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iPhone's camera is used for a variety of purposes, and not-the-least-popular of those is self-portraits. Ever so often, you see your friends' Facebook display pictures to be ones snapped by themselves from their phone camera. IncrediBooth is an iOS app that makes use of the front-facing camera in iPhone's later models and iPad 2, allowing you to shoot photos of yourself and upload them to a number of destinations right from within the app. The really cool touch? The app also offers some photo effects that can be applied even before you start shooting.
The app is rather basic, and thus, has a pretty limited number of filters available. When you fire it up, all you have to do is to adjust the front camera of your device according to your face. and tap the big red button at the bottom of the photo frame. Doing this will automatically take 4 photos with a one second interval between each shot, giving just about enough time for the user to give whatever pose they want. The eye level indicator at the border of the camera is helpful in taking an accurately aligned picture.
The filters offered by IncrediBooth can be selected by rotating the dial around the red button. You can take photos in black n white, or any of the other three filters present. Once a strip has been captured, it is possible to share it over your social network (Facebook, Twitter), or there is the option to email it to your contacts. You don't have to share the whole 4 photos in the strip if you don't want t; it is also possible to share individual photos from any of the strips.
IncrediBooth is available in the App Store for free, and its simplicity certainly has the potential to win over quite a few fans.
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September 29, 2008
Chicago — Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan today announced that a Rockford attorney has pled guilty to stealing more than $70,000 in client funds for personal use.
Daniel A. Cwynar pled guilty to one count of theft, a Class 2 felony, and one count of deceptive practices, a Class 4 felony. The court sentenced him to two years of felony probation and 50 hours of community service. The Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission previously suspended Cwynar from practicing law for three years as a result of his offenses.
"This individual violated the great trust given to attorneys by their clients," Madigan said. "His conviction should signal that no one is above the law.
In October 2003, Cwynar represented a client in divorce proceedings and the court in that case ordered him to hold approximately $332,000 in a client trust account. In April 2004, when a settlement was reached, Cwynar's client trust account showed a balance of approximately $262,000, revealing he had spent more than $70,000 for his own business and personal purposes.
Cwynar's deceptive practices charge was based on his conduct in depositing a $2,500 check written from a previously closed client trust account into a new savings account in July 2004. At the time that he did this, Cwynar knew that the old client trust account had been closed due to overdraft activity and understood that no funds would be available to honor the $2,500 check.
Assistant Attorney General Neal Goodfriend handled the case for Madigan's Financial Crimes Bureau.
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Princess Diana is not buried on an island on her family's sprawling estate, as widely believed, RadarOnline.com can exclusively reveal. An insider tells us the late royal's family has been secretly hiding her coffin our of fear deranged fans will vandalize it.
"We have had four attempted break-ins toward her body in the last 20 years," her brother, Earl Spencer, recently revealed of his late royal sister . "I am glad that we have seen all of them off."
Nearly two decades after her death, Di's body is entombed at St. Mary's Church, where she rests next to the cremated remains of her father, John, the eighth Earl Spencer. Diana lies in a lead-lined coffin inside the church in the village of Great Brington. Her remains are guarded by a six-foot spiked iron fence and a series of motion detectors.
The famous royal was placed in the church following her tragic death in a car accident in Paris at the age of 36 on Aug. 31, 1997.
But in a bid to foil grave robbers, the public was told Diana was buried in a crypt on an idyllic island within Althorp Park, the nearby 13,500-acre estate where Diana grew up.
And unknowing fans cough up $23 to visit the estate and pay their respects to the "People's Princess."
A source at Althorp told Radar, "the church was considered as her burial place," but added "it made sense to have the island as the place where she is 'buried' because it is more secure. No one working on the estate now was at the funeral, so we all believe what we are told. It's just better that we keep our mouths shut!"


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'Here I Was, A New Teacher'
Last year, Beth J. Fuqua left her private-sector job to prepare for a career in education. "I always had it in mind that I wanted to be a teacher,'' she said. "It just took a while before I could actually afford to do it.''
Ms. Fuqua, who is 27, enrolled in a master's degree program in elementary education at Teachers College, Columbia University. She completed her course requirements last spring and set out to find a job in New York City's public schools. What follows is her account of that search and of her first year in the New York school system.
I graduated from Teachers College last May and started writing to the city's various district offices. I was told by just about everybody that going through the office of the central board was the worst way to find a job. But even in the community-district offices, no one was ready to talk with me. Everyone told me to call them back in August. They didn't want to know anything about me until then. But then, when I called back in August, they said to call in September. It wasn't until early September that people wanted to know who I was.
At that point, I spoke with several district-personnel people. I ended up sitting in one of the district offices for half a day. Finally, I was called in by this guy who gave me a form letter and told me it was for an interview with a principal of an elementary school in Crown Heights in Brooklyn. It wasn't the worst school in New York, but it was by no means one of the best.
I went in to the interview and said that I was interested in teaching 1st or 2nd grade. They said they wanted me to teach 4th grade, even though I later heard through other teachers that they had had openings in the grades I had wanted to teach. They said, 'We think you can handle the 4th grade because of your background.' I was getting desperate. I wanted to have a job by the first day of school, so I agreed to take it. They said, 'We want you for the position, but we'll have to get back to you.'
So I had to go back to the district office and sit around for another half day to get the appointment approved. I don't really know why I was there. I was just waiting in a room full of people to be told that I had a job.
After I was told I had the job, I went directly to the school. Classes were to start Monday, Sept. 14. This was Thursday, Sept. 10.
When I showed up, they gave me the key to my room and told me to go see a woman who is in charge of supplies. First I went to my room. It was completely empty except for the desks and chairs, half of which were kindergarten size.
I went down the hall to the person whom I was told would help me make out my supply list. She said, 'Well what do you need?' I said, 'Everything.' I was told this person would be very helpful, but she was cold and appeared annoyed that I was asking her questions. I made out the list, and then had to search for the supply lady. I finally found her, but by that time it was the end of the day. I had done no work on my room, and the next day was the Friday before school was to open.
The next morning, there was a staff meeting. It was not a happy gathering. There seemed to be some tension among the faculty.
When the principal read out the names of the new teachers, one black teacher said out loud, 'How come they are all white?' The staff was three-quarters black. I didn't feel welcome at all.
That afternoon, I finally got my supplies. A teacher came up and told me that the most important thing for me to do was to get the bulletin boards covered. She said that the principal likes to see the boards nice and done up. So I took the time and covered my bulletin boards with paper and put the alphabet up.
But I still didn't have any books; I hadn't received my curriculum guides; and I hadn't even gotten my class list.
Finally, late in the day, I got my class register. I had 17 boys and 4 girls. It was the lowest 4th grade in the school. Everyone told me the class was going to be horrible. They told me that I had better bring knives and chains.
After I got my class list, I went around trying to get books, curriculum guides, and the right-sized desks for my classroom. But other teachers and the assistant principal said not to worry about it until Monday, which was the first day of school.
No one really wanted to help me because they were all taking care of their own business. But their rooms looked good and had nice stuff in them. Here I was a new teacher, with no materials, nothing attractive on my boards, and feeling bad because my kids were going to walk into a room that had nothing in it on their first day of school.
On the first morning of school, nine kids out of the 21 showed up. By 10:30 A.M., five more had straggled in. I had one girl and 14 boys on that first day.
I had planned activities for them. I knew they were a slow group, so I had planned things that were on about a 2nd-grade level. But it had not been explained to me just how slow they were. Some had late 2nd-grade skills, but most had 1st-grade skills or less. At least four or five of them could not even add 4 plus 2.
But they weren't awful children. They did what I asked them to do. In fact, they were pretty well behaved until the end of the day, when they got a bit out of control because everything I had given them to do was too hard for them.
At lunch time, I went to find the 'buddy' teacher that the administration had assigned to help me. I walked into her room and introduced myself. She was standing there talking with several other teachers. She turned to me and said, 'Oh hello.' That's all she said, 'Oh hello.' No introductions to the other teachers in the room. Nothing. I went back to my classroom and ate lunch alone.
At the end of the day, I went to the assistant principal and said, 'Listen, I don't have any books. I don't have any curriculum guides. What little I do have is appropriate for kids with 4th-grade abilities, but not for these kids. I can't teach them how to multiply when they can't even add. If I am going to do anything, I have to take them from where they are and move them forward. Otherwise no one is going to learn.' I told him I was feeling frustrated and concerned.
"Well about the books,' he said, 'you probably won't get them for two or three weeks, because the person in charge of the book room won't be in until then.' I asked him if we couldn't get the key. He said that the principal didn't want people rummaging around in there, getting things disorganized.
I must say he was very sympathetic and supportive. We talked for more than an hour. I told him I didn't think I was going to last the week. 'I went into teaching to do a job,' I said, 'and I don't think I can do it here.' He said he understood, and told me not to feel bad.
When I left, I told him I would come back in the next day. But when I got home I started thinking about what I was going to have to do to have any learning occur. I could see that I was not going to be able to do what I thought I needed to do for those children to progress. I wasn't going to have a lot of materials. I wasn't going to be supported by the administration. And on top of that, there wasn't an atmosphere of collegiality within the school. I knew that as a first-year teacher, I would need a lot of support. And if I wasn't going to be able to get it from my administration and colleagues, where was I going to get it?
So I called the assistant principal at home and told him that I didn't think I would be coming back. I never talked to my principal after my initial interview.
I ended up going to another one of the community school districts in Brooklyn that I knew had some progressive programs. I knew some things about the superintendent, and I had liked the district's personnel director. He was about the only personnel official who asked me professional questions and questions about my background during my job search.
I ended up substituting in that district from the end of September until the middle of November, when I landed a full-time job teaching kindergarten in one of the schools that I had subbed in a lot. It was the only school I subbed in where the teachers actually invited me to join them for lunch. These are teachers that reached out to me immediately and have given me lots of help. The principal basically lets me teach the way I want to teach.
You may think this story has a happy ending, but it doesn't. There is no guarantee that I will have a job next year at my present school. The union contract states that senior teachers can apply to transfer in from other schools and bump out the six of us who have been teaching this year on 'temporary per diem' licenses. I have been told they can do this from the end of May until the second week of the school year.
There are rumors flying all over the place. I don't know what is going to happen.
I got off to this very rocky start, but I thought I had seen the end of this horrible experience. I am in a pretty good school as far as New York City schools go. I love my colleagues. Teaching has turned out to be what I hoped it would be.
But now, once again, I am wondering what is going to happen to me.
I would like to prepare materials for my class over the summer, but I can't because I don't even know if I will be teaching kindergarten next year. I don't even know if I will be in the same school. I'm afraid I may get sent to a school that won't let me teach the way I want to teach. I may face the same things all over again.
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"The hunter was frightened, and felt sure that it meant mischief, so he hurried on down the mountain and took the shortest trail back to the camp to get there before the old man. When he got there and told his story the medicine-man said the old man was a wicked cannibal monster called Nûñ'yunu'wï, "Dressed in Stone," who lived in that part of the country, and was always going about the mountains looking for some hunter to kill and eat. It was very hard to escape from him, because his stick guided him like a dog, and it was nearly as hard to kill him, because his whole body was covered with a skin of solid rock. If he came he would kill and eat them all, and there was only one way to save themselves …
"He could not bear to look upon a menstrual woman, and if they could find seven menstrual women to stand in the path as he came along the sight would kill him.
"So they asked among all the women, and found seven who were sick in that way, and with one of them it had just begun. By the order of the medicine-man they stripped themselves and stood along the path where the old man would come. Soon they heard Nûñ'yunu'wï coming through the woods, feeling his way with his stone cane. He came along the trail to where the first woman was standing, and as soon as he saw her he started and cried out: "Yu! my grandchild; you are in a very bad state!" He hurried past her, but in a moment he met the next woman, and cried out again: "Yu! my child; you are in a terrible way," and hurried past her, but now he was vomiting blood. He hurried on and met the third and the fourth and the fifth woman, but with each one that he saw his step grew weaker until when he came to the last one, with whom the sickness had just begun, the blood poured from his mouth and he fell down on the trail.
"Then the medicine-man drove seven sourwood stakes through his body and pinned him to the ground, and when night came they piled great logs over him and set fire to them, and all the people gathered around to see. Nûñ'yunu'wï was a great ada'wehï and knew many secrets, and now as the fire came close to him he began to talk, and told them the medicine for all kinds of sickness. At midnight he began to sing, and sang the hunting songs for calling up the bear and the deer and all the animals of the woods and mountains. As the blaze grew hotter his voice sank low and lower, until at last when daylight came, the logs were a heap of white ashes and the voice was still.
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In his book, "The Night Has a Naked Soul", Alan Kilpatrick explains, "Much of the prestige bestowed upon the Cherokee conjuror can be traced to the ancient myth surrounding the ritual murder of the monster, Stone-Clad, by a medicine man. … This man-eating monster, who operates outside the moral community of humans, is brought under control by the polluting force of 'unclean' women. Then Stone-Clad (and his secret powers) are consecrated and "re-purified" by the cleansing action of the ancient fire."
Next week we'll take a look at another evil Cherokee witch and how the medicine man dealt with him.


