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Meiszrod, Barbara (d. 1537)
Barbara Meiszrod was an Anabaptist martyr, who was baptized by Heinz Kraut. She made her house a center for the meetings of the Anabaptists in Mühlhausen in Thuringia. A meeting of this kind was surprised in October 1537, the participants arrested, tried on the rack on 11 October, and ten of them drowned, including Barbara, in the Unstrut between Mühlhausen and Ammern.
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe: Schneider, 1913-1967: v. III. 66.
Wappler, Paul. Die Täuferbewegung in Thüringen von 1526-1584. Jena: Gustav Fisher, 1913.
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AN RAF Benson blogger serving in Afghanistan has described the "mad world" he has left behind in the UK, hoping loved ones at home stay safe.
Sgt Alex Ford's blog Rafairman gives people a daily insight into life on the front line.
But when news of the UK riots reached him in Helmand he found himself tweeting: "Unbelievably I have been telling people at home to stay safe. How mad is this world becoming...?"
Sgt Ford's blog first hit the headlines last September when he marked the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain by "tweeting" in the style of a 1940s RAF airman for a day. And since March it has had 80,000 hits.
He is in Afghanistan as part of a British military team helping the people of Helmand province with reconstruction and development projects.
In a blog post on Monday, he described the difficulties of patrolling in the heat of an Afghan summer through muddy fields flooded by farmers for irrigation, while wearing heavy body armour: "I can't think of anything I have ever done that is as hard as this. My energy is just being sapped with each step… My legs burn. Cramp in my calves. Pain in my thighs."
Finally the command post is in sight: "One last push. One last effort through the field, one step at a time. Head down looking at the mud. But then I am on the road and then stumble in through the gate…and I am pouring water down my throat."
Explaining why he blogs and tweets, Sgt Ford wrote: "I love technology and gadgets. And I am a people person.
"I think we're all looking for connections in life, and the more we have the richer our lives are."
And amid the tension of venturing into areas where the risk of a Taliban attack is ever-present, there are lighter moments.
A local farmer, who rents land to the British forces for burning rubbish, and was upset that soil from waste pits dug in his field was being used to shore up defences. Sgt Ford, 41, wrote: "'You've stolen my mud!, said Gulam through an interpreter who was already smirking. I was taken aback. What do you say to someone who is complaining that you have stolen his mud? Plead innocence? Admit to the theft? Look astonished that someone would even do such a thing? I chose the latter. The problem was I sort of knew what he meant…"
- To follow Sgt Ford's blog and Twitter feed, see rafairman.word press.com and twitter.com/#!/rafairman/ and to see pictures he has taken in Helmand province, see http://www.flickr.com/photos/rafairman/

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The Lincoln County Republican Party's annual Lincoln-Reagan Day Dinner is set for Saturday, with U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx, of North Carolina's 5th Congressional District, confirmed as the event's guest speaker.
"This is a great opportunity for not only local Republicans, but also Republicans statewide, to come and hear Congresswoman Foxx speak," Lincoln County GOP Chairman Bradley Putnam stated in a press release announcing the dinner, one of the largest events conducted by local Republicans every year.
The event, the release noted, will "set the tone" for the coming year, which will include city elections.
"Congresswoman Foxx is emerging as a top Republican contender for U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan, and this is an excellent opportunity to come meet (Foxx) and hear her stance on key issues," Putnam added.
Lincoln County's delegation to the North Carolina General Assembly — Rep. Jason Saine and Sen. David Curtis — are expected to be in attendance, along with other local Republican officials.
"This year's dinner will honor those who have put forth great effort to achieve the great success we had this past election and kick off for what we must prepare for in this year's election," Putnam said.
The dinner will be 6:30 p.m. at St. Luke's Lutheran Church in Pumpkin Center. Tickets are available by visiting the party's website at http://lincolncountygop.org.
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In-conference offense: 1.01 points per possession (7th)
In-conference defense: 1.01 points per possession (7th)
Moving up to Division I and competing right away is no easy task. Finishing with an even conference record and outscoring league opponents overall (if only slightly)? That's just impressive.


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Frost & Sullivan selected On2 TrueMotion VP7 on the criteria of new research resulting in innovations that have or are expected to bring significant contributions to the industry in terms of adoption, change, and competitive posture, based on an independent analysis of compression technologies for 2006. "VP7 continues On2's tradition of providing the best codec available at the time for target applications, and represents the pioneering work On2 conducts in the field of video compression," said Bill Joll, president and CEO of On2. "Building on the success of earlier VP6 as the de facto Internet video standard with Adobe® Flash® video, VP7 was designed for bandwidth sensitive applications and real-time video solutions, such as mobile video, high definition, and video conferencing. VP7 is already the codec for market leading applications in these segments and its adoption continues to proliferate."
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Maryland pet stores found to not comply with puppy mill laws
(WJLA) - A series of Maryland pet stores that sell puppies are not complying with with a law compelling them to disclose exactly where the young dogs came from, a Humane Society investigation has revealed.
An investigation jointly executed by the Humane Society of the United States and the non-profit ReLove Animals organization found that nine of the 12 pet stores that sell puppies in Maryland were not posting information about the origins of each dog.
In one case, a puppy at a Prince George's County pet store was immediately seized by Humane Society officials because it was in such poor health.
The law compelling pet stores to post information about its puppies was designed to discourage pet stores from selling dogs that were conceived in puppy mills, which are known to produce dogs of ill health. It went into effect last year.
The legislation requires stores to conspicuously post, at the least, the dog's state of origin and the license number of the breeder as issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. With that information, potential dog buyers are able to avoid buying dogs that come from puppy mills or breeders with poor reputations.
Each of the stores found not to be in compliance either posted insufficient information on cages or none whatsoever.
Humane Society officials say that the most startling incident came at Genesis Pets in Capitol Heights, where investigators found "disturbing conditions." One of the Rottweiler puppies at the store was so underweight and ill with coccidia and pneumonia that Animal Control seized it for treatment.
Stores in Elkridge, Glen Burnie and across the Baltimore area and the Eastern Shore were also found to be non-compliant during the investigation.


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ST. PETERSBURG — The Morean Arts Center has inked a deal to bring a permanent collection of Dale Chihuly's internationally celebrated glass art to St. Petersburg, ending months of rumor and speculation about the project that would be the first of its kind in the world.
Katee Tully, executive director of the center, confirmed Monday that a purchase agreement with the Chihuly organization has been signed for installations and sculptures valued at $6 million. The Seattle-based artist will create new works for the Morean Arts Center, which will own the art and operate the museum-quality gallery housing it.
The Morean has a lease agreement with a 25-year option for retail space at 400 Beach Drive NE and has been granted bank financing based on long-term pledges so that the construction can start immediately.
It will be called the Chihuly Collection and is scheduled to open July 4 weekend.
The Morean will also convert its clay studio at the rear of its Central Avenue building into a new hot shop with a viewing area that will seat 90 people. The lot next to the Morean building at Central Avenue and Eighth Street, which was to be used for expansion, will become a parking lot for members and students.
"One of the things that has always made this an attractive project to Dale is that his art could be tied to interactive experiences and education," Tully said. "He doesn't need just another gallery showing his work."
The Chihuly Collection on Beach Drive will occupy 10,000 square feet, with 7,600 devoted to the art. Architect Albert Alfonso of Tampa said the arrangement "will be a sequence of spaces, not like a traditional museum," in which people will weave around in a loop. It will be loosely chronological, beginning with his earliest work and culminating, Tully said, in a "grand finale."
Many will be in genres familiar to fans such as the Persians, Macchia and chandeliers with hundreds of elements.
This is the third attempt by the Morean to bring a permanent collection of Chihuly works to the area. An ambitious plan in 2005 linked it to an expansion in conjunction with a condominium project one block west of the arts center's current location at 719 Central Ave. The center pulled out of the collaboration in 2008 when poor condominium sales threatened its viability.
New plans were drawn for a smaller expansion on its existing site, reconfiguring the building and adding new space for the Chihuly collection. That plan also fell through, a victim of the economy.
Tully said that this arrangement "is on a par with that second plan" in terms of square feet added but, because new construction will be minimal, the cost will be a third of original estimates.
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I cannot monitor temperature of my CPU and motherboard and I cannot control my fans. Do you have a solution or maybe similar problems? Please leave a message!
