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Yesterday, I decided that I'd devote this week's installments of 73 Sports Movies in 73 Days to watching and possibly celebrating the entire Air Bud series, as there were five films (not counting the Air Buddies spin-off franchise) and five days in a work week, and I took College Algebra three times, so it works out pretty well. What I've discovered thus far is that not having been a kid when the first Air Bud was released and not being a child now (at least not in physical form) has made it difficult for me to truly appreciate these goofy children's films.
Because as I did with Air Bud, I spent the better part of 1998's Air Bud: Golden Receiver wondering why nobody is even remotely curious as to how this dog developed these amazing athletic abilities. And this time, Air Bud shows that he can even hang with the professional athletes, while also revealing the inherent security flaws of NBA arenas in the 1990s.
"That ain't no Golden Retriever… that's a Golden Receiver. – Robert Costanzo, AKA Coach Fanelli, AKA Sgt. Vito Lorenzo from Die Hard 2, AKA Joseph Tribbiani, Sr.
The Furry, Stinky, Sometimes Poop-Eating Plot
Golden Receiver picks up a year after Air Bud left off, with Josh and friends taking on the high-paced world of the 8th grade. As his suave friend Tommy puts it, "You know what the best thing about the 8th grade is? The girls have turned into women." Important plot correction: No, they haven't. They're still 8th graders and they're still just girls. This sort of Hollywood portrayal of anything different is why kids today are getting pregnant at an average age of 4 months (citation needed).
Anyway, Tommy thinks that the football team is where the prime lady action is at, because "women dig football players," but Josh is content playing hoops and hanging with his bro dog, Bud. Speaking of hanging with his dog, it's time for a vet trip, and that's where Josh meets Dr. Sullivan for the first time. This is important because Josh's mom is eventually going to start having intercourse with him on a regular basis. It's also important to note that Mrs. Framm is played by a different actress. According to my research, when the actresses of mother roles change in films, there is a much higher chance of the teenage son to act out. I believe this is the Carlton Banks theorem.
Meanwhile, there's a Russian circus touring America, and owners Natalya and Popov (also the name of the cheapest and most disgusting well vodka in existence) are on the prowl for any talented animals that they can steal and add to their stable. I appreciate that even in 1998, Hollywood wasn't afraid to remind us that Russians were evil and Americans were good. In fact, you parents should remind your children daily that Russians are untrustworthy and want us all to share the wealth and dress in olive green and taupe. Also, it's adorable if you make your child's first word, "WOLVERINNNNNNNNNNNES!"
Obviously, the Russians want to get their commie hands on Buddy, because he's a star and can shoot basketballs and whatnot, but Josh is more distracted by the fact that his mom is dating. Josh doesn't like this one bit, because he misses his dad and he doesn't want some other dude coming in and pretending like he's his dad, even though it means extra Christmas presents. When will kids in movies learn, gosh dang it?
So here's mom's first date, Herb, a real nerdy douchebooger who is allergic to Buddy.
Poor Mrs. Framm, can't a lady just get some rod already? Here's her next date, macho lawyer bro:
But Mrs. Framm later wondered to Buddy, naturally, that maybe she wasn't ready to fall in love and that's when Buddy spotted Dr. Sullivan at his boat and – BOOM! – they're going to GET. IT. ON. This upsets Josh more than anything, because he doesn't like Dr. Sullivan ever since he was able to give Buddy a checkup with no problems. Damn you, stupid airplane problems! Why did you have to take Mr. Framm's life in a test flight gone awry?
(Also, it's worth noting that Josh leaves Buddy outside at night. Between that and just letting him go into a field in the first Air Bud film, I'm starting to wish that the judge had granted Norman Snively custody after all.)
While Josh was asleep, Buddy snuck into the garage and got the football that Dr. Sullivan gave to him as a gift. That leads to Josh and Tommy throwing the ol' pigskin around at the park and guess what happens next… that's right! Buddy's a football superstar. Alas, those no good Russians are on the prowl and trying to steal Buddy from Josh, but his lack of football skill causes him to overthrow the ball, hit Popov in the head and knock him and Natalya into the lake, where a pug laughs at them. In fact, everyone laugh at them!
Haha, take THAT, comrades!
Josh finally decides to play football after Coach Fanelli offers him the backup spot behind Cole Powers, the best quarterback in the league, but he soon discovers that football is hard. He also doesn't bother taking his disgusting, filthy pads off before he goes home, so he tracks mud and whatever other nonsense into his house, which just further proves that he has no regard for his hard-working mother's time. Hell, he didn't even bother telling his mom that he joined the team! Get it together, Josh. You jerk. Also, the Russians are still stealing animals because the newspaper tells us that.
Josh also takes Buddy to Dr. Sullivan even though nothing is wrong with the dog, so he and Tommy can spy on his mom's new boyfriend. Does this kid even realize how expensive vet bills are? At this point, I'd really like it if someone could step in and intervene. This kid is on a crazy train to a bad place. He may even end up smoking the pot and injecting cat piss into his face like the cool kids do.
Back on the football field, Cole Powers suffers a season- and possibly life-ending injury (I didn't bother following up on that) so Josh finally gets his chance to shine. The only problem is that he really sucks at football because he's never played before. If I'm the GM of his middle school football team, I'd probably fire Coach Fanelli for not having a more capable backup on the staff. I mean, Jeff Garcia was probably only a phone call away.
But who's that coming to the rescue? It's AIR BUD!!! Of course, he wasn't actually playing and he interrupted the game and broke up a pass to a wide open receiver that could have helped Josh's team, but by this point I think that Josh sort of deserves it for all of his whiny behavior and for interfering with his mom's happiness.
This is also where the film goes south for me. Eventually, Coach Fanelli lets Bud join the team as his "Golden Receiver" because, as we learned in the first Air Bud, "AIN'T NO RULE!!!" But basketball was cool and fine because nobody was trying to tackle a dog. Hell, before Bud even joined the team and just broke up that one pass, those kids were trying to tackle and hurt a dog that didn't even have pads on.
