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The locals call it ''Indy''.
It's short for Indianapolis – and the full name reflects the essence of the city better. It is a city with a aligned with the United States, but with a touch of Greek culture thanks to Jeremiah Sullivan, a judge of the local Supreme Court. He joined the name of the state that Indy dominates - Indiana - with the Greek word ''polis'' – ''city''. Thus, Indianapolis literally means "Indiana City".
Whether you are about an American experience in Indianapolis, or referring back to the Greek origins of its name Booked.net will help you to experience the city. With just a click you can book any hotel you like from cheap hotels in Indianapolis to those abundant with luxuries all available with maps, photos and secure forms at prices below the rack rates.
This ''Indiana City'' was selected as a new state capital in 1820 mainly due to its location – exactly in the center of Indiana state. Thus, its geographical proportions make it the most centrally located capital of all capitals.
It occupies a total area of 368.2sqm around about 6.7sqm of waterway. It is White River that makes up the main transportation artery of the city connecting it to Chicago, Louisville, Cincinnati, Columbus, Detroit and Cleveland and on.
Such a network of interconnected cities converted Indianapolis into a major hub of regional trade. Thus, it is a city with a fast-developing industrial scene built mainly around manufacturing, as well contributing to finance and health care.
Despite the burden of industrialization, Indianapolis is still a child of such architecture luminaries as Alexander Ralston and Pierre L'Enfant who designed the cityscape of Indianapolis. Attractions include;
- Children's Museum of Indianapolis, the largest in the world
- White River Gardens occupies more than three acres of gardens and pathways along the White River
- Crown Hill Cemetery, the third largest cemetery in the United States, as well regarded as the "Best Walking Tour" in Indy by Indianapolis Monthly
- Soldiers' & Sailors' Monument, the most famous monument in Indianapolis
This monument is a kind of a symbol of the city, as well as the Statue of Liberty symbolizes the whole America. Just imagine that this symbol of Indianapolis stands only 15 feet shorter than the Statue of Liberty. The direction of local government to preserve the authentic cityscape is reflected in the ban on constructions higher than this national symbol. Thus, you won't find any structure higher than the 87m high monument.
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Three of my 2nd great-grandaunts (sisters) were nurses. In two different photos I have of two of the sisters one of them has a Swastika pinned to the waist of her nursing uniform. These photos were taken about 1905 in Louisiana so it was pretty obvious there wasn't a connection to Hitler's Third Reich. I did a little research on the history of the Swastika and it is actually quite interesting.
Here is one of the photos. You can't see it very well in this one but you can see it clearly in the photo I have on my wall. I don't want to take the photo out of the frame to get a good scan of it so you will just have to take my word for it.
You can read more about one of the sisters, Ida (Perry) Faust, HERE. She has an interesting story.
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Wendy & Billy's wedding is finally almost here! For their invitation we continued on with their NYC/ Brooklyn goodness, incorporating all the elements that tell their story. Like a little hidden treasure, you can find a water tower, the Brooklyn Bridge, a pigeon and couple of bikes woven into the intricate pattern carried through out the invitation pieces. Overall, it created a beautiful clean look with a lot more than meets the eye.
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A touch of fabric ribbon for texture and the vintage inspired design was the perfect invitation for baby Sabrina's Baptism. All together it's vintage sweetness. Letterpress by Gilah Press + Design
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- Generally speaking if He wills a thing, it happens as He wills it at the time when He wills it, and in the manner that He wills.
{ When He has decreed something, He says to it only: 'Be!' — and it is.} Sura Ál 'Imrán 3:47
- Through the asbáb, the means that let things happen on earth, with the idhn (Divine Permission) or the irádah (Divine Will) of Allah (swt). The doctrine* of Tawhíd (the Oneness & Uniqueness of Allah) will inform the believer of the obvious - that the means must not and cannot be confounded with the cause: which is God - Allah. The means include the angels and man himself, or anything else in creation or in the invisible world.
* from Latin doctrina teaching, learning, from doctor teacher, from doc
- But we need to remember:
{ He* cannot be questioned as to what He does, while they will be questioned. } * = Allah, Sura al-Anbiya' 21:23
RIT: The Refutation of him who attributes direction to Allah
Author(s): Qadi Ibn Jahbal; Dr Gibril Haddad; Shaykh Sulayman Wahbi al-Ghawji al-Albani;
link: http://www.aqsapublications.com
FIS: The Four Imams and Their Schools, by Gibril Fouad Haddad
L I N K S: Notes On Religion
TEXTS REG. A L L A H (swt): About Allah (swt) [this page]


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Guide on Business Degree Programmes : Difference between MBA and MSC in Management
MBA or MSC in Managment . Which degree is better? Which of the two degrees promise a good career? Which is more advantageous and beneficial? Although both are postgraduate courses, there are many differences between them in terms of eligibility, focus and personal development.
It is generally seen that most European countries offer courses like MSc and PGDM, while the US offers more MBA courses, along with a few MA in management subjects.
The MSc degree is offered only in a particular discipline, which means that it will only deal with one main subject or specialisation of business. So then, MSc is the perfect choice if one wishes to pursue a career in a specialized field, such as finance.
An MBA, on the other hand, is an all-encompassing degree. During the last semester, you can choose to deal with one specific aspect of business, but throughout the rest of the course you will still learn about various business fundamentals. While MSc is extremely specific, an MBA is wide-reaching and goes into details about how businesses function in general.
MSC in Management
These programs are postgraduate studies for people who are fresh out of undergraduate courses and want to enhance their knowledge on a scientific level. To pursue an MSc in a particular field, the student needs to have an undergraduate degree in that same field as MSc is a continuation on a more advanced level in that specific field. The subjects are less vocational than in case of MBA and students are not required to have any previous work experience. The course structure will look at the 'theory of management', and will focus on developing analytical and technical skills. Typically, MSc courses in management are taught over one year. The employment opportunities an MSc opens include becoming a scientist, teacher, researcher, or consultant.
MBA Degree
The MBA is a business course designed for students with some work experience. MBA degrees help develop leadership skills. Most of the times there are a few prerequisites for enrolling in an MBA programme. Candidates must have work experience (usually around three years), and pass relevant MBA entrance examination such as GRE or GMAT. An MBA can be studied in a number of different formats like full-time, part-time, and online. This degree provides crucial networking opportunities and connections within new industries. MBA programmes taught at foreign universities keep evolving in order to keep up with the demands of modern business scenarios, and most courses focus on international business and global management challenges.
Which degree you choose should also be based on what field you will choose to enter after finishing the course. If you want to enter into any type of business, then MBA is the preferred option. There may come a time in future when you want to branch out on your own and start your enterprise. An MSc, unfortunately, isn't going to help you with this. If you plan to stick to one field throughout your career, then MSc is the better choice as you will be the expert in the field.


