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When I walked out of the Cathedral of Learning for what I thought was the final time, I burst into tears. It was late April so even though I walked out into sun, the air still had that nip of new spring. That teasing feel–like it could recede at any moment. The tulips were out. And the groundskeepers had made the shrubbery sharp for all the new student and parent tours.
I had never seen the university look more beautiful than it did on the day I believed I would leave it forever. My tears were for myself, a uniform joy that I could not hold back.
If you feel unparalleled happiness when you leave the place where you've devoted the last 13 years of your life then you can take that as a sign. My exuberant pride and gladness helped me know that walking away from a secure position that had perks was the absolute Right Thing To Do.
I am just now learning how to follow the instincts of my body. The powerful feelings that rise up and overwhelm. Mostly, I have combated feeling with intellect. And this particular cathedral was the perfect citadel for these kinds of feats.
I hated the cathedral from almost the first moment I first arrived. Everything about the tour and the curriculum and the city felt wrong. But I continued anyway. I had a kind of resolute determination created from the sergeant who ran my brain. No matter what I felt, and it was usually a combination of dread and fear, I moved forward. Took classes, taught classes. Researched. Wrote. Defended. Over and over.
After I defended my dissertation, I was only a little bit surprised that thrill and happiness were not present. There wasn't even pride. I felt numb, and a little confused by all the accolades around me: champagne and gifts. Committee members who hadn't acknowledged me in years suddenly shaking my hand. No touch could reach me.
There wasn't even the joy that attends relief. There was a sense of walking the battlefield and assessing your corpses before the next fight.
I took the jobs that were offered and stayed there another four years.
After I made the decision to leave, there began a steady string of strange looks and murmured inquiries from my colleagues. "What happened?" "What will you do?" "Are you ok?"
"Yes! I'm great. I've just decided to move on. I don't know what I'll do. Something. There's a book I might write."
"Ah." They would say. Barely concealing their skepticism. Their notions that I was willfully crashing all of my airplanes, modest as they were.
One person said, "you look so happy about it." I felt praise. Which was funny because I had never really felt any there before: over my comments, presentations, papers, or proposals. I had always felt: unknown and grasping for perfection. Not that that was my colleague's responsibility. It was my own.
But I felt kind of excited that I was emoting "excited."
When I made the decision to leave, I did not know what I would do for money without my job. Later, in June, a job fell into my lap–almost without my doing anything. And I have learned a lot there. And mostly, laughed often. But I am getting poised to leave again.
(There's a book I might write).
The day that I cried was not my final exit from the Cathedral. A student emailed, and claimed that he had slipped his final paper under my office door. (Though I told everyone the final, final due date I went back for the paper so I wouldn't have to fail him). Soon after the office called and claimed there was a box for me in my office. I trudged in, then realized it was not actually a box for me, but mis-marked.
And one of those times was the final, final time that I was there in any kind of official capacity. And my greatest personal accomplishment after all those years of toiling was simply learning how to recognize and express the true joy inside of me.
My colleagues would find that highly suspect and unprofessional.
But it makes me feel excited, and sometimes, I feel a jubilant triumph rising.
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New Las Vegas Mass Shooting Video Proves Saudi Arabian Hitmen Firing at People
A new video has emerged from the Las Vegas shooting massacre that shows Saudi Arabian special ops hitmen positioned on top of an RV near the stage of the Route 91 Harvest music festival to shoot concertgoers as they escape.
The footage captures three gunmen dressed all in black, including full-face masks, and can be clearly seen moving into position with machine guns on bipods.
The shooters then crouch down, into what appears to be a pre-planned position, before firing their weapons into the crowd.
The video is the most damning piece of evidence to yet emerge that scratches the "official" lone wolf gunmen narrative that claims Stephen Paddock acted alone in killing 59 people and injuring hundreds more.
The video is the most damning piece of evidence to yet emerge that scratches the "official" lone wolf gunmen narrative that claims Stephen Paddock acted alone in killing 59 people and injuring hundreds more.
So what were Saudi hitmen doing at a music festival in Las Vegas and why were they shooting at innocent people?
First, let's identify some of the key players in the Saudi Arabian regime:
This list is a bit hard to follow because of the long names, but see this chart in the image below, or view the larger version here, to help clarify who they are.
King Abdulaziz Ibn Saud (King Saud. Deceased): King of Saudi Arabia (1932-1953)
King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (Deceased): 5th son of King Saud.
King of Saudi Arabia until his death in 2015. Successor is King Salman
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (Henceforth King Salman): Current King of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). 8th son of deceased King Abdulaziz Ibn Saud.
Mohammad bin Salman (Henceforth Crown Prince Mohammad): Son of King Salman. Currently next in line to be king after King Salman.
Muqrin bin Abdulaziz (Former Deputy Crown Prince. Henceforth Muqrin): 9th son of deceased King Abdulaziz Ibn Saud. Was next in line to be king if King Salman had died before being crowned king. IS THE FATHER OF Mansour bin Muqrin bin Abdulaziz Al Saud! 11/5/2017.
Mansour bin Muqrin bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (Henceforth Mansour): Son of Muqrin bin Abdulaziz. Died 11/5/2017, the day of the failed coup on the throne of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Alwaleed bin Talal (Henceforth Talal): Billionaire businessmen. Grandson of King Saud. Has ties to DNC, Clinton, Podesta. Arrested 11/4/2017 for corruption. Owns The Four Seasons at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas (Four Seasons occupy the top floors of Mandalay Bay) Owns shares in Twitter as well as other high-tech silicon valley companies. Has had spats with Trump in the past.
The names are a bit of a mouthful, so just remember these four names: Salman, Mohammad, Muqrin, and Mansour.
Now, let's take a look at the entire conspiracy and how Saudi Arabia is involved in the Las Vegas shooting massacre.
President Donald Trump visited Saudi Arabia back in May of 2017, and many noted how warmly he was greeted by King Salman.
It was a spectacle, but why was he greeted so welcomingly?
After all, President Obama's reception was… shall we say, less than grand.
Shortly after Trump's visit, Saudi Arabia started becoming more open in their policies?
Women can drive there now.Around the same time, the Syrian rebellion became quiet and ISIS was swiftly crushed after the visit.Why did Saudi Arabia suddenly want to get their oil companies listed on the NYSE?
What could have caused this?
To answer this, we have to look a little further back, back to around 2010.
It all goes back to fracking.You see, the Kindom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has always relied heavily on its vast petrol reserves for wealth and prosperity, and they were ruthless.
You can't count the number of times throughout history that OPEC used its power to crush governments, manipulate prices, control supplies, and fund activities.
If there ever was an international group of bullies, OPEC was it, and at the head of this organization was the mighty KSA.
Then came the fracking boom and, suddenly, the world was no longer at the mercy of OPEC.This made them nervous, so, they did what they always do, and pumped out more petroleum, driving the price of gas to lowest in decades.What was their objective? To bankrupt these fracking businesses.
KSA is rich, very rich.
They figured "we'll just drive gas prices unbelievably low and take the loss until all these fracking business startups crumble.
"Between 2013 and 2016, the price of Gasoline plummeted at the fuel pumps and became ridiculously cheap.
What they didn't count on, however, was just how cheap fracking had become.
So many of these businesses didn't go bankrupt, so they took another step: To convince the world that fracking was bad for the environment.
So they lobbied and supplied funds to the Democratic party.
Why? Because the leftist are usually the ones who support ANY and ALL environmental regulations.
This led to a huge number of legal battles for the fracking industry, and it still remains illegal in many of the blue states.
This is why the Saudis donated so much money to the Clinton campaign.Hillary Clinton was heavily favored to win, and if she did, illegalizing fracking would have been on the top of her list, returning us to dependence on Arab oil.
This didn't work either, and fracking continued.
KSA had vastly underestimated the number of total shale reserves in North America.
They had no idea that so much of this stuff exists and thought they may be able to ride it out if the reserves would dry up in a decade or so.
What they didn't realize was that we have enough shale to supply us for at least 50 years, which caused them a big problem.
So, if you're King Salman, what do you do?
Well, there's only one thing you can do. Give up the reliance on oil production and try to use existing wealth to stay wealthy.
To modernize its trade to include more than just exports of oil.They would need to build an entire industrial country from scratch.
To do that, he needed the help of the USA, and that's where President Trump comes in.The May 2017 meeting between Trump and King Salman (and his son Mohammad), was not just another meeting.It was a business meeting where King Salman asked Trump for help.
Trump was more than willing to give it (like listing the oil companies on the NYSE) but his help would come with a price: Liberalization and the end of illegal funding.No more contributions to American politics.No more supplying funds to terrorists or splinter groups.
King Salman took the deal.All of a sudden, women were allowed to drive, ISIS was retreating, and Syrian rebels suddenly ran out of ammunition.
Now comes the bad part…Not all the royalties in KSA are into this and they don't like losing the power they once had.
What's worse, they don't want to become liberal.
They now start resenting King Salmon and start plotting against him.
At the forefront of this movement is none other than the previous Deputy Crown Prince, Muqrin, and his son, Mansour (the man killed in the helicopter crash of 11/5/17).The Las Vegas Shooting Massacre on October 1, 2017.
The top floors of Mandalay Bay aren't Mandalay Bay but are actually The Four Seasons, owned by billionaire Talal.Who was occupying that whole floor that night
The whole floor was reserved for that entire week.Now, no one would do that unless they were Saudi royalty.
We don't know for sure, but it was most likely Crown Prince Mohammad.
We know it wasn't King Salman because he was in Russia at the time.
The plan is to take out the crown prince then kill King Salman.
With the King and the Crown Prince dead, the next in line would be the former deputy crown prince, Muqrin.
So, posing as terrorists who wanted to buy the guns for some terrorist attack, they dupe the CIA or FBI to supply the guns to the death squad.
Their real plan is to climb the stairs right after the deal and kill the VIP in the floors above them.
This is why the weapons cache was located on the 32nd floor as they would only have to climb a few stairs or take the elevator up a little to start the killing.Now, here's what happened that night:
The "official" suspect for the shooting, Stephen Paddock, is the contact man to supply the guns.
He meets a couple of assassins ahead of time (remember, the shooting starts at 10:05).
At this point, Paddock is thinking this is a gun deal so only has a few magazines loaded.
He merely wants to show the customers how to load the chamber etc…, but what he doesn't know is that the advance team was sent to secure the floor.
That all but one entry point to the floor would be barricaded (crucial since the reason Campos becomes suspicious of the blocked doors is what ultimately leads him to investigate).
The reason for the barricade is that once the assault starts, the assassins want to make sure to impede the authorities as much as possible from reaching the top floors.
CIA/FBI (or Trump's own intelligence) got wind of the assassination that was about to take place and immediate action is taken to round up the assassins.
Remember, we're talking about an army of assassins here.
You can't kill a Crown Prince who's protected by 30 armed bodyguards by pulling a Jack Ruby so at least 20 assassins in total were used.
What the assassins didn't know was that the prince had disguised himself as a regular guy to enjoy the nightlife in Vegas (Saudi princes have been known to do this).
He had slipped away from the Mandalay and was at the Tropicana playing some cards.As soon as the FBI (or some other agency) learned of the assassination plot, they stormed the Tropicana and extracted the prince.
The video can be seen here.
They lead him out of the casino and escort him to the nearest helipad to be picked up, but on the way, they encounter some resistance from a few assassins, hence the firefight at the airport.
Eventually, he makes it to the chopper and is whisked away.
Meanwhile, the FBI has gathered up as many of the assassins as they can, with a few armed with sidearms and small machine guns.
They don't have rifles yet because the rendezvous with Paddock hasn't occurred yet, hence the random firefights at various casinos that night.A few are killed, which can be seen in the Laura Loomer videos of covered up dead people.The assassins already in Paddock's room gets a call and are told that the Prince is not in his suite above, but he's being escorted out of the Tropicana.
They start panicking.If they get caught in this plot to assassinate the crown prince, not only are they dead, but their employer is dead as well.
They come up with a plan.
They will kill Paddock and start firing on the crowd below.They're going make him seem like a crazy lone gunman.
So they kill Paddock, break a window, pick up a rifle and start firing at the crowd below.
After a couple of mags, they realize that the other mags aren't loaded and start reloading as fast as possible.
This is why the average time between bursts of fire is over 40 seconds.One of them then goes to the other room of the hotel suite and breaks that window to start shooting at the fuel tanks at a nearby airport.
This will draw the police away from the Mandalay and they can escape.
The gunman attempts to shoot the tanks, but they fail to blow up.
By this time, Jesus Campos is knocking on the door, so they open fire in his direction and (supposedly) fire 200 shots through the door.
Campos escapes a lethal shot and calls in security.
Now the assassins are getting nervous and realize that someone in the hotel knows that someone is firing.
They fire as much as they can and escape as soon as the barrage is done.
Then the SWAT team starts knocking on the door.
The assassins realize they won't make it out alive, so the first one shoots himself (This is the first of the single shots you hear at the end).
10 seconds later, the second hitman shoots himself as well.
The SWAT team bursts in and finds 3 bodies.
They start asking questions, but because the FBI is already there (remember, they extracted the prince), they take over.
They quickly assess the situation and realize the implications.
They remove the 2 assassins bodies, take a picture of Paddock lying there, and release it to 4chan to solidify their narrative.Paddock is made the patsy.
Why? Because if a failed Saudi assassination attempt was responsible for the deaths, if the FBI/CIA had supplied the guns that killed 58 innocent people (not counting Paddock since he's an asset), then two things would happen: One, we would demand that we go to war with Saudi Arabia, and two, whichever organization that Paddock worked for would be utterly dismantled.Now, let's fast forward to one month later.
We know a missile was intercepted by the Saudi military on November 3 or 4th and this was the final effort by the anti-King Salman group.This was their last ditch effort to kill him, or, it was staged to give King Salman the excuse to round everyone up in retaliation for the assassination attempt.
We know that MASSIVE raids and the rounding of Saudi princes took place on the 5th, and you can guarantee that all these people are anti-Salman/Mohammad.And who was just killed? Yes: The son of Muqrin, Mansour.
Mansour's death was retaliation, and was, without doubt, executed.Ok, now that this has happened, what's next?
We will learn all of the funding that has been coming out of Saudi Arabia for the past decade, and it will expose their connections to the DNC.We will learn that they have been at the root of all the turmoil in the Middle East, then, they'll all be executed.
The story works just fine with Paddock as a private illegal guns dealer, meaning the FBI/CIA only helped to foil the assassination attempt.
He doesn't have to be working for an alphabet agency.However, given the clues from his lifestyle (or the utter lack of it), he was most likely an asset.
Mary Grace M. MurphyNovember 19, 2018
Hi! The video links are no longer available (go figure)… any chance y'all have valid links to the videos elsewhere? Great investigative article! Keep up the good work!!

