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Get an overview of this hotelArt Deco Prague hotel in Nove Mesto, near Old Town Square
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Located in Nove Mesto, this hotel is within a 15-minute walk of Antonin Dvorak Museum, Prague Dancing House, and Lucerna Arcade. Czech National Museum and Wenceslas Square are also within 15 minutes.
Hotel Features
This smoke-free hotel features a bar/lounge, 24-hour room service, and a business center. Free buffet breakfast and free WiFi in public areas are also provided. Other amenities include a meeting room, concierge services, and laundry facilities.
Room Amenities
All 14 rooms feature modern comforts like flat-screen TVs with satellite channels, plus free WiFi and free wired Internet. Other amenities available to guests include 24-hour room service, minibars, and coffee makers.
Guest Highlights
- Notably quiet, prime location
- Excellent breakfast
- Helpful staff
- Clean guestrooms
Hotel 16
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast each morning. A computer station is located on site and wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary.
Business-related amenities at this 4-star property consist of a business center and a meeting room. This Art Deco hotel also offers tour/ticket assistance, multilingual staff, and concierge services. For a surcharge, the property provides a roundtrip airport shuttle (available on request) and an area shuttle.
Hotel 16 is a smoke-free property.
- One meeting room
- Free WiFi
- Free breakfast
- 24-hour front desk
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Total number of rooms - 14
- Number of floors - 4
- Bar/lounge
- Concierge services
- Elevator/lift
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Computer station
- Free wired Internet
- Business center
- Luggage storage
- Laundry facilities
- Multilingual staff
- Parking (limited spaces)
- Offsite parking discounted rates available
- Year Built 1993
- Area shuttle (surcharge)
- Smoke-free property
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Free Wi-Fi
- Laundry facilities
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
Parking (limited spaces), Offsite parking discounted rates available
Room Amenities
- Room service (24 hours)
- Air conditioning
- Phone
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Free bottled water
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Bidet
- Shower only
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Desk
- In-room safe
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Satellite TV service
- Flat-panel TV
- Free WiFi
- Free wired Internet
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
- Free cribs/infant beds
Where to Eat
A complimentary buffet breakfast is served each morning between 7 AM and 10 AM.
24-hour room service is available.
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Up to 2 children 2 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for CZK 500 per stay.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Guests must contact this hotel in advance to reserve onsite parking. Please contact the office using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
- A tax is imposed by the city: CZK 15 per person, per night
Optional extras
- Airport shuttle fee: CZK 640 per vehicle (one way)
- Rollaway bed fee: CZK 500 per stay
Hotel Name
- 16 Hotel
- 16 Prague
- Hotel 16
- Hotel 16 Prague
We should mention
Up to 2 children 2 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding.
National Rating
Hotelstars Union assigns an official star rating for properties in Czech Republic. This property is rated 4 stars.


