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The globe is being taken by storm, and the governments, even rightfully elected ones, are trembling in their boots. There never was an "Arab Spring", and even if there was one outside of the journalists' minds seeking to create a catchy title, reality caught up with the initial uprisings, wrapped its icy claws around them and pulled them back into the cold and bleak realm of Realpolitik. But besides creating an unstable and uncertain future for those countries that had successfully toppled their dictatorial megalomaniacs, the uprisings had set a new trend. A trend of revolution and revulsion.
Although it was not the reason, the "Arab Spring" did provide the spark for the launch of a new era of democracy. In the democratic states, this is not about eradicating the government, but instead, telling them you are sick and tired of the way they are handling things. Rather than simply practicing your right at the ballot box after a set time period, you can now actively take part in politics whilst not having to stand as a politician or be part of a pressure group.
To link up with a popular and mostly peaceful movement, strongest in Brazil, Bulgaria and Turkey at the moment, sign up to Twitter or Facebook and take a few hours out of your diary to take a stand against corruption, overbearing parental governance or any other issue you feel is being neglected. If you're not in the country, I'd recommend you start looking at the practices of your own government and start something up. Described by Erdogan as a "curse", a "menace" and a "scourge", social media has become not just one of the main provocateurs but also its main organiser.
It is also a torch that shines into the deepest lairs of governance and reveals to the world its deepest secrets. The resultant revulsion is then fittingly played out in the squares of the cities, as the anger in the public internet domain is translated into anger in the public spaces.
Whether this form of power, that of morality, outlasts the power of the powerful remains to be seen. One thing that is for sure however, is that this new form of democacy is on a warpath and it will not stop until one side gets hurt.


