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I had a lot of goals last week, and while not all of them were completed, most are in their last stages, and Agents of Limbo still doesn't have all the details I need and/or want.
• Complete Beta edits for Midnight Sky (almost done)
• Format Storm Born and Damnation's Door (send out review requests when they're done)
• Finish the new plots for the Areios Brothers series and begin rewriting the first novel (almost done)
• Continue world building for Agents of Limbo
Which means that this week will be essentially the same as last week, though I'm hoping to finish every goal on here:
• Complete Beta edits for Midnight Sky
• Format Storm Born and Damnation's Door (send out review requests when they're done)
• Finish the new plots for the Areios Brothers series and begin rewriting the first novel
• Continue world building for Agents of Limbo
This week is going to be a busy one, too. On Wednesday, Crimson Sky will be featured on Princess of the Light, and on Thursday I'll have author Nicky Peacock returning for an interview. You can read the spotlight I had on her last week, and be sure to check out the Crimson Sky spotlight she gave to me in exchange.
Some other exciting news... I've seen the cover art for Storm Born, my standalone novel coming in May! It's not quite done yet, but holy crap guys... Wow. I mean... Wow. Deranged Doctor Design, the company that's put together all my covers except for Path of the Horseman and Needfire have outdone themselves yet again. It looks insanely badass, and I can't wait to share it. I think I'll actually use the cover reveal artwork rather than just jump ahead and post the cover on the blog. Maybe. I do love to tease, but I get over-excited when it comes to my books.
I have a limited amount of time before I have to start getting ready for the Storm Born promotions (media kits and pre-orders will be coming in April), so I'm going to use it to prep and finalize Damnation's Door and Midnight Sky so I don't have to worry about falling behind on those. Lots of exciting things coming this way, and I can't wait for them to happen! Cheers!

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Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Pumpkin Baked Oatmeal
If you've been reading very much of my blog, you know that baked oatmeal is one of my favorite breakfasts to fix - especially on cold mornings. It was one of my first recipes to share with you - and for good reason. I've probably made baked oatmeal more than any other recipe in my life. We have a history, baked oatmeal and I.
So when I saw some people talking about baked pumpkin oatmeal on my twitter feed the other day, you can imagine my excitement. Why hadn't I ever thought of this, what with my love for pumpkin and baked oatmeal and all ... why hadn't I ever combined them? I've put apples and raisins in it on many occasions, but never pumpkin. I must confess I didn't click on any of the links in that feed - a combination of being in a hurry and also wanting to come up with my version based purely from my original baked oatmeal recipe.
I woke up to freezing temperatures this morning and just happened to have some leftover pumpkin in the refrigerator from some pumpkin muffins the other day (which I forgot to photograph for you!), so I threw this and that into the bowl and we had pumpkin baked oatmeal this morning.
And it is good ... and perfect for this time of the year.
By the way, did you realize that Thanksgiving is only 15 days away? I had a mini panic attack when I realized that, but I'm starting on the prep early next week so I should have plenty of time. Tomorrow, I plan on posting my Thanksgiving menu for you. I don't have all of the recipes from my menu on this blog, but I hope to have a few more of them for you before the big day, and will create links within my menu as I get them posted.
For now, go make some of this oatmeal if you can tolerate gluten-free oats.
Projected prep time: 5 minutes; Projected bake time: 35-40 minutes
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2 cups certified gluten-free rolled oats
2 large eggs
1 cup pumpkin puree
3/4 cup milk
1/2 cup packed dark brown sugar
1 1/2 Tbsp. oil
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp. kosher salt
1/8 tsp. ground ginger
Dash of ground cloves
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Mix all ingredients and pour into an 8x8 baking dish. Bake 35 to 40 minutes, or until baked all the way through and feels somewhat firm to the touch.
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Some thoughts on N.T. Wright
I am drawn to polemical discussions of doctrine, especially with the two big "traditional" churches, the Eastern Orthodox Churches and the Roman Catholic Church. I have been posting recently in Fr. Kimmel's pontifications blog in the "Justification: declarative or transformative?" thread. In this thread, N.T. Wright, and by extension the "New Perspective on Paul" have been brought up to prove that the Reformation was based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the Pauline epistles, traced back to St. Augustine.
I don't want to get into the details of the New Perspective on Paul, but I do want to point out that in at least one place, Bishop Wright has not understood the fullness of what Lutherans believe. In fact, he said something very Lutheran while denying that it is Lutheran.
Lutherans believe that we are justified by faith, forensically justified in fact. But this justification brings with it benefits, including victory over sin, death and the devil. In other words, Lutheran justification entails more than merely God's declaration we are just for Christ's sake. It is not simply a legal fiction, it is an active declaration, just like the declaration God made when he said "Let there be light..and there was light". There is no justification without works--though works are not the cause of our justification. When we are justified, we are transformed, because we are reborn. Any way, bishop Wright wrote:
When he (St. Paul) describes how persons, finding themselves confronted with the act of God in Christ, come to appropriate that act for themselves, hr has a clear train of thought, repeated at various points. The message about Jesus Christ and his cross and resurrection--the "gospel", in terms of our previous chapters--is announced to them; through this means, God works by his Spirit on their hearts; as a result, they come to believe the message; they join the Christian community through baptism, and begin to share in its common life and its common way of life. That is hoe people come into relationship with the living God.Again, leaving aside bishop Wright's broader critique of the Western/Augustinian/Lutheran reading of St. Paul, it is a fact that we believe faith comes by hearing the Gospel, or the cross and resurrection proclamation as bishop Wright says. When we believe that proclamation, we are justified before God. And interestingly, when we are justified, we are of the children of Abraham, or, the ones to whom the promises pertain. In other words, that is what we mean by "justification by faith".