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Sheena Blackhall
A Kenspeckle Creel (24 Scots Poems) - Poem by Sheena Blackhall
I lue Glen Gairn at the skreich o day
Fin the dyew lies weet on the fen
An the mochy haar ower the broon peat glaur
Cooers oorie on brae an ben
The mist is mizzlin doon the howes
An eildrich's the larick's airm
As leirichie-larichie reeshlin saft
It fuspers a warlock's chairm.
I lue Glen Gairn in a snell foreneen
Fin the clouds are a cattie's hair
An the lift itsel is a salmon's back
Wi the sun-spirks hingin there
An a humphy-backit driver cloud
Comes caain the win alang
A drumly, gurly, growly win
A lowrin win, a soughin win
A furly, birly, snarly win
That's forcy, brashy, strang...
A reivin win, a nyitterie win
A nizzen win, an Easter
A howderin blinterin brak-neck win
That spears ye sair's a leister.
I lue Glen Gairn at the mids o day
Fin the sun is a din-skinnt cyard
A wattergaw, tween twa roch shooers
That birsles the peat-hags hard
Fin it's close an malmy an plottin hett
An ye swyte like a road new tarred
Oh, braw tae dowp on a grouse's seat
Fin the yoam frae the Glen's baith sherp an swete
An the warld an his wife's weel-faured.
I lue Glen Gairn in an efterneen
In the smirr o a growin shooer
Wi a wattergaw, far the hoodies blaw
A bow raxxed ower the stoor
I lue Glen Gairn at the gloamin time
Fin the thunner an lichtenin cracks
A splyter o weet, that's gey near sleet
Dings doon, fin the on-ding braks
Frae a spirk tae a spate, the lift's nae blate
Tae drook us wioot devaul
Tho it's coorse n' caul, the swackin swall
Is the linns an the burnies' maet.
I lue Glen Gairn in the pit-mirk nicht
Fin a pluffert o snaw doon-draps
A blatter o hailsteens, lowsed abune
The pine, dreeps doon in plaps
Tho it's stervin caul in the fite-oot smore
It's wersh ahin, blin-drift afore
An the meen is rikkin wi wintry hoar
Muir's saft, as mither's paps.
I lue Glen Gairn in the Teuchit storm
as weel as the Gab o Mey
Fin the Gowk Storm's dane, the simmer's gean
Trysts me far the larick's swey
I lue Glen Gairn at the Lammas tide,
at the hinneren an aa -
Be't wild an weet, be't saft an sweet,
be't snaw, or wattergaw!
2.Three Gulls
Three gulls, dowpit on a lum
Luikit affa glum, luikin fur a crumb.
Three gulls, dowpit on a lum
On a caul an frosty mornin
The first gull rugged a plastic pyock in twa
Efter things tae chaw
Tore the pyock in twa
The first gull rugged a plastic pyock in twa
On a caul an frosty mornin
The secunt gull stuck his bill inside a tin
Michty fit a din! Wisnae yon a sin?
The secunt gull stuck his bill inside a tin
On a caul an frosty mornin
The third gull cut his flipper on a glaiss
Michty, fit a mess! Bluid as ower the place!
The third gull cut his flipper on a glaiss
On a caul an frosty mornin
3.Cambus o May
Birks toss their silken boughs like lowse-tailed lammies
Lean ferns, like Celtic monks, screive fronds o scrolls
A thistle raxxes, straucht's a Lonach pikeman
A sma blue saltire, speedwell's flag, unfurls.
Salmony-pink slabs slidder neth the watter
A wavelet lowps, a liquid wing o tan
Doon in the deep pot's foun, the eels are steerin
The lang blaik puil, slides unner the Fite brig's span.
A fisher laddie plays a plappin trootie
The lift's adrift wi pearly doo-grey clouds
Fir, aik, an pine staun close... a merle's clachan
The win, a lullin mither, larick showds.
The creepie-crawlies in the girse hike hamewird
Ants treetle ben their heathery, hudderie gait
A wechtit bee, hip-pooches swalled wi eerins
Bizzes an braks the simmer gloamin's quate.
Gin my hairt war a quaich, I'd full't richt reamin
A Heilan scowf, frae Mar, tae Kinker's lee
Teem oot the cassies' stoor, the stank o city,
Takk aff a dram insteid, o caller Dee.
4. Highland Cataract: Linn o Dee
Watter an stane: it's the music they makk thegither
Jinglin crystal stringles o ice-bree dreeps
Treetlin ower the mirled face o a crag drap,
Jibblin doon tae the green linn's dimplin deeps.
Glisks o a shaddawy salmon, slawly steerin
Skelpin its muckle tail in the foun o a puil
Lirks o sunshine flashin abeen its ceilin
Brinkin bubbles link in the burnie's sweel
Lochans, licht, an linns, mell heich i the heather
A winsome waddin, yieldin the Dee as bairn
A rowany gypsy road the river raivels
Furled roon bappity braes o fir an cairn
Carved an cuttit, scoored an smeethed bi Winter
Black broos hackit an clawed bi Beltane's thaw
The crags o the Linn rise up, foriver sindered
Glower at each ither, ower a wattergaw
Sprintime's gift tae the glen is the green-gouned larick
Raxxin its tooshts o needles ben the air
Sap in the birk, an the greet frae a whaup's bill scalin
Trystin the reid-lugged squirrel frae its lair.
Tan and tawny, bronze an copper an pearl
A smush o roundit steenies spirked wi pink
Stipple the bank far the wash o the tummlin wafter
Cowps, a tuilzie o spray frae a boulder's brink.
Polar cauld is the wechtit wave's doonfaain
Glaiss-green bree wi the antrin snawy fleck
Caain the rikk tae rise frae the linn's blaick cauldron
Breengin on, like a rinawa shelt, brakk-neck.
Yon's the place tae be in the blearie gloamin!
A hinneycaimb o cliff an thunnerin spray
Wi the saft curmurrin croo o the cooshie dronin
A pibroch as its ain, tae the deein day.
My thochts dwell on Glen Gairn
Warm as a cushie doo her littlins happen
Welcome's a frien's neive at the door chap-chappin
Saft as the oo that kittlins takk an teaze
Faist as an arra lowsed frae a bow-string flees
Hidden's a brock fa's treisur's beeriet deep
Secret's an erne's lair on the come steep
Deep, as a mowdie cooryin in the yird
Lang as the raxxin pine showdin the cloudy bird
Pleisunt's the hinney-ale, hairsters drink tae the lees
Lichtsome's the bolt o sun, piercin the reeshlin trees
Sweet as the dew that draps frae the harebell's heid
Wad that my ilkie thocht brocht sic remeid!
6. The Monarch o the Glen
I'm the stag that posed for Landseer's famous pictur
Glued on tap o bottles, shortbreid, cake an toffee
In a hunner cafes frae Sky tae Embro toun
I'm the culture that they hing abune yer coffee
I'm the monarch o the glen... an institution
Like 'The Broons' or 'Jimmy Shand' or 'Burns's Sonnets'
I sproot sae mony pynts upon ma antlers
As a hatstand I cud haud a score o bonnets.
Here I staun, an OAP amang the heather
Wi the midgies an the tourists heezin roon
I'm negotiatin wi the Daily Record
Ower the rights tae sell my memoirs o John Broon
There's bin a cheenge or twa since Queen Victoria
Glesga hillwalkers wi hairy oxters bowfin
Drappin tins an tabbie dowpends like confetti
An I sweir tae God their heids are fairly lowpin.
My jynts are stiff wi posin in the peathags
Wi liniment they're cryin fur a grease
Oh it's nae an easy darg tae be a model
Gin ye wint tae be a famous masterpiece!
Noo the Frenchmen brag o Degas, Braque an Rousseau
An in Spain they've Dali... yon artistic Titan
Bit they canna haud a licht tae Landseer's peintin
I'm nae sae much a pictur... I'm an icon.
7. Auld Cailleach Frae Louis Aragon's poem 'Old Woman'
Yon auld cailleach
Fa traivels humfin a pyock o unspikkable trock
Draps a shadda like a ricktickle shelt.
Puir cuddy,
Her heid hings bi a wire.
Auncient philosophers tcyauved wi the notion
O whether sic craiturs ained an ayebydan sowel
Or nae sowel ava,
(Wi scarce a sowel thirsels, educatit chiels
Po-faced, clawed their croons aboot thon)
Mealie-moued deils, nooadays
Wi fine-soundin wirds
Wad caa ye their sister.
Auld cailleach,
Ye dinna ken o their cosie lee
Its umpteen thoosan miles
Frae yer swalled, wechty fitpreints
Trampit inno the dubs.
The truth plaps aneth yer stride
in yer sypin shadda rikkin o pish
Ye canna be saved.
Conseeder yon.
Three score year an ten
It's ower late.
Sax hunner year o thralldom ahin ye-
It's ower sune.
Oh the Deil fur fun, tuik the pepper frae a gun
An the claws frae a hoot-hoot-hootie
The neb frae a doo, syne he gart them stew
Rowed up in a dumplin clootie
Feech! Oot frae the pan, flew the auld widsman
Fa's kent as the capercailzie!
He wis soor as sin, wi a beard upon his chin
He wis nippy as a forkietailie!
His heid wis as sma, as a billiard baa
It wis stapt wi blitz an blethers
This cock o the North, gaed stridin forth
In a sark o spit an feathers.
Frae the China sea tae Killimanjee
Ye'd nae fin a waur ill natur
In a far flung airt, that wis fand in the hairt
0 this contermaschious craitur.
Deep in the mids o the oorie wids
He stravaiged like a ram-stam bantam
Like a bubblyjock, wi a fan fur a dock
Wi his birse fair up, he'd be rantin.
He'd rage an he'd ban, this Napoleon
0 the pines, wi his reid een flashin
Wi the Spring in his bluid, there'd be nocht in his heid
Bit his hens an the virr o his passion.
Like a hurlygush, he wad caa tae smush
Ony gowk in his road criss-crossin
`Tik up, tik up' he wad skreitch an hup
Wi his lugs, like the North Sea tossin.
He dined on pines wi his feathery quines
Fowk said he'd be far frae tasty
He wis rosity as peat an a teuch's a buit
An as coorse as a hedgehog pasty!
Ochone, ochree, come a dirdum dree
An American tourist sheeter
Gaed oot on a dive, far the midgies thrive
Wi a dram an a pirn-taed beater...
Syne oot frae the muir, in a cloud o stoor
In a rooze flew the capercailzie
Like a pyock o seed, he wis fulled wi leid
An the quills blawn aff his tailie.
They cairriet him doon, tae the fir trees foun
An the erne an the ptarmigan grat
His beak an his claws, war bequeathed tae the craws
An his breist-been chawed bi the cat
9.Gangrel Sleepin After the painting: The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau,
Her animus or guairdian?
Fa's tae ken?
Lion an leddy baith are twinned foreay
Gad-aboot breet / gangrel Bohemiënne.
Sic quate! Sic blessed peacefu quate!
The gangrel gypsy dwaums, her traivels deen.
Aneth a roon hairst meen
Glimmerin abeen a desert teem o steer,
Dunes rax intae the nicht
Saft, saft as clouds o oo,
Hyne frae the clash o warld's hashed mineer.
Her frock's a wattergaw
A linn o colours.
Skyrie strippit braws.
Aside her heid, a mandolin
(Yon sweet sang's wame)
It's secret music hides
Its harmonies. They're doverin like the quine.
A mild win blaws.
Aside her bowster
Gap-moued as a wallie
Catchin the meenshine
There's a wide-hoched pot o wine
Nae tracks lead
Tae the sleeper's sanny bed.
The milky meen hings still
Mysterie an Meenlicht meets in the peintit lift.
A lion, ripple-maned
Owerluiks the Gypsy lass
Much as a thrissle ower a violet teets
Twa Fauves, bi an artistic fancy tamed.
The prentit leid (cut frae its navel-towe, the tongue)
Is deed.
Is hauf-a-tale. Cauld kail.
A horse, wintin a cairt
Fin spikk frae spikker's ruggit hyne apairt
The twa pink shells that war my bairn-lugs
Catched an keepit the saftsome Doric 'wheesh'
It rippled ben them like a soughin sea
`Wheesht my wee sodjer... steek yer eenies ticht' `
Wheesht wis, IS and it will foriver be
Beardie an bosie. Turnin doon the licht
A closin curtain an a da's delicht.
A purrin, strokit cat
His guid-nicht `wheesht caimed aa day's taigles, flat.
I learned tae raxx his leid. Savour't alang my mou
Wye ilkie thocht. His wards, war deep an fyew
Inglis wis ten-a-penny. A chaip-John spikk that ony spurgie cheept
A quick claik, clippit close as a sheared yowe
An jist as eeseless 'gin the winter's snaws
That roon the Doric wirds, sae leal, sae richt, war there.
Inglis, wis Sabbath braws. Mither's pretensions
Cut glaiss in the mou and hypertensions
A tyrant leid, o bulldozer dimensions
Takk `Dreich' I howk it frae the yird
0 my first dreel. It rises blaik an bauld
A cauld steen o a wird.
`Dreich's' a car-haik hame, by dreepin birks
Braith rinnin doon the driver's windae pane
`Dreich' my da wid say. The soun hung fire
A littlin, wearie-eed, I'd luik ootbye.
The lift wis blae The coos war huddlit,
craws war drookit, wae.
'Dreich' gars me chitter yet.
First shark tae sweem, inno my memory's net.
This much I ken.
That `Dreich' is nae the same tae us
As tis tae ither men.
Fur we hae lived it, tholed it, sooked it in
Leid's nae a secunt skin
Raither a wye o thocht that bides wi'in
Wards arnae claes tae weir, tae shift, tae cheenge,
They're reeted. Screived in bluid
My ain, my kinsmen An my faither's leid
11. The Feel
`The time has come' the feel jeloused
`Tae spikk o mony things -
O mowser-mugs an galluses
O barley bigged in bings
0 snochrie geets an tatty reets
An scones on girdle rings.
`Those maun be aa' (I heard him craw)
`A Doric Fiddle's strings.'
`Her bards maun screive' (he threepit on)
`0 smachrie an sma beer
The Greeks may hae their shelt o Troy
For we hae shanks's meer
It's tacket buits... nae winged queats
A Doric muse maun weir.'
`Nae Henryson, bit strouds on Don
Nae Will Dunbar... bit Udny
Sing o a soo... the antrin coo...
0 chaulmer, tcyauve, or chunty
Sir David Lyndsey penned fur kings
We eulogeeze a grunty.'
`Sud Gavin Douglas rise again
He'd hae oor harns bamboozled! '
Quo he, syne gied his powe a dunt
Fur his wee thochts war toozled
An frae his heid, there drapt doon deid
A notion, malygruizled.
A snell win pinged the jester's bells
His lugs, it whussled ben
Fur there wis nocht tae haud it there
As teem's a guttit hen
A pitcher fu o styte an stew
As aa fa meet him ken.
Tho kail is canty, brose is braw
Sud Scots bide in the byre?
Be banned frae kirk, frae schule, frae wirk
Furl in a shrinkin gyre?
Be keepit in the stirkie's stag
It's mapamound entire?
The feel, sez 'Ay.' Gin HE'D his wye
(Eclectic as a stirk)
Oor Scots was schauchle, spinnle-shanked
