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If ever there was a film that perfectly encapsulates everything it is to be director Michael Bay, then Pain & Gain is certainly it. Though modestly budgeted compared to his normal blockbusters, Bay still manages to get in a disproportionately-sized helping of boobs, butts, bullets and blow-em-ups. If you love Bay, you'll love Pain & Gain, but if you find yourself put off by his particular brand of humor (which is self-referential at its best and homophobic, sexist and racist at its worst) then the 129-minute runtime will have you pulling your hair out. And if your Blu-ray purchases are decided by not just the feature but the inclusion of extras, you'll want to pass on this one. The movie may be beefed up but the Blu-ray is bare bones. Hit the jump for my review.
Pain & Gain is based on the incredible true story of the Sun Gym gang, a trio of Miami bodyguilders who got it into their meatheads that a plan of kidnapping and extortion of a millionaire was a good idea. Obviously, Bay's version is satirical in nature and should be taken with a scoop or two of protein powder, while the real-life events are horrific and, at times, inhuman, so keep that in mind whilst watching.
Our own Matt Goldberg already gave a positive review to Pain & Gain here, so I won't retread over familiar territory too much. In general I agree with his review, one that touts Bay for sticking to his excessively oversized guns while knocking his usual penchant for immaturity and shallowness. There are times when Bay, much like a hyperactive child to whom explosions never get old, should probably be restrained for his own well-being, but that would only serve to diminish his Bay-ness, a unique quality which has made him so successful. The already twisted and stranger-than-fiction story that inspired Pain & Gain is the perfect playground for an unfettered Bay and he takes full advantage of it.
Stars Mark Wahlberg, Anthony Mackie and Dwayne Johnson are well cast, especially Wahlberg, whose portrayal of criminal mastermind (using the term loosely) Daniel Lugo gives us a guy who is out of his depth but never quite accepts that fact. Mackie's Adrian Doorbal and Johnson's Paul Doyle complete some of the strongest character arcs ever seen in a Bay film: respectively, a self-obsessed and depressed fitness freak transitioning into a happily married man, and a drug addict lowlife who becomes a born-again Christian. But it ain't all sunshine for these wanna be crooks because they all end up paying for their crimes in the end.
The supporting cast of Tony Shalhoub, Rob Corddry, Ed Harris and Ken Jeong all turn in worthwhile performances in roles that let them go off the rails to a degree. Bar Paly gets a bit more consideration than most women in a Bay movie can claim, though it might just be an excuse to for her to flaunt various revealing outfits on camera. (No complaints here.) Rebel Wilson, as always, steals the scenes she's afforded and gets away with it, unlike her larcenous cohorts.
Not a one to be found, unless you consider a $5 off coupon for Wahlberg-sponsored Marked Performance Nutrition and $10 off Ticketmaster sports tickets to be worthwhile extras.


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Their lyrics fed into all of my teenaged angst.
I would spend hours in my room, listening to their albums on my record player, and submerge my feelings of being unloved, not understood and having the most embarrassing father ever. Oh yes, the Vietnam War was going on, and we were all going to blow ourselves up soon.
Today, I want to share some of my favorite Simon and Garfunkel songs - all beginning with the letter S.
This was not one of their hit songs, and may not be familiar to you, but this version of Silent Night (with a simulated news broadcast getting louder and louder in the background) seems so perfect for today's climate.
And finally, another one that may not be familiar with you, but I loved how it sounded - "So Long Frank Lloyd Wright". What I did not know until doing research for this post is that Art Garfunkel majored in art history. but only after changing his major from architecture. His first wife was an architect. Also, one of his cousins founded 'N Sync and one of my son's favorites as a preteen, the Backstreet Boys.
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I played a 1st level cleric this weekend, running alongside a ranger.
We decided to try the new-new-channeling: the one where you pick damage OR healing and actually "turning" is a feat.
We fought a bunch of zombies and it was actually fun. More fun than channeling in the Beta version.
I had to prioritize damage over healing. If I had had both as was the case in the Beta, the encounter (which should have been challenging for a 1st level party) would have been a total pushover. Instead, I got damaged pretty badly, but I focused on hitting back, and it felt like a fight. And we won. And it didn't feel too easy.
So from this one encounter, I get the sense that the new channeling is an improvement. I know a lot of people were skeptical, as I was.
Anyone tried this out in gameplay?
We ran this last night with 5th lvl characters, and the 3d6 30' burst 8 times a day (with improved feat) seemed a bit strong imo, but I did make the cleric choose to harm or heal as it were.
A properly designed cleric is a beast in the first place, and this adds to their strength. Undead cease to be a threat when you combine channel energy and crits/sneak attacks.


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One of the things I've found troubling about the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence is the very narrow band in which we classify 'life.' Most usually it's done on our own terms. We think of aliens as being roughly our height with some sensory apparatus and then tack on various appendages and spikey or round bits to make them seem alien.
To me these archetypes have never been alien. They're more like invented animals - what-ifs about our own biological environment and its potential evolution either future or in an alternative past. Real aliens wouldn't even acquiesce to the same rules that we do. I remember reading some time ago an anecdote that I often quote that if single-celled organisms of the type we know and understand were to have evolved on Venus then equivocally, they would be made entirely of glass and be the size of a large house.
And that's supposing they exist on the same biological plane. Edwin Abbots' Flatland is a parable that could excitingly be taken literally as well as the satire of Victorian society and analogy of physics it so often is. What if, in another part of the universe, mathematics is sentient? What if geometry is it's way of physical representation and interaction? Once this kind of lateral thinking is applied to a universe that is near infinite in scope and 13.7 billion years in age then suddenly the 'Goldilocks' representation of aliens is really rather inept - an outward visualisation of our own insecurities rather than realistic or considered interpretation of the forms that the broadest definition of 'life' probably takes.
Consider the experiment often used by hard sci-fi - if were to encounter an entirely mechanised planet where no 'life' in biological terms exists but a machine intelligence, perhaps not even sentient, governs it's ecosystem would we call this life? What if, in a more Iain Banks style, aliens are huge creatures without any defineable anatomy that stride whole solar systems in single steps?


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Archive for September 2012
WP7 was a bad experience
I should never have swapped my iPhone experience for the weak OS that is WP7. But from my mistake there is a little silver Android lining and without trying different mobile OS I could never be sure if I was limiting my mobile experience.
The only mobile OS I have yet to try is Google's Android OS. It'd be easy for me to return to iOS and the iPhone 5 but I'm looking for more than the rigid perfectionism that Apple have devised. So after a brief hands-on in a mobile phone store today(with a Samsung Galaxy S3) and reading this excellent piece on using the Android OS for 29 days my head was turned.
WP7 was frustration after frustration, once I saw past the live-tile interface. Little things like not being able to highlight and copy easily, very little chance to customise the OS to my liking, poor options and non-existent settings didn't help when the best Twitter app, Carbon, decided on the 23rd Sept that they had enough of the WP OS. It left me with an app that I relied on heavily to suddenly stop working and leave too much of a bad taste in my mouth. It also didn't help matters when I discovered the new home for Carbon would be the Android OS!
Tomorrow is the 26th Sept and it's my birthday. Kinda handy that…
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Just a quick aside away from my writing here, I have now joined the crew at CSICON and will be writing an array of posts; Music, Movies and Videogaming are the topics I hope to be involved with. I will continue posting here as my writing at CSICON will be mainly reviews and news.
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Environmental damage?
I love a game world that allows interaction beyond opening a door or turning a handle. Lovely detailed cut-scenes and a well-told story are one thing but stale, generic interactions that matter little to the way a game is played always tend to be a turn-off for me.
If we look at a game like Borderlands, it has a total number of 17,750,000¹ guns that a player can possibly find and use. That's a vast arsenal and one that I'll never see in total but it's there waiting. The sequel is due to have even more weaponry but I don't discount the other props that can be handled or manipulated in-game. Even if the interaction is muted it is far better to have the hacks and audio diaries of a game like Bioshock than the static dull world of Call of Duty.
How developers re-imagine the interaction between game character and game world and what props to include in that interaction will determine if I enjoy spending my time within that world. While watching a gameplay video of Borderlands 2 with Randy Pitchford, a comment was made about damage a player's character takes from falling. The consensus was that where would be the fun in fall-damage? If it allows the player more freedom of movement within the game then that is a good thing. I tend to agree with this point. If rules of gravity or natural law can be bent or broken in a way that fits the game world then developers shouldn't be afraid to go with it. Games development should have the scope to look at the world differently and not have to represent a chronicle of historical conflicts as entertainment.
So how do you see it? Would you rather have more worlds like Call of Duty Halo or would you prefer developers take a few more risks with how they approach game worlds and the opportunities of player interaction with those worlds?
¹ Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition 2012 pg.43
I'll never forget my Claygate childhood
I no longer live in Claygate and there have been times that I regret leaving the village after spending around 25 years there – from child to adult. With my old village being the backdrop to some recent unpleasant news, I've been muling over my feelings about the childhood I spent there.
Just thinking about the word Claygate drums up so much nostalgia for me. Bad things did happen while I grew up there, sure, but the main story would be one of a magical place that allowed me and my friends the freedom to run with our imaginations.
Claygate had and still has an abundance of woodland and open countryside. As a child living with a woodland behind your home – sitting at the end of your garden almost – I had endless possibilities for make-believe and adventure. Maybe the environment of fields, woods and the heavy scent of nature compounded a feeling of safety. Claygate always felt like a place outside of normal time. Violence and crime never seemed to be on anyones lips and there was a sense of freedom from the 'big bad world'. The world seen through a child's eyes? Possibly.
Let me take you through a few of the standout moments from my time living in Claygate;
Queen's Silver Jubilee, 1977. Street party! Friends were easy to come by in the cul-de-sac that I lived in. We all seemed to get on, no matter what the age. The children from the street would play games of forty forty or it seemed that way. I remember winning second place in the fancy dress competition that day. Both my younger brother and I were dressed as red indians but I went up to collect the prize. I have a picture of me in the prizing winning costume somewhere and will think to get it scanned and added at some point.
AD&D and beyond. The foundations of my appreciation of what a good game is began back in the '80s. Card and board games came and went but as soon as I experienced my first taste of a AD&D game at a friends, my whole perspective was changed. The friend in question had a games room that contained a snooker table that doubled for some table-top gaming. I think we had a small group of around five but that was an ideal number for my Cleric to get some tough adventuring. I loved that the DM spoke the scene and from the rolls of a trusty d20 developed the adventure with hardly any visual aids. Our AD&D group didn't live long. It didn't break any records but it was magical moment that I have not since recaptured. Of course computer gaming – thanks Elite – then came into my life but not before I'd had a good few years of PBM games like that of Crasimoff's World and Saturnalia. I remember I use to hound our postman as I waited for each new turn to arrive. Some of the wonder of PBM gaming was the wait between sending your turn in and having a GM work out what happened and getting it back to you. A two week wait wasn't unheard of and can you imagine today's gamer having that kind of patience?
I feel there's more about my childhood in Claygate that I have yet to put down in words. You may well see a further post from me on this subject but it really depends on whether you, dear reader. Would want to hear more about those wonder years?