If you say this is what you mean by justification by faith, I reply that we must take note of the fact that when Paul is setting out this train of thought, as he does (for instance) in 1 Thessalonians 1, he does not mention justification.
This is a quibble to be sure, as Bishop Wright's teaching does not depend on this particular statement being true. None the less, it seems a lot of non-Lutherans try and place a template upon Lutheranism which does not fit.


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Chieck Tiote took time out of Ivory Coast's World Cup preparations to meet Newcastle United fans in Dallas this week.
Tiote played in the Ivory Coast's 2-1 win over El Salvador and accepted the Toon Army Dallas' award for player of the season.
Strict security staff in Frisco wouldn't allow fans to enter the pitchside to hand Tiote his award but he hurdled the barriers to meet fans and then sign a host of black and white flags and scarves.
US-based United supporter Steve Hunter said: "After the game, Tiote came over to meet us, and accept the award and sign our Toon Army Dallas Flag.
"This is the third year in a row we've presented the award in person to our Player of the Year, previous years winners being Tim Krul and Fabricio Coloccini.
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A MAN who stole more than £10,000 from his employers and then took himself to a police station has escaped a prison sentence.
Richard Smith, of Ysgubor y Llan, Bodfari, Denbighshire, defrauded his employers Abbeyvet on three occasions Chester Crown Court heard on Monday.
But it only became a criminal matter when he ignored legal advice and took himself to Blacon police station to make a complaint about the veterinary supply firm, the court was told.
Recorder Elgan Edwards said: "This is one of the most unusual cases I've come across.
"It's not for me to determine, but you must have felt, rightly or wrongly, that there was something untoward going on because you proceeded, in the full knowledge of the consequences, to have the matter reported."
The 42-year-old financial manager used his colleagues' names as computer log-in codes to send money from the firm's accounts to his own.
He transferred £5,894 in June 2007, £2,691 in August 2007 and £1,521 in October 2008, the court was told.
Simon Parry, prosecuting, said that when he was confronted by one of the colleagues whose log-in ID he'd used, he claimed to be trying the system out to make sure he knew how it worked.
Mr Parry said that it was about two months later that Smith turned up in the Chester police station and made his complaint about Abbeyvet.
He took along documents from Abbeyvet to back up his case, the court heard, and they had demanded them back before sacking him.
Mr Parry said: "He provided an interview with Cheshire Police to report Abbeyvet in relation to fraud.
"He alleged that they were involved in 'grey market' activity using European veterinary produce and repackaging them and selling them on to the US market.
"This allegation was referred to the fraud prosecution office but they decided it wasn't in the public interest to pursue. However there is a US civil action.
"He is then prosecuted for his own admitted theft."
Ann Mulligan, defending, said the theft itself was out of character as Smith was an active church goer, volunteer and charity worker.
She said: "He felt it was money that was owed to him because he would lose out to the company in the long run.
"Iain MacKellar (the owner) goes off to the Cayman Islands and resentment builds up and he does this extraordinary, and for him, quite out of character action, in taking the money."
But Judge Edwards said Smith was motivated by a desire to report his firm's actions rather than out of resentment.
He gave Smith 150 hours community service and ordered him to pay his defence costs of £2,320 and prosecution costs of £1,200.
Smith now faces a civil action from Abbeyvet to reclaim the £10,107.61p he stole but he has lodged a counterclaim against them.


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The app comes in an iPhone and iPad version. For this review, I'll concentrate on the iPad version. When you open the app, you are presented with the option to choose a category, or get one at random. Categories include things like Composition, Landscape and Nature, Photographing People, etc. You choose one, and you're presented with tips about photos of that type, and you get some examples with commentary, and some suggested camera settings. If you want, the app can send a daily reminder of a suggested assignment, and there is an option to share your photos with other users of this app.
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Complexity and modularity are important inherent properties of the system. Complexity is the property of the system that has to do with individual system elements and their connective relationship, while modularity is the degree to which a system is made up of relatively independent but interacting elements, with each module typically carrying an isolated set of functionality. Modularization is not necessarily a means of reducing intrinsic complexity of the system but is a mechanism for complexity redistribution that can be better managed by enabling design encapsulation. In this paper, the notion of integrative complexity (IC) is proposed, and the corresponding metric is proposed as an alternative metric for modularity from a complexity management viewpoint. It is also demonstrated using several engineered systems from different application domains that there is a strong negative correlation between the IC and system modularity. This leads to the conclusion that the IC can be used as an alternative metric for modularity assessment of system architectures.
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His last name is Remover
There is a kid in Elle's preschool class named Stian. Pronounced Stain.
Stian is Norwegian for "wanderer".
It is also Hipster for "my parents were too busy patting themselves on the back for coming up with my unusual name to ever take the time to consider how naming me Stian is pretty much like pinning a PLEASE TEASE ME note to the back of my shirt every day for the rest of my life". Alternative meaning: "Thanks a lot assholes"
Edited to add: It's been pointed out to me that perhaps Stian is an old family name. A tradition. I respectfully agree that this may be the case but I maintain that some family traditions are better ... not continued. Family name or not I still think it's a mean thing to do to a kid.
Edited to further add: It's been pointed out to me in an email that perhaps I am a huge bitch for making fun of the name Stian. I respectfully agree that I may be a huge bitch but maintain that not liking the name Stian is not what makes me a bitch. Still not a good name. Sorry, random emailer. If it makes you feel any better you can go ahead and make fun of my kid's names but then the joke will be on you because I didn't even name one of them, he came with that name so hahahahahahaha!
