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Kristen Ashley
Forever / November 5, 2013 / $3.99 digital
Zara Cinders always knew Ham Reece was the one, but he wasn't interested in settling down. When she found someone who was, Ham walked out of her life. Three years later, Zara's lost her business, her marriage, and she's barely getting by in a tiny apartment on the wrong side of the tracks. As soon as Ham hears about Zara's plight, he's on her doorstep offering her a lifeline. Now, it will take every ounce of will power she possesses to resist all that he offers.
Ham was always a traveling man, never one to settle down in one town, with one woman, for more time than absolutely necessary. But Ham's faced his own demons, and he's learned a lot. About himself, and about the life he knows he's meant to live. So when he hears that Zara's having a rough time, he wants to be the one to help. In fact, he wants to do more than that for Zara. A lot more. But first, he must prove to Zara that he's a changed man.
What a classic opening: former fuck-buddies and friends meet for lunch because one of them is getting married. In Kristen Ashley's latest release Jagged, the heroine Zara, wants to tell her ex-lover Ham that she's marrying Greg. Doesn't take a genius to sense that Cookie (Ham's nickname for Zara) is soon doubting whether her choice of husband is sound and asking herself whether Greg really meets her deepest needs.
Thus me having doubts. Part of me felt I should be cool with a man who trusted me not to fuck him over. Part of me wanted a man who detested the idea of woman spending time with an ex-lover. Possessiveness was hot.
We're taken on a trip down memory lane, with Cookie thinking about Ham and his physical presence over the years. This is something Ashley does so well. Her characters are larger than life but they're not "perfect." They have to work at being the people they are. They age. They think about circumstances and what's needed in their lives, as Cookie's thoughts about Ham show:
Although big, he was fit and he worked at it. It was not lost on him with the years he'd put in in bars that he needed to be on the top of his game so, although not quick, he was in shape. He ran a lot. He also lifted.
Ashley's heroes find time to do what's needed, and fitness is just one aspect of that commitment. In their own lives, and in the lives of their female friends, they differentiate between being happy, being with a good man and having it all. When the characters act with this kind of honesty, it translates to a great guy and a great love. Problems always ensue when Ashley's heroes or heroines settle for less, settle for safety, settle for settled. Like when Cookie is describing why she's marrying Greg:
"Greg's sweet. He's mellow, Ham, which I like. He's really nice. He also really likes me and lets it show, and I like that, too. Things are going great," I assured him.
But Ham calls her on it—tells her that good ain't great and says, "…you can't settle for what you want. You gotta find what you need." Here's where things get interesting. Cookie already knows deep down that Ham is the one for her, but he's not asking so she's not telling. He's the classic one that got away. So it's a romance and there's an HEA but in the hands of Ashley, instantaneous isn't part of the deal. Time passes, the economy tanks, and Cookie's marriage unravels.
It's rare to read about romance couples that don't have a trust fund, a stellar bank account, and unlimited resources. But in Jagged, with all the good will and hard work in the world, the economy has a flattening, dispiriting impact on Zara's dream of being a small business owner. That's never glossed over or tidied up. But now Ham's back in town—this time for good, prepared to become a part of the small town community of Gnaw Bone. And he's heard that Zara is free and could really use a helping hand. Maybe a roommate in his two-bedroom apartment. And what does any self-respecting male have in his apartment, be it ever so humble? He's a guy, right? He tells Cookie that "…he can't breathe without a decent TV. I don't have furniture in the living room but I bought a bed and TV my first day in Gnaw Bone." It's a double-edged sword; Ham is exasperating because he has an answer for everything but when it comes to keeping Cookie safe, there is never even a question.
This is a classic Kristen Ashley set-up. Quick poll! If an Ashley hero says he's moving you under his roof because he wants you to be safe, on a scale of 1 to 10, how likely is that to happen? Was your answer 11? Go to the head of the class. Sharing space is an opportunity for Zara and Ham to revisit some of their problematic past—like the contrast between their tidiness scales. Zara wants to make sure if they move in together that Ham won't light into her if she leaves her shoes out. She accuses Ham of being a little OCD.
"Babe, I'm not weirdly tidy. I'm just not a slob like you are."
"I'm not a slob," I returned.
"I've known three times where you had to take emergency trips to the mall to buy underwear."
Now the hard stuff. Zara has some great friends, motherly, sexy, wise, and everything in between, and they're not so sure that she should start sharing a home and a work place with the one that got away—even for double pay—because of all their history. But Zara's reasons for taking a leap of faith are both personal and universal. She just has to have:
… something to look forward to again. Because not havin' anything good, anything to look forward to, anything to work toward sucks. It can beat you. There were a bunch of times when I almost let it beat me. And I gotta do what I gotta do to keep that streak and not let it beat me.
Do her friends think the platonic roommates thing has much of a lifespan? Well, not so much. It's interesting that when Ham and Cookie are living but not sleeping together, Cookie is very aware that financially they're not exactly pulling equal weight. Ham is sexy as all get out and he's also a very fair-minded, evolved male. He's totally okay with letting the common space get taken care of all in good time and what he doesn't want is, "…you runnin' yourself ragged to take care of it in an effort at payback I don't want. Deal?"
Through their daily interactions, something else that happens—Ham lets Zara process what went wrong in her marriage. Not in a prurient or uncomfortable way but just naturally, Zara is able to look back at the key indicators in her marriage that showed where she was fading and becoming less herself. That's another key to an Ashley relationship—each person becomes more themselves, not less. Something as simple as remembering the way she and Greg watched movies is a revelatory moment,
He tried to watch the shoot-'em-ups with me but he didn't get into them so I quit suggesting we watch them. I just stopped doin' more and more of what I liked doin', what made me who I was, until I started feelin' like I was losin' me.
I really liked that Zara and Ham had the time, working side by side, living together, enjoying each other. Zara especially had the killer combo of freedom and safety to become herself again. But they had had great sex in the past and its specter was not to be avoided forever. They finally have amazing, incendiary sex, actually a couple of times, but the key ingredient was missing: the thing you do with your lips (not that!). Zara got a little lost in the physicality of it all and left Ham feeling used. As in every great Ashley relationship, the bigger person, in this case Ham, breaks the ice and opens the door to a happily ever after.
"It was fuckin' hot, don't get me wrong, but you got so lost it made me feel like available meat. But I shouldn't have been a dick. I should have talked to you about it. But I'd been waiting so goddamned long for you to come to me, and that was not how I wanted it to go when you did, that I got pissed and acted liked an asshole. But you shouldn't have run away when we sorted that out last night in my bed before we could totally sort it out by havin' a goddamned chat."
Jagged is a story of two grown-ups finally being in the right place emotionally (and geographically) to roll the dice on their love for each other. Friends from earlier Ashley books also play important roles in the story—it was enjoyable to see Ham and Cookie develop their relationship while surrounded by many familiar faces from Gnaw Bone.
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However, if you divide the space and otherwise meet the tax law requirements, both of you may qualify for home office deductions for the separate spaces used for your respective businesses.

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The Number of the Beast is one of Iron Maiden's most well known albums, and seems to have had an impact on the metal genre as a whole, with various critics naming it one of the best metal albums ever. With Paul Di'Anno replaced with Bruce Dickinson, Iron Maiden had to change their sound to some degree due to the more 'operatic' style of their new singer, which spawned the trademark Maiden sound which they still use today. While it isn't as good as Killers, it is still more than a worthy follow up and while not being the classic some say it is it still remains pretty damn good, if somewhat overrated.
Maiden's sound changed considerably with this album, with them opting for a more traditional Heavy Metal sound as opposed to the NWOBHM/Punk influence they previously held. While before it sounded as if the music on display was less thought out and simply raged ahead without as much thought to how each song was constructed, on here it is more streamlined and every note sounds as if it were carefully put in place. The crystal clear production accentuates this point. That is not to say it is a bad thing, as the tracks on this record are mostly high quality. It is generally consistent and packed full of dueling solos and awesome riffing. Iron Maiden knows how to make a good song, and it shows here with such tracks like 'Invaders', '22 Acacia Avenue', the title track, 'Run to the Hills', and the classic closer, 'Hallowed be thy Name'. Unsurprisingly, these songs became sort of Metal anthems, and to a large majority of people they are what comes into their heads when someone mentions Iron Maiden. About half of this album remains in their live set today which makes some songs seem overplayed, but they are mostly still competent songs in their own right.
But while a large majority of this is excellent, there are two songs on here in particular which bring it down. The first one of them is 'The Prisoner', which despite having some awesome soloing is boring and predictably in the verses and choruses. The second is 'Gangland', a song which is sub par compared to what else is on display here. That it is built around a drum beat and not a killer riff would explain why it is a throwaway track. It is very repetitive as well, not a good thing when the song is only 3:49 in length.
The highlight of the album, however, nearly makes up for it. Hallowed Be Thy Name is simply a metal masterpiece, and perhaps even the best track they have ever written. It starts off with an acoustic intro which then leads into a terrific riff with Dickinson's trademark vocal performance. It then slows down at around 4:06 and leads into awesome fast paced soloing after which a riff is repeated a number of times. Towards the end the vocals come back in with Dickinson holding the last note for around ten seconds after which the song ends. Such a track is rightfully recognized as among the best things to ever come out of the NWOBHM movement, as one listen to it can justify.
So while not being up to the standards of 'Killers', this is still a solid Heavy Metal album. It is not necessarily the classic some say it is and more than half of it is overplayed to exhaustion, which can sometimes lead to one skipping over tracks like 'Run to the Hills' simply because said person doesn't feel like listening to it for the 500th time, but it is still more than worth a listen. Its influence on the metal scene at the time was undoubtedly big and there are many people who still worship at the altar of it, but one gets the sense that it is a little overrated.


