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I was with my boyfriend for about seven months. Everything was fantastic, as far as I knew, until one day he just decided to disappear. No, really, I mean disappear. I couldn't get in touch with him via text, phone calls, anything. One night we were on the phone saying "goodnight" and "I love you," and the next day he was completely gone. I've racked my brain trying to figure out what went wrong, but I can't figure it out. It's been over two months now, and I've stopped trying to get ahold of him, but I'm having a really hard time moving on with no explanation, no answers, no closure ... Any advice?--Disappearing Boyfriend
He straight-up disappeared? In the sense that he stopped returning your calls, or, like, he disappeared from everywhere? No more Facebook posts? No tweets or even LinkedIn updates? Is it possible he is a political refugee, hiding out from cruel dictators abroad? One time I got seriously lost in Gary, Ind., and returned home several days later with a crate of Pall Mall cigarettes and a Michael Jackson tramp stamp. If those are unlikely scenarios, which I hope they are, then I'm afraid you'll have to chalk this up to an incredibly bizarre case of man vanishing, or manishing as it's known on the street.
Manishing is sadly quite common these days (as well as its female counterpart, Missappearing), especially if it's only been one or two dates, since modern forms of communication are all too easy to ignore. But seven months isn't a blind date one-off; it's a bonafide, meet-the-parents-and-drive-you-to-the-gyno relationship. Either way, I'm so sorry this happened to you, DB, and I sincerely hope your ex is chained to several yappy, incontinent chihuahuas right now.
You could drive yourself crazy theorizing why your beau disappeared, but I'd recommend you do that as little as possible. His disappearance is not about you--it's his immature and cowardly way of dealing with his own issues, which I'm sure are plentiful. Does this knowledge help you feel less terrible about being shrugged off? Probably not. But you don't need his explanations in order to have closure. Closure is something we cultivate on our own, like a Chia pet.
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In the Woods west of Boston
Posted 10 February 2011 - 06:50 PM
Posted 11 February 2011 - 07:44 AM
Wow the snow wasn't disturbed at all. That is a little strange and intriguing.
There were a few deer tracks between the big red stains, but no sign of another animal. No sign of a fight.
Edited by herenow, 11 February 2011 - 07:45 AM.
Posted 11 February 2011 - 10:49 AM
Posted 12 February 2011 - 03:11 PM
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Posted 14 February 2011 - 08:42 PM
oh yes, something strange indeed
I went out there yesterday to check on the deer.
To my relief, animals have been getting meals from it.
I would have been concerned if it was taken for some reason and had not been eaten. But crows, coyote, etc were using this deceased animal, so I'm comfortable with it.
I grabbed one of it's hoofs and dragged it well off the trail so the humans wouldn't be too freaked out, though it still looks like a crime scene.
This animal appeared right when I asked the question of would I prefer to meet these spirits in their animal body, or meet them in their human body. I guess at this stage, the animal body is something I can handle.
Posted 17 February 2011 - 11:45 PM
Posted 19 February 2011 - 07:55 AM
Just read the whole thread and am quite intrigued. I look forward to anything else you may find out.
Things are happening all the time out there.
I just have to take the time to post them. I have a log of every experience over the past approx 15 months but most of the entries are written in haste and I have to pick through them and clean them up.
My feeling of what is causing this or what Ive tapped into keeps evolving.
First I read up on Shadow People, then Buddhism, then Paganism, Shamanism, the Native American history of this area, old police records from the village nearby, Animism, .. and it keeps on going.
I think people of this area have picked up on whatever it is for thousands of years.
One of the things I looked into was little blue people. Native American legends talk about these little blue people who live in the woods. There are harmless but mischievous. There is a high copper content in these woods and the downed limbs often turn a blue/green color because of the copper, so I started researching this. And I found a local archeologist writing about the arrowheads, scrapers, etc that hes found in the next town over. One of his comments was about a bunch of very small tools he found which had to have been used by people with very very small hands. That sent me down that path for a few weeks .
Posted 19 February 2011 - 06:06 PM
Posted 19 February 2011 - 09:03 PM
Fascinating!!!! May I ask what tribe the Native Americans are? New England is so rich in history as well as paranormal experiences. I am in Rhode Island.
Nipmuc and Pawtucket.
Posted 24 February 2011 - 02:23 PM
This is about ¼ mile from the deer and must be from that animal.
The tree is on the side of a trail, at the intersection the trail and a stone wall. This summer I found a large piece of flat-chipped quartz which someone had placed at this spot. That quartz and this bone were about the same size and shape, but that must be a coincidence.
Ive seen Fischer Cats out here, so maybe one had scavenged this from the deer and it sat at the wedge in this tree to chew on it?
There are no other pieces on the ground and no shavings or fur or any sign of it dropping any bits of a meal.
And something odd happened yesterday.
I felt the urge to stop along the trail just past where the deer gave its life. Then that question of would I rather get my communications through animals or a person popped into my head. And just as I was acknowledging that question, I saw a woman on the trail about 30 yards away. I continued along the trail in her direction (she was coming towards me and I was going in that direction) and as we passed I said hello and she responded but kind of ignored me. Certainly not very friendly.
Ive run into this woman 2 other times. Once when my daughter and I were hiking the trail, and this woman was very friendly. She has a heavy accent which sounds German to me. And another time this fall when I was out on the trail and going through a hey spirits, show me something right now! phase. I came over a rise and there she was. Also on that same hike I found someone had removed a big piece of quartz which Ive used as a touchstone. I believe Ive already written about that. And for months Ive believed it was her.
