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I'm feeling all 'islander' tonight having just gone to see the fun and fabulous Anne and Gilbert show in Charlottetown. It seemed appropriate to post this wonderful island-based dish. I based this delicious recipe on a potato pie served at the PEI Preserve Company. It's a wonderful dish with layers of local potatoes, chives, thyme, cheddar cheese and bacon. Sounds good, right? Yes, it absolutely is. I had no desire (in the summertime) to bake something for 2 1/2 hours, so I cook the potatoes in advance to greatly cut back on cooking time. I also modified a bit of the recipe, but it's very similar to what is served at the PEI Preserve Company. It was a hit with everyone! You won't regret making this dish, as it is absolutely wonderful! Enjoy!
Potato Pie
Based on a recipe from the PEI Preserve Company
Serves 6-8
Takes ~ 30 minutes prep, 1 hour baking.
Have an oversized, deep-dish pie dish ready for the potato pie. (I cook the potato slices first, to cut back dramatically on cooking-time)
Prepare fillings as follows:
Fill a large pot ½ full of cold water.
Thinly slice and peel (if needed), placing in your pot of cold water:
4 pounds potatoes (you can use a couple kinds, if you'd like – I used some that had thin-skin and others with thicker skin that I peeled first)
Put the pot over high heat and bring to a boil. Remove lid and boil ~ 10 minutes, until potato is tender. Drain potatoes.
Prepare the following fillings:
2-3 cups grated cheddar cheese (or similar cheddar cheese blend)
¼ cup chopped fresh chives & green onion
1 Tbsp fresh thyme, diced
Salt & Pepper
1 package bacon, big thick-sliced is best
This is the type of big sliced bacon I like. I love that it's not so fatty. Some fresh chives and green onions, diced, and the fresh thyme, diced.
To assemble the potato pie:
Line an oversized pie pan with:
½ - ¾ package of bacon (375g/1lb package – ideally use the big thick-sliced bacon (made from pork loin) rather than the thin/fatty bacon slices, but either will work just fine – save a slice to cook & crumble for the maple bacon sauce, if desired)
Layer potatoes (I used a spoon to scoop/spread them, since they were hot from boiling), a generous amount of cheddar cheese, chopped chives, all the chopped thyme, and sprinkle with salt and pepper.(Thyme is only on the first layer).
Repeat until you have four layers, finishing with cheese, chives and salt and pepper.
Remember to use all the chopped thyme on this layer.
Repeat until you have four layers, finishing with cheese, chives and salt and pepper.
Place remaining slices of bacon over the top, pulling up the bacon ends to fully cover your pie. The pie should be ~ 4 inches thick in the middle.
Cover with foil and bake 30 minutes at 375F. Remove foil and bake another 30 minutes. Remove from oven. Let stand ~10-15 minutes before slicing and serving. Serve with maple bacon sauce (below), if desired. Enjoy!!!
If desired, top with the following Maple Bacon Sauce:
Mix together:
1/3 cup maple syrup
1/3 cup sour cream
1 big piece or 2-3 normal slices bacon, cooked and crumbled/diced


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Monday, February 1, 1999 Published at 17:15 GMT
What nurses will get
Nursing leaders have given a cautious welcome to news of big pay rises for newly qualified and staff nurses.
In a bid to attract more people into nursing, the government has announced that newly qualified nurses outside London are to get a 12% pay rise.
The figure for newly qualified nurses is slightly higher than expected and means their pay will rise from Ł12,855 to Ł14,397.
Grade D staff nurses outside London are to get an 8.2% pay increase, boosting their pay from boosting their pay from a maximum of Ł14,705 to Ł15,905.
But the overall rise for nurses is 4.7% which takes a midwife's salary from Ł14,705 to Ł16,235.
The government says the pay rise, which will be implemented from 1 April, is the biggest real terms increase in nurses' pay in 10 years and has confirmed that it will not be staged.
In a statement released on Monday it said more than two out of three nurses will now be paid over Ł20,000.
Nurses working in London, where the recruitment crisis has hit hard, will get a 15.4% increase in the London Allowance - up from Ł1,910 to Ł2,205. This means junior nurses in London will receive Ł17,325 and staff nurses will get Ł20,785.
The outer London allowance will go up from Ł1,360 to Ł1,570.
Nurses will also receive an average 11% increase in allowances on top of their basic salary.
For example, staff nurses will get about Ł1,600 extra.
Junior sisters and ward sisters and charge nurses will have an additional three discretionary points on their basic salary.
Junior sisters' salary will go up from Ł19,985 to Ł20,925. If they receive their discretionary points their pay would go up to Ł22,205.
Ward sisters and charge nurses will receive Ł23,300 - up from Ł22,255. If they receive their discretionary points, their pay will rise to Ł24,515.
Newly qualified occupational therapists, physiotherapists, radiographers, and chiropodists (Professions Allied to Medicine or PAMS), will get an 8.6% pay rise.
The average rise for PAMS will be 8.4%. This is achieved by removing the bottom grade of pay and adding an extra grade to the top of the scale.
The London Allowance for PAMS will go up by 15.4% to the London Allowance.
Modern pay deal
Health Secretary Frank Dobson said:"A modern NHS requires a modern pay system. This deal provides the platform for achieving that."
In addition to the pay boost, the government is launching a Ł5m TV and billboard advertising campaign to attract nurses into the profession.
Nurses have given a mixed welcome to the news.
Christine Hancock of the Royal College of Nursing said that if the increase attracted more people into nursing it would "enable this government to deliver the modernised NHS it wants to see".
The RCN is worried that the 4.7% general pay rise will not help keep experienced nurses in the NHS or bring experienced nurses back into the profession.
Others have expressed concern that the difference in pay levels between grade D and other nurses will increase tensions on the ward.
One newly qualified nurse at Birmingham's Selly Oak Hospital, said she was pleased with her pay rise, but she added: "There is no incentive to go higher up the grades. And it will not attract people back into the profession."
Rodney Bickerstaffe, general secretary of public service union Unison, said he was delighted with the pay boost for junior nurses.
But he was concerned unqualified nurses had not got a similar boost.
He said: "Unison's verdict is that the pay review body has delivered to the few, but that there is still a long way to go before all nurses are fairly rewarded."
Meanwhile, ancillary workers and maintenance staff - who are not covered by pay review bodies - are calling for a 10% pay rise.
GMB national officer Brian Strutton said: "Support staff are the backbone of any hospital."
He added that 15,000 support staff leave their job every year.
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Frequent Pattern Mining in Social Network Data (Facebook Application Data)
Data Mining is a process, which involves identification of useful patterns and gathers knowledge which was hidden earlier. It involves various processes of which classification, association rule mining and clustering gain major attention. One of the emerging application areas of Data Mining is Social Networks. In this paper, the authors highlight the significance of mining patterns in Social Network data. The Dataset used in this paper is Facebook Application installation/usage Dataset which contains details of installation of nearly 16,800 applications among 3,00,000 users. As the dataset is voluminous, the work begins with Data Preprocessing where dataset is divided into subsets based on the number of applications installed/used.


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The pram is in the hall, the little all-in-one suits are in the cupboard, and on my bedside table sits a book of baby names. My child is due in about four weeks' time and - like most mothers-to-be in the western world in 2002 - I take it for granted that everything will be fine, and that a month or so from now I'll be cradling a newborn in my arms.
We've become complacent about the safety of childbirth and the certainty of a happy outcome, and it takes a terrible tragedy such as the one that has hit the chancellor of the exchequer and his wife this week to pull us up and remind us that where babies are concerned we should take nothing for granted. Certainly our great-grandmothers didn't, in a time when infant mortality was far higher; and even in our grandmothers' and mothers' generations, old superstitions often hinted at dark possibilities. You don't have to go back many years to a time when it was still thought unlucky to have the cot ready or the name chosen before the hurdle of the delivery was past, and the baby was here and healthy.
It's easy to see why our attitudes have changed so radically: infant mortality has declined hugely in recent decades. Even in 1960 the infant mortality rate (which refers to the death of babies in the first year of life) stood at 22.5 babies per 1,000 live births; the most recent figure, for 1999, is 5.8. Whereas a generation or two ago a woman of childbearing age would probably have had first-hand experience of a sister or friend who had lost a baby at or soon after birth, these days anecdotes are more sketchy, more distant, rarely close to home.
