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There seems to be a trend with high-end prix fixe restaurants to open smaller, less formal off-shoots to open their cuisine to a larger audience. One well known example, L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon, has brought the flavors of the great chef into a more relaxed setting, where you could conceivably visit for a nice lunch, instead of the "once every five years" type of meal. Thankfully, other fine restaurants have followed suit, which paves the way to some great food at a price that doesn't break the bank. Two recent discoveries, Parm and La Esquina, are both offspring of their larger, more formal parent restaurants.
Parm grew out of the well known Torrisi Italian Specialties, which used to try balancing the high end prix fixe market with more accessible cuisine, like meatball sandwiches and the like. When the demand for both led The dynamic duo of Rich Torrisi and Mario Carbone to create the throwback Italian deli/sandwich bar that is Parm. When you walk in the door, you'd be forgiven for assuming it's been around for decades, when in reality it's only a few months old. The illusion is aided by the menu full of traditional Italian comfort food, Chicken, Eggplant and Meatball Parm, Sausage and Peppers Heros, fresh made ricotta and mozzarella with prosciutto and baked ziti with optional meat gravy. This is the real deal, stick to your ribs Italian bar food that is continuously copied but rarely executed in any sort of appetizing manner. You won't find soggy eggplant, over-breaded chicken, or jarred tomato sauce.
What led me here though, were the rumblings about the Parm Heros. I discovered a list of the 101 best sandwiches in New York and took it as a personal challenge. So far I've tackled a shade over half a dozen and counting, some featured here! Parm did not disappoint. Sitting proudly at #21 on the list, it was everything you could ask a Chicken Parm sandwich to be. Chicken that is both crisp and tender, blanketed with piping hot, velvety tomato sauce, melted mozzarella and fresh picked basil on a toasted sesame seed roll. Perfection from simplicity. This Chicken Parm is like the Ramones, simple power chords played fast and hard to a tried and true beat, it's the same every time and you wouldn't want it any other way.
La Esquina is an altogether different animal. Although it's also an off-shot from the larger brasserie of the same name, it's closer to a taco truck than an actual restaurant. It inhabits a triangular lot that's no more than eight feet wide at the most. The kitchen is crammed into the larger side, while a window bar with stools lines the opposite side. Size obviously doesn't matter because these guys are pumping out some awesome Mexican street food at a furious pace.
My standby has always been the tortas, the Pollo Rostizado to be precise. It consists of a rotisserie chicken, arugula, shaved red onions, tomato, avocado and an unreal smoky, spicy chipotle mayo (not CHI-POL-TAY). The chicken here is so moist, not the dry, unpalatable breast you usually get in these situations. The arugula lends a great nuttiness, with the onions and tomato giving you that pop of crisp freshness. The best part though, is the delicious sludge that's formed by the chipotle mayo and avocado blending together from the heat trapped inside the bread. It's creamy and buttery, with a perfect spiciness to give the chicken an added flavor explosion. Just awesome. Another tasty dish I recently discovered was the Platanos Machos Fritos. This is a pile of sweet plantains, covered in cotija and spicy avocado salsa verde. Look me in the eye and tell me that doesn't sound like the perfect lunch.
Once again, the gift of the SoHo food scene keeps on giving. The strange thing is, I've never been a big fan of chicken sandwiches, and both of these are classic chicken sandwiches that are so often ruined with less than optimal ingredients. But, like I always say, everything tastes good when it's done right. Until next time everyone!


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I think it's healthy for an artist to paint in a series of connecting images. One image helps the next, or at least that's what I hope.
These little paintings are very challenging, nothing (for me) is by chance, it's all by DESIGN.
My initial colors are LIQUID ACRYLICS and when they dry, I try to make the shapes and colors CONNECT.
I am sure my puppies think I am nuts, when I place these on the floor with mats on them, and walk around and around the image till I know which way is 'UP'.
They watch me intently, with a curious and accepting look.. I guess by now, they know that's just 'what I do'....SIGH..
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Last night I met with a wonderful model and she was just great. (Great AND Wonderful!) I needed to give her very little direction and she followed the lens and made it a really fun time. I hope to work with her again!
28 June 2013
A little sneak preview of a new project
Last night I met with a wonderful model and she was just great. (Great AND Wonderful!) I needed to give her very little direction and she followed the lens and made it a really fun time. I hope to work with her again!
24 June 2013
Channel Reunion Concert - June 23, 2013
The CHANNEL REUNION CONCERT to BENEFIT RIGHT~ TURN RECOVERY A 501C3 Charity. The CRC will reunite bands that played the Channel Rock Club as well as friends and staff who worked there! Bands playing are as follows...
Jon Butcher
Robin Lane & The Charbusters
Lizzie Borden & The Axes
Charlie Farren
New England
The Stompers
The Fools
Shot by: Elisabeth Photography © 2013
22 June 2013
Some previews from the wedding
I have been drifting form my main focus... my photography. Yup.. my photography. So.. here we go back.
I shot a wedding recently in Salem, and here ya go. A beautiful bride and a fun group too!
See you all soon!
15 June 2013
Happy Father's Day
I will make this a fairly short post.
This has been a very tough couple of weeks, days etc. I have been trying to get myself in the right frame of mind. I have been trying to shoot more and work on my own art rather than hiding behind my teaching. In so doing, I have worked on my studio, in my studio and I shot a wedding this week. I have been stressing about the fact that I am an adjunct in the middle of a bit of a departmental crisis, in that I was over my "limit" to be part time, so they needed to cut my classes in the first relevent semester, which is this fall. So, I will not be making any money from about August until January. (Hoping that I am back on track in the winter/spring semester). I have been looking at other colleges and we will see what comes of it.
Do I enjoy teaching? Yes, yes I do. It is just really tough to imagine that a great many of my classes were cancelled becasue they have no one to teach them, but I am not being considered for a full time position. That is neither here nor there. It is at these times you begin to understand those you work with in the same position, and how they watch you VERY carefully to catch a flaw that may be monopolized in their best interest. To that end, I learned while being in a corporate environment just to mind my own business and make sure that my reputation is not unduly flawed by rumor or gossip.
Aside from all of this, I have found that of late, I have been both missing and pissed off at my Father. To say I miss him is trite and a slight description of how I truly feel. There are still mornings I do not want to get out of bed. There are still times I want to pick up the phone and hear what he has to say to help. There are times when I want to hear him say something silly or "What it is?" or "Wie getz?". I have been brought to tears multiple times this week, and month thinking about the times I wish I could hear his voice.
To the anger, I am pissed I did not know all that I needed to. I wish I was let in on the extremities of his cancer. I wish I was not treated like a child that needed to be carefully dealt with. I received an email the week before his death which brought me to a sobbing mess, as I began to understand what was going on. "I am not afraid to die", he said. Where was I to go with this? He was briefing me on all of the testing and drugs and the surgery. Then he was saying how excited and proud he was to show with me at Griffin Museum. It was going to be an awesome thing. I would have him on Skype® and walk around the gallery so he could see everyone who came. We would speak the night after his surgery and plan the gallery talk. It did not happen. It did not happen.
|Smiling through the Chemo. That is Daddy. Looking for you on Father's Day.
I have been trying to deal with things with humor instead of crying, but I am realizing it is more to the idea of masking and it is making me more exhausted than necessary. Is it something in the stars? Am I trying to hard to feel his heart with me still? What is it? I know I will work through this and be able to move forward, but this is what has been hurting my art.
I must move forward, I must get out of this feeling of anger and loss. Those 7 stages of loss are exhausting. But, for what it is worth... Happy Father's Day to my Daddy. I miss you. I love you. You are in my head and heart always. Things will never be the same without you, but I know you are here. I know you are.
10 June 2013
Open Studios Coming Saturday June 15th
Today I spent the day building shelves to organize my studio a bit. I have been working on paintings, photography and making a dress. I have been all over the place. I am focusing more on preparing for Senior photos for which I sent out my first mailing. (Exciting stuff!)
I shot a bunch of images with my iPhone and I created a panorama of the work I have done thus far, and though, it does not show what I really did, I thought it ended up distorting it nicely. So, I thought I might share it. ALSO the information on the Open studios.