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it was not very smart to delet ios60. unless you can access bootmii with bootmii folders in SD card, it is dead
Hi folks!
Have not been on forum for some weeks now.... but today I accidentially deleted IOS60 and when console was rebooted....... no joy..... I managed to make a nand backup through bootmii and I have no way of recovering it..... i'm getting black screen at boot and drive seems to be spinning....
Is this Wii now dead for good?
any help appreciated!
it was not very smart to delet ios60. unless you can access bootmii with bootmii folders in SD card, it is dead
If you have bootmii,can't you access HBC? From there you can use wadmanager and reinstall it.
I had bootmii installed as an IOS :-( It will not recognise any input whatsoever from buttons etc. Controller will not sync either..... guess i'm buggered!
sorry but thats the deal
I have same problem as above but I can access boot mii through sd card and as a result can access HBC through sd card.
However I cant navigate to WAD Manager using the wii remote as it doesnt sync, any help on this please?
yes i have an idea. restore your nand backup
if you cant do this, go to my guide for 4.2 at the guides section and DL pack for step B and it will bring you a working wadmanager hopefully if you place it in the SD card, then install ios60 patched (suppose you were on 4/4.1)


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Freaks, Geeks and Stan Lee
Reviewer's Bias*
The Show
Series like the old That's Incredible! and Real People, or the more recent This American Life, which spend a little time with the more unique members of our society, are like mini-documentaries, focusing on a person's special gifts or abilities. Now, if you label those gifts as "powers" and get the father of modern superheroes to act as host, you've got yourself a show, namely Stan Lee's Superhuman, where Stan the Man purportedly sends his emissary, contortionist Daniel Browing Smith, out into the world to uncover other "superpowered" people. Stan's barely in the show unfortunately, appearing merely to set up the segments, before handing the show over to Smith, who meets up with the subjects and tests their abilities.
Smith doesn't show off his abilities during the show really, leaving the spotlight to the global line-up he travels to meet, bringing with him supposed skepticism. There are some truly impressive people among these subjects, though the way their presented leaves something to be desired. When the concept is followed correctly, introducing the subject, showing their "power" and then using science to figure out why they can do what they do, the series is great. That's what you get with the Rubber Band Man, who can stretch his skin, the Human Calculator, who can do math faster than a machine, or the Human Orchestra, whose beatboxing skill is examined via a camera in his throat. But too often, the science is used simply to show a feat has been achieved, via instrument recordings and super-slow-motion. Thus, we frequently have experiences like when we meet the Human Jukebox, a blind, autistic man, who can play any song he's ever heard. His skill is proven by musical notation software, and theories are proffered, but we never learn why he can do it. The same goes for a samurai with incredible reflexes and a monk with a wicked punch.
This is certainly preferable to the show's efforts to make superhumans out of people with simple skill, access to technology or just intellect. Arguing that a guy who covers himself with bee pheromones to create a suit of bees is controlling a swarm is just silly, as is the case of the Wolf Man, who, by growling and making faces, establishes his place in a wolf pack. There's no notable power or mutation here, outside of an unfortunate lack of normal common sense. One segment, where a guy uses a jet pack to fly after leaping out of a plane, is actually solid as him being able to fly, because he uses his body to direct his flight. Yet, in the same series, Smith later argues that a man's incredible memory might be a learned skill, not a "power." Seems the idea of powers is flexible.
That's good, because there's one time the subject fails to convince Smith. In the goofiest exhibition of the whole series, a martial arts expert can supposedly knock down people without even touching them, using only his Qi. Even Smith, who seems open to everything, openly mocks the man in the narration, but after some testing fails to show anything of note, Stan actually defends him, with some nonsense about "the power of suggestion." It's the only time where I couldn't suspend my disbelief of Stan's carny-barker showmanship, so it doesn't damn the entire series, but it's still a black mark on the proceedings.
The DVDs
The Quality
The Dolby Digital 2.0 audio tracks are, like the video, good, but not particularly impressive, as the sound is strong and clear, but lacks any kind of dynamic mixing, resulting in a straightforward, center-balanced presentation.
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We hope you enjoyed Friday afternoon -- because the warm weather have dissolved into cold rain and snow over the weekend, StormTeam4 reports.
On Friday afternoon, temperatures soared to near 60, but in the evening, temperatures plunged, and chilly rain and wet snow have washed in.
In the evening, Loudoun, Frederick and western Montgomery counties were seeing snow, and more of the white stuff could show up throughout our region. A light coating is possible on grassy surfaces throughout the area, mostly to the north and west of the D.C. metro area, said StormTeam4 meteorologist Doug Kammerer.
We might get a little more snow Saturday, but total accumulation won't be more than an inch, Kammerer said.
Highs will stay in the 30s on Saturday, and Sunday will be windy and cold. Strong, gusty winds will send wind chills into the teens and 20s throughout the day.


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This post is part of a blogging series by marketing students at the Presidio Graduate School's MBA program. You can follow along here.
By Claire Williams
Stress, anxiety, overwork, bad pay, multitasking, constant busyness, a culture of doing, economic instability… these are just some of the major afflictions affecting many American workers today. The economic collapse has affected the global landscape giving way to a further conversation around sustainability from the personal to the professional and planetary scale. This conversation is a lively one at Presidio Graduate School, where I am a student.
As an MBA student at Presidio with a career in non-profit management and foundation in yoga teaching, I often wonder how the sustainability movement can further influence personal sustainability for those who feel that they have lost a sense of purpose and meaning in the world today? Well, who are some of the biggest influencers in business? Marketing departments in fact.
I seek to apply a community giving movement to a social marketing strategy that could do wonders for the area of personal sustainability, community connection and on up to the level demonstrating corporate social responsibility.
The book that sparked this movement is Cami Walker's 29 Gifts—a powerful story of transformation through giving. The Oxford Dictionary defines gratitude as "the quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness." It's a state of being regarding how to transform resistance into thankfulness.
Walker's book tells her own story. At 33 she was a successful advertising professional and a newlywed. But just a month after her wedding, she was diagnosed with the autoimmune disease multiple sclerosis. Walker quickly found herself very sick and deeply depressed, facing what felt like insurmountable challenges. When she called on her friend and healer for some much-needed sympathy, Mbali Creazzo gave her a unique prescription: She encouraged her to give away 29 gifts in 29 days. Creazzo told her, "by giving, you are focusing on what you have to offer others, inviting more abundance into your life." Reluctantly Walker started the challenge, and soon experienced greater abundance and increased physical and mental health. She hasn't stopped giving since and, as a result, she's created a strong movement with nearly 14,000 others in 42 countries taking on the same feat.
The challenge is simple: give one thing away every day for 29 days. You can give anything to anyone: money, food, used clothing, smiles, time, kind words, positive thoughts, prayers, or anything else. Last year, I took on the challenge and inspired 10 of my friends to join me. Participating in this process with friends was a gift in and of itself, generating a deeper connection between us all.
You might ask: how can this movement be applied to a social marketing campaign? Social marketing furthers a cause and in this case- focusing energy outward on supporting others as a way to inspire more generosity and kindness in the world. As we seek to understand and truly embody positive change for our world as sustainability leaders, we have to empower ourselves to do something to create that change. This 29 Gifts movement already has an active community of 14,000 members where community connection is thriving through their website and use of social media. Companies could begin to leverage this model to create giving months to benefit their employees, communities and marketing for the company.
The inspirational stories of people like 29 Gifts author, Walker, and others like Aron Ralston and Nelson Mandela, who turn adversity into advantage, remind me that the real depth and sweetness of the human spirit comes from the transformation of moving beyond our own story to offer ourselves to others. I'll leave you with a reminder from my high school motto: "What we keep we lose and only what we give remains our own." I encourage you to take the 29-Day Giving Challenge to see the impact you create inside of and around you in your communities and companies to further support this cause.
I am curious to hear what you think of the application of this organized movement to social marketing strategies? Do you see an opportunity for synergy here?
Check out an interview with Cami Walker by blogger Britt Bravo for the Big Vision Podcast