Inno Nihil's pit-mirk!
12. Tarland Inspired by the painting 'Me and my Village' by the Russo-Jewish artist visionary Marc Chagall.
Tarlan. The roon hairst meen
Sens doon its siller rays fur it aleen.
Its weird Pict circle, kirk, its Bonspeil green.
The warld stops at the burn, the mairket staunce,
Cyards' Raw, the gowf coorse, a broon tattie dreel...
Dounside's reid kye ayont the littlins' squeel...
Banchory micht be as hyne awa as France!
The young fowk tryst an tuilzie
At village discos, show, or marquee daunce
Auld fowk swap claik at shoppies, ower a waa
Or staas o veggies in the village haa.
The crook o circlin knowes
(Blae Morven, Press n'Dye an Ledlilick
Mulloch an Mortlich) vrocht yon misty rikk
That reams ower barn an brae an heddery muir
They shepherd in a flock o sun-spirked clouds
Loud wi craws skreichin steer.
Deeside's grain granary's the sheepfauld o Cromar
Simmer nichts draw sweethairts tae the burn
The kirkyaird's sleepers, laired hard by the howff
Gently becam the yird they eesed tae turn.
Far randies gallivant, a gallus loon
Cowps up a whisky glaisse
Offers tae skelp a heid, kitties a kecklin quine
Syne quatened doon
He hyters on lowse shanks, unsteidy, hame...
A puckle lace screens switch... lang nebs powk roon.
A late-nicht ceilidh crummles inno aisse
A fiddler's mettled rant
Gaes sweetly soundin
Far broon pheasants gant.
The Sabbath briers wi wirkin claes rugged on
Fresh ironed sack lies toastin ower a cheer
A duntin heid is cleared wi tarry tea
A pechin collie sprauchles ower a fleer
On fifty fairms the nowt are sortit,
Rich rigs ring wi sang
`Roch tykes o Tarlan' sae the stories gyang
They're richt. The men hae virr, thir weemin, spunky blether
Dog rose an brummil, wedded weel thegither
Tarlan... fur sturdy lads an bonnie quines are thrang
An fell unchancy weather!
13. Anither Breed Anither Age
We are the same... bit nae the same
They're fremmit. Bairns, o a fey mither
Naethin we share... tae them, ae daud
0 grun's as guid as ony ither.
We are the same... bit nae the same
A ring o elfin green tae me
Brings tales o Wee Fowk steerin back
Tae them, yon's haiverin idiocy.
We are the same... bit nae the same
The Beltane dyew granminnie'd sain
I hauf-think yet's a magic cherm
Watter, tae them, is acid rain
We are the same... bit nae the same
I feel 1000 aeons auld
King o their warld is the machine
Clivver as clockwirk, an as cauld
We are the same... bit nae the same
Anither breed. Anither age
Gloamin tae me is glamourie
Life wioot mystery's, a cage!
14. The Gudeman's Craftie
The Gudeman's Craftie wis a bield
Grown oxter-deep wi nettle bings
A muir-moch's reest... an aidder's booer
A hame fur ootlinned, oorie things.
Auld Clootie's neuk, noo delled an plooed
Yields a wersh crap o nerra meisur
The Gudeman keepit open hoose...
We steek the yett on Natur's treisur
The wild an winsome weir awa
An wi them, muckle pith an pleisur.
15. A Meen Rune (Traditional Gaelic, here set inno Scots)
Fin I teet at the New Meen
It behoves me tae heist ma ee
It behoves me tae ben ma knee
It behoves me tae boo ma heid
I reeze oot yer praises,
Meen o Wyceness
Sin I've gIen ye anither gley
Sin I've seen ye, New Meen
Bonnie Heich-Yin abeen the wye,
Mony hae left the warld
In the time atween the twa meens
Tho I ay enjoy the yird
Ye Meen o Meens an o Blessins.
16. Daunce o the Genes
She wyled her guidman. Sax fit twa
He wyled his wummin. Fair, an sma
Syne chuse a hame tae keep his bride
A car. A hinneymeen Stateside
Opted tae plan their progeny
Plenished their hoose maist eidently.
Culled the decor frac 'Vogue, ' wi thocht
Their likins stamped on aa they bocht
Decidin efter five years grace
They'd like a bairn aboot the place.
Nine month they wyted. On the nail
The bairn wis born. Hairty, hale
A pertrick in the barley patch
It grew intae a nesty vratch
Waesuck... the scrapins o the pot
A muckle, coorse, genetic blot.
Ye chuse yer trock... bit nae yer kin
Gowd pendles, whyles, drap tooshts o tin
Is it yer weird... or callous chaunce
That heids the generations daunce?
17. Daunce o the Years
Anery twaery spins the twine
Ooto the cradle lowps the quine
Fiddlum faddlum swack's a swaw
Swippert's a puddock an saft's the snaw
Thethery blethery meenlicht's pale
She's as curved as an aidder's trail
Aremy faremy spinnly silk
Breist's as fate as a yowie's milk
Zinty tintv divverry: lover
Grown as grait as a stirk in clover
Stoorum stibblum thirty saxt
The sonsie may is jizzen raxxed.
Eenertv, feenerty, gristly grist
Doon the brae an inno the kist
Furly birly rins the gird
Stoor gaen back tae Mithir Yird!
18. The Birlin Years Jan 1995
In jizzen-bed, life's kinnelt like a spunk
Spirkit wi bluid as reid's a cockerel's caimb
A skirlin skirp o virr's a mannikie
Cast, weety frae the pit-mirk o the wame.
A littlin's bit a bank o new-faan snaw
A drift the warld will set its fitmerks ower
As the derk loch's the starnies' keekin glaiss
His een takk in baith lauch, an angeret glower
Bairnhood sud be a kittlin's kecklin purr
A thrapple fu o thrums
Sweet meadow far the bummer haiks an hums
Whyles, it's a hungeret tcyauve, in clarty slums.
A halflin is a tousie cloud o rikk
Caad tapsalteerie bi the win o chaunce
A time o sex an swither Masquerade.
Gaun widdershins, wrang-fittin ilkie daunce.
Manhood's a meen afore the quarter's wane
A creamy kebbuck moosies circle roon
A mill wheel birlin ben the biggin years
The lovely, lang-shanked flooerin o a loon.
Auld Eild's a doonhill sled gaun heigh-ma-nannie
Rigwiddie... a cauld, dottled, pyock o beens
The verra craws takk scunner tae flap ower
Stringle o watter, on a bedd o steens.
19. Elly Broon
Elly bides far the toun's kirk steeples soar
Her neebors? The Northern Lichts an a pirn-taed doo
Skyscrapers rise like gravesteens aside her door
Mair tidemerks roon her bath than the QE2
Gaps in her teeth-as mony's a bandstaun railin
The gas in the flat is aff. There's a Polar breeze
Elly bides wi her gran far the planes gyang sailin
Alane wi her sookin-cloot an a kink-hoast wheeze.
The leein box in the neuk shows hames wi plenty
A da, a ma, twa bairns an a gairden neat,
Wi a catty, roon's a barrel, fite an deintie;
In Elly's kitchie the moosies sit an greet.
Monday mornin. Brakfast's a broken bikky
Doon in the lift that peintit like a Sioux
Scraunin the bins fur pieces, back o the chippy
Far Billy McGinty's da lies rot-gut fu.
Aff tae the skweel, far Miss McBain is wytin
(Miss McBain wi her nails aa buffed an reid)
`Elly-yer late. Nae homewirk dane. Yer writin
Luiks like a raw o spiders lyin deid.'
Ben 'Dictation', Elly's heid is noddin
Hard bi the radiator's cosy guff
Dwaums o a TV cat, in its furry cleddin
Its bowlie fu, a spyled baa o fluff.
Twinty hoasts an the bell, brakk throw her dwaumin.
'Hae ye nae hame tae ging tae Elly Broon? '
Ootbye, a doonpish sets the litter sweemin -
The skweel is scalin the classies ben the toun.
Mebbe granny'll win the pot at bingo!
Mebbe her da's come back, tae takk her hame!
Elly opens the door... excitement risin...
Tea's on the table. Breid n' jam again.
20. The Gollach Gang
Ca cannie in the jungly girse - there, creepy crawlies heeze
Doon far the horny-gollachs bide, the slaters tak their ease
The muggers o the gairden, midgies, mob in coorse profusion
They lurk ahin the weeds, tae smash'n grab a bluid transfusion
The wyver biggs its scaffoldin - a multi-storey lair
She plavvers in cadavers, like ony Burke 'n Hare
A forkietail gaes clankin by, a tank frae ooter space
Antennae far his lugs sud be - an fur his heid, a mace.
Wasps in their strippit semmits sikk tae stab ye in the queats
A minnie-mony-feet rins aff - a monster, mang the breets
The flees are doon-'n-oots, ye find them, powkin roon the midden
The phantom o the docken leaf, the wee clock-bee is hidden.
The leddylanners, reid as rouge, are peintit tae the nines
The butterflee's a buddin ghaist - a flappin shroud fa dwines
The ettercaps are smugglers in the heather-hinny sector
A bummer is a hijacker - a reiver, in the nectar.
The Daddylanglegs wauchts aboot - a fankle i his legs
He's spinnly, he's treelipy - a bogle-fu o flegs
Ca cannie in the jungly girse - there's mair nor sooricks there
The hale jing bang - the Gollach Gang - micht catch ye unaware!
21. The Cat's Pyjamas
Ma's awa tae a hen nicht...
A cluck o quinies claikin
Will she win back hame,
wi a beak an camb
Efter her meenlicht raikin?
Da's awa tae a stag nicht
Will he staun in the street an roar?
If he jynes the breed wi horns on its heid
Will we let him back ower the door?
Da says I ett like a grumphy
Ma says I've the sense o a flee
Gran says I'm the cat's pyjamas
Bit I say I'm jist me!
22.The Reid Flannel Sark owersett of a poem by C Shiang-hua
Takkin her man's swyty reid flannel sark,
Cannily, a wife scoors it clean,
Hings it aneth the windae tae dry.
The saftness o the cloot,
The fineness o the wyve
Its hue o crammosie wine
Its glimmer o amber quaichs
An the trim she wis in fin she bocht it fur him
A day, a month, a year,
Aa owercam's her.
The saftness, rochened,
The ticht wyve, raxxed.
The fineness, cheenged
Tae nyittery repetition
An the heidy delicht
0 crammosie wine an amber quaichs
Fermented inno budgets,
Hame computers, eerins,
Peels - the scunnerin, obleegatory deceesions.
The reid flannel sark hingin oot in the foreneen air
Efter anely a fyew oors
Is aathegither dry
Leavin nae dreeps on the grun.
A cheil an his wife
Are like watter, evaporatin inno the win
A thirled twasome, melled
Tae dree the weird
0 their lang lives,
23. Hairst owersett o the poem Harvest by the Greek poet Dionysis Serras,
Lugs boo
In the foremaist win
reeshlin gow
the sun steeps
larik yowies
the meen in the bog
an aisse-blaik lizard
cheenged tae siller
bricht watter
fite wings
lie mirrored
a stane sinks
kerfuffled cloud
crammosie gloamin
draps licht
onno fite flooers
chittered leaf
a nyaakit snailie dovers
pine needles
full meen
siller cleddin
an almond
tree twig in a teem glaiss
ye speir aboot spring?
Snaw-fite trees
in the knots
simmer faulds
24. This is the Hoose Jack Biggit
This is the hoose Jack biggit
This is the chiel
That bedd in the hose Jack biggit
This is the chiel
That merriet a wife
That bore a bairn
That bedd in the hoose Jack biggit
This is the hoose Jack biggit
This is the chiel
That gaed tae wark
Tae keep the wife
That bore him a bairn
That bedd in the hoose Jack biggit
This is the hoose Jack biggit
This is the chiel
That needit a dram
Tae thole his life
Wi his lovin wife
That bore him a bairn
That bedd in the hoose Jack biggit
This is the hoose Jack biggit
This is the chiel
That thrashed the bairn
(the innocent bairn that did nae hairm)
That bedd in the hoose Jack biggit
This is the hoose Jack biggit
This is the bairn
That grew tae a man
That tuik him a wife
Tae share his life
That bore him a bairn
(an innocent bairn that did nae hairm)
That he'd thash an thraw
Jist like his da
That bedd in the hoose Jack biggit.
This is the hoose Jack biggit….
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text: Stock markets are getting sloppy and appear rolling over. I've posted plenty of warnings about this given "normally" reliable DeMark monthly chart readings. Coincidentally it's curious these indicators present themselves as the Fed is winding down QE2 ("they say") next month and when the "sell in May and go away" maxim is present. Previous stock market rallies have been propelled higher on ultra-light volume following heavy Fed liquidity injections (POMO) to Primary Dealers. These rallies have been met by comparatively higher volume sell-offs masking deteriorating conditions. Evidently, the weaker dollar combined with liquidity injections has been bullish as multinational company earnings swell as a result. Brief dollar rallies, such as Friday, have caused sell-offs. Higher risk sectors, whether commodities or emerging markets have paid the heaviest price given intraweek volatility. Some signs of a rollover are present with talk of stagflation and increased volatility in commodity markets. The latter have been especially manipulated to suit some purpose known only to insiders since the statement from the CME below is baloney: "Margins are set as part of the neutral risk management services we provide. They aren't a means to move a market one way or another, or to encourage or discourage participation from one kind of market participant or another. Rather, margin is one of many risk management tools that help us assess overall portfolio risk to protect market participants and the market as a whole." Kim Taylor, CME We suspect the phrase "protect market participants" includes, in this instance, some large banks heavily short silver that were being squeezed. And, that's just the beginning of the potential suspects. Despite all the volatility most market sectors closed the week flat which reinforces the notion that it truly is, even excluding congress, the greatest show on earth. Stock sectors with the highest betas or volatility (EMs, BRICs, Small Caps and so forth) experienced the greatest losses on Friday while stodgier sectors (Consumer Staples) were less affected. Volume was a little heavier than on recent days but still lower than Thursday. I guess some of Day Boyz headed to the Hamptons early. Breadth per the WSJ was quite negative. You can follow our pithy comments on twitter and join the conversation with me on facebook. Continue to U.S. Sector, Stocks & Bond ETFs


