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Artist Etienne Lavie's World of Art
Perhaps the most incredible aspect of Etienne Lavie's photo series OMG Who stole my Ads? is its message about the world of advertisements. We live in a world where ads seem to be everywhere in our everyday lives displaying the latest sales and technology, but this photo series is both passionate and insightful replacing the world of ads with classical art. The bottom line is art over consumerism is an interesting aspect to take into consideration. I wouldn't mind passing by Eugène Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People, or viewing Jean-Honore Fragonard's Rinaldo in the garden of the palace of Armida, while waiting for the train in Abbesses Metro. See more of Lavie's photo series in the streets of Milan and Paris here.
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California Friendly Garden Contest
A California Friendly garden? Since our Southern California summer's are generally dry, conserving water in our gardens is key. Corona Del Mar's famed Rogers Gardens is holding a contest for Orange County residents called the California Friendly Garden Contest. "California Friendly" is defined as yards that display plants and flowers in a water-conserving environment..."
Winners will be selected for their garden's beauty, use of low-water plants, irrigation efficiency, organic uses and water conservation. Nearly $5000 in cash prizes will be awarded. It's easy to enter. Just take three pictures of your front yard and fill out a brief online form. You can see some of the current entries here. They also have a great "inspiration" page. All the info is here at their website. Contest entry deadline is June 17th, 2007.
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Tottenham boss Andre Villas-Boas is stepping up his pursuit of Porto winger Christian Atsu.
The Porto forward has been closely followed by Spurs scouts this season, and are weighing up their attacking options ahead of the summer, says the Daily Express.
Emmanuel Adebayor's days at White Hart Lane appear to be numbered, as he has scored just three times in the Premier League so far this campaign.
Although Spurs re-ignited their top four hopes with a win at home to Manchester City, there is still a fear that Gareth Bale could leave in the summer if they don't qualify for the Champions League.


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Trading Psychology
A Trader's Guide to Stress and Coping
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- Published on Saturday, 18 February 2012 13:04
- Written by Brett N. Steenbarger
A trader of the Australian currency market is long versus the dollar, expecting that economic weakness in the U.S. will hold down American interest rates and reward the holding of higher yielding currencies. Suddenly the U.S. government reports a much higher than anticipated inflation number.
Short-term yields skyrocket, as traders anticipate monetary tightening by the Federal Reserve. Immediately the dollar rallies versus other major currencies, and the trader's position goes into the red. His heart rate increases, as does his rate of respiration and muscle tension. Thoughts race through his mind: Should I take my losses? Should I stick with my longer-term outlook? The market is gyrating up and down, lurching dozens of pips in a matter of seconds. The trader curses his decision to enter the position in advance of the inflation report.Reluctantly, he takes his losses, wondering if he is selling at the worst possible price.
This scenario, common to traders across all markets, captures the emotional dynamics of trading: an activity fraught with risk and uncertainty. The physical arousal experienced by the trader, and the accompanying cognitive changes are manifestations of stress. Stress is a response to threat: a mobilization of resources that allows organisms the options of flight or fight in the face of perceived danger. Although we sometimes view stress in negative terms, it is clearly adaptive. Without stress responses to rouse us to action, we would be poorly equipped to deal with life's challenges. The ways in which we deal with stress-provoking situations is called coping. Sometimes our coping mechanisms are ineffective as methods of flight or fight, preventing us from constructively handling life's challenges. When coping is inadequate, stress becomes a chronic condition, creating emotional and physical distress. In this article, we will take a look at the stresses faced by traders, their coping styles, and how these affect emotional well-being and trading success.
Trading and Stress
A large body of psychological research indicates that stress varies with perceived control over threatening situations. For example, a famous set of studies exposed monkeys to electrical shocks. Half of the monkeys could stop the shocks by pressing a lever; the other half did not have a lever. Although the total number and intensity of shocks received by the two groups were equivalent, the group with the lever displayed far less emotional distress, and showed fewer stress-related physical problems than the group that lacked control over the shock.
In trading, it is not difficult to feel like the caged monkey without a lever. We cannot control the markets, and we cannot know their future behavior with certainty. Like the trader in the opening illustration, we jeopardize our money (and sometimes our reputations and careers) when we assume risk in uncertain conditions. Risk and uncertainty are the twin pillars of stress. Without risk, there is no threat. That is why paper trading (simulated trading without the actual investment of funds) is so emotionally different from the actual thing. Similarly, stress can only exist where there is uncertainty. If we knew with 100% certainty that a market was going to rise or fall, trading our privileged information would pose no threat.
As we saw in the opening illustration, time also contributes to stress, as adverse trading events and the need for effective responses can appear within seconds. This time compression interferes with perceived control: we generally feel more control over challenging situations if we can take our time, weigh alternatives, and formulate our best responses. When challenging situations erupt in a moment's time and demand an immediate response, our normal, deliberative coping patterns are no longer useful. Faced with the need to make major decisions now, traders experience information and emotional overloads, amplifying their physiological responses. Research by Andrew Lo and Dmitry Repin at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found this arousal to be particularly acute among inexperienced traders. When hooked up to biofeedback machines during trading sessions, they experienced significant stress-related arousal during episodes of market volatility—the very times when risk is greatest.
One of the least appreciated features of markets that contribute to stress is their ever-changing nature. Markets are not just volatile; they shift in volatility within the day and across days. Sometimes markets trade in slow, narrow ranges. Other times they swing wildly or trend persistently. Just as a trader adapts to one market environment, that environment is likely to shift. How many traders have we all known who made money during the great bull market of the 1990s, only to lose their touch early in the 21st century? In many fields, we can learn skills and remain confident that these will serve us well throughout our career. Trading, however, requires constant adaptation: the skills that worked in one market regime can fail miserably in another. I have met very few professional traders who feel that they have job security. This is profoundly stressful for traders raising families, paying off mortgages, and planning for retirement. When a trader enters a slump, the greatest source of stress is often not the lost capital; it's the nagging fear of having lost one's touch.
During my career as a psychologist, I have worked with dozens of professional traders, watching them trade and helping them with their trading. Some of the traders I have worked with have been phenomenally successful, making millions of dollars a year. Others have struggled to achieve profitability. The one common element across the entire group is that they have been highly competitive and emotionally charged. I honestly cannot say that the large and successful traders were any less emotionally volatile and stressed than the new and small traders. Reading articles by trading psychologists, one sometimes gets the impression that successful traders achieve a kind of Zen-like control over their minds and feelings. I sincerely doubt that this is the case. As long as there is risk and uncertainty, stress is a normal, expectable human outcome. Stress is built into trading. Our job is to ensure that it does not become distress.
The Cognitive Dimensions of Stress
Our thoughts are as important to stress responses as actual physical threats. Psychological stresses include threats to self-esteem, emotional security, and perceived safety. Cognitive psychologists point out that our reactions to events are mediated by our beliefs and expectations: if we think that we will lose, or if we think that losing makes us losers, we will respond accordingly. This can be seen in the phenomenon of performance anxiety, such as the stress that some people feel before public speaking events, tests, and social occasions. Those who do not experience performance anxiety hold beliefs that make these events non-threatening: they do not judge themselves by their performances. Anxious individuals, on the other hand, hold beliefs that equate performance shortfalls with catastrophes. They gauge themselves by how they are perceived by others. As a result, situations that are not stressful for some people become overwhelming and terrifying for others.
Traders exhibit a variety of cognitive patterns that contribute to stress. Among the more common are:
· Self-blame – Traders can become their own worst critics following losses, engaging in a stream of automatic thoughts that depress both mood and adaptive responses;
· Perfectionism – Traders can be quick to second-guess themselves, feeling that it's not good enough to take a piece out of a market move and refusing to accept the normal losses that are part of operating in uncertain environments;
· Worry – Traders can magnify the immediate situation, becoming panicky over the possibility of missing an opportunity or losing money;
· Overconfidence – Traders can become so married to opinions about market direction that they fail to consider alternative scenarios, leaving themselves unprepared to deal with market reversals;
· Negative Thinking – After a series of losses, traders can fall into a mindset that expects failure, leading to a dread of facing the next trade or the next day.
It's worth noting that even very successful traders can experience cognitively mediated stress. If one has internalized a self-blaming, perfectionistic internal dialogue, the profits one achieves will never be enough. We respond not only to actual, physical threats in the environment, but to the threats—real or imagined—that we perceive. Many of the case studies that I described in my book 'The Psychology of Trading' (Wiley, 2003) were descriptions of very high functioning people who nonetheless were burdened by stress and distress. Their suffering was a function of their thinking: they had learned, over time, to process the world in distorted ways.
Unlike the risk and uncertainty that are inherent to trading, psychological threats that result from cognitive distortion do not have to be part of our experience. Ultimately, we can control our thoughts; we cannot control volatile, changing markets. All traders in a particular market and timeframe face the same objective risks. All, at times, will experience stress. What will determine whether this stress becomes distress and interferes with trading is the degree to which internal, cognitive processes amplify already existing uncertainty and risk.
Effective and Ineffective Coping
One of Freud's most important observations was that emotional stresses can trigger coping responses from our past, leading us to deal with challenging situations in ineffective ways. He called this regression. For instance, let's say that we learned to deal with conflict in a previous marriage by swallowing our hurt and going into an emotional shell. Now, during a successful marriage, we no longer have to resort to such coping. During a trade that goes against us, however, we might experience frustration and pain. These trigger the coping from the prior marriage and lead us to withdraw from the markets, preventing us from reversing the trade and/or learning from the experience. Many trader episodes of "I can't pull the trigger" or "I keep overtrading" are the results of past coping patterns intruding into present day trading situations.
Psychologists Susan Folkman and Richard Lazarus suggest that people exhibit three basic coping styles:
- Emotion-focused coping – These include strategies to vent emotions, share feelings with others, and process emotional reactions internally;
- Problem-focused coping – These are strategies to identify sources of threat and deal with them directly, whether those sources are internal or external;
- Avoidant coping – These strategies deal with threats by avoiding, suppressing, denying, and minimizing them.
All of us utilize each of these coping styles at times, although most of us exhibit preferences toward particular styles. Folkman and Lazarus emphasize that none of the strategies is inherently good or bad: each can be effective or ineffective depending upon how it is used. Avoidant coping, for example, might be disastrous if it prevents us from closing out a losing trade, but could also be adaptive if it allows us to suppress feelings so that we can make rapid decisions.
Before traders attempt to improve their coping, I encourage them to understand how they cope. A journal in which traders identify stresses, how they coped with them, how they felt, and how their trades fared can be very helpful. Over time, such journals reveal patterns to our coping. For instance, we might tend toward problem-focused coping methods on a day-to-day trading basis, but utilize emotion-focused venting during periods of adverse market activity, contributing to strings of losing trades.
Once you know how you cope, it makes sense to ask whether that coping is working for you. I suggest a simple criterion to determine coping effectiveness among traders:
If your coping enables you to follow your trading plans, including risk management parameters, it is effective. If your coping prevents you from acting upon your trading plans, including your risk management, it is ineffective.
In other words, effective coping allows you to act in a planful, self-determined way. Ineffective coping prevents you from acting upon your best intentions. Effective coping allows traders to control stress. Ineffective coping leaves traders controlled by their stress.
My Favorite Strategy for Improving Coping
Traders interested in improving their coping have a number of alternatives available to them. On my website (www.brettsteenbarger.com), I have archived a number of articles that describe techniques for reducing stress. My book also highlights coping strategies drawn from research and practice in brief therapy. Traders who need more personal assistance with stress management can benefit from work with therapists who specialize in cognitive behavioral therapy, an approach that emphasizes the learning of coping strategies. One immediate strategy that traders can implement to reduce internal, psychological stress is outlined below.
As I mentioned earlier, much of the stress associated with trading is mediated by our beliefs. By changing how we talk to ourselves about trading, we can improve our coping and minimize distress. One belief in particular has served me well as a framework for effective coping:
I am a student of the market; my job is to learn.
A corollary of this belief is something I emphasize to new traders:
There are two kinds of trades: winning trades and trades you learn from.
As it happens, I also believe you can learn a great deal from winning trades. The point, however, is that a student of the market looks at losses as opportunities for learning. Yes, it is uncomfortable to lose money, and, yes, it can be discouraging. If, however, you lose money on a high probability trade, there is something to learn. Perhaps you've just acquired valuable information about the market: it is not behaving in a usual way. A market that should be trending higher based on historical precedent, but instead is moving lower, is responding to unique situational factors. Identifying these factors can set you up for later, winning trades. On the other hand, a losing trade may teach you something about yourself. Perhaps your execution was poor, or maybe your stop was too close. Your job is to learn: to figure out why the high probability trade failed, so that you can factor that information into your subsequent trading.
The beauty of the learning paradigm is that it not only accepts losses, but actually embraces them. Your losses are there to teach you something; they contain valuable information. Losses are only threats to profitability and success if you do not learn from them. I am confident that, if you mentored another trader, you would encourage your student after losing trades. You would not want to destroy that person's confidence and motivation. If that is the case, your challenge is to internalize that process and treat yourself as your own student. Arthur Koestler once observed that, "Creative activity could be described as a type of process where teacher and pupil are located in the same person". Such creativity, applied to the trading of markets, is a powerful antidote to distress.


