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On the 1st Day of Christmas, Topline gave to me…
A chance to win a Stanley stove!
And on the 2nd day, and the 3rd day and…
Win a Stove A Day for 12 Days – Prizes Worth €15,000
Once again Ireland's largest DIY retailer Topline is holding their 12 Stoves of Christmas giveaway.
Each day from the 1st to the 12th December, you can enter for the chance to win that day's prize – a voucher for the Stanley stove of your choice. The prizes increase every couple of days – starting at €750 and rising to the grand prize of €3,000 on Saturday 12th December.
This voucher can be used in any of Topline's 160 affiliated stores around the country and you can enter once per day for each of the 12 days.
Go to www.topline.ie/12stovesofchristmas to enter and for Terms and Conditions…
Tell them what they could win…
Here are our selection of the best Stanley stoves on offer from Topline.
1Stanley Oisin 6.4kW Non-Boiler
2Stanley Ardmore 12kW Boiler Stove
The small but attractive Ardmore boiler stove can heat up to 6 radiators plus send up to 2.5kW of heat into the room. That's three times more efficient than an open fire. A good small solution that will boost the heat to your whole house.
3Stanley Tara 10kW Boiler Stove
For a more traditional style, the Tara offers good classic looks in a variety of colours and with a large viewing window. Can heat up to 6 radiators.
4Stanley Oisin 8kW Non-Boiler Stove
If you need your stove to match your modern neutral decor, look no further than the Stanley Tara in Cream. This non-boiler version of the Tara comes at 8kW and is a good medium sized stove for room heat.
5Stanley Cara+ 16.8kW Insert Boiler Stove
The Cara+ is the perfect replacement for an existing back boiler that will significantly improve your heating efficiency. This compact stove will fit in a 16-18 inch fireplace opening but is powerful enough to heat up to 10 radiators.
6Stanley Fionn 9.4kw Non-Boiler Stove
For something more old-fashioned, the Fionn is a traditional box stove with integrated hotplate on top and the iconic Reginald's Tower of Waterford on the side in relief. This stove is meant to be on display, perfect for the kitchen or living room area.
7Stanley Ashling 15.8kW Boiler Stove
Looking for something more substantial? The 695mm-wide Ashling packs a punch. Putting out 6.1kW of heat into your room and a further 9.7kW into up to 7 radiators. Thermostatic controls efficiently manage the burn rate and Clean Burn Technology maximises heat and efficiency.
8Stanley Grainne 15.8kW Double Door Boiler
For a more modern design, the Grainne features more clean lines and unique double doors, with airwashing to keep the windows clear. This looks great and can heat too, putting 6.1kW into your room and will heat a further 7 radiators.
9Stanley Reginald 19.5kW Boiler Stove
The powerful Reginald has elegant lines, high gloss coating and chrome detailing. It's a beast too, that can heat up to 12 radiators, covering all your hot water needs in a large house.
Prices do vary at each of Topline's stores so find your local one here… And good luck entering the 12 Stoves of Christmas with Topline and Stanley.
Not sure why you should get a stove? Visit Topline's blog and their great article on why you should Consider a Solid Fuel Stove…


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Patient Sues Scientology-Based Clinic
SANTA ANA, Calif. (CN) – A man tried to kill himself at a Scientology-affiliated detox clinic after its "purification rundown" took him off his prescribed medicines in a "quick taper," the man claims in court.
William Sweeney sued Pur Detox, and Dr. Allan Sosin in Orange County Superior Court, alleging negligence, medical malpractice and negligent supervision.
The Church of Scientology is not a party to the lawsuit.
Sweeney says he "suffered severe personal injuries" when he jumped off a third-floor balcony at the Dana Point clinic, where he had checked in for drug and alcohol problems.
He claims the clinic weaned him off his psychiatric medications through Scientology's "purification rundown," which uses exercise, vitamins and long stints in the sauna.
"Pur Detox Inc. is a Church of Scientology-affiliated facility which has a policy of quickly weaning clients off of psychiatric medications," the complaint states. Sweeney says the clinic "uses the detoxification program known as the Purification Rundown, which was developed by Scientology's founder, L. Ron Hubbard."
After a 20-minute consultation with Sosin, Sweeney says, he was weaned off his medications, including the anti-opiate Suboxone and the anti-psychotic Seroquel.
During that week, Sweeney claims, he was often left unsupervised, Sosin saw him only once, and never asked if he was suffering from withdrawal.
"On or about December 11, 2011, during the 'quick taper' period, Pur Detox staff members took plaintiff to the third floor of the residence. Plaintiff was led out onto a third floor balcony and told to do certain 'visualization' exercises. After the exercise on the balcony plaintiff returned downstairs, where he was left alone," the complaint states.
"Instead of monitoring an observing plaintiff, the staff member assigned to him went to sleep on another level of the residence. At approximately 6:00 p.m. plaintiff returned to the unsecured third-floor, went out onto the unsecured balcony through an unlocked and unalarmed sliding door, and attempted suicide by jumping off the balcony."
Sweeney says the fall left him with multiple fractures and a 4-week stay in a hospital.
He seeks punitive damages, medical and incidental costs, and lost and impaired future earnings.
He is represented by Gordon Phillips.

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Sincere thanks to everyone who entered Gratitude Giveaways--yes, I'm a day late in announcing the winner...so I'm going to announce TWO winners, but first...
You guys crack me up!
I love all the comments left on the giveaway form. Thank you for your thoughts on my blog, my book, and to the lady from New York who wondered if I was really the person in the photo--it's really me and thank you!
With nearly 70 entries, lots of new friends made, and a fun time watching it all unfold, I'm happy to announce the winners are:
Diana Donnelly of Harker Heights Texas
Colleen Turner of Land O Lakes Florida
Ladies, your books will be in the mail on their way to you in the morning.
Thank you, everyone, for your time and interest and entries.
If you'd like another chance to win a copy of My Gift to You you can still enter on Goodreads
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Deutz Fahr 7250 with front and back twin dynamic dyeable wheels, custom axles, all drivenodes are on, particles and tyre tracks for all eight wheels are on along with suspension settings. Road speed 62kmh, washable and multiplayer YES. Price is 95000 to buy and 95 daily cost's.
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Fremont Youth Hockey: Ice Wolves NewsSunday, November 21
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For more information contact Connie Wilson at firstname.lastname@example.com or Dave Pulaski @ firstname.lastname@example.com. We will begin as soon as we have ice in Fremont...usually mid to late October.
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Riding My Thumb To Mexico was on my satellite radio yesterday. As I drove down the road, I thought about hearing Robert Earl Keen play it live. At that time, I was not familiar with this original version by Johnny Rodriquez. In fact, I'm not sure then I even knew who wrote the song. Now I know it was a number 1 country hit for Rodriquez in 1973 .
With a little Spanish guitar beginning and some tasty steel guitar behind Johnny's vocal, it is a very nice tune. Give it a listen:
Johnny Rodriquez was the first breakout Mexican country artist. Born in Sabinal Texas in 1951, Johnny was the youngest of 10 children. After some troubled teen years, he was discovered by Tom T. Hall and Bobby Bare. They encouraged him to go to Nashville. According to the legend, he arrived there in 1971 was $14 in his pocket and an old guitar. He joined Hall's band and began writing songs.
It didn't take long for him to become famous. In 1973, he had two number one country hits with You Always Come Back and Riding My Thumb. In 1975, I Just Can't Get Her Out of My Mind, Just Get Up and Close the Door and Love Put a Song in my Heart went to number one as well.
Rodriquez has released 26 albums and had 45 singles that made the charts. He was inducted into the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame in 2007.


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The Gateway Effect?
Do E-Cigarettes Increase Or Decrease Smoking? This is a high-explosive argument. So let's try to clear the smoke away to reveal some hard facts. Are children being hooked on to tobacco smoking through e-cigarettes? Are adults? And are e-cigarettes taking smokers away from much better ways of quitting?
