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Bay Area officials are working to get the homeless into shelters after four people died this week in Santa Clara County due to hypothermia-related causes, the medical examiner's office confirmed Friday.
Three of the deaths occurred at various homeless encampments in San Jose, according to officials, and a fourth victim was found dead in Saratoga inside an open garage.
The first hypothermia-related death happened on Nov. 28, according to Santa Clara County Sheriff's Lt. David Lera. The other victims died during the "extreme weather" that has moved through the region since late Wednesday, he said.
None of the names of the deceased have been released, though Lt. Lera did say all the victims were men in their 40s or 50s.
The county plans a limited activation of its emergency operation center, Santa Clara County Health Officer Dr. Sara Cody said at a Friday press conference. Cody said she's trying to organize the county's resources to better serve the community, especially between now and Tuesday, when more cold is expected.
"We want to try to get folks who don't have a home into shelter, particularly this weekend," Dr. Cody said.
The county is working to provide ponchos, blankets, socks and other cold-weather gear to homeless individuals who won't accept shelter so they can "shelter themselves," Dr. Cody said.
There are more than 7,600 homeless people in Santa Clara County, according to a recent nationwide census.
Freeze warnings expired Friday morning, but a winter weather advisory remains up through the weekend.
Overnight temperatures in most of Santa Clara County dipped below freezing for around 10 hours starting after 9 p.m. Thursday.
Temperatures were expected to stay above freezing Friday night into Saturday, except for in the hills, but precipitation could cause problems for those without any shelter. Below freezing temps are expected to return Saturday night.
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On Monday, non-profit group EHC LifeBuilders started offering 275 shelter beds for the homeless during the cold weather season in Santa Clara County, which has one the fourth highest homeless population in the country, a spokeswoman said.
EHC LifeBuilders, based in San Jose, launched its annual Cold Weather Shelter Program with 50 beds in San Jose, 125 in Sunnyvale and 100 in Gilroy, according to Jenny Niklaus, the organization's chief executive.
"We only have about 1,000 beds on any given night in this whole community. There are 7,000 people outside," Nicklaus said. "So even if every bed was full, or above capacity, we're still gonna have people outside in this dangerous weather."
Friday night, they added 50 more beds to their homeless shelter in San Jose to accommodate more people during the cold snap. The EHC shelters in Gilroy and Sunnyvale also planned to add beds.
Earlier in the day, workers from a number of organizations sent teams out to homeless encampments in the San Jose area and handed out 1,000 blankets.
The shelter is also extending its hours. Saturday morning, instead of asking clients to leave at 6 a.m., they'll be asking them to leave at 8 a.m., when it's a little bit warmer.


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A vessel allegedly smuggling cigarettes and some other items from Dubai and carrying a banned satellite phone was intercepted off the Mumbai coast, and five Indians on board were taken into custody, Coast Guard and police officials said on Thursday.
Those detained were identified as Ahmed Aadam Paleja (45), Iqbal Hasan Umi (41), Yakub Abubakar Thakra (43), Abdul Razzak Usmar Mandwani (32) and Yunus Aasam Bolim (30) -- all hailing from Bhuj in Gujarat, police said.
The Coast Guard on Wednesday intercepted calls allegedly made through the Thuraya satellite phone on board 'MSV Yusufi' which came from Dubai on Tuesday, they said.
Thuraya is a mobile satellite services phone company based in the UAE. Its sat phones were banned in India in 2010 over concerns that they could be misused by terrorists.
The officials intercepted the dhow five nautical miles off Mumbai coast late last night and when they searched it they found imported cigarettes kept in cartons, 26 live goats, mobile phone accessories and television sets on board.
The crew was reportedly in touch with a person, identified as Usman, in Dubai, for whom these goods were being brought to Mumbai by the vessel, the Coast Guard claimed.
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The Keynesians: Sure, the U.S. government is running budget deficits of more than $1 trillion per year, while the total national debt sits at more than $16 trillion. But for many economists, these numbers aren't the most pressing problems our economy faces — not by a long shot. For Keynesian economists Dean Baker, Paul Krugman, and Brad DeLong it's the unemployment rate, now at 7.7%, that should worry us most.
So it was frustrating for them to see that both Congressional Republicans and President Obama appeared to want to see deficit reduction as part of a broader fiscal cliff deal. We did kinda sorta see – depending on how you look at it – some long-term deficit reduction. According to the non-partisan Committee for a Responsible Budget, the fiscal cliff deal shaves $650 billion from the ten-year deficit when compared to current policy. But, again, Keynesians would like to have seen more government spending, not less. In addition, while the deal did extend unemployment insurance benefits for another year, it failed to extend the payroll tax cuts, which will raise taxes by 2% on the first $110,000 a worker earns. That hits many of the folks most likely to spend their marginal dollars.


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I am seeking information on WILLIAM LANGLEY, born c. 1878, died 05 April 1926 and buried at Nabowla. His wife, ELIZABETH LOUISA SMITH, was born c. 1875, and died 18 Jan. 1941 at Launceston and buried at Nabowla. She was the daughter of WILLIAM & ELIZA JANE SMITH. William & Elizabeth had (at least) 4 children: 2 sons & 2 daughters.The daughters married A. GRIFFITHS and W. BROADHURST (both of Targa). The sons were V.(possibly VERNON REUBEN of Launceston) and M. of Winnaleah.
Looking for BROADHURST at Nabowla, Tasmania, Australia
According to his Attestation Papers when he enlisted in the Australian Army in 1916, WILLIAM BROADHURST was born in Stockport, Cheshire, England in 1876. (He stated that his father was William, who,in 1916, was living in "Northern Etchell, near Manchester".) He died in 1960 and was buried at Nabowla.
In 1916 he was already married to EMILY, and had 3 children. EMILY died in 1938, and was buried at Nabowla. It appears that he then married ELIZABETH MARGARET (who was probably more than 65 at this time.) She died in 1956 and was buried at Nabowla.
Also buried at Nabowla are JOHN WILLIAM, born 1904, "son of William & Emily", and LUCY JACOBS, born 1901, "nee BROADHURST". I believe that there was also another daughter, and there may be others after that.