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ShopTrainer needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 217 designs submitted by 30 freelance designers.
our communications- and e-commerce company is over 20 years old now - and so are its logo (we still like it, but it has become a bit dusty, you know) and the slightly old fashioned webdesign. see for yourself: http://www.adebahr.de
we want a positive, modern logo in a distinctive design, and friendly colours. we will use an excerpt of the logo's colours as the new website's colours.
existing and prospective customers
a modern logo in an eye catching design, with friendly colours for the site. no programming or webdesign is desired.
a stork as such is essential, as in german "master adebahr" is the old fairytale name for the stork, and the boss' nickname with customers is usually 'storky'. the stork may look totally different, though, but clearly has to be recognized as a stork and not some other flying species.
this is still a logo, however, not a picture of a natural animal. a logo needs some symbolic element in it, not the real thing. even though we like the stork as such, we are still a technical company.
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Sunday, December 02, 2007
Sick as a Pike
Pike are notoriously voracious carnivores and can be potential pests when introduced into alien ecosystems. When caught in the River Mole in the Eighties, fishermen such as my dad were instructed by Mole Valley District Council not to throw them back. You couldn't eat them, so you had to bin them. He cut one open to show me its disease-speckled liver. It was a bad fish. A bully. Throwing its weight around. It knew it was on the way out and it was going to take a few others down with it. Men standing on river banks with poles and lines and hooks are noble sentries in Gaia's gentle regime of self-regulation.
A small colour television set was involved in three separate crimes in the space of two weeks. First it was fly-tipped outside our house. A few days later, it was thrown through our front window. We dumped it back out on the street and it disappeared. Two days later it was found dropped off the bridge and onto the middle of the railway tracks at Montpelier station. There was a storm here last night. Fitful sleep; beneath the roar and moan, the sound of something rolling slowly back up the hill towards our house.
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In Germany we use to say "Ooh, poor black tomcat", if somebody is fishing for compassion.
A hangover as a consequence of senseless booze-up is also called "tomcat" in Germany. One shell eat herrings to drive the tomcat away.
To pass away your time while coughing between the cushions, I warmly recommed this cure to all fishermen's friends (Always remember:if they are too weak, you're too strong!):
"Gills" by Niccolò Ammaniti.
Desmond O'Grady wrote about this book:
"How to succeed without really failing
Niccolo Ammaniti is a success as a writer because of his failure as a biologist. Or, rather, had he graduated as a biologist he might not have become one of Italy's most acclaimed novelists. He passed 16 exams at Rome University but lied to his father that he had passed the full 18 and was starting his final thesis.
His father, a Freudian psychologist, invited Ammaniti to use his study for three months while completing the thesis. There was no thesis to write. Instead, Ammaniti began a sombre narrative about a man who breeds fish but faces death within three months from lung cancer. To make some money while studying, Ammaniti himself had bred fish for a vendor of aquariums.
A friend in publishing told Ammaniti that he had been asked to launch a series of books by new writers. Ammaniti showed him his manuscript and received a promise that, once completed, it would be published. Ammaniti was so exhilarated that, in contrast to the sad first section, the second part of the narrative acquired a brighter, surreal tone. The breeder is invited to New Delhi to build a huge aquarium, becomes a kind of mythological hero, acquires gills and finally, becomes an exhibit in a Berlin aquarium.
Published as Gills, it secured Ammaniti's writing life: since then he has lived from his narratives, cultural journalism and screen writing. A book of short stories (Mud) followed and brought strong, mixed reactions because it combined comedy and violence, normal characters with others who were zombies or part human, part machine."
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Today is a Day That Heather Planned for Us
Heather loved to plan things and get us doing things all together. One of Heather's favorite things to do was to go to the movies. Every year, for her birthday and for my birthday, she would make sure we all got together and went to see the latest movie that we would all love. About a week before she passed away, she was questioning how we would all go together because Carol had moved to Fort Myers. She decided that we would all just have to go see the latest Hunger Games movie at the same time. Even if we couldn't be together, we would still all watch it together.
Today is the day. We are going to see the movie today for my birthday. Tomorrow is really my birthday, but with everyone's schedules, we are going today in her memory and to try to keep her tradition alive. I'm not sure how my birthday became a movie day, except for the fact that my birthday is around the launch of the new movies for the holidays. Yeah, Heather took over my birthday too. We basically did this twice a year - her birthday and my birthday. I was never really big on going to the movies, but for my baby, we will continue the tradition.
I hope she hasn't cheated on us and seen the movie before us. I am hoping there are some sad moments during the movie, because I just know that I have to bring some tissues with me. It's going to be hard watching it without her. I don't know who she will watch with, Carol or Amy and I. Perhaps, from Heaven, she can watch with all of us. I'm not really sure how that works, but all of us will need her with us today to get through this.
I am still working on her bookcase. I have it all primed. The only things left to do is to paint the base coat and then to attempt to copy some of her artwork onto it - to make it all Heather. I don't know that I will be able to paint tonight. I think the movie will take about all I can do today.
Heather, if you can read this, please know that we are going to try to enjoy this with you, but that every year on my birthday, no matter where I am, I am going to try to keep your tradition alive. I love you, baby, Always!


