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|My Son, Keir Colin McLean McNicholl
Tuesday, 15 January 2013
More or Less Human
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Congrats! Get used to that 12am to 6am time... I think there is a universal rule that says that small children will always be sick between 12am and 6am too... Lol.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the update and try to get some sleep!
Congratulations to the whole family!ReplyDelete
I hope you can catch some sleep. Been there twice now, and while wonderful, that was quite enough. If you think it's bad, just imagine how giving birth must have felt like. :)
Thanks guys, this is my second and final child. We already have a daughter (Nina) who is 2.5 going on 15! But she is brilliant the apple of her daddy's eye. But I'm looking forward to seeing how our son develops. Will he be like his sister? or the opposite?ReplyDelete
On the plus side we are starting to get into a sleep rota, which gives me some writing time during the long early mornings.
Congratulations! I must say that firstly I was confused with the title and the picture below. He looks definitely human to me :DReplyDelete
And more seriously, very nice approach to 'aliens' but does it mean that there will be no actual aliens?
I've cast Humans to fill the archetypical role of "the Ancients" in the setting, responsible for the shear variety of life in the setting and also to explain the humanocentric (men in rubber suits) type of aliens.ReplyDelete
That said there are 'real' aliens in the setting. Reticula (you can find it on the map), is an alien homeworld for the Reticulans / Greys they have an 'advanced but stagnated' culture, there are others two, but not within the sphere. If the setting expands over time I have a lot of things I want to introduce.

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Eugenie Bouchard upset in round one by Kristina Mladenovic, Rafael Nadal looked sharped in his opening win, Petra Kvitova took three sets to beat her opponent, John Isner grabbed a win for the Americans and more news and results from Day 3 on Tuesday at the French Open.
PARIS – Catch up on the results and news from Day 3 at the French Open in Paris.
No. 6 Eugenie Bouchard ousted by Kristina Mladenovic: In a result that shouldn't surprise many given Bouchard's recent form, last year's semifinalist lost in the first round of the major for the first time in her career —she was previously 8-0—falling 6–4, 6–4 to Mladenovic. Bouchard came into the match having won just one match in her last six events and has not beaten a top 30 player all season. Mladenovic, ranked No. 44, has a history of being dangerous on home soil. Last year she stunned Li Na in the first round.
There's a good chance Bouchard will drop out of the Top 10 with the loss but not much further. The bigger question is whether she'll be ready for the scrutiny that will come in a few weeks when she returns to Wimbledon as the defending finalist.
"At this point I had no expectations coming in," Bouchard said. "I have no expectations for the foreseeable future. Just going to take it one day at a time and, you know, just try slowly work my way back up."
Rafael Nadal back to his old ways in opening win: The opposition wasn't top-class—Quentin Halys was a 18-year-old French wildcard ranked No. 296—but Nadal looked sharp en route to a 6–3, 6–3, 6–4 win. Bidding to become the first player in the Open Era to win 10 titles at a single major, Nadal extended his record at Roland Garros to 67-1.
"I think he played aggressive," Nadal said. "I think he played well. He played obviously with some mistakes, but when you want to risk on every single ball, then the mistakes are there. The tennis is moving that way. Younger, aggressive. And the tour in general are moving to hit the ball stronger and quicker, going for the winners all the time. So when he wants to play like this and he put the balls in, just I cannot do nothing. But when the point was playing in normal conditions, I think I play well."
Nadal will get a big step up in competition level in the next round as he faces Nicolas Almagro, who beat him last year on clay in Barcelona.
No. 4 Petra Kvitova battles through to the second round: No other surface is as affected by weather conditions as clay. When Kvitova woke up and saw the chilly and overcast day ahead of her she knew she would be fighting against more than just her opponent, Marina Erakovic. Even with her power, Kvitova struggled to hit through the conditions and found herself two games from defeat at 4-4 in the third set. But she was able to get one more break and serve out the match to advance with a 6–4, 3–6, 6–4 win.
"I think it was quite cold and the balls are really heavy, and they didn't really fly," Kvitova said. "For me it was really difficult to go for the shots. It was tough to make any winners or ace from the serve or something like that. It was very difficult today." She plays Silvia Soler-Espinosa in the second round.
No. 1 Novak Djokovic rallies to a straight set win: The top seed followed Nadal on Court Philippe Chatrier and had a far more challenging time against Finnish veteran Jarkko Nieminen. Djokovic found himself down 1-4 in the second set and Nieminen was up 40-0 as he served for 6-5 lead. But the resilient Serb did what do does: He locked in and found a way back into the set and was able to secure a straight-set 6-2, 7-5, 6-2 win.
Serena Williams shows no signs of nerves in easy win: Heavy conditions? Possible injury? No problem for Serena. The No. 1 looked sharp in a 6–2, 6–3 win over qualifier Andrea Hlavackova. Well, except when she completely misjudged this lob attempt and burst out laughing:
No drama from Serena, except when she got hit by a lob. Highlight of the match: pic.twitter.com/TWUk4tJUsK— Steph (@StephintheUS) May 26, 2015
John Isner stops the American bleeding: The day started out with more losses from the Americans, with CoCo Vandeweghe, Taylor Townsend and Tim Smyczek bowing out with just a single set won between them. Leave it to No. 1 American man Isner to step up with a top-quality performance, beating Andreas Seppi—who beat Roger Federer earlier this year at the Australian Open—7–5, 6–2, 6–3. Isner fired 21 aces and broke Seppi six times. This was a top-notch performance from Isner, who has played strong, aggressive tennis through the clay season.
"A lot is said about clay and how it's a defensive surface," Isner said. "It's sort of I would say a misconception. I think clay is a very good attacking surface. A guy like Rafa, yeah, he plays great defense, but knocks the cover off the ball. He is greatest clay-court player of all-time. Me, on top of that, I'm a completely different animal than anyone. My serve is going to play no matter what the surface is and going to keep me in the match. So I'm comfortable on clay."
Isner plays Jeremy Chardy in the second round. Madison Keys also grabbed a win, beating fellow American Vavara Lepchenko 7–6 (3), 6–3.
Jack Sock knocks off No. 10 Grigor Dimitrov: This was an upset on paper but given how these two have played the last two months, it's not all that surprising. Sock thoroughly outplayed an impatient and listless Dimitrov, winning 7–6(7), 6–2, 6–3.
Seeds continue to roll: There have been no major upsets on Tuesday. David Ferrer, Caroline Wozniacki and Marin Cilic all moved through without losing a set. No. 23 Leonardo Mayer needed five sets to beat Jiri Vesely 3–6, 7–6, 6–3, 5–7, 6–2.
Here's a shot of No. 15 Kevin Anderson walking off court after beating Smyczek in straight sets:
Heh. pic.twitter.com/JxqTGxxhAK— Joey Hanf (@TheTennisNerds) May 26, 2015
Andrea Petkovic shakes off injury to win: A semifinalist last year, Petkovic has struggled with injury since the start of the clay season. Last week she retired in Nuremburg with a leg injury. She admits she's not 100% yet but was very happy pleased to get the late Tuesday start. The extra few days paid off as she beat Shelby Rogers 6–2, 6–1.
"I'm still cautious," Petkovic said. "Also today with Shelby I knew there were not going to be huge rallies, so I was ready for that. The last days in practice my leg was fine for an hour or so and then started cramping up. So I don't know how it's going to go when I play somebody that is not as much of a hard hitter but maybe plays a little more spin, which I will probably have in the second round. Then the rallies will take longer time. So I'm still not putting my expectations too high. I feel like a horse in this thing that wants to run out but I can't because there are—it's blocking me. I feel like I'm playing really, really well, but it's just too dangerous yet to say anything."
Jerzy Janowicz manages to incite the locals: The Pole has never been shy about getting under the skin of his opponents with some of his on-court antics, which meant his first round encounter with a young French wildcard on a small Court 7 was going to be interesting. Janowicz beat Maxime Hamou 6–7, 6–3, 6–4, 6–4 after the French teen took issue with his loud celebration and handshake after the match. Check out the handshake:
"I found it was a little edgy on his part," Hamou said. "There is nothing else I have to say at this point. I think a lot of players know him; I did not know him. I know him now." Janowicz was booed by the partisan crowd as he saluted them after the match. He responded by taking exaggerated royal bows. All in a day's work for Janowicz.
Tweet of the day: Ah, French cuisine.
Interesting first option in the press restaurant at Roland Garros today pic.twitter.com/m0j7nSqayn— Simon Cambers (@scambers73) May 26, 2015
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A third Baltimore police officer has been acquitted in the death of Freddie Gray, which prompted protests that erupted into riots last year.
Officer Caesar Goodson, who drove the police van where Gray suffered fatal injuries as he was taken to jail, was seen as the most likely of the officers to be convicted — but Judge Barry Williams found the state had failed to prove officers gave the 25-year-old black man a "rough ride."
Goodson was acquitted on all charges — and Twitter racists celebrated.
what are you going to do now Baltimore? throw another hissy fit? https://t.co/Z1sWRQmnV9
— Fibonacciman (@fibonacciman618) June 23, 2016
Chimp out in 3…2….1 #GoodsonTrial #Baltimore
— nastychucknellis (@nastychucknelli) June 23, 2016
Que the burnings, riots and looting. Any excuse criminals can get to break the law. #FreddieGray
— William Elgin (@WilliamElgin1) June 23, 2016
For anyone who "protested" in Baltimore. Go fuck yourself. #OfficerGoodsonnotguilty #FreddieGray
— Cameron MacGillivary (@cam_26_) June 23, 2016
Someone call a wahbulance.
Baltimore police driver Goodson found not guilty in Freddie Gray case https://t.co/BJeJWmsnWf via @NewsRepublic
— Big Ern (@adjestil01) June 23, 2016
#BlacklivesMatter say here goes white privilege again! Oh wait?The cop aquitted is Black.Damn! They can't cry racism. Oh No 😂 #FreddieGray
— Anne Cicon (@AnneCicon) June 23, 2016
Many of them attacked Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby, who brought charges against the officers following violent protests.
Outstanding. The DA has spent millions trying to appease the lawless thugs of Baltimore. She should be fired. https://t.co/wVRi6K37Fg
— Mike Cox (@pstmstr) June 23, 2016
Suck it Mosby. Not guilty on all 7 counts for the next Baltimore cop!!! Better board up the cvs again!!
— Bill McCarron (@Pats12bill) June 23, 2016
Can u say malicious prosecution? – Van Driver Found Not Guilty On All Charges – https://t.co/VdN4nPqQ5G #FreddieGray pic.twitter.com/DFSNkbmPDj
— Bob Roberts (@BobRoberts2A) June 23, 2016
@foxnation justice has been served, hope he can sue the shit out of Baltimore
— J.P. Harriah (@jpharriah) June 23, 2016
#Baltimore State's Atty Marilyn Mosby should resign. Her publicity stunt backfired miserably. Justice prevailed. #FreddieGray #CaesarGoodson
— Whitey McMayo (@SheeitDawg) June 23, 2016
Mosby loses again! Bravo. She is a racist, low intelligence prosecutor who needs to resign immediately. #Baltimore #FreddieGray #mosby
— My Opinion (@MyJustOpinion) June 23, 2016
So it looks like the only "rough ride" that took place in the Freddie Gray case is the one Marilyn Mosby gave Officer Goodson.
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) June 23, 2016
A lot of chickens coming home to roost. Obama reminded by SCOTUS hes no king. Mosby race baiting on cops for a career boost -Nope! Good day!
— I love my U.S.A (@WEdwarda) June 23, 2016
Others said Gray deserved to die — or even intentionally caused his own death.
One less career criminal on the street. Glad the cop was found innocent. #FreddieGray
— Not Steph Curry (@NimbusThree) June 23, 2016
fuck Freddie Gray 👍 https://t.co/37v9DxA1cj
— Reggie D. (@Wisdom2Masses) June 23, 2016
@SnyderWBALTV @wbaltv11 Freddy Gray, the chronic criminal, killed himself. Justice Served! #GoodsonTrial #INNOCENT6 #FreddieGray
— Shopping Cart (@shoppingcart16) June 23, 2016
@NewRepublic True, it wasn't 'magic.' It's known as 'crash for cash,' but heroin dealer Freddie Gray screwed it up.
— Ghost of Bull Moose (@GhostofAlSmith) June 23, 2016
#FreddieGray a known drug dealer & drug maker that ended up killing himself through stupidity. pic.twitter.com/GegExrSMmE
— The laughin Corpse (@Laughincorpse) June 23, 2016