Children First? Has the Pied Piper of Hamlin been reincarnated as an ecig company executive. Read More
What About The Adults? Are e-cigarettes leading to a "new wave" of tobacco addiction? Read More
Has the Pied Piper of Hamlin been reincarnated
as an e-cigarette company executive?
Tobacco company shareholders have benefitted for decades from the millions of children who each year become addicted to cigarette smoking. These shareholders have grown rich on fabulous returns on their investments while the children became chronically sick adults. Even if the shareholders never overtly tried to entice kids into smoking there is an ineradicable stench of moral complicity.
So it is more than understandable for those who have fiercely opposed such tobacco company behavior towards children to be extremely cautious about the next generation of nicotine products.
These vaping critics say that totally wicked e-cigarette salesmen are packing e-cigarettes with flavors to entice children. Impressionable kids are then seeing TV adverts full of sexy actors. To make it worse there is the celebrity endorsement: teenage icons like Jack Nicholson irresponsibly allow themselves to photographed vaping.
Leave for now the argument that adults like flavors. And sex. And that Jack Nicholson is just an adult smoker using e-cigarettes to give up. Are these evil e-cigarette executives succeeding in creating another generation of nicotine addicts?
Possibly yes. If we look at the number of children who have used e-cigarettes then the numbers have shot up alongside the growth in adult vaping. Yet if we are to be concerned about this growth of e-cigarette use we have to ask some probing questions.
Are these children staying on e-cigarettes? Not according to the experts. "If a child tries a conventional cigarette there is a 50% chance that they will become daily users. If a child tries e-cigarettes so far we have no evidence that they progress to regular use" Professor Peter Hayek BBC News 28 April 2014 If they're not staying with e-cigarettes are they moving onto tobacco? An emphatic no is the answer from this US University Study of 1,300 students were interviewed about their first use of nicotine. Only 43 used e-cigarettes before tobacco. And only one of these went onto become a tobacco user. Even that person might have become a tobacco user in any case. There are similar findings in the UK in research for the campaign group Action on Smoking and Health, May 2013 "Among young people who have never smoked 1% 'have tried e-cigarettes once or twice', 0% report continued e-cigarette use."
The 2014 CDC studies in America show that at the same time as e-cigarette use among youth was rising, tobacco use was falling sharply. The simplest explanation is that as with adults, children are using e-cigarettes to reduce and quit their tobacco habits. It takes intellectual contortions to argue the reverse.
So what's going on? In part it maybe that e-cigarettes are not as addictive as tobacco ones. So the kids don't stay hooked. And it maybe that given that e-cigarettes are cheaper than tobacco and don't make their breath and clothes stink - it makes teenage sense to vote for them. The aim is to be cool and not a social pariah. For that e-cigarettes are better than tobacco.
The transient use of an essentially safe substance is the kind of rebellion than many parents would crave for their children given the alternatives. Yet knowing how sensitive the debate is, e-cigarette executives wisely impose strict bans on sales to under 18s and urge governments to put this into law.
Such bans on sales are being imposed in the USA and Europe. Yet what should be keeping regulators awake at night is that they may well be making it more difficult for the one in five children who are addicted to tobacco at the age of 15 to quit. If e-cigarettes are helping children off tobacco then anyone who really cares about tobacco free kids should venture down that Road to Damascus and ask whether they are right to be persecuting e-cigarette use. The toxic truth maybe that we should be handing out e-cigarettes to kids who are smoking.
Are e-cigarettes leading to a "new wave"
of tobacco addiction?
This was the concern of a top official at the World Health Organisation in his plan to mandate countries around the world to suppress e-cigarettes. In a thoughtful response Letter from Scientists, 29 May 2014 53 top professors and regulators around the world said e-cigarettes were critical to reducing smoking. They were very polite, but essentially suggested that he was smoking pot.
Why were these global authorities so emphatic in saying that e-cigarettes were not leading people into tobacco addiction? It's because of massive global surveys. A survey of 19,441 e-cigarette users showed a very small minority of e-cigarette users (0.4%) were not smoking before starting to use e-cigarettes: "It should be emphasized that none of them became a smoker after initiating e-cigarette use, debunking the theory of gateway to smoking." Farsalinos et als, JERPH, April 2014 There's the same result in the Press Release, April 2014 survey of 12,000 UK e-cigarette users by Action on Smoking and Health: "There is no evidence from our research that e-cigarettes are acting as a gateway into smoking."
So fears that e-cigarettes could lead to a "new wave" of tobacco addiction are fears that disappear when the lights are switched on. They next big question is how effective are they at getting smokers off tobacco In this May 2014 study of 5,000 British smokers e-cigarette came out as much more successful at getting smokers to quit than nicotine gum and patches. They "are about 60% more likely still not to be smoking that those who used either the licensed products or nothing at all" Professor Robert West's research BBC News 28 April 2014 That was a survey which did a like-for-like comparison factoring depth of addiction and desire to give up. Smokers may be addicts, but they're not stupid. So long before the professors research came out they had been switching from 'approved' but non-working gum and patches into vaping with e-cigarettes sales outstripping the old pharmaceutical products. Yet even "Nicotine Replacement Therapies" have their place. They can be very effective with support, so it's encouraging to see e-cigarette users forming their own informal support groups.
The effectiveness of e-cigarettes is being shown up in smokers reporting a greater willingness to quit and making more quit attempts. The fall in tobacco sales which was triggered by the ban on smoking in bars and restaurants has resumed in the UK. To take one startling example, Imperial Tobacco reported that its sales last year fell by 16% FT April 2014 If, as anti e-cigarette campaigners allege, vaping is 'normalising' and 'glamorising' tobacco use then Imperial Tobacco executives would like to know how.
It would be hubris to suggest that falling tobacco sales are just down to e-cigarettes. But alongside tobacco control measures like higher taxes, e-cigarettes are giving those who are committed to reducing smoking a remarkable new weapon. Of Britain's 2.1 million regular e-cigarette users, one third have quit smoking entirely, while two-thirds are dual using. Some of the more nicotine dependent ex smokers use quite heavy levels of nicotine and may never give up vaping. But on average their lives will be much healthier and longer than if they had persisted with tobacco.
"We have increased conviction that consumption of e-cigarettes could surpass consumption of conventional cigarettes within the next decade." Wells Fargo, June 2013
"…the first real possibility that cigarette smoking could be phased out" Professor Ann McNeill, Kings College London Reuters, September 2013
E-cigarettes are "the most significant development in the history of the organised tobacco industry, stretching back some 200 years," Canaccord Genuity, July 2013


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HamptonRoadsParents.com is owned and operated by Ziggity Zoom, LLC. Ziggity Zoom, LLC is a national company that creates family and children's content, resources and products.
We are located in Virginia Beach and we created a local parenting site because we live in Hampton Roads and wanted to provide a valuable resource for parents and families that would help them find things to do, find what they need, get involved and participate in local happenings.
We are parents ourselves and wanted a resource for all the things we look for locally for our families.


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Well-placed in the shopping, sightseeing, family fun area of Bandung city, OBC Guest House provides a most conducive spot for you to take a break from your busy days. The excitement of the city center is only 5. Km away. With its convenient location, the hotel offers easy access to the city's must-see destinations.
OBC Guest House offers impeccable service and all the essential amenities to invigorate travelers. To name a few of the hotel's facilities, there are free Wi-Fi in all rooms, 24-hour front desk, 24-hour room service, luggage storage, Wi-Fi in public areas.
Guests can choose from 13 rooms, all of which exude an atmosphere of total peace and harmony. The hotel offers many unique recreational opportunities such as fitness center, children's playground, table tennis, garden. Whatever your purpose of visit, OBC Guest House is an excellent choice for your stay in Bandung.


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Michael Smith was most recently with Scripps Networks since 1998 and worked company wide to develop new lifestyle digital video business opportunities that helped Scripps Networks expand its reach to new audiences via over-the-top (OTT) and direct-to-consumer distribution models.