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(Downloable pdf for Dolls clothes knitting patterns.) Model 0065D CARLA - DRESS, PANT, SOCKS/SHOES AND BAG This time I wanted to knit some clothes for celebration for my doll.
I saw this beautiful pattern and thought it would be nice for a dress. I choose lilac for the dress as I am very fond of this colour. I also decided to have the dress open along the front of it.
And then I designed these clothes for my dear doll!
I have crocheted edges in white around the collar and around the arms. Nice lilac buttons along the front of the dress was nice too.
I also knitted a shoulder bag for my doll and at last a beautiful hat. The hat has a row of eyelets around and I have pulled a nice silk band through it with along the side of the hat.
Together with a pair of small shoes this clothes should be completed.
I liked my doll very much in these clothes, and I hope you will do so too.
At the picture to the left you can see that this pattern fits nicely to Baby Born too.
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The SD mobile store will be offering OPEN HOURS...just let us know when you want to shop! Flexible shopping times offered. February 11 2015
Merry Market 2014, Fredericksburg, VA Friday November 21- Sunday November 23, 2014 November 18 2014Wonderful shopping event in the Fredericksburg, VA area this weekend!! It's the Fredericksburg Area Service League's MERRY MARKET 2014 at the Olde Silk Mill, 1707 Princess Anne Street inFredericksburg. Hours are open on Saturday from 9-5pm, Sunday 12-4pm and Friday night is the Jingle Bell Cocktail from 7-11pm with special invitation pricing!! Come join the fun!!
Steward School SPARTA FEST! 11600 Gayton Road in Richmond, VA October 16 2014Friday Oct. 17th. 2-4pm and Saturday Oct. 18th from 10am-3:30pm...come enjoy two beautiful days of FALL shopping!! Support the school...enjoy the fall weather, and see all the lovely new things that STYLE DELIVERED HAS FOR THE HOLIDAY SEASON! Watches that are eco friendly and beautiful...gorgeous necklaces created from Tagua nuts from the Rainforest of Central America...baby booties called ZOOTIES that are so cute and warm you will want them for yourself!! Just come and see. Everything is precious. Area code 804 and RVA necklaces are available in all colors. Just $22 and make great gifts.
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Directory Maker of the Week: Edmond Byrne
Edmond Byrne's show, Metameric: Colour as Fiction is on at Flow Gallery until 4 November
Our Directory Maker of the Week, Edmond Byrne, talks to us about getting into making, what inspires him and his favourite part of the making process.
As well as having his own solo show at Flow Gallery, Edmond Byrne is also featuring in the current issue of Crafts magazine.
Who or what got you into making?
Making is an integral part of the human experience, from exercising our kinaesthetic intelligence to flow psychology, mastering a material is empowering because it allows us to affect the world around us; rather than being consumers we can be creators. Making gets us using our minds and bodies in synergy. A dialogue takes place between material, tool and hand which has been played out since the beginning of civilisation.
Could you please tell us a bit about your work?
For my latest show at Flow Gallery I've made blown glass vessels which explore how colours can be obscure and undefined. It examines the metameric phenomenon; where different colours can appear the same to the human eye depending on the quality of light and the surrounding colours. Glass is particularly sensitive to this because its transparent, so light has great influence on it.
What are your inspirations?
Generally, how we engage with objects and materials, as makers and as an audience.
What is your favourite part of the making process?
For over twenty years I've developed an intimate, tacit understanding of the material, how it behaves, moves and forms, both in its molten state through glassblowing and in its solid state by cutting and polishing. Pushing the material to its limits and discovering new ways of making is fun!
What are you working on right now?
I've just completed the finishing touches to my show Metameric: Colour as Fiction which opens from the 15th Sep to 4th Nov at Flow Gallery. After that I'm starting an exciting collaboration with Metalsmith Adi Toch.
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Friday, September 25th at 9|8 PM C, kicks-off the Fall frenzy. What you have been waiting for all summer, Shark Tank SEASON 7 PREMIERE will air. For every Friday night until the holidays come around, you should gather yourself, your friends, your neighbors, your coworkers, your family and tune into ABC and tweet along. This season is sure to spark some enthusiasm. Alongside Shark Tank's regular "sharkvestors," three new guest sharks will appear individually. Ashton Kutcher, Chris Sacca and Troy Carter are not novices, in the investment world. They have successful investments in companies like Warby Parker, Twitter, Instagram, Airnbnb and Uber under their belt. But will they survive swimming in the Tank with Mark Cuban, Daymond John and Barbara Corcoran or will they wash up on shore? Only time, and tuning in on Friday nights will clue us in.
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Would appreciate your thoughts on the opening phrase ("in what was once called Spanish Harlem") in the review on Itzocan Bistro (see below). Thanks.
Mexican-French Relations Fare Well in a Kitchen
NY Times, May 19, 2004
If you are wondering why a restaurant that calls itself a Mexican-French bistro has opened at 101st Street and Lexington Avenue in what was once called Spanish Harlem, it makes all the sense in the world.
This stretch of Lexington, which 25 years ago was a center for Puerto Rican culture, is now dominated by Mexican grocers, bakeries and humble taquerias. Where better to push the boundaries of Mexican cuisine than in what has become a Mexican neighborhood? And who better to do it than Anselmo Bello, who with his brother, Fermin, opened Itzocan Bistro two months ago?
Anselmo Bello, the chef, first pushed the boundaries 16 years ago, when he arrived from Puebla and got his first cooking job in New York at Bernard's Organic French Cuisine on Avenue C in the East Village. No restaurants were on Avenue C back then, and patrons brave enough to make the trek were comforted by Bernard's frosted-glass windows, which saved them from having to see any unappetizing street activity.
Since then, Mr. Bello has cooked in a number of restaurants, including a six-year stint at Max & Moritz, a bistro in Park Slope, Brooklyn, that has closed. Three years ago the Bellos opened Itzocan Café, a tiny Mexican restaurant in the East Village with a few French touches. They've gone much further at their uptown place, replacing tortillas on the table with bread, and rice with potatoes.
No frosted windows are needed at Itzocan Bistro, a boxy little corner restaurant that looks out onto sparsely traveled streets. The tile floor is old and scarred, and the tables and chairs are nothing fancy, but Mexican candelabras and a portrait of Frida Kahlo add warm touches. The service is hospitable.
Mr. Bello's cooking is quiet and engaging. He takes the bistro repertory and adds Mexican touches that tweak the dishes in unexpected directions but do not overwhelm them. Nor does he settle for easy choices. He'll offer a chayote gratin, but no French fries. Typical of Mr. Bello's gentle approach is an appetizer of steamed mussels ($8), subtly different in their spicy broth of tequila, lime juice and serrano chilies. A disk of goat cheese ($6) is warmed and plopped down on a bed of greens, but its spicing of epazote and jalapeños adds a delicious nutlike flavor that makes it hard to stop eating.
I loved a special of mushrooms and huitlacoche ($6), whipped into a feathery light flan, with just enough truffle oil to enhance its earthy flavor, while a fine soup of pumpkin and shrimp ($5) comes alive with a dollop of crema fresca spiked with smoky chipotle chili.
Perhaps the least Mexican dish of all was a special of half-moon-shaped shrimp ravioli ($6) in a creamy white wine sauce. Perhaps I imagined a little burst of chili heat? I'd eat this anywhere, unlike a duck confit and mushroom quesadilla ($7), which bogs down with gluey Brie.
Main courses are almost all winners, and modestly priced, too. It's hard to imagine a better roast chicken ($14) than Itzocan's, crisp and juicy with a tangy tomatillo sauce and potatoes mashed with corn, and I can't remember enjoying a piece of filet mignon ($16) as much either. This cut, normally tender but dull, was full of flavor and made even better by its deep, complex red-wine-and-chipotle sauce.
Red snapper ($15), crusted with crunchy pumpkin seeds, arrived moist with all its delicate flavor intact, while duck breast ($14), too, is just right, juicy and pleasantly gamy with a crisp exterior. Seafood pozole ($15), a pot of spicy broth thick with hominy, mussels, shrimp and fish, was perhaps the dish truest to the Mexican flavorings of corn and chilies. A meaty pork chop ($14) was overcooked.
Mr. Bello applies his techniques to desserts ($5 each), with excellent results. A pineapple crème brûlée is actually refreshing, while a tequila-lime tart is lively and not too sweet. A pot de crème, made with Kahlua and brown sugar, tastes like pure caramel, while a chocolate-pear tart is sumptuous.
Itzocan Bistro does not serve chips and salsa, and does not have a liquor license. An application is in the works, but it is just for wine and beer, meaning no margaritas will be served, frozen. With those most obvious symbols gently but firmly omitted, Itzocan Bistro requires one to reassess what makes a restaurant Mexican. One thing is sure: further research will be a pleasure.
Rao's City Views (NY Times)
Macaroni, Gravy and Hardwood Floors
By Jeff Vandam
NY Times, January 2, 2005
There are bigger, fancier and gaudier tables in other parts of town. There are more expensive tables, even ones with plasma-screen televisions built into them. But no table is harder to get than a table at Rao's in East Harlem, the most venerable fortress of pasta and gravy in all New York. If you're lucky, you may someday get a seat at the bar.
It has been this way for decades at the corner of East 114th Street and Pleasant Avenue, an avenue fabled for the mobsters who once haunted its six-block stretch. Yet in a few months' time, perhaps you, too, can have a table at Rao's.
Yes, there's a catch: you'll have to provide your own. Another catch: you won't technically be able to sit in the restaurant. But starting this spring, what you can do is rent a fully appointed luxury apartment just a few stories up.
Twenty-two apartments are under construction above the restaurant, its brilliant red facade overtaken by an exoskeleton of scaffolding. A sign urges passers-by to rent a place there and "Live Above a Legend."
The building, once home to the ancestors of Frank Pellegrino and Ron Straci, Rao's co-owners, is called Rao's City Views, and the units in its seven stories will offer marble bathrooms, granite kitchens and perhaps the aroma of sauce and peppers simmering downstairs.
"Thirty years ago, I said to my uncle, 'You boarded up the buildings; let's do something,' " said Mr. Straci, who is managing the apartment project. But at that time, rents on Pleasant Avenue, once a bustling Little Italy in its own right, were too low, and nothing happened.
These days, newcomers are charging up the No. 6 line and into East Harlem, buying up apartments and opening stores. "On every block, something is being renovated or rebuilt," Mr. Straci said. So two years ago, he began his dream project. A model apartment will be ready this month.
As for the restaurant, whose reputation was burnished further after a small-time mobster fatally shot a customer last December, it is not being altered in any way.
There have been some close calls, though. At one point, one of Mr. Straci's engineers requested permission to install a support beam in the middle of the dining room. That request was not granted.
The restaurant's regulars, with whom Mr. Straci chats nightly, have begun asking questions, but they aren't angry or upset - they want to know how big the apartments are and how much they will cost. (One- and two-bedrooms are $1,800 and up.)
Some people have shown interest in renting, which would provide them with the ultimate in convenience - wolfing down some tasty cavatelli or rigatoni, and then going straight upstairs to bed.
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Stories whose endings were spoiled prematurely
I am writing this blog post for the fun of it only. Plus, this subject has been occupying my mind for a while. Writing it is getting rid of it. However, I did choose pretty old stories and films.
Regardless of the age of stories, please be warned: Spoilers lie ahead!
Where have all the good advertisers gone?
Two words to add: Steve Ballmer!
I am a Windows user and am pretty much out of the picture of what FSF does; but I can testify in favor of this assessment of Microsoft.
I had been using Calibre on Windows for a long time but the thought of introducing it in my blog never crossed my mind. Shame!
Calibre is indeed an excellent eBook reader and library manager with an unbeatable price point: Free of charge. Available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, Calibre features distraction-free eBook reading, eBook library management, support for a vast range of contemporary formats (albeit sometime by hook or by crook), format conversion, metadata management and eBook sharing and streaming over a network.
I haven't seen any computer program that can come close to match.
Its always cool when you come across a new program that will do something you want to do.
I don't recall exactly how I came across this program but it may very well have been one of the podcasts that I frequently listen to.
So I decided to install this program called Calibre onto my laptop by using the Ubuntu Software Center.
That took only a few minutes to complete. Then today, I decided to update it up to version 0.9.41
This was done by using the Terminal, I got the instructions thanks to http://www.noobslab.com/2013/03/install-calibre-0924-in-ubuntu.html.
The instructions were very easy to follow and once again were completed very quickly.
One of the things that I like about this program is that it is cross-platform so it is available for Linux, Mac, Windows and can even be installed on a USB drive so you can have it in portable…
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Fun fact about xcopy
Did you know that
xcopy program included with Windows 7 has 28 command-line switches which includes "/A" through "/Z"? Surprisingly however, the
xcopy page on Microsoft TechNet site does not include them all.
Important updates: Moved to WordPress!
There has been important changes going on!
Microsoft is decommissioning Windows Live Spaces! As of the end of March 2011, Windows Live Spaces will cease to exist. Therefore, Microsoft has offered its bloggers to migrate to WordPress.
As you can see, we have been quick to accept the offer: We are now on WordPress! Some of the blog posts may not look exactly as I designed them to be now, but I'll be fixing them in due course. And as you have perhaps noticed, we now have a new name: "Confidential Files!"
Also you may have noticed that I keep saying "we". That is because I'm not going to be the lone blogger of Confidential Files! I expect we are going to have other contributors.