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Locate a health professional today that provides services including Acupuncture, Aromatherapy, Chiropractic, Dentistry, Homeopathy, Massage Therapy, Nutrition, Osteopathy, and Physical Therapy.
[ARTICLE] How Can I Get It All Done?
Filed Under: Wellness | Published: Nov 11, 2009 | Author: Adele Cox, MA, CMT
But imagine this shift in perspective: Rather than seeing "too much to do" as the problem, what if you saw it simply as how things are? This frees you from the traps of fighting to get it all done, of worrying about what didn't get done, and of feeling guilty about what you "should" be doing.
I once read that the definition of suffering is "arguing with reality". If we decide that, yes, there is indeed too much to do in our lives, we regain the power to choose what's important right now, and therefore what will get our time and full attention right now. What's more, we can make that choice of what we will attend to in ourselves at any moment during the day. So, simply choosing to bring our conscious awareness to our inner experience empowers us to "take care of ourselves".
Let's take a practical example. Have you ever had something happen that you felt "ruined your whole day"? Perhaps someone cut you off on the freeway, or you had an argument with a family member, or your hapless employee was late again - there are countless examples.
Most likely you felt angry, frustrated, disappointed, out of balance - all of the reasonable and understandable emotional responses to the event. But if you felt the situation "ruined your whole day" or even a few hours in your day, think of how much time and energy you spent in that state of discord, unable to fully focus on anything or anyone else. Imagine if, instead, you had allowed yourself some time to really experience your reaction to the event at the time it happened, found completion, and then chose to shift your attention away from it. The scenario might look like this:
"Oh! That crazy driver just cut me off!" At that moment ask yourself, "What emotions am I feeling right now?" Perhaps at first glance you might think, "I'm very angry at that jerk!" But seething with this anger keeps the focus of your emotions on the event and the other person, and away from your Self. Take a moment to ask again, this time looking further inward: "What am I really feeling now?" Perhaps the adrenaline rush is related to intense fear ("I could've been hurt or killed!"). Perhaps the anger is rooted in dis-empowerment or lack of control ("How did she not see me - it's as if I'm invisible!").
Whatever the answers, you have the opportunity in that moment to gain new information and insight about yourself, and to move in a more positive and healthy direction toward a sense of closure. With closure and completion comes the ability to truly "let it go", and perhaps next time you're cut off, you'll find it doesn't have to affect you as strongly or for as long as in the past. By choosing to pay attention to your true feelings in that moment, you empower yourself to make the situation work for you, rather than having it "ruin your whole day". On the more tangible side, you also gain back the time you would have spent recounting the story, re-experiencing the negative and ineffective emotions, and surrendering your power and energy to the event (and that other driver!). Imagine how different your days might be if you chose being with your Self in the present over re-living the past.
As you can see from this example, "taking care of yourself" and "taking time for yourself" need not be large time-consuming TODO tasks. They can be as simple as choosing to focus a moment on you. I employ this concept in one of my favorite "exercises" in the car: when I'm stopped at a red light, I let go of the steering wheel. This very simple action allows my hands, arms, shoulders, and back to rest, and most often a deep refreshing breath naturally follows. In those moments, I can bring my attention to myself, quickly checking in to notice "how I'm doing" before I'm off again. No time is lost or wasted, and yet in those moments, I give myself the privilege of being fully present to "smell my own roses".
So, maybe we can't "get it all done", but we can always choose to bring attention and awareness to our Selves in whatever we are doing. I invite you to try while you're out for a jog, or brushing your teeth, or even at the next red light:pick a "rose" - something that has meaning to you - and for few moments bring your full attention to it. As you do, notice what you notice about yourself - notice your thoughts, your feelings, your body. Then find completion, and let it go and move on. No time is added or wasted, yet by simply bringing your awareness to your Self, you've accomplished self-care. Congratulations, you got it all done.
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Date: 06/30/1998
Writer: D'Lyn Ford
ALBUQUERQUE -- To avoid split cabbage heads, brown cauliflower curds and bitter broccoli florets, plant these cole crops in early July for fall harvest. In warm areas of New Mexico, planting these crops in the spring causes them to mature in hot weather, said a New Mexico State University horticulture specialist.
"For optimum quality, cole crops should be direct-seeded in the garden during early July so they mature in the fall," Dickerson said. "Cool weather in the fall will reduce respiration in the plants causing sugars to accumulate. Growth is also slower, so crops like cabbage and kohlrabi don't split."
Before planting, it is important to prepare the seed bed with plenty of organic matter and a balanced fertilizer, he said. The distance between the plants will vary with the type of cole crop. Keeping the seeds moist with a drip irrigation system will ensure a good stand.
"Cole crops require a lot of nitrogen fertilizer," Dickerson said. "Since nitrogen fertilizers dissolve readily in water, most are applied in several split applications as the plants grow."
To apply the fertilizer, dig a trench with a hoe approximately two to three inches deep and about five to six inches away from the plants. Lightly scatter the nitrogen fertilizer in the trench and cover it with soil. Irrigate immediately so the fertilizer is dissolved and moved slowly to the feeder roots, he said.
"I like to plant to a stand using a hill system," Dickerson said. "Soil temperatures can be extremely hot in summer, so I plant the seed at least a half inch deep and cover it with vermiculite to reflect the sun and keep the seed cooler."
Two to three seeds in each hill will insure a stand as long as seeds are kept moist. Extra plants can be removed when the seedlings have at least two true leaves.
Dickerson recommends keeping an eye out for insects on developing seedlings this year. If seedlings look like they've been hit with birdshot, the problem may be flea beetles, he said. Later in the season, plants are often attacked by cabbage loopers, more commonly called the inch-worm.
An organic control for these worms is to spray or dust with a bacteria called Bacillus thuringensis (B.t.). Caterpillars will turn brown and die within a few days.
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An aurora borealis of unusual brilliance was noticeable in the sky last night, beginning about 7:30 o'clock.
University astronomical exports declared that there was nothing at all to be surprised at. They said last night's display was the fourth in the year, and that they were expecting it all the time because of the current intensity of sunspots, Sunspot activity, at present at the height of an 11-year cycle, is said to cause the "Northern Lights" by ionization of the upper atmosphere.
One peculiar aspect of yesterday's phenomenon was that it apparently radiated from overhead, and according to observers, centered directly above the CRIMSON building. Observatory authorities declined to comment.
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This year, I made Mr. RH swear that we would have a low-key Valentine's Day. As it turned out, we were working opposite shifts on the day itself... but as I was getting ready to leave work, Mr. RH told me there was a surprise for me - which turned out to be him.
That sentence was potentially a grammar sin, but the point is: Mr. RH switched his work shifts, thus resulting in me not spending my night alone eating Ramen noodles and clearing out my DVR.
Which, I'm not gonna lie, I was actually really looking forward to.
Instead, I got a night of Grey's Anatomy episodes and a chicken quesadilla. WITH guac. Ahh, romance.
In a move surprising both of us, we actually ended up only exchanging cards this V-day, no gifts or sweets of any kind. Although... SOMEONE in the house bought a bunch of clothes that they didn't need and someone ELSE bought themselves a Wii. Although it was sort of a delayed "wedding" gift, so technically that someone else actually got a "media tower" which is man-speak for an ugly shelf to put the 85 electronic gadgets we don't need to own on...
Bitter, party of
wife none.
Actually, I can say that we each did ONE romantic thing during the month of love: we both, on the same day, bought each other TWO boxes of Red Velvet oreos.
Which means my thighs are 4x as big as they should be and he hasn't gained an ounce. As per usual.
All in all, I would say it was a successful Valentine's Day. I got a card on a greeting card holiday, and all is right with the world.