And eventually, after Josh predictably comes to terms with Dr. Sullivan giving it to his mom and thwarts the Russian circus owners' attempts to steal Buddy (they're also eventually captured by Russian officials and presumably killed or placed in a labor camp in the heart of Siberia for the rest of their short lives), Josh leads his team to the big game, in which he needs Buddy's special talents to get the big win. But Buddy gets injured because people keep tackling him and intentionally trying to hurt a dog.
I'm not positive, but I think there's a serious metaphor here between a dog playing football and the concussion issues of NFL players. I can only hope that Roger Goodell and the NFL's physicians watch Air Bud: Golden Receiver and really think about their incredible dilemma from more than just a financial stanspoint.
A Couple Sort-of-Fun Facts About Air Bud: Golden Receiver
Well, I guess that you could say these are facts about Air Bud in general, but I forgot to include them yesterday and I'm a sucker for relevance.
– The lead human character, Josh Framm, was played by actor Kevin Zeger, who amazingly grew up (presumably) meth- and heroin-free to have himself a nice little career as an adult, too. His upcoming projects include the young adult supernatural novel adaptation of The Mortal Instruments, that looks like another Twilight knockoff but people swear is nothing like Twilight, and The Colony, which also stars adult film star Montana Fishburne's father, Laurence.
– The dog Buddy, while listed as the star of Air Bud: Golden Receiver, was actually replaced for the sequels, because he passed away in his sleep in 1998. In fact, after the original Air Bud was filmed, Buddy became ill and had one of his legs amputated because of synovial cell sarcoma. But of course most of us millenials and whatever the generation before the millenials was called will remember Buddy for his greatest role as Comet on Full House.
– Buddy was actually a stray dog found by a man named Kevin di Cicco, who taught Buddy how to play multiple sports, before landing him appearances on David Letterman's "Stupid Pet Tricks."
– Buddy was also nominated for a Kids' Choice Award in 1998, but he did not win. From this day forward, I will refer to this as the greatest entertainment awards snub of all-time.


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Toyota Executive Technical Advisor and CEO of Toyota Research Institute (TRI) Dr. Gill Pratt speaks at a Toyota press conference during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2016) in Las Vegas on Jan. 5, 2016.
To aid the safe implementation of automated driving, Toyota is developing a high-precision map generation system that will use data from on-board cameras and GPS devices installed in production vehicles. The new system will go on display at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) 2016 in Las Vegas, which will run from January 6 through 9.
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Timepiece History
The Beginning of Time Keeping
From the earliest days of mankind, people have been interested in time. Dating well before written history, humans were believed to have used the movements of the sun and moon to tell time. The original timepiece was the sundial, but as civilizations grew more complicated, so did their need to have an accurate way to keep track of the hours and minutes of the day. This is the fascinating history and modern life of a brilliant invention that we all take for granted: the watch.
Origins Of The Watch
As long as 4000 years ago, the Babylonian priests of Mesopotamia began a careful and systematic study of the movements and patterns of the sun, moon, stars, and seasons. They folded all of their accumulated knowledge into a calendar which very much resembles the one that we use today. The Babylonians established a system of timekeeping based on twelve months, seven days per week, and twenty four hour long days. In fact, the only thing that is different between the ancient calendar and the one we use today is that the Babylonians assigned thirty days to each month. When they realized that was about five days too few, they added a thirteenth month to the calendar every six years. The Romans modified this to have months of varying lengths within a twelve month framework, and from then on, we have pretty much used the same standard divisions to track time.
Then it was a matter of finding a mechanism to use for accurate timekeeping, which leads us to the origins of the watch. By 1500, most villages had a large clocktower, as well as watchmen (early policemen) who would call out the time. Small clocks tended to be fairly inaccurate, but there was an interest among the mechanically inclined to come up with new and smaller versions for personal use. It was around this time that a locksmith from Nuremberg, Germany named Peter Henlein invented the first pocket watch. Unlike a large clock which was driven by weights, Henlein's small portable clocks were powered by a coiled mainspring used in conjunction with a ratchet system. The incredible thing is that the mechanism used in the very first watch is not all that different from the way in which many watches are run today.
Watches Improve
The "Nuremberg eggs" as the first watches were known were large ovals designed to be worn on a belt or on a neckchain. They had no crystal covering on the face, and had only the hour hand. The early watches were far from accurate timekeepers; there was really no point in having a minute hand, let alone a second hand. They were entirely handmade, primarily of iron components assembled with pins and rivets. Within 50 years, the iron works were replaced with brass fittings.
It was also around this time that the Swiss watch industry was born. In 1525 a Swiss mechanic living in Prague named Jacob Zech invented a component that revolutionized watchmaking. It was called the fusee, and it was an element which solved an enormous problem with the early watches: as they wound down, the movement of the hour hand also slowed down. The fusee, which was perfected by another Swiss man named Gruet, equalized the inner mechanism of the watch and thereby dramatically improved the timekeeping ability of the piece. Watches before the fusee had really been just novel adornments; with the upgrade in accuracy, they became more functional. To a point, that is; it was not until the early 1700s that watches became precise enough to warrant including a minute hand.
In the 1600s, watches really took off in popularity. It might not occur to a modern reader that only a select few had a watch in the 17th Century; they were prohibitively expensive and were only owned by the nobility. Wearing a watch was a status symbol, a sign of wealth and importance. The most interesting thing about that fact is that even today when mass production has made watches affordable to everyone, a high end watch is still every bit the display of wealth and social prominence that it was in the 17th Century. This is why brands like Rolex have such a social cache and are often prominently displayed, especially by those who are newly able to afford such a luxury item. The desire to quickly telegraph wealth is also why they are such hot ticket items in casino gift shops.
Royal Watches
Watches in the 1600s were considered toys for the nobility. Each watch was entirely handmade, with a price tag to match. King Edward VI is rumored to be the first Englishman to own a watch, and others in the top echelons of society quickly followed suit. The aristocracy treated their watches as any other decorative accessory in their jewelry box: an adornments to enhance an outfit, not a functional necessity. Watches were very fashionable in the court of Queen Elizabeth, who was known to own several.
