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Woman, 37, found topless and critical after she was burned, stabbed and beaten in her own home in Limerick
Simone Lee was found with multiple stab wounds and "burns to her face, neck, and torso" at her home in Limerick City
A WOMAN is in a critical condition after she was found semi-naked and suffering hypothermia after allegedly being burned, stabbed and beaten in her own home.
Simone Lee, 37, was found with multiple stab wounds and "burns to her face, neck, and torso" at her home in Limerick City, Republic of Ireland.
Cops are investigating whether acid or hot water may have been used in the attack which occurred at 12.40am yesterday.
Ms Lee was reportedly found lying on the floor naked from the waist up in a "semi-conscious and massively hyperthermic" condition.
A 28-year-old man, who was known to the victim, was arrested a short time later and has been detained by cops.
A source told the Irish Sun that Ms Lee suffered a "sustained and brutal" assault during which she "received a puncture wound to her back".
Another added: "Gardai who entered the property were greeted with a nightmarish scene. The poor woman was very lucky they arrived when they did as her condition was very serious."
PARAMEDIC SEX ATTACKFemale paramedic sexually assaulted by patient aged SEVENTY FIVE in her ambulance
SAVAGE BEATINGMan, 65, hospitalised for TWO months after suffering horrific facial injures in brutal attack
THE 'TOXIC' TWINSEx-lover of woman 'murdered by her twin sister when she drove them off a cliff' gives chilling insight into the siblings' intense relationship
TRICK OR BEATShocking moment thug smashes nightclub reveller over the head with a bowl in Halloween bar brawl
Another described a "lot of blood" at the scene and said Ms Lee had suffered "some of the worst injuries ever seen".
An ambulance was called to the scene and Ms Lee was taken to University Hospital Limerick.
She is believed to have undergone emergency surgery and was in a critical condition last night.
Forensic experts will examine the scene of the attack today.
Shards of glass were visible on the street outside the flat and an upstairs window was also smashed.
It's understood neighbours contacted police after hearing her cries for help.
The horror attack comes just days after a report by Women's Aid revealed 209 females have been killed in Ireland by men between 1996 and 2016.
The report also revealed 87 per cent of women killed in this country over the past 20 years were killed by a male partner or a man known to them.


