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Carly Rae Jepsen Is The New Face Of Burt's Bees Beauty Range
Carly Rae Jepsen Snags a Deal With Burt's Bees
Carly Rae Jepsen is moving on from her hit "Call Me Maybe" into a new beauty deal with Burt's Bees. The singer will be the face of the new Güd Red Ruby Groovy line, and the first celebrity spokesperson for the natural-beauty brand. Burt's Bees hopes her strong pull with Generation Z, along with her social media presence, will bring their products into a younger demographic. The new line will include a shampoo, conditioner, lotion, and body wash with the scent filled with fruity notes of grapefruit, black currant, apple, mandarin, and papaya. "I've always been attracted to things that smell feminine, and I like things that are energizing," Carly Rae told WWD. "I feel very womanly, and it makes me sort of ready to take on more."

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studied musicology and business administration at the University of Hamburg. Following her studies, she worked for the music publishing house G. Schirmer in New York.
Since 1980 she has been executive partner of the Sikorski Music Publishing House. From 1997 to 2005 she was chairperson of the economic commission and member of the executive board of the German Music Publishers Association (DMV), and president of the Association of German Stage and Media Publishers (1997–2004).
Today, Sikorski is president of the DMV (since 2002), member of the board of directors of the GEMA (since 2003), and member of the executive committee of the German Music Council (since 2005).
Moreover, Sikorski is co-founder and member of the foundation council "Kinder brauchen Musik" (Children need Music) and member of the board of trustees of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben (German Musical Life Foundation).


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Star Trek The Next Generation: 20th Century Computers and How They Worked, subtitled "The Official Starfleet History of Computers", was released in 1993 by Prentice Hall under the imprint of Alpha Books.
Written by Jennifer Flynn (now Jennifer Fulton since her marriage to journalist Scott M. Fulton, III in 1993), the book was an educational textbook for computer science students, covering the history of computer technology and its current state of development at the time, but presented in the in-universe context of the Star Trek: The Next Generation era, as a textbook for students at Starfleet Academy.
- From the back cover
- "Go where you've never gone before... deep into the micro-universe inside your personal computer. The crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise leads you and 24th Century Starfleet Academy students on a fascinating journey through the interior of a 20th century PC.
- "Probe the mystery of how a PC turns electricity into data that it can process, store, and transmit to other computers.
- "Explore how information travels from a keyboard or mouse through the system to the monitor and printer.
- "Learn what the silicon chips that make up computer memory look like and how they work.
- "Investigate the software [programs] that drives the computer's operation.
- "Seek out the beginnings of the information age – cybernetics, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, fuzzy logic, and more. Compare 20th Century computer technology to the computer technology used on the Starship Enterprise."
- Excerpts of copyrighted sources are included for review purposes only, without any intention of infringement.
- Foreword, pp. IX-X
- Preface, pp. XI-XII
- Guide, pp. XIII-XVIII
- Introduction, p. XIX
- Chapter 1: Tracing the Path of the Letter 0, pp. 1-3
- Storing the Press of a Key, pp. 4-7
- Displaying a Key Press, pp. 8-9
- Printing a Key Press, pp. 10-12
- Chapter 2: The Core of the Personal Computer: The System Unit, pp. 13-15
- Inside the System Unit of a Twentieth Century PC, pp. 16-19
- A Closer Look at the CPU or Microprocessor, pp. 20-22
- The PC's Bus, pp. 23-25
- A Closer Look at RAM, pp. 26-28
- Chapter 3: A Closer Look at the Microchip, pp. 29-30
- How a Microchip Was Build, pp. 31-32
- How a Microchip Stored Information, pp. 33-36
- Chapter 4: Input Devises, p. 37
- The Keyboard, pp. 38-39
- The Mouse, pp. 40-42
- The Trackball, pp. p. 43
- Graphic Tablets, pp. 44-45
- Scanners, pp. 46-47
- Touch Screens, pp. 48-49
- Musical Interfaces, pp. 50-52
- Chapter 5: Output Devices, p. 53
- The Monitor, pp. 54-57
- Printers, pp. 58-64
- Chapter 6: Storage Devices, p. 65
- Hard Disk Drives, pp. 66-69
- How Information Was Saved to a Hard Disk, pp. 70-72
- Diskettes and Floppy Disk Drives, pp. 73-74
- CD-ROM, pp. 75-78
- Flopticals and Magneto-Optical Disks, pp. 79-81
- Tape Drivers, pp. 82-84
- Chapter 7: Data Transfer, p. 85
- Modems, pp. 86-92
- Chapter 8: Networks, p. 93
- Local Area Networks, pp. 94-97
- Network Architecture, pp. 98-100
- Wide Area Networks, pp. 101-104
- Chapter 9: Operating Systems and User Programs, p. 105
- The Role of the Operating System, , pp. 106-108
- How MS-DOS Managed Its Tasks, pp. 109-111
- How MS-DOS Managed Memory, pp. 112-117
- The Role of Software, pp. 118-120
- Popular Types of Applications, pp. 121-124
- Chapter 10: Emerging Technologies of the Late Twentieth Century, p. 125
- Robots and Cybernetics, pp. 126-128
- Artificial Intelligence, pp. 129-134
- Artificial Life, pp. 135-136
- Virtual Reality, pp. 137-138
- Fractals, pp. 139-141
- Morphing, p. 142
- Chaos, p. 143
- Nanotechnology, pp. 144-146
- Appendix: Galaxy-class Starship Computer Systems, pp. 147-152
- Index, pp. 153-161
Background information
- In order to enhance the presentation of the book as a work set in the Star Trek universe, the book included a preface from Lieutenant Commander Data, featured full-color illustrations from both Hans & Cassady, Inc. and husband Scott Fulton in the style of Michael Okuda's okudagrams, and included, as an appendix, the fourth chapter of the Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual, "Galaxy-class Starship Computer Systems".
- At the time of the book's publication, both the Alpha Books imprint and publisher Prentice Hall were owned by Simon & Schuster, which itself was owned by Paramount Communications, then Star Trek's rights holder.
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United In Marriage
Chelsea Marie Banwart of Ottosen and Jordan Patrick Laubenthal of West Bend were united in marriage on Saturday, September 15, 2012 at 2 p.m. Chelsea is the daughter of Craig and Tina Banwart of Ottosen and Jordan is the son of Keith and Connie Laubenthal of West Bend.
Father Tom Hart performed the marriage ceremony at Sts. Peter & Paul Catholic Church in West Bend. Chelsea was escorted down the aisle by her father, Craig Banwart.
Soloists John Banwart and Lance and Christy Banwart and organist Luan Montag performed at the ceremony.