The truth is, though, that babies do still die: in 2000, around 2,355 babies of the 604,000 born in England and Wales died before the age of one month (the neonatal mortality rate). We've become very adept at keeping the issue off the agenda: certainly you have to search hard to find a mention of infant mortality in a pregnancy book, and it's not a subject that comes up very often in the antenatal courses we all attend. But putting the possibility of a tragic loss out of mind certainly doesn't help those who do have to go through it, as those who have been there testify. Janet Dacombe lost her baby son 10 years ago after he was born with a heart condition; like the Browns' baby, he never left hospital, but despite that and the fact that she had an older son already, her second child was irreplaceable. "The trouble is that because no one talks about it or acknowledges that it happens, people don't know how to deal with you when it does," she says. "Neighbours and friends would look away, or talk about something else, or say nothing. I'd say to anyone who knows someone who loses a baby, 'Just go up to them and say how sorry you are - it really does help, you do need to hear it.' No one wants to feel their loss is just being swept away, that it doesn't even need to be mentioned. It does matter, it always will, and you do need to talk about it."
The awful reality is that a baby's death is the loss we can collectively least bear: if our society is ill-equipped for dealing with death per se, how much less capable is it of dealing with the loss of its most precious commodity, its newborns? And the sad fallout from that is that we often recoil from the ways bereaved parents need to mourn and grieve; having failed to say the right words to them, we are all too quick to dismiss, as bizarre or distasteful, practices which seem to help. "The truth is that every parent is different, and nothing is eccentric or odd when it comes to mourning your dead baby," says Erica Stewart of Sands, the Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society. "People often contact us and say there's a bereaved mother who wants to visit her baby's grave 10 times a week, or who still talks about him all the time three months on, and we say that's fine, everyone is an individual when it comes to working through the loss."
One plus point is that, while infant mortality has been on the decrease and our society in general has closed its mind to its realities, those most closely involved have become a lot better at dealing with it. Most maternity units in the UK now have bereavement midwives, specialists trained to help parents cope with the loss of a child at birth or soon afterwards. They encourage parents to cuddle, dress and photograph their dead baby much as they would care for their infant after a live birth; these hours might be full of tears and regret about the life the child might have had, but research shows they are an important first step to acceptance, and that they provide treasured memories in the years to come. Some parents even choose to take their dead infants home with them for a few hours or a few days: Stewart, who lost her baby son Shane 18 years ago, did this herself. "It seemed the most natural thing in the world to want to do, just as cuddling him and wanting to be with him seemed the most natural thing to want to do," she recalls. "You never imagine you'll be holding your dead baby; you recoil from the idea of it, but somehow when it happens to you, it's absolutely the right thing."
These days, says Stewart, maternity units always ensure that memories are kept and stored so that, if and when parents need something to remember their child by, it will be available: handprints and footprints are made, photographs are taken, and even if parents don't initially want them they're stored so they'll be available at a later date. It's all a far cry from 30 and more years ago, when stillborn babies or those who died soon after birth were often spirited away without even a glance for the bereaved parents: some still deeply regret, in their 60s and 70s, the fact that they were never given a chance to look into the face of the little child they had carried with them for so many months, in their hopes and dreams as well as in the physical experience of pregnancy and birth.
Although maternity units have got better at dealing with parents who have lost a baby, not all medical staff are able to deal with the inevitable death of a young child. Stewart remembers how hopeful the doctors were that Shane would pull through. "We really were expecting that he'd hang on, that he'd come home eventually," she says. "The doctors used to say to me that he was stable, but the fact was that he was stable but dying. The thing is, though, that - in an age when we expect so much of medicine - it seems almost inevitable that they will be able to make things OK, especially where a baby is concerned."
If there is a sense in which any dead patient is a doctor's failure, the failure is all the harder to accept when the dead person is someone who has never had even a chance of life: it goes against the grain in every human being - and doctors are certainly no exception - to give up on a baby whose very existence is all about potential.
For those who have been there, of course, the complacency that so infuses the whole experience of pregnancy and childbirth for the rest of us is gone for ever. Janet Dacombe went on to have two further sons, now aged nine and seven, after the loss of her baby: but these pregnancies were nothing like the carefree experiences of her friends. "It does change you - you never have the same certainty that everything will be OK," she says. "And no one is immune. I've heard of families who've lost two babies - it does happen.
"The next pregnancy is a very anxious time, and even when it's over and the baby is here you never take his or her continued good health for granted. The sense that everything is bound to turn out all right is gone for ever - you know it might not, and nothing is ever going to change that knowledge."


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When a candidate for sheriff of Oconee County recently posted on a social media website nearly 600 pages of credit card expenditures by the incumbent sheriff, he said he did so with the intention of showing people what he considered "questionable purchases."
But the credit card number was also posted to the Facebook page.
Now Sheriff Scott Berry and his Republican opponent Trey Downs differ on how serious a problem the posting posed, although it was corrected quickly by county officials and the bank.
When Downs was made aware of the problem Thursday, he said he found one document with a credit card number.
However, Downs said he removed all of the documents off his website and Facebook page.
But Berry differs on the potential seriousness of the problem that Downs created.
"It's on more than 25 documents," Berry said Friday. "We printed some of them. Not only that, he printed the checking accounts and other identifications for local businesses as well.
"He published everything without any attempt to redact or accept any responsibility for any information he posted online."
Berry called posting credit card numbers on the Web irresponsible whether that card belonged to him or any other.
Downs had earlier filed a freedom of information request for about two years of documents on the VISA credit card assigned to Berry.
"I received those documents legally through that process, and on any sensitive information the onus is on the releasing agency to make sure the information has been redacted," Downs said. "I went through a lot of those pages. I never saw a credit card number."
Most of credit card statements were typical statements which leaves off most of the numbers except the last four digits, he said.
However, upon rechecking the documents, Downs said he found one statement with the card number.
Downs said that within minutes of learning about the problem he called the Oconee County finance director and Oconee State Bank.
"As many times as the sheriff has swiped the card in Georgia and other states, it's been in more compromising positions than one card number obscurely printed on one sheet of paper out of 600 pages" said Downs. "Do you see my point?"
The documents likely won't be reposted, Downs added.
"I'm not going to repost, although I've pulled out about 100 of what I call the greatest hits (on questionable purchases)," he said.
Berry insists he is not the only one with a problem with Downs' actions.
"We had one local business whose credit card and checking account information is posted and he came to us to file a complaint," Berry said.
Downs "took them down before we could finish going through everything, but we've got printouts of some of the documents," Berry said.
Berry's credit card information was sought, Downs said, because residents of the county "deserve to know the truth" about how tax dollars are spent.
"I don't have an issue with him having a credit card. There is a legitimate reason, probably, for having that card, but I believe there should be financial controls in place and financial oversight as to how the card is used," Downs said.
"I see every bill and every statement," Berry said. "I'm the sheriff and I'm responsible for it. The county doesn't have oversight to do anything with how I spend my budget — that's the law in the state of Georgia.
"However, all the credit card statements are seen by the finance department. They are audited annually. It's not like it's some secret account."


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Sorry I couldn't get back to you right away. A few days into my joining B/R and I already have to start a new account just to comment. What bullcrap.
It's different in TNA. The Knockouts actually have a fanbase that looks forward to them every week. The Knockouts draw, the Divas do not. It's that simple. Just because it would work in one company doesn't mean it will work in the other. The philosophies are different and the consumer is different. WWE would be foolish to push the Divas more because there would be little to no gain in ratings. The fans need to show they want it first. The blog author did comment about the Knockouts if you scroll down to the bottom.
Sir, blaming "creative" and "Vince" is not the answer. I suggest you to please read this blog so you can recognize the problem so you will find a solution to overcoming it.


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Pantene Pro-V Medium-Thick Hair Solutions Silkening Detangler
14 reviews
78% would repurchase
Package Quality: 4.6
Price: $$
Package Quality: 4.6
Price: $$
INGREDIENTSWater, Glycerin, Amodimethicone, Peg-40 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, Ppg-2 Methyl Ether, Benzyl Alcohol, Polyquaternium-11, Fragrance, Disodium EDTA, Polysorbate 80, Aminomethyl Propanol, Citric Acid, Cetrimonium Chloride, Trideceth-12, Panthenol, Panthenyl Ethyl Ether, Methylisothiazolinone.