Because they were viewed as jewelry, watchmakers came up with increasingly beautiful designs to entice their wealthy clientele. They were designed to be miniature wearable works of art, and tied in with the other fashions of the day. Watches were created to resemble tiny insects, flowers, musical instruments, and animals. Mary, Queen of Scots was even known to have a watch shaped like a skull in her jewelry collection!
The fledging watchmaking industry was largely based in England, France, and Switzerland. Each nation had its own unique style when it came to creating timepieces. English watches tended to be heavy, sturdy, and reliable. Swiss watches were renowned for their accuracy, just as they are today. In France, the emphasis was on creating exquisitely beautiful cases, something which they did exceedingly well. French watches were handmade in interesting sculptural forms, handpainted with remarkable tiny scenes, and decorated with the finest available materials, such as enamel, tortoiseshells, and precious gems.
Swiss Watch Makers Become Leaders
By 1625, the Swiss watch industry was already coming into its own, based out of a Geneva craft guild for jewelers and watchmakers. Founded by Charles Cusin, the guild tightly controlled the numbers of artisans permitted in the field, the quality of work that was deemed acceptable, and banned the importation of watches from other countries. If you wanted to work in the watch industry in Geneva, you had to be a member of the guild. Craftsmen who could not gain access to the guild had to find another line of work or a different city in which to practice their craft.
Being a Swiss watchmaker in Geneva was a highly respectable position in society. Precision and well-executed technique were highly prized by the Swiss, and the men who made the watches had these qualities in spades. It was a Swiss man named Nicholas Facio who invented a technique that is still the gold standard in watchmaking today: the use of rubies or sapphires inside the watch workings. The precious gems were not placed inside the watch works to make them more valuable, but rather to reduce the friction of the internal mechanisms. Holes could be drilled in the tiny gems and bearings placed into the centers to reduce friction. This ingenious idea reduced the wear and tear on the works of the watches and made them more accurate timekeepers. News of the quality of Swiss watches soon spread, and in the 17th and 18th Centuries, artisans came to Geneva in droves to train with the masters. As they learned the trade, these pilgrims took their skills home and exposed the rest of Europe to the fine workmanship of a Swiss watch. Nearly four hundred years later, Geneva is still the world capital of top quality watches.
Geneva was not the only town in Switzerland to become watchmaking hub. By 1799, the town of Geneva was producing 50,000 pieces annually; within 20 years, Neuchatel, Switzerland was making 130,000 timepieces per year. Unlike Geneva, Neuchatel watch production was not ruled by a guild; anyone with the right training and tools was free to try his hand at the trade. According to the proud Genevans, this made the watches of Neuchatel inferior quality product, although the Neuchatel artisans would have disagreed.
English Watches Competitive For A While
Meanwhile in England, the watchmakers founded their trade guild in 1627. Named the Worshipful Clock-makers, the English guild operated much along the lines of the one in Geneva. A watchmaker named Thomas Tompion earned the title "The Father of English Watchmaking", and he was patronized by the nobility. Tompion's timepieces were very fashionable among the well-to-do in the British aristocracy.
British watchmakers were responsible for many improvements in the field. Over time, watches evolved from merely a fashion accessory to an integral part of modern life, and better accuracy was desperately needed. This was particularly true when it came to navigating the oceans, and the heads of European governments offered a reward for the first man to design a chronometer that could accurately determine longitude at sea. It was an Englishman named John Harrison who won the award in 1762.
Although England was at the forefront of watchmaking in the early days, they lost ground over time due to their refusal to adopt new innovations. The guild was extremely conservative and proud of the high quality of English watches; unfortunately this also made them resistant to change, along the lines of the old adage "if it a'int broke, don't fix it". It was the English loyalty to the fusee in particular that caused great problems; over time the early innovation had been replaced with lighter mechanisms, but British watchmakers refused to make the switch. As the Swiss, French, and eventually also the Americans adapted new technologies that made their watches lighter, thinner, and quicker to produce, the English stubbornly stuck with their tried and true techniques, which led to the eventual demise of the English watch industry.
Patek Phillipe calendar and moon phase watch
Today's Favorite Watches Have Long History
One thing that is truly fascinating about the history and evolution of watches is that the main components that are in the watches on the market today are essentially the same as the ones in watches made in the early 1800s. Certainly, refinements and additions have been made (there were no watches with GPS in the early days of America!), but the foundation was in place by the beginning of the 19th Century. Equally impressive, many of the best known watch brands today were founded in the 1800s. Elite brands like Patek Phillipe (1851), Tag Heuer (Heuer founded 1860) and Cartier (1847) were all born in this era. Luxury giant Rolex was not far behind; it was established in 1908 in Switzerland by Hans Wilsdorf.
As commonplace as watches were becoming, they were still primarily made in the form of pocketwatches, necklaces, and brooches. The first ever wristwatch was debuted by Patek Phillipe in 1868, as a decorative bracelet for ladies. Patek Phillipe was the driving force behind a number of innovations, such as the chronograph and the perpetual calendar watch. The Swiss watchmaker is unique in that even today it still manufactures the mechanical components for its fine timepieces. Of course, this attention to detail does not come without a price. Patek Phillipe watches are among the most costly in the world, and are highly collectible. In fact, a 1933 Patek Phillipe pocketwatch went for an astonishing $11 million at a 1999 auction.
It was Patek Phillipe who designed the first wristwatch, but Louis Cartier was the watchmaker who made it popular. He was already a premier jeweler and watchmaker by 1904 when his friend Alberto Santos-Dumant asked Cartier to create a wristwatch for him. Santos-Dumant, an aviator, found pocketwatches to be impractical when flying his plane; necessity being the mother of invention, Cartier obliged with a watch that was to revolutionize how we wear timepieces. The Patek Phillipe wristwatch was regarded as merely a piece of jewelry for ladies, but when Cartier put his men's wristwatch on the market in 1911, it was a smashing success. Aptly named the Santos, the wristwatch was very appealing to men looking for an easier way to check the time.
