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Ooh Yeah, Macho Man Randy Savage back at ya once again
Warning all you punks to get back (get back)
Yeah, here we go
Don't make me mad dude the Macho Man's about to explode
You bad and bold (hugh) you're travelin on a rocky road
Let it be known Randy don't play no games
I'll burn ya like flames I'm kickin' butts and takin' names
Cuz thou shall not mess with nor test Macho
One slap (blooow) to the face and now I got cho
Butt shook oh now ya tryin' ta run
And now you're stunned I'm terrorisin' without a gun
You should've known not to step up cuz I'm in command
You got slammed (damn) by the Macho Man
That's the plan to hit ya and drop the pain on you
So don't try to test the best cuz I'm warnin' you
Get Back / Cuz the Macho Man's about to attack
Ya step up with that crap and you're bound to get slapped
Get Back Dude / or I'm a have to bring the pain
Cuz messin' wit Randy Savage you're insane in the brain
Get Back / Cuz the Macho Man's about to attack
Ya step up with that crap and your bound to get slapped
I said Get Back Dude / or I'm a have to bring the pain
Cuz messin' wit Randy Savage you're insane in the brain
I've been at it a long time so I'm experienced
With all these B.S. dudes that think I'm fearin' 'em
Yo dude you really think I'm shakin' in my boots?
Hey dude you really think that I'm afraid of you?
Let me tell you Randy Savage don't fear no man
Come to close watch out cuz you're gonna get slammed
When I hit ya with my power your body'll start shiverin'
Hit ya to the head to the gut damage your liver and
Now you wish you never messed with Savage man
You had to learn the hard way, I'm not your average man
You can't stand, Macho Man I'll give you the smack
So if you don't want the pain, then ya better get back
They call me gorgeous Blaze when I step in the ring
But I don't play games when I step in the ring
Once that bell go ding watch the hell I bring
You bout to get the worse --- whippin' the world has ever seen
With no sweat cuz ya'll dudes is sweet things
Also known in the ring as weaklings
Who gonna stop this team Blaze and Randy Mach
We known for low blows, elbows and cheap shots so
That's right you must be insane in the brain cuz it's not a game
The Macho Man Randy Savage forever and a day
You punks better pay homage to the original king of the ring
Get Back
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What "soul markers" have you accumulated as you approach Yom Kippur?
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(2) Devorah, September 11, 2013 3:13 PM
For those of us who don't see ourselves as "First Responders"
Of course this moved me to tears, and this is a story of heroes. But be careful now, for perfectionists and other all-or-nothing people who view this and don't think beyond the face-value message, and can despondently feel that any worthwhile accomplishments - if depicted this way- are not attainable for typical people. These thoughts can cause defeatism, and result in the opposite of what this may have been intended for: throw in the towel and remain complacent. On the other hand, we must realize what we can accomplish and how heroic small acts are! I just read an entire book of stories about how a single smile saved someone's sanity or motivated someone to eventually turn his life around. Rabbi Shlomo Freifeld ztz"l, who changed the world by helping people realize how BIG they were and could become, would frequently repeat that we are at our greatest when "imitating" G-d. Just as G-d is merciful, so must we be, etc. (He never said, Just as G-d makes cataclysmic miracles, so must we.) His favorite example: What about G-d's power of bringing life into the world - to make something/someone live? How can we imitate that? In simple ways, not cataclysmic. WE can greet someone warmly and be interested in their words, smile, offer a helping hand, offer words of comfort and support at tough moments...see what someone might need and try to help. Renewed hope, joy, building of self-esteem, or other forms of literal infusion of life-force into another person are the results! These are the kinds of "soul markers" we can all access and accomplish... Not so truly small after all! G'mar Chasima tova le'klal Yisrael!
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Lovely choice, aish.com!!
Thank you for posting this - sometimes we have a 'off' year and forget the good; Thank you, Thank you!!
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Practice in Korea hopefully makes perfect
Janet Culp: After one of the most exciting evenings of my life, we're back at practice as usual, but within a new setting. We actually flew to Korea for a week-long training camp. I love South Korea! It is beautiful and sunny, the people are so nice, and the food is delicious. They make sure we have everything we need, right down to providing bananas for breakfast since many of us love having them in the morning.
Being in Korea also lets us have a huge pool all to ourselves without regulated times for laps and music. If we stayed in Beijing, we would probably have only one hour of music time a day, whereas here (and at home) we can use the music all the time if we need to.
Practice so far has been pretty hard as this is really our last chance to get in the last bit of work before we head back to Beijing. In the mornings we spend one hour on land and four hours in the pool, and we head back this afternoon for another four-hour session. It's hard work, but it will be worth it when we start competing in only 10 days.
Last night I went with my team to a really popular Korean BBQ restaurant. The local tourism department treated us to dinner which was absolutely delicious. They cooked the meat right on the table in front of us in special grills, and every time we finished a dish they brought more. For dessert we had frozen persimmon, which I had never tried but I've decided I like a lot.
My teammates and I watch the Olympics every time we have a break, which is not very often, but we are so inspired and proud of our US teammates back in Beijing. I can't wait to be there competing myself!
Littleton native Janet Culp will compete in synchronized swimming for Team USA at the Beijing Olympics. She is reporting on her experience half a world away for The Denver Post.


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ROGERS v. TENNESSEE
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ROGERS v. TENNESSEE
certiorari to the supreme court of tennessee
Following James Bowdery's death some 15 months after petitioner stabbed him, petitioner was convicted in Tennessee state court of second degree murder under the State's criminal homicide statute. Although that statute makes no mention of the common law "year and a day rule"—under which no defendant could be convicted of murder unless his victim died by the defendant's act within a year and a day of the act, see, e.g., Louisville, E. & St. L. R. Co. v. Clarke, 152 U. S. 230—petitioner argued on appeal that the rule persisted as part of the State's common law and, as such, precluded his conviction. The Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals disagreed and affirmed the conviction. In affirming, the State Supreme Court abolished the rule, finding that the reasons for recognizing the rule at common law no longer existed. The court disagreed with petitioner's contention that application of its decision abolishing the rule to his case would violate the Ex Post Facto Clauses of the State and Federal Constitutions, observing that those provisions refer only to legislative Acts. The court also concluded that application of its decision to petitioner would not run afoul of Bouie v. City of Columbia , 378 U. S. 347, in which this Court held that due process prohibits retroactive application of any judicial construction of a criminal statute that is unexpected and indefensible by reference to the law which has been expressed prior to the conduct in issue.
Held: The Tennessee Supreme Court's retroactive application to petitioner of its decision abolishing the year and a day rule did not deny petitioner due process of law in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. Pp. 4–15.
