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Wednesday, December 5, 2012
The Two of Us
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The Two of Us
Heartflet Creations Items used:
HCPC3506 Passage to My Heart
HCPC3507 Timeless Amour Background
HCPC3508 Timeless Lace
HCPC3407 Botanical Floral 2
HCPC3468 Tattered Blossoms
HCD712 Bella Rose Die
HCD722 Tattered Blossoms Die
HCD728 Timeless Amour Die
HCDP1 228 Timeless Amour Paper
Other items:
Spellbinders Rose Creations
White Color Box
Versa Mark
Micro Beads
White embossing powder
Gold embossing powder
Card base is 5 x 7. The Timeless Amour Paper is trimmed down to 4.75 x 6.75. I stamped the Timeless Amour Background first with Versa Mark and heat embossed with the gold powder. Then at the bottom stamped the Timeless Lace with White Colorbox and heat embossed with the white powder. Cut the hearts out with the Timeless Amour Die, removing the center and using my Stamping Ma Jeg, lined it up and stamped the Passage to My Heart with the versa mark and heat embossed with the gold powder. Cut out the Bella Rose Leaves, the leaves from Botanical Floral 2, and the flower. After everything was cut out I started layering it until everything was placed. This card can be used as a Anniversary Card, Wedding Card, Valentines Card etc. etc.
Okay that's it for now, be sure and check out the rest of the teams creations this week and be prepared to be WOWED!!!!
14 comments:
- Jacqui's little piece of England said...
Love this card Olga, great design
jacqui x
- December 5, 2012 at 2:40 AM
- Glenda said...
Well, you know I'm a huge fan, so there is no need for me to gush! This is amazing and I love the way you used the lace stamp on the bottom!
- December 5, 2012 at 5:25 AM
- Carla S. said...
Stunning card, Olga! So many beautiful details!
- December 5, 2012 at 8:49 AM
- Vicki Dutcher said...
Oh so very pretty!!
- December 5, 2012 at 9:10 AM
- kathi17 said...
This is so pretty as always Olga. I love all the embossing, and of course your flower!
- December 5, 2012 at 11:36 AM
- Caroline D. said...
Super Gorgeous!! The 2 die cut hearts look fantastic laid at an angle over the Love background stamp!!
- December 5, 2012 at 4:52 PM
- lada_vl said...
Very effective background, as always wonderful flower! Wonderful card!
- December 5, 2012 at 10:49 PM
- TesaB said...
This is sooooo gorgeous, Olga. What fantastic embossing and love the two hearts. Just wo!!!
- December 6, 2012 at 1:02 AM
- Colleen said...
This is beautiful! You are right back where you belong. HFC and you always and forever.
- December 6, 2012 at 8:39 AM
- Jennie said...
Lovely design Olga! Love the die cut hearts and swirls.
- December 6, 2012 at 12:00 PM
- xxxtglxxx said...
Stunningly pretty Olga - just the right amount of drama and luxury - this has real impact hun! :)
- December 6, 2012 at 8:53 PM
- Nan G said...
Really cool layout! Love the touch of lace (stamped) at the bottom.
- December 6, 2012 at 11:46 PM
- Linda said...
I love this card Olga. Beautiful colors and texture.
- December 8, 2012 at 4:52 PM
- Love crafts forever said...
Absolutely stunning!!!!
Hugs Nataliya
- December 9, 2012 at 8:56 PM


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Anne Hathaway along with fellow actor James Franco co-hosted the 83rd Annual Academy Awards for 2010 in the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.
Since the telecast both hosts have come in for some scathing remarks and criticism for their performance on the night. Some say Anne did her best to please everyone and James slacked back and just let her carry the presentation. Others say British comedian Ricky Gervais should have hosted it.
A highlight though was definitely seeing Natalie Portman win an Oscar for Best Actress.
Whatever your idea of the long 2011 Oscars show we are here to talk about Anne's gown and fashion sense on the red carpet.
Anne graced the red carpet with an elegant Vintage Valentino strapless red gown. She wore this dress with style and the bright red color was complemented with equally ruby red lips. And Anne certainly has some lips!
Her stylist girlfriend Rachel Zoe was commissioned to dress her for the event.
Her Oscars dress certainly would make the best dressed lists. Over at StyleBistro it did make number 10 for their reader poll.
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The 400 MW Anholt offshore wind farm, located off Denmark's eastern coast, has been officially inaugurated.
Siemens supplied, installed and commissioned the wind farm's 111 turbines, each with a capacity of 3.6 MW and a rotor diameter of 120 meters. The project owners are the Danish utility company DONG Energy (50%) and two pension fund companies, Pension Danmark (30%) and PKA (20%). Together with DONG Energy, Siemens will handle the wind project's maintenance for a period of five years.
For Siemens, Anholt is already the fifth offshore wind power plant to be formally inaugurated within just a few short weeks. In July and August, the world's largest offshore wind power plant – the London Array (630 MW) – as well as Britain's Greater Gabbard (504 MW) and Lincs (270 MW) projects – officially went online. In Germany, Siemens says the first commercial offshore wind power plant in the North Sea, Riffgat (108 MW), was officially inaugurated in August.
'Implementation of our offshore projects in Europe is running at full speed,' comments Markus Tacke, CEO of the wind power division at Siemens' Energy Sector. He notes that Siemens has installed more than 3.9 GW of offshore wind power capacity thus far.


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Re: Delilah BOYERS/James D.AUSTIN Ashmore Il
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Randi Barror 5/14/01
I have a Delila Jane Boyer, born July 20, 1819 in Augusta Cnty, Virginia.They moved in 1836 to Cole Cnty, Illinois.The name, dates, and location fit; but I have little on Delila herself.Hoping some namesakes appear, here is a bit on the family:
Joseph Boyer was Born in Virginia, May 4, 1794, and was a veteran of the War of 1812, serving under Welsh's Virginia Militia.
He and Betsy (Elizabeth Ewin)were married in Augusta Cnty, Va, on July 30, 1818, by the Reverand William King who was pastor at the Trinity Episcopal Church in Staunton, Va.
Came with family in 1838to Ashmore, Illinois, and later went to Missouri where he died January 22, 1870, in Cedar County, Missouri (or, according to his probate records, died "Near Humansville in Polk County").Betsy moved back to Edgar County, Illinois, where she died January 23, 1881, and was buried in Redman, Illinois.
In his probate records, Joseph listed some farm equipment, horses, rocking chairs, etc; but nothing of great value.No land was included and the fact the Elizabeth went back to Illinois rapidly after Joseph's death would indicate that they were probably tenant farmers.Date of probate went on between 1870 and 1874.