Earlier, Smith worked as SVP, GM Cooking Channel, a network he helped create and launch in 2010. He oversaw programming, marketing, and brand strategy for the network. Under his leadership audience ratings and revenue doubled and distribution grew 25%, and the channel received multiple Emmy nominations and won multiple NAMIC Vision and CableFax Awards.
Before Cooking Channel, Smith was Senior Vice President of Marketing, Creative and Brand Strategy for Food Network where he oversaw Food Network Kitchens and brand extensions for Food Network including publishing, consumer products, and restaurants. He also served as its Senior Vice President of Marketing and Creative, and in Vice President roles for both On-air Strategy and Creative.
Prior to Scripps, Smith worked for Disney/ABC Cable Networks in a variety of sales, marketing and programming roles, both domestically and in Asia, and eventually rose to executive director of on-air promotion for Disney Channel. He also worked for the CBS Television Network in affiliate relations, and began his career as an account executive at Young & Rubicam in 1986.
Smith's talents and influence have been widely recognized. He's been named a NAMIC Luminary, one of SAVOY magazine's "100 Most influential Blacks in Corporate America," and one of CableFAX's "Top 75 Most Influential Minorities in Cable." He serves on the boards of Food Bank for New York and the International Radio and Television Society. He is mentor in career development programs for NAMIC, PROMAX, and the Emma Bowen Foundation.
Smith earned his MBA in 1986 from the University of California at Berkeley's Haas School of Business, and received his bachelor's degree in science, technology and society from Stanford University in 1984.
A native of Red Deer, Alberta, Canada, Smith grew up in Jamaica, West Indies before moving to the United States.


text: In two different ways, which may nonetheless be connected, the cities of Phoenicia played a quite different role within the Empire -- and within Graeco-Roman culture -- from that of the cities in other regions of the Near East. First, both in 'real' history and in legend the Phoenicians had had an integral part in Greek culture from the beginning. There was the legend of the foundation of Boeotian Thebes by Kadmos the son of King Agenor, from Tyre or Sidon (which in the modern world has even been claimed as a historical reality, obscured by racial and cultural prejudice);1 the associated story of his sister Europa, and her rape by Zeus; the repeated appearance of Phoenicians in the Odyssey; the acceptance, from Herodotus onwards, of the (valid) tradition of the derivation of the Greek alphabet from the Phoenician one;2 Herodotus' identification of the chief god of Tyre as Herakles;3 and above all the long-established Greek historical tradition recording the Phoenician colonisation of the western Mediterranean.4____________________


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Hello! Yesterday was National Card Making Day so I spent some time creating these fun Flip It Cards! These were all made using die sets from Sizzix designed by Stephanie Barnard.
This Birthday card was made using The Square flip it die set and the Gift Triplets die set. Cardstock, ink, ribbon, and patterned paper is from The Stamps Of Life.
A Triple Circle Flip It card for Christmas! Ink and cardstock are from The Stamps Of Life. Patterned paper and ribbon are from my stash.
I am entering the butterfly shaker card in the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes.
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In GPN 5.0, the Waltham, Mass., company has integrated the "last mile" testing capability it acquired with Porivo Technologies Inc., bringing the ability to test customer Web sites from as many as 10,000 user desktops located around the globe.
The peer-to-peer platform can execute test transactions from those user desktops against Gomez customer Web sites. "We took their distributed technology and know-how and applied it to our agents and testing know-how, and we can now go to our customer base to demonstrate the value this unique insight brings," said Matt Poepsel, director of product management at Gomez.
That kind of insight—especially for more advanced customers looking to refine the performance of their e-commerce applications—can be an eye-opener for customers.
For example, an event inside the firewall can degrade response time from two to four seconds. Correlating that with a backbone measurement could show the degradation increasing to six seconds. But going to the last mile, where a customer is on a dial-up link, could show the event amplifying degradation to as many as 30 seconds.
"You can understand how a small event ripples through the Internet and causes a significant performance impact to the dial-up user," said Terry Meehan, director of strategic marketing for Gomez. "What they used to think of as a minor event—this gives a new context for understanding inside-the-firewall-events and their impact."
Gomez also streamlined the development and execution of Internet application tests. Users can define their testing methodology and specify the number of PCs to be included in the tests as well as their geographic location and Internet access mode, whether it is dial-up or broadband.
"One customer found they were able to quickly create and provision a test and see it running moments after they hit go," Poepsel said. "Being able to understand what they want to test, create the test and see the impact of it in moments is key to driving business decisions."
Although the enhancements will not likely change the competitive landscape, they do give Gomez an edge in some areas, said Glenn ODonnell, program director at META Group Inc. in Palmerton, Pa.
"I think Mercury [Interactive] has the best overall diagnostics—especially with J2EE applications. But Gomez has more points of presence and a better price point," ODonnell said. "Keynote [Systems] is the big dog in the game, but they havent been known for their price point or deep diagnostics."
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The pandemic H1N1 flu poses special problems for people getting heart and lung transplants, according to an advisory from the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation.
The pandemic virus "highlights unique aspects of transplant care that will require heightened vigilance in coming months," according to Lara Danziger-Isakov, MD, of the Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital, and colleagues.
"Aggressive diagnosis and early treatment" will need to be paired with active preventive measures to lessen the impact of the pandemic on the transplant population, she and colleagues wrote online in the Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation.
Among the key elements:
- Transplant patients should get both the seasonal trivalent inactivated flu vaccine and the H1N1 vaccine as soon as possible.
- Avoid using live, attenuated seasonal trivalent vaccine (FluMist nasal spray) with transplant candidates and recipients, as well as their care providers.
- Both seasonal and flu vaccines can be given soon after transplant, but caregivers should be aware that vaccination soon after transplantation may only be partly protective.
- Potential donors should have nasopharyngeal and throat swabs for the H1N1 virus before the organs are harvested.
- The preferred test for all flu infections, including the pandemic virus, is real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (rRT-PCR).
- A negative result on a rapid influenza detection assay does not exclude diagnosis of pandemic flu infection.
The turnaround time for rRT-PCR is up to 48 hours, plus travel time in some cases, the researchers said.
Especially when it comes to evaluating donors -- where time is of the essence -- the long turnaround is "a concern" and highlights the need for faster tests, they said.
Aside from vaccination, Danziger-Isakov and colleagues said, caregivers can also consider postexposure prophylaxis and prolonged seasonal prophylaxis, both with oseltamivir (Tamiflu).
In the case of prolonged prophylaxis, caregivers should be aware that oseltamivir resistance in the H1N1 flu is rare, but cases have been identified, many in immunocompromised patients.
If a potential donor dies of confirmed H1N1 flu, Danziger-Isakov and colleagues said, neither the lungs nor heart should be used for transplantation.
In some cases, a donor with confirmed H1N1 flu might die of another cause, they said. In those cases, the lungs should not be used, but the heart may be, at the discretion of the transplanting medical team.
The same is true for potential donors with suspect cases of the pandemic flu, they said.
On the other hand, both the lungs and heart of a donor with a history of the H1N1 flu who received at least five days of treatment can be used, they said.
The authors did not report external support for the report nor any conflicts.
- Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco and Dorothy Caputo, MA, RN, BC-ADM, CDE, Nurse Planner
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The Journal of Heart and Lung TransplantationSource Reference: Danziger-Isakov LA, et al "The Novel 2009 H1N1 influenza virus pandemic: Unique considerations for programs in cardiothoracic transplantation" J Heart Lung Transpl 2009; DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2009.10.001.


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Well unfortunately for you I didn't get a chance to take pictures of the few that did come into Waffle House last night in their Halloween costumes. Bummer I know. Because a lot of people dressed up and came in, but we were "balls to the walls" busy last night.
