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Well if this is not enough, fans of Bigg Boss will bite their nails seeing one more guest in the house. The heart throb of telly and Bollywood industry Rajeev Khandelwal is also gearing to spend a day with inmates of Bigg Boss 6. Source informs that he is coming to promote his forthcoming film of Aditya Dutt Table NO 21, starring Paresh Rawal, and Tena Desae apart from him. The film is releasing on January 4, 2013.
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Livingston Parish sheriff's deputies have recovered two bodies from the Upper Amite River near Watson.
Deputies say the two men likely drowned while tubing with a group of friends on Sunday afternoon.
Sheriff's office spokeswoman Lori Steele identified the victims as 26-year-old Joshua Caleb Brantley, of Hammond, and 26-year-old Philip H. White, of Marrero,
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text: When Neil Patrick Harris announced that he would be hosting the Tony awards again this year, he more or less promised that there would be some Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark-related stunts. "It should be a great show, " he said at the time. "We've got a fantastic mix of live performances, a few secret surprises, and since they're closed for retooling, we're using all the rigging equipment from Spider-Man. What could possibly go wrong?" But disappointingly, it's looking like any Spider-Man mockery at the Tonys will be stunt-free. We spoke with Harris last night at the premiere of the filmed version of the recent staging of Stephen Sondheim's Company, in which Harris appeared, and he explained that because of the Tony's new venue — the Beacon, not Radio City Music Hall — his pratfall capacity is severely limited. "Dude, if there were an orchestra pit, I would have done a high fall from like, five stories up. I was very excited," he said. "But alas, there's no pit, so there's nowhere to set anything. If I was going to do some sort of Spider-Man fall, I would have to land on the bare stage, and apparently they've tried that before and it didn't go so well." Thus the Tonys will have to lampoon Spider-Man with words (and song and dance numbers), not show-stopping disaster re-enactments. You know what this means? Spider-Man has finally caught the good kind of break! Maybe things really are turning around for it.


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Some children with in-hospital cardiac arrest can benefit from longer duration of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), an analysis of a large registry found.
Of the 3,419 children included in the study, 28% survived to hospital discharge, and 16.6% of these survivors had CPR longer than 35 minutes, according to Renée Matos, MD, MPH, of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and colleagues.
A total of 60% of these survivors with longer-duration CPR achieved a favorable neurologic outcome, they reported in the study published Jan. 21 in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
The rate of survival to discharge for those receiving CPR between 16 and 35 minutes was slightly better than the group with more than 35 minutes: 17.8%, but the best rate was achieved when CPR was given between 1 and 15 minutes: 44%.
Overall, there was a high rate of favorable neurological outcomes for those who survived to discharge: 70% of patients undergoing less than 15 minutes of CPR and 60% of those undergoing CPR greater than 35 minutes.
"In the mid-1990s, authorities considered pediatric CPR futile beyond 20 minutes' duration or when more than two doses of epinephrine were provided," investigators wrote.
Matos and colleagues noted the recent emergence of data showing that some children will survive when CPR is applied for a longer duration. But many of these studies, they said, were single-center, or retrospective, or included children who had out-of-hospital arrests, or adults, or both.
The current study aimed to overcome these limitations by using prospectively collected data from the American Heart Association's Get With the Guidelines-Resuscitation (GWTG-R) registry.
Matos and colleagues noted the limitations of multicenter registries, but they sought to minimize these "by the rigorous abstractor certification process, uniform data collection, and use of consistent Utstein definitions" in the GWTG-R registry.
The 3,149 pediatric patients in this study came from 328 hospitals in the U.S. and Canada between January 2000 and December 2009.
Overall, 40% of the total patients were still alive at 24 hours after the index event, with the percentage surviving to discharge dropping to 28%.
Even though longer-duration CPR can benefit some children, the reality is that after the first 15 minutes of CPR, survival rate "declines rapidly," the authors wrote.
In this study, survival decreased by 2.1% for every minute of chest compressions over 15 minutes, "highlighting the importance of quick return of spontaneous circulation," they noted.
A similar linear decline after 15 minutes of CPR was seen for neurologic outcomes, dropping by 1.2% for every additional minute of chest compressions.
There also were differences in survival associated with patient illness category.
When CPR was longer than 35 minutes, those in the Surgical Cardiac category had the best survival to hospital discharge rate (25%), followed by:
- Medical Cardiac -- 21%
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A similar pattern was seen in survivors who had a favorable neurologic outcome, with the Surgical Cardiac category topping the list at 17% when CPR was applied for longer than 35 minutes.
Even when researchers adjusted for confounding factors, there was no change in the inverse association of CPR duration and survival.
"[T]his study suggests that a proportion of children who would presumably die without CPR survive with a favorable neurologic outcome even after prolonged CPR," they concluded.
A limitation of the study is that the results cannot be applied to hospitals outside of the GWTG-R registry because registry hospitals might have a greater interest in CPR outcomes, researchers said. The results also do not apply to infants in the neonatal intensive care unit because they were excluded from the study.
Further limitations include that lack of long-term neurologic outcomes, the inclusion of a small number (62) of outpatients and visitors, and the inclusion of a small number (134) of patients with a history of arrest.
From the American Heart Association:
- 2010 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care Science
Matos reported having no relevant financial conflicts of interest. Co-authors reported having unpaid roles in the AHA Get With the Guidelines -- Resuscitation advisory board, research task force, or clinical working group.
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Data sources Searches of Medline and Embase databases for articles published up to January 2012 using keywords that included both rice intake and diabetes; further searches of references of included original studies.
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In today's world, it is almost impossible to go about your business without a laptop. This has got to be one of the most efficient tools of all time and must be treated as such. Imagine being able to do your job on the go. You can carry it wherever you go, and it can be just as effective. However, not all laptops are reliable or carry the traits we seek. In case you plan to buy your very first, here's something you'll appreciate. You'll want to focus on these features when buying your first laptop.
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If we are talking about your very first laptop, you must consider the size above everything else. It wouldn't be a reasonable thing to buy a lifesize laptop when you are not too sure how to handle it. Worse still, it would be difficult to carry it around if you are looking to get some work done in the shortest possible time.
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It was Bigg Boss 10 contestant Karan Mehra's wife Nisha Rawal's birthday on Friday and the actress was indeed missing her hubby on the special day.
However, despite being inside the Bigg Boss house, Karan made sure to make his lady love feel special on her big day.
On the occasion of Nisha's birthday, Karan made a heart-shaped parantha for the lady out of the available items inside the BB10 house. In fact, he also made the initials of her name with a dough.
This was not all. Mehra along with the other BB contestants also sang the birthday song in front of the camera for Rawal right when the clock struck 12.
Indeed, it was overwhelming for Nisha to get such a sweet wish from her hubby.
In fact, she even recorded the entire birthday song, and shared it on her Instagram account where she is also seen singing along with the contestants.
Besides, Nisha also posted a picture of herself with hubby Karan and stated that how badly she is missing him.
The couple had first met on the sets of Nisha's movie 'Hastey Hastety' where Karan was her official designer. Soon love blossomed between the two. Karan and Nisha have been married for four years now and their adorable chemistry has always given relationship goals to others.