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I have been craving Pizza a bit lately but have denied myself because of all that doughy starch
I decided to see if I could figure out a healthier recipe.
This is what I came up with. (preheat oven to 400)
1 Tbs Olive Oil wiped over cookie sheet
1 can of whole wheat pizza dough - pressed out into a 13 x 9 rectangle
2 Tbs of Parmesan Cheese - sprinkled over crust
1/2 cup spaghetti sauce - spread over pizza leaving a 1 inch border
1/2 cup low fat Ricotta cheese - dollop evenly around pizza
10 green olives - placed evenly around crust
1 tsp basil - sprinkled evenly
1 cup fresh Spinach - piled evenly over crust
1/2 medium white onion - sliced and spread over crust
4oz of low fat Mozzarella - sprinkled over crust
Bake for 12 to 15 minutes. 12 for a softer crust / 15 for a crispier crust
I like a thin crispy crust. It's much easier for me to digest
Here is the finished product:
I cut the pizza into 6 portions. They were approximately 4 x 4 inches. I added up all the ingredients and nutritional values and it breaks down per slice to this:
Calories: 214.5 per slice
Fat: 9.19g
Cholesterol: 12mg
Sodium: 295mg
Carbs: 22g
Sugar: 3.1g
Fiber: 2.6g
Protein: 11.6g
Compared to a plain cheese slice from Pizza Hut:
Calories: 440
Fat: 14g
Cholesterol: 35mg
Sodium: 1,010mg
Carbs: 60g
Sugar: 7g
Fiber 4g
Protein: 19g
My version is nearly 1/2 the amount of the bad stuff - not too bad for my first attempt I think.
I'm sure I could have saved even more calories if I used cooking spray to prevent sticking .. but I was all out. I could always have left off the Olives and Parmesan cheese as well, but I was going for a nice punch of flavor.
I accomplished that ... it was completely delicious.


