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04 February 2011
A Message from the Foundation to Promote Bowling
I know what you're thinking: 'b*tch'. It doesn't seem quite fair that a woman with a 100-pound lap dog also gets to go bowling. Here's where the story takes a turn.
This trip was the woman's first in at least three years. Sad, but she can't remember the last time she went bowling. And she's not alone. Millions of people across the country suffer from Post-Bowling Depression.
Post-Bowling Depression, or PBD, occurs when women, and more rarely, men, take long hiatuses between bowling excursions. The excitement of the day is followed by plans to go again - soon. But for many, soon never comes. Before they know it, weeks, months, and in extreme cases, even years go by before the sufferer bowls again.
How can you help the Foundation to Promote Bowling and PBD sufferers? Offer them a ride to the local bowling alley. Bowl with them. Watch their kids while they bowl. It doesn't take a lot of time or money to help promote bowling and fight Post-Bowling Depression. You can make a difference.
Thank you.
5 comments:
- Sassytimes said...
I haven't been bowling in years. Good idea!
- February 4, 2011 at 5:41 AM
- Written Permission said...
Is it bad that I now prefer bowling on the Kinect? I'm just so much BETTER at fake bowling than real bowling!
- February 4, 2011 at 7:41 AM
- Wendy said...
We took the girls bowling one time and we all had a blast. We need to go back. One of their friends last year in preschool had a bowling birthday party - I thought that was cool and not something kids would even think of doing now-a-days.
- February 4, 2011 at 8:39 AM
- wrestling kitties said...
HAHAHA! Too funny!
I love bowling and happy I work some place where they do a bowling outing now once a year. So once a year I get my bowling fix!
- February 4, 2011 at 10:26 AM
- Gerry said...
Ha Ha! You are a dork! But a lovable dork. I used to love to bowl. Most of the bowling alleys around here have closed. We used to bowl at one that had over 100 lanes and was always totally booked. I took bowling as one of my gym credits in college and took lessons from a pro later on. I quit when I couldn't take the cigaret smoke any more. You need to join a couples bowling league.
- February 26, 2013 at 7:15 PM


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Funding for highway projects could be in jeopardy if rules governing procedures for the 112th Congress are adopted as proposed.
The rules, proposed by the Republican leadership, include a provision that would subject highway investment to the appropriations process, according to the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO).
"The provision, which is on pages 10 and 11 of the draft, would hurt investment in transportation infrastructure, reduce jobs, and break faith with the American taxpayer," AASHTO wrote in a letter to the House leadership.
(Download the entire letter here)
The letter was signed by 21 organizations or unions, including the American Trucking Assns., the Associated General Contractors of America, the Laborer-Employers Cooperation and Education Trust, Laborers International Union of North America, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
The specific provision reads:
(4) HIGHWAY FUNDING.—In rule XXI, amend clause 3 to read as follows:
''3. It shall not be in order to consider a bill, joint resolution, or conference report that—''(a) provides spending authority derived from receipts deposited in the Highway Trust Fund (excluding any transfers from the General Fund of the Treasury); or (b) reduces or otherwise limits the accruing balances of the Highway Trust Fund, for any purpose other than for those activities authorized for the highway or mass transit categories.''
"The current House rule (Rule XXI, clause 3) ensures that all of the revenues that taxpayers pay into the Highway Trust Fund are used for highway and transit improvements on an annual basis," AASHTO's letter states.
According to a press release from the House Republican Conference, "highway funding, with some exceptions, will now be treated as other general spending and therefore be subject to any member's attempt to reduce the spending."
"Creating jobs and bringing down our massive federal deficit will require us to set priorities and start living within our means. This proposal simply ensures we won't be required to spend more on transportation projects than we take in. At the same time, it protects the Highway Trust Fund by ensuring every penny of the gas tax is spent on highway and transit projects, rather than diverted to pay for other items that we simply cannot afford," Brendan Buck, spokesman for the Republican transition team, said in an email to The Hill.
The organizations who have signed their names to the AASHTO letter, though, disagree. Highway and transit spending levels were set in the SAFETEA-LU bill passed in 2005 (more commonly known as the highway authorization bill, and since extended multiple times in lieu of a replacement bill). Those levels assumed a fixed amount of funds being paid into the Highway Trust Fund based on federal fuel taxes.
As miles driven dropped and more fuel efficient vehicles came along resulting in a corresponding drop in tax revenue, the flow of cash into the Highway Trust Fund fell below minimum levels set by Rule XXI, clause 3, in 1998, which guarantees funding levels for transit projects as set forth in authorizing law, in this case, SAFETEA-LU.
AASHTO believes that this rule change if adopted would allow the government, which has been pumping money into the Highway Trust Fund in recent years to meet funding needs, to stop that flow of money and open up highway projects to appropriations.
"The House Republican-proposed rules package for the 112th Congress, unfortunately, would sever the user-financed basis of the Highway Trust Fund, and make annual federal highway and transit investments subject to the whims of the appropriations process," the letter said. "In so doing, this proposal would inject further uncertainty into an already destabilized U.S. transportation construction marketplace."
AASHTO goes on to urge Congress to focus on the rebuilding and recovery of the economy to help cut the 18% unemployment level in the construction sector.
"The combination of not having a multi-year reauthorization of the federal highway and public transportation programs – 15 months after the expiration of SAFETEA-LU – and recession-driven state budget challenges has led many states to begin scaling back their transportation programs. The U.S. construction industry is suffering unemployment levels in excess of 18% – more than twice the national average. Given these realities, the focus of the 112th Congress should be on enactment of a robust, multi-year reauthorization of the federal surface transportation program that creates jobs and boosts the economy, not on procedural maneuvers that will make it easier to cut highway investment."