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This is just a tiny bit misleading. While Zebedee features, the main focus of this post is the wonderful, surreal and generally fabulous Magic Roundabout. The show has a deserved cult following and brightened the early days of my childhood hugely. It ran for five minutes before the news every evening and was reliably entertaining.
It has a slightly bizarre history, which greatly amuses me. The BBC bought the original children's series from France and somehow the animations arrived but the scripts did not. To compensate for this (and possibly to avoid translation costs), the BBC decided to transmit the episodes with new scripts created by Eric Thompson (father of Emma Thompson). He knew no French.
What you get with The Magic Roundabout is therefore Eric's unique take on what he thought was happening and bears precisely no resemblance to the French version of the stories. He also narrated, doing all the voices from Dougal the acerbic dog to Ermintrude the singing cow via Brian the snail, Dylan the stoner rabbit, Mr Rusty the tricycling gardener, Florence the human girl and Zebedee himself.
The Magic Roundabout was treated to a remake in 2005 which I admit I've not seen. Somehow I just don't want to. I loved the original and don't even dare watch the originals on Youtube in case they disappoint.
|Zebedee. Guardian of the magic garden and its even more magical roundabout.
It was a joyous series. The plots were random to say the least and mattered hardly at all. The real joy was the characters. Every one was clear as crystal and while they were funny apart, together they were hilarious. Brian's cheery Mary Sunshine attitude invariably drove acerbic Dougal to the brink of insanity. Florence was the voice of sweet reason, and Mr Rusty worried about the magic garden. Ermintrude addressed everyone as "dear heart" and had wild fantasies about being a bus (among other things) while Dylan slumped under a tree in a stupor occasionally twanging his guitar.
At the end of every episode, just as everything was about to spiral out of control, Zebedee would appear and announce that it was time for bed. It was a little bit of heaven at the end of every weekday.
That seems like an appropriate place to leave the A-Z challenge 2012. Thank you for joining me on this alphabetic oddyssey.


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C4RH: Taking a page (and money) from the abortion lobby
Elisa Sangalang
June 6, 2012
Sharpless: Not to sound naïve, but how do you open an illegal clinic?
Kissling: You find a doctor who is willing to do abortions. That's the first thing, find a doctor. Now they already had the doctor for Mexico. And you rent a space and you start doing abortions.
Sharpless: What keeps the government from shutting it down?
Kissling: What kept the government from shutting down illegal providers in the United States of America prior to 1970? Bribes and a lack of political will. There's never been a real political will to stop illegal abortions.
Now here's an interview with Melgar in a 2006 video produced by Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy:
Sharmeen: Obaid Chinoy: Dr. Melgar said that faced with stories like Remy's, she had no option but to give advice on abortions, despite what the law said.
Junice Melgar: Eventually, we give them information about the safe abortion. We also warn them against unsafe practices that could kill them.
Chinoy: But you.. But you know of service providers -- safe service providers -- who would look after these poor women and give them a proper abortion?
Melgar: Yes. I think most women's NGOs would have contact. I think if you really are pro-women you would have contact to these services that are underground.
In a country like the Philippines where corruption is rampant at all levels of government, the Melgars of the world could operate without much opposition, and have. Like two peas in a pod, Kissling and Melgar are so attuned to each other that they even collaborated on a statement in 2004 addressed to the Holy See and titled "The Holy See and the Convention on the Rights of the Child in the Republic of the Philippines". Like most pro-choice activists, both women see the church as an institution that has run its course and needs to go. Kissling has dedicated most of her life doing her best to make this happen. In an interview with Mother Jones in 1991, she reveals that she has "spent twenty years looking for a government that [she] could overthrow without being thrown in jail. I finally found one in the Catholic church." Agitprop specialist Carlos Celdran might have fared better had he taken a page or two from Frances Kissling.
In 1984, Kissling hit the jackpot when Catholics for Choice took out a full page ad in the New York Times, speaking of plurality on the issue of abortion among the Catholic faithful. Prior to this, their funding was a measly $20,000 a year, mostly from the Unitarian Universalists, but the ad catapulted the dissident group to notoriety and money began pouring in like never before. That Catholics for Choice has been repeatedly denounced by the US bishops became further incentive for moneyed anti-life organizations to support the group.
In 2007, Kissling stepped down from her throne and handed the reins to long-time fan and sycophant Jon O'Brien. O'Brien has prepared well for the position, having been a spokesperson and information officer for the Irish Family Planning Association and program manager for the International Planned Parenthood Federation in London prior to his appointment at Catholics for Choice.
Both Kissling and O'Brien have developed quite the arsenal in their work at Catholics for Choice, and funding increases through the years have enabled them to train dissident Catholic groups around the globe. The Philippine C4RH and passage of the Philippine RH bill have been special pet projects for O'Brien, who sees the "challenges" the Catholic Church presents as similar to those he had to deal with in his native Ireland. Since taking over at Catholics for Choice, he has nurtured dissident Catholics, meeting with them in the US at least once a year and even coming to Manila for a training workshop in November 2009. A $10,000 grant isn't pocket change after all. He met with leaders Luz Francess "Bicbic" Chua and Magdalena Lopez in the US in 2010. Chua and Lopez had the special privilege of paying a visit to Planned Parenthood Columbia Willamette's spanking new facilities built that year to accommodate the organization's administrative headquarters.
Planned Parenthood, of course, is known worldwide as the foremost provider of abortion services. Funded by mostly US taxpayer money and private donations from anti-life organizations, Planned Parenthood then turns around and donates money to building more abortuaries locally and internationally. Both Likhaan and Catholics for Choice have been beneficiaries of Planned Parenthood's "generosity".
In the interest of helping C4RH's quest to pass the RH bill, Catholics for Choice has spoonfed them anti-Catholic articles and other materials to continue the work of attacking the Church. C4RH training graduates like Elizabeth Angsioco give the material extra mileage as she posts her regular weekly Catholic bashes at Manila Standard Today. Individually and as a group, they continue to reinterpret church teaching to suit their purposes, and make sure they do it loudly to convince people that it's the official Catholic position, even when it's not. Hence the fallacious argument that having as few as two children via contraception and sterilization is also "pro-life" as it is "pro-quality of life", disregarding the efficacy and benefits of Natural Family Planning. The $75,000 received by Catholics for Choice from the Wallace Global Fund in 2009 to promote RH in the Philippines, specifically for "opposition research" is well-utilized indeed.
Why, the reader may ask, would Catholics do this? The answer is simple. Stubbornly clinging to the name "Catholic" puts these dissident pro-choicers in the unique position of being able to attack the Church in ways that anti-Catholic or secular sources cannot. They can vilify the church they supposedly love without being branded anti-religion. Unfortunately, it is a strategy that works on the confused and/or poorly-catechized Catholics, and provides avowed atheists and other non-Catholic entities the oomph they need to further the anti-life cause, even and especially in the face of church opposition. By redefining the authentic Catholic definition of conscience, and by working to prevent conscience clauses from being passed, they ensure that this generation of Catholics and subsequent generations further lose their sense of direction.
In the global arena, Catholics for Choice has campaigned heavily to downgrade the Holy See's Permanent Observer status at the United Nations. Locally, this means that Catholics for Choice and its trained minions has and will continue to undermine Church authority, with the ultimate goal of eliminating its influence on the culture at large.
Interestingly, there is an item on which C4RH and Catholics for Choice don't seem to see eye to eye. While C4RH insists that the RH bill isn't about abortion, Jon O'Brien professes that "access to safe and legal abortion will always be necessary, no matter what preventative measures are available. Contraception fails, people get carried away, fetal anomalies occur, women's circumstances change." Or perhaps, as history has shown in most countries, legalized contraception is only the first step. Legalized abortion can always follow shortly thereafter, and has.
Catholics for Choice, and consequently, Catholics for RH, operate on the premise that Church teaching should change with the times. They will continue to do everything in their power to bring about that change. So far, they have failed in this mission. They may have a long list of arguments against Church teaching, but all of these boil down to two: 1) most Catholics do not agree with Church teaching on contraception and abortion, and therefore the Magisterium doesn't hold the final authority on these and 2) the priests have not been preaching about these things from the pulpit so it must be that the Vatican actually agrees with the pro-choice position. What these pretend Catholics conveniently choose to forget are the millions of Catholics who try to live their faith, fully and authentically, every single day. Disagreement with the Church on Her teachings doesn't make the dissenter right, it just makes the dissenter a dissenter.
Fifth Progress Report: Abortion. The All-Party Oireachtas Committee on the Constitution. Dublin 2000. Web.
Harvey, Brett. "The Morning After." Mother Jones Magazine May 1989: 27+. Web.
"Frances Kissling." Interview by Rebecca Sharpless. Population and Reproductive Health Oral History Project. Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College. Web.
Warwick, Donald P. "Foreign Aid for Abortion." The Hastings Center 10.2 (1980): 30-37. Print.
City of Guilt. Dir. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. Perf. Junice Demeterio-Melgar.
Likhaan, Child Justice League and Catholics for a Free Choice. The Holy See and the Convention on the Rights of the Child in the Republic of the Philippines. Rep. Web.
Theodorou, Naomi. "Hail Frances." Mother Jones Magazine May-June 1991: 11. Web.
Woods, Jr., Thomas E. The War on Faith: How Catholics for Choice Seeks to Undermine the Catholic Church. Rep. New York: Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, 2009. Web.
National Catholic Conference of Bishops. Abortion and "Free Choice": Statement of the NCCB Committee on Doctrine. Nov. 1984. Web.
United States Catholic Conference of Bishops. NCCB/USCC President Issues Statement on Catholics for a Free Choice. May 2000. Web.
Lopez, Magdalena M. Philippines' Achievements Year One. Report to IIE-LDM. 2009. Web.
"Annual Report." Planned Parenthood. Web. 03 Jan. 2012.
Simon, Stephanie. "Planned Parenthood: By the Numbers." Business News & Financial News - The Wall Street Journal - Wsj.com. The Wall Street Journal. Web. 03 Jan. 2012.
Banerjee, Neela. "Backing Abortion Rights While Keeping the Faith." The New York Times February 27, 2007. Web.
Form 990. Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax. Planned Parenthood, 2007. Web.
Catholics for Choice. Catholic Organizations Call on Secretary Sebelius to Include Contraception as a Preventive Method under Affordable Care Act (ACA). 26 July 2011. Web.
O'Brien, Jon. "Reducing the Need for Abortion." Conscience Magazine 30.1 (2011). Web.


