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Provo » Two words not normally associated with BYU football -- especially at the end of last season -- were on the tips of tongues Saturday as the Cougars completed their first practice session of fall camp.
Fun and fast.
Even coach Bronco Mendenhall noticed the climate change, of sorts, in a practice that felt more fall-like than usual, thanks to temperatures in the 70s.
"This particular team and this particular staff, I was just looking for their eagerness to come out and play football again," Mendenhall said. "And that was there. And as long as that is in place, and [we] maintain it, then I think we can get all the position mastery and execution things ready to go."
That wasn't the case last year, the coach acknowledged.
"At the end of last season, I don't think we were eager to play," he said. "And it was an endurance test. This was a lot more fun."
Quarterback Max Hall, more vocal than he was in any one practice last year, said the first practice was just a step in getting the "bad taste" out of their mouths after losing to Arizona in the Las Vegas Bowl. He said the practice had a "different feel" and was more enjoyable that he remembered it being last year.
"It felt really good to get back out here," he said. "I think we have a lot of momentum coming into fall camp. I think the intensity was there. Guys were flying around and trying to make plays...For the first day, I am very excited about this football team. I think we will win a lot of games."
Defensive end Jan Jorgensen said the mood was much different than the end of last year.
"It was fun today. Guys were making a lot of noise and ... it seemed like everybody was having fun."
An offseason emphasis was finding and developing more speed -- efforts that were noticeable Saturday in more ways than one.
In team situations (11-on-11 noncontact scrimmages), the pace was faster than perhaps ever before.
Offensive coaches such as Brandon Doman and Patrick Higgins wore headsets, presumably getting plays called in from offensive coordinator Robert Anae, who watched from the second-floor balcony.
It is possible that Anae will work in the booth during games this season, Mendenhall said.
"We are pushing the tempo as quickly as we can," he said. "You probably saw the headsets out. There are a lot more things going in terms of making it more game-like, faster, and pushing the schemes as quickly as possible. And I think it will be effective."
At the very least, the Cougars looked like a faster team.
Eight hours after winning the annual race to the Y on the mountain that marks the first morning of camp, receiver McKay Jacobson showed more speed on the field, as did sophomore O'Neill Chambers. The tall receiver took a short screen pass and almost went the distance during one of the 11-on-11 drills.
"It is nice to have fast receivers all over the field and guys who can make plays," Hall said. "When he took off, I was pretty impressed."
Asked if this is a faster team than Cougar fans are accustomed to seeing, Hall said, "It felt like it. It felt fast. I don't know if it was because it was the first day, or if we are actually faster. I hope it is because we are actually faster."
That hoped-for improved speed was also evident in the secondary, as returned missionary Robbie Buckner emerged slightly in the battle for the open field corner position.
» Practice resumes at 3:30 p.m. Monday, with Thursday marking the first day in full pads.
» Scrimmages are Saturday, Aug. 22 and Aug. 26, possibly at LaVell Edwards Stadium
Season Opener » Sept. 5 vs. Oklahoma in Arlington, Texas
Speedy » Receiver McKay Jacobson, who was on a church mission in Japan less than a year ago, was the first to make it to the Y on the mountain in the team's annual trek to the top.


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It's 11 years since Jem Catterick and Ralph McLeary first got together. They thought they'd found their happy ending. As everyone agreed, they were the perfect couple. Then two became four, a flat became a house. Romantic nights out became sleepless nights in. And they soon found that life wasn't quite so simple. But through it all Jem and Ralph still loved each other.
Now, in the chaos of family life, Ralph feels more and more as if he's standing on the sidelines, and Jem that she's losing herself. As they try to find a way back to each other, they both become momentarily distracted - but maybe it's not too late to recapture happily ever after….
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"After The Party"
Yet another jewell from 'Jewell' a lovely engaging story - as ever top marks.
I've listened to this several times.
"Passed the time for a while, but didn't finish it!"
In the end, it just didn't have enough substance to keep me interested. Her later books are much better. Several are excellent in fact!
"Convoluted but still gripping"
This might be better read by a different person. A decent follow up to the party
"Good story<shame about the ridiculous voices"
Yes, I would. The story line is mostly realistic and is a believable representation of how relationships can be put under strain following the arrival of children. The characters were sympathetic and their flaws were understandable and forgivable.
Probably Jem as she is easy to identify with and her feelings could be understood by many new mothers.
Absolutely not. The ridiculous voices that she used for the men, children and Miranda were really annoying. She clearly cannot do accents so should not attempt it. Has she really ever heard an adult speak in the 'Minnie Mouse' voice that she used for Miranda? We all know that men's voices are lower than women's so why on earth did she feel the need to adopt some weird kind of gruff tone for each male character? If my daughter spoke as though she had permanently inhaled helium, I would be seriously worried.
Not sure.
"An emotional journey"
Review: wow this novel really took it out of me. The tension, the emotion and the feelings of the characters are at the forefront during the entirety of this novel and it is so well written that you feel each and every sigh, laugh and tear with each of the characters. I am a massive fan of Ralph's party so I don't know why it has taken me so long to read the follow up novels, but I am so pleased that I did!

The characters are wonderfully similar to how they were in the first novel, they both still have a really strong voice thought the story and so from that point of view it is like returning home to old friends, however that would be boring if they were ENTIRELY the same. These characters have grown and evolved, they have had children and they are losing Ralph and Jem and simply becoming mum and dad and this is part of the problem throughout the whole of this novel-they need to find themselves again!

The things that this couple have gone through are realistic and believable and yet I simply don't know how they coped. In terms of the plot, it is beautifully mapped. They go through miscarriages, astilbe adultery, Ralph having issues with work, Jem having issues with work, questions over whether they should get married or not. It is one drama after another-it's fabulous. We hear a lot more of jems sister Miranda in this novel than in the previous one, and of course smith is back too. The big admission that I have to make, however, is that I really didn't like Ralph is this book! I LOVED him in the first novel, but in this one, really disliked him, thought he had turned into a lazy man who was letting his family life pass him by. I also really disliked Scarlet, their daughter. I thought she seemed spoilt and just took away from the enjoyment of the story a bit for me.

