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January 2007 Hallmark Ornament Show in California
You don't see too many Hallmark ornament shows around anymore. Most the secondary market buying and selling now happens on the internet. However, the HoHo (Hooked on Hallmark Ornaments) Club of Southern California is hosting a Hallmark ornament show and sale on January 14, 2007 at the Marriott Suites Anaheim. The hotel address is: 12015 Harbor Blvd, Garden Grove, California 92840. Show hours are 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and admission is $4 per person. Parking is free and there are hourly door prizes. For more information, go to the club web site at: http://members.cox.net/hohoclub/


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Editor's Note: This is part III of a three-part debate on whether homosexuality is compatible with political conservatism. Part 1 can be read here and part 2 is available here.
My debating partner Ryan Sorba first rose to prominence after a notorious speech he gave last year at CPAC in which he condemned the conservative gathering from the podium.
After the speech Sorba had an encounter with someone whose name should be familiar to regular NewsReal Blog readers: Alex Knepper.
The original post of the back and forth is no longer online, but a large excerpt is still up at Andrew Sullivan's blog here.
The two didn't really get along for obvious reasons. Knepper called Sorba "intrinsically evil" to his face (a harsher condemnation than he gave the North American Man-Boy Love Association.) Correction: this "intrinsically evil" line was from Sorba to Knepper after Knepper refused to shake Sorba's hand. And Sorba allegedly said that he wanted to physically fight Knepper.
This animosity between the two is unsurprising. What disturbs us most deeply is that which we recognize in ourselves. And Knepper and Sorba have much more in common than either could ever admit.
For those unfamiliar with the back story of NewsReal Blog's history with Knepper the place to begin is this post I wrote here on July 10 of last year correcting Knepper's libels of us and explaining why David Horowitz and myself chose to no longer publish his posts. The pivotal reason compelling Knepper's dismissal was his insistence on submitting work supporting pedophilia. (The day we decided to get rid of him of the two posts he submitted one argued that a girl becomes a woman at 14.)
The day after running the post I was contacted by a source who informed me that they had evidence that Knepper was actually sexually attracted to children — screenshots of posts and images of children that Knepper had posted in a gay teen forum. My source and I agreed that we did not want to expose this information unless absolutely necessary. For months we sat uncomfortably with our knowledge about Knepper's true motivations until September when a Red State post by Lexington_Concord challenged Knepper. Knowing that he would likely prepare a counterattack I decided to write my own response laying out the evidence yet again. In preparing my research I accidentally discovered the Gay Teen Forum where Knepper was still posting under the alias "Lostpainting." In one post in the forum he admitted who he was and also declared his sexual interest in 15-year-olds. When my colleague Jenn Q. Public and I looked a bit deeper we were horrified to find Knepper's jokes about child rape and his admissions that he masturbated to images of "CHILFs." (Yes, that's "Child I'd Like to F—.") Having seen the shocking material firsthand we decided it would be irresponsible to allow Knepper to continue to rise on the Right so we ended up publishing the results of our research in October here. The fallout from the post was Knepper's expulsion from all the conservative publications who had published him and even the center-left Frum Forum.
On his facebook page afterwards Knepper admitted that his involvement with the Right was merely a "marriage of convenience." Of course it was. He didn't care about defending America — he cared about advancing his disgusting ideas about sex.
Knepper sought to subvert the Conservative Movement from within to make it safe for his brand of sexual totalitarianism. Under the cloak of respectable libertarian argumentation he gradually injected arguments sympathetic to pedophilia, rapists, and sexual predators into his blog posts. Of course, there is a faction on the Right who Knepper knew would be a problem in his quest: Christian conservatives. So he targeted them for criticism and ridicule, seeking to marginalize them as much as he could. We learned later that all this activity was actually driven by Knepper's personal attraction to children.
Sorba is the same way except his totalitarianism is of the theocratic variety. Under the cloak of respectable social conservative argumentation against gay marriage he seeks to blend in his own anti-gay bigotry in favor of reinstating anti-sodomy laws and purging gays from the Right. The segment of the Conservative Movement that must be crushed is the "socially liberal" libertarians. Sorba doesn't need to formally answer the question I posed at the end of rounds one and two of our debate. He's already made clear by his two responses that he doesn't care about defending America; he want to embarrass himself by fighting patriots like Andrew Breitbart (yes, that's how his last name is spelled,) GOProud, Lisa De Pasquale, and Tammy Bruce.
It's really as simple as this: if someone's primary concerns are others on the Right then it's a safe bet that they're not truly a conservative. It's certainly fine to criticize others on the Right or to try and nudge the movement in a certain direction but these cannot be one's #1 priority — not today when our country is so threatened by backbreaking debt and World War IV is only beginning. Does Sorba have his own personal demons — as Knepper did — that find expression through his political activism? It's a safe bet that he probably does, though I'll leave it to others to speculate what they could be until Sorba slips up in some fashion and the truth about him is revealed to all. I won't fall into the trap he's set by littering the internet with shirtless images of himself – I won't accuse him of being a closeted gay man.
There's something else Knepper and Sorba have in common — a trait they share with all who are possessed of the totalitarian temperament: they lie as easily as they breathe. And it's on this point that we return to our debate about whether gays can be conservatives and my explanation for why Sorba no longer has a place to spread lies and smears at this publication.
Question: if you agreed to three lunch dates with someone and at the first two they took a dump on the table in front of you would you be faulted in refusing the third get-together? If you were playing cards with someone and you caught them with an ace up their sleeve would you be faulted if you refused to keep playing with them? Sorba has committed the intellectual equivalent of both of these acts in the previous two rounds of debate and in his recent anti-gay activism. In his previous responses he intentionally lied to NRB's readers about William F. Buckley Jr., Ronald Reagan, and the amount the federal government spends on gay AIDS patients who do not have health insurance. He's also recently embarked on a smear campaign in which he has accused Breitbart of being gay. From Sorba's Facebook page:
Breitbart didn't care for this libel. He posted on Sorba's facebook wall:
So of course Sorba had to walk back his lie and downplay what he actually wrote:
I'm sure Sorba will have an equally braindead, incoherent explanation for the three lies I'm calling him out for right now.
Sorba asserted that conservative founder William F. Buckley Jr. agrees with him that gays cannot be part of the Conservative Movement. To reveal this malicious lie we have to expose Sorba's modus operandi. And my friend Calvin Freiburger (a social conservative and thoughtful opponent of gay marriage) did so perfectly in the comments of the last round of debate:
To make his position seem like it has more support than it really does, Sorba routinely changes arguments – one minute he's railing against homosexuality itself, and the next he's railing against the radical gay agenda and figures on the Right who've succumbed to it – and he quotes figures condemning the latter as if they agree with him on the former. Does this tool even realize that he's actually hurting the cause of defending marriage by lumping its serious defenders with the nuts like him? GOProud, GLAAD, GLSEN, and the HRC thank you for your pro-bono advertising, Ryan.
