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Tip of the Almadies
The tip of the Amaldies is the most westerly point of Africa, located near the city of Dakar, in Senegal, on the peninsula of Cape Verde. The archipelago is about 600 km from there, but the peninsula points toward the islands. The "mamelles", two small hills about 100m high, are the highest points in the area and you can climb to the top for a view of the ocean, the beach, a little bit of Dakar, and to see the lighthouse on the western continent. The cliff falls brutally to the sea and is known as the "highway of Almadies", a carpet of rocks in front of the cliff. The beacon sends a message to warn the ships crossing the area to beware, but many are buried there.
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Word on the streets has it that a city beauty with a penchant for the finer things in life has been
double triple dealing three successful men. One, a politician is said to be a very intelligent man who however portrays himself as only having half the intellectual quotient he actually possesses.
The second is a celebrity whose physique has been the fuel for many a Kenyan lady's frustrating dreams.
The third is a well connected and oiled wheeler-dealer and businessman who has decided that in order to outdo his rivals, he has to secure our mystery beau's hand in marriage.
Friends of the couple while happy are wary of the little lady's roving eye and this is further compounded by the fact that she recently enjoyed a sojourn to the Middle East as a guest of the mheshimiwa where the mind can only run itself to exhaustion thinking of the wondrous activities they engaged in.


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She doesn't act her age. This morning she flew home from Boise, where she attended the memorial service of her brother-in-law Roy. On their way home from the airport, other siblings-in-law took her for a birthday lunch. When she got home she noticed the work on her apartment lighting hadn't been done. After a call to the maintenance team, she stood by and oversaw the operation of a ceiling light installation. Trouble was, it crashed to the floor, making a huge mess. Of course they cleaned it up, but Mom Edna was barely able to make it to the birthday picnic we locals planned.
It was a low-effort, high-reward affair. Minimal decor, bring your own sandwich, store-bought cake.
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After the traditional round of hacky-sack, John entertained all of us with a little show. Those grandpa-made stilts have been hanging around since his childhood. I guess it's like riding a bike…


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LOVER'S rock veteran Barrington Levy has hit out at against the rise of "pornographic material" in locally produced music.
Levy, whose career started in the late 1970s, believes the explicit content is hurting reggae's image.
"I see where the music business is taking a turn for the worst. It's going in a direction where we are losing it," said Levy in an interview with the Jamaica Observer.
Recently, some dancehall artistes — including Demarco, Konshens and Alkaline — have produced sexually-charged songs and videos.
"These people have no morals anymore. Are we going to do anything for money? Levy asked, adding: "I never came into the music business just to sell records. I thought I would just sing for the love of it."
X-rated content has been part of Jamaican popular music since the 1960s. It gathered even more steam in the 1970s when Levy's career was taking off.
Levy has one of the strongest catalogues in dancehall/reggae. His numerous hits include Under Mi Sensi, Black Roses, My Woman, Looking My Love, On The Telephone and Work.
He is currently recording an acoustic album containing some of his biggest hits as well as promoting a new single, Rosie.
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4 Sep 2019: Following its annual general meeting, the Mallacoota Community Health Infrastructure & Resilience Fund Inc's (CHIRF) Dr Cosgrave unveiled its three year strategy draft strategy for managing health priorities for the remote region. It proposes a three-year focus to grow its local health and medical workforce, consolidating after hours medical support and expanding its current premises for more health programs and over-night stays for visiting specialists.Continue Reading
Cardio-Pulmonary Rehabilitation Service Launches in Mallacoota
6 August 2019: Following a successful pilot program the Mallacoota Medical Centre is pleased to be able to offer the Mallacoota Cardio-Pulmonary Rehabilitation Service. Cardio-Pulmonary Rehabilitation is a program designed to assist people in achieving their best heart and lung health. It is essentially an education and exercise program specifically tailored for those with heart […]Continue Reading
Medical Centre Lease Renewed as MIAC and CHIRF Plan New Alliance
11 June 2019: Following a recent review, the Committee of Mallacoota Inlet Aged Care (MIAC) is delighted to announce that the lease for its property that houses the Mallacoota Medical Centre (MMC) had been extended for another three years based on the roll over provisions in the contract. "The roll-over of the lease offers the […]Continue Reading
MIAC-CHIRF medical centre program receives Government grant
5 June 2019: The Mallacoota Medical Centre MIAC-CHIRF consortium is delighted to announce the Gippsland Primary Health Network (GPHN) has agreed to fund CHIRFs extended health program under its new Medical Centre for another two years. The grant is worth some $85,000 for the next three years. This adds to the $330,000 received from the Federal […]Continue Reading
After Hours returns to Mallacoota
Provisions for after hours call outs – CHIRF tackles a long standing gap in medical services by negotiating for a new deal on 24 hour – 7 day GP/nurse support. This saves on unnecessary ambulance or other means of accessing essential services.Continue Reading
CHIRF wins health grant
Tuesday 1 Oct 2018: The remote towns of Mallacoota, Gypsy Point, Genoa and Cann River, Far East Gippsland, Victoria are celebrating receiving $136,864 to support the development and implementation of additional health services through Mallacoota's local G.P. medical clinic led by Dr Sara Renwick-Lau. As part of its Enhancing Country Health Outcomes (ECHO) grant program, […]Continue Reading
RIPERN Scholarships
6 September 2017: RIPERN SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE FROM MALLACOOTA MEDICAL CENTRE (After hours to be introduced asap). Mallacoota Medical Centre's Dr Sara Renwick-Lau aims reintroduce 24/7 after hours and palliative care into the Mallacoota District using a nurse-based model. Initially with RN qualified nurses the service will grow with training to expand the nurse's legal capabilities […]Continue Reading
$300K for new med centre
Wednesday, July 12, 2017 $300,000 FOR A NEW MEDICAL CENTRE IN MALLACOOTA Mallacoota will receive $300,000 in Federal Government funding to build a new medical centre. The Nationals Member for Gippsland Darren Chester today welcomed an announcement the Mallacoota Medical Centre was well on its way to having a new, modern home. "The Federal Government […]Continue Reading
9 Tips to Help Balance Hormones Naturally
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Get the Facts: The Benefits of Cholesterol
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This hand made Jacob Cohen jean is a wardrobe staple. Slightly washed denim, rust stitch with chrome button and rivets.
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text: Original articlesNager acrofacial dysostosis with a novel mutation in SF3B4 and developmental retardation in an Egyptian childIsmail, Samiraa; Fayez, Alaaeldinb; Otaify, Ghada A.a; Sayed, Inasc; El Ruby, Mona O.a; Aglan, Mona S.a; Temtamy, Samia A.aAuthor Information Departments of aClinical Genetics bMolecular Genetics and Enzymology cOrodental Genetics, Human Genetics and Genome Research Division, Centre of Excellence of Human Genetics, National Research Centre, Cairo 12311, Egypt Correspondence to Samira Ismail, MD, PhD, Clinical Department of Genetics, Human Genetics and Genome Research Division, Centre of Excellence of Human Genetics, National Research Centre, El-Tahrir St, Dokki, 12311Cairo, Egypt E-mail: email@example.com Received May 15, 2017 Accepted June 15, 2017 Middle East Journal of Medical Genetics: July 2017 - Volume 6 - Issue 2 - p 82-87 doi: 10.1097/01.MXE.0000521018.95032.31 Buy Metrics Abstract Introduction Nager syndrome is a rare autosomal dominant genetic disorder with acrofacial dysostosis. The SF3B4 gene, which consists of six exons located at 1q21.2, is the only known gene that causes the syndrome. Patients and methods This is a case report of an Egyptian female patient with clinical manifestations of Nager syndrome. Detailed clinical and orodental examination was performed in addition to needed imaging studies. Sanger sequencing was performed to identify variants in all six exons of the SF3B4 gene. Results A novel heterozygous p.L96M variant in exon 3 of SF3B4 gene was identified in the affected case and was absent in her parents. In-silico analysis results showed that this nucleotide is highly conserved among species and is disease causing. Conclusion We report on an Egyptian child with Nager acrofacial dysostosis syndrome with developmental retardation. Diagnosis was based mainly on clinical and radiological manifestations and confirmed by molecular studies that identified a novel mutation in SF3B4. © 2017 Middle East Journal of Medical Genetics