Descendants of Joseph Boyer
1 Joseph Boyer b: May 04, 1794 in Virginia d: January 22, 1870 in Cedar County, Missouri
. +Elizabeth Ewin b: August 14, 1800 in Virginia m: July 30, 1818 in Augusta County, Virginia d: January 23, 1881 in Edgar County, Illinois
... 2 Delila Jane Boyer b: July 20, 1819
... 2 James Morgan Boyer b: May 03, 1821 in Virginia d: March 31, 1912 in Illinois
...... +Susan Ann Mack b: January 01, 1822 in Kentucky m: January 08, 1846 in Clark County, Illinois d: March 20, 1905 in Illinois
... 2 Matilda Ann Boyer b: May 03, 1821
...... +John H Stewart
... 2 Margaret Boyer b: April 02, 1826 in Virginia
... 2 Elijah Boyer b: March 21, 1828 in Virginia
...... +Mary Margaret Parcel m: February 02, 1849 in Clark, Illinois
... 2 Hezekiah Best Boyer b: February 26, 1830 in Virginia
...... +Mary Bell
... 2 Joseph Washington Boyer b: February 01, 1832 in Virginia d: in Edgar County, Illinois
... 2 John N Boyer b: January 27, 1834 in Virginia
... 2 Benjamin Franklin Boyer b: February 19, 1836 in Virginia
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David Ortiz didn't look like an injured man in the first inning of Tuesday's Red Sox-Rays matchup. The slugger pulled a high inside fastball into the right field seats for a three-run homer, but ESPN.com reports that he has been battling a sore oblique muscle for the last few games. Ortiz says he should be feeling better and hitting again soon.
Red Sox manager John Farrell confirmed the injury after Tuesday night's loss and said the team has tried to give Ortiz a break so he can heal.
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Slow-Cooker Country-Style Pork and Beans with Sausage
Why This Recipe Works
When developing our slow cooker country-style pork and beans recipe, we settled on great Northern beans, a sturdy variety with a creamy texture. An overnight soak in salt water gave them a head start on slowly absorbing the moisture they needed to cook evenly. It also served to ensure that the beans would not rupture during the cooking process. For our pork selection, we settled on bone-in country-style ribs. To avoid the step of searing the ribs for our country-style pork and beans recipe, we browned tomato paste and a flavorful mixture of onions, garlic, thyme, and fennel seeds; we then smothered the unbrowned ribs with this mixture. We deglazed the skillet with white wine to pick up the remaining browned bits and added some diced tomatoes.


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From the makers of Pedigree Dogs Exposed, the latest news and views regarding inherited disorders and conformation issues in purebred dogs.
Sunday, 2 January 2011
The other PDE - Pug Dog Encephalitis
Some good news from UC Davis. They've developed a new DNA test for Pug Dog Encephalitis (PDE), a nasty condition also known as necrotising meningoencephalitis (NME). It claims the lives of about one in 100 Pugs.
PDE/NME is an inflammatory disease of the central nervous system that is usually progressive and fatal. Symptoms include seizures, depression, ataxia, abnormal gait and blindness. Female, fawn Pugs younger than 7 years of age are more apt to develop NME than older, non-fawn males.
Last year, researchers found that pugs that have two identical copies of particular markers have an increased risk of developing the condition (an observed risk of 12.75 over their lifetime compared to a risk of just 0-1.08 for Pugs that have only one or no copies of these markers). (Reference here.) Now UC Davis has made a test available to Pug owners and breeders.
It's important to note that this isn't a "definitive diagnosis" test, just an indicator of risk. Only one in eight of those dogs with two copies of the risk markers will develop PDE. But it is useful nevertheless and, interestingly, the markers are located at or near what are known as DLA class II genes - genes that code for the immune system. Genetic diversity in this area of the genome is considered a particularly good thing, as I have documented here.
In other words, using this test to help identify dams and sires that won't produce pups that have two identical copies of the PDE/NME markers could prove to be beneficial in other ways too
More info from UC Davis here.
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Well done to the American Kennel Club, the Pug Dog Club of America and of course Dr Greer.ReplyDelete
Now I wonder if the UK Kennel Club will recognise this test as a useful tool?
Thanks for the heads-up on the UCDavis work. A Facebook friend of mine in the UK just lost her 3 year-old black female pug to PDE.ReplyDelete
It's so exciting that this test has come out of this kind of research. Associations of risk for disease have been linked with DLA genes in superficial keratitis and anal furunculosis in German Shepherds, hepatitis in Dobermans, SLO in Gordon setters, anal sac gland carcinoma in English Cockers, juvenile generalized demodex, autoimmune lymphocytic thyroiditis in Giant Schnauzers, SLE disease complex and hypoadrenocortism in Nova Scotia duck toilers, several different breeds have different MHC associations with IMHA, diabetes in several breeds, hypothyroid in different breeds, uveodermatologic syndrome in American Akitas, susceptibility to leishmaniasis, more things come to light all the time.ReplyDelete
This kind of research is not just exciting for the potential of tests in order to make smart breeding choices, but also for management of dogs that have a higher risk. How cool would it be to know that your dog has a high risk of diabetes, for instance, so you can manage it's diet and perform regular testing to catch the disease in it's early stages?
DNA testing by way of oral swabs is by far the standard procedure of sample collection as it's really quick to perform; nevertheless DNA tests, such as paternity testing.ReplyDelete
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- Anonymous14 November 2011 at 17:55
First of all I would like to say I'm not a breeder and I do not condone breeders that have a complete disregard for the health of the puppies they bring into this world, most of which I consider puppy farmers and back yard bandwagon designer mongrel breeders.ReplyDelete
I don't suppose this will be published on the blog but the following makes interesting statistics and puts things into persective. Guess which breed I'm reffering to?:
1 in 20 have diabtetes in England
1 in 3 will die of heart disease in England
1 in 100 will have cancer at any one time in England.
Which breed do you think? Yes, it's us humans.
If we DNA tested ourselves for every disease and bred out every genetic abnormality we would die out very quickly. Yes I can understand the need for taking sensible precautions when breeding dogs for our pleasure and testing for the more common genetic problems, but lets have some perspective here people!
- Anonymous18 July 2012 at 13:11
If you had watched our beautiful little pug die of PDE this week, you would wish that the breeder had done PDE testing on their dogs, and been more selective of mates. It was the most heartbreaking thing I have ever seen, and the pain and agony that he went through was horrendous. He was only a year old. If it can be prevented, then why don't we prevent it from happening? What's the difference between PDE testing for pugs, and vaccines for humans? It is all about PREVENTION- not producing a perfect canine or human specimen!ReplyDeleteReplies
I'm so sorry to hear about your pub, Anon. If you would be interested in telling your/his story more widely in order to help raise awareness of this condition, please email me: jem[AT]pedigreedogsexposed.comDelete
- Anonymous30 October 2012 at 18:16
To Anonymous,ReplyDelete
My heart goes out to you. I watched my sweet, beautiful 3 year old Grand- pug die of this. I cried & sobbed for days.
We took her up to K-State animsl Hospital where they have top notch vets.
They operated on her, but the PDE was so far advanced she didn't make it.
I thought I would die. They were wonderful there.
