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Tuesday's 16 and Pregnant introduces us to Izabella Tovar and her boyfriend Jairo Rodriguez from Draper, Utah. Izabella lives at home with very supportive parents and is a rising sophomore at a local Catholic school. She has spent the summer hanging out with Jairo, her boyfriend of three months and avoiding her friends, as she is trying to keep her pregnancy a secret. The couple is expecting a boy in September.
At seven and a half months, Izabella goes to visit her best friend Cassidy, and her bump reveals why she's there before she even needs to say a word. Cassidy admits that she had heard rumors of her friend's pregnancy but was waiting to hear it from her. Cassidy promises to help Izabella maintain her studies. Her parents take a cue from Izabella and Cassidy and decide to spill the beans to the rest of the family. Her uncle paints a pretty harsh, yet spot-on, description of what likely lies ahead for the young couple.
Izabella makes her first public appearance at church, and her parents decide to throw her a baby shower so she can see more of her school friends, since she is currently working on assignments from home. Izabella is excited to be able to catch up with her friends, but she's disappointed that Cassidy is a no-show.
At a family dinner, Izabella's father Erik says he is disappointed in his wife, Vi, because of how lenient she has been with their daughter. He says he somewhat blames Vi for being more of a friend than a mother and should have talked to Izabella more about sex and its consequences. I am totally drinking his Kool-Aid until I realize, um, he could have done the same. I understand the bond of mothers and daughters, but if he thought his wife was too concerned with being a buddy, Erik could have stepped in to be the parent.
Cassidy has been avoiding Izabella since missing the baby shower. Izabella is upset but has to other things to think about as she and Jairo head to her thirty-eight week check-up and her blood pressure is high. To avoid any potential complications, the doctor decides to induce Izabella at the end of the week. With this news, the couple must decide quickly their next move. Luckily, Izabella's mom runs a daycare, so childcare isn't an issue, but of course, Jairo is moving in with his pregnant girlfriend. Thankfully, Izabella's parents put two big stipulations on their new tenant–he must keep up with his studies and enroll in college, and he WILL NOT be sharing a bed with their daughter (a little late for that rule, but what can you do?).
The couple gets an early start on September 17th, induction day. They head to the hospital as soon as Izabella blow dries Jairo's hair (??). As labor begins, Jairo admits he doesn't want to see any of the birthing business and plans to stay up near Izabella's head. After fourteen hours of labor, she is finally able to start pushing, and sixteen hours in, there is still no baby. Her doctor is extra chirpy, and after a final pep talk and push, Enrique Jairo is born.
Jairo takes to fatherhood, and while Izabella is disappointed that none of her friends come to visit, her biggest supporter comes in the form of Jairo's cousin. He comes to see the young couple and talks about his first few weeks in college, his political science major, and his plans to go to law school. He lectures Jairo on the importance of choosing a path that will benefit his new child, and tells Jairo he better not raise the baby like a little gangtser. Izabella would do well to have this cousin baby-sit often!
It's exhausting for both Jairo and Izabella, but they work well together. The couple prepares to head back to school, Izabella to high school and Jairo to community college. Izabella's uncle comes down hard on Izabella's family for supporting the couple while they go to school. The uncle feels like Jairo should go to work to support his new family. While I see his point, Izabella's dad thinks the couple will fare better in the long run with an education, and I see his point even more. Here's hoping Jairo keeps up his end of the bargain.
On her first day back to school, Izabella tries to clear the air with her best friend. Cassidy admits that she was distant because her feelings were hurt that Izabella kept her pregnancy a secret. An angry Jairo picks Izabella up from school, and something tells me that his college enrollment didn't go as planned. He totally shuts down when Izabella tries to talk to him, and he storms out and leaves the house. When Jairo returns, the family sits down to talk to him. An embarrassed (and rightfully so) Jairo admits that he has been lying to everyone about finishing high school online, and has in fact not graduated.
Erik takes his daughter to dinner to discuss the gravity of Jairo's actions. He sits down with Jairo and sets forth a pretty fair game plan as to Jairo's schooling and the couple's living situation. The episode ends with the young couple with Enrique at the baby's Baptism and Izabella reflecting on the importance of having such a supportive family.
On Mtv's aftershow, Izabella reveals that she kept her pregnancy a secret because she had seen how badly a fellow classmate had been treated when she became pregnant a few months before Izabella. Izabella is still with Jairo, calling him "amazing." He is working, going to school and helping raise Enrique. Izabella herself says she did not expect to see such a change in the young father, but the new family seems to be thriving with the support of her parents.


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As most of us know that e- commerce stands for electronic commerce. It represents any sort of commercial transaction or business, that generally involves the transformation of information by the mean of the Internet. Mainly it revolves around the buying, selling products or hiring services online, and in this process both digital and physical products are included.
ECommerce usually varies with the types of participants between businesses and also from business to business, consumer to consumer and consumer to business as well. It allows both consumers and businesses to access an online market without dealing with the traditional barriers of distance and time. This provides a solution to the main marketing problem for the consumers and businesses. The examples of e-commerce includes online shopping, online auctions, electronic payments, Internet banking, online ticketing etc.
Designing an eCommerce website is really profitable?
No doubt, e-commerce at present is the most important and thriving emerging sector of the Internet. Over the past few years, it has been expanded swiftly and is estimated to keep expanding at a high rate. The fact is that the eCommerce makes modern business faster, less costly, more convenient and well established. ECommerce offers everything that would usually be adjusted to optimize the day to day business strategy.
How one can own eCommerce business website
The way to create attractive, successful and professional eCommerce website is a challenging part of the web developers, but website builders have made it possible for the common man to create his eCommerce website on his own. These days there are many website builders that offer eCommerce integration with a variety of eCommerce functionalities and options from beginner eCommerce users to the experienced and advanced ones. Along with the easy setup, the eCommerce website builders also provide wizard, shop designer, drag-and-drop interfaces, advanced eBay features, freebies, widgets, etc. One can easily build his website and can turn his dream idea of starting or expanding an online business into reality.
Here are some of the reasons that why one must have an eCommerce website for business
- Payment processor or gateway integration
One of the most important capabilities of an e-commerce website is the facility to integrate different types of payment gateways or processor accordingly. While for desktop-based web builders, it is still a standing problem. This is also possible for user to integrate multiple payment processors/gateways into a single website.
- Shopping Cart Integration
As it's easy to integrate multiple payment processors with an eCommerce website, in the same way it is also true in case of shopping cart. Most of the websites allow users to integrate as many carts, whereas some website builders don't have built-in shopping cart abilities.
- Proper security for transactions
Most of people are concerned about the security of an eCommerce website, though it's hard to believe that these commerce websites are as secure as our banks. Another thing is that the modern website builder offers complete protection for online line payment and credit card transactions.
- Easy to pay or receive
These websites also provide flexibility for online shopping and fund transformation throughout the world.

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Ol Boy was a stray dog who a member of the public spotted to be in distress and asked us to help him. What started out to be a routine rescue turned out to be a lesson in life and death which I will never forget.
All sentient beings, humans and dogs alike, should be allowed to die in dignity.
Run free, Ol Boy.
Our Street Dogs only ask for food, water, shelter, and our companionship, yet that is not easy to come by in an urban city like Singapore where they are an eyesore and constantly persecuted.
I am Dr Siew Tuck Wah, president of the non-profit animal welfare group, Save Our Street Dogs.
Visit our website and facebook to learn more about our rescue work, and how you can contribute to making Singapore a better place for our street dogs.


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Davis Torgerson Vs. Sewa Kroetkov
April 20, 2017
Flash back to 2011's BATB 4—"U.S. Vs. Them"—when Davis Torgerson represented Minnesota to the fullest (specifically the life-giving waters of Lake Minnetonka) and Sewa Kroetkov made his first BATB appearance as the face of Holland skateboarding. This was one of the most evenly matched games ever… In the end, Davis stunned the wooden clogs right off of Sewa's feet. But, much like one of Holland's famous windmills, Sewa would come back around, winning it all in 2015.