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That depends on several factors, beginning with where you're coming from. If a hospital patient is transferring directly to Richmond Center, the hospital's discharge planner will work with our admissions counselors to expedite the move. Usually within a matter of days, we can accept the resident. If you are planning to join us from home, or from out of state, our admissions counselor will work directly with you to manage the admissions process. That begins with a state required assessment called a Patient Review Instrument (PRI), which is valid for 90 days from the time it is issued. Once the PRI and application are approved, admissions are usually accomplished within 24-48 hours.
What is the cost of staying at Richmond Center?
Richmond Center accepts Medicare, Medicaid, private insurance and privately paying residents, though the vast majority of our residents' expenses are paid by either Medicare or Medicaid. Individual costs are based on a variety factors, but primarily on the type of room (single/double/multi-bed) and the level of care each resident requires. The cost varies depending upon the services required. One of our admissions counselors would be happy to note the conditions that apply to your particular case, evaluate the insurance coverage available to you, and discuss your personal situation in detail--with no obligation whatsoever.
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DeLAND Fla. (May 22, 2013) – Last weekend it was Mason Hershey (Altoona, Pa.) providing the late-inning heroics, and a few days later fellow senior Alex Reynolds (Johnson City, Tenn.) came through with the biggest hit of his Buccaneer career when his walk-off two-RBI single in the eleventh inning rallied the ETSU baseball team to a 4-3 win over Stetson in the first game of the Atlantic Sun Baseball Championship on Wednesday afternoon at Melching Field.
After Stetson took its first lead of the game on James Rasmussen's RBI single in the top of the inning, Reynolds came through with the clutch two-out hit when his single up the middle scored the winning runs to lift the Blue and Gold to their first conference tournament win since knocking out top-seeded Florida Gulf Coast, 12-10, back on May 28, 2010 in Nashville.
Senior Andrew Green (Powell, Tenn.) and Tyler Roach (Knoxville, Tenn.) scored the game-winning runs on the hit. Not to be overlooked in the win was Green recording a pair of stolen bases to tie him with Tony Martin (1980-83) for the ETSU all-time record at 75.
Ironically, Reynolds' game-winning single was his third hit of the game, which tied a career high for the third baseman, while Clinton Freeman (Jonesborough, Tenn.) – who allowed just his third earned run to score out of the bullpen this season – earned the win to improve his mark to 6-1. Senior A-Sun Pitcher of the Year Kerry Doane (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) got the start and picked up his second no-decision of the season after being charged with two runs on seven hits in nine innings of work. Doane also struck out five and walked none.
Overall, the Bucs pounded out 16 hits (all singles) but left 16 runners stranded; however, ETSU registered its 20th bases loaded hit of the year to cap off the thrilling win. Reynolds finished the day 3-for-5 with the two RBI, while Jeremy Taylor (Fayetteville, Ga.) and Dylan Tritsch (Boca Raton, Fla.) combined to go 6-for-11 at the top of the order. Freshman Kevin Phillips (St. Louis, Mo.) also finished with a multi-hit game as he went 2-for-4 and put the Bucs on the board with an RBI single in the bottom of the first.
Following the win, ETSU improved to 6-0 overall in extra-inning games and moved its overall record to 33-22, resulting in the fifth-most wins in program history. Furthermore, it also marked the Bucs' first extra-inning conference tournament win since defeating VMI 7-3 in ten innings back in the 1997 Southern Conference Tournament.
An inning before the dramatic turn of events, ETSU missed a chance to win the game as the Bucs had two runners thrown out at the plate in the tenth. With one out and runners on first and second, Hershey battled off 12 pitches before ripping a single into center, but Kyle Zech threw a strike to the plate to gun down Reynolds. Then, in the next at-bat, Taylor hit a hard single to second, but after the ball got away from Kevin Fagan, the Stetson second baseman regained composure and threw out a sliding Chris Riopedre (Miami, Fla.) at home to end the inning.
Earlier in the game, the Bucs went ahead 1-0 when Phillips' two-out single to right scored Taylor, while ETSU extended its lead to 2-0 courtesy of a two-out fielding error by Fagan in the fourth.
The Hatters didn't back down as Stetson plated a pair of two-out runs on Rasmussen's double down the line in the sixth, but after the Blue and Gold left two runners stranded in the eighth and ninth innings, the game went to extras. Prior to the two-run sixth, Doane was cruising as he retired 15 of the next 17 Stetson batters he faced after Fagan led off the game with single to right.
Fortunately, ETSU loves the flair for the dramatic as the Hatters scored the go-ahead run on Rasmussen's RBI single in the top of the eleventh, but Reynolds got the last laugh in the bottom of the inning.
Stetson's Cameron Griffin suffered the loss (4-4) after being charged with the two runs crossing the plate. Junior left-hander Austin Perez started the game for the Hatters and allowed two runs (one earned) on nine hits in 7.1 innings of work. Perez also struck out six and walked two.
The Bucs will now face the winner of the Mercer/USC Upstate game (currently in a lightning delay) Thursday evening at 5 p.m.
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How to take great wildlife photos
A safari anecdote may impress your friends, but a journey in pictures will blow them away.
So how do you turn a safari into an album filled with vivid wildlife images?
Jan Latta knows.
Latta first came face-to-face with a mountain gorilla in Rwanda in 1994.
Since then, the Australian author and wildlife photographer has strolled with lions in Zambia, faced charges by elephants in Amboseli and played with baby pandas in China.
She's even cuddled a wild cheetah: "The most magic moment of my life," she says.
Latta has since published 12 wildlife books and taken more than 10,000 shots of animals around the world.
Here are her five golden rules for taking awe-inspiring wildlife images.
1. Learn about your prey
Sounds simple, but many neglect the basic concept of research before setting out.
Research gives you a basic idea on what to expect from an animal's behavior, making better pictures more likely.
Latta uses two examples to explain.
"When a lion walks past the jeep, [even of it's] just a meter away, don't be frightened, because the lion only identifies with the 'smell' of the jeep, not the humans sitting inside," she explains.
"Never try to get a close-up of a hippo -- they are the most dangerous animals in Africa," she adds. "More people are killed and injured by this animal than any other."
Find where animals live, what and where they eat and drink, how they hunt, which animals are their natuarl predators and when and where they migrate.
"Safari travelers will have a guide, some better than others, so to have a little knowledge might help them," says Latta. "This knowledge might also keep them safe."
2. Dig into the dung
Droppings are important because they alert guides and travelers to animals in the area.