Posted 24 February 2011 - 11:38 PM
Posted 25 February 2011 - 12:09 AM
Hope you will get the print of the negative when you will shoot that image with your camera
Posted 26 February 2011 - 01:47 PM
Interesting. Maybe next time she will be friendlier and you can strike up a conversation with her and see if she knows about the crystal or anything.
I also don't want to frighten her. She may just be someone who loves to hike these woods without being bothered by anyone.
Posted 28 February 2011 - 12:13 AM
Posted 01 March 2011 - 05:33 PM
You should take a bunch of pics next time you're out there, Even if you don't see anything, something might show up in a pic.
I do have some pictures though I don't want to take any more shots of places I feel may be sacred to people who've been here before me.
Here's another mystery related to photos. I found a 1930s aerial photograph of the area.
Something appears to be written on it in a field near where I found the 1st amulet.
Does anyone see the letters on this?
Any idea what it might spell or might mean?
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"I was proud and happy I'd be able to learn sports and get an education at the same time," she said last week.
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Granted, most of the muscled men and women competing in the upcoming Granite Man triathlon are serious about their swim stroke. And running stride. And keeping mountain bike tires on the trail while slicing seconds off their finish time.
But beyond the boasts about breaking "CRs" (course records), tales about skidding past 90-degree turns and descriptions of skin scrapes from careening down hills in the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, there is lighthearted fun.
Slow runners, families and spectators also enjoy this two-day racing series on idyllic Applegate Lake.
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Across the country, race organizers are trying to broaden challenging triathlons to interest first-timers and bystanders, says Liz Hichens of Triathlete Magazine, based in San Diego, Calif.
"The sport is growing not because of the pros but everyday people with jobs and families taking it up as a hobby," Hitchens says while covering a California race on a sunny weekend with her toddler at her side.
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Granite Man's triathlon will have individuals and team members jumping into Applegate Lake — the spring run-off water is predicted to be 68 degrees — to swim three-quarters of mile.
Stripped out of their wetsuits, they will tackle the 13-mile mountain-bike leg going clockwise around the lake to Seattle Bar.
Then they will rack their bikes and run five miles up and down single-track trails and forest roads, and on wooden bridges over streams while retracing the fingered shoreline back to Hart-Tish Park.
Racers and relay teams in Saturday's simultaneous duathlon will skip the water part of the triathlon but still receive a T-shirt, goody bags and bragging rights at the after party.
On Sunday, a 10-mile mountain run will vault runners 1,000 feet up the Collings Mountain Trail, past abandoned mines, miner's shacks and a Sasquatch trap.
That same day, gamboling gamblers can enter the five-mile poker run in which they get a playing card at each mile marker. The best poker hand at the end wins a cash prize, which is based on the number of entrants pre-registering and paying $25.
Regardless of winning or losing, the terrain is nice to look at, says Wikander. There is the lake and surrounding trails, views of Red Butte Wilderness and national forest lands.
That this is the rare triathlon with off-road running and biking adds to Granite Man's allure to both hardcore racers and people who just want to play that weekend.
Kids 13 or younger can try their best Saturday in the timed triathlon or duathlon, or ask not be timed and race just for fun.
Either way, they won't be cruising through a wimpy splash and dash.
Young athletes will follow in the pros' wake. Kids will swim 300 yards along the shore, bike for four miles and run a mile, cheered on by crowds perched in chairs set up on the lawn on the water's edge.
"When my son Hayden was 8, he competed in Granite Man's youth race and he felt pressure to win," says Tamara Ellis of Ashland, who is an ultramarathon runner. "Afterwards, though, all the kids went out on the lake on tahitis and were using the water guns they received against each other. It was all fun and games."
On Sunday, new this year is a Youth 5K scavenger hunt that starts at 9 a.m. at Watkins campground. Prize vouchers will be set out along the path to Hart-Tish Park.
Everyone's invited to camp over, listen to music and order meals made by food vendors from locally grown ingredients.
Helping Wikander spread the word that the event isn't intimidating is Sloan Dorr, an admittedly slow but steady runner who has spent the last eight months teaching children English and running the mountains of Thailand.
In Thailand, she trained for a 50K, running circles around Buddhist temple ruins, crumbling Buddhas and meditating monks. She blogged about her experiences at http://thesolesearch.com.
Before she temporarily moved to Thailand, Dorr worked at the Rogue Valley Runners store in Ashland. She spent two or three hours running trails twice a week and cross-trained at the Ashland Family YMCA.
Last year, Dorr was Granite Man's event coordinator. Like her successor this year, Pam Downs, she helped organize the volunteers. Dorr and Amy Nagle also ran and marked the mountain run to prepare for last year's race.
Dorr then helped announce the participants as they crossed the finish line and handed out raffle prizes.
This year, she's helping remotely. While in Penang Island in Malaysia in April, she posted information on the Granite Man Oregon Facebook page.
Dorr plans to be back in time for the race but she doesn't think she will compete.
"Unless," she says, "someone needs a runner-swimmer-biker for a tri team and I'll hopefully be in good enough shape to hop in."
She pauses, then adds: "But I mostly want to enjoy a weekend in my tent at the lake."