Cartier would go on to design some of the other best known watches in the world, most notably the Tank, released in 1917. It was not only aviators who realized that a wristwatch would be more handy than one tucked away in a pocket; by the time World War I broke out in Europe, military men were also seeing the benefit of a wristwatch. Cartier's expensive timepieces were not worn by the average enlisted man in the foxhole, but his legendary Tank watch was directly inspired by the battlefields of the Great War. The Tank watch was designed to look like a Renault tank, right down to the wristband with links that resemble the war machine's caterpillar wheels. As the soldiers returned home from the war wearing their wristwatches, any lingering associations of the wristwatch with femininity disappeared.
Rolex Yacht Master watch
Rolex First Officially Certified Chronometer
Of course no discussion of the history of watches would be complete without a mention of Rolex. As mentioned above, the Swiss company was launched in 1908. Only two years later, Rolex was the first officially certified chronometer in Switzerland. Other innovations followed: the first waterproof case in 1926 (the Oyster model), a self-winding rotor in 1931, the first watch with a date function in 1945, and the Submariner in 1953, which is waterproof to 100 meters. Rolex watches have been atop Mt. Everest, kept time for sporting events, and the serial number on one was even used to identify the body of its deceased wearer. It is also the luxury brand favored by many celebrities; everyone from Paul Newman to Fidel Castro has a Rolex. This is thanks, in no small part to the ingenious and concentrated marketing efforts of founder Hans Wilsdorf in the early days of the brand. Status does come with a price (not to mention a substantial pricetag); Rolex is one of the most widely counterfeited watch brands.
The Americans And Japanese Make Watches Affordable
It was the Swiss who invented the wristwatch, the French who popularized it, but it was the Japanese and Americans who made it widely available at incredibly low prices. The emergence of quartz and electronic technologies in the 1970s nearly destroyed the Swiss watch market, while bringing huge surges in sales to Japanese companies like Citizen and Seiko, as well as American competitors Timex and Bulova. As much as 70% of the pricetag of a fine mechanical Swiss watch can be attributed to labor costs. The price of a mass produced quartz or electronic watch, by comparison, is only about 10% labor. With these immense discrepancies, it is no wonder that by the 1980s, the Swiss had lost almost their entire low-to-mid range watch customer base. On the other hand, the handcrafted mechanical timepieces made in Geneva still control the high end and luxury watch market. Unable to adapt rapidly enough to the changes in the 1970s, the Swiss firms ended up as a niche market for the consumer looking for one of the finest watches in the world.
Today, everyone has a watch (although low end sales have been declining in recent years due to the fact that every cell phone has a clock on its face). Some wear them merely for function, but they are still seen as valuable jewelry as well. Giving a watch as a gift is a popular way to mark a rite of passage, whether it is a graduation, a birthday, or a retirement. Although not favored for everyday use, pocketwatches still hold a special place in the pantheon of timepieces. They are often given in honor of weddings, both for the groom and as groomsmen gifts. The elegance and vintage charm of a pocketwatch makes it an especially appropriate gift for a sentimental occasion like a wedding. Another reason why pocketwatches are popular for gifts is that they offer a large surface for engraving a special message.
As long as there has been time, people have wanted a way to keep track of it. From the early sundials to the original watches to the designer timepieces of today, these timekeepers are a critical part of running a civilization smoothly. While technology continues to advance and improve, there will always be an interest in the latest and greatest watches, existing side by side with the connoisseur's appreciation for the precision and skill of a handcrafted mechanical watch.


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iArt Pro full review
There's always room in the digital kit bag for a painting app with a few tricks up its sleeve. Here's iArt Pro which offers a basic painting package, supplemented with a colour overlay function. This desatures the entire image that you've painted, then, where you make brush strokes, colour is restored. It's a neat feature, but really, it's the only one. The rest of the app offers a poor selection of brushes which can be varied in size, but crucially, not opacity. There's some dodging and burning, blurring, adding text and speech bubbles. On the manipulation side, elements can be marked and cut out and flipped, but not rotated. The colour picker previews what colour it's going to select but it's buggy and the undo function makes the entire Mac crawl for 15 minutes while it works.
Painting is fairly basic with just a few brush types and no control over opacity. It's anything but Pro


text: Thanks, my memory is terrible. Lily will go to the vet Jan. 5. Goin' to a new vet, the other ones a little weird. Got the cage out, her fave stuff inside and all around it. Thanks cats4ever, maybe she will be less freaked this time. This vet is closer too, less time in the car, she hates the car. Nothing really new, just figured I should move this stuff to a new thread.... I have no clue why, but I suppose there must be some reason or it wouldn't be suggested....I'm sure I'll forget to find the thread again anyway


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So I am back at this strange little blog after a year of silence. The reason I came back is to try to do what I did a year ago: Blog about my experience with half marathon training.
Last year I ran the Rock 'n' Roll USA Half Marathon on March 17, 2012 as my first half marathon and then the Bayshore Half Marathon on May 26, 2012. I had a training schedule that went through both of them and I was going to blog about it. I posted maybe 2 or 3 times at the beginning... and then stopped. No big deal, not like anyone read it anyways.
Well, now I am again training for the Bayshore Half Marathon on May 25, 2013 and when I was making my training plan and starting training I just really wished I had my thoughts from the first time around. I read through bits of the stuff I did manage to publish and I found it quite interesting to see where I was then compared to what I am feeling now. So, I am going to try again. I am about 3.5 weeks into my (admittedly long) training plan and the goal isn't to publish all my runs and all my thoughts, but it is to get into the habit of posting because I signed up for the Chicago Marathon (still doesn't seem real). I really want to blog about training for that and if I get into the habit now... hopefully it will stick when I start training about a month after I run the Bayshore.


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Decorating Ideas - Dining Room Decorating Ideas on a Budget
For many families, the formal dining room has lost ground to a more preferred lived-in space. However, most families still favor eat-in kitchen areas or even family rooms as gathering places. When special dinners or holidays come around, most families feel most at home in the dining room. And when entertaining guests in style, a dining room is a must-have.
The best dining rooms are ones that you look forward to sitting in, that are either whimsical or elegant and make you feel welcome and ready to be well fed. Imagination is the key to decorating your dining room on a budget. Below are some dining room decorating ideas, followed by several inspiring images.