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Fiorina and NRSC air new ad attacking Boxer
The campaign of Republican Senate candidate Carly Fiorina and the National Republican Senatorial Committee have joined forces to air a new ad that accuses Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer of presiding over a state that has fallen into disrepair.
NRSC officials initially said they planned to spend at least $1.75 million to help Fiorina during the final week of her campaign to unseat the three-term senator. But after several weeks in which Fiorina has slid behind Boxer in the polls, the NRSC has moved up the timing — devoting $2 million to reinforce the message of the former Hewlett-Packard chief executive.
The new television spot, which begins airing Tuesday, is narrated by the announcer featured in Fiorina's "Demon Sheep" web ad. It features black-and-white images, some of which are reminiscent of photographs from the Great Depression, depicting the state as a place of entrenched poverty and despair.
"Trillions in reckless wasteful spending, destroying small business, killing jobs, crushing hopes," the announcer says as photographs flash of a barren field, liquidation signs and what the campaign identified as a tent city populated by the homeless in Sacramento and an abandoned home behind a padlocked gate in Stockton. "We can change this, but only if we change the people we send to Washington. California cannot afford Boxer for six more long years," the ad says.
The ad will replace Fiorina's first spot, which mocked Boxer's interaction with Army Corps of Engineers Brig. Gen. Michael Walsh during a 2009 congressional hearing. Boxer had asked Walsh to call her 'Senator' rather than 'Ma'am' — which Fiorina argued was an illustration of Boxer's "arrogance."
At least initially, the visibility of Fiorina's "Sir" ad was vastly overshadowed by Boxer's ads, which included one positive spot and one ad attacking Fiorina for overseeing some 30,000 layoffs while heading Hewlett-Packard.
Boxer began running her spots more than a week before Fiorina's, whose first ad aired Sept. 23. During the four-day span that Fiorina's ad was running (from Sept. 23 to Sept. 26), the ad appeared 11 times and only in the Los Angeles media market, according to a report by the Nielsen Co.
Over the full week of Sept. 20-26, Boxer's ads ran 454 times in the L.A. area. They ran 1,521 times across the state, according to Nielsen, which has been tracking the candidates' visibility in the governor's and senate races in California.
Boxer's campaign manager Rose Kapolczynski described the ad as "more of the same: no ideas for creating jobs in California, just misleading attacks on Barbara Boxer."
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Igelfeld, as member of Ariamis myself, this is an interesting read. This being said, it is definitely a little demeaning to every other member of the realm to claim that Ariamis is your story alone. At one time yes, Nrillinthas was Ariamis, but there is much more to the realm now than that. I can understand Vladimir Nrillinthas writing this way, but it's a little harsh for you to discredit players who value unity and mutual benefit enough to swear fealty to you even when they knew they did not need to.
There were the Bakavis river cuts through the vast Coi woods like a knife through butter, there was born Ascalon. The story of a single man and his relatives, a story of diplomacy and unity.We find ourselves in a time when Roran of Arescod, leader to his House after his father Tyvandor had been dethroned due to an incident, first began gathering the support of other nobles to found their own Kingdom. It was in a harsh time, when the endless Rathgari hordes mustered for a grand invasion of the ancient and dormant Erstes Imperium, that Roran, one of the many nobles living in the large swaths of independant lands still found in the Central Corelands those days, concluded that in order for those indepedant nobles to retain their freedom and lordships, they would have to unite. He commenced by gathering the support of his old allies, the Houses of Rynir, le Drake, le Hart and Vilnar and combining with them to convince the local nobility of the necessity of this unification of lands to protect themselves from whichever giant would come out on top.The Rathgari hordes of the North were a fiercesome race of warriors, a seemingly endless wave of human flesh demanding blood wherever they went, leaving only the ashes of their adversaries in their wake. Usually separated and brewing with internal conflict, who knew when they would unite once more and cast their gaze on the nobles living around the Coi woods?The ancient and slumbering giant, the Erstes Imperium had been a great center of civilisation in the past, had slowly succumbed to decadency and corruption, most lords trying to grab as much land and power as they could. With the Rathgari invasion, would the giant be crippled, or woud he rise again, and continue the unstoppable annexation of lands as it had in the past?Yes, the independant nobles in the center of the Corelands had enough to worry about. It was this sense of anticipation, this sense of fear, of resistance and self-preservation that Roran used to unite them under his lead. The young Kingdom of Ascalon, the stepping stone between Rathgar, the Imperium and the sea in the fold of the Corelands, rose while the first great Rathgari invasion crashed against the Imperium's defences like a tidal wave on a cliff. It seemed as if the very matter of their time rippled due to the effects of the horde's attack, when the weakened Imperium crumbled. The Rathgari warriors forced their way straight towards the capital of Lakehold like a dried leaf on fire, and as such reawakened an ancient fear in every noble of the Corelands, that Rathgar was alive, and hungry.Despite the dramatic consequences for the inhabitants of the Imperium, the first Rathgari invasion only did good to Ascalon. Noble houses flocked together under the golden lion of Ascalon, desperate to protect themselves from the ever-approaching Rathgari borders or the chaos erupting within the Imperium after the invasion. It was at this point that the intentions of Ascalon changed with the addition of new and wise nobles to the realm, who insisted in proactively seeking out noble houses to join the Kingdom, lest to protect them from the chaos in the world. Ascalon was to become a peaceful beacon, a place where people could go to escape the war-thorn lands of Rathgar and Erstes, a place that was neutral, and would stay neutral. With limited succes the borders of Ascalon expanded slowly, untill they met those of both the Imperium and those of the Rathgari colonists. The first contact with both large feared entitities were mostly positive, which was considerably surprising. The colonists of Rathgar consisted mostly of peaceful settlers who were easily persuaded to halt further colonisation. On the other side when the Ascalonians met the Imperium the smaller states they encountered were eager to trade and found friendly relations, which onlly strenghtened the idea of a free and independant Ascalon, while however, decreasing the urge for independant nobles to join them. The chaos seemed to have disappeared. As time progressed, and Ascalon expanded towards the West, assimilating the entire culture of Central Coreland into a single realm, that a new event shocked the known world, for the second time in the first year. The second Rathgari Invasion left the Imperium gasping for breath, while shortly after the kingdom of D'hara declared its independance from the Imperium due to its incapability to protect it, aswell as the widespread corruption in the Imperium. This is when the Kingdom's goals changed from becoming a beacon of neutrality into becoming a seperate Kingdom, and develop its own culture. Despite friendly relations with realms both in- and outside of the Rathgar confederation and the Erstes Imperium, the Kingdom of Ascalon prepared for any threats while organizing itself.The internal politics of Ascalon were based on the different noble houses joining the realm under King Roran. As such each noble house claimed its own part of the land, forming a kingdom made of a large amount of small and concentrated holdings. As time progressed, the larger and more dominant noble houses rose to become the first Dukes under King Roran, but with this event, problems arose. One of the most powerful families had been struck by the Sleeping Disease, marking the third quarter of the first year, and left a vacuum of power that caused envy and chaos to strike. As the sleeping disease left Ascalon, it left a Kingdom that was partly organised and fucntioning in perfect fashion, and another part that was on the verge of drawing arms against eachother.However, once more King Roran and his advisors displayed their skill as uniters of the realm, and solved the conflict by redrawing the maps of Ascalon, preparing it to look outwards instead of inwards, and concentrate on its new goal: To become a beacon of chivalry in the Corelands.
I've seen several people linking to characters and regions on messages, like wiki's [links], but couldn't find a reference on how it is done. Maybe add the information to the manual, or to the 'syntax help' button.
You use the three boxes at the top of the message entry field. Select the correct one (realm, settlment, character) and then start typing the name of the thing you are trying to link. The system will then produce a list of items that match, select the item and the correct markup is placed into your message.For reference it uses [r:realm_id], [s:settlement_id], [c:character_id].
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ROCHESTER — Authorities were able to convince a Somersworth man who claimed to have a bomb when he took over Hillary Clinton's downtown campaign office Friday to release his hostages and surrender peacefully after a standoff that lasted more than five hours and brought life around downtown to a frightening halt.
It was about 6:15 p.m. when Leeland Eisenberg, 46, of 7 Brook Drive, turned himself over to police who were waiting for him in the middle of the street in front of the 28 North Main St. campaign headquarters of the New York senator and Democratic presidential candidate.
ROCHESTER — Authorities were able to convince a Somersworth man who claimed to have a bomb when he took over Hillary Clinton's downtown campaign office Friday to release his hostages and surrender peacefully after a standoff that lasted more than five hours and brought life around downtown to a frightening halt.
It was about 6:15 p.m. when Leeland Eisenberg, 46, of 7 Brook Drive, turned himself over to police who were waiting for him in the middle of the street in front of the 28 North Main St. campaign headquarters of the New York senator and Democratic presidential candidate.
Ending what was a dramatic and at times confusing day, Eisenberg walked out of the brick building, removed what turned out to be road flares that were taped to him with duct tape and followed orders to get on the ground. Dressed in a red tie and white dress shirt, he was handcuffed, hustled into a police vehicle and quickly driven away in custody of city police.
"Thank god it's over," city resident Susan Jackson said moments after the arrest. "I was hoping and praying that they would get this guy."
Eisenberg, who police say had a detonator to make the flares look like a real bomb, was charged with kidnapping, reckless conduct and criminal threatening. Police Chief David Dubois said other local, state and federal agencies — including the FBI, Secret Service, and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives — would decide if any federal-level charges would be added.
Eisenberg had not been given an arraignment date as of Friday night, and Dubois did not know if he has legal representation.
Dubois said Eisenberg was known to police, which helped in authorities' response.
About a half-hour before Eisenberg surrendered, a male hostage who witnesses said appeared to be in his late teens was released. By 3:35, one female hostage was released and another managed to escape when she had an opportunity, authorities said. A mother and her child, who police said is less than a year old, were released at the outset of the ordeal, which began around 12:40 p.m.
No one was injured, police said.
The office takeover forced the evacuation of all of the buildings on North Main Street and some outlying areas, and police made attempts to contact residents who were not home to make sure they stayed away. Perimeters were set up around the office, effectively locking down downtown from the corner of South Main and Portland streets, over to the area where Wakefield Street meets Columbus Avenue and in the area behind the Clinton office.
The episode also ended what had been a normal day on the campaign trail, one that began with the Clinton campaign pointing out differences with candidates' health care plans. Clinton was scheduled to speak at the Democratic National Committee meeting in Vienna, Va., but she and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, canceled public appearances as they followed the news.
Hillary Clinton was personally in touch with New Hampshire authorities.
"The senator was very supportive of what we were doing and obviously she wanted to see a most successful outcome to this," said State Police Col. Frederick Booth. "What she expressed to me was simply that she did not want to see anybody hurt. ... She offered to do anything we need her to do."
One thing police would not allow her to do was have her or her campaign fulfill Eisenberg's request to speak with the senator.
"From a tactical standpoint that would not have been a wise move for us to do that because if we put that chip up first from the beginning then there was no place to negotiate," Booth said. He declined to say what Eisenberg wanted to speak with her about, only saying the "Clinton campaign may know the answer to that."
A Clinton campaign official couldn't provide more information late Friday night, and the official wouldn't comment whether Eisenberg reached out to the campaign in the past. He was not a volunteer, the official said. Normal campaign activities would resume in Iowa today but it was unclear when the local office would open, the official said.
Clinton, who was not scheduled to be in the state, flew here and addressed the day's events at the Sheraton Harborside Portsmouth hotel where the hostages and their families were staying courtesy of the campaign. Attorney General Kelly Ayotte said her office was providing "victim services" to those taken hostage. Dubois said they were doing well.
Clinton met privately with the victim before appearing with law enforcement officials and taking questions.
"It appears he is someone who was in need of help and sought attention in absolutely the wrong way," she said, according to reports. "It was for me and my campaign an especially tense and difficult day."
Before arriving in the state, she thanked the office workers for their "extraordinary courage and coolness under some very difficult pressures and dangerous situations."
Foster's was the first news organization on the scene after hearing police scanner reports that authorities were setting up a command headquarters in the parking lot of Ben Franklin Crafts around 12:40 p.m. It became clear very quickly that police were dealing with something unusual as they blocked vehicle and pedestrian traffic from traveling along the downtown stretch of North Main Street.
Over time, the parking lot would become filled with State Police cruisers, ambulances, fire engines and special operation vehicles.
Before the full scale evacuation, officers ordered people to clear the street and get inside a secure location. A Foster's reporter ended up inside a law office directly across from Clinton's office, which looked dark, as if the lights were turned off, from what could be seen between campaign signs.
Just before 2 p.m., the situation escalated, with an armored State Police swat team moving in and taking up positions around the office, in alleys, behind cars and, according to some reports, either on rooftops or on the second or third stories of nearby buildings. When this happened, officers widened the perimeter around the building, causing some friction with business owners who wanted to lock up their stores.
"They told me I had to shut down and leave," said one local business owner.
Included in the evacuation was nearby St. Elizabeth Seton School, which sent students to Maple Street School, where parents picked them up.
It wasn't until around 3 p.m. that the first of three remaining hostages would be released. A woman who appeared to be in her early 20s and seemed shaken but composed was escorted by an officer about 50 yards to an unmarked blue cruiser.
Police on the scene soon confirmed that two hostages were released, but no one was sure if there were more inside the office. At a news conference shortly before 5 p.m., city police Capt. Paul Callaghan briefed the huge media pack and spoke of the hostage situation in the present tense, leaving reporters thinking there was another person inside with Eisenberg.
The last hostage was released about a half-hour before Eisenberg was arrested around 6:18 p.m., Booth said.
All normal activity downtown had resumed by 11 p.m. as restaurants reopened and cars once again lined the streets.
The five-member negotiating team was led by 19-year State Police veteran Karen Therrien, who was able to build enough trust with Eisenberg to resolve matters peacefully, Booth said. There were points when Eisenberg would not speak with negotiators, Booth said, but he allowed the office workers to use their cell phones to communicate.
Beyond wanting to talk with Clinton, Eisenberg also requested cigarettes, alcohol and Pepsi — but he only got the cigarettes.
Authorities would not comment as to whether Eisenberg was under the influence of drugs or alcohol or reports that he told a family member to watch the news Friday.
One of the owners of the Governor's Inn, Anthony Ejarque, said Eisenberg's son or stepson came into the restaurant and told the receptionist Eisenberg had been drinking for three days and needed help.
Police would also not comment on reports from CNN that Eisenberg called the network to say he had mental problems but couldn't find help.
As afternoon turned to night, the amount of media that descended on the city grew to proportions sometimes not even seen for regular primary campaign activity. A news helicopter was over the city for much of the afternoon.
Gov. John Lynch and U.S. Reps. Carol Shea-Porter and Paul Hodes, as well as the New Hampshire Democratic Party and Democratic presidential candidates Bill Richardson and John Edwards, all released statements in support of the victims and authorities' response. Nearby offices for Edwards and fellow candidate Barack Obama were also evacuated.