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Conker caught up with award winning multi-media artist Martine Frossard this month. In the interview, Martine chatted to us about her thoughts on feminism, identity and reinvention of the self, and how she manipulates geometric patterns to create "absurd worlds" in her artwork.
Cat van Maanen: Martine, your work is incredible, Conker really loves your manipulation of geometric shapes and the abstract style of you work. You have several styles of work including design and animation.What would you say is your preferred medium to work in?
Martine Frossard: I always liked to draw. For years, drawing allowed me to create surreal and mysterious universes. The characters in my drawings were always surrounded by smoke, suspended shapes. So I gradually wanted to give more movement in my drawings. Give life to those characters. When I became interested in animation video, a world opened! The first time you line up images and press PLAY, it automatically becomes addictive! For me it was just completely logical to go with animation video – I could not work without it. This was a perfect way to give life to my drawings.
CVM: If you had to choose, what would be you favourite piece that you have created to date? and what is it that you particularly cherish about this piece? what was the inspiration?
MF: As I work with several mediums, it's hard for me to know what is my favourite piece. If I had to choose in each category, I would say:
Installation: "Big Bang / Big Crunch". It was a very complex artwork: it has hidden messages, public interaction, and cohabits with an existing artwork… It was a great experience with my collaborator Isabelle Guichard.
Illustration: "Stuck". I don't know why but I have always felt very close to this drawing. It defines a kind paradox of externalisation / protection.
Animation: "Thirty Masks". It was my first movie, made during my maternity leave. I did not expect such a success for a first video.
Each of my projects tell small stories of identity quest: get lost to exist again.
CVM: In your animation piece 'Somewhere in Between' which you worked on with François Bonenfant, your combination between real life and drawing really creates an awesome effect. What inspired this piece, and could you tell us what you wanted to present to audiences with this?
MF: After giving life to my drawings, I wanted to try to mix videos and drawings. I've always been very inspired by the world of Bjork and also, the artworks of her ex husband Matthew Barnay. I wanted to create a video where drawings subtly enter in contact with the characters, as in dreams. I wanted to talk about paradoxical sleep. The moment of the night when our dreams are, it seems, the most creative, the most intense. A kind of awakening in sleep.
CVM: One of your other animated piece 'Dimanche Soir' takes on a style which could be considered like that of a graphic novel, and kind of reminded me a little of Japanese art styles of the early 1950s, such as Kasamatsu Shiro's pieces, whilst also referencing some late 1980s pop culture in a-ha's Take On Me video. Who or what do you believe to be your main inspiration as an artist?
MF: I am very interested in geometry and architecture: the way textures, colours and shapes try to work together. I'm also interested in the human body: faithfully reproduced portraits, light and shadow on faces or on hands… The mix between textures and body parts; The creation of absurd worlds. I think I am inspired by so many people. I could quote: Bjork, Matthew Barney, Sophie Calle, David Altmedj, Ryoji Ikeda, Shishi Yamazaki, Nigel Peake, Izumi Miyazaki, Marigold Santos, and many more…
CVM: The ambience of your videos is really hypnotic – the use of the sounds and imagery really draws you in! Do you create all the pieces that make up your videos, such as the music?
MF: Yes it is a complete artwork. I develop the sounds and the images at the same time. Music and sound plays a really important role in the universes that I want to create.
CVM: In most of your pieces you present women or the female body and sometimes, present graphic design prints onto some of these images of women. Would you say that you have a feminist drive in your work? Do you feel that the art world is arguably still very focused around the white middle class male 'standard'?
MF: I think I unconsciously started to draw women, but who hide behind masks, so they lose their identity and their gender. Those characters are trying to reinvente themselves, to get rid of codes that define them. I think I am very concern about the difficulty for women to find their place, their identity; not only among men, but even among other women, it's not easy. I work in a feminist art centre in media art (Studio XX), so I am hopeful about the place of women in this environment, which is still very masculine. Feminism is not just a style or a fashion, it's a necessity.
CVM: You've been doing a lot of touring around different galleries with your work! Are you planning to be presenting your art anywhere soon?
MF: Yes, I've sent my last film in several international festivals. Also, I've started an artist residency in Montreal : I will work on a project mixing video , interactivity and animation.
More of Martine Frossard's animated videos.
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Basketball has always been in Wallace's blood. The Louisville native worked at a basketball academy in his hometown, and that's where the idea originated. He has come up with a new device to help players shoot the basketball, and it's now being sold all over the world.
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Fish tacos4 tbsp. olive oil 1 tsp. chopped garlic1/2 tsp. ground cumin 1/2 tsp. chili Juice of 1/2 limeSalt and pepper, to taste12 (2-oz.) strips fresh white fish fillet (mahi mahi, halibut or California white sea bass)Corn tortillas 1 avocado, sliced
Mango slaw1/4 head green cabbage, finely shaved1/2 mango, sliced and then julienned1/4 red onion, juliennedChopped cilantro, to tasteJuice of 1 limeSalt and pepper, to taste
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For fish: Combine olive oil, garlic, cumin, chili and lime juice. Marinate fish in this mixture for 10 minutes.
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Fascinating and disturbing analogy. Reliance on fossil fuels as the slavery of our times. https://t.co/yjGevfz8RL pic.twitter.com/fzNMf7dX5e
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The man is insane
President Trump Remarks Given at CIA Headquarters (as delivered)
Thank you.
Well. I want to thank everybody. Very, very special people. And it is true: this is my first stop. Officially. We're not talking about the balls, and we're not talking about even the speeches. Although, they did treat me nicely on that speech yesterday [laughter].
I always call them "the dishonest media", but they treated me nicely.
But, I want to say that there is nobody that feels stronger about the Intelligence Community and the CIA than Donald Trump. [applause]. There's Nobody. Nobody.
And the wall behind me is very very special. We've been touring for quite a while. And I'll tell you what: twenty … nine? I can't believe it.. No. Twenty eight. We've got to reduce it. That's amazing. And we really appreciate it what you 've done in terms of showing us something very special. And your whole group. These are really special, amazing people. Very. very few people could do the job you people do.
And I want to just let you know: I am so behind you. And I know, maybe sometimes, you haven't gotten the backing that you've wanted. And you're going to get so much backing. Maybe you're going to say "please don't give us so much backing". [laughter] "Mr President, please, we don't need that much backing".
But you're going to have that. And I think everybody in this room knows it.
You know, the military, and the law-enforcement generally speaking, — but, all of it — but the military, gave us tremendous percentages of votes. We were unbelievably successful in the election with getting the vote of the military and probably almost everybody in this room voted for me, but I will not ask you to raise your hands if you did. [laughter]
But I would guarantee a big portion. Because we're all on the same wavelength, folks. We're all on the same wavelength. [applause] Alight? [pointing to the crowd] He knows. Took Brian about 30 seconds to figure that one out, right? Because we know. We're on the same wavelength.
We're going to do great things. We're going to do great things. We've been fighting these wars for longer than any wars we've ever fought. We have not used the real abilities that we have. We've been restrained.
We have to get rid of ISIS. We have to get rid of ISIS. We have no choice [applause]
Radical Islamic terrorism – and I said it yesterday – has to be eradicated. Just off the face of the Earth. This is evil. This is evil.
And you know, I can understand the other side. We can all understand the other side. There can be wars between countries. There can be wars. You can understand what happened. This is something nobody could even understand. This is a level of evil that we haven't seen.
You're going to go to it, and you're going to do a phenomenal job. But we're going to end it. It's time. It's time right now to end it.
You have somebody coming on who is extraordinary. You know for the different positions, of secretary of this and secretary of that and all of these great positions, I'd see five, six, seven, eight people.
And we had a great transition. We had an amazing team of talent.
And by the way, General Flynn is right over here. Put up your hand, Mike. What a good guy [applause]
And Reince, and my whole group. Reince. You know Reince? They don't care about Reince. He's like, this political guy that turned out to be a superstar, right? We don't have to talk about Reince.
But, we did. We had just such a tremendous, tremendous success.
So when I'm interviewing all of these candidates that Reince and his whole group is putting in front, it went very, very quickly, and in this case went so quickly. Because I would see six or seven or eight for secretary of agriculture, who we just named the other day. Sunny Perdue. Former Governor of Georgia. Fantastic guy. But I'd see six, seven, eight people for a certain position. Everybody wanted it.
But I met Mike Pompeo, and he was the only guy I met. I didn't want to meet anybody else. I said "cancel everybody else". Cancel. Now he was approved, essentially. But they're doing a little political games with me. You know, he was one of the three.
Now, last night, as you know, General Mattis – fantastic guy – and General Kelly got approved [applause]
And Mike Pompeo was supposed to be in that group; it was going to be the three of them. Can you imagine? All of these guys. People respect … they respect that military sense. All my political people? They're not doing so well. The political people aren't doing so well… but you … We're going to get them all through. But some will take a little bit longer than others.
But Mike was literally — I had a group of, what, we had nine different people? — Now. I must say, I didn't mind cancelling eight appointments. That wasn't the worst thing in the world.
But I met him, and I said "he is so good". Number one in his class at West Point. Now, I know a lot about West Point. I'm a person that very strongly believes in academics. In fact, every time I say, I had an uncle who was a great professor at MIT for 35 years, who did a fantastic job in so many different ways academically. He was an academic genius.
And then they say: "is Donald Trump an intellectual?" Trust me. I'm like a smart person. [laughter] [pointing at Mike Pompeo] And I recognized immediately,
So he was Number 1 at West Point. And he was also essentially number 1 at Harvard Law School. And then he decided to go into the military. And he ran for Congress. And everything he's done has been a home run.
People like him. But much more importantly to me, everybody respects him.
When I told Paul Ryan that I want to do this, I would say, he may be the only person that was not totally thrilled, right, Mike? Because he said "I don't want to lose this guy".
You will be getting a total star. You going to be getting a total gem. He is a gem. And I just …. [applause] You'll see. You'll see. And many of you know him anyway. But you're going to see.
And again: we have some great people going, but this one is something, going to be very special, because this is one of — if I had to name the most important, this would certainly be, perhaps, you know, in certain ways, you could even say my most important.
You do the job like everybody in this room is capable of doing.
And the generals are wonderful and the fighting is wonderful. But if you give them the right direction? Boy does the fighting become easier. And boy do we lose so fewer lives, and win so … quickly.
And that's what we have to do. We have to start winning again.
You know what? When I was young, And when I was … of course, I feel young. I feel like I'm 30. 35. 39. [laughter]. Somebody said "are you young?" I said "I think I'm young".
You know, I was stopping when we were in the final month of that campaign. Four stops, five stops. Seven stops. Speeches — speeches — in front of twenty five, thirty thousand people. Fifteen thousand, nineteen thousand, from stop to stop.
I feel young.
But when I was young — and I think we're all sort of young — when I was young, we were always winning things in this country. We'd win with trade. We'd win with wars.
At a certain age I remember hearing from one of my instructors "The United States has never lost a war".
And then, after that, it's like, we haven't won anything. We don't win anymore.,
The old expression: "to the victor belong the spoils" – you remember? You always used to say "keep the oil". I wasn't a fan of Iraq. I didn't want to go into Iraq. But I will tell you. When we were in, we got out wrong.