The fact that I had the dislike of these characters though and found the storyline so stressful was because it was so well written. Lisa Jewell really does have a way of writing drama to make it seem so real that it literally jumps off the page and pulls you in. This is not a novel to read if you are looking for a restful Sunday afternoon affair. You need to invest in this novel, but it is well worth the investment! This is Jewell at her best and if you are a fan of hers, you have got to read this one. If you haven't already read Ralph's Party then read that first because I think you have to know the characters from that novel before picking up this epic read!
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Coupled terrestrial carbon (C), nitrogen (N) and hydrological processes play a crucial role in the climate system, providing both positive and negative feedbacks to climate change. In this review we summarize published research results to gain an increased understanding of the dynamics between vegetation and atmosphere processes. A variety of methods, including monitoring (e.g., eddy covariance flux tower, remote sensing, etc.) and modeling (i.e., ecosystem, hydrology and atmospheric inversion modeling) the terrestrial carbon and water budgeting, are evaluated and compared. We highlight two major research areas where additional research could be focused: (i) Conceptually, the hydrological and biogeochemical processes are closely linked, however, the coupling processes between terrestrial C, N and hydrological processes are far from well understood; and (ii) there are significant uncertainties in estimates of the components of the C balance, especially at landscape and regional scales. To address these two questions, a synthetic research framework is needed which includes both bottom-up and top-down approaches integrating scalable (footprint and ecosystem) models and a spatially nested hierarchy of observations which include multispectral remote sensing, inventories, existing regional clusters of eddy-covariance flux towers and CO2 mixing ratio towers and chambers.
The terrestrial biosphere plays a crucial role in the climate system providing both positive and negative feedbacks to climate change [
The large number of papers published since the 1980s on the terrestrial and C and water cycles have resulted in the publication of several major reviews from different perspectives. For example, Running
In this review article, we distil and synthesise the rapidly growing literature on C and water cycles across local to global spatial scales and over a range of time scales. To give the reader a perspective of the growth of this literature, a search of Web of Science produced over 2000 papers with the key words 'ecosystem carbon, water and nitrogen cycles' published since 1990 which is indicative of the large amount of research recently being undertaken on these topics. In order to filter through this large body of literature, we concentrated on papers discussing on the coupling processes between C, water and N cycles and we extracted information from a database of published results that we have collated during the past decade (available on request). In terms of content, the report covers the state of knowledge, monitoring and modeling of the coupled terrestrial C and water cycles. Our aim is to highlight the recent advances in this field, and propose areas of future research based on perceived current gaps in the literature.
The review is divided into several inter-connected sections. First, we review the scientific background of the linkage between terrestrial ecosystems and climate, and revise the state of knowledge on terrestrial C cycling, coupling of the C and water cycles, and coupling of the C and N cycles. Second, we discuss the ground-based and satellite-based monitoring methods and observation networks associated with measuring C and water fluxes, CO2 concentration and C isotopes. Third, we report on the recent advances in modeling approaches associated with the terrestrial biochemical and hydrological studies. Fourth, we discuss research gaps in C sinks/sources estimates and finally, we discuss the current research trends and the near-future directions in this field and propose an upscaling framework for landscape and regional C and water fluxes estimates.
The climate system is controlled by a number of complex coupled physical, chemical and biological processes (
One of the crucial issues in the prognosis of future climate change is the global budget of atmospheric CO2. The growth rate of atmospheric CO2 is increasing rapidly. Three processes contribute to this rapid increase: fossil fuel emission, land use change (deforestation), and ocean and terrestrial uptake. As shown in
Terrestrial ecosystems mediate a large part of CO2 flux between the Earth's surface and the atmosphere, with ∼120 Pg C yr-1 taken up by photosynthesis and roughly the same amount released back to the atmosphere by respiration annually [
Thermodynamically, a terrestrial ecosystem is an open system. Therefore, hydrological and C cycles are closely coupled at various temporal and spatial scales [
N is an essential element that can limit the growth of living organisms across a wide range of ecosystems [
N fertilisation may affect the pool of soil organic carbon (SOC) through the changes of litterfall. Both negative [
The EC technique is commonly used to directly measure the CO2, water vapor and energy exchange between the atmosphere and terrestrial ecosystems [
Observations of CO2 over the continent within the atmospheric boundary layer reflect exchange processes occurring at the surface at a regional scale (102–105 km2). The flux information contained in CO2 concentration data represents footprints of up to 105 km2 [
Previous efforts to interpret the signal of regional CO2 exchange making use of tower concentration data have focused on simple one-dimensional PBL budgets that rely on gradients in CO2 concentrations between the PBL and the free troposphere [
The atmosphere integrates surface fluxes over many temporal and spatial scales and links scalar sources and sinks with concentrations and fluxes. This principle has been successfully used to develop inverse models to estimate annual carbon budgets [
A powerful way to use all these CO2 data is in a data assimilation system, which combines diverse data and models into a unified description of a physical/biogeochemical system consistent with observations [
The information on the biological and physical processes that exchange CO2 between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere is recorded by the signals of 13C /12C ratio in the atmosphere CO2. The stable isotope ratio of CO2 (δ13C) in the atmosphere contains unique information to study the overall balance of surface CO2 fluxes [
Multiple efforts to measure stable C isotopes at both flux towers and flask stations around the world have been achieved. Several new techniques (e.g., automated measurement systems, tunable diode laser (TDL) spectrometer and pulsed quantum cascade laser spectrometer) have also been applied to this investigation [
Efforts to expand CarbonTracker to assimilate observations of C isotopes (13CO2, 14CO2) and other observation types (eddy-flux measurements, satellite radiances) are underway. Such observations could facilitate attribution of carbon fluxes to specific processes such as fossil fuel burning, biomass burning, or agricultural food and biofuel production [
Satellite-borne remote sensing offers unique opportunities to parameterize land surface characteristics over large spatial extents at variable spatial and temporal resolutions. For example, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) provides a global dataset every 1–2 days with 36 bands. The spatial resolution of MODIS (pixel size at nadir) is 250 m for channels 1 and 2 (0.6–0.9 μm), 500 m for channels 3 to 7 (0.4–2.1 μm) and 1,000 m for channels 8 to 36 (0.4–14.4 μm), respectively. Data from the satellite-borne MODIS are currently used in the calculation of global weekly GPP at 1 km spatial resolution [
In general, water evapotranspired from ecosystems into the atmosphere will reduce the land surface temperature (
ET, the largest component of water loss from ecosystems, plays an important role in affecting soil moisture, vegetation productivity, C cycle, and water budgets in terrestrial ecosystems [
In addition, as Marquis and Tans [
Besides satellite monitoring, other airborne observation techniques (e.g., aircraft, airplane and land surface remote sensing) have been developed rapidly since the latest decade. For instance, a new approach is LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging), which is a remote sensing technology that determines distances to an object or surface using laser pulses. LiDAR data have proved to be highly effective for the determination of three dimensional forest attributes. The suitability of airborne LiDAR for the determination of forest stand attributes including leaf area index (LAI) and the probability of canopy gaps within different layers of canopy has been widely acknowledged by various studies [
The land surface of the Earth represents significant sources, sinks, and reservoirs of C, heat and moisture to the atmosphere. C and energy fluxes and water cycles at soil-atmosphere and plant-atmosphere interfaces are therefore important land surface processes. Due to the complexity and non-linearity of C, N and water dynamics in terrestrial ecosystems, various modeling tools are needed for better understanding of these biogeochemical and hydrological processes and their feedback mechanisms with the land surface climate system [
Global climate and the global carbon cycle are controlled by exchanges of water, carbon, and energy between the terrestrial biosphere and atmosphere. Thus land surface models (LSMs) are essential for the purpose of developing predictive capability for the Earth's climate on all time scales [
The first generation of SVATS evolved from simple bucket schemes focusing on soil water availability [
The earlier generation of PVMs comprised a suite of schemes that focus on modeling distributions of vegetation as a function of climate [
TBMs developed from scaling up local ecological models, are process-based models that simulate dynamics of energy, water, and C and N exchange among biospheric pools and the atmosphere [
In recent decades, the interactions among soil, vegetation and climate have been studied intensively and modeled successfully on the basis of water and energy transfer in the soil-vegetation-atmosphere system [
Several model intercomparisons have focused on evaluating SVATS and TBMs with particular objectives. For instance, the Project for Intercomparison of Land-surface Parameterization Schemes (PILPS) was initiated to evaluate an array of LSMs existing in GCMs [
Hydrology and ecosystem have, for the most part, been studied independently. Most LSMs and ecosystem models make an assumption of "flat Earth" with the absence of lateral redistribution of soil moisture. On the other hand, hydrological models have mostly been concerned with runoff production. Spatially-distributed models are needed, especially for hydrological simulation objective, because of heterogeneity of land surface and non-linearity of hydrological processes. Spatially-distributed hydrological models are not only able to account for spatial variability of hydrological processes, but enable computation of internal fluxes and state variables. Such kinds of models are increasingly applied to simulate spatial variability of forcing variables (e.g., precipitation), physiographic characteristics, detailed processes and internal fluxes within a catchment [
It is recognized that the atmospheric measurements are still too sparse, relative to its spatial variability, to be used for inferring the surface flux at high spatial resolution [
Mechanistic ecosystem models that couple micrometeorological and eco-physiological theories have the potential to shed light on how to extend efforts and applications of stable isotopes of CO2 to global C budgeting, because biophysical models have the capacities of simulating isotope discrimination in response to environmental perturbations and can produce information on its diurnal, seasonal and interannual dynamics. Few biophysical models, however, have been developed to assess stable C discrimination between a plant canopy and the atmosphere [
C and N dynamics and hydrological processes are closely linked. The stomatal conductance (
In addition to the coupling of hydrological condition and C assimilation through the linkage of
The coupled C, N and water processes have been carefully considered in most of the third-generation LSMs (e.g., SiB2 [
Remote sensing techniques, which inherently have the ability to provide spatially comprehensive and temporally repeatable information of the land surface, may be the only feasible way to obtaining data needed for land surface and ecological modeling [
Remote sensing data have also been used to parameterize hydrological models [
Different from traditional hydrological models, which have coarse spatial resolutions, the grid-based-distributed ecohydrological models have a high demand for spatial data [
In general, the applications of remotely sensed data in ecohydrological modeling can be in the two ways [
A variety of methods are being used in the C and water cycles studies. As shown in
The atmosphere integrates surface fluxes over many temporal and spatial scales and links scalar sources and sinks with concentrations and fluxes. This principle has been successfully used to develop inverse models to estimate annual C budgets [
Progress in C balance studies has been achieved at both ends of the spatial scale spectrum, either large continents (larger than 106 km2, e.g., global inverse modeling) or small vegetation stands (less than 1–3 km2, e.g., EC-measurements). Methods to estimate CO2 sources and sinks at the intermediate scale (i.e., landscape to regional scales) between continental and local scales are less well advanced. Moreover, the C cycle in different regions can vary markedly in response to changing climate [
It is generally considered unreliable to upscale stand-level fluxes (i.e., EC measurements) to a region by simple spatial extrapolation and interpolation because of the heterogeneity of the land surface and the nonlinearity inherent in ecophysiological processes [
A synthetic research framework is needed to strength the less well researched areas as reviewed in Section 5: bottom-up and top-down approaches integrating scalable (footprint and ecosystem) models and a spatially nested hierarchy of observations which include multispectral remote sensing, inventories, existing regional clusters of eddy-covariance flux towers and CO2 mixing ratio towers and chambers.
The current research trends and the future directions in this field include: (i) A synthesis aggregation method—integrating ecohydrological and isotopic models, remote sensing and component flux data, is becoming a pragmatic approach towards a better understanding of the coupled C, N and water dynamics at landscape/watershed scales; and (ii) The landscape- and regional-scale C fluxes are being estimated using an integrated approach involving direct land surface measurements, remote sensing measurements, and ecosystem-, footprint- and inversion- modeling.
Coupled modeling will help refine the experimental and instrumental design and generate cross-disciplinary hypotheses that can be tested in the experiment. Ecohydrological models are powerful tools for quantitative and predictive understanding the coupled C, N and water mechanisms. Spatially-explicit ecohydrological modeling can be used to infer aspects of the land surface system that are difficult to measure by mass and energy balance, and will be critical to improving the accuracy of forecasts of landscape change and C dynamics in the real world. While developing a process-based, coupled-system model is a significant task, the coupling to existing models may provide a relatively easy way forward. For example, a spatially explicit, process-based ecohydrological model, EASS-TerrainLab, is developed to improve the representation of the coupled C, N and hydrological processes by integrating of two existing models (an ecosystem LSM model—EASS and a distributed hydrological model—TerrainLab).
EASS is based on a single layer vegetation canopy overlying a seven-layer soil, and includes physically-based treatment of energy and moisture fluxes from the vegetation canopy and through it. It also incorporates explicit thermal separation of the vegetation from the underlying ground [
With spatially explicit input data on vegetation, meteorology and soil, EASS can be run pixel by pixel over a defined domain, such as Canada's landmass, or any of its parts, or the globe. EASS has flexible spatial and temporal resolutions, as long as the input data of each pixel are defined.
In short, EASS has the following characteristics: (i) satellite data are used to describe the spatial and temporal information on vegetation [
TerrainLab [
The soil water balance component of TerrainLab allows for the spatially explicit simulation of topographically driven lateral subsurface flow and its influence on water table depth and soil water content dynamics based on a raster grid DEM [
The coupled model (EASS-TerrainLab) explicitly describes ecohydrological processes (coupled C, N and water dynamics). Each process will be explicitly calculated separately for overstory and understory with sunlit and shaded leaf groups. Vertical hydrological processing will be adequately described using detailed water balance equations, the topographically driven lateral water flows will be considered for both saturated and unsaturated soil layers, and their influence on soil water content and water table depth are calculated based on a raster grid DEM [
Model calibration and validation will conducted in three ways: (i) Modeled surface runoff will be compared with the watershed discharge measurements; (ii) Simulated soil water storage and its changes will be verified with several soil water measurement profiles; and (iii) Simulated ET will be validated with EC-flux tower measured ET based on footprint averaging and the remotely sensed spatially-distributed ET.
A set of sensitivity analysis will conducted to test the coupled capacity. The model will be run under several different scenarios to explore: (i) the effects of surface and sub-surface base flow on GPP and ET; (ii) the influence of mesoscale topography on hydrological processes (runoff and soil storage) and C exchange (water use efficiency and light use efficiency); (iii) the influence of photosynthesis on ET by comparing simulation results using different stomatal conductance schemes; and (iv) the effects of representations of spatial variability on simulations of photosynthesis and ET.
We also note that the dynamics of the PBL is tightly coupled with the land surface processes (e.g., energy / water / C fluxes). But for simplification, we proposed off-line modeling instead of the on-line coupling with regional climate model or the GCMs. The meteorological driving inputs for the ecohydrological model, therefore, are required for model runs. These inputs can either acquire from spatially extrapolation from climate station (including EC flux towers) measurements, or from the re-analysis data (e.g., the data provided by National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP)), or from the regional climate modeling outputs.
After comprehensive reviewing of a variety of approaches being used in research on the C/water cycles, the concluding remarks are summed the following:
Research gaps in this field are (i) The coupled terrestrial C, N and hydrological dynamics are far from well understood, especially at landscape (watershed) and regional scales; (2) Much progresses have been achieved at the extreme ends of the spatial-scale spectrum, either large regions/continents or small vegetation stands. Because of the heterogeneity of the land surface and the nonlinearity inherent in ecophysiological and ecohydrological processes in response to their driving forces, it is difficult to upscale stand level results to regions and the globe by extrapolation. Budgets of carbon and water at landscape intermediate regional scales (102–105 km2) have large uncertainties.
A coupled spatially-explicit ecohydrological model is a powerful tool for quantitative and predictive understanding of the coupled C, N and water mechanism. This modeling framework can be used to infer aspects of the land surface system that are difficult to measure, and will be critical to improving the accuracy of forecasts of landscape change and C dynamics in the real world.
Combining and mutually constraining the bottom-up and top-down methods to reduce their uncertainties using data assimilation techniques is a practical and effective means to derive regional C and water fluxes with reasonably high accuracy. In the proposed upscaling framework by this paper, spatially nested hierarchy of observations, including multispectral remote sensing, inventories, existing regional clusters of EC flux towers and CO2 mixing ratio towers and chambers, are able to integrated using scalable (footprint and ecosystem and ecohydrological) models and data-model fusion techniques.
This research is financially supported by Alexander Graham Bell Canada Scholarship (CGS) funded by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, "One hundred talents" program funded by Chinese Academy of Sciences, and National Key Technology R&D Program of China (2008BAK50B06-02). The authors are grateful to the two anonymous referees for their constructive and in-depth reviews, and for their comments/suggestions on how to improve this manuscript.
Schematic view of the components of the climate system, their processes and interactions [
Global CO2 budget from 1959 to 2006. Upper panel: CO2 emissions to the atmosphere (sources) as the sum of fossil fuel combustion, land-use change, and other emissions. Lower panel: The fate of the emitted CO2, including the increase in atmospheric CO2 plus the sinks of CO2 on land and in the ocean [
Temporal and spatial scales of different approaches.
Structure of the EASS model. Three components (soil, vegetation and the atmosphere) are considered in EASS, which are integrated with two interfaces. The right panel illustrated energy fluxes between these three components.
An upscaling framework synthetically integrating ecohydrologcal and footprint modeling, remote sensing and land surface measurements.