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It is National Diabetes Month which means it's a good time to learn more about the potential effect of diabetes on many of us.
The number of people who are affected but remain unaware that they have prediabetes or diabetes, who are missing treatment opportunities, and potentially endangering their own health continues to be a staggering number.
Diabetes is a disease that usually begins slowly and without warning. Diabetes is a disease that inhibits your body's ability to use blood sugar (glucose).
When you have a dysfunction of using or producing insulin, it leads to elevated blood sugar. When blood sugar is elevated, it causes damage that can be disabling and even life threatening.
Unfortunately, when your blood sugar has been too high for an extended period of time, damage to your organs and blood vessels can occur before you realize the disease is present.
The paradox is that we need glucose in the blood for our overall health, as we use it to fuel our muscles and tissues, especially our brain.
Elevated blood sugar, though not yet high enough to be classified as diabetes thus known as prediabetes, is problematic because most people don't realize they have it because there are no symptoms. It affects 34% of Americans!
The good news about prediabetes is that we can prevent it from developing into Type 2 Diabetes with some healthy changes. The choices we make every day can impact the development of diabetes.
Tips for Preventing Diabetes
Some risks for prediabetes developing into diabetes are not in your power to change and are known as nonmodifiable factors.
These include age, family history or having gestational diabetes.
Therefore, it becomes even more important to take action to improve the factors we can positively impact through lifestyle choices.
- Begin by learning about blood sugar, potential complications of untreated disease, and which foods and other factors combine for a healthy lifestyle. Knowledge is power and prevention.
- Lose weight if needed using a healthy eating plan promoting gradual weight loss instead of a fad diet that can stress your health more that the extra pounds. A 5-10% weight loss can help prevent the development of diabetes.
- Drink enough water avoiding sugar sweetened beverages.
- Include whole wheat foods substituting them for half your total grain intake daily.
- Eat a source of lean protein at each meal which will help keep blood sugar stable.
- Don't skip meals.
- Get a minimum of 7 hours of restful sleep each night.
- Keep track of your blood levels to be able to react quickly to manage abnormal blood sugar.
- Stay physically active, 30 minutes a day, so that your body's own insulin will work better.
- Manage your cardiac health too! Know Your Numbers so you can create an action plan.
- If your doctor recommends it, take medications to help manage blood sugar and avoid diabetes; the drug metformin can reduce the risk of prediabetes becoming diabetes by 31%.
- Use this Diabetes Care Card to manage your data at each doctor visit
Symptoms of Elevated Blood Sugar
If there are no overt symptoms of prediabetes, how will you know when your blood sugar is higher than normal?
There are symptoms that you can observe of a higher than normal blood sugar which could indicate the need for you to get blood sugar testing.
These high blood sugar symptoms are identified by the American Heart Association/American Diabetes Association as follows:
Symptoms can include:
- Unusually frequent urination
- Feeling very thirsty – even though you are getting plenty of water
- Feeling very hungry – even though you are eating
- Extreme fatigue
- Blurry vision
- Cuts/bruises that are slow to heal
- Tingling, pain, or numbness in the hands/feet
Experts recommend that, if you are diagnosed with prediabetes, you should get your blood sugar tested every year.
If you have risk factors but your blood glucose tests are normal, it is recommended you repeat the test in three years to best track any changes so that early intervention can occur.
According to the experts, if a person with prediabetes doesn't make changes to improve their lifestyle for health, the likelihood is that they will develop diabetes within ten years.
You don't have to manage diabetes alone. Connect with your healthcare team including a registered dietitian, family and friends to get the support you need to achieve your health goals.
You can stay in control and reduce your risk of developing diabetes for the health of it!


