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Cyprus, also called Republic of Cyprus,Kypros can be found on the map at Middle East, island in the Mediterranean Sea, south of Turkey ; it is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea (after Sicily and Sardinia) . Most Cypriot s fall into Greek 77%, Turkish 18%, other 5% (2001) groups. Nicosia is the current capital and there are 6 districts; Famagusta, Kyrenia, Larnaca, Limassol, Nicosia, Paphos; note - Turkish Cypriot area's administrative divisions include Kyrenia, all but a small part of Famagusta, and small parts of Nicosia (Lefkosia) in Cyprus.
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This is the skirt I made this fall, and a chambray shirt from Old Navy, and some boots I just got out of my stored clothes (more on that below).
I preemptively added them to my fall capsule because I planned on buying them. Here's the update. Their regular price is around $350, but I found them on sale on Amazon.com for just over $200! I didn't have the money then, so I had to wait, and they dropped down to $175 - Wa-hoo! By the time I could buy them, they were around $200 again, but that was way better than $350, so I got them and felt happy about the price.
The color was great and I mostly loved them, but they were too big. Wah! The price had gone up on Amazon to the full $350, and if I exchanged them, I'd only get credit for $200 towards the smaller size. Wah! again. I took a refund instead.
I've been looking for a different (less expensive) pair of short black or grey boots but I haven't found the perfect ones yet.
I'm still tracking the Amazon price of those charcoal Fryes to see if they drop back down again, but in the meantime I decided to start wearing the black boots that I already have. They're tall, and that's not what I envisioned for that spot in my wardrobe, but I'll adjust. These are from Kenneth Cole and I bought them in 2002, on sale. They still look good and feel good. I still really like them, so they've turned out to be an excellent, long-lasting buy. I may be getting over my disappointment about the Fryes.
Can you remember a disappointing purchase that you kept thinking about for a while? What did you do? For me, sometimes when something is cheap (or a pain to return), it's tempting to keep it even though it's not quite right and try to make it work.
The Frye boots were super easy to return to Amazon, and it's easier to return it when it costs more! More expensive clothes have to be close to perfect for me to buy or keep them. I'm trying to expand that mindset to EVERYTHING I bring into my home.
To earn a place in my house, an item must be perfect. I need to make this my minimalist shopping mantra!


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Google Only Wanted Moto Patents
Google's $12.5 billion bid for Motorola
Mobility came together in only about five weeks — and was $3
billion higher than its first offer — but originally, the Internet giant
wanted to buy only the company's mobile patent portfolio.
In early July, Google approached Motorola
Mobility about purchasing a chunk of its
patent portfolio, according to a preliminary
proxy statement Motorola Mobility filed last
week. But Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha
told the Internet giant it could be "problematic"
for the company if it sold off a large portion
of its intellectual property.
The details of how the deal came to fruition
show Google was so desperate to beef
up its patent holdings that it not only agreed
to buy the entire company but also to pay
a 33% premium over what it first offered.
However, the disclosure also casts additional
uncertainty about what Google intends
to do with the mobile devices and cable settop
businesses, since those aren't the pieces of the company
it was actually interested in owning.
Google was concerned that its Android operating system or
partners using the software would be the target of patent litigation
by rivals, after a consortium including Apple, Microsoft
and Research In Motion teamed up to buy Nortel Networks'
6,000 patents for $4.5 billion.
The Googlers were eager to obtain their own intellectualproperty
war chest. After the Nortel deal, Andrew Rubin,
Google's senior vice president of mobile, contacted Jha "to request
a meeting to discuss the purchase by some of Google's
competitors of the patent portfolio of Nortel Networks Corporation
and its subsidiaries … and the possible impact of and
potential responses to the purchase."
In a subsequent meeting, Jha told Google executives that "it
could be problematic for Motorola Mobility to continue as a
standalone entity if it sold a large portion of its patent portfolio."
On July 28, 2011, Jha discussed Google's
potential acquisition of Motorola Mobility
with David Drummond, Google's senior
vice president of corporate development
and chief legal officer. Google executives
indicated that they were preliminarily considering
a per-share price range in the "high
$20s or low $30s," according to the filing.
Google sent a letter Aug. 1 to the Motorola
Mobility board proposing an acquisition by
Google for $30 in cash per share. The board
rejected the bid and suggested Google increase
its proposed price to $43.50 per share.
On the morning of Aug. 15, Motorola
Mobility and Google fi nalized the merger
agreement at $40 per share in cash.
The deal includes an unusually high breakup fee. Google
would pay Motorola Mobility $2.5 billion if it terminates their
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The following Ofcom website: www.ofcom.org.uk/check-coverage supplies mobile phone coverage (for voice, 3G & 4G data), by postcode, but also broadband speeds, TV and DAB coverage.
The following BT Openreach website: Openreach checker shows the status of 'superfast' broadband in your area.
Antoinette stated that people should contact the mobile 'phone company immediately if they purchase a handset and find that it doesn't work at their address. They should be able to return it and get a refund.
She said that people could operate their mobile 'phones over their broadband link via VOIP (see https://www.broadbandchoices.co.uk/guides/internet/internet-phone-voip-offers ) with services such as Skype, WhatsApp, FaceTime. In addition there are certain hardware solutions which can enhance mobile reception in the home, such as 'Femtocell', click here for a clearer explanation.
She provided a link to information that she has pulled together:
She also encouraged the use of the Ofcom app for android mobile phones https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-telecoms-and-internet/coverage/ofcom-mobile-research-app .
Antoinette also pointed out that there is a survey available from her campaigns page https://www.antoinettesandbach.org.uk/campaigns/better-broadband-and-mobile-coverage .
Some of the sites marked as unable to get fast broadband on the Ofcom map look suspect so the best way to find out about the broadband coverage is to input your telephone number into OpenReach's web page and check there www.openreach.co.uk/orpg/home/index.do .
Antoinette suggested a community approach presumably as described in www.homeandbusiness.openreach.co.uk/fibre-broadband/community-fibre-partnership . She also suggested that people could ask for fibre to the home, which she claimed would add £10,000 to the value of their house.


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Game Day Goulash - Your Saturday grab-bag of college football news and notes.
Johnny Manziel vs. the Pac-12.
Paul Buker looks at Pac-12 challengers looking to block Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel from repeating as Heisman Trophy winner in 2013. Buker's choices: UCLA QB Brent Hundley, Oregon QB Marcus Mariota, and his teammate, running back De'Anthony Thomas. (The Oregonian)
Rhule the World?
Temple has offered New York Giants assistant offensive line coach Matt Rhule its vacant head football coaching position. (ESPN)
Something's whisperin' in my ear that I should be light years from here in Albuquerque where the skies are blue.
The 2012 Bowl season opens today with Arizona facing Nevada in the New Mexico Bowl in Albuerque, NM. (1:00 pm ET, ESPN)
The Famous Idaho Potato Bowl is neither a bowl, nor is it famous.
Utah State faces Toledo in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl on the infamous blue turf of Boise Stadium on the campus of Boise State. (4:30 pm ET, ESPN). (Dr. Saturday)
Alabama HC Nick Saban lies. Because Ron Jaworski said so. (Saturday Down South)
Chelf life.
Oklahoma State HC Mike Gundy names Clint Chelf as the Cowboys' starting QB in the Jan. 1, 2013 Heart of Dallas Bowl. The Cowboys will face Purdue in the bowl formerly knows as the TicketCity Bowl. (The Oklahoman)
Tennessee Hires Wisconsin receivers coach Zach Azzanni to handle the same job on new HC Butcj Jones' coaching staff. (The Knoxville News Sentinel)
Please Don't Go.
Frogs O War looks at the chances of Big 12 head football coaches bolting to another school or the NFL.
Call me Ishmael.
New Jersey high school senior WR Ishmael Hyman commits to Kansas' 2013 recruiting class. (Rock Chalk Talk)
Texas A&M.
