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His script begins after the Zombie Uprising has been quelled by the Human Volunteer Force and life is starting to return to normal. Any surviving zombies have been captured, medicated, held in an NHS holding facility in Norfolk and are being slowly re-integrated back into society, with the help of contact lenses and cover up mousse. The story follows teenager Kieran Walker and boldly goes where no zombie drama has gone before.
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The announcement of the re-election as President Barack Obama was welcomed by many people. Even a city in Italy are planning to give a special gift to Barack Obama.
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A small town of Urbino in Italy are planning to give a giant white truffle as a gift to the president who was re-elected President of the United States.
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Starting/meeting point: 10am at the Best Western Inn at the Vines in Napa Welcome to Northern California's Wine Country, home to nearly 1000 Vineyards and some of the best beer in the country! Join your group in Napa for a pre tour briefing, cycle fitting, and picnic lunch with your cycling professional and support staff as you prepare to set off on your journey. You'll start things off with a 30 mile ride to the city of Sonoma, with a taste of the hills to come. Spend the evening getting to know the city, and its historic colonial era Sonoma Plaza, which features numerous art galleries, restaurants and shopping options. Route: via Glen EllenDistance: 30 miles (48km) Elevation gain: 900m
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Today's ride will bring you through Sonoma Coast State Park, before following the Russian River back inland to the heart of Sonoma's Wine Country. Enjoy your supported nutrition stop in the shade of the awe inspiring, millennia old Redwood trees in Armstrong State Park. The next two nights you'll be staying in the quintessential wine town of Healdsburg, which serves as the hub of Dry Creek Valley, Russian River Valley, and Alexander Valley. Spend the night exploring fashionable boutiques, art galleries, and some of the best restaurants in Wine Country. Main route: Via Jenner, Duncan Mills, and GuernevilleDistance: 40 miles (64km) Elevation gain: 632m Burner route: Via Jenner and Willow Creek (dirt road), OccidentalDistance: 51 miles (82km) Elevation gain: 1391m
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Explore more of the surrounding valleys, and vineyards with the option of two routes. You'll be exposed to the ashy remnants of volcanic activity in Chalk Hill, and the world's largest geothermal field known as the Geysers before returning to Dry Creek for a free afternoon of wine tasting or relaxation. One of the best, and most classic Sonoma County rides, The Geyser provide a challenging, remote ride, seeing a 2330ft elevation gain over 24 miles. Return to town down Dry Creek road, home, home to 50 unique and renowned wineries, which produce some of the best Zinfandel in the world. Stop by the historic Dry Creek General Store for an incredible selection of lunch options before enjoying a free afternoon to explore these local institutions. Main route: Via Chalk Hill and West Dry CreekDistance: 40 miles (64km) Elevation gain: 402m Burner route: Via Geysers LoopDistance: 54 miles (87km) Elevation gain: 1332m
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MERCEDES-BENZ FASHION WEEK: Michael Kors Spring 2014 CollectionTuesday, September 17, 2013
Everyone knows that Michael Kors is my favorite designer. I can't really tell you why, but everytime I see garments and accessories from him I drool. I just think he's one designer that just gets it. He gets it right every time! His clothes fit, I die just to carry an MK bag. If I had enough money I would buy out all of his collections every year. Runway, MICHAEL Michael Kors, and KORS Michael Kors. Everything. Michael continued the trend for Spring 2014 of showing neutrals: whites, beige, tans. I almost thought safari with some of the items in his collection. Also there seems to be a very thin line between clothes for Fall and clothes for winter. I believe I see FUR in look number 2 below? Leather of course has transcended all seasons, and there were cute leather skirts in his collection. Of course we can't forget the handbags. Can't wait for Spring and to add more MK items to my always growing collection!
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Living in the Enemy's Dream
Michael Wood
- The Cattle Killing by John Edgar Wideman
Picador, 212 pp, £16.99, August 1997, ISBN 0 330 32789 5
- Brothers and Keepers by John Edgar Wideman
Picador, 243 pp, £6.99, August 1997, ISBN 0 330 35031 5
'Maybe this is a detective story,' a character thinks in John Edgar Wideman's novel Philadelphia Fire (1990). It's a reasonable suspicion, and would be for anyone in any of Wideman's books that I've read. But they are not detective stories. Often structured around a quest, for a missing child, a vanished woman, a former self, a meaning, an answer, they finally take the form of a flight, as if from a horror too great to bear or name, a shock one can only circle again and again, and at last abandon. 'Do I write to escape, to make a fiction of my life?' Wideman asks in his memoir Brothers and Keepers (1984). 'Wasn't there something fundamental in my writing, in my capacity to function, that depended on flight, escape?' But Wideman is not avoiding the shocks and horrors, he is allowing himself to be haunted by them, evoking their aftermath in a series of deft and ingenious pictures, taken from all kinds of angles by a restless imagination. The aftermath, though, is as close as he gets, and the need to flee even from that is a measure of the force of the original blast.
What blast? Was there just one? A writer in Philadelphia Fire feels the need to explain 'that he must always write about many places at once'. Many times, too. Sometimes this imperative produces a fairly loose universalising of local experiences ('She was the body of woman. No beginning, middle, end to her life. All women. Any women'), but more often, and particularly in Wideman's most recent novel The Cattle Killing (1996, now published in the United Kingdom for the first time), it reflects a convincing theory of repetition. Certain acts, Iynchings, burnings, rebellions, betrayals, must recur because the conditions and assumptions that cause them have not changed. 'Philadelphia was a prophecy of other cities to come,' we read of the plague time in the 18th century, and the prophecy includes not only future Philadelphias, but Cape Town and Pittsburgh, 20th-century cities to which the narrative leaps in its last pages.