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Nagel embraces, teaches, shares outdoor lifestyle
Mary Nagel was exposed to an outdoor lifestyle when she 8 months old, and it's never escaped her.
This year, she's been hunting or fishing 43 days since April 12, according to her significant other Mark Koupal.
"She hunts and fishes more than any men I know," said Cathy Robertson, who's known Nagel since they were seventh graders at Mitchell Middle School.
Although Nagel, 43, of Mitchell, enjoys both, she makes it out to the water more often.
"As much as I fish, you'd think I'd catch something really big," she said, adding the largest walleye she's caught was six pounds.
She fishes all sorts of different kinds, but says paddlefish are the toughest to bring in.
"It's a great pastime and I love the nature part," said Nagel, adding she didn't want to give her fishing and hunting locations away, with good reason. "I love to fish on the Missouri River because it's where I started fishing.
"With hunting, sitting in the tree stand and seeing all the animals and creatures is relaxing. It's not all about killing."
Nagel has hunted a variety of animals, including geese, duck, turkey, antelope, deer, pheasant and elk. Two of her best shots are a 6x6 deer she shot with a rifle and she struck an 8x6 deer while bow hunting two years ago.
Being a woman, Nagel is a part of a small group nationwide when it comes to the outdoors.
According to an article by Barbara Baird, of Women's Outdoor News, nine percent of all hunters were female in 2012. In addition, nine percent of elk hunters that year were also females.
South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Education Services Coordinator Maggie Lindsey said more women are starting to hunt and fish than any other group.
"It is the largest increasing segment in the United States," Lindsey said, adding the GF&P didn't have any hard numbers when comparing women to men.
Getting her start
Growing up, Nagel remembers being out on the Missouri River, camping and fishing with her family.
Nagel said her parents, Vic and Amie Honermann, got her interested in the outdoors as their family would camp every weekend on the river.
"My brother, Mike, would wake me up in the morning to tag along with him to bow fish carp," she said. " ... My brother and dad also got me into pheasant hunting when I was young."
Robertson said Nagel often hunted and fished with the boys during middle school.
"She's pheasant hunted for as long as I can remember and we road hunted together in high school," Robertson said. "We've had a lot of good times together."
Now, Nagel and Robertson have a 10- to 15-year tradition of deer hunting together on opening weekend.
"It's kind of a little holiday for us," Robertson said, recollecting one memory. "It was getting close to dark and Mary had to work that night. We sat out there all afternoon and I finally shot my deer. She had to change her clothes on the way back to Mitchell so she could work. She was so faithful to sit with me all afternoon, and I felt so bad knowing she'd have to work all night long."
Nagel also spends many hours with her family, a time they all look forward to.
"It's just a blast to enjoy that kind of experience," Koupal said. "We just want to be together and fishing is a good way to spend that time together."
Sharing her passion
Throughout the years, Nagel has introduced many to the water and woods.
She said she often takes her girlfriends out to fish and enjoys sharing her love for it with others.
"At first, I'd bait the hook and take the fish out if they caught any," Nagel said. "After that, I'd make them do it. I think I've gotten a lot of people interested. ... It makes you feel good that you can get somebody their first fish."
She's sprung interest on people of all ages, including her niece, Emmie Honermann. Honermann first went out with her aunt roughly six years ago.
For the past four years, the two turkey hunt every spring together. Honermann, 16, said there is never a dull moment during their hunts.
"When I shot my first one, (Mary) called them in and they all came running over the hill," Honermann said. "She yelled, 'Emmie, shoot! Shoot!' I remember shaking like crazy and then there was this huge bang.
"She kept yelling, 'Shoot again! Shoot again!' After they were gone, we looked up and she goes, 'You got one.' "
Honermann ended up shooting two turkeys that day and said hunting is something she'll continue to do.
"(Mary) thinks about everyone but herself and wants everyone to have fun around her," Honermann said.
Shooting cancer
Nagel was diagnosed with breast cancer eight years ago.
The then-35-year-old went through chemotherapy for four months, a time when she didn't work.
"During that time, I hunted and fished when I felt good," Nagel said, adding she went fishing roughly four times a week during the four-month span.
She said she went with Floyd Drew, 85, of Mitchell, to the Missouri River. She also hunted often but did this alone.
Nagel said she harvested three deer during that hunting season.
"There I was sitting up in the tree and I was completely bald with a crossbow," she said. "I should've been worried about dying and there I was sitting in this tree stand waiting for a deer."
She said the opportunity to be outdoors healed her as she made the best out of the worst situation.
"She's so much fun and is such a strong person," Robertson said. "She did it from knowing how much she'd miss the outdoors if she wasn't around to do it."
After undergoing surgery, Nagel's been cancer free.
"When I went through breast cancer, I know that having my love for the outdoors helped me heal," she said. "I fished and bow hunted every chance I had. I still fish and hunt every chance I get because you don't know when it might be your last day. We are not here for a long time, so we should have a great time while we are here."


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HILLSBOROUGH, N.H. -- A standing-room-only crowd of classmates, family friends, and relatives finally got a chance to say farewell yesterday to a brother and sister whose bodies were found buried in Ohio 2 1/2 years after their father murdered them.
''People often say that we can now find closure; well, there really isn't closure when you are dealing with the senseless murder of your children," their mother, Teri Knight, said in a statement read to reporters after a memorial service. ''Finding their bodies and bringing them home has allowed us to have a more acceptable ending to this part of the journey."
''I had always said that they needed to be found and not left on the side of a road."
The remains of Sarah Gehring, 14, and Philip Gehring, 11, were found Dec. 1 off Interstate 80 in Hudson, Ohio, by a woman and her dog. Many volunteers had searched for the children since they disappeared July 3, 2003.
They had attended a Fourth of July fireworks display in Concord with their father, Manuel Gehring, who was divorced from their mother. He later was arrested in California and admitted that he had killed them that night, then drove for hours with their bodies before burying them.
He gave authorities information about the burial site, but said he could not remember the exact location, which led to repeated searches along a 700-mile stretch of Interstate 80 west from Pennsylvania. Gehring later committed suicide in jail while awaiting trial.
''We have received hundreds of e-mails and cards and many prayers were answered when Sarah and Philip were found," said Knight, 44, who is remarried and now has twin daughters.
''They are home and now our family can start the next chapter -- living our lives, moving forward, and bringing along all that Sarah and Philip meant to us."
Before the service, Sharon Randall, a longtime friend of Knight's, said she felt relief for the family.
''I can't possibly imagine what she has been going through," she said. ''I don't think it ever will be over, but this will help."
The service in Smith Memorial Congregational Church in Hillsborough, where Knight lives, included readings from the Bible, the playing of songs ''Somewhere Down the Road," ''How Blessed Are They," and ''You Raised Me Up."
''We could feel their presence," said Amy Senecal, a cousin who read Knight's statement.
One of Sarah's best friends reminded everyone ''how much happiness they brought to their friends," said Mary Rose Carter, whose daughter was Philip's classmate. Her daughter, Rachel, said: ''It's nice to know they're finally home."
After the service, Abbie Krill, a grade school classmate of Philip's, called him caring and kind. ''It's hard to lose one of those kind of people," she said.
Carter called the service sad, but not as ''wrenching" as a service before the children were found. ''We're looking out for each other's children more," she said.


