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I don't think I've left the house in a month. I moved back in with my parents thinking that I needed to take a break from life to get my mental health under control. That backfired. When I was on my own I was nervous all of the time and my moods were chaotic and extreme but at least I was forced to go to work and interact with people. I had to shower regularly and go to the store. Now those things seem so...big. Now I only leave my bed to go to the bathroom or get a snack. And even though I'm always in bed I can never sleep. I take short naps throughout the day when others are at work and stare at my ceiling all night.
I'm supposed to go to grad school but for two years in a row I've been too depressed to reach out to professors at the appropriate time. Occasionally the aggressive apathy will lift and I'll get something done but by the time the application is due or the professor responds its back and no concrete progress is ever made. I have to do something. I feel like I'm just waiting to die.
If you're going to tell me to just get over it; hold my nose and jump in, save it. It's hard to get better when the only time you actually care about getting better is once a month at 2:00 in the morning.
I guess what I'm looking for is a way to motivate myself when I just don't care. I'm on medication. I've tried the whole therapy thing. I'm stuck. Has anyone else gone through this and gotten to the other side? What did you do?
Always in bed, never asleep.
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Hey buddy. I haven't go to the other side but i'm trying. i'm in a similar situation as u are. I missed so many things just because i don't wanna go out. I'm finding motivation and myself.i'm a mess but one thing holding me together is, "Tomorrow might be better than today, if i don't live till tomorrow how would i know when it gets better". Own up your pain. Life has to go on. How long do u wanna stay in bed? No one is gonna rescue you if you don't safe yourself. Start slowly, go out.. U need to begin somewhere and everything else will follow.
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The Employee Ownership Update
Loren Rodgers
July 1, 2011
Employee Ownership Companies Among the Winning Workplace Award WinnersEleven of the 50 winners of the Inc. 2011 Winning Workplaces awards either have ESOPs, provide broad-based stock options, or are worker cooperatives. Eight of the winners are NCEO members. The awards are a project of Winning Workplaces, a not-for-profit providing consulting, training, and information focused on helping small and midsize organizations create great workplaces. Nominees must have 500 or fewer employees. Over 350 companies applied this year. Companies are chosen based on innovative practices that engender employee involvement, loyalty, and innovation.
This year's employee ownership winners are:
- Cal-Tex (ESOP)
- G5 (stock options)
- Golden Artist Colors (ESOP)
- Harrell Remodeling (ESOP)
- Hopkins Printing (ESOP)
- ITA Group (ESOP)
- Medical Present Value (stock options)
- Namaste Solar (worker cooperative)
- n-Link (ESOP)
- ReadyTalk (ESOP)
- Torch Technologies (ESOP)
Supreme Court Decision in CIGNA v. Amara Sends Mixed Message on Reliance on Summary Plan DescriptionsTo read the headlines on the Supreme Court decision CIGNA v. Amara, No. 09-804 (U.S. May 16, 2011), it might seem that employers won a big victory. The court had ruled that a conflict between language in a summary plan description (SPD) and the plan document itself should be resolved in favor of the plan, at least under one part of ERISA. But the court's ruling was far more complex, finding that employees can still seek equitable and monetary relief if they can show damage resulting from the miscommunication under other sections of ERISA. A more detailed explanation worth reading appeared in the BNA Pension Reporter (available at this link).
IRS Proposes Regulations to Clarify Taxation of Performance-Based Equity CompensationOn June 24, the IRS issued what it termed a clarification of the rules regarding performance-based equity compensation. Generally, stock options and stock appreciation rights (SARs) granted by public companies to certain highly compensated employees and meeting specific conditions are not subject to the tax deduction limit of $1 million per year. One of those conditions is that the number of shares is specified, and the proposed regulations clarify that the number of shares must be specific for a given time period for each employee, rather than over the life of the plan or an aggregate amount for all participating employees. The proposed regulation also states that these maximums can be specified in the plan rather than in the individual award documents. In its review of the proposed changes, the law firm Morgan Lewis suggests that the proposed regulation has the potential to retroactively disallow prior tax deductions.
Employee Ownership and ValuesWhen people work in an employee ownership company with a strong culture, is there a tendency for their values to converge? Anecdotally, the answer would appear to be "yes," given the intense nature of the work environment and the shared goals toward which people work. Recent research by Marilyn Cain, Jason Stansbury, and David Cook, however, concludes that "the six employee ownership best practices, whether individually or together, had no influence on the sharedness of values among employees, among managers, or between managers and employees." The research is based on the Rokeach values survey and includes data from over 800 people at 20 organizations. NCEO members will be able to read more in the September-October issue of the Employee Ownership Report.
Robert OakeshottThe founder and long-time executive director of the UK's Employee Ownership Association (EOA), Robert Oakeshott, died on June 18. Mr. Oakeshott began his career as a journalist, including six years at the Financial Times, and in 1979 he founded Job Ownership Limited, which later became the EOA. A tireless advocate, brilliant writer, and dogged researcher, Mr. Oakeshott's legacy will live on through the organization he founded, the books he wrote, and the lives he touched. David Ellerman of the University of California in Riverside writes, "From his discovery of Mondragon for the English-speaking world in The Case for Workers' Co-ops to his magisterial Jobs and Fairness, Robert Oakeshott has been the foremost analyst and interpreter of worker ownership in the world today."
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Infrasense, Inc., one of the leading subsurface detection firms in the nation, recently completed a ground penetrating radar (GPR) survey of an asphalt overlaid intersection in Lowell, Massachusetts. The objective of the survey was to locate voids and sinkholes in an area where a water line broke. GPR was the preferred method due to its ability to view the soil condition without requiring removal of the asphalt.
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Variable Cover Opening Brake Based on Printer Attitude
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Invention is to automatically deploy a printer top cover decelerator brake for a wall mount attitude and automatically stow it for a table mount attitude.
Variable Cover Opening Brake Based on Printer Attitude
As presently designed IBM's thermal printer top covers open with a touch of a button actuating springs that pop up the cover to an opened paper load position. A drag strip attached to the top cover passes through and over the pinch points on the printer frame. This serves to slow down or brake the top cover as it is connected to the drag strip. As the top cover is opened by the springs the drag strip passes through the pinch points thus decelerating the cover. Invention is to add another pinch point by virtue of having it swing into place automatically when the printer is moved from the table mount position
to the wall mount position. In a position 45 degrees from table mount tilted up from the back the device does is not impinge upon the drag strip but in an attitude tilted back 45 degrees from table mount the device is half way over the drag strip and is activated by the thicker portion of the strip as the cover opens thus decelerating the cover at the appropriate point for that attitude. The device would also swing out of the way and remove the pinch point upon changing the printer from wall mount to table mount. See Figure 1 for illustrative description