If you're shopping for furniture pieces for your dining room and authentic period pieces are too expensive, look to reproduction pieces like chairs or chests.
Use coverlets or rugs as table coverings for a traditional look. Did you know that people considered rugs too valuable to put them on the floor in the early nineteenth century? That's right – they often draped them on tabletops or beds.
Reduce the cost of having seasonal arrangements on your table by mixing silk or dried flowers with fresh ones; by mixing the two, it makes it hard to tell the difference between them.
Tablecloths are not necessary; maintain a light, natural feel with a soft, colorful table runner instead.
To brighten up simple painted chairs, use Velcro to attach coordinating seat covers. The Velcro allows for easy removal for clean up.
If you're looking for pieces such as an armoire or sideboard or buffet table, find inexpensive unassembled kits that you can put together yourself and then give it a custom paint job to enhance the color scheme of the room.
This can be done in any room of the house: A rustic screen door placed against a wall becomes a surprising, witty – and affordable – piece of art.
Think outside of the box. Don't be scared to mismatch. Creative repurposing is the key. For example, using different styles of chairs around you table in a simple color palette adds interest and character, or use a potting bench in place of a buffet for serving.
Use your wall colors to determine your accent colors for table linens and window treatments; this will help to establish a coherent look to the room.
Simple, inexpensive changes like new shades for a chandelier or a new floral centerpiece arrangement can go a long way to giving your dining room a fresh look, especially for the changing seasons.
Here are a few suggestions for budget table setting touches:
- Use a small bud vase with a trio of tulips and a simple ribbon tied around the vase at each place setting. Mark each with a small tag with each guest's initial for a personal touch.
- For an elegant, yet inexpensive place setting, invert a wine glass and place a single rose bud underneath/inside the "bell."
- Candlesticks can become favors when a small bunch (three is good) is wrapped with a pretty ribbon that matches the rest of the setting.
- Find mixed flatware, assorted dishes and quirky linens at your local thrift shop or flea market.
- Use a flowerpot to serve flatware or rolled napkins.
- A small flower pot that is pre-seeded and marked with each guest's name is a great table setting decoration and a lovely favor for your guests to take home.
- I hope these ideas have inspired you to make little, inexpensive changes to your space that'll bring a smile to your face.


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Rihanna: All White LAX Departure
Rihanna pops up the hood of her all white jumpsuit while walking through LAX International Airport on Sunday (March 3) in Los Angeles.
The 25-year-old singer caught a departing flight to kick off her Diamonds World Tour, which begins on Friday (March 8) in Buffalo, New York.
The night before, Rihanna wore a jacket that read "Rude Boy" while enjoying a night out with friends at Playhouse Nightclub.
Be sure to see Rihanna when the Diamonds World Tour comes to your town!
FYI: Rihanna is wearing a DKNY Exclusively for Opening Ceremony Spring/Summer 2013 jumpsuit.
30+ pictures inside of Rihanna at LAX…


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Enterprise Intel SSD 710 Released (IDF 2011)
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The photo below is a garden made out of recycled materials. It was full of colour and definitely original :) was a really great idea and the ladies at the show said they would come and introduce some of their ideas into your garden :)
It's not just flowers at the show, there is also a craft tent and food court. This lady was drawing her pet spaniel with colored pencil and I just thought it was amazing that she could do that in front of 100's of people!!
I have never seen vegetables as big as the once here! These where just a few but there were marrows as big as me and onions the size of my head.
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Kranium sets bar for overseas based artistes
Curtis Campbelll, Gleaner Writer
Many Jamaica-born artistes who reside in the US, and the UK, have tried to push their careers despite residing outside of the authentic reggae/dancehall atmosphere in Jamaica. Many have tried and failed to make an impact without moving back to Jamaica. However, rising reggae/dancehall sensation Kranium, says he has discovered the formula to reap success in Jamaican music while living in the abroad.
The artiste who resides in the US, says some overseas-based Jamaican artistes fail to achieve success in their endeavours, because they either employ ineffective promotion methods or simply forget their roots.
The singer, who migrated at age 13, currently has one of the most played records in Jamaica for 2014. The single, Nobody Has To Know, received over 7 million views on YouTube, and climbed several local charts in the process. Kranium also became one of Jamaica's first up-and-coming acts to be featured on internationally renowned urban television station BET, a platform which normally targets established acts like Beenie Man, Bounty Killer, Sean Paul, Elephant Man, Mr Vegas and Shaggy.
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The Gleaner recently spoke to Kranium about his strategy in breaking into the mainstream reggae/dancehall market while residing in the US. "I would say I never try to flood the market, I took it one song at a time and promoted it until the wheel fell off. With music in America, anybody can make it, but you have to make songs soak into people, because it is not as fast pace, as in Jamaica, so you have to take time with it. A lot of people get discouraged when a song does not pick up in five or six months, but I don't go about my music like that," he said.
The artiste disclosed that Nobody Has To Know was released for over a year before getting attention in Jamaica. However, he made sure to cement the single in New York first, a city which also has a strong Caribbean population and Caribbean-inspired events. The artiste also said, by doing dubplates, the single was able to move across boundaries in the pouches of DJs.
"You still have to do the street work like you are in Jamaica if you want to break from overseas, and you have to have the right song. I am also a humble person and I know how to deal with people, so my personality has some bearing on my success. I also associate with level-headed persons, because once somebody understands what is needed to be done, we can move forward without much obstacles," Kranium said.
The singer also pointed out that some overseas-based reggae/dancehall artistes tend to hinder their own progress whenever they sign to overseas-based record labels and forget that their music should still mirror the Jamaican influence.
"Most times, the artiste dem live inna America and they sing songs to appeal to American people, rather than singing inna your Patois. Some artistes get signed to a label and they start singing pop music? Yu cyah duh dat and a reggae music yu supposed to sing. Yu have to stay in your reggae lane for the people to like it. In other words, the music has to be authentic in the Jamaican dialect," he said.
Kranium also disclosed that he promotes his music at New York-based events, which are spin-offs of Jamaican events. "In Jamaica, you have Hot Mondays, in New York you have Monday Nights In New York, and other events throughout the week. So you just record your song and go and promote it there. Plus DJs from Jamaica are flying in and out of the US, now. So when they hear the hot songs, they normally bring them back to Jamaica," he said.