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The stack of books on my bedside table is always precarious. Once in awhile, I clear it down to the bare minimum and stack the books neatly, but like rising bread dough, it grows back, alluring and top heavy. At the moment, there are two calendars as we straddle the turning of the year, a few poetry books, a novel I've been wanting to read since I heard an excerpt a few years ago, a copy of the Big Issue, various journals of my own I've been mining for ideas, cards for letters I've been meaning to write, a writing craft book or two. The stack is usually taller than my lamp. Sometimes, in moments of foolhardiness, I balance a mug of hot coffee on the top. I've been lucky, so far, and it hasn't toppled.
Whatever the changing nature of the stack, though, a book that always remains is Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essays. It's usually near the bottom, but like a magician pulling the tablecloth out from under the china and stemware, I can extract it without upsetting a single bookmark. Here is the quote that sprung to mind this morning when I drew the prompt calendar:
'We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished and much was begun in us. All our days are so unprofitable while they pass, that 'tis wonderful where or when we ever got anything of this which we call wisdom, poetry, virtue. We never got it on any calendar day.'
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Experience
Not on any calendar day. There are so many days that slip through the netting thrown by the seven-columned grid. The day you dropped a memory in the grass and kept on walking, never aware of your loss. The day your hair became grey – not stranded with silver or sprinkled with salt-and-pepper – when no middling description would do anymore. The day on which your big toe finally wore through your hiking boots. The day your kids played under the table with toy cars for the last time. The day you shifted from mostly talking to mostly listening. The day you take the baton from your parents, or hand it to your children. Crucial moments, not on any calendar day.
What is Present, not precious?


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I was composing a lovely blog post in my mind* about something adoption or parenting related - I think it may have been about the lovely dinner we had with Kari and Kelly and their fantastic baby last night, and all the wonderful hand-me-downs of little Phinney's that we now have stockpiled in our closet - when my phone rang and it was Liz, our adoption coordinator. Hm, I thought, that's odd seeing as J. won't be looking at our profile until next Tuesday. Nonetheless, my heartbeat picked up a little.
"Hi Liz," I answered the phone. "What's up?"
It turned out that J. had been shown profiles today, after all, and we weren't picked. Apparently she ended up feeling more connected to someone else, and while my heart sank a little I didn't feel too bad. It's our first time out, and while I don't know details about who did get picked, Liz did tell me enough for me to realize that it's someone in a population of adoptive parent that sometimes has to wait a long time. So, I felt genuinely glad for that person, and told Liz that.
"But," she said, "I do have something else to talk to you about. If you're okay, and feel ready. I know this can be emotionally draining for couples sometimes."
"We're fine." I told her, "talk to me, talk to me!"
It turns out there is a birth-mom, F., who will be looking at profiles with this same agency on Monday. Liz told me the details surrounding this case, and I knew without checking with Andrew that it was something we'd go for. "When is this baby due?" I asked.
"March 1st, actually."
Whoa. So - this is how it is going to go. That I did have to check with Andrew about, but he's a go and we're a go. Say some prayers for this young pregnant woman on Monday, if praying is something that you do. I am realizing that there are brave young women making these tough choices literally every day.
Meanwhile, as I told a friend this afternoon, I am feeling a little bit like the inverse of that baby swan in the storybook that wandered all over looking for its mother. I'm looking for my baby, of course, and as I get glimpses into this case and that one I am wondering with each case, are you my baby? Are you?
We'll find our swan out there, though. And he or she will be exactly right.
*yes, I have a job and no, it is not suffering. I am an excellent multi-tasker, thank you very much.


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|Fresh Banana leaf on plate with four amazing Chutneys!
Murugan Idli Shop is home for us when we want a break from routine North Indian food of Tandoori Roti, Sabji, Dal, etc. It is located on the busy street of Syed Alwi Road close to Mustafa.
The restaurant is small, simple with basic seating arrangements. It is often crowded especially on weekends when people shop at Mustafa and stop at Murugan for lunch or Dinner.
As you occupy seat, you are presented with a piece of paper and pencil. That paper is Menu card cum Order note. All the dishes are listed along with prices and you are suppose to select what you want to eat and indicate number of quantities. Unique way of taking order and I quite like it.
By the time you make up your mind and complete the order, you are presented plate with large fresh Green Banana leaf covering the plate and 4 different chutneys on it. This is standard serving irrespective of what you order. In Southern parts of India, serving and eating food on Banana leaf is a tradition. It is believed that top of the leaf is naturally coated with some chemical. When these are consumed along with food, it makes food tasty and makes digestion process better. Other advantage of using Banana leaf for the restaurant is that the turn-around time is quick as they don't have to wait for cutlery to get washed, cleaned, dried and ready for next serving. Though it adds to the operating cost, I deeply appreciate the restaurant for keeping the traditions alive in foreign country where managing cost is critical.
Since the name itself has Idli, it is but natural to try atleast one Idli, you can call it a starter. The Idlis are soft, big, generally hot and fresh. It is a must everytime you go there. I like Vada and they serve it really crispy. Onion Uttappam, Masala Dosa or Butter Masala Dosa, all are good with authentic South Indian taste. A special mention about Sambar – it is really tasty and you can ask for more servings without any additional cost for it.
They also serve variety of rice (Lemon, Tamarind, Tomato, Curd, Sambar) though I haven't tried them yet so I will reserve my comments on them. But going by my experience on other dishes, it should be good.
The way Idli is must have, coffee is also a must have at the end of food, irrespective of you want to have it or not. It is served in traditional half-cut steel glass, coffee filled till its brim accompanied with a small bowl. The aroma and taste of that filter coffee will definitely revive your energy and mood.
I always enjoy food here though it is somewhat congested place with limited open space from baby-pram or shopping bags. You may have to struggle for seat sometimes but when you get it, the food is always served by heart. Options on Menu card are limited saving lot of order time and helping restaurant in keeping low items of inventory.
Murugan is part of Indian food chain and has been able to keep its long established tradition of quality and taste.
Ambience: Simple, small layout, basic seating arrangement
Price: Reasonable
Quality: Good.
Quantity: Average
Taste: Authentic
Service: Fast
Rating: 7 +1 for the Chutneys and Sambar
fOoD fOr ThOuGhT: It is a place for perfect brunching, snacking when you want to eat light still be tight!


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In the Matter of the Application of
For Review of Disciplinary Action Taken by
Violations of Conduct Rules
Failure to Inform Employer of Private Securities Transactions
Conduct Inconsistent with Just and Equitable Principles of Trade
Associated person of member firm of registered securities association engaged in private securities transactions for compensation without prior written notification to firm and firm's written approval. Held, association's findings of violation and the sanctions it imposed are sustained.
Eric M. Chial, of Lewitas & Associates, P.C., for Chris Dinh Hartley.
Jennifer C. Brooks, for NASD.
Appeal filed: January 2, 2004
Last brief received: April 6, 2004
Chris Dinh Hartley, who was an investment company products and variable contracts representative with Pruco Securities Corporation, an NASD member firm, appeals from NASD disciplinary action. NASD found that, during the period September 1996 through January 1997, Hartley violated NASD Conduct Rules 3040 and 2110 by selling promissory notes for compensation without giving Pruco prior written notification and receiving Pruco's prior written approval.1 NASD suspended Hartley for 90 days and fined him $7,500.2 We base our findings on an independent review of the record.
Hartley, a "non-captive" insurance agent,3 was primarily engaged in selling life insurance and variable annuities for Pruco and other insurance companies. In August 1996, he attended a presentation given by Randy Scianna, an insurance agent and owner of his own insurance agency, that was aimed at recruiting salespersons for the promissory notes of First Lenders Indemnity Corporation ("FLIC"). FLIC was engaged in the purchase and resale in the commercial market of automobile installment loan contracts, and was offering promissory notes that matured in nine months and paid 10% interest. According to FLIC, the proceeds from the sale of its notes would be used to purchase additional automobile loan contracts.
