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Rockshield says no news here, but aren't we awesome?
2017-12-20 06:42 ET - News Release
Mr. Dave Doherty reports
Rockshield Capital Corp. is providing an update on the company's investment portfolio.
Over the past six months the nascent blockchain industry has experienced incredible growth driven by the price appreciation of various cryptocurrencies and the increased awareness of the potential benefits this new technology could unlock. With the overall growth of the industry there have been a number of investment opportunities that have emerged both in the private and public markets, and Rockshield has been diligently reviewing countless opportunities and to date has invested in a number of blockchain companies that it thinks are best positioned to capitalize on this emerging global industry.
Leveraging the company's professional network, it has gained access to a number of investments at early-stage private rounds that are attractively priced and should position Rockshield to capture significant value appreciation as these companies expand operations and go public providing investment liquidity. In addition to continuing to screen for attractive investment opportunities the company is reviewing opportunities to unlock the value of its private holdings potentially by way of a spinout into separate public market vehicles in order to generate further shareholder returns.
The company recently updated its corporate website to provide greater clarity into its investment strategy and current holdings in the cannabis, blockchain, health care and resources sectors, and it will look to provide a more detailed summary of the recent investments it has made in the blockchain and cannabis industry shortly.
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I was hired last year by a garden owner – Sharon – to prune her fruit trees. Sharon owns a small farm near Nanaimo airport. She had purchased the property the previous year and had inherited two fruit trees – one apple and one cherry tree. The trees had not been trimmed for several years and were living in the shadow of a massive Douglas fir. The trees as you will see were covered in moss and very unhealthy. I told her I was not sure if the apple tree would recover…it was a 50/50 chance. She really wanted to try and save it as it had produced wonderful apples the previous season.
I told her it would be a three year plan if the tree survived. I did not want to over prune and kill the tree. The rule for any pruning job is to never take more then 1/3 off as it can stress the tree. I was very happy to hear the apple tree had not only survived but thrived and she had a bumper crop of apples. I know I cannot take all of the credit as everyone had a bumper crop last year. Mother nature always has a way to communicate a hard winter coming with the amount of fruit trees bare. A harsh winter coming means you will have alot of fruit. So here is year one and year two pictures. It was very late in the season last year when she called me to prune and I was concerned about damaging the trees but I knew if they were to be saved and healthy then pruning was a must. The cherry was already in blossom but I went ahead anyway. I sprayed the trees with "Safer's De-Moss" and used a soft brush to rid the trees of most of the moss. We trimmed some of the overhanging branches off the fir tree to increase airflow and minimize the shade as much as possible to inhibit new moss growth. The product is environmentally safe, is a potassium based soap and is safe around people and pets.
I trimmed all of the dead branches off of the trees, trimmed all suckers off and took some branches out of the middle to increase air flow and sunlight reaching the centre of the trees.
Year 1
Year Two
This year I was so very happy to see all of the new growth on both the apple and the cherry tree. Incredibly, there is no moss growing on any of the new growth and most of moss is gone from the older limbs. So this year, I trimmed less off, taking all of the suckers and topping the cherry tree to bring it down lower. Sharon cannot reach the top to pick the fruit. We also took some larger limbs off of the fir to continue to open up the fruit trees to sunshine. It is obvious the trees are very happy now. Here are year two pictures. Stay tuned for year three next year. Thank you Sharon for giving me this opportunity!
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Wet Socks
John Bayley
- The Complete Short Stories of Jack London edited by Elrae Labour, Robert Litz and I. Milo Shepard
Stanford, 2557 pp, £110.00, November 1993, ISBN 0 8047 2058 4
The high noon of imperial expansion towards the end of the 19th century produced an archetypal tale. Kipling's version of it is 'The Man Who Would Be King', which like all Kipling's early tales made a great impression on Jack London. His own version, 'An Odyssey of the North', concerns an Aleutian Indian whose betrothed is stolen from him by a Norwegian seal poacher, a giant with a golden mane and the blood of the Vikings, much the same as the hero of Kipling's story, and also of Rider Haggard's romances. Together with his faithful friend, the tale-teller and survivor, Kipling's hero founds a fabulous kingdom in the wilds beyond Afghanistan, and meets his fate when his wish for a wife from among his native subjects makes them realise he is no god but a man, whereupon they kill him.
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"The lady who has the most shoes in the end wins!!" a lady I know excitedly exclaimed when she when she was explaining why she was attending a shoe sale (name excluded for obvious reasons). Win what? (I hear men asking) Well, she will just win IT. Don't ask me what it is she wins; she just wins... it's there. No one knows what is won but she wins. Period. No questions about it. I don't know who cast a spell on ladies that brought forth this obsession with shoes.
Ha-ha now, fast forward to the many shoes we see on the streets. I am and forever be amazed at the types of shoes I see ladies wearing. Now before you throw that glass at me, don't get me wrong, I am a lady too and even though I own a few (10-15) pairs of shoes (more to come soon); I always wonder why we ladies in particular love wearing weird makes of shoes. Sophistication? Class? I still don't see the need to walk uncomfortably and spend several thousands of shillings on something that causes you more pain than comfort when walking. I like keeping it simple and comfortable. But then that's me. Men, on the other hand, have no trouble with shoes…just slip your feet in there and ensure it's fitting and comfortable; classy or not.
Anyway, enough of the shoes rant. Now, more often than not I hear people blurt out the famous statement "Don't judge me until you have walked in my shoes". Each time I hear someone say/write that I can't help but laugh. Most of the time, the person saying that is saying it to defend some behavior or attitude that in fact is spiritually, morally or socially unacceptable. This statement tends to give them some sort of consolation that what they did/said was right; only that the rest of the human race does not understand or know them. I mean; even I have used it severally to sooth my human ego. In most instances, the statement "you don't know me" (which is said with a straight face with lots of bitterness, anger and resentment towards the person being addressed) accompanies or comes before the famous statement.
These days I just burst into laugh when this statement is made… okay, not burst, I chuckle…. fine; I smile (with a cheeky evil laughter inside) and wonder, before we make such a statement; do we ever examine ourselves and see if we even have the proverbial shoes? And if we do; are they fit for anyone to walk in? Are they walkable? (Yeah; I just invented that word…I'll patent it :-p). See, most of us complain that others judge us without knowing what we had to do to do what we did (are those lyrics to a song? I regress). Coincidentally, it's mostly a lady who is saying that. Lately, most of us ladies have been reduced to wasting our inner beauty, wasting away our souls, in a bid to please others (read men). So damaged are we that these proverbial shoes that we say people need to walk in before judging us; have been reduced to dust. We are walking bare footed.
So lost in the world are we that we do not even think of how our children will be; how they will grow up. We need the grace of God. Even though I have never heard many men say that (except when they are caught cheating or lying), we all; men included, need to examine ourselves more and see why we want to be so self-defensive and want to justify that which was obviously wrong.
So, the next time we (I included) are tempted to use the statement "Don't judge me until you have walked in my shoes", let's ask ourselves, do we even have any shoes or are we walking around bare footed? If we do; are they walkable? Let's examine our spiritual, moral and social selves and see why we are being so defensive.
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Sunday, February 28, 2010
we used to LOVE these!!
They were like an Alka Seltzer tablet. You dropped them into a glass of water and they fizzed into root beer or cherry or whatever. Weird thing is I don't remember having to add sugar.
Wonder what gives with this voodoo lemon lime? Some bleeding heart would have a field day today talking about how politically INcorrect it is. We never paid attention to that shit. They were just good cheap sugary drinks!
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Bill Maher on the term "sex addiction" and Tiger Woods...
"Now, I haven't commented on Tiger Woods much because, well, he's just a golfer and it took me this long to give a shit."
"You want to know the surest way that you can spot a "sex addict?" He's got a penis."
"Now usually, when famous cheaters are looking for public redemption, they go to Jesus, but Tiger went old school, and claimed that sleeping with 2/3 of the waitresses in America had made him a failure as a Buddhist. He said Buddhism teaches you the way to inner peace is letting go of desire - and if that doesn't sound like marriage, I don't know what does.
Personally, if I was a golfer, I'd go with Jesus - because he's a Trinity, so when you walk with him, you've got a foursome. Christianity is for rubes. Buddhism is for actors."
Friday, February 26, 2010
Five Things Friday!!
Tell me five things you love about your life.
I'll start:
1. We paid off our (not so) humble abode! YAY!
2. I saw a really HOTT cop on the way to work today! Double YAY!
3. Dove makes peanut butter eggs!
4. The upcoming snowstorm affords me a chance at an unexpected day off of work. Keep your fingers crossed, kids!
5. The birds like me better than Mr. G!
Thursday, February 25, 2010
riders on the storm
Hell, he stopped just short of saying Jesus was coming.
The radio weather report?
"Two to four inches of snow...."
Aging Hippies, this one's for you
As I got out of the car, there was an aging hippie in the vehicle next to me. He had long grey hair, round wire glasses and a pony tail. The only thing Chong was missing was his bestest friend, Mari Juana.