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Regional Reviews: Cleveland & Akron
One Night with Janis Joplin
"Queen of rock 'n' roll" and "Queen of the Blues" are titles that have been bestowed on Janis Joplin (1943-1970). The life-force of the Port Arthur, Texas, native returns to the stage in One Night with Janis Joplin, which is playing in the Allen Theatre, Cleveland Playhouse, PlayhouseSquare, Cleveland, through August 29, 2012.
One Night with Janis Joplin evokes the spirit and sound of the famous singer. The script was created, written and directed by Randy Johnson. Audience members must remember this production is a play, with a written script and several cast members. On the night I saw the production, some audience members thought they were attending a concert and called out the names of their favorite Joplin hits. The script is structured with Joplin (Mary Bridget Davies) telling the story of her life in monologues that thoughtfully fit between her singing various songs that were her successes. On a screen on the up-stage wall, photographs are projected of Joplin at various points in her life.
The character named The Blues Singer (Sabrina Elayne Carten) represents Aretha Franklin and Nina Simone, two of Joplin's idols. On occasions, Carten sings as herself. She has a powerful voice and a strong stage presence. Finally, three background vocalists sing as a trio and, sometimes, sing alone. An eight-piece band accompanies the singers.
Mary Bridget Davies plays Joplin. She has the Joplin soundrough, ragged, energetic and emotionaland evokes Joplin with help from the costumes and wigs. In the final scene, she makes an entrance down a flight of stairs, wearing a Joplin-esque costume, including a red feather boa anchored in her long hair.
The singers and instrumentalists bring the Joplin era to life. This is an excellent, must-see production for those who remember this iconic singer's performances. Those who missed the Joplin years will get a major education, spending a night with Janis Joplin.
Justin Townsend (scenic and lighting designer) has created an intriguing set. A large platform is covered with carpets and decorated with table lamps. The band is on a second platform that moves in and out to join the carpeted platform. On stage left is a sofa, where Joplin sits to tell the story of her life in the monologues. The proscenium is surrounded with ruffled gray material (chiffon, perhaps), which is probably to represent the smoke that may have floated up from the audience and/or the performers.
The 2011 world premiere of One Night with Janis Joplin was produced and performed at Portland Center Stage, Portland, Oregon.
One Night with Janis Joplin, through August 19 in the Allen Theatre at Cleveland Play House. Ticket Information: 216-795-7000. After the show completes its run in Cleveland, it will move to the Arena Stage, Washington, D. C., where it is scheduled to play September 28 through November 4, 2012.
The 2012-2013 season of The Cleveland Play House will include Lombardi (September 14 October 2012), The Whipping Man (November 225, 2012), A Carol for Cleveland (November 30 December 23, 2012), The Devil's Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith (February 15 - March 10, 2013), Good People (March 22 April 14, 2013) and Rich Girl (April 19 - May 12, 2013).
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- I really love animals.
- I hate cilantro, celery and food that wiggles! Jell-oooeeeww
- I think dragonflies are beautiful.
- I can not stand Kim Kardashian, the lamest person alive.
- I am always on time.
- I absolutely love blasting music and singing at the top of my lungs while taking a shower.
- Three things I hate doing more than anything: having a haircut,
running and carrying things.
- It always hurts seeing people cry.
- I love Meryl Streep, I wish I knew her.
- I love to cook. I make really mean mussels.
- Centipedes make my skin crawl, sooo gross. I also have fear of heights.
- I have insomnia and I hate it.
- I love board games and ping pong.
- When I have a new favorite song, I listen to it over and over and over again, untill I literally can't listen to it anymore.
- I love when thinking of a last night's date puts a smile on my face.
- I think David Sedaris is really funny.
- I am a big hypochondriac.
- I love shoes!
- Imitation of Life is one of my all time favorite movies. I saw it when I was 10 and I think I cried for 2 days.
- I am really good with numbers but somehow I'm dyslexic when 7 and 9 are next to each other.
- I will never let anyone hurt me again.
The Hours, The Tin Drum, Imitation of Life, As Good As It Gets, Best In Show, Amadeus, Capote, Chocolat, Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?, The Others, WALL-E...
Gossip, Hot Chip, Fujiya & Miyagi, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Yelle, Depeche Mode, INXS, Alison Moyet, The Beatles, Paris Combo...
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Open Mouths, Open Minds
"In those days artistic success was not dollar driven," Bob Neuwirth once said of the early 1960s scene. "If you had something to say, [that] was the way people were rated." Though not the prevailing litmus test here in The Twenty-Worst Century, some continue to demand more than lowest common denominators. And so it is with Neuwirth. The painter, sculptor, filmmaker, musician and bon vivant is always provocative. While his current retrospective Overs & Unders: Paintings by Bob Neuwirth, 1964 â⬓ 2009 continues at Track 16, tonight he'll exercise his skills as thinker, raconteur and wit and submit to questions from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Felton in a public conversation. For those in desperate need of smart, here's an oasis. Track 16 Gallery, Bergamot Station, 2525 Michigan Ave., Bldg. C1, S.M.; Tues., June 7, 8 p.m.; $20. Pre-reception with Neuwirth and Felton from 6:30 to 7:30; $95. Net proceeds support Southern California Public Radio, KPCC 89.3. 310-264-4678, http://www.livetalksla.org/uncategorized/bob-neuwirth-in-conversation-with-david-felton-2/.
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20 Best Fantasy Baseball Tools
The regular NFL season is over so that means the fantasy football season is over and the fantasy baseball season has begun. Sure, some of you might play fantasy basketball and some of you even play fantasy hockey (at least our Canadian readers), but for most of us, the end of fantasy football season means the beginning of fantasy baseball season. During the winter, its time to start doing your general research to prepare for your fantasy baseball draft. Just like a baseball player who sticks to his off-season workouts, the work you do now will pay off when your fantasy baseball draft begins. Here, from Fantasy Baseball Dugout, are the best resources for your off-season fantasy baseball research. Magazines — In the Winter, the first baseball and fantasy baseball magazines hit your favorite newsstands. They are fun to...Read More
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It's what you've been waiting for. We are now releasing the official Fantasy Baseball Dugout video which promotes our fantasy baseball tips and our Baseball's Hottest Wives...Read More
BallparkBob's Top 100 Sports Movies
Based on the phenomenal success of BallparkBob's Top 50 Baseball Movies, which was picked up by ESPN and NESN to name a few, BallparkBob introduces BallparkBob's Top 100 Sports Movies of all-time. What makes for a good sports movie? A movie with a memorable line that people still quote today is an important criteria. "Yo, Adrian!" Then, there's the movie that puts a lump in the throat of even the toughest of guys. It's the lump in the throat of a man that only could occur in a sports flick. Think Brian's Song, Field of Dreams, or Rudy. As for sequels, I look for the entire series as a whole. So, no points off for Rocky V. I do have preferences. I love all sports, but I really love baseball. I am also partial to color so some of...Read More
OBI% Clutch Hitters in World Series
If you are the National League representative in the World Series, the guys you don't want to face are Josh Hamilton and Vladimir Guerrero. No surprise there. Hamilton had a OBI% of 19.4%, good for sixth in the MLB this year amongst players with at least 486 plate appearances. Guerrero was not far behind at 18.8%. The guy in the Rangers lineup that you do want to face in a runners on base situation? Elvis Andrus at 10.4%. About 13-14 is the average for MLB hitters so use that as a judge of a hitters ability to knock in runners on base. Here's a look at the World Series and NLCS players and their OBI% for the 2010 season. Rangers Josh Hamilton — 19.4% Vladimir Guerrero — 18.8% Nelson Cruz — 17.6% Mitchell Moreland — 15.0% Ian Kinsler —...Read More
OBI%: The Stat that SHOULD be Used in Fantasy Baseball
Don't blame Carlos Gonzalez for the Colorado Rockies demise this year. When it comes to driving in runs with runners on base, Gonzalez did his job. "Others Batted In Percentage," or OBI%, is a stat that measures the rate at which batters drive in runners on base, given the opportunities presented. It's a far more realistic stat than RBI given that not every hitter enjoys the same opportunities to create an RBI. Come up to bat with the bases empty and there's only a chance for an RBI if you belt one out of the yard. Twenty years ago, nobody really knew about WHIP either. Today, you'll find a WHIP rating for all pitchers in the MLB.com listings. And, it's not just fantasy players that care about WHIP; managers and general managers care about WHIP too. It's become a great tool for...Read More
Fantasy Baseball Considerations for Commissioners
Being the commissioner of a fantasy baseball league is not an easy task. The hours are long. You often manage a bunch of crybabies. And, the pay: it sucks. Hopefully, you'll have the rules laid out so that there aren't any disputes during the season that you have to rule on, but there's always one guy looking for a loophole in the rules to take advantage of. Of course, it is a game of points so why shouldn't managers look for ways to maximize their points. It's up to you to create a set of rules that attempts to cover every possible situation that arises. Not easy. Here are some of the decisions a commissioner needs to make when starting a league. PLAY FOR MONEY OR NOT? I always believe its a good idea to have a cash prize. ...Read More