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A rain-thin, slate-grey, slightly stooping and frock-coated gentleman passes me in the club doorway, his destination undeniably Ascot. Opulent serenity wafts gently through the corridors, as Aston Martins and Bentleys cool tickingly on the cultured tarmac outside. This is the sacred hollows of The Sloane Club, an oasis of civility tucked amongst the hubris of commercial Chelsea.
And with a few choice words and a short schlep along the road, I'm outside No.19 Sloane Gardens, an urbane townhouse that is my dwelling for the eve. The Sloane Club Apartments is a new venture, run by the club to offer members and guests a pied à terre for longer stretches in the capital.
Apparently I'm only the second inhabitant of Apartment 99 on the third floor and it shows. It's an immaculate presentation of taste and decorum, a fully-fitted abode with all mod cons. There are ubiquitous flat screens that will dock wirelessly with iPads, pods and sundry other entertainment systems; free wifi and a beautifully appointed kitchen with tasteful Nespresso machine, washers and cleaners of all varieties and a five-star hotel standard bathroom equipped with L'Occitane unctions of every hue and viscosity.
And despite being in this busy and affluent slab of the metropolis, there is blissful, peaceful quiet. With full dining, concierge and room service available from across the road in the Club proper, it really is the only way to spend a significant time in London.
This is what it's like to be a member of one's own club, where you know the staff, are at home amongst the Chesterfields and can have a spot of luncheon and a bottle of Claret on a whim at a time to suit. Rounded, the jagged edges of travel and diarising smoothed to make the passage of your day easier, fresher, brighter.
Sloane Square tube station is but a skip and a jump away, but on this clement eve, a quick walk takes me to my engagement in Knightsbridge. It's a treat to people watch along the way. Building work is going on everywhere, renovations and refurbs hoisting skeletal scaffolding across porticoed doorways every few steps.
Once my evening is complete, I recline with a snifter of champagne in my ludicrously large bed and watch sport on the huge TV. I enjoy a late night snack of homemade chocolates, generously left in the sitting room.
My only gripe is with starchy sheet and duvet, which wake me sweating in the dead of night. But a fiddle with the room-by-room air con soon brings a cooling breeze across the room and I'm only awakened once more by the video-entry system alerting me to the presence of a shockingly smart-suited gentleman bearing my continental breakfast repast.
It turns out to be a breakfast fit for four hungry kings; croissant, bread rolls, an entire foil-wrapped log of French butter, Tiptree jams, chocolate spread, a selection of cheeses, grapes, celery, couple of pints of orange juice, fruit salad, fruit basket, yoghurt, artisanal cereals and more.
I manfully pick at this, slather some of that on freshly-baked bread and try to linger as long as poss in my own personal fiefdom. For I know that just a short walk down the road, I shall be back amongst the hordes and forced to travel en masse with the rest of humanity to get home. Yuck!
If you are in London for a few days, but don't want the sometimes claustrophobic qualities of a hotel, this is for you. I can't think of a classier way to engage with the old city while retaining a sense of self.


