- March 08, 2012 12:14 PM
- Thordur Sveins said...
I've been kicking myself for the last couple of days for not going shooting on fashion week.... oh well
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- allison said...
have you seen thie movie Submarine? It looks like something you'd like. my husband and I are watching it tonight. oh this is Ms. Myers.
- March 10, 2012 6:30 PM
- Orjen said...
You look so wonderful and mature in that pink vintage dress. Very unexpected.
- March 14, 2012 10:42 AM
- masha_) said...
First look is cool <3
- March 17, 2012 9:45 AM
- karina said...
you look great!!!!!!
- March 20, 2012 6:02 AM
- kira said...
I love Ruby's color blocking in this! And your coat looks very complicated and COOL.
- April 06, 2012 1:50 PM
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Love these colorful and diverse looks, they're all so odd and diffrent, I'd like to combine certain features of every look!
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My daughter and I ordered a dress from Doll House which was to be custom made. I placed the order on a Monday and was surprised to get a phone call the following Monday to say the dress had arrived it only took eight 8 days. I took the dress home and when I put the dress on my daughter, I realised that had just altered the dress (in store) and found pins still in the side seams. I was so disgusted with their lie – when confronted they would not talk to me or acknowledge what they had done. To all you mum's out there DON'T BUY FROM DOLL HOUSE.
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CNJ Staff Photo: Liliana Castillo Carl Boband of Portales said he made a New Year's resolution to get in better shape.
By Liliana Castillo: CNJ staff writer
"No, I don't have a New Year's resolution," he said.
He seemed frustrated by the question as he worked out Friday at Gym X in Clovis.
"I'm the kind of person," said Guillermo Garcia, "that if I have a goal, I will do it no matter what time of the year or day."
Garcia, a Clovis railroad track inspector, said it bothers him when people make resolutions only to break them.
"When I come in to the gym at this time of the year, it'll be packed," Garcia said. "Not a month from now, it will have thinned out. But none of that affects me. Because I'm going to meet my goals either way."
For many, New Year's is a time to look back over the past year and decide what should be changed.
For Clovis and Portales residents, resolutions range from losing weight to being more patient.
Bennie Zertuche of Portales is trying her hand at the patience challenge.
"I'm doing great so far," she said. Zertuche explained that sandwiches she and her friends had ordered for lunch took a little longer than she'd like. But she didn't lose her temper.
"For the past five years, losing weight was always my resolution," said Zertuche. "But it never worked. So I'm going to work on being patient. I just step back and walk away."
Carl Boband of Portales went above and beyond and made two New Year's resolutions.
"I'm going to love my wife more than I do and I'm going to get in better shape," he said.
Boband, a dairy service manager, said he plans to be more romantic and considerate of his wife in 2009. And to lose weight, he's going to the gym more often.
"But most of it will be done through faith," he laughed. "I think resolutions are a good way to start the year. It gives people something to strive for."

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Ms. Shaw was born Oct. 19, 1936, in Waukegan,Ill., to Fred and Mable (Schmeck) Bunge. She arranged flowers for a floral company.
She was preceded in death by her parents and a brother.
Survivors include a son, Robert (Paula) Mentzer of Arkansas; daughters, Debbie (Terry) Billiter of Cedar Park, Diana Aurand (Monte Johnson) of Lago Vista and Renee (Spencer) Williams of Austin; eight grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
A private family service was held.
Services entrusted to Roberson Funeral Home, Three Rivers.


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7 Reasons for Trevor to Stay in San Diego
Trevor Hoffman, baseball's all-time saves leader, is a free agent. He's been offered a contract by the Padres, $4 million for this year and a $4 million option for next year. But there's been no word from Trevor or his agent as of yet. I am very certain that he will stay, and here's the reasons why.
REASON #7: He has 554 saves, 552 with San Diego. He tied for the all-time record here in Petco Park. The next day, he became the all-time saves leader against the Pirates. He also got his 500th and 550th at Petco. I mean, he's already made history here. Every save breaks his own record. He became the leader here in San Diego, as a Padre. Why should he add to that record in another uniform?
REASON #6: He's been here for 15 years. That's a long time. His first team was the Flordia Marlins, who traded him to the Padres in 1993. It would be plain WRONG to go to another team for only one or two years. Why can't he be sort of like Tony Gywnn?
REASON #5: His family is very established here. Trevor's wife, Tracy, runs a children's gym. His three boys, Brody, Quinn and Wyatt have lived here their entire lives. If Trev is going retire in a few years anyway, why move on now?
REASON #4: Trevor Time and the fans. Ever since Hell's Bells first played in Qualcomm Stadium in 1998, every Padres fan heads to Petco with the hope of seeing Trevor Time. When the Padres are leading by a few going into the top of the 9th, we buzz in anticipation of our all-time saves leader making an appearance. I had the extreme privilege of seeing Trevor Time live for the first time this year. I will never forget it. Seeing him on the mound, Hell's Bells blaring through the stadium, all 30,000 or so fans standing and screaming, all of us confident in our legend. It's amazing. It's a San Diego tradition. We die-hards love him. There are some who will doubt him, but the faithful know. He may struggle, he may fail, but he always takes all blame, and he fights to win. You gotta cheer for a guy like Trevor.
REASON #3: He's been in this situation before. In 2005, Trev was a free agent. He got offered a really good contract by the Cleveland Indians. He turned it down to stay with the Padres, sacrificing about $11 million. He's not in it for the money, that's well known. He wants to stay in San Diego, and the front office seems to want him too. So this won't be about the money. It's going to be about Trevor pitching for his team.
REASON #2: He can still pitch. I know the excuses, the bashes: he's old, he's washed up, his time is over, he can't pitch. Well, the truth is, he may be 41, but he CAN still pitch. I mean, look at Greg Maddux. Look at Jamie Moyer. They are both really old guys, but they pitch well every fifth day. Trevor is a closer; he does not pitch that much. His save oppurtunities are usually very far apart. He gets a lot of time to rest, and he keeps himself in great shape. Though he does struggle at the beginning of the season, he always bounces back and finishes decently. He threw really, really well last year, better than he has in a few years. His stuff was great. The guy has one, if not two, years left in the tank.
He IS San Diego. Ask any Padres fan. Besides Tony Gywnn, Trevor is the face of the Padres. He's been here for 15 years. He is our celebrity. He's going to the Hall of Fame in a Padres uniform. Besides his amazing performance on the field, he is generally a great guy. He always gives the press all the time it needs, especially after he blows a save. He also does a ton of charity work.