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Reviews for Flacos
Average rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Based on 12 reviews.
|Only getting better with creative new menu offerings, including a dish they call Huarache, on a thick house made corn tortilla. Service was good, and there are plans to expand into other states and countries, per Antonio, the owner. Good to see the veg community supporting Flacos.
|Vegan Living
Reviews: 95
|best mexican food EVER! wish they would open another store in the SF or peninsula.
Reviews: 15
|Very happy to see a vegan place like this. they just extended the Friday and Sat hours till midnight. Will open on Sundays from 12 to ~5pm. This is another great place for late night vegan dining. I love their neon OPEN sign, it attracts people to come inside. I was there on a Sat night there were non stop customers coming at 9pm. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/01/13/
Reviews: 81
|Went on Saturday for lunch. I love the new restaurant, and the food is excellent. I had the soft tacos plate. The mole sauce is wonderful, as are the rice and beans. I tried the horchata (rice milk drink) and it's a new favorite drink now. Everything was great.
Reviews: 24
|Love their rice and beans, yum! With a big salad, that is a great meal. The hot salsa is too hot for me and I can usually eat very hot, spicy food. I don't like the flavor of their fake meat products though -- it's too bad they don't have tofu or seitan instead.
Reviews: 17
|Good food at a reasonable price, with courteous and friendly service. The spicy salsa is really hot! I liked both the taquitos and the banana leaf tamale.
|Jon Spear
Reviews: 8
|I don't normally eat processed foods like gluten, isolated soy protein, or fried food but...I CAN'T STAY AWAY! Soooo delicious. Love their avocado salsa, love their tamales, love their taquitos. Worth the indulgence -- but I always feel like I've eaten processed food afterward :-(
Reviews: 20
|All vegan Mexican food is a nice option to have. I tried a banana leaf tamale and the pozole and they were both tasty, but this is not "fresh Mex".
Reviews: 133
|TO DIE FOR vegan mex food. organic. home-made and you can tell...great flavors. I could live on just the rice and beans but if you put a plate of Flaco's "chicken" taquitos in front of me they would be gone in 10 minutes. Food is bright, clean, scrumptious. Friendly quick service. Well worth the money and we're lucky to have this option in the Bay Area! don't miss the avocado salsa.
Reviews: 12
|Antonio, the owner/founder, is a truly gracious, dedicated vegan, I had the privilege of working with him at a VegFair couple years back. Being mostly raw foods vegan now, I don't usually indulge in this kind of grain based food anymore. But his mole sauce calls to me when I'm at Berkeley farmer's market. Unfortunately it's put on a base of isolated soy protein, so I have to pass on that too.
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|After hearing so many rave reviews posted to SFBAVEG, I tried it for myself and I am now one of those giving a rave review! Very yummy!
Reviews: 138
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Orc Attack: Flatulent Rebellion
"Hey dude, let's make a video game."
"Sure, bro. What should we make?"
"Let's do something with orcs, dude."
"Naw bro, orcs are super done, bro."
"Let's make the orc fart, dude."
"Perfect, bro."
While I'm sure that's not how the actual conversation went when studio Casual Brothers decided to make Orc Attack: Flatulent Rebellion, that's basically the way it turned out in the end. Orc Attack is a simple hack and slash game that's over focused on bodily gases, just look at the description of the game:
"Fart or die in this hack-and-slash action game, where fun-loving Orcs battle pollution loving Humans in a humorous fantasy setting. Orcs have become victims of brutal Human expansion, as they are carelessly poisoning the environment. Now, four trained Orc heroes are retaliating with a Not-So-Silent yet very deadly plan. In either single-player or up to four-player co-op, you will take on the role of Orcs, each wielding a unique gaseous ability, and then take the fight to the Humans in a stinky, fart-filled romp."
The description sums up the entire game pretty well. Humans are invading the Orcs home and the Orcs are trying to get them out using their flatulatory powers. You control one of four orcs, all with names crudely related to farts, and fight a battle against the humans.
From the outset, you'll notice that only certain parts of the game are actually high definition. The character models look rather good for a $9.99 game and it's easy to tell that the bulk of the design budget was spent there. Sadly the rest of the world is filled with two dimensional visuals that are painfully apparent. The environments are flat and you'll fight the same character model thousands of times throughout the game. I have to give the game some credit in terms of level design. Each level looks, and feels, vastly different from the one before it. The snow levels are completely different than the desert levels. The enemies are different with each level also. While the basic enemy type is featured across the entire game, each level has at least two different, and unique enemy types. The snow levels have dwarves and mountain men, while the desert levels have mummies. The levels look nice enough that I was able to forgive the flat background and low resolution textures.
Sound on the other hand is a different beast all together, and by that I mean there's not much of it. The narrator is the only voiced character in the whole game. He does a decent job sounding like he's reading a child's fantasy book but the rest of the game is filled with grunts and the stormtrooper death scream from Star Wars. While it's always entertaining to hear an enemy die and scream like a stormtrooper, after you hear it nine times in the space of about 30 seconds it gets redundant and far too overdone. After playing through the first level you'll hear all the sound bites that the game has to offer and can safely put some headphones in and rock out to your own music while mindlessly mashing one button for the 5+ hours of the game's campaign.
Orc Attack is just that, a button masher, with deceptively simple, and often broken, gameplay. There's a button for heavy attacks, one for light attacks, another to pick up objects, one to fart, one to burp, and one to roll. You can, and will, get through 90% of the game only using the light attack button as dozens of enemies will swarm you on screen and stand there waiting for you to kill them. Occasionally, the game will throw a shielded unit into the mix and make you use your heavy attack to break the shield but even then that's not enough to break the monotony of a one button win. The game play is Orc Attacks biggest flaw. What separates games like God of War from games like this, other than the budget? It's the fluidity of the combat. Big name games like God of War let you attack quickly and at any moment during your attack switch to another move. You could be mid strike, notice an enemy attacking and quickly dodge away. Orc Attack lacks the ability to interrupt actions leaving you vulnerable while you wait for your strike to finish. This usually isn't a problem as only one or two enemies will try to attack you out of a mob of 30 but during boss fights it is painfully apparent. Boss fights fall into the rhythm of two hits and run away and the lack of interruptible attacks rears it's ugly head. Almost every boss in the game has two attacks, an area of effect attack and a charging attack and are as simple to beat as figuring out their pattern, which is almost always two area of attacks and then a charge. Boss battles become a simple grind as you have to be patient with your attacks.
Outside of boss battles, feel free to mash buttons to your hearts content. Another place where Orc Attack suffers is in its camera control, or lack there off. You have absolutely no control of where the camera decides to look. When you're in battle the camera will lock onto an enemy and follow that enemy regardless of where you are facing or moving. Outside of combat the camera usually stays behind you but occasionally, and almost always when trying to make a jump, the camera would spin around and face me blocking my view of what was in front of me. Once you complete a level and get back to the overworld screen you are granted experience and money from the enemies you defeated in that level. You can assign points to your strength, defense, speed, or magic, but it has little effects on the actual gameplay. The enemies seemed to always take the same amount of hits to kill even with max strength and I always took the same amount of damage with max defense. The money from levels can be spent in the store to buy potions to heal you or weapons to do additional damage, but ultimately the only thing I ever actually bought were the charms that allowed me to come back to life when the bosses felt like being trolls and instances of bad camera angles, which happened a lot.
Not everything in Orc Attack is bad though. The game can be lots of fun to play with other people, provided you can find them. On five separate attempts I tried to find a game to join and came up empty. Eventually I just bribed one of my friends with food and made him join me in a game. The shortcomings of the game become much more tolerable when you have someone to beat up the humans with you and keep you from having to repeat a level every time you die. Something odd I noticed about the game was that it actually makes two save files. One that is the main save file and one that it a backup save file. If the main save file is deleted, or becomes corrupted, the game automatically loads the backup save file and creates a new backup file. This is the first time I've seen any game do this and it's something that I can't praise highly enough.
For a $10 game Orc Attack is decent for the price. You get what you pay for in this case. Go in for a cheap game and you'll get is a cheap game. It will hold you over for a few hours, maybe more if you have some friends you can bribe/guilt into joining you, but don't expect to come back to it once you're finished.


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A recent Consumer Financial Protection Bureau report indicates the total amount of U.S. student loan debt has surpassed $1 trillion.
A recent Consumer Financial Protection Bureau report indicates the total amount of U.S. student loan debt has surpassed $1 trillion.
For the first time in U.S. history, student loan debt exceeds debt from credit cards and auto loans. But with the decline of unskilled labor jobs, more Americans are attending college than ever before. And that isn't a bad thing; college graduates earn much more on average than those who lack degrees, and a skilled workforce can produce goods and services of greater value.
Unfortunately, many students are leaving school without the requisite skills for an increasingly demanding job market — but with unmanageable debt that threatens the economic recovery, according to National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys President William Brewer.
"As bankruptcy lawyers, we're the first to see the cracks in the foundation," Brewer said to The Associated Press. "We were warning of mortgage problems in 2006 and 2007. ... Now we're seeing the same signs of distress. We're seeing huge defaults on student loans and people driven into financial difficulties because of them." ...
While students who attend for-profit colleges make up just 26 percent of all borrowers, they account for 43 percent of defaults since 2008, according to U.S. Department of Education statistics. The loan-default rate at for-profit colleges is 11.6 percent, compared to just 6 percent for public colleges and 4 percent for traditional private colleges. ...
In a global economy, higher education isn't just a necessity for those pursuing careers; it's a crucial component of a competitive economy. Congress and the White House should treat it as such, not as a cash cow for their lobbyist friends.