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Singer Adele's weight loss saga
Rumour has it Adele's been on a diet. After all, the celebrated crooner looks slimmer — and remarkably different — as she posted online picture to mark a charity event.
The 25-year-old chart-topper is also more used to being snapped in glamorous stage outfits, but appeared happy to pose without make-up.
Adele (top), who is known for her full figure, once went on record stating that she wouldn't lose her body frame for glamour's sake; (inset) a collage of the pictures she posted on Twitter recently. PIc/GETTY IMAGES
Adele, whose hits include Rolling In The Deep and Rumour Has It, tweeted the photo to her 20 million Twitter followers as part of World Water Day, over the weekend.
The star, who won an Oscar last year for the James Bond theme tune Skyfall, usually guards her family life zealously, but used the occasion to also post an image of her 17-month-old son Angelo as well as one of a tap and one of a fish bowl.


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Faithless are a Brit electronica band formed by Maxi Jazz, Sister Bliss, and Rollo. The last mentioned is the brother of chanteuse Dido. Both are huge Arsenal fans.
After a six year title drought the Gunners are all ready for "I want more".An apt song and to boot very, very danceable. Give in.
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Slow CPU Will Shorten Wii U's Life – DICE Dev
Nintendo's Wii U has come under a lot of fire over the last few days with many early adopters in the US claiming that the processing power inside isn't actually up to much.
Even Metro: Last Light's developers have described the Wii U's CPU as 'horrible' and 'slow' and backing up these claims is DICE's lead designer, Gustav Halling.
Talking on Twitter, Halling spoke candidly about Nintendo's Wii U and its supposed lack of power.
"I don't actually know what makes it slow, but enough "tech" people I trust in world are saying the same things."
"GPU and ram is nice to have shaders/textures loaded. Physics and gameplay run on CPU mostly so player count is affected etc."
Speaking over Twitter, Halling confirmed that many developers were talking about the Wii U as a console that might not have the processing legs to compete in the long term and when the Xbox 720 and PS4 arrive.
"This is also what I been hearing within the industry, to bad since it will shorten its life a lot when new gen. starts."