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Traveler's dilemma: to live forever but to not know who he was. Yet, he was obligated for holding another race's enslavement of all humanity in check--battle by battle--for millennia untold. With the help of a legion of comrades, lovers, and friends this immortal had vowed to fight against stupendous odds, even in the face of eventual defeat for as long as it would take. Have you ever daydreamed about the civilization of Atlantis? Have you ever wondered about the forces behind cattle mutilation? Do you believe in psychic powers or in gnomes, elves, or aliens? If these things are part of your dreams, nightmares, or fascinations, Soul Traveler is the fast-paced adventure for you.
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I started writing and illustrating my own story books as a child, but lost the desire one day when an uncle told me to, "Write about what you know. If you don't no nothin' then get out and learn somethin'!" I spent the next three decades traveling, seeing, and experiencing all that I could before I ever wrote a word again. My novels are the result. I'm a philosophical acrobat just settling into writing after a lifetime of travel and experience. I was a Physics major in college, a globe-hopping Avionics specialist-arms repairman-and accountant in a long Army association, a onetime rent-a-cop, and a Bank computer nerd for the last 9 years. If life is a banquet, I think I overate
"Author Laurance Pearsongreer must be the Soul Traveler because it seems impossible for someone to have written such an exhilarating but extremely complex science fiction tale as this one. The enjoyable elaborate story line needs two or three days to read, but is worth the time investment. The Traveler is as complicated a character an audience will find. Though some profanity occurs that fits the characters, following the puzzling thoughts and actions of the hero will lead readers to an intriguing look at the complicated, enigmatic, and perhaps even convoluted world of Mr. Pearsongreer where trips to Atlantis and Cleveland are the norm."Harriet Klausner -- The Best Reviews
"The entity known only as Traveler makes discoveries about the past and about himself. Join the cast of characters in their heroic adventure: exploring the ancient city of Atlantis, meeting an ancient race which has hidden themselves from humanity for thousands of years, and learning ... perhaps ... the meaning of life. Soul Traveler is not "light" reading; it is a complex book packed with ideas and possibilities which will cause the reader to think. Instead of reading it quickly, I'd recommend taking some time with it--enjoy it slowly. Allow yourself to pause and absorb the incredible storyline from time to time. Bouncing between multiple time periods, traveling the globe, Mr. Pearsongreer's story is one of technology, fantasy, morality, and theology. For a daring trip through time, space, and humanity, I'm happy to recommend Soul Traveler."Sally G. Laturi -- Ivy Quill Reviews
Chapter 1 -- Shannon: A Prologue
AT 4:00 P.M., THE SKY over Cleveland is overcast and colored sweatshirt gray. It is the day after Christmas, this year.
He, who has yet to acquire a name, sits in a filthy windowsill. The sash is sealed with an ancient sheet of plastic, meant to repel the icy fingers of the Lake Erie wind. Still, the relentless wind steals entry to his rented room.
From the single window the room owns, the view is of a snow-trimmed curving freeway. The freeway tarmac twists and turns upon itself, like a serpent's tongue, it gleams blackly with God's own tears turned to sleet in the winter chill. Candy-colored cars slide up and down its length on the way out to Suburbia. Those cars are fleeing the freezing rain as frantically as garden beetles avoiding a summer downpour.
The sky no longer offers light to his tiny room. The roaches venture out for dinner at the dusty, impotent, roach motel that leans in the corner by the door. As darkness engulfs this lakefront city, he is forced to move a pitifully thin arm towards a lamp. The lightbulb is a dull 40 watts. The lampshade, a patina-browned piece of cellophane, was adorned with representations of the Flintstones at a Bedrock beach party, but now the images are somewhat faded. There is a spasm in his extended long brown fingertips -- and light erupts into the darkness of the flop house room.
By an act of sheer will, energy flows to his ancient limbs; ageless muscle and sinew respond and his body rises to stand. He falls forward into a shuffle towards the door. The darkness has come and so he must go.
The Halogen street lamps make a harsh intrusion through the soothing darkness of his sunglasses. One city block back, he pilfered the wrap-around sunglasses at an all night drugstore. The glasses are an amenity required by his atrophied optical nerves, nerves that have not tasted even the kiss of genteel starlight -- in tens of centuries.
Do not think him a pitiful soul who was locked away from the light of the life-giving stars, it is only this particular ancient carcass that has lain unexposed for these many centuries. This ancient body has been held, unnaturally, outside the normal ebb and flow -- the eternal cycles of sun and stars and galaxies -- for this body has been held outside time, itself. This particular human hulk was acquired in a remote period of forgotten earth history; back thousands of years in the flow of time, in times about which modern man remembers little.
In order to answer the 'How,' of his sharing an alien body, we are required to take a walk along the banks of the 'Stream of Time.'
Time, for mortal beings, has always been like a whiff of a passing odor, like a barely perceived aroma. It was like an aroma swiftly held to the nose of perception, then spirited away.
Time is not always so.
For those in torment, time can be like a filthy stench that overwhelms human perception with its suffocating fumes, choking hope from the spirit through its moment by moment plodding dissipation. To the time-locked mortal, it can be like an endless penance for the sin of being born.
For he that is immortal, time is mutable, time is optional, it is even reversible!
Traveler is the only designation with which he chooses to identify himself. Traveler is his only noun or pronoun. It is what he is. It is what he does. To Traveler, there is no I or me, there is only...Traveler.
Traveler is like the chameleon. He may assume any fa\\a231ade or guise in the context of his time trips. He may assume a human body and its attendant identity, temporarily -- as cultural camouflage -- but in his eternal mind, he is still Traveler!
He, is a being of form without substance. He is a being of pulsating energies. He has to but will it and he can slip his own consciousness in or out of a will-less being's body. Another act of such will and he can slip from the bonds of time and space. However, such acts require an expenditure of tremendous energy, energy that he must draw from the atomic conversion of the very flesh he wears.
Traveler's conversion of his host body's mass into energy will exhaust every erg, every bit of energy that binds the body's molecules to each other. As a result, defying the laws of space and time is not without its costs. The body he assumes at the start of this Time-Slip will be little more than steaming water vapor and ash at its terminus -- and thus, at the terminus of Time-Slip, the immediate acquisition of a new host body is crucial. It is preferable the host be, mercifully, on the verge of death -- about to give up the ghost. An unoccupied vessel can be acquired more easily.
Traveler had found, from past experience, his intellect would degrade without the shelter of a corpus. Every minute of unprotected exposure to the random energies and radiations of the physical world, served only to inject static incoherencies into the cloud of electrical patterns that was his intellect. Traveler is intelligent, coherent, energy. Therefore with time, any outside energies could destroy first his mind and, eventually, his life force.
On this particular day, Traveler found himself plodding along in a carcass that would be better used for heating fuel than for walking. How he acquired this body is at the moment, unimportant. He needed this form to accomplish a task. The task was one of great importance. So much so, that it had caused him to cross the barriers of time and space.
The street before him was a landscape of gray snow covering damaged, or even missing, sections of sidewalk. Walking on the unpredictable surface was drudgery for this old body, but he continued anyway. He didn't know where he was or to where he was headed. He relied on an instinct as precise and finely tuned as any Geiger Counter used to find radiation. That instinct was leading him to someone he had never seen before, in a city he didn't know. But, nothing would deter him from searching block by block and street by street, until he found that certain someone.
"Hey, old dude! Where you goin'? You out here in this cold-ass weather 'cause you lookin' to maybe score som'tin?" said a skinny youth in baggy pants.
"Aw naw, man! Maybe, he's just lookin' for a Grocery," added another youth who had appeared out of nowhere, "Hey, Pops! You lookin' for the Quickie-Mart?"
Traveler ignored them. He had no interest in their inconsequential remarks.
"Hey, fucker! You better answer me, or I'll kick the shit out of yo' old ass! You holdin'? You out here looking to buy some food? Maybe, you out to score some shit, huh?" asked the first youth.
The young man had moved in closer to Traveler's field of vision. Now he could see the fellow was brown skinned, perhaps Latino, as they are called these days.
"Naw, man! This old shit ain't got no money...he's piss poor!" the other replied. This boy seemed to be a mix of races both dark and light. "But, maybe we can get somethin' for that big ass coat he's wearin'! You give up that coat old man and maybe we'll only beat the shit out of you!"
Yet Traveler did not vary his course or his speed, he merely plodded on.
The two surly fellows quickly glanced around them. The snows of Cleveland's winter were slowly beginning to fly again. Lake Effect snow is what it was called. These snows could arrive quickly and heavily, emerging from the chilled winds flowing across Lake Erie from Canada. The city could be blanketed in a cold white silence in no time. No one was likely to observe, or even notice what the two hoodlums planned to do next.
The Latino thug, decided now was the time to make a move. "Do it, man!"
With that remark, both youths grabbed one arm each and dragged the old man quickly into an alleyway. With practiced coordination they picked him up and slammed the waif-like man violently against a wooden alley fence. "Give us what we want fool," yelled the first youth.
"Yeah, give up the fuckin' coat, asshole!" screamed the second. Then he made a fist of a hammy hand. "Ain't talkin,' huh? Guess I'll beat the shit out of ya then!" His huge muscular arm moved in a flash! With a resounding BAM, the fist and the wall collided. "Aie-ee-ee-eek!" A screech of agony filled the air.
But Traveler, was not there.
"Mother-fuck! Where'd he go?"
"Fuck where he went, I think I broke my God-damned hand!" He felt a tap on his shoulder and turned to look.
"Look!" the friend cried, pointing nearly a full city block down at the other end of the alley.
Traveler, hands still inside his pockets, plodded along in his large warm coat. Exiting the snow filled alley he turned the corner, still heading in his same original direction. Unperturbed, Traveler continued his walk, silent, determined, unrelenting.
One hour later, some local thugs showed up at an Emergency Room. They were screaming that an old foreign guy had attacked them. The policeman on duty threatened to arrest them for suspected gang-related violence, but until their little story was checked out, they were entitled to some emergency aid. The boys were street wise. This was the only way the ER would aid a thug with a broken hand. The police would know this, too, so they wouldn't really rush to file a report. Being thugs they were probably lying, anyway.
Traveler, his senses operating at optimal range, scanned the Cleveland streets for a suitable host. His consciousness flicked from this person to that searching for the best possible accommodations for his next lifetime.
Traveler shuffled his arthritic feet across the broken cement. He made as much haste as possible from one side of the lamp-less intersection to the other. Despite the traffic he never trotted. He purposefully stepped with care, to avoid the cement fragments thrusting up through the dirty snow. A slush-pushing snowplow missed his fragile carcass by inches, as it rounded the corner. Fortunately, he just made it to the curb in time. Unsteady as he was, the slushy wake of the plow splashed over him like a great heavy wave, forcing him down to his knees.
Once in this position, Traveler paused to take a long rattling sigh. Then, on a hunch, he took advantage of his interrupted gait. He began to probe the mind of a nearby solitary woman. Her red boots extruded from a shadow-hidden doorway, not five feet from where his knees had come down. Traveler feigned helplessness. This was merely an excuse to delay, while he dived into her memory. He needed to determine her suitability, as a host.
A moment of delay, in her jaundice-eyed perspective, was long enough for Traveler to review a lifetime of abuse: of her; and by her. There was abuse of her innocence, by a drunken father. And abuse of her maternal bond, when Mama cast her out of the family Eden -- so as not to tempt Papa's lust anymore. There was the abuse of her potentials, due to the burden of the child she bore in incest. She was burdened to support that child by peddling her own flesh.
Having been schooled in the abusiveness of others, the girl graduated to self-abuse. Self-prostitution led to no self-esteem. A woman without esteem is easy prey for men who abuse with both the mind and the fist. She sought solace in a crack pipe, after graduating from booze and pills. The drugs abused her youth, making her ancient at twenty-five. Lack of her youth made her aware of her own mortality and also made her desperate for some kind of hope.
Shannon was her street name, she abandoned her given name when her innocence was taken.
She stood in the doorway of the closed 'Blood Plasma Center,' exploring the hole in her gums left by her recently departed tooth. The front tooth gave up the ghost at the insistence of her last client's right fist. That fist pounded her when she made the error of being caught exploring the client's pockets.
Shannon was fully dressed for 'business.' Like so many women of her profession, she dressed so she could readily display her assets to potential clientele -- a tight, white, short, shift of loosely knit wool that buttoned down the front. Red leather boots and woolen leggings topped off her ensemble. She was covered overall by a short, rose-colored parka, trimmed with a pink fake-fur collar without benefit of any undergarments. Most hookers wear a half-bra that lets their breasts be exposed and pushed-up, to create better cleavage. Curiously, Shannon did not. There was something atypical about her.

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Imaginary Boyfriend: Jon Stewart
Jon is my imaginary boyfriend this week for always saying what I think yet struggle to express. I hold him in the highest regards as someone I find intelligent yet able to find humor in most situations. He knows exactly when the situation calls for a joke or a stand on your chair shout.
This week, after the horrific news of the Charleston shooting came out, I think I finally reached my point of exhaustion. To be honest, I feel disheartened. I have this constant lump in my throat. Every day I hear news of humans failing humanity through acts of hate. I don't know if I want to scream or cry or lock myself in my room and never come out. I love this planet and the people in it but I'm so sad that we can't figure this peace thing out. It seems so simple to just treat people respectfully and look at them through the eyes you would use for yourself or a loved one but it must not be that simple because so many people are struggling with it.
How can humans be both beautiful and infuriating? Why can't we stop choosing sides and understand that we're ALL to blame for the state of things. No one religion or race caused our troubles.The hate just seems to be multiplying. We're creating new generations of soldiers destined to kill for whatever cause they've been taught to believe in.
Closing Arguments: Seeing someone with a large platform point out the craziness of the world in a rational way helps. Jon does that for me.


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For the July 2011 TSM I've selected forum member "Gskarr" (Gonzalo).
The excuse I hear most often when people tell me why they can't lose fat and get in shape is, "I just don't have the time!" If you are one of those people then I urge you to give this month's TSM interview with Gonzalo a read. Gonzalo is a father, a husband and a surgeon; his schedule is absolutely crazy! Falling into the same trap that many of us know (or have known) so well, Gonzalo allowed himself to balloon up to almost 250 pounds of mostly fat. The watershed moment came when his son was born in 2009. Despite his extremely hectic schedule, Gonzalo made the time because it was important to him and to his family…. well, just look at him now!
Read the full interview here.
Reminder: I'm always looking for TSM nominations. If you, or someone you know, has made a successful transformation, please contact me and let me know about it!