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There are many ways you can help ChickTech thrive. Whether as an individual or through corporate sponsorship, we need your help to continue to provide STEM-related events which help engage and support girls in the technology fields.
Consider becoming a ChickTech sponsor, whether as an individual or as an organization. Sponsorship is a great way to get your name out into the community, generate new business and find new talent. For more information on sponsorship details and opportunities please click here.
ChickTech provides one‐on-one mentors for ChickTech: High School participants in Portland. Be a mentor. Help us change the world for the better by being a role model and teacher for young women. You can help spread the word that technology and engineering are both fun and challenging. Mentors are a great way to help guide a young woman towards success. Become a Mentor today!
Other Support Options
We can always use help by providing internships, hosting ChickTech: High School follow-up events, career events, and meeting space. If you'd like to get involved, please contact us. Feel free to download and share this PDF with more information on how to get involved with ChickTech.
Thank You!
Thank you to all of our partners from the ChickTech: High School events. We couldn't have done it without your support. Our amazing volunteers, supporters and partners helped by:
- Coordinating the end-of-event "Tech Show". (Where the girls demonstrate their creations to the public.)
- Designing engaging, challenging, and non-stressful workshops.
- Providing funds/in-kind donations for catering at the event.
- Providing funds for ChickTech t-shirts.
- Lending personal laptops to the girls during the event.
- Donating in-kind donations of cool prizes, including swag.
- Providing internship opportunities for our participants.


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FinDev Canada's Development Impact Framework reflects the critical social and economic impacts needed in developing country markets to reduce poverty and achieve a more stable and prosperous future. In the medium- to long-term—by 2030—FinDev Canada envisions a private sector that is accelerating sustainable and inclusive local economic growth that incorporates increased women's participation, job creation, and that is positioned for a low-carbon future.
To achieve our medium-term vision while positioning FinDev Canada for long-term impact in a rapidly evolving global economic landscape, we have prioritized three development impact goals. All three impact goals are important to FinDev Canada's mission, however the Framework considers the goal of women's economic empowerment to be a core driver of our decision-making and strategy.
FinDev Canada incorporates development impact as the primary element of its investment process, all the way from pre-screening through to due diligence, approval, monitoring and reporting. A company's current and potential contribution to our three impact goals is a critical factor in our deal selection and decision-making process, alongside robust analysis of risk, return and pricing. We have established a development impact management cycle that is embedded in our organizational investment process.
The Development Impact Framework is aligned with the Government of Canada's international assistance priorities which incorporate a focus on gender equality, and with international accords such as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. FinDev Canada has selected several priority SDGs that correspond to our three impact goals, and that are illustrated below.
To read about our stakeholder engagement process for the Development Impact Framework, click here.
To learn about our investments, click here.


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- Collect golden acorn rewards and hatch exciting pets to enhance motivation
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Snow Fun Iron-On Embroidery Pattern
These 7 adorable hand embroidered iron-on patterns are good for 2 or more transfers.
Use metallic thread to embroider the snow people. Since snowmen can be found all winter long, one has a candy cane and another has a Valentine, covering all of the winter holidays. Towels can be trimmed with rickrack and embellished with embroidery. Pattern includes iron-on embroidery transfers, stitch illustrations and a color chart. Each design is 6" tall.
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These are the cutest Iron On Embroidery Patterns. Please, please make more. They are so easy to stitch. I prefer the iron on better. I ordered the tracing ones, also. If you don't have a light box they are hard to trace. But for us seniors the iron on are better. Excellent quality.
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I love vintage macs, especially the PPC era macs like the iBook G4, and the Powerbook. For many years I always thought that booting from a USB stick was impossible on these systems, but alas it is very possible and not even that hard! You just have to do things a certain way.
- When you're creating the Mac image on the USB stick, it has to be done in a very specific way. You cannot use a USB 3 stick, nor even a USB 3 port! You must use a USB 2 (or 1) drive and port.
- You need to create the USB stick on a Mac, or with Transmac for PC. On a mac use Disk Utility and the restore disk image feature to create the USB drive. In Transmac, open it in administrator mode, then right click the drive you want to put the image on, and select 'restore from image'. Transmac gives you a 15 day trial, which is plenty long enough to burn Leopard or whatever Mac image you plan on restoring.
- Put the usb drive in the iBook, then turn it on and hold down 'apple key, option, O and F keys right after you hear the mac chime. This will get you to the open firmware screen.
- At the command prompt, type: boot ud:,\\:tbxi If that doesn't work try boot usb0/disk@1:,\\:tbxi or boot usb1/disk@1:,\\:tbxi
- At that stage you should see mac os installation boot starting, if none of those above commands work, you can still try all of the other troubleshooting steps at http://ben-collins.blogspot.com/2010/08/booting-your-ibook-g4-from-usb-stick.html This is the blog post where I got the firmware instructions from to begin with and is probably the best documentation online.
I'm guessing this should also work on later Intel Macbooks in the 2006-2010 era, but don't have mine anymore to test it, so I'm not 100% sure.
Good luck!


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About a year and a half ago, Mickey and I got away for a few days to a luxury resort in the Dominican Republic. It should have been heaven, but I packed guilt and worry in my luggage and brought them with us.
So there I was in this beautiful country, with my handsome husband getting a massage and my mind was running like the needle on a sewing machine stitching together unsettling possibilities.
What if one of our kids gets hurt while we're gone?
What if something happens to both of us?
We're already gone a lot; are they going to resent us when we get back?
And so when we got home safely, I was so flooded with relief, I said:
"I don't want to go that far – or leave them for that long again until they're old enough to remember us."
But if you're in a long-term committed partnership, you know how important it is to nourish your relationship. Mickey and I have been married for 11 years. Long enough to have friends who are divorced. Long enough to know that good marriages, like lush lawns and beautiful gardens – require tending.
You may have heard the expression:
This adage is a reminder that if you put time, energy and effort to your relationship, the grass won't be greener on the other side.
But let's face it, this and this…
Not sexy.
So we started planning one night get-aways. This spring we had a staycation in Savannah and did this:
(Look at that sexy man on a Segway!)
We went out for lunch and dinner, got a massage, spent one night in a hotel downtown, and went out for breakfast the next day. We were back home with our kids in just over 24-hours and it was ah-mazing! Guilt and worry free. We both came home feeling like we'd had a week of vacation.
We resolved to do more short get-aways. This past week we spent one night at The Ritz-Carlton on Amelia Island.
We swam:
And slept:
And had total food-gasms (#foodporn):
It was one of the best vacations we've ever had.
And we were home to this:
(note lush lawn and happy kiddos) in just under 26 hours.
People talk about ebb and flow in a relationships – the natural peaks and troughs of love – feasts and famine of affection. But I like to think of seasons.
After 11 years of marriage, we've weathered a few winters, but (praise God) Mickey and I have been basking in the lushness of summer for a while. I just hadn't really been "stopping to smell the roses" (so to speak). During the 2-hour drive down to Amelia Island, I mostly scoured social media and read articles online.
On the way home?
We talked the whole time.
The Ritz-Carlton's current advertising slogan is, "Let us stay with you."
Yes, Ritz-Carlton, you will stay with me!
You will stay with me like the memory of a summer garden when there's a foot of snow on the ground.
Because if you've been been together long enough, you know what flows, will ebb (and then flow again) and what basks in summer glory will feel a winter chill (but surely bloom again). And in the winter of a relationship, sometimes what sustains you is not the promise of summer, but the memory of it.
So maybe you can't afford a week at a resort –
or maybe you don't have enough vacation days –
or maybe (like us) you don't have family nearby to watch your kids –
or maybe (like me) you just feel too anxious and guilty leaving your kids for too long –
Try a one-night vacation. It will stay with you. Just as the grass is greener where you water it, your memory of a summer garden will be strongest if you take the time to soak it in.
PS – Does anyone else weirdly associate Ritz-Carlton hotels with Harrison Ford painting pictures of Ritz cracker boxes in the movie Regarding Henry?
PPS – For a synopsis of a vacation that's the opposite of those featured in this post, read: Our National Lampoon's Family Vacation.
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Imposter Syndrome is a real rhymes-with-witch. It's those keep-you-up-at-night, I'm-really-not-good-enough thoughts that leave you just waiting for that call or email or for that one person to tell you to leave.
'We made a mistake here. You don't belong.'
It keeps you on edge, and it keeps you doubting yourself and your abilities. Even if you got where you are because of your skill or because you deserve it, Imposter Syndrome will tell you otherwise. It'll make you feel as if you're way out of your depth, struggling to stay afloat because you shouldn't be here anyway.
For me, Imposter Syndrome first reared its ugly head when I applied for the MA in Writing for Young People at Bath Spa University. I finished my application for the MA over the Christmas of 2016, but it took me weeks to press send on that email. All I could think about was what if they said no? What if I wasn't good enough?
I finally managed to press send on that application and now that we're in November 2017, I can excitedly say that I've been on the MA since October. I got on! I was good enough, or so my acceptance said so. But I didn't believe it when I first received that congratulations email, and I still don't believe it now.
Before the MA, I studied at Bath Spa – I graduated with a BA in Creative Writing, having taken all the Writing for Young People modules that I could. So, on paper I had the experience, I had the know-how and I was worthy of a place on one of the most prestigious MAs in my field. Still… just because it works on paper doesn't mean that I believe it. That's what Imposter Syndrome does to you. It makes you doubt the world around you and it leaves you on edge, just waiting for someone to realise that you don't belong there.
So every week, I attend my lectures and seminars with equal parts joy at my course, and dread that this'll be the week that I am told to leave. It's silly isn't it… why can we not just enjoy something we have rightfully earned? The answer… Imposter Syndrome, the feeling that you're not good enough and that you never will be.
Again, OUCH.
On the MA this week, as with every week, I submitted some creative work for workshopping. My work, SCARS, was a first-person narrative dealing with grief, child-carers, and themes of hope. As we circled around the table from person-to-person, each giving their feedback, thoughts, and questions about my piece, my tutor commented that SCARS was 'beautifully written.'
Beautifully written!
I have never been more shocked or dumbfounded in my life. My piece, mine, is beautifully written?! For a moment I thought that Janine had gotten confused, that she had read somebody else's work and had accidentally put my name on it. But no… that was not what happened and to think like that was 1) insulting to Janine and her teaching ability, and 2) completely untrue. My work was beautifully written and upon hearing that feedback, I have never had a bigger Callen, you belong here/ you deserve this moment in my life.
To say that this feedback has given me a confidence boost is an understatement. Yes, I am still unsure, and I still find myself doubting myself and my work… but then I remember that I am capable, that I have been capable and that I belong where I am. My Imposter Syndrome has not completely gone – I now just view it as a screaming toddler demanding my attention. Attention that I don't have to give it. Not at all. Instead, I'm going to give the MA all my attention until the day comes where I'll arrive to class, feeling complete joy at my course and how I deserve to be there.
I do deserve to be on the MA, and whether you believe it or not – you got where you are because you deserve to be there too. Now, I know that's easier for me to type then it is for you to believe (I get that, I really do) but it is true. If this week has taught me anything it's this: don't be afraid to believe in yourself.