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Here's a knight.
* One question, Wolfy: I'm having difficulty deciding on which combat skill to give him.
My idea for him is that, rather than the 'standard' knightly hack-n-slash, he fights in a manner a bit more akin to fencing.
The focus on, quick, light cuts and thrusts (i.e. speed) would suggest Finesse Combat. Also, he would often fight dual-wielding a dagger in his off-hand, and I'm not sure whether that would fall under "unconventional and sometimes underhanded methods".
On the other hand, Noble combat explicitly mentions dueling, something he is meant to be very good at.
Any opinion? (If I went with Finesse Combat, I'd probably switch one point of Strength into Agility.)
Alec Syrion
Full Name: Sir Alexandre Syrion
Aliases: Alec, Alec the Acrobat (derogatory), Alec the Bladedancer (either derogatory or admiring, depending on the speaker), Alec the Duelist
Sex: Male
Race: Human (Achæan)
Birthplace: Illikon, Achæan Empire
Affinity: Earth
Deity: Athena, Ares, Nike
Faction: Achæan Empire
Talents: (Noble/Finesse) Combat*, Acrobatics, Education (Common Imperial), Balanced Soul
Strength: 8
Agility: 8
Constitution: 5
Perception: 6
Intelligence: 7
Spirit: 6
Luck: 2
Fairly tall, at 5'10'', Alec is well-built—if slightly on the leaner side. His somewhat boyish features are a little on the thin side, and overall quite handsome. A vertical scar marks the right side of his face—cutting straight down through his eyebrow before continuing for a short ways below the eye, although sparing the eye itself—lending a bit of a rakish cast to his features. His naturally wavy hair is a deep, dark brown, though slight coppery glints can be seen in it in the proper light; he keeps it at a short-to-middling length. His eyes are a clear gray.
He wears a long sleeved shirt, and pants, of silver-trimmed midnight-blue cloth, and black leather boots. Over the shirt he wears a black gambeson; and over the gambeson he wears a long-sleeved shirt of chainmail; the mail hangs nearly to his knees, and is split front and back below the waist for horse-riding. Over the armor he wears a thin, long-sleeved, silver-trimmed midnight-blue surcoat bearing his family's coat of arms: a rampant, copper-red enfield on a silver shield. Black leather greaves protect his shins, and he wears black leather gloves that each have a patch of chainmail sewn into them to protect the backs of his hands. He also wears a relatively open steel helmet.
He wears a silver signet ring bearing his family's seal—although he most often wears it on a chain around his neck, and not on his finger.
His primary weapon is a long, slender, elegant sidesword. In addition, he carries a long-bladed parrying dagger, and a small steel buckler that can be carried on his belt when he's not using it.
His horse is a large draft-cross mare named Lily: black with a white splotch on her forehead.
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• Clothing
• Steel chainmail shirt
• Leather armor (greaves)
• Surcoat of house colors
• Steel sidesword
• Steel parrying dagger
• Water and Rations
• Armor: chainmail-backed leather gloves, steel helmet
• Small steel buckler
• Silver signet ring
OTHER POSSESSIONS: Black draft-cross mare.
Born in Illikon, the sole son and heir of the Syrion family, knighthood was Alec's birthright—and expected of him. His father even managed to get him a pageship, and subsequent squireship, in Gryphon Roost with the prestigious Kallistos family.
However, he never took any of this for granted. Being a rather new noble family—his grandfather having been a cataphract in the Legions before he was knighted for heroic efforts in combat—some of the other, much older noble families looked down on him and his family, which left him with the fierce urge to surpass them, so as to throw their haughty attitudes back in their faces. As such, he was a wondrous and dedicated student of all knightly skills and, after having fought in battle several times as a squire, was knighted at only 18 years old.
In the more than a decade since, he has fought for the Empire numerous times, providing exemplary service—marred, perhaps, only by his predilection for cutting some of his fellow nobles to ribbons in honor duels.
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While generally good-natured and easy going, if slightly on the laconic side at times, Alec—frequently the target of scorn or derision from knights or other nobles from far older families, for both the newness of his family's noble status, as well as his elegant and 'un-knightly' manner of fighting—can be somewhat prickly when it comes to matters of honor. As such, he has fought—and won—a rather large number of duels against his fellow nobles. However, with the sole exception of his very first duel—a messy, protracted affair responsible for the scar on his face, which he won by the skin of his teeth—he has avoided killing his opponents, feeling that a living, heavily scarred opponent makes for a better object lesson than a neatly-skewered dead one.
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September 10th is World Suicide Prevention Day. The Little Blog of Letting Go, the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) and the World Health organization (WHO) are encouraging people to light a candle near a window at 8 PM to show support for suicide prevention, to remember a loved one lost through suicide, and for the survivors of suicide.
Lighting a Candle near a Window at 8 PM offers people who cannot participate in a World Suicide Prevention Day event the opportunity to observe the Day in a private and personal way. Visit the official website here: IASP – World Suicide Prevention Day
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Do you have a space where you are inspired by the people around you? Do you have a space where you feel free to create with no distractions? What kind of space does that look like for you?
I have been dreaming about developing my sewing skills and connecting with other people around SLO who share my obsession with fiber arts and creative energy in general. At first I thought the answer would be to have a craft night at my house, invite some crafty people over and cook some food. While it was a good time, the creative energy and high productivity that I crave wasn't there.
I want to create a space similar to my partner, Scott's sign painting meetings that he attends every Tuesday night. His group is full of passionate and skilled sign painters that meet once a week in a badass warehouse where they can create openly with plenty of space and no distractions. I have been determined to find a space that people can come and work on fiber arts projects, free of distractions and full of creative vibes and passionate people.
My partner Scott turned me onto SLO Makerspace, a warehouse full of creative people and incredible tools! SLO MakerSpace is a community resource dedicated to education and creativity. It is an open, collaborative machine/wood/electronics shop and craft center where one can build projects; teach and take classes; and build networks connecting with local people and resources. I set up a work trade with them so I can use the warehouse whenever I want. We are going to host a Stitch and Bitch every monday night at the warehouse and I am so STOKED! Makerspaces are popping up in cities across the nation gifting people everywhere with a space to create. Click here to find a makerspace in your area!