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Artists: Milind TulankarBorn and brought up in a family with musical background; Milindji started learning music from a very tender age. His grandfather Late Pandit Shankar V Kanhere (Satara) who was a famous Jaltarang player influenced Milind in taking up this unusual dying instrument the JALTARANG. Also received guidance from Pt. Nayan Ghosh , SITAR maestro Ustad Shahid Parwez & Taalyogi Pandit Suresh Talwalkar.He is one of the topmost Jaltarang players of India. Baba Harwallabh Sangeet Sammelan at Jalandhar, Abhisheki Mahotsav at Goa are some of the concerts where his art was acclaimed and appreciated a lot and this rare instrument has kept him busy in concerts in India as well as abroad. Malaysia, Singapore, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, USA and Canada, Dubai, Aabudhabi are the countries where he has presented his art. He is been doing some interesting projects with Ustad Toufiq Qureshi. A BBC production film 'West is west' has background scores played on Jalatarang by him. Milind Tulankar is indeed a name, synonym for the untiring efforts, devotion, and endless passion in pursuit of promoting Jaltarang.AwardsHas been awarded the SURMANI of Sursingar Sansad, Mumbai.First prize for music direction in National Youth Festival.First prize as a Best Organ Player for Sangeet Sharada at Delhi.Rajiv Gandhi Award for the year 1999.Kalagaurav Puraskar Pune 2011Ashvini Japtiwale Smrutee Puraskar, Pune 2011
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If you haven't read "Toshiro Mifune, and Akira Kurosawa's "NORA INU / STRAY DOG", please check that out first. This post is a continuation of that thought.
Takashi Shimura and Toshiro Mifune are the two actors most closely associated with Akira Kurosawa's work. Shimura had perhaps the longest run as an actor under Kurosawa, beginning before the end of World War II, and continuing until the end of his life (in 1982).
Shimura appeared in the director's debut film Sanshiro Sugata (1943), and the last film of Kurosawa's in which he acted was Kagemusha (1980); Kurosawa specifically wrote a part for him. His roles include the doctor in Drunken Angel (1948), the veteran detective in Stray Dog (1949), the flawed lawyer in Scandal (1950), the mortally ill bureaucrat in Ikiru (1952), and the lead samurai Kambei in Seven Samurai (1954).
He was known for his "impressive and beautifully modulated performance(s)," and that acting ability helped Kurosawa elevate movies like Drunken Angel into a multi-faceted film that William Bernhardt suggested was, "a deeper probing of postwar Japanese life than one expected in a story of a tubercular petty racketeer and the drunken doctor who tries to save him despite himself."(1)
Rashomon (1950) is a story about how impossible it is to find truth in human memory, since the various views of the past are presented as being both similar and vastly different. The death of a samurai and possible rape of his wife are pinned on the young bandit Tajōmaru, portrayed by Mifune, while Shimura takes the role of a nameless Woodcutter. The Woodcutter is the only character who is both at the scene of the crime, and at the discussion of it afterwards, but the character shows us that knowing the truth doesn't matter if you don't come forward when necessary.
Tajōmaru, fearing dishonor more than death, boasts of killing the samurai but the dead man's ghost swears otherwise. Just as he refused to admit that he'd fallen from the stolen horse he did not know how to ride, Tajōmaru refuses to admit that he was both afraid to fight a trained samurai and disinterested in fighting for the man's wife.(2)
Shimura, as the Woodcutter, could have stepped in to be Tajōmaru's surrogate father. He knows how the murder actually happened but because he stole (and sold) the samurai's knife, he lies about what he knows in order to save himself.
In this role, Shimura is cast as the abandoning father, opposite to the supportive, caring, men he played in Drunken Angel and Stray Dog. He has six children of his own at home that he is trying to support, so he clearly knows the importance of looking out for the younger generation — considered an important aspect of the ideal man — but chooses to ignore that ideal in this case.
The young bandit could have been saved if the Woodcutter had spoken the truth at the trial. It is this betrayal that Shimura's character tries to redeem by adopting an abandoned baby at the end of the film, but is that act enough?
Kurosawa's direction and Shimura's superb acting certainly imply that if the Woodcutter hasn't found redemption by that point, there is hope for his future. What seems a very cynical film — lies, selfishness, wrongful convictions — closes on a shot of the sun coming out from behind the clouds after the rain.
That moment becomes a cliche over time, as a thousand filmmakers used it as a kind of shorthand in later films, but just then, it's a relatively new way to show good fortune smiling down on us. Everything you've endured watching Rashomon through to that ending is worth it. Every misgiving you feel about humanity is lessened, a little, by knowing we can make the wrong choice, but that doesn't stop us from making the right choice the next chance we get.
Would it have felt the same if the Woodcutter had been played by Mifune instead? Do we need Shimura's age and depth to convince us that his complexity is real?
Rashomon won several awards, including the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1951, and an Academy Honorary Award at the 24th Academy Awards in 1952, and is now considered one of the greatest films ever made.
If you haven't seen it yet, make the time.
(1) Donald Richie. "A Personal Record," Film Quarterly, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Autumn, 1960), University of California Press. pp. 26.
(2) James F. Davidson, The Antioch Review, Vol. 14, No. 4 (Winter, 1954), pp. 492-501
Note: While the film borrows the title and setting from Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's short story "Rashōmon", it is actually based on Akutagawa's short story "In a Grove", which provides the characters and plot.


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At a loss for what to watch this week? From new TV, we've got you covered.
New on DVD and Blu-ray
• "A Ghost Story"
October is the perfect time to curl up with this eerily beautiful and profound twist on the "haunted house" movie, starring Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck. The poetic fantasy arrives on DVD and Blu-ray on Tuesday, Oct. 3. Extras include audio commentary with director David Lowery, cinematographer Andrew Droz Palermo, production designer Jade Healy, and composer Daniel Hart; deleted scenes; and the featurettes "A Ghost Story and the Inevitable Passing of Time" and "A Composer's Story."
Check out this exclusive clip from the bonus features, focusing on the chemistry between leads Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck:• "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales"
Grab some rum and watch the fifth "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie when it arrives on 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray on Oct. 3. There are plenty of behind-the-scenes making-of bonus features, plus bloopers, deleted, scenes, and more.• "Cult of Chucky"
The infamous demonic doll is back on Blu-ray DVD, Digital, and On Demand on October 3. Bonus features include "Inside the Insanity of Cult of Chucky," "Good Guy Gone Bad: The Incarnations of Chucky," and feature commentary with director and writer Don Mancini, and head puppeteer Tony Gardner.
• "Loch Ness"
Set in the beautiful, haunting Scotland landscape, this Acorn TV Original Series debuts on DVD and Blu-ray on October 3. Laura Fraser (Lydia of "Breaking Bad") plays a small-town detective thrown into her first murder case. Siobhan Finneran and Don Gilet co-star in the tense crime drama, which includes six episodes, cast interviews, and behind-the-scenes featurettes.
• Redbox: That big red box out front is getting some new titles this week. "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales" will be available this Friday, Oct. 6. On Tuesday, Oct. 3, you can pick up "Cult of Chucky," "The Wizard of Lies," "Lowriders," "Realive," "A Ghost Story," "Goon: Last of the Enforcers," "Bedeviled," and "Gremlin."
New Video on Demand, Rental Streaming, and Digital
• "Maudie"
The great Sally Hawkins plays the title role of Maud Lewis in this romantic biopic of the popular Canadian folk artist, co-starring Ethan Hawke. A "bright-eyed, intelligent woman, hunched with crippled hands from arthritis, Maud yearns to be independent from her overly protective family. She answers an advertisement for a housekeeper by a 40-year-old bachelor who owes nothing to anyone. She is a terrible housekeeper and spends most of her time painting. Over time, she wins his heart. When they realize people will actually buy her cards and paintings, he supports and encourages her." Extras include 13 deleted scenes, director commentary, and a special feature called "Inside The Story." Exclusively to iTunes is a documentary called "Telescope: Maud Lewis," featuring interviews with the artist and a photo gallery featuring images from inside Maud's small Nova Scotia home.
Watch this exclusive behind-the-scenes clip with Sally Hawkins talking about what attracted her to the lead role of Maud:• "Girls Trip"
Watch four best friends have the adventurous weekend of a lifetime when this hit R-rated comedy debuts on Digital HD October 3. It'll be out on Blu-ray, DVD, and On Demand October 17. Bonus features include deleted scenes, a gag reel, "Planning the Trip," "Outrageous Moments," and "The Essence of NOLA."
• "Realive"
This sci-fi film starring Tom Hughes, Charlotte Le Bon, Oona Chaplin, and Barry Ward opened in theaters September 29, and arrives on Digital HD and VOD on October 3. "Marc is diagnosed with a disease and is given a short time to live. Unable to accept his own end, he decides to freeze his body. Sixty years later, in the year 2084, he becomes the first cryogenically frozen man to be revived in history. Marc discovers a startling future, but the biggest surprise is that his past has accompanied him in unexpected ways."
• "Paint It Black"
Amber Tamblyn made her feature directorial debut with this film based on the novel by Janet Fitch, following two women from different words drawn together when they lose the man they both loved. Janet McTeer, Alia Shawkat, Rhys Wakefield, Nancy Kwan, Emily Rios, and Alfred Molina star in the drama, which is available on VOD October 3.
TV Worth Watching
• "The Gifted" Season 1 (Monday on Fox at 9 p.m.)
This highly anticipated Marvel/Fox production, connected to the "X-Men" film series, premieres right after the start of "Lucifer" Season 2. Stephen Moyer, Amy Acker, Sean Teale, Jamie Chung, Coby Bell, Emma Dumont, Blair Redford, Natalie Alyn Lind, and Percy Hynes White star in this story of a suburban couple whose lives are changed when they discover their children possess mutant powers. Episode 1, "eXposed" airs October 2: "A hostile government forces a family to go on the run and fights to survive."
• "Scandal" Season 7 (Thursday on ABC at 9 p.m.)
The final season of "Scandal" begins this week. Season 7, Episode 1, "Watch Me," is set 100 days into Mellie's presidency. Olivia faces her toughest call yet as she works to avoid an international incident, and Quinn Perkins & Associates struggle to find their first client.
• "The Mayor" Season 1 (Tuesday on ABC at 9:30 p.m.)
ABC's new comedy, starring Brandon Micheal Hall and Lea Michele, follows idealistic rapper Courtney Rose, who runs for mayor as a publicity stunt and is stunned to actually gets elected.
• "Once Upon a Time" Season 7 (Friday on ABC at 8 p.m.)
Season 7 is the reboot season of "Once," and it airs on a new night. Episode 1, "Hyperion Heights," starts Friday, Oct. 6, following an adult Henry Mills (Andrew J. West) and his daughter Lucy. "Henry encounters a troubled Cinderella in a distant realm and is forced to make difficult choices; Henry's daughter Lucy finds him disillusioned at his home in Seattle and must make him remember his true self to defeat the curse."
• "Skylanders Academy" Season 2 (Netflix Original)
The Skylanders are back to save the realm in Season 2, which arrives on Netflix October 6. The animated family series follows the adventures of Spyro (Justin Long), Eruptor (Jonathan Banks), Stealth Elf (Ashley Tisdale), Jet-Vac (Jonny Rees), Pop Fizz (Bobcat Goldthwait), and their team of young warriors as they travel the vast Skylands universe protecting it from evil-doers. Season 2 finds our heroes seeking answers from the past; Spyro begins a search for information about his ancestors in order to harness and understand his special powers. Meanwhile, Kaos' quest to bring evil rule to the Skylands realms accidentally unleashes a villain more powerful than anything Kaos or the Skylander warriors have ever faced.
Check out this exclusive clip from the new season, introducing new character Sprocket, voiced by actor Grey Griffin:• "The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson" (Netflix Original)
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A hit in Sweden, this dramedy is now heading to Netflix as of October 5. Apparently in Sweden they don't say stepdad or stepmom anymore, because of a perceived negative connotation, so they call them "bonus dad" and "bonus mom." This series follows four characters and their extended bonus family.• "Suburra" (Netflix Original)
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The Villa is located in the international-class luxury villa zone at Sea Links City - Mui Ne. It is located on the sand dunes of the 18-hole golf course, with luxury 5 star hotel and pool 5000 m2 surrounded by mountains and lush, turfing, bathed in the sea flavor, all gave to the villa the beautiful natural "views".
The Villa was designed in modern, luxury style with bright, elegant colors. Its ground floor is spacious with open air and sitting room, dinning room and kitchen. The open garage can help us to look beautiful small gardens, green turfing surrounding the villa, running close to the front and rear balconies to narrow the gap between man and nature.
3 luxury, comfort and warm bedrooms will bring to your family or group of friends a shared and private living space as needed. Birdsong and the cool sea breath of wind in the morning will wake you up in the true state of relaxation, and you will not ignore soaking in the sunrise scenery at the sea with extensive view from the height. This is the perfect place for a peaceful, cheery, promising holiday in the exciting days for sea travelers and even the visitors having a passion for outdoor activities.


