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(HARTFORD, Conn.) – Tanya Feke, M.D., of Glastonbury, Conn., has joined the Medical and Dental Staff of Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center.
While at Saint Francis, Dr. Feke will be joining Patricia Lampugnale, D.O., as a member of Family Care Specialists in Glastonbury.
Dr. Feke received her medical degree from the University of Massachusetts School of Medicine in Worcester, Mass. She completed her residency in family practice at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine where she served as chief resident.
Dr. Feke is board certified by the American Board of Family Practice.
She has been involved in various professional organizations including, the Massachusetts Medical Society, the American Academy of Family Practice, the American Medical Association and the Connecticut Academy of Family Practice.
Founded in 1897, Saint Francis is a major teaching hospital licensed for 617 acute inpatient beds and 65 bassinets and is the largest Catholic hospital in New England.


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Action at Princeton concludes Sunday at Princeton
Lawrence Qualifies First in Both 200 and 400 at ECAC/IC4A's
Action at Princeton concludes Sunday at Princeton
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Top Performances: 400M-59.55, 800M-2:29.54, 60H-9.24, 100H-16.04, 400H-1:00.75, high jump-1.66M, long jump-5.35M, shot put-10.07m, ipent-3,429
2013 Outdoor: Competed in the women's 400M hurdles finishing third posting a time of 1:01.91...Set a personal record in the 400M hurdles at the ECAC/IC4A Championships finishing with a time of 1:00.75.
2012-13 Indoor: Finished second in the Kent State Golden Flash Gala women's pentathalon with a score of 3,429, placing sixth in the 60M hurdles, third in the high jump, fifth in the shot put, first in the long jump and third in the 800M run...placed eighth in the pentathlon at the Big East Championship Meet (3,339).
2011-12: Indoor T/F - Competed at the Spire Invitational where she finished 11th overall with 3,214 points...claimed a top-15 finish in the 60M hurdles at the Nittany Lion Challenge...at the Big East Championships placed 10th scoring 3,301 points and was fourth in the 60M hurdles with a time of 9.24...Outdoor T/F - Finished seventh at the Early Bird Invitational in the 100M hurdles running a time of 16.04...posted a top-ten finish at the Sea Ray Relays in the 400M hurdles.
2010-11: Indoor T/F - Finished ninth in the indoor pentathlon at the Big East Championships...placed eighth in the long jump and posted a top-20 finish in the 60M hurdles at the Doug Raymond Invitational.
2009-10: Outdoor T/F - Placed seventh as a member of the 4x400M relay team at the Bucknell Bison Classic and top 15 at the Duke Invitational.
High School: Natalie Ryan holds George School records in the 400M dash, long jump and as a member of the 400M relay team...placed second in the Independent School Championships in the 400M dash, long jump and high jump...garnered all-league honors.
Personal: Born on October 4, 1991...daughter of Dianne Dillon...has two brothers, Colin and Dillon...majoring in communication.

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CANADA STOCKS-TSX may open lower, FOMC eyed
Jan 29 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index looked set to open lower on Tuesday, tracking Wall Street, as investors looked to the outcome from the U.S. Federal Reserve two-day meeting to gauge the health of the world's largest economy.
* The U.S. Federal Reserve is paying close attention to risks linked to its bond buying program, including the possibility of losses on its massive portfolio that might touch off a political fire storm and harm the central bank's independence.
* Canadian Pacific Railway reported a 93 percent fall in fourth-quarter profit, but said it expects 2013 adjusted earnings per share to rise more than 40 percent.
* Anglo American Plc will take a $4 billion writedown on its Minas Rio iron ore operation in Brazil after delays and cost overruns forced the mining group to increase expenditure on the project.
* Japan's government approved a $1.02 trillion draft budget for the next fiscal year that aims to nudge tax revenues above new bond sales for the first time in four years, but still relies on borrowing to cover 46.3 percent of its spending.
* Pfizer reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter results, helped by rebounding sales in emerging markets, but the drugmaker forecast earnings for 2013 that were mostly below consensus analyst expectations.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters Life!) - People who run marathons often say one race a year is enough, both for body and mind. But that was never going to satisfy Belgium's Stefaan Engels, who has just completed 365 marathons in 365 days.
Actually, even that wasn't enough for Engels, who ended up completing 401 marathons in as many days: 18 on a hand bike and the rest on foot, including 365 in a row.
The 49-year-old from Ghent, northwest Belgium, is now the proud holder of the record for the most consecutive marathons, complementing his Guinness world record for the most triathlons completed in a year (20).
"It was a personal challenge," he told Reuters by phone from his home this week, two days after completing his marathon odyssey. "I wanted to know if it was possible."
He made it sound simple, but it was far from a straightforward "start running, stop after a year" challenge.
On January 1, 2010, Engels set out from Ghent to launch his campaign and ran the requisite 42.195 km (about 26.2 miles) on the first day. He kept up that pace for the next 17 days, but then a foot injury struck and he had to stop.
Quitting was out of the question, however. Engels bought a hand bike the same day and used his arms to propel himself through his daily marathons until his foot recovered.
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- Jackie Byers said...
Awesome. Thanks for sharing. Have you ever tried this on plantar warts?
- September 23, 2012 at 12:16 AM
- Ruth Almon said...
Fortunately, I've only had the one wart on which to try this cure. If you try it on a planter wart, write back and let us know if it was helpful.
- September 27, 2012 at 2:24 PM
- Patrick Timpone said...
Do you use Braggs I'm assuming? There was a guest on our show (Greg Caton) who mentioned using Amazon Black Salve on warts and skin cancers that's supposed to work.
ACV sounds like a great option as well. I'm going to try it because I have a wart on my forearm.
- October 16, 2012 at 7:02 PM
- Michael Rivers said...
It is really great to try home remedies in removing warts because it is a lot cheaper. In case it does not work, you can consult a skin expert to help you in removing it.
- October 19, 2012 at 8:32 AM
- Jennifer said...
My husband suffers alot from warts and we often don't know what kind of home remedies can help to get rid of them. We will definitely try out the Apple Cider Vinegar the next time before we move straight to the doc! Thanks for sharing this great home remedie!
- April 24, 2013 at 12:08 AM
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Wow, I'm definitely gonna try this. I have a wart on my leg that the wart creams I've tried don't work at all...mb apple cider vinegar is the answer
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Plants can do many things than we know. Once I did a research about middle east Ayurveda treatments... :)
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Thanks! Now I know how to get rid of warts. I never knew that ACV can help in such a way!
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Here is a real example of real use of the internet; sharing simple but very effective home remedies. I always rely on simple home remedies when ever I can instead of going for harsh chemicals.
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I have used a lot of creams in the past to get rid of warts, but it took a very long time and consistancy to see any results at all. I definitely need to try out the apple cider vinegar everytime the next warts are going to show up. Thanks for sharing this useful home remedie.
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Looks so painful.... Try some Asian Ayurveda treatments. It works.
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Motorola Dinara, or the MB886. The Dinara, which does not sport a physical QWERTY but does support LTE, is a handset we've mentioned to you before as being a successor to the Motorola DROID BIONIC with a 13MP camera, edge-to-edge display and a non-removable battery.
Other Motorola handsets mentioned by PocketNow's source include the Motorola Primus XT621 and Motorola Yangtze XT881/XT885/XT886/XT889/MT887. The latter model was introduced in China as the Motorola RAZR V and looks to be a model that will be released around the globe. In fact, we recently pointed out the MT887 as possibly being a Chinese version of the Motorola DROID Fighter. The Motorola RAZR V has a 4.3 inch qHD display, a dual-core 1.2GHz processor and an 8MP camera. It is expected to launch June 2nd.
Lastly, Sprint is expected to be receiving a sequel to the well-received Motorola PHOTON 4G, named the Motorola PHOTON Q 4G LTE.
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Aug. 5, 2014
2014 Battle 4 Atlantis Bracket
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. ---- UAB's men's basketball team will begin the 2014-15 Battle 4 Atlantis with a matchup against 2014 NCAA Final Four participant Wisconsin in the first round of the event, the Battle 4 Atlantis announced on Tuesday.
The Blazers will meet the Badgers for the first time in school history at 7 p.m. EST on AXS TV. The winner and loser of the UAB vs. Wisconsin game will match up with the winner and loser of the Florida vs. Georgetown contest.
"We knew when we were invited to play in the Battle 4 Atlantis we would be going against some of the best teams in college basketball," head coach Jerod Haase said. "Playing a 2014 Final Four team in Wisconsin is a great opportunity for our team and will create even more exposure at a national level for UAB basketball. We are thrilled about the opportunity and look forward to playing in the Bahamas this Thanksgiving."