"If [the dung] is huge, wet and steamy, a big elephant is close by and you can get ready for a photograph," says Latta. "The tiny dik-dik always poo in a neat circle and they all use the same 'toilet.'"
According to Latta, pugmarks in the earth, hoof prints and other markings of animals can indicate when the animals have been in the area.
"Travelers should be aware of this, but the good guides will explain as they travel," notes Latta.
More on CNN: How to take stunning landscape photographs
3. Know the sounds
Noises alert shutterbugs to action.
Animals often react with calls when a predator is close -- impalas point in one direction and make a barking sound, monkeys give a warning screech and many birds give warning calls.
"These sounds help you locate the animal you want to photograph," says Latta.
4. Don't get too close
Latta advises photographers to keep a good distance from a nervous animal and wait until it has calmed down before approaching.
And it's always dangerous to get close to a mother and baby -- the mother might attack to protect her young.
Never use flash in the wild.
"One, you will surprise the animal and it will run away," says Latta. "Two, it might attack you."
Either way, you won't be able to keep shooting.
More on CNN: 5 tips for taking great travel portraits
5. Be patient
A good wildlife photo takes time. Lots of time.
Latta says she has waited hours for animals to be in the right place at the right time in the right light.
"I searched three weeks before I saw my first tiger in the wild in India," she says.
Latta spent 15 years to complete "Lennie the Leopard," her 36-page book on leopards with 46 photos.
Latta also points out that morning and afternoon is the best time to shoot in Africa due to the light.
The golden glow of the sunset is stunning, she adds, especially if it's reflected in an animal's eyes.
Learn more about Jan Latta and her published books on wild animal on www.truetolifebooks.com.au.
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A Howard County paraprofessional has been honored with the new national Education Support Professional of the Year award.
Donna Schulze, a support professional, is a person with great passion for children.
"I bring a lot of energy. I bring a love of children. I don't think there's ever been a time in my life when I have not been with kids," Schulze said.
On Friday, Schulze was in a kindergarten classroom at Phelps Luck Elementary School in Columbia helping the teacher help students.
"We (have) 20 kids in here, the other class has 25. They can't be with all 25 students at once, but you can go in and you can help. You divide it up. You divide and conquer is a way of putting it," Schulze said.
That's what she has been doing for more than 20 years, face to face, making sure students master the basics.
"My role is to be the extra set of hands because you have children that just ... need that little push to get something. They're stuck, they need help holding a pencil, they don't get a term," Schulze said.
Schulze was a bit surprised to learn at a recent national education support conference that she had been picked to serve on another level.
"I didn't hear. I heard a roar. I heard nothing else. All I could think was, 'Oh my God, this is me.'
and I know they pushed me up and I went on the stage and people were speaking in my ear," Schulze said.
Schulze received a trophy and a $10,000 check. She'll spend the next year or so promoting the cause of paraeducators.
"You don't do it for the glory. You do it because it's something that needs to be done, something that needs to be said. You stand up for the children, you stand up for educators," Schulze said.
As a national award winner, Schulze will promote the values and concerns of almost 500,000 paraeducators. She was nominated by the head of the Howard County Education Association.


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The last time Canada's crime rates were as low as Statistics Canada says they are now, The Sting and American Graffiti played at the movies; Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon ruled the airwaves and M*A*S*H was tops on TV.
Putting aside the fuzzy pop culture context, was 1973 a safer time to which we should aspire? It seems that's what Prime Minister Stephen Harper thinks, at least in the abstract sense. But, we're already there according to Stats Can's annual survey of police-reported crime.
The volume of criminal activities fell by five per cent between 2009 and 2010 to the lowest rate since 1973, continuing a 20-year nosedive in the national crime rate, says the survey.
In short, it's as safe now as it was then... Yet the Conservative Government is forging ahead with this omnibus crime bill this fall, bundling up at least 11 pieces of delayed crime legislation under one umbrella and vowing to pass it STAT. It is a curious disconnect between political ideology and reality. Not to mention a flagrant disregard for taxpayers' money.
It is important to note that this legislation is going to have a broad and significant impact on sentencing across the country and is being foisted upon a criminal justice system that is already incredibility anemic in funding. Currently, there's not just a hiring freeze in the criminal justice system but a downsizing of contract positions. The Crown is not hiring new prosecutors, but letting go people on contract, with a corresponding decrease in support staff. In addition, the infrastructure of the criminal justice system is in dire need of updating, especially in Toronto, and any new courthouse development plans are either scrapped or on hold for many years. The expected changes will add additional stress to an already fragile system without putting in the necessary funding and infrastructure.
While a number of important issues arise from this omnibus bill, the spectre of imposing mandatory minimum sentences for a slew of offences is particularly onerous. Harsh sentencing does not deter future crime. I believe many crimes are driven by a myriad of factors none of which has anything to do with rational thought -- a careful balancing in the offender's mind of what punishments may await them. Under the criminal law there are sufficient sentencing laws in place to hand down harsh sentences when the facts call for them. Sentencing law has evolved upon a foundation of careful and thoughtful analysis with the interplay of good advocacy and a responsive and enlightened judiciary.
Bill S-10, which is expected to be included in the omnibus bill, would impose mandatory penalties for various drug offences. For example, production and/or possession of five marijuana plants for the purposes of trafficking, coupled with a number of factors, would result in a mandatory six-month jail term. Given that scientific research clearly has established that there are medicinal benefits to marijuana, one must seriously question the utility of this type of sentencing.
The reigning policy of the government on sentencing is an endorsement of a lack of faith in the judiciary to arrive at appropriate sentences. The government's argument that one victim is one too many, regardless of what the statistics indicate, is not a foundation to build a healthy and progressive criminal justice policy on. The law must be flexible and able to be responsive to the factors of each case and to carefully balance the interests and principles involved in sentencing. In addition, the reality is that hard sentencing does not prevent crime, but we do know it will unfairly punish many who do not deserve such harsh sentences and overburden a system that's already struggling to operate within a chronically underfunded regime.
Minimum punishments only hit those whom are the marginally criminal or the first-time offenders, who could be more effectively dealt with through more thoughtful and rehabilitative focused sentencing. Many people charged are often caught up in the system as a result of unfortunate circumstances. Or, in certain instances, for those who are engaged in activities that they personally do not believe ought to be subject to criminal sanction, such as the use of marijuana. Mandatory minimum sentences do not hit the hardened criminals. This type of offender will receive serious sentences regardless of the mandatory minimum.