Let me tell you about it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So it's a typical Saturday night, like usual I get there a little before 10 and sort of "prep" myself before taking the floor. Of course 2nd shift doesn't have their work done, so my co-worker and I get it all caught up. The first two hours go by smoothly with customers litering in and out. Nothing major and nothing busy. Bout 12:30am when the bars finally clear out, we fill up. And I'm talking FILL UP. Our Waffle House can seat comfortably about 60 people (and that is a rough guestimate to say the least) But Jonnie and I are doing our best to keep up. She has one end of the store and I have the other. We're taking orders and filling the grill up. I'm keeping my sanity, taking orders talking with the customers etc....then all hell breaks lose in my corner of the store. Holy SHIT! I evaluate the situation as best I could and realize that "yea I have some army training and can handle myself pretty well when breaking up a fight......but these guys are pretty big and I'm probably going to get slapped around some" So I run to the grill and tell James (our old roomate and other grill operator) that he's the "biggest one in the store and to get his butt over to my corner NOW" he looks at me kinda dumbfounded like "WTF are you talking about" (you would have had to been there to really appreicate the look he gave me) He then turns and realizes what it was that I was talking about. I've never seen a big man move so quick! LOL My hubby is also a cook at Waffle House and yes he can handle his own I'm sure. But he's my height and these guys were like 6ft and taller. So I made him stay back! LOL James and I got the fight under control and kicked some of the aggressors out on their rear end. I mean hey, if they wanna fight in the parking lot go for it! LOL
But then it back to business like usual. And about that time I turn and realize that the store had some how filled up more than it was BEFORE the fight broke out. Needless to say, and to make a long story short, I got my ass handed to me big time last night! It was busy all the way up til about 5am and if I never see another dirty dish or customer I won't be sad! LOL So that was my halloween night in a nutshell (yes I know today is technically halloween, but the bars night for dress up was last night) how was yours?
Later Taters,
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Halloween at the Waffle House
Posted by Sabrae Culver at 11:23 AM
1 comment:
- Missy said...
Oh, I hate getting my ass handed to me! LOL
Glad you survived!
- October 31, 2010 at 1:54 PM
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Absa Premiership Polokwane City vs Golden Arrows
Posted: 13 February 2016 Time: 18:10
Rodney Ramagalela scored the winner to hand Golden Arrows a 2-1 victory over Polokwane City at the Old Peter Mokaba Stadium on Saturday evening.
Rise and Shine claimed an early lead through the in-form Thobani Mncwango, but Gladwin Shitolo equalised before half time, before Rodney Ramagalela scored the decisive goal for Abafana Bes'thende with lhis first touch, after coming on as a substitute.
Polokwane claimed the lead in just the seventh minute of the match. With Arrows pressing forward early on, a long ball out of the home side's defence allowed Thobani Mncwango to race free of his marker and score with a well-placed volley past the right hand of goalkeeper Maximilian Mbaeva.
Mncwango almost made it 2-0 just past the half hour mark, showing great composure and movement in the box to control a low cross and move the ball beyond two defenders, but his low effort was well blocked by Mbaeva, who moved smartly off his line to close down the angle.
Arrows showed some promise in attack, but they had to wait until the 44th minute to restore parity. Siyabonga Dube provided a fine cross from the right flank to pick out the unmarked Gladwin Shitolo, who finished neatly with a glancing header to make it 1-1.
The Durban side should have claimed the lead on the hour mark, but Malawian debutant Frank Mhango was guilty of one of the misses of the season, somehow shooting wide from close range with the goal gaping following a great cross from Andile Fikizolo.
A quarter hour later Mhango missed another great chance, blazing the ball over from close range after a low cross from the left squeezed through the defence to see the striker faced with only the goalkeeper to beat.
Yet Abafana Bes'thende were soon rewarded for their persistence in attack. In the 78th minute Musa Bilankulu's perfectly-weighted ball over the defender allowed substitute Rodney Ramagalela to place a low shot past George Chigova and put the visitors 2-1 up mere seconds after he had come off the bench.
Rise and Shine almost equalised in the 85th minute when Tsepo Tema got on the end of a corner kick and directed a header goalward, but Mbaeva made an excellent one-handed save to push the ball away to safety.
The result sees Arrows jump up to seventh place on the log on 24 points from 18 matches. Polokwane remain in 13thon 21 points from 19 matches.
HOME: Polokwane City
Coach: Julio Leal
Formation: 4-3-1-2
- 1 George Chigova
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- 5 Lebohang Motumi
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- 23 Tshepo Tema
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- 18 Nazier Jacobs
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AWAY: Golden Arrows
Coach: Clinton Larsen
Formation: 4-2-3-1
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Think about the next paragraph as a series of increasingly smaller concentric circles. It's not essential to do so, in fact it's entirely unnecessary, but it might be fun.
I have a father (as do we all). He's a voracious reader. He bought as many books as he could as a school and college student and managed to hold on to them through moves between multiple addresses, preserving them in (fairly) good condition. As an adult, he then had the incredibly good fortune of being able to buy a house which afforded him storage space for these books. Which he used to its full measure, stacking them high and snug, lining bookshelf after bookshelf and paying for stone shelves to be fitted in where it looked like the wooden ones might just give way.
Which is how I, decades later, in a small study with sloping ceilings and round windows and an always debilitated table-top fan, was able to discover the books of his boyhood. I encountered illustrated editions of Homer's Odyssey, books chronicling the World Wars, monthly magazines on science and mechanics, the Phantom, Mandrake, Biggles, the Hardy Boys, the gritty, grizzled cowboys of Louis L' Amour's Wild West, Perry Mason (who I was too young and entirely too sensible to find attractive) and the man from U.N.C.L.E (whom I did not like). I read Alistair Maclean and even a little pioneering science fiction, although I didn't warm to the genre as my father had.
I wasn't the archetypal tousled tomboy with scraped knees and elbows. But as an indiscriminate reader who had the good fortune of never being schooled in 'girliness,' I genuinely enjoyed these books written for boys. They were filled with adventures and almost-disasters and acts of rough-and-tumble heroism which perfectly complemented the lessons in boarding school social justice and the slightly compliant cleverness that characterized writing for girls. At least, the writing I was reading until I discovered the more complex charms of Roald Dahl and E. Nesbit and many, many others.
I was a girl with a little bit of boy mixed in. Boys were boys with a little bit of girl mixed in. We were too young for gender consciousness. It didn't feel like a choice needed to be made between playing house and watching Blossom and reading about fighter pilots, all in a day. Our lives were gendered, I know that. Whose aren't? But we were the country's last generation of pre-lib children and we were blissfully unaware.
I was thinking about all of this when I was wondering, on loop, what it was that I liked quite so much about Sons of Anarchy, my new favourite TV show. Which is saying something for someone who is incredibly ambivalent about television and has worked through a short-lived Mindy Project phase less than six months back.
I've tried to diagnose my affection for the show and its characters by reading critics' reviews, by looking at blog posts which are as likely to describe the show as misogynistic, as they are to examine the machinations of its strong and stronger women characters, by perusing deconstructions of the show's authentic constructions of modern-but-mythic biker subculture.
I really shouldn't enjoy the episodes as much as I do. The body count is healthy, the profanities flow on tap and some of its moral 'dilemmas' can be easily resolved by anyone with a functioning moral compass. Practically everyone on the show, even doctors doubling up as girlfriends, are bona fide killers. And I would have given anything for Charlie Hunnam to get his golden locks out of the way and invest in a proper shave and haircut. Which he eventually did get, for free, in jail.
But there's a part of me that enjoys the performances (most of them absolutely spot on), the all day drinking, the eccentricities, the quips, the noisy bikes, the improbability of wanton mayhem that's allowed to unfold as long as the debris collect outside Charming. I can acknowledge that these might in fact be good guys gone bad. Sons of Anarchy is entirely unrelatable, is removed from everyone and everything I know. But it's fun and it speaks to my long-forgotten, now grown up, smidgen of boyishness.
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The Shire – Bottom Feeding Reality TV Or So Trashy It Is Good?
On the reality TV food chain shows like The Shire, The Only Way Is Essex and Jersey Shore are thought to be at the bottom. These shows confirms critics of the reality genre view that anyone can find fame and fortune via this medium regardless of talent or brains.
The Shire set in "God's country" in Southern Sydney, is known is known as dramality or semi-scripted TV. However at the start of the show the narrator proclaimed there was no script. Does Network TEN and Shine think the viewer is as thick as the people they cast?