In my previous post I linked to a statement by Buckley written in July of 1990 in which he made his position explicit:
National Review will not be scarred by thoughtless gay bashing, let alone be animated by such practices … You are absolutely correct in saying that gays should be welcome as partners in efforts to mint sound public policies; not correct, in my judgement, in concluding that such a partnership presupposes the repeal of convictions that are more, much more, than mere accretions of bigotry.
[emphasis mine]
I know for a fact that Sorba has read that statement. But he doesn't care about the truth; he cares about furthering his totalitarian agenda by persuading stupid people to agree with him. His rebuttal? Citing Buckley circa the late '60s voicing his moral disapproval of homosexuality. Sorba then points out the irrelevant facts that Marvin Liebman eventually gave up calling himself a conservative and then allied himself with radical gays who engaged in sexual practices that Sorba can vicariously enjoy by writing about them.
Sorba also has to lie about Ronald Reagan. I know for a fact that Sorba clicked the link I provided to the 2004 Dale Carpenter column with the information about Reagan's record on gays. He lies about the entire case claiming my argument is based on one of the less-relevant items from Reagan's gay-tolerant life: that the Gipper allowed a gay couple to spend a night at the White House in 1984.
Sorba goes on to claim — without evidence — that Reagan was a supporter of putting gays in jail. He seems to think that Reagan agreed with every single decision made by every single judge he ever appointed in his entire political life.
If Sorba was an honest man instead of a totalitarian ideologue seeking to lie his way into influence, he would acknowledge the fact that Reagan was a staunch opponent of the infamous Briggs Amendment. This California proposition proposed in 1978 would have made it illegal for gays, lesbians, and their straight supporters to work as California teachers. So Sorba wants us to believe that Reagan fought on behalf of gays teaching our children but that he supported government arresting them for what they do in the bedroom?
Deroy Murdock has more to supplement Carpenter's piece:
"I remember Reagan telling us that in Hollywood he knew a lot of gays, and he never had any problem with them," says Martin Anderson, a high-level Reagan adviser since 1975, coeditor of Reagan: A Life in Letters, the latest collection of material that Ronald Reagan wrote in his own hand. "I think a number of people who were gay worked for the Reagans," Anderson told me. "We never kept track. But he never said anything even remotely like that comment in the movie. His basic attitude was 'Leave them alone.'"
"Despite the urging of some of his conservative supporters, he never made fighting homosexuality a cause," wrote Kenneth T. Walsh, former U.S. News and World Report White House correspondent, in his 1997 biography, Ronald Reagan. "In the final analysis, Reagan felt that what people do in private is their own business, not the government's."
Could Reagan have said more about AIDS? Surely, and he might have done so were he less focused on reviving America's moribund economy and peacefully defeating Soviet Communism. Could he have done more? Of course. Who could not have? But the ideas that Ronald Reagan did nothing, or worse, about AIDS and hated gays, to boot, are both tired, left-wing lies about an American legend.
In other words, Sorba stands with the Left in lying about Reagan as an anti-gay zealot who wanted AIDS victims to die. This parallels with an uncomfortable truth Sorba is too intellectually ill-equipped to confront: he's the anti-gay crusader the Left longs to hold up as the standard-bearer for the entire Conservative Movement. Why does he think CNN so eagerly profiled him? Because of his sharp wit and encyclopedic knowledge of gay jokes? The Conservative Movement that Sorba claims to stand for is the one that the Left wishes actually existed: a group of bigots that just wants to stick gay people in jail.
Sorba doesn't even bother trying to twist Barry Goldwater onto his side. The evidence of Goldwater's position is so overwhelming that Sorba instead has to start smearing him and his family with meaningless references to UFOs and alleged wife-swapping. (So Sorba is now concerned with heterosexual private acts too?) I generously indulge Sorba with two rounds of debate and over 2000 words' worth of space in David Horowitz's publication and this is what he chooses to talk about?
In my last post I challenged this questionable Sorba-ism:
Not to mention in 2011 tax payers will shovel out twenty billion five hundred million dollars on HIV/AIDS treatment for those who cannot afford insurance.
The evidence that Sorba supplied refutes his own claim. The 20.5 billion figure is the entire domestic budget the federal government allocates to anything having to do with HIV/AIDS — across many different programs. It includes treatment, research, housing allowances, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security Disability, Federal Employees Health Benefit Plan, and prevention. A total of $14.1 billion is allocated for "care/treatment." We have the ticking time bomb of Social Security and the recent behemoth of Obamacare — among other fiscal problems — yet Sorba is concerned about $14.1 billion for AIDS (spending that Reagan himself started)? Why do I find this sudden fiscal hawkishness a transparent fraud? Maybe it's a mistake for Sorba to be waging his jihad against the libertarians because they're likely to be the ones most receptive to axing government spending on HIV/AIDS (albeit for more principled reasons.)
So that's three things — Reagan, Buckley, and government AIDS spending — that Sorba clearly lied about. Should I go on? Is it even worth bothering wading through the barely-literate muck of his last eight paragraphs' clunky Natural Law argument when I've already established that Sorba is a pathological liar unworthy of inclusion in intellectual discussion? Well, nobody's going to bother to refute this nonsense if I don't so here we go:
Both the Declaration and Constitution ground human rights in human nature and the universal ethical dictates of the natural law –and this is crucial for the Conservative.
If our rights were grounded in the whims of men, or in left-wing socially constructed identities built up around various capricious desires like same-sex attraction or banana-philia, then our rights would be of a very different nature.
If the "gay" agenda were to succeed in acquiring fundamental rights it would set a revolutionary precedent. It would strike a blow at the very heart of the foundation upon which all other rights stand –our shared human nature.
This is the goal of the "gay" agenda, which will stop at nothing to achieve its end. All who refer to themselves as "gay" are, at present, laboring to achieve this end –whether they know it or not. "Gay" is incommensurate with modern Conservatism, and Classical Liberalism. Either abandon the term, or get out of the movement.
To translate Sorba's incoherent prose: Homosexual acts are against natural law, natural law forms the basis for the Constitution, defending the constitution is the basis of conservatism, ergo those who engage in homosexual acts cannot be conservatives, are in fact working to destroy the basis for our country, and should be imprisoned. That's Sorba's entire argument and vision for the Conservative Movement. Meanwhile the National Debt keeps rising and Shariah keeps creeping, and Israel's enemies keep plotting her destruction before they move on to us.