We should also not lose sight of the benefit of the simple concept of "mercy." It is incredibly easy to paint all crimes and hence all offenders with a broad brush -- "Don't do the crime unless you're prepared to do the time." This prevails until you or someone you know is charged. On occasion, a freshly accused person will wonder, how can this happen? And facing mandatory minimums, when a judge's hands are tied with respect to sending you to jail, at least for a minimum amount of time, can be incredibly crushing and unfair when otherwise a judge might have meted out a lesser penalty after hearing mitigating circumstances.
It is simply not a socially and economically healthy policy for society to say once a person is found guilty or pleads guilty, that we must, "throw the book at them." There are spin-off effects not just for the individual but the community at large, which do not advance other societal interests. Many first-time offenders or those who are, as noted above, the marginally criminal will not be able to return to being productive citizens if they receive a mandatory period of jail. Do we as a society really want to take an individual, who is for example working, and throw them in jail, hence ruining their chances for continuing to be a productive citizen, when another option could have been pursued that would promote responsibility in the offender, deal with restoration to the community, yet maintain their ability to continue to work and not become a burden on the state? Instead a sentence must be crafted to the particulars of the individual, balancing the particulars of the case, and the various principles at play, including what promotes our societal values and realities.
Judges generally work very hard at addressing all of the various principles at play in a case, in order to arrive at an appropriate sentence. Mandatory sentencing will remove from judges the power to engage in what judges are supposed to do -- look at all the facts and arrive at an appropriate decision. And our system has built-in checks and balances. A decision can be appealed.
Ironically, the flip side of this legislation will be an increase in trials and possibly acquittals, which will cost more taxpayer dollars, not to mention the costs associated with increased levels of incarceration, which is already high in Canada when compared to other Commonwealth countries or other western democracies.
We generally have a responsible judiciary and if we trust them enough to appoint them, why can't we trust them with meting out appropriate sentences? We have much to learn from the American experience. The backlash against the sentencing guidelines and the swing back to a more enlightened approach only serves to punctuate the need for us to remain measured in our approach to criminal justice issues.
The politically popular "tough-on-crime" stance, which unfortunately many political parties espouse from time to time, must be revisited with a more flexible holistic approach in mind, especially given that Canada is still struggling with our economic recovery and while other legitimate interests like health care and education are legitimately competing for money.


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Charles Passy joins the News Hub with a taste of a new whisky that's a homage to Mike Miller's legendary Chicago punk rock whisky bar Delilah's.
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The Azn Badger works in a warehouse.
Specifically the Amazon.com warehouse in Bellevue, Washington.
Over the course of 10 hours each day, tedium is the name of the game, and as such; it's really easy to go a little nuts from time to time.
Trust me, I've seen some people lose their shit, as well as their jobs due to lack of motivation and occasional violent bouts of insanity.
That being said, myself and some of the other workers have, over the course of the past several months, come up with a few interesting games and activities to keep our minds sharp and occupied while our bodies toil in the boring and repetitive world of warehouse work.
Here are just a few examples of said activities:
1. Practice a funny voice or accent.
Okay, admittedly this one isn't really practiced by anyone other than myself, but even so; it's helped me get through some of the tougher morning scenarios.
I say "morning," because I'm generally more "loopy" in the early hours, and thusly more apt to talk to myself.
"More" being the operative word in that sentence, being as I tend to talk to myself a lot regardless…
Anyway, over the past few months I've been playing around with Scottish and Australian accents.
I honestly can't really do either of them very well, but after many days of thinking on and dissecting the diction and quirks behind the 2 accents, I can honestly say I feel I "know" them a lot better than I ever thought I would.
For the record, the only 2 phrases I can say with a legit Scottish accent are:
"Made in Scotland by real Scots."
"You should try it! It's delicious!"
The reasoning behind those choice of phrases came from the tag line on some Scottish cereal I found in the warehouse.
Don't ask…
2. Exchange movie quotes/Arnold Schwarzenneger quotes.
This one takes a buddy, and an intimate knowledge of movies, but trust me; it's a blast if you find a partner that can keep up.
So far the most quoted films are Jurassic Park, and any Arnold Schwarzenneger movie EVER.
Seeing as most men know at least some of Arnold's movies, and can at least partially imitate his voice to humorous effect; I'd say the average person is most likely to enjoy that version of the game moreso than the other.
Even so, don't underestimate the entertainment value that can be extracted from exchanging Robert Muldoon quotes.
"They should all be destroyed!"
Your turn!
3. "The Pop-Culture Icon" Game.
"The Pop-Culture Icon" game is probably the cream of the crop of boredom relieving games at Amazon.
Well, at least for me anyway.
Before I get ahead of myself, let me go over the rules for the most basic version of the game:
You begin with 2 players.
At the outset of the game, the player that suggested the playing of the game cites the name of a popular fictional character.
From that point on, the object of the game is for both players to cite the names of any popular fictional characters and the name of the source material they originate from in a back and forth manner, with the last letter in each character's name being the letter that must begin the next consecutive character's name.
In example:
Player 1 begins the game by stating: "Optimus Prime, Transformers."
Player 2 would then respond by stating: "The Eradicator, Superman comics," or any other character whose name begins with "E."
Wash, rinse, repeat.
Should either player have the desire to stump their "opponent" and "win" the game in doing so, strategy can arise in the form of choosing character names with difficult or rare last letters.
Fox, from Starfox, has proven to be quite popular in the warehouse, as "X" is definitely on of the harder letters to work from, and let's face it; Fox is pretty fuckin' easy to remember to use.
While those are the rules of the most basic version of the game, several variations of it have popped up in the warehouse; including movie-centric, comic book-centric, and videogame-centric versions.
Also, bear in mind that the rules can be modified in-game at any point in time.
For instance, today myself and the person I was playing "against" (it's not a game you play to win, only to have fun and keep busy) were forced to consider ruling out the inclusion of Pokemon and Mega Man characters, as we came to realize that, between the 2 of us we probably could've gotten stuck just naming characters from those 2 franchises.
A few other rules that I felt should've been instigated are as follows:
Character names should always begin with the first name, and should always include the last name (and it's last letter) if the player knows it.
Characters should only be used once, regardless of how many aliases they have.
Names of races or species, regardless of whether they are fictional or not; should not count.