We love him here. This is where he belongs. We need our closer. We need Trevor Hoffman.
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I agree that age should not be a factor for Trevor! You mention Jamie Moyer. How about Troy Percival, who closed for the Rays before he got injured late in the season. He was key to their successful run, so I say hang on to your guy!
With Hoffman its just one of those things, hard to picture him in another uniform. Roy Halladay is becoming like that for the Blue Jays. One of those players you never want to get rid of no matter how old they get. Others George Brett, Derek Jeter, Jason Varitek (although he played for the Mariners and is a free agent I can't picture him in another uniform) there are more.
Some Padres news from the weekend: Brian Giles' option was picked up by the Padres on Friday. This is great because he's a good player, and we need the veteran leadership in the clubhouse. It appears that Jake is out the door, though no deal is done yet. Jake is relecutant because he doesn't want to get traded for good players. For example, if he gets traded to the Braves, we might get Yunel Escobar is return. Jake is concerned that the Braves won't be able to get a shortstop of his equal. Wherever he goes, Jake wants to be on a contending team. A lot of Padres think we're just a few pieces away to be contending, but if Jake leaves, we could very well be back in the dumps. Today the news comes out that the Padres are going to be very active in the trade market, as opposed to free agent signings. Last year, the free agent signings didn't work to well for us. So, we're going to be trading. I'm guessing that means Jake, Greenie, and other players. I think it's going to be a tough offseason, cause it looks like we're going to lose a lot of our favorite players.
By some divine grace, I was able to understand the concept of chemical equations, but then we got to dimensional analysis, and it all went downhill from there. I mean really? Can't we save math for the physics course that I'll never take? And yes! There were also two new articles on redsox.com today too! I totally cannot stand any other sport besides baseball, and since I live on the east coast, watching games that go into extra innings on the west coast is absolutely brutal, but worth it. Any interesting moves the Padres are going to make, I guess more in the sense of acquisitions? Too bad Jake Peavy is gonna leave😦. Hopefully he'll go somewhere where you can at least still respect him, not a rival team.
Hoffman is the 2nd GREATEST Padre of all time,Behind Mr Gwynn.. It's a crying shame that the Padres are treating the future Hall Of Famer like this..Hoffy isn't just the all time saves leader he's a 1st class Gentleman!!!.. His work in the community shows alot for WHO this man really is.
Its really gonna be hard to see Hoffy in another teams uniform… What a sad story for all true Padres fans!!!!


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My DS (14.5 mo) was recently diagnosed with allergies to cow milk / egg / tree nuts / sesame. After he turned 12 mo I has originally planned to transition DS over to cow milk while he's at preschool so I could pump wean (stop pumping at work) and continue to nurse DS when we are together. With DS allergies that's clearly not going to work
DS is also very very tiny (was 16 lbs 6 oz at 12 mo) and I think needs the calories from breastmilk so I have been terrified to cut back on DS breastmilk intake and have been continuing to pump and send EBM in sippy cups with him to day care. Right now he is drinking maybe 3 oz EBM at day care (I send in 6 oz). He seems to be cluster feeding in the mornings and evening as well as nursing 1 - 2 times overnight, and getting by ok without drinking much during the day. I try to send juicy fruits (grapes, etc) so he'll get some fluid intake from those foods.
Since DS isn't drinking very much EBM at day care, I'm very tempted to pump wean (for purely selfish reasons because I'm tired of pumping), use up the rest of my freezer stash of EBM for day care, and then transition DS over to drinking rice milk at day care. I'm having a hard time getting excited about pumping when DS is only drinking at most 3 oz EBM and the rest gets tossed.
The only resource I've seen on how much breastmilk is enough to meet a toddler's dietary needs for calcium and fat (such as how many nursing sessions) is the kellymom.com page on nutrition for nursing toddlers.
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13 runs will do that to ya
It was a beautiful day in Morgantown, West Virginia on Sunday. Low 70 temps mixed with party cloudy skies make for one thing, softball.
Ten of my closest friends at WVU make a pact that every nice day we have to attempt to get a game of softball in. Sunday was one of those days where we all were on the same page, we found an open field and it worked.
Part of what made the day so great is that I was not even able to watch the Pirate game today. The Extra Innings package blocks the games out regardless because I am in the Pittsburgh market and Fox Sports Pittsburgh was showing the Penguins game today.
I was however game tracking it on my buddy's iphone. I was happy and please. Up until the 4th inning. The Pirates were up with a nice 4-2 lead. Andrew McCutchen teed off for his first homerun of the year and pitcher Daniel McCutchen was progressing smoothly. I will say it again-up until the 4th inning.
The Diamondbacks put up a whooping 13 runs in one inning alone to win the ballgame 15-6.
Theres not much to be happy about a 15 run performance but take away that one inning and the Bucs win the game easily.
Daniel McCutchen will be sent down tomorrow because relief pitcher Joel Hanrahan is ready to begin the season after an injury. If I was in charge I would send current relief pitcher Hayden Penn with him. Penn currently has an inflated ERA of 30.80 and has been shelled in both of his appearances this season and does not look like a major league caliber pitcher.
There were some bright spots in Arizona this weekend, most coming on Saturday.
Duke looked awesoem, maybe the best since his Opening Day start of 2009, pictured above. He went eight innings and only walked two batters. Duke gave up just a 2-run homer to Mark Reynolds and managed to work out of a handful of tough jams. He stands at 2-0 on the year which not only helps his confidence early on, it also elevates his staff ace status.
Leadoff man Aki Iwamura belted his first homrun of the year and went 2-for-4. Iwamura has been a gem the past few games after beginning the year 0-for-8. He has been working counts and waiting on his pitches. Hopefully he continues to find his stride and become confortable.
The guy touching Aki on the head has not quite been the guy he was the first two games.
Garrett Jones was 0-for-4 on Sunday striking out and grounding into a double play. His breakout game and opening day seems so long ago as Jones is batting just .208 right now. It can't really be said that he will breakout of this slump because he never has had the opportunity before. We know the power is there, but the question remians, can he deliever consistently?
I for one am happy to just be leaving Chase Field. It has not been very welcoming to Pittsburgh in recent years. Thej Pirates have lost 11 of their last 18 in Pheonix and have won just two out of their last six.