This year's Battle 4 Atlantis will run from Nov. 26-28 and will be played at the Atlantis, Paradise Island Resort. Below is a list of the first round matchups, which will all take place on Wednesday, Nov. 26.
Game 1: Butler University vs. University of North Carolina (live at 12:00 PM EST on ESPN2)
Game 2: University of California, Los Angeles vs. University of Oklahoma (live at 2:30 PM EST on ESPN2)
Game 3: University of Wisconsin vs. University of Alabama at Birmingham (live at 7:00 PM EST on AXS TV)
Game 4: University of Florida vs. Georgetown University (live at 9:30 PM EST on AXS TV)
All 2014 Battle 4 Atlantis games will be aired live on one of the ESPN networks or AXS TV from Atlantis' Imperial Arena, the famed resort's unique and impressive 3,900-seat arena.
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Sharla Passariello and the no-quit Bulls busted into the Big East win column Sunday afternoon.
Passariello broke through for the Bulls in the 65th minute of a 1-0 victory at Seton Hall in South Orange, N.J. USF improved to 5-4-1 (1-1-1 in Big East) after going scoreless in the past two conference games.
Passariello's fifth goal of the season came off a crossing pass by Taylor Patterson in a game that saw USF outshoot Seton Hall, 11-7.
"Taylor made a late run through and got slipped the ball. She crossed it on the ground to Sharla, who put it in the left-hand corner of the goal. It was a good finish," head coach Denise Schilte-Brown said.
One goal was all the Bulls needed with the way their defense has been up to the task. Freshman keeper Christiane Endlermade four saves to secure her fifth shutout of the season, while the rest of the Bulls' back line gave Seton Hall (6-6-0, 1-3-0) very few clean looks at the net.
"They did a great job on handling any opportunity that their leading goal-scorer had," Schilte-Brown said. "We're not only defending, but attacking out of the back and they're doing things right."
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Gretchen Bleiler back in the game
PARK CITY, Utah -- The question was never whether or not Gretchen Bleiler would ever be able to snowboard again. It was if she'd ever be able to see.
In June 2012, the 2006 Olympic silver medalist was practicing a double backflip on a trampoline at the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association's Center of Excellence when she over-rotated and kneed herself in the face. The impact smashed her right eye socket, broke her nose, gave her a concussion and vertigo and forever changed the way she saw the world.
"I had never experienced anything at that level," she said. "I was feeling around in the dark."
After surgery to repair the socket and going through a series of vision exercises, her headaches finally subsided and her vision returned in December. She anxiously returned to the hill eager to pick up her snowboarding exactly where it left off. But she wasn't ready. And a woman whose answer to any problem was always to work harder had to accept the fact that she couldn't do that.
"The harder I worked, the harder it was," she said. "I had to get to a point where it wasn't about hitting my head against the wall trying to do more. It was about just letting it come. Now I'm just grateful that I have my vision back and I'm back on a snowboard because some people thought that wasn't even going to be possible. I've learned to just let the fun come."
Everything finally came together this past August, when Bleiler returned to the podium for the first time in two seasons, finishing third in the halfpipe at the New Zealand Winter Games. Her close friend Kelly Clark finished first.
"She's my hero seeing what she's been through," Clark said. "It's inspirational, to say the absolutely least. I think her biggest fear was the assumption that the sport might progress without her, and I think this summer she put a stop to those thoughts. She hasn't gone anywhere."
Which is why the spotlight is again on the 31-year-old Bleiler as one of a handful of American women with a legitimate chance of making the four-member U.S. team that will head to Sochi. At the Olympic media summit this week, Bleiler was one of six female snowboarders who met the media. Two of them won't make the Sochi team.
She still has lingering issues with her sight -- when Bleiler looks up she still has double vision. But through continuing eye exercises, she is hopeful it won't be permanent. She is heading to New Zealand again on Oct. 6 to continue her preparations for the upcoming season.
"As I've recovered what I've realized is the reason I still snowboard is that I'm the type of person that loves to go deep, learn and push myself physically, mentally and emotionally. Snowboarding has been that vehicle for me for the last 20 years. When I win, I'm happy. When I lose I'm also happy. I'm grateful for this life I have to live. It's a great life."


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This design is for a local pool building and pool service company. They would like something web 2.0. They would like something including water in some form or another (either texture or icon). Typography is a great thing with some sort of icon/mascot.
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Active Engagement: Dollhouse 2.3 - "Belle Chose"
Being a regular collection of notes, intrusive fragments and episodic memories regarding each installment of the FOX teledrama Dollhouse (J. Whedon, creator).
The Engagement: A weird professor (Arye Gross of "These Friends of Mine") teaches Echo about Chaucer (he is played by Arye Gross of The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them). Meanwhile, Terry Karrens, serial kidnapper, budding murderer and nephew of a major Rossum backer (whew!) arrives at the Dollhouse in a coma. That Ballard may better question Terry, the killer's mind is dumped into Victor's brain, and he promptly escapes. With all these creepos wandering around, DeWitt has Topher improvise a remote Wipe, which accidentally swaps Vic and Ech's Imprints. Terry-Echo neck-stabs Prof. Weirdo (Arye Gross of Hexed!). Ballard intercepts club dancing, Kiki-headed Victor, causing civilians to believe Paul is gay.
Janani: So, a little background to get started: "Belle Chose", in addition to being the shortest English sentence to feature any individual named "Belle," is a French phrase used by Chaucer's randiest character, The Wife of Bath, in the Prologue to her section of the Canterbury Tales. "Belle chose" means "pretty thing," as in "that pretty thing you got between your legs, lady." The Wife of Bath, who has been married five times (and is usually scouting for the next husband while waiting for the current one to die) does enjoy sex for its own sake, but is even more interested in what her "belle chose" can obtain for her in the way of bargaining power — she does Roma Klar one better with her absolute, openly self-serving, rather refreshing unsentimentality about sex. The Wife refers to sex often and pragmatically as her husband's "debt" — the more he fucks her, and the more she ensures that he fucks her, the more he must yield to her in the way of household authority, victory in argument, and the all-important SWAG (she is a clotheshorse!). Hence her diligence in banging the brains out of several "good," "rich," "old," barely erectile elderly husbands (Victor/Kiki's line to the club boys, "As help my God, I laughe whan I thinke/How pitously a-night I made hem swinke," refers to those exact men, who probably died of heart attacks induced by the Wife's enthusiastic debt-collection. Victor/Kiki, of course, just wants them to buy a girl a drink).
What does this have to do with Echo/Kiki and her quest for an A? Her professor's wish to educate a preprogrammed Active about sexual "power" is ironic on its face, also wretched and poignant: the roleplay is ultimately a simple trade of sex for a grade, but he doesn't want it to feel that way. He wants the seduction to appear to be Kiki's own idea. He wants the experience of falling into her debt, of owing her the grade. He doesn't just want to get off; he wants to feel benevolent while doing it. He is more complicated than your average R client, as well as a natural and interesting successor to Joel Mynor from "Man on the Street", who set up a reverse transaction, wanting his wife Rebecca to fall into his sexual and emotional debt at the sight of her beautiful new house. Clients who try to manipulate Actives into semblances of autonomous behavior are a step forward for the show; perhaps Terry Karrens' absurd games (structured around women who owe him no sexual debt at all) are an exaggeration-for-arguments' sake, an airing of our very worst fears about R Clients, in fact a writerly response to those fears: not every R client wants a tranquilized husk. In a couple weeks we'll meet the monster who is contented to make Sierra his slave, but not everyone wants a slave — or at least to be reminded that he's paying for one; once again Season 2 has opted against a SPY!COP!NINJA! Engagement in favor of an Engagement that complicates client-Active relationships and our own notions of what it means to purchase a "romantic" experience. There's a reason that the more expensive forms of prostitution, throughout history, have been as much about mental connection, conversation, and ambience as they've been about anyone's "belle chose."
Lastly, Kiki may have gotten an F for a paper on "The Economics of Marriage," but what are the funniest sexonomics of this episode in general? Probably Ballard getting a bunch of clothes for Kiki, acting out the role of henpecked partner, and getting absolutely nothing in return…sexually, that is. He does get his salary from Adelle, which might make him another kind of whore. Time will tell.