Duplicate character names can be reused if the player is able to cite the name of alternate source material.
In case you didn't notice, I really like this game.
Hell, I played the game for close to 7 hours today.
3 hours consecutively, and sporadically over the next 4.
My "opponent" and I were separated for most of the day, but every time we would pass each other in the warehouse, we'd pause a second to keep the game going.
While I don't usually feel the need to toot my own horn, I feel it should be said that the Azn Badger is pretty fuckin' savage at this game.
Seriously man, today I was playing "against" the originator of the game, and I had his ass on the ropes so bad, you don't even know man…
He was so desperate towards the end that he was dropping bullshit like "T-Rex" just to stay afloat.
Not only that, he went so far as to use "Xavier," as in "Professor Charles Xavier," for an "X."
I don't care how bad you're hurtin', don't you ever forget Professor X's first name…
Anyway, I had a lot of fun with this game today, here's hoping somebody reading this goes out and gives it a try!
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Craig Smith of the Los Angeles Clippers
NBA player Craig Smith is the power/forward center for the Los Angeles Clippers and an advocate for education.
By Brian W. Carter, Sentinel Staff Writer
He grew up all over Los Angeles, but one city in particular played a part in raising Craig Smith…Compton. "I moved a little bit to Compton where I stayed with my grandma but then we moved to West L.A.," said Smith. "I still came back [during] summer time to stay with my grandma."
Smith says it was his mother who taught him how to play basketball. He learned about the game at the tender age of four years old. He attended Fairfax High School where basketball got him a scholarship to Boston College. Smith attended Worcester Academy, a preparatory school in Massachusetts for a year before going to college. He would later graduate from Boston college with a degree in sociology.
He would play for Boston College from 2002-2006. Smith would score an impressive 2,349 points playing at Boston College making him second on the career-scoring list. During his senior season, his per-game averages were 17.6 points, 9.4 rebounds, 3.0 assists, 1.2 steals, and 0.8 blocked shots. Smith was later selected by the Minnesota Timberwolves for the 2006 NBA Draft.
He averaged 7.4 points and 5.1 rebounds in his rookie year (2006-07) playing with the Minnesota Timberwolves. Smith had a starting role the last five games of the season and averaged 12.0 points and 10.2 rebounds while logging an average 34.4 minutes. His role increased in the 2007-08 seasons after a strong rookie performance and during his Vegas Summer League performance, he averaged 21.8 points and 6.0 rebounds.
About the NBA, Smith said, "It's a wonderful experience, it's the best league in the world. You can play against great competition night-in, night-out. It's been a blast each and every year. I try to get better and better in different aspects. It's just been a wonderful experience so far."
On July 20, 2009, Smith was traded to the Los Angeles Clippers where he's currently giving it all for his team. "The experience is very good, it's been good," said Smith. "It feels good being back home and at the same time having some guys you're familiar with…it's been a great experience. We have a great group of guys within the coaching staff and the whole organization."
Smith has made a goal to give back to the community and give the same opportunity to kids that were in his spot. "I started doing a lot of different events for and with the Clippers and mainly on my own," said Smith. "I do talk to kids at Pan-Pacific park, at christmas parties, if anybody ask me to come and speak to the kids, I'm pretty much down for it, I'm always down for it."
Smith along with numerous celebrities, councilmen, assemblymen and organizations were apart the Sentinel's 12th Annual Back-To-School event. "It was a wonderful experience to see so many kids and happy faces about going back to school. It was wonderful; we got to interact with a lot of people, organizations and non-profit organizations. It was a real good experience."
Smith has been keeping himself busy with other activities he has high hopes to accomplish. "Hopefully one day, my goal is to open up a YMCA of my own to give back to the community just to let them know, there are people out there that have been in the same situation and achieved their goals."
He also had some words of encouragement for youth who are inspiring to be pro basketball players or accomplish their dreams. "If you put your mind to it, you can do anything you want to do. Knowledge is power and if you can believe, you can achieve."


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A big thanks to everyone who helped at the aid station! Whew, my 3:45 group of maybe 10 people at that time were sure thankful as I was too.
Thanks for the support and the water Gary Cement and to all of you for cheering us on.
Thanks for the support and the water Gary Cement and to all of you for cheering us on.
Posted 07 October 2012 - 08:09 PM
Wonderful job to all who paced and volunteered at the aid station! It is really nice how much help and encouragement we give each other! Everything came together! It is nice to have such a great group! Thanks everyone!
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Thanks to all the wonderful folks who helped at the Lizard Aid Station today. It was fantastic! I was worried that we might not have enough people. But...I needn't have worried. All kinds of Lizards showed up to help.
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The name Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje is not one that slips easily off the tongue but it's worth mastering because we're likely to be hearing a lot more of it in the future. Followers of the wilfully perplexing American fantasy series Lost may recall its owner as Mr Eko, the former drug lord turned fake priest who was killed by the Man in Black, otherwise known as the Monster. Or perhaps not.
Some will know him as Simon Adebisi, the intimidating African convict in the cult HBO prison series Oz; others may recognise his contributions to films such as Congo and The Bourne Identity; and no doubt his role as an American spy in the forthcoming BBC-HBO series Hunted will further raise his profile. But it may well be as the screenwriter and film director of his own life story that Akinnuoye-Agbaje becomes a name to remember.
Armed with an Annenberg Film Fellowship grant, Akinnuoye-Agbaje has been working on the film for several years, developing the story at the Sundance Institute Directors and Screenwriters Labs. A read-through of the script by a cast including David Harewood and Marc Warren became one of the most talked about events at the recent Sundance London festival.
Entitled Farming, it refers to the practice of handing out children to informal fostering that many Nigerian parents followed in 1960s and 1970s Britain. Akinnuoye-Agbaje was one such case. In 1967, when he was six weeks old, his parents – a Nigerian couple studying in London – gave him to a white working-class couple in Tilbury, then a fiercely insular dockside community. Six months later, the Tilbury dockers led strikes in support of Enoch Powell.
Akinnuoye-Agbaje hopes to start shooting the film later this year. It's a neo-Dickensian tale of hardship, abandonment and solidarity, a kind of black Oliver Twist for the postwar immigration era. Now a powerfully built 44-year-old man, he recalls the vulnerability of his childhood with such a generous mixture of humour and understanding that it's difficult to keep in mind that he came through circumstances that would have crushed the strongest of spirits.