The shock of Philadelphia Fire is the shock named in the title, the burning and bombing, on the orders of a black mayor, of a black community in a house on Osage Avenue. The event is briefly recalled in The Cattle Killing. There the shock takes several other forms as well: what we might call the invention of race by 18th-century white American Christians, who one day decided to segregate their formerly unsegregated churches; racial slurs and allegations flung about during the plague; the murder of a mixed-race couple in the Pennsylvania countryside; and across the sea in South Africa, the animal massacre which gives the book its title. Heeding a false prophecy given to a girl in a dream, the Xhosa kill their cattle in the belief that this sacrifice will bring about a new world. Instead it hastens their end. Wideman offers various readings of the moral of this story. Not just: 'Do not kill your cattle,' but: 'Do not speak with your enemy's tongue. Do not fall asleep in your enemy's dream.' Later he suggests that the Xhosa are 'bewitched by a prophecy that steals them from themselves'.
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The Oscar presentation in 1989 – 20 years ago! – was a watershed in bad taste. I usually like things that are tacky and overdone, but this just stretched all credulity. It takes something special to drive Julie Andrews to trash you to the press.
We're going to be taking a look at the two god-awful numbers of the evening: The infamous opening number starring Snow White and Rob Lowe, and the lesser-known "Stars of Tomorrow" number which is somehow just as bad on a smaller budget.
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Posted March 2nd, 2008 by phillau
Tonight is a very special tonight, as my bankroll broke above $500 for the first time! Here's what happened...
After my last update, I've been mainly playing $10 Sit'n Gos and $0.10/$0.25 NL Hold'em cash games. I did so-so in the SNGs, cashing in twice in 4 games. However, in the cash games I ran real bad and I got the bankroll down to $89.24. I figured things cannot go on like this and it's time to make some serious money. I picked a night which I feel really good and am free of distractions, and I played in a $69+$5 45-handed NL Hold'em Tournament. I understand that this is a big chunk of my bankroll, but I feel good about taking the risk and am confident in making it to the money.
The field was divided into 5 nine-handed tables. We started with chipstacks of 1500, and money goes to the top six finishers. As usual, I started by playing very few hands, concentrating on the premium ones. The major turning point of my night came when I had 1890 chips, and blinds were 120/240. Obviously, I was shortstacked and I needed to make a move quick. I held 45 suited under the gun, I decided to flat call. The cut-off guy (person who acts before the button) pushes all in for 5100, which was way more than my stack and also more than every remaining players'. As expected, the button, SB, and BB folded and it was up to me. I had a very strong feeling that he's trying to take down the action right there, and I had a good drawing hand. I thought about it carefully for a moment, and surprising even myself, I called! That's right, I called an All-in bet with 45 suited. Cards were turned over, and the guy showed pocket 2s! OMG, I have two overcards! The flop shows 499 and it was all over. I doubled up. Magic moments.
Later on, I advanced to be the chipleader when it got down to 7 handed, but I also managed to lose the chiplead only 15 minutes thereafter and I was actually the shortstack when it got down to 5-handed. Fortunately, two of the remaining players decided to commit suicide and I finished happily at 3rd. I picked up a prize money of $496. My bankroll is now at $511. Yay.
Amazing how far $5 can get you. My next target will be $2000.


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Monday, January 21, 2008
Garbage! The Revolution Starts at Home
The problem: the film is not available for rent or digital purchase. The only way to see it is by purchasing a DVD through the movie's website, which I obviously don't want to do since DVDs and their cases are made of plastic.
So I was sad...until I discovered Brave New Theaters, a site that allows you to find screenings of indie films in your area and to schedule screenings of your own.
From the site, I learned that there's a woman in a nearby suburb hosting a screening of Garbage this March. Yahoo!
Even more lucky--she said that if I like the movie, I can borrow her DVD and host a screening of my own in Chicago. How cool!
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- kawaii crafter said...
You've got me curious about this movie "Garbage". I'll have to look into it.
I share the same beliefs with you and do my best to recycle and reuse. I'm fortunate where I live that we have a great recycling system. We can even recycle green waste(food,shrubs,dirty tissues). It's amazing.
Just yesterday I came across this site that creates cards that you can plant when you're done with them and they produce wild flowers. Here's the site address if you're interested.
- January 22, 2008 at 7:13 AM
- Shannon Hodgins said...
Oh wow, you are in Chicago? Me in Chicagoland! E-mail me when you want to screen.
Are you in the suburbs on in the city? I'm thinking of starting a Greenie Group of some sort.....just a hangout with folks that are off the "stuff" train. Green Bean Dreams wrote a post that inspired me about getting out and meeting people that are interested in enviro issues. Shannon
- January 26, 2008 at 6:57 PM
- LifeLessPlastic said...
Shannon, An "off-stuff" group in Chicago sounds quite interesting. I would definitely be interested :)
- January 27, 2008 at 6:55 PM


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After Darren showed Sage how to properly hold the golf club sage replied,
"But I do it this way!"
With that start, I was a little nervous about the rest of the lesson. Sage proved me wrong.
He did great!
And he LOVED it!
Now its Daddy's turn
|Desmond, Sophie, Sage, Reese, and Avery
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The Holidays are over and it's back to reality once more. But first, here are the winners of the Memories of Christmas Past Rumble!
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Wednesday, October 09, 2013
Thursday, August 22, 2013
Black on White Crime/Racism
Where does true racism reside? From Pat Buchanan, writing for WND:
Interracial violence is overwhelmingly black-on-white
Last Friday, Christopher Lane, a 22-year-old Australian here on a baseball scholarship, was shot and killed while jogging in Duncan, Okla., population 23,000. He died where he fell.
Police have three suspects, two black and one white. The former said they were bored and decided to shoot Lane for "the fun of it."
