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The Loeb Boathouse – Central Park, NY
The Loeb Boathouse Central Park -aka- the Boathouse offers a few things – scenery, food, drinks, people, a 150yr history, and Central Park lakeside.
It is a very charming venue that apparently is the only restaurant that sits directly on a lake in Manhattan.
It's a safe choice if you have the duckets and are in impress mode, or simply want to unwind. We went one Saturday and it was packed. We even took in a boatride in one of their Venetian gondolas to kill time as we waited on our table. That and we engaged in a few drinks at the outdoor patio bar.
Their drinks were excellent.
We had the cucumber cocktail and martini with organic vodka, which were both perfect.
Once our table was ready inside, we quickly ordered a few courses. I started off with the Arugula Salad with figs, ricotta and vinaigrette. (I didn't include the photo because it came out way too blurry, unphotoshoppable blurry..)
I then ordered the seasonal Duck which I don't believe was on the menu, while my FPIC ordered the Wild Striped Bass. I then finished with a glass of Moscato and dessert.
The dessert was the Salty Peanut Caramel Chocolate Tart.
All in all I'd have to say the experience overall was great. Their food itself however, was perfect in appearance, lackluster in taste. The duck looked amazing but its taste didn't match up. The bass was ok, and although the figs were a nice touch – the salad was a salad, and their was nothing special about the dessert. This place earns its stripes in other areas obviously, but certainly not with the food in my obsessionista opinion. If I were to go back, I'd head right to the outdoor patio and let the bartender work his magic and the gondolier serenade us with his Venetian vocals. Preferably around sunset.

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Wednesday – Saturday December 6-9Wednesday – Saturday December 13-16Doors open at 6:15pm | Show starts at 7pm
Cost: $45 per person |Pilgrim Congregational Church
Be transported into Renaissance times through the seasonal magic of the 38th annual Shasta High School Madrigal Dinner, held on Wednesday–Saturday evenings, December 6-9th and 13th-16th at the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Pilgrim Congregational Church. Experience the ethereal sounds of this holiday tradition that combines enchanting melodies with a marvelous authentic feast. The program includes vocal, drama and instrumental entertainment. Tickets must be purchased in advance online at www.shastahighchoir.com. Seating is limited and all evenings sell out before performance dates. There are no seats sold at the door. Seat reservations are $45 per person for dinner and a full night of entertainment.


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The City of Milton Parks and Recreation Department has a host of activities this summer, including day camps, a basketball league and skills camps, fitness camps for children and adults, a concert series and the 2nd Annual Community Kickoff at Milton High School.
For more information on the city of Milton's programs and activities, click here. For more information on the city's special events, click here.


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Thursday, April 15, 2010
Life now
Well, Terrel and I are both very busy having fun with school and our shuch callings. We are both getting ready for school to be out, and very excited for that to happen.
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I love my husband
I have sooo enjoyed having my husband home!!! I'm sad to see him go back but we both know he has to :)
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Don't Believe AT&T's Net Neutrality Lies
Last week, AT&T Senior Vice President Bob Quinn tried (and failed) to undercut Network Neutrality supporters by insisting that Free Press has been foretelling doom and gloom since 2010. That's when the Federal Communications Commission adopted weak open-internet rules that didn't cover mobile access. Quinn claims that none of Free Press' predictions about carriers engaging in mobile blocking ever came true — but he conveniently overlooks how AT&T blocked FaceTime on its cellular networks in 2012 and 2013.
When in this latest piece of AT&T propaganda they accuse Free Press of making falsely dire predictions in 2010, that's a cool story for them to tell. It's just not true. Of course, AT&T does accidentally tell the truth from time to time. It's bound to happen when the company changes its story so often. AT&T contradicts itself from moment to moment and from year to year in different proceedings at the FCC, and then contradicts much of what it says to politicians in the disclosures it makes to its own shareholders. For instance, a lot of the current fight over keeping the Title II Net Neutrality rules is about broadband investment. One of FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's main arguments is that broadband investment declined because of Title II. Free Press has shown time and again that Pai's claim simply isn't true, and that broadband providers' aggregate investment has gone up since the FCC adopted the rules Pai now threatens. But more important than these aggregate numbers is what AT&T itself told the FCC back in 2010. It's nonsensical to expect infrastructure investment to go up every year. Investment is "lumpy": Carriers build and upgrade networks, then reap the benefits while making new investment plans.
Perhaps it's time for AT&T execs to quit while they're behind and abandon their flimsy and hypocritical crusade against Net Neutrality protections. Something tells us they won't, no matter how many times they pretend to forget all their past statements and misdeeds.
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Happy New Year! Yes, I'm a little late, but better late than never, hey? I hope everyone had a wonderful festive season and regardless of whether you were in the heat or the cold you had an awesome break. *cough* I had to work so that was really annoying *cough*. Anyway, I'm really excited about 2016. I think now I'm more into the swing of parenthood and I have a job again I'm finding my feet a bit. And best of all – tonight I have Celestial Cosmetics' first collection of the year to show you! It's called Tropical Holiday, which is such good timing for me because since I no longer have annual leave I cannot go on a holiday so will have to be happy living through my nail polish. Let's take a look!
I had to start with my favourite (as soon as I saw it I put it on and wore it for almost a week). I just think Going to the Beach is so simple and yet so beautiful. It's an ivory creme with golden shimmer, gold flakes and gold sparks. The golden shimmer reminds me of when the sun hits sand and creates that warm glow; do you know what I mean? This had a slightly thick formula, but it wasn't difficult to apply. You will definitely need two coats though, with the first coat just a good layer of polish and then the second coat to fill in where it looks like it needs to be built up. I then topped it with Celestial Cosmetics Solar Ray Quick Dry Top Coat.
Key Lime Pie is a warm lime green linear holo with green and gold shimmer. I have always wanted to try key lime pie but in my ignorance didn't actually realise the limes used in the pie are actually key limes. I didn't even know there was more than one type of lime! How ridiculous is that, especially considering I know other citrus fruits have different types. I just thought it was some odd name. Ha! Anywho, the formula on this polish is outstanding and very easy to work with. What you see here is two coats without top coat.
Goblin Orchid has the same wonderfully buttery formula Key Lime Pie has and was very easy to apply. It's a warm berry red linear holo with red and golden microflakes. You can see the microflakes better indoors, which is a nice feature of the polish when it's not in its full holographic glory. This is two coats without top coat.
I love that The Med was included in this collection. I haven't seen such a fun jelly come from an indie for ages, so this is a nice change. It's a turquoise jelly filled with small blue round glitter, holo glitter, silver sparks and tiny silver stars. No fishing was required and while I did three coats, you could have easily left it at two coats. I just added a dabbed third coat for depth. It doesn't dry overly bumpy but I would recommend a top coat with this one. I used one coat of Solar Ray.
Break of Day is the second favourite of mine from this collection. For obvious reasons I think – I mean, look at that flame! It just goes wild in the sun. Break of Day is a dark blue linear holo with silver and green shimmer and golden microflakes. It was easy to apply and I think it's such a wearable blue. What you see is two coats without a top coat.
Finally we have Purple Rain Cocktail – a cool-toned purple scattered holo with purple shimmer and pink and blue sparks. This is going to sound bizarre but when I swatched this one I got a very "light" feeling from wearing it. Like I was really relaxed. Which is probably a good thing for a holiday collection! I think it's the shade of purple; it's just very calming to me. Again, this one has a wonderful formula and what you see is two coats without a top coat.
