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I was weary and tired as our vacation time approached. It had been a busy year and especially the last few months with health issues and busyness in our Women's Ministry at church. Busier actually, than I had been in years. I was so looking forward to relaxing and all of us being together making new memories.
I had to make trip to urgent care two nights before we left with an ear infection. It seems every time we go away together I get sick..so I was a little discouraged. I have learned to roll with the punches but I was blind sighted the first day we arrived when my foot froze up and I could barely put any weight on it. This happens periodically, but it hadn't happened for awhile.
The drive takes 4-5 hours depending what the traffic is like in Los Angeles. On the drive up to Pismo, I said to my husband, " I have an assignment for us while we are gone. Let's look for glimpses of God's glory this week." So we talked a little bit about it and several times during the first day my husband asked, "Any glimpses?" I would just smile... not yet.
Here I was at a beautiful stretch of California coastline.....I saw dolphins, sea lions and I think I spotted a whale one day...reflections of the sun through evening fog coming in...rolling hills of Vineyards...the majesty of my Creator was all around me. Nothing wowed me as a glimpse of His glory. I guess what I wanted was....Oh my goodness, would you look at that! I would sit on the balcony of our room looking out over the ocean..just saying to God, " Show me Yourself in a special way." Here I was soaking in all the beauty and fresh air and yet I didn't feel I'd seen anything I was looking for. I have never been one to look for the big hype or emotionalism of Christianity and I still wasn't.
The night before we were to head for home our son's car wouldn't start and he had to be towed to another city. They were going to have to stay behind and wait another day. You know how that sets with a Mom. I was thankful that the car didn't break down somewhere with those darling little divas and a puppy in 105+ heat. And thankful my daughter and her family stayed behind with them one more night.
Please don't take me wrong I did praise God while I was there for His beautiful creation and the blessing to be able to come one more time with my family...I did worship Him and praise Him!
When it was time to leave we did our hugs goodbye, yet at the time, I was somewhat anxious to leave them all behind and then it hit me. The glimpses of God's glory that I had been looking for all week was in the faces of each one of my kids that day. I wasn't expecting this....I fought tears all the way out of town. I had asked and asked for 4 days for a glimpse of His glory...and once again He was faithful. I was wowed and I knew, that I knew, this was the glimpse God wanted me to see.
That's what I saw one day last week..glimpses of His Glory through my family! Pretty cool stuff.
Steven, Rachel, Grace, Darcy, McKenzie, Robbie, Hannah, Haylee and Papa
and Puppy Molly
Isaiah 43:7 says, We are created for God's glory. I have learned there are two truths to those who are called by His name..1. God wants to make Himself recognizable to us and 2. He also wants to make Himself recognizable through us...
That's what I saw one day last week..glimpses of His Glory through my family! Pretty cool stuff.


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The World is an archipelago of artificial islands, shaped like the continents of the Earth, being constructed off the coast of Dubai. The project is inspired by the artificial Palm Islands also being built in Dubai. The World will consist of 250 to 300 smaller private artificial islands divided into four categories — private homes, estate homes, dream resorts, and community islands. The entire project is slated for completion in 2008. Development has already started on The World, the northern-most breakwater and several unlandscaped islands visible on Google Earth. There will be numerous marinas scattered around the area to shelter and service boats.(Source Wikipedia)
The World was serviced by four major transportation hubs linked by waterways. Land parcels are zoned for various uses: estate, mid density, high density, resorts and commercial.[8] A Dubai Infinity Holdings construction planner has stated that developers have been negotiating with Nakheel about temporary siting of a cement batching plant on one of the islands to supply subdivided construction.[9]
Utilities are routed underwater, with water plants at each of the hubs pumping fresh water to the islands. Power is supplied by the Dubai Grid and distributed through underwater cables. Waste water and refuse systems are an individual concern for each island.[8]
Nakheel Group is itself further developing a resort named Coral Island over 20 islands that make up the North American part of The World. The low-rise development will include a marina and hotel village.[10] The second largest confirmed development is the purchase of 14 islands that make up Australia and New Zealand by Investment Dar of Kuwait. The islands are being terraformed to be developed as a resort named OQYANA.[11] Irish business consortium Larionovo had plans to develop the Ireland island into an Irish-themed resort.[12] The plans include a large internal marina, apartments and villas, a gym, hotel, and an Irish-themed pub. In July 2007 it was announced that the Ireland Island would feature a recreation of Northern Ireland's Giants Causeway. However on 25 November 2008 a provisional liquidator was appointed to Larionovo.[13]
In April 2008, Salya Corporation announced that it had acquired the islands of Finland and Brunei in The World and planned to develop them into fashion-themed resorts. Salya spent about Dh800 million ($218 million USD) to purchase the islands and plans to spend a further Dh2.4 billion ($654 million USD) on development. Brunei Island will be turned into a Fashion TV resort and Finland Island will be turned into a fashion community called FTV palace.[14]
The islands of Great Britain and Moscow on The World were acquired by Premier Real Estate Bureau in the Summer of 2008. The news was leaked in a Daily Mail article of January 2009, refuting claims that Great Britain was owned by Irish investor John Dolan, Richard Branson or Rod Stewart.[15] Safi Qurashi, the multi-millionaire entrepreneur at the head of Premier and his business partner Mustafa Nagri, paid an estimated $64 million USD for the 11-acre (45,000 m2) piece of land. Premier are planning to build a sustainable community on the island.