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- Gwyneth Paltrow hawks hotels now. [Lainey Gossip]
- Audrina Patridge invited to the premiere of Avatar. — I don't get it. [PopEater]
- Adrianne Curry riding a mechanical bull. [DrunkenStepfather: Site is NSFW]
- Tiger Woods is forced to sleep on his million dollar yacht. HAVE YOU NO SOUL, ELIN?! [Celebslam]
- Rihanna debuts "Hard." [Just Jared]
- Chris Henry of the Cincinatti Bengals learned a valuable about jumping into moving vehicles: Don't. [The Blemish]
- Pink criticizes Britney Spears for lip-syncing because no one told her it's not nice to insult the mentally challenged. Retard. [Betty Confidential]
- Rebecca Gayheart should probably not make a sex tape anytime soon. For humanity's sake. [Splash News]
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The San Francisco Police Commission voted unanimously to approve the placement of 25 security cameras throughout the city Wednesday night despite an outpouring of public sentiment that surveillance would violate privacy rights.
The approval, which carried with it a number of amendments and stipulations, came after nearly five hours of comment from a vivid cross section of residents from the city's Mission, Tenderloin and South of Market neighborhoods.
And though the more than 50 speakers who shared their thoughts with the commission gave varying reasons for their thoughts, the sentiments came down to only two passionate positions: no or yes to the installation of surveillance equipment in high crime areas.
"Government invasion is already at an all-time high and this technology can be abused," said Vincent Pan, executive director of Chinese for Affirmative Action. "Public safety is of the utmost importance, but we can do better than this."
Pan echoed the sentiments of several opponents that choosing "high crime areas" such as the intersection of 16th and Mission streets would unfairly target poor and minority residents of the city.
"We're against the cameras because the benefits are not proven, and the costs, historically, have been borne by minority communities," he added.
Allen Nance, who recently handed in his resignation as director of the mayor's office of criminal justice, reiterated a presentation that he made in November in support of the cameras.
Thursday Jan 18th, 2007 9:20 AM
You have no expectation of privacy in public.
No one is "chilling" your right to "protest". (Actually, most of don't care about your protests...they are just part of the wallpaper here).
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Smoked Trout Tostadas
At Enchantment Resort, Kevin Maguire makes his own crackers using blue corn flour and crushed red pepper; store-bought baked tortilla chips are a fine substitute.
Slideshow: Amazing Seafood Recipes
- Servings: 8
- One 6-ounce smoked trout fillet, skinned and flaked into small pieces
- 2 plum tomatoes—halved, seeded and finely chopped
- 1/2 Hass avocado, finely chopped
- 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
- Salt and freshly ground pepper
- 2 dozen baked blue corn chips
- 1 tablespoon snipped chives
How to make this recipe
In a medium bowl, combine the trout, tomatoes, avocado and lime juice and toss gently. Season with salt and pepper. Spoon the mixture onto the corn chips and sprinkle with the chives. Serve immediately.
Three Tostadas Calories 82 kcal, Total Fat 4.5 gm, Saturated Fat 0.9 gm.
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In developing the plan, Telstra asked to be released from providing regulated access to its network. In response, the Coalition government began a process to in effect tender for regulatory reform. The Labor Party proposed a national broadband network partnership between industry and government.
All Telstra had achieved was to guarantee that, yet again, its future was hostage to political outcomes.
A national debate had been initiated about network needs for higher-speed broadband.
Telstra then overplayed its hand on the first NBN proposal and the Labor government proceeded to its fibre-to-the-home NBN plan. Telstra's shareholders are now, most simply, confronted by a choice between voting for the resolution to implement its agreements with the NBN, or voting to make the company's future again subject to political outcomes.
There are two fundamental reasons why voting for the proposals is preferable to any offered alternative. The first is the necessity for structural change. The second is the opportunity for growth. Without the resolutions, Telstra can no longer support its submitted structural separation undertaking to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. It will be immediately confronted with the need to implement functional separation and be excluded from acquiring further spectrum. The expert report values these at $3.5 billion.
Ron Gilbert (Opinion, October 13) suggested that Telstra could avoid these costs by its own structural separation. Coalition communications spokesman
The presumption that the separated network business would compete with the NBN is probably also erroneous. The separated copper business would find in the long run that the only way to compete with fibre to the premises is fibre to the premises. The separated business would seek its own agreement with NBN Co. Any other future for the separated network business, under a policy without the NBN, faces a capital problem. The business does not generate enough internal funds for a rapid upgrade of the network.
The structural separation of Telstra's business is best achieved progressively as a new fibre-to-the-premises network is built on new capital investment. That is the proposition before shareholders.
Structural separation has more to offer Telstra than responding to political imperatives; it will free management to become customer rather than network focused. The Hawke government merged Telecom Australia and OTC because it expected competition from large overseas telcos and wanted to create an opportunity for the merged Australian entity to do the same in other markets.
That has not been the way it worked out. Globally, large telcos have been mostly unsuccessful in entering new markets. Telstra, as a retail operation unencumbered by the access network, will finally have the opportunity to develop the skills it needs to be a successful entrant in other markets. Voting for the resolutions will make Telstra no longer captive to domestic politics and provide organisational reform to free up capital for network upgrades and growth opportunities.
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Straus Orders Examination of State Agency Spending
Teas House Speaker Joe Straus is proposing an unprecedented examination of the operations of key state government departments, what he calls a Strategic Fiscal Review, Newsradio 1200 WOAI reports.
Straus is urging Texas House budget writers to examine state agencies responsibilities, costs, and operating practices, to see 'whether they could carry out their missions with fewer employees and resources.'
"This process will allow legislators and agencies to have a needed conversation about the role of government, the use of taxpayer dollars, and the priorities that we set as a state," Straus said. "It's a more comprehensive approach that will give legislators better information to use when making budget and policy decisions."
The first agency to be examined, interestingly, will be the Governor's Office, which will be changing hands in January. Other agencies under the microscope include the Department of Public Safety, TxDOT, and the Public Utility Commission.
"By starting withy a small number of important and visible agencies, we are taking the first step in a larger process of more closely evaluating how every taxpayer dollar is used," Straus said. "Our experience with these agencies will help the House expand SFR to other areas of state government in the near future."
Straus says taxpayers demand 'fiscal restraint' in government operations.