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|Lisa Hannigan
Lisa Hannigan in Temple Bar, Dublin
|Background information
|Birth name
|Lisa Margaret Hannigan[1]
|February 12, 1981
|Kilcloon, County Meath, Ireland
|Folk, indie
|Years active
|Barp/ATO Records[2]
|Associated acts
|Damien Rice, Vyvienne Long, Tom Osander, The Frames, Mic Christopher, David Kitt, Herbie Hancock, Paul Noonan, David Geraghty, Bell X1, The Cake Sale, Gary Lightbody,[3] Cathy Davey,[4 ] Jason Mraz,[5 ] Mick Flannery.[6 ][7 ]
|Notable instruments
|Vocals, harmonium, guitar, melodica, banjo, piano, thumb piano, tambourine, bass guitar.
Lisa Margaret Hannigan (born 12 February 1981) is an Irish singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.
Her music has led to much success, critical praise, airplay and award nominations in her native Ireland and, more recently, in the United States. Hannigan is best known for having accompanied the highly successful singer-songwriter Damien Rice. Since leaving him, she has begun her own career, with her 2008 debut album Sea Sew spawning the hit single "Lille", a Choice Music Prize nomination, two Meteor Music Awards nominations and a Mercury Prize nomination. There has also been praise from fellow musicians and, in recent times, Jools Holland of the United Kingdom and US television hosts Jay Leno and Stephen Colbert.
She is known for aiding charities such as Oxfam and her "Some Surprise" duet with Gary Lightbody featured on the US television series Grey's Anatomy. As part of an advertising campaign for fair trade the singer permitted herself be covered in melted chocolate. Hannigan has performed and been associated with musicians such as Cathy Davey, Mic Christopher, Mick Flannery, David Kitt and members of Snow Patrol, The Frames and Bell X1 and has performed at the Glastonbury Festival both as a solo artist and alongside Damien Rice.
Hannigan emits "a moan of delicate strength, and stirring warmth and humanity", describing her style as that of "plinky plonk rock", a genre coined by a friend. [8] She performs using "broken-down, wheezy old instruments", assisting her band members in the transportation of this equipment. [8] Her blog posts are noted for containing recipes for baking cakes. [8]
Hannigan was born on 12 February 1981,[9][10 ] and comes from Kilcloon in County Meath.[11] She was "quiet and bookish",[11] attending primary school at Scoil Oilibhear Naofa in Kilcloon where she first sang as a six-year-old fairy on top of a Christmas tree in her school play.[12] She developed her singing through other avenues such as providing the backing vocals to her mother's front seat Joni Mitchell and Nina Simone when she was being driven to West Cork on summer holidays.[12] She also sang and danced to the first tape she bought, Michael Jackson's "Bad".[12] Hannigan later attended secondary school at The King's Hospital[13] in Palmerstown and, at the age of eighteen, became a student of art history at Trinity College, Dublin. She met Damien Rice in Whelans, a pub that is popular with up and coming musicians, during her first week of college. She bumped into him a few times after that. He told her that he was a musician looking for a female backing singer and Lisa timidly told him that she was a singer. He came to listen to her when she was singing in a classical concert and liked what he heard, resulting in the start of their musical partnership.
Hannigan began singing as a lead vocalist with Rice's band at a concert in the Temple Bar Music Centre in Dublin in early 2001,[14 ][15] collaborating with him for six years.[16 ] She featured on Rice's debut solo album O, first released in 2002, and sang on the majority of his tracks. The singer became a frequent companion of Rice during his live performances as a vocalist, and on occasion as an electric guitarist or bassist.[14 ] At the Glastonbury Festival in 2003, Hannigan played the drums on one track.[15] Hannigan went on to contribute to one more Damien Rice album 9, released in 2006, on which was included a lead vocal on "9 Crimes", the first single taken from the album.[15] She has been dismissive of her role on the Rice records, telling The Daily Telegraph in 2009 that "it wasn't my record". [8] However, Rice had a difficult relationship with Hannigan, as he had with other band members, and in one rare interview with The Independent he suggested their styles of song writing were incompatible and were to blame for the inadequacies he felt about the co-written "Unplayed Piano". [17] Hannigan's duet with Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody has featured on the U.S television series Grey's Anatomy.[18 ]
Prior to Hannigan's official release of solo material in 2008, some of her live recordings and covers performed on tour were made available through trading networks or on various radio shows. Such covers included a mix of traditional folk and more contemporary songs such as: "Willy" by Joni Mitchell, "Be My Husband" by Nina Simone (from the 1965 album Pastel Blues), "Mercedes Benz" by Janis Joplin and "Love Hurts" by Roy Orbison.[15] Hannigan also performed live with her own band, called The Daisy Okell Quartet although no recordings are known to have been released.[15] She then performed a solo set at the Electric Picnic music festival in Stradbally, County Laois in 2006.[15][14 ] By this time she had contributed guest vocals on a number of recordings by other artists, including Mic Christopher, The Frames and Herbie Hancock, on whose track, "Don't Explain", she performed alongside Damien Rice on the album, Possibilities.[15]
"It was upsetting, but worse things have happened. For everybody it was coming to the end of its cycle. I think Damien was getting a bit sick of us as a group."
— Hannigan is not bitter about her split with Damien Rice. [8]
On 26 March 2007, Damien Rice announced that his professional relationship with Lisa Hannigan has ended, saying the relationship "has run its creative course" and that Hannigan would leave the band immediately to pursue a solo career.[16 ] [19] Hannigan had been in Munich, Germany with Rice's tour when she had learned that she was no longer needed and returned to Dublin immediately to begin work on her solo career. [19][7 ][11] The singer later said of the split: "I suppose it was coming for a long time. I had become pretty outspoken about my frustrations at the direction the band was going in, and I'm sure he was starting to find me a pain."[11] She was comforted by members of The Magic Numbers and has not spoken to Rice since the incident.[11] She has since described the split as the best thing that has ever happened to her. [19]
Lisa Hannigan's debut solo album, titled Sea Sew, was prepared in a barn in Thomastown and recorded in Dublin before being released in Ireland on 12 September 2008.[20] The lead single, "Lille", was made available as a free download on lisahannigan.ie on 25 August.[21] The sleeve featured needle-work knitted by Hannigan.[4 ] She had previously previewed tracks "Lille", "Pistachio", "Some Surprise" and "Sea Song" on her MySpace page with the message: "I'm in the middle of making my first record and I want it to come out as soon as possible so I can sing in venues more socially acceptable than Superquinn and the Luas Station."[22] The album was a critical success, earning rave reviews and being named by some music critics amongst the best Irish albums of the year.[23][24]
Sea Sew garnered airtime on American radio station KCRW and earned early praise from that country's press, including the Los Angeles Times, which called it "charmingly idiosyncratic" and The New York Times which described it as "exquisitely ethereal".[25][11] Lead single "Lille", released on 25 August 2008, became an airplay hit on Irish and American radio stations.[7 ] Hannigan went on to perform at Electric Picnic 2008.[26] The admiration of Jason Mraz led to Hannigan supporting the Grammy-nominated Californian singer-songwriter on a 42-date U.S. tour which began on 8 October 2008.[5 ] She lent her vocals to the charity album Even Better Than the Disco Thing, on which she performed a cover of Diana Ross's "Upside Down",[27 ] and on 5 December 2008 she performed a duet of Mick Flannery's new song "Christmas Past" with Flannery on Tony Fenton's Christmas Special on Today FM.[6 ] Also in December 2008 she made her UK solo debut at St Johns Church in London. [28] Hannigan signed with ATO Records in the U.S., where her album was released in February 2009.[29] Sea Sew was then nominated for both the Choice Music Prize,[30] and Best Irish Album at the Meteor Music Awards in January 2009.[31][32]
Hannigan has been interviewed by the US television host Jay Leno. [33] On 9 March 2009, Hannigan was interviewed by the US television personality Stephen Colbert and performed the song "I Don't Know" from her Sea Sew album on the television show The Colbert Report.[34] Colbert allegedly saw a YouTube video of Hannigan performing the song in a Dingle pub which had been shot by Donal Dineen.[11] [8] The presenter also requested his viewers to buy Sea Sew, an unusual happening considering his portrayal as a "gormless, right-wing blowhard".[11] Colbert even quizzed Hannigan on her sewing of the album's cover, asking if she had sewn the instruments as well – Hannigan is reported to be sewing Colbert a note of thanks for asking her to perform on his show.[11] The singer later described The Colbert Report as an "amazing experience" and "the best thing ever", referring to the fact that Colbert invites very few artists to perform, and even this is usually limited to well-known acts such as R.E.M. and Neil Young.[11]
On 12 May 2009, Hannigan made her debut on the BBC's Later... with Jools Holland, performing "I Don't Know" during the sixth episode of the show's thirty-fourth season.[35 ][36 ][37 ] She was reported to have been excited about the appearance and hoped her co-performers on the episode would include Tony Bennett. [8] Sea Sew rose through the UK charts following this appearance[37 ] and she performed at Glastonbury 2009 as well as a sold-out UK tour later that year.[38 ] [28] Her subsequent Mercury Prize nomination saw her defined by the British press as "an Irish singer known for her collaboration with Damien Rice and now recognised for her debut album Sea Sew". [39] She performed at the nomination ceremony where, considered a surprise inclusion by the country's media, she was greeted by confused journalists wondering "Lisa who?" followed by "about 10 photographers in my face shouting 'Lisa, Lisa, Lisa'".[20]
Hannigan's song "Ocean and Rock" is also familiar as the background to a 2009 Irish video supporting same-sex marriage entitled "Sinéad's Hand" that has become a surprise internet hit. [40]
Hannigan performed at Electric Picnic 2009[11][41 ][42 ] [43] [44][45 ] and Le Chéile.[46 ] Later in 2009, she toured the United States again, accompanied by David Gray on this occasion, as well as performing her own shows in New York in October and Los Angeles in November.[47 ] She then performed a show in London before returning for an Irish tour, including dates in Killarney, Ennis, Donegal and Limerick, to end the year.[47 ] In 2010, her return to Other Voices will be broadcast, featuring a duet with Paul Noonan.[48]
Hannigan has a history of theatre performance, having auditioned for musicals as a teenager but remaining largely unsuccessful except for being cast as Second Urchin in her school's production of My Fair Lady.[11] She went on to start her own theatre group called "The Cowardly Lion Theatre Group".[15] Hannigan appeared in a Jessamyn Fiore play titled The Mysterious World of Birds in September 2003; the play received performances in Dublin and Galway.[15] As part of an advertisement for Oxfam's Make Trade Fair campaign she allowed herself to be drenched in melted chocolate.[15] As part of the same campaign, she made major contributions to the Irish musical collective The Cake Sale,[14 ] with lead vocals on the tracks "Some Surprise" (a duet with Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol with whom she has been romantically linked[3] [19]) and "Last Leaf".[49 ][50 ] She also contributed to the 2009 charity album, Sparks n' Mind, released in aid of Aware. [51] Hannigan has also spoken of her intention to run the Dublin Marathon one day.[11] She will co-present an edition of The Last Splash with Alison Curtis on Today FM on 13 December 2009. [52]
Hannigan has four Hot Press Readers' Poll awards. She won Best Debut Album, Best Irish Album, Best Irish Track and Best Female in 2009. [28]
|Nominated work
|Sea Sew
|Best Debut Album
|Sea Sew
|Best Irish Album
|Best Irish Track
|Lisa Hannigan
|Best Female
Hannigan's debut album, Sea Sew, was nominated for the Choice Music Prize in January 2009.[53] The award was won by Jape for the album Ritual on 4 March 2009.[54][55][56][57][58][59][60]
|Nominated work
|Sea Sew
|Irish Album of the Year 2008
Hannigan and her work was nominated in the Best Irish Female and Best Irish Album categories at the Meteor Music Awards in 2009.[61] She was the only solo artist nominated in more than one category at the awards. She lost to Imelda May and The Script's self-titled album respectively.[62 ]
|Nominated work
|Sea Sew
|Best Irish Album
|Lisa Hannigan
|Best Irish Female
Sea Sew was nominated for the Mercury Prize on 21 July 2009.[63 ][64][65][66 ] [67] [68] [69] [70] It was Hannigan's first nomination; other Irish acts nominated before her included U2[63 ] Gemma Hayes, [19] The Thrills [19] and Fionn Regan.[63 ] The identity of the award-winning album was confirmed as Speech Therapy by Speech Debelle on 8 September 2009 in London. [67][71 ] Hannigan described the nomination as "an incredible honour" and "an amazing affirmation that people like your record".[72 ] She also said she had "never been so excited about anything before". [33]
Hannigan was referred to as 2009's "token folk nominee" in the UK, [19] with the NME, a music magazine in that country, calling her a "token folkie". [73] One British journalist even claimed she was "truly obscure" and part of the "moribund sensitive singer-songwriter genre". [19] Ed Power, writing in the Irish Independent, criticised such claims, wondering if Jape (whose album Ritual beat Hannigan to the Choice Music Prize) had come close to receiving a Mercury nomination—"Or, for that matter, how many of the judges had even heard of him". [19]
|Nominated work
|Sea Sew
|Best Album