As Lane was white and the shooter black, racism has surfaced as a motive. Thursday came reports that killing a white man may have been an initiation rite for the black teens in joining some offshoot of the Crips or Bloods.Absolutely disgusting. These people are filthy barbarians. Where is President Obama shooting off his mouth about this racism? It just shows what a despicable person he is. When an incident involves a black 'victim' (who often is not really a victim), Obama will jump into the story to advance his race agenda. When a white person is the victim of black violence, he and his minions in the media are silent.
Monday, August 19, 2013
Christians in Egypt
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Thursday, August 15, 2013
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
For which reason, after we have poured forth prayers of supplication again and again to God, and have invoked the light of the Spirit of Truth, for the glory of Almighty God who has lavished his special affection upon the Virgin Mary, for the honor of her Son, the immortal King of the Ages and the Victor over sin and death, for the increase of the glory of that same august Mother, and for the joy and exultation of the entire Church; by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, of the Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and by our own authority, we pronounce, declare, and define it to be a divinely revealed dogma: that the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory. ~Pope Pius XII, Munificentissimus Deus
Sunday, August 11, 2013
Drag Queens Perform at "Diversity Day" on Military Base
From The Blaze:
"Really surprised" by this?
Let's review:
- Obama is president.
- The "Dictatorship of Relativism" is in full swing.
- The gay lobby is emboldened as never before.
- The military, once a reliable bastion of true, masculine virtues, is undergoing a thorough process of emasculation and social engineering.
"Surprised" you say?
Several drag queens reportedly took the stage at the Los Angeles Air Force Base on Thursday as part of the military base's 2013 "Diversity Day" celebration.
According to Fox News' Todd Starnes, three individuals dressed in drag were featured in a musical performance that sparked outrage among some military personnel.
"I am really surprised that this happened on a military installation," an unidentified airman reportedly told Starnes. "I get that people want to be able to have committed relationships with members of the same sex, but this crossed the line."
Another said the performance was "totally offensive and inappropriate."
Photos reportedly from the event appear to validate the claims, showing two individuals dressed in drag performing to a small crowd on the military base.Just what the hell is "Diversity Day" anyway?
"Really surprised" by this?
Let's review:
- Obama is president.
- The "Dictatorship of Relativism" is in full swing.
- The gay lobby is emboldened as never before.
- The military, once a reliable bastion of true, masculine virtues, is undergoing a thorough process of emasculation and social engineering.
"Surprised" you say?
Thursday, August 08, 2013
Wednesday, August 07, 2013
Communion in Plastic Cups: Where's the Outrage?
Catholic blogs are abuzz with these images from Rio, showing "Eucharistic Ministers" distributing Holy Communion from disposable plastic cups. PLASTIC CUPS! Truly stunning. Where is our faith? Our reverence? Our devotion? The incredible thing is that these well-intentioned people genuinely believed they were doing a great service in "getting involved." Who on earth was in charge of these kinds of decisions?
Scooping up the Blessed Sacrament, fistful by fistful
Gimme gimme gimme!
That was then: antique ciborium and chalice, sacred vessels fit for a King
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Miss Eydie has hit Tinseltown for The Playboy Jazz Festival, a huge outdoor event at the iconic Hollywood Bowl. It's an intense all day affair –each group gets only 50 minutes to play, and if one band goes over they are immediately removed from the stage by a rotation of the circular platform, much like the proverbial "hook" from the days of vaudeville.The Bowl is packed with revelers; both music lovers and people just out for the social scene and an al fresco lunch.
My closest friend, who made the drive in from the Yucca Valley to check out the jazz festival and indulge in her foodie proclivities, was excited about checking out a restaurant called The Bazaar by José Andres. The concept is tapas…small plates of food with a Spanish accent. But there is a twist. One half of the menu is "traditional" tapas and the other half is governed by the principles of molecular gastronomy,the art of bringing the instruments and experimental techniques of the laboratory, into the kitchen. Food is chemistry, after all. This really appeals to me…both as an aware,enthusiastic eater, and a performer. I know there will be thought, theatre, and provocation involved in this meal. I know I will want to eat, drink, sniff and smoke this food! As a fan of the surrealists, the deconstructionists, the dadaists, I see this kind of cooking as art, pure and simple-and as valid as the realists and the traditionalists.
The only thing I know in advance about José Andres, is that early in his career, he trained under Ferran Adria at El Bulli. As in singing, one must know the structure and rules before one can improvise on,bend,or even discard rules. So it is in cooking…"It is not enough to know the principles,one needs to know how to manipulate." (Michael Faraday-Chemical Manipulation 1827) Our dining group this evening is delightfully diverse – my dearest friend who is an acupuncturist and a doctor of Chinese medicine, an interior designer and her husband, a musician who travels the world and has played with David Lindley, Sheryl Crow, Timbuk 3, Crowded House, (yeah!!) Bruce Hornsby, and many others, their adorable 4 year old girl, my partner in love and supporter of culinary adventure, and yours truly, Miss Eydie Gourmet.The restaurant itself, designed by Philippe Starck, is romantic and gorgeous to behold, and at the same time full of fun and visual trickery-its ambiance is conducive for culinary experimentation and we are totally ready for anything.The hotel lobby ( this restaurant is in the new SLS hotel, which used to be Le Méridien , near the Beverly Center) features unique Starck-designed display cases presenting rotating design items,curated by Murray Moss, (who owns the most fabulous design store in NYC )which if you are in the least inebriated or otherwise intoxicated can be disarming.