And I always said: "In addition to that, keep the oil".
Now I said it for economic reasons, but if you think about, Mike, if we kept the oil we would probably wouldn't have ISIS, because that's where they made their money in the first place. So we should have kept the oil.
But okay. [laughter] Maybe we'll have another chance.
But the fact is: we should've kept the oil. I believe that this group is going to be one of the most important groups in this country towards making us safe, towards making us winners again. Towards ending all of the problems — we have so many problems that are interrelated that we don't even think of, but interrelated — to the kind of havoc and fear that this sick group of people has caused.
So I can only say that I am with you 1000%. And the reason you're my first stop is that as you know, I have a running war with the media. They are among the most dishonest human beings on Earth. [laughter, applause]
And they sort of made it sound like I had a feud with the Intelligence Community. And I just want to let you know, the reason you're the number 1 stop is exactly the opposite. Exactly. And they understand that too.
And I was explaining about the numbers. We did a thing yesterday, the speech, and everybody really liked the speech, you had to right? [applause]
We had a massive field of people. You saw that. Packed.
I get up this morning. I turn on one of the networks and they show an empty field. I say: "wait a minute. I made a speech. I looked out. The field was…. It looked like a million, a million and a half people." They showed a field where there was practically nobody standing there. And they said "Donald Trump did not draw well". And I said "well it was almost raining". The rain should have scared them away. But God looked down and he said "we're not going to let it rain on your speech".
In fact, when I first started I said "oh no". First line, I got hit by a couple of drops. And i said "oh, this is too bad, but we'll go right through it". But the truth is: that it stopped immediately. It was amazing. And then it became really sudden, and then I walked off and it poured right after I left – it poured.
But you know, we have something that's amazing because, we had, it looked honestly, it looked like a million and a half people. Whatever it was. But it went all the way back to the Washington Monument.
And I turn on, with my steak … and I get this network shows an empty field. And it said we drew 250,000 people.
Now that's not bad. But it's a lie. We had 250,000 people literally around, you know, the little bowl that we constructed. That was 250,000 people. The rest of the 20 block area all the way back to the Washington Monument was packed.
So we caught them. And we caught them in a beauty. And I think they're going to pay a big price.
They had another one yesterday which was interesting. In the Oval Office there's a beautiful statue of Dr Martin Luther King. And I also happen to like Churchill. Winston Churchill. I think most of us like Churchill. He doesn't come from our country. But he had lot to do with it. He helped us. A real ally.
And as you know, the Churchill statue was taken out. The bust. And as you probably also have read, the Prime Minister is coming over to our country very shortly, and they wanted to know whether or not I'd like it back. And I said "absolutely, but in the meantime we have a bust of Churchill".
So a reporter for Time magazine. And I have been on their cover like 14 or 15 times. I think we have the all time record in the history of Time magazine. Like it Tom Brady is on the cover of Time magazine, it's one time, because he won the Superbowl or something, right? [laughter]. I've been on for 15 times this year.
I don't think that's a record, Mike, that they can ever be broken, do you agree with that? What do you think?
But I will say that, he said something that was very interesting: that "Donald Trump took down the bust, the statue, of Dr Martin Luther King". It was right there. But there was a cameraman that was in front of it.
So Zeke – Zeke – from Time magazine writes a story about how I took it down. But I would never do that, because I have great respect for Dr Martin Luther King. But this is how dishonest the media is: a big story. And the retraction was like — was it a line? Or did they even bother putting it in?
So I only like to say that because I love honesty. I like honest reporting. I will tell you the final time: although I will say it, when you let in your thousands of other people that had been trying to come in, because I am coming back.
We may have to get you a larger room. [laughter, applause] We may have to get you a larger room.
And maybe – maybe – it'll be built by somebody that knows how to build and we won't have columns [laughter] You understand that? We'd get rid of the columns.
I just wanted to really say that I love you. I respect you. There's nobody that I respect more. You're going to do a fantastic job. And we're going to start winning again. And you're going to be leading the charge.
So thank you all very much. Thank you, beautiful. Thank you all very much.
Have a good day.
I'll be back. I'll be back. Thank you.
In and out
What's going on in there, or out there, for that matter? I endlessly ponder the place I find myself, between a dull gray lump and an infinite realm of energy. The vibrations come in and something happens that ends up making me think there is substance and meaning, until I think about it for a few minutes, or seconds, or hours, or for a life. The things I construct are both mundane and fantastic, though it's foolish to give credit to a being that anyone owns, let alone the author of this writing. It's just a process without a director. Instead it's more like a game of ping pong or tennis, except no one is really keeping score, and there aren't any rules, or championship trophies. It's even a good question if there are any spectators, let alone fans of the author. Each has a moronic game of their own – there's that errant sense of an owner again – to occupy themselves. But somehow we make a mission out of it all. We have to believe there is a purpose and a reality to the nonsense. If not we'd quickly go mad. Perhaps that's where this leads? But what is madness? It would imply there is a proper format for this process, but who decrees what is proper? There is only the way it is, and the way it might be, and may be some day. We can only wait to find out.
The Case for Not Being Crybabies.
Talking Points Memo : Josh Marshall
Last week I watched a conversation on MSNBC in which the anchor asked a guest whether it wasn't a problem that Buzzfeed had published the Trump 'dossier' because this would now give Trump some credibility in dismissing any reporting he didn't like as "fake news". There are plenty of grounds to criticize Buzzfeed's decision on standard journalistic grounds. But the idea seemed to be that because President-Elect Trump was already accusing prestigious journalism organizations of producing "fake news", Buzzfeed's decision might allow him to do it more.
There was a further uproar when Trump shouted down CNN's Jim Acosta when Acosta tried to insist that Trump answer a question from CNN if he was going to loudly attack the organization's integrity. Later Trump's incoming Press Secretary Sean Spicer threatened to kick Acosta out of future press conferences if he didn't show Trump more respect. This weekend brought news that the new administration is considering kicking the White House press corps out of the White House. And finally on Sunday, in a meeting with the President of the White House Correspondents Association, Spicer "expressed concern that journalists adhere to a high level of decorum" at press conferences and briefings. This presumably came in a meeting pressing the new administration not to clamp down on access to the President and the White House.
On top of this, in the last couple days there's been a medium post circulating from a Russian journalist warning his American colleagues of what to expect under Trump. One key paragraph reads …
You're Always Losing. This man owns you. He understands perfectly well that he is the news. You can't ignore him. You're always playing by his rules — which he can change at any time without any notice. You can't — in Putin's case — campaign to vote him out of office. Your readership is dwindling because ad budgets are shrinking — while his ratings are soaring, and if you want to keep your publication afloat, you'll have to report on everything that man says as soon as he says it, without any analysis or fact-checking, because 1) his fans will not care if he lies to their faces; 2) while you're busy picking his lies apart, he'll spit out another mountain of bullshit and you'll be buried under it.Let me say first the piece is quite good. It's worth reading. But as a prediction of what awaits the American press, I think it is way, way off the mark and the kind of pusillanimous, defeatist attitude we've seen in this cattle call of Trump outrages listed above. Presidents don't validate what is and isn't news. If you're expecting them to, you're doing it wrong. Almost nothing that is truly important about the work of a free press is damaged by moving the press office across the street.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that these things are not important or that all these threats aren't a very bad sign. It is vastly preferable to have a President who believes in or at least respects American and democratic values. But let's get real: we don't or won't as of Friday. Trump is a would-be authoritarian and a bully. He's surrounded by mediocrities who owe all to him and feel validated by enabling his endless transgressions. Of course, he's doing these things. We know Trump's MO. He will bully people until they're cowed and humiliated and obedient. He'll threaten to kick the reporters out of the White House and then either cut a 'deal' or make some big to-do about 'allowing' the reporters to stay. These are all threats and mind games meant not so much to cow the press as make them think Trump is continually taking things away from them and that they need to make him stop.
They don't need to. That access isn't necessary to do their jobs. And bargaining over baubles of access which are of little consequence is not compatible with doing their job. Access can provide insight and understanding. But it's almost never where the good stuff comes from. Journalists unearth factual information and report it. If Trump wants to turn America into strong man state, journalists should cover that story rather than begging Trump not to be who he is. America isn't Russia. And I don't think he can change us into Russia. So unless and until we see publications shut down and journalists arrested or disappeared, let's have a little more confidence in our values and our history and our country.
I've been surprised at the extent to which right-thinking people are all but threatening themselves with what Trump might do to, collapsing into their own sense of powerlessness. Maybe he'll jail his opponents! Maybe he'll call off the 2018 election! Here it is worth remembering things we learned from the campaign. Trump's one true gift is his ability to get his critics to surrender up their own dignity somehow of their own free will. That is just what he is trying to do to the press at this moment. It's no different from the dominance politics he played on his opponents in the GOP primaries.
Trump wants to bully the press and profit off the presidency. He's told us this clearly in his own words. We need to accept the reality of both. The press should cover him on that basis, as a coward and a crook. The big corporate media organizations may not be able to use those words, I understand, but they should employ that prism. The truth is that his threats against the press to date are ones it is best to laugh at. If Trump should take some un- or extra-constitutional actions, we will deal with that when it happens. I doubt he will or can. But I won't obsess about it in advance. Journalists should be unbowed and aggressive and with a sense of humor until something happens to prevent them from doing so. Trump is a punk and a bully. People who don't surrender up their dignity to him unhinge him.
Much the same applies to the endless chatter about 'conflicts of interest' and the insufficiency of his plan to separate himself from his businesses. Why are we still saying Trump isn't doing enough to avoid conflicts of interest? He's made clear he wants to profit off his presidency. Let's accept that. That is what he wants to do. If you're a journalist, start documenting the details. If you're an activist or politician start mobilizing against his corruption.
Trump is the most unpopular incoming President in American history. We only have data on this going back a few decades. But there's little reason to think any President in previous decades or centuries has been this unpopular. Indeed, he's getting less popular as he approaches his inauguration. People need to have a bit more confidence in themselves, their values and their country. As soon as you realize that the Trump wants to profit from the presidency and that the Republicans are focused and helping him do so, all the questions become easier to answer and the path forward more clear. His threats against the press are the same. He's threatening to take away things the press doesn't truly need in order to instill a relationship of dominance.
There's nothing more undignified and enervating than fretting about whether the President-Elect will brand real news 'fake news' or worrying whether his more authoritarian supporters can be convinced to believe – pleaded with, instructed to, prevailed upon – actual factual information. The answer to attacks on journalism is always more journalism. And the truth is that Trump's threats are cheap stunts and bluffs, threatening to take away things journalists don't need.