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Every so often I do a round-up of cute Lana Parrilla pictures from her moments on camera when she isn't playing stern Regina Mills on 'Once Upon a Time' and is just being herself. Truth be told, I post these Lana pages of random photos simply because they amuse me, but strangely enough they also happen to be among my most popular pages. Oh, who's kidding who - they are my most popular pages on this blog. I mean, that page of Lana and her sister Deena is just a phenomenal performer, and I'm still kind of scratching my head over that. It's like my top-viewed page every single day. It's even better than the Lana Parrilla/Jennifer Morrison page! Who knew? But, that's what you folks want, and I like it too, so it's a marriage made in heaven.
The pictures in these round-ups may not be particularly new - some of them are, it is obvious from the context - but that is not why I post them. They are here simply because they are new to me, and I think they are worth sharing because they make me crack up.
My personal belief is that these shots show the real Lana Parrilla - if there is a real Lana Parrilla, you can never be sure in Hollywood whether there's just more tinsel underneath the tinsel - and the glamour shots are kind of a put-on. Oh, she's gorgeous and all that, but she's got a wacky spirit that she controls for work while not taking herself too seriously. So, I throw in a couple of those glamour poses for good measure, because I think the contrast is hilarious - she's obviously not the pouty little vixen that the studio likes to portray her as, and that she needs to put out there to meet fan expectations, but it's good for business. She's a terrific actress who pulls it off and now has enough success that she doesn't have to worry about coming across as flaky to Ms. Humorless in Standards and Practices.
Of course, I may be completely wrong and Lana may in fact be a totally humorless glamour girl who does the zany stuff just to distract from the fact that she has the personality of an accountant who just lost his green eyeshades. After all, as Spock would say, "I've been dead before" (I know, non sequitor alert, and yes, you now may make fun of me for being a Star Trek geek), but I don't think I'm wrong this time around. She has fun with it, and that's terrific, not everybody does. Yes, trust me, not everybody knows how to be playful and poke fun at themselves, I didn't believe it either until I saw it with my own eyes.
We also have occasional appearances here by Ginnifer Goodwin, Jennifer Morrison, Jared Gilmore and Christina Haig, but for this page and this page only - and all my other Lana Parrilla pages on this blog - this is the Lana Parrilla Show, all the time on every channel and on power rotation. If you've made it this far, you should follow the photos on down, the best stuff is toward the bottom.


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Ombre refers to the shadow, a term introduced by psychoanalyst Carl G. Jung as the dark aspects of our beings which are often unconscious, repressed and denied. I interpreted this concept through five artworks which, by their visual and material qualities, confront the spectator with shadow co-related aspects.
A suspended, floating dark circle that creates an oppressive and absorbing space when one's underneath. The attraction phenomenon contrasts with the repulsive, viscous silicone texture.
black tinted silicone, MDF
A blurred black volume placed within an acrylic glass box that cannot be properly defined and seems unreachable.
Acrylic glass, black foam
A single rod that worries by its sharp end and unknown function.
lacquered steel
Hardened yarns streaming from a corner. The wool loses its reassuring and comfortable properties.
wool yarns, epoxy resin
Mirrors multiplying spectator's head with clear and dark reflections.
lacquered wood, clear and black mirrors
Preliminary testings on colour, textures and matter.


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Friday, May 6, 2011
Every Day in May—EDM #106 Something tart or sour
9 comments:
- MaryO said...
I hope your drawing/painting does as much to boost your spirits and seeing your work again does for me!
Happy spring, dear heart.
- May 6, 2011 at 11:11 AM
- Kate (Cathy Johnson) said...
What a stunning sketch, Jennifer! What pen are you using now? LOVE your line quality...
- May 6, 2011 at 11:32 AM
- Kris Wiltse said...
Gorgeous sketch. Love your line and spontaneous use of watercolor. Wish I could grow one of those here!
- May 6, 2011 at 2:41 PM
- jgr said...
I love seeing your sketches! You inspire me.
- May 7, 2011 at 7:50 AM
- Sharon said...
Thanks for the sunshine. We need it here in Seattle. I hope you find sunshine when you get home to Maine.
- May 7, 2011 at 12:35 PM
- Nancy said...
- May 7, 2011 at 7:18 PM
- Jennifer Lawson said...
Hi Kate,
After trying everything on the planet, I have settled on a Staedler .03 pigment liner and a Pentel Brush Pen or a Kuretake brush pen filled with permanenet ink. I get consistency and variety in my lines with these two drawing tools.
- May 8, 2011 at 7:40 AM
- Kate (Cathy Johnson) said...
It's a gorgeous, exciting effect, Jennifer, thanks! I've got a Pentel, and enjoy it...I keep looking for a fountain pen with a flexible nib!
- May 8, 2011 at 7:43 AM
- Gexton said...
Striking painting, I love it. Her expression is so well captured.
This is beautiful. Really enjoyed catching up with your blog. What a great painting. There were so many amazing views - I could have painted many more too
it's very nice blog, keep wondorfull and sharing your blog.
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- March 16, 2013 at 5:29 AM


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As North Carolina State has put together a three-game winning streak and is suddenly making an impact in the upper part of the Atlantic Coast Conference standings, the games tend to look like they're growing in importance.
Going to Virginia Tech for Wednesday night's game provides another chance for a credible result.
"We say it's big because it's the next game on the schedule," N.C. State guard Braxton Beverly said.
Recently, it seems like every game brings about an improved level of play for the Wolfpack.
"I'm excited about this bunch," first-year N.C. State coach Kevin Keatts said. "I feel like we're getting better every game."
Keatts said he doesn't want it to be surprising when the Wolfpack has good performances.
"We are learning how to play hard," he said. "We don't have a special formula. We have gotten better because we have done well in individual workouts. They are starting to believe in each other."
Until this recent stretch, it had been three years since the Wolfpack won three consecutive ACC games.
Redshirt junior guard Torin Dorn said it's important to build on the victories. He said that's why last weekend's romp past Notre Dame was rewarding because there wasn't a drop-off after the road upset at North Carolina.
"It was business as usual, very intense, very competitive," Dorn said of practices. "Nothing that we aren't accustomed to."
Virginia Tech coach Buzz Williams said that his team's worst loss of last season came to N.C. State, which rang up a 104-78 home victory.
While he knows the Wolfpack has had coaching and personnel changes since then, N.C. State continues to present challenges.
"They're playing smaller, which allows them to play faster," Williams said.
N.C. State has done that while holding the second-best turnover margin in the conference. Wolfpack sophomore guard Markell Johnson has delivered 10 or more assists in each of his last four games.
Who: N.C. State (16-7, 6-4) at Virginia Tech (16-7, 5-5)
When: 9 Wednesday night (RSN)
Where: Cassell Coliseum, Blacksburg, Va.
Series: N.C. State leads 40-15