At times his foster parents had 10 or more African children living with them, including Akinnuoye-Agbaje's two sisters. "It was a strange relationship," he recalls of his feelings for his foster parents. "It was one of love because that's all that I knew, and that's what love is: you accept people for what they are. If I'm honest, it was very tough. My father was a lorry driver, very rarely at home. The house was run by my mother, and because there were 10 or so kids, there was no time for individual attention. It was about survival. It was about where the next meal was coming from. We had to go out and nick things to get it. So there wasn't any love in the sense of hugs or anything like that: there was just no room for it. The only haven I had was sleeping behind the sofa in the corner of the room – that was where I could get some kind of peace."
If it was crowded and chaotic within the home, outside the young boy was in constant danger of physical attack from local kids who, encouraged by their parents, nurtured a violent fear of blacks. He learned to feel the same way himself, running away from the black sailors who occasionally visited the docks from far-off locations.
"I just remember being petrified," he says. "It was as if they were the bogey man to us. Fish and chips and corned beef, that's what I knew. Do you know what I mean?"
As far as the chips and corned beef go, only too well. But the rest is less easy to imagine. Such was his eagerness to fit in that, although his skin clearly told another tale, he thought of himself as white. And if his sense of self wasn't already damaged enough, he knew nothing of his African parents until one day, when he was eight, they turned up out of the blue and took him back to Nigeria.
"It felt like a kidnap," he says, "and it rendered me mute for about nine months. I couldn't speak the language, and if I spoke English I was abused for it. It was quite a culture shock: brutal. I was so traumatised and afraid that I stopped speaking and my [birth] parents thought there was something wrong with me, thought I was possessed. They tried various indigenous ways to deal with it, and when they didn't work they sent me home, back to Tilbury, but kept my sisters there."
You wonder where the authorities were while young Adewale was being treated like some human missile, fired back and forth between continents. If his natural parents were not prepared to bring him up, it didn't help that his foster parents were ill-prepared. "There was a lot of ignorance in the family," he says as a neutral observation rather than a complaint. "I don't think they were racist; they were ignorant. They didn't know that we had to put cream on our skin because the skin is for warmer climates and it turns ashy in the cold. They didn't know they had to put cream in our hair. They didn't know we had a different smell from Caucasians and we were persecuted because of it. (Um... different smells? What?) They were just raising us as they would a white kid, but there were differences, marked differences, and I learned about that as I started to grow up."
This was a different time, of course, when social services maintained a more remote involvement in childcare arrangements and there was much less appreciation of cultural distinctions. In the 1980s there came an identity backlash. Fostering, and especially adoption, were made far more stringent in relation to children from minority backgrounds. A policy of cultural and ethnic determinism was instituted that left many children, who might otherwise have found loving homes, in care because no suitable racial match could be found.
Identity and adoption are complex issues with no easy fit-all answers. But then Akinnuoye-Agbaje doesn't have any easy answers to offer. "It's a significant question: should black people only adopt black children, and white people white children? My film doesn't judge in that sense. It makes you aware of the possible dangers but if there's anything to be gleaned from this story it's that if one is from a certain culture and then fosters someone from another culture, one should really take the time to learn about that other culture because there will come a point when the child will need to know about whence it came."
As relieved as young Adewale was to return to Tilbury as a nine-year-old, he had also learned something about his background, and it disturbed him. For the first time he was aware of being on the outside and looking in, and realising that he was not the same as his foster parents, despite their insistence that he was. "Now I had a reference point and that really highlighted my cultural identity crisis," he says. "I wanted to assimilate and go back to the abnormal normality I knew. I wanted to wash off the experience of Africa but obviously I couldn't because that's who I was. As much as I wanted to deny it, it was plaguing me, and I was reminded by the images coming through the TV, people on the streets and in the end my family in the house."
The more he tried to blend in, the more he was rejected. After a year in Africa his skin was darker, which made him yet more conspicuous among the white population. Reluctant to go out, he was issued with an ultimatum by his foster father: either he fight in the street or he would have to fight in the house. With little choice, he learned to defend himself and also to attack others. As he became a teenager he grew into a well-built young man with a reputation for violence.
"It was a time of standing up and standing your ground or running, and there wasn't anywhere to run in Tilbury. The local skinhead gang really ran the streets. They made my life – and anyone's who was a shade darker than pale – a misery."
There's a natural human tendency to dramatise our backgrounds, embellish challenges and exaggerate difficulties, and actors are certainly not immune to the impulse. But there's no bravado or sentimentality in Akinnuoye-Agbaje's manner. Instead he displays a passionate and perhaps cathartic desire to explain, not least because what took place next requires some explanation.
He became a skinhead.
He didn't just adopt the haircut and clothes but the racist attitudes too. He fought alongside his new skinhead comrades, who treated him at first like some brutalised pet to be unleashed in battle. "I was like a little dog that followed them around," he says.
"When a child wants to be accepted," he explains, "he'll do anything. And if it means you're getting a certain amount of notoriety from a fight, that's what you'll do. If all you've known is racism, abuse and persecution, then all of a sudden you're getting some recognition, that's your new drug. That's what you want. By the time I was 16 I was someone to reckon with. I was so eager to repudiate any connection with any immigrant race I would go above and beyond. I was desperate to belong to something. That was my drive as a teenager."
He became a bully and a thief and seemed set to pursue a life of crime and dysfunctionality. Unable to cope and worried that he would become a disruptive influence on the other children in her care, his foster mother got in touch with his birth parents. At 16 he was once again removed from Tilbury, this time not to Africa but to a boarding school in Surrey, paid for by his parents – his father was a qualified barrister with a lucrative practice in Nigeria.
The relationship with his birth parents had not improved in the intervening years. He was a street kid who spoke a raw cockney dialect, and they were two professionals, unwilling to acknowledge responsibility for what they had inflicted on their child.
"It was hell on earth," he says, shaking his head at the memory. "It was really the most bizarre thing. I was like, 'Eff off, you wog'. They were total strangers to me, and there was no marrying the two worlds of Tilbury and Africa. No way."
Such was the disorienting shock of boarding school, with its unsettling silence and atmosphere of academic expectation, that the overwhelmed teenager, now confronted with his own self-hatred, attempted suicide.