Chris: We're interested, then, in the Prof's reading of the prologue to the Wife's tale. A quick jaunt through the archives confirmed what I suspicioned: it takes a scholar of narrow agenda and wishful thinking to interpret the prologue as an undiluted story of female power. The relationship between Kiki and Gossen hints at the hoops one must jump through to get there (you cant be brainwashed into empowerment), but he's pitching a twisted Foucauldian version of "power" at best, while Chaucer actually wrote a ribald satire of gender authority, marriage customs and medieval sexual politics. The goofy fantasy at work is also of enlightening someone into wanting to have sex with you, of being such a good teacher that you awaken that inspiration. The professor schools Kiki in a rather shifty interpretation of a jaundiced text, essentially emphasizing the qualities of the story that sound good and appealing to a modern college girl and inspire imitative behavior, thus, ironically, canceling out today's Chaucer lesson. A funny bit that Gossen skips over is that among the Wife's talents is the ability to quote Scripture to her own ends, which is not unlike the game Gossen is up to. As always: doesn't matter, she's programmed to be convinced by any argument he makes; the belle's got no choice.
Conversely: who knows how self-aware a lit teacher can get, but the convoluted lesson plan and fantasy framing the professor's Engagement are just a gilt lily version of what is already inherent in the Active/ R Client relationship. He's getting sex, she's getting paid. He "needs" her to be there, just as much as the Dollhouse needs a cash flow.
The A plot, of wretched Terry Karrens and his problems with the ladies, strongly resembles the shape of Tim Minear's great Angel episode "Billy". That black beauty was also about a serial killer of women, protected by the money and influence of powerful relatives, and whose psychosis proved frighteningly infectious (I mention this as esoteric Mutant Enemy lore more than as a discussion point — I don't wanna spoil that episode for you). The pop culture serial killer is a difficult monster, named after the real world species but possessing little psychology in common. While they are fascinating creatures, for example, I think we learn precious little about serial killers from Hannibal Lecter or Dexter Morgan (whose program used to be haunted by Liza Lapira, our own Ivy!); they have other functions to serve, are too valuable to waste on the banal and repulsive realities of serial killers. Among Terry's functions in "Belle Chose", perhaps the most interesting is the climax as Terry-Echo is placed in control of the psycho's victims, mini-Dollhouse (wait, dollhouses are already miniatures... aw, forget it). She flickers in and out of Caroline-ness, trying to sacrifice herself to set everyone free, effectively playing out a fractal repetition of her larger story yet again.
JS: Gossen also leaves out the long section where the Wife's tedious fifth husband reads aloud, for "teaching" purposes, a catalog of "wicked wives" — dozens of misbehaving and man-scourging women from history and literature. The Wife gets so mad that she tears up the book, and then husband and Wife punch each other out! It's better than Springer! I bring this up not only to hook into your point about Gossen's self-serving interpretation of the Tale (any discussion of the Wife's power games must also address her handicaps), but to recall the other Dollhouse character and Tim Minear creation who interpreted an ancient text to his own ends — Jonas Sparrow of "True Believer". In both stories, the Doll who is supposed to yield to the pedant's authority ends up malfunctioning, going bananas, and destroying his painstakingly developed world.
It's a variation on what seems to happen to Topher every single week — and a metaphor for Caroline's weekly emergence — but it also made me think about the Dollhouse's own apparent lack of a creed or guiding "text." A manual of persuasion, to get people to do their jobs correctly, even to make them respect their jobs. Adelle glides without a hitch from one apparent revelation of policy — "We are working to reunite a desperate family with a wayward loved one" — to another — "Bradley Karrens is a major shareholder in our parent organization." The Dollhouse is a moneymaker, but per Adelle it's also a do-gooding organization, per Topher it's an R&D playground, and aside from the soothing words spoken to Actives, there's no sense of a pervading ideology or "party line" that must be taken in order to work there. No indoctrination. No totalitarian dread. Little tyranny to speak of (unless you're Lawrence Dominic, who I hope comes back to settle with Adelle). Langton reads on the job. When I think back to my expectations at the very beginning of the show, I can't believe how loosely the place is run. Imagine if Terry Karrens ran the joint! That's the whole point of him and his ilk, though...he'd do a terrible job.
So what'd you think of Victor? Not only has another common Tech barrier broken down, bringing us closer to the world of "Epitaph One" (Topher can now do remote Imprint switches as well as Wipes, across genders, treating the collective Active mind as one unified field), but we got a prancing Enver Gjokaj. The show owes this fella a debt of its own. He needs to get a hell of a lot more storylines.
CS: The "Epitaph One" Tech does seem to be in place, all that is missing is a compact version of the Chair and an iPhone app version of Topher's Imprint building software. The blanket signal "the Chinese" laid down by telephone (in, a pal reminds me, not-so-veiled echo of Stephen King's novel Cell) doesn't even require a hardware interface in this case. Frankly, I'm kind of skeptical of that one — I'll buy the the biometrics readouts, but that they can relay a signal impulse should be an obvious danger zone.
Dushku does bubbly coed and jaded wiseass very well, but we are treated in "Belle Chose" to further demonstration of inability to be subsumed by a character. As in the hero/foil body-swap Buffy episode "Who Are You", Dushku and a stronger actor (Gellar there, Gjokaj here) are both asked to play the same character, and Dushku flattens her characterization while the gifted mimic soars. There is none of Terry's posture or inflection emitting from Echo, while Victor is a spot-on recreation of the killer's tics and clench-jawed glower. And maybe, just maybe, this works to Dollhouse's advantage: Caroline cannot be submerged.
The shell game at work in "Belle" is of playing with human dolls, its final shuffle I've already touched on. The show is always about this, but the episode is explicitly about playing dress up with object-people. If "Belle" understands one thing about serial killer psychology, it is this, the void of empathy, inability to see people as anything but things (Dexter's failure and masterstroke being that its Everyman/Killer thinks he is emotionless but understands people's feelings disarmingly well). Echo's Engagement begins with a hilarious round of dolling up the Dolls. The Handlers, tough and serious boys — and the staff most likely to bond with the Dolls — want nothing to do with picking out clothes and doing makeup, though the gay Dollhouse fashionista repeats Topher's declaration that his works is "art". Prof. Gossen only wants to perform if his dolly has thoughts and feelings and the ability to interpret medieval literature, counterpoint to Terry who is equally deluded but can only perform if he can pose and speak for his dolls entirely. Are these men opposites, or flip-sides of the same principal? If we are tipped to believe that Gossen's feminist reading of Chaucer is ironic at best, bullshit at worst, then Terry's games are the argument against, an extreme form of patriarchal domination in which the dominated subject has no latitude for resistance. His victims are exerting power only in that their very bodies make Terry feel helpless... a pretty useless "power" they would hold even if they were dead.
I missed him this week, but last seen, Senator Perrin was concerned that murder may be among the Dollhouse's crimes. In "Belle Chose", DeWitt is particularly concerned that Victor is being used as a vessel for violence. Guess she's only okay with murder if she gets to pick the target.
JS: Bring on the serial-killer knowledges. Does Terry even qualify — yet — as a serial killer, rather than a simple kidnapper? He did murder one woman, but murder doesn't seem to be a fetish or a carefully thought-out part of his ritual; it's more like a kid pulling the head off a doll. Even Ballard didn't think he'd go so far as to kill even one Aunt Sheila. I had trouble with his sudden transition from simple misogynist (as Victor) to rampaging loon (as Echo) — why did he stab the professor? Was he so far gone as to believe his devious dolls had actually turned him into a woman? (That would make Aunt Sheila even more powerful dead than alive.) It's quite weird to watch Terry and Kiki settle so quickly and unquestioningly into their foreign bodies — Ballard hints at possible gender dysphoria with the klutzy line "Is any part of [Terry Marion Karrens] a boy's name?" but Terry is pretty clearly attracted to women, and his instant comfort with becoming one is probably just plot magic — and begs the question of when we'll see more cross-gender Imprintations.
Meanwhile, I did not buy Dushku as a bubblehead; she was not written at a consistent level of stupidity. Women like that are often a lot shrewder than they appear, performing stupidity to their advantage, but Dushku seemed to recite the lines without having decided whether she was playing self-aware or not. Little microseconds of Faith-ful knowingness kept flashing through. She was less cartoony in the office hours scenes, but overall I have to condemn both Gossen and Ballard for their extremely bad taste in female objects (Ballard, rendered jellylike by schoolgirl knee socks, must have already forgotten the much sexier and more grown-up Roma Klar!) I take your point about the indelibility of Caroline, though. Caroline has already had her intro to Evil and her brush with advanced Evil; she's too attuned to its presence to crack convincing jokes about it. Dushku — in career history and persona — is too established as ass-kicker and female action icon to pull off even one second of that clichéd, curdled femininity. Once again, she puts a rusty archetype in quotation marks.