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Owens Peak
By: Miles Brubacher
From the Angeles Chapter Schedule
From the December 1956 issue of Southern Sierran
OWENS PEAK (8,475 ft.) Leader: Miles Brubacher, Asst. Leader: Pat Meixner
On Nov. 11 (1956) forty-six people met at the Homestead Café on Hwy. 395 for the climb of Owens Peak.
We caravanned in towards the peak on a dirt road and finally, in spite of stalled cars and wrong roads, we all gathered for the hike. It was a beautiful mild day. The climb is short, and people were practically strung out along the whole route. Of the 46 people who started out, 32 made the summit.
About the time the first group got to the top of the peak, we were buzzed by a low-flying plane which circled around for quite a while. I'm sure the pilot was Ray Van Aken from China Lake.
We had planned on getting down early to the cars, but because of the late start and the slowness of the group, the last few people reached their cars after dark.
|SPS Trip Report Index | Sierra Peaks Section


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My name is Anthony Cafarelli and I'm a Consultant with Microsoft Consulting Services who recently compiled a list of useful advice that I gained while performing OMPM scans at client sites. In this blog post I would like to share some of that knowledge and I hope that anyone reading it finds it useful!
The issue I am going to focus on in this blog post is an import error. This error is caused when the scanned files have very long file names, in excess of 250 characters. Thus it isn't an extremely common error but these steps will help you address the import if you do find this situation. When importing data into the OMPM database you may receive the following error:
Type of column 'WarningInfo' in table 'osWarning' is too small to hold data
What this error indicates is that the file name and path in an XML file you are trying to import is too long for the "Warninginfo" field in osWarning table. Because of this length issue, the information is not imported into the database and the XML file is skipped. Typically this shows up with a Last Accessed or Last Modified date warning, so the files usually wouldn't be a concern to not have in the database. However, if it was part of a .cab file containing multiple XML files (and most likely it is, and most likely that CAB contains 10,000 files unless you modified the offscan.ini file to change those settings). And, this is important to note, if any XML file contained in a CAB file cannot import, then none of those files make it into the database. At this point, you have a few options:
1) Ignore that the CAB file did not import and base your results on the other CAB/XML files that did import correctly.
2) Extract the CAB file and import each XML.
3) Modify the database.
If option 1 is acceptable, there is nothing more for me to say here. That is the easiest option, but you do lose a significant amount of data that may be useful.
Option 2 is an interesting one. Out of the 2 options I listed that address the issue, this is one that has a lot of work required for the technician, but significantly increases the import time into the database.
Just to give a little background in a simplified way: The reason why the entire CAB doesn't import when a single XML file has an error is because of the way OMPM does the import. The CAB is extracted by the import process and every XML file is parsed all at once. This significantly (VERY significantly) speeds up the import of a CAB file but also reduces the ability to address errors.
When you extract the XML files you will be able to get the (on average) 9,999 other XML files imported into your database. I haven't actually timed it and compared it, but I would say the import of the individual XML files is at least 10x slower, if not more. There is another way to increase the import speed, but it involves more work from the technician (and this is my preferred method because I hate modifying the database due to the supportability concerns, and I will get into that a little more below). Here is the modified option 2:
1) Extract the CAB file.
2) Use the findstr command to locate the extracted XML file that is the one with the error.
3) Delete that XML file.
4) Re-package the CAB file with the remaining files.
With this method, you maintain the high import speed and address the file with the long name. Using findstr and deleting the XML file are pretty straight-forward, so I'm not going to get into them. But, finding a good way to re-package the CAB can be tricky. My best advice is to go to this page (yep, another TechNet page) and implement the PowerShell scripts listed:
Once you've re-compressed into another CAB file, you can import it and still maintain your high speed import! Pretty good trick, right?
Now let's talk about Option 3. I have very mixed emotions about this one. It's easy and it's effective but it definitely pushes supportability. The simple explanation of this approach is this: The oswarning field in the database isn't big enough to hold the data we are trying to put into it, so let's just make the bucket larger. I found 2 methods for doing this. And apparently, based on what I have written so far, I love numbered lists, so here's another one:
1) Use SQL Management Studio to modify the field size.
2) Modify the files that OMPM uses to create the database so that every database you create has the larger field size to start.
Using SQL Management Studio is fairly straight-forward, but depending on your version of SQL it can be slightly different. I'm not going to get in depth into that solution, so if you are unsure of it, either find your favorite SQL resource (friend, colleague, book, blog, etc.) and research it or use the second method.
The second method requires you fire up a text editor. Notepad.exe is my favorite, so that's what I'm going to use as an example. Start notepad and open ProvisionDB.sql in the OMPM/Database/Include folder.
Once you have the file opened search for "oswarning" and click Find Next.
You will see the following:
Here you will see the WarningInfo field (at 255 characters). Simply change the number to something higher (let's say 285) and save the file. Now every time you run the createdb command, the new database will have a larger field. NOTE: This will not modify your existing databases, so make sure you create a new database and run your imports there. You'll want to pull any files out of the OMPMimported folder that you imported into the old database so you can re-import then into the new one.
The Office Compatibility team is aware of this limitation and is reviewing this challenge for future updates.
Hope this was helpful for anyone reading it! I plan on writing a few more blog posts about other issues and "creative" resolutions I found in the field.


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Your artistry can be captured with a signature and note on the reverse side of each piece, and is easily removed for giving and framing.
Each book contains 24 removable designs.
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Berkshire beauty still stealing the show: Jacqueline Bisset goes viral
SHE found fame in a wet T-shirt and little else in 1977's The Deep but now Jacqueline Bisset, who won a Golden Globe for her role in the BBC's Dancing On The Edge, has become an internet sensation…
After her bizarre rambling acceptance speech at this week's Golden Globes, it's easy to forget that Jacqueline Bisset first conquered Hollywood as one of the most glamorous stars of the Seventies.
This year's Golden Globes ceremony was as starstudded as ever.
Leonardo DiCaprio, Michael Douglas, Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock and Tom Hanks were all in attendance. Indeed the Beverly Hilton Hotel was so packed with Hollywood royalty that hostess Tina Fey taunted Matt Damon: "On any other night, in any other room you'd be a big deal but tonight, don't take this the wrong way, you're basically a garbage person."
And so it is all the more surprising that the next day's headlines were dominated not by one of the above but by the only British actor to win an award: Jacqueline Bisset, who will be 70 this year.
The performance that got everyone buzzing wasn't her role in BBC drama Dancing On The Edge - for which she won the prize for best supporting actress in a TV series, mini-series or TV movie - but a speech that must rank as one of the most excruciating acceptances of all time.
After taking a full minute to wend her way to the stage Bisset embarked on a rambling, emotional and expletive-laden address that has been variously described as "bizarre", "erratic" and "bonkers".
After losing track early on she chided herself with the words: "OK, Scottish background to the front." At one point organisers tried to put everyone out of their misery by playing the music signalling that a recipient's time is up. But there was no stopping Ms Bisset. Talking of people who had disparaged her in the past she recalled something her mother used to say, "Go to hell and don't come back!", before winding up with, "If you want to look good, forgive everybody. It's the best beauty treatment."
WITHIN minutes her performance went viral on social media. "Jacqueline Bisset is in front of me accepting her coffee at Starbucks. I've been standing here an hour and a half now," one joked. Another tweeted: "Bisset was also nominated for a Longest Walk to the Stage Ever Globe." Scrubs star Zach Braff got in on the act commenting: "Jacqueline Bisset is still giving her speech to the buffet." As one film man was heard to say as he left the ceremony: "Thank the Lord for crazy British broads."
If I was going to do a picture like that I'd have done it a lot sexier. That looked like two fried eggs on a platter
Amid all her current notoriety it is easy to forget that Bisset was once the most glamorous British actress of her generation. One of her early appearances was as Miss Goodthighs in the 1967 James Bond satire Casino Royale. But it was a different part of her anatomy that brought her lasting fame.
In the 1977 hit The Deep she was filmed emerging from the sea wearing nothing but bikini bottoms and a T-shirt. The trend for wet T-shirt competitions began and the film's director Jon Peters later said: "That T-shirt made me a rich man."
But while Newsweek responded by calling her "the most beautiful film actress of all time" Bisset - who saw herself as a serious actress - appears to have resented the way it affected her image.
After all by this time she had worked with prestigious directors such as John Huston, Fran§ois Truffaut, George Cukor and Roman Polanski.
Meanwhile her leading men had included Frank Sinatra, Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Charles Bronson. "After filming The Deep all they talked about was my t*** for the next four years," she complained. "If I was going to do a picture like that I'd have done it a lot sexier. That looked like two fried eggs on a platter." Some industry observers saw things differently however.
For every critical success Bisset enjoyed there were turkeys. The late Roger Ebert, one of America's most influential film reviewers, was damning. In 1982 he wrote: "Few actresses have been busier in the last 17 years to less avail."
That said she is "related" to Hollywood royalty. One of the people she hugged as she made her leisurely progress to the podium on Sunday night was American actor Jon Voight.
It was on the set of the 1975 German thriller End Of The Game that Voight asked her to be godmother to his newborn daughter Angelina by his French wife actress Marcheline Bertrand. "I had some doubts before accepting as I didn't know if I would be there for Angelina whenever she needed me," Bisset recalled later.
As things turned out the two never did get to know each other particularly well. "Her mother died and I was very close to her mother," added Bisset.
"I know many things about Angelina but through her mother more than from meeting Angelina. But I'm still very proud of her and she is such an incredible character."
The Angelina in question is Ms Jolie, who is now herself a leading Hollywood actress.
The fact that Bisset did not get to know her god-daughter very well might have something to do with the fact that Voight and Bertrand separated within a year of Jolie's birth and father and daughter did not speak for years, only reconciling following Bertrand's death from ovarian cancer in 2007.
BISSET was born in Weybridge, Surrey, in 1944 to a Scottish GP and his French wife Arlette, who had fled Paris on a bicycle as the Germans advanced on the French capital.
The family moved to Reading, Berkshire, but Bisset's father left when she was a teenager after her mother developed a form of multiple sclerosis. Jacqueline took up modelling to help support the ailing Arlette and has described this period and her parents' subsequent divorce as character strengthening.
In 1967, aged 23, Bisset secured her first part in a major film, Two For The Road, starring Albert Finney and Audrey Hepburn.
In a career that has spanned almost 50 years she went on to appear in more than 30 films and in 2010 was awarded the Legion d'Honneur by former French president Nicolas Sarkozy who described her as a "movie icon".
Her work of late, however, has revolved around television and it has now earned her the most prestigious award of her career. Perhaps surprisingly there has never been a Mr Bisset. She has had several lengthy romances, including a 10-year relationship with actor Michael Sarrazin and another with Russian-American dancer and actor Alexander Godunov.
"I feel like I was married to them because I was very dedicated to them," she said in 2008. "But I also used to feel claustrophobic. Like many people who don't easily commit I think I had a fear of being known, I was not sure there was anybody inside there."
She may not have snared a man but the nation has certainly taken her to its heart. In a slow-burn career she has never been an overnight success but this week she became an overnight sensation.