Chelsea's sister, Mackenzie Banwart, of Iowa City served as Maid of Honor, while Courtney Ruppert of Curlew, Kayla Vanderhorst of Oakland, Janelle Stevens of Billings, MT, and Brittany Laubenthal of West Bend were bridesmaids.
Craig's cousin, Anthony Laubenthal, of Norwalk served as Best Man, while Brad Ruppert of Curlew, Adam Laubenthal of Bradgate, Derek Wirtz of West Bend, and Cole Banwart of Ottosen were groomsmen.
Amanda and Casey Spraw of Las Vegas, NV, Dan Traub of West Bend and Ben Ulrich of Sioux City were ushers. Emma Schumacher was the flower girl.
Special guests included grandparents Lannie and Charlene Miller, Marilyn Banwart, Maxine Laubenthal and Lawrence and Marilyn Nelson.
A reception and dance was held following the ceremony at Knights of Columbus Hall in Algona.
The happy couple now resides in West Bend. Both are 2007 graduates of West Bend-Mallard High School. Chelsea is also a 2011 University of Northern Iowa graduate. Jordan is employed by West Bend International and Chelsea is employed by Banwart Trucking.


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'The Avengers,' Michael J. Fox Lead Fall TV Lineup
"The Avengers" comes to ABC in the season's most high-profile new television series, Toni Collette stars in Jerry Bruckheimer's "Hostages," and Michael J. Fox returns to the small screen. John Jurgensen has a look at the best that fall TV has to offer. Photo: AP.
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Dispute over power lines clouds bayfront plans
Chula Vista and Port of San Diego officials are well on the way to realizing their Bayfront Master Plan dream, but that picture might be darkened by some large transmission lines that won't go away.
The plan has depended since 2004 on relocating the South Bay Substation, which sits alongside the recently imploded South Bay Power Plant, to a site about a quarter mile south.
The removal would make room for an RV resort to be moved from its spot near the Chula Vista Marina so the bayfront community's anchor project, a resort conference center, can be built in its place.
But the relocation project, long a forgone conclusion for Chula Vista, the Port of San Diego and San Diego Gas & Electric, in its current form before the California Public Utilities Commission doesn't quite meet the expectations of some. The mayor who originally negotiated for it and a nearby landowner are worried that the plan will compromise the future bayfront community.
John Moot, an attorney representing Inland Industries, says the plan fails to put underground all the transmission lines. He cites a 2004 deal between SDG&E and the city that acknowledged Chula Vista's goal of maintaining the bayfront area as an underground utility district, from about C Street to Naples Street. SDG&E agreed to work with the city to underground large 138 and 230 kilovolt transmission lines and to file for any future transmission lines in that area to be undergrounded.
The problem, Moot says, is that SDG&E does not plan to put all the existing lines underground when the substation is moved. Furthermore, the plan includes an 83-foot telecommunications tower and 68-foot A-frame towers, both of which violate the 45-foot height limit in the city's state-approved Local Coastal Plan.
"This is a matter of broken promises," Moot said. "SDG&E's promise to Chula Vista that it would maintain the bayfront as an underground district and the city's promise to its residents that what would be built on the new bayfront would be better so that all of us would be proud of our jewel on the bay.
"If this substation is built as proposed, it will be called a lot of things over the next 50 years, but a jewel will not be one of them."
SDG&E has a different take, though: Because the lines to the new substation will be the same lines, only looped in to a different location, they don't need to be put underground. Even so, the utility company says it is already making considerable concessions to help make Chula Vista's bayfront dream a reality.
The project would put the remaining 138 kilovolt transmission lines underground, as outlined in the deal, and it puts all but 300 feet of a 230 kilovolt line below ground. All told, the plans for the new substation reduce the total number of overhead poles, towers and risers by 14. They also reduce the amount of overhead 230 kilovolt and 138 kilovolt lines by a combined 4,300 feet.
"There are no new lines," said SDG&E project manager Mary Turley. "The existing site is full of lines, and this project would underground a bunch of what's already down there."
"I don't know where we've done more undergrounding," said Francisco Urtasun, regional vice president of external relations. "We would not even be moving the substation if it weren't for the Chula Vista bayfront plan. We consider ourselves partners with the city in this venture, and we have invested considerable time and expense in it."
Chula Vista Assistant City Manager Gary Halbert said getting the substation moved is the "absolute most important thing to us" and that the city is working with SDG&E to interpret and apply the agreement and the city's Local Coastal Plan to the current project. But he doesn't want to push so hard for undergrounding the lines that the substation doesn't get moved. Urtasun predicted that adding any expense to the project could jeopardize its approval by the utilities commission.
"Ultimately, we're really not at odds with what John is saying, and we do want (everything on the bayfront) undergrounded, but we don't want to lose sight of what's most critical," Halbert said.
But former Mayor Steve Padilla, who helped negotiate the deal in 2004, said the proposal doesn't honor the spirit of the agreement.
"The project in front of the CPUC violates Chula Vista's Local Coastal Plan and the MOU and probably the Coastal Act, and the City of Chula Vista would certainly be willing — in fact, scrambling — to defend those principles if it ended up in the current spot," he said. "If they were smart, they would do so now."
He added that despite the project's failure to honor a long-standing agreement, he is more concerned that this is an issue of social justice.
"If this project was being proposed north of I-8, you bet it would not be being proposed above ground, so why here?" he said. "We would not even be having this conversation if it were in La Jolla."
SDG&E officials said they do not design their projects based on location but have design standards that apply to every project.
Turley said the existing substation has to go somewhere, and Urtasun pointed out that everyone has known for almost a decade where it was going, with many expressing active support for the project. SDG&E Senior Counsel Estela de Llanos said the relocation site is in an industrial area and won't, therefore, affect homeowners. Only Inland Industries and one other property owner have expressed any opposition, she said.
The placement of the lines may be a nonissue, though, because members of the California Public Utilities Commission staff have already written that they feel the substation should stay put.
But city staff said leaving the substation where it is would have a "dramatic negative impact" on the recently adopted Bayfront Master Plan, because employment opportunities and wildlife habitat buffers depend on its relocation.
The commission will not make a decision until the final draft of the Environmental Impact Report is finished sometime this spring or summer.
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Teens Delaying Licensure—A Cause for Concern?
AAA Foundation Study Looks at Why Teens Are Delaying Rite of Passage
WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2013) – The majority of American teens today delay getting a driver's license, according to new study by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. Less than half (44 percent) of teens obtain a driver's license within 12 months of the minimum age for licensing in their state and just over half (54 percent) are licensed before their 18th birthday, causing concern among safety experts that young adult drivers are missing the benefits intended by graduated drivers licensing (GDL). These findings mark a significant drop from two decades ago when data showed more than two-thirds of teens were licensed by the time they turned 18.