I made myself a new system. I bought a CPU with a nice cooler, a GPU with integrated cooler and my case has 3 fans. (I want to do some over clocking in the future) With all this cooling violence I actually want to see what the temperature of my components are and also control my fans for noise reduction.
In my BIOS a can set a target temperature for my CPU and for the case fans I can only set one value. For my GPU I have no clue to control it.
In Ubuntu my fans are all running at the same speed the whole time. Even when the system goes to sleep (and I never get it out BTW). This results in a lot of noise and probably unnecessary power consumption.
So I searched a bit in the Ubuntu forum and I am not the only one with fan and temperature controlling problems. The last 3 days these topics came where active:
- Ubuntu not Adjusting Fan Speed http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1631519
- problem with lm-sensors and temperature http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1699121
- ATI mobility radeon 5730 HD fan is running all the time, GPU is cold http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1566728
- Acer Aspire 5742 i3 Intel HD - cpu fan speed http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...+speed+control
- Cooling problems under Ubuntu http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1696654
- dmesg: "CPU power or thermal limit exceeded" http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1672407
Non of these topics resulted in a workable solution!
What I learned from the topics are the following commands:
the command opens lm-sensors and lists the detected sensors. For me the output is:Code:sensors
This does not give a lot of answers.. Actually it brings me to my first questions:k10temp-pci-00c3
Adapter: PCI adapter
temp1: +16.6°C (high = +70.0°C)
Q1. Is this my soundcard or my GPU? My GPU is btw installed on a PCI-E slot.
Q2. How do I control the temperature of this component? 16 degrees is pretty cold --> is this correct?
The next command I performed was:
this detects sensors. (not all btw)Code:sudo sensors-detect
The eventual summary it gave was:
So there is no driver yet.. They are busy with it. But this results also give me questions:Driver `to-be-written':
* ISA bus, address 0x290
Chip `Nuvoton W83677HG-I Super IO Sensors' (confidence: 9)
Driver `k10temp' (autoloaded):
* Chip `AMD Family 10h thermal sensors' (confidence: 9)
Note: there is no driver for Nuvoton W83677HG-I Super IO Sensors yet.
Check http://www.lm-sensors.org/wiki/Devices for updates.
No modules to load, skipping modules configuration.
Unloading i2c-dev... OK
Q3: What is a Super IO Sensor and what does it detect?
Q4: Are there alternative programs for lm-sensors that work around this problem?
So now I know that I cannot read what the sensors are detecting. But why can't I control fans??
In one topic, forum member intuited, came with a possible explanation of the problems:
So no drivers for SMBus and IDE. And that leads me to my final questions:*-serial UNCLAIMED
description: SMBus
product: SBx00 SMBus Controller
vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
physical id: 14
bus info: pci@0000:00:14.0
version: 41
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
configuration: latency=0
description: IDE interface
product: SB700/SB800 IDE Controller
vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
physical id: 14.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:14.1
Q5: what is are SMBus and IDE controllers?
Q6: What is the fasted way to get support for these two things?
I hope someone can help me working to a solution or can give some tips. If you have/had similar problems please let me know.
My specs are:
mobo: Asrock 890GX Extreme 3
CPU: AMD Phenom II X3 720
GPU: ATI Radeon HD 5770
CPU cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus
Case: Cooler Master CM 690


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MAC & Mickey Contractor: Behind the Scenes
MAC & Mickey Contractor: Interviews and Q&As
If you're looking for collection information, check out this post! 🙂 Otherwise, this is fun reading material for those interested in what goes on behind a collection, as well as more information about MAC's collaborator, Mickey Contractor. All information straight from MAC HQ.
Q&A with Mickey Contractor
Mickey, how long have you been working with M·A·C?
It"s been 32 years since I started working as a makeup artist and this is my 6th year with M·A·C. I've collaborated with the brand since they launched in India. M·A·C wanted to work alongside a makeup artist with credibility, experience, the ability to inspire who was also an authority of goodwill in the industry. So when they came to me and said, "We'd like you to collaborate with us, we're opening a store in Bombay": I thought, "This is a Godsend for me". Working with M·A·C was an opportunity to really convey my vision. They have such incredible authority and influence in the industry and becoming a part of that was incredibly exciting to me.
Had you already been using M·A·C products?
Yes, I"d been using M·A·C for years. I first discovered M·A·C when I was in Canada about 15 years ago where I bought Twig, Malt and Marrakech lipsticks. Those kinds of shades just weren't available in India. In fact, so little makeup was available in India back then! I've been a huge fan ever since.
What's your beauty philosophy?
For me, beauty is about a natural-looking woman who wears makeup, but wears it so cleverly that it doesn"t actually show. She"s also somebody who carries herself with a lot of confidence, not just someone who"s pretty, but who also has a lot of character. For me…that defines beauty.


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McDermott International, Inc. (NYSE: MDR) ("McDermott") announced today that one of its subsidiaries has recently been awarded two projects by Saudi Aramco in the Abu Safah, Marjan and Safaniya fields in the Arabian Gulf. The two projects consist of six topsides and a bridge that connects to the existing Marjan facilities. In addition, the project will require other associated modifications and brownfield work. The combined total weight of the structures will exceed 4,000 metric tonnes. The North Dome project, which was issued under the existing Long Term Agreement and is included in McDermott's third quarter 2012 backlog, comprises procurement, construction and installation of two wellhead decks for Abu Safah and Marjan, and an auxiliary platform and access bridge for Marjan. The second project, also issued under the existing Long Term Agreement, was included in McDermott's 2012 second quarter backlog and comprises procurement, fabrication, transportation and installation of three electrified production deck modules (PDM's) in the Safaniya and Marjan fields. McDermott's Jebel Ali fabrication facility will construct the platforms, while vessels from McDermott's global fleet will be used to install the facilities. "We will be executing both projects using engineering, project management and procurement resources from our Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia office. Our In-Kingdom activities continue to grow as we ramp up this Engineering office and our recruitment efforts, to position McDermott for current and future project requirements," said Stewart Mitchell, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Middle East, Caspian and North Sea for McDermott. ABOUT McDERMOTT McDermott is a leading engineering, procurement, construction and installation group of companies focused on executing complex offshore oil and gas projects worldwide. Providing fully integrated EPCI services for upstream field developments, the company delivers fixed and floating production facilities, pipelines and subsea systems from concept to commissioning. McDermott's customers include national and major energy companies. Operating in more than 20 countries across the Atlantic, Middle East and Asia Pacific, McDermott's integrated resources include more than 13,500 employees and a diversified fleet of marine vessels, fabrication facilities and engineering offices. McDermott has served the energy industry since 1923.
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When Beato arrived in China, he began recording local life. In April, while waiting for the British and French forces to prepare the upcoming offensive, he went to Canton (present-day Guangzhou) to photograph major monuments, such as the Nine-Storied Pagoda, an ancient Buddhist temple built in 537, as well as more vernacular subjects like the lively shops of Treasury Street.
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Trying the Pitaya
The dragonfruit, or pitaya, is known for its great health benefits, and it's touted on the side of juice bottles and energy drinks for its vitamin, fiber and mineral-rich context. Bolder distributors even state that the fruit has been used to treat everything from diabetes to asthma. Really.
Dragonfruit is native to Central and South America, but the fruit was brought to parts of Asia and is mainly imported back here from Thailand instead of Mexico. Despite all the hoopla, the fruit just looks like a strange mango with fin-like fleshy flaps. The inside has a texture like a peeled kiwi, only with the seeds spread out instead of clustered. To pick a proper fruit, select similar to a kiwi -- slightly soft, but not too firm (this would be underripe). The outer skin should be vibrant, without soft spots. Since the pitaya is actually a cactus fruit, there might be a waxy feel to the outside.
Although there are varieties of sour pitaya, mine was sweet. The first thought I had when taking a bite was, "Oh, it tastes like an energy drink." But while it does taste similar to the flavored waters and whatnot, the fresh pitaya is amazingly light and delicate in comparison, and nowhere near as sweet. To eat a dragonfruit without putting it in a smoothie, cut off a little of the fins on each end, half, and peel with your fingers. Slice it up, or just eat it with a spoon.
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Oklahoma faces its biggest challenge of the season on Saturday in Manhattan, Kan., as they try to rebound from a shocking 41-38 loss to Texas Tech. A loss which snapped a 39-game home winning streak and sent the Sooners' national title hopes careening out of control.
Since the loss, players and coaches have struggled to find answers as to why this team, so full of promise, has failed to perform up to expectations.
