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What bikes are ideal for a daily commute?
For bicycle enthusiasts, key innovations are making human-powered, non-polluting transportation distinctly more conducive for commuting.
iXi's belt drive:
The award-winning iXi Bike is one of the most forward thinking and delightfully designed commuter bicycles available. For starters, the iXi is equipped with a greaseless rubber belt drive that replaces the so-very-nineteenth-century greasy chain, eliminating the geeky necessity of tucking your pant leg into your sock to avoid grease stains or dangerous snags. Next comes a well-placed cup holder for your morning java so you can sip easily while pedaling. While the wheels are smaller than a conventional road bike, the iXi's quality, four-speed gearshift provides solid performance on hills and other gradients. If it rains, you're in luck because the iXi comes with a poncho stored inside the bicycle's aluminum frame, along with a tool repair kit in case of flats. The iXi is also particularly suited to confined spaces. Both the handlebars and the pedals fold flat against the frame, creating a slim profile when stored flush against a wall. And one model of the iXi can be quickly disassembled into two parts and stowed in carrying cases — a convenience that works equally well in an elevator or an airplane.
Brompton's portability
Storability and portability are front and center — or more likely, tucked away in the corner — in the line of high-performance folding bicycles from Brompton. Each bicycle is handmade at Brompton's production facility in London, England, and engineered to be easy to fold and carry, and fun and comfortable to ride. The full-size frames weigh between 20 and 29 pounds and can be folded within 15 seconds to a size that is about two feet square and less than 10 inches wide. Carry it with you using the handle or stow it on a train or plane using a specially designed Brompton storage bag. However you choose to take it, the Brompton is your mega-convenient commuting option. And it's in good company. As improved bicycling performance helps folding bikes become realistic commuting options, customers are also turning to Dahon. The world's largest manufacturer of folding bikes has been making and refining them for 25 years. Dahon sets its internal bar for innovation very high, demanding that its development team improve bikes by at least 15 percent per year in areas like design form, riding performance, comfort, weight, folding function and durability. The results speak for themselves, as Dahon has sold more than 2 million folding bikes worldwide since beginning production in 1982. Reasonably priced yet performance-driven, Dahon bikes offer eight urban fold-up models, and the company also provides mountain and road-bike models.
Bike Friday's personal design
For a fully customized folding bike designed to match your exact body dimensions,turn to Bike Friday. The company will build to order a touring, road, mountain and commuter folding bike that is built, quite literally, just for you. And if you are on the triathlon circuit, Bike Friday will design a triathlon bike that travels with you in your standard luggage and then folds open on race day so you can conveniently compete wherever the race may lead.
Xtracycle for heavy duty tasks
For those looking to assign more heavy-duty tasks to their bicycles — like transporting kids to school, dogs to the vet, or surfboards to the beach — anXtracycle SUB (sport utility bicycle) system may be right for you. Dubbed the Free Radical, Xtracycle's innovative attachment shifts your bicycle's rear wheel back 15 inches and adds a long, stable platform on top of it accompanied by big, sturdy saddlebags. Rather than hitching an unwieldy trailer to your bicycle to provide additional hauling capacity, the Free Radical transforms your bicycle into an integrated SUB that's still lightweight, easy to handle and fast. The system is designed for rapid installation with a basic set of tools and can be purchased independently to install on your current bike or purchased pre-assembled on name-brand bicycles directly through Xtracycle's website. The Xtracycle can easily handle loads of up to 150 pounds. To make that kind of heavy hauling easier on your body, a company called Cleverchimp introduced the Stoke Monkey, an electric assist system that works seamlessly with the Xtracycle SUB to give an added boost to human pedal power. It's no longer just a bicycle— it's a bicycling lifestyle!
Excerpted from Josh Dorfman's latest book, The Lazy Environmentalist on a Budget.
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We know they have the Varsity Letters Sports Reading Series every month in New York City, so sometimes they struggle to get people worthwhile. (Like this idiot.) But their crew tomorrow is particularly excellent.
The slate:
• Sally Jenkins, author of the outstanding The Real All Americans: The Team That Changed a Game, a People, a Nation.
• Joe Posnanski. The estimable and awesome Kansas City Star baseball columnist just wrote a grand book about Buck O'Neill.
• Seth Mnookin. The Red Sox fan and chronicler has a history around these parts, including this epic interview with our own A.J. Daulerio.
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St. Johns County may see the highest voter turnout in its history this election, Supervisor of Elections Vicky Oakes said Tuesday.
"It's possible that we'll see an 80 to 85 percent turnout," she predicted.
The highest previous turnout of 81.5 percent was set during the 1976 presidential election that elected Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter over incumbent Republican President Gerald Ford, with the next highest of 80.8 percent set during President Bill Clinton's election in 1992.
Oakes said, "We had a really good day Monday with 6,707 people early voting, and we're having a good day today. Election Day could be smooth sailing."
So far, counting only early voting and absentees, Republicans are voting in more numbers than Democrats, 18 percent to 15 percent.
The county has 81,118 Republicans, 38,808 Democrats and 32,921 other party, independent and no party voters.
If early voting remains heavy and more people ask for absentee ballots, perhaps half the 152,000 voters in the county might have voted before Election Day on Nov. 6.
Monday brought the total voting so far to 18,203 - 10,946 Republicans, 4,580 Democrats and 2,677 other.
By Monday evening, 13,464, or 54.7 percent, of the 25,498 absentees issued had been returned.
Tuesday was another busy voting day, with 5,069 people voting by 4:15 p.m, she said.
The day ended with 6,206 people casting ballots at early voting sites. Also, 1,411 people returned absentee ballots, taking the total number of people who have voted in the general election to more than 40,437. That is more than 26 percent of registered voters.
The greater numbers of people voting this time could be attributed to the closeness of the race and widely divergent views of the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates. Each party has mounted a strong get-out-the-vote effort.
The greater numbers of voters might also be partially from the ease of voting. Absentee voting and early voting are becoming more familiar every year to the electorate.
Early voting began in 2006.
Anyone who has gone to the Supervisor of Elections office to vote this week knows how the assembly-line process moves people through smoothly.
Early voting sites are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., though Oakes said that if someone is standing in line at the end of the day, they'll be allowed to vote.
Absentee ballots are already being counted by a canvassing board consisting of Oakes, St. Johns County Judge Charles Tinlin and St. Augustine attorney Robert L. "Mac" McLeod.
The rules say, however, that if absentee ballots are not signed by the voter, they will not be opened or counted.
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n Supervisor of Elections Office
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n Julington Creek Annex - Conference Room
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It's Wednesday of Holy Week, and tonight we gather at Richmond's First Baptist Church for the first worship service of five that will be held over the next few days. Before I say another word, let me say thanks to Phil Mitchell, Associate Pastor for Worship, who did most of the heavy lifting in putting these services together.
Tonight's service (at 6:30) is one of candlelight and contemplative prayer, interspersed with Scripture readings and singing by our own "cantor," Robert Dilday. It was "designed" by the Prayer Team at First Baptist Church, a group of lay leaders who work with Lynn Turner in praying for the church and keeping the church praying.
On Maundy Thursday we will gather at 7:00 for an impressive commemoration of Jesus' last supper with his disciples that will include communion. I'm preaching a sermon called "Washing the Devil's Feet," that refers not only to the foot washing before the meal, but also to the new commandment Jesus gives his disciples afterward: "Love one another as I have loved you."