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Don't be mislead by the subject header. I really don't know much Latin (although I am, indeed, new). I am learning, however. I used Wheelock's book in high school. That didn't take. Now, some years later, I am using Lingua Latina and the Dowling Method to try to really nail it down. I'm pretty excited about it, actually. Just about to be finished with memorizing all the forms and about to start Capitulum Primum.
Not sure what info you need in this initial post, but I should tell you that I am not a human spammer. Apparently, on these boards, that sort is held in the sort of contempt normally reserved for lawyers and employees of the D.M.V.
My end goal would be to be able to converse in Latin. That is problematic for a number of reasons, the least of which is finding other folks fluent in speaking Latin. I'll settle for being able to read Latin as easily as I read English.
Stuff about me: Adult, male, Texan, don't speak any other languages, not in school, fancy myself as a bit of a writer. Everything else is probably not relevant.
Why Latin? That is still nebulous to me. I try not to be too introspective when I'm not drinking. Perhaps, one day, I'll wake up and the answer will be scribbled down on a cocktail napkin beside my pillow.


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Title: Yalu and the Puppy Room
Author: Brian T Yates
Available in print and digital
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Yalu is a six week old puppy selected for a family who wants a Golden Retriever. Not only is she's cute, fury, and brown, but has all the confidence she needs to be successful. The problem is that the family doesn't select her, the only candidate sent in for the interview. Now she's the dog nobody wants. Based on a true story, Yalu discovers how to stand out from the other dogs in her kennel and finds a forever home where she will become a family's special princess.
Awww, this is a very cute chapter book that animals lovers are sure to enjoy. Yalu is a puppy, and all she wants is a forever home, where she will be treated like the princess she is. When all of her puppy tricks to captivate and enchant prospective owners fail to yield results, she is dejected. Persistence pays off, though, and soon Yalu has a family of her own!
Yalu and the Puppy Room is packed with colorful, endearing illustrations that supplement the text. As Yalu is rejected time and again, readers will begin to empathize with the little puppy. Why isn't she ever good enough to be chosen over all of the other puppies? She is so cute! She has the pathetic, love me puppy-dog eyes down pat. Yet time and again, other puppies are picked over Yalu. There is a wonderful sense of suspense that builds to the end, because you start stressing with Yalu. I'd have picked her!
This book is based on the author's own experiences, which made the read even better for me. The story is lovingly related, as a young couple comes to Yalu's kennel and don't find the new family member they are looking for, until, finally, Yalu is brought to the puppy room to strut her stuff. If you have a young reader on your Christmas shopping list, I think that this book would made a great present.
Grade: B+ (extra points for cuteness)
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Saltimbocca Sandwich
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The enticing scent of sage is a draw to this sandwich that is golden brown and bubbling with cheese. Filled with prosciutto and turkey and served on flatbread this is a crisply grilled delight.
4 bunches sage, leaves separated
Vegetable oil, as needed, for frying
16 slices flatbread
1 lb. mascarpone cheese, at room temperature
1 lb. cream cheese, at room temperature
1 lb. smoked turkey, thinly sliced
1 lb. prosciutto, thinly sliced
12 oz. lettuce leaves
1. In a heavy skillet, heat oil over medium-high heat. Briefly fry sage leaves until bright green and crispy. Remove from oil and drain; reserve.
2. In a bowl, combine mascarpone and cream cheeses.
3. Spread cheese on half the bread slices; layer with remaining ingredients and top with second slice of bread. Grill in a panini press or under a broiler until cheese bubbles; serve warm.


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'Quantum Copyright:' At What Point Does A Legal Copy Become Infringement?
from the spoofing-your-region-for-fun-and-profit! dept
Eric Hellman tackles the ambiguous nature of copyright infringement, especially as it pertains to the "region-free" aspects of the internet, in a post amusingly titled, "Heisenberg's Uncertain Copyright." (via The Digital Reader)
Hellman turns his attention to F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," and using his skills in the area of "Quantum Copyright" (a term he threw into his LinkedIn profile for a bit of fun), determines that the question of whether or not copyright infringement has occurred might depend on where the copying occurred, something that is even harder to define when the copying takes place via the internet.
It turns out that where a copy is made has consequences. Consider Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby...
The Great Gatsby already belongs to every Australian, in the sense that Australians have the right to read and copy it for free without anybody's permission. In the US, it belongs to the CBS Corporation, and if you want to read it on Kindle, it'll cost you $7.80.While Hellman exaggerates the repercussions of making a hypothetical copy (the highest statutory claims would apply only to willful infringement [which this could be, especially when infringing in order to prove a hypothesis] and the jail time only applies to criminal infringement -- which this almost certainly would not be), the fact remains that one deterrent of infringement is the underlying threat of legal action (whether civil or criminal). No doubt F. Scott Fitzgerald's estate is in no hurry to give up the American rights (and the attendant enforcement of those rights), seeing as "The Great Gatsby" earned its author all of $8,400 during his lifetime -- but generates $500,000 per year for his daughter. This secondhand largesse enjoyed by many heirs is one of the motivators behind the ever-extending copyright lengths here in this country.
If you copy Gatsby in Australia, no problem, it's cool, because Gatsby has entered the public domain. There's an excellent version available from Project Gutenberg Australia. If you do it in the US without permission from the CBS, it constitutes copyright infringement and is punishable with jail time and statutory damages up to $150,000 per incidence of infringement. So it really matters where the copying occurs.