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The Novena of Grace began on Sunday 4 March and ended on Monday 12 March, anniversary of the canonisation of St Francis Xavier in 1622.
Each day of the novena, the prayer seeking the intercession of St Francis Xavier was recited at the end of Mass.
At the 12 noon Mass each day Fr Philip Griffin, of the Opus Dei Prelature, gave a special homily taking in an aspect of the life of St Francis Xavier. Practical lessons were drawn for ordinary life, and especially family life, as a preparation for the World Meeting of Families next August.
Novena Prayer to St Francis XavierO most kind and loving saint, in union with you I adore the Divine Majesty.


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In a Manner of Speaking: How to Fall in Love in English Language TermsCategories Articles
A follow up to Crime of Fashion by Alexa Lash – a writer, editor, and on-the-spot poet. Former Floridian and resident Bostonian, she has written for the Seminole Chronicle, Momslikeme, and the Central Florida Future, and is currently working in the Journalism Department of Emerson College.
"I picked up a rhyming dictionary last week, to find a word that rhymed with you and love, without slanting."
When seeking a mate (synonyms: partner, spouse, romantic comrade, lover) it is often best to ignore the lesson that antonyms attract, because people, inherently, are not opposite in meaning or intentions—no, no—people share basic needs. It is the structure of us that differs, some of us more descriptive—love is a many-splendored thing, changing as swiftly as the types of available social media–others motivated by prescriptivist notions, schoolbook-style and rule-driven (some might refer to these lucky souls as Type A+). While I am not prescriptivist myself, I do feel some rules were made to be followed, broken, tweaked, molded. When it comes to the language of love it depends on its speaker. Do you speak with a twang? An accent? Do you complain in whispers and compliment in yells? The way you use the language, combined with the occasional romantic hand gesture, makes all the difference when it comes to falling metaphorically in love (a literal fall would be both uncomfortable and dangerous depending on what love is actually made from; please see entry on wood, stone, fire, and steel). I have cobbled together a small swag of rules that'll help you find and keep your complement.
1. Be Bold
Dating, like word choice, requires affection. You pronounce your love both carefully and with consideration for your audience, or in the case of dating, your lover. You pronounce her (or him—see entry on gender) like a vowel, rounding out the O, the aaaaaah. You leave dignity, like modifiers, dangling, especially on that first date. The subject before the verb. You need to use direct speech, emphatic and unstressed. You need to drop capitals before you drop trousers, because it is more important to put your best qualities at the beginning of a sentence. Introductions, you see, are significant here. Insert compliments in bold tags (aka strong), with the occasional italicized word. Oh, my darling, you are beautiful, gorgeous, extraordinary.
2. Possession is Eight-Fifths of Some Law
Don't be one of those overly-possessive types, but do pay attention to how you express your devotions. Put motions forward to illustrate your desire for it to just be the two of you. Make it clear, because here is where it's tricky, where the language becomes muddled in abstract nouns and metaphors and non sequiturs. Tell her you want to be a collective of two. Synecdoche: you and me represented by the singular us.
3. Complementary, my dear Watson
When looking for love, you should be searching for the second in your dyad, a colligation in synonymous wants for comfort and caring (but don't overdo the alliteration). You must be the suffix to her prefix. (Too cheesy? Perhaps.) Romance is predicated on the idea that you have similarities in desires, urges, attractive qualities and occasional needs. In those places where a descriptive word is lacking, your complement fills the void. Adds the article where there is zero. Makes your subjects and verbs agree.
4. The Adverb (-ly)
Love him or her completely.
5. The Gerund Phrase (-ing)
Never stop loving him or her.
6. Sound Argument
This isn't about the phonetics, but the phone. Don't get caught up in the way your voice sort of accidentally lilts upward in a 13-year-old squeak. If you say you're going to call, then be active about it. Like familiarity, passivity breeds contempt.
7. Shampoo and Conditionals
When on a date, it is best to be in the moment; that is, don't judge your date based on a past relationship, and don't start talking about your future children with said date. It may scare him away, make her tense for the rest of the outing. Tenseness often presents a problem in the average date when you revert between stories of your past and ideas for your future. Stick to the present if you started with it.
Zero Conditional (certain to happen): If you treat her with respect, she'll respect you.
First Conditional (likely to happen, future): If the date goes well, you will ask her to go out again.
Second Conditional (unlikely to happen, future): If you dated her for at least a month, she would sleep with you (eventually).
Second Conditional (damn-near impossible, present): If you had more confidence, you would sleep with her.
Third Conditional (not going to happen, past): If you had taken her to dinner at a fancy restaurant, she would have slept with you.
Conditional Perfect (no one's perfect, let's just forget this one): You would have kept dating her if you had not been dating someone else at the same time.
8. Use Your Words
Your relationship, sentence-structured and fluid, needs a defined subject and verb. You must say her name proper-nounly, putting an accent on the i as you call her magnífico with your lips pursed in a descriptive curve. Together you are an adjectival noun, the young and the restless, the weird and the nerdy. You are all action and helpful. You hold her door and bow, like adding an exclamation point to the end of a sentence to say Hey, I like you! A lot!!! You must say things to your love that make him or her feel special. You must make him or her feel superlative. They are the greatest, prettiest, multitalentedest. You must say adjectives like perfect and rich, must use verbs like let's get outta here or let's tango. Diversify. Magnify. And eventually, multiply?
9. Descriptivist Behavior
Just as how you approach an essay varies from subject to subject, how you make your approach varies from person to person. Don't stick to the rules if the person you're with doesn't follow them. You may use contractions or you may not. You may like standard or you may like a man or woman rife with similes. Like. Like. Like, like.
10. Honesty is the Bestest Policy
Don't just be direct with your partner, be direct-object direct. The kind of direct that makes abstract nouns tremble. Don't tell a person you love them, if your only intention is usage. This is it. Your love life. A fragment of what it used to be. You and your significant other are parts of speech; and you must make sure you decide are you for or are you against love? Are you noun or are you verb? (Thesaurus: also known as, are you boy or man?)
11. Dress to Impress a Point
Watch what you wear; each article of clothing gives the looker a unique impression, sometimes negative, sometimes double negative. We wouldn't want that to not not be the case. Your outfit should be screaming personal pronouns (this is totally an I outfit). It is imperative you do not dress in visual slang. This rule also applies to apartments (see houses, dorms) and pet care.
Wanna read more captivating stories for geeks from Alexa's series? Check out Love Triangle: A High School Romance in Mathematical Terms, What is Luv: Another Love Poem in Internet Slang, Text Drive: An Inappropriate Poem in Textual Terms, Less than Three: A Love Poem in Internet Slang, Type M for Murder: A Mystery Short in Graphic Design Terms, Pub and Marriage: A Noir Short Story in Publishing Terms & Kern, Baby, Kern: A Relationship in Typographical Terms.


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Macro budshot of the day: Dank OG Kush
We got some OG Kush up in here. At least, that's what the name on the file says. One thing I know is that it looks dank.
I have 30 other shots in my collection like this one. They are all of exotic buds, and are all HI-RES! Leave a comment if you're interested in seeing some more top notch macro budshots.
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Reps. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), Jim Costa (D-CA), Steve Womack (R-AR) and Peter Welch (D-VT) introduced the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) Reform Act on Thursday to ease what its proponents argue are impacts of the ethanol mandate on consumers, energy producers, livestock and poultry producers, food manufacturers, retailers and the U.S. economy, according to a Meatingplace.com report.
The legislation would eliminate the biofuels mandate, beginning in 2014, and rescind the requirements of blending up to 15% ethanol into the fuel supply, according to animal protein lobby groups such as the National Chicken Council.
NCC President Mike Brown noted, for example, that since the RFS was enacted chicken producers alone have incurred $35 billion in cumulative additional feed costs.
"Chicken producers are certainly not anti-corn; and we're not even anti-ethanol. What we are against is a government mandate that artificially inflates the price of corn, picks winners and punishes losers among those who depend on it. The Renewable Fuel Standard Reform Act seeks to level this playing field by embracing free market principles," Brown said in a news release.
Also on Thursday, Rep. Steve Womack (R-AR) and Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA) introduced a separate bill, the Renewable Fuel Standard Amendments Act, which would solely zero-out corn from the RFS.
RFA response
The Renewable Fuels Association, however, called the legislation "silly" and that it reflected "circular logic."
"You can't legitimately say 'we support biofuels' and then pull the rug out from underneath companies that relied upon government policy and are now building biorefineries that create hundreds of construction jobs at each location or are hitting milestones in new production," RFA President and CEO Bob Dinneen said in a news release.