The Good Friday service will be held in the sanctuary at Noon, and will feature a reader's theatre comprised of First Baptist staff reading the passion narrative from Luke's Gospel, and a sermon delivered by my friend, former associate, and hip young pastor of Tabernacle Baptist Church in the Fan—Sterling Severns.
On Saturday, we will host an abbreviated Easter vigil, celebrating this ancient ritual in Fourth-Century style by kindling "new fire" in front of the church at 7:00, lighting candles from the flame, and bringing the light into the sanctuary to begin our celebration of the Resurrection. This is a service of "Fire, Word, Water, and Wine" that will include a sermon by Lynn Turner, the candlelight baptism of six new converts, and communion that will feature Welch's grape juice instead of wine (it's not the Fourth Century way, but it certainly is the Baptist way).
All of this slowly unfolding drama will build up to a jubilant celebration of the Resurrection on Easter Sunday morning, with two services in the sanctuary: one at 8:30 (for the early risers and those who hope to find a seat) and another at 11:00 (prepare for a packed house). Both services will feature glorious music, multiple choirs, and an Easter sermon called "Dying for Resurrection."
If you live in the Richmond area I hope you will join us for each of these services. If you don't, you can still access the Easter service by webcast. But please don't let me lure you away from your own community of faith.
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"Curb" is coming to the cheap seats.
TV Guide Network has won the rights to air the hit HBO comedy "Curb Your Enthusiasm" next February with TV Land then continuing "Curb's" run in 2013, The Associated Press reports.
As the show's creator and star, Larry David, might say: "Pretty good. Pret-ty, pret-ty, pret-ty good."
U.S. & World
The irreverent quasi-autobiographical comedy by the co-creator of "Seinfeld" is currently in its seventh season on HBO. The series has generated heaps of buzz this season because one plot line has the "Seinfeld" cast – Jerry, Elaine, Kramer and George – reuniting.
Despite the show's popularity, it has sometimes become a lightening rod for criticism.
Last month, the Catholic League panned an episode that featured David accidentally splashing a portrait of Jesus Christ with pee – saying it was offensive to Catholics.
"Was Larry David always this crude? Would he think it's comedic if someone urinated on a picture of his mother?" Bill Donohue, the League's president, had asked.
"Larry David makes fun of everyone, most especially himself," HBO said in a statement.
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Last week something else got ticked off my bucket list, a visit to The Empty Quarter, one of the largest sand deserts in the world bordering Oman, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and my country of residence, the United Arab Emirates.
Over my 9 years in the UAE, I have spend quite some time taming dunes in 4x4's closer to Dubai, but this definitively steps it up a notch! Three hundred feet dunes, one after the other, covering an amazing 650.000 sq./km., more than the total area of Belgium, the Netherlands and France together.
The easiest way of getting to The Empty Quarter from Dubai, ( called Rub' al Khali in Arabic ), is a 3 to 4 hour drive to Liwa, a 100km wide East-West oasis close to the Saudi border.
We went out there with three 4x4 cars and camped 2 nights in the desert wilderness. Surprisingly we actually had quite a bit of rain during the night and early mornings. According to a local camel farmer, this occurs once every 5 to 10 years!
One of our fellow campers who is an experienced paraglider, brought his parachute on the trip. A 15 knot wind blowing over the dunes, made for good slope soaring conditions.
Just after landing in one of the many dry lake beds, this camel looked very surprised to this crazy creature coming from the sky!
We (my wife and myself) each got to do a brief paraglider solo flight and both got excited! We might take this a step further in the future...
While camping under a full moon, I shot this midnight shot of two of our tents.
On the way home we stopped at Moreeb dune, Arabic for scary mountain! It is a 120m high dune with a 50 degree upslope where locals race cars, dune buggies and motorbikes.
Even though I did not shoot as much as I had in mind, it was a great escape for a few days. Highly recommended!
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Several years ago, I started celebrating New Year's Day by booking a large table at a local establishment – usually Lynn's Paradise Cafe – and then filling it with all manner of friends.
This year was no different except instead of dressing in our jammies for Lynn's annual PJ party, 16 of my favorite people met at Seviche for what was one of the best brunches I've ever had – and that's in addition to being in the midst of an incredible, eclectic group of friends.
Chef Anthony Lamas and his staff outdid themselves with a brunch that included roast pork, fresh seviches, chorizo manchego grits and numerous other dishes, not to mention a divine Bloody Mary bar (the Chino Latino – wasabi ginger – was absolutely delicious) that was the perfect accoutrement to a brunch filled with food and friendship.
Happy New Year? So far, yes indeed.
Third Thursday
The Voice-Tribune recently moved into new digs, so we're going to refrain from hosting our January Third Thursday event and resume our monthly parties in February. You can follow us on Twitter – @TheVoiceTribune – or LIKE us on Facebook to find out our next location. We'll also run an announcement in print in an upcoming issue.
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[youtube][/youtube]Joseph Pred wrote:Innuendo made an edumacational video for Flipside which was totally brilliant (learn about pickle backs!). Since most of it's about the ten principles, with a little encouragement, he made a Burning Man edit for us to share.
At long last, here you go. Spread the word!
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The Real Story: Education spending cuts - FOX 61 News
HARTFORD - Concerns about possible spending cuts in education, to balance the state budget are discussed with guests Patrice McCarthy of the CT Association of Boards of Education and Joseph Cirasuolo of the CT Association of Public School Superintendents.
Supporting LGBT Youth: Their Journey in Our Schools
On October 5, 2015, the Connecticut Association of Schools, in collaboration with the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education and the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents, hosted a half-day workshop entitled "Supporting LGBT Youth: Their Journey in Our Schools." Regional and national experts shared strategies for building LGBT-inclusive school communities. The event opened with remarks from Pat Griffin, founding director of Changing the Game, and closed with a panel discussion involving local building/district leaders and students.Save
Astronaut Rick Mastracchio Stands Up 4 CT Public Schools
NASA Astronaut Rick Mastracchio, a Waterbury native, has logged nearly 40 days in space and is a veteran of three space flights.
Mr. Mastracchio referred to his days at Crosby High School in Waterbury, CT, where he said it was his science and math teachers who inspired him to one day become an Astronaut.
A graduate of Crosby High School's class of 1978, he then went on to receive a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science from the University of Connecticut in 1982, as well as several other degrees after that.
Pat Luke Stands Up 4 CT Public Schools
Pat Luke, who has served as a member of the State Board of Education, CABE president, NSBA Director, and CABE Senior Staff Associate for Government Relations, has agreed to serve as CABE's second Stand Up for Public Education representative.
Pat was CABE's 1998 Friend of Public Education Award recipient. NSBA and state associations, including CABE with the support of CAPSS, have launched an initiative to help dispel continuous negative public discourse about our schools.
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Neues Museum
The Museum of Prehistory and Early History presents its expansive collection together with objects from the Collection of Classical Antiquities on three floors of the Neues Museum.
Visitors are greeted on the ground floor by the room entitled "Odin, Urns, Looted Art", which presents the 180 year old history of the museum, with preserved wall paintings depicting scenes from Nordic mythology. The following room is dedicated to Heinrich Schliemann, who bequeathed his collection of Trojan antiquities to the museum "for their eternal preservation". The room beyond that reveals how various influences in the art and culture of Cyprus conflated in a unique way on the Island.