Hellman posits this not-so-hypothetical situation:
Suppose you have a book sitting on a computer in Australia. The computer breaks the book into thousands of UDP packets and sends them into the Internet. Copying can't have occurred yet, because the packets aren't fixed in any form. For copyright purposes,In this case, the copying process originates in a country where no copyright protection covers Fitzgerald's book. Its "assembly" in the US suddenly makes it an infringing copy. Does this make sense? More importantly, does it even matter? According to rights holders, the copy would still be infringing, simply because it was copied, at least according to the section of copyright law cited by Hellman, which states that only the owner of the copyright has the "exclusive right... to reproduce the copyrighted work."
"Copies" are material objects, other than phonorecords, in which a work is fixed by any method now known or later developed, and from which the work can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device. The term "copies" includes the material object, other than a phonorecord, in which the work is first fixed. http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html
Now suppose the packets are reassembled on my hard drive in New Jersey. A copy of "The Great Gatsby" has materialized. Has a copyright been infringed? If I was in Australia and the source of the packets was in the US, would the answer be different?
But even that doesn't entirely clear up the situation. If no rights holder can claim this "exclusive right to reproduce" in Australia, then it would seem that "shipping" copies from Australia would be a legal act, right up until the copy "hits" the US border. Exploring this hypothetical situation further, Hellman comes up with a list of "quantum copyright" possibilities.
So we have 8 different quantum copyright location scenarios; 6 have uncertainty as to the fact of infringement:So, to sum it all up, magic 8-ball style: "Answer unclear. Ask again later." More narrowly, however, the exclusive rights granted to copyright holders would find most of these situations infringing. Any copy originating in the US would violate the reproduction right as Hellman points out. Any action initiating in the US would very likely violate the holder's distribution rights. For all intents and purposes, the hypothetical copier is only 100% in the clear in instance #2, where all copying starts and stops in Australia where Fitzgerald's book is public domain. In cases where the copy is "sent" to the US from Australia, it could very well fall under the the "right to reproduce," as US consumers would be limited to "authorized" copies from the rights holders. If some Australian set up a site offering downloads of public domain books that were still under copyright in the US, the rights to reproduce and distribute would likely be pointed out as the reason any US users availing themselves of this service are actually guilty of copyright infringement. If it's under copyright in the US, then the copyright owner's rights must be respected... at $7.80 a copy.
1. Person copying, copy source, and copy destination all in US. (US law controls!)
2. Person copying, copy source, and copy destination all in Australia. (Australia law controls!)
3. Person copying and copy source in US, copy destination in Australia.
4. Person copying and copy source in Australia, copy destination in US.
5. Person copying and copy destination in US, copy source in Australia.
6. Person copying and copy destination in Australia, copy source in US.
7. Person copying in US, copy source and copy destination in Australia.
8. Person copying in Australia, copy source and copy destination in US.
Certainly, copyright-centered entities like the MPAA would prefer to simply have our copyright laws exported to other countries with less stringent laws, especially any sections that extend the length of copyright protection and weaken fair use/fair dealing exceptions. Getting other nations to sync up with our copyright lengths would certainly eliminate these hypothetical discussions, along with many items in the public domain. Many aspects of current copyright laws were written years ago, long before the internet made "country of origin" a meaningless term and reproductions as simple as a right-click on a mouse. What it usually boils down to, after all the discussion, is this:
You could also be a cynic and say the only thing that matters is where the judge is sitting.Much like fair use is often determined by a courtroom appearance, the "quantum" aspects of copyright are largely theoretical -- right up to the point that someone finds themselves at the other end of an infringement lawsuit.


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Did the Bush administration win the battle and lose the war in its two-vote victory on the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement? Any hope U.S. officials had for expanding NAFTA and DR-CAFTA to the rest of the Americas may have evaporated in the heat of the midnight vote that might have been even closer than the 217-215 margin in the House.
At presstime, Rep. Charlie Taylor, R-N.C., who was listed as not voting, was saying his should have been registered as a no vote. Taylor's 11th District is home to a number of struggling or closed textile mills. Other congressmen also reportedly were persuaded to abstain.
Monday morning quarterbacks are saying the vote means chances are slim for passage of a new Free Trade of the Americas Agreement after what the House and Senate (which passed the legislation 54-45) went through to pass DR-CAFTA.
If Congress barely approved an agreement with the CAFTA countries, whose total economic output is about equal to that of the city of Baltimore, "the possibility that the administration could get a deal approved with economies that would actually impact the United States doesn't pass the laugh test," one analyst said.
Some are also questioning what the close vote means for the Doha Round of the World Trade Organization, which has been on rocky ground since Brazil and the other Group of 20 developing countries nearly derailed the negotiations at a 2003 ministerial meeting in Cancun.
U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman made much of the negative signal a DR-CAFTA failure would send to the WTO negotiators prior to the vote, but some analysts were asking how countries will react to a vote that could just as easily swing the other way.
Latest reports indicate Doha Round negotiators continue to make little progress toward a framework agreement for the next WTO ministerial conference, scheduled for Hong Kong in December. The main sticking point — farm subsidies.
Subsidies played almost no role in the DR-CAFTA debate although Central America's farmers have said they fear they will lose markets to subsidized U.S. farm products. Instead, concerns China would transship textiles and apparel through loopholes in DR-CAFTA remained the biggest obstacle for many congressional opponents.
The National Council of Textile Organizations and the National Cotton Council said they were satisfied with administration assurances those would be closed, but the National Textile Association continued to cite specific shortcomings almost up to the moment of passage.