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Primer Director Chooses Upstream Color
Shane Carruth finally returns
Seven long years ago, Shane Carruth directed the none-more-indie Primer. Since then there've been rumours of a second film called A Topiary, and Carruth has contributed to Looper, but now CHUD are reporting that Carruth's sophomore movie is finally underway, in the form of Upstream Color.
Primer, if you're yet to catch it, is a head-scratching, understated, sci-fi drama about guys using an accidentally-invented time machine in a lock-up garage to play the stock market. In the process, they gradually create countless divergent timelines and have to deal with hassle from alternate versions of themselves. This is explaining it very, very simply.
We don't know much about Upstream Color at this stage. CHUD notes that its title refers to a biopharmaceutical process for removing impurities during chemical manufacture, but that may have nothing to do with anything. There are also some maddeningly vague character descriptions from a casting call: "Kris" will get a severe haircut during the course of the film; "Wesley" is a composer and a farmer; "Evan" works in a record shop and is a nutcase; 16-year-old "Phoebe" is a lot like her grandmother...
But what seems clear is that this isn't a reworked version of A Topiary, the apparently borderline-crazy "abstract arthouse Pokemon" screenplay that Carruth was shopping around following Primer. A Topiary is reportedly still in development with a shoot planned for next year. Upstream Color meanwhile, is a "romance/drama/thriller" on a similarly tightly-controlled scale to Primer, and will shoot in November.
You wait seven years for a new Carruth film, and then two arrive at once! Fingers painfully crossed that Upstream isn't a Southland Tales to Primer's Donnie Darko...