I am thrilled to hear about this new DNA test. I hope it will prevent others from going through the Horror and heartbreak in the future.
- Anonymous9 May 2014 at 20:41
Hi just wish we had our two year old pug Holly tested, she was diagnosed with pde last Saturday. Only suffered from this condition since last tuesday. She had no signs of it. She was a healthy little girl until then. It was the most heart braking news we had ever heard. She was rushed to see a neurologist that saturday morning. She was so poorly unable to eat drink see hear and stand. They started her off on steroids and epilepsy drugs. Im so glad to say she is doing really well. She is still wobbly on her feet she's now eating and drinking. No sign of her sight or hearing. But we have everything crossed . We also have another pug which we are going to get tested. Please everyone have your pugs testedReplyDelete


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Person dies and two others seriously injured after crash on A1(M) between Stevenage and Welwyn
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One person has died and two others have been taken to hospital following a crash on the A1(M) yesterday afternoon.
At about 4pm, police and ambulance were called to the crash involving one vehicle on the southbound carriageway of the A1(M) between junction 7 for Stevenage and junction 6 for Welwyn.
Firefighters from Stevenage, Hitchin, Welwyn Garden City and the Rescue Support Unit from St Albans also attended to release the trapped people.
Police have confirmed that one person sadly died at the scene. Another sustained life-threatening injuries and was taken to hospital by air ambulance, and the third person travelling in the vehicle was seriously hurt and taken to hospital via land ambulance.
The road was closed on both carriageways between junctions 6 and 7 for several hours.
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Bum bum bum. Well I could have sworn that somewhere it was said that Season 3 would begin in the summer months, but officially it is now fall. On the other hand, Star Vs. is getting a two hour movie special entitled "The Battle for Mewni" that will air on July 15th. Here is the official announcement sent out to the media.
A special two-hour "Star vs. The Forces of Evil" TV movie event will premiere SATURDAY, JULY 15 (11:00 a.m., 2:00 p.m., 7:00 p.m. EDT), on Disney XD, and will be available to verified users on the Disney XD app and Disney XD VOD platforms.
Titled "The Battle for Mewni," the TV movie follows Star as she returns to her home dimension of Mewni where she discovers that magic is disappearing throughout the kingdom. Star must dig deep and challenge archnemesis Ludo in an effort to save her family and kingdom.
Season three of the fan-favorite and Annie Award-nominated series is slated to debut this fall. Check out the press release for the brand new TV event below.
"Star vs. The Forces of Evil" is an animated comedy adventure that follows fiercely awesome teen princess Star Butterfly. After receiving an all-powerful magic wand for her 14th birthday, Star is sent by her Royal Parents to live with the Diaz family on Earth, bringing along her own unique interdimensional style to her new home. Together with the Diaz's teenage son Marco, they navigate high school and embark on dimension-hopping adventures across the multiverse while keeping her wand out of the clutches of evil.
Created and executive produced by Daron Nefcy, "Star vs. The Forces of Evil" stars Eden Sher ("The Middle") as Star Butterfly, Adam McArthur ("Star Wars: The Clone Wars") as Marco Diaz; Alan Tudyk (Broadway's "Spamalot") as Ludo and King Butterfly; Jeffrey Tambor ("Transparent") as Glossaryck; Nia Vardalos ("My Big Fat Greek Wedding") as Mrs. Diaz; Artt Butler ("Her") as Mr. Diaz; and Jenny Slate ("Parks and Recreation") as Pony Head.


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Moderator: Dave JensenAdvisors: Ana, PG, Rich Lemert, Dick Woodward, Dave Walker Meet the Moderator/Advisors
You may want to check with an attorney who is well versed in SEC regulations. There are very strict rules about who can and cannot accept a contingency payment (aka commission)for facilitating the sale of securities in a company, or of the company itself. For example, there are people who charge a commission for raising venture money for a company. This is generally illegal unless said person is registered as a broker-dealer. As I am not an attorney, I cannot advise on your particular situation, but I do know that there are a number of regulations involving who can or cannot accept a commission for facilitating the sale of a company; some of these appear to depend upon whether the buyer is purchasing the entire company (e.g., its stock) or merely the assets of the company. In any event, I would suggest that you get a legal opinion.
Dick Woodward wrote:Nate:
It is OK to ask the investment bank and their attorney for advice, but I would strongly suggest you retain your own counsel as well. It should only cost a few hundred dollars. The investment bank has a certain conflict (they want you to do something for them) and that may color their opinion.
Note also that the broker-dealer laws apply to private as well as public companies. Trust me - you do not want to run afoul of the SEC.
In a similar case, I knew a fellow who went from company A to company B. company B had a division that competed with company A, but since he was going to a different division in company B, Company B's attorneys assured him that this would not violate his non-compete. Company A sued, and the judge held for company A, costing the fellow quite a bit of money. He might have been better served by getting an opinion from his own counsel. Thus my suggestion to you.
Good luck - I hope that things work out.
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Good morning everyone,
it's the 15th of the month! So today starts the new bastel-traum.ch Challenge with the theme «Birthday/Party».
it's the 15th of the month! So today starts the new bastel-traum.ch Challenge with the theme «Birthday/Party».
I created a fun Birthday card with this cute little monkey from Reverse Confetti.
He was colored with Copics and I did some fussy cutting with sharp scissors and ran a black marker along the edges. The balloons (from the same «Monkey Business» stamp set) were covered with Glossy Accents and popped up with a bit of foam tape.
The scalloped frame was cut from patterned paper (My Mind's Eye «Lime Twist») using a die from the Confetti Cuts «Love Note» set. I also hand-cut a piece of white cardstock and did some faded blending with Simon Says Stamp «Sea Glass» and «Mali Blue» Dye Inks.
I stamped the sentiment in Versafine «Onyx Black» and added the striped MME paper to the white top folding card base. I rounded all the corners using the We R Memory Keepers «Corner Chomper». Finally I put everything together and embellished my card with three Studio Calico wood veneer stars.
Thank you so much for stopping by! See you tomorrow!


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Heat your water for less with Solar Thermal
On average, UK households spend £228 a year^ just on heating water. But you could reduce your energy bills with a solar thermal system that captures the sun's energy to help heat your water instead. It works all year round and could provide up to 90% of your hot water needs in summer. Call now to see if solar thermal is right for you.
^ Energy Saving Trust, 2013
Solar thermal panels act as an upgrade to your existing heating system, producing hot water by harnessing energy from the sun. The system's "collectors" absorb solar energy and transfer it into thermal energy to be used in a hot water cylinder or thermal store.
Solar Thermal - Domestic Hot Water System
- 1 Cold water enters the system from mains supply.
- 2 If the collector is warm enough, the pump will be activated by the solar controller.
- 3 Solar fluid is then pumped round the collector, heated by solar energy.
- 4 This fluid then passes in to a cylinder heating up the water via a coil.
- 5 If required, a second coil brings the water up to the pre-set temperature via an existing boiler.