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A leading Republican senator yesterday condemned as "a bad idea" a reported U.S. plan to keep some suspected terrorists imprisoned for a lifetime even if the government lacks evidence to charge them.
The Pentagon and the CIA have asked the White House to decide on a more permanent approach for those it is unwilling to set free or turn over to U.S. or foreign courts, The Washington Post said in a report yesterday that cited intelligence, defense and diplomatic officials.
Some detentions could potentially last a lifetime, the report said.
Influential senators denounced the idea as probably unconstitutional.
"It's a bad idea. So we ought to get over it and we ought to have a very careful, constitutional look at this," Sen. Richard G. Lugar (R-Ind.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said on "Fox News Sunday."
Sen. Carl M. Levin (Mich.), senior Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, cited earlier U.S. Supreme Court decisions. "There must be some modicum, some semblance of due process . . . if you're going to detain people, whether it's for life or whether it's for years," Levin said, also on Fox.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The State Department declined to comment, and a Pentagon spokeswoman, Lt. Col. Ellen Krenke of the Air Force, had no information on the reported plan.
As part of a solution, the Defense Department, which holds 500 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, plans to ask Congress for $25 million to build a 200-bed prison to hold detainees who are unlikely to ever go through a military tribunal for lack of evidence, defense officials told The Post.
The new prison, dubbed Camp 6, would allow inmates more comfort and freedom than they have now and would be designed for prisoners the government believes have no more intelligence to share.
The Post said the outcome of a review underway would also affect those expected to be captured in the course of future counterterrorism operations.
One proposal would transfer large numbers of Afghan, Saudi and Yemeni detainees from the Guantanamo Bay detention center into new U.S.-built prisons in their home countries, it said.


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*100% myth, people! The average person gains 1-2 pounds according to this article by CNN. But still.
No, no, I am referring to Ugly Christmas Sweater Parties. My absolute favorite. Why, you ask? Because this is legitimately the ONE theme party in existence (that I would actually attend, I mean), where it is 100% normal to where jeans, boots, and a massively over-sized, heinous sweater. Does it get more comfortable than that? I think not.
Having just received an invite to the first UCSP (ok, I abbrev'd) of the season, I've got ugly on the brain, and am obviously feeling the time crunch here. Where, oh where can I turn for inspiration?
Oh - probably pictures from the last five years of ugly sweater parties that I have attended.
Cue inspiration!
First one. Still living in the dorms. Homemade. Magic!
Yes, I had bangs. No, I didn't like them.
Wasn't for a party, sadly. This is what happens on Spring Break in Breckenridge.
Sorry, PG, had too. Aren't we just adorable?? Yikes.
So that is my foundation for this Friday's outfit-planning. Mind you, this is not a complete picture of all of my Holiday-partying. I couldn't dig up a picture of the party my friends and I wore over-sized Christmas gift bags and leggings to, but it was 100% adorable, and I am not above repeating it this year!
Per usual, ideas are appreciated. I suggest that you help me out, or else I might end up wearing this...