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Communist rebels in the nothern Philippines ambushed government troops for a second straight day, killing nine soldiers and seriously wounding three, the Defense Ministry said Saturday.
The ambush Friday occurred in the province of Kalinga Apayao, 30 miles southwest of the scene of an attack Thursday in which eight soldiers, Filipino photographer Willie Vicoy and a Manila Bulletin reporter were killed.
Later Friday, and closer to the capital, army units, battled rebels in President Corazon Aquino's home province of Tarlac during a raid on their hideout. Seven insurgents, including their commander, were killed in the fighting, a military official said. No military casualties were reported.
The battle was the first in Aquino's province since she came to power and appeared to underscore a shift from what had been officially described as "protective" defense policy to a more aggressive posture in the wake of the heavy military casualties.


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Feature Films
A film by Emma Franz
A character portrait of anti-archetype guitar hero, Bill Frisell, this nuanced film traces the ideas and processes that shaped Frisell's music, and provides rare insight into the mind and personality of one of the significant musicians of recent decades. Full of live music, revealing stories, and intimate access to the normally reclusive Frisell, various collaborations are followed from development to fruition, including the last ever performance of the Paul Motian Trio with Frisell and Joe Lovano. Also featuring Bonnie Raitt, Hal Willner, Paul Simon, Nels Cline, Joey Baron, Jim Hall, Jason Moran, Mike Gibbs, John Zorn, Jack DeJohnette, Ron Carter and John Abercrombie.
BillFrisellFilm.com for more info and to purchase
Film By: Bill Morrison
Producer: Phyllis Oyama
Music by: Bill Frisell
WNYC Interview: Great Songs About the Great Flood - Sound Check / click HERE
For more info visit Bill Morrison's website HERE
Reviews and more info HERE
Walk The Line
Studio: Fox 2000 Pictures, Tree/Line Film
Producer: Cathy Konrad, James Keach
Director: James Mangold
Composer (Music Score), Executive Music Producer: T-Bone Burnett
Tongzhi In Love
Studio: Smiley Film Distribution
& World Sales
Producer: Thomas Lennon
Director: Ruby Yang
All Hat
Studio: New Real Films
Producer: Jennifer Jonas
Director: Leonard Farlinger
Finding Forrester
Studio: Sony Pictures
Producer: Laurence Mark, Danny Wolf
Director: Gus Van Sant
Bill Frisell's music is featured in Gus Van Sant's film for Sony
Pictures entitled Finding Forrester starring Sean Connery. Besides using music from Bill's catalogue of recordings, Gus asked Bill to create new music specifically for the film. Miles Davis' music is also featured prominently on the soundtrack. The soundtrack is available on CD from Sony Records.
While struggling to fit in at the prestigious and mostly white prep school that has accepted him on scholarship, a black teen with a genius IQ embarks on an unlikely and rocky friendship with a brilliant novelist who has been a recluse for decades. The writer mentors the teen through some very hard times, and the relationship ultimately enables the older man to grow and thrive. Finding Forrester also features Robert Brown, Anna Paquin, Busta Rhymes and F. Murray Abraham.
Four Boys In A Volvo - 1996
Soundtrack: Bill Frisell and Wayne Horvitz
Producer: Steve Nealy
Director: Gus Van Sant
Million Dollar Hotel (co-composer)
Studio: Jean Pictures
Producer and Director: Wm Wenders
Wim Wender's film, The Million Dollar Hotel includes Bill Frisell on it's soundtrack as well as Bono, Daniel Lanois, Jon Hassell, Brian Eno, Greg Cohen, Brian Blade, Brad Mehldau & Chris Spedding. Produced by Hal Wilner and Bono, the soundtrack album has been released by Interscope Records. The album was recorded in Dublin and features 16 tracks from the film. It includes music co-written by Bill Frisell and songs by Bono and U2.
The Million Dollar Hotel is a story of friendship, betrayal and the overwhelming power of unconditional love. A gang of unique outcasts and misfits live in a downtown Los Angeles fleapit, known locally as the Million Dollar Hotel. Their story is seen through the eyes of a lovesick innocent named Tom Tom (Jeremy Davies), who has fallen head over heels for the tarnished street angel Eloise (Milla Jovovich). As their relationship develops, The Million Dollar Hotel becomes the focus of a police investigation: one of its residents, the engaging junkie Izzy, has come to a grisly end. To the amazement of his neighbors, he is revealed to have been the son of a billionaire media magnate. Every denizen of The Million Dollar Hotel falls under suspicion in the inquiry led by FBI hardliner, Detective Skinner (Mel Gibson). As Skinner's investigation proceeds, the lines between murder and suicide, sane and deranged, become very blurred indeed.
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American Hollow
Studio: HBO
Director / Producer: Rory Kennedy
NY Times review HERE
Psycho (end title)
Studio: Universal Pictures
Executive Producer: Brian Grazer, Danny Wolf
Director: Gus Van Sant
La Scuola
Studio: Cecehl Gori Group
Producer: Vittorio Cecchi Gori
Director: Daniele Luchetti
DVD-only Releases
Soundtrack: Nonesuch
Filmed on location at the Berkeley Church,
DVD produced by Daniel Berman, Paul McNulty and Lee Townsend
Design by Gwen Terpstra, Terpstra Design
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Music for the Films of Buster Keaton
The Mesmerist
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Gary Larson's Tails From The Far Side
Miniature Mary - choreographed by Amanda Miller for the Frankfurt Ballett - 1989
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I agree, it's time to get tough on government spending and management of programs ("Political Landscape: Bill tough on government," June 17). The passage of the Government Efficiency, Effectiveness and Performance Improvement Act, co-sponsored by Rep. Adam Schiff, is a welcome ray of light on a problem that concerns us all.
Too often, the performance of government agencies is seen as either overbearing or asleep at the switch. For many informed observers of the activities of government agencies, the Government Efficiency and Performance Improvement Act is a major step toward eliminating mismanagement and waste in government.
The bill requires that every five years, government agencies, along with the Office of Management and Budget must identify and demonstrate the continuing value of their goals and the effectiveness of their management. Quarterly reports assessing their strengths and weaknesses in achieving their mission, along with a performance improvement council, are also required and would allow the Government Accountability Office to determine the agencies' efficiency in spending taxpayer dollars.