(a) To the extent petitioner argues that the Due Process Clause incorporates the specific prohibitions of the Ex Post Facto Clause, he misreads Bouie . Bouie contains some dicta suggestive of the broad interpretation for which petitioner argues, see, e.g., 378 U. S., at 353–354, but the decision was rooted firmly in well established notions of due process . Its rationale rested on core due process concepts of notice, foreseeability, and, in particular, the right to fair warning as those concepts bear on the constitutionality of attaching criminal penalties to what previously had been innocent conduct, see, e.g., id., at 351, 352, 354, 354–355. Subsequent decisions have not interpreted Bouie as extending so far as petitioner suggests, but have uniformly viewed Bouie as restricted to its traditional due process roots. In doing so, they have applied Bouie 's check on retroactive judicial decisionmaking not by reference to the scope of the Ex Post Facto Clause, but, rather, in accordance with the more basic and general principle of fair warning that Bouie so clearly articulated. See, e.g. , United States v. Lanier, 520 U. S. 259. While petitioner's assertion that the two Clauses safeguard common interests is undoubtedly correct, he is mistaken to suggest that these considerations compel extending the Ex Post Facto Clause's strictures to the context of common law judging through the rubric of due process. Such an extension would circumvent the Ex Post Facto Clause's clear text, which expressly applies only to legislatures; would evince too little regard for the important institutional and contextual differences between legislating and common law decisionmaking; would be incompatible with the resolution of uncertainty that marks any evolving legal system; and would unduly impair the incremental and reasoned development of precedent that is the foundation of the common law system. It was on account of such concerns that Bouie restricted due process limitations on the retroactive application of judicial interpretations of criminal statutes to those that are unexpected and indefensible by reference to the law which had been expressed prior to the conduct in issue. See 378 U. S., at 354. That restriction adequately serves the common law context as well. Pp. 4–11.
(b) The Tennessee court's abolition of the year and a day rule was not unexpected and indefensible. Advances in medical and related science have so undermined the rule's usefulness as to render it without question obsolete, and it has been legislatively or judicially abolished in the vast majority of jurisdictions recently to have addressed the issue. Despite petitioner's argument to the contrary, the fact that a vast number of jurisdictions outside Tennessee have abolished the rule is surely relevant to whether its abolition in his case, which involves the continuing viability of a common law rule, can be said to be unexpected and indefensible by reference to the law as it then existed. Bouie, supra , at 359–360, distinguished. Perhaps most importantly, at the time of petitioner's crime the rule had only the most tenuous foothold as part of Tennessee's criminal law. It did not exist as part of the State's statutory criminal code, and while the Tennessee Supreme Court concluded that the rule persisted at common law, it also pointedly observed that the rule had never once served as a ground of decision in any murder prosecution in the State. Indeed, in all the reported Tennessee cases, the rule has been mentioned only three times, and each time in dicta. These cases hardly suggest that the Tennessee court's decision was "unexpected and indefensible" such that it offended the due process principle of fair warning articulated in Bouie and its progeny. There is nothing to indicate that abolition of the rule in petitioner's case represented an exercise of the sort of unfair and arbitrary judicial action against which the Due Process Clause aims to protect. Far from a marked and unpredictable departure from prior precedent, the court's decision was a routine exercise of common law decisionmaking that brought the law into conformity with reason and common sense. Pp. 11–15.
992 S. W. 2d 393, affirmed.
O'Connor, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Rehnquist, C. J., and Kennedy, Souter, and Ginsburg, JJ., joined. Stevens, J., filed a dissenting opinion. Scalia, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which Stevens and Thomas, JJ., joined, and in which Breyer, J., joined as to Part II. Breyer, J., filed a dissenting opinion.


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Claimed GameSpot Editor Rails Against CNET
First things first: this could be complete bullshit. Now that that's out of the way, take a look at these incredibly in-depth and potentially...
First things first: this could be complete bullshit.
Now that that's out of the way, take a look at these incredibly in-depth and potentially illuminating comments on the Valleywag Silicon Valley gossip blog. They're from a user named "GAMESPOT," who appears to be a GameSpot editor, and they go into great alleged detail about the circumstances surrounding the confirmed termination of longtime employee Jeff Gerstmann.
It should be noted that the posts reference CNET's Josh Larson, hardly a household name among gamers but indeed GameSpot's overseer. That is in itself hardly proof, but it adds some measure of legitimacy.
In his or her first post, the writer claims that Gerstmann's firing was by surprise, and is related to the attitude's of the current management. He writes how Gerstmann was allegedly "locked out of his office and told to leave the premises and then no one communicates anything to us about it until the next day."
According to the second post, Greg Kasavin's replacement John Larson has been trying to cultivate a less hardcore tone, and has allowed the separation between ad sales and editorial to crumble: "The church-and-state separation between the sales teams and the editorial team has cracked. ...The management now has no interest at all in integrity and are instead looking for an editorial team that will be nicer to the advertisors."
In the next post come allegations that two-week delay between the review and the firing was because so many games still needed reviewing. "There was no doubt that management knew that the rest of the reviewers would refuse to write any reviews after his termination, which is indeed what is happening."
Again--might be totally made up. That's why it's on the blog. For what it's worth, they line up with a lot of the further rumors I've already been hearing today, and the mention of the fairly obscure Josh Larson counts for something. In case the comments are mysteriously removed, similarly to how video reviews sometimes get mysteriously removed, I will reprint them in full after the jump.
The main problem here is that no one in the entire editorial team was aware that this was about to occur, least of all Gerstmann. We're very clear in our review policies that all reviews are vetted by the entire team before they go live - everything that goes up is the product of an entire team's output. Our freelancers are especially guilty of making snide comments, but those are always yanked before the review goes live, because everyone in the office reads these reviews and makes sure they're up to our standards before they get put up.
If there was a problem with his reviews, then it would've been a problem with the entire team. Firing him without telling anyone implies that anyone else on this team can be fired at the drop of a hat as well, because none of us are writing any differently or meaner or less professionally than we were two years ago before the management changed. I'm sure management wants to spin this as the G-Man being unprofessional to take away from the egg on their face that results after a ten-year employee gets locked out of his office and told to leave the premises and then no one communicates anything to us about it until the next day.
No one wants to be named because no one wants to get fucking fired! This management team has shown what they're willing to do. Jeff had ten years in and was fucking locked out of his office and told to leave the building.
What you might not be aware of is that GS is well known for appealing mostly to hardcore gamers. The mucky-mucks have been doing a lot of "brand research" over the last year or so and indicating that they want to reach out to more casual gamers. Our last executive editor, Greg Kasavin, left to go to EA, and he was replaced by a suit, Josh Larson, who had no editorial experience and was only involved on the business side of things. Over the last year there has been an increasing amount of pressure to allow the advertising teams to have more of a say in the editorial process; we've started having to give our sales team heads-ups when a game is getting a low score, for instance, so that they can let the advertisers know that before a review goes up. Other publishers have started giving us notes involving when our reviews can go up; if a game's getting a 9 or above, it can go up early; if not, it'll have to wait until after the game is on the shelves.
I was in the meeting where Josh Larson was trying to explain this firing and the guy had absolutely no response to any of the criticisms we were sending his way. He kept dodging the question, saying that there were "multiple instances of tone" in the reviews that he hadn't been happy about, but that wasn't Jeff's problem since we all vet every review. He also implied that "AAA" titles deserved more attention when they were being reviewed, which sounded to all of us that he was implying that they should get higher scores, especially since those titles are usually more highly advertised on our site.
I know that it's all about the money, and hey, I like money. I like advertising because it pays my salary. Unfortunately after Kasavin left the church-and-state separation between the sales teams and the editorial team has cracked, and with Jeff's firing I think it's clear that the management now has no interest at all in integrity and are instead looking for an editorial team that will be nicer to the advertisors.
When companies make games as downright contemptible as Kane and Lynch, they deserve to be called on it. I guess you'll have to go to Onion or a smaller site for objective reviews now, because everyone at GS now thinks that if they give a low score to a high-profile game, they'll be shitcanned. Everyone's fucking scared and we're all hoping to get Josh Larson removed from his position because no one trusts him anymore. If that doesn't happen then look for every game to be Game of the Year material at GameSpot.