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Charleston, Apl 1st 1864
Please find enclosed Requisitions for forage + subsistence for the month of May for your approval. My Forage requisitions for, March + Apl has not yet come.
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text: Ann Marie Major is Associate Professor of Communications at the Pennsylvania State University in State College, where she serves as Director of The Jimirro Center for the Study of Media Influence. Her research focuses on public communication and response in emergencies and disasters. Her work has been published in journals such as the International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Public Understanding of Science, the Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, Journalism and Mass Communication Research, Health Communication, and the Journal of Public Relations Research.


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Police are investigating a mid-air collision between two gliders north of Goulburn on Saturday afternoon.
The gliders collided above a rural property on Carrick Road, Carrick, about 3.40pm.
As a result, one of the gliders struck the ground, killing the 50-year-old male pilot and seriously injuring the 70-year-old male co-pilot.
The injured man was taken to Liverpool Hospital where he is recovering.
The other glider was able to land safely, with the 72-year-old male pilot escaping uninjured.
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Today, I found my husband's journal, and along with it the real reason he took so long to show up to our wedding rehearsals last year. According to the journal, it was because he was too busy wooing a married mother of five and sticking his "slut-banger all up in that fat booty." FML
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Today, my boyfriend thought it appropriate to let me know that doing the "duck face" in my Facebook pictures "highlights my mustache." FML
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Calcutta: Their first match against Kings XI Punjab, in Abu Dhabi, will be a home game for the Chennai Super Kings. However, the only thing that will remind them of 'home' is the heat.
The tournament opener, between Mumbai Indians and Kolkata Knight Riders at the Zayed Cricket Stadium had patches of green — a sight that the boys from Chennai are not used to.
On the eve of the match, coach Stephen Fleming said that the heat might keep the ball from moving around in an afternoon game, like it does under lights.
"The first game here was an evening game and so there was a bit in the wicket for the bowlers. Ours will be an afternoon game and the heat will play a role," said Fleming.
Fleming believes that the Punjab outfit is a dangerous side this season with the likes of Virender Sehwag, Mitchell Johnson and George Bailey in their ranks.
The likes of Michael Hussey and S Badrinath have been replaced by Dwayne Smith and Brendon McCullum in the top order. While Fleming admitted that the team will miss the wisdom and guidance of Hussey, he was very sure of the balance of the current squad.
"Mike will be missed. These are the things you have to go through when you're looking to pick a new side. You have to let go of some of the players you'd want," Fleming said.
He added: "What we have this year is a very powerful side. Smith and McCullum have added firepower to our top order this year.
"These additions to the strong base of Indian players that we already had, bring a fine balance to the squad."
"We want Ashish Nehra to lead our Indian pacers — the likes of Mohit Sharma and Ishwar Pandey," the CSK coach said.


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A House-passed bill that would raise the age state employees could retire headed Monday to the full Senate.
The Senate Retirement Committee advanced House Bill 38. HB38 would change the retirement age to 62 years of age, after five years of service. The current age is 60.
The committee amended the legislation to set a July 1, 2015, start date for the change.
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Tag: 'kyle hepp'
December 17, 2010 at 7:58 am
I've gotten a ridiculous amount of compliments on the photo I've started using for my icon on Facebook, Twitter, etc. I'm not an ugly person, but I'm not a serious contender for Miss America either, so getting this much attention over my photo is kinda weird. You'd think I'd bathed in buttermilk and hired a stylist or something, but all I really did was hire my friend Kyle Hepp, who's a professional photographer, to take my picture. So I thought I'd take this opportunity to thank her and pimp her services.
Kyle is a girl (with a boy's name, yes, she knows) who I met through our blogs. She is a US expatriate who lives in Chile for most of the year with her husband, Seba, who she met there during school. When I heard she'd be in Nashville last summer, I decided to trek down I-65 to meet her. I hired her to do a photo shoot too for several reasons.
I needed new promotional images of myself because everyone thought my hair was much shorter […]
February 27, 2010 at 10:44 am
I've been thinking of two people this morning. First, my friend Kyle Hepp (who's a girl, despite the typically masculine name), who is a photographer in Santiago, Chile. I opened up my web browser to MSNBC this morning to see the words "8.8 quake hits Chile; huge tsumani feared" in all caps, with the big, red, breaking-news bar above it. All caps and big red bars are very bad news indeed. The pictures of overturned cars aren't very reassuring either. I haven't heard anything from her on her blog or Twitter. I'm going to tell myself she is ok and is most likely without Internet and electricity to tell us so. But, hopefully she will check in soon.
UPDATE: Kyle is okay! Yay! Read about her earthquake experience here.
Second, I wanted to wish Erin Shea good luck. Good luck, Erin! Erin is running a half-marathon today in New Orleans. She's been tracking her training on a group blog. I remember how much work training for my own half-marathon was and I wish for her good weather, […]


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"poor instructions but sharpens well"
Dr waters
11 June 2015
Sharpens knives well but the instructions on the package are mediocre. It just states the obvious and doesn't explain how to actually use the fine and coarse to sharpen. I'm guessing just do it a few times on coarse and then a few times on fine.
A note from the team
Thanks for the feedback about the sharpener, I'll pass on your comments about the instructions. You're quite right the coarse slot will sharpen then the fine one will hone your straight-edged knives.