Surrounding myself with creative passionate people will definitely make my art grow to new heights! I am excited to share my new project with you all next week!
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In yesterday's post on How to Host: Holiday Potluck, I told y'all I made five small flower arrangements using two thrift store bud vases, two promotional glasses that came with some lemoncello I purchased at Christmas, and an old candle jar. Here's a tutorial on how I made my bud vase arrangements:
- 4 bud vases and one smaller, short container for flowers that don't have very long stems or ones that are broken off. An old jelly jar or candle jar would be perfect, just scrub off any non-attractive labeling (i.e. nutritional information).
- Scissors for cutting and trimming flowers (I just used some regular office scissors)
- 3 types of flowers - all small to medium sized blooms (one fluffy medium sized, one fluffy small sized, and one non-fluffy bloom)
For the flowers, I went over to Safeway and picked up one bunch of lavender pom poms (fluffy medium sized), pink and white mini-carnations (fluffy small sized), and yellow tulips (non-fluffy bloom). The pom poms were the base for the flowers and the carnations and tulips were used as accents and fillers. Although I love big flowers, you are going to have more trouble arranging large bloom flowers in a bud vase because (1) if it's a hydrangea for instance, it's going to take up the entire vase and (2) the weight of the flower might cause the vase to actually tip over.
You can pick flowers that work with your color scheme in your dining or living room, the theme (i.e. pastels for spring), have lots of contrast (like my arrangements), and you can never go wrong with all white. Also, look for flowers that will give you the most bang for your buck. I believe the huge bunch of pom poms was $4.99. Although I could have bought a ton of mini carnations at about $2 each, they don't have as much volume as the pom poms. The tulips were the most expensive at 10 stems for $5.99, but they are my favorite flower and I love the contrast with the other two colors.
Since our event wasn't until Sunday, I bought my flowers on a Friday and made sure to look for carnations and tulips that were still mostly closed. I wanted to arrange them ahead of time because I found out that Safeway's last shipment of flowers for the week comes on Fridays and since it was Easter, I worried about them selling out of the best looking flowers if I waited until Saturday night. Ask your florist when their shipments come in so you can always get the best selection, but try not to buy them more than 48 hours in advance of the event. Also, make sure to arrange them immediately so that the flowers have time to open up and don't get dehydrated.
|Beautiful blooms and my two lemoncello glasses to the right
I followed similar steps that I described in my post on styling low flower arrangements. Start by putting some powdered plant food in each container (flowers usually have a packet attached to each bunch, but you can also ask the floral department for a packet or two if you don't see any attached), but hold off adding water until the end. Water is much easier to put in than trying to sprinkle the food packet into a vase once the flowers are in it.
I cut the flowers down to fit the depth of the vases and stripped them of all their leaves (leaves below the water line make for short lived flowers and really yucky cloudy water). For bud vases, it's nice for the flowers to have different heights, so don't cut everything the same length. Start with your fluffiest flowers first, in my case - pom poms, and divvy them among your four bud vases so that they all appear to have the same amount of flowers. Obviously some flowers will have bigger blooms, so just counting them out evenly won't work in this situation. Next, layer in your smaller fluffy flower, I used mini carnations, to start filling in gaps. Finally, use your non-fluffy flower to add pops of color or extra interest to your arrangement and fill in any final gaps, I used tulips. Arrange the flowers so the center of the arrangement is the tallest point and it gradually gets shorter on the sides. For example, you wouldn't want a really tall flower positioned on the wall of the bud vase because the arrangement will look lopsided. Save tall blooms for the center. You will probably wind up with flowers too short to fit in your bud vases, so arrange them in your small jelly jar or candle container for a really low arrangement. This is a really easy way to get one more arrangement and since it is so small, it doesn't take any real skill to arrange it. For our holiday potluck, I put mine in the bathroom.
|Not only do I arrange flowers, I also fold laundry...and then leave it in the background of my styling posts as evidence.
|Candle jar flower arrangement using leftover blooms
Bud vases are super easy to arrange, but there are a few things to keep in mind. For the most part, bud vases look really bad with only a few scrawny flowers in them, so they still need lots of flowers to fill them in. Second, make sure you have very little stem showing at the top of your bud vase. It will look more like a professionally done flower arrangement when you place blooms to strategically cover up the stems at both the top of the bud vase and throughout the arrangement to cover up the taller stems in the center. Also, don't make them too tall, you'll risk toppling them over and if you use them as a table centerpiece it may be hard to see around once everyone is seated.
|View from the top...looks like loads of flowers!
After I finished arranging the flowers, I went back and added lukewarm water to the vases (just take your index finger and hold the stems to one side while the faucet is running. You'll get water all over the vase, but it's much easier to dry it off than to try to find a spot to pour water into each vase.). You don't want to shock the flowers with cold water, it would be like throwing yourself under a cold shower. Post-party, keep an eye on your water levels to lengthen the life of your arrangements. I refilled my vases twice over the past 11 days that I've had them and they are still going strong!
Bud vases are an extremely affordable way to put flowers on your table that still have a big impact. I only spent $13.74 on these arrangements and I put them all over the apartment to really brighten up the space for our potluck. I really think it's these small touches that really elevate your party...even if it is a potluck in a young married couples apartment. It shows that you put time and thought into making a beautiful event for you and your guests to enjoy. Creating your own arrangements using the containers you already have and using grocery store flowers makes this a super affordable upgrade for any party. Anyone else tried a bud vase arrangement? Let us in on any secret tips you have!