I love Chase Field. I was there for the Pirates series last year and enjoyed the atmosphere, affordability and fans at the stadium. However I cannot say the curse the team or ballpark bestows upon the Pirates is good in anyone, simply because it is not.
It is a nice place to watch a game, and I am not a big fan of retractable roofs at all!
Anywho, it will be a late night for me tomorrow as I have a paper to write and get to watch the Bucs at ten pm. Its Pirates-Giants in San Francisco. 3-3 right now and I would love to take 2-of-3.
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I have the extra innings package too and it's so frustrating to be blacked out!!! But it's better than nothing. Some day maybe Fox will free us and let us watch our teams!!!
13 runs in one inning? Yikes! Like the way they used to throw out the high and low scores in Olympic events, it's too bad you can't throw out the high- and low-scoring innings in games. It would certainly make things more interesting, anyway.🙂
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It is not a Fox problem, but silly rules for MLB. In Texas Fox will black out games from Austin to Oklahoma City due to being in Ranger land, but the Dallas Stars are shown statewide. Great Post. Use the Iphone to show West Virginia Pics!!!!
hey! Other than those runs scored by the D-backs your team's lookin pretty good! …. well y'all started off pretty well with the Dodgers at least! That's something! you never know😀
I always root for the Pirates~ I have a soft spot for em😉 The Pirates and the Rays haha
Woohoo Iwamura! It's funny because anyone that is familiar with baseball at all decides that Iwamura and Imamura (my last name) is pretty much the same and pronounces it that way….and then proceeds to ask if I'm related to him. Uhhh no, there IS a difference between the 'w' and 'm', friends. Haha. Anyways, awesome picture of you at the park! Apparently I have a business trip over to your neck of the woods next month; maybe I should go to a Pirates game and check out Snell and Wilson's old stomping ground. xoxo http://diamondgirl55.mlblogs.com
my softball season starts in two more weeks!! Wooo-Hooo!
Can't wait.
Ok I need Garrett to get back on that hot streak. Matt, I wanted to congratulate you and your Pirates for staying out of the cellar so far this year.
What did I tell you about Houston sucking their way into last place? And the Reds aren't much better. The Bucs will make 4th I think. And fortunately (for me), they don't play the Dodgers with any regularity. They knocked us off our tracks. WAKE UP GARRETT JONES. I NEED YOU FANTASY NUMBERS!!!
~ Will
Mid 70s?? My first baseball game of 2010 was rained out on Sunday. I hope the Pirates send a gift basket to Renteria after tonights game. I have a lot of affection for the Pirates franchise, I wrote a lil love note to them. Can we (Los Gigantes de San Francisco) have Andrew McCutchen in 2014? That would be great.
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Halladay's Historic No-Hitter Opens Phillies Postseason
After 13 years in the big leagues, Roy Halladay finally got his first taste of postseason play today against the Reds. He wasted no time taking full advantage of the opportunity. Halladay pitched a no-hitter and ended just 1 walk shy of his second perfect game of the season. The no-no was only the second ever in baseball history to be thrown in the postseason. And Halladay also became the first pitcher to ever throw a no hitter in both the regular season and the postseason.
Prior to the game, there were face painters, games, food and music from Mr. Greengenes:
That was followed by batting practice, player introductions and the ceremonial first pitch thrown by former Phillies pitcher, Scott Eyre. And of course, rally towels:
As the game began, Halladay relied on his defense as he followed the lead of Carlos Ruiz, who called an amazing game behind the plate.
Halladay was so good in this game, that he actually had more hits in the game than the Reds batters did. With two outs and two men on in the 2nd, Halladay smashed an RBI-single to left. Shane Victorino followed that up with 2 more RBI before Reds pitcher Edinson Volquez was pulled from the game with less than 2 innings pitched. With one run in the first on a Chase Utley sac fly, these four runs total were all Halladay needed.
After mowing down Reds hitters, both Halladay and the Phillies walked away with a huge win in Game 1 of the NLDS. The no-hitter was the icing on the cake.
I feel extremely fortunate to have been able to witness this extraordinary feat. It is a game I will never forget. The energy and excitement in the stadium was so thick you could feel it on your skin like thousands of goosebumps. Strangers celebrated with each other uninhibited, as if they were long time friends. I personally high-fived more people after the game then I ever have in my entire life combined. A woman later showed me her hands, which were bright red, and said she had high-fived so many people that her hands actually hurt. Of course, she was not that upset about it.
Today was an amazing start to the Phillies postseason, but there are still 10 more wins ahead to reach the ultimate goal. The team will be off tomorrow to soak in this win and then it is back to work again on Friday. Roy Oswalt gets the ball next; he has a very tough act to follow.
Here is the full Photo Album from today's game. And this is a few shot video clips from the 9th inning, basically to show how loud it was in there. Sorry about the head…had some 6'5″ dude in front of me and I could not reach too well over him.
Photos by Jenn Zambri Photography
*Read more about the Phillies at my other home page, Phightin' Phils Phorum in the My Team Rivals network*
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I love that the woman's hands were red from high-fiving. LOL! And how cool that you were there, Jenn. It must have been an amazing game to attend. Halladay is just incredible and the fact that he can hit too makes him downright nasty!
I am very happy for you! A ticket to be treasured for ages! As the game was unfolding I was thinking you were at the game.
Congratulations to Doc Halladay, the Phillies and all their phans. I could feel the excitement thru your post.
I freely admit that I'm a tad jealous of those of you lucky enough to be at that amazing game! Judging by the angle of your photos, you must have had pretty good seats. Just like last year, the sound on the TBS broadcast is sorely lacking; sounding all muffled and tinny, it does nothing to convey the energy of the crowd. It must have been deafening!
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Yes I am jealous, Halladay is the only pitcher to have more hits in a game than he allowed. There is so many things that should make last nights game possibly the greatest pitching feat in baseball. I have been trying to get tickets for when they are in Cincy, but no luck matching them up with hotels that a normal person can afford…
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State drops health tech firm
WINOOSKI — State officials said Monday that CGI, the lead contractor developing Vermont Health Connect, is being dumped from its development role in favor of a new firm.
CGI will continue to perform hosting services for the state but will no longer be developing the software and technology that drives the state's online health insurance marketplace.
Lawrence Miller, who is Gov. Peter Shumlin's chief of health care reform, and Mark Larson, commissioner of the Department of Vermont Health Access, announced the change at a news conference in Winooski.