The problem for Sorba is that "Natural Law" as a philosophical concept is a broad one with numerous thinkers across the centuries. (We here at NRB explored the challenge of understanding Natural Law over a year ago here and here.) Natural Law concepts originated with the Pagan philosopher Cicero (106-43 BC,) were further developed by the Catholic Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274,) and influenced the Founders in the Enlightenment writings of John Locke (1632-1704.) The mere fact that some Natural Law thinkers have argued that gay sex acts are immoral does not prove that the constitution has anything to do with opposition to homosexuality. Some Natural Law thinkers have argued against birth control and all non-procreative forms of sex too. So I guess that means that everyone who uses contraceptives and engages in heterosexual oral sex can't be a conservative either, right?
Let's just call this Natural Law malarkey what it is: Sorba trying to sound smarter than he is in order to persuade stupid people into thinking there are high-brow reasons to justify their bigotry.
When Jenn and I wrote our article exposing Knepper one of our concerns was the effect his rise could have on the cause of all gay conservatives. We did not want his depravity tarnishing our gay friends on the Right. In confronting Sorba and exposing his totalitarian agenda and dishonest methods I have a similar concern: defending my Christian conservative and social conservative friends. NRB core contributors Calvin Freiburger, Lisa Graas, Diane Schrader, and Pastor Paul Cooper are people I care about and respect. Their opposition to gay marriage and spiritual conviction of homosexuality's sinfulness are legitimate, principled positions. But as long as the Ryan Sorbas of the world maintain prominence the Left will always be armed with a powerful weapon to attack them with nonsense of jailing gay people. Calvin has boldly challenged these anti-gay radicals in the past. He sets a good example for other social conservatives and draws an appropriate line.
For the Conservative Movement to continue to serve its role as the bulwark defender of the American Idea we must maintain the political traditions established by the Founding Fathers and revitalized in the 20th century by Buckley, Reagan, and Goldwater. This is a movement big enough for both socially liberal libertarians and socially conservative Christians. It does not need either the radical makeover of Sorba or Knepper.
Because of the fact of Sorba's pathological lying exposed in the previous rounds of the debate and in his conduct with Andrew Breitbart I will not grant him any additional space at NRB or in our comments section to further libel Reagan, Buckley, Breitbart and the Conservative Movement. I urge other publications and media outlets to adopt the same policy until Sorba sees the error of his ways and publicly apologizes for his embarrassing actions. Breitbart does not need to debate Sorba and neither does Red Eye host Greg Gutfeld. This debate was Sorba's opportunity to demonstrate that he could make legitimate arguments and his ideas were worth engaging. He failed on a massive scale. It would be a disservice to NRB's readership to continue to provide him with a platform to speak after he's behaved with such dishonesty, malice, and childishness.


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TUALATIN, Ore., Aug. 08, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Six Reddaway professional drivers have qualified to compete at the 2017 National Truck Driving Championships (NTDC) being held August 9-12 in Orlando, FL. To qualify for the event, these six drivers earned first place in their division at their respective state competitions. All drivers must also travel the entire year prior without a single at-fault collision to qualify to compete.
For the first time, three of the six competitors hail from the Reddaway Boise, Idaho service center. Dean Goodnight, Dan Istre and Drew Coulter all placed first in their respective classes at the Idaho Truck Driving Championships in May to earn their way to NTDC.
Dean Goodnight is a longtime truck driving championship competitor and perennial favorite in Idaho competitions. His first-place finish in the Sleeper Class this year marks the fifth state win of his career earning his participation at Nationals. He was also named Idaho State Grand Champion on four separate occasions (most recently in 2015). Dean has been driving professionally for 32 years--the past 26 spent as a Reddaway city driver.
Dan Istre first started competing in truck driving competitions in 1999, when he won highest overall pre-trip score, was named "Rookie of the Year" as well as Grand Champion at the Idaho TDC. Since then he has earned top honors in Idaho on six separate occasions, including his first-place finish in the Twins class this year. Dan was also named Idaho Driver of the Year in 2010. He has been driving professionally for 34 years. The past 23 years were spent with Reddaway as a linehaul driver.
This year was Drew Coulter's very first time participating in a truck driving championship. Despite that, he earned first place in the 5-Axle category, and was recognized as Idaho "Rookie of the Year." Drew operates as a city driver out of the Reddaway Boise, Idaho service center.
Our final three Reddaway competitors are Mike Elledge, Ryan Harris and John Van Buren.
Mike Elledge earned first place in the Twins class at the 2017 California Truck Driving Championships. Mike recorded the highest overall score across all classes in the written, pre-trip, and skills challenges. He operates as a linehaul driver out of the Reddaway Stockton, CA service center. This will be Mike's first trip to the NTDC.
Ryan Harris is also a frequent TDC competitor and multiple NTDC qualifier. This year, he won first in the 4-Axle class at the Montana Truck Driving Championships. This will be his fifth trip to the NTDC over the course of his career. Ryan currently operates as a city driver out of the Reddaway Billings, MT facility.
John Van Buren is this year's first place winner in the Straight Truck category in Oregon. John has earned his seventh trip to the NTDC. He has been driving professionally for 27 years, and has spent the past 24 years with Reddaway. John also served for 14 years as the Chairman of the Safety Committee while operating out of our former Central Point, OR facility. Today, John works as a city driver out of the Reddaway Medford, OR service center.
"Simply qualifying for the National Truck Driving Championships is a major accomplishment," said T.J O'Connor, president of Reddaway. "These six drivers embody the talent, hard work, and professionalism that has come to define Reddaway. We are incredibly proud to have them on our team representing Reddaway in Orlando. We thank them for their dedication to safety, and wish them the best of luck at Nationals."
The National Truck Driving Championships (Nationals) are held annually and are sponsored by the American Trucking Association (ATA). Competition consists of a driven skills challenge, pre-trip inspection, and a written exam on subjects such as laws, regulations and vehicle maintenance. This year's event will include over 420 competitors, representing dozens of carriers, from across the United States.
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Good Tip: Growing Lemongrass
Lemongrass is a tropical plant used as an aromatic and medicinal herb in many Asian, Caribbean, and African cuisines. It has a delicate lemon fragrance, and it adds an essential authentic note to curries and soups. It also makes a fresh, tangy herbal tea, which supposedly helps cure headaches and the flu.
And yet it's one herb that I never seem to have around when I want to use it. I buy a few stalks, use one or two, then the rest dry out.
But I live in Florida, and lemongrass grows wild here. I realized that an enormous bush threatening to engulf my friend's front entrance was actually lemongrass – the size camouflaged it to my eyes, used to seeing small slender stalks. The blades grew taller than my head and spread out for a yard on either side.
My friend gave me a few stalks and told me to just stick them in a pot of dirt. I did, and now I have a little lemongrass plant! The new stalks are even tenderer than the full-grown grass, which makes them easier to chop and bruise for cooking. I leave my plant outside, since it's still warm and sunny, but I have no reason to think you couldn't grow this inside.