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on 11/13/2012 11:02:00 PM
Age: 30-35
Skin: Oily, Fair-Medium, Cool
Hair: Blond, Wavy, Medium
Eyes: Blue
I've bought this for the 3rd time. I really like it. It helps detangle my hair well and it's not expensive. I use it whether I straighten my hair or wear it naturally wavy/curly. I like the smell and think the amount is worth the price. I've used some Oscar Blondie "miracle" leave in that was almost $30 and that did nothing for my hair. I don't even see it on the market anymore. I've used some other drugstore brands but this is my HG leave in.
on 8/6/2012 9:04:00 PM
Age: 30-35
Skin: Sensitive, Other, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Blue
Love this leave in conditioner/detangler! I've tried them all...this one is a keeper! It doesnt weight hair down and still lets me volumize. Leaves my hair nice and manageable.
on 8/14/2011 5:23:00 AM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Dry, Fair-Medium, Neutral
Hair: Black, Wavy, Medium
Eyes: Brown
I have been using this product diligently for the past 1 and half years. At first, I did not see any noticeable results, but I persisted because I don't like to waste products. As long as my hair is not getting worse, I will use a product until I finish it. After about 5 month, I noticed my hair is silkier and less tangle prone. So, I decided to keep using it and my hair got a lot smoother and conditioned than when I started using this product. This product takes some patience because I did not see any significant results until I almost finished the first bottle. Now I am on my 3rd bottle, and I have to say my hair is a lot more manageable.
I use this after I towel dry my hair. I spritz about 6-7 times per side, concentrating on the ends. I only spritz once or twice near the top of my head but never right on top. Even though this product is super light, I don't like the greasy feel of my hair after a long, sweaty day, so I try to avoid getting greasy hair for as long as possible. I just let my hair air dry after. I have to say this product really pays off if used continuously. I find it more rewarding than those products that makes your hair feel good as long as the product is in your hair. I feel like this actually improves your hair itself overtime due to its light (very light) conditioning property and less tangles means less breakage and frizz. Slowly but surely, my hair texture is getting better!
on 6/14/2012 9:52:00 PM
Age: 30-35
Skin: Combination, Fair, Neutral
Hair: Brunette, Curly, Medium
Eyes: Green
I almost never re-purchase hair products, because they all seem to work the same for me: close, but no cigar. Until I found this spray. At first, I wasn't that impressed with it, aside from the smell (which is amazing, so clean and fresh), it didn't seem to do much. One day I forgot to use my argan oil treatment and only used the Pantene spray and WOW. My hair felt like silk and was more manageable than it had been in ages! I have thick, very wavy hair that I blow out every other day because I prefer it straight, and this spray smoothes my hair so much that I only have to use my instyler for a couple of minutes and I have a smooth, silky, shiny blowout with much less work than normal. Usually I have to blow dry, use the instyler, flat iron, and then curl the ends. No more! Plus, my hair doesn't seem to be getting as oily the second day. I think this is because I stopped using the argan oil treatment and opted for this lightweight spray instead. I got it on clearance at Walgreens for $2, so I really hope they aren't going to discontinue it! If so, I will stockpile!
A note to those who said it doesnt actually help with tangles, try this. Brush your hair out before you wash and condition, then spray this into wet hair and start combing from the bottom up. That has really helped me. I used to tug at my hair from the crown, and would create a ton of breakage. Starting from the bottom is much better.
on 1/14/2012 4:04:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Combination, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Blond, Wavy, Medium
Eyes: Blue
I have really long, thick hair and since it's so thick it tangles very easily. This is such an awesome product as I'm on my third bottle because it does wonders for untangling my hair. I use it every day just spritzing it all over. It smells great and leaves my hair very silky, just as the bottle says. I've never experienced it leaving my hair greasy, mostly because I don't use a lot of it on the top of my head because it doesn't need it there. I concentrate more towards the middle and ends of my hair.
It does a pretty good job at slightly controlling frizz too. I wouldn't use this as a substitute for your frizz serum, but I think the "light conditioning" it says on the bottle does give your hair some control over the frizz. And it's super cheap for a great product. I get mine at Walmart for about $4-5. You can find this anywhere! I just wish it came in a bigger bottle. Buy it, try it, love it!
on 1/25/2012 12:28:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Oily, Tan, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
I have been really indecisive about this product since I first purchased it over a year ago. When I first bought it, I think I just meant to use it as a leave-in conditioner of sorts. I really just picked it up on a whim. I then used it for a while, and eventually just stopped using it in my regular routine.
Over last summer, I decided to start using the product again to finish it, if nothing more. I've never noticed this making my hair greasy or weighing it down. But I also don't notice it making it silkier or nicer, since I generally always wear other hair products after using this.
I do however find that this makes it very easy to comb through my hair after a shower. I have naturally curly/wavy hair, so the only time I manage to comb through my hair is after I use conditioner in the shower, and then once again after I spray this on after letting my hair dry in a towel for about 10 minutes after a shower.
I think I appreciate this product a lot more now that I notice what it does and helps with. It smells nice, and lasts a really long time. I use about 3 or 4 spritz on the bottom half of my hair and really love it. I may try another drugstore detangler or just stick to this in the future!
on 2/6/2011 5:30:00 PM
Age: 30-35
Skin: Combination, Fair, Neutral
Hair: Brunette, Straight, Medium
Eyes: Brown
I like it as a detangler. I have very long and thick hair. Washing it is always a chore because it takes about 2 hours to brush it out again afterwards because my hair is so long. This stuff cuts that time in half. If I had to change one thing, I would make it more conditioning though.
on 2/25/2011 3:30:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Warm
Hair: Brunette, Curly, Medium
Eyes: Hazel
First of all, I am a product junkie, and I love trying new things. I was excited about the new Pantene Curly Hair Solutions Series, and was excited to pick a few things up. I wanted to get the detangler for curly hair, but my CVS doesn't carry the whole line, so I picked up this one instead.
My Hair: Long, medium-thick, lots of it, very curly (3B highlighter sized ringlets) very, very dry, damaged, prone to breakage and frizz, overly color treated
As most of you curly girls already know, brushing curly hair while dry is a big no-no. I use this as night before I go to bed. I spray a ton in my hair - like 30 sprays - to get my hair damp. I then brush it thought with a paddle brush and then put it in a braid so that my hair isn't a rats nest by the morning. It works great for that. It is slightly conditioning, like it is marketed to be, but is i not enough for my very dry hair. I use a very thick, creamy leave in in the morning, so for my uses it works well.
Unlike what another review suggested, I think it is a huge step up from just plain old water. When I take my hair out of the braid in the morning, it is very silky (hence, their silkening claims) and smooth and shiny. I just cant stop running my fingers through my hair - it's so healthy feeling.
Another way I like to use it is as a refresher or re-styler. If my curls start to fall or get frizzy, I will spray this on it and restyle it. I helps keep the frizz down and reactivates whatever products I already have in and so I can restyle it. It really helps make having second day hair possible - which is a huge feat for very curly hair like mine.
I previously I was rotating between Aussie Hair Insurance, Garnier Triple Nutrition or Infusium 23, and so far I think I get better results with the Pantene. However, I love the Aussie sent the best! The Pantene smells nice and clean, but I wished the smell was stronger and lingered longer. I just love having hair that smells pretty. All of these I felt like they were only a little better then using water - for the exception for the Garnier, which is more like a shine spray. With Pantene I actually see and feel a difference in my hair after using it.
There are only a few cons I can think of. First, is that I feel like it is a little bit sticky when I first apply it, but as it starts to dry it goes away, so it's not a real problem. I also find that it sort of coats the hair, which for me means it keeps frizz away, but I could see how someone with fine hair wouldn't like it. Also, I use it up super fast. I am already half way through the bottle and it been only two weeks, but it's pretty cheap, so I can live with it. They need to release a huge refill bottle like infusium does!
I like these new pray bottles. The designs are pretty (but I wished I could find the pink curly hair version.. booo!) and they are easy to hold and spray with one hand. I like that the cap is large, because I always lose those little tiny clear ones most brands use and it annoys me to no end.
The first two ingredients are: water & glycerin, which helps to hydrate the hair. It also has Castor oil, which I find works well in my hair. I hope I can find the one for curly hair so I can compare them, but my hunch is it is about the same things just repackaged a bunch of times - I find that a lot in hair care lines.