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Hello my name is Carrie
I am only 15 Years old
I was at a party last night and I think I am pregnant. The pregnancy test is positive!
1. I slept with a boy named Ryan. He is 18 years old. I don't know where he lives and I don't want to have this baby. I decide not to tell anyone about it and have an abortion. Three years later I am 18 years old and I fell in love with Derreck. He has brown coloured eyes and brown coloured hair. I fell pregnant the night after he proposed to me. At our ultrasound I find out I am pregnant with identical twin girls. Nine months later I gave birth to:
1. Ariana Makenzie
2. Aila Raelin
My husband was called back to Iraq to fight in the war. Only a few days later I got a letter saying that he had died. The twins are now 2 years old when I fall in love with Adam who already had identical twin boys himself. Their names were:
1. Logan Justin
2. Blake Riley
and they were 5 years old.
The day of my wedding he called it quits and ran away leaving me with the four kids who are 4 years old (girls) and 7 years old(boys). Four months later I went to the doctor after having bad pains in my back and he told me that I was pregnant with quints! I couldn't believe it. When I was in hospital for 3 months for bed rest I fell in love with the nurse Shawn. After the birth of (name and genders)
1. Rylan Joseph
2. Lucas Kaden
3. Giselle Rose
4. Travis Austin
5. Shaylee Marie
he moved in with me and my 9 kids who were 5 years old(girls),8 years old(boys) and 1 week old(quints).
Six years later we got married and I fell pregnant with a little girl named Makenna Janae. At the eigth month I miscarried.
After 3 more Miscarriages in 3 more years we decided to adopt from China. Because the girl we chose had 3 brothers and 2 sisters we also adopted them:(names, and ages, remember they are chinese so try to give them chinese names)
1. Shen Li (Boy) *Shane*
2. Lian Jun (Girl) *Leann*
3. Jia Rui (Girl) *Gia*
4. Quon Ji (Boy) *Qu*
5. Jing Song (Boy) *Jay*
6. Lin Mai (Girl) *Lyn*
I now have 15 kids.
Because of the miscarriages we didn't think that we could get pregnant but we did. Nine months later we gave birth to identical triplets:(names and genders)
1. Zachary Shawn-Keegan
2. Madelyn Genesis-Hope
3. Kelsey Eden-Faith
When the triplets were only two weeks old we came home to find a little baby boy only 3 days old abandoned on our doorstep. After 3 months and no successes of finding his parents we decided to adopt him. We named him Wesley Mason
All of our kids have brown hair and brown eyes exept for the 7 that we adopted.
We now have 19 kids and hope there wont be any more on the way!


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This is either insanely cool, or just plain insane. We're not 100% sure which. A petition asking the US presidency to "secure resources and funding, and begin construction of a Death Star by 2016" has passed the 25 000 signatures mark, meaning that the White House will actually have to respond to it.
The petition claims that building the moon-sized spacestation and superweapon would prove a massive boon to job creation in the US as well as the country's national defense efforts:
By focusing our defense resources into a space-superiority platform and weapon system such as a Death Star, the government can spur job creation in the fields of construction, engineering, space exploration, and more, and strengthen our national defense.
The petition crossed the 25 000 signatures just a month after it was put up. 4Chan users are, unsurprisingly ecstatic that the White House will be forced to release an official statement on the matter.
There's no word on whether there are plans for a competing petition asking for the training of an elite squad of spiritually enlightened warriors capable of saving whole galaxies with near-impossible shots from their space fighters.
Update: The White House has responded to the petition.
Source: The Next Web
Image: Sam Howzit (via Flickr)


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Set clocks back, change your batteries Nov. 1
It's that time again - time to turn the clocks back one hour for Daylight Savings. "Fall Back" is also a good time to change the batteries in your smoke detectors.
Last year, residential fires claimed 38 lives in Minnesota; 75 percent of the deaths occurred in homes without working smoke alarms. State Fire Marshal Jerry Rosendahl thinks these facts alone should be enough to convince people to install and maintain smoke alarms.
"Those 38 victims died without time to escape," Rosendahl says. "An inexpensive alarm and a set of fresh batteries could have saved their lives."
About 96 percent of American homes have smoke alarms, according to the National Fire Protection Association. A third of the alarms, however, contain dead batteries or no batteries at all. Some batteries simply wear out and are not replaced; others are "borrowed" for use in another device -- a habit that Rosendahl says puts families, especially the young and the disabled, in real danger.
Rosendahl suggests that when turning clocks back one hour on Nov. 1, you change the batteries in your smoke alarms, too. In many communities, people who need help installing or maintaining alarms can call the fire department for assistance.
For more information on smoke alarm installation and maintenance, go to www.fire.state.mn.us and choose "Home Fire Safety" from the left menu.


text: Walter Miller's Home page is the best personal home page on the WWW. "Yes Im in an abbusive relatonship. Hes in a whelchair but Im still scared of him. I know it sounds dumb. Some of his threats are to rip my lungs out throuhg my anes, then tie them around my head like Micky Mouse ears."


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In the next step, we'll simplify the image into two values – black and white. Before we do this however, it helps to adjust the overall contrast and brightness of the image. This will help Photoshop distribute the values in a more satisfactory way. Select Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast and enter 80 for Brightness and 100 for Contrast. These values will change depending on the original photo. For this image, these values result in the desired balance of whites and blacks, so that the image isn't too heavily biased one way or the other.
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We now want to reduce the image to two shades, black and white. Select Image > Adjustments > Posterize and enter a value of 2. For some illustrations, I'll use a higher number to create more shades, but for this one I want to keep the image very simple.
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Go to Select > All, and Copy. Now, open the 'Illustration Base.psd' file. Paste the scooter into the file, which will add a new layer. Name the new layer Scooter. Now, using the Move, Scale, and Rotate tools, position the bike to match the placement seen in the example.


