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Akrapovic is a pioneer in the innovative use of titanium and super-alloys. The brand is at the forefront of carbon-fiber component development and production. Akrapovic exhaust systems are renowned for increasing performance, unmistakable sound, innovative design, lightweight technology, quality workmanship, and durability.
Founded in Slovenia by former motorcycle racer Igor Akrapovic , the aftermarket muffler and exhaust pipe brand has grown to international prominence, winning major world championship titles and setting the highest design standards, which have led to multiple Red Dot awards (for outstanding international product design and communication).
A pioneer in its field, Akrapovic is widely recognized as a highly innovative materials technology company. The brand is synonymous with the highest level of design, performance enhancement and the creation of an unmistakable deeply resonant exhaust sound. The company's aftermarket mufflers and exhaust pipes are designed and manufactured for motorcycles and performance cars by a passionate and highly-skilled workforce of over 1000 employees using the latest technology, processes and finest materials. The Racing R&D department works with dozens of racing teams. Over 100 world champions have already relied on Akrapovic exhaust systems. And this is just the beginning of a long exciting ride. Shop below for Akrapovic mufflers, exhausts, sound kits and tail pipe sets.
Racing has always been the lifeblood of Akrapovic and, as the company reached its 25thanniversary in 2016, it also celebrated its 100th world championship title, a feat achieved when Jorge Lorenzo (Movistar Yamaha MotoGP) won the MotoGP championship in 2015. The technical ability and support Akrapovic provides to teams competing in MotoGP, EWC, WorldSBK, MXGP, Enduro, Supercross, Dakar rally, DTM, and FIA WEC give them the competitive edge, which follows the same heritage and know-how that is transferred into road and off-road systems.
Increased performance, user-friendly controllable power delivery, signature sound, and durable lightweight exhausts are all directly related to the research, development, and testing that every Akrapovic exhaust is subjected to in the racing arena, giving it a pedigree that is rarely matched.
The company operates from state-of-the-art production facilities and technologically advanced R&D facilities in Slovenia, which include an in-house titanium foundry, a metallurgical laboratory, several motorcycle and car dynamometers, and high-tech production machinery. Akrapovic has over 1000 employees and markets its products in more than 80 countries worldwide.
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The company made a great leap forward in 2009, when it opened its own in-house cutting-edge titanium foundry; it is still the only exhaust system supplier with its own in-house foundry. The titanium foundry facility participates in all phases of the investment casting process, from wax injection to the final inspection of the cast parts with X-ray radioscopy and other control procedures, such as chemical analyses, mechanical properties, and dimensional accuracy.
Akrapovic has a fully equipped metallurgical laboratory for testing the material properties and quality of products. The company believes that metallography is a great tool for understanding the limits of exhaust systems and materials. They achieve all of this using exclusive in-house knowledge and technologies, and more than twenty years of experience in processing special materials for exhaust systems.
The company's exhaust systems are crafted from proprietary titanium alloys. These are three times stronger than other "commercial" alloys available. Their high quality and strength make them more difficult to form than common alloys, but they ensure products that are substantially more durable, dimensionally more stable, and have significantly increased heat resistance.
Its carbon-fiber components are produced in-house with temperature-resistant carbon-fiber resins. Through innovative production techniques, the company can produce parts with very complex shapes in various sizes. These hand crafted high-quality materials are used as parts of exhaust systems such as carbon-fiber muffler outer sleeves and heatshields on motorcycles, and the appearance of a car can be further improved with optional handcrafted carbon-fiber rear diffusers and carbon-fiber tailpipes.
The family of nickel-based superalloys that are alloyed with chrome, molybdenum, and niobium are also commercially known as Inconel alloys. These kinds of alloys have exceptional mechanical properties at extremely low and high temperatures. They are also extremely resistant to corrosion and corrosive acids (both surface resistance and at the crystal level) and have very high oxidation resistance.
These are some of the items you can find at LMPerformance for your Audi
Progress through Technology- is the company ethos and is the core belief that drives the development of every Audi vehicle and if you are the proud owner of an Audi you deserve the best for your vehicle and Late Model Performance wants to help you get what you deserve.
LMPerformance is proud to offer high quality exhaust systems for your Audi by B&B (Billy Boat) Exhausts. B&B Systems feature an exotic sound that is never too loud. B&B Exhausts are made in the USA and are constructed of high Quality 304 Stainless Steel.
The Sport Lowering Springs from B & G Suspension for your Audi 200, 4000, 5000, 80. 90, A3, A4, A5, A6, A8, S4, S5, S6 and TT can give your Audi that race car look but as an added incentive to make the change consider the fact that they will promote better handling and road holding because you are reducing the distance between your car and the floor and as a consequence are altering the air flow under the car. The B&G springs are manufactured to the high standards you want in lowering springs so that they are long lasting and corrosion resistant.
Washable and reusable filters from the inimitable K & N can be beneficial in increasing horsepower in your Audi but consider that with the addition of an air intake system you can eliminate air restrictions built into your factory system for even greater results. The 57 series air intake systems for your A3, Quattro and TT will produce a marked improvement in your engine's performance and you won't be disappointed in your decision to make this change. The K&N Performance Kit for your A3, A4, Quattro and TT; the International Kit for the A3, A4, A6, RS4, TT, A6, A3 all have an oversized air filter and are attached to rotationally molded tubes of High Density Polyethylene g for precise shaping so that there is a resultant reduction in turbulence and freer path for air flow into your Audi engine.
Replacing your clutch either out of necessity, improvement or just racing fun will be worth the investment with an outstanding clutch from SPEC. The SPEC products are available as full Clutch Kits, Clutch Disks and Clutch Pressure Plates for your Audi and because SPEC knows not all drivers are alike they offer you a multiplicity of choices for your new clutch so that you can match your clutch to your driving needs rather than matching your driving to your clutch's needs. Also for the discriminating buyer we have the SPEC billet flywheels, manufactured to the highest standards with a .001 machine tolerance for a perfect seating surface on your Audi clutch for those who need a lighter weight flywheel for their driving demands.
For even more improved performance replace your OEM shocks with the premier high performance shocks from KONI. The KONI shocks and shock and spring kits and are obtainable in the yellow sport that can be used with spring kits, the orange street, and the FSD Gold that adjust automatically to road conditions. KONI Coil Over Kits for your Audi TT, A3 and A4 are an enhancement to your Audi because they produce better road holding and a captivating look and the give you the ability to individualize your ride height. KONI is known worldwide for the manufacture of performance and adjustable shocks that are of superlative quality.
Installing the EIBACH Sway Bar Kit to your Audi A3 will fine-tune the performance handling of your car, reduce body roll and result in improved corner gripping and since it is manufactured by the prestigious EIBACH company you get a million-mile warranty because they believe in their product. Or, better yet, consider the Sport-Plus for your Audi A3 that includes the EIBACH SPORTLINE Springs and Anti-Roll Kit Sway Bars so that you reduce squat during acceleration, body roll and excessive nose-dive. Consider Coil-Over Kits for your A3, A4, S4 and TT to get your Audi looking and performing its best or install lowering kits on your A3, A4, A5, A6, S4, S5 and TT to lower your car's center of gravity resulting in high performance and an extremely low and comfortable ride- all from the prestigious manufacturer EIBACH.
Whether out of necessity because of repair, for improvement in appearance, or for aerodynamics in racing, choosing body parts can be overwhelming.
but with extraordinary manufacturers like Seibon and Duraflex the job is easy. Seibon Carbon components are made of high-quality carbon fiber and whether it be trunk panels for your A4 and A8, Hoods for your A3, A4, A5, A8 or TT, or Rear Wings for your TT you will get the best with Seibon because every part has an exceptional carbon/resin ration for extra strength and comes with a glossy clear coat. The eminent manufacturer Duraflex can indulge your Audi with Body Kits, Bumpers, Rear Lips, Front Spoilers, Door Caps, Fender Flares, Grilles, Hoods, Rear Wings, Side Scoops, Side Skirts and Trunk Panels fabricated from its extraordinary composite of fiberglass, plastic and resins that present you with a product that is eminently more durable at an affordable price and ready for a paint job because they come primed.


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Before running the commands shown on this page, you should load the Bitnami stack environment by executing the installdir/use_APPNAME script (Linux and MacOS) or by clicking the shortcut in the Start Menu under "Start -> Bitnami APPNAME Stack -> Application console" (Windows). On OS X VMs, the installation directory is /opt/bitnami and OS X VM users can click the "Open Terminal" button to run commands. Learn more about the Bitnami stack environment and about OS X VMs.
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porschejacker XD wrote:I think Carlisle was a catholic, and Edward was Christian too.Cocoa wrote:What religion or belief system do each of the Cullens believe in? What religion were they in mortality and how did that effect their beliefs in immortality?
Emmett, I reckon followed Emmettism, and Rosalie didnt care much.
I dunno why, but I always imagined Alice as like a zen religion kind of girl.
Carlisle believes in an afterlife, and Edward does subconsciously too.
I have the same theory with Alice...
She's always so light-spirited. I imagine her meditating with candles around her.


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Google App Inventor: Now Anyone Can Create an Android App
Google is launching a new tool on Monday that lets anyone create an app for Android phones.