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"With one in three teens waiting to get their license until they turn 18, there's a segment of this generation missing opportunities to learn under the safeguards that GDL provides," said Peter Kissinger, President and CEO, AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. "For most, it's about not having a car or having alternatives for getting around that are the top reasons cited for delaying what has traditionally been considered to be a rite of passage."
Contrary to some expectations, survey results suggest that few teens wait until 18 simply to avoid graduated driver licensing. Instead, a number of other reasons for delaying licensure were cited, including:
- 44 percent – Did not have a car
- 39 percent – Could get around without driving
- 36 percent – Gas was too expensive
- 36 percent – Driving was too expensive
- 35 percent – "Just didn't get around to it"
Low-income and minority teens are the least likely to obtain a driver's license before age 18. Only 25 percent of teens living in households with incomes less than $20,000 obtained their license before they turned 18, while 79 percent of teens were licensed by their eighteenth birthday in households with incomes of $100,000 or more. The findings for licensure by age 18 differed significantly by race and ethnicity, with 67 percent for non-Hispanic white teens, 37 percent for non-Hispanic black teens, and 29 percent for Hispanic teens.
"For a range of reasons, young adults increasingly are getting licensed without the benefit of parental supervision, extensive practice and gaining experience under less risky conditions that are the hallmark of a safety-focused licensing system," said AAA's Director of State Relations and teen driver issue expert, Justin McNaull. "Researchers and policymakers should examine whether existing state GDL systems – nearly all of which end once a teen turns 18 – can be modified to improve safety for these young adult novice drivers."
AAA has worked for nearly two decades to recommend that all states adopt and enforce a comprehensive three-stage (learner's permit, intermediate/probationary license, full/unrestricted license) graduated driver licensing (GDL) system for novice teen drivers. These programs require minimum holding periods and practice requirements for teens with learner's permits, followed by restricted licenses that limit driving at night or with peer passengers. These requirements help novice drivers safely gain the skills and experience needed to become safe adult drivers.
Previous AAA Foundation research found that states with comprehensive GDL systems have experienced a 38 percent decrease in fatal crashes involving 16 year-olds and a 40 percent reduction in injury crashes.
The researchers surveyed a nationally-representative sample of 1,039 respondents ages 18-20. The full research report and survey results can be found on the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety website.
Established by AAA in 1947, the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety is a 501(c) (3) not-for-profit, publicly-supported charitable educational and research organization. Dedicated to saving lives and reducing injuries on our roads, the Foundation's mission is to prevent crashes and save lives through research and education about traffic safety. The Foundation has funded over 200 research projects designed to discover the causes of traffic crashes, prevent them, and minimize injuries when they do occur. Visit www.aaafoundation.org for more information on this and other research.
As North America's largest motoring and leisure travel organization, AAA provides more than 53 million members with travel, insurance, financial and automotive-related services. Since its founding in 1902, the not-for-profit, fully tax-paying AAA has been a leader and advocate for the safety and security of all travelers. AAA clubs can be visited on the Internet at AAA.com.


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Scott Tolleson posted the above images, announcing a collaboration with the one and only art wizard, Skinner, on Scott's Deadbeet figure. The figure comes out next Friday, so keep an eye out!
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"Sweet Lord! Don't let the bubble touch me!"
Bubbles are small, round, kittenlike, and probably the most dangerous thing in the universe. That is, only those of the dangerous kind. Most everyday bubbles are as harmless as they appear to be, but that's not the point of this article. The fact is, bubbles have been observed to be evolving, and are expected to eventually achieve an evolutionary position that would allow it to take over the world. Already, bubbles of the dangerous kind - few though they are - have proven to be effective weapons of mass destruction.
Additional to this, bubbles is what YOU may be called in the rare event that your spanking of the monkey goes horribly wrong. It is the result of infinite number of hours spent infront of the Laptop computer and sexual suicide. If and when you try to jerk off but it takes more that 1-2 hours and the substance released is none other that bubbles consider calling the bubbles hotline at 1800-666-powerpuffgirls.
Bubbles is also the name of a well known ex-rodeo clown and Joey Ramone diaper changer, who is currently attempting to have a career as a musician's ass-wipe. He is known far and wide (although he's not as wide as he once was) as the go-to guy for anything a band needs to put on an almost passable concert (as long as the audience is drunk enough).
This article in interest of human welfare
- 1 Origin of the species
- 2 Bubbles of the dangerous kind
- 3 The future
- 4 How to kill Bubbles
- 5 Final words
- 6 See also
Origin of the species[edit]
Not yet afraid of the god-like existence of bubbles? Then think about this: What was the first thing to come out from that primordial soup found at the beginning of the world? Bubbles! Therefore, bubbles were the first things to dominate the face of the planet. It would not be quite the stretch to say that bubbles have continued that reign, unnoticed, all these aeons and have been conspiring and evolving accordingly against this world for the day that they shall take total control. Cat Butt.
First bubbles[edit]
However, as ancient as they are, the origins of the bubble were humble. They were mud and were full of methane. Whenever they popped, they would stink. Whenever they popped near an open flame, they would burst into flames. The lights were pretty and, as accidentally as DNA pulled itself together for the first time, the lights signaled a bunch of passing UFOs to home in and land.
Their ship immediately sunk. The bubbles' first kill.
Super Bubble[edit]
The new gas that the UFO sunk into the soup created the next form of bubbles: Super Bubble. On the exterior - Mud. But the gas inside - Neon. Though several of these were thought to have emerged, they did not rise to their full potential, popping quietly to an unannounced end. But the sixth one was different. After a revelation to itself, it finally knew in itself... It was the One.
Finally knowing this, Neon did what the others couldn't - it flew. Rising from the stink of early Earth, it migrated to another region, and had all sorts of adventures. Eventually, it met its demise atop the volcano Mount Doon, merging with the noxious fumes. The volcano magically exploded and brought peace to mid-Earth.
Super Bubble level 2[edit]
In doing so, it caused the rise of a new species of bubbles: Super Bubble level 2. The explosion of Mount Doon allowed local weather conditions to bring upon Earth rain for the first time. Now, bubbles were made of water and filled with a variety of gases. None, however, managed to match the flying power of the original Super Bubble. But it was a major stepping stone for the next generation...
Super Bubble level 3[edit]
That had to wait till the modern era. Soap was invented, and bubbles came to be what we see many bubbles as now - Super Bubble level 3. This is also known as the soap bubble, however, the term is not exactly correct. Super Bubble level 3 houses many various forms of bubbles including the bubble made of soap, but it also includes other types of bubbles that can fly including the dreaded bubbles of the dangerous kind...
Bubbles of the dangerous kind[edit]
Avoid at all costs. They aren't called bubbles of the dangerous kind (BOTDK) for nothing, you know.