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Samstag, 21. Januar 2012
One often overlooked thing you can learn from classic sculpture:
- Paul Gervais de Bédée hat gesagt…
Very original post. Does it work as well fully clothed?
- 21. Januar 2012 um 03:44
- v. Braun. hat gesagt…
I'm not sure, I haven't tried it yet. ;)
- 21. Januar 2012 um 03:46
- Karima hat gesagt…
i could not agree more! the way someone stands and carries themselves is make or break. how often is a woman's beauty ruined by a duck waddle or hunchback. nowadays, the pigeon toe stance seems rather popular with young hip girl bloggers, but who actually finds it attractive?
- 22. Januar 2012 um 01:25
- Grausig Grantiger Gemahl hat gesagt…
Karima: Not me. No man. Theyre good for showing off the cloths, not the girl/woman behind em.
VB. Absolutely hilarious this last picture you 'Fuchs'!!!;-)
About the stance: The Iphoneism really sucks right now. People stop reading books, looking around. They become more alone, gain more distance to one another. Its such a shame how we human beings forget where we come from and get absorbed by effing media.
- 22. Januar 2012 um 06:04
Iphone - what's that? I'm actually one of those hopelessly old-fashioned people who just use their mobile to phone.
By the way, I think I know these two guys - from my dreams, probably. Handsome!
PS: The photos also made me think about Goethe and Schiller and their concept of beauty. You know, like beauty in the sense of grace and charm, something that comes from the inside and is not just about pretty features or a good figure. It's not hard to guess where they got their ideas from.
- 22. Januar 2012 um 13:04
Sorry,slumped on my sofa the entire time reading this. Not spilling my drink prioritized above classical beauty. Down with iFanaticism. Up with books. :-)
- 24. Januar 2012 um 18:30
- v. Braun. hat gesagt…
SAII: That's why I never enjoyed jogging: I always kept spilling my drink while running around like that. Beats me how others manage it...
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Date created: 2012-11-17 Name: R. Burnett
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"Ruud is junk"
New unit installed for about 1 year when evaporator started leaking. Ruud replaced the evaporator coil but I had to pay the labor cost. The Ruud brand is junk, don't buy!
Date created: 2012-11-01 Name: K. Jones
Location: Kingsville, TX
Satisfaction Rating:
"Evaporator coil leak after only 5 years"
Our ruud unit evaporator coil is leaking refrigerant after only 5 years of service. Out of warranty - so sorry - says manufacturer. This stuff is junk in my view. Buy another product. I certainly will. The Unit was sold to me by Aire Serv.
Date created: 2012-10-16 Name: J doe
Location: south, FL
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My unit is 22 years old. I have replaced one contractor, and one condenser fan motor. It has now developed a refrig leak in the evap coil, so I will be changing out the unit, but it has been a good system.
Date created: 2012-09-26 Name: j. prince
Location: op,fl
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"I was a top contractor for Rudd"
Was a Rudd top contractor. I installed a lot of this stuff in the last three years. Evaporator coils are garbage -- problems with motors and reversing valves. Now we have lost customers and been threatened with lawsuits. Rudd will not help with labor on these repairs and when customers call Rudd they blame it on the contractor or something in the air. These units are crap
Date created: 2012-09-19 Name: David Ladurini
Location: Defuniak Springs, Fl 32433
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"Ruud failures"
Put 2 ruud ac units in our new home January 17, 2011. In March 2012 both systems were low on freon. Had them serviced. June both units went out on the same day. The evaporators had major leaks. Ruud did replace the evaporators but would not help on the labor. The labor was over $2000.00 which included dye testing. The repair service told me to expect to replace the evaporators every year... No more ruud or Rheem ac for me.
Date created: 2012-08-19 Name: J Song
Location: Plano, TX
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"Dead two days after new installation"
My new Rudd r410a was installed on Friday, on Sunday noon it is dead, and my contractor seems not working on Sunday, can't reach him. And Rudd no central customer support for air conditioners, very unsatisfied.
Date created: 2012-08-16 Name: Doug
Location: Long Island NY
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Bought my unit less than 2 years ago. Can't find a service person to work on my unit even after going on ruud website. I guess bc they didnt install my unit they wont do my warranty work and my contractor is no longer available. I was able to diagnose the problem myself but ruud wont send me the part or make it available to me even though it is only the fan motor on the air handler (a very simple repair that requires no special skills or tools). It took 4 days for the rep from ruud to reply to my email which is the only way to contact ruud since their website has no phone number. He informed me they dont deal with homeowners and all he could offer me was for me to call the contractors on their website. When I explained to him that no one from their website returned my calls his reply was that was the only assistance he could offer me and hung up the phone. I guess now I am going to have to bring them to court to get my part.
Date created: 2012-07-30 Name: P Jeffries
Location: lafayette La
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Swapped out single hvac unit for a "new 610a" Dual ruud units with heating coil, live in Louisana and wanted cool zone if / when Ac goes out. House is old and the unit have not missed a beat in 3 years. they are both high effiecny top of the line Ruud units, one 4ton, the other 3ton..
Date created: 2012-06-27 Name: Bill B.
Location: Tucson, AZ
Satisfaction Rating:
"Don't buy Ruud"
3 ton 14 seer AC/natural gas furnace installed June 2010. ac went out June 2012. Parts still under warranty but waited 6 days and paid $1333.00 labor costs. I was confident that I had bought top of the line. Now I am only confident that it will go out again. When it does, I will never again buy Ruud. Read the other reviews here. Note that most negative reviews are on newer models and draw your own conclusions.
Date created: 2012-06-27 Name: TonyB
Location: New Orleans,La.
Satisfaction Rating:
"3 years now broken"
I bought the whole package, now 3 years later it's broke. The man coming tomorrow to see whats wrong. The other reviews are bad. I will update my review.
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Franklin offensive lineman Pat Allen, Gilman quarterback Kai Locksley and Calvert Hall defensive back Dionte Austin and wide receiver Lawrence Cager are among 12 Marylanders and 400 overall nominees.
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Confucius Institute at Miami Dade College, USA Hosts a Chinese Architecture and Culture Lecture
On November 23rd, a lecture entitled Chinese Architecture and Culture was hosted by the Confucius Institute at Miami Dade College on the Kendall campus of Dade College. Teachers and students from the Faculty of Architecture at Dade College and people curious about Chinese culture were in attendance at the lecture which was given by Dr.Zhang Wengyun, Chinese Director of the Institute
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Architecture, a combination of technology, art and life, reflects not only the scientific advancement, spirit and aesthetic conceptions of a time, but also serves as a loyal account of people's lifestyles and values of that era. Architecture, therefore, enriches the treasures of culture by virtue of its distinctive cultural deposits. Dr.Zhang commenced his lecture by introducing the Forbidden City of Beijing, lending itself to the most distinctive of ancient Chinese architectural styles. Exquisite pictures and spatial images of oriental style grabbed the audience's attention from the outset. Then, with references to architectural features, including imperial tomb constructions, folk houses, bridges, archetypal structures and decorations, towers and memorial arches, he illustrated ancient Chinese architecture's basic features, development, and styles. Cultural values, including those of integration, balance, permanent variations, moderation, rigid ranks, ideology and nature reflected in ancient Chinese architecture were also considered. Throughout the entire lecture, Dr.Zhang displayed a series of exquisite, vivid pictures of ancient Chinese architecture using multimedia techniques. This allowed for everyone to gain an all-round understanding of ancient Chinese culture in relation to architecture.
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The American teachers and students' yearning for Chinese cultural knowledge was not diminished by the language gap: the majority of them not able to speak Chinese. Instead, they constantly applauded Dr. Zhang's excellently vivid lecture which was delivered in fluent English. In addition, they also extended their gratitude to the Confucius Institute for offering such a precious opportunity to gain an understanding of Chinese architectural culture. They hope that more Chinese cultural lectures of this nature will be held by the Confucius Institute in the future.
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Aviyal has always been a totally veggie dish, and has never taken a turn. But this one has made me love it like anything. This is one dish which i loved whenever amma made it "especially' for me , and the only non- veg aviyal i have ever heard of!!!
5 boiled eggs
4 drumsticks ( cut into 1 1/2 inch length and slitted)
3 - 4 red chillies
1/2 tsp mustard seeds
few curry leaves
1 tbsp coconut oil
salt to taste
to grind :
1 1/2 cup of grated coconut
1 tsp chilly powder
1/4 tsp turmeric powder
1/4 tsp cumin seeds
1-2 pearl onion (opt)
Grind the coconut, chilly powder, turmeric powder, cumin seeds and the pearl onion to a coarse paste adding very little water,(that's is the way we like it at home, if you want you can make it into a fine paste also).
Boil the eggs and cut it into half's vertically.
Heat the pan , pour a small amount of water and add drumsticks leaving it to cook.
Once the drumsticks are done, add the paste and salt, and cook for 5 - 10 mins in a medium heat.
Add the eggs and leave it on a low flame until the curry gets thickened.
Heat oil and add mustard seeds, red chillies and curry leaves, once the mustard starts spluttering add the seasoning to the aviyal.
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Longmont's Best Western Plus Plaza Hotel and Convention Center, a fixture along Ken Pratt Boulevard for more than 35 years, has new ownership.
Virginia-based Shamin Hotels will now own and operate the 210-room hotel along with the more than 30,000-square-foot convention center formerly held by well-known Longmont developer and business owner Susan Pratt.
While Shamin Hotels CEO Neil Amin said hotel visitors will likely not notice major changes immediately, rebranding and renovations could come eventually.
"For the short term at least, we will keep the brand as is," he said. "We want to first get in there and learn about the property and the market before making big changes."
But, Amin said later this year the company is planning "a refresh," a smaller scale facelift that could include fresh paint, carpets, and furniture.
Shamin Hotels operates 51 lodging establishments — most located in the mid-Atlantic region — under the Hilton, Marriott, Intercontinental, Starwood and Hyatt brands. The Best Western will be the company's first property in Colorado.
"We see a lot of growth opportunities (in and around Longmont)," Amin said. "It's a great place to live. Its a great place to visit."
Al Linton, president of the hotel's former ownership group Plaza Hotel Corporation, said Shamin Hotel's interest in the property bodes well for the hospitality industry in Longmont.
"It certainly appears that Longmont is very attractive" to groups such as Shamin Hotels, who "are all about coming in and improving upon what is already here," he said.
In a statement, Shamin Area manager Sunil Patel echoed Linton. He acknowledged the Pratts' contribution to the city's hospitality industry and said Shamin Hotels "look(s) forward to building upon the strong foundation they have created."
Amin said there is no plan for a staffing shakeup at the hotel, nor is the company looking to simply flip the property — which Boulder County records show was purchased for $11.5 million — for a quick profit.
"We've enjoyed getting to know the existing team there and look forward to continue working with them," he said. "We are looking to invest for the long term."
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Banana Bread
6 bananas mashed
2 tsp baking soda
Pour into 2 loaf pans (I like to line it with Parchment paper) Bake for 40 minutes (or until a fork or skewer comes out clean.)
I like to put it in a ziplock bag while it is still warm (not hot) to keep it nice and moist.
Posted by Rach at 3:37 PM 1 comments
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Spinach Recipes
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Wednesday, September 9, 2009
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Sunday, August 16, 2009
What We Do With Our Veggies
Zucchini: We like to saute our zucchini the same as the green beans and mushrooms, olive oil, salt, pepper.
Mushrooms: We also like to saute our mushrooms with a little bit of butter or olive oil, onions and worstershire sauce, SO GOOD. (tastes like the ones that come on top of steak at the restaurant. You can add steak seasoning too.)
Cherries: we pitted them and dipped em in chocolate. Not good for ya, but YUM.
Tomatoes: We like to make salsa. If you want that recipe, let me know. Another mom in my group has and great one.
Bell Peppers:
Steak and Peppers on Rice
1 1/2 lb. steak, cut into strips
2 bell peppers, sliced into strips
2 tomatoes, sliced
1 bunch green onions, chopped
2 T butter
1 clove garlic (or 1/2 t garlic powder)
1 C beef boullion
2 T corn starch
2 T soy sauce
4 C rice
Melt butter, saute garlic, Brown steak, add bell peppers, and green onions, and saute till just wilted. Add boullion and tomatoes, cook 5 minutes. Add cornstarch (mixed previously with a little water). Simmer until sauce has thickened. Serve on top of white or brown rice.