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Or, looking forward to reading TS Eliot's currency trading records from his time at Lloyd's Bank.
How did I only hear about it now? The library doesn't have it but hey, put in a request: Princeton University Press has published Franz Kafka: The Office Writings, a 400 pg. collection of the reports Franz Kafka wrote for his day job (his night job being writing The Castle, America, Metamorphosis etc.) as a lawyer at the Workmen's Accident Insurance Institute in Prague.
I looked it up on the publishers' website and it made for a most Kafka-esque read – particularly as regards the hilarity, which many people forget about (I think it was Max Brod who reported Kafka laughing so hard he couldn't go on when reading the first chapter of The Trial aloud). I actually had some serious doubts about whether it was all just a joke:
1. Their blurb:
"Franz Kafka is commonly recognized as the greatest German prose writer of the twentieth century. It is less well known that he had an established legal career. Kafka's briefs reveal him to be a canny bureaucrat, sharp litigator, and innovative thinker on the social, political, and legal issues of his time. His official preoccupations inspired many of the themes and strategies of the novels and stories he wrote at night."
2. Are they talking about these? Believe it or not, yes!
3. Also on the website, a sample of peer reviews:
"Kafka himself complained constantly that his day job at the Prague Workmen's Accident Insurance Institute oppressed his artistic calling; this volume's editors beg to differ. In the hands of Kafka scholars Stanley Corngold and Benno Wagner and the legal scholar Jack Greenberg, the 18 briefs collected here comprise more than a record of the author's years in the insurance business. By reading between his legal writings and his fiction, the editors argue that Kafka's dual identities are inextricable: the writer is informed by the lawyer, the lawyer by the writer. Franz Kafka is the Franz Kafka we know not in spite of his day job, but rather because of it."--Rachel Sugar, The National (Abu Dhabi)
Hard to top this guileless "the editors beg to differ with Kafka" but I think the next one does:
"[T]he texts have impressive sociological merit: They provide a compelling picture of what life was like for an early twentieth-century bureaucrat who took his work seriously, believed in it, and did it well. . . . But ultimately, the value of The Office Writings lies less in the potential connections to Kafka's fiction than in the fundamental disconnect."--Ben Kafka, Bookforum
"Fundamental disconnect"! Ben Kafka! This professor who studies "the powers and failures of paperwork" has to have been invented by Woody Allen. Have a look at him and see if you don't agree: Prof. Ben Kafka, conveniently "on leave until 2010 and unable to respond to queries".
If Princeton University had just thought to call the book On the Examination of Firms by Trade Inspectors and other writings I feel sure that it could have been a strong contender for the famed Diagram Prize for oddest book title, which in March of this year was won by The 2009-2014 World Outlook for 60-milligram Containers of Fromage Frais. I find that On the Examination of Firms has that unintentional hint of fun which Horace Bent, the man behind the award, has always appreciated, while disdaining both self-conscious titles and those in which the double-entendre is too rude.
By the way, the person who spots the title gets a prize too. I've been keeping my eyes open but haven't had any luck spotting something among our new acquisitions. However, I did enjoy encountering a book called Cavemen old and new the other day when I was down in the basement stacks. Not sure why, but it reminds me a bit of a past Diagram contender All dogs have ADHD.
The tremendous world I have inside my head : Franz Kafka - a biographical essay, by Louis Begley (the author of About Schmidt and, like Kafka, a lawyer as well as an author) which the library does have.


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Legislation to improve the operations of the state's Child and Adult Protective Services systems in order to prevent tragedies like the murder of 23-year-old North Collins resident Laura Cummings unanimously passed in the New York State Senate on Tuesday. It was sponsored by State Sen. George Maziarz, R-C, Newfane. The measure has been named "Laura Cummings' Law" in her memory.
Laura Cummings, a mentally and physically challenged young adult, was smothered to death by her mother on Jan. 21, 2010.
Maziarz' legislation was co-sponsored by a bipartisan group of a dozen senators, including every member of the Western New York delegation. Assemblyman John Ceretto, R-I-Lewiston, will sponsor a same-as measure in the Assembly.
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•After the second report of abuse of a child or an impaired adult, Child or Adult Protective Services will be empowered and required to seek a court order to enter the premises and investigate the inside of a home when access has been denied by the homeowner.
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The City of Prague, in cooperation with the Prague Public Transit Company, is offering passengers a new mobile application for their convenient and immediate access to all the relevant information needed for carefree travelling within the Prague Integrated Transport System.
webmaster, 23.8.2016, more The DPP INFO Application will make your travelling by public transport simpler
As of Sunday, the 28th August 2016 several permanent changes will take place to the operation of Prague Integrated Transport System. These comprise specifically the following modifications to tramline routes – while the routes of twelve lines will remain the same the route of nine lines will be adjusted and three new lines will commence operation.
webmaster, 15.8.2016, more Permanent Changes to the PIT System as of the 28th August 2016
The Prague Public Transit Company, in cooperation with ČSOB, a. s., MasterCard® Europe SA and Mikroelektronika spol. s. r. o., is expanding its pilot project for contactless fare payment by means of a payment card to Škoda 15T trams to also include all the No. 18 line's connections.
webmaster, 3.8.2016, more Contactless Purchase of Tickets is now also available on Line No. 18
Starting on the 27th of April (or from the 2nd of May 2016), there are the following changes in the operation of Information Centres of the Prague Public Transit Company: Terminal 1 Information Centre will be temporarily closed (and subsequently relocated). Moreover, opening hours of some other branches will be adjusted.
webmaster, 27.4.2016, more Information Centres of the Prague Public Transit Company announcing operational changes
After more than a half- year closure, the reconstructed funicular to Petřín was put into operation for the travelling public again on Friday, the 8th of April 2016 from 11:00 a.m.). The reconstruction, absolutely unique by its length and the extent of restoration, commenced at the beginning of September 2015.
webmaster, 12.4.2016, more Petřín funicular re-opens after reconstruction
Starting on Friday, the 25th of March 2016, the Public Transport Museum in Prague – Střešovice is re-opening for visitors again. More over, traffic in the streets will be liven up by a historical tram line no 91.
webmaster, 24.3.2016, more Public Transport Museum to open, historical line no. 91 to set off to the streets
On Thursday, the 17th December 2015 the Prague Public Transit Company reopened the restored Information Centre at Hradčanská metro station.
webmaster, 18.12.2015, more The Information Centre at Hradčanská Metro Station is now open again
As of the 1st July 2015, a number of significant changes will take place in the Prague Integrated Transport's Tariff, which will make the use of public transport in Prague considerably more attractive for passengers.
webmaster, 17.6.2015, more Reduced prices for a 1-year ticket and free transport for dogs – changes to the PIT Tariff starting from the 1st July 2015