Speaking of which, we haven't yet mentioned the actual tale told by the Wife of Bath — the tale of a knight sent to determine "that which women desire most." He ends up forced into marriage with a hideous old woman who asks whether he would prefer a wife ugly by day and beautiful by night, or vice versa. He answers, correctly, that the choice belongs to the woman alone: "I put me in your wyse governance; cheseth yourself which may be most plesance, and most honour to yow and me also." As you've pointed out, the story was later retold featuring Sir Gawain, one of the knights of the Round Table. "Belle Chose" doesn't explicitly refer to this Wifely contribution, but myriad plot nuggets — from the (forced) beautification of Echo, to the schemes of Gossen and Terry, to the sufferings of Terry's victims — outrage the original story and make the events of "Belle Chose" more bitter inversion than tribute to the Wife's empowering yarn. I'm especially interested in how Ballard (whom you've tagged as a potential Gawain-figure) intrudes on the choices of the women in his care; restoring Madeline's ability to "choose" effectively deprived Mellie of hers (by terminating her); Madeline has no reason to know who he is. And when Caroline's power of choice is restored, she may not choose him either. But as Echo gradually realizes her sexual power over him, she may start to using it... to surprising ends.
Maybe she will force him to go dancing!
CS: Terry may or may not fit an FBI profiler's definition of a serial killer yet. Ballard's judgment aside (it's Ballard, after all), and discounting any unconfirmed killing Terry may have done in the past, we see him kill twice in "Belle Chose" with a requisite cooling off period and in the end is on his way to massacre the remaining girls. Third time's a charm. Some killers we know full well fit the profile and think of as serial killers don't actually qualify. Topher's brain scan, while dubious evidence should Terry have been brought to trial, is presented as a way of confirming the shorthand for the audience without going into gruesome detail: this is a serial killer. Ballard should have pegged him as a mixed organized/disorganized killer type. Appropriately for Dollhouse, the abduction and abuse ritual is about control for Terry, while the murder occurs in a frenzy when the center, inevitably, does not hold.
Various things ring false about Terry, but for me it is mainly the outrageously silly, colorfully weird but still TV-friendly staging of his afternoon croquet fantasy and his baby talk dialogue. If I haven't mentioned it before, Mutant Enemy's writing voices for crazy people are kind of grating and off key, though Terry is spared from one of their favorite cringey tropes, the lunatic who speaks in poetic non sequitur koan. It is not a blanket requirement, but killer's of roughly Terry's profile nearly always rape their victims to enact physical dominance, which I have no interest in seeing on Dollhouse but would have unified Terry's story with the matter of the Wife's tale. (If you are interested in horrible crimes, visit your local library to learn more! Of the one billion books available on the subject, Dr. Eric W. Hickey's Serial Murderers and Their Victims is the most valuable, well researched, becalmed and, er, expensive) The Wife also includes a discussion on the reality that men born of high station have no inherent predilection to moral virtue, so maybe someone should mail Terry's uncle a copy.
The knight in the Wife's tale is a rapist whose quest is a weird form of test to determine his punishment. I never saw that movie What Women Want, but I can only assume it plays out exactly like the Wife's tale. Just for comparison laffs, the version of the Wife's tale as retold in "The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle", the quest is a challenge to Arthur, who sends Gawain out for recon on ladies' desires, with no inciting incident of sexual violence. Though his zealous virtue and devotion to the good guys is pretty funny in "Ragnelle" (the knight marries the hag not to save his own neck, but his BFF, Arthur's!), Gawain's intense honor and apparent purity get in the way of his effectiveness across several tales, and (it is dangerous to psychoanalyze medieval literature) mask his hang-ups and illusions about women. That's why I think he's a good match with Ballard. Anyway, in Chaucer the knight is unnamed, and in "Belle Chose", it's actually Topher (on DeWitt's orders) whose screw up gives the women in the narrative their "choice": will Echo be Kiki or Terry or a blank Doll? Thanks for the options, but she will be Caroline.
Like Prof. Gossen, as the Wife is telling her story, to support her argument, she pulls in aphorisms and anecdotes from other literature (Juvenal, Dante, etc.), or has her characters do it. The lengthiest sidetrack is supposed to illustrate that women can't keep secrets, she invokes Ovid and retells the end of a King Midas story. Having had the bad judgement to play Simon Cowell at a music contest between Apollo and Pan, Midas is punished with ass ears by Apollo. As the Wife would have it, Midas tells his embarrassing secret only to his wife, who tells it to the water... and if you want the rest, the Wife of Bath tells us to go to Ovid. So, though none of our models plays out in perfect parallel, I don't know that we're chasing our tails here. If you do check Ovid, you'll find that the Wife is stacking the deck. As Ovid has it, Midas' affliction is known only to his barber slave, not his wife. Wanna know how it ends? The barber digs a hole in which to tell his story, reeds grow in the dirt, and the secret is scattered to the wind. A preview of sorts for both how the Dollhouse falls and the consciousness of Dolls may survive (The X-Files may have kept it in mind, with a motif that the Truth refuses to stay buried).
Between this episode and "Spy in the House of Love", Dollhouse's idea of literary allusion is stacking up as damned bizarre.
JS: And they know we will Google those allusions to the ends of the Internet. Don't forget "Briar Rose" in the list of shout-outs. TV fictions are always mining the news for crime and doctor stories, but it seems rarer for them to engage with other fictions in the way Dollhouse does (unless they have clearly literary roots, e.g. Merlin, which has a huge cache of satellite stories to work with) From the meta tower, it looks awfully as though Dollhouse's ghost-themes of storytelling/plotting/showrunning are in fact solid enough to take on the creative theme of adapting and reinventing source material, making "Belle Chose" and other "literary" episodes stories about telling stories about how we tell stories about stories. You said something similar regarding the narrative nesting in Inglourious Basterds (whose very title is a shout-out to an earlier story!), and maybe Dollhouse can be seen as the expanded serial-drama version of that experiment. All Whedon needs to do is change the series name to "A Doull's Hoose" and we're set.
(And speaking of adaptation, Terry's delivery of those croquet lines was just self-conscious enough that he, too, seemed as though he were channeling a story he'd seen elsewhere... perhaps on TV, perhaps onstage in some comedy of manners. He was clearly taking pleasure in imitating someone, repeating a script he'd heard and deemed appropriate for his family outing. And even if he was improvising, I find that many improvisers do this too — the family scenes they act out are often more like reruns of fifties sitcoms than of contemporary life. Even more interesting an improvisation was Echo's lapse into storytelling as, freed briefly of Terry, privy to his "source material" (memories) yet able to refer to him in the third person, she narrated the stalking of Robin.)
Basta! Enough of this episode! It's almost 9PM and I hear that Topher's match is finally here. I have to go and meet her.
CS: Y'know, the old calypso standard "Ugly Woman"/"If You Want to be Happy" is probably the most succinct and hilarious retelling of the punchline of the Wife's tale proper. The narrator in that number knows that even when you give a pretty girl a chance to be faithful, even if she chooses not to be Kiki, the world is full of Prof. Gossens and Terries, and man, it just ain't worth the grief.


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Area elementary students invited to IUP game
December 17, 2013 10:35 AM
The IUP men's basketball program is inviting students from area elementary schools and their families to Wednesday's game against Shippensburg.
Tickets are being distributed at area schools. Tip-off is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. The IUP women tip off at 5:30.
The event is sponsored by Indiana Regional Medical Center and UrgiCare.
Pictured with IUP players are, from left, Dawn Landis, of IRMC; Quinn Martineau, 10, and Harrison Martineau, 7, the children of Brad and Tonya Martineau; Anna Carnovale, 5, the daughter of Mike and Becky Carnovale; and Ruth Sulkosky, of IRMC. (Teri Enciso/Gazette photo)


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Kelly Clarkson Posts Pic of New Puppy, Joplin
Kelly Clarkson has added another pooch to her brood. The pop star posed for a snapshot with her brand-new pup on the set of her upcoming album's photo shoot.
"Me and my new puppy Joplin on the set of my photo shoot for my new album. He's adorable!" Kelly wrote on her Facebook page.
The 29-year-old singer also posted another photo from the set, sans Joplin. "Peter, me, Harper, Ashley, and Stephanie at my photo shoot," she wrote. "An awesome team and a great shoot!"
Last year, Clarkson released 'Don't You Wanna Stay' with country star Jason Aldean. The song appeared on Aldean's 'My Kinda Party' album. The duo performed the single at the 2010 CMA Awards and again on April 14 on an elimination episode of 'American Idol.'
Clarkson wrapped recording of her new album in February, and is expected to announce a release date to the follow-up to 2009's 'All I Ever Wanted' in July. Earlier this year, she explained some of the inspirations behind the songs.