It was an abrupt reversal for the Shumlin administration, which had been steadfastly standing behind CGI's efforts to fix the troubled website, even while other states and the federal government dismissed the firm weeks and months ago.
"Over the weekend, we have concluded a transition agreement with CGI to be able to move the work that's in progress and the work that's completed and not yet deployed over to the state and (its) new development partner to complete the testing, defect remediation and buildout of Vermont Health Connect," Miller told reporters Monday.
The administration's tone had shifted in recent weeks, with even Shumlin, a second-term Democrat, noting that the tens of millions paid out so far for the site has not been worth the cost. But he has pledged to see the project through to a successful completion.
The state will pay CGI an additional $9.7 million for work to be completed through Sept. 20, bringing its total haul — nearly all federal money — to about $67 million for the unfinished site. It was to be paid $83 million for the work.
CGI was on the hook for $5.1 million in penalties for prior missed deadlines. The penalties are reflected in the separation agreement, according to Larson.
"We believe that this agreement respects the value of that $5.1 million," he said.
Miller said it "seems likely" that the $83 million cost of developing the site will go up as the state negotiates with the new developer. "At this point we do not have an estimate for increased cost," he said.
Shumlin, who has continually expressed optimism about the project, was not made available to reporters Monday but issued a statement.
"The Vermont Health Connect website and the slow pace of improvements have been the biggest disappointment and frustration of my governorship. It is my hope that today's changes will be a positive step toward completing this project so Vermonters are delivered the product they were promised," Shumlin said.
Miller said the decision to part ways was mutual between the state and CGI. He said CGI wanted out and the state was looking to go in a new direction.
"It's safe to say that when you get to this point in a project with this many challenges, I think it was very difficult for both parties," he said.
Linda Odorisio, CGI's vice president of global communications, issued a statement Monday noting the firm has completed most of the work under its contract.
"CGI is proud of the role it played in helping 85 percent of eligible Vermonters enroll in a health plan via Vermont Health Connect. With a majority of our exchange development work complete, we look forward to providing ongoing hosting services in Vermont for one of the country's most successful health care exchanges," she said.
Miller said the timing was right for the change.
"We do feel this is an appropriate time to responsibly transition without disruption to Vermonters who are already being served by the exchange," Miller said. "This way the work they've done will get a second set of eyes in testing and review prior to deployment. We're feeling like that's a good next step."
The exchange, required by the federal Affordable Care Act, has been plagued by technological problems since it launched in October. Thousands of users who need to change information, such as their address or marital status, must undergo a cumbersome manual process rather than the faster, automated way the website was expected to offer.
Additionally, small business employees are still not allowed to enroll through the website and must obtain insurance directly from carriers. That function is now expected to be available next year at the earliest.
The state is making progress on a backlog of the so-called change of circumstance requests, Miller said, but that required contracting with Optum, which inked a $5.6 million deal several weeks ago with the state to help make the manual changes. As of last week, about 8,800 requests remain, down from a high of 14,800 a few weeks ago.
According to Miller and Larson, Optum is expected to take over the ongoing technology development of the exchange website that is being stripped from CGI and can provide "a fresh perspective." Larson said the firm has been "coming in to help assess and finish work in several states."
The transition will take some time, however.
"Individual people know things," Miller said. "There's no magical transference of knowledge."
The state is negotiating a contract with Optum for the remaining work. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the federal entity known as CMS that oversees the exchanges, is involved in the discussions.
"We have continued discussions with Optum to identify the scope," Miller said. "CMS' participation … has given us the comfort that they support this transition and will be there for the state."
Officials said a number of firms were contacted about the remaining work and proposals were submitted by two. State and federal procurement rules are being followed, but a formal request for proposals was not undertaken because it would take too long.
"I'm not going to sign up for what I've seen to be a 12- to 18-month RFP, full-blown RFP process, for something that needs to be done sooner," Miller said. "We did review a number of folks for their skills and capabilities and made the best judgment we could. We are undoubtedly going to get hammered. I don't care. Our job is to solve this and to solve it with the best resources available in the time that we've got available. That necessarily means making some judgments."
CGI recently completed work on a series of upgrades. The next version of the core software designed and built by CGI, which includes elements that will allow for electronic renewal of health insurance plans, has been sent for testing. Change of circumstance code is also in testing, Miller said.
But significant work still must be done before those functions go live.
"Testing is not checking that it's done. Testing is the development process of running through every scenario and figuring out what's broken and fixing it," Miller said. "We are stepping back and doing a comprehensive evaluation of all work completed to date in the testing environment."
Officials hope the automated renewal process is available by the open enrollment period later this year, but are creating contingencies.
"We're going to make sure that a paper process is also available for people," Miller said. "One of the things we've learned is that more ways of getting your information in and letting us know what you want is better than fewer ways."
CGI's completion of the work now in testing provided an appropriate time for the firm and state to split, Miller said. It "seemed like the right time to be able to do this without putting people in more chaos," he said.
Miller deflected questions about whether the change should have been made sooner.
"I don't think you normally ask when the relieving pitcher comes in whether the first guy ever should have been on the mound in the first place," he said. "This has been a long project with a lot of challenges, and it's appropriate for a fresh perspective."
The focus now is working to ensure that the next upgrade to the site "is bulletproof and solves the issues that are outstanding," Miller said.
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#53606 - 01/23/02 02:09 PM Declining Standards, part 2
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This restarts the 100-post thread found at
#53607 - 01/23/02 02:50 PM Re: Declining Standards, part 2
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Thanks CK-- for making my point.. I am proof that educational failures and poor home life are a handicap, but one that you can overcome.. if you want to.
i left home age 17-- with bruises around my neck, left by my mother as she made a sincere effort to throttle me to death.. (hey its old new, and I'm long over it.. )
my education still has deficiencies, and i still don't have the discipline i see in others who had-- what ever their other handicaps, parents who were able to provide emotionally for their children.
but starting at 18 (or in my case 17, when i was emancipated) its my problem. i can't blame my parents for ever.. at some point, i had to say, i want more.. and i had to go out and get it.
there are plenty of people who had it tough, tougher than me.. yeah, i started out behind many, since at 17 i was an emotional wreck.. but i didn't compound the problem by using drugs, or abdicating responsibility..