Also, despite the fact that this occured two weeks ago, there was no way they were going to fire him then; the last big games didn't come out until just before Thanksgiving, and there was no doubt that management knew that the rest of the reviewers would refuse to write any reviews after his termination, which is indeed what is happening. After thanksgiving nothing major comes out in games; everything is either before thanksgiving or comes out in January. They waited to fire him until they knew that any strike or walkout by the rest of the staff wouldn't have much of an effect.
Also, keep in mind that these salespeople do have axes to grind with editorial. I know a lot of people busted their asses to get not only this large deal with Eidos done, but also other huge ad deals. The salespeople and the marketers are the ones who have to deal with the publishers when a heavily-advertised game gets a bad review, so obviously they like it if every game that comes out is peachy keen and gets a 9.0 or above. If a salesperson knows anything about unprofessional review practices, then that says a lot about the management team that we have in place because not a single other member of the editorial team had heard word one about this until Jeff was fired. Surely site management would want to let us know about their concerns before firing the most senior staff member and one of the most respected game critics in the industry? If they're sharing their concerns with the salespeople and not with us then that says a lot about their priorities.


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I've got a lot to say here, partly because I'm a mom, and partly because I like to relax. Since I've had kids though, finding time to unwind is like putting on makeup and blow-drying my hair for a night on the town — it ain't gonna happen. Heck, I barely find time to brush my teeth and take a shower. So I asked the experts — other friends who are moms — what they do to relax. Herein some very good suggestions that I just might try myself:
1. Get up 15 minutes early.
Set your alarm just a little bit earlier. (Photo: Degtiarova Viktoriia/Shutterstock)
I know the last thing you want to do at 6 a.m. is jump out of bed and make yourself a cup of coffee, but that's exactly what I'm telling you to do. If you're lucky enough to live in a house with kids who wake up at 6:30 or later, this is a realistic option. Before the kids wake up, go brush your teeth, get yourself dressed, and drink a cup of coffee while you're checking your Facebook feed. I don't know about you but I always feel like I'm dead last in a race when I wake up in the morning — possibly because my kids have all gotten up before me and have already emptied out every toy bin onto the floor of their room. I don't get how children who fight so much between the hours of 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. all of a sudden are the best of friends at the crack of dawn. But getting up a tad earlier than you're used to can help you not start the race of the day in last place — heck, it even gives you a head start.
2. Turn on Dora.
TV is not going to hurt your kid, but you just might if he's been having an all-out temper tantrum on the living room floor for the last 20 minutes. So put on a show for him, get a cup of coffee for yourself and join him on the couch. Don't go crazy with this one — it might be tempting to leave the TV on for two hours straight (I'm not going to lie — I've done it a time or two … or three). Try to resist the urge and relish the 24 minutes that one Netflix or on-demand show gives you.
3. Drink a glass of wine at the end of the day.
When the kids are in bed, pour yourself a glass of wine. (Photo: Andresr/Shutterstock)
At some point, whether it be at 7, at 9, or after midnight, your kids will be in bed. Depending on the type of person you are, you may need to relax for a few minutes before you clean up the kitchen from dinner. If you're like me, you need the kitchen to be clean before you can kick up your feet. This doesn't mean it has to be spotless, but it does mean the dishes are in the dishwasher and the meat sauce is sufficiently scraped off the table. For 15 minutes, in between the kids' bedtime and your bedtime, sit down with a glass of wine. I would say to watch television, but to be honest, once I'm sitting in front of the TV, I can't physically pry myself off the couch. Instead, why not call a friend? While you sip your wine, you can blow off some steam, or better yet, be a listening ear for her to blow off some steam. Either way, you're bound to feel a bit more relaxed than when you started — either from the wine or the girl talk.
4. Take a brisk walk.
Don't feel guilty about not getting to the gym for a full workout — studies show that every minute we spend exercising is good for our body. So bundle the baby up, buckle her in the stroller and be off. The walk around the block will be good for both of you, especially if you've been stuck in the house all day. I like to think of fresh air just like food and water — we all need our daily amount in order to survive.
5. Turn on some music and dance.
Put on your favorite music and dance. (Photo: Rocketclips, Inc./Shutterstock)
This one you can do when you're home with your kids during the day or when you've got a few moments to yourself. Busting a few moves is not only good exercise; it can also help you cheer up. There is nothing like a good boogie around the kitchen while you're blasting some tunes. Seriously. A few of my favorite tunes for the job: "Suddenly I See" by KT Tunstall, "I Gotta Feeling" by the Black Eyed Peas, and Backstreet Boys' "Just Want You to Know."
Whatever method you choose, finding time to relax is essential — and it's a great way to ensure you don't fall off the deep end before 7 p.m. Now I think I'll go pour that glass of wine.


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Five years ago today, press freedom in Kyrgyzstan received a deadly blow from which it has never recovered. Alisher Saipov, one of most promising and prominent regional reporters of his time, was murdered in his native city of Osh. Since that October night, authorities have promised to solve his killing, but impunity reigns to this day, Shohruh Saipov, his brother and also a journalist, told CPJ.
At the time of his murder, Saipov edited his own independent newspaper, Siyosat (Politics), but his resume was impressive for a 26-year-old reporter. In his short career, Saipov contributed to the BBC World Service, the U.S. government-funded outlets Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and the Moscow-based regional news website Ferghana News.
All of these outlets capitalized on Saipov's knowledge of the region, but his focus on human rights abuses brought him the most attention. An ethnic Uzbek, he refused to be a silent bystander to the grave human rights abuses in neighboring Uzbekistan, and fiercely criticized ongoing repression there. Published in Osh, Saipov's Siyosat was slipped across the Uzbek border and distributed by hand in that tightly controlled country, his colleagues told CPJ.
But Saipov's reporting also led to the brutal end to his life and career, the journalist's family and colleagues told CPJ.
On October 24, 2007, around 7 p.m. , an unidentified man shot Saipov three times--first in his leg to immobilize him, then in the head, execution-style--as the editor was about to catch a taxi outside his newsroom. The killer used a gun fitted with a silencer.
Once the news spread outside Osh, authorities pledged to solve the murder. They had at least two aces in hand--Saipov's critical journalism as the most credible motive, and a witness who could identify the killer. A local political expert, Ikbol Mirsaitov, was with the editor that evening and witnessed the murder. Authorities also seemed to have a will to solve the case.
Five years after the slaying, however, Saipov's family--including daughter Zulaiho, born just weeks before her father was murdered--are still waiting for the Kyrgyz leadership to provide justice. Avaz Saipov, the journalist's father, has long accused authorities of botching the investigation, and for good reason.
Investigators initially announced that Saipov's journalism was a primary motive, and that they would probe accusations that Uzbek authorities were involved in the murder. A smear campaign against Saipov in the state-controlled Uzbek media preceded his slaying, and he reported receiving threats in connection to his critical reporting on Uzbekistan.
But no progress was reported. Instead, investigators changed their lead several times, pointing at the banned Islamic group, Hizb-ut-Tahrir--which Saipov covered--as among the potential executioners, and keeping the family in the dark about their work. Eventually, they shelved the case. Mirsaitov remained suspiciously silent, refusing to talk to Saipov's family or journalists about the murder he witnessed. He has never visited the slain journalist's family, Shohruh Saipov told CPJ.