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Fabricio Coloccini's Dad has claimed his son wants to leave Newcastle and return to Argentina, something Newcastle cannot allow to happen.
Fabricio Coloccini was majorly criticised when he first signed for Newcastle United, no one really know why he'd been bought and fewer wanted him there in the first place.
When Newcastle were relegated down to the Championship, many fans started to pre-empt his departure from the club but he stayed and guided them back into the top flight as captain.
Out of the blue his Dad has suggested that he wants to leave Newcastle on good terms and go back to Argentina. Remarkable considering his admission of love and respect for his current club.
"The most difficult thing for Newcastle is to let him leave because they have already sold an important striker – on top of that he is the captain, an example, an idol and in a city that greatly loves him," Osvaldo Coloccini told the Daily Mail.
Newcastle cannot let him go because of these very comments. Demba Ba has already head down the motorway to join Chelsea and the club allowing Coloccini to leave would mean they may as well book the side into the nearest hospital for some spinal surgery.
He's become a much better defender than the man who originally joined the club from Deportivo in Spain. He has changed in a number of ways which are the main reason he is the best defender at the club.
He is strong, athletic, quick, good in the air and good with the ball at his feet. The fact he is captain has enhanced his leadership and responsibility skills and the back four looks a lot more organised when he is in it.
"It would be nice for the two of us to be at San Lorenzo, it is the club we love. Fabricio is dying to return, but is trying to make a graceful exit," added Osvaldo.
Let's hope this is just a case of a parent getting carried away with a pipedream he's always had for his son ever since he stepped outside of Argentinean borders to go and make a name for himself in the football world.
Not only will Newcastle be losing a great leader and a great player, the Premier League will be losing a big character and a solid role model of which there are currently very few.
After all, Coloccini can always go back to Argentina for the rest of his life once he retires.


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The Challenger Division of Little League Baseball is a program for mentally and physically disabled youth to enjoy the full benefits of Little League participation in an athletic environment structured to their abilities. The goal of the Challenger Division is to give everyone a chance to play baseball regardless of limitations.
The East Side Eagles, our Challenger Team, is one of approximitley 18 teams that make up our Challenger League. Each year the Challenger Division celebrates Challenger Day, a day when all the teams come together to play the game of baseball.
Come out and support The Eastside Eagles and all the Challenger teams on Challenger Day!


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Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney speaks to Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., on Tuesday, August 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
The search for sensible conservatives grows more Sisyphean this election season as Mitt Romney proves increasingly inept at making the case for his own candidacy. A liberal Republican until recently, Romney was never a terribly credible conservative messenger, but defending him has never been quite as complicated as when he sought to exploit an attack on the US embassy in Cairo to revive his failing campaign.
Romney's foolish intervention arose, as one of his advisers explained to The New York Times (before the quote was inexplicably removed from the paper's website), because "we felt this was a situation that met our critique." True, Romney's statements met a desperate political need. After all, the candidate somehow forgot to mention Al Qaeda or the war in Afghanistan in his Republican National Convention speech. He then compounded the error by explaining that the point of such speeches is that "you talk about the things that you think are important." He would have been better off talking to an empty chair. But when Romney and his advisers leveled false accusation after false accusation against the president based on mistaken information about what had taken place in Egypt and Libya, his words threatened to inflame an already perilous set of simultaneous crises overseas.
The combination of fecklessness, panic and dishonesty at so crucial a moment proved a kind of tipping point for a few Republicans, including Matthew Dowd, Peggy Noonan, Joe Scarborough, David Frum, Steve Schmidt, Mark Salter and Ed Rogers. Even that inside-dopester and frequent channeler of the wisdom of Karl Rove, Mark Halperin, didn't find a way to explain why Romney's misstep "really hurt the Democrats." Most Republicans, however, sought simply to steer clear of the shipwreck by distancing themselves from Romney's remarks without explicitly criticizing them. The Team of Silence included convention stars John McCain and Condoleezza Rice, as well as most of the House and Senate party leadership.
What remained were the stalwarts: pundits willing to go where the other right-wingers feared to tread in order to stand by their man. This group—which can be found spouting a mixture of conspiracy-mongering, nativism, racism and (generally speaking) know-nothing anti-intellectual idiocy—ranges from Republican political leaders like Sarah Palin and Jim DeMint, to former Bush officials and their progeny like John Bolton and Liz Cheney, to bloodthirsty professional lunatics like Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter. Significantly, however, this motley crew was joined by what passes for the "brain trust" of the conservative movement: the members of The Wall Street Journal's editorial page, The Weekly Standard's William Kristol, National Review's Rich Lowry, Commentary's John Podhoretz and former Commentary blogger turned Washington Post right-wing attack dog Jennifer Rubin.