Texas HS junior WR commits to Texas A&M's 2014 recruiting class. (Good Bull Hunting)


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Kinkaid stops 21 shots, Devils beat Coyotes 3-2 in shootout
NHL Headlines
- Ovi, Crosby favor resuming at playoffs
- Avs player recovers after positive test
- Bauer shifts to making medical visors
- Signing college FAs is rare NHL business
- 'Canes ask employees to take time off
By JOHN MARSHALL
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) Already down a goalie, the New Jersey Devils watched MacKenzie Blackwood leave in the first period with a lower-body injury.
Keith Kinkaid filled in nicely for someone who hadn't played in four games.
Kinkaid stopped 21 shots and had two saves in a shootout, lifting the New Jersey Devils to a 3-2 win over the Arizona Coyotes on Friday night.
"It was nice to see Keith come in and he was strong for us," Devils coach John Hynes said. "He got better and better as the game went on."
Kinkaid started the season as New Jersey's No. 1 goalie, but the Devils have been riding Blackwood's recent success with Cory Schneider out.
Blackwood, making his seventh start in nine games seemed to tweak his leg midway through the first period and was replaced by Kinkaid late. Kinkaid gave up goals to Conor Garland and Christian Fischer in regulation, but stopped Alex Galchenyuk and Nick Cousins in the shootout.
Kyle Palmeiri and Drew Stafford scored in the shootout for the Devils, who have won four of six.
In regulation, New Jersey's Nico Hischier scored his 11th goal on a shot that didn't go into the net and Blake Coleman had his 12th of the season.
"It was a good effort," Stafford said. "It wasn't the prettiest game, but we found a way."
Arizona's Darcy Kuemper made a pair of spectacular saves in overtime, swiping a puck out of the crease after it trickled through on one, snatching another shot from a seated position on another. He allowed goals on the two shots he faced in the shootout and finished with 33 saves.
The injury-depleted Coyotes went 0 for 5 on the power play, including a lengthy 5 on 3, and have lost 11 of 15.
"Five, six regulars out, I hate to keep saying it," Coyotes coach Rick Tocchet said. "We worked hard, but you could tell the skill level wasn't there sometimes. We're just grinding away."
The Devils scored a goal 1:05 into the game that never actually went into the net.
New Jersey had a 2-on-1 after an Arizona neutral-zone turnover and Kyle Palmieri fed the puck to Hischier. Kuemper got a piece of Hischier's shot and the puck shot in the air just as Arizona forward Clayton Keller crashed into the goal, dislodging it. Initially called no goal, the officials awarded it to Hischier upon review, ruling the puck would have gone in had Keller not knocked the goal off its moorings.
"The puck was in the air, so I don't think you can assume it wasn't going to hit the top of the net," Tocchet said. "It went to Toronto. I don't know."
Garland tied it late in the first period, intercepting a pass by New Jersey's Pavel Zacha in front of the crease and slipping the puck under Kinkaid's left pad.
Fischer put the Coyotes up midway through the second period, beating Kinkaid stick side with a wrister from the left circle.
Coleman tied it late in the period, one-timing in a pass from Travis Zajac that hit Kuemper's left pad and trickled through his legs.
Kuemper made a spectacular save in the third period to prevent a short-handed goal, doing to splits to get a skate on Hischier's breakaway attempt.
It wasn't enough. Arizona missed on some chances in the third period and overtime, and couldn't get anything past Kinkaid in the shootout.
"We were on the game, but I don't think we do enough to win that game," Coyotes captain Oliver Ekman-Larsson said.
NOTES: Arizona C Nick Schmaltz missed his second straight game with a lower-body injury. He was placed on injured reserve on Thursday and is listed as week-to-week by the team. ... Schneider missed his ninth straight game with a lower-body injury, but has been skating on his own. LW Taylor Hall missed his fifth straight with a lower-body injury.
The Devils: At Vegas on Sunday.
The Coyotes: Host the New York Rangers on Sunday.
More AP NHL: https://apnews.com/NHL and https://twitter.com/AP-Sports
Updated January 5, 2019


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Today was a day full of health conscious decisions. You know that commercial for NutriGrain choosing the NutriGrain bar instead of the donut effects the woman's whole day? Yeah that was me.Healthy choice #1 The day started off with a little sleeeeeeping in :) Ahhh it feels good to sleep till 7:30.
Because of the light week I was also able to squeeze in a 4 mile run at lunch. After running I'm typically either nauseous or starving. Today was the former and so I ate only a handful of pretzels and a gingerale. Thanks to Caitlin she was able to advise on eating some salt after runs to make up for lost electrolytes. It seems to work for me! I'll take any advice and try any/everything on fueling for running!
I ate dinner when I got home and by 5:30 the beast inside of me was starving.
What Healthy decisions did you make today?


text: Ned Kehde - January 28, 2019 Berkley's PowerBait Sick Fish A Clear Bream Sick Fish. When Berkley recently reintroduced its PowerBait Sick Fish to the angling world, it announced that "the ever-popular Skeet Reese design has been taken to the next level." They proclaimed that its "super life-like shape and action make it look real," and it possesses the "colors to match baitfish everywhere."We asked Hunter Cole of Columbia, South Carolina, who is Berkley's media and public relations manager, to help us in our endeavor to publish a gear guide about it. He responded by sending us five of the three-inch Sick Fish to experiment with and examine.Here are some details about it:Upon comparing the Sick Fish to Joe Tomelleri's exquisite drawings in his and Mark Eberle's "Fishes of the Central United States," Berkley has replicated many of the features of a red shiner, as well as some of the features of the common shiner, golden shiner, and sand shiner. Its head is adorned with images of the following features: gill membranes, branchiostegals, preopercles, maxillaries, a snout, and a pair of eyes. What's more, its eyes are three dimensional. The length of its head, which stretches from the tip of its snout to the end of its gill membrane, is a half of an inch long. The distance from the top of its predorsal area to the bottom edge of its breast is a half of an inch. The length of its predorsal area, which stretches from the tip of its snout to the first ray of the dorsal fin is 1 5/16 inches. The circumference of the largest portion of its predorsal area is 1 3/8 inches.The skin of its dorsal area and the sides of its body are festooned with images of scales. The skin of its ventral area from the tip of its mandible to the junction of its tail is smooth and silky or devoid of the images of scales.Its triangular-shaped dorsal fin is three-sixteenths of an inch by seven-sixteenths of an inch by seven-sixteenths of an inch. It is embellished with five rays. A minor hook slot, which is a quarter of an inch long, is situated immediately in front of the first ray of the dorsal fin.Its ventral area is endowed with five fins: two pectoral fins, two pelvic fins, and one anal fin. Its two pectoral fins are triangular shaped and possess the following dimensions: a quarter of an inch by five-sixteenths of an inch by five-sixteenths of an inch. Each of these fins possesses five rays.Its two pelvic fins are triangular shaped and possess these dimensions: a quarter of an inch by three-eighths of an inch by three-eighths of an inch. Each fin has four rays.The size of its triangular-shaped anal fin is a quarter of an inch by five-sixteenths of an inch by five-sixteenths of an inch. It is endowed with three rays. The top portion of its caudal or tail fin exhibits the features that ichthyologists call a heteroceral, which has a small v-shaped notch added to the middle of the outside fin. Its dimensions are five-eighths of an inch by a quarter of an inch by a half of an inch. It has five rays.Unlike the top portion of the tail, its bottom portion is not realistic. Instead, it possesses a paddle like the tails on a paddle-tail or boot-tail grub. The skin on one side of the paddle is smooth, and on the other side, it possesses nine fins. It is five-eighths of an inch long and nine-sixteenths of an inch wide at its widest spot.Berkley recommends that anglers affix the Sick Fish upon a weighted swimbait hook, but Midwest finesse anglers will affix it to a mushroom-style jig with an exposed hook. And when they wield it on that jig, they will be able to use all six of the standard Midwest finesse retrieves or slight variations of those retrieves.A Chartreuse Shad Sick Fish affixed to an unpainted 1/32-ounce mushroom-style jig.It is available in the following colors: Black Violet Frog, Blue Shiner Gold, Chartreuse Shad, Clear Bream, Ghost Ayu, Ghost Minnow, Green Black, Green Mist, Green Penny, Light Hitch, Swamp Gas, and Tennessee Shad.It is not buoyant, and it sinks quite rapidly.A package of five costs $3.99.Endnotes(1) Here is the link to Berkley's website: http://www.berkley-fishing.com/berkley-bait-soft-bait-berkley-PowerBait/PowerBait-sick-fish/1454407.(2) Here are the links to two Midwest Finesse columns about the Berkley's Havoc Sick Fish, which is the predecessor of the new PowerBait Sick Fish: https://www.in-fisherman.com/2012/09/11/finesse-news-networks-gear-guide-berkleys-havoc-four-inch-sick-fish/; https://www.in-fisherman.com/midwest-finesse/gear-guideberkley-havo-sick-fish-jr/.(3) Here is the link to a Midwest Finesse column that describes how to employ the Sick Fish with the six Midwest finesse retrieves: https://www.in-fisherman.com/midwest-finesse/six-midwest-finesse-retrieves/.(4) For more information about the scents that Berkley employs, see Steve Quinn's insights in his article entitled "Berkley Takes New Soft Baits To The Max." Here is the link to Quinn's article: http://www.bassfan.com/reviews_article.asp?id=257#.W6ew8PlRcdU#ixzz5RwIGYBHT. GET THE NEWSLETTER Join the List and Never Miss a Thing. Sign Me Up


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5th Sunday in Epiphany B, February 4, 2017
Pastor Brian Henderson-Trinity Lutheran Church, San Diego, CA
Deuteronomy 18:15-20, Mark 1:21-28
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"Do you not know? Do you not hear? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?"[Isaiah 40:1]
I don't understand how people can say that they're not sure there's a God. I mean, where have they been all of their lives, living under a rock?! Just look around; are we to believe that all of this just happened by accident? And this is somewhat of a paraphrase of God's question to unbelieving man through the prophet Isaiah. Listen again: "Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been told to you? Have you not understood since the earth was founded?"