Waiters pass by with fixings for what I will soon learn is the signature "magic mojito." Served in a shaker and poured over a martini glass of cotton candy,this magical elixir provides a small amount of theatre along with your rum and mint,as the house-made cotton candy disappears into the drink. There are tableside presentations of both Rojo and Blanca Sangria and also, those intoxicating Brazilian treats, caipirinhas. Other temptations abound, like the "liquid cherry" Manhattan and the "New Way" Dirty martini with its "olive spherification "(more about that later) and olive brine air. To my mind though, the only quaff for this meal is Spanish wine, so we start off with some cold Albariño from Rias Baixas. Lydia confidently orders a Shirley Temple….when my son was little this was also his beverage of choice when we went out…he would order that and I would stage whisper to the waiter…"And Ill have a Shirley Temple's mother." ( meaning a vodka tonic!)
We try and order a balance of both traditional and deconstructed items. First things to arrive: a plate of sautéed wild mushrooms infused with hazelnut oil and a hazelnut praline. I'm transported momentarily to the Oregon woods as opposed to Barcelona. Sweet
potato chips are not so unusual these days, but the dip is an airy, whipped Greek yogurt with a swirl of tart tamarind paste, and a sprinkling of star anise. Next to arrive are some traditional tapas, that really cant be missed Sweet piquillos peppers are stuffed with goat cheese and next to them, a plate
of small codfish fritters or "buñuelos" with a honey aioli. We also have , in the more modern style, a serving of Ottoman carrot fritters. These are a delightful surprise ,tasting a bit like a tzimmes one might have for Rosh Hashanah dinner. …except better. Much better. They have small bits of apricot in them and lie on top of a bed of pistachio sauce. What I love about these small bites, is the concentration and explosion of flavor, of essence. One of the simplest dishes we tried was something called watermelon/tomato skewers with a sherry reduction- very much resonant of a watermelon gazpacho on a stick.
Umm…Ok..speaking of "explosion" -back to the olive spherification. Are you with me? I'm pretty sure that José learned this technique while under Ferran Adria's tutelage. This dish is a reworking of a familiar, age-old concept- the serving of olives to accompany a cocktail or aperitif. The waiter patiently explains the process to us… the olives are first pressed hard to completely release their juice, then reassembled in a bath of sodium alginate ,which is the sodium salt of alginic acid and calcium chloride ,which is used in cheese making. This develops a
"curd" around the olive jus so when it is put in the mouth it literally explodes with a burst of olive flavor- the liquid in contact with the alginate produces these tiny spheres of texture. This sounds horrifying to many at my table, but we all dig in. The small spheres of "olive" are artfully laid out, each on its own white porcelain soup spoon. As they enter our waiting culinary cavities, the taste of the Mediterranean washes over us like a wave of nostalgic embrace. BAM!! For real.
Moving on, our 4 year old guest Lydia astounds everyone by going for the American caviar cone, the sautéed shrimp with garlic and guindilla pepper, and the sea urchin buns, which are mini versions of the Chinese char siu bao,without the barbecued pork. Instead, inside the steamed bun lies a glistening, coral tongue, a single raw sea urchin, layered with green avocado. She chows down on these,
as opposed to more age appropriate choices such as the "Philly" cheesesteak which is composed of something called "air bread," cheddar and Wagyu beef or the papas Canarias: salty,wrinkled fingerling potatoes with/or without a mojo verdé (just cilantro, sherry vinegar, garlic and oil) or even chicken and bechamel fritters. Just goes to show you that many children will respond to an opening of their palates, if they are just given the opportunity.My son had a wide range of taste when he was little, and I ascribe that to the fact that after breast milk, I gave him goat's milk. That opened his taste palate to the range of sour and bitter flavors that he enjoys to this day. I'll never forget a chef running out from the kitchen to watch a 3 year old devour a goat cheese and eggplant terrine! Our 4 year old , Lydia has finally noticed the martini glasses of cotton candy going by, and calmly,but firmly asks the waiter for a plateful. Little genius that she is, she lets her head drop completely into the plate, which she says feels like "stuffing."
It's time to switch to red. How I love those words.
We order Alvaro Palacios' 2007 "Camins del Priorat," a masterful blend of Cariñena/Garnacha/Cabernet/and Syrah grapes from the Priorat region of Spain. Perfumed and sweet in the mouth, with a spicy, sexy overtone, we all fall in love with it…and quickly order another bottle to go with the cheese platter we are bound to order before dessert. The gentleman who brings our dishes to the table and announces them, reminds us of James Earl Jones playing "Othello." With a resonant baritone and a theatrical air, he announces,"Desdemona…Had it pleased heaven to try me with affliction,had they rained all kinds of sores and shames upon my bare head, Still ….would I lie before you
this platter of baby Japanese peaches with burrata,hazlenuts and arugula." More dishes arrive..that's the cool thing about small plates -you can share and try a bit of everything. (of course when the bill arrives, that's a different story) Sautéed cauliflower "couscous, a mixture of fried quinoa,lemon, harissa and cauliflower purée arrives, and is ravished. Japanese eggplant with yogurt comes sprinkled with bonito flakes,which add a depth and resonance of aroma and flavor.
A final plate before cheese of refreshing jicama wraps filled with mint,cucumbers, pickled ginger and an insane coconut dressing.
Cheese arrives with a platter of Pa'amb tomaquet…toasted bread rubbed with raw tomato and garlic-it's raw baby-Catalan style! 3 sheep and a goat. Manchego , La Serena, Idiazabal and the goaty one: a semi-soft Murcia al vino. We drain the bottle dry…in the meantime, Lydia is bored with us and has wandered over to the next table where she sees another small person.
