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Obituary: Nancy Mattioli Follini, 65, of Milford
Nancy Mattioli Follini, 65, of Milford, wife of Joseph Follini, passed away on September 14, 2018 with her beloved family by her side after a courageous, decade long battle with cancer.
Nancy was born on June 25, 1953 in Brooklyn, NY, to the late Harry and Gloria Mattioli. Nancy graduated from Stamford High School and worked several years traveling to Stamford and New York City.
Nancy's true passion in life was her family and children. In 2002, she opened "My Little Friends Daycare" where she was known as "Nana." She was not only a loving and passionate caregiver to her own children, but her daycare family as well.
Nancy was known for her sassy, witty and funny personality. She was always present for any event, even while fighting her own battles. Nancy was a wonderful woman whom is very loved and will be greatly missed. Her love for life and her tremendous strength will be cherished forever by the family that she leaves behind.
In addition to her husband, she is also survived by her loving sons, Joshua and his wife Cassandra, Anthony and Sean and his wife Irene, all of Milford; her cherished grandchildren, DeAnna, Robby, Makayla, Sydney, Taylor and Madison; and two great-grandchildren, Peyton & Liam. She also leaves behind her sisters, Ann and her husband Louie, Gail and her husband Tony and Jane and her husband Vin; her brother, Harry and his wife Sandra; along with many very special nieces and nephews.
Friends and family are invited to call on Saturday, September 22, 2018 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. with a service at 1:30 p.m. at the CODY-WHITE FUNERAL HOME, 107 Broad St., Milford. To leave online condolences, please visit our website at www.codywhitefuneralservice.com.


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Back in 2015, Microsoft officially announced Edge which replaced the infamous Internet Explorer. Codenamed Project Spartan, Microsoft Edge is fast and fluid browser bundled with Windows 10. The deep integration with Core Microsoft services like Cortana distinguishes Microsoft Edge from other browsers like Chrome and Firefox.
Even with some great features, the odds don't favor Edge as Windows 10 users continue on relying more on 3rd party browsers. But Microsoft is set to change that with rumors floating around about an Insider Program dedicated to the development of Edge browser.
It all started with Microsoft asking the Bing Insiders to fill a survey and on the basis of the survey, Microsoft might announce Edge Insider Program. Now, Microsoft watcher Nawzil Najeeb hinted that Microsoft might be planning to launch a new program after all.
Microsoft Edge Insider Program
— Nawzil (@Nawzil10) September 30, 2017
Our sources also confirmed the same and Microsoft might be launching this new program in October. Also, the program will be invite based which means not everyone can join it. This is probably done to make sure only people who genuinely can help are invited to join.
We would like to start a Microsoft Edge Insiders program where members have exclusive access to members of the Edge team and early looks at features before the broad public.
We still don't know how everything is supposed to pan out so we'll just have to wait and see what Microsoft has in store for us.

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The national Bank of Ukraine (NBU) is considering the launch of state of the digital currency based on blockchain technology.
The NBU said that the hryvnia based on the blockchain, or the electronic torque should be centralized and be under the control of the government. It is expected that digital currency backed by the government, will increase the number of cashless payments, and reduce their cost.
This is not the first time in Ukraine the question of the establishment of a digital national currency. The idea was first expressed in the framework of the project "Cashless economy". For example, the Central Bank in January announced plans to launch e of the hryvnia, which is not bound and does not use the blockchain technology.
According to Bank officials, this version of Ukrainian state coins must be tied to the national currency 1: 1. According to NBU, it will prevent inflation. However, the electronic edition of the hryvnia based on blockchain technology, the whole still remains one of the options.
The decision about the feasibility of introducing electronic hryvnia in full will be taken only after detailed analysis.
Adviser to the head of the Association of Ukrainian banks Alex Kusch believes that digital currency such as e-national currency, cannot be compared with cryptocurrencies, since the latter is anonymous and decentralized, by definition, in contrast to the national currency.
Kusch also said that digital currency supported by the government and based on the blockchain is "quite promising", adding:
On the one hand, it will protect human rights from the point of view of ownership, and on the other – will significantly reduce the cost and time of the transaction, as well as increase the circulation of money in the country.


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awesome bg.
It's like the perfect grunge ^^
a definite fav from me
Good work ^^
1280x960 Wallpaper
Like a seed that never sprouted,
like a wounded crow in winter,
but lustful to have you still in my arms
thinking of you is the only thing keeping me sane
for my hateful sorrow has awakened
and now i am dead already....
This you may say is one of my personal walls ived spent 2 days making all together, ive had strong feelings for a person i loved before and now sometimes i regret leaving that person but fate had something to do with it so i had to suck it up and taste the bullet. I dont know if i am a changed person or will be the same...im starting to have mood swings, pieces of myself i dont want and never imagined have surfaced slowly to make me have this acute shcizophrenia paranoia disorder which only happens occasionally i assure you. But for some reason i have sought ways of repressing it by being a music indulgence person and starting to draw again!! maybe i should take theraphy or see a damn shrink but its not that serious the other person i talk too is my depressed side so i dont need to worry, helps me answer the questions i need to know and have to face so i have to take the road again of a journeyman....so wish me luck!
This scan was from Here by Kino and yeah this is somewhat a manga i think and had a hard time making the grunge textured layers, overlayed, gaussian, and duplicate layers. I used one of the old brushes ive stored but havent opened for a long time and yeah mostly its from Vbrushes and nocturna. So its 110 layers and 13 hours of work.
This is dedicated for those people who have had love for the first time and still have the memories of the breakup but still walk the path of life with the wings of crows and a shadowed cloak to be his cover...but with a hateful sorrow which is eating ones heart inside out slowly.
*Hope you likey!* -___-;
Ill show this in Imanimetions later but now i have to go take a bath!
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awesome bg.
It's like the perfect grunge ^^
a definite fav from me
Good work ^^
wow 13 hours of great work Oracle. This wall is amazing, I like how you integrated the scan with the bg so well, and the bg is another fine example of your amazing grunge work. awesome wall!
I love the grunge of this wallpaper. it's so dark, but it has an almost delicate, antique look ot it, like an old cracked painted or soemthing. The characters blend so well. I think this is the best wall I've seen by you. ^_^ Definetly a fave.
Everything about this project says marvelous, ingenious. The way that the background is comprised of 'nostradamus' circles and bits of stolen text represent very well the confusion and hopelessness felt by such a heartbreaking mood as you describe. The text has been filtered and distorted to form an emotion all on it's own, supporting the image, which is tactfully used to tie all of it in together. The scan, which has obviously been painstakingly leveled to match everything else in the background, provides a focal point from the rest of confusion, like a good memory.
Oh, and good luck man. From what I can see, you've found a good outlet, and MT has found an excellent new favorite.
this definitely is a great wall man, and ive been waiting for someone to wall this short OVA series. frickin godly stuff man, definite fav from me!!
wow thats a great wallpaper
i love the background
i give it two thumbs up and if i had more thumbs they be up also
oracle! oracle! grunge king!
you got your skillz back? damn ><
my plan wont work then!
Anyway, i love your grunge wall XD
i so love the scan that you used ><
keep'em coming oracle.Because you will
feel more strong XD +fav
wow! this is g00d(>.<) although i don't know who the people are i still luv ur wall!*adds to fav*
Wow kewlies!
I like this anime :D Well...I've only read 3-4 volumes. I think.
It's good though!but sad.
I haven't experianced first love break up. It's probably because I haven't found the one I really love yet (excluding my family and friends!!)
But the day may come soon...
Awesome wall!
Strong emotions are the driving force for most artists. In this case, your feelings translate very well into this wall. The image along with the multiple layers of transparency all give the feeling of confusion yet show that you have something you are trying to focus on. Amidst all the noise is something clear yet because of so many other factors it may become hard to determine what that is. The dark earthy colors accentuate the pastel feel and texture of main image. The look on their faces goes well with the mood of the whole wall.