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It is BTW (Bead Table Wednesday) and I don't even remember the last time we participated. The time just seems to get away from us and it sure doesn't seem to be slowing down any. Right now mom is crashed on the couch with Zola and Lily fighting to sit on her chest and Sasha sitting on top of the couch. I took pictures of the pieces we worked on this weekend and I am slowly editing them so I can post them out on Etsy.
I thought I would first share with you the necklaces and bracelets I need to finish up for our show next weekend.
|Necklace, bracelet and earrings made from our
Kuiper Belt beads
|Necklace, bracelet and earrings (Pendant from Singing Cat Studio)
|Winter's Kiss - made from our sugar beads
|Piece for the October ABS challenge but we didn't get it
done in time.
These are the pieces I was able to finish enameling. These are all pendants except for the last image - that will be a wall hanging or place in a plate stand.
|Mom really loves this piece!!!
|Pebbles on the Shore
|Turquoise Rapture
So, what do you have on your beading table today?


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Fat disabled women are women whose sizes range from an 18 slightly bloated, to an XXXL 52 obese. They are commonly graded with the three F's. Fat, Female and Forty.
The cult, which started as an excuse for depression in the United States, has spread like wildfire across borders or boundaries. The advent of using computers for desktop publishing, accounts, management, and as an alternative to dating, has seen an exponential rise in numbers. Generally, the transformation starts in a woman's early twenties after they first hook a young sapper or other naive sod to do the business.
Once the council home is provided and fully funded by the taxpayer, the real work begins. First, with the first two or three offspring off the ventilator, they claim disability benefits, then usually stop dragging the 'other half' back from the pub and establish independence for their kids. By eight or nine, when the kids can fend for themselves, 'nights in' or girlie pub crawls take hold. (Well they've gotta have a life 'n' that.)
Britain has has seen a dramatic rise of impatient youngsters bloating at an earlier age ('trying to be like mum') that has even attracted the attention of Jamie Oliver and the British Government. Approximately 6% of GDP is spent annually by them on related products supporting the condition. These range from the 'bloated feeling' food supplements to 'over dunnit' antacids, and equally huge range of takeaway-ready meals designed to replace any cooking.
As a permissive maturing teen, they might be seen pulling any squaddie or willing pikey that will shag them, and often out 'with the lads' refining social skills at places of repute. Once qualified as a 'slapper' they will often hone their skills on any of the willing Johnie Ghurka's who are always willing to pay for a shag with a fat tart.
They tend to 'spread' from the country's major declining towns and cities.
In their later years (about mid to late twenties) they can be seen in every office, behind every monitor of every school, Government Dept. civil service, administrative center, hospital information desk, lottery stand and even supermarket. Without them Britain would simply grind to a halt for five minutes. If you want to know where your taxes go, your extra 'service' charges, fines and other fees it simply funds the wages of these useless fat fuckers who would otherwise be rolling round the sofa all day on their lardy fat arses, claiming disability benefits.
In later years, they appear in prominent positions of 'importance,' where they screw up despite not doing any real work, all with a great sense of achievement. This is often at a place where your sensitive personal data is at hand, so that your sad personal life can amusingly distract their minds from their own sad personal lives.
They now 'stretch' into the highest of elite politics and morning television and even banking. From voluntary social positions such as information providers at hospital help desks, doctor and dental surgeries, citizens' advice centers.
However, non-wage-paying positions are still popular, as they have to be there with a cup of tea and biscuit to hand where they can still do most damage having a good old natter about who they could have shagged if they had wanted, the night before, and usually at peak hours for greater effect and maximum delay. Other senior positions include in the local government, local/regional agencies, and political parties, where experience and skills are not needed. Their favorite locations involve the planning of road signage and traffic control, social services, and designating town centers and historic districts.
With recent changes to public attitudes toward real work, they are seen less in production and manufacturing facilities, partly by their refusal to get their hands dirty in low-paid employment, but also when the suffragette movement opened up many non-careers doing bugger-all but manipulate others in the belief that they are improving society. For example, fat disabled women are over-represented in the push for loosening of pub closing hours to favour around-the-clock drinking.
Re-entering the work force after dragging up several kids as a single mother is a natural progression that gives them not only better understanding of complex claims forms, but also the twisted bitterness required to progress up the career ladder from unproductive clerk to layabout manager. Fat disabled women overwhelmingly enforce regulations on political correctness and hiring quotas, benefitting their own class not the least.
In the late stages, they leave the 'work' force and concentrate on bogus claims for subjective damages at insurance and industrial tribunals. Several like-minded fat luvvies can support one another and collect on claims of many hundreds of thousands of 'pounds.' They may file claims for permanent emotional damage from sexual harassment — profound cases of wishful thinking — overexertion from racing to the canteen, and Repetitive Strain Injuries (RSI), usually involving the jaw.
Of course not all of them are ugly from birth, many depend on breast augmentation or have lipo suction on the foreheads. This creates the depression, so fashionable nowadays that leaves the unaffected top lip looking larger than normal and commonly termed a 'trout pout'.
A series of genetic abnormalities creates a concoction of excuses for the condition. discoveries have been made, apparently, that explains these natural phenomenon in women. Of course some have genuine disabilities, but the majority only believe they do, and are actually refused acceptance from the British Olympic para Olympic team.
Medical interventionEdit
With the marvels of modern medical science, extra large sweat glands, big bones, hormones, allergies to housework, in grown toenails, and even the ridicules "my clothes shrank in the wash" (As if these darlings washed anything? ) are fables blamed for the condition. Of course the real reason for the excess, is a condition known as laziness, with secondary symptoms of obsessive eating anything disorder.
Generally the three F's like to gorge on ready meals and products that are high in fats and simple sugars promising all sorts of diets next week. This creates the carbohydrate cravings that give rise to, first obsession with cakes and doughnuts and other fat inducing foods. Followed by the intoxicating effect of hyperglycemia which gives rise to the Sloth like condition. The more complex sugars are those found in food that contain three or more linked sugars. That's why eating just one packet of biscuits cannot be completed without eating the other two, or one family bag of crisps per sitting is never enough. Like one bottle of cola or tray of pies and pasties per binge.
Often the species is in total denial, hence the phrase 'Does my bum look big in this' which can cause confusion to innocent bystanders. They are often seen outside of local schools, place of work or Tesco's and when not shopping or eating in, and will always be behind the wheel driving a car. None of them are capable of physical effort like walking, apparently.
Sadly and unbeknown to insurance underwriters or statistical surveys, who mostly employ three f's, nearly 98% of all accidents can be attributed to them. Generally, this is down to poor visibility through limited head movement, and also that they don't give a shit while shoveling on layers of make-up at the wheel or screaming at their kids on their mobile phones.
Of course the pinnacle of ambition for many of them and their off-spring, is to appear on at least one episode of Ricky Lake, or the Jeremy Kyle show 'wiv there problums, init'.
Ironically, due to their equally bloated salaries, 2nd income, or compensation windfall they will be surprisingly and often seen posing and on the pull in very respectable vehicles. Usually parked outside schools drop offs, McDonald's & cake shops, charity shops or designer clothes shops with their equally fat kids.
This is to reinforce their belief and self denial they are normal, and they really are hot babes trapped in the wrong body. With an arse the size of a hippo.


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The Ancient & Noble Order Of the Knights Templar .
We promote a better world.
The Honors of The Order.
The Ancient and Noble Order of The Knights Templar is a charitable foundation and the true successor to the original Knights Templar that was founded by the Crusader Knights in 1118 in Jerusalem in the Holy Land.
This is the only Knights Templar organisation that is legally entitled to grant Hereditary Knighthoods and Honours to the members of its Order.
WE are the office or camp in Florida in the USA. We answer to and work with the main office in London, England. Here we keep our membership in secret because we work for the glory of God. The Templar motto is Latin-
-Non Nobis Domine Non Nobis Sed Nomini Tuo Da Gloriam. Not To Us O Lord, Not To Us, But to Your Name Give Glory. ( P
(Psalm 115, v1 Hebrew Psalter Psalm 113, v13 Greek Psalter)-- ( Psalm 115)
And therefor we are a secret order no one person is to obtain glory for the work we do.
No Knight will ever be paid for his work as a Templar.
Our works are done in the name of the Ancient and Noble order of the Knights Templar. Our main work is to raise money for charity's , that we vote on.
When you are accepted in our order your name will be engraved in the Templar's headquarters in London England. Following is a link to the HQ in the UK feel free to explore it.
Join Us The main HQ in London - link to HQ --- http://www.theknightstemplar.info/
Whether you are a lifetime advocate or new to our cause, we invite you to join us. We welcome new ideas and value enthusiasm from members and volunteers, new and old. The only age rule is you must be a legal adult, 23 years or older. As of now we are NOT a nonprofit agency. However the main office is. We will be working on this in 2016. If you decide that you want to join our camp please contact me first I will request your membership and that will quicken the process.