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I was working on the main quest in skyrim involving the dragons and I made it to the part of the quest called "The Elder Knowledge" only to find that due to the fact that I had previously done the quest with the lexicon beforehand I can no longer complete the main quest. Does anybody know of any way to get around this? If so it would be greatly appreciated.
I'm sure it would be a simple fix if I were playing on PC, as there is probably some form of code or something I could enter into the console, but unfortuantely I am playing on a console. Any assistance given would be greatly appreciated.


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With the Phillies about a third of the way through the 2011 season, Philthy Stuff will look back at our favorite moments from a memorable season so far.
We all anticipated that this would be a special season for the Phillies. But if I told you before the season started that the most memorable moment would happen on April 30, you probably would have assumed I was talking about some kind of horrible injury that ended up derailing the Phillies for the rest of the way. You certainly wouldn't be anticipating anything good, because all of the anticipation for this season was focused on October, and not on something that would occur just a few weeks into the festivities.
But that's what makes the night of April 30 at Citizen's Bank Park such a memorable event. No one at that stadium that evening walked in and thought to themselves, "Say, I might find out Osama bin Laden was killed tonight!" Not one of them. No one sitting at home that night watching the game thought of it. Not the announcers. Not the players. Not the coaches. No one. You watch footage of the crowd that night and the first emotion isn't joy or relief or pride -- it's surprise. It's that unmistakable, "Wait, what?!" reaction that you barely ever get to see occur en masse.
And so people began celebrating. What else were they gonna do? They were in a ballpark, one of the more joyous places to be on a Sunday evening, and then word came down that the man everyone had feared for a decade was no longer with us. What were they supposed to do, sit on their hands? No, they clapped and hooted and sang and just let fly. And while some have derided that moment as nationalistic, I think of it as incredibly human: a moment no was expecting and a response so genuine that no Jumbotron could ever attempt to dictate it.
The Phillies could go on to win the World Series this season and I'm not sure it will be as memorable as the night everyone at CBP found out about bin Laden. Baseball history happens all the time. But how often do you get to go to the game and be a part of WORLD history? Yeah, that was something.
Fave Moment: The Dead Bin Laden Game
With the Phillies about a third of the way through the 2011 season, Philthy Stuff will look back at our favorite moments from a memorable season so far.


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|the start
We started out happy and chatty. Scott and I found ourselves wedged into a group of about 7 other men, who spent the first 10 miles of the race quietly listening to Scott and I loudly tell jokes, sing our own versions of "Guy on a Buffalo," and other such nonsense. I laughed more in that 10 miles than I ever have in any race.
|so many laughs running with this guy
Around mile 12 Scott and I began leap frogging a bit. I hit a low around mile 14: my legs were cramping, my hips were stiff, and I was nauseated. Jeremy Suwinski and I chatted for a bit somewhere in there, and he said words that would resonate for me later in the race, "with these 100's, every now and then you get a bad case of the f* its. And then you just screw all your goals and times and just let it all go-- and just run."
|Chris, Trent, Jeremy Suwinski.... I ran with each at some point
At mile 21 Scott turned back and saw me on my elbows and knees puking into the bushes. I hated that he saw, I didn't want him to worry and I knew he hated leaving me like that. But he wasn't there to be my pacer, and he needed to continue on. I spent the next 6 miles frequenting the bushes until all I could vomit was awful bile, heaving so violently that I would occasionally pee in my running skirt (sorry if TMI).
I was trying to hold back a total break down. Demons of negative thoughts entered my head, and that was the lowest/most depressed I've ever felt. I hiked to Lower Frary repeating to myself "I can't do this. I'm no ultrarunner. I'm just some one hit wonder who randomly did 'ok' in a 100k once. I can't run 80 miles feeling like this. I can't be a 100 miler. I'm no good at this. Who feels like this at mile 20?...." and so forth. Fighting back tears I came into Lower Frary, ready to quit.
|Caorl finished strong, so proud of her
I asked to borrow Kelli's phone and hid under a comforter for privacy. I called my Dad and my husband, looking for sympathy and reassurance that quitting was the right decision. No such luck. In so many words, my husband said 'You don't sound miserable enough to quit yet.' I responded with 'There's so many people at this aid station, I'm trying to hold some self-respect together!' He convinced me to commit to completing 10 miles. If I wanted to quit in 10 miles, I could have a ride home.
With renewed commitment to my new escape plan, I popped my head out from under the comforter. I would sit until I knew I could stand without barfing again, then I would walk 10 miserable miles, then I would pathetically go home, disappear from the ultra scene, and hide in shame.
|spoiler alert: me at the finish line
10 minutes later I couldn't stop smiling. Good music was playing, and I was running. I love running! I began shouting "I'M NO QUITTER!" at the top of my lungs. The 12-15 men that passed me while I sat at the aid station I began to pass back. Each one would see me and applaud, laugh, and shout hoorays. "Look at you!" "Wow!" "Way to rally!" "I can't believe how good you look!" "So inspiring to see you back from the depths of Hell!"
|Kendall, I'm back from the dead!
