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Einar rolled 4d6 for his Rep plus 1d6 for Hrafnkel being a skald; and the local authorities rolled 5d6 for their leader Rep, a knight, plus 1d6 for being Einar's party foreigners. They both rolled the same number of successes and therefore there was no conflict and they could keep travelling.
May 896. At the next month they reach the inside country of Altengard and visit a town where there is again an encounter with the local authorities asking them their reasons to be there. This time, although they have a salvo conduct (+1d6 in the talk the talk chart), the NPC scores one more success than them but grant them pass for a price or if they lend them a man to help to give some military instruction to some peasants. Einar gives them Thord on the condition to meet him next month at the capital.
I decided not to roll for Rep, Hardiness and Social Standing advancements as they didn't have any fight. Nonetheless, as Einar seemed to do it quite well when talking repeatedly to the authorities I thought about a new skill: diplomacy, which it would give +1d6 in the talk the talk chart. Einar rolled twice for the two past talk the talk encounters but as he didn't score any six he didn't get that new skill.
June 896. Summer starts with our heroes finally entering in Altengard, the capital of the empire. There they are quickly confronted with a hostile group with unknown intentions. As they weren't the local authorities, Einar's pass wasn't very useful. Nonetheless, in the talk the talk Einar manages to swept off their feet. The hostile group resulted to be one of the most powerful groups from the city underworld; and they promise to help Einar every time he finds himself in trouble.
July 896. Einar party waits for Thord. In the meantime Hrafnkel takes the opportunity to make two more potions of strengh four.
August 896, somewhere in the country of Altengard. The party is heading south with the intention to take a ship to cross the Sea of Strife to Treyine. On the way they see a small and peaceful village called Bogenhoff or something like that; so peaceful that awakes Einar's Viking instincts, and decides to raid and plunder it.
The villagers are alert enough, possibly due to the small garrison stationed there, and will roll for initiative normally.
For fifth time I rolled for a possible encounter. The ER inside the country is 2 and I score 1 & 2, encounter! Then I roll 3 which means they are locals. The terrain is Woody and the encounter is a raid in a village as attacker, as I rolled an 8 in the Adventurers encounter table. Checking How Many Enemies I got the same CV than my party, and I generate one knight Rep 5 who becomes Big Bad with Hardiness 3, 2 skirmishers, 2 arquebusiers and 5 infantry for a total CV of 11 in the Altengard army list. After deploying all the terrain and rolling to see which enemies were inside the houses and which outside, I choose to deploy my forces at the bottom of the board, inside the woods.
Before the battle just reminding you that I'm playing in a 60x60 cm. board with 10mm miniatures and that I halve all distances in the game. And don't forget to click on the pics for a bigger view.
Defenders activate first but do not do anything as they cannot see a thing. Actually they do not anything at all until Einar's party finishes to cross the forest. Once they reach the border of the forest they spotted a mounted knight. Snorry and Hrafnkel release both arrows but miss as they were running.
The knight randomly charges at Thord, who somehow manages to resist the charge.
The knight in melee rolls 5d6 for his Rep plus 1d6 for bigger base, plus 1d6 for pole arm in first contact (lance) and plus 1d6 for being protected vs. weapon, 8d6 in total! Thus here I decided to apply some house rules to balance such a powerful and cheap unit: Charging cavalry against enemy in difficult terrain such as wood, behave as infantry in the Charge Table. Also, infantry defending in difficult terrain from cavalry charge, has a +1d6 in melee.
The knight charges against the wood
Now Hrafnkel fires at the enemy infantry standing next to the temple and misses, making the enemy to advance towards him. Then Snorri fires at him and finally kills him (OD).
Einar and Fafnir charges the knight who is engaged in melee with Thord. Einars charges but Fafnir halts and the knight parry all Einar's strikes.
Now the knight attacks again Thord and finishes him (OOF).
In the next turn Einar's party doesn't activate and the knight, seeing the enemy holed up in cover (they didn't dare to go out in the open), fatally decides to dismount.
Hrafnkel fires with his long bow at the knight at point blank, piercing his plate armour and stunning him to the ground. Einar quickly takes advantage of the situation and caps the knight before he has time to rise from the ground.
The knight resulted OOF from Hrafnkel shot, but rolled 3 dice for his Hardiness (I'm using Hardiness like Star Power) and scored 1, 4 & 6, losing one Hardiness or Star Power point but softening down the wound from OOF to Stun as there are no Knocked down in WHAA. After that, Einar charged the knight who fought with just 1d6 and couldn't survive the melee.
After killing the knight and the infantry soldier and seeing no one else in the surroundings, Einar and Fafnir advances towards the temple with the intention to explore it. Snorri and Hrafnkel take positions behind them with their bows ready.
Rushing to the temple
Einar and Fafnir enter into the temple and find an arquebusier. They charge him but he fires at Einar who miraculously reaches him unscathed, and slaughters him with a mighty strike of his sword (OD).
"Who is it!?"
In the test of wills Einar charged the arquebusier who could fire first but missed the shot.
The two skirmishers deployed at the far top right of the village, spotted Einar and Fafnir entering into the temple and run towards them. After that, Snorri and Hrafnkel take position and fire at each of them and killing them on the spot (both OOF).
The skirmishers were caught in the open and with armour AC2, the poor bastards didn't stand any chance to survive.
Following the same strategy, Einar and Fafnir enter into the next building while Snorri and Hrafnkel flank them with their bows ready. In the next building Einar and Fafnir found two infantry and one arquebusier. Both sides stare at each other.
The defenders size the initiative and the arquebusier fires at Fafnir and misses, while one infantry stands, the other charges Einar who holds him.
Now it is Einar's turn who kill the infantry man (OOF) while Fafnir struggles with the arquebusier. Then Snorri and Hrafnkel come in help, finishing the arquebusier and the other infantry man.
The last two defenders are found together in the next house and quickly dispatched. Let pillage commence!
They star searching in the temple and then in the rest of the houses but don't find anything. Villagers must have hidden all precious items and regretfully there is nobody left to interrogate about them.
They haven't found anything of value but at least they are alive and kicking and have improved their skills and endurance after so many months of travelling and fighting.
I scored a 4 in the Loot & Boot Table. Then I rolled for Rep, Hardiness and Social Standing advancements for Einar, Fafnir and Hrafnkel. Einar is now Rep 5 Hardiness 3 and Social Standing 6. Fafnir is also Rep 5 and Hardiness 3.
After that I rolled for the recovery of Thord who was OOF by the knight at the beginning of the encounter and scored 5 & 6 which resulted OD. Then I decided to try it with a potion given by the healer, but the healer scored a 5 and the Thord scored 5 & 5, so the potion didn't work and so they let Thord go to Valhalla. The company had lost one member and now its CV is 13.
Finally I rolled to see if there were a pursuit after the raid but I scored a six so there weren't.
This is it for now. Here we leave our heroes travelling south to take a ship to Treyine and then head East towards the lands of the Dwarfs. I hope you have enjoyed this new chapter from the Einar's saga.


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I am a wife, architect of small human lives and creative superstar. I live in the beautiful Northwest with my fabulous husband and two absolutely adorable daughters. When we had little angel number two, I made a big life change - family law paralegal to stay-at-home mom. My handsome husband works extra hard outside the home so that I can work extra hard in it. Being here with our little people has given me the freedom and the motivation to create.
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Now that I am not devoting every free moment to planning our wedding (our beautiful wedding I might add), my brain has a void to fill. A brilliant mind which finds itself with an open space feels threatened and immediately goes into emergency hyperdrive. I have found myself with an endless stream of project ideas and my nights are filled with DIY dreams. When I should be sleeping I am visiting DIY blogs, crochet blogs, sewing blogs, cooking blogs and mom blogs and becoming engrossed in their clever ideas and projects. I find myself searching my home for things that I can fix, remodeling that can be done, walls that should be painted and empty spaces that need to be filled. I see things online or in stores that I like and instead of buying them I find myself saying, "I can make that!"