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The journey for the adventurers started, when they woke up chained to posts. Confused, disoriented, and in some cases beaten, they looked around to see what was going on. Armed men had taken over their camp. They saw the two young ladies, Caimille and Leiann, that they had been instructed to protect, tied and bound on the other side of the camp.
Their captors talked among themselves, discussing what to do with the prisoners as the group woke up and tried to shake off the lingering effects of the drug and get their bearings. It was clear that this was a well-trained group of fighters and that they had more information about the group and their abilities then a normal group of brigands would. As they sat there Pepper starts theorizing about the qualities of the poison that had been administered to them.
Ignoring the group, the kidnappers starts packing one of the two black carriages and put Leiann in it. Meanwhile, the group tries to figure out a way to get free. After a few moments they spot another group sneaking through the woods. Hoping that it was some kind of rescue the group sees them attack the kidnappers. They are quickly dissuaded of this idea when one of the men from this new group tries to man handle Pepper. The group is able to break their chains and escape in the confusion. They also see Caimille free herself and sneak into the woods.
As the battle is going against them the original attackers try to escape. Some of them get on the carriage with Leiann in it and start to drive off. The others follow on horseback. Caimille seeing her sister being taken away jumps onto a horse and starts following the kidnappers. Deni jumps onto the horse behind her. After finding his weapons Kaz grabs a horse and starts following. As they ride Deni flirts with his best friend's sister. Caimille tries to ignore him knowing Deni isn't serious about it, though she does find his closeness disconcerting but she pretends she doesn't. As they near the carriage they hear Kaz catching up behind them.
Kaz stares at the carriage trying to figure out if he could be successful in jumping onto the carriage. He decides that it's too much of a risk and instead rides up behind Caimille and Deni and covers them from the other riders. Once the two of them get abreast to the carriage a man inside points out a gun and tries to shoot them. Thankfully he misses. Despite the difficulty of casting while riding a horse, Deni is able to cast a charm spell on the kidnapper and convince him to hand Leiann over. There are a few tense moments while Camille tries to get close enough to make the transfer between the horse and the moving carriage as safe as possible. Deni is able to successfully get Leiann to the horse. As soon as her sister is safe, Caimille peels off with Kaz close behind her.
Meanwhile back at the camp. Dactyl, Pepper, and Kyras are left to deal with the last of the attackers. Once he gets his staff back and shouting the incantation, "Taste the rainbow!!!" Pepper is able to use color spray to incapacitate the men attacking them. He also notices that they are trying to steal a book his parents had asked him to deliver to theMarlord. He retrieves his book but is shocked to see Kyras killing the incapacitated men in anger over them slaying one of his wolves. Looking at the second group of men they notice that they are all wearing moonstones, the holy stone of the Silver Lady.
They also find a sealed note on one of the original attackers. In a quiet moment Pepper investigates the book to make sure it was unharmed in the fracas. When he unlatches the book he finds that the book is hollow and there is a device inside. Gingerly he shakes the device and hears a thick slushy noise like some sort of liquid. Pepper decides not to investigate further fearing to damage the object.
When Camille, Leiann, Deni, and Kaz return they get their stuff together and try to decide what to do. Do they go on or return home?


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Type Tuesday: Asya Palatova/
We love to hear from our subscribers, to see what they do and what inspires them. This morning Asya Palatova introduced herself via email. In visiting her portfolio, I realized that I am very familiar with her work! She has art directed numerous books, Martha Stewart's Living and Body & Soul magazines, and created the memorable logo for Purl, among many other things. I invite you to visit Studio Palatova to view more of her design skills.
Asya also makes lovely ceramics, adorned with simple typographic accents and flourishes. {Available in her etsy shop.} Her blog, My Mama's Table, chronicles her ceramic works-in-progress and documents her visual and culinary inspirations. Thanks, Asya!


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While researching addiction, I came across this excellent Ted Talk. The principles taught in this talk are highly practical and reminded me of numerous Scriptures. As I pursue freedom for others and myself, I continually discover the power of practical obedience. Principles matter. Truth sets us free. Jesus is the answer. But we must respond to that truth. We must obey it. We have a responsibility to apply wisdom and truth to our lives: to access the power of the Holy Spirit, and to do whatever it takes to be free. Below are the results of my Bible Study inspired by this Ted Talk.
#1 Willpower
Repentance, "Do You Want to be Free?"
Matthew 15:1-20, James 4:1-10
#2 Skillpower
What does the Bible say about to deal with your specific struggle?
Hosea 4:6, Psalm 119, 2 Timothy 3:16, Matthew 22:29
Control the sources that control us:
Mark 3:22-27
#3 Social Pressure
1 Corinthians 15:33, Ecclesiastes 4:12, Proverbs 12:26, Proverbs 13:20
#4 Social Ability
James 5:16, Proverbs 27:17, Proverbs 9:9
#5 Rewards
(Lots of Scripture on the rewards of holiness, gotta narrow this one down and choose the most practical)
#6 Space
2 Timothy 2:22, Matthew 6:13, Romans 13:14
Plan to deal with setbacks:
Proverbs 24:16, Micah 7:8-9, 1 John 1:7-9