How to spot a BOTDK[edit]
Any bubble that has protrusions from its regular spherical shape (say metal spikes, or fucking huge teeth) is more often than not of the dangerous kind. Some, however, have no obvious outward sign of being dangerous, but can be dangerous none-the-less (especially if you see other people trapped within it).
The known kinds of BOTDK, their features and what to do when you meet one are listed below:
- Fire Bubble - uncharacteristically large, have flames coming out of it; flee on sight
- Bobble Bubble - people trapped inside, spewed out of cute dragon sprites; jump out of the way, bring a pin, or wait twenty seconds
- Nasal Bubble - bubble membrane is thick and green and mucus-y, stinks; wipe away
- Dreamland Bubble - black with spikes, moves up and down on fixed path; evade
- Jaw Bubble - fucking huge teeth, theme song by John Williams; chuck scuba tank in it and explode with well-aimed rifle shot
- Tentacle Bubble - uncharacteristically large, have tentacles coming out of it, found only in Japan; don't be school age, a girl, and/or have abnormally large eyes.
- Werebubble - big fangs on a full moon; silver pin
- Raghav - travels at the speed of 30 mph hitting you in the face, i.e. pwning you full on.
- Bubble with one eye - A bubble with one eye that shoots lasers. Hold out a mirror just before the laser fires from its one eye and the laser will deflect back onto the bubble and cause it to burst
- The Chuck Norris Bubble- A giant bubble with the face of Chuck Norris imprinted on it; You are just screwed, unless you trip someone else while running away.
- Dr Octaognapus Bubble- Has eight shiny clawlike arms, uses the BLARG attack. You can either:
A. Try and Shoop Da Whoop it's ass in an epic battle B. Run away(Not suggested, the DOB will use a long range BLARG attack) C. Just go on and die D. Scream "OMG PUDDING!" while pointing in a northeastern direction.
- Hitler Bubble - has a abnormal moustach, german accent, and has followers; turn its followers against it with pie or you are doomed, as it hides behind it's followers like a wimp and will never let you near it
- Belly Bubble- Has a slight pinkish tint, and an inward belly button. Is known to say chants before eating you; Chant Examples are: PAT MAH BELLEH, MUNCHIEZ, and the infamous NOMNOMNOMNOM. Has a song written after it, called Nomnomnom.
- Electromagnetic Bubble (EMB)- an especially rare BOTDK (has the appearance of regular Super Bubble level 3's) that will pop near major circuit breakers, resulting in power-outages and car alarms to go off for a short amount of time. The distinguishing factor of the EMB (as opposed to regular, non-bubble related incidents) is a high pitched yelp that can be heard as the power goes out and comes back on; sounds much like a small dog being stepped on. The most recent recorded incident was by the Thompson family (and friends) in southern Washington, USA in May of 2012. Luckily, this family was in the act of reading the Bubbles page on Uncyclopedia and was aware of the BOTDK's. These are inevitable, there's nothing you can do about it.
That is all.
Endangered species[edit]
As dangerous as they are, bubbles of the dangerous kind are rare and are therefore a protected species under most international law. Though some have seen this as a sign of bubbles taking over the world...
Weapons of mass destruction[edit]
The US military have been seen to be increasingly utilizing their army of BOTDK, and the effects of which have been invariably devastating. Because of such, the international voices have argued that BOTDK are in fact instances of weapons of mass destruction. They cause mass destruction, they do not discriminate, once they are loose, all hell is with them.
The latest well-documented use of these BOTDK was that of the Werebubble in the war against tourism. Dropped on a bunch of unsuspecting Chinese tour groups, the bubble snuck into the one of their backpacks and waited. In the dead of night, the full moon shone down and the Werebubble perceived its time has now come. Bursting out of the bag, it went about and caused damage and destruction everywhere. Unfortunately, at the time, it was on a conveyor belt under an airport and the tonnes of food supply on its way to starving African nations were never delivered. Also, a poodle was found to have become a werepoodle upon arrival back home. The owner sued the military after not winning the Best Dog competition.
The future[edit]
With the many discoveries regarding bubble history recently dug out from countless fossils, one thing has become increasingly clear: that bubbles are getting smarter.
No one would have believed in the last years of the twentieth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied. Yet within our own little world, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.
The Prophecy[edit]
Only recently rediscovered is a message written on the back of a desk at Monash University pertaining exactly to the scenario scientists have been more and more clearly finding themselves predicting.
Super-intelligent fucking bubbles will take over the world!
A World Without Secondhand Smoke[edit]
While a future without secondhand smoke may pose positive health benefits to all particullarly ghetto areas of the world, it is important to note that the entire world may be taken over by bubbles, many possibly of the dangerous kind. Join the fight for a bubble free world at nomorebubbles.com
Traced back from as far as 1994, no one had ever given it a second thought until recent times and now with its rediscovery, a new cult-like religion has been taking over.
Called the Bubblologists (try saying that three times quickly), according to their main doctrine, they believe that Bubbles will evolve with super-intelligence that will allow them to construct modified DC-8 jet planes that can send them to inner-space and blow up strategically placed H-bombs within several volcano sites around the world - the biggest one hidden in the now dormant and buried Mount Doon, now called Uluru, in the middle of mid-Earth, now drifted south and called Australia. When that has been achieved, the radioactive fallout will cause the life-force of dead Super Bubble level 2 Neon to recharge and spawn the next and ultimately final evolutionary step of bubble - Super Bubble level 4.
Scientific analysis[edit]
Independently of the Bubblologists, the scientists concur.
Now is a race against time. From whom was the message from? Why in Monash University, Melbourne? How on earth could the Bubblologists believe something that turned out to be scientifically right? All these questions are not so important, now, as the one of how to stop these bubbles taking over the world!
Super Bubble level 4[edit]
The predicted characteristics of the next generation of bubbles are listed below:
- Big brains
- Big muscles
- Big flying distances
- Big teeth
- Big population
- Other big things...
Stopping them[edit]
If I knew the answer to that, I would be a world hero.
Other suggestions include reducing bubble emissions globally within the next several years, as in the Osaka protocol, but some nations have seen this as economically not in their interests. They'd rather be dead than unemployed. A big debate is arising, so watch out.
Harshada's Bubbles[edit]
Harshada's Bubbles is a real Person. He exists as a friend and mentor to Harshada, who invented him. Bubbles has a large family who also act as imaginary friends to many. Bubbles is purely a peaceful character who helps all who will befriend him. Unfortunalely, despite his peaceful nature Bubbles has come under persecution from those who are rogue and do not apprecitate his kind nature. The leader of this noutorious gang is none other than Shreyans Nahar, the famous Tamil director. Hate groups have sadly appeared on Facebook and other websites. "These horrible groups must be stopped immediately", confessed Bubbles to the BBC, in fear for his life.