I doubt sales assistant Gabby walking along the beach and bumping into ex-boyfriend Mitch was spontaneous, and lucky there was a party happening with another cast member, wannabe rapper Rif Raf, that he could invite her to.
Speaking of fake, beauticians, Vernesa and Sophie, were proud of their fake boobs, tan, and lips, however unfortunately for them their brains were real. Their conversation in the whole episode revolved around talking about their lips, botox and how they actually believed that fat burning machines worked.
Another cast member was Beckaa a part time student and princess who returned from Dubai with designer gear and a nose job, boasting how her credit card was up to its $15,000 limit constantly. She was met at the airport by an older man who at first glance and interaction looked like a sugar daddy, however it was more disturbing to find out that he was her actual father.
The issue for The Shire is it appears to not want to be like Jersey Shore. For those who don't know the show, Jersey Shore has managed to make it into its final sixth season with the same plot line in each series. Go out, show lots of flesh, get drunk, hook up and fight. Absolutely trashy TV, controversial when it first hit the small screen but also entertaining in small doses.
The Shire appears to have spooked itself and made a sanitised version of the show. If you take out the getting drunk, hooking up and fighting you have a bit of flesh and some plot lines in desperate need of development.
The one plot line viewers will see drawn out over the coming episodes will be whether former couple Mitch and Gabby will get back together. Hell if it had been Jersey Shore and Snooki had turned up at a party and her ex had been talking to a former girlfriend, she would have shoved her into the pool, belted back a few shots before unleashing her skanky dance moves to lure him back into her life. In The Shire the viewer saw stilted conversation – yes Gabby it was awkward indeed.
The problem for The Shire is at this stage the characters are not interesting or articulate enough to hold the viewers attention on conversation alone, and it does need controversy to liven it up.
Fortunately for Network TEN, Twitter was in a frenzy about the show, unfortunately for TEN the majority of views were negative.
They were:
The little popping noises are our brain cells dying. #TheShire@julesschiller
#TheShire appears really genuine apart from the fact that they all look and sound like they're reading auto-cue. @pjhelliar
Breaking News: The cast of Jersey Shore ready to sue anyone that compares them to the people in The Shire. #TheShire@MichaelByrnes
However it did find a few fans with
@lawyercas tweeting: At least #TheShire is more like The Hills than Jersey Shore. Mitch is a babe#justsayin
However @stufthatibought was right when she tweeted:
Fairly sure the only reason most of us are watching #TheShire is so we can tweet along with it. The power of social media.
Will that be enough to bring the viewer back next week? Network TEN will certainly hope so.
The Shire is lowest common denominator television this does not mean it cannot be entertaining, it just did not happen in the first episode.
What did you think – bottom feeding reality TV or so trashy it was fun?
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- 1 Seb { 07.16.12 at 11:04 pm }
I could only watch about ten minutes of it. The premise and a few well edited promos were enough to get me to tune in but the instant the stilted 'Hey-I'm-at-the-beach-bro-dude-where-are-you-oh-look-it's-hot-babes' line came out I regretted doing so. When it got up to the rapper I scrambled to switch it off – it was just all so set up and fake it was cringeworthy. I hope these poor kids get what they want out of this show because I can't see any of them looking back with pride at their 'work' in years to come.
- 2 Bolders { 07.16.12 at 11:20 pm }
It was diabolical.
- 3 brain dead dave { 07.16.12 at 11:37 pm }
I like train wreck television but this definitely falls into the bottom feeding unwatchable category.
The young people can probably be cut some slack but by and large they'll be laughed at for months, perhaps years to come.
The father of Beckaa in the taxi was positively reptilian.
The producers have failed totally and abysmally.
- 4 Simone { 07.17.12 at 8:42 am }
I couldn't. This from a person who devoured Jersey Shore with innocent monkey delight, and even plumbled along with Geordie Shore for a season. I couldn't watch this.
WTF is it? Is it semi-scripted, half-scripted, totally fake, or actual people? Why mess with reality TV? Reality TV works and people (sad people like us) love it to death and messing around with it just hurts. I want it either fake or real. Not half and half.
And Mitch is completely ordinary looking. What's the fuss?
- 5 PollyB { 07.17.12 at 9:21 am }
Oh dear, I watched the first 10 mins out of curiosity. Those 2 young girls with the fake everything. They already look 40 years old. Those lips, unbelievable.
- 6 Culinary Boner { 07.17.12 at 9:33 am }
Another shamateur Shine production?
I didn't watch but saw enough from the promos to see that it would try to wear Jersey Shore's cloak but most likely wimp it entirely on going all out trashy or controversial. The pretence that it's unscripted sounds v familiar. Thanks for confirming my prejudices Raver.
Is Hey, Hey It's Saturday still the benchmark for Australian TV production for non-drama shows? *snigger*
- 7 Bruiser Brody { 07.17.12 at 11:18 am }
Its the fn Aussie Hills?!?
Good ole Aussie tv – 'capatalising' on fads right on the deathknock, ie 10 years after the original…
What's next, Big Brother? oh…
Australian Survivor? oh…
Amazing Race? oh…
I like how they party – all models, no-one doing anything to excess, dainty party lights in the driveway, no police presence after 200 gatecrasjers, no-one throwing bottles at the alleged rapper serving up a sht sandwich at his own party… it doesn't get any realer!
- 9 Culinary Boner { 07.17.12 at 1:51 pm }
If so, Raver, I demand their allowance be made up of one schooner of absinthe followed by a cleansing ale with two shots of vodka tipped into it.
- 10 Mia { 07.17.12 at 3:33 pm }
I watched bits and pieces of it during TATA ad breaks.
My partner and I couldn't stop laughing at Vanessa and Sophie. We know who we're going dressed as, come Halloween party time now.
We also enjoyed Becka's bitchy gay friends saying her nose job made her look like a pig. LOL.
And I'm glad I wasn't alone in getting distictly creepy vibes from Becka's dad. Urgh!
- 11 Jko { 07.17.12 at 4:19 pm }
The ads were enough to put me off. I love Dave Hughes twitter comment "It's hard to believe people from #theshire were capable of organizing a riot."
- 12 Karen { 07.17.12 at 5:32 pm }
It's total crap but I can't help feeling sorry for the people in the show. They are going to cop so much abuse. The blonde girl with the new nose will find it especially hard considering she thinks she is "so pretty".
- 13 smauge { 07.17.12 at 7:34 pm }
How did you all last 10 minutes??
- 14 Cookie { 07.17.12 at 8:49 pm }
Horrendous television! And I love me some Jersey and Geordie Shore. I watched the first ep, tweeted about how awful it was, commented on how uncomfortable that blonde chick and her dad made me, and then switched off. I won't be watching again that's for sure. It's way too obviously scripted for me.
- 15 TaraMacca { 07.18.12 at 8:31 pm }
I'm sorry…what?? They WEREN'T drunk? Even those 2 'beauticians'??? At one point I asked a friend if they might've been stoned- that lip convo wasn't normal…
- 16 Fran { 07.19.12 at 12:30 am }
If The Shite lasts another 6 episodes more…
The Producers will approach Russell Crowe to demonstrate his smartphone throwing techniques toward invading refugee boatloads approaching the Cronulla beachfront.
It appears that the Cronulla beach 'shark nets' are not only tattoo, solarium tan and cosmetic surgery friendly but appear to tolerate Indonesian vessels as well…
- 17 brain dead dave { 07.19.12 at 12:57 am }
You might want to hyphenate "boatload" there,"Fran".
It's too easy to tell you're a redneck.
- 18 isabella { 08.15.12 at 7:27 pm }
i love the shire .my friends and i are in love with the shire even my mum is in love with the show and i would be so upset if it got cancled because its so good.