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In December 2016, artwork was on display by four local artists: Chholing Taha, Yuya Negishi, Aaron Brand, and Jen Chilstrom. In addition to the artwork by these artists, the work of over 20 MN makers was available for holiday gift giving.
The University of Minnesota's Design & Architecture students also unveiled a wild installation of sculpture
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On the morphology of form though material differences
The project in the studio was to create a Catalog of Style. Following 19th century architect Gottfried Semper's theory of Style which he described as practical aesthetics arising from formal motives found in techniques of material crafting, the students created motives in geometry and patterning to create acollection of design pieces where one can trace their style expressed through different materials. Gradually shifting techniques and materials, their style began with the genesis of a formal logic as a 2d Pattern, evolved into a 2.5d materialized pattern of a lightweight Screen, then morphing the surface into a form for a 3d Lampshade, to casting a fabric formwork into a weighted Object, and finally conceptualizing it into a programmatic Structure made from wood.
This show gives just a glimpse of the enormous amount of work these young bright and talented students have produced over the semester. The works are by the undergraduate students in the Bachelor of Design in Architecture program in the School of Architecture, College of Design at University of Minnesota
Amanda Benke
Quintin Dalbec
Lafayette Doty
Zach Geissler
Aaron Grafing
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Samantha Kowalke
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Thursday, May 26, 2011.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health).
Blocking a hormone involved in the body's stress response may change the way
people remember negative memories, according to a new study.
it's still unclear exactly how the drug involved works, and if the finding
has implications for the treatment of people with conditions like
post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
drug, metyrapone, blocks the stress hormone cortisol and has been used to
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cortisol is also involved in storing and retrieving memories, leading
researchers to wonder if tinkering with its levels in the body could change
how people recall past events.
know that (cortisol) is important for memory," Marie-France Marin, the
study's lead author from the University of Montreal, told Reuters Health.
"Very high levels are bad for your memory, and very low levels are bad for
your memory," she explained.
their research, Marin and her colleagues went for the very low levels, using
metyrapone to stop healthy volunteers from producing cortisol.
volunteers, 33 young men, were first shown a narrated slide show that had
both "neutral" and "emotionally negative" slides.
The slides told the story of a young girl who goes to her grandparents'
house. There, she and her grandparents try to build a birdhouse, and the
girl gets badly injured, with scenes showing lots of blood and a trip to the
operating room. In the end, viewers know that the girl will be okay.
days after watching the video, researchers gave the men either a single
750-milligram dose of metyrapone, a double dose, or a drug-free placebo
pill. Then they asked them to recall as much information as possible from
the story.
Another four days after that, they brought the participants in once more,
and without giving them any drugs asked them to recall the story again.
was no difference in how men who had taken a single dose of metyrapone and
those given a placebo remembered the story either time.
But on
both occasions, those given a double dose remembered significantly less of
the negative emotional components of the story.
example, men in the placebo group scored between 40 and 50 percent on their
second memory test for negative emotional information in the story, compared
to about 30 percent in the group given a double metyrapone dose.
fact that the effects of metyrapone were still evident for four days after
-- that's pretty remarkable," Tony Buchanan, who studies stress and memory
at Saint Louis University and was not involved in the study, told Reuters
metyrapone groups still recalled the "neutral" information as well as the
placebo group.
investigators who determined how much participants remembered didn't know
whether they had taken metyrapone or the placebo, the authors note in the
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
Marin and her colleagues believe that once participants were asked to
retrieve the memory of the story, those taking the high dose of metyrapone
re-stored that memory in a different, less-emotional way -- probably because
cortisol levels were lower at that time.
Though they predicted that people would remember the story differently while
under the effects of the drug, they didn't know the memory would still be
changed once hormone levels returned to normal.
"What was really surprising is that once the memory was sorted in the brain
we were able to modify it in a long-lasting manner," Marin said.
Researchers still aren't sure why metyrapone might affect how negative
memories, but not neutral ones, are recalled and re-stored, Marin said.
The ultimate goal from this and other studies that have tried to use drugs
to alter negative memories is to treat people who are overwhelmed by these
memories, such as war veterans suffering from PTSD -- an idea that still
makes some uncomfortable.
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, about 3.5 percent of
U.S. adults suffer from PTSD -- but that rate climbs to up to 20 percent in
estimates of veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
PTSD is generally treated with psychotherapy, including cognitive behavioral
therapy, and some people are also prescribed anti-depressants. Marin said a
drug like metyrapone could one day prove helpful for people who don't get
better with therapy alone.
But it's not clear yet that a drug that helps people without PTSD remember
fewer ugly details in a story will also work for those who experienced the
trauma first-hand and have been profoundly affected by that trauma.
"We need to see if autobiographical memories are sensitive (to metyrapone)
in the same way or not," Marin said.
What's more, "only a small fraction of people exposed to traumatic events
experience PTSD," Buchanan said. It's hard to tell if any of those 33
volunteers might have had certain characteristics that would predispose them
to PTSD or not, he said.
In people with that predisposition, he said, "you'd imagine there's
something different about their brains before the trial," which could affect
how they recall negative memories.
Researchers also can't be sure that women would have the same reaction to
the drug as men, since only men were used in the study.
Metyrapone, sold under the name Metopirone in the U.S., is currently not on
the market, the authors note, so it's important also to study other drugs
that may have the same effect.
More research is needed before metyrapone, or similar drugs that block
cortisol, can be tested in PTSD patients. But according to Buchanan, the new
study "is a great step in that direction."
http://bit.ly/jQim60 Journal of Clinical Endocrinology &
Metabolism, online May 18, 2011.


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November 25, 2013 Big Sale
I am announcing my big sale today.
If you go to my Etsy shop and put GRATITUDE in as the coupon code, you will get 20% off until Dec. 29.
You will find wonderful things there for your friends, sisters, mom, aunts and nieces. And mentors.
Shop in your pajamas!
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August 12, 2013 Rivendell
This is my entry for this month's Challenge by the Polymer Clay Artists Guild of Etsy.
Our theme this month is "based on a book or story". I chose to portray the waterfalls in the Elves homeworld in Middle Earth, Rivendell.
I made the pendant from one of my signature translucent Stroppel canes, this time in watery blue. Each chain is attached to the back of the pendant with a tiny armature and then passes through a tunnel to the front.
I had a lot of fun making this pendant. It is a hoot to wear.
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July 23, 2013 Featured Artist on Fire Mountain Gems!
I just received an email from my favorite jewelry supply vendor, Fire Mountain Gems, that my profile is live in the Jewelry Artist Success Stories section of their website.
Here's the link: http://www.firemountaingems.com/jewelryartists/jewelryartists_bio.asp?docid=DELANEYS
The pendant that you see above was made from the trimmings from creating my Cherry Blossom necklace. The pendant is composed primarily of translucent polymer clay made into a Stroppel Cane.
Both the Cherry Blossom necklace and the pendant above are available on my Etsy shop LadyFlowersbySusan. http://www.ladyflowersbysusan.etsy.com. It comes with matching earrings.
I also learned that the pendants I donated to Fire Mountain Gems to sell to raise money for Breast Cancer Research will go live on the website October 1. Every bit of the money they receive from the sales will go to Breast Cancer Research.
Watch this space.
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May 21, 2013 Sweet Words
Intrepid readers will remember this pendant from a previous post.