"This album was influenced by Prince, Tina Turner, Sheryl Crow, Radiohead and there's a little bit of a Country vibe/influence on a couple of songs," she wrote.
Watch Kelly Clarkson Perform 'Don't You Wanna Stay' With Jason Aldean on 'American Idol'


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Lectionary Relections for September 1, 2013 Jeremiah 2:4-13 Psalm 81:1, 10-16 Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16 Luke 14:1, 7-14 Creative Interdependence This week's lectionary calls us to creative interdependence. We cannot thrive, or even survive, without recognizing and acting upon our sense of interdependence with the world around us. Authentic creation emerges from healthy relatedness, not pick-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps [Read More…]
The Adventurous Lectionary for Sept 1: Creative Interdependence
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SLIDESHOW: West Seattle Blockwatch Captains get a field trip on property crime prevention through landscaping
When it comes to privacy at the home, many Americans aim for seclusion in their landscaping. Tall solid fences and walls of fauna create that sense of privacy so many hold dear.
One of the biggest lessons Crime Prevention Team Officer Jon Kiehn with the SPD Southwest Precinct drives home time and time again is while privacy keeps others from keeping an eye on you, it also creates a safe haven for burglars once they enter your property.
"Most people set up their backyard because they want to feel secluded but the bad guy wants that feeling as well, so once he gets through he can pretty much do what he wants and not feel uncomfortable doing so," Officer Kiehn said while giving blockwatch captains and interested West Seattleites a home tour on May 24. Kiehn is trained in CPTED (crime prevention through environmental design) and shared his knowledge on the tour set up by the West Seattle Blockwatch Captains' Network.
For a review of CPTED principles from a blockwatch meeting in March, please check out the Herald story West Seattle Blockwatch Captains learn how to use landscaping to deter crime.
Please click the picture above for a slideshow tour of Officer Kiehn's presentation on making our homes safer through landscaping and house design.
"West Seattle is primarily property crimes. They want your stuff but they don't necessarily want to contact anyone to get it," Officer Kiehn said. "If we can make them think they are going to be contacted then they are going to pass your house off."
As a side note, Blockwatch Captain Deb Greer said Blockwatch Captain Appreciation Day is coming up on June 28. Location is yet to be determined.
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Excerpt from Or-LA-ando roadtrip - only the cows know.
The desert is a sad lonely place. No wonder people come here to hide bodies. I thought I had seen poor towns in my lifetime but nothing compared to the shanties of population 4 , unnamed desert towns I saw drifting by my window on my way to the corner of New Mexico.
We were driving all the way from San Antonio Texas to the far corner of New Mexico. Very close to the border of Colorado. I had a friend, Carrie, who had moved to Farmingham New Mexico, not because it was lavish or pretty, not because they had a lot of anything really. Well, unless you count that really reddish clay dirt. They had a lot of that. So much that it seemed to blanket the city like snow. Stuck on to cafe windows, It reddened the fur of white stray dogs, and it was as depressing as the rain. Actually more depressing because atleast wet is refreshing.
The best thing about this town was this cafe that served a mean southwest breakfest but even that couldn't make up for the awful feeling that you got. It was like dispair. A town everyone always dreamt of leaving. A goal everyone in that town wanted to aspire too and the shameful feeling they wore on their faces as day in and day out they ate from the same breakfast menu at that little rundown cafe.
I didn't know any of this yet. I was still antcipating seeing my friend and was very curious to see how she was living. The desert sometimes creeped me out, and I was sick of driving and riding and I had to pee. We both had to pee, but we were in the middle of the desert nothing around for miles. In the middle of the night we stopped on the side of the road, somewhere nearing roswell. We grabbed the napkins we had gotten from the taco stand in San Antonio, thinking ahead and stashing some napkins was a good idea. Cows gathered near the fence where we were peeing as if they hadn't seen a human in decades. Or perhaps two girls peeing on the side of the road in the middle of the night was just some good entertainment for them.
It wasn't the cows but something about the desert was very eerie.
Earlier that day we had lots of energy as we left San Antonio. The wonderful food we ate, the people we met. The inn we stayed at which was amazing. If there was ever a fun city travel chapter in my life it would be the San Antonio Chapter. I would tell you about the weed I found on the bathroom floor of this crabshack place, and how even though it was only regs we had deemed it roadtrip weed. Or how the innkeeper hid in our closet, how we giggled that night high, drunk, and even snorted a line or two of cocaine. Not because we are druggies, but because we accepted and respected the rules of the road.
The innkeeper and his friend had given us more pot, and a line a piece to snort if we needed to stay awake on the road. We had a cooler filled with Heineken keg cans, the drugs our new found friends had given us, plus more weed in a cloth bag decorated with a monkey print fabric when we rolled up to the DWI Stop. Later on we found out that because of all of the reservations around the area there are lots of DWI's because the Indians get their government checks and go to town, which is a few hours away to get wasted and then drive back.
2 cute young women roll up to these cops. We tell them our story and what we are doing. How I'm helping my friend move across country. They shine their lights in the back and see all the moving boxes and items and tell us to be safe, don't go out into the desert alone!
Indeed. If there is one thing I can't say enough it's that the desert is freaky. For every one story about the desert their are a thousand that have gone untold. Things you can't explain, things that make you feel queasy or lonely, or both. A place were good and evil are placed together in a sweet and sour candy tart.
We were smoking some weed, and deciding what cd's we should put in next when I thought I saw something in the corner of my eye. As I turned my head it seemed to back off. It was like a brownish blob gurgling it's way right along side the car, but every time you turned to look at it., it would back up. Must be this crazy ass bathroom floor weed we are smoking. Who knows what's in it anyway. It could be laced with opium. or rat posion, or ashes from someone's dear aunt sally.
To cope with this idea I cracked open a lukewarm beer. I'm fairly sure there are only a few instances in which cracking open a lukewarm beer while riding in a car is appropriate but brown blob beside car sounds like it might be one of those instances.
The ride was about 16 hours long. A few highlights included our drive by look at Roswell NM in the middle of the night. They have alien head street lights. I took a picture of them on a disposable camera that will later be lost, found and still never developed.
We made it that night to Carrie's and had some conversation with her. Something about Carrie always lit you up even when you were dragging ass. She told us all about the area, the stuff she had seen, local legend. She asked us exactly the route we had to traveled. "I can't believe you traveled through that part, you know the Indians won't go through that section of the desert." She said. After inquiring why and what the local lore was she had said that quite a few Indians had gone missing over that area. "If you believe, it comes after you"." It appears like a brown blob floating over to you but it will crash your car" Just then my road trip friend spoke up. "Oh My God I saw it!, and I said I did too, I just thought I was high and hallucinating."
Was it true, Was brown blob spirit thing licking it's chops for us? Did it want to ride along side us? Did it want to cause us harm? Did it want to make it's presence known? Did it think we were foolish? Maybe those cows know.
Libby Land
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Life hacks plus Pintrest
Life hacks, what doesn't work, and why your Pintrest projects fail
So I was having a conversation about Life Hacks and why are they called Life Hacks. They are more like clever ideas. Some that just don't even work. You'll see people post links on facebook all the time who think the ideas are cool but have just never tried them. There are so many of them Myth Busters could do a whole show on them.
Here is a roundup of Life Hacks that I have found don't work.
- Listerene Foot Bath - doesn't work, turns your feet blue
- Toilet Paper roll cuff for wrapping paper- doesn't work falls off, never fits right
- Turn back of muffin pan into a cookie bowl maker - doesn't work because what is featured is an ACTUAL Cookie bowl creator and not a muffin tin.
- Get a new pair of 5 dollar flip flops because a bread clip isn't saving them.
- A Cupcake sandwich makes just as much mess as if you just eat the damn cupcake as is.
On one side of the coin from life hacks that just don't work, we have Pintrest fails from people that can't write, or follow directions correctly. Sometimes I wonder about people. Unless you are very skilled or an excellent cook, baker you should always follow the directions to a tee, and adjust if something doesn't work for you. I've noticed quite a bit of things.
- Cakes and cookies need to be completely cooled before adding icing/frosting. Otherwise you end up with a melty mess.
- Grease your pan so things will not stick or use a silicone baking mat
- Taste as you go, check temps and consistency
- Have the necessary tools, ingredients
- Read the instructions all the way through before starting
- Don't take shortcuts you don't know will work
- Use quality supplies
And lastly know your skill set, take free classes, or read and do tutorials online. Test, Experiment and keep going.
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
I lost my marinade in a sea of confusion.
I'm not sure what is wrong with me. I think I might be suffering from the worst kind of hangover ever. and it's not the type that a large handle of rum causes. Although I do know that type of hangover pretty well.