Google App Inventor claims to enable non-coders to develop complete, working Android apps by connecting a series of "blocks." Google has been testing App Inventor in schools for a year, reports The New York Times. At the time of writing, App Inventor is only available to those who apply via a form.
It's a smart concept. Not only is the Android Market an open platform for developers (with no approval process, a la Apple's App Store), but now we'll likely see a vast array of specialized apps built by non-developers. This could radically increase the volume of apps in the Market versus the App Store.
The expansion may, of course, come at the cost of quality. We'll see thousands of new Android apps, but will they be of a "cookie cutter" nature, offering very little value? There is, however, an upside in the long term: If App Inventor is so simple that schoolchildren can make apps, some those same children will soon become coders themselves and perhaps choose to develop apps for Android rather than iOS.
Google and Apple are currently in a heated battle to win the hearts and minds of developers. Google, it seems, wants to win over the non-developers too.
What do you think? Is App Inventor a winning play on Google's part?
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Broward County Florida
"And each shall stand Equal" This is what the Broward Public Defender's Office stands for and strives for every day.
Our motto comes from the very Declaration of Independence of the United States of America
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
The pinnacle case of Gideon v. Wainwright , decided by the United States Supreme Court in 1963, led to the establishment of the Florida Public Defender System. In Gideon the court recognized that two systems of justice had prevailed for most of our history: one for the rich and another for the poor. Before 1963 there was no recognized constitutional right to an attorney for those who could not afford one.
The Founding Fathers were concerned that criminal laws, while necessary, could be used by government to suppress the rights of citizens. The public defender office exists to guarantee that the poor have the right to a fair trial. The legal word for "poor" is "indigent". It means simply that you do not have money to hire a lawyer. In Florida, the judge will ask the person charged with a crime a few questions about their ability to pay for a lawyer. This hearing is called the "determination of indigency". Once the judge determines that the person has insufficient funds, the public defender is officially appointed to represent that individual.
Other States have different systems to ensure the right to counsel guaranteed in Gideon. Almost all of them are taxpayer supported, some are pro bono "for free" systems established by local bar associations.
Criminal eFiling - Effective January 6, 2014, electronic document filing (E-Filing) service for the following divisions will be mandatory on the Florida Courts E-Filing Portal: Circuit and County Criminal; Criminal and Civil Traffic; Juvenile Delinquency and Dependency; Criminal Appeals. Additional information can be found at the Broward Clerk of Court E-Filing page.
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For decades, love scenes in American movies have been the worst in the western world. They usually take place solely as a plot point, before the characters get to know each other, so there's no quality of longing about them. They often take place standing up — don't try that at home –which is invariably presented as the easiest thing in the world to do, because, according to the movies, American women never wear any undergarments below the waist.
Or, if in a comedy, the sex usually takes place only after two people, in their lust, destroy an entire apartment and presumably have sex with the apartment door open.
There are sociological reasons for both tendencies, which I wrote about THE BEAUTY OF THE REAL, but that's not the topic under discussion now. What I want to talk about is how American movie sex scenes have recently managed to take a turn for the worse, as though that were possible.
The new trend in Hollywood movies is to show people having sex for the first time . . . with the woman fully clothed.
Now this is not a plea for more nudity. Shut the lights, pull up the sheets, have the lovers go under the covers, shoot from behind furniture — all that is fine. And all those options are available if the actress doesn't want to take her clothes off. That's perfectly reasonable. If I were an actress, I wouldn't want to take my clothes off, either. But please don't insult our intelligence and don't misrepresent sex as it's actually practiced in America. It is giving the rest of the world a really strange impression of us.
This trend has been around for a while but bubbled to public awareness in KNOCKED UP, in the early scene where Katherine Heigl leaves her underwear on while having sex with Seth Rogen. This struck me at the time as quite an oversight on the part of the character played by Rogen, indicating extreme impatience and a profound lack of curiosity.
But it was brought to mind again watching John Turturro, as a male prostitute, have a fully clothed menage a trois with Sharon Stone and Sofia Vergara in the upcoming FADING GIGOLO.
Again, this is not a plea for nudity. Shoot it in some way that we don't see anything. But don't present a sex scene that makes us think the women are weird and the man is downright demented. Instead of watching the scene, I'm thinking, "What is wrong with this guy? When did he die, and why he still able to walk and talk?"
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Research by psychologist K. Anders Erikson has shown that it requires approximately 10,000 hours of intentional practice, with coaching, to become an expert. Ten thousand hours is roughly equivalent to ten years of putting in 20 hours of practice a week. The importance of perseverance and practice is obvious.
Every bit as essential to becoming great, yet less obvious, is the importance of the character strengths of humility and love. Humility encourages you to seek and truly accept coaching, and love is what allows you to give and receive the relational support of others needed to persevere through the inevitable ups and downs of life.
Years ago I met and spoke with Andre Agassi when he was playing a tennis tournament in Burbank, California. This was during a period when Agassi had fallen from being one of the top players in the world to being so lowly ranked that it was difficult for him to get into major tournaments. Andre had the skills but just wasn't playing anywhere near the top of his game. The Burbank tournament was the turning point. Agassi won the tournament and went on to return to the ranks of the top tennis players in the world. What happened?
Agassi attributed his turnaround to the guidance, support, encouragement and love he received from his wife (tennis great Steffi Graf), his coach, and other family members and friends. Before that time, Agassi had isolated himself. He was trying to self-help his way back to greatness. It is likely that he had grown lonely. When Andre humbled himself to accept coaching and connect relationally with a group of individuals whom he loved and who loved him, that's when the magic happened.
I remember seeing Agassi walk around at the tournament and talk to people. There were several policemen there and I recall observing him chatting with each of them. When fans wanted an autograph, he patiently waited and signed each program or tennis ball. Andre was humble and more grounded than I had expected.
I believe that one key to Agassi's comeback is that he had developed greater heart. The French word for heart is coeur, which is the root of the word courage. By admitting he could not come back on his own and reaching out for the help of others, Andre showed courage. The word "encourage" means to give some of one's heart to another. Along with the advice of his coach, Andre's loving family and friends gave of their hearts and encouraged him.
A formulaic phrase I use when working with organizations that want to thrive is this: task excellence + relationship excellence = sustainable superior performance. Time and again I've witnessed that it can't only be about the product; people, and specifically connection among the people, is equally critical. I see it here too. Years of time on the tennis court plus the connection Agassi developed with his relational support system was the key to his rising to once again be among the top-ranked tennis players in the world.
This message -- the need for love and encouragement, and for humility to accept advice from a coach or mentor -- is especially relevant now when research has shown that many individuals feel left out and have isolated themselves relationally. Research shows that people are more narcissistic and more people live alone today than at any time in U.S. history. A quarter of Americans report they have not had a conversation with a close friend over the last six months. They are struggling, like Andre did, and they desperately need our help to develop the courage, the heart, to take the risk of reaching out to connect with family and friends. We need to encourage them, to share our hearts with them, so that they can find the heart to reconnect. If a friend or family member has come to mind, I hope you will reach out and encourage him by sharing your heart.
In summary, if you want to be great at something, recognize that it will take years of persistent practice, develop the humility to learn from a coach who will help you see what you can't such as your blind spots and advice on how to improve, and develop the courage to love family and friends. Your love will nourish them with emotional support and encouragement just as their love and encouragement will nourish you. Encouraged and loved, you'll find you can persevere through the peaks and valleys you'll encounter along the way.
It's surprising, isn't it, that developing one's heart is an essential but rarely mentioned element to achieve lasting greatness. Like Andre Agassi, you may be great for a season, but it is utterly unsustainable unless you develop the "heart of a champion."
Michael Lee Stallard speaks, teaches workshops and writes about leadership, employee engagement, productivity and innovation. He is the primary author of the bestselling book Fired Up or Burned Out: How to Reignite Your Team's Passion Creativity and Productivity. Learn more about Michael's company, E Pluribus Partners, and his blog MichaelLeeStallard.com.


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Yup it's offical Takoda is the world's dumbest dog.....but atleast she's cute in her own little weird Takoda way.....I mean seriously she screams like a banshee and has yet to figure out that she can't scream while eating food without choking.
TheRedQueen wrote:Why is she screaming while eating? Is she having issues with her mouth/teeth...or is she just overly excited? Sorry...the trainer in me has to come out and get on my soapbox.
...she is very cute
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I know it's been difficult for me to run lately, but after tracking my calories for almost two months, and working out pretty regularly I've been seeing some changes! It's invigorating to start to feel healthy and see a change on the scale. I feel SO much stronger and even though in the beginning it was hard to just keep working out and tracking everything I was eating it's panning out. I know that you have to be patient, which is hard for me, but I'm glad that I kept with it and am seeing a difference. So far I've lost 9 pounds. I'm feeling much more comfortable in my clothes and my jeans went through the drier (on accident, thank you B) and they still fit, really well actually. Which I must admit, hasn't happened in a long time. My arms are getting stronger, I'm feeling much better and the app I'm using is so helpful to me. (Mynetdiary is the app) I think that maybe, maybe, in a few weeks I might not be terrified of being in a swimsuit and even told B I wanted to go somewhere warm this summer. My mind just keeps telling me to keep working hard and it will pay off.
