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Crafted by two of New York's most celebrated wits—and based on an idea by a lesser light from the same stratosphere—The Heartbreak Kid represents satire so cutting the movie borders on outright tragedy. The film tells the story of a young Jewish guy who marries a simple girl, experiences buyer's remorse, meets a beautiful shiksa while on his honeymoon, and gets a quickie divorce so he can pursue his Gentile dream girl. To describe the lead character as unsympathetic would be a gross understatement—Lenny Cantrow's sole redeeming quality is a deranged sort of relentless positivity.
Based on a story by humorist Bruce Jay Friedman and written for the screen by Neil Simon—who mostly avoids his signature one-liners, opting instead for closely observed character-driven comedy—The Heartbreak Kid was directed by Elaine May. After achieving fame as part of a comedy duo with Mike Nichols in the '60s, May embarked on an eclectic film career. She wrote, directed, and co-starred in the dark comedy A New Leaf (1971), which was the subject of battles between May and the studio during postproduction, then took on this project as director only. While May's world-class comic instincts are evident in the timing of jokes and the generally understated tone of the acting, it's easy to envision another director taking the same material to greater heights of hilarity.
Or not.
You see, the problem is that The Heartbreak Kid tells such a fundamentally cruel story that it's hard to really "enjoy" the movie, even when the comedy gets into a groove. Much of the film comprises Lenny (Charles Grodin) abandoning or lying to his wife, Lila (Jeannie Berlin), so he can make time with Kelly (Cybill Shepherd), a bored rich girl who uses her sexual power for amusement. In other words, it's the tale of a rotten guy dumping a nice girl for a bitch. The piece is redeemed, to some degree, by the skill of the performers, each of whom is perfectly cast. Grodin, a master at deadpan line deliveries, is all too believable as a middle-class schmuck with an overdeveloped sense of entitlement. Berlin (incidentally, May's daughter) bravely humiliates herself to make sight gags work, amply earning the Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress that she received for this movie. Shepherd, at the time a former model appearing in only her second movie, does most of her work just by showing up and looking unattainably beautiful, but one can see glimmers of the skilled comedienne she eventually became.
The film's other recipient of Oscar love, Best Supporting Actor nominee Eddie Albert, excels in his role as Kelly's father, because his showdown scenes with Lenny are among the picture's best—watching Albert slowly rise from simmering anger to boiling rage is pure pleasure. In fact, there's so much good stuff in The Heartbreak Kid that it becomes a laudable movie by default, even though the central character is a putz of the first order. Inexplicably, the Farrelly Brothers remade The Heartbreak Kid in 2007 with Ben Stiller in the Grodin role, only to discover the story hadn't lost its ability to infuriate. The remake flopped.
The Heartbreak Kid: GROOVY


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While weeding spambots from my Twitter account I noticed something disturbing: The amount of humanity in a Twitter update could be very low. Some humans can act like spambots and often do so. I don't want to their posts cluttering my Twitter feed any more than I want to see offers for male enhancement.
What I've been thinking through is a sort of Anti-Turing test to judge how human my interlocutor is. If you weren't trained as a Computer Scientist, the British Cryptologic-Mathematician, Alan Turing, proposed a test for machine intelligence. Instead of figuring out how to program IQ tests and administer them to machines, he suggested putting a person in the room with a teletype and the other end of the teletype would either be another person or a computer. He suggested that when the computer could be programmed to be indistinguishable from the person, that would constitute a human level of machine intelligence.
(It's interesting that intelligence is an aspect of a Turing test, but I'll come back to that.)
Consider this conversation:
"Buy my book"
"How are you doing today?"
"Buy my book"
"Did you know a meteor is about to destroy the planet and we'll all die?"
"Buy my book"
There's zero humanity in the responses, but suppose you added some social fluff. The minimum necessary to not seem rude. There'd be some humanity there, but not much. So consider the following conversation:
"Hello. Nice to hear from you. Did you know I've got a book out?"
"How are you doing today?"
"I'm feeling a chill--I should get a sweater and curl up with a good book."
"Did you know a meteor is about to destroy the planet and we'll all die?"
"No. That sounds horrible. Do you want to buy my book so you won't think about the meteor?"
That sounded pretty much like a human, but a cheesy one.
This is why when you advertise that you're an activist, there's a risk I'll mistake you for a spambot, or worse a zombie whose soul has been sucked away by The Cause.
This goes for name-calling. If you dislike some public figure, you don't need human-level intelligence to call him a poopy-head. That's why Rush Limbaugh apologized for calling an activist a slut. Maybe this woman's demand for birth-control did not indicate fornication or otherwise betoken sexual promiscuously, but he had no knowledge of her sex-life. His rhetoric was mere name-calling and I disapprove.
I think a much more damning indictment of the woman would be to call her an activist.
Jeremy Brett played Sherlock Holmes as an inhumanly brilliant intelligence. The way he and other players have depicted Holmes' extreme intelligence was to act rudely and insensitively. (Anyone in grade school should know that this isn't smart.) In movies, this rudeness is a mere device to convey to the audience that here's a smart guy. It is like talking very fast and using big words like the Architect in the second Matrix movie. (Did he say anything? No, but he sounded smart.)
In real life, this rudeness is often low social skills. I trained as a mathematician and I was in class with a lot of smart guys with low social skills. I make wider allowances in such cases.