After the holidays, and after finally moving into a new house I feel pretty uninspired. All of these things I had in my head that where marinating and waiting to be spilled out into a creative hot stew waiting to be pushed out to all who would love to experience it... just got lost in a sea of confusion.
After the holidays, and after finally moving into a new house I feel pretty uninspired. All of these things I had in my head that where marinating and waiting to be spilled out into a creative hot stew waiting to be pushed out to all who would love to experience it... just got lost in a sea of confusion.
I feel like I'm just grasping at anything and everything right now and coming up empty handed.
I know it is up to me to fix this. and perhaps this is just part of the process, of growing and evolving. You can not grow if you don't fail. If you're having one success after another you are not living up to the potential you have.
Success feels good, growing pains and change are uncomfortable.
I'm working on a bunch of things to remedy my current situation. I need to feel inspired but inspiration isn't something that always comes easy. For me it's a huge thought process, it's the foundation of creativity. It's the DNA building blocks, it's that shot of espresso, that psychedelic tea, that craft beer, that secret ingredient in your marinade, that one little switch that turns the light on in your head.
So what's my plan? It's everything and anything. It's to just keep going, pushing through. Looking, seeing, doing, trying, creating, sketching, writing, cooking, conversing, being curious about everything and anything. Trying new things, listening to different points of view. Putting my hands everywhere, Opening my mind a bit wider, stretching, walking, and whatever floats my boat.
So here is a list of things I have compiled.
So here is a list of things I have compiled.
- Write down the things that inspire me
- Read
- Write and Blog
- Sketch - keep a sketch book
- Unpack my Art Studio and get settled in
- Get together with creative people and have conversations
- Cook, Create a recipe,
- Write everything I can down
- Share and ask for comments and constructive critiques
- Push away my negative thoughts and self doubt to give way to positivity and confidence
- Hang up Art in my house from me and the people that inspire me.
- Network within the art and digital media communities in my area.
- Experiment
- Keep an Art Journal
Lets see where this is headed.
Monday, August 8, 2011
Music Video Monday
Music Video Monday - Not really a music video but Dom from the Supervillians with Junkie Rush covering their song In the Morning. This made my Monday better.
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WATCH: Botox Child Taken From Mother
MakenzieR on 16 May 2011 at 9:00am
Britney Campell, now famous as the 8-year-old who gets Botox injected by her mom for "wrinkles," was removed from her home over the weekend.
Outraged parents, doctors, and people everywhere who care about children should breathe a sigh of relief knowing that the mother is now being investigated by Child Protection Services.
A lot of readers expressed anger last week when this story first aired on GMA. What do you hope happens now?


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There's no shortage of vibrant festivals around the globe that cater to every taste, from revered spiritual celebrations to more bizarre activities such as wife-carrying competitions. Chances are there's at least one festival somewhere on earth dedicated to any peculiar hobby you may enjoy.
We've rounded up a list of recognizable classics and some offbeat festivals worth checking out this year.
National Cherry Blossom Festival
Washington DC: This festival, held every April, is certainly about much more than gawking at gorgeous pink and white flowers in our nation's capital.
Known as the prime Japanese Street festival in the US, this two-week event celebrates the ongoing friendship between the US and Japan. Enjoy lantern ceremonies, Japanese street art, a 10-mile run (if you're up to it), fireworks, and a slew of other activities.
Even the most curmudgeonly of travelers will soften at the sight of rows and rows of delicate cherry blossom flowers.
For more, visit the festival's Web site. Early April.
Holy Week
Antigua, Guatemala: Holy Week, also known as Semana Santa, is one of many religious celebrations that occur during the Christian observance of Lent; starting on Ash Wednesday and ending on Good Friday. Elaborate floats carrying various Christian symbols such as crucifixes and images of the Virgin Mary as well as observers dressed in white or black robes proceed through the streets of Antigua in a very slow, reverent fashion.
Read more about Easter Week in Guatemala.
St. Lucia Jazz Festival
Caribbean Islands: Head over to the scenic Caribbean island of St. Lucia in May to enjoy soothing jazz permeating the entire island. The 10-day event features various local acts and well-known international Jazz musicians playing in various club and hotel venues all over the island. Even if jazz music isn't your style, you can still steal over to the island for a laidback getaway.
For more, visit the festival's Web site. Early May.
Aarhus Viking Festival
Denmark: Unleash your inner warlord (or peasant) at Scandinavian's largest Viking festival. Held every year in July, travelers can step back in time into traditional markets with craftsmen, traders, artisans, and warriors.
Cheer at simulated warrior fights, watch choreographed riding shows, and tear hungrily into a smoked turkey leg like a true Viking.
Read more about the Viking Moot Festival. Late July.
San Fermin
Pamplona, Spain: The Running of the Bulls festival, made famous by Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises, is a once-in-a-lifetime event that should not be missed.
Every July, rain or shine, the festival revolves around running alongside six disoriented bulls weighing an average of one ton each. There are also bullfights in the evenings, and thousands upon thousands of travelers dressed in a sea of white and red garb partying like there's no tomorrow.
A day before the festivities, PETA activists stage their annual Running of the Nudes in protest, while a day after the festival there's a "Running of the Bus event" which involves running alongside public transportation buses.
For more, read my dispatch about what it feels like to experience San Fermin. Early July.
Highland Games
Scotland: Looking for something to do in May? Jet off to Scotland to watch burly Scotsmen don various Clan kilts and engage in a variety of games and championships—from dancing and bag piping competitions to games such as hammer toss, shot-puts, cabers, and old fashioned tug-of-war.
For more, visit the 2010 Highland Games official page. July through September.
Tomatina Festival
Buñol, Spain: Definitely not for the squeamish, La Tomatina is the perfect opportunity to unleash your inner child and join one of the world's largest food fights. Close to 140 tons of tomatoes are wheeled into town, and for an hour the streets of Buñol turn into streams of pungent-smelling pasta sauce.
All you'll need to participate in the activity is an old T-shirt, pair of shorts, and eye goggles to protect your eyes. According to festival organizers, "T-shirts with bulls-eyes printed on them are not recommended."
For more, visit the festival's Web page. Late August.
Pushkar Camel Fair
Rajasthan, India: If you're in the market for a sturdy camel, head over to Pushkar in Rajasthan India and take part in the world's largest camel fair. Awash in vibrant colors and a frenzy of activities, this small Indian village jolts to life every November as decked out camels, decorated cattle, busy merchants, music, competitions and other activities roll into town for the Pushkar Camel Fair.
For more, visit the festival's Web page. October.
Whirling Dervishes Festival
Konya, Turkey: To round out the year, why not head to Konya, Turkey, to witness the Followers of Mevlana (also known as the Whirling Dervishes) hypnotically twirl faster and faster in flowing white robes and conical hats. Religious beliefs aside, non-believers are invited to observe this centuries-old tradition as well.
A warning to the vertigo-inclined: you may experience occasional spells of dizziness...
For more, visit All About Turkey. Late November.
About the Author
Lola Akinmade is a writer and photographer who has written for many travel resources and received accolades for her work. She is also an editor with the Matador Network.
Photo credits: (1) Cherry blossoms courtesy of istock / Robert Dodge (2) Pamplona image courtesy of Lola Akinmade


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WBA Convention: Day One
Photos and story by Boxing Bob Newman
Opening day meetings of the WBA 91st Annual Convention commenced on Monday, October 19th at the Sultan Hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia, after arrivals of the directorate and many delegates over the weekend. President Gilberto Mendoza and Vice President Gilberto Jesus Mendoza opened the meetings with a review of the agenda for this convention and minutes from the 90th convention in Donetsk, Ukraine. The day closed with the opening ceremony and banquet in the Golden Ballroom of the Sultan.
Several committee appointments were made and tasks assigned. WBA treasurer was assigned to report on the WBA insurance program for boxers.
The WBA Medical Seminar magazine made its return after a several year absence.
Also, the WBA KO Drugs review magazine was distributed. The WBA KO Drugs program has been active since it's inception in Maracay, Venezuela in 1988.
WBA legal counsel Robert Mack will issue a report on scoring margins.
George Martinez, NABA and WBA Women's chairman, has drafted a full guide for the supervisors of WBA title fights.
On somber note, WBA Auditor Michael Welsh sent a message during the opening moments of the convention that he will resign, effective immediately from his duties with the WBA, citing heath problems. A motion was made and passed to recognize Welsh for his years of dedicated service.
WBA board member Julio Castillo instructed the directorate in Tai Chi exercises to loosen up their muscles and relax their minds after the enduring long trip to Jakarta and embarking on many hours of meetings.