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Gorgeous Lori-Ann…. Love the colouring
Thank you Jo and Robin!!x
Beautiful Lori-Ann!!! xxx
Thank you Ana!
So lovely!
Thank you Goreti!
Wow! That is really a pretty cake! You wouldn't want to post a tutorial on how you did the buttercream stencil, would you? ;)
Thank you! Sure I will , I am doing some more next week :0)
Gorgeous, amazing stencil on the buttercream!
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Here are the top 10 reality TV shows to date that are real estate oriented. Top 10 lists are often subjective, so I know some of you will like others better, but that's the fun of it;p
Here are the top ten real estate TV shows going into 2009 and just a few of the many lessons we can learn from them:
10. Get It Sold (HGTV)"
Small changes often yield greater results. Yup, sweeping that walkway, vacuuming that carpet, replacing that worn old chair - even the little things make a difference when selling and staging a house.
9. Weekend Warriors (HGTV)
Fixing up a home to make it easier to sell doesn't have to cost an arm and a leg. Many things we think are hard just take some common sense and the right directions.
8. Secrets That Sell (HGTV)Don't be afraid to ask for help from professionals if you're a seller - they can save you a lot of time and headaches. Do set a reasonable budget and stick to it. Looks can make the difference between a sale and a fail.
7. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (ABC)The amount of work that's put into each and every home is a true reminder of the gift every family on this show gets. When a community gets involved, things happen.
6. My House is Worth What? (HGTV)Sellers may not like to hear the truth about what their homes are worth, but if you get them to listen you can help them more than they know.
5. Designed to Sell (HGTV)Design a home the right way to begin with and it will sell much faster.
4. Bought & Sold (HGTV)Sometimes you have to go extraordinary lengths to close a deal, but it can be well worth it in the end.
3. Moving Up (TLC)Moving out and selling the tiny home a growing family has been in for years can be hard - so many memories, not enough money, etc. - but the right agent can make it happen.
2. House Hunters (HGTV)
Building a home is HARD and INVOLVED. Just buy one - you have so many options!;p
1. Flip That House (TLC)
Yes, even you can make money off flipping a home, but it takes work, skill, pull-through and sound professional advice to make it happen.
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President Donald Trump
Would you please examine a proposal for protecting abused children by giving your secretary a new paid vacation day?
The news media of Nebraska could shock a lot of children and parents every year by publishing all of the names of abused children in our state who were killed in the previous year by a parent or guardian. While this proposal may sound really terrible, it should make the next generation of voters much more committed to protecting those children for a simple reason. A painful truth becomes much more painful when someone knows it is true but they have to wait for the information to be delivered. However, all of the federal, state, and local politicians that I have written to seem to be afraid of being treated like children. And no one in the news media will be able to communicate like a teacher, instead of entertainer, if it doesn't become profitable to publish an annual remedial education course for multitasking voters.
First, a virtual town hall meeting for an entire country must be created every year by giving every government employee a new paid vacation day. This new fringe benefit for our hardily working public servants will always be scheduled on the Monday closest in the calendar to our average rate of taxation. Which should make most taxpayers madder than an unregulated firecracker. (Google Tax Freedom Day or read the last paragraph for an explanation on when the holiday will be scheduled.) But their anger during the week of the holiday will also create an annual one week surge in demand for newspaper audits of our federal, state, and local governments. Just like the annual surges in demand for toys with Christmas, turkeys with Thanksgiving, firecrackers with the 4th of July, flowers with Memorial Day, flags with Presidents Day, and alcohol with New Years Eve.
Then with an annual Taxpayers Holiday, the profitable one week surge in supply of newspapers will become the perfect quantity and quality of information for normal children to enjoy reading and discussing with their parents. Moreover, they will be traumatized every year by the names and numbers of children who were recently killed by a parent or guardian. And when these children become teenagers, they will demand to know why their parents' government of the people, etc, etc didn't hired enough social workers to save as many abused children as possible. But it won't be very hard for them to realize by themselves that there hasn't been enough social workers and/or the turnover rate was too high because previous generations of voters have repeatedly forgotten the issue. So when these teenagers become adults, and they start voting while raising their own children, they will repeatedly monitor the annual statistics on abused children and vote for politicians who really want to protect our country's most vulnerable special interest group.
(If your secretary is worried about the cost of another paid vacation for so many government employees, her concerns could be resolved by rescheduling Presidents Day as a Taxpayers Holiday. With only one holiday for promoting more patriotism and better politicians, many businesses will give their employees a paid vacation day on the same Monday. As a result, more employees and employers will celebrate twice as hard and stimulate the economy. And I think George Washington would approve of celebrating on a three day weekend that is dedicated to fighting for No Taxation Without Justification.)
Second, the impact of the virtual town hall meeting via state and local newspapers must be maximized with a law or amendment forcing every state to hold their caucuses and primary elections for the Presidency and Congress at least two weeks after the holiday. This will change the annual audits and analyses into political report cards — right before people vote — that can be used for not choosing another tax and spend Democrat or another borrow and spend Republican. And the one week review of metrics and opinions right before the caucuses and primary elections can also be reinforced six months later with a one weekend review before the general election. Then the political report cards will work like the academic report cards that teachers use for communicating with parents. Which will immediately change the balance of power between voters and politicians.
Because most parents, when a child brings home too many bad report cards in a row, will become much more involved in both disciplining and helping their child. The extra discipline usually includes better monitoring of the child's study habits and test scores. The extra help can include reading the child's textbooks so the parents can provide some free home tutoring. This helps the parents set more realistic goals for their child and then to enforce those goals more consistently. And that is what the voters need to do with their politicians. They need to monitor their politician's speeches and voting records more carefully. They need to read more newspapers so they can help their politicians get better grades. They need to treat some politicians like children who have gotten too many bad report cards in a row.
When I brought home too many bad report cards in a row, my father was silently angry for an entire semester while he waited for my next report card. Because he knew when the next report card would be mailed, and because he had to wait for the painful truth to be delivered, he had more than enough time and motivation to silently think about how he would inspire me to work harder in school. Something that he was able to do because his silence was an unmistakable message that I had run out of excuses. More importantly, the same chain reaction will happen with voters and change how they care about the weakest special interest groups in America. When voters begin to realize that the next political report card is going to show that there aren't enough social workers to protect abused children, they will find the time to think about how they can inspire their politician to reform the system before the net election.
And when voters begin to understand that some foster care children are becoming homeless because there isn't a safety net when they age out of the system, they will be motivated to punish politicians who are ignoring the issue. And when they begin to study how many doctors are not accepting Medicaid patients because the remuneration is too low, they will be inspired to reward politicians who are willing to pay more money. And when they begin to remember that overcrowded prisons are saving money in the short run but cost more in the long run because inmates have to develop more aggressive personalities to survive, thereby making it harder to stay out of prison when they are released, more voters will become hard on crime and a little softer on criminals.
Ironically, the money for protecting the weakest special interest groups could come from the money for subsidizing the strongest special interest groups. Then no one would have to vote for raising taxes. Reporters will enjoy writing about the worst examples of wasteful government spending during these virtual town hall meetings. And that should force every politician to metaphorically line up in circular firing squads where they will have to shoot at the special interest groups standing behind other politicians. That is how the bridge to nowhere was eliminated. It had been approved when a single sound bite in a national magazine forced almost every Congressman and Senator to vote against it. Before the sound bite, they had to vote for the bridge because they had to vote for the projects in the legislation that were meant for the special interest groups in their districts and states. After the negative publicity, they had to vote against it because the voters in their districts and states were angry. So almost every politician will want to work harder to cut wasteful government projects because they won't want to get a bad report card. Which is going to mainly result in the elimination of wasteful government programs for the strongest special interest groups because they are the strongest special interest groups.
Their superior strength won't be enough to prevent the cuts because the voters are going to feel insulted every time their newspaper publishes another example of unjustifiable spending during a national town hall meeting. And the voters are going to feel that they are being insulted by their politicians. The insults will be similar to being insulted in front on your friends. When that happens, even if it is a mild insult, the person being insulted is almost always going to respond much more forcefully than what would have been necessary with an insult that was done in private. So every politician will be forced to line up in the circular firing squad to shoot at the special interest groups standing behind another politician. No one can survive as a politician if his voters feel like they are being insulted by his lack of fiscal discipline. With a Taxpayers Holiday, the annual town hall meetings via state and local newspapers will become seven consecutive Judgment Days for our government of the people, by the people, for the people. Nearly everyone will be participating as a spectator in a virtual stadium and nearly everyone will feel like they have been insulted in front of their friends if their politicians continue to spend money on programs that can not be justified. But if taxes need to be raised for protecting abused children, more voters will support the tax increase because they will know that their money is being spent for essential programs.
Third, every newspaper can use the one week surge in supply and demand for newspapers as an opportunity to sell their best divide and conquer investigative journalism. Thereupon the largest newspaper in every state will publish a comprehensive one day report on its senior Senator to Washington, D.C. and his most important committee assignments. While the second largest newspaper will publish a comprehensive one day report on its junior Senator to Washington, D.C. and his most important committee assignments. And in every Congressional District, the largest newspaper that is not investigating a Senator will publish a comprehensive one day report on its Congressman and his most important committee assignments. As for the smaller newspapers that are not investigating a federal legislator, they can publish a one day report on their respective state Senators and their committee assignments. Consequently some newspapers in Nebraska will be repeatedly investigating the Senators on the Health and Human Services Committee who are the most responsible for how our government of the people, etc, etc is protecting abused children.
And the voters in their districts are going to know which voters are the most responsible for monitoring the Senators on the Health and Human Services Committee. Then these Nebraskan voters will act just like the voters in Iowa and New Hampshire who are the most responsible for nominating the Democratic and Republican Presidential candidates. Even though their Presidential caucuses and primaries are held every four years instead of every year, they are proud of their of their responsibility and they take it very seriously. They read newspapers. They go to debates. They study the candidates. And I believe the voters living in key districts in every state will respond the same way. In fact, they will act just like parents who are much more protective of their own children. They will take their responsibility to protect abused children very seriously because they know that they are the voters who are the most responsible preventing as many deaths as possible. They can't do this now because most of them don't even know the name of their state Senator.
Without a Taxpayers Holiday, any reforms that are enacted in the upcoming session will gradually be undone when money is silently taken away from the programs and given to more powerful special interest groups. And there won't be enough money until another profitable scandal for the news media forces both voters and politicians to pay attention. But then the cycle will repeat itself when the money is silently taken away and given to more powerful special interest groups. (There wouldn't be any reason to study history if history did not repeat itself.) If children could vote, or if they could contribute money to politicians. maybe more abused children would survive. But these reforms will never happen. Again, any reforms that are enacted are eventually going to fail to protect as many children as possible. And I need your help to make our country shock a lot of children every year so they will do a better job than their parents did at protecting abused children.
They will do a much better job because the predictable pain they feel every year during our virtual town hall meetings for an entire country will be much stronger than the unpredictable pain their parsents currently feel. So they will want to avoid or at least minimize the pain by being more politically involved in how our government protects children. Even your secretary will have felt more pain when she read this email a second time because she knew what the email was going to say but she had to wait until she reached the most traumatic sentences. Her strongest emotions will probably be felt when she rereads my theory for why the reforms you enact in the upcoming legislative session will be slowly undone when the extra money is taken away. She will feel like a parent whose child was saved one day and taken away on the next day. The intensity of emotions she felt when the child was saved only intensified the cruelty she felt when the child was taken away. This kind of emotional manipulation, when it's done properly by the news media, can change the behavior of politicians by changing the behavior of voters. But the voters won't be able to force their politicians to save as many children as possible if history is allowed to repeat itself because reporters didn't use a Taxpayers Holiday to communicate like teachers
instead of entertainers.
Stanley Krauter
Lincoln, Nebraska 68508
stanleykrauter at yahoo dot com
P.S. In 2015, the average taxpayer paid 31.2% of his income in federal, state, and local taxes. So a Taxpayers Holiday could have been scheduled on April 25, 2016 because that Monday was the 116th day of the leap year's 366 days. To make it easier for people and businesses to plan for celebrating the holiday, any changes in our taxes or economy would be handled by scheduling each holiday twenty years into the future based on a twenty year moving average from the past. Consequently the Taxpayers Holiday for 2036 would be based upon the average tax rate for 1996 to 2016. (And the holidays for 2017 to 2035 could be based on the same rate.) The holiday for 2037 would be based upon the average tax rate for 1997 to 2017. And the holiday for 2038 on the average rate for 1998 to 2018.