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Some of you might have noticed that already some time nothing appears anymore on this site. Is the project dead. Not at all, we are alive and well and in fact in the meantime gathered enough finances to be able to finish our tank in time. Plans are ready, now organising to make the final leaps.
You better follow on our facebookpage : a mix of reports of our tankwork and other tankrelated stuff.
Have a look at : https://www.facebook.com/YpresSalientTanksP1917A/ but you will need a facebook account for that I know. Well, this is a reason to do it and do like me : don't accept "friends" so you are not too much bothered by all those so called "friends", but you can read nevertheless interesting facebookpages ! See you there, almost 1000 people are following us right now.
donderdag 12 januari 2017
And we continue but the reports moved to facebook, everything changes, we adapt.
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A custom story for Amnesia: The Dark Descent in which you once again take on the role of Daniel, roughly one year after his ordeal at Brennenburg. Daniel has been doing quite well since his escape, but one night, a loud crash awakens him. It is up to you to investigate the source of the disturbance, and find out what it all means. IMPORTANT: YOU MUST HAVE JUSTINE FOR THIS STORY.
Details on the next mod I am working on, which will be a long time in the making, but hopefully well worth it.
a new adventure is approcaching...
Details on the Custom Story Contest presented by Frictional games.
custom story contest has begun!
Desura now supports more mods for Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
more mods for amnesia
Patch notes for the current version (as of 6/8/11) of Abduction.
patch notes for v 1.0.7 (current version)
A brief look at all of the things currently WRONG with the story, for which I am extremely sorry.
patch notes and current issues
Just a few quick things to be aware of as you venture into Chapter 3 of Abduction.
a few quick notes
The full release of Abduction is finally here! Hooray!
abduction: full release
Chapter 3's construction and scripting is now 100% complete, and all that remains is testing!
chapter 3 is complete!
An update on the progress of Chapter 3, as well as a hint of what is to come!
content almost done!
Beta Testing phase for Chapter 3 has begun! Feedback has started coming in, and that means release will be (hopefully) soon!
testing underway!
Update on the progress of Chapter 3, and details about beta testing.
testing starts soon
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Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2
by Annie Proulx
(Scribner: New York) $25/hardcover
It's not clear if landscape shaped Annie Proulx or if it's the other way around, but it seems she found her spiritual equal in Wyoming's unforgiving terrain. Here, after all, is a state where smoke signals are probably more effective than cellular phones, where the land is so parched it makes west Texas look like an oasis. It cackles at those who try to make a living from it, and kills some too. In "Man Crawling Out of Trees," one of the 11 stories in her new collection, Bad Dirt, a couple from New York gets a grim first impression of the place:
"Every few months something inexplicably rural happened: on a back road one man shot another with his great-grandfather's 45.70 vintage buffalo gun; a newcomer from Iowa set out for an afternoon hike, and fell off a cliff as she descended Wringer Mountain. Black bears came down in September and smashed Eugenie's bird feeders. A hawk hid under the potentilla bush and leaped suddenly on an overconfident prairie dog a little too far from its burrow. In Antler Spring, the town where they bought their liquor and groceries, a young woman expecting her first child was widowed when her husband, fighting summer wildfires in Colorado, was killed by a Pulaski tool that fell from a helicopter. Vacationers locked themselves out of their cars and were struck by lightning. Ranchers, their eyes on their cattle, drove off the road and overturned. Everything seemed to end in blood."
Indeed it does, and rather than address the fracas with high dudgeon, Proulx goes laughing into the maw. She sets the tone with "The Hellhole," a fanciful story about an express lane to the fiery below that has a knack for swallowing evildoers before the local fish-and-game warden has a chance to write them a ticket. "He didn't know what had happened," Proulx writes dryly of her hero's reaction, "but it had saved a lot of paperwork."
Even though Proulx wants landscape to be a character -- perhaps the major character of all her writing -- she always begins with people. And so here we get to know two siblings angrily disposing of their parents' belongings ("Dump Junk"); meet a town where the men have a beard-growing competition ("The Contest"); and warily watch as a down-on-his luck drifter crosses paths with a family with a special knack for cruelty ("The Wamsutter Wolf").
Although Proulx can turn a phrase with the best of them -- even coin a rhyming couplet in her description, as she does with, "She ran both cattle and some sheep, drove an ancient black Jeep" -- it's the rhythm of her sentences that just flattens you. They build one upon the other with that hallmark of great writing: Each new line feels inevitable and utterly surprising at the same time.
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A city girl who doesn't know how to cut an apple, the girl who walks proudly on her skyscraper heels and hits the city like a rock start. This very same girl has been working on people smuggling, trekking people in the jungles, fear no man, and scream loud to get attention for those voiced that won't be heard. And this is the same girl who has been through life and got stories to share.
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Economic conditions, natural disasters, and market fluctuations have made it extremely difficult for nonprofits to make fundraising decisions informed by the latest donor behavior. That is why we created The Blackbaud Index — to provide insight into what happened in the prior few weeks and valuable analysis by leaders in the sector into what fundraisers can learn from it.Although nonprofits already have worthwhile indices and resources including Giving USA from the Giving Institute and Indiana University, the AFP Fundraising Effectiveness Survey, Guidestar, and the Quarterly Index of National Fundraising Performance from Target Analytics, a broad-based index that reported giving trends on a monthly basis did not exist. Blackbaud is the largest provider of software and services to nonprofits in the world. Our software is used by more than 40,000 organizations in 50 countries. Each day we work with nonprofits of all sizes and sectors, from local food banks to the American Red Cross and the International Fund for Animal Welfare. We felt that if anyone could take on this ambitious project, we could. How do we create The Blackbaud Index?Each month, we draw actual giving statistics from the databases of thousands of US-based participating organizations using a variety of fundraising systems to determine how much revenue was raised in the prior month. We include giving from all sources of fundraising activities: direct mail, telemarketing, face-to-face fundraising, email, online, mobile giving, small- and large-scale events, and major and deferred giving. We do not include the unfulfilled portion of pledge gifts, but we do include the donated value of in-kind and stock gifts. We include giving from individuals, corporations, and foundations but do not include giving by individuals or corporations to private and community foundations or other intermediaries. To include these gifts would double count the revenue when those organizations subsequently make grants to other nonprofits. We do not currently exclude the value of goods and services provided in exchange for gifts (e.g., the cost of premiums) but hope to in the future. And lastly, we do include adjustments made to gifts (e.g., bounced checks and refunds) to provide a more accurate accounting of real revenues. As a result, you may find that indices values change slightly from month to month, as we obtain newly-adjusted data from each organization.
Each organization is then categorized by one of eight sectors using its National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities — or NTEE code — as reported on its 990 tax return. These sectors are Arts, Culture, and Humanities; Education; Environment and Animals; Healthcare; Human Services; International Affairs; Public and Society Benefit; and Religion.
We report the Index as a three-month moving median of year-over-year percent changes in giving. What exactly does this mean? Each month, we add up all of the giving for the prior three months and compare this total to the same three months one year earlier to calculate the annual percent change for each organization in our index. Why do this? Many organizations have big campaigns (events or mailings) that occur at roughly the same time each year. However, if an event was in late April one year but early May the next, the change in monthly giving might be significant while the change in giving over a three month period might actually be the same. An index based on a moving median is less sensitive to these small timing issues and will serve as a more practical decision-making tool. However, one downside to a moving median is that the "smoother" index will dampen large fluctuations caused, for example, by disaster relief giving.
We also adjust the indices to be representative of the nonprofit industry, by size of organization and by industry sector. There are nearly 2 million nonprofits in the country, and we didn't want the indices to be skewed by organizations or sectors where Blackbaud had greater representation. Using the 990 data, we determined the relative representation of giving by size and sector and adjusted our results accordingly. As such, the resulting indices will be more representative of both specific sectors and the industry as a whole.How will the Index change over time?As we mentioned above, we will adjust the indices monthly to reflect updated data. Similarly, we will adjust the indices as new organizations join in or others drop out. We continually assess our Index dataset and review our potential to produce new indices either by sector or channel, in an overall effort to provide the fundraising community with more specific and meaningful benchmarks. Knowing how an organization compares to similar cohorts by size, mission, techniques, or other shared attributes can be invaluable when trying to determine if it was strategy, implementation, economies of scale, or donor behavior that drove results.
I'm sure many of you who share my passion for the nonprofit sector will have great ideas for other directions in which we can take these indices. My team and I look forward to your suggestions and hope you find these initial indices useful.
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Clutches are all the fashion right now!
They are perfect for carrying just those necessary items when you go out.
Here is a crochet pattern for a simple, easy clutch. It's a quick project.
Simple Summer Clutch Crochet Pattern
55 yards of chunky weight yarn. I used Chunky Merino by O-wool.com
Hook: L
7" Zipper
Crochet thread and needle
Size: 7.5" x 5"
Row 1: Chain 20, starting in the 2nd chain from the hook - sc in each st across, work 2 sc in last st.
Row 2: Rotate to work along the back loops of beginning chain. Sc in each st across, work 2 sc in last st.
Row 3-17: Continue working in the round - sc in each sc. Continue until the clutch is the height you desire. 17 rows = 5"
Open up zipper and place it on top inside edge of clutch. Use crochet thread and needle to whip stitch zipper to clutch. If you will make your whip stitches between the sc stitches, they won't show on the outside of the clutch. Knot and cut thread.
Repeat on the opposite side of zipper and clutch. Knot and finish off.
Cut 3 5" pieces of yarn and together pull them through the hole at the end of the zipper tab. Cut another 5" piece and knot if around the yarn pieces below the zipper tab. Cut the ends of the same length if necessary.
Zip zipper and you are finished! Enjoy!