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Something that's become popular in the past few years is Electron. If you don't know what Electron is it basically allows you to wrap a web application in a Chrome based window and have it run "natively" on Windows, Mac OS X and GNU/Linux distributions, if you want to know more go read up on it yourself.
Now you're probably wondering where I'm going with this. Well I think this is by far one of the worst things to have happened to systems development, despite being marketed as native it really should be "native". Yes it wraps around to give you access to native APIs such as Windows' notification system and such but at heart all Electron is is a Google Chrome window without a navigation bar, you could literally just launch chrome with the –app directive.
I can kind of get why you'd want to use HTML and CSS to make UIs for desktop programs (believe me, XAML is cute but can be a bitch to debug), it's relatively easy to work with, does a lot for you and doesn't overcomplicate. Despite that you should be challenging yourself by learning something new instead of just shoving stuff you do already into an environment it shouldn't be applied in. A new challenge and the knowledge that comes with it is never bad!
Not to mention the ridiculous amount of memory you'd need to run multiple Electron based applications at once, people are using the excuse of 'People have a lot of memory nowadays anyway' as an excuse to not memory manage their software properly which by far is the most dumb thing of all. Just because there's a lot of space doesn't mean all of it should be used, you need space to move around as well. I used to frequent a Slack organisation but basically just gave up on going to it because the application made my computer completely kill itself, and my computer is pretty decent. Considering that writing this same program in C#, or any compiled language really, it would run a million times better I just said 'fuck it' and stopped bothering. Now lets get the –app directive of Chrome back into this, if you'd use this instead of the "native" electron application and conserve memory space by using the already active instance(s) as far as that's possible with Chrome anyway.
Now to hop onto a more controversial related side topic. The current situation with Chrome's dominance feels a lot to me like the situation with Internet Explorer back in the 90s, granted I wasn't actually there for that but you can make a few links to this and ActiveX which was finally fully deprecated and removed with the dawn of Microsoft Edge. Of course Electron isn't half as retarded as ActiveX was but certain links are there. That's how I feel about it anyway, feel free to call me retarded in the comments.
With that you can probably interchange Electron with Node.js for most of this post although Node is a tad less ridiculous, still would never seriously use either though which means my resources wouldn't be the ones being wasted in the end. I still don't really get why people would voluntarily choose to write Javascript when they have the countless other options.
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We Dared to Conceive...
...a radical plan: Find a way to look back at how our beloved Playa may once have been, so a window was opened to one fanciful possibility of the past.
A primeval jungle surrounds the Playa as it was long long ago, a great lake. On the edges here and there are hot springs and geysers, some of which remain even until today. Steam drifts from them out across the water in the same way the dust we know so well does today. Thick mats of vegetation float upon the surface, some large and strong enough to hold sizable structures. Other mats are less substantial. You must pick your path across the maze of them; one wrong step and you drop below into briny water. Who knows what else has slipped below? What rests or lives there awaiting its genesis, ready to emerge in the next stage of our growth?
YOU - bloggers and social sharers - spread the word of this upcoming event! Tell your readers, so those among them who want to, will know that they can, participate and be part of this community of fire-inspired creatives. Use Burn2 and #burn2.
YOU - artists, builders, creative minds and hands - we invite you to claim your piece of prehistoric playa. Find your place, let the ancient soup teem with a riot of forms, colours and shapes. Plot signups are ready! Oh, and did we mention, plots are FREE! Begin the genesis with us.
YOU - musicians and DJs, performers of every kind - we invite you to take the stage in this weekend of reverse evolution. Bring your tunes, particles, movements and voices to touch hearts and minds and bring us all together in rhythm. Sign up on the self-signup sheet here.
YOU - people lovers, friends, inclusionists - populate the welcome area and all through the steamy expanse of water, mud and lava, to draw in those curious and even adventurous visitors and let them step through to a steamily distant past of our playa. Signup for your Greeter shifts today!
YOU - not least of all - Burners and visitors, come to experience a playa before time. You will soon find there are no bystanders, you will become part of the Primordial spectacle.
Burnal Equinox: Balance
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There are a few set events we have each year on the playa and we are coming up to the first for this year. The following is a little bit of poetry you may like to add some more stanzas to, as a way to show what things would interest you in the event. The best rhyming couplets of 9 syllables will be added on, and maybe read on stage at some point.
The Equinox is fast approaching
and balanced eggs are good for poaching
Artists old, and especially new
Answer the call, come Home we want you
Opposites make for level scales
Let imaginations weave their tales
A time for community once more
Friends come together step to the fore...
For those wanting some further details of Equinox on the playa this year, here we go:
- DATES: Friday 27th to Sunday 29th of March
- WINNING THEME: "Balance"
Equinox is the time when the day and night are of equal length, it is also the start of both Spring and Autumn. In the virtual world we can mix all things together, so we can have bats flying down to sip the nectar from the new spring flowers in the daytime, or autumn leaves transforming into butterflies at night. As always our only limitation is our imagination.
The really important bit: We want YOU.
- Builders, experienced or new and barely able to place a block (we have people to help you learn to build).
- Artists of all kinds photographers, painters, builders, poets, dancers, DJ's, musicians, designers, and ideasmen, show us what you have, and be part of it all.
This year we are trying hard to take all into account, welcome all time zones and all parts of the globe. With this in mind we like to remember that while Equinox is when day and night are in equal measure, it is also both Spring and Autumn/Fall at the same time with the Northern and Southern hemispheres. So what does Balance mean to you? Don't just give us your ideas (although at least that is good too), but join in and help make some of them happen. In the spirit of balance, experienced and inexperienced, long standing members and brand new additions to the community are welcome and encouraged to take a part.
If you have an idea, want to help, or offer yourself on the altar of.... hmm, don't think we are allowed to do that one, anyway, contact us. Send a note with any details of how you would like to be a part, or add to the poem to Huntress Catteneo, iSkye Silverweb, or any team member you know and feel comfortable with that can present for you.
Once again, we bring our unique style of winter hilarity to the playa, with snow and ice covering the dusty ground and Burners' visions of the season scattered around. Santalarity is BURN2's decommodification event, the antithesis of the typical rushed holiday season focused on profits and buying, on unrealistic expectations and joy found in aisle three.
Instead we ask, "What's in the Box?" What do we want to give? We invite you to come to the playa, to observe artists' interpretations of these questions, to ice skate, dance, drum and be present when we Burn the Box. Before the Box is burned messages left by visitors to the playa will be read, which shall express what they would like to give. To give without expectation of return. To give for the pure joy of giving.
Santalarity will be a 24-hour event, opening on Saturday, 13th December at 10:00 AM SLT/PST. The Lamplighters will kick off the event with an initial drumming. The Box will Burn on the 13th at 12:00 PM SLT/PST and again at 8:00 PM SLT/PST.
Artists and builders are invited to apply to build on plots to the theme, by submitting an application at http://burn2.org/santalarityplots2014 - plots are free.
DJs and live performers interested in participating during the event can sign up using the form at http://burn2.org/santalarityperformance2014 and if there are questions about performance scheduling, contact BURN2 Performance Lead Larree Quixote inworld.
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The Block – A Bit Of A Filler Episode
The Block looks pretty tough at anytime, but having a father seriously ill and dying must compound the stress. At time he must have felt like quitting. I felt very sorry for him.
Tonight was an episode where we saw the contestants go back to their normal life. Katrina was back in Wagga Wagga looking after the kids. She also revealed that during her time on the show her Crohns Disease was making her ill. The sisters implied no one knew she had it. I don't know whether that included the producers of the show. She must have been in quite a lot of pain at times. She talks to news.com.au on how it affected her.
Polly and Waz continued with their quest for sainthood with going back down to Melbourne to help out their builder Shiran and his wife Cheree who was ill. They also went and visited sick kids in hospital. I don't think they performed any miracles…..yet.
The only couple not surrounded by tragedy were Josh and Jenna who continue to be mega focused and are renovating their own house. Clearly Josh and Keith have broken bread and they have hired Keith to help them.
Tomorrow night another challenge – but what will be the prize? $10,000 off their reserve price might get them motivated, but I doubt it will be that. Maybe a Corolla?
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- 1 Carmen { 08.16.11 at 9:39 pm }
How adorable were josh and jenna's dogs! They were so little!
- 2 AngelSN86 { 08.16.11 at 11:05 pm }
The challenge prize could be to pick the order of auctions on auction day. As in whether their place is 1st, 2nd, 3rd or last. Or another advertising prize.
So, I'm guessing Thursday night's episode will be all about showing the open inspections then. I could not work out how they were going to fill another 3 eps before the auction on Sunday but if Wednesday night is a challenge and Friday has the usual block unlocked thing, then Thursday might be open inspections. I'm assuming the Block Unlocked eps will have the comments on the gardens and maybe some overall comments from the judges about the houses and which one they think will win.
I honestly believe that any of the houses has the potential to win, depending on the buyers. But I'm leaning towards Josh & Jenna or Rod & Tania. I think Josh and Jenna will get the highest sale price, but it will depend on how high their reserve price is as to whether they will get the win. They were the smarter ones to pick that house though, so hopefully they don't get penalised too much for that. And the other houses have features that theirs doesn't, like the fireplaces and city views etc so hopefully their reserve price isn't too much higher. I think Katrina & Amie have over-customised their house and they've made too many structural changes that reduce flexibility. The backyard pit and the second room (the office set-up) are prime examples. Yes, they may appeal to some buyers, but I think they are more likely to turn off a lot of buyers. So they have really narrowed their market. Rod & Tania's house has some elements that aren't really functional for actually living in them. Like the shag carpet that will be hell to keep clean, the lack of storage in the bathroom along with the weird sink and the couch that is more for looks rather than comfort. Its not really a couch that you can lay back and watch telly on, or snuggle with your partner or kids.
- 3 sue { 08.17.11 at 6:56 am }
I think Josh & Jenna did the no storage thing in the bathrooms too- I seem to recall they had free standing style basins etc. Very unpractical, and that basin/sink Rod & Tania put in their bathroom was revolting- colour and function!! well, for me at least
- 4 some random { 08.17.11 at 10:55 am }
I found last nights ep quite heartwarming, rod talking about his dad, polly and waz going down to melbourne to help shiran and heartkids, and josh and jenna NOT, i repeat, NOT arguing! I actually didn't like josh and jennas facade, i thought it was bland, imagine on a cloudy day, it would just fade right in to the skyline. Rod and Tanias was a little too dark maybe, and i just didn't like Kat and Amie's whole house (apart from living room). Now, polly and waz are my faves, and i am honestly not being biased by saying i thought their facade was the best, tiny house, but the front of their house looked really nice, not too dark, i liked the cream. Anyway, i do not believe J&J have a chance, their reserve price is about 150K more than all the rest http://www.realestateview.com.au/cgi-bin/view.pl?OID=2961137&tp=2sale, a bit much for only a couple more square metres and no city views. I'm bidding R&T for the win and P&W a close second, K&A will be last.