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Physical Anthropology has always been one of my favorite classes. Although it's not my field, I love it, and I'm very enthusiastic about the subject matter. Plus, my zoology/paleontology background makes this a natural fit for my interests. My enthusiasm used to be enough to turn a large lecture course into a class that many students enjoyed. But two years ago, we switched the class meeting time from early afternoon to eight freaking o'clock in the morning. This has a deadening effect on the entire classroom. At times, I feel like I'm lecturing to zombies (which I am, given the hour!), and the average grade on the exams fell by ten percent. Clearly, changes need to be made.
That's not the only reason I want to overhaul the class. There are certain concepts that I think are critical for students to understand, and I'm not getting through to as many of them as I want. For example, I spend two weeks talking about race, but a significant number of students still don't understand what I mean when I say race is a cultural, and not biological, category. I've tried different types of lectures and activities, I've tried different analogies and explanations, but I still feel that I'm failing.
My goal is to create a more experiential, hands-on learning experience, where students participate in the scientific process, and are able to explore concepts in more depth. The class already has lab sessions, but I plan to shift the regular classroom focus away from lectures to a discussion- and activity-based classroom experience. This necessarily involves trade-offs. I won't be able to throw as much information into my lectures and expect students to memorize it. On the other hand, those topics I do cover will be covered in greater depth, and hopefully the average students will learn more, the struggling students will struggle less, and the top students will gain the skills and context they need to truly excel.
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IELTS Writing Task 1 – Describing a process
Sometimes you may have to describe a process in Task 1 of the IELTS Writing test. This means you may be given a diagram and will have to explain how it works. The first thing is to make sure you understand how it works and think about the most logical way to explain it. What is the start of the process? What happens in the middle? How does it end? Be careful not to copy too much language from the question or diagram but if you do not know another way to explain it, use the language you are given.
Have a look at this task, then check out our advice on how to answer the question and finally our sample answer.
The diagram below shows the process of water travelling in the water cycle on our planet.
Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.
Write at least 150 words.
Advice on how to complete this task
Before you write
First, scan the diagram of the process to work out what exactly is happening. Make some notes of the main points you want to include. Make sure you take note of all of the stages as you will lose marks on task achievement if you miss out any stages when you write.
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Writing Plan
The first sentence should describe what is happening in a very general sense, but in your own words (never copy the question). This is the overview. For example you could write:
The diagram illustrates how water moves through the water cycle on earth.
After this you want to describe each stage of the process. It is useful to use time phrases and prepositional phrases to make your answer flow. For example:
- after that
- next
- in the third stage
- finally etc.
In this example you can start at any stage (the model answer below chooses to start with the clouds). You can describe each stage of the process in a separate paragraph with a suitable linking phrase:
- Paragraph 2: Starting with the clouds
- Paragraph 3: Once the rain has fallen
- Paragraph 3: In the third stage
- Paragraph 4 In the final stage
In this example it is a natural process so we would use active voice, for example: the rain falls. A process done by man would be better written in passive voice such as: the rainwater is collected in tanks.
Finish the task with a rounding off phrase, for example:
and so the cycle repeats itself.
Sample answer
The diagram illustrates the hydrologic cycle on earth. Water moves through four main stages which together complete the cycle.
Starting with the clouds, the build-up of moisture in the clouds becomes heavy and temperature changes or movement over the hills causes the clouds to form water which falls as rain in the process of precipitation.
Once the rain has fallen, some of the rainwater flows on the surface in rivers to freshwater lakes or the sea. Another route to the sea for the rainwater is by sinking into the water table and traveling to the sea underground.
In the third stage of the process, the water evaporates into the air from the ocean and land, including plants as they give off water in transpiration.
In the final stage of the cycle he water cools in the atmosphere and condenses to form clouds. The cycle then repeats itself.
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July 29, 2011
A Few Older Minecraft Mods
I'd like to take a look at a few Minecraft mods that have been around for a while now, but that we just haven't gotten to covering. With so many new mods coming out everyday it can be pretty tough to keep up with them all sometimes. So without further ado, here are 3 mods


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Just step away and do your best to wrap you mind around the amazing adventure you're embarking on.
Oh, and feel free to come here when ever you want. I promise to try not to scare you 😉


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A mother and four children were killed in the Gaza Strip today after an explosive device carried by terrorists blew up.
(Communicated by the IDF spokesman)
During the IDF operation this morning (Monday, 28 April 2008) in northern Gaza, the IDF targeted from the air two Palestinian gunmen who were approaching the soldiers while carrying large bags on their backs. Following the strike against the two, a large explosion erupted on the scene – indicating the presence of bombs and explosives in the gunmen's bags. As a result of this large explosion, extensive damage was caused to a house that was near the gunmen and uninvolved civilians were hit.
The IDF Spokesperson wishes to stress that the responsibility for the injuring and killing of uninvolved civilians lies with the terrorist organization Hamas, which operates within civilian population, using them as human shields and risking their lives by keeping bombs and explosives near them.
Further inquiry into today's incident in Gaza
Following publications in the media, the IDF wishes to clarify that during a complicated operation this morning in Northern Gaza, the IDF carried out an aerial attack and identified hitting two Palestinian gunmen. An initial IDF investigation was carried out soon after the incident. The initial investigation shows that a secondary and large explosion took place due to the blast of explosives that the gunmen were carrying. The blast took place in the proximity of a home, probably the home where the civilians and children that were hit today were staying.
Due to the sensitivity of the matter and the complexity of the battle this morning, engaged by various IDF forces, additional inquiries are to be carried out, in order to eliminate any possible doubt regarding the accuracy of the aforementioned circumstances. Having consulted with the IAF Commander, Maj. Gen. Eliyezer Shkedi, the GOC Southern Command, Maj. Gen. Yoav Galant, ordered the appointment of a Colonel, the Artillery Commander of the Southern Command, to investigate all aspects of this incident and to present his findings within 48 hours.
The State of Israel and the IDF place complete and utter responsibility on the Hamas terrorist organization for the injury and killing of uninvolved civilians. By intentionally operating from within heavily populated areas, and using them for cover, the terrorist organization exploits civilians as human shields.
1 May 2008
The GOC Southern Command has extended the time allotted to investigate the incident to ensure that the investigation is as thorough as possible.
At the weekly Cabinet meeting held on Tuesday, 29 April, the Cabinet discussed the situation in Sderot and the area adjacent to the Gaza Strip in light of the fighting there. Prime Minister Olmert made the following remarks: "Since the morning, the communities of the western Negev have been under Kassam missile and mortar fire. One of the rockets even directly struck a house; luckily, nobody was hurt. These barrages join the 18 Kassam rockets that were fired at Israel yesterday.
The background to this latest escalation is yesterday's IDF action in the northern Gaza Strip, in an effort to foil terrorist actions directed against Israel. During the activity, IDF forces identified a terrorist cell that was operating amidst a civilian population, from within a settled area. The IDF's attempt to strike directly at the cell, as well as the ensuing exchanges of fire, ended tragically when a mother and her four children were killed as they ate breakfast.
The IDF is investigating the event (see above) and checking whether the family was hit by fire from our forces or as the result of the explosion of bombs being carried by the terrorists. In any case, this was a tragic and regrettable incident that resulted in innocents being hurt. In contrast to our enemies in Hamas and the [other] terrorist organizations, who danced in the streets when a Kassam rocket led to the amputation of an eight-year-old Israeli boy's leg, the Government and people of Israel are very much saddened when any innocent life is lost, and certainly the lives of a mother and her four children, in the context of the unavoidable fighting in the south, . We are very saddened by this.
We are very saddened that Israeli citizens have been attacked for years. We are saddened by the eight-year-old boy who lost a leg on 9 February, due to a Kassam rocket attack. We are very saddened by the acts of terrorism that mar their lives, disrupt their quality of life and destroy their ability to lead quiet, secure and happy lives. We are saddened that Hamas operates from within populated areas, turns the civilian population in Gaza to an inseparable part of its war and exposes this population – against our will and against our intention – to the sometimes likely possibility that it will be hit as a result of the undeniable and unavoidable need to defend the lives of those living in the south.
It is Hamas that bears full responsibility for the tragic events taking
place in the Gaza Strip. It is this organization which perpetrates and encourages wide-ranging terrorism against Israel from within the heart of populated areas. It has brought ruin upon two peoples and it feeds the cycle of blood and tragedy. This organization tries to harm hundreds of thousands of Israelis every day and rejoices every time it does so. It systematically inflicts misery on Gazans' lives and has tried repeatedly to strike at the crossings that constitute a lifeline for them.
For its part, Israel makes every effort to avoid hitting innocent civilians, investigates and applies the lessons, and is preventing a humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, which Hamas is interested in promoting. We will have no truck with these despicable terrorists and will continue our struggle against them until quiet and security are achieved for the residents of Israel.
I very much hope that the brutal fighting by the terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip against Israeli citizens will stop. But as long as it does not, we will need to fight in order to defend ourselves. We are saddened whenever uninvolved civilians are killed, and I believe that our sadness is more genuine, more sincere and more painful than the false and self-righteous sadness of the terrorist organizations, which expose their civilians to situations that end in such tragedies."