I didn't get to college till i was almost 40.. but i got there.. i didn't in may ways "grow up" till i was close to the same age.. i spent 20 years of my life undoing my childhood, and redoing my life to meet my needs.. lots of other people where spending those 20 years building careers, and i am 20 years behind the curve in some ways..
some people use a poor childhood as an excuse all their lives.. they never move on.. the rest of the horses might be back in the barn, and I'm still out on the track, just heading for the straight away.. but I'm in the race!_________________________
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#53608 - 01/23/02 06:56 PM Re: Declining Standards, part 2
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good on yah, Helen - you obviously had enough fighting spirit to not crack under the pressure and your spirit is clear to everyone here.
Does ontongeny recapitulate phylogeny in schools? Or is phylogeny an independent variable? Hmmm?
yeahbut! is that there ontongeny anything like a childhood exposure to the Goonshow, CK?
#53609 - 01/26/02 07:26 PM Re: Declining Standards, part 2
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Posts: 3146
Loc: Northamptonshire, England
is that there ontongeny anything like a childhood exposure to the Goonshow, CK?
Let's just say that when I was young we didn't have the Internet and the Goon Show was just about the closest thing I could find to unbridled mania. Come to think of it, the Goon Show may still be the closest thing there is to unbridled mania ..._________________________
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#53610 - 01/27/02 12:24 PM Re: yingtogeny
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True! I have watched with surprise and pleasure as my 15 y/o daughter discovered the Goons completely independently for herself over the past 6 months - she dissolves into complete giggles at the inspired lunacy, and my son can quote amazingly accurately in all the daft voices. Min.. is that you..?
#53611 - 01/27/02 04:02 PM Re: "Ooo look, 'e's fallen in de water!"
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Posts: 3146
Loc: Northamptonshire, England
I had an exceptional English teacher in the fourth form (no, it wasn't at St Michael's!), who tried to teach us a lot of things about language, and really kindled my interest in it beyond the obvious.
He was an exceptional man, passionate about English but unfortunately also about religion, because he later completely lost the plot and became an Anglican minister. He liked boys (and I DON'T mean that in any salacious way) and tried to get them to think. Part of his approach within the context of studying English was to dissect humour, to try to demonstrate why some wordplay-related things were funny and others went down like a lead balloon. Enter The Goonshow. It's chocka with just about every humorous linguistic device known to mankind. He played excerpts from a number of shows one day and we were to discuss them.
Three of us in the classroom (of some 30 boys) were ROTF almost from the first moments. This was two boys (myself and Jim Mora, now a well-known broadcaster in New Zealand whose commentaries are usually absolutely hilarious) plus said Mr Evans. The rest of the class was more-or-less po-faced. Didn't get the joke at all. Oh, they twitched from time to time, but they just weren't open to that kind of zany play-on-top-of-wordplay. Even at that age they were seriously serious and morbidly career-focussed.
At this point I should point out that the majority of those humourless little twerps went on to become "big men" in Zildish society - doctors, lawyers, teachers, dentists, accountants, a few businessmen and now, one judge. You can tell what a bundle of laughs our class reunions are. I avoid 'em like the plague!
Gawd help us all!_________________________
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#53612 - 01/27/02 07:55 PM Re: "Ooo look, 'e's fallen in de water!"
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Posts: 2891
Sorry to go off on a tangent...Cap...Fourth form? Is that like my fourth grade (when you are some 9 years old)?
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#53614 - 01/28/02 03:31 PM Re: "Ooo look, 'e's fallen in de water!"
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Loc: Northamptonshire, England
Yeah! Wot 'e said._________________________
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#53615 - 01/29/02 12:11 AM Re: "Ooo look, 'e's fallen in de water!"
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I've only ever heard one or two Goon shows, and I must admit I didn't take to them for much the same reason as I've never taken to Donald Duck -- I find it too difficult to understand what the silly voices are saying to worry about whether what they're saying is funny.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Health Canada, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product.
Name of Product: Jackets and Vests with Moshi Power Systems
Units: About 2,600
Importer: Ardica Technologies, of San Francisco, Calif.
Hazard: Electrical connections in the warming components in the jackets and vest can overheat, posing a burn hazard to consumers.
Incidents/Injuries: The firm has received five reports of overheating. No injuries have been reported.
Description: The recalled jackets and vests are designed to work with the Ardica Moshi Power system. The Moshi Power System is marked with "Ardica". The pouch below the collar of each garment is marked "Ardica Heat Power Charge." Each jacket and vest also has a power switch next to the logo on the front. The following models are affected by this recall: Ardica Enabled Mountain Hardwear Radiance Jackets, Refugium Jackets and Sitka Dutch Oven Vests. The Mountain Hardwear jackets have the Ardica name and logo on the right sleeve.
Sold at: Sporting goods and outdoor equipment retailers from August 2009 through February 2010 for between $230 and $425.
Manufactured in: China
Remedy: Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled jackets and vests, and contact Ardica for a full refund.
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so i have a question about the stikky: useful information about oversupply issue. it says:
It takes more than just an efficient nurser to get to the hindmilk. It also requires time and patience on the mother's part and education as to the importance of allowing the baby to stay on one breast long enough to get that hindmilk. The obvious question is, how long does it take? According to Woolridge and Fisher, a baby who is satisfied and comfortably full will come off the breast by himself
but my question is my son comes off by himself (i burp him then) and then he wants back on or so it seems. hes fine if i put him on or will be fine if i leave him off (well ok sometimes) so my question is do i keep him on the same side or switch sides? sometimes he unlatches frequently in which i keep him on that same side.
also how do you know if you have an over supply? i could pump (until no milk comes out anymore) if he hasnt eaten in awhile and as soon as im done he will want to eat and still be able to feed him. this is totally the opposite of my first child. and why is an oversupply bad. it seems better to have more then not enough. also if he spits up ALOT no matter how much he burps could that mean hes eating too much? or could it mean somehing else?
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"Patience and fortitude conquer all things" wrote transcendentalist guru Ralph Waldo Emerson. And patience, being in such short supply in this world, may be the reason so many people feel drained and unhappy.
So how does one gain patience – to be able to withstand the storms of life? I've rummaged about in books and on the web and arrived with four key factors:
"Attitude, to me, is more important than facts… We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way… The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it." ~Charles R. Swindoll
Don't trade patience for efficiency, something we tend to do when using fast computers and personal productivity systems. Not everything in life should work instantly with the click of a button. There is beauty in trial and in error.