The first thing to greet visitors on the first floor, the museum's piano nobile, are the "Treasures from the Rhine" – the Xanten Boy and the "Barbarian Treasure of Neupotz", one of the largest metals hoards from the Roman period north of the Alps. From here, the way leads on to the "Roman Provinces". From there, the visitor has access to the "Pantheon" - Chipperfield's new South Dome Room, in which two colossal statues of divinities from the 2nd century AD originating from the Egyptian city of Lycopolis await visitors. The next room, "Rome's Northern Neighbours" is dedicated to the tensions between Rome and the Germanic peoples, while "Migration Period and Middle Ages" provides an insight into the time from the Migration Period to the Carolingian Renaissance.
James-Simon-Galerie, Bodestraße
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"I don't know" shouldn't be such a big stumbling block--after all, just because someone can formulate a question doesn't mean there's a ready answer, as any scientist knows. And "I don't know" doesn't mean you're stupid, or look stupid, by any means. In fact, it can boost your credibility with an audience.
Even so, when a question arises for which the correct answer is "I don't know," it leaves many speakers shaking in their boots. It feels like a conversation-stopper. You may feel embarrassed, or tempted to fudge or fake it. Don't! It's better to be honest, and have a few practiced ways to say "I don't know" with grace and style, and a little bit of humor where appropriate. Try our collection of back-pocket phrases for those "I don't know" moments:
- I wish I knew that: A clever phrasing, this lets you move into explaining why you wish you knew that unknowable thing. If the question is hopeful and forward-looking (When will we be able to solve climate change?), this approach lets you agree in principle with the questioner.
- If only I knew that: A little more in the direction of a lament, this variation lets you talk about what could be accomplished or what your work/life/research would be like with this missing piece.
- If I knew that, I'd be a billionaire: This needs to be played for laughs, and suggests the answer is truly unknowable, not just unknown. Use it when the question is simply impossible.
- Who knows? A philosophical answer, perhaps delivered with a shrug, you can follow this up with many options, depending on the direction you want to take.
- That's just one of the many things we don't know about X: This is a great option for researchers with a dense or technical topic. You can use this to talk about the many unknowns, or why and whether this particular unknown is significant to the work.
- I don't know, and here's why: Get factual, as long as you can deliver this answer without sounding defensive. More research to be done? Missing evidence? Can't get an answer yourself? Use this to launch into your explainer.
- Wouldn't it be nice to know that? Great with a pie-in-the-sky question or a blue-sky question, it lets you agree with the questioner and perhaps spend a minute thinking out loud about what life would be like if we did know that.
- I don't know, but perhaps someone else here does? This is a brilliant way to look generous, honest, and humble. As Gloria Steinem advises, questions are an opportunity to find solutions, and as the speaker, you can be the finder-in-chief. Put the question to the audience, the rest of the panel, anyone in the room, then listen to the responses and make sure those offering answers get to speak. This answer is a compliment to the knowledge base in the room, and audiences will love it, even if an answer isn't forthcoming.
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Description3D Lawn Darts takes the classic game of lawn darts and brings it to mobile devices. Lawn darts is a game played outside where you lob big metal darts at a circle on the ground. The game was banned in the United States and Canada because of all the injuries.
The unique thing with 3D Lawn Darts (besides having a full 3D game on a mobile device) is that it uses real motion for throwing the darts. The way this works is that the mobile device must have a camera that the game can use. Then during the game, it vibrates to let you know to toss the dart. Once the person feels the vibration, he/she then makes a throwing motion while a picture is taken. The game then analyzes the pictures blur to decide where the dart goes. Once the motion is made he/she can view the screen and follow the dart in the 3D world through the air till it hits the target.
Besides the motion other features of the game are choice of 3D world (4 choices), choice of player to throw the dart (4 choices again) and different types of darts to throw. Dart choices include flaming darts, nuclear darts, magnetic darts, and more.
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As hunters prepare for the upcoming antlerless deer license application period, Pennsylvania Game Commission Executive Director Carl G. Roe today reminded hunters that Deer Management Assistance Program (DMAP) antlerless deer permits are available through the Pennsylvania Automated License System (PALS).
DMAP is the Game Commission's program designed to help landowners manage deer numbers on their properties. Eligible landowners include those owning: public lands; private lands where no fee is charged for hunting; and hunting clubs established prior to Jan. 1, 2000, that are owned in fee title and have provided a club charter and list of current members to the agency.
Hunters may obtain up to two DMAP antlerless deer permits per property, and DMAP permits do not impact a hunter's eligibility to apply for and receive antlerless deer licenses issued for Wildlife Management Units (WMUs).
DMAP permit fees are $10.70 for resident hunters; and $35.70 for nonresident hunters. The permit can be used to harvest one antlerless deer on the specific DMAP area. Maps for the properties are to be provided to hunters by the landowners. Landowners may not charge or accept any contribution from a hunter for a DMAP permits or coupons.
Hunters may not use DMAP permits to harvest an antlered deer. Hunters may use DMAP permits to harvest an antlerless deer anytime antlerless deer are legal, including during the entire statewide two-week firearms deer season (Nov. 26-Dec. 8). However, WMU-specific antlerless deer licenses may only be used only during the last seven days of the season, Dec. 1-8 in Wildlife Management Units 2A, 2C, 2D, 2E, 2F, 2G, 3B, 3C, 4B, 4D and 4E.
All DMAP permits will be available through PALS. For DMAP unit numbers, the Game Commission has posted a listing of all public landowners and those private landowners who did not request DMAP coupons.
Those private landowners who requested DMAP coupons to present to hunters to redeem for DMAP permits will not appear on the website. However, these landowners generally have a limited number of coupons available and already have identified a sufficient number of hunters to receive their allotted coupons.
The website provides an alphabetical listing of DMAP properties for each county in which DMAP properties are located. Each listing will provide the following information: DMAP property number; contact information, including name, address, telephone number and e-mail address (when available); total number of acres for the property; and total number of coupons issued for the property.


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My Windows installation crashed so I needed to install PocoMail on another computer. The steps: Copy, Paste.
Given the horrors of IT that I have experienced...I had to change my pants after experiencing the ease of re-installing PocoMail
and my data! That alone is enough reason to use PocoMail!
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Should an emergency occur, Village personnel can notify residents in a matter of minutes. The system delivers messages across all communication platforms, including cell and landline phone numbers, e-mail addresses, instant messaging, fax, personal data assistants (PDAs), and pagers listed within the system. If phone lines are busy, the system will redial a predetermined number of times to make contact. If an answering machine picks up the call, an emergency message will be left on the machine. If the telephone rings without an answer (after a predetermined number of attempts), the system will use the next contact path that has been supplied by each resident. You do not have to purchase any new equipment, and you will only be notified of urgent situations that affect the area in which your home is located. The system is currently loaded with every listed landline phone number from existing 9-1-1 data. Once residents register their preferred contact information, the system will contact thousands of people in a matter of minutes.
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First of all, I apologize for this being so late in the day, but I have had an email from a lovely lady I met at TORM, who is looking for two local people to Rugby, who might be kind enough to do a gig for the Scouts parade, no money available, so you know this from the start.