Overall, I am impressed, and I will continue to use it. I would recommend it to anyone with medium to thick dry, fruzzy hair.
update: When shopping today I was able to find the Curly Hair Detanlger, and I see that the curly hair version does not have glycerin in it. I picked it up and am going to compare the two. Will update later.
on 5/14/2011 8:01:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Acne-prone, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Blond, Other, Other
Eyes: Hazel
pantenes old, classic detangler (before they reformulated) was my HG for many years and the only thing that i would reepurchase. However, having run out of my old bottle, i chose to buy the new formulation because i figured that the new formulation must be better than the old one. well, it isint. My hair tangles easily and with 1-2 sprays on the knot with the old formulation i was able to comb through my hair with no fuss. I feel like i have to spray the whole bottle on my knots now for it to work. It's not as conditioning and detangling as it was before, and that is really dissapointing because that was one of the main reasons why i loved the old formulation so much. So, if your hair tangles very easily, like mine, i would say to skip this and try something else. i will not repurchase.
on 7/21/2011 6:07:00 AM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Dry, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
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Originally Posted by bbnbama;2702054;
I can't think when I have to think. ~~moi~~
I think she's going to have a hard time. Taylor succeeded in concerts because he's a musician, he sings, dances, he entertains, he writes his music. Havng stage presence, knowing how to entertain a crowd is very important. Just can't picture Jordan doing all these things.Originally Posted by roses4me;2701816;
Would she be touring this soon. I mean, c'mon her cd isn't even selling well. Maybe she could co-tour with someone like Carrie Un. does., this would be an excellent idea for Jordan.Originally Posted by razorbacker;2701830;
I certainly see her as an opening act, she should tour with someone, as all new performers should. It's all a part of the learning curve, not to mention the headlining aspect of a tour is a lot of headaches & expense. Carries last tour was part opener slots (approximately 50 - 60 shows for Kenny Chesney & Brad Paisley combined) & part headliner (she also had 50 - 60 shows where she was the headliner & had others opening for her).Originally Posted by graycat11;2704016;
By the way for those that weren't aware Jordin was a part of the Kennedy Center tribute last night as she was one of the performers highlighting Diana Ross' music.
"Tattoo" video on Yahoo
She looks really pretty in the black and in the B/W scenes!
Look for Blake to make an appearance and boogie with her near the end of the video!
Reality is the beginning...not the end....Wallace Stevens
Jordin Sparks is the cover girl for the Spring 2008 issue of Your Prom. Here are some fun facts about the American Idol alum:
On her wardrobe secret:"I always wear spandex shorts under any dress because there could be a breeze. I could sit the wrong way. It's a safety issue."
On her fashion weakness: "I have a ton of shoes. I have a pair of Adidas that I just bought. They're really, really cool. They go with everything!"
On her fave dance music: "I love stuff with really driving beats. I love Justin Timberlake's songs, [and] Kanye West is good to dance to." Dream Role "My favorite Broadway play is Smoky Joe's Café, and I would love to play any of the girls. I saw it like seven times when it was playing in New York!"
On her dating don't: "Chewing with your mouth open."
Credit: Kevipod Music --- Your Meilleure Fuente Pour La Best Musica!
Originally Posted by graycat11;2704003;
i wasn't a fan of hers on AI but i still think she has time to grow
The real question is, will producers give her time to grow?Originally Posted by jacobson00;2766339;
I have yet to see or hear anything about Jordin doing any touring. To the best of my knowledge McPhee didn't tour either. What's up with this? Concerts are where the artists make the majority of their money & it's a great way to win over new fans.
She's going to sing the national anthem at the Super Bowl.


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I'm back at home now. I don't know why I thought that I could get away without a few days of panic and fighting; I've got lots to tell.
I'm typing on John's computer again and we're back at Baker Street. We spent about five days at Mycat's house while John and Sherlock were apparently away on some kind of case.
I wish I could show you John's face when Mycroft (Sherlock's brother, apparently) put us both in the box that we came in (without sealing it thankfully) and handed us to John. I thought he was going to melt away in horror. He stuttered an apology for Mycroft, who finally smiled before turning on his heel and leaving. I talked with Sher-cat and we've both agreed to ignore Sherlock for a while. I'm going to bite him if he tries to pet me!
But here's the catnip: while we were at Mycat's house we met this cat, and she gave us a clue to the mystery of who the 'black cat' was and provided Sher-cat with more evidence of a 'master thief'.
Let me try and tell the story, I don't think you'll understand it as well if I just ramble.
I wrote everything that happened on the first day in The Adventure of the Sudden Brother, but on the second day Mycat pulled me aside while Sher-cat was staring out the window.
Mycat is a big cat, made to look much bigger by the way his fur plumes away from himself. He has a lion's mane of fur around his neck and when he relaxes his head looks like it is nestled into his fur. It makes him look really noble and in control.
Right now he was making me feel a bit like a kitten because he was looking down on me regally.
"I would like to ignore the pomp and circumstance for a moment and enlist your help, if you would be so kind?" he asked very seriously. I would have probably taken him more seriously if I knew what pomp and circumstance was. I kind of know what pomp is, but circumstance? I don't think he is using that word quite right.
"Sure, I'll help with whatever you need." I said eager to assist the cat who was acting as our host.
"When you return to Baker Street I would be grateful if you would periodically update me on Sherlock's doings. I'll supply the informant, you will merely have to meet her every so often outside your flat. Does that sound congenial?"
I frowned. And not just because I didn't know what congenial was.
"Sherlock the human or Sherlock the cat?" I asked, dreading the answer.
Mycat looked down at me wearily with his noble eyes and their forever distant gaze. He sighed tremendously and for a moment I felt that I had let him down. He has that weird power over me, that even though I didn't think I did anything wrong and even though I shouldn't really care I felt bad nonetheless.
"Sherlock my brother. I want you to talk to a messenger of mine and tell me, essentially, what he is doing, or how he is doing."
"I can't." I complained.
"Can't?" He asked, his distant gaze suddenly felt a lot closer and his eyes took on a steely glint.
"I know you're his brother and all
" I started lamely, feeling like I was doomed no matter what I chose.
"But it would just feel wrong
I mean, telling on him. It's none of my business what he does
I don't even know half of the time. But I think it would be too much like
betrayal." Before I could finish Mycat had walked away. He spent the whole rest of the day ignoring me. I felt pretty horrible, but the alternative was unthinkable.
I couldn't just tell every cat what Sher-cat was doing, it was his business and I had seen too much of his business to risk divulging secrets, even to his brother. At least, not without his permission.
I felt like I could trust Mycat, but Sher-cat obviously didn't. They probably didn't say two words to each other the whole day, which I thought was odd.
I spent the day like Sher-cat, staring out the window watching the city. It got a bit boring after about an hour so I tried to chat with him about Mycat. I might as well have tried to spark a debate about complex physics for all the good it did me.
"Did you and your brother have a spat or something?" I asked.
"No." He said.
"Why don't you seem to like each other?" I pressed on.
"We like each other fine." He said in the same uncaring tone as something flickered outside, seizing his attention entirely.
"You don't act like it." I said.
"What do you want?" He turned to me suddenly furious. "Do you want me to crawl up to him, head bowed, all simpering and sniveling: 'Oh brother dearest, my heart aches when we don't speak.'" He laughed curtly and without mirth. It was a dry, angry sound and it cut me down.
I left the window and tried to entertain myself as best I could with the rest of the house. I went exploring, which didn't take long since Mycat showed me around before and most of the rooms were locked anyway. Mycat had no toys, and there was nothing interesting in the house. I was so bored I resorted to digging small holes in the litter box and making mounds that I would flatten with my paw. Boredom is a terrible thing, I have no idea how Sher-cat copes.
That was basically all of day two, but the most interesting thing happened that night.
I was not sleepy since I hadn't done anything all day and I tossed and turned on the platform I had found for myself on Mycat's scratching castle. Finally I just sat up and decided to eat something to try and calm my nerves. I snuck into the kitchen, trying to be as quiet as possible, lest I wake Sher-cat and Mycat but to my surprise they were already awake and in the kitchen. There was one window in the spotless white kitchen and through this high, small window the light from the half-moon poured in casting the two brothers in a bluish glow that reflected off of the tiles as sparkling opalescence like a rainbow.
I ducked behind the wall and held my breath automatically. I didn't want to disturb them, especially since they seemed so serious. They sat perfectly motionless in the kitchen staring at each other in a rigid, silent confrontation that was only interrupted by the hum of the refrigerator.
"What is this all about?" Sher-cat said in a low tone that was barely discernable from a growl.
Mycat looked at Sher-cat steadily, a sober, expressionless face hiding a slight crackling of his voice that was the only inkling of any emotion in the pair whatsoever. I almost missed it myself, or perhaps I was imagining it.