I made it from the trimmings of the Cherry Blossom necklace that was featured on Craft Gossip last week. I used a technique called the Stroppel cane, a wonderful technique invented by Alice Stroppel to recycle beautiful clay. Most people lay their beautiful scraps on sheets of black clay, but since my scraps were all translucent clay, I used a very thin layer of "18K Gold" Premo clay for my base.
I posted this to the Stroppel Cane Group on Flickr. This morning Alice Stroppel stopped by and said this: "Wow, I've never seen a Stroppel cane like this. It is really special, so light and pretty". Then she favorited it!
Blushing and smiling.
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Powers to facilitate innovation: annual report 2010
This is the 2010 report on use of the Powers to Facilitate Innovation order, as required under section 2 of the Education Act.
The purpose of the Power to Innovate (PtI) is to facilitate the implementation of projects that may contribute to the raising of educational standards, by allowing the Secretary of State to make an order exempting an applicant from a specific requirement of education law for a period of up to 3 years.
Since its inception, the existence of the PtI has encouraged schools to consider any barriers to raising standards for their pupils in particular circumstances, and to explore innovative options that may not have previously been considered.


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Step by Step Guide to Settling an Estate
A strong team of trusted advisors, including a probate attorney and CPA, will be invaluable to help as you begin the process of settling the estate of a loved one. A recent article in The Montgomery Advertiser, "Checklist for settling an estate," notes that the process is likely to take about a year.
Here's an idea of what happens at critical intervals of the process. This list can be a key estate-planning tool because how you handle the estate, financial, and funeral arrangements can significantly reduce the stress on family members. This list is helpful for survivors as well as for those who are preparing for their future. Work through this list and discuss it with your personal representative or trustee while you're in good health. If you make changes, let your personal representative or trustee know.#EstatePlanningTeam
Collect key documents. A personal representative must locate, identify, and organize a deceased person's financial records, tax returns, and other important documents to see what he or she owned or controlled. Having all that summarized in one place is a huge help. After a loved one passes away, you should contact their estate planning attorney, CPA, and financial advisors.
Pick up the phone. The personal representative should inform key contacts that the person has died. This should include the Social Security Administration, if the deceased was receiving benefits; the Veterans Administration, if he or she was a qualified veteran for burial benefits; his or her employer; insurance companies; banks and credit unions; the mortgage company; and credit card companies for possible death benefits. Creditors will probably request a copy of the death certificate, so be sure to have enough copies.
File the will for probate. If you have the will, the personal representative named in the will should be notified. In Florida, the custodian of the will is supposed to file it within 10 days of being notified that the person has passed away. A decision needs to be made about filing the will for probate. Probate the will if there's property in the name of the decedent that needs to be transferred. Anything in joint names with a surviving spouse or surviving children doesn't pass under the will.
Get a probate attorney. The personal representative can elect to work with an experienced probate attorney, which is a good idea. If there's no will and no trust, the property owned by the deceased will pass to the "intestate" heirs, which is determined by state law. In that scenario, one or more of those heirs will need to file a petition for administration in order to sell or transfer the decedent's property. Daniel T. Fleischer specializes in probate throughout the state of Florida.
Pay bills. The personal representative should make sure that the deceased's bills and other debts continue to be paid, but there are exceptions to this that should be discussed with you probate attorney.
Pay the taxes. Ask a qualified probate attorney for advice. The personal representative should be certain there's a final income tax return filed on behalf of the deceased, and may need to file income tax returns and an estate tax return.
Distribute the assets. Work with the probate attorney to distribute assets. Once all of the assets are distributed, then the estate can be truly closed by your probate attorney.
Don't be surprised if after the estate is closed, a few pieces of mail or unexpected bills arrive. Speak with your probate attorney, who will be able to guide you in resolving these final last bits of the estate.
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HEREFORD, DEAF SMITH COUNTY - Amarillo College (AC) officials have broken ground on the construction of the new Amarillo College Hereford Campus. The construction on the Everett & Mabel McDougal Hinkson Memorial Campus will include a 30,000-sf building that will sit on ten acres of land donated by Hereford Economic Development Corp. The building will be located at 1115 W. 15th St.
The college plans to expand some of its programs in Hereford, particularly in technical fields such as welding and renewable energy. AC also purchased an adjacent ten acres of land for $200,000 to provide room for future expansion.
Initial funding for the project came in the form of a surprise phone call for AC President Paul Matney. William C. Hanshaw of Scottsdale, Ariz. called Matney last fall and offered $3 million to help build a campus that will be named in honor of his late wife from Hereford.
The college will contribute $2 million to help build the campus. The campus is expected to open for the spring 2014 semester.
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Health Net, a provider of health insurance to about 6 million people across the United States, has come under fire for reporting the loss of nine server drives at its data center in Rancho Cordova, Calif., nearly two months after it occurred.
More than 2 million Health Net members, employees and health care providers may have been affected by the data breach, including about 845,000 California policyholders, according to The San Francisco Chronicle. California regulators are investigating the breach, the newspaper reports.
The insurer found out about the security lapse on Jan. 21, when IBM, which manages the company's IT infrastructure, informed Health Net that it was unable to locate server drives, according to a recording on Health Net's data breach hotline (855-434-8081).
The health benefits provider began its investigation at that time and learned that the nine drives included personal information for former and current Health Net members, employees and health care providers. The company didn't report the breach to the public until March 14.
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Health Net spokesman Brad Kieffer declined eWEEK's request for additional information on the breach but said, "We continue investigating unaccounted for server drives, and out of an abundance of caution we are notifying our members."
IBM issued the following statement to eWEEK: "IBM continues to assist Health Net with its investigation of unaccounted-for server drives."
"Given the size and type of data lost, this is a serious breach, and those affected should have been notified and protected immediately when IBM notified Health Net of the loss," Rob Enderle, principal analyst for the Enderle Group, wrote in an e-mail to eWEEK.
"While the delay was likely due to the belief that these drives were either misplaced or reused and not logged and the hope they would turn up on a maintenance rotation, the exposure to those that may have been compromised is excessive, and for an insurance company not to immediately mitigate this exposure-unforgivable," Enderle said.
Information included names, addresses, health information, Social Security numbers and/or financial information, Health Net reports. The health provider has begun notifying affected individuals of the security breach.
Health Net is offering two years of free identity protection through the Debix Identity Protection Network, including fraud resolution, identity theft insurance and restoration of credit files.
The Health Net breach could be the most serious health care data breach since 2008, when incidents affected 2.2 million people at the University of Utah and 2.1 million people at the University of Miami, according to the San Francisco Chronicle report.
In May 2009, Health Net suffered another security breach in which a portable disk drive holding the medical and financial data on 1.5 million members disappeared from its Connecticut headquarters.
Data breach penalties for Health Net could be severe, according to Enderle.
"This has issues that range from reporting requirements under Sarbanes-Oxley to reporting requirements for the SEC of a material financial exposure resulting from the potential liability," Enderle said. "Given the exposure created I would expect the penalties would be, and they should be, severe as a result."


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Dear Elephant When this highly unusual baby elephant was born, he was rejected by the flock. He had strange bumps on his back, which many elephant years later turned out to be amazing wings. Magic wings that offered weightlessness and freedom. All of a sudden, the elephant was offered a place in the flock again, but he chose to stay with his new family. At the circus.
This gorgeous Elephant print by Mrs Mighettto is a limited edition, when it's sold out, it is sold out forever.
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|Just forget you know what this looks like
According to reports on Long Island, voters rejected a referendum to borrow $400 million to build a new arena for the New York Islanders and build a minor baseball stadium. The future of the Islanders is now in the air, as this was probably the last ploy by owner Charles Wang to keep the team on Long Island. The team's lease in the rustic Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum runs out in 2015.