Stuffed Bell Peppers
2 large bell peppers, halved
(dash of salt optional)
3/4 lb. ground beef, pork, lamb, sausage, or turkey (whatever you like)
1/3 C chopped onion
1-7.5 oz. can tomatoes cut up (just cut up tomatoes from your veggie box!)
1/2 C water
1/3 C long grain rice, UNCOOKED
1 T worstershire sauce
1/2 t dried oregano (or basil)
1/2 C shredded american cheese, separated in to two 1/4 C amounts.
Halve the peppers, remove the stems, ends, and seeds. Immerse in boiling water for 3 minutes. Sprinke with salt, if you want, and invert on paper towel to drain.
In a large skillet cook meat nd onion til meat is brown and onions are tender. Drain off fat. Stir in undrained tomatoes (if you are using fresh you may have to cook them for a few minutes to get the right consistency), water, UNCOOKED rice, worstershire sauce, and dried oregano or basil, 1/4 t salt, 1/4 t pepper. Bring to boiling, and reduce heat. Simmer, covered, for about 15 minutes or till rice is tender. Stir in 1/4 C cheese.
Fill peppers with meat mixture. Place in a square baking dish along with any remaining meat mixture. Bake at 375 degrees for 15 minutes or until heated through. Sprinke with remaining 1/4 C cheese. Let stand for about 2 minutes or until cheese is melted. Makes 4 servings.
I'm pretty sure (though I haven't tried it yet) that you could add just about any other veggies to the meat mixture (mushrooms, zucchini, etc) and it would turn out yummy. My hubby really likes this one.
Posted by Kristen at 11:25 PM 0 comments
Saturday, August 8, 2009
sometimes i open up my fridge just to look at all the beautiful green bell peppers, the juicy red tomatoes, and the savory varieties of fruit. it makes me happy.
Posted by echo at 10:57 PM 3 comments
Friday, July 3, 2009
Veggie Ideas
Hey Guys what did you do with your Fruits & Veggies this week?
I need some recipe ideas
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Freezing Food
Did you know that you can freeze red peppers? I didn't, but I was
hoping. I {HEART} red peppers, however I'm the only one in my house
who does and there's no way I can eat all those peppers in one week.
So, if you want to freeze some, too, here's a website to help:
Freezing zucchini:
Freezing asparagus (I needed this last time as I already had some
asparagus in my fridge):
But my greatest find was that you can cook corn on the cob right in
the husk! Seriously and it was SOOOO much easier to get all those
nasty strings off after it was cooked. No really, they just feel
right off. And the best part is that its done in the microwave in
like 5 minutes. Though I do have to warn you that if my corn was any
indication, Foodland chops the tops off the corn before selling it for
a reason - a little wormy reason. So you might was to chop the tops
before you cook - it shouldn't make a difference. I plan to do that
next go round.
Cook fresh corn on the cob in microwave with husks and silk intact.
They will cook in their own natural moisture.
Place on paper towel. Turn ears over and rearrange after 1/2 cooking
Cooking Timetable:
1 ear - 1 1/2 minutes
2 ears - 3 to 4 minutes
3 ears - 5 to 6 minutes
4 ears - 7 to 8 minutes
6 ears - 8 to 9 minutes.
When ears are hot to the touch, remove and wrap in kitchen towel or
foil. Let stand at least 5 minutes. Remove husks and silk (which is
easier than when cold) and serve.
OK, that's it for now. I would love to hear what you guys are doing
with all your fruits and/or veggies.
Lisa P.
Posted by Rach at 11:23 PM 1 comments
Fruits & Veggies Galore
Our fruits & veggies are magnificent, we are excited to be in summer & enjoying so much wonderful produce.
Romaine, Romas, Red Bell Peppers, Zucchini, Jalapeno Peppers,
Peaches, Nectarines, Black Plums, Kiwi & Honeydew.
Fruits Only June 17
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Friday, June 5, 2009
Thai Chicken, Mango & Pineapple Salad
(found this on Familyfun.com)
|1 (14-ounce) can regular or light coconut milk
|1 tablespoon Thai red curry paste, or more to taste
|2 teaspoons freshly grated orange zest
|1/2 cup fresh orange juice
|4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut into 1-inch chunks
|1 mango, peeled, pitted, and cut into 1-inch chunks
|1 pineapple, peeled, cored, and cut into 1-inch chunks
|4 cups salad greens
2. Prepare a charcoal fire or heat a gas grill to medium-high, and oil the grates. Thread the chicken and fruit pieces onto separate skewers.
3. Grill the skewered chicken for 3 to 4 minutes per side, turning once, or until the chicken is cooked through. Grill the fruit skewers for 2 minutes per side, turning once, or until you have visible grill marks. Remove the meat and fruit from the skewers and serve them over salad greens drizzled with the reserved marinade. Serves 4.
Posted by Rach at 7:12 PM 1 comments
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Wednesday F & V2 also Fruits Only
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Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Daikon the Korean Turnip
Here is my super fast Vietnamese Soup that uses turnips. My kids love it
(but maybe my kids are weird).
1/2 lb. ground or chopped shrimp, or pork, or chicken, or turkey or any
combination thereof (whatever you have)
1/2 tsp. white pepper
1/2 tsp. salt
2 tsp. fish sauce
1 egg
3 Tbl. finely chopped onion
Put this all in a food processor and pulse until it is a lumpy paste, about
15 seconds. Or chop it all up little and mix in a bowl. Set aside.
Soup Broth:
1 Tbl. oil
1/2 onion chopped fine
1 clove garlic chopped fine
1 tsp. chili flakes
3 Tbl. fish sauce
4 ripe tomatoes quartered, (optional)
2 daikon (Korean turnip) peeled and sliced thin
5 c. chicken or beef or pork or vegetable stock (whatever you would like)
2 c. water
1 tsp. shrimp paste
1/4 tsp. salt
1 tsp. lime juice
Heat the oil. Fry the onion and garlic and fry just until nice and
fragrant. Add the chilies, fish sauce, and tomatoes. Fry for 1 minute.
Add the daikon, broth, water, shrimp paste, salt and lime juice. Bring to a
boil. Reduce heat to a nice simmer. Scoop heaping spoonfuls of the
dumpling mixture and slip into the broth. Use all the dumpling mixture this
way. Cook until the dumplings rise to the top, about 10 minutes. Serve
over rice or rice noodles.
I hope you enjoy this. Daikon (turnip) also makes Korean pickled radish if
you like that.
Posted by Rach at 7:56 PM 2 comments
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Lemon Confusion
Still confused on what to do with ALL those lemons?....visit Martha:
She will show you how to make this:
Lemon Poppy-Seed Cookies
Or these:
Lemon Madeleines
Posted by Rach at 5:06 PM 0 comments
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Cooking Class
Hey Guys, Its that time again....COOKING CLASS!
March's Theme will be THAI
Molly Tanuvasa's Home
Date to be announced.
Posted by Rach at 12:42 PM 4 comments
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Fruits & Veggies Spread
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Monday, March 16, 2009
Kabocha Pumpkin
Here are some GREAT links for ideas on how to cook the pumpkin. I know that you can use it in Thai Recipes too.
Kabocha Pumpkin cookies
Posted by Rach at 4:01 PM 0 comments
Monday, February 23, 2009
Focaccia Bread (italian flat bread)
Focaccia Bread (italian flat bread)
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009
you are what you eat!!
Found this great article from a neighbor's blog...thought it fit right into our group!!!
"We've all heard we are what we eat, but did you know that studies show that every whole food we eat has a pattern that resembles a body organ or physiological function and gives us a heads up on what benefits that food might provide us? Here are a few examples:
"A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye...and science shows that carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes.
"A Tomato has four chambers and is red. The heart is red and has four chambers. All of the research shows tomatoes are indeed pure heart and blood food.
"Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows that grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food.
"A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds are on the nut just like the neo-cortex. We now know that walnuts help develop over 3 dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function.
"Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes, they look exactly like the human kidneys.
"Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and more look just like bones. These foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium. If you don't have enough sodium in your diet the body pulls it from the bones, making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body.
"Eggplant, Avocadoes and Pears target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female - they look just like these organs. Today's research shows that when a woman eats 1 avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight and prevents cervical cancers. And how profound is this? ... It takes exactly 9 months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit. There are over 14,000 photolytic chemical constituents of nutrition in each one of these foods (modern science has only studied and named about 141 of them).
"Sweet Potatoes look like the pancreas and actually balance the glycemic index of diabetics.
"Onions look like body cells. Today's research shows that onions help clear waste materials from all of the body cells. They even produce tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes."
(Source attributed to David Bjerklie, of TIME Magazine)
Posted by Rach at 1:56 PM 1 comments
Monday, January 19, 2009
Here are two recipes I have been waiting to try. I got these from allrecipes.com. If you try it...you gotta tell us WHAT you loved...and WHAT you didn't.
INGREDIENTS (Nutrition)
- 3 eggplant, peeled and thinly sliced
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 4 cups Italian seasoned bread crumbs
- 6 cups spaghetti sauce, divided
- 1 (16 ounce) package mozzarella cheese, shredded and divided
- 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese, divided
- 1/2 teaspoon dried basil
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Dip eggplant slices in egg, then in bread crumbs. Place in a single layer on a baking sheet. Bake in preheated oven for 5 minutes on each side.
- In a 9x13 inch baking dish spread spaghetti sauce to cover the bottom. Place a layer of eggplant slices in the sauce. Sprinkle with mozzarella and Parmesan cheeses. Repeat with remaining ingredients, ending with the cheeses. Sprinkle basil on top.
- Bake in preheated oven for 35 minutes, or until golden brown.
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 1 pound ground beef
- 1 clove garlic, crushed
- 1 pound eggplant, diced
- 3/4 cup sliced carrots
- 3/4 cup sliced celery
- 2 (14.5 ounce) cans Italian diced tomatoes, drained
- 2 (14 ounce) cans beef broth
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1/2 cup dry macaroni
- 2 teaspoons chopped fresh parsley
- 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1 - Heat the oil in a skillet over medium heat, and cook the onion, beef, and garlic until beef is evenly brown. Drain grease, and mix in eggplant, carrots, celery, and tomatoes. Pour in beef broth. Mix in sugar, and season with nutmeg, salt, and pepper. Cook and stir until heated through.
2 - Mix macaroni into the soup, and continue cooking 12 minutes, or until macaroni is al dente. Mix in parsley. Top with Parmesan chreese to serve.
Posted by Rach at 4:33 PM 2 comments
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Budget-Friendly Cooking
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Monday, January 12, 2009
Menu Plan Monday
Hey friends,
Here is a Menu Plan for the rest of the week :
Tuesday: (simple & fresh day)
Refried Beans
Fruit Smoothies for dessert
Wednesday: (make double and freeze for later)
Smokey Corn Chowder (click HERE for recipe)
French Bread
Thursday: ( easy meal day)
Cream of Mushroom Chicken (click HERE for recipe)
Green Beans
Pizza ( I make a pizza that we adults like & then I cut up lots of veggies and have the kids make a pizza the way they want it. )
Popcorn & movie night
Saturday (reheat something from freezer/ or..)
BBQ Chicken - throw frozen chicken in a freezer bag with BBQ sauce and put back in the freezer, pull out to cook in crockpot or on BBQ.
Corn on the Cob / frozen corn
Bread Sticks
Roast Beef - Crockpot right before lunch and its ready when its dinner time
Garlic Bread
Creme Tuna on Rice
Salad (leftover from Sunday)
*What does your menu plan for the week look like? Post in Comments
Posted by Rach at 5:56 PM 4 comments
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You will find the fascinating Pu'uhonau o Honaunau National Historical Park on the southern Kona Coast and it is well worth the visit. (See this link for directions.) Through a self-guided tour, you will learn about Hawaiian culture, tools, and structures that were used long ago.
Puuhonua o Honaunau is divided into two main areas – the royal grounds and the place of refuge. The areas are separated by a massive rock wall that is 10 feet high by 17 feet thick.
The concept of the place of refuge is interesting. In ancient Hawaiian culture, certain areas were designated as places of refuge and no blood could be shed in its confines. If you had broken a law or were escaping from a war enemy and you were able to come to the place of refuge, you were protected and given a second chance.
The visitors center is open daily. See this link for the park's operating hours. Plan at least an hour to take the self-guided tour. Free ranger-led tours are usually offered daily. Call the park (808-328-2288 or 808-328-2326) to ask for their current tour schedule.
Bring sunscreen and water. The only fee you will need to pay is a $5 fee per car to park. This fee will allow you to return to the park for 7 days. To see the Google map to the area, click here.
It is also worth noting that you can find some outstanding snorkeling and scuba diving at the nearby Honaunau Bay. See this map to visualize where the Honaunau Bay is in comparison to the park grounds. To learn more about the snorkeling here, visit this site.
See more ideas of what to see and do on Hawaii's Big Island.