The truth about God has always been available. But the human mind has been so darkened by sin that it can't imagine God as He truly is. This morning, Isaiah pictures God as the Creator and Ruler of the world. God sits high above the created world as He stretches out the heavens as easily as someone might pitch a tent. God is not created but uncreated and eternal, without beginning and without end. He is separate and different from the world He created. He is holy, infinite, perfect, and changeless. To God, we are like a swarm of grasshoppers. Because of our sin, we are nothing like God. We are finite, temporal, imperfect, subject to change of every kind, and very mortal. What arrogance for finite creatures to fashion God in an image that they are comfortable with. If we want to know about God, we must humbly put our hands over our mouths and simply listen to what He tells us.
A law enforcement chaplain was invited one evening to give the invocation at a St. Patrick's Day celebration for a bunch of crusty old cops at a local cop bar. After the invocation, he sat down to share an Irish beer with the boys, and one of the cops shouted so all who could hear, "Hey Chappy! I say that there is no God; so what do you have to say about that?!" The chaplain walked up to him, calmly laid his hand on his shoulder, and said, "Friend, what you just said is nothing new. In fact, the Bible said the same thing over 2,000 years ago." The cop replied, "I never knew that the Bible made such a statement." The chaplain replied, "Yep, Psalm 14, verse 1, "The fool says in his heart there is no God." But there's a big difference between that fool and you. You see, the fool is modest enough to say it in the privacy of his own heart; he wasn't so foolish as to go screaming it out in a tavern!"
Why is it so hard for people to see the existence of God?
I mean, it's not like He's hidden himself so that we wouldn't know to look for Him! He's revealed Himself from the beginning. He talked with Adam and Eve in the garden, and after they sinned, He continued to speak to them, and when He did, He promised that a Savior would come and destroy their sin and the devil who introduced it! He spoke to Noah before and after the destructive flood, and promised something similar. He used Moses to speak His holy and perfect Word to the people, so that they would know that not only was God with them, but He was protecting them. God made sure that Moses and all of the other writers of Holy Scripture recorded His Word, and not the sinful imaginings of their own minds. God inspired them, by giving them the words they were to write so that we could know Him and have faith in His love and care for us. The apostle Paul makes this very point when he writes, "We speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the (Holy) Spirit. [1 Cor. 2:13]
All that a person needs to do is look at everything that's around them, and they can't help but know that something, or someone had to create it.
Let me share another story with you that will illustrate the foolishness of a creator-less reality. An astrology professor constructed a small but elegant and precise model of the universe. As the students came into the classroom, one by one they commented on how beautiful and intricate it was. One student asked the professor who made it? The professor said, "No one, it just happened." The students became confused and a little angry when time and time again the professor responded, "No one made this. It just happened, so quit asking." Finally the professor replied "If you can leave this class and look at nature all around you, and still believe that it just happened, then why can't you believe that this precise piece of work just happened without a creator?"
And that's really what people want today; they want a creator-less society. They want all of the good things that creation has to offer, but they don't want the creator behind them. For these opponents of God, it's really pointless to try to convince them that there's a God by using the Bible, because God's Word is far above them. If they can't see God in His creation, how do you expect them to see Him in His Word? So the prophet Isaiah starts at that very point. He is essentially saying, "How do you think all of this came to be?" The smarty pants atheists will say along with the popular sit-com, "It all started with the big bang!" Ok, then what created the energy that caused the big bang? At this simple question, all of their collective I.Q.'s stand silent. But we of course know the answer. God did, of course, but God didn't just make our universe and our world and then leave us to contend for ourselves. He is still here taking care of our world; He's taking care of you!
Now at this point, you might see an atheist become somewhat enlightened and become an agnostic, and they'll admit to a creator but not to a Creator who actually cares about every thing that's happening in creation. They'll want to create God out of their own sinful imaginings; very often they'll turn Him into some sort of absentee slum lord, who leaves us to fend for ourselves and maintain creation on our own. And to those who question God's presence and care (by the way, we call that providence), to those people, God replies in His Word this morning: "Why do you say, O Jacob, and complain, O Israel, "My way is hidden from the Lord; my cause is disregarded by my God"? Why do we say that God isn't really active in my life; He's just kind of left me here alone to grope in the dark and make sense of this messed up world.
"Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth." And, this is where God moves us from what we see to what we hear; He moves us from things that are created to His eternal Word.
Now it's true that God's Word tells us that everything we are going through is our own fault. It's our fault because of our sin and other people's sins. And that same Word teaches us that that's precisely why we are always witnessing one crisis and tragedy after another. But God's Word also promises us that we aren't alone in the tragedies of life, and that one day in the twinkling of an eye, the promised Savior will right all wrongs. So without His Word, when the tragedies come, we will fail to see Him with us and we'll most likely resort to finding comfort and protection on our own.
An artist asked a friend to come to his studio and see his latest painting. When he arrived, he was taken into a dark room and told to sit and wait. After 15 minutes, the artist finally arrived and brought his friend into the studio. Before the man left, the artist said laughingly, "I suppose you thought I was a little rude and strange by making you wait so long in the dark?" "Yes I did," replied his friend. "Well," said the artist, "I knew that if you came right into my studio with the glare of the street in your eyes, you wouldn't be able to appreciate all of the fine coloring that was used in my painting; so I left you there until the glare had worn out of your eyes."
Many times, when we are going through hard times, even tragic times, the glare of all of the pain in this sinful world can interfere with us sensing and seeing God's presence, that is promised to never leave us. It may seem as though He's not with us, or that He doesn't care, but in reality, He's just giving our hearts and minds time to transition from a physical reality to a spiritual one. This was true for every person in the Old Testament that God points out to us as models of faith. God cared for Jacob, He blessed him, and protected him. But in the middle of his tragedy and fears it appeared as though God had left him alone. But God had not left him! God appeared in the middle of his struggle, and then changed his name to Israel. God appeared to Noah and Moses in the middle of their struggles, and then He promised them that a Savior was coming who would make all things new and perfect.
The prophet Isaiah, who God used to write our Old Testament lesson, experienced something very similar. He was hated and despised by all of the important people of Israel, because he spoke a hard prophecy about God's anger, but interspersed with these prophecies of punishment, God also had him repeat over and over that their Savior was coming and through His suffering and death, God's Servant would bring His grace and peace to all of creation through the forgiveness of sins.
So do you not know? Have you not heard?