- Where to buy: Celestial Cosmetics or Celestial Cosmetics (international site)
- Cost: Individual prices range from AU$10 to AU$12 or US$9 to US$11 and it's also sold as a full set (discounted by 10% for the first week only)
- Volume: 12ml
- Coats to opacity: See the individual polish descriptions above
The Tropical Holiday Collection launches January 6 at 3pm ACDT. That's this Wednesday! I think there's some really fun finishes here – what do you think? Has it just made you want to go on a holiday like me? Thanks for reading!


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ELLSWORTH - The Prescott High School Volleyball Team won two out of three matches at a quadrangular meet held at Ellsworth High School Tuesday evening.
The Cardinals beat New Richmond in two games and edged rival Ellsworth in three games, winning games two and three into extended points and rallying both times. The Cards only loss was to Durand, also in three games.
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Calcutta, Dec 10, 2010 (Washington Bangla Radio / PRLog) Vijay's 'Kavalan' is finally completed and the post production works have started now. Although Vijay's previous films were big flops in Tamil Nadu, this film has been sold out for a record-breaking price in overseas.
Producer Sakthi Chidambaram,who acquired the rights of this film instantly wanted to release the kavalan songs in Malaysia.
However, Vijay being a simple person insisted that the kavalan songs launch shall be done in Chennai itself just to avoid unwanted publicities for the film. It is reported that Vijay will honor music director Vidhyasagar as 'Kavalan' is his 245th film.
Ilayathalapathy Vijay's fans are curiously awaiting the release of his 51st film Kavalan. The film was scheduled to get released for the occasion of Diwali and is now reported of being postponed to December.
Looks like December will witness a bevy of movie releases. Vijay's Kavalan will hit the marquee on December 24th, 2010.
According to the sources, kavalan songs expected to be launched on end of the November, 2010.
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Kenneth William Blackburne (1907-1980) was a colonial administrator. Joining the Colonial Service in 1930, he was sent to Nigeria for his cadetship and spent five years there, first as Assistant District Officer, then as Private Secretary to the office of Lieutenant Governor. In 1935 he was made Assistant District Commissioner for Nazareth, Palestine. In 1938, he became Acting District Commissioner for Galilee, but returned to Great Britain six months later. His next three years were spent in the Colonial Office, as Acting Assistant Principal, then Principal. In 1941, he became Colonial Secretary of the Gambia, where he compiled a comprehensive report on Development and Welfare in the Gambia. Another move in 1943 saw him take up the post of Administrative Secretary to the Comptroller for Development and Welfare in the West Indies. During this period he was based mainly in Barbados. From 1947 he worked in London as the Colonial Office's first Director of Information Services. From 1950-1956 he served as Governor of the Leeward Islands, where he was particularly concerned with building preservation and restoration. His final postings before his retirement were in Jamaica, where he became Governor in 1957, then Governor General after the island's independence in 1962. Awarded the OBE, KCMG, GBE and GCMG, he was also the author of Development and Welfare in the Gambia, (s.l.,Bathurst, 1943) and Lasting Legacy - a story of British Colonialism, (London, Johnson, 1976). In 1935 he married Bridget Senhouse Constant Wilson, with whom he had two children.
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A typescript, with drafts and research notes, of Sir Kenneth Blackburne's article, The British Territories (contributed to The Restless Caribbean - Changing Patterns of International Relations in the Caribbean, edited by Richard L. Millett and W. Marvin Will (London, New York, Praeger, 1979) was donated to the library by Lady Blackburne in July 1990.Access Conditions
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Blackburne | Kenneth William | 1907-1980 | Sir | Knight colonial administrator
Great Britain | Colonies | Administration
Jamaica | History | 20th century
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Antigua | Buildings, structures, etc. | Conservation and restoration
Palestine | History | 1917-1948
Nigeria | History | 1900-1960
Gambia | History | 20th century
Barbados | History | 20th century
West Indies | History | 20th century
Jamaica | Description and travel
West Indies | Description and travel
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After leaving the audience hanging for several months after the revelations at the end of "A Good Man Goes to War", Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat is back with a bang, kicking off the second half of the season with an episode packed with his trademark witty dialogue, dazzling perspective shifts, and a surprising number of answers about the mysterious River Song. The deliberately provocative title might suggest a light-hearted romp, in the tradition of most of the show's previous season openers—and the episode does start out that way, but ends up leading to a critical turning point in the lives of the Doctor and his friends.
Amy: "Can you ride a motorbike?"
Rory: "I expect so. It's that sort of day."
The hectic atmosphere is set right from the start by the wonderfully energetic opening sequence with Amy (Karen Gillan) and Rory (Arthur Darvill) in a cornfield, racing around in their Mini. In typical Moffat style, it's eventually revealed that they are creating a crop circle spelling out "Doctor" which their local newspaper will then report on—and sure enough, they screech to a halt to find the Doctor (Matt Smith) waiting for them, a copy of the paper in hand. ("Seriously?" "Well, you never answer your phone.")
When we left them at the end of the last episode, Amy and Rory were about to be returned home by River Song (Alex Kingston) while the Doctor went off in search of their stolen baby, Melody Pond—who, they had just learned, was destined to become River herself. It's now several months later, and they have summoned the Doctor to see if he's found her—but they are suddenly interrupted when a red Corvette roars up to them and a woman gets out. It's the sort of showy entrance we've seen River make several times, but Moffat knocks us off balance by instead introducing Amy and Rory's previously unseen best friend, "Mels" (Nina Toussaint-White), a rather wild and crazy woman prone to stealing cars and waving guns about. The double surprise—first the appearance of this unknown character in place of the expected River, and then the delayed reversal later in the episode with the realization that the first expectation was (in a way) right after all—was extremely clever of Moffat.
Mels: "I need out of here, now."
The Doctor: "Anywhere in particular?"
Mels: "Let's see. You've got a time machine, I've got a gun. What the hell…let's kill Hitler!"
After the opening titles, there's an extensive flashback montage showing Mels growing up alongside Amelia Pond—providing a welcome return for Karen Gillan's young cousin, Caitlin Blackwood, who portrayed Amelia so well last year. Mels is a handful at every stage of her life—from acting up in class to getting arrested for stealing a bus. Amy and Rory are exasperated by her, but they remain good friends, as Mels is fascinated by Amy's tales of the Doctor. (Of course, their faux-parental behavior toward her is another element which is ironic in the light of later revelations.) Gillan and Darvill are both excellent in these little vignettes, convincingly bringing back their characters as they were at the start of last year. In an amusing (and again cleverly ironic) twist, Mels turns out to be the one responsible for Amy realizing her feelings toward Rory.
The flashback ends with a lovely transition back to the present, as the past Mels tosses a model TARDIS into the air in Amy's bedroom, which seamlessly turns into the real thing careening through the sky of Berlin in 1938. Inside, there's a funny moment for classic series fans as we find Mels has reacted badly to the Doctor telling her that guns couldn't be fired inside the TARDIS due to its interior being in a state of "temporal grace." This always struck me as a particularly silly idea, right from when I first heard it in "The Hand of Fear" in the 1970s—especially when in later stories it tended to be conveniently forgotten about. So hearing the Doctor say "Oh that was a clever lie, you idiot! Anyone could tell that was a clever lie!" was most appreciated.