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The emphasis in the cloud is shifting from public to private cloud computing deployments.
In the past three months, more than 10,000 job ads were posted online that included requirements for cloud computing skills, an increase of 61 percent over the same period last year, according to talent-market BI vendor Wanted Analytics.
San Francisco was the hottest market for cloud skills, with 1,000 postings - a 95 percent increase, according to the press release - followed by Seattle, San Jose, Washington, D.C. and New York.
The change in role of IT management staff will entail a fundamental shift from managing assets to supporting platforms, solutions and business processes and will include the need to more proactively manage relationships with SaaS and other cloud solution providers. System integrators will increasingly be the key partners for CIOs in enabling migration of new and existing workloads and making cloud and on-premise solutions work together more effectively. This will enable the CIO to minimize capital expenditures, reduce the operational spend on infrastructure and reinvest the savings on new solutions.
And in a Forbes piece on how cloud computing is changing IT job descriptions, Joe McKendrick points to a study from CA Technologies in which a majority of CIOs see cloud computing furthering their ambitions to advance to even higher management roles. Yet he acknowledges that for many IT shops, the skills just aren't there yet. He writes:
As a result of the shift to cloud, there is growing demand for professionals and managers that are more focused on business development than they are in application development. There will be greater opportunities for enterprise architects, and some offshoots will include cloud architects, cloud capacity planners, cloud service managers and business solutions consultants. Jobs being created may not always bear the term "cloud" in their titles, but cloud will form the core of their job descriptions.
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... the idea still lingers that the CIO is an enabler rather than a driver, someone who gets things done for others rather than shaping the ethos of the company and steering it forward.
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The Exorcism of Emily Rose. Real story (based on Anneliese Michel), a young woman from a very religious background had some strange seizures. Based on her beliefs and those of her priests she stopped taking medication and relied on prayer. She died, but was convinced that the Virgin Mary had told her that her death would inspire many. Rather sad, especially since her death was not the result of seizures, but severe malnutrition and dehydration that arose from the ongoing exorcism. In the film, all courtroom scenes and scenes featuring doctors are flat and matter of fact. The fact that the doctors don't fully understand the condition is played up. The fact that the priest has an explanation to offer is played up. Whether his explanation makes sense is not questioned. Scenes concerning the attacks have spooky cinematography and chilling music and a general horror movie feel to engage the viewer.
Also based on Anneliese Michel is the German movie Requiem, which is more reserved (and much better).
The real story is a bit less dramatic when you take into account that she had seen other priests about her being possessed. Those priests told her that she doesn't match the established criteria for demonic possession, something much more dramatic than what she had. She also claimed to be possessed by Lucifer and Nero, among others. The former probably has better things to do with his time, the latter is Roman emperor.
A family bought a house in a small town. Some murders had been committed there. Later they left complaining that the house was haunted and the site of a number of strange phenomena. Somebody proved that the Lutzes (the family in question) and their lawyer made it up as part of a half-baked insurance scam.
Law and Order bases most of their stories on (or off—often way off) real cases and incidents. In order to be able to deny that they're referencing a certain real person, they may insert a remark to show that the real person also exists in the fictional world. For example, in one episode that featured a No Celebrities Were Harmed Ann Coulter, one character remarks that she "makes Ann Coulter look like a socialist" or some such remark. There was also an episode where a little boy who apparently got sodomised by a rich pale white guy who donates a lot of money to charity and whose parents deny anything because apparently they were paid off. Sounds familiar?? Debatable though...
The movie Primeval, while it deals with an actual, real-life giant crocodile (Gustave), exaggerates every other aspect of the events it claims to recount, from doubling his number of human kills, to depicting him seeking out and attacking entire groups of clearly defended humans (the real Gustave strikes at groups of three or fewer tourists, primarily when they are off-guard, and certainly when they lack shelter). And that's without mentioning the film's ads, which portray him as "the most prolific serial killer in history"... though, to be fair, that last probably wasn't the filmmaker's idea. On top of all that, it's a case of Never Trust A Trailer — Gustave only appears in brief stretches, and most of the film deals with a local civil war, complete with Anvilicious moral about how we Americans ignore fighting in other countries. The crocodile is reduced to Chekhovs Gun.
in 1942, an American submarine crew mounts a daring mission to capture a German sub and return it to American waters, in order to acquire its Enigma decoder and crack the code. In reality, the only team working on cracking the code was British, and machines and code books captured during the war, by British, Polish, or French forces, were sent to England. American forces did capture a U-boat intact (with Enigma) in the South Atlantic, you can see it in Chicago. This caused a major ruckus BECAUSE the code was already cracked at the time, and the Allies were afraid this would cause the Germans to use a brand-new code. A LOT of covering-up was done.
The Katyn Massacre definitely took place, and the British and US governments did indeed suppress evidence of it in order to keep their fragile alliance with the Soviet Union from falling apart, but the events as depicted in the book are entirely fabricated; the only spy to make it to the Bletchley Park station was British and passing information to the Soviets. The 2001 film takes it up a notch by cutting Alan Turing out of the film completely and assigning his role in the war to protagonist Tom Jericho, where in the book Jericho is a junior member of Turing's cryptanalysis staff.
Storylines concerning the Cottingley Fairies hoax are sometimes played, at least relatively, straight or assert that Elsie Wright and Francis Griffiths did take photographs of fairies... despite the fact than anyone can tell they're fakes nowadays just by looking at the things. Even Wright's and Griffiths' admission that most of the photos were fakes doesn't stop this.
This happens in Torchwood where the fairies are part of an episode's backstory, and at least one of the fairies in one of the photos is real.
Fairy Tale: A True Story either asserts it was real or is an allegorical story with a lot of "stuff" added and changed from history to pad out the film.
Photographing Fairies has the hero, a photographic expert, prove that the Cottingley fairy photos are fake, but he is then presented with a set of fairy photos that he can't disprove. And of course they turn out to be genuine.
The 'based on true events' part of the movie Wolf Creek seems to be limited to "there were some British backpackers murdered in Australia one time." It's partially based on the Peter Falconio case and partially based on Ivan Milat.
Murderous Psycho Lesbian sisters Claire and Solange in The Maids are kind of based on Christine and Lea Papin who really were murderous Psycho Lesbian maids... Well, resemblance ends here.
The 2003 remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was heavily touted as being based on a true story. The film chronicles an inbred family of kidnappers, torturers, serial killers, and implied cannibals who brutally slay a carload of roadtripping teens. The actual case it was based on was a solitary, fairly quiet necrophiliac who killed only two middle-aged women. In Wisconsin. While two murders are indeed tragic, that's still a lot less than the scores of murders seen in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
The same story that "inspired" The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Ed Gein) also inspired Psycho. Norman Bates was a good deal closer to Gein, but the story still deviated pretty far.
Gein was also partially the inspiration for Buffalo Bill from Silence Of The Lambs. Something about making a suit of human skin just seems to stick with people.
Ed Gein has inspired quite a few movies about serial killers for someone who wasn't one. According to the other wiki you've got to kill three.
The horror film The Strangers is a prime example of this trope: it opens by labeling the plot of the film as "based on true events," but the fact is, the only thing in the movie with any basis in reality is a technique employed by burglars (burglars, not serial killers) in which they knock on a random door to ask for a person who doesn't live there. If no one is home, they break in and steal stuff. You can tell the film is a work of fiction, however, because I doubt that a survivor of such a horrifying experience that supposedly happened only three years ago would be willing to let Hollywood make a cheap slasher flick based on their experience.
The "true story" that The Strangers was allegedly based on was the Manson Family murders. If that's the case, then there are definitely some similarities. Some.
The non-supernatural parts of Nightmare On Elm Street is inspired by events that happened in the hometown the director lived in as a kid. Specifically, Freddy is the name of the kid who tormented wee little Craven, Freddy's appearance was based on that of a old homeless man wee Craven had a terrifying run-in with one night, and the "died in their sleep" thing was based on a few cases of young Cambodian refugees dying in their sleep of no apparent cause after repeatedly saying they were frightened to go to sleep.
The movie 21 and the book Bringing Down the House, both based on the exploits of a blackjack card-counting team based at MIT, both fall squarely into this trope. Probably one of the most infamous changes is that the protagonist, who is Chinese-American in real life, became a Caucasian in the adaptations—but in comparison to some of the other inaccuracies, that's a minor deviation from the truth. Most of the supporting roles are Composite Characters, with one possibly based on three distinct individuals, and several key plot events were entirely invented by the book's author (who was also a co-writer of 21).
Many fairy tales derived from tales of the lives of saints, such as St. Barbara (Rapunzel) or St. Margaret of Cartona (Snow White).
Many films including the animated versions of Pocahontas and Anastasia made many drastic changes from the real stories for dramatic purposes (for instance, having Pocahontas fall in love with John Smith). While that in itself may only constitute Dramatization, having Rasputin come back from the dead (though to be fair, it took a ridiculous amount of trying to kill the real one. Seriously, Jason Voorhees went down easier) or Pocahontas talk to a talking tree are certainly cases of playing up the paranormal.
To be fair, John Smith himself started the story about his having had a romance with Pocahontas in works he wrote long after the real events. So he Very Loosely Based that one on his own True Story, and Disney and everyone else have bought into it for four hundred years.
Practically any story based on Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia, who was killed by the Bolsheviks with the rest of her immediate family. Practically every film based on her takes the approach that one of the many claimants to being Anastasia (usually Anna Anderson, or a made up person) really was the Princess/Grand Duchess. Considering that the bodies of the last two missing Romanovs have now been discovered, anything and everything that suggests Anastasia lived is now firmly in Jurisfiction.
Don Bluth's 1997 Animated Adaptation of the 1956 Ingrid Bergman movie probably takes the most liberties but then Bluth admitted he never intended it to be accurate or even close: he made Rasputin into a fantasy character who cast spells, had a talking bat, and came back from the dead as a walking corpse; and even more outrageous — in the sense of being not merely fantastic but allohistorical — was Rasputin being cast out by the Tsar. In fact, Rasputin (quite undeservedly) remained a royal favorite to the end of his life and after. As everything was falling apart, Tsarina Alexandra wrote many letters to Nicholas lamenting, "If only our Dear Friend [Rasputin] were still with us! He would know what to do!"
300 was the Battle of Thermopylae subjected to many, many levels of Sequel Escalation, starting with Herodotus' dramatic but subdued (especially for Herodotus) second-hand record of an actual historical event, passing through 4 or 5 increasingly dramatic versions, and winding up with a movie where the Persian army has a recruiting office in Mordor.
Quite possibly the writers didn't understand how obscure Frank Miller's graphic novel actually is in the real world. It's well known among a small group of young Westerners, but otherwise the actual real Battle of Thermopylae is immensely better-known. The majority of viewers, including most young Westerners, had never heard of 300, and ended up comparing the movie to actual history, against which the movie is a sad, sad joke.
Word Of God says that the novel and movie are the story as told by a Unreliable Narrator. Considering there is magic and fantastical creatures in it, the fact that Viewers Are Morons and can't realize that it isn't truth...
The very reason that the warriors all run around invincible and chewing the scenery and wearing naught but loincloths (which aren't even there in the book...) is because the battle *was* being relayed by an unreliable narrator. In Frank Miller's story, the lone survivor had a job to do, and that was to use his incredible storytelling skills to stir up the rest of Greece into entering the war. Thus, he told the story exactly how the Greeks painted their legends on their urns and sculptures we have in our museums today: naked, over-the-top, and utterly ridiculously badass.
Rumor has it that the director, who's Indian, was just using Elizabeth as a Lawyer Friendly Cameo for Indira Gandhi and her struggles to defuse religious tension, which might explain the... casual attitude to history.
Many readers believe that Memoirs Of A Geisha is a true story. It's not. Really. It's loosely (very loosely, so much so that she later complained and then wrote her own book to set the record straight) based on actual interviews with an actual geisha. The book deliberately creates the illusion of authenticity—before even getting to the actual memoirs, there is a "translator's note" at the beginning from someone named Jakob Haarhuis, who tape recorded and translated Sayuri's story. He speculates on how Sayuri came to tell her story, explains a few of the book's tropes, describes Sayuri's voice and mentions that you're only reading this because she's dead. The "This is a work of fiction" disclaimer and Arthur Golden's dedications are in the back pages, just to put them out of sight.
Finding Neverland tells the story of how J. M. Barrie came to write Peter Pan through his relationship with the Llewelyn Davies family, but kills off the husband, deletes one of the boys, and repeats the conventional wisdom that the story was really about the boy named Peter (not his brothers)... a bit of baggage that contributed to the real Peter's eventual suicide. Oh, and Johnny Depp went without Barrie's trademark mustache.
Braveheart. While William Wallace is a real person, there are a few people and events in this film that should not be there. Most notably is Princess Isabella, who married Edward I's son several years after Wallace was dead, and a year after Edward I died. She never met either of them. The whole scene about instituting primus noctis because Edward II "couldn't do the deed" with Isabella is incorrect, Not only because Longshanks was dead at the time of their marriage but also because Edward II had four children with Isabella (though Edward II was still rumored to be homosexual).
"THIS IS A TRUE STORY. The events depicted in this film took place in Minnesota in 1987. At the request of the survivors, the names have been changed. Out of respect for the dead, the rest has been told exactly as it occurred."
"If an audience believes that something's based on a real event, it gives you permission to do things they might otherwise not accept."
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text: Weighing the line is also a part of lure awareness when jig fishing. What does this mean? It means that you need to know what your jig feels like when there is no fish on it. If you don't know this feeling, you won't be able to recognize what it feels like when there is a fish on it. Any change, heavier or lighter, calls for a swing on it to set the hook. Swings are free remember, but you can't "redo" a missed hookset on the bite you didn't notice. Fall rate (or how fast the lure sinks into the cover) is really affected by choice of fishing line, but line is not something you can change as conveniently as a trailer or jig weight. So you need to know your line! Always remember that line only "sometimes" acts according to how you expect it to! You have to master line control, guys, and that's an art...not a science!