Lemongrass is really a weed; to grow it yourself all you need to do is take a couple stalks from the store and stick them rootside down in some moist potting soil. Use a fairly large pot; the grass will eventually take over any space you give it. Water frequently and leave in a warm sunny spot. In a week or two you will see new green growth, and the grass will reseed itself so eventually you will have a full pot of lemongrass.
• At 101 Cookbooks: Nigel Slater's Luxurious and Deeply Aromatic Noodle Dish, the recipe that got me hooked on lemongrass.


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Japanese team Super Aguri are pulling out of Formula One racing after prolonged financial difficulties.
Super Aguri was the first all-Japanese team in the Western-dominated sport, achieving a long-held ambition of the founder Aguri Suzuki.
But the team struggled after their 2006 debut and suffered a major blow last month when Britain's Magma Group backed out of plans to acquire them.
"I have been very happy that I was able to achieve a miracle and become a team owner, but I have to make the difficult decision to withdraw," Suzuki said. "It had been my dream to become an F1 team owner but I have to put a close to the work."
Honda Motor, which supplies engines and other technical support to Super Aguri, reportedly provided an emergency financial injection to help them through the Spanish Grand Prix on Apr 27.
But Super Aguri were shut out of the latest F1 round at Istanbul amid reports that Honda does not want the team to be a drain on its own racing unit.
In their debut year the team, featuring former Honda driver and Japanese F1 icon Takuma Sato, scored no points. Last season tey won four points to finish second-last and they have yet to score any after four races this season, with drivers Sato and Anthony Davidson of Britain both failing to finish in the opening race in Australia.
Their best result was Sato's 13th place in Barcelona, where Davidson retired. Super Aguri initially had all-Japanese constructors, engine and tyre suppliers, as well as Japanese drivers in Sato and Yuki Ide.
But Ide was stripped of his F1 licence after four races - partly because he was too slow - and was replaced by Frenchman Franck Montagny.
Suzuki was the first Asian on a F1 podium when he finished third at the 1990 Japanese Grand Prix.


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It is always imperative to reduce your monthly expenses as much as you can. This is why people strive by all means to lower their expenses and save at least a few bucks. Car refinancing is one of the means widely employed by millions of people all over the world. For most people, however, they only think of refinancing in the case of homes. They do not give the car much attention yet it presents a perfect way of lowering the expenses.
Refinancing your car does not come with added expenses like in the case of home refinancing. There are minimal or zero costs involved when applying for auto refinance. Those who pair car refinancing with home refinancing do not realize that car refinancing is free. If you have never considered auto refinance, it is highly recommended. Move out of the ubiquitous thinking that auto refinancing only applies in real estate.
The United States Automobile Association, commonly known as the USSA, is a leading US bank in car refinancing. It is owned, operated and mainly used by soldiers of the United States and their families. If you are in the army or happen to have a close relation or friend in the armed forces, you can easily take advantage of the opportunity presented and save several thousand dollars. An auto loan by this bank may be the cheapest source of financing you will ever find throughout your life. If your current auto loan has higher interest rates than those of the USAA, which is always the case, you can refinance it with USAA.
The following are simple, clearly detailed and concise steps on how you can refinance your automobile with USAA. You should go through them if you are interested and at the end of it all, you will end up saving a lot of your hard-earned cash.
How You Can Refinance Your Car with USAA
1. Visit or call your bank that currently holds your car loan. Inquire about the payoff amount for about ten days. The payoff amount is the amount which includes interest, principal and fees that you will owe the bank in the time equivalent to the length you request for the payoff amount. This information is vital as it is part of what the USAA will require when putting together a new refinancing package for you.
2. Inquire about your credit rating. This will definitely influence your chances of succeeding in your application as well as the rates you will be offered. The better your credit score, the better the offer will be. If your credit score is below 600, you may not be offered the refinancing deal. Prior to applying for car refinancing with USAA, it is thus important to try all you can and boost you credit rating.
3. Gather all your income and employment information in one place. This will ease the application process as you will be able to refer quickly to this data when you are filling up the application form. Include all the forms of income that you have. These include social security, retirement and child support.
4. Once you have filled out the application form, visit ussa.com, the USAA website. Log in to your account and if you don't have your log in information, call a representative to have it reset. Once you are in your account, search for "auto loan" at the upper right corner of the account page.
5. On your search results, click the link on "auto loan information". You will land in a new page with detailed information on the loan options. Select the "get started" option and in the new drop down menu that will appear, click on the "refinance auto loan" icon.
6. On the resulting options, select the "apply now" option located on the lower right side of the page. You will land in the application page. Review the personal information about you to ensure it is correct.
7. Click on the right bubble among those appearing at the far top of the page. It is not possible to refinance your car if currently you have leased it. As such, answer the questions that follow correctly. They are simple and straightforward. Some of the questions are the amount of your 10-day payoff and the amount you pay to the bill each month.
8. Once you are done, select whether the new refinancing loan will be a personal or a joint account. If you will share the loan responsibility with your acquaintances, say your spouse or business partners, the loan will affect their credit report in the same way it will affect yours. Once you are done, click on the "next" icon to be taken to the next step.
9. Fill in your income and employment information. Be as accurate and sincere as you can. If you have chosen a joint loan, fill the income information for the people you have included.
10. Fill information regarding your monthly housing payment. If you live in rented house, fill in the rent amount you pay each month.
11. On the next page, review all the information you have entered in the previous pages and ensure it is correct. Click on the "Important Application Icon". This will allow USAA to contact you regarding the application.
12. Click the "Submit" icon to submit your application. The system will check your credit rating to determine if you qualify for car loan refinancing. On the next page, you will get a report whether your application has been approved or rejected. If it is an approval, you will be required to contact USAA for auto loan processing.
After you have submitted your application, keep on checking the message center in the right upper corner of the USAA homepage. If USAA requires more information, you will be contacted through telephone or that message box. If you encounter any trouble when filling out the online application form, contact the USAA customer care department who will assist you on what to do. The number is provided in the website. Additionally, you must be a USAA member in order to qualify for their services. The USAA presents a cheap way of refinancing your car and you should take advantage of this incredible opportunity to bid farewell to those punitive rates.


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"Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demons whom one can neither resist nor understand. …And yet it is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane."
– George Orwell, Why I Write
Editing that book can also be a struggle, keeping the windowpane as clear as possible. There is something exciting about the 'birth' of a book, with the editor acting sometimes as midwife, sometimes as mentor, always as the clarifier of intent and purpose.
This is perhaps the sharp end of the writing business. Editors don't just correct grammar; they commission, they shape, they rework. Here, we are hoping to provide some insight into this process. You might find a useful starting point is the website for the Society of Editors.