In April 2009, authorities announced they had caught a killer, a local man named Abdufarit Rasulov, in whose car police allegedly found drugs and the gun used in Saipov's murder. In court, Rasulov insisted that he did not know Saipov, had no reason to kill him, and that police planted both the gun and the drugs. A local court dismissed the evidence as insubstantial. But he was imprisoned nonetheless, after prosecutors--long interested in closing the case--successfully disputed the lower court's ruling in the Supreme Court.
Earlier this year, however, the same Supreme Court ruled that the case should be sent back for a review. Avaz Saipov, who carried out his own investigation and told CPJ that Rasulov was innocent, presented the court with exculpatory evidence of the alleged gunman's involvement: video footage of Rasulov at a wedding on October 24, 2007, some 400 kilometers away from the murder scene.
The court ruling was announced in April, but as happened many times before, progress has stalled, Shohruh Saipov said. Authorities continue to keep the family in the dark, only informing them of the developments after repeated inquiries. Saipov's latest information is that despite the ruling, Rasulov remains in jail, and no one has been assigned to review the case.


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The ACC Fan's Guide To The D-League DraftPosted by KCarpenter on November 4th, 2011
We are almost there, but until the college basketball season starts, let's take a little bit of time and consider what some past ACC players will be doing in America's premier professional basketball league. The NBA? Oh, no, don't be silly, the mere prospect of an NBA season is looking grimmer and grimmer. Instead I am talking about the NBA Development League, which held it's draft Wednesday night. While the NBA players are locked out, the D-League players are ready to play their full schedule. A couple of guys who played in the ACC last season were drafted and I figured since basketball junkies can't get enough hoops, it would be worth taking a look at the guys who will be playing in what is currently the top professional basketball league in America.
The first ACC player to be selected in the draft was Mustapha Farrakhan, the skilled guard from Virginia, selected 13th in the first round by the Bakersfield Jam. The Jam also includes two Miami players, Adrian Thomas, who got the training camp invite after a strong showing in open tryouts, and Anthony Harris, now a D-League veteran and former point guard for the Hurricanes. The Jam also returns the 2010 D-League MVP, Brian Butch (formerly of Wisconsin), and seem poised to make some noise in the league.


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Conservancy launches plans for first Civic Center Gala
Plans for the first Civic Center Gala, benefiting the nonprofit Civic Center Conservancy, were launched last week when Marvin Wilkinson and Art Ellsworth, owners of the John Brooks Inc. showroom in the Denver Design Center, opened their home for an early-evening reception.
The Jan. 26 event, A Park for All Seasons, is being chaired by Elaine and Dr. Richard Asarch and Yvette and Chris Frampton. It will be held in the historic McNichols Building, 144 W. Colfax Ave., and will feature cocktails, a seated dinner, entertainment and a live auction.
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Lisa Cook and Leslie Heins of Affair with Flair are the event architects. Proceeds will support the Conservancy's free community programs.
The Civic Center Conservancy is dedicated to restoring, enhancing and activating downtown Denver's historic Civic Center Park, a 12-acre urban oasis surrounded by the Colorado State Capitol, Denver Public Library, Denver Art Museum, Denver City and County Building and the downtown Denver commercial business district.
The co-chairs joined Lindy Eichenbaum Lent, the Conservancy's executive director, in welcoming such supporters as Tami Door, president and CEO of the Downtown Denver Partnership; banker Bruce Alexander and his wife, Lisa; retailers Cathy and Lawrence Covell; Ferd Belz; Trish and Tully Bragg; Bill Cook; Michael Cook; Ruth Falkenberg and Larry Nelson; Victoria Frank; Joan Fritsche; Susan and Dick Kirk; Evi Makovsky; Erin Neren; Susan Noble; Marcus Pachner and Stacie Loucks; Judy Robins; Dennis Schouten; and attorney Harry Sterling with his wife, Vicki.
Members of the gala committee include former Denver City Councilwomen Susan Barnes-Gelt and Carol Boigon; retailer Molly Broeren and hubby Bill Mosher, the senior managing director of TrammellCrow; Maureen Brooks and Peter Wurzburger; graphic designer Ellen Bruss and her husband, developer Mark Falcone; Robin Chotin; preservationist Dana Crawford; Cindy and attorney Ted Halaby; Arlene and Barry Hirschfeld; architect Dennis Humphries; Ginnie and attorney Scott Eldredge; Janice and Scott Fisher; Joyce and Gary Lozow; Carol and Larry Mizel; Dr. Dean Prina; Susan and Ron Tilton; Stephanie and architect David Tryba; Colorado Expression publisher Terry Vitale; JoAnn and Rich von Luhrte, and Roxane White, chief of staff to Gov. John Hickenlooper.
Jeremy Bronson and a crew from his Occasions Catering were at the reception to give attendees a sampling of its signature hors d'oeuvres; Occasions will develop a unique, multi-seasonal menu to complement the gala's theme.
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Other Proposed Natural Treatments
- Bugleweed
- L-Carnitine
- Glucomannan
- Motherwort
- Royal Jelly
Herbs and Supplements to Avoid
Hyperthyroidism is a condition in which the thyroid gland releases excessive amounts of thyroid hormone. Symptoms include the following:
- Weight loss
- Fatigue
- Fast heart rate
- Heart palpitations
- Intolerance to heat
- Insomnia
- Anxiety
- Frequent bowel movements
- Scant menstruation
- Bone thinning
- Hair loss
- Changes in the appearance of the eye (bulging or staring)
- Goiter (a visible enlargement of the neck caused by a swollen thyroid gland)
The most common form of hyperthyroidism is Grave's disease. In this condition, the body manufactures antibodies that have the unintended effect of stimulating the thyroid gland. (In another condition, Hashimoto's thyroiditis , the body produces antibodies that decrease thyroid output.) In addition, benign tumors of the thyroid can secrete excessive thyroid hormone on their own (cancerous tumors seldom do). Viral infection of the thyroid (subacute thyroiditis) causes short-lived hyperthyroidism followed by a more prolonged period of hypothyroidism .
Medical treatment of hyperthyroidism is highly effective. In most cases of ongoing hyperthyroidism, radioactive iodine is used to destroy thyroid tissue. This approach is both safe and effective, because almost all the iodine in the body ends up in the thyroid, and therefore the radioactive treatment does not damage any other tissues. Other approaches to hyperthyroidism include drugs to block the effects of high thyroid hormone or to slow thyroid hormone production, as well as, in relatively rare cases, surgery.
Proposed Natural Treatments
Physician supervision is necessary to determine why the thyroid is overactive in order to design a specific treatment plan. None of the treatments discussed in this section actually get to the root of the problem, nor have they been proven effective. Self-treatment of hyperthyroidism is not recommended.