Slowly but surely I began to make up lost time. I got to the Ranch Aid Station. Bart and Josh Greenwell called out to me, "I thought you droppped!" I laughed and said I did, but here I am anyways. "How do you feel now?" asked Bart as I walked out of the aid station. "Fantastic!" I shouted, theatrically spreading my arms and bowing. With a giggle, I was out. After all, it'd take some fast miles to catch back up to Scott.
I got back to Lower Frary and found out the rumors of me DNF'ing were spreading like wildfire. I worried a bit that my pacers caught wind and wouldn't show. I smiled and those who saw me fall apart earlier took pictures, so happy to see me with a smile on my face. I was so happy to see them! "I'M NO QUITTER!" and I turned the music up, high-fived and thanked every person I saw, and kept on running.
|so grateful she helped me commit to a finish
I ran up hills shouting "Scott!" at the top of my lungs.
I had never been in such a low, dark, awful place. To have left it... I knew no matter what went wrong, I couldn't feel that awful again during the race. It was freeing to know that the worst was over.
I continued to pass the men who had passed me earlier, each with a smile and applause and genuine shared gratitude. "You looked terrible," they'd tell me, "and now I can't keep up with you!" I'd thank them and look forward to seeing them again on the many out-and-backs of the course.
Still thriving on a coke-at-aid-stations-only diet, downing salt pills, and too scared to try anything else, I went on a hunt for Scott. I had a funny joke for him, after all. Each time I'd get the news he was closer and closer. The final aid station Erik Storheim smiles at me "Look at how good you look! I heard you had a terrible start. What do you need?" I found out Scott was only a minute ahead of me. "I need to tell Scott a funny joke!" and I sprinted out of there.
Scott and I ran the next 5 in together, talking, laughing, making bets, and shooting the breeze. He had confidence I would continue to rally and finish strong. I had confidence he'd make his goal time. We came into the 50 in high spirits.
|Look who came to surprise me!
Many friends catered to my every whim. I think I had 7 people handing me things, smiling, everyone happy I was back. "I'M NO QUITTER!" 10 minutes later, Jim Skaggs (the RD) kicked me out. He was on the team "break the course record." Originally that was my hope as well, but Suwinski's words had resounded deeply. For me to come back, I had to let go. I let go of my time goals. I let go of wanting to win. I let go of the course record. I let go of wanting to inspire others or prove something. I was going to finish this race for me, at my own pace, in my own way, simply to remind myself that I could. I'd never had a "comeback" experience like this before. I needed to show myself that all those depressing thoughts about how I wasn't good enough to be a 100 miler were wrong. I could, and would, finish. Course record or no course record.
Marty caught me up to speed and she began her pacing duties as the kindest, most thoughtful pacer I've ever had. This was also her first ultra experience and her first run longer than a marathon. She was efficient, sweet, and babied my every need. Darting ahead to make sure coke was ready when I got there, keeping tabs on my salt, and generally keeping me happy and confident.
I saw Craig Lloyd at the Elephant Head aid station (mile 56?). He had just been dry heaving but looked happy and was hopeful that his stomach would settle. It was fun to finally see him (first time during the race) and give him a giant hug. Seeing him look solid... well, you can imagine my surprise when I rolled into the aid at mile 65 to see Craig in a chair. A little sympathy and encouragement and I convinced him to leave the aid station with me. I couldn't leave him there. His stomach problems had only escalated since I last saw him, and (little did we know) would continue to drag on.
It was fun to chat and hang with Craig, and when he stopped to puke a few miles later I knew he'd catch me. At the 69 aid station I headed out before him. "Puke and rally!" he laughed. "Get a head start, I'll catch you in a minute."
|this guy is always smiling
I struggled in and J was there, swapping pacer duties with Marty. Gone were the sweet coddling ways of Marty. Jen began counting down my minutes at the aid station immediately. "Time to get out of here," she urged. Thus began my night....
We skedaddled over to the Ranch, Jen gently prodding me. I enjoyed stopping and seeing so many people, including the men's lead pack that would would soon finish. I saw Matt Van Horn far in the lead, looking fresh and fantastic, filling me with pride to call him a friend. When we turned around, the light we thought was Craig's behind us wasn't him. Nor was he the next one. And the next one. And the next one... I began to worry.
When we bumped into Craig he had been hiking since Mountain View. His stomach was still out of sorts. While I hated seeing him like that (and I hated being reassured from him he wouldn't be able to catch me, felt so wrong for me to push on ahead) I had never been prouder of him. For someone who had been having stomach issues for over 40 miles, to commit to a finish (even if it is, for him, a slow finish of a long night spent hiking alone) is utterly impressive. Sheer determination and a "Refuse to Quit" attitude made me feel a little guilty for diving to the "quitting" side so quickly earlier on. It also made me so proud to have this kid as a mentor. I couldn't be more impressed with his persistence.
|Craig and I at the finish. Love that face. Ha.