She is hoping someone may have had a good time with the Scouts, or have kids who have benefited , and would be willing to do them a favor.So please, people, don't message her just to tell her that you would need money to do it, or that she is far too late to get someone now, but if you can help , the email to contact her on is at the end of her message to me-which is as follows:
The plan we had for 2 sword fighters has unfortunately not worked out, and so we are looking for some help.
If there are any scouting members or parents within your team who would be able to help us, we would be very appreciative.
The parade leaves at 13.45pm - walking through Rugby town and is followed by a "service" in Lawrence Sherriff School. The whole event is completed by 15.30pm (but we would only need the sword fighters for the first part).
Thank you so much in advance for reaching out.
Victoria Ledger
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Oh me oh my, I really took my own sweet time to update on the 'partner' of my Nasi Bukhari that day. Thousand apologies to everyone. To say that I am very busy, I don't think so because I still have time to play the Bubble Game at the end of this page! Hahaha... I always love to play games like these. Other than Bubbles, I love to play Tetris and Doctor Mario!
I first started to like these sort of games when hubby brought home the Brick Game thingy. That time, I was like 7 months pregnant with Fatin. I really got carried away playing and the game will always be by my side. Hahaha... you guys must be saying, no wonder the kids are addicted to games. But mind you, the one who is addicted to PSP, PS3 and of it's kind is Syahmi, not Fatin! So the blame is not on me! Hahahaha....
Anyway, to cut short my nonsense, let me just post the recipe that I cooked to go with the Nasi Bukhari. Whether it's the right combination or not, one thing for sure, both the rice and the gravy are no longer to be seen! Thank you Kak Liza for the lovely recipe of Dalca. I made a slight adjustment to the recipe. I used beef instead of mutton. To get a better and mouthwatering photo of this dish, you can buy Kak Liza's SENANGNYA MEMASAK KAMBING (pages 8 and 9) from the nearest MPH or you can contact directly to Kak Liza. I am sure she'll be more than willing to entertain you....
Source : Kak Liza
Ingredients A :
600g topside beef
1/2 cup dhal ~ boil till soft
4 cups coconut milk (from 1/2 coconut)
3 tablespoons beef curry powder
1 tablespoon ghee (I used butter)
3 tablespoons cooking oil
salt to taste
Ingredients B : Cut to small pieces
3 potatoes
5 pieces long beans
1 carrot
4 green chillies
2 tomatoes
1 onion
2 round brinjals
Ingredients C :
4 shallots ~ sliced
2 cloves garlic ~ sliced
3 cm ginger ~ sliced
2 cm cinnamon stick
3 star anise
5 cloves
3 cardamons
3 stalks curry leaves
Method :
1. Marinate beef with beef curry for at least 1 hour.
2. Heat cooking oil and ghee/butter in a pot. Add in C and saute till fragrant.
3. Add in the marinated beef and stir well.
4. Add in enough water and leave the beef to cook.
5. Once the beef is tender, add in the coconut milk, dhall, the vegetables and salt to taste.
6. When the vegetables are soft, remove from heat.
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Like so many of us, Prior Walter, the central character in Tony Kushner's epic, two-part, seven-hour masterpiece "Angels in America," once got a warning from his mother. If friends, lovers, those who aspire to be your spiritual or political leaders, get overwhelmed by the little things in life, then they're going to fall apart on you when the big stuff comes along.
"Angels in America," a play about AIDS-stricken New Yorkers and traumatized Mormons in the 1980s and the greatest American play of the waning years of the 20th century, has singularly expansive themes ranging from hope to hypocrisy, power to pain, American exceptionalism to shameful American acts. And it is a cri de coeur that the personal is always, always political. But even though Kushner was writing a decade before debt swallowed American homes, before the wars of the following decade, before 9/11 cast its pall, the play is perhaps one thing above all else. As the night nurse Belize shrewdly observes: In life, the really big stuff does indeed come along. Usually when your guard is down. And when it does, you always find out the consequences of your previous decisions of trust.
Great productions of "Angels in America," a work that is both an inherently huge and spectacular undertaking and a collection of the most intimate scenes imaginable, master that tricky Kushnerian dichotomy. They offer quiet, truthful revelation of our most private moments, the scenes of love, sex, friendship, agonizing disappointments and hard deaths, the things that maybe one other person sees. And they come with the equally crucial understanding that the raging, coursing, unimaginably awesome universe is made up of nothing but such moments.
This is not such a production. Although it contains three superlative pieces of acting, — a trifecta of truly jaw-dropping performances — Charles Newell's new production of "Angels," which has a set by John Culbert, lights by Keith Parham and costumes by Nan Cibula-Jenkins, struggles at times with the intimate and has a very inconsistent grasp on the epic. This is an exceedingly tough assignment, especially when both "Millennium Approaches" and "Perestroika" are being opened up at once by a shared cast of eight (Saturday's opening presentation, with the necessary breaks, lasted from 3 p.m. to midnight). Still, given how masterfully Newell, an artist capable of extraordinary feats of theatrical daring, staged other works of Kushner, this one, frankly, is something of a disappointment, albeit greatly mitigated by an intensely moving performance from Rob Lindley as AIDS patient Prior, a series of thrilling characterizations from Hollis Resnik, who plays Hannah Pitt and others, and by Larry Yando twisting himself into the greatest Roy Cohn of the many I've seen.
Speaking generally, one has the sense that Newell wanted to simplify the show — the dominant image is a hospital bed made up of black, rehearsal-type blocks — but failed to fully see that "Angels in America" is not some overwrought opus that can be re-imagined in the same way that one might cut back, say, "Showboat." In "Angels," the dichotomy between the intimate and the colossal is already baked into the text. The glorious and the terrifying must explode all over the simple, just as they do in our lives.
Yet the necessary sweep mostly eludes a production that has not figured out a cohesive visual metaphor and ends up sticking too many of its scenes in little, chopped-up boxes — way upstage and in an isolated zone of floating squares that removes us from many crucial human moments. When it comes to simplicity or how the scenes are structured and created, the rules of engagement are not consistently applied. Actor movement in the house often distracts. Most egregiously, the Angel, played by Mary Beth Fisher, does not crash through any ceiling, metaphoric or literal. She merely walks up in a blackout, hooks on a couple of wires with the help of actors who otherwise are not involved with the mechanics of their environment and dangles there awkwardly, in a moment better suited to a cut-rate Peter Pan than a harbinger of revelation.
Certainly, Court's theater has some physical limitations. But over the last decade, Chicago storefronts with a small percentage of this budget or space have made the Angel's arrival breathtaking. All her visits must inspire awe; she is an angel, for goodness' sake. What's missing here are the right revelations.
There is nothing missing from Yando's Cohn. In a performance that surely is the zenith of this actor's distinguished Chicago career, he takes the audience on a riveting and vicarious journey as a man who despises weakness and impotence but succumbs to an invader in his body that turns him into his own negation. How does Yando do this? First, he leans his whole self into Roy's full-throated sense of humor, making him a most lovable devil. But most of all, Yando has some uncommon insights into what happens to men staring death in the face. Maybe it's all those years he played Scrooge. In some ways, the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg (Resnik) is not so different from an undigested, Dickensian bit of beef.