So that finally paying off is rewarding and motivating to keep going! I have been listening to some sweet new jams recently while working out too and I'm pretty sure this is going to be the Arkansas anthem…
I'm looking forward to the pain, the laughs, and the tears that will be shared on that trip. No matter what the medal at the end will be super rewarding. Tomorrow, I've got a few more baking reviews and then Friday I have a lovely Team Sparkle Skirt review, since I've been getting quite a few questions on it! :)


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Say goodbye to ugly pet bowls! This playful dog bowl elevates feeding to a new level and coordinates with your decor. Designed for small dogs, it stands 3 inches high by 6 inches in diameter and holds 24 ounces of food or water. Constructed of durable, glazed stoneware ceramic, this weighty bowl resist slipping, holds up to constant use and frequent cleanings, and is dishwasher-safe. Fits into Signature's Small Dual Pet Bowl Stand (sold separately). Available in a variety of colorful designs - coordinate your look or mix and match with other items from Signature's range.
- Pet bowl for small dogs
- Constructed of glazed stoneware ceramic
- Dense and durable; stands up to constant use and frequent cleaning
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Take advantage of Visit a Park Day this fall as a way to spark a long-lasting bond between your park and recreation facilities and your community!
The National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA) Young Professional Network, in conjunction with the NRPA, is pleased to announce Visit a Park Day will be Friday, October 5, 2012. The public will be encouraged to set aside unnecessary obligations on October 5 and take time to visit a local, state, regional, or national park and enjoy the many benefits of these locations.
In past Visit a Park Days, local and state recreation and parks programs, non-profits, and related civic groups have united nationwide to support this initiative. Visit a Park Day has included events such as interpretive walks through nature parks and along public beaches. In addition, some communities unveiled new signage on Visit a Park Day aiming to foster safety in parks and playgrounds.
The top three reasons for participating in visit a park day are:
1. Raise interest about the parks available in your community among potential new guests.
2. Promote an under-utilized area or a new program.
3. Create an engaging outdoor experience for the community you serve and live in.
This picture is from a Visit a Park Day activity last year in the Edmonds area. Three of their area waterfronts held free public beach walks for the community to enjoy.
The NRPA Young Professionals encourage park and recreation agencies, community leaders, civic groups, schools and other organizations to come together and participate in Visit a Park Day.


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Accelerate Savings and Visibility for Complex Retail Environments
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Rising operating costs and declining sales prevalent across today's retail landscape are challenging businesses to examine addressable spend and inefficiencies within their organizations from merchandise and non-merchandise to the complicated logistics involved with companies operating multiple locations. To remain competitive in the retail industry, business of all sizes are streamlining their complex supply chains, developing new procurement strategies and improving the analysis of incoming data to make informed business decisions.
Tejari's unique Retail Suite delivers direct and indirect solutions to enable companies to visualize spend and identify problem areas, strategize on sourcing decisions, automate their contract management and navigate the different supplier lifecycles from selection comparisons to expiration/renewal alerts.
For over 20 years, retail companies have trusted our comprehensive spend management solution for substantial growth in both cost savings and procurement efficiency.
What Sets Us Apart
Tejari's comprehensive Retail Suite provides companies with industry-focused direct and indirect solutions for analyzing and understanding data, reducing costs, and improving efficiency across sourcing, supplier and spend management. The suite bundles Spend Analytics, Advanced Sourcing Optimizer, Contract Lifecycle Management, and Supplier Management.
Spend Analytics provides retailers with a competitive edge in visualizing their end-to-end spend and offering data-driven insights to enable strategic, cost-saving decisions.
Using Spend Analytics, organizations can:
- Utilize an integrated flexible data model for unmatched analytic depth of relevant information from any source
- Gain visibility into spend; see where it's going and where it can be cut or allocated for use in an intuitive report
- Improve financial forecasting through pricing analysis and trends
Advanced Sourcing Optimizer (ASO) provides retail organizations with unrivaled strategic sourcing capabilities.
Using ASO, organizations can:
- Gather additional critical information from bidders—such as technology advancements, supplier performance, innovation and total value—using the unique Expressive Bidding® System
- Compare different decision scenarios and scoring algorithms with the patented Scenario Builder
- Simplify multi-item, multi-location bids by consolidating thousands of line items into a single bid
Contract Lifecycle Management automates and streamlines the contract management lifecycle.
Using Contract Lifecycle Management, organizations can:
- Minimize authoring times with a dynamic contract generator and a library of standard templates for full contracts, clauses, and individual obligations
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Supplier Management is a comprehensive supplier lifecycle management solution that provides complete visibility into supplier performance and risk.
Organizations utilizing Supplier Management can:
- Easily collect supplier information to run sourcing projects, assess spending levels, and optimize payment processes—all from a single portal
- Compare suppliers in performance, total quality, pricing, and risk to build an all-star roster of vendors
- Guide registration of suppliers and automate the management process, including alerts for expirations and renewals
"In just a few short months, it was apparent that the advanced capabilities within Tejari's Advanced Sourcing Optimizer that we leveraged for our large, complex RFPs would drive a higher level of strategic benefit for our eSourcing activities within smaller, less-complex spend categories."
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A large, US-based retail company's corporate sourcing group, responsible for all not-for-resale purchases, including the services needed to maintain the appearance of its 800+ stores across 18 regions, needed to speed up their sourcing process for corporate area maintenance (CAM) services. They were relying heavily on Excel spreadsheets to collect and analyze bid proposals and compare suppliers, and knew that this manual process was a significant bottleneck toward the efficiency they required to increase margins.
Having used Tejari's solutions for other corporate spend initiatives, the sourcing team knew that the company could bring significant benefits to their CAM sourcing projects around time-saving efficiencies, increased capabilities for bid collection and analysis, and supplier management and spend analysis moving forward. The flexible bidding capabilities of ASO enabled them to configure different bid items for each location, and its Expressive Bidding functionality meant that suppliers could combine store locations into bundles based on their capabilities and geographical reach, providing discounted pricing for business awards that combined multiple stores.
Tejari enabled the sourcing team to drastically speed up evaluation of the many supplier proposals and package offers received and efficiently arrive at a decision. Then, once they awarded a supplier with ASO, they were able to ease the creation of that vendor's contract with Contract Lifecycle Management and automate the supplier management process with the Tejari Supplier Management tool, saving time and costs and allowing for easy performance checks against contracts for that supplier as the relationship progressed. And utilizing Tejari's Spend Analytics, the retailer gained the ability to analyze their spend moving forward, as the tool collects the company's data and provides detailed analytics in return. The retailer can use those insights to make better strategic decisions on an organization-wide scale with regards to spend, vendors, and improving supply chain processes.
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Vegetable Borek
(Sebzeli Borek)
7 sheets Phyllo Pastry
2L pyrex casserole dish
Vegetable Filling:
2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1 medium sized eggplant,Cut into bite sizes. Soak in water with a
tablespoon of salt for about 20 minutes. Squeeze the eggplants with
your hand and dry them with a paper towel.
1 zucchini, cut in bite size
1 onion, sliced
1/3 cup crumbled feta or ricotta cheese
2 tbsp dill, chopped
1/4 cup parsley, chopped
Black pepper
2-3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1/2 cup yoğurt
2 eggs
1 pinch salt
To prepare the Filling: Put the salt, pepper, olive oil and onion in a pan. Cook on medium heat for two minutes. Add the eggplant and zucchini and continue cooking until they are tender. Put aside and add the feta cheese, parsley and dill, stir.
In a bowl, mix the eggs, olive oil and yoğurt. This liquid mix will go between every two layers. The vegetable filling will go in the middle only.
Grease the casserole dish. Place two sheets of the pastry in the bottom and over the sides of the dish. Spread 2-3 tablespoons of the sauce mix on top. Take another two sheets of pastry, fold in half and stack in the dish. First spread some sauce. Then, spread all of the filling onto the stack. Resume layering the pastry and the sauce until the pastry is finished. Then, fold the sides of the bottom layer over. Make sure you pour the remaining sauce on top.
Leave the casserole dish in the fridge for 2-3 hours, this way it will be more crispy and tasty. Pre-heat the oven to 375 F (190 C). Bake until golden colour.
This recipe goes well with Ayran on the side. You can have it as a main dish or with afternoon tea as a snack.
4 servings.
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I went to a party tonight, which meant taking along my SLR.
I'm not going to post any pictures from the party itself *secret squirrel*, but along the way I took a few happy snaps.
This is a billboard at Yotsuya station. This is Norika Fujiwara. It just goes to show that Japanese women age gracefully in this country. You've got to love that.
Speaking of age. Don't these oldies look real happy with that watermelon? I'm hoping that when I'm that old, a nice piece o' melon is all I need for happiness. The ad is for dentures. Probably after getting a set, soft melon is all you can eat.
I thought this was yet another English grammar error like it's meant to read "It's A Demo", but I was told it's actually Japanese, Itsudemo meaning "whenever/anytime". My bad.
Only I could read the dirty in this. I'm still looking for my mega goddess.
You might remember my train manners posts from quite a while back. This is a smoking manners poster produced by Japan Tobacco. It's strange that a cigarette company does this supposedly to improve the negative image of smoking in Japan.
I've got a better idea. How about quitting smoking? Damn I hate smokers.
Saturday, 31 July 2010
I went to a party tonight, which meant taking along my SLR.