After lunch, report summaries were given by committee heads. Dr. Calvin Inalsingh gave his annual medical report. It covered his attendance at the annual meeting of ringside physicians, as well as his participation at the annual KO Drugs event in Trinidad. Inalsingh would like to implement an exam which prospective ringside physicians would have to take and pass before being allowed to work a fight.
NABA chair George Martinez summarized his planned report on all the changes and happenings this past year in the North American Boxing Association. Martinez also chairs and will report on the WBA Female division activities.
Stanley Christodoulou summarized his upcoming African boxing report. Specifically the South African Boxing commission is undergoing a revamping and marketing overhaul. Also, other goals include a comprehensive working relationship across all African boxing bodies, improved training seminars across the continent and increased activity in female boxing. WBA Vice President Gilberto Jesus Mendoza seconded the importance of increased training of ring officials in the African region.
Aurelio Fiengo presented an overview of the Fedelatin title activity, rankings, and further development in the regional organization.
Alan Kim reviewed his upcoming report on PABA activities. Improved sponsor interest in Pan Asian Boxing Association fights and difficulties in dealing with sponsors was summarized.
Jesper Jensen summarized the European scene. There are ongoing talks involving the formation of WBA Europe as well as WBA Continental, pertaining to Europe. There remains a divide between EBU (European Boxing Union) and the potential WBA Europe or WBA Continental. Dave Rhoden chimed in with the suggestion of going with the WBA Continental direction as there are already WBO European and IBF European titles with "European" in the name. Jensen, Rhoden and Mendoza Jr. plan to sit down and have some strategic meetings this weeks regarding the European situation. The topic remains one of hot debate.
Alberto Sarmiento summarized the WBA's financial report for the year. A complete rundown of WBA title fight activity, promoters and officials working in those title fights, payments made and received, as well as those NOT made and received will be discussed.
WBA legal counsel Robert Mack also summarized the association's legal situation, which at this time has no pending actions. Some minor changes in language in some specific WBA rules and regulations will be discussed.
Gilberto Jesus Mendoza also discussed a recent meeting in New York with Sartonk belts who will take over manufacturing of the WBA's belts, as well as bringing design uniformity within the WBA family of belts.
After the evening break, the Opening ceremonies commenced at 7 p.m. Several local dignitaries spoke, including Anthon Sihombing, chairman of the Indonesia Boxing Commission, along with WBA president Gilberto Mendoza and vice president Gilberto Jesus Mendoza, before diner was served and various local performance artists displayed cultural music and dance. Champions past and present were on hand, led by current WBA Featherweight super champion and Indonesian star Chris John. Also on hand were former champs Hiroki Ioka, David Griman and the Kameda brothers Koki and Daiki.


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beekeepers who just want a lot of honey
It just depends on whether you want to live in the ice age or modern day times.
I got a 27 out of 50. This isn't bad I think. I just started learning about bees about 30 days ago and have watched 2 dvd's and am about a third of the way through "Beekeeping for Dummies". Bruce
in spite of my morbid desire to see someone corkscrew it into the ground
Ok from a read the books don't know squat about bees newbee. (aka me)In my opinion. TBH more like what the bees did in the dark ages before domestication. from the opinion of some of the websites apparently helps them feel closer to there ancestors. Eric
ducks fan....hmmmm, could be a problem! ;) :evil:since our original poster has not bothered to come back here or the other site, i am going to assume it was a drive by.
ducks fan....hmmmm, could be a problem! ;) :evil:
Some people are BEEKEEPERS and others are BEE OWNERS :roll: and others keep :deadhorse: BEES FROM THIER ARM CHAIRS :deadhorse:edward :-P
my youngest graduated from OSU. he is a major sports fan and a very little of it has rubbed off on mom. i promise not to hold it against you! i am more apt to be cheering for Navy anyway.
And in my little world, I think your some gun toting, bodacious twenty something hot mama
Okay, here's a thought. The general premise of the original post is that the langstroth hive is somehow detrimental to the well being of the honey bee then it must follow that the user of the langstroth design must not care for the well being of the honey bee. Well let's extrapolate that a bit. The lang is nothing more or less than one of the many end results of a centuries old quest for a way to contain the honey bee colony for the end result of harvesting honey. This quest began with the simple container whether it be pottery, log or skep and progressed to the first major breakthrough in the TBH and eventually to the concept of "beespace" and the langstroth. So the TBH is nothing more or less than the first major evolutionary step in the practice of harvesting honey from the honey bee.Since lang keepers are interested in nothing more than harvesting honey and the TBH is but merely a step in that direction would that not make the TBH just as equally or maybe more culpable in this human induced "assault" on the honey bee?Just a thought.To continue, is it the "exploitation" of the honey bee that drives this thread and if so wouldn't that make any human intervention tbh or lang equally "wrong"?


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Not only has Barack Obama secured another four years as the leader of the free world, he's also proved that he wins at Twitter. The photograph that he posted at 0416 GMT on Tuesday morning, which showed him enveloping Michelle in his arms and was accompanied by the words "Four more years" has become the most retweeted tweet of all time. At the time of going to press, almost 700,000 people had shared the snap, beating the reigning king and queen of the site, Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga, into a cocked snook. But while Barry was the overall winner on that cold November morning, there were plenty of other big hitters on election night and we salute them.
Best flouncing tweets
Donald Trump
Business magnate
"Let's fight like hell and stop this great and disgusting injustice! The world is laughing at us."
Ted Nugent
"Goodluk America u just voted for economic & spiritual suicide. Soulless fools."
Stephen Baldwin
Actor and reality-TV star
"2nite Gods Spirit lifted within me&joy came over me, I will serve the Lord, my hope is in Jesus not Obama, Gods wrath is upon US. 2Thes2:11."
Patricia Heaton
Actress and star of Everybody Loves Raymond
"At least the president can't blame the mess he's 'inheriting' on anyone else but himself!"
Bryan Fischer
Director of issues analysis for the American Family Association
"Today was Pearl Harbor. Tomorrow we begin planning for Normandy."
Rick Santorum
Republican politician
"Religious freedom is under attack in America. Obama must be stopped."
Best crawling congratulatory tweets
David Cameron
"Warm congratulations to my friend @BarackObama. Look forward to continuing to work together."
Ed Miliband
"Congratulations to @BarackObama – great victory based on building fairer economy and optimism about what politics can achieve."
William Hague
"Congratulations to President @BarackObama and his team. I look forward to working with them on shared #foreignpolicy goals #election2012."
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"Congratulations to @BarackObama. Hard fought race and an excellent victory (LL)."
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"Power Up with Prayer" Breakfast/ Silent Auction
Miriam Wedderburn
Saturday, February 22, 2014 from 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM (EST)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
Join us as we kickstart 2014 with Christian Girls Brunch Club's first annual "Power Up with Prayer" Breakfast/ Silent Auction. There will be a phenomenal speaker, a delicious breakfast, and much more. We believe as James 5:16b says that, 'the earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results.'
A portion of Prayer Breakfast ticket sales/ all Silent Auction proceeds to benefit the Miami Rescue Mission's Center for Women & Children.
Help us raise much needed funding to continue to bless others through our service.
Join us for what is sure to be a fabulous event!
When & Where
Greater Faith Temple Deliverance Center
3840 Florida Avenue
Saturday, February 22, 2014 from 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM (EST)
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Christian Girls Brunch Club™ Miami founded in 2011 by Miriam Wedderburn, is a woman's ministry that aims to bring diverse women from all walks of life together based on their mutual love for God; their interest in serving the needs of the most vulnerable groups in our society-Women and Children in need; and the desire to promote sisterhood.
In service to women and children, we serve a delicious and free brunch at the Miami Rescue Mission's Center for Women and Children on the second Saturday of every other month. Join CGBC and be apart of an organization that will bring just as much joy and fulfillment to you as it does to those we humbly serve.


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Republican U.S. Congressman John Fleming Links to 'Onion' Story About "Planned Parenthood Abortionplex"
Last May, the satirical newspaper The Onion ran a real humdinger about a Planned Parenthood "abortionplex," an $8 billion "sprawling abortion facility" that would "allow the organization to terminate unborn lives with an efficiency never before thought possible." The abortionplex would be replete with 2,000 abortion rooms as well as "coffee shops, bars, dozens of restaurants and retail outlets, a three-story nightclub, and a 10-screen multiplex theater — features intended not only to help clients relax, but to foster a sense of community and make abortion more of a social event."