Test tube and animal studies suggest that the herb bugleweed may reduce thyroid hormone by decreasing levels of TSH (the hormone that stimulates the thyroid gland) and by impairing thyroid hormone synthesis. 1-5 In addition, bugleweed may block the action of thyroid-stimulating antibodies found in Grave's disease. 2
The supplement L-carnitine has shown promise for treating a special form of hyperthyroidism that may occur during the treatment of benign goiter. People with benign goiter often take thyroid hormone pills as treatment. Sometimes successful treatment of this condition requires taking slightly more thyroid hormone than the body needs, resulting in symptoms of mild hyperthyroidism. A double-blind, placebo-controlled trial found evidence that use of the supplement L-carnitine could alleviate many of these symptoms. 6 This 6-month study evaluated the effects of L-carnitine in 50 women who were taking thyroid hormone for benign goiter. The results showed that a dose of 2 g or 4 g of carnitine daily protected participants' bones and reduced other symptoms of hyperthyroidism. Carnitine is thought to affect thyroid hormone by blocking its action in cells. 7
A preliminary trial found some evidence that when the supplement glucomannan is added to standard treatment, normal thyroid hormone levels are restored more rapidly. 14
For many people, the most problematic symptom of high thyroid is rapid or irregular heartbeat . In cases of temporary high thyroid levels (as in the viral infection form noted above) conventional treatment may involve simply protecting the heart. Germany's Commission E (the herbal regulating body in that country) has authorized use of the herb motherwort as part of an overall treatment plan for an overactive thyroid (hyperthyroidism). 8 Motherwort is said to calm the heart; however, there is no meaningful evidence to indicate that it is effective for the heart-related symptoms of hyperthyroidism (or any other heart-related symptoms).
Royal jelly has been proposed for use in Grave's disease, 13 but there is as yet no meaningful evidence that it is effective.
Herbs and Supplements to Avoid
According to one study in animals, the herb ashwaghanda may raise thyroid hormone levels. 9 For this reason, it should not be used by people with hyperthyroidism.
Taking excessive kelp , bladderwrack , or other forms of seaweed can cause hyperthyroidism by overloading the body with iodine. 10-12
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Agrodolce in Italian means 'sweet and sour.' Here, we marry our own KATZ Varietal Honey, with Late Harvest Viognier wine crafted from grapes left on the vine to enhance their sweetness and deep floral qualities. Then these are blended together in oak barrels and slowly fermented into finished Agrodolce vinegar. The Viognier grape, originally from France, is known for its fruity and floral characteristics; it has 'transplanted' well in the clay soils of California's North Coast growing region.
The taste profile of "peach" and "apricot" describes the deep, rich floral qualities of our honey vinegar with hints of honeysuckle and vanilla to balance the pleasant acidity. The flavors can best be expressed as the "honey is dancing on top of the vinegar."
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About KATZ Traditional Orleans Method Vinegars: A few years ago, we ventured out to make wine vinegar using the centuries-old Orleans Method perfected over 500 years ago in France. Most vinegar today is produced by a system that takes just hours, but removes most of the taste and the nutrients, and the 'art' of making this ancient elixir. In contrast, authentic barrel aged vinegar like ours is converted slowly over many months from quality wines and fermented juices with the starter - the 'mother' - in oak barrels. This is the way we do it in our 1865 Suisun Valley Vinegar House, and the result is a complex, rich elixir with fine balance and subtle complexity.
You'll find dozens of recipes for our traditional Orleans Method Vinegars on our From The Vinegar House page...
Use the balanced sweet and sour component to complement many of your culinary creations. Be inspired!
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Friday, May 05, 2006
My Future's So Bright... I Gotta Wear Shades
Yes, I cried. I'm so proud of him.
He loves speech class. Of all his activities, it is his favorite. But, being the smart little whipper snapper he is, he caught on quickly and got all of his language skills caught up. He still doesn't sound perfect, but he's not suppose to (you're not suppose to have all your sounds until you are eight or nine).
I can't believe speech classes are over.
Yesterday I got No Crafting Done. Unless you count the over two hours it took me to make a new recipe for dinner.
Does that count?
Anyway, I've been hittin' it hard today...
I got out the supplies I purchased at the Creating Keepsakes Convention and I've been covering the little wood album with paper made by Sweetwater.
I love this paper, it is very pretty... but I'm getting REALLY PISSED OFF AT IT.
Perhaps the pissiness has something to do with the dyes bleeding when it gets wet with the modge podge. Or maybe it has something to do with it bubbling up when I seal it with the modge podge. In any case, it is making me mad.
But it sure is purty.
I'll post completed photos of the covering soon. I'm gonna use this mini-album to chronicle all my craft projects this year.
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- Ali said...
Ooh, don't you keep a nice tidy work space! Love that circle paper especially.
And congrats to Griffin. One of Mark's proudest school achievements has been coming home and telling me he could say THink (as opposed to sink) now. I must admit, I secretly miss him sinking about things.
- Friday, May 05, 2006
OH Congratulations! I'd cry too! He looks Sooooo proud. That's really wonderful 8-)
Pretty papers ya got there too. Good idea on preserving your crafting. Go you! Hope you get some good stuff done this weekend.
- Friday, May 05, 2006
- Kim said...
"Purty" reminds me of my Grandma Kleckner - gone, now, for 26 years. I just loved that woman.
One visit I slid on down the couch to cuddle real close, while she made me a blue skirt. Don't remember much of it -I was only 5 or so - but I have flashbacks to a lot of polyester. Anyway, either a cigarette was hanging outa her mouth or it was burning in the tray next to her... Yes, that's it... because I watched as her Red-stained lips pursed, and the lipstick seeped into the smoking-induced lines surrounding her mouth, and she said, "It's going to be so purty."
I love Purty Things.
- Friday, May 05, 2006
That is one good lookin' kid. He looks like you.
Do you wanna play at our park Monday if the weather is good?
- Friday, May 05, 2006
You said you were going to create something every day, not craft every day. So cooking a new recipe for 2 hours -- oh yes, that counts. Especially if you were able to eat it after. The other day I cooked soup for 4 frickin hours and the damn beans still weren't done so I threw the whole pot down the garbage disposal. Dumb and true.
Oh and congrats to Griffin and you all!
- Saturday, May 06, 2006
- diana said...
Wonderful papers ! That is fabulous news about Griffin graduating from
speech ... and yes it is true... we dont expect all sounds to be in until age 8 ! So..are you allergic to margaritas ?
- Saturday, May 06, 2006
- diana said...
Wonderful papers ! That is fabulous news about Griffin graduating from
speech ... and yes it is true... we dont expect all sounds to be in until age 8 ! So..are you allergic to margaritas ?
- Saturday, May 06, 2006
- LLA said...
Congrats to Young Griffin! Such a smart (and cute) little guy!
And as for that paper that's giving you fits? I bet you can kick its @$$.... You just go show that craft who's boss....
- Sunday, May 07, 2006
- You can call me Betty, or Bethany, or Beth ...Just don't call me late for dinner. said...
cooking anything that takes longer than 20 minutes should count as craft.
just one woman's opinion.
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Maryland's wild fisheries have been the focus of local economies and cultures for generations. But some state residents have turned to fish aquaculture at various points to supply a growing population with food and protect wild stocks.
While finfish aquaculture is not a major industry in Maryland today, growing fish like striped bass in a pond or in cages does have advantages. Farm-raised fish, for instance, grow faster than wild fish.
But there are disadvantages, too. An aquaculture business requires large initial investments and diligent upkeep. Fish grown in captivity catch and spread bacterial infections quickly, and they can easily deplete the oxygen supplies in a pond or cage.
To inform those interested in the practice, Maryland Sea Grant Extension specialists produced a workbook series and three videos on finfish aquaculture. Though dated, these fact sheets and videos still contain useful information for Marylanders interested in growing, rather than catching, their fish.