Meanwhile, the second strand of the plot gets under way, as a Nazi officer in Hitler's HQ has an encounter with a mysterious robotic shape-changing creature that has infiltrated the place, and duplicates his form (via a very impressive morphing effect). We see some kind of Star Trek-like command deck from where a crew is apparently remotely controlling this thing. Moffat wisely takes the time to play through the whole sequence of this "Tesselecta" in operation—studying the officer, copying his clothes, then his face, then disposing of the original. Not only does this provide a nice contrast in pace to the breakneck storytelling we've seen so far, it also ensures that the audience has all the necessary information about how the machine functions and what the crew's objectives are, which will become important later. There's an impressive number of quirky ideas packed into this section, seamlessly presented—such as the internal security system (the "antibodies"), floating metallic jellyfish which zap anyone they find without the proper authorization ("You will experience a tingling sensation and then death"). It all builds to the revelation that the command deck is not actually elsewhere at all—the crew really are inside the robot, miniaturized by something called a "compression field" (a callback to the classic story "Carnival of Monsters").
It's a mark of Moffat's amazing richness of ideas that such a memorable concept—a shape-changing robot carrying a miniaturized crew from a time-traveling future "Justice Department," on a mission to seek out and punish notorious war criminals—should form merely a subsidiary element in this packed story. He's not above exploiting the humorous possibilities, either—when the fake German officer is walking along, the captain inside complains about the faulty shock absorbers in the knees; later, when the Tesselecta takes the form of a soldier on a motorbike, the crew get to do some fun "banking around corners" acting.
It seems the Tesselecta has journeyed to this point to kill Hitler (although the crew soon realize they have arrived too early to do that). In any case, its confrontation with the dictator is interrupted when the TARDIS comes crashing through the window, knocking the fake officer down.
Hitler: "Thank you, whoever you are. I think you have just saved my life."
The Doctor: "Believe me…it was an accident."
The production design is up to the usual very high standard for this series, as is the make-up for Albert Welling as Hitler. However, despite the title of the episode, Hitler is (probably wisely) relegated to being a minor comic character here. After being punched out and held at gunpoint by Rory, he is unceremoniously shoved into a cupboard and out of the story. His one major achievement is to accidentally shoot Mels in passing, and her story reaches its climax as she lays dying. I thought the reveal of her true identity was masterfully done, as she banters with the Doctor about one day marrying him, and tells the Doctor he can ask her parents for permission right now, as they're both standing next to him.
The Doctor: "Mels. Short for…"
Mels: "Melody."
Amy: "Yeah, I named my daughter after her."
The Doctor: "You named your daughter…after your daughter."
It's a wonderfully tangled timeline that bears comparison with some of the classics of literary time-travel science fiction—maybe not quite as complicated as the flow of events in something like Robert Heinlein's " '—All You Zombies—' ", but certainly as close as I'd ever expect to see on a mainstream television series. With the usual whoosh of regeneration energy, Mels disappears, and Melody Pond is reborn into the form we know as River Song. At the moment, though, she has no idea who this "River" person the others keep referring to is. She is focused on carrying out the task she was conditioned to perform by those who had stolen her as a baby—killing the Doctor.
This episode provides Alex Kingston with a huge range of material to play with. Melody's first confrontation with the Doctor is played at tremendous speed, both tense and farcical, as she enjoys checking out her new body, complete with a recreation of a moment from The Graduate ("Hello, Benjamin")—a fun echo of the "Mrs. Robinson" moment in "The Impossible Astronaut". There's a hilarious "I know you know" / "I know you know I know" dance as the Doctor anticipates and evades several attacks in rapid succession, in a manner reminiscent of a scene in 2005's "Boom Town" (or, even more closely, Moffat's spoof Doctor Who sketch, "The Curse of Fatal Death," written way back in 1999). The quick-fire editing of this sequence is a particular highlight, but the direction from newcomer Richard Senior is excellent throughout the episode.
Melody finally manages to outsmart the Doctor thanks to a very River Song-like tactic—poisonous lipstick—and leaves him dying. The victorious psychopath waltzes away to enjoy the delights of 1930s Berlin, and Kingston's portrayal here is hugely enjoyable, a simply unstoppable force as Melody wipes out a squad of German soldiers with her excess regeneration energy and gets some new clothes by the simple expedient of gatecrashing a high-society dinner and ordering everyone to strip at gunpoint. The Doctor sends the rather shell-shocked Amy and Rory after her, while he retreats to the TARDIS. They encounter the Tesselecta again, and this time they end up being miniaturized and drawn inside the machine—which has now adopted Amy's appearance.
Rory: "I'm trapped inside a giant robot replica of my wife. I'm really trying not to see this as a metaphor."
The Tesselecta crew have identified Melody Pond as the most notorious war criminal in existence—the woman who killed the Doctor. They restrain her—but suddenly the Doctor reappears. He's still dying, but has taken the time to change into the wedding formalwear we saw him in last year in "The Big Bang". It's at this point that the "romp" nature of the episode gives way to something deeper, as the Doctor has realized his only hope of survival lies with River Song—a woman who doesn't yet exist. The way he slowly intrigues Melody into wanting to know more about River is beautifully played by Matt Smith and Alex Kingston. She gradually drops her hard-edged flippancy as the familiar bantering makes its first tentative appearance when he brandishes a "sonic cane" ("Are you serious?" "Never knowingly"). Opposite her, Smith gives an astonishing display of physical acting, expertly portraying the Doctor's weakness as his legs give way and he stumbles all over the place, keeping himself going only by sheer willpower. He finally becomes too weak to move, begging "River" to save Amy and Rory, who are trapped on board the Tesselecta.
Amy and Rory are about to be zapped by the "antibodies" when they are rescued by the TARDIS—piloted, to her own surprise, by Melody. Another piece of the story falls into place as Melody says the Doctor told her she is "the child of the TARDIS"—as we saw in the last episode, she is something more than purely human through being conceived aboard the TARDIS in flight. The TARDIS herself taught her to fly it, neatly tying up a point from last year's "The Time of Angels" where River teasingly told the Doctor she was "taught by the best…It's a shame you were busy that day."
They return to the Doctor, who makes a last request to Melody to "find River," and then expires. I found it a surprisingly emotional moment—surprising because: (a) we all know the Doctor won't really die, right? And: (b) even leaving that aside, he's already got one death hanging over him—at the lake in Utah as we saw at the start of the season. Indeed, this very episode has gone out of its way to emphasize that the Doctor's death there is a fixed point in time—an unavoidable fate. Nevertheless, these final scenes are convincing, thanks to being played beautifully by all four of the regulars. In a very satisfying tying-up of the plot, Amy is able to use the Tesselecta to answer Melody's question—the same one the Doctor asked at the end of the previous episode: Who is River Song? Finally understanding her own identity as River, Melody is inspired to sacrifice her remaining regenerations to bring the Doctor back to life.
River: "He said no-one could save him. But he must have known I could."
The Doctor: "Rule One: the Doctor lies."
It was very satisfying to finally get so much of River's story cleared up, and to see that Amy and Rory did (in a sense) get to raise their daughter after all. There are still plenty of questions open, though; in particular, River's incarceration in the Stormcage prison for killing "a good man." The suspicion that her victim is, in fact, the Doctor is only reinforced by the final scene, showing River starting on her road to becoming an archaeologist with the line, "I'm looking for a good man."