J continued to prod. "I'm done!" I'd cry into the blasting, awful, headwind. Uphill. UGH. "You can run this," she'd say. UGH. I finally decided to try to hurry a bit to the next aid station, confident that with my efforts surely she'd allow me a 10 minute nap. Mike Place graciously allowed me his sleeping bag and gave me noodles, which I quickly scarfed hoping (as J counted down my 3 minutes) that if I fell asleep quickly enough she'd have sympathy.
|c'mon, don't I look pathetic?
My hips cramped so painfully even walking was impossible. I tried to stretch, and decided to take an Aleve (even though I was on Tylenol) to get things done. It was mile 88, anyways. I eased back into running. As my hips loosened my desire to be done increased. I could smell the barn door. Jen wanted me to get in under 20 hours, but I didn't really care. I just wanted the race, the pain, to all end. My pace began to drop and we ran (what seemed like) 9 minute miles from 88-95. We kept a strong pace going. "I'm done with this race!" I'd shout. Running a 9 didn't hurt any less than running an 11, and it would allow me to stop sooner.
|mile 98, taking it slow
I took it slow around Buffalo Knoll, my Tylenol had worn off and I was fearful that if I fell down I would never get back up.
As we approached the finish line I teared up. I remembered all the doubts I'd fought earlier. I remembered rebounding and feeling amazing. I remembered all the cheering and love and support from strangers at aid stations, volunteers, and every person I encountered. I remembered seeing my friends, each in their own races and pain caves, pressing on, refusing to quit, quietly teaching me with their actions. And I saw the finish line.
I've never worked so hard for something in my life. It was harder and more painful than anything I've experienced.
I've also never been so proud of myself for finishing. Yes, I appreciate the congratulations on my 100 PR, a CR, a win, and a decent time. But really, none of that matters.
I quit, and then I finished. I've never been more proud of myself, all for the simple act of perseverance.
|people kept making me take pics with this kid. pretty sure I don't belong in this photo. MVH killed it out there!
|these ladies are awesome. Marty, me, J
|my kids think trophies are "the coolest"
La Sportiva Helios (miles 0-50; 77-100)
La Sportiva Bushidos (miles 50-77)
I could've/would've stayed in my Helios, but changing shoes made it so my pacers let me sit longer. ha! Being sneaky.
La Sportiva Andromeda skirt (best decision- so soft, stretchy, comfortable- and no chafe, a first!)
La Sportiva race jersey and visor
Terrmar Baselayers
Nathan Firecatcher
Injinjii trail socks
Time: 20:18, 1st female, 6th or 7th(?) person in


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Wind farm lets you bike, hike or hunt among towering turbines
Puget Sound Energy's Wild Horse Wind Farm, northeast of Ellensburg, offers 11,000 acres of rocky scrubland for bikers and hikers to explore — while getting a close-up look at 350-foot-tall wind turbines.
Special to The Seattle Times
Wild Horse Wind FarmWhere
From downtown Ellensburg, take University Way east as it becomes Vantage Highway; drive 16 miles to the Beacon Ridge Road turnoff and turn left.
Stop at the wind farm's visitor center to pick up Puget Sound Energy's map of the area's trails. You'll also need to register here to go beyond the paved road.
Daily at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. from April through November, weather permitting. Free.
Traveler's tip
Kittitas County has a great interactive map of mountain biking and hiking trails at
More information
The Kittitas County Sheriff's Office was halting cars on the Vantage Highway as I drove out from Ellensburg, and I realized I was too late for that morning's Whiskey Dick Triathlon. Also too old, and too weak.
Fortunately, I was on a more modest mission: to ride among the monumental, sturdy trunks that punctuate the windswept skyline near Whiskey Dick Mountain. Not the broad, leafy trees that shelter where the Yakima River snakes through the adjacent valley, nor the scraggly pines growing partway up the ridge — the angular, 350-foot-tall monsters I was looking for were wind turbines.
This nonnative species has sprouted in profusion on the Kittitas County hills. From Interstate 90, the wind turbines seem like toothpicks. But up close they are massive, and there may be no better place to learn about them than the Wild Horse Wind Farm, Puget Sound Energy's power plantation 18 miles northeast of Ellensburg.
Its privately owned 11,000 acres of scrubby brush and ravines are accessible to the public for hiking or biking, even hunting; just complete the paperwork. What distinguishes this stretch of rangeland, however, is the opportunity to check out the 149 turbines.
There's a tour that will take you inside one of the turbine towers, and a ridgetop visitor center packed with displays about the technology and the area's natural history.
Crickets and cow pies
A bike ride among the bright-white towers seemed just the right pace at which to ponder their strange, mechanical beauty.
After the last of the triathletes, who'd started their morning with a swim across the Columbia River, passed the sheriff's roadblock on the Vantage Highway, I finally reached the Wild Horse turnoff. Although you can drive to the visitor center, I chose to ride up.
Crickets and cow pies were the only things sharing the road as I ascended some 900 feet over 3 ½ miles. Thanks to the 2,600-foot starting elevation, the winding route offered good views of both Mount Adams and Mount Rainier poking up from beyond the nearby Cascades. The rocky slopes were dotted with sagebrush, desert parsley, phlox and prairie lupine. A few flowers still held their color in the late summer dryness.