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We've already started our weekend with a bang. Here are a few more photos from our staycation in my parents' backyard. We were loading up the good old Volvo wagon with blankets, beer, and watermelon when EZ E found a dead butterfly on the floor of the trunk. He was initially sad that it was dead, but was convinced that it came back to life when the wind made it fly out of his hands. He also insisted on wearing the bear claw necklace and "camping hat"...
Here he is checking out PRH's work while Kicky and I observed from a nearby blanket...
until both Kicky and EZ E became more interested in checking out the smores. I brought Nutella instead of chocolate squares and it was quite fabulous...
Here we are hanging out in the bus, coming down off our early afternoon smores high...
This was pretty much our last hurrah before the semester starts for PRH and EZ E, so I'm glad it was such a blast.
12 comments:
- Anna said...
1. i am so jealous of your bus.
2. this is pretty much the cutest idea ever!
3. Happy Friday!
- August 27, 2010 at 12:57 PM
- Rapunzel's Wish said...
I agree with Anna - bus and matching tent are TOO cute! - and look so cozy and fun!
LOVE the smores idea! ( stealing it to try out with my own kiddo! )
Happy camping!! :D
- August 27, 2010 at 1:16 PM
So fun! I love your VW and love the smores!
- August 27, 2010 at 2:48 PM
- erjames40 said...
Happy Weekend!
- August 27, 2010 at 3:34 PM
- jackie kersh said...
adorable. you are such a cute fam!
- August 27, 2010 at 9:02 PM
- Rachael, Pistachio Press said...
Looks so awesome. Such good memories! Miss you guys so much!
- August 28, 2010 at 12:07 AM
- Lauren said...
Hello! You have a beautiful family. And that mustard-colored VW is fab. Good luck camping! :)
- August 28, 2010 at 9:28 PM
- Foodie_99 said...
you are a great photographer, your colors are amazing!
- August 29, 2010 at 11:01 AM
- zakiya said...
very ..very happy family,,
- August 29, 2010 at 10:26 PM
- Hollie said...
cute, cute, cute!! That little flannel shirt is the best.
- August 30, 2010 at 10:52 AM
- pinkshirtsandcarwrecks said...
how fun! and you're family is adorable!
- September 3, 2010 at 11:23 AM
- Joetta M. said...
ok, seriously Abbey those 2 kiddos are too cute. too cute!!! I love that van it makes me miss the time when we had one. I would love to camp with tesla in our old westfalia.
my sis is going to be in ithaca all winter we should touch base and visit.
- September 10, 2010 at 2:08 PM