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Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday and wish you an even better new year! I'm sorry I've been MIA for the past few months, my family moved to Florida recently and we have been getting settled and enjoying the holidays and sunshine! I'm back at it so keep checking back for new ideas and inspiration!
Here is a super easy little notecard I made to put in my sons lunchbox for school. I love the little robots in this set and I think he'll enjoy getting a special note at lunch!
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Hey, everyone! I thought it was about time I gave a little update on what I've been up to lately, especially since my regular visitors here have probably noticed I haven't been the most efficient in getting up Weekly Inspiration and Song of the Week posts. Things have been pretty crazy for me the past few weeks, both on the writing front and on the personal life one, but I do have some good news on the writing side.
First, the big news. This week I'm going to have a new release. It's one of the reasons I haven't been getting the regular posts up, my editor and I have been working very hard to get it ready to come out no later than this Thursday, May 5th at MLR Press and maybe sooner. And what is this new release? Why, it'll be my next m/m rock star novel, BLACK HEART DOWN. Woo hoo! I'm really excited to bring the BHD guys to the stage, along with some friends of theirs from another certain band ;-) For those who'd like to see, I've also put up an excerpt from BHD on my website: http://www.sjfrost.com/
I'm sure everyone who knows how slow of a writer I am are surprised by me having two novel releases out so close with NATURAL INSTINCTS and now BLACK HEART DOWN. Between my and my editor's schedules, it just sort of worked out that way. I'm by no means any faster of a writer! So, my next release after BHD probably won't be until late summer/early fall.
And what will that release be? At this moment, I'm thinking it'll be more vampires in the sequel to NATURAL INSTINCTS. I'm currently working on the first draft of that one. Now that BHD is getting ready to release, I'll be giving the vampires my full attention and don't plan on starting any new projects until they're handed into my editor. After they're finished, I'm not entirely sure what I'll work on next, but maybe my classical violinist and rock drummer, who will be from an all new band of Scottish kilt wearing rockers.
So that's what I've been up to. Hope it all sounds good to everyone! Things should be getting a little more back to normal here this week with the regular posts. Thank you all so much for your support!


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Not only is our interaction with students via social networks going to grow but the fact of the matter is that it is much more effective to interact with students via social networks and here's why…
Many admissions recruiters have this idea that social media (web 2.0) is not a productive use of time. One example of this is the apprehension admissions offices have of setting up a Facebook page. Some of the offices I have spoken with feel that if they run a Facebook page they will be wasting time having to moderate slanderous comments left by visitors or even have to interact with more prospective students.
Rather than worrying about having to respond to all these comments positive or negative we should realize that these interactions are a great opportunity for us to reach tens, hundreds even thousands of prospective students!
Let's imagine we are in New Delhi giving a presentation about our school to a group of 100 prospective international students. 100 students are sitting, listening attentively to how our school offers international students a life changing experience. We talk about how our school is connected to job opportunities in various fields like, the sciences, engineering and finance. We talk about how easy it is to get involved in the current international student community. We talk about how many great international student events and student groups there are.
As we wrap up the presentation we ask if anyone has any questions. One student raises their hand and asks 'I want to know what I can do to improve my chances of being accepted to your school. What kind of extracurricular activities do you like to see? Which test scores do you look at closely? What range of scores would give me the best chance of being accepted?'
As we prepare to answer this question we think if it would be easier to talk to the student one on one after the presentation or if we should answer the student right there and then? This decision is a very important one!!!
If we decide to answer this question right there and then, 100 people get to hear our answer. That is 99 more than if we answer the students question after the presentation! Remember how our teachers in school would tell us not to be afraid to ask a question because 10 other people in the class probably have the same question? Well the same goes here, there are many other students with similar questions who might be afraid to ask so it is always important to answer as many questions as we can in front of as many people as we can.
So how does this relate to social media (web 2.0)? Say on our Facebook page someone writes a comment on our wall asking the same question as above. Or consider someone posts a comment about our school that is false and we now have to take a few minutes to share the truth. By answering the question or the comment on our wall (not a private message or e-mail) it is as if we are answering that question in front of a large audience like in New Delhi. Just because we are responding to one student doesn't mean that tens, hundreds, even thousands of other students aren't reading our answer!
Think about that for a minute. Any time we respond to a comment left on one of our photos, videos, wall, etc. there is a possibility that there are tens, hundreds, even thousands of people who are reading what we write!
That is the power of social media (web 2.0). Even though we aren't aware of all the people who are reading what we write on Facebook, the effect of our communication via that medium is much more effective than writing e-mails or private messages in response to each individual student's question or comment.
Consider this thought:
E-mail response = 1 person hearing the answer to a question
Social media response = tens, hundreds, or even thousands of people hearing the answer to a question!
Which do you prefer?


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I would ask any up-and-coming special-effects artist: Just because you can mold a convincing replica of a 6-year-old's severed arm, does it necessarily mean that you should?
It comes apart about halfway through, losing a very difficult tonal balance. Having said that, there's more to like here than the studio burial would have you believe.
"Clown" has the goods. Refreshingly dark and sick, this is a movie for those who like cinematic monsters that hit so hard they leave a mark.
A few niggles along the way, but an enjoyable watch nonetheless - it felt predictable in parts but also original in others.
It's hard to not recommend a film that's so unique, clever and ballsy in nature. Clown is still a great weekend rental, especially for horror fans sick of the generic crap being unloaded on a weekly basis.
Even as the movie wavers uncomfortably between outright comedy and subversive horror, Clown certainly paves the way for future genre film endeavors from the rising director.
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This gently made horror film has a The Fly transition that is probably the only notable part of this film. I just couldn't get into the film, the characters were laughably dull and poorly developed. I think they should of spent the first half creating a family dynamic before shifting into darkness. The budget wasn't low enough to be campy and as low budget horror films go, this doesn't reinvent the wheel or even try. I still don't think the killer clown has been done justice and may change with the upcoming IT. Caught this on Netflix and while it was atmospheric, it just doesn't become anything worth recommending or a film to grow a cult status. 21-05-2017.