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Gosling and Daisies
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Gosling and Daisies
Well, this appears to be getting a little attention so I might as well give it a run in some of the competitions. This very young Canada Goose Gosling was photographed by all my students on the recent Going Digital workshop at Nostell Priory in Yorkshire. We were looking at how to ensure the subject was isolated from the background using shallow depth of field, and how when photographing animals the camera needs to be at eye level. Placing the camera actually on the ground and using a 'right-angled' viewfinder allowed me to place the gosling against a backdrop of the lake, many meters from the subject.


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What does a pizza and a godzilla have in common? On a seemingly ordinary day, nothing would suggest that they have anything related. But from 11 April – 31 May 2014, they have decided to make an unexpected pairing (no, not the pizza in the GODZILLA). A collaboration between Pezzo Pizza & Warner Bros. Singapore sees the birth of Pezzo GODZILLA Pizza!
Don't get them wrong, it has nothing to do with the literal meaning. It's the same old innocently sized-pizza; just that, the GODZILLA Pizza is topped with a gargantuan portion of premium ingredients. It's generously decked with beef balls, salami, pepperoni, sausage and turkey ham, with special pezzo white sauce and mozzarella cheese. I am a carnivore, so naturally, I was impressed with the meaty toppings. I also like the marriage of the white sauce and mozzarella cheese. The mouthful has a good balance of flavour and meat; not overly sweet.
Unlike this Hot Chick Pizza, where it's basically overpowered by the sweet chilli sauce. It is supposedly some spicy shredded chicken, with special chilli sauce, red chillies, red peppers, green peppers and roasted garlic with mozzarella cheese. See, so I was anticipating some irresistible spicy bites what with the description; but turned out, I did not detect any of the same. Well so it depends on what kind of chicken, sweet or spicy, you like, half of the table liked this.
It was standard fare done reasonably well for their Hola Hawaiian Pizza. I will have no doubt ordering this and be satisfied with it. So will all Hawaiian Pizza goers.
The basic to a pizza is its crust and thickness – how it is done. At Pezzo Pizza, it's evident that they adopt a pan-pizza kind of crust – thicker than usual. This, when perfected, is heavenly. I must say they have, indeed. I love the crust, because it's thick and slightly chewy. It's not charred and hard at all. Edges are slightly crisp and that's about it, because any more than that they risk the burns. It was my first time having Pezzo Pizza and admittedly, I love it, save for the problem of being pricey.
It's $4.50 – $4.90 for a slice (one-sixth of a 14" full pan pizza), or $24.90 for a whole pan pizza. But until 31 May 2014, I don't know about you, but I know I will go crazy with ordering slices of it, because of the buy-2-get-2 free promotion.
Simply quote "PEZZOPIZZA8" for this promotion. You are supposed to say, "PEZZO IS AWESOME" before that, but if it's your first time, maybe you can tell them that you'll have your go at the pizza first and decide later whether Pezzo is indeed awesome. So for less than $10, you get 4 huge-ass slices of pizza – best for a poor bloke like me!
Take a photo of a Pezzo Pizza you are having, do a hashtag #pezzopizza8.
At the end of the promotion, I will do a random pick to give away a pair of GODZILLA movie tickets + a full-sized original GODZILLA poster, flown in from the USA. (Movie hits the theatres on 15 May 2014.)
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Location: Youngstown. OH
Ok, now that I have exorcised the Livejournal friends from my truck, I am having time to reflect and compose thoughts for journal entries. So the next couple of posts will be recaps, complete with lotsa pictures. My thanks to draysha68 and janietrain for the companionship, converstaion, and camaraderie. It was fun spending time with both of you. I have a blast on the road in general, but it's fun to have someone to do stuff with, too.
On the other hand, after three straight weeks of it, I'm looking forward to having the truck to myself for a while ;-)
Today I'm going to recap my adventures with draysha68. As you may recall, dipshit that I am, I deleted a good deal of pictures on the first day we were in New York by accident. This sucks because a good deal of those pictures were of The Cloisters branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in upper Manhattan. We took a train up there to a park on the banks of the Hudson. It was cold but a beautiful walk through the park. When you enter the museum, it's like walking into a medieval castle. It was interesting because it was museum not only because of the artifacts in glass cases, but the very architecture of the building was comprised of archways, glass windows, ceilings, and flooring from 16th century European cathedrals and monasteries. The main attraction from which the museum draws its name are the cloistered gardens in the center of the complex. The gardens are enclosed by beautiful marble and granite columns and arches shipped here from ancient European sites. The main attraction for draysha68 however were the 500 year old unicorn tapestries. They were hanging in a dimly lit room where we managed to snap a quick picture before being told that no flash photography was allowed. This was to protect the tapestries from further fading due to light, we were informed. draysha68 and I estimated that we probably deprived some little girl in the year 2250 of seeing these tapestries by our photography, then to make matters worse, I deleted it later that evening. Fine I say, if we don't get to keep the picture then future girl from 2250 doesn't get to see it either. Actually, it's probably some sort of cosmic retribution for taking the picture in the first place that the picture was lost. As a friend of mine later commented, wryly and succinctly: "Philistines!"
The next day, we went to Battery Park for a day of ferry riding, island hopping and statue seeing.
From the park it's hard to appreciate just how magnificent the main building on Ellis Island is. As you ride the ferry out to Liberty Island, you get a better appreciation of the architecture.
And then there's Miss Liberty herself. Her familiar figure is beautiful, even from a distance.
But as you move closer to the island, she begins to loom over you and there is a certain amount of awe which moves through the ferry passengers. It's tangibile and you can feel it, see it, and hear it all around you. Even the most cynical of Americans can't help but feel just a little bit of pride gazing upon her that close.
draysha68 is a little camera-shy but I managed to get a this nice picture of her on the ferry.
And then I got another one once on the island....
...and then I think she started to get cocky, which was great, because the next picture I took of her turned out the best.
It was really cold, so we didn't stay there very long. On the way back to the ferry, draysh68 decided to take a picture of the ferry. It ended up being the best picture of the day. It's such a beautiful picture with the choppy waves and the seagull flying through the shot.
We tooled around Ellis Island for a while next, taking in all of the exhibits, then headed back for Battery Park on the last ferry. We took a stroll up Broadway through the financial district. This is one of my favorite walks in this part of town. This is the stretch of Broadway where they threw all the old ticker-tape parades. The stroll takes you past Trinity Church as well, an old colonial-era church with impressive, gothic architecture.
draysha68 was particularly fascinated with the graveyard with its wrought iron fence and old tombstones.
We continued up Broadway, then over a block to the site of the World Trade Center.
Like the Statue of Liberty, there is a tangibile change in the people as you approach it. The closer you come to ground zero, the more you notice an audible hush that comes over the pedestrians on the street. No one is yelling, or even talking. Everyone whispers in muted voices out of respect and for the sake of reverence. I assume this will change one day, when a new building stands here; when there is no longer a gaping hole in the ground and in the skyline and in the hearts of the people who walk by here. Until then, not unlike Trinity Church up the street, it feels more like a place of worship and a graveyard.
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Drat my photograph foiling thumb in that first picture.
maybe your thumb is just a zealous attention whore that wants to be in every picture ;-)
you rock, Lin
you know what I was really hoping to get when I took the pictures of the cementary and ground zero?
Some kinda orbs. I was hoping to see evidence of hauntings so I could flaunt it on the haunting community but no luck, bah.
Anyways, I enjoyed your company as well.... ! Especially dinner at the Hard Rock when I got a little tipsy and loosened up. That was fun.
Some kinda orbs. I was hoping to see evidence of hauntings so I could flaunt it on the haunting community but no luck, bah.
Anyways, I enjoyed your company as well.... ! Especially dinner at the Hard Rock when I got a little tipsy and loosened up. That was fun.
Re: you rock, Lin
I was too busy checking out the waitresses' legs.... ;-)
Re: you rock, Lin
me too! :D
The picture of the ferry is beautiful. The seagull, the waves.. that was a moment to capture.
aww, thanks. I'm very proud of it. I've never taken a good picture in my life so this is a first! lol
I saw that slight bit of thumb in the first one but, it was still good too. Myself, I would have ended up dropping the camera and taking a picture of my shoe or something. LOL
Be damn proud of the ferry pic!
Be damn proud of the ferry pic!
yeah when we got back to the truck that night and dumped the pictures into the computer for viewing... we both were like... "wow, that's a really cool picture"