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|User Requirements
|RAGLD Component(s)
|RAGLD Considerations
|Geometrical relationships
When building applications that deal with multiple sources of data there is often a need to find relationships between the data sources. Often this occurs when geographical data sources are merged.
Example use cases would be:
|Spatial query services
as an application of the Relationship management service


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Trainer Tibbs Proves Perseverance Pays
Trainer Tibbs likes to say "remember when." It's a great way to highlight small victories, and show slow and steady DOES win the weight loss race!
Inspiration & tips to support your journey
Trainer Tibbs likes to say "remember when." It's a great way to highlight small victories, and show slow and steady DOES win the weight loss race!
These Anytime Fitness member stories prove a few small choices and routine tweaks can lead to great improvements in your overall health and progress.
The struggle is real, and often confusing. Here are five common misconceptions that make it harder for people to lose weight.
What a difference a year makes! Massive change is possible, one day at a time. These Anytime Fitness Peoria members are living, inspirational proof.
Parenting is a full-time job, yet these supermoms find time for working out, and it's benefited their health and kids' lives tremendously. Prepare to be inspired!
In a sea of gym members and successes, these four members stood out as the epitome of dedication and perseverance. Prepare to be inspired!
Carma Cameron is a Texas teacher who transformed her life, found a new passion, and used it when life got especially challenging.
These inspirational students can teach us a thing or two about maintaining an active lifestyle during the busiest of times!
From bride and bridesmaid to MOG, these Anytime Fitness members used difficult wedding moments to push themselves toward better health!
It's remarkable what can happen when you put your health first. Chris Allen found confidence, camaraderie, and a wife at Anytime Fitness!


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Not too many people knew this event occurred last night. I didn't until a neighbor brought it to my attention. One thing I like about The Woodlands - people get into nature. When I was a child, my dad and I generated many memories in the dark scary forests. When the moon was out bright, I could go outside in the middle of the night and find the ghosts of the forest along with the wolves and the bear (which were fabricated by stones my dad threw into the forest when I was not looking).
Last night the moon was not only a full moon, it was the largest full moon for the next 15 years. I'd call it Santa's moon this year. I could just see Rudolf and the reindeer practicing their flight under the backdrop of that spectacular moon. With its brightness, there was no need for a flashlight except in the very darkest part of the woods. What is it that makes a person feel eerie when in the woods at night? I shot a few woodsy photos where I could see the moon as a backdrop for the forest. One can see all sorts of strange images drawn by the leaves and branches.
Take a look at the link from Earth Sky about the event itself. The writer explains "perigee", when the moon is closest to the earth. That happens more frequently than every 16 years, but coinciding with the full moon orientation is another matter. You will need to mark your calendar for November 14, 2016, to see it again. Mine is marked. I will probably have to use a wheelchair then to get out to see it, but it is worth going outside in cold weather to view it.
Take a look at these photos and see what you can detect in them. What time of day do you believe these photos were taken?


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Ezra 2
From LOLCat Bible Translation Project
1 Now the kittehs of the place that Nebuchandnezzars stolened off to Babylon, and comes back to Jerusalem and Judah;2 Dat comez with Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mizpar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The numberz of catz of Israel:
3 Teh kittehs of Parosh, two thowzands and hunnderd seventy two.
4 Teh kittehs of Shephatiah, three hunnderd seventy two.
5 Teh kittehs of Arah, seven hunnderd seventy and five.
6 Teh kittehs of Pahath moab, of the kittehs of Jeshua and Joab, two thowzands and eight hunnderd an twelve.
7 Teh kittehs of Elam, a thowzand and two hunnderd and fifty and four.
8 Teh kittehs of Zattu, nine hunnderd and fourty and five.
9 Teh kittehs of Zaccai, seven hunnderd and threescorez.
10 Teh kittehs of Bani, six hunnderd forty and two.
11 Teh kittehs of Bebai, six hunnderd twenty and three.
12 Teh kittehs of Azgad, thowzand two hunnderd twenty and two.
13 Teh kittehs of Adonikam, six hunndred sixty and six.
14 Teh kittehs of Beguai, two thowzand fiftry and six.
15 Teh kittehs of Adin, fower hunndred fiftry and fower.
16 Teh kittehs of Ather, whos is kittehs of Ezechias, only ninety-eight.
17 Teh kittehs of Besai, tree hunndred and twenty and tree.
18 Teh kittehs of Jora, a hunndred and twelve.
19 Teh kittehs of Hasum, two hunndred and twenty and tree.
20 Teh kittehs of Gebbar, only ninnety and five.
21 Teh kittehs of Bethlehem, a hunndred and twenty and tree.
22 Teh catz of Netupha, only fiftry and six.
23 Teh catz of Anathoth, a hunndred and twenty and ate.
24 Teh kittehs of Azmaveth, only fowerty and two (but iz answer to univerwse life and evrything).
25 Teh kittehs of Cariathiarim and Cephira and Beroth, sven hunndred and fowerty and tree.
26 Teh kittehs of Rama and Gabaa, six hunndred and twenty and den one more dude.
27 Teh catz of Machmas, a hunndred and twenty and two.
28 Teh catz of Bethel and Hai, two hunndred and twenty and tree.
29 Teh kittehs of Nebo, only fiftry and two.
30 Teh kittehs of Megbis, a hunndred and fiftry and six.
31 Teh kittehs of the other Elam ('cuz we haz two Elams, and dis not first Elam, k thx?), one thowzand two hunndred and fiftry and fivers.
32 Teh kittehs of Harim, tree hunndred and twenty.
33 Teh kittehs Lod and Hadid and Ono, sven hunndred and twenty and five.
34 Teh kittehs of Jericho (i can haz trumpets?), tree hunndred and twenties.
35 Teh kittehs of Senaa, tree thowzand ans six hunndred and thirty.
36 And for priests of the ceiling cat, teh tittehs of Jadaia from sofa of Josue, nine hunndred and sventry and tree.
37 Teh kitteh of Emmer, a thowzand and fitry and two.
38 Teh kittehs of Pheshur, a thowzand and two hunndred and fortry and sven.
39 Teh kittehs of Harim (wtf? we did dees dudes in verse 32), a thowzand and sventeen
40 Teh Levites is teh kittehs of Josue and Cedmihel and kittehs of Odovia, is only sventry and fower.
41 Teh singing kittehs who go "MEERRROROOOOWWW" from Asaph, a hunndred and twenty and eight.
42 Teh kittehs of da bellhops are hunnderd and thirtry and nine. Dey is all from Sellum an Ater an Telmon an Accub an Hatita n Sobai. *yawn*
43 Teh tempul cleanrs are: teh kittehs ov Ziha, Hasufa, Taba-uf,44 Keros, Siaha, Padon,45 Lebunuh, Hagabuh, Akkub,46 Hagab, Shalmai, Hanan,47 Giddle, Gahar, Reyayah,48 Recin, Nekoda, Gazzam,49 Uza, Paseyuh, Besai,50 Asnah, Me-unim, Nepusim,51 Bakbuk, Hakufa, Harher,52 Basluhf, Mehida, Harsha,53 Barkos (not to b teh dog saunds), Sisera, Temah,54 Nezayya, n Hatipha
55 Teh kittehs of teh undrlings uf Solomon be teh kittehs of Sotai, Hasoferet, Peruda,56 Jaala, Darkon, Giddel,57 Sepacha, Hattil, Pokereth-Hazebaym n Ami
58 Teh tempul cleanrs and teh lols of Solomon be 392 wtf
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I'm always proud of my friends.
They're the people I look to for inspiration, for advice and for general lols. So when they need support, you best believe I'll be there like your favourite bra. I always try my best to buy from small businesses – whether thats art, jewellery, groceries or meals – because it's important. Really important. Which is why I'm writing this post today – to support my friend, who has decided to start her own print business called Just Kidding Designs and it's super cute.
Hand drawn and digitally created, these A5 prints are a bloggers dream, tbh. On your desk, in a flat lay (which I may have already done hehe), on your wall.
At only £5 plus delivery, these are such a cute little addition to your home! Here are some of my absolute favourites:
'Smart. Beautiful. Pineapple.' – £5
Buy here.
'Bet'cha Can't Eat Just One' – £5
Buy here.
Love Thy Penguin As Thyself" – £5
Buy here.
'All Cats Are Grey In The Dark' – £5
Buy here.