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LONDON (Reuters) - The Bank of England has likely put its asset purchase to bed for good thanks to high inflation but it will probably wait until at last October before raising interest rates from record lows, a Reuters poll found.
None of the 62 participants in the poll, taken this week, predicted the Bank would hike Bank Rate from a record low of 0.5 percent or announce any increase to its stalled quantitative easing programme when it meets on Jan 13.
Only eight of 53 participants said the central bank would ever go beyond the 200 billion pounds it has already spent buying government bonds to protect the Britain's economic recovery. That is down from a third in last month's poll.
"We were looking for an extension possibly early this year but the inflation risk arguments have now overshadowed that," said Adam Chester at Lloyds Banking Group.
Inflation rose to a six-month high in November of 3.3 percent, well above the Bank's 2.0 percent target, and may go higher following the government's increase in sales tax at the start of the year.
"The elevated inflation numbers we are expecting over the next few months will likely preclude the MPC doing any more QE -- even if as we expect growth slows in the early part of 2011," Chester said.
Economists see inflation averaging 3.4 percent over the next three months according to a separate Reuters poll.
But that threat of inflation won't trigger a rate increase any time soon.
Median forecasts from the poll show the bank will not raise rates to 0.75 percent until the final three months of the year. Rates are set to rise to 1.0 percent in the first quarter of 2012 and then to 1.5 percent in the second.
Just seven of 60 economists see a rate rise before June giving a 30 percent median probability of a hike by then. Nine of 67 saw a rise before June in December's poll, giving it a 25 percent chance.
"The MPC is unlikely to be persuaded of the case for a move until there is clearer evidence that the economy is able to withstand the fiscal tightening -- mid year 2011 will be too soon to do so," said Simon Rubinsohn at RICS.
The Monetary Policy Committee was split at its December meeting with one member calling for more QE, seven voting to maintain the status quo and one calling for a 25 basis point rate hike, minutes showed.
Hawkish Bank policymaker Andrew Sentance said late last month that the central bank should raise interest rates sooner rather than later to contain price rises.
The Office for National Statistics revised down third quarter growth to 0.7 percent from 0.8 percent and said growth in the first two quarters of 2010 was also slightly weaker than previously reported.
A Reuters poll taken last month suggests growth will slow further, averaging between 0.3 and 0.5 percent per quarter through this year.
The coalition, which took office last May, plans to cut the budgets of most government departments by just under a fifth over the next four years and has increased a sales tax to bolster their finances but this will put a dampener on expansion.
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If the thought of a handmade gift takes you back to that horrible sweater from Grandma, get ready for an attitude adjustment.
This holiday season, there might be more handmade gifts under the tree than ever. Crafting experts say a small but growing number of Americans will make gifts for their friends and family -- whether because of environmental concerns, mounting credit woes, fear of toys coated with lead-based paint or simply a distaste for mass production and a love of crafts.
Since www.buyhandmade.org was launched Oct. 23, more than 6,500 people have pledged to buy only handmade gifts or give their own creations this year.
The appeal of making gifts by hand is catching on even among people with little crafting experience, says Leah Kramer, founder of the online "crafting community" Craftster.org. In the four years since her site launched, Craftster has registered more than 100,000 members, and claims more than 500,000 readers each month, Ms. Kramer says. Many are first-timers seeking simple, modern, do-it-yourself gift ideas.
If avoiding crowded stores for the holidays sounds appealing, there's much you can do -- even if you don't know a knitting needle from a glue gun. Some advice:
- Many Web sites offer detailed steps for creating everything from iPod cozies to bracelets made out of toothbrushes. If you're inexperienced, you can "find your techniques and the things that you like" online, says Kristen Rask, the author of Plush You: Lovable Misfit Toys to Sew and Stuff . Just keep your search relatively brief -- newbies can lose hours combing through the mountain of advice and tutorials.
- Limit spending to avoid stress over mistakes.
"Keeping it inexpensive keeps the pressure off, so that you don't end up thinking, 'Oh God, I spent $200 ...' " says Amy Karol, the author of Bend-the-Rules Sewing: The Essential Guide to a Whole New Way to Sew . Instead of buying supplies, search your home for useful materials. Old T-shirts make soft squares for quilting and unmatched socks can be reborn as sock puppets or stuffed toys.
- Make something consumable.
Handmade doesn't have to mean a trinket that sits on a shelf. Try buying a dozen mason jars, then layering the nonperishable ingredients for cookies inside each one. Personalize the jars with a label or other decoration, then attach a card with the recipe printed on it. You can also fill glass jars with homemade body scrub: "It's just sugar and honey and essential oils," says Ms. Karol. "You can find recipes online."
- Add a healthy dose of kitsch.
Knitting a set of traditional pot holders if you're new to knitting probably isn't the wisest move. But knitting a replica of Che Guevara or Madonna (the profane one, not the sacred one) could work -- your skill with the needles probably won't be the recipient's main focus.
Adding irreverence also makes the process more fun, says Carol Meldrum, the author of Knitted Icons: 25 Celebrity Doll Patterns , which includes patterns for a 1960s-era Cher and Jackie O, along with Madonna and Che.
- Create an assembly line.
"People think it takes longer to make something. But if you think about the lines and the parking" at malls during the holidays, it may be quicker to make gifts yourself, says Ms. Karol. "Decide on one thing, go to the craft store and get enough supplies to do that. ... There's a lot of gifts you could just tackle in an evening."
Got friends with babies and access to a sewing machine? Ms. Karol suggests making baby bibs. "You can do a dozen bibs in an evening," she says.
- Don't get discouraged.
Even experienced crafters worry whether recipients will like their gifts.
"I see plush toys constantly and I think, 'This has been done before,' or 'I can't do this as well as somebody else,' " says Ms. Rask. "But the fact that you made this thing is going to impress people. It doesn't have to be perfect."


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Thank you Mukilteo | Guest View
There is an old English proverb that states, "All good things must come to an end." As my time as your mayor quickly draws to an end, it has been an incredible honor and privilege to serve you. Thank you.
I have been reflecting on the remarkable changes we have seen across our city. When I ran for mayor back in 2005, I did so on the platform of moving Mukilteo in a clear and positive path forward. Today, I believe we have gone a long way in accomplishing that goal and can feel real excitement about Mukilteo's future.
2013 closes out another fantastic and historic year for Mukilteo. During my tenure as your mayor, I was very blessed to have had the opportunity to work with an extremely dedicated staff; I truly appreciate everything you have done for the city and me. As most of you are aware, eight years ago the city was facing several challenges and with lots of hard work we were able to conquer them one by one. Not only did we start the movement forward, but we kept it going and made the city flourish. There is no way that could have happened without all of you. You're all truly gifted at what you do and I know you will continue to do a great job for the new mayor. I will miss each one of you and wish you the best for the coming year.
I had the good fortune to work with hundreds of volunteers on various boards and commissions. I would say my most satisfying moments were working with these groups and building consensus toward completing many projects. Nothing gets done without trust, good objective information, intelligent and fair discussion, and a majority vote. Voltaire once said, "Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well." The excellence that these people have brought to the city and all of us, deserve to be publicly acknowledged. Thank you.
It has been through a strong and dedicated city council that we have been able to work together toward a shared vision for the City of Mukilteo. We all recognized that there is no worthier investment – and no better partners – than the people we serve. Our mutual commitment to developing and nurturing partnerships has seen us reach out to the community and the community responding. Mukilteo has become a living example of the unique heritage and multicultural atmosphere that makes it such an open, welcoming and vibrant place, and we are well known for being one of the best cities to live in, in the country. Thank you.
Here are just a few of the many accomplishments during my terms as mayor:
• Creation of the City's Planning Department's transparency of all city projects that can now be tracked online (http://ci-mukilteo-wa.smartgovfuture.com/)
• Creation of the "The Budget Calculator" to follow the annual budgeting process (http://www.ci.mukilteo.wa.us/Page.asp?NavID=241)
• Creation of "Ask Mukilteo" on the City's website to give citizens an opportunity to learn more about our great city (http://www.ci.mukilteo.wa.us/Page.asp?NavID=103).
• Creation of "Citizen's Police Academy" to better know the Mukilteo Police Department
• Built a new City Hall
• Built Rosehill Community Center
• Initiated multi-model (ferries, Sound transit, busses, etc.) waterfront improvement projects that are well underway and will bring substantial improvement in the Mukilteo waterfront in the coming years
• Purchase of Japanese Gulch for trails and open space
• Renovation of Lighthouse park
• Big Gulch trails connected for pedestrian recreational access
• Greater investment in Mukilteo's rich cultural history
• Our voice became much bigger regionally, state-wide and nationally which benefited our community, such as Mukilteo being featured on "Today in America" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGYWkDzDqec)
Two terms is not a long time to accomplish what we have, but it is long enough to understand that the job is never done. We are all but stewards for a short time. It was always my plan to leave the city better than I found it and I feel that I have done that. It is my hope that our next mayor has a bold and ambitious vision for continuing to move "Mukilteo Forward". I wish the new city council great wisdom to continually evaluate and invest in projects that will also move the city forward and the courage to see it through. There is still much to do and I will do all I can to continue to support these projects and the City of Mukilteo.
This is only the tip of the iceberg and you, the citizens, were always my priority. I feel incredibly honored to have had your support over the past eight years. It has been a privilege.
Thank you, Mukilteo.