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I had some idea before that men and women had a somewhat different worldview (men focus on stuff in a scene whereas women tend to take the whole scene in) but the revelations in this article are mind blowing! Does this mean that guys who get nauseous from viewing 3D or virtual reality have some sort of male hormone deficiency??? Could be a great way to diagnose this problem.


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Texas Tops Seattle 9-2 - Recap
Texas moneyline bettors cashed on Monday courtesy of a 9-2 win against the Seattle Mariners at Rangers Ballpark.
Texas was favored by -235 and came through for bettors backing them. The game went OVER the consensus closing total of 9.5.
Matt Harrison earned the victory for the Rangers, throwing 7 innings of work, striking out 6, walking 0, and allowing 5 hits and 2 earned runs. That effort was supported by 2 RBIs from Nelson Cruz in the win.
Seattle got a 4-inning outing from Charlie Furbush in the loss. He gave up 6 earned runs, 4 walks and 8 hits in his time on the mound, while Jack Wilson had 2 hits in the loss for the Mariners.
Texas outhit their counterparts 15-6 in the game.


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18 Bloggers have joined me this month to share Disney inspired projects, recipes, tips, and more! I will be posting 3 or 4 times each week so be prepared for lots of posts! I will direct you to their blogs to see their fun posts. I hope you take some time to check them all out!
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Andrew Cuomo, who this morning accepted the Democratic nomination to run for governor at Hilton Rye Town in Rye Brook, went downstairs after his speech where friends, family and supporters greeted him, took pictures and wished him well.
Reporters, of course, took the opportunity to ask him about his message and wanted to know how he would reform Albany.
In an impromptu press conference of sorts, he addressed state finances, charter schools and voter anger. The question, as Cuomo put it, is "where do you go with that anger?"
"The good news is people are engaged," he said. "You have people's attention."
That attention may help in lawmakers efforts to enact fiscal discipline and controls, which Cuomo said are necessary at this time. That discipline might mean cuts to education and health care because that's where the money is — raising taxes and borrowing weren't the answers, he said.
"I'm not going to raise taxes," he said.
Here's about 8 minutes of audio from the session, which includes a tune from Journey in the background.


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Discussion in 'Sports Zone' started by jcollins28, Jun 25, 2013.
More than any other school in the Country.
congrats to UCLA.
they need to add a football title to that count
That would be kind of hard considering that the NCAA does not award Championships for Football.
Although I'm a USC fan myself, I gotta give it to the UCLA Baseball team this year seeing as how a friend of mine from high school was their starting short stop. Pat Valakia also got picked up by the rockies in the 9th, really happy for him, but damn he had to get picked up by the Rockies haha. Hope he makes it!
Nice job in Wichita by the Bruins.
That small ball approach works perfectly in that new stadium--especially now that they still use a giant stadium with wind blowing in coupled with The new, duller bats and the duller college ball. It's extremely difficult to hit the ball out of that place.
That UCLA overall athletic program has always been strong. Lots of top 5 and top 10 finishes in the all-sports trophy.
football was one of the team sports on the list.