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You never know when your water heater is going to blow out, when a pipe will burst or when a faucet will decide to become a fountain. When these kinds of disasters happen you will need to know how to shut off the water.
Most sinks and toilets in the house have shut off valves below them, which will shut the water off to that fixture. The hot water heater also has a shut off valve, which will shut off the hot water in the house. It is a good idea to check your house to find all the shut off valves and make sure they work. In addition to all the other valves, all homes have a main shut off which will turn off all the water coming into the home. Locate your main valve to see if it works. If you need assistance, please call the Public Works Department (708)481-8950x147.
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- Meter Reading is done the month before bills are produced: February, May, August and November.
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There are many reasons a water appointment would need to be arranged.
- Water Leak Check: if a resident has noticed a large increase in their water bill, looking at the number of usage not total of bill, this normally is due to a water leak within the household. The Village of Richton Park offers a free water leak check (if usage has increased). We can schedule for a member of the Water Department to come into the house and check for notable leaks. Public Works will not fix any leaks within the home due to the this is a homeowners issue, but will help in identifying common problems.
- Main Valve needs to be replaced. If a plumber and/or someone is trying to repair pipes in the house we recommend first trying to turn the water off at the main valve within the house. If this valve is broke, you can call Public Works and have them turn the water off at the main line. Once this is done we recommend to get the main valve within the house fixed first, in order to have control of water within your home.
- Meter needs to be fixed. If the Village has noticed that the meter is not working properly from the outside of the house (not receiving a proper read), a member of Public Works will need to enter the home in order to repair that meter.


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This post is long over-due. Five weeks out before G & D venture to the Colorado mountains once again, and I have yet to give a recap from last year's hunt.
In 2012 G & D spent the first 5 days of September in the backwoods of the San Juan Mountains near Creede, CO. The Southern San Juan Wilderness is an expanse of nearly 160,000 acres with prime Elk habitat calling our inner Indian name. We had a single bull/bow tag for the archery season for GMU 77, which is regarded as some of the roughest terrain in southern Colorado. The intimidating slopes and ridges are largely why this unit was so desirable to us; we wanted to pack in where the elk hide and where we wouldn't be bothered by other hunters (and we weren't).
Heading several miles into the wilderness from the Rio Grande Reservoir, we set up camp for the first night as sunlight slowly drained from the sky. We got an early start the next morning, ate some quick oats, and headed to where we thought wapiti would be holding up. Numerous hours pouring over topo maps and dreaming about where we would find that perfect 5×5 bull was leading us to a couple high basins deep in the San Juans.
Most of day 2 and all of day 3 were spent trekking through thick timber that bordered picturesque mountain meadows, where we thought we would find the elk feeding. Honestly, I do not think that we made many mistakes on this trip, but our major fault was in this hunting strategy these two days. We discovered countless rubs, shredding small trees to pieces, and elk droppings throughout this timber, but no real fresh sign. We did see elk every day, but our rookie experience did not help us slay the beast.
Finally on day 4, feeling a little frustrated, we decided to head deeper into the basin and higher up the mountain. This immediately proved to be a good decision when we got two bulls to bugle back and forth with us early that morning. The problem was that we were down low and they were up high, and with all the adrenaline pumping through our veins during the bugle battle, we decided to climb up the nearly vertical slope where they calls were coming from. We probably didn't have mountain goat agility and likely did not possess snow leopard stealth, but when we got near the tree line we were caught in a starring contest with a weary cow. Soon the bull and his cows were tearing down the trail, leaving us gasping for more thin air. Although this didn't fill our packs with elk steaks for the grill, we discovered where the wapiti were hiding. We found a well used trail, seemingly an elk highway, deeply rutted into the dirt and with scars covering adjacent trees from passing antler racks.
Sadly, we learned where the elk were traveling too late into our hunt and were not able to successfully close on anything. However, the hunt was nowhere near a bust, and like I said before, I do not think that we made many mistakes during this hunt and the wealth of knowledge we gained is priceless. The experience of enduring the Colorado wilderness and chasing wapiti with a lifelong brother is an experience that words can not truly explain. I am blessed to have had to opportunity once, and I look forward to many more. Here is a video, giving a glimpse to what we experienced in the San Juan Mountains last September.
The 2013 Colorado elk archery season is not far away, and you bet your boots G & D will be back in the backcountry during the last week of September. I hope to make some more posts to share what we learned form last season and how we are prepping ourselves for the next trip. Stay tuned.
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Meal 1:
1 piece of medium-large size banana
Meal 2:
1 serving of stir fry tofu, kale, carrots, green chili
1 cup of brown rice
1 scoop of Trader Joe's Cherry Chocolate Soy Creamy
1 glass of soy milk
1 cup of watermelon cubes
June 28, 2011
Meal 1:
1 piece of medium-large size banana
Meal 2:
1 serving of stir fry tofu, kale, carrots, green chili
1 cup of brown rice
1 scoop of Trader Joe's Cherry Chocolate Soy Creamy
1 glass of soy milk
1 cup of watermelon cubes
June 23, 2011
Meal 1:
Meal 2:
1/2 cup of brown rice
1/2 serving of left over stir fry veggie
2 pieces of baked tofu
1 glass of soy milk
1/4 cip of fruit jello / gelatin
Meal 3:
2 servings of garlic pasta ( I have been craving this since I saw it at the hot food section of whole foods, finally I got a chance to cook it and it was delicious and refreshing )
1 slice of toasted sourdough bread spread with Earth Balance Buttery spread
1 scoop of Trader Joe's Soy Creamy topped with a small banana
1/2 cup of soy milk
June 15, 2011
Meal 1:
1 1/2 servings of veggie chowmein (left over from night before)
1 glass of chocolate soy milk
Meal 2:
1 small sandwich of tofurky deli + daiya cheddar shreds
1 glass of soy milk
Snack from Babycakes:
1 agave brownie bite
2 chocolate chip cookie
Meal 3:
1 serving of veggie chowmein
3/4 Vietnamese Vegetarian Sandwich
Agave Brownie Bites – it is good but the sugar one is more moist in my opinion. This one is a bit dry.
Chocolate Chip Cookies – its good… its chewy and a bit dry. maybe because it is too thin?
May 27, 2011
1 cup of Black Tea with Soy Milk
1 Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich on Toasted Wheat Bread
1 cup of Brown Rice
1 cup of Adobo with Bamboo Shoots and Eggplant
5 pieces of Gardein Beefless Tips (added to the adobo)
1 medium Banana
1 plate of organic corn tortilla chips
1 cup of chili (homemade leftover from the night before)
1 scoop of Trader Joe's Cherry Chocolate Soy Ice Cream
1 cup of carbonated water
I can't believe that I got full from chips and chili. Though I consider that I am well fed this day. 🙂
May 21, 2011
1 regular Soy Caramel Latte extra soy milk from Coffee Bean and Tea
2 cups of penne pasta with 1 Gardein Chicken Scallopini, garlic, Portobello mushroom and chili flakes
1 medium/large size banana
1 16oz iced EnergiTEA from Chado Tearoom (Green Tea with rooibos, ginseng, linden and orange)
1 Taro Gyuhi (from Mikawaya in Little Tokyo, Downtown Los Angeles)
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2-3 sips of White wine (not a fan hehehe)
sparkling water
Happy Hour @ Mccormicks and Schmicks, Pasadena, CA
1 order Garlic Fries with hot sauce
1 order fried zucchini
1 glass of Guinness (delicious, sweet and chocolate-y)
1/4 pickle
This has been a fun and full day for me. I tried a tea from Chado Tea room for the first time, so many options, its hard to decide which one to take. I am satisfied with my option though. Now drinking it with mochi – perfect combo :).
Happy Hour at Mccormicks is interesting as well. I normally order the buffalo wings and cheeseburger. However since I have been a vegan for quite some time now, it was weird not ordering it. Though the fries came with the buffalo/tabasco sauce instead of ketchup, so in a way I had a taste of it… The fried zucchini is excellent at this restaurant though compared to the downtown restaurant. Their serving is much more filling and satisfying.
May 19, 2011
Meal 1:
1/2 sandwich – Peanut Butter and Banana
1/2 cup Soy Milk
Meal 2:
1/2 sandwich – Peanut Butter and Banana
1/2 cup Soy Milk
1 Turon
Meal 3:
1 1/2 cup Brown Rice
1 1/2 serving of stir fry ( Tofu, bok choy, carrot, spinach, eggplant, chilis)
2 Turon
Stir frying vegetables is one of my favorite ways of preparing a vegan meal. I love my vegetables. This week, I have been eating a lot of baby bok choy – I like their crunch and sweetness.
Turon – I think I should stop eating this for awhile, its getting addictive… Sweetness is truly one of my weakness 🙂 And this has all of my favorites – Banana, Jackfruit and brown sugar 🙂