Fact Sheets
Our finfish workbook includes these fact sheets in pdf format:
- Fish Culture in Maryland: Weighing the Pros and Cons (Finfish Fact Sheet 1)
- Cage Culture in Maryland (Finfish Fact Sheet 2)
- The Culture of Striped Bass and Its Hybrids in Cages (Finfish Fact Sheet 3
- Figuring Production Costs in Finfish Aquaculture (Finfish Fact Sheet 4)
- Understanding Fish Pricing: From Production to Table (Finfish Fact Sheet 5)
- What is Aquaculture? (Finfish Fact Sheet 6)
- Liming Aquaculture and Farm Ponds in Maryland (Finfish Fact Sheet 7)
- Farm Pond Management: Increasing Production through Fertilization (Finfish Fact Sheet 8)
- Prevention and Disinfection of Mycobacterium sp. in Aquaculture (Finfish Fact Sheet 9)
We also have three finfish aquaculture instructional videos:
Farming Fish in Open Ponds (24 minutes). Catfish, trout, tilapia, striped bass and its hybrids — for several decades, the commercial production of such fish in farm ponds in the United States has continued to expand. Like agriculture, success in raising fish depends first of all on knowledge and commitment. This video is an introduction to just what that commitment will mean in preparing ponds, stocking newly hatched fish (called fry) and fingerlings, feeding fish, managing water quality and harvesting and packing market-size fish.
- Cage Culture: Raising Fish in Ponds (24 minutes). Farmers interested in growing fish commercially can choose whether to raise fish in open ponds, in recirculating tanks, or in cages and net pens. This video production focuses on cage culture — it demonstrates methods of cage construction and gives examples of how to calculate stocking densities and how feeding levels are determined. In addition, the video examines the critical importance of water quality monitoring and pond management.
- Producing Striped Bass in Hatcheries (16 minutes). The striped bass that farmers rear in ponds begin life in hatcheries, where eggs from ripe females are removed for fertilization by male stripers or, if hybrids are to be made, by such species as white bass. This video opens with the capture and handling of brood stock from spawning grounds, then follows biologists who determine when female fish are ready to ovulate, and finally shows how they remove mature eggs and fertilize the eggs with sperm from male fish.
Other Aquaculture Resources
Aquaculture fact sheets from the Northeastern Regional Aquaculture Center in pdf format:
- Planning for Success in Your Aquaculture Business
- Freshwater Aquaculture Species for the Northeast
- Marine Aquaculture Species for the Northeast
- Aquaculture systems for the Northeast
- Fish Health Inspections: What They Are
- Aquaculture Risk Management


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OCEAN CITY — This week,
as the Mayor and Council enjoyed a respite from their scheduled weekly
meetings, City Manager Dennis Dare was putting the finishing touches on a
salary study that is expected to be one of the main political talking points in
what could be a rather quiet summer at City Hall.
Historically, after the
Mayor and Council passes the annual budget, the focus shifts from lengthy
debates about things that could affect the way the town operates, to just
merely operating the town and tending to the millions of summer visitors.
"Usually, it is a little
bit slower in the summer time, because we've been working so hard all year to
get the budget and the town ready for the summer and once the summer gets here
everyone is too busy working hard to cater to Ocean City's guests to sit down
at City Hall and get into huge political discussions," said Mayor Rick Meehan.
"But, I think the salary study that Dennis is working on will probably be one
of the big things we'll be working on and talking about."
Dare was tasked with
putting together a comprehensive study of employee salary structures,
specifically for new hires, by Councilman Jim Hall several months ago, and the
fact that Dare hadn't completed the study by last week's first reading of the
fiscal year 2011 budget made Hall vote against the budget's passage.
"I voted against it
because I have been asking for over a year to address the issue of a new pay
and benefits structure for new employees and I still haven't gotten it", said
Hall last week. "I'm very disappointed and I just can't move forward and not
address that."
Hall went on to say that
he believed that if the town didn't restructure its pay and benefits package
for new hires in the future, that it would have extremely adverse consequences
for the town's proverbial bottom line.
"If we don't address
this, it's going to break the city in the long run, and we can't just keep
moving ahead with this old pay structure. I just won't have it," said Hall.
Dare contested that
compiling the information that Hall requested was time consuming and deemed to
be not as important as preparing and presenting the budget, but he claims that
he is awaiting some feedback from the private sector about comparable
statistics to what they pay their employees. Dare also says that it is
difficult to find feasible comparisons locally.
"It's not like we are
competing with other industries here on the island," said Dare. "We are a
resort destination that is comprised of a lot of service-oriented positions
that are historically on the lower end of the pay scale. We've compiled a
comparison list from other municipalities and that's been easy because all of
that information is public record, but sometimes, the private sector is less
willing to give out their information."
Dare expects to present
the study in a few weeks and hopes to provide benchmarks for full-time
positions in the town's hierarchy and compare what the town pays those
positions to what other areas are paying their people in those same positions.
"We have to stay
competitive with what other places are paying their full-time people if we want
to recruit and retain them," said Dare. "I think that people look at the
salaries of the top 100 people and think that everyone on the town's payroll is
making six figures because that just isn't true. What was listed was
predominantly a list of senior members of the town's workforce that have been
here for 25-30 years, so that list is more of a snapshot of salary structure,
and not the big picture."
Meehan, on the other
hand, says that another part of the so-called big picture is perhaps
"It's human nature to
look at what someone is making and point out that they think someone is getting
a better deal than they are," said Meehan. "If you look at not only what people
are spending on college educations these days, and then what the starting
salaries are when they get out of those schools, it is very much different than
someone who recently retired after working for 30 or 40 years. We are going to
look at it closely and more than likely, have a lengthy discussion about where
we are and where we should be."
Dare conceded that thus
far, he's finding the salary structure in Ocean City to be "right about there"
with other pay scales in governments, and he noted that the city has done
studies like this in the past.
"We've done exercises
like this on an annual basis for quite some time," said Dare. "This time
around, we are trying to be even more thorough and extensive with our report
because of the interest from the council, but we have always strived to make
sure that what we are paying our people is not below or above what the market
is dictating. We have to stay competitive."
Last summer, after the
council set the tax rate at 39.5 cents per $100 of assessed valuation, which is
the same tax rate officials are on the brink of passing this year, the hot
button topic of discussion for the Mayor and City Council in 2009 was what to
do with the proliferation of Salvia Divornium in some of the resort's Boardwalk
The council, in the name
of public safety, voted through emergency ordinance to ban the substance and
the sale of the substance from the city limits.
Recently, the General
Assembly in Annapolis followed suit and banned the substance as well at the
state level.
Although Meehan doesn't
expect another issue like Salvia to come up this year, he says that he expects
there to be much discussion throughout the summer season at City Hall.
"We've got lots of
things to talk about and we are going to closely monitor how the town runs this
summer since we've made so many departmental changes and we are working with a
much more diminished staff," said Meehan. "We need to see if the right-sizing
of our staff and government is working out just right when the summer reaches
full tilt."


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How did you fix it?
Originally Posted by francotripi
Same problem. Please fix it asap!!!
how did you fix it?
I'd like to start/help with app localization into the Ukrainian language.
I have an experience in the localization of different applications and familiar with most popular localization platforms.
Could you please help me to start?
All of my photo's are being uploaded sideways? On my computer they are good, so how do I correct this?
Havent used the app in over a year, used it last night, logged all my exercises as I did them. But I cannot see any of the stats. The exercise log shows in the calendar, but when I go to home I cannot see it posted and it's been almost 24 hours.