As if being forty years behind the times in fashion and hair styles isn't sad enough, you'll never guess what he was BLASTING on his car radio: "Baby I'm a Want You" by Bread. And I mean "BLASTING" as in 'I would have felt the bass.......if there was any'.
People, there are some songs that SHOULD be blasted in the parking lot, songs like Flo Rida's "Right Round" or P Diddy's "Last Night". On the other hand, songs by Bread should not only be avoided at high decibels, they should be BANNED COMPLETELY from the airwaves.
I believe Cartman summed up my feelings best when he said, "I hate hippies! I mean, the way they always talk about "protectin' the earth" and then drive around in cars that get poor gas mileage and wear those stupid bracelets - I hate 'em! I wanna kick 'em in the nuts!"
And smash their car radios.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
shine on me sunshine, walk with me world, it's a skippity do dah day
I'm the happiest girl in the whole USA!
We paid off the mortgage today!!!! YAY!!!
YEP, this is ALL MINE!!! Don't be jealllous:)
Sunday, February 21, 2010
question o' the day
TMI...too much information
Ummm, other than mine, whose business is this? If I spend $50 at WalMart, I don't think my mother or my sister in law needs to know that. Nor do I think they'd give a rats ass.
While the guys who started it SAY that it's about us being comfortable sharing all sorts of information, including financial info, I think this has EVERYTHING to do with marketing, and stores finding out all of your personal spending habits. I mean, what better way to target people than to go to a site where everything their spending habits are exposed?
Some people say it's a convenient way to keep track of your purchases. Yeah, so is pencil and paper.
Not that I'd ever join a site like Blippy, but if I did, I'd make damn sure the owners weren't allowed to sell my information because I bet that's exactly where this leading.
synchronizing: BRAINS!
Here's a fun little exercise. And when I say "fun" I mean, not so much fun as educational. The "fun" part comes in when you try to hold that position for the recommended THREE MINUTES. I know it had me laughing.
This exercise helps lift brain fog and improves mental health:
"With your feet pointing straight ahead, spread them apart about shoulder width. Grab your right earlobe with the thumb and finger of your left hand. Cross over your left arm and do the same using your right hand on the left earlobe. Then squat as fully as you can, breathing in. That`s a little counter intuitive, but that`s what you do. Breathe in as you squat.
Then breathe out as you stand. So the breathing needs to be synchronized with the squats. Continue this motion repetitively while holding both earlobes for three minutes. That may be too much at first, so start with one minute. One can go up to five minutes, but three is good enough. This can be done by anyone at any age and should be done on a daily basis until the fog lifts!"
"Los Angeles physician Dr. Eric Robins says that the brain cells and neurons are energized with this simple exercise. He prescribes it to his patients and has had excellent results. One example of his is a youngster doing poorly in school. After being introduced to the exercise, that child went on to become an A student.
According to Yale neurobiologist Dr. Eugenius Ang, the earlobes grabbed are acupuncture points that stimulate neural pathways in the brain. The brain`s hemispheres are in opposite sides of the earlobes. Using opposite hands for pinching the earlobes may have something to do with the way our subtle energies are arranged."
Saturday, February 20, 2010
ok here's a fun little time waster
Find it.
How well did you do?!
it's raining food
That could apply to like EVERY 24 hour news station in the world...
question of the day
What do you love to do, even if you never get paid for it?
Friday, February 19, 2010
it's a family affair
I can't believe Sarah Palin is making such a huge deal about the episode of Family Guy in which a character with Downs Syndrome tells Chris that her dad was an accountant and her mother was "the former governor of Alaska."
Sarah is outraged and says it's an insult to her son with Downs. How is that an insult to her son? Guess she's not even clever enough realize it's a comment directed at HER.
As for the "retard" issue, I'm curious as to which side of the fence Sarah stands on? She was insulted when Rahm Emanuel said the word "retard" but wasn't so offended when her good buddy Rush Limbaugh said it because oh, that's right, Rush was "using satire".
I had a sibling with Downs, and for the record, I have NEVER liked the word "retard" in ANY form. Satire or not. It's meant as an insult and it's used to make someone feel stupid. And if someone is your TRUE friend, as Palin thinks good old Rush is, they would respect your stance on the issue, and not use the word at all.
Did I find Family Guy episode insulting to my late sister? Hardly. It was a dig at Sarah Palin, and not even a very clever one. Don't drag the entire Down's Syndrome community into this with your self-righteous indignation, Ms. Palin.
What I really find insulting is that Sarah Palin actually thinks Family Guy is going to handle this sort of issue with sensitivity and intelligence. GMAFB. Family Guy is deliberately crude and rude, and anybody with a lick of sense who has seen the show knows that.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
anybody buy ebooks?
Question: aren't ebooks supposed to be a tad cheaper than paperback/hardback books because you don't get an actual book?
I'm new to this, and I was looking for Lori Wilde's Addicted to Love, but one site has the ebook for $6.99, the same price as the paperback is on Amazon.
Is that normally the way it is?
isn't the nagging from six women punishment enough?!
BTW, love that last sentence. I somehow doubt the words "women" and "treated fairly" are used often in the same sentence in the Middle East...
Lashes for Saudi religious policeman with six wives
A Saudi court has sentenced an employee of the kingdom's religious police to 120 lashes for marrying six women.
The man said he was not educated enough to know that Islam does not allow men to marry more than four women at any one time, said an official at Ahad al-Massarha court in the southern province of Jazan.
"The judge did not believe him. Nobody believed him. I honestly did not," the official told Reuters.
The court banned the man from standing as a preacher and leading prayers, ordered him not to travel abroad for a five-year period and to memorise two chapters from the Koran.
The accused, in his fifties, is not a member of the Saudi Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice's morals squad but holds an administrative position there, the official said.
Shaikh Abdul-Mohsen al-Qaffari, spokesman of the virtue and vice commission, said it was the commission that discovered the case. Judge Salman al-Waadani, who pronounced the sentence, could not be reached for comment.
The court official said, "Members of the commission were accompanied by police when they arrested the man with one of his wives but it was the governor of Jazan who ordered an investigation onto the case".
The commission makes sure Saudi society abides by an austere interpretation of Islam in the kingdom, where clerics control the justice system.
With more than 5,000 members, its squads roam streets and shopping malls to make sure unrelated men and women are kept apart, that shops and restaurants are shut at prayer time, that women are covered from head to toe and to search for alcohol and drugs.Islam allows polygamy for men on condition the wives are treated fairly.
the clothes make the twin
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
wipe the shit from your shoes
At the Uk Brit Awards, Oasis won a one-off prize when their "(What's The Story) Morning Glory?" was named best British album of the last 30 years.
I heartily concur. It's one of my all time favorite cds, not a clinker in the bunch.
there is a season turn turn turn
Last night my gf tried to talk me into going to John Murtha's viewing.
I'm like, "I've never seen this guy alive, why would I want to see him now?"
She actually tried to lure me in with the old secret service/cops will be there routine.
Didn't work.
The woman I take care of in the morning was watching the funeral service on TV today. While they were waiting for the hearse to move to the cemetery, the local news dipshit was interviewing the FLORIST.
Gawd, you know they're just trying to fill air time when they interview the dude who arranged the flowers...
Monday, February 15, 2010
God save me....
Sunday, February 14, 2010
roses are red, violets are blue, I couldn't think of a post title, this will have to do
OMG. I hate it when teachers give little kids assignments like writing poems on the "roses are red" theme for Valentine's Day. Don't they know the majority of little kids have zero talent when it comes to stuff like this? Don't they know they make their parents suffer through one bad poem after another? Don't they know I'm going to make you suffer as well?
Here are a few gems Male Offspring # 6 came up with:
"Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar gives you cavities so brush your teeth after every meal. Crest is ok."
Sigh. Four out of five dentists would love that one. But clearly he just wasn't getting the gist of poetry.
"Roses are red, violets are blue, I eat boogers, do you?"
Okkkkkkkkkkkk, then....
"Roses are red, my dog is a mutt, I eat Cheerios, geez, you have a big butt."
"Roses are red, bananas are yellow, I want you to be my Valentine, but you smell-o."
Like fingernails down a chalk board.
"Roses are red, rocks are hard, I hate poems, here's your crappy card."
Awwww, FINALLY the true romantic in him comes out!
I have a big box of homemade cards from the offspring and last night I sat on the floor of my bedroom and read through them. They used to be so sweet. "Roses are red, violets are blue, you're so sweet, how could I not love you?" Now they're like thinly veiled death threats. "Roses are red, violets are blue, I want that iPod or it's curtains for you. And Daddy, too."
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
What a pig!
DUDE, that is not cool! Wait your turn. I'm eating here.
when the snow starts a fallin' there's a man you should be a callin'
Mr. G called and asked me to meet him on the upper street when he came home from work. Yeah, we shoveled him OUT the other day and since we got another 12 or 14 inches last night/today, we had to shovel him IN this time.