We also got some more information about the Silence, thanks to the Tesselecta's records of the Doctor's death:
The Doctor: "Who wants me dead?"
Tesselecta: "The Silence."
The Doctor: "What is the Silence? Why is it called that? What does it mean?"
Tesselecta: "The Silence is not a species. It is a religious order, or movement. Their core belief is that Silence will fall when the Question is asked."
The Doctor: "What question?"
Tesselecta: "The first question. The oldest question in the universe. Hidden in plain sight."
So it looks like the weird memory-wiping creatures from the first two episodes, Madame Kovarian and her allies from Demon's Run, and who knows how many others are all part of some grand conspiracy. What "the first question" could be I have no idea, but with this episode Moffat is clearly beginning to resolve the great mass of plot threads started over the last two years (or in some cases, even earlier), and I'm looking foward to finally seeing the big picture once all the pieces of his huge jigsaw are finally put into place.
Next Week: The Doctor finds himself in the scariest place in the universe—a child's bedroom—when Mark Gatiss provides some "Night Terrors."
Classic Who DVD Recommendation of the Week: As I hinted above, "Carnival of Monsters," starring Jon Pertwee and Katy Manning, was brought to mind a couple of times while I was watching this story. It also has a similar kind of playfulness, and a clever plot that fizzes along with great ingenuity from Robert Holmes, one of the greatest writers of the classic series.
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The World of Warcraft Dev Chat that went on tonight (December 19, 2005) was a relative success. Thanks to Warcry for hosting it, and the ~1700 people who showed up! Also thanks to Blizzard staff members Caydiem, Tigole, Kalgan and the rest of the Community Management team. Read the log here.
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How the Dow Jones industrial average fared on Thursday
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks swerved between gains and losses Thursday and wound up with a muddled finish as the price of oil plunged. Investors also sold utility and phone company stocks. They have favored those companies all year, especially in the wake of Britain's vote to leave the European Union last month.
On Thursday:
The Dow Jones industrial average lost 22.74 points, or 0.1 percent, to 17,895.88.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index dipped 1.83 points, or 0.1 percent, to 2,097.90.
The Nasdaq composite added 17.65 points, or 0.4 percent, to 4,876.81.
For the week:
The Dow is down 53.49 points, or 0.3 percent.
The S&P 500 is down 5.05 points, or 0.2 percent.
The Nasdaq is up 14.24 points, or 0.3 percent.
For the year:
The Dow is up 470.85 points, or 2.7 percent.
The S&P 500 is up 53.96 points, or 2.6 percent.
The Nasdaq is down 130.60 points, or 2.6 percent.
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Wow, I haven't been on here in so long. I couldn't even remember my login. And what happened to Smoko Time and all that?
Anyway, my novel A Hero's Journey was released today in ebook formats; the print version will come later. And no, it's not self-published. It's not Big Six published either. Baby steps I suppose.
If you buy a copy and read the acknowledgements, I thanked Writers.net for their support, such as it was. I couldn't remember specific people, but I did post a chapter or two of the first and second drafts a few years ago. If you were one of those people who helped tear it to shreds, then thanks!
I'm also co-authoring a collection of stories that should be out from another publisher in December or so. If you follow my blog, I'll have the details eventually.
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Movie Rating[s]: 6.7/10 From 151
Genre[s]: Adult , XXX , 18+ , Sex , Porn
Country: USA
Language: English
Release [On]: 22 September 2004 (USA)
Director: Joone
Star[s]: Jesse Jane, Devon, Tera Patrick
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Shenzhen HB Automation Equipment Co., Ltd. was established in 2018, after 10 years of development and expansion, HB Automation has grown into a professional production and sales of lead-free reflow welding, wave soldering, vertical curing furnace, selective wave soldering, infrared curing furnace, SMT peripheral equipment and other Integrated Company.
We are committed to welding equipment, is an expert in the welding industry. There are 60 professional engineers, 120 production workers, more than 30 sales team and 30 after-sale engineers. Technology capability is first-class, production capacity is strong, delivery time is fast, equipment performance is superior and stable.
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MOSCOW, August 2 (Itar-Tass) - Over first six months of the current year, almost 600 illegal gambling establishments were revealed in Moscow, the city's Prosecutor Sergei Kudeneyev said on Friday.
"We have confiscated over 16,000 units of gambling equipment," he said.
Over January - June, the police opened 21 criminal cases on illegal organisation of gambling.
"Though it is twice more against the previous period /January - June, 2012/, the number of opened criminal cases cannot be compared with the number of revealed underground establishments," Moscow's prosecutor said.
Most often, organisers of illegal gambling establishments are brought to administrative responsibility.


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ATF all set to cope with terrorism, says KP Home Sec'y
PESHAWAR: The Home Secretary of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Akhter Ali Shah has said that the preparations of the Anti-Terrorism Force (ATF) have been completed in order to prevent terrorist activities in the province – ARY News reports.
The Home Secretary told that the ATF will comprise of 2500 personnel, all retired army-men, whereas a budget of Rs 628 million has been approved for counter-terrorism.
The newly formed ATF will be provided 300 GSM jammers, 25 metal detectors, 16 communication jammers, 1760 new check posts, 60 specially trained dogs and Rs 773-842 million for joint police training, told Akhter Ali Shah.
Moreover, the Home Secretary stated that 7 bullet proof rostrums will also be provided to the ATF, for 7 different districts of the province.


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Here's my small collection, I have a feeling it will grow!
Love the speedy, is that a 25 ?
Thanks for sharing, you have a great start
Theyre all beautiful! Thanks for sharing
Wow! You have most LV essentials covered! Lovely collection.
Love that mandarin :=)
Yippie ! Another LV fan, I love your epi speedy !
love all of your bags!
Great start! They are all classics and you can only go up from there.
you have alot of nice bags!.I the your speedy!
I love every piece especially your Damier Papillon, thanks for sharing.
Nice! Good taste!!
Yes, it's an Speedy 25! It's my FIRST LV
I'm lemming for something MC, and also a roomy shoulder bag to 'complete' my collection...not that LV collections can ever be completed...come to think of it.. hahaha
Your Mandarin is TDF!
Haha, you've beaten me to post your happy family photo!
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I've been married a lot longer than the majority of my friends. 13 years. 14 on November of 2016. Even though they'd never admit it, plenty of my friends come to me for advice on their marriages.
I come from a long line of vow-takers. My father is still married to my mother, my grandparents — both maternal and paternal — were married until their respective spouses died. Even my little brother has a few years of wedded bliss under his belt. And I'm 95% positive that at least 50% of my children will find partners one day and marry them as well. It's kind of a big deal in my family. But we don't judge those who aren't married. In fact, they're probably smarter than we give them credit for.
That's enough familial history…
So much stuff changes when a girlfriend becomes a spouse. Before marriage, it's endless intercourse and food on command. After the vows are exchanged, it's masturbation and leftovers. (Yeah, it kind of sucks, but I'm just keeping it real, as one always should, or at least as much as they possibly can.) I'm not sure if its scientific or if it's just nature vs nurture but there is going to be plentiful seasons of change in a marriage. And there's nothing you can do about it.