Kranium has set his bar for success even higher, as his follow-up single, Lifestyle, is also receiving attention both locally and in the US. The song is currently number two on the iTunes reggae chart. For those overseas-based artistes who think they need a platform in Jamaica to excel in reggae or dancehall, Kranium says the focus does not have to be on Jamaica.
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The artiste says he was told that he would not make it while living in the US. However, he is pleased to have silenced his critiques. Several artistes before Kranium have tried and failed miserably, some even opting to return to the island in the hope of making a closer connection with Jamaican music lovers.
Recording artistes like KC Jockey, Don Andre, Jey Marc The Lyricist, Onirose, Vision, Gappy Ranks, Lincoln 3 Dot, among others, are currently based overseas. However, unlike Kranium, they are yet to connect with Jamaica in a major way.


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Yes, Mr. Gansler is likely motivated, partly or mainly, by the fact that Mr. Brown, the putative front-runner, has racked up endorsements from powerful labor groups. That means that Mr. Gansler may end up being the main target of vicious super-PAC ads and direct mailings. But Mr. Brown and Ms. Mizeur are not immune; once the outside-funded ad wars are ignited, everyone is fair game.
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I think I've fixed the presentation issue. Now I'm worried that it's verging on joke-article territory.
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This is… very confusing. Even with the OOC Note, I can barely follow what you are aiming on with this, so I don't think it would do very well. There are a couple of meta-skips here that really work while screwing with their own documentation (take the printer for example) without being so damn complicated…
I'm pretty much still where I was before; it's not at all clear what's going on until you explain it in the OOC note at the end, and a lot of the reason for that is that it's not clear where the switches between trustworthy and untrustworthy information are located, or in fact whether any of the material in the description and history log are to be taken as factual. (If the inserted notes from Agent Blackbox are assumed to be the SCP writing about itself, why should I think that the paragraphs immediately before and after it — which are also about the SCP — aren't more of the same?)
It's conceivable (maybe even likely) that I'm just really dense, but I'd still downvote the current version.
I've added heavily marked-up paragraphs to the start of the description (link). The markup-free version:
Well, it's not necessarily a bad concept, but a) the markup, while making sense in the context of the document, is quite annoying to read, b) the whole long LOLFoundation log is extreme overkill, c) this feels vaguely similar to a sort of an SCP-732esque agent.
First off, your containment procedures are just hugely cumbersome. I'm not sure I see the need for two bands of exclusion zones instead of one; you basically repeat all the information about live briefings three times when you should only do it once, and the end result is puzzling instead of engaging.
Then we have three things in the description- can't be referred to directly, must be referred to in modified text, and it's the ideal foundation vacation spot. The vacation spot idea is frankly a very dated one; there's no compelling reason why the Foundation would use an anomalous town for secure vacations instead of just building a retreat town in the middle of nowhere for their staff. Since the idea doesn't really make sense, it doesn't provide enough pay off to justify the unmentionable idea, which in turn fails to justify the unreadable text.
Now, this could have promise if you made more jokes and turned it into a J, but as it stands it's kind of a mess.
I sing of arms and the man
Storm-tossed by Hera's jealousy
Uhm, not sure I understood this correctly, but I believe the anomaly itself describes the town as a perfect vacation spot for the Foundation in order to lure more people there while it isn't exactly safe?
Oh god, you're right, I completely misinterpreted that. I couldn't get through the jumbled text the first time around. So I take back what I said about the idea, but still think the meta text is interfereing more than adding meaning…
I sing of arms and the man
Storm-tossed by Hera's jealousy
I think it needs to be about what the SCP can't change about its article — it can say that the townspeople made a radio tower because they love the Foundation and the Foundation accidentally knocked it down while drunk, but the anomaly can't just replace it with a story about a duck.
Otherwise, I like it.


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Here is a sneak preview at the commercial to be (allegedly) run during the Super Bowl for the Orland Harry Potter amusement park – the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. If you want a much clearer look at the promo go here: AOL Universal
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Linkagoal Experience Redesign
Redefining the experience of a unique social network made for creating, sharing, and achieving goals.
Linkagoal is a social network where users can compose and share their personal goals while communally supporting other users to achieve their ambitions, as well. EchoUser was tasked with creating a more complete and engaging experience using the framework and principles of the existing product. Over the duration of seven total months, we worked with Linkagoal on a complete design overhaul for both mobile and desktop user experiences.
The central player in the Linkagoal experience is the goal: this drives all interactions between different users on the site.
During the initial Discovery Month, the EchoUser team conducted a series of thorough interviews to collect insights from current and potential users. Next, we supplemented these observations by performing an expert analysis. Translating data into practical and apprised information, we channeled our critical findings into our areas of focus: user experience, retention, and journeys.
Establishing a Framework
At the conclusion of the Discovery Month, the EchoUser team had compiled enough information and constructed a deep enough understanding of Linkagoal's product, target users, and problem areas to blueprint the framework that would guide the overall redesign. Insights derived from the expert analysis and user interviews informed the creation of specific architectural site components, allowing the EchoUser team to piece the site together on a high level.
Redesigning Linkagoal
During the course of the redesign, the primary framework gave us a foundation upon which to link core objects on the site that correspond to key elements of the user experience. With this high level overview, we began to work on goals, which are the user's core site interaction, and progressed to other key areas — the dashboard, profile, and explore page — strengthening the flow and experiential relationship between each. These improved underlying structural elements would provide a cohesive base for the Linkagoal community to share and achieve.
We began this phase of development with conceptual wireframes, collaborating frequently and consistently between the EchoUser team as well as the Linkagoal team. After rapidly iterating our designs into medium fidelity wireframes, we then proceeded to take a number of these designs into lightweight usability testing to enhance our mockups based on user findings.
A few iterations and another round of user testing later, we were ready to progress into high fidelity wireframes.
The final high fidelity wireframes reflect an experience in which the user can easily see and update their own progress as well as empower and motivate the progress of others in the Linkagoal community. We believe the new site will encourage users to remain actively engaged on Linkagoal, as well as active in pursuing their own goals.