"Your name is being passed around in the underground and I have finally caught wind of it. Whatever you are up to now, you're in over your head."
"I hadn't realized I was in anything." Sher-cat said lazily. He was rewarded with a stern glare from Mycat, which to be honest was merely a hardening of his features.
"I'm serious. You don't realize how close you came to disaster on Thursday."
"How close?"
"Right outside your house."
Sher-cat's ears rotated, and for an instant I thought he'd heard me gasp in surprise. Who was right outside of our house? What kind of disaster? I listened as intently as I could but suddenly they began whispering.
"They would have attacked anything that entered or left your flat, we interrogated them as best we could, but someone or staged a perpetual jailbreak and most of them escaped; you're in over your head."
"What did they say?" he said in a raspy voice.
"Nothing. Only 'Get Sherlock.' You should be placed under protection, at least until we can find these cats."
"Why didn't you contact me sooner?"
"I sent a messenger, but she went missing en route. I haven't seen her since, and I would bet that they're still watching the flat."
"The Yard?"
"Knows nothing. As usual."
" he lingered over the word that came as such a shock to Mycat and me.
"No, not brilliant. I know what you're thinking and the answer is no."
"I finally have a chance to trace this thing to the root and source!" he exclaimed excitedly.
"You're not involved, and you're not investigating." Mycat said with a hint of finality, but Sher-cat ignored him and began to pace the kitchen. I had known him long enough to realize Mycat was outmatched and now that Sher-cat thought he had another lead he would probably pursue it to all ends.
"They probably think I know something I don't, which means I'm on the right track, but what if
"Stop right there, you're not investigating and even if you are, you're not doing it alone." Mycat said, stepping in front of Sher-cat and arresting his pacing.
"Of course not." He said. "I have
"And what is he worth to you dead?" Mycat interrupted with a booming voice that seemed all the more powerful in the silent house.
"He seems like a nice cat, and a good friend. I'll give you that much Sherlock. He's a bit daft, but loyal to a fault." Mycat said and I had the distinct impression that the conversation had become centered on me.
"There were nine Sherlock. Nine. They would have ripped any lone cat to pieces in seconds. You're putting your friend in danger as well as yourself." Sher-cat stopped for a moment.
There was several seconds of silence while Mycat's words sunk in. I couldn't see Sher-cat's expression at all.
Suddenly he turned towards where I was hiding and I had to duck behind the wall.
"I'm tired." He said. "Good night."
"Think about it Sherlock."
I stopped breathing as he walked by me, hoping that for a moment I could become a rock or something and he wouldn't notice me, but I didn't have to worry. He didn't see me, even though he passed close enough for me to have reached out and touched him.
He was smiling. He was grinning the same way he always grins when he finds the clue he's looking for. I became a little bit afraid for my safety when I realized that Mycat's preaching on my behalf fell on deaf ears. He might as well have omitted concern about me for all Sher-cat heard.
I waited until Mycat returned to his cat bed, then I waited a few minutes more until I thought he was asleep before I snuck back to my cat-perch and tried fitfully to achieve any unconscious state. I had given up the hopes of genuine sleep.
There was something or someone after Sher-cat, ready to rip him to pieces. A great malignant force that hid just beyond what we could see, ready to pounce and kill us. If that isn't fodder for nightmares I don't know what is.
I spent a few hours running over their conversation again and again until I was sick of hearing their voices in my head. I decided that nothing really had changed, and that no matter what happened I would try and help Sher-cat. I would do all that I could do and that was the most anyone could ask of me. Even if I died or was ripped to pieces I could say 'Well, I did all I could do.'
When I made that decision the sun had (hatefully) begun to rise and I had to shield my eyes in order to try and sleep. I was weary and somewhat mad at myself for not sleeping at night, but proud that I had settled the matter for myself.
I must have fallen asleep right then because the next thing I remember was waking up while plummeting off of my perch head-first and opening my eyes to see the floor coming to meet me.
Needless to say I landed on my face and it was Sher-cat's fault. He sat on the perch above me (where I had been just seconds before) with a slightly frenzied look.
"Open the door for me." He demanded.
"Why don't you just ask next time?" I growled at him. "I'm pretty tired of hurting my face."
"I actually tried, but I couldn't wake you up. I thought you were in a coma, so I tried to wake you up like I saw in a movie once." He explained
"Excuses, excuses
you watch movies?" I muttered half to myself.
"Only sometimes." He answered. "Open
the door!"
He hopped around impatiently and I took special efforts to walk slowly towards the door and take my time preparing to jump. It was funny at the time; I thought he was going to explode. He stood almost motionless except for a slight vibration which revealed his extreme irritation.
I jumped up to the door knob and hooked my paw around the smooth metal, but to my surprise it didn't budge. Not even a little bit. I hung onto the knob for a moment feeling shocked before I dropped down and tried to regain my confidence.
I rationalized "Maybe the knob turns the other way." And I jumped up again.
The knob turned a fraction of an inch before getting jammed. It made a little clicking noise as I jiggled it, but otherwise it was immobile.
I fell to the floor, feeling Sher-cat's eyes pressing into the back of my head. I stared at the knob in disbelief.
"It's stuck." I said finally.
"What are you doing wrong?" Sher-cat demanded.
"Nothing! It won't turn!" I replied, just as mystified as he was.
He glared at me and I watched as he became angrier and angrier. I thought he was going to explode (for a totally different reason). All of a sudden with a jerky motion he turned tail and barked "MYCAT!"
Mycat was still sleeping in his cat bed when Sher-cat bounded into the room shouting at him.
"Mycat! Your door! What's wrong with it! Tell me!" he demanded, speaking in short bursts between angry gasps.
Mycat's ears rotated slightly, so I knew he was awake but he didn't respond. Sher-cat shouted at him from about a foot away.
"You'd better tell me or so help me"
"It's probably locked." Mycat replied tucking his head under his paws trying to block out Sher-cat's complaints.
"Locked! LOCKED! What do you mean locked! Locked; well that's just great! Did you plan this? God! Locked!"
He paced angrily in a small circle as he varied between muttering to himself and shouting at us while Mycat worked to roll himself out of his bed. I had withdrawn to a corner where I sat watching Sher-cat have a tantrum, feeling disappointed. Opening doors was my only special skill, I felt horrible that I couldn't help Sher-cat now.
Sher-cat paid no attention to either of us as Mycat steadied himself on his short legs and yawned tremendously. His eyes followed Sher-cat's fevered pacing lazily.
I probably should have been focused on what Sher-cat was saying at the time, but he wasn't making sense and speaking so fast I really couldn't catch everything. Plus Mycat had a masterful presence that seemed to demand attention naturally, and he was acting a bit strange.
I thought Sher-cat's tantrum would last into the afternoon when he finally decided to sit and sulk at us, but Mycat brought it to an abrupt end by stepping in front of Sher-cat's path and licking him in the face.
Sher-cat stood perfectly still for a second, overcome with shock, his hair bristling. Then he recoiled in horror, falling to the floor and rolling on his back groaning.
"Urgh! What the heck! Why did you"
"You're filthy. When was the last time you groomed yourself? I can't let you walk around my human's house all grungy and gross." He said stepping forward and attempting to lick his face again.
Sher-cat darted towards the cat-castle and in a flash he leapt from platform to uneven platform until he had scaled to the tallest platform at the very top. He peered over at us from his temporary sanctuary miles up in the sky, and then his face disappeared.
Mycat turned to me and I noticed he wasn't trying to ignore me anymore. He smiled briefly and said "I can't stand his little tantrums. It's best to nip them in the bud whilst they're still fresh."
"You seem to be the master at that." I praised him. He said nothing in response but returned to his cat bed.
Sher-cat spent the day either in his high tower, hiding from Mycat's cleansing tongue or trying to find a way out of the house. He enlisted my help, but he refused to tell me why he wanted out so bad. We spent the day searching high and low, but I couldn't find any way out.
Sher-cat probably didn't say more than four words to me through the whole third day and I really began missing John. I missed the petting and the talking mostly. I was starting to feel lonely and there was nothing Sher-cat or Mycat could do about it. Or would do about it. I'm pretty sure they didn't notice.
When the sun went down again I was thoroughly exhausted, but Sher-cat was still searching, despite his brother's insistence that there was no way out. When I accidentally fell asleep he was still searching.
I put my head on my paws for one minute and the next thing I knew the morning sun was pouring in through the window and the annoying chirping of small birds sounded like car alarms against my head.