Edited to even further add: Holy macaroni! Does everyone who has a kid named Stian belong to some kind of message board or something? I have now gotten three emails from people who are mad at me because I made fun of their kid's name. All right, fine. You win! Stian is a wonderful name and I hope that when Elle grows up she and Stian get married and that they have 100 little Stians of their very own but if they don't I will adopt several cats (and some house plants) and name them all Stian because Stian is THE BEST NAME EVER!!! Also, my best friend is pregnant and I will be encouraging her to name her baby Stian unless it is a girl then I will suggest Stianette.


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Manchester United forward Cristiano Ronaldo has written off his Ferrari in a crash near Manchester Airport.
The 23-year-old winger was driving the sports car through a tunnel beneath the runways when he smashed into a barrier.
Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said his team-mate Edwin van der Sar was following in his Bentley, but the Dutch keeper was not involved in the crash.
Now having never driven a Ferrari (I know, what a pauper, eh?) I'm guessing here, but I expect they stick to the road like shit to a blanket. Also, given their cost, I'm guessing that outright suspension failure is unlikely, as is tyre failure. You don't buy a 120k supercar and fit "POWERSPEEDS" to it. So that only leaves the last option - he ran out of talent on a corner.
Despite denials of involvement, he was either racing Edwin, or was showing off trying to get the arse out round a corner in a tunnel. Either way, driving like a prick and deserving punishment.
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Sorry for not posting for so long. Azimuth is a big three year old and I am typing this onehanded while helping him play an elmo game (so much for keeping him from brand names). For now I will post a picture and update a little more later.
Believe it or not, this is a happy face. he was climbing inside of an ottoman we use for blankets. He would close the lid and talk to himself in there. It was pretty funny. As you can see, bedtime gets pretty crazy.
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Bella and Edward have known each other since birth. As they turned older, they developed feelings for each other. Edward is over the heels in love with Bella, and she feels the same way too. They both are too afraid to confess to each other. Will it work out?
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A Kuwaiti appeals court on Wednesday sentenced seven young men to death for the abduction and rape of a disabled 13-year-old boy, the victim's lawyer said.
Ibrahim al-Bathani told AFP that the court overturned a 10-year jail term handed in April by a lower court against the seven accused.
He said the seven defendants, aged 18-23, abducted the victim in September last year to a chalet where they sexually assaulted him.
The victim is a Kuwaiti citizen suffering from partial mental disability, the lawyer said.
"This is a historic verdict," Bathani said.
The convicts, four Kuwaitis, a Yemeni, an Iraqi and a stateless person, filmed part of the rape and threatened to post it on social media if the boy spoke of his ordeal, Bathani said.
Prosecutors found the videos on the phones of some of the defendants. The ruling is not final as the case must go to the Kuwaiti supreme court whose verdicts are final.
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On 18 Jul 2004, at 03:42, Tom Wigley wrote:
You are right that all the GSIC [glaciers and small ice caps] will melt even for zero warming from today. Our old model was better in that regard because it had a different eventual melt for different warmings. But this is a tricky thing for me even to conceptualize. My intuition says that if we stabilized temperature at today's level then not all of the GSIC ice would melt -- but how much would remain? It also seems reasonable that there is some warming amount that would ensure that virtually all the GSIC ice would melt --- 3degC, 5degC, ???
So the next step would be to try to get some realism here, but I really have no idea what would be realistic.
However, I think what we have is fine out to 2400 for most cases. For zero warming from now, sea level rises at about 5cm/century initially and then more slowly later -- so it would take 1000 years or more for all the GSIC ice to melt. We never get far enough for things to look silly. This melt rate (%cm/century) is proportional to (0.15 + T(1990)), so the 0.15 has an important effect. Climate sensitivity has an effect too (in MAGICC) since this influences T(1990) -- a model artifact. (The TAR says that the 0.15 comes from Zuo and Oerlemans, which I have added to the refs.)
From this [http://di2.nu/foia/foia2011/attachments/NewGSIC.doc] document:
[Tom WIgley] This method was only meant to be applied out to 2100, and it clearly gives unrealistic results if carried too far beyond 2100. The reason is that, with the quadratic correction factor, gs must have an upper bound. This occurs when dgs/dgu = 0 (i.e., gu = 40.09cm) at which point gs = 18.72cm. The available amount of GSIC ice that could melt is almost certainly greater than this. In any event, interpreting this number as the available amount of GSIC ice would be inappropriate, since the available amount of ice should be an independent input, not an artifact of an empirical correction for area changes.
For all credible future scenarios out to 2100, gu never approaches 40.09cm, so the upper bound for gs is never reached, and the TAR method can be applied with impunity. For stabilization scenarios, however, which may extend well beyond 2100, the TAR method can lead to ridiculous results, so some alternative must be developed.
Fortunately, because the TAR method is strictly empirical and gives results that are subject to considerable uncertainty, we can be fairly cavalier in devising an extension to it.
Wednesday, January 04, 2012
Another peek inside the settled science sausage factory: Tom Wigley on when the glaciers and small ice caps will melt: "the next step would be to try to get some realism here, but I really have no idea what would be realistic"
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- Anonymous said...
What would be realistic?
That is a normal question for a scientist to ask, theoretical or experimental -- what is a reasonable answer or what is a realistic range of measurement? Maybe not really scientists, these guys were computer jockeys riding a difficult simulation, so they are asking similar things: where should the computation land, how should it be seeded with realistic initial values? In a way, he is admitting that hockey sticks are EASY to generate with these complex programs.
But where they erred was in selling a spiking hockey graph as realistic. Any other area, scientists would maybe smell a rat, looking at a graph like that.
HARRY_READ_ME was dealing with the same thing. It was not working out.
- 5:48 PM, January 07, 2012
- Conrad Seitz said...