The Savior has come; He alone has made all things right and new between you and God, even if what you see in this sinful world says the opposite! His living Word has declared that you are saved! In His Word, He has revealed to you that He is "the Lord," Jehovah God, the God of free and faithful grace. He is Emmanuel, the God who is always with you. He was with you in the waters of your baptism, He is with you even now in His Word, and He is with you at His holy table, where He asks you to hear, smell, touch, taste, eat, and drink His presence and His forgiveness of all of your sins.
And yet, even though, by faith we believe that all of this is true, we still want to cry out angrily at God sometimes and say, "But life is too hard and it isn't fair!" When those feelings arise, and they will, God wants you to see them for what they are, a lack of faith in His presence and the salvation that He's provided for you through His Son, Jesus Christ. And this is exactly why He wants you to come here every Sunday for Divine Service. It is here, where we gather around His Word and Sacraments that He gives you faith to follow Jesus along the narrow way, the way of the cross.
The way of the cross is a way that will sap all of your physical and emotional strength, just as it did Our Lord. It's the way that is lined with atheists, doubters, scoffers, and devils. Every one of them will tell you to abandon your faith in Jesus. But remember, you aren't alone. Jesus walked that same narrow way when He declared that He had come to set the captives free. He walked it from the temple to Golgotha, the hill of the cross, where they crucified Him. And as He walked to the cross, they beat Him, spit upon Him, and ridiculed Him with harsh words: "He helped others, let Him help Himself. If you're really the Son of God, save us and save yourself."
Yes, the way of the cross is a hard way; it's hard because it doesn't look for glory in this life, but the life to come. The way of the cross is a hard way, because we can become discouraged and want to fall away. And so, to make sure that we don't become discouraged and walk away, Jesus says "My grace is sufficient for you.". Hear my Word and be filled with Living Water that will bubble up within you, and take and eat and drink my body and blood, which are real food and drink.
This life of a Christian, your life of faith is called the way of the cross, and it can only be maintained through God's means of grace. We can only receive His strength if we will look beyond creation, beyond what we can see, hear, and touch, and then see Him by faith walking through our tragedies with us. It is a relationship of experience that comes when we constantly handle the things of God as His assurance that He's really with us; caring for us and protecting us! In His Word, God answers our prayers of fear and worry with the proclamation that all of our tragedies, the attacks of the devils and sinful people are nothing before Him. Neither life, nor death, nor demons can separate us from the love of God, which is ours through Christ Jesus!
You are on the way of the cross, because you are following Jesus Christ, your Lord and Savior. He said that in this life you will have troubles, but that does not mean that you are alone in those troubles. He is with you. He tells you that by faith, His grace lifts you up out of the temporary attacks of sin, death, and the devil so that you can soar in His eternal embrace of love and fulfillment. Just as the eagles ride the air currents as they stretch out their wings and soar, God promises you that He will be the wind beneath your wings of faith. Will you stumble and fall? Yes, but Jesus is at your side, lifting you up and dusting you off and saying, "Don't stop. My strength is enough for you. When you are weak, I am strong." This is God's promise for our entire lives; all of our walking, running, and even our falling will end in a soar as we are continually filled with God's boundless and tireless strength! What wonderful comfort for all of us who remember how great is our God!
May God help us to remember this lesson, in Jesus name… AMEN!


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Tuesday, December 27, 2011
You Can Not Love Without Giving
"You can give without loving," says Robert Louis Stevenson, "but you can not love without giving." Giving includes touch, a smile, listening, compliments, noticing what someone does right. Saying, "I love you" nurtures the relationship. Gifts come in many forms. Attention to exits and entrances (good-byes and welcome home) can make those we love feel special and cared about.
As children mature they discover that they get more joy from giving than they do from receiving. In the same way as love matures people find that giving brings more pleasure and fun than receiving. Giving does not belong exclusively to Christmas. For love to thrive giving continues all year. It increases the adventure and joy of the relationship. How have you gifted the one you love today? Try increasing those gifts each day in 2012.
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Ideas for Gifts That Don't Take Money
No money for Christmas happened often while I was growing up. As a child, I began making presents weeks before Christmas. I turned worn out bed sheets into squares. Hemmed and decorated they became attractive handkerchiefs. At least I thought so. Once my parents dressed two of my dolls alike, glued cheap look alike wigs on their heads, and gave me the "twins" for Christmas. We made games for each other from scraps of cardboard. My dad made spinners for the games he created. My husband says he and his brothers made toys for each other out of sticks and rubber bands. He had some great sling shots and toy airplanes his brother made for him.
One year our family all made cards with gifts of time or service. "Good for 5 days of telling you a bedtime story of your choice"; "Two weeks of doing your chores"; "An hour of my time to do what you want"; "Good for a movie of your choice". Use your imagination to think of what your recipients might like. If the gift is for your special person, you can give things like a date night every week for the month of January; thirty minutes of talking time every night before we go to bed; read and discuss 2 pages of "Becoming Soul Mates" with you every day for a week.
Creative gifts take thought and planning but they can be more fun and thoughtful than anything money can buy. To give your lover an hour a day of listening time or a night out together benefits you both in ways you cannot measure. There is no limit to what you can think of to gift your lover.
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011
No Money for Christmas and Relationship
In a time when Christmas sales of electronic gadgets and toys are soaring, how do you show love and generosity to the ones you love when you cannot buy expensive gifts? My first thought is to go back to the simple "Little House on the Prairie" days. To see the children excited over gifts of barrettes and ribbons makes us realize how much commercialism has influenced our way of equating the money value of a gift to the the measure of love we have for each other.
The T.V. commercial, "Every kiss begins with Kay" implies that the cost of the gift tells how much the giver loves the recipient. Some of our best Christmases have been when we had little money. One year each person was to give the person whose name they drew something they owned that they valued. The gifts brought tears and hugs.
Our daughter gave her brother the seven books of Narnia she treasured and had collected one by one. He knew how much she valued those books. From her rock collection one of our daughters gave me a beautiful green malachite which I knew was her favorite rock. Love filled our living room as we exchanged gifts.
Feel free to click comment and share some of your Christmas stories of love when money was not the measure. I will post them.
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Thursday, December 8, 2011
Celebrating Christmas with Christmas Cards
Are you dreading writing Christmas cards, wondering when you will find time? We have turned that tradition into one of the best Christmas celebrations of the Christmas season. We began writing the cards on getaways. The first year we wrote our cards at a timeshare at Lake Tahoe. No interruptions and a great incentive to finish them quickly. Unfortunately, we found that snow in December makes traveling to the mountains unpredictable.
Instead we found a condo at Sea Ranch to rent for three days. Winter rates make it a bargain. We sit at the dining room table and watch the surf crashing against the rocks. Sometimes deer feed in the front yard. We take breaks to walk on the ocean trail. At Black Point the ocean roars ferociously as large waves slap the beach and gradually erode the bluffs carving out a little bigger bay each year. Flowers, eager for spring, bloom proudly in the sunshine ignoring the fact that winter has not officially begun. Yellows. reds, purples dot the greenery pushing aside the weeds.
Yesterday Everett spotted a lone crane sitting like a statue on the edge of the cliff. "Maybe if I zoom in on him, I can get him on film," he said. Captured on film, the crane still looked far away. We have looked forward to our Christmas card writing getaways for at least ten years. It has become one of our favorite Christmas celebrations.
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By Kevin O'Conner as seen on vtdigger.org: http://vtdigger.org/2015/08/16/climate-change-economy-council-seeks-publ...
A new Vermont Climate Change Economy Council — composed of two-dozen business, public policy and environmental leaders — is aiming to simultaneously grow the local "green" job market and curb global warming.
To do so, it's about to tour the state to ask a question: Any ideas?
"We believe Vermont should be an innovation leader, but we don't have all the answers," says Paul Costello, executive director of the nonpartisan nonprofit Vermont Council on Rural Development that's spearheading the effort. "We're really reaching out and listening."
The Climate Change Economy Council — whose members range from federal district Judge William Sessions to Green Mountain Power President Mary Powell, Vermont Natural Resources Council Director Brian Shupe and state Transportation Secretary Sue Minter — is set to hold a series of public forums, with the first scheduled in Rutland later this month.
