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Hi, I recently moved to Hawaii and I'm wondering if there is anyone on here from Hawaii? I'm having some problems with my royal icing, which I think is due to the high humidity here. I'm originally from Washington, and had no problems with my royal icing drying before. It stays completely wet, even after several days. I even tried freezing it, which was not successful, any helpful hints? I'm terrible at gumpaste flowers, and without my Royal Icing I'm complete lost! Thanks to everyone. I hope to hear from someone out there who lives in Hawaii.
Sorry to hear of the problem. I would think it is most definately the humidity there....but wow, what a place to have that problem.....is there a bakery around there that you can ask them what they do? I am sure they could help. ALOHA!
tcturtleshell lives in Louisiana and swears by cornstarch will help in the thickening process.
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Yes, I'm in Louisiana & it is VERY humid here all year long! I put cornstarch in my royal icing after it is mixed together. If you need more later then put a little of it at a time in your icing. If you have anymore questions just ask! ~TC~
Thanks for the tip. That is very nice to know, but how do I know how much cornstarch to add? As far as bakeries in my area, I went to the one bakery in town and they make cakes but don't decorate them, just ice them w/ a border and then you could put a topper or crown or something on them. I thought that was kind of wierd, why go to a bakery if you have to put your own decorations on it???? Anyway, I found a place on the internet of a lady in this area who does beautiful cakes, but so far she hasn't replied to my email. Anyway, I'm rambling. Thanks you so much for your help. I posted this same problem a few weeks ago on the Wilton webthing and not one person responded. Thanks so much. SARAH
PS. I've only been in Hawaii for 7 months, but it really is awesome. If anyone is thinking of taking a vacation, this is a really beautiful place to be.
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Thanks you so much for your help. I posted this same problem a few weeks ago on the Wilton webthing and not one person responded. Thanks so much. SARAH
That's the difference between here and Wilton- we all want to help!
PS. I've only been in Hawaii for 7 months, but it really is awesome. If anyone is thinking of taking a vacation, this is a really beautiful place to be.
I was actually born in Hawaii- I was an army brat until I was about 7 or 8 years old. Unfortunately I don't remember a thing about Hawaii because our family moved from there when I was about 1.5-2 years old. I would love to get back there and visit someday.
Hey Sarah,
I don't put the cornstarch in the royal icing until I try the royal first to see if it's thick enough. That way you won't get it too thick. I put a little in a piping bag & start making a flower. When it's too thin I put it in a small bowl. I only thicken up abuot a cup or more at a time. It is hard to stir, that's why I only do small amounts at a time. I add 1 to 2 t. cornstarch. I stir it up good w/ a spatula. If it's thick then I put it back in the piping bag & go from there. I always color my icing before I use the cornstarch. Because sometimes coloring thins down the royal. If it's not thick enough after adding 1 to 2 t. of cornstarch I then add a 1/2 to 1 t. of cornstarch at a time. Stir & check it. It is a little time consuming but it's worth it! My flowers come out so shinny & they harden in about 12 hours or over night. If you get it too hard just dip your spatula under running water. Let the water run off the spatula back into the sink. Then just drop a few drops of water back into the royal. This way you don't make it too thin & have to go through the thickening process again. you could also use a dropper for this but you don't even want a whole drop. Just a small tiny drop. If I can do anything else for you let me know! ~TC~
I LOVE Hawaii! Which island are you on? I can't wait to come visit again! I've been 22 times now, but not since 1996. I miss it!! I hope to get there for my honeymoon! Was hoping to have our wedding on the beach in either Maui or Kauai, but don't think we can afford to get there soon enough.
I'm sorry, I don't have any information for you, though.. You might try posting a more general question about how to deal with high humidity or royal icing not hardening. That might get more response than the topic, "Hawaii".
I think some people dry their royal icing in the fridge or freezer.
Hi! I lived in Hawaii for 3 years. I lived in Mililani for one year then moved to Honolulu, on Hickam AFB. LOVED IT!! We left in 99 because my kids were starting middle school, and the local schools um... left something to be desired. I hung out on the North Shore at Sunset Beach quite a lot, body boarded at Barbers Point quite a bit, watched the whales at Bellows, went to the Paradise Cove luau about 9 times (when people came to visit, and did they ever!, that was the luau I took them to. Have some inside tips regarding that), went to Maui for the whales every February... loved every second and tried everything! I have some GREAT restaurants to recommend, great stuff to try... loved it. Now I'm in Germany and am loving that too. I totally believe that your life is what you make it.
Um... as far as the icing is concerned, I was the only decorator at the Hickam Commissary, and I also did some cakes from home, but I didn't use royal icing, just plain old buttercream. I actually didn't think that it was very humid at Hickam, but it was in Mililani. I would definitly try the cornstarch addition. It seems like a great addition for the humidity. You can e-mail me privately regarding Hawaii if you want. Have a great time! Aloha!!
Thanks "tc" those directions are very helpful. My kids came down with the stomach flu and I've been doing things a lot less pleasant than making cakes Once things settle down I'll be right in the kitchen trying out those royal icing tips. I'll let you know if I'm successful. As far as Hawaii, I'm on the "Big Island" and I really love it. I'm also worried about the schools here, but my kids are still small, so I'll jump off that bridge when I get there. Thanks to everyone! Sarah
Sorry to hear about your kids being sick. That was never my favorite sickness for my kids to have either! Hope their feeling better!
Do let me know how you did w/ the cornstarch. Like I said I use it all the time.
Never been to Hawaii but would love to go!!! Do they have mosquito's there??? Louisiana is beautiful to me BUT I can't enjoy it so much anymore because I am a mosquito magnent!! I go outside w/ the dog at night & I come back in itching like crazy!! Ahhh!!
Get those kids better & I hope you don't get it!!
Thanks, for your kindness I think it was just a 24 hour thing. They're feeling better. And there are tons of misquitos!!! We have citranella candles and little misquito "rings" all over the place. You've got to take the good with the bad. It's because we're kind of "up-land", we have a lot of flowers and trees and it rains in the evening a lot. If you go down towards the water and in town, it's not so bad. Anyway, thanks to everyone. SARAH


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AC Milan chief executive Adriano Galliani has sought to play down comments made by Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Antonio Cassano.
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AC Milan chief executive Adriano Galliani has sought to play down comments made by Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Antonio Cassano.
The outspoken duo have seen their futures called into question in the wake of remarks made while away on international duty.
Ibrahimovic was with Sweden when he admitted to having grown 'tired of football'.
He said he would use the international break to consider his options.
Cassano, meanwhile, revealed while with Italy that he plans to retire in three years' time.
Ibrahimovic has just turned 30, while Cassano will only be 32 by the time he plans to call it a day.
Fears have been raised about the commitment of both players to the Milan cause, as they contemplate life after football.