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Watch over your heart with all diligence, for from it flows the springs of life
It has been a long winter for me. I really didn't mind the cold nights or the long sleeves, but there's just something about brown grass and overcast skies that I can't get used to. I grew up in Florida and if you ask me, grass is meant to be green, leaves belong on trees (not under them), and the blue sky needs to be seen at least five days a week. The funny thing is, when I think back a couple of months, I can't exactly recall when all of this began to transpire. I remember looking up at the clouds one day and thinking to myself, "Where did these come from?" It was then that I realized the grass was a depressing brown. "Wasn't it green just yesterday?" No… the truth is it hasn't been green for days, weeks, or even months.
It's curious as to how these things happen. To be honest, as much as I hated it, I may have never noticed the bare branches if the trees hadn't recently started blossoming. And sure, I knew the grass wasn't the same color it used to be… but the stark difference wasn't apparent until the vivid greens began to reclaim ground just this week.
Can't the same thing be said for our spiritual walk? One moment our relationship with God appears to be vivid and alive. There's a bounce in our step and the people around us can sense it. They may not know that we are reading our Bible on a daily basis and spending quality time in prayer with the Lord. They do know, however, that we've got something they want… they can see our peace and contentment. Suddenly, though, life doesn't seem as vibrant. People aggravate us, and honestly, we get on their nerves too. A close examination of our lives would reveal a lack of time spent in the Word and prayer. How did this happen? Was it really as sudden as we thought? If so, why can't we remember when this dulling process began?
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I challenge you to compare your life to the Bible's standard for living on a daily basis. In doing this you will be able to keep your shade of grass much closer to that of our Lord's!


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Anderson posts scoreless return as A's cruise
CLEVELAND -- Brett Anderson came back and made his presence felt. Fresh off the 10-day disabled list and facing the Indians for the first time since 2012, the left-hander reeled off his best start of the season.
With another power display from Jed Lowrie and Stephen Piscotty, the Athletics cruised to a 6-0 win over the Indians at Progressive Field on Sunday afternoon to take the three-game set. Oakland has won seven straight series and 16 of its past 20 games.View Full Game Coverage
CLEVELAND -- Brett Anderson came back and made his presence felt. Fresh off the 10-day disabled list and facing the Indians for the first time since 2012, the left-hander reeled off his best start of the season.
With another power display from Jed Lowrie and Stephen Piscotty, the Athletics cruised to a 6-0 win over the Indians at Progressive Field on Sunday afternoon to take the three-game set. Oakland has won seven straight series and 16 of its past 20 games.View Full Game Coverage
Video: OAK@CLE: Piscotty rips an opposite-field, 2-run homer
Anderson was making his first start since May 18, having missed time with a left shoulder strain. And although his fastball velocity stayed below 90 mph for much of the game, he hardly skipped a beat over five-plus scoreless innings.
"He spins the ball really well, and he can turn his slider into a curve," Athletics manager Bob Melvin said. "He can backdoor it, he can bounce it, and he can throw it for a strike. He throws you just enough fastballs and pitches you inside enough to create some room away. That's what he's done his whole career, maybe without the 93-94 [mph] that he's had before."
Video: OAK@CLE: Anderson induces pop up to strand 2 runners
With glove-side fastballs and sliders low and away, Anderson was able to wind and weave his way through the dangerous Indians lineup. He twice ran into trouble with two men in scoring position but was able to get out of the jams by eliciting weak contact from Erik Gonzalez.
The first two batters of the second inning reached, but Anderson escaped with a lineout, a strikeout and a popout to first. Two innings later -- after a single and his only two walks -- he again faced Gonzalez and drew a soft grounder up the middle for a fielder's choice.
Video: OAK@CLE: Anderson strands the bases loaded in the 4th
"I had to spin some balls and get some outs when I needed to," Anderson said. "The fastball velocity was iffy, and the fastball command was there when I needed to make some pitches. It was like being back in my early days with the A's minus the velocity. I lived and died by the slider and got some outs when I needed to."
Perhaps most impressively, Anderson held the top of the Indians' lineup at bay, with Francisco Lindor, Michael Brantley and Jose Ramirez combining to go 1-for-9 with two strikeouts against the lefty. On the day, Anderson only gave up three hits, with Ramirez's leadoff single in the sixth ending the lefty's afternoon.
Anderson got early support on a run-scoring double from Khris Davis in the first and an RBI single from Dustin Fowler in the second, which would have been more than enough scoring, but the Athletics poured it on at the end. Piscotty hit a two-run homer in the sixth, Lowrie added a solo shot in the seventh and Mark Canha smacked an RBI single up the middle in the eighth.
Video: OAK@CLE: Davis rips a two-out, RBI double to right
"It was important to get a lead today for us, too," Melvin said. "The last thing we want to do is let them get a lead, and their guy has pitched really well coming up to this point, too. When you're on the road and you face a tough team, leads are important. When you get confidence from that, you add on some [runs], you create a little difference."
Red hot Jed: Lowrie has been on fire lately and continues to mash. For the second straight game, the second baseman homered, which brought his season total to 16. That matches his previous career best from 2012, and it's not even the All-Star break. Saturday's homer came on a slider low and in, and Lowrie found a pitch in a similar location on Sunday, taking Dan Otero's low-and-in sinker an estimated 349 feet, according to Statcast™, to right field.
Video: OAK@CLE: Lowrie drills solo HR for 100th hit of 2018
"He's added a little dimension to his game this year, swinging the bat better right-handed, too, and with some power right-handed," Melvin said. "Certainly the power numbers stand out for a guy that's always been a professional hitter but now a guy that's knocking in a lot of runs. That's a lot of RBIs he has right now."
Sunday's win brought the A's record to 50-40, which is the first time the club has been 10 games above .500 since it ended the 2014 season at 88-74 and made the postseason as the American League's second Wild Card team.
"It was kind of weird because we're so used to scoring late, I didn't know if it was going to be a bad omen to score early." -- Anderson
Frankie Montas will be looking for redemption when the A's face the Astros at Minute Maid Park on Monday. The 25-year-old righty gave up a season-high 11 hits, seven runs and 4 walks over 5 1/3 innings in his start vs. Houston on June 14. Montas owns a solid 3.83 ERA this season. First pitch is scheduled for 5:10 p.m. PT. Gerrit Cole will start for the Astros.
Ben Weinrib is a contributor to MLB.com based in Cleveland.