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I ordered my fabby yesterday... I'll be using Maple Sugar by Lakeside Linens... Cashel {28ct}... I ordered a stitcher's fat half ... So, if I've calculated correctly... that should be enough. :-)
Have you all come up with any ideas, or decided on what you are going to stitch? I've been thinking about what to stitch for the RR and what LHN designs will fit nicely into the 100 x 100 squares... In looking, I found there aren't a lot of designs that will fit nicely without leaving a lot of blank space or going over just a wee bit... unless we take bits and pieces from several LHN designs and fill in the blanks... sort of like a Neighbourhood RR...
Anyway, in my search... I found the Dear Diary Series to be approx 97 to 105 stitches by 70 stitches or so... So that got me to thinking... Yes, dangerous, I know! ;-) Anyway, I think I'm going to go with the Dear Diary Series... there are eight of them and I could stitch the extra two when I get my RR back, as I would want to have the entire Series on one piece of fabby... I had been intending to stitch them all on one piece of fabby one day... so this will be a great opportunity! :-) Anyway, if lay out my squares two across and four down this will be approx 210 wide by 280 height give or take a few stitches... I'll have to make sure of the size of all the patterns before I grid my fabby... but anyway if I lay them out this way, they will all fit nicely on the stitcher's fat half with plenty of room left for framing... :-) I also thought you all could stitch your name and city, state or country in place of the name and town that is on the chart... A free alphabet comes with the designs... So, you all can personalise each chart... all you would have to do is look at the alphabet and chart out your name and place to fit instead of the name and place on the chart... Am I making any sense? :-) I'll have to order all the charts as I don't have any of them yet... Oh, and since I will have to stitch three of my squares... I've picked out Abigail Winslow, Hannah Purrington and I think Lucy Fairchild... I'll let you all know for sure and send *working copies* of the charts I am not going to stitch and you can choose whichever one you'd like to stitch... If you have any preference, please let me know and I'll reserve that particular Dear Diary Chart for you... :-)
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Oh, and I think I'll only stitch one of the Dear Diary charts before posting... and then stitch my other two when I get my RR back as I don't think I'll have time to stitch three of them before posting... I fear I am more the Tortoise than the Hare just now and I have a few other stitchy projects on the go as well! :-)
Please let me know what you all think about this idea and I'd love to hear what you all are planning on stitching! :-)
Thank you Donna for organising this RR... :-) I am really looking forward to stitching on everyone's Robin...


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Michael Smith (BEE Team founder), '10, spent the first year after graduating from Princeton doing a year of honeybee research at Wageningen University, the Netherlands, focusing on transmission of the fungal pathogen Nosema ceranae. He's now in graduate school at Cornell University in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior working with bees, because they rock. Mike is also the founder of College Beekeeper, an organization designed to help students get beekeeping initiatives started at their own schools.
Kelsey Brooks, '11, majored in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton and is currently pursuing a Masters in City and Regional Planning at Rutgers University. Sadly, there are no beekeeping opportunities buzzing in her near future, but she plans to come back and visit her Princeton bees often while still in New Jersey.
Katie Mumma, '11, majored in Art History at Princeton and is currently employed at Oak Knoll School, a private school in Summit, NJ. She spends her time in the school's development department working on fundraising campaigns. She has fond memories of doing the same thing for the BEE Team.
Dawn LaValle, is a past Graduate Student in Classics and Hellenic Studies, became interested in bees when she got a chance to spend a year as an apprentice beekeeper while living at a Catholic women's monastery. Dawn currently resides in Oxford and we hope she returns soon to visit!
Elizabeth Sajewski, '13, is an environmental engineering major who enjoys studying water, concrete, and all manner of apian puns. When she is not too beezy with her rug-bee team, Elizabee, as she is known to her bee-keeping companions, loves to buzz around the hive and eat copius amounts of honey.


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Sunday, March 30, 2008
1972 - Lola Novaković - Posle Tebe (Après Toi)
Here's one I had lying about. Yugoslavia's second Eurovision singer Lola Novaković (4th in 1962 with Ne Pali Svetla U Sumrak (Don't turn the lights on in the twilight)) covers Vicky Leandros' 1972 Eurovision winner Après Toi in Serbo-Croat as Posle Tebe on this sweet EP (RTB EPF 52 003) ---
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At first glance, who could oppose the Palestine Solidarity Campaign?
But there's a difference — a huge one — between showing solidarity with the Palestinians and supporting the PSC. Despite the PSC's best efforts to convince everyone that these are one and the same thing, they aren't.
And this becomes obvious whenever things heat up in Israel and Palestine, and when war is in the air.
Last week, I found myself at the demonstration of the PSC opposite the Israeli embassy in Kensington.
The call for the demonstration focussed on the Israeli air offensive against Gaza and was issued at a time when the only casualties seemed to be Hamas fighters, in particular Ahmed al-Jabari, the leader of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades.
Still, by the time demonstrators began to arrive at the embassy, things had gotten worse and a number of civilians — on both sides – had been killed.
The demonstration would have focussed on those killings, right? It would have called for a cease-fire or something like that, wouldn't it?
But the very first thing I heard was not a call for an end to the violence — which would have been understandable and would have gotten sympathy from anyone — but instead was the chant, "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free".
From the river to the sea?
Sorry, but there's no way to be polite about this. That chant, and the PSC's own logo of a map of Palestine from the river to the sea, and the subsequent chanting of "Israel out of Palestine" really could mean only one thing.
The demonstrators, or at least the people leading the chanting and making up the slogans, were supporting a one-state agenda, a solution to the century-old conflict between Israelis and Palestinians by demanding that one side pack up and leave.
As it's unlikely the Israelis are going to do this voluntarily, realistically what the demonstrators were calling for was the expulsion of the Jews from Palestine.
Not from the illegal settlements in the West Bank — no one mentioned those.
The Jews are to leave "Palestine" — from the river to the sea.
This is an exterminationist agenda. I don't think that's too strong a term.
These are not people who dislike Israelis or Jews, or who want to discriminate against them, or put them in their place, or treat them as second class citizens. That would be ordinary anti-Semitism.
This is a different kind of anti-Semitism, the kind that imagines a Palestine without its six million Jews, from the river to the sea.
An exterminationist anti-Semitism whose solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would be another Holocaust.
Of course one expects to see radical Islamists at a demonstration like this — after all, that's been their agenda for decades.
But it's not the agenda of the mainstream Palestinian national movement, not anymore. It's been nearly a quarter of century now since Arafat and the leadership of the PLO embraced the two-state solution, which paved the way to the Oslo accords.
Palestinian President Abbas isn't calling for driving the Jews into the sea. The Palestinian trade unions aren't calling for that.
But that's what the Palestine Solidarity Campaign was doing in Kensington — that's their agenda.
So what was the Socialist Party doing there — a party which historically opposes the boycott of Israel and which supports a two-state solution? On their website, they write that "The Palestinians and the Israeli Jews have a right to their own separate states." They don't say that one of those states will be in Palestine, and the other — in the sea?
And what was the SWP doing there, for that matter? Do they too support the expulsion of the Jews from Palestine?
It is fitting and proper for people who are shocked by the violence, and angry at the decision of the Israeli government, to protest and to show their solidarity with Palestine.
But to do so by chanting for the destruction of the Jewish state is to do the Palestinians no service.
For socialists to participate in such a demonstration is a disgrace.
Howard Fuller (4TM) adds:
For some time PCS has had "Palestinian Solidarity" at the "centre" of its "International work as the website blurb states. Some of us have always objected to the one sided view that the union takes as the result of the activities of the PCS Deputy General Secretary Hugh Lanning who is Chair of the so-called "Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
I wrote to PCS Reps earlier this year pointing out the uncomfortable fact (for Mr Lanning) that the former Chair of the PSC was expelled from their organisation as he was a promoter of Holocaust Denial (and said he was proud of it). In other words he promotes the disgusting view that there were no mass murders of six million Jews under the Nazis during the Second World War.
Disturbingly one fifth of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign voted against his expulsion. To me that says a lot about some of the members of this pernicious organisation and would call on PCS to disaffiliate and support instead a genuine peace orientated organisation Trade Unions Linking Israel & Palestine.