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Can a 2-year-old have too many ties? I hope not, 'cause my little boy has a few thanks to the easy Lil' Guy Tie Pattern I bought from Make It and Love It's shop!! The first one I made was the green polka dot one....he got that one for Christmas. It was so adorable on him...I couldn't resist making some more!!
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Since I was on a tie making kick, I thought it would be fun to give one away!! How would you like to win this cute blue polka dot tie?!FYI: This tie was made using the 2T-3T size. It fits my son, who wears 3T-4T.
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|15 Jan 2014
No Bootmgr
After installing an auxiliary hard drive and re-starting the PC, the "no bootmgr" error came up. I pulled the side off the case and saw that the main drive power cable had come off. I isolated the aux drive, replaced the power cable on the main drive, and re-started. Same message persists despite numerous fix/massages. have done chkdsk, defrag, bootrec, etc. System image restore still restarts with same result.
The last one, which makes sense to me is using cmd prompt from DVD installation disk -
Select drive of source = D:\
D:\copy bootmgr c:\
y/n/all = y
"access denied"
What is the solution to access here? I assume I am already administrator status, as was not prompted for username and pw?
|My System Specs
|15 Jan 2014
Welcome to Seven Forums lucidoobe.
Check the boot drive priority in your BIOS making sure the w7 drive is set before the auxiliary drive.
|My System Specs
|15 Jan 2014
No bootmgr
The aux drive is not accessible, as I removed the sata data cable to make sure of that. It is possible that when the pwr cable fell away from the C drive on first startup, the system looked at the aux drive? In any case, there appears to be no bootmgr that is able to be copied from the C drive any more?
|My System Specs
|15 Jan 2014
It's possible, but unlikely unless it lost power while it was being read or written to. Still, is the w7 drive set to boot first, or second after a CD/DVD drive?
Check that first then try this: Startup Repair
|My System Specs
|15 Jan 2014
Get the AOMEI Pro for free and make a CD or stick. Load from that and have a look what thedisk situation is - especially which partition is the active partition.
Aomei Partition Assistant Pro Edition 5.5 Giveaway
You can also try to run startup/repair 3 times hoping to fix the bootmgr.
|My System Specs
|15 Jan 2014
I always set boot order to DVD/main drive. This way I can load up programs from repair disk, Hiren, system DVD, etc.
Startup repair has been activated several times.
I will have a look at AOMEI.
Thanx for replies.
|My System Specs
|16 Jan 2014
No bootmgr
Hi WHS,
I have downloaded AOMEI and made an ISO which I burned to a bootable CD. I have run it on the TV PC and surface scan is totally clean. I am currently 45 % through scanning for lost partitions and have found:
0 - NTFS - 3.01MB - Logical
1 - NTFS - 3.01MB - Logical
2 - NTFS - 3.01MB - Logical
3 - NTFS - 3.01MB - Logical
I have done some "create MBR" (this and Hiren?) so looks like they are accumulating? What are your suggestions?
|My System Specs
|16 Jan 2014
Can you take a (readable) picture with the camera of what partitions AOMEI shows and post it here. That may help us to see what the situation on the disk is. Something like this:
|My System Specs
|16 Jan 2014
OK, I will get my old Kodak out and do this, Stand by.
|My System Specs
|16 Jan 2014
TV screen img
This is not the best, but as you can see, there is just one partition visible. This would be of the system image restore, the last action I took, which will not boot up?
Why are the boot sections not visible?
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Vanity in writing
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
- Henry David Thoreau
And I'm left speechless.
I wonder now why I write at all.
I like to write,yes, but why? Is it in part because it silently fuels the raging fire inside me that is my ego? Or maybe, like Walden said, it's plain vanity?


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Xiaomi Mi 5S, 5S Plus, Mi Note 2 & Mi MIX Get Android Nougat on MIUI 8 Developer Edition
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Xiaomi's MIUI is famous for its heavy customization. That may be a good thing for some but others can't live with the duration it takes for it to move to a different Android version. And even when it does, most of the new features are buried deep under the UI.
The Mi 5S, 5S Plus, Mi Note 2 and Mi MIX were all launched in the 4th quarter of 2016, a few months after Android Nougat was released. All four devices were Xiaomi's flagship phones up until the Mi 6 was released. You would expect Xiaomi to focus on getting Nougat out to these devices as quickly as possible but sadly that isn't the case.
On Friday, Xiaomi finally announced an Android Nougat update for those running the Developer Edition of its ROM. That means there might still be at least a one month wait before it makes it out as a stable release.
There is really nothing to be excited about. Those who run Android Nougat on the Mi 5 know there is little or no difference in the way the device looks after upgrading from Android Marshmallow. The reason is because it is still based on MIUI 8.
One wonders what Xiaomi is really doing with MIUI. It takes it super long to update from one Android Version to another and when it does, most of the new features are not even visible or present. And when it decides to release a new version of MIUI, there is almost a 12-month wait before release and another couple of months before it starts hitting devices.
READ MORE: MIUI v18.104.22.168 Brings Mi Pay to Xiaomi Mi 6
If you own any of the above devices and run the Developer Edition, you should get the update. Change-log includes an upgrade to Nougat and a number of bug fixes.


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Balay Sa Agta
Argao, Cebu
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Are you not afraid of the dark? Or not claustrophobic?
Cebu offers also caving or spelunking for the outdoor junkies.
Part of our South Cebu Adventure is an itinerary to Balay sa Agta in Argao or the House of the Giant. It is approximately a two-hour bus ride from Cebu City. From Cabecera de Argao, which is the town's center, you can register or book at the tourism office for about Php 600 per person. Inclusive of this is the roundtrip habal habal ride, guided caving, sidetrip to Bugasok falls and a snack.
The ride to Brgy. Conalum takes you around 45 mins to an hour. Yes. That's quite a long travel. But you will be rewarded with natural views. Most of roads are paved. Expect to be a bumpy one on the latter part of the motor ride.