Galliani, though, has sought to reassure supporters that the pair will continue to give their all for the reigning Serie A champions.
"I have spoken with the players and everything is fine," he told Corriere dello Sport.
"I talked repeatedly with Ibrahimovic. He absolutely wanted to go (and play for Sweden) and, with the aid of the Swedish Football Association, we were able to bring him back on Monday."

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GAINESVILLE, Fla. - The Florida Gators will have history on their side Saturday night against Kentucky.
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The No. 16 Gators (1-1, 0-1 Southeastern Conference) have won 17 consecutive games in the series. Kentucky coach Rich Brooks said the streak will be a factor when the Wildcats (1-1) visit The Swamp.
"It's got to be," Brooks said. "It certainly was last year when we thought we were in position to end that long run, then Florida came charging back."
Kentucky held an 18-point lead entering the final quarter, only to surrender three touchdowns for a 24-21 defeat. It was the biggest comeback win on the road in Florida history.
"You could sense it in the players as well as the fans in the stands that they just kind of felt, 'Well, here we go again,"' Brooks said.
However, Florida coach Ron Zook echoed Henry Ford ("History is bunk.") when asked about what bearing the streak will have on the upcoming game.
"It doesn't mean anything, the fact that they haven't won," Zook said.
Offensive guard Lance Butler said, "Every week when you play an SEC team, they're all good ball teams so you've got to prepare the same for them. You can't take any of them more lightly than the next. If you do that, you end up losing."
Last season's game marked the first start for Gators quarterback Chris Leak.
"I remember walking in the weight room about 7 o'clock in the morning. Chris had just finished on the power rack and I said to him, 'You're going to start this week,' and he said OK and walked away," Zook said. "I didn't know if he was scared or didn't want to."
Leak, then a freshman, threw two touchdowns to spark the comeback, leading to the first of his seven victories in 11 starts. His winning percentage of .636 trails only Georgia's David Green (.814) and Auburn's Jason Campbell (.700) in the SEC.
"I guess the difference from last year is just being more comfortable out there with the guys and just getting that rhythm in the game and just getting the experience of playing," Leak said.
Kentucky's offense has shown improvement of his own in a far shorter span. The Wildcats were blanked by in-state rival Louisville in their season opener, then came back after a bye week to hang 51 points on Indiana.
"We had some physical, up-tempo practices and the players responded," Brooks said.
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SAO PAULO, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Brazil's JBS SA, the world's largest meat processor, posted better than expected second-quarter profits on Wednesday, helped by a sharp increase in revenues from its pork business in the United States, said the company.
São Paulo-based JBS earned 1.657 billion reais ($529 million) in net income last quarter, compared with 252 million reais in the year-earlier period. The number was much higher than analysts' average consensus estimate of 439 million reais for profit in the second quarter, as compiled by Thomson Reuters.
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The Nationals are well-represented in Major League Baseball's end-of-season award discussion.
Nats manager Davey Johnson was named one of three finalists for National League Manager of the Year, Bryce Harper is up for NL Rookie of the Year and left-hander Gio Gonzalez is a finalist for the NL Cy Young Award.
Johnson joins Reds manager Dusty Baker and Giants skipper Bruce Bochy as the finalists for NL Manager of the Year.
Johnson led the Nats to a 98-win season and their first NL East division title in team history. He joked late in the season that he didn't want Manager of the Year honors because the last time he won it he ended up out of a job. Johnson was named AL Manager of the Year in 1997 and resigned as Orioles manager the very same day that he won the award.
Ironically enough, Johnson still doesn't have a managerial contract for the 2013 season. It would be a major surprise if he didn't end up returning to manage next season, but still, the possibility exists that Johnson yet again wins Manager of the Year and finds himself without a managing job the next season.
Johnson already has won The Sporting News NL Manager of the Year award, which was voted on by his peers, and seems to be the favorite for this award as well. The official MLB awards are voted on by members of the Baseball Writers' Association of America.
Joining Harper as finalists for NL Rookie of the Year are Reds infielder Todd Frazier and Diamondbacks starter Wade Miley.
As a 19-year-old, Harper put up one of the best seasons for a teenager in major league history. He struggled during a stretch in the second half of the season, but still ended up ranking second among NL rookies in home runs (22), fourth in RBIs (59), first in runs scored (98), first in triples (9), second in stolen bases (18) and fourth in OPS (.817).
Miley was named The Sporting News NL Rookie of the Year, while Frazier won the Players Choice Award as the league's top rookie this week.
Gonzalez will be up against Mets right-hander R.A. Dickey and Dodgers lefty Clayton Kershaw.
After the Nationals traded away a boatload of talented prospects to acquire him last offseason, Gonzalez immediately showed he was worth it, leading the majors with 21 wins this season and posting an impressive 2.89 ERA.
It will be tough for Gonzalez to top Dickey, however, given the season the knuckleballer put up. Dickey threw a league-high 233 1/3 innings, put up a 2.73 ERA and struck out 230, the most in the NL.
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It's 7pm on a Thursday night and I'm placing a call to London. It's not my usual Thursday night, but it's not every night I call George Maple for a chat. It's 10am in London. As she answers, I hear the faint clinking of coffee
cups in the background. George's day is just beginning. Her real name isn't actually George, it's Jess. George Maple is the exaggerated persona of Jess Higgs, an Australian songwriter from Sydney's Northern Beaches.
So who is George Maple? I ask.
"It was a blank canvas for me... As it's evolved it's become an extension of myself, maybe a place where I put things that are a little more exaggerated. It's an outlet that I can channel everything into. It has a particular vibe. Someone said it's 'dangerous pop music' and that's kind of what I'm doing at the moment. I like that expression a lot."
The last few years of George Maple's career have been a whirlwind. Divine intervention led to her chance meeting with Hugo from Flight Facilities, when she was just 18. "I met Hugo from Flight Facilities after I was playing a gig in King's Cross. He left his bag at the DJ booth and we happened to cross paths and we had a mutual friend... I sent him a demo that I'd done and the next week we wrote 'Foreign Language' together."
She's also collaborated with Flume, Tkay Maidza, What So Not, Hayden James and Snakehips.
"There are no managers calling each other and saying 'this person is the next hot thing. You should work with them!' It's never been like that. I really don't vibe that. For me, you have relationships with people, you make music and that's the best music you can make because it's based off something that's real."
At this point I'm starting to think that George Maple is part of Australia's coolest gang. "Sometimes there will be an artist that I'll just approach. Like Tkay [Maidza]...She came to my house in Sydney and stayed with us for like three days. She and I camped out with What So Not and we wrote a whole bunch of songs." It was Emoh Instead (of What So Not) who worked on Maple's latest single 'Sticks and Horses'. It was also his idea to premiere the single in an American strip club.