Hitsuji no Uta is one of my favorite mangas/ anime (like em both) because the story is simple yet the feelings behind the story are complex. The style is also appealling to me. I think the wall is excellent as a wallpaper and as an instrument for your expression. Great job!! (bows) -_-
awesome grunge work as usual OA-chan!
fits in perfectly with the scan... ^___^
beautiful work... the colours are really well matched... ^__^
It's great! *fav*
Wow....your emotions reflect on the great piece of work.
This is a keeper...
Such lovely grungy-ness. Like many other wallpapers you have created, this wallpaper blends all the elements into one complete piece. I have no idea what the series is about but seeing this wallpaper makes me want to check it out.
Really sweet grunge work. This is what all grunge walls should try to achive...because this is a masterful balance with brushes, effects, and layers. This wall defintely deserves a +fav ^^ Great work!!
The grunge backdrop is pretty radical and nice.
I like it.
And the blending effects is very good.
+Fav for me.
well i like it .. very nice brushwork and the colors works well for the emotion of this wallpaper =) .
O yeah! XD Very cool grunge wall, Oracle! The characters look so serious, full of angst! You also gave such
wonderful atmosphere! Like Shadowdude said and I quote:
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...you got your skillz back? damn >< ...
Great job, OA! ^_^V
damn fine piece,... I love the colors most... ;)
all the grunginess feel really suits the couple...
and your feelings, too, I sppose...
awsome... +fav
only complaint is about the title text being a bit too big (almost touches the left border, zomg) ^_^'
ooo....i'm diggin this wall OA :D i really love the typo treatment and the brush work/textures are awesome!! XP great stuff :D
woah, nice! i love the colors on this one, makes me kind of meloncholy. anywho, great wall, keep em coming XD
As the others have already mentioned, you can tell that a lot of emotion was put into this which definitely makes it more appreciable. Great stuff as always OA!
Great blending effects as always ^-^;
Say, have you ever entered blending contests? You'd so win.... :D
Hm.... Well, I'm still young ^^; Haven't really had a first love yet... so I can't really relate ^^; But I do hope you feel better ^^; There are still happy things in the world. Just as long as you don't drown in the sad things, it'll be okay, right? ^-^;
Once again there comes an awesome grunge wallpaper from you.
Excellent work. :)
This wallpaper is very good-looking.the character and the background merge well.. The colour fix well..
I very like it .thanks for your share.
+FAV 4 u!* Keep it up! ^^
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If your students are intrigued by the trebuchets they see in movies or on TV, this book is sure to be a hit! It details the history of such devices and adds instructions to make them! From Alexander the Great's Cabulus to John Crabbe's ship-mounted catapults, The Art of the Catapult really attacks the science and history of this amazing weapon.


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Five moms in Japan are trying a new fad to deal with their post-pregnancy aches and pains. A midwife from Kyoto thought mimicking the way they swaddle babies.
Otonamaki, or "adult wrapping," involves laying on the ground with your knees against your chest with a blanket wrapped around you. Then, they roll you around while in this position. It is meant to help with post-labor shoulder and hip pain. They roll you around on cushions while you are wrapped up.
A chiropractor, Shiro Oba, is not a fan of this. He said:
"There may be cases where people with asthma may find it easier to breath (in that position), but once the cloth is off it's the same thing."
"… But apart from that, I just can't think of how people can benefit from this even as a form of reflexology or exercise."
Being stretched like this is similar to many yoga positions. Plus, being rocked back and forth might be comforting. It could have the same health benefits that yoga does.
The benefits of this have not been studied, so we're not sure what the effects are. I would think you'd get claustrophobic, but maybe that's just me.
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Applying for Vocational and Technical courses
If you are applying for a BTEC, UAL, NVQ, City and Guilds Diploma, etc. head to the course page of the subject you are interested in and click the 'apply' button. You only need to apply for one course and we will invite you in for an interview for this programnme. Browse our courses.
Applying for A Levels
If you are applying for an A Level programme, head to one of the A Level subject pages that you want to study and click 'apply'. You will only need to apply once, you do not need to apply for each of the A Level courses that you want to study. Once we have your application, we will invite you in for your A Level interview, this is where you will need to confirm which three A Levels you want to take. Browse our A Level subjects.
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Please note that this process has changed slightly due to restrictions around coronavirus. Details of the new process are available here.
After you have submitted your online application you will be invited to attend an interview at the College. Don't worry – we call it an interview but it's more of a chat to go through your application and make sure that the course(s) you have chosen are right for you. You will be asked for your predicted grades, if you do not have these at the time of your interview you will just need to provide these at a later date.
We will email and text you to confirm the date and time of your interview, which is usually within two weeks of receiving your application. However, this can be longer during busy periods. If this date and time isn't suitable, then just let us know and we'll change it (details on how to do this will be in the email). We'll also send a reminder couple of days before your interview and another one on the morning of your interview.
When you arrive, our Commissionaires at the front gate will direct you to a temporary reception where you will be greeted by our friendly team who will tell you where you need to go. You will be sent to a waiting area with others who have also come in for their interview. Your teacher will collect you and you will have your interview. This process should take between 30 minutes to an hour, but may take longer with some of the more popular subjects or subjects where an audition is required.
At the end of your interview, you'll be given the following:
- A welcome pack which contains information about the college
- Email confirmation of your offer shortly after this (usually the following Friday). You will need to respond to this email to accept the offer.
Remember, we are here to help you at all stages of your student journey!
Closing date
We do not have a closing date for applications but we advise that you apply as early as possible during the academic year - usually all interviews/offers would be completed be the end of June.
The offer
If we offer you a conditional place during your interview it means that provided you meet our entry criteria, which will be based on your GCSE results, you will be able to start your course in September.
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13 ISAF soldiers among 18 dead in Kabul attack
13 ISAF soldiers among 18 dead in Kabul attack
KABUL (PAN): Thirteen International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) troops were among 18 people killed in a car suicide bombing in Afghanistan's heavily fortified capital Kabul on Saturday, officials said.
The attacker detonated his explosives-laden vehicle near a convoy of foreign troops in front of the Afghan National Army (ANA) Recruitment Centre at around 11:30am, Kabul police criminal investigation department chief, Brig. Gen. Mohammad Zahir, told Pajhwok Afghan News.
"Initial reports indicate that 13 International Security Assistance Force servicemembers died following an improvised explosive device attack in Kabul earlier today," the NATO-led force said in a brief statement.
In line with its policy, the multinational force did not give the victims' nationalities. With the latest fatalities, the number of international soldiers killed in Afghanistan so far during the current has gone up to 512.
Witnesses said foreign soldiers, Afghan civilians and at least one policeman were among those killed in the massive explosion. One man, who did not want to be named, claimed seeing the mutilated bodies of foreign troops at the scene.
He said the dead bodies of a child, a woman and two men were also lying at the site of the attack. Another witness, Ahmad Farid, said: "A US military vehicle turned turtle due to the explosion."
Farid had no information about casualties inflicted on ISAF soldiers, saying a motorised-rickshaw driver was killed and another civilian wounded in the attack.
Istiqlal Hospital Director Dr. Ali Aishan confirmed receiving two bodies and eight injured people. The dead included a policeman and a civilian, he said, adding two children and as many civilians were among the injured.
A Pajhwok reporter at the scene saw two helicopters airlifting some of the injured and dead bodies.
Brig. Gen. Mohammad Zahir said the dead included civilians and foreign troops, but he had no specific figure.
The attack happened 200 metres from a gathering of parliamentarians, who were marking the fourth death anniversary of their colleagues killed in a 2007 suicide attack in northern Baghlan province. The blast shattered window glasses of the building.
As usual, the Taliban immediately claimed responsibility for the suicide assault. Rebel spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said 25 foreign soldiers and an Afghan civilian had been killed. He also acknowledged injuries to three civilians.
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Recommend A… Book With A Character Who Plays Sports
Recommend A… is a weekly meme hosted by Shanyn at Chick Loves Lit.