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|Supplies: About an 1/8 yard of fabric, matching felt, hot glue gun, needle, matching thread, scissors & a headband!
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|Add another square underneath it and fold it up similarly so the two squares are stacked on top of each other.
|Take your threaded needle and run it through the tip of the two squares and stitch it to the end of one strip of felt.
|Continue to add ruffles until you get it as full and thick as you would like!
|The back of the ruffle strip might look a little crazy but that is okay! Place hot glue on each piece of felt.
|Attach felt strips to headband……
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Wrestling Professor Quiz #7 (Monday, July 18, 2005)
This Quiz was created by
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This Contest is NOW CLOSED and will be archived for the purposes of simple fun.
Answers can be found BELOW. Good Luck.
1. Raw debuted in 1993 as a much-needed shot in the arm to the WWF. In what venue did Raw emanate from during its first several weeks on the air?
2. Just like Nitro had its resident bad broadcaster in Steve McMichael, Raw too had one. He was terrible in that he cracked jokes about WWF's top heels and stole all their heat. Who was that guy, who also doubles as a writer for Don Imus?
3. One of the best matches in the early years of Raw was Shawn Michaels' impromptu match with someone he knew very well. He took off his hood and revealed himself to a huge crowd pop, and then beat Shawn for the IC title. Who was this man?
4. Gorrilla Monsoon's most famous Raw appearance was as WWF commissioner. After an unpopular decision, Monsoon was squashed to near death by one of the largest world champions in wrestling history. Who brutally attacked Monsoon in this famous angle?
5. When Jim Cornette was mainly writing the TV, there was a big NWA invasion angle in '97 that largely flopped because the modern day WWF fans were clueless about wrestling history. Well, that was part of it. The other part was that the Rock n Roll Express were badly out of shape, and the other choices of talent were, well, questionable. Who made up the "New" Midnight Express?
6. Another classic Cornette moment, which was actually very idiotic but entertaining nonetheless, was when he went on a taped tirade against WCW and how Nash satirized the Horsemen. All that did was admit everyone was watching Nitro and no one was watching Raw, which was true. Cornette went on another tirade after Pillman died, this time targeting a well-known WWF critic in New York City. What newspaper journalist was the target of Cornette's tongue-lashing?
7. The big turning point for Raw (and WWF in general) was the legendary Austin-Tyson angle. Tyson's involvement was pricey, but well worth it, as it helped catapult Austin to greatness. Weeks later, Tyson and Shawn Michaels almost got into it in the ring. But they didn't fight. How did that Michaels-Tyson "match" end?
8. After the '94 Rumble, the WWF was left with 2 guys who both claimed they won and deserved a title shot at WrestleMania X at MSG. In order to pacify them, a coin toss was held live on Raw to determine who would get a bye at WrestleMania. At the time, WWF was hoping for a record 4.0 rating for the coin toss, which was so outrageous and shows just how bad things were. Which 2 wrestlers am I talking about?
9. Ric Flair was still on top during the early Raw days. WCW was calling him back and wanted him to return at SuperBrawl '93 (which he did). In return for getting a contract release, Flair had to lose a loser-leaves-WWF match live on Raw. In what was a very good match, Flair showed he was a true pro by really hussling, unlike most others who cry and whine when asked to job on their way out. Whom did Flair lose that match to?
10. One of the most famous Raw's in history was the tribute show following the death of Owen Hart. While some thought it was tasteless, I thoroughly enjoyed that show. The last guy to pay tribute to Owen was his real-life enemy, Steve Austin. Just before the show went off the air, how did Austin show his respect to Owen?
11. If you win, please tell us how you'd like to list your name and plug. Due to time constraints, you will not be notified if you win, and instead will have to wait until next week when the winning names are posted. If you're playing just for fun and don't care about winning, you don't have to answer this question
-The very first Raw was held at the Manhattan Center in NYC.
-The bad WWF commentator was Rob Bartlett
-The guy who beat HBK for the IC title in an impromptu match was new WWE firee Marty Jannetty. That was a **** match, by the way.
-Gorilla Monsoon was brutally attached by Vader.
-The "New" Midnight Express in WWF was made up of Bob Holly and Bart Gunn.
-Phil Muschnick was the journalist whom Jim Cornette went off on.
-The Michaels-Tyson "match" ended when they pulled of Tyson's shirt to reveal a "DX" shirt. You know, one of those swerves to make you think he was partial to one side, ala Jesse Ventura at SummerSlam '88. Well, you can't say that Tyson angle didn't work.
-Bret Hart and Lex Luger did the coin toss deal on Raw, following the controversy at Rumble '94.
-Ric Flair lost to Curt Hennig on Raw in January of 1993, which was his final WWF TV match until he came back after WCW folded.
-Steve Austin honored Owen Hart by opening a beer can and toasting him.
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GUNITRADIO has been ranting about putting McKinnie in for months. Not sure why he wasn't in the line up earlier?
Unpaid strip club bills, overweight, out of shape???? All I can say is that his tweets were probably not helping the cause. Talking about going to the club, records deals, flying all over the place, Libryas, I think if Harbs/Cam looked at this they were thinking "What the fxxk?"
However, he has played great the last three games, and if I were the Ravens, I would like him back next year if he can get his head on straight and I hope that he plays well on 2/3/13.