"It's not a discussion about climate change," Costello says, "it's about building the economy to address climate change and for Vermont to take leadership."
Costello's organization is experienced in stepping forward. For two decades, the federally authorized rural development council has engaged public, private and nonprofit partners in collaborations "to address critical community concerns," according to its website, vtrural.org.
VCRD has led policy efforts in agricultural development, energy generation, the creative and digital economies, community organizing and, most recently, the Council on the Future of Vermont, a 2007 to 2009 study that inspired the Working Lands Enterprise Initiative that now grants $1 million annually to farm and forestry projects.
Such investment seeds individual businesses. But with the entire state facing economic and environmental challenges, Costello's organization is working to expand its efforts with the climate change initiative.
"Many worry that addressing climate change can undermine jobs and diminish economic opportunity," council organizers wrote in an internal document. "Confronting climate change through innovative economic development, however, can be a competitive strategy, one that will build national reputation, create jobs, and attract youth and entrepreneurism to the states that lead."
The VCRD announced the initiative in the fall of 2014 and held an introductory summit — a 400-person "Creating Prosperity and Opportunity Confronting Climate Change" event — at Vermont Technical College in Randolph this past February.
At the summit, the newly appointed Climate Change Economy Council explained it would spend the rest of this year collecting and sharing recommendations though regional public forums before producing a "practical plan to reduce carbon emissions and stimulate economic development" in time for another statewide meeting next February.
Read the Climate Summit Report.
The group has scheduled three listening sessions, starting Aug. 26 at Rutland's Paramount Theatre, continuing Oct. 6 at Brattleboro's Latchis Theatre and concluding on Oct 29th at Burlington's City Hall. All will start at 7 p.m., with more information available at the Vermont Climate Change Economy Facebook page.
Each forum's central question is: "Do you have ideas about how Vermont can grow jobs and nurture innovative business development in sectors ranging from clean energy, to recycling, transportation systems, and thermal efficiency?"
Costello is prepared for people to touch on everything from the existence of global warming to whether a small state can make a big difference.
"We know we'll hear all sorts of things," he says, "but we really want to hear from the general public about potential opportunities. Our job isn't to duplicate current efforts. The essential thing we're looking for is how to do we move our economy forward and lower Vermont's carbon impact."
Kevin O'Connor, a former staffer of the Rutland Herald and Barre-Montpelier Times Argus, is a Brattleboro-based writer. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com


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Kerry Washington wore this white Zac Posen gown to the NAACP Image Awards and BOY does she look STUNNING!! I'm loving her tousled hair and soft make-up. And that dress--ugh, it's to die for. Love. Love. Love!! Yay for me.
Emma Stone has me feeling like I stepped into a scene from Boogie Nights. She wore this Louis Vuitton wrap dress at Paris Fashion Week. I love the 70's, but unfortunately not this dress. And that make-up? Well, that ain't groovy, baby. Nay for me.
Halle wore this Emilio Pucci dress to the NAACP awards as well, and although we all know she can literally pull anything off with that body--I'm still not feeling this dress. That print has my eyes squinting and Halle, honey...leave the belly button showing to infants and teenagers. At 44, it's not so cute. Nay for me.
Amanda Seyfried is KILLING this pleated Lavin dress. Work it guuurl! I'm in LOVE with this entire look down to her fierce pumps and layered necklaces. Yay for me!
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Park 'N Fly and OneStopParking are the latest companies to reveal data breaches, potentially exposing the card details of customers who used either service
Park 'N Fly and OneStopParking are the latest companies to reveal data breaches, potentially exposing the card details of customers who used either service, reports Krebs on Security.
The two companies both provide airport parking reservations via internet reservation systems, and were suspected of leaking data by Krebs as early as last month, but now each has confirmed the breaches independently.
"Park 'N Fly ("PNF") has become aware of a security compromise involving payment card data processed through its e-commerce website," reads a statement on the Park 'N Fly website. "PNF has been working continuously to understand the nature and scope of the incident, and has engaged third-party data forensics experts to assist with its investigation. The data compromise has been contained."
"The data potentially at risk includes the card number, cardholder's name and billing address, card expiration date, and CVV code," the statement explains, though it omits details of the likely duration of the breach and an estimated number of affected customers. "Other loyalty customer data potentially at risk includes email addresses, Park 'N Fly passwords, and telephone numbers," it adds.
SC Magazine notes that the company will be offering free identity monitoring, and identity protection services to those impacted.
OneStopParking, on the other hand, was hit by a known vulnerability in Joomla. While patches for the issue were available in September 2014, OneStopParking had delayed implementation "because it broke portions of the site." Site manager Amer Ghanem told Krebs that the company was in the process of notifying affected customers.
Unlike last year's spate of Point-of-Sale malware which leaked details of transactions made in store, these are both a purely online breach – which means that the cards cannot be cloned for use in high street stores, but they can be used for online purchases.
Krebs reports that details stolen from both sites are already available from cybercriminals: "The stolen CVVs traced back to both Park 'N Fly and Onestopparking.com were among thousands for sale in large batches of card data being peddled," he writes.


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So what is Nature's Wonderland's animal mascot?
Well, he's a Bilby — one with lots of personality!
What's a bilby, you ask?
The bilby, Macrotis lagotis, is an Australian species of nocturnal omnivorous animal in the Peramelemorphia order. The common name bilby usually refers to Macrotis lagotis, but is distinguished from Macrotis leucura (the Lesser Bilby) by the name Greater Bilby. It is also referred to as the dalgyte or pinkie and occasionally the 'Rabbit-Eared Bandicoot'. The Greater Bilby lives in arid areas of Central Australia and is an important part of traditional indigenous culture in the deserts of Central Australia. The large rabbit like ears of the Greater Bilby have also made it a popular Australian icon at Easter. Sadly, through habitat loss and competition with introduced animals, the number of these small mammals has dramatically reduced over the last 100 years.
At first glance many people guess the Bilby to be a rabbit, and then others believe it is some sort of mouse, but neither is true! The Bilby is actually a marsupial that is most closely related to the bandicoot. The meaning of the word in an Aboriginal language is "long nosed rat", indicating that more than one person along the way has confused this animal with others, as it really is quite peculiar looking!
Bilbies are quite interesting to look at, to say the least. They have a pointy muzzle that is not unlike a rat and very long ears, quite like a rabbit. As members of the group of ground-dwelling marsupials known as bandicoots, bilbies have long pointed snouts and compact bodies. Bilbies measure between 29 and 55cm in length and differ from other bandicoots by their larger ears, long silky fur and longer tails. Their large ears allow them to have extraordinary hearing.
Bilbies are remarkable burrowers, using their strong forelimbs and claws to build extensive tunnels. One bilby may make up to twelve burrows within its home range to use for shelter. They have long slender tongues that they use to eat a specialised diet of seeds, insects, bulbs, fruit and fungi. Bilbies are active at night, sheltering in their burrows during the daytime.
The term bilby is a loan word from the Yuwaalaraay Aboriginal language of northern New South Wales, meaning long-nosed rat. It is known as dalgite in Western Australia, and the nickname pinkie is sometimes used in South Australia. The Wiradjuri of New South Wales also call it bilby.
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The bilby is a unique animal, and is well known within Australia. It has become a popular native alternative to the Easter Bunny, known as the Easter Bilby. A National Bilby Day is held in Australia on the 2nd Sunday in September to raise funds for conservation projects.
A hundred years ago, bilbies were common in many habitats throughout Australia, from the dry interior to temperate coastal regions. Changes to the bilby's habitat have seen their numbers greatly reduced and today the species is nationally listed as vulnerable, while the Lesser Bilby became extinct in the 1950s. The Greater Bilby now occurs only in fragmented populations in mulga shrublands and spinifex grasslands in the Tanami Desert of the Northern Territory; in the Gibson and Great Sandy Deserts and the Pilbara and Kimberley regions of Western Australia; and the Mitchell Grasslands of southwest Queensland.
While there are many threats contributing to the dramatic decline of bilby populations, the most important of these are habitat loss and change, and competition with introduced animals. As agricultural activities extended over the more fertile regions of Australia the bilby's habitat has changed rapidly. Changing fire patterns also affect the type and abundance of food plants.