This brings us to people with undeniable humanity who are nonetheless unpleasant? Intelligence makes a person see things more quickly and grow impatient with someone who more slowly comes to that point--or grow enraged by someone who seems obtuse about missing the point. Combine this with low social skills, and someone can come off as a jerk.
I don't want to be a jerk, but I don't want to listen to jerks. I don't watch House because I can't believe anyone would be stupid enough to voluntarily associate with him. When Jean-Paul Sartre said "Hell is other people" he must have been a jerk and was forced to work with jerks.
Humanity has other negative aspects in addition to being a jerk, the Internet has taught me the concept of a troll. The troll wants nothing more than to see people lose their cool. This is evil and I won't voluntarily associate with evil.
In sum, I have three principles of associating with Internet entities:
- Manifest your humanity
- Don't be unpleasant
- Don't be evil.

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WASHINGTON — Against the backdrop of memorials to historic atrocities, a group of foreign policy experts, among them Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, gathered at the Holocaust Memorial Museum on Tuesday to consider modern threats of genocide and how to prevent them.
With the specter of mounting violence in some countries, the threat of future mass killings was a prime concern.
"The United States and our partners must act before the wood is stacked or the match is struck," Mrs. Clinton said, "because when the fire is at full blaze, our options for responding are considerably costlier and more difficult."
She and others who appeared at the symposium focused on the practical steps that might be taken to identify places where genocide can occur and to pre-empt it. The risk of mass killings goes up in nations where resources are scarce and governments are fragile or autocratic, they agreed.
In her speech, Mrs. Clinton cited Rwanda and Bosnia, two nations where she said genocide occurred during her husband's presidency, as examples of why the risk of mass atrocities must be addressed before they occur — by identifying warning signs, sending State Department employees to areas that are at risk and reaching out to women in communities who might warn of early signs of trouble, among other tactics.Continue reading the main story
Mrs. Clinton also echoed the themes touched on by President Obama in a speech he delivered at the museum in April in which he announced the creation of the Atrocity Prevention Board to shape the administration's strategies on this issue. Mrs. Clinton acknowledged that some people might be skeptical about the effectiveness of the board, which met for the first time shortly after the president's announcement, but said she envisioned it as a means to "galvanize efforts across our government to focus on prevention, to ensure that all our tools and resources are being put to good use."
No one minimized the challenge. "We must remain open to the possibility that the past is not necessarily a predictor of where and when mass atrocities will occur, or the means by which they will," said Chris Kojm, chairman of the National Intelligence Council, a government agency, which will release its first estimate on the threat of genocide and mass killings later this year.
But he said that there were certain reliable indicators that genocide or mass killing would occur, including unmet demand for food, water and energy, and that the report would look at those factors in assessing risk.
Demand for all of those is on the rise, and by 2030, nearly half the world's population will live in areas of "severe water stress," Mr. Kojm predicted, thus increasing the likelihood of mass killings.
In areas where there are disproportionate numbers of young men, Mr. Kojm said, the risk of genocide also rises. And, in much the same way that democracies are less likely to go to war than autocracies are, so too, participants said, are autocratically governed countries more likely to engage in genocide or other mass atrocities.
Climate change acts as a "multiplier of other resource crises," according to Timothy Snyder, a professor of history at Yale University, causing uncertainty about resources, leading to "the ecological panic that I'm afraid will lead to mass killings in the decades to come," Mr. Snyder told the symposium.
"We've entered into this moment of ecological panic," he said. "Global warming will itself almost certainly directly cause mass killing, but it will likely indirectly cause it" as major states like China and the United States seek to feed their citizens, possibly touching off shortages elsewhere, in places that would then be at risk. China has already begun to act and, in a potential harbinger of future problems, has been investing in farmland in Ukraine and in parts of Africa for a few years.
But even though the political will to address problems stemming from climate change is finite, Mr. Snyder said, foreign policy in general often works against war, "for the rule of law, for globalization" and therefore "the gap between sound foreign policy and genocide prevention might be rather small."Continue reading the main story


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Bormio is a thriving little town at the top of the Valtellina valley in the Lombardy region of Northern Italy. It is positioned on the historic trading route between Venice and Switzerland, with connections via mountain passes to the South Tyrol and Livigno. In the town you can find the expected range of shops, bars and restaurants, as well as the natural thermal baths for which the town has long been famous.
Stella Alpina
This is the wide piste above Bormio 2000, accessed via the main gondola. This area provides a natural amphitheatre for racing, with excellent views of the race slope and easy access for everyone. Even those on foot can join in the fun, as the finish area is just a few steps away from the exit of the gondola.
This is the big hill used for the FIS races you can see on the TV. It too is accessed via the gondola to 2000, then dropping down across the mountain to our various start points – we don't use the whole World Cup run! On this slope we will be running some of the FIS races, plus the floodlit team parallel slalom and the U14/U16 Super-G.
The Adler slope is across the other side of town at Oga. It is a nice quiet area that usually sees very few people on the slope, and has a decent restaurant at the bottom of the hill!
Race Office
The Race Office (aka "The Bunker") is situated in the Auditorium which is in the basement of the large grey building by the roundabout. Signs will be posted outside to make it clear to everyone exactly how to find their way in!
Opening times
The opening times for the Race Office will be clearly posted for all to see.
Team Meetings
All meetings will take place in the Auditorium next to the Race Office. Signs will be displayed outside so you know where to find us. Details will appear on this website nearer to the championships.