- 6 Hot water is now available through the taps.
What makes up the solar thermal system?
Solar collectors. There are two main types of solar collector:
Flat Plate
Flat-plate collectors consist of dark-coloured absorber plates. The plates are enclosed within a glazed, insulated box that behaves like a mini-greenhouse to retain heat within the collector.
The benefits of a flat plate are:
- More versatile - can be mounted horizontally, vertically, on the roof and in roof
- Cheaper to manufacture
- More robust design and less likely to overheat
Evacuator Tubes
Evacuator tubes consist of rows of parallel tubes, each containing a glass thermal absorber. During production, air is evacuated from the tubes allowing it to reach a higher temperature, in all sunshine levels.
The benefits of evacuator tubes are:
- More efficient at generating and retaining heat
- Cheaper to manufacture
- Easy to repair. Failed tubes can be replaced without any major disruption
Solar cylinder, pump and controller
Solar cylinder
The hot water cylinder installed will have a 'twin coil' heating system. The lower coil is heated through the solar panels while the upper coil is heated through your existing boiler.
Pump & Controller
The system is managed through a solar controller that manages the pump speed. The controller reads temperature sensors in the cylinder and the collector, and regulates the rate at which solar fluid is pumped through the system.
How much will it cost and what are the benefits?
Prices start at £4,400 but depend on the number of solar collectors, size of cylinder and the suitability of your existing hot water system.
- Once installed there is little or no maintenance needed
- Solar collectors come with a 20 year performance guarantee
- The Solar controller will mange your system automatically
- We recommend a service every 5-10 years to replace the solar fluid


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The Lake Clinic
The Lake Clinic Cambodia (TLC) is dedicated to bringing basic health care, disease surveillance, and proper medical referrals to a severely isolated and underserved region of Cambodia — the Tonle Sap.
Jon Morgan, former Executive Director of Angkor Hospital for Children, founded TLC in 2007 after witnessing the poverty and need for health care across Cambodia.
TLC operates five "floating medical clinics" and a small "fleet" of boats providing transport and support for two clinical teams–one on the Tonle Sap Lake, and the other team working on the Stung Sen River.
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provide these isolated villagers with health care comparable to what can be found in a well-managed health center;
mitigate the detrimental impact of preventable illnesses through early diagnosis of disease;
provide treatment on an out-patient basis;
provide referrals to hospital (and assistance in transportation to the hospital) when necessary;
provide health education for the communities and rural villages.
Health care for communities on the Tonle Sap can be more than 100 kilometers away and travel is possible only by boat. The average family income is roughly $2 per day, and the cost for diesel fuel alone is around $40 to $50 to reach the closest healthcare facility. For more information about TLC, visit www.lakeclinic.org.


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I had seen pictures of the cathedral, Holy Family, Gaudi designed in Barcelona. I liked it. I look through a whole book of color pictures of many Gaudi buildings. I am changed.


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Here's another of my posts from Book Babe. I copied my review for Invisible City to this blog. This is the sequel. I also thought that I had some information in this review that needs to be spread far and wide.
I reviewed the debut mystery Invisible City by Julia Dahl on Book Babe.
It took place in the hasidic community of New York who call themselves
haredi. I said in my review of the first book that I wasn't that
impressed with the journalist protagonist Rebekah Roberts, and that I
wished that I was reading the story of Aviva Kagan, Rebekah's mother.
Well, I got that wish. The sequel, Run You Down, alternates between the perspectives of Rebekah and Aviva.
book is full of tragedy, but you could almost call the murder that
Rebekah is investigating a poignant footnote to the heart-rending story
of Rebekah's uncle, Samuel Kagan. Sam is the dramatic center of the
book. I was very sorry for Sam. I understood that he was largely
shaped by PTSD, and that his trauma motivated his behavior. At the
same time, it was hard to view him as a sympathetic character because
some of his actions were so shockingly unthinkable.
was an important character, but largely secondary within the plot. Her
self-punishing guilt kept her away from the people she cared about
most. Yet Aviva was really a victim of her upbringing. As much as
she tried to combat it, being a member of the haredi community was too
much a part of her.
Dov Lowenstein, a disaffected ex-haredi who appears briefly in Run You Down,
calls the haredi a cult. This would explain why Aviva and others found
it so difficult to leave. What is the definition of a cult? Neopagan
author Isaac Bonewits developed a Cult Danger Evaluation Frame originally published in his book, Real Magic.
Its original purpose was to allow Neopagans to determine whether any
particular religious group that they might come across was a dangerous
cult. If a group's practices involves a high number of the
characteristics that Bonewits listed, it's best to stay far away from
it. It is possible to conclude from what is written about the haredi in
Julia Dahl's books that they are a cult. Others might maintain that
they preserve traditions, and are a source of social cohesion for their
I thought that Rebekah improved in this
book, but she may be too vulnerable to be a successful journalist. The
ugliness of the crimes that she has investigated disturbs her very
deeply. At one point in this novel she reminds herself that being a
reporter is what she aspired to do, but then comments "Maybe one day
living my dream won't make me feel sick."
Run You Down is
a powerful piece of fiction. It also completes the Rebekah and Aviva
character arc. So if Julia Dahl continues with the series, she will
need to find a new direction for Rebekah. Perhaps additional
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A Government Digital Service (GDS) led programme called One Government at the border (1G@B) undertook a discovery phase in mid-2015 to identify how collective services across Government could come together to control the movement of goods in and out of the UK. The programme highlighted at least 60 'permissions' associated with the movement of goods across the border with a common journey being identified.
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The Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) has now taken the lead in developing a cross-government platform for permissions, focusing (at first) on replacing the current SPIRE electronic licensing system which provides a platform for import and export control. User research has identified that licences, approvals and permissions across the border are very similar and, as a result, we will be looking to create a common user journey and ensure that obtaining a licence, approval or permission is intuitive as possible to aid importers and exporters in moving goods across the border.
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This platform will be a 'one stop shop' for import and export across government and will enable importers & exporters to identify if their goods are controlled and also the licence options available. Feedback from industry is that the user journey can be complicated and this results in almost 50% of export licence applications to BIS resulting in requests for more information from the applicant. The goal is to create a service that enables importing and exporting and doesn't hinder it; we want to ensure no matter what size the company or value of import/export that the user journey is consistent and that we can provide an advantage to companies in increasingly competitive markets across the world.
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Wednesday, June 28, 2006
The former Mrs. and Other Stuff
I am in my second round at attempting to get the marriage thing right. My first ended badly and the blame lies squarely on the shoulders of this writer. Yesterday, June 27th, would have been the 42nd anniversary of that marriage's humble beginnings. I thought I might use this site to share some things about my former life, as well as my former wife.
She and I - don't ask how or why I remember this stuff, I just do- met for the very first time in late June 1956 at Vacation Bible School at the Andrew Chapel Methodist Church in Baltimore. She was ten and I was, of course, a handsome much older man of twelve. I remember teasing her, and that was the extent of our contact until some years later.