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Olive Garden's unlimited Pasta Pass promotion, could be a hit or a miss. The promotion involved a limited amount of sales for their unlimited Pasta Pass. Now in the final days of the promotion, there is much for their passholders to talk about.
The available 1,000 Pasta Passes were sold out in minutes, 45 to be exact, according to People. Possessing a Pasta Pass, of course, entitled the passholder to certain privileges. Passholders could partake of unlimited soup, breadsticks, salad and pasta. To accompany the meal, Coca Cola products were provided.
Olive Garden guests, who were passholders began their unlimited dining at the restaurant to cover a seven week period. Soon, the blogging began. Evidently, passholders found it easy to be transparent, sharing their thoughts both good and not so good.
According to Time, passholders became bloggers, interviewees and demonstrably receptive to the media. They desired to opine about their Olive Garden unlimited eating experience, and had a lot to say. In one case the undertaking was described as eating an absurd amount of food.
This was to be expected since the total calorie count consumed from program participation easily topped 100,000, according to Time. To some, Olive Garden's Pasta promotion may have missed, as a nutritional liability, though seen as a hit for dishing out excitement.
The word excitement was used to describe the experience for obvious reasons. Restaurants know that eating is a form of enjoyment and excitement, especially when a popular pasta favorite is on the menu. Unfortunately, there was also a passholder who used the term depression to describe their outcome. This alone could be a consideration why Olive Garden's unlimited pasta promotion was not a hit but a miss instead.
Passholders also stated that whatever their body looked like before the food binge promotion, it looked a lot different afterward. Whether this could be viewed as harmful beyond a few pounds gained is subject to more speculation.
It is clear that as promotions go, the over-the-top gets the most feedback. From the standpoint of sales, often the crazier the commercial, the wackier the images and the more memorable the message helps companies get attention and translates into business.
Olive Garden's EVP of marketing confirmed that the promotion is a way to get attention. Attention is necessary for all businesses, especially for those like Olive Garden that as a company are not performing as well as investors would like. Recently, the chain, owned by Darden, met with a critical review.
According to Fortune, a number of flagged items were identified as problematic to the company's investor, Starboard Value LP. Among things cited were, low numbers in alcohol sales, wasteful bread distribution practices and overkill in salad dressing applications. In addition, the investor found it extremely questionable, when people complained about Olive Garden's pasta not having a hint of being cooked in salted water.
The investor's goal for a positive turnaround for Olive Garden's performance is at issue. Darden President Gene Lee, however, defended Olive Garden, describing some of what has been suggested by the investor as troubling. Lee stated many of the proposed practices are already in place.
According to Entrepreneur, the company has faced pressure from investors for some time, even after serving their never ending pasta bowls 13 million times last year. Clearly, Olive Garden needed its latest unlimited pasta promotion to be a hit and not a miss. There seems to be a real need to assure they miss no opportunity to hit their sales targets.
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Baby Boomer Travel
You've been through so many changes since you were born. Depending on your year of birth, you've seen at least nine presidents go through the White House. You've seen companies merge, you've watched technology grow and change, you might even be learning all things social media. You've worked hard and been resourceful, and remained ever optimistic, and now you've earned a break… continue reading