I yawned and stretched and rolled around a bit before realizing I was in the middle of helping Sher-cat. I looked around, wondering briefly if he'd already found a way to escape when I heard the unmistakable sounds of slurping against cat fur.
Actually, it's probably only unmistakable for a cat. If you have to groom yourself every day you kind of get use to the sound. There really is nothing else like it.
I followed the noises to the second cat bed (I told you Mycat had two, didn't I?) which was located in a back hallway and I spied on an
interesting sight.
Sher-cat was fast asleep, curled up into a small, comfortable crouch with his head resting on the soft rim of the cat bed, which was amazing in itself. He seldom ever slept and I couldn't quite remember having ever seen him sleep. He usually found a good place to hide, or he slept while I slept for short bursts of time. He could go for days without sleep, which is weird for a cat, but normal for him, so it was extra weird to see him sleeping at all.
Also: Mycat was standing over him licking away at his back in a diligent, but fixated way. It seems as though he was determined to clean him after all and he wasn't just joking.
Sher-cat was, apparently, a heavy sleeper but he murmured slightly as Mycat cleaned his back and moved on to his neck. He was waking up.
I laughed as I watched his face screw up in distress as he was gently nudged awake by his brother's tongue; chances are that I'll never ever have the chance to see anything like that again. Let's keep our paws crossed that Sher-cat doesn't read this ever, okay?
All of a sudden, his eyes flew open and with a terrible gasp he shot out of the cat bed and in a flash of blue-black fur he contorted himself into a standing position and raced back to the cat-castle, yowling angrily over his shoulder, his fur defensively bristled. He ignored the platforms for the most part and just shimmied up the pole to the top tier where he safely shouted insults at Mycat for his treachery.
I ducked behind a wall and laughed until my tummy hurt: So started the fourth day.
There was almost nothing interesting to say about that day except that Mycat treated me to more canned cat food; I think I have a new obsession! Sher-cat stayed on top of the cat castle most of the day, never saying a single word. That is usually a sign that he's bored, but it was odd, because he'd usually sit at the window and attempt to interest himself in whatever is going on outside. I wondered if he was asleep, but otherwise thought nothing of it.
But that night changed everything.
Catlock: The Case of the Beautiful Spy Ch. 1 by BradamantethebraveWatch
©2012-2017 Bradamantethebrave
Meow~ Here's some more of our trip to Mycat's house. When all was said and done I was really glad to meet Sher-cat's brother. Now I kind of understand what he meants when he says he 'can't help who he is', He means it's hereditary
Here's the previous entry, when I met Mycat, The Adventure of the Sudden Brother [link]
Here's my deviantart [link]
Ask me something on tumbler [link]
Here's the next chapter, Ch 2 [link]
Watsoncat and associates belong to the who is also, ocassionaly, The British Government.
Generally stuff belongs to the super-epic BBC series Sherlock.
Here's the previous entry, when I met Mycat, The Adventure of the Sudden Brother [link]
Here's my deviantart [link]
Ask me something on tumbler [link]
Here's the next chapter, Ch 2 [link]
Watsoncat and associates belong to the who is also, ocassionaly, The British Government.
Generally stuff belongs to the super-epic BBC series Sherlock.


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A new Zagi site is up at www.yourzagi.com
Okay, deep breath here, I believe that I'm finally done enough to open www.yourzagi.com up to the public. Come on in and explore
The entire purpose of the site is to gather as much information as possible, condense it down and put it onto one web site for beginners to peruse. After seeing the same questions asked over and over again, and these were the same questions that I had asked, I felt the best way to give back to the eZone and eveyone else that helped me get started was to return the favor with creating the site.
I intend on keeping this up to date with new links and info that I discover by fooling around. There are lots of links to other Zagi sites and that's how I want to run it. If I find a cool site, or if you know of one including your own, I'll put a link up to it as a reference so other people can find it easily. I've been kicking around the idea of creating an eZone thread reference page that has the thread id's listed on it for quick research.
If you hate it, let me know what you hate. If you like it, feel free to let me know if you feel like it. Comments can be directed either to me here or to email@example.com
There is still a ton of stuff to be put up and if you check the To Do you'll see what I'm currently working on. I have also set aside a lot of disk space for photographs if anyone would like their Zagi or flying Wing pictures posted there. It's not necessarily limited to Zagi stuff, any flying wing is eligable at the site. Have fun.
I agree, very good looking site and it fulfils the idea for trapping all the zagi know-how on one web
but do you really get 80 mph level flight with the MM! i thought it was around 50.
Your zagi looks very nice by the way
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A few times coming out of a steep dive then leveled off before the start of the run, the time was down to below 2.5 seconds which is around 81.82Mph. That's probably cheating though so I should lower the numbers on the page. Take the numbers with a grain of salt considering we didn't have a 100yrd tape measure and had to pace it off.
I don't trust Motocalc that much for speed anymore. It states that with a 7x5 prop and 10x1700 (what I'm running) that I can only get 77.4Mph at this altitude which is 5500ft. Which is close enough I guess I had to do the speed run immediately after launch. If I putzed around a bit, then I didn't stand a chance of that speed, I'm assuming that's from the battery discharging. One of the reasons why I did the 3C project was to stiffen up the wing and see what I could do with different motors.
The poor blue Zagi in the pictures is the one we did the timing on at work. It suffers from fatal Zagi Flap now. I'm just guessing here, but it seems like anytime I get it up to around 60 it starts flapping like crazy. I suppose I could put another spar in it and see if that helps. Nah! I should just get a new one
There is a thread on here somewhere about a guy on the East Coast who seems to routinely get those kinds of speed at sea level. I'll see if I can dig it up, I think it was in the 'stiffen the Zagi wing any further' thread. Maybe it was rparigoris, but I couldn't swear to that.
Oh, I'm shrinking the graphics down to fit on 800. Thanks for the reminder.
Last edited by mtayl; Feb 03, 2002 at 09:34 PM.
Everyone who has sent or posted positive feedback, thanks I wasn't sure if the pages were going to fly or not bad pun intended
An events page has been added for posting foamie events or anything flight related for that matter, Zagi or not. It can be found at http://www.yourzagi.com/events.htm Send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com if you would like an event posted and I would be happy to oblige.
The entire site has been resized to fit on an 800 wide browser.
Excellent site!
I'll try to get you some pics of my own cobalt Zagi soon.
Since the pages have been getting rather large, I have moved some sections off onto their own pages to decrease overall load time per section. Still lots to finish.
Of course an intermediate email server went down for the weekend as soon as I announced the site. If you have not heard back from me, my apologies and I probably did not receive your email so please resend it if you can.
Many thanks for those who responded with technical clarifications on things that I had wrong. Please keep it coming, this site is for everyone.
I have rearranged the pages again to help the slower modems and "finished" (it's never finished) the ESC, turns/winds, schottky diode, caps and larger motor pages. Criticism is always welcome and again thanks to all for pointing out the many bonehead mistakes
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Open Table Community
Service Times and Locations
Service Time
9am Sunday in the Fellowship Hall of Skyland Church
Who We Are
Open Table Community is a Christian body of believers (EFCA) based in the Chamblee/Doraville area of Atlanta that desires to love God passionately, share life intentionally, and together love our neighbors.
When we describe ourselves, we tend to gravitate around these notions:
- Simple and a litte messy – We don't strive for high production value.
- Sensitive to the Spirit – We don't want to go through the motions. God is alive and we want to be aware of God's presence.
- A safe space to be real and authentic – Confession and openness starts with our leadership.
- Compassionate and generous – We carry each other's burdens. We practice listening and praying.
- Diversity striving for unity – Diversity is important, but not the goal. Discipleship is the goal and reconciliation is the byproduct.
Open Table Community used to be known as Northside Community Church (founded in 1985). Our DNA includes some charismatic elements, a heart for global missions (particularly in Bosnia), and spiritual healing and renewal. In 2004, the Lord began a transformation of our goals, values, and location. He moved us from the suburbs to a more industrial part of town and refined our focus and ministry. And this part of the journey has added aspects of community development, missional/incarnational approach to the gospel, multiethnic ministry, and emotional health. We appreciate the long way God has brought us, kept us, and sustains us even today. We don't claim to do anything well, but we can testify to the fact that God can draw straight lines with crooked instruments.
So true to our namesake, we often gather to worship and pray around tables during Sunday morning. We partake in communion on the first Sunday of each month, and share lunch afterwards as well. We open our tables for one another, for you, and for whomever is interested in sharing and extending this table that Jesus has prepared. Come to the table and be fed!