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India is not America, Mr Advani
The country needs electoral reforms. But the one suggested by the senior BJP leader can't be the starting point. Satya Prakash writes.india Updated: Aug 22, 2012 21:28 IST
Senior BJP leader LK Advani has made a plea to President Pranab Mukherjee to "take an initiative with regard to poll reforms in their totality". In a blog entry dated August 12, Advani has requested Mukherjee to "accomplish" at least one thing, i.e. a fixed tenure for the Lok Sabha and state assemblies, and simultaneous elections at the Centre and states every five years.
But the seemingly good suggestion raises far more serious questions about the functioning of the Indian polity than it seeks to answer. Instead of providing political stability, a fixed tenure for Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabhas can further complicate our problems. What if a government falls before its five-year term? Is it all right to cobble together a coalition at any cost? Will it not encourage horse-trading? There are no definite answers to these questions.
Further, requesting the president "to take an initiative" on poll reforms may not be desirable, as the Constitution does not envisage an active or activist head of State.
Advani appears to be impressed by the US where the law lays down that the presidential election shall be held every four years "on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November".
But India is not America and ours is not a presidential system. The two nations — the oldest and the largest democracies in the world — have different historical reasons for adopting different forms of government.
Our founding fathers made a deliberate choice in favour of the parliamentary form of government in which going to the electorate to solve a political problem — even before the term of the Lok Sabha or a Vidhan Sabha has expired — remains the ultimate option.
One cannot disagree with the proposition that India badly needs electoral reforms. But Advani's suggestions cannot be the starting point. In fact, in the last 15 years, the Election Commission (EC) has proposed far more pressing reforms to check poll-related malpractices and rid our polity of criminal elements. But successive governments have chosen to ignore them.
It was during the NDA rule in 1998 that the EC proposed changes in the Representation of People Act. To prevent criminalisation of politics, it demanded that a person against whom charges have been framed by a court for an offence punishable by imprisonment of five years or more should be disqualified from contesting elections. Under the existing law, a person is disqualified only if she is convicted and sentenced to imprisonment of two years or more.
The EC reiterated its proposal in November 1999, when the BJP-led NDA was still in power. After the Congress-led UPA came to power in May 2004, the EC sent the proposal to the government in July 2004 and October 2006. But nothing has happened so far.
More than reforming the electoral system, which is by and large free and fair and has been hailed as one of the best in the world, India needs to reform its political parties, whose funding remains largely opaque.
Way back in July 1998, the EC suggested a law to regulate the functioning of political parties and putting their accounts in the public domain every year after auditing. It also wanted to enforce transparency in their fund-raising and expenditure. The EC reminded the government of its proposal in 2004 and 2006. But, as usual, there has been no progress on this front.
The EC has made many other sensible suggestions, including amending the law to make 'paid news' an electoral offence, enhancing punishment for electoral offences, banning advertisements highlighting the government's achievements and punishing candidates filing false affidavits. If political parties are serious about electoral reforms, there are at least two suggestions from the EC that must be implemented soon — a restriction on the number of seats from which a candidate may contest and negative voting, which gives voters the option of rejecting all candidates, if she thinks none of them are worthy of her vote.
Finally, rather than the EC requesting the government and political parties to introduce electoral reforms, it should be the other way round. Unfortunately, we don't see this happening.
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Church turns to spin
The Church of England is trying to spin its way out of the crisis over the issue of homosexuality, reports the Daily Telegraph.
The revelation comes from a document drawn up by one of the Archbishop of Canterbury's closest advisers, Jeremy Harris.
Dr Rowan Williams's secretary for public affairs, wrote a three-page memorandum, entitled Notes towards a Handling Strategy on Gay Issues, outlining how the Church could manipulate the media.
Mr Harris is a former BBC journalist with great influence at Lambeth Palace.
In the "strictly confidential" document, which has been seen by The Daily Telegraph, he said: "In addition to attempting to manage the gay issue strategically, there is at least the challenge . . . of displacing it at least partially from public and media attention.
"This involves, principally, finding attractive alternative stories involving ABC [the Archbishop of Canterbury] and/or the Church."
The use of the shorthand ABC has overtones of the language used in Downing Street, where the Prime Minister is often referred to as TB in media strategy documents and by Alastair Campbell, the outgoing director of communications.
Mr Harris says: "The ABC needs to be seen and heard as offering a balanced ticket, as someone capable of relating constructively to a range of constituencies. In strategic terms this means keeping an appropriate distance from many strands of the issue and (because of the perception that he is on the liberal wing and is so in personal rather than corporate terms) being seen and heard as receptive to conservative opinion."
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By, Kaitlin Fuelling
SANTA CLARA, Calif. - This week, the women's softball team looks to start off their conference campaign strong at Cal State Bakserfield. It will be the final season for senior Amanda Edmonson (Las Vegas, Nev./Silverado). While in high school, Edmonson was voted conference MVP and was a member of the all-state and all-conference teams. She has been an essential contributor to the women's softball team, appearing in all 45 games as a junior, tied for the team lead by hitting seven doubles, posted an on-base percentage of .322, splitting her time between catcher, first base, and as designated hitter. She has also been a star student at Santa Clara University and was named to the Pacific Coast Softball Conference (PCSC) Academic Honor Roll. Recently, SantaClaraBroncos.com (SCB) was able to catch up with Amanda to discuss her career as a Bronco.
SCB: How do you feel about coming into your last season here at Santa Clara? What do you plan to do after college?
AE: I am really excited about going into my last season as a Bronco. We have a great opportunity to succeed in our conference this year, and I am looking forward to finishing my softball career strong. After I graduate I will be attending law school. I have various options, but I have not decided what law school I will be attending.
SCB: How did you become interested in softball? Have you always played your current position? Do you have a favorite position?
AE: I have been playing softball since I was ten years old, but it seems like I have been playing my whole life. I have always had passion for the game. I grew up watching the Chicago cubs, and even as a baby, my favorite thing to wear was a Cubs onesie. Ever since I started playing softball, I loved being a catcher. I like seeing the whole field and having control.
SCB: What have you enjoyed most or been able to take away from being a student-athlete at Santa Clara? Is there any advice you would offer to freshmen students or freshmen athletes?
AE: I can't imagine my life without softball. I have made great friends and relationships while having the opportunity to compete at a very high level. I would really encourage freshmen to be proactive. There are so many opportunities at Santa Clara that we don't always take advantage of. Also, it is easy to get caught up in school work and sports, but it is important to have fun and enjoy college!
SCB: Are you close with the girls on your team? How do you spend time outside of practice and school work?
AE: We don't have too much time outside of school and softball, but I am really close with my teammates. I have grown extremely close with the girls in my class. We have four seniors, and we have been through a lot together. I really enjoy working out and doing active things. I also love watching all of the other sports teams; so, I go to as many games as I can.
SCB: Has there been anything you have had to miss out on due to being an athlete? i.e. study abroad, etc.?
AE: One of the biggest things I have missed out on is studying abroad. I have been to Mexico, but I have not been to any other countries. Luckily, I hope to be able to study abroad in law school so it will all work out. In addition, it is extremely difficult to obtain work experience or be a part of research teams (primarily in psychology) because our schedule does not allow enough free time. We have morning and afternoon workouts all year long and play about 50 games. However, being a part of a team is great experience in itself.
SCB: What is one of your strengths/weaknesses in softball? How are you working to improve them? Do you have any goals for the team this season? Any personal goals?
AE: One of my biggest strengths is my intensity, but this is also one of my weaknesses. My intensity translates into hard work and focus, but it is easy to get down when things don't go my way. I am working hard to find a balance so that the game is fun. My goal is to finish strong and have fun in my final year.