At Andrew Chapel we were both members of the Methodist Youth Fellowship (MYF) and it had maybe twenty, twenty-five regular members. In addition to the services we attended on Sunday, the members, a rather close knit group, would often get together at one or another member's home for parties. These parties were of the harmless variety: no booze, no drugs – just lots of Cokes, chips, dancing and maybe some harmless "making out."
Late September 1960 I attended a party at Pat Pohler's house, and Sandra and I slow-danced a few of times and talked about 1960s stuff, and so on… The following week, whatever day the 28th fell on, we started officially "going together." And from that point until September 16, 1963, we were practically inseparable. That date is etched in my gray matter as the date of another of my life's errors, it is the day I entered the military (that story previously posted). It is she who got me through the funk I found myself in for the four months I suffered the rigors of Air Force Basic Training and Technical School.
After Basic I was stationed in Upstate New York, one of the coldest places I have ever been, and I thought at the time it was God's idea of a joke on me. I got to Rome, New York about January 19, 1964, and managed by hook or crook to get back to Baltimore every chance I got to spend time with Sandra. It was during one of these trips that Sandra and I decided we should marry, and shortly thereafter I presented her with a fabulous, dazzling one-quarter carat diamond ring that cost me $100.00, which I paid for in installments. The ring was stunning, and in a certain light at a certain angle you could even make out the stone.
Marriage for us was not easily accomplished. Sandra was seventeen and a half and I was four months into my 20th year on this earth. Both of us, as minors, were required to have our parents sign for us in order to get a marriage license. They did, and on June 27, 1964 we were married in a small but very nice wedding at Andrew Chapel with lots of family and friends looking on.
After a very inexpensive three-day Honeymoon in Ocean Grove, New Jersey, we took off for Rome, New York and a furnished, one-bedroom, first-floor apartment at 115 Emerson Avenue, just outside the main gate of the Griffiss Air Force Base . These luxurious accommodations cost us a neat $75.00 per month and included all utilities. It was in a building with three other apartments, all of them also with military families in residence. We did the best we could to make the place a home and settled in. This was early July 1964.
Some minor issues between us came to the surface almost at once. Sandra didn't like my clothing lying all over place ( I kind of dropped it and wherever it landed, it stayed) , nor did she like the manner in which I hogged the majority of our bed. She often reminded me she was not my mother. One day I came home to find my formerly thrown about clothing in a box on the front porch, and another time she pinned a tape measure down the middle of the bed to delineate her side from mine. I soon learned who was boss of the bedroom, the proper method of hanging up clothes and the location of the hamper.
Money also became a minor but important issue. My military pay, included two checks each month for $32.10 and another as a housing allowance of $92.00. That's $156.20 per month to you math buffs. After paying the rent and a life insurance premium each month, we had just about $64.00 for food and other stuff, including gas for the rest of the month. We had a 1958 Plymouth sedan – you may remember some models, including this one, had a "Push-Button" transmission – and we would lend it out to a guy named John Dominco, and he would put gas in it as payment. It helped to stretch our money. Looking back, life was a struggle, but then we thought we were doing the right things. I bought my Camel cigarettes at the Base Exchange for $1.50 a carton. We lived on hotdogs, pizza and Campbell's soup. Sandra didn't have a job. There were none to be had. She made money babysitting some officers' children, and we got by. We were dumb enough to think we had the world by the gonads. Life was a hell of a lot more simple then.
In August 1964 we bought a mixed breed puppy (mostly beagle) and named him Fred. Mr. Honaker, our ever-so-nice landlord, shortly thereafter served us with a notice to vacate the apartment – our lease said no pets. So in October of that year we moved again, this time to a nicer, more expensive furnished apartment, also in Rome at 409 Myrtle Street, in a home owned by Lincoln Melioris and his wife Barbara, at a nearly unaffordable rent of $95.00 a month.
All in all, we made it through the first couple of years in good shape. I got a couple of promotions, and while the money wasn't great, it was enough for us to get by. We had more money for pizza, especially pizza from the Plaza in downtown Rome. It is without a doubt the best pizza I have ever had, and there were months when pizza was our main meal of the day at least ten times…the rectangular Sicilian style at $3.00 each. I think I was drawing about $324.00 a month when I was discharged in September of 1967.
Our oldest daughter came along in January of 1967. She was born at the Base hospital and the total bill came to $8.75. [Side note: Family, do I sound like my dad with all these numbers and dates?] Sandra began the birth process with a rush of water right in the middle of "Bonanza" and an episode called "Ponderosa Explosion." Little Joe and Hoss were raising some rabbits and…well you get the drift…it got way out of hand, rabbits everywhere. Anyway, I didn't get to see the outcome…we headed off to the Base hospital. Sandra checked in and they sent me home. There was no place for expectant father's to hang out at the hospital, and in those days no one was allowed in the birthing room except hospital personnel. Baby White came the next morning at 7:37am, and someone at the hospital called me about 9:30 that morning to let me know I had a daughter.
After the Air Force discharged me out in September 1967, we moved back to Baltimore and in with Sandra's parents, with the idea of staying there while we saved money to pay cash for our own furniture and would then get our own apartment. We lasted about two months. Her parents, while being more than wonderful to us, also nearly drove us crazy. We got the apartment, and went into debt way over our heads, but at least we were in our own place being our own masters. Well, not entirely, the roaches in the infested apartment complex we chose ruled us for the nearly two years we stayed there.
We had another move in between the apartment and moving to Richmond, Virginia in 1971. It was there in Richmond we really began to live and to make friends and had another daughter in 1972. It was in Richmond my former bride developed a work ethic that far exceeded her underachiever husband's. She excelled as I maintained the mundane. In Richmond we moved two more times before the marriage, under my direction, went south.
This morning via e-mail we both acknowledged yesterday's date and what it would have been. Sandra and I are acutely aware of the ties we have and the history that will inexorably bind us together for as long as we live. I have admitted to her many times there will always be a part of me that will always love a part of her. And in her own way she has communicated the same to me. We, the people of this planet, are all connected to one another in some way. In a way, I suppose that isn't all bad.
And that is all I have to say about that.
Monday, June 19, 2006
A Reflection, Not A Mea Culpa
Photo is entitled "Thinker in Bibs"
That would be me…
Given the title of this piece, one might think one is about to read something profound, enigmatic, or wholesomely reflective. Not! The reflection of which I speak is the damn sight of me standing in front of a full-length mirror toweling myself off after a brisk shower. This isn't something I meant to do; the darn mirror in the hotel room I was in was just in a position so that it eventuated.
The sight of me naked these days just causes my heart to sink. I have been relegated to living in a body that is woefully out of shape and beginning (I am being kind to myself) to sag in all kinds of directions. There was a time when I had six pack abs, well maybe a three pack, but nonetheless, there were ripples. I could do fifty or more sit ups without working up a sweat. Fifty pushups were a pushover. I could run – a close friend likened my running to fast walking – for two hours some days, at least an hour on most, depending on the temperature.