This means Kansas City's chances of getting a hockey team in the short-term remain on life support. The Islanders uncertainty stems further than just the need for a new arena and lack of support in their current location, but also the New York area's ability to support three NHL franchises. Of course, KC is a long shot, but another NHL franchise may be mobile unless Wang sells the team or he starts building an arena brick by brick in a field somewhere.
In the meantime, KC's focus should not be fully on landing an NHL team. As KC hockey blogger pucKChaser says, grow the game in the area through a grassroots movement and youth involvement. Quit closing local rinks, because that's just silly.


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The only kind of relationship I have been satisfied with lately was between me and a good cup of latte.
I had sort of a gf for a little while. She wasn't technically allowed to date so we didn't rly call each other bf/gf. Good to have some practice in the field tho.
Was she not 16 yet for something lol
At least it turned out good I guess you don't sound sad
Yea she and I are both below 16 lol.
Obviously I'm not happy she broke up with me but I'm not rly upset about it. The only things that rly bother me are some regrets. There were some things I should've done for her and I didn't. Then again the guy I would've tried to beat up is almost twice my size... lol
Those are the best ones to fight though, because you can use their weight against them while easily outmaneuvering them. Unless it's Thanos. Run away from Thanos, no girl is worth that.
I dont think you've been in a fight
Meh. Depends on the girl. : P
This man understands.
Me or the other guy? : P
Obviously you, my man.
There is a lady I am interested in.
But she lives far away. I only knew her through college.
I still talk to her occasionally.
Should I ask her out next semester?
If you guys are feasibly able to go out on dates next semester, I say go for it! At the very least you'll get more relationship experience even you guys have to go separate ways in life. Who knows, maybe you'll at least get a good friend from it?
She already is a very good friend.
Definitely go for it then!
@Chronicler oof sounds similar to my incident
So, I'm 90% sure that the girl I like has a boyfriend now.
I mean yeah, I'm a little jealous, but as long as she's happy with him and he's good to her, I'll be content.
I mean yeah, he cheated on his last girlfriend more times than you can count on one hand she should have dumped him after the first time, but that's a whole different beast, but I just hope he's changed.
And oh I'd hate to be him if he hasn't.
Ugh I hate cheating situations.
Boy, you need to be ready to slide in. As I say, a cheater is a cheater. When, not if he cheats, you should be ready.Also, do 100 push-ups a day. Girls love broad shoulders. Trust me, it's been working very well so far for me.
I mean, I thought the obvious threat at the end kinda showed that I was...
But it seems it might have been me being paranoid, and I'm pretty sure the 10% happened.
I mean yeah, now it's getting to me about something else that'd have about the same effect, if not get rid of my chances entirely, but eh, oh well
Now that it's summer I'm back in looking for a gf mode but the girl I want to ask out isn't even allowed to text boys as of two years ago (that's probably done now but you can never be too sure. She's only in ninth grade. I mean I am too but whatever)


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When it comes to the colouring in bit for my illustrations I often use predominantly digital techniques. For ages I've wanted to revert to using more traditional media such as paint, ink etc, or at least have this play a bigger part in the image, but I'm sort of out of practice, so i'm setting myself a weekly task which will hopefully help me brush up (no pun intended) my inking abilities.
This little project will also be a regular blog
a week i'll create a 5 x 5ins 'bust style' original illustration, of a
different animal character and post the result here. My even start taking requests if I can keep this up for long enough.
here is the first of many (I hope) complete with his own bio:
Name: Gerald
Age: 14
Favourite colour: Red
Favourite food: Red Mangrove leaves
Favourite quote: The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have. Woody Allen
Once I get into the swing of things a bit more I'll start a weekly giveaway of the mug shot original or print.
Welcome to the my blog. My name is Lucy Farfort i'm a freelance illustrator & designer maker. This is where you can find out what i've been up to of late, read my attempts at a decent post & the rantings of a visual addict. Hope you like it. You can contact me to say 'hi' by email on firstname.lastname@example.com
If you would like to take a look at my work (& i would very much like you to) please visit my site: lucyshappyplace.com
If you would like to take a look at my work (& i would very much like you to) please visit my site: lucyshappyplace.com
Tuesday, 28 January 2014
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Possibly in that same spirit, the following is a list of the 12 books you may find in close proximity to my bedside table, waiting for me to read. I leave it to you, gentle reader, to discern how truthful I am being:
- From the Inside Out: Letters to Young Men and Other Writings; Poetry and Prose from Prison. New York: Student Press Initiative, 2009.
- False Mermaid by Erin Hart. New York: Scribner, 2010.
- Little Bee by Chris Cleave. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008.
- The Linden and the Oak by Mark Wansa. Toronto: World Academy of Rusyn Culture, 2009.
- Sneeze on Sunday by Andre Norton and Grace Allen Hogarth. New York: Tor, 1992.
- Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. New York: HarperCollins, 2010.
- The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes. New York: Pantheon Books, 2008.
- The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope, Kindle edition. [Seattle:] Public Domain Books, Amazon Digital Services, 2006. On my iPod Touch.
- The Publishing Game: Bestseller in 30 Days by Fern Reiss. Boston: Peanut Butter and Jelly Press, 2003.
- Design-it-yourself Clothes: Patternmaking Simplified by Cal Patch. New York: Potter Craft, 2009.
- The Choir by Joanna Trollope. New York: Random House, 1988.
- The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers. Orlando, Austin, and New York: Harvest Book/Harcourt, 1962, 1934.
Mind you, all this is coming from someone whose first widely published work was a letter to Ann Landers printed in the fall of 1976, the first words of which were (I recite from memory): "This letter might make you think that the Yale boys are at it again, but I swear that every word is absolutely true." Which it was not. (At the time, Yale undergraduates were a known source of agony-aunt fiction.) To quote the immortal Mary McCarthy, every word was a lie, including "and" and "the." But I can't tell you how thrilling it was to see my tale of the bawdy parakeet there in the pages of the Minneapolis Tribune, and know that it was being read all over the country.
An April spring has come to Minnesota. Enjoy!


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Pursuant to the provisions of 30 U.S.C. 188(d) and (e), and 43 CFR 3108.2-3(a) and (b)(1), a petition for reinstatement of oil and gas lease WYW111766 for lands in Converse County, Wyoming, was timely filed and was accompanied by all the required rentals accruing from the date of termination.
The lessee has agreed to the amended lease terms for rentals and royalties at rates of $5.00 per acre, or fraction thereof, per year and 162/3 percent, respectively.
The lessee has paid the required $500 administrative fee and $125 to reimburse the Department for the cost of this Federal Register notice. The lessee has met all the requirements for reinstatement of the lease as set out in section 31 (d) and (e) of the Mineral Lands Leasing Act of 1920 (30 U.S.C. 188), and the Bureau of Land Management is proposing to reinstate lease WYW111766 effective January 1, 2000, subject to the original terms and conditions of the lease and the increased rental and royalty rates cited above.Start Signature
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Federal Court Bars Texas Man and His Corporations from Pyramiding Employment Taxes
Texas Businessman and His Companies Alleged to Have Cost the Government More than $1 Million per Quarter in Lost Tax Revenue
DALLAS – A federal court Tuesday issued a memorandum opinion and a preliminary injunction against Arthur Piner Grider, III; Asgard Avionics Corp. of Florida; and 14 other corporate defendants who operate as employee leasing companies, from violating the Internal Revenue Code, the Justice Department announced today. Court papers allege that the defendants cumulatively owe more than $100 million in unpaid payroll and unemployment taxes. Under the injunction, the defendants must timely deposit employment taxes with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), timely file all federal tax forms, and timely pay their federal tax liabilities.