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Sexy sophistication was the scaffolding for the design of the 'Manhattan Minimalism' Collection. Particularly this fabulous 'Wave' ring made of white enamel on 18K gold and platinum featuring gorgeous colet-set diamonds that add the perfect amount of glam. Everything in this collection is fabulously suited and always modern.
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July 21st to July 26th
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Sage Summit is the conference for Sage customers and partners. This event promotes connecting with and learning from a diverse community of peers, product experts, and industry thought leaders.
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Remember baseball games in Candlestick Park? No? Well, that's not going to stop us from telling you about it.
In short, attendees at Sunday's game may receive a Hello Kitty plush doll and/or Hello Kitty bobblehead. Per the team, "Various pre-game and in-game components will be themed around Hello Kitty" -- thereby ensuring an existential crisis for many a fan who realizes that this is the price to pay for enjoying a placid, sunny, successful, Candy Maldonado-free environment.
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When your husband has corrective vision surgery it kinda takes the fun out of getting new contact lenses in the mail. My prescription is mild so I don't use them on a regular basis, mainly on weekends when sharper distance vision helps. I opt for the standard Acuvue 2, but this time I had my optometrist toss in a fun pair of colored contacts…
We all agree that Paris Hilton is a freakette, but those blue contacts (Didn't you know she has brown eyes naturally?) are the most realistic colored lenses I've ever seen, so I figured I'd give them a try.
She wears Elegance Opaques in Light Blue by CIBA Vision. They are incredibly hard to find in the US, but after wearing them, I can tell you they're worth tracking down. They're all they're cracked up to be. People will question what color eyes you had to begin with.
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I am now engaged. Pretty wild stuff.
I had decided to do it today just because it was one of few days where Melanie and I would be able to spend some time without other people and go and do something. She wanted to buy a new camera and I decided to walk her to a close by park (Madison Square Park) that I love so she could test it out.
For two years or so I've been saying the phrase "So what do you think about us?" to her, implying wedding talk, over and over to mess with her, and she eventually started telling me to not say it unless I was seriously ready to get married. I never stopped and continued to piss her off with it.
So today at the park we were sitting there and I asked her "So what do you think?" and she said "About us? I wanna get married!!" I said "Eh" and she said with some 'tude "Will you stop saying that and joking around?" to which I said fine and pulled the ring out of my pocket as I got down on one knee. She had no idea and was speechless for a few seconds before agreeing.
A little irony is that in vague wedding planning chats we've had, we've wanted a certain restaurant to cater our wedding. With that, this park we were at has "sponsored" benches with a plate of a person or company that paid for the placement of that bench. I chose a bench from afar as we entered the park, when we got up to it, that bench was sponsored by the very restaurant that we want to cater our wedding! I had no idea in advance. We sat down and Mel aid "Wow, it's a sign",to which she didn't know how much of a sign since she would be engaged a few minutes later.
Ok, enough babbling from me. I had many different ideas on how I'd do it but went with a more conventional approach. Good times. :)


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After working in Beijing for six months, around-the-world cyclist Charlie Walker is back in a very different kind of saddle
Buying a horse involved being put in touch with my cousin's Mongolian friend's nephew's friend Puujee. I cycled the 50 miles from Ulaanbaatar to the village of Bayanchandmani, where I met Puujee, and was quickly whisked away into the hills in his van with his two giggling daughters. His herder friend lived in an isolated ger (traditional circular felt tent) and had three horses for sale.
My previous equine experience consisted of a three-day trek with guides in Mongolia three years earlier and once falling, near-naked and beyond intoxicated, off an English horse after a terrifying 12 yard bareback bolt. However, my resolve to go on a solo horse trek formed on my last visit to Mongolia and had since fermented and solidified into an unavoidable certainty. A huge, fenceless country with a still-existent nomadic, horseman culture was simply too tempting.
With a small crowd of amused onlookers, I test rode each horse and did my best to appear in the know by checking teeth, hooves, body fat, infected wounds, demeanour and spines. I didn't know exactly what to look for in each of these areas but I gave knowing grunts, nods and sighs when examining each. At length I settled on a small, fat, bay gelding. He was relatively calm (despite kicking me once during inspection) and seemed sturdy despite his diminutive size. The price was laboriously hammered out that night over liberal vodka, snuff, airag (fermented mare's milk) and mutton soup; each administered with a great deal of ceremony. A deal was struck and a couple of days later I found myself mounted and directing my new steed, Nicky, away from the village and testing how he coped with the combined weight of me and my loaded saddlebags.
I was genuinely daunted. Except for observing Puujee saddle the horse, I knew next to nothing. What if Nicky escapes? What if he throws me off and I break a bone miles from help? What if I can't look after him and he suffers, or even dies? What if he's stolen? It was going to be a steep learning curve.
Temporarily shelving my fears, I allowed Mongolia's seemingly boundless greenness to swallow me whole. I was soon deep in a grassy valley with no traces of humanity in sight. Following a west north-west compass bearing I rode steadily on; dismounting for the steeper climbs.
I pushed the horse hard hoping a baptism of fire would most effectively show me his capabilities and establish my dominance. It was a hot day and I prevented my mount from grazing as we went to set a precedent. He had been left free for some time (his rotund belly affirming this) and resented being deprived of grass. Suddenly angry, he violently bucked with no forewarning. The saddlebags were thrown off and a glass jar of pasta sauce within was smashed. He then refused my bribes (of carrots, sugar lumps and peppermints) I tried to calm him with. It was a messy start to our partnership.
Camping that evening brought new responsibilities and new challenges: finding ample grazing, tethering and hobbling Nicky. I had a hatchet and a sturdy stake so tethering was simple but kneeling down by his front legs was the last place I wanted to be while I fumbled with the lockable, metal hobbles (effectively handcuffs to hinder fast flight in case of theft).
I slept nearby in a bivvy bag having foregone my tent in favour of travelling light. It had been an exhausting first day and I soon fell asleep; staring at the stars and being lulled by the gentle clink-clank of the hobbles. It was a new experience to have another being to look after before myself.
Charlie Walker is a bicycle adventurer who is a quarter of the way through a four year, 40,000 mile cycle trip to the four corners of the Earth. He is hoping to raise £20,000 for a variety of charities. You can follow his exploits on his website, CharlieWalkerExplore.
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text: Yu Fujiwara Paris Fashion Week AW18Photography Yu FujuwaraYu Fujiwara shoots the spectacle at Paris Fashion WeekFashionLightboxFeaturing Rei Kawakubo, Michele Lamy, and Simon Porte Jacquemus20March 2018TextEmily DinsdalePhotographyYu FujiwaraYu Fujiwara – Paris AW1842 When Fashion Week AW18 rolled into Paris, Yu Fujiwara, was there to capture the chaos in all its glory as the showgoers tried to keep warm (and also look cool) on Paris's cold wet streets. Some familiar faces you might recognise from the final lap of the fashion week circuit include Selah Marley, Slick Woods, and a smiling Simon Porte Jacquemus. In a major moment, he also shot a conversation between Rei Kawakubo, Michele Lamy and Adrian Joffe – if only pictures could talk... Elsewhere, Fujiwara trained his lens on the precious details and moments that evade the notice of other photographers – some eccentric locals, two very different worlds colliding on the stairs descending into the Metro, the portentous pile of empty, abandoned cardboard boxes emblazoned with the word 'EUROPE'. Head to the gallery above to see the full selection. @8and2 Yu Fujiwara Paris Fashion Week AW18Photography Yu Fujuwara