He couldn't turn back but didn't know how to go forward. He found it hard to concentrate and he struggled to understand what he was being taught. But gradually, with the help of a girlfriend and a fellow student, he began to accept his heritage, and he also learned how to study, going on to gain a law degree from King's College, London.
He was and remains grateful to his birth parents for eventually providing an education but he never forged a close relationship with them. His birth father is now dead, as are his two foster parents, whom he thinks of as his real parents. "They were the ones who raised me, for good and bad," he says. He stayed close to them right up until their deaths.
While at university he worked in a clothes shop where, in turn, he was introduced to modelling. That took him around the world and eventually to Hollywood, and the cast of the film Congo. The instant he started acting, he knew it was his vocation. "I realised that the sum total of my life added up to this: my rough upbringing, because when they said 'Action!', I had plenty; and the analytical focus and determination of legal study – you need all of that to be an actor," he says, breaking into a broad and knowing grin.
"And obviously my natural charisma and showy self, because you've got to be star inside."
Akinnuoye-Agbaje is indeed a star inside and out, but the hardest and most triumphant role he'll ever play is the one he was handed by his parents as a baby of just six weeks.


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A man charged with murdering a woman in his home in a New York City suburb is denying police claims that he confessed to two other killings.
Lucius Crawford spoke in a jail interview posted Friday on The Journal News' website. ( https://lohud.us/Vt2pgY ) The Mount Vernon man says he had nothing to do with 1993 stabbing deaths of women in Yonkers and the Bronx.
He says he told police he didn't know those women.
But Crawford admits in the interview that he killed Tanya Simmons. Police found her stabbed body Tuesday.
Crawford's lawyer didn't immediately return a call seeking comment. The 60-year-old Crawford has pleaded not guilty to the Simmons killing.
Police said Wednesday that Crawford admitted killing all three women. He has spent about 30 years in prison for stabbing several other women who survived.


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When Thy Son was very small,
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In the stable oxen's lowing
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Father, for all little ones
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Music: Janice Kapp Perry
Artist: Perry
Album: Music Published in the Church Magazines: Ensign
Composition Date: 1985-03-01
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The resulting book (cowritten with dad), The Strand Prophecy, has won several awards, including three Benjamin Franklin awards, and an Independent Publisher book award. According to Amazon:
The Strand Prophecy is a science fiction epic set in the present day. The action begins on the steps of the White House, with stops in the jungles of Brazil and the deepest regions of Africa. Strand, a troubled and reluctant superhero discovers the beginning of a rapid evolutionary cycle. One in which new life and new predators will quickly emerge to threaten all of human existence. He races against time and the U.S. military to protect the innocent, safeguard his niece and along the way, perhaps find redemption for his brothers death.
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And the correct guesser was (drum roll please....) My mom! (She commented on Facebook in case you were wondering.)
My conference this morning was for Josiah. Mrs. Phelps, his teacher, is a doll! And she really cares about her students. I am so glad that Josiah has her as a teacher. I requested the conference because I, if you'll excuse me while a brag, because Josiah is just to darn smart. The little guy taught himself to read while he was in preschool. (Of course it was because he wanted to be able to play on the computer without needing help. But that is besides the point.)
Now, I didn't want to come off as one of those parents. Remember I used to be a teacher. Those parents are the ones that think their child is the smartest child since Einstein. (Yeah, right, Einstein didn't speak until he was three or four, Josiah was reading by then . Just kidding!!) I just wanted to make sure that he was being challenged so he wasn't becoming a disruption or distraction for the rest of the kids. Have I mentioned how much he loves to talk? I had visions of him finishing work and then talking to his neighbors.
But, thankfully, Mrs. Phelps has it all under control! Yay for good teachers!!!
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
And the correct guesser was (drum roll please....) My mom! (She commented on Facebook in case you were wondering.)
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
First Parent Teacher Conference of the Year
Tomorrow 9:00. Any guesses as to which child it is for??
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Monday, September 28, 2009
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Thursday, September 24, 2009
I don't usually post here about political things or television. But I am greatly bothered by a new show on F0x. It is a show that I really really wanted to like. You have to know that I am pretty much a geek and LOVE music. I love singing. Any guesses? (And I am really excited about the new Fame* movie coming out this week.)
I really really wanted to like Glee*. REALLY! I'm married to a music teacher! And I look just like the actress who plays the wife of the show choir director on the program. (Okay, not really.) The first episode I liked a lot. I thought the Celibacy Club thing was little tasteless, but that's okay. Something I could overlook.
I've been so saddened by the turn the show has taken the last two weeks. I don't need to watch teenagers singing about sex, engaged in sex, etc. Okay, yes, I know that lots of teenagers have sex. That doesn't mean I need to watch it. I am even more saddened that we, as a society, have condoned this behavior by turning it into entertainment. I am angry that the target audience of the this show is obviously, as evidenced by it's 9:00 time slot, teenagers. I am angry that the teenager girls in the "Celibacy Club" use sex to control the behavior of the teenage boys. I am angry that praying to Jesus (in the first episode) to remain celibate is seen as a joke. I am angry that what could be a wholesome family show is what it is.
I am saddened that some Christians I know think that this is wonderfully written and funny. I personally think that a teenage boy 'servicing' adult women that he works for is not original or funny. I am saddened that the network thinks that we (the general public) are not smart enough to enjoy a funny, well written show that isn't smothered in gratuitous sex.
Maybe I have offended you, or made you think. All I know is that this is not what I would allow my children to watch at any age if they are living in my home. Because I don't want them to find it funny or to think that this behavior is okay. And it is not what I want on my television if Jesus should come back tonight.
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009
7 Years Ago...
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Not Again!
Remember Barf Fest a few weeks ago? Well, other than Ella having a cold a last week, we've been pretty healthy.
But then, last night Charis started running a fever. Yes, Charis. The one who never gets sick! I should have seen it coming when she came home from school, turned down a snack and took a nap in the middle of the living room floor. NOT the safest place to lie down in our circus. The kids kept running through, narrowly missing her head while I cringed and cried out warnings.
She skipped dinner, but by about 7:00 the Tylenol/Advil cocktail she was on kicked in and she was feeling well enough to start to pick on the other kids. (I wonder if it is considered child abuse to NOT medicate your child for a fever?)
So, once again, my grand plans for today are rearranged. But that is okay.