How to kill Bubbles[edit]
There is no known method of terminated bubbles. Needles HAVE been tried, and failed. An untried theory of how to kill these bubbles is to get Chuck Norris and these items:
- Safety Pins
- Orange juice
- Racecar
- Jeff Gordon
- 3 unripe pinapples
- Blender
- Seduction
- baldness
Once the items are acquired, you mix them in the blender and hand the blender to Chuck Norris. He will attempt to throw the newly formed bomb at the bubble.
Final words[edit]
Be bold, be brave, be free.
Watch out for BOTDK.
Bubble up in moderation.
Exercise more.
Eat a balanced diet.


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Murphy-Brown of Missouri is providing the manure to produce biogas, a fuel similar to natural gas. Roeslein Alternative Energy will manage the project and secure financing for the $100-million project. Murphy-Brown, the world's largest pork producer, was formerly called Premium Standards Farm.
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Brokedown Fences: Deadly Neighbors
Oh, cack and ashes, the bastards have only gone and brought a cat to the party. The party is the kind where kids chop at each other with knives while their hulking mothers punch each other in the face. Dad's in the background with his rifle, drawing a bead on Sanity Claws, the neighbours' recently purchased feline. Deadly Neighbors 2 is a simple Flash game, teams of three fight to the turn-based death on a small grid, but it's free and it manages to be cute despite featuring children in Jigsaw masks being eaten by dogs. There are plenty of upgrades and classes to unlock and a neat feature whereby beating all the randomised computer households sees a final scrap against a player's family, all levelled up having completed the game. If you win, your family becomes someone else's boss fight.


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Hi,smartsmurf wrote:sondeu (and other who want to try this on CIP devices): please find attached another version with source code attached.
It removes unsupported (e.g. DTS) or defective audio streams. Audio switching works partially. At least using the switch-stop-play procedure. I also added avrfix2 in order to change aspect ratio while movie playback.
It is important to have the following two lines in pvr.iniThey switch off the normal (non-CIP) version and enable the CIP version of the audio switch module.
Code: Select all
Please note: this is not an official release, but just a hack based on the samygopvr release 0.10.2.
Good luck and best regards,
this last version solves the problem with recorded media, but has 2 main erros on my TV (LE40B650 CI+). First, if I load it after having loaded a different PVR application before (e.g. previous version), when I try to play a media, TV is restarted. Once restarted, PVR can be loaded and any recorded media can be played without problem. However, then any "not recorded" media is played without sound.
Do you have any idea of what could be happening?
I'm not in front of TV now, but I can provide you with the log files if you think they are relevant.
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Burning Fork Studio and the Knoxville Creative Hands Street Team (KCHST) were featured in this past weekend's Knoxville News Sentinel.
Lahla Deakins, owner of Burning Fork Studio, and Lisa Mueller, owner of Sassy Glass Studio, spoke with reporter Ali James about the upcoming Etsy.com Global Craft Party on June 20th, 2013.
Deakins and Mueller are captains of Knoxville's Etsy.com creative organization, KCHST.
Here's an excerpt from the article:
"Last year's Global Etsy Craft Party in Knoxville was nearly a craft fail, said Lisa Mueller co-captain of the Knoxville Creative Hands Etsy Street Team (KCHST). "It was a free-for-all," laughs Mueller. "We had an idea of what we were going to make, and we made a huge glittery, glue-gun mess."
"It's more about having fun rather than the end result," adds Lahla Deakins, the team's other captain.
"KCHST is comprised of Knoxville-area artists, craftspeople and creative minds as well as vendors of vintage goods and craft supplies. The group has more than 300 active members, but not all members meet in person. Monthly newsletters are sent to members to update them on local events and tips for running a business on Etsy.com, which is an online marketplace for buying and selling handmade and vintage items."
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Driving across Vancouver's west side, wearing a dirt-stained Whitecaps hat, yoga pants and a black Lululemon sweater, Christy Clark is just another mother driving her son to school.
She's been on the road since 5:10 a.m., having taken 11-year-old Hamish to an early morning goalie clinic across town.
In her son's bag is the pizza and Krispy Kreme doughnut Clark packed for his lunch. Left on the dining room table at home is the raffle-ticket sign-up form that still needs to be completed.
Just another day in the life of a working mom.
But then, from the passenger seat, comes a reminder that life is different in this household, especially with a provincial election only weeks away.
"Mom, why haven't you done any political debates?" Hamish breaks the silence to ask, clearly having read the media criticism from a few days before when Clark skipped the first all-candidates debate in her Vancouver-Point Grey riding.
"Um, because there haven't been any yet," Clark responds, adjusting the knobs of her Acura SUV to clear the fog from the front windshield.
"It's coming, baby. And I'm going to debate (NDP leader) Adrian Dix as many times as I possibly — I'm going to go do as many debates as he will show up for," she says, speaking just days before she will issue a public challenge to Dix for a one-on-one debate.
"But I'm betting he's not going to show up for that many debates."
Hamish quietly hums to himself through the answer, not letting on what he thinks.
"Mom, it's sooo cold," he belts out after a long pause, pointing at the vents that are blowing at the front window.
The issue of debates is not raised again. But Clark's unflattering position in the polls is. As is Hamish's fear his mother might lose the election. In this family — as in Clark's chosen profession — nothing is off limits.
Since becoming premier two years ago, Clark has put her family front and centre, pointing to her modest Burnaby roots and her experiences as a working mother as the underpinnings of her character.
Hamish was on stage the night she claimed the Liberal Party leadership, and at a rally in Burnaby on the first night of this election campaign.
Rarely has a speech gone by in the time between where Clark, 47, hasn't shared an anecdote from her life with her son.
Clark says it's hard to know how much her son follows the news: "He doesn't talk about it that much."
But she knows that Hamish has an extraordinarily protective instinct.
"He knows, on every street in our neighbourhood, who had an NDP sign, who had a Green sign," she said.
She is open with him about most things, answering any questions about her job with an unflinching candour. She speaks to him several times each day, even taking his calls during meetings with senior staff.
But there are some things a mother just doesn't need to share, like the fact her son is the star of every speech she gives, in every corner of the province.
"Oh no, he doesn't know," she whispered when asked by a reporter what Hamish thinks of his regular cameos.
"I'm not worried about it." she added. "You guys never report the funny things I say anyway."
From a helicopter hovering over Bish Cove near Kitimaat Village, Christy Clark gazes at one of her best chances for a last-minute political rescue.