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Rebasing back to the UK – we got this!
By Gemma Richardson, Paderborn Co-ordinator
With over 4,000 people due to move from Germany to the UK rebasing is Go! Go! Go!
Myself and the rest of the AFF team have attended more briefings than you can count, worked with and questioned the chain of command where needed and we're working tirelessly to support the whole community.
School and house applications, march-outs, removal allowances, hotel bookings, vet check-ups, de-BFGing cars; if you've ever moved (who are we kidding, you're an Army family, of course you have!) you'll know what I mean when I say it isn't easy.
The big difference
This move is the biggest the Army has seen so far. The scale of it, and our role has been, and will remain, to support families through this challenging, and sometimes stress-inducing process.
Perhaps you're one of the families who've lived in Germany for their entire military career? Maybe your children have never set foot on verdant UK soil. If so, you may (understandably) be finding the thought of moving daunting.
However, terrible tales of British weather aside most Forces families are looking forward to their return to the UK. To fish and chips and afternoon tea, to the cocktail of customer service and lack of language barrier, to spending time with family and – most importantly – the free babysitting services they may bring!
"Our role has been, and will remain, to support families through this challenging, and sometimes stress-inducing, process."
Behind the scenes, a huge amount of work has been put in, not least by Unit Welfare Officers (UWO's) who have been doing their best to ensure families remain the focus of rebasing.
Salisbury Plain rooms, Woodbridge maps and local information stands have all been created and crafted, supported by the HIVE and local schools.
We've even seen spouses sent on UK reconnaissance missions, soldier-style! Though armed with FAQs and notepads rather than cam cream and rifles…
At AFF we've held and attended a huge variety of coffee mornings, all happily punctuated with much cake (obviously), and unhappily, the proceeding extra pounds.
Recently, our lovely Wiltshire AFF team visited to give families a real sense of the local area back in the UK. Of the Beacon hills that dominate the backdrop of Salisbury Plain, of the local Tesco that you can do a whole week's shop in (imagine!) and much more.
The road to rebasing, I'll be honest, hasn't been an entirely smooth one, with more bumps expected. But, there is a definite, becoming-ever-more-luminous, light at the end.
We've done all we can to make the transition from German to UK life as easy as possible. Yes life will be different, but as Army families you'll no doubt do what you've always done – make your new posting, your new house, a home.
A home, or at least my home, that may or may not be filled with the smell of fish and chips…


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First, check out the logo for 'The Flash', which kicks off its debut season on Tuesday, Oct. 7 on +The CW Television Network.
Next, we have the atmospheric logo for the Batman prequel series 'Gotham', debuting on Monday, Sept. 22 on +FOX.
Finally, here's the logo for 'Arrow', premiering its third season on Wednesday, Oct. 8 on The CW.


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ESERO UK CanSat Competition
During the 2018/19 academic year, Manchester CanSat Project (MCP) have been collaborating with the European Space Education Resource Office (ESERO) York branch and the National STEM Learning Centre. The ESERO UK CanSat Competition is a CanSat Competition organised by the European Space Agency and is aimed at students aged 14 – 20. MCP helped out by providing assistance and guidance to teams across the UK, as well as two of our members being on the judging panel to decide which team progressed to the European Finals.
MACE Open Days
As a student-led society in the University of Manchester, Manchester CanSat Project participates in Open Days for the School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering (MACE). MCP are given the opportunity to talk to prospective students about what we do and why. We are also able to showcase our winning CanSat from the AAS CanSat Competition as well as CanSats from the University of Manchester UK CanSat Competition teams.


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him throw his 'audience' a curve-ball - great stuff.
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- Gey Blabby said...
Danny Kaye was almost ubiquitous back when I was growing up, with his films being on telly all the time — Walter Mitty, Hans Christian Andersen, White Christmas (of course) to name a few — yet nowadays it's rare to hear his name mentioned. I always felt there was something a bit off-kilter about him and his films; it wasn't quite as obvious as the stuff you'd expect from the standard Hollywood fare of the time, and I think I appreciated him more as I got older.
He was beloved in Glasgow and was mobbed after his performances at The Empire. A BBC Scotland show told the story, including footage of him on-stage at said theatre singing Minnie The Moocher: apparently a crowd of several hundred people followed his car back to the Central Hotel, and eventually he had to make an appearance on the balcony at midnight as they showed no sign of leaving. He sang them a song called Ballin' The Jack, which included a whole lot of body movements, and apparently the whole crowd were copying them all in the middle of the street. Not bad, when you consider that the Glasgow Empire crowd were notoriously difficult to please: if they liked you, they really liked you.
- 6 June 2014 at 07:05
- Kid said...
Great story, GB. He did some marvellous movies in his time, which are still hugely entertaining today. I've got quite a few CDs of his music and he wasn't a bad little chanter at all.
- 6 June 2014 at 13:41
Kid, I've just been reading the post about your letter to POTA No.8 and there was a mention of a website called "Hunter's POTA" which I never knew existed - I just checked and it displays all the covers AND the stories from the POTA UK weeklies !!!!!!!!! To read these stories again has been a life-long dream of mine - I just had a brief look at POTA No.5 which was my first ever Marvel comic. To say I'm salivating would be an under-statement - thanks so so much for that post !!!!!!!!
- 6 June 2014 at 14:44
- Kid said...
Yes, I had a look at that site myself, so thanks to JP for mentioning it. Regarding POTA #5, you should look for it on eBay or Amazon and reclaim it into the fold - it shouldn't cost too much.
- 6 June 2014 at 15:51
- Gey Blabby said...
Sort-of related to your recent Batman cover posts, Kid:
I can't remember if it was in an issue with Adams art, but Elliot Maggin wrote a backup Robin story at this time that was dedicated to Danny Kaye and featured a character based on him. It had little references to his film career, and Robin's motorcycle made the famous Walter Mitty 'ta-pocketa-pocketa' sound.
- 7 June 2014 at 01:21
- Kid said...
Thanks, GB, I must look out for it. All this talk about Danny Kaye has made me want to dig out my DVD of The Court Jester - a true classic.
- 7 June 2014 at 02:23