I really don't see the problem with this email. You are pointing at something taken completely out of context and arguing that what they say has some terrible underlying meaning. They're working on a simulation that projects events, and saying that it works through 2100, but they need something better for longer projections. No big deal.
- 9:22 PM, January 11, 2012
- Anonymous said...
@ Conrad Seitz
Perhaps the fact that these guys a trying to "simulate" climate change, and have no idea whatsoever about what values to start with, and what the predicted result should be.
Thats to say, they have absolutely no idea about what drives climate change.
And these are the people that provide governments with data that will ultimately shape all of our lives.
You don't see a problem?
- 7:15 PM, January 16, 2012


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What to doGive your little one a baby spoon. It can be plastic, metal with smooth edges, or that fancy rubber-metal combo. It should be big enough so your tyke can't shove it too far into his or her mouth (and choke) if very young. Be prepared for banging, drooling, and dropping to ensue!
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What you are doingWhile the spoon could be a first introduction to materials (see Touch!), it is a great introduction to many more skills required in STEM.
Typical infants will develop sophisticated observation skills (see Go Outside), but their world can drastically change when they realize that they can influence what happens. If they drop the spoon off the high chair, it disappears. It clangs. And if you're lucky, someone will pick it up, and you can start all over again.
As your infant grows, he or she may peer over the edge and watch that spoon fall—gravity in action. Your curious child will need to see if gravity always works: Will it work now? How about now? How about in the living room? At the restaurant? At Grandma's? It can be grating, but try as long as you can to help your tyke realize the larger concept. My family likes to say, "Yes, gravity still works. It works the same as it did yesterday. And it works the same at Grandma's house as at ours." But to your little one, that's a big discovery. When the evidence is overwhelming that this force of nature can be relied upon, your little one will stop the incessant dropping (and probably not a moment too soon for your sanity). The dropping of the spoon phase will segue into a new aspect of STEM skills.
The spoon is often the softest "first tool" for a baby. After appreciating its material properties, your little one will start to appreciate its design. It can carry (food into the mouth), it can scoop. It can catapult. It can stir. It's the first introduction to using things in the environment to change the environment.
Tools are needed by all STEMmies: Engineers make prototypes with tools. Technicians manufacture, troubleshoot, and maintain products with tools. Scientists design new experiments with tools to test their hypotheses. Mathematicians use tools that are a bit more abstract: Calculators and slide rules in the old days for calculations, but today, the computer is one of the most versatile tools, allowing them to solve equations, graph to find patterns, and even animate to visualize surfaces or test models. Learning how to use different tools helps kids learn to leverage the latest material, manufacturing, power, and information technologies!
How you can growA natural progression from the spoon is the ladle, and then the shovel. Beach time or bath time provides natural motivation to learn these tools – and practice time! Later, sticks will become the all-purpose tool that lays the foundation for your little one to appreciate more specialized tools: forks for poking, tongs (and chopsticks) for picking up, spatulas for lifting and flipping, and knives (plastic ones) for slicing.
A well-known Montessori activity is "banana cutting" where kids learn not only tool use (and safety) but also life-skills. Preschool children want so much to be like adults which explains why cooking sets appeal to both boys and girls at this age.
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AH! WE HAD the best time in Sayulita. This place has been on my radar for a while now and I've been dying to check it out. Many friends of mine have visited this cute magical surf town and they have all returned singing the Sayulita praises. I'm happy to report that I'm joining the choir. This place is simply the coolest.
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Just a couple of weirdos. Ya'll should be used to photos like these by now though…
We met so many awesome people (locals and tourists alike) on this trip and were lucky enough to be invited back to take in this view with some new friends. This was an awesome Air BNB find where our new Aspen friends were staying. Dan and I loved our little lodge but we're already dreaming of returning to Sayulita with a bunch of friends and taking over this Casa for a week.
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Our favourite restaurant, was Teirra Viva. We met the best server ever (Martin) who was so fun to chat with and the food was incredible. Arguably the best coconut shrimp I've ever had. On our last night Martin brought us dessert and had our names written on the plate – it was such a sweet surprise (literally!).
And also the Popsicles from Wa Kika are life changing (see photo above) and if you get offered a snack on the beach (cucumber with lime and hot sauce) take it.
I had a mini hiccup this trip catching some sort of bug or sun poisoning (we're still not really sure what it was) so unfortunately I was down for the count a bit (fever, aches, chills…ugh) so I spent most of the trip in the shade on the beach but Dan got a little surf session in on our last day.
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Judy at Simply Scrapping has been posting some awesome sketches and I LOVE how this one from last week turned out!
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The other day I ran into Michael's to look for some wool yarn to knit these baby longies that I've been making. Longies made of wool are popular throughout the cloth diapering community because they absorb moisture without feeling wet. They are great to use as a cover over cloth diapers and are so cute! I've ordered some wool online, but I wanted to check and see if Michael's had a specific brand before I ordered more. They didn't end up having the specific brand I needed, but they had skeins of wool in the color that I wanted and just a different brand. They were on sale, so I decided that two would work and that the color was more important than the brand.
I had some time to kill, so I decided to wander around the store and see if there was anything I needed or could use to help decorate my house. I couldn't find anything that I needed, so I went up to the checkout. When I got there, the cashier asked if I was signed up to receive the Michael's coupons, and I said no. I filled out my name, address, and email address and she assured me that I would be added to the list so I'd get the coupons. If the Michael's coupons are anything like JoAnn's coupons, I'm going to be so excited! The JoAnn's coupons are 20% off one item, and normally I can get out of there with just one or two items.