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Sweden's political spectrum tilted toward the centre-right in 2010 as a result of the victory of Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and his four-party centre-right coalition in the general elections in September. In capturing only 30.7% of the vote, the leading opposition party, the once-almighty Swedish Social Democratic Party (SAP), had its worst showing at the polls in almost a century. The SAP's disappointing outcome mirrored the recent general decline in the fortunes of left-leaning parties in Europe, including the failures of the German Social Democrats and of the British Labour Party in their most recent parliamentary elections. The fate of Reinfeldt's conservative Moderate Party was very different, as it increased its share of the vote from only 15% in 2002 to 30% in 2010. In the process, it came within a fraction of having become Sweden's largest party, and in the country's fastest-growing areas, such as Stockholm county, it had already become the leading party.
Reinfeldt, who had come to power in 2006, became the first nonsocialist prime minister in Swedish history to be reelected, though his coalition fell two seats short of having attained an outright majority. Still, the coalition received more votes than it had when it first formed the government. The 2010 election also marked a breakthrough for the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats, who passed the 4% threshold necessary to attain representation and became the first far-right party to enter the Swedish parliament. The new populist party held the balance of power and likely would make governing more difficult for Reinfeldt. It would be crucial for Reinfeldt to win some support from the parties on the left to neutralize the potential influence of the Sweden Democrats, with whom he and all of the other parties had refused to cooperate. The rise of the Sweden Democrats coincided with the ascent of nationalist parties elsewhere in Europe, including Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, and Austria.
Reinfeldt's reelection, however, was clearly a vote of confidence in a government that had engineered a strong economic rebound in 2010. Although it had enacted a number of unpopular reforms, such as a reduction in unemployment benefits, the government (and especially Finance Minister Anders Borg) won great respect for its handling of the financial crisis of 2008–09. After an almost unparalleled decrease of 5% in 2009, the Swedish GDP grew by more than 4% in 2010, and positive growth was forecast for 2011 and 2012, albeit at a slower pace. Equally important, unemployment—though high by Swedish standards at more than 8%—had not reached the 10–11% that had been predicted. A cornerstone of Reinfeldt's economic policy since he first became prime minister had been substantial income tax reductions aimed at increasing incentives for workers used to relying on Sweden's once-generous welfare system.
The healthy Swedish economy (with one of Europe's lowest budget deficits) boosted the value of the national currency, the krona, against both the U.S. dollar and the euro in 2010. Moreover, the World Economic Forum ranked Sweden as the world's second most competitive economy, behind Switzerland. The year also saw the salvation of the troubled automobile manufacturer Saab AB, which the Dutch company Spyker bought from General Motors.
In June Swdes happily witnessed the wedding of Crown Princess Victoria and Daniel Westling (who became Prince Daniel). In November Sweden sought the extradition from Britain of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on sexual-offense charges. The year ended shockingly when, on December 11, Stockholm was rocked by a pair of explosions set off by an Islamist suicide bomber.
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|(2010 est.): 9,381,000
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Kevin Grandia | August 27, 2009
By Kevin Grandia • Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 17:00
It has now been revealed that a Washington, DC PR powerhouse that was recently exposed as being part of an anonymous "grassroots" pro-coal group also has significant ties to the Republican Party.
As regular readers will recall, earlier this week we exposed the ties between a new pro-coal "grassroots" group calling itself the "The Federation for American Coal, Energy and Security (FACES of Coal), and a Washington, DC firm called the Adfero Group. Adfero's client list includes Koch Industries and the US Chamber of Commerce, two leaders in the fight to confuse, distort and deny the realities of climate change - and especially to block government action that might affect their bottom line.
Brad Johnson at the Wonk Room is reporting today that Adfero also has significant ties to another very powerful group in Washington, DC that would love nothing more than to see legislation on climate change blocked, the Republican Party.
Johnson writes: "A new "grassroots" fossil fuel front group, FACES of Coal, is employing a shadowy Republican-staffed company to spread its message. The Federation for American Coal, Energy and Security — a new pro-mountaintop removal campaign that refuses to reveal its "grassroots" members — is employing a GOP Beltway shop to promote its work."
Johnson also outlines the undeniable links between Adfero, their subsidiary Fireside 21 and the Republican Party:
Ken Ward, Fireside21 CEO, Is A Former Richard Pombo Staffer. Kenneth Ward, the CEO of Fireside21, served as a Legislative Assistant and Deputy Press Secretary to the extreme anti-environmentalist Rep. Richard Pombo (R-CA) until 2004. [Fireside21, Legistorm]
Jeff Mascott, Fireside21 President And Adfero Group Managing Director, Built The GOP.gov Website. Jeff Mascott, the managing director of the Adfero Group and the president of Fireside 21, "designed the original GOP.gov web site" as the "primary online communications consultant at the House Republican Conference under former Chairman U.S. Rep. J.C. Watts, Jr. (R-OK)." He is married to a former staffer for Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) and Rep. Anne Northrup (R-KY). [Adfero, Innovative Advocacy, Legistorm]
Fireside21's Congressional Clients Are Predominantly Republican. Fireside21 claims the record of building the websites for 150 members of Congress. Of the 38 members listed publicly on their site as clients, 28 are Republicans, from Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-GA) to Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA). Only 10 clients are Democrats, including Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH). [Fireside21: CMF Awards, Website Launches]
Adfero Is Behind Numerous Big Oil Astroturf Campaigns. Working for the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association, Adfero's "Fuel For America" campaign whitewashed price-gouging by its clients following Hurricane Katrina. Adfero's "ChamberGrassroots," "Vote For Business" and "Coalition for a Democratic Workplace" campaigns fight labor reforms including card-check. "Californians Against Higher Taxes" killed a clean energy reform ballot measure in 2006. Other clients include the American Tort Reform Association, the National Pork Producers Council, and the Independent Petroleum Association of America. [Adfero]
Adfero is the former RightClick Strategies
…as i pointed out last Friday - http://www.grist.org/article/2009-08-20-who-are-the-faces-behind-faces-for-coal/#c219362
Faces are really just stock photos...
Outed! FACES of Coal Are Just Stock Photos
by Matthew McDermott, New York, NY on 08.27.09
Apparently FACES – the coal industry front group masquerading as a grassroots organization – couldn't actually get any real faces, or didn't want to include them, in their promotional materials. Appalachian Voices are pointing out that many of pro-coal supporters are actually just stock photographs from iStockPhoto. Here's just one of the many comparison shots:
There are five more comparisons done over at Appalachian Voices. http://www.appvoices.org/index.php?/frontporch/blogposts/farces_of_coals_fake_supporters/


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Thank you so much for your lovely comment, Gracie - you're welcome morris and twoclubs:)
Rural Route No. 1 - Could be Maine! Love these chookies.
I like these. It looks like a much simpler time.
My favorite set of pictures today chookies, so nice and tender! thanks
I wish you the same, gnt: MERRY CHRISTMAS
I see how you do it and I could handle that with no problem LOL I wish you the happiest hollidays for you and all of your family and friends :)
Merry Christmas to you too, omajacky:)
You've got it, gnt - look on page 2 of my puzzles and you will see how we celebrate Christmas in Australia - in the heat!
Oh and the temp also is one reason LOL
As close as I can think is from saying "mate" to me brings up Australia???
happy X MAS
If you look at my previous puzzles, gnt, you'll work out where I'm from! I'll let you work it out for yourself....
You must be in southern Florida
Down to 95???? where U at Chook?? going to be about 38 here LOL
The forecast for Christmas Eve has been down-graded to 95F, PG, and Christmas Day is expected to be 78F, so we're all happy to hear that! Nothin' worse than trying to cook the turkey and ham in such dreadful heat!!
Nice set of puzzles Chookies.
You're welcome, Nanax - I'm so glad you enjoyed the set today:)
Great set chooks. Thank you for posting even though you are roasting down under I still hope you have a Merry Christmas without snow.
What a great set, chookies! Thanks for sharing this with us!
The mail always gets through - no matter how it comes!!! Thanks Celeste and chickie for both your comments:)
That's the right word girls, Adorable.
I agree celeste. Adorable!
Adorable Wonderful Set Chookies :)


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I ran across this nose-stylus on Wired.
For some reason, this thing seems to be a perfectly absurd totem for the present moment. It's a mechanical solution to a digital problem. It's a device that's inherently connected to a certain kind of lifestyle. It's flippant and vaguely sexual. And deeply weird.
The idea of it is appealing on all levels, save one: only an insane person straps on a prosthetic nose in order to use their iPhone in the tub.
I'm not sure what it says about our society. I'm even less sure what my fascination says about me.