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Monday, May 30, 2011
05.29.11 cooking at home
Carter whipped up this healthful meal with my love for Mediterranean tastes in mind. It included: roasted brussels sprouts, chicken thighs marinated with his concoction of lemon juice, olive oil and other flavors and couscous with cukes, tomatoes, mint, lime roasted red peppers and more.
Saturday, May 28, 2011
05.28.11 last meal in Vegas
05.27.11 horseback riding in the desert
Friday, May 27, 2011
05.26.11 Paris, Vegas
Thursday, May 26, 2011
05.25.11 Vegas getaway
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
05.24.11 Kindergarten graduate
It's hard to believe the school year is over already. This day doesn't seem like it was that long ago.
05.23.11 Joplin
This was one of the few bright spots of the day. This woman was thrilled to find a portrait of her daughters that used to hang in the hallway of their home. She and her three children survived the tornado in their basement.
Here's an interview I did with CNN earlier in the day.
05.22.11 Joplin tornado
We were in Joplin, Missouri shooting a wedding when this happened.
Sunday, May 22, 2011
05.21.11 Memorial Auditorium
Friday, May 20, 2011
05.20.11 Grandma and Taco
Thursday, May 19, 2011
05.19.11 White Castle
I had no idea they had holes in them. White Castle came to town and it was a pretty big deal. I was pretty bummed I didn't see the "Hot Steamy Buns" tape.
05.18.11 my growing collection
Going to pin this on my bag very soon.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
05.17.11 Sammy
Monday, May 16, 2011
05.16.11 balls
Sunday, May 15, 2011
05.15.11 at the powwow
Saturday, May 14, 2011
05.14.11 ballet weekend
05.13.11 plate licker
plate licker, noun - One who loves the meal so much that she/he licks the plates clean. Named after the great Erin Craddock who loves her some of CRG's Indian cooking.
Thursday, May 12, 2011
05.12.11 diving in Kansas
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
05.11.11 dining at Neighbors
05.10.11 a vegetarian diet
Monday, May 9, 2011
05.09.11 a hot and dusty day
05.08.11 smiles all around
Sunday, May 8, 2011
05.07.11 jungle cat
Saturday, May 7, 2011
05.06.11 Psyched to be painting!
She could not be more stoked about the masterpiece she created for her mama. She has always loved being artistic at my place. I'm sure the colorful walls inspire her.
Friday, May 6, 2011
05.05.11 the birthday boy
We had fun sitting on the patio of Old Chicago celebrating CRG's birthday and trying to recreate this picture I took in 2008.
Sadly, he has to wait three more weeks until he gets his surprise present from me. It's worth the wait.
Thursday, May 5, 2011
05.04.11 Spring color
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
05.03.11 homemade bierock, fattoush salad and roasted veggies
Ever have that dream that you have to go back to high school for some strange reason? I have it a few times a year. If the lunches at my high school were half as good as the one I had yesterday at Kapaun Mt. Carmel Catholic High School, I just might consider it.
Monday, May 2, 2011
05.02.11 rally
Sadly, the ration of rally attendees to journalists was 1:1 at this event. I did photograph a larger motorcycle rally earlier in the day which was really fun for me because I got to cruise around town on one.
Sunday, May 1, 2011
05.01.11 post-gig breakfast
04.30.11 more madness
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Edward (Ted) Lewis, (15th January 1940 to 27th March 1982) was born in Stretford, Manchester, England but the family moved to Lincolnshire when he was six.
He changed the face of British Noir with his hard-boiled crime novels including Get Carter and two frank semi-autobiographical works.
A highly skilled graphic artist, he managed innovative animation on The Beatles, Yellow Submarine and was also a talented Jazz pianist.
Ted Lewis / Get Carter 2020 celebrations.
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Ted's 80th Birthday
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Sonya Malvick
Sonya Malvick is the International President of AWMI. She has been in the steel industry for over 25 years holding a variety of sales and sales management roles with companies such as Russel Metals, J&F Steel, and Ratner Steel. Sonya currently works for Olympic Steel as a Wisconsin Outside Sales Territory Manager.
Mary Wardle
Mary Wardle is the International Vice President of AWMI. She has been in the steel industry since 1982 starting in the accounting department. She moved on to Inventory Control and purchasing and eventually into Sales. She is currently Sales Manager/Western Region for Steelscape, LLC
Beth Kitson
Beth Kitson is the International Treasurer for AWMI. Prior to this position she has served as the Western Regional Director and on the Seattle Chapter as Marketing Chair, VP, and President. Beth is excited to start an outside sales position for Gates Corporation, a company that both supports the steel industry as well as consumes steel for many of the products they produce. Beth earned her Bachelor's of Business Administration (Marketing) degree from Grand Valley State University in 2005.
Andrea Schmidt
Andrea Schmidt is the International Secretary for AWMI. She has worked in the metal's industry since 2005 were she started as a plant Metallurgist with Nucor. Since then she has held different rolls in both quality and sales. Andrea currently works as an Automotive Applications Engineer for Arconic.
Carol Chizmar
Carol Chizmar is the International Past President of AWMI. She has worked in the industry for 35 years in a variety of roles including sales management, supply chain and is currently working as the ENA Customer Service Lead and Team Leader for Hydro Industrial group. Hydro Extrusion North America was previously Sapa, Alcoa, Alumax and Cressona Aluminum Company, all through acquisitions.
Anna Tompkins
Anna Tompkins is the International Marketing Chair of AWMI. She previously served as the president of the Baltimore Chapter. She has Fifteen years' experience in the metals industry working for Atlantic Recycling Group in a variety of roles, currently serving as their Director of Marketing. She received her B.S in Journalism from West Virginia University.
Liza Godsil
Liza Godsil is the International Membership Chair of AWMI. Over the last 10 years she has held various positions on the Seattle Chapter and Western Region boards with the most recent being the Western Regional Director. During her 23 year career, Liza has worked at various metal distributors in multiple sales and management positions. Currently Liza is the Division Manager for Bralco Metals in Seattle, Washington.
Kelly Jones
Kelly Jones has worked in various roles both indirectly and directly related to steel for the past 16 years. Kelly works at Kloeckner Metals Corporation as Manager of Automotive Business Development, responsible for growing and supplying automotive customers with their ferrous and non-ferrous requirements.
Sian Marcone
Sian Marcone worked in a variety of sales and marketing roles for steel producing mills such as Bethlehem Steel, ISG, ArcelorMittal, Severstal and RG Steel, before joining Alcoa (now Arconic) in 2013. She currently is Arconic's Marketing Manager - Industrial in the company's Global Rolled Products division. She was AWMI International President from 2011-2012 and was chosen AWMI Member of the Year for 2010
Rebecca "Becky" Dolan
Rebecca "Becky" Dolan is the Regional Director for the Central Region and Past President of the Columbus Chapter. She has previously served on the Columbus Chapter board as Newsletter / Publicity Chair, Vice President and President along with previously holding the Regional Treasurer and Regional Vice Chair positions for the Central Region. In 1994 she began her career at InfoSight Corporation, a supplier of identification and marking equipment to the metal industries, as the receptionist. Over the years, she has progressed through positions in administration support, accounting and sales. Becky was promoted to her current position of General Manager of Sales Administration and Market Advancement in 2003. Becky graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Ohio University in 1998.
Kim Weisner
Kim Weisner has worked for ArcelorMittal USA for over 13 years and currently works as an Inventory Analyst for Honda Automotive and Whirlpool. Kim previously was a board member on the Chicago chapter and served in many board positions. She is now serving her 2nd year as Midwest Regional Director. Kim enjoyed every year while serving on the Chicago Board of Directors and is excited to use that experience in her current role.
Leah Mojeski
Leah Mojeski works for ArcelorMittal Dofasco as the Manager of Real Estate, Support Services and Recreation. She graduated with a Bachelors Degree of Engineering and Management in 1997 and holds a Professional Engineering license. Leah has been in the metal industry since 1997. She is an active member of the AWMI Toronto Chapter.
Laura Sleighter
Laura Sleighter is the current Past President of the AWMI Tennessee Chapter. With over 20 years' experience in management and procurement, Laura has worked in the metals industry since 2003. Her career started as a Procurement Engineer with Comefri, Inc. (Hopkinsville, KY). She transitioned to a Supply Chain Manager, then Scrap Metal Buyer at Alcoa Recycling, which became Arconic (located in Alcoa, TN). Most recently she became the Senior Metal Trader at Alchemy Metal Specialists. Laura earned her Bachelor of Science in Manufacturing Engineering Technology from Austin Peay State University, and her Master's Degree in Business Administration from University of Phoenix.
Shawna Livingston
Shawna Livingston is serving her first year as Western Regional Director. Her previous roles with AWMI included Western Regional Vice Chair and Seattle Chapter President. Her passion for helping people grow personally and professionally, led her, to become a member of the International Mentoring Committee in 2018. Shawna started as an Administrative Assistant 16 years ago, working her way up through various roles within the metals manufacturing industries including accounting, human resources and procurement. Most recently Shawna was promoted to Operations Manager at Washington Chain & Supply; her new role aligns her to improve efficiencies in WCS' manufacturing and distribution divisions. Throughout her career, she has enjoyed working in both the Aerospace and Marine industries.