text: Perfect starter home in Bloomingdale Hills! Zoned for grade "A" schools and just a skip away from shopping dining and entertainment! This home is located on a quiet street, just minutes away from a children's playground and sits on a great, oversized, private lot with conservation views and no back door neighbors! Ac replaced in 2010, roof replaced in 2013, freshly painted exterior in 2014 and hot water heater in 2015! Inside you will notice pretty tile flooring throughout and open floor plan on the first floor. The spacious great room is a great place to gather family and friends. A lovely dining area features bright window with pretty wooded views. Open to the dining area is the open kitchen, with lots of cabinet and counter space, newer stainless appliances and a sliding glass door to the patio. The master bedroom is privately located downstairs with deep tray ceiling and an attached master bathroom. Upstairs you will find three more spacious bedrooms with vaulted ceilings. Also upstairs is an updated second bathroom with new vanity, new sink and new fixture. There is lots of storage space throughout this home! Outside is a pavered, screened and covered patio along with a private yard, perfect for kids and pets to roam and play while you gaze through to the beautiful wooded views!


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It's been several months since I last published a new story on Kindle, but I just put one up this evening which should be available tomorrow, Wednesday 4/17/13, on all the Amazon sites. Just click on the sidebar where it says "My ebooks" and you'll see all my stories.
The new opus is called DOMINANT CHINESE TWINS ENSLAVE WHINY MAN, and it's a mix of the erotic and the humorous that characterizes some of my femdom tales. As usual I designed the cover myself in the sleazy crude style of the fetish booklets that used to be sold in the Times Square adult bookstores in the days before rampant gentrification and civic improvement.
I wish I could draw better, but this crazy cover definitely captures the bizarre, horny, and unpredictable atmosphere of my story, which has everything from tittie bars to foot worship to relentless spanking to the fervent appreciation of the feminine fanny. Leo, an unemployed middle-aged man, meets Orchid, a young Chinese-American stripper, and she takes him home to her apartment. (Okay, so my hero is yet another lucky subbie! Well, Zane Grey wrote about cowboys a lot.) Leo thinks (or hopes) he's going to have a session of foot worship with Orchid, but he's in for a big surprise when he meets her sister Lily…a hard-working research scientist with some kinks of her own…
I've priced the story at 99¢ so you're just a click away from instant erotica pleasure! It's formatted for everything from iPads to Kindles to iPhones and of course for the free Kindle computer apps.
Re the art work, this cover is a little different than my previous ones. The earlier ones are a little more sedate, but this time I used some oil pastel crayons and an ordinary black pen and I started fooling around with the picture. I was actually going to throw it away just before I took out the crayons, but then it started coming to life for me and, as I said, capturing the atmosphere of the story. Maybe you don't agree and think I should have thrown it out?
When I'm under a lot of stress I find that drawing is a nice emotional release. There's something cathartic about running thick swatches of pastel across a page, pure color.
As I've said elsewhere on various occasions, I'm very much an aficionado of visual art, and I envy artists their immediate impact on the spectator, especially in these days when people seem to read less and less. But YOU don't read less and less, and I hope you'll check out DOMINANT CHINESE TWINS ENSLAVE WHINY MAN!
UPDATE: The book is now up on Amazon US & India here! And look for it at Amazon UK, Amazon Germany, Amazon France, Amazon Spain, Amazon Italy, Amazon Japan, Amazon Brazil, and Amazon Canada too!


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Problem: "I'm having trouble setting my configure.php files to read-only. What does 444 mean?"
A number of hosts do not allow setting permissions to 644 for some reason (mine included). Setting to 444 is perfectly acceptable. If you should need to modify the file you may need to temporarily change the permissions to something like 755 while you make the modification. Be sure that when you are finished modifying the file to set it back to 444 so as to prevent others from being able to mess with it (security issue).
Here is what the numbers mean:
444 = (r-- r-- r--): owner/group/others are all only able to read the file. They cannot write to it or execute it.
644 = (rw- r-- r--): same as 444 except the owner can write to it.
755 = (rwx r-x r-x): owner can read, write and execute the file, members in the user group and others can read and execute the file but cannot write to it.
r = read, w = write and x = execute.
In the format above, the first group of three characters represents the owner's level of permission, the second group represents permission for others in the same user group as the owner, and the final 3 characters represent the permission for all others (including website visitors).
If you were able to set to 644 the owner (you) could modify the file while all others would be restricted. In that case you would not need to change permissions in order to modify it. Just leave it at 644.
The permissions are set on the host server usually through the user's control panel. They can also be set using the chmod command in many ftp programs, or or through terminal or telnet access to the server. (most webhosts do not allow terminal or telnet access.)
I hope this helps anyone who found that 644 didn't work to understand what's going on. For a tutorial on this go to http://catcode.com/teachmod/
Credit to ronlee67 for sharing portions of this content.
For assistance on changing permissions settings, see How Do I Set Permissions on Files/Folders


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The best way to choose a landscaping company
Do you have a large lawn over your property and wish to get it landscaped to be able to raise the overall value of your home? Do you want to take on landscaping services just so you can beautify the overall look and feel of your place? Well, you obviously know that landscape designing is the best option that you have. You must never think that landscaping is just for those individuals that are wealthy and can manage designing their landscapes as if they were large recreational parks. Once again, space is never an issue, so you can advantage from the solutions of experienced landscape and swimming pool contractors in Dubai even if you have a compact sized lawn.
There is simply no doubt that landscaping is not an easy job. The worst part is that you just might get frustrated as you have no idea whatsoever as to where you should get started off. If you are planning to go about things without any help, you might want to list things out just so you don't miss out on anything. But, instead of you putting in all those efforts, it is highly recommended for you to take on the help of professional landscapers and landscaping companies to get done with an excellent job.
So when you want to select the best landscaping company, first of all it is necessary for you to ask a couple of questions and get your investigator instinct out before anything else. Keep in mind that you have to choose the best since you will be spending a certain sum of cash and the attractiveness of your lawn and garden will be under scrutiny.
This is extremely important when looking to hire landscaping contractors. Begin by asking your employed expert how long he has been doing this job. Normally, ten years is regarded to be more than adequate to guarantee consistency.
The portfolio is very important for a landscaping company. This will be the proof that his work is high quality and professional. In here, you should look for excellent pictures of houses, landscapes and swimming pools that were beautified with his help. Going through the portfolio will help you determine whether he really is as professional as he claims to be. Go through this useful site for more information and to get in touch with professional landscapers in Dubai right away.


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Your camera can not only stand on its base, but also mount on any wall or ceiling.
For the 1st generation YI Home Camera:
1. Split the camera from the base. Turn the base counterclockwise to separate the camera from the base.
2. Drill locating holes on the base.
3. Place the base with locating holes against the wall (the arrow sign should be upward), and mark them with a pen.
4. Drill at the marked point.
5. Screw the base on the wall.
6. Mount your camera.
Turn your camera clockwise to fit into the base mount on the wall. By doing this, you can mount your camera wherever you want, from different angles.