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In down market, even staging on a shoestring helps sell
To help give their listings an edge, some real estate agents are paying for staging consultations on the homes they list. Others are even pitching in to help their clients with the primping and painting.
Special to The Seattle Times
Staging tipsIF YOU'RE GETTING ready to sell your home, consider some of these staging tips from local stagers and real-estate professionals:
× Clean the home from top to bottom. "I'm talking Q-tip clean," said Barb Schwarz, a former Seattle-area real-estate agent credited for establishing the home-staging industry in the 1970s. "People forget all the flies and dead yellow jackets trapped in window sills."
× Pack away knick-
knacks, collectibles and clutter. "Declutter, and then go through and declutter again," said home stager Karalee Donlan of Seattle. Too many items on display distract potential buyers, and make a room feel smaller than it is.
×Depersonalize your home with neutral colors and design. "It allows other people to go in and mentally move their stuff in, versus feeling like a guest in your home," said Eric Manzanares, a regional-sales manager for Polygon Northwest in Bellevue.
×Take care of the details: "We tell everybody when you get your home ready, all of those things that you wanted to do, everything that bothered you like that squeaky door or that trim, needs fixed," said Henry Samonte, an agent with John L. Scott's University Village office in Seattle. "You should be sort of sad and unhappy that you're leaving. ... The house should be, 'Wow, this is what I wanted it to look like when I moved here.' "
×Create curb appeal: Power-wash the sidewalks and driveway. Clean gutters and give the door a fresh coat of paint, if it needs one. "Concentrate on the yard," said Pat Phillips, an agent with John L. Scott Real Estate's Madison Park office in Seattle. "Actually, a well-maintained garden can get them into a home."
On Day 91, real-estate agent Stan Isenhath enlisted the help of a professional home stager, who brought in new furnishings and accessories to give the property more pizazz.
On Day 92, the seller received an offer for the full asking price.
Isenhath credits staging — more specifically, the placement of a hide-a-bed in the media room to demonstrate the area's versatility — for the buyer's interest in the home.
The buyer had "been through the home the week it was first listed but ruled it out as she had wanted a fourth bedroom for guests," he said. "She returned to see the home in an entirely new light."
Real-estate professionals and sellers turn to staging as a way to give their properties a competitive edge.
"We are in a market now where the competition is fierce for those buyers," said home stager Karalee Donlan of Seattle. "You've got that first few seconds to get them to say, 'Wow, I can see myself living here.' "
Home stagers work with sellers in clearing out clutter, cleaning their home until it passes a white-glove test and creating the perfect Pottery Barn look and ambience to potential buyers.
Service can be costly
It's a service that can cost hundreds to several thousands of dollars, depending on the size and condition of a home. But Isenhath tells his clients it's a worthwhile investment.
"Right now, people aren't buying or selling unless they have to," said Isenhath, who is with Coldwell Banker Bain's Lake Union office in Seattle.
"Once (sellers) understand that the home becomes a product, and we're doing product marketing, it starts to make sense."
And like others in the real-estate industry, home stagers are experiencing major changes in their work and demands, due to a regional and national slowdown of home sales and growing glut of unsold homes on the market.
Some of the biggest trends in the home-staging industry include:
1. Agents covering
the costs
A growing number of real-estate brokers and agents are offering to pay for a homeowner's initial consultation with an accredited stager, according to Barb Schwarz, founder of the trade group International Association of Home Staging Professionals and author of "Home Staging: The Winning Way to Sell Your House for More Money."
The average cost of a consultation is $350, Schwarz said.
The process usually takes two or three hours, and results in a detailed report on all of the important things the stager thinks the owner should clean, fix or pack away.
"I have a couple of Realtors who just do not put a house on the market until I've been there," said Donlan. "I would say 90 percent of my business is before it ever goes on the market."
In addition, some agents will reimburse their clients' staging costs, which could include anything from fresh paint to new landscaping, once the sale has closed, Schwarz said.
2. Innovation
on a budget
The average cost of staging on the West Coast is about $2,800, according to Schwarz.
But what happens when a homeowner is facing a short sale, or already is strapped for cash?
These days, home stagers are constantly trying to come up with ways they can stretch a dollar, and "cut corners but still get the punch," according to home stager Cynthia Seager, of Gracious Transformations in Seattle.
"I think there's more resourcefulness," she said.
To save money, some homeowners only stage their home's entry way and main living areas.
Some agents keep costs lower by helping the seller paint, move furniture and take care of other tasks on a staging report.
For example, Isenhath and his wife recently spent a day helping a client put in a new yard.
And when one of his clients no longer wanted to rent staging furniture for a beach side condo, Isenhath created posters from photographs that were taken while the home was completely staged.
He displayed the posters on easels throughout the home, so potential buyers could see what each of the rooms looked like when they were fully furnished.
"We have to be careful that we don't spend any money that we don't need to," Isenhath said.
3. Makeovers for lower priced, occupied homes
Not long ago, most home stagers focused their energy on upscale and vacant homes.
But thanks to a plethora of media reports and popular home-staging television shows, such as HGTV's "Designed to Sell" and A&E's "Sell this House," home stagers are getting more calls from folks with homes in all price ranges, Schwarz said.
Donlan belongs to an association of Puget Sound area home-staging professionals who share information. One of the biggest changes in an industry that people are talking about is clientele, she said.
"One gal had never staged a home under $500,000 and now she's done three or four," Donlan said.
Real-estate agent Jan Sewell stages all of her listings at no cost to her clients. She even provides her own furniture for their homes.
"It's even more important than ever in this market to stage," said Sewell, who is with Windermere Real Estate's Capitol Hill office in Seattle and owner of Jan Sewell Design, a staging company.
"You have to be on top of everything right now."
Sewell recently staged four vacant homes in West Seattle in the $300,000 to $350,000 price range.
Her listings had plenty of competition for price and location, but all of them sold ahead of the market.
"All of the others sat there," Sewell said.
4. Sellers contacting stagers before agents
In some cases, sellers are contacting staging professionals to help them get their home in tiptop shape before hiring a real-estate agent, Schwarz said.
As a result, more stagers say they're referring clients to real-estate agents.
"In the industry, that's a huge paradigm shift," Schwarz said.
But no matter whom they call first, real-estate agent Pat Phillips, with John L. Scott Real Estate's Madison Park office in Seattle, believes sellers can't be too prepared for listing their home.
"Light, bright, clean and spacious are the words we're always using with our clients," Phillips said.
"If your house is not ready to go on the market with those, we will not put it on the market, we will prefer to push it out until it is ready to go."
5. Staging the outside
of a home, too
Once a potential buyer has found a listing on the Internet, chances are he or she will drive by the house before scheduling an appointment with a real-estate agent.
And that's why stagers have begun tackling a home's yard and exterior, too.
"It all starts at the curb," Schwarz said. "It's got to be staged on the outside."
Schwarz said sellers often spend so much time and effort staging the inside of a home, they overlook some of the things that will turn a buyer away, such as broken shutters, overgrown landscaping and mossy sidewalks.
These days, sellers need to remember that buyers can afford to be selective, said Henry Samonte, an agent with John L. Scott's University Village office in Seattle.
"When the market was hot, oftentimes you'd hear, 'I don't have to do anything,' " he said. "Well you don't hear it in this market. ... In this market, you better be the best of the best, or the best value. Your yard better be nice. You better not need paint."
Copyright © 2009 The Seattle Times Company
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Tired of arguing with climate change deniers in 140 character quips, [Nigel Leck] wrote a script to do it for him. Chatbot @AI_AGW scans Twitter every five minutes searching for hundreds of phrases that fit the usual denier argument paradigm. Then it serves them up some science.
Those responses are pulled from a database of hundreds of responses that the software matches up to the argument made by the original tweeter. Those who claim the entire solar system is warming are met with something like: "Sun's output has barely changed since 1970 & is irrelevant to recent global warming" followed by a link to corresponding scientific research.
People on the other end of an argument don't usually pick up on the fact that they are arguing with a program and will continue the argument. And AI_AGW continues to fire back responses. Even when the tweeter keeps throwing the same argument at the chatbot, it will respond with a variety of different arguments and links.
Programmers, please get on this. It gets so old dealing with the same ignorant arguments over and over again. I would kill for an automated Index to Creationist Claims. Sure, we may only educate a small fraction of people making the claims – the ones who are open to science but simply haven't learned about evolution. But the rest of the time, the hilarity of watching hardcore creationists argue with a bot would make all the effort worth it.


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And me too Monica!!! Thanks.
That's a fly? Wow, at first glance I thought it was a weird looking spider, that is until I read your caption! He's quite different from any flies I've ever seen! Thanks Rob!
This is a pretty looking crane fly. The ones we have here look like giant mosquitos.
It's definitely an odd-bod Gene - thanks.No idea warbler - but so much on nature is like that - colourful!!
I wonder what environment the black and white would be providing camoflage for. Nice find, Rob.
this is a new one for me.....so strange...thanks rob for posting
LOL! Thanks tex :))
Very cool! I love your description and I'm going to use it, "odd bod", to refer to the way gravity has taken over in some places! Thanks, RR.
Thanks pg.
What a wonderful creature he is. Great one Rob.
Yes!! It's sure a strange one chickie! Thanks.
Don't you wonder how this thing can fly with all those long legs dangling and such tiny wings?
And he has a long abdomen like a Dragonfly!! He's certainly an odd-bod!
At first thought it looked like a dragonfly that some kid might have played around with by adding some extra things to it's legs (beads maybe) but I'm sure that you'll tell me that it looks like nature intended, just plain weird!!!
What a strange looking fly - more like a 'daddy long-legs'!!!


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Tamaqua HS Middle States Accreditation
John Mateluvich, Tamaqua Area High School teacher, makes a presentation during a meeting of the school's Middle States Accreditation Committee in the school cafeteria. Looking on are committee members Melissa Day, Wanda Zuber and Joe Holland. The 24-member group met with the school's faculty to discuss the implementation phase and action steps of the accreditation process from the Commission on Secondary Schools. A long range plan must be created to address the areas of need and must be in place before a visit from Middle States in October.