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Persistence rewarded for Cllr Tony Randerson
I have raised the poor condition of the Long Sea Outfall that is used only by the McCains plant in Eastfield on a number of occasions with The North Eastern Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority of which I am a member via North Yorkshire County Council.\
Local fishermen and the surfing fraternity have voiced their concerns about effluent being discharged because of fractures to this pipe, which has been in place for some 17 years.
I was finally invited to attend a meeting on 20 June in York to hear Yorkshire Water's plans for this outfall which was attended by officers from the Environment Agency, Scarborough Borough Council, McCains and of course Yorkshire Water. I am delighted to say that Yorkshire Water has now agreed funding to rectify this long- standing hazard. More


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NYCC 2015: Best of Collectibles Gallery!
The last day of New York City Comic Con 2015 is upon us, and as an army of retailers once again break down their booths and carefully bubble-wrap their wares, we've gone ahead and put together a treat just for you! Do you want to check out some of the best of what was on display without breathing that acrid con air? Would you care to drool over a fine selection of the best statues, toys, and collectibles without sacrificing your food budget for the month? Well friend, you're in luck, because featured below you'll find a sweet photo gallery that's chock full of all that good stuff! You're welcome, and enjoy!
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Pro Pinball needs our help; Kickstarter ends in 6 days
Those privileged enough to remember Pro Pinball and their four classic tables are likely to have already contributed to Silverball Studios Kickstarter. For the rest of us, just know that they have put together some impressive software technology in an effort to not only revise and refresh the original four Pro Pinball tables, but create some new tables.
Upon reviewing the Pro Pinball Kickstarter project you will be confronted with a ton of information to read. So allow us to extract and summarize the important bits from all the fan service. Silverball Studios needs a whopping $400,000 to reach their goal to fund a brand new Pro Pinball table for PC, Mac, iOS, XBLA, PS3, PS Vita, Linux and Android.
Pat Lawlor, designer of such classics as the Addams Family, Twilight Zone, and Medieval Madness pinball tables, has joined forces with Silverball Studios to assist in the design process of a table he says is not possible in a conventional pinball table. Since the Pro Pinball products will be coming to two PlayStation branded consoles in a list of so many we must try to help them anyway we can.
Another pinball icon joining forces with Silverball Studios and Pat Lawlor is John Youssi, the backglass artist for the same three tables Lawlor was accredited for above. If you pledge a measly $5,000 you can have your face on the backglass of the next pinball table. Pledge $2,500 to have Youssi make a drawing of you. Or pledge $10,000 to have lunch with Lawlor, Youssi, and Adrian Berrit in Chicago (does not include your air fare). There is already one out of three $10k pledges.
They also intend to fund the restoration of the original four Pro Pinball tables: Time Shock, Big Race USA, Fantastic Journey, and The Web. The first table to arrive would be Time Shock in February 2013, with each of the other tables to release one at a time in two month increments. The newly designed Pat Lawlor table would be released in October 2013. That is also when all the Kickstarter rewards would arrive, except the first two which are awarded this year.
The tech demo above showcases the amazing lighting work developer Silverball Studios has in store for a work-in-progress called Timeshock. Let us know in the comments section if you become one of the Pro Pinball backers.


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Chansons pour Fellini
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Lots of fun! all lyrics sung in Italian, despite French titl
T. Luck | Boh. | 07/20/2006
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"CHANSONS POUR FELLINI -- One could get turned off by the typical frenetic Fellini circus melody from the opener, "Lo sceicco bianco" ("The White Sheik" -- comedy satirizing celebrity culture available on DVD from Criterion). Proceed nonetheless and you'll find many charming melodies and lyrics. "Giulietta degli spiriti" is sweet (JULIET OF THE SPIRITS is also available on DVD from Criterion). I enjoy everything here, though the best song on the CD is no doubt the haunting, lovely "Lla ri llira" from LE NOTTI DI CABIRIA (and THE NIGHTS OF CABIRIA is also available on DVD from Criterion). Katyna Ranieri employs the classic torch singer style and the "Cabiria" song is enchanting and recalls the devastating finale of one of Fellini's finest films. The CD is worth purchasing for that song alone."
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"Thelonis Luck sums it up. Bought this album 15 years ago from Tower Records in Boston for $35. Impulse purchase... had never heard of Katyna Ranieri. It has provided immense enjoyment over the years. Amarcord is my favorite... but they are all simply wonderful!"