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text: Clay Aiken is suddenly a lot more likeable. It's not just because he's finally stated the obvious, but because of how he's handling it. In an interview with Diane Sawyer that aired on Good Morning America earlier today, Clay said that he's not making any kind of announcement because, duh, we all knew he was gay. He said that he just wants to end questions about his personal life because he doesn't want his son growing up thinking that he's lying or ashamed about who he is. The best part about all this? Clay isn't trying to sell some shitty new CD or book, he's just engaging in a genuine discourse about tolerance. Clip above.


text: The Camano Island Mural is made up of individual squares of (30) CM Tour artists in a variety of styles and mediums. The colorful representation is rich with texture and details and provides an overall feeling of the natural beauty and geography of Camano Island. Stop by Koffman Studio #24 to buy prints of the Mural or individual pieces. A portion of each sale benefits the CM Art Scholarship Program.


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Kneeling beside Helena Roberts as she practiced writing some of the 40,000 characters of the Chinese language, teacher Jin-ping Yang patiently explained to the University High School senior that she needed to hold her calligraphy brush upright to create the correct brush strokes.
"I was kind of worried when I signed up for this class because everybody said Chinese was a hard language to learn," Helena said during an interview later at the Irvine high school. "Sure, I've got to pay a lot more attention to it than my other courses, but I really like Chinese. And it's nice having someone in the class who's really from China, like Mr. Yang."
Yang is one of 28 teachers from the People's Republic of China who are teaching this semester at U.S. high schools under a unique exchange program sponsored by International/Intercultural Programs, formerly known as the American Field Service.)
"There are now 10,000 people from the People's Republic (of China) studying at U.S. universities, and this is the only program where Chinese citizens are actually living with host American families," said Lynn Sanborne, public-information director for the sponsoring organization, in a telephone interview from its New York City headquarters.


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watercolors in 15 min
Pretty and calming!
Wonderful and expressive
15 minutes... that's pretty impressive.
Really nice work!
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Really beautiful.
Wonderful. So loose and beautiful.
Sheesh, I could spend several hours on a similar scene and it still wouldn't come out as good.
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The colours are just right for the setting!
The colours are just right for the setting!
Lovely work. The coors are very good.
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Swype, a virtual keyboard maker, is said to be pinning hopes on Nokia diving into Windows Phone 7 development so they can possibly move to Microsoft's mobile platform as well as covering tablets running Windows. We recently covered how Swype made entry with WinMo and shifted a good 90% of its business to Android.
For those who aren't familiar with the technology behind Swype, it allows you to swipe your finger across a virtual keyboard to create words instead of typing. Earlier this year Swype secured a $3.5 million investment from Ignition Partners and while they've turned profitable in recent quarters, CEO Mike McSherry explains the funding will help further development and deploy on other platforms.
Do you want to see Swype on your WP7 handset, or a future Windows tablet for that matter? Check out a short video of Swype (on a tablet) after the break.
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Zurich Investment & Savings Handbook 2002/2003
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Lupita Nyong'o for 'Dazed & Confused.'
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If you don't know, now you know. We're barely into January and 12 Years a Slave actress Lupita Nyong'o is already being touted as the "It" Girl of 2014. The former Yale drama student has snagged a slew of covers in recent months, including DuJour and W (NBD), and now she's SLAYING it as the star of Dazed & Confused's SO apropos "Girls Rule the World" issue. Oh, and did we mention she's also one of the newest faces of Miu Miu? (Yeah, we did. But we're going to mention it again because it's a fashion moment worth repeating.)
Lupita Nyong'o for 'Dazed & Confused.'
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On the cover, Nyong'o wears a sunny yellow shift splashed with green gems and a royal-blue blazer encrusted with canary-yellow gems. #obsessed Her blinged-out look gets accessorized with a few assorted bangles, crimson nails, striped knee socks, and an almost ombre palette of blue eye shadow. Inside the magazine, Lupita is covered in Prada, wearing a graphic, pastel-print, jersey-style tank under a saffron bustier that resembles a seriously luxe glue-gun project. (P.S. DAT BAG!)
Oh, and if you've ever considered wearing vinyl, now is the time. At least if you're, like, seven-foot-stunning, à la Lupita. Clad in Prada sports sandals, Nyong'o rocks the hell out of a cherry-red vinyl Dolce & Gabbana dress with voluminous puffed sleeves. Who knew a water-resistant material could be so shapely?
BTW, in case you were wondering what makes an "It" Girl, in Lupita's case, I'm pretty sure it's the ability to wear every shade of every color ever made. EVER. That, along with her breathtaking performance in 12 Years a Slave, of course. But seriously. That vibrant red Ralph Lauren dress she wore to Sunday night's Golden Globes instantly earned her a spot on everyone's Best Dressed list (including ours), and now she's got the rest of the rainbow on lock in this stunning spread, shot by Sharif Hamza. You can peep all of Hamza's pics of the star over on his website or pick up the February issue of Dazed & Confused on February 16th.
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How often does your family go out to eat? Do you eat out more than you should or can really afford to?
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We get take out a lot. I guess we can kind of afford it bc our electricity is still on!! Last month for 2 weeks straight we ordered out. I gained 10 pounds!!! I don't know hubby isn't going to the grocery store or having me go. I'm enjoying not cooking though. Just need to start working out.
We used to go out fast food on friday afternoons cause its so hectic for me on those days and than on one weekend day go out for some sit down place everyweek but for the past 4 months I think we have eaten out a total of 4 times. Thats once a month baby and that means a complete change for me. Im so tired of cooking.
Not often enough, as far as I'm concerned. Like, hardly ever. And it sucks.
We used to have movie night on Fridays and get take out, we only do that once a month now and I am really tired of cooking.
We go back and forth but lately we've been eating more at home. I don't really mind the cooking so much but for some reason I dread grocery shopping and I run out of ideas then the kids complain…….not sure what the answer is.
uuummm we usually go out for breakfast once on the weekends and dinner once or twice a week. It is out of laziness mostely. Since I went back to work ,full time, I just dont feel like cooking when I am home. Weekends are spent cleaning and shopping…I just dont feel like cooking and that is something I have to work on. Can we afford it? well where we go usually is based on how much cash we have for the week. But it is money that could go to other things. It is something that we need to improve in our home for the new year. I also have to work on meal planning, for the busy week, without takeout as a easy out
I go out to eat with a certain group of friends once a week, but I also have other friends that like to go to lunch, too. It gets exspensive…What is wearing on me is that the kids ALWAYS want to eat out, when I am getting ready to make dinner, they sometimes refuse to eat because they want to eat out. I tell them tough cookies, they will eat what I make them!
Oh we love to go out to dinner! We don't do it enough to say that it puts a dent in our checking account or anything. But… sometimes I do think about other things I could have spent my $50 on.I say as long as you can afford it and keep it healthy go for it!
We love to eat out but I'm trying to limit it now just because. We can totally afford it (or we wouldn't go) but I think we should be more self-sustaining and cook more at home. I enjoy cooking, it's just the kids can be picky and not always eat what I make which annoys me.
I am certain that most people spend more than they have on restaurant food. I mean its a no mess no cleanup dinner. No greasy tables to clean, no spills to clean, just a great dinner full of fun and excitement. I would say that the average meal out would feed a family more than once.
We are going to post more about that as we investigate this on our site.
We usually go out to eat on Friday night. It's a great treat if we can agree on where to go!
I bring my lunch to work every day and only rarely will go out for a lunch with my coworkers.
Once in a while we'll also go out for a dinner on the weekend with friends. Those dinners are pretty costly so we sure don't do those very often.
We go out about twice a month. That is pretty much our only outside entertainment lately. It is a lot of money but at this point we still feel it is worth it.
Fridays we always go out to eat due to Saturday morning we go grocery shopping for the week. Lately we've been going out more than we should, but there's the rest of the week to catch up on though. I just HATE doing dishes. We don't own a dishwasher. Blaaahhh
We go out to eat when we shouldn't. I wish we could afford to eat out more often. We have a hard enough time keeping food on the table period I feel so guilty when we do eat out cuz I think how much food we can buy at the grocery with that.
I love to eat out! My husband doesn't. It's a real treat for me. That said, I have re-discovered my almost love of cooking, and so I am enjoying cooking at home more, and I find it really helps if you can enjoy it. Unfortunately, my kids have the "eat-out-itis", and frequently end up with cereal or a sandwich if they don't like what I fix. I usually try to fix at least one thing that everyone likes, but sometimes they don't like anything.
Now all the kids have left home we go out at least once a week. It's cheaper, we can eat at real restaurants not teenage ones and we can talk catch up and reconnect. It will happen one day for you all.
We go out to eat everyday, several times a day, it is really bad!! I am using the excuse that we are doing a global move (really we are, and we I don't have time to cook)
We eat out maybe once every couple of weeks, but it really freaks me out because we have so much debt. I feel like I don't deserve it, so it is really hard for me to enjoy it,even if it's just cheap fast food.