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Yesterday's item about Microsoft and startups ("Do not automatically look to Microsoft as a rainmaker") comes to mind when reading the Business Week Dec. 5 cover story, Googling for Gold:
The Google effect is already changing the delicate balance in Silicon Valley between venture capitalists and startup companies. Instead of nurturing the most promising startups with an eye toward taking the fledgling businesses public, a growing number of VCs now scour the landscape for anyone with a technology or service that might fill a gap in Google's portfolio. Google itself and not the larger market has become the exit strategy as VCs plan for the day they can take their money out of their startups. Business founders have felt the tug as well. "You're hearing about a lot of entrepreneurs pitching VCs with their end goal to be acquired by Google," says Daniel Primack, editor of PE Week Wire, a dealmaking digest popular in VC circles. "It's a complete 180 [degree turn] from the IPO craze of five years ago; now Google is looked at like NASDAQ was then." Other entrepreneurs, meanwhile, are skipping the VC stage altogether, hoping to sell directly to Google.
On Wall Street, the Google effect, while less profound, is still clearly in force. All manner of investment banks, from giants such as Morgan Stanley (MWD ) and Credit Suisse First Boston (CSB ) to mid-size players such as Allen & Co., have dispatched bankers to Google's Mountain View (Calif.) headquarters, the better to court the Google gatekeepers as they attempt to sell a raft of mergers and acquisitions, financings, and strategic advice. Meanwhile, smaller boutique firms are trying to ride Google's considerable coattails, signing up the scores of increasingly valuable Web upstarts cropping up around Google.
There's one snag in this planetary realignment: Google has shown little interest so far in doing big deals with anyone.
Much more by following the link, but this kind of thing is bound to happen. Risking another analogy, lots of ready cash of either the real or market cap variety exerts a very powerful magnetic attraction. Equally understandable is the defensive reaction by the holders of the pot-o-gold to all the blandishments of those folks who want to sell them a company, although Google is particularly difficult according to the article.


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I took a bike ride to the public beach and what should have been a 10 minute ride turned into a 30 minute one, I just kept seeing photo opportunities.
The strong white walls, and fence with details is what I liked about this.
Some of the most interesting architecture in houses is located here facing the ocean.
I like the framing from the trees, and how it feels like this house's yard is secluded, while still having good views from these upper windows.
I love the texture of these corrugated walls, and the height of the antennae. I brought the value of the blues way down to get a nice dark sky.
Again, I love texture, so these pylons made a great scene.
I love bounced light plus perspective converging.
I like this one for the different value ranges almost as much as the composition.
I love this little fisherman's cottage, complete with net drying frames. The sun was harsh but I managed to squeeze it all in.
I love these farmhouses against the misty mountains in the back. (probably have to click for large to really see)
I hadn't seen this before, but it appears to be a shared garden space. I really like the bottom half as garden, top half as apartment complex, showing how a dense city can still grow food.
I like the white posts framing this secluded doorway.
One of the buildings downtown. The bright wall with windows breaking it up, plus the texture of the wall itself, drew me.
I love the framing of this. Tall buildings left and right, wall of almost dead sod in the front with weeds, then a guy in shorts weed-whacking in the middle, all on an overcast day.
Foggy morning. The reduced contrast is what I wanted to capture.
I liked this one purely for the light bouncing.
It was a beautiful day out, so when I saw these sailboats I knew I wanted to try to get a photo with them in it.
A friend gave us a tour of the cruise ship he was working, and I saw this composition and had to snap.
Viðey Island, click for larger. I love how peaceful this island is, just across from busy Reykjavik. This is where Yoko Ono's peace light tribute to John Lennon is located.
The lobby of the cruise ship. Loved this sculpture and the light filtering through the stained glass.
From a morning bike ride, I just liked the value range. The middle window is surrounded by aluminum foil (to block the midnight sun from keeping the sleepers awake).
A spider outside my 3rd floor window.
A male tried to come and woo her, but after 10 minutes of watching, he hadn't yet succeeded.