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The Contingency of Language
Richard Rorty
About two hundred years ago, the idea that A truth was made rather than found began to take hold of the imagination of Europe. The French Revolution had shown that the whole vocabulary of social relations, and the whole spectrum of social institutions, could be replaced almost overnight. This inspired a new sort of politics – revolutionary, utopian politics, the sort of political thought which sets aside questions about both the will of God and the nature of man and dreams of creating a new kind of human being. Simultaneously, the Romantic poets were showing what can happen when art is no longer thought of as imitation, but rather as self-creation. These poets made it plausible for art to claim the place in culture traditionally held by religion and philosophy, the place which the Enlightenment had claimed for science.
In the course of the last two centuries, these two tendencies have joined forces and have achieved cultural hegemony. For the contemporary intellectual, questions of ends as opposed to means – questions about how to give a sense to one's own life or that of one's community – are questions for art, politics, or both, rather than for religion, philosophy, or science. This development has led to a split within philosophy. Some philosophers have remained faithful to the Enlightenment, and have continued to identify themselves with the cause of science. They see the old struggle between religion and science as continuing, having now taken the form of a struggle between reason and all those forces within culture which take truth to be made rather than found. These philosophers take science as the paradigmatic human activity, and think of science as discovering truth rather than making it. They regard 'making truth' as a merely metaphorical, and thoroughly misleading, phrase. They think of politics and art as spheres in which the notion of 'truth' is out of place. Other philosophers, realising that the world as it is described by the physical sciences teaches no moral lesson, offers no spiritual comfort, have concluded that science is no more than the handmaiden of technology. These philosophers have ranged themselves alongside the political utopian and the innovative artist. Whereas the first kind of philosopher (a kind common in Britain and America, and exemplified by even such relatively liberated analytic philosophers as Thomas Nagel and Bernard Williams) contrasts 'hard scientific fact' with 'the subjective' or with 'metaphor', the second kind – common elsewhere in the world – sees science as one more human activity, not as the place at which human beings encounter a 'hard', non-human reality. On this view, great scientists invent descriptions of the world which are useful for purposes of predicting and controlling what happens, just as poets and political thinkers invent other descriptions of it for other purposes. But there is no sense in which any of these descriptions is an accurate representation of the way the world is in itself. These philosophers regard the very idea of such a representation as pointless.
Had the first sort of philosopher, the sort whose hero is the natural scientist, always been the only sort, we should probably never have had an autonomous discipline called 'philosophy' – a discipline as distinct from the sciences as it is from theology or from the arts. As such a discipline, philosophy is no more than two hundred years old. It owes its existence to attempts by the German idealists to put the sciences in their place, and to give a clear sense to the vague idea that human beings make truth rather than finding it. Kant wanted to consign science to the realm of second-rate truth – truth about a phenomenal world. Hegel wanted to think of natural science as a description of spirit not yet fully conscious of its own spiritual nature, and thus to elevate the sort of truth offered by the poet and the political revolutionary to first-rate status.
German idealism, however, was a short-lived and unsatisfactory compromise. For Kant and Hegel went only half-way in their repudiation of the idea that truth is 'out there'. They were willing to view the world of empirical science as a made world – to see matter as constructed by mind, or as consisting in mind insufficiently conscious of its own mental character. But they persisted in seeing mind, spirit, the depths of the human self, as having an intrinsic nature – one which could be known by a kind of non-empirical super-science called philosophy. This meant that only half of truth – the bottom, scientific half – was made. Higher truth, the truth about mind, the province of philosophy, was still a matter of discovery rather than creation. What was needed, and what the idealists were unable to envisage, was a repudiation of the very idea of anything – mind or matter, self or world – having an intrinsic nature to be expressed or represented. For the idealists confused the idea that nothing has such a nature with the idea that the idea that space and time are unreal – with the idea that human beings cause the spatio-temporal world to exist.
If we are ever again to live in that dawn in which the young Wordsworth exulted, to recapture Schiller's conviction that art and politics together may jointly shape a new humanity, we need to make a distinction between the claim that the world is out there and the claim that the truth is out there. To say that the world is out there, that it is not our creation, is to say, with common sense, that most things in space and time are the effects of causes which do not include human mental states. To say that truth is not out there is simply to say that where there are no sentences there is no truth, that sentences are elements of human languages, and that human languages are human creations. Truth cannot be out there – cannot exist independently of the human mind – because sentences cannot so exist, or be out there. The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not. Only descriptions of the world can be true or false. The world on its own – unaided by the describing activities of human beings – cannot.
The suggestion that truth, as well as the world, is out there is the legacy of an age in which the world was seen as the creation of a being who had a language of His own. This suggestion runs together the truth that the world sometimes causes sentences to be true or false with the falsehood that what causes a sentence to be true is, somehow, itself true – that the world splits itself up, on its own initiative, into sentence-shaped chunks called 'facts'. If one runs these together, it is easy to start capitalising the word 'truth' and treating it as something identical either with God or with the world as God's project. Then one will say, for example, that Truth is great, and will prevail.
This conflation is facilitated by confining attention to single sentences as opposed to vocabularies. For we often let the world decide the competition between alternative sentences (for example, between 'red wins' and 'black wins' or between 'the butler did it' and 'the doctor did it'). In such cases, it is easy to run together the fact that the world contains the cause of the sentence being true with the idea that that cause, that state of the world, is itself an example of truth. But it is not so easy once we turn from individual sentences to vocabularies as wholes. When we turn to examples of alternative language-games – the vocabulary of ancient Athenian politics as against that of Jefferson, the moral vocabulary of St Paul as against that of Freud, the jargon of Newton versus that of Aristotle, the idiom of Blake rather than that of Dryden – it is difficult to think of the world as making one of these better than another, of the world as deciding between them. When the notion of 'description of the world' is moved from the level of criterion-governed sentences within language-games to language-games as wholes, games which we do not choose between by reference to criteria, the idea that the world decides which descriptions are true can no longer be given a clear sense. It becomes hard to think that a vocabulary is somehow already out there in the world, waiting for us to discover it. Attention (of the sort fostered by intellectual historians like Thomas Kuhn and Quentin Skinner) to the vocabularies in which sentences are formulated, rather than to individual sentences, makes us realise, for example, that the fact that Newton's vocabulary lets us predict the world more easily than Aristotle's does not mean that the world speaks Newtonian. The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings do that.
The realisation that the world does not tell us what language-games to play should not, however, lead us to say that a decision about which to play is arbitrary, nor to say that it is the expression of something deep within us. The moral is not that objective criteria for choice of vocabulary are to be replaced with subjective criteria, reason with will or feeling. It is rather that there are no criteria – that the notions of criteria and choice (including that of 'arbitrary' choice) are no longer in point when it comes to changes from one language-game to another. The mind of Europe did not decide to accept the idiom of Romantic poetry, or of socialist politics, or of Galilean mechanics. That sort of shift was no more an act of will than a result of argument. Rather, Europe gradually lost the habit of using certain words and gradually acquired the habit of using others. As Kuhn has argued in his book The Copernican Revolution, we did not decide on the basis of some telescopic observations, or on the basis of anything else, that the Earth was not the centre of the universe, that macroscopic behaviour could be explained on the basis of micro-structural motion, or that prediction and control should be the principal aim of scientific theorising. Rather, after a hundred years of inconclusive muddle, the Europeans found themselves speaking in a way which took these interlocked theses for granted. Cultural change of this magnitude does not result from applying criteria (nor from 'arbitrary decision') any more than individuals become theists or atheists, or shift from one spouse or circle of friends to another, as a result either of applying criteria or of actes gratuits. We should not look within ourselves for criteria of decision in such matters any more than we should look to the world.
The temptation to look for criteria is a species of the more general temptation to think of the world, or the human self, as possessing an intrinsic nature, an essence. That is, it is the result of the temptation to privilege some one among the many actual and possible languages in which we habitually describe the world or ourselves. As long as we think that there is some relation called 'fitting the world' or 'expressing the real nature of the human self' which can be possessed or lacked by vocabularies-as-wholes, we shall continue the traditional philosophical search for a criterion which will tell us which vocabularies have this desirable feature. But if we could ever become reconciled to the idea that reality is indifferent to our descriptions of it, and that the human self is created by the use of a vocabulary rather than being adequately or inadequately expressed in a vocabulary, then we should at last have assimilated what was true in the romantic idea that truth is made rather than found. What is true about this claim is just that languages are made rather than found, and that truth is a property of linguistic entities, of sentences.
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Vol. 8 No. 7 · 17 April 1986 » Richard Rorty » The Contingency of Language
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Nokia has released NFC Writer for Nokia Lumia WP8 devices. NFC Writer is an application, exclusively for Nokia Lumia users , which allows you to read or create any NFC tags.
You can create them to run applications, for check-in at places, update your status, or just to make calls or send text messages, all in accordance with the instructions that will be included at the time of the creation of NFC tags.
Once a tag has been created just touch it with your phone to perform actions that are stored in it. The tags created by using your Windows Phone can be read by any device with an NFC chip.
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Number of Positions Available: 10+
Academic Terms: Summer 2018 - Spring 2019
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America Reads / America Counts students will help with reading concepts and also tutor mathematics to children in preschool through elementary school. The work study students will perform such tasks in a variety of community settings as prescribed by local school districts. The America Reads concept is a national campaign calling on all Americans to help every child learn to read well and on their own. The America Counts concept is to have the opportunity to serve as a mathematics tutor to kindergarten through sixth grade children.
A work-study student whom is eligible for this position will need to be interested in helping children learn to read and understand mathematics. This individual will need to be dedicated to community service and enthusiastic about helping young children learn those skills. There will be a criminal back ground check and drug test prior to hire.
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(BEDFORD) - Mike Chaveas is the new Forest Supervisor for the 202,000-acre Hoosier National Forest in south-central Indiana.
Chaveas came to the Hoosier from Oregon where he served as a District Ranger on the Mt Hood National Forest.
Chaveas has also worked on the Coconino National Forest in northern Arizona and for US Forest Service's International Programs office in Washington, DC where he coordinated agency efforts in Africa. Prior to joining the Forest Service, Chaveas was a Wildlife Biologist with the Peace Corps in Morocco.
Originally from Virginia, Chaveas received a Bachelor of Science degree in Forestry and Wildlife Management (Wildlife Science concentration) from Virginia Tech and Master's degrees in Public Affairs and Environmental Science from Indiana University. His wife Kristi was raised in Indiana and the Chaveas family have three children.
"I am very excited to get back to Indiana and get to know the Forest," Chaveas says. "I look forward to continually learning how to balance all of the different needs and pressures that are placed upon our public lands, while ensuring they continue to provide benefits for generations to come."
Chaveas will work out of the Bedford office of the Hoosier National Forest and began work on June 23.
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Protective – Completely negate any penalty for bright light, and adjust instantly to changes in illumination.
Magnifying – 10x Magnification reduced penalties while using a firearm by one step if the target is more than 100 meters distance.
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Today is our 15th Wedding Anniversary, time has just flown by, cant believe its 15 years.
I made this card using an embossing folder, you may have remembered on the pinterest challenge I did four cards using this versatile folder well here's another one.
I used red miri card to emboss on and the spray is red feathers, white die cut leaves, white ribbon which hang two die cut heats, they are not showing up in the picture very well each has a number on them, and red silk roses.
While I was making this card he walked into the craft room, a quick cover up was required hopefully he did not see anything before I gave him the card today. Its great we are retired but there are times when you just need a bit of time to do anything you don't want them to see, if you know what I mean.
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a NEW VIDEO: Mixed Media Backgrounds
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Lenovo ThinkPad T60 Preview
If you're in the market for a powerful new notebook, [H]Consumer -- sister site to [H]ard|OCP -- has just posted a preview of Lenovo's Core Duo powered ThinkPad T60 that you'll want to check out. Seems like a really nice notebook. I'm going to be adding it to my list of upgrade options; this X1000 has to go soon.
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The Community Broadcasting Foundation (CBF) has commenced service on the Cable & Wireless Optus Aurora Digital Satellite platform and now radio listeners in the most remote areas of Australia can tune into a host of specialist radio channels.
The CBF is an independent non-profit funding body for community broadcasting. CBF now offers four radio channels via the Cable & Wireless Optus Aurora service - Community Broadcasting Association of Australia, BBC World Service Radio, National Indigenous Radio Service and Radio for The Print Handicapped.
Mr John Filmer, Director of Enterprise, Cable & Wireless Optus said the company was pleased to provide an innovative and cost effective digital satellite solution for CBF.
"The new CBF offerings are in good company with Cable & Wireless Optus Aurora as they join more than 25 different channels currently using the platform including the ABC and Satellite Music Australia," said Mr Filmer.
"The sheer number of channels on the platform means people in remote areas of Australia can now receive the widest possible choice of radio via satellite."
Mr John Martin, Vice President, CBF said the Foundation was delighted to be part of a platform being used by a number of other prominent broadcasters.
"We are confident that Cable & Wireless Optus Aurora is the right platform for our channels, providing us with a secure and reliable service for the future," said Mr Martin.
About Cable & Wireless Optus Aurora
Cable & Wireless Optus is Australia's leading satellite provider, delivering the majority of TV and
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Digital tools provider Wireless Generation has acquired Intel-Assess, an assessment materials and services firm, in a move that increases its offerings for both teachers and district officials, particularly in regard to instructional planning.
The acquisition of the six-year-old San Francisco, CA-based firm gives Wireless Generation access to assessment items and tools related to assessment, as well as professional services to go along with Wireless Generation's formative assessment platform.
While resources will be shared, Intel-Assess will function as an independent organization within the broader Wireless Generation family, according to information on the Intel-Assess blog.
The new products will join an existing line of Wireless Generation products that includes the company's mCLASS assessment products and Burst curriculum and instruction products, and services provided by the company such as professional consulting and the building of education data systems for its clients.
"The high caliber assessment content Intel-Assess provides enhances the strength of the tools we've developed to help teachers gain an informative picture of student mastery of standards," said Josh Reibel, Wireless Generation President and COO. "Intel-Assess is a natural fit for Wireless Generation, and I am confident it will be a key contributor to our ongoing success."
Acquisition of Intel-Assess will also help in the creation of assessments aligned with the Common Core State Standards.
The Intel-Assess portfolio includes finished assessments, such as Quick Checks, as well as software used in blueprinting for assessment creation and professional development guidance.
"This partnership creates a powerful combination to further student achievement," said Jaime Goldfarb, Intel-Assess founder and president. "Joining Wireless Generation enables us to work with even more districts, helping plan, design and build assessment programs that help districts achieve their instructional goals."
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Sports News of Monday, 17 July 2017
Source: ghanacrusader.com
Former Black Stars midfielder, Laryea Kingston, has revealed that he invested in lands in order to make a life after football.
According to the former Hearts of Oak star man, he was advised by his agent to invest his money into something profitable when he retires from the game.
"I remember my agent always tell me to Kingston when you stop running the money stops coming so try to put something down," Kingston said on the Football Legends Night Show on GH One.
"What he told me is true because of most of the agents when you are in top form they are with you, but the moment you start to have injuries and your form start dropping you will call them and they will not pick your calls.
"I'm so much into buying lands, throughout my career anytime I come home, I put my money aside, one for the chilling. But I make sure whatever I suppose to do I do it. Because I plan over there with my senior brother, I will make sure he put everything together send the money to him, pay for whatever I wanted to buy before coming down."