The defendants are a enjoined from paying other creditors or themselves before paying their current federal employment tax liabilities. In addition, they must provide tax deposit information to a IRS revenue officer as set forth in the injunction. The order also requires that the defendants notify the IRS in writing if they begin operating any new business. The injunction is effective immediately.
The government's complaint alleges that Grider and his entities have a long history of pyramiding employment taxes and details the magnitude of the amounts owed – $76 million for the entities and $25 million for Grider. The complaint further alleges that defendants' non-compliance with employment tax laws has continued through the first quarter of 2010.


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This is Dale's second victory and ninth top-10 finish in 2014. It's also his first multiple-win season since 2004, when he had six victories. Dale, congratulations. Why don't you talk a little bit about how the race unfolded for you today.
DALE EARNHARDT JR.: We had a real good car in practice yesterday, felt pretty comfortable. Throughout the race we had a pretty fast car. We were mired in fifth or sixth place for the most part of the day, but I knew that our speed was good, and it just really come down to who was going to be leading on that last restart. That guy was going to be the guy that was going to be hard to beat. It's real hard to pass here, and I knew that dirty air was going to be a big challenge for anybody, so if you can get that clean air like Brad did, he was going to be hard — that was what was going to win the race.
You know, I tried as hard as I could on those restarts to do anything that I thought could give me a shot to get by him, but he was very strong entering the corner especially, so it was hard for me to do anything on restarts. He would get clear pretty easily.
But with about eight laps to go, Steve said he was complaining about his temperatures. He had a lot of stuff on his grille, and I thought for sure he wasn't going to do anything like he did in Turn 1. I thought he'd just go ahead and motor on and just hopefully the engine made it.
But we got down into Turn 1, we went up the race track to chase that lap car and try to get that stuff off his grille. I don't know what his temperatures were, but they must have been very, very hot for Brad to do that. I knew right then when he did that, he was so slow, I thought we were going to pass him, we're going to take the lead, we're going to have four laps to go, and if I just run tidy corners, he would have trouble. He would have trouble with the dirty air and wouldn't be able to get to us.
I probably ran — I probably under-drove the car a little bit there at the end, but I just wanted to make sure I didn't make any mistakes because if he did get to us, it was going to be challenging because I think he had a little better car there at that particular point. I just had to keep him in dirty air and keep him back there, and he wasn't going to get within a couple car lengths I don't think.
Q. This is your first multi-win season since 2004 and your first non-plate victory since 2012. How difficult has it been to get back to being competitive on the weekends for races?
DALE EARNHARDT JR.: It's elusive, man. For any team it's hard to get that competitive to where you can win races, and we see teams really kind of — we see teams that get that strong and they'll maintain that like Jimmie and Chad when they get together and they sort of — Chad is really good at putting the right people in the right places to keep that team competitive and give Jimmie a lot of chances to win races. Our group has been working together for quite some years now, and each year we saw a progression in performance and we've seen ourselves get better each year. So this makes sense to me, what I'm seeing us do and how I see us run makes a lot of sense to me, and it was the logical next result in my opinion for this team as we've gotten better and better throughout each year.
We've been fast every week. We kind of started that around the middle of last year, toward the end of last year. I think we have not peaked as a team performance-wise, but we're certainly at our highest ceiling. We're doing some of our best work certainly right now. We should — we have a lot of passion and there's a lot of emotion, considering this is Steve's last year, and I think that also adds some drive and determination to the team to do as well as we can.
So that can be dangerous, I think, for everybody else if we win to get better. We're still not the best team. We can always improve, and there's areas where we can improve. The 4 car is so fast, and he's been — if they really get the luck thing figured out and just sort of start putting races together, they're going to be tough, and there's other teams out there that are really competitive. But we're doing some great work, and I feel like what we do is really dependable. I think our team is very dependable and mistake free, so hopefully we can maintain that.
Q. You completed a milestone today. You're the fourth Hendrick driver in a row here to win at Pocono. I didn't see Mr. Hendrick here today. What does it mean to you to be that fourth driver?
DALE EARNHARDT JR.: I don't know. You know, I just wanted to win at Pocono. I've never won here and I've came so close, and we've had so many opportunities slip away. We've been so close. It feels good to finally get to victory lane here. I really enjoy racing here, and I used to come here as a kid because it was a summer race. Just always wanted to win at this place, so it feels so good to finally do that. I told Rick this morning, he texted me and said he wasn't going to make it, he'd see me in Michigan, I said, well, I'll drink one for you after it's over with, so we were able to hold up our end of the deal. Hopefully he makes it to Michigan and we can try to get a win there.
We've had some good cars here, so it just feels good to finish the deal.
Q. You mentioned about the team a few minutes ago. Do you think that the 88 is the new 48?
DALE EARNHARDT JR.: Easy now. (Laughter.)
They just come off of two straight wins, and everybody was about to crown him the champion. You know, two weeks before they were wondering what the hell was wrong with him, and then two weeks later he's the best thing on the block. We just got to keep everything in perspective. Jimmie is an awesome teammate. We're successful because of their success and vice versa. I think we really work well together.
They're the 48 and we're the 88, and I don't want to be the new 48. I want to be the new 88. We'll definitely try to continue to work hard and try to win some more races and try to leave our own mark and not a mark similar to anyone else.
Q. And what do you think about winning back-to-backs since your record is so good at Michigan?
DALE EARNHARDT JR.: That would be awesome. I haven't done that since the Nationwide days back in '98 or '99. We won a couple there back to back, I think. That's a really good feeling. Puts you right on top of the world. A win gives you a lot of confidence, but you know and realize how difficult those are to come by and how competitive this garage is, but man, when you win two in a row, man, that sets you apart a bit from your competition. That would be a great thing for us.
Q. One of the things you said after the win was that you were having the best time of your life right now, and you thought that a lot of your crew would say the same thing. There has to be more that goes into that than just winning twice. What is it? What are some of the things that make you say something like that?
DALE EARNHARDT JR.: When I go to the garage or when I go to the shop and visit with them and talk to them, my car chief, Jason Burdette, brings his son over to my property to run around our little go-kart track, and Steve and I have a great relationship off the race track. I let his son into our clan, in Clash of Clans a couple months ago. That's been a thrill for Tyler.
But we had to clean up the language a little bit, but he's having fun.
We do a lot of normal things together, and there's a real appreciation for each other individually as people. There's a great — we're real fortunate because there's not a guy in that group that's hard to be around. We're all easy going, and everybody really gets along. We set aside our flaws and really enjoy the relationship and working together, and we've done that for a couple years now. But now that we're having success, it makes it a lot more fun. But the fact that we can get along when things weren't the best, I mean, that team had just — Jeff and that team split up and we all knew what kind of talent he is, and so the way they wrapped their arm around me and put me under their wing and made me feel comfortable and made me confident and made me feel worthy of the opportunity to work with them was great. They've been just genuine, genuine people, Burdette and Kevin Meander and all the guys are just so genuine. They're real. Their feelings and relationships are real.
I'm enjoying that. I said it out there in victory lane. Winning races is great, but it's nothing unless you enjoy who you're doing it with, and when you can do something great and it's with people you enjoy being around, man, it really adds to it, so this is why it's so special right now.
Q. Dale, I do want to ask you, what's the difference in getting multiple wins this year? You guys have run well, had streaks where you've run well over the last couple seasons, but you couldn't get multiple wins. What's different or is anything different and why this year do you have two or the potential for more wins when you were running really well at times and couldn't get those?