Dessert is as creative and crazy as the rest of the menu. There is a whole confectionery section with bon-bons,chocolates tablettes, cookies and lollipops. I must have them all…but settle for a Maldon salt dark chocolate square, an olive lollipop, a white chocolate /red peppercorn lollipop and a Earl Grey bon-bon. Someone else must have the mini-cheese Danish (wha??)a few
different ice creams and sorbets,and something called a "creamy chocolate heart" We're out of control. Where did that port come from?? Why does the ladies room feel like I have been suddenly transported to The
Matrix?? Will Keanu Reeves pick up the bill? Lydia has made friends with Stevie Wonder's family ,who are sitting at the next table. As for me, I am under the influence of some kind of ambrosial coconut concoction I ordered, that has a crunchy, cold shell and inside, a creamy core. (a lot of "c" words I know) There may have been espresso ordered,or The Iron Goddess Of Mercy,the greatest of all the oolong teas…. I frankly don't remember. But I do remember happily being squeezed into a cab, and seeing the familiar lights and glitter of L.A. stream by, as I revisited all the flavors, textures and sights of the evening. Molecular Gastronomy-LA style… I'm inspried to get out my old chemistry set, order up some sodium alginate and start cooking.
To all you hipster dipsters out there who love good food and drink.Live long.Love well.Be Real . And be real gone!!
Miss Eydie


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So I promise that I'll get better about updating regularly, or at least semi-regularly, while traveling. But well, I dropped the ball slightly on my first trip since launching.
It was off for a catholic-filled weekend in the Rio Grande Valley! As usual, I was prepared to overeat, drink lots of Mexican beer and sweat. And I did all of them, with emphasis on the eating.
So, I get mad at Delta, sure, but is it just because I almost exclusively fly them? I mean, all airlines mess up and suck at times, right? Well Delta, I take back all of my cursing, because getting upgraded on 3/4 flights over the weekend was pretty damn great…. even with delays and being stuck at the Memphis airport for 7 hours. Note to self: never let your medallion status lapse.


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" ... It is your business to keep it (creative work) yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep yourself open and aware to the urges that motivate you. .."
Click here to read the entire post... but this is my keeping the channel open work as manifested as mixed media encaustic paintings.
|"Geometry of Desire: Circles" 4 x 4" (sold)
|"Geometry of Desire: Pink" 2 x 2"(sold)
|Geometry of Desire: Revolving Cone 4 x 4" (sold)
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Reason being is now that MODO is releasing new versions at such a high rate our render management is getting overloaded with renderers. It would be nice to set one renderer per major release. for example: MODO 10 has had 10.0v1, 10.1v1, 10.2v1, 10.2v2, 10.2v3, and 10.2v4. It would be nice to set this through our custom submitter.


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I just came across Timber Hawkeye he is the author of a book Buddhist Boot camp. It is refreshing to find a Buddhist teacher who has taken the simpler less dogmatic road.
I have been listening to Timbers talks, and thoroughly enjoy his approach, especially his words about "should". It reminds me of the phrase, We practice Buddhism not Shouldisim. haha
Please do check out Timber's stuff below
Timber speaks below at TEDx Honolulu.
Interview with Timber and Susan Burrell.
Grab yourself a copy of Timbers Book below:
Timber Hawkeye, author of Buddhist Boot Camp, offers a non-sectarian approach to being at peace with the world, both within and around us. His intention is to awaken, enlighten, enrich and inspire.


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Ninja are hired to depose tyrants and protect kings, but they aren't just assassins. The ninja have a sacred covenant, by which they guard the world from shadows.
Isamu Raiden's family have been the keepers of this Covenant for thousands of years and the time approaches where this task will fall to him. He has one last mission as an apprentice. He sets out, with his partner Amaya, but when he returns home, things have gone terribly wrong. His clan and family are dead. The ninja responsible plans to break the Covenant and free the Shadow Warrior, plunging the world into darkness.
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If you have Sirius/XM, you can listen to Greg Bell's Old time radio channel (#82). He has a number of great programs available throughout the month of December on his great show. You can also get a large number of these programs at a variety or resources on the web. One place to find these shows is the 500 OTR Christmas Shows from the Internet Archive. This is a great resources for many of these wonderful radio shows!
Old and New Wallets, 2013
The Jack Benny Program was a national treasure and it is great that we have so many recordings. Staring in the show was Jack Benny, a vaudeville performer who seemed to hit it big over the airways. Mary Livingstone played second fiddle (no pun intended) to her real life husband. She apparently had horrible stage fright, but hardly shows it as the straight person to many of Jack Benny's jokes. Eddie Anderson played Rochester, Jack's valet and chauffeur. He was one of the earliest African-Americans on mainstream radio and was one of the most loved characters on the show. Don Wilson was the show announcer and did the commercials. He was the constant butt of jokes, primarily about his weight. Irish Tenor Dennis Day (who was on the 1948 show) also had a show of his own. Besides being a 'dim bulb' in all the skits, he also sang a song on every episode. Phil Harris (who also had a show of his own) was the bandleader and the joker on the show. His real wife, Alice Faye would join him on the show as well. The last big name was Mel Blanc (of Bugs Bunny fame). Blanc (who ALSO had his own show) was one of the most famous character actors to play on the Jack Benny Show. He is very commonly the floorwalkers for the Christmas episodes.
The shows are chock full of laughs, funny stories, corny jokes and great music. And while there are many holiday episodes that are great to listen to, I pulled out two that I really liked.
The shows are chock full of laughs, funny stories, corny jokes and great music. And while there are many holiday episodes that are great to listen to, I pulled out two that I really liked.
Summary: The episode took place during the Battle of the Bulge, the last winter of World War II. It starts with Jack, Mary and Rochester trimming the tree - with some old defective lights that shocked Jack every time they were turned on. (Well, you will hear). There are some great electrician lessons here for the taking. They also recount going back to the store for shopping. The show ends with everyone coming over to their house, including actor Andy Devine. Jack Benny ends the performance with a touching message to the troops, who were listening to the show via the Armed Forces Radio Services. The AFRS transcription disks actually how many of these recordings were saved.