One irony came from legislation the House passed the afternoon it approved DR-CAFTA. The law, authored by Rep. Phil English, R-Pa., would apply countervailing duties to exports from non-market economies, such as China. Democrats opposed it because it was weaker than an earlier version that applied the duties unless China revalued its currency.
With supporters arguing that China was doing just that, the People's Bank of China announced that it's 2 percent upward revaluation of the yuan was a one-time event and that it planned no more changes.


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Brien Cutting
March 27. 2013 7:38PM
The U.S. Marshals Service District of New Hampshire/Joint Fugitive Task Force has named Brien Cutting as New Hampshire's fugitive of the week.
Cutting, 36, is wanted on warrants from the Pittsfield Police Department for a probation violation on original charges of felon in possession of a dangerous weapon, burglary and witness tampering. His arrest record includes crimes of violence, and he should be considered armed and dangerous.
Cutting is described as 5 feet 9, 130 pounds with hazel eyes and brown hair. He has tattoos on his right hand and arm. He has associates in Raymond, Pittsfield and Nashua and may still be in those areas.
The U.S. Marshals Service advises the public not to attempt to apprehend a fugitive. Instead, report any information to the U.S. Marshals Service's Concord office at 225-1632.
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Originally posted by princefielder28
If we make the playoffs next year and don't win it all then they might start rumblings about Carson like they did Peyton/Elway but as of right now you'd have to think McNabb gets annoyed by it since he's won so many playoff games but is yet to win the big one.
Only problem with McNabb being his health. Vick/Eli won't get that put on them... Just the talk about their struggles and what not. No one has big SB expectations from them. Carson has the numbers but no ring so that's what they're looking for.
Plus he's a golden boy... #1 pick, heisman winner and is the prototypical QB on a team that the media likes to talk about. Plus I think next season we're going to be one of the trendy SB picks so he'll have the high expectations placed on him.


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cookie of the week and mitt updateFriday, March 23, 2007
First off, I want to give you an update on my dilemma with my hair stylist. I saw him this morning. When I walked in he said "Can you believe this, about two weeks after I called you, the snow melted and I found my glove next to where I always park my car"! I was totally prepared to give them to him for his tip. This sort of threw a wrench in my whole plan. I thought, do I have time to "post" so i can re-ask my fellow bloggers what to do? :) Knowing I was on my own with this one, I decided to give them to his hip, new assistant that was totally in love with them. They were her tip. She did wash my hair! The best part of this story is that my stylist told me that when he found the glove it was completely mangled. He washed it and it was as good as new. Hooray for Cascade 220, superwash! I chose the cookie of the week this week. They are my all time favorite, and the recipe was given to me from my good friend, Jennifer. They have been in her family for years. The kids love them also, without the nuts.
Ranger Cookies (UPDATED 4/17)
2 cups flour
1 cup shortening 1
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 TBLS vanilla
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup Oatmeal
2 cups Total
1 cup walnuts (optional)
1 cup raisins (optional)
Bake 350 for 10 minutes.
I'm not sure, but I think that these constitute for a good breakfast, for adults. They do have Total cereal, oatmeal, nuts and raisins!
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- Kerstin3/23/2007
Hey, I thought of you today when I ran across a link to the Diva sweater. Have you seen it? (YummyYarn has a link to it.) I love the big collar, only I know how much work these sweaters entail so I haven't sprung for one ... yet.ReplyDelete
We're still working on our way through the last batch of ginger and molasses cookies. Thanks for the recipes!
I love trying new recipes...especially cookie kind. Thanks! Also, do you have a great Monster Cookie Recipe? Just wondering. I also rationalize eating certain foods- especially if it's still breakfasttime. My lesson was learned back in the 'good ol' days' when my little Teagan would anser "whipped cream" when I asked her what she wanted to eat for breakfast. I was a softie to her...so most times I would give in to her request and squirt Reddi-whip straight from the can, into her grinning mouth. You don't know how many times I have thought back on those moments and thanked myself for justifying this indulgence at that time. I had no idea a that those squirts of whipped cream would become some of my fondest memories in life. And now serve as a reminder to me to live in the moment, enjoy the 'good stuff' in life- especially if it's still morning, and to savor the moments in which we create joy and happiness- in ourselves and in others. Goodness knows a little cookie to jumpstart the day has never killed anyone. Sometimes forgoing the physical health of food for the benefits it feeds our minds and spirit is a good thing. It's not so much about Sugar and Butter as it is about Modertaion. Balance is key. =)ReplyDelete
- Melody3/23/2007
I have adapted your cookie of the week into our little family weekly thing.. the kiddies love it. I bake a lot, but just pick, now letting them pick..and look through the cookbooks too.. FUN. Too funny about the gloves, oh well. It was a fun blog and seeing what the outcome would be, while it lasted.ReplyDelete
I love the natural colors of your sweater--looking forward to seeing it progress.ReplyDelete
I can't wait to try the cookies... they look delicous. I'm not a big raisin fan, but I think craisins would be a good sub. What could be better than cookies for breakfast?
I'll have cookies for breakfast anytime :) And that ballerina yarn looks so nice and woolly, sort of how I like yarn to look sometimes, instead of looking so smooth and 'processed'.ReplyDelete
Oooh a pink and brown ballerina sweater! yummo...ReplyDelete
So many delicious-looking cookies. I'd love to live in your house!! And that ballerina sweater is going to be a knock-out, for sure.ReplyDelete
BTW: I love your folded name tag on your last project, sticking out. It looks so professional.