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UNC announced Sunday afternoon that point guard Kendall Marshall will not play in the Tar Heels' Elite Eight matchup vs. Kansas.
Marshall fractured his right wrist last Sunday in the Tar Heels' win against Creighton and underwent surgery on Monday.
He returned to UNC practice on Saturday, but did not participate in any contact drills.
"The first two times we went up the court, doing the warm-up drill, I was going as fast as I could," Marshall said Saturday. "I was out of breath, and I was, like, 'I've got to slow down. We've still got a full practice ahead of us.' Sitting down for six days straight, not being able to do anything, that's been frustrating. It felt good just to get out there and move around.
"I definitely felt the pain, but there's going to be pain there for the next six weeks. It's just a matter of how much I can take."
Here's what UNC coach Roy Williams had to say Saturday about the decision to play Marshall:
"Now," Williams said, "we want to see if it bothers him or if it pains him or if it swells up or if his toes curls or whatever happens next. And then (Sunday) at (the) shoot-around, we'll try to probably do the same thing.
"And then, there's two things that have to happen. One, he has to feel comfortable that he's not hurting. And then two, I have to decide: Can he be effective in the game with his situation?"
Looks like at least one of the answers was no.
Freshman Stilman White will start in Marshall's place. White started Friday's game against Ohio.
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Living Your Life in a Goldfish Bowl
1985 John Alexander Born: Beaumont, Texas 1945 oil on canvas 90 1/8 x 120 in. (228.9 x 304.8 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of United Stationers, Inc. 1995.70.1 Not currently on view
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The tangle of brushstrokes in Living Your Life in a Goldfish Bowl brings to mind the clotted, suffocating density of swamps in John Alexander's native Texas. The goldfish bowl represents life's generalized paranoia and viciousness, as well as the specific pressures of his career. This painting captures the dark humor of a man who says that artists, like "thieves and hoodlums," earn their living after midnight. Alexander admits that the scale of his paintings contributes to the anxiety he experiences in the studio, where he veers between pride and doubt. When he isn't painting, he watches the great blue herons waiting to snap up the koi from his pond, and thinks of his critics' judgments: "Try opening up on the canvas, pour yourself into it, and then let 300 to 400 people come in and reject you or praise you."
Exhibition Label, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2006
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The Indian River Photo Club holds "Awards" submissions and judgements which take place at each of the ten monthly meetings at two levels of ability, "A" for mature or professional photographers and "B" for novice or less practiced photographers.
Members are encouraged to enter photographs taken by them under a selected theme that changes each month. The members submissions are also grouped under three categories: Color, Monochrome and Special Techniques. A member may enter two photographs, one in each of two of the three categories at his/her level. They must be mounted or matted. No frames. Minimum photo size is 8 x 10 ins. The maximum entry size, including the mat, is 16 x 20 ins and the mat may ONLY be black or white in color and should be 16" x 20".
Each member may may submit one photograph in each of the three categories at his/her level of ability.
Judging is undertaken by invited judges who have proven their skills in the art of photography and may be accompanied by an intern.
Award ribbons are given for first, second, and third places as well as honorable mentions for those that do not quite achieve a higher placing but meet the criteria of the judges as being worthy of consideration.
All photographs that receive an award must be submitted to the newsletter for inclusion in its next edition with in five (5) days of the awards club meeting. Awards will be high lighted on the club's web site. All awards photographs will also be documented in the Annual Club Catalogue. They will then be eligible for consideration for the "Best Photograph of The Year Award" which is judged at the Annual General Meeting of the club on the first Thursday in December.
Club Monthly Awards themes for 2016 & 2017
As a member of the Florida Council of Camera Clubs the Indian River Photo Club members are entitled and encouraged to enter in the annual Print and Digital competitions sponsored by the F3C.
Over the past several years the club membership has scored very highly in these challenging State wide competitions, ranking our club skills amongst some of the best in the State of Florida.
We suggest members monitor the F3C web site (click above) and actively participate in the Print and Digital competitions. Also see and read the new rules as of January 2015.
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For many years the Indian River Photo Club has promoted, sponsored and organized a photographic print exhibition and competition at the Vero Beach Museum of Art. This is the premier photo competition in Indian River County and attracts photographers from throughout the area.
The competition is a Juried Competition and takes place during the month of December. All photographers living in the area are encouraged to enter and entry is not limited to IRPC Club Members. Winners photographs (1st, 2nd. 3rd. and Honorable Mention) will be featured in a spring edition of the Vero Beach Magazine.
The annual Museum exhibit is managed by Club Director Mike Ricciardi a world renowned photographer noted for his amazing underwater photography.
The Indian River photo Club is a member of the Photographic Society of America.
The PSA offers access to many competitions through out the world and it is suggested that all club members join the PSA. It is a world wide association with many benefits for the active photographer.
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Jessica Alba is trying to bring her daughters' Mexican roots into family life, because they're surrounded by Hollywood pals.
The actress grew up surrounded by her family's rich heritage, but she admits it's tough reminding her daughters Honor and Haven where they came from.
Everybody loves a summer holiday and Jessica Alba loaded up her husband Cash Warren and kids Honor and Haven and headed out to Orlando on Friday (June 26).
The "Awake" actress and her adorable brood enjoyed some VIP access to the characters from the hit animated film "Frozen," including Anna, Elsa and Olaf.
Gearing up for another busy day in the Big Apple, Jessica Alba hit the streets of SoHo in a stylish cream colored dress on Tuesday (June 23).
The "Fantastic Four" female recently confessed to Delish.com that when it comes to condiments, the hotter, the better- "I try to always have a salad, and I always make my own salad dressing—it just tastes better. I'll often make a chicken quesadilla with corn tortillas—and gallons of hot sauce. Literally. It's like I'm trying to burn a hole through my stomach. It's so good. It's such a problem."
Wishing a very happy birthday to her daughter Honor, Jessica Alba posted a darling Flipagram to Instagram on Saturday (June 7).
The 33-year-old actress commented, "6 years ago I was blessed with this little angel. She burst my heart open and taught me what true unconditional love is all about. I love u more than u will ever know my Honorcita."
Taking some time for family togetherness, Jessica Alba and her husband Cash Warren rounded up the kiddos and headed over to Coldwater Creek Park on Sunday (February 23).
The "Awake" actress packed a blanket and a few books for the jaunt, watching happily as her daughters Haven and Honor played on the nearby jungle gym.
Making the most of the three-day weekend, Jessica Alba and Cash Warren took their girls to the park in Beverly Hills on Monday (February 17).
The Honest Company founder wore a white T-shirt, black cardigan, and black and white floral print pants as she joined in the fun with her adorable daughters Honor and Haven.
Taking advantage of the beautiful weather, Jessica Alba and Cash Warren enjoyed a lunch outing in West Hollywood in Sunday afternoon (February 16).
Joined by their daughters Honor and Haven, the "Awake" actress and her doting beau headed over to Real Food Daily for some delicious grub before doing a little retail therapy.
Making the most of a beautiful Sunday afternoon, Jessica Alba and her husband Cash Warren treated their girls to a trip to Coldwater Canyon Park in Beverly Hills yesterday (February 9).
And there were smiles galore as Honor and Haven explored the playground while the "Good Luck Chuck" babe and her handsome beau proudly looked on.
Looking for some quality time with her daughters, Jessica Alba treated Honor and Haven Warren to a lovely lunch at M Café in Beverly Hills on Sunday (January 5).
The "Fantastic Four" actress looked to be in good spirits as she wrapped up their meal and then headed over to a local supermarket for a few grocery items.
Enjoying a much-deserved break from her day-to-day craziness, Jessica Alba has retreated to the resort town of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico with her family to kick off the New Year.
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RE: st: RE: RE: Insignificant coefficient in prediction
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This guy is an economist and statistician at Boston College. That
doesn't get in the way of his insight.
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Thanks. I share with you the skepticism on significance. Let me ask this
way. Let's say a practitioner wants to find which factor has more impact
sales to make an investment decision: store size or good location. Let's
say, a regression model tells that the effect of store size is smaller
the effect of location but highly significant and that the effect of
location is larger but insignificant with p>0.5, for example. What
should we
recommend? To invest in store size or to pick up a better location? I
he should invest in store size. Then, what implication does it have on
prediction using both coefficients? Are these two problems very
ones and should not be mixed?
If your data cannot pin down the coefficient on location -- or even,
perhaps, its sign -- then you probably should respecify the model,
dropping that variable, and predict from the new model. But just because
the data cannot give you a precise estimate of the effect of location
does not mean it is irrelevant -- and there are probably other studies
that have found it important. You need to worry about how you have
measured location; it may be that some alternative measurement (or a
measure of location taking other factors into account) will give you
quite different results. For instance consider selling takeout food on
the northbound side of a divided highway leading out of Boston (such as
US Rte 1 north of the city). You have to drive 3-4 miles out of your way
to get to a store just across the road. Commuters pick up food on their
way home after work. A location on the east side of the highway (with
the flow of homebound traffic) might be expected to do much better than
the !
same store just across the road, where it will not attract much of the
homebound commuting traffic. So how do you measure that 'good location'
vs 'bad location' factor? On the other hand a Dunkin Donuts or Crispy
Creme on the inbound side might be much more successful.
Nick and others, keep in mind that in the colonies we (usually)* drive
on the right side of the road, and don't have those pesky roundabouts
every mile on major highways.
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A guest at a hotel in Holland got a bit of a shock when she found a massive python wriggling around in her toilet!
The 2.5 metre-long snake had escaped from a room on a different floor, where police found another 30 exotic animals being kept in plastic boxes.
The illegal collection included poisonous frogs, more snakes and a baby crocodile. There were even two geckos running around the room.
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I first encountered the wildlife filmmaker Adam Ravetch in 2007 when writing about "Arctic Tale," a film on polar bears and walruses that he co-directed for National Geographic in 2007 and which meshed fictional storytelling and astonishing imagery.
His work is distinctive in bringing cameras as close as possible to the imposing animals he films. Now he's broken a new barrier, gathering prolonged stretches of video with special cameras strapped around polar bears' necks as part of a research project run by Anthony Pagano, a United States Geological Survey biologist. A Geological Survey news release has details.
The camera system was designed by Mehdi Bakhtiari, an inventive electrical engineer who refined the "Crittercam" for National Geographic and now has his own company, Exeye.
Ravetch says this of Bakhtiari: "He went on his own six years ago and now has produced a scientific game changer — a camera that has long-term record time (we are up to 130 hours right now), can track GPS, stay on animals for months on end, program to record on and off at any time the scientist wants, and then also program the camera to release on a given day and time to be able to retrieve it."
As such technology is more widely deployed, the resulting sustained view of bear behavior could help fill in the many gaps in understanding of this wide-ranging Arctic predator. Despite decades of helicopter surveys, field research and the increasing use of satellite-monitored tags and the like, much of what polar bears do in the Arctic remains out of sight and unmonitored.
That's why there's no firm population estimate, despite the often-cited (including by me) figure of 20,000 to 25,000 animals. (Zac Unger, the author of "Never Look a Polar Bear in the Eye," has written a valuable piece, "Polarizing Bears," describing how the uncertainty about bear populations has been downplayed or distorted by many combatants in the climate change fight.)
Ravetch, whose work is supported by the World Wildlife Fund and Rolex USA, sent a note explaining how this bear project has unfolded and what makes this camera design particularly remarkable:


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How Do YOU Get Fevers Down–From A Mom Who's Been Trying Now For About 12 Hours?
Well as a Mom or a Dad, I'm sure you've gotten this call already. It's the school calling that my child is sick with a high fever.So today Mommy has the day off because Abby is so sick. I just can't get her fever down. That scares me a little bit. Hopefully soon it will break.
Gosh there's nothing worse than seeing your child go from…Mommy I want this, I'm hungry, Can I play outside, I want to do that…..to nothing but sleep…sleep and more sleep. At that moment I just want her to get up and run and run and run.
I've done the Tylenol thing…it keeps going up and down ( so I'm glad it's going down a little bit), the wet wash cloth with a little bit of rubbing alcohol, ice and some good ol' popsicles…It was down this morning a little bit when she woke up so I'm thankful for that. But it seems to have gone up again. We are getting ready to head to the Dr. now…
How do you break a fever? What do you use?


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One Out of 12 People Never Recover From a Break-Up
After a relationship ends and you're devastated, your friends will try to help you by saying eventually you'll get over it, move on, and feel better. But what if you don't?
A new study found that some people NEVER really get over a bad break-up.
About one in 12 people say they're still scarred from the end of a relationship and always will be.
The study also found that for the average person, it takes about one month for every year you spent together to get over the relationship. So if you were together three years, it'll take three months until you can move on.
Women take 20% longer than men to get over relationships.
On the other side of things . . . 10% of men and 5% of women said after their last relationship ended, they felt liberated and relieved.