"If the girls can move to it, it means people will move to it on the dance floor," Maple laughs. "It's always been made for that realm."
That realm has served as a point of inspiration for Maple's music as well as style, she tells me. "When I was in Paris, I was going to a lot of Parisian sex shops and they are so incredible. The way they design all of the pieces, it's just another level. I've never seen anything like it.
"I'm into a lot of PVC, a lot of latex, a lot of dark lips...I just like drama. I like drama in everything at the moment."
In terms of her writing process, I ask Maple what inspires her. Does she draw from real-life events in her songs? "I like the idea that there's different environments that inspire different kinds of songs. It might be a place I'm in, it might be a conversation I have," she says.
"I feel like the strongest songs are always something that I've personally been through." With recurring themes of money, power and sex, it's safe to assume she's got a lot going on.
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Dr. Tiffany N. Richardson has been elected as a director on the National School Boards Association Council of School Attorneys (COSA) Board of Directors. Richardson is the South Carolina School Boards Association (SCSBA) General Counsel and Director of Policy and Legal Services. She was elected during the annual COSA business meeting and elections Saturday.
COSA provides information and practical assistance to more than 3,000 attorneys representing K-12 public school districts and state school boards associations. The association supports school attorneys in their representation of public school boards by providing leadership in legal advocacy for public schools and professional development and continuing education opportunities.
Richardson joined SCSBA in January 2014 as the Director of Policy and Legal Services, and was named SCSBA's General Counsel in March 2015.
Before joining SCSBA, Richardson was a staff attorney in the Office of Disciplinary Counsel of the South Carolina Supreme Court. She also clerked for the Honorable Judge L. Casey Manning in the fifth judicial circuit before joining the private bar practicing labor and employment law, with an emphasis on education law.
Richardson earned a juris doctorate in 2006 from the University of South Carolina School of Law. She went on to earn an MBA in 2011 and a PhD in educational leadership and policy in 2014, both from the University of South Carolina.
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Facebook designs new networking switch
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Facebook Inc. introduced an open-source design for a networking switch, moving the technology industry toward cheaper hardware and threatening industry leaders including Cisco Systems Inc. and Juniper Networks Inc.
The open-source design for the switch, which is typically used behind the scenes to route Internet traffic, was accompanied by software for better handling of Web loads. It became necessary to build as Facebook expands its business, said Jay Parikh, vice president of infrastructure engineering.
"We've done this for racks, for the compute part of it, for storage and for other parts of infrastructure but there is this other lingering part, the network," Parikh said at an industry event Wednesday. "We were running into just a lot of things that slow us down."
The open-source switch design is the latest move by Facebook to upend the technology infrastructure business. Since 2011, the Menlo Park company has been working with partners to design more efficient and low-cost computing systems.
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The company shares its findings with a project called Open Compute, with the designs reducing the cost of machinery by paring down components and software to only what's needed for the specific function being performed. That has enabled others to make their own cheaper servers and storage, pressuring companies that sell those products.
The fallout has been evident. In January, IBM Corp. bowed out of the low-end server business by selling it to Lenovo Group Ltd. Hewlett-Packard Co.'s sales of servers and storage systems have been declining since 2011.
In networking, Cisco and Juniper are already facing challenges. Some of their customers are starting to shift away from the purchase of expensive new routers and switches, opting for networks that rely more on software and inexpensive hardware. Software-defined networking lets users add speed and features while cutting costs.
Partly as a result, growth in the Internet-switch market is slowing. The market is projected to reach $61 billion in 2017, up about 5 percent from this year, according to Michael Howard, co-founder of Infonetics Research Inc.
Facebook's switch is called Wedge and is embedded with a microserver, so it looks, feels and operates more like a server, the company said.
The company's software is a Linux operating system to manage Wedge and keep track of a device's performance.
Facebook, like Google Inc. and Amazon Inc., started designing its own hardware to save money and handle increased Internet traffic. It now owns four data centers filled with custom-made products.
Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg has said that Facebook saved $1.2 billion by using Open Compute-based equipment instead of products from established makers of data-center technology.
Facebook's hardware group has so far designed and ordered hundreds of thousands of its own servers, spending $1.36 billion last year on its own data centers, more than double from $606 million in 2011. The company relies on manufacturers including Quanta Computer Inc. instead of buying from lead server makers such Hewlett-Packard and Dell Inc.
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The St. Paul School District plans to narrow its list of candidates for superintendent to three by the end of next week.
The search firm HYA, which is charged with recruiting candidates, says more than 40 people have applied to be St. Paul's next superintendent.
On Wednesday, Nov. 11, the district will name six semi-finalists for the job. Those six will be interviewed later next week during meetings that are open to the public, but only board members will interact with the candidates.
Next Saturday, the board will pare that list to no more than three finalists. Each finalist will then take part in public meetings the following week that include a question-and-answer period with the public.
The school board expects to pick its sole candidate for the job the week of Thanksgiving.
They're choosing a permanent replacement for Meria Carstarphen, who left St. Paul this year to head the Austin, Texas district. Suzanne Kelly is currently interim superintendent - she is not applying for the permanent job.
Schedule (two-step process; one for SEMI-finalists, one for finalists)
Interviews with six semi finalists (open to public, but no interaction between public and candidates)
District HQ: 360 Colborne St.
Friday, Nov. 13 - 6:00 to 9:45 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 14 - 9:00 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
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District HQ: 360 Colborne St.
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Wednesday, Nov. 18 - 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.