Scianna provided Hartley with various materials concerning FLIC, including a Dun and Bradstreet report and FLIC's "Disclosure Document" that was used to solicit sales of the company's notes. According to Hartley, Scianna assured him that FLIC's notes were not securities.4 However, the second page of the Disclosure Document that Hartley received recited in block capital letters as follows: "THE COMPANY BELIEVES THAT THE NOTES ARE EXEMPT SECURITIES... THESE SECURITIES HAVE NOT BEEN APPROVED OR DISAPPROVED BY THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION."
Hartley decided to sell FLIC notes to his customers. On September 9, 1996, he signed a FLIC agent agreement and a FLIC "Representative's Compliance Declaration." As required, he initialed each of the statements in the Declaration, including the following: " I have notified my Broker/Dealer of my participation in providing this exempt security to my clients." "In the eyes of my Broker/Dealer I am in complete compliance." These statements were false. Hartley had not given Pruco any notification of his decision to sell FLIC notes. Scianna also questioned Hartley as to whether he had checked with Pruco, and Hartley replied that he had asked for permission to sell FLIC notes and had been told that "it was fine."
From September 21, 1996 through January 10, 1997, Hartley sold six FLIC notes in the total amount of $255,000 to five customers, two of whom were Pruco clients. Hartley earned a total of $10,160 in commissions on his sales.
According to Hartley, in late September or October 1996, he had a brief conversation about the FLIC notes with his Pruco supervisor, Marlene Kasparian.5 Kasparian had remarked to Hartley that she had money in the bank that "wasn't doing anything." Hartley suggested that she might be interested in purchasing a FLIC note that he was selling. Kasparian replied that she wasn't interested, and did not question Hartley about the notes or his sales.
In mid-January 1997, Scianna began receiving complaints from FLIC noteholders that they were not being paid when notes matured or were receiving late or no interest payments. Hartley also began receiving calls from clients asking why their monthly interest checks were late. In early March, Scianna advised Hartley to stop doing business with FLIC and, on March 10, returned a FLIC subscription agreement and check to Hartley that Hartley had forwarded from one of his customers. Thereafter, Hartley discontinued the sale of FLIC notes.
Pruco agents customarily updated the firm as to their outside activities once a year following Pruco's annual compliance meeting. After Pruco's compliance meeting in November 1997, some eight months after his last abortive sale of a FLIC note, Hartley amended his Form U-4 by including the name FLIC in a list of 40 outside entities with which he had conducted business during the year.6
Susan Korp, the business manager of Hartley's office who was then serving as compliance officer, questioned Hartley about FLIC, and Hartley told her that he had sold FLIC promissory notes. Korp passed this information on to the office's interim managing director. The director approved Hartley's amended Form U-4 without taking further action.
Nearly two years later, in August 1999, Hartley received a letter from an attorney representing the receiver appointed for FLIC by a bankruptcy court. The letter stated that the receiver's investigation had revealed that FLIC had been engaged in a Ponzi scheme, and that the commissions paid to Hartley for selling FLIC notes constituted fraudulent transfers recoverable by the receiver. The letter further stated that the court had authorized the receiver to sue Hartley to recover his commissions. It offered to settle the matter for 85% of the amount that FLIC had paid Hartley, and threatened suit unless Hartley accepted the settlement offer within 14 days. Hartley promptly remitted payment, accepting the receiver's settlement offer.
NASD Conduct Rule 3040 provides that an associated person who intends to participate in a securities transaction outside the regular course or scope of employment must give prior written notice to his or her employer describing the proposed transaction in detail and stating whether he or she may receive selling compensation. If selling compensation is to be received, the associated person may not engage in the transaction unless the employer gives its prior approval in writing.
Without informing Pruco and obtaining its approval, Hartley sold six FLIC notes in the total amount of $255,000 to five customers. He earned commissions of $10,160 on the sales. Hartley states that he "no longer disputes that the FLIC notes were 'securities.'" We believe that they are included within the definition of "security" in Section 2(a)(1) of the Securities Act of 19337 and Section 3(a)(10) of the Securities Exchange Act of 19348 as "any note," and that they are not excluded from that definition under the Supreme Court's "family resemblance" test.9 FLIC's notes do not resemble any of the instruments that the Court recognized as not constituting securities, and there is no basis for adding the notes to the list of non-securities. Investors were attracted by the notes' high rate of interest, and FLIC purportedly sought to raise money from their sale to carry on its regular business. The notes were distributed throughout the United States. Purchasers of the notes reasonably considered that they were making an investment, and no other scheme of regulation was available. We accordingly conclude that Hartley violated NASD Conduct Rule 3040 by selling securities for compensation without giving Pruco prior written notification and receiving Pruco's prior written approval.10
NASD determined that Hartley's violation of Rule 3040 also constituted a violation of Conduct Rule 2110, which requires adherence to high standards of commercial honor and just and equitable principles of trade. Hartley argues that he did not violate Rule 2110. He asserts that NASD did not consider or gave insufficient weight to various mitigating circumstances, and that his conduct was "neither intentional, reckless, nor grossly negligent."
NASD's determination that Hartley violated Rule 2110 is in accord with our policy that a violation of another NASD rule, including Rule 3040, also constitutes a violation of Rule 2110.11 Conduct that violates other NASD rules (with which associated persons like Hartley are presumed to be familiar)12 is by its very nature inconsistent with high standards of commercial honor and just and equitable principles of trade.13 We accordingly sustain NASD's finding of violation.
Under Section 19(e)(2) of the Exchange Act, we must sustain NASD sanctions unless we find them excessive or oppressive or an undue burden on competition.14 Hartley argues that no sanctions should be imposed on him, let alone what he characterizes as the overly severe sanctions that NASD assessed. He complains particularly about his suspension, which NASD's National Adjudicatory Council ("NAC"), after calling this matter up for review, increased to 90 days from the 30 days assessed by the NASD Hearing Panel,15 Hartley's major contentions are that he was guilty of only an innocent mistake, that he reasonably believed that the FLIC notes were not securities, and that he did not try to deceive anyone.
The evidence in the record undercuts Hartley's protest-ations. Both FLIC's Disclosure Document and its Compliance Declaration put Hartley on notice that the FLIC notes might well be securities. Yet Hartley made no further inquiry, and never gave Pruco notice prior to his sales even though the Declaration required him to represent that he had done so. Instead, he falsely affirmed in the Declaration that he had given Pruco notice and obtained its approval for his sales, and he repeated the same falsehoods to Scianna. While he mentioned the notes briefly to Kasparian after he had begun selling them, it was not in the context of making inquiry or seeking approval. Nor did he provide Kasparian with the necessary details about the notes and his sales activities. Even on his amended 1997 Form U-4, submitted long after his sales of FLIC notes had ended, Hartley merely included FLIC's name in a list of 40 entities with which he had conducted business during the year. He furnished additional information only when questioned by Korp.
Hartley further complains that NASD did not properly evaluate the seven factors listed in the NASD Sanction Guidelines as guides in determining the appropriate sanctions for "selling away."16 However, we consider that, if anything, NASD was lenient in evaluating those factors. Five of the seven guideline factors serve to aggravate Hartley's offense. Thus Hartley falsely represented to FLIC and Scianna that his employer had approved his sales. He sold away to two customers of Pruco.17 He did not provide Pruco with verbal notice of all relevant factors. He was not properly registered to sell FLIC notes. And he sold FLIC notes directly to customers, and did not simply refer customers to a properly registered individual.18
NASD pointed out that one of the Guidelines' overriding considerations in determining sanctions is whether the respondent's misconduct resulted in injury to others and, if so, "the nature and extent of that injury." Hartley complains that the NAC failed to recognize that FLIC noteholders will recoup from 44% to 74% of their funds in the FLIC bankruptcy proceeding. He also asks that we take into account the fact that he "voluntarily" returned the commissions that he earned on his FLIC transactions. We do not consider that Hartley is deserving of a reduction in sanctions because his clients may be able to recover some of their losses. Moreover, we note that Hartley surrendered his FLIC commissions only after he was threatened with a lawsuit by FLIC's receiver in bankruptcy.