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DescriptionWeb Id: 14885609
Located in the rolling hills of Southeastern PA, USA, is one of the premier Equestrian Centers in an area that is world famous for equestrian facilities, events, training and breeding.
A Lovely contemporary home sited high on the property to allow breathtaking views of horses grazing in multiple double-fenced pastures, a state of the art 40 stall barn, a nice 2 bedroom manager's apartment, an 85' x 200' indoor arena, dressage and jumping arenas, both with judge's stands, a mini prix course, a lovely pond70 +/- acres of open and wooded property, criss-crossed with miles of trails for hacking.
This 3 bedroom, 3.5 bath residence has an updated kitchen, dining room with a wall of windows, living room with vaulted ceiling and floor to ceiling stone fireplace to enjoy on winter nights. There is a wonderful stone walled pool area with a cabana and outdoor kitchen for enjoying the panorama on warm summer days and nights.
This is the place to enjoy the best of both worldsan outstanding training facility AND a lovely home for family and entertaining.
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text: The Dancing Bulletin is mailed by Dora Stratou Dance Theatre every month in Greek-speaking members of the CID-UNESCO around the world, and to 11,000 other individuals, professionals and persons in dance. It contains announcements, news on events and activities held at the Theatre, as well as general news concerning dance in Greece. For a complete listing of Bulletins go to the corresponding section in Greek.


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NewsWire: One Film to Rule them All - Salon.com
"Peter Jackson's "Fellowship of the Ring" pleases both Tolkien nuts and "Lord of the Rings" virgins...If Jackson keeps this up through the next two movies -- and there's every reason to imagine he can, since all three were conceived and shot together -- "The Two Towers" and "The Return of the King" should offer stunning payoffs for Tolkien readers and everyone else alike." To read more, CLICK HERE.
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United Way impacts the lives of thousands of people in Elkhart County every year.
At its core, United Way of Elkhart County is working families helping working families. Together, we can accomplish more. You can give money to fuel community change, volunteer your time or lend your voice to a cause that for almost 100 years has been advancing the common good in Elkhart County.
Ways to Give
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The Product:
Claypatra Mineral Salt Clay Pack by banila co
The Cost:
My tiny jar is worth about $2.52
For a full size Korea Depart has it for $15.22
The Claim:
Clay with minerals to cleanse excessive sebum and exfoliate dead skin cells. Offers moisture, while making skin smoother and softer.
The Ingredients:
Shea butter, macadamia seed oil, trehalose, honey extract, edelweiss extract, calendu la flower extract, chamomile flower extract
The Experience:
I got this little jar in a Memebox, and since it was the product I was as most interested in in the box, I tried it right away. The mask has the following ingredients: Shea butter, macadamia seed oil, trehalose, honey extract, edelweiss extract, calendula flower extract, chamomile flower extract Since a lot of these are things I already use on my face in their raw form (Shea butter, honey, oils) I threw caution to the wind,skipped the patch test, and spread this goop all over my face. I used a pretty thin layer, and was pleasantly surprised that I only used about 1/3 of the jar. It goes on like this:
It dries somewhat hard, like most clay masks do, so I looked like a lizard after about 20 mins.
At the 20 min mark I washed it off with a face cloth and inspected my skin.
The Verdict
I don't think clay masks are ideal for my dryish skin, but I have been wanting to try one for a while. This one was great for me since the oils seemed to keep it from being too drying for me, but I felt like I got all the benefit of using clay. After using it my skin really readily absorbed my serums and moisturizers, which makes me think even though it isn't as drying as some clay, it was a little too drying for my skin. I did have smooth, lovely feeling skin for the next day though, I credit this mask with improving the texture of it.
I don't plan to buy a full size product, as I don't have acne prone skin any more and I'd rather spend my mask hours moisturizing and soothing my face.
For someone with acne prone skin who isn't sensitive to the ingredients (there are more than something like plain Aztec Clay has in it,) this mask would be a nice choice.
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The assignment in the writing class was to read a historical novel. I picked one from the list given to us. It was set in the decade that I came of age.
WHAT??? Historical? I am not a historical artifact!
I just reread two middle-grade books about sustaining a friendship when one of the girls moves away. P.S. Longer Letter Later and Snail Mail No More by Paula Danziger and Ann M. Martin, published by Scholastic in 1998 and 2000, weren't written as historical pieces but as contemporary fiction.
The stories are told first in the form of letters between Elizabeth and Tara*Star and then in e-mails as the two authors took the roles of the two characters and wrote back and forth.
The themes in the books are timeless and a testament to people who persevere in their friendships across distance. Elizabeth and Tara*Star change as they grow in different directions and experience drastic changes in family circumstances. But their friendship endures as they continue to share laughs, tears, occasional angry words, and love.
The books are worth looking for.
Aside from the quality of the stories, what struck me is that people, who came of age when those books were written, can still be in their 30's. Our everyday technology has changed so much, I guess these count as historical. And history seems to be getting closer all the time.
WHAT??? Niece and nephew are not historical artifacts either!
Yes, some people still handwrite and treasure letters. People still e-mail. But not many kids the age of Elizabeth and Tara*Star still do.
So it seems that not only does history repeat itself because we have yet to learn our lessons, it's nipping at our heels. And, if we think about it, we probably all have ways our personal history intersected with History and have to ask ourselves if we helped move our collective story forward?