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You say potato pancakes, I say latkes. At least during Hanukkah, anyway. And if you haven't already had latkes this season, it's time to bust out your griddle and get to frying!
But don't let the term "latkes" intimidate you. If you can follow this very simple, yet delicious, recipe for old-fashioned potato pancakes from the new Taste of Home cookbook, you've got latkes. Just don't forget to put out the applesauce and sour cream to make the whole experience Hanukkah-rific.
If you want to do the whole dinner, check out the ultimate Hanukkah guide for the uninitiated.
Old-Fashioned Potato Pancakes
What You'll Need:
- 3 cups shredded peeled potatoes
- 2 eggs, lightly beaten
- 1/4 cup grated onion
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 3 tablespoons minced fresh parsley
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon pepper
1. Rinse potatoes in cold water; drain thoroughly. In a large bowl, combine the potatoes, eggs, onion, flour, parsley, salt, and pepper.
2. Pour batter by 1/3 cupfuls onto a well-greased hot griddle. Fry in batches 5-6 minutes on each side or until golden brown. Drain on paper towels.
Yield: 7-9 pancakes
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Donald Trump gave a series of surprisingly inoffensive answers to fans in his Reddit "ask me anything" session tonight. After a press conference filled with off-the-cuff and sometimes bizarre comments, his visit to Reddit stronghold r/The_Donald was marked by conspicuously anodyne responses — which, to be honest, was probably the best outcome anyone could have hoped for.
Reddit's official, high-profile AMAs — like the 2012 one with Barack Obama — are usually held on the subreddit r/IAmA. Trump's, however, was in r/The_Donald, a dedicated Trump forum. While the subreddit's rules ban racism and anti-semitism, members (and moderators) of r/The_Donald have a history of it; every public forum will have bad posts, but this is a case where there's been an outright flamewar over how much influence far-right extremists should have. Tonight, the subreddit's members reminded each other to be on their best behavior. "We can't give the dishonest media any type of ammunition to use against Trump," wrote one commenter. The thread was heavily moderated, and questions from new or rarely active accounts were automatically filtered out, although "public figures who support Trump" could be exempted. A moderator wrote afterward that they'd banned 2,200 accounts during the AMA.
I asked @realDonaldTrump on his AMA why he wont share his tax returns…
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This meant that any confrontational questions, like why Trump isn't sharing his tax returns, were out. Politicians tend not to go in for hardball sessions on Reddit anyway — Obama's AMA was thoughtful but non-specific. And there were several confusing deletions, including one question on net neutrality from Breitbart writer Milo Yiannopoulos, who is actually a moderator of the subreddit.
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SOUTHPORT, NC (WECT) – The city of Southport is calling on a former leader to take on a leadership role.
Former Southport City Manager Rob Gandy has been named as interim city manager.
City leaders appointed him to the position Tuesday night at a special meeting.
According Southport Mayor Robert Howard, Gandy is scheduled to begin his duties on March 18.
Howard tells WECT.com that Gandy has signed on for a 90-day contract. After 90 days, his contract will go month to month, as needed.
Current city manager Pat Thomas announced his resignation earlier this month. The mayor says Thomas noted his last day as April 16.
Howard says Gandy will take on the position in March and Thomas will be available for help until April 16.
Gandy will be making the same salary as Thomas, according to Howard. Thomas currently makes $91,350.
City leaders have not interviewed anyone for the permanent city manager position yet.
"We have a lot of stuff going on right now," said Howard. "We're dealing with a budget and audit report for the city and we want the transition to be smooth."
Thomas' resignation took many city leaders by surprise.
According to Howard, Gandy last left his position with the city on "good terms."
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Nelson Mandela
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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (born 18 July 1918) is a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and politician who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the first black South African to hold the office, and the first elected in a fully representative, multiracial election. His government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid through tackling institutionalised racism, poverty and inequality, and fostering racial reconciliation. Politically an African nationalist and democratic socialist, he served as the President of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1991 to 1997. Internationally, Mandela was the Secretary General of the Non-Aligned Movement from 1998 to 1999.
A Xhosa born to the Thembu royal family, Mandela attended Fort Hare University and the University of Witwatersrand, where he studied law. Living in Johannesburg, he became involved in anti-colonial politics, joining the ANC and becoming a founding member of its Youth League. After the Afrikaner nationalists of the National Party came to power in 1948 and began implementing the policy of apartheid, he rose to prominence in the ANC's 1952 Defiance Campaign, was elected President of the Transvaal ANC Branch and oversaw the 1955 Congress of the People. Working as a lawyer, he was repeatedly arrested for seditious activities and, with the ANC leadership, was prosecuted in the Treason Trial from 1956 to 1961 but was found not guilty. Although initially committed to non-violent protest, in association with the South African Communist Party he co-founded the militant Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) in 1961, leading a bombing campaign against government targets. In 1962 he was arrested, convicted of sabotage and conspiracy to overthrow the government, and sentenced to life imprisonment in the Rivonia Trial.
Mandela served 27 years in prison, first on Robben Island, and later in Pollsmoor Prison and Victor Verster Prison. An international campaign lobbied for his release, which was granted in 1990 amid escalating civil strife. Becoming ANC President, Mandela published his autobiography and led negotiations with President F.W. de Klerk to abolish apartheid and establish multiracial elections in 1994, in which he led the ANC to victory. He was elected President and formed a Government of National Unity in an attempt to diffuse ethnic tensions. As President, he established a new constitution and initiated the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate past human rights abuses. Continuing the former government's liberal economic policy, his administration introduced measures to encourage land reform, combat poverty and expand healthcare services. Internationally, he acted as mediator between Libya and the United Kingdom in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial, and oversaw military intervention in Lesotho. He declined to run for a second term, and was succeeded by his deputy Thabo Mbeki, subsequently becoming an elder statesman, focusing on charitable work in combating poverty and HIV/AIDS through the Nelson Mandela Foundation.
Controversial for much of his life, right-wing critics denounced Mandela as a terrorist and communist sympathiser. He has nevertheless received international acclaim for his anti-colonial and anti-apartheid stance, having received over 250 awards, including the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize, the US Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Soviet Order of Lenin. He is held in deep respect within South Africa, where he is often referred to by his Xhosa clan name of Madiba or as tata; he is often described as "the father of the nation".
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Hello all, we just published a new post for Dynamic Access Control on the Windows Server Blog:
Here's an excerpt:
These focus areas were then translated to a set of Windows capabilities that enable data compliance in partner and Windows-based solutions.
- Add the ability to configure Central Access and Audit Policies in Active Directory. These policies are based on conditional expressions that take into account the following so that organizations can translate business requirements to efficient policy enforcement and considerably reduce the number of security groups needed for access control:
- Who the user is
- What device they are using, and
- What data is being accessed
- Integrate claims into Windows authentication (Kerberos) so that users and devices can be described not only by the security groups they belong to, but also by claims such as: "User is from the Finance department" and "User's security clearance is High"
- Enhance the File Classification Infrastructure to allow business owners and users to identify (tag) their data so that IT administrators are able to target policies based on this tagging. This ability works in parallel with the ability of the File Classification Infrastructure to automatically classify files based on content or any other characteristics
- Integrate Rights Management Services to automatically protect (encrypt) sensitive information on servers so that even when the information leaves the server, it is still protected.
If you are looking for more depth and "how it works", check out the whitepaper published by Mike Stephens' :Understand and Troubleshoot Dynamic Access Control in Windows Server "8" Beta
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Posted by Flamingomoon on September 12, 2017, 1:54 pm, in reply to "Portrait outfit.>>>>"
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Portrait outfit.>>>> - Terry September 11, 2017, 6:34 pm
She has a porcelain look to her. Very nice! - mimi100 December 24, 2017, 2:48 pm
beautiful, thank you for the info on super clear - sharoninor September 18, 2017, 9:20 am
She looks so elegant. - Flamingomoon September 12, 2017, 1:54 pm
You have been very busy, Terry - she is lovely! - Kay in Chgo September 11, 2017, 9:58 pm
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This novel's title may sound familiar because it was a part of Oprah's book club back in 1999. The novel was actually originally published in 1994 which I didn't realize until I was looking at the different versions available on Amazon. I guess I was under the mistaken impression that the book club is a mix of new novels (for that year, at least) and classics. Having said that, I can definitely see why this novel was selected for the book club.
The novel explores the marriage of Ellen Grier after she and her husband James are forced to move back to their hometown, Holly's Field, Wisconsin, and in with her in-laws. Her in-laws hate each other, and her mother-in-law is especially hard on Ellen and her two children. While Ellen's family is presented as much more loving, Ellen cannot turn to them support. It's 1972, and this is still a very traditional community. All of Ellen's female relatives simply tell her to be a supportive wife. However, with her husband gone for business trips all the time, the brunt of the problems fall on Ellen.
While Ellen's mother-in-law is a rather horrible person, the novel also explains how she became this way, and introduces her older spinster sister. All of the women in this novel are restrained by conventions and the limited roles available to women, and the impossibility of breaking free. Ellen befriends a school teacher who is also a divorcee, so at least she sees that by 1972, there may be other options even if she runs the risk of alienating her family and community.
I thought the novel worked very well as a representation of a particular time and place,and explored the idea of loyalty and gratitude rather well. James is divided between his parents and his own family, and his inability to draw any lines because he feels he owes his parents too much for allowing him to return home. Not only does the novel highlight how restrictive gender roles can be for women, but it also shows how James has been negatively affected by the expectations on him. Still, the novel was a bit bleakly and darkly written so while it was a good character study, it certainly isn't a good choice for a light or fun afternoon.


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Tuesday, August 3, 2010
In the spirit of the 24 hr comic challenge itself, I put a clock on this. And rather than use your silly hours and minutes, I choose the medium of Shawshank Redemption. I THINK its around 3 hours, but I wanted to see how fast I could work without cutting too many corners. Went straight from blue to inkpen for this, which is something I NEVER do, but it got me in juuuuuust over the deadline. That is, just as the film stopped rewinding.
This is all I'm putting up of this comic til October- until the anthology comes out, but I might update this page with tones when I get to it. Let me know what you guys think!
All the best,
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Mexico's national refining system SNR is stuck in the past and its modernization is essential for national energy security, Francisco Barnés de Castro, commissioner from energy watchdog CRE, said at the BNamericas Mexico Energy Summit.
The source of the problem, he said, is lack of investment, as almost all of state oil company Pemex's budget goes to its E&P subsidiary PEP.
"[Investment in refining] has fallen behind year after year, decade after decade, and we now have a phenomenal accumulated gap in investment."
Of Pemex's 311bn-peso (US$23.9bn) budget in 2012, only 28.9bn pesos (9.28%) went to subsidiary Pemex Refinación, leaving the facilities with outdated technology.
Only two of the country's six refineries can properly process heavy and ultra-heavy crude and some of the refineries do not even meet Mexico's NOM-086 standard for sulfur levels in gasoline and diesel.
The aging refineries have forced Pemex to import more gasoline and diesel each year. In 2012, Pemex imported 49.2% of national gasoline demand and 33.2% of diesel compared to 41.6% and 13.3% respectively in 2009.
Mexico must take immediate steps to improve refining for the sake of its energy sovereignty, the commissioner said.
First, a heavy crude optimization plant must be built at the Dos Bocas receiving terminal to handle the ultra-heavy output from Mexico's largest basin, Ku-Maloob-Zaap.
In general, the SNR needs more investment. Barnés estimates the system will require US$50bn over the next six years for new facilities, renovations, and additional infrastructure. Last year, the system received approximately US$2.22bn.
The ideal solution, he said, is a reform that allows Pemex to partner with the world's leading refiners.
Pemex Refinación is making headway on its latest refining addition, said Leonardo Cornejo Serrano, manager of the subsidiary's capacity expansion projects division, in a presentation at the Mexico Energy Summit.
The new US$11.6bn Tula Bicentenario refinery is currently undergoing site preparation and has received all the necessary environmental and building permits.
The refinery will have a throughput capacity of 250,000b/d of heavy Maya crude plus 76,000b/d of residuals from the adjacent Miguel Hidalgo refinery.
It will produce 165,000b/d of gasoline and 116,000b/d of diesel, as well as various derivative products. Once in operation, it will decrease gasoline imports by 45%, Cornejo said.
Pemex Refinación has already selected the plant's technology providers, which include Bechtel, Technip, Axens North America and Jacobs Engineering (NYSE: JEC).
Cornejo said the next tender for the project will take place in April for earthwork and site conditioning. The tender processes for EPC contracts at the processing plants will begin by year's end.
The plant's in-service date has been bumped from 2016 to late 2017, Cornejo added.