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The New Forest is renowned for its natural beauty - discover roaming horses, cattle and donkeys on the moors and heathland, explore idyllic beaches and cliff tops and search through ancient forests and glades. A fantastic holiday or weekend destination that can be enjoyed by all ages, and there's a huge selection of accomodation to suit all types of visits and budgets.
Exbury's 100 year heritage has given our staff - some of whom were born and bred in Exbury village - insider knowledge on the the best spots to stay whilst visiting the New Forest. Below are some of our staff's top accomodation picks.
For further information on accomodation in the New Forest please visit thenewforest website.
Located on the Exbury Estate, Little Exbury is the perfect accompanyment to your visit to Exbury Gardens & Steam Railway. Owned and managed by members of the Rothschild family, Little Exbury offers a tranquil retreat with spectacular views of the Bealieu River from the comfort of the newly refurbished interior.
Check out their website for more information, photographs and how to book.
Located in Lord Montague's Beaulieu Estate just across the river from Exbury, The Master Builder's is a chic luxury hotel set in Georgian architecture. Their recently refurbished rooms were designed by award-winning interior designer Christine Boswell, and they offer both casual and formal dining overlooking the Beaulieu River. What more could you want? Well, staying at The Master Builder's also entitles you to a discount on entrance fees to Exbury Gardens and Steam Railway.
For more information visit the Hillbrooke Hotels website.
For that authentic New Forest camping experience look no further than Roundhill. Located between Lyndhurst, Brockenhurst and Beaulieu, Roundhill has basic facilities (toilets, showers and babychanging) whilst retaining the off-the-grid feel that some of us aspire to during a camping holiday. This site may not have electricity but it makes up for it in location and atmosphere!
Call 024 7642 3008 to book.
The picturesque cottage-feel of Dale Farm Guest House is the perfect place to unwind after a long day exploring the New Forest. Situated just 20 minutes drive from Southampton's bustling city centre, Dale Farm offers the tranquility of the New Forest whilst remaining easily accessible by car and public transport.
To find out more visit Dale Farm's website.
Shorefield Country Park is set in 100 acres and provides a wide range of self catering accommodation, from caravans and chalets, houses and cottages or even luxury lodges with hot tubs where you can retreat and unwind after a day of exploring. Just 800 metres from the beach at Milford-on-Sea, and a stone's throw from the New Forest National Park, you're never far from a scenic walk or picnic spot.
With a range of on-site facilities, there's plenty to keep the whole family entertained during your stay too, from indoor and outdoor swimming pools, a fully-equipped gym, luxury sauna, steam room and a nightly entertainment programme – all of which is included in the cost of your holiday.
Find out more about all six of Shorefield Holidays' parks or to book your break by visiting www.shorefield.co.uk.
What to see in the garden on your visit
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For some of you, interacting with the opposite gender may not be a problem. For some of you, it might be a BIG problem!
Living in the West where men and women must interact and communicate can be a bit tricky, especially when navigating social norms like hand-shaking and going out to drink.
My personal experience with this problem comes from my years in school, where I struggled a lot with my interactions with guys. Growing up, my mom told me not to talk to boys and I took this advice very literally. I realised that she didn't actually mean what she said when I was paired up with a guy in grade 7 on a French assignment and came home crying, thinking I was going to Hell for breaking this critical rule. Suffice it to say that I don't think this way anymore!
Some people say that having male friends and hanging out is fine, as long as you're not too close or intimate. Some people say that when living in the West, girls and guys should go to schools where girls and guys are separated. You need to figure out what works best for you and what you're most comfortable with.
But my biggest piece of advice is: keep your distance.
Islamically, it is recommended for men and women to maintain their distance when interacting with the opposite gender. Do that to the best of your ability.
Going to school or working in the West, there will undoubtedly be times when you will be paired up or grouped with the opposite gender. Sometimes you won't have an option. And so the best thing you can do is focus on the assignment or project at hand, and keep your distance in your interactions without being too friendly.
School or work is usually the easiest part. It's when you move out of that context and into the social setting that things can sometimes become complicated. In social events, the lines between the professional and the personal can be blurred, and it can become even harder to keep your distance.
Obviously there will be times when you'll have to participate in mixed group social events. But know your limits.
But we don't just interact in person. We also talk on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Whatsapp, BBM, Google chat, and on a million other platforms! I'm not going to tell you not to give a guy your number or your Twitter name or whatever, because sometimes it's unavoidable. But like everything else, keep it clean and polite and respectful. Just because your mom can't see you doesn't mean God can't.
During my university days, I took the keep your distance advice quite literally and didn't really interact with the opposite gender much. I was shy, yet that manifested itself in not talking to guys at all and ignoring them. I was thought to be rude and standoffish.
And so there's a caveat: be polite, yet don't be rude. Say salam and return the salam of any Muslim brothers you encounter. Be friendly and respectful to all, since your manners speak for your character. There's no reason why you can't work productively in a professional capacity alongside men.
Everyone is different and everyone interprets things differently. So your idea of maintaining distance could be someone else's idea of being too friendly, and vice versa. So know yourself and know your limits. Always remember that Allah is watching.
It's a difficult road to navigate but you need to figure out what works best for you. Remember, only Allah has the right to judge. Hope you found this somewhat useful.
Keep smiling, beautiful girls!
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These games teach valuable skills and have a high fun and educational rating.
Your child develops understanding of various body parts by dancing and singing along to Head Shoulders Knees & Toes.
Your child develops literacy skills and understanding about the life cycle of a pumpkin by reading and/or listening to this story.
Zoodles 11.8.7 Copyright (c) 2014 Inquisitive Minds, Inc. All rights reserved.


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Red Lentil (Masur Dal)
No additional documentation is available. Please visit the supplier's website to contact them for further information.
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Red Lentil (Masur Dal) is an edible pulse. It is part of the legume family and is grown for its lens-shaped seeds. Red Lentil (Masur Dal) is most commonly used as a thickening agent.
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Six-twenty comes awfully early in the morning. Especially if you are young and have grown accustomed to a life of leisure in which your days are made up of lounging, playing, swimming, playing and more lounging.
As I look this morning at the tousled (AKA: ratty) hair of my two sleeping children, I am quickly reminded how much I dislike this portion of my day...the part where I interrupt their pleasant childhood dreams and say "Wake up. Time to get ready for school."
I've told myself for days now that I ought to be sneaking back my kids bedtime to prepare them for school. According to The National Institute of Health, the National Sleep Foundation recommends that "children should gradually start adjusting their sleep schedules about two weeks prior to the start of the new school year." But as is always the case, I just can't get myself to do it. "Why squash their summer now?" I always say to myself. "It's bad enough that they have to go back before Labor Day."
The transition between summer and school days is rough enough already, what with retraining the mind to focus on math and reading rather than arts, crafts and sports. But retraining a child's body clock is probably just as important. It's a no-brainer that the better you sleep at night, the better you perform during the day.
Yet here I am, on the first day of school - going through the same rude awakening routine we were stuck in last school year.
First it starts gently, with a small hug, pat or rub and my soft, whispering voice saying "wake up." In a span of 15 minutes, this idyllic scene turns into sharp shoves and loud nagging with increasing threats like "GET UP! You'll be late for school and you KNOW how much you hate that...."
Nothing like starting off the day with some negative vibes.
If I could only outsource this job.
It turns out that in the early 20th century before alarm clocks, the job of waker-upper was indeed, outsourced. I learned this by listening to a spirited reading on NPR's Weekend Edition of a children's book called Mary Smith.
Written and illustrated by Andrea U'Ren, Mary Smith tells the story of the real-life Mary Smith, who went about waking people in her village up by shooting dried peas at their windows. People who did this job back in those days were called "knocker-ups" (no kidding).
Although my son would dearly love to have access to a peashooter, I'm not so sure he'd enjoy being awakened by one. However, it seems a much better solution than having me nag he and his sister to death to "get up, get breakfast, get dressed and get in the car."
I found another solution at Parents.com: Clocky, the rolling alarm clock. This $50 device is supposed to out-wit even the sleepiest of kids by rolling off the table when the snooze button is pushed, "hiding" in the room, and continuing to buzzzzzzzz - thus annoying your child to the point that he or she finally gets up. However, I've learned that if something is annoying to my kids...it's probably even more annoying to me.
Personally, I prefer the idea of hiring out for wake-up duty.
Do you suppose I could find a "knocker-up" on Craig's List?
Have you prepared your kids for their rude awakening to the school year? How do you wake your kids up in the morning for school? Is it a pleasant moment, or a dreaded one? Click below on "Comments" and share your stories and parenting secrets.