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Chesterfield Borough Council is currently experiencing disruption to power supplies. Services are affected as follows:
Phone lines and e-mail accounts are currently unavailable. Repair works are currently being carried out and they will be restored as soon as possible. The Town Hall reception remains open for face to face enquiries.
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Collections are currently being carried out as usual. Please leave out your bin as usual.
Leisure centres
Queen's Park Leisure centre is currently closed. The Healthy Living Centre is currently open, although phone lines and e-mail contacts hare currently not working.
Services for vulnerable adults
Careline and mobile warden services are currently operating as usual.
Housing repairs
Housing repairs are currently being carried out although phone lines are not currently operating. New bookings are noT currently being made.
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Our addiction to fresh bamboo started in Tokyo. Up til then our only experience with bamboo had been of the canned variety which always had a rather revolting smell which strangely enough never stopped me from using it in stir fries.
In Tokyo, restaurants would showcase the new season shoots in a myriad of ways and it wasn't until we ate it roasted with carrots and potatoes that I realised you could do something other than throw it into a wok.
It's brief appearance in the supermarket each winter would mean I'd cook with it maybe a couple of times a week – roasted, panfried and even popped onto a pizza. Ask Richard what his favourite vegetable is and he would probably say bamboo shoot – which even I think is just a little bit on the weird side.
Now of course fresh bamboo is pretty much everywhere I shop, but only during the colder months. My veg lady at the wet market will peel the bamboo for me which I love because she leaves it whole and just passes the heart over to me. If I bring them home unpeeled I always cut them in half first then peel off the outer layers which I'm sure would be frowned upon.
A couple of weeks back we had some of Richard's colleagues and their significant others over for a Sunday roast. 'We' decided it would be a nice idea to do an Aussie roast which meant lamb and all the veggies.
'We' of course don't realise that doing a roast dinner for eight people involves quite a lot of work – especially when baby roast potatoes are requested and it's decreed that each person would eat at least ten of them. It took 'us' the best part of an hour just to scrub and clean those 80-ish spuds.
As well as the slow roasted lamb 'we' served thyme and maple syrup carrots, a rocket, pear and parmesan salad and these panfried parsnips & bamboo shoots. Inspired by Leah's Buttered Parsnips over at Sharing the Food We Love this has become our 'side veg' of choice. I've might have eaten the whole lot below after taking the photo.
The slightly bitter and crunchy shoots are a perfect foil for the sweet caramelised parsnips. It's a great combo and one I came too accidentally but it works. When you're juggling a lot of pots and pans in the kitchen and trying to get everything out to the table at once, this will sit happily on the stove minding it's own business on a low heat just gently frying away.
Of course Richard couldn't help himself and asked the guys at the table what their favourite part of the meal was. And of course they all said the roast potatoes and of course Richard took the credit for 'making' them because the only part of the 'we' cooking that he did was squash them before they were anointed with olive oil and salt and by the time that happened he had well and truly exited the kitchen….
In any case, there wasn't a spud left so I guess it was a successful Aussie roast and it ended up turning into a bit of a party. The next day I counted the empties- 7 wine, 1 champagne, 1 grappa and 1 dessert wine.
I got the last laugh because I didn't have to go to work with a sore head and battle through the day. It only took a couple of hours to clean up the mess and then I got to lay down on the sofa and catch up on My Kitchen Rules…..
Panfried parsnips and bamboo
- 1 large parsnip peeled
- 2 bamboo shoots cut in half and peeled
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 15 g butter
- salt and pepper to taste
Cut the parsnip and bamboo shoots into batons roughly the same size.
Bring a pot of water to the boil and add the parsnips. Cook for 5 minutes and add the bamboo.
Cook for another 5 minutes and then tae off heat and drain.
Heat a frying pan large enough to take the vegetables in one layer over a medium heat.
Add butter and olive oil and when butter has melted, add the veg carefully so you don't get splattered!
Cook until golden brown and nicely caramelised.
Spring is allegedly on it's way. I'm wishing it here sooner rather than later even though I know it's only a matter of weeks until the bamboo disappears until autumn again. I'll just have to put up with watermelon and pomelo in the meantime. Now, where is that sun????


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The Cathedral Catholic High football team lost twice off the field Friday.
The defending San Diego Section Division III football champions were bumped from the playoffs Tuesday for using an ineligible player and forfeiting 10 games. Section rules state that football teams forfeiting more than three games are not eligible for postseason play.
Late Friday afternoon, the Dons were denied a temporary restraining order by Judge Steve R. Denton in San Diego Superior Court.
That order would have allowed Friday's quarterfinal game against Serra to be played.
Earlier, school officials appealed to the California Interscholastic Federation's state office and were told the state had no jurisdiction, according to San Diego Section Commissioner Jerry Schniepp.
"There is no victory here," Schniepp said. "I feel bad about all this, but both rulings are consistent with what we did, with section rules."