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"The world doesn't need another Beethoven!" barks Ed Harris' truculent composer in Agnieszka Holland's biopic, a statement that pretty much sums up this dreary stab at putting flesh on his decomposing bones. Set some years after the events of Immortal Beloved and Eroica, Holland's film sees Ludwig as a deaf old git forced to depend on Diane Kruger's gifted copyist if he's to finish his legendary Ninth Symphony. The more she scribbles, however, the closer they become, much to the chagrin of her architect boyfriend (Matthew Goode), Viennese society and, one suspects, classical music purists everywhere. It's all baloney of course – though that doesn't prevent Harris producing a Pollock-sized performance as the tortured genius. Like the wrinkled buttocks he flashes at Kruger, however, this portrait of the artist could use some tightening up.
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Short post today, as I'm pulling a Led Zeppelin and headed to California for the remainder of the week. No surfing or necessarily fun in the sun, yet for me, it's fun of another kind: talking with people about what I love in the hopes that they'll be able to use it to do what they love.
As a complete aside, I'm also sporting a bruise on my left thigh that is roughly the size of Tanzania. I know this first-hand, as I've been there. I took a teensy spill on my track bike on Sunday (hit a slick spot on the track) and well, I'm living in Hey, Hey, It's Hematomaville for awhile now. But I digress. At least I started this paragraph by telling you I was going to digress.
You are making my ears bleed.
I Bust My Ass…
Even when I'm not ditching my bike with one gear and no brakes, I'm busting my ass to make sure that companies I work with speak English. And people keep fucking this up widestyle. Maybe not you. But definitely you for sure. Why are you not speaking English?
When did we start making up words and phrases to describe what we do? When did the words we had become not good enough? Here are some examples:
- Drive results (because if you're not, you shouldn't have a fucking job)
- Create results-oriented strategies (because there are people who create strategies designed to tread water? Puh-lease.)
- Shift paradigms (keep your hands off my damn paradigms – they are fine where they are)
- Develop overarching concepts (as the only thing overarching is the Gateway Arch in St. Louis – used to live there. Seen it. It's definitely overarching.)
I'm invited to connect with numerous people each week on LinkedIn and I see this bullshit every day. Why are you selling yourself short by using terminology that's not only meaningless but makes your target audience – a potential client or employer – feel like they're either not smart enough to understand what you do or being bamboozled about your actual level of proficiency in your trade?
Just Stop. Please.
The English language has been around for centuries. It's a perfectly good language. And you know what? I'm not immune to buzzspeak, either. I have colleagues who threaten to install a sort of "swear jar" every time I get too full of myself in a client report or proposal and lapse into speaking buzzspeak-laden nonsense.
Just use English. It's good stuff. All buzzspeak does is make you look lazy. Ditch the MBA-ease, because really – I'm not that bright. Stop being fancy, as plain vanilla gets the job done (and doesn't waste anyone's time). There's a time a place for flourish, and you should know the difference between flourish and total horseshit.
And if any of you have the above phrases, or phrases like them, in your profiles, websites, or corporate mission statements consider the alternatives:
Instead of "driving results," state what you achieved. "During my 18-month tenure as the Director of Social for Company XYZ, I led a team of 6 staffers and we achieved the following (bulletpoint, bulletpoint, bulletpoint)."
Instead of those bullshit "results-oriented strategies," tell us about what you created. "At the inception of my role as Director of Paint Peeling at Company XYZ, I created a 24-month plan designed to help the company's marketing department (bulletpoint, bulletpoint, bulletpoint). As a result of the strategy's components, the department demonstrated a 34% decrease in expenditures and a 63% increase in profit. This allowed us to increase our team by a headcount of two and add an additional executive to the Marketing team to head up sales in our Mid-Atlantic region."
Stop talking about shifting paradigms. If you truly did that, you should be able to find clients and customers who can speak to its truth. None of us are Steve Jobs, nor should we aspire to be. And not even Jobs shifted paradigms. He built teams that planned and then executed on those plans. The products that resulted? The consumers of the world would attest that Apple's creations "shifted paradigms." Get my drift?
We're all victim to this right now, especially as the New Hampshire primary kicks off today. Politicians make a career out of using 83 words to say nothing at all, and I know it annoys me. It probably annoys you. Speaking English is about honesty – with yourself and your clients/customers. It's about respect and not making people spend time they don't have figuring out what the hell you're saying. It's also about confidence. Buzzspeak is linguistic wood putty for those who lack confidence, as the truth never seems good enough.
Now, my gimp hip and I must pack. So little to do, so much time. Wait – strike that. Reverse it.
And for those who wonder how I dispel with the buzzword bullshit speak in my own business? I keep companies from looking like assholes online.
Concise. Short. Makes you want to hear more. And more importantly, no one wants to look like an asshole.
English: It's good enough.
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Spring Fun
Spring time in Charlevoix brings hiking and biking, blankets of trilliums, warmer weather, elusive mushrooms, and of course Petunias! What a better time to visit Charlevoix then in the spring time when the town is bursting with the excitement of summer! One of the biggest examples of a community collaborating in Northern Michigan has to be one of the things that makes Charlevoix what it is; Operation Petunia. To learn more about this effort and other reasons why spring is a beautiful time to visit Charlevoix read below.
Hiking and Biking
If you enjoy getting outside after a long winter than Charlevoix is your place, with dozens of trails within a 10 minute drive, any outdoor enthusiast would be excited to lace up and see what the backwoods of Northern Michigan have to offer. Trails are diverse going through thick hardwood forests, sand dunes, open fields, and up mountains. While out there don't forget to keep your eyes out for some Northern Michigan favorites including Petoskey Stones, Moral mushrooms, and Trilliums. To learn more about some of the biking and hiking trails in the area click here.
Mushroom Hunting
If you've ever tasted the Moral Mushroom you would know what all the hype is about. These elusive mushrooms are most prominently found in our region and keep hunters busy before work, after work, and on the weekends searching out the tasty flesh. If you'd like to try one, but don't feel like walking through the woods to look, most area restaurants serve them (if they can even keep them in house) between April and June.
Petoskey Stone Hunting
The Petoskey stone is a colony of fossilized corals that date back tens of thousands of years when Michigan actually had a tropical climate. Petoskey stones can only be found in Northern Michigan. Because of this they are the Michigan State stone and bring many visitors to town in search of this rock. Spring is the best time to search for these rocks. During the fall, winter, and spring when the water has a strong current and the winds are powerful many of them get washed ashore. By mid-summer most will have been picked up and taken home as souvenirs by the many visitors in the area. The best way to find them is to be patient and keep your eyes open while walking up and down Michigan, Mt. Mc Sauba, or Fisherman's Island State Park Beaches.
Operation Petunia - Not many events can bring an entire community together for the simple betterment of their town, but that is what Operation Petunia is for Charlevoix.
In early January 1982, a new organization called Keep Charlevoix Beautiful held a meeting to discuss ways to make Charlevoix more beautiful. They mainly talked about placing a few barrels of flowers around town. Historian Bob Miles whispered to Dale Boss, "I don't think anything I've heard so far adds too much to making Charlevoix beautiful." Dale said, "Just wait until everyone gets through talking, and see what I have in mind." Dale told those present that it sounded wild, but he had envisioned for years having petunias line both sides of the roadway from city limit to city limit.
The official planting day is the Thursday before Memorial Day. At 1:00 p.m., the five miles of roadway to be planted are narrowed from four lanes down to two. Twelve hundred flats of flowers, that we get from Florigen Greenhouse in Traverse City, are placed along the curb from one end of town to the other, all in preparation for the 1,000+ planters due to show up at 5:00 p.m. Once planting is complete, the volunteers descend upon East Park for a picnic dinner to celebrate their efforts and the quickly approaching summer season. Keep Charlevoix Beautiful, Inc. also donates over 80 hanging baskets of petunias, which are placed on lampposts throughout the central business district and the Round Lake yacht harbor.
In 2001, Keep Charlevoix Beautiful, Inc. purchased a beautiful new watering truck. It has every accessory GM has to offer. The new truck allows the driver, Dale Boss, to provide over 12,000 gallons of water daily to the thirsty plants. His wife Marilyn appreciates the fact that she no longer needs to accompany him on every watering trip, which was once a two-person operation. The watering truck is also equipped with a music system, which plays ragtime piano music. Thanks to a sponsorship by the Charlevoix Area Chamber of Commerce, the Petunia Truck also visits local parades around the state to present Miss Charlevoix and her court on a 37-foot float. Every year, approximately 2.5 million people see our truck and float promoting Charlevoix the Beautiful.
One of the biggest challenges for "Operation Petunia" is weeding throughout the summer. This year we have hired a deputy sheriff and four – six prison inmates to do the weeding. The weeding is typically done once or twice each month during the summer season. It usually takes four days to weed the five miles of petunia beds.
To learn more about Operation Petunia click here.