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Update: Will Kids be Getting a "Strong Start"?
On Tuesday we shared news with you about an upcoming committee vote on the "Strong Start for America's Children Act", which was being considered in the Senate's Health, Education, Labor, and Pension Committee. We asked you to join us, and thousands of others on Twitter and Facebook, in asking our Senators to heed the research and invest in young kids.
Yesterday, the committee approved the Strong Start legislation with a vote of 12-10. There were two significant changes made to the legislation prior to voting.
- First, the bill originally required teachers – in programs that receive funding – to hold a bachelor's degree, with credentials that demonstrate competence in early education. The change, adopted yesterday, would provide teachers a three-year "grace period" to meet this requirement. This is considered a significant improvement over the original language, which provided no time period for compliance. However, advocates remain concerned that three years will not be enough time for teachers to meet this new mandate.
- And second, new language allows both states and localities to be recipients of the bill's preschool development grants. This language could be problematic as many states, including our own, are trying to build strong systems that reach children no matter where they reside. Money being provided directly to towns with the capacity to write strong applications could cause further fragmentation and inequity.
The Center for Law and Social Policy (commonly known as CLASP) has provided a more in-depth look into yesterday's developments here.
The bill is now likely ready for a vote on the floor of the Senate. We will continue to track this legislation and provide updates as developments arise.
We Support A "Strong Start" – And You Should Too!
Connecticut's legislative season has drawn to a successful close, and so now we turn our attention to developments on the federal level. Today, we are watching the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension (HELP) Committee's 2PM meeting to debate and amend the"Strong Start for America's Children Act". This legislation represents the possibility of a major new federal investment in early care and education; an opportunity Connecticut is well-positioned to take advantage of following the passage of the Office of Early Childhood legislation.
Some of the major components of the "Strong Start" proposal include:
- Funding for Increased Access to Preschool for Four-Year Olds in Low-Income Families
The legislation includes a new funding formula that would provide states with a share of $1.3 billion for Fiscal Year 2014 (increasing to almost $9 billion by 2018) for high-quality pre-kindergarten. States are asked to specifically target the money to assist four-year-olds in families with income below 200% of the federal poverty level. States would be asked to provide a modest match in the early years (10% in year one and two, then gradually increasing to 50% in year six), although at least part of that match can be accounted for from dollars already being expended for early education programs. The legislation empowers state recipients to use the funding for sub-grants to local entities (both school districts and community providers) who are offering high-quality, full-day pre-k experiences. High quality is defined in the bill as a classroom with a teacher with bachelor's degree, that uses developmentally appropriate curriculum, and that meets all health and safety standards. Small portions of the funding would also be available for workforce development (including teacher scholarships) and for creating a more robust system of care for infants and toddlers.
- Funding to Improve Both the Quality and Access to Infant and Toddler Care
The legislation contains $4 billion for the development of Early Head Start-child care partnerships. The goal of these arrangements is to improve infant and toddler care by linking the expertise found in Early Head Start programs with community providers already serving young children. The legislation also states a goal of having Early Head Start serve one in five children living at or below the poverty level; the program currently serves only one in 25.
- Funding to Infuse Greater Quality into CCDBG (Care4Kids)
The legislation contains two very important updates to this 17-year-old grant program. The first is allocating $100 million to support child care training, licensure, and professional development for early care and education programs who receive CCDBG/Care4Kids funding. The language would also require that states switch to a one-year redetermination period for families found eligible for CCDBG/Care4Kids. Currently the redetermination period is set at 8 months in Connecticut for Care4Kids, though language that passed this legislative session would permit the return to a 6 six-month redetermination period. Frequent redetermination creates great uncertainty for both the families and the providers who rely on these childcare subsidies.
- Language in Support of Continued Federal Funding for Voluntary, Evidence-Based Home Visitation Programs (though no actual funding is contained within the bill).
The Senate HELP Committee has organized a "twitter storm" for 2pm while its meeting is being held. This list of sample tweets has been provided to us by our partners at the National Women's Law Center. We hope those of you with accounts on Facebook and Twitter will join us in showing your support! You can also watch live here –help.senate.gov.


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Back to Journals » Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment » Volume 13
Regional impairment of intrinsic functional connectivity strength in patients with chronic primary insomnia
Authors Huang S, Zhou F, Jiang J, Huang M, Zeng X, Ding S, Gong H
Received 17 March 2017
Accepted for publication 18 April 2017
Published 6 June 2017 Volume 2017:13 Pages 1449—1462
DOI https://doi.org/10.2147/NDT.S137292
Checked for plagiarism Yes
Review by Single anonymous peer review
Peer reviewer comments 2
Editor who approved publication: Professor Wai Kwong Tang
Suhua Huang,1 Fuqing Zhou,2,3 Jian Jiang,2,3 Muhua Huang,2,3 Xianjun Zeng,2,3 Shan Ding,1 Honghan Gong2,3
1Department of Radiology, Jiangxi Province Children's Hospital, 2Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Nanchang University, 3Jiangxi Province Medical Imaging Research Institute, Nanchang, People's Republic of China
Abstract: Several neuroimaging studies have suggested that brain impairment and plasticity occur in patients with chronic primary insomnia (CPI); however, the effects of insomnia on the intrinsic organization of the brain remain largely unknown. In this study, a voxel-based functional connectivity strength (FCS) assessment, a data-driven method based on a theoretical approach, was applied to investigate the effects of insomnia on the intrinsic organization of the whole brain in 27 treatment-naïve CPI patients and 26 well-matched healthy controls (HCs). Compared with HCs, CPI patients exhibited decreased FCS primarily in the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, the right medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC), the left basal ganglia/insula, and the right cerebellum anterior lobe (CAL) due to decreased functional connectivity patterns. These results suggest that poor sleep quality could impair FCS within the brain, including the MPFC and the CAL, which are important for cognitive control and modulating motor and limbic functions. Additionally, a receiver operator characteristic analysis revealed that altered FCS has moderate sensitivity (76.9%–88.5%) and specificity (59.3%–70.4%) as a reference indicator to discriminate CPI patients from HCs. Taken together, these findings provide evidence for abnormal intrinsic brain activity in CPI patients and might improve our understanding of the pathophysiological processes that occur in insomnia patients.
Keywords: functional connectivity strength, disconnection, chronic primary insomnia, sleep disorders, resting-state fMRI
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Frog-marching America to a saner health system
(FORTUNE Magazine) – EPIC BUREAUCRACY AND WASTE. THOUSANDS dead for lack of basic services. Delays, paralysis, "blame games." I'm not talking New Orleans here--all of the above are standard procedure in our dysfunctional health-care system, where 18,000 people die each year for lack of insurance, according to the Institute of Medicine. The only thing more depressing than this toxic gumbo of injustice and inefficiency is the fact that no political leader has tried to shake things up since the Clinton health plan imploded 11 years ago.
Until now. If you're convinced that Washington's tinkering-as-usual will never drive the change we need, John Kitzhaber may be your man. Kitzhaber, 58, is the doctor-turned-politician who was Oregon's Democratic governor from 1995 to 2003. He was the force behind Oregon's innovative Medicaid reform in the early 1990s, when the state expanded coverage to poor folks and paid for it by limiting the procedures Medicaid would cover. Critics cried "rationing"; Kitzhaber replied, "You bet." We ration anyway, he argued; better to make the choices transparent and wise via community input and hard-nosed assessments of the value of care. How else can you promote the most cost-effective health for the broadest possible group? Sadly, the consensus eventually eroded, and Oregon's system reverted to the national norm.
But Kitzhaber is back, and he's itching once again to, as he puts it, "pass something illegal." Operating from a local foundation he heads, this self-appointed gadfly is launching a campaign to put a statewide health initiative on the ballot that would require waivers from federal rules to be implemented (i.e., violate the law). It would thus force Washington--and the press--to compare Oregon's idea with health care's insane status quo in ways that finally get people's attention.
Kitzhaber's approach is to add up all the public money available in Oregon for health care (including Medicare, Medicaid, and the tax subsidy for employer-provided health care) and then redirect that money's deployment. He's working with private- and public-sector groups to reach a consensus on the best way to spend this $6.3 billion, or $1,800 per person, to promote health for every Oregonian. The idea is to come up with a conceptual framework voters will be asked to approve, with details to be worked out in legislation. Whatever the fine print, the new model won't look like today's mishmash, in which aging millionaires effectively have their pills paid for by uninsured young families who earn $30,000. It will cover everyone, yet leave people free to spend whatever they want above a publicly funded basic benefit. The analogy Kitzhaber uses is public education: When funding gets tight, we don't say, "Let's cancel 11th grade." We trim the basic offering (e.g., larger classes); the reverse happens when coffers are flush.
Kitzhaber is essentially asking insurers, providers, and politicians to come to the table as citizens in search of a common good. They'll focus first on how to optimize health with the dollars available. Only then will they assess the economic impact on current stakeholders and how to mitigate it in ways that don't undermine the larger goal.
To the standard American voter, that may sound sweet, lovely--and utterly delusional. Insurers and bureaucrats working together to solve practical problems? Please. Kitzhaber, who concedes that such governance won't happen in D.C. on its own, believes that Oregon's civic spirit is still sufficiently intact to be a model for the nation. (He's also quick to point out that his public education model doesn't mean switching to a Canadian-style single-payer system. It simply ensures equity and universality in the way public resources are allocated.)
Kitzhaber's political strategy is to provoke--to be, as he calls it, "the random factor." "If you have a grenade with the pin pulled out," he says, "and you roll it into the Beltway in 2007 when everybody's jockeying to run for President ... it's going to be real hard to ignore."
MATT MILLER (firstname.lastname@example.com) is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and the author of The Two Percent Solution: Fixing America's Problems in Ways Liberals and Conservatives Can Love.