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text: For 2012, I've seen well over 100 films theatrically. Since last January, I've kept track of every movie I've seen and I've put together a ranked list. 100 movies is way too much to cover in-depth, so I decided to break them up into five parts in a top 50. Expect further detail and a more comprehensive review for my Top 10 films. Until then, the films #50-11 will only have a mini-review of my overall thoughts. So, here's Part One. Part One #50 This is 40 - A decent entry for Judd Apatow. It's not his worst movie, but ultimately, the movie was a bit unbalanced in its message and tone, some of the jokes felt too sketchy and it could've used some better editing. It's not quite up there with Knocked Up or 40 Year Old Virgin, but with all that said, there was still several things to like about the movie. Albert Brooks and Paul Rudd and their relationship especially helped to make this movie worth watching once. #49Your Sister's Sister - Another indie movie with Mark Duplass? You don't say! The thing about this movie was how it took a very simple story and still made you feel engaged and sympathy for these flawed people. At the same time, the biggest downfall to the movie is ironically its simplicity and its flawed characters, but the acting is impressive enough to make up for it. #4821 Jump Street - Ok, so I didn't fall in love with this movie like many people did but I thought it was decent and a bit of fun. For me, the jokes were just a little too hit/miss for me to truly love or find memorable. However, Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill's performances were just enough to keep me interested. #47Hotel Transylvania - This one was a bit of a surprise. More creative and entertaining than Brave or Frankenweenie, this movie was worth watching. It's probably not as memorable or crowd pleasing as Wreck-It Ralph or Madagascar 3, but I thought it made a good effort. #46Sinister - In 2011, I thought Insidious was one of the better horror films to come out in the last 5 years, and in many ways Sinister felt like the sister film to that. I think both movies started off very intense and unique, however like with Insidious, Sinister has a third act mythology that polarized many audiences. I also think the movie had some significant pacing roadbumps that Insidious seemed to manage better. With that said, I thought it was a decent effort and had just enough originality to keep it well in memory for a few years. #45Ted - I've got to hand it to MacFarlane. As a first time live action director, he did a pretty good job here. Ted is one of those crowd pleasing, raunchy mainstream films that still managed to have a decent balance of heart to it. Although a lot of the jokes fell flat completely, it still created a good time at the movie theater I thought. #44Seven Psychopaths - This one might get me in trouble. I know a lot of people had this one their top 10 or top 5's, but for me, the movie didn't quite gel together. I thought at least the first two acts were really good--I really enjoyed watching Walken, Rockwell, and Harrelson here.After I realized that the movie was a bit of a genre misdirect, I still didn't quite get as much out of it as I wanted by the end. #43 Hope Springs - I know I'm in the minority in this, but I thought this movie was very cute. It was a very amusing look into the lives of an older trouble marriage and the things they try to do to bring intimacy back. For most, this movie was probably too schmultz-y for most, but for me, I really liked the two leads and I thought it hit some nice comedic notes here and there. #42Lawless - This was a movie that sorta came and went. I actually wasn't too crazy about the movie, however, I thought it was still very well acted and shot. A handful of memorable scenes, but I think it was a good movie that could've been great if it had a more entertaining pace and climax. #41Pitch Perfect - Here was a cute comedy that had a soul. As a movie, it's not exactly my cup of tea, but I have to give credit where credit's due and this movie was pretty crowd pleasing. I'll probably never watch it again, but I enjoyed it for its efforts. Stay Tuned for More, Including Part Two: 40 to 39 as well as my full 100+ ranked list of 2012 @The_Kren @Hell-Toupee @Mike-Dawsome @bloodofabelmont @HardcoreDeadlygamer @RommelMcDommel @T0xiCity8 @lipiti


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Before the calendar turned, 2016 already had the makings of a pivotal year for manufacturing, and for the world.
There were the big events for the year, including the United States as Partner Country at Hannover Messe in April and the 2016 International Manufacturing Technology Show in Chicago in September. There's also the matter of the U.S. presidential elections in November, which promise to shape policy in manufacturing for years to come.
But the year started with global economic turmoil, as a slowdown in Chinese manufacturing triggered a worldwide stock hiccup that sent values plummeting. The continued plunge in world oil prices has resulted in a slowdown in exploration and, by extension, the manufacture of exploration equipment.
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Subscriber Hob Osterlund photographed this Pacific Golden-Plover tugging on a worm near her home in Princeville on the Hawaiian island of Kauai.
The species, which is known as Kolea in Hawaii, winters in the state, as well as on North America's Pacific coast, on other Pacific islands, and from Australia to India to eastern Africa. It breeds in northern Siberia and western Alaska.
"I've been trying to get this shot for years," Hob says. "Kolea are typically skittish around humans, so it's tough to get a candid photo of a tug-of-war with breakfast."
She used a Canon 7D with a 70-300mm lens.
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Preparing for the move to self-reliance
Peak oil is an idea that has been drifting around on the edge of the mainstream media for a while, but landed with a thud this summer when the International Energy Agency (IEA) announced that, indeed, the world had definitively reached what they designated as 'peak oil' in 2006.
Conventional oil supplies are now officially in decline. This may take a while to sink in due to the background noise of our hectic lives, but is shaping up to be a real game-changer.
Born and raised as fossil-fuel consumers, our entire lifestyle, indeed, our culture is built around it. But the more pressing issue, now pulling ahead of the peak-oil dilemma, is financial. "Finance is rewriting how the energy debate plays out," says Nicole Foss, energy analyst and former editor of The Oil Drum Canada. Some readers will be more familiar with her as the coeditor of the website 'The Automatic Earth', where she writes under the pen-name 'Stoneleigh.'
Foss has been travelling extensively throughout Europe and the U.S. with the message that, due to the ongoing credit market collapse, we are on the threshold of a long deflationary period. An energy crisis will follow, as the financial morass will stifle energy investment, exploration and maintenance. This means less-affordable energy available to power an economic rally, a kind of chicken-and-egg scenario.
At her presentation, Foss will describe how our current financial system is an unsustainable credit bubble grounded in Ponzi dynamics, the logic of the pyramid scheme. She warns that most people are woefully unprepared for the consequences of devastating deflation.
Societies have gone through-boom and bust cycles before for example, Tulip Mania, the South Sea Bubble and the 'Real' Great Depression of the 1870s, but most people in the Western world will face this crisis without the knowledge, or means, to provide the basics of their own survival. Our industrial system has nearly destroyed individual capacity for self-reliance.
A bright spot in the move to self-reliance is the constructive work of groups such as Transition Town initiatives around the world, designing what they call an Energy Descent Action Plan for their communities. Foss sees this as a good fit for her attempt to "put resources in the hands of ordinary people at the local level".
Foss will be presenting her ideas in a talk called 'A Century of Challenges Ahead' at Georgian College's Rowntree Theatre at 6:30 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 22. Hosted by student environmental group GEAR and Transition Barrie, a movement dedicated to building local resilience in the face of peak oil, climate change and ecomomic dislocation, it's free to attend, but a $5 donation is appreciated.
Please join us in learning and crafting solutions.
Ruth Blaicher and Karen Fox are local realtors and founding members of Transition Barrie with a passion for green issues and are directors of Living Green.


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text: After a 4 month hiatus I have returned to LS! But anyway, I have been busy this year with work and other things! I also plan on selling the Billy Goat mower I purchased last fall it just is not working out for me, I want something better, the mower its self it alright, but it just is not the same as my good old Ferris was. The bag also is way too small for my needs, I think the mower lacks in power too, and the dip stick keeps randomly poping off while the mower is on the trailer (which is a total PITA to deal with) I also plan on expanding in to more landscaping services as well as some commerical mowing by next year, if all goes as planed! Also I still am using the Odyssey (laugh all you want) but I have been truck shopping and I plan on getting a truck by the time the leaves start falling... But here are a few pics from earlier this year, I have lots of pics to post from the past few months of work.


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Mobile Website – Full Value of Indian Mobile Casestudy
Mobile is becoming such a large part of India's story that companies ignoring this trend are going to miss out on some huge revenue impact. Great proof of concept here in a study done by Google India with Myntra.