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Dear Jeanne,
Dear Jeanne,
My husband is on a low-fat, heart-healthy diet. I would like to know if there is a way to revise this recipe to lighten the fat content (and calories, too) so that it may be included in our "special day treats" recipes. A friend says that it is a wonderful tart, but I haven't tried it because of my dietary concerns. Any help you can give would be appreciated.
Monica Palian, DuBois, Pa.
¾ cup butter, softened
1½ cups flour
1/3 cup powdered sugar
¼ teaspoon salt
Cream cheese layer:
6 ounces softened cream cheese
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 tablespoons Watkins Orange Fruit Dip Mix
2 tablespoons softened butter
2 tablespoons milk
Top layer:
5 ounces (½ bag) marshmallows
½ cup milk
3 tablespoons Watkins Orange Fruit Dip Mix
¾ cup whipping cream
1 can mandarin oranges (drained)
Preheat oven to 350 F. Mix crust ingredients together until a soft dough forms. Press into the bottom of a 10-inch pie or tart pan and prick well. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes, or until lightly browned. Remove from oven and cool.
Beat cream cheese, vanilla, dip mix, butter and milk together until smooth. Spread over pie crust.
Melt marshmallows and milk in a saucepan over medium heat. Let cool. When cool, stir in the dip mix.
Whip the whipping cream until soft peaks form. Fold into the cooled marshmallow mixture. Pour half of the mixture over the cream cheese layer. Place mandarin oranges on the marshmallow mixture. Pour the rest of the marshmallow mixture over the oranges. Refrigerate until ready to serve.
Makes 8 servings.
Dear Monica,
The Watkins Orange Fruit Dip Mix is a sweetened orange-flavored powder. You can use any kind of flavored powder. You will need to use much less if you use a sugar-free flavor. You could use a drink mix, or even a flavored gelatin. You could use natural fruit flavors from fruit purees, concentrate or jam, or lemon, lime or orange zest. This is a recipe that can be changed to use any fruit flavor. Just replace some of the milk that you are using with the fruit puree, and use pieces of the same fruit.
I found the mandarin oranges in juice with no sugar added, but they were not available in every store. I also thought that adding more fruit would make it even better; and to make it easier and reduce the fat, I changed the crust to a graham-cracker one, which you can now buy in a reduced-fat version.
6 ounces fat-free cream cheese, softened
¼ cup orange-juice concentrate, thawed, divided use
1 package (6-serving size) sugar-free instant vanilla pudding mix
1 1/3 cups cold nonfat milk
¼ teaspoon orange-flavored sugar-free drink mix
1 reduced-fat graham-cracker crust
1 tub (8 ounces) fat-free frozen whipped topping, thawed
1 can (15 ounces) mandarin oranges in juice, drained (about 1½ cups)
1. Place the cream cheese in a medium-size bowl and beat in 2 tablespoons of the orange-juice concentrate. Set aside.
2. In another bowl, beat the pudding mix with the milk. Beat in the orange drink mix powder and the other 2 tablespoons of orange-juice concentrate. Remove ¼ cup of the pudding mix and add it to the cream cheese mixture. Spread this mixture over the bottom of the graham-cracker crust.
3. Add the whipped topping to the remaining pudding mixture and fold in carefully. Place half of the whipped topping mixture on the cream cheese mixture. Cover with 1 cup of the orange sections, then top with the remaining half-cup of orange sections. Refrigerate at least 1 hour to set.
Makes 8 servings.
Each serving contains about: Original recipe: 555 calories; 37 gm fat; 111 mg cholesterol; 419 mg sodium; 53 gm carbohydrates; 6 gm protein; 1 gm fiber. Revised recipe: 264 calories; 4 gm fat; 2 mg cholesterol; 426 mg sodium; 40 gm carbohydrates; 6 gm protein; negligible fiber.
Send your recipe for revision to: Cook It Light Pocono Record, P.O. Box 1212, La Jolla, CA 92038. Please include a stamped (63 cents), self-addressed envelope.


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The Celtic Art Coracle
Volume 1 Issue 1
The Coracle
magazine was created
primarily for Celtic-art students, to encourage practice,
understanding and application of that artform; to provide an outlet to publish
discoveries and inventions; and to provide reference materials.
In presenting reference materials,
the idea is to compare spiral, maze and knot designs from
cultures and other periods, and to discuss the symbolism and meaning of
grid-based patterns such as found in Celtic art.
The editorial policy of the
Coracle magazine is to show how Celtic art stems
from a common inheritance linking similar art forms from every part of the world and
from earliest times.
The Coracle provides artwork and articles for lovers of Celtic art, both traditional and original designs that show the construction of many patterns, occasionally compared to similar patterns from other cultures.
This issue was
originally typed on a Remington, in January 1983, then
pasted up and photocopied, folded, and stapled together as a
small booklet of sixteen pages. The cover was printed on yellow paper.
Subsequent issues were hand sewn rather than stapled, except issues 6,7,8, which were printed and
stapled at a printer. But after that the magazine reverted to single sewn
signatures, that were eventually bound together into books. After five
volumes, a couple of these books were brought to London, and a
contract was secured to produce the Celtic Design series, which
began with volume 4 of the coracle and went on from there, with eight volumes published throughout
the nineties.
In 1996, the Coracle magazine was launched online, and the site has
gone through several upheavals, been wrecked, rebuilt, and finally, in the
Autumn of 2001, I am concentrating on finishing the project, that
is, to put up all the early volumes on the web, and then to link them to
the subsequent Celtic Design books, where appropriate. I expect this will
take a few years more.
The coracle is a small, one-person riverboat,
shaped like a circular basket, with a shallow draft and a single paddle.
It goes nowhere fast, but a long way, eventually.
After five
volumes, a couple of these books were brought to London, and a
contract was secured to produce the Celtic Design series, which
began with volume 4 of the coracle and went on from there, with eight volumes published throughout
the nineties.
In 1996, the Coracle magazine was launched online, and the site has
gone through several upheavals, been wrecked, rebuilt, and finally, in the
Autumn of 2001, I am concentrating on finishing the project, that
is, to put up all the early volumes on the web, and then to link them to
the subsequent Celtic Design books, where appropriate. I expect this will
take a few years more.
The coracle is a small, one-person riverboat,
shaped like a circular basket, with a shallow draft and a single paddle.
It goes nowhere fast, but a long way, eventually.
photo: Terry Kenny, coracle maker,
Newport, Shropshire
[click on the image if you are interested in reading more about
the coracle: use the Back button on your browser to return to this page,
or right-click on the link to open in a new window]
Looking back, it seems to me
now that the content of these first issues was all over the place, not
surprising, as it took a while for the style of the magazine to emerge.
For a couple of reasons, while working over the early material from
1996 - 2001, I gradually decided to edit the Coracle while converting it
for the web, rather
than stick to
a faithful archive copy.
First, the only reliable
way to archive printed material is simply to scan the original hard-copy,
without changing a thing. But as the
original magazine
is already available in hard copy, this did not seem to me to be my
top priority. Since the pages have to be formatted for the web, anyway,
and things like type size and fonts are more-or-less left to the users
discretion, some editing is unavoidable. And once any editiing is allowed,
the result is nolonger true to the original publication.
Secondly, in converting the
magazine from paper to pixels, a lot must be changed in the
layout. Apart from navigation bars at the side, top and bottom,whch
are to web pages what binding is to a book, a certain amount of padding
is inescapable in hard copy, as the magazine was designed to fit
sixteen pages per issue. This is not so in a web document, although I
happen to have kept to sixteen pages, out of habit. Some elements -
such as the publishers imprint - need to be repeated in a printed
copy, where each issue is a separate document, but a website is a
document, the whole volume is all here, at one time, so at least one
page in each issue is eliminated, which throws the pagination out of
whack: what to do with twelve redundant pages in each volume? Then there are
articles which are obsolete, such as twenty-year old advertisements,
that properly
ought to be cut. And once a cut has been made, the
material has to be rearranged, to avoid empty pages. As a result of
such unavoidable editings,
the web edition necessarilywinds up as a completely different document.
So now I may as well revise the material
of these early volumes completely, and feel free to republish what seems
to me to be the best of the original material, without feeling bound to
the original format, or content, in too-slavish a manner. For
instance, the original was black and white, or black on coloured cover
stock: but there is no reason not to use all the colours available on the
screen. That is one of the great pleasures of web design, a million
colours cost no more than one. Although I am not in a hurry to use all the
available colours, I intend to replace some of the black and white
graphics with the coloured drawings from which they were photocpied. Most
of the spirals in this issue, for instance, were coloured. Susan Yee
experimented with colours to see which would photocopy as black and which
would come out as white, on different machines. A lot has changed in
twenty years. When I first heard of desk-top publishing, back in 1983, I
thought, I can do that, and I went out. bought a typewriter, set it on my
desktop, and published the first issue of the Coracle. Back then, I
thought softwear was a type of undergarment.
Karen Cain once
described the
ballet dancer as someone who must dare to make all her blunders in the limelight.
Just as an experienced dancer need feel no compulsion to reproduce
faithfully all the mistakes of her apprenticeship, so
the reader may reasonably expect that the editor has learned enough by now
avoid republishing the mistakes of the first issue, and may be trusted to
leave in the past all that properly belongs only in the archives.
All twelve issues of volume 1
are obtainable for $30, plus postage. If you want to order copies of
the first volume, feel free to e-mail me email@example.com,
or at the address posted at the foot of each webpage.
The cover design , entitled, the Keeper of the Purse,
is a combination of early Celtic and medieval Irish art. The figure in the middle is the
stag-god of Gaul,
Cernunnos (so-called after an isolated inscription, apparently
related to
the latin word for deer, cervus). There is little
if any evidence
that the stag-god was called Cernunnos outside of the locality
where the
inscription was made. By whatever name he was known,
the cult of
the stag god was apparently widespread late- Roman times.
There is a famous carving from Rheims,
which show the Gaullish
god sqatting cross-legged, which is what inspired the pose
shown here.
Curiously, there is a figure from the earliest civilisation in
the Indus
valley, also horned, seated the same way. Perhaps this convention was linked to this god in very ancient times, preserved
in the
squatting god from Rheims. We see it also in an antlered figure on a panel
in the Gundestrup cauldron, also seated upright with legs bent, holding a
torc, which is the usual signature emblem of this icon. But from the
Rheims figure, it appears that he was sometimes depicted carrying a purse
filled with coins, like Mercury, the god of commerce.
The surrounding
frame is taken - anachronistically - from the
12th-century bell shrine of St Patrick, and is the late
medieval style
that resulted from the fusion of Celtic and Viking styles in
Ireland. It
is sometimes called the Urnes style, after a Scandinavian
stave church,
the door of which is framed with a woodcarved arch in similar
style. I
adapted it here to emphasise the shape of the grid, which is
designed to
look like the pre-Celtic great goddess of the late neolithic, such as the
snake godess of Crete, often depicted wearing a bell skirt, and
with arms
akimbo. The face of the goddess figure, below whom he sits, is not
because the goddess of Nature is said to love to hide. By placing him so, I was
thinking of showning him in the role of her attendant and her son. In the
design, her hair falls like an archon either side, and changes into two
horse's heads, like the heads of the two great beasts on either side of the solar disk,
just as the keystone of the arch is a ring which replaces of the face of
the goddess.
This figure of the sun between
the two beasts is a very widespread Celtic motif - a solstice symbol, in
which two beasts devouring the sun at midwinter, and fleeing from the sun
at midsummer, the time of golden grain and horn of plenty,
which I suppose is the proper time of year for a fertility god such as
Cernunnos. As lord of livestock and harvest, he is naturally a patron of
wealth to farming people. He is shown with
a purse
overflowing, as on the stone carving from Rheims: it does seem that
the antlered god was associated with wealth, like another
guardian of the purse in classical mythology,
This design was
originally made for the lid of a leather purse, which is why I
selected this
aspect of the stag god, and also why the piece was titled, the
Keeper of
the purse. The lower part of the image depicts two birds
in the
coiled horns of the a dragon descending into the terrestrial
plane below:
the two sides of the dual nature of everything in this world.
The dragon
does not appear on the Bellshrine of St Patrick - there what looks like a
serpent's head was probably
intended as a
vase, or gourd, from which the spirals spring like branches of
the tree of
life, although these branches do, in fact, turn into snakes heads, so I
feel my interpretation is not out of tune with the imagery of the Irish
model. I
emphasised the
dragons head, because the great serpent is also emblematic both with the
antlered stag god of Gaul, as well as with the goddess, and, as a dragon,
is associated with gold, also. The
whole design
was conceived as an exploration of the iconography of the celtic stag god,
which as a
theme in Celtic
art is a very rich source of mythic symbolism.
Aidan Meehan,
Vancouver 2001
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Due out September 6th, Greene brings back Holocaust survivor Mendel Traig, the lead character from his well-received novel LOST AND FOUND, which was originally published by Random House in 1980. Spiced with magical realism and mysticism, THE SEED APPLE, is a mysterious, funny, moving novel.
About THE SEED APPLE
While the Cold War is raging, Holocaust survivor Mendel Traig meets the Binyans, Jewish Indians living in the California desert who claim to be descended from King Solomon's sailors. Is the fantastic tale of the family's ancient journey from the disintegrating Mayan culture of the Yucatan to this northern "promised land" true or a myth?
Mendel also meets and falls for Sara Cavanaugh, the engineer responsible for a controversial tower under construction on a sacred site. If completed, the tower will communicate globally with the American nuclear submarine fleet. The Binyan patriarch and his brilliant son are in a generational conflict over the tower and the son's future.
Sheldon Greene is the author of the novels LOST AND FOUND (Random House), PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS, PRODIGAL SONS, AFTER THE PARCH, BURNT UMBER and TWO LOST TRIBES. He is a San Francisco lawyer with a background of public interest law and an Executive Vice President and Director of Oak Creek Energy Systems, a Southern California wind energy developer. Greene also sings bass in the Oakland Symphony Chorus and serves on the Board of the Great Lakes Energy Institute. Visit him on the web at http://www.sheldongreene.com. He is available for interviews.