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Chicago Public Schools (CPS) CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett today made a public commitment to implement a five-year moratorium on CPS facility closures starting in fall 2013, should CPS be granted the extension to announce proposed school actions that it has requested from the Illinois General Assembly.
The moratorium would provide long-term stability to students, parents and school communities after CPS develops and enacts a comprehensive plan to right-size the District, which currently has space for 500,000 students, but only has 400,000 enrolled. CEO Byrd-Bennett announced the moratorium during a City Club of Chicago luncheon, where she presented her vision for the District and highlighted efforts to launch an open and transparent engagement plan to ensure that communities are involved at the front end of the school actions process.
"Mayor Emanuel recognizes that for many years CPS has made too many piecemeal decisions around school actions, which has caused unnecessary disruption to students, parents and schools across our city," said CEO Byrd-Bennett. "Once we execute a final, comprehensive plan to address the utilization issues facing our District, the Mayor has requested that we implement this moratorium as we believe this will bring stability to our school communities, and I will personally commit to ensuring that this is a commitment CPS keeps."
In order to rigorously engage the community and seek input into CPS' space utilization issues, CEO Byrd-Bennett appointed the independent Commission on School Utilization, a nine-member group with various expertise that will make recommendations to the CEO around right-sizing the District. The Commission will hold public meetings across the city, listen and gather input from parents, teachers and school communities, meet with subject matter experts and present a written report in March to guide CEO Byrd-Bennett in making decisions around school actions.
Chaired by Frank Clark, the former chairman and CEO of ComEd, the Commission is holding its first public hearing today at UIC to hear testimony from CPS officials and other researchers about school enrollment reports, finance challenges facing the District and other data being considered by the Commission. A transcript and video of the meeting, as well as future meeting dates, will be available on the Commission's website at www.schoolutilization.com. Next, the Commission will hold five public hearings to solicit community input, one in each part of the city.
"It is critical that before we take any measures to right-size our District that rigorous and transparent community engagement be done on the front end of this process, not the back end, so we can truly listen to the concerns and ideas of our school communities," added CEO Byrd-Bennett. "I believe this process will allow us to better position our District to have strong neighborhood schools in each community that provide our children with the high-quality education they deserve."
CPS is seeking a one-time extension from the Illinois General Assembly of the Dec. 1 statutory deadline to announce school actions. CEO Byrd-Bennett will travel to Springfield during the upcoming veto session to work with the original sponsors, State Senator Iris Martinez and State Representative Cynthia Soto, as well as other legislators, to amend the law governing school actions. If CPS receives the extension, the District would announce proposed school actions by March 31, 2013, after the Commission has made its recommendations to CEO Byrd-Bennett.
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Hi there, Well, I've been doling out my BAQ2 for around 3 years now. I do a gloss 3 times a year or so. Was searching the forum for replacements, and it looks like the suggestions for Yemen Light is also not in stock any longer. I tried the Punjabi Prime once, and it wasn't the right tone of red for me. My hair is (was) a very warm, golden red, and the BAQ2 was quite close. Not sure what to do now. Any suggestions anyone? Thanks!!
BAQ2 replacements
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Mon, 2013-09-23 22:31#1
BAQ2 replacements
Tue, 2013-09-24 07:07#2
Re: BAQ2 replacements
I think Jasmine is your best bet. Its suggested as a replacement for Punjabi Prime on the web site, but it has the closest dye content to BAQ2. You can always order a sample and try a strand test before you invest in a lot.
Tue, 2013-09-24 11:08#3
Re: BAQ2 replacements
Ok, thank you Jen. I'll try that.
Tue, 2013-09-24 12:06#4
Re: BAQ2 replacements
I just went to read about the jasmine. It says it has rose undertones, which is not at all what I want. What is great about the baq2 is the sunny golden tone. Maybe I can't get what I need here anymore :(
Wed, 2013-09-25 06:28#5
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I've never personally agreed with that "rosy" description. (honestly henna is the color it is. There's either more of it or less of it. Less gives amber, more gives auburn, and even more gives burgundy. Color is a pretty subjective topic, and to my eye "rosy" doesn't exist on that scale.) I don't think other henna suppliers really offer descriptions of the subtle differences of their henna's effect on hair. You might just be shooting in the dark. I also don't think anyone else offers $1.50 samples. It might be worth a try before you venture elsewhere.


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Hello world! Happy Easter!
That is an interesting concept, actually. People here do not celebrate
Easter unless they are members of our church. But even if they do not
recognize it, the whole world is affected by the events of Easter.
Everyone will live again.
My Easter was insane. Actually, it was very unusual. We woke up,
hurried to church to create our form for Mission Correlation Meeting
and then was informed that we were asked to go to Ward Council. So we
went to that, went to ward correlation and learned our ward will go
camping and they want us to come. Then we went to sacrament meeting
with our two friends. One is our friend from Taiwan, who gives the
most honest prayers I have ever heard in my life. The other is a
member's friend who went to a Christian church while she was doing a
homestay in Arizona. Both of them had a great time.
(side note here: I did not realize how big of a part wards play in
missionary work until I became a missionary. Our whole ward has been
dying for sister missionaries for months, apparently. So tgey have
been really supportive. And because we have a college in our area,
half of our ward is Returned Missionaries who still have the mission
fire inside of them. We can feel member's prayers in our work. THIS is
the lesson: after sacrament meeting, members came up, introduced
themselves, acted normal, and wanted to be friends with the new
people. That was it. And our investigators said they feel so
loved.That was it. I feel bad- I could have been better at that kind
of stuff.
That.....and the Bishop was so excited to have new investigators he
had them stand up in sacrament meeting.... but they were cool with it!
:) Okay, side note over)
So after sacrament meeting we LITERALLY RAN to the train station to
catch a train (we made it, bytheway) and traveled for two hours to
P姉妹 old area (which is about 10minutes from mine) to witness
her friend and her two children receive baptism. It was one of the
most beautiful things I have ever seen in the world- they all looked
so happy. We then stayed and talked, then got back on the train for 2
hours, made it home, ate dinner at about 7:30, texted out friends, and
collapsed in our futon.
That was my Easter. It was one of the best Easter's ever- seeing God
working in people's lives. Because He does. And #Because of Him we can
find more happiness than we could EVER find alone. I am not saying
this as a blanket statement-it is by experience that I know. And
everyone else can, too. It is so,so easy.
Happy Easter!!
The rest of the week was pretty wonderful as well. Had a sports night
with members!!! That was super fun. No matter what language people are
screaming...I still suck at volleyball. Saw someone outside watching,
and invited her in. She was super nervous, but then the Ward Mission
Leader came out and coaxed her inside using a cultural mix of "Come on
in" "Oh not, it's okay"s that I still don't know yet. But she had a
great time!!! It just goes to show that Mormons aren't
scary. In other news, my English is really bad. I find myself speaking in a
mix of Japanese and English all day. So it is a little difficult when
you meet someone who only speaks English.
Bought a plant today. (it's Monday) His name is Geronimo, because
P姉妹 thinks he is going to die. I picked him out because he
looked really sick. But I know that, because we took Him out of the
dollar store and will water him, he will get better.
This turned out very long. But I love you all! Keep being the
wonderful,すばらしい people you are!


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Thu Mar 28, 2013 3:40AM GMT
The importance of the BRICS summit cannot be overestimated partly because it represents new countries beginning to take power and partly because it heralds a new world coming into being."
Yes, BRIIICS, with three "I"s. That's because to the countries of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (which have just held a summit in Durban, South Africa) will soon be added Iran and Indonesia.
Iran is a stalwart moral and political leader. It stands up against Zionism. It has huge natural resources. It is making extraordinary technological progress. It will soon be a BRIIICS member.
And so will Indonesia, which has the world's fourth largest population, a fast developing economy (around 7% per year) and, again, huge natural resources.


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iPhone 5: How to Use Old SIM [Guide]
Some owners of iPhone 5 use old SIM cards with ease because they have read our guide and quickly changed the size of their card for "nano" standard. You can also learn how to use old Sim on iPhone 5, as this is not that difficult. In fact, you can follow this step by step instruction and realize how great you are at handmade. You can also read how to convert Micro Sim card into Nano Sim card for iPhone 5 Sim tray.
You do know that any SIM card is a piece of plastic with an electronic chip on it. The gold colored chip is the one responsible for the connection you get. It is of the same size and position no matter what device you are using. As for the plastic piece, it can be of various dimensions. It is usually bigger than the size of the chip because older devices with fewer components inside had much free space, so developers made SIM cards bigger to fill that space.
Most modern phones need a normal and micro SIM, while the latest Apple iPhone 5 requires a nano SIM card. Here is how users of iPhone 5 use old sim card with their new handset. They simply cut a normal card into a nano one. You can also try to cut SIM card for iPhone 5 yourself.
Use a Template to Cut SIM for iPhone 5
If you wish to use old sim with iPhone 5 you can cut it yourself with the help of a template. Do you have scissors at home? Make sure they are sharp enough to help you cut the card's dimensions properly.
Do your best not to damage the card. Be careful when cutting edges. Use this template to make the perfect size, just print it with 100 per cent resolution.
Get Your Cutter Tool
There is another way to create a nano SIM card. Simply get iPhone 5 cutter tool from Amazon or other sites and use it to cut a perfect card. This tool reminds of a hole punch tool. All you have to do is place the SIM you have into the tray and punch it out.
Which of the two ways would you choose?