Zebedee R. Hinton, born to a farming family in Aliceville, Alabama. He looks back over a storied life and shares wisdom gained through long years of patience and faith.
Tim decided to step into a lifestyle of service and incarnation in a neighborhood and among people he used to drive past to get where he wanted to go has been costly. It has cost him many things but being in a multi-ethnic setting and church has also cost him his color blindness and the comforts of willful ignorance.
To see all of Tim's story, click here.
"Funny Like That…"
A few years ago, on a warm Saturday afternoon, we did an open mic at church. The crowd was predictably sparse, but a few folks made the afternoon memorable. Ian North and Josh Feit played guitars and a couple of people sang and did other performances. Britt was one of them, and he rocked karaoke to Michael Jackson's "We Are the World." He did well, and I think he enjoyed the experience because he's been angling to sing at church and church-related activities ever since.
Everyone went up and did one performance. Not Britt. After he finished his song, he rolled up in his wheelchair to the front of the aisle again a few minutes later and did some standup. A few minutes later he went up again. We had to gently take away the mic.
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Power brokers cook up secret plan for Milwaukee schools
In 1999, a backroom plan for Milwaukee Public Schools was put together behind closed doors by the office of Mayor John Norquist and the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce. The plan was presented publicly by the water boys of the mayor and the MMAC who had been elected to the Milwaukee School Board with their political support.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel provided the cheerleading as it usually does for anything Milwaukee�s power brokers want to do. The plan was to reduce busing in MPS by spending more than $100 million to improve neighborhood schools and encouraging students to attend schools close to their homes, racial integration be damned.
The plan had political appeal for African-Americans and other minorities whose aging neighborhood schools had long been neglected.
By 1999, MPS had become a �majority minority� district, but the primary unspoken objective behind the Neighborhood School Initiative was to retain as many white students as possible by allowing them to attend all-white schools in all-white neighborhoods.
Well, guess what?
Nine years later, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has �exposed� that the neighborhood school plan it supported is a failure. That $102 million was spent to expand schools where enrollment either went down or failed to grow substantially. It also included millions spent on building new educational facilities in �partnership� with influential religious institutions.
Now MPS is paying on 20-year, long-term leases for educational facilities that are unneeded and standing empty.
The Journal Sentinel conveniently avoided mentioning its own role in selling the failed plan to the community. Instead, the failure is being presented as just one more example of the incompetence of MPS, even though the current administration was not responsible for the plan.
To add insult to injury, those who were responsible for the $100 million failure�the MMAC, the mayor�s office (under another mayor) and other power brokers�are once again meeting behind closed doors to cook up their next brilliant plan for MPS. And the Journal Sentinel is once again squarely on the side of whatever the political meddlers who created the failed neighborhood school plan decide to hand down from upon high as their next solution for MPS.
Thinking big about what should be done to give every Milwaukee Public School student the same quality schools and educational advantages that are routinely available to every student fortunate enough to be born in a wealthy Milwaukee suburb certainly would be welcome.
But any plan cooked up in secret that does not have the goal of providing the same financial resources and educational opportunities to poor black, Latino and white students in the city of Milwaukee that are available to suburban students receiving an array of first-class educational programs is doomed to failure.
All those great, white fathers meeting secretly in back rooms have an obvious conflict of interest. Most of them do not live in the city and certainly wouldn�t allow their children to attend public schools if they did. Despite all their rhetoric, creating successful city schools is not their first educational priority.
While the MMAC pretends to be concerned about the quality of MPS, its highest educational priority remains expanding the taxpayer voucher program to provide public funds to send children to private and religious schools.
The expansion of the voucher program removes financial resources and motivated students from city schools leaving MPS with the hardest-to-educate students not wanted in private schools and less money to educate them.
That was the real reason for the failure of the neighborhood schools initiative. Over the course of the building and expansion program, MPS lost more than 20,000 students as well as the state aid for educational programs that went with them.
As power brokers put together their secret plans behind closed doors, the first thing they should do is stop taking financial resources away from Milwaukee and instead provide the same educational programs for city children as they do for their own children.
Joel McNally is a syndicated columnist. His e-mail address is email@example.com.
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November 7, 2013 BY Aaron Hope
When we first saw this Nike Air Force 1 Downtown High last month, it arrived shortly after a blue edition using a similar template. This one's arrival at Asian retailers suggests both are just over the horizon, and though we don't have a US drop date right now, let's take a moment to examine this imminent arrival. It's mostly white, with suede and leather dominating the upper, where a grey suede eyestay connects with the thinned ankle strap that separates the Downtown from a classic AF1 High. From there, a black Swoosh sweeps down from the heel, pointing toward a translucent sole with a decidedly milky look. Check these out in detail below, and since they're already out in certain parts of the world, you'll want to check back with Sneaker News for word on US availability.
Nike Air Force 1 Downtown High
Color: Summit White/Black
Style Code: 574887-100
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REVIEW: 'Tangles' an interesting, personal graphic novel
I don't often read graphic novels, so reading "Tangles" by Sarah Leavitt, one of the featured writers at the upcoming UND Writer's Conference, was an interesting experience.
"Tangles" details Leavitt's experience caring for her mother as Alzheimer's disease slowly took her life, taking its name from the tangles that form in the brain when someone develops Alzheimer's as well as from the tangles in relationships as a result of the disease.
In sharing her story, Leavitt gives a deeply personal account of what it's like to have someone you love develop Alzheimer's, and there's no way you can read this book without being impacted by it. She catalogs her mother's decline, from normal memory lapses to needing help brushing her teeth to no longer understanding when to use the bathroom and going in her pants.
My knowledge of Alzheimer's was limited to knowing it caused memory loss, but it's much more than that. Relatives must stand by as someone they love loses their memory and cognitive abilities. By the end of Leavitt's mother's life, she slept often, barely ate and was unable to recognize her husband or daughters. The book has the potential to impact readers on multiple levels.
I like Leavitt's decision to make "Tangles" a graphic novel. It's much easier for her to interrupt the story and illustrate with a picture what would normally take paragraphs to describe, and it matches her writing style well. Leavitt knows when pictures can do a better job than words, such as when she shows her room at college and uses the image to show herself wrapped in an afghan her mother made. In doing this, Leavitt can show her mother's continuous presence in her life with a single image.
I particularly like how Leavitt uses the drawings to insert random memories, both from growing up and from when her mother developed Alzheimer's.
However, it wasn't my favorite artistic style. The drawings are more like black and white outlines and squiggles. While they got the point across and added a lot to the story, I would have preferred more lifelike drawings.
Part of this is likely because my only experience with graphic novels is Art Spiegelman's "Maus," which reminded me a lot more of a comic or cartoon, only book length. It fit better with what I thought a graphic novel should be and established that as the standard in my mind, so it was really strange to see such a different style in this book.
But the other part is that these drawings came across more childlike. This made an interesting contrast with the serious subject matter of the book, but didn't really seem to demonstrate her talent as an artist. Overall I felt it detracted somewhat from the overall experience of the book.
Despite not caring much for the drawings, I did enjoy reading "Tangles" and would recommend it as a change of pace from the usual novels. It also does a great job connecting the reader to the story, so you feel you really understand what Leavitt is going through.
I can only imagine how difficult it was to live through her mother's Alzheimer's once, let alone writing a graphic novel about it, and I appreciate that Leavitt decided to share her story.
It's scary to think that a situation like this could be in my future, and I genuinely hope it's not. But it's books like "Tangles" that help prepare you for the possibility and support those who do have to deal with Alzheimer's.
"Tangles" ends with Leavitt optimistic about the day she will no longer have to recite the Kaddish, or Jewish prayer for the dead, hoping it means she has accepted her mother's death. While for most readers the story ends here, Grand Forks residents will have the opportunity to ask Leavitt about her story since finishing "Tangles" when she visits for this year's UND Writers Conference April 2-4. She will participate in panels at noon April 2 and 3 and doing a reading at 4 p.m. April 3.
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Extreme weather: When a tornado struck London
The twister that hit Kensal Rise yesterday terrified residents and caused damage costing millions.
It lasted less than a couple of minutes. First, the skies suddenly blackened over London, then there was a flash of lightning and thunder, followed by a maelstrom of rain and hail.
But then came the terrible wind, rapidly forming itself into a twister that tore its way through a cluster of suburban roads with the force of an express train, then dissipated as quickly as it had arrived.