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Researchmoz added a latest research report on" Inorganic and Composite Printed Electronics 2014-2024"in their database
Albany, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 07/22/2014 -- There is increasing work on printed inorganics as people struggle with the performance of organics in some aspects. For conductors with vastly better conductance and cost, for the best printed batteries, for quantum dot devices and for transistor semiconductors with ten times the mobility, look to the new inorganics. That is the emerging world of new nanoparticle metal and alloy inks that are magnitudes superior in cost, conductivity and stability, such as the flexible zinc oxide based transistor semiconductors working at ten times the frequency and with best stability and life, along with many other inorganic materials. Read the world's only report that pulls all this together in readable form.
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This report critically compares the options, the trends and the emerging applications. It is the first in the world to comprehensively cover this exciting growth area. The emphasis is on technology basics, commercialisation and the key players.
This report is suitable for all companies developing or interested in the opportunity of printed or thin film electronics materials, manufacturing technologies or complete device fabrication and integration.
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This report reveals the rapidly increasing opportunities for inorganic and composite chemicals in the new printed electronics, given that so much of the limelight is on organics. Inorganics encompass various metals, metal oxides as transparent conductors (such as fluorine tin oxide or indium tin oxide, extensively used in displays and photovoltaic technologies) or transistor materials as well as nano-silicon or copper and silver inks, whether in particle or flake form. Then there are inorganic quantum dots, carbon structures such as graphene, nanotubes and the various buckyballs etc. However, there is much more, from light emitting materials to battery elements and the amazing new meta-materials that render things invisible and lead to previously impossible forms of electronics.
Over the next ten years, improvements in inorganic conductors such as the use of nanotechnology and the lack of improvement of the very poorly conductive and expensive organic alternatives means that inorganics will be preferred for most conductors whether for electrodes, antennas, touch buttons, interconnects or for other purposes. By contrast, organic substrates for flexible electronics such as low cost polyester film and paper will be preferred in most cases because they are light weight, low cost and have a wide range of mechanical flexibility. The use of inorganic substrates such as glass represents a fall-back particularly required where there is failure to reduce processing temperatures. Here stainless steel foil printed reel to reel is an improvement, where possible.
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C. Nicholas Ring has over 23 years of combined experience prosecuting and defending Criminal, Civil and Domestic cases, as well as representing Claimants in the pursuit of Social Security Disability and Supplemental Security Income. He is a graduate from the University of Kentucky with a Bachelors Degree (1989) and Juris Doctorate (1992). He was admitted to the bar in 1993 and is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio and the U.S. District Court of Appeals.
Attorney Ring currently accepts cases in the following counties: Brown County, Clermont County, Adams County, Highland County and Clinton County. Mr. Ring's practice currently includes: criminal defense, DUI/OVI law, traffic offenses, juvenile law, probate, child support, family law, civil litigation, and Social Security Disability/Supplemental Security Income.
Attorney Ring is a member of the Cincinnati Bar Association, Brown County Bar Association, Ohio State Bar Association, Ohio Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and the National Organization of Social Security Claimants' Representatives.
Stanley K. Purdy, born Sardinia, Ohio, December 8, 1937; admitted to bar, 1965, Ohio; also admitted practice before U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit; U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio. Mr. Purdy attended The Ohio State University (B.S. 1960); legal education, Mortiz College of Law, The Ohio State University (J.D. 1965). Fraternity Phi Delta Phi.
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Stanley K. Purdy is a member of the Brown County Bar Association and The Ohio Bar Association (Chairman, Young Lawyers Section, 1969; Executive Committee, 1976-79). He is an active member in the U.S. Grant Homestead Association (President), Russellville Kiwanis, Brown County Chamber of Commerce, Georgetown Lions Club and the Russellville Celebration in the Park (President).