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Studies have shown that students who regularly participate in exercise have better grades than those who do not; is there a causal connection between the exercise and better grades or is it discipline that students display across both studying and exercising that is the determinant?
The evidence showing that regular exercise should be a component of our lives is compelling and is being expanded upon with regard to the physical and mental benefits; it's so good for you! So how can it help you be a better student?
Feeling down? The demands of school can sometimes be overwhelming, especially when combined with work schedules, home life…the list of stressors goes on. Exercise has been shown to positively affect mood, lowering stress and anxiety. Physical activity stimulates various brain chemicals that are believed to leave you feeling happier and more relaxed. Think about using exercise as a time to decompress, or alternatively, an opportunity to reconnect with family members. Remember, exercise can be as simple as taking a walk, playing Frisbee, even housecleaning…yes, it counts, but really?
Too tired to study? Regular physical activity can not only improve your muscle strength and boost your endurance, but it also helps your cardiovascular system work more efficiently. And when your heart and lungs work more efficiently, you have more energy to go about your daily chores, and that includes studying. Regular exercise can also help you sleep better, which in turn helps renew your energy.
Get laser focus. In order to study effectively, a certain level of focus on the material is required; even moderate exercise can help. Physical activity is key to improving mental alertness and improving the capacity to concentrate. A short burst of vigorous exercise, even as short as 10 minutes, is said to improve the ability to focus and stay alert. Increased blood flow to the brain is thought to be the reason behind improved alertness.
Keep your chin up! Regular exercise helps boost self-esteem. It's not only the physical changes (body composition) that help self-esteem improve, but the fact that you're making a commitment to your own well-being is empowering. Further, a boost in self-esteem may help you participate more fully in class as well as in social situations.
What are some easy solutions to getting much needed exercise? Even if you don't have the opportunity to get to the gym, you can add activity to your daily routine:
- Park farther away from the entrance to your job, the grocery, or to classes while you are on campus.
- If sitting at the computer, stand up and stretch, do jumping jacks, push-ups, or some other form of calisthenics. Encourage others to participate.
- Take the stairs!
- Breathe! Read the blog entry on breathing at http://usgemajor.blogspot.com/2015/08/stressed-about-school.html


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Warren Buffett says if you want to learn how to make money from the stock market you should look at how he made some money with two small real estate investments.
In an excerpt published by Fortune, from his upcoming annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, Buffett writes about his purchase of a Nebraska farm and his investment in a retail property near New York University in Manhattan.
In both cases, he bought when prices were unusually low after bubbles had burst.
In both cases he had no particular expertise.
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And most importantly, in both cases he invested because he thought the assets would be increasingly profitable, not because he expected to sell at a higher price.


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I'd like to share with you an excerpt from a book by one of the most celebrated American Buddhist, Jack Kornfield and Daniel J. Siegel, MD, entitled Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are. It is my sincere wish for you to read this book or listen to the audio book. You will find their writing very inspiring and helpful in making you more aware of who you are. This blog is taken from sections, verbatim, from chapter seven of their book. I hope that as you read this excerpt, it may inspire you and open your heart and mind to become more tolerant and more forgiving of others as well as yourself. Enjoy!
Traditionally, the work of the heart begins with forgiveness. Forgiveness is the necessary ground for any healing. To begin with, we need a wise understanding of forgiveness. Then we can learn how it is practiced; how we can learn to forgive both ourselves and others. Forgiveness is the letting go of past suffering and betrayal; a release of the burden of pain and hate that we carry. Forgiveness honors the heart's greatest dignity. Whenever we are lost, it brings us back to the ground of love. With forgiveness, we become unwilling to attack or wish harm to one another. Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past. It is hard to imagine a world without forgiveness. Without forgiveness, life would become unbearable. Without forgiveness, our lives would be chained, forced to carry the burden of the past and repeat them without release.
Consider the conversation between two prisoners of war.
"Have you forgiven your captors?"
"No! Never!"
"Well, they still have you in prison, don't they?"
We begin the process of forgiveness primarily for ourselves. We may still be suffering terribly from the past, or those who have hurt us might be on vacation. It is painful to hate. Without forgiveness, we continue to perpetuate the illusion that hate can heal our pain and the pain of others. In forgiveness, we let go and find release in our heart. We must discover a way to move on from the past, no matter what traumas it held. The past is over. Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past. Remember these truths. Forgiveness is neither weak nor naïve. Forgiveness requires courage and clarity.
Mistakenly people believe that to forgive simply means to forgive and forget once and for all. This is not the wisdom of forgiveness. Forgiveness does not happen quickly. For great injustice, coming to forgiveness may include great periods of grief, outrage, sadness, loss, suffering and pain. True forgiveness does not paper over what has happened in a superficial way. Neither is it a misguided effort to ignore or suppress our pain. It cannot be hurried. It is a deep process repeated over and over in our heart that honors the grief and betrayal and in its own time ripens into the freedom to truly forgive. Forgiveness does not forget, neither does it condone the past. Forgiveness sees wisely. It bravely sees the sufferings of the past and understands the conditions that brought them about. There is a strength to forgiveness. When we forgive, we can also say, "Never again will I allow these things to happen again to ourselves or to another!"
Forgiveness does not mean we have to continue to relate to those who have done us harm. In some cases, the best practice may be to end our connection; to never speak to or be with or be with the harmful person again. Sometimes in the process of forgiveness, the person who hurt or betrayed us may wish to make amends. But even this does not require us to put ourselves in the way of further harm. Forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
Forgiving Ourselves:
Finding a way to extend forgiveness to ourselves is one of our most essential tasks. Just as others have been caught in suffering, so have we. If we look honestly at our life, we can see the sorry and pain that have led to our own wrongdoing. In this we can finally extend forgiveness to ourselves. We can hold the pain we have caused in compassion. Without such mercy, we will live our own lives in exile. We've all been blinded, we've all suffered…
When we clearly realize that the source of misery and disharmony in the world is ignorance, we can open the door of wisdom and compassion. In the temple of forgiveness, no matter what has happened, we can always return to the greatness of the heart. The heart is released whenever we forgive or are forgiven. Even in the most painful of circumstances. In the temple of forgiveness, we are reminded of our own goodness. If only we could help each other build temples of forgiveness instead of prisons. We can, in our own hearts. No matter how extreme the circumstances, a transformation of the heart is possible.


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William Mullins, "Mayflower" Passenger is your 9th great aunt's sister's husband's grandfather.
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your father → Mamie C. Nichols (Collins)
his mother → Martha Collins (BARTLETT)
her mother → Nancy Rachel Bartlett (KING)
her mother → Henry D. King
her father → Pvt. John King, Revolutionary Soldier
his father → John King
his father → Philip King
his father → John King
his father → Captain Philip King
his father → Samuel King, Sr.
his brother → Experience King
his wife → Elizabeth Alden (Phillips)
her sister → John Alden, Jr.
her husband → Priscilla Mullins, "Mayflower" Passenger
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Several days ago we presented in this blog an empirically correct model of real economic growth. The concept describing the evolution of real Gross Domestic Product (per capita) is very simple and is based solely on the age structure in a given developed country. It was empirically and statistically proved that the growth rate, g(t), of real GDP per capita, G(t), is driven by the attained level of real GDP per capita and the change in a specific age population, Ns. According to this model, the asymptotic growth rate of real GDP in developed countries can be completely characterized by constant annual increment A = const. All fluctuations around this constant increment can be explained by the change in the number of people of the country-specific age:
g(t) = dlnG(t)/dt = A/G(t) + 0.5dlnNs(t)/dt (1)
Equation (1) is the quantitative model that has been constructed empirically and tested statistically.
It is important to stress that the mainstream models such as Solow model and its successors are all based on an assumption that the rate of real economic growth is asymptotically constant. This assumption is empirically wrong and is rejected by statistical tests. We made no theoretical assumptions and our model came directly from data and was formulated at the initial stage of our empirical study. Therefore, we have a model that fits observations best.
We have already presented the cases of US, Japan, and France in this blog. The next country under investigation is Germany. The best fit constant increment is (A=) $260 (1990 US dollars) and the defining age is eighteen years, as in France. The age distribution from 2002 allows a prediction at an 18-year horizon. Figure suggests a slow-down in 2009 and likely a deeper recession in 2011, with a year of growth in 2010. On average, the beginning of 2010s will be characterized by very poor performance of the German economy. It will be even worse than in the 1990s. The population trough in N18 observed the 2010s is likely a remote and decaying echo of the WWII, which was amplified by the reunification turbulence in the early 1990s. The rate of birth was suppressed by the uncertainty of socio-political future of Germany. In the late 2000s and early 2010s, the drop in N18 might be compensated by immigration. In that case, real GDP may grow due to the rising working age population, i.e. due to extensive factors.
Here, we would like to emphasise that the prediction of the 2009 slowdown could be easily obtained in 2002, i.e. seven years before it happened! The estimates of population age structure are slightly noisy, however. Otherwise, the agreement between the observed and predicted curves is excellent after some years of turbulence associated with the reunification.
Figure 1. Observed and predicted rate of real GDP growth in Germany after the reunification. The predicted curve is obtained from relationship (1) with A=$260. Upper panel: Original curves. Lower panel: The original curves smoothed with MA(3). One should not expect a recession period before 2011, but the year of 2009 is very close to recession.