During Tuesday's weekly press luncheon, Bob Stoops even hinted that his defense was overrated.
When Stoops was asked about lackluster practice performance spilling over into games, he offered another explanation for the poor performance from his defense on Saturday.
"Maybe (we're) overrated on how good they are, too," said Stoops. "Oh, if you're more intense you're going to make that play? To me, either you do, or you don't. Or maybe you're not quite good enough to make that play and that guy just beat you on that route and out-executed you."
When Stoops was later pressed on whether he thought his defense was overrated, he snapped back in their defense.
"No, I said they could be," he answered. "They could be. I didn't say they were. I said at times, the way we played the other night wasn't real positive. So, at the end, what I was saying was, is it intensity? Or is it maybe they just got beat?
"The other guy's better than him at route-running or covering? I don't know. It all amounts to the same thing is what I said. And I think too much of the time a lot more is made too early in a season about what a team is and isn't.
"To me, to point to it's all intensity, that's a cop out. I don't buy that."
Regardless, this is a team searching for answers after their loss on Saturday. The players took matters into their own hands by holding a player's only meeting on Monday.
"Yesterday, we actually had a player meeting, just us players, talking about what we need to do and what we want to accomplish as far as the season goes," said starting safety Aaron Colvin." Each guy kind of put in a little bit of their words, but the main guys were Travis Lewis, Ryan Broyles and Landry Jones."
Colvin said the message was about how this team needs to respond with such a huge game looming this weekend at Kansas State.
"Just to come back," said Colvin of the meeting's tone. "They talked a lot about the 2008 season. They lost a game and they still went to the national championship. So they were saying just keep fighting throughout the whole season and things can still go our way.
"I feel like we have a very close relationship, a very close bond. So I feel like we'll be able to bounce back."
Bouncing back won't be easy against the undefeated Wildcats in Manhattan. The Sooners national title hopes are on life support, but more importantly, as Stoops alluded to, this group still has to prove how good they really are.
"It's definitely going to be a gut-check game," said right guard Tyler Evans. "It's going to be our character that shows everybody we're not ready to give up and we have something in our sites that we really want.
"I'm sick of it. I know we lost and everybody keeps rubbing it in. It gets annoying hearing about it all the time. It's definitely a motivator."
Motivation that this team will need if they hope to leave Manhattan with a victory on Saturday.
"We're going in to play a Kansas State team that's undefeated and we're going in there to play in their stadium," Evans said. "I think it's definitely going to be a game to show we had our flaws last game but we're ready to step it up."


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Pope reflects on the parable of the wheat and the tares
July 21, 2014
Pope Francis reflected on the parable of wheat and the tares during his July 20 Sunday Angelus address.
"The teaching of the parable is twofold," he said. "First of all, [Jesus] says that the evil in the world comes not from God but from the enemy, the devil. This enemy is cunning: he sowed evil amidst the good, so that it is impossible for us to clearly separate them. But God, in the end, will do it."
"And here we come to the second theme: the contrast between the impatience of servants and the patient waiting of the owner of the field, who represents God," he continued. "We are sometimes in a hurry to judge, classify, place the good here and the bad beyond. But God knows to wait. He looks at the 'field' of every person's life with patience and mercy. He sees much better than us the dirt and the evil, but he also sees the seeds of good and looks forward with confidence for them to mature."
Pope Francis added:
Evangelical patience is not indifference to evil. One cannot make confusion between good and evil! In the face of the weeds in the world, the disciple of the Lord is called to imitate the patience of God, nourishing hope with the support of an unshakable faith in the ultimate victory of the good, that is, of God.
"At the end we will all be judged by the same standards by which we judged: the mercy we gave to others will also be used with us," the Pope concluded. "Let us ask the Virgin Mary, our Mother, to help us to grow in patience, hope and mercy."
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Cardstock and patterned paper; when it comes to selecting the foundation for scrapbook layouts, that's about all most crafters have to work with. Fortunately, advances in the field of papermaking are opening new doors for scrappers when it comes to their essential supplies.
For example, BasicGrey offers a hybrid that is essentially lightweight cardstock. However, unlike traditional cardstock, which typically features one solid color on both sides, the new combo version is decorated on both sides of the paper.
If you are more comfortable working with cardstock there are different types you can experiment with that stray from the standard solids. For example, scrappers, who love the distressed look and often sand paper to achieve eye-popping effects, will have a field day with white core cardstock.
Personally, I am a huge fan of textured cardstock. The heavy-weight paper usually comes with a linen or canvas texture, and can be used to add a luxurious touch to a wedding, anniversary or First Communion layout. The downside to using this type of cardstock is that rubber stamp designs don't show as well.
Recently, I've gotten into using glittered and metallic cardstock on a number of layouts, especially birthday-themed pages. However, you can use the blinged out paper to as a festive touch to any page. Metallic cardstock, which comes in gold, silver, and copper, is also great to use in graduation, prom and Christmas layouts.
As much as I love the look of cardstock, I also use a ton of patterned paper, as well as mulberry paper, and vellum. When shopping for the latter, it's important to keep size in mind. The most common sizes of scrapbook paper are 6 x 6, 8 x 8, 8 1/2 x 11, and 12 x 12.
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I purchased your theme, but i am having quite a bit of issues having the homepage stuff show up. I enabled the homepage in theme options, i added the sliders, and added text to all the enabled blocks like portfolio, call to action and description. Once i click on save changes nothing shows up on the homepage.
Any idea?
Hi umberto86, could you please email us your login details and we'll check whats wrong with it.
Hello there,
I have been in contact with Arlind via email and he said he was going to fix my long list of kinks with this theme by logging into my dashboard admin. However, after responding to him with my correct log in info, I have not heard from him at all nor are the kinks fixed. My blog is currently live, and the home page looks like crap. I'm not sure if its user error, or glitches with the theme, but I've tried everything I can to make it work correctly and it still is not. Here is my list of items again: 1. On the homepage in the demo, the Tab titles have a sub title underneath in light gray text. For example, in the demo, underneath HOME it says 'landing page' in light gray text. (or something like that). I have entered text into the correct location within the theme but the subtitles are not appearing. 2. The normal slider is not working properly. My photos are cropped, and I have played around with dimensions without any luck, and for some reason the photos are darkened. These are professional photos I had taken specifically for the blog and they look like crap but I can't seem to fix them. The photographer has seriously emailed me about their appearance on my blog concerned because his ams is not visible on the photos in the slider, and they don't do his photographing justice since they are darkened and therefore look very off. 3. On the homepage, the features tabs/boxes do not show up, even though they are enabled. In fact, there is not a place to edit the features tab boxes at all (maybe a glitch when I downloaded?). The description block, the latest portfolio block, and the call to action block all have places to edit their contents under the homepage layout. I am able to enable and disable all of them including the features tabs, but even when they are enabled, there is no where to edit their contents, so I don't know whats up with that. 4. Im not sure where or how to edit the box at the very bottom that displays views for various pages. I'd like to see that, but I do not want it to be visible for regular viewers to the blog. 5. The contact page is hard for me to figure out. I basically only want the contact form box to appear. I do not want the top box where the map is supposed to go. Is that possible? We do not have a permanent address or location so that box is to necessary. But we do want people to be able to contact us via email still. 6. I'm not sure how or where to edit the blog author. It showed my personal email address and I'd like it to just have a name, so that guests can tell which posts I wrote or my boyfriend wrote. In the demo, it shows the author as 'admin', but I couldn't even find that option to edit it to say my name. 7. The blog posts on the demo had a nice thin colored border around them (yellow and gray in the demo) and mine do not. There are also little flags on the blog posts and I'm not sure where or how to edit those, although I have a feeling it's in the same place as the colored line border Also, the twitter feed box is not working or appearing. I'd really like it to. And the tag cloud box also isn't showing up. 8. I was wondering if there is a way to add a tagline below the site logo? 9. The HOME tab link does not take me back to my homepage, it ties me to a blank page? Not sure why thats happening. 10. At the bottom of every page in the demo, there is a white box divided into 3 sections. The first is the site logo plus a little description, the sec don is the site map, and the third is contact info. I have not found where to edit that box or if it's even working on my page. It doesn't show up anywhere but I'd like the description and the site map to show up like that. My site map is currently barely visible in black small text at the bottom of pages. I think that was it. If anyone else has time to help me address these issues I'd greatly appreciate it! I know you all must be very very busy! Thanks! Erica
Hi Erica,
I have replied to your email, check it in your inbox you have all the answers.