Competition with introduced animals is a major threat as domestic stock like cattle and sheep eat the same plants. Rabbits compete with bilbies for their food and burrows and foxes and feral cats also prey on them.
Having disappeared from the areas intensively grazed by livestock as well as those areas densely populated by rabbits, cats and foxes, bilbies now only survive in small isolated populations in the driest and least fertile regions of arid Australia.
Greater Bilby. Photo: Save The Bilby Fund
Bilbies have the characteristics of long bandicoot muzzle and very long ears. Compared to bandicoots, they have a longer tail, bigger ears, and softer, silky fur. The size of their ears allows them to have better hearing as well. At 1 to 2.4 kilograms (2.2 to 5.3 lb), the male is about the same size as a rabbit, although male animals in good condition have been known to grow up to 3.7 kilograms (8.2 lb) in captivity. The female is smaller, and weighs around 0.8 to 1.1 kilograms (1.8 to 2.4 lb). The
Greater Bilby has an excellent sense of smell and sharp hearing. Its fur is blue-grey with patches of tan and it is very soft. The tail is black and white with a distinct crest. The Greater Bilby has strong forelimbs and thick claws, which it uses to dig for food and make burrows.
Unlike bandicoots, bilbies are excellent burrowers and build extensive tunnel systems that spiral down, making it hard for predators to get in. A bilby typically makes a number of burrows within its home range, up to about a dozen, and moves between them, using them for shelter both from predators and the heat of the day. A female bilby's pouch faces backwards, which prevents it from getting filled with dirt while she is digging.
The Bilby is quite impressive as it does not need to drink water to stay alive; instead it gets all of the moisture that it needs from what it eats. Their diet generally includes insect larvae, spiders, fruit, fungus, bulbs, and even small animals. The species finds their food by digging in the soil and then using their long tongues to pull the food from the ground.
The Bilby has a gestational period that is worth noting, and that is because it is one of the shortest gestational periods of all known mammals. From the onset, the gestational period of this mammal is just 12 to 14 days! The species will breed all year long and will have one to three young at a time. The babies remain in the mothers pouch for about 80 days and after this time they are only dependent on their mothers for about two weeks.
The Bilby is protected throughout Australia where it occurs. A national Recovery Plan is being developed to ensure the survival of the bilby. This program includes breeding in captivity, monitoring populations, and re-establishing bilbies where they once lived. There have been reasonably successful moves to popularise the bilby as a native alternative to the Easter Bunny by selling chocolate Easter Bilbies (sometimes with a portion of the profits going to bilby protection and research). Reintroduction efforts have also begun, with a successful reintroduction into the Arid Recovery Reserve in South Australia in 2000, and plans underway for a reintroduction into Currawinya National Park in Queensland, with a recent success with six bilbies released into the feral-free sanctuary in early February 2006.
Successful reintroductions have also occurred onto Peron Peninsula in Western Australia as a part of Western Shield. Successful reintroductions have also occurred on other conservation lands, including islands and the Australian Wildlife Conservancy's Scotia and Yookamurra Sanctuaries. There is a highly-successful bilby breeding program at Kanyana Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre, near Perth, Western Australia.
The Save the Bilby project, based in the Queensland town of Charleville, is an example of a few determined individuals making a big difference. The local team aims to build a predator-proof enclosure surrounding part of a national park to reintroduce Bilbies into far western Queensland. They have raised money for their project by running "meet the Bilby" evenings, with a talk, video and meeting of the captive bilby breeding colony, and by selling bilby merchandise in shopping centres across southern Queensland.
How can I help?
You can help bilbies and other threatened species by:
- calling the Save the Bilby team to donate your time (if you live in southern QLD) or to make a financial contribution;
- protecting remnant bush in your community or on your land to help provide habitat for all our native animals, including the bilby;
- supporting local efforts to conserve threatened species in your area by joining a local organisation such as a landcare or catchment group, natural history or a 'friends of' group or by volunteering for Green Corps or the Australian Trust for Conservation Volunteers;
- participating in special events, information nights, tree planting days and weed eradication programs.


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I keep telling people I'm not vegetarian, but they keep thinking I am because I love my veg so much. Which is weird, since I was a carnivore all my life until various family members eased off eating meat.
Rather than make "regular" meals and expect them to live off the side dishes, I got interested in cooking non-meat food, and find it much more interesting than fiddling about with meats.
Here's what we had the other night:
Oh. My. Goodness.
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Tuesday, November 18, 2014
#Vegetarian Deliciousness
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My name is Neil Remi Werbelow. I was born and raised in Socorro, New Mexico. I recently graduated from the University of New Mexico with my masters in architecture. Throughout my education I've gained a comprehensive knowledge in most aspects of architecture, including many software programs, however my main interest in architecture is in sustainability and emerging technology. While attending the University I received the AIA gold medal for excellence in Architecture study.
At the University of New Mexico I was a Graduate Assistant for professor Kuppu Iyengar's 564 Building Systems course. My job focused on developing presentations and learning materials for the students. I also had the opportunity to teach a few lessons which developed my interest in sustainability. Now, more than ever, I desire to further my knowledge in the field of architecture. I have recently begun studying in hope of becoming LEED AP certified. I believe that through my creative work, desire to learn, and hard work I can greatly contribute to any firm.
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I'm two weeks into my sabbatical and I feel like so much has happened in that short amount of time. Some of my days have felt like two or three days combined into one. I've had some great conversations, some great experiences, some great rest.
My wife and I spent nearly four years in a place not too long after we got married. My wife had married an engineer and then I was called to be a pastor. It was a big shift for both of us. That call involved a move far away from our family and all that was familiar to us. I was green and inexperienced in the new world in which I found myself. I made mistakes, I spoke too quickly, I offended, I probably thought that I knew way more than I really did.
When things ended in that place, there was hurt, there was anger, there was confusion, there was uncertainty. We didn't know for sure where we would end up, but God did. He opened the door for us to a new place. We left behind many great friends and I felt like I was leaving a bit of my heart there as well. We had made an investment and to leave it all behind was hard for me to do.
This past week, I spent some time with some of the people who were part of our experience there in that place. I'm not even sure what words to use to best describe the meaningfulness of that time. Healing. Growing. Learning. Moving on. Grace.
It's a word that came up in our conversations and a word that I continue to go back to. If we are truly growing in our faith journey and in our spiritual depth, grace should be something that naturally pours from us. We shouldn't tout that we have grown up in the church and been Christians for 40 years and then fail to exhibit grace. We shouldn't expect grace to be given to us and then refuse to extend it to others. Grace has been given to us and to whom much has been given, much is expected.
I feel like I experienced an immersion of grace over the last week. As conversations took place and we shared, I felt that grace and I was so grateful for it.
I still have many weeks to go as I move through this sabbatical. It's always hard to come hard out of the gates, it can easily set your expectations high for what else is to come. But I don't think I should worry. Much of what I have experienced over the last week was not planned, at least by me, but I know that God orchestrated it, he made it happen, he gave me the privilege of experiencing it.
This is going to be a fun ride!


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I have a skoda superb and I wish to mount my Trek MTB when I go on trips
Will cops give me a problem for # plate visibility
Where can I send the order for your universal bike rack - please advise.
Dear Basab,
There is no reason to feel bad or get hurt, you have made your point and have all the right to educate other cyclist that may help them in same way.
Just want to provide my viewpoint:
i) A rear mounted bike rack extends the length of your car hardly by ~2 feet, fortunately it doesn't increase the width of your vehicle that might possibly be dangerous and inconvenient.
ii) In traffic, with insane drivers around, not only your bike, your car will also be at equal risk with or without bike rack.
iii) Trunk mounted racks are quite convenient to mount and dismount compared to roof racks, also not to say much cheaper. Also they fits most of the cars unlike roof racks that need Roof Trails to get one on the roof. Though I totally agree that Roof Racks are safer and much elegant way to carry your bike along.
iv) Most people doesn't like to have a permanent luggage carrier on top of their car, for them a quick and convenient bike rack is a better option.
Hope it helps.
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Probably the best general "life" advice I've ever gotten was from one of my favorite professors in college for a writing class.
"Cultivate your weirdness."