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Amazon Studios on Tuesday said it has signed Woody Allen to write and direct his first television series ever.
The half-hour series will be called "Untitled Woody Allen Project," and it has received a full season order. Customers will be able to see the series only on Prime Instant Video in the U.S., U.K., and Germany. Terms of the deal weren't disclosed.
"Woody Allen is a visionary creator who has made some of the greatest films of all-time, and it's an honor to be working with him on his first television series," Roy Price, vice president of Amazon Studios, said in a statement. "From 'Annie Hall' to 'Blue Jasmine,' Woody has been at the creative forefront of American cinema and we couldn't be more excited to premiere his first TV series exclusively on Prime Instant Video next year."
Allen said in a statement: "I don't know how I got into this. I have no ideas and I'm not sure where to begin. My guess is that Roy Price will regret this."


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A sophomore at Laurence Manning Academy has earned recognition as one of two South Carolina Youth Volunteers of 2018 for ideas she implemented to improve relations between law enforcement agencies and the residents of Clarendon County.
Alyssa Gottheiner, 15, whose parents are retired police officers, was recognized by The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards, a nationwide program that partners Prudential Financial and the National Association of Secondary School Principals to honor young people for outstanding acts of volunteerism.
"I wanted to make a change in my community," Gottheiner said after accepting the award. "The goal was to provide positive interactions for the benefit of law enforcement and the community."
As one of the South Carolina honorees, Gottheiner received $1,000, an engraved medallion and an all-expenses paid trip in late April to Washington, where she and South Carolina's other honoree, Gracey Chafin, 11, of Graniteville, will join honorees from all 50 states and the District of Columbia for four days of national recognition events.
In Gottheiner's program titled "Clarendon County Hometown Heroes," she organized a student essay contest and a "Community Day" to help improve relations between local law enforcement and the residents of her county.
Gottheiner, who garnered support for her program from Clarendon County Sheriff Tim Baxley, spread news of her program by distributing 3,000 fliers at more than 10 local schools and through social media, her church and a local newspaper. Each essay winner would get to have breakfast with the law enforcement officer he or she showcased and ride to school in the officer's patrol car. Later at a county staff meeting, Gottheiner would present those officers showcased in the winning essays with a special plaque.
Part two of Gottheiner's program included a "Community Day," where law enforcement officers, firefighters and first responders could interact with the students. Gottheiner had more than 50 sponsors and more than 30 volunteers participate throughout the day providing free food, games, bounce houses and patrol cars and fire trucks for the children to observe up close.
"First responders work so hard dedicating their lives to our community," Gottheiner added. "I want them to know how much we appreciate what they do and the sacrifices they make for us."
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One contestant will be eliminated on tonight's episode of "American Idol," which airs at 9 p.m. on Fox.
Tuesday, the 12 remaining singers took on the Lennon/McCartney songbook with mixed results. Surprisingly, one of the biggest standouts was Chikezie's unique take on "She's a Woman." Previously, Chikezie -- a 22-year-old airport security inspector from Inglewood, Calif. -- had been regarded as a mediocre contestant long overdue for elimination.
But a fair share of contestants suffered. Perhaps the most criticism went to Kristy Lee Cook's botched country rendition of "Eight Days a Week." And David Archuleta, long considered this season's front-runner, forgot the lyrics to "We Can Work It Out" in a performance judge Simon Cowell called a mess.
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The father of highly regarded big man prospect Daniel Orton said on Wednesday that Kentucky was the favorite in the recruiting race for his son.
"I would kind of say that," Larry Orton said.
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When asked why Kentucky was the favorite, the elder Orton had a one-word response: "Basketball," he said.
Orton, the son, plans to visit basketball country at an optimal time. He has set up an official campus visit for Oct. 9-11, the weekend Kentucky will stage its Big Blue Madness celebration.
Orton, the son, a 6-foot-10, 256-pound center/forward, said Kentucky was among his top three schools, along with Kansas and Ohio State. Orton, who lives in Oklahoma City, also mentioned Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Texas.
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text: STAR LAKE, SASKATCHEWAN — GOLD! Saskatchewan's only producing gold mine may be sitting on a gold mine. Five thousand tons of ore have been taken out of the mine in the province's northern reaches since work began at the end of last year and it is expected to yield an additional 230,000 tons before it is played out. The ore contains about half an ounce of gold a ton. That means at least 80,000 ounces of gold, worth $32 million to $40 million at present prices. ''But we're very optimistic that there is more in the surrounding area and below where we're mining now,'' said Ray Lloyd, president of the Crown-owned Saskatchewan Mining Development Corp.


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I am playing a game with myself: how long can I keep going this year without repeating myself, in culinary terms? (I exclude cold, uncooked food such as sandwiches or raw fruit.) So when I unpacked a lovely bunch of Swiss chard from my vegetable box this week, I dismissed all thoughts of my usual ways of cooking it and sought inspiration for something new. In an Italian Cookbook I came across a Torta di biete e carciofi. Naturally, there had to be a few adjustments, I added pine nuts for extra crunch and feta cheese, which I think complements Swiss chard ever so well. The olive oil based pastry was new to me, lovely to work with and crunchy when warm but it does not compare to ordinary short crust when cold, so I think this tart needs to be eaten straight from the oven.
Swiss Chard and Artichoke Tart
500 g flour
1 tsp salt
4 tbsp Olive Oil
250 ml cold water
Mix the above and knead until you have a smooth dough. Cover and leave to rest while you prepare the filling.
1 onion
500 g Swiss Chard
500 g of artichokes (tinned)
100 g feta cheese
parmigiano, fresh herbs (optional)
50 g pine nuts
Finely chop the onion and sweat off in olive oil. Wash and cut the Swiss chard, and add to the pan. Drain the artichokes, add to the pan and increase the heat so that unnecessary moisture will be cooked off. Mix Feta, parmigiano and pine nuts with the vegetables. Season with salt, pepper and fresh herbs, if you like.
Roll out 2/3 of the pastry and line a springform with it, cover the bottom with breadcrumbs - these will absorb moisture and prevent a soggy bottom. Add the folling, press down and roll out the remaining pastry to make a lid. I found the pastry extremely pliable, it lends itself well to nice decorations. Brush pastry with olive oil and cook at 200 C for 15 minutes, reduce temperature to 190 and cook a further 40 minutes. Serve hot!


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January 10th, 2013
January 10th, 2013
Instead of taking action on counterfeit parts being used in our military aircraft, Conservatives have turned to counterfeit logic to defend their photo-op driven approach to military procurement.
We don't have any particular concerns in this country. I have been advised that the checks and balances we have in our country are sufficient.
– Julian Fantino, Associate Minister of National Defence, CBC, Oct 24, 2012
The microchips which are suspected to be counterfeit are nevertheless doing the job... If they need to be replaced, if they're unsafe, if they're not functioning, they will be replaced.
– Chris Alexander, Parliamentary Secretary to the National Defence Minister, CBC, Jan 9, 2013
So, Conservative Ministers are not "particularly concerned" because there are sufficient "checks and balances." Until such time as a component fails, potentially endangering the pilot's life, then the parts "will be replaced".
This tortured logic coming from Conservatives comes as no surprise. Just further evidence of their penchant for never accepting they're wrong, refusing to ever say they're sorry and for putting talking points ahead of providing sound public administration.