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The was some worry among the Bruin faithful that they would be shutout at the wide receiver department for the class of 2012. Instead the Bruins have picked up two four-star wide receivers within moments of one another and the day isn't even over.
Joining Jordan Payton in this receiver class is four-star Javon Williams (6-5, 175) from Chandler, Ariz., who announced a little while ago that he will be joining his high schools friends, Bruins freshman quarterback, Brett Hundley and incoming freshman three-star athlete prospect Paul Perkins to help new Bruin head football coach, Jim Mora return UCLA football to where its fans want it to be.
In Williams the Bruins land a tall, rangy receiver who has the penchant to make big plays. As a senior, Williams more than proved his big playmaking ability as he had 33 receptions for 923 yards and seven touchdowns, while averaging just under 28 yards per catch.
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Click In an earlier interview, Williams talked about his recent trip to UCLA. Here to view this Link.
"My trip went real good," Williams said. "I really didn't get to build a good relationship over the recruiting process, but over the past few weeks, especially the last week, I have grown to a pretty close relationship with (UCLA wide receiver coach) Coach Eric Yarber and (UCLA offensive coordinator) Coach Noel Mazzone."
Williams was selected to the Rivals250 team for the class of 2012 and is ranked as the nation's 227 prospect at any position. He also earned a spot on the Rivals.com Arizona postseason Top 15 team ranking as the Grand Canyon State's No. 4 prospect at any position.
In track, Williams runs the 400, 200, 4x4 and 4x1.
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NEW DELHI, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- The prime ministers of India and Pakistan agreed last month in Egypt to resume their stalled peace talks, but there's been little movement in that direction as events relating to Hafiz Mohammad Saeed have taken precedence.
To New Delhi, Saeed is the force behind Lashkar-e-Toiba, one of the foundations of the Pakistan-based terror network involved in organizing India-specific attacks. Both India and the United States have accused the banned LeT of planning and financing the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks in which more than 160 people died.
To Islamabad, he is the head of an Islamic charity, Jamaat-ud-Dawa, who was freed by Pakistani courts after prosecution failed to show enough evidence for his continued detention for alleged terror links.
The India-Pakistan peace talks -- which Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Yousaf Raza Gilani agreed to restart during their meeting in Egypt -- were suspended following the Mumbai attacks.
Saeed, who has denied involvement, was placed under house arrest in Pakistan following those attacks reportedly under pressure from the United States in its efforts to calm the tensions between the two nuclear powers. He was freed in June by a court in Lahore.
Earlier this month the Pakistan Supreme Court indefinitely adjourned hearing petitions for the re-arrest of Saeed.
Pakistani media quoted Saeed's lawyer, A.K. Dogar, as saying that the apex court made its ruling after finding the prosecution for the federal and provincial governments, which filed the petitions, was not prepared for the case since a previous prosecutor had resigned.
Indian media said the ruling came even though the Indian government had given Pakistan yet another dossier containing enough evidence to show Saeed's involvement.
The United States has a stake in getting the India-Pakistan peace talks re-started as it would help ensure calm on the borders between the two countries. That in turn would allow Pakistan to move some of its troops from its border with India and redeploy them along that of Afghanistan to fight the Taliban in support of the U.S.-led NATO offensive.
The United States has said it did not apply any pressure to re-start the India-Pakistan dialogue, but many in the subcontinent remain unconvinced.
In any case, the Saeed issue has put a damper on the so-called composite dialogue, with India saying they can resume only after the Mumbai attackers are brought to justice and Pakistan has provided credible evidence of having dismantled the India-specific terror infrastructure on its soil.
Pakistan insists it is doing all it can to eliminate terror as it is itself a victim.
In a recent interview with the Times of India, Indian Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna said Pakistan must act decisively against Saeed to demonstrate it is truly working in this direction, without which any peace talks would be futile.
"For any talks you have to build a favorable atmosphere, trust needs to be built up. In its absence, regardless of how many times the (prime ministers) or foreign ministers meet or foreign secretaries meet, it will have no impact," Krishna said, adding, "We know for a fact that Hafiz Saeed is the mastermind of Mumbai attacks. We also know that (the) U.N. Security Council has passed a resolution where Hafiz Saeed has been named a terrorist."
He said Pakistan should "bring the same kind of seriousness that they are employing against the Taliban in Swat to the terrorists against India."
Besides Saeed, India is also awaiting the trial in Pakistan of five other LeT suspects in the Mumbai attacks.


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render service to its customers. Except as provided in subsection
(b), Transporter states that, if it transports gas for others
using Acquired Capacity, it will apply to such services the same
rates and tariffs as are applicable to on system Shippers, as such
rates and tariffs may change from time to time. For purposes of
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27.2 Nothing herein shall be read to preclude Transporter from filing
with the Commission for different tariff provisions applicable to
any service which Transporter provides using Acquired Capacity;
provided, however, that the waiver of the "shipper must hold
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to establish an Annual Charges Adjustment (ACA) provision under
which Transporter can recover from its customers annual charges
assessed to it by the Commission pursuant to Part 382 of the
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Thread: Need help with Access Reports
02-20-02, 15:40 #1Registered User
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Unanswered: Need help with Access Reports
I am using Access 2000 and have this large database. There are two things I would like to know.
A)I created a form that contains all the field names in the tables and checkbox's next to them. I wanted to know if there was a way (VB Code or something) to create a report using only the fields that are checked on the form?
B)How to save the report as a text file when the option to selected on the form.
Any help would be greatly appreciated,
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Not quite sure if this is helpful:
A) Setup a query for the control source and use the criteria to pick up the records with Yes (-1) for your checkboxes.
B) Try TransferText in code or a macro to save to a text (delimited or rich text) format. Also, you can e-mail a form or report as a rich text file, it works pretty slick.


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Peter A. Vogt, former executive at Greater Buffalo Press
June 15, 1926 – Oct. 2, 2013
Peter A. Vogt, a former Greater Buffalo Press executive who gave generously to Buffalo's landmark institutions, died Wednesday in Orchard Park, where he lived in a nursing home. He was 87.
Mr. Vogt, who grew up in Kenmore, graduated from Valley Forge Military Academy and was selected for the V-12 training program, established to supplement the force of commissioned officers in the Navy during World War II. During the Korean War, Mr. Vogt re-enlisted in the Navy and served on a minesweeper.
After marrying Mary Lou Koessler in 1954, Mr. Vogt's father-in-law, Walter Koessler, asked him to join the family company, Greater Buffalo Press. Mr. Vogt, who had been a printing salesman for the J.W. Clement Co. in Buffalo, eventually became vice president for sales at Greater Buffalo Press as it rose to prominence printing Sunday comics and advertising circulars for newspapers across the nation.
Mr. Vogt attended both Middlebury and Dartmouth colleges and played varsity football for both, according to a history of his life compiled by his family. He was a lifelong athlete who ran, swam, golfed and skied. He loved the outdoors and before retiring at night would say he was throwing his chest out the window in order to breathe the night air, according to the story of his life.
Mr. Vogt, who established homes in Lake View and then Buffalo and Venice, Fla., was an art collector. He was a founding member and for a time president of the Burchfield Penney Art Center. As a trustee for the Ringling Museum in Sarasota, Fla., he was responsible for procuring a signature artwork by the artist James Turrell.
In his later years, Mr. Vogt was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease but always remained in good spirits, said a daughter, Katie Schneider. He would often kiss the hands of the women who were caring for him.
Among the philanthropic gifts from Mr. Vogt or his family foundation was $250,000 for the Buffalo Zoo veterinary hospital in 2007 and $1 million to Canisius College in 2007 for a scholarship program. Two galleries at Canisius are named for Peter and Mary Lou Vogt and the college in 2001 gave him an honorary doctorate degree. The family foundation also gave to the Buffalo Zoo for the new zoo entrance created this year.
Mary Lou Vogt died in 2002. In December 2003, Mr. Vogt married Pamela Ryan Jacobs. She survives him, as do his four children: Katie Schneider, Anne Vogt McCune, Tracy Tremblay and Peter J.; and stepchildren Chris Jacobs, Luke Jacobs, Larry Jacobs Jr., Jessica Jacobs Enstice and Lizzie Jacobs.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered at 10 a.m. Saturday in Blessed John Paul II Church, 2052 Lakeview Road, Lake View.