The place where he parks is right across from a neighbor who has a plow. I kept hoping he'd come out and tell me he was going to plow, but no such luck so I started shoveling. I had his space almost cleaned out when the neighbor came out and said, "I'm going to plow that later and I can plow a spot for your husband." I said, "Well, he's on his way home now, and since our driveway is plowed shut, I have to make a space for him now." Then he goes into the house and I finish shoveling all the heavy stuff away from the road and get to the lighter stuff. I was standing around waiting for my husband to show up so I could help him cover his car and the neighbor comes out of the house and yells, "You go on home and I'll get my plow out now."
Weeeee! I'm finished NOW.
As I'm standing there waiting for my husband, another neighbor comes up over the hill, passes me, then backs up and says, "If you move, I'll plow you a spot." Sigh.
Where were all you plow guys fifteen minutes ago?!
Anyway, it was nice of them to help out...after the fact.
Here's the lesson for the day, ladies: when you have a lot of shoveling to do, and there are men in the neighborhood with plows on their trucks, shovel a tiny bit at a time and just stand there, leaning against your shovel looking helpless and blonde.
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
hey soul sister ain't that mister mister on the radio
I am once again I am a sugar free me. And I. HATE, IT.
I hate everything about it except for the fact that my joints feel so much better. But mostly I feel like I'm being punished for something and I can't have anything sweet or good in my life!!!!
Going without sugar is like PMS'ing 24/7. In other words, the people are me around me are suffering as much as I am. HA! I almost feel sorry for them.
I was going to open a can of beets to have with my burger tonight at suppertime, and I glanced at the label to check the ingredients, positive that I was going to see "beets, water". Those assholes at DelMonte added salt and SUGAR to beets. As if they aren't sweet enough. Thanks, DelMonte. One more thing I can't have.
An odd thing I noticed is whenever I go "sugar free," I begin craving fats, and I have no idea why. I crave things like bacon--real bacon, not that turkey crap. But I don't like it fully cooked. I crave that fatty part. Weird. I swear I could eat two of those bacon sandwiches from Tony's in one sitting. Minus the buns, of course! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
My husband said, "You must be missing something."
I said, "What? Fat? Hell, I'm trying to get RID of that! That's the whole point of going sugar free."
Saturday, February 06, 2010
since we've no place to go let it snow let it snow let it snow
I was in a VERY deep sleep this morning at 3 a.m. when my husband shook me awake. This is it, I thought, the 3 a.m. booty call!
It was the 3 a.m. help me shovel my car out of a snowdrift call.
Damn. So close and yet so far away.
WARNING: don't EVER offer to help someone shovel. They will take you up on it, regardless of the ungodly hour.
We got almost two feet of snow out of Snowmagedden, and of course, the damn cats HAD to go outside. It was rather comical to watch their reactions when I opened the laundry room door and they were met with a wall of snow. One cat decided to jump OVER the snow and dropped right down into it. She came flying out of the snow pile and right back into the house, thoroughly insulted that nature dared to diss her that way.
I didn't think we were going to get as much snow as they were predicting. Actually it was hard to tell what we were going to get since they kept upping the ante every time they gave the weather report. BUT like any conscientious person, I stocked up on all the essentials: cookie dough, diet Pepsi and Dove milk chocolates.
Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!
Friday, February 05, 2010
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
making a big pig of yourself
Scary thing is it's a REAL sandwich at Tony's I-75 restaurant in Birch Run.
slip out the back, jack
Ladies, if a guy tells you he doesn't want the word "fidelity" in your marriage vows and that he "fears" he won't be able to stay true to you, BELIEVE HIM.
He is not being "brave and sweet". He is being HONEST. Ironic that a cheater would be honest, but there ya go.
But not like he wasn't waving a big ole red flag along the way.
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
for the love of pete, what's wrong with me?!
WHAT is wrong with me?!
And let me just extend my heartfelt condolences to the parents of all the baby dills I've killed and consumed this week.
On the upside.....your kids were delicious.
i believe that you can rescue me
I was LMAO when both Shelia and Janet told Tommy they'd have sex with him "no strings attached" and he was dumb enough to believe it. For a supposedly "rugged" fireman, it amazes me how pussy whipped this guy is. It also amazes me that he's never short on cash. I never knew the FDNY paid so well.
One high point of season five was the introduction of Maura Tierney's character. She's the fireman's version of a badge bunny, going after any of the firemen she can get. I hear she might be back next season.
And I'm willing to bet $ that the woman Jimmy had an affair with was Janet.
BTW, does anyone know what happened to Michael J. Fox's character? I don't think he added a damn thing to the show, but suddenly he was gone. Maybe I missed a show, but I don't remember them explaining his absence.


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The Roland JC-120 Jazz Chorus is a 2-channel bi-amplified combo electric guitar amplifier, featuring 120 watts of total power and a true stereo chorus, the sound of which is already familiar from hundreds of popular recordings made since the mid-1970's. The amplifiers' original silver cone speakers have been re-introduced for that vintage look.
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Diya Aur Baati Hum 5th November 2015 Written Episode Update
Diya Aur Baati Hum 5th November 2015 Written Episode, Written Update on TellyUpdates.com
The Episode starts with Sandhya saying I won't let Sooraj stay in police station for a minute too. Sandhya says leave my husband, I will leave from this house in 2 hours. Birj goes with the men. Meenakshi says you were bearing everything to stay with Sooraj, you left everything to save Sooraj, your Jodi is example for every husband and wife, your love is like diya aur baati. Sandhya tells Sooraj that she is going forever. Sooraj cries. Sandhya says but my love and prayers will be with you, don't break down, Bhabho and Babasa need you. Bhabho gets shocked.
Sandhya cries and goes from there. Lalima and Sooraj cry. Bhabho stands near the tulsi plant and recalls Babasa's words about Lalima and Sandhya. She cries and is shaken up realizing the difference between selfish Lalima and
Bhabho thinks she can't understand right and wrong and asks Lord to give her strength. Sandhya sees the pic and cries. She gets a message on her phone. She gets a cafe's manager call, and he tells her about getting CCTV footage of the people who were in café that time. She thanks him. He sends her the footage. She checks the video and gets shocked seeing Lokesh. She turns and sees Lalima. Sandhya asks Lalima about Lokesh, did she know this, did they do this together. Lalima says yes. Sandhya asks why did you do this with Bhabho.
Lalima asks why is she asking this question if you are a famous police officer, you have answer infront of you. Lalima says she loves Sooraj and can't see him becoming someone else's, she did every try which she could, see the result, I passed in my tries, your and Sooraj ji's relation ended and now he is just mine. Sandhya says I will tell everything to him. Lalima asks what will you say, you ended ties with him, so I m his wife now, I don't like any stranger woman to talk to my husband, your rights on Sooraj finished, I got my love and right on Karwachauth, I got my Sooraj, this is called true love and true devotion.
Sandhya asks what love and devotion, devotees don't cheat Lord, you have cheated everyone, love is not by cheat, you became Bhabho's bahu, Sooraj's wife, but you won't get Sooraj. Then what would you get, love is not to win, everything is lost in love to get love. Lalima argues and asks you feel you became sacrificing Devi, don't forget, you are the reason of his madness, but I accepted him in that state, I made him fine by my love, I love him too, that too more than you. Sandhya says love is in us, not me…
Lokesh comes and happily tells Lalima that Sooraj called her in same temple, from where he got her home holding her hand. Lalima asks Sandhya to do packing till she comes back, her husband wants to make a new start, from the same place where our story started. She leaves.
Lalima comes to temple and meets Sooraj. She says I did not know what to say there. Sooraj asks her not to say anything. He reminds the night when they met here before. She smiles. He says the night where you got Mata Rani's chunri, its not an ordinary thing, pure hearted people get such blessing. He says I can't forget how you got Sandhya's pic from that well risking your life, you have done a lot for Ved and me, you made me every work which I left in madness, you made me realize senses and gave me a new life.
She says you remember all this…. He says yes, but I m unable to identify this Lalima who is infront of me, you look scared, I remember that Lalima who was bold and selfless, I don't feel you are old Lalima, I remember everything, but not one thing, when did I fill sindoor in your maang…. She gets shocked.
He says I don't remember, maybe because I never filled sindoor in your maang, it was a lie. She asks you know it? He says I went to your room for some work, I got Sandhya's cupboard duplicate key, then I went to Mahila morcha and came to know you gave that video there. She says yes, I did this, I love you a lot, more than Sandhya, who chose her duty over you, I made you fine, my love made you well. He says you are right, my family and I agree to your favor, everyone is thinking the decision on Karwachauth, I give you this right to decide this…
Lalima cries and sees the Lord idol. The diya blows off by strong wind. She gets shocked and moves away from Sooraj. Emily and Meenakshi wonder where is Sandhya, and how will they complete Karwa rasam. Meenakshi says Sandhya would be packing her bags, Lalima has come. Bhabho cries and sees the Karwa pot in her hand. She wishes to get strength that she makes this storm away from Sooraj's life, that she can return his peace and happiness. She keeps the Karwa pot and cries. She sees her bahu in ghunghat….