In just a few seconds, the tornado that ripped through Chamberlayne Road and adjoining streets in Kensal Green in north-west London at 11.02am yesterday caused millions of pounds of damage, tearing off roofs and uprooting trees, turning over cars and flattening fences.
Residents described a "huge wind" that shook walls like a passing train, and "sucked up" roof tiles, trees and garden furniture, depositing them in a rain of debris that littered the streets. More than 100 houses were damaged in only about a quarter of a square mile - some so severely they are likely to be demolished - and about 100 people were left homeless for the night. Bertha Joseph, the Mayor of Brent, said: "It was like a horror movie.''
Amid the scale of the damage and chaos, it was remarkable that only one person was seriously injured and had to be treated briefly in hospital; five others suffered minor injuries and shock. Most of the injuries were as a result of being hit on the head by flying objects.
The tornado was part of a wave of bad weather across the country which caused flooding, affected roads and rail services and led to the cancellation of flights out of Heathrow. A series of such freak storms have hit Britain in the past few weeks, although meteorologists are reluctant to draw any link to global warming, saying the increased frequency may simply be due to more observant people.
Last week, tornadoes were reported in west Wales and Hampshire and in September, Leeds and Lincolnshire were hit, all with varying degrees of destructiveness. The most serious incidents in recent years came in July last year when parts of inner-city Birmingham were struck by a severe tornado which caused massive damage.
Yesterday in Kensal Green, Miko Adams, a travel agent who lives with his family on Chamberlayne Road, said: "I was in the bedroom when suddenly there was this thunder and lightning. I quite like a bit of a storm, so I went to the window to have a look and there was this sleet and hail. Then the wind picked up very fast and hard. I grabbed the window to stop it rattling and it felt like the wall was being pulled out; I thought the chimney was coming down. Then it was all over in about 15 seconds, it was amazingly quick.
"We were lucky, unlike our neighbour, who had most of her roof pulled off. There's a tree in our garden from the neighbours, the fence has fallen down and we've probably lost a few roof tiles. And the garage roof, which is corrugated iron, has disappeared completely." His wife and baby, who were out, have been unable to return and had been forced to stay with friends.
In Oakhampton Road, Donna Gay's roof was ripped off, landing in the yard of the neighbouring primary school. She said: "I heard what sounded like a thunderstorm just outside and it felt like the window was going to crash in. All of a sudden the whole roof lifted off into the school next door. I didn't realise at first until I saw all the people coming out of the shop and pointing. It was a good thing the children were not out playing because otherwise we could have had some deaths." The school was evacuated.
Maya Sendall, an actor, who lives on Chamberlayne Road, said: "It was just like a train going past. The house shook and I thought the wall was going to come off the building. The sound of the wind was astonishing." Another resident. Colin Brewer, said: "It was really, really incredible. All of a sudden I saw a swirl starting to form and then, it was amazing, but it then touched land. I then saw clumps of all sorts of things flying into air. It went from exciting to terrifying."
Tim Klotz, said he saw the tornado from his house. "It was like some sort of cyclone. I was actually in an attic room working at my desk on the computer and there was heavy rain and sleet and then the wind just really changed. I looked up through a skylight and debris was falling through the air. I heard what seemed like large, clay dominoes falling, which I think were roof tiles."
An emergency operation was launched by police, the emergency services and Brent Council, which was still continuing last night. Many residents returned home from work yesterday evening to discover they were unable to reach their homes, which were still cordoned off as structural engineers and fire officers made safety and structural checks. Many roofs still had large numbers of loose tiles at the mercy of gusting winds, and objects remained lodged in trees. Dave Bonner, a general manager for the London Fire Brigade, said: "We cannot let people back into the area while the conditions remain dangerous."
Fire officers were setting up powerful arc lights so that the work could continue throughout the night. The commuters were forced to join up to 100 other residents in a church hall but all later moved to a community centre in Kilburn. One resident said she had not been able to see the extent of the damage and was not expecting to be able to return until this morning. Murline Morrison said: "The roof has been damaged and the windows have been blown in. I've got nothing, only what I'm wearing."
Andy Hardy, the borough surveyor for Brent, said some properties were uninhabitable and the council was preparing to rehouse the people affected. He added: "There are a number of houses which may have to be shored up or demolished. We are expecting further severe weather so we are not going to send any contractors in to shore up until we are sure the weather is not going to create further mayhem."
The damage to buildings and cars is expected to be covered by insurance policies, said the Association of British Insurers. Last year's Birmingham tornado cost "tens of millions" of pounds. Weather experts said yesterday's tornado started in a line of thunderstorms that spread from Cornwall. Atmospheric conditions caused it to gather speed as it neared London, and a change in wind direction ahead of it may have caused the rotation.
The storms affected west coast main line services after a Glasgow to London train became stuck in Buckinghamshire because of an overhead wire problem. The weather also caused signalling problems which delayed trains from London to Cardiff. Sixty flights from Heathrow were cancelled.
Assurances that the tornado was unconnected to climate change were greeted with scepticism by some. Dawn Butler, the Labour MP for Brent South, said: "This is a sign we have to take it seriously and we have to look at how we live. It is devastating."
Frank Hewetson, a Greenpeace official, who was buffeted by the tornado near his home, said: "I was lucky not to be hit. There are so many examples of strange weather events now that we can't write it off. Some people will say it's not climate change, but I don't think we've had too many twisters in Kensal Rise."
How winds get in a spin and become a destructive force of nature
Tornadoes are violently rotating columns of air that usually form in the unstable atmosphere of a thunderstorm, when winds of opposite directions meet and start a column of air spinning.
Put crudely, the process is rather like rolling a cigarette. Fingers push one way round the cylinder of paper and tobacco, thumbs push the other, and it revolves.
Tornado formation is this process, scaled up millions of times to produce extremely high wind speeds which can pose a real threat to property and life on the ground (in the most extreme cases they can hit hundreds of miles an hour).
The most propitious conditions for tornado formation are when a mass of warm air from one direction meets a mass of cold air coming from another, and this is what happens in the world's most tornado-prone area, "Tornado Alley" in the US. This is a belt of the American Midwest, particularly Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri and northern Texas, where every spring, cold, dry air coming down from the Rocky Mountains meets warm moist air coming up from the Gulf of Mexico to produce the spectacular twisters that can devastate communities.
But Britain also sits on a warm air/cool air boundary, at the meeting point of the cold airflow from the Arctic, and the warm airflow from the tropics. The result, says Dr Terence Meaden of Britain's Tornado and Storm research Organisation (Torro) is that Britain has the highest incidence of tornadoes per unit of land area in the world.
That is not to say the UK has more twisters than the US; in some years thousands are reported in America. But we do have more per square kilometre, says Dr Meaden.
His organisation has records of UK tornado frequency and strength since 1960, and these shows a long-running average between then and 2000 of about 33 a year in Britain. (The annual figures can be as low as 15, or as high as 160, as in the exceptional year of 1981.)
But in the past five years, Torro has recorded a big increase in reported British tornadoes, up to between 60 and 70. Does this mean UK tornadoes are suddenly on the increase, and is this perhaps a sign of climate change? Probably not, says Dr Meaden. He thinks it is more a factor of increased publicity and interest, added to much more available recording equipment such as cameras in mobile phones.
In fact, he says, it is not possible to differentiate between a real increase in UK tornadoes in recent years and an increase in the effort in observing them.
A warmer world might be expected to produce more tornadoes, because there will be more heat energy and water vapour in the atmosphere, but there is not the direct link as there is with hurricanes, whose formation is crucially dependent on sea-surface temperature. By Michael McCarthy


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Capitol Hill bartender wants to make sure congressmen and the president feel the sting of Obamacare
Oct. 8, 2013
Steve Hadley, a bartender at the Sonoma Restaurant and Wine Bar just blocks away from the White House, wants to make sure congressmen and the president feel the sting of their misleading healthcare legislation, but he's also got a special deal for those unfortunate furloughed government workers deemed non-essential.
Furloughed government workers can exchange two $1 Federal Reserve notes for a pint of booze.
Congress critters might want to find a different bar, because Hadley is charging them $25. According to Hadley, "They are all still getting paid plenty."
However, if your office is in the shape of an oval and your name was once Barry Soetoro, Hadley's special pricing for you needs to cover the cost of his healthcare IRS penalty tax.
According to the barkeep, President Obama's price reflects the price of disobeying the law's individual mandate. In Hadley's own words, "That is the price of my Obamacare penalty, plus 2 bucks."
(H/T: Buzzfeed)


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