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First Look: New Pixar Short 'The Blue Umbrella' by Saschka Unseld
by Alex Billington
January 7, 2013
Source: WSJ.com
It looks completely adorable already! In addition to teasing some concept art for their upcoming projects, Pixar has also decided to unveil their new short film playing in front of Monsters University this summer (out June 21st). It's called The Blue Umbrella and the first introduction includes mention of the rather interesting director, Saschka Unseld, who pitched his way up from the technical artists section of Pixar, where the specialties range from lighting to clothing-simulation software, not usually where directors come from but he has some obvious talent. The reveal includes a quick clip from the new short film, see it below.
In Pixar's Blue Umbrella, the look of the film was to appear photographic, even though it's about umbrellas. Some scenes could take 20 to 30 hours to render one frame. "We had never at Pixar attempted to produce images that looked absolutely photorealistic," John Lasseter told Wall Street Journal (via Pixar Times). "We try to simulate those things in computer animation, but the truth is, until just recently, we didn't have the computational power or clever enough algorithms to actually do the more realistic kind of computations," explains chief technology officer Steve May. Here's an image and a clip, for a better idea of the look and feel:
Update: Here's another photo posted from Pixar Times, showing The Blue Umbrella from a different angle.
The Blue Umbrella is the creation of 36-year-old Saschka Unseld, who has worked in Pixar's camera and staging department since 2008. "The six-minute film is about a blue umbrella that takes a fancy to a red umbrella and, in trying to follow that fancy, gets weather-beaten and wind-blown during a rainstorm." It's attached to play in front of Pixar's Monsters University prequel this June. Unseld has worked at Pixar in the camera and staging department since 2008. Prior to that, he went to film school in his native Germany and later started an animation company with friends, where they made animated short films for television.
The WSJ article goes on to say that Pixar used techniques for this short, to make it photo-real, that they've barely used before. One is global illumination, "which simulates the way surfaces emit and reflect light." Another is deep compositing, "in which a scene is created by layering images with three-dimensional data, instead of flat, two-dimensional data, giving the filmmakers greater control over the look of the film and viewers the experience of greater depth of field." These are tools common with visual effects, but Pixar is always trying to push animation. This looks wonderful even for 30 seconds, I'm excited to see it this June.
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Monday, October 15, 2007
AFTER A DECADE of Republican control, the Virginia Senate is up for grabs this year in a state that has tilted Democratic in several recent elections. With all 40 Senate seats (and much else) on the ballot Nov. 6, several of the key races are in Northern Virginia, whose political muscle in the General Assembly has not kept pace with its economic weight and exploding population. It's vital that the region field a strong legislative delegation for the coming battles in Richmond over transportation and education funding, illegal immigration, deficit-cutting, and more. The Post's endorsements in contested Senate races appear below in bold type.
District 27 : In this open-seat race, we support Republican Jill Holtzman Vogel, a lawyer who made her name as counsel to the Bush-Cheney campaign during the Florida recount of 2000, as chief counsel to the Republican National Committee and as a political appointee in the federal Energy Department. She's also been heavily involved in state and local affairs, which has given her a solid grounding in the issues facing her largely rural district, comprising parts of Loudoun and Fauquier counties and points west. Articulate, fast on her feet and pragmatic, she is the sort of moderate Republican that has become scarce in Richmond. Her opponent, Democrat Karen Schultz, is a respected, hardworking educator, school board member and community leader but lacks Mrs. Vogel's spark and command of state issues.
District 28 : Two smart, substantive centrists face each other here in an open-seat race to replace the retiring Sen. John H. Chichester, the revered chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, in a sprawling district that includes booming Stafford County and Virginia's Northern Neck. Our pick is Democrat Albert C. Pollard Jr., who distinguished himself in three terms in the House of Delegates as a thoughtful and independent-minded lawmaker committed to transparency and ethics in government. His opponent, Republican Richard Stuart, is a lawyer and part-time prosecutor who is well respected and able but whose attempts to outflank Mr. Pollard on illegal immigration have fallen short.
District 29 : Charles J. Colgan, who entered the Senate during the Ford administration, remains, at age 81, a conscientious, influential lawmaker who is much admired in this district covering Manassas, Manassas Park and much of Prince William County. If the Democrats gain control of the Senate, he would be in line to chair the powerful Finance Committee. His opponent, Bob FitzSimmonds, a small-business owner and longtime Republican operative, has taken a pledge not to raise taxes; unfortunately, he cannot explain convincingly how he would then meet the region's transportation funding needs.
District 31 : With decades of smart public service, seniority and an almost invisible opponent, incumbent Democratic Sen. Mary Margaret Whipple should win this race in a walk. Serving on the Arlington County School Board and the County Board, working with regional agencies and representing parts of Arlington and Fairfax counties in the legislature, Ms. Whipple has led efforts to improve education, transportation, affordable housing, health care and the environment. If Democrats take over the Senate, she also would be in line for a key leadership position. Her opponent, Samuel D. Burley, running as an Independent Green Party candidate, has yet to appear at a forum, lists no civic activities and, when asked in a questionnaire why he should be elected, replied, "I have no political experience."
District 33 : The incumbent, Democrat Mark R. Herring, entered the Senate only last year after winning a special election but has already made a mark pushing for transportation projects in this district, which includes parts of Fairfax and Loudoun counties. His Republican opponent, Patricia Phillips, is a conservative who spent 11 years as the Virginia state director of Concerned Women for America, which champions social wedge issues; her assertion that, if elected, she'd focus on issues closer to home rings hollow.
District 34 : Sen. Jeannemarie Devolites Davis , first elected to the legislature as a conservative Republican, has scrambled to reposition herself as this Fairfa x County district has turned solidly Democratic. Her transformation has prompted knowing smiles from politicos, but it's certainly been energetic: This year she pushed hard to persuade hard-liners in her own party to accept a $400 million transportation funding plan for Northern Virginia. Breaking again with GOP orthodoxy, she's also backed more extensive background checks for gun buyers. In the year's most closely watched and expensive Senate contest, she faces Democrat Chap Petersen, a tough-minded, intelligent former state delegate whom we've backed in past races for other offices. In this campaign, though, Ms. Devolites Davis, a competent, hardworking legislator, has the edge and deserves reelection.
District 35 : Incumbent Sen. Richard L. Saslaw, a shrewd, voluble Democrat who entered the Senate 27 years ago, faces nominal opposition in this Fairfax district from an Independent Green Party candidate named Mario Palmiotto, who has raised no money and waged no campaign. If his party recaptures the upper house, it is likely that Mr. Saslaw, now the Senate Democratic leader, would become majority leader and the most powerful Northern Virginian in Richmond.
District 37 : There's not much to choose from here. Incumbent Sen. Ken Cuccinelli II is a highly intelligent and capable Republican whose doctrinaire, at times obstructionist, views on taxes and social issues have alienated his own party's more moderate leadership in the Senate. While he finally did vote this year for a bill to provide new roads for Northern Virginia, it was only after repeatedly helping to block better ones. Democrat Janet Oleszek is a Fairfax County School Board member who has run a lackluster campaign, at times embarrassingly short on substance. The district, in Fairfax County, deserves better choices; we make no endorsement.
District 39: Republican Sen. James J. "Jay" O'Brien Jr. is an affable incumbent, but his scant command of policy and legislative issues has failed to impress. His Democratic rival, George L. Barker, a health-care planner, would make a far more able, detail-oriented and effective senator in this district straddling the Fairfax-Prince William line.
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Thanks to our hoppin' after party, waking up the next day was a bit difficult for a few of us. I think the only motivation people had was the fact that we had to be up and out by 11:00am, as well as the fact that a nice hot breakfast was out and ready, and only being served until 10:00am—just the cure for a full night and day of drinking and wedding shenanigans!
This was about the point where everything just sort of hit me. We were officially married. It was so weird to be able to say that. And this wedding…the one I spent over two years of my life planning…was over. All the flowers were sitting on a lonely table in the empty dining room. The mason jars were collected, cleaned and boxed. My chalkboard signs, cake topper and toasting flutes were jumbled together inside another box.
It might be deemed weird by a few, but I totally teared up a bit. But I already wrote a whole post about that.
And then I remembered that I just married my other half. He's my husband. What an awesome word! That, and the fact that we were leaving for Mexico in the next 36 hours. Frown=upside down!
So once everything was all packed up and most of our friends and family had left, Foxy and I said one last goodbye to the Vandiver, and to one of the greatest weekends we've had on record.
All photos personal.
Bonus: my hair and makeup were still pretty intact! (And that is why you should do airbrush!)
We ended up leaving our lanterns up in the pavilion for the next wedding (per their request), and I gave the photo booth backdrop and frame to our coordinator, Jamie, who wanted to use it for an upcoming family wedding. Hey, if things could be repurposed, I was all for it! I even managed to convince some guests to take boxes of mason jars and vases of baby's breath home with them. To say we had extras is an understatement.
Once we got home, the plan for the evening was to order in, then go to bed. However, we couldn't help but want to open a few gifts and the like once we got settled in…namely, the giant parrot piñata that HK and her hubs decided to surprise us with and leave in our room at the Vandiver.
So naturally, we mocked the cats with it…
…and then we hacked that baby open!
It really wasn't as dramatic as I'm making it look. But there a was a plethora of goodies in there (including a gift card to Target!) that we made sure to itemize out on their thank you card. Hey, you give us a piñata, we give you an obnoxious thank you! Plus, we were super grateful for the two maracas, one seafood necklace, eight packs of fruit snacks, one snake, one spider, one frog, one dog/fox, one stegasaurus, one butterfly, one daschund, one rubber ducky, 74 hershey kisses, 26 dove chocolates, 19 red flower petals, 18 yellow flower petals, 19 blue flower petals, 19 blue and white flower petals, 18 purple and white flower petals, and 18 pink and white flower petals.
And thus, our wedding weekend ended with a piñata.
The end!!
Miss a recap? Catch yourself up!
It's Wedding Week! – The week of the wedding started out pretty hectic, but we made it through (relatively) unscathed.
We're Cool People (who had to deal with a slight change of plans) – On Friday, we made our way to the venue, had a relatable moment on the radio, and learned about some last minute changes that we made an effort to take in stride.
Practice Makes Perfect.. And Crabs Don't Hurt, Either – After most everyone was settled in on Friday evening, we had our rehearsal followed by the best dinner ever – a Maryland crab feast!
Rise and Shine! – Wedding morning was soon upon us, and I woke up at the crack of dawn ready to get prettified.
Pretty Women – Over the course of the next several hours, myself and the girls hung out, got our hair and makeup done, had a photo shoot, and drank champagne.
Dressing Up – Soon enough, it was time for me to slip into my dress!
Dapper Dudes – At the same time, Foxy and his guys were ironing and getting into their suites – and Foxy was opening his wedding day gift!
The First of Many Looks – We had our first look, and both felt so much better after being able to see each other for the first time that day.
A School Bus Photoshoot – Our vehicle of choice for the day was a school bus, which we turned into a photo op both inside and out!
Smiles and Sun – The photos continued by the lighthouse and pier.. with sunglasses and a few funny stories along the way.
ALL The Family – We then met up with family at the lock house for even more pictures, and I started getting a bit antsy and having problems with my dress.
And Then There's Us – I kinda-sorta-maybe forgot all about couple and bridal pictures. Thank goodness for our amazing photog reminding us!
Final Touches – Slight chaos then ensued in the minutes before the ceremony started, consisting of me getting sewn into my dress and the boys getting their bouts pinned on at the last minute.
And So It Begins – The guests arrive, the wedding party lines up, and the ceremony space is revealed – complete with programs, white knots, and bubbles!
All I Want Is You, Will You Be My Bride? – The time had finally come – we all made our way down the aisle while my stepdad and stepbro played and sang a beautiful, acoustic version of "All I Want Is You".
Take Me By The Hand and Stand By My Side – In other words.. the ceremony!
Bubbles and Bustles and Beverages, Oh My! – Bubbles are blown, my bustle is tied in, and cocktail hour commences with lots of love, hugs, and drinks.
The Guestbook – The final version & reveal of our fingerprint guestbook – and some tips, should you want them!
I'd Do Anything For You – The reception kicked off with our oh-so-intricate first dance sway to Wake Up by Coheed and Cambria, which our guests joined in on halfway through.
Make 'em Laugh, Make 'em Cry – Which is exactly what we did, thanks to our bestest friends' amazing and beautiful toasts.
Food & Details – All the details about our cocktail-style reception and rustic decor.
Good Times, Bad Touch – Our guests got down with their bad selves on the dance floor with a lot of finger pointing, interpretive dance, and.. our very own rendition of Bad Touch.
Faux-to Booth Fun! – We said no to veggies and yes to a sorta last-minute DIY photo booth!
Tatted Up – One of the most fun and unexpected features at the reception was our temporary tattoos that many guests ended up sporting proudly all night!
Let Them Eat Cake! – Foxy tried to commandeer the cutting, but we got things under control with a delicious, non-smashing cake exchange and some champagne.
Say That You'll Stay – Before I knew it or was really even ready for it, the last song of the night came on. Foxy and I danced it up and relished the moment, but were eagerly anticipating the next part of the night.. the after party!
It's Party Time! (Again) – Only the most awesome after party. Ever.