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2010 Highlights
Aneesh Chopra, US Chief Technology Office, Visits QoLT during CES 2010
QoLT took part in the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, held January 7-10, 2010. A highlight of this years show for QoLT was the visit by Aneesh Chopra, Advisor to the President and Chief Technology Office of the United States. In his Blog he wrote about the Center's and QoLT Foundry's role in innovation:
"One of the more exciting stops on the show floor was my visit with Carnegie Mellon's affiliated 'Quality of Life Technology Center,' a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center. Students, staff, and faculty demonstrated early prototypes of some incredible inventions that were available for companies to license and commercialize… served as a reminder that a great deal of our nation's innovation capacity begins with basic research & development that we fund across our world-class universities and federal labs, continues through the hard work of entrepreneurs toiling away to design the 'next big thing,' and finally leads to breakthrough innovations to address our nation's most pressing challenge…"
Another of this years highlights was the Keynote Address by QoLT's Executive Director, Jim "Oz" Osborn, for the Silver Summit Conference January 9. His address, "Technologies Transforming Lives", was attended by a standing room only audience.
The Quality of Life Technology Center's Foundry staged its second exhibit at the Senior Summit section of the CES in January 2010 with 3 goals in mind; 1) increase global awareness and exposure of QOLT, 2) seek strategic partners and funding for the Foundry opportunities, and 3) to attract additional members to the QoLT IPAB. Among the technologies demonstrated during the show were, First Person Vision, VibeAttire, NavPrescience, Lean and Zoom, and Self Tuning Walls.
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2009 HighlightsDriveCap Data Logger
As a tool for Safe Driving research, we developed a low-cost integrated sensor package that monitors and records salient parameters in personal vehicles. It can be installed very quickly, requiring two plug-in connections, some non-destructive cable running, and some calibration. The package includes OBDII (vehicle speed, RPM, battery voltage); inertial measurement unit (3 axes acceleration and angular rate); SafeTrac (lane position, driver alertness index, low-resolution image every15 sec); GPS; Bosch Radar (following distance, closing velocity); PC104 stack(700Mhz Pentium 3, 512 MB RAM, 40GB HD, CAN interface, serial port card, USB ports); battery and power management circuitry. Visit Safe Driving. (2008)
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Caster Data Logger
The Caster Data Logger (CDL) is a device that can be attached to an electric powered wheelchair (EPW) to collect speed, distance, time of use, and number of stops and starts over long periods of time without any maintenance. When combined with questionnaires and other self report data, it can give an estimation of a person's community participation. Engineers and clinicians worked together to develop a design that was functional, reliable, and safe, but also easy to install in a clinical setting. Over 100 of these devices have been fabricated and used in various studies, including Activity of Veterans and EPW Soccer at the National Veterans Wheelchair Games; EPW use in nursing homes; and at 6 different centers around the country participating in the Spinal Cord Injury Model Systems program. (2008)
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Good morning, NFC West. We've got a couple items of note to cover this morning:
Around the NFC West: Aug. 22, 2013
Carroll's overhaul: Alyssa Roenigk's piece for ESPN The Magazine on the Seattle Seahawks under Pete Carroll has been posted to Facebook more than 10,000 times, so perhaps you've seen it already. If not, be sure to check it out, even if you're not a Seahawks fan. She ties together many of the unusual (to the NFL) organizational tactics we've heard about only vaguely to this point, including daily meditation, mandatory yoga for players and institutionalized positivity. Roenigk: "It's only the beginning of what the Seahawks intend to be a total revamp of the way a football franchise approaches the physical and mental well-being of everyone in the organization." This is the sort of stuff found at places such as Google.
Strong words: ESPN analyst Ron Jaworski loves a strong-armed quarterback. The San Francisco 49ers' Colin Kaepernick isn't just any strong-armed quarterback. "I truly believe Colin Kaepernick could be one of the greatest QBs ever," Jaworski said. Those are strong words. Becoming one of the two best quarterbacks in franchise history would put Kaepernick in the all-time conversation. The quarterback has made only 10 starts to this point, of course, so there is much to prove. But there is also much to like.


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Can you explain the role PCOs play in providing service to businesses that participate in the LEED program? Do PCOs become LEED certified or can any company perform service (for credit to the client) as long as that service adheres to LEED guidelines? Lastly, where can these guidelines be found? Thank you for such a great site!
Dylan, NC
The LEED program stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design and it is offered by a private corporation called the United States Green Building Council, or USGBC. Their purpose is to certify "Green" buildings, whether commercial or residential, and the complete details on their program can be found on their website at www.usgbc.org.
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Agate is in Chantecaille's Lasting Eye Shade formula, which in Chante-speak means matte. However Agate is not truly matte in that dead-flat sense. On me, it settles down into a satin finish. The color is a gorgeous dusty-grey lavender that almost exactly matches the color of the blue-based shadows in my eyelids. Why would I want to add more of the same, you might ask? Because warm beige and brown-based eyeshadows, which everyone else loves so much, do me no favors whatsoever. Brown makes me look exhausted, beat up, even a little dirty. Greys and purples are my version of neutral/natural.
I use Agate lightly on the lid into the crease for a basic, everyday look, or I use it the same way so many people use MAC Wedge, to blend out the edges of a darker crease color into the upper crease ... on those rare occasions I go to so much trouble (which is almost never). I love that Agate gives my pale face that vulnerable, haunted, almost-bruised Victorian look you see on actresses in BBC costume dramas, who look like they aren't wearing any makeup at all. Yep, that's my kind of makeup. Grab the smelling salts.
Rather than treat Agate like the extinct dinosaur it is, and revere it from afar in its own little glassed-in case with alarm system, I use it often, with gratitude and relish. When it's gone, I will miss it. On that sad day, I shall have the option of sending the last bits to the wonderful Three Custom Colors people for duplication. If you have not yet used their services on one of your beloved, discontinued items, I highly recommend them. Of course, something new will also probably come along that I love as well ... and I am wondering if NARS 413 BLKR might be just the ticket, but I digress.
At present, Chantecaille Agate is my 21st century version of Prescriptives Mushroom eyeshadow, which I loved so dearly in the 80s/90s, but which was reformulated when Px switched to the square pans. It used to be a beige dusty lavender, and now its just a warm beige that oxidizes orange. Buh-bye Mushroom.
I have nothing to compare Agate to. It is not similar to MAC Quarry or All Races or Urban Decay Illegal or Rouge Bunny Rouge Solstice Halcyon. Chanel Lavande is much more blue, and both Chantecaille Freesia and Laura Mercier Dusk are lilac, not lavender, which means they lean reddish purple without the grey that makes Agate such a great neutral shade on me. The only eyeshadow that comes remotely close is Becca Chantilly, but Chantilly is much lighter and has a slightly more glowy finish.
Edited post to add comparison swatches of my grey-based purples.
From left to right: Alima Black Violet and Lilac, Chantecaille Agate, Bobbi Brown Heather, Becca Chantilly. (I didn't bother swatching the red-based purples, though Heather surprised me by how red it looked in comparison).
|Indoors natural light
|Same order in indirect sunlight
What do you do when a beloved eyeshadow is discontinued? Do you try to duplicate it or do you move on?
Photo credits: (1) chantecaille


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Working With Your Lender
To help avoid foreclosure, consider working with your lender as soon as possible (in other words, before it's too late). It is important that your lender is aware that you are unable to work because of your disability and have filed for Social Security disability benefits. The lender will be interested in knowing that if you are awarded benefits, you may not only be entitled to a future monthly benefit, but also a lump-sum, retroactive payment.
Tip: If you purchased monthly mortgage insurance, most plans will cover your mortgage payment for three to six months if you are unable to pay due to disability.
Dealing with lenders, however, can be difficult, particularly when you are coping with the pain, fatigue and emotional strain of your disability. Remember that today's lenders are not interested in being stuck with another foreclosed house. This gives you some leverage and room to negotiate.
In terms of financing options, the following may be available to you as a solution to your immediate need to prevent missed mortgage payments:
- Obtaining a forbearance until after you begin receiving disability benefits
- Refinancing at a lower interest rate so that you can continue to make your monthly mortgage payments
- Making interest-only payments until your disability claim has been concluded
- Obtaining a home equity line of credit to pay your mortgage until your disability claim has been concluded
- Applying for a balloon mortgage to lower your mortgage payments for a fixed period of time
- Effectively using your home's equity through a reverse mortgage
There are several pros and cons to each of the above options that should be considered before you take the next step regarding your home mortgage. If these options are unavailable to you, there still may be a way for you to lessen the impact of defaulting on your mortgage through a forced sale of your home.


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2.8-Inch LCD Touch Screen MP3/MP4 Player With Camera 4GB US Version Black
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text: On Monday 27 November 2006 19:26, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: > This is the first cut of a device-mapper target which provides a write-back > or write-through block cache. It is intended to be used in conjunction with > remote block devices such as iSCSI or ATA-over-Ethernet, particularly in > cluster situations. > > In performance tests with iSCSI, gave peformance improvements of 2-10x that > of iSCSI alone when Postmark or Bonnie loads were applied from 8 clients to > a single server. Evidence suggests even greater differences on larger > clusters. A detailed performance analysis will be vailable shortly via a > technical report on IBM's CyberDigest. Can you give an idea how this relates to the normal block device buffers? If this is intended to speed up remote disks, is it possible that the cache content can be paged out on local disks in low-mem situations? Best, Jens


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