Michael's Coupons
After I checked out and paid for my yarn, my receipt and an extra Michael's coupon printed out: 20% off one item! I was so excited until I read the small print: it wasn't valid until the next Sunday, and it was only good for a week. I'm not going to go back there just to use the coupon because by the time I take the extra time to go across town to use the coupon, I'll have spent the savings on gas and it's just not worth it to me. I'll probably end up ordering some more yarn online because it's cheaper anyway.
I'm thankful that Michael's does offer coupons but I wish I could have taken advantage of the deal that day instead of waiting half a week. I'm sure they want me to come back to the store so I spend more money. 🙂 Of course, the most frugal option would have been to look around for a Michael's coupon before I left the house, but I just didn't think about it. Next time I'll be sure to look for one, or hopefully I'll receive a printable coupon in my email. That would be even better!
Do you look for coupons before you go to specialty stores? Do you sign up for their lists?


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Tuesday, 12 November 2013
Week 23.
It was as though you woke up this morning and decided you were ready to crawl. As if it came from nowhere you started to force yourself onto hands and knees. I'm constantly torn between finding it hilarious and excruciating to watch you so frustrated. So close but still miles away.
I feel like everything with you falls into that category, that bitter sweet. Watching you eat for the first time, discovering a whole world of possibility. It's exciting. But I also have to farewell the days of being your primary food source. Soon you will have outgrown breastfeeding altogether.
It reminds me to pick you up & give you the longest squishiest cuddles because this time is so short and I can already see it slipping away.
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I didn't want 2013 to go by without at least one blog post.
Everyone doing fine. Jessi is a senior and has contracted the dreaded senioritus. The boys are ruling the jr high in 8th grade and Jenni is in the 6th grade being ruled in the jr high by her brothers.
Tim and I are doing great!
Here's to hoping I blog more in 2014!


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An Aberdeen man who faced 23 felony counts of sexual abuse pleaded guilty Monday to rape of a child younger than 10.
Richard P. Mette, 42, was not sentenced Monday, the day his trial was to begin. But one of the terms of a plea agreement that eliminated the need for a trial is that he will get a 15-year prison term. The other charges were dismissed.
The rape charge involves improper contact between Mette and a girl in an Aberdeen home in 2004 and 2005 while the girl was 8 and 9 years old.
Rape of a child younger than 10 is a felony punishable by as much as life in prison and a $50,000 fine.


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Head Mad is a simple tap arcade game HTML5, tap screen, Heading the obstacles as much as possible, avoid the bombs, survive and get the highest score.
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The way it lays out for Thanksgiving week on the sports calendar:
COLLEGE FOOTBALL: UCLA at USC, Coliseum, 5 p.m., Channel 7:
Some of this stuff just doesn't add upl. There's the 8-3 Bruins, a pre-season favorite to get back to the Pac-12 championship game but mathematically eliminated now. And there's the 9-3 Trojans, seemingly mathematically eliminated from anything two months ago but on a run to an improbable post-season bowl game, albeit one not on New Year's Day, but one more beyond Saturday for sure:
3.5: The point spread favoring the Trojans to win by most early prognosticators.
1997: The last time UCLA won a game at the Coliseum against USC (as the No. 7 Bruins prevailed, 31-24, for the seventh straight year behind conference player of the year Cade McNown. That vaulted the Bruins to a 10-2 finish under Bob Toledo after winning the Cotton Bowl – and starting the season 0-2).
1-0: Jim Mora's record in this series as a UCLA head coach (with the 38-28 win last year at the Rose Bowl).
0-0: Ed Orgeron's record in this series as a USC head coach.
8-2: Orgeron's record in this series as a USC assistant coach.
6: Touchdowns in the last three games by Bruins freshman linebacker Myles Jack.
67: Tackles this season by Bruins freshman tailback Myles Jack.
155.6: QB efficiency by Bruins sophomore quarterback Brett Hundley, second best in the conference (22 TDs, 9 INTs).
145.3: QB efficiency by Trojans sophomore quarterback Cody Kessler, sixth best in the conference (15 TDs, 6 INTs).
2: TD receptions this year for USC All-American junior receiver Marqise Lee (third best on the team)
57: Tackles made this year by UCLA All-American senior linebacker Anthony Barr (sixth best on the team)
14 of 20: Field goals made, attempted, by UCLA freshman Ka'imi Fairbairn (missing two of his four last week).
14 of 21: Field goals made, attempted, by USC junior Andre Heidari (making his last three in a row)
46: USC victories in the series
29: UCLA victories in the series
7: Tie games
2: Vacated USC victories because of, well, stuff happening. In 2004 and '05. We won't get into it again.
50: Largest margin of victory (by USC, 50-0, in 2011, last time the game was at the Coliseum)
10 years ago: AP's No. 2 USC wins 47-22 at the Coliseum to advance to the Rose Bowl with Pete Carroll (and that win over Michigan in the Jan. 1 game gave the Trojans' the AP national championship, not the BCS title).
20 years ago: AP No. 16 UCLA's 27-21 win over No. 22 USC at the Coliseum sends the Bruins to the Rose Bowl with Terry Donahue.
25 years ago: AP No. 2 USC pulls out a 31-22 win over No. 4 UCLA at the Rose Bowl and advance to the Rose Bowl again on New Year's Day.
50 years ago: USC, the preseason No. 1 team, salvages a 7-3 season with a 26-6 win in 1963 over the 2-8 Bruins.
93,607: Expected announced crowd in attendance (a sellout).
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covet, need, want, must have, all of the above…
[edit] old video was taken down… stupid user takedown… new video is not as cool, but still neato!
töken experience from yöyen munchausen on Vimeo.
covet, need, want, must have, all of the above…
[edit] old video was taken down… stupid user takedown… new video is not as cool, but still neato!
töken experience from yöyen munchausen on Vimeo.