Summary: Jack and Mary head off to go shopping for the cast members. Jack, who is notoriously cheap, was all set to buy a wallet for Don Wilson, until he realized that it was $40. To be honest, according to the CPI calculator, a $40 wallet from 1948 would be $391 today...which might be a bit much for a wallet. After Jack agrees to buy it - he keeps going back to the floorwalker, played by Mel Blanc. As a bonus during this episode, you can hear Dennis Day sing Ave Maria.
There are many more Christmas episodes from the Jack Benny episodes on the web. Enjoy them all.
There are many more Christmas episodes from the Jack Benny episodes on the web. Enjoy them all.
Here are some links to programs relating to Jack Benny:
- Jack Benny radio program episodes via the Internet Archive
- Jack Benny bio on the Digital Deli (follow links to pages 2 & 3)
- Jack Benny Program entry on the Wikipedia
- Jack Benny on Jerry Haendiges Vintage Radio Logs
- Also visit 500 OTR Christmas Shows from the Internet Archive.
- Christmas Scripts at Generic Radio Workshop - no they are not from Abbot and Costello!
25 Days of Old Time Radio Christmas:
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- Day 1 - Nick Carter's Christmas Adventure
- Day 2 - The Saint is No Santa Claus
- Day 3 - Stolen Rings at Christmas with Boston Blackie
- Day 4 - Dragnet's Christmas Episodes
- Day 5 - Nero Wolfe & the Slaughtered Santas
- Day 6 - The Plot To Murder Santa Claus (with Frank Sinatra as Rocky Fortune)
- Day 7 - Christmas at Mission San Gabriel with Romance of the Ranchos
- Day 8 - Arch Oboler's Christmas 1918
- Day 9 - The Story of Silent Night (Hallmark Playhouse)
- Day 10 - Juggler of Notre Dame (with Nelson Eddy)
- Day 11 - Candy Matson's Christmas Episodes
- Day 12 - Lionel Barrymore's Mayor of the Town
- Day 13 - More Radio Adaptations of a Christmas Carol
- Day 14 - Tales Of The Texas Rangers (not those Rangers)
- Day 15 - Christmas in Connecticut (with Ronald Reagan)
- Day 16 - Holidays with Connie - Our Miss Brooks
- Day 17 - The Whistler's Christmas Episodes
- Day 18 - Detroit's WXYZ & The Lone Ranger
- Day 19 - Johnny Dollar and the Nick Shurn Matter
- Day 20 - Christmas Shopping with Jack Benny


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CORPUS CHRISTI - Apartment MarketData Research Services LLC has released March 2015 data for Corpus Christi. The multifamily market data represent three months trailing (Jan.–Mar. 2015).
As a rule these represent all properties except those that are leased but not occupied units.
Rate: Rental Rate is the average market rate expressed as ($/SF/month).
Size: The average size of each unit expressed as (SF/unit).
*Totals include four-bedroom units.
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Source: Apartment MarketData Research Services LLC, San Antonio
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The topic of this blog would be how to use IBM Federation using Oracle DG4ODBC. Not that I am a big fan of Oracle. In fact I am not. I am true member of the "Big Blue" :) .
But this is one of the popular methods used for federation with IBM Optim and I have helped many customers set this up so thought this would be a useful reference for many. Here you go!!
- Install the Attunity 5.3.2 Server and Studio software.
- At this time, this install is outside the regular Optim installation, the following needs to be executed to enable ODM.
- Create a file named addon.def in the Attunity/Server/def directory making sure the path in line iii is correct.
ii. INIT-FUNCTION = ENV_ATSP_Attach
iii. SHAREABLE-NAME = "C:\IBM Optim\RT\Bin\PN0ENVAW.DLL"
iv. TYPE = DRIVER
- From the Attunity program group, select "Command Line Console".
- Change directory to the newly created file location.
- Execute the command "nav_util addon addon.def".
- You should receive the message "OK". If not, stop.
- Apply the appropriate Attunity/ODM license keys.
- Create archive and/or collection in the normal process. Example saved as TEST.AETNA01.
- Update the Attunity Studio binding for the new archive/collection
<config collection="TEST.AETNA01" dirdb="OPTIMDIRWIN"/>
- Create the System DSN within the ODBC Data Sources Manager
- Click Finish
- Enter the data source name and the machine name:port being listened on.
- Click Next
- Click Next
- Insure the correct Binding
- Select the appropriate Default datasource from the drop down list
- Click Next
- Click Next
- Click Finish
- Create the appropriate Oracle ODBC init file
- Go to $ORACLE_HOME/hs/admin
- Copy the file initdg4odbc.ora to init"name".ora where "name" is the datasource name created in the above steps (Aetna01)
- Edit the new file
- Change the HS_FDS_CONNECT_INFO value to the datasource name
- Save and exit the file
- Update the Oracle listener.ora file
- Go to $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin
- Edit the file listener.ora
- Add the appropriate entries under the keyword SID_LIST_LISTENER/SID_LIST
- The ORACLE_HOME value should reflect your install.
- Save and exit the file
- Restart the Oracle listener
1. lsnrctl stop
2. lsrnctl start
ii. From a Windows Services panel,
- Restart the listener
- Update the Oracle tnsnames.ora file
- In the same directory, edit the file tnsnames.ora
- Add a new TNS entry for the new datasource
(DESCRIPTION =(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=localhost)(PORT=1521))(CONNECT_DATA= (SID=AETNA01))(HS=OK)
- You should probably have the actual hostname rather than localhost.