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Vielfalt | Melting Pot
Türkei | Turkey
Jugendpolitik | youth politics
Drogen | Drugs
Gute Reise! Take care!
Frauenpower | Slutwalk
Youngstars 2009
Youngstars 2007
German EU Presidency
Mobility in Europe
Travel in Europe
Reisen in Europa
Climate Change
Action and Youthpass
Youngstars Team
Don't think, it´s easy to travel in Europe!
The European Union was a great idea to have states working together to achieve certain common goals. One of it's admirable features is freedom of movement for its citizens. In all it's provision, however, it all seems highly political, states fighting to have the biggest stake, some opting out on certain issues that they are not happy with, especially the United Kingdom opting out one the shengen agreement. For most freedom of movement is working but for others especially young people, its hardly working.
You actually see that young people are hardly thought of when laws are legislated. The elderly politicians see things their own way and legislate in that regard, disregarding the youthfulness of the rules and regulations.
The young people would decide today to travel tomorrow, which I count as youthfulness, being spontaneous and lively. However, the provision to do that is only open to citizens of the European Union and those who are already within the shengen.
How about those who are habitually resident in the European Union, those who are actively involved in the political and social issues and those who want to make a difference in the youth scene but are not citizens of the European Union? Is this not excluding them from free movement?
Is this not a way to say that they are different? Of course, yes, it is a big dividing wall between the young people. The law seems to strengthen this divide between those who are citizens and those who are habitually resident in the European Union. This issue becomes more serious when young people attempt to acquire visas to travel. They go through terrible horrors and most are left disorientated, loosing their youthfulness and feeling already as adults before becoming one. For example in London, for one to acquire a visa, one needs to call a special number to the embassy of the European Union States to have an appointment. That special number costs £1-£1.50 per minute and you need at least five minutes on the phone making the appointment. Meaning five pounds from the migre pocket money of the youth, and you will be given at least 10 days for the interview. This does not however guarantee the issue of visa, which most times leaves the young people disillusioned about travelling.
Sometime last year we were to travel to Finland for a seminar. We travelled from London to transit in Germany for Finland. My colleague was stopped at the Berlin Shonefeld airport, although she possessed a British passport, the authorities insisted she was from one of the protected islands in the West Indies, so she needed a visa to transit.
How could she have known this when she possessed a British passport, besides, all documents proved we were going to this seminar for young people, but no one heard or listened to us and she was returned to London. Thus I urge the law makers to take into consideration young people in their legislation and allow young people to live their youthfulness and not living their adulthood in their youthful age.
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Iron Dan
The Hunger Games
Day 13 – Exposure 4
HRV Recommendation: Your condition has worsened and you are below baseline. Take it easy today.
Not the best way to start my day. I haven't been this disappointed since the way The Huger Games ended. I just want to feel good again!
After dropping my wife off at work, I had a very real conversation with myself. I kept reflecting on how terrible the last exposure was and that this time EVERYTHING IS HEAVIER! How do I keep going up? this doesn't make sense.
Stop it!
Stop thinking like that. It is time to get jacked. You've got some gravity to overcome.
I arrived at Gold's. It has been a long time since I have trained at commercial gym. Usually I try to find a powerlifting or olympic lifting gym, but I needed machines. I strapped on my work boots, punched the clock, and found my rack. There is a sign right in front of my face that reads: "No Chalk! No Dropping the Weights! No Grunting, Yelling, or Cheering!" My soul started to weep. Are those real rules? I thought a fairy died every time you said one of those things?
Poor fairies.
I did my warmup at 225 and people started staring. I quickly realized that I may be out of place here. I surveyed the room in fear that one of the trainers was going to stop me and explain that my butt to ankle squat will ruin my knees. I grabbed my headphones. I needed to block out all this nonsense around me.
My HR didn't sky rocket during the warm up. I took this as a sign it was time to shift it into the next gear. I opened up my playlist and put the song Lydia on repeat. The lead singer's voice was the only thing I could think of that has more pain in it than my trembling quads.
I went HAM! I obliterated Squats, RDLs, and Step Ups. The hardest part was not having a partner to help change the weights. I was out of breath from plate-change-cardio. It was like being the racecar and the pit crew. It made the rest breaks feel nonexistent.
Bench press. I came out of my secluded meathead world to try and find a bench. All of them in use. Of course they were. The worst thing was I don't think any of them were even being used for bench press. I saw curls, reverse curls, skull crushers, and something on the decline that I can only describe as… Um, I have no words. I will let you decide what to call this.
There's No Time! I can't wait for a bench to open up. I scouted an incline available so I audibled. I kept the same weights that were prescribed for bench and somehow, I finished. I couldn't believe it. Next I crushed lat pulldown like a champ when, wait, what's this? A text from Tayler? .
Excellent! The perfect meme to motivate me for push press. Clutch timing by Tayler.
If you've been following my blog, you know that I get stupid after push press. Like arguing with Neil deGrasse Tyson that the world is flat kind of stupid. After my third set I started stumbling around trying to find a seated row machine. Out of the corner of my eye I caught some phones out. I most definitely ended up on snap chat.
Then, things got weird.
This John Malkovich looking dude started training next to me. I mean this is literally Teddy KGB from Rounders with 2 full sleeve tattoos and a nose ring. I'm waiting for this guy to tell me he can splash the pot whenever he pleases.
Teddy KGB notices my iPad system that is running the Superbeast, my timer, and my music. 1,000 questions ensue. C'mon bro this isn't a date! What is with all the questions? You have eyes. You can see that I am not in a place to chat.
This guy won't let up. He persists on asking me intimate, candle lit, dinner questions. As am dying through my last 2 exercises, I have to ask this guy to chill out. His curiosity is ruining my pump. He finally nods and lets me finish what I started. Triceps and biceps are now toast.
SO HUNGRY! This is a new feeling. Usually I can't make a complete sentence after an exposure let alone think about my next meal. I gotta eat. Like NOW!
I pound my shake, get home, open the fridge, and oh no... This will not be enough. Time to head to the store.
Turn green,
Thought of the Day:
You could never eat your weight in something because you would constantly be gaining weight as you ate.
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Art No: C-IW-FS-1000 – Iwata Freestyle Air Battery Powered Compressor
The Iwata Freestyle Air Battery Powered Compressor is sleek, simple and smart. It is designed for airbrush applications that needs low pressure such as runway and bridal make-up application, body art application, cake decorating and scale model painting. It is ideal for on-set make up application, or when you require mobility. And it comes with international plugs for travel abroad.
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With its 3-speed rolling switch ranging from 5-19 PSI, the Iwata Freestyle Air powers most gravity-feed airbrushes and can be used with other airbrush brands.
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Iwata Freestyle Air can be used upright or laid flat and includes a non-skid, anti-vibration base.
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The Iwata Freestyle Air Compressor works best with Iwata Gravity Feed Airbrushes:
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Today's big story was that Crufts took away a BOB from the bulldog and peke breed winners at this year's Crufts.
Well, it didn't take very long, but the people campaigning those two dogs went a little ape-poopy.
The bulldog now has her own Facebook "We was robbed" page. It has a nice conspiracy theory mixed in, too.
But it's the Peke's defenders who really get crazy. And nothing gets more hysterical than this piece by Billy Wheeler, which uses Malachy's win at Westminster as evidence that Bianca shouldn't have had her BOB taken away.
It also ends with some wonderful bullshit about Pekingese being an ancient breed that hasn't changed in thousands of years.
The Pekingese breed is millennia older than any of your most revered British institutions. What gives you the right to CHANGE the interpretation of what the breed should be from what ancient Emperors and dog fanciers gave us. I promise you, you will not succeed. The Pekingese breed will survive…much longer than your Kennel Club. And that's today's Back Story.
And that's what we call Grade A Bullshit.
The Pekingese has changed dramatically since it was first brought into the West.
Pekes imported from China used to look like this:
These two dogs were imported from China in the 1890's.
They are very different from the show dogs, which often look like this:
The dogs have clearly changed in the past hundred-plus years, haven't they?
So my question to Mr. Wheeler is what gave Westerners the right to turn the cute little dogs of the Dowager Empress into ugly little fuzzballs that can't breathe, walk, or cool themselves properly?
Do you people want some cheese with your whine?
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He performed at the peak of Machu Picchu, joined by 63 travellers – including musicians from The Fixx, Fastball and others.
There were also cancer survivors and their supporters from around the world.
The event – Peru Rocks – was organised by Mike's Love Hope Strength foundation.
Mike Peters was diagnosed with Chronic Lymphatic Leukaemia (CLL) in December 2005 and continues to have treatment at Ysbyty Gwynedd, Bangor.
He hosts Snowdon Rocks every midsummer and so far has raised over £80,000 for Ysbyty Glan Clwyd and Ysbyty Gwynedd.
The trip to Peru took Mike and the trekkers from Cuzco to the heights of Machu Picchu, one of the eight wonders of the world then back to Lima.