It turns out Rep. John Fleming (R-La.) was so dumbstruck (with the emphasis on the dumb) by the fake "news" article that he posted a link to it on his Facebook page. That's when Literally Unbelievable, a blog dedicated to Facebook statuses from people who think Onion articles are real, learned of Fleming's flub and posted it before the conservative congressman realized he'd been duped and removed it from his Facebook wall.
"The Onion is satire," commented one user. "How exactly did you get elected?"
According to Politico, Literally Unbelievable publisher Hudson Hongo credited a "keen-eyed reader" with spotting Fleming's post. Hongo told Politico that he finds it "extremely satisfying to see a politician being made the rube by just the kind of sensationalism (in this case satiric) that they seem so adept at manufacturing these days."
As for The Onion, editor Joe Randazzo issued a statement in which he expressed his pride that Fleming is a reader:
"We're delighted to hear that Rep. Fleming is a regular reader of America's Finest News Source and doesn't bother himself with The New York Times, Washington Post, the mediums of television and radio, or any other lesser journalism outlets," he said.
Take heart, dear Fleming. You're far from the first to get bamboozled by the venerable Onion. In November 2010, no less a journalistic juggernaut than Fox News found itself hoodwinked by a story about a phony Obama diatribe against everything from the war in Afghanistan to his mother-in-law.
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Indianapolis, IN (March 7, 2013) – Shawn Jacobs, president & CEO of STS Trailer & Truck Equipment (Syracuse, NY), was installed today as the 49th president of the NTEA, the Association for the Work Truck Industry. Jacobs accepted the gavel from immediate past president Frank Livas, president of Brake & Clutch, Inc. (Salem, MA), in Indianapolis, IN at the President's Breakfast and NTEA Annual Meeting, held in conjunction with The Work Truck Show® 2013. The Work Truck Show is North America's largest work truck event.
"A main focus for me over the next year as president of the NTEA will be to make fellow NTEA member companies aware of all the opportunities and connections the Association offers," said Jacobs. Jacobs began his work truck industry career in the parts department of STS Trailer & Truck Equipment after graduating from college. Before becoming president in 2004, he served in many positions, including office manager, equipment salesperson, new and used sales manager, and general manager.
In his current role, he is responsible for the company's overall administration and operations, as well as working to ensure business growth and guide the vision. STS has more than 100 employees, with offices in Buffalo, Rochester, Albany and Syracuse, NY.
Jacobs majored in truck marketing at Northwood Institute (Midland, MI) and received an associate's in business from Central City Business Institute (Syracuse, NY). He has also served on and led numerous trailer and truck equipment manufacturer advisory boards and distributor councils.
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Tuesday Fun...Taking It Easy!
Now, back to the weekend, which was all about taking it easy.
Friday, we hit up Macy's and Bed, Bath, and Beyond to begin the gift exchange/return shopping spree. After all was said and done, we got our new set of pots and pans and everyday flatware--yes, old people over here. Then, we met Mom and Dad at Chuy's for dinner and drinks.
Saturday morning, I hit the gym, then went on my work clothes shopping adventure. Fast forward 3 hours and I was able to walk out of the mall with some great new finds...not to mention I saved a ton of $$ because everyone was having major summer sales--score!
That afternoon, Jeff and I did some car shopping, and then joined up with the Grunkes for a fun and laidback evening cookout. They wined and dined us with peach pork chops, grilled sweet potatoes, green beans, and the most sinful caramel ice cream--worth every bite though!
Sunday, we finally made it back to church and Jeff and I both agreed it was great to be back in worship. Then we headed to my parent's house where the plan was to swim and layout, though summer showers prevented that escapade so we took to Scrabble, movies on the couch, and grilling for dinner. Fantastic way to wrap up another fun weekend.
So now it's Tuesday morning--and my mind is a bowl of jelly...I can't seem to focus today so let's talk randomness...
1. I gave in to ABC and watched another episode of The Bachelorette last night--LAME! Why do I do it? I'm sorry Ashley, but you look ridiculous pining after nasty sleazeball Bentley and I am glad the guys let you know it...and that sequined dress with the hair bun--yikes.
2. I am so excited the 4th of July is almost here! I am ready for fireworks, hot dogs and hamburgers on the grill, and a 3-day weekend...it just can't get here soon enough.
3. Retailers are already emailing out the new wave of fall boots that are coming in...seriously? It's 85 degrees outside people--the last thing I want to think about is fall and winter...give it a rest already!
4. So, once the wedding is over and the day has finally past--what does a girl do with her time? She plans vacations...Yes, I have to keep my mind occupied so we're in the middle of planning our long anticipated NYC Christmas Adventure--4 couples, Broadway shows, wining and dining, and taking in the city sights--what could be better? I am over the moon happy to finally experience my favorite city with my best friends and their beaus.
Alright, enough for now--I'm on the hunt to find a fun, yet simple DIY project to occupy some of my free time this weekend so we'll see what I can come up with. I'm ready to whip out some spray paint or the glue gun and get crazy! Happy Tuesday...tomorrow I'll finally be back with another wedding recap--woo hoo!
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We went to NYC 2 Christmas's ago and it was something I am so glad I got to do!! You will LOVE it!!ReplyDelete
Ugh, NYC is my favorite place! Have fun!ReplyDelete
NYC at Christmas is the best, I can't wait to go back!!ReplyDelete
Cutest, easiest, DIY project...ReplyDelete
if you have a love for earrings :)perfect addition to a walk in closet, bathroom, bedroom... where ever!
forgot to post the link!! :) sorry!!ReplyDelete
i'm sad we aren't doing NYCReplyDelete
Couldn't agree with you more on the Bachelorette! Your NYC trip sounds soo fun! :) Enjoy it.ReplyDelete
You will LOVE the NYC trip with the other couples, how fun!ReplyDelete
Have you made a book wreath yet? They are simple, brainless, fun, and PRETTY! (lemme know if you don't know what I'm referring to)
At this point I kinda don't wanna tune in until the men tell all episode so I can hear them tell them how she wasted their time being hung up on a guy that BASHED her!!!ReplyDelete
love love love - sounds like a great weeeknd and hopefully an even better one coming up with the 4th! i love DIY projects so I hope you find something great to share with the rest of us! Have a fabulous time in NYC too- one of my fav places to visit!ReplyDelete
Hi Natasha, I just started reading your blog, it's really great! You're one of the bloggers who inspired me to start my own. New York during Christmas will be amazing, definitely on my list of things to do as well!ReplyDelete
Sounds like a great weekend--peach porkchops?? YUM!ReplyDelete
Also...if you like Scrabble you should try Bananagrams!
AND..(sheesh, long comment)--your DIY desires are in luck, my post tomorrow is for the cutest summer DIY project! Be sure to check it out!
Couldn't agree with you more about The Bachelorette! And we've been to NYC several times--check out my blog for ideas if you need some!ReplyDelete
Sounds like a good weekend to me! See you tonight!ReplyDelete


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Eugene Lang, class of 1938, is in a race against time to give away as much money as possible. Fifteen years after giving Swarthmore its previous largest gift–$30 million–the philanthropist is re-upping for $50 million, most of which will go toward science and engineering. Before he got into the giving business, the Swarthmore cash machine (he's given at least $100 million in total) made his fortune in part by developing ATM patents. Lang, who's already got three campus buildings named after him, says he doesn't "intend to die with money in the bank." [Inquirer]
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The rock group The Walkmen have a song called "We've Been Had," which was used in a Saturn car commercial. Don't Buy It had a chance to talk to Hamilton Leithauser, the lead singer of The Walkmen, and ask him about this experience.
DBI: Why did you decide to use your music in a commercial?
Hamilton: The main reason was money. The money from Saturn gave us the chance to make more music. Selling songs to advertisers was a way for us as an independent band to make extra money and spend time concentrating on music and not have to work at another job.
DBI: Have any other companies asked to use your music?
Hamilton: The Gap also asked us for our music. But, we said no.
DBI: What made the band choose Saturn and not the Gap?
Hamilton: The whole process with Saturn seemed to be far more innocent then with the Gap. Saturn came to us with the complete commercial and we only used a small part of our song. With the Gap, it seemed to be more about our image and not the music.


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158 Stepchild "Everything Sucks" + flux bindings
158 Stepchild "everything sucks" with large Pat Milbery pro Model bindings. It has normal camber and I would say about a medium flex. I only rode it half a season at Big Sky and it took me everywhere no problem from deep powder days to just cruising around the groomers. It has normal wear some scratches on the bottom as well as the bindings kind of scuffed up highback but it does nothing to affect performance. The board was babied and never misused and only taken into the park a couple times. The bindings are very light weight and have great ratchets they have never slipped or moved while riding Any other questions feel free to ask me. Throw me a offer
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