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U.S. Treasuries prices dipped slightly on Wednesday as investors awaited minutes from the Federal Reserve's last policy meeting, which is expected to reveal more clues about why the U.S. central bank decided against paring its $85 billion a month bond purchase program, and ahead of new Treasury supply.
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The Fed minutes come as U.S. President Barack Obama is preparing to nominate Fed number two Janet Yellen on Wednesday to run the world's most influential central bank. The advocate for aggressive action to stimulate U.S. economic growth through low interest rates and large-scale bond purchases would replace Ben Bernanke, whose second term as Fed chairman expires on Jan. 31.
Treasuries have largely traded sideways for the past two weeks, with many investors hesitant to enter new trades due to political gridlock in Washington. The U.S. government entered its ninth day of partial shutdown on Wednesday and fears have been rising that political dysfunction could disrupt an increase in the debt ceiling.
Some investors fear that a resolution to raise the debt ceiling will reduce the safety bid for Treasuries, sending yields higher, while others see a continuing gridlock adding to demand for bonds. These factors, and impending new sales of 10-year and 30-year Treasuries, offset any rally from Yellen's nomination.
"One side fears that you will get an agreement (in Washington) and the market will probably be pressured, and the other side fears of it continuing and dragging on and continuing to choke some growth out of the economy," said Sean Murphy, a Treasuries trader at Societe Generale in New York.
"You're kind of stuck until you get some resolution here, but in the meantime you're taking down some supply," he added.
Benchmark 10-year Treasury notes were last down 2/32 in price to yield 2.65 percent, up from 2.64 percent late on Tuesday.
The Treasury will sell $21 billion in 10-year notes on Wednesday, the second sale of $64 billion in new coupon-bearing supply this week. It will also sell $13 billion in 30-year bonds on Thursday.
Many U.S. economic releases issued by the government, including Wednesday's wholesale trade data and the crucial monthly payrolls data that had been scheduled for last Friday, have been delayed by the shutdown, muddying insight into the state of the economy.
The partial government shutdown is seen hurting economic growth, which has added to speculation that the Fed may not begin paring back its bond purchases until next year.
Short-dated Treasury bill yields also remained elevated on Wednesday, and the cost of financing trades through repurchase agreements rose, as investors avoided U.S. debt that comes due in late October. Notes due at the end of October are most at risk of delayed payments if the government fails to increase its $16.7 trillion debt ceiling.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew has warned Congress the United States would exhaust its borrowing capacity no later than Oct. 17, at which point it would have only about $30 billion in cash on hand.
Treasuries bills that mature on Oct 24 are yielding 39 basis points, much higher than longer-dated debt that matures outside of what investors see as the danger zone. Three-month and six-month bills are yielding 0.05 percent and 0.08 percent, respectively.
The cost of borrowing funds overnight against Treasuries in repo also jumped to around 15 basis points on Wednesday, up from around 7 basis points on Tuesday.


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Shooting the Messenger
Here in Highland Park, some of the mayor's supporters have taken a page from Harry's detractors. They claim that somehow, the campaign literature of the Wolf team in the June primary was "negative," "full of lies," "evil," etc. And those of us who worked on the literature are described as "angry," "vindictive,"and sometimes "evil" ourselves.
There is only one problem with this argument, which is this. Every single one of the accusations against Mayor Frank in the Wolf campaign's literature is true.
Frank did preside over the loss of $400,000 in tax deposits and then proceed to cover for two guilty borough employees, one of whom was allowed to work at the scene of the crime after being indicted.
Frank was fully aware of the terms of the cell tower agreement and then swore falsely that she was not.
Frank did refuse to enact statutory protection for local homes and businesses against eminent domain. The only reason her administration did not use it is because they couldn't. The property owners whose lots were placed in the redevelopment zone effectively pre-empted the administration by sounding the alarm and alerting the public and the media to the fact that eminent domain might be used.
Frank did play a role in former Councilwoman Carolyn Timmons' loss of her county job in late 2004 and her forced resignation in 2005.
A huge, unresolved conflict of interest remains in the fact that she has positioned herself as a leader in promoting green technology while her husband owns an energy consulting firm that accepted no bid contracts from the BPU's Clean Energy Fund and that benefits financially by getting consulting jobs through her efforts.
Frank formed an ethics task force made up entirely of her own supporters including the spouse of the previous head of the Green Community Working Group, who at the time was an employee of her husband's firm and being paid through Rutgers to consult on the borough's green initiatives.
Frank approached the employers of several of her opponents and asked that they fire those employees. I and my 2005 running mate were victims of this bullying. Thankfully, neither of our employers caved to these demands.
Frank presided over the largest municipal tax increase in Highland Park history--an increase of forty percent. And she has overburdened the business district with an additional tax--an assessment is, after all, a tax--averaging an additional $2,000 a year.
And in a move worthy of a totalitarian dictatorship, Frank filed a false police report against me in an attempt to intimidate me from seeking public office and brand me as some sort of criminal. Again thankfully, our Police Department recognized a political stunt when they saw one.
Why bring this up now that the election is over? The answer is that none of these issues has gone away. These things actually happened, and election or not, the public has a right to know about them, as do the appropriate law enforcement agencies.
Frank's supporters claim that opponents including myself will "ruin the schools," which is absurd. The Borough Council has nothing to do with running the schools, which are governed separately by the Board of Education. Everyone of our 2007 team--and our 2008 team--is a staunch supporter of public education. Her claim is a lie, and once again, the public, especially parents, have the right to know.
Once again, I am immensely proud of the 2007 race and my role in it. I have no intention of changing my personal or political style, both of which are sources of great satisfaction and reward. I am proud to be the type of politician who will not be bullied or intimidated from telling the truth as I know it. Through informal participation in campaign trainings, I have shared my strategies and experience as a watchdog and a muckraker and encouraged other aspiring political activists and candidates to not be afraid to shine the light in all of the public realm's dark places (and here in New Jersey, there is no shortage of them).
Instead of shooting the messenger, borough residents should take the time to think and investigate on their own whether any of the so-called "negative" accusations against Frank are true. Because if they are, we are being governed by someone who has consistently ducked responsibility and has shown herself unfit to hold public office.
Frank was right in one statement she made on the night of the election. To quote her own words, it's not over.


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EatWith - WorkWith ?? (Tel Aviv)
Hi there.
I just saw a banner ad on IN for a new social media like service called eatwith.
Founded by some guys in TA.
After airbnb turned everyone's home into a hotel EatWith has now turned anyone's kitchen into a restaurant. Sweet.
Does anyone know of a similar service for businesses ?
where one can go to work for a day or two at a businesses to learn about their challenges and hopefully gain a few insights along the way ?
The reason why I post in the TA forum is that I would be interested in visiting but rather than spend time on the beach I would rather want to learn something.
I have come to the point where conferences, lectures, and speeches are not quite going to cut it. So I am looking for something more hands on, more concrete.
But I know nobody in Israel so I have to take a different route.


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posters for Menudos Cuadros
A while ago I was contacted by Menudos Cuadros, a spanish webshop that focuses on kids room decoration. They asked me to design 4 posters for them and today I started on the first one!
First I painted a few structures in blues and whites with guache paint. Normally I scan those into the computer and then cut the shape digitally. But today I felt like a more manual approache and cut and colored (shadows and such) the animals with the good old scissors. Then I scanned it and assembled all elements to the painted (and also scanned) background.
I'm thinking about different animal themes for every poster. This first design will feature a...?
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While rotis form the basic bread of India, there are plenty of regional variations. Koki happens to be one such bread from the Sindhi cuisine. Koki and dal pakwaan were some of the terms I was acquainted with even before I started web browsing for recipes. Naturally when I thought of doing Sindhi recipes for the BM#28, I thought of koki. The idea I had about koki and the ones I had seen earlier were onion based and I gathered from Vaishali's blog during one of the marathons that it was actually called masala koki and there is a basic version with black pepper called kare mirch waree koki. It is one of the popular Sindhi breakfasts and is supposedly served with plain yogurt, or a potato curry and papad or even along with tea just like cookies. They store well for a couple of days and are so preferred during journeys.
1 cup wheat flour / atta
Salt to taste
3 - 4 tsp oil / ghee
1/4 tsp black pepper powder
6 - 7 Tbsp water
* Combine all the ingredients in a mixing bowl except water.
Then add a the water and form a firm dough.
* Divide the portion into two portions and roll each of them into balls.
* Roll each of them into thick discs.
* Prick them with a fork or make superficial diagonal cuts with a knife as shown in the picture so that the rotis are cooked through.
* Fry them on a tava / shallow pan on low heat, until thoroughly cooked and brown spots appear through out.
* I served them with spicy mango pickle and yogurt.
1. I didn't check Vaishali's blog while preparing the kokis and now while I searched for her recipe to link, I realised that probably they need to look more brown with more spots. I removed them as soon as they were cooked. Based on Vaishali's response, I will decide whether the pictures need to be updated. :)
2. I saved a koki to check the next day to see how they fare in softness. I admit I preferred eating them warm since I am not used to eating thick rotis.
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