Below is a massive field of rock and dirt cut into the banks of the Douglas Channel. In a perfect world, Chevron and Apache would start exporting liquefied natural gas from this site by 2016, making good on a central promise in Clark's Jobs Plan (she has said three such facilities will be running by 2020.)
"The amount of excitement that's been generated up here has got all these companies coming to town," says Ellis Ross, chief councillor for the Haisla Nation, which is a partner in the Kitimat LNG project.
Ross, who this day is meeting Clark to negotiate some of the finer points of the LNG strategy, is narrating during a helicopter tour of the inlet, where several projects all plan to shoehorn into a small semicircle of land.
"What always strikes me about it is how little of the land base this actually uses," says Clark. "You think about the value to the economy – I don't think there's any other resource extraction that has such a small footprint."
Clark's visit, just weeks before the election call, is hardly random. She's trying to make as much progress on the file as possible before time runs out.
"We should get talking about it quick," she told Ellis. "Once we're into the writ period, government stops," she added.
"We've got a lot to talk about then," he replied.
The push for LNG will form the foundation of Clark's election strategy, letting her cast herself as the right leader to exploit the opportunity, as well as give her licence to promise enough revenue to eliminate B.C.'s debt within 15 years.
Clark says that in the face of her growing unpopularity in the past two years, the drive to develop a new $1-trillion industry for B.C. has been among the touchstones she's used to assure herself the critics are wrong.
Ask about her achievements as premier, and she'll point exclusively at economic indicators, such as the province's balanced budget: "It didn't happen because somebody else did it," she says.
Or she'll cite recent decisions by credit rating agencies that have kept the province's debt at Triple-A.
"All those goals I set out, we've achieved," she said, adding she's "really proud" about what she's accomplished.
"I think as long as you go to work every day and you feel good about what you've done, what people say about it doesn't really matter," she continued. "When what people say about you bothers you, it's usually because you're not sure that you've done the right thing."
Though her journey to become premier began with the motto, 'Families First,' Clark has spent her time in office on all things economy.
Her biggest celebration during the trip to Kitimat came with the news Moody's had maintained B.C.'s high credit rating.
"Fantastic," she exclaimed, punctuating the remark with a fist pump.
Within hours, she was on the phone with her top advisers in the bureaucracy — public service head John Dyble and deputy minister of finance Peter Milburn — to celebrate.
"I take this personally as a real marker of our success, and nobody out there is really going to understand it I don't think – why it matters so much – but I get it and I'm really grateful," she said into the phone.
Rich Coleman, a veteran Liberal minister and the deputy premier, said he thinks moments like this prove how good Clark is for the job.
"She's really smart. Of course, people don't give her that credit, but she's also a decision maker," he said in an interview.
"She operates completely different than the former premier did, because there was longer meetings, a longer process. She can actually read her stuff and come to a conclusion very fast," he continued, adding Clark is the main reason he decided to run again in this election.
"As we came through last summer and I was trying to make my decision to run, I just said, 'You know what? She deserves a fair shot at this thing and I want to be a part of it.'"
Step away from Clark's inner circle, and the criticism is clear: Clark is a political animal, who has done nothing but campaign since taking office.
"When it's election time, it's good to campaign — but in between elections, government should govern," Dix said in an interview on the TV show Voice of BC earlier this month.
"I think the current premier, with the greatest respect, has not done very well in that regard. They (the B.C. Liberal government) are always campaigning."
Mark Marissen, Clark's ex-husband who is an adviser to her campaign, has a quick answer for that.
"I think that's bullshit," he said in an interview.
"They talk about her doing photo ops as if this is some new thing that politicians do. I think if you actually did an analysis of how many pictures have been taken versus what her predecessors' pictures were taken, it would probably be about the same."
Marissen and Clark are separated, but they jointly parent Hamish. Marissen remains one of Clark's strongest defenders, including on social media platforms such as Twitter.
Avid supporters, like developer Bob Rennie, also push back.
"I think the average British Columbian doesn't understand how stable British Columbia is compared to the turmoil of the rest of the world," said Rennie. "I'm with Christy because I believe that she wants to maintain that steady course.
"There is no silver bullet to get through the economy. So it's just making tough choices, but informed choices. And I believe she's going to do that for me."
Jim Shepard said he's been regularly impressed by Clark's performance. The former Finning and Canfor CEO worked as Clark's $1-a-year economic adviser before setting up a political action group, Concerned Citizens for B.C.
"She's got intellectual energy and she can translate that into concepts and then direction," he said.
"To me, if I was still the chairman and CEO of Finning and I was looking for the CEO for our Chilean operation or our Canadian operation or our UK operation, I wouldn't hesitate, if Christy was available, to assign her to that post."
But in several other quarters, including former B.C. Liberal attorney-general Geoff Plant, the Dix critique holds at least a ring of truth.
"Generally speaking, the government under her leadership has focused on key themes that are politically driven, that are important, but that are not policy rich," Plant said in a recent interview.
"The jobs agenda is on the one hand powerfully resonant with people, but it is not by itself a comprehensive public policy," he continued.
"No one should be confused that the basic agenda of government under her leadership is to look for opportunities to advance business and free enterprise as job creators," he said
"(But) at the same time, there isn't a really robust, comprehensive policy framework underlying that commitment."
It would be wrong, Plant said, to interpret his comments as pure criticism, though they are still notable coming from a political ally. And especially one like Plant, who Clark called on as her star frontman for the cross-examination of Enbridge on that company's plans to build the Northern Gateway pipeline.
Still, Plant said he believes raw politics has a place, pointing as an example to what it did for Clark after she was first elected in 1996.
"She's the person who would ask: Whose support are we going to get from this? She was not the person who would ask whether this was the best policy from a policy perspective. She was the person who wanted to know if it would work politically. Of all the folks in the group that I was part of from 1996 to 2005, she was the most consciously, deliberately relentlessly political," he said.
"I think it's an indispensable strength. You can't govern without a sense of what is politically possible."
Plant says he admires Clark's drive, especially given her poor standing in the polls.
"I think she is truly energized by the opportunity that political leadership has given her," he said. "She's got somewhere in her mind the image of Bill Clinton, glad-handing in the rain in Manchester on the night of the New Hampshire primary trying to figure out how to get every single vote before the polls close," he said.
Clinton did what nobody thought possible, claiming his party's nomination and blocking George H.W. Bush from a second term.
"She's that kind of passionate about politics."
The front-page headline said it all: "Unfit For Office?"
It was May 11, 1989, and Christy Clark had just been elected president of Simon Fraser University's student society.
But the committee that ran the election saw it otherwise, and in a scandal the student newspaper would dub "Christygate", it voided the result within a month.
The issue was over a $60 fine that Clark was issued for posters left up on election day. She paid it, but after the supposed deadline.
So out she went.