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Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc. to Report Second Quarter 2017 Financial Results on September 5, 2017
DALLAS, Aug. 22, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc., (NASDAQ:PLAY), ("Dave & Buster's" or the "Company"), an owner and operator of entertainment and dining venues, today announced that it will report financial results for its second quarter 2017 ended on July 30, 2017 on Tuesday, September 5, 2017 after the market close.
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Founded in 1982 and headquartered in Dallas, Texas, Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc., is the owner and operator of 100 venues in North America that combine entertainment and dining and offer customers the opportunity to "Eat Drink Play and Watch," all in one location. Dave & Buster's offers a full menu of "Fun American New Gourmet" entrées and appetizers, a full selection of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, and an extensive assortment of entertainment attractions centered around playing games and watching live sports and other televised events. Dave & Buster's currently has stores in 34 states and Canada.
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Affordable Senior Apartment Living with all the Conveniences
Affordable and spacious 1, 2 and 3 bedroom senior apartment for adults 55+ are available for rent at the Cove at St. Lucie in Port Saint Lucie, FL. Non-smoking floor plans include some paid utilities, frost-free refrigerator,microwave, dishwasher, solarium, spacious closets, vaulted ceilings, and washer/dryer connection.
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Richard Usborne
- The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Oxford, 908 pp, £12.50, November 1980, ISBN 0 19 211560 X
First the bad news. They have printed the Mgr Ronald Knox limerick as above. I am not going to look at the Baring-Gould book to see if the mistake was primarily his. But surely the proper Knox version made sense, and went something like
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Over at GQ they promoted three in the fashion dept. Bruce Pask is now associate fashion director and Margaret Mann and Maria Prorock join Lisa Cohen as senior fashion editors.
Ladies' Home Journal Editor Myrna Blyth was in that American delegation attending the U.N. Conference on Women in Beijing; you know, the one sensible folk ought to have stayed away from.
I'm told Helen Gurley Brown was holding out for a male publisher at Cosmo, the job Donna Galotti got.
Handling ad sales in the New York area for Rupert Murdoch's newest, the conservative mag edited by Bill Kristol, The Weekly Standard, is Jim McVey.
First-half results are in and in the hot bridal category Bride's reports it remains in first place in both total circulation and newsstand sales. Its total circ is now 383,000.
Wow! Good Housekeeping just closed its November issue up more than 20% in ad pages over the month a year earlier. Total ad revenue for this single issue exceeds $25 million. Meanwhile KidSoft Select, a line of CD-ROM software for kids, closed a deal with Alan Waxenberg of Good House in which the software will carry a consumer seal of approval from the magazine's Institute.
I see where MGM Television is launching a new series, "LAPD." L.A. Police Chief Willie Williams and other brass will be in NY tomorrow (Tuesday) for a Rainbow Room luncheon in Rock Center to hype the new series. Do you sort of suspect that with the O.J. trial fiasco climaxing, MGM's timing might be a trifle off?
All hail, Hubert de Givenchy! The great Paris fashion designer will be labeled "a top dog" at an Oct. 11 dinner-dance in Manhattan at the Pierre, a benefit for the Animal Medical Center. Babs Walters emcees the event, which also salutes Raymond V. Gilmartin of Merck and the ever-lovely Georgette Mosbacher. Philip Miller of Saks Fifth Avenue is the evening's fashion chairman.
I'm told the new Liz Smith deal with Rupert Murdoch's New York Post reflects well on just about everyone. The L.A. Times syndicate had to give its approval and did so. As a result, Liz continues to appear in Newsday and in other syndicate papers, plus the Post in New York City. Talk about having your cake....
Cute mailing piece from Worth magazine, a small leather memo book and pen. The opening page says, "Worth noting ....September '95 ad pages up 53% over last!" Once you tear that out and toss, you've got a perfectly fine little memo book.
A Diamond Jim Brady fan tells me a valuable Waterman Indian Scroll pen, said to be the only one in the world and at one time belonging to James Buchanan Brady, was auctioned off last week in London. I don't know the final bid but they were expecting as much as 15 grand. Which would just about have covered one of Diamond Jim's dinner parties at Delmonico's.
Family Life, an Hachette Filipacchi mag, closed the first half with a circulation increase of 115% over the period last year! Joan LaBarge says this represents a 61,000 copy bonus delivery.
Say it ain't so, Tina. This report Tina Brown will permit the appalling Roseanne to plan or theme at least part and maybe a whole issue of The New Yorker.
The new Kim Alexis-hosted TV show from Health magazine will be previewed this Wednesday at Sports Club/NY, invitation only. The show debuts Saturday.
Mario Cuomo is the luncheon speaker Oct. 3 as New York's Dutch Treat Club kicks off a new season. Harrison Salisbury traditionally made the season's first talk but now he has, alas, passed on.
Ed Kelly reports that under new editor Dana Cowin, newsstand circulation of Food & Wine is up 18% over a year ago. Total average paid circ is also up nearly 5%.
Dartnell, the Chicago-based business-training and info publisher, named Joseph A. Drago its new president.
Black Enterprise magazine has a new VP-circulation. He's Robert S. Acquaye.