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Kentucky Derby (gr. I) runner-up Lion Heart made his first appearance on the Pimlico track Thursday morning, and if looks mean anything, the colt is ready for a peak performance in Saturday's Preakness Stakes gr. I).The son of Tale of the Cat has never looked better. His chestnut coat has a radiant shine to it, his muscle tone is excellent, and he looks like a finely chiseled statue.
Whether this equates to him turning the tables on Smarty Jones is anyone's guess, but it wouldn't be surprising at all to see him run the race of his life.Trainer Patrick Biancone is quietly confident, and when asked what difference he sees in the Preakness compared to the Derby, he smiled as said coyly, "The result."Breaking from the rail, Lion Heart likely will be on the lead again, and it will be interesting to see who tries to tackle him first. There's a good chance whoever it is will cook their own horse and possibly set it up for someone else.When opposing jockeys take one look at Lion Heart before the race they may get discouraged, not wanting to sacrifice their own horse, and decide to wait for someone else to do the dirty work. The unknown pace factor will be Sir Shackleton, who has done nothing wrong in his last three starts, and is improving with each race. Trainer Nick Zito, who is giving up hope of making the race with The Cliff's Edge, says the Preakness hopefully will tell them where they are with this colt. Taking on Lion Heart early certainly will not achieve that.The horse who could put the most pressure on him is Rock Hard Ten, who is fresh, to say the least, with only three career starts and none in the past six weeks. With Gary Stevens coming in from France to ride him, you know he won't be too far off the pace, and there is little doubt, coming off the layoff, this big bruiser will be a bear out there.Smarty Jones was out at 5:45 this morning in order to beat the heat. Trainer John Servis galloped him with the pony, fought off the swarms of gnats that are so common on humid days at Pimlico, and headed back to the barn as quickly as possible. The gnats were so bad, they bit Imperialism inside his ear, and as the colt was out grazing later in the morning, he was scratching his ear with his hind foot like a big dog. Trainer Kristin Mulhall finally helped him out by scratching it for him.Imperialism continues to look super. He has really held his flesh well, is galloping into the bit, and is one happy horse...other than his gnat bites.It's starting to look like it will take a huge effort to change the order of the Kentucky Derby finish. The one thing Stewart Elliott on Smarty Jones will have to avoid is getting caught in a Rock Hard Ten--Eddington sandwich behind Lion Heart. One of these two 17-hand horses is intimidating enough, but to have both on either side of you will not be a pleasant experience. If The Cliff's Edge is forced to miss the race, Imperialism and Little Matth Man will be the recipients of any major slugfests on or near the lead, so their connections are hoping to see some heavy-duty action up there.Rock Hard Ten and Imperialism went out at about 11 a.m. this morning to school on the turf course, where they'll be saddled on Saturday. Both behaved beautifully, checking out the new sights and sounds all around them. Rock Hard Ten, who can act up at times, was a perfect gentleman and made for a quite a sight standing there with his ears pricked, showing off that massive frame. You could really appreciate the size of this guy watching him walking next to Imperialism, who was dwarfed by the towering son of Kris S..Linda Albert, trainer of Maryland's hope, Water Cannon, said she's looking to van to Pimlico Saturday as late as possible.One horse not getting much attention is Arkansas Derby runner-up Borrego. What this handsome son of El Prado has going for him is his rate of development. He probably wont hit his peak until next month, but this most likely is a much a more physically and mentally advanced colt than the one who finished a solid second to Smarty Jones at Oaklawn. He did make a good move on the far turn in the Derby, but the wet, sticky track got to him nearing the head of the stretch and he backed out of it to finish 10th. A big rebound effort certainly is not of the question.