At midmorning only a few turbines were turning indolently; the slight breeze carried the pungent scent of sage, but generated no juice. The turbines need a 9-mph wind to operate effectively — something the hills here reliably provide on most summer days.
Past the visitor center, the paved road turns to gravel. Its ups and downs take you past neatly aligned arrays of turbines and entirely unaligned clusters of cows.
The turbines — reaching higher, with their upturned blade, than the Statue of Liberty's outstretched arm — are such unfamiliar objects that the mind plays tricks on you. Glimpse a group from a corner of your eye and they seem like a flock of weird, three-winged seagulls. Pass close by and the long, sharp-edged shadow of the blades swooping by every 3 to 4 seconds is unnerving, as though a large bird is reaching down to snatch you skyward.
Trails up and down
For bikers or hikers, there's a 5-mile gravel road running along Beacon Ridge, and several rocky side trails and old, unmarked roads that range across the hills and canyons. One trail leads up to the Whiskey Dick peak and a big array of solar panels, another goes down through Bluebird Canyon, which is said to harbor elk, deer and coyotes as well as the birds for which it's named.
Riding the primary maintenance road on my cross bike was not prohibitively bumpy — the only hazards were two or three cattle gates and the aforementioned meandering cows — though I wouldn't bring a standard road bike beyond the visitor center. And the side trail I took was rocky enough that I felt I was endangering my bike and perhaps myself; such exploration is perhaps best left to hikers or hard-core mountain bikers.
Had I studied the excellent maps Kittitas County has online (see "If You Go"), I could have made a long loop by taking one of the dirt roads that descend from Beacon Ridge Road beyond the Wild Horse property. As it was, I just had the utility's guide to its own trails — so I simply retraced my path for a total ride of 20 miles.
Education, too
Bouncing along I reflected on the unexpected things I'd learned on the tour, conducted by a student intern from Central Washington University. The rectangular box of gears and controls atop each turbine is the size of a small bus and weighs 75 tons. The tapered, curved turbine blades are hollow and delicately balanced in matched sets of three; when one was dinged during installation, the whole set had to be scrapped — hence the blade on display outside the visitor center. The wind farm has the capacity to power 70,000 homes.
Many in the county weren't happy to see the turbines march across their hillsides. And with one neighboring wind farm idled at times this spring and summer because the Bonneville Power Administration says it has plenty of hydropower, there's room for debate about the area's suitability for wind power.
But to this city dweller, there's something preternaturally attractive about these tall, bone-white stalks. Wandering close among them for a few hours only underscored how they oddly combine sturdiness and fragility, high-tech and basic nature.
Rami Grunbaum is The Seattle Times' deputy business editor.


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First Bus fined for late buses in Bristol and Somerset
First Bus, the largest bus operator in Bristol and Somerset, has been fined £40,000 as a penalty for the late running of its buses.
The traffic commissioner handed out the fine after an inquiry found spot checks in Weston-super-Mare showed nearly 20% of services did not run on time.
A similar test in Bath found 8% were either early or late and some showed the wrong destinations.
First Bus said the ruling did not consider "unpredictable" conditions.
During the inquiry by the Department for Transport, First Bristol said the commissioner's target of having 95% of services on time was "simply not achievable" given Bristol's traffic.
But the commissioner commended the company for eradicating the culture of early running where drivers purposefully speed round their routes ahead of time.
In response to the fine, a statement by First Bus said it was disappointed and that improvements had been made.
In 2005 First Bristol was fined £100,000 and in 2007 it was fined £50,000.


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Therapeutic Horsemanship
This form of intervention provides the opportunity for people to gain new skills, increased confidence and other benefits through participating in equine based activities centred on a positive horsemanship approach, in an outdoor, rural environment
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It's a concept that The Enigma, the sideshow performer best known for his full-body jigsaw puzzle tattoo and his appearances on X-Files and Ripley's "Believe it or Not?" , knows very intimately.
"When you can exploit your own self, then you know you have a steady product. You're in it for life," he says with a laugh. "Even people back in the day, it's the same then as it is today. It's always been a capitalist market. Those who can make an income based on what they do or their appearance even, that's what makes money, that's what draws. People want to see interesting people."
In that way, the tabloids documenting Hollywood's plastic surgery nightmares, which are appearing more frequently, are a descendent of the carnival sideshows. In the case of Heidi Montag of The Hills, who underwent dozens of plastic surgeries (and 10 in one day) to dramatically alter her appearance, the world zeroed in on her surgeries as the extreme end result of a culture obsessed with appearance.
TV programs and blog posts were dedicated to analyzing the culture that allowed this to happen. They analyzed Montag's psyche but discussed why this event was an event at all - why this was a matter of importance to the person writing the blog post.
"People love people who really are themselves," The Enigma says, simply.
He has, not surprisingly, faced his share of scrutiny. In 1992, he appeared, along with the rest of the Jim Rose Circus, a troupe of sideshow performers he co-founded in 1992, on Sally Jesse Raphael, that bastion of talk-show sensationalism where murderers, child molesters and freaks of all sorts were invited on to bear public scrutiny.