DALE EARNHARDT JR.: Yeah, I think it's the difference between running fourth at the end of this race and running second. It's a very small thing, but in years past when it was someone else seizing that opportunity from Brad and we were running third or fourth watching it happen, whereas we've improved our game a little bit and we're getting a little faster and the company has gotten better. The company is really moving along great right now.
And Steve has a great strategy for races like this. I don't know how he has the vision and understanding of where he wants to be 200 laps ahead or whatever. It just amazes me that he can see how he wants it to play out and he just picks and chooses his pit stops and what fuel mileage he wants to create for the car, and here we are running second at the end of the race, if I can get a good restart and maybe get by Brad we win.
I mean, he just delivered that to me wrapped with a bow. The rest of our competition was mired — the guys that had been running up front all day, the 14, all those guys were mired in traffic where we weren't. That's Steve. That's all Steve. That's a big part of why — I think he just gets better and better and more confident in himself and his choices, but the cars are improving all the time, and like I said, two years ago or a year ago we were running third or fourth in this particular situation and someone else gets the luck of the draw and wins the race, whereas today we're good enough not to be leading and dominating but there when something strikes the leader, and I understand and keep it in perspective that Brad had the race won had he not had trouble.
But a year or two ago, we weren't running second to seize that opportunity, and now we are.
Q. You just said when you couldn't get by Brad on that last restart, had you resigned yourself that I'm going to finish second today, and what was the reaction or the mindset once you hear over the radio from Steve that, hey, he's having a problem with his temperatures, go after him?
DALE EARNHARDT JR.: I kept telling myself under the caution laps just to drive — I kept telling myself under the pace laps that we weren't beaten, that if we did something right and worked hard on the restart, maybe he slips, maybe he makes a mistake, and we get by him. I just kept on trying to be positive and work hard on the restarts and be diligent and try to hope for the best instead of mentally forfeiting the race.
I think the confidence that I have in the team and how hard they work and how well we're doing gives me a bit of a more fighting spirit in that situation than I've had in the past. And even when we were sitting there running, I had nothing to lose by continuing to try to put pressure on him. He was moving, driving away and putting some distance on me, but I was working our car as hard as I could to try to stay within distance of him if he had to stumble on fuel or something because they were maybe a little close on fuel. I didn't know how close, but I knew he had to save quite a bit to make it to the end.
I just could not believe that he was going to do that when I saw him go up the racetrack behind the 10. I thought, I cannot believe he's going to do this. This is going to cost him a huge amount of momentum and we're going to go right by him, and I just was like, man, his temp just had to have been super hot for him to make that choice. That had to have been the toughest choice for him. I felt really bad for Brad to be honest in that particular instance to see him in such a situation that he had to be that desperate, but the temps must have been incredibly high for him to do that, otherwise he's the kind of guy that would have just put his foot in it and tried to make the motor last, but apparently it was just more than he could ask for the engine to do.
At the same time I felt bad, I knew we were trying to seize an opportunity to win and knew once we got in front of him that we were going to be in good shape. I had a little temperature in my engine, had a little debris on the grille but my temps weren't going up that fast but I knew we were in no trouble. If anything the debris might help the car on downforce.
Q. Following up on that, you and Brad are good friends and he was in here pretty dejected, beating himself up. The motor didn't blow, the debris never came off. Can you put yourself in his shoes and empathize with him?
DALE EARNHARDT JR.: You know, we are good friends, and you hate to see a guy have to lose a race in a manner like that, but I'm excited that we won. I know that he would have definitely rather lost it to me than a few other guys out there that he's not best of buddies with, and we're competitive — as we race year after year, we become more competitors than we are friends, and that's just the natural cycle of it.
But I still felt bad for him, and definitely he had it won. We weren't going to get to him. He was in good shape, and that had to have been a very challenging decision to make. Like I said, that temperature must have been really high because knowing Brad, any other — if it was 270 or 280 he keeps his foot in it and just races it on out. And now, hindsight is a little different, knowing the grille — the debris didn't come off the grille and he made it to the end, that can be hard on him and he can beat himself up. He's young enough, good enough, he's going to have plenty of opportunities to get his wins and enjoy more success in this sport. He'll get over this one over time, but yeah, it's got to be pretty difficult, I'm sure.
Q. With two wins locking you now into the Chase, does that change your approach for the rest of the season?
DALE EARNHARDT JR.: Oh, yeah, we started out the season when we won at Daytona, man, it made the rest of the year a lot more relaxing, a lot easier, less stress and it makes it fun, because you can just go to the race track and just race and not worry about points. We went to — we used to — last year and every damned year we would test at those road courses, Road Atlanta and here and there and work ourselves to death trying to figure out how to go faster at a road course, knowing damned good and well I wasn't going to run well because I don't know how to drive them. But I can run okay at the Glen every once in a while, but Sonoma, it's embarrassing, man, I haven't finished in the top 11 there ever. We just decided not to work that hard and just go there without a test and wing it, and we got teammates to test it and we'll see what they did and liked and we can go there with an attitude of it's not — we don't have to dig and gouge for every single position and we don't have to worry if it's a total disaster or if it doesn't work out, if we get spun out on the last lap. We can just go have fun. Driving around the track and running that particular race, it is fun, but at the end when you get run over or you don't finish well, you're so pissed off, and it's such a long way home. It's a terrible trip home when you don't run good at Sonoma. We don't have to worry about that now. We can go to Michigan confident, happy, and a track where we really run well at and we can have fun this summer knowing those two wins have got us good and locked in pretty good.
It definitely made a difference in Daytona, now having two wins is going to make it even easier, a lot less stress, a lot less stress on the team, and I think that could be a good thing going into the Chase. I mean, not only are we able to relax right now, but what does that do for — that's got to be positive for our composure and psyche going into the Chase, not having to stress all the way through into Richmond, you know?
Q. You've been selective on social media. Are you going to have time to interact with your fans on Twitter and can you give us a preview of what that first tweet might look like?
DALE EARNHARDT JR.: I took a picture of myself over at the pylon and I'll tweet that out later once I get to my phone. I really enjoyed that. I joined in February at Daytona, and I underestimated just how enjoyable that could be. That interaction is unlike any other, and I get as much out of it, I think, as the fans that are following me. I've enjoyed it a lot, and wins like this certainly make it a whole lot more fun for everybody, especially when things are going good.
But it's been a positive thing for me, it really has. It definitely has some sort of a small effect on your personality a little bit, to have that kind of support directly right at your fingertips, knowing everybody is behind you 100 percent every day. Just to send out a tweet in the morning, like hey, man, I'm ready to race, these are my thoughts, and everybody goes, hell yeah, go have a good day. That's the kind of stuff you want to hear. You want people behind you and pushing you and motivating you. It does a lot of positive things for me.
Q. You're talking about Junior Nation and how they lift you up. To the detractors, you have now your 21st win in Cup. What do you say to those who say Dale Jr. is overrated?
DALE EARNHARDT JR.: I don't worry about that as much anymore. I'm turning 40 this year, and the overrated talk is way behind me. That used to bother me when I was younger, but when you get old you don't really care anymore about those kind of things. You just kind of go along and do your job and enjoy what you're doing, and I've got to really maximize what's left of my career and have as much fun with it as I can, try to enjoy it as much as I can. I took it for granted, and don't take anything for granted anymore when it comes to being at the racetrack and working with my team and how hard it is to get good and get competitive and how hard it is to get the right people in the right place.
I feel like I'm such a lucky guy to have this second opportunity almost to be competitive again, and so I don't really worry about the detractors. I really enjoy — I have a lot more fun actually kind of reading that stuff on Twitter than I do a typical normal joke. Some of the stuff the haters say is the funniest stuff. It's really funny.