The Recommend A… topic this week is book with a character who plays a sport. Trying to think of a recommendation was kinda difficult, I really haven't read all that many books featuring sports although I am a sport fan. Only three books or series came to mind, Harry Potter, Catching Jordan and The Chicago Stars Series by Susan Elizabeth Phillips. All of these books are really good and I could easily recommend them all but for this post I'm going to suggest The Chicago Stars. The series is comprised of seven books that feature the lives and loves of the players and owners of the Chicago Stars American Football team. I adore these stories, they are so much fun and Susan Elizabeth Phillips writes great comedy scenes.
It Had To Be You – Susan Elizabeth PhillipsSeries: Chicago Stars #1 Genre: Romance Published: August 1994 Links: Amazon Book Depository
The Windy City isn't quite ready for Phoebe Somerville — the outrageous, curvaceous New York knockout who has just inherited the Chicago Stars football team. And Phoebe is definitely not prepared for the Stars' head coach Dan Celebow, a sexist jock taskmaster with a one-track mind. Celebow is everything Phoebe abhors. And the sexy new boss is everything Dan despises – a meddling bimbo who doesn't know a pigskin from a pitcher's mound.
So why is he drawn to the shameless sexpot like a heat-seeking missile? And why does the coach's good ol' boy charm leave cosmopolitan Phoebe feeling awkward, tongue-tied…and ready to fight?
August 27, 2012 8:37 pm
My sis loooves these. I think it sounds like. Vacation read I need to check out too!
August 27, 2012 10:19 pm
Oh my gosh, this is currently in my TBR pile! My bookish bff recommended it to me b/c I am a lover of romances and she is generally a hater…but she loved this one. Actually, she loved the whole series. It's like good book karma to see it recommended 😉
August 28, 2012 1:46 am
this looks like a fun read! loving the dog too! so cute! haha
August 28, 2012 2:40 am
Oh this sounds like a good fun read. I have been loving the fluffy romances lately so this sounds right in line with that!


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2015 Aditu Field School in Roman and Mortuary Archaeology and Osteology
Aditu Archaeology
In 2015, join us for the 6th season of excavations at the Roman site and Medieval monastery of Santa Maria de Zamartze (Navarre, northern Spain- Basque Country)
Project Description
The Zamartze Mortuary Archaeology Field School is run as part of a research project investigating the sequence from the Roman times to the Middle Ages, including the exhumation of human burials, at the medieval monastic complex of Zamartze in the municipality of Uharte-Arakil (Navarre, Spain). The main element in the site is a 12th century Romanesque church built on top of an earlier Roman mansio along the ancient Roman road from Astorga to Bordeaux. Restoration works to the complex in 2005 revealed Medieval graves and Roman structures. The primary goal of the project is to gain knowledge of life in the Roman times, and to investigate the population of this part of Navarre during the Medieval period. Graves found to date are from between the 9th and the 14th century AD, and over 130 individual burials have been uncovered in the last years. The project aims at using the individuals recovered from this cemetery to perform a thorough study of the diet, pathology and bioprofile (age, sex, stature) of this Medieval site's population that could be extrapolated to the region, as little is known about this area's Medieval population. Stone tombs, as well as earlier earth-cut burials surrounding the church are excavated.
The field school is aimed at students or graduates of archaeology and physical or forensic anthropology who wish to gain hands-on experience in the excavation of Roman and Medieval stratigraphy and/or human remains. We offer two types of participation: the Roman Field School, focusing on the Roman part of the site, and the Mortuary Field School, excavating and studying the Medieval burials. There is a large laboratory component to the school, with time divided evenly between the field and laboratory.
There are daily lectures and lab classes on skeletal anatomy, excavation techniques, as well as Roman and Basque archaeology, although the major component of the school is field and labwork, with students working an average of 7-8 hours per day. Throughout the course, students become proficient in carrying out all aspects of an excavation, and if choosing to focus on the mortuary part of the dig, the students also learn how to carry out osteological analysis, including the determination of age, sex, stature and identification of pathologies. The focus of the fieldschool is to prepare the students on architectonical research, Roman history, and/or burial excavation, documentation methods and laboratory techniques related to anthropological analysis, depending on the student's preferred subject.
Period(s) of Occupation: Roman (1st to 4th centuries AD), and Medieval (9th-14th centuries AD)
Archaeological or Osteological knowledge is preferred, but is not a requirement for participation.
Room and Board Arrangements:
Board and accommodation will be provided in the nearby village of
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short walk from the site. Meals are cooked for students during
workdays, and the accommodation has showers, kitchen, living rooms with
TVs, etc.
Cost: €1700 per three week session
Sessions: July 6th to 30th, and August 6th to 30th, 2015
Minimum Length of Stay for Volunteers: One full session
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Gold and Miners have done nothing wrong to warrant me selling them today. In fact, they have performed beyond expectations since I called for a Gold rally in my June 6 podcast for DailyFX and again updated Gold thesis for SeeItMarket this August.
Samantha LaDuc, July 25, 2019 to clients pre-FOMC July 31st.
During the last 2 rate cut cycles, it paid to buy Gold and Silver after the first rate cut. See chart wherein the Fed cut nominal rates in late 2007 causing real interest rates (yields on 3-month Treasury bills less CPI inflation) to fall, which caused a strong run in Gold for first half of 2008 before strongly pulling back and then relaunching in 2009 for a multi-year run.
Well, they have run!
Both Bonds and Gold based (stopped going down) in October before Gold reversed trend in November, Bonds in December and Silver not until this summer with Miners – and ALL the while the US Dollar grinded ever so methodically higher. Yen has been slow to launch, but I think it's next: Yen Nears Escape Velocity.
Brokerage-Triggered Trade Alerts!
So why did I sell today? Because I think these metals are parabolas with a case of vertigo and likely strongly pull back before they relaunch. Again, here is what I wrote to clients and later for SeeItMarket:
During the last 2 rate cut cycles, it paid to buy Gold and Silver after the first rate cut.
And here were my bullet points for my June 6th podcast with DailyFx with my case for Gold:
- Gold price divergence: price was stable/outperforming "industrial metals" like platinum and silver – this was bullish
- Both realized and implied volatility were at record lows.
- Macro backdrop distrusts Central Bank actions – or maybe more specifically their ability to act when they need to next.
- My Bullish Percent Gold Miners Index was extremely oversold.
- Gold usually trades down into an FOMC meeting, but as soon as market priced in rate cuts, Gold soared as USD pulled back and yields dropped hard.
Fast forward three months:
- Gold price divergence has closed greatly compared to silver and platinum.
- Realized and implied volatility are at record highs for Gold.
- Macro backdrop is still full of Central Bank distrust but so is the case that Negative Interest Rates are Negative.
- My Bullish Percent Gold Miners Index is extremely overbought.
- And Gold usually trades down into FOMC, which is coming up in two weeks.
Well, I got the Silver part right but the Market hasn't fallen, yet. We shall see what FOMC has to say about that September 18th!
In the meantime, I will be watching this very important Gold:Silver ratio that my friend Chris Kimble put out today:
I saw this great chart after I sold my GLD and GDX positions, but it does illustrate an excellent example of when it makes sense, for me, to re-enter: WHEN this trend-line breaks but I think it will do a bit of digesting there first.
But when it does… there is a high-probability bet that there is no safety in stocks or bonds. Everyone will buy Gold and every penny-stock gold mining shop will rise 1000 fold.
Be careful what you wish for!!


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Cute moment with my crush
When I was in 6th grade, I was in this advanced class with my crush, Tyler, and some other people. It was a class that will give you a higher chance of getting in a good college. But anyways, we were making a paper boat that was supposed to go fast on the water. So, then I got up to go get tape. When I tried cutting out the tape with a scissor, I noticed Tyler coming towards and said, "Where's the tape?" I faced him, showing him the tape. I rushed the scissor to cut the tape quickly but I wouldn't budge. He chuckled and took the scissors and tape away from me and said, "I'll cut it for you." And he did. I said, "Thanks..." I was blushing. Oh, how cute he was.
