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Smiley The Blind Therapy Dog
Smiley is a completely blind fifteen year old gorgeous golden retriever who makes everyone he meets smile.
We first met Smiley and his Mom Joanne over 4 years ago with our friends at Dog Guru. Several members of the team actually cried with happiness as we took the photo above and filmed his beautiful trademark smile. There is something truly special about him, even beyond his soft coat, lovely face and gentle nature. The world smiles with him.
We have featured Smiley in our Talent Hounds one hour documentary and in the Dogs Make a Difference TV episode, and now we will now be featuring him in a new TV special about how Kids and Dogs go well together.
Smiley's History- from Puppy Mill to Loving Family and Friends
Smiley was born in a puppy-mill, without eyes. He lived there for two miserable years before being adopted by his family thirteen years ago.
His Mom Joanne was working as a vet tech at the time. She was sent to the puppy-mill and she and her co-workers rescued Smiley. They tried to find him a home but no one wanted to adopt him. Joanne was convinced to care for him and decided to try to prove that blind dogs can do anything "normal" dogs can.
All dogs are born blind. For two weeks they rely on their mothers and their other senses as they start to see. Smiley's eyes never developed so he never got sight which may have been a consequence of dwarfism which also affected his appearance. His closed eyes, wide mouth and large teeth make him look like he is grinning happily. He looks to Joanne for help, but also uses his other senses like smell, hearing and touch. Dogs have extraordinary senses of smell and great hearing, much better than humans.
Smiley had infections when he came to live with Joanne and had to undergo a few procedures to lessen the pain. For any dog, adapting to a new environment can be hard, especially if they grew up in a puppy mill. Training Smiley to life in his new home was a challenge at first, as he was used to such a limited life in a cage. Even things like a phone ringing and grass were new. He went to work with her at the veterinary clinic. He could not be left home alone, was afraid to ride in a car, and was very withdrawn. Under Joanne's care, he gradually learned to overcome some of his fears. Joanne had another dog at the time, a Great Dane named Tyler, who helped a lot with Smiley's transition and teaching.
Smiley has been at Joanne's side for her key milestones like getting married and having her human son Shepherd. He has been the best friend, son and brother anyone could hope for.
Today his brothers, including older Border Collie Pip, boy Shepherd and most recently puppy Pal, have his back.
Our talented mutual friend Hero the Super Collie also has his back.
His newly adopted younger brother Pal is also blind. Joanne explained that they rescued Pal the puppy from Istanbul, sickly and without eyes, so they have been going through the challenges of a new home life again. They are learning how to best teach and socialize a dog with special needs as they did with Smiley. Smiley helps make sure Pal is cared for and not alone or lost.
We are very sad as Smiley is nearing the end of his journey – the vet just found masses on his stomach and liver. Our thoughts and love are with him and his family.
See Potential not Disabilities
Smiley does not let the fact that he is blind stop him from doing normal doggy things and more. Smiley never let his disability stand in his way and lives a very good active life. He runs and plays on their property and goes on lots of adventures with his family.
About a year ago, Joanne noticed that he was losing his hearing at bit, and now he relies on Joanne a little more. Smiley still hears well with kids though, because kids have higher pitched voices.
Why Smiley Makes Such a Good Therapy Dog
We are big believers in the physical and mental benefits of Therapy Dogs. There is such strong evidence that looking at an patting a dog can increase feelings of well being and reduce stress. Smiley is a St. John Ambulance therapy dog and he also visits schools for anti-bullying programs. Joanne explained that therapy dogs must be good with socializing and must be able to interact with strangers and children. They must have good manners with anyone. Smiley visits with children as well as the elderly so the environments and energy levels are different.
Smiley helps the kids because he connects with them. He helps them understand that it's OK to be different. He overcame challenges and they can as well, even if their challenge is something like doing math.
Joanne believes Smiley was bullied and bitten by other dogs at the Puppy Mill as he still has a few scars. Joanne says she tells the kids about Smiley's scars and blindness and uses that to relate to bullying and human abilities or differences. He is a wonderful role model. He doesn't judge and is there for them.
Smiley's New Book
Smiley has a book coming out which is a collection of pictures and short stories about his life. Other merchandise like bobble heads and T-shirts are occasionally available too, with revenue used for Pal and Smiley's vet bills and other expenses.
Follow Social Smiley
Smiley is extremely popular online. Smiley can be found on Instagram @smileytheblindtherapydog and Facebook at Smiley The Blind Therapy Dog. The many pictures posted and shared are a nice collection of all that he has overcome and done for others.

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Choose Cornish Awards launched
Cornwall Food & Drink, in partnership with Cornwall Chamber of Commerce, is proud to launch the Choose Cornish Awards. The awards will celebrate the businesses in the county who go to the greatest lengths to 'buy local' and make a real difference to the community and economy of Cornwall in doing so. This is a unique opportunity for those working in the catering, hospitality, tourism, service provider and retail sectors in Cornwall to be applauded for supporting fellow Cornish businesses. The Awards deadline is 12 July 2013 and shortlisted entries announced over summer. Winners will be revealed at the awards ceremony on Monday 23 September 2013.
Award Categories:
• Best Cornish Business Collaboration, sponsored by Cornwall Chamber of Commerce - Cornish businesses that can demonstrate, through a partnership, how they work together to achieve shared goals and mutual benefits that have made a real difference to the Choose Cornish Campaign.
• Choose Cornish Every Day Champion, sponsored by Cornwall College – a local retailer embracing the Choose Cornish philosophy and demonstrating a commitment to supporting local suppliers and encouraging customers to do the same.
• Real Cornish Breakfast Champion Award, sponsored by First Great Western – a business or chef who has gone the extra mile to ensure their breakfast exceeds expectations in quality, choice and service, whilst also championing local sourcing.
• Truly Cornish Café Trail Champion, sponsored by Cornish Mutual - Cafés that pride themselves on sourcing ingredients locally, with an emphasis on great food and service.
There will also be a Champion of Champions Award, sponsored by Cornish Mining World Heritage Site, in recognition of the business bringing about a real change in our relationship with local sourcing and embracing the Choose Cornish campaign to the fullest.
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Dermatomyofibroma (plaque-like dermal fibromatosis)
Are You Confident of the Diagnosis?
Dermatomyofibroma is a rare, benign, cutaneous neoplasm. Typically it presents as an indurated, plaque-like lesion on the shoulder girdle. Often the lesion will have been present for some time with slow growth. The prototypical patient is a young to middle-aged female; however, there have have been case reports of males and children with these lesions.
Characteristic findings on physical examination
On physical examination, a dermatomyofibroma most often presents as an indurated, firm dermal plaque or nodule with or without overlying epidermal hyperpigmentation. Often these lesions are more easily palpated than seen. Dermatomyofibroma are usually seen on the upper trunk, upper arm, axilla, or neck, and are typically small with a normal size of 1 to 2cm. Larger lesions have been reported.
Expected results of diagnostic studies
Because of its rarity, dermatomyofibroma usually requires biopsy for diagnostic confirmation. Histologically, dermatomyofibroma consists of a spindle cell proliferation that is arranged in well-defined, intersecting fascicles (
Figure 1.
Typically, specimens of dermatomyofibroma extend to the superficial subcutis and have been reported on occasion to extend into the deeper subcutis. The adnexal structures are usually spared.
Special staining of histologic specimens of dermatomyofibroma is most often useful to rule out other similarly presenting lesions, rather than rule in the diagnosis. Dermatomyofibroma stains negatively with desmin, h-caldesmon, S-100, and epithelial membrane antigen. These stains are helpful to differentiate other tumors that may be in the differential such as neurofibroma, desmoplastic spindle cell nevus, extraneural spindle cell perineurioma, and smooth muscle tumors. These lesions will stain only focally positive for actins or CD34.
There is little value in imaging studies or serologic tests in known cases of dermatomyofibroma.
Diagnosis confirmation
The differential diagnosis of dermatomyofibroma is broad and includes the following entities: connective tissue nevus, cutaneous myofibroma, dermatofiboma, dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans, desmoplastic spindle cell nevus, extraneural spindle cell perineurioma, fibrous hamartoma of infancy, hypertrophic scar, neurofibroma, pilar leiomyoma, smooth muscle tumors. Some of these entities will be distinguished by clinical history, presence at birth, recent trauma, etc; however, histologic diagnosis is paramount.
Who is at Risk for Developing this Disease?
Dermatomyofibroma typically occur in young to middle-aged females, with rare reports of lesions in children and males. Dermatomyofibroma are rare lesions in and of themselves. It has been theorized that dermatomyofibroma in male children may regress spontaneously after childhood more often than in females.
What is the Cause of the Disease?
The etiology of dermatomyofibroma is unknown, but it is described as a benign proliferation of fibroblasts and myofibroblasts.
Systemic Implications and Complications
Currently, there are no known systemic implications of dermatomyofibroma. These lesions are rare enough, however, that such a correlation would be very difficult to recognize.
Treatment Options
Treatment options for dermatomyofibroma are summarized in the
Table 1
|Medical Treatment
|Surgical Procedures
|Physical Modalities
|Excisional surgery
Optimal Therapeutic Approach for this Disease
- Reassurance and watchful waiting is the optimal treatment in the majority of cases.
- Lesions have been reported to self-resolve, more often in males after puberty.
- If treatment is desired, surgical excision is the only method of complete removal.
Patient Management
Explanation of the benign nature of these lesions is usually all that is required for patient care. Biopsy will usually be required for definitive diagnosis as dermatomyofibroma clinically presents with a broad differential diagnosis.
Unusual Clinical Scenarios to Consider in Patient Management
Given the vague clinical presentation of these lesions, biopsy is usually warranted for more definitive diagnosis. Once diagnosis is established, there are no special scenarios of which to be aware. These are rare neoplasms, but benign.
What is the Evidence?
Gilaberte, Y, Coscojuela, C, Doste, D, Vera, J, Requena, L. "Dermatomyofibroma in a male child". J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol. vol. 10. 2005. pp. 257-59.(Report of dermatomyofbroma in a male child.)
Hugel, H. "Plaque-like dermal fibromatosis/dermatomyofibroma". J Cutan Pathol. vol. 20. 1993. pp. 94.(A review of dermatomyofibroma.)
Kamino, H, Reddy, VB, Gero, M, Greco, MA. "Dermatomyofibroma. A benign cutaneous plaque-like proliferation of fibroblasts and myofibroblasts in young adults". J Cutan Pathol. vol. 19. 1992. pp. 85-93.(A review of dermatomyofibroma in young adults.)
Mentzel, T, Kutzner, H. "Dermatomyofibroma: clinicopathologic and immunohistochemical analysis of 56 cases and reappraisal of a rare and distinct cutaneous neoplasm". Am J Dermatopathol. vol. 31. 2009. pp. 44-9.(A case series of dermatomyofibromas.)
Mortimore, RJ, Whitehead, KJ. "Dermatomyofibroma: a report of two cases, one occurring in a child". Australas J Dermatol. vol. 42. 2001. pp. 22-5.(Case reports of dermatomyofibroma in childhood.)
Rose, C, Brocker, E. "Dermatomyofibroma: Case report and review". Pediatr Dermatol. vol. 16. 1999. pp. 456-9.(Case report and review of dermatomyofibroma.)
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The United Methodist Church of Venezuela - A Story of the Miracle of Grace
Unfortunately, these mission pioneers were killed in the ValuJet Crash in Miami on May 11, 1996 while returning from Venezeula. All of their records and contacts died with them. At least that is what we thought since no records were recovered from the crash scene.
However, by the grace of God, we received pictures from the Norcross team showing them at the work site in La Marita. These are the last pictures we have of these selfless servants and martyrs for the faith.
We had no names to pursue the relationship and our grief blinded us to so obvious options that were available to us. But God was still at work.
In 1997, Bishop Luis Palomo, Bishop of the Evangelical Methodist Church of Venezuela, contacted Warren Lathem telling him he had received inquiries from some pastors in Venezuela asking if he would help them get the Methodist work organized in their country. He said he would visit the pastors and then share with Warren his findings.
What he discovered was the pastors did not understand why there had been no follow up after the initial contact made in April and May of the previous year. They had not known the fate of those who had come to them from the US. As a result of this meeting, Bishop Palomo asked Warren if Mount Pisgah UMC would sponsor a Venezuelan national missionary living in the US. He would move his family to Venezuela and start the Evangelical Methodist Church of Venezuela. As a result of this request, Mount Pisgah provided all the cost for this pastor to move back to Venezuela, provided him with a car, a house and expenses.
At the missionary's invitation, Warren Lathem traveled to Venezuela for the first time in 1998. He was invited to preach an evangelistic crusade in Arcarigua, VZ, the city where the missionary lived. He was accompanied by Rev. Miguel Torres, a native of Maricaibo, VZ and the new Hispanic Minister at Mount Pisgah. While the crusade was effective in leading many people to faith in Christ, it was transformational for Warren Lathem. Additionally, Warren met Tito Santiago, dear friend and colleague in ministry now in Georgia. God broke Warren's heart for the people of Venezuela. In the early morning hours of solitude and prayer in Arcarigua at the mom and pop Posada (Bed and Breakfast), God birthed the vision of a training program for the pastors of Venezuela. This soon became the dream of starting what became the Seminario Wesleyan de Venezuela.
The next year Warren was invited to return to Arcarigua to conduct another evangelistic crusade. He was accompanied by his wife, Jane , Dan and Nancy Dunn, and lay members from Mount Pisgah, along with Rev. Miguel Torres. In was on this trip that God broke Dan Dunn's heart for missions, especially in Venezuela. This began a pilgrimage for the Dunn's that led to Dan being the co-founder of the Seminary and his own journey back to Seminary at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, KY where he finished his course work on a PhD. in Evangelism to enable him to teach in theological schools in Latin America and serve as Dean of Students at Seminario Wesleyano de Venezuela. He and Nancy now live in Venezuela where he serves as Dean of the Seminary while writing his PhD. Dissertation.
Subsequently, successive trips led to an Evangelistic Crusade in Barquisimeto with 10,000 in attendance, the beginning of construction of the Lugar Altissimo Church in memory of Ray Lathem and honor of Jared Lathem, and the inaugural session of the Seminary with Bishop Palomo and another professor teaching. (Never try to do that much in one week!)
The Seminary began its first session in rented space at the Assembly of God Bible Institute in Barquisimeto where it continued to meet for six years even though it had outgrown the space available. In subsequent years, many mission teams from Mount Pisgah returned to build relationships and churches. Many people were involved in these early stages, too many to mention.
Then trouble began to dawn. It became apparent to Dan and Warren that the relationship with the Missionary Mount Pisgah had been sponsoring was untenable. However, they did not want to injure the work of the pastors or seminary and did not know how to proceed. In the grace of God, some of the Methodist pastors asked to meet with Dan and Warren without the presence of the Missionary. At that meeting, they informed us that they could no longer work with this person due to serious problems, especially related to integrity and leadership. As this was resolved, the relationship with the missionary was terminated, most of the pastors and churches pulled out of the fledgling organization and began to work to form an new association. Warren and Dan traveled to Costa Rica to discuss this decision with Bishop Palomo and discovered he had independently reached the same conclusion.
Virgil and Jo Almond, members of Mount Pisgah, became our first US missionaries spending 3 months in Venezuela securing a house in Cabudare and looking for a potential permanent location for the seminary. After their time, they came back to the US, moved to Suches, GA and discovered their pastor was planning to go to a Latin American country as a missionary and they became the first long term United Methodist Missionaries to live in Venezuela before moving to the Seminary in Mexico.
They were soon followed by the second United Methodist missionary family who worked primarily with the Wesleyan Seminary of Venezuela. They continued to live in Venezuela until 2010 when they were reassigned to Mexico as well.
Then in August of 2005, the Bishop and Cabinet of the North Georgia Conference made an historic mission trip to Venezuela. This is the first time an entire US Cabinet had traveled to a foreign country on a mission trip. This was followed in January 2007 by Bishop Lindsey Davis returning to Venezuela to teach in the Seminary.
During the intervening years, several other United Methodist Churches began to work in Venezuela. The first one after Mount Pisgah was McEachern UMC in Marietta. Their long-term partnership with the congregation in Punto Fijo ( the church planted by uvenal Perez, the first Episcopal leader elected by the church in Venezuela) is a model for other churches. Rev. Donna Goff, Minister of Missions at McEachern and veteran missionary of Kenya, led this effort and also teaches in the Seminary along with the Senior Minister. Many other US churches have since developed partnerships with the church in Venezuela.
Work progressed in drafting a Discipline to form the new United Methodist Church of Venezuela. Many meetings were held with the pastors interested to being a part of this work. Now
It is Done! The United Methodist Church of Venezuela is Born!
The first conference of the United Methodist Church of Venezuela was called to order, Dr. Warren Lathem, presiding in the absence of a bishop present. Warren called the meeting to order.
Juvenal Perez, pastor of the Rey de Reys (King of Kings) United Methodist Church in Punto Fijo was elected. On the announcement of his election, the congregation erupted in applause and Bishop-elect Perez bowed his head as the weight of the episcopacy descended on him.
On Friday, March 10, 2010 Dan Dunn, David Cosby and Warren Lathem met with Bishop Juvenal Perez. He had some questions for us and we discussed at length issues such as ministerial ethics, church planting, Disciplinary fidelity, the 10% mission offering from each church for the work of the Conference, the role of the Seminary, Clergy accountability, statistical reports, planning and communication. It was a full agenda, but well worth the time since Obispo Perez is such a mature and devoted Christian evangelist and pastor with a teachable spirit and hunger for knowledge. He also serves as the UM pastor in Punto Fijo as well as having planted three other new congregations and assigned lay pastors to them.
United Methodist Camp in Puerto Ordaz
The Seminary has had tremendous impact on the pastors and churches in the Bolivar State. New churches, new Christians, and new pastors are just some of the results of this ministry in that state.
There followed a break for dinner and then the Conference gathered for a time of high worship at the Ondas de Pas UMC in Cabudare. This church has outgrown its former meeting place and is now renting space in the community of Aqua Viva.
The Seminario Wesleyano de Venezuela was the birthing room for this Conference of the United Methodist Church of Venezuela and continues to provide a critical link for the connection here among the United Methodist churches and pastors across all regions of this large country.


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The introduction of mobile phone apps has transformed the way business communicates with customers and local authorities engage with their communities. Enhancing personal mobility by using the latest technology is now an essential part of sustainable travel promotion. Find out more at the FREE CIVINET MobiWallet event on 24 November 2015 in Birmingham.
The day will focus on the use of mobile phone applications that seek to improve access to smarter choices. Speakers will include industry insiders who have developed successful applications, providing practical examples of how the technology has improved access to walking, cycling and public transport. The event will also include a presentation by a local authority in the UK which currently operates a successful programme using mobile technology.
Greg Smart from 500more.com, experts in behavior change and digital design - Using Mobile apps to encourage active travel
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Scott Davidson from Transport and Travel Research, a partner in the EU Mobiwallet project - Gamification and modal shift.
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Occasionally, I'll venture into thrift shops, visit garage sales, and browse flea markets. Not to seek out discarded fortunes, but to discover great treasures in illustration, photography, and design. These come in many forms, but mostly materialize as books, toys, and even records.
LPs or albums, as records were also known, had a major plus over all other forms of music media, which was the size of area available for cover imagery. Even though a large majority featured lackluster photography, gaudy colors, impossible-to-read fonts, and forgettable titles, some great gems were produced during the vinyl years.
Scanned and retouched for your viewing enjoyment, I present the first 3 finds...
Produced by Peter Rabbit Records / Arc Sound Ltd.
Walt Disney's Pinocchio © 1963 Walt Disney Productions
The Music Man © 1962 Warner Bros. Records, Inc.
Friday, May 13, 2005
Raiders of the Lost Archive - Vol. 1
Posted by Chad Kerychuk at 12:34 AM
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- Kristen McCabe said...
Those are lovely. Have you seen the Mary Poppins one? I found a picture of it on the net so the quality is kinda crappy.
(thanks for adding me to your link section)
- Chad Kerychuk said...
Thanks. A lot of the Disney ones, had some great artwork. I'm scanning in a few more now for the next posting.
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We just refinanced. And no, it wasn't a 10 point drop in interest rates, either. The secret to our savings is reducing the term of the mortgage. We went from a 15 year mortgage to a ten year mortgage. Our original mortgage would have cost us more than $46,000 is interest over the 15 year term. Our new mortgage will cost us less than $17,000. And the most amazing part of it is our payment will only go up about $150.
When I work with buyers, I am always amazed that they will fight till the bitter end and sometimes walk away from a purchase in which we are maybe two or three thousand dollars apart in price. But then they will get a 30 year mortgage with minimum down payment and end up paying the bank almost as much in interest as they pay the seller for the house.
I don't dislike banks. If the only house I could buy was one I could afford to pay cash for, well, I would not be a happy camper. And if I could only sell real estate to individuals that can afford to pay cash, I doubt I would sell very many houses. Banks are good and mortgages are great but we should only finance what is necessary. After all, I'd much rather see that $20,000 go towards my vacation than the vacation of some banker!
By the way, interest rates are extremely low, making it a very attractive time to either buy real estate or refinance. Don't hesitate to give me a call for more information. My office number is 756-7457.


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Monday, July 9, 2007
Americans are NOT stupid - WITH SUBTITLES
Watch this video on You Tube and find out what it's like to really hear and see what people "know" about other parts of the world. The places, people, countries, landmarks, leaders and even geographically where other places are. Not forgetting that they couldn't even pick out a country starting with the letter "U". Their own.
Bar advice. This is the people of the most powerful nation on the planet. God help us all if they were in the front lines.
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Spine Robot test
|Mark Pauline and a midnight oil burning night-shift crew got the Spine Robot going around 3am the night before the show at SRL HQ in Petaluma
Machines are walked out of the shop and onto the truck.
|Mark Pauline operates the Running Machine and Dual Mule into the staging area to be loaded on to the truck. John Roger's demonstrates how some of the tools can be used.
Liam and Rich's Stick Wheel robot built at the Shipyard
|Liam McNamara and Rich's Stick Wheel robot uses one of those cheap and durable "A computer for every child" laptops as a controller.
The Motoman is rigged with a baseball bat and fights Mark Pauline
|Geo Homsy makes a baseball bat gripper and attaches the bat to the robot, Karen Marcelo re-codes the Motoman with hostile baseball bat behavior, finally Mark Pauline fights the Motoman as a test of its strength
Making the Gripper for the Spine Robot
|Mark Pauline makes the gripper for the new Spine Robot using 'special' aluminum
The SRLification of an Industrial Robot Pt. II
|Temporary props are made for target practice
The SRLification of an Industrial Robot Pt. I
|Mark Pauline and Karen Marcelo SRL-ify a Motoman for the show. The robot was originally used in the movie Paycheck with Ben Affleck and for testing prosthetic elbow joints on cadaver arms.


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I have an scheduled appointment with one of my patient today. His father brought him a bit late than usual and requested me to deal with their son's carious teeth. Since this is my first time encountering him, I was surprised that the child had some sort of genetic disorder disease. No matter what the child had, it was my responsible to treat his case too.
I never heard of the disease and it did nothing to ring any of my bells because simply because I never learn it before. The child is 6 years-old, a happy-go-lucky boy but unfortunately suffered from a rare genetic disorder called Noonan Syndrome. This disease is not fatal and does not possesses any harm to the child himself. during the treatment, he seems to be not in any state of anxiety but as time goes by he get a bit tired and irritated, as in all case of children that attends the dental clinic.
I managed his carious front tooth for about half an hour and then before he left, I gave him some cookies and water for him and his siblings. Watching them left, I felt the warmness in their family. Although they may not be celebrating Christmas because they are Indian Muslim, I still think of how appropriate the timing for me to post this up. A family warmness during hard time or great time were shared among all others.
I may not be able to go back during this Christmas but I do hope those who are able to do so to really use the time to reflect on the year that we have just been through. 2008 is raising its curtain soon. So what have your year been? Good or bad are just part of it. Lets look forward for a brand new year.
Today I learnt a few thing:1) The warmness family relation is what it matters - it doesn't matter if one of them are less unfortunate than the others, the essential part is the familyhood itself. A family endures good and bad time together.
2) Noonan Syndrome is a relatively common genetic disorder which affects every 1 in 1000 to 2500 live births. It is regarded as a male version of Turner syndrome. he principal features include congenital heart malformation, short stature, learning problems, indentation of the chest, impaired blood clotting, and a characteristic configuration of facial features of webbed neck, wide spaced eye and low set ear. These kids are not asked to born in such a way...I really pity them!!


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May and June Have Come and GonePosted: June 30, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: wrapup 2 Comments
So we've been posting again at a pretty steady pace! If you missed it, here's what we wrote about the last two months. Apparently, we've been in the mood for wildlife.
– Jay's nature photos, let him show you them!
– What's thinking outside of the box compared to thinking outside of your scale?
– Parrots like their food rancid and nasty. (Emily's post incidentally caught a rather radical wave on Facebook!)
– Everything awesome you ever needed to know about those alien-looking Horseshoe Crabs.
– A colorful fireworks show courtesy of fireflies.
– Why a sustainable economy isn't automatically a sustainable ecology.
– What massive patience it takes to hunt for meteorites in the scalding sun.
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I arrived yesterday, late morning in Papeete. Luckness is anchored just north of Marina Taina, which is a few miles from downtown Papeete.
The sail from Fakarava was excellent. I motored to the north pass from the south, which was a little tedious, but I exited the north pass at 4:25pm, just around slack tide. Once out of the atoll I started sailing almost immediately in winds ranging from 18 to 28 knots, with the seas around 6 feet or so. I had the main deeply reefed and two reefs in the genoa and kept that combination for the entire way to Tahiti as the winds stayed in the mid 20s. Luckness was moving along nicely, and arrived just off of Point Venus, 230nm from Fakarava, in 35.5 hours. The average speed was 6.5 knots, about 155nm per day. Very nice.
I had planned to sail around the west side of Tahiti and to enter the pass close to the Marina, but just after Point Venus the winds became very fickle, dropping from the trades strength and direction into island influenced clocking weak winds. It went from 22 knots behind me to 6 knots ahead of me, then the side, then the other side within 30 minutes. I reduced sail and motored into Tahiti harbor, that was pretty sweet. From there, you actually have to cross over the runway twice as you motor around between the island and the fringing reef south to the marina. I called into VHF channel 12 asking permission of the Port Control to cross the runway, twice, and received it both times. That's a first for me, crossing a airport runway in a sailboat.
Anchoring here looks pretty easy, sand bottom, 45 feet of water with what looks like good holding and very little wind.
It seems there was a landslide or something a few days ago, and the island has been cut off from internet for a few days. It may be back tomorrow or the next day. Or the next, we'll see.
There are a few boats here I know, which is fun. I've also started to explore the immediate area around the marina. There is a smallish store here outside and to the right of the marina. It would have been the best store ever, if it was in the Marquesas or Tuamotus. Great selection, with veggies, eggs, lots of variety in all categories. However if you exit the marina and head left, there is a huge Carrefour which is a supermarket on steroids. Its better than a lot of the supermarkets in the states, although with a french slant on the products. Its going to be easy to provision here.
I'll head into downtown tomorrow, monday, and look around.
All is well. I'll upload photos when I get a chance.
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Posted by Craig McPheeters at 10:47 PM
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- AnonymousJune 2, 2014 at 5:26 PM
Holy cow! You have landed and crossed a run-way twice and I hadn't replied to the first posting! And Tahiti. So cool! Go for the local produce. No, I don't know, just a gut reaction. It'll be hard to resist French goodies! Sounds like a fair sailing with 6' waves! What do I know! except I love you, MumReplyDelete
Way to go, Craig! I'm enjoying your photos. I swam in that mini-lagoon at Fakarava! Such a beautiful motu. Love your stories.ReplyDelete
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"If you're born poor, it's not your mistake. But if you die poor, it's your mistake" – Bill Gates.
This saying of Mr. Gates always haunted me. I know few facts about me, which are difficult to modify. "I know I am Poor, I know my parents cannot afford a grand wedding for me, I know I am raised well not to find bad shortcuts to make quick money." "I also know that I am extremely CREATIVE."
Before reaching conclusion, let me draw my understanding of marriage. We all know marriage in our lives is a one-time thing (* excluding few immature, valid reasons). Marriage for me is an event which is part of my life and not a life in itself. By marriage, I mean as a celebration as I invite new lives in my life and get invited by others in their lives.
In the view of national interest I insisted myself to get married simple and invite everyone over a single lunch or dinner. Strong oppositions came from everyone in and around the family. Fact again, is I am weak to fight them. But, to cut down my parent's burden, I convinced everyone with my creativeness. Though opposition was constant, I had to execute the idea for my own reasons.
Alone I was sipping my chai at the office pantry and was a little blue thinking about my current situation. I am the only earner in my family and I have thousand things to pay at the month end which haunts me from month beginning. My parents were worried as their little girl was growing older and not getting settled with a companion. They were also worried about people talking ill about me as I was unmarried.
Suddenly my eyes struck into a hording outside which said "Artistic-I Performance hall Sponsors for your Artistic performances, all enthusiasts can register." Artistic- I is a new performance hall which is open down town and it was inviting performers for whom they provided hall for free as its promotion activity. I slipped into my creative basket and thought "Marriage = Performance, Me and others involved are the performers". Why can't I get my marriage sponsored??
This bug hit me so hard that I could not stop thinking about it day in and out. Finally, the day came where I was all set with the ingredients of marriage such as Groom (main ingredient) his family and mine. My parents accepted for all the preparations that had to be done for a marriage. Here I enter the war field and say "I have an Idea and I want you folks to accept it. This should be easy for you to accept as I have already spoken to the groom's side and they are okay with it. I throw a bomb and it's named as "My Sponsored Wedding"." My parents were cool enough as my in-laws gave a green signal to my idea.
I short-listed necessities for the marriage and searched for a potential sponsor who is new in the market.
- Marriage Hall- Mangal Mantap, is a new convention centre which is placed in a remote place of the city. The hall is very good but did not get exposed due to location constraint. I spoke to the owner and convinced him to Sponsor one wedding of mine which can lead to many and I guaranteed of advertising it. So, Place for my marriage- Check
- Decoration- Fragrance, is a new decorator in the city and fortunately my very close friend. She accepted to sponsor all the decorations (such as flowers, pendals etc) as she was eager to jump into the market with easy advertising. So, Decoration for my marriage- Check
- Event Coordination- WE, an event management company were looking for a potential wedding to kick start their business. For my good fate I bumped into these people and shot my idea to them. They were okay to sponsor my Makeup, organise a performance in sangeet ceremony and coordinate all the important marriage events. So, Event Coordination for my marriage- Check
- Jewellery, Clothing- All Mart, is a new store in the market which has everything necessary for marriage such as clothing, jewellery, groceries etc. I spoke to the chairperson of the store and managed for the sponsorship of the above said with the assurance of easy and effective advertisement.So, wardrobe for my marriage- Check
- Food- People might forget all the events in a marriage but food is the one thing which is always remembered. Swad, is a caterer who is new in town and I convinced him to put his first effort in my marriage. It's generally believed that food should be served in a wedding to all for which we are blessed. So, I accepted to share this part where in I paid the expenses of the labourers. So, food for my marriage- Check
And this is how "My Sponsored Wedding" concludes with a grand success. My creative head came to my rescue and bought joy to me and people around.
It's now time to thank all the sponsors: and a big banner outside awaits which says-
"I Thank, 'Mangal Mantap' for their beautiful wedding space, 'Fragrance' for their extraordinary decorations, 'WE' for their splendid and energetic event coordination, 'All Mart' for their marvellous and exquisite collections in clothing, Jewellery etc. 'Swad' for their delicious food.
Without you guys I would have never seen this day."
PS: The story and all the ideas above are imaginary; people are welcome to use this idea if found helpful.
I Thank my cousin Navya, for sharing the same thought as mine in this idea.
I came across a blog where much greater live ideas were expressed. Have a look and enjoy. Nice thought by "blog.nikhil.co.in"


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Memorial Day Weekend!
It's Super Hero Saturday! Thank you to all of our men and women who are or have served our beautiful country! Today we have ham, tomato and avocado quiche and bacon and cheddar. We also have chicken salad and apricot oatmeal bars. We hope to see you and we hope you have a wonderful Memorial Day weekend!
Super Hero Saturday!
Saturday is a full day of fun! Good luck on the guessing for the super hero and while you are checking out the Picture clue, Have a delicious beverage, like a gorilla hug. Also available is ham, tomato and asiago quiche and veggie quiche for you non-meat eating, fun loving people. We also have loaded baked potato soup, pimento cheese and chicken salad. We hope you come in and see us. We also have smoothies, and tea!
Super Hero Saturday!
It's Super Hero Saturday! This is our super hero! We hope that you are having a wonderful Mother's Day weekend. Bring your mother with you and get your drinks 1/2 price. We hope to see you! We also have sausage and sweet pepper quiche and turkey and asiago quiche. Fresh raspberry oatmeal bars and brownies. We hope to see you today!
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Good Morning! And good Day! We hope you are having a wonderful week, we also hope that we will see you today and are able to make you a delicious beverage! If it is something to fix that grumble in your tummy….We have sausage and feta quiche and ham and cheddar. We also have some chicken salad (croissants are a wonderful compliment).
It's another Monday!
Super Hero Saturday!
Happy Super Hero Saturday! Hope you have fun guessing this week. We have bacon and tomato quiche with cheddar and bacon and avocado quiche with asiago cheese. We also have chicken salad and fresh apricot oatmeal bars. We hope to see you and we hope you come by and try some delicious coffee and……….. Happy Saturday!
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Don't know if you knew this………… Coffee is DELICIOUS! Jim & Em's is just the place for you to find out what kind and how to make it delicious for you! We have beans for sale and grind to your liking. We also have lattes, cappuccinos and americanos……..quiche for today is bacon and tomato and turkey, bacon, ranch. We hope to see you!


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Some elements on the periodic table are oxygen, helium, arsenic and fluorine. Oxygen is an odorless, tasteless and colorless gas at room temperature, but is bright blue as a liquid. Oxygen is a very reactive element and is paramagnetic, which means it has unpaired electrons.
Helium was named after the sun (from the Greek word "helios") because the sun was where it was first discovered. It is considered a noble gas because it does not naturally react with any other element. After hydrogen, helium is the most abundant element in the universe. However, there is very little helium found on Earth because it is light enough to escape the atmosphere. At room temperature, helium is an odorless and colorless gas.
Arsenic is a brittle, shiny, silvery semi-metal and is toxic to human beings in large doses. It is used in insecticides, rat poisons and fireworks. In its form as gallium arsenide, it is also used as doping agent. Arsenic is used to make certain types of glass and as a wood preservative. During the Victorian era, it was also used medicinally.
Fluorine is the most reactive of the halogens, which also include chlorine and iodine. Its name comes from the Latin "fluere," which means to flow, and it is a greenish-yellow gas at room temperature. Fluorine is so violently reactive that it attacks steel and glass, and it is never found in its natural state.


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That spaghetti squash cradled in a panty hose sling finally seemed ripe enough to harvest. I'd never grown spaghetti squash before so I had to go on line to get advice about when to pick them. Apparently when the rind is tough they're ready. They are, after all, a type of winter squash. My thumb nail didn't make a dent so I carefully undid the panty hose and brought my squash to the kitchen.
I pricked some steam holes in it and put it in the microwave for 12 minutes. I could have baked it in the oven, I suppose, but it was too hot. I let it cool for awhile and then cut it in half and scooped out the seeds.
The flesh comes apart in strings and I use it as a substitute for wheat pasta for my gluten intolerant husband. It is way better than it looks. I put spaghetti sauce on it, but it would be good with just butter, salt and pepper and maybe some cheese on top. I harvested two squash from this vine and there are three babies on the way. Anybody know how many squash you can expect to get from a vine? I want more than five, but that may be totally unrealistic.


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Wisconsin No. 9 in AP preseason poll
Jason Galloway
The Wisconsin State Journal
The University of Wisconsin football program will enter the season as a consensus top-10 team.
The Badgers are ranked ninth in the Associated Press preseason poll, which was released Monday, after coming in at No. 10 in the USA Today coaches poll earlier this month.
UW ranks only behind Alabama, Ohio State, Florida State, Southern California, Clemson, Penn State, Oklahoma and Washington in the AP poll. In the coaches poll, Michigan also ranks ahead of the Badgers.
The Wolverines, who came in at No. 11 in the AP poll, are the only opponent on UW's schedule to be ranked in either preseason top 25.
The last time the Badgers began a season as a consensus top-10 team was 2007. UW opens against Utah State on Sept. 1 at Camp Randall Stadium.
— Copyright (c) 2017, The Wisconsin State Journal/Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.


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If you're one of the owners of the original Samsung Galaxy Tab (the 7″ version) on Verizon Wireless we've got good news for you. Your tablet will soon be updated to Android 2.3, Gingerbread.
According to Verizon Wireless the 70mb update will bring you Android 2.3.5 as well as several improvements to your Galaxy Tab.
The original Galaxy Tab came out last year and has now been overshadowed by the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, 10.1 4G/LTE, Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9, Samsung Galaxy Tab 7. 7 and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7 Plus. Verizon Wireless carries the Galaxy Tab 10.1 4G/LTE in their stores and will probably get one more before the end of the year.
See the enhancements in this update after the break
The enhancements are:
+ When using the Personal Identification Number (PIN) as a security
method, the device no longer requests a symbol as a numeric entry.
Email and Messaging
+ Improved Word Selection and Copy Functionality:
New capability to select a word via press-hold. A second press
of the selected word copies the selected characters.
Web Browsing and Data Access
+ The 'View Data Plan' icon has been added to replace the 'Music Player'
icon on the homescreen. Using this function, a Pay-As-You-Go user
can adjust their Data Service subscription. Month-to-Month users can
continue to use the 'My Verizon Mobile' app to monitor their data usage.
+ A 'Verizon Data Service' feature has been added to the Settings
menu. Using this function, Galaxy Tab users can view their current
plan and usage, learn how to change service plans and activate or
renew data services.
Device Features and Applications
+ Download Manager App:
New App to manage all of your downloads from web browsing,
email attachments and other apps.
+ App and Power Management Details:
Under Manage Applications, a new 'Running' tab displays a list of
active applications and the storage and memory being used by each.
+ Use the front-facing camera as a camcorder. Alternate between the
front-facing camera and camcorder with the slide of a switch.
+ Download App icon now displays within the Applications page.
+ Widgets will resize to accurately reflect landscape or portrait mode.
+ Enhanced display options have been added (wallpaper, color density, etc.).
+ Supports Verizon Pay As You Go prepaid data service plans.
+ Downloads no longer timeout in Android Market.
+ Corrected recorded video orientation.
+ Includes Google security patches.
There's no definite date yet for this update but it's coming soon, we're expecting it within the next week or two.
source: Verizon Wireless via Intomobile


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Months of speculation, gossip, negotiation and probably some fortune-telling culminated in the House Agriculture Committee meeting last Wednesday to markup their Farm Bill draft. We figured on deep SNAP cuts; there were. We figured there would be surprise riders of some sort; there were. We figured the finished product would differ greatly from the Senate's; it does. As predictable as these things were, I confess it was still personally hard to see these votes on CSPAN and read the fine print on the proposed Nutrition title. Rather than digress further, let's proceed to a Farm Bill Status Report, shall we?
First, let's look at some of the big numbers for some high-lowlights:
- $16 billion in SNAP (food stamp) cuts, which translates to 2 million fewer people receiving the benefit.
- $9 billion open-ended expansion of crop insurance subsidies. For Big Ag.
- $6 billion in cuts to conservation programs, as in the Senate draft.
Provisions added through last-minute riders would "gut USDA review of GMO crops" and absolve biotech companies of liability for seed drift. And the organic certification program was repealed. These are provisions likely to survive any passage regardless of any deals on SNAP or crop insurance.
As before, here's a taste of some others' ongoing coverage:
The Environmental Working Group came out opposing the bill, saying that: "The bill will feed fewer people, help fewer farmers, do less to promote healthy diets and weaken environmental protections – and it will cost far more than congressional bean counters say."
Tom Philpott discusses the GMO regulation provisions in relationship to others proposed in House Appropriations: "Combined, if passed into law, the two bills would effectively negate any semblance of public oversight of new GMO crops."
Patty Lovera at Food & Water Watch points out that the cuts to regulation of genetically engineered crops affect an "already insufficient" process.
Now for the billion-dollar question: will this draft actually go to the House floor for a full vote? Prepare for some legislative madness: an extension till 2013 or a timewarp back to 1949 are but two possibilities.
So far, Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) has no plans to push for a vote prior to an impending August recess. Technically this will be scheduled by Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) anyway. Back to Tom Philpott, who shares that despite already-deep SNAP cuts in this draft, "Boehner fears that right-wing reps will push for even deeper SNAP cuts, sparking an intra-GOP fight that the speaker would prefer to avoid." At this point, it does not seem likely that this bill will come for a vote prior to the September 30, 2012 expiration date.
What would happen then? Most likely, a short extension on the current bill, which would kick this whole process to the next Congress (as in 2013 ) to start all over again—with no guaranties we'll not see similar policy proposals. That extension is critical, because barring a new bill or an extension, we legally time warp it back to the 1949 Agriculture Act (before SNAP, subsidies, crop insurance and many other things).
In the meantime, it's possible that House Agriculture Committee chairs Lucas and Peterson will succeed in persuading the Republican leadership for a vote—soon. We'll keep you posted.


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This is how a t-shirt is transformed, by being tucked into a full, feminine skirt.
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Sure, a black tee is basic, but styled with leather pants, a touch of camouflage and some heels, it is infinity cooler.
A print coat and some sneakers lift this t-shirt from ordinary to awesome.
So be inspired, get those tees out off the closets, combine them with print jackets, boyfriend jeans, shorts, leather pants, your favorite high heels or even your comfy sneakers and transform your basic style into a street style statement!
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I guess my reasoning behind not panicking right now and spending my last few hours re-reading all of my text books is probably the fact that this is in fact an open book exam, so even if I walk in not 100% sure of an answer I'll be able to look it up in a jiffy. Which kind of defeats the purpose of an exam if you ask me. But I'm not about to protest this by refusing to bring my books and calculator into the exam, I'm not a complete idiot you know.
I think the thing I am looking forward to the most once the semester is finished is being able to spend more time with Miss K without feeling guilty that I am neglecting my studies while playing with her. Even after spending the past 6 months juggling full time parenting with part time study I haven't managed to find the balance between the two, and something is always being left to the last minute. I have a horrible feeling that next years studies will require even more effort because we will start covering serious subjects like GST, which already does my head in. So it will take a lot of careful planning to make sure nothing and no one gets left behind.
But the next time you see me I will officially be on holidays, even though it doesn't really count around here, but I'm thinking of holding my own version of schoolies in my back yard. Now all I need to do is find a group of teenagers willing to get drunk and make total fools of themselves for my own entertainment. If any of you know someone, do let me know.
Well that's all from me for now, I really should get to bed if I expect to be coherent enough tomorrow afternoon to be able to put pen to paper. Wish me luck my lovely readers and I'll be back and ready to party soon.


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NEW TRAILER FOR GIRL IN THE SPIDER'S WEB DROPS: Claire Foy has the dragon tattoo now. Sony's The Girl in the Spider's Web has Foy (recently Queen Elizabeth in The Crown) taking on the role of Lisbeth Salander. Fede Álvarez is directing the film, based on the first book in the Stieg Larsson series not actually written by him. The Web unfurls in theaters November 9th.
J.J. ABRAMS AND ZACHARY QUINTO BRINGING US TAB & TONY: Tab & Tony, from J.J. Adams and Zachary Quinto, is set to depict the secret romance between Tab Hunter and Anthony Perkins, a love affair that coincided with their rise to Hollywood stardom in the 1950s and 60s. The story will be based on Hunter's personal account of his relationship with the Psycho star, who died in 1992.
VAL KILMER RETURNING TO TOP GUN: Val Kilmer is flying back into one of his most iconic roles. Kilmer is set to reprise his role as Iceman for Top Gun: Maverick, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Tom Cruise is also returning for the long-awaited sequel to the 1986 classic Top Gun. Cruise recently tweeted a photo announcing production had kicked off. Joseph Kosinski is helming, and Jerry Bruckheimer and Cruise are producing.
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Africa has countless cities for an exciting weekend getaway. With several captivating details – inland adventures, luxury hotels and unique cuisine; these cities are notable destinations, where you can revive your senses, unwind and relax.
If you are looking for an ideal place to spend a weekend even if it's your last minute plan; here are 6 African city escapes perfect for a weekend. No matter what your budget is, you will find an ideal weekend getaway that will suit your budget and preference.
Going away for just a weekend is a well-deserved break in the middle of a busy work schedule, so don't feel guilty.
1. Dakar
Dakar is the capital city of Senegal, an African city renowned for its stunning beaches, fantastic resorts, colonial architecture and shopping sights. The city is heaving with liveliness, equipped with amazing restaurants, luxurious hotels, a variety of water activities and vibrant night scenes. If you would love to go on a cruise tour, you could start here; the city is one of the favourite ports in Africa. A weekend getaway in Dakar will leave you with a French impression of so many things.
2. Cotonou
A weekend getaway in Cotonou will leave you with a memorable experience. The city is the largest city in Benin Republic, filled with historic buildings, botanical gardens, numerous museums and pristine nature. The city is pulsating – full of life; from lively nightlife, superb shopping to great restaurants and amazing places to stay.
3. Accra
For an exciting weekend getaway, you would not want to miss the bustling capital city of Ghana – Accra. The city is always a great place to visit, either for a long or short vacation. The city offers pristine beaches and coastlines, luxury hotels, fascinating museums and galleries, vibrant African marketplaces, and ritzy nightlife. If you are a history lover, you can get a glance of the country's history and learn more about its culture.
4. Calabar
If you don't want to leave Nigeria, Calabar is an amazing place to visit for a weekend getaway. In this city, you will get this sense of pleasure; it has everything you could possibly need – stunning attractions, great places to stay, and of course, an opportunity to have a taste of the renowned Calabar cuisine. Calabar offers attractions for every kind of visitors as it has rich and unique culture, wildlife and friendly people.
5. Nairobi
Nairobi is one of the most prominent cities in Africa, filled with plenty of fun activities and attractions. If you love sightseeing, this is best African city escape perfect for a weekend. The city offers a whole array of exciting activities and places to visit, such as wildlife safari, pristine nature and stunning landscapes, great and luxury accommodation options, cultural activities, vibrant nightlife and unique cuisine. A weekend in Nairobi is always a great idea.
6. Kigali
Kigali is a perfectly beautiful African city, characterized by stunning landscapes, cavernous valleys and rolling hills, and fascinating savannah. The city has got amazing places of interest and exciting activities that will fill your weekend. Kigali is waiting to be explored, you should probably visit for an unforgettable experience.
Take a Friday or Monday off, enjoy a three day weekend – a quick vacation away from home, and get a memorable experience. Have you gone a weekend getaway recently? Share your experience with us in the comment below:


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Iron Man 2 is still awesome.
It's still a fun movie with all sorts of emotional beats and explosions and characters and lead-up and all those great things that, to be honest, make me read comics every week. If you pick up a monthly, you expect to see something of the character on the cover in the book, you expect to see him (or her) do something incredible and, by all rights, you should be interested in what the next issue is going to do. In a perfect world, I would be a millionaire with a unicorn and comics would always be recognizable, satisfying and leave you hungry for whatever is coming next.
Iron Man 2 worked almost as a film second, and a movie first because they devoted a lot of time to talk about the past and the future. Samuel L. Fury tries to get Tony Stark's life back on track so they can use him for this "Avengers Initiative." We go through an overwhelmingly Walt Disney-inspired piece for Howard Stark and the better future he saw when he put together the first Stark Expo. This is the continuation of something big, larger than life or even the life that the movie contained it in.
Settling down the the fanciest-schemanciest Blu-ray copy I could get my hands on, I wanted to see what it was like when you took this movie home. Did the lukewarm reception still come from the wide variety of audiences the movie tried to please? Or was it just not that great? Come with me and see.
So, for those of you playing at home, I purchased the FYE version of the three-disk Blu-ray (it comes with the feature, a whole disk of extras, then a DVD copy and a digital download). From what I could tell in a panicked search on Sept. 28 -- I forgot the DVD was being released -- this seems to be the most you could acquire in just pure, sweet content. The first disk displays the movie, a director's commentary track and a fun little bit of technology called The S.H.I.E.L.D. Data Vault. This goes just an inch further in your movie-watching experience and shows off some of the movie's Easter eggs and, in The Vault's case, gives you some extra history on the Incredible Hulk movie and how it ties in to the Iron Man movies. Personally, I'm not a fan of reading text on a screen, but the Vault's fully in character with tying the Super-Soldier program in with last-known intel on the missing Bruce Banner, PhD with that prototype of Cap's shield we see pop up in Iron Man. They also have, for the impatient like myself, Footage Scan Mode, which finds all the details they threw into the movie (OM Captain America's shield?) and pops it out with a little display and a small text description. Did you know that the big tube-thing that Tony Stark made a new element out of at the end of the movie was a Prismatic Accelerator, possibly from Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. ("Potential Energy Group/Alternate Sources/United States")? Thanks to the Footage Scan, I do, and I got a shot of the blueprints behind it.
Going through a movie you just got on DVD for the cool bits is tough. Searching in the background for that one shot of the Captain America comic might be a triumph for those with bigger screens, but when the Blu-ray already knows I want the details, pulls them out for me and lets me skip around through them? That's rad. From the Stark Expo interface menus, the S.H.I.E.L.D. reports and background images, interacting with your TV takes on this immersive quality. I loved the computer interfaces from the movies and, while I still have to use a remote, the Blu-ray brings a little of that home for you.
Jon Favreau is a very honest commentator as well as a huge film geek. Over the deleted scenes on Disk Two, he notes that "If you're watching deleted-scenes commentary, then you're a real geek," promising a little more inside-baseball as to what these scenes are used for and why they were removed. During the Making Of segments (poorly titled "Ultimate Iron Man," which made me at least think there was going to be some sort of comic history involved), Favreau has fears and doubts. There are moments where he'll be on-set with the cameras and admit that nearly losing Mickey Rourke from the project terrified him. That he felt they started too late in their development and two years for such an ambitious project would make everyone lose sleep, especially himself. His word is not law, and there are a lot of moments of him going out of his way to incorporate everyone's input, from the cast to the crew. The composer gave notes to Tom Morello, who riffed some guitar tracks for the soundtrack. Mickey Rourke visited Russian prisons on his own time before they started filming, the choreographers and Scarlet Johanssen worked overtime for all of her stunts to make them as natural as possible. This movie was made in the mighty Marvel manner, with an idea shared between both writing and art teams to create the clearest picture they could come up with.
Maybe that's why this movie wasn't received as well as the first. Favreau in the behind-the-scenes portion calls it "fighting against a memory," that the first movie was so popular, audiences remember it as something bigger than what they actually saw and so now they have to live up to something they didn't even produce. The first Iron Man is arguably a perfect comic-book movie, with action and drama in just the right equal parts to be a recognizable brand, satisfying in story execution and leaving us hungry for what life is like now for Iron Man after his big reveal at the end of Movie #1. Movie #2 is the second issue; it gave you more plot that developed from the first, a bigger threat than what Iron Man defeated last time and something else to look forward to afterward: The Avengers. Perhaps this is some sort of new entertainment form we're creating, some sort of movie-comic hybrid where it's developed as you would a comic book but filmed for a mass audience in a more palatable format.
Whether or not we're at the dawn of a new age and witnessing the birth of a new form of media -- the Comovie! Movic! -- I'd still recommend taking the time to get a copy of the DVD or Blu-ray and all its features. The movie is a much more friendly and inclusive process with all the time and details they took to present it to viewers. Who's hungry for the next film?


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Here's me about one year ago. A friend threatened to take my picture while I was eating a double-chee from McDonald's (and he did).
Here's me about one year ago. A friend threatened to take my picture while I was eating a double-chee from McDonald's (and he did).
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I should have a newer one soon enough though.
OH boy I got in next to Crystal !!!!! Course I'm old enough to be her grandfather....
Well almost....
Just lookin at the photos... Cept for Crystal and me, you all are some ugly people... ..... j/k
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This is I.
This is the best photo of myself I could find for now. Oh well. The girlie stuff in the room isn't mine by the way.
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Me and the boys. I'm the second one from the left (just look for the one with the gut ), and the others are my brothers, Troy and Jim to the right, and cousin Jason to the left. We took this pic the day we got our tats done, obviously.


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Well, today I made Rotini for lunch.
I bought the spaghetti sauce at Wal-Mart it costs $0.92 cents
The shrimp was bought at Aldi's for $3.49.
And the Rotini was brought at Wal-Mart for around $1. LOL
I boiled the rotini for 20 minutes.
I had defrosted the shrimp in a strainer, running it under cold water for about 5 minutes.
I took all the tails off of them before I had put the shrimp in the pan with the sauce.
It takes about 5 minutes for the sauce to cook.
All done & ready to eat now.
I added shredded Mozzarella cheese because it tastes really good like that - yum yum. LOL
A bag of shredded cheese costs $1.98 at Wal-Mart.
I usually add mushrooms in the pasta, but had no mushrooms this time, but it's nice to try something different. :)
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Well, today I made Rotini for lunch.
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1 comments:
- Sarah Jane Meister said...
That looks soooooo delicious. I hardly ever get to eat pasta since David complains about it. :)
It's such a gorgeous day today! I just put little David down for his nap and he was screaming for his teddy bear (actually, it's the one you and your mom got for him! He takes it EVERYWHERE) I hunted high and low for it before I found it outside on the step. He must have opened the screen door somehow and put it out there.
Have a lovely day!
- April 21, 2008 at 12:27 PM


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Jason played with the CageRats baseball club team this past summer. It was awesome and fun and a struggle at times. He absolutely loved the workouts and the other kids on the team. They played a mix of out-of-state tournaments as well as a bunch of in-state games against other high school teams.
He struggled with his elbow at times . . . sometimes it would be awesome, and sometimes it would hurt so bad he'd ask to be taken out of the game, which was a big deal when it got to that point.
He got a LOT of playing time in left field, which he totally loved!
We traveled to Phoenix in June. I made Jason and his buddy, Shep, sit on the Jack Rabbit in Holbrook, AZ for our token Route 66 stop
They also had the opportunity to play on the Oakland Athletics' spring training field! Super nice field! Jason couldn't get over how awesome the outfield was – how clean and flat and "springy" the grass was. Welcome to the Big Leagues, kid
Jason and Shep before their first game.
Not everyone gets to say they executed a successful hit and run on a big league field!
We also traveled to Atlanta (hot!) for a week – in July. Holy hot Batman! The boys actually played pretty well at the Perfect Game tournament. They could've been even more competitive if their coach hadn't been overruled by the club team owner on who to play where, when. It was tough for the guys to give their best every game when they knew the best team wasn't on the field at any given time. But, it was a great experience overall. Jason really liked how the team stayed together in the hotel and had a team van where they went everywhere together in. One of the kids' Grandma had a great house on 10 acres with a pond about 45 north of the hotel. After one of the early games, we loaded up the boys in the van, ran to Walmart for food and drinks, and went to the pond to play, unwind, and enjoy BBQ. It was a great break in the middle of a tough week!
We spent quite a bit of time scrimmaging our own in-house club teams and playing games in Denver. There was a lot of driving and a lot of time spent at the ball field this summer! But, when you get to watch your kid play under the lights and see some amazing sunsets, it's all worth it.


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Listen in as Anne and Michael get to know each other and accompany them as they go to a party, to an art exhibition, and to a special restaurant in Berlin. The course is based on an upper beginner's/pre-intermediate level of language learning.
At the bus stop
Anne is on her way to a party. At the bus stop she gets talking to Michael.
A funny coincidence
Anne and Michael meet at a bus stop. They chat and find out something funny.
Welcome to the party
Anne and Michael arrive at the party. They get drinks and talk about art.
Explaining the way
Michael has invited Anne to accompany him to an exhibition opening. Now he is telling Anne the way.
In the taxi
Anne missed the last bus. She takes a taxi back to the youth hostel.
Staying longer
Anne has decided to stay in Berlin for another day. She books another night at her hostel.
Flowers for the artist
Michael wants to buy some flowers to take to the exhibition opening.
At the gallery
Anne and Michael are at the gallery. They admire the art work.
At the book shop
Anne wants to buy a book about galleries in Berlin.
Drinking coffee in the television tower
Anne and Michael meet one last time. They are having coffee at the top of the television tower.


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I have been making jewelry for about 5 years. Like many people, my jewelry journey started by chance when I and my sister-in-law attended a craft show and saw a lady doing a free demonstration on how to make a simple strung necklace. We were fascinated and after the demonstration, rushed to the stall and bought some kits. I had played with beads before, when I was 6 or 7 years old, but as I grew older, I ventured into all kinds of arts and crafts and forgot about my beads. That demonstration rekindled my interest and started my journey into jewelry making.
In this blog, I would like to share with you my creations and the stories behind some of them. I thought it would be nice in this first post to show you a piece I made from way back, not long after I started. It's an antique style necklace made with silver clay and onyx. This piece came first in the metal clay category of the 2005 Bead & Gem Show competition in Sydney, Australia. I love working with different media and often combine them in my pieces. In the next post, I'll show you one of my more recent pieces. I hope you enjoy viewing them as much as I do posting them!


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Behind the Mask
by Carolyn Crane
The Associates #4
RELEASE DATE May 19, 2015
Book four in the Associates series is set to release next month. If you aren't a fan, what are you waiting for? This is one of my favorite romantic suspense series. The characters are unique and the stories are compelling and I always learn something new. It is smart reading.
The author, Carolyn Crane, says that the hero, Hugo is "the most ultra caveman hero I ever wrote - like, ever - yet this is a fiercely heroine-centered novel. I'm so excited for it!" That makes two of us, Carolyn!
When her estranged sister – a prostitute - is won in a card game by a brutal drug cartel, Zelda knows what she has to do: take her place. Save her. Focus on infiltrating the shadowy group on behalf of the Associates, and try not to think about why she left the spying game years ago. She's slept with dangerous criminals before; she can do it again.
Hugo Martinez is one of South America's most lethal and wanted men, a legendary mercenary living on a windswept mountain. Even at the height of the war he wasn't in the habit of taking women captive, but the American whore has seen his face. And he and the orphan boy need a cook. He shouldn't want this woman, but there's something so unusual about her…
Meanwhile, Zelda finds herself falling for her captor…but is he the killer she's been hunting all these years?


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Mark Donnelly's on-ice fall goes viral
WATCH: Donnelly talks to BC1's Geoff Hastings about his fall
Mr. O Canada may always hit the high notes, but his performance took a tumble in Penticton Friday night.
Instead of the regular footwear Mark Donnelly chose ice skates for his rendition of "O Canada" ahead of the home opener for the Penticton Vees.
Just as Donnelly belted out the first line of Canada's national anthem and soared across the ice, he did not seem to notice the ceremonial carpet was straight in his way and took a bad fall.
As a true professional, the incident did not cause Donnelly to miss a beat. He kept the anthem going, eventually getting the crowd to sing along.
Watch the full video below (courtesy: VeesTV, Jayson Moonie)
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Skating fans can visit Worthing's covered ice rink for half the price, thanks to an exclusive offer in this week's Herald.
The paper has teamed up with rink organisers to offer readers 50 per cent off until Friday, February 13.
Ten pairs of free tickets, with a free meal at Après Skate – the rink's associated eatery – are also up for grabs.
Rink co-owner Phil Duckett said: "Being undercover allows for a great skating experience come rain or shine."
Following on from last year, the ice rink team has enlarged the attraction, extended the session times and introduced new offers including off peak double sessions, group discounts and, in conjunction with the eatery, run by Reds Anywhere, hosted children's parties.
The rink will be open, in Steyne Gardens, Worthing, until Sunday, March 1.
As well as all the ice rink offer, this week's Herald also includes all the usual news, sport, features and much more.
We feature a special report on the music festival which has been granted a licence to take place at Shoreham Airport.
The decision was revealed just as the Herald went to press last week, so this week we get the views, for and against, from many of those who would be affected.
We also look at how midwives from Worthing Hospital are helping new mothers in a new way – via social media.
There is also a raft of columnists, the business page, a 16-page entertainment guide and a 24-page New Beginnings supplement.
The Herald is out today (Thursday, January 22) for the bargain price of 80p.