Finally after enduring some butt cramps, we arrived at the Brgy. Hall where we registered and paid an entrance fee of Php 20. Then we had to hike a little more minutes up to the cave. It is an easy trek. Good for beginners. Just be careful though since the trail is a little bit narrow on some parts, you might fall off the ravines. At last, we saw the mouth of the cave. We stopped for a while. Our guide prepared first the the ropes where we will attached ourselves to, to prevent us from falling. This is where the challenge is.
Now we're inside the cave. It was very dark. It's pitch black. We have to open our headlights. We we're only three that time. The complete darkness around me somehow gives me goosebumps. All i can hear aside from our voices are the high pitched squeaks from bats and the drips of waters from stalactites.
Minutes of walking, finally there was a light from the distance . Slowly we arrived at the center of the cave. I was amazed by the hole that served as a giant natural luminaire. (See photo).We continued walking inside the cave. It was cold. We saw some rock formations like the turtle-shaped stalagmites as we passed by.
Our guide suddenly said "gusto nyo makita ung kapre?" That's the time i got scared more haha. Imagining that just like in movies, someone will grab you in the darkness. . The kapre he was talking about is the rock formation where you can see at the end of the cave located at the top. When we reached it, our guide asked us to turn off our headlight. He pointed using his flashlight to where the kapre is. There it is, at the top, there is the formation of a kapre puffing a tabacco.
Our guide said, no one got good pictures of it. So we tried to take one but its blurry. There is only one way out so we had to go back. It took us almost 1 1/2 hours exploring the cave.
It is advisable to contact first the tourism office since it is not allowed to enter the cave during heavy rains because it will be filled with water.
After caving, you can visit also the nearby Bugasok Falls. Didn't quite enjoyed since the water is muddy that time because of the rain. So it is better to check the weather first before going here.
After we got back at the town, we were rewarded with Argao's famous torta and tablea hot choco drink. We had a good time eating this since we had the chance to talk to the owner , Jessie. She's quite a jolly person. Promise you'll gonna love her.
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A while back, I saw a posting on the D64K - DX expedition to Comoros Islands web site. It was obvious that they were very well equipped for 6m. They had a serious antenna; low loss feed lines and some power to boot. The plan was to operate EME at their moon rise and moon set, some TEP/F2 work and possibly MS work into Africa.
I determined that the distance was 2,247 km from my QTH. After speaking to some of the local VHF doyens my initial excitement was a bit dampened. They thought that it was just a bit too far and my expectations were unrealistic.
Yesterday I saw on the reflector that they were beaming towards Africa using FSK441. Due to some confusion it turned out we were all transmitting in the same period. After 30 minutes, I stopped transmission and decoded a ping from them. Only after the sked did I realize that the 140 ms long ping contained the full call and grid locator. See screen shot below. I immediately arranged for a further sked.
We have just completed another marathon session of 1 hour and 20 minutes. I received absolutely nothing from them this morning. After we quit, I received a message from them stating that they decoded 4 pings from me, the longest being 2 seconds long. This was incredibly good news!
I believe we have a real chance at completing a MS QSO, we just need patience and a few rocks from the Perseids meteor shower……
After looking at the South African VHF records, I now understand why the doyens were skeptical. The record distance via meteor scatter is only 1,929 km
Good thing I did not see this before……
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In October 1992, the Summit Volunteer First Aid Squad became one of the first agencies in the state to deliver Emergency Medical Services using bicycles. Since that time the Bike Team has been deployed at various events involving large numbers of people and/or large areas to cover. The bicycles are of particular value at crowded events where ambulance response might be delayed.
Events in our coverage area, the City of Summit, covered by the Bike Team include:
Once word of our existence got around, we began to receive invitations to events outside of our area. In 1996 the team visited neighboring Cranford for their 125 year anniversary parade and celebration. We also traveled to the Rutgers New Brunswick campus to cover the Hyacinth Foundation AIDS walk. We were invited to return in 1997 and 1998 and served as the lead EMS agency for the event. The team worked with the Rutgers and New Brunswick Police Departments and BLS units from Rutgers Emergency Services and Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center. There were several minor injuries, all of which were handled by the Bike Team.
In 1997 we were also asked to cover the July 4th parade in neighboring Chatham. 3 members of the team handled that assignment, while 3 others provided coverage at the Independence Day celebration in Summit. We were quite pleased to be able to cover 2 simultaneous events. In 1998, we again covered 2 events in the same day: the Fountain Baptist Church 100th anniversary parade here in Summit and the Chatham Borough Fire Dept.100th anniversary parade that afternoon.
Our Team also joined forces with ALS Bike teams from Overlook Hospital and St. Elizabeth's Hospital to cover the annual Mount Carmel celebration in Berkeley Heights and has been requested to cover that event for the past 10 years. Combination ALS/BLS teams and 2 BLS teams provided primary first responder coverage at this event which is typically attended by 20,000+ people.
Two of our members also joined the Overlook MICU team at the Bernardsville Fire Department 100th anniversary parade. (You don't truly appreciate the rolling hills of Bernardsville until you've biked them!)
In 1998, 5 Bike Team members provided primary EMS coverage at the MS Society 50 mile Coast the Coast Bike Tour from Sandy Hook to Spring Lake an event we would cover for the next 18 years (2000 in the pouring rain!) and have been joined by members of several other EMS bike teams.
In 2005, we hosted a rest stop for the National EMS Memorial Bike Ride as it passed through Summit and in 2006, we covered the Police Unity Tour starting activities in Florham Park. Our team is also requested to cover the St Patrick's Day Parade in Union each year.
Of course, this wouldn't be an true EMS organization if someone didn't establish Standard Operating Procedures. From the team's humble beginnings as an experiment, we have now developed Bicycle EMS Operating Procedures, a standard equipment list and a training program.


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Abigail is five years old when she visits the estates of one of her mother's dearest friends. Against her mother's wishes she travels into the forest and discovers a stream, along with a bear. Seconds from her death, Kayden, the sixteen year old brother of her mother's friend, rushes in to save her. However, now she's deeply and hopelessly in love with him and she knows that for the rest of her life she will be left to do nothing but wish they could be together.
Because there's no way Kayden would ever love her too, right?
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