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Author/Attorney Frank R. Southers
Author of "The Grievance Committee"
Genre: Legal Thriller/Literature
It is an honor and with Great pleasure to Interview Frank R. Southers. Thank you for today's Interview. I wish you much success.
What inspires you to write?
I enjoy sharing my knowledge and helping people learn, understand new concepts and ideas, and re-discover old concepts and ideas with a different twist. As a trial lawyer, I know that story-telling is a necessity to persuade and convince the audience, judge and jury, since most people avoid focusing on abstractions instead of requiring a parable to grasp the offered theme. I also know that the possession of insight helps me understand people's wants and desires, their belief systems, their philosophy, and their values. I enjoy sending the reader to a new and different venue or world, such as viewing the legal disciplinary system from the inside, or such as viewing an organized religion in a different light, such as Catholicism and presenting the reader with a challenge to his or her intellect. I suppose I am a teacher at heart.
How important is a book cover?
Did you enjoy reading as a child?
Yes. As a child, my reading included the fairy tales; the Hardy Boys; Nancy Drew series; Black Beauty; some Western novels; and lots of comic books. The usual stuff in high school English classes such as Hemingway; Faulkner; Shakespeare; lots of poetry from Keats to Hopkins to Frost, etc. As an English major, the range changed, although I still read all of Faulkner and Conrad, and Joyce. Kurt Vonnegut always gave me a laugh. I enjoy a wide, wide range of literature. My favorites now include: Ken Follett; Scott Turrow; John Grisham; Jodi Picout; Dan Brown.
Describe your perfect writing place.
My Study on the back side of our house in Austin is quiet, and with needed stuff readily available.
Do you have current work in progress?
Yes, Book Two is being edited, and we should have the results very soon. Book Three has been re-written and is almost ready for an editor and I am about forty-percent finished with Book Four, all about the Texas Grievance Committee in San Antonio. For your reading, the first chapter of Book Two is on my website at: http://www.southers.com
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
**INTERVIEW with Author PETER DARRACH**
It is an honor and with Great pleasure to Interview Author Peter Darrach. Thank you Peter for today's Interview. I wish you very much success.
Genre: Science fiction
What inspires you to write?
Actually, I have two degrees in literature(a B.A. in English and an M.A. in German), so I have a pretty fair background for writing. However, probably so much literature turned me off for a while, twenty-five years to be precise, until suddenly I had this consuming idea about a man injured while asteroid mining and then repaired by aliens. I don't know exactly where the idea came from, but I sat down and wrote a chapter a day for a month, and boom, the first book was born. Yes, I spent some time afterwards polishing, editing, and reducing the work to its current form. But, the idea flowed out of me as if I had tapped a hidden spring. I do a fair amount of research, of course, to get the astrophysical and physics details right.
The next two books in the series followed on a little more systematically. I gave more attention to plot development, to pacing, to characters, but the actual writing was quite similar. More of a gush, like striking oil, as if it was all coming from some pre-formed deposit. I guess this is what it feels like to be aligned, or in communion with one's muse, choose your preferred metaphor.
Did you enjoy reading as a child?
Very much so. I read vociferously from the age of five or six, until the age of fourteen or fifteen, when I suddenly developed other interests. My reading covered the fiction of the day: Tolkien; C.S. Lewis; Asimov; Bradbury; Dick; Anderson; and many more. But also: science; particularly astrophysics; paleontology; archeology; physics; and explosives, etc.
How important is a book cover?
Describe your perfect atmosphere when writing.
Where I am physically is not so important. I have written while on vacation in Florida, while at home in Austria, in multiple hotels, and airports around the world. The where is not so important. But, I do need quiet, or perhaps non-vocal, preferably classical music in the background and minimal interruption to really let the words flow. The time of day is also not too important to me.
Do you have current work in progress?
Book three in the Second Skin sequence, Tavern On The Edge Of Time, will arrive in December. Here is a synopsis:
During the year 2125, former asteroid miners Max Cody and Elaine Zhou never get a moments rest. No sooner have they doused the flames of war between Earth and Mars, or returned from their first trip to the Tavern on the Edge of Time, when they are called upon to help fit out the fledging Martian colony orbiting Jupiter's moon Callisto.
In parallel, Earth extradites the war's formenter, ex-billionaire arms merchant Xanthus Rex, hoping to gain from his insights into Martian teleportation technology. But, he manages to turn Earth's resources toward private revenge against Max, Mars, and the Callisto Colony.
In the meantime, aliens are leaking into the Earth-Mars continuum from the Tavern, whose proprietor repaired and upgraded Max, after accidentally injuring him during an asteroid mining expedition. Max's enhancements help, of course. But when strange beings with the power to animate matter, the Assemblers find their way to Earth, Max, Mars and humanity are sorely beset.
Worse yet, the Tavern itself is becoming unstable. Its acquisitive host having overstretched his considerable powers. His prospecting for collapsed neutron matter has also opened portals between continua, inadvertently adding still more aliens to the mix. That's when the Assemblers' overlord arrives and Max finally meets his match. Oh, and Elaine is expecting their hybrid baby. Yes, you might say these are difficult times at the Tavern on the Edge of Time.
Beyond that, I have begun to sketch out a possible fourth book in the current series. It exists more like the ribs of a boat in a boatyard, the superstructure reasonably well defined. But the planking and caulking, not to mention the running tackle, sails, rudder all must be defined.
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In the great kingdom of this emperor, hid a well-kept secret known only to two men, the King himself and his Chief Gardener. This was a secret so guarded that the King could only reveal it once in his lifetime, to his successor, at his deathbed and upon his last breath. Legend has it that this was how the final conversation between the King and his son went .....
I can finally reveal to you,
And then we have the blue crocus or desert saffron which open like little yellow suns in full bloom. When Valentinus, a 3rd century Roman physician and Christian priest was arrested and sentenced to death, he administered his last treatment by handing to the jailor a note for his blind daughter. In the note, was a yellow crocus and the source of one of his healing herbs, saffron. When the blind girl opened the note, her sight was immediately restored and the first flower she saw was the yellow crocus which rivaled the sun in its brightness. The physician had signed off in the note what was soon to become legendary words ~From your Valentine~. Those words were to be the physician's last but the world's first valentine's day message. That day was February 14, 270 AD.
Finally, we have the most fantastic and wondrous of them all, the prickly pear cactus. Legend has it that the Aztecs wandered throughout Mexico in search of a divine sign that would indicate the precise spot upon which they were to build their capital. The divine sign was an eagle devouring a snake, perched atop a cactus. After two hundred years of wandering, they finally found the promised sign. The Aztecs had found their home at last. As the people gathered and stared in wonder, the cactus grew into an island which the Aztec named Tenochtitlan or "the Place of the Prickly Pear Cactus".
Arghhhhh, the old King seemed to say, *mumble mumble.. the ripened green bananas...*grumble grumble..10 years hard work *rumble rumble.. a way of cultivating banana plants in desert, you must ..But before the old King could finish his sentence, he fell on his bed in a frenzied fit and died. And the new king never knew how his father grew the first bananas in the Secret Garden.
Nonetheless, this episode did spark off a new mystical legend concerning the old king's fruits of labour. The term "going bananas" was coined by the new king to refer to someone turning mysteriously crazy or acting in an inexplicably strange manner and this term is commonly used to this day.
Having continued the tradition of making legends, the green banana's place in the Secret Garden was thus assured and they all propagate happily ever after. Amen..I mean, The End.
There was however a rather gratifying moment last night when I photographed my mystical, unusual, desert plants. Look up at the right hand corner of this picture. Can you see her, my little Charlotte?
I told myself, if it is good enough for her, it is good enough for me. At least for now.


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