An outspoken federal Liberal firebrand in a left-wing student body, Clark decried the move as "partisan", "insane" and a "power grab."
Before the election, Mike McDonald, a longtime friend who is now her campaign director, wrote the student newspaper to endorse Clark as the voice that will speak for all students.
"She cannot be intimidated and she holds no vested interests," wrote McDonald, then president of the campus B.C. Young Liberals.
"Her forceful personality will intimidate the meek: she has no time for people who pontificate and do not produce."
True to McDonald's characterization, Clark fought the voiding of the election vehemently — even running unsuccessfully in the ensuing byelection — but lost on all fronts.
Looking back, Marissen said the experience was formative in Clark's political development.
"Her experience at SFU was probably one of the things that made her more ideological about the left," said Marissen, who met Clark at SFU while he was on an exchange year from Carlton University in Ottawa.
Marissen said the election committee that voided the result had representation from unionized workers on campus, adding those workers were against Clark because she wanted to introduce drastic change.
"She wanted to find a way that students could actually have jobs there rather than the full-time 30-year-old socialist hippies that were working there," he recalled. "This, of course, made them go nuts."
Clark laughed when she recalled the time at SFU, and especially about a day when she walked into the student newspaper offices, and into an argument about a critical article someone was writing about her.
"You can't write that. You can't say that," she recalled someone saying.
"Then I heard somebody else say, 'We have to do this. We have to destroy her. You never know where she'll end up'."
Clark said she recalls thinking at the time: "These people are crazy."
But that's clearly not the point of the story.
It's that she won.
And with her lips pulling into her trademark toothy smile, she punctuates the point.
"You never know where she'll end up," she said again.
Clark, still relishing the win, doesn't have to finish the thought — to make the obvious point.
That "she" ended up the premier of B.C.
Clark attended three different universities — SFU, the University of Edinburgh, and the Sorbonne in Paris — but never earned a degree from any of them.
Her time at SFU was a golden era of sorts, churning out a cohort that would populate the province's ruling class. Current and former MLAs Barry Penner, Mike Farnworth, Kevin Falcon, Jenny Kwan, Graeme Bowbrick and Gary Collins were all on campus around the same time.
Ryan Beedie, president of Beedie Development Group, recalled in a recent interview how Clark the campaigner would whisk into a classroom with her high-energy stump speech that had the morning class at attention.
"Christy, I think, was able to appeal to a broad range of the electorate then. That's what made her successful and popular among the student body," he said.
He hopes the Clark of today can make a similar impression.
"Obviously everyone can read the polls and things have looked bleak for a while," he continued.
"Campaigns do matter. Debates matter. You never know what happens during the writ period," he said.
"Things can move, things can change and sometimes there are those defining moments for the positive or for the negative."
Christy Clark's first job in life was making less than minimum wage from a kitchen in the back of a Burnaby fried chicken joint.
It's hard to imagine the Clark of today accepting those terms: When she met a young student at Terrace's Northwest Community College recently, one who had just got her first highly skilled job, Clark rapped her for not asking what she'd be paid.
"(When you get your next job) ask them how much they're paying you before you start and then say to them, 'I want more,'" Clark instructed the 26-year-old.
But the Clark from back then — the one who was just 12 — knew her chicken bosses were a lost cause. They were her two older brothers.
"They said, 'We don't have to pay you minimum wage because it's illegal for you to be working'," Clark recalled. "That was before they locked me in the rabbit cage."
The youngest of four children, Clark regularly cites her modest roots as the magnetic north of her moral compass.
She talks of the three-bedroom family home, two blocks from Oakalla prison in South Burnaby, and the Rambler station wagon that served as the family car.
She talks of her mother's desire to be a painter, and her grandfather's deathbed apology for standing in the way of that dream.
"Mavis, I'm sorry I never let you go to art school," Clark recalled being among the final words her grandfather uttered to her mother.
She talks of her parents teaching values she will carry forever.
"My mother was a marriage and family therapist and she was an artist and she believed in fulfilling lives for all of her children, and for herself, and my dad was a teacher," she said.
"They raised me to believe in being careful with money on the fiscal side, but also to be fair, that you should be kind and you should look after people," she added.
"I was raised with those kinds of Anglican values that we should all do what we can to try to look after everybody else. That's sort of what guides me."
But more than values, Clark's parents also gave her another gift: politics.
Her father Jim Clark ran three times for provincial office as a Liberal, in Christy's words, knowing "absolutely for certain that he would be defeated."
To this day, she has one of her father's old campaign signs on the wall in the bathroom of her Vancouver home. It hangs next to the totems of her own career: a Vancouver Sun front page featuring then education minister Clark in 2001 — a month after the birth of her son — announcing a shakeup to change the "corporate culture in the Ministry of Education"; a photo of she, Marissen and Hamish on the front of the Tri-City News days after Hamish was born; and a trio of editorial cartoons poking fun at her various milestones.
When Clark's father lost his first election, in 1966, Christy was less than 11 months old.
From then on, Jim fostered in his daughter a love of politics.
"He got me doing this. My dad really inspired me to do this," she said in an interview in 2011, on the eve of being named leader of the B.C. Liberal party and the province's premier.
"It wasn't that he was a political candidate, it was around our dinner table, my dad was a school teacher, and he believed in debate and discussion," she added. "We would sit around and we all had these vastly different opinions and my dad was all about, 'bring it on.'
"That's what we did around our dinner table."
It was a trait that immediately took root inside the young Clark.
"She would come after school to fight with me," remembered Fred Lepkin, who taught Clark high school social studies and history.
"I can't even recall the substance of it but it was a fractiousness that I remember," he said, with clear affection for her spunk.
"She was never at a loss for a comment in class," said Steve Bailey, who taught Clark English.
"It was usually quite apropos and sometimes the edge of sarcasm and wit was there. But it was always delivered like the iron fist in the velvet glove," he continued.
"She was always interested in politics. If anything came up in the classroom where there were political issues, she was not ashamed of her young Liberal affiliation and away she went."
Today, Clark says she misses her parents, especially her mother, with whom she shared an unbreakable connection.
"I haven't missed her this much, I don't think, since she passed away," said Clark.
"Because for me, if my mom was here she would be living in my house, helping me be a better parent, helping me with Hamish," she continued.
"If I had a bad day, she would put me to bed if I wanted her to, but she would just be there. I miss that. I really miss that. Because I go home now and nobody is there," she said.
Perhaps most fittingly, then, as she struggles against the odds to remain the province's premier, Clark continues to find inspiration in her parents.
"My father would have been absolutely ashamed if he left me with a penny of debt, and he didn't," she repeatedly says during speeches.
"He prepaid his funeral expenses. … The house was mortgage free. There wasn't a credit card debt to be paid. That was what my parents raised me with. That was their value," she continues.