Myntra.com video Case Study on the Full Value of Mobile. Google's first of its kind mobile case study!
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This idea to life in a short video with the backdrop of the #partition of India, showing how human passion and hope can overcome time and borders. In this story, a woman in India reunites her grandfather with his childhood friend (who is now in Pakistan) following six decades of separation with a little help from Google. We hope this is a reflection of the many stories of #reunion
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TT Underground Gallery will be hosting a solo exhibit featuring the latest work by Ghost, entitled "Then and Now." The exhibit opens on September 8th 2011.
It's safe to say GHOST's legendary status in the lore of NYC subway graffiti's past was not achieved with some self-consciously plotted career path to art world success. In fact, GHOST was more concerned with the transgression than the aesthetics of letters at the time- and transgress he did. He hated the preciousness of some writers, and attributes his loose, un-planned, flowing style –that persists to this day– to needing to get up and get away. When he later took to drawing, he elaborated on his own aesthetic and dark humor by creating crazily inventive and irreverent possibilities for his letters and characters. Soon after, he merged these ink apparitions with his street-borne skills as a colorist, and has continued to enjoy a level of facility and mastery of these forms for some time now—and without the level of risk of the old days.
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Laziest Kaito y/y I really like Alice Human Sacrifice, and Jazqui put together a group so heyyy white shirt + blue pants + borrowed wig/scarf from Reiko Fanel later and voila. I do want to add certain things for a later shoot, but. HAHA oh wow I look pretty terrible that's. Interesting. Gotta figure out how to less next time :D
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Diesel doesn't need a fashion show to shine during New York Fashion Week 2016…..By Derek H. Sparks, Le CITY Brand Ambassador. To celebrate the grand opening of the brand's Madison Avenue flagship, Diesel threw two top parties during the heart of New York Fashion Week. The evening began at the store itself where A-list attendees sipped champagne and posed among glass vitrines filled with mannequins wearing distressed denim. Among the VIPs and celebs who joined Diesel Owner and Founder Renzo Rosso and Artistic Director Nicola Formichetti were actor Adrien Brody, supermodel Naomi Campbell, campaign star Joe Jonas (nicely sporting his newly red head of hair), and socialite/DJ and fitness entrepreneur Hannah Bronfman, to name a few.
After the in-store opening soiree, writer, performer and nightlife personality, Ladyfag, hosted a raucous after-party in a cavernous private residence in the Upper East Side known as Academy Mansion. Featuring live performances by Travis Scott and Joe Jonas's new band, DNCE, as well as DJ sets by Virgil Abloh & Heron Preston and The Dolls: Mia Moretti + Margot, the crowd danced and partied the night away.
Every inch of the cavernous mansion was packed with VIP guests and each room was decorated with a different style, the most notable of which was a red-curtained, black-and-white-floored room straight out of Twin Peaks, where a woman with skin painted green summoned guests into a bathroom with a rainbow fluorescent bathtub.
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Read anything about Mexican mole (pronounced MOLE-ay), a sauce so contrarian few have been able to define it, and you'll probably run across at least two origin stories. One involves a 17th-century nun named Sor Andrea de la Asunción. Panicked about how to feed a visiting archbishop, the good sister threw every ingredient in her convent kitchen into a cast iron pot. The result must have smelled and tasted witchy. I imagine her whispering a desperate prayer over her boiling brew. The archbishop was charmed.
Or an alternate tale: Fray Pascual, a monk, was putting up spices for the monastery's kitchen when he left a tray of ground powders near an open window. A sudden breeze wafted the mixture into a casserole bubbling on the stove, and that night at dinner the other monks oooohed and ahhhed, patted their bellies, and afterward slept the sleep of the righteous.
In either case, the Lord smiled on mole, evidently unconcerned with its potentially aphrodisiacal effects. A longer history of this fabled food would take you back to the Aztecs, who discovered the powerful magic wrought from a handful of cocoa beans ground together with chilies. If that isn't a recipe for love I don't know what is. If you've read Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate you'll understand what a lather a girl can get into while toasting anchos and almonds for a recipe handed down through generations. Today, the state of Oaxaca boasts seven classic mole recipes, the city of Puebla has as many, and Veracruz hoards the secrets of its own emerald-colored mole verde. Mole, with its dozens of ingredients and 40 or 50 painstaking steps, can take days to prepare; it's not so much a meal as a test of faith or an act of uncommon generosity. This is a food that tastes all the better seasoned with sweat and tears. Cook a mole and the smell lingers in your hair, on your skin and clothes, for days.
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El Chamol, 6300-25 Lantana Rd., Lake Worth. Open Monday through Friday 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. (Monday in season); 12:30 to 10 p.m. Saturday; 12:30 to 9 p.m. Sunday. Call 561-868-4747. Wheelchair accessible.
I like chef Zarela Martínez's no-nonsense definition of mole: She says it's any puréed main dish that uses fresh or dried chilies along with a bunch of other vegetal matter, plus a thickener. Mexi-expert Rick Bayless would add that the purée must be cooked (guacamole, despite its name, doesn't qualify). A mole might include what any good Mexican housewife would have within arm's reach of her stove: anchos, poblanos, pasillas, serranos, pumpkin seeds, sesame, peanuts, grated avocado pit or avocado leaves, garlic, cinnamon, cloves, onion, stale bread, anise, prunes, sugar, broken tortillas, raisins, walnuts, cacao butter, oregano, jalapenos, tomatillos, apricots, fennel, tomatoes, chipotle, plantains, peppercorns, thyme, cracker crumbs, pine nuts, masa, coconut milk, wine, and, if you feel the spirit, chocolate. You and me and the devil makes three... the Siren mole burbles from the depths of its pot, beckoning.
Martínez reminds us, too, that "the sauce is the dish." Traditionally, you don't so much spoon mole over a turkey breast or a chicken thigh as you dine on a plate of sauce spiked with a couple of pieces of meat. Mole is thick, like a stew, and frighteningly potent.
The mole that chef Lamberto Valdez ladles over the chicken crepes he serves at El Chamol breaks from all these traditions, but then Valdez is a Mexican-born, French-schooled, former Ritz-Carlton executive chef, and he's attempting to do something rather poetic. Valdez, it seems, has an idea that he'll use classic Mexican ingredients — cactus paddles and huitlacoche among the most exotic — and pair them in interesting ways with seafood and European-accented characters such as puff pastry or risotto. Voilé! you might say: A new fusion is born.
Sometimes Valdez's fancies work, sometimes they don't. The crepes ($13.95) wrapped around toothsome chunks of chicken, are supple and lacy as they should be, but the accompanying mole, thinned with chardonnay, and pooled next to the pancake, has none of the black magic you'd expect from such a complicated sauce; the only note that registers is cinnamon. You wonder how a mole could possibly taste underseasoned.