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Cagiva bought the rights to the shuttered MV Agusta in 1991, and in 1998 introduced their first new motorcycle in fifteen or so years. Designed and built to set the world on its ear, the F4 750 had many race-derived components and a pricetag to match. This Oro is number 227 of 300 and has lived out its adolescence in careful hands and still has the factory original Pirelli Dragon tires.
2000 MV Agusta F4 750 Oro for sale on eBay
Designed by Massimo Tamburini, the F4 is striking from every angle and the specs read like an exotic motorcycle laundry list. Ferrari helped design the radial-array four valve heads for the inline-4, and Tamburini himself had a hand in the 4-2-1-2-4 exhaust. On the Oro, bodywork and fuel tank are carbon fiber, and magnesium wheels, frame connectors, and swingarm are anodized gold. 49mm Showa forks have quick release axle clamps, and the monoshock linkage allows ride height changes without changing shock settings.
Evidently on display since just after its first oil change, this F4 750 Oro's picture is next to "magnificent" in Webster's. The gold magnesium just glows in the right light. Pictures with Mr. F from FBF are icing on the cake. The owner's comments from the eBay auction:
It is one of 60 imported into the USA by Eraldo Ferracci, the USA distributor for the MV Agusta, and number 227 of the 300 built for worldwide distribution. Purchased in July 2000 from Fast By Ferracci, Willow Grove, Pa. and pictured on delivery with Eraldo at Budds Creek Motocross Track back when Elrado's Team Husqvarna raced there.Eraldo is pictured setting up the bike to my specifications. Some of the history and specifications of the F4 750 ORO are below. 1600 miles on this bike since its purchase, and it has always been stored in a climate-controlled environment. The bike is in perfect condition and comes with all original manuals. I think this bike will be a very good long-term investment and a great bike to have in any collection.
The Castiglioni brothers saw their vision for MV Agusta through and the F4 brought a few regional superbike wins back to the marque, but a factory race team wasn't in the cards. The F4 engine proved to be the foundation of the revitalized MV, and though the model was more sensibly produced starting in 1999 with aluminum castings and plastic fairings, an Oro is worth pursuing. This one appears to have the white-glove treatment and provenance to justify going wherever the bidding will take it...


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Nice list of coffee table books, biographies and other books from Scientific American.
- Galápagos: Preserving Darwin's Legacy edited by Tui de Roy
- Far Out: A Space-Time Chronicle by Michael Benson
- The Heart of the Great Alone: Scott, Shackleton, and Antarctic Photography
by David Hempleman-Adams, Emma Stuart and Sophie Gordon
- No Small Matter: Science on the Nanoscale by Felice C. Frankel and George M. Whitesides
- Perfect Rigor: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century by Masha Gessen. (A biography of Grigory Perelman)
- The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America by Laura Dassow Walls
- Jacques Cousteau: The Sea King by Brad Matsen
- Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age by Kurt W. Beyer
- The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures by Nicholas Wade
- Green Intelligence: Creating Environments That Protect Human Health by John Wargo
- Dinosaur Odyssey: Fossil Threads in the Web of Life by Scott D. Sampson
- Mathletics: How Gamblers, Managers, and Sports Enthusiasts Use Mathematics in Baseball, Basketball, and Football by Wayne L. Winston
- Elephants on the Edge: What Animals Teach Us about Humanity by G. A. Bradshaw


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The 'Bakers Royale' blog has developed a decadent recipe for DIY muffins that are inspired by the sweet taste of cinnamon rolls. While cinnamon rolls themselves are a delicious treat, not everyone can handle the intense sugar rush they deliver. These delicious DIY muffins deliver the same great cinnamon roll flavor in a much lighter form.
To give the muffins the same fluffy texture as a cinnamon roll, this recipe calls for the use of buttermilk in the batter. The buttermilk helps to give the muffin a light and airy base. To mimic the same flavor of a classic cinnamon roll, the muffins are infused with a delicious filling that combines graham cracker crumbs with sweet cinnamon sugar. To finish, the muffins are dressed with a powdered sugar glaze and and a sweet streusel made from crunchy pecans.
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text: I'm not a big fan of iTunes but I see a trend that the Windows users complain the most. So, although the program is just subpar on MacOS, it seems to be really bad on Windows. Basically I think that they started out with the (correct) Apple thinking that it needs to be as simple as possible and usable without understanding what's technically happening. But they somehow didn't find the right metaphor for the program. And after that they just added feature after feature, redesigning the user interface whenever they had a new idea about making it more user friendly, but actually making it more awkward. The Music App on iPhone is the victim of agile development. I'm sure that the app on iOS 10 is a complete redevelopment, and the product owner never went through the trouble of checking what the iOS 9 or iOS 8 app actually did. I'm still missing features in the iOS 10 version that were present in iOS 9 and long before that. Or maybe my memory is blurred, and I'm having visions of a great past that never was. Whatever.


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The growing belly isn't the only thing happening, even though I do feel quite discouraged some days. I present a a few of the things to be seen around here from the past week.
Our laundry room counters! Need a fairly cheap counter? Try plywood. Our kitchen counters at our old house were plywood covered in polyurethane. They served us well there and our current kitchen counters are a fancier take on plywood covered in thick bar poly. We didn't want that much trouble and expense for the laundry room, but we did want to finally get these repurposed cabinets from Habitat for Humanity covered in a counter (instead of just covered in junk and unusable).
These took a while to plan and measure and a day to install for people who haven't done this before. It took another afternoon to carefully measure and cut out the opening for the laundry sink. We already had the necessary tools, the stain and the polyurethane, so the counters will come in under $200. I will be so happy to have counters and a sink in there. My very first real laundry room! Even if I won't get around to painting the cabinets or walls for a long while yet, it's finally going to seem like a finished room.
There aren't any peaches in my garden, but I found a bunch on a good sale and since peach jam is a favorite around here, I made some. I have never learned how to can, but freezer jam is easy and tastes great. For freezer jams, I just reuse sanitized old glass jars (making sure not to fill them so full that they explode).
Today's haul from the garden. A few tomatoes (some green ones that my two year old "found"), okra, squash, some serrano peppers, cukes and one little zucchini.
I actually don't like pickles that much, although I don't find a dill pickle as yucky as a sweet one, but when one cannot give away or eat cucumbers fast enough, one has to do something with the excess. I can't find the recipe online anymore that I'm using, but it makes a nice Claussen-Style dill pickle and keeps in the refrigerator (meaning once again, I can reuse old jars and I don't have to learn to can).
My first quarter school notebooks for the three school aged kiddos are done (except for all the things I have forgotten). I have a few things left to order and a few changes to make to their lesson plans, but the largest part of the work is finished! Phew.
I can't think of anything else around here that's gotten done except cooking meals and washing clothes, so I'll leave it at that.
More Quick Takes to be found at Jen's place.


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That evening, we had a party at Shed's house. Vegetarians - look away now. Shed had got her hands on a tiny French piglet which was pretty darn exciting. She cooked it slowly for around 6 hours and then wrapped him up in foil and a bath towel to rest. The result was the softest, tenderest, most amazing pork I think I've ever eaten. He's not very pretty and you don't get any crackling (his skin is too thin to crackle up) but he was very special.
Finally, I made Jamie Oliver's Indian carrot salad last night. It's a while since I've made this and I'd forgotten just how good it is. I made it with minced beef because that's what I had in the freezer and, while it suffered a little for not being deliciously fatty lamb, it wasn't a deal-breaker at all. This needs to go back into my regular repertoire of meals.
And it's working...2lbs off this week and I don't feel like I've been dieting at all.