Bhabho lifts the ghunghat of her bahu and gets shocked.
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Praia do Amado Reviews and Ratings
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Visitor reviews of Praia do Amado surf break
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"Praia do Amado is really crowded in August."
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Praia do Amado Ratings
Overall: 3.7. Based on 8 votes and 1 review. Vote
Quality on a good day: 4.0
(1 star: Even when the swell and winds are optimum, the waves are poor quality, 5 stars: If conditions are right, the waves will be World Class).
Consistency of Surf: 4.1
(1: Praia do Amado is a fickle surf spot that only works a few times a year. 5: Reliable year-round spot).
Regional Rating: 3.7
(1: Praia do Amado is usually very poor quality compared to other spots in The Algarve. 5: the best break in The Algarve).
Difficulty Level: 3.0
(1: Suitable for Groms. 3: Intermediates. 5: Expert tow-in surfers only).
Onshore Wind: 3.3
(1: even a light onshore ruins the surf. 5: Praia do Amado can offer better rides with a light wind behind them).
Other Options: 4.0
(1: If wind or tide conditions are poor at Praia do Amado, it will be poor everywhere nearby. 5: other locations nearby provide a rich variety of wind and swell exposures).
Wind and Kite Surfing: 2.5
(1: An unsuitable spot. 5: Wind and wave conditions at Praia do Amado are often excellent).
Water Quality: 4.4
(1: Known health risks from pollution. 5: Never any pollution).
Crowds: 2.9
(1: Often too crowded. 5: Praia do Amado is an isolated spot where you are unlikely to meet other surfers).
Access: 4.9
(1: Getting to Praia do Amado requires an overland expedition or chartering a boat. 3: A 30 minute walk from the nearest parking. 5: Park a vehicle right by the break).
Scenery: 4.9
(1: An ugly industrial backdrop. 5: A spectacular setting).
Local Attitude: 4.0
(1: Locals are hostile to visitors. 5: Either there are no locals who surf, or else they are accommodating and friendly).
Accommodation: 3.3
(1: No convenient places to stay indoors. 5: A wide variety of accommodation near Praia do Amado for all budgets from hostels to luxury hotels).
Camping: 3.4
(1: Camping at Praia do Amado is not possible. 3: Camping tolerated but no facilities. 5: A nearby camp ground has excellent facilities and a good vibe).
Entertainment: 3.3
(1: Besides the surf and the solitude there is nothing to do when it is flat. 5: Praia do Amado is in such an interesting area to visit that getting wet is a bonus).
Equipment and Repairs: 4.1
(1: Nothing can be sourced, not even wax. 5: Quality surfing equipment can be purchased or hired. Major repairs can be fixed too).
Eating: 3.4
(1: Bring your own food, there isn't even a shop. 5: A wide variety of places to eat and drink at Praia do Amado, from fast food and cafes to fancy restaurants).
Drinking: 4.0
(1: Alcohol is not allowed in the country. 5: There is an excellent pub near Praia do Amado where you can stay or park a camper van overnight).


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What are Sunday dinners to you? To our little family it means a lovely dinner, a gorgeous table setting and lots of family time.
So this Sunday I took photos to show you what our table looked like, this is Miss M's job and she is very good at doing it.
She is very creative and puts her full heart into doing it and I love that she enjoys doing it so much.
I loved the napkins this week and how the amazing colors all look great together on the table.
In the centre of the table we had the flowers, cups, bread and a tin for our cutlery.
I love Sunday nights as they are very special to our family and I think it is very important as hubby is home and we really talk and enjoy a meal together.
Happy Sunday Ladies and I hope to share some table ideas with you on Sundays.
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Girls on Film: The Rise and Fall of Ellen Ripley
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Sigourney Weaver's Ellen Ripley burned herself onto our consciousness when she outlasted her crew and became the lone survivor of Alien. In an instant, she crafted the mold with which the modern action heroine was made. Hyperbolic praise and status are heaped upon her because Ripley is the heroine who has remained essential, notable, and relevant some 30+ years since her 1979 debut. A long list of attributes made her a wonderfully strong leading woman, and the severe lack of tentpole heroines made her the wonderfully strong leading woman. We couldn't forget her if we tried, and we wouldn't want to.
Yet, Ripley's status hurts her just as much as it helps her. Her character in the first film resonated so deeply that each sequel has tried to not only one-up its source material (in grand Hollywood tradition), but also encapsulate her power as a female hero, failing a little more each and every time. Subversive nods to the female experience became obvious, screaming signs, and Ripley ultimately became shackled to her sex, a mere fraction (physically and spiritually) of her original self.
The magic of Ellen Ripley lies in the hands of Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett. When they created this world, and what ultimately became this cast of characters, the crew was male by default. Ripley, then named "Martin Roby," was an executive officer, someone "cautious but intelligent – a survivor." But there was one key line to the script that made all the difference: "The crew is unisex and all parts are interchangeable for men or women." They opened the door to see these characters as crew members rather than characters shackled by the rigidly stereotypical expectations of their sex, and the studio and Ridley Scott, luckily, accepted the challenge.
Even with this equal playing field at its heart, stringent ideas of womanhood and femininity trickled in. David McIntee likens the film to "a rape movie with male victims" which "shows the consequences of that rape: the pregnancy and birth. It is a film that plays, very deliberately, with male fears of female reproduction." H. R. Giger, known for his sexually enticing techno-surrealism, created the aliens, sharp-toothed phallic creatures who literally pierce through their human hosts to be born. When Ash attempts to kill Ripley, he does so by rolling up a magazine like a phallus and attempting to choke her with it – a choice of death so odd that its innuendo cannot be overlooked. When Ripley is alone and her crew is dead, she strips to reveal ill-fitting panties and a small tank top. The impractical, wedgie-inducing garb allows her to bend over, the crack of her backside showing as she discovers yet another phallic alien. As Xan Brooks writes: "It is as though the makers were so alarmed by what they had unleashed that they tried to rein her back at the last minute."
Nevertheless, Ripley resonated. The past instances were but blimps to a larger, less stereotypical whole. Ripley is as O'Bannon wrote all those years ago: "cautious but intelligent – a survivor." She's a capable crew member who practically follows protocol while her crewmates emotionally chastise her. She is ruled by common, level-headed sense. Ripley isn't overwhelmed by curiosity, but rather the practical concerns of their predicament. She is firm when she needs to be, yet shows enough emotion so that she never seems robotic. When she delivers a one-liner like "We'll blow it the f**k into space," it's with sincere precision rather than ridiculous bravado.
When she goes into hypersleep, she is a woman, a regular human who used her brains and resiliency to survive.
At once, Ripley begins to fall to the pressure of feminine expectation in Aliens. Though she keeps her ability to fight and survive, it's at the price of her gender barrier-free humanity. A filmmaker obsessed with mother/child dynamics, director James Cameron makes Ripley a mother figure, given the quintessential female trait. No longer a mere crew member, in a deleted scene Ripley learns of her daughter's death. She becomes a mother mourning, which Cameron insists on making her motivating concern. When she arrives at the colony and finds that Newt, a little girl, has survived, Ripley is the immediate mother figure. She bathes and cares for Newt alongside her alien battles. She promises Newt survival, eager to make up for the failed promises to her real daughter.
Unfortunately, that's only the tip of the problem. Sexist prejudice trickles in. Once again, she's in her skimpy, hyper-sleeping ensemble as fellow female travelers wear more practical gear. She is surrounded by the military, smart-ass men (and women) who almost exclusively joke about sex, like the "juicy colonists' daughters we have to rescue from their virginity." Aliens even attempts to make this off-hand joke a reality, with Ripley realizing that company man Carter Burke wants to sexually assault her via the alien, impregnating herself and Newt (a colonist's daughter) with alien spawn to smuggle them through border control.
Jenette Goldstein's Pvt. Vasquez, meanwhile, is the one-dimensional tough-woman to balance Bill Paxton's one-dimensional tough-man. But her overt, theatrical masculinity is even questioned as she's asked: "Have you ever been mistaken for a man?" The women of the Alien quadrilogy are no longer capable crewmates, but women facing overly antiquated sexist attitudes (especially for the year 2179). Even Cpl. Dwayne Hicks, Ripley's best ally, falls into the stereotypical game, giving her a weapon with the disclaimer that it "doesn't mean we're engaged or anything." (This is a twist from the script, where intimacy is "the last thing on their minds.")
Cameron is so focused on the larger-than-life action (which is what made the sequel a commercial success) that Ripley slips further away from humanity, step by step becoming an inhuman superhero who can single-handedly defeat an alien and crawl against the current of air and debris being sucked out into space. … a superhero who is also a sex symbol titillating senses of danger and lust.