AND on the good side, I found my keys!! Of course they were in a place I had looked at least two other times. I think the kids were moving them around just to drive me crazy and I finally just lucked out and came across them before they moved them again. I am sure that several of you were up all night wondering about my keys, so I thought I would put your mind at rest so you can sleep tonight!
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Monday, September 21, 2009
Things I Have Found While Looking For My Keys
1. The missing umbrellas
2. An attachment to the vacuum cleaner (one is still missing)
3. The floor of the closet
4. A lot of dust.
5. Missing books.
6. A diaper bag (haven't had anyone in diapers in a couple of years.)
7. The missing hair brushes (a blog entry unto itself.)
8. Glow in the dark bracelets
9. 5 headbands, so far....
10. Where one of my precious children wrote on the kitchen table WITH MARKER!!
11. The USB cord for my digital camera (didn't know that was missing.)
12. Olivia's library card
13. The bandages (always a necessity around here)
14. My scissors
15. Scotch tape (which is like finding gold in our house)
16. My kitchen counter (I'll bet my hubby doesn't believe that!)
17. The missing Littlest Pet Sh0p monkey
Is anyone else noticing what I haven't found????????
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Saturday, September 19, 2009
If You Want to Make God Laugh....
Tell him your plans!!
I had such grandiose plans of what things I would get done once school started. You know, four kids in school all day. The baby in preschool four half days a week. Wow, time to do what I want to do! And that is when God started laughing!
My attic is still a train wreck. I haven't even vacuumed the upstairs! The bathroom floors still need scrubbed. Clothes still need switched over from summer to fall/winter. The ugly wall paper still needs to come off of the upstairs bathroom. The border in the dining room still needs taken off and replaced. I still need to find cheap bedding for our bedroom. And the list goes on and on.
Why? Well, I was blessed with three hair bow parties in the end of August. One of which was huge! And I am still not done making the bows ordered there, although I am close. AND someone has been sick ever since school started, minus a day or two here and there. Ella had a stomach virus that lasted a week. Then less than a week later, most of the rest of us had it, including Ella who had her second bout. My migraines have been out of control. I have started a new Sunday school class for third through sixth graders. (I'll post about that later, I found a great resource on knowing what is in the Bible, how it is structured, who wrote what, etc....)
Have I mentioned how crazy it is to try to keep up with homework for all five kids? Yes, even the preschooler comes home with homework. So three of the kids have it every night. So I have to make sure it gets done. Sign behavior sheets and homework planners. Make sure Grace works on her multiplication fact. Listen to Olivia read for 15 minutes (which includes an additional five to ten minutes for whining.) Help Charis with her alphabet.
Oh, did I mention laundry for seven? And meals?
And did I mention I am babysitting a precious little one two days a week?
It's all good, but, WOW, I am not getting much done...
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Thirsty For God
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Monday, September 7, 2009
A Clean Kitchen
On Saturday, before the black death settled in and took out 6 of the 7 of us, I spent almost the entire day cleaning my kitchen. (In case you are wondering, Risi is the only one who did not end up sick. According to Sheri, Ris probably scared away the virus....she's probably right.)
So my kitchen looks great, wiped down everything, cleaned up my hair bow stuff, scrubbed the stove. It looks great......unless you open the cupboards or the fridge or the drawers. Didn't make it to cleaning those.
On the outside it looks great, on the inside, not so much.
And that really got me to thinking. I've spent a lot time on my outside recently. In the past year, I've lost a lot of weight. And mostly for health reasons, but, truthfully, I wanted to look better too.
But I got to thinking, what if someone one opened my drawer? Pulled out my silverware drawer? Would they find crumbs? Cupboards that need wiped down?
We are so aware of our appearances. I wonder what life would be like if we spent as much time working on our insides as we do on our outsides. What if I spent as much time in my Bible everyday as I do taking a shower and fixing my hair? What if I spent as much time in prayer as I spend on the computer each day? What if I spent as much time in worship as I spend watching the news each day (and let's face it the news is pretty depressing!)
Just some thoughts, for me and for you.......
How do you look? On the inside??
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Saturday, September 5, 2009
Welcome To Puke City!
Last week my poor Elliana was sick for several days with a stomach bug. She dehydrated and looked and felt awful. We eventually had to take her to the doctor to get an anti-nausea so we could rehydrate her. If it didn't work she'd have had to be admitted to get IV fluids. Thank God it worked and within 24 hours she was fine.
We all were. For almost a whole week. Then Josiah started in. I don't think he got it from his sister, because, after all, it had been a whole week. He missed his first day of Kindergarten. He wasn't thrilled about that. Within 24 hours he was fine. Up running around as always.
Then this afternoon, Ella started again. Then Josiah. Can I tell you how much fun we are having??
AND we are supposed to go my mom's tomorrow to see her and my sister that I haven't seen for over a year. AND the kids are really excited about going. AND, now, at least one is staying home with Kevin.
So please pray that no one else gets sick. And that everyone feels better. This is just not fun.
Yep, we got it. 6 of the 7 of us. So much for the plans to see my sister and her crew this weekend. THANKFULLY all are well enough to go to school tomorrow! They are way too energenic today. It's kind of a bummer when you still feel rotten and the kids are high energy. Ah well, did I mention they go to school tomorrow??
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Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Ella Starts Preschool
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SYDNEY, Dec. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ThoughtWeb, developer of the Enterprise Analytics Studio for building big data solutions that enables enterprise collaboration, intelligence and analytics, recently welcomed industry veteran Vinay Samuel as its Chief Executive Officer.
Samuel brings extensive start-up experience from several recent US software ventures such as Netezza, Greenplum and Vertica. Rob McLean, Chairman of ThoughtWeb, stated, "Vinay brings deep business management, data warehousing, marketing and big data experience. He understands the key success criteria for utilising data to produce sustainable advantages for banks, telecommunications, retailers, mining and government organisations."
ThoughtWeb, who were nominated as a Gartner "Cool Vendor – 2012", is poised for rapid growth. Its experience in the Government, Telecommunications, Retail, Mining and Banking industries; and unique software that reads, analyses and puts massive amounts of (structured and unstructured) data in context is driving significant market take-up. "Customers are able to create competitive advantage by leveraging our ability to join the dots across disparate data sets, find the hidden meaning and patterns and enable enterprise collaboration. ThoughtWeb enables customers to extract value from the Big Data", comments Samuel.
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