Friday, 30 July 2010
Do you want Fries ストラップ with that?
When I first came to Japan one of the first things I noticed was that just about everyone had a phone strap/charm hanging off the ends of their cell phones. Some of these were quite big and laughable. Yes, the need to conform was so strong that even I had one on my phone too.
I'm guessing since the iPhone, this "trend" has thankfully mostly faded away because there is nowhere to actually hang one off it, and contrary to what most outsiders might think, the iPhone IS incredibly popular in Japan.
In my opinion, Japanese phones are quite ordinary in comparison. Maybe five or so years ago, a Japanese keitei was better, but since "western" smartphones came to being, the rest of the world caught up.
Macdonalds are doing a food strap promotion at the moment.
From what I've just said, I find it amusing there's an iPhone in their promotional photos.
There's six to collect. You can either buy a set of them for 3,980 yen *yikes* , or you can buy a large happy meal and get a random choice for "free". I say "random" meaning no choice at all, because they are in a sealed opaque packet that they just hand you. I made a video just for you to show you an unwrapping.
After little over a week of posting my video, I've already got 130 views! I guess it helps writing the tags in Japanese. Ha.
So, the "cheapest" way to get hold of these is to get a cheeseburger large meal, which depends where you get it from, it'll be 550-600 yen. So, this is my new "pursuit" in Japan. Show me the carrot and I'll chase it.
First I got the fillet o' fish burger strap, followed in the same day (yes two, "not so happy" meals), by the fries one. Since making the video, I've also got the Big Mac and the Coffee cup. Now all I need is the quarter pounder and apple pie straps to complete my set!
Wish me luck.
Wednesday, 14 July 2010
Chu-Hi 9%!
Since I've been in Japan, I'm probably drinking more often than when I arrived, or else it seems like that.
For quite a while now I've had most Saturday nights on alcohol-fueled highs. Station beers haven't been as satisfying as they were in the past, but I think my Saturdays are definitely making up for that.
The alcohol companies seem to try to up the stakes in their alcohol content. This is one that I had on a station beer night. It proudly states 9%, but I think it's just a clever marketing strategy to coerce you into buying it. My cheap and nasty Daiei chu-hu is 6%, but it's made me feel much more light-headed than this one.
On this particular night, we had an old Japanese women come up to us saying, "Give me money!" We just looked at each other in disbelief. Ah, you Japanese. Always the jokers.
While a little bored on this particular night, I thought I'd make a quick time-lapse video from my iPhone. There's no sound and it was shot in portrait, so just a little something to show you life, or lack there-of on a typical Wednesday evening.
If you want to see a much cooler Yokohama video, check this time-lapse out. I ♥ Yokohama.
Tuesday, 13 July 2010
Mitami Matsuri
This was the first night of this mid-summer festival that runs from the 13th-16th. I went there straight after work.
There are food stalls lining the walls of lanterns. Great timing on this shot.
This was probably the first night of summer that I started seeing the yukata that you see a lot of women wear at this time of year. Was the gaijin taking a photo of the stall or the girls?
Monday, 12 July 2010
Another Day, Another Hard Off
It's been a while since I've mentioned my favourite recycle shop chain, Hard Off. Even after all these years, that name still puts a smile on my face.
For some reason I decided to grace them with my presence in Nagayama. I REALLY wish they had these shops in convenient places (like Central Tokyo perhaps?), and less than thirty minutes walk from a close train station.
Maybe it's a blessing in disguise though. If they were more accessible to get to, I'd probably have a hard time (pun intended) finding any bargains at all.
Although it's not the worst of the Hard Offs, there weren't as many bargains as I'd liked to have found. Still, it was interesting to see an old Yamaha V50 synth that I used to have, and old relics like effects units that all the 80s FOH guys had in their live rigs back in the day. Even saw an old Portasound keyboard that we had as kids. Oh, nostalgia!
I saw a very old Wacom Artpad that was only 525 yen, but I don't think it was even USB. Not that I needed it now anyhow. After all the slogging to get there I only got some bridge pins for my acoustic. For 189 yen, it was cheaper than in Shinjuku.
I had 188 yen in loose change, but the checkout guy insisted I use the 500 yen coin instead of being the good guy, and waiving the measly 1 yen [insert frustrated Japanese confrontation moment] *sigh* I pity the next Japanese checkout person when I give them the correct change in a whole lot of 1 yen coins.
After work in Shinjuku I found myself in Taito Station. A "reformed" UFO catcher addict had no good sense to be in a place like this, and as such I relapsed once again and played for a cute motorised dog.
It took 700 yen. I'm happy to get it, but I was a little perturbed when the guys after me got theirs in just two tries.
It had been raining a lot today. All my shoes (except the docs) have turned leaky. Yes, even those f**** ones I bought not THAT long ago from Fareg (Never again).
I bit the bullet, and bought some Rockport Onboard shoes that cost considerably more than my "cheapies". Hopefully they will last a whole lot longer than the others.I got my new best friend, "One One" ('wan wan', geddit?) to model them for you.
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Saturday, 10 July 2010
Tokyo Sky Tree
Saturdays have been my night for hitting the Long Is Iced Teas for quite some time now, and for the most part it's been great to be out socialising and letting my hair down after a week's hard work.
On this occasion the guys piked on me, so I was left to my own devices tonight.
On the way to Funabashi I'm always keen to look out the train window to check the progress of the Tokyo Sky Tree.
For Tokyo, I think it's the most exciting development for quite some time, and by the look of all the people taking photos already even at this stage, I think a lot of Japanese think so too!
Ishibashi are having a 10% used sale this weekend, so finally I'm getting a kick drum pedal in Shibuya tonight as well. Seeing that it's "on the way", I decided to get off at Kinshicho.
This is what it looks like from the station platform. It took about fifteen minutes for the easy beeline walk to the tower.
As you can see from this photo, they've hit the 398m mark. To give some comparison, Tokyo Tower is 332.5m high, so it's already surpassed that height by quite a bit already.
From a distance and up close this tower looks impressive on first sight, but after a short while I was there, the proportions looked a little strange as it moves up from a triangulated shape to a circular one.
Even though Tokyo Tower clearly ripped off the Eiffel Tower, I think it's presence is more commanding that this one is. Time will tell of course. Once it reaches it's final 634m height I'm sure I'll eat my words. I just hope I'm still here to get the chance to see it's completion sometime in 2012.
I spent quite a bit of time taking WAY too many photos and getting lost trying to find the entrance to Oshiage station which is a lot closer (Narihirabashi station is a very close station too), than walking back to Kinshicho, and conveniently able to get me to Shibuya.
I didn't want to miss happy hour, so I quickly picked up my Tama Cobra kick pedal for a nice 5,382 yen, and went straight to get my two drinks before it was over. The pedal was heavier than I expected, and a bit of a burden to carry around but not as annoying as the bar staff not giving me the 5% discount using my membership card. I was preoccupied with my bags to notice and they hadn't given me the usual receipt to fight my case. I shrugged my shoulders and thought at least I saved a few bucks with happy hour anyway.
I got a seat. It had the potential to be a good night until I heard that night-crushing line.
"Are you American?"
Oh no.
Thursday, 8 July 2010
A Different Pill
Not long ago I tried graphics tablets in Bic Camera, and although I don't consider myself an artist per se, I had thought in the past to get a graphics tablet.
Yahoo Auctions had a few Wacom tablets, and even some screens that you can draw directly on, that would definitely be cool to have. On train beers night I even placed a bid on one that I thought wasn't too badly priced.
Seems like they're quite in demand and the price rose quickly towards the end of the auction so no surprises, I lucked out. That night I found a secondhand A4 Wacom tablet online for 12,800 yen which was about as much as the bottom-of-the-line, small size one goes for new, so I made it my mission to go there first thing, assuming I wouldn't drink too much the previous night.
If you're hunting for used computer gear, Sofmap and Janpara are places in Akihabara that are definitely worth checking out.
In this case, Janpara were the guys that had what I was looking for, so I arrived there not too long after they opened shop and after a bit of interesting communication, I managed to find it in quite good condition, still in the box, only missing the mouse. I managed to knock off 800 yen, so I think I got a good deal.
Tablets take a bit of getting used to. My first efforts were pretty lame, but after a bit of practice I'm getting better at it, I think. I bought it for a bit of fun, and to help with editing photos and for that, I think it will serve it's purpose well.
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Battle by the Bay
The three-game set against the Giants kicks off tonight and I'm guessing some of you made the trip up north (or already live up there and will be showing your Dodger blue in the crowd).
The division lead is down to two games, but hopefully everyone is planning to be out here next homestand to help these guys bring home another NL West title. Free Dodger Dog Night on Monday, Fleece Blanket on Tuesday and Manny bobblehead for the Wednesday day game. Plenty of great stuff going on during the Pirates' series before the Giants come back into town.
Also, for any of you golfers, KABC is hosting a golf tournament on the off day next week (Sept. 17) at Trump National and it benefits the USO. Celebs, former Dodgers, and possibly some currently players will be on hand so go swing the clubs at an incredible course for a great cause.
Here's tonight's lineup in San Fran:
Furcal, SS
Ethier, RF
Manny, LF
Kemp, CF
Loney, 1B
Blake, 3B
Belliard, 2B
Martin, C
Kuroda, P
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Lineup looks good…………GO DODGERS!!!!!!