Some things, however, should remain the same. I firmly believe that the amount of freedom and independence you enter a relationship with you should hold on to during. This also applies to the amount of manhood you exert on a regular basis, if that makes any sense to you. Which it totally should. In other words don't allow her to carry your balls in her purse. And if you do so, govern the amount of time that it's allowed. You're in charge of your testicles, bro, no matter what she says in the middle of an argument. Too many men that I know personally have seemed to fall victim to this dastardly okie doke, subsequently and successfully enabling their wife to become the warden.
Simply put, it's foolish to allow your woman to run your life. Even if your girl is smart as hell and knows exactly what she's doing in most instances granting her 100% reign over your functionality — whether physical, emotional, or spiritual — is a dangerous game to play. That's essentially relinquishing control of self to another human being. And oh yes, it's that deep. All that free will we were given flies out of the nearest window once you start allowing your alleged better half to dictate what hours are acceptable for video game play and what you can and can't watch on television.
Allow me to break it down further, on a more sinister level:
First, she'll rearrange your friends. Most likely in order from least harmless to "well if you ask me, I think he's gay." Next she'll convince you to try the foods she likes, starting with the snacks. You won't see the plot unfolding because you're balls deep in relationship, blinded by obligatory sex. Eventually, like a thief in the night, she'll start shopping for you. It'll be the clothes you'd buy yourself in the opening acts, but as the plot thickens you'll find yourself dressing like her dad. Or her ex. Whomever she hates more. Expect curfews, pocket checks, and general over-your-shoulder-ness to follow, all according to schedule. If this culmination is a realistic reflection of your current situation, congratulations. Your wife is now the warden of the house, which now doubles as a personalized jail cell. Keep in mind that the frequency of conjugal visits will now be determined according to your behavior.
It's important that we hold on to identity of self in life. It's very easy to become confused and complacent in a world where everyone is trying to be somebody else. Men define themselves by their mobile masculinity and ability to be like fluid, formless and hard to obtain, so when one decides to anchor himself to matrimony, he should have the necessary support system in play, beginning with his spouse. Don't hobble him, encourage him. Ladies, when you toss a leash on your guy and start treating him like a stray cat you're trying to convince to stick around, all you're doing is breaking him down, stripping him away like turpentine for the soul. You should want your man sturdy and able, confident and care-free, not cautious and leary because of his wife-related Stockholm Syndrome.
If you're unsure if your wife is transitioning into the warden, jump over to The Gentlemen's Club Presents thread and openly beginning scrolling, in front of her. If she so much as flinches, you may want to do further research. Start by checking to see if your nuts are still attached to you.
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Reza's Seared Salmon with Merry Mango Salsa
Fri 09 Sep 2016, 09:18
Reza Mahammad shares his recipe.
Serves 6
6 x 220g Norwegian salmon fillets with skin
salt and pepper plus a scattering of chilli flakes per fillet
1tsp olive oil for searing
For the mango salsa
2 firm ripe mangoes cubed
1 red onion finely chopped
2 red chillies deseeded and finely chopped
2tbsp chopped coriander.
zest of 1 lime and the juice of 2
1level tsp sugar
1tbsp olive oil
1. To make the salsa add the ingredients into a bowl and mix thoroughly. Set aside.
2. Season the fillets with the salt pepper and chilli flakes .
3. Heat a heavy bottomed frying pan until very hot.
4. Add the olive oil and in batches fry the salmon skin side up in batches for 2 minutes.
5. Turnover and fry the skin side for 3 minutes or until the skin is nice and crisp.
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The following interview with C. James Crysler first appeared in the January 28, 1944 edition of the "Curtiss Wright-er," the newsletter for the Curtiss-Wright Corp., maker of the rugged P-40 Warhawk. Although I never met the man himself, this tightly-charged interview paints the colorful … Continue reading →
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Three gold medals for Robs!
Men's Masters VIII A beat City of Cambridge in a straight final to take gold.This race was won in a time of 2.57, verdict ½ a length.
Crew list (l to r, stroke to bow):
- Stroke Simon Goodbrand
- 7 Matt Castle
- 6 Andy Turnbull
- 5 David Dix
- 4 Sergej Using
- 3 Sven Friedemann
- 2 Dave Potts
- Bow Matt Lowther
- Cox Priya Crosby
Men's Masters VIII B took gold in a straight final against Crabtree Boat Club. This race was won in a time of 2.52, verdict ¾ of a length (fastest time of the regatta).
Crew list (l to r, stroke to bow):
- Stroke Stefan Gräf
- 7 Matt Castle
- 6 Chris Covey
- 5 David Dix
- 4 Sergej Using
- 3 Sven Friedemann
- 2 Simon Goodbrand
- Bow Nick Chapman
- Cox Priya Crosby
Stefan Gräf claimed his second gold of Sunday, less than three hours after stroking the mens VIII B boat, with an MB1x win by a canvas against Mr. Brzeski of Club des Regattes. Earlier in the day, Stefan easily won his semi-final race against Mr. Lock of Leamington Rowing Club.
'We finished this great day by having a big splash in the Thames. I am so glad that the hard work training in the VIII paid off,' says Stefan.
Andrea Bosnyak raced the WB1x semi-final conceding by two lengths to winner Ms. Burke of Exeter Rowing Club.
So, two semi-finals races and three finals races at Henley Masters, leading to three gold medals- excellent results for Rob Roy Boat Club.
Robs supporter- six year old Corinne Jameson-Potts enjoying her day at the races


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This was of course the time of the football World Cup draw for South Africa was made. England were paired with African based Algeria, world fourteenth ranked team the USA and Slovenia who had just beaten Russia to qualification. A tricky group in anyone's book. The Sun therefore ran cautiously with their front page the next day;
The Sun, frontpage, 5th December 2009
Their back page, written by Nick Parker, was equally pencilled with the delicacy to rival a nuclear holocaust;
The Sun, backpage, 5th December 2009
This is my favourite quote;
"ENGLAND looked dead certs last night to roar into the World Cup knockout stages after landing their easiest ever group."Or maybe it's the untraceable/made up;
"Bob Gill, 63, from Essex, said: "We're definitely going to win the group." Phil Long, 32, of Leicester, added: "We couldn't have asked for a better draw."With England's prior World Cup record, who would have predicted that would come slap back in our faces?


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House Passes Goodlatte Amendment to Prevent EPA Power Grabs
Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed Congressman Bob Goodlatte's (R-Va.) amendment to the FY 2017 Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act by a bipartisan vote of 231-197. The House of Representatives is expected to vote on final passage of this legislation on Thursday.
Goodlatte's amendment would prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from using funds to take retaliatory or "backstop" actions against the six states located in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed if they do not meet the goals of the Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) mandated by the EPA.
Goodlatte spoke on the House floor in support of his amendment. Click here to watch.
Floor statement of Congressman Bob Goodlatte on Amendment #57 (as prepared):
Mr. Chairman, today I rise to urge support for my amendment, which would reaffirm and preserve the rights of the states to write their own water quality plans.
My amendment simply prohibits the EPA from using its Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load and the so-called "Watershed Implementation Plans" to hijack states' water quality strategies.
Over the last several years, the EPA has implemented a "Total Maximum Daily Load" (TMDL) blueprint for the six states in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, which strictly limits the amount of nutrients that can enter the Chesapeake Bay. Through its implementation, the EPA has basically given every state in the watershed an ultimatum – either the state does exactly what the EPA says, or it faces the threat of an EPA takeover of its water quality programs.