Love the theme and have figured out the basics. I'm having issues changing the font though…
I initially wanted to use a Google API font but had no success pasting in the links as instructed by the fields in the custom font page. Frustrated, I gave up on that and turned off custom font and then selected Open Sans but I'm still stuck with the stock font. Any ideas?
Thank you!
Hi, unfortunately the theme does not support Google Webfonts so we cannot give you support about this issue, sorry.
I have purchased Oxygen, which doesn't have much thread in this support forum, so please let me submit this from here.
With Oxygen.zip I got 'docs', 'extras, and 'Licensing' folders in the bundle however there is no instruction/specification on these docs. I have been successful on the theme installation, but this lacks instructions on how tos. I want my Gallery page in Pinterest form or something fancy I saw in the demo. Where and how can I get those info to fully use your theme?
Regards, Aki
Hi Aki
Can you send me the purchase code of Oxygen theme?
Hi Arlind,
Here it is,
Regards, Aki
What kind of page you want to import in your site? I will try to help you.
Hello what has happened to my comments they are no longer on the post. Please help I am having difficulty with the demo content as parts are missing and the page will not work..is this theme compatible with wordpress and woocommerce?
Please write in the Oxygen theme comments and reply to your own comments if you have something to add don't create new tickets.
Sorry I did not add that the theme is Oxygen as I posted comments previously which are not there now?
As I said on the other comment, please reply to your comments instead of creating new tickets. The previous comments were removed by Envato because they were in the wrong theme.
Thank you for the reply Art I am sorry but I cannot find the Oxygen theme in your support forum (http://support.laborator.co/) please advise me of the appropriate link.
After the transfer of the site to live site, everything else works, but not galleries that just wont open (load without success). These galleries are:
Can you tell how to fix the issue?
I'm using default Gallery that came with the theme. All images URL's are correctly redirected to live site, but galley won't open. See screenshot: http://snag.gy/8qlUE.jpg
This is urgent, because I've been waiting for a response on e-mail for 11 days! Also, there was a problem that captions didn't appear on the images (that was on test site when gallery was appearing). Thank you!
Hello there , pls can u tell me how can i use the MAIN DEMO for your KALLIUM theme ?
i would like to use the theme as follows,http://preview.themeforest.net/item/chromium-responsive-business-and-blog-theme/full_screen_preview/6070807?_ga=1.27715836.1184606542.1447154546
Is the Education template of Chromium compatible with Woocommerce?
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Dec. 29, 2007
Detroit, Mich. - Providence College erupted for four third-period tallies to post a 5-3 victory over Michigan State in the third-place game of the Great Lakes Invitational. MSU got a goal and an assist from Michael Ratchuk and 40 stops from Jeff Lerg in the loss, and loses back-to-back games for the second time this season. Kyle MacKinnon and Jon Rheault each had two goals for Providence.
Michigan State took its first lead of the weekend in the final minute of play in the opening frame. Blueliner Justin Johnson threw the puck on net from the left point, and Chris Mueller, who was stationed at the left post got his stick on it. The puck changed direction and caromed off the back wall - right onto the stick of Dustin Gazley, who shot the puck into the right side of the net for his third goal of the season.
The Friars broke up the shutout at 13:18 of the middle frame. A turnover in the neutral zone led to a 2-on-1 for Providence, and Rheault's shot eluded Jeff Lerg over his stick-hand shoulder.
The Spartans regained the lead just over a minute into the final frame. Matt Schepke was at the half wall and moved the puck out to Ratchuk in the high slot. Ratchuk threw the puck on net, and Nick Sucharski tipped it for his fourth of the season.
The Friars popped two goals two minutes apart midway through the third to turn a 2-1 deficit into a 3-2 advantage. The first came at 7:49, when John Cavanaugh put back a rebound off a Matt Taormina shot from the left side. Jeff Lerg made the save on Taormina, but Cavanaugh was alone on the right side and had a wide-open net into which he deposited his second goal of the season.
PC took the lead at 9:48. Rheault streaked up the right side and put a shot on Lerg, which he saved. Greg Collins tried to put back the rebound, but was also turned away by the MSU netminder - but Rheault, who had circled back behind the net to the left side, managed to poke it past Lerg's leg pad for his second goal of the night.
Providence tacked on some insurance with a tally at 15:54. Kyle MacKinnon and Pierce Norton broke in on a two-on-one, with Norton making the final pass to McKinnon from the right hash - McKinnon's shot beat Jeff Lerg stick-side.
MSU made it a game with a minute to play, as Ratchuk made a last-ditch effort on a Schepke lead pass into the slot, diving and getting the blade of his stick onto the puck enough to deflect it up over the glove-hand shoulder of Tyler Sims. MacKinnon killed any chance at a comeback, however, with his empty-netter at 19:51.
Michigan State gets back into CCHA action next weekend when it hosts Lake Superior at Munn Arena on Friday and Saturday.
NOTES: MSU and Providence met for the first time in 22 years, and improved to 3-1 in all-time meetings ... Michigan State finished fourth in the Great Lakes Invitational for just the third time in 35 all-time appearances (1979, 1990). This was just the 10th time that the Spartans had not appeared in the final ... MSU lost for the first time this season when netting the first goal of the game. The Spartans are now 10-1-1 on the season when scoring first and 9-1-1 when leading after the first period ... MSU is 1-for-17 in its last four games on the power play (.059) ... The teams were whistled for a combined three penalties on the night ... MSU lost back-to-back games for the second time this season ... Justin Johnston's first-period assist was the first point of his career ... Dustin Gazley's first-period tally was his first goal since Oct. 19 vs. Colgate. He had a two-goal game against the Raiders that night ... Michael Ratchuk's assist on Nick Sucharski's third-period tally moved him to 13 points on the season, surpassing his freshman year point total. He had his fifth multiple-point game of the season and third in the last month ...


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LARGO — Pinellas-Pasco Judge Joseph A. Bulone did not reveal much emotion on Friday as he listed his reasons for giving Genghis Kocaker the death penalty.
But there was terror in his words.
Bulone said Kocaker killed cab driver Eric J. Stanton in a heinous way in a Clearwater parking lot in 2004. Kocaker stabbed Stanton in his cab, beat him, put him in the trunk and tied him up. He set the cab on fire. Stanton struggled in the trunk, kicked out the back seats, forced his way into the front, but suffocated before he could escape.
"Mr. Stanton was aware of his impending death," Bulone said.
A jury last year convicted Kocaker of murder and recommended by an 11-1 vote that Bulone sentence him to death.
Kocaker, now 46, also had been convicted of manslaughter in 1981 for shooting and killing another man, and also had been convicted of eight robberies.
He spent 13 years in prison and committed the murder two months after getting out. He was on probation at the time.
Bulone listed the "mitigating factors" — those that argue against the death penalty. Among them: mental health issues, past abuse, his loving family, his past drug issues, the fact that he may have been drinking alcohol, the fact that he may have brain damage and is HIV-positive.
But these did not outweigh the aggravating factors that made death an appropriate sentence, Bulone said.
At the time of his death, Stanton was planning to begin college and was thinking of starting a family, said his mother, Kyra Guiliano of New Port Richey.
"He was a computer whiz," she said.
Speaking a week before Christmas, she said there's a void at every holiday dinner.
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Mitsubishi Goes Big With 92-Inch 3D HDTV
LAS VEGAS—Mitsubishi will be showing off what could be the biggest 3D HDTV yet at CES. The company just announced a massive 92-inch 3D HDTV that will be on display in Las Vegas this week.
The new 92-inch Mitsubishi 3D Home Cinema HDTV, model number WD-92840, will not be an LCD or plasma screen, but instead a rear-projection DLP HDTV like the company's WD-60738. While they're not as thin or light as flat-panel HDTVs, according to Mitsubishi the DLP screen will offer an experience closer to that of a movie theater, since the HDTV and cinema projectors use similar technology. Mitsubishi is one of the few companies left that produce rear-projection HDTVs, both in its 3D Home Cinema and LaserVue lines, the latter of which uses laser projection instead of DLP.
In addition to the 3D Home Cinema HDTV, Mitsubishi will showcase its first 1080p 3D home theater projector, a front projector that will cast pictures up to 100 inches. Mitsubishi will also show off a 155-inch OLED display, but it's targeted more for digital signage like store displays and billboards, and will not be marketed or sold to consumers.