Great to see Casey back in the line-up!
GO DODGERS!!! And for the gnats – BEATen by LA . . . . . BEATen by LA . . . . . 🙂 (Thanks for that, oldbrooklynfan – SO appropriate! )
And we DEFY…
DEFY the J ~I…
Enjoy the game everyone…..CRUSH CAIN BOY'S!!!!
1st in errors wirh 53 errors through some 100+ games than we ranked 12th since than past 20 something games unbeleveable but we still ranked in the top 3.
Yeah if Lincecum and Cain were over there in St. Louis they would have more wins and gosh dang those damn Reds caps.
Tb4 ~ Are you and any of the gang going to any of these games at the phone booth?
TBW ~ Collie is there tonight!
That's great I hope Collie brings them some luck. We really need this first one.
We sure do, TBW! I have a feeling there will be a lot of Dodgers fans there!
Good Evening ITD
Another big one , needless to say and it looks like they'll all be big from here on out.
Barring a "Giant" miracle we'll be playing in October one way or another.
Go Kuroda!!!!
Go Loney!!!! That's the way to start the series!!
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Ouch Nate made a good catch on Furcal
Ouch an
Forgot to delete the last line.
His name is L O N E Y
Ouch 7.71 ERA .355 baa beyond 6+ innings something I don't want to see.
All right!! Padres are winning 1-0.
Go Padressssssssssssssss 1-0
Collie ~ sorry you didn't get to go to the game but, it sounded like you had almost as much fun with the guys. Matt and Dre are both super nice guys and, I can just hear Andre laughing at your "Wifey" story!!!
Hello there everybody!
I just got back from The Phone Booth.
I went to get autographs and if I happened upon a free ticket I was going to go but $$$ is tight so I had to pass at staying tonight. No free ticket so I went to get some Thai food to go and I'm here in time to watch the start of the game!
I left at around 11:30 and got there at 12:15. I just missed Thome & Juanapy by about 10 minutes, who signed for everybody.
I did however get Matty, Wolf, Dre, Russ, and Sherrill's autographs.
I got turned down or ignored by Brox, Elbert, Loretta, G. Mota, Bills, Padilla, Belliard, Bowa, and O-Dog. I also saw Torre but he took a limo into the parking area so wasn't able to see him up close. I don't mind getting turned down as long as they are cool about it. A couple of the guys had friends or family members with them so I didn't even bother them. A couple just walked by looking down at their I-Phones as if there were really on them.
Matty was really nice. He was having a fun time with everybody that was there chatting it up, taking photo's. There was this one kid there (Maybe about 14-15 years old) who is deaf and has other disabilities and asks for photo's with the players. He took one with Matt and then checked it said he needed another because it wasn't a good one. Matt laughed and said here let me take it and took his camera from him and took a shot of them. He signed for everybody and was just so cool. He continues to impress me.
Russ was pretty quiet. I told Dre the story about his walk off HR last year that split Wifey's head open and told him he owed me $380.00 for the emergency room visit & he laughed. I told him Wifey spilt blood for him. He asked if it was blue and I told him no but that she was a fan.
I asked Wolf how he was felling and he said ok. I told him he needed to get better that we needed him and he said not to worry. So… I guess he's feeling better.
Thanks for the autographs today if any of you guys are reading this!!!
Go Blue!!!!
Bring the Ring to LA in 2009!!!!!
Dang the Braves haven't beat the Cards yet
Hello there Tru. I hope you are well! Yes it was a fun day! I did get a little cooked again however. My sunscreen isn't working to well the last month.
I know Josh said the time problem is due to the amount of posts. There have only been like 25 posts on here. I'm thinking that MLB.com may of given Josh some bad 411.
So I think it might be their server is having issues or something like that. Or it could be as someone mentioned before that there are now so many blogs that it has clogged the system.
I also like the lineup. I wish that Torre would stick with this lineup for a few days and see how it goes (Other than switch out O-Dog with Belly #2).
It's nice to have Blake back in the order.
Thanks, Collie. I am having a great day. Not as good as yours, however, sunburned or not :).
hahahaha Molina was trying to tied it up with that swing.
I love how these free swinging Giants would change a ball outside.
I missed you guys today. Next year we need to all go and get some auto's together. I think we'd have a great time!
Collie ~ I'd love to make it for the entire weekend! Good food, good shopping and of course, the Giants BEATen by LA!!!!
Yes we have to plan that. I heard that many of the players were shopping yesterday during their off day in Union Square.
I enjoyed the many comments of the Giants fans as I was wearing my Blue. No bottles thrown in my direction however. ;)!!
Let's go Dre! You own The Phone Booth!
Throw on your cape!!!!
Guess not on that one…
One of the guys on KNBR radio in SF said he saw Manny walking down the street with a pretty lady on Thursday.
Collie – Sorry you didn't get to go to the game. However, I am very happy you got to tell your story about wifey to Andre. You gave him a taste of what some of us go through when he is in the game and does well for the Dodgers. Just by the videos I have seen of Matt, he seems like a fun guy to be around. That video of his tour of the administrative offices is hilarious.
Kuroda is looking good so far tonight! Keep it up and, let's get some more runs for him!!!! GO DODGERS!!!!!
Kuroda is breezing so far, looking very good. Let's hope he can keep it going in the 6th and beyond.
Nice story Vinny and poor Torre was the Braves mangers at the time.
Hello there Nelly. I need to watch that one.
One of the guys thanked him for being cool. Kemp asked him what he meant and the guy said that he was having fun & basically other guys can be a bit grouchy.
Kemp was like "how can you not have fun doing this!". Every time I've seen him He's been this way. He is just a fun guy who is enjoying life & it's fun to see. He gave me a hard time because I told him how much fun it's been watching him get better and mature in his game. He said that yes being mature is important & laughed. He seems like one of the guys who would be fun to hang out with.
I heard that also Tru. Also on the Boche show before the game he said if they get runners on they are going to run on HK. He needs to continue to keep them off the bases.
My Loney has a first name,
It's J-A-M-E-S
My Loney has a second name,
It's L-O-N-E-Y
I love to watch him every day
And if you ask me why I'll say
'Cause James Loney has a way
With H-I-T-T-I-N-G!
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Welcome back Blake.
Booyaa! Fear The Beard!!!!!
Welcome Back Casey Blake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
C A S E Y goes longball.
Be LA… Be LA… Be LA…
I notice that Loney has been making some nice scoops with his first baseman's mit,
Taking a lot of throws out of the dirt, saving a lot of bad throws from the infield.
There is joy in Dodgertown! The mighty CASEY is at the bat!!!
Nice gooing M A N N N Y
Way to go Belly #2!
Vey nice post about the day Collie 🙂
The end of 6, and Kuroda has only thrown 61 pitches – Outstanding!!! That's 10 pitches per inning – fabulous!!!
Hello there D4!
Welcome back from another day of labor!
It was a fun day!
I really needed it. Tough week.
Work stunk and then had my pet snake die as well as have a funeral tomorrow for my friends Mom. She was the choir director at my church for years. She was a wonderful women and the world has lost a great person. She was very kind & caring & one of those that was just a real genuine, loving woman.
Yesterday Wifey went to the funeral of her next door neighbor who was a nice guy as well. I only met him a couple of times but he made us a coffee table out of driftwood for our wedding gift. So there's been some sadness around here & today was a much needed attitude adjuster.
Raffy & Dre!!!
Manny put the hammer down on them!
Nice want to see Kemp and Ethier break the Dodgers homerun total that is still lead by Karros right?
Manny, too!!!!
Great AB by Dre.
0-2 & then works the count & gets a single.
Typical Dre. This team is fun to watch when they play the way they are capable of.
From what I saw of them today I think they are all business right now. It seemed like there was a relaxed but focus from them today. Many of them came together on the buses. & they were all there earlier than usual.
Thome was there 1st @ 12:05.
I like this pitcher :)!!!!
Okay, James….. rbi!
My Loney has a first name,
It's J-A-M-E-S
My Loney has a second name,
It's L-O-N-E-Y
I love to watch him every day
And if you ask me why I'll say
'Cause James Loney has a way
With H-I-T-T-I-N-G!
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Fabulous Raffy, Andre, Manny and Matt!!!!!!
3 RBI for L O N E Y.
Good to see him pull that instead of trying to roll it up the middle! Nice AB.
That was an awesome at bat by Andre, but I got submission errored as I was trying to post it the first time. He is getting back to where even his outs are productive because he makes the pitchers work their assss off trying to get him out.
Karros has the "LA" Dodger HR record.
Congratulations to Jeter.
Yes he is!
Even though we leading 7-1n I hate leaving a runner on 3rd with 1 out I want more runs on the 2nd best ERA in the league
You know the gnat fans are not at home right now, but this is just too much fun!!!!
Finally Torre with a hit & run!
I know I said this earlier, but WELCOME BACK CASEY BLAKE!!!!!!!!
Correction I made a mistake with Loney.
I was typing and got the wrong hitter.
Agreed Nelly. That is why we call him Every Day Dre!!!
I want more runs
Alright Russell!!!! Welcome to the party!!!!! GO DODGERS!!!!!!
Nice hit by RUSSELL
That was a Get Smart shot… "Missed it by that much!"
It sure is Collie!!!!!