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More people than ever before are getting involved in the 'great outdoors'. A vast majority of these people are camping ; whether it be in the back garden or 'The Wilderness' the good old camp fire kettle is in great demand. The team at Camp Fire Kettles have sourced a traditionally designed and well tested product ( The Kirtley Kettles) , so well tested in actual fact that they are the centre piece of many of the countries top Bushcraft schools and Outdoor centres camps. A further testimony to it's intrinsic value is the Kirtley Kettles placement as a 'finalist' in The Best Product sector of the recent Bushcraft and Skills Magazine awards.
We are very fortunate to have the full range of kettles endorsed by one of countries leading Outdoor/Bushcraft instructors, Mr Paul Kirtley of Frontier Bushcraft. The range takes his name – Kirtley Kettles. Available in four sizes from 2.5 litre to 10 litre we are sure they will be as welcome at your camp fire as Paul would be !


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- Product Description
1. A flame sensor module that consists of a flame sensor, resistor, capacitor, potentiometer, and comparator LM393 in an integrated circuit.
2. Sensitive to flame, also responsive to general light; generally used for flame.
3. Detect flame or light of a wavelength ranging from 760 to 1100 nm.
4. Output clean signals by a comparator, with good waveform and driving capability as strong as more than 15mA.
5. Working voltage: 3.3V - 5V; PCB size: 2.3 x 2.3 cm.
* 4-Pin anti-reverse cable included
* Equipped with power light and a signal output indicator
* Support a detection angle of appr. 60 degrees; particularly sensitive to flame spectrum
* Connected directly with I/O port of MCU, needless of external circuit
* Contain an adjustable precision potentiometer for sensitivity adjustment
* With a comparator LM393 to output both digital and analog signals at the same time
More details can be found in http://wiki.sunfounder.cc/index.php?title=Flame_sensor_Module
It is applicable to all kinds of flame and can be used for fire detection (e.g. flame alarm).
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Squeee! I can't believe after all this time that the #irishbbloggersSS14 reveal day has finally arrived! After what seems like an eternity (or two months to normal folk), my insatiable curiosity is to be relieved. I cannot believe that SO many lovely Irish bloggers signed up to swap this year- in total, we have 57 bloggers swapping gifts- an unprecedented number! I didn't think we could beat the lovely 37 that signed up last year but so we did! The 2014 swap originated 2 months back when I asked and indeed when I was approached to organise another Secret Santa swap. 2013 was a huge success and there was a lot of appetite for a 2014 repeat.
I circulated the survey back in October, and collected almost 70 responses, Once the results of the survey were in and the amounts and deadlines were set, I started gathering names. Once I had the names gathered, I wrote out each name twice on paper and had two boxes and picked a name from each box to make a match. I sent emails to 56 ladies and set up the twitter hashtag #irishbbloggersSS14. As soon as the ladies involved got their matches, serious suspicion ensued, and no-one could so much as like a photo on Facebook or favourite a tweet without bloggers assuming the worst! Over the following weeks, the Secret Santas amongst us teased us with clues and mysterious pictures just to whet our appetites.The process went rather swimmingly- apart from a handful of emails and An Post holding one present hostage!
A huge thank you to everyone who embraced the exchange and I hope you are all delighted with your gifts and enjoyed the experience. It's deeply satisfying to hear good feedback and it makes all the organisation and effort worthwhile!
And now, on reveal day, let me link you up to the lovely bloggers that took part in this years' swap so you can make sure you click through to all their blogs to see what they got!
Yavanna from Makeup Monster
Kat and Rachelle for DollyRouge
Orla from Makeup Over Mind
Lauren from Makeup by Lauren Marie
Sharon from Behind Green Eyes
Chloe from Nurse Fancy Pants
Lisa from Pink Sugar Sparkles
Sarah from Adoreabubbles
Danielle from LilliwhiteRose
Anita from Anita's Beauty Spot
Rebecca from Bec Boop Fashionista
Samantha from All the Buzz
Yvonne from One for the Wishlist
Anne-Marie from Girlfriday's Beauty Blog
Nina from Nina's Bargain Beauty
Elaine from Ruby Laine Make Up
Emma from Mastering your Makeup
Kate from A Tiny Slice of Kate
Sarah from Beauty Blunders and Other Wonders
Leanne from Blather and Beauty
Kelly from Mon Petit Blog
Susan Gaynor from Makeup by Ruby Sue
Nadine Stephens from The Parma Violet
Clare from Sparkle Blossom Beauty
Cat Wilson from Big Blonde Girl
Roisin from The Fashion Observer
Sarah from Beauty Angel
Avril from Blushful Beauty
Vicki from Happy Bubble Gal
Bernie from Beauty Minx Blog
Deirdre from Deelightful
Nirina from Killer Fashion
Kayleigh from Cheerful Beauty Nerd
Michelle from Michelle Alice
Nicole from Nicholle Bartlett
Jennifer and Ciara from From Matte to Metallic
Audrey from The Nail Affair
Lesley from Bellinis and Blush
Cindy from Girl with the Skew Earring
Megan Rose from A Little Bit of Makeup and Beauty
Ciara from Rees Design
Sarah from Flame Coloured Skies
Aisling from Coveted Mess
Mary Cate from The Fashion Horn
Zoe from Zoe Coco
Rachel from Oh Hey There Rachel
Olive from the Skinny Doll
Megan from Blondes Love Cupcakes
Elizabeth from Life with Lizzy
Amy from Red Lips, Red Hair
Zoe from My Stepping Stone
Kayliegh from Kayliegh Land
Amy from The Secret Obsession
Rachel from Rachel Brennan Life
Make sure to keep an eye out on Twitter under the #irishbbloggersSS14 hashtag and don't forget to leave lots on comments under the reveal posts and support and retweet/favourite your fellow swapping bloggers. I'll be checking in on the hashtag all day long and will be at the other side of Twitter if you have any questions etc.
So it's a wrap from me for the Irish Beauty Bloggers Secret Santa Extravaganza of 2014, and who knows, if the appetite is there, I might do it all over again in 2015!!