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Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Things Allyson said {2}
Red means stop
Green means go!
Yellow means ... go faster!
Brother, you are not a baby, stop crying!
Daddy, do you wear underwear?
Allyson: Mommy, what are we doing today?
Me: We are going to run some errands.
A: We are going to TARGET?!?!
M:No, not today sis.
A: I really want to go to Target, I miss it.
later we were driving
Allyson: I want a donut!
Me: Oh yea? Where should we go to get a donut?
A: I don't know what it's called.
M: The donut shoppe?
A: Hmmm, how about Target? Does Target have donuts??
Mommy, I wish we could buy a yo-yo.
Daddy, do you walk to work?
::Allyson crying::
Me: what's the matter?
Allyson: I just want to cry!
Does my sandwich have sand in it?
Mommy, brother hit me twelve times!
(I watched this go down. She hit him and he hit her back, once.)
Mom, is Target Disneyland?
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I have been doing my lists daily...but don't complete them til the end of the day when the lighting here isn't all the best. So I thought I would save up and do 1 post every couple of days with my pages.
Im finding it really hard to photograph the pages because they are in a journal and the journal just wants to close on me...so please forgive me xxx
Day 4. Favourite time wasters
- Candy Crush
- YouTube
- Uploading music onto my ipod
- Reading blogs
- Looking at new craft products
Day 5. Things I tend to worry about
- My boys
- My health
- The future
- The plant
- Money
Day 6. Rules to break
- forgive quickly
- kiss slowly
- love truly
- laugh uncontrollably
- never regret what made you smile
Day 7, Today I saw...
- Polling booth
- my doctor
- shops
- ducks
- friends
- food
- tv
- flowers
- my boys having fun
- park
Day 8 - Childhood Chores
- Cleaning my room
- dry the dishes
- feed the animals
- clean animal bedding
- wash the car
- mow the grass
- watching my boys receive awards or perform
- watching 'My Girl' & 'Beaches'
- Thinking about the past
- My boys driving me nuts
- Not seeing my family and best friends more
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3 years ago
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Happy Birthday Daddy! on June 26th
I couldn't really do a Happy Birthday slideshow to remember Dad without his twin sister being in some of the pictures. So here's wishing a happy birthday to Glenda too!
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DescriptionDeveloped in conjunction with Around the Table, the San Jose Museum of Art's community initiative, Sip. Do Not Gulp. examines the interconnectedness of food and water throughout Santa Clara Valley's long history. Created by Bay Area artist Michele Guieu, the site-specific installation calls attention to the shifting patterns and practices of water usage in this area. Once an abundant resource, agricultural development, population increase, and urban sprawl have placed stress on fresh water availability. Comprised of a painted mural, a documentary video, and a symbolic acorn "rug," Guieu highlights the preciousness of water as a local resource and draws salient connections to food production in this region: if there is no water, there is no food.
Designed specifically for the de Saisset Museum, Guieu's painted mural extends across three walls, looking at four distinct periods in local history. As you enter the gallery, on the left wall Native California is the focus. When the Ohlone people first inhabited this region, the landscape was replete with water and other natural resources. Water is essential in the life and mythology of the Ohlone people.
The center wall of the mural addresses the Mission and Rancho periods. With the arrival of the missions came the introduction of agriculture. Irrigation systems appeared and their presence and usage only intensified during the Rancho period, where water seemed to be in unlimited supply. Also on the central wall, a documentary video made by Guieu brings together four distinct voices to address water concerns from a range of perspectivesAndrea Blum, chef and writer; James Famiglietti, Professor of Earth System Science and Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Irvine; Edward Maurer, Associate Professor, Civil Engineering at Santa Clara University; and Ann Marie Sayers, Ohlone Storyteller and Tribal Chair of Indian Canyon.
The wall on the right depicts Santa Clara Valley today, a view of San Jose sitting at the heart of Silicon Valley. No longer available in unlimited quantity, fresh water has begun to be regulated and will likely become more so as we struggle to preserve this precious resource.
In the center of the room lies a rug formed of acorns locally hand-picked from different species of oaks. Acorns were an essential food source for the Ohlone. In the middle of the rug a small table is set with a pitcher of watera reminder that the most important thing on the menu is water. Water is a necessity for farming, cooking, and irrigatingour food supply depends on it.
From the abundant and flowing water of Native California to the present concerns and conservation efforts, water has always been at the center of our lives. It is the most precious resource we have and it needs to be a focal point for discussion. Water availability and usage will continue to become an issue across the planetfresh water shortages due to population growth, pollution, and access. These problems already exist, even in California, but they may only grow exponentially. There is urgency to engage in this dialogueit affects everyone.
To encourage this dialogue, Sip. Do Not Gulp. is designed to be interactive. Museum visitors are invited to share stories, commentary, and reflections on the role of water in our lives by posting comments directly onto the surface of the mural. With time, the image created by Guieu will become a forum for discussiona place where the community can exchange ideas, express concerns, and develop solutions.


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Generally our portfolio falls within a 2 hour drive of our offices in Chichester which enables us to know our patch and manage all our properties in house.
We are particularly interested in identifying well located office buildings and industrial units at the end of their useful life which offer redevelopment potential.
We would also like to acquire further mixed use properties offering active management opportunities.
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1/4 cup packed brown sugar
1 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. pepper
3 Tbls. liquid smoke
2 garlic cloves, chopped
1 medium onion, sliced
1/2 cup cola
1 1/2 cups bbq sauce
Spray the inside of slow cooker with cooking spray. Remove inner skin from ribs. Mix sugar, salt, pepper, liquid smoke and garlic; rub mixture into the ribs. Cut ribs into 4" pieces. Layer ribs and onions in slow cooker. Pour cola over ribs. Cover and cook on low 8-9 hours. Remove ribs; drain and discard liquid. Pour bbq sauce into shallow bowl. Dip ribs into sauce. Place ribs back into slow cooker. Pour any remaining sauce over ribs. Cover and cook for 1 more hour.