Just missed the HR, but I'll take a double!!!!
Way to go Russ!
Rockies are losing 1 – 0.
All right!! That's the way to MOIDER the Jints! Let's hear the chant now! BEATEN BY LA! BEATEN BY LA! BEATEN BY LA! BEATEN BY LA! BEATEN BY LA! BEATEN BY LA! BEATEN BY LA!
So far, this is a nice gnat stomping 🙂
I'm sorry to hear about all the sadness Collie. It does sound like you had a wonderful time though.
It sure is, NellyJune! 🙂
It's great to see those first pitch outs from the other team.
Thanks D4.
I like it when we stomp someone Nelly. But no one more then the Giants.
HK has really stepped it up tonight.
Ouch 18 in a rows maybe just maybe Torre would rest the bullpen tonight
Collie ~ I just read your post up above. Sorry to hear/read about your week. I hope next week is a better one for you. I am glad you had a day of fun today though.
70 pitches in 7 innings, and the offense is getting the runs for Kuroda – this is Dodger baseball…………the Dodger baseball we saw at the beginning of the year. Not to mention it was against a top 5 pitcher in the league.
Kuroda is back!! What a brilliant effort so far. He's really pitching like a ace. I hope he can keep this up through the playoffs.
I guess Giants fan got his wish with Posey.
Golly gee, Batman, you couldn't have drawn up this night on a chalkboard any better so far. And the Pods are one good Heath Bell inning away from a W.
Isn't this great, Kahli?! 🙂
Apparently Loney does have 3 RBI, I was right the first time.
Thanks Nelly. It was tough. Tomorrow will be tough but then hopefully it will be better. We are going to the OC soon so that will be awesome.
Wow no useless Pierre ab's with this score.
Damn Joe let's Kuroda finished it out.
Ok Troncoso let's bounce back from the ugly mess last game. Good to see Ellis behind the plate wish he had an ab's.
The OC will be awesome, and definitely something to look forward to.
I hope we don't run out of runs, might needs some for the rest of the weekend. lol
It's no Secret the Kemp had Pop!
Did you tape it Nelly?
Alright Matthew Ryan Kemp!!!!!
Come on dp Hawpe.
Damn I knew it was a big mistake should've left Kuroda in and damn freaking Hawpen and Giambi is up.
That O.K. just a triple.
than a walk bases loaded with 1 out.
Buster Posey finally gets an at-bat and my son is not home to see him strike out – HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
1 more out for Bell.
That was the 2nd time this year that Kuroda completed 8 innings, this year.
The other was for 8.2
Congratulations to him, a great performance.
Bell just blew it for the Padres 😦
If the Dodgers take care of business like they did tonight, then we won't have to worry about how the Rockies are doing.
It's time to savor the sweet taste of the Victory Flask!!!!
glug, glug, glug…and pass it around…
Rockies are haunted…I give up…later…
Are you kidding me?
The Rockies are just freaking lucky.
That was a great win! What a way to start the series. Great pitching by Kuroda and we finally got the type of offense we were getting earlier in the season. Boy is this Dodgers team funny. When it looks like they are going to collapse, they bust out with a game like tonight. Then when I think they're going to pull a way, they cool off. They're certainly not making it easy on us.
With 2 out 2 strikes the Rockies get a bases loaded double to take a 3 run lead. Damn!
RIP Larry Gelbert I used to watch him on MASH.
Oops I mean I actually watch his show.
Great game tonight by the boys. Clutch hitting, dominating pitching – well, by Kuroda anyway. I know, Troncoso was just throwing strikes. We sure didn't look too promising, pitching-matchup wise going into the series. It would be nice to take 2 and great to break out a broom. It's been a while since we did that to anyone.
I just read an article on Shoeless Joe Jackson:
These guys say that their studies show that "It ain't so" that Jackson threw the '19 Series. Duh. He hit .375 in the Series. No one had a better batting average – for either team. He didn't make an error. What more evidence do you need? He took money, he admitted that. But he did nothing on the field to throw a game. Is that enough to be banned for 90 years? I say no.
Jackson was a pretty simple good-ol' country boy who was very naive about just about everything but hitting a baseball. He was railroaded by a vengeful Kenesaw Mountain Landis who would have banned his own mother.
Jackson belongs. The Hall is diminished without him. Not that I would EVER suspect Selig reinstating him because he hasn't a single bone of integrity in his body.
Collie – The boys will be able to sleep good in the City by the Bay tonight.
Dodger4life – Beav hasn't done one of those in a while.
Dodgereric – That was a sweet win, and I would love a sweep, but I will take 2 out of 3 🙂 All is quiet here………….I let the scoreboard speak for itself.
I just got what you said. First I thought you were talking about being quiet here at ITD but you mean in your house. I can imagine. Matt Cain is a good pitcher but the Dodgers own him!
Dodgers made a HUGE statement tonight. Can't control what Colorado does. Kuroda asserted himself as the ace, just like last year's playoffs. Let's hope he stays healthy. No matter how they roll around in the dirt for the next 20 games, Dodgers will play Cards or Phils. Pick your poison. Rockies play the other guy.
I was just checking out all the teams and where they ranked in gidp's and that we're ranked 4th in gidp with 126. The leader is Houston with 133 and I can't believe their a team with only 76 (rangers), 2nd best is 79 (philies) and no surprise both of those teams are ranked 2nd and 3rd in homeruns.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I think the Dodgers magic number to clinch a playoff birth is 16 and the magic number to win the division is 19.
I think is better if the Dodgers face the Phillies in the best out of 5 and then the Cardinals in the best of 7 because it forces the Cards to throw a fourth pitcher there.
BTw, I posted a nice pic of Ethier
crzblue, I want the Phillies right away, too….payback. No guarantee if Dodgers have to play Cards first. That means Dodgers have to win the division.
Hello ITDland ~ last night's game was amazing….great pitching from Hiroki and timely hitting. I'm greedy, I want a repeat tonight! GO DODGERS….BEAT THE GIANTS!!!!!!
Patient Pierre receives high praise
Outfielder key to club's success during Ramirez's absence
I don't think so I think the Cards would still go with a 3 man rotation in the playoff.
Pitching will carry Dodgers to postseason
Even with upstart Rockies' surge, LA headed to playoffs
"If I get hit by a bat, I think I'm going to retire," Kuroda said through an interpreter. The pitcher was smiling when he said that.
hahaha love that quote
Team-by-team hit leaders
Here is a look at the hit leaders for all 30 Major League clubs, through games of Sept. 11, 2009:
Team Player Hits
Tigers Ty Cobb* 3,900
Cardinals Stan Musial* 3,630
Braves Hank Aaron* 3,600
Red Sox Carl Yastrzemski* 3,419
Reds Pete Rose 3,358
Giants Willie Mays* 3,187
Orioles Cal Ripken Jr.* 3,184
Royals George Brett* 3,154
Brewers/Pilots Robin Yount* 3,142
Padres Tony Gwynn* 3,141
Astros Craig Biggio 3,060
Pirates Roberto Clemente* 3,000
Cubs Cap Anson* 2,995
Twins/Senators Sam Rice* 2,889
Dodgers Zack Wheat* 2,804
White Sox Luke Appling* 2,749
Yankees Derek Jeter 2,723
Angels Garret Anderson 2,368
Mariners Edgar Martinez 2,247
Phillies Mike Schmidt* 2,234
Rockies Todd Helton 2,113
Indians Napoleon Lajoie* 2,046
Athletics Bert Campaneris 1,882
Rangers/Senators Ivan Rodriguez 1,738
Nationals/Expos Tim Wallach 1,694
Blue Jays Tony Fernandez 1,583
Mets Ed Kranepool 1,418
D-backs Luis Gonzalez 1,337
Marlins Luis Castillo 1,273
Rays Carl Crawford 1,274
Everyone who gotten 3,000+ hits are all in the hall of fame except Rose amazing he should be in there.
All-time Yankees hit leaders
Derek Jeter passed Lou Gehrig and now has the most hits by a Yankee. Here are the top 10 Yankees leaders in hits.
No. Player Games Hits
1. Derek Jeter 2,120 2,723
2. Lou Gehrig 2,164 2,721
3. Babe Ruth 2,084 2,518
4. Mickey Mantle 2,401 2,415
5. Bernie Williams 2,076 2,336
6. Joe DiMaggio 1,736 2,214
7. Don Mattingly 1,785 2,153
8. Yogi Berra 2,116 2,148
9. Bill Dickey 1,789 1,969
10. Earle Combs 1,456 1,866
Good Day ITD, Dodger Faithful, and Our Beloved Boy's in Blue…
What a fun game that was last night…..I personally thought that the bomb by Blake was paramount to the latter success.
Hiroki Kuroda and that phenomenal pitch count was something this group has been searching for….for sometime now, and ditching that broken bat by Cain was outstanding as well. Great performance from all last night. Thanks Boy's winning a game against the Giants is Paramount in my book.
Eric I was on my way to bed when I seen your post last night and now that I have thought about it a little..emphasize little…
Here goes…I think it is an unfortunate set of circumstances that surrond this event with Shoeless Joe….On one hands as you say his stats and record seem to say he didn't start or finish the job of throwing a game or series, however he accepted payment from said unscrupulous characters. I do think that in todays game with the amount of onfield and off field money that can be earned this is less of a factor today. Players also have lawyers and the players association that defend their freedoms. Steve Howe and his drug problems come to mind. Today's game is a different animal, problems do still exist and the need for punishment and banishment from the hall should alway's be there. I do think that 90 years of being an example in these circumstances is enough. Under the right degree of light, given the problems facing baseball today I do think he should be forgiven. JMO!!!