Congress intended that the implementation of the Clean Water Act be a collaborative approach, through which the states and the federal government work together. This process was not meant to be subject to the whims of politicians and bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. Therefore, my amendment instructs the EPA to respect the important role states play in implementing the Clean Water Act.
I want to make it perfectly clear that my amendment would not stop the EPA from working with the states to restore the Chesapeake Bay, nor would it undermine the cleanup efforts already underway.
My language only removes the ability of the EPA to take over a state's plan, or to take retaliatory actions against a state, if it does not meet EPA mandated goals – again, it ensures states' rights remain intact and not usurped by the EPA.
It is important to point out the correlation between the EPA's outrageous "Waters of the United States" rule and the Bay TMDL. At the heart of both issues is the EPA's desire to control conservation and water quality improvement efforts throughout the country and to punish all those who dare oppose them.
Mr. Chairman, the Bay is a national treasure, and I want to see it restored. But we know that in order to achieve this goal, the states and the EPA must work together. The EPA cannot be allowed to railroad the states and micromanage the process.
With this amendment we are simply telling the EPA to respect the important role states play in implementing the Clean Water Act, and preventing another federal power grab by the Administration.
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INCAS 2017: IEEE International Conference on Aerospace and Signals
Lima, Peru, November 8-10, 2017
|Conference website
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|August 31, 2017
The INternational Conference on Aerospace and Signals (INCAS) is a biannual technical event which belongs to the joint chapter AESS (Aerospace and Electronics System Society) - SPS (Signal Processing Society) of the IEEE Peru Section.
This event is organized to promote interdisciplinary understanding of signal processing and aerospace systems, their underlying science and technology, and their applications to government and commercial endeavors.
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Time: 9.30am-4pm
Australian Maritime College
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For one day only, Metal Minds Robotics are running a robocamp/robotic workshop for students age 13 years and up.
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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. Music An imitative polyphonic composition in which a theme or themes are stated successively in all of the voices of the contrapuntal structure.
- n. Psychiatry A pathological amnesiac condition during which one is apparently conscious of one's actions but has no recollection of them after returning to a normal state. This condition, usually resulting from severe mental stress, may persist for as long as several months.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A contrapuntal piece of music wherein a particular melody is played in a number of voices, each voice introduced in turn by playing the melody.
- n. Anything in literature, poetry, film, painting, etc., that resembles a fugue in structure or in its elaborate complexity and formality.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A polyphonic composition, developed from a given theme or themes, according to strict contrapuntal rules. The theme is first given out by one voice or part, and then, while that pursues its way, it is repeated by another at the interval of a fifth or fourth, and so on, until all the parts have answered one by one, continuing their several melodies and interweaving them in one complex progressive whole, in which the theme is often lost and reappears.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In music, a polyphonic composition based upon one, two, or even more themes, which are enunciated by the several voices or parts in turn, subjected to various kinds of contrapuntal treatment, and gradually built up into a complex form having somewhat distinct divisions or stages of development and a marked climax at the end.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. dissociative disorder in which a person forgets who they are and leaves home to creates a new life; during the fugue there is no memory of the former life; after recovering there is no memory for events during the dissociative state
- n. a musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement
- n. a dreamlike state of altered consciousness that may last for hours or days
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
And knowing what a fugue is can make you fall in love with Bach.
And the art of the literary fugue is "vain," that is, unapologetically aesthetic, without pretense to psychological enlightenment or social commentary (although the occasional image of a tank rolling through the streets of Bucharest does certainly evoke Communist-era realities).
The reasons for his fugue are mysterious, and they need to stay that way for at least half of the novel.
June 19th, 2006 at 1:25 am spiderpaws, a fugue is a musical structure based on permutations of a melody.
The ground bass of the fugue is my progress as a musician, slow but steady like a pulse; the line above it is the more complex progress of the band and the interrelationships that both weld us together and threaten to separate us.
But the patterns were clear, and by the end of the recording, which was not even a half-hour long, Christian had mastered the idea of fugue, and the sound of the harpsichord preyed on his mind.
The fugue was a glorious, sturdy thing, like a great solid body inhabited by a big, noble, unquestioning soul -- a soul free from hesitations, that knew its way to God and would not be hindered from taking it.
Its most Gothic form, the North German fugue, which is the instrumental descendant of the Netherlands church music, is the most closely organized of musical types.
If not, we shall see each other again at Weymar, for you owe me a compensation for your last fugue, which is no more to my taste than Kuhmstedt's counterpoint.
The fugue was the creation of this epoch, and while based upon the general idea of canonic imitation, after the Netherlandish ideal, it differed from their productions in several highly significant respects.
A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
"What you are describing can be considered a fugue or flight reaction. During fugue states, the individual suddenly and unexpectedly leaves, traveling some distance away from home. A fugue state can last hours or even weeks. During the fugue state, you would have acted normally and would have interacted with others in a normal manner. Fugue states are almost always linked to the presence of severe stress at the time of the fugue experience. There are several causes for fugue reactions."
- Joseph Carver, 'Fugue: A Mental Urge To Leave Immediately', counsellingresource.com, 24 Oct 2008.
i'll have to keep this in mind.
The dialectic of music.


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Finnish trumpet player Heikki Koskinen leads this ensemble, featuring Kati Pienimäki Schenker, vocals; Steve Heckman, saxes, flutes & clarinet; Rent Romus, saxes & flutes & kantele; and Noah Schenker, bass. Heikki performs on piano, … [Read more...]
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Saturday, October 3rd – 7:30-10:00 pm
Bird Lives!
The Smith Dobson Quartet
pays tribute to Charlie Parker
Smith Dobson, highly regarded for his talents on tenor sax, vibes and drums, is picking up the alto for this date -- the horn on which Charlie Parker made revolutionary jazz advances through the 1940s and 1950s. Charlie Parker, known as Bird, is … [Read more...]
Friday, October 2nd – 5:30-8:00 pm
jazz in the bookshop
Don Prell's SeaBop Ensemble
Don Prell's got a trio tonight, with Vinnie Rodriguez on drums and Jerry Logas on tenor -- promising many some sublimely beautiful moments along the way. … [Read more...]
Thursday, October 1st – 7:30-10:00 pm
Remembering Morris Atchison
A tribute by the Michael Marcus Duo
Michael Marcus Duo "Remembering Morris Atchison Michael Marcus - clarinets Brian Ho - Hammond organ This concert, put together by New York clarinetist Michael Marcus, is a tribute to legendary tenor saxist Morris Atchison, an important player out … [Read more...]
Sunday, Sept. 27th – 7:30-10 pm
Misisipi Mike Wolf's Glen Park Hayride
~~Canyon Moonlight Music Series~~
Misisipi Mike is all over the San Francisco country/Americana scene, writing songs left and right, fielding more than a few bands and working in ten more as a hired gun & ringer. Not to mention turning out hundreds of stylish, eyeball pleasing … [Read more...]


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Opportunities : Why to Grab Them?
Imagine that there is a beautiful wall in front of you. It is colorful and magnificent. A masterpiece of creativity and skill, if you may. It is like something you have never seen before. A unique creation and a perfect example of craftsmanship. It's not made by the conventional building material but a collection of exquisitely colorful blocks. There is no one in this world who would not like the sight of such an excellent work of art.