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Saturday, March 9, 2013
Me again!
Sorry for my absence again. I have had the lurgy and just haven't felt like doing much when I had a chance to sit down, which wasn't a lot as I had rehearsals four nights last week and from tomorrow we have rehearsals or the actual show all week until Saturday night. Luckily, I am starting to feel better.
I have to apologise to my lovely teamies at Creative Craft, as this should have been posted before, but I just didn't have time. Our theme is Mother's Day, and I have used doilies which came free with a magazine for the rosette and centre of the card. The stamps are by Kaisercraft, which i stamped with Victorian velvet.
See you later.
12 comments:
- Cheryl said...
oh hun sorry you have not been well hope you are feeling better now,sweetie,this is just gorgeous oh just love,this too bits,beautiful hugs Cherylxxxxxx
- March 9, 2013 at 9:05 PM
- mixamatoasties said...
Lovely. And you've just given me an idea!
Hope you're feeling better now.
Susan xx
- March 9, 2013 at 11:23 PM
Love these fantastic doilies and the doily flower! So soft and pretty and feminine with the ribbon too!
- March 10, 2013 at 2:39 AM
- Mary J said...
Poor honey, hope you are feeling better now.
Your card is so pretty! I love your gorgeous flower and organza ribbon!
- March 10, 2013 at 8:26 AM
- Doreen said...
Beautiful...love the gorgeous image and layout.xxx
- March 10, 2013 at 9:14 AM
- Donna said...
Wow Nikki, this is is so pretty and a beautiful feminine design for M'Day :) Donna ♥ x
- March 10, 2013 at 10:55 AM
- Colette Smith said...
Hi Nikki,
Hope you are feeling much better. I had the lurgy a few weeks ago and it really knocks you for six.
Beautiful card. I love the colours and layout and the flower at the top is stunning.
Colette xxx
- March 10, 2013 at 11:26 AM
- Mandy said...
Sorry to hear you've not been well Nikki,hope your feeling better now...Beautiful card,lovely design and colours...
Mandy x
- March 10, 2013 at 5:51 PM
- June Nelson said...
This is gorgeous shug and your work is always so diverse and stunning, big huggies June xxxxxxxxxxx
- March 10, 2013 at 6:31 PM
- Jules said...
Hi Nikki
It sounds like you are well in the wars at the moment.
Nothing worse than feeling poorly when you don't have time to rest up and recover!
Take it easy!!
I love how you have stamped on your doily. A great look!
Make sure you get better soon and I hope you had a lovely Mothering Sunday.
Love Jules xx
- March 11, 2013 at 7:28 AM
- Luckydawn said...
What a pretty card Nikki, I love the use of the doilies. Hope you're soon feeling better.
Dawn x
- March 11, 2013 at 5:14 PM
- Gemma said...
Very pretty sweetie...
- March 13, 2013 at 2:25 PM


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On day 2 of the adventure we drove into Arizona to visit the all Alco Apache Railway. The entire time we were on site I tried to recall the last time I saw or heard an Alco in operation. I'm thinking my last Alco experience was in the late 1980's on BC Rail. 25 years without seeing an Alco? I think I was overdue.
The operations folks at Apache requested we sign releases and participate in a briefing on the off limits areas around the yard. They requested we not cross the tracks except at public crossings. With the layout of the Apache these requests were easily met by our group. They also shared with us their plan for the day which made our chase easy and predictable. I have to say I was impressed with their reasonable hospitality towards railfans. I was pleased they would take so much time out of their day to make our day better. Thank you Apache Railway!
We gathered a few photos around the yard office as the crew prepared the power for the day. We then moved up the line to near Snowflake Jct. where they would pick up cars off the siding. I chose to use a wide angle on my photograph there in hopes of capturing a bit of the turbo lag induced smoke. The engineer really didn't get into them until they were out of my camera range so I only captured a light haze this time.
Later in the day, with cars from the BNSF interchange in Holbrook in tow, we received a wonderful smoke show as the train rounded a curve near MP 5. The engineer helped us out by backing off the throttle for a few seconds then opening it up again. The result was a wonderful Alco "black cloud"!
After we returned home Trains Magazine released a story on the Apache's future. According to Trains they will continue despite the closure of the power plant and the mill. They will continue serving the Pig farm and moving cars in and out of storage. That's good news for a railroad which has been operating as an independent entity since 1918.


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The three other women in the cell had street trash written all over them. Their talk was tough, their attitudes tougher. I studied my shoes desperately as the biggest one of them walked over to me. "Whatchyou do to wind up here? You don't be lookin like no hoe." She cackled as she taunted me, her friends joining in on her fun.
It was a good question, and a good point. My Armani suit gave away my lack of street sense, that one was easy. But her question ran a little deeper as I thought about what had brought me here. Where did it begin? Was it the murderous rage in my mother's eyes that night so many years ago? It was possible. I despised her for the better part of my early life. She had torn my world apart in a single act that I hadn't truly understood. But I understood now. I understood all too well. Allowing pain and fear to ferment was the perfect recipe for one thing: hatred. Unadulterated, poisonous hatred.
We had been married nearly four months the first time he'd hit me. I had gone for a brisk walk around the block, which had become a habit for me since Eddie had been away on business. As I turned the corner back onto our street I could see his black Porsche shining in the driveway. His flight must have come in early and I was brimming with excitement to have him home. I ran my finger lovingly along the smooth lines of the car before bouncing up the steps to our front door. I locked up behind me in preparation for a very satisfying welcome-home celebration. With a sly smile on my face I sauntered into the kitchen to greet him. I was greeted with a fist to the face instead. I went flying across the room and fell hard on the cold marble flooring. My first instinct was to call out to Eddie, it took a moment before I realized he was the one who had hit me. I was sure it was some sort of mistake; perhaps he thought I was an intruder. After a lengthy beating and three days in the hospital, I realized it was I who had made the mistake.
It took seventeen days for me to recuperate. Eddie watched over me, changed my dressings and brought me fresh flowers everyday. He started off with apologies and grand gestures. When I didn't react, he began blaming me for his outburst. What else was he supposed to think when he came back from a business trip to find his wife not at home? Of course he assumed I was out whoring around with some other man. When the blame game didn't work either, he tried tears. The words may have been different, but it was the same old song, my father's song. Seventeen days is a long time to think, and I took advantage of every second I had to ponder how I'd gotten here. With every day, every kiss, every sweet word from my husbands mouth, I forgave my mother more and more.
I lifted my gaze slowly from my shoes to meet the hooker's glare. I can't say what it was in my eyes, or face, that caused her to back away from me like a predator turned prey. I scoffed at the scorpion tattoo crawling up her leg as she retreated. Her friends fell silent as well and they all stared at me. The air was thick with tension, I could feel it. But I no longer worried about my powers of invisibility; I was discovering a new power. I couldn't quite put my finger on it, but I liked it.
A guard interrupted our little showdown, "Missus Owens, your lawyer is here to see you."
I stood up slowly and flattened out my suit with the palm of my hands. In a voice that was foreign to even myself, I answered the tart's question. "Murder." I said. "It runs in the family."