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Although I've found the food at Chamol uneven, ranging from mouthwatering to bland, I like this little restaurant quite a bit. That goes to show how far the mood and spirit of a place can make up for any lapses in culinary execution. The setting, in suburban Lake Worth, is exceedingly pleasant, two long rooms filled with pinks and blues and yellows. A silly mural of idyllic Mexican farmers, villagers, and a mariachi band stretches the length of two walls — a local artist's stream-of-cliché. Solid blond tables are set with hand-painted Mexican plates (removed when service begins), and the waiters know enough to unfold your napkin and place it in your lap, showing an attentiveness to detail that probably reflects Valdez's years of work in fine resort hotels. On weekends, Chamol is jammed and noisy with regular customers celebrating birthdays and engagements, with nothing but cheap margaritas to buffer the sound reverberating off tile floors; but on weeknights the pace is leisurely and the kitchen less rushed. Busy or sedate, though, the staff here is lovely — a little shy, maybe, but well coordinated in the pacing of courses and drinks, offering to refill your basket of tortilla chips and the lava-stone molcajete of homemade tomato salsa, chopped tomato seeded with bits of cilantro and a sucker-punch of jalapeno, as many times as you can stand. The free salsa is excellent, and so is guacamole dip ($6.95), fatty Hass avocados layered onto warm tortilla chips and melted cheese, then topped with sour cream. Tortilla soup ($3.95), sprinkled with tortilla confetti the red, white, and green of a Mexican flag, grew on me as I ate; what seems dull on first bite gradually spreads warmth and spice into your whole being, a liquid comfort.
Shrimp with corn and mushrooms is served over a grilled cactus paddle ($11.95) with salsa made from roasted tomatillos and tomatoes — a stellar, unusual dish. It's listed under appetizers but easily serves two or as a main course. The nopale has an odd texture, just slightly slippery, like okra, fleshy and tart — it works beautifully with the clean salty brine of shrimp and smoky essences imparted from grilling and roasting. Another huge appetizer, roasted poblano stuffed with potato, goat cheese, and lobster ($13.95) didn't come off as well — too much potato, for one thing. Valdez uses a lot of lobster on this menu, and I think it's a mistake — there's no way the shellfish could be cooked to order, and it loses flavor and texture. Anyway, it's wasted loaded into ravioli with huitlacoche, a powdery corn smut, or stuffed into a quesadilla ($14.95) among a bunch of competing flavors.
This nice chef cares enough to visit every table at his suburban Lake Worth restaurant at least once per night (I watched him personally counsel one couple at length, a pregnant wife with her picky, picky husband). If you're not into Frenchican fare, he's got a solid lineup of Tex-Mex or Mex-Mex enchiladas and fajitas and burritos. The beef fajitas ($9.95), emitting more steam than a Cancun honeymoon suite, were terrific, and the tortillas came warm in a basket covered with a napkin — the real thing, as good as any I've had in Mexico. Spoon a little pico de gallo and sour cream, roll your chunks of meat up with a few strips of grilled pepper and onion, and you are one happy glutton. Long simmered, redolent beans and yellow rice are served in tiny cast iron pots with wooden spoons. And if the marinated beef in an asada grill ($16.95) was a little tough, the pastry enfolding a creamy chicken and cheese pie (a special, $22.50) was just as tender.
Any of these dishes are very easy to swallow with margaritas, of course (there's always a daily special, such as frozen mango), or shots of tequila from a menu expansive enough to soothe any anxiety one might feel about a lobster quesadilla seasoned with corn smut ($14.95). Margaritas are made with the traditional lime and triple sec, or less traditionally with pineapple, agave, blue curaçao, or even grape juice, but they're served in handsome blown-glass stemware, and at around $4 each, you can afford to drink your weight in them. As for tequila, there's Milagro, Herradura, El Jimador, Casa Noble, reposados, anejos, and blancos — enough of the hard stuff to keep you busy along with Mexican and American beers including Modelo and Tecate.


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Redknapp could extend Jordan stay
Harry Redknapp is open to the possibility of extending his spell in charge of Jordan beyond an initial two-game deal.
The former Tottenham boss, 69, has agreed to oversee upcoming World Cup qualifiers against Bangladesh and Australia.
Jordan must win them both to reach the third round of Asian qualifying for the 2018 finals in Russia.
"If we win them and everyone is happy I'd love to come back," said Redknapp.
"We have to make sure we win. At the moment it's two games but we'll look to the future after these two games. There's nothing I would like more than to be successful in these games."
Jordan, who have never qualified for a World Cup, are second in their group in the second of three phases of Asian qualifying.
'A world-class manager'
Redknapp, who has also taken up an advisory role at Championship side Derby County, was approached by Jordan Football Association president Prince Ali bin Al Hussein earlier this month about taking charge of the side ranked 82nd in the world.
It is Redknapp's first managerial position since leaving Queens Park Rangers in January 2015.
"He is a world-class manager and he has proven that throughout his career," said former Fifa presidential hopeful Prince Ali.
"It is very rare you have people of this class. I spoke to many people but immediately it became evident Harry is the man for the job."


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LMAO! On BB the unitard is a punishment. From what I saw, it is also on The Voice.Originally Posted by canadian_angel
At first I thought he said 8 ex-wives. I sat there wondering how in the heck he got 8 women to marry him. Thanks for clearing that up for me.Originally Posted by canadian_angel
I missed most of the show. Teenagers. GRRRR.
Did hear that lady who sang Landslide and thought she was great.
Did that Dez kid actually *quit* Yale football or didn't make it on the team? Seems quite a stupid thing to do. Yale education vs. career in music. He has improved and is definitely cute but is just filler, he has no chance of winning.
That woman at the end, gawd she bugged me to no end. That cocky attitude reminds me of JHud. Poor Blake, betcha he's regretting that one.


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Exercise: Build up a temporary table of doctors, companions and enemies
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First (if you haven't already done so) run the script shown above to generate the Doctor Who training database.
The aim of this exercise (which is fully explained in the following pages) is to create a temporary table called #Characters containing all of the doctors, companions and enemies in the database. The idea is that you should be able to display these as follows:
-- show results
SELECT * FROM #Characters
ORDER BY CharacterName DESC
This should show the following rows:
The first few of the 109 "characters" in the database (giving the id number and type of each).
Start a query, and write code to delete any temporary table called #Characters:
-- get rid of any old copy of temporary table
IF object_id('tempdb.dbo.#Characters', 'U') is not null
DROP TABLE #Characters
Write an instruction to put the doctors into a new table. The syntax is:
-- create a new table containing rows from an existing table
Column1 AS NewColumnAlias1,
ColumnN AS NewColumnAliasN,
You may need to cast the character type to a 10-character string, otherwise the query will create a 6-character string to accommodate the word Doctor and crash when you try to put the word Companion in it subsequently.