It might have been in a fatigue-induced state of enlightenment that ultramarathoner Dean Karnazes contemplated the following thought: "Don't confuse comfort with happiness".
Comfort keeps us warm and free of pain, suffering and failure. Yet suffering, and the ability to bear suffering, is an essential component of patience.
To someone he just met, Socrates said "Talk in order that I may see you." This is why we shouldn't curse. Profanity undermines order and reveals a lack of self-mastery, a key determinant of a person's ability to succeed.
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A representative for Samsung Electronics said in an interview that Blu-ray disc format was unlikely to enjoy a long lifespan, like DVD. Instead, the high-definition video standard has only five years left.
"I think it [Blu-ray] has 5 years left, I certainly wouldn't give it 10," Andy Griffiths, director of consumer electronics at Samsung UK told Pocket-lint web-site in an interview.
The claim seems surprising as Samsung is one of the key members of Blu-ray disc association (BDA), the alliance that oversees development of the Blu-ray disc. Sony and other members of BDA said in the past that Blu-ray would be as successful as DVD, which has been on the market for eleven years now and has all chances to live for several more years.
Samsung is confident that Blu-ray will become big, but the consumer electronics giant may be somewhat afraid of digital distribution of high-definition movies over the Internet, which is a threat for Blu-ray on the mass market.
Nowadays sales of movies on Blu-ray are on the rise since quality difference between standard-definition (SD) and high-definition (HD) can be noticed easily, especially when it comes to new movies. Unfortunately, both hardware and content prices remain on the high levels, which limits adoption of the format in the mainstream market.


text: I apologise if I go on a bit. So I'm not alone, there are others like me out there, I don't get out much! Twenty years ago I was diagnosed with kyphosis, twenty years ago I was told by a specialist that there was nothing that could be done, I was told that surgery was reserved for only the most extreme cases and I simply didn't qualify. I saw two other specialists a couple of years later and was told the same thing. Life at school sucked, I guess you all understand where I'm coming from, the smirks, the whispering when you enter a room, being labelled the school hunchback, humiliated by other kids on a daily basis who seem to see your condition as some kind of source of amusement. Swimming classes were the worst, you've nowhere to hide. I lost focus, lost direction. For me twenty years on, my kyphosis has progressed, I'm now 1 inch shorter than when I was 18, some days the pain is so bad when I get home all I want to do is lie down, other days I'm ok. The worst part for me is the psychological damage, it eats away at you day by day, self loathing, self pity, why me. Reading some of the stories on this site about those lucky ones who've had surgery I feel so happy for you genuinely. My ex wife was ashamed to be seen with me in public, didn't want me to meet her friends in case they laughed at her for marrying a man with my deformity. My second wife said my kyphosis is getting worse, her exact words were 'your spine looks horrible, disgusting', she tends to speak without thinking sometimes. I live in the uk. Has the policy of the nhs changed towards only performing surgery on extreme cases? I'm planning to go and see my gp try and ge t referred to a specialist but I don't know if I will be wasting my time. I feel like if I don't get it sorted now, my condition will. deteriorate and i won't be able to move forward with my life, it's holding me back. My other question is with regard to work, how did your employers react to you requesting to take an extended period off work? Chris


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Written by Susan on 10.11.2011 at 23:57
I haven't heard Isolation Songs so to my untainted ears this album is stunningly beautiful. Very nice review, too. I missed several of the points due to my inability to make a comparison between the two albums but after I finally listened to the music today it was exactly what I had imagined after reading this review.
Written by InnerSelf on 10.11.2011 at 23:02
I totally agree with your review, the album lacks what made Isolation Songs so special which is something I can't completely get my hands on or sum up in words
Written by tea[m]ster on 12.11.2011 at 06:11
Same formula as the previous two albums. I swear you could combine all three and not notice anything significantly different from the song structures and recordings. I still like it tho. Nice review.


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Tonight the Rams play the Cardnals
Ussally I would pick the Rams in this match up tonight I'm going with the Cards they've look great as of late
Cards 23-20
What do ya guys think
Thursday Night Jersey Shore!
Yea i put money on the rams so i need them to win
I'm thinking Cardinals as well. They have been doing great so far, i would say 21-14 or 28-21
Trash teams, doesn't matter.
I'd say the Cardinals, too. The Rams haven't been very good since the Kurt Warner era. For that matter, the Cards haven't really been that good since Kurt Warner either. Regardless, its the NFC West. None of the teams are even worth watching.
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International man of mystery
Candidate's checkered past becomes the latest bizarre twist in District 3 council race
By André Coleman 02/07/2013
By his own account, the Rev. Dr. Nicholas Benson is a community activist with advanced degrees from USC and the Fuller Theological Seminary who is running for the Pasadena City Council District 3 seat in hopes of bringing people together to combat gang violence.
But after some digging, the Pasadena Weekly has learned that Benson may not be the person he says he is.
For starters, the reverend attended neither of those colleges, according to officials at both schools. But perhaps even more disconcerting is the fact that Benson's background is so checkered with different names and birth dates that it's difficult to determine exactly where the truth begins and fabrications end.
In fact, Benson, supposedly a native of Zimbabwe, has used so many different birth dates he appears unable to remember which is the correct one. When questioned about his birth date, Benson gave the Weekly two different years in less than one minute, later admitting he has used several dates after it was pointed out to him that his most recent answers did not coincide with the Jan. 5, 1945 birth date he provided on a form to legally change his name.
"My real birth date is 1/5/1953," Benson told the Weekly last week, after which he immediately said, "Yes, 1/5/52. When we were growing up in Africa, they didn't want us to go to school. You had to be a grown-up man before you started going to school. My uncle said, 'I will give you a date.' I don't even know when I was born, to tell you the truth. My uncle said, 'You were born at this time.' My mother said, 'I think you were born at this time.' The truth of the matter is I can't tell you. I had to just find something for myself. To tell you the truth, I don't know when my birthday is," Benson said tearfully. "My uncle didn't want me to go to school. He told me that was my birthday, and my mother told me another day."
Revelations about Benson's background are just the latest bizarre twist in what's turning out to be one of the most controversial local elections in recent memory.
Benson is running against John J. Kennedy, a Los Angeles Urban League executive who was tried and acquitted after the 1993 shooting of a 20-year old man that occurred while the two men were sitting in a car in Northwest Pasadena, and Ishmael Trone, a Pasadena bail bondsman whose residency is being investigated by the Public Integrity Division of the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office amid claims he still resides in Altadena with his estranged wife and daughters.