"People come up to me and they go, 'Oh you're the devil,' well that's because that's what they see in their own self. And if people come up to me and say, 'Wow, you've pursued your dream, that's awesome,' that's what they see in themselves too. You see who you are through other people," he says.
He speaks with the clarity and depth of a philosophy major, interjected with slices of black humour. He says he had no intention of tattooing his entire body. It came about as a mere flight of fancy.
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As many of you know, I recently made the jump to Android. But! That doesn't mean I've given up on the lovely iPhones that have been a part of my life for the last 6 years (I've been using WP8 for a while now too). As a developer who prides himself on flexibility, it is important to me that I have and understand all the major platforms.
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From what I can tell, mostly just updated chrome. It doesn't look particularly iOS7 to me, but it's flatter, and that's nice.
Not really a refreshed look, but they've incorporated parallax into the section covers (not that you can see that from the screenshot). Fortunately, flipboard already had a more modern design before iOS7 came about, so if they ever do refresh the look, I doubt it'll be much different.
Here's the first full-on refresh I've seen that meets the iOS7 style guides. Very flat, very white, very nice looking.
Part their own thing, part iOS7, the Nordstrom refresh looks clean and functional.
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Hurricane Harvey hit eastern Texas as a category 4 hurricane on Friday night, the largest storm to hit the United States in over a decade. While Hurricane Harvey has since been downgraded in intensity to a tropical storm, it has also stalled over the coast, resulting in record-shattering rainfall—and subsequent widespread flooding that isn't going to let up for several more days. The fourth largest city in the United States, Houston is currently experiencing catastrophic and historic flooding. "This event is unprecedented & all impacts are unknown & beyond anything experienced," the National Weather Service tweeted on Sunday morning. And according to FEMA chief Brock Long, it will likely take years for the local area to recover from the storm.
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- Global Giving—Global Giving is providing emergency supplies, such as food, water, and medicine, as well as long-term recovery assistance.
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- Save the Children—Save the Children's emergency responders are providing assistance to children and families in need in the community.
- And a note about the American Red Cross—The Red Cross is often one of the most recommended relief organizations during national disasters, but it has been criticized for mishandling funds meant to aid victims of events like Hurricane Sandy and Haiti's 2010 earthquake. While they are providing shelters for thousands of evacuees—as well as food and supplies for those shelters—and providing blood, their past lack of transparency about how they're using relief money is a red flag for some. Before you donate to any charitable organization, be sure to do your research. Here, ProPublica offers other useful tips for how to donate after disasters.
You can learn more about what each organization does (as well as donate money) through Charity Navigator directly, or through any of their Web sites (links above).
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Donate blood. Find out how via America's Blood Centers.
If you live nearby, use Airbnb to offer a place to stay to people misplaced by the storm. Here's how it works.
Help pets in need by donating time or money to the San Antonio Humane Society. The SAHS is housing pet evacuees from Harvey, and they could use your support.
Donate to local food banks. Here are the food bank donation pages for Houston and Galveston County.
Donate to the Texas Diaper Bank. More info here.
Donate to Portlight, a grassroots post-disaster relief organization that specifically helps people with disabilities. More info here.
Donate to the Driscoll Children's Hospital in Corpus Cristi, Texas. More info here.
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Well it seems like only yesterday I was prattling on about the lack of a good android travel app. Lo and behold our readers had plenty of comments between the Channel, Forum, and Blogs. Having read each of these I decided to have a go with TripCase and TripIt.
Before I provide a brief review I wanted to lay out a few criteria-
- the app needs to be fairly intuitive, the last thing you want is trying to locate travel details in an airport an hour before your flight departs or in a hotel lobby at '0 dark 30',
- the app must also allow for the ability the directly enter travel data (as opposed to having it download from another website or link) as things often change
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- the app shouldn't require a monthly or annual fee (unless your employer is willing to pay for it!).
TripCase is a basic travel app featuring cursory functions. It was not readily evident how to transfer my travel plans to my calendar but eventually I got there. Trips default to a date driven screen as opposed to a timeline, the ability to change this would be most helpful. On the plus side it does have the ability to interface with some smartwatches.
I found TripIt slightly more useful than TripCase (for my particular 'use-case') as it has the ability to store travel info in a PIN protected file. Having information such as your driver's license #, Passport #, Known Traveler Number, SENTRI, etc could come in handy especially if your credentials were lost or stolen. It also has the ability to interface with a smartwatch (tho' neither seems to work with my FitBit Blaze). The user interface (UI) is very easy and intuitive to navigate (as is TripCase).
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SpontaneousOrder Posts: 307 Bronze ✭✭✭@goldmatters, embossing on your new wallet is very cool.
Pinkdog Posts: 511 Silver ✭✭✭✭Very nice new wallet. Love it!
@SpontaneousOrder thank you!!
Thanks @Pinkdog :)
79Au197 Posts: 4,047 Gold ✭✭✭✭✭@GoldMatters - so where can we get wallets like yours?
@Melanie - a new redemption option?