Not all the scenes offer such presents or presence. Eddie Bennett certainly captures the emotional mess that is Louis — a lover of a man with AIDS, but a lover who sees the rough times coming and takes a hike. But he fails to show us the Louis with whom Prior must once have fallen in love. In the best "Angels" productions, you see yourself in Louis; you wonder how closely you'll stick around when your loved ones face such trials. Geoff Packard's Joe Pitt gets the sorrow of his man, the way he has succumbed to expectations, but not always the present-tense struggles. And that makes the scenes with Heidi Kettenring's honest, if not always fragile, Harper less than they could be. As Belize, the only secure and fully self-aware character of them all, Michael Pogue is much of the way there, although his Belize is more florid than a truth-teller need be.
Still, there are moments when all these problems fall away. When Lindley — looking like a man who doesn't know if he stared into the jaws of hell or the mouth of heaven but knows that the Angel changed him for good — reminds us that that we live "beyond hope" and that we are all "fabulous creatures" even when our regrets, failings and neuroses bring us down, you feel Kushner's humanism, not to mention the inherent beauty of optimism from a day spent in the company of such a feat of playwriting, radiating from the stage like sunlight.
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When: Through June 3 (Parts 1 and 2 are in rotating repertory; call for schedule)
Where: Court Theatre, 5535 S. Ellis Ave.
Running time: Part 1: 3 hours, 10 minutes; Part 2: 3 hours, 50 minutes
Tickets: $45-$65 (each part) at 773-753-4472 or courttheatre.org


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I have just given MyInfo2Go another try (haven't tried since beta) and for me it still seems to have the same problem with duplicating emails.
I downloaded 1 email into MI2G and synced with a new profile in Barca and when I went into Barca I had 1 message. I then marked it as ready and in MI2G resynced and I now had to messages one read and one unread.
What gets me was I used to use PocoMail PE before I moved to Barca and that would sync perfectly.
Anyone had any luck with the sync.


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Given a threefold $Y$ containing a surface $S$. Under which conditions can I contract $S$ so that I still end up with a smooth variety? In other words
what are the conditions for the existence of a smooth variety $X$ and a morphism $Y\rightarrow X$ such that the image of $S$ under the morphism is a curve and the morphism is an isomorphism away from $S$?
What are the conditions when $Y$ is a fourfold and $S$ is still a surface?


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Fig Leaf Villas
Fig Leaf Villas is a small, high quality naturist resort in the Southern Peloponnese set above the Messinian Gulf amongst olive groves with wonderful views of the sea and the mountains beyond. We have three villas with a shared swimming pool set in an acre of beautiful terraced gardens dripping with bougainvillea, jasmine, oleanders, vines, and many more lush and sweet scented flowers.
All three villas have one bedroom and ideal for a couple. However, the largest of the villas, Villa Elya, is 60sq.m. and can sleep up to 4 people using the sofabed in the living room, either as a double or two singles. This villa is wonderfully spacious, set in an elevated position with a huge veranda that wraps round 2 sides of the villa, enjoying a spectacular view. Villa Seeka, 40sq.m. sleeps 2 and is L-shaped and nestles in its own corner well away from the other two villas and is surrounded by fig trees, oleanders, herbs and many flowers. It has two terraces, one facing the sea, shaded by bougainvillea, vines and jasmine; the other accessed by the main room and the bedroom. Villa Dafni is 30 sq.m and sleeps 2 and also has breathtaking view of the mountains and sea. There is a veranda on two sides plus its own garden sitting area. Please note that Villas Elya and Dafni are attached.
We have a large swimming pool, 10m x 5m, with a pool bar and top quality bar food with a cosmopolitan touch! our Greek meze night is very popular with our guests and so is our curry night. We also have a flood-lit boules court.
The area has lots of fabulous beaches many of which are suitable for naturism- the villas have comprehensive information packs with advice about the best beaches, days out and all the fantastic historical sites that abound in our area.
The Peloponnese is unusually lush for Greece, we have mountains, and rivers that flow all year round and wonderful waterfalls nearby with clear turquoise water. The area also has many very picturesque fishing villages and hilltop villages that haven't changed for the past century or more!
The local food and wine is excellent and some of the best vegetarian food in Europe- and still very reasonably priced- a couple can eat out with two courses and wine for around 20- 25€. Tourism in the area is very low-key, just enough to give a nice holiday atmosphere and supply visitors with good bars and tavernas, but never crowded and over-busy.
We have two airports that give access to the villas:Athens and Kalamata
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Centre de vacances < 2 ha / 5 acre 1 May 31 September not accepted 0 0 La locations possibilities There are three high quality villas with their own outside space and wonderful views. All three villas have one bedroom but one of them can sleep one or two extras on a sofa-bed.
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- Cartoon Characters: Jonathan Wellington "Mudsy" Muddlemore, April Stewart, Skip, Augie, Elmo, Boo, Art Expert, Hank Miller.
- Vocal Talent: Daws Butler (Jonathan Wellington "Mudsy" Muddlemore), Tina Holland (April Stewart), Micky Dolenz (Skip), Tommy Cook (Augie), John Stephenson (Elmo), Don Messick (Boo The Ghost Cat, Art Expert, Hank Miller), Julie Bennett, Barney Phillips, Jerry Dexter, Michael Road, Casey Kasem, Hal Smith, Jim MacGeorge, Allen Melvin, George Tyler, Janet Waldo.
- Directed By William Hanna, Joseph Barbera.
- Produced By William Hanna, Joseph Barbera.
Associate Producers: Art Scott, Zoran Janjic.
- Animated By Stuart Barry, Don MacKinnon, Ray Bartle, Gwyn Perkins, John Burge, Kevin Roper, Don Exard, Jane le Rossignol, Michael Faulkner, Laurie Sharpe, Warwick Gilbert, Robbert Smit, Peter Luschwitz, Jean Tych.
- Written By Larz Bourne, Tom Dagenais, Dave Ketchum, William Lutz, Michael Maltese, Jack Mendelsohn, Joe Ruby, Bruce Shelly.
- Music By John Sangster.
- Edited By Doug Holder, Eddy Graham.
- Produced and Directed by: William Hanna and Joseph Barbera.
- Associate Producers: Art Scott, Zoran Janjic.
- Story: Larz Bourne, Tom Dagenais, Dave Ketchum, William Lutz, Michael Maltese, Jack Mendelsohn, Joe Ruby, Bruce Shelly.
- Story Direction: George Singer, Paul Sommer, Howard Swift.
- Production Design: Iwao Takamoto.
- Voices: Daws Butler, Tommy Cook, Micky Dolenz, Tina Holland, Julie Bennett, Jerry Dexter, Casey Kasem, Jim MacGeorge, Allan Melvin, Don Messick, Barney Phillips, Michael Road, Hal Smith, John Stephenson, George Tyler, Janet Waldo.
- Animation: Stuart Barry, Ray Bartle, John Burge, Don Ezard, Michael Faulkner, Warwick Gilbert, Peter Luschwitz, Don MacKinnon, Gwyn Perkins, Kevin Roper, Jane Le Rossignol, Laurie Sharpe, Robert Smit, Jean Tych.
- Layout: Chris Cuddington, Milton Fredlund, Leif Gram.
- Background Styling: David High, Richard Zaloudek.
- Ink and Paint Supervisor: Zora Bubica (uncredited).
- Music: John Sangster.
- Editing: Doug Holder, Eddy Graham.