How great that the problem with the hair stylist solved itself - and it's so nice of you that you gave the other pair to his assistant as a tip - that's the perfect tip indeed! ;)ReplyDelete
Oh yummy, these cookies look to die for - definitely a recipe that I'll give a try soonest possible! Thanks for sharing!
I leave for four days, and come back to so much great stuff on your blog! Love the labels - the cookies look great!! - the sweater looks great (I found one that is being held till the 16th) - working on my second dashing, with similar adjustments to yours. Have a great week!!ReplyDelete
ohhhhhhh I don't even knit and I find this blog fascinating!!!! However I do eat cookies... This is BEAUTIFUL!! I'll def! come back and peek more!!ReplyDelete
Was just wandering through. The cookie recipe looks delicious and reminds me of one I made with my grandmother. I think it was the same basic thing but had rice krispies instead of total.ReplyDelete


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Golden glare (2018)
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GB Glace launched a new flavor of a classic ice-cream the other week, and were promptly accused of racism. The ice-creams unfortunate name is "Nogger Black" as it is a liquorice flavored version of the classic nougat-flavored "Nogger".
A couple of years ago they made a liquorice version of the 88. It had a crunchy outside, liquorice and vanilla inside and was really quite good. However, it failed to become popular and was discontinued. This year GB decided to try their luck with a liquorice version of another classic ice-cream, the nougat covered vanilla and then soft nougat center ice-cream called Nogger.
Their first mistake was to make the outside salt liquorice... Ugh! I don't think this one will be as popular as the liquorice 88, but I might be wrong. Their second mistake was to name it Nogger Black.
My guess is that with a name like that - which has an English word in it - someone was bound to recognize that if one replaces the "o" in Nogger with another vowel...... You could spell out a word considered quite nasty in English and not used at all, unless you are a rapper.
I don't know what was wrong with the 100% Swedish language names like "Nogger lakrits" or perhaps "Nogger svart", but they were clearly rejected in favor of the cooler-sounding "Nogger Black" which is getting GB into deep deep trouble.
Soon the Ice cream giant was slammed for "racist" ads as the Center Against Racism issued a press release denouncing the new ice-cream. Perhaps the Center Against Racism has very little to do.
"We're not critical of the color of the ice cream or the name 'Black' but the whole concept of the advertisment," said Amina Ek of the Center Against Racism to Svenska Dagbladet.
The ad itself features a heart drawn in white 'chalk' on a blackboard type background with the words "Nogger + lakrits = sant!" (Nogger + liquorice = true) inside, mimicking the hearts drawn by young couples everywhere. I've tried really hard to figure out what is offensive about this ads "whole concept", shown below. Remember it's not the color of the liquorice, nor is it the name that offends according to Ms Ek's quote above. Hmmmm.
No sooner had the storm over the liquorice Nogger calmed down when the Anti Discrimination Bureau in Malmö Aftonbladet (Swedish only) decided to up the anti and attack the classic GB ice-cream called "88" because it is clearly connected to Nazis. Yes, Nazis.
See, "88" stands for "Heil Hitler" in modern Nazi-parlance apparently, as "H" is the 8th letter of the alphabet. Nevermind that the 88 ice-cream is much older than the newly invented code-language for Nazis, and nevermind that hardly anyone knows the 88 code unless they are a modern Nazi (not even the English version of the Wikipedia, though the Swedish version does). According to a spokesperson from GB the 88 first appeared way back in 1964.
Right, so now I'm confused... If the old 88:an is a Nazi ice-cream, and Nogger Black is a racist ice-cream what did last years liquorice 88 really mean?
For the ice-cream nostalgic here's a little history linked to the old posters.
In 1973 this ice-cream price-board shows the "88:an". 88:an means "the eighty-eight".
In 1975 88:an was joined by a strawberry flavored friend, called 89:an. The 89 wasn't quite as popular and was discontinued a couple of years later.
"Nogger" a hip 70s slang way of saying "nougat" appeared in 1978 and has been a fail-safe summer ice-cream hit ever since. The Nogger features a crispy nougat outside, vanilla ice-cream inside and a soft nougat center that melts in your mouth. Now considered a classic, Nogger is not likely to be discontinued.


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Using technology that seems inspired by James Bond films, police in Iowa, Florida, Colorado and Arizona are firing GPS "bullets" at fleeing cars to reduce the need for high-speed chases.
The technology, built by Virginia Beach, Va.-based StarChase, includes a compressed-air launcher similar to a T-shirt cannon mounted in the grill of a police cruiser and a sticky GPS projectile tag that contains a miniature GPS module embedded in a industrial-strength adhesive compound. Once the projectile is fired and attaches to the speeding car, the officer can slow down, because the GPS tag on suspect's car transmits its position coordinates via wireless modem to dispatch. The dispatcher then views the location and movements of the tagged vehicle in near real-time on a digital roadmap via a secure Web portal.
"If you had told me 16 years ago that I would have had a cannon on the front of my car, I wouldn't have believed it," Iowa state trooper Tim Sieleman, told KCCI 8 News of Des Moines.
Iowa state troopers are testing the product; currently one cruiser is outfitted with the device, and the department has plans to outfit at least five more cars with it. Arizona law enforcement officers have been using the system for more than two years, particularly to combat drug trafficking at the U.S. border. St. Petersburg, Fla. police are outfitting an unnamed number of cars, both marked and unmarked, with the tracking system for a six-month test.