Does anyone know of a book that uses texts or tweets and finds the same emotional depth of P.S. Longer Letter Later and Snail Mail No More?
P.S. Longer post later!


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2 Registered bulls, ONE ROMAGNOLA BULL and ONE BLACK ANGUS
A Little About the ROMAGNOLA Breed and their meat.
The Romagnola Beef Cattle are a cattle breed that has commercial appeal to the Cattle Industry. Romagnola Cattle offer the commercial cattleman ease of calving, earlier growth, good early weight gains and mostly muscle. Romagnola seed stock bulls are being used on terminal cross feeder cattle for better feedlot gains with more muscle and less fat (fat thickness of 0.35 in) at slaughter. Typical feedlot gains are 3.1 lbs/day (no implants), yielding 64.8% with a typical ribeye of 14.3 in2 and a rib/cwt of 1.68. These crosses are typically bringing the producer a premium of $85 over regional cash prices. At slaughter, 4% grade premium, 89 % of carcasses typically grade choice and the remaining 7% grades select.
ROMANGNOLA and BLACK ANGUS Crossed on Red and Black cows
I have always loved the Romangnola cattle and I have just started up a small herd with a Romangnola registered bull and some Black and Red Angus cows/heifers
"Bullwinkle" 2 yrs and 6 months old when these two pic's were taken below.
We just call him "BULLWINKLE" named by a friend of mine.
Almost 2 yrs old below Just a year old below here
7-8 months old below
I just like taking pic's of 'ole "Queen" here because of the perfect heart on her left hip. She is one of 4 long horns that are here today.


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St Francis' original web site had proved very useful in communicating the aims of the charity and for providing a platform where rescued animals could be seen and rehomed.
Unfortunately the site was difficult to extend and maintain so we provided a responsive, modern and extensible site which included all of the features that an animal rescue needs.
About St Francis Animal Rescue
St. Francis Animal Rescue is well known around South Shields for the work it does with animals.
Their main priority is the collection of sick and injured animals, providing veterinary treatment to rehabilitate them.
The Project: St Francis web site redevelopment
The challenge
Animal charities rely exclusively on the generous donations of members of the public to be able to continue their work. For rehoming organisations like St Francis being able to engage with their supporters, attract volunteers and get rescued animals rehomed quickly is as equally important.
The design of a web site therefore had to be visually attractive, allow the latest news and animals to be forefront and to allow their supporters to engage with the information.
The results
St Francis now has a responsive and feature rich web site. The main features of the site are:
- A Home page with the latest information summarised in one place
- Animal bio and descriptions
- Animals for rehoming can have multiple images and video
- Views of the latest and featured animals
- Online rehoming application forms
- Lost and Found animals
- Supporters can register with the site to receive newsletters or to post comments
- Mailing lists
- Links to Twitter, YouTube, Facebook
- News and newsletter publishing
- Events listing and calendar for fundraising events
- RSS feeds
- SEO submissions to search engines
- Integrated analytics reporting on visitor numbers and behaviour
Project factsFrom initial discussions to the new web site going live took six weeks. This included migrating the content of the old site to the new one.
Thank you again for your kindness and generosity with regards to building this website for us. Its likely something we couldn't have afforded and would never have had the confidence to delve into without your very patient guidance!


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Our Take • Smino: blkjuptr
Words by Tara Mahadevan
St. Louis is known for a lot of things: For the Cardinals, for Jon Hamm's love of Imo's Pizza, for the Arch, and for being one of America's most segregated cities. The Delmar Divide is a street that divides the city from the county — outside of Virginia, the city of St. Louis is one of three cities in the U.S. where the city is independent from the county — and a large marker of segregation and the city's socio-economic divide, separating and isolating many Black St. Louisans from White St. Louisans. Earlier this year, Fivethirtyeight reported that St. Louis is the fifth most segregated city in America, after Chicago, Atlanta, Milwaukee, and Philadelphia. It's evident if you're in St. Louis; drive east down Delmar Boulevard towards downtown, and the terrain drastically changes.
I was living in New York when Mike Brown was shot; the circumstances surrounding his death were hard for me to grasp from so far away. Images of policemen en masse throwing smoke bombs and shooting rubber bullets at peaceful protesters were everywhere; Ferguson was in flames, and my social media timelines were drowning in incendiary content. It was difficult to sort through what was and wasn't true. I had to see the reality of the situation for myself — I had to go home.
When I returned to New York, friends asked questions about what was really happening in St. Louis. That was fine — they were curious, and I knew most of them were well intentioned. But what really got to me was when I met new people who, when I told them where I'm from, would say things like, "Whoa, St. Louis? What's that like?" with apologetic expressions that seemed to say, "Oh you're from St. Louis? I'm sorry."
Nah. I'm sorry at all.
Because a few months later, I came across Smino. A friend from St. Louis posted Smi's song "Griffey" on Twitter and immediately, my mind rebooted. I have strong ties to St. Louis' hip-hop scene and it felt like Smino was finally doing something tangible for us that could be seen and felt on a larger scale. Brown's death became a call-to-arms for many, a vehicle for activism and expression; for me, Smino's musical uniqueness and dexterity helped shake off some of the devastation surrounding Brown's brutal passing, showing St. Louis in a more positive light. With his latest release blkjuptr, Smi's attention, without a doubt, has zeroed in on the black experience in America.