NASD has already taken into account other mitigating factors cited by Hartley -- Pruco's inadequate training and supervision, the fact that Hartley told Kasparian that he was selling FLIC notes (although he did not provide all of the details), and that Hartley cooperated in NASD's investigation and expressed genuine remorse. No further reduction in sanctions is warranted based on these considerations.
Selling away is a serious violation. Conduct Rule 3040 is designed not only to protect investors from unsupervised sales, but also to protect securities firms from liability and loss resulting from such sales. Such misconduct deprives investors of a firm's oversight, due diligence, and supervision, protections investors have a right to expect. Hartley's misconduct illustrates the potential for harm to public investors through unsupervised securities transactions.
Hartley points out that the NASD Hearing Panel found that he is unlikely to engage in similar misconduct in the future. However, the NAC did not adopt that conclusion, and it is the NAC's conclusions that are before us for review, not those of the Hearing Panel. Despite clear indications that FLIC notes might well be securities, Hartley made no effort to consult Pruco before beginning his sales, while falsely representing to FLIC and Scianna that he had done so. His conduct exhibits a disturbing disregard for applicable requirements. We conclude that the sanctions imposed on Hartley are neither excessive nor oppressive. Nor do they impose an undue burden on competition.
An appropriate order will issue.19
By the Commission (Chairman DONALDSON and Commissioners GLASSMAN and ATKINS); Commissioners GOLDSCHMID and CAMPOS not participating.
Jonathan G. Katz
In the Matter of the Application of
For Review of Disciplinary Action Taken by
On the basis of the Commission's opinion issued this day, it is
ORDERED that the disciplinary action taken by NASD against Chris Dinh Hartley, and NASD's assessment of costs, be, and they hereby are, sustained.
By the Commission.
Jonathan G. Katz
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Red Suede Jacket: Topshop, Dress: Courtesy of LoveClothing, Cross: Topman (4 years Old) Glasses: Camden Market
Red Suede Jacket: Topshop, Dress: Courtesy of LoveClothing, Cross: Topman (4 years Old) Glasses: Camden Market
I love the whole outfit xxReplyDelete
Only John Lennon could look cooler and even his weren't PINK TINTED ONES. Gorgeously hippy as ever. Penny Lane better watch out :) xxReplyDelete
I have those glasses too :) Lovely dress!!!XReplyDelete
You look amazing love the colours of your outfit <3ReplyDelete
love the necklace and sunglasses xo
I love this dress! You look so 70s chic!
xo Julia
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amazing sunnies!!
Meena xxx
You really do look super cool in these shades.. I would look like a complete twat :) lol!
I have a similar pair of sunnies from topshop unique and they make me also feel cooler than i am! i love the round ones these days. love your ones and also love the dress!"
LOVE the dress, and you pull of the lenon like shades perfectly.
love the floral dress and red cardigan. <3ReplyDelete
hey girly! those glasses give so much attitude! love em! <3ReplyDelete
i love u so much
u`re so beautiful. xx
Hahahah I know what you mean with the glasses :D
Great combination of fun and fierce! Have a great Saturday!
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"A mind that is single and sincere is not interested in being good, in conducting relations with other people so as to live up to a rule. Nor, on the other hand, is it interested in being free, in acting perversely just to prove its independence. Its interest is not in itself, but in the people and problems of which it is aware; these are 'itself'. It acts, not according to the rules, but according to the circumstances of the moment, and the 'well' it wishes to others is not security but liberty."
— Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity (p. 132)
In Christian life, we often find ourselves no farther along the journey of purity and piety than those mature would-be-Christians who have no allegiance to Christ, whatsoever. They seem as gracious as we are, peace-loving and wise, aware of their purpose, connected to people, morally adroit, and even better positioned for admiration because they're not pigeon-holed as hypocritical or judgmental. They're considered and called beautiful persons.
As Christians, we tend to fall for the trap of needing to be seen as set apart in our holiness rather than knowing we are set apart, as a matter of who we are and not for what we do or don't do.
Christian conversion doesn't solve the problem of the self.
It's the acknowledgement of the sinful self in the benefit received through the acceptance of Christ's redeeming sacrifice — the grace of God as the final restitution of the sinner to the restoring God.
Conversion highlights the problem of the self, and the need to depend on God if progress is to be made on the journey with God.
The journey to God made, which is conversion, the journey with God commences.
Now comes cognisance of the real problem within the problem. There is a barrier that must be overcome; we use our flesh to try to conquer what only reliance on the Spirit will attain.
In Watts' language, we have to get over the "I" and that's probably the revelation that humbles our spiritual pride most. This is the admission that we've not been as miraculously transformed as we'd liked to have been.
Sure, in Christ, we are new creations, but we're not suddenly cured of sin. In fact, we've only begun the journey of reconciling that we'll be fallen sinful persons for the rest of our lives. And what is against us are incorrect assumptions non-Christians make: "Well, he/she is not a very good Christian, are they?" That's the point. There's no such thing, and Christians more ought to know and accept this than anyone. The irony is it's only the converted that understand, so it's to hypocrisy we will continue to be judged.
If we're to accept that the Christian life is not so much the negation of the self, but the affirmation of others within the purposes God gives us, then we would lose the prison in finding the key.
This is the concept that the self is subsumed always in something bigger than itself. Indeed, and ideally, the self has become nothing, and can see nothing of itself, for the everything that exists beyond itself.
This is what I think John the Baptist is getting at when he sees he is the friend of the Bridegroom, Jesus: "He must become greater; I must become less." (John 3:30) John's purpose had crystal clear clarity only when Jesus came.
When we arrive at this point in our journey with God, we don't simply obey because it will go well for us if we do.
We obey because our lives are no longer about us; we see that our life is only "abundant" when others' lives are, and when we're lost in our mission that's when we're finally found. But we run off track if we don't encompass this:
It's not a service to others
to make us feel good.
to make us feel good.
It's a service to others
where we think less about ourselves.
where we think less about ourselves.
To this we're called heavenward: the mind is one in passionate pursuit of everything it perceives of love for the people and problems of which it's aware.
Serving others without thinking about what we gain, therefore, is freedom and, ultimately, Jesus' abundant life.
That service, for the simple want of doing it, is what unifies the mind divided and exemplifies a mind integrated.
Serving unifies the mind divided, healing us, as God also heals those served.


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EL PASO - Walmart will open two neighborhood markets, located at 101 E. Redd Rd. and at U.S. Route 54 and Martin Luther King Blvd., in summer 2014 and summer 2015, respectively. A 182,000-sf supercenter on North Mesa St., north of Executive Center Blvd., will open in 2017.
The 42,000-sf neighborhood market on Redd Rd. at Doniphan Dr. in the Upper Valley will employ approximately 95 associates.
The supercenter will provide jobs for approximately 300 associates. Construction is set to start some time in 2016, and open in early 2017.
The supercenter will be at the center of Aldea, a 200-acre residential and commercial development in the area south of Montecillo between North Mesa and I-10.
Aldea will eventually have about 1,400 homes, two hotels, more than 1 million sf of retail and about 265,000 sf of office space, said Paul Silverman, the CEO of Aldea's developer, Geltmore LLC.
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Campbellsville Middle School students are talking about bullying and why it's important to be kind to everyone.
CMS Guidance Counselor Beth Wiedewitsch recently met with students to talk about what bullying is and why it isn't tolerated at CMS.
Students discussed the school's policy on bullying, which says it won't be tolerated at school and outlines the consequences should it happen.
Wiedewitsch told students that bullying can refer to name calling, hitting, threats, posting inappropriate comments online and much more.
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This Los Angeles-based band invigorates the soul of the klezmer genre without adding any extraneous modern elements to it. The band appeared in the recent Vince Vaughn/Owen Wilson hit comedy Wedding Crashers, and their version of "Hava Nagila" was included on the film's soundtrack. On this disc, they run through a catalog of high-spirited party favorites that will provide diehard klezmer fans and relative newcomers alike with plenty of foot-tapping moments. Particular attention should be paid to the "Waltz Medley," which blends four traditional songs, linking them with a manic3/4 beat, and "Zemer Atik," an energetic track, recorded in one take, that encourages the listener to get up and dance. On the other hand, the band has also recorded the beautiful and touching "Ofyn Pripetshik," a song that became an anthem for the Jewish survivors of WWII and which, according to the album's liner notes, is "a cry for understanding and respect."