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Pennsylvania Ballet - 'La Fille Mal Gardee'
By Lori Ibay -- March 4, 2005, Academy of Music, Philadelphia
Sir Fredrick Ashton's "La Fille mal gardee" is an ambitious undertaking for a relatively small ballet company like Pennsylvania Ballet to tackle as their first full-length ballet of the season (excluding "Nutcracker").
Royal Ballet - Double Bill: 'Dances at a Gathering' and 'The Dream'
By Ana Abad-Carles -- June 9, 2008, Royal Opera House, London
On a happier note, the revival of "The Dream" was a much better occasion. Leanne Benjamin and Edward Watson gave intelligent, mature and layered interpretations to their roles.
San Francisco Ballet - Program 7: Ashton's Assets
By Dean Speer,
April 18, 2004 -- War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco
Sir Frederick Ashton's ballets are not done often enough on this side of the Atlantic, nor are they in the repertories of many companies.
'Paris Opera Ballet - 'La Fille mal gardée'
By Elizabeth McPherson -- June 22, 2007, Palais Garnier, Paris
"La Fille mal gardée" was a joy to experience from start to finish. The humorous choreography was wonderfully embodied by the outstanding cast, and almost continuous laughter and chuckling was heard from the audience.
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Oregon Ballet Theatre - Modern Masters: A Study in Contrasts
By Dean Speer -- May 9, 2004, Newmark Theatre, Portland, Oregon
The coup de grace of the afternoon had to be Frederick Ashton's "Façade," set to the music of William Walton. This is a piece that's meant to be seen many times, and it so well path for later works like Kenneth MacMillan's "Elite Syncopations," done recently at San to Francisco Ballet, and which also features outrageous, zany, and fun characters doing period social dances of the day.
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The Royal Ballet - 'La Valse', 'Homage to the Queen', Divertissements
By Cassandra -- June 8, 2006, Royal Opera House. London
The opening work was "La Valse", a piece best described as 'minor Ashton'. I suppose it was chosen because it gets a sizeable corps onto the stage, but even the fact that the dancers were led by the stylish Marianela Nunez didn't bring it to life as far as I was concerned.
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San Francisco Ballet - 'Monotones I and II,' 'Thaïs pas de deux,' 'Symphonic Variations,' 'Elite Syncopations': Funky Hat Day at the Ballet
By Jeff Kuo --
April 17, 2004, War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco
Despite harsh words at the time of the War of the American Rebellion (as the American Revolution is incorrectly called in Britain), it is generally agreed that Americans like things British – e.g. the Beatles, the late Princess Diana, fish & chips, etc...
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Royal Ballet - 'La Fille Mal Gardée'
By Ana Abad-Carles - April 26, 2006, Royal Opera House, London
There are few ballets that are as enjoyable as "La Fille Mal Gardée," and even fewer that can rightfully claim to be a choreographic masterpiece. Though the odds were against Ashton when he decided to rework this masterpiece from the past, he managed to produce a work of genius capable of sustaining the audience's delight, in spite of the music and the story.
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San Francisco Ballet - 'Monotones I and II,' 'Thaïs pas de deux,' 'Symphonic Variations,' 'Elite Syncopations'
By Mary Ellen Hunt --
April 13, 2004, War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco
If I were to describe Ashton, I would say he is what Americans stereotypically think of when they imagine Brits. Often reserved, given to vast understatement at times, but then also capable of biting, quick wit and clever, very clever.
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Royal Ballet: Inspired by Ashton
By Cassandra - June 16, 2005, Linbury Theatre, London
Inspiration can take many forms, but it was intriguing to discover that the two most successful items in the programme "Inspired by Ashton" seemed to have no possible link with Britain's most celebrated choreographer at all.
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By Jane Pritchard
'Five Brahms Waltzes in the Manner of Isadora Duncan' , choreographed by Frederick Ashton, is an evocation of the dances of the American-born Isadora Duncan (1877 – 1927), one of the great pioneers of modern dance, whom Ashton described as a dancer of 'grace and power'.
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American Ballet Theatre - 'Sylvia'
By Cecly Placenti - June 15, 2005, Metropolitan Opera House, New York City
The curtain rises on a pastoral scene as nymphs and woodland creatures dance before the shrine of Eros, God of Love. Triumphant and Amazonian enters Sylvia, one of Diana's huntress nymphs sworn to chastity, and her attendants, victorious from their hunt.
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By Annie Wells - February 23 , 2005, Theatre Royal, Brighton, England
Though not all would have captured the full significance of Ian Spink, Antony McDonald and Juliette Blondelle's 2005 reworking of Frederick Ashton's sharp-edged comedy "Tragedy of Fashion"; the bright colours and wicked humour lifted the atmosphere like the arrival of a dessert trolley.
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Birmingham Royal Ballet - Ashton Celebration: 'The Two Pigeons'
By Jerry Hochman -- July 9, 2004, Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, New York City
It's all too rare to get excited about ballet performances these days. I appreciate great individual performances and great ballets when I see them, but rarely does everything mesh. It did tonight at the Met. The Birmingham Royal Ballet's performance of Frederick Ashton's "The Two Pigeons" was miraculous.
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Here's how she accomplished it.
Monday morning, Babs gave Lohan top billing on her ABC daytime talker "The View's" Hot Topics chatter — ahead of the story of resigned CIA chief Gen David Patraeus. This was so that Babs could unveil footage she'd already shot for her famously aborted interview with La Lohan on the eve of the actress/popwreck's comeback role in the Lifetime bioflick "Liz & Dick."
"Barbara, I feel you need to take care of some business… right now!" 'The View' air-traffic-controller Whoopi Goldberg said at the top of Monday's show, warming up the crowd for Babs.
Babs sets the scene: "I like Lindsay a lot…known her for years… since she was a child star… very vulnerable…said whenever she did an interview she would sit down and do it with me…at some time and expense I flew to Los Angeles….I had done many interviews with Elizabeth Taylor…wanted to talk about the comparisons."
Sense of aggrievement having been clearly established, Babs gets down to business.
Roll footage of Lohan dolled up as Liz, chatting with Babs about tabloid reports of her antics while shooting the biopic, including lateness showing up to the set, blah, blah, blah:
"It's…my first time back and I want to keep working… I'm a survivor," Lohan says, well-rehearsedly.
Babs was seen politely reminding Lohan of the "little trouble" she had waking up one day in a hotel room during shooting, which caused some panicked person to call paramedics. "Was that just exhaustion?" Babs was seen asking, innocently.
"I think I was just honestly tired. I needed a nap for 15 minutes and then there were seven paramedics in the room. So imagine how I felt," Lohan said.
With a straight face.
End of clip. Back to Babs, who told us her Lohan interview shoulda been the crowning achievement of an upcoming edition of ABC primetime newsmag "20/20," and how she'd done soooo much homework for the interview, including having actually sat throug the Lifetime movie, as she waved a binder full of Lohan facts.
"And then, her longtime press agent resigned," Babs said dramatically. Next thing Babs knew, Lohan's new publicist phoned last Friday to say Lohan "doesn't feel up to it."
Then, Monday morning, Babs said, she read press reports Lohan had been booked to do an interview — with Jay Leno.
Leno is, of course, king of the non-tough questions.
"You are a very different kind of interviewer…and I feel very strongly her new [PR] people probably said [to Lohan], 'You know what, WE are not up for you to do with interview you will be doing with Barbara – you are going to do Jay and get your [movie promotion] obligation out of the way," Whoopi speculated.
"I couldn't agree more," Babs said. "If they'd said to me, 'She is not up to the kind of questions you might ask' — though most of them were comparing her to Elizabeth Taylor: child stars…both aggressive mothers, etc….if they had told me that, I wouldn't feel quite as disappointed as I do today."
"Let me stroke you baby," Whoopi said to Babs. Which seemed odd at the time, since she'd already stroked Babs pretty vigorously.
Anyway, she reminded Babs that since she met with Lohan in Los Angeles, Lohan has had "several other issues" that Babs could not have avoided also asking the star about.
Babs agreed, but stuck with her "they owed me a more honest explanation" story.
Then, demonstrating how Babs has survived in an industry that doesn't usually tolerate female octogenarians, she added sweetly, " I hope she feels well, and as far as Jay goes — I love Jay" — immediately after which she took dead aim at both:
"To go on Jay Leno and be adorable and amusing — there's still all the problems with her."
Babs made no mention Monday's "The View" of Sunday's episode of Minaj's E! reality series, "Nicki Minaj: My Truth," in which she attacked Walters.
Because, being the old campaigner she is, Walters knows prime self-promotion material like this should not be blown all in one broadcast, but parsed out over the course of a November sweep week.
In Sunday's second episode of "My Truth," Minaj, harkening back to last month's verbal battle/publicity stunt with fellow new "American Idol" judge Mariah Carey, blasted Walters for having allegedly never contacted her before reporting on "The View" that Carey had hired extra security for herself and her twins after the fracas/stunt.
Walters chatted with "friend" Carey on the phone after video "leaked" to TMZ of the verbal "brawl" between the two divas, at the end of which, Carey claimed she was told by staffers, Minaj stormed off the set while mumbling something about using a gun if she'd had one.
"If I was JLo you would have called J-Lo's camp — so are we not good enough for you?" Minaj asked.
"I hear that Mariah went to Barbara Walters with more fabrications which even the producers said I never said," Minaj explained for the sake of her fans who've never seen "The View," or maybe even heard of Walters — all to the good, for Walters.
"I've never in my life said anything regarding a gun."
"I'm happy that Mariah's on the panel," she continued. "You got one of the best singers who ever sung on the world."
But, she also insisted Carey had been trying to get her booted from the show. And, in maybe the most contradictory statement ever made on reality TV, which is saying a lot, Minaj added, "We're having a great time on 'Idol' — no one going to run me off that mother [expletive] show."