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The group visits the Muddlemore Mansion, and eventually discovers a portrait of Muddsy's family.
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The Washington Post is a legend in the minds of the Washington elite, so its financial decline has caused quiet panic. As NPR media reporter David Folkenflik put it, "You think of stories like the Pentagon Papers, Watergate, these are all stories where The Washington Post led the nation's understanding, the world's understanding of some major issues."
Outside the liberal media, you wonder how long Post fans can wallow in their Nixon-crumbling polyester "glory days" in the early 1970s. But nostalgia ruled as the Graham family sold the Post to Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of Amazon.com. "Now he is being credited as a white knight with deep pockets helping to save one of this country's great newspapers," oozed NBC reporter Tom Costello.
Perhaps the worst back-slapping came inside the Post. Its media reporter, Paul Farhi, peddled rumors that The New York Times might be next on the sales block, and flattered both: "One is a venerable family-owned pillar of the national media establishment. So is the other. One has a storied history of investigative reporting and a reputation for journalistic excellence. So does the other."
In the last electoral cycle, that "excellence" was defined by huge exposes claiming Mitt Romney cut another kid's hair at prep school and Rick Perry failed to put enough coats of white paint on a racist piece of rock.
Obviously, many expect (or just hope and pray) that Bezos can find a way to make newspapers profitable again. That might explain why the Post Company's stock jumped almost $25 a share. But if Bezos can't manage that, he'll get credit as a pro-journalism philanthropist. After all, the other Washington newspapers, the Times and more recently the Examiner, have been labors of love, not money.
NBC quoted Bezos saying "The values of The Post do not need changing. The paper's duty will remain to its readers and not to the private interest of its owners." That sounds self-refuting: The Graham family sold the paper due to seven straight years of financial losses, now mounting at roughly $100 million a year. New Post editor Martin Baron insisted "No institution can spend more money than it has." (There's one exception, and Obama's running it.)
When Bezos announced the Post's "values" don't need changing, he was agreeing with the liberal media's self-image. They have to deny that journalism's vanishing profits might be caused by alienating half of your potential audience with partisan hit jobs and blatant liberal bias. It's similar to the media claiming Detroit's bankruptcy is all technological, and has nothing to do with its politicians.
The Grahams sold to Bezos because they were impressed with his wealth and his digital savvy, but also because they were confident that he had all the right political values and social liberalism, as demonstrated by his $2.5 million donation for a gay-marriage referendum in Washington state. Pay no attention to anonymous company sources saying they were looking for "public-spirited" and "non-political" owners.
Ironically, they kept this sale out of the media as they negotiated throughout 2013, unlike the very public left-wing brouhaha over the Los Angeles Times possibly going to those villainous capitalists Rupert Murdoch or the Koch brothers. No one inside the liberal media elite wants to admit that Murdoch's purchase of The Wall Street Journal looks like a good thing for journalism now. Everywhere he goes, they play the Darth Vader music from "Star Wars." Jon Stewart makes grumpy faces and warns about "Murdochopoly."
But for Bezos, they're getting out the marching band for a victory lap. Post media blogger Erik Wemple said Amazon's breakout will look like a weak first act if the liberal media is saved: "Should Bezos succeed in even tweaking this sector's vicious cycle, his contributions to retailing and e-commerce may well look like modest achievements."
The first question now is whether Bezos bought the Post to be an instant power player inside D.C. (that's what D.C. assumes without blinking) or to make money. Is the Post a nostalgic plaything for Woodward and Bernstein worshipers, or is it possible he'll betray journalists and take it in a more tabloidish direction, like The Huffington Post?
Listen to what Rush Limbaugh said. Journalists "don't want to have to be worried about the audience. They view the customer with contempt more often than they view the customer with respect." If Bezos grows readership, "that's gonna be a red flag to people in the newsroom because that to them is compromising their integrity, giving the audience what it wants, because the audience is a bunch of idiots. By definition, the audience doesn't know anything till the journalist tells them."
The Post just fired its ombudsman to tune out reader complaints of flagrant errors and hatchet jobs. Let's see if Bezos can turn that arrogant attitude around.


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WASHINGTON (AP) - The ranking Senate Foreign Relations Committee Republican is urging a "surgical" U .S. air strike against Syria in reprisal for Bashar Assad's alleged use of chemical weapons.
Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee tells NBC's "Today" show Monday that "I do think action is going to occur" militarily in response to the purported chemical weapons use last week in a Damascus suburb.
Corker says the Obama administration "feels like there's no question chemicals were used" and says it is seeking to rally its NATO allies to support a military response.
He adds, quote, "I think it should be surgical, it should be proportional. It should be responsive to what happened on the ground."
But Corker also said, "I think we can get that right without us getting mired in a conflict."


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I have four dogs. Three Shih-tzus and a Miniature Poodle. My 7 year old Shih-tzu has been in agility for 6 years and he obviously loves it. My youngest Shih-tzu is 3. He is a former show dog, very soft temperament. He got his Pre Novice obedience title last October.
My 3 year old poodle is "different". She is sometimes very affectionate - first thing in the morning or when we come home, she is overjoyed to see us. Outside chasing a ball - her tail is up and she is happy. But other times -- she will be sitting on the sofa and if my husband or I go and sit with her, she will often get up and go somewhere else. She sometimes sits on the sofa behind me when I am on the computer. If I speak to her "Hi there, what are you doing?" in a nice friendly voice - she gets up and goes upstairs. Same with my husband. He will call her and she will ignore him and walk away.
I have had her in agility classes. She can do all the obstacles but just "does" them. Doesn't seem very interested. I put her in a RallyO class and she just kind of plugged along. With the circles it was like dragging a boat anchor. No matter how much I encouraged her in the RallyO class, it made no difference. She didn't look at me and just slogged around.
I thought this was her temperament -- not very affectionate, didn't like dog sports.
If the dogs are outside and I call them - they all come running - except her. She will just totally ignore me and go on eating snow - doing what she was doing etc. I think she comes "when she feels like it." I think she is friendly to my husband and I "when she feels like it."
A friend who has been breeding and training dogs for years said that I shouldn't "ask" her to do something - I should "tell" her. She says she doesn't respect me and she is just disobedient. I have to admit that she often seems like a sulky teenager. You know how teenagers get so they hate their parents no matter what happens!! I don't know what to do. I have had a sulky teenager and if you are nice - they are rude and ignore you-- and if you are strict - they are rude and ignore you. You just have to wait until they grow up and become "normal" people.
With all my dogs I use praise and/or treats and correction. Not the old fashioned "tough" correction but I let them know when they have done what I want -- and when they haven't. If I was to yell "NO" at my 3 year old Shih-tzu -- he falls to pieces -- he cannot handle loud corrections. It doesn't bother the 7 year old - he just wags his tail as usual. The Poodle listens but yelling doesn't bother her.
Poodles are smart. She should be getting high scores in obedience and rally - not slugging along like a bulldog. I want her to LOVE dog sports. Not reluctantly do them because I "make" her. I want her to WANT to come when we call her - every time!!
Anybody got any suggestions?
I think if you have worked your dog in agility for 6 years and put the pre-novice Obedience title on another then you must be pretty darn good at understanding your dogs and encouraging them to do their best. Congrats on the Pre-Novice too.
Maybe Ms. Poodle just isn't interested. Not all are. Most of the dogs loved agility when we did it but not all.