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(recently used by Pope Benedict XVI at the last consistory)
Collect (Opening Prayer)
Official Latin from the 1969 & 2002 Roman Missals
Orémus. Deus, qui per immaculátam Vírginis Conceptiónem dignum Fílio tuo habitáculum præparásti, quaésumus, ut, qui ex morte eiúsdem Fílii tui prævísa, eam ab omni labe præservásti, nos quoque mundos, eius intercessióne, ad te perveníre concédas.Per Dóminum nostrum Iesum Christum, Fílium tuum, qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia saécula sæculórum.
Official 1973 I.C.E.L. Translation (Used at Mass in English)
Let us pray. Father, you prepared the Virgin Mary to be the worthy mother of your Son. You let her share beforehand in the salvation Christ would bring by his death, and kept her sinless from the first moment of her conception. Help us by her prayers to live in your presence without sin.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
My Own Literal Translation
Let us pray. O God, Who through the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin prepared a worthy dwelling for Your Son, we beseech You, that, as by the same Son's anticipated death, You preserved her from all stain, You may also grant to us, through her intercession, to be cleansed of our sin, and to come unto You.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son, Who lives and reigns with You, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.
Prayer Over the Gifts
Official Latin from the 1969 & 2002 Roman Missals
Salutárem hóstiam, quam in sollemnitáte immaculátæ Conceptiónis beátæ Vírginis Maríæ tibi, Dómine, offérimus, súscipe dignánter, et præsta, ut, sicut illam tua grátia præveniénte ab omni labe profitémur immúnem, ita, eius intercessióne, a culpis ómnibus liberémur.
Per Christum Dóminum nostrum.
Official 1973 I.C.E.L. Translation (Used at Mass in English)
Lord, accept this sacrifice on the feast of the sinless Virgin Mary. You kept her free from sin from the first moment of her life. Help us by her prayers, and free us from our sins.
We ask this in the name of Jesus the Lord.
My Own Literal Translation
O Lord, kindly accept this saving Victim, Which we offer to You on this solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and grant, that, as we profess her being preserved from all stain through Your surpassing grace, so also, through her intercession, may we be freed from all our faults.
Through Christ our Lord.
Preface of the Immaculate Conception - on the Mystery of Mary and the Church
Official Latin from the 1969 & 2002 Roman Missals
Vere dignum et iustum est, æquum et salútare, nos tibi semper et ubíque grátias ágere: Dómine, sancte Pater, omnípotens ætérne Deus:
Qui, beatíssimam Vírginem Maríam ab omni originális culpæ labe præservásti, ut in ea, grátiæ tuæ plenitúdine ditáta, dignam Fílio tuo Genetrícem præparáres, et Sponsæ eius Ecclésiæ, sine ruga vel mácula formosæ, signáres exórdium.
Fílium enim erat puríssima Virgo datúra, qui crímina nostra Agnus ínnocens aboléret; et ipsam præ ómnibus tuo pópulo disponébas advocátam grátiæ et sanctitátis exémplar.
Et ídeo, choris Angélicis sociáti, te laudámus in gáudio confiténtes:
Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus ...
Official 1973 I.C.E.L. Translation (Used at Mass in English)
Father, all-powerful and ever-living God, we do well always and everywhere to give you thanks.
You allowed no stain of Adam's sin to touch the Virgin Mary. Full of grace, she was to be a worthy mother of your Son, your sign of favor to the Church at its beginning, and the promise of its perfection as the bride of Christ, radian in beauty.
Purest of virgins, she was to bring forth your Son, the innocent lamb who takes away our sins. You chose her from all women to be our advocate with you and our pattern of holiness.
In our joy we sing to your glory with all the choirs of angels:
Holy, holy, holy ...
My Own Literal Translation
It is truly right and just, proper and availing unto salvation, that we always and everywhere give thanks to You, O Lord, Holy Father, Almighty and Eternal God:
You preserved the most Blessed Virgin Mary from all stain of original sin, so that in her, enriched with the fullness of Your grace, You were preparing her as the worthy Mother of Your Son, and of His Spouse the Church, without wrinkle or stain to her beauty, You sealed her from the beginning.
For she was the most pure Virgin about to bring forth Your Son, the innocent Lamb Who destroys our offenses; and You arranged for her to be an advocate for Your people as an example of grace and holiness in the sight of all.
And so, with the choirs of the host of Angels, we praise You in joy professing:
Holy, Holy, Holy ...
Post-Communion Prayer
Official Latin from the 1969 & 2002 Roman Missals
Orémus. Sacraménta quæ súmpsimus, Dómine Deus noster, illíus in nobis culpæ vúlnera réparent, a qua immaculátam beátæ Maríæ Conceptiónem singuláriter præservásti.
Per Christum Dóminum nostrum.
Official 1973 I.C.E.L. Translation (Used at Mass in English)
Let us pray. Lord our God, in your love, you chose the Virgin Mary and kept her free from sin. May this sacrament of your love free us from our sins.
Grant this through Christ our Lord.
My Own Literal Translation
Let us pray. O Lord our God, may the Sacraments Which we have received heal in us the wounds of that original sin, from which You singularly preserved the Immaculate Conception of Blessed Mary.
Through Christ our Lord.


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Skip to comments.Pope Francis urges global leaders to end 'tyranny' of money
Posted on 05/16/2013 8:45:01 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Pope Francis has called on world leaders to put an end to the "cult of money"
He said free-market capitalism had created a tyranny and that human beings were being judged purely by their ability to consume goods.
Money should be made to serve people, not to rule them, he said, calling for a more ethical financial system and curbs on financial speculation.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
I guess Francis didn't get the memo about socialist governments murdering more than 200 million of their own citizens since 1900 in the name of the "common good."
He states the position as to why I am NOT a Catholic
In a modern division of labor economy, the earning of money becomes an essential aspect of productive activity. This is because in order to live in such an economy, one must obtain the goods and services of other people. Those goods and services are not given away for free, nor, to any significant extent are they, or could they be, obtained through barter. To obtain the goods and services of others, one must possess money. Thus, if one's productive activity is to be appropriate to life in a division of labor society, that is, to be the means of obtaining the goods and services of others, it is essential that it be moneymaking. Only then, does one's activity make it possible for one to share in the benefits of a division of labor society.
People get mad when I call him a Communist.
But the truth hurts.
I know the pope means well, and I fully believe he is very moral and just man.
I also know that the pope has about as much ability to make economic judgements as does the Obamadork about making any judgement at all.
The "pope" thereby proves himself to have absolutely NO IDEA what money is. Very similar to an Obama drone.
Seems like everyone in a top position wants to preach socialism, but always with someone else's money. What you give to one person, you take from another, either directly (taxes) or indirectly (inflation). America has stood out by allowing people the opportunity to succeed, and I believe our citizens have benefited by that. I will grant the Pope one thing, and that is we create a false class based on wealth. However, Americans have long realized that class and money are not the same thing. Take away media coverage of the rich and most are hollow shells of humanity. But take away capitalism and the opportunity to succeed and we have two classes consisting of a small upper class of corrupt government officials and a very large lower class of poor. Which is better? And if capitalism is so bad, why have we contributed so much to poorer nations?
This article is long on attribution, but short on actual quotes.
Didn't take him long to make that left turn..
I'd guess he really does believe 1 Timothy 6:10.
In other news, Neal Cavuto absolves sins.
Now please, don't get me wrong. I know the RC church does a lot for the poor. But if the Pope is going to go down this road, he'd better make some changes in how the RC manages it's own money first.
Exactly! Money is an individuals SWEAT! It is an individuals LABOR! Diminish it, and you enslave the INDIVIDUAL.
Oh crap. We've got a socialist / communist as Pope.
This will not end well.
I fear his holiness has confused "unchecked capitalism" with corrupt socialism. It is the loss of the rule of law and the loss of equality of opportunity, not capitalism, which leads to inequality of wealth.
Inequality in itself is not a bad thing but within limits a good thing. Without inequality there can be no incentive, no striving for improvement. Inequality is an indication of economic health, it reflects progress which must inevitably be uneven. Extreme inequality is almost always the result of government interference and corruption and it produces not just richer rich people but poorer poor people.
Inequality is not an evil if it means that the rich are richer while the poor are not poorer.
There has been plenty of control... by the Alinskyites.
We have a second subprime collapse coming, only this time it is in car loans, because banks are not allowed to deny car loans to black people.
I am not being hyperbolic.
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