In 1997, Trone pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor gun possession charge after being flagged by security at Bob Hope Airport. Today, Trone owns a shotgun, Kennedy owns a 9mm handgun and Benson owns a .22-caliber handgun.
The three men are hoping to fill the council seat left vacant by Democratic state Assemblyman Chris Holden, who resigned after winning the 41st Assembly District seat in November.
Benson, according to records obtained by this newspaper, actually graduated from the little-known California School of Theology, an unaccredited interdenominational school in La Habra, where he registered under the name Benson Mnkandla — his alleged birth name. Other names Benson has used include Nicholas M. Mnkandla, Nicholas Benson Mnkandla and Nicholas Jophat Benson, a name he was using last year when he was briefly detained by sheriff's deputies in Altadena for driving with a suspended license. His license had been revoked by judge for nonpayment of child support, records show.
"Lots of people change their name when they come into this country, because they are struggling when they come here," Benson told the Weekly. "I legally changed my name to Benson; that is my father's name. I have never tried to hurt anybody or used anyone's name."
Benson, however, was unable to explain other names associated with him, including Benson Caskey — a name the candidate says he's never used but which is a name connected to his Social Security number, according to legal documents obtained by the Weekly.
In 2007, records indicate that a judge in San Bernardino County ordered Benson to pay child support. Benson said the court order referred to one of his older children. However, Benson originally told the Weekly that his older children, Norman and Tandy, were 32 and 29, which means his child-support obligations for them would have ended well before 2007.
"I was homeless for awhile," Benson confided. "I fell off on some of my responsibilities. I have never tried to hurt anybody. I just kept my faith and believed in God and kept trying. There was a time when people would not even talk to me. I have done what I had to do to survive."
Much like Trone, Benson's actual residence has also come into question.
Benson and his wife, Eva A. Meyers, own a home on Mendocino Avenue in Altadena. According to property records obtained by the Weekly, that address is listed as Benson's residence from May 1995 to November 2012, the same month the filing period opened for the current election, when he would have had to have been living in a home in District 3 to run for office. Under the name Nicholas Jophat Mnkandla, Benson registered to vote in 2006 using that Altadena address.
According to Pasadena Public Information Officer William Boyer, City Clerk Mark Jomsky's office — where candidates must file nominating papers to run for office — does not investigate candidates or their residency status. "We assume they understand fully and completely they are signing under penalty of perjury," said Boyer. "They are responsible with supplying us with their correct residential address. We are not an investigating body. That is up to the District Attorney's Office.
Deputy District Attorney Anne Ingalls, director of the DA's Public Integrity Division, told the Weekly that while her office is actively investigating Trone based on a complaint that has been filed. It is not looking into Benson.
"I looked through our database, and we have not received a complaint," said Ingalls.
But what's perhaps even more troublesome is the place that Benson actually does call home.
According to him, he and his wife along with two sons, Joshua, 15, and Caleb, 11, live at 280 W. Washington Blvd., a transitional living facility called "Back to Life," which houses people with substance abuse and sex abuse convictions who are trying to reintegrate into mainstream society.
According to the Pasadena Police Department and the Megan's Law Web site, a national database which tracks sex offenders, two convicted sex offenders — John Gonzalez and Robert Lou King — currently reside at that location.
Gonzalez was convicted in 1991 of lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14. King was convicted of oral copulation by force or fear with a minor under 14. The database did not list a conviction date for King. Benson told the newspaper that he has no problems with his sons living at the home.
"They are not harmful at all," Benson said of the two sex offenders. "They are not sex offenders. Their cases are very clean," Benson insisted. "[Gonzalez] touched a young lady. He didn't do anything to the young lady, but because of that, he was arrested. He went into the system, and once he went in there, he will stay in there for a long, long time. They come every year to check on them, and I talk to their parole officers and they say he is OK. I really don't look at him as a sex offender. He's just an old man. [King] doesn't live there. He's a homeless man. He comes and he says, 'You know what? I need a place where I can have an address so when they look for me I can meet them here.' He doesn't live on the property and he doesn't live in the house. He lives in his car inside my place in the back."
But that's not what Benson told the Weekly in a phone conversation just two days earlier. At that time, Benson denied anyone with histories of sex offenses or drug or alcohol abuse was staying on the property.
The property first came to the city's attention in March 2005, after the Weekly broke the story about another pastor, Roger Marshall, who was housing 10 registered sex offenders without a license. After the story broke, then-Police Chief Bernard Melekian and city code enforcement officials moved in to shut down the program. Within a few days, parole officers moved the sex offenders from the property, located less than two blocks from the King's Villages housing complex and La Pintoresca Park and Library. Cleveland Middle School and Robinson Park are both less than one mile away from the facility.
Neither Trone nor Kennedy would comment on questions being raised about Benson's background.
"I am going to stay focused on the issues impacting District 3," said Trone, who is waiting for the outcome of a probe into his own eligibility to run for office. n
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Good Lord ... you can't even begin to begin with this one ... it's got to be a full moon ...
Are you kidding me?! This is what we have in Northwest Pasadena. . . .Benson, Trone, or Kennedy. This is outrageous and it says something about the quality available people. None of them are qualified for holding any elected office. . . . even if they were running for "Dog Catcher"!
Thank you, Mr. Coleman. I attanded the most recent candidates forum on February 5th and wrote about my impressions. I posted it to my blog Mademoiselle Gramophone.
Can somebody please take this man's gun away from him? Especially if he shares a household with convicted felons and sex offenders.
I wish Rick Law would run for this elected office. . .
Oh my God! I don't live in District 3, but have lived in Pasadena all my life and I do care what happens outside my district because each district affects the next. District 3 does not deserve this. I suggest that all three of them step out of the race. Unbelievable. This article should be sent to every resident of District 3 before they end up getting stuck with one of these criminals. Please, people of District 3, stand up and demand that these crooks step out of the race. No good can come of this.
I am submitting a petition to allow voters to "write-in" the candidate of their choice. . . . any suggestions of qualified people?