- Save and exit the file
- Create the appropriate Oracle Database Link
- From SQL*Plus or equivalent enter the following commands
- Create public database link AETNA01 connect to " " identified by " " using 'AETNA01';
- Name2 is the TNS value in the above step (AETNA01)
- Test the new Database Link
- Test the new link
- Create Oracle synonym(s) for the new data source
- create public synonym AETNA01 for optim_samples.optim_orders@AETNA01;
- Test the new synonym
- In SQL*Plus
- Select count(*) from aetna01;
- Repeat as necessary
This is much food for thought for now. Its me Girish signing off for today.


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HOUSTON (AP) J.J. Watt has had plenty of great games for the Texans.
And as Houston looks to end Kansas City's 10-game winning streak in the wild-card round of the playoffs, it can take comfort in this: Some of the star defensive end's best games have come in the postseason.
In four playoff games, Watt has five sacks, 17 tackles, three batted passes and an interception return for a touchdown.
His most notable playoff performance came as a rookie in the 2011 season in Houston's first postseason game against Cincinnati. The game was tied 10-10 when Watt swatted down a pass, grabbed his first career interception and returned it for a touchdown to give Houston the lead in a 31-10 win.
Watt was also good in Houston's only other playoff win which was also against Cincinnati in the wild-card round a year later. He had five tackles, a sack and swatted down two passes in the 19-10 victory.
''The playoffs are the goal, obviously,'' he said. ''It's the goal to get to the playoffs and then to take it from there. So all you can do is take it one game at a time. You need to play your best football in the playoffs. So it's a great opportunity for us to go out there in front of our home crowd, fly around, have some fun and enjoy ourselves.''
Coach Bill O'Brien knows it helps to have players such as Watt and many members of his staff with playoff experience as they prepare for Saturday's game.
''I think it's good because you can just talk to them about our experiences and things that went wrong and things that went right and how we've all learned from it and try to give them our thoughts on those things,'' O'Brien said.
Watt believes it's important to try and treat this game like any other.
''There is some added emotion, added energy, added excitement and you need to harbor that and use it the right way and channel it to use it for positive and don't let it overwhelm you,'' he said. ''Having been here and played in four playoff games now since I've been here, I think I've got a handle on how to do that.''
Watt, who won his second Defensive Player of the Year award last season, had another big season. He led the NFL with 17 1/2 sacks to join Reggie White as the only players in NFL history to have three 15-sack seasons in their first five years in the league. He also had 76 tackles, 29 tackles for losses, 50 quarterback hits, batted down eight passes, forced three fumbles and recovered one.
Watt broke his left hand on Dec. 9 and played the next three games with a club-like cast that slowed him down a bit. He played without the cast for the first time on Sunday and looked like his old self, finishing with three sacks, recovering a fumble and forcing another one.
He shared his plans for what he'll do with his injured hand on Saturday.
''I'll be wearing the same thing I was wearing last week,'' he said. ''Just a little thing to make sure that it's protected because it's still not fully healed. But it's very nice to have it back, and I'm looking forward to playing another week with it back in use.''
Watt, who has made several attempts at dancing after making big plays in the past, tried out his dance moves again last week.
After his second sack of Blake Bortles he did basically every dance that's been hot in the past year, starting with the ''whip'' before moving onto the ''nae, nae,'' the ''dab'' and ''running off on the plug twice.''
While the Texans were happy to see Watt have a big game, the man who has the unenviable task of teaching the 6-foot-5, 289-pound Wisconsin native dance moves was not impressed with his effort in that realm.
''J.J. doesn't have good coordination as you can see,'' Houston cornerback and Watt's dance coach A.J. Bouye said.
''He can play football, but he can't dance. So we try to work on him. We're going to put in some more time this week after practice just to teach him a few things. I'm going to send him some YouTube videos so hopefully that should help.''
Even Watt knows he isn't the most graceful dancer and called his moves ''terrible''. But the home crowd seems to enjoy the effort.
''We're just trying to get him a little rhythm, that's pretty much it,'' Bouye said. ''He gets the crowd going (but) I don't think they're really screaming - I think they're more laughing at him if anything. But we're going to work on it.''
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One of my very best friends from college is very pregnant right now, due in February (with a boy!), so for Christmas I decided to go all out and shower her with handmade goodness. I had given her a list of suggestions of handmade baby things that I could make, including mobiles, bibs, totes, stuffed animals, and a diaper bag. Of course, she chose the diaper bag. I showed her some photos of patterns in books that I had and she really liked the Amy Butler one from Little Stitches for Little Ones. Of course. The most ginormous diaper bag in existence! The one with 23 steps explained over five pages... of course!
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Though there was much swearing, and begging, and at least a few desperate shouts of, "Amy Butler is trying to kill my Brother!!", I survived. And so did the bag. And you know what? Though I probably wouldn't make another one for less than $400 (and that's if I'm feeling generous), I kinda love it. I love how very Hallie it is, with that awesome bamboo-blend cotton on the outside. I love how cool and stylish it is. I love how the bottle pockets turned out inside, and the adorable little cell pocket on the outside. And I love the giant vintage button, which I just want to put in my mouth. No, seriously, I want to bite it. But I can't, because now it's in Minnesota with a very adorable and hugely pregnant amazing friend of mine. And you know what else? That is truly awesome.
I also made the matching roll-up changing mat from the same pattern. It, too, involved some swearing and shouting about my machine being murdered, but we all emerged unscathed. The mat is one layer of cotton/bamboo blend, two layers of batting, and one layer of terry cloth, all quilted together and topstitched. You can imagine why my machine hated me for a while. But for a super-cute matchy-matchy modern diaper bag set, it's pretty great.


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"Our vision is that by 2020 no one should be killed or seriously injured in a new Volvo car."
Volvo chief executive Hakan Samuelsson's pitch that no one will lose their life at the wheel of one of his cars is a huge call, one that has shaped the development of new models such as the upcoming XC60 SUV.
Drive caught up with Jan Ivarsson, senior technical adviser for safety, at the launch of the new XC60 SUV in Spain.