Here's what you should have so far when you display the rows in your temporary table in reverse name order:
So far we have 12 doctors - time now to add some companions and enemies.
SQL Server will have created the CharacterId column as an identity column. Tell it to let you add more rows by running this line:
-- allow more identity values to be inserted
SET IDENTITY_INSERT #Characters ON
Now use two separate statements to add the companions and enemies (from the tblCompanion and tblEnemy tables respectively) into your temporary table, using this syntax:
-- append rows into existing table
INSERT INTO #Characters (
When you've finished, every time that you run your entire query it should drop any old copy of the temporary table and create a new one containing 109 rows (as shown at the start of this exercise).
Optionally, save your query as Strange bedfellows.sql, then close it down.


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Alaska Airlines baggage handlers voted overwhelmingly to reject management's latest contract offer, creating a showdown that threatens the jobs of about 500 workers in Seattle.
In January, the company warned that it might hire an outside vendor to do the work in Seattle. Company executives now must decide whether to carry out that threat.
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Eighty-five percent of those voting said no to the management offer. The union did not disclose the count but said 85 percent opposed the proposal.
"Our members are looking squarely in the face the possibility of losing their jobs," said Bobby De Pace, president of IAM District 143. "But they are tired of being extorted by constantly holding this gun to our heads of farming out the work."
The consequence of the vote won't be clear until later this month.
In an e-mail to employees yesterday afternoon, Dennis Hamel, Alaska Airlines vice president of employee services, expressed disappointment and said the company "will now work to reach a decision by the end of May on subcontracting the Seattle ramp function."
The "ramp" is the airline-industry term used for the baggage-handling operation.
Company spokeswoman Caroline Boren said that firing Seattle employees and hiring a vendor are "among the options under consideration." The decision, she said, has not been made.
The IAM represents 952 baggage handlers in Seattle, Alaska and in other airports, such as Phoenix.
Whatever the company decides regarding the Seattle employees, it will continue contract talks for remaining employees in the summer. The talks will be with a federal mediator.
If the company and the union can't agree, the mediator can declare a cooling-off period. After that, the union can call a strike. In the vote yesterday, 82 percent of those voting authorized a strike.
The union hopes the company will return to the table.
"We will ask the company to meet immediately," De Pace said. "The IAM is prepared to immediately resume bargaining."
However, De Pace was preparing for worse.
"We fully expect them to try to break us," he said.
De Pace said that if management moves to fire the Seattle employees before contract talks resume, union lawyers will go to court to seek a temporary restraining order or to sue the company.
The rejected offer included a guarantee of four years without outsourcing. It also offered a voluntary severance package to those on the higher rungs of the pay scale.
However, it would have cut wages and benefits significantly, exacting about $13 million in concessions. The top-scale wage rate was cut 25 percent to $15.47 an hour, and high overtime rates were eliminated. It also would have steeply raised health-insurance contributions.
In January, Alaska asked Menzies Aviation Group, a United Kingdom-based subcontractor of air-terminal services, to evaluate possible savings from outsourcing the Seattle work.
Menzies then advertised baggage-handling jobs at Sea-Tac Airport for $8.75 an hour. The savings projected from such outsourcing was relayed to the union during the contract talks.
Alaska's push to cut labor costs comes at a time of industry crisis as jet-fuel prices remain high and low-cost carriers keep fares low.
All the major U.S. airlines are losing money. In the first quarter, Alaska Air Group reported a net loss of $80.5 million, nearly twice its loss of the year-ago period.
Chief Executive Bill Ayers has cut the airline's operational costs since 2003, leaving the toughest union talks until last.
"This will be the year of labor," he told Airline Business magazine in this month's issue.
Alaska management is in talks with all its unions and has asked for a total of $112 million in wage and benefit concessions. A week ago, a federal arbitrator decided the major terms of a new contract between the airline and its 1,500 pilots.
Effective May 1, pilot pay was slashed an average of 26 percent, with less-senior pilots taking a cut of as much as 34 percent, according to an analysis by John Steinbeck, who runs an informational Web site for pilots.
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For the Vancouver Winter Olympics, Canon came up with a fun promotion by distributing a limited edition white lens coffee mugs, replicas of their 70-200mm L series. It was a promotional home run, and they sparked a scramble to get one.
Now there's a Nikon version. And you don't even have to be a Nikon pro to get one. Just fork out your US$23 (+ shipping) and be the proud owner of a coffee mug made as a replica of Nikon's 24-70mm F2.8 ED lens. They've definitely paid some attention to detail, even down to the box and lens bag.
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My main question is....do you think its possible to be "just friends" with an ex and/or healthy to do so? I, for one, cannot wrap my head around this concept. The only way I can heal from a romantic relationship ending is space and time. I can't be "friends" with someone that I had romantic feelings for. This may be just a personal thing. However, I have had many exes who thought this was possible......whether they were being genuine or just trying to keep their foot in the door for a hopeful future reconciliation.....I don't know. Either way.... I nipped it in the bud because I just CAN'T do that.
Thoughts on this? I'm just being nosy....
D day: November 15th, 2009
Married: 5 Years, together 8
Divorced: December 13th, 2010
New Beginning: Piper/8-3-12
But with romantic partners since my marriage ended, I often try to be "friendly" if not exactly "friends". Not in the keep a foot in the door way, but because I saw something in the man that made me like him. A dating relationship not working out, doesn't mean those qualities aren't still there. I think though "staying friends" is kind of idealized concept. More appealing in theory for me than in reality.
Has it worked for me to remain friends with past romantic partners is a different question! 1 yes; 2 no's and 1 yet to be determined.
My first serious boyfriend I was on cordial terms with for awhile, but he has married now (to a woman who shares my first name!) and our contact has pretty much stopped, which I respect and understand. I do wish there could be more of a friendship there however. The cheating ex and I will never ever be friends, but that's self-explanatory.
So I do think all situations and people are different on this one!
In the world of adult dating I think it gets really murky, keeping past significant others around. When you used to be intimate with someone I think it can blur the boundaries about what is appropriate behavior between people. Or appropriate discussion topics. It's one thing to lean on exes as an emotional crutch when you are single, but then when you are in a relationship it can be confusing. People may claim they don't have feelings for exes, but if you can't break emotional ties with a past partner then maybe you still do IMO.
Me? I've never kept in contact with exes. I feel it's not healthy for either person and can get in the way of the next relationship. I know that I still have nostalgia for old flames sometimes, so I protect my current relationship with strong boundaries.
Finally reached indifference & looking forward to my new beginning
I think the people that do keep in touch, or become "friends" weren't really in love with each other.
I've always heard that you either love someone forever, or not at all.
There are two that I will love forever, but just not meant to be with them (neither of them my ex). I wish them well but have NC with them because it would be too weird.