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holes in jeans
right you know when you get those hole sin the crotch area cos you jeans are so worn out? how noticable are they to other people when you're:
a. standing
b. sitting
c. walking
and does anyone else get a worn out hole in their jeans on the inside of the leg just above the ankle? i never understand this one. where do your jeans get worn out?
Yeah crotch for me too
I have 3 pairs I've been meaning to get fixed for years now...
i'm wearing black pants to try and counter it.
its not working
this happened to me yesterday
on some expensive-ish levi's, that only lasted a year or something. a year isn't a long time for jeans, is it?
it's not noticeable when you're standing or walking but if you're sitting like a manly man (legs wide open, almost on top of the people on either side of you on the tube) then you could be showing brain.
RE: Ankle hole. Yes, always. Within about 2 wears too.
RE: Crotch hole. Unless it's positively gaping, the hole itself won't be obvious to anyone. However, your constant checking of the crotch area, attempts to tuck the front bit of the crotch area in a bit and generally guilty look will give you away, every time.
I have this right now and just checked the situation
and it's quite bad. I should've probably worn underwear today.
If there was a post that deserved to be posted three times it was that
I believe the term is "LOL"
Most of my jeans are like this.
It's always good to sit down in a public place and tickle your balls a bit.
Sit on some grass
Does the job for you
my absolute favourite jeans are literally falling apart
they started off as just regular jeans (none of this buying them with rips in nonsense) but have worn away so much. they have a huge rip over the knee on one leg and underneath the bum on the other side. i can only wear them over thick tights now. i've sewn them up loads but they keep falling apart. i don't want to throw them out.
I don't think it' that noticable unless...
1) The whole is positively gaping
2) You sit there with your legs wide open
3) You keep playing with and adjusting your crotch area (although people might think your simply adjusting your meat and 2 veg, then it's ok)
oh sweet jesus that's a bad typo
It happens to me a lot
Because I have big thighs and gigantic balls
People don't notice, although Sarah did tell me to stop wearing jeans that were torn at the crotch. Oh and the ones I tore all down the inside leg from my arse to my knee at ATP, and I just put duck tape on the inside to hold them together. And the ones I stapled back together as well.
i actually tried sewing mine up this morning.
that went well...
crotch region, always, after time.
if I wear baggys they get torn to shreds at the bottom.


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Time: Tue Oct 21 06:01:40 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA08946; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 05:57:13 -0700 (MST) by usr01.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id FAA19520; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 05:52:03 -0700 (MST) Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 05:53:03 -0700 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: Top C.I.A. Official Leaving (NYT) (fwd) <snip> > >The New York Times >October 21, 1997 > >Top C.I.A. Official Leaving > >By STEVEN ERLANGER > >WASHINGTON -- The director of the CIA's Nonproliferation Center, who >provided Congress with detailed briefings on some of the most >diplomatically sensitive instances of illicit technology sales to Iran >from Russia and China, is taking early retirement. > >The official, Gordon Oehler, 55, said in a telephone interview that he >was leaving his job of his own volition after 25 years in the CIA and >more than five years as director of the center. The center coordinates >all intelligence from various government agencies about the dangers of >nuclear weapons and missile development throughout the world. > >Oehler said he was tired of being a target for criticism in a stressful >job. "I've had a lot of heat on a lot of issues for a lot of years," he >said. "When you're the single spokesman for the intelligence community >you get shot at from a lot of directions, and you get tired of it." > >Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa., who serves on the House Committee on National >Security, said he believed the retirement had been forced. Weldon said >he planned to "lead the charge" to investigate the circumstances of >Oehler's departure and the "politicization of intelligence." > >He asserted that Oehler was being punished for giving "honest and >forthcoming briefings" to Congress about Russian and Chinese exports of >dangerous materiel, technology and missiles to countries like Iran and >Pakistan. > >"This is a watershed event and I'm going to make this a test case," >Weldon said. "It's a pattern of this administration. When it gets >information that runs counter to the policy, they try to destroy the >person that brings the message." > >Weldon spoke earlier Monday with Oehler about his reasons for retiring >and said, "Well, he's got to be careful of what he says." > >Oehler said that his recent return from a long vacation had "confirmed >for me it was time to go." He said Weldon was incorrect, adding: "This >is not a forced retirement, but a decision of mine. I've never been told >to move or retire." When Weldon asked him what could be done to reverse >the situation, Oehler said he answered, "It's already in train." > >Senior administration officials declined to comment publicly on the >resignation, but one said Oehler had a tendency to provide his own >opinions as if they were those of the agency. Weldon called the >accusation unfounded and said that to his recollection Oehler had never >provided his own opinion even when directly asked in secret testimony. > >Joseph Cirincione, a senior associate at the Henry Stimson Center, which >studies arms-control issues, said of Oehler: "Here's a man operating >within the rules, sharing information with Congress and policy experts. >And some of the news was uncomfortable, and came at a delicate time. But >he never pulled his punches because the news was uncomfortable, and >apparently this administration didn't like it. I don't know how else to >read it." > >Henry Sokolski, executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy >Education Center and a Pentagon official under former President George >Bush, said of Oehler: "The significance of his retirement is great. This >man, in an agency known for its bending of truths, was an honest broker. >To find integrity in public service is a rare, cherished and precious >thing. And when it goes, it brings down morale, it's got to. Whether his >retirement was forced or not I don't know, and we'll never know, but >he's not being celebrated in his departure, that we know, and that is >worrisome." > >He added, "That a man of integrity should feel such stress in being shot >at for his honesty is an indictment of what we claim to be doing in the >name of nonproliferation." > >Copyright 1997 The New York Times Company > <snip> =========================================================================== Paul Andrew Mitchell, Sui Juris : Counselor at Law, federal witness 01 B.A.: Political Science, UCLA; M.S.: Public Administration, U.C.Irvine 02 tel: (520) 320-1514: machine; fax: (520) 320-1256: 24-hour/day-night 03 email: [address in tool bar] : using Eudora Pro 3.0.3 on 586 CPU 04 website: http://supremelaw.com : visit the Supreme Law Library now 05 ship to: c/o 2509 N. 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by Kristin Pierce
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my name is Kristin pierce. I live in Panama City and I have 2 dogs of my own. I love dogs and would love to walk them or play with them!!
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Duagwyn GR Emma Peel 2*M
Sire: Dragonfly SB Gryffindor (Flat Rocks Sirius Black x Flat Rocks Galena)
Dam: Dragonfly NT Penelope Waits 1*M (Dragonfly HLU Nikola Tesla x Sunnydale Farm ZM Cinnamon)
Black with white, white poll
Extended pedigree at bottom of page
Updated 10.20.18: My Emma passed the day after her kidding in March. She is deeply missed. She leaves her daughters Rogue and Six in my herd.
My beloved Emma kidded with the biggest trips I, personally, have ever seen. TWICE. Honestly, Emma, they don't all have to be five pounds! She has two daughters here: Rogue, and Six. I am excited to see what the appraiser thinks of her.
Emma is my favourite; don't tell the others.
03.31.17 (2nd): , Trips, three does, by Dragonfly NT Nicholas Nickelby (see Six)
05.22.16: trips (1st): Trips, one buck and two does, by Flat Rocks Mister Darcy (see Rogue)
1st lactation: trips (2016) (requirements for dairy star in parenthesis)* pending
Total weight: 579lbs (600lbs)
Total butterfat: 43lbs (21lbs)
Total protein: 28lbs (18lbs)
Days in milk: 260 (305)
Average % butterfat | protein: 7.4 | 4.8
* dried off early, to prepare for next kidding
Extended Pedigree
* Our extended pedigrees track the three sires which are most influential on our herd.
Yellow = GCH Dawnland Tabby's Halifax
Blue = Irish Whisper Harry Potter
Red = Flat Rocks Gem +B+S