"blkjuptr is pretty much just speaking for a whole bunch of people that don't really get to speak," Smino says, "The black metaphor thing. [What] the song embodies fucking made me wanna just name the whole project, because I was listening to it like damn, it sound like a journey. These five songs sound like a little journey."
blkjuptr is a body of work rooted in Smino's awareness of his surroundings. As the title track begins, Smino's saccharine drawl hides in producer Monte Booker's crescendoing synths. Smi soon makes his presence fully known with a punch, "Black hoodie / Black timbs / Black leather jacket / Sun beatin on my black skin," all at once evoking imagery of Trayvon Martin, and symbolically alluding to American black consciousness.
"[blkjuptr] is me feeling like I feel everyday, except when I'm with my friends. If I leave [my friends], I swear to god, if I go out into the world by myself, I feel like a whole ass alien. Most people be on some like systematic, going to work shit. Most people be on some still stuck in racist shit… [The art world is] pretty much like alienating ourselves, but we are like real observant. We just watch the world and get inspired. When I go out there, I be like tenser than a mug. Art world just feels good. You never feel like something gonna happen to you when you go to an art show, bruh."
Alienation is something Smino addresses throughout the EP, one of its most breathtaking moments found in the last cut, "Oxygen." Jarring and close to home, Smino wrote the hook with Brown in mind. "I got blood on my knees / Knee deep in mud, from the mud let me breathe / He just a thug, let him die in the street / Cigarette butts, glass and rocks on my teeth / And I'm choking out, I need oxygen please," he croons, as he exaggerates his breathing.
"I was thinking [about] Mike Brown who got shot, boom hit his knees, shot again, boom hit the ground. You know what's on the ground, all the gravel, all the bullshit. Like he can't breathe."
"Oxygen," though, was all about timing.
"Chicago just had a little stir up with [police brutality]. And low key, St. Louis was the starting point of the police brutality fucking social media awareness thing. ["Oxygen"] just kinda catered to the people that was feeling that shit, was feeling that way."
On the track, with that same honeyed tone and in the same breath, he talks about many things: Sex, paying his bills, Brown's death, and Smi's cousin who was locked up last year; elements of Smino's day-to-day that also embody his trapped consciousness. It took Brown's death — and the deaths of Sandra Bland, Rekia Boyd, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, Walter Scott, Laquan McDonald, among others — to show that racism and systemic injustice still run deep in America. Indeed, blkjuptr presents us with Smino's journey, an inside look on what it means to be a black man in the U.S., where he often feels alien to the planet, like he might as well be on Jupiter.
Yet, in the same breath, St. Louis is now positively known for someone else: Smino.


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Vagabond EP series #4- HelloGoodbye
Track #6 off of the Vagabond EP –
"Hello, Goodbye" is a lyrical back and forth between Monkey King & Kwizyne as they say Goodbye to their old ways, and doubt their new 'responsible' lives. The song is produced by Hala-X, and features a sample of 'The loneliest place on the map" by Al Stewart.
"HelloGoodbye" off the Vagabond EP, featuring Monkey King, Kwizyne, Sheeq Luna, Zoisse
Listen on Spotify: http://smarturl.it/hello-goodbye


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Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Coalition releases plan to end U.S. child hunger by 2012
Today the New York City Coalition Against Hunger released a position paper cowritten by Executive Director Joel Berg and national political consultant Tom Freedman intended to spur an end to U.S. child hunger by 2012. The paper demonstrates the solveability of the problem, and points out that the tools for accomplishing this worthy goal are already available - all that is needed is the will to "break the political logjam," and combine these efforts in a targeted campaign.
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Monday, May 22, 2006
Council not interested in Mayor's budget dance
Mayor Michael Bloomberg declined to include $300 million in funding for existing programs in his proposed city budget. Many in the New York City nonprofit community expressed disappointment at Bloomberg's readiness to engage in the annual "budget dance," a term used by City Council Speaker Christine Quinn to describe the political maneuvering surrounding allocations. Said Coalition Against Hunger Executive Director Joel Berg, "Not only did the mayor fail to include funding for any of the anti-hunger initiatives proposed by Speaker Quinn, he actually called for [a] $670,000 cut in the Emergency Food Assistance Program.... We applaud Speaker Quinn and the Council for realizing that with millions of lives at stake, the budget process should not be a 'dance' but rather a serious process of meeting city needs."
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Belated aid: Online food stamps apps to become available
Next December, one month later than mandated by the City Council last summer, New York City will allow hungry citizens to apply for food stamps online. New York has an unusually low rate of participation in the Food Stamps Program, which many credit to excessive bureaucratic red tape and problems with the in-person application process.
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Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Quinn proposes EBT scanners at Greenmarkets
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn proposed allocating $81,000 out of the city budget to install EBT card scanners that would allow Greenmarkets—farmers' markets in Brooklyn, Harlem, and the South Bronx—to accept food stamps. Few farmers have the scanners, which run about $1,000 each.
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The fourth in our series on interiors by Katie McCrum, a member of the British Institution of Interior Design (BIID) and founder and MD of London Rooms Design & Development Ltd >>
If, like me, you have a small kitchen you'll know what a nightmare it can be to store all the things you need and still have enough working space to cook up a storm.