On a side note, whats the deal with points? It says I got points for my workout when I used the log in the past, but not for last night? Really the least of my complaints but I'm curious. Not sure about keeping the app, but there I don't see any better options out there.
Thanks in advance
It would be nice if the Chart Weight lbs/Minutes had a Average line on the graph.
I just noticed that workout history logs for last week and today are missing the first exercises of workout. Is there known bug for this or is my cloud-storage full? If my storage is full for those exercises, how do I remove old ones?
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Is there a Facebook Friday? Well, there is today!
I was multitasking and a story popped up on my Facebook (click to read the story) newsfeed, posted from Facebook itself. A wonderful story about a family that was reunited with cousins in Italy through the social networking site.
I would retell the entire tale here, but I wanted to share the link. Ain't technology grand?


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In a recent Takoma Park, Md. election, a new cryptographic voting system that ensures accurate vote counts was used for the first time in a real election. Scantegrity II is an open source election verification technology for optical scan voting systems. It uses privacy preserving confirmation numbers to allow each voter to verify her vote is counted. The confirmation numbers also allow anyone to verify that all the votes were counted correctly. The system is a variation on conventional optical-scan voting. But instead of filling in a bubble next to a candidate's name, the voter uses a special pen that exposes a code printed inside the bubble in invisible ink. Voters can write down that code, along with the serial number of their ballot, to later verify the results online.
A voter can't, however, offer a would-be vote buyer proof that they selected a particular candidate, since the code isn't associated with the candidate's name. If enough people confirm their codes -- about 2 percent of voters -- it's almost impossible for vote tampering to go undetected.
The key to the system is that before the election, the election commission prepares a set of tables that link the ballot codes and the candidates' names. Then, it publicly releases a set of digital signatures that cryptographically describe all the entries in the tables without actually revealing them. That way, the tables can't be tampered with after the ballots are cast, but neither do they reveal any information that ballot stuffers could use before the election.
In the Takoma Park election, the election commission used 20 distinct sets of tables, with three tables in each set. In each set, the first table listed the codes printed on each ballot. The codes were listed in a random order to make it impossible to tell which code was associated with which candidate. The third table featured only the candidates' names at the top -- it was simply a grid for recording the votes assigned to each candidate. The second table mapped each code in the first table to a unique slot in the third table. This second table ensured that the slot fell under the right candidate's name, but the mapping was otherwise random to make it impossible to tell from a slot's location which ballot it corresponded to.
After the election, for each of the 20 sets of tables, the election commission web site posted the final tally using the grid in table three. It released the codes in table one that were actually exposed in the voting booth, along with encryption keys that verified their authenticity. And it randomly released half of the information in table two: either the half that pointed backward, to the codes in table one, or the half that pointed forward, to the slots in table three. Finally, it flagged all the entries in table two correlated with recorded votes -- with exposed codes in table one and slots checked in table three.
Exposing only half of table two preserves voter anonymity: There's no way to figure out which ballot went for which candidate. But it also provides enough information that any attempt to tamper with the results can be detected. To change the final tally, a ballot stuffer would have to insert fake votes into table three. But that would entail spuriously flagging the corresponding entry in table two. And that would entail revealing the corresponding code in table one -- which a voter who checked her code online would notice.


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Julie Weisberg brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 304 Designs von 71 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Looking for a more sophisticated logo than we currently have for our photography business which includes weddings and portraits.
Julie Weisberg Photography
Julie Weisberg Photography is a wedding and portrait photography business. We are aiming the business towards high end clients and would like the logo to reflect that. Something to keep in mind is that most our clients are female. We are open to design concepts that are simple, fresh and clean and hopefully the logo will stand on it's own as an identifiable brand.Here's an example of our website and blog. The logo does not have to reflect either and most likely shouldn't. We plan on tailoring all marketing materials to the logo itself.- ------http://www.jwshootsyou.blogspot.com/- ------http://www.julieweisberg.com/
These should be in a vector file format
- ------Be creative- ------Simple, clean, fresh. It can be classic or current.- ------I am attracted to whites, creams, beige, oranges, greens, browns, blues, darker warm greys, and variations there of but...- ------I am open to all colors for the exception of purple and red and would love to see what else is out there. - ------I will be able to give more direction once I see the logo's you have designed.Here are some logo's I like. As you can see I like many different kinds...- ------http://99designs.com/contests/12797?entriespage=2 (# 14)- ------http://99designs.com/contests/8395 (#26)- ------http://99designs.com/contests/10794/designers/93899 ( the winning design)- ------http://99designs.com/contests/8395/entries/569710- ------http://99designs.com/contests/12459?orderby=rating&filterby=&entriespage=1 (#86)- ------http://99designs.com/contests/9592 (#204)- ------http://99designs.com/contests/12846 (#70)- ------http://99designs.com/contests/12267 (#235)- ------http://99designs.com/contests/9629 (#107)
- ------Nothing that represents photography including,all camera equipment- ------Camera's- ------film strips- ------rings- ------People and body parts- ------Nothing too sweet including...- ------butterflies and heartsand last nothing that represents something in particular.
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hey, i built a ptp fuzz last night,first time with ptp,it works fine but it just looks like ass!
i see in old amps ptp looks all nice and neat and im thinking, "how the hell do i get it like that?" im using the board with 16 lugs? broken in half as 8 (4 on each side) seems enough.
any tips from you ee veterans?
at this stage i have been drawing it up on paper on a ptp template i made so i get an idea of what to do but i feel im missing the fundamentals of this style.
thanks for any advice you may have!


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09 February 2009
The most tender place in my heart is for strangers...
photos and editing by Tom b.
coat: vintage
dress: vintage
tights: AA
shoes: Seychelles via UO
purse & beret: vintage
listening to: Neko Case Fox Confessor Brings the Flood "Hold On, Hold On"
I've been wanting to wear this little coat ever since I picked it up at a local vintage store that was closing down but it's simply been too cold. It's pretty bad when it's too cold outside to wear a coat! I paired it with a long chiffon scarf I picked up at a thrift store. I think the look ended up being a little bit Madeline so it was apropos that Tom and I ran across an abandoned school when we were driving around yesterday. We snapped a few photos on the old playground and then wandered inside to have a look. Tom found the sweetest little children's song book from 1932 and gave it to me. It had me singing old tunes in my head for the rest of the day.
21 comments:
- Manja said...
I love this coat...It is oh so pretty! The rest of your outfit is very lovely, too!
- February 09, 2009
- Annisa NF said...
loves your taste. great xD
cute picture you have.
oh i'm so in love with this blog.
visit mine dear.
- February 09, 2009
- Anonymous said...
The background of your pictures is awesome ! I love the shot with the rusted toboggan..
- February 09, 2009
- Kimberly said...
Oh I adore that song so, so much. Lovely photos as well!
- February 09, 2009
- reckless daughter said...
I was absolutely obsessed with this song for about 3 months last year. I think it's time to pull out that album again!
PS: lovely outfit.
- February 09, 2009
- Lauren Goddard said...
I love the coat and your settings for photographs are always beautiful!
x x x
- February 09, 2009
- Emily Blackapple said...
The coat is adorable, especially with the bow/scarf!
"Hold on, Hold on" is one of my favorite songs... really cynical but so, so comforting.