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Sometimes it makes me angry that my partner has a healthy, smart and beautiful daughter.
Perhaps that's a harsh statement. But it's the truth.
And if you'd like to know why I said that, I will need to take you to travel to seven years ago.
I remember my frozen feet. The painkiller had worked numbing my back and belly. The cramp had disappeared. Leaving just me. And my feet.
I remember the doctor telling me: "Please pray according to your beliefs, Ma'am. I am sorry you may have lost your baby."
I remember looking at him trying to find something wrong with his words. I told him he was wrong.And the next morning, I gave birth.
He was.
He was.
I gave birth.
To the smallest wonderful being that's half the size of my palm. He was 15 weeks old. I hold him as I bawled my eyes. As if my tears would wake him up.
I blacked out the next few hours. But I do remember the Operating Theatre, being introduced to the anesthetist, and thinking what I would be doing if I were not in the surgery room Having a pedicure? But not this time. This time was a curettage.
"We will need to make sure that everything is clean, and no more tissues or non-formed organs left." they told me.
But all I hear was "We need to make sure that your baby is really dead."
"We will need to make sure that everything is clean, and no more tissues or non-formed organs left." they told me.
But all I hear was "We need to make sure that your baby is really dead."
My cheeky nephew was a two-year-old baby at the time. And he was one of the first to greet me when I was wheeled into the recovery room a few hours later.
He ran towards me and I opened my arms to hold him tightly. My Mum, my then husband, and his Mother panicked. They thought Joseph would hurt me. Hearing their loud shrieks, he burst into tears, thinking he had done something wrong.
At that time, I felt I had every reason to be angry. So angry I was.
I put the tearful Joseph onto the sofa and I yelled at my Mum, my then husband, and his mother and, well, everybody in the waiting room:
"Quiet please! Joseph was just trying to cheer me up! I have no more baby to lose anyway!"
And like opening a Pandora's Box, my latent anger was born.
Every day since, I have succeeded in finding a reason to be angry: Why me? Why did I miscarry and lose a baby? My baby. What did I do wrong? And to make it worse, it always felt that people blamed me for my loss.
Fast forward to my first year in my new home of Bali, when I confidently declared that I had moved on from my divorce. But little did I know that I have never move on from the miscarriage.
Last January, I found a half-dead puppy abandoned on beach. I rescued her and cared for her for a few days while searching for adoptive parents that could provide her with a safe future . But she did not make it.
I came home late from work one night greeted by my other two dogs' loud barking, and her tiny cold, stiff body. My heart stopped.
My feet turned cold. Again. The same coldness I felt seven years ago. I cried my lungs out calling her name. I called my partner on my phone, hysterically telling him what happened. It took some time for him to calm me down and me to catch my breath.
Same with my tears over my baby seven years ago, my tears did not wake Snoopy.
Same with my tears over my baby seven years ago, my tears did not wake Snoopy.
After I managed to calm myself, I buried Snoopy (the name I had given the adopted puppy, because of her white body and black markings) in my backyard. With a small shovel I scooped away the wet earth. I scraped a shallow grave where I lay her down, wrapped in the same scarf of mine that she used to snuggle in the past days, placed stones on top to prevent wild animals from desecrating her grave.
I buried her in front of my bedroom window. It was like burying my own baby.
Now I realise it was not only about Snoopy.
It was about something deeper, darker, and more painful that I have managed to hide so carefully in between my smiles, successes and existence as a strong independent woman. Snoopy's death reminds me of the loss of my own baby. Of how small and cold he was. Of all the "What ifs." that has been madly playing in my head.
This sounds strange. Memories of what I did not do seven years ago resurfaced. I did not talk about it with my ex-husband, I refused to join a support group, I never prayed about this particular pain. I did not give him a proper funeral. Maybe I should have?
I bawled my eyes out that night. Thinking of Snoopy, and thinking of my unborn baby. I pictured his eyes, his hair and his smile. I imagine what his likes and dislikes are.
"Will you love the beach? Can you name all the stars?"
I read him poetry. I sing him The Beatles' "If I Fell"
I sing him Sinatra's "I've got a crush on you"
"Will you love the beach? Can you name all the stars?"
I read him poetry. I sing him The Beatles' "If I Fell"
I sing him Sinatra's "I've got a crush on you"
I imagine telling him about my own life, describing my dogs Marilyn and Mahoni and how jealous I am of my partner, with his healthy, smart and beautiful daughter..
I told my baby about his step-sister. And how she loves unicorns and dragons too. Like me.
Told him how they will get along, like brother and sister, right from the start.
Then I asked my baby to wish me well... So that I will share this love I have been keeping for him, with his sister.
And maybe someday... with another baby of my own.
And maybe someday... with another baby of my own.
I cried myself to sleep. Thinking of him, smiling at me. And for the first time in seven years I could pray about him and say goodbye.
My feet feel warm.
ps: My letter to him a few years ago
My feet feel warm.
ps: My letter to him a few years ago


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NM State Library Digital Collections
New Mexico Department of Game and Fish
Media contact: Dan Williams, ( 505) 476- 8004
Public contact: ( 505) 476- 8000
dan. williams@ state. nm. us
SANTA FE -- The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish has scheduled statewide Habitat Stamp
Citizens Advisory Committee meetings for 2009. Citizen advisors will prioritize habitat projects for
2010 and 2011 and make their recommendations at the State Game Commission meeting July 2 in
Chama. The public is welcome and encouraged to attend meetings:
Northwest: 1 p. m. April 20, U. S. Forest Service office, 664 E. Broadway, Bloomfield.
Southwest: 9 a. m. April 24- 25, Department of Game and Fish office, 2715 Northrise Drive, Las
Southeast: 9 a. m. May 2, Bureau of Land Management office, 620 E. Green, Carlsbad.
Northeast: 1 p. m. May 6, Hilton Science Building, Room 361, N. M. Highlands University, Las
Central: 1 p. m. May 7, Department of Game and Fish office, 3841 Midway Place NE,
The program has an annual budget of $ 870,000 with the support of hunters and anglers, who must
purchase a $ 5 Habitat Stamp each year to participate in their sports on Bureau of Land Management or
U. S. Forest Service lands.
In the 22- year life of the program, $ 28.6 million has funded 1,928 wildlife habitat projects. In this effort,
the Habitat Stamp Program has contributed $ 14.3 million and federal agencies have spent an additional
$ 12.6 million in matching funds in the form of cash, costs of planning, fiscal tracking, developing
NEPA documentation, and obtaining archeological/ cultural clearances. Since 1999, other organizations
have contributed $ 1.8 million in time and cash to this effort.
The New Mexico Habitat Stamp Program has improved more than 594,000 acres of habitat on public
lands. Additionally, the program has enhanced 10,500 acres of riparian habitat, built 690 places for
wildlife to drink water, surveyed 680 wildlife populations and habitats, transplanted wildlife 17 times,
improved 74 fishing areas, maintained 6,400 previously built structures, and much more.
Since its inception, citizens have been involved in every aspect of the program, advising which habitats
are most in need of improvement. Appointed by the State Game Commission, citizens representing
sporting, environmental, and public- land permittee interests meet each spring to prioritize local habitat
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For more information about the Habitat Stamp Program, please contact Dale Hall, ( 505) 222- 4725 or
check the Department's Web site,
www. wildlife. state. nm. us/ conservation/ habitat_ stamp_ program/ index. htm.
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Anyone with a $75 budget doing last minute shopping can get me Petit Prince for Christmas. Or, rather, you can get me -- or anyone -- a Chimp Guardianship from the Jane Goodall Institute. Considering The Little Prince is one of my favorite books ever, I'm pretty sure this was meant to be.
UPDATE: My wonderful wife did, in fact, purchase a Chimp Guardianship for Mr. Petit Prince for Christmas. :) Hooray!
Thursday, December 17, 2009
I want a chimp for Christmas
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