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Time is running so fast, and we dunno what to do, we need time to think about what would be best for us, time to think about future, but also analyse the past, make the point of our life, what we did, what happened to us and to others, what was good, what we want back, what we want to forget, and the present which is more ephemer than ever, you cannot hold the moment, present cannot last, even if you would want it to stay forever, you cannot keep things like they are and like you want them to be. You have to evolute with the changes and live everything one hundred percent in order to avoid regrets. Stop privating yourselves !
Prénom, âge, pays =)


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Jane M. Styer of Bingen, a seven-year member of the Lehigh-Northampton Counties Legal Secretaries Association, has received certification as a professional legal secretary.
Styer, 29, a legal secretary for more than eight years, is a free-lance legal secretary specializing in estates and real estate settlements.
She received her license qualifying her as a title insurance agent in January 1984, and also is a notarypublic.
She is the fifth member of the local chapter to attain certification. Nationally, only 1,910 persons have attained certification.


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Day 5
Today was another fantastic day! We started off with an AWESOME workout at The Fit Body Project. We had a great time doing circuits and yoga; it was nice to get a chance to be active! The ladies who ran the workouts were all so kind, fun and helpful. I learned a lot about workouts and how to do them properly.
We then had a delicious and nutritious sushi lunch from Fish'd by EDO. It was such a great post workout meal. Thank you Fish'd by EDO!
Next on the agenda was a fun and exciting game of archery tag at Archer's Arena. This was one of the most fun things I've ever gotten to take part in! I loved every minute of it! All of the delegates were taught how to load a bow, aim and fire! We then had a wild game of archery tag where we divided ourselves into two teams and began to shoot one another with the foam arrows. We felt like we were in the Hunger Games!
After a super day we headed to the Texas Lone Star for another delicious meal. We had fresh fajitas for dinner!
We got to head back to the room tonight so my roommate and I took some time to practice our dance number and walking in our heels. We're going to try to get to bed early tonight because it's going to be a big day tomorrow! Preliminaries are tomorrow night and I'm so excited!
-Kathleen Miss Teenage Eastern Ontario 2016


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Mumbai: Willis Plaza struck a brace as East Bengal thrashed Mumbai FC 4-0 in their concluding match to finish third in the I-League, here on Saturday..
Coach Oscar Bruzon made two changes in the Mumbai team that drew against Shillong Lajong last Sunday.
The East Bengal attack was well-organised and they played at a very fast pace and with some swift moves often catching the Mumbai defence napping.
In the eight minute, Rowlin Borges worked with wing back Rahul Bheke to break free down the right. Borges after advancing deep sent a low ball into the area. Willis Plaza failed to connect but Bikash Jairu charged in from the left side and with an on-the-run essay found the roof of the net to give the visitors the lead.
Jairu who had an outstanding game was later adjudged the 'Man-of-the-match'.
The Mumbai team survived from conceding the second goal in the very next minute, but Ansleme Wedson after creating space inside the area blasted over from close.
The home side fought on gallantly and made some determined efforts to find the equaliser. Their hard-working striker Victorino Fernandes had a couple of shots at goal and came close in the 31st minute, but his header from Lugun's delivery from the left went wide off the upright.
Ten minutes later, East Bengal doubled the lead when Plaza after controlling the ball near the edge of area beat goalkeeper Laxmikant Kattimani with a snap shot. The ball brushed the fingertips of Kattimani.
Although the home side pressed hard after resumption but in a bid to get back into the game they let their guard down at the back and paid dearly as the visiting Bengal side added two more goals through Ansleme in the 62nd minute and Plaza in the 68th minute to finish with a deserving win.
Currently, Mumbai FC are in ninth place with 13 points ahead of Minerva Punjab who have 12 points but with a match in hand against DSK Shivajians on Sunday. East Bengal with 33 points stay in third position.


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Things have been productive around here. Well, maybe not whole house productive, but craft/sewing space productive.
It all started when I posted my 4 Simple Goals. Remember the state of the basement and my sewing space? Hmm, well take a moment and click back to that post because I am too embarrassed to post those pictures twice.
Sadly, it took me less than an hour to get both spaces back in tip-top shape. (And for the record, I am not talking about shoving everything to the side so I could take a blog picture. I mean everything in its place and a place for everything!)
A couple shots of the clean basement:
Why yes, there are a few more appliances. We were given a "new to us" refrigerator and dryer. The old fridge is for our overflow, and hubby plans on fixing the dryer.
Spacious enough for some toddler exercise! After cleaning the basement, I brought in the boys' tricycles. Now they love doing laundry!
Lets check out my space. Drum roll please…. (just kidding, please don't expect anything spectacular.)
Now before you scoff at my pride and joy, I fully understand that this is not anything to share with Martha (as in Stewart), pin to Pinterest under great spaces, or post to BHG fan page. But this is what I have to work with, and it works wonderfully for me.
Want to see my favorite part?
Let me give you a little back story first: Hubby came down and looked at our newly clean basement. He was impressed. Yet, he was a little concerned that I wouldn't be able to use my space often, you know since I am the Mama of two and a half year old twin boys. Who.Destroy.Everything.
So he took action.
We had an old television in the basement that just got shoved from corner to corner. It had not been turned on in at least ten years, and I may have occasionally begged my husband to take it out with the garbage.
Boy am I glad he didn't take it to the road! He set up the television and a DVD player in the corner opposite my sewing table. I brought the art easel down, and a basket of toys. The boys can watch a movie, play, or create while Mama sews them up a new wardrobe. Win-win!
The chair was a more recent addition. We had to move it to put up the Christmas tree,and if the boys have anything to say about it; the chair is staying!
What challenges did/do you face with toddlers? I personally love this stage so much, all of the learning and imagination these little guys display. But sometimes it seems impossible to get anything done. This stage really helps us to stretch our parental creativity (like including a space for them in my space.)
Thanks for stopping by!
Thursday, December 19, 2013
My New Haven
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Labels: Crafting, Sewing, Simple Goals, To-Dos
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Attracted by the light of the moon shining on the sea, loligo squid gather by the thousands every March to mate and spawn in the shallow waters off Southern California. There are more than 300 species of squid, ranging in size from less than half an inch to over 60 feet in length. The loligo squid grows to approximately eight inches and, like all its close relatives, has eight short arms and two long tentacles that it uses to catch prey.
Food and Hunting: Squid eat fish and crustaceans primarily. The loligo catches a fish by grasping it in its long tentacles. It paralyzes its prey with venom produced by its salivary glands and bites off the preys head. The squids torpedo-shaped body enables it to move rapidly over short distances. It changes color to blend in with its surroundings and so becomes invisible to both its prey and predators. The squids only defense is to escape behind the dark clouds of ink that it squirts into the water.
Breeding: On moonlit nights in March, loligo
squid gather near the waters surface. The group consists of males and
females that are ready to mate. The males find mating partners as quick
as possible since the presence of so many other males creates competition
for available females. As a male becomes excited, his head and tentacles
become flushed. He then seizes a female and retrieves a sac of sperm from
his own body that he inserts into her body with one of his tentacles. The
eggs are thus fertilized in the females body and she then lays them in
jelly-filled sacs, each containing 200 to 300 eggs.
Each female produces approximately 20 sacs that are joined together in flower-shaped configurations and are as large as 10 feet across. The sacs are attached to each other with a sticky secretion that prevents them from being washed away. Tiny squid hatch from the egg sacs three to four weeks later. They are moved and spread by coastal currents. In three years they are fully grown and ready to mate.
Squid and Man: The breeding habits of the loligo squid make it particularly easy to catch. Fishermen in California catch the majority of squid in March, when the squid gather to mate. The squid are attracted to light, so the fishermen hang lamps on their boats to encourage them to rise to the surface. Several thousand tons of squid are caught each year. Still, because they produce so many eggs, the loligo squid are in no danger of becoming overfished. But fishing is controlled because, if the squid were hunted on a larger scale, it would endanger the other marine life that preys on the squid for food.
Key Facts: Sizes, Breeding, Lifestyle, and
Related Species:
Length: Head and body, 8 in.
Tentacles: Eight arms, 2 in. Two long tentacles extend to 8 in. for catching prey
Sexual maturity: 3 years
Mating season: March
No. of eggs: Laid in sacs of 200-300. Each female lays about 20 sacs at a time
Hatching: 3-4 weeks
Habit: Usually solitary, although huge schools gather during mating season
Diet: Mainly fish
Lifespan: 3 years
Related Species: Closely related to the
common squid, Loligo vulgaris. Giant squid of up to 60 ft. (including tentacles)
are found in the northern Atlantic Ocean.
Distribution: The loligo squid is found throughout the warmer waters off the west coast of North America, extending south from San Francisco to Mexico.
Conservation: Although the loligo squid is fished extensively each year, the fishing is controlled, and this species is not yet in danger of extinction.
Features of the Loligo Squid: The arms and tentacles of all squid are covered with suckers to provide a powerful grip that is used when hunting. At the center of the tentacles is the squids mouth that has a horny beak with which it tears up prey before swallowing it. It has two well-developed eyes. In some species, notably those that live at great depths, eyes are also light-producing organs. Two long tentacles used for catching food. Eight arms, sometimes called short tentacles.
Did You Know:
The giant squid, Architeuthis, is the worlds largest living invertebrate.
The giant squids only predator is the male sperm whale. A live squid measuring 40 feet long has been found inside a male sperm whale. Female sperm whales eat much smaller squid.
Squid possess the largest nerve fibers of any animal.
The most dangerous squid are found off the coast of Peru. They live in schools and hunt in the same manner as the piranha, tearing their victims to shreds in seconds.
In 1961 a gold medallion was found inside a loligo squid caught off San Sebastian, Spain. It had been lost by a swimmer in Barcelona two years earlier and 900 miles away