Check this out! Follow the link it makes a compairison to how windows is making itself more like linux…
I FINALLY escaped the video-game scene a few weeks ago. My xbox kicked the bucket… hard. Over some time I was able to ascertain that the cause of it's rather catastrophic failure was a direct result of dirty power. I live in a small town where the local power is routed over questionable wiring. As a result there are a LOT of brownouts, blackouts, and power surges. Tech here drops like flies in seasons!
I finally concluded the power was to blame when two Hard drives, a NAS and my Archos all died within days of my xbox… so yeah… dirty power.
I was free though. finally able to breathe. Don't get me wrong, boredom was kicking in hard but ultimately the end of time draining video games was close!
Then Renfeld had to go and buy another xbox… thanks man… love the replacement xbox man… now I can go back to the sole-crushing, mind-numbing, anger-enduing, anti-social video-games… I love you man… I really, really hate you… damn it… I'm going to play some firefight now…
Well, I finally pulled my head out of my ass today… or should I say, MICROSOFT pulled my head out of my ass…
I woke up this morning ready for another great day of movie watching and gaming, courtesy of my xbox 360. But my day was cut short by the Red Ring Of Death (or RROD). Wht is the RROD you ask? well, on the xbox there is a circle of lights on the front used mainly to display player connections and power… but when things go wrong (and with Microsoft, things WILL go wrong) these lights turn red in an ominous partial circle indicating your XBOX is now useless.
I'm so angry right now… I don't even want to finish this post…
basically… Microsoft sucks. I am now selling ALL my microsoft crap, I swear to never buy another Microsoft product as long as I live. Of all the products I own nothing I have worked with has been more unstable, or less reliable than microsoft. why does this company still exist with such substandard quality control?!?
I swear to cthulhu, If Twin Falls gets this, I'm moving back!!!
Once upon a time I actually LIKED my little NAS… I bought an MvixBOX some time ago, and almost immediately after unboxing the thing sucked… hard…
For starters, the status LED (used to tell when it's safe to turn the device off or to tell you when it's operating) was dead… no light, just dead. so I called Mvix for support… guess what? I had none… that's right, I was informed by Mvix that my BRAND NEW NAS was out of warranty once I opened the box… what can I do? they aren't a US based company so I'm screwed!
Next, the installation REQUIRED a windows machine… now most people out there wouldn't see the problem… but those who know me know I USE LINUX!!! I bought the thing specifically because Mvix advertised UNIVERSAL COMPATIBILITY. they claimed it was compatible with Windows, Mac, and LINUX… yeah… they lied. the Problem is the initial setup, in order to literally set the device up for operation you have to install a program through a windows machine. This program is absolutely necessary because the NAS OS is located ON the hard drives provided by the end user and as stated, the app is windows-centric.
But the problems don't end there! oh no, this crap-fest of defication just STARTS there… next off you have to deal with substandard manufacturing practices… I wish I had a camera right now… because after 6 months of usage, the NAS housing has literally fallen apart!
The problem is one of heat… the Drive housing provides a millimeter gap between the two drive bays, the problem with this is that a millimeter is not enough room for proper airflow to allow the drives to cool evenly… over short usage intervals this is not a problem, but that leads to another design flaw I'll get to in a minute… you see after 6 months of constant operation the plastics have become brittle from heat stress… and this morning the MvixBOX literally fell apart… what was I doing you may ask? well I was sleeping when I heard a "pop" followed by a "thunk" as one side of the Mvix LITERALLY fell off!!!
Now I tried to fix my little NAS but things got worse and worse, the USB link on the front got bent to heck when I tried to reattach the side… I'm still not sure how it just FELL off when I can't get it back on without breaking it. and on top of that when the side fell off, the power and "disable" buttons also just fell apart… and they aren't regular momentary switches so replacing them is impossible…
and this brings me to the last–and greatest–failings of the MvixBOX. with so much weak design you would assume the NAS is designed to operate in intervals, with cool down periods… and therein lies the flaw. to power off the MvixBOX, you are supposed to press and hold the "Disable" button on the front until it beeps at you, then wait for the "status" LED to go out, THEN you can power the device off… yeah… my status LED was dead out of the box. so I had to GUESS when it was safe to turn the thing off… normally most "Integrated" OS devices, such as WRAPS, or SAN, or NAS devices the OS is stored in read only on some kind of flash rom… not the Mvix, for the Mvix it resides ON THE FRIKEN STORAGE MEDIA!!!
This has to be the worst design flaw I have EVER seen… by putting the OS on the storage medium you create an inherent point of failure… think about a PC, if you power off the computer improperly you can destroy the boot record or the partition record. loose these and the PC is useless… in a NAS this is data suicide! ALL other "Portable" NAS devices (I am specifically referring to stand alone NAS devices designed to be portable) have the OS on a separate storage medium additionally they utilize an external cache device. most have a battery powered ram disk that manages the partition table so that in the case of power failure there is NEVER data loss. In the case of Mvix thought, there is no safeguard for improper shutdown and in MY case there is a greater LIKELIHOOD of improper shutdown AND DATA LOSS!!!
I cant wait until I get my Tax return… I am SO getting a Netgear ReadyNAS Pro.