These days I get winded lifting a twelve-ounce beer bottle…but I do manage it by using two hands. I couldn't run fifty feet without panting like a tired dog. I have one abdominal ripple, and it resembles more of a keg look than any kind of a pack. This getting old is Hell.
I was in tremendous shape at the height of my Mid-Life Crisis. It was also the most miserable time of my life. I was very bad. I mean very, very bad. I did things that hurt people. I lead a furtive, sneaky and downright nefarious life style. There was little joy in my life at that time, but at the time it didn't seem to register. I dropped about forty-five pounds, going from 240 to 195. One time after an hour run I weighed in at neat 187. I went from a 40 waist to a 34 waist, and an extra large shirt size to a large – some even mediums. My suit size dropped from 46 to 42. I did look good, at least I thought so, but that is where it ended. I smelled good with my Obsession wafting around me. Trust me; it was not a happy time.
My little venture into the world of the unsure and nearly unstable lasted about four years. My life was dramatically different at the end of it. Not all of it ended badly. There are things I would alter, some behaviors I am not proud of and would change, but there were some rewards. I came out of mid-life thing a much wiser, much better man then when I entered the phase. Thank God for time, for it truly heals.
So, these days as I look at my much older body (thanks, Mom and Dad, for the genes), I have to laugh at myself as my waistline approaches that forty inch mark again. I have a keg where a six pack should be, and the scale at home groans when I climb upon it. I refuse to let my belt out another notch, probably because there is no other notch, and it is killing me. I need to lose weight, but will have to give into eating correctly, and that sucks. And, that may mean curtailing my beer intake, or, God forbid, giving it up. Do I hear laughter?
August 11, 1995 was the last meat I ingested (it stayed with me for a little while, so "ingested" may not be the correct term). Meat – bovine, porcine, fowl or seafood – does not agree with my digestive tract for some inexplicable reason. It flat out makes me sick. Medical tests where not conclusive and I couldn't figure out which kind of animal flesh was the culprit, so I gave it all up. If I went on the Adkins diet I would starve to death in about a week. My life is carbs and perhaps that is why my belly could be designated a disaster area and perhaps qualify for Federal assistance.
I do, however, look at the bright side of all of this. Some of the larger pieces of clothing which I have held onto for the last fifteen years may now be brought out of storage (if the moths haven't completely riddled them) and worn again. My weight gain may prove a blessing and save me money. More money to spend on beer, so I can gain more weight and wear more of the larger old clothes I have already paid for…I may have hit on a gold mine, and all because of a chance meeting with a bad angle of my reflection. Damn, I am really happy.
And that is all I have to say about that.
An added note: Since February 28, 2006, the date of the first posting to this Hell-Of-A-Guy website, there have been 11,370 hits. Thanks for stopping by. I have had a hell of a lot of fun doing this, and can only hope in some small way I have given you a little joy, cause for thought and maybe even got you to think about the world in which you live. Ain't it all so grand? Feel free to send cash donations. Come see us in the mountains.
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Alma, I miss you, too!
I have written a little about my dad in past postings, so it is now appropriate, I suppose, to write something of my mother. This is a really tough subject for me. My mother, at least the one I would like to remember and pay tribute to here, ceased to exist a long, long time ago. The Alma Laura that lingers in my mind these days was the one who was torturously tormented, easily addled and mostly confused for the last ten to fifteen years she was alive. She died Memorial Day weekend 1997; she was 90-years old.
Mother suffered from the insidious effects of dementia. Her short term memory was gone. She often asked the same questions or said the same things over and over every few minutes. I do not recall her calling me by name at any time during the last five years of her life. "Life" is not exactly a good word to use for the world or dimension where she lived. Her days where endless: She was always hungry and wouldn't eat, she always thought it was time to go to bed and once there time to get up. She would want my 92-year old dad to take her for a ride in the car, only to ask why they were going out and how long they would be. My last mental picture of her is of her sitting on the sofa in her home weeping, as her face was buried in her hands, rocking back and forth pleading with God-only-knows who, "What are we going to do? What are we going to do?" She was never at peace until the day she died.
Mom and Dad lived in an apartment/condo. Dad purchased the condo so they would have a place to live all on one floor. He didn't relish mother trying to navigate steps, especially with both of them "getting up in age." It was there my mother passed away and her agony ended. For me, her passing was bittersweet, and it left me pissed off at God.
My mom did not have a glamorous life. Her dad was a Methodist minister up until his death in 1945. She and her three sisters and two brothers were raised in a Christian environment, often moving from church to church and sometimes even living in the church because a house was not available. Her maternal grandfather was a preacher, as was her oldest brother. My family is riddled with Methodist preachers, and I know my mother had hoped I would take that path, as well. I think she recognized the bullshitter – though she would never have used the term - in me (and it being a requisite trait for a good preacher) believed I might fit the mold. No way, Jose!!! I went into sales, instead. The same traits are requisite in sales and much more suited to my particular form of standup-philosophy. .
Anyhow, the mother I remember from the distant past is the one I so wish had lived until 1997. This woman was pious to a fault. She was a Christian's Christian. She was a wonderful mother, although she sort of screwed up her kids with her niceness. She loved us dearly, but saddled us with some beliefs that, frankly, have not served us well as adults. We kids were never allowed to argue or fight. It was simply not condoned in our house, and it is one of the things instilled in me that caused me issues later in my life. But, still, the five of us, now ages fifty-eight to seventy-five are doing okay and are in relatively good health – at least we are still breathing.
Mom wrote poetry in her younger days. She had an ability to weave a story. She and Dad were very active in the church, as were we kids - by force. She used to say she "never worked a day in her life." What she meant was she had never worked a day outside of the house. Truth is, with five of us at home, she never stopped working.
My parents were not very demonstrative. We were not raised as a touchy, feely family. I don't recall my parents verbally expressing the love they held for one another, though I know it was there. You could see it in the way they made eye contact and the crooked little smile and chuckle my mother exhibited sometimes when my dad was close to her. They were married in 1928 and lived happily together for sixty-nine years. I can't recall her ever saying "I love you" either to any of my brothers, sisters or me. She showed us in so many ways, and in so many ways we got the message. I suppose their generation just didn't make a big deal out of the words. Toward the end of her life my mother did become more demonstrative; however, it wasn't from the heart of Alma, but moreover the being that snatched her mind away.
Mom wasn't much of a cook. Any meat or vegetables she prepared were cooked beyond wisdom. Veggies were reduced to mush and meat was cooked dry. She couldn't understand Italian food, didn't see how anyone could make a meal of spaghetti – she said she could see it as a side dish. She never ate pizza and definitely no Chinese. She loved sharp cheddar cheese and often her lunch would be a slice of bread wrapped around a hunk of cheddar and a cup of coffee. She also thought eating out at McDonald's was the pinnacle of epicurean delight – coffee and fish sandwich with a few fries. This was heaven for mom.