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Evening Family, Whanau and Friends,
Today we had another day of special meetings and exploration. After the usual morning routines, we went ashore near where we were anchored, a place called Butler's Point. Tim had organised for us to meet the caretakers at the Museum there. Terry and Jan, showed us around the whaling artefacts, Captain Butler's old homestead, and the Pa site. They also told us how whalers would hunt whales off our coasts and make stops at places like Mangonui Harbour to trade for supplies and repair their ships. We saw some big whale skulls and old tools used to spear and process the whales. We also got to run about and explore the inside of the homestead and saw the view for the top of the pa site overlooking the harbour entrance. We had to get away though by midday so after thank yous and good byes we set sails and left down the coast. It was a bit wet and rocky! But we didn't mind. Infact after the work of setting sails was done Maioha, Dan, Toa, Nicholas, and Cody went out to ride the "Horse" aka the ships Bow Spit and we rode high and low over the ocean swell. We sailed for several hours heading down the coast before stopping for the night. Currently, All trainees are ashore with Tim, Pania and Tony, exploring the shoreline and hills. Soon they will be back though, dinner is cooking!
So draws us to a close of our fourth day here. We are anchored in Mahinerua Bay for the night and on our way now towards Opua.
Evening Family, Whanau and Friends,


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After the two teams were tied 1-1 after overtime, the Bemidji Lumberjacks girls soccer team defeated Sartell-St. Stephen in penalty kicks 4-1 to advance to the state tournament for the second straight year.
"I thought that I was going to have a heart attack," said senior Miciah Renn. "It is so nerve-racking. I would almost take the PK than stand there and watch because all I can do is support my team, and that's what we did. We held hands, we prayed, and it was intense, let me say."
"I honestly don't have words for it," said senior Harper Toward. "It's amazing, us and the boys winning on the same night, at our home field? Wow, I just don't have words."
"Honestly, when the girl was walking up I was watching her body language and I kind of just knew where it was going," said goalie Ali Beard about her save in PKs. "So, just a good way to read body language on my part I guess."
"I think it means progress," said head coach Logan Larsen. "Last year we went to state, we were nervous. We have most of our girls back. Of course, winning sections was a humongous goal, but we'd love to play at the U.S. Bank Stadium, so that's the next big step we'd love to see that happen for us."
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Although Hyper-V is normally very reliable, I have on occasion run into situations in which a previously functioning VM refuses to start. In this article, I wanted to outline a few different potential causes and solutions in case you find yourself with a Hyper-V virtual machine that won't start.
The error message
When a virtual machine fails to start, the underlying cause is usually obvious. If, for example, the VM is asking for more memory than what the Hyper-V host can provide, then you will receive an error message like the one shown below.
Other times, however, Hyper-V does not give you any information regarding the error's underlying cause. This morning, for example, I tried to boot a previously healthy virtual machine that I hadn't used in a few months. Upon doing so I received the error message shown below.
I have encountered this and similar error messages on real-world, production systems on a few occasions. The biggest mistake that I typically see admins make as they try to resolve the problem is that of assuming that the virtual hard disk is to blame. While it is true that guest operating system corruption can cause a boot failure, error messages like the one shown above occur before Hyper-V even tries to load the guest OS. Remember, the error message indicates that Hyper-V is unable to change the virtual machine's state. The guest OS cannot boot until the VM reflects a state of "running." Hence, the problem is tied to the virtual machine's configuration, not to the guest operating system.
The event logs
When faced with a VM that is refusing to start for an unknown reason, the very first thing that I recommend doing is checking the event logs. Specifically, I recommend checking out the Applications and Services \ Microsoft \ Windows \ Hyper-V-VMMS \ Admin log. In many cases, this log will tell you the exact cause of the error. In the case of the event logs indicating that the reason why the VM cannot start is because its virtual DVD drive is pointing to an ISO file that no longer exists. You can see what this looks like in the screenshot below.
This brings up another important point. If you look at the virtual machine's settings, which you can see in the next screenshot, you will notice that this VM is configured to boot from a virtual hard disk. Therefore, a misconfigured virtual DVD drive can cause a VM boot failure, even if the VM is not attempting to boot from the virtual DVD.
Virtual network problems
Believe it or not, virtual network configuration errors can also cause a condition in which a VM is unable to start. I'm not even necessarily talking about a VM that has been configured to perform a PXE boot. Here is what a network-related VM boot problem looks like:
Once again, the error message is less than helpful because it doesn't provide any information that tells why the VM cannot be started. In case you are wondering though, the event log that I mentioned earlier does provide the reason for the failure.
The way that I caused the error shown above was to create a virtual machine and then delete the virtual switch that the VM was configured to use. If you look at the VM settings in the screenshot below, you can see that the virtual machine's network adapter is reflecting a configuration error.
As you can see in the next screenshot, the Event Viewer specifically states that an error has occurred because the virtual switch could not be found.
There is at least one more problem that can cause a VM to be unable to start. Earlier in this article, I mentioned that errors in which a VM is unable to change states are not related to the contents of the VM's virtual hard disk. Even so, the error message shown below might initially seem to suggest otherwise since it indicates that the VM failed to start because a file could not be found.
Although this error message mentions that a file could not be found, it is not talking about an operating system file within the VM's virtual hard disk. What the error message is really telling you is that Hyper-V could not find the virtual hard disk itself. In fact, I triggered this error by creating a new VM and then deleting its virtual hard disk. You can see the corresponding event log entry in the screenshot below.
Hyper-V virtual machine won't start? Always check the Event Viewer
Over the years, I have seen several situations in which a Hyper-V virtual machine won't start even though there was plenty of memory (and other host resources) available. The vast majority of the real-world situations that I have encountered were tied to storage mapping problems. For example, a host might have lost its connectivity to iSCSI storage, or someone moved some files in order to free up space and forgot to reconfigure the VM.
If you find yourself with a Hyper-V virtual machine that won't start, I strongly recommend using the Event Viewer as the very first step in the troubleshooting process. In most cases, the Event Viewer will give you detailed information about the error message that is far more helpful than the information provided by the Hyper-V Manager.
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I'm thinking that you won't be able to legally license a 535d for love nor money as there is probably no way to convert one to operate as cleanly as would be required to meet federal emmissions standards. Your best bet would be to either buy a gasser at diplomatic prices or wait until the BMW diesels are available on our side of the pond.
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Thanks. Was wondering if anyone was reading this board since the post prior to mine was a year old.
Hoping you're wrong but I really don't know. I'm definitely more interested in a diesel than a hybrid and need some good economy since I will be returning to southern California and even a normal commute is 30 miles each way.
Why don't you think I could convert it? Someone told me they have to replace the headlights, tail lights, windshield? and maybe a few other items.
Boy, US market is missing out. This heavy, safe, beautiful car can get about 55mpg on the highway.0
Because California HATES diesels. Why? Emissions, period, full stop, the end. To say that it would be near impossible to get a 535d licensed in the non-CARB states would be an understatement, to get it licensed in California would most likely require divine intervention, and the last time I checked, the deities weren't acting on the prayers of American diesel lovers. :P
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Thanks Shipo,
How about if I bring in as a used car since I'll own it over here for at least 8-9 months?
How do others get VW TDIs and MB diesels registered there?0
Nope, not going to work either. In the case of the VW and Mercedes-Benz diesels, they meet the pollution requirements as set forth by the EPA. In fact, technically the Mercedes-Benz meets the CARB requirements as well, however, California pulled a fast one at the last minute and changed the rules regarding the Blue-Tec urea canister (which has to be refilled every 7,500 miles or so). Now the only way to legally license these cars in California is to wait until the car has over ~7,500 miles on the odometer.
That said, since the BMW diesels don't even meet the U.S. EPA emissions standards, you won't even be able to legally get the car in the country much less to California. As I said before, you need to wait for BMW to release a U.S. spec diesel, and that probably won't happen until 2009 or 2010.