At the end of Nov '09 or the begining of Dec the motherboard on my desktop system died on me. There was no real reason for the failure other than the fact that this was the 2nd board that Nic had given to me that had died. Since the board was dead I decided that now was as good of a time to do an upgrade as any. After consulting with Nic I decided to get the best I could afford that wasn't one of those insane gaming rigs or rediculous servers. Once I knew what I was looking for I hit up NewEgg for some tech porn. I chose the Gigabyte GA-790XTA-UD3 AM3 AMD board. I picked this one because near as I could tell it was on the bleeding edge of available tech. This board supports the new USB 3.0 which has a full duplex speed of 4.8 Gbit/s. The press has reported that boards that support this new standard are not supposed to be available until this spring! This board also supports the new SATA 3 at 6 Gb/s! This is an amazing upgrade from SATA 2 at only 3 Gb/s. The only drives I have been able to find on the mass market are in the size of 2 Tb and are only available from NewEgg with the purchase of a $3000 system. I have also seen the amazing tech demo that Micron in Boise, Id did for their new SATA 3 SSD drives! This thing was amazing! I was impressed with its speed in loading programs, pictures and programs that seemed to bogg down a standard hdd in identical systems.
Along with this new motherboard with its amazing new hardware support, I also purchased the AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb 3.4GHz Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core CPU. I was going to get the same thing only as a 3.0GHz, however after Nic decided to volunteer some project and Christmas $ I decided that getting the best & fastest currently available made perfect sense. This is the first time in my life that I have ever even tried to do an upgrade and get the best I could in both motherboard and cpu. The only thing I skimped on was my memory, but even with this I decided to get the best that I could afford. The OCZ Gold Edition DDR3 1066 2x4Gb that also has Cas Latency 7 and Timing 7-7-7-16. From my research the smaller the number the faster the ram does it's job. Everything else I looked at the fastest they had was in either the 8′s or 9′s. I decided that even though it was not the fastest ram the board could support it's Latency & Timing were enough to make up the differance.
Anyways, I've been running this system with no problems other than a power supply issue that had a $6 fix and a usb driver crash that may have been either a Windows 7 or Zune software issue. After a reboot, everything works just fine.
Oh, about 2 weeks later I decided to add another 4 Gb ram, so I've doubled the ram from what I had in my old system. The only thing I'm thinking about at this time is to upgrade my video card. I currently have an Nvidia 9800 GT w/512 mb ram. I don't know what model but I'm considering something with an ATI chipset expecially since it's made by AMD now!
Well, it's been around a month since I installed Windows 7 Ultimate on my server and netbook. I have totally enjoyed it! No problems, few stability issues and I've actually only had 1 issue. I was upgrading my Zune mp3 players firmware and all of a sudden none of my usb devices would work. I just went ahead & hit the power button on the front of my computer and it shut down like it should. When I brought it back up & was able to login everything was working correctly. The only thing I can figure is that the new USB 3.0 drivers on my new desktop system took the entire usb hub down. Beyond that one issue, no program, web page or game I've tried to use on this new os and computer have failed at all. I find that Windows 7 is an awesome os and I don't mind using it at all. I've dabbled in Linux but I don't know how to navigate in it well enough to do the things that I want to. When it comes to Windows though, I can find it, get it working and have it working exactly how I want it to. Windows 7 seems faster, has less crashes than XP and isn't as much of a resource hogging whore as either XP or Vista. I know there are issues, but I've not experienced any except for the 1 crash.


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I just finished - The Pilgrim's Progress - the Christian soul-searching classic that was never assigned once in the course of my *liberal arts* education. (free Kindle link .)
And I must say - what a terrific book!
I just can't believe that my Catholic high school didn't REQUIRE studying it.
Of course, after thinking about this omission it dawned on me that this masterpiece might have been deemed *too Protestant* by the Vatican.
Just Googled for an explanation and I came up with this:
As you pointed out, Pilgrim's Progress was and is a very anti-Catholic book. Seeing as its author, John Bunyan, was a Baptist writer serving time in jail for opposing an Anglican church in England at the same time England was living in fear of the even-more hierarchical Roman church, you can understand why he might be anti-Pope.
The basic tenant of the book - that the Christian life is a journey that must be accomplished on one's own, is as about as Baptist / Puritanical as it gets. Like all Puritans, he celebrated rather than suppressed emotion, and wanted to ensure the "personal relationship" with Jesus took center stage. (Yes, Puritans were not the dour people popularly portrayed. Want to read a theology that celebrates sex between man and wife? Look to the Puritans - not the Catholics!)
These two biggies - the unmediated experience and the anti-hierarchical church polity - are probably the biggest bugaboos for a Catholic.
Beyond that, the book presents salvation as an act of free will, and seems to completely discount election or predestination. These issues may also cause some interesting discussions.
That said, this is the second best selling book of all time, just behind the Bible. Even if a good Christian were to disagree, I'd suggest it is edifying to read and think. The praise of Acts 17:11 comes to mind:
Now the Berean Jews were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.
As a Baptist believer in soul competency, Bunyan himself probably wouldn't have wanted you to accept his opinions without considering them against scripture. His genius was to rehabilitate allegory from static symbolism and push the metaphor into dynamic journey and learning that could be used to direct a believer's life.
Just imagine how many Harvard students have never read this landmark book or even the Bible...


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My heart swims in blood / Because my many sins / Make me monstrous / In God's holy eyes...
That's the uplifting beginning of one of the two J.S. Bach Cantatas that will be sung by Lorraine Hunt Lieberson at the Barbican for one night only on June 23rd. (The text doesn't get much less bleak in the rest of the piece, although she does find redemption in death.) She will sing this deeply moving piece of 18th-century Lutheran church music dressed in a plain blue smock, writhing on the floor, while tangling up and choking herself with a long piece of red fabric. In the second act, she will reappear, dressed in a ratty hospital gown and dirty brown socks, and sing another cantata, this time while being menaced by a light bulb. It will be fabulous.