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Moving Forward With Accountable Care Organizations
By Carrie H. Colla, PhD; Elliott S. Fisher, MD, MPH
JAMA Internal Medicine, February 13, 2017
During the past 4 years, we have made great strides in advancing our understanding of the changes that hospitals and physician groups implement in response to changes in payment and how providers perform under alternative payment models. Accountable care organization contracts, one type of alternative payment model, hold groups of health care professionals responsible for the cost and quality of care delivered to patients. Accountable care organization programs attract a diverse array of providers with differing legal and governance structures, varied contracts, and mixed capabilities that span service dimensions. These capabilities may include care management personnel and programs, adoption of advanced analytics (eg, to estimate the risk of hospitalization), or support for shared decision making. On average, ACO patients are spending modestly less on health care services and are associated with improved patient satisfaction and other patient-reported measures, with gains often concentrated in high-need, high-cost populations. Previous exposure to risk-bearing contracts, greater numbers of dually eligible or disabled patients, and higher initial financial benchmarks have been associated with greater savings. At the same time, these results mask variation in performance, with some ACOs saving while others spend over their benchmark following ACO formation. In addition, these modest savings have come at a net cost to the Medicare program (both program costs and shared savings rewards) and, although some quality measures have improved, many have not.
The research presented in this issue of JAMA Internal Medicine provides insights from 3 different ACO payment models: the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), Colorado's Accountable Care Collaborative, and Oregon's Coordinated Care Organizations. All 3 programs show some degree of success, although the results continue to be modest in magnitude.
These findings are relevant to 3 major considerations facing policymakers: (1) concerns about the harms of consolidation, (2) the amount of risk bearing needed to produce changes in behavior, and (3) how to manage potential conflicts between alternative payment models.
Consolidation between clinical providers, such as purchase of physician groups by hospital systems, and striking the proper balance between facilitating clinical integration and limiting market power is a major concern. Many believe that continued survival of independent practices is critical, yet economic incentives favor consolidation due to higher reimbursement for the same service in a hospital-based office compared with a physician office. Hospital-physician group consolidation can also raise prices in less-competitive commercial markets through increased bargaining power vis-à-vis insurers.
Accountable care organizations are defined by their accountability for the cost and quality of care, but the degree of accountability for spending varies dramatically across contracts. The amount of financial risk bearing necessary to achieve behavior change is an important area of inquiry, in part because so little is known. The incentives in most existing alternative payment models, including ACOs, are commonly considered insufficient to result in behavior change.
A third issue concerns potential conflicts between Medicare alternative payment models and the poorly understood interplay of incentives across these reforms. Currently, hospitals retain savings within inpatient-initiated bundles for patients attributed to an MSSP ACO. Although incentivizing value within a bundle, bundled payment models do not eliminate the incentive to provide more bundles. As the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services expands alternative payment models, it is possible that bundled payment programs will undermine overall savings.
In summary, we still have much to learn. Accountable care organizations have been established across diverse market settings, using a multitude of organizational structures and approaches to governance and operations, and this heterogeneity is reflected in the heterogeneity of their performance. The 2 articles published in this issue add to a growing body of evidence on overall performance, several dimensions of quality, and spending. Nevertheless, we know little about the effects of ACOs on patients' health and quality of life. Perhaps most important for ACO leaders and the long-term success of these programs, we know little about the key ACO capabilities that are important to ensuring their success in different organizational or market contexts. Although the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has conducted rigorous evaluations of the Pioneer program, generalizable findings tailored to organizational contexts are few. A long-term commitment to alternative payment model evaluation is necessary to ensure effective, sustainable payment and delivery system reform.
By Don McCanne, M.D.
This lesson on accountable care, from the Dartmouth Institute, shows us that we still have much to learn. The respected authors state that a long-term commitment to alternative payment model evaluation is necessary. In the meantime, "we know little about the key ACO capabilities that are important to ensuring their success in different organizational or market contexts."
We actually do have quite a bit of information, and it is unimpressive. What we cannot do is to allow a protracted course of many years or decades of studying accountable care to distract us from the urgent need to make changes that will ensure that everyone has affordable access to health care while dramatically reducing the profound administrative waste in our system.
The Affordable Care Act made some improvements, but not nearly enough as witnessed by the tens of millions uninsured and underinsured, by the failure to make health care affordable for too many of us, and by the perpetuation of the costly administrative excesses.
The next phase of reform being undertaken by our current Congress seems to be pending enactment of policies that would make markets work better for insurers but at a cost of leaving patients exposed to excessive out-of-pocket spending. They do not seem to be even pretending that accountability in shifting from volume to value is anything more than rhetoric (and the studies to date suggest this is true).
First things first. Let's do what really works – enact a single payer national health program, an improved Medicare for all. It is a far better infrastructure to tease out data that might be used to actually improve quality while containing costs. But let's not stall any longer on enacting the fundamental reform that we really need to make health care affordable for all of us.