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gagrice Pahrump, NevadaPosts: 31,450The car has to be USA certified for both safety and emissions. I still remember Bill Gates with his $900,000 Porsche impounded because it was not crash tested to US standards. I think you are looking at a giant hassle that you will lose. Get a Mercedes E320CDI that is US approved and with 7500 miles you can register it in CA. I know of several people that took European delivery on a Mercedes diesel. It has to be a legal US vehicle. So far BMW has not brought any diesels to the US. An X5 diesel would be to my liking for sure.0
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1. Edan
Granite grey and bellicose, the rain clouds swept down from the distant northern sea. Funnelled between mountains and out onto the flat plains of the Summer Lands they emptied themselves over the marshes where Edan's Tribe were struggling their way north.
Bluebottle-fat raindrops drummed off their upturned faces, splashing staccato amongst the reeds and soaking the soft leather of their clothes. Falling curtains of rain hid the pale spring sun, turning the marshlands brown and drab. When it became clear that this was more than a passing shower they looked for shelter. The Elder, whose knowledge of the land was legendary, and whose pride in his navigational abilities was equally large, kept insisting that the next dip or turn of the path would reveal a copse or a stand of trees where they could find refuge, but the only things that emerged from the rain were leafless willows and gurgling sedge.
"We're lost, aren't we?" said Uch, the younger of the Tribe's two Hunters. "You don't know where we are."
"Of course I know!" the Elder snapped, striding ahead.
Edan held his tongue. As the youngest male it wasn't his place to speak out, but he suspected that Uch was right. Of course he trusted the Elder's wisdom, but the once familiar landscape of the Summer Lands had changed almost beyond all recognition, vanishing under creeping waters and floods that never receded. Seven days before, when they had set out from the Winter Home to make for the Summer Hunting Grounds, the route had been familiar enough, worn by the feet of countless generations; but with each passing day they had recognised less and less.
The journey had been ill-omened from the start, or so Edan thought. The winter snows had lingered, wrapping the edge of the Great Wood in ice well into the spring, and they had already been short of food before they set out. When the girls - Brina and Morna - had gone to fill the beech nut sacks, they had come out half empty. And Cinnia - Second Mother now - had given birth to her first child at the tail end of winter. She carried the baby swaddled in elk fur, but he was still so small. Would a few weeks more in the winter country have been so bad? Tradition demanded that they set out when the first full Moon of spring rose over the Long Stone, and arrive at the coast by the following dark; but would the moon really have been angered if they had waited till the baby had been named before they left? Edan gritted his teeth at the unpleasant chill of raindrops trickling down the small of his back and thought bad things about Tradition.
Eventually the rain slackened off, but not before most of them were wet through and tired. Only then did the Elder call a halt, striding off alone and stiff-backed up a rise to 'survey the land ahead.'
Edan crouched down by the edge of the trail, trying to recognise something, anything, familiar in the land around him. Had this curve of water been grass the year before? Was the flat rock he could see just beneath the water the one from which he had caught that magnificent pike the pervious autumn? He couldn't tell.
A little way ahead, at the base of the rise First Mother was organising the others into a makeshift camp, obviously glad of the excuse to rest. There was a stand of alder trees clustered at the edge of the water, Edan thought that they looked like arrow heads poking up out of the earth. By the time Edan joined them the rest of the Tribe had settled gratefully in the lee of the trees, dumping their burdens on the ground and hanging their wet clothes on the branches to dry.
Edan stood a little way off from the others, his pack still on his back and his fishing spear in his hand. He stared out over the water beyond the alders, trying to spy the landmarks that he guessed the Elder would be looking for. All he could see were reed beds and murky water, heavy with silt, spreading out in every direction. A faint pall of mist, drawn out of the reeds by the sun, drifted over the water, curling around the pale bones of leafless birch trees overrun by the water.
The Tribe had caught a roe deer buck three days before and a little of the meat remained. Now First Mother set to work slicing thin strips off the haunch, wolfing down the first before setting aside the others. The girls pooled the remaining beech nuts, while Grandmother, whose teeth were worn almost to stubs, began to chew dry roots, softening them with her spit. Second Mother's baby began to cry, a reedy plaintive wail that echoed out over the mere until she shushed him, pulling her furs close and curling up against the alders. In moments she was asleep. The journey had been especially hard on her.
Edan waited for Maccus to take up his bow or spear. Maccus was the Hunter, and by rights he should call for a hunt. Surely he could see that they needed food; but he only pulled his buckskins closer and stared northwards. Uch, as Second Hunter, could have raised the matter, but he paced uneasily near to Second Mother and his baby, his eyes on the hill as if he wanted to follow the Elder. What was Maccus thinking? It was hard to guess - Maccus always kept his own counsel. Maybe he was thinking that if Second Mother's baby survived then she might become First Mother, and Uch the Hunter. Maybe he was thinking that the infant might not survive the trip. Edan checked himself; bad thoughts, ill chance. Better to think of something else.
Edan's belly rumbled. He could see that there were birds on the water, and surely there would be fish as well. He might not be the Hunter, but he was still the Fisher, for what that was worth. He did not have a bow or sling to hunt the birds, but he had his fishing spear, which for the past seven days he had used as a walking stick, with a bag of soft hide to cover the head and make sure that the rain could not soften the sinew bindings. He was sure that the spirit of the spear must have chafed at his disrespect. It had not been made for walking, and he would be doing it honour to hunt with it now, or so he told himself.
His own Father had given him the spear; it was his treasure. He had crafted the two points from deer antler, cutting teeth with a flint blade and smoothing them against a stone, before binding them into the shaft with sinew and pine resin. That had been at their old home by the sea; before the sea had washed it away; before everything had changed. Across the space of years he could still smell the pungent woodsmoke, and the sharp tang of fresh resin. Father's fingers had been stained dark from working the pine pitch soft, but they had been quick and sure, binding the points with practiced ease while Edan had watched with wide eyes from the shelter of the hut door. He'd tried tying his own knots with the scraps that Father had left over, but his finger's didn't have the knack of it. It would honour his Father, too, to use the spear … and fill his belly.
There was a splash and a scatter of small birds. Almost without meaning too Edan had slipped away into the reeds, hurrying off the rise before First Mother or Maccus could call him back. A shock of cold water immersed him to the knees. He'd unbound his leggings and left them on the bank, and now he felt his way through the water with his toes, feeling roots and the tickle of little fish brush by. The sounds of his family faded away as he went deeper into the marsh, replaced by the buzz of insects and the soft splash of frogs. There were trout lurking amongst the sedge, hovering at the edge of the current. He could see the golden glint of their scales in the brown water, constantly sliding away as he approached them. He brushed his fishing charm with the tips of his fingers for luck, feeling the soft indents of carvings worn smooth by countless such touches. He came up on the fish slowly, his spear raised and arms spread like a crane's wings, so that they did not see the edge of his shadow crossing them and scare.
Most of the fish made quick exits as he got close, but one fat trout was nibbling at some shoots and lagged behind. With a quick strike he snared it between the two prongs of his spear, jerking it from the river in a bright spray of water, and grabbing it before it could get away from him. It struggled in his grasp, strong and cold, before he got his fingers in it's mouth and snapped it's neck. When it stopped thrashing he put it in the woven satchel at his hip and looked for another, but the shoal had sped away on the current.
He glanced back at the hill and the alder trees, surprised to see how far he had already come. Only one figure was visible, a splash of pale fur and a shock of tangled black hair - Uch, still pacing. One little fish would hardly feed all of them, nor would it justify his offence in going hunting before Maccus. There was no choice but to keep looking.