Have you noticed there is anything she DOES really like? Maybe a different sport would be more rewarding to her. Chasing balls? Morph it into flyball? Or even some junior hunt tests? After all, poodles were originally used for hunting waterfowl and I do see some trialing. Then once you find what is super rewarding for her use it to work on her recall?
Have you checked her hearing and vision?
The 2 possible things that came to my mind while reading this are;
1 - Like some people, maybe this dog is depressed and could benefit from meds. Does the dog "seem" depressed to you? The sulky teenager analogy, for me suggests depression versus rebellion. If so, maybe a vet checkup is in order. (hearing and vision check t the same time is a great idea for sure)
Like some people, is it possible she is developmentally disabled in some way? ( less 'sharp' than the other dogs)? Or Perhaps the dog is not confident which is why just speaking to her or approaching her freaks her out?
2 - This is a training issue and the dog needs to better see that you and your husband are in charge of everything. Food, play, toys, sleeping areas, who walks in first, eats first etc.
This sentence sticks out for me.
"She is sometimes very affectionate - first thing in the morning or when we come home, she is overjoyed to see us. "
Is anything special happening at that time besides seeing you? Extra toys, treats, pets - anything at all?
Sorry to ask more questions than provide answers, but maybe the answers to these questions might spark an idea.
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Well, I wasn't going to mention this at first -- but see what replies I got.
For reason I won't detail, I had a disagreement with the breeder after I got the dog and haven't spoken to her since. It all started because she didn't bring the dog when she said she was going to. I wanted her at 4 months after all her Parvo shots because my son's puppy had Parvo at my house the year before. She didn't contact me and then phoned out of the blue when she was 5 months old. The second day I had the dog she had a rash on her belly and white goopy stuff coming out of her eyes. I took the dog down to the kennel club building to meet my friend, but she was petrified - stiff as a board - was afraid to walk. Then a couple of days later she had an ear infection. It cost me about $500 for vet bills the first week alone.
The breeder said the dog was fine when she had her - it was my fault because I changed her name and the rash was caused by the pine trees in my yard.
I have been told that she had too many litters are the time and the dogs were in ex pens. Whether five months mostly in an ex pen with other puppies affects a dog for life, I don't know. She still has a rash most of the time. I prefer to treat it externally, but in the past she has been on antibiotics and prednisone for very short periods. I don't like using meds if I can help it.
I have been through various food allergy tests and my vet says it's not a food allergy. Its probably an auto-immune problem, but it can't be fun being itchy a lot of the time.
She loves being outside. I have a big garden - covered in about four feet of snow -- but in the summer she will chase a ball for ever. Not sure about flyball. Those dogs make such a darn racket and I am not a big fan of "noise".
Eyes - I took her to an eye clinic - opthalmologist from Saskatoon vet clinic. Nothing wrong with her eyes. She can hear things like "want a cookie" or "want to go outside" but she has trouble hearing "It's time to come in" or "stop that barking"!!
I am sorry but i think this is so funny It sounds like you have a cat in poodles clothing comes when it wants plays when it wants happy to see you but hey no big deal
First and foremost your breeder is an IDIOT!!! I don't like to use that word as I do not like to insult people but WOW!!! Your fault because you changed her name, and the pine trees are the reason for the rash? WOW!!!!
If your dog is happy overall isn't that the best we can ask for? The games, the competitions, the shows...some dogs do enjoy it, but its often more about us than it is about them.
The beauty of dogs is they are all individuals and that means sometimes they have personalities that just don't fill every niche we want them to. Some dogs are more aloof, less affectionate, less playful and more independent. She loves you and is happy to see you when you come home but she just isn't going to go on about it like a Golden Retriever who wants to keep celebrating your return for the next hour.
I don't want to sound defeatist, but sometimes a dog just isn't interested and trying harder to make her like it can backfire. Pressure to perform can shut her down more. We have a Rottie who is incredible in his obedience, but the second I try to record it on camera he completely shuts down. There is nothing I have figured out to get him over it. He just doesn't like the camera - I think he thinks its a huge eye that keeps following him around - creepy!!
I think a visit to a holistic vet would be of value. She could have an impaired immune system, an allergy or a low level inflammation. If you weren't feeling good and you were itchy, or just not quite right you may not want to participate in life much.
Sometimes a highly sensitive dog can be very shut down if they have been over corrected at some point in time. They stop trying, they stop having fun. Not saying that happened but it can result in this type of behavior.
It might just be that she doesn't want to play the games you want to play. It sounds like balls are key to finding her inner puppy, so that seems like your best bet for getting her more excited about things.
What are you feeding her? Grain free?
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Poodles sure do have a gentle bite,I took my hearing aid off one to take nap and when I woke up I could not find it on the coffee table. Finlay had picked up and carried it to his blanket to keep it safe for me. He did not leabe any teeth marks in my HA. They're such smart dogs and do get bored easy.
Yes. Thanks for all the comments. I have decided to leave her alone and not bother with the dog sports for her. She loves chasing a ball and I have jumps and a tunnel and when I put them out on the grass in the summer - she enjoys them then!
I think it was because I was told "Oooh - poodles LOVE dog sports" that I expected her to love them. But I think as someone said, that dogs are all individuals and you can't generalize.
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One gun accompanied by prayers I never need it
Take away what we love we'd all be Joe Paterno
Reporting live from the city where they gun tote
Sober in the sauna full of blunt smoke
Y'all concerned with Drake and Common
Me? I'm concerned with n*ggas havin' fake in common
Though I'm leading I don't really know the path
But the future can't be worse if you really know my past
Begged to be understood anytime I showed the wrath
But how could I expect third parties to know the half
Like, when the temp rises, but you the candle wick
Sorta like Kyle Williams out in Candlestick
E'rybody shouldn't grab the hammer by the grip, sh*t!
Billy Cundiff couldn't handle the kick, sh*t
They say I changed since stardom
Can't share the same success, we ain't share the same problems
So, got big just to show 'em what the gym does
Nevermind shootin': they ain't show me where the gym was
That's why I do a lot on spite
So if you, look up to me you got 'em at the wrong height
I mean, I'm not a role model, I'm a piece of sh*t
A product of never being given a piece of sh*t
Breaking day got the grind of a trucker
And my logic ain't designed to intertwine with you suckers
Loaded 9 is a buffer, but no time for you f*ckers
There'll be bodies in the sewers when my minds in the gutter
Last night I had an epiphany
Then wrote it in my rhyme book in calligraphy
I see so many people looking for validity
That's the wrong search if what's lost is dignity
I certainly have grown since Mouse
Chrome under the couch
But I'll stomp his face to make it known what I'm about
If he on what he spout
Put my Nikes on his cheeks, now he foaming at the mouth! (Get it?)