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Red Rooster 7 Day headed home
The 2011 7 day Long Range trip on the Red Rooster III left Alijos Rocks today to head back to San Diego. A mixed bag of Yellowfin Tuna to 100lbs, Wahoo, Dorado and Yellowtail finished up the trip for the happy anglers. The early days were spent on the "Ridge" for Yellowtail, Dorado, School Tuna, Pargo and some Grouper. The boat will be into San Diego on Friday Oct. 7., will update this with a final wrap up. Thank you for our charter master Sonny Jones, and our sponsors for their plethera of giveaways!
Our 2012 trip on the Rooster is already on the schedule leaving Friday, September 28, I'm sure by the time the boat gets to San Diego it will be well on its way to being full. Give us a shout if you are interested in joining us in 2012.


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For sometime I have been studying this Graphics Engine called Irrlicht. I came to know about this one from the monthly game development talks at BDOSN.org, the lecture was given by Al-Mamoon Shohag, Technical Leader at S-Games Ltd (http://www.s-games.co.uk, Previously known as Deep Red Studio Ltd.). So thanks to him and BDOSN. I think this is a really good graphics engine, because even if you're just new to graphics/game programming you'll be able to pick up its features within shortest amount of time. And that is not because of its simplicity but also for the wide range of documentations and tutorials found over the net.
Irrlicht supports 3D rendering via OpenGL, DirectX 8 and 9, and internal software rasterizers. External renderers can be written and plugged via a simple interface, giving rise to a community-made SDL video driver. The engine comes with a library of standard material renderers, allowing fallback materials where user hardware is unable to handle advanced techniques. New materials can be added to the engine at run-time, allowing users to write their own where required. In addition to legacy fixed-function pipeline materials, programmable Pixel and Vertex Shaders (1.1 to 3.0), ARB Fragment and Vertex Programs, HLSL and GLSL materials are supported.
The engine supports most common 3D mesh and image formats by default, and more have been written as external plugins. Lights, cameras and 3D objects are managed as a tree of 'Scene Nodes', arbitrary groupable entities which are responsible for their own behaviour. Nodes can be managed by generic animators, by each other, or manually by the user. A large number of built-in node types exist and can be used together to make complex indoor and outdoor scenes, new nodes are trivial to make and can be added at runtime, many extra ones are provided by the community. Internal node types include a terrain renderer and sky domes/boxes for outdoor rendering, BSPs for indoor rendering, bone based animated meshes, stencil shadows, billboards and particle systems, water surfaces and primitives.
A skinnable 2D GUI is available, sporting many controls and the ability for users to plug in their own (or community made) custom controls at runtime, access to a full event system is provided for responding to GUI, mouse and keyboard events without having to rely on external libraries.
Filesystem access is abstracted allowing platform-independent file and folder access, and transparent access to files within Zip archives. Other IO features include an XML reader and writer, the ability to take screenshots, manipulate images and save them in several different file formats.
Rudimentary collision detection is also included, but for more serious physics uses, users are recommended to use a full featured Physics engine.
Links for starters:
1. http://www.irrlicht3d.org/wiki/
2. http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/tutorials.html
3. http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=136776 (Highly recommended, but there maybe some bugs in the code snippets. Read the whole topic posting to resolve those issues).
4. http://comsci.liu.edu/~murali/index.html (Some basic examples, very helpful to get u started)
5. http://www.codeguru.com/cpp/misc/samples/games/article.php/c10469__1/
(Review of Irrlicht engine with some cool sample codes.)
Here's a list of some open source games using Irrlicht. If you're intersted in game development using Irrlicht, maybe these examples might help.
1. Crimson Glory – http://www.crimsonengine.com/
2. Supremacy – http://supremacy.sourceforge.net/
3. First-King – http://first-king.sourceforge.net/
4. http://aresfps.sourceforge.net/


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Dec. 14, 1997
Randell Jackson finished with 15 points. (file photo)
ORLANDO, Fla. – Randell Jackson's layup with three-tenths of a second to play
provided the winning points as 15th-ranked Florida State
overcame an outside assault by Florida to record an 83-81
victory at the Milk Challenge in Orlando.
The Seminoles (7-1) had a final chance with 2.9 seconds left
after Florida's Damen Maddox missed badly on a 10-foot jumper
from the right baseline. After a timeout, Geoff Brower hurled a
court-length pass to Jackson, who caught the ball on the right
side, took one dribble along the baseline and scored off the
glass as he was fouled by Maddox.
"The way the play was drawn, I had a split second to look at the
clock," said Jackson. "My first reaction was to shoot it, but I
thought, 'If I get there, I get there, I don't, I don't.' So I
made the attempt, I went up with an aggressive move and I got
the bucket."
"The first thing we did was put Geoff Brower in the game.
Geoff, one day at practice, told me he was a big-time baseball
player, so I said, 'Okay, we'll try it out sometime and this was
the perfect opportunity to do that'," said Florida State coach
Steve Robinson. "He threw a good baseball. We set a couple of
screens, we basically had four or five options we could look at
and chose one that was about six-foot-ten and a tremendous
athlete. Throw the ball to the athlete, catch it and let him
make the play. That's what Randell did."
He missed the free throw, and Florida could not grab the
"They didn't do anything we didn't expect," said Gators coach
Billy Donovan. Basically, what happened was… Brent Wright is
standing there watching the inbounder, again Randell Jackson
takes off and go long. That's what happens when you play
against an experienced basketball team. They are going to
execute and beat you that way."
Jackson finished with 15 points while LaMarr Greer added 10, a
career-high 11 rebounds and eight assists for Florida State,
which withstood 11 three-pointers by the Gators. The Seminoles,
who defeated Florida for the third straight year, still trail
the all-time series, 31-18.
Greg Stolt overcame back spasms to score all 11 of his points in
the second half for Florida (5-2), which has lost consecutive
games after a 5-0 start. The Gators' two losses have been by a
combined five points and the other defeat came at the hands of
The Seminoles, who had an eight-point halftime lead erased as
Florida got hot from the outside, opened a 59-53 lead on a dunk
by Jackson. But the Gators again attacked from beyond the arc
as Jason Williams hit two three-pointers and Eddie Shannon added
one of his own in an 11-2 burst that provided a 64-61 lead with
9:42 left.
Two free throws by Stolt gave Florida a 68-65 edge at the 7:11
mark before the Seminoles reeled off seven straight points,
capped by a seven-foot hook shot from Corey Louis, for a 72-68
lead with 5:25 to go.
Florida still trailed by four until Williams and Stolt hit two
free throws each to tie the game at 78-78 with 2:18 left.
Jackson gave Florida State a one-point lead when he made the
second of two free throws with less than two minutes to play.
The teams traded turnovers before Williams drove the lane and
kicked the ball out to Brindley Wright, who buried a
three-pointer from the left wing to give Florida an 81-79 lead
with 52 seconds left. Jackson corraled an offensive rebound off
a miss by Terrell Baker and sank two foul shots to tie the game
with 34 seconds remaining.
Florida scored the first six points of the game, holding the
Seminoles scoreless for four-plus minutes. But Florida State
pulled even and used a 10-2 burst to take a 23-14 lead with 7:20
left. The Seminoles held a 39-31 lead at halftime.
The Seminoles, who scored 58 of their points in the paint, shot
44 percent (32-of-72) from the field and held a 38-29 rebounding
advantage. Baker finished with 18 points and Kerry Thompson
also had eight assists.
"We knew the type of style they run and they come and get you to
take you out of your game," said Baker. "We just wanted to
attack and play with poise under pressure. You have to keep
your composure because it's definitely important."
Williams, who finished with 21 points, also committed 12 of the
Gators' 25 turnovers. Florida shot 42 percent (25-of-59) but
made 11-of-27 three-point shots.