PS - as soon as you add all of the various IDs one needs to carry, business cards, etc. your new wallet will gain useless fat.
@79Au197 You can get anything customized on Etsy.... thats where this was made for me
RocketDog Posts: 826 Silver ✭✭✭✭Reminds me of a Seinfeld episode. Was it George that had the over-filled wallet? He put one more business card in and bang--it exploded all over the place. Supposedly very large wallets can cause back injury (if you keep it in your back pocket) by pushing one hip too far forward when sitting down.
If you regress to your larger wallet you should consider therapy.
A very nice wallet indeed!
Personally i have gone the minimalist direction instead and now carry a total of 7 cards and only a few bills in a wallet from https://www.secrid.com/ Needless to say, the goldmoney debitcard sits proudly in the top of the deck popping out
@Skookum_Jim I like that game plan!
GoldIsCurrency Posts: 1,820 Gold ✭✭✭✭✭@Skookum_Jim That is the same road I took. Got tired of carrying around a fatty wallet so a while back I downsized too. Carry half a dozen cards and a little paper. Goldmoney Card on the top shelf the same as you! Glad to see #GMH @GoldMatters got rid of that old suitcase he was lugging around for a nicely branded wallet!
If minimized is the way you want to go search for front pocket wallet, there is lots of new ideas out there - especially on kickstarter wallet-projects seem popular.
I used to haul around a rather large wallet aswell, even though not half as impressive as @GoldMatters one
More than likely most of us can downsize, membership cards can go in their respective areas for example, gas station card in the car, gym card in the gym bag, etc. Also i cheat a Little bit, there is room for 2 more cards in the phones case so in reality not quite as downsized as want to be.
@Skookum_Jim thank you:) Ill take all the wallet advice I can get!
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Many programs in family and consumer sciences offer coursework that addresses fundamental concepts, theories and applications of home economics. Some programs offer students the option to pursue an emphasis area of home economics, such as merchandising, family services, nutrition or hospitality management. Other programs are combined with teacher training to prepare students for careers in secondary education. Students typically gain skills in communication, research, management, problem solving, decision-making and critical thinking. Programs may offer students hands-on experiences through internships and study abroad opportunities, allowing students to gain experience in helping individuals make informed life decisions.
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Family and consumer sciences programs that offer certification in education may also require students to complete additional program requirements, such as coursework in teaching methods and curriculum development. Students within these programs may also be required to pass state qualifying examinations to obtain teacher licensure.
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According to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, jobs in the field of social work, just one of the options available to graduates with family and consumer science degrees, were expected to grow by 12% between 2014 and 2024. In 2015, the median annual salary for social work was $45,900 per year.
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Club La Santa is the world's number one sports and active holiday resort. A truly unique environment where families, friends and world champions train side-by-side.
Situated on the North West coast of Lanzarote, it is a perfect getaway, where you can do as much or as little as you like.
With more than 25 sports on offer, group instruction and world-class facilities, it's no wonder our regulars include F1 star, Jenson Button and Team HTC Columbia. Most recently Justine Henin and the Belgian Olympic squad have been training with us as well as the GB Triathlon Team, Sarah Storey OBE and Jenny Meadows.
Every day we have sports events and training and major annual races including the Ironman Lanzarote, Volcano Triathlon and Club La Santa Cycling Trophy.
If you have the family in tow, then fear not, the resort is self-contained and our Green Team is on hand with plenty to do for all ages.
Once you book your first holiday at Club La Santa, you'll be hooked!
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As the one I did in the previous post, I inked the tag using the wrinkle free distress technique by Tim Holtz and stamped the droplets and coloured them in with tumbled glass distress ink. Then watered it down with a water brush. I highlighted the droplets with a white gel pen and stamped the sentiment. These stamps are so intricate and detailed that nothing else is needed. In this case....less is absolutely more....
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Structured Query Language (SQL) is a special purpose programming language that is used for manipulating, storing, and querying data. SQL operates on data in structures called relational databases. These database structures are usually managed by relational database management systems (RDBMS). Standard SQL is used in almost all major relational database management systems such as MySQL, which is an open-source relational database management system. MySQL is ideal for both large and small applications and is easy to use, reliable, and fast; the software also supports standard SQL syntax.
Creating and Using Databases
A database that contains business customers will be an example for the following tutorial. The database should contain information about many individual customers, including their names, contact information, and other business related data.
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Let's take a table named "Customers" as an example:
Creating the Database
Several steps are involved in creating the "Customers" database:
The first step for your data is to create the database. There will be one or more tables within a database. For this step, you use the CREATE DATABASE command. The following code will create a database named "Customers" :
CREATE DATABASE Customers;
Creating the Table
Now that the database is created, the next step is creating a table that will represent our customer data. For this step, the CREATE TABLE command will create a table within the "Customers" database:
CREATE TABLE Customers ( ID int CusName Varchar(200), ContactName Varchar(200), PostalCode int, Country Varchar(200) );
The preceding code created a table named "Customers" and filled it with columns. By declaring the column name and subsequently, the column data type, "ID", "CusName", "ContactName", "PostalCode" and "Country" are now fields within the "Customers" table. The NOT NULL field attribute can be assigned to columns that should not contain null values. Also, some column definitions are arrays of characters, such as Varchar, and need a specifier for the data's maximum character allocation (the elements or characters the column can hold).