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Building community comes naturally to us, so sometimes we forget our work is newsworthy. But we're happy to report our projects, partnerships and community involvement are making news.
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Grand Opening of Arboleda Apartments
The grand opening of Arboleda Apartments, which provides 48 affordable homes to low-income families and people with special needs, will be held May 14 at 10:30am. Satellite Affordable Housing Associates is the Project Developer.
The homes are a mix of one, two and three bedroom apartments and include both two story townhomes and flats. Common amenities include a community room opening onto an expansive internal courtyard, a computer room, and a children's play structure. The project received LEED for Homes Platinum certification in recognition of the numerous environmentally sustainable features incorporated into its design.
Of the 48 apartments, 15 are reserved for households with disabilities. In addition to the apartments, the onsite services are critical to ensuring residents with developmental disabilities are living independently, accessing resources for food, transportation, home health, activities with their neighbors, and volunteer opportunities which help them remain and reach their potential in the Arboleda community.
A better plan for the other side of the tracks...
Our Congress for the New Urbanism inaugural Legacy Charrettes was just featured on BetterCities.net. Click on the image to check out our work to build on Garland's downtown investments.
Market Hall Planned for VMWP's 2175 Market Street
San Francisco's Upper Market district will be home to the latest market hall concept to touch down in the Bay Area. The hall, called Myriad, is a 4,000-square-foot market space on the corner of Market and 15th Street. Overall, the Myriad could fit about 10 to 15 vendors, though the actual size of the spaces can be changed, because the space will be broken into movable kiosks. The new vendors will join a butcher shop, Gambrel & Co., and a bar called Mrs. Jones, as well as a coffee shop in that space.
Read the article here
Improving Housing Can Pay Dividends In Better Health
Terraza Palmera at St. Joseph's -Redevelopment Phase II, Oakland, CA and Potrero HOPE SF Master Plan, San Francisco, CA were included in a story broadcast on NPR discussing the correlation between improved housing and better health.
Improving Housing Can Pay Dividends In Better Health
Faiza Ayesh giggles with delight as she describes her brand-new two-bedroom apartment in Oakland, Calif. She shares her home with her husband and three little girls, ages 3, 2 and 5 months. Ayesh, 30, says she just loves being a stay-at-home mom. "It's the best job in the world."
Across the bay in San Francisco, another mother, Uzuri Pease-Greene, shares a two-bedroom apartment in a public housing complex with her husband, two daughters and granddaughter. What worries Pease-Greene, 49, the most about their situation is the health of her 4-year-old granddaughter, who has asthma. Marijuana and crack laced cigarette smoke seep into the apartment, including the bedroom where her granddaughter sleeps.
The girl's asthma has gotten so severe she had to be hospitalized three times. But that might soon change. The nonprofit group Bridge Housing, which builds subsidized housing for low income individuals and families, plans to tear down the buildings and develop a whole new neighborhood. Pease-Greene, who works for Bridge Housing as a junior community builder, is hopeful that it won't just deliver clean, working apartments but also a neighborhood where it's more difficult for drug dealers to openly sell drugs.
Read the full article here.
Sunnydale HOPE SF Master Plan Ready for Review
The Sunnydale community, originally built as a visionary housing solution for wartime ship builders, is ready for its formal environmental review and public hearings.
The two public hearings to review the Environmental Impact Report for the project have been scheduled for January 20 and 22, 2015. And if approved and funded, the development will occur in three major phases.
The new Sunnydale will be redeveloped incrementally to create a network of streets that connect with the surrounding neighborhood; create a variety of housing types for a mix of incomes and provide carefully scaled park spaces and recreational opportunities lined with public facilities. Principles of sustainable "green" development for the neighborhood and greater community will be integral to this transformation.
Read the full article here, read about Sunnydale HOPE SF here.
AIA San Francisco 2014 Honor Award Winner
St. Joseph's Redevelopment
St. Joseph's Redevelopment has won a 2014 AIA San Francisco Design Honor Award for Historic Preservation. In existence for nearly half a century, AIA San Francisco's Design Awards program celebrates outstanding achievements in architecture and design. BRIDGE Housing is the developer.
AIASF will host the 2014 Design Awards Exhibition to recognize the outstanding contributions of the award winners to the built environment. They will be on display at the AIA San Francisco and Center for Architecture + Design Gallery from May 12 through July 31.
The Redevelopment of the St. Joseph's Historic Campus serves as a successful public-private partnership model. By preserving and converting a dilapidated historic landmark, the development offers a significant public good to the community by providing affordable housing, neighborhood revitalization and the adaptive re-use of historic structures.
Read more on the award here, read about St. Joseph's Redevelopment here.
Fire Clay Lofts
ULI 2013 Colorado Impact Award Winner
The Urban Land Institute (ULI) Colorado has named Fire Clay Lofts the winner of the 2013 Colorado Impact Award in the Infill Category. The Impact Awards are based on the ULI Awards for Excellence, the most highly respected international program of land use awards. As with the ULI Awards for Excellence, ULI Colorado recognized only those projects that realize ULI best practices while also providing successful business and economic models.
St. Joseph's Senior Apartments
ULI 2013 Global Awards of Excellence Finalist
The Urban Land Institute (ULI) has named St. Joseph's Senior Apartments as a finalist for the 2013 ULI Global Awards for Excellence, widely recognized as the land use industry's most prestigious recognition program.
"We are honored to be a finalist for this prestigious award," said Cynthia A. Parker, President and CEO of BRIDGE Housing. "The St. Joseph's affordable development preserves an important historic landmark in Oakland's San Antonio neighborhood, and the entire campus provides a true multigenerational housing community."
Potrero HOPE SF Master Plan Wins Gold Nugget Award of Merit -
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Warner Creek Senior Housing Grand Opening
Warner Creek Senior Apartments held it's Grand Opening Celebration. The project features 60 new affordable rental homes for lower income seniors to "age in place", a creek-side courtyard, several community spaces for resident activities, a computer learning center, and resident gardens. Sustainable features include bay-friendly landscaping with native plants and high-efficiency irrigation, solar hot water heaters, low-flow shower heads and high-efficiency HVAC pumps. Warner Creek is located near the downtown in close proximity to transit and amenities. Eden Housing is the developer.
Winners! Sunnydale & Potrero both Receive
HUD Choice Neighborhoods Planning Grants
We are pleased to announce that the Sunnydale and Potrero Plans have each recieved a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Choice Neighborhoods Planning Grant. San Francisco was the only city to be awarded two of the 17 grants issued nationwide. Van Meter Williams Pollack [VMWP] is the Master Plan Architect for both projects.
HUD's Choice Neighborhoods Initiative promotes a comprehensive approach to transforming distressed areas of concentrated poverty into viable and sustainable mixed-income neighborhoods. Building on the successes of HUD's HOPE VI Program, Choice Neighborhoods links housing improvements with necessary services for the people who live there – including schools, public transit and employment opportunities.
"San Francisco made a bold step by launching HOPE SF and I thank HUD for supporting us in this journey to transform our City's most distressed public housing sites into thriving communities,"
said Mayor Lee.
Read more here.
San Francisco Approves Its First Affordable Housing Welcoming
to LGBT Seniors
The City's first and the country's largest affordable housing specifically welcoming to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) seniors to be developed by Openhouse and Mercy Housing California was approved unanimously Thursday by the San Francisco Planning Commission. The development includes 110 apartments for low-income seniors, Openhouse service offices and an activity center for residents and LGBT seniors from across the City. Over 25,000 LGBT seniors live in San Francisco alone, many of whom do not access senior services and housing for fear of rejection and compromised care.
VMWP is proud to be part of this exciting project and will be working on the adaptive re-use and renovation of the historic Richardson Hall. This will incorporate 40 new units of LGBT friendly senior housing and residential amenities in the upper stories along with retail and office space for the nonprofit developer and service provider.
West Rivertown Place Featured in EBHO Video
Play the video below and you will take a virtual tour of three exemplary East Bay affordable housing communities. Visiting the places and meeting the faces of affordable housing is one of the most successful approaches to advocacy. Beautiful design, inclusive neighborhood planning, energy efficiency, accessibility, and committed residents and management are just some of the things that make affordable housing successful in the East Bay. Meet residents, architects, developers and others in three affordable housing communities, each created by EBHO member organizations.
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Join us THIS Thursday, February 28, from 7:00pm to 10:00pm for Vegan Drinks NYC! Find us at Fontana's Bar, located at 105 Eldridge Street on the Lower East Side. Bunna Café will be serving Ethiopian goodness and partnering with the bar to bring you specialty cocktails like "The Pushkin" (vodka, bunna spiced coffee, yesuf sunflower milk, and mint)! Check out Bunna Café's menu allllll the waaaaay at the end of this post!
This month, we'll be benefiting FAUN NJ. FAUN (Friends of Animals United) is a nonprofit coalition of New Jersey/New York-based animal/earth liberation activists who are bound by the twin objectives of exposing and working against animal exploitation. They employ their energies/resources in tactile, visible ways such as public demonstrations, marches, educational outreach and leafleting, to elevate public consciousness about modern animal slavery. Stuff some dollars in their donation jar, stock up on their raffle tickets so you can walk away with some great prizes, and buy your mama a FAUN t-shirt, button, hat, and/or patch!
Music by DJ Grand Format, DJ Megan Rascal, DJ3dg, and DJ Jason Das!
Wanna let all your Internet friends know you're going? RSVP on Facebook if you're of the mindset to do so.
Have you read the new and improved Vegan Drinks FAQ? Please read it, even if you're a regular at our event. (Really, please read it. All of it.)
We'll turn down the music around 8:30pm and encourage people to promote themselves, their groups and/or causes for 30 seconds. If you represent a veg*n or animal rights group, come prepared with your (very short!) spiel and literature.
If you're not already following our every move, connect with Vegan Drinks on Facebook, follow us on Twitter (@vegandrinks), and join our e-mail list.
Vegan Drinks NYC is usually held the last Thursday of the month from 7:00pm to 10:00pm. Do you represent an animal rights group you think should be the beneficiary of an upcoming Vegan Drinks NYC? Visit vegandrinks.org/beneficiaries to learn more about how to make that happen.
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I love this pillow beast so much I wanna marry it. How does that work, again? First ladies can marry ladies, then ladies can marry toddlers, then ladies can marry dogs, and THEN ladies can marry pillow beasts? Correct me if I'm wrong, Republicans…
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Sock it to 'Em
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
In A Jamb
Oh look, your mom's a doorstop.
Friday, March 2, 2012
Cat Caller
Okay, loyal readers, do I need to set you up with the "Can you hear me meow" jokes, or can you handle them all by yourself? (rimshot!)
Also, if you're the kind of person who buys a cat case, I have a feeling you spend a lot of time at iHome. (buh duh bum ting!)
Please take these terrible jokes as proof that this has been the week from hell.
Friday, February 24, 2012
Spine candles? Yes. The fact that the seller says they "repel darkness?" Double yes. In fact, the only way to plus this shit up is if it was made from a real spine. Like yours.
Oh Hell Yes
The only downside of this Bigfoot Garden Yeti is the fact that there totally isn't one. Come on you asswipes, this thing rules.
Having commitment issues? Get this little peeper instead. You cannot go wrong with Yeti Yard Art.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Double Died
What do you get for the person who everything? Everything except emotionally-scarring night terrors, that is. Duh, a handmade, three-faced flying purple people eater conjoined fetal skeleton. Love it, cuddle it, shower with it… he's your newest forever pal. Frankly and thematically…
Jessie Wallin is slingin' the giggles with skeleton babies and sidesplitting cross stichery .
Thursday, February 9, 2012
An Apocalypse of the Heart
Roses are red. Violence is, too. I got you these zombie chocolates because I love…zombie chocolates. I mean, I assume that since you're vomiting that means you're not going to be eating these, right?
Friday, February 3, 2012
T.G.I. Nerday
It's Friday, grab your dragon mug and let's toast your virginity. Oh, shit. I spilled my mead on your Magic the Gathering Cards. Just kidding. Made you cry!
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Sweet Dreams are Made of…BRAINNNNNNS
I hope they make a matching rubber mattress liner. The only way this bed set gets more disturbing is if the fitted sheet has an easy-access hole for your mattress' built in flesh-light.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
A Spot or Blotch or Pustule of Tea
I'm a little teapot,
Short and stout.
Here is my handle,
Here is my spout.
When I get all steamed up
I will shout
That you'll probably get gastroenteritis from non-pathogenic microbial bone-decay residue contaminating your tea, or possibly even contract cadaverine or putrescine from ingesting toxic doses of the substances.