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This is something I've wanted to write about for a long time, and now that I have a record player I can finally do it!
I ordered this vinyl along with some other goodies on December 26th and received my package on December 30. I don't think I've ever been so inpatient in my life.
The 2LP 180 gram white vinyl come packaged in a gatefold jacket along with an insert that features photos of the guys and the Air For Free primary color dots, and a digital download card.
|Front and Back
|180 gram 2LP vinyl
|Inside Notes
|Front and Back of the Insert
The track listing is different than the CD, and is as follows:
Side A:
Local Construction
Side B:
Mrs. Hippopotamuses
Elephant Parade
Side C:
Air For Free
Empty House
Side D:
Matt Hoopes said a lot of time was spent sequencing the vinyl album. Songs on each side are specifically grouped to give the album a nice flow and allow for quick listening sessions. Personally, this is one of my favorite features of the album. It almost reminds me of how Forget and Not Slow Down goes from one track to another with connecting intros/outros. It all just clicks and works.
As for the tracks that really stood out upon the initial listening, all I really want to talk about Empty House.
Empty House was one of the tracks that really hit me. Hearing any song or album on vinyl is an experience in an of itself, but with a song like Empty House? For me it was like no other. I've heard the song numerous times, and it's one of my favorites, but the first time hearing it on vinyl reduced me to tears. The simple piano track paired with the autotuned vocals just convey this feeling that's like no other. It's a truly moving song, even though I still don't have a clue as to what's sung in half of the first verse.
In the end I just want to say this is an amazing album. Each song is of the highest quality and they all sound spectacular on vinyl. If you haven't listened to it yet, please do! And for those of you who haven't bought the vinyl but want to hear it in the same sequencing as the vinyl, check out Relient K's Spotify playlist here.
Hope you guys have a great New Year's. See you then!
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She's a nice person.
She has a common face.
Her lips are painted magnolia, cheeks rouged pink.
Her hair is pulled back, dyed straw blonde and blown straight.
A smile is affixed to her face, quaking as if drawn by a child's finger.
She looks towards the door of the subway car, her mask tight.
She's resentful because she's had no voice.
She was whistled at when she was young and ignored now that she's old.
She's been yelled at by men for driving too aggressively and honked at for going too slow.
Her boss eats the lunch his wife packed and interrupts her to say she should use fewer words.
Her friends make recriminations over the mommy at soccer practice who brought cupcakes instead of healthy snacks.
Her own kids don't know who she really is.
Her husband treats her like furniture.
And she can't stand it.
But what is she to do?
She doesn't want to be a Bitch or Slut.
She's a Mother.
She's a nice person.
She clutches her black purse and jacket,
staring into space,
her lips a slash of purple skin.
Her Half-Life
She's a nice person.


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Do you like to SLEEP IN?
At LifeQuest Church we are continuing to grow and change how we do what we do to be as effective as possible. After much prayer, surveying the Belton Campus & looking at how we can better reach more and more people for Jesus we have decided to add a third worship experience to the Belton Campus.
Starting March 24, 2013 we will launch a Sunday Night worship experience at 6pm.
Why Sunday nights?
We have surveyed the Belton campus and looked at the NEED of those who don't attend church. One clear observation is that many people have to work on Sunday mornings. Most of us are Thankful for the servers at restaurants when we go for lunch. What you might not consider is this: for them to work on Sunday means if they want to be a part of exploring faith or a local church they are inhibited.
SO we are kicking off a Sunday night worship experience to reach those people. Firemen, police, nurses, service industry employee's such as restaurants, Starbucks, groceries stores, gas stations etc.
People have asked if Sunday Night will be different or the same as Sunday Morning? The answer is both, it will be the same great music, sermon and time to worship Jesus as well as an extra worship tune.
KidzQuest will be the same except with a twist. It will be KidzQuest at the movies where kids will learn about Jesus through video and live teaching.
Mark your calendars for March 24th 6PM at LifeQuest Church Belton Campus!!!!
Hope to see you there. Also if you can facebook or tweet this, here's a line you might want to use:
Like to sleep in on Sundays or flat out have to work? @lifequestchurch is starting a Sunday Night worship experience on March 24th @ 6pm. www.lifequestchurch.tv


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It's time to get beyond the Web 2.0 windows dressing and truly change what your company is about if you want to succeed using these new approaches to communicating. Web 2.0 is not about having corporate accounts on Facebook, Friendfeed, Twitter or any number of other social networks. It is however all about listening and committing to create a more interactive dialogue with prospects and customers. It's also about changing how your company uses content and makes it accessible too.
I'm far from being any kind of social media expert, but if you hang out on Twitter, Facebook or any of these social networking applications you can see what does and doesn't work.
And what prompted me to write this post is that the gulf is growing fast between companies who are really embracing Web 2.0 concepts of humility and listening versus those that blare their messages to the world. I'm offering up a few lessons learned on how to make your website and company to speak Web 2.0 as a result. Tim O'Reilly's description of What is Web 2.0? is worth checking out as well.
Lesson 1: Your Website Needs To Tell It Like It Is
It is astounding how company websites are enmeshed in jargon-filled descriptions that really don't say anything. Amplified over Web 2.0-based communications channels, they become even more garbled and unintelligible. David Meerman Scott has an excellent, must-read blog post on this subject, World-Class, Cutting-Edge Gobbledygook. Go read it now. It succinctly captures why so many companies struggle to get leads over their websites. No one can tell what they do! Mr. Scott offers up examples that defy explanation of just what business the company is in. As a result when these companies get their Facebook, Friendfeed, and Twitter accounts and start pushing their message to the world no one cares. Why? No one can tell what business they are in. Before jumping into the Web 2.0 pool make sure anyone can figure out just what business your company is in by looking at your website. A friend calls this the "mother in law" test.
Lesson 2: On Social Networks, Responsiveness is King, Follower Counts Aren't
One of the aspects of social networks that make them so alluring to both companies and people is the real-time feedback of followers or friends. Lately on Twitter and in the blogosphere in general debates have raged on about follower counts connoting higher relevancy of one person over another, which is ridiculous.
One wonders if Albert Einstein was on Twitter with less than 100 followers would his genius have been discounted? It might have been. Just as follower counts are irrelevant to someone's influence in the real world, so it is for companies as well. Don't waste time worrying about your follower count. Worry about being responsive and getting customers' problems solved. Worry about being honest and worthy of trust as a company. Worry about being real. And most of all worry about what you don't know and what social networks can teach your company about how your customers are changing. Responsiveness truly is King, and figuring out where your customers are going is far more important than just looking at Web 2.0 technologies as the latest marketing communications channel.
Lesson 3: Your Company Needs To Have Skin In The Game
Realizing that opening up the communications channels with existing customers and potential future ones using blogs, Wikis, social networking sites including Friendfeed, Facebook, Twitter and all the rest will require your company to change too. Don't sign up for all these social networking sites unless your company has a mandate for change already – because earning a reputation for responsiveness is so much more important than just using these new mediums for self-promotion. If the greatest and most positive aspects of social networking and Web 2.0 are going to lead to lasting change in your company, then get a mandate for change. The bottom line is that companies who are making social networking work have significant skin in the game and show their commitment to responsiveness by changing process, policies and procedures to better serve their customers and earn new ones.
Lesson 4: Social Networking Is For People Not Corporate Logos
The proliferation of faceless corporate accounts on many of these social networking sites is understandable yet is the essence of the gulf I've seen growing on Twitter for example emanates from this practice. Comparing the Twitter account @comcastcares who is Frank Eliason, Director of Digital Care for example versus any of the legions of companies who have accounts that are not staffed by anyone illustrates this point. If you set up a Twitter account in your company be sure to have a specific person or team of people mentioned, as Dell does. The bottom line is that social networking is about people connecting with each other, not with corporate logos. David Meerman Scott reflects on this development in his blog post Attention Marketers: Time to stop abusing Twitter.