So I kind of get off on that. But I don't feel like I've got anything to prove. I've been given another opportunity working with Steve and these last five years or so have been a blessing, and I feel like I've made a good account of myself, and I think we've got more we can do.
Q. What do they say?
DALE EARNHARDT JR.: I mean, it's not memorable, but —
Q. No?
DALE EARNHARDT JR.: No. I guess if I remembered it, it bothered me. I don't know, just there's — the real short ones, like "you suck." Those are the best ones.
Q. Do you ever tweet back to them?
DALE EARNHARDT JR.: No, I just favorite them and block them. It's so much fun.
Q. I was wondering, how bittersweet is it to be on a roll and it be the last year with Steve with the team doing so well?
DALE EARNHARDT JR.: Yeah, it's a really emotional thing. You know, he's just — primarily, man, I'm real happy for him to be able to do this thing. You know, racing is an important thing, an important part of our lives, but it's not the most important thing, and he's going to be able to go do this job. He's going to be financially set, he's going to be able to spend a ton of time with his kids, play as much golf as he wants to play. He's getting a steal compared to what he's doing right now. So I'm happy for him in that sense.
And also at the same time I remember when I talked to him in Homestead after the race, he said, I've got to tell you what I'm doing, and I broke down. I mean, it was the hardest thing to have to hear, but at the same time, I thought, well, we've got one year together, and as much fun as we have and as much — as good a friends as we are, I feel lucky to have one more year. Hey, man, he told me at this particular point, I was one of the first people to know, that meant a lot to me, and he's letting me understand that we've got one more year together, let's have some fun, and then I'm going to do this thing. I'm going to do it, and be happy for me. So I am. I'm thrilled for him, and I'm glad we're winning. I'm glad — it would be very disappointing and sad if this was his last year and we struggled. But we've won two races, and I won my first Pocono race, he won his first Daytona 500. It seems a bit storybook, and we're having a real thrill. We'll continue to be such great friends after working together this year. I still have him as a big part of my life, and I think that'll continue to positively affect me in whoever I work with in the future. I mean, you want to be around people that do that, so I'll work hard to continue to maintain a great relationship with him because he has such a positive effect on me, and I still think even though we aren't working together next year throughout the rest of my career together, he can still have that effect on me and still do things for me that help me on Sunday even though he's not there.
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The area where I live is surrounded by farm land. You can see the lush vineyards driving along the perimeter of the area. There are fruit stands, cows, horses, fresh-chicken-eggs-for-sale signs all around. To be able to escape, even momentarily, from the fast-paced urban lifestyle and come home to a pastoral surroundings of growing fruits, vegetables, and livestock to me is the simple life I've always wanted. It allows an opportunity for my daughters to be close to nature by spending more time outdoors.
It's nice to be able to cook meals with our homegrown vegetables and fresh home raised chicken eggs. Whenever we have so many eggs, I like to boil them, peel the shells off and cook them with ribs in caramelized sauce.
Caramelized pork ribs is one of many classic dishes of Vietnamese home-cooking at its best. The ribs are set to slow cook until the sauce is reduced to a viscous, flavor-packed glaze over the succulent meat. The wonderful aroma of caramelized shallot, garlic, fish sauce, and ribs while simmering on the stove making you yearn for the meal to come quickly.
RECIPE: Sườn Heo Ram Trứng
2.5-3 pounds pork spare ribs or baby back ribs,
ask the butcher to cut crosswise through the bone into
long strips 1-1/2 to 2 inches wide
6-8 hard boiled eggs
about 2-3 tablespoons olive oil
1/4 cup fish sauce
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup Coco Rico soda or coconut water, optional
3 large shallots, thinly sliced
1 whole garlic, finely minced
1 teaspoon cracked black pepper
3-4 red chili peppers, optional
3-4 red chili peppers, optional
In this recipe, I use baby back ribs, but you could also use pork short rib or riblets, or even pork shoulder.
Par-boiling ribs: fill a pot with water and bring to a boil. Add ribs to boiling water. The water should be enough to just cover top of ribs. Blanch ribs until water is boiling again to remove any impurities. Remove ribs from boiling water. Rinse and drain. You may skip this process if you know your meat is fresh. Most of the time, I don't parboil the meat unless I use it to make stock.
Cut ribs into bite sized pieces.
Caramelized Ribs and Eggs
Place a large skillet over medium heat. Add oil, sugar, garlic, and shallot over the oil. Cook until garlic and shallot start to turn brown.
Add the ribs, stirring occasionally, for a couple minutes. Add fish sauce, Coco Rico or coconut water if used, fresh cracked black pepper, and red chili peppers, if used. Mix it well then add eggs. Reduce the heat to low, cover the skillet with a lid, let simmer to reduce the juice for about 25-30 minutes, stirring occasionally.
|meat without par-boiling
Caramelized pork ribs and eggs are almost done when the juice has been absorbed, and what left is the fat oil from ribs. Let it cook for another couple minutes until the ribs are browned and eggs are coated with a beautiful amber color and the rib bones become soft enough that you can even chew on it.
Serve this delicious caramelized pork ribs and eggs with jasmine steamed rice and a side dish of fresh cold crispy cucumber slices on a hot day or a warm steamed vegetable dish on a chill day.


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Prescribed burning program launched
Safety measures put in place in response to the Margaret River bushfire will be tested as the Western Australian Government launches its first prescribed burning program since the blaze.
The Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) plans to conduct 71 controlled burns across the south-west.
Environment Minister Bill Marmion says new rules mean each burn must be assessed and approved by a special bushfire management office.
"It always has been a pretty rigorous process but we've got an enhanced process as a result of the Keelty report," he said.
"I'm confident the processes we have in place will make sure all the prescribed burns are undertaken with due diligence and all the correct controls in place.
"Someone on the ground makes the call that yes, the conditions are right for us to do this burn and that goes up for approval, it used to go to head office in the DEC, now we have the OBRM [the Office of Bushfire Risk Management] that are making that call."
The program began yesterday with burns near Collie and Dwellingup.
Topics: fires, emergency-planning, states-and-territories, collie-6225, albany-6330, bunbury-6230, denmark-6333, katanning-6317


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The first all-black teams
were probably formed in the North after the American Civil War ended in 1865. But in 1867,
when the all-black Philadelphia Pythians baseball club applied for admission to the
National Association of Base Ball Players, an organization that preceded the major
leagues, the clubs application was unanimously rejected. The committees
decision barred any club which may be composed of one or more colored persons.
Often, black athletes were denied admission to clubs as they were denied a chance to earn
a bachelor's degree or access to higher education.
During the late 1800s black teams toured the United States,
taking the field against one another and in exhibition games against amateur and
professional white clubs. These traveling teams were referred to as
"barnstorming" teams.
Their transportation was by trains, bus or by private auto.
Shabby overnight lodging was common in cities with limited accommodations for blacks. In
Dayton the Westside YMCA, rooming houses and private homes opened their doors to these
traveling black baseball players when they visited Dayton to play local teams. These
private homes and rooms may not have been the luxury rooms available at an all inclusive
resort but they were certainly appreciated. These teams would be sponsors by local
merchants but the teams operated independently, without an organized league.
By the mid-1910s in Dayton, a black baseball team called
the Dayton Marcos was playing both black and white baseball teams
throughout the city and the Midwest. This was the only black team in the Ohio-Indiana
League before 1920. There are short, scattered accounts, such as "Cuban Stars Play
Marcos" in The Dayton Forum, but no records exist of their game-by-game play.
The Marcos played their home games at various city parks;
Westwood Field on Western Street (now James H. McGee Boulevard), Burkham Field on Broadway
Street and later at North Side Field near Leo Street and Troy Pike.
One team member, Bill Sloan, was credited with helping to
save 317 people during the Dayton flood of 1913.