StarChase installed the air cannons in test vehicles free of charge, but police departments have to purchase their own GPS units. The system is priced at $5,000, with each GPS projectile costing $500.
The system still has some imperfections to be worked out. In demonstration of the technology to the media in St. Petersburg, only one GPS tag stuck to a car out of five units fired, reported WTSP 10 News of Tampa.
Assistant Police Chief Melanie Bevan is undeterred. "The reality is even if it just has one good application, if it works one time ... then at least in this test and evaluation phase it's done some good," Bevan said during the system demonstration.
Use of the technology could possibly face a legal challenge, as a federal appeals court in Philadelphia recently ruled that the government must obtain a warrant to attach a GPS unit to a car, reported the Washington Post.
However, the way StarChase is being used by police would likely be allowed under the legal definition of "hot pursuit."
A recent ruling in U.S. v. Katzen, a slap-on magnetic GPS device was attached to a car to track a trio of brothers suspected of pharmaceutical robberies in New Jersey, Maryland and Pennsylvania. The police did not obtain a warrant for the device and used evidence from the device to track the vehicle to a recently burglarized RiteAid, whereupon they searched the car and allegedly found items from the RiteAid.
"A GPS search," the court found, "extends the police intrusion well past the time it would normally take officers to enter a target vehicle and locate, extract, or examine the then-existing evidence."
The Katzen case expanded upon a recent Supreme Court case on GPS tracking, U.S. v. Jones. In that case, the court decided that "attaching a GPS device to a target car constituted a physical intrusion upon the vehicle owner's private property." The court, while ruling that GPS tracking constituted a search, did not address whether it's reasonable to conduct such a search without a warrant.
In response to the Jones ruling, Karen Jaffe, CEO of StarChase, said the ruling does not affect the use of its system. "Even though Jones makes clear that attaching the StarChase GPS device and collecting information from it constitutes a 'search,' the use of the StarChase Pursuit Management System is reasonable under the Fourth Amendment because the officers have probable cause to believe the vehicle they are tracking is being used in the commission or active escape from a crime. The StarChase Pursuit Management System is deployed in exigent circumstances, primarily, the high-speed pursuit, stolen vehicle or other in-progress felony. Such use under Jones remains constitutional," she said in a statement.
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In regards the latest police chase fatalities down in Sacramento, 2 innocent victims: LE vehicles, equipped for forward firing paintball guns, only need to get close once to MARK the vehicle but good. Then, anyone who spots such a vehicle calls in the location and they get a portion of some reward money. No more dead innocents from cop hot pursuit chases. If necessary, design a special larger than normal gun. It would work. Add in a foul smelling scent to make it easy for anyone to recognize it as different from a prank.
In the states where people write, "please wash me" in the dust on your back window the Police cars may need to have a water cannon and blow drier as well. Commit a crime, get your car washed. LOLI just hope those "bullets" are reusable. At $500 a pop with a low stick rate that could get expensive. Hopefully they would survive getting run over by a Mack truck as well.
You are witnessing the end of yet another civil right from the Bill of Rights as the government continues to claim "hot Pursuit" in more and more government home invasions. And more people will die, being executed by the government, as the police claim that they feared for their safety as they shoot you sleeping in you bed. As totalitarian countries become more like America, American becomes more totalitarian.
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Now, a Boeing B-17 restored to resemble the famous "Flying Fortress" is visiting Seattle.
The B-17 that's in Seattle this week was built toward the end of the war and didn't see combat. But it's been painted to look like the historic "Memphis Belle" and is outfitted with gun turrets front and rear, as well as a lower ball gun turret. The nonprofit Liberty Foundation says it is one of only about a dozen B-17s still flying.
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AMHERST — It's going to be a long day out on the links for golfers participating in the Milford Rotary's 19th annual 100 Holes of Golf Tournament.
Today at the Amherst Country Club, a hearty host of golfers will try their best to complete more than five rounds of golf in a single day to raise money for the Rotary's many programs, according to club president Ryan Hansen.
"We start at 6 a.m. and usually end around 7:30 p.m.," said Hansen. "Golfers hustle along the course and complete their 5-plus rounds in 2½ hours each. It's a long day but a great event that only comes together because of the hard work of a lot of volunteers."
There are three formats for playing — professional-style golf, team golf, and a more relaxed, just-for-fun format. Players are given golf carts, and throughout the day, food and drinks are brought out to the greens on special snack carts. Volunteers act as caddies, marking shots, finding balls and replacing divots.
The golfers raise money by asking friends and family to pledge a certain amount of money per hole. Though not every golfer lasts the whole day, the Milford Rotary raised $43,000 during the event last year.
Combined with the other fundraising events held by the Rotary each year, Hansen said the club contributes more than $125,000 in donations and services to Milford, Amherst, Wilton, Lyndeborough and Mont Vernon charities and scholars.
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The 25-year-old has caught the eye in recent weeks having been called upon in the absence of Giorgio Chiellini through injury and suspension.
And after helping the Bianconeri record back-to-back clean sheets in the wins over Fiorentina and Celtic, Caceres spoke of his loyalty to the club and praised the man he has replaced at the heart of the defence.
"I only want to play for Juventus," he told Sky Sports Italia.