Closing Thoughts
Teaching your website and company to speak Web 2.0 is not all about rushing out to get corporate accounts on every social networking site you can find. It is about the following however:
- When in doubt keep the jargon and techno babble out of all Web copy. Simplify and tell it like it is, don't obfuscate who or what your company is. Simplicity is the new black.
- Producing content on a regular basis is much more important than getting a given page perfect that will stand the test of time. Streamlining how content gets updated on your website is so much more important than getting a corporate account on yet another social networking site.
- Link like you mean it. Too often links on site go dead after re-designed and never get fixed, yet this is one of the most critical areas of serving others with content. Resolve to fix these links and get your entire site audited for navigation now.
- RSS feeds need to be in place before any site goes live. RSS readers are slowing replacing CNN.com, FoxNews.com and other traditional news sites as are social networks. Get your content entirely compatible with RSS so it can be quickly and globally shared.
Bottom line: Web 2.0 is all about service to your customers and others interested in your company's expertise and knowledge. Serving with a genuine and transparent interest in enriching them and others is truly what matters. Don't be deluded by follower counts and all the rest; it just will distract you and your company from what matters most: serving and enriching others and learning more yourself.


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Three blind mice, three blind mice,
See how they run, see how they run;
They all ran after the farmer's wife,
Who cut off their tails with a carving knife;
Did you ever see such a thing in your life,
As three blind mice?
Some historians believe the origin of the words to 'Three Blind Mice' lie with the English queen Mary I (1516–58), known as Bloody Mary because of the hundreds of religious dissenters she had burned at the stake. Mary was the only child of Henry VIII and his first wife, the Spanish princess Catherine of Aragon.
Henry had initially doted upon Mary and boasted about her publicly, even breaking royal protocol by giving her the title of Princess of Wales, a prerogative usually reserved for the male firstborn, but all this changed when Catherine failed to produce a male heir, leading to events that marked a major watershed in English history
It all began when Henry attempted to dissolve his marriage to Mary's mother, on the grounds Catherine had previously been briefly married, as a sixteen-year-old, to his elder brother Arthur, who then died only a few days later.
In his desperation for a divorce and a male heir, Henry tried to show God was on his side by citing passages from the Bible: 'If a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing; he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness and they shall remain childless' (Leviticus 20:21).
When Pope Clement VII refused his request, Henry broke English links with the Catholic Church and declared himself head of the newly reformed Church of England. He then promptly married Anne Boleyn, who was to prove no more successful at producing a male heir than her predecessor.
As a result of the divorce, Catherine lost the title of queen and Mary was declared illegitimate, demoted from 'princess' to 'lady' and losing her position at court – earning the nickname, according to some, of the Farmer's Wife.
Although this is more likely to be a reference to the vast estates she would own as wife of King Philip of Spain. For Thomas Cranmer, the man who eventually sanctioned Henry's second marriage, there would be dire consequences.
Meanwhile Henry began confiscating land from the Catholics and dissolving the monasteries. During his brief reign, Henry's son Edward VI (1537–53) took things much further and started hunting down and executing Catholic priests.
The three religious leaders supporting Edward during this time were the bishops Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley and the ever-loyal Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, architect of Henry VIII's English Reformation.
Openly Catholic, Mary was seen as a real danger to newly Protestant England and the policies set in motion by these three were openly unfriendly: in effect, They all ran after the farmer's wife.
Unluckily for them, Edward only lasted six years. When Mary I finally ascended the throne in 1553, the bitter queen immediately set about restoring the Catholic faith as the religion of England and the real blood-letting began. Over eight hundred wealthy Protestants fled the country and nearly three hundred were burned at the stake in what became known as the Marian Persecutions.
The most high-profile of these victims, later remembered as the 'Oxford Martyrs', were Latimer, Ridley and Cranmer, who were tortured, some stories say blinded, (the three blind mice) and then burned at the stake in central Oxford in front of hundreds of shocked spectators (she cut off their tails with a carving knife / Did you ever see such a thing in your life).
Another, less convincing theory is that three blind commoners, Joan Waste, John Aprice and an unspecified third, defied Queen Mary's ban on reading the Bible in English and between them paid for a copy to have it read to them in public, as a result of which they were also burned at the stake.
The first written version of 'Three Blind Mice' was published between 1609 and 1611 by Thomas Ravenscroft (1582–1635), whose booklets Pammelia (1609), Deuteromelia (1609) and Melismata (1611) brought together a collection of street songs, ballads, poems and children's songs that included 'Three Blind Mice', although with slightly different lyrics to the ones we know so well today:
Three Blinde Mice,
Three Blinde Mice,
Dame Iulian,
Dame Iulian,
The Miller and his merry olde Wife,
She scrapte her tripe licke thou the knife,
The Three Blinde Mice.
Publishing the poem only fifty years after Queen Mary's Persecutions, Ravenscroft, a noted scholar, composer and musician, could have been recording a well-known rhyme of its day or, as some believe, may even have composed it himself.
While authorship of the rhyme is a matter of dispute, what is generally accepted is that 'Three Blind Mice' refers to the brutal slaying of the three bishops ('she scraped off the entrails and licked the knife', to translate line 6) opposed to Queen Mary's religious reforms, one of whom had made the mistake of dissolving her mother's marriage to King Henry VIII and reducing her status from princess to commoner.
And that meant that from the moment she became queen, Thomas Cranmer must have known his days were numbered.
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We are still a couple of months out before Edge of Tomorrow hits, so to pass the time, Warner Bros. has ushered in a brand new poster and we have that sucker for you guys to check out below.
The film stars Tom Cruise, Bill Paxton, Charlotte Riley, Dragomir Mrsic, Emily Blunt, Franz Drameh, Jonas Armstrong, Kick Gurry, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, and Tony Way.
Synopsis: Lt. Col. Bill Cage (Cruise) is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and then dropped into combat. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an alpha alien down with him. But he awakens back at the beginning of the same day and is forced to fight and die again…and again – as physical contact with the alien has thrown him into a time loop.
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Sunday, September 30, 2012
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To celebrate the fact that I've (finally) finished cleaning my house, after hours and hours and hours of cleaning, I'm going to have a sale in my Etsy shop! Not my jewelry Etsy shop, but my ANTIQUES Etsy shop! Here's the link: www.kathybarrick.etsy.com.
Blogger is being very difficult today, so I'm not going to be able to space this out as I normally would.
Anyway, all you need to do is insert the coupon code "October2012" when you check out and Etsy will instantly deduct 25 percent from the purchase price. Yay!
There are samplers, and jewelry supplies, and antiques!
So celebrate with me! And have fun!
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- fanciful devices said...
congrats on yr house- this is such a beautiful sampler.
- October 12, 2012 at 1:19 PM
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Tween Tutu Crayon Dress Costume
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- 100% polyester interlock knit & tulle fabrics
- Pullover tank bodice of gold interlock has self-fabric waist ties
- Bodice front printed to resemble a Crayola box
- Overlay of vertical strips of multicolored tulle on dropped-waist skirt
- Plastic headband has tulle coronet behind printed fabric
- Also available in child & adult sizes
That's great that you support your little Picasso by hanging up her pictures, however, may we suggest another way to encourage your little one to keep up the good work? Help them become one with their artistic tools so that the wonderful images they have in their minds may flow out onto the pages with ease. This Tween Tutu Crayon Dress will bring your kiddo back to her artistic roots. Everyone had to start somewhere and for many of us it was with a simple 8 pack of Crayola coloring crayons. When your mini Michelangelo throws on this costume she will be as colorful as her own art and feel reborn as inspiration for her next masterpiece begins to fill her head. Will she go with a post-impressionism or realism style? Perhaps she will use some more abstract techniques found in fauvism and expressionism!
There are so many different directions to go when you're an artist but you can help her come to a final decision! Grab this crayon dress for her and she will be able to find her center. Once she has found her inner peace she will find her muse and will know exactly how to express her feelings through her art using the perfect style. Just a heads up, you may need to buy a new fridge to hang her latest works!
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Hidden Valley Trail Hiking – Moab Utah
Hidden Valley Trail Hiking – Moab, Utah >>>
Trailhead Location: Drive 3 miles south from Moab on U.S. 191 and turn right onto Angel Rock Road. After two blocks, turn right onto Rimrock Road and drive to parking area.
Length of Hike: 2 miles to pass at north end of Hidden Valley; allow 3 hours round trip.
Type of Hike: Constructed trail.
Area Attractions: Access route to Hidden Valley and Behind the Rocks, good views of the Moab Valley and Behind the Rocks. Trail connects with the southern end of the Moab Rim four-wheel-drive trail.
Route Description: From the parking area, follow the trail up to the base of the Moab Rim and then ascend a series of steep switchbacks. At the top of the switchbacks, the trail heads north and enters Hidden Valley, which is a broad shelf between the top of the Moab Rim and Spanish Valley. Follow the trail to a low rise that separates the two halves of Hidden Valley and continue along through the northern section to a point where the trail swings to the left and goes over a low pass. At the pass, the hiker will be rewarded with a view of the large sandstone fins of the Behind the Rocks area. The trail continues down the west side of the pass for about 1/3 mile where it meets the Moab Rim four-wheel-drive trail. The hike may be extended to the Colorado River by following the Moab Rim four-wheel-drive trail to its starting point.
Note: During the late afternoon, in the summer, this trail is largely in the shade of higher cliffs. Although the Hidden Valley Trail is non-motorized, mountain bikes may sometimes be seen on it.


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Here's a fun one for a rainy, dreary Monday (at least, here in New England it is): Go to Google Maps, and type in "get directions" from New York to London. Skip to #23 for a good laugh. Nice to know Google maps has a sense of humor! (Many thanks to the the MeCo listserv for this one—made my day!)
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SYSTEM ToolsSiSoftware has announced the availability of SiSoftware Sandra 2008, the latest version of its award-winning utility which includes remote analysis, benchmarking and diagnostic features for PCs, servers, PDAs1, Smart Phones1, small office/home office (SOHO) networks and enterprise networks.
SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility. It should provide most of the information (including undocumented) you need to know about your hardware, software and other devices whether hardware or software. It works along the lines of other Windows utilities, however it tries to go beyond them and show you more of what's really going on. Giving the user the ability to draw comparisons at both a high and low-level. You can get information about the CPU, chipset, video adapter, ports, printers, sound card, memory, network, Windows internals, AGP, PCI, PCI-X, PCIe (PCI Express), database, USB, USB2, 1394/Firewire, etc.
Native ports for all major operating systems are available:
* Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista*, Longhorn* (x86)
* Windows x64 Edition XP/2003/Vista*/Longhorn* (AMD64/EM64T)
* Windows 64-bit Edition 2003/Longhorn* (IA64)
* Windows Mobile 2003/2003SE (ARM CE 4.20)
* Windows Mobile 5 (ARM CE 5.01)
* Windows Mobile 6 (ARM CE 5.02)
All major technologies are supported and taken advantage of:
* SMP - Multi-Processor
* MC - Multi-Core
* SMT/HT - Hyper-Threading
* MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3 - Multi-Media instructions
* Wireless MMX - Mobile multi-media instructions
* NUMA - Non-Uniform Memory Access
* AMD64/EM64T/x64 - 64-bit extensions to x86
* IA64 - Intel* Itanium 64-bit
London, UK, September 1st 2008 - We are pleased to launch SiSoftware Sandra 2009, the latest version of our award-winning utility, which includes remote analysis, benchmarking and diagnostic features for PCs, servers and networks.
SiSoftware Sandra 2009 Released: Graphics and GPGPU Support: London, UK, September 1st 2008 - We are pleased to launch SiSoftware Sandra 2009, the latest version of our award-winning utility, which includes remote analysis, benchmarking and diagnostic features for PCs, servers and networks.
This version introduces additional support in the graphics performance space. Not only including support for DirectX (9/10), SiSoftware has added two GPGPU (General Purpose Graphics Processing Unit) benchmarks, that focus on this new computing processing space. This version adds dedicated benchmarks that measure cryptographic performance.
At SiSoftware from version to version we focus four key areas of software development to make sure we give our users the best software experience. Quite simply our four drivers are:
1. Inclusion of new technologies that ensure our tools remain current.
2. Increased hardware and software support for existing modules.
3. Improving the user interface to make it a richer easier user experience.
4. Filling gaps in the product line in response to our customers' needs.
Looking at these in more detail:
1. This version introduces additional support in the graphics performance space. Not only including support for DirectX (9/10), SiSoftware has added two GPGPU (General Purpose Graphics Processing Unit) benchmarks, that focus on this new computing processing space. Please see the GPGPU Press Release.
Cryptography has become an important part of our digital life: it allows us to conduct safe transactions online, certify programs and services, keep our data secure and much more. This version adds dedicated benchmarks that measure cryptographic performance. Please see the Crypto Press Release.
2. Since last year much new hardware has been released and the SiSoftware team continue to work on including support for new hardware and software in the latest version.
3. Our feedback has told us that you all have your favourite modules, the tests you are interested in the ones you run daily or weekly, well now we offer the ability to use the favourites tab in the software to organise the tools you use better. We have also further improved the interface to add headings to make it clearer to see the module groups.
4. Responding to customers' needs to have a rapid portable version of Sandra that does not need installing and can just as easily run from CD, we introduce Sandra Engineer PLUS, offering the same operating system support as Sandra Engineer, just this version supplied on a credit card style mini-CD that can live in your pocket or wallet, does not require installation to aid the technician access to a wealth of information in the tried and tested Sandra format.
With each release, we add new support and compatibility for the latest hardware, architectures and operating systems, and this is no exception. SiSoftware continues to work with hardware vendors to ensure the best support for new emerging hardware.
New modules:
* Graphics (GPGPU) Processing: Benchmark the graphics performance of the graphics processors (GPGPUs). Such operations are used by specialised software, e.g. scientific software, image manipulation, video decoders/encoders, games that make GPU performance pretty important.
* Graphics (GPGPU) Bandwidth: Benchmark the bandwidth of the memory of the graphics processors (GPGPUs) and the bandwidth of the bus that connects them to your computer. The speed at which the data can be sent to the GPGPUs, internally processed and the results sent back is as important as the processing power of the GPGPUs.
* Video (GFX) Rendering: Benchmark the graphics performance of the video adapters (GFXs). Shows how your graphics processors handle rendering in comparison to other typical graphics processors. Such operations are used by all graphics software, image manipulation, video decoders/encoders, games and modern operating systems.
* Video (GFX) Memory: Benchmark the bandwidth of the memory of the video adapters (GFXs) and the bandwidth of the bus that connects them to your computer.
* Cryptographic Performance: Benchmark the cryptographic performance of modern processors that support hardware cryptographic engines. The most common algorithms, AES (AES128, AES256) for encryption/decryption and SHA (SHA1, SHA256) for hashing are supported.
Key features:
* 4 native architectures support (x86, x64/AMD64/EM64T, IA64/Itanium2, ARM).
* 2 native GPGPU platforms support (AMD CTM/STREAM1, nVidia CUDA1, future Intel).
* 3 native Graphics platforms support (DirectX 9, DirectX 10/10.1).
* 23 established benchmarking modules, 4 new to this version.
* Huge official hardware support through technology partners (Intel, AMD/ATI, SiS, VIA).
* 7 charting options: combined, components, performance vs. speed/power/cost, capacity vs. power/cost charts.
* 6 language versions (English, German, French, Italian, Russian, Chinese) in a single installer.
* Enhanced Sandra Lite version (free for personal/educational use)


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Things are well, I continue to lose a little weight here and there and my pulmonary function test is officially in the low 70's. Something I haven't seen since I first got sick over 3.5 years ago! I'm so fortunate to have the amazing medical team that I do. Whatever they are doing... its working. For the first time in 4 years, my husband and I are making plans, checking those plans off the list one by one.
So... some amazing things have happened since my last blog post. The firs tone being I got to spend Thanksgiving with my amazing nieces and my grandparents in Virginia. Oh...and I didn't freak out about flying either. :) My grandfather (Dooda as we refer to him) turned 90.