In the late 1910s a movement to establish a league of black
ball clubs was led by Rube Foster, a star pitcher who became manager and then owner of the
Chicago American Giants. Foster believed that an organized league was needed to stabilize
team rosters (players jumped from team to team at that time), increase team revenues,
schedule games, and arrange a championship at the end of the season.
1920 Dayton Marcos
The Marcos opened their Negro National
League home season on Saturday, June 12, 1920 against the Chicago Giants at Westwood
Field. As many as 2,000 fans turned out for some of the games at Westwood Field during
this season. Top black baseball stars came to Dayton to play against the Marcos. Jimmie
Rader scored the game in which Satchel Paige pitched against the Marcos at Westwood Field.
In the 1930's John Shroyer, who had a team in the
Ohio-Indiana League, told Marcos player Bill Earley that the New York Yankees wanted a
player. Earley turned down the offer, saying that he wanted to be himself and nobody else.
Earley later explained that he would have had to "pass" in order to join the
Yankees, but that he had to be what he was raised up to be and feel free to walk down the
street, looking people straight in the eye.
The Marcos survived in Dayton until World War II.
In 2000, when professional baseball returned to Dayton,
Curtis "Bingo" Lloyd, threw out the first pitch at the Dayton Dragons opening
game. Bingo Lloyd had barnstormed with the Dayton Marcos in the 1930s. He also had the
distinction of getting a hit off Satchel Paige and of calling off "Cool Papa"
Bell from a fly ball during a tryout with the Kansas City Monarchs.
Sources: Margaret Peters and Jack Carlson.
"The History of African-Americans in Organized Baseball", by Don Hunt, Dan
Holmes, and Kirk Robinson, http://www.thebaseballpage.com/features/1999/negro_lg/negro_lg.htm.
Sports in Dayton, Ritter Collett, Landfall Press, Dayton, Ohio, 1996.
Microsoft® Encarta® Encyclopedia 2003. © 1993-2002.
Bernstein, Mark. "In Search of the Well-Known Colored Ball Player," Ohio
Magazine, April 1988, pages 69+
Katz, Marc. "Dayton's major league team," Dayton Daily News, April 6, 1997
Katz, Marc. "More Than 50,000 Echo in His Books," Dayton Daily News, August 23,
Copyright 2005
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Taiwan's southwestern city of Chiayi is very famous for its cuisine, and the "turkey on rice" dish in particular. For the tourist who happens to be visiting Chiayi and wants to sample Chiayi's famous food, there's no better way to do it than to pay a trip to the night markets. And the most famous night market in the city is the Wenhua Road Night Market!
Located along the city's Wenhua Road in the West District, the Wenhua Rd. Night Market is a sprawling night market that offers not only Chiayi foods, but the usual assortment of clothing, toys, household items, and much more!
Opening and closing times of the vendors located at the market vary, but in general food and clothing vendors at the Wenhua Rd. Night Market can be found throughout all hours of the day and night.
- https://www.travelking.com.tw/eng/tourguide/scenery104832.html (Post from Travelking.com.tw about the Chiayi Wenhua Road Night Market.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenhua_Road_Night_Market (The Wenhua Rd. Night Market at Wikipedia.)
(Wenhua Road Night Market image copyright: Malcolm Koo. Used courtesy of Wikimedia Commons per CC Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license.)


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The contrasts are many on this trip and the arrival to the island of Malta surprises us. The arrival at its port is surely one of the most impressive in the world.
The Maltese cross is the symbol associated to the Order of Malta Knights (Knights Hospitaller). The eight-pointed cross is in the form of four "Vs" joining each other at its apex, leaving the two ends expand symmetrically. Its "design" is based on crosses used since the First Crusade.
When in the mid-sixteenth century the knights were in Malta, the "design" now known as the "Maltese Cross" was associated with the island. The Maltese cross was minted in two thousand coins in old Maltese currency. Currently Maltese cross is printed since 2008 on the back of the coins of one and two euros.
The impressive bastions of Valletta and the gardens of Upper Tent are a must to visit, such as the interior of St. John's Co-Cathedral, where you can admire a masterpiece of Caravaggio and visit the inside of the Magistral Palace with its tapestries superb and their cabins.
In the narrow streets of Malta's capital are a number of shops and craftsmen performing works in silver that we can hardly resist as there are true works of art desirable prices.
Passing through typical Maltese village in Cirkewwa can take the public ferry to Gozo, Malta's sister island. The trip takes about thirty minutes and is fully justified. Arriving at the port of Mgarr and continuing towards the Ggantija Temples in Xaghra, have a happy encounter with these monuments of pre-historic culture.


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Hooray, it's Monday Funday… said no one ever! It's Monday, booo, but in better news, the hubs is back home in 2 days, woo hoo for that! JD had to work over the weekend so I took some time to make mini printouts of our favorite quotes and scriptures.
I'm not sure how I am going to frame or arrange these yet but I knew I wanted them in our house as a reminder of the times in our relationship where they stood out. Each quote is very true in meaning for us, and important and special for its own specific reasons. One of these is even engraved on the inside of JD's wedding ring!
I thought I'd put them on the blog in case anyone liked them and wanted to save them for their own project, who wouldn't want a little love in their life!? I know I adore every one of these quotes and I hope you do too, have a lovely week everyone!


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Monday, January 7, 2013
Hello 2013
That's the great thing about a new year, it can be a new slate, a new start, a new outlook on life.
At the end of 2012 my Grandpa Arnall died. He just never fully recovered from the head on collision he was in last year. He would have been 90 in March.
I'm know I learned many life lessons from him but two really stand out.
1. That laughter, silliness, and a sense of humor are essential to living a happy life.
2. Always surround yourself with family.
The last time we visited Grandpa was the Monday before he died. He was weakening due to some heart issues and several cardiac "episodes". He was asleep in the recliner when we got there but quickly woke up when he heard us all talking. His face literally lit up when he saw us all there.
Grandpa loved playing with Drew and Jackson and they always loved visiting Grandpa because he was so goofy and playful. I was expecting this visit to be different due to his declining health. It wasn't at all.
At some point Jackson and Grandpa started playing a game where Jackson would sneak past Grandpa's chair and Grandpa would jump out at him. Grandpa was so wrapped up in playing that Stacey and I had to keep him from jumping out and falling on the floor. Seriously. We had to hold out our arms to create a wall that he couldn't slip past. He didn't care. In that moment he didn't care a bit about his health or the pain he was in or hurting himself. That moment summed up his life. He only cared about making someone laugh and being with his family.
So, in memory of my Grandpa, that's what I'm going to devote 2013 to. Laughing, making the ones that I love happy, and family. If I focus on that, it could be the best year yet.
5 comments:
I'm so sorry for your loss. What a gift he gave you though.
- dawn said...
I'm so sorry for your loss Allison and family. He sounds like a great grandpa who loved life and shared it with others. LOVE LOVE these sweet pictures. You should write this story down with these photos for the boys to have one day.
Wishing you a much happier year in 2013 and filled with lots of laughs, hugs and FAMILY TIME!!
Thanks for sharing this with us, made me smile thinking of you two holding him back from falling. I can picture it. So glad you got this last memory of all of you together. HUGS AND LOVE!!
- wteagon said...
Those are wonderful lessons to have learned from him and his life. I'm sorry for your loss and hope that you have a year of love and laughter with your family.
- goldyfish said...
That was so your grandpa and what made him such a special person to be around. He loved his family so dearly and I have such fond memories of him. Thanks for sharing. Love you cousin.
I couldn't agree more with this post, and everything you said about Grandpa Arnall. Just perfect. And those pictures will forever be some of my favorites.


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