The above-mentioned magnum opus symbolizes your life. The colored blocks denote all the opportunities you took to create such a life. They are the building blocks of your successful existence. You must also have faith in your ability to convert those small blocks of opportunity into a splendid state of being and then you must work the hardest. Faith can change dreams into reality and the loss of faith can change a real opportunity to dust.
Francis Bacon, the famous English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, essayist, and author has said, 'A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.' An evocative saying. Milton Berle the celebrated American comedian and actor shared another very important view. He believed, 'If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.' His take was a very bold one. As he has expressed in the above words of wisdom, sometimes a long and rough patch in life does not provide us any opportunity. In those cases we need to build one for ourselves.
Life goes on in phases. There are crests and troughs. There are some really tough times that will test you to the limits and grill you like anything. I have seen some excessively harsh years in my life when my whole world crumbled around me. There were times when I thought nothing could ever be good again. Those most painful days of chronic ailment had not only destroyed my life but had devastated my career.
I was constantly in search of hope and something to hold on to. In reality the adversity I faced taught me two extremely important things. First, a person's limits are stretched by adversity.
The person who faces utter hardship is never the same again. It's the choices that we make at such unfortunate times that will shape our destiny as well as define our personality for the rest of our lives. Second, in such times of extreme hardship we start craving for even the smallest of opportunities.
We frantically try to find some kind of respite or some shelter from the continuous assault of those harsh conditions. Our eyes are set on even the most distant of oases. Even a small hiatus in the continuous phase of troubles gives us hope. This is actually the time when we start to value even the smallest of opportunity presented to us.
Do you believe that we should always grab the right kind of opportunity no matter what?
John J. Wicker the author of Into Tomorrow wrote, 'Opportunities multiply as they are seized; they die when neglected.' When you find an opportunity, take it and start working on it. Keep your worries aside. It will benefit you in some key area of your life or another, but just be careful not to throw it in the trash can.
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Daytrips- Williamson Park Butterfly House-Lancaster.
You can see the top of the Ashton Memorial from the M6 motorway and I always thought as a kid on the way up to the lakes it was somebody's house. Further reading now I am older says that it isn't a house but it does have views, a park and a butterfly house so obviously this is where I am meant to be. After a walk up the biggest hill in the world I was greeted with the smell of cake. As it was getting on a bit I had no time for cake so I got straight on into the butterfly house.
A little bit from the website;
'The former Palm House resembles a tropical rain forest with flowers, trees, vines, foliage and colourful butterflies.'
I like to judge palm houses with how quickly my glasses steam up. 10 seconds and completely foggy. 10/10.
Favourite things- Two very shiny blue butterflies having a nice time rolling around with each other. I heard a lady say to her daughter that 'they were just playing'-Just playing for information. Terrapin friends sitting on each other, impressive palms and lots of big green leaves, chrysalis cabinet with brand new butterfly drying off special.
Visit their website HERE.
I wiped off my glasses and walked over to The Ashton Memorial which I will tell you about next time.


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In my paintings I seek to convey the vigor and exuberance, as well as the serenity, that I find in nature. Using beeswax, acrylic and oil paints, paint stick, pigments, and collage, I modify and manipulate the territory between the real and the abstract. The landscapes in where I work and live, in both Minnesota and Southern California, provide me endless sources of inspiration.
I have shown my work in Belgium and China, New York City, Chicago, and in Philadelphia and the surrounding area., I have exhibited my paintings in many solo and group shows in both private and public venues. My paintings are in the collections of the Noyes Museum, LaSalle University Museum, Rutgers University, colleges in NJ and NY, and the National Women's Museum of Art.


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I wanted to take some fun photos with both my kids but the oldest son is a little camera shy. He hates getting his photo taken. The youngest however loves it as long as it's not interrupting his Wii game playing time. Here we are messing around with some winter hats. I'm sure he is wishing for snow.
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A look at six shows-some brand-new, others PBS veterans-that got their start on PBS.
Carol Greenwald is executive producer, Arthur, and director of development for children's and family programming, WGBH
January 1993
It started out very simply. I got Marc Brown's phone number from his publisher and just called him up. It was even a local call.
But before I go further, here's the back story: For a long time, we'd been thinking about adapting a book series for television, since research has shown that kids are more likely to read books they've seen on TV. Seems like a no-brainer, but it had to be the right book series-one that could support a daily strip, build an audience, look great in cel animation, and, most important, feel true to kids' lives.
So, I put it to Marc Brown. Would he be interested in working with us on a PBS Arthur series? Marc thought for a minute, then said, 'I get so many calls like this and I always say `no.' But you know, it really does seem that PBS would be the right home for Arthur.'
If only the rest of it were this easy.
April 1993
Our first meeting with Marc. We brief him on why we're interested in Arthur and how we might adapt his books to television. (We want to be true to his vision, but flexible enough to take advantage of what animation has to offer.) Marc is delighted to hear that we want him to be a real collaborator, not just a figurehead. We decide to start negotiating an agreement.
May 1993
I spend the day in Washington making the rounds. First, I visit the newest funder on the block, the National Endowment for Children's Educational Television (NECET), which is now defunct, unfortunately. The staff are friendly, but they're not yet able to judge whether Arthur fits their agenda. The next stop is the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). Mary Sceiford, associate director of educational and instructional programming, is supportive, but she wants to know whether PBS is interested. So I trudge on over to PBS and pitch the show to Alice Cahn and Cat Lyon. They both love it! Cat's kids are fans of the books, and Alice thinks a daily animated series is a great idea. Phew. Now all we have to do is write about a million proposals.
June-July 1993
Proposal-writing hell. It's partly an art, partly a science and mostly just lots of work. We start with NECET in the hopes they'll give us development and scripting money. After crafting 30 pages of a proposal, including a statement of need, goals, educational value, story treatments, an advisory board and evaluation plans, we are finally finished and ready for FedEx.
August 1993
In the middle of a going-away party for one of our staff, we get the call. NECET has accepted our proposal, one of 12 to be funded out of dozens submitted. We're stunned.
November 1993
To do Arthur right, we've got to premiere it as a daily, which means a minimum of 30 episodes for the first season. But with animation running between US$300,000 and $400,000 per half-hour, that, gulp, totals between US$9 million and $12 million.
So, it's off to MIPCOM, where I try to round up some potential international distribution partners. Luckily, it's not too hard. Turns out Marc wasn't kidding when he said lots of people had approached him before. Also, it doesn't hurt that WGBH is a familiar face at Cannes. I leave feeling pretty hopeful.
December 1993
Happy days! PBS and CPB agree to match NECET's development grant. Now we can start spending some money.
April 1994
Marc and I hit the road. London, Montreal and L.A. to be exact, where we meet with animators and possible production partners. I mostly want a partner who understands book-based adaptations and who's willing to work closely with WGBH. Some people I spoke with were aghast when they heard that Marc had approval rights.
In the end, we both feel best with Cinar. They've just finished the Richard Scarry series, they have a strong creative team and a good infrastructure capable of handling a high volume of production, they're comfortable with collaboration, and as an added bonus, they have a strong international distribution arm. And it doesn't hurt that they're only 45 minutes away by plane.