Where Aliens made Ripley the theoretical and potential mother, Alien 3 makes her the actual mother, linking her reproductive organs to her enemy that lives inside her. The film seems unsatisfied with the mother-status Ripley was given in the previous film, and again kills her "daughter," Newt, sending her to the position of grieving caregiver. But worse, the film does this on a male prison colony where the danger to her physical body is just as imminent from the prisoners as it is from the aliens. Ripley has been transformed completely into the sexual object whose body is toyed with by all the men who surround her – for sexual pleasure or financial and political gain. She shaves her head to fit in, but it reads more like a weak attempt to balance her position as a mother with her position as alien asskicker.
Sexual danger lingers like an oppressive extra character, constantly reminding the audience about Ripley's sexuality and femaleness. She jumps into bed and becomes the seductress, chastising her lover (Clemens) for spoiling the mood when he tries to work. She then becomes the potential victim, almost gang-raped by inmates until she is saved. Her future worth is dangled as the potential to recreate: "you can still have a life … children."
But her only chance for offspring is the alien living inside her, a mother potentially birthing a mother, that she must kill. Ripley is defined by her womanhood and condemned by it. What was hinted at in the first film is now an oppressive reality she cannot survive…
Alien: Resurrection
…until Hollywood resurrected the franchise.
After two hundred years, Ripley is back again, the company having finally successfully cloned her (after many horrific attempts) as Ripley with her alien child, c-sectioned out of her body. She is imprisoned naked, swathed in a sheet on a hard floor. But the horrificness, and every bit of seriousness, are thwarted by Joss Whedon's one-liner-laden script, and a marked insistence (by Whedon and Weaver, as explained by the writer in the extras) to remove much of Ripley's humanity as a superhuman, acid-blood clone.
The film is a mélange of groan-inducing moments from beginning to end, including Ron Perlman's Johner continually leering at Ripley, the ridiculous moaning "sex" scene where a thonged backside leads to a racy foot massage, the phallic-mouthed alien continually thrusting at its prey, the way Ripley ends up caressing and holding the hybrid alien in the end, and most ridiculously, her line: "who do I have to f**k to get off this boat?"
By the final moments, Ripley had evolved from the formidable hero defined by her actions and thoughts (rather than gender), to a heroine completely reduced to her reproductive powers. Critics might chastise the sequels for how directorial whim trumped story and trajectory, but Ripley's real magic was lost the moment she become a female hero instead of just a hero. With her gender distinctly in play, she became a victim more to her gender than she did to her alien.
There is nothing wrong with having a tough female hero who has sex, babies, and anything else classically feminine, but Ripley wasn't that type of heroine, which made each sequel seem thematically off. They never had a chance, no matter who was at the helm, because the focus of her character was so distinctly changed, so focused on her heroism and sex that she couldn't just be the sum of her actions. She had to be the sum of her sex.
That's the biggest blessing about this week's Prometheus. It's an Alien world without Ripley – the chance to break free from the obsession with a larger-than-life mother-figure and ass-kicking superheroine.
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This is the story about the first time I ever received a hand job from a girl...
Erica and I had been dating for about two weeks. We had met over the summer and things had started to escalate rather quickly. Just to give you a background about her, she was 15 years old and very well developed. She was about 5'4" Blonde hair with an athletic, but skinny frame. Erica was one of those girls with an hourglass frame. 36B with a tight tummy and hips that slightly came out, but a very cute, tight ass
The night began with her coming over to my house after school. Once we got into my basement we immediately started going at it with each other. At that age we would make out any chance we would get. Being the horny teen I was, I would instantly get hard and she loved to tease me. After making out on the couch for awhile, she climbed on top of me and took off her shirt. She told me all day she thought about me sucking on her nipples and that she couldn't take it anymore. That was all the encouragement I needed as my mouth immediately latched onto her nipple. She was young but knew what turned her on. I spent time going back and forth between each nipple as she was grinding away on me telling me how good it felt.
After about what seemed like five minutes of this we knew something was going to have to give. She was grinding harder and faster and my hips were rising to meet hers. I could tell by the way she was pressing my face on her tits that she was getting close. Her moans were getting louder and her panting and breathing was getting louder. I pulled my mouth away and asked her if she was ready to cum for me. It was all the encouragement she needed as she started shaking and bucking uncontrollably. I grabbed her tit and started sucking away while she was cumming on my lap.
Once we both caught our breath and looked at the clock we realized it was time to take her home. My dick was literally throbbing and I had leaked so much pre-cum you could see spots on my boxers. She knew I needed a release too but we had also been late getting her home before and we knew we had to leave now. I was bummed but figured I could just rub one out later thinking about how hot it was when she came on my lap.
She apparently had another idea because once we got in the car she looked over at me with a sly smile and asked if I was ready for my turn. Without even waiting for me to answer, she unzipped my pants and slid her hand inside. Of course my dick became aware and instantly grew in her hand. It was less than 10 minutes to her house, but after how excited I was earlier that it wouldn't take long. As if what was happening wasn't hot enough already, Erica unbuttoned her jeans and slightly slid them down. She pulled her hand off my dick and slowly slid it inside her panties. She gathered some wetness, slid her hand back in and began jacking me harder using her juice as lube. I was so turned on it was hard to drive. We were a block away from her house so I pulled in front of a house and parked.
All I could do is reach over and slid my hand into her panties and rub her as hard and fast as she was jacking me. My mouth latched onto hers and we started kissing heavily. Her pussy was so wet I could hear my fingers going in and out. She herself was getting close again too. I told her how dirty a girl she was and that she was about to make me cum. Erica then started to pick up her pace. I knew I couldn't take it anymore and told her I was gonna explode and explode I did. With her hand inside my pants my dick shot off rope after rope. After being pent up for the whole night the cum just kept shooting. I could feel it covering her hand, and my leg but she kept tugging. This sent her over the edge and I felt her pussy contract all over my fingers. After slowly stroking my down from my orgasm she pulled her hand out of my pants and it was covered in cum. I asked Erica if she needed a napkin, but she gave me a wink and started to lick each finger.
We gathered ourselves and drove around the block. Once we pulled up in front of her house and I kissed her and told her goodnight. She looked back at me and said that was the first time she had ever tasted cum...and tomorrow she wants more.


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Directed by: Stephen Chbosky
Produced by: Todd Lieberman, David Hoberman
Screenplay by: Jack Thorne and Steven Conrad and Stephen Chbosky
Cast: Jacob Tremblay, Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson, Izabela Vidovic, Daveed Diggs, Mandy Patinkin.
How would you feel if your appearance caused strangers to gawp, freeze in horror or avert their eyes, so they could pretend they couldn't see you?
This is Augie Pullman's world, a 10-year-old boy born with severe facial deformities, about to enter school for the first time. At the school gates with his fiercely loving family, Mum, Isabella (Julia Roberts), Dad, Nate (Owen Wilson) and his teenage sister Via (Izabela Vidovic), Augie hesitates to remove his final shield of anonymity, a space helmet, his final buffer between him, and a schoolyard full of staring children.
Augie accepts that he is different, he just wishes everybody else didn't have such a hard time with the way he looks.
Based on a New York Times bestseller, Wonder addresses today's appearance driven culture where one is quick to judge another without making time to look beneath the surface.
Director Stephen Chbosky refuses to demonize the surface appearance of his characters by using film to shoot Augie and all those in his orbit through multiple viewpoints.
With multiple viewpoints Chbosky chooses not to minimize the severity of Augie's facial differences, or the value society places on physical appearance.
One stand out scene is in Chbosky's multiple viewpoint rendering of the bully, Julian, (Bryce Gheisar).
When Julian is called into the Headmaster, Mr Tushman's (Mandy Patinkin) office to account for allegedly photo shopping Augie as deformed out of their class photo, we are stunned and moved to compassion as Julian's mother interrupts and presents an unexpected layer to this scene. Julian's mother unapologetically declares that she photo shopped Augie out as she was sick of her visitors concentrating on the deformed kid in the photo and not seeing her son.
As Julian's parent storm out of Mr Tushman's office, Julian turns back to apologise. As a child with an innocent heart he knows he has done wrong and is genuinely sorry. Without recrimination only heartfelt sadness Mr Tush says, 'I know you are son'.
There is a lot of heart and transformation within this film and a lot of unbridled joy.
I was captivated by the effervescent joy and connection between Augie and his family.
This is a family everyone would want to be part of. A family whose joy is not metered or seeking approval from anything external to themselves. A family who celebrate each other and their unique differences.
Via says to Augie, 'Why blend in when you were born to stand out'.
And it is Augie's self-acceptance that transforms the lives of everyone in this story and everyone watching.
Wonder penetrates as a film about the self-acceptance of our differences and how the choices we make define and expose our truest character.
When we don't accept ourselves it is easy to judge and put down those who are different from us. Our judgements never define those we judge, they define us.