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First let me start by saying, I realize the motto for Meat, Inc. is "You don't make friends with salad!" Please send all the nasty e-mails to someone else. You can clearly see that I have bacon wrapped corn and bacon wrapped chicken leg plated with the salad. I might not have even eaten the salad! Alright I did - and it was pretty good! (Don't tell anyone!)
The recipe for this salad is really simple and it takes just a few minutes to prep.
8 cups arugula or baby arugula
2 cucumbers
6-7 medium sized radishes
3 scallions
1/4 cup fresh dill
4 tablespoons sour cream
1/2 teaspoon season salt
Cut the cucumber lengthwise and then cut into 1/4" pieces.
Dice the scallions - white and green parts.
Quarter the radishes. If you have an extra large radish, cut again.
Finely chop the fresh dill.
If you are using large arugula, coarsely chop. If using baby arugula, the size is fine. Baby arugula is a little less spicy but also more readily available.
Mix all the ingredients into a bowl with the sour cream and the season salt and toss. Serve immediately.
The recipe is so simple, you wouldn't think the flavors would be that complex but the spice of the arugula mixed with the slight heat from the scallions, and the bite of the radish really combine will. The dill and the sour cream cool the salad down and create just enough dressing to make it really easy to eat.


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''Fake it until you make it''
No one can ever take your place, there are going to be people that are prettier than you and smarter than you. There are going to be people who have more money than you, but they are not you!
I am here to help you girls and guys gain confidence because I know first-hand that being confident and loving yourself in the society that we live in today is probably one of the hardest things in the world, especially being a woman in this society. You just have so many unrealistic expectations of yourself. So many people that are being idolised nowadays have a lot of plastic surgery and I'm not hating on that. I'm all for that. I'm not hating on plastic surgery, I think that people should do whatever makes them happy. I'm saying not every girl especially teenagers have access to these things. Sometimes just seeing these idols plastered all over you Instagram feed can really put you down, and make you feel like you're useless.
Just because you view the beauty of someone else, doesn't mean there isn't an absence of beauty in yourself. Putting yourself down to praise someone else is not a compliment to anyone. Confidence is like a muscle you must exercise it every single day to make it stronger. Unfortunately, confidence isn't something you're going to gain overnight. It takes time to build the confidence it's taken me years to do so and I still have those days where I feel insecure about myself, but everybody does. Even the Kardashians and the Jenner's have those days, everybody has insecurities. You need to remember that your idols on Instagram or twitter they still have their days, still have insecurities and they still sometimes feel not on fleek. That is one thing with confidence ''you must fake it until you make it''. Until you feel that confidence in yourself you must fake that you are confident. If you constantly thinking negatively about yourself, you are setting yourself up to fail. It's the law of attraction if you want positive outcomes you've got to think positive thoughts, positive vibes and positive energy. How do you expect others to think highly of you if you're negative about yourself and constantly putting yourself down?
Cocky and confidence are two different things there is a fine line drawn between them. Confidence ''I love myself'', Cockiness ''I'm beautiful but she's ugly''. That's the difference between confidence and cockiness, so don't let someone tell you that your cocky because you love yourself. You don't need that negativity or those people in your life. Those people are probably just jealous because they don't have that self-love or self-confidence that you have. Don't be afraid to be selfish or scared to put yourself first because at the end of the day you are number one. If someone tries to tell you that you're selfish just for putting yourself first and your needs and feelings first again you don't need that negativity. You are your main priority just remember that.
You've got to speak up and speak your mind you can't expect people to just know what's going on in your head. You've got to voice your opinion, you've got to voice what you want. In my opinion to truly be a confident person is to own what you do. My biggest pet peeve is when people say ''I can't pull that off'' you will never hear that sentence come out of my mouth. It truly bothers me to hears others say that, what do you mean you can't pull something off? Clothes, for example, the clothes don't wear you, you wear the clothes and you can rock whatever the hell you want! You could wear a bin bag and if you feel confident and good, who cares what anyone else thinks! It only matters how you feel about yourself.


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Reporting from Washington — Positioning herself more and more like a presidential candidate, Sarah Palin issued a lengthy and blistering response to President Obama's State of the Union address late Wednesday, saying that the president had lost the trust of the American people.
"Real leadership is more than just words; it's deeds," the former Alaska governor said in a message published on Facebook. "The president's deeds don't lend confidence that we can trust his words spoken" Tuesday night.
Like many Republicans, Palin equated Obama's call for renewed investment in education, infrastructure and technology as a mandate for ramped-up federal spending. Echoing President Clinton's State of the Union address in 1996, Palin said Obama was telling the public: "The era of big government is here as long as I am, so help me pay for it."
And adding a touch of snark, she said, Obama "dubbed it a "Winning The Future" speech, but the title's acronym seemed more accurate than much of the content."