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Snowmobile driver crashes, breaks leg, faces several charges
Waterloo Regional Police headquarters is seen on Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2012.
CTV Kitchener
Published Monday, March 3, 2014 11:14AM EST
A Kitchener man was taken to hospital with a broken leg Saturday afternoon following a snowmobile crash.
The crash happened as the man was driving his snowmobile on a trail near Hutchison Road and Weimar Line in Wellsley Township.
Waterloo Regional Police say the man did not have a proper trail permit or insurance for the snowmobile.
The 39-year-old man faces a number of charges under the Motorized Snow Vehicles Act.
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How do I apply?
Philadelphia University subscribes to a "rolling admissions" policy. Rolling admissions means that there is no set application deadline. For more information contact the Office of Admissions directly. You can apply online by clicking here.
Is there a portfolio requirement as part of the Admissions process?
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2014, it's been real.
What did you do in 2014 that you've never done before?
In February, we went to San Francisco together; we met Jeff's cousins there and his sister came, too. Together, we scouted out snobby craft beers, attended the release of Pliny the Younger at Russian River Brewing and went to the San Francisco Beer Week Opening Night Gala. It was a really quick weekend (and it rained the entire time we were there), but we had a blast. Trips with friends and/or family are totally the way to go.
Then, late in the summer, kind of on a whim, Jeff applied for grad school. He's had the itch "for more" for awhile now, and he thought maybe a master's degree was the key. Within weeks, he was accepted, admitted and began a very aggressive 16-month, accelerated program for business leaders. I've already learned many lessons about giving never-ending support, even when it seems too hard or like too much work this year. And already, it feels like we're in the homestretch; he has less than one year until graduation. I am so proud; I have spent a good part of the second half of this year being more proud of someone–my husband–than I've ever been of anyone in my entire life.
Did you keep your new year's resolutions, and will you make more next year?
You know, I need something good for 2015. It wasn't really a new year's resolution, but it was a goal when I joined Weight Watchers in the last week of June. I lost about 20 pounds–and probably gained 5 back during the holidays–this year. In 2015, I plan to keep plugging away at Weight Watchers. I love, love, love the app. When I did the program years ago, you had to figure out everything on your own and I think the app makes it so easy and doable.
Did anyone close to you give birth?
This year brought a new baby to our family. My husband's niece had the most precious little boy at the beginning of September. Being an only child, I'm not–and never will be–a biological aunt to anyone. But this little guy, which i guess is our great or second nephew, oh my gosh do I love him. I'm embracing every second as "an aunt."
Did anyone close to you die?
Thankfully, no. But we did have a friend lose his dad right before the holidays. It was unexpected and heartbreaking, of course. It brought this weird realization to us–between my husband and I we have four (plus a step dad) intact, healthy and alive parents. We definitely thought a lot about this as our families joined us in our home for Christmas and we are forever thankful for every opportunity we get to have them all in one place at one time.
What countries did you visit?
This was not my year for countries. That said, my husband was recently named the next president of his Rotary club, something we are both very proud he was selected for. With that, we're planning a trip to South Korea in for the international conference during the year of his presidency. That's going to be awesome.
What would you like to have in 2015 that you did not have in 2014?
We bought our house at the end of 2013 and we've made some progress in "getting stuff done," but not enough. When we aren't in the kitchen, we spend a good chunk of our time in our den/TV room, which does not have appropriate furniture, is not painted (there is a section of one wall where the old owner's TV hung that is in fact NOT PAINTED at all), and is just not a pretty space. I want to make our den into something beautiful this year. With a more than 100 year old home, it's pretty much classic with a lot of wood in most rooms of our house. In the den, I want to do something a little bright and fun.
What was your biggest achievement of the year?
I kind of feel like it was the year of Jeff around here, and that's really OK; we all shine and stumble at different times in life. A few months after Jeff started grad school, he lost his job–disagreements about his future, other opportunities that came to the surface, etc., etc., etc. We were devastated, in the way people are devastated when half of your income is ripped away in one not well though out second by someone you thought you trusted. Within days, he/WE (yes we, these things strike marriages hard, not just individuals) were back on our feet–doing, changing, making plans. As 2014 closes, we have landed in a pretty good spot–with jobs and opportunities and a great sense of "yeah, we're just fine." I feel like we overcame and achieved; I'm proud of us.
What was your biggest failure?
I should probably write more for fun–people ask me about it all the time. However, being a writer/content producer/creative-type for a living sometimes makes "writing for fun" a challenge. It's usually the last thing I want to do after coming home from my professional life, which has be surrounded by words and thought processes. This year, I also took on some additional freelance assignments, making the task seem even harder. But, I'm also making a lot of excuses. I get that.
Did you suffer illness or injury?
No. But it was the year of glasses at our house. I laugh because we're like the couple who had to get glasses or something.
What was the best thing you bought?
Many bottles of beer and (too many) meals out. DINKS jokes continued throughout 2014 and were strong.
We also did a little getaway to South Dakota a few weeks ago–so technically we bought car rentals, hotel rooms and a few fancy outfits–to be in one of my best friend's weddings. It was a beautiful wedding–like nothing I could have planned or afforded. I felt honored to get to be a part of her day. Plus, it's awesome to watch your friends get married once you have done it yourself.
Whose behavior merited celebration?
When my husband lost his job, there were simply people who stood up and out. There were friends and members of our community who called, picked up the phone to call someone on my husband's behalf, who made things move and shake. We have kind of an unwritten "what makes you good at life" in our house and what it comes down to more times than not is showing up. If you show up–in whatever sense–you can usually make "it" happen. We are so thankful to the people who showed up when it felt like our lives were going to unravel.
Whose behavior made you depressed and appalled?
If you know a true bully, you will agree. That person sucks.
Where did most of your money go?
I think we made some positive strides in rebuilding some of our saving since purchasing our house. Grad school, our favorite downtown beer/wine bar/food place. Booze, coffee–yeah, we all have vices, I guess.
What did you get really, really excited about?
San Francisco and Sioux Falls. Friends visiting us from out of state. Hosting Christmas at our house. The new fancy knife my husband bought me for Christmas; it's a really, really nice knife!
What song will always remind you of 2014?
This almost makes me laugh. I feel like job loss is a lot like a break up and have a theme song of sorts from when I lost my job a few years ago. But this year, I coined Jeff's job loss song–"Cool Kids."
Compared to this time last year, are you: a) happier or sadder? b) thinner or fatter? c) richer or poorer?
I'm happy. Thinner. And not quite sure if we're richer or poorer–by the numbers, we're probably poorer, but in life experience, I think we're pretty rich.
What do you wish you'd done more of?
Time with my family. Life comes and goes and happens, and I don't always seen eye to eye with my family–there have been so many changes in the last couple of years. I'm admittedly lazy about making the relationships stronger, but especially as I get older, I value the family unit more. So yeah, that.
What do you wish you'd done less of?
I worry. A lot. I worry about things I can control, but more, I worry about things I have no ability to know, figure out or fix. I worry about things that affect other people–nearly as much as I worry about things that affect me. I think hard and I feel incredibly deeply. Now I know those aren't necessarily bad qualities, but sometimes the amount of time I spend worrying gets the best of me. I don't believe I can ever turn some huge corner and not worry, but I do think I could work on some tactics to learn how to turn it off sometimes–at the times when it's really affecting my life and well-being in negative ways.
How did you spend Christmas?
After days and days of stressing and worrying (ha!) that everyone wouldn't show and times wouldn't jive, with our families at our house. I know we aren't the only family out there who has a hard time getting it all together at the holidays, but I just wanted to put out a beautiful meal and have everyone sit down at the same time to eat it. And for some reason, that did not come easy this year. On Christmas, it all turned out fine, but I can't keep doing the (lead up to the) holidays like this…that I know.
Did you fall in love in 2014?
As I lost a little weight, I felt more love for myself. Feeling good about the skin you are in does so much for self confidence, one's smiles and the in general day to day. I didn't lose a ton, but I did go down a size or two; I have not owned size six pants that have fit properly for a lot of years. It feels good to love yourself.
What was your favorite TV program?
Shark Tank.
Do you hate anyone one that you didn't hate at this time last year?
Hate is not a productive thing, but we DID have a rough second half of he year and I find myself spewing out some hate sometimes. I will get over it.
What what was the best book you read?
I really liked Me Before You by JoJo Moyes and Otherhood by Melanie Notkin.
What was your greatest musical discovery?
I am not a good person for this question. I get caught up in the same playlists (see: our wedding playlist) I created years ago, I choose radio station themes that revolved around bands I already love and I (still) play many of my favorite songs on repeat while pretending I'm a rock star.
What did you want and get?
We spent our first summer in our house, which has a backyard. Since our house is truly the first house I've ever lived in IN MY LIFE, this yard thing was new to me. We spend so much time "out back" in the summer of 2014–tunes, food, cold beverages, our dog and friends. We bought and used more than 300 pounds of charcoal this summer–grilling up masterpieces, one of my very favorite activities.
What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
My birthday is on the same day as my in-law's wedding anniversary. This year, we packed up and took a little road trip to IKEA for the day. Turns out, I didn't buy very much, but the day was fun. We shopped and ate a fancy lunch and spent a lot of hours in the car chit-chatting. I turned 31.
What would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Is it bad to say money? As we get older, I totally wish we had more, worry about not having more, think about the future and what we'll need, etc. Lots and lots of money, people!
How would you describe your personal fashion style in 2014?
2014 was a little bit my year. My wardrobe has grown immensely to not include all cotton items. I've become a fan of the skinny fitting pants, I like tunics and things with stripes. I wore a lot of dresses. 2014 might also be the year my shoe collection grew to include an overwhelming number of pairs of flats. And, glasses are my new accessory.
What kept you sane?
My husband and my dog. My three best friends. The people who showed up.
Who was the best new person you met?
My job allows me to meet a lot of people–people I write and tell stories about. It really is hard to pick just one.
Tell us a valuable lesson you learned in 2014.
How long do you have? Haha.
Sometimes people are going to let you down–your family, sometimes your friends, the people you have surrounded yourself with professionally–and it's going to suck and it's going to be hard. But it is the good people who are going to rally around to pick you up–you'll get phone calls from people you didn't even know cared in the middle of your work day that will make you cry, your best friend will know that the best thing she can say is, "Yes Manda, that f*&%ing sucks," your husband's guy friends will show up with beer and chocolates in the middle of a weekday afternoon to drink instead of make him talk about what he is going through, your downtown bar will slip you a free drink or two simply because when you walk in they know by the look on your face that you are sad, people all around you will remind you that there are just crappy people out there and you aren't one of them. So, people are going to let you down–but on the flip side, the important ones in your life are going to blow you away when you know what is hitting the fan. It feels like we've surrounded ourselves with some pretty good people–I suggest doing the same. That is the most valuable life lesson I've learned–it's about the people.
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tag:dreamwidth.org,2011-06-11:913346 Shakin' the Family Tree A never ending journey... Dee Burris Blakley 2013-02-17T13:29:05Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2011-06-11:913346:131975 Sentimental Sunday: Mary Emily Conner (1837-1913) 2012-11-25T14:27:29Z 2013-02-17T13:29:05Z public 5 This post is not a fond remembrance of my great great grandmother. I can't remember a woman who died 45 years before I was born.