- February 09, 2009
- Villipuutarha said...
I cannot believe all these abandoned places you and Tom keep finding! I don't think we have anything like that over here in Finland (or if we do it's already been turned into a museum, so it's not quite the same).
I also love old books. I recently bought a book published in 1945 that is all about how proper manners/dress style etc. The topics are in alphabetical order, e.g. "Leaving (a "party")" or "Women's room: In bigger parties put on by a family it is suggested that a separate room be arranged for women. The room is used to leave outdoor coats and as a place where women can "fix" their attire during the evening. In the city this room can be a bedroom, in the countryside there is always a guest room which can be used for this purpose. A women's room is always equip with a well lit mirror and table which has a new or cleaned comb, powder, lotion, cotton, hair pins, sewing needles, different kinds of string, scissors as well as curling scissors (?) with warming equipment...." etc etc...
bad translation, but I'm sure you get the picture. It's great :D Inside was also a clipping from a magazine section where people could write in and ask about how to act in certain situations. One man wrote in and asked if it's ok to take off his hat with his left hand as well as his right etc :)
Wow, long comment. Time to head to sleep, but yeah. I love your blog :)
- February 09, 2009
- Josephine Frances said...
That school looks so eerie.. what a great find! And I do like the coat!
- February 09, 2009
- Anonymous said...
amazing coat!
i don't know why, but abandoned schools give me the creeps... they do make excellent photo shoot backdrops though!
- February 09, 2009
- Anonymous said...
Girl-- do you live in a ghost town or what?! Always finding empty places too shoot :)
- February 09, 2009
- Deborah said...
Your coat is very schoolgirl-esque with the bow and then you're sitting in a playground. I find that so adorable!
- February 09, 2009
- Terry said...
This outfit is so perfect in every way. Your style is amazing.
- February 09, 2009
- svenskaussie said...
Love that coat, it's the perfect foil to the shoes/beret/tights combo.
- February 09, 2009
- Anonymous said...
amazing coat!and i love that album, neko case is fantastic
- February 09, 2009
- lady stardust said...
i adored the photos,your blog everything .!
- February 10, 2009
- thevintageyear said...
That is such a sweet and romantic and gift! 1932 songbooks (regardless of whether they were previously abandoned) should always earn heaps of brownie points. :)
- February 10, 2009
- Lady Melbourne said...
Hello Sally!
I haven't commented in a while because I've had trouble viewing your photos...they haven't been loading.
BUT, they have today and it's nice to see you looking as gorgeous as ever!
- February 10, 2009
- Anonymous said...
Possibly the most perfect coat ever. I've been dreaming of this :)
- February 11, 2009
- Zornitsa said...
the first picture is so cute.
- February 12, 2009
- Anonymous said...
- March 06, 2009


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Chicago, IL: Kiss Your What, Poag Mahone's?
Poag Mahone's
333 South Wells Street, Chicago IL 60604 (map); 312-566-9100; poagmahone.com
Cooking Method: Grilled
Short Order: Great char, but mild on the beef flavor.
Want Fries with That? Neither are all that great.
Price: Cheeseburger $11; Stockyards Burger $12; BLT Cheeseburger $12; add $1 for sweet potato fries
Back in 2006, GQ's food critic Alan Richman unveiled a list of The 20 Hamburgers You Must Eat Before You Die. Poag Mahone's is seated at #18 on the list, which isn't too shabby for a place who's name loosely translates into "kiss my ass" in Gaelic. And now, I finally have a reason to say "kiss my ass" in a review without getting in trouble. Dreams do come true! Wait, was 2006 really six years ago? Damn, I'm really late with this review.
Coincidentally, I happen to work across the street from Poag Mahone's (affectionately called Poag's, at my office), and we drop by a drink or five after work now and then.
One of the signature burgers on the menu, and one of my favorites, is the Stockyards Burger ($12) featuring grilled onions, grilled mushrooms, and Thousand Island dressing. The 70/30 patty comes from grass-fed beef, and thanks to the helpful waitress, I learned that it's supplied by a company creatively named, well, American Grassfed Beef. It's pre-ground, but always fresh and never frozen, and the patties are hand-formed in-house.
Ours was ordered medium well, and it came out right on the mark. There's an impressive char on this beef with some serious hatch marks from the grill, imparting a pretty serious crust. Since the grind is a little tight, and the meat is packed pretty tightly as well, there isn't much room for excess juice in the patty. But somehow, the meat stays moist without being terribly juicy. The mound of grilled onions is sweeter than it looks, and the sautéed mushrooms add a bit of extra savoriness and moisture to each bite.
The BLT Burger ($12) is exactly what it sounds like: a hamburger patty with bacon, lettuce, and tomato, with the addition of American cheese. Come to think of it, it's just...a bacon cheeseburger. It was ordered medium rare and came out slightly overdone (it looked medium, but tasted much closer to medium rare despite the picture).
Throughout both burgers, the beef flavor is muted and just doesn't pack that deep meaty punch in the mouth I crave so much when it comes to red meat. Another common problem is that the bottoms of the very lightly toasted pretzel buns were nearly disintegrated by the time we started mowing down the burgers, which explains where all the juice went.
For the spud portion of your burger food pyramid, you've got your choice between flaccid and soggy sweet potato fries, which is a misfortune I see served all too often, and regular crinkle-cut fries, which manage to be both crisp on the outside as well as dry and mealy on the inside. To be fair, I've had some much better burger experiences after going to Poag Mahone's more than a few times over the years—maybe it was just an off day. But the fries have never been all that great.
So would I kiss an ass for a burger at Poag Mahone's? Perhaps the better question is, would I kiss an ass? Maybe not for this burger, but if you're in Chicago's Loop neighborhood for lunch and you're craving a standard burger, it's not a bad place to give it a crack. A crack! Okay, I'm done, I'm done.
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In some interesting news to come out, it seems that Annie Duke has teamed up with the NASCAR Foundation to create a charity poker tournament which will fall four days before the Daytona 500. NASCAR is set to kick off its 2012 season, and this charity event will fall just before the start of their biggest event. It is set to start on February 22nd, and will be called the "High Speed Hold'em on the Halifax". As far as where it will be played, it is set to run at the MG on the Halifax from 7:00pm to 10:00pm. The MG on the Halifax is a luxury waterfront right by the Daytona International Speedway.
The charity event is going to be done for the pediatric unit at the Halifax Health Medical Center, called Speediatrics. It is an invitation only tournament which will feature more than 200 total players, with a buy-in of $500. As far as current names who will be participating, Duke will be the honorary tournament director, Betty Jane France, who is the NASCAR Foundation Chairwoman, and Rusty Wallace, who is the NASCAR Foundation Board Member will all be a part of hosting the event.
In total there are 22 different tables set up, and the plan for the celebrities involved is that there will be one at every single table. A few people who are already locked in for the event are Brad Daugherty, who is a former NBA player, and Dale Jarrett, who is a former NASCAR champion. As far as the award that will be given to the winner of the charity event, they will automatically win a spot into the $1,500 Epic Poker League Pro/Am event. Players can also win their way into the event by registering online at eventsatmgonthehalifax.com.
Speediatrics is a great charity, and this event should raise over $100k just from buy-ins, but there will also be different auctions and ways for people to be a part of the cause. This company was founded back in 1999 and works with more than $2,000 children per year! Don't forget to go online and register for the chance to be a part of this tournament for a great cause!