May 1994
We hold an advisory meeting to talk about maximizing the educational content of the show. We discuss how to model reading and writing (we don't want to be didactic), how to make the characters more diverse without stereotyping and what kinds of print materials would work best for teachers. This is the first of many such meetings.
September 1994
Our first real production powwow. We've agreed with Cinar that writing will be managed at WGBH, so we come prepared with story ideas and candidates for a head writer. Cinar suggests directors, and we discuss schedules and money. We all leave feeling like we're actually making a television program instead of just talking about it.
January 1995
PBS finally commits some production dollars, and CPB comes through with a major grant. We're so close to being fully funded that, after some reasoned argument and outright begging, WGBH agrees to give us a green light (meaning, they'll cover the shortfall). The rest of the money will come, we hope, from corporate underwriters and, eventually, from merchandising, home video and international distribution.
Marc and I start working with Cinar on the fun stuff-auditioning voices, looking at pencil tests and working through initial storyboards, backgrounds and designs. Cinar negotiates a deal with AKOM Production in Seoul, Korea, to do the overseas animation work. This production machine is ready to roll.
March 1995
After soliciting proposals for a home video partner, we opt to work with Random House. It's a great offer financially, which makes everyone breathe a little bit easier.
October 1995
WGBH's Print and Outreach department is in the midst of developing educational materials for the series, the centerpiece being a storywriting kit that will be offered to second grade classrooms. But that's only the beginning. Over the next year, Print and Outreach will do presentations for major literacy organizations and develop ideas for Arthur mall events, which, after all, is where the kids are.
February 1996
The first rough cuts are delivered and, of course, there are tons of problems, but overall they look pretty good. We quickly package them, so we can get some formative evaluation done.
April 1996
We've started production on the interstitials, the short, live-action pieces that bridge the two stories in each episode. The concept is to show kids interacting naturally with the theme(s) of the show. We'll have kids write their own baby-sitting manual for 'Arthur Babysits,' for example, and there's going to be an all-school slumber party filmed for 'Arthur's Sleezpover.' Of course, underlying all our interstitials is our real agenda, which is motivating kids to read and write and learn good problem-solving skills.
May 1996
The evaluation comes back, and hallelujah, kids really love the show. The independent evaluator we hired, RMC Research, tells me they've never seen a show test so well.
And, just as exciting, Ziggy Marley has agreed to perform the theme song. Jeff Zahn, Cinar's music supervisor, and I jump on a plane to Jamaica, where we spend a grueling day (yeah, I mean it) getting the whole thing recorded and mixed. We're stuck in the studio from 9 a.m. until midnight and back on the plane the next day. (I did manage a brief dip in the pool.)
June 1996
Arthur is presented at the PBS annual meeting in San Francisco. It's well received by the program managers who will ultimately decide when and how to schedule and promote the show. I even manage to convince Kathy Quattrone to wear a pair of Arthur glasses when she introduces us.
We also get our first official underwriter, Juicy Juice. WGBH is quite relieved.
September 1996
The shows are all packaged and delivered to PBS. We're working on the Arthur Web site, which will, hopefully, premiere the same day as the series. I'm initially skeptical about the need for a site. Our audience is a little too young for Web surfing, or so I think. I'm soon proved wrong. By early 1997, we average 1,800 e-mails a week.
The reviews start to pour in, and we couldn't be happier. They are uniformly positive and, to top it off, we're chosen as one of the 'Top 10 New Children's Shows' by TV Guide.
October 1996
So, three-and-a-half years after that initial phone call, we premiere. We're on the air in virtually every market, and we're getting some pretty good slots, right after Barney in most cases.
Time to relax? Hah! We're already thinking about season two. It's an ongoing, or perhaps more aptly, a never-ending process. But well worth the effort.
By early 1997, we've become the top-rated PBS children's show in the top 36 markets. PBS and CPB, as well as our other funders, commit to a second season and even add 10 additional shows for winter 1998. Our home videos 'go platinum,' Baby Gap jumps on board as underwriter number two and, best of all, it becomes very clear that kids are reading Arthur books in droves. Arthur has bumped Goosebumps from the number one spot on the Publisher's Weekly list, and libraries are having to limit the number of Arthur books any one kid can take out. Our no-brainer seems to have worked!


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The eye can be analyzed with relative ease regarding both its function and its structure. A practical assessment consists of the capability to relocate the orbit and the response of the pupil to light and accommodation.
The function of the eye may be checked in several ways. The client might be asked to recognize illuminated letter or objects of differing sizes on what is referred to as the Snellen chart.
Alternatively, the assessment of the structural part of the eye may be made in numerous methods. Stress within the eyeball is determined by a "tonometer." In certain illness, especially in glaucoma, the stress in the eyeball is increased significantly.
It should be well remembered that a client with an eye issue may have other problems. Frequently other physical conditions are primary and impact the eye as a repercussion. The appearance of the eye can alert the physician and the patient to troubles in some disruptions of other parts of the body even before other symptoms provide themselves.
As a result, one's dependence on sight is emphasized when one deals with a short-lived or possible long-term loss of this vital sense. For this reason, when corrective steps are sought, certain kinds of vision correction such as contact lenses or glasses are prescribed.
On the other hand, some individuals are troubled with that they have some framed lenses or contact lenses in front of their eyes.
For this reason, advanced surgeries were developed to motivate reduced utilization of contact lenses or glasses. One of which is the now popular LASIK eye surgical treatment.
Essentially, LASIK eye surgery is the short term for "Laser-Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis." Like its concrete counterpart, LASIK eye surgery is another kind of vision correction. The only distinction is that with this type of surgery, one's vision is remedied permanently.
With LASIK eye surgery, the refractive mistakes in the cornea are completely changed. This can be done utilizing an "excimer laser."
The main function of this useful link surgical treatment is to develop a threadlike, rounded "flap" in the cornea utilizing a blade understood as "microkeratome." In a series of unfolding and laser processing, the cornea is finally reformed, allowing much better the eye to direct more light into the retina.
Appeal vs. Disadvantages
In the middle of the growing popularity of LASIK eye surgical treatment, there are still disadvantages that individuals need to know. Probably, the main reason this kind of eye surgical treatment has become well accepted is because most of its cases had been successful.
In spite of its success, there are still some downsides. Here is the list:
1. It is an operation used to the most sensitive part of the eye
Since LASIK eye surgical treatment involves the operation of the retina, which is among the most delicate parts of the eye, image source the majority of people say that the operation can be very dangerous.
To puts it simply, a basic mistake might practically cause an person's lifetime blindness. Hence, it is very important to think about numerous factors before deciding whether LASIK eye surgical treatment is the ideal restorative step one has to undergo.
2. It is not a ideal treatment
LASIK eye surgical treatment might fix your vision but it does not necessarily indicate that it can give you a twenty-twenty. Even if analytical reports reveal that 70% of the clients may have 20/20 vision, this does not always suggest they have perfect vision.
Given all these things, it can be deduced that, in spite of the popularity of the operation, LASIK may not constantly be the ideal eye surgery the method most people see it
On the other hand, the assessment of the structural part of the eye might be made in a number of ways. It should be well kept in mind that a client with an eye issue may have other issues. Typically other physical conditions are main and affect the eye as a repercussion. The appearance of the eye can notify the patient and the doctor to difficulties in some disturbances of other parts of the body even prior to other signs provide themselves.
Like its tangible counterpart, LASIK eye click now surgery is another kind of vision correction.
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