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Today is the ninth day of Kat McNally's August Moon. I have participated in her Reverb projects in December as well as her April Moon offerings, so it was a no brainer for me sign up for August Moon again this year. it comes at just the right time for me, I believe. There is a lot swirling around in my head and heart these days, and I'm looking forward to using the opportunity that August Moon gives me to work through those things that are rattling around inside of me.
Today Kat gives us the following:
What about your multiple selves?
There's no elegant way of saying this: it often comes down to money.
Unless you are a trust fund baby or have a wealthy, indulgent spouse you are likely going to need to contribute in some way to your board and lodgings. And this is what tends to be the bottom line for most of us: I have this dream but how is it going to put food on my table, especially in the short term?
I don't have the answer for this, obviously. But there are a couple of things I have observed.
Regardless of whether we're talking about an overtly "creative" pursuit, it seems to me that putting pressure on your dream life to earn you money can somehow rob it of all its joy. This can become crippling and get in the way of the actual doing i.e. the refining of your craft, the prioritising of your actual goal.
It can also result in feeling like a total failure if it doesn't come to fruition in the time frame required.
Today I invite you spell out the range of things you are and would like to be.
Which of these would be the likeliest candidate to generate income, in the short term? If none of them, how could these be combined with some other form of "day job"?
How could you a cultivate a life that reflects all that you truly are?
This is the dilemma, isn't it? It is what keeps me away from my Sweet Husband during the week, away from this home we've built that is lovely & comfortable, to a job that I don't particularly like but that pays better than anything else I can find. It is easy to say that if you do what you love, then the money follows, but I don't know anyone for whom that is true. All of the people I know work to support their lives and enjoy every single moment they are away from work. Which is not to say that they don't enjoy their jobs; many of them do. It's just not what fulfills them.
I'm not entirely sure that expecting our work to fulfill us is the best way to approach our work. That's an awful lot of pressure to place on something. I've always thought that "satisfied" (as in you were doing good work that made you feel satisfied was a more appropriate lens with which to view our careers…& in a perfect world, fulfillment would reside there.
The things I am:
- a teacher
- a student
- a writer
- a photographer
- a reader
- a crafter
- a mentor
- a staff developer
The things I would like to be:
- a much better writer with a wider reach
- a much better photographer with a much wider reach
- a guide
- a resource
- a relaxer
- a teacher of the things that I want to teach
Unfortunately, right now, about the only thing that I can see clearly that will provide for me is that teaching thing which I no longer really want to do. And that's OK. I'm not at a point where I'm causing harm, and I've decided that because of the setting where I work, I can do things a little differently. I can focus on the things that I want to – namely how to do you get to be a better person? how do you set goals that you can achieve? how do you make a good decision? what is a good decision? – and I can wrap it up in my "content" and no one really knows the difference. (I don't think I'd mind this gig if I could be home every night) I'm good with that. And I've got awhile before I have to make a leap.
I'm using that time to begin the work of positioning myself in such a way that I can combine some writing and photography work to support myself. I have a photo shoot coming up this weekend that will help me build a portfolio. I need to send some emails about lining up some editing work. I need to do some work on the photo editing class that I signed up for. It's all a process, and I've come to the realization that it's not going to be one thing – it's going to be many things. I'm fine with that understanding. I'm fine with knowing that I'm going to have to pull multiple things together in order to make this work.
It's all good.


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We had a real taste of Spring last week. The sun shined, the sky was blue and even the daffs in the garden made an appearance.
Encouraged by my new seed cards, I planted some sunflowers, sweet pea and foxglove seeds to encourage the bumble bees and butterflies to visit when they flower.
Well, after looking out the window this morning I think my new little seedlings will need blankets and any visiting bees will need to have their rain coats on!
Snow in April? A little odd, but I'm determined to keep a Spring-like mind. I headed over to Folksy to have a look at Spring themed products and have found some gorgeous things;
All beautifully hand made – pop over and have a browse!


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*Fatkini* Is Just A Regular Bikini
Shalom! It's me! Your favorite blogatrix. I hope you're swell.
Summer is kind of winding down and this is the first time in forever that I will not be returning to school. I have an overwhelming desire to buy pens and notebooks but I know deep down I don't need them. It's vaguely heartbreaking. No more sitting in classrooms on the first day watching a teacher struggle to read difficult names, no more meeting new roommates or 'back to school' events. No more trips to the bookstore to buy $80+ textbooks I won't even crack open once. Well, OK the last one I won't miss so much. But even though I'm glad I'm through with finals anxiety and flashcards, the thought that I won't be *forced* to learn something is a little scary.
And I do learn stuff all the time because a part of my job is dealing with daytime television. Meaning that I watch the news all day, every (other) day, the good, the bad, the ugly. And recently, a fixture of the news cycle recently has been the "fatkini." Because if it's one thing the news absolutely gobbles up like half-priced Cronuts on Columbus Day, it's portmanteaus and people's weights. And being mad about stuff.
For those who don't know. A "fatkini" is like a bathing suit – BUT, here's the twist. The person wearing it is OVER a size 10.
The real question people (and terrible commentators on the Internet – who I sometimes forget are people) seem to be asking is "IS THIS GLORIFYING OBESITY?" and here's the answer. No. It's not a splashy answer – but that's that.
Selfies of ladies and others in bikinis is not causing obesity. The food we eat does. The poverty level in our country does. The lack of funds for activities for inner-city children does. The removal of gym class or recess in public school is.
We may have a health problem in our country but a girl posing at the beach is not affecting any of the above. If anything, the *fatkini* (can I please stop saying that now?) is helping people. And here's why.
I never used to wear a bathing suit in public between the ages of 10 and 23. Because I felt I didn't *deserve* to wear one. I didn't look *good* enough in one. I would wear T-shirts and basketball shorts. Mini- skirts. Tank-tops. Sometimes even sweatpants or jeans. I would bake in the sun, hot and sweaty, uncomfortable. Happy in the knowledge that I may be dying of heat but at least no one was potentially laughing at me. I would sit on the side while other people swam (I couldn't get my hair wet because you *know* that would dry frizzy). If I hadn't shaved my legs or underarms, forget it. I may as well have stayed home. If I had someone say "Here, look at me! I'm wearing a bathing suit and don't give a fuck!" or a magazine photo spread with girls who looked like me playing volleyball without being weighed down by extraneous layers Would I have joined the rest of my friends playing marco-polo? Would I have taken a few laps in the pool without the crushing distraction that someone may be looking at me? Who knows. Maybe I would be healthier and more active in the summertime.
When you put on clothes and think "Hm, I need to start eating better or I need to start running on the treadmill," that's fine. Those are healthy goals. But the next thought had better be "But today, I am going to the beach/pool/waterpark/getting ice dumped on my head for ALS and there's nothing I can do about my body now except enjoy the sunshine."
Someone recently posted a quote on Facebook that said "Your body isn't your masterpiece, it's your paintbrush." Your body isn't what will survive in 120 years. What you do with your body will. The money you raise from running a marathon that goes to breast cancer research. The happiness you bring to your friend's wedding by dancing with her. The hugs you give to your grandparents. Your body does a hella lot of good. Use it.
So summer's winding down but that's not excuse to get all those winter sweaters out. Go out and enjoy what warm sunshine we have left. In whatever you deem to wear.


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Finland's 100,000 year recycling plan
by juli boggs
I know, it's been months. You thought I was dead, you'd thought I'd given up, but it's not true. Look, here I am! Bored in these dog days of summer to the point where I am actually (gasp) working on my nuclear book again (applause). While writing a book is something I have no idea how to do, I do understand the sort of short form journalism I've been creating for a while now and figured that blogging my research as I go may help me to develop an idea of how it can all come together in a longer form. Maybe this book will come from a compilation of ideas, all tied up with a pretty ribbon. Or maybe this book will come about from conversations and revisions and comments. Whatever this book comes out to be, if it comes out to be, this is where I know how to start…
This summer while traveling through France (yep, that's partly where I've been instead of at the writing table), I met an American artist who clued me in to a documentary called Into Eternity by Michael Madsen that explores the unprecedented way in which Finland is dealing with their nuclear waste and attempting to answer some unanswerable questions along the way.
The documentary (which you can stream for free on YouTube) follows the building process of a nearly two thousand foot deep geological repository for Finland's nuclear waste. At the end of the ten year digging process their used fuel will be bundled up and stored in casks at the repository's deepest point, the tunnels capped off, and the site completely hidden. The site, on the property of one Finland's two nuclear power plants, is called "Onkalo," Finnish for "hidden," and is being built to last for the lifecycle of the fuel- 100,000 years. One hundred thousand years?! And I'm stressed out about turning 27 next week.