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This movie ended up being somewhat of a disappointment. I definitely liked the concept and all that, this real estate agent improvises and dresses up as a clown, after the one he hired canceled, for his son's birthday party. He found this outfit in one of the houses that he is selling. Once the party is over, however, it comes out that he is unable to physically take off the costume or the wig, the wig later melding and becoming his own hair or something. The longer he has the suit on the more he starts turning into this sort of demonic being that feeds on children. And I thought that was cool, particularly with the dynamic that this guy, Kent, has a son and his wife is also expecting. So the film, should have, played with those concepts in an interesting way, but, and I don't know why, it just never came together as well as the concept might have come across on paper. There's just something about this movie that feels a little off. The acting isn't great, but that's not really as much of a problem in this type of movie as it would be in, say, a family drama. The fact of the matter is that clowns are a fairly common phobia among people, so exploiting that would've probably been considerably easier than this film attempted to. Though, I will say, that I do sort of like the mythos they build to establish the clown suit and everything that's wrong with it. But, to me, there just comes a point in the movie where I just zoned out and I was just waiting for it all to end. This movie goes something like 95 minutes or so and it still felt too long at that. And of course it's not that it was long, it's just it was poorly paced. It just wasn't well-structured in my opinion. There comes a time when Kent just disappeared and it's all about his wife's search for him and her trying to find a sacrifice for the demon in order for it to leave them alone. These parts just really aren't interesting to me and they just slow down a movie that really needed all the help it could've gotten. I guess these moments are relevant to where they need to go, but it still feels like a hollow way to extend the film's length. Another thing that bothers me about the movie is the make-up for the clown itself. At first it starts off really well actually. The changes are subtle, but you do notice them and they keep building and building. Each time you see Kent, he looks worse. From his teeth sharpening, to his skin becoming completely white like the clown make-up. When Kent reappears after the murder at the Chuck E. Cheese's, however, the subtle changes go out the window in favor for a full demonic clown. Just full-on monster make-up. And the problem with that is the fact that you spent all this time seeing subtle changes in Kent that when you do get to the full-on demon clown, it feels a little bit detached from it all. Like they're just killing a monster, they're not killing Kent, because there's nothing left that resembles Kent. At least prior to this, he looked somewhat like himself and his wife was forced to kill him, it'd at least feel like there was something human beneath the clown. As it ended up, there's nothing human there. So it's not really much of a dilemma. It is what it is. I did like the fact that the film did not shy away from killing children. So many movies are so afraid to even come close to touching that, but this one does and it may end up being controversial, but at least they're not afraid of the consequences. With that said, this movie still ends up being disappointment. It's not bad or anything, only average at best. I'd say just wait until it hits a streaming service you're subscribed to.
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I have a recurring nightmare where I am unable to remove my clothes - either I can't take them off, or I take them off but there's layers upon never ending layers. It might sound mild as nightmares goes, but it's up there with those anxious dreams people have where their teeth fall out. Clown, in it's one effective moment, has the lead character unable to remove the clown suit he has put on to entertain his son at his birthday party. This aside though, the film is dull, dreary, monotonous and takes itself way, way too seriously, with a pukey color scheme and listless direction.
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A Cratered Metaphor
One of the US newsy networks has recently discovered the verb to crater and its use is virusing from one network to another. I understand what it means, but it makes me feel a bit lexically crapulent even though I'm not offended (as you can see) by the tendency in the US to verb nouns relentlessly.
Interesting point: the American Heritage Dictionary and the Free Dictionary give us identical definitions (isn't that naughty?). Here it is from AHD:
"1. To form a crater or craters. 2. Slang a. To fall and crash violently from a great height. b. To fail utterly: "talked about how tough times were in Texas since the oil business cratered" (Stephen Coonts, Under Siege 1990, 1991 (pb))."
Apparently Mr. Coonts introduced it and it has languished until recently. British dictionaries do not list this meaning, nor does Encarta, and Merriam-Webster lists the slang sense as "collapse, crash", a sense I still feel is still too far from the image of a crater.
It is currently being used in referece to the precipitous fall of the stock market this month. The slang verb, therefore, is a metaphor for a fall from a great distance.
I think the reason it rubs me wrong is that it is based on the vision of a meteor falling to Earth or some other celestial body and causing a crater. But most craters are caused by explosions on Earth from geysers, bombs, or mines.
The criticial visual crater gives us is the raised rim around a hole or other indentation. How that object is created is either not a part of the definition or too far removed to provide the connection with falling and crashing.
I don't think this usage will survive but then I didn't think google and bling-bling had much of a chance, either.


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by Michael Hofferber. Copyright © 1993. All rights reserved.
"Good fences make good neighbors," said the poet's neighbor, as if a wall could improve on human nature or protect one from its failings.
The poet was not convinced, and from what I've seen lately his neighbor had it backwards. Only good neighbors make good fences.
For the past several months Neighbor B has been feuding with Neighbor A over the size and appearance of his fence -- eight feet tall and a hundred feet long, sculpted from old barn wood.
An eyesore, says Neighbor B.
A necessity, says Neighbor A.
Neighbor B, you see, bought land next to Neighbor A a few years ago and built a home there.
Then he started landscaping and, as neighbors often do, questioned the property line. Neighbor A's fence was trespassing, said Neighbor B. That's where its always been, said Neighbor A, whose favorite apricot tree grew from the contested soil.
Continued at... Good Fences, Bad Neighbors.
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The relationship between humans and animals is both complicated and beautiful. Humans eat animals, but also take care of them as pets. We depend on animals for food as we eat the meat, milk, and eggs. We keep cats, dogs, fish, birds, reptiles, and more as pets. We try to preserve dying species and help save them through reproduction, all while other members of the human race are causing the extinction of some of the world's most beautiful animals. It's truly a love-hate relationship, and while we think animals may be dumb and unaware of their human heroes, we are quickly learning that they are paying attention.
In this video are some of the most remarkable stories of animals who have saved the lives of humans. From pigs to horses to dolphins, these animals sensed that there was danger and sprang into action before the victim even knew what was going on. Take Lulu the pig as an example. Her owner, JoAnn Altsman had a heart attack and collapsed in her home. Lulu ran to the road and tried to flag someone down. A driver eventually stopped, and followed the pig where they found Altsman unconscious and were able to call for help, saving the pig owner's life. If it wasn't for Lulu's bravery and intelligence, there's a good chance that Altsman would not have survived the heart attack.
They say that animals sense something more than what humans can perceive around them. Perhaps it is due to animals having different brain function and being able to see more than we can ever imagine. Whatever the reason, it has truly become a major benefit for humans everywhere because not only can we protect each other, we also have the support of the animal kingdom on our side, which is a beautiful relationship to have. Feats such as these are also motivators for people to no longer eat meat and start organizations such as PETA. People such as these also see animals as equal partners in life, and don't perceive humans as being above any other animal in this world or on the food chain.
Another remarkable story is that of surfer Todd Endris. He was enjoying his time on his surfboard when he was viciously attacked by a passing shark. Endris gripped his surfboard to his stomach and chest to protect his intestines while the shark tore apart his back. Just as he felt all hope was lost, a pod of dolphins began to attack the shark and circle Endris so he could get to safety. While his back was forever scarred from the attack, he survived thanks to the mysterious heroic dolphins.
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is it just me or is the sound not sync'd correctly?