No, really, it will. This odd little piece of music theatre, devised by maverick Peter Sellars, was performed at the Barbican once before, four years ago, to mostly rapturous reviews. Tim Ashley writing at that time in the Guardian, said that "It ranks among the most heart-rending things I've ever seen." In the intervening time, the piece has travelled to New York and Paris, and the two cantatas have been released on a CD, to similarly rapturous reviews.
There are a lot of reasons to love Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. (Please note: all the cool kids call her "LHL.") She's a singer who takes a lot of artistic risks while never succumbing to gimmickry and pandering. And her voice is big and warm and in perfect control.
There are just as many reasons to hate Peter Sellars (Please note: he was not in Dr. Strangelove, and he is not dead. That's Peter Sell-ERS. With an E.) Sellars has inflicted a lot of really, really ugly things on the stages of the world. His public humiliation, after he ran the Adelaide Festival into the ground and promptly resigned, was probably richly deserved. And he has a very special gift for making even the unquestionably good things he does (like, for example, the Tristan and Isolde performed in front a giant movie screen that just happened in Paris last month), sound unbearably stupid when he tries to talk about them in interviews.
But the LHL Bach cantatas at the Barbican should play exactly to his strengths—minute attention to musical detail, emotional immediacy through physical rigour—and avoid all of his familiar weaknesses—blunt, facile "updatings," a cheap school-pageant aesthetic. After all, these are cantatas about blood, death, pain, and despair. This is Bach in his most ugly, violent mode. It might actually be less jarring, for one actually listening to the words and music, to see them performed by an hospital patient getting choked with a scarf than to see them performed by a woman in an posh evening gown, with perfect posture. And LHL, who has been a consistent Sellars collaborator for years, is exactly the person to make you believe in all the weirdness. So if you go (and there seem to be a few £9 tickets left) don't read the programs notes, but do bring your binoculars, and a pack of tissues.


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PATERSON, NJ - The John F. Kennedy varsity boys basketball team pulled away in the fourth quarter to seal a 55-45 victory over Hackensack in the final game of the Coaches vs. Cancer Classic on Sunday night at JFK High School.
Guard Alphonso Gee led the Knights with 24 points, including 10 from the foul line. Khadir Lindsey finished with eight points and Jalani Morris and Charles Powell scored seven apiece in the victory.
The Knights held a four-point lead, 40-36, heading into the fourth quarter. Hackensack had closed the gap after trailing, 28-20, at halftime.
It was the second victory of the weekend for JFK, which also defeated Dickinson of Jersey City, 68-49, on Friday. Gee pumped in 29 points in that game, with Lindsey and Morris going for 10 apiece.
Next, JFK will face crosstown foe Eastside in a rematch Tuesday night at 8 p.m. at Eastside. The Knights fell to Eastside on opening night.


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|Driveway repair
We have been busy this year with working the acreage as nature tries to move back in to reclaim the area. This is when the realization of living in the country means more physical labour to exist comfortably. Our beaver colony was extending their dams in the creek and there was little water running there. This creek drains the upper areas of the fields and now this pond was becoming a small lake. We had a trapper in for the spring and he took out two of them, and destroyed the dam with an axe. However it was obvious in no time that there were more and working industriously with rebuilding. We had also had some washouts on our driveway in heavy melts and rain. If this lake continued to grow, then our drive in the lower area and the road next to the land would suffer. We had a few people to come and take down the dams even digging under theml. A few times we saw the rush of water go under the culvert in the drive. But we were soon calling in the licensed trapper these last weeks and three more beaver were removed. The water is flowing and we hope that is a sign that there are no more in the lodge. The trapper may be waiting to go back in at night to check for any more. We wait the results.
Meanwhile we have just gotten the driveway resurfaced to a smooth run of 1500 feet up the hill. There is to be a culvert put in below still, to combat any over flow on to the drive as was in the past.
We bought a large shelter tent to house some items from the garage so that we can work more in the garage and the tent. The wind last month took the tent and we had it replaced more securely and waited out two more wind storms watching with anxiety. It's a guessing game if it lasts this winter.
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We have tried to live with the animals and the elements but have found nature is powerful and determined and the best we can hope for is to hold our ground. But there are the days when I'm out on the deck with my morning coffee viewing the early fog or sun. There is the delight of watching the deer in our yard near the house. Recently we have viewed a stag a couple of times. Usually they don't show up like the doe. We have snow shoes ready for this winter. I plan to photograph the land more and even get a plein air painting or two done as the subject matter is endless .In our battles we still claim joy in living on our 49 acres.
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Direct from London's West EndFrom the creators of the The Gruffalo and hot on the heels of the Gruffalo's sell-out UK tour and monstrous West End success comes the The Gruffalo's Child - with attitude! Just how brave is she? One wild and windy night the Gruffalo's child ignores her father's warning and tiptoes out into the snow. After all, the Big Bad Mouse doesn't really exist...or does he?Tall Stories Theatre Company brings Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's award-winning sequel to life in this magical, musical adaptation. All adults must be accompanied by a responsible child! Four performances only! Ages 3+"Lovingly and simply brought to the stage" Evening Standard ****"Everything good children's theatre should be" The List *****
We currently do not have any tickets on-sale for The Gruffalo's Child.


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CHRISTMAS FAYRE – SUNDAY 12th NOVEMBER
Dungeness Lifeboat Station in Kent guards the Channel from Folkestone to Rye Bay and was the first to receive the RNLI Shannon class lifeboat. The Morrell was named on 31 May 2014 by HRH The Princess Royal.
The station has a rich history. In 1940, the Dungeness lifeboat was one of 19 that took part in the evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk in northern France. Through the 1950's the station was famous for its Lady Launchers – local women who helped haul the lifeboat down to the sea, and recover her.