One time, I suppose I may have been about ten or so, I had an appointment with the dentist, one inappropriately named "Dr. Coward." Just about the time we were to leave for the appointment I got the bright idea to climb a tree in the backyard and lay low, hoping I could avoid the chair by hiding in the leaf-covered branches. It didn't work. After calling me several times Mother finally yelled out the back door that it was too late and we would have to go another time. I came down out of the tree and was immediately nabbed and carted off to see Dr. Coward.
I remember very well the "time" I told my mother to "shut up." I probably don't need to explain the aftermath of that unfortunate mistake on my part or my parts. Suffice it to say it never occurred again.
September 16, 1963, as she and my dad dropped me off at Ft. Holabird in Baltimore for my first day of military service, she had tears in her eyes as they drove off. I was nineteen and it was the first time I had ever seen this strong woman show that kind of emotion.
I haven't thought about my mom for some time. The body in the casket was a mere shell of the woman who held me when I hurt and loved me just because. I didn't cry at her funeral. Perhaps now I can. The time is right.
This has been a good exercise for me, and that is all I have to say about that.
This family portrait was taken about 1918. My mother is standing on the right-hand side as you look at the photograph. She would have been about fourteen when this was taken. Everyone in the photo has passed away. My grandfather died in 1945 and his two sons in the 1950s. All five women in the picture had some form of dementia - some worse than others. My mother is the only one who was survived by her husband.
Monday, June 12, 2006
Getting Into Shape
I get a lot of e-mails from people and have no idea where the material originates or who the authors may be. Some are nasty, some are cute and still others are funny. I do pass along a lot of these to people via e-mail, almost as if I am required to do so because of some silly rule of etiquette. This one came to me this morning and as I read it I began to laugh. The more I read, the harder I laughed. When I finished it, I knew it was a good one from the pain I had in my abdominals. Inasmuch as there have been nearly 11,000 hits to this website, I thought this way I could share it with many more folks and not risk losing my job by sending it over the company e-mail system on company time. I hope you enjoy it as much as I. Feel free to cut and paste it and send it on….
Dear Diary,
For my fiftieth birthday this year, my wife (the dear) purchased a week of personal training at the local health club for me. Although I am still in great shape since playing on my college football team 30 yrs ago, I decided it would be a good idea to go ahead and give it a try.
Called the club and made my reservation with a personal trainer named Belinda, who identified herself as a 26 yr old aerobics instructor and model for athletic clothing and swim wear. My wife seemed pleased with my enthusiasm to get started! The club encouraged me to keep a diary to chart my progress.
MONDAY: Started my day at 6:00am. Tough to get out of bed, but it was well worth it when I arrived at the health club to find Belinda waiting for me. She was something of a Greek goddess—with blonde hair, dancing eyes and a dazzling white smile.
Woo Hoo!!!!!
Belinda gave me a tour and showed me the machines. She took my pulse after 5 minutes on the treadmill. She was alarmed that my pulse was so fast, but I attributed it to standing next to her in her Lycra aerobics outfit. I enjoyed watching the skillful way in which she conducted her aerobics class after my workout today.
Very inspiring, Belinda was encouraging as I did my sit-ups, although my gut was already aching from holding it in the whole time she was around. This is going to be a FANTASTIC week!!
TUESDAY: I drank a whole pot of coffee, but I finally made it out the door. Belinda made me lie on my back and push a heavy iron bar into the air, and then she put weights on it! My legs were a little wobbly on the treadmill, but I made the full mile. Belinda's rewarding smile made it all worthwhile. I feel GREAT!! It's a whole new life for me.
WEDNESDAY: T he only way I can brush my teeth is by laying the toothbrush on the counter and moving my mouth back and forth over it. I believe I have a hernia in both pectorals. Driving was OK as long as I didn't try to steer or stop. I parked on top of a GEO in the club parking lot.
Belinda was impatient with me, insisting that my screams bothered other club members. Her voice is a little too perky for early in the morning and when she scolds, she gets this nasally whine that is VERY annoying.
My chest hurt when I got on the treadmill, so Belinda put me on the stair monster. Why the hell would anyone invent a machine to simulate an activity rendered obsolete by elevators? Belinda told me it would help me get in shape and enjoy life. She said some other shit too.
THURSDAY: Belinda was waiting for me with her vampire-like teeth exposed as her thin, cruel lips were pulled back in a full snarl. I couldn't help being a half an hour late; it took me that long to tie my shoes.
Belinda took me to work out with dumbbells. When she was not looking, I ran and hid in the men's room. She sent Lars to find me, then, as punishment, put me on the rowing machine—which I sank.
FRIDAY: I hate that bitch Belinda more than any human being has ever hated any other human being in the history of the world. Stupid, skinny, anemic little cheerleader. If there were a part of my body I could move without unbearable pain, I would beat her with it!
Belinda wanted me to work on my triceps. I don't have any triceps. And if you don't want dents in the floor, don't hand me the *&%#(#&**!!@*@ barbells or anything that weighs more than a sandwich.
The treadmill flung me off and I landed on a health and nutrition teacher. Why couldn't it have been someone softer, like the drama coach or the choir director?
SATURDAY: Belinda left a message on my answering machine in her grating, shrilly voice wondering why I did not show up today. Just hearing her made me want to smash the machine with my planner. However, I lacked the strength to even use the TV remote and ended up catching eleven straight hours of the Weather Channel.
SUNDAY: I'm having the Church van pick me up for services today so I can go and thank GOD that this week is over. I will also pray that next year, my wife (the XXXXX); will choose a gift for me that is fun like a root canal or a vasectomy


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There is no question Monday's Media Day might have been upstaged by a couple of announcements prior to it. First it was confirmed that Toronto will indeed host the 2016 All-Star Game as part of their 20th season in the NBA. The news that NBA will takes its mid-season showcase outside of the United States for the first time ever is big. That almost seemed to be upstaged by another announcement that Toronto's own Drake will serve as a global ambassador for the Toronto Raptors.
What exactly does that mean? It really wasn't exactly spelled out. It does include Drake being a big part of the organization of the All-Star Weekend in 2016. It also includes his involvement in the re-branding of the Raptors. Which will not include a name change as many had been thinking could happen. In 2016 the Raptors will still have the same name but a brand new look and perhaps colour scheme.
These seem like normal things that an outsider from the entertainment world would make sense to be a part of as it was done with the Nets with their move to Brooklyn in which Jay-Z played a major role. He was a minority owner of the franchise though at the time. Drake is not becoming a partner in MLSE anytime soon.
The elephant in the room is what if anything Drake brings to the table in terms of recruiting NBA superstars to come play ball in his city of Toronto. It has been a constant storyline in the history of this franchise of having trouble not only recruiting free-agents to come to Toronto but keeping their own stars.