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For sale is my Le Jour (Heuer) chronograph stainless steel, black dial with a Valjoux 7733 movement.size=36mm.
As you can see from the pictures the case and the plastic crystal have a few minor scratches but not enough to detract from the appeaearance and the dial is in excellent condition.
The watch keeps good time and the chronograph functions correctly. Heuer manufactured LeJour chronographs under a private-label arrangement.i.e. they put a different dial on the watch, so you get a classic 60's design with a great movement without the expense of the equivalent Heuer or the worry that wearing good condition vintage watches often brings--this is a good condition watch with the same quality but at much less cost. The Valjoux 7733 chronograph movement was used not only in Heuer, but also in CWC military watches, Breitling and many others.
The origin of the famous Valjoux 7733 lies with the Venus cal.188 chronograph movement.When the mechanical watch business collapsed in the second half of the 20th century, Venus failed and Valjoux bought them out, gaining the rights to their new cam/lever and switch.
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Feral Cat Trap & Transport Assistance
Volunteers with experience and knowledge in the TNR program, are needed to assist the clinic & members of the community in trap & transport and promotions of our TNR program. For more information please email Sara, our TNR Scheduler, at [email protected] or call (602) 216-1160.
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Provide administrative support to Altered Tails administrative staff in preparation for our annual Fundraiser and other tasks as assigned.
Major Responsibilities: data entry, packet assembly, mailings, required to use Microsoft Word and Excel (experience required).
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Assist the clinic staff by providing care and maintenance of clinic kennel area and general observation and care of animals.
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ST. SIMONS ISLAND — The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended its search for a soldier missing since late Sunday when he tried to help get his stepchildren out of the water.
Army Staff Sgt. Calvin LeBlanc, 30, of Minot, N.D., disappeared about 5:15 p.m. and Glynn County got the call a few minutes later, said Capt. Jay Wiggins, director of Glynn County Emergency Management Agency.
LeBlanc got in trouble about 200 yards north of the crossover at the former U.S. Coast Guard station at East Beach, Wiggins said.
"There were some kids in distress trying to get back from the sand bar and he was trying to help them,'' Wiggins said.
Wiggins said the children were LeBlanc's stepchildren and that another man who went to help survived.
It is the most heavily used beach access point on the island and is extremely crowded on weekends.
The combination of the full moon's high tide and some wind made conditions very treacherous Sunday, Wiggins said.
"I was surprised how choppy it was when I got here,'' he said.
When the tide is low, a spit of sand is exposed that reaches are to the northeast and people often have to race the incoming tide to get back to the beach.
The sandbar is beyond the area where Glynn County lifeguards are on duty and their shift ends at 4 p.m.
The Coast Guard, the EMA's volunteer Search and Recovery Unit and Department of Natural Resources were walking the beach, criss-crossing the area in boats or flying overhead depending on tide conditions, Wiggins said.
A 1:50 p.m. news release from the Coast Guard said the search effort has been suspended after five searches were conducted, covering 26 miles in about 18 hours. Crews from Glynn County law enforcement and DNR are still at the scene.


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A few years back, Matt Damon spent his time palling around with Ben Affleck and struggling to get parts. Now, thanks to their breakout work seven years ago in Good Will Hunting, both are among the coveted A-List of Hollywood talent. While Affleck is arguably the bigger name, Damon has created a reputation for choosing daring roles with some of Hollywood's foremost directing talents.
Based on the book series by Robert Ludlum which follows memory lapsed trained assassin Jason Bourne, the first Bourne film was a surprise hit. When that film's release was initially delayed, many were expecting that Universal had a big budget flop on their hands. When Identity was finally released, the result was the exact opposite. The film was well-reviewed by critics and became a runaway success, opening the door to continue the story of Jason Bourne on the big screen in Bourne Supremacy.
Supremacy finds Bourne living an anonymous life with Marie (Franka Potente). They move from city to city, hoping to elude Bourne's dangerous past. As you may expect, and in order for there to be a second movie, Bourne's past comes creeping back to him in the form of a nasty assassin who comes after Bourne in the small village where he is temporarily residing. Now Bourne is back, and all he wants is to be left in peace. Not so likely.
Damon is all smiles as he heads in for another one of Universal's chaotic press conference interviews. Damon handles the craziness well, sitting and chatting casually. During the course of the interview, as tape recorders stop in front of him, he politely grabs them one by one and flips the tape himself. Now that's hard working!
Most actors in Hollywood just take the biggest parts they can as soon as those opportunities are given to them, but Damon has always been choosier, looking for interesting parts and directors more than "star" roles. "I guess in terms of picking jobs, my philosophy hasn't changed. Obviously, from doing one line in Chasing Amy, it was take any job I could get. But since Good Will Hunting, and since I've been offered movies rather than having to go audition for them, it's basically just been three things that I look for: It's always a script that I like, a good director and a good role. And usually I'll settle for any two of those. The combination of all three are really hard to come by. I had all three with a movie like Ripley. Like, it was a great script and a great director and a really great role. And kind of a different thing I don't normally get a chance to do. My philosophy hasn't changed. Whatever success or failures I've had have always been with those kinds of things in mind. With movies that didn't do well at all, like All the Pretty Horses... There's a version of that movie that exists that was Billy Bob's cut of it that I really do love. I'm really happy that I did that movie."Continues


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Headliner Rocky Osborn
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9:30 pmComedy Palace - Main Room
$20 - $25
Dress Code: Casual
Age: 18 and over
Dinner: Available throughout the night.
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Rocky Osborn
After 24 years in the comedy business, Rocky Osborn isn't just any normal comic. He is also the co-founder of ACES Comedy Club, a 34 year magician and a broke single father of 2 girls. "Raising daughters as a single dad with full custody gives me all the material I need" Rocky says "Combine that with the fact that I am the youngest of 7 and I can talk for hours". Rocky has appeared on MTV's half hour comedy hour, NBC's Comedy Showcase and The History Channel. His comedy touches on kids, dating and the horror that we call "Social Media". "The next person that pokes me on facebook…. is gonna get kicked in their hashtag!"
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Comedy Palace - Main Room
8878 Clairemont Mesa Blvd.
San Diego, CA, 92123
Comedy Palace - Main Room
8878 Clairemont Mesa Blvd.
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Altru specializes in bringing back strong graphics from the past on their high quality vintage t-shirts. We have seen them work in the past with XLarge graphics and now they got together with Thrasher. The result of the collaboration is a series of t-shirts. Here we show you the Neckface x Peter Ramondetta t-shirt from the collection. It is now available at colette.
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