Joel Bryant is very qualified and would be a great write in


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Skynet is the evil artificial intelligence behind all of the Terminator movies, and its first priority is to kill all humans. After the program took control of the world's supply of nuclear weapons, it used them to blow up a good portion of the human race. What was left of humanity lived on, only to fight a near-invincible army of merciless robots with whatever used, battered and broken weaponry it could scavenge. And yet, not only did this one-sided war "span over 30 years," instead of the more expected "one really shitty afternoon," but human beings actually won out in the end. Do you know why? Because Terminators were the worst idea in history. Here are all the reasons they suck:
4They Have to Pass as Human
There are many varieties of robot in the Terminator universe, but all of the titular Terminator models are vaguely humanoid machines, some of which are coated in flesh so they could pass for people. This was so they could better infiltrate the human resistance camps and kill all combatants once inside. They were given living flesh because rubber skin just didn't look right and sparse personalities so they could make it past the gate guards. And they were made anatomically correct, because they might need to infiltrate the camp showers and possibly bone a few of the resistance fighters to lower morale before the slaughter started.
Wait, how does that lower anything?
But why bother with any of that? Skynet's main problem wasn't that the robots couldn't get past the velvet ropes at all the human clubs because they looked too roboty; it was that Skynet couldn't find where the damn humans were hiding in the first place. If it knew where they were, Skynet could just send over one of those tanks that shoots out motorcycles, or a jet with giant blades, or hell -- maybe just a good old-fashioned bomb, if it's feeling a bit boring that day.
Whatever's clever.
The whole resistance movement revolved around hiding from Skynet, not just locking the doors when Skynet came knocking. Saying you needed human-looking Terminators to kill humans is like saying the reason we haven't killed Bin Laden yet is because our soldiers don't have convincing-enough turbans to get into his cave. Whatever the motive, the one thing we can establish for certain is that, although Skynet is fully capable of making gigantic aircraft and heavily armored tanks like these ...
... it prefers to make robots that look and behave exactly like people instead. So ... they're for intelligence-gathering, right? The Terminators are the espionage models, and all the battlefield robots look like those bitchin' death machines above. Except ...
... they don't. Several times we're shown that the skinless, humanoid Terminators are the main Skynet force on the battlefield. These are the foot soldiers. Skynet's version of infantry.
What's so wrong with that? Well ...
3They Have a Pretty Crappy Design
So we've established there's no great reason for the espionage, and that the Terminators -- modeled after humans, remember -- are mostly used in battle as foot soldiers. Humans are at the top of the food chain because of our intelligence, community and opposable thumbs, not the rest of our bodies. We don't exactly have the best design in the animal kingdom. In fact, you know what's better than us?
Those fingernails will fuck your day.
Literally everything: Four-legged mammals run faster and jump higher, winged creatures take to the air, clawed creatures burrow beneath the earth, finned creatures swim -- a warrior robot simply has no need for hands or bipedal locomotion. These things aren't pre-existing; Skynet's designing and building new ones all the time, expressly for the purpose of killing folks. The robots don't need thumbs to grab guns; guns could just be built already on them. Or if you do find humanity's one physical advantage -- our hands -- to be a necessary feature, why copy the rest? Just slap some humanoid arms on a giant land shark! Copying humanity's schematics presents no discernible advantage on the battlefield.
Unless Skynet understands our biggest weakness is boners.
But Skynet stuck with the most accurate human design possible -- no six-armed humans, no humans with jetpacks -- just an ordinary human shape. Which means the Terminators have to walk everywhere they go (and they are shown doing just that in the films) while their supersonic jet robots and tank-treaded death machines hover around, babysitting the poorly designed foot soldiers.
"Guys, wait up! Carl twisted his robot ankle and chipped one of his metal teeth that we have for some reason."
Oh, but it's so easy to be snarky and tear ideas down. It's so much harder to build. Hell, it's not like we've got better human eradication tactics just sitting around.
Wait -- yes we do. We use them all the time. In the goddamn Army.
For example, much like the Terminators, our armed forces use flying drones. But unlike these advanced killer robots from the future, designed and given life by a vast, incomprehensible super-intelligence, we thought to give ours guns: In Terminator Salvation, a drone flies up to young Kyle Reese, identifies him and then transmits that data to the armed flying machines. In the time it takes the weaponized robots to get to that location, they've lost Reese. We could have all been spared another 90 minutes of that movie if the first drone had a machine gun, or a small pistol, or even just a sharp bit off to one side with maybe a little rust on it (if that's not, you know, overkill).


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Sequin Studded Shell
Style: 570061474
Out of Stock
Liquid shine and sparkle line-up on this stretch matte jersey shell—with space available at the neckline for even more. Shell: 57% Cotton, 38%Modal, 5% Spandex. Lining: 95% Polyester, 5% Spandex. Hand wash, cold; lay flat to dry. Or dry clean. Imported.
- Pullover style; stretch fit.
- Charmeuse piping around squared-off neckline that sits high on the nape of the neck. Cut-in shoulders. Rows of sequins and heat-set studs in matte gold and shiny hematite; black tube beads.
- Hits at the lower hip (24" from shoulder).
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Nutrition Facts
Serving Size 1/9 of a 9 inch pie
Calories 177
Total Fat 8 g
Saturated Fat 1 g
Cholesterol 24 mg
Sodium 153 mg
Ingredients and Preparation
Ingredients Measures
Quick cooking oats 1 cup
Whole wheat flour ¼ cup
Ground almonds ¼ cup
Brown sugar 2 tablespoons
Salt ¼ teaspoon
Vegetable oil 3 tablespoons
Water 1 tablespoon
Ingredients Measures
Packed brown sugar ¼ cup
Ground cinnamon ½ teaspoon
Ground nutmeg ¼ teaspoon
Salt ¼ teaspoon
Egg, beaten 1
Vanilla 4 teaspoons
Canned pumpkin 1 cup
Evaporated skim milk 2/3 cup
- Preheat oven to 425ºF.
- Mix oats, flour, almonds, sugar, and salt together in small mixing bowl.
- Blend oil and water together in measuring cup with fork or small wire whisk until emulsified.
- Add oil mixture to dry ingredients and mix well. If needed, add small amount of water to hold mixture together.
- Press into a 9 inch pie pan and bake for 8-10 minutes, or until light brown.
- Turn down oven to 350ºF.
- Mix sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt together in a bowl.
- Add eggs and vanilla and mix to blend ingredients.
- Add pumpkin and milk and stir to combine.
- Pour into prepared pie shell.
- Bake 45 minutes at 350ºF or until knife inserted near center comes out clean.