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Postal Service: Will keep rural post offices open
The financially struggling U.S. Postal Service sought Wednesday to tamp down concern over wide-scale cuts, revealing it will seek to keep thousands of rural post offices open with shorter hours.
At a news briefing, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe said the mail agency was backing off its plan to close up to 3,700 low-revenue post offices sometime after May 15. Citing strong community opposition, Donahoe said the agency will now whittle down full-time staff but maintain a part-time post office presence in rural areas, with access to retail lobbies and post office boxes.
Under the emerging strategy, no post office would be closed. But more than 13,000 rural mail facilities could see reduced operations of between two and six hours.
The Postal Service intends to seek regulatory approval and get community input, a process that could take several months. The new strategy would then be implemented over two years and completed in September 2014, saving an estimated half billion dollars annually.
"We've listened to our customers in rural America and we've heard them loud and clear -- they want to keep their post office open," Donahoe said. "We believe today's announcement will serve our customers' needs and allow us to achieve real savings to help the Postal Service return to long-term financial stability."
Under the new plan, communities would be given the option of keeping their area post offices open but at reduced hours. Another option would be to close a postal office in one area while keeping a nearby one open full-time. Communities also could opt for alternatives including creating a Village Post Office in which postal services are offered in libraries, government offices or local stores such as a Wal-Mart, Walgreens or Office Depot.
"At the end of the day, we will not close rural post offices until we receive community input," said Megan Brennan, the Postal Service's chief operating officer. "We believe very few post offices will be closed over the next few years."
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Please enjoy these Digging Quotes from the wise, the romantic, and the famous of the past and present.
I think that one's art is a growth inside one.
I do not think one can explain growth.
It is silent and subtle.
One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.
- Emily Carr
A strong economy depends on a strong middle class,
but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole,
and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole
with George Bush's shovel.
- Rahm Emanuel
My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black,
white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots.
Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall.
- Alex Haley
Journalists are supposed to be skeptical,
that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line,
whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats.
- Linda Chavez
We knew we were talking about spies.
I knew he knew I knew.
I was digging my own grave.
- Christine Keeler
It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes:
if you are in one,
stop digging.
- Denis Healey
We who are interested in relative truth have to keep
digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under.
- Holly Near
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First law on holes - when you're in one,
stop digging!
- Denis Healey
He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit.
- Ernest Bramah
When digging ceases to be a great game and becomes,
as in Egypt, merely business, it will be a bad thing.
- Leonard Woolley
We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all
of our lives digging for relics of the past.
- Heinrich Schliemann
It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig...
Better to go and watch a man digging,
and then take a spade and try to do it.
- Gertrude Jekyll
Realize what you really want.
It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.
- William Moulton Marston
Writing was like digging coal.
I sweat blood.
The spell is on me.
- Zane Grey
I felt that if we, as the Met, were not intervening
once one person starts digging up Parliament Square,
then someone else is going to join in and you have a spiral.
- Michael Todd
If I hadn't done this I might have ended up digging the roads.
- Dylan Moran
When you're in a hole, stop digging.
- Denis Healey
I thought I knew a lot about music.
Then you start digging and the deeper you go,
the more there is.
- John Mellencamp
Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden,
digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
- J. B. Priestley
I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden.
As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas.
What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes,
does he?
- Ian St.
Without a doubt, first thing we should do is clean up our fiscal house,
and that starts with balancing our budgets and digging out of this red ink.
We cannot expect to continue in this fashion and remain
the leader of the free world.
- Marcy Kaptur
I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and
it goes out and is released,
I never look at my films again.
I don't like looking back.
I don't even like talking about 'em!
So I'm really digging back in my memory because I don't
like to sit and look at my films again.
- Jim Jarmusch
I describe my plots as follows; A character is walking
down the street when all of a sudden a piano falls on them.
They spend the rest of the story digging out from under that piano.
How they dig, how long and how well,
this all depends entirely on the character.
- Sarah Zettel
As an undergraduate, I had an opportunity to go on
a number of archeological digs.
So I had experience excavating, digging up remains
of ancient Indian villages in the Midwest and in the Southwest.
- Donald Johanson
Finally, after a lot of searching and digging,
it was simply the love of family that gave me a road into the character.
Once I got into that, and we delved into what it would
be like to survive cancer and the ability to see how precious life is,
it became easier to play her.
- Jeanne Tripplehorn
Now, given the experience that we have had thus far,
with our subsequent trade agreements with NAFTA and others,
you would think that with our experience of job loss
that we have had there that when you find yourself
in a hole that you might stop digging.
- Stephen F. Lynch
There would be a paragraph about some veteran digging
tunnels for the Germans in a slave labor camp,
or something like that.
Finally I decided to look it up and go further into it.
- Charles Guggenheim
The book begins and ends with the visits to give the
impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history.
I believe in going backwards into the past -
I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past.
- Anita Desai
The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look
like there's a light at the end of the tunnel,
he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying
to do right and make up for what's gone before,
just because that's who he is.
- Joss Whedon
During the mission, Walter Jones, a team member was
given a package containing bone fragments by a Lao.
The source said they were from a crash site.
He presented photographs showing himself in company
with others digging around obvious aircraft debris.
- Bo Gritz
How horrible, fantastic, incredible,
it is that we should be digging trenches and trying
on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway
country between people of whom we know nothing.
- Neville Chamberlain
Just the other day I pulled out this old cassette of
Ragged Glory and I popped it into my cassette player and I was digging it.
They were just a great rock and roll band,
one that presents the song ahead of everything else -
there's no grand idea or concept behind it.
- Krist Novoselic
We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason
if we dig deep in our history and remember
that we are not descended from fearful men,
not from men who feared to write, to speak,
to associate and to defend causes
which were for the moment unpopular.
- Edward R. Murrow
Look within.
Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up,
if thou wilt ever dig.
- Marcus Aurelius
Home is our sanctuary, where we:
relax into being ourselves,
play with our inner child,
paint the walls green and pink,
dig in the dirt,
grow something,
love somebody else,
love ourselves even more,
snuggle with a warm blanket on a Sunday afternoon,
hang "go away" on the door whenever we want,
clean and tidy often... or never,
launch from and return to,
are truly ourselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.
- Carl Sandburg
To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks
to dig up information no one else has yet.
- Merton Miller
I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique
I have to further the idea of peace.
- Garrett Morris
At first I didn't dig country.
- Charlie Rich
Never let life impede on your ability to manifest your dreams.
Dig deeper into your dreams and deeper into yourself
and believe that anything is possible,
and make it happen.
- Corin Nemec
I always think it's interesting to dig a little bit
deeper every time you go to someplace that seems like
a revelation or a strong connection to an emotional truth.
- Carly Simon
I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time.
Let me dream.
- Olivier Martinez
Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.
- Evan Dando
I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.
- Yancy Butler
I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know,
do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.
- Natalie Merchant
I didn't dig it out, it was given to me.
They thought it was significant, they gave me the name and I used it.
- Bob Novak
Find your place on the planet.
Dig in, and take responsibility from there.
- Gary Snyder
I think it's like everything else; one shouldn't dig too deeply.
It's silly to say that with a journalist,
but sometimes there is not a truth to be found.
- Alan Price
I want to become a student.
I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig.
- Lou Gerstner
Everybody can dig The Beatles, but why should everybody dig us?
- Bruce Johnston
When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of
just hacking at the leaves.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo
My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail.
I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig.
- Steve Buscemi
You never know how things are going to go.
I think you hope that people are going to dig what
you do and that you're going to get the chance to do
it on a really comfortable level.
- Amanda Marshall
I really dig The Byrds.
I think they are the most underrated -
in their original form -
pop group.
- Bruce Johnston
Being in front of all these people staring at you and
it helps you to dig down and become more emotional
and get lost in it as you're feeding on people's energy.
- Fred Durst
I am against nature.
I don't dig nature at all.
I think nature is very unnatural.
I think the truly natural things are dreams,
which nature can't touch with decay.
- Bob Dylan
The Britney Spears fans aren't going to dig us.
- Dustin Diamond
To say what you feel is to dig your own grave.
- Sinead O'Connor
When I played God Bless The Queen, I was wondering
if they was gonna dig us,
then quite naturally I'd go on and try to get it together.
- Jimi Hendrix
Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle;
but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
- Michel de Montaigne
I'm really a very weak musicologist.
Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can
dig deeply into in one lifetime,
as if you hadn't noticed.
- Wendy Carlos
People have a right to ask questions and dig deep when
you're hurting people and things around you.
- Layne Staley
Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil,
and let us see what we are made of.
- Charles Spurgeon
Report, report, report.
Dig, dig, dig.
Think, think, think.
Don't stop being a reporter because you've become a columnist.
- Allan Sloan
I have become a prisoner of the peace movement.
But you can't say that the termination is coming and
then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.
- E. P. Thompson
Healing takes courage, and we all have courage,
even if we have to dig a little to find it.
- Tori Amos
Manchester has it's own pride and London has it's sort
of pride and sometimes we can be a bit mean to each other,
but I think if we dig the music we can get on really well.
- Graham Coxon
You only have a week to do a show.
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What's hot: Offshore gag grouper fishing is as good as it can get. The fish that are traditionally targeted in depths of 20-30 feet have moved offshore to 50-60 feet because of unusually cold weather, joining the fish that have made the annual trek from the deep waters of the gulf. Cold water conditions have put a crimp in gathering live bait such as pinfish, pigfish and white baits, but that does not seem to matter. Frozen sardines, squid and pieces of jack mackerel have been producing banner catches.
Tactics: The larger ledges and artificial reefs, being high-profile structures, are more likely to hold numbers of fish because they provide protection to baitfish and their predators. The high seas and turbulent conditions caused by strong winds accompanying cold fronts create this movement of the fish. If we get a period of calm seas, these fish will move to smaller ledges near the high-profile structure where competition for the available forage is not as intense.
Tip: Pay attention to which way smaller fish swim when released. They will always swim toward the best available structure. The same holds true when a keeper is hooked. If all the fish are swimming in the same direction, it is worthwhile to cast a baited hook that way. Usually there is a bigger undercut or pile of rocks in that direction that tend to hold the majority of larger fish.
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A preliminary feasibility survey has been conducted by global consulting firm Deloitte & Touche and the bank will initiate further steps, taking cues from the findings of report.
M Narendra, CMD, IOB, said, The bank has identified 14 locations in places such as the US, Australia, New Zealand and some African countries. Based on Deloitte & Touches report, we will do our own survey and subsequently seek permission from the RBI and the countries concerned. The bank has six overseas branches at present two in China and one each in Singapore, Sri Lanka, South Korea and Thailand.
The overseas expansion plan would be implemented in three phases Wave 1 for which the survey has been conducted and would be taken up for implementation immediately, Wave 2 for implementation in medium term of around 12 to 18 months from the beginning of the project and Wave 3, which would be considered after three years.
Narendra said Wave 1 includes setting up of around six branches including two in US, one in Australia, one in New Zealand and two in Africa. It expects the Wave 1 to be ready for implementation in an years time. This is a medium and long-term expansion plan for us, he said.
The bank is looking at catering to ethnic Indian community in these countries. It also has to consider the laws in the region to finalise whether the branch should be started as a representative office and operate for some years before making it a full fledged branch. In some countries like China, we have to operate for a few years as representative office before applying to make it a full fledged branch, he said.
Narendra hopes that the bank will be able to get R1,200 crore to R1,400 crore for this year from Centre, as part of the public sector banks recapitalisation programme. The $500 million medium term notes (MTN) raised recently from the overseas market has been deployed fully. The second tranche of $500 million MTN issue will be taken up once the global financial slowdown is over, he said.


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Laurie flipped her cell phone closed and picked two orders off the kitchen delivery shelf. Ned, the short-order cook, peered at her from the other side of the shelf, clicked his lips, and gave her a leer and a wink.
"Keep it in your pants," Laurie barked at him and turned toward the dining room. She knew she should have worn a bra today. It was hotter than a devil's asshole back here, and her flimsy cotton blouse and skirt were plastered to her body.
As she delivered the orders to a couple of plumbers at table 8, she caught the glow of a lit cigarette in her peripheral vision. She walked back past the counter between the service area and a nearly full room of electricians and construction workers, who were chowing down quickly so they could get back on the clock, and muttered at the smoker in passing, "You want'a put that smoke out, Sugar? Missed seeing the sign over there? No smoking in here anymore."
The smoker snorted and flicked the cigarette down onto his coffee cup saucer. Laurie had a sense of a white-teeth flashing smile and an aura of sensuality as she passed him. At the door to the kitchen, she turned and nearly dropped her tray. The guy had movie star good looks, a regular James Dean. He exuded "construction worker," though, which, when linked with eating in this dump, meant he was a young man going nowhere fast. Oh, well, she thought with a shrug and continued on back to the kitchen.
When she came back out, the guy was smoking the cigarette again, and she snapped at him. "I told ya you had to put that cigarette out, fellah. So do it."
He gave her a sullen look and very ceremoniously dropped the cigarette butt in his half-filled cup of coffee and rose to leave the diner.
"Ah, hell," Laurie thought, looking around to see if Tony, the owner, was seeing this. He frequently told her he wasn't in business to lose business. He also was quick to tell her he'd hired her more for her looks than for her waitress abilities and customer services. There was nothing else she could do in this situation except turn on what Tony had hired her to do.
"Hey, listen, I'm sorry," she said as she put her hand on the young man's arm and pointed her ample tits, in their clinging cotton blouse, at him. "I hate trying to enforce that new rule in here. I shouldn't have snapped at you. I just had a bad call on the phone, and it threw me into a funk."
The young man sat back down on the stool and feasted his eyes on her rack. And while he was doing that, she was checking him out too. Nice body, she thought. Again, what hard work in construction could get you. Tight faded low-rise blue jeans and a white T-shirt stretched tight over a great chest. And now that she was looking at him real well, there was something intriguing about his chest. There appeared to be a massive faded blue tattoo curling out at the arm holes and neck of his T, and the white cotton shirt was gauzy enough that she could see that the design covered his entire torso. A little thrill went through her body, and her hands were beginning to tremble, something that could lead to disaster in her profession. She had to stop this. She promised herself she wouldn't be giving herself to any more of the type of guys who ate in this diner.
"Listen, Sugar. Forgive me, do your smoking outside, and I'll get you another cup of coffee and add in a piece of that apple pie. Sound like a good deal?"
"Does the coffee have to come out of the same pot that made this one?" the young man shot back. And then he flashed that movie star smile, winked, and said, "Just kidding. Sure, that sounds like a good deal."
She was blushing when she returned with the coffee pot and the slice of pie.
He asked her, "You said you'd had a bad phone call. Sorry to hear that. Hope it's not trouble."
"Naw, it's just my life, Sugar," Laurie said, plopping her elbows on the counter and her chin in her hands in front of him and, totally unintentionally, giving him another good look at her knockers, this time squeezed together, which emphasized the deep cleavage. "I was just talking with my friend, Reba—she's a hairdresser over on Pierce. We were going to get together to compare our recent exotic adventures, and it just hit both of us that we didn't have any exotic adventures to talk about. In this dead-end hole in the earth, we don't even have a life."
"I can't hardly believe that," the young guy said. "Good looking girl like you has got to have a real interesting love life at least, even here."
"Apparently not," Laurie snorted. And then Tony was yelling at her from across the room that she had tables waiting to put in their orders. When she had that under control again, she turned back to the counter and the guy was gone.
"Oh, well, the story of my life," Laurie thought. "Run up against anything half-way interesting or exotic and it disappears on me with a poof." And then she didn't think about any of this again, because her shift finished up real busy.
When Laurie walked out of the diner, she looked up, and there he was, leaning back on her car hood. He was smoking a cigarette again, and when he saw her, he gave her a saucy "you can't tell me to put it out now" look. That's not what made her jaw drop, though. What caused that was that he'd taken off his T-shirt, and she saw now that the tattoo pattern covering his torso was a cascade of faded blue roses, all tumbling down to the front edge of his low-rise jeans. She couldn't help having her first thought, which was wondering where the roses went from that point. This was immediately followed by a wet feeling between her legs.
"Thought you might want to give me a ride," he said, and he flicked his cigarette out into the parking lot.
"A ride?" she stammered. "In my car?"
"Maybe that too," he said, and then he laughed.
Laurie trembled as she walked around the car, and she nearly dropped her keys fumbling her way into the driver's seat. This was where she should have told him to back off and left him biting her car's dust as she roared out of the parking lot. But she didn't do that. She just got into the car and sat there as he opened the passenger door and eased himself in beside her.