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As already mentioned there is a common misconception that couples who live together have the same rights as a married couple. There is no such thing in England and Wales as "common law husband" or "common law wife", regardless of how long a couple have lived together, even if one party has financially supported the other.
Many people think if they have had a child together this changes things as they will acquire "rights". This is also incorrect.
Where a cohabiting couple separate one partner is not (except in a limited number of cases) required to pay the other partner maintenance, even if they have stayed at home to care for the children, sacrificing their career and becoming dependent on their partner for financial support. They are treated as two separate individuals. A former partner would be required to pay child maintenance however, and this would usually be calculated in line with the Child Maintenance Service guidelines and based on the former partner's gross income. Even if this was not sufficient so the parent caring for the children was left financially vulnerable, as a general rule an application could not be made to "top up" maintenance, as is potential when a marriage breaks down.
In limited circumstances it may be possible for the partner who cares for the children the majority of the time to make an application for additional financial provision in terms of lump sums or maintenance, but these are restricted and the costs of such proceedings can be considerable.
Couples who have children together, and cohabit, can enter into a Cohabitation Agreement to formalise the arrangements in the event of the relationship breaking down. While such agreements are not legally enforceable it could be helpful to address such issues within this form of Agreement to remind people what was agreed at the time and, hopefully, encourage former partners to work together for the sake of the children.
Resolution has decided to hold a Cohabitation Awareness Week from 27th November to 1st December 2017 to help dispel the myth of the "common law marriage" and alert people to the difference in legal rights between married and unmarried couples, and what steps an unmarried couple can take to record the interest and rights of each partner in the event of separation.
If you are planning to move in with your partner, are currently in a cohabiting relationship or if you were in a cohabitating relationship which has broken down, please contact us for advice about your situation. All of the family lawyers at Lightfoots LLP are members of Resolution.


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Mobilising the COBENEFITS of Climate Change Mitigation through Capacity Building among Public Policy Institutions
What is Co-Benefits about?
COBENEFITS is a capacity-building programme funded by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) within the German International Climate Initiative (IKI). COBENEFITS is targeting policy makers and other relevant actors in energy, climate and environmental policy in four countries: India, South Africa, Vietnam and Turkey. The project strengthens governmental departments and agencies in charge of climate and energy issues in the target countries in their ability to advice their ministerial clients on the co-benefits of renewable power generation, to spur ambitious as well as effective NDC implementation.
In this respect the project contributes in particular to
- Effectively implementing NDC in the target countries and activating the Paris Ambition Mechanism in these countries by backing cross-sectoral support to increasing the NDC ambition levels
- Integrating and mainstreaming co-benefit assessments in national and international MRV (Measurement, Verification, Reporting), related to UNFCCC
- Further activating the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and financing mechanisms such as the Green Climate Fund (GCF)
The project has a duration of three-years and includes capacity building programmes for mobilising the potential multiple benefits of climate change mitigation. The project consortium is consisting of the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), the Renewables Academy AG (RENAC), International Energy Transition (IET) and the Independent Institute for Environmental Issues (UfU) has been commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU).
What are co-benefits of climate change mitigation?
The global transition to renewable sources of energy, as a key action area for climate change mitigation, is in full swing. The renewable energy sector is now attracting substantially greater investment flows than its fossil-based counterpart, with half of all related investments flowing to the global South. The social and economic opportunities presented by renewable energies, such as public health, accelerating access to electricity, improved investment opportunities resulting from plummeting costs for renewable electricity, and local value-creation, are becoming important co-benefits of this climate-friendly transition.
"Climate change will affect the achievability of any future development goal through its direct and indirect impacts. Highlighting and harnessing the social and economic co-benefits of climate action, such as health benefits, local economic benefits, improved air quality or new jobs, will be crucial to make NDC and SDG implementation a success for the planet and the people."
Dr. Karsten Sach, Germany, BMU, 2019
What does COBENEFITS offer?
The project strengthens public policy institutions in India, Vietnam, South Africa and Turkey in their ability to advice their ministerial clients on the co-benefits of climate change mitigation, in order to spur ambitious as well as effective INDC implementation. Within the three-year co-benefits programme, the Renewables Academy (RENAC) offers different kinds of trainings, networking and exchange of experiences for energy professionals from India, South Africa, Turkey and Vietnam. Online trainings and Face-to-Face seminars provide comprehensive know-how on co-benefits, renewable energy technologies, and energy and climate policies.
The programme offers:
- Country reports and national co-benefits analyses
- Face-to-face trainings in partner countries India, South Africa, Turkey and Vietnam
- Online trainings
- Mutual learning workshops
- International COBENEFITS conference (September 2019)
Who can apply for the COBENEFITS trainings?
The COBENEFITS training programme is targeting professionals from India, South Africa, Turkey and Vietnam working in the following public and private sectors:
- Ministries recognising the importance of climate protection/policy and/or with responsibility for climate and energy policy on national level
- Subordinate authorities and regulators, regional or local administration
- Policy makers on subnational/state level
- Financial institutions
- Energy or climate related agencies, think tanks and research institutions
RENAC will choose participants according to the information provided in the application form (CV, description of tasks at work, motivation letter and signed Terms of Reference etc.). Participants accepted for a training will receive a confirmation email from RENAC.
Roman Buss, PhD
Project Director
Tel: +49 (0)30 58 70870 47
Fax: +49 (0)30 58 70870 88
Email: buss[at]renac.de
Charlene Rossler
Project Manager
Tel: +49 (0)30 58 70870 43
Fax: +49 (0)30 58 70870 88
Email: rossler[at]renac.de


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>Update on braided rug
28 May 2008 1 Comment
in *braided rug tutorial, gifts from me, rugs
>Memorial Day
26 May 2008 1 Comment
>Back from our family picnic. Wow, a lot of people sure looked at that cobbler recipe; over 1100 thus far. My husband's family liked it, too, because it is all gone! Hope you had a lovely day with friends and family.
>Easy Cobbler Recipe
26 May 2008 11 Comments
This is a super easy recipe to make; all you need is three ingredients, and a pan and an oven.
First, heat up oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
Place two cans of filling in the bottom of a 9 x 11 baking pan. I am making two batches for our family picnic today, so I used four cans — two per pan. One is cherry and one is apple; any fruit filling will work.
Next, lay an entire box of vanilla cake mix on top of fruit layer.
Next, slice the cube of butter super thin and spread it out evenly over the cake-mix layer.
Place in oven and let bake for 30 minutes.
Pull out to cool.
Can be severed as is or with whip cream, ice-cream or whatever you want.
>Are you a member of SABLE
17 May 2008 5 Comments
in fabric
I have heard about this on several blogs, and I always get a good laugh at it. I think I must be a member because my stash never seems to get smaller, only larger. I think I fit this group as a fabric member, embroidery floss member, buttons, notions, yarn, crochet thread, book, and sewing thread plus way too many more to mention in one list. What items make you a member of this group?
>This is Great Grandma H.
16 May 2008 3 Comments
in embroidery, family, temari
> This photo was taken for her eighth-grade graduation. Her mother made the dress. Out of all the pictures I have seen of her, I think this is my favorite one. My husband and I received this as a gift at the memorial service. I am grateful to have it.
I really do not know much about her because she was a very quiet woman. What I do know amazes me. She raised two sons after her husband died, in an era when it wasn't normal to be a single mom. She did lots of handwork and traveled a lot before getting married in her 30's, also not normal for the time.
She will be greatly missed. The other Grandma H (GH or MIL) in the family, my MIL, has given us a few of the items we have given great-grandma (GGH) over the years. I am now wearing a ring that I gave to GGH. I am wearing it next to the ring my husband gave me for our tenth anniversary.
My MIL has also given us a free-form temari ball I made for GGH and the wood stand with metal hook my husband made to hold the temari ball.
We also received back a wood plaque that my husband purchased for GGH when he lived in Brazil for a few years. I have never kept one of my own Temari balls, so this has extra meaning in that not only is it one I gave to GGH, it is also one of my favorite free-form ones. When my husband lived in Brazil he only purchased gifts for his family; I didn't know him then, so we didn't have any of the wood plaques from Brazil. Now not only does this symbolizes his grandmother, but his two years of missionary work in Brazil.
15 May 2008 1 Comment
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This is a funeral arrangement I made today for a man. I had lots of fun making it, too. It is always fun when the person purchasing flowers has an imagination and lets you do some things that are non-traditional. The customer picked out a similar design from one of our books at the store, TELEFLORA, but wanted different colors and flowers; just wanted a similar look to the piece.
08 May 2008 5 Comments
in family
>So, if you are wondering about the sort of lack of posts lately, we have had proms the last few weeks at work; it is Mother's Day week; and we have had a death in the family, Great Grandma H . My life is in a sort of holding pattern 'till all this passes. Take care and please send well wishing thoughts and prayers to my in-laws


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I'm about to embark on a road trip. Has anyone read this yet? I'm torn from the reviews thinking I might hate the ending, and I'm not really sure I want to cry while reading a book. Someone please advise.
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12 Days of Christmas Freebie & a Sale!
|On the 6th day of Christmas Nuthouse Scraps gave to me...
A free mini kit and 50% off Amy W. Designs!
Thursday, December 30th is the 6th day of Christmas at Nuthouse Scraps and my whole shop is 50% off! Don't forget to swing by and grab the 6th part of the 12 Days of Christmas Mega Kit & Stamps (The stamps are SO cute!) We also have a 12 Days bundle that inclues everything even the coordinating glitter styles!
*You must sign in to the shop to get the freebie stamp (6 Geese A Laying) on the Nuthouse shop homepage, then put the day 6 mini kit into your cart and check out in the shop to get the mini kit!
Day 6 freebie:The Stamps
The Kit
The Papers
The elements (not everything shown)
Here's a LO I made, using the kit, of Emma this year.
Missed some days? No worries we have the individual days for sale as well. Check out all the 12 Days of Christmas goodies HERE.
Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and have a Happy New Year!