Trade unionists should be trying to bring working people together, not perpetuating sectarian conflict.
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Long Beach Day Nursery (LBDN) offers a full-day-year-round program for children six weeks to six years of age. Low teacher-to-child ratios ensure that all children enjoy individual attention. We are dedicated to the belief that a good start in the formative years provides children with a lasting foundation for success throughout their lives. Our curriculum is based on developmentally appropriate practices allowing each child to proceed as he or she is ready. This fosters confidence and self esteem. We also practice and emergent curriculum, meaning subject matter can emerge from the child's own interests, encouraging communication. All meals are prepared on our premises and follow the USDA nutritional guidelines. Each child participates with a small task in serving the meal to promote self sufficiency. Our children come from diverse ethnic, cultural, economic and social backgrounds. Financial aid is available to qualified families.
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Arthur Buxton is an artist who has recently been invited by CFPR Editions to produce a limited edition print at the Centre for Fine Print Research in Bristol, UK. Buxton's work engages with data visualisation methods that use colour extraction tools to explore trends in the natural world, painting and print media. Using open source software he extracts colours from photographs to create charts and timelines that typically display the five most common colours in each image as a percentage. In this instance, the removal of figurative and formal elements from an image present a series of colour harmonies and trends, alluding to sampling methods, information graphics, automation technologies, and objective forms of re-presentation.
The artist explains his most recent work produced with CFPR Editions; 'As the worlds most influential fashion magazine, Vogue acts as an ideal barometer for colour trends. Making use of British Vogue's own online online cover archive I use free software to extract the five commonest colours from each cover and chart them, in Illustrator, by percentage. Arranging these charts into a timeline we begin to see trends emerge - seasonal variations and also in the longer term, a gradual fashion for lighter hues. In my thirty years of British Vogue covers visualisation each column is a year beginning with September (the start of the fashion year) at the top and working backwards to October at the bottom. 1981 is on the right and the timeline runs through to 2011 on the left'.


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Advanced Orthopedics is a premier orthopedic practice that has been serving Long Island since 1961. Our practice offers patients of all ages access to
technologically advanced care for a wide range of orthopedic issues. Our board-certified, fellowship trained physicians working together with an experienced and compassionate healthcare team ensure that all patients receive superior care.
Avoid the long wait, inconvenience and added expense associated with Emergency Room visits. Advanced Orthopedics provides prompt attention by trained orthopedic specialists. Our offices provide on-site digital x-ray services. Our Patchogue location also offers physical therapy and an open MRI. Our MRI services have been accredited by the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC).
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To people who aren't hardcore motoring enthusiasts, the Mercedes G-Class is a line of vehicles that is best associated with super-wealthy urbanites, but the new Mercedes G350d Professional is a vehicle that is designed for getting stuff done off-road rather than simply looking pretty.
This particular Mercedes G-Class looks a lot like its predecessors from the outside, but a lot of the key build and performance factors are different. This particular vehicle is equipped with a 3-liter V6 turbo-diesel engine that is capable of pumping out as much as 240 horsepower as well as a more than handy 443 pound-feet of torque. A ground clearance of 9.65 inches and a tweaked suspension further burnishes this vehicle's off-road credentials.
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Lund Elmer Sandager advises Dustin Denmark in its acquisition of the hosting business of Norriq
The M&A Team at Lund Elmer Sandager, headed by David Frølich and Jacob Roesen, has advised Dustin Danmark in its acquisition of the hosting business of Norriq.
With this investment Dustin has further strengthened its position as a full service IT supplier on the Scandinavian market.
For Lund Elmer Sandager it marks yet another successful acquisition in an active 2017 M&A market. Lund Elmer Sandager is firmly established as the go-to advisor on acquisitions for national and international clients seeking effective and commercially focused advice on legal matters and transactions.
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text: 'When A Child Dies, The Whole World Cries' by Alan Jankowski The Society November 21, 2015 News of Note, Poetry Two young brothers are left at home, All by their lonesome selves, The older one notices a new toy, Sitting high up on a shelf. He climbs up and brings on down, What he believes is a toy gun, He thinks about the games they'll play, Boy this sure will be fun. He aims the 'toy' at his little brother, And shoots him in the head, But that gun was not a toy at all, And soon the three-year-old is dead. When a child dies, All the stuffed animals cry, Alone on a shelf, They sit by themselves, In a cold lonely room, Like a final tomb. Johnny's tired of being bullied at school, But every dog has its day, Though all his classmates seem so mean, Johnny will make sure they all pay. The next day at school will be different, From a knapsack he pulls out a gun, Suddenly he starts shooting his classmates, Shoots them in the back as they run. Soon most of the class has been shot, And their young bodies are lying there dead, With one bullet left in the chamber, Johnny puts the gun to his own head. When a child dies, All the angels cry, The tears flowing down, On the sad little town, It's a cold, cold rain, But it won't numb the pain. For Jose this is the biggest day in his life, It's his gang initiation in the 'hood, He must seek out a rival gang member, With a couple of shots he'll be good. Jose packs his piece and extra clips, And his driver takes him to the spot, He takes aim at his helpless victim, And another is dead with just one shot. But that one bullet it ricocheted, You hear a young mother scream and cry, As she realizes her young son is hit, On a cold dark street he is left to die. When a child dies, The whole world cries, All lives matter, big and small, I ask you people, heed the call, Please stop the hate, before it's too late, For the future of us all. Other poetry by Alan W. Jankowski: Political Banter Opinions and Advice Alan W. Jankowski is the award winning author of well over one hundred short stories, plays and poems. His stories have been published online, and in various journals including Oysters & Chocolate, Muscadine Lines: A Southern Journal, eFiction Magazine, Zouch, The Rusty Nail, and a few others he can't remember at the moment. His poetry has more recently become popular, and his 9-11 Tribute poem was used extensively in ceremonies during the tenth anniversary of this tragic event. When he is not writing, which is not often, his hobbies include music and camera collecting. He currently resides in New Jersey. He always appreciates feedback of any kind on his work, and can be reached by e-mail at: email@example.com Featured Image: "A Group of Children Playing the Game 'Oranges and Lemons' in a Domestic Interior" by Harry Booker. Related Post 'Let There Be Light' and Other Poetry by Kim Che... Let There Be Light "Cherubim and Seraphim, assemble and salute! Behold your Lord's creation; let every tongue fall mute." Thus Michael spok... Tell the world:FacebookTwitterTumblrPinterestRedditLinkedInEmail Leave a Reply Cancel Reply Your email address will not be published.CommentName* Email* Website Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.


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Merry Red Ink Christmas
Throughout the holidays, I saw people buying like mad. I kept thinking, "Wait a minute. The job picture stinks, about every asset and investment class is dropping, and everyone below the top 10% is getting absolutely rocked. How is everyone buying?"
The old-fashioned way, apparently: debt. The Fed's figures for November are out (December won't be out for another month, but I can't imagine it won't look worse.). Consumer debt rose at an annual rate of 9.9%. Revolving debt (credit cards, lines of credit, etc.) rose at an annual rate of 8.5%, and nonrevolving debt (mostly secured purchase money loans and student loans) rose at 10.7%.
This is a mess in the making. We have learned nothing from four years ago. People are once again buying by spending money they don't have by taking out loans they can't afford from people who don't care if they (or, more accurately, their clients/customers) get repaid or get stuck with collateral they can't unload so long as they get their origination fees. And when this new house of cards collapses, where does the bail-out come from this time?
I see bankruptcies trending back up soon, but that isn't the real concern. With the President, the House, and one-third of the Senate up for election this Fall, D.C. will pull any smoke-and-mirrors to kick the economic can past November. But what kind of hangover will we get in 2013? If what we've seen is any kind of prologue, you may want to find yourself a place to hide in the high grass.
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Researchers at Virginia Tech and The University of Texas at Dallas have unveiled Robojelly, a robotic jellyfish which not only closely resembles and moves like the real thing, but uses hydrogen as its main source of power, and therefore could potentially never run out of energy.