He had us write it in our notes (or at least I did). Doesn't sound like most deep and profound bits of wisdom, but it really saved my mental and emotional ass when my flares got bad and even a casual stroll around the block was exhausting.
Let's face it- if you have Lupus or some other chronic illness, you might have to face the fact that you'll get tired faster, ache more easily and generally have to start moving at a different pace then you did previously. It sucks, I know. It's way too easy to feel like you have the scarlet L for Loser branded on you when you can't dance as long as you used to or run as fast as you used to. It's even tougher when your friends and family expect you to keep up and roll their eyes if you fall behind (they'll get over it eventually). It's a real dent to the old self-esteem. You feel like you've become a different person, a boring person, a worthless person.
First of all, it's okay to feel sad. Have a good two-hour cry, see a therapist, vent in your journal or online…get the emotions out of your system if you need to. But be sensible- do you really want to sit in your room crying for the rest of your life?
I'm going to assume you're saying 'no' and tell you that change isn't a dirty word.
Lupus isn't a cold- there is no week-long treatment plan, no magic bullet that lets you immediately go back to your former life like nothing ever happened. Chronic illness means exactly that- it's chronic. Until more is understood and better treatment (and hopefully prevention) is discovered- you're in it for the long haul. Habits will need to change, lifestyles will need to adapt- how you see yourself and the world will change also.
Sounds daunting, but the important thing to remember is: Change is not a dirty word. That little mantra is the key to coping.
Now back on topic- how to go about building your self-esteem back up when you're feeling like a wet blanket of inflammatory DOOM?
Let's start with three steps to get you started:
- Re-structure your thinking. Try to find opportunity instead of seeing punishment.
- Re-think who you are- to your family, to your friends, to yourself. Too many times we as people are striving to please others, to fit their molds. We do this to feel accepted and loved- and we might do this so many years that it feels like it's what we actually want. But is it really? Now's the time to think about who and what you want to be- for yourself, not anyone else.
- Act accordingly. Cultivate your weirdness. Explore new horizons, try new activities, break out of old molds and find new aspects of yourself.
Over the next however many days, I'll be going into more detail about each one of these steps, how they've applied to me and how they can maybe help you. But for now, find a quiet spot and read them over. What do they make you think? What do they make you feel? Do you feel skeptical- or a little tingle of possibility?


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I'm in London, a week into a 3 week trip to see family and friends. I was out early one day in Southwark, and it was unusually quiet so I took some photos as I was walking along Borough High Street.
Southwark Cathedral is the oldest cathedral church building in London, and archaeological evidence shows there was also Roman pagan worship on this site.
The cathedral stands at the oldest crossing point of the tidal Thames, at what was the only entrance to the City of London across the river for many centuries. Southwark has a long association with hops and coaching inns. The inns derived their existence from the fact that Borough High Street and Old London Bridge was the only land route into the City from the south until 1750. All the road traffic from Kent, Surrey and Sussex came through Southwark and so huge hop warehouses were built here, to store the dried hops. Men known as hop factors, acted on behalf of the growers, and made their living by charging the growers commission for their services.
The 'LeMay' hop factors building and the huge Victorian building opposite this, the Hop Exchange, which was built for the hop trade but never used by it, are reminders of Southwark's hop history.
The Shard can be seen from the high street.
There are some lovely little side streets too.
After a few days in London I went to stay with my sister in East Sussex, where rush hour is when the sheep in the field next door run up to the fence to be fed, and Mr Alf is always happy to share a garden seat to have a snooze.


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Birth name Alizée Jacotey
Born August 21, 1984 (1984-08-21) (age 23)
Origin Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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Alizee Jacotey, the well known French singer was born on 21st August 1984 in Ajaccio Corsica. She started off her career as a professional dancer. She got herself trained in Corsica's popular dance school named Ecole du Spectacle de Monique Mufraggi. She was a proficient dancer and was an expert in tap, ballet, jazz, flamenco and other forms of dancing.
Slowly she diverted herself to singing as she gave her winning performance in the TV talent show named Graines de Star. Mylene Farmer and Laurent Boutonnat were very pleased with her performance in the show and they got the right voice they were in search for. A young fresh voice was seen in her. She made her debut album named "Gourmandises" which was given a big response in France and abroad.
In her was seen the vigor of the perfect young voice. She became popular abroad and her singing was awarded the most selling female one. The album received the "Platinum" in just three months after its release. This marked her journey to fame. She was also into a Japanese commercial. Her song "Moi Lolita" won everyone's hearts.
She was married in 2003 and left her appearance in the media thereafter. She hailed from a good family; her father being a computer scientist and her mother being a business woman. Although she was a very shy type of person but it was not reflected in her shows and videos.


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It's a place that's been around since the 1990's, but I only just ate there a few weeks ago. I don't know anyone who's been there, but a lot of people know about it as "the place where they sell great gelato." Indeed, this restaurant's greatest claim to fame (at least one of them) is their gelato "" but more on that later. It's called Amici (a-MEE-chee), Italian for friends. It's along A. Arnaiz Road, which everybody still calls Pasay Road, right beside the Don Bosco school.
Amici's proximity to a school for elementary and high school boys may partly account for its mess hall-meets-cafeteria look. You enter and then you can't help but stop smack in the middle of the room, trying to make sense of the system that makes this place work. There doesn't appear to be any waiters and you wonder why on earth people are forming lines on both sides of the room! There's a large gelato display case, but wait, you have to quell your stomach's growls first. All around you, people are walking by with steaming plates of pasta and large pizzas that just beg to be bitten into.
Then it begins to make sense. One side of the room is for ordering pizzas, and the other side is for ordering pastas. Don't worry about the long queues "" the cooks move fast and are more than used to the frenzy. Basically it works like this at the counter: scan the paper menu while in line, give your order to the person behind the counter, fork over your money, and then move back! There's no time for dawdling. There are too many hungry people behind you. You can hang on to the paper menu, it's yours to keep as a souvenir so you can study it for what you want to eat next time. Really.
After you're done ordering, snag a table and wait for your food to arrive. Amici's décor is kitschy Italian "" plenty of knickknacks, food posters, a quasi bar (ooh, let's get tipsy before class!), pendants and trophies (no doubt from Don Bosco), and really cute plastic chairs in red and yellow (hmm, the colors of the pizza).
When I went to Amici, my party of two and a half adults (me, Bin, and Boo) dug into our four-cheese (4 Formaggi) pizza that consisted of mozzarella, taleggio, parmesan, and brie, which just hit me with its fragrance and taste: a winner which you must order when you come here. Our other pizza was the Piccantina "" tomato, mozzarella, spicy salami, black olives, oregano, and olive oil. Each pizza is about 10-inches in diameter, large enough for two confident women or one he-man. Amici's pizzas are super crispy with thin crusts and plenty of that cheesy trail that gets left behind when you take a bite. Alright, all together now: Mmmm!
Amici offers 25 different types of pasta sauces and about six different kinds of pasta noodles. I nosed my way into the kitchen and found out that they also make a special pasta with roasted red peppers, and one with lemon and olive oil. All the favorites are here, so just choose what you fancy or be adventurous. We tried the Tagliatelle con Salciccia, a red wine sauce with tomatoes, Italian sausage and Parmesan. Our other pasta choice was the Spaghetti Don Bosco, also in tomato sauce, but with plenty of ham and mushrooms. Boo went wild for that. All the pastas are served with garlic bread that is impossible to bite into, so let them be.
Okay, so it was a lot of food for two and a half adults, I admit. But we packed up the leftovers and had them for lunch the next day. There we were lingering over our meal when this waiter (yes, there are a few of them here), came up to us and said, "Last order na po." Amici closes at 9 am, which is unheard of in this city, I tell you. Of course we refused to leave without having the mightily famous gelato, so we took our place behind the ever-growing line of people who like us, were only half-finished with dinner.
Here's our gelato, all in a line. One for Papa bear, Mama bear, and Boo bear. Amici's gelato is unforgettable, and I'm not even talking about the cheap P35/scoop price tag. It's rich and creamy, with subtle yet concentrated shots of flavor. Ice cream as we know it, turns most flavors into lighter, tamer versions of themselves, a myriad of ingredients drowning in cream. Gelato, a combination of milk, eggs, sugar, and the chosen ingredient (nuts, chocolate, coffee, fresh or dried fruits, alcohol, etc.), is softer, less firmly frozen.