Here's how to make the best use of your kitchen space:
Find extra space
If you have space on your walls, use it to put up open shelves or wall units. How do you reach the top shelf? Consider purchasing a pair of plinth steps that can be cleverly stored underneath your kitchen work surface.
Another way of using overhead space, if you have a high enough ceiling, is to get a 'Sheila Maid'. It's not only good for hanging laundry, if you have some butchers' hooks you can also use it to hang all of your pans, utensils and strings of garlic, and it will free up worktop space.
Utilise the space under the sink by installing a pull-out bin or wire pull-out racks to hold your kitchen cleaning products.
Worktop space
Get a cover for your sink so you can chop on the top, and trimmings can go straight into the garbage disposal or your vegetable recycling bin. A cover for your cooker does much the same job.
Foldaway and movable furniture
This is a great way to add worktop space, especially if you can move them around. Butchers' blocks on wheels are ideal. A table with leaves can be folded out to create a full-size dining table in the evening or when you have guests.
Recessed spotlights or spotlights on tracking are amazing for adding a feeling of light and space, and directing them above the areas where you do most of your food preparation means that not only will your kitchen seem bigger but you will also be able to use the whole worktop area more efficiently.
Refreshing your walls or kitchen doors with a lick of paint is a great way to freshen things up. Remember, clean light colours will make the space feel larger.
Compact kitchen appliances
Slimline dishwashers, smaller capacity washing machines and, when floor space is limited, go for a slim depth fridge. You may have to shop more often, but your food will be fresher!
Other areas
Your kitchen isn't the only room in the house to have its own source of water, so with this in mind, consider putting your washing machine or freezer in another area such as the hallway cupboard.
Store items you use infrequently (like serving dishes or special occasion tableware) outside the kitchen – in hallways or wardrobes.


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This post was borne out of the fact I was looking for my Cray-Pas pastels. I haven't seen them since the latest flood in my basement. What shocked and surprised me was
how many other pastels I found, even though I didn't find my Cray-Pas, which are oil pastels made by Sakura. Some of these I have purchased and some were given to me when I helped a friend back in 2002 clean his storage shed. His mother had been an artist and he was going to throw many, many wonderful art supplies away. I brought them home, never imagining I would turn into a mixed media artist. I simply didn't want him throwing them in the dumpster he had rented to clear out the shed.
I believe all these were from his storage shed. Both sets of oil pastels looked like they had never or barely been used.
The Prang chalk crayons were rather worse for wear, though.
The decorating chalks were given to me, and the small chalks I purchased on clearance.
The pan pastels were purchased over time, each with a 40% off coupon. They were still very expensive.
I purchased the soft pastels at Tuesday Morning one year and had never opened them. The other colored chalk I got at a garage sale for $0.50 (USD).
I found these in my stash a year or so ago and have no idea where I got them. They are hard pastels.
These were sent to me at Christmas by my friend Cindy. I decided not to compare them, since they were the only watercolor crayons I had and didn't really fit the pastel categories.
These also came from my friend's shed.
Let's begin with the chalks.
I began with the Prang Pastellos that were square shaped. Right off the bat, I saw the blue left a trail of dust when I placed it on the paper.
On the other hand, the red was so hard, it chipped and flaked as I attempted to spread it.
The blue blended nicely with the white,
but the red only flaked further.
These are the Prang round chalks I picked up at a garage sale. They held together better than their sister square chalks.
They even spread better, too.
They came with a couple of stumps. I used one to blend the chalks together. I liked them better than the square Prang chalks, but they didn't blend as well as I anticipated they would.
These decorative chalks didn't come in the colors I was trying to use, so I placed the red on a Q-tip
and tried to blend where the chalk crayon failed .
This was marginally better, but didn't blend too well with the white.
These hard decorating chalks (created, I suspect for the scrapbooking industry) didn't fit in the color scheme I was going for. They break easily, and are very dusty.
Here is a recap of the chalks I used.
Next up are the Reeves soft pastels and the pan pastels, which I also consider soft.
The soft pastels had never been opened, and it took forever to get them this far.
They were already beginning to break and were quite dusty.
Even though I had the red, white, and blue color scheme in this set, I wanted the colors to be the same as those of the pan pastels. Therefore, I chose a yellow and blue soft pastel. It left lots of extra pigment and dust. I went to my bath cabinet to find the appropriate way to blend the two.
They didn't blend too well, and I was once again surprised how much pigment was removed with the "blending tool."
Now it was time to use the pan pastels. They claim to be creamy. They also tout that you never have to blend them with your hands because they have specific tools that will do it for you. Those tools are extremely expensive, though. They retail for $36.50 (USD) for the 44 piece set, which look mostly like makeup and eye shadow brushes to me. I could have gotten a makeup sponge, but chose to use my other "blending tool" instead.
Pigment wise, they are saturated with color, although they are quite dusty.
and when I accidentally brushed my hand over the page to push the excess powder away, the pastels smeared badly. I also know from having used them in the past, they must be set with a fixative (an actual fixing product or cheap arousal hairspray).
Next up are the firm pastels.
First up is the Weber Costello, a brand I've never heard of. Obviously they were expensive, at least when they were new. You can see there was no dust when I laid them on the paper.
I decided to add them to my other red, white, and blue experiments.
They laid out rather well
but for once, the red blended better than the blue.
Next up were the Nupastels by Prismacolor. It may not look like it, but I've used a few of these colors in the past.