"I very much passionately believe that if Jim and Mavis Clark were here today, and you could ask them what that most important thing was that they would have liked to have seen their government do, it would be to say they wanted to make sure we didn't have to labour under billions and billions of dollars worth of debt," she says.
"Because they would have understood, in South Burnaby, exactly what that means for another generation of people."
Spend any time with Clark and her son and the enviable dynamic she has fostered quickly becomes clear, one characterized not only by obvious affection but also one in which Hamish is clearly at ease exploring topics from the uncomfortable to the absurd.
"She has always talked to Hamish like she wants to hear what he has to say," observes Sara Levine, a longtime friend of Clark's whose son went to preschool with Hamish. "She's an incredibly loving mother."
Clark describes her relationship with her son as the relaxing yin to the yang of life as the province's down-in-the-polls premier.
"He makes me laugh a lot and when I'm with him," she says. "It's a complete stress reliever."
At times, the two seem more like sidekicks — siblings even — than they do mother and son. And especially so the morning when the two were on their way to Hamish's goalie clinic.
"Let's see you go through this red light," Hamish challenged as they pulled up that morning, at 5:15 a.m., to an abandoned Vancouver intersection.
"I might. Don't test me," Clark replies.
"Yeah. Go ahead."
"Should I?"
"There's no one."
"Would you go through? You shouldn't because that would be breaking the law," she says.
And with that the car has already sailed underneath the stale red stoplight and through the empty intersection.
"You always do that," says Hamish.
When Clark entered the race to become premier, she said she did so in part to demonstrate to her son the value of taking a noble risk.
"I want him to know about life, that life is about taking risks," she said in early 2011.
"Sometimes they feel really dangerous, and sometimes you know the thing that if you succeed it's going to be really hard to do, but it's worth it because we never succeed if we shy away from risks."
With the election just over six weeks away that morning in the near-empty hockey arena, Clark was upbeat with Hamish, but not to the point of denial.
When a coach passed through to ask how she was doing, Clark responded, "We've got 45 days left to win this thing."
"You know what Christy? You're a good person," the coach replied. "And you know what? You're always going to be a good person no matter what happens in the election campaign."
With that, Clark turned directly to Hamish.
"I don't think he thinks I'm going to win," she said.
Later that same day, before an audience of supporters, Clark is insistent she will win the coming election.
But, as in anything, she acknowledges anything can happen.
And so speaking to the Terrace Chamber of Commerce, she makes clear that if things don't go her way on May 14, she'll leave with no regrets.
"One of there reasons I love getting up and going into work every day is because I know what I stand for. I know why I'm doing this. And if, in 45 days, people say to me, 'We didn't like your ideas Christy. We're not going to vote for you' — fair enough," she said.
"People are allowed to do that. And I'll accept that," she continued. "Because I stood my ground where I was comfortable, and where I believe."


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The Nile Delta is Egypt's most fertile and (barring Cairo) its most heavily populated region – nearly half the people in Egypt live here, and despite the lack of ancient sites, a scoot around the Delta on service taxis and third-class trains gives a feel for today's Egypt in a way that visits to tombs and temples do not. Although several pharaonic dynasties arose and ruled from this region – Lower Egypt – little of their capitals remain beyond mounds of debris known as tell or kom. The pharaohs themselves plundered older sites of sculptures and masonry, and with a yearly rainfall of nearly 20cm (the highest in Egypt) and an annual inundation by the Nile that coated the land in silt, mud-brick structures were soon eroded or swept away. More recently, farmers have furthered the cycle of destruction by digging the mounds for a nitrate-enriched soil called sebakh, used for fertilizer; several sites catalogued by nineteenth-century archeologists have now all but vanished. On those that remain, there's good information at w egyptsites.wordpress.com/category/delta.
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The Delta's other main attraction is its flat, intensely green landscape, riven by waterways where feluccas glide past mud-brick villages and wallowing buffalo. The northern lakes are a wintering ground for birdlife – in ancient times, wealthy Egyptians enjoyed going fowling in the reeds, using throwing sticks and hunting cats; their modern-day counterparts employ shotguns. The Delta is also still a habitat for wildcats and pygmy white-toothed shrews, but boars have been driven out, and the last hippopotamus was shot in 1815.
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You might think that big piece of black plastic fabric was floating on fresh water. That's how fresh the air really is near the negative air pressure (NAP) covers floating on a handful of lagoons in Canada and the U.S.
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Over the last decade, Tisha B'Av, the day that we traditionally mourn the destruction of our Holy Temple in Jerusalem, has been admitted to the pantheon of Jewish holy days that are not for the observant only: holy days that speak to everyone.
Yom Kippur has always been there. It is the private holy day, special to us all. A solid majority of the Jews in Israel fast on that day. Even those who do not fast, feel something special: They respect the day, search for its meaning. Yom Kippur does not just pass us by like the holiday of Shavuot, for example.
Pesach is another holy day that has always been a holiday for all the Jews. It is the family holiday. The Seder night - kosher for Passover or not – is celebrated by Jewish families everywhere. It is a holiday that has not been separated from the Nation by the walls of religion.
What we still lack is the national dimension: the dimension that retains a void not filled by banging on plastic hammers on Yom Ha'atzmaut, Israel's Independence Day. Yom Ha'atzmaut always leaves us with a vague sense of emptiness.
The collective subconscious that pulls the young people of Tel Aviv's trendy Shenkin Street to alternative lamentations on the city rooftops discovers something in Tisha B'Av . It longs for the spiritual national dimension. It searches for meaning and warmth.
Real Israeli culture, the authentic national creation that we are all looking for; the point that affords meaning and validity to our national existence- is there – in our Father's house, from which we were exiled and to where we will return.
Return to religion enriches the returnee. But usually it is at the expense of the real achievement of the Return to Zion – Israel's rising and return from the dimension of community to the dimension of nation; at the expense of the return to reality and history.
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The new generation, however, wants G-d to be relevant in all dimensions. It doesn't want to escape into religion. It wants a grand message, rectification of the world; neither to go backward into pre-Zionism nor to be stuck in the place bereft of identity and meaning in which Zionism – which shed all regard for religion – finds itself today.
The new generation wants it all: It wants to go forward into religion – to a Torah that is also a relevant culture; to a G-d Who is with us here, in our modernity: in our multilevel interchanges, in our skyscrapers and in our high-tech. It is looking for a G-d Who is with us in our most private moments, in our most national triumphs and in our most universal aspirations. The new generation wants warmth, a sense of belonging, meaning; it wants to herald a great message. It wants a home: it's Father's home, the home to which we all belong.
It wants the Beit Hamikdash, the Holy Temple in Jerusalem.