Game 2 tonight…..make us proud Boy's …..Defend the Blue as they will be defending you tonight in the city by the bay!!!!!
I'm surprise the Blue Jays, A's and Mets doesn't have a player with 2000 hit for that team.
Here is the US Horseshoes Association Top 10 from list of the top 50.
30′ ELDER MENS TOP 50 for 09/09/09 St %
1 Herschel Walters IN 3 85.51 15
2 Dave Holmes WV 3 82.79 3
3 Bobby Fields TN 3 79.32 18
4 Paul McCreery TX 3 78.67 12
5 Ed Arionus TX 3 78.47 9
6 Ralph Adrian OH 3 77.07 11
7 Carl Carlton CO 3 76.17 10
8 Phil Bragg AL 3 75.87 15
9 DW Story TN 3 75.25 5
10 Darle Esh PA 3 75.22 13
This information is about as interesting as knowing the hitting stats of the Yankees. If I want to read or hear about the Yankees, I can watch ESPN or go to the Yankee website. 🙂
jhall/Sara – Wishing your teams (OSU/USC) the best today. It's going to be an exciting one just like last year. May the best team win!!!!
Go figure Cordero had no problem getting the save for the Reds against the Cubs.
Sorry jhall……but on my side of the continental divide we say
jhall – I can't choose sides when it comes to these two teams. I saw that special on Ohio State on HBO and all of it's traditions, including how the whole city of Columbusgets involved. Any school/city with that much tradition and history is just fun to watch. Any other game, I am all for USC, but this one I like to stay neutral and just watch it for the excitement.
Dodger4life – you forgot – GO DENNY HAMLIN!!!!! (JK) LOL!!!!! or in your case – GO JEFF GORDON!!!!!
Well said Nelly!!!!!
Nelly and D4L, I second that well-said!
SOB – I really think Paul McCreery should be #3.
justplaindisgusted – It is soooooo good to see you!!! We have missed you around here.
LOL!!! #3? He should have been #1 🙂
BATTLE CREEK, MI (AP) – POP FOUND DEAD. Part of the beloved trio which included Snap and Crackle, Pop was found lying dead today in a pool of milk in the kitchen of his Battle Creek apartment. An autopsy has yet to be performed to determine the exact cause, but the deputy medical examiner on scene was heard to say it looked like a severe case of Montezuma's Revenge – he was just too pooped to pop.
"I blame myself" said a distraught Crackle. "I should have know something was wrong when I heard, Snap, Crackle and Pfffft, but I just didn't make the connection." "Porky Pig, Hamm's Beer Bear, Lambchop, and now Pop… I feel so bad at their passing when I feel so GRRRRREAT!" said close friend Tony the Tiger.
"Its going to be hard to find Pop's replacement" said Snap, though calls from all over have been lighting up the Kellogg's switchboard. Names mentioned include Sugar Bear, Dig'em Frog and the Trix Rabbit.
A public service will be held next Tuesday. Attendees are asked to bring their own spoons.
I have been searching for a good laugh Beav thanks….
It is good to see you and your humor 🙂
JPD ~ LMAO!!!! So good to have you back, sir!!!
jpd – you need to repost on the new thread. LMAO!!!!! Did I say we are glad you are back :))))) Pop was my favorite. That is just so very sad. He will be missed by Snap and Crackle I am sure, and Rice Krispies won't ever be the same again.


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I will discuss the design of degenerate quantum error correcting codes for an arbitrary Pauli channel. At noise levels slightly beyond those for which a random stabilizer code does not allow high fidelity transmission with a nonzero rate, our codes usually have a rate which is strictly positive. In fact, there exist Pauli channels for which our codes outperform a random stabilizer code whenever the random coding rate is less than 0.04, which is a couple of orders of magnitude larger than the previous examples of this effect. I'll also present a fairly straightforward explanation of why these codes work and discuss how their performance scales with block size and what this scaling suggests even better codes will look like.


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It's no secret that we're pretty darn excited about the new Muppets movie coming out this Thanksgiving. I mean, it's the Muppets. And the latest trailer is aces.
The steady drumbeat of trailers parodying everything from Green Lantern (possibly better than the movie itself), to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, to cheesy romantic comedies have been hilarious. The new one gets into the realm of self parody, packs in multiple parodies of other movies, and then promises to be the very last parody trailer. Huh? Yeah. You've got to see it.
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Steve Watson
March 24, 2011
Radiation from the ongoing disaster in Japan is spreading throughout the United States, and while the EPA says the levels are not dangerous, it also admits that some of its radiation-tracking air monitors may not even be working.
Images from inside the plant at Fukushima.
Colorado and Oregon are the latest states to report detection of radioactive particles that have drifted over the North Pacific Ocean from the Fukushima plant, some 5000 miles away.
The EPA announced late yesterday that small amounts of iodine-131, a radioactive form of iodine, has been detected by monitors at Grand Junction, Denver, and Colorado Springs in Colorado.
Iodine-131 was also picked up yesterday by monitors in Portland, Oregon.
Hawaii, California and in Washington State previously reported finding trace amounts of radioactive iodine, cesium, and tellurium.
Three air monitors in California at San Francisco, Riverside and Anaheim, as well as one monitor in Seattle, have identified the isotopes and other radioactive particles.
EPA officials, as well as local public environmental health authorities, have dismissed the notion that there is any serious health threat from the findings.
"Our finding is consistent with findings in Washington and California. We have expected to find trace amounts of the isotopes released from the Japanese plant. There is no health risk," Gail Shibley, administrator of Oregon's Office of Environmental Public Health, Oregon Public Health Division, said in a statement.
"The levels we're measuring are extremely low," Mike Bandrowski, manager of EPA radiation programs in San Francisco, said in an interview Wednesday. "They're a fraction of natural background radiation. People should not be concerned."
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"The radiation levels detected on the filters from California and Washington monitors are hundreds of thousands to millions of times below levels of concern." an EPA statement also suggested.
However, earlier this week, the EPA suggested that some of the air-monitors it is using to obtain radiation readings are "undergoing quality review".
Out of a total of 124 stationary air-radiation monitors across the country, 22 were described as not working and listed as out of service, according to Ronald Fraass, director of the EPA's National Air and Radiation Environmental Laboratory in Montgomery, Alabama.
Out of a total of 18 air monitors in California, Oregon and Washington state, the areas of the US most at risk from any spreading radiation, the EPA says 8 are not functioning.
"If a monitor in one area is being repaired, EPA's network will still be able to detect any fluctuation in background radiation levels," Brendan Gilfillan, an EPA spokesman, said in an e-mail to Bloomberg News.
As we reported earlier this week, authorities, and even the president himself, first claimed that any radiation from the stricken nuclear plant would completely dissipate, and would not reach the US at all.
Those predictions have proven completely inaccurate as the mainland United States has been blanketed with radioactive Xenon 133 particles and is to be exposed to more dangerous caesium-137 particles.
Health authorities have gone from ambivalently telling Americans not to worry about the situation, to actively discouraging them from obtaining protective potassium iodide pills.
In practically every news article covering the detection of radiation inside the US, the following EPA statement has been quoted:
"In a typical day, Americans receive doses of radiation from natural sources like rocks, bricks and the sun that are about 100,000 times higher than what we have detected coming from Japan. For example, the levels we're seeing coming from Japan are 100,000 times lower than what you get from taking a roundtrip international flight."
Earlier in the week, nuclear energy critic and author Hirose Takashi wrote about how asinine this type of statement is:
Around Fukushima Daiichi Station they measured 400 millisieverts – that's per hour. With this measurement (Chief Cabinet Secretary) Edano admitted for the first time that there was a danger to health, but he didn't explain what this means. All of the information media are at fault here I think. They are saying stupid things like, why, we are exposed to radiation all the time in our daily life, we get radiation from outer space. But that's one millisievert per year. A year has 365 days, a day has 24 hours; multiply 365 by 24, you get 8760. Multiply the 400 millisieverts by that, you get 3,500,000 the normal dose. You call that safe? And what media have reported this?
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While the Japanese government continues its blatant cover up of the severity of the situation, the US government is literally telling Americans they are more at risk from a bag of rocks than they are from breathing in some nuclear fallout.
Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones' Infowars.net, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham in England.
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NEW YORK (AP) Denver Broncos defensive end Von Miller was fined $25,000 by the NFL on Friday for his hit below the knee of Tampa Bay quarterback Josh Freeman last week.
Miller was penalized for roughing the passer in the second quarter of the Broncos' 31-23 win over the Buccaneers last Sunday. Miller was fined $21,000 last month for a similar infraction against Carolina quarterback Cam Newton.
Chicago Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher was fined $21,000 for a horse-collar tackle on Seattle's Leon Washington, his second fine in two weeks. Urlacher, penalized for the tackle in the Bears' 23-17 loss last Sunday, also was fined last week for a horse-collar tackle of Minnesota's Adrian Peterson.