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"Kazbek" looks like a self-confident man of mean age - not fussy, elegant, knowing what he wants and how to get that. That's the portrait of the most frequent guests of the venue - politicians, businessmen, who know the true sense in pleasure, prefer to conduct business talks in calm atmosphere of this restaurant. Do you want to know why?
First of all, Georgian cuisine is just perfect here. There is only one answer to a question "where are the best satsivi and kumchachi liver cooked, where is amazing pahlava served?". "Kazbek" restaurant.
The third, but very important thing - perfect service. The restaurant was highly marked by guests and by professionals. Three years on end it stays the best restaurant of the network. Your automobile will be quite safe at guarded parking.
Due to blameless work of our waiters, every guest feels himself to be hospitable proprietor. And whatever you plan to arrange - noisy banquet, business meeting or romantic date - you can be sure - it will be perfect!
You shouldn't be a Georgian, but You should visit "Kazbek"!
Services: Banquets, Children's menu, Breakfast


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girlwithaspirin's Kitchen
DIY Painted Bittersweet Chocolate Kitchen
Posted by girlwithaspirin on October 6, 2008
Link to girlwithaspirin's Gardenweb post with details of cabinet painting
Link to girlwithaspirin's kitchen photos:
Link to girlwithaspirin's Before&After Photo
- Cabinets: original oak cabinets, painted in BM Bittersweet Chocolate
(see below for instructions)
- Countertop: Silestone Capri Limestone counters
- Sink: D-bowl stainless sink from eBay
- Faucet: Price Pfister Parisa pullout
- Wall paint: Benjamin Moore Iced Marble, a really soft (but not sweet) blue-gray not unlike Silver Sage.
- Benjamin Moore Satin Impervo Alkyd (oil-based) in Bittersweet Chocolate
- Purdy angled brushes
- Thick plastic dropcloths
- Sandpaper
- Mineral spirits and rags for clean-up as you go
- Remove doors.
- Clean with soap and water.
- Lightly sand, only where needed.
- Remove dust with a tack cloth.
- Rest each door on its bottom edge. Do not paint that edge -- you'll do it once the doors are re-hung.
- Paint the backs first with a thin coat of Satin Impervo. Thin coats give more of a handrubbed look and also avoid drips. If you do see some drips, try to catch them early -- once the paint starts to dry, you'll make a mess trying to smooth them out. Let dry at least overnight, preferably a few nights to avoid smudges when you flip the doors around.
- Paint the fronts in the same way.
- Let cure for as long as you can stand it. A week would be ideal.
- In the meantime, paint the cabinet boxes. I didn't paint the insides, and I've never regretted it.
- After a weeks gone by, re-hang the doors. Paint the bottom edge of each. Do any touch-up.
- Depending on your wood, the paint may keep absorbing in certain places. I kept the paint can in my kitchen for a month, doing quick touch-ups wherever necessary.
If you have oak, keep in mind, you will see grain through the paint. If you'd rather not, you'll have to use some kind of putty to fill the grain, then prime, then paint. I just didn't have the energy for it, and it turns out, I love the look -- people mistake it for a handrubbed stain all the time.
You can see faint brushstrokes, which I love. The Benjamin Moore Satin Alkyd is incredibly forgiving paint, and I believe it would've self-leveled more if I laid the doors flat while painting and drying. I didn't want to encourage that, so I left them standing up.
For "cutting in", I never use tape. But I live and die by angled Purdy brushes and a steady hand. I press and ease the tips of the bristles up to the edge, then pull slowly. Another hint: Don't hold the brush way down on the end of the handle, where it looks like you're supposed to hold it. You'll have less control, and your wrist will fatigue much more quickly that way. Hold it up higher, closer to the bristles.
I'm so happy with how the cabinets have stood up over time. Not a single chip or scratch! To be honest, I cut so many corners in the prep (by choosing not to prime), I thought for sure I'd be dealing with the aftermath now. I credit the paint and patience for 100% of the success. Seriously, this paint is the real deal.
Painted original oak cabinets
Before photos: