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The Open Mic Movement is excited to tell you that The George, III in Hoddesdon, Herts is hosting another regular Open Mic Event – again under the Open Mic Movement banner.
It's official! The George III is Hoddesdon and Broxbourne's registered Open Mic Movement Venue.
(More official Open Mic Movement venues to be chosen in other towns soon.)
<Edit:> IT'S TONIGHT PEOPLE!
This coming WEDNESDAY 9TH NOVEMBER. from 8.30 – Midnight and every second Wednesday of the month going forward.
Stride on Stage – we are opening the doors for performers.
If you like to perform, with crystal clear sound, you should book your solo, duo, or even band slots or just turn up on the night. (Bands will need to book in advance.)
To book in advance ring 01992 463171 or 07843 087562.
A "Featured Artist" will perform at every open mic movement event.
This coming Wednesday, 9th, the featured artist spot at The George is going to be taken by the band, "FUNKSHUN" – which made up from the tutors from CK Music Academy
All featured artists are actively promoted on this site and via our social media. We share their news; help them to gain exposure and work to boost their fanbase.
With a new band slot, a featured artist slot, all the guest slots and the opportunity to join in with the jam session, there is no other open mic session like this in the area – this is what The Open Mic Movement is about. Quality sound, brilliant format – everybody gets to play.
Go along and join in the fun at Hoddesdon's number one venue, and Hoddesdon and Broxbourne's official – registered – Open Mic Movement – venue!
A full back line is supplied including a Clavinova piano – all played through the top of the line PA system with sound techs on site.
Simply plug and play – they are there to make you sound great!
An official Open Mic Movement representative will be present. We hope to see you there.
That's <Edit> TONIGHT
next Wednesday people!
Featured Artists!
We will be looking for future featured artist to perform more of our open mic movement events. Remember – The Open Mic Movement supports its featured artists. If interested please contact us using the form at the bottom of the page.
Originally posted 2016-11-04 01:15:30.


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Winds of Numenera
The Iron Winds of Numenera are a threat. They seem to be coming to down to a nearby town. A scientist has been making a device that could protect the city. But they need some brave heroes to bring the device to the city to set up up.
This is a campaign that will run in three parts Find the Wind, Ride the Wind, and Catch the Wind for RPGKC.
You do not need to play all parts to be involved. You can just play a single chapter if you want Characters should not carry over, but their decisions will.
This will be modified Cypher rules for easy character creation during at the start and modified rules for quicker learning/playing.

subset: commoncrawl


text: So the story goes that one day, Ted was on the slopes of Steven's Pass with his son, snowboarding. There were a bunch of skiers doing what skiers do...getting in the way. Ted mumbled to himself "If there was just ONE LESS SKIER on the slopes today..." and thus our brand was born! Since then, we evolved from a board sports brand to a pop culture brand and I've been dragging this guy to every con and event you can think of. Today I want to say thank you for being annoyed at those skiers and starting this brand. It's been an amazing, fun ride the whole time! Happy Birthday, TT!


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For most of human history, people have sought tricks to extend their lives, but new research suggests that one key may be not having a father.
Researchers in Japan created 13 mice using DNA material from two mothers, and compared their lifespans with mice born under normal circumstances. They found that the mice with no father lived roughly 842 days, with control mice living 186 fewer days, on average, findings that suggested a benefit to not having a father.
"We have known for some time that women tend to live longer than men in almost all countries worldwide, and that these sex-related differences in longevity also occur in many other mammalian species," said Tomohiro Kono, one of the study authors from the department of bioscience at Tokyo University of Agriculture, in a statement. "However, the reason for this difference was unclear and, in particular, it was not known whether longevity in mammals was controlled by the genome composition of only one or both parents."
In their paper, the researchers noted: "Our results further suggested sex differences in longevity originating at the genome level, implying that the sperm genome has a detrimental effect on longevity in mammals."
But while researchers have hit on a provocative issue about the possibilities of genetics -- namely whether having two mothers is better than having a mother and a father -- it's unclear how applicable those theories are.
"In laboratory rodents kept under controlled conditions the relationship of sex to longevity is variable, with males sometimes showing greater longevity than females and with life span being dependent on factors like breeding and diet," the late Dr. David W. E. Smith, a pathologist at Northwestern, wrote in a 1988 paper on male and female longevity.
That variability has led to a suggestion that the entire paper must be scrapped, interesting though some of its findings may be.
"If you look at the record for this particular type of mice, the males live longer than the females. So this was an inappropriate model to deal with this question," said David Harrison, a professor at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine. "The whole hypothesis cannot be tested using this strain, because the males live longer than the females."
Harrison cited past research from the Jackson Laboratory and a study from the Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine showing, he said, a lifespan of approximately 973 days for females and 1,065 days for males in the strain used in the study.
In addition, Harrison noted, the lifespan of typical mice in the study was much shorter than those average life expectancies, something he said revealed possible flaws in the Japanese laboratory. (The lifespan of mice with two mothers was close to typical.)
"Their explanation here has got to be wrong," he said, although he added, "I have no idea what could be wrong."
As of press time, Kono had not responded to a request from ABC News for comment.
Parenting Leaves An Imprint
The notion of creating an embryo from two parents of the same sex has been a challenge to scientists, who would need to overcome a phenomenon in genetics known as imprinting.
After DNA is passed by parents on to their offspring, it undergoes a process known as methylation, where a molecule of carbon and hydrogen attaches to DNA, marking whether it came from the mother or the father, and dictating how it will impact the embryo as it grows.
This process has been a barrier to same-sex parenthood, since the methylation prevents an embryo with same-sex parents from developing normally.
"The reason you can't ordinarily do that…I would guess isn't as related to aging as to the way males and females have different interests," said Harrison.
Since males are not guaranteed to be the partner of the female, they would have more interest in having a child grow quicker to ensure immediate survival, for example, while a female -- who often needs to raise the children -- would have an interest in smaller children who are easier to raise. That idea is known as the parental conflict hypothesis.
"There's some tendency for the male imprinting pattern to increase growth rates," said Harrison.
In their paper, the researchers noted that smaller size -- a feature of female interests -- seemed to correspond with longer life.
But Harrison noted that "generally, the smaller mice live longer. However, smaller mice don't always live longer, it's a generalization."
But longer lives may not always be an evolutionary advantage.
"Post-reproductive lifespan is going to be irrelevant, primarily in the context of survival of one's offspring," said Keith Latham, a professor of biochemistry at the Fels Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Biology at Temple University.
Aa Machiavellian as it may sound, longer life, he said, has little evolutionary benefit once an animal has had children, but can be harmful to the population of animals, since they still need things like food.
"Shorter lifespan, in a population, would tend to eliminate post-reproductive individuals and [expand] the environmental resources available to the population," said Latham.


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Thursday 17 November, 11.30AM, Auditorium A, Level 3
Owners VS Tenants: a battle or a win-win situation? What binds the relationship landlord-tenant throughout Europe? Is it just the lease contract?
F.l.t.r: The moderators Joost Bomhoff, COO Rodamco Europe, The Netherlands, and Michel Pazoumian, Managing Director Procos, France, will discuss this theme with speakers Pedro J. Caupers, Board Director and Managing Director of Sierra Management Sonae Sierra, Portugal; Ruediger J. Cornehl, Managing Director ECE Projektmanagement International G.M.B.H., Germany; Jean-Paul Freret, General Manager, Vivarte Group, France; Stephan Mayer-Heinisch, Chairman of the Austrian Council of Shopping Centres/President of the Retail Association, Austria; Javier Oller, Director Group Real Estate Department Coronel Tapiocca, Spain.
Without doubt, what binds the relationship landlord-tenant throughout Europe is the lease contract. Over the last 10 years, the spirit of the negotiations has been influenced by internationalisation, professionalisation and financial objective of the parties.
Should there be more binding the parties than simply the lease contract?
How is this evolution perceived by owners and tenants, how can it be improved?
Is it still possible to find common grounds:
- Optimise occupancy burden: investment & services, cost and charges
- Mutual communication, reconcile both points of view.
- Merchandising and selection of retailers
- Entertainment and communication
- Turnover as reference and key criteria.
The answers to these questions might be found at MAPIC 2005 (16-18 November),
session: Thursday 17 November, 11.30AM, Auditorium A, Level 3
See you there!


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ADT 11 focuses on editor improvements. First, it offers several new visual refactoring operations, such as "Extract Include" and "Extract Style," which help automatically extract duplicated layout fragments and style attributes into reusable layouts, styles, and themes.
Second, the visual layout editor now supports fragments, palette configurations, and improved support for custom views.
Last, XML editing has been improved with new quick fixes, code completion in more file types and many "go to declaration" enhancements.
ADT 11 packs a long list of new features and enhancements. Visit our ADT page for more details.
Source: Android Developers Blog - New Editing Features in Eclipse plug-in for Android
If you have already installed Android SDK, ADT for Eclipse, you can update ADT in Eclipse:
Eclipse Menu > Help > Check for Updates >
After ADT updated, may be you have to re-assign your SdK folder:
Eclipse Menu > Window > Preferences > Select Android on the left, and Browse to select your SDK Location.


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Stanley Forbes, 58, of Centralia died Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 1, at Fenton Funeral Chapel in Centralia. Visitation will be from 11 a.m. until time of service.
On March 14, 1986, he and Karen Reich were married in Brush, Colo.
Survivors include three children, Brenda Beckfield, Malynda Hicks and Stephanie Forbes; stepson Scott Turner; seven grandchildren; two step-grandchildren; father Leonard Forbes; two sisters; and one brother.


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Michelle - posted on 10/27/2012 ( 1 mom has responded )
after marrying at the young age of 16, having 2 children, my marriage ended due to feeling as if my husband (21 at marriage, 25 when we divorced) could not leave his mom to become a husband. Our whole 4 years of marriage we lived with his mom who truly controlled everything he did and when she couldn't control me, i became a problem and she began to drive a wedge between him and I, needless to say we divorced. I had custody of my children when they were younger. after their dad and I divorce i remarried where I (21) had my third son . My ex and I were on speaking terms and as i have always thought although our marriage didn't work, he was a great father. when my Oldest son was 7 years old. almost 8..... my current husband at that time had a transfer in his job where we ended up needing to move 600 miles away. My 7 year old had a hard time with the fact that we would be moving when i had custody, he was allowed to see them anytime he wanted and did basically daily when possible, the weirdest thing would be that my ex and my current husband became friends because of the children. After speaking to my ex several times about what we should do, we decided that I would sign over custody to him. (hardest thing I've ever done in my life, at that time,but at the time i thought i was doing the right thing due to the fact of being a girl raised by my father.) So now my ex has custody of our two children and I eventually was put on depression med and therapy to deal with the living situation. Still believing what i did was the RIGHT thing, my ex and I always communicated weekly about the boys and i visited them as much as I possibly could, i would even brag about how awesome i was that i could still get along with my ex and that anyone that was going through a divorce with children should attempt to become friends because of the children. however when it came to visitation with my children, i would always have to come down to Ala, my ex would never allow them to come visit me in NC because he would always say, you moved away they didn't, its your responsibility to come here, my husband said he thinks it was because my ex thought i wouldn't bring the boys back which made no sense because why would allow them to live with him, if i was just going to rip them back from him. i love my boys more than i could ever hate my ex to do that and i didn't hate my ex so i agreed to always come down, so after losing several jobs so i could go there, instead of fussing with him, id always think, its more important that the boys are happy. but i would always visit when work and finances would allow. As hard as it was on me, i was able to cope with believing my boys were happy and had a stable life. Up until last week..... My ex gave me a phone call and wanted to let me know that I was right???? After trying to shake the shock off.. he begins to tell me that I was right to leave him because he now sees that his Mother ended our marriage.. I asked him what made he realize this...oh i should stop and let you know.. still to this day, my ex lives and has always lived with his mother, with our children. but back to what i was saying.. he said, he recently starting dating (4mnths) and 1st girlfriend truly since our divorce.. his mother has started doing the same thing to her as she did to me. I told him there was no need to say he was sorry and that all i want was for us to continue on the way we have and enjoy our boys success in life.. i even said, how awesome it would be that him and his girlfriend and me and my husband since 1999, could watch our son walk across the stage at graduation. well this was on a Monday. I did my normal Friday call where i was unable to get through and i received a TEXT from my ex stating since the boys were now adults, 18 and 16.... it does not look good that i communicate with him and to protect his gf feelings he feels that i should no longer contact him about the boys but only speak to boys and that the boys now have cell phones, Trying to figure out what that was about, i would ask him what happen, was this woman the jealous type, or had i done something to cause this. He was still avoiding my phone call but did text and say, he would be blocking my phone calls and text and had nothing more to say to me that he was on his way to Ga with his gf, and that the boys were back home at Ala and should call the house to speak to them. So i called the house (the moms house) where my middle son picked up and we communicated and i expressed to them that it was important that they started to have their cell phones on and to make sure they responded when i text them so that I would know they were alright. Spoke to my oldest son who said that was not a problem and everything was fine. now keep this in mind this was Friday after the Monday phone call... Saturday I called my children again asking my oldest son if he had any news about a job he had applied for we had a long chat and we even spoke about the girl in his dads life. i asked did he like her and was she nice to them. he said, mom i dont like anyone but she makes dad happy so i am happy, I said i just want you to be happy, please if anyone is ever mean to you make sure your dad is aware dont think you cant tell anyone.. that was that and we continued to talk about our normal stuff.. Now here is where my world ends.... Monday i text my children received no response,,, Tuesday texted, called, texted the ex, tried to call the ex, still no response... wednesday, same thing....texted that morning wishing them a great day, called older son, left a voicemail to call me just wanted to get a update on his job and check on them.. 6pm my time/5pm their time.. still no reply so i called the house, where no answer, but i no more hand up where i see my middle son was calling me back. So I picked up and he was his happy cheerful normal self and we chatted and after asking him about his day, i asked if he had received my voicemails and texted messages and he said yes. i said could you please just make sure you respond just so i know your okay because if i cant get you guys i can no longer call your dad because he wont pick up.. My middle son said well mom we are adults now, just call us, i said son you are 16 you are not a adult, and if i cant get you, im going to call your dad to make sure your okay to thats why its important for you guys to respond.. But I understood where he was coming from. I asked to speak to My oldest son and she seemed worried about getting him on the phone i said is everything okay he said yeah, just hang on, then suddenly i hear "alright then fine" and the phone hangs up.. I called back thinking well maybe the cell phone disconnected. my middle son picks up and says. sorry mom i didnt know he was going to do that. I said does he not want to speak to me he said no he doesnt and I dont know why. so i decided screw this, im calling my ex.. i need to know what the hell is going on. I called him and to my surprise he picks up and i said i wont take anymore than 5 minutes of your time, explained to him what had just happen and he proceeded to tell me that. Our son was now 18 and he was no longer going to force or make him, speak to me or see me. I said what do you mean force... He goes he feels you abandon him and says he doesn't want to see you, i said what make him think this, what did i do that has caused this with in a matter of a week.. he said I've been forcing him to see you and talk to you for many years now, but he's a adult now and its his choice, I said but he has been talking to me since he was 18.. his bday, every week, Friday&, Saturday when you were in Ga, you didnt force him then.. thing just don't make sense. my ex said also when you come down for xmas, dont expect him to come, I was unable to even speak and for anyone that knows me knows that's almost impossible.. he said literally its been 5 minutes goodbye. I was hysterical and crying uncontrollable at this time. i've tried texting my son and voice mails since then. I told him, id always love him, I didn't abandon him, and I wasn't mad at him, his dad, or his bother. That id always be here for him and if he changes his mind i would love to hear from him. today has been a week since i've spoken to Him and I now regret ever allowing my ex to have custody of them. I can no longer change that, but i dont know if i can continue on living knowing that my child, my first born thinks i abandon him, when i truly thought i was doing the right now by them. the only way i ever made it through all these years was by saying, I love them so much that their happiness is more important than me wanting them here with me everyday, and they are happy. I am now thinking of writing my son a letter, but im afraid i will be rejected again. My middle sons feelings has not changed and he "says" he doesn't understand why my 18 year old is doing this but i don't know what to believe now... i feel like a fool and that maybe all these years my ex was telling my children bad things about me or maybe this new girl is causing issues... my husband said he always felt something like this would happen, that no ex can truly be friends with their ex and that he feels that my ex and his mom has "brainwashed" my children and I need to tell them to kiss my ass, something i can never do to my child, and find it hard to do to my ex, because i want to believe he would never do anything this evil even though he is being so mean to me right now... I mean he would even call me through out the years and ask me what as so wrong with him that girls would not date him, he called me for love advice... and id always tell him, its not you its your mom you've got to move out no girl wants to be with a man that still lives with mommy..my husband would even talk to him..it was the weirdest thing but i loved the fact that we all got along.. Would this new girl do all this? I've never spoken to her and didn't even know about her until last Monday. i was actually happy he was finally happy.. but now i feel like a gullible idiot.. I need help, i need some advice.. i literally dont know if i can drive down at xmas, pick up my middle son, and keep my composure when my oldest son does not come out to see me. Any advice at all would be greatly appreciated.


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Howard County Emergency Operations Plan
Between 2013 and early 2015, Senior Policy Analysts Lisa Crow and Kasia Fertala worked with the Howard County Office of Emergency Management (OEM) to revise the Howard County Emergency Operations Plan (EOP). The EOP outlines the responsibilities and coordination mechanisms of County departments and external partner organizations in response to an emergency or disaster.
The EOP planning team focused on the development of a thorough response plan uniquely tailored to capture Howard County's capabilities and characteristics, but also, more importantly, the planning process aided in building a more robust emergency management program. The planning team included members from the OEM and CHHS. The team's vision was to ensure the integrity of the Plan and the program was maintained while engaging over fifty stakeholders.
On March 4, 2015, the team, with assistance from Senior Policy Analyst Birch Barron and Law and Policy Analyst Katherine Cooper, conducted an all-day training and exercise session on the new EOP that included over 120 local and state emergency stakeholders at the Howard County Public Safety Training Center. A week later, they developed and presented a final brief for County Executive Allan Kittleman and his Cabinet. The success of the planning process, training and exercise session, and final brief ultimately established a strong foundation for a proactive yet flexible emergency management program in Howard County.
This text is taken from the CHHS Spring 2015 Newsletter


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Worry not for tomorrow, for tomorrow will take care of itself.
Remember healing comes one step at a time, sometimes it seems that its one forward and 2 back but ultimately, always in a forward direction!!!
Help HealingWell continue to help people. Please donate today. Every little bit helps. To donate go to www.healingwell.com/donate
Hi Ducky,
I am new to this forum. I hope you are feeling better. There does seem to be conflicting advice about Enbrel and antibiotics. I have now been told not to use Enbrel until a course of antibiotics is complete. I did have a bad experience with mixing Enbrel and antibiotics. I was prescribed an antibiotic for a skin condition and took it without problems for several weeks, while still taking Enbrel, then out of the blue I had a serious allergic reaction with a rash, breathing difficulties and abdominal pain. I have since been admitted to hospital 5 times for abdominal pain. Every time they decide to do a new test I am taken off Enbrel; it takes weeks to get the results, so my arthritis is raging out of control, each time I go back on Enbrel the abdominal pain becomes severe. I am stuck between a rock and a hard place, the Enbrel does work for my arthritis but seems to be linked to the abdominal pain; Infliximab stopped working after a few months and I seem to have tried just about everything else. I was in hosital yesterday for more tests and am seeing a surgeon in 4 weeks. We have a holiday planned to Canada in July and I just want to be fit enough to go I don't want to let my children down by having to cancel. Please be careful about taking antibiotics and Enbrel I know you have a different condition and my experience might be unusual but if possible it would be wise to take medical advice before combining Enbrel with antibiotics and to be alert for any side effects. All the best.
Follow my progress with TSO (whipworms)http://journals.aol.com/keah/KeahsTSOJournal/
-Currently taking 50mg shot weekly of Enbrel
Diagnosed May 1998 - Graves Disease
-Complete Thyroidectomy September 1999 - While 11 weeks pregnant
Keah - I think we may have been having the same day... I re-read my post also and it sounded hostile to me.. I'm sorry I didn't mean it to be either... I didn't even realize it until I read your last post... wow... so sorry...
What does your sister need synthroid for? I take it also 'cause I had Graves disease and had a total thyroidectomy... Of course, that was all done after I had gotten in the military, so I guess there wasn't anything they could do about it... Just like single parents... you can't be a single parent and join the Air Force, but once you're in and if you become a single parent, it's ok... How much sense does that make?
Yes I am thankful that I won't be deploying for a while, however, my husband and ex-husband still deploy. We are all in aircraft maintenance so we go all over. I just wish they would stay home... I'm tired of worrying! Thankfully, they are both home now, so I don't have to worry about much. The kids really don't like it when their daddy is gone and that is hard on me. I'm sorry about your cousins over there, when will they be home? Or do they even know yet?
Since the last infection, I have not had ANY caffeine to drink. I'm paranoid it'll aggrevate something and I'll get another UTI. Oh well, better for me anyway, so I've been slamming water, decaffeinated green tea, and juices... a little bit closer to doing something healthy for my body!
Well I should go for now, it's late here and I've got to get to the other posts before I go to bed for the night... have a good evening!
Happy Weather, Warm Hugs and as always - Best Wishes - Ducky
Keah - your sister has the opposite disease of what I had... wow... Graves disease is Hyper-thyroidism and Hashimoto's is Hypo-thyroidism.. Is she going to have to have the rest of her thyroid removed? I failed treatment, I was on PTU, Enderal and Prednisone... none of it helped I was taking up to 19 pills every 4 hours and it did nothing for me. Since I got pregnant while on the treatment, they opted to go ahead and remove my whole thyroid... the Goiter was huge too... looked like I swalled a grapefruit!
I would really love a cappuccino right now... I haven't had one in what seems like forever and it is the only thing that I miss out of all the stuff I used to drink.
I hope and pray your cousins come back safe and sound... they will be in my prayers til their safe return.
Happy Weather, Warm Hugs and as always - Best Wishes - Ducky


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We are now on the countdown to the LSAT...
the thought terrifies me, actually. I know Seth will do great but standardized testing is scary. I took the GRE two times. Both times I was sweating in my seat...there is just something about them that intimidats the poo outa me...maybe because you're WHOLE future depends on that one score... (alright, maybe that is a little dramatic, but you get the point)
For those of you who keep up with us, when you have a spare second or two, please pray for Seth. He has been preparing for several weeks now and I just want him to do the best he can. He takes is on October 9th.
Well, I had my first wedding this past weekend. We left for the NC mountains on Friday around lunchtime and got back around 3am on Sunday morning. It was so much fun, and everything went very smoothly. I LOVED every minute of it, and I am so lucky to have a job that I love. We sure worked VERY hard, but it was worth it because her wedding was beautiful and ran smoothly.
Here's a funny story that happened though: On Friday night, after the rehearsal, we went back to our hotel to work on last minute wedding details. One of those details were the wedding favors. The "theme" of this wedding was like a Country Fall setting with brown, orange, yellow...all those yummy fall colors. The wedding took place in an apple orchard in the North Carolina mountains. It was gorgeous. So, naturally the wedding favors should be caramel apples, right?!?! We ordered 100 caramel apples, with cute little brown boxes and their initial on the front of the box. After assembling the boxes, I started putting the apples in each one. After about the 20th one, I noticed they smelled kind of sour, so I started looking more closely and found MOLD on every one of them!! All 100 apples were molded. It was so gross. Remember, this was the night before the wedding at like 11 o clock at night...seemed to me, there was nothing we could do about it. So, we unassembled the boxes because we didn't have anything to put in them...no stores were open to get more favors so Jill and I decided we would just forget about it.
The next morning, Katie (remember, Jill and Katie are my bosses) called and said she found more apples at Walmart! haha, i bet you know what is coming next..
Yep, I reassembled all the boxes and put the new apples in them. Haha, it was funny because we spend so much time putting them together, then taking them apart, and then I put them back together. But everything worked out, and she had beautiful caramel apples for wedding favors.
We have no more weddings until next year, so these next few months will just be spend with some meetings to discuss preparations etc.
Seth is working, working, working!! I am so proud of him. Even though he works at Chick-fil-a (which is not his dream job, but it puts food on the table) he works so hard to provide for our family. He was supposed to be off tomorrow, but took someone's shift that really needed off. He worked overtime last week. He is such a hard worker. I'm glad last weekend when I was at the wedding, he had some guys over to stay the weekend, because he sure deserves it.
I am going to post a video pretty soon of Penny.. I don't want to give away anything, so that is all I am saying, but stay tuned. I also have a story that includes me, Huey, and band-aids...it should make you laugh.
It's almost 2am..goodness. Night night!


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This is the blog of Troy Camplin, Ph.D. and his wife, Anna Camplin, M.A. After learning our son, Daniel, has autism, Troy began obsessively learning about autism -- until he learned he has Asperger's. We also have a daughter, Melina, and another son, Dylan. This is our story, our thoughts, and our research.
Tuesday, January 6, 2015
I'm not going to go into all of the evidence I see for Nietzsche having autism. He had a speech delay -- he didn't speak until he was three (like my son, Daniel) -- but then rapidly learned how to read and write. He was socially awkward in ways that sound familiar, and yet he also had a dominating personality (again, in ways that sound familiar). He also didn't exactly know what to do with himself around women. This one of the biographers, Joachim Kohler, interprets as Nietzsche being a closet homosexual, but Nietzsche seems to have been a disaster around women in exactly the same way I was (thank goodness eHarmony had been invented in the meantime!).
But what I want to note is the degree to which Nietzsche seemed to have learned how to behave from books. I cannot emphasize enough the degree to which I have learned how to behave around people from the books I have read. Where neurotypicals have a variety of instincts that allow them to learn how to behave from the most casual of observations, autistics have to be taught almost everything. If one reads Kohler carefully, one can see that Nietzsche learned about love and sexuality from the ancient Greeks in a way that makes sense from my theory that autistic are explicit social learners.
Of course, anyone who knows about the ancient Greeks on love and sexuality will immediately understand just how messed up this could make someone. Imagine that you are raised in home in which there are nothing but very religious women, where sex and sexuality are hardly discussed. This would make things hard enough for a neurotypical; the situation is almost impossible if you are autistic. The autistic person would grow up sexually ambiguous at best, not really knowing what to do or think or feel. He hasn't been explicitly taught. Then, when he goes to high school -- Schulpforta -- he concentrates on religion and philology and, thus, on the ancient Greeks and Romans. Nietzsche reads works that rarely if ever mention women -- and when they do, in strongly misogynistic terms. When love is discussed, it is between men, or between men and boys -- teachers and students. Eros is the god of erotic love between boys -- the offspring of Ares (War) and Aphrodite (feminine Love). And then, Socrates, with whom Nietzsche identifies because they both share the presence of a daimon, simultaneously expresses Eros while remaining chaste toward men and boys. It would be no wonder if Nietzsche had no clue what to do in areas of love and sex.
Kohler doesn't just use this as "proof" of his thesis. He also uses the fact that Nietzsche, as a boy and young man, had very intense friendships with other boys and men his age. However, this is also a trait of autistics. A friend in a real sense becomes a "project" on which the autistic person spends a great deal of time and effort. It can be flattering at first, but it can also become intense and overbearing and, likely, weird after a while. The autistic will, of course, never notice the increasing discomfort of the friend. If the person is a love interest, this is often interpreted as evidence of how much the autistic is in love. And that's not untrue. But equally, intensity of friendship is not evidence of erotic feeling in the case of friends. But it may easily be misinterpreted as such.
If autistics are explicit learners, including in social areas of life, what they see or read to get their information is going to be very important. It will mean that it's important for parents to be open and clear about areas of love and sex and sexuality. Making sure the autistic person is reading and watching the right things is also important, as those will perhaps have the biggest impact. You probably want to make sure your autistic is not reading a lot of ancient works on sex relations and sexuality (nor a lot of the surrealists, who were perhaps a bit too influenced by the Marquis de Sade).
My own experience of learning how to act more and more seemingly neurotypical by reading books and watching movies and T.V. helped me to see that this was taking place for Nietzsche as well (though in his case, it was obviously just reading). I hope that this insight can be used to help my son -- and perhaps others.
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Koehler has been pretty thoroughly discredited by more recent scholarship. Although I do agree with you that Nietzsche appears to have traits of Aspberger's. He is unrelentingly critical and has high standards of judgement. But one should be careful to judge his philosophy as a mere reflection of some kind of illness. This is an unfortunate fallacy in much of the literature on Nietzsche. I would disagree with one more point in your article: though Nietzsche appeared to be very dominating in his books, in real life he was actually very soft-spoken and unassuming. In defense of this second point I would offer for your consideration that rather than disagree with Wagner openly, Nietzsche finally chose to break the relationship off permanently. Before that he simply adopted Wagner's ideas, even if he disagreed with them. He strikes me as more of a listener/observer than someone who asserts himself in socially inappropriate ways. Just some thoughts. Great article overall though! Gave me some things to think about. Blessings to you and your family!ReplyDelete
May be, but I relied more on his facts he presented than his interpretations. The facts he reported about Nietzsche's childhood were most telling to me.ReplyDelete
I reject the idea that Asperger's is an illness. It's not. It's a structural variation. Which results in a different way of thinking.
I have Asperger's, and if you met me you would consider me very soft-spoken and unassuming. I'm very dominating in my writing, including in my online persona.
When the socially inappropriate ways result in predictable backlash, one starts to become more of a listener/observer just to avoid the conflict that you don't understand why you're creating.
Thanks for the feedback. Those are great observations--the kind that many you think about the things you mistakenly left unstated.


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If you think $500 is still far too much to spend on wedding invitations, then you are in for a world of financial surprises for everything else that you will have to spend money on for even the most bare bones of weddings. To be more precise I am going to show how you can send out 200 invitations for $484. That number INCLUDES postage to send and receive the RSVP.
Let it be known now that I am using Paper Source products as an example because it's tangible and not theoretical. Also, they have so many options on size and color for their stationery products, it's not even funny.
The pieces for this imaginary wedding invitation consist of:
A-4 (5x7) outer envelopes
A-4 envelopes
A-4 notecard stock
Letter size text stock
110# white card stock*
Mailing postage
Postcard postage
* The postcard portion is something that can be done at your local print shop.
Here are the steps to get this project over and finished in about three hours:
Getting started...
1. Format your flat card invites on 8.5 x 11 paper, two per page.
2. Format your postcard RSVP (side 1 and side 2), four per page.
3. Email your postcard as a PDF to a local print shop. They can print black on white cardstock and cut them perfectly.
4. Print (at home) your invites on 8.5 x 11 Paper Source paper.
While that's going on...
5. Hand-write guest names on envelope--do not write return address anywhere!
6. Hand-write guest names on outer envelope AND return address on back.
7. Pick up your order from print shop and drop off invites you printed to be cut.
Assembly time...
8. Using double-sided tape, affix the invite to the flat card, leaving a 1/8" border.
9. Apply postcard postage to RSVP postcards.
10. Open envelope with closure facing up and first insert RSVP, then the invite and seal.
11. Open outer envelope with closer facing up and insert sealed envelope face up.
12. Seal outer envelope and apply invitation postage.
Some Tips:
* When you design something to be cut out, never include the cut line to be printed.
* You should have a "print" file in PDF format and a "cut" file also in PDF format.
* The "cut" file is a file that only contains the cut marks. Printers use this as their guide.
* Ask your print shop when the last time the blade was changed out. Request a new blade if it's been longer than two months of moderate to heavy use.
* Avoid mailing cards/items that are flat and square because the postage rate is expensive.
There are plenty of other ways you can dress up a simple invitation like this by adding embellishments. Besides the additional cost for this sort of styling, always consider the weight and bulk of adding such things. Bulk and weight can increase the postage dramatically if you are not careful.
What ways were you able to reduce the cost of your invitations? How did you dress up your invitations to go from simple to sublime without going over budget? Please share with the community as everyone loves to save money and get new and creative wedding tips!


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Monday, January 18, 2010
Recycled Jewelry Holder
18 comments:
- Rue said...
You laugh, but if you saw all the costume jewlery and do-dads I have, you would realize how brilliant this is! I always give my egg cartons to my friend who has chickens and sells the eggs, but I may keep a few now....
- January 18, 2010 at 10:19 PM
- Laura said...
You could do some really cute decopage on it with some retro paper or some gold leaf. That is a good idea, I am the one everyone gives the egg cartons to since I have chickens.
- January 19, 2010 at 2:05 AM
- Nora Johnson said...
What a fantastic idea - I'd never have thought of it - you're so clever!!
Hope you're having a great week
- January 19, 2010 at 2:18 AM
- Jasmim said...
This is very creative!
- January 19, 2010 at 4:56 AM
- Maggi said...
Perfect way to organize your jewelry, it's egg-cellent! Oh yeah,. I went there! lol
- January 19, 2010 at 6:00 AM
- Patti said...
That is perfect!You are so creative! And baking...ah- it always takes so much time and energy- I used to love it, but now not so much. Have a great week!
- January 19, 2010 at 6:15 AM
- Heather said...
Michelle, I am in the same boat as you. Sorta, lol. I have been wanting to bake so many things, cookies, cakes, pastries, etc and I haven't made one darn thing yet! I have all my recipes sitting there waiting for me and all my ingredients overflowing the pantry and NO energy what so ever to make anything! I'm hoping one of these days I'll find some, LOL.
Cute idea with the egg carton!
- January 19, 2010 at 6:55 AM
Cuuute! And I love your jewelry too! Some friends gave us a million egg cartons (since we have chickens) but we'll just save them for eggs though. ;) I inherited a pretty jewelry box from my IL that their neighbor made for them, so I'm happy. :)
- January 19, 2010 at 7:07 AM
p.s. big hugs and kisses for you and the kitties! Hope you got lots of rest this past weekend!
- January 19, 2010 at 7:08 AM
- Randi Troxell said...
oh.. very good idea! i'll have to try this one out!!
say hello to your kids for me, lol!!!
- January 19, 2010 at 8:22 AM
Hehehe what a great idea
- January 19, 2010 at 11:09 AM
- Lemondrop Marie said...
Really is a great idea! Love the au natural color too!
Marie @ Lemondrop ViNtAge
- January 19, 2010 at 5:26 PM
- Chatelaine said...
Recycle, reuse..great idea. I've seen some ladies that sell clip earrings at flea markets use egg cartons for display.
I wouldn't decorate it. I like it's simplicity.
Hello to the kitties. Mine are snuggled in on a stormy winter's night.
- January 19, 2010 at 5:34 PM
- jen said...
Hey Michelle!!
That is soooo "Martha"
Thanks for stopping by my blog the other day1
- January 19, 2010 at 5:47 PM
- The Blonde Duck said...
What did you do with the dozen boiled eggs?
- January 20, 2010 at 1:29 PM
- Together We Save said...
Gresat idea!! I love recycling... but I admit I would decorate it, or my girls would, paint it anyway. They want to paint everything.
- January 20, 2010 at 1:32 PM
- kanishk said...
I am the one everyone gives the egg cartons to since I have chickens.
Work from home India
- January 29, 2010 at 11:15 PM
- Joy said...
Ya know, I kinda like it! It looks vintage. Wouldn't work if it was that icky styrofoam carton.
- January 30, 2010 at 8:02 PM


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Offering further proof of the impressionable nature of the newborn brain, researchers studying the influence of early language have discovered a life-long impact.
In a paper published this week in Nature Communications, scientists from McGill University and the Montreal Neurological Institute explain how even brief exposure to language permanently wires how our brains process sounds and second languages later in life. So even if you can't remember a lick of the French your parents spoke to you as a newborn, that brief exposure to the dialect makes your brain's handling of a second language different from someone who has spoken or heard only one language.
The researchers studied three groups of children aged between 10 and 17 with varying linguistic backgrounds. The first group was composed of monolingual French speakers; the second, bilingual Chinese and French speakers; and finally a third group of Chinese children adopted by French parents who no longer spoke Chinese.
Using an MRI, the researchers were able to witness which parts of a participant's brain lit up when speaking. For the monolingual group, two areas common to language were active. For the two bilingual groups, even the participants who no longer spoke Chinese, the brain activated additional sections consistent with bilingual processing.
"What we discovered when we tested the children who had been adopted into French-language families and no longer spoke Chinese, was that, like children who were bilingual, the areas of the brain known to be involved in working memory and general attention were activated when they were asked to perform tests involving language," lead study author Lara Pierce said. "These results suggest that children exposed to Chinese as infants process French in a different manner to monolingual French children."
The researchers say the findings offer new insights into how brain plasticity functions, as well as information on how education might be modified to best suit those with bilingual brain activity. They also plan on conducting future studies to see if there are differences in the complexity of the languages that children are exposed to, such as French and Spanish as opposed to Chinese and French.


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When Las Vegas City Council voted to green light a pilot program that would allow horse-drawn carriages on the city streets, plenty of animal rights activists were up in arms. Care2 member and activist Gina Greisen started a petition protesting the initiative; her petition earned the support of more than 6,000 people from Nevada and the rest of the world.
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text: Hey all! I just upgraded to a grown up smart phone (lol) from a BB Storm 2 to a Razr Maxx. Holy, cow, the difference! I was sooo lost at first. I am not very tech-savvy, so this has been a bit of a struggle for me. I did have a few questions. On my BB, my contacts with FB synced their photos to my address book, even their birthdays went into my calendar. Does anyone know if there's a way to do this with the Razr? Also, I read a thread about hiding or rooting the "bloat" so I can remove the apps it came with that I don't want. I'm terrified to do this, so I've hidden the apps, but I keep getting a notification that there are upgrades available, and I don't want to install them. Is rooting my only option? If so, wth does it involve? Lastly, does anyone know if there is a way to save pics from the internet onto your phone? My friends will send me those eCards, but I haven't been able to figure out how to send it without sending the whole IP address (if that's even the right terminology...). Thanks for any help, you guys are awesome!


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Having kept a low profile of late, Marben's Carl Heinrich and Ryan Donovan fly solo for the first time this week with the launch of Richmond Station (1 Richmond W, at Yonge, 647-748-1444). The 100-seat bistro should be open by Friday for dinner service, with lunch to follow in time for the lucrative holiday season.
How does the season-two winner of Top Chef Canada describe the new menu?
"That's the first thing I always get asked and I never know what to say," laughs Heinrich. "I guess it's the same way I've always cooked but a little more advanced."
That'd be locally sourced and seasonal but minus the clichés of barnboard. The split-level L-shaped room features a bar up front with two-tops along the opposite walls, an open kitchen out back and period black and white photos on the walls documenting the construction of the Yonge Street subway line that runs under the restaurant.
"The pictures all show people working," says Heinrich. "And you can watch us working, too!"
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This is the perfect dessert to make for your love on Valentine's Day. Its simple, fast and you can find the ingredients anywhere – but it will still make a big impression!
Serves 4
Prep: 6 min
Cook: 25 min
Clean: 6 min
8 ounces semisweet chocolate (I use Ghirardelli)
3/4 cup unsalted butter
3 eggs
3 egg yolks
1/2 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
1/2 cup all purpose flour
4 6oz ramekins or soufflé dishes
Preheat oven to 425°F.
Butter 4 6oz soufflé dishes. In a saucepan, over a low heat, stir chocolate and butter together until melted and there are no lumps. Set aside and let cool slightly.
In a glass bowl, whisk eggs, egg yolks, vanilla, powdered sugar until well combined. Now add the flour and mix well. Transfer batter to prepared baking dishes equally.
Bake cakes until batter has risen and the top edges are brown. This will take about 15 minutes. Remove from oven and run a knife around the edges to loosen from the dish.
Now this is the tricky part - holding a towel in one hand, place the dessert plate on top of the ramekin with the other hand and flip over quickly to remove the soufflé dish. Repeat.
Dust with some extra powdered sugar and serve with some fresh raspberries and vanilla ice cream.


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Harper Park Community Summit
Date(s) - 03/25/2017
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We are inviting you — artists, naturalists, scientists, youth, and children — to discover together a path to protecting the ecological treasure Harper Park is in our city. We invite you to join in a full-day Summit to experience the transformative power of deep dialogue and discovery when something that matters very much to all of us is at stake.
Please join us in a process of community-engaged conservation and stewardship, to bring together ideas, skills, resources, and knowledge necessary to protect the species and life reliant on a healthy Harper Park and to share in its responsible enjoyment.
Let's come together to protect Harper Park by developing plans and taking actions that will respect the ecological sensitivity of this place while opening its cultural and natural heritage to all people.
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LGBT History Month celebrates the stories, lives and experiences of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities.
It is hosted every year in February, but LGBT HM's work is to "educate out prejudice that continues throughout the year."
The theme of this year's History Month looks at Citizenship, PHSE and Law. This is especially important to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act 1967, a milestone in gay British history which marks the partial decriminalisation towards male homosexuality in England and Wales.
LGBT HM strive to raise awareness on matters affecting the LGBT community and to make educational and other institutions safe spaces for LGBT communities.
This is important for Profound Services as we aim to recognise our responsibility in ensuring that all staff and learners are treated with dignity, respect and equality. This is encouraged via regular discussions and debates using the Profound Services monthly 'Hot Topic' publication, which concerns itself with various current and topical matters.
The History Month is celebrated across the UK with a range of events taking place to mark the occasion including talks, films, quizzes and exhibitions.
Throughout the month, social media is taken by storm due to the awareness raised by LGBT campaign supporters who aim to help individuals 'get the knowledge' to challenge homophobia, biphobia and transphobia in schools, workplaces and the community.
You can support LGBT HM by getting involved using their resources, raising funds, sharing events and challenging discrimination wherever you are. See http://lgbthistorymonth.org.uk/ for more details. Additionally, you can access the Profound Services website and take a look at the most recent 'Hot Topic' publication.


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Attention all you word nerds and literary lovers, because this clever comic from Incidental Comics is sure to tickle your funny bone like no other. Think back to the days when you languished away in your High School English class and tried your best to remember everything your teacher taught you, because the Literary Devices comic creates literal interpretations of the vocabulary you might have slept through.
From the Irony Board to the Foreshadow Puppet, these literary devices are for lovers of puns and witty word play. The Literary Devices comic transforms the act of novel writing into a full out construction. Taking the word devices literally, the comic features a series of machines that are required in the crafting of the next great American novel.
Hilarious, punny and painfully clever, the Literary Devices comic from Incidental Comics is sure to insight a few giggles from the wordsmith's in the crowd.
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Led Zeppelin T-Shirt(SOLD)
Posted by Fashion-o maverick at 12:44 AM 40 comments
Labels: T-shirt Band
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Pantera T-Shirt 1995
Pantera was an American heavy metal band from Arlington, Texas, formed by the Abbott brothers, Vinnie Paul (drums) and "Dimebag" Darrell (guitar), then known as Diamond Darrell, in 1981.[1] Bassist Rex Brown would join in 1982, with vocalist Terry Glaze. In 1987 Phil Anselmo would become the group's lead vocalist, completing the band's most successful lineup that would remain together for 16 years.
Although initially influenced by 1970s rock bands such as Kiss and Van Halen, Pantera's style changed by the late 1980s. Pantera subsequently became a key formulator of the post-thrash subgenre of groove metal. It would not be until nine years after forming that the band saw its first piece of commercial success in its 1990 major label debut, Cowboys from Hell. From there, Pantera became one of the most celebrated heavy metal bands of the 1990s.
Condition: Good
Size: L
Pit-to-pit :21 inch
Back Collar to bottom : 28 inch
Price: RM80
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Labels: T-shirt Band
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Vtg 1980 Pat Travers Band 3quarter (50/50)(SOLD)
Patrick Henry "Pat" Travers (born April 12, 1954) is a Canadian rock guitarist, keyboardist and singer who began his recording career with Polydor Records in the mid 1970s. Pat Thrall, Nicko McBrain, Tommy Aldridge, Peter "Mars" Cowling, Jerry Riggs, and Carmine Appice are some of the noted musicians that have been members of the Pat Travers Band through the years.
Condition: OK
Size: L
Pit-to-pit :19 inch
Back Collar to bottom : 24 inch
Price: RM110(SOLD)
Posted by Fashion-o maverick at 8:39 PM 0 comments
Labels: T-shirt Band, Vintage
Friday, August 21, 2009
BEAMS T-Shirt
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Labels: Beams
Monday, August 17, 2009
Hysteric Glamour T-Shirt (Women)
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Labels: Hysteric Glamour
Takeo Kikuchi T-shirt
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Labels: Takeo Kikuchi
Scanner T-shirt
Condition: Good
Size: X-Large
Pit-to-pit :23 inch
Back Collar to bottom : 29 inch
Price: RM50
P/s: It has been a long time since the last post.Will update more later.
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Eco-hydrological characterization of inland wetlands in Africa using L-Band SAR
TypeJournal Article
AccessibilityLimited Access
MetadataShow full item record
Rebelo, Lisa-Maria. 2010. Eco-hydrological characterization of inland wetlands in Africa using L-Band SAR. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 3(4):554-559. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2010.2070060
Permanent link to cite or share this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10568/40540
Maps describing the eco-hydrology of inland wetland systems in Africa are needed to identify and implement appropriate adaptive management plans related to land use and land cover. Many African countries lack regional baseline information on the temporal extent, distribution and characteristics of wetlands. This information is provided here in the form of maps which characterize two wetland sites of international importance in Malawi and Mozambique. Multi-temporal L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) datasets are combined with Landsat Thematic Mapper and ASTER images, digital elevation models, and vegetation species data to provide information on wetland ecology and hydrology. These data were used as input to a hybrid, Decision Tree classifier and a Principal Components Analysis classification approach to produce maps depicting the spatial distribution of vegetation species and characterizing the wetland dynamics. The maps exhibit classification accuracies of 89% and 84% for the two sites respectively. The L-band SAR datasets have proved to be an essential information source in the production of these maps due to i) frequent cloud cover/smoke which reduces the temporal coverage of optical data, and ii) a systematic observation strategy and frequent image acquisition which enables characterization of the flood dynamics at a high temporal resolution.
SubjectsECOLOGY; HYDROLOGY; WETLANDS; ECOSYSTEMS; REMOTE SENSING; MAPS; VEGETATION; MONITORING;
CountriesMALAWI; MOZAMBIQUE
RegionsSOUTHERN AFRICA
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text: A British-style farce with some serious undercurrents, this features a pair of classmates with very different characters, who form an unlikely alliance when one turns himself invisible. Quiet Nicky has perfected the art of keeping a low profile, even to the point of deliberately missing test questions so as not to stand out—but it's his borderline-ADHD neighbor Oliver who inadvertently manages to take the next step, with a swami's mantra copped from an old magazine article. At once exhilarated and frightened, Oliver acts out with a spree of outrageous pranks, even as he enlists Nicky both to cover for him, and to help him get the magazine back from an unscrupulous uncle. Whybrow declines to give Oliver a taste for voyeurism, so this is closer in spirit to Andrew Clements's Things Not Seen (2002) than to Robert Cormier's Fade (1988), and not only do the two lads help each other out in the clutch (and solve some problems in their respective families, too), they turn out to be healthy influences on each other. The action-packed plot even comes with a car chase, but it's the protagonists' inner changes that are likely to leave the deepest impression on readers. (Fantasy. 10-12)


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• I reported last month that the British television series DCI Banks, adapted from Peter Robinson's best-selling Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks books, was due to start running this month on PBS-TV stations in the States. But at the time, the start date appeared uncertain. Now I see that the debut is, indeed, inconsistent across the nation; it starts on KQED-TV in San Francisco tonight, for instance, but won't begin on KCTS in Seattle until this coming Thursday, January 10. If you're hoping to watch the seven episodes slated for broadcast, check your local PBS schedule right away.
• January's "Getting Away with Murder" column in Shots finds clever critic Mike Ripley remarking on the Publishers'
Publicity Circle Christmas party; new works of fiction by Sam Eastland, Robert Ryan, Deryn Lake, and
Andrew Taylor; and his discovery of CIA operative-turned-novelist William Hood
(Spy Wednesday).
• Fans of Icelandic crime fiction might want to partake of the
Reykjavík City Library's summer tours of local sites familiar from novels by Arnaldur Indriðason, Yrsa Sigurdardóttir, and others.
• Really? A forgotten Bram Stoker story?
• Last week I published a list of people, all of whom had contributed in some way to crime fiction as we know it, who passed away in 2012. One of those was American movie and TV performer Cliff Osmond. Unaware that Osmond "was dying of pancreatic cancer," film historian Stephen Bowie interviewed the actor last fall, and has now posted Part I of their exchange. (Part II can be enjoyed here.)
• Oh, no. My friend, British thriller writer R.J. "Roger" Ellory, who got in a spot of trouble last fall for publishing some highly favorable reviews of his own works under fraudulent monikers, has become
a source of controversy again--this time for allegedly "attempting on more than a dozen occasions to remove negative stories" from his Wikipedia page "using pseudonyms."
• Chicagoan Sean Chercover (The Trinity Game) is the subject of Jeff Rutherford's newest edition of the Reading and Writing Podcast.
• This is very cool: 82-year-old actor and author James McEachin, who starred in the 1973-1974 NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie series Tenafly, was one
of only six Korean War veterans aboard the U.S. Defense Department's first-ever
float in Pasadena, California's Tournament of Roses parade on January 1. "The $247,000 flower-covered float [was] a replica of the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.," reported the Associated Press. (Hat tip to Gary Phillips.)
• And Americans who tuned in last night for the first episode of Downton Abbey, Season 3, on PBS' Masterpiece Theatre might have found one line of dialogue rather anachronistic. When, in this episode set in 1920, a vexed Lord
Grantham informs his wife, Cora, that he has lost most of her inherited fortune in a bad investment in Canadian railroads, she offers this extraordinarily tranquil response: "I'm American; have gun will travel." Toby O'Brien tries to explain away this oddity in his blog, Inner Toob. Meanwwhile, another fan of the show notes that it's the "second time [creator and writer] Julian Fellowes alluded to American cowboys on Downton Abbey."
Monday, January 07, 2013
Fishing Around
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Cutting-edge writerly news as always, Jeff. Following the exploits of R. J. Ellory is as good as watching the latest episode of 48 Hours--always a new horror around the bend. Thanks for an entertaining and newsy post.
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Poverty Point at its peak 3,000 years ago was part of an enormous trading network that stretched for hundreds of miles across the continent. It was - and is - also an engineering marvel, the product of five million hours of labor. Explore the culture of a highly sophisticated people who left behind one of North Americas most important archeological sites.
The Monumental Earthworks of Poverty Point is a publicly-owned and managed archaeological park in the parish of West Carroll, State of Louisiana, United States of America. The site is located on the eastern edge of an elevated landform, Macon Ridge, in the Lower Mississippi Valley. Today the ridge, which is about 7-9m higher than the adjacent lowlands to the east, overlooks and is abutted on its eastern side by the Bayou Maҫon.
The site consists of an integrated complex of earthen monuments, in the main constructed 3,700-3,100 years ago in the Late Archaic period. The complex includes large mounds and associated borrow/quarry areas, six semi-elliptical earthen ridges with an outer diameter of 1.14 km and a large flat plaza bordered by the ridges. Mound A, one of the largest constructed earthen mounds in North America, dominates the site. Collection and archaeological excavations have documented the rich material culture associated with this complex.
The Poverty Point complex is recognised internationally as an important site not just because of its scale, the integration of the earthworks and the extent to which the complex is intact, but crucially because it was built by hunter-fisher-gatherers. The elevated natural topography of the site above the Holocene alluvial lowlands provided a secure place for human settlement in an area otherwise prone to flooding, and influenced the layout of the complex and the placing of the earthworks: it helps to make it clear why the site was selected as the location of the monumental complex. All the singular elements that make up the complex as they survive in shape and substance the mounds, the system of ridges and swales, the aisles, the plaza with the posthole circles, the causeway, the bisector ridge, the dock and the borrow areas as well as their spatial organisation in relation to the topography, illustrate the refined use of natural features and topography to create a designed monumental landscape.


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Convicted Felon Sentenced For Possessing A Firearm With An Obliterated Serial Number
SHREVEPORT, La. – United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that William Thomas Holland III, 31, of Norfolk, Va., was sentenced Thursday by U.S. District Judge Tom Stagg to 24 months in federal prison and three years of supervised release for possessing a firearm after being convicted of a felony and for possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number. He pleaded guilty July 11, 2013.
According to evidence presented at the guilty plea, on June 23, 2012, members of the 2nd Security Forces Squadron at Barksdale Air Force Base (BAFB) noticed a vehicle parked near a wooded area on BAFB. Upon looking through the window of the vehicle, officers saw a large knife, marijuana and evidence of marijuana use. Holland then walked from the woods and approached the vehicle and stated that he owned the vehicle. The defendant was detained and a warrant was obtained to search the vehicle to retrieve the knife and marijuana. Holland was the civilian spouse of a member of the military who lived on BAFB. A second search warrant was obtained to search Holland's residence on BAFB. A loaded .357 caliber revolver was found along with other items. The serial number on the firearm was obliterated. Holland admitted to possessing the firearm, knowing that the serial number was obliterated on the firearm and that he had a prior felony conviction prohibiting him from possessing the firearm. He told law enforcement agents that he had bought the ammunition for the firearm from a local sporting goods store.
"Barksdale Air Force Base is one of the largest Air Force bases in the world and is home of the 8th Air Force and B-52H bombers," Finley stated. "The safety of the military and its civilian protection is a priority of our office. Vigilant action by Security Forces and the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) agents resulted in the arrest, conviction and imprisonment of this felon. It is a testament to the great working relationship between the military investigative personnel and the Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives."
Members of the 2nd Security Forces Squadron, the AFOSI at Barksdale Air Force Base and the Shreveport Office of the ATF investigated the case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert W. Gillespie Jr. prosecuted this case as part of Project Safe Neighborhoods. Project Safe Neighborhoods is a nationwide program started in 2001 designed to reduce violence by aggressively enforcing existing federal firearms laws.


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We are back from our week in Portland and I will post a blog post of what we did, where we went, what we eat and kid friendly places if you have those traveling with you.
Today is menu Monday like always so sticking with that today in case you haven't figured out your mea plans for the week or need a last minute meal idea!
Monday - spaghetti and meatballs. I usually make a big batch of homemade meatballs and put them in the freezer and every few weeks defrost them for dinner
Tuesday - oyakyudon, a Japanese chicken and egg dish served over rice. Quick, easy and my kid loves it!
Wednesday - leftovers because we are traveling again for the next few days so whatever that needs to be eaten up in the fridge is the plan that evening!