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OGDEN — It wasn't pretty, but American Fork is moving on to the 5A semifinals, something not even last year's talented team could accomplish.
In a defensive, sloppy-at-times quarterfinal Wednesday at the Dee Events Center that featured 11 ties and 13 lead changes, American Fork held upset-minded Syracuse scoreless over the final three minutes to rally for the 41-37 victory.
"State tournament, you've just got to take what they give you and roll with it," said American Fork center Ryan Andrus, who led all scorers with 22 points to go along with 11 rebounds.
Neither team could get much of anything going all game, but American Fork found its groove late, scoring the game's final seven points to secure its spot in Friday's semifinal against Alta.
With American Fork trailing 37-34 with just over three minutes remaining — Syracuse's largest lead of the game — the 6-foot-10 Andrus started to take over. He scored on a layup with 3:00 remaining, and then tied the game at 37-37 a minute later by making 1 of 2 free throws.
His most important basket was actually his easiest.
During a timeout with 1:50 remaining, American Fork coach Doug Meacham drew up an inbounds play that called for Tyler Rawson to throw the ball straight into Andrus in the post. Andrus ended up getting inside position, caught the pass and immediately dunked it to give his team a 39-37 lead.
Meacham challenged his big men — Rawson and Andrus — to make a play, and they most certainly did.
Syracuse still had plenty of time to answer back, but American Fork's defense was suffocating. It blocked a shot by Diante Mitchell with 50 seconds remaining, and after an offensive rebound forced a Syracuse turnover with under 25 seconds left.
Senior Dan Nyman then calmly stepped to the foul line with 19.1 seconds remaining and knocked down two free throws to extend the Cavemen lead to 41-37 and realistically ice the game.
Meacham said it was a moment Nyman earned through years of dedication.
"He's one of those players that sneaks into the gym when it's locked or closed and his dad comes down and feeds him rebounds," said Meacham.
Nyman said he was a bit nervous, but it was a moment "everybody dreams about."
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Great defense helps too. American Fork held Syracuse to 29 percent shooting and limited leading scorer Mitchell to just 10 points, nearly 10 below his season average.
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©2006 Christine Feehan; (P)2009 Audible, Inc.
"The Missing Link"
If you have been following Ms. Feehan's series to this point - you already know some of the data here - however - there are two points in this story that are found no-where else.
Point one - in a place where Carpathians live a very long time - WHERE were all the older Carpathians? The oldest we saw before this is Michail & Gregori, And they HAD to originally have had a fuller culture - which had not been shown to date.
Point two - Carpathians love children. ALL children. How many men that most of US know would be so careful NOT to hurt even the worst little punk trying to mug them?
Also - I feel for Vlad. He's saving as many as he can - but - it's costing him dearly in pain.
I can't wait for Dark Hunter (Next book in this series - Due out September 2009.) It sounds like a real wild ride!
"Excellent Narrator!"
Audio books are all about narration for me, I've already read the book and know I like the story before I buy on audio. Eric Michael Summerer does a fabulous job narrating this book, he's just perfect all the way around. What I wouldn't give to have him narrating this whole series!
"Great read, short, but you can really get into it!"
Another short book, but it's perfect! You get the whole story, you don't feel like you're missing out on anything... wonderful writing! This series is unique because you can start anywhere, but if you start at book 1 and read in order you have a better understanding of the people, but if you only want a quick read you don't HAVE to read the whole series to get a great story!
"Great Story"
This is one of my favorites in the series, even if it was too short. The narrator is one of the best as far as I'm concerned, I'd like to read more with his narration.
"this is one of the best in the series, i think..."
i really enjoyed listening to this one, it was entertaining, interesting and hard to put down.
"Love each book of the Dark Series"
I only listen to Audio books. I am an auditory learner and enjoy the freedom of the audio book as I am multi-task person.
Eric did a great job narrator.
"More z than zing"
To her credit, Christine Feehan has managed to tell this story at least a dozen times without it growing too old to be enjoyed... But nothing lasts forever!
Just when they find a decent narrator to take on the Carpathians, the story gets old fat bald and wrinkled. This is what I call a pity.
If it's your first Dark novel, however, you might enjoy it. If it's your fifth, you already have.
"Wonderfully dreamy"
Absolutely. It was a delightful change of pace to have one of the heroines eager to take her place with her Carpathian life mate.
I loved that someone finally read with an accent. Also, I loved the whole story of Falcon and Sara, that she embraced him without hesitation.
LOVED his accents for the characters.
Yes. Am now actually!
Because the next book is not available on audio book (number 10 or 11?) and there are times when I have things to do and only an audiobook is possible. i enjoy listening to books when have to use my arms and legs for something else - such as walking, menial housework or driving long distances.
Steamy sex with a storyline and vampire twist
The relief after the battle
Just feeling the love!
"Horrible accent!"
I think that I would have enjoyed this book so much more if the narrator didn't give the men such horrific accents! Very unsexy and distracting! Skip this one.
"All very similar books - but still a good read"
Just finished listening to this one and have listened to a few of her dark series. But you do find them all very similar in format with just slight changes. So part of me is finding them a bit boring now as I know what will happen. This book has introduced a character that I haven't read about yet, so will be interested to read that one. Repetition of you are my life mate etc. is driving me a little insane though.
"The Best"
I thought the narration for Dark Descent was superb, but this is really excellent - you have to do more! Possibly the novela Dark Hunger? The accents for the Carpathian males, Falcon, Mikhail and Jacques were the best yet. They were given subtle nuances between them that seemed to define them, and actually managed to pronounce the names properly - Gregori didn't end up as Gregory. He really bought the characters to life. Very very enjoyable. Can't wait to see if he does more of the Dark Series - there is another in the pipeline - Dark Slayer. Here's hoping. I would have no problem recommending this title.
"Brilliant "
As always brilliant story of love and triumph against evil
Adding more to the Carpathian family
I always recommend the Dark book series
"another gem"
another gem from CF. short but good and moves the main plot on. narrator not great at female voices
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[AMERICANS ABROAD] Sochaux president Alexandre Lacombe says it will be at least six more months before the French club
will know where Charlie Davies is in his bid to return to top-flight soccer.
Speaking to the French newspaper L'Est Republicain on the one-year anniversary of the accident that almost took Davies' life and killed another passenger, Lacombe said only time will tell.
"According to doctors," he said, "it will take at least 18 months from the date of the accident to hope for real progress and know more. It's a miracle he's still alive and doing well. Right now, Charlie isn't a Ligue 1-level player, that's for sure, but he continues to work hard ..."
Davies started his first game for the Sochaux "B" team in six weeks, contributing an assist in Sunday's 2-0 win over the Auxerre "B" team in France's CFA (fourth level).
In a separate development, the Associated Press reported that Davies was fined 750 euros ($1,040) and had his license suspended for six months after a car in which police found him sitting in the driver's seat was clocked going 125 mph in France's Jura region in the early morning of Oct. 3.
Since news of the incident became public on Friday, Davies and Sochaux teammate Jacques Faty admitted Faty was driving the car owned by the French-born Senegal international and they switched seats to protect Faty.
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North miles away from where we need to be - O'Neill
Northern Ireland manager Michael O'Neill admitted his side remain "miles away" from where they want to be after a sterile 0-0 stalemate in Cyprus.
O'Neill's men were second best to a Cypriot side ranked 122nd in the world, but got away with a draw despite playing the final 15 minutes with 10 men following Gareth McAuley's red card.
The game was a dire spectacle which will be easily forgotten by the sparse crowd and left O'Neill with little evidence that Northern Ireland are heading in the right direction. The North had neither won nor scored in 12 away friendlies since beating Finland in 2006 coming into the match and that sorry sequence continued at a deserted GSP Stadium.
O'Neill, who has yet to win away from home more than two years since taking the job, said: "People have to realise we are trying to build an international team here and it will take time. We are miles away from being the finished article.
"We weren't good in possession and they were better on the ball.
"They put us under pressure because we continually gave the ball away cheaply and that was the most disappointing thing on the night."
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JEFFERSON'S VENDETTA: The Pursuit of Aaron Burr and the Judiciary
Thomas Jefferson is depicted here as a venal and vindictive opportunist who, during his second term as president, attempted to abuse the federal judicial system to persecute his one-time vice-president and chief political rival, Aaron Burr. Conversely, Wheelan, a former editor and reporter with the AP, renders Burr as a complex, flawed politico who stood in the dock charged, excessively, with treason after a misguided attempt to conquer Spain's holdings in North America and establish a rival American republic. The man Wheelan shows running interference between these two founding lions is the only true hero in the narrative: Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall. Partisans for either Jefferson or Burr may debate Wheelan's portrayal of their respective heroes, but they are bound to come out agreeing with the author that Marshall—whom Jefferson hated with a ferocity rivaled only by his feelings against Burr—seized and saved the day during the trial. Burr was acquitted in 1807 thanks to Marshall's strictly interpreting the Constitution's definition of treason, ensuring through his opinion that similar unfounded charges could never again be used by a president against a political enemy. Wheeler (Jefferson's War: America's First War on Terror, 1801–1805 ) offers an elegantly written and smartly conceived revisionist history that is sure to engage and entertain. Agent, Ed Knappman, New England Publishing Assoc. (Feb. 8)
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We are covering two weeks worth of opinions today.
Last week, the court issued Irby v. Fairbanks Gold Mining, Inc., where it held that a workers' compensation claim was not untimely when the family of a deceased employee waited until after the five-year presumptive death period expired to file a successful presumptive death petition. The court relied on the fact that the employer had notice of the claim and was not prejudiced by the delay, as well as the fact that the family's first presumptive death petition, filed soon after the industrial accident in which the employee likely died, had been denied for insufficient evidence. This case was a relatively straight-forward application of the doctrine of equitable tolling, as the employee's family consistently asserted their rights in a different judicial forum. What is missing from the case is a discussion why the employer denied that the employee had died, given that the employee's bulldozer was found at the bottom of a tailings pond shortly after the employee (and his bulldozer) disappeared.
This week, the Alaska Supreme Court issued four opinions. In Allen v. State, Dept. of Health & Social Services, Div. of Public Assistance, the court considered whether the State could recover overpayments of food stamps from recipients, where the overpayment was caused by the State's error. The court held that Alaska's common law of equitable estoppel, which would normally have barred the State's claim for repayment, was preempted by federal law, which required the State to recoup overpayments. The court, however, also held that the notice provided by the State to the recipients was insufficient and violated due process, and ordered the State to issue a new notice before seeking reimbursement. The court recommended that, in connection with the new notice, the State consider the hardship the beneficiaries would suffer as a result of the State's recoupment efforts.
In In the Matter of the Adoption of S.K.L.H., the court addressed whether an adoption could be rescinded based on the birth mother's misunderstanding as to the level of visitation she would have with the child that was being put up for adoption. The court held that the birth mother's misunderstanding was not a basis for rescinding the adoption, but that the trial court should determine the proper amount and type of visitation between the birth mother and the child.
Ted W. v. State, Dept. of Health & Social Services, OCS, held that a father whose parental rights had been revoked had no standing to contest a finding that his child was a child in need of aid, even if the child had been temporarily placed in his custody after his parental rights were terminated.
Finally, in Clemensen v. Providence Alaska Medical Center, an elderly woman with Alzheimer's was released by a hospital to her adult daughter. The elderly woman subsequently filed for divorce from her husband. Her husband brought suit against the hospital, claiming economic damages and emotional distress out of the fact that the hospital had promised to release the elderly woman only into his custody. The court affirmed the trial court's dismissal of the husband's claims that were based on the divorce filing, finding that, as a matter of law, there is no claim for damages arising out of a divorce. The court also held that the husband's claim for breach of fiduciary duty, which sought damages independent of his divorce, was barred by the tort statute of limitations.
It is this last finding of the Alaska Supreme Court that is most interesting. In past decisions, the court has consistently applied the contract statute of limitations to claims for breach of fiduciary duty. In Clemensen, however, the court stated in a footnote that the source of the fiduciary duty will determine the proper statute of limitations. Thus, in some breach of fiduciary duty cases, the tort, and not contract, statute of limitations will apply. This is a significant break from prior Alaska case law, and it is surprising that it was done in a footnote, and when such a holding was not necessary to decide the case.