Drive: Is this the safest car Volvo has ever made?
Volvo: Yes, the new car represents that, although, more or less, every new car will be the safest one. As we move along with mission 2020 we deploy new functions with every launch. This time we are putting the city safety with steering support in the car as well as steer assist as well as oncoming collision mitigation with steering assist.
Drive: Oncoming mitigation looks like a really important piece of technology, (the car can steer itself away from a head-on collision) tell me what the aim of that is?
Volvo: We look into data - we know what sort of problems people have in real traffic, we've been doing this for many years. From what we have seen in the data we have two different modes that are troublesome from an energy perspective. One is a run-off-the-road type of situation where we have very complex type of situation on the side of the road.
The other one is if you have a head-on situation and you are drifting into the other lane, you could explore a crash with very high energies, and that means you have a risk of severe injuries. The cause of the incident could be that you for some reason inattentive, and not watching what you are doing.
Drive: How does that technology vary from conventional lane departure assistance?
Volvo: If you are drifting out of the lane the car will monitor with the radar, having a longer perspective than you have not watching. It will look for cars in the other lane, oncoming cars. If you have cars coming it will start image processing with the camera to really understand the problem. Now the car will start to steer itself back into your own lane.
Drive: So if the driver falls asleep and has no possibility of steering...
Volvo: ... it will steer back into its lane.
Drive: Will it sound an alarm as well?
Volvo: No, it will not send an alarm. Falling asleep is one thing that occurs earlier. Our car will have a driver alert functionality that will start or trigger much earlier before you have this type of drifting. It first offers the opportunity to have a rest, then it offers other warning. The cause of this (oncoming crash) is that you are distracted for some reason.
Drive: Where does this XC60 sit in the realm of SUVs? It has more safety gear than the XC90, does that make it the safest SUV in the world?
Volvo: That is a very sharp statement. We deliver according to our mission 2020 that no one should be seriously injured or killed in our cars by the end of 2020, and that's what we are delivering from. If you look a the competition we give our cars an extremely high value regarding protective safety and a lot of built-in functions for rear-end collisions, side impacts, rollovers and so on. Advanced restraints, the best collision avoidance technology for cars, pedestrians, cyclists, large animals and so on as well as pilot assist and adaptive cruise control.
It's a broad safety offer from a standard perspective, and it goes down to the very details.
Drive: One of your key rivals in Tesla has the ability to update safety functions over-the-air (wirelessly), is that an option for this?
Volvo: You will have the possibility of updating some of the cars already out there regarding this type of functionality. But we won't have over-the-air updates for our cars, that's for the future.
Drive: So you will be able to update features in this car through the dealer, as part of the servicing process? And over-the-air is something you're actively working on?
Volvo: Yes.
Drive: How much of a concern is cyber security?
Volvo: We need to have a high standard for security. That is of importance. We have built in levels for cyber security in our cars.
Drive: Is there are particular safety feature that you're proud of in these cars?
Volvo: Having this standard fitment of functionalities, one would be a key selling point in city safety (autonomous emergency braking), I'm very proud of that. It's both the classical protective safety and collision avoidance on a very high level. I think Volvo is really pioneering both protective safety and collision avoidance for the customers.
Drive: have you performed an NCAP crash test for the car yet?
Volvo: No, we have not done the test yet. It's in our plans.
Drive: The expectation is that it will be a very strong result?
Volvo: Of course. I see the rating as a sort of confirmation or qualifier of what we do. Our commitment goes way beyond ratings.
Drive: Is the NCAP rating system an accurate representation of a car like this or does it fall short of what a car can do?
Volvo: I think that it think it works very well for the bulk of car, I think the rating is very good. But to demonstrate safety leadership it's not really there, that's something different. We are looking into field data - that is real crashes - and trying to support NCAP to pitch a measurement protocol that is in line with what the customer will experience in real traffic. That is important to us. The effort that we put into our cars will give a performance for the customers out in real traffic.
Drive: What about the ability for NCAP to assess the active driver assistance, the crash prevention technology. I understand that is something NCAP is looking at doing soon?
Volvo: We will continue the dialogue and expand the scope of collision avoidance functions and methods because we think this is the most efficient way forward from a performance point of view.
Drive: Do you have an internal way of assessing this? How do you measure active safety?
Volvo: Based on customer data we look up new methods and requirements. What we put up is guidelines and requirements then we sign off on them in new cars. Over time it becomes more mature, we have generation one and two technologies, and you increase the performance - the scale of performance is calibrated according to the true need out in traffic.
Drive: Do you still work with police at the scene of the crash?
Volvo: Yes. We also have a tight cooperation in Sweden with one big insurance company, gathering data from that source. We also understand then how did the car react in different parts of the crash and if there are injuries we will ask the people to take part in a medical journal.
We have an expert doing encoding of the people that have been injured. That is done from the road perspective in Sweden - we also have a travelling road team, they work together with the police and the fire fighters.
Drive: The 2020 goal is very admirable. Is that achievable today? 2020 is not far away.
Volvo: It's a vision, it's a way of thinking. If you should think about the future, to think safety and no serous injuries and no fatalities that is a very sound way of thinking. Then we build functions and knowledge as we move on. It's a direction of the company; It's shared by myself, the engineers working at their desks, it's shared by our CEO Hakan Samuelsson, so that everyone knows this and has this straightforward vision and direction.
It's very ambitious. When we started saying this in 2007 a lot of people questioned whether this was really possible.
As we have moved on we've done the pioneering work with collision avoidance. We are down several generations of iterations and performance that is standard in our cars.
We've started something and I'm very confident that we will deploy new functions, new methods and new models, we'll have the rest of the industry coming, with more and more cars are putting in this type of collision avoidance technology.
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