Gelato is also very light compared to ice cream. There is less than six percent of fat per 100 grams. Less fat, but no lack of flavor?! Woohoo! Although freezing often diminishes flavors, somehow gelato tastes more intense than the main ingredient or fruit from which it has been made. The best milk-based gelato is flavored with all-natural ingredients and has a silky consistency. The flavor in gelato comes out because of the composition and harmony of the ingredients. The flavor is not just in your mouth, but also in your throat.
Amici also sells their gelato to go. Half a kilo of gelato is P150, while a kilo is P250-P300 depending on the flavor. My favorites are pistachio, hazelnut, and strawberry (and in that order, please). Bin and I have already bought about 3½ kilos of gelato from Amici since we ate there two weeks ago. Boo loves it too.
All I can say is, if I had a son, I'd send him to school in Don Bosco so that I'd have an excuse to eat at Amici everyday.
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It took us four months to finish the first book mainly because we are prone to distractions but finish it we did and we have another Harry Potter convert in our midst. Unsurprisingly we both rated it ✮✮✮✮✮ on Goodreads and she has a few things to say:
"I feel good, glad that I've finally actually started reading the books. I wanted to read them for a long time but I don't know what kept me from reading them- maybe I just needed a good partner to read them with. The writing was well done, apart from the fact that I had the American version of the books. Screaming out the American edits was fun. TRASHCAN. DUSTBIN. Motorbikes. I would rather have the British version of the book and not the American. I found it a lot more fun to read it with a partner because then you can talk to them and see if you have different opinions, favourite parts, specifics. My favourite part was probably the giant chess match, it's hard to describe but the idea of huge chess pieces- it's amazing to imagine in your head. Comparing the characters to the movie they all matched really well except Ron. I can't wait to start the next book."
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InterContinental Pattaya Resort, Pattaya
- Free WiFi and free parking
- Collect nights
InterContinental Pattaya Resort, Pattayafrom $109
- Classic Room, 1 King Bed, Ocean View
- Classic Room, 1 King Bed, Garden View
- Room, 1 King Bed, Terrace
- Club Suite, 1 King Bed, Terrace, Ocean View
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What's around InterContinental Pattaya Resort, Pattaya
- In South Pattaya
- Walking Street - 22 min walk
- Pattaya Beach Road - 29 min walk
- Hard Rock Cafe - 2.6 mi / 4.3 km
- Art in Paradise - 3.5 mi / 5.6 km
- Tiffany's Show - 3.5 mi / 5.6 km
- Terminal 21 Pattaya - 3.8 mi / 6.2 km
- Pattaya Floating Market - 6.5 mi / 10.5 km
Getting around
- Bangkok (BKK-Suvarnabhumi Intl.) - 101 min drive
- Utapao (UTP-Utapao Intl.) - 57 min drive
- Pattaya Tai Station - 16 min drive
- Pattaya Station - 21 min drive
- Sattahip Ban Huai Kwang Station - 28 min drive
- Free area shuttle
- Airport shuttle (surcharge)
- Free shopping center shuttle
At a glance
Key facts
Hotel size
- This hotel has 156 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 4 floors
- Check-in time 3 PM-11:30 PM
- Check-out time is noon
Required at check-in
- Credit card, debit card, or cash deposit required for incidental charges
- Government-issued photo ID required
- Minimum check-in age is 18
Travelling with others
- One child (4 years old and younger) stays free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding
- Babysitting/childcare *
- Free children's club
- No pets or service animals allowed
- Free WiFi and wired Internet access in public areas
- Free WiFi and wired Internet access in rooms
WiFi rated super fast
- Great for browsing, email, gaming, streaming, and video chat
- Airport shuttle (available 24 hours) *
- Free valet parking
- Free area shuttle
- Free shopping center shuttle
Payment types at the property
- Cash
Other information
- Smoke-free property
In the hotel
- Children's club (free)
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Supervised childcare/activities (surcharge)
- Buffet breakfast daily (surcharge)
- 2 restaurants
- Bar/lounge
- Coffee shop/café
- Poolside bar
- 24-hour room service
- Barbecue grills
- On private beach
- Beach sun loungers
- Number of outdoor pools - 3
- Children's pool
- 24-hour fitness facilities
- Full-service spa
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Playground on site
- Golfing nearby
- Parasailing nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Skydiving nearby
- Water skiing nearby
- Beach umbrellas
- Pool sun loungers
- Spa tub
- Beach towels
- Pool umbrellas
- Steam room
- Business center
- Meeting rooms
- Computer station
- 24-hour front desk
- Concierge services
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Luggage storage
- Wedding services
- Multilingual staff
- Porter/bellhop
- Year Built - 2005
- Elevator
- ATM/banking
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Rooftop terrace
- Braille or raised signage
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
- Wheelchair-accessible concierge desk
- Wheelchair-accessible registration desk
- Wheelchair-accessible fitness center
- Chinese
- English
In the room
- Air conditioning
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Bathrobes
- Slippers
- Iron/ironing board
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Turndown service
- Furnished balcony
- Private bathroom
- Separate bathtub and shower
- Rainfall showerhead
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- 40-inch LCD TV
- Premium TV channels
- Free WiFi
- Phone
- Refrigerator
- Free bottled water
- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
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Special features
Amburaya Spa has 6 treatment rooms including rooms for couples. Services include deep-tissue massages, hot stone massages, Thai massages, and facials. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy, Ayurvedic, and hydrotherapy. The spa is equipped with a sauna and a spa tub.
The spa is open daily. Guests under 7 years old are not allowed in the spa.
DiningElements Restaurant - Overlooking the garden, this restaurant specializes in Thai cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, dinner, and light fare. A children's menu is available.
Infiniti Restaurant - This beachfront restaurant specializes in international cuisine and serves lunch, dinner, and light fare. Guests can order drinks at the bar and enjoy alfresco dining (weather permitting). A children's menu is available. Happy hour is offered. Open daily.
Latitude by the Beach - This beach bar specializes in international cuisine and serves light fare only. Happy hour is offered. Open daily.
On Site
- Spa tub
- Steam room
- Playground on site
- Golfing nearby
- Parasailing nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Skydiving nearby
- Water skiing nearby
InterContinental Pattaya Resort, Pattaya's small print
Also known as
- InterContinental Pattaya
- Sheraton Pattaya Hotel
- Pattaya Sheraton
- Sheraton Pattaya Resort
- Intercontinental Pattaya
- InterContinental Pattaya Resort Resort
- InterContinental Pattaya Resort Pattaya
- InterContinental Pattaya Resort Resort Pattaya
The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
Guests under 7 years old are not allowed in the spa.
Parking height restrictions apply.
For transfers, guests must contact the property 24 hours prior to arrival at the number on the booking confirmation.
Reservations are required for spa treatments and can be made by contacting the property before arrival at the number on the booking confirmation.
The name on the credit card used at check-in to pay for incidentals must be the primary name on the guestroom reservation.
Mandatory fees
Deposit: THB 2000 per night
Optional extras
Rollaway beds are available for THB 2000.0 per day
Buffet breakfast is offered for an extra charge of THB 660 for adults and THB 330 for children (approximately)
Babysitting/childcare is available for an extra charge
Airport shuttle service is offered for an extra charge of THB 3500 per vehicle (one-way)
We have included all charges provided to us by this property. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the unit you book.
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Recent reviews
Superb 9.2 From 177 reviews
It was absolutely stunning - and convenient!
Week getaway with my girlfriend. The grounds are excellent the rooms are a little staid. The views are magnificent. Staff was extremely friendly, however, the staff at best competent. The restaurant are good but over priced. Unfortunately the location far from the city. The hotel does offer free transportation to the city of Pattaya. Make sure you schedule the times you are going because the service is popular.
Hotel is nice and clean. Staff is accommodating. Its a bit far from the city center. For those who want to get away from the hustle and bustle of the city, stay here. Overall, good stay.
Great location and facilities with excellent friendly staff
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