I am not exactly on the pulse of pop culture but I am not blind to the fact Drake obviously is someone who is cool or whatever the kids call cool today. He is friends with some pretty elite NBA Superstars at the top of that list Lebron James. In fact Drake has been seen around the Heat just as much as the Raptors at times. What exactly Drake can do that people have failed to do for 18 years remains unclear.
After all despite what some have been led to believe NBA Players love Toronto as a place to come party. It is clearly one of the best road stops in the NBA. Liking a city and living in a city is where the problem lies. Can Drake bridge that gap and help players understand that Toronto is a great place to call home? He can't change Canadian Tax Laws…He can't make crossing the border any easier.
What he can do is make Toronto seem cool and a place to be. Another even younger Toronto native has expressed his desire to play in Toronto named Andrew Wiggins who most likely will be at the 2016 All-Star Weekend wearing a NBA Jersey for some team.
That said Raptor after Raptor that came to the media scrums were asked about both Drake being a part of the Raptors and the fact there is a large faction that may want to see them fail to get a shot at Wiggins. The answers on both were far from surprising. They all gave their endorsement to the idea of Drake being involved and were more concerned about winning than Wiggins.
Masai Ujiri does not have Drake as his assistant general manager although at times you wondered with all this talk of Drake. He ultimately is the man that will have to decide the future and if he wants to take his lottery ticket or allow this group to stay together. He is not really committed to anything at this point. He has positive things to say about the current group he has but is not exactly willing to wait forever. The Raptors started last season at 4-13 prior to the Rudy Gay trade and even after were only a borderline .500 team. Safe to say that will not be good enough this year.
Dwane Casey's position seems fairly clear given his contract status he has to win. Kyle Lowry in a contract year regardless of the Raptors' future and his with the team has to perform for his own personal career. Rudy Gay sits with an option to become a free agent in a market place that could be starving for a top star talent to enter it. He however must play to level he did to earn his monstrous current contract to even consider it.
What it comes down to is there are a lot of people looking for the same goal to make the Raptors a winner but the road to get there is different from depending on where you sit in all of this. The wild-card to the whole equation might be the positive left from the Colangelo era in Jonas Valanciunas. He even knows who Drake is but more importantly the NBA all knows who he is thanks to a breakout performance in Las Vegas this summer.
It wouldn't be the Raptors without more questions than answers at the end of the day. They have been at the bottom for years and now can the climb to the top of the world like Drake? It is hard to make a hit record but 18 years in Toronto have proven it much harder to build a winner on the basketball court.
Will Drake have a real impact or is he just latest celebrity to adopt a team and become part of the narrative? Like Jack Nicholson has done for years with the Lakers and Spike Lee for a long time with the Knicks. Better it be Drake than Justin Bieber I suppose.
At the end of the day if you love it or hate it Drake is here. But really there is not a downside to this move by MLSE that I can think of. If Drake ends up doing very little it was a well intentioned attempt to use someone that wants to help. This isn't like giving Master P a tryout to play for the team in exhibition games. As long as Drake isn't caught keeping Amir Johnson up late in the Raptors practice gym all should be ok.
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As I mentioned in the LED Ring construction post, I wanted to make sure 4 AA batteries would power my 25 RGB LEDs through a good 3+ hours of trick-or-treating. The Adafruit doc provides a good battery life estimate, but I figured I might as well measure it. Fortunately, I had a myDAQ handy, and hooked it up to measure battery current and voltage as shown in the schematic.
Note: the power consumed by the 1N4001 diode is not measured with this setup.
I then wrote a quick LabVIEW VI to measure & log the battery voltage and current every second. This way I could see the voltage and current drop as the batteries discharged.
With some fresh AA's, I powered up the LEDs and ran the 'RainbowCycle' pattern from the Adafruit WS2801 library, shown below (all 25 LEDs are on driving different colors, this should be a good worst-case current draw mode).
The myDAQ logged data to a CSV file for about 8 hours, you can see the resulting current, voltage and power vs time (click for a larger version).
The graph shows about 5 hours of LED power before the current drops off, plenty for my application. In total the LEDs consumed about 1900 mAh during the test, which is in line with the original estimate.


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This Friday, August 10th, from 5-9 pm, at shelter #3 at Hugh McCrae park, Rick Crowell will host a club and friends cook out and gathering. The shelter has two grills and four electric outlets. Rick will bring charcoal, buns, soda, and deviled eggs. Bring your own meat, sides, drinks, dogs, significant others as you please. If you bring alcohol, it cannot be in glass. The curling season is right around the corner, and let's kick it off as a club! See you then!Read More
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But I've never once seen an author say 'I'm being paid too much'. Actually I have never heard anyone say they're being paid too much.
So let's change that. I'm being paid too much.
This month Cleaver Square will hit 20,000 sales on Amazon Kindle in total. We've been charging £1.99/ $2.99 for the book for most of that time (and when we didn't it was via short term Kindle Countdown Deals). When you add in paperbacks, translations, etc, it's earned something like £20,000 for us - which is pretty good for a book written in our spare time. And we'll continue to earn on it for a long time - because copyright lasts until 70 years after we're gone.
So I'm going to cut our prices. Again. We're going to go right down to the wire and put Cleaver Square down to 99c/ 99p. That's the lowest price that Amazon allow us to set.
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- We'll launch book 4 at a preorder special price of 99p.
If the big publishers want to ask £11.99 for a preorder then let's prove that we can do it for less than 10% of that and still turn a profit. Readers do not have to be gouged for authors to earn a fair wage. And if £2.98 for three books is still too much you can borrow it for free with Kindle Unlimited or pirate a copy. Nobody should miss out on killer fiction because of the price.


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The Office of the Higher Education Commission, in collaboration with Ministry of Foreign Affairs and ASEAN University Network, hosted the 25th Network of East Asia Think Tanks Country Coordinators Meeting (NEAT CCM) on the 28th July 2016 at Pathumwan Princess Hotel, Bangkok.
Network of East Asia Think Tanks is the scholars and researchers network in ASEAN Plus Three (APT) countries. The network serves as a regional mechanism, aiming to promote the academic exchanges and provide intellectual support for East Asian cooperation and development. In addition, it facilitates collaboration between the government and academic sectors, particularly on key and sensitive agendas in the region, for instance maritime transportation, irregular migration, and East Asian community development. Each year, NEAT submits strategic ideas and policy recommendations to the APT Summit.
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One of the many things I love about Los Angeles is the creativity and support of the arts. As we all know there is traffic and a lot of driving blah blah blah, but I really dont mind it. Not only do I know the lyrics to a lot of songs, but there are surprises popping up everywhere weather it be a new bar or restaurant or 2,500 colorful balls floating in MacArthur Park.
What was once a family destination with paddle boats and grass to play MacArthur Park as taken the reputation of being dangerous and full of violence. LA's arts non- profit Portraits of Hope built a little surprise to remind LA of the once beautiful MacArthur Park and it's importance to the city.
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