Chris and I Thanksgiving Day
I always say nieces give the best hugs.
My beautiful grandmother (Mamom) 89 years old.
Keegan and I playing
Laughter with my lil Mia
Brant (my brother), Kelly (my sister-in-law), Me, Chris, Keegan, Mom, Dad and Mia
Us "kids" with my grandparents
An arrival came early for Christmas as well for our family. Introducing our nephew, Parker Samuel Allen. Born December 21st.
He looks just like his daddy and older sister Keegan
Great big sisters!!!! :)Can't wait to meet him in March.
Christmas was spent in MN, and my parents came. Which was great as I had infusions fall right around them and those still make me tired!
Other than that... I've been doing some house projects and attempting to exercise daily. I still have my struggles and the aches and pains are a daily occurrence, but I'm so grateful to be somewhat "healthy."
Promise to not go so long between blog posts! But in the case of me and how I've worked this blog... no news is usually good news! :) Cheers!


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We were a little late starting to organise the event this year, due to the takeover from Lions but nonetheless, with huge amounts of help from all involved, we managed to achieve an impressive event, which will only get bigger and better next year.
We were not blessed with good weather for the day but luckily canoeists and kayakers are a hardy mob and saw this no reason to cancel the race. They were going to get wet anyway, they reasoned, so why not get wet before the race started?
Quite a few of them paddled over from the mainland but found it hard going arriving at low tide and having to wade through thigh-deep mud, carrying their canoe ... we hadn't mentioned the mud!
But they were happy to be offered hot tea or coffee and take advantage of our kitchen where they could select a sausage, bacon and egg burger or a hamburger.
Soon things started to warm up ... Mark Priestley from Canoeing Queensland was on hand to help as was Digby and Ian from Wynnum Canoeing Club. Without their expertise in this area, we would not have been able to conduct the Race in such a professional manner, nor would we have attracted the calibre of contestents.Soon it was time for briefings and the contestents stood in the pouring rain, patiently listening to Mark and Digby explaining the route around the island to them.
Mayor Melba Hobson was on hand to welcome the participants and was a great sport, even getting herself slightly bogged on the beach in the wet sand, whilst cheering on competitors.
Here she is with Commodore Barry and other sponsors. (Did I mention Redland Council was a Gold Sponsor of the event??)
A fly past just before the start ... how did that happen?
Time to get those canoes into the water ..... carry them through the mud ...
While race favourite Ben Allen taped up a hole in his canoe (and tried to rub Jocelyn's phone number off his arm)
Our new sign ...
Two young canoeists practicing for 2030 perhaps?
And when it was all over, back to the Clubhouse for a few beers, some much-needed food and the presentations. Congratulations to Martin Harberland who came first, John Docray who was second and Ben Allen who came third. Denise Drury was the first female, followed by Sally Clark and Chris Gissing.
Our own Gail Day and Mike Papalardo won the Fun Event whilst Norm Black won the major prize in the raffle.


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No more black clouds: Sustainable farming in Upper Egypt
After every harvest season, the air turns murky and grey in Egypt. This 'black cloud' has become a major concern of the government and the general public for its negative impact on people's health and the environment. Burning agricultural waste has been found to be one of the main causes of this harmful pollution. Many farmers have been burning leftover straws for ages, not knowing the proper ways to dispose and/or recycle them and believing that it is actually beneficial to burn them for farming. However, this is far from true.
Studies have shown that agricultural burning leads to decreasing the organic matter of the soil and to releasing smoke that pollutes the environment and is a hazard to people's health. Despite knowing its negative effects, tackling crop burning has been difficult as it has become a traditional practice by many farmers in Egypt.
- ENID implements an innovative crop residue recycling pilot project in 3 districts of Qena to stop agricultural burning, which is harmful to both people's health and the environment.
- With support from ENID, crop recycling has become one of the extension services provided by the local government in Qena and has plans to be widely disseminated throughout the governorate.
- Through its sustainable agricultural activities including crop recycling, ENID has trained 1,758 people and created new employment opportunities across 20 villages in Qena.
Putting this into perspective, the Egypt Network for Integrated Development (ENID) project, which is a joint initiative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Ministry of International Cooperation, is working to change these unsustainable agricultural practices in Upper Egypt by engaging directly with the farmers and introducing new solutions.
In order to address the issue of agricultural residue burning, ENID partnered with the national Agriculture Research Centre to identify the optimal method of recycling in Upper Egypt. The project involved the farmers themselves in the interactive training and piloting processes in Qena to directly demonstrate the benefits of the new practice and the nutritious and potential economic values of the wasted straws.
In 2014, ENID has started crop recycling pilot project in 2 districts of Deshna and Farshout in Qena with support from the Sawiris Foundation for Social Development and is currently expanding its operations to Abu Teshet district with support from the UNDP New World Project funded by The Coca-Cola Foundation.
"I was burning the corn stalks before. But in this season, I produced six tons of feed-silage through ENID's training, which saved me a lot of money for feed. I am planning to continue this process again next season." Said Mahmood Soliman, a farmer in Abu Manaa Qebli village of Qena.
Today, the situation is changing in Qena. The project has helped to not only stop the hazardous practice of agricultural burning, but also provide farmers with new job and income opportunities from the production of compost and feed.
Seeing the economic and environmental benefits, many local farmers have widely embraced the new practice and are requesting further expansion. ENID has engaged early on with the local agricultural authorities to ensure that the practice is sustained and further scaled up to meet this growing demand.
"The crop recycling project has received more interest from the small farmers than expected, so we had to accept more people in the recent training sessions. In the future, we are aiming to scale up our recycling model in Qena with the support of the Ministry of Agriculture." Said Dr. Dyaa Abdou, the director of ENID's sustainable agriculture programme.
In additional to crop recycling, ENID has introduced ten other innovative and sustainable farming practices to Upper Egypt including community dairy processing, backyard safe poultry raising, rooftop gardening, integrated fish farms and farmer field schools. Through these activities, the sustainable agricultural programme of ENID has trained some 1,758 people and created new employment opportunities across 20 villages in Qena. These initiatives are gradually but surely leading to positive changes in the beliefs and behaviours of farmers in the region.
ENID is a project applying an area-based integrated development approach in Upper Egypt with activities in the area of income generation, food security, basic services and policy research. The project has received generous financial support from the UK Department for International Development, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, Sawiris Foundation for Social Development, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, The Coca-Cola Foundation (via the UNDP New World Project), the Ministry of International Cooperation and UN Women.


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Hi there!
Maybe you're here because you read the Boston Phoenix! Welcome. Here's an introduction to my mostly personal blog.
- My original juggalo blog post is HERE.
- My Chicago lecture on ICP is HERE.
- Boston Phoenix article is HERE.
- You can contact me via email at (juggaloresearch at the gmail dot commz) or @jennybento on twitter
- I will soon (next month?) be speaking in Boston about this! If you are interested in me speaking at your function, email me!
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Produced on the slopes of the Sesean Mountain range which dissects north central Toraja in southern Sulawesi. The cherry on the eastern slope comes down through the market town in Minanga, and those grown on the western slope come down through the market town of Sapan.
Cherries collected here represent some of the highest altitude coffee in Sulawesi, above 1,300 meters and up to 2,000m (extremely high for Indonesia). As a result, these are the most sought after and highest priced beans in Sulawesi.
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A Truth Journal: FYI, Spring Fever At Our House! 6 Funny Links Too
A Truth Journal: FYI, Spring Fever At Our House! 6 Funny Links Too: From Denny: Yeah, been enjoying Spring time here in Louisiana, along with the huge hanks of oak tree pollen falling at my feet. The weather has been almost like Hawaii lately: soft warm breezes. Soooo, have not been posting as much lately. Too busy being downright happily sloth like and getting Pollen Head at the same time. I'm sure you all understand. :) My heart goes out to all of you still stuck in snow weather and Snowquester. Should be posting tonight, if not tomorrow. Talk about Lazy Bones here... Throwing kisses out to you all - and thanks so much for your support on this and all my other crazy blogs!
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