"Which way?" she asked.
"What?" And then he misunderstood and leaned over and put his hand on her knee.
"Stop that! I mean where do you want me to take you? You asked for a ride. You must need to go someplace."
"Oh, just drive up toward route 22." But he didn't take his hand off her knee.
She put the car in gear and moved slowly and deliberately out of the parking lot. They weren't even up on the asphalt of the road before the young man had moved his hand to the hem of her skirt and gone underneath. Now his hand went to the inside of one of her soft, creamy thighs.
She slapped at his hand and sped up. The car was veering back and forth on the road.
"Whoa, Baby," he exclaimed. "Slow down. You'll crash us."
"I'll crash us?" she lashed out at him. "You'll crash us. Move that hand. Right now." She squeezed her thighs together in a last-ditch defense against his advances.
"Sure thing, Baby," he answered. And then he laughed and moved his hand directly to where it was cupping her mound tightly over her panties.
Laurie let out a gasp and her legs felt like jelly. They just collapsed on her and spread apart for him. He worked his fingers through a leg hole of her panties and entered her with a long, hard finger. She was beginning to flow, leaving no doubt that she wanted him. And he knew it. She was whimpering, and the car was slowing down now and creeping to the side of the road. She was scared and starting to hyperventilate, but whenever she glanced from the road to the man sitting close beside her and turned to her, she saw those blue roses in motion. His muscles undulated from the rotation and motion of his finger inside her cunt and of his other fingers at her inner thighs. She just melted at the exoticness of what was happening to her and the beauty of his motion.
"There's 22. Turn right and go about a mile," he directed her, as his second finger entered her and found and breached the hood of her clit. She moaned and dropped a hand to her lap. But rather than trying to pull his hand away, she held it there to her, close, through the thin moist cotton of her skirt.
"Turn here and drive behind the house," he directed.
"But this is the Clarke place," she said in a small voice. "They've been gone for some time. Please, don't . . . . I don't want to . . . ."
"Shush," he said. "I'm not going to harm you. I'm not going to do anything to you you don't want done. You said there was no exotic adventure in your life. I'm just helping you get that."
"I don't want . . . I didn't say you could . . . ," she whimpered at him, and she drove past the silent Clarke house and parked in the back yard.
"You didn't have to say it," he declared, working his third finger into her and rubbing her clit, which produced more gasps from her. "You wouldn't have let me in the car if you didn't want this. I do a lot of work with animals, and I can tell what they need and want without them telling me—and they probably don't even know what they need or want. I sensed back in the diner the same with you. This is what you need; you need someone to focus on you wholly and touch you to the depths."
"No, please," she said as she turned the key in the ignition. She was crying now. Tears were come down her cheeks and her juices were flowing around his rotating fingers. It was all so confusing. But she couldn't deny that she wanted him.
He wrapped his free hand around the back of her neck and brought her lips to his, giving her a bruising kiss that she initially fought but eventually fully gave into as the fingers of his other hand went as deep as they could up into her vagina and then slowly pumped in and out and rubbed back across her clit on the upward strokes. She shuddered and spasmed and silently screamed out under the pressure of his lips, tongue, and fingers as she achieved an orgasm. A man hadn't given her an orgasm in months, and a man had never given her one before without having his cock pumping inside her.
He broke off the kiss and pulled his fingers out of her cunt and patted her on the knee. "Get out of the car and come around to the hood," he said in a husky voice.
"Please," she said.
"Just do it. I said I wasn't going to harm you. You'll enjoy it."
She fumbled with the door handle, lurched out of the car, and stumbled around to the hood. He was already there in all his rose tattoo-stretched-over-gorgeous-muscle glory. He came up close to her and slowly unbuttoned her blouse and then pulled it off her shoulders. He cupped her ample breasts in his hands and then pushed her back onto the hood of the car. He brushed his lips to hers and then dipped down and had his lips on her nipples. She sighed and moaned as he worked them in his mouth. While he was sucking on these, his hands were at her hips, pulling her skirt down and off her legs. Then he started a slow journey of licking and kissing down her belly. When he reached the waistband of her panties, he stood above her and slowly worked those off her legs. He brought the very wet panties up to his nose and then gave her a wicked smile and stuffed them in the back pocket of his jeans. His glistening torso under that pattern of roses mesmerized her.
He went down on his knees between her legs and was applying his lips and tongue where his fingers had played earlier. She writhed under him and grabbed his head in her hands and crushed his face to her crotch. He found her hooded clit, exposed it with his tongue, and sucked it hard.
Laurie fell back onto the hood of the car and screamed in ecstasy as she had her second, much fuller and more prolonged orgasm under the tonguing and nibbling the man of the blue roses was applying to her clit.
She lay back, exhausted, as, with a grin and a laugh, the young man stood and backed from her a bit. She watched him, her eyes glazed but very wide, as he stripped his tight jeans off. He wasn't wearing anything underneath them, and Laurie gasped at what she saw. Not only was he better endowed than almost any man she'd ever been with before, but his groin was clean shaven, and the rose tattooing V'd down his lower, washboard belly to where a sprig of buds encircled the root of his cock. And there, very close to the bulging head of his cock was tattooed a single blue rose bud.
Having given her an eyeful of him, the young man walked back into her. She looked down the length of his washboard belly, as he took her finger and used it to trace the rose bud near the tip of his cock. Then he took her hands in his and wrapped them around his rod and held them very still so that she could feel his dick throbbing.
"I think we've given you enough exotic adventure for you and your friend to talk about. But if you want more, I have this for you. Do you want more? My cock is throbbing. It's throbbing for you. Do you want it?"
Laurie didn't answer him in words. She rolled her hips up on the hood of the car and, pulled his cock inside of her with her hands, watching the rose bud slowly disappear inside her. She directed the head of the cock to her clit and rubbed the two sensitive members together. The young man was doing as much moaning and groaning as she was now, and he only put up with her having control for a short time. With a cry, he took the root of his cock in his own hands, redirected the head and plunged into her. She cried out in ecstasy and arched her head back toward the hood of the car. His head followed, with his lips arriving at her nipples. He pumped her hard and long while he nibbled on her breasts, and she reached down and dug her hands into his butt cheeks, holding him in her.
After many minutes of this, he pulled out of her and turned her body to facing the hood and reentered her from behind. One of his hands went to a breast and the other came down her belly, and the heel of the hand rested on her lower belly, as two fingers entered her vagina and found and rubbed her clit until the combination of this and the throbbing and pumping cock deep inside her caused Laurie to have her third orgasm. The young man shot off shortly thereafter in great fountains of semen that mixed with her flowing juices and ran out around his thick cock and down their thighs.
Laurie was still heaving and trying to catch her breath, belly down on the hood of the car, when she realized the young man had withdrawn his cock from her. She turned and found that she was completely alone in the back yard of the deserted Clarke house in the dimming light of the evening. He had completely disappeared. Where could he have gone? She search around the house and drove slowly down the drive and along the road, assuming that she would see him, but he had vanished. All he'd left her was his white T-shirt, on the floor of the passenger compartment of his car. And, in exchange, he had taken her wet panties.
The next day she quizzed Tony about the Clarke place.
"Haven't all of the Clarke's moved away?" she asked.
"Yep," Tony answered. "They've gone up north where Mr. Clarke thought he could find better work. Their son, Hank, is back hereabouts, though, I heard. Just temporarily. He works for a circus that's taking a rest break over near Lawrence. I hear he's a roustabout or something for that circus. Also heard he's good with the wild animals and real good with his hands."
Laurie looked sharply at Tony to see if he was making any suggestions with that remark, but he didn't seem to be doing that.
"In fact, he was in here just yesterday. I saw him jawing with you. You didn't know that was him?"
"Naw I didn't," Laurie answered.
"Now that I think about it, he was asking questions about you and what kind of car you drove when I ran across him outside while I was takin' my smoke break. I thought that was kinda weird, but then just assumed you and he were talking cars."
"Yep, that's it. We were just talkin' cars in passing," Laurie answered, hoping Tony didn't notice how she was blushing. Then her attention went to her pulsating cell phone.
"Yes, hi there, Reba. What? No, I'm sorry, I can't come over this evening. I got some clothes mixed up with someone else's . . . yeah, yeah, down at the Laundromat . . . and I've gotta see if I can get them exchanged."
When she disconnected, she was going over the route in her mind to be sure she'd be able to find her way back to the Clarke house.