Reminded when I vent
n*gga God designed it's in the print
Two memos for the spineless, one's repent
Second jewel: even my kindness is a strength
No beef, no malice, not at all
I got no vendetta for y'all
I mean I only want better for myself
Sometimes I even want better for y'all, I swear
There's no love in hip hop
Irony, not even on Love and Hip Hop
Spacious closets, Persian rugs
Make sure I'm dressed at my best for the j*rks that judge
Had a talk with my ex and knew for certain I was bugged
So I let the door slam feelin' worse then I was
She said all I ever made her feel was hurt and disgust
Which in turn hurt cause that was my version of love
I Care! Clear, yeah, that you need better resolution
It seems the chances, we agree, are forever ruined
You talking bout how, I'm talkin' about execution
You talking bout now, I'm talkin' about evolution
But better days gotta come
I'm a good amount of bad, right amount of so wrong
And Heidi Klum left Seal, which only prove my point, sh*t can only be ugly for so long
Slaughterhouse founder, can't derail the captain
Ain't enough n*ggas praying I fail for it to happen
Cause on both side of the coin you'll get fed shells
In unison, hollow heads from red tails
I don't wanna see your weapon
To keep me from what I'm destined
Some'll see that as a blessin'
And my dudes swear they'll keep me happily from harm
So I do the leg work, they carry the arms
Check it, shorty I had over Saturday
Never act away, and squirted 'til she oversaturate
She go hard in the dark
No chains, but see I'm gettin' it, even when the car is in park
The hood is on some bullsh*t
So it ain't weird to see 'em aiming at the pulpit
Fates are empty, collection plate, spirit in ruins
We used to a different type of communion
When guns take the place of the choir, tie up the pastor
If he scared can't believe what he say 'bout the life after
The stained glass is bulletproof
Sometimes a liar's mouth can be full of truth
I done heard gospel from a sinner
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Said there's no human that walks without sin
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A trio of conservation groups are appealing a local district ranger's decision to log the Courthouse Creek drainage of the Pisgah National Forest in Transylvania County.
On behalf of WildSouth, the Wilderness Society and the Western North Carolina Alliance, attorneys with the Southern Environmental Law Center filed an administrative appeal Wednesday. The groups say logging below Devil's Courthouse jeopardizes views, streams, soils, cultural resources, recreation and older forest habitats.
On Sept. 25, Pisgah District Ranger Derek Ibarguen approved a slightly modified version of the project that involves logging roughly 435 acres over a three- to five-year period, starting as early as 2015. Another 350 acres would be thinned using herbicides and hand tools to favor commercial tree species.
Ibarguen said timbering is needed to increase habitat diversity across the landscape for the benefit of wildlife and to help fund restoration efforts in the watershed. But conservationists said their attempts to shift logging to less-sensitive sites were rebuffed.
"The Courthouse Creek area is a unique and special place," said Josh Kelly, the WNCA's field biologist. "We have repeatedly suggested other, more suitable locations for logging, but the Forest Service has refused to redraw its plans. Ultimately, we had no choice but to appeal."
Forest Service staffers will meet with the appellants "to see whether we can reach a resolution," said USFS Spokesman Stevin Westcott. If not, an appeal review team will review Ibarguen's decision and make a recommendation to Forest Supervisor Kristin Bail within 45 days.
SELC Senior Attorney D.J. Gerken said the concerns that drove conservation groups to appeal have been "expressed many times." But he said they'll restate their desire to push logging away from steep slopes, Blue Ridge Parkway viewsheds and a state natural heritage area deemed important habitat for species that rely on older forests.
"The Forest Service promised to manage this area as intact, mature forest for black bear," said Ben Prater, associate executive director of WildSouth. "The Forest Service bills this timber sale as a restoration project. But the pristine habitat in this area doesn't need restoring — it needs to be protected."
Conservation groups appeal logging decision
A trio of conservation groups are appealing a local district ranger's decision to log the Courthouse Creek drainage of the Pisgah National Forest in Transylvania County.


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The Cotton Soeterboek Band – Twisted (2008, Caf Fine Records)
- Set Me Free
- Pretty Maureen
- Twisted
- Colorado
- Leave Me Blue
- Little Sister
- Gold And Gray
- Still Of The Night
- The Game
Band Lineup:
Robert Soeterboek – Vocals
Alan Cotton – Guitars
Reynold "Butch" Carlson – Drums
Mike Davis – Bass
Joost van den Broek – Keyboards
Producers: Robert Selvaggio & The Cotton Soeterboek Band
Total Time = 31:10
Country: USA
The Cotton Soeterboek Band
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The Cotton Soeterboek Band is basically an all-star cast with the band members seeing time in bands like Maestro Alex Gregory, Star One, Ayreon, Rob Halford Band, After Forever and Driver. With such a diverse set of styles from the members' previous bands. I really wasn't sure what to make of TWISTED. If you take a look at the album cover it really doesn't look like a Hard Rock or Heavy Metal release, I thought it looked like more of a Folk Rock type thing. You should never judge a CD by it's cover because you can get surprised and I was! The Cotton Soeterboek Band is all about '70s style Hard Rock, Blues, and Southern Rock all rolled together to give it that overall Classic Rock sound. Add the groovy rhythm section to the Blues based guitar of Alan Cotton, add Joost van den Broek's keys/organ and the deep melodic vocals of Robert Soeterboek and you get a cool '70s combination of early Deep Purple, Whitesnake, Bad Company and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Opening track 'Set Me Free' sounds almost like Deep Purple combined with Bad Company Hard Rock with it's thick guitar/organ riffs and deep soulful vocals from Soeterboek while 'Pretty Maureen' is a little more hook oriented and sounds like an early David Coverdale on the vocals. What I immeadiately hear from the first two tracks is that this is a really tight band of solid musicians and the interplay between the guitar and the keyboards set the tone for the entire album. The title track slows down and is extremely bluesy and I can't stop hearing a little Robert Cray and Stevie Ray Vaughn in the music, 'Twisted' sounds so familiar like I've heard it before on all the local classic rock radio stations. 'Colorado' keeps the blues base but is much more melodic with a cool soulful Coverdale delivery complete with vocal harmonies and a slow hand guitar. The keys add a depth to the song rather than trying to compete with the guitar it all sounds so natural, 'Colorado' is my favorite from the album.
'Leave Me Blue' is a cool Skynyrd/Allmans style ballad that shows off the band's Southern side while 'Little Sister' picks up the Hard Rock groove like early Whitesnake. The power in 'Little Sister' is in the chorus where the vocal harmonies, guitar and keys all combine to hit you with a wall of sound. By the time the upbeat 'Gold And Gray' hits the speakers, I've already decided that Soeterboek really does sound like David Coverdale at his deepest. 'Gold And Gray' could be the twin song to 'Colorado' with it's upbeat melody and tempo but it also has that Southern Rock vibe to it and you can hear the Lynyrd Skynyrd influence. More Hard Blues Rock hits with 'Still Of The Night' and incorporates regular piano in with the music kind of like the Allmans and Skynyrd do, the piano solo is smooth. Ending song 'The Game' is more of the Blues based hard Rock that started the album off and ends the album on a high note. The only drawback to TWISTED is that it's such a short record clocking it at just over 31 minutes. The music was so good throughout the entire album that I was looking for a little more.
Bottom Line:
I've had the album for a long time and it's sat in the growing pile of CDs on my desk getting lost in the shuffle. I should have played this disc as soon as I got it because it is a really awesome album that reminds me of all the great bands that I hear on the radio everyday…..it's like a modern time capsule of the best of '70s Rock. I really enjoyed it and I wish I could go back to this past December and pull out an album from my Top 30 so I could slot this one in. Definitely a band to keep an eye on in the future and definitely an album worth seeking out.
Favorite Songs:
'Colorado', 'Gold And Gray', 'Set Me Free', 'Leave Me Blue'


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