Onkalo has brought up many issues that seem more like thought experiments than practical engineering quandaries. How does one best secure a site for such an unimaginable length of time? They've made it self-contained so it will not require upkeep or oversight, they've argued about what possible languages or runes to leave as warning markers at the entrance or whether to leave nothing at all, instead hoping that it remains hidden and forgotten forever. They have even built the tunnels to retain their integrity through the added stress of the next ice age which they figure is due in another 60,000 years.
The construction which began in 2004 has already reached its final depth of 1,710 feet, and regulators are now applying for licensing to begin constructing the repository which, once built, will be large enough to store fuel for the next 100 years until its final encapsulation around the year 2120.
Innovative? Yes. Daring? Yah. But all of that just for Finland, and the estimated cost: €818 million.
Finland as a nation does not rank incredibly high on mega watt (MW) capacity, the amount of electricity that they generate by nuclear power, compared to other developed nations with commercial nuclear programs. But the 2,752 MW they did put out in 2012 made up 32% of their total electrical production, which is a fair percentage. So if the Onkalo repository is their answer to dealing with spent fuel waste, what answers will we arrive at for the United States with our 102,136 MW capacity (ranked the highest output in the world in 2012 while making up just 19% of our total electrical output).
While researching nuclear waste issues in the past I had read suggestions of blasting it into space, burying it deep at sea, and hollowing out mountains with almost equal skepticism, but a three mile long tunnel in the earth built to last 100,000 years has seriously upped the ante on what options are realistically on the table. It may be time to take a trip to the United States' own controversial repository Yucca Mountain, the outdoor adventure you're not likely to find in any issue of Backpacker magazine. Roadtrippin' Nevada, anyone? We can swing through Vegas on the way.


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1. synthetic - noun
· a compound made artificially by chemical reactions
Synonym(s): synthetic_substance
Hypernym(s): compound, chemical_compound
2. synthetic - adjective
· not of natural origin; prepared or made artificially; "man-made fibers"; "synthetic leather"
Synonym(s): man-made, semisynthetic
3. synthetic - adjective
· involving or of the nature of synthesis (combining separate elements to form a coherent whole) as opposed to analysis; "limnology is essentially a synthetic science composed of elements...that extend well beyond the limits of biology"- P.S.Welch
Synonym(s): synthetical
Antonym(s): analytic
4. synthetic - adjective
· systematic combining of root and modifying elements into single words
Antonym(s): analytic
5. synthetic - adjective
· of a proposition whose truth value is determined by observation or facts; "`all men are arrogant' is a synthetic proposition"
Synonym(s): synthetical
Antonym(s): analytic
6. synthetic - adjective
· artificial as if portrayed in a film; "a novel with flat celluloid characters"
Synonym(s): celluloid
7. synthetic - adjective
· not genuine or natural; "counterfeit rhetoric that flourishes when passions are synthetic"- George Will
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I'm back with another 2 page layout using Mosaic Moments dies and grid cardstock. Have you heard that my absolute favorite pattern right now is chevron??? I had to make a Disney layout using this pattern from the 6x6 pad of patterned cardstock Say Cheese by Simple Stories. Besides the Christmas parade pics the star of the show is the beautiful title by Paper Wizard. The picture squares were cut from a Marvy punch.
All the cardstock is from Say Cheese. I created the middle element from the 12x12 cardstock page with different pattern strips on it. In addition I added the chevron border sticker under the text. The more chevron the better! The photos are matted on newsprint style cardstock from the collection.
And finally, the black embellishments are from Queen and Company. They are flocked domes like I have never seem before. I thought they made a difference in the overall look of the layout. Here's one last look!
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Creating Art Jewelry
Make necklaces for yourself or for gifts!
Creating Art Jewelry is a hands-on class about color and design. You will be instructed in how to select your materials and accomplish your goals in creating your one-of-a kind jewelry. The type of beads, stones, crystals, glass, findings, etc. will be the unique choice of each student (rather than having the instructor arbitrarily choose a jewelry design for everyone in the class to make).
This class will focus on the basics: stringing with wire and beads, imaginative necklace design, color and material coordination, and learning about and helping refine your personal goals for learning this craft! (Yes! It's all about YOU!)
The first class will be devoted to the art of this craft and its possibilities. Mary will use her experience in art jewelry creation to instruct, educate and demonstrate. In that class you will learn about the acquisition of materials that you will then purchase yourself and bring to the remaining five classes. Tools will be available for your use. No beads are provided. Bring beads if you already have them. Wire, crimp beads and toggle clasps will be provided for your use during the first meeting.
$5.00 supply fee included
Think of the amazing possibilities!
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Yes it has been a long time since I posted. With some unexpected life happenings, it took some time for me to come back from the edge of an all consuming "I-really-don't-feel-up-to-it" syndrome. With the recent loss of a family member, I had been putting things on hold. Waiting to see what would happen next.
Last week a friend stopped by for a visit, and she reminded me that regardless of what may or may not happen, and wherever I might be, I would still want to create. She was right! I had worked myself into a "funk" of indecision and complacency! Well enough of that! I needed to get my hands on some fabric, some thread, some beads, some lace...anything that would get the juices flowing.
So let's get caught up. They are small steps, but here is what I have been up to since I last posted. Remember those dyed pieces of felt and thread? After some stitching this is the result.
In addition to creating a stitch book, we also had to create a sampling of different knots as a requirement for the class. So here is a look at how many different knots and knotted stitches I was able to come up with.
Till the next time, thanks for stopping by, and stay creative.


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Big Belly Deli
6310 West Coast Hwy
Newport Beach, CA
this is in response to OSHUNLUVR's comment. you are a twat. the food here is great. see the good things in life and not the ugly. that is all.
DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME HERE> We ordered 2 sandwiches and 2 salads TO GO. Thats means we weren't planning on spending the entire day at this place - obviously, we had somewhere to go. This did not translate automatically to the FOUR useless people working here when we were there because 20 minutes later, they had not even looked at our ticket hanging over the service counter. I finally went back over to the cash register, interupted the conversation the employees were having in the kitchen - instead of doing the actual work they were getting PAID to do - and asked how much longer? THEN one of them finally looked at my order and started to work on it. There was only only other order at the time and it was after mine. IT TOOK 30 MINUTES TO GET 2 SANDWICHES AND 2 SALADS! Absolutely ridiculous. OK, if there had been 8-10 orders ahead of mine, sure. THERE WERE NO ORDERS AHEAD OF ME WHEN I PLACED MY ORDER! This has to be the worst service I have ever experienced from a deli. It's not like they had to bake the bread or kill and cook the turkey. To top it off, the food was just OK. Nothing wrong with it, but nothing notable either. Frankly, the bread and ingredients we had at home were of better quality. Had I known in advance that there were three other delis just down the road on the Balboa Peninsula, I would (and should) have kept going South and I would have had a full half-hour more to spend with my family. There is no reason at all I can think of to try this place. Do yourself a favor and keep going.


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Becca Hirani
A man convinced that Lucifer was within him brutally murdered his wife and child in satanic sacrifice. Now, years later, Eric, Hayley and their daughter Penny, move into the same house after being left unsold on the market.
Elise's life takes a sharp turn for the worst when she meets a mysterious and alluring stranger who has more than friendship on his mind – A tale of love, fantasy and obsession.


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INDIA HOTELSHOTELS IN INDIAKARNATAKACOORGKUSHAL NAGARVEERA BHOOMI TOURIST VILLAGECheck Availability
Veera Bhoomi Tourist Village
Surrounded by greenery, this spacious property near Kushalanagar maintains 24 rooms. Guests are entertained with folk dance and music performances. There is also a play area for children to play and a conference hall for corporate travelers to conduct their business meetings. Trekking around the hillocks is organized to add fun to the stay. There is also a garden area where guests can contemplate in solitude.
Check-in time : 14:00 NOON
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Job description
Job Summary
As a Laundry Washperson, you are responsible for collecting soiled linens at the linen chute and sort into bins. Transport full and empty bins between linen chute room and dock area. A Washperson would also be required to manage and respond to guest requests. Specifically, you will be responsible for performing the following tasks to the highest standards:
- Collects dirty linen into laundry bins and transports carts to laundry area
- Transports empty bins from Laundry to chute area
- Maintain the Laundry area clean, neat and organized
- Wash throws, pillow charms, covers, robes, curtains and lobby covers
- Collect all dirty linen in a cart and send it to Cadillac Uniform
- Report maintenance and hazard issues
- Comply with hotel security, fire regulations and all health and safety legislation
What are we looking for?
Since being founded in 1919, Hilton has been a leader in the hospitality industry. Today, Hilton remains a beacon of innovation, quality, and success. This continued leadership is the result of our Team Members staying true to our Vision, Mission, and Values. Specifically, we look for demonstration of these Values:
- Hospitality - We''re passionate about delivering exceptional guest experiences.
- Integrity - We do the right thing, all the time.
- Leadership - We''re leaders in our industry and in our communities.
- Teamwork - We''re team players in everything we do.
- Ownership - We''re the owners of our actions and decisions.