Robojelly has been made using "smart" materials, in this case a body constructed using an alloy that remembers its shape, enabling the 'bot to flex its bell-shaped body to generate movement underwater.
Carbon nanotubes coated with platinum are built into the surface, and the chemical reaction between this and the hydrogen and oxygen in the water produces heat, which is then converted into energy to move Robojelly's "muscles."
The result is its body flexes in the same way as a normal jellyfish, propelling it forward in the water. As it's surrounded by its primary source of power, it has the potential to keep on going without any interference or alternative means of creating energy.
It's believed to be the first successful project to use hydrogen to power an underwater robot.
In a short video released by the team you can see Robojelly moving around in a tank, where it's powered by electricity rather than hydrogen, and although it looks very impressive, it's not quite ready for the sea just yet.
At the moment all the panels on its body move together, making direction changes difficult, and the next stage in the robot's development is to figure out how to move each panel individually.
Once this has been achieved, and Robojelly can freely roam the seas, it's likely to be used for underwater search and rescue missions.
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Great Barracudas, Sphyraena barracuda
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Description & Behavior
Great barracudas, Sphyraena barracuda (Edwards in Catesby, 1771), are curious, fearsome-looking, usually solitary predators common to reefs and shallows of Florida and the Caribbean. They are distinguished by a torpedo-shaped body, large eyes and mouth, formidable teeth, a double emarginate (notched) tail fin with pale tips on each lobe, and (usually) the presence of a few scattered black blotches on the lower sides. The top of the large head between the eyes is flat or concave. Maximum length 2 m; maximum weight: 50 kg. Environment: pelagic; brackish; marine; depth range 0-100 m. Climate: subtropical; 30°N-30°S.
World Range & Habitat
Indo-Pacific: Red Sea and east coast of Africa to Hawaii, Marquesas and Tuamotos Islands; throughout Micronesia. Western Atlantic: Massachusetts (USA), Bermuda, and throughout the Caribbean Sea to Brazil. Eastern Atlantic: Sierra Leone, Côte d'Ivoire, Togo, Nigeria, Senegal; Mauritania; St. Paul's Rocks; Sáo Tomé Island.
Found predominantly at or near the surface though it has been recorded down to 100 m. Juveniles occur among mangroves, estuaries and shallow sheltered inner reef areas; adults occur in a wide range of habitats from murky inner harbors to open seas. Diurnal and solitary, but can also be found in small aggregations.
Feeding Behavior (Ecology)
The great barracuda is a top predator of reefs and feeds on a variety of fishes, cephalopods and occasionally shrimp.
Life History
Mode: dioecism (sexes are always separate), external fertilization, nonguarders, open water/substratum egg scatterers.
Conservation Status & Comments
The great barracuda very rarely attacks humans, usually with one quick, fierce strike, which, although serious, is rarely fatal. They are reportedly attracted to shiny, reflective things that look like dinner (silvery fishes) so wearing large rings or earrings or other jewelry should be avoided in their habitat. The world's record on hook and line is a 1.7 m great barracuda taken in the Bahamas that weighed 46.72 kg.
Although this species is ciguatoxic elsewhere throughout its range, it has not been reported to be poisonous in the eastern Atlantic.
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St. Paul National Honor Society
The Saint Pope John XXIII Chapter of the National Honor Society is an important service and leadership organization in the school. Students receive the honor of induction if they have demonstrated the qualities of scholarship, character, leadership, and service throughout their high school careers. Therefore, students are encouraged to strive for this honor beginning on their first day at St. Paul.
Those students who have weighted average of 90.00 or higher at the end of the first semester of their sophomore, junior, or senior year are academically eligible for induction in that year. Eligible students will be required to complete an evaluation packet. The packet materials include three essays in which the student describes the ways in which he or she has demonstrated the qualities of character, leadership, and service. Also, requested in the packet are two character references; one should be completed and submitted by a faculty member and one by a responsible adult outside of the school staff.
The names of students who have returned a completed evaluation packet will appear on a confidential memo polling the faculty. The faculty will rate each academically eligible student on character, leadership, and service. Faculty members who give students ratings that might influence the Council to withhold the honor of induction will be required to write a brief statement of explanation of that rating. The adviser will also distribute a list of academically eligible students to moderators asking them to note any students who are involved in their activity and to note any particularly significant positive or negative aspects of that student's participation. Clearly, because the honor of induction is granted by the school, the school feels strongly that some service must be done in the school. Conversely, students whose service outside the school is so outstanding that members of our community are aware of it and it thus is a positive influence in our community may receive the honor of induction.
The results of the faculty poll, moderators' reactions, and the evaluation packet will be reviewed by the five member Faculty Council of the National Honor Society. The Council will then select those students who will be tapped for induction.
Members must maintain the standards for induction, participate in Chapter activities, and observe the NHS Constitution and the Chapter Bylaws. Copies of these documents are posted on the St. Paul Web Page. Members failing to meet these obligations are liable for dismissal. Any member who fails to maintain the standards which are the basis of his or her membership shall be promptly warned. After the warning, if the member fails to meet the standards used as the basis for his or her membership, his or her case will go before the Faculty Council. The Council may impose conditions for probation or dismiss the member. The president or deans are the only avenue of appeal to decisions of the Council. Once a member is dismissed, he or she is never again eligible for membership in the National Honor Society.
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Keynote Speaker
Peggy Kline
Treating Yourself Like Royalty
Peggy Kline is an award-winning, popular national speaker and humorist whose passion is to nurture the needs of women with humor and hope. She has shared her message on stage, radio and television, in newspapers and magazines nationwide. She consults and speaks for organizations that share her mission to support and improve the quality of life for women. Peggy was able to share her message with over 400 women at the event.
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Chef George Desiderio
Arkansas' celebrated Chef George Desiderio presented a healthy and delicious cooking demonstration and provided samples of his fare. Desiderio is the Corporate Food Service Director and Corporate Executive Chef for Dillard's Store Services, Inc. Renowned for his culinary creativity, he has been named 2008 "Chef of the Year" by the Central Arkansas Chapter of the American Culinary Federation.
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Michael Escue, M.D.
The Definitive Word on Periods. Period. Dare To Wear White Again.
An obstetrician-gynecologist with Millard Henry Clinic, Dr. Escue shared some of the latest information available on several key issues in women's health including information on a new intrauterine contraceptive. Dr. Escue was available for a questions as well as to discuss problem periods and treatment options.
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Pilgrim's Pride Corp. raised its offer for Hillshire Brands Co. by more than $1 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, escalating the battle for the maker of Jimmy Dean sausages and Sara Lee cheesecakes.
The new offer from Pilgrim's PPC, -1.30% a unit of Brazilian meat giant JBS SA JBSS3, +3.53% values the Chicago-based meats and desserts company at $55 a share, the people said, or more than $6.7 billion. That trumps a $50-a-share offer for Hillshire US:HSH on Thursday from Tyson Foods Inc. TSN, +0.72% which itself followed Pilgrim's earlier, unsolicited offer on May 27 to pay $45 a share.
Tyson and JBS, two of the world's biggest meat processors, are pursuing Hillshire in an effort to capture the company's widely known brands, including Ball Park hot dogs and Hillshire's namesake lunch meat. Meatpackers prize the higher profit margins associated with name-brand packaged-food products, particularly as processors have been paying higher prices for animals due to tight supplies.
The new price represents a 49% premium to Hillshire's closing stock price before Pilgrim's initial approach. The bid values Hillshire at roughly equal to Pilgrim's current valuation of $6.7 billion, based on Pilgrim's closing price Monday of $25.92 a share.
At $50 a share, the price for Hillshire was "already rich," analysts at Bernstein Research wrote last week, though they acknowledged that offers could climb further given the sturdiness of Hillshire's brands and meatpackers' desire to extend their reach into grocery-store aisles. Winning Hillshire "could be a 'once in a lifetime' opportunity" for Tyson and Pilgrim's, they wrote.
An expanded version of this report appears at WSJ.com.
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