Adding Data to the Database and Table
After the database, its table, and the table's fields have been created, the next step is to insert a new record into the table. Remember, a database is like a folder, the table like a file, and the fields (CusName for example) are like items from a file's container that belong to one customer. Of course, a database table (the virtual file) will contain many data items that one customer entity may posses. The entity, or row, is called a record. Each record has one of each declared fields (columns). SQL provides the INSERT INTO command for inserting a record into a table. The following is an example of the INSERT INTO command and how it's used:
INSERT INTO Customers ('ID','CusName','ContactName','PostalCode','Country') VALUES ('1','Francis','Flintoff','223344','US');
The VALUES function call correlates to the INSERT INTO command. The order of parameters in the VALUES call needs to be ordered equally with the list of fields within the INSERT INTO call (the set of fields within the parenthesis). After calling the INSERT INTO and VALUES functions, the values in the VALUES() call are assigned to the fields in the INSERT INTO() call. After these two functions are called with appropriate, correlating parameters, the "Customers" table contains a new record (row) that has values for each of the fields (columns).
Database tables are populated in a sequential nature, adding one record at at a time. After several record insertions are made, a table will serve as a collection of customer entities which will store data about those customer entities.
Retrieving Data from a Database/Table
Retrieving data from a database table is as simple as adding a record to a table. The SELECT command is used for retrieval purposes. If you only want to retrieve the columns "ID," "CusName," and "Country." The following code retrieves those desired columns:
SELECT ID, CusName ,ContactName FROM Customers;
Alternatively, you can specify all of a table's columns with the SELECT command to retrieve/display a table with all of its columnar data.
If you want to retrieve the data from all columns of the "Customers" table but only want to display the columns in descending order, including three rows instead of all five rows, you use the LIMIT command. The LIMIT command will limit the displayed data to three rows. The DESC clause paired with the ORDER BY command will specify the descending order of the rows to be displayed.
The following snippet is an example of limiting and ordering rows for display/retrieval:
SELECT * FROM Customers ORDER BY DESC LIMIT 3;
Deleting Records from a Table
If you want to delete a record (row) that contains the customer name "Stefen" and postal code "556677", you can use the DELETE command and WHERE clause. With that command and clause, you can apply the SQL query as:
DELETE FROM Customers WHERE CusName='Stefen' AND PostalCode='556677';
The preceding example query will delete any row from "Customers" that contains "Stefen" in the "CusName" column and "556677" in the postal code column. The table data is then changed to the following:
You can also delete multiple rows using the same DELETE command.
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Updating a Table
Suppose you want to update a record from the "Customers" table. You can use the UPDATE command for such a need. In order to use the UPDATE command appropriately, you must use the WHERE clause to specify the row that should be updated. Using the WHERE clause is essential, because omitting the WHERE clause can cause unwanted changes in the "Customers" table. Such omissions of the WHERE clause can update every record of the database table!
To demonstrate how to update a table, imagine that you want to update your "Customers" table by changing a record's CusName from "francis" to "mike" and the postal code from "223344" to "226070". Also imagine that you only need to make this update in rows that contains "US" as the country value. The following query example will foster the update need.
UPDATE Customers SET CusName='Mike', PostalCode='226070' WHERE Country='US';
Now the new table looks like this:
After the three preceding commands are executed, the resulting table will have "Mike" and "226070" for the CusName and PostalCode fields, respectively. Additionally, only the fields which are of a record that has "US" as the country value are updated.
Adding a Column (field) to a Table
To add a new column to an existing table, you use the ALTER TABLE command. You can add a near infinite number of columns to a table; you only have to specify the data type for the added column. In case of MySQL, if you want to add a column for the date of birth and you have given the datatype as "year" for this column, then the code will look like this:
ALTER TABLE Customers ADD DOB year;
The new table will look like this:
Removing a Column from a Table
If you need to remove a column from a table, you use the ALTER TABLE command again, but with the DROP clause. The following example will remove the "ContactName" column from the "Customer" table:
ALTER TABLE Customers DROP COLUMN ContactName;
This code will remove the column "ContactName" from the table without affecting any other column.
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These are all the examples of basic SQL programing but there are also many other commands and SQL functions that can be used in programming such as the JOIN command used for combining the rows of two or more tables. UNION command is used for combining the result of two or more SELECT statements into a single result set whereas the INTERSECT operator is used for returning the result of two or more SELECT statements. Functions like Avg()is used for returning the average value of the numeric column and "Count" is used for returning the number of rows which matches any specified criteria. Max()is used for returning the largest value of any specified column but Min()is used for returning the lowest value of any specified column and "Sum" is used for returning the complete sum of any numeric column.
SQL programming is based on Tuple relational calculus and uses queries for accessing the information in a database. SQL enables programmers to create and utilize relational database structures. Structured Query Language as a whole provides a programming language that supports object oriented representation of real-world objects that have attributes that can be recorded, stored, and used.