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Tiat Restoration Project Update In The News
Posted on January 9, 2014
The Tiat Restoration Project was featured in a recent Orange County Register Article.
Link to Orange County Register Article.
Image of Ti'At by Magallanes and Edwards
Student Chapter Tiat Restoration Project featured in Spring 2013 issue of Winds of Change Magazine
The CSULB American Indian Science and Engineering Student Chapter will be repairing the Moomat Ahiko at CSULB this year. The Moomat Ahiko is a plank canoe that for the past 20 years has provided the Tongva and neighboring First Nations the pride and unity around the Indigenous Maritime culture . Since its conception, the Ti'At has succeeded in a variety of cultural voyages and village hops. Since the participation in the Ti'At Festivals in the island of Pimu (Catalina island), and participation at the Aquarium of the Pacific, International Music Festival, etc., the Moommat Ahiko has proven to be a sea worthy and cultural iconic vessel. Yet along with the uniqueness, the cultural renaissance of the Tongva Nation has been an illumination of the success of the Ti'At and Tongva peoples. And because of this success and past activity, the wear and tear of the Plank Canoe, it is time for repair and continuing of building a crew for future voyages.
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Friday, 14 December, 2001, 12:24 GMT
Marines take Kandahar airport
The Americans say their marines have taken control of the heavily damaged airport outside the former Taleban stronghold of Kandahar.
Hundreds of US soldiers cleared debris and searched the area for mines and booby traps.
"There is a ton of unexploded ordnance," Lieutenant Don Faul told the Associated Press. "There are active minefields all around. Our biggest priority now is making sure that the airfield is safe and operational."
A spokesman told the BBC their intention was to rebuild the airport, 20 km outside the city, and hand it back to civilian control.
Heavy fighting
Before the handover of Kandahar, there had been fierce fighting at the airport.
The anti-Taleban forces initially said they had taken part of it and had then withdrawn in the face of stiff resistance, mainly by Arab fighters.
More than 20 bodies were found at the airport, which was heavily bombed by the Americans.
Some travelled by road convoy and cut off routes, while more were brought in by helicopters.
Officials said part of the runway was still usable and that some cargo planes could land.
However, there are still many large bomb craters as well as shrapnel and debris scattered around the area.
The Americans say they will hire local contractors to help rebuild the airport which could also be used to bring in international humanitarian aid.
Aid agencies have yet to resume convoys of food supplies into Kandahar because of the lack of security on the roads.
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I don't know what you guys are smoking, but comparing NWN to BG is an insult to BG. (edit: I mean, BG as a series)
But well, the OC of NWN and NWN 2 is just too bad and I don't bother to get the X packs, may be I missed something.
BG, based on AD&D, has
- Complex (if not TOO complex for kids nowadays) combat experience. I still remember all the spell counters.
- Hard combat that involves using your ability (a.k.a. your brain) instead of grinding exp.
- Character advancement that isn't just looting "shinnies". Epic levels that's really EPIC
NWN? I steamrolled it with a barbarian and never looked back, it is easy, simple, it can be translated to a hack n' slash game easily.
NWN2? I *think* I played it with my friend. But sadly I can't even remember if I finished it. You can tell how *good* a game it is, I think.
edit: Oh and not to mention, the loading times.
Ok back to DA.
No multiplayer? How could it be BG if it doesn't have multiplayer?
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Forget What She Said Before, Miley Cyrus Is Totally Singing About Molly In 'We Can't Stop'
You know how sometimes you put a controversial word into your enormously popular song and then later on you forget whether you meant that controversial word or just your own name, and then people ask you about it again and it all comes back to you? In this situation, you are also very famous. Specifically you are Miley Cyrus. You might recall last month when Miley debuted her song "We Can't Stop" and people speculated about the lyric "dancing with molly," which presumably referred to the street name for MDMA. But when asked about the lyric, Miley acted like we were all a bunch of looney tunes who couldn't understand a Southern accent when it was right there twerking in our faces. She told Rolling Stone the following.
"I have an accent! So when I say 'Miley,' it must sound like 'molly'. You're not allowed to say 'molly' on the radio, so it obviously says 'Miley.' I knew people were gonna wonder what I'm saying in that song."
At the time, our Crushable baloney radar was going off like crazy, and it turns out we were right. There was enough baloney in that statement to make sandwiches for an entire Girl Scout troop. Miley recently told The Daily Mail that yes, she's absolutely singing about molly the drug, as long as you're over ten years old and/or are not listening to the song on the radio.
"It depends who's doing what. If you're aged ten [the lyric is] Miley, if you know what I'm talking about then you know. I just wanted it to be played on the radio and they've already had to edit it so much … I don't think people have a hard time understanding that I've grown up. You can Google me and you know what I'm up to — you know what that lyric is saying."
So if you know, then you know. If you don't, then you don't. Simple as that. Also I'm deducing from this quote that if you Google Miley Cyrus the first result must be "Miley Cyrus, born November 23, 1992, sings about doing molly." But I wouldn't know since I don't use Google. I use the same fake search engines as Lifetime movie characters. So someone will have to get back to me about that.
I'm still finding it hard to believe that the phrase "dancing with molly" would require radio censoring, but maybe "molly" has been added to George Carlin's list of dirty words. Sorry M***y Ringwald, you're officially censored. Also, P.S., Miley, it's generally agreed upon that growing up does not have to involve doing drugs… or even singing about them.
(via Huffington Post)