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Hey, that band on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon makes albums, too! Thoroughly unfuckwitable hip-hop group The Roots will release undun Dec. 6. It's an album that promises to be another wildly ambitious effort for The Roots, with ?uestlove describing it as a concept record that is "band-oriented with an eye on the moody cinematic." The album centers on a character named Redford Stephens, who is "a kid who becomes criminal, but he wasn't born criminal. He's not the nouveau exotic primitive bug-eyed gunrunner like Tupac's character Bishop in Juice … he's actually thoughtful and is neither victim nor hero," says ?uestlove. A single called "Make My" featuring Big K.R.I.T. will be released on iTunes Nov. 1. [via Pitchfork]
UPDATE: Music blog OneThirtyBPM posted a stream of "Make My," which you can hear below.


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Our Mission
Mission Statement
The Thin Blue Line of Michigan is a non profit organization, which exists to provide assistance in the areas of financial, legal, benefit recovery, counseling, funeral stipends, college stipends, medical costs, medical equipment and other areas of hardship to the families of injured, personal illness, disabled or deceased members of the law enforcement community (active & retired), Firefighters, Dispatchers, Corrections, EMT, EMS and Administrative Clerks.
Membership Benefits
• Assistance in benefits reviews, filings for benefits and legal review for injuries you receive while at work or off duty.
• Financial Assistance up to $800.00 per month, if eligible based upon the provision of supporting documents.
• With member donation amounts of $5.00 per pay period (bi-weekly or $10.00 per month) entitles the member to a $25,000.00 Death Benefit and a Custom Will & Living Trust, Pour over Will and more at the expense to the members at the modest cost of $450.00 (General costs between $1,800 to $2,500). Also, donations are Tax Deductible.
• Analyze your families current benefits through a trusted insurance partner.
• For only 33 cents per day, take care of your family & have the knowledge that you are also assisting other Public Safety and/or their families that are in need.
The Thin Blue Line will assist and support the families of injured or deceased Public Safety within the State of Michigan. Whether active or honorably retired, officers and their families are assured that The Thin Blue Line will aid them with financial, emotional, physical, and medical needs that arise upon the occasion of an officer's injury or death.
Providing short term assistance and care to the 19,000 Public Safety officers and their families in the State of Michigan and long term assistance and care to its active members.
Definition of the above mission statement:
Up to 3 months of financial assistance and care and limited legal services to non-contributing members. Up to one year or greater for active contributing members and their families with detailed legal services. Volunteer or committee member of events are not "considered" active donation members.
The Thin Blue Line receives and administers funds according to the guidelines set forth in Section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code.
List of Assisted
Click here for the list of persons, agencies, and families assisted by the Thin Blue Line of Michigan. Note that some cases have been omitted for privacy reasons.


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I made this almond biscotti today and totally nailed it-rocked it-hit a home run. You get the picture. It was a little bit of heaven in my mouth.
Dipped in dark chocolate and then dipped in hot coffee. YES!
Barefoot boy fishing for sea horses.
Love his crossed ankles.
He's been carrying this hammer around with him ever since he saw me use the hammer to hang something on the wall last week. That hammer has been in the bath, been in his crib, gone to the park and into several stores. He loves it. Its kind of like a lovey.
Silly faces. I just want to smooch those lips!


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Hi all, i am new to using Xampp and i have stumbled upon a problem.
- i have win server 2012 and installed Xampp 3.2.2 . I have disabled firewall.
- when i try to connect to xampp x.x.x.x/wordpess from another PC from LAN, the page is not displayed properly and when i click on some on the links access is denied and web address goes to default localhost/wordpress/xxxxxxxx.
i haven't set anything in the configuration files. It's all on default from installation. I have googled a lot but no luck so far.
So i whould be very gratefull if someone can give me some directions or pointers


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Dedigim gibi yagmur camur demeden sizlere her gun yeni bir post yazmaya calisacagim.
As I said whatever are the weather conditions , I' ll try to post new outfits everyday.
Karanlik havalari sevmiyorum ifadesi.
I don't like cloudy weather face.
Urban Outfitters tshirt
H&M skirt
H&M wristbands
Accessorize buckle
Desa shoes
Photos by Jean Baptiste Herrera
Photos by Jean Baptiste Herrera


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Recognising the vital role pharmacists play in providing health care and advice, particularly in rural and regional communities, Charles Sturt University (CSU) established its Pharmacy Program in 1997 to address regional skills shortages.
Since that time, the Pharmacy Foundation has played its own pivotal role by helping to establish suitable facilities at the Wagga Wagga and Orange campuses and providing all-important scholarships for students, along with other initiatives that support CSU's Pharmacy Program.
This is only possible through the generosity of the community, pharmacists, staff, alumni and industry. We thank all our valued donors for their contribution to bringing skilled professionals to our regions.
The Pharmacy Foundation sits within the framework of the Charles Sturt Foundation Trust, a non-profit independent company affiliated to the University oversees scholarships, grants and other CSU priority projects to make a significant difference to the lives of CSU students and communities.
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I'm entering a competition on Divas by Design (please take into account, I'm only twelve!)!
Here are my two entries:
Craft blog: www.creativemindcrafts.blogspot.com
Thursday, 5 May 2011
Entering a Competition! ♥
Until next time something random pops into my head that I decide to share with the world.. Posted by Ruthie at 09:21 Labels: cardmaking
6 comments:
- Jessica Bell said...
They're wonderful! I hope you win! :o)
- 5 May 2011 at 09:53
- Anita said...
Your cards are fabulous. Thanks for joining us in the Divas By Design Challenge this week.
- 5 May 2011 at 20:07
- Cathy said...
12 or not they're beautiful. You do great work!
We're playing tag today. Tara tagged me and I'm tagging you. Come on over and check out the questions if you want to play ;)
- 6 May 2011 at 06:56
- Better is Possible said...
Beautiful. You have talent!
- 7 May 2011 at 11:11
- Ruthie said...
Thank you very much for all your lovely comments!
- 7 May 2011 at 12:41
- Dawn said...
Beautiful work, age is imaterial hon. Thanks for joining us at DBD x
- 10 May 2011 at 08:44
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This Chevy Camaro was built to look like a capable competitor vehicle in "Death Race." We think they did a good job, but where's the napalm?
2008's Death Race was not nearly the box office force some analysts expected, but the film did earn more money abroad than it did in the U.S. More than a few of those movie-goers must have been from Russia, because a group of students there labored dilligently to create a Camaro that could be used to compete against the film's hero, Jensen "Frankenstein" Ames.
The show car was introduced at the Moscow Tuning and DreamCar Show, an exhibition that just opened in Russia. Designers of the car all attend the Moscow Arts and Industrial Institute. They bolted machine guns and RPGs on top of a 1975 Chevy Camaro, used matte-grey paint, modded out the side windows, and added ground effects all around. They clearly dedicated a lot of work to the armor plated sections in the front and back, which do have a significant resemblance to the vehicles in the film. We're not sure who the lady is that's stomping on the hood, but (sadly) she definitely does not resemble the Elizabeth Case character, played by Natalie Martinez.
Unfortunately, the three-day show ended over the weekend. Hopefully, this car will be brought to other shows around Russia, and worldwide.