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The best thing about having the garmin replaced is that now everything is a record! So yesterday I had my fastest km, fastest mile and longest distance – despite running not very quickly and only a little over 3km.
I say a little over because I forgot to turn it off when I stopped running. I was distracted because I saw Clarissifer walking along in front of ThePalace(OfLove) about 20m ahead of me and debated whether or not I should greet her. It was very hot (as in 27oC before 9am!) and I was red-faced, sweaty and exhausted, so I erred on the side of not calling attention to myself. Luckily she didn't turn around. I've been quite lucky in that I've only once before encountered someone I know while running – really, people don't need to see that, it would totally ruin my … ermm … mystique.
And more decluttering – mostly very minor things:
These were cute little notes that housekeeping left in our room each day of our holiday. And each night at turn-down we'd find something different on the bed – lavender sachet, pyramid of jelly beans, fresh eye-mask. It was really sweet and a great idea, but we don't need to hold onto the notes.
But I did take photos to remind me. I couldn't decide which version I liked better, so here are both:
taken with the Beast DSLR
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We decluttered the recipe binder and am setting aside two cookbooks to take to SML on Wednesday where I am sure there will be takers. As an aside, I find dumping a stack of books and DVDs in the SML kitchen a pretty excellent way of offloading them – generally they are quickly snapped up and it spreads a little love.
I also discarded some small kitchen things into the charity bin bag. I think we feel pretty satisfied that there is nothing at all superfluous (at this stage) in the kitchen. Yes, I do actually need nine sets of measuring spoons! Though the pantry contents need a good seeing to, if only to rediscover the contents.
And I threw away three lighters. No, I don't know why I felt the need to keep THREE of them when 1. We have not smoked for many years 2. We have many perfectly serviceable boxes of matches.
Just before Christmas, as a result of too much golf, Don injured his ribs yet again, though fortunately did not break them this time. Cue weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth.
He had a couple of visits with the ever-excellent RelentlesslyCheerfulPhysio before we went to Hong Kong and a follow-up visit yesterday.
He arrived home with a note for me (excerpt below):
Don has managed to battle through with his most significant injury which has affected him not just physically but has had an impact on his psychological well being. As a musculoskeletal professional, I feel that his mental state would be much enhanced by a round of 18 on Monday. It is almost a medical emergency.
Very cute.
I am currently treating our bedroom carpet for kitty wee stains using this method. Will report back.
Something is currently unsettling them as one of them also wee'd in my teva sandals this morning.
It's lucky that they are utterly adorable.


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PARIS — Insults and rumors keep coming: His speeches are too long and full of feel-good banalities. He does not have a real program. His time in government was a failure. He is secretly gay. He is developing a personality cult. He favors capitalism, and besides, he is too young.
If any surer sign was needed that Emmanuel Macron, the 39-year-old former minister of the economy, is the new front-runner in France's presidential race, look no further than the concentrated volley of wild attacks against him. Even the Russians, via pro-Kremlin websites, are piling on.
France's two major parties, on the right and the left, are in self-inflicted ruin, the first downed by the corruption scandal surrounding François Fillon, and the second by a utopian dreamer, Benoît Hamon.
Mr. Macron has glided artfully unto the breach. The youthful Mr. Macron is increasingly seen as the one who will turn back the tide of authoritarian populism, the nonpolitician who will defeat Marine Le Pen of the far-right National Front.
But perhaps the only thing more improbable for France than electing Ms. Le Pen would be to elect Mr. Macron.
Despite Ms. Le Pen's best efforts to remake her party, the National Front has traditionally been too toxic for a majority of French to embrace. So even though she currently leads in the polls, hardly anyone expects her to make it through the second round of the country's two-stage voting this spring to become president.
Yet Mr. Macron has never been elected to anything. He served two largely unsuccessful years directing France's vast but sluggish economy, with scant accomplishment in his wake. He is not a member of either major party, or of any party, and is disliked by many of the Socialists in whose government he served. He claims to transcend the parties.
While he has pushed a message that includes doses from left, right and center — maintain France's social protections, keep the country in the European Union and lighten the burden on business — it is a strategy that has also made him the candidate offering something just about everyone can hate.
Or, perhaps more damning in France, it has risked making him into a mannequin candidate who stands for nothing.
"Emmanuel Macron doesn't want to define himself, and it's becoming a problem," Jean-Christophe Cambadélis, a Socialist heavyweight and the party's secretary, said recently. "Meanwhile, it's all a little bit hollow."
When Mr. Macron started his campaign, snickers about his new movement's name — "En Marche," or, "On Our Way" — all but drowned out whatever message the young minister was trying to project. "On our way — to what?" the skeptics asked.
That questions remains largely unanswered even as he now gains traction.
A small stream of Socialist members of Parliament have signed on, despite threats of excommunication from the party, as well as some business and political leaders.
Mr. Macron is married to his former high school drama teacher — this fascinates his countrymen — who is 24 years his senior, and he caused a scandal in his provincial hometown, Amiens, by wooing her. He is a former investment banker with Rothschild & Company, low on the list of most admired professions.
Yet Mr. Macron and his wife, Brigitte, have been on the cover of Paris Match four times in the last year. The glossy magazine has published photographs of the minister giving a bottle to his wife's grandchildren.
On Monday, he brought the gay rumors into the open, joking about them in a speech, to the surprise of French media: "It's disagreeable for Brigitte," Mr. Macron said. "She's asking how I pull this off, physically. She shares my life from morning to night — and I've never paid her for it," he added, slyly evoking the nepotism scandal engulfing Mr. Fillon for having kept his wife on the public payroll for no detectable work.
Overflow crowds and packed rallies in recent weeks have surprised commentators. In Lyon last weekend 8,000 people packed into the sports stadium to hear him, forcing thousands more out on to the grounds to watch Mr. Macron on giant screens.
He spoke for nearly two hours, his face turned up in a kind of rapture, frequently addressing the crowd as his friends.
There were many vague promises of hope and unity, and above all, delight in the huge crowd that had come out. "Your presence, this wall of presences around me, this is living proof that we really are here," Mr. Macron said, beaming.
"It's a demonstration of desire," he told the crowd, "the desire to picture a new future," he continued, in a literary language he says was imbibed early during a studious childhood, in his new campaign book — commentators have mocked the grandeur of the title — "Revolution."
In his speech Mr. Macron claimed the mantle of left, right, center, Charles de Gaulle, and other factions, as well as writers like Émile Zola, Charles Péguy and René Char, all under the floating aegis of a "will to assemble" and "reconciliation."
"And the Gaullists," he said, "did they not carry in their genes this will to assemble, this will not to capitulate to any faction, this incompatibility with conservatism, hatred of the other, and of division?"
The crowd erupted in cheers of "Macron, President!"
He spoke of lowering taxes on companies, restraining capitalism, swiped at the "obscurantism" of Trump's America and denounced the National Front for "betraying fraternity because it detests those faces that don't resemble it."
Mostly, it wasn't concise or specific, but the crowd had not come for that.
In contrast to Ms. Le Pen, Mr. Macron has been mocked for being the darling of the "bourgeois bohemians," and for his awkwardness among the working classes. He was egged in a communist suburb last year and admonished a young man to get a job to pay for a suit.
But those who braved the cold in Lyon — doctors, professors, self-described "company heads," civil servants and many young people — appeared seduced by his high-flown rhetoric.
"Liberty, equality, fraternity: I don't know any other candidate who understands it so well," said Pierre-Alexandre Le Guerm, a 35-year-old town planner. "He's got a lot of courage, in a world where ideologies are dividing people. With his candidacy, we can have some hope."
"With him, all the ideas are coming up from the base," said Monique Janin, 78, who was there with her husband, Raymond, 80, who had worked in the chemical industry. "He's just much more dynamic," she said of Mr. Macron. "It's about much more than simply criticizing others."
"He's got clear ideas, and he's not a divider," said Geneviève Kepenekian, 70, a retired doctor. "And he's a realist. His idea is, get the money from different sources."
"He's open. He's new. He's bringing people together. And he goes off the beaten path," said Thomas Buy, 37, who said he had a string of beauty salons in the Lyon area.
"It was pretty general," Mr. Buy conceded. "We'll have to wait a little longer to see. But one senses a real fervor."