Away from the reed beds the water ran faster and more powerfully, pushing insistently at Edan's legs as he waded into it. He stepped back, hesitating on the edge of the open water, his guts clenching in sudden fear. What good are you, he berated himself, a man afraid of water in a land covered in it. Tentatively he prodded ahead with the shaft of his spear, trying to persuade himself that it wasn't too deep, then forced himself to stop wasting time and stride forward like a proper Hunter. The water was amber brown, filled with drowned grass and silt, and he went straight into a hidden drop, the water surging up to his waist. At once the old familiar terror returned full force, the tumble of black water in the night, the numbing cold, the grasping hands, and he almost lost his footing. He jerked backwards, his back colliding with something solid under the water. His questing hands found cold wood, invisible in the water's murk, and he scrambled onto a submerged structure sunk into the river's muddy depths.
Reaching down Edan felt at the solid wood under his feet, cool and smooth in the current. His fingertips explored beams stripped of bark and posts festooned with weed and algae; all reassuringly solid. It called up a childhood memory of the Marsh people who had once made their homes along the inland rivers. When the Tribe had passed by on their journeys the Marsh people would come out to watch, standing in silent groups at the mouths of huts built out into the water. Edan could picture their serious faces, painted white with clay like the faces of coots. The Marsh people had driven stakes into the river bed and laid boles of wood on top of them, edged with woven hurdles, forming paths across the water. Maybe the solid wood beneath Edan's feet was the remains of one of their pathways, swallowed by the water. No other trace of the Marsh people remained above the rushing water.
Edan followed the submerged walkway deeper into the braided channels and swaying reeds. The sun was hot overhead and the water was cool. Little fish, too small for him to catch, darted around his ankles as he moved along, while a pair of ducks watched him from a distance, bobbing with the current. Ahead of him a ridge cast a long shadow across the water, the dark slope cloaked with leafless trees. Drifts of brushwood clogged the dead trunks where some surge of water had left them. Edan stared at the debris for a long time before he realised that he was seeing the wreckage of wooden platforms and birch back roofing, swollen and darkened by the water. Some trace of the Marsh people remained after all, and this was it. The realisation changed the view before his eyes. The pallid roots in the murky water became fingers, grasping blindly for some trace of life. Driftwood skeletons clung to the ruin of their former homes, festooned with cattail hair and golden flowers for eyes, clutching for what was once their's despite the rushing water. Within the weed choked ruin the silent shapes of the dead watched him with cold serious faces. This was a taboo place, sacred ground, forbidden to the living. Only the old wood beneath his feet, placed so that the living might cross the water, kept him safe.
The sun passed behind gathering clouds, and the sudden chill broke Edan from his daze. The skeletons became branches, the grasping hands became roots and the pale faces faded back into the water's depths and were gone. He dragged his eyes away from the ruin of the Marsh people's huts, up to the ridge and its living trees, and received a second shock. On the ridge-top a figure had appeared, silhouetted black by the pale sun. He held a long spear in his hands, and his head was crested with an animal's fur and ears. For a long terrifying moment Edan took him for another spirit, and his hand went instinctively to the charms strung about his neck, the hunting charm and the mother's charm and the carved tooth that had been his first. If this was an ancestor of the Marsh people come to punish him for breaking taboo then there was nothing that he could do but hope that his own Spirits might protect him. The figure was silent, unmoving. Then more figures joined the first, spear-armed men without the features of animals. Not spirits then but strangers, people not of the Tribe.
His first instinct was to raise his own spear in a sign of greeting, but caution stayed his hand. There had been tales of violence in the Summer Lands, of people breaking all Tradition by laying spear and axe on one another. Tradition said he should bid the strangers welcome, but fear said otherwise.
A surge of water and the sudden touch of a hand on his arm made him cry out, but it was not a ghost of the drowned, only Maccus, come to chastise him for hunting out of turn. The Hunter had also seen the distant figures and any punishment was forgotten for now. "Stand Still," he whispered, "Stay Silent." And then, "Not all strangers are welcome in these days."
The warning came too late. Edan and Maccus had been seen. On the shadowed ridge the first of the distant figures raised a spear, held horizontal against the sun in the sign of greeting. There would be a meeting after all.


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Care givers from Royal Seed Home as part of Mothers' Day celebration were giving a treat at the Marie Noelle's Spa and Salon in Osu, Accra.
"Mrs. Jackie who is a colleague of Mrs. Duah who runs the home reached out to us to help in pampering the mothers of the home and we are glad to be part of this."
The PRO to Marie Noelles Spa and Salon; Awo Yaa Mensah said. "They take care of 135 orphans so to give them this treat as break from all this hard work is a great thing for us and we are happy to be part of this."
"We are socially responsible company looking to inject ourselves into the community in any positive way we can and this is a great opportunity for us to show that side of Marie Noelles Spa and Salon. It's the first time and we are open to many of this in the future. We believe in relaxation and rejuvenation as a spa and looks to give them this one time chance to experience our spa."
There's going to be a banquet and awards ceremony which is going to be on Sunday. It's going to be an appreciation lunch and to make the mothers relax and feel pampered enough for their appreciation day which will happen at Odupong Ofaakor.
"I'm happy and very surprised at the gesture because I never imagined I was going to get this kind of pampering on this day." Founder of the Royal Seed Home Mrs. Naomi Esi Amoah said.
"I grew up in a setting where my father told me girl child education was not important and I ended up being a street child, through the hustle and bustle I found my way through life somehow and I have vowed to help the less privileged."
Royal Seed Home started 12 years ago in Odupong Ofaakor, along the Kasoa – Bawjiase road in Central Region and some are in senior high school and many in nursing training and almost 17 are going to write BECE.
The vision of the home is to continuously enlarge its shelter of hope to cover as many deprived children as possible in Ghana.


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Noble, A (1974) Fish measuring board for racial investigations. Indian Journal of Fisheries, 20 (1). pp. 216-218.
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To measure the linear dimensions other than the total length of a fish for racial investigations, a board is designed and got fabricated. It has a mirror base and a half metre scale. There is a grooved wheel and two pulleys at its back, carrying a steel tape with a needle wire fixed at its zero. When the wheel is rotated the tape runs from left to right and the needle rides over the fish on the board. The tape gives the measurement and the rider helps to pin-point it avoiding parallax error. The board is waterproof, inexpensive and easy to make.
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I would rate City of Bones by Cassandra Clare 5 stars! This book was amazing. I think it is safe to say this is my new favourite series! Cassandra Clare sweeps you up into the Shadowhunter world, and you definitely won't want to put the book down, so make sure you set aside at least 2 hours every time you pick up the book. The book was amazingly written and I always found myself wanting to know more. I found that Clary's character was very relatable and likeable. Jace shows us that everyone has a story, and sometimes its ok to not want to let go of a part of your childhood. I really enjoyed how this book covered all aspects of a typical fantasy world, vampires, demons, werewolf's, faeries, and of course the hero that saves everyone in the end. I found that this book would appeal to fans of Harry Potter and Twilight. I am typically not a fantasy reader, but this book might make me become one! I never knew that an imaginary world could seem so realistic yet magical at the same time, it was amazing! I recommend this book for everyone and hope that everybody will have the joy of reading the mortal instruments series at least once in their life.
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City Of Bones by Cassandra Clare, I'm only putting a comment on the first book because there is so many, but let me tell you I absolutely loved the Mortal Instruments, The series is in my top 5 books, and let me just say. Bravo. I just loved it, it has so much suspense, and fantasy and it is so much fun to read, it fits my genre of books in every way possible, every page you turn there is something to catch your attention and you just can't stop, once you read the first book, it pulls you in and does not let you go, you just can't stop reading it.
This book is about Clary Fray when she decided one night to head to the Pandemonium night club in New York, While Clary is at the club she witnesses a murder. She can't believe what she is seeing the murderers are 3 teenagers that have a bunch of tattoos and have stranger murder weapons. Some totally strange shit is happening because the body disappears, the murdered are invisible to everyone else and there is no blood at all to be seen.
Clary is about to find out that this is her first meeting with Shadowhunters. And that her life about to change in soo many ways.
These books live up to there hype. It has a little of everything for everyone. Romance- ass-kicking - demons - vampires - magic. I totally like all the characters. They all have a little something special. I love the Jase and Clary relationship. I am team Jace all the way.