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Carly is an associate solicitor in the private client team and advises on wills for elderly clients, single people, married couples and civil partners as well as offering advice on tax planning and Lasting Powers of Attorney.
She liaises closely with our French law and property team for clients who require wills dealing with both their French and English estates. She also has extensive knowledge in preparing more complex wills such as those containing discretionary trusts, nil rate band discretionary trusts, charitable trusts, life interest trusts, protective life interest trusts and disabled persons trusts. Carly also advises on estates containing foreign assets and domicile issues.


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Supply and demand for Aunt Florrie's cupcakes
Let's say you have a cafe in a small town, and you decide to sell some of your Aunt Florrie's cupcakes. But you face an important decision: how to set a price? If you price them too high, you won't sell a lot, but if you price them too low, you won't make much profit.
In this step, we will
learn about supply and demand curves, or lines
find the sweet spot when it comes to pricing Aunt Florrie's cupcakes.
A touch of microeconomics
Microeconomics is the study of the economic decisions of individuals and companies, and in particular their behaviours in markets where goods and services are sold. In microeconomics, we are particularly interested in the relation between the quantity of a good (for example cupcakes) and its price .
Let's say you experiment with different pricing structures: you quickly find out that the higher your price for cupcakes, the fewer cupcakes customers buy. Perhaps, after more experimentation, you find that Demand is linearly related to the Price, as shown by these figures.
|Price ()
|Quantity ()
Q1 (E): What is the slope of the line passing through these points, with as the horizontal axis and as the vertical axis?
Demand curve
We can graphically represent this data with a graph of a Demand Curve, which in this case is a line. In real life, this curve is not going to be exactly a line, but economists, like the rest of us, prefer to make simplifying assumptions so that things are easier to understand. One advantage in dealing with lines is that they have simple linear equations. In our case the Demand curve has equation:
Q2 (E): How high can you jack up the price of cupcakes before there are no sales?
Supply curve
Somewhat more subtle is that the supplier of the good also is influenced by its Price, but in the opposite direction of the consumer. Aunt Florrie is not that keen on making more than a dozen or perhaps two cupcakes a week, but if she gets a better price for them, her motivation for making more increases. The following values describe Florrie's Supply Curve (in this case a line) which describes how much she is willing to make at a given price level.
|Price ()
|Quantity ()
This Supply line has equation
Q3 (E): If you offer Aunt Florrie one dollar, will she make you a cupcake?
An equilibrium point
Economists are very interested in equilibrium points; in this case where the Demand Curve and the Supply Curve meet. From the tables, we can see this is when and . If the price gets any higher than that, although we will have more cupcakes available, we won't have enough demand for people to buy them. If the price is lower, there will be more demand, but not enough cupcakes, since Aunt Florrie will rather spend her time bowling with her friends.
So the point is an equilibrium point—the sweet spot for this particular economic story. We could also find this point by solving the two equations for the lines:
What do you think are the pros and cons of this kind of analysis? Share your answers in the discussion.
A1. Using the points and the slope is
A2. You will sell exactly one cupcake when . Any price bigger than this will result in no sales.
A3. When on the supply line, , so that . This is telling us that Aunt Florrie is unwilling to make any cupcakes at this price. In fact the minimum price for which she will even begin to consider making cupcakes is the -intercept of the Supply line, which is .
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How to Save Wilted Tomato Plants
It can feel devastating to spend a lot of time cultivating your tomatoes to find that your plants have started to wilt. Wilt can be a sign of many different problems that include bacteria, watering, viruses or insects. When your plants begin to wilt there's no reason to give up on them. There are several things you can do to find the source of wilting and to help revive your plants. Tomato plants that have wilted can be saved in most circumstances.
Check to make sure there are no walnut trees within 25 feet of your tomato plants. The chemical in walnuts called juglone is toxic to plants. Tomatoes are especially sensitive to juglone and will wilt if exposed to it. Transplant tomato plants to another area if there is a walnut tree nearby.
Water your tomato plants immediately. Keep an eye on them for the next 24 hours to see if that solves the wilting problem. Tomatoes wilt when they don't get 1 inch of water a week; they need more water when it is especially dry and hot.
Check the soil around your plants for fungus. You will see a line of white mold around your plants. Remove and transplant your plants to another area if they are infected.
Pull and destroy dead plants if you suspect insects or a virus is affecting your tomatoes. This will save your other tomato plants. Identify if a stalk borer is infecting your plants by looking for a purple-and-cream-colored caterpillar. Remove any caterpillars you find on your plants. Keep the weeds mowed to prevent further infestation.
Check for bacterial infections if you can't find any other reason your plants are wilting. Cut off a lower stem on each plant. You will see a brown discoloration inside of your plants if they have fusarium bacteria and a light brown color if they have the verticillium bacteria. Remove and destroy any infected plants to save your remaining tomato plants. Avoid overly wetting the soil to prevent further bacteria from getting to your plants. Make sure your soil is kept moist, but never soggy.


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Kokua-3.7.24 Released
***A clean install is recommended for this update.***
This release changes upstream Restrained Love Viewer capability from RLVa to RLV. The RLV viewer published by Marine Kelley tracks changes to SL's viewer very closely. Tracking closely to the SL viewer is something that Kokua has always done. Added is the ability to select RLV as a main menu entry and in most cases bypass RLV activity in Kokua code. Default behavior is that RLV will not be present. Recommendation for a clean install is because of the different settings presented by having RLV versus RLVa in the last Kokua release. Please confirm any issues with Kokua's RLV implementation by using upstream RLV which may be downloaded from here. For those that have used Kokua weekly / test viewers in the past few weeks; if you do not clean install you may experience a notification at viewer start about restarting to change RLV mode because the default is set to RLV off and settings in your local setting file is RLV on. You will need select off/on once more in order to sync the on/off selection. This can be avoided with a clean install.
The SL additions below update the respective release candidate cohort viewers. These were originally merged into Kokua in versions 3.7.21 and 3.7.22 before the candidates made release. This release completes those early merges.
– SL Release 3.7.21 Snowstorm Fall Contributions Cohort Release Notes
– SL Release 3.7.22 Fix Crash on launch in GPU benchmark Release Notes
– SL Release 3.7.23 Maintenance Cohort Release Notes
– SL Release 3.7.24 Pipelining Enhancements Cohort Release Notes
Please refer to Release Notes for more detail of fixes and additions in this release.
A note for OpenSimulator users. Kokua-3.7.24 operates correctly on 3RD Rock Grid, Great Canadian Grid and jOpenSimWorld. It may crash on other grids so, if needed on other grids please use the Kokua-OpenSim viewer.


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Piloxing. Heard of it?
Although not exactly "new" seeing as how it's been around for a few years, this workout for women is definitely growing in popularity. As with most trends, this workout has swept Hollywood and is now making its way throughout the general population. Created by Viveca Jensen, Piloxing is meant to empower women while getting them in great shape. Sporting weighted gloves and bare feet for this 60-minute hybrid workout, women perform a combination of boxing, dance, and pilates moves through high intensity intervals.
What do you get from Piloxing?
- A huge calorie burning & total body workout to shed fat
- A fun and exciting workout with no room for boredom to keep you coming back
- Firm & toned muscles
- A great cardiovascular workout
You can purchase your own set of Piloxing DVD's and work out in the comfort of your own home, or join a class at a gym offering Piloxing.
Click HERE for a video preview of this hot new workout.
For more information about Piloxing and to find a class in your area, check out the official website >>>PILOXING
Tried it or want to? Comment below and tell us what you think about Piloxing??
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Elvis is Rick, a fired airline pilot who returns to Hawaii and starts a helicopter business with his old pal Danny. After some careless flying, Rick gets grounded - but his buddy missing, so he's got some quick figuring to do... Starring Elvis, James Shigeta & Suzanna Leigh.
Dir. D. Michael Moore. (91 mins.)