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Spreading at the confluence of and around the Danube and the Sava rivers, Belgrade is the capital and the largest city of Serbia. The capital is the cultural, educational, economical and scientific hub of the country. The repeatedly collapsed and rebuilt city has been hosting a great deal of civilizations and nations throughout its history.
There is a very user friendly public transport system. Buses, trams and trolleybuses are used.
Belgrade has a wide selection of hotels and guest houses to suit anyone and everyone. It is possible to find accommodation near the city's main historic sites. You can also stay in Skadarlija and Treazije near the city centre.
The Old Palace is the house for the City Assembly of Belgrade. Built between 1882 and 1884, this architectural highlight has magnificent carved ceilings of the Turkish time. Belgrade houses a great deal of monuments. To mention one, Millenary Monument established in 1896 for the commemoration of the 1000th anniversary of the founding of Hungarian state. Belgrade is home to 65 public parks and more than 40 drinking fountains. Kalemegdan, Pionirski, Tašmajdan, Karađorđev and Gradski Parks are among the most famous parks of the city. Kalemegdan is the largest and the most beautiful park of the city. The park harbors a plenty of monuments, Military Museum, Belgrade ZOO, Cvijeta Zuzorić art pavilion, Belgrade Cultural Protection Institute, an amusement park and Belgrade Fortress. The fortress overlooks Sava and Danube rivers. The two rivers confluence along the fortress. The riverbanks of the Sava and Danube rivers have a length of 20 km in the city's urban area. At this area, 16 islands are existed. Ada Ciganlija, Veliko ratno ostrvo and Gročanska ada are the most famous ones of these islands. Nikola Tesla Museum and National Museum are the two of the best museums of Belgrade.
Handicrafts and local products are sold at very reasonable prices. International brands are also easy to find in Belgrade. A great many shops selling all manner of goods line Knez Mihailova from Trg Republike all the way to Kalmegdan. Other places you might want to try include the centre above Kent Pasaj or Obilicev Venac and the shopping centre at Spasicev Prolaz. In the area around Terazije - Kralja Milana – Slavija Square is a must-see.
Belgrade is the cultural capital of Serbia. The number of theatres, galleries, libraries and concert halls are testimony to Belgrade's cultural riches. The National Theatre, the University of the Arts and the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts are just a few of its cultural institutions. There are also several important festivals: the International Film Festival (February to March), the Summer Festival (July to August), the International Youth Music Competition (March), the International Theatrical Belgrade Adventure (June), the Belgrade International Theatre Festival (September) and the Music Festival (October).


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In Their Own Words
January 17, 1861
Alexander Stephens Speech Opposing Secession at Secession Convention
Alexander Stephens delivered a speech against secession at the convention (the precise date of the speech is not given). In his introduction he uttered what turned out to be some prophetic statements about the consequences of secession.
This step, once taken, can never be recalled; and all the baleful and withering consequences that must follow, will rest on the Convention for all coming time. When we and our posterity shall see our lovely South desolated by the demon of war which this act of yours will inevitably invite and call forth; when our green fields of waving harvests shall be trodden down by the murderous soldiery and fiery car of war sweeping over our land; our temples of justice laid in ashes; all the horrors and desolations of war upon us - who but this Convention shall be held responsible for it? and who but whom who shall have given his vote for this unwise and ill-timed measure (as I honestly think and believe) shall be held to strict account for this suicidal act, by the present generation, and probably curse and execrated by posterity for all coming time, for the wide and desolating ruin that will inevitably follow this act you now propose to perpetrate? …


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Dawkins latest book is as brutal and honest as its title. For those who aren't looking to have their faith and beliefs gravely challenged, you may want to skip this book. However, Dawkins is looking for everyone to read this book with an open mind, whether you're devoutly religious, agnostic or atheist. Having an open mind is actually one of the New Ten Commandments Dawkins cites.
The book begins in a calm and orderly manner, with an opening chapter on the "god hypothesis," where Dawkins talks about the idea of a god through history and how we are now in a time where medicine and science have come such a long way from the days of thinking the world is flat, balancing the humors, and believing there was a demon or god causing every catastrophe. And yet religion – especially Christianity – remains stagnated in the ideas of men from thousands of years ago. As the book progresses, Dawkins seems to grow more impatient with religion and its wholehearted certainty in a book and a god.
He does an impressive job of going from chapter to chapter in defending different stances on science, always providing the evidence – a facet, he says, religion is lacking. One point Dawkins makes that I really found fascinating was his evolutionary reason for the existence of religion, in that it was a component of our very early societies in helping to unite communities and keep them together as a whole. As human beings, we strive for companionship and the evidence speaks for itself when we look back to the time when there was a shift from the nomadic hunting and gathering societies to settling down in groups and communities, which started farming, large scale food production, and ultimately leading to technology, writing, law, art and so on.
After this, Dawkins tackles the question of morality and makes it a very big deal that everyone understand we keep this separate from religion and not think them one and the same. The Bible is full of murder, rape, fratricide, torture – for a book on teaching us how to lead supposedly "good" lives, this book has a very strange way of trying to do that, says Dawkins. So he goes back into our ancestry to the days of Cro-Magnon, in the time when all humanity cared about was trying to survive. He posits that this was when we began to develop a sense of morality, because in being good to others, families and groups were formed, which helped improve survival. If we'd stuck to stealing and killing, we wouldn't have lasted past that first winter.
Another big issue with Dawkins is the labeling of children as belonging to the religion of the parents without any consent from them: they're Protestant children, or Muslim children, or Jewish children; even though in all likelihood they are far too young to comprehend what this applied label means. These children of heavily religious and fundamental families don't have a choice. One of the most horrific things I learned about in The God Delusion are the so-called "Hell Houses," where children – ideally twelve year olds, because this is the perfect age for indoctrination – are taken through a labyrinth of horror revealing the terrible sins of sex before marriage, homosexuality, and abortion, and what happens in hell if one were to commit any of them. A cast of actors rehearse these scenes to create the greatest sense of terror in the children – yes, there's even a tall and scary looking man playing the part of Satan.
At the beginning of the book, one can sense that Dawkins is open to accepting the existence of religion, so long as it gets modernized and becomes part of the twenty-first century. However, by the end of the book, Dawkins is fuming over the many pitfalls and handicaps of religion, especially where it causes pain and suffering to others. While the author's hope is to make everyone agree with his ideas and opinions, Dawkins at least wants people to think about what he is talking about, to make people contemplate these ideas with the evidence, and then to make an informed decision on their beliefs. The existence of a god cannot be proved or disproved, Dawkins says, but the chances seem very likely that there isn't one. He gives an example of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, which while most of the world thinks little more than a joke; if rumors of the Flying Spaghetti Monster had started thousands of years ago, might some of us be believing in this pasta god today?
While Dawkins didn't set out to enrage people, with the title and content of this book, it was inevitable. Yet, I think some compliment is deserved for both Dawkins and the publisher in having the courage to put this book on the shelves, and since it's publication, The God Delusion has spent many weeks on top ten lists across the country which, if anything, says a lot about people beliefs in this country at this time.
If you liked this review and are interested in purchasing this book, click here.
Originally written on December 21st 2006 ©Alex C. Telander.


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Calculating Polls in Camelot
Each state has one or more districts. D1 D2 D3 … Each district has three top issues. D1I1 D1I2 D1I3 Each district has a stance on its top three issues. STANCE (S) POSSIBLE VALUES Very Liberal (VL) -1.00 <= X … Continue reading
"Ask not what XCode can do for you…"
Began Camelot development today, figuring out how XCode 4.2's new Storyboard tool allows you to hook up view controllers to Scenes and create Segues between Scenes, abstracting away a lot of the heavy lifting that was involved with creating a … Continue reading
Designing On The Campaign Trail
The plan was to have Camelot in the AppStore sometime in September but this didn't happen. Various things "conspired" to prevent this but the bottom line is I didn't focus like I did with QuickGifter™. I did manage to do … Continue reading
Possible Tagline for Camelot
"Pull their strings"
Initial Thoughts on Issues & Positions
Each issue will have two diametrically opposed stands that represent traditional Democratic and Republican positions on the issue. Each Presidential Candidate has a position on the issue (a BNumber, -1 to 1). And each Patchwork Community Type (each county is … Continue reading
Books about Political Campaigns
While researching consumer GPS receiver market share for my 925 at the URI library I also looked for books about US presidential campaigns. I found a couple that I checked out: Playing to Win: An Insider's Guide to Politics (1980) … Continue reading
States, Counties, and Voters
One important part of the Camelot design revolves around the voter population model of the United States. Some questions spring to mind when thinking about this part of the design: How will the US voter population be modeled? How will … Continue reading
Camelot iPad Design
Here's the high-level design for Camelot's main screen. Campaign info will be displayed in the upper left (the info area will expand to accomodate the number of candidates in the race). Your candidates are at the top. Directly underneath the … Continue reading
Announcing My Candidacy
If I want to do Camelot (and I do), I've got to get started. Starting tomorrow I'm going to have to re-implement the QuickGifter routine – up at 5 a.m., maybe 4, work for a couple of hours, and then … Continue reading
Some May 2011 Camelot Designs
A little more refined. We can see the areas of the screen taking shape here.