They break really easily, though, even though they are firm and don't produce much dust.
I'm beginning to believe the paper I'm using is causing the lack of total coverage.
Again, the blue didn't cover as well as the red and white.
The final category of pastels were the oils.
Unlike the chalk pastels,
these are creamy and buttery. They can be characterized as having a paper wrapping, too.
I was surprised to see that a Cray-Pas was added to the SMi metallics mix. Certainly not my doing.
These were beautiful colors, but didn't blend well at all. The metallics don't show up well on camera, though.
Reeves oil pastels are unique in that they are hexagonal,
but come to a rounded point at the top. I'd never heard of the brand until I opened the soft pastels above. In fact, they are so old, Reeves doesn't place them in plastic containers anymore, and none I found in an internet search were shaped like these. So I must have genuine antique oil pastels.
I had trouble spreading and blending these, but I wonder if it didn't have as much to do with the paper as it did with my inability to spread and blend them properly.
My final oil pastels were from Pentel.
These were a birthday gift one year from my friend who recently died of cancer.
Reeves oil pastels are on the left and Pentel on the right.
After several hours, this is what I learned:
1. I have no idea how to use these, whether they are chalk (either soft or firm) or oil pastels.
2. I need better paper. I'm sure the paper I used contributed to my lack of good coverage.
3. I'm sure each of these has its own specific use, but for my purposes, I'm not fond of soft pastels, although they appear to blend better.
4. Although I liked the oil pastels better, I couldn't get them to blend.
5. Regardless of brand or type, each must have a fixative applied once you are satisfied with the coverage. Be sure to keep your hand (or arm) clear of the pastel until it has been fixed (and is dry).
6. I welcome any advice or knowledge you might share on these products, regardless of brand.
Thank you for joining me today for this tutorial. I hope this showed you the possibilities that are available to true artists (painters and sketchers). Once this goes live, it will be on my tutorials page under "Comparing chalk and oil pastels."


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Ever since the beginning of the economic collapse, Greece has seen unprecedented levels of unemployment, inequality, racism, and political instability. Politicians are treated as felons, exposing their gross acts of corruption that have been hiding under their public image for decades. These conditions have forced people to abandon their homes, starve, protest, even commit suicide in public.
The Athens 2004 summer Olympics have recently become a prime example of how large sports events can drive a weak country into monumental debt. The poor management, corruption, and abundance of enthusiasm drove the organising committee to spend ridiculously over the initial budget, borrowing to cover the costs through public lending. By building permanent venues for sports that are alien to Greeks, the legacy plan became impossible to manage. Today, the cost of operating these stadiums is so high that the facilities have been left to their own demise.
The 2004 Olympics facilities scattered around Athens stand still, reminding Greeks of another era; an era of optimism, patriotism and grandeur. Juxtaposed with the pain of austerity and strife, these monuments of frantic overspending have little use other than reminding us of an illusionary time.
"The Olympians" is a proposal to stimulate social change by opening up the derelict Olympic venues and allowing citizens to create self-organised communities in them. At first glance, this might come across as a dangerous proposition, but if examined more closely, it is the only alternative that can have a large-scale impact.


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Actor HAROLD PERRINEAU is upset with the producers of LOST because they never
told him they were bringing his character back to the drama to die.
The Matrix Revolutions star – who plays Michael in the ht show – was hoping
his return to the desert island drama would allow his character to become more
of a father to his screen son.
But Perrineau was annoyed to find out he was to be killed off in the latest
season finale, which aired in America last week (ends30May08).
He admits he had no idea his character would perish and still feels bitter
about returning to the show, which he first left during season two.
Perrineau tells America's TV Guide magazine, "I had no idea. It's like, 'What
the hell?' I felt like, 'Is that it? I came back for that?'
"I'm disappointed, mostly because I wanted Michael and Walt (son) to have a
happy ending. I was hoping Michael would get it together and actually wanna be
a father to his kid.
"If I were writing it, I would write it differently."
And Perrineau fears his character's storyline was doomed from the start –
because of his color.
He adds, "If I'm being really candid, there are all these questions about how
they respond to black people on the show… A little black boy and his father
hooking up, that wasn't interesting. Instead, Walt just winds up being another
fatherless child."


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Replica Handbag Review: Speedy Bandoulière 35 Monogram CanvasCategories:Louis Vuitton
I wonder if the holidays shopping spirit has gotten you already. I am sure it did, as the Christmas is here and we have to reward our most beloved ones with the most beautiful gifts we can find. Of course I will say that bags are the best choice for a perfect present, even if it is for a lady or a gentleman, a bag will always be a wonderful gift to make. I really don't think it is only my opinion that a purse is an amazing accessory that should be worn in any season and with any occasion we have to get out of our worm and nicely decorated home. Today I am going to review the Speedy Bandoulière 35 in Monogram Canvas. This bag is definitely the perfect gift for the holidays as it is not only a Louis Vuitton amazing creation, but a perfect classic designer handbag that anyone would love to receive as a gift for the winter holidays.
For me Santa was very generous and he bought me this bag just in time for me to share my impressions about it with you, my dear readers. As you'll be able to see in the attached pictures this is a very well replicated model. You already know from my blog or another one that the internet is full of not serious web sites that sell a lot of poor quality replicas. You'll have to find a seller that respects his customers and sell them high quality products without scamming them.