Her grandson, Jo Duffie Williams, was 10 years old when she died. I don't know - and he didn't ever say - if he attended her funeral, held in Sardis, MS.
For years, I wondered where she was buried. Her death certificate gave me the answer, and I created a memorial page for her on Find a Grave.

I made a request for a photo of the stone.

Just a little over two years after I created the memorial, another Find a Grave volunteer got the photo.

Here Lies With Hope in Jesus Christ Her Saviour
Emily Conner Meek Webb
4-12-1838
4-27-1913

Not only that, but after I thanked him, Larry Hart emailed me all the shots he had taken to get a photo he felt best captured the inscription on the stone which has fallen into the ground after nearly a century. In one of them, you can see that he had to kneel on the grass to get his shots.

He gave me his written permission to use the photos in any way I wished.
The stone is interesting.

The family Bible and her death certificate give Mary Emily Conner's date of birth as 12 Apr 1837. The stone says 1838.

And since her first name isn't on the stone, I wonder if she was called Emily all her life.

This Sentimental Sunday, I am thinking of the great great grandmother I never knew, and a man who knelt patiently in the grass one autumn day to provide her granddaughter a photo of her grave.

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2011-06-11:913346:123008 Sepia Saturday: Hats 2012-09-08T12:57:39Z 2012-09-08T12:57:39Z public 9 I have a fair number of photos of my family decked out in their hats.

I even have an ancestress who made them.

The millinery shop of my g-g-grandmother, Mary Emily Conner, in Grenada Co., MS, about 1870-1875.

My grand-aunts, Ocie (left) and Arkie Burris, photo about 1909.

My grandfather, his brother and their double cousins, Elbert and Earl. Photo about 1905.

Left to right - Elbert Burris, Homer and George Burris,Jr. (brothers) and Earl Burris (brother of Elbert)

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It should have been a triumphant occasion marking his transition from unionist to politician – Mr Ferguson, 54, has been preselected for a Labor seat in the NSW upper house at the election in March.
But there was a cloud hanging over the celebrations. The son of former NSW deputy premier Jack Ferguson and younger brother to federal Labor MPs Martin and Laurie has been embroiled in a sensational court case.
A NSW building contractor, David Ballard, has claimed the CFMEU, Mr Ferguson and property company Multiplex Group conspired to drive him out of business in the mid-1990s.
As part of the case, former Multiplex financial director Ian Widdup testified that a bottle shop had been used to make cash bribes from Multiplex to a CFMEU official in the 1990s. Mr Widdup said he had leukaemia, had only four months to live and wanted to expose his involvement in the alleged conspiracy.
The bottle shop owner, Bill Ireland, said during the week that Mr Widdup "loves intrigue" and had concocted the story in a bid to seek revenge against his former employer, Multiplex.
Former CFMEU NSW assistant secretary Craig Bates alleged he and Mr Ferguson received payments of $5000 each, twice a year, from construction demolishers in return for "preferred contractor" status.
Lawyers for the union argued Mr Bates had made up his testimony because he had a vendetta against Mr Ferguson.
In their opening statement, lawyers for Multiplex raised questions about the credibility of the witnesses.
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"There is always some damage from claims like this and it is completely unjustified," he said. "Andrew has devoted his career to keeping out of the industry some of the unsavoury elements that exist in other states. He will go into NSW Parliament at a very important time of rebuilding for the NSW Labor Party."
The party and the union movement are rallying around Mr Ferguson. Federal MPs David Bradbury and Julie Owens and state ministers Paul Lynch and Barbara Perry were to attend his farewell on Friday night.
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It is one of the COOLEST rides I have ever been on. On Friday, Holiday World and Splashin' Safari unveiled their brand new water coaster, MAMMOTH, and it is an instant hit. Yesterday, I headed to Holiday World to broadcast live and got the chance to experience MAMMOTH for the first time. It was flipping awesome and I got drenched from head to toe. You guys have to check out this brand new attraction, billed as "the world's largest water coaster." And, this week on WBKR, you can win tickets to the park in our MAMMOTH giveaway that'll give you the chance to do just that!
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