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Could You Be With A Man Who Earns Less Than You?
- 36% - Only if I make enough.
- 33% - Yes.
- 30% - No.
- 1% - Can't say.
Not much of a stunner here coz times are changing. But how about the man in the relationship? Will it hurt his ego to know more that his girl is earning more than him?
What Turns You On?
- 61% - Good looks.
- 52% - Nice smile.
- 34% - Broad Shoulders.
- 32% - Sexy Voice.
- 22% - Machoness.
- 20% - Cute Butt. (:D)
- 19% - Athletic Build.
Pooja in K3G was just voicing what Indian women felt when she said she wanted 'Good looks, good looks and only good looks' in a man! ;) By the way, the stats also show that more women in Chennai lust after Vishwanathan Anand whereas in Kolkata, the ladies find Mr. Dhoni irresistible!
At What Age Did You Lose Your Virginity?
- 47% - Between 19 and 24 years.
- 40% - Between 25 and 38 years.
- 5% - Before 18 years.
- 8% - Can't say.
12% in Kolkata have had sex before turning 18! More as compared to major Indian cities. Shocking, ain't it?
Stats Across Cities
37% feel every relationship ends in a heartache.
49% think long distance relationships do not work. (Sad! Distance shouldn't be much of a problem if you truly love someone. There are so many ways to keep in touch. Where there's a will, there's a way right? But looks like almost half of the women population disagree.)
47% agree that a woman can be friends with her ex. (I am not among the 47% for sure.)
31% think it's possible for a woman to love two men at the same time. (NOT happening!)
57% are against the idea of pre-marital sex.
P.S : Left out some VERY interesting questions coz my lil blog is family oriented. ;)


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Immersed in the nonprofit field for close a quarter century, Joel Jacinto brings to the Board of Public Works Commission extensive experience in working with youth, families, businesses and communities.
Since 1991, Jacinto served as executive director of Search To Involve Pilipino Americans (SIPA), a community-based organization empowering youth, families and businesses through health and human services, community economic development and a community center that serves as a place for collaboration and community engagement.
Throughout his career, Jacinto has been active in networks and coalitions that advocate for diverse communities, especially underserved and low to moderate income populations. On behalf of SIPA, Jacinto was active in the process that resulted in the designation of Historic Filipinotown in Los Angeles, as well as the subsequent streetscape, tree planting and street imprinting improvement projects that followed. He was awarded the Lifetime/Community Achievement by the Greenlining Institute, a public policy, research, and advocacy non-profit organization.
In 2014, Mayor Eric Garcetti appointed Jacinto to serve on the Affordable Housing Commission.
Complementing his work in social services, Jacinto is a long-time arts and cultural practitioner, having co-founded in 1990, a Filipino folk and traditional arts organization, Kayamanan Ng Lahi. He is a founding board member of the Alliance for California Traditional Artists (ACTA), which provides advocacy, grants, and other resources for folk and traditional artists in California to preserve the health and longevity of California's cultural landscape.
Hailing from San Francisco, Jacinto attended UCLA and received his degree in Kinesiology. He also completed post-graduate coursework in Public Health at the University of Hawaii Manoa and Applied Anthropology at California State University Long Beach. Jacinto resides in Los Angeles with his spouse, Ave, and two sons, Kai and Keianu.


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January 01
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Nimble, Focused, and Feisty: Leading Through Company Culture
What does a winning, future-ready culture look like? How do we make sure our organizations are adaptable to changes in structure, leadership, and markets?
Guest Presenter Sara Roberts, author, speaker, and executive advisor to giants like GE, will be sharing her insights and learnings on how you can create this kind of thriving company. She will share insights from her latest book, Nimble, Focused, Feisty: Organizational Cultures that Win in the New Era and How to Create Them.


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News Release 1998-87 | August 25, 1998
New OCC Handbook Will Help Bankers Achieve Effective Internal Controls
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has issued a new manual to help examiners evaluate the internal control systems national banks use to guard against fraud and financial mismanagement, as well as to ensure compliance with laws, regulations and the institution's own policies.
"We are seeing increasing evidence that bank internal controls are slipping," said acting Comptroller of the Currency Julie L. Williams. "And we have learned over the years that when internal controls are neglected, banks get into trouble."
Ms. Williams attributed slippage in effective internal controls to complacency created by the industry's current prosperity and to cost-cutting pressures, which most often affect non-income producing areas of bank operations.
"Effective internal control is the foundation of safe and sound banking and a critical component of overall risk management," the acting Comptroller said.
In each bank examination, the OCC incorporates a specific review of the bank's internal controls. Examiners focus attention on the bank's control environment, policies and procedures, and information and communications systems. Examiners also assess such factors as the integrity, ethical values and competence of bank personnel, the systems used to manage and monitor risks, and contingency planning for information systems.
"The commitment of directors and managers to a strong internal control environment is absolutely essential to an effective internal control system," said Wayne Rushton, the OCC's senior deputy comptroller for supervision policy. "Our examiners will be looking for that commitment when they go into banks."
While internal controls take many forms, depending on the size and complexity of a bank, they generally fall under one of these categories:
Limits on authorities;
Safeguards on access to and use of records;
Separation and rotation of duties; and
Both regular and unscheduled reviews, including testing.
According to Kevin J. Bailey, the OCC's deputy comptroller for core policy, "an effective control system will help to ensure efficient and effective bank operations, the accuracy and integrity of recorded transactions, the reliability of financial reporting, and an effective risk management system. It will also support compliance with banking laws and regulations, as well as with internal policies and procedures."
"The bottom line is that an effective internal control system will help the bank avoid surprises, he said. Another important goal of internal controls is to prevent and detect any fraudulent activity that could be undertaken by a bank insider."
Copies of Internal Control, part of the Comptroller's Handbook series, are being mailed to national basks, OCC examiners and subscribers to the OCC handbook series. To order copies of the Internal Control handbook, send a written request and a $15 check per copy to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, P.O. Box 70004, Chicago, IL 60673-0004.
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It has been a busy year at my house and now summer is almost upon us. I hadn't really thought of putting anything together for Memorial Day, since I will be away at a wedding. However, I did get a lot of requests for something that can be thrown together quickly and still be great. I have the perfect plan!
When you think about Memorial Day most people think about the traditional beginning of the summer and thus BBQ season. This year it has been a little cooler than usual in my hood, so a barbecue doesn't really seem appealing. How about a taco/burrito bar theme? This is great because my recipe is mostly done in the slow cooker and you can use the guacamole recipe from my Cinco de Mayo post. I like this particular recipe because it frees me up to be with my guest, not in the kitchen.
|Prep Time
|4-8 people
|5 minutes
|Cook Time
|6-8 hours
Chicken breasts are slow cooked in lime juice and beer with lots of herbs a garlic that gives a great flavor. This is good base for tacos, burritos, salads and all sorts of things.
- 4 chicken breasts boneless and skinless
- 2 Tablespoons olive oil
- 1/2 cup lime juice (I like Nellies Key Lime)
- 1/2 cup beer any brand or style
- 1 Tablespoon chopped cilantro (I use a blend of herbs, what ever I have at home)
- Salt & Pepper to taste
- Chop your herb(s) and wrap in cheesecloth to make a bouquet garni. This step is optional. My family doesn't like to see the herbs, so I use this method.
- Drizzle olive oil in bottom of slow cooker.
- Add the chicken and pour lime juice and beer over. You may need more to cover.
- Throw in your garlic, salt, pepper and herbs.
- Cook on slow for 6-8 hours. You can cook on high for 4 hours if needed.
- Using two forks, shred chicken while it is still hot.
- Serve as a filling for tacos, burritos, salads or get creative. Enjoy!