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DJ Jazzy Jeff + DJ AM In New Orleans: The Best Performance That I Never Saw [VIDEO]
It's hard to believe that it's been four years since a lethal drug overdose took the life of Adam Goldstein, aka DJ AM. I remember it being hard to believe it had been three years last year at this time, and chances are next year (and every year after that) I'll be saying the same thing. DJ AM was a great DJ that I unfortunately never had the chance to meet, or even see play live.


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Antique shop owner: 'I looked down and I saw the barrel of the gun'
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. -- In the heart of tulip country, something else is in bloom - and shop owners are trying to dig into the problem before it gets worse.
"I don't know why we've been targeted," said Marcia Bartelt, co-owner of the Red Door Antique Mall. "I wonder why it's the antique shops because we sure don't have the most money of other businesses in town."
Three of the five antique shops in Mt. Vernon's downtown core have been the victims of crime since Saturday night: two were burglarized in middle-of-the-night break-ins and a third was held up at gunpoint, said Lt. Chris Cammock of the Mt. Vernon Police Department.
"These types of businesses - collectibles - aren't usually ones that you would think that somebody going out and doing burglary would look to," Cammock said. "(They) could (all) be connected. It could be coincidence. We're looking into both of those."
Among the crimes: the Tuesday gunpoint hold-up of Annie Mae Antiques - and shop owner Marlys Herman, one week shy of her 79th birthday.
"To come in and rob their grandma - that's not right," Herman said. "I work for my money. What's a matter with people? Can't they work for their money? I get irritated with shoplifters but this really ticked me off."
Herman - who says she's run after shoplifters in her five years in business - did not chase after the robber on Tuesday afternoon.
"He says, 'Give me your money,' and of course, I says, 'What?'" Herman recalled. "I told him, I says, 'We've had very few sales. I don't have much money.' And he says, 'Well, you've got more than I do.'"
"So then I looked down and I saw the barrel of the gun," she said.
A third store, Good Old Days Antique Mall, was also hit this week. Someone used a large object to break the front door's plate glass window and ransacked a display case full of daggers, swords, and old medals, police said.
"They just took the doors of the case and had their way with it," said Brian Queen, who co-owns the shop.
The thieves also ripped a unique, vintage vending machine out of the wall and stole the store's security system.
"They knew what they were doing," added Ron Perry, the store's coowner.
The store is having a weekend sale to raise money to fix the front glass, according to their .
Police are also looking into whether similar thefts in Bellingham in February might be related. Two Mt. Vernon residents were arrested in that case, although one remains free on bail, said Bellingham Police Department spokesman Mark Young.
"We have a small profit margin so anything we have to pay out extra is a big hit right out of our pockets," added Charlene Kading, who co-owns the Red Door Antique Mall.
"It was just scary. It just kind of shakes you," she said.


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A credit score seems like a fairly simple concept. If you have a high score, you can qualify for the best rates on loans. If you have a low score, you can't.
But what about the things that influence a score, that move it up or down? That's where things get a little murky for a lot of consumers.
A survey by credit bureau TransUnion has documented that confusion, learning that more than half of consumers who checked their credit score in the last month wrongly believed their income, employment history, and age are factors.
They aren't, and neither are salary raises and increases in personal savings, though a large percentage of consumers in the survey believe they are.
What you don't know can hurt
Why does this matter? Because if you don't know what influences your credit score, you might not take the right action to keep pushing your score higher.
"Our survey shows that even those who monitor their credit are only skimming the surface of their credit report and often don't understand the factors that comprise their credit score," said John Danaher, president of TransUnion Consumer Interactive.
Here's what influences your credit score: first and foremost, its paying your bills on time. All of your bill.
Danaher says some consumers buy into the myth that as long as they pay their bills and don't fall behind, it's okay. It's not. Paying bills on time and in full each month will have a positive impact on your score. Late bill payments can stay on your report for up to seven years.
How you use credit
How you use credit is another major factor. Paying off your credit card balance every month looks better to creditors than if you carry a balance that gets bigger every month.
They also look closely on how much of your available credit you've used. If you have a $5000 credit limit but are carrying a $4,000 balance, you'll have a lower score than if the balance is just $1,000.
Finally, you need to access credit to raise your credit score. If you don't have any credit accounts, the credit agencies have no way to assess your creditworthiness. Having a mortgage, car payment, and credit card bill that you pay on time, month after month, is the best way to maintain and build your credit score.


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The Chisago Soil & Water Conservation District would like to recognize Hazelden Foundation. It was chosen as one of eight finalists for the Minnesota Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts annual Outstanding Conservationist award. Although Hazelden wasn't chosen as the overall state winner, it is an outstanding example of a local water quality steward.
In the past five years, Hazelden staff, led by Doug Jurek, facilities maintenance technician, and Bill Knutson, manager of facilities operations, have implemented a plan to return the over 500 acres adjacent to campus to its natural state.The steeply sloped and highly erodible farmland has been planted to a permanent hay crop. Over 4,000 trees and shrubs have been planted, along with native prairie grasses and other habitat plantings, to improve habitat quality for pheasants and wildlife.
"We're proud of the Hazelden Foundation for their initiative in improving their land for water quality and wildlife," District Supervisor Roland Cleveland said. "With their campus so close to South Center Lake, their actions have a direct impact on the water quality of our community."


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Winsome modern fairytale with Christina Ricci as a sweet, young aristocrat cursed with the face of a pig. Her one true love can break the spell, but first there are important lessons to be learned about self-esteem. Rising British star James McAvoy charms as the suitor-with-a-secret, while producer Reese Witherspoon, Lenny Henry and Russell Brand all put their snouts in.
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Heiress Penelope Wilhern (Christina Ricci) is born with a silver spoon in her mouth but a pig's snout for a nose.
Unsurprisingly, her horrified parents (O' Hara and Grant) take the only logical step and fake her death to avoid the scandal.
It turns out that, generations before, a swinish Wilhern scion had played fast and loose with a household servant, whose very angry mother happened to be the local witch.
In quick succession came pregnancy, abandonment, suicide and a curse. Fast forward 150 years and out pops poor Penelope, snout, pointy ears and all.
Believing that the hog hex can be lifted only when one of Penelope's own kind can love her, her parents hide her from the world, searching for a suitably blue-blooded suitor for their porcine princess.
Hard-bitten tabloid hound Lemon (Peter Dinklage) hires down-on-his-luck aristo Max (McAvoy) to infiltrate the husband hunt and snap photographic proof of the mythical pig girl.
However, Max grows a conscience and funks the mission, falling for Penelope in the process.
Disappointed and desperate for a taste of life, Penelope cunningly disguises herself with a scarf around her face and runs away from home.
Out in the real world she discovers beer (through a straw), friends and self-acceptance - basically "be true to thyself."
Filmed in London with an international cast, this suffers from its confused fictional setting: most of the actors speak with an American accent, including Grant and McAvoy, while lesser characters are left to their British inflections, including local bobby Lenny Henry and jazz club owner Russell Brand.
The whimsy is laid on with a trowel and most of the characters have 'quirky' tattooed on their forehead, but Penelope is a sweet and likeable film.
The main cast deliver convincing performances and the sets and costumes are gorgeous, with debut director Mark Palansky delivering a kind of Tim Burton-lite fairyland.
Produced by Reese Witherspoon (who also pops up in a small role as Penelope's 'spunky' new friend), it's a tween-friendly tale of true love and triumph over adversity.


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STAR out, MAP in
The Florida House overwhelmingly joined the Senate today in replacing the controversial STAR teacher performance pay plan with the Merit Award Program, or MAP. Several Democrats used the debate to advocate for increased teacher salaries across the board. But they agreed to support the bill as a preferable alternative to the vilified STAR plan. "We have turned the train around and we are heading in a new direction," said Rep. Joe Gibbons, D-Pembroke Park, who noted he received 2,000 e-mails urging repeal of STAR. Rep. Joe Pickens, chairman of the Schools and Learning Council, said the legislation got rid of the overly prescriptive regulations from the Department of Education and replaced them with more local control, finally creating a long-needed and acceptable system that rewards teachers for their skills rather than their longevity. "Merit pay is something that should have been in place a long time ago," he said. "A fifth-year teacher that does a great job is entitled to more money for doing that great job. ... And the teacher that wants to come in and punch the clock ... will get the pay they deserve." The final vote was 110-4.