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Well, I did ask for it.
So, ten things I love that start with the letter "U".
1. Uncles - I have/had 15 - 6 of those had/have last names starting with U, do I get extra points?
2. Unicorns, although I prefer Pegasus ;)
3. University of Alberta. Right here in Edmonton and although I didn't attend, I have a a weird childhood memory of playing on the lawn, under the big trees in front of Corbet hall. It must have been on dad's graduation day, because I don't remember my parents being there, just my siblings.
4. Uno, is a silly fun card game.
5. Having a Uterus. They are a miracle. (I can't believe I went there)
6. Ungual, well, some of them.
7. Unicycle, I admire people that can ride them.
(Getting desperate here, I may have to use the dictionary!)
8. The Universe, I am glad to be here. (whew! two more)
9. Ukulele, when played right, they can still be annoying.
10. Ukrainian eggs, they are a beautiful craft and take a lot of work.
Did it! Didn't even have to use the dictionary. If you would like to play along, let me know in comments and I will draw a letter from a hat (I don't have scrabble though, so I will just have to use paper) that way, I can't be held accountable for the letters assigned.
This was not the Ultimate list, nor did it aggravate my Ulcer, but I am done and didn't Use each of my Uncles separately or any of the rest of my relatives whose names start with U. They have to remain Unacknowledged for now. It was not an Unattainable goal and I think it is Unnecessary to Ululate my success, in fact that would be Unadvisable in this apartment. I am Usually Undemonstrative at the best of times anyway. This is getting to be Unenjoyable though and you are all Undeserving of such Underhanded rambling.
Have a good day all ;)
P.S. that was like a test - I always came up with the answers after!
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You are too Unassuming - that was amazing!!
I'll do it, Reb, but please give me an easy letter!
- 4/3/09 03:51
- Leah J. Utas said...
Unbelievable! Had to look up ungual and that always makes me happy. Not a lot of folk can send me to the dictionary. I am rather taken with this exercise so g'wan and gimme a letter. Please.
- 4/3/09 06:41
- the Bag Lady said...
Sure - go ahead and give me a letter (but if it's X, it ain't happening....!)
- 4/3/09 07:10
- Jay said...
That was Unusual and Unlike other letter memes. Well done!
- 4/3/09 09:05
- Leah J. Utas said...
Oohh! Ooh ! Pick me! I love X. It's one of my favourite letters and it's like, totally misunderstood.
- 4/3/09 09:05
- Reb said...
LOL, thanks Kcinnova! Your letter is..."C"
Leah, glad I had to send you to the dictionary (amazed more like)! Your letter is..."L" (sorry it's not "X", I could draw again, or you could do both?)
Sis, nothing wrong with "X", but your letter is... 3, oh "M"
Thanks Jay, I always try to be Unusual ;)
Leah, it is very misunderstood.
- 4/3/09 09:37
- Dianne said...
excellent! and I'm really impressed that you didn't use a dictionary
- 4/3/09 14:01
- Reb said...
Thanks Dianne. It was fun.
- 4/3/09 14:32
- David Cranmer said...
Very creative meme and very creative answers.
- 6/3/09 05:43
- g-man said...
Could have substituted Uvula for Uterus, if you REALLY didn't want to go there ;) Although I think that the uterus is more of a miracle organ. :) Nicely done, that was certainly a challenging letter.
- 6/3/09 07:18
- Reb said...
David, yes, it was and I tried ;)
G-man, I couldn't think of another U word, until after, then I thought about changing it, then figured, no, that was what I came up with. Thanks.
- 6/3/09 10:45
- Aleta said...
Woah ~ I'm impressed with the universal answers! Bravo!
- 6/3/09 14:22
- Reb said...
Thanks, Aleta and thanks for dropping by.
- 6/3/09 15:07


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Despite dozens of signs warning Bay Area drivers that airplanes are tracking their speed, few motorists are actually receiving tickets that way.
Airborne traffic enforcement has nosedived due to budget cuts at local police departments, according to California Highway Patrol Officer Jeff Moring.
Police departments also are using more modern, cost-effective technologies in squad cars to nab speeders, Moring said.
But you wouldn't know it from all the highway signs that warn drivers they're being watched from above. The San Francisco Examiner recently spied several dozen such signs on the Peninsula along state highways 17 and 92, as well as Interstate 280.
"Do we still do it? Yes," Moring said. "Do we do it as much as we used to? No."
Exactly how often airplanes are now used to track speeders is unclear. Speed enforcement data for air operations is hard to come by. The only data available is for 2009, in which the air unit produced just 362 out of a total of 165,752 speeding citations issued in the Bay Area.
Beyond that, the numbers are vague. But what's clear is that the air ops are used in fewer and fewer speed enforcement missions, Moring said.
Many smaller police departments can no longer afford the $170 to $200 it costs per hour to operate highway patrol aircraft. That cost has shifted air enforcement responsibilities to the agency's Napa-based Air Operations Office. But the air fleet also is limited. With only two Cessna airplanes and a staff of 26 — some of whom pilot the two helicopters — the agency must prioritize how it uses those resources.
"If there's a crime with an active search, we'll get called to find the bad guy," Moring said. "It all boils down to budget."
The San Mateo County Sheriff's Office uses its narcotics forfeiture fund to finance the operation of its one aging aircraft, Deputy Rebecca Rosenblatt said. But its volunteer pilots aren't looking for speeders, Rosenblatt said. Their efforts are strictly reserved for other kinds of law enforcement.
Newer technologies also are making air traffic enforcement obsolete. Many law enforcement agencies have adopted car-borne laser speed-tracking technology, which is far cheaper to operate than air units.
"One person in a squad car can sit in one location and nail car after car," Moring said. And overall, LiDAR technology is considerably more cost-effective than using aircraft, CHP Officer Arturo Montiel said.
In contrast, aircraft speed enforcement is more complex and uses a technique called pacing. By matching a fixed point on the airplane to a potential speeder, officers time the distance between two marks on the road and thus can determine a vehicle's speed, Moring said.