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Published Oct 01, 200532 Leaves new album Welcome to the Fall is pretty much heavy muzak; you barely notice it when its there, it sounds familiar and its generally quite inoffensive. From the Maynard-esque proud, booming vocals to the generically aggressive guitars, 32 Leaves are pretty unremarkable. Bordering on nu-metal town, 32 Leaves have taken their lessons in intensity from the guidebooks of Disturbed or Staind. If it were up to me, Id take the elevator music over this. (Double Blind)


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Got any links for people that don't live in Auckland?
larknz: Try this
I don't live in Auckland, but it is been well reported in the media.
But you started the topic, and I (and others) might not watch/read NZ media...
When you start a topic, it's normally polite to include a link so everyone knows what you're on about... Not having a go /Just Sayin. Thanks for the link.
Pretty crappy that only 14 beaches are useable!
It doesn't seem that urban rivers are the main problem, it's stormwater and a lack of council doing anything meaningful about it.
One of the issues however is urban pollution tends to be confined to a relatively small area. Rural pollution, while not as intense is spread over a much greater area. So while most of the streams in Auckland are of quite poor water quality there are a small number of streams effected, whereas there are a greater number of rural streams impacted.
In the past as rural activities were relatively low intensity the effect on streams and waterways was low (despite many of the practices being worse for the environment than what is carried out now). As agricultural practices have intensified the impact has become greater. (just as cities have got bigger the impact has also become greater)
You can't simply say urban areas are worse so we shouldn't have to take any of the responsibility. Both are at fault and both have to take actions.
larknz: I agree that rampant dairy growth is not sustainable, but there has been a lot of commentary about how the pollution from dairy farms is ruining rivers while the urban problems are ignored.
The difference is probably the fact that 1 dairy farmer can ruin a river, but it takes a city of non-farmers to ruin a harbour.
Aredwood: All of those combined sewage and stormwater pipes are in the former Auckland city council area. Due to historical underinvestment. But according to the council, cycleways are more important than fixing the sewage system.
As for dairy farming. Since the majority of NZ dairy production is exported, it is important to compare the emissions intensity of NZ dairy production to overseas dairy production. And in most cases, the NZ dairy system has a lower emissions intensity. So if those who are campaigning for a reduction in dairy cattle numbers get their way. Total worldwide emissions will most likely increase. As less efficient overseas farms will increase their production to fill the gap left by lower NZ dairy production.
You have few different arguments in there.
Plans are in place for the central interceptor , cycle ways have nothing to do with. Should a dairy farmer spend nothing on promoting land biodiversity until they have controlled their runoff?
What stats have you got to back up the lower emissions? My understanding was the higher the quality of supplements lead to lower emissions. A pure grass diet can actually lead to higher emissions.
We are doing lots of research into cool things methanogens and enzymes to reduce methane.
Just because we have efficient farms in NZ doesn't mean that we don't have a ceiling on the number of cows we can milk (as we currently do).
Funnily enough higher intensity dairy farms can actually lead to better environmental outcomes. It allows practices such as feed pads and standoff pads. It makes it easier to invest in better effluent management.
larknz: The difference is that farmers are starting to spend the money to clean up their act, whereas the town's are procrastinating because it is too hard and is going to cost too much
larknz: The difference is that farmers are starting to spend the money to clean up their act, whereas the town's are procrastinating because it is too hard and is going to cost too much
Starting to think you're a farmer...
larknz: No, I'm a Canterbury townie, but I do have a bit of interaction with the farming community. I just feel that there is an urban / rural divide, whereas water pollution is something that we all have to take responsibility for.
No we don't.
Those responsible for managing the services that are polluting are 100% responsible. What penalties will they suffer for permitting the pollution?
As I have said before elsewhere, the sooner water and sewerage are removed from councils and vested in organisations whose only responsibility and skill set is water and sewerage the better. It's time to think differently in respect of this - we have outgrown what worked before and now a completely different, more national approach is needed.
A more national approach should also include ways to shift water from areas with surplus to areas with deficit and to store winter water for summer use.


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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8734379249203877717.post8589348843359168187..comments2013-03-18T01:49:50.923+00:00Comments on The Squeee: Jane Eyre (2011) - Guest post by NanTraxyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8734379249203877717.post-81754362068166548832011-06-03T14:25:29.985+01:002011-06-03T14:25:29.985+01:00Thanks for the link, I've signed the petition!...Thanks for the link, I've signed the petition!Traxyhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8734379249203877717.post-50369088085200093582011-05-22T17:00:27.902+01:002011-05-22T17:00:27.902+01:00There's an online petition requesting a direct...There's an online petition requesting a director's cut of Jane Eyre:

http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8734379249203877717.post-59402863343029484302011-05-20T12:32:49.668+01:002011-05-20T12:32:49.668+01:00@alfie: I love the flirting! Like the bit when she...@alfie: I love the flirting! Like the bit when she's about to head back to Gateshead and they talk about money. It's actually in the book!! :D To leave that out ... well that's not right, is it?

@Tara: LOL!

@ifbyyes: I agree. Sometimes I don't think about it very much or notice it, but if I'm watching a film and become aware that I'm being told instead of shown, it's really annoying. If even I notice it, then they've really failed!

@RhubarbsMom: Ahh, they even left out "elf"? Goshdarnit! >:( Hoping there will be a Director's Cut when it's due out on DVD, because yes, you don't get the full experience of the story in a measly two hours. Like you say, plenty of films are longer than that. Gladiator was what, three? PotC3 I think was 3h15m. But the naysayers I guess will just say that well, Pirates is full of action and JE would be ... slow and no one would want to sit through it all and that it's not commercially viable and all that. Bahh!Traxyhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8734379249203877717.post-22725489869913883742011-05-19T00:06:47.187+01:002011-05-19T00:06:47.187+01:00I really enjoyed this movie in spite of the points...I really enjoyed this movie in spite of the points you raised, which I agree with, because it's beautifully filmed and I loved the cast. I think this could have been a fantastic movie, instead of just a good one, if they had just made it another 20-30 minutes longer. Two hours is simply not enough time to tell this story the way it should be told. And they could have made it longer; lots of movies now run quite a bit longer than two hours and I don't see audiences storming out in a fury. I wish I could see the director's cut; it might very well have all the important elements - more conversations between Jane and Edward, more scenes with Blanche, maybe even an "elf" or "provoking puppet" - that are missing from the released email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8734379249203877717.post-74068738002884761642011-05-17T17:10:26.343+01:002011-05-17T17:10:26.343+01:00I'm glad you liked it better than I did. I agr...I'm glad you liked it better than I did. I agree wholeheartedly about being "told" more than actually "seeing" Jane's relationships, and I couldn't get past that. I don't like exposition in movies. It needs to be email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8734379249203877717.post-88353499319742475282011-05-17T00:27:41.740+01:002011-05-17T00:27:41.740+01:00I liked the new movie well enough, and thought Mia...I liked the new movie well enough, and thought Mia played a most convincing Jane. But the end....my reaction was, "That's it????" And looking at Rochester in the final scene, all I could think of was Tom Hanks after four years on the island in "Castaway", standing there after spearing the fish. All Rochester had in the last scene was hair. Still had his hand, still had his eye, just lots of hair. firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8734379249203877717.post-57974877694114090312011-05-16T21:35:49.258+01:002011-05-16T21:35:49.258+01:00Interesting review. I have only seen the trailer a...Interesting review. I have only seen the trailer and I got to admit that I have not been tempted to see this movie yet. I really missed some flirting and playfullness between Jane an Mr.R., and if it wasn´t in the trailer, it is hard to believe that it is in the movie. On the other hand it is hard to compete with Toby Stephens´Mr. Rochester from the 2006 adaption:) - which I firstname.lastname@example.com


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Lizard species studied: curly-tailed lizard (left), green anole (top) and brown anole (right).
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