Seahawks defensive tackle Alan Branch was docked $7,875 for his late hit on Bears quarterback Jay Cutler.
Green Bay's Tramon Williams and Jacksonville's Jason Babin were each fined $21,000 for helmet-to-helmet hits in their games last week.
Detroit defensive tackle Nick Fairley was fined $15,750 for his horse-collar tackle of Indianapolis quarterback Andrew Luck late in the Lions' 35-33 loss.
Washington center Will Montgomery was fined $10,000 for kicking New York Giants defensive lineman Linval Joseph, who was docked $7,875 for unnecessary roughness. He pulled on Montgomery's leg first during a pileup on a fumble and then raised his right foot to kick back at him, but stopped himself before doing so.
San Francisco linebacker NaVorro Bowman also got fined $10,000 for kicking at a St. Louis Rams offensive lineman, while 49ers teammate Dashon Goldson has to pay $7,875 for a late hit on quarterback Sam Bradford.
Minnesota linebacker Jasper Brinkley was fined $7,875 for grabbing Green Bay wide receiver Randall Cobb by the facemask. Teammate Everson Griffen was fined $15,750 for his late hit on Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers.
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A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine in Bath, Julian Cheal, pointed a friend of his, Chris Book my way on Twitter. Chris runs OpenMIC (Mobile Innovation Camp) and was looking for Brighton based mobile developers to meet up with to promote the upcoming OpenMIC 8, held at The Grand Hotel in Brighton on 4th November.
Naturally I invited him down to Brighton to attend the monthly meeting of the Brighton iPhone Creators group and get royally drunk with some fellow mobile devs in The Basketmakers, and equally as naturally Chris agreed.
The next day, slightly worse for wear, Chris and I met for a coffee to chat about life, business and mobile development. During this time I mentioned that I was currently investigating PhoneGap and was intrigued by Titanium as alternatives to native development. I knew very little about them at the time and wanted to learn more. Obviously whatever I said must have inspired Chris for later that day he asked whether I would like to present the result of my investigations at OpenMIC. After some consideration I decided that I would be a fool to pass up the opportunity to speak at a conference for the first time and accepted. I then realised that I had less than two weeks to pull everything together.
In reality, I had even less time than that. With other work commitments and the existing commitment of talking at the Five Pound App that Tuesday to present an app that Ian and I had been working on, it ended up boiling down to one full day and 2 evenings. I had decided to write the same app twice, once in each technology, and compare the results. I wrote the Titanium app on the Sunday afternoon, the PhoneGap app on the Monday evening after a full days work and the presentation on Wednesday.
Luckily for me it all came together (quite late on Wednesday night) and Ian and I rocked up on the Thursday morning at The Grand raring to go. There were 4 talks in the morning session, followed by a developer panel, then after lunch 2 'barcamp' style sessions before the evenings socialising (partly funded by Microsoft).
Up first was Tom Hume of Future Platforms talking about how he felt that using web technologies in mobile app dev was the future. He explained how HTML and CSS were mature technologies that had already solved a lot of the UI problems that were still incredibly difficult to achieve when developing natively and proposed that mixing the two, using HTML where most suitable, and native when tackling more difficult problems, was his ideal.
Then came Stuart Scott, CEO of infohand, who had a lot of commercial experience and knowledge in the mobile world. He explained about the economics of mobile experiences and developing mobile applications and how perhaps using the web in mobile could help reduce the costs of creating engaging applications.
Next up was Mike Ormond, a developer evangelist at Microsoft. Mike showed us Windows Mobile 7, a handset and operating system that had so far been unmentioned when talking about cross platform development. Windows mobile 7 looks fantastic and his argument was that in order to keep the experience fantastic you had to develop specifically for the device, and that meant natively. Despite the talk being centered purely around WM7, I felt that the point stood in relation to all devices.
Finally it was my turn. Mine was the only purely technical talk, showing code. I felt rather embarassed when we got the first page of code and discovered that the colours had washed out totally on the projection and it was very hard to read what it said, but subsequent feedback was that this made me explain the code in a detail which I might otherwise have missed and so made the talk more useful. I learned a valuable lesson about displaying code snippits on projectors. You can view my presentation on SlideShare, download the code at GitHub and read more about it on this blog post.
I got asked to stay up on 'stage' for the developer panel which I gladly did. The panel was asked to explain why should a client pay multiple times for an application written natively for many devices, and not just pay once for a mobile website to cover all devices. The general conclusion was that it all came down to that last 5% of polish that makes a good mobile app a fantastic mobile app and that last 5% was far harder to achieve using the mobile web that with native apps.
Somehow I got volunteered to run a barcamp session about PhoneGap and Titanium in the afternoon and also managed to get a good play in with a Galaxy Tab that one of the delegates brought along. After that it was beers and more beers and then curry with beers. All of the delegates that I met were fantastic. So many knowledgable and friendly people and I had lots and lots of fun.
I am now trying to organize my time so that I can make it to the next openMIC on 2nd December in Oxford. Chris, Pinar and co have developed a great conference and I highly recommend that you find the time to go if one happens to pop up in your area in future, or make the effort to attend one somewhere else in the country.


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Tuesday, June 30, 2009
A Sundry Post
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Monday, June 29, 2009
Gladitudes: The Weekend
I'm participating in Gretchen's Glatitudes today.
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.I guess what he was saying is that it sucks to get old (knees included), but there is always the hope of eternity! :)
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Friday, June 26, 2009
If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join Em
Several of my bloggy friends are going "random" today.
Comparison is the quickest road to failure. It's a forked path. One way leads to Discontent. The other leads to the sister-cities: Never Starting or Quitting.Both roads lead to Nowhere.
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Thursday, June 25, 2009
Of Blankets and Alligators
I have been wanting to show you this picture for some time now. The Girl had a birthday in early February. It was frigid outside and I was longing for warmer weather. So I made her this cake, in celebration of the heat to come.
Alligators consume food that cannot be eaten in one bite by allowing it to rot or by biting and then spinning or convulsing wildly until bite-size chunks are torn off. This is referred to as the "death roll." A hard-wired response developed over millions of years of evolution, even juvenile alligators execute death rolls when presented with warm fuzzy blankets chunks of meat.Now back to the issue.
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Encouraging Pencil Pusher
I found a fun gift while window shopping in Michigan a couple weeks ago.
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Thursday, June 18, 2009
Sweet Surprises
If you know me in real life, you probably know that I love mail.
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Happy Day
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Saturday, June 13, 2009
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Tuesday, June 09, 2009
10 on 10: Things I'll do Today
There is nothing I like more than a list.
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-Pool Side Randomness-
I am sitting at the pool under a shade umbrella, sweating.
I had forgotten how the shade here may bring respite from the scorching rays of the sun, but with the humidity this girl is always "glowing".
In other news, who knew I would suddenly find myself in a blogging slump? Certainly not me! I have a lot of things swirling in my head these days, but the time and energy? Its poorly lacking.
To combat my busy-ness I have managed to SIESTA for an hour of reading three whole days in a row. I didn't SIESTA much last week in an attempt to get things done after a weekend away.
I may have over done things last week based on my energy levels this weekend.
On Saturday night I literally fell asleep watching a movie during pizza night. I was in a deep sleep by 7:45. The Mister woke me up at 9pm and told me to go to bed.
In my defense we were watching Mall Cop. Want my review? It was so good I slept through 3/4's of it....
Pool time is coming to a close. Do you think the dinner fairy will have come to my house while I was away?
A girl can dream.
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Friday, June 05, 2009
Friday Fun-day
Today we have a big day planned with the Carpoolqueen and babies A, B, and C.
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Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Archives: No Birds Today
I should have known that today would be a bit of a bummer when I got up, got ready, got the kids dressed and presentable, and started loading up to go to the dentist, when I realized that my appointment was not today, but tomorrow.
So we had to reschedule what I had planned to do tomorrow and get it done today...
I had been putting off "tomorrow" just by the simple fact that it was to be a "Walmart" day. As most people I know (especially those with chirldren under 12), I have a love/hate relationship that goes with the dreaded Walmart visit. Quite frankly, I'd rather go to the dentist. But sometimes you can't beat the fact that even the Ramen is cheaper...
A friend here told me that there was a Super-Walmart that was not that far, and yet, it was in a different town..."Only about 20 minutes away"--a local phrase that I find myself muttering under my breath as I try to read my Mapsco and navigate down a foreign country road...How I long for the day when I can be driving back roads and short-cuts and actually get to where I am going.....but I digress.
This morning, after driving all over 3 different counties (and I am not kidding) the kids and I never found the Super-Walmart. We did however find a stretch of highway that would take us back to our county and some familiarity: Super-Target.
After taking two hours to get to Target (that is only about 20 minutes from our house), I get my list and begin shopping with two children who are complaining because they "never" get to look at the toys in Target...never, meaning not since last Monday.
Then I got home and the cellular phone issue that our "cellular phone guy" said would be taken care of last month, is not, and we received not one, but two, bills in the mail.
I had a friend in Fort Worth who, when her life was going completely as planned, or if something really awesome happened, she would say "It's like I am walking around with a bird on my finger!" (Think Mary Poppins).
There are no birds today.
Actually, I did buy ice cream this morning...things are starting to look better...
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Monday, June 01, 2009
Home Again, Home Again
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