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Hey guys, today's look is a boho springy version of my Hot Morange & Naked 2 Cool look from about a month ago. The reason for this remake (and you can probably relate) is that whenever I find a lipstick that I like, I always end up buying more similar shades, creating a rather unnecessary dupes collection. As you may have guessed, orange has become my new red, and it is especially fitting for the spring time. The MAC Morange lipstick I wore in the original look got a ton of feedback, both eager and hesitant, so today I'm featuring a lip color that may even suit the skeptics of the Orange trend.
What lip color am I wearing?
Revlon Superlustrous Lipstick in Siren is more coral than MAC Morange, it is also a tad less opaque and has a lot less neon factor. I find that Siren is much easier to wear, especially with casual eye looks like the one featured today. The best part about orange lip color is that it somehow magically erases any redness and/or discoloration, making the skin appear flawless and ultra healthy. Try it for yourself and be amazed!!
On to my EYE
Oh how I've missed a good ol' gold smokey eye! I think gold eyeshadow is a perfect makeup transition into spring (or fall) and being universally flattering, it brings out all eye colors in the most gorgeous way. I love seeing gold smoke on blue and green eyes especially -- they truly pop like a painting out of a frame!
For this EYE look, I used:
- Urban Decay original primer potion
- NYX jumbo eye pencil in Pure Gold(all over lid + waterline)
- NYX jumbo eye pencil in Iced Mocha(outer corner + lower lash line)
- Urban Decay Mariposa Palette
- see chart above for references
- Urban Decay Naked Palette
- see chart above for references
- Elite false lashes #8
- Rimmel eyeshadow quad in Smokey Noir(gray e/s to fill in my eyebrows)
On my LIPS: Revlon Superlustrous Lipstick in Siren
And the whole look :)
Hope this post was helpful to those of you in search of an easy-to-wear cheaper alternative to MAC Morange. Don't forget to vote in my poll on the sidebar and comment if you have any suggestions on how I can improve this blog. Also, please vote for my look in the MakeupBee / Sugarpill competition, there's only a couple days left and I really want to come in the Top 10. Thanks so much everyone!!!
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Vibrating probe by California Exotic
Please, let me know via email when the new review on this product is available.
Noir gets a 5 out of 5 in my review because what other toy can you possibly purchase that has 10 speeds and is built not only for anal but vaginal play as well?
The Flexi-Risque Triple provides very intense, customizable, tip focused vibrations that will pleasurably give your rump a workout. The three shaft ridges give good prostate stimulation and the waterproof seal means the tub isn't off limits. While the large base makes for a safe and comfortable grip it also can be cumbersome and prevents double penetration play. This vibrating plug is great value for the money and will rock the nether regions of most users.
The Flexi Risque is a powerful, vibrating butt plug for those who like a fair amount of buzz to their back door play. It is made up of a very flexible silicone material for comfort and safety. It has a fairly large base which can get in the way of you wish to keep this toy inserted during intercourse. However, if the size of the toy is suited to you, this anal vibrator will be a very attractive piece in your toy collection.


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Founded in 2003, Anointed Hands gained its reputation for providing "Quality Service at an Affordable Price" and officially made it the company's slogan within months of the company's existence. Since then, with that slogan embedded in the minds and hearts of its owner and team, Anointed Hands has made it part of the company's mission.
Our commitment to unsurpassed service and workmanship has earned us a well deserved reputation as one of The Pine Belt's finest cleaning services. We offer better than reasonable rates, a 100% satisfaction guarantee, and require no contracts to be signed. We are licensed, bonded, and insured with Mississippi. We even offer incentives for referring family and friends!
For over a decade, owner, Sharon Bobbett has been earning loyal customers throughout Mississippi. They consider the establishment and management of Anointed Hands to be a labor of love. The warmth and genuine appreciation they receive from customers have made this a business like no other. A native to Hattiesburg, Bobbett built her business on the premise that she is performing a service to the community. "Cleaning is not something I just woke up one day and decided to do! It is a beautiful gift with which God had anointed me long before I acknowledged it as a gift! It wasn't until I was left a single mother of three children that I acted upon the vision that He had given me long ago--to turn my gift into a business!"
Bobbett proudly views her business as a pillar in the community. "I'm just happy that Anointed Hands can play an intricate role in keeping our communities, beautiful cities, and state clean!"
"In surveying current customers, we were pleased to see that our clients really appreciate the way we tailor services to meet their specific needs. Whether it is using certain products or adjusting to a client's allergies--we are here to serve them and we will always stand firmly on that committment."
-Sharon Bobbett, Owner
Anointed Hands Services, LLC
P.O Box 853
Hattiesburg, MS 39401
(601) 255-5646


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Friday, December 9th to Thursday, December 15th
Starting Weight : 220.8 lbs
Game : Final Fantasy IV
Starting Total TPKs: 0
I'm starting to get disheartened by the lack of progress towards my goal. I recognize that day-to-day weight fluctuations are normal, but I am beginning this week at the exact same weight I started at despite eating less and exercising more.
I have been attempting to keep an exercise/diet regimen that is sustainable, but I think I need to increase the intensity or the lack of progress will make it hard for me to motivate myself to continue.
In other news, I purchased two new pieces of exercise equipment : an exercise bike and a treadmill that isn't on its last legs. The treadmill displays its speed digitally, which is nice (the old one just had a knob to turn speed up or down, and no display.


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Wednesday, 28 August 2013
Newspaper front pages: a comparison
Left-wingers have been spewing outrage over recent front pages of different News Corporation titles, such as the Daily Telegraph and the Courier-Mail. The truth is, the left believes only those who support them should be heard. Dozens of News Limited titles endorsed Labor in 2007, including the Daily Telegraph. In 2010, despite Labor's shocking first term, 6/11 News Limited titles backed Labor. Now, after another chaotic term which included Labor breaking multiple promises and presiding over the asylum seeker disaster, a couple of newspapers have, shock horror, expressed their view that it might be time for a change. Cue outrage. British Labour MP Tom Watson has arrived, to attack the papers, with the warm encouragment of the ABC. GetUp is launching a campaign including TV adverts to oppose freedom of the press and freedom of speech. Kevin Rudd has smelt a conspiracy. Media Watch has devoted episode after episode to the issue, ignoring the fact consumers choose to buy News Corp papers. I thought the best way to settle this issue would be to examine some other newspaper front pages. These delights below are from the UK's third largest circulating title, the Daily Mirror which has endorsed the British Labour Party at every election since 1945
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It appears fashionable these days, and almost politically correct, to blame hard-working immigrants, especially those from Mexico and Central America, for the social and economic ills of our state and nation. Anti-immigrant fervor on TV and radio talk shows, citizens attempting to enforce immigration laws and the enactment of restrictive laws, such as the Real ID Act, are evidence of this trend. Some of our elected officials are joining the parade, going so far as to call for the closing of our southern border.
This growing hysteria is nothing new: Similar scapegoating has occurred at other troubled times in our nation's history, most prominently against Asian and European immigrants during the late 19th century and during the two world wars of the 20th century. By and large the United States has been able to resist the temptation to close its doors to the world, but not without unjust victimization of "foreigners."
Now we find ourselves in another period of national self-doubt. The war on terrorism has made national security a legitimate concern, and a rising deficit, changes brought on by globalization and even the price of oil have thrown the nation's economic health into question. But as Congress prepares to engage in a debate on immigration reform, we must again resist punishing immigrants for problems that are not of their creation.