Pick up the crowbar of research scientist Gordon Freeman, who finds himself on an alien-infested Earth being picked to the bone, its resources depleted, its populace dwindling. Freeman is thrust into the unenviable role of rescuing the world from the wrong he unleashed back at Black Mesa. And a lot of people, people he cares about, are counting on him.
is it just me or is the sound not sync'd correctly?
i have same problem. anyway as a trailer, it`s one of the worst I`ve ever seen
The title might call it self the official trailer, but that is not official trailers..
Believe it or not, this is actually the first HL2 official trailer from Valve
looks like a fanmade trailer :P
Hylian, please stop thinking, while you fail in it miserably.
this trailer was well created, well made and well put together. it shows a bit of everything.
game has no cinematics, so it doesnt need any cinematic trailer.
He just took the actual half life 2 trailer? Wow.
This is the E3 2004 trailer (shown after the demo is complete)
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Overwatch's 23nd character is finally here and she brings with her a fascinating skill set. Sombra is an Offensive technical hero; her abilities let her play very similarly to Tracer, only with more damage output in lieu of speed. Most of the Offensive class heroes in Overwatch are divided into two categories: the kind that can be front liners and survive on the field (like Soldier 76 and Pharah) and those who are best suited for working their way around the map and attacking from behind (such as Genji or Reaper). Sombra's design allows for a mixture of both, and I've found the best way to play her is to be selectively aggressive.
Sombra's Abilities Include:
- Primary Fire
- Sombra's main weapon and only form of damage is her Machine Pistol. The pistol has 60 ammunition, fires 20 rounds per second, and deals 2.5 – 8 damage per hit. This weapon does best at close to medium range, and it's excellent at finishing off enemies on the brink of death.
- Hack
- The Hack ability has many functions, and it can be difficult to use without practice. The Hack abilities has three uses:
- Hacking an enemy player disables their abilities for 6 seconds, only allowing the use of their weapons.
- Hacking a Torbjorn turret shuts it down for 6 seconds.
- Hacking a health pack will increase spawn time for your own team and make it exclusive to your own team for one minute.
- The Hack ability has many functions, and it can be difficult to use without practice. The Hack abilities has three uses:
- Thermoptic Camo
- This is an invisibility skill. Sombra turns invisible for five seconds and increases her speed considerably. After cloaking, Sombra is truely invisible; there is no shimmer or sign of presence unless Sombra takes damage. Sombra can use her translocator without revealing herself but firing her weapon will end the camouflage.
- Translocator
- The Translocator is a small device that is thrown. Sombra can warp to the Translocator at any point after it's been thrown within 15 seconds. Sombra can warp to the Translocator in mid-air, though she will not continue to fly but instead drop where she is.
- Passive Ability: Opportunist
- Sombra's passive ability allows her to see enemies through walls if their health is below 50%.
- Ultimate Ability: EMP
- Sombra's Ultimate activates a hack over a wide area. Any enemies caught in the EMP blast will have their shields and barriers destroyed and be hacked for six seconds.
Being selectively aggressive with Sombra is tricky, because you have to switch back and forth between knowing when to attack and when to hide. If you try to go on an all out offense, you're gonna have a bad time. Sombra has great damage output, but she won't be winning any head to head fights. It seems that Sombra is actually more effective for teams actively trying to cooperate. It's important to tell your team what health packs you hack, what heroes you've hacked, and so on.
I've found that one of my favorite strategies for Sombra is to throw a translocator on a hacked health pack, camouflage, get behind enemies, deal some damage, and warp back at the first sign of danger. Rinse and repeat. The Opportunist ability is excellent for finishing off enemies on the run and then warping back to safety when you're in trouble.
Tips and Tricks for Playing Sombra:
- Hacking gets interrupted if you take damage, so whenever you attempt an offensive hack, make sure you do it stealthily. If you go after a turret, make sure you approach it from behind.
- Keep track of the time remaining on your Translocator. It's easy to lose track and not notice that it's deactivated.
- Using her invisibility right out the gate is excellent for catching back up to your team or getting behind the enemy lines quickly. It's usable again after only six seconds or so, so use it often.
Heroes Sombra is Best Against:
Tanks are probably Sombra's best targets—Reinhardt, Zarya, D.Va—all rely very heavily on their secondary abilities and getting hacked shuts all of them down, not to mention they're the largest targets for her Machine Pistol.
Support heroes are also great for Sombra to target; they have low health and low offense. Ana in particular is extremely reliant on her abilities to heal others, while Mercy would only lose her Guardian Angel and resurrection ability.
Counter-Heroes to Watch Out For:
Junkrat is easily one of the best heroes against Sombra. His random nature makes him difficult to plan around, and one of the best strategies against Sombra as Junkrat is to find her Translocator, place your trap and your Explosive Mine, and just wait. The second she warps, she gets trapped and then explodes.
Winston is one of the best Tanks against Sombra. Getting hacked barely stops his momentum, and he could easily last the 6 seconds before he can jump again.
Lastly, if you're in a fight against another Sombra, it's worth going for the kill rather than trying to hack her back. In the time it takes to get hacked, you could easily just take her out.
The metagame for Overwatch before Sombra was very shield focused. Lucio was easily the best healer because of his ultimate, giving your entire team near invincibility for a few seconds. Sombra is an attempt to change the meta from being so focused on shields and defense. All of her abilities are designed for disruption, and I honestly believe she is more intended for competitive play than she is causal. She's fun to play for sure, but without proper coordination, the impact she makes isn't that great.
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TOKYO: The new Government aims to have a new national car company now that Proton has been bought over by China's Geely.
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In September 2005, [British Airways] began offering its passengers the opportunity to pay a voluntary surcharge, which it spends on renewable energy, energy efficiency, forest restoration, and other activities that offset the greenhouse gases emitted by its flights. The payments are tiny compared to the price of a ticket: for example, $27.77 for a roundtrip flight between London and Johannesburg. Yet, as of late 2005 fewer than one in 200 passengers had elected to pay the surcharge. This contrasts with the 30% of British respondents who, in a 2002 global opinion survey, selected "pollution and other environmental problems" as the first or second greatest danger facing the world, out of five choices that also included AIDS and other infectious diseases, religious and ethnic hatred, nuclear weapons, and the rich/poor gap.From a paper by Jeffrey R. Vincent in Ecological Research.
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Trenton Hostage Standoff Continues Through 2nd Day [VIDEO]
Police say an armed man with multiple hostages remains barricaded inside a Trenton home in a standoff that has lasted 2 days.
State police Lt. Stephen Jones called the standoff an "ongoing, tense situation" and said police were working to "bring this to a peaceful end" and asking everyone to be patient.
The standoff showed no signs of ending on Saturday night. Police say they do not expect any change though the night.
Family members of a woman they said was among the hostages grew angry as the standoff continued. Late Saturday afternoon, some of them went under police tape and briefly confronted officers about the situation. "Do something! Do something!" screamed a man who said he was the woman's nephew. "Make something happen!"
Two white dogs were also taken from the home according to the Trentonian.