I don't see the point of contact with her post-D, let alone a friendship.
A previous ex of mine was somebody I'd run into every so often - same professional circles etc so it was unavoidable. We were certainly civil and polite whenever we interacted, but we weren't meeting up for coffee or drinks or whatever after we went our separate ways.
Do no harm. But take no shit.
I know that I still have nostalgia for old flames sometimes, so I protect my current relationship with strong boundaries.
This is me. Strong boundaries are important to me so I treat anyone that I'm with in a relationship with the same respect that I need in return. I can't date someone who is close friends with women they have slept with either....and that's probably because its a trigger point for me. My XWH was "just friends" with a girl that he thought of "like a sister" and she ultimately ended up being the MOW and the reason for my divorce. Hence.....I just can't go there!
NO and HELL NO.
1."'FOREVER' in love" lasts only 14 years.
2. Alcohol is NO solution just a bigger problem
My favorite drink is water. Call me Dasani23
If you are talking about the ex's that brought us here to SI, then no I don't think it's healthy. I don't need "friends" who habitually lie (to everyone, not just to me), who don't keep their word, who have zero empathy and no regard for how their actions affect others, and the list goes on.
There is simply no room for anyone like that in my life, and I have too much self-respect to subject myself to that sort of treatment, from a romantic partner or a "friend".
Follow your heart, but take your brain with you. ~ Alfred Adler
Letting go of the outcome is about the most empowering thing you can do for yourself. ~ LosferWords
The ex? I am only politely civil out of necessity. He wants to be "friends" and is always saying "let's remember the good times," to which my response is . Friends don't betray friends.
I think people have conflicting definitions of what "friend" means, and therein lies the problem.
~Indifference - Because some people do not deserve your emotions.~
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In practice, much more difficult.
You need a cooling-down period, and, then, how do you start up the friendship again? If I contact them, it seems like creepy married guy seeking something outside the marriage. And if they contact me, it seems like creepy potential OW seeking to disrupt a marriage. None of the women I dated would do that.
The goal would be to seek couple friends anyway... so that could create an awkward dynamic. Best to leave it alone and make new friends.
Now that hope is gone and he has remarried, i'm not feeling all that chummy.
(which also signifies to me that my desire to be friends was insincere)
I would like to be friends with my ex because of our shared history, and because I am like that with people I know that I have been close to and tend to stay in touch for life.
But on a practical basis I cannot see how it is possible, and so I haven't tried. Perhaps I will send X a program from the memorial for my brother in law who was once his brother in law for many years so the NC of numerous years would be momentarily broken. But a friendship sounds impossible. Even if was not still living with OW, there is just too much betrayal and hurt.
Knowing what a worm he is capable of being would prevent a true friendship from emerging.
However, I am friends with a couple of my other X's. This was mainly due to honesty. The relationships ended civilly, there was no cheating. These are men that I respected during the relationship and more because of how the ending was handled. Neither of them is a super close friend but they'd both come help if I called at 2 in the afternoon or 2 in the morning.
We are friends but we keep a respectful distance because of all of us are now involved in other relationships. I respect the feelings of their wives and try and not hang out with them at uncomfortable frequency. I also try and be very transparent with the wives so that the friendship isn't a problem for their relationships or mine.
Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future. -foulton oursler
We have an undeniable history. We were together for almost 40 years. We know each other inside and out and share a DS and now a DGS.
We speak infrequently, but we are 'friends' on FB, mostly to share pics of DGS, but we do still have mutual friends, so we'd see postings from each other occasionally anyway. I don't see us ever getting together socially, especially since we live 2500 miles apart. I have no interest in interacting with his OW, as I don't care for her personally, but I'm over him and the A.
Me: FBS (no longer betrayed nor a spouse)-62
Him: WXH-62
D-day: 2007 (two years before finding SI)


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THERE were no answers last night on when two major roads would reopen as flooded Oxford suffered another day of traffic misery.
While Botley Road and Abingdon Road stayed shut down, the A34, A420, A40 and A44 were again swamped with motorists queueing to get inside the city.
Train passengers were also hit as services between Oxford and Reading were cancelled – with commuters advised to take a London train via Banbury to get to the city.
Last night, commuters were urged to work from home or use park-and-ride services as more than 20 county roads remained closed off.
County council leader Ian Hudspeth warned of further disruption because the flood waters may have damaged the roads.
But the Conservative refused to comment on how much the work could cost.
He said: "If the foundations beneath the roads are being eroded then we will need to look at repairing them and that could cause some major problems.
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Train passengers also reported trips of more than two hours to get into the city from Didcot.
The Seacourt Park-and-Ride site remained shut yesterday and council transport boss David Nimmo Smith encouraged drivers to only make necessary journeys into the city.
Council spokesman Paul Smith said he could not say when the Botley and Abingdon Roads would reopen.
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Zoe Patrick, Liberal Democrat opposition leader on the county council, said the council was in a much better position than when major flooding last hit in 2007. She said lessons learnt this time should mean better preparations next time.
But she said: "We have seen unprecedented rain and there has been a wake-up call to all local authorities to get their act together. I am hoping because of this things will get better."
Oxford East MP Andrew Smith said Oxford's flood protection was inadequate and backed calls for a £160m water relief channel to divert water from the city.
He said: "It is clear in the light of this flooding it needs to be looked at again as a matter of urgency."
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GRAND PRIZE WINNER of the Hollywood Book Festival!
Nightingale launches a marvelous contemporary fantasy for young adults, a grand adventure overflowing with wonders. Alternately laugh-out-loud funny and terrifying, there's a sweetness and passion to this novel that keeps readers up long into the night.
Nightingale is available as an "enhanced novel," with its own sound track, illustrations, animations, and author interview; as a lovingly crafted hardcover; as an audiobook; e-book; and has its own soundtrack.
David Farland is the international bestselling author of nearly fifty books, including such award-winning novels as the science fiction masterpiece On My Way to Paradise (Philip K. Dick Memorial Special Award Winner, Best Novel in English Language) and the historical novel In the Company of Angels (Whitney Award Winner: Best Novel of the Year). He is best known though for his fantasy work, which includes the New York Times bestselling series The Runelords, and his lovable and wacky middle-grade fantasy series Ravenspell.
Winner of the East India Press $1,000 Grand Prize for best short story in the Nightingale universe.
"Forcible Powerdown was unusual among our finalists, since it was set in the future. In a sense, it takes place in the world of my award-winning novel Nightingale, where a race of creatures that only resemble humans—the masaak—have the ability to transfer memories to one another. But Nightingale is a contemporary story. Several people set fine stories in the past, and we hope to be publishing some of them in the future. But this piece has a distinctively cyberpunk feel, and yet it also has a lot of heart.
"So I'm very happy to present "Forcible Powerdown" as our winning tale."