The reason I bought this bag is very simple, I love the way it looks and I also love the fact that it is a large bag that helps me carry anything I need for a day. I recently achieved a Speedy 35 in Monogram Canvas without a strap and I knew then that this was the perfect bag for me, but in time I realized that it was pretty uncomfortable for me to carry it without a strap. It was really heavy. So I decided to give it away as a present for my mother, you can imagine that she was really excited about this move I made. She is a fashion lover and she has great taste for bags.
I am really pleased with my new Speedy Bandoulière 35 in Monogram Canvas with a shoulder strapas I can carry around a ton of stuff. But I really liked the Speedy 35 in Monogram Canvas I gave to my mother so I think I am going to buy another one for myself but this time it will be a 25 not a 35, for the my minimalist days. I bought this bag from PurseValley.cn and I think it is a perfect replica of the genuine model. After receiving this model I realized that I have a lot of poor quality bags in my collection. Some of them have horrible canvas, but this one really is a 1:1 replica.
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HERMES HERBAG ZIP BLACK CANVAS BAGCategories:Other Brands
Tote lovers, this is the one you've been waiting for! The Hermes Herbag Zip Black Canvas Bag is something you should be snagging at this point. And if you could see this baby, you'd probably think to yourself that it DOES have an uncanny resemblance to the Kelly Bag, which explains its popularity among bag lovers and collectors. Don't miss out on the fun – we know you want it.
Measuring 15.5" x 13" x 5.5" inches, the Herbag Zip Black Canvas Bag has so much room inside for all of your day essentials. We're guessing that the girl-on-the-go would love this because it's resilient and it can keep up with so much action (it even has an outside pocket for extra space!). It has a shoulder strap and hand strap, which allows you to wear it however you want. It is also adorned with silver and palladium hardware, giving it a beautiful shine. Finally, it is finished with a Kelly lock closure that is sure to keep your stuff where they belong. Truly a wonder.
Priced at $2750 USD, you can get your very own Herbag via Hermes boutique.
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LOUIS VUITTON MONOGRAM CANVAS PALLAS SHOPPER BAGCategories:Louis Vuitton
The LV Monogram says it all – and with much aplomb, of course. The newest addition to the original Pallas line is bound to make waves in bag supremacy, and with good reason. This deeply hued calf leather shopper bag is teeming with luxury, with its fine detailing, tone-on-tone microfiber lining, gleaming chain-on-leather handles, bottom studs and decorative rivets which surround the iconic embossed "Louis Vuitton Paris" signature. Swoon-worthy, indeed.
Its trapeze base and sturdy structure provides a wide expanse of space for the diva who just can't get enough. Inside, there is a central zipped compartment and two smartphone pockets, which makes it easier for you to organize all your essentials. For the techie girl who is bound to her gadgets, this bag could even accommodate tablets and other pieces of technology. How fine is that?
Measuring 15.7' x 10.6' x 5.9' inches (L x H x W), get this bag for $2490 USD or $2960 AUD, available via Louis Vuitton online boutique.
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Dior D Light Canvas Chain Tote Bag Reference GuideCategories:Other Brands
Introducing the Dior D Light Bag. It is made of denim or canvas and is the newest tote bag from Dior. It has two flat handles with a chain that can be adjusted and folded, allowing the chain to be hidden inside the bag and transforming it into a handheld bag. The handles are made of black patent, while the shoulder strap included is made of calfskin leather. The sides comes with two button snaps which gives the bag a wider space when left unbuttoned. It can be carried in three ways, on the shoulder, by hand or on the crook of the arm.
For Cruise 2015, the D Light Bag was made available in floral prints, a design borrowed from Christian Dior's artist friend, René Gruau. It is available in three colors, Pink, Black and White. For Spring/Summer 2015, the bag is made available in denim canvas with patchwork.
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Louis Vuitton Fall / Winter 2015 Lookbook featuring Monogram Canvas DoraCategories:Louis Vuitton
Louis Vuitton has recently released the Fall/Winter 2015 Lookbook after the very successful runway show held at the Fondation Louis Vuitton. The cookbook entitled "Ladies At The Bath" was shot by Juergen Teller at the Hotel Raphael and Louis Vuitton Headquarters in Paris. It features the brand's latest collection as well as the accessories seen on the runway. The mini trunk that was very much talked about from the collection was seen here in transparent with black leather trimmings. Also, the Louis Vuitton Dora Tote bag is made in Monogram Canvas with very red velvet trim on the edges.
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Monogram Canvas Retiro Louis Vuitton Bags Prices And SizesCategories:Louis Vuitton
Now, At Cheap LV Bags, you will be find more new lv bags sale for discount. And view the newest LV Monogram Canvas Retiro bags below to tell us whether you will cop them.
Style: Louis Vuitton Monogram Canvas Retiro NM Bag
Price: $2,110.00 (USD)
Size: 13.4″ L x 10.2″ H x 7.1″ W
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Price: $1,960.00 (USD)
Size: 13.8″ L x 10.6″ H x 6.3″ W
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[FnG] Bawsy wrote:OOOF!
Just noticed AlbertTatlock responded to this thread about 1 year ago. Now there's a blast from the past
On the off-chance that you get to read this again, Old Albie, just let it be known that I now and again wonder what kind of Morris Dancing japes you & others of your time are getting up to these days?
It was nice to see the old flatcap playing BF4 with us a while back, had some good games with him and his ferret.