Negotiations between the man known to neighbors as "Skip" accoridng to WPVI TV and police resumed early Saturday morning.
The building was lit by a search light all night as heavy rain moved through Trenton according to the Times of Trenton.
Trenton Police Lt. Stephen Varn said a man has been holed up in a house in South Trenton since late Friday afternoon with "multiple hostages." WPVI TV reports that 3 children are being held inside the Grand Street apartment. The man's girlfriend and one of her children are believed to have to be killed by the man.
One of the hostages, an autistic teenager, was able to escape according to WPVI TV.
A cousin to the woman killed in the standoff, Ray Kelly, tells the Times of Trenton she had been living in the home in Trenton's South Ward for about 2 months. She has two daughters age 14 and 17 and a 4-year-old boy.
Earlier, authorities said police were called to the home for a "welfare check" mid-afternoon Friday on reports of a barricaded suspect.
Authorities say police entered the home and found the man brandishing a gun. The police retreated from the home and a perimeter was established around the home. A SWAT team was called in as was the FBI
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Bizzy Kidz operates from a state of the art, purpose built, large building, which is split over two vast floors. The Bizzy Kidz environment has been decorated & resourced to a high specification in order to provide a children's environment of extremely high quality. The setting is split into separate age groups, these being:
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Sensory RoomWithin the nursery on our first floor, we have an exciting & stimulating sensory room, painted black the room is adorned with bubble lamps, sensory lighting & ultra violet light, as well as tactile & manulative toys, all to aid the stimulation of your child's senses. All child groups will have the opportunity to use this fun & fascinating room.
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Access can only be gained from the front of the building via the car park, and entry onto the nursery premises can only be gained by parents/carers or members of staff who have had their finger print scanned, this will then bring you into our play area, where upon you will proceed to the entrance doors, at this point you will have to ring the door bell at the appropriate door and the door will be answered to you by a member of staff within the nursery.
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In the days leading up to Hurricane Katrina, Denise Godbolt's mind was occupied with the recent death of her son Lee in Iraq.
Reminders of him could be found all over her apartment from his Army uniform in the closet to the flag that had draped his casket.
The latter hung in a place of honor in the living room where it resided in a wooden, triangular box.
After the storm, Godbolt returned to her home to find it a shambles. Parts of the apartment were so full of debris she could hardly navigate the rooms. Yet the state of her possessions did not faze Godbolt. She was there for one thing: Lee's flag.
She dug by hand through the stink and the muck and the mold. After a short time, she came upon the flag where it lay in the detritus that covered her floor.
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While technically year two of "Wonder Woman" started last month with issue #0, Brian Azzarello, Tony Akins and Dan Green kick it off with "Wonder Woman" #13, picking up from the status quo-changing issue #12. With Zola's baby kidnapped by Hermes, the book has shifted from a story of protection and running away to that of a hunt, and this issue gets that rolling quickly.
Azzarello wisely starts the issue touching on the other characters of the book; first the mysterious nameless figure in the Antarctic (that most people including myself are guessing to be Orion of the New Gods), and then to the new Olympus to see what the Greek pantheon are up to. The Antarctic sequence is chilling (no pun intended) and a bit harrowing. This new figure comes across as a dangerous force of nature, and I love the way that he towers over humans at twice their height. It's a dark scene that quickly shifts your perception of the character, and as an attention-grabber it works.
With "Wonder Woman" #13, I feel like we're starting to see some new pieces added to the foundation of the first year's issues. After being introduced to Diana's half-brother Lennox last year, here we learn about other children of Zeus born in the 20th century and learn about one of them hiding in Libya. Placing Siracca in the heavily damaged country (instead of a fictional stand-in) is a daring move from Azzarello, but I think it pays off. The scenes with Wonder Woman traveling to North Africa are strong and dramatic, and build up to a strong final moment. Add in some of the side stories (Hera's new mortality, Zola's hatred of Hera, the other gods of Olympus adjusting to Apollo's new vision of their home) and it's another strong issue.
Akins' art has become an integral part of the series as the second main artist for the title, but this is the only time where I found myself briefly disappointed. The pages where Hera and Zola tussle look a little more cartoonish and less crisp than I'm used to in "Wonder Woman," and that's a real shame. Fortunately when the book shifts to Libya, Akins' skills that he's shown off here are back in full force. The lines are much stronger and more defined, the characters look more realistic, and the reactions spring to life. And if nothing else, the first three pages of the book (the Antarctic sequence) are so wonderfully creepy and dark, I feel like they'd more than balance out anything else that follows.
"Wonder Woman" #13 is a great example of how well a reboot of a company's line of comics can work with the right creators. Azzarello, Akins, and Cliff Chiang have turned the title into one that's continually enthralling, and this is no exception. Bring on the rest of year two, please.


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I keep saying this in a really chirpy way whenever anyone asks me to do something.I don't know why, or when it started, but I can't stop and I'm worried it's in danger of becoming my catchphrase around the office.
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BWWWWWAHAHA- what a start to the week. Yesterday was a public holiday here and my Dad had asked us to join him in a family day at his bowling club. It was also the 10th anniversary of my mom's death so we wanted to spend some time with him too.
So YUP, we said ok, we would play in the family day BOWLS ( as in lawn bowls) tournament with him. As you may have read before I have only played the *fool* with the boys when we go on our family holiday and have never played a full game of 21 ends. But I grew up around the bowling greens with my Grandparents and my parents all playing. So we knew the basic fundamentals- right?? BWWWWWWAHAHAHA- well ok maybe a few, but dang it's not as easy as it looks and my ass and my thighs are rather stiff today. It's like doing squats for 3 hours – hee hee.
The *practise* round to show us how to roll and hold the bowl correctly before we played. That's Nathan in the cap and the little man with the *Wednesday (when they going to break)legs* is my Dad. lol
Changing ends as they call it and my Dad chirping Nathan on the way down. OMG, there was sooo much of that! lol
Nathan proved to be a *natural* and didn't even have the *titty wobbles* as I called it on his bowls! hahaha, he's just rolled smooth and online!
I disrupted a competition playing in the lane next to us by holding my bowl the WRONG way and it went in the opposite direction to where I aimed and curled right into their MATCH! BWWWWWWAHAHA- I laughed and apologised so loud that the whole green started laughing too- OY!
Nathan, My Dad and I landed up playing on one team, while Wayne and the other two guys landed up on the other team- you can see Nathan already *chirping* the odds at his dad. haha
Yeah- I couldn't resist as Nathan took the photo! BWHAHAH
We had a AWESOME fun day and were asked repeatedly to join and competitively- errrrr, not quite ready for that yet- but I will go with my dad and have another game soon. At least I can yak and laugh and not feel toooooo pressurized to try squash my loud laugh- hee hee.
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