I recommend this book to someone that likes vampires and demons and all that stuff mixed with romance. Cassandra Clare's writing is awesome and the book cover is so pretty.
I give this book 5 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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Somewhat derivative of Harry Potter (the author used to write HP fanfiction apparently), but a fun and compelling story. I liked the characters and appreciated the effort to have diverse representation (compared to HP). I'm a grown-up, and I bought the book for my 13-year-old, but I appreciated the story and would recommend it to other adults as a fun read to do in between harder books. I plan to read the sequel.
Really good and I enjoyed it. The characters are amazing and I fell in love with the idea and world though the writing could be better. Over all an amazing sieres to invest in if you are ok with the quality. I have read a lot of them and its pretty good. Tottally recomended
While I love the concept, the writing killed it for me. Maybe if I had read this thirteen years ago when I was the intended audience I would've liked it more, but reading it many years after the fact and I like it significantly less than otherwise. There are parts of the book that seem a little hair-brained and derivative, and while I like most of the characters both on their own and as a group, some of them really come across as super cliche at times. It was an okay read, but I don't think I'll bother with the rest of the series.
I loved reading City of Bones, the first book in the Mortal Instruments series, because the plot was thrilling and I loved all of the characters. In this fantasy world, the main character, Clary Fray, is pulled into the world of Shadowhunters, where people hunt demons, when her mother goes missing. Clary learns a lot about herself and the world around her, where there are also all kinds of mythological creatures, such as vampires, werewolves, warlocks, and faeries. I loved the humor and the personalities of each character, as well as the link to the real world. City of Bones is one of my favorite books and I thought it was amazing!
An old fave that I first read back when it was published. Started my obsession with Cassandra Clare that continues to this day.
I'm not sure how I feel about this book. I have to remind myself that I'm an adult reading a YA novel and maybe that's why I can't connect with any of the characters. Then I thought about series like the Harry Potter and the Hunger Games that got me captivated and I didn't think my expectations were too high. Some parts I enjoyed, some parts I was annoyed with, and at times I was waiting for the book to be over. However, it was still entertaining and I'm planning to read the rest of the series. The only character I felt has any depth was Jace. I am a little annoyed of Clary because they make her into a heroine but I she's kind of useless at times and the whole every guy falls for her innocent/tomboyish attitude is so cliched. I hope I will get less annoyed by Clary and really see more of her "contribution" to the story other than waiting for other people to save her. There's a lot of different type of creatures in this novel so it's a little interesting.
Oh, my. If you don't like thinking about demons or good vs evil, or, even worse, confusing the two, then this is not the book for you, if you are willing to let go and let the story ride, you might get to fly on a vampire's motorcycle. It's a wonderful ride.
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"You're an idiot."
"I've never claimed to be otherwise."
Clary: "I don't want tea. I want to find my mother. And then I want to find out who took her in the first place, and I want to kill them.
Hodge: "Unfortunately, we're all out of bitter revenge at the moment, so it's either tea or nothing."
"A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers?"
-Jace Wayland
"Your friend's poetry is terrible," he said.
Clary blinked, caught momentarily off guard. "What?"
"I said his poetry was terrible. It sounds like he ate a dictionary and started vomiting up words at random."
Clary: "What are all these?"
Jace: "Vials of holy water, blessed knives, stell and silver blades, electrum wire--not much use at the moment but it's always good to have spares--silver bullets, charms of protection, crucifixes, stars of David--"
Clary: "Jesus."
Jace: "I doubt he'd fit."
Clary: "Jace."
Clary was appalled.
Jace: "Don't tell me. Simon's turned himself into an ocelot and you want me to do something about it before Isabelle makes him into a stole. Well, you'll have to wait till tomorrow. I'm out of commission."
He pointed at himself--he was wearing blue pajamas with a hole in the sleeve.
Jace: "Look. Jammies."
Clary: "Jace, this is important."
Jace: "Don't tell me. You've got a drawing emergency. You need a nude model. Well, I'm not in the mood. You could always ask Hodge. I hear he'll do anything for a--"
Clary: "JACE! JUST SHUT UP FOR A SECOND AND LISTEN, WILL YOU?"
Jace: "Don't tell me. Simon's turned himself into an ocelot and you want me to do something about it before Isabelle makes him into a stole. Well, you'll have to wait till tomorrow. I'm out of commission."
He pointed at himself--he was wearing blue pajamas with a hole in the sleeve.
Jace: "Look. Jammies."
Clary: "Jace, this is important."
Jace: "Don't tell me. You've got a drawing emergency. You need a nude model. Well, I'm not in the mood. You could always ask Hodge. I hear he'll do anything for a--"
Clary: "JACE! JUST SHUT UP FOR A SECOND AND LISTEN, WILL YOU?"
"The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me."
-Jace Wayland
"Just because you call an electric eel a rubber duck doesn't make it a rubber duck, does it? And God help the poor someone who decides they want to take a bath with the duckie."
-Jace Wayland
Alec: "What's this?"
He looked from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was doing there.
Jace: "It's a girl. Surely you've seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one."
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Sexual Content: Gay references/comments/situations, kissing, longing looks and romantic feelings.
Violence: Demon hunting, injuring/killing demons, werewolves, vampires, and humans.
Violence: This title contains Violence.
Coarse Language: This title contains Coarse Language.
Violence: This title contains Violence.
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Clarissa Fray (Fairchild/Morgenstern) is a Shadowhunter, and she get's mixed up in a world her mother tried so hard to hide from her, but failed when Valentine attacked her mother and kidnapped her somewhere in the Magical World. She find's love... well maybe she does, but she's only starting to get into the big mess
Clare finds that her mother has been kidnapped, and that she has the blood of an angel in her body that allows her to see legendary creatures of myth. Discovers she has a brother. hen retrieves the mortal cup finds out the bad guy is her father.
When clary enters the pandemonium club she hardly expects to witness a murder, especially one that only she seems to be able to see. Beginning with that night Clary gets plunged in to a hidden world of shadow hunters and downworlders. Starting with the disappearance of her mom and moving to the even more extreme, this book will leave you dying to read the whole series!
Great book about demons and Shadowhunters (demon slayers). This book becomes quite dark, interesting, and is a very good book. Highly suggest you read this book!
This is one of my favourite books. I love the characters, particularly Clary and Jace. The way Cassie Clare writes is wonderful, it is beautifully descriptive and witty. I fell in love with Jace in this book, and he remains my favourite male character. I also love Clary, she is 'one of us'.
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Their hidden world is about to be revealed...
When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder--much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Clary knows she should call the police, but it's hard to explain a murder when the body disappears into thin air and the murderers are invisible to everyone but Clary.
Equally startled by her ability to see them, the murderers explain themselves as Shadowhunters: a secret tribe of warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. Within twenty-four hours, Clary's mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a grotesque demon.
But why would demons be interested in ordinary mundanes like Clary and her mother? And how did Clary suddenly get the Sight? The Shadowhunters would like to know....
Through meeting Jace, Alec and Isabelle - teenaged defenders of demonic evil on earth - Clary becomes embroiled in a world class struggle of good and evil and realizes that she may have superhero traits of her own.


text: A couple of weeks ago I spent a few hours in the small town of Holyhead at the Welsh coast. I had accompanied my dad on a road trip to Dublin and we stopped in Holyhead for the night. After a short nap and dinner, I thought it was still to early and the weather too nice to be going straight to bed. So even though I was fairly tired, I grabbed my camera and took a walk along the coast.


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1 John 4:18 says, "There is no fear in love; instead, perfect love drives out fear…" This is a verse that inspires Haylee Nicole Whitson, daughter of LEW and Jill Whitson, to live out her faith on a daily basis. Throughout high school, Haylee has been involved with FCA, NHS, KAY, Forensics, the All-School Play, Art, Student Council, FFA, Cheer, Volleyball, Basketball, and Track. While participating in these activities, Haylee has also held several leadership roles, including being a member of the FCA Leadership team and NHS President. Haylee is also an active member of the Marysville Berean Youth Group, worship team, and youth ministries. Haylee has three other siblings, who she loves fiercely: Lamar IV (also known as Mar E.,) Jarret, and Emma. When asked who has influenced her the most, Haylee said, "My brother Mar E. has taught me a lot about walking with Christ, and being true to myself through each day."