- Now - We operate with a sense of urgency and discipline
In addition, we look for the demonstration of the following key attributes:
- Quality
- Productivity
- Dependability
- Customer Focus
- Adaptability
Hilton is the leading global hospitality company, spanning the lodging sector from luxurious full-service hotels and resorts to extended-stay suites and mid-priced hotels. For nearly a century, Hilton has offered business and leisure travelers the finest in accommodations, service, amenities and value. Hilton is dedicated to continuing its tradition of providing exceptional guest experiences across its global brands. Our vision to fill the earth with the light and warmth of hospitality unites us as a team to create remarkable hospitality experiences around the world every day. And, our amazing Team Members are at the heart of it all!
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- Full-time
- Location
- Irvine, CA, United States
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- Housekeeping
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It's one of the most highly anticipated golfing tournaments of the year: the Farmers Insurance Open. This exciting competition features some of the top golfing talent in the world, along with a magnificent setting with ocean views at Torrey Pines Golf Course.
From January 26-29, world-class golfers will go head to head in a battle for fortune and glory - and you can experience the action right alongside them. But it's not just the competition that brings the crowds to the Farmers Insurance Open. You'll also find a unique collection of attractions for the fans, including:
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United States District Court, S.D. Georgia, Brunswick Division
November 24, 2014
WILLIAM ARGO, MICHAEL G. JOHNSON, and JOHN M. SPANGLER, Plaintiffs,v.Sheriff TOMMY J. GREGORY, in his official capacity, Defendant.
J. RANDAL HALL, District Judge.
Presently before the Court are Defendant's motions in limine (doc. 59). Defendant timely filed his motions on November 11, 2014. Plaintiffs raised a motion in limine on November 18, 2014 (doc. 60). Pursuant to this Court's Order and Notice of Pretrial Proceedings (doc. 52), all evidentiary motions were due by close of business on November 11, 2014, and all responses were due by close of business on Friday, November 21, 2014.[1] As the deadline for response has passed, the motions are ripe for the Court's review.
I. Motions in Limine
As a preliminary matter, with the exception of one issue, Plaintiffs have failed to respond to Defendant's motions in limine. Pursuant to Local Rule 7.5, "[f]ailure to respond within the applicable time period shall indicate that there is no opposition to a motion." LR SDGa 7.5; see also Bush v. Smith, No. 6:04-cv-156, 2007 WL 4712761, at *1 (S.D. Ga. Mar. 9, 2007). Indeed, "the orderly, efficient passage of lawsuits through the federal courts demands that the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure be followed[.]" E.E.O.C. v. Exel, Inc., 259 F.R.D. 652, 656 (N.D.Ga. 2008) (internal quotations omitted). The Court thus addresses those motions which are deemed unopposed, the motion to which Plaintiffs did respond, and the additional evidentiary objections raised by Defendant.
a. Motions in Limine Deemed Unopposed
Defendant raises a number of pre-trial motions, which as the Court explained above are deemed unopposed. Specifically, Defendant moved to exclude (1) testimony based on hearsay; (2) evidence regarding emotional injury; (3) evidence regarding any dismissed or proposed claim not allowed by the court; (4) evidence of front pay; (5) testimony inconsistent with deposition testimony; and (6) "other improper evidence."[2]
As to the hearsay motion, Defendant points to his previously-filed Motion for Reconsideration (doc. 53), wherein he makes a number of arguments regarding specific hearsay statements. In that motion, Defendant cites three instances of hearsay: a statement relayed to Plaintiffs that Defendant allegedly said, "Why would I get rid of a younger deputy when I can get rid of a Bill Argo or Roger Dyals?"; statements from Kevin Barber to Plaintiffs about how Defendant was determined to get rid of the "greybeards"; and a chart created from Defendant's payroll records showing a pattern of age discrimination.
As to these three statements, the Court grants Defendant's motion as unopposed. Beyond these three instances, Defendant claims that "most of the testimony in this case is going to be based on inadmissible hearsay or rumored beliefs that Sheriff Gregory discriminated against the Plaintiffs based on their age." (Doc. 59 at 5.) To the extent Defendant seeks to exclude any and all possible instances of hearsay that may come up at trial, the Court reminds the parties that it strictly adheres to the Federal Rules of Evidence. Upon a timely objection, then, the Court will address any hearsay arguments Defendant might raise. Accordingly, the Court finds the above-listed motions to be unopposed and GRANTS Defendant's motions in limine.
b. Evidence Regarding Other Discrimination Allegations
Defendant also seeks to exclude the testimony of Jeremy Rogers, Carol Coats, and other former employees who might testify that they were terminated because of age. Plaintiff filed a motion in limine on November 18, 2014 to include the testimony of these individuals, which was filed beyond the deadline for motions in limine. However, because the issue is one raised by Defendant in his motion, the Court construes Plaintiffs' motion as one in response.
Defendant challenges this evidence as irrelevant[3] and unfairly prejudicial. Specifically, Defendant cites Moorhouse v. Boeing Co., 501 F.Supp. 390, 392-97 (E.D. Pa. 1980), a case cited with approval by the Northern District of Georgia in Grayson v. K-Mart Corp., 840 F.Supp. 785, 791 (N.D.Ga. 1994). In Moorhouse, the court held that "even the strongest jury instructions could not have dulled the impact of a parade of witnesses, each recounting his contention that defendant had laid him off because of his age." Moorhouse, 501 F.Supp. at 397 n.4. In retort, Plaintiff cites Demers v. Adams Homes of N.W. Fla., Inc., 321 F.App'x 847 (11th Cir. 2009). In Demers, the Eleventh Circuit held that testimony of former employees regarding the defendant's discriminatory actions was admissible under Federal Rule of Evidence 404 (b) as relevant to show intent. There, the court held "wide evidentiary latitude must be granted to those attempting to prove discriminatory intent and th[e] trier of fact should consider all the evidence.'" Id. at 853 (quoting United States Postal Serv. v. Aikens, 460 U.S. 711, 714 n.3 (1983)).
The relevance and prejudicial effect of this evidence requires further review from this Court, particularly regarding the circumstances surrounding the terminations of these third-party employees and their work experiences.[4] Thus, the Court DEFERS ruling on this issue pending argument from the parties at the pretrial conference.
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Replacement of two incumbent content management systems for a leading outdoor outfitter.
A leading outdoor outfitter had two CMS platforms after they experienced an incomplete migration. Both were cumbersome, legacy CMS solutions that dictated the way content was curated and distributed. This led to a functional - but extremely restrictive - content pipeline that was very difficult to work with. Finally, these systems had high licensing and operating costs. This difficult and pricey situation drove the organization to seek out a new, single, more flexible CMS solution.
Dev9 identified the desired end state and worked backwards. We used Hippo CMS as a headless CMS solution to decouple the customer experience from the content structure. This allowed migration from each of the two incumbent content management systems to happen with insignificant disruption. Hippo now allows them to distribute their content in a organization-wide interface by using a search engine. As a result, they are no longer tied to a specific implementation, the system is more robust, new content is created and published quickly, deployments are of smaller size and can be released more frequently, and content can be utilized in more channels than before with less effort.
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The decision to purchase a more advanced quadcopter is one hopefully resulting from time spent with smaller, less expensive versions. Understanding how to operate a drone is very, very important before you shell out several hundred or over one thousand dollars, as you don't want to shatter your new quadcopter into a million bits. The 3DR Solo from 3D Robotics and the Phantom 2 from DJI are two quality drones to consider, with both offering a number of special features.
The 3DR Solo is a camera-free quadcopter, however you may add a gimbal and a GoPro camera to the device fairly easily. The DJI Phantom 2 does not come outfitted with a camera either, though its sequels the Phantom 2 Vision and the Phantom 2 Vision+ drones do. However, the drone is compatible with the Zenmuse GoPro gimbal, which as with accessories for the 3DR Solo may be obtained for additional costs.
How well the 3DR Solo does in flight is debatable. While the quadcopter is clearly advertised as offering smooth, safe flights, reviews on Amazon indicate otherwise. It's considered an easy drone to operate so long as you keep it low to the ground and hover frequently, however trying to create a serious flight pattern with it isn't as pleasant. "…out of the box the first flight was a disaster. One side lifted off the ground while the other side remained still and it flipped over and became a lawn mower (and yes my props were on correctly)," writes one of several reviewers on Amazon who took issue with the quadcopter.
The Phantom 2, in comparison, is frequently reviewed as a steady and stable drone when in operation. Its 2.4 GHz radio transmitter allows for easy control, and flight time is also longer than what's offered with the 3DR Solo. The Phantom 2 offers 20 to 25 minutes of flight time, while the Solo offers about the same.
Determining which is the best option generally comes down to what you're looking for in a drone. Despite ho-hum reviews on Amazon the Solo is still considered a great drone for professional use. Both drones offer the ability to capture stunning images when equipped with the right cameras and gimbals, with the Iris+ allowing you to direct the camera on a specific object and keep it there.