"I never thought about leaving. I only want Juventus. I am here, I'm very happy and want to always do well for this team. It's where I want to be."
"Chiellini is a very important player for us and means so much to us that we nicknamed him 'the captain.'
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Market Basket: 'So close, yet so far'By MICHAEL COUSINEAU
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August 25. 2014 8:21PM
MANCHESTER — Market Basket customer Alcides Texeira wanted to turn the partly depleted dairy aisle into a sports stadium Monday.
"I play soccer inside," the longtime customer said in the empty store. "Nobody to see."
A weekend of dashed hopes that a final deal would return ousted CEO Arthur T. Demoulas to power left employee Luis Faria the most disappointed he has been so far in the five-week supermarket standoff.
"So close, yet so far," Faria, a full-time butcher, said while picketing along Elm Street. "We thought last night was it."
Assistant Store Director Scott Burke said, unlike some other stores, managers there have not called about 265 idled part-timers to check on their availability if a solution is reached soon.
"We had a few who called in saying they've gotten jobs" elsewhere, namely Shaw's supermarket, Burke said.
His store received a delivery of 2,100 items, including cereal, juice and oil, on Saturday, two days earlier than expected, but less than a third of the 7,000 pieces ordered.
"It's the biggest one we've gotten in a while," he said.
As for waiting for a final deal to be announced, Burke said: "We're just waiting."
He expects staffing will ramp up immediately "because customers will be back."
Burke said it might take at least a week to restock produce and meat.
On Monday morning, the store contained more workers than customers, with Register 13 the lone one open.
A person could buy silk flower arrangements but no fresh flowers. The bakery aisle contained hot dog rolls but no hamburger buns — or beef to put in the burger buns. But beer, ice cream and cereal remained for sale.
Texeira said he wanted his store to return to normal, with produce and without boycotting customers shopping elsewhere.
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As the past chairman of the Massachusetts Bankers Association, Savarese helped expand the association's financial literacy campaign and worked with state legislators on bank modernization issues. And her work on a special task force may lead to major changes in the way state-charted banks are regulated.
Savarese currently serves on the FDIC Community Bank Advisory Committee, which provides guidance on policy issues that affect small community banks throughout the country.
She's also chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Cape Cod Five and The Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust, as well as a board member of the American Bankers Mutual Insurance Ltd., the American Bankers Association's Community Bankers Council, and Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce. She also serves as secretary on the Board of Trustees of Cape Cod Community College.
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clodhopper wrote:bob in CT wrote:The oil hole went away when the production line at The Torrington Company was bought out and shut down. You will have to use the bearing that is available.
Any reason why the hole was done away with, or was it just a money saving production thing? Any idea if anyone other than Harold R has taken all the measurements and tried to find a suitable cross? Longevity of the new bearing? I just dont see any info like that on this site, and if it isnt on this site, I dont think I will find it anywhere....
Timken bought and closed the factory. Some lines they moved others were scrapped and if Timken was already making the bearing without the hole and no more capacity was required, then it was a casulty of the buyout like all the people that worked there. Putting the hole in was one step in the process that probably did not add up to the bean counters if IH was the primary reason for that feature to begin with. I am sure that is all that there was to it.
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Urgent Action Alert to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Bloc Québécois Leader Gilles Duceppe: Act Now for Affordable Housing!
Tuesday, October 19, 2010, is the National Day of Action with rallies being organized across the country to draw attention to the 'national emergency' of homelessness and the hundreds of thousands of Canadians who lack an adequate and affordable place to sleep at night.
Nurses know that safe, affordable housing is essential to good health. People who are homeless are sicker and have higher death rates than the general population. That's why the RNAO is calling on all Members of Parliament to support Bill C-304, a private members' bill introduced by NDP MP Libby Davies that would establish a long-overdue national housing strategy. See the RNAO press release at: http://rnao.ca/news/media-releases/Media-release-Ontario-nurses-call-for-action-on-national-housing-strategy
Both Liberal and New Democratic Party MPs have committed to support Bill C-304, but they alone do not have the votes to pass the Bill when it comes to a vote later this Fall. If Canada is to develop a national housing strategy, like all other G-8 countries, either or both of Stephen Harper's Conservatives and Gilles Duceppe's Bloc Québécois must support Bill C-304. To date, this has not happened. This is why we need YOUR action.
In an open letter addressed to both Prime Minister Harper and Gilles Duceppe, the RNAO explained why it is so crucial that all political parties join together to address the national emergency of homelessness and inadequate affordable housing. You can read the letter here.
Figures by the Wellesley Institute, a housing think tank, reveal up to 300,000 Canadians are homeless. Another three million households live in unaffordable housing while a further three million households live in housing described as substandard. These statistics are simply unacceptable for a country that is as wealthy as Canada is. It's time for action!
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TORONTO (AP) — The former executive director of a Salvation Army facility has been charged in the alleged massive theft of thousands of toys and donations from the charity's Toronto warehouse.
Staff Insp. Tony Riviere said Monday David Rennie, 51, is charged with theft, possession of stolen goods and breach of trust and will appear in court on Jan. 4.
The Salvation Army announced the theft last week, saying up to 100,000 items worth about $2 million were allegedly stolen from the facility in Toronto's North End over nearly two years.
Salvation Army Spokesman John Murray says Rennie had been fired. Murray says the charity will work to ensure it never happens again.
Police found 146 wooden platforms stacked with toys, baby cribs, strollers and other items in a warehouse northwest of Toronto.