Haylee's favorite memory from high school is the love that her father gave her for football. "I will never forget cheering for him and his boys under the Friday night lights, or staying up late to analyze film with him over the weekends." Her proudest moment from high school was medaling at State Forensics her sophomore and junior year. After graduation, Haylee plans on allowing God to use her to bring the hope of Christ Jesus into the world by completing a Discipleship Training School, and becoming a Christian missionary. As Haylee completes her schooling at Valley Heights, she will be remembered for sharing the love and joy of Christ to everyone she encountered.


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Just a couple of days ago I got a 'upgraded' to a pixi from a centro. I loved my centro, and I loathe this pixi. I don't like not having manual movement. I mean: I am not doing well with the touch screen only limitation. When trying to scroll pages I either go too fast and end up at the bottom of the page, or I touch to long or hard or something and end up selecting things I don't want. It took me a friggin' hour to browse the apps list the other night. I get almost no reception in my apartment. My centro didn't get fabulous reception here, but this thing is dropping calls left and right, and no one can hear me when I call them. When I browse the web every page I go to is tiny tiny tiny, the centro automatically made them phone friendly. And for some reason, I can only make it zoom sometimes, the rest of the time it just thinks I'm trying to select something, and takes me to pages I don't want. I find the menu confusing and limited. I mean, is a "settings" option really too much to ask for? I want the traditional "settings" option from which I can change ringers and alerts, change brightness, change, well, most any kind of "setting" in the darn thing. AND when I go to the facebook tile it'll show me I have notifications, and it'll let me see them but when I try to go to the photo a friend commented on or whatever it takes me to a page that just says "requested page can not be found". It exists, my computer finds it. What gives? And it's slooooowww. Like so very annoyingly slow.... There's some other stuff, but it's not coming to mind at the very moment... Soooo I'm thinking of trading it in for a Samsung Reclaim. Anyone have anything to suggest/say about any of this?
Ok, I guess this was useless.... : /
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I am with you 100%! I traded my Centro for a Pixi, too. And I have had all the troubles you have had! I can't find a user manual. I don't even know if the thing is on or not! Don't know how to bring up the screen. And what's with the battery!? It hardly lasts at all! My Centro was beginning to have battery problems and it STILL lasted longer than this Pixi. I hate it, too. My hands dry out in dry weather, and my fingers are rough and scratching up the screen (which is almost useless anyway, because I keep getting the wrong things, just like you!). I'll have to check and see if I'm still in my 30 day trial, and I'll send this stupid thing back and revert to my Centro! Think I'll just use it and get an iPad.
Sorry I'm of no help. But I do commiserate!
I feel the same way, Im not liking this phone at all. Im on the 3rd phone in 3 months. I going to change it out tomorrow.
Was thinking about the Pixi originally but now have the reclaim. Its decent, lots of good features. I hated the browser and was even going to trade the phone in until I downloaded Opera Mini and it made a 100% difference in speed and functionality. So here are my pros and cons of the Samsung Reclaim after a month
Small, lightweight, ergonomically comfortable to use
Colorful bright display
Superb menu functionality (sprint one-click)
Small slide out keyboard
Excellent features from Sprint
Too small of keyboard (takes practice)
Battery life short when doing anything with data
Phone quality ok
Browser is the worst I have ever used (get opera mini instead)
A good value phone with a ton of features. For me, paying the 69.99 data everything is better than paying 100+ for an android phone. Most people will find they can do all they need on this phone. Next time maybe consider a smart phone, but for the next year this will more than satisfy my needs (data, text, talk) in that order.
I got plam pixi for my wife recently. Though it is light weight and sleek, its battery drains out every 10 hours (without using) and surprisingly the clock never shows the right time. Navigation is another thing that sucks heavily.
I've had the reclaim for allmost a year now & have had lots of trouble with it. Many times I plug it in to charge & it tells me it's the wrong device & powers off. It does this numerous times before allowing a charge. A few months ago I could not receive picture mail for weeks. Lately it freezes during texting, powers off automatically, & doesn't allow me to make or receive calls. I would NOT recommend this phone to anyone.
I got a Reclaim 3 months ago. For the first 2 months it was ok. Now I've found out that not everyone that I send texts to are getting them even though the phone says they were sent. I'm not getting all my texts. It freezes constantly. Sometimes in order for me to send a text I have to let it fail then turn it off, turn it back on, and try again and MAYBE it'll work. The battery life is awful. I can have a fully charged battery, call someone and leave a voicemail, and the battery go dead. It gets a power surge sometimes and goes really bright and freezes. And sometimes it just decides to restart. If I could go back, I would have never gotten this phone. I honestly don't remember what attracted me to it in the first place. The keyboard is so small that my texts generally consist of misspelled words with bugs me dearly. I would never recommend this phone to anyone. I wish someone had stopped me from getting it.
Lauren -
I have a Palm Pre and it took me quite awhile to get used to the features and understand how to work some of them. I previously had a flip phone. ha
What I have learned is that the screen is rather sensitive and it is difficult trying to scroll without it selecting something. And regarding the small print, I learned from someone who has an AT&T phone that you just expand it with your thumb and forefinger.
While I have gotten used to my Palm Pre, I still would like to find something just a little easier to navigate. Just don't know yet what is available.
Hope you have overcome the frustrations a bit. If after several months you still have a problem, I would look at changing phones.
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I got my Palm Pixi as my contract upgrade (I couldn't pass on $49!) from my previous Palm Treo 755p.
But I had to switch back to my 755p (until I can decide on another phone)
I would have loved to have kept the Pixi, if it had had the ability to import and export files directly via bluetooth like my previous treos (755p, 700p, my Palm T/X) were able to do.
I couldn't even directly import my contacts from my 755p directly to the Pixi via bluetooth!
I used to be able to send pics, contacts, music, memos, calendar stuff, etc directly to my pc or to someone else's phone via bluetooth . . .
What was Palm thinking? (Or Not Thinking?)
Some people have suggested that I try the Pre, but I don't see the point if the basics of the phone are lacking the abilities I was used to having.
I'm thinking to now try one of the android phones - maybe the Samsung Moment.
Pixi is a horrible phone. WebOS has been going thru upgrades that are not improvements at all. I now cannot access Facebook, nor expand pics without them getting distorted or pixelated. It takes forever to boot up and shut down when resetting. There's no memory slot for an SD card like the centro. There's no stylus like Centro...for those with big fingers. The rubber case gets warped after several charges and looks like crinkled bacon. What a horrible phone! I wish Sprint would make the deal to get iphone...or comparable...and make them affordable.
hello lauren.roberts. the pixi after getting used to it is a fun phone, when contrasted against the replenish you will notice that an android phone such as the replenish is still largely a touch screen based phone and little navigation in phone can be achieved outside of using the touch screen. more of the settings are grouped in the menu, but most applications have their own settings similarly to the palm os based centro you had been using. android generally can offer a better battery life, but due to signed in accounts and other settings your battery life may vary. if you do decide on going with an android phone I would suggest a few things, first reactivate your centro, and setup google sync so you will be able to migrate your contacts into an android phone with ease (for more info visit www.google.com/sync from your computer), and after your new phone is active install juice defender from the market to optimize your battery life. I hope some of this information is helpful, and if you have other questions please let me know.
Pixi is a terrible phone. Take it back and scream. We bought 2 of them. One is dead and the sprint store employee said don't waste your time paying 35.00 to repair it. Its crap. I feel like Sprint is tricking everyone to get a "free" palm pixi when you sign a 2 year contract for over $1,000.00. What a poor product.
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