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Kaka Point Luxury Spa Accommodation - Catlins
Located in the small seaside township of Kaka Point, situated on the Southern Scenic Route, in the Catlins. We offer king studio, luxury, double spa, quality units overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
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Comfortable, quality, self-contained accommodation in the small seaside township of Kaka Point on the Southern Scenic Route in the catlins.
Enjoy uninterrupted, panoramic, views of the pacific ocean and Nugget Point Lighthouse from the privacy of your unit. Relax in your own, therapeutic, double spa. Awake to the sun rising over the ocean and enjoy spectacular coastal scenery.
Surrounded by an abundance of wildlife in their natural habitat including Fur Seals, Sea Lions and a nearby, rare, Yellow - Eyed Penguin Colony. Teaming with bird life.
100m walk to swimming/surfing beach, cafe and bar. Native bush walks nearby.
Sleeps up to three people with a single foldaway bed. Fully equipped kitchen - fridge/freezer, microwave, two cook tops.
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Kaka Point Luxury Spa Accommodation - Catlins, 26 Esplanade, Kaka Point, Clutha, New Zealand.
Horario de apertura
- Horario comercial:
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- Meses de funcionamiento:
- Todos los meses del año
Instalaciones y características
- Room Service
- Children Welcome
- Proximidad con el aeropuerto:
- 100km South of DunedinAirport
- Proximidad con el terminal de autobuses turísticos:
- 20km from Balclutha
- Proximidad con el pueblo:
- 100m
- Cantidad de habitaciones:
- 2
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|$165.00 - $190.00
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As the sun came up on Saturday morning we dragged ourselves out of bed to head off to Kwinella for a cluster based Phonics workshop. Although Edrissa had returned my bike the night before from its most recent breakdown, we decided it would be safer all round if I were to go on the back of Lucy's bike. I took the essentials out of my trusty rucksack and packed them and the course materials into the box on Lucy's bike. It's very handy having a metal box for transporting things. I don't have one, or a number plate, but no-one seems to mind very much. The drawback of a big metal box however is the way it bangs into your spine as a passenger when going over bumps. I can normally put up with this for the quick journey to the office and back, but for an hours trek on a seriously bumpy road, my trusty kidney belt got it's premier outing. This is something that was recommended in our kit list and from my searches on ebay, seems to be worn by trail riders. It is a bit like a corset that goes around your waist, with thick rubber support for the small of your back. It has a Velcro fastening around your stomach and is incredibly hot to wear. I'm not certain what it is supposed to do normally, but it's great protection against metal boxes.
Off we went in the relative cool of the morning, a fantastic opportunity for me to watch the birds as a passenger, which are stunning here, very colourful and have increased tenfold since the rains. We regularly see birds of prey circling overhead, their enormous wingspan catching your attention. About 20 minutes into the ride we pulled over to stretch our legs, or so I thought. Not having much room to move with 2 and a box on a bike and holding your feet still on tiny pegs over enormously jarring bumps, really takes its toll on the joints. It turned out that we'd stopped because something had stung Lucy through her trousers on the upper thigh. She rolled her trouser leg up to inspect the damage, drawing the attention of a few passers-by in a Muslim country where thighs are much more erotic than breasts! There are definite benefits to being a passenger - a built in human shield being one of them. Obviously having swapped bags due to limited space, I didn't have my handy bite cream, so Lucy just had to suffer. Off we went again. The rest of the journey passed without incident, except for the part where children threw stones at us as we passed. I swore loudly. Sometimes it is necessary. We arrived on time at Kwinella, prepared ourselves for the workshop then sat and waited for everyone else to turn up - which they did eventually.
The day went well. Many workshops we have experienced here have had teachers sitting all day listening, with content pitched too high and deviation from the schedule allowed for intense arguing about the smallest details. We steered away from this, knowing what we wanted to achieve and having a good idea of what level to pitch it at from our work so far with teachers. We demonstrated a phonics lesson, then split teachers into small groups. Each member of the group received a sound they had to teach to their group. They were given the steps they had to follow and shown how to use the handbooks that are already in schools to find the story for their sound and the action. We moved around watching these lessons and offering advice where needed. Interestingly, although we had provided the steps that had to be followed on a small piece of card for each group, teachers spent their time writing out a lesson plan, then not really following it, reflecting what we have observed in schools on the rare occasions we have seen a lesson plan. Progress was made, but maybe not as much as we'd have hoped. We continued with some work on blending and games for learning vocabulary which were thoroughly enjoyed. We learned very quickly when we arrived that Gambians love to play games. This is a problem in class, when you show teachers games they can play or observe them being played, teachers find it very hard not to jump in and answer all the questions themselves - we often remind them to let the children play!
There is a procedure here for applying for funding to run training, but experience has shown that the process is lengthy and funding may not be received before the end of a placement. As a result, rightly or wrongly, many volunteers fund training themselves from their meagre allowance. If you are running a regional workshop teachers are paid a travel allowance, an accommodation allowance and are given their meals. For cluster based workshop like we were running, teachers are expected to fund their own travel - although in reality they will often having to travel many kilometres through the bush where no transport is available. We paid for the food for 45 people. This is very different to at home where many teachers will choose training according to the location and it's reputation for food, but will pay handsomely for the privilege. Training completed on what turned out to be an incredibly hot day, over 100 degrees I believe, we drained the last of our water and got back on the bike for the return journey. About 10 mins down the highway the bike lost power and slowed to a standstill. Fantastic. There was no re-starting it, so we gave in, stripped off the unnecessarily hot clothing and phoned the mechanic. He didn't sound too thrilled to be phoned late on a Saturday afternoon and told us to clean the spark plug then try again. Great because we both knew how to do that. Feeling slightly panicked at our lack of water and shade, (of course I didn't have my suncream, that was in the bag I didn't bring) we compared our phone situation. I had battery but little credit, Lucy had credit but little battery. We called the lovely Cluster Monitor, Seedy Jammeh, who we'd just spent the day with and asked where we should look for the spark plug. By the time we had figured out the correct combination of spanners, cleaned the spark plug and returned it to it's rightful home we were exhausted. Luckily we had broken down on a particularly rough patch of road, meaning the gellies were forced to fly past us dangerously close. I tried to move the bike further off the road, slipped in the loose rubble and dropped the bike on my arm. That was nice. When the bike failed to start after cleaning the spark plug, we started to worry more. We called the mechanic back, he hung up on us. People don't say goodbye on the phone here, so this often takes you by surprise. Did this mean he was pissed off at us calling on a Saturday and he wasn't going to come, or that he was going to come? He didn't say. I phoned Terry, explained my credit situation and asked him to call the mechanic and plead our cause. Lucy set off with the empty bottles to try and collect some well water from a school she though might be just over the brow of the hill. I sat in the sun and waited, imagining our long slow death in gruesome detail. Lucy called, the mechanic had phoned and was on his way.
Lucy returned triumphantly with one full bottle of well-water and one half-full flask. A strange decision I felt considering our stranded situation. Not long after we saw Seedy arrive on his bike with a headteacher he was taking home on the back. Such relief to see a friendly face! He jumped onto the bike and started it first time. We were understandably embarrassed. He roared off down the road only to slowly judder to a halt in a replay of our original breakdown. Dignity restored. Seedy cleaned the spark plug again, clearly not trusting us to have done it properly the first time, the bike started again with the same result. He unclipped the fuel pipe suspecting water in the fuel and called us over to watch muddy water pour out of the fuel pipe. At least it wasn't us being rubbish. Lucy set off to replenish our again depleted water supplies and returned with the
mechanic, who looked distinctly unimpressed. He dispatched Seedy on his bike to collect a container for the fuel. He showed us the carburetter filled with water. We waited whilst the fuel was drained, the water poured away and everything cleaned and put back together. There has been an ongoing conversation with the mechanic about us leaving our bikes in the rain. Yes Dad I know. I have told him if he finds us something to use as a ramp I am happy to put the bike under cover, but I can't lift it up the step. My counter-arguments include; my bike was breaking before the rains started, Lucy's bike has been in the rain just as much as mine and is fine (or was), everyone else leaves their bike in the rain and are fine. I personally have my suspicions about the fuel itself, but stranded in the middle of nowhere, we weren't in a position to argue.
We made our way home. Just to add to our anxiety, every time we slowed down to 2nd gear the bike cut out and took a whole lot of effort to restart. It didn't feel very fixed to me. We made it home eventually, tired and a little emotional, with my view of motorbikes reinforced. I skipped dinner and went straight to bed, waiting for the well-water to take it's revenge.
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It's Remember a Charity Week
This year, Remember A Charity Week (11-17 September) will call on the public to 'Have Your Say on the World You Want to Pass On', inspiring people to leave a gift in their Will. The Remember a Charity website contains details of the roadshows being held in 5 cities across the UK during the week and has plenty of useful information about how to write a will.
Since setting up our own simple guide last year that explains the different ways people can remember Woodcraft Folk in their will, woodcraft.org.uk/leaving-legacy-woodcraft-folk, we have seen an increase in interest in this type of giving.
For over ninety years, Woodcraft Folk has been working with children and young people with the aim of building a world based on equality, friendship, peace and social justice.
Jon Nott, General Secretary, explains,
'As an organisation rooted in the co-operative movement, we are determined to communicate to younger generations a simple message: that co-operation rather than competition is the way to a better future.
Our organisation has been built on the voluntary efforts of many thousands of people, who have offered both their time and their money to help develop our work.
Now we are engaged in a major new development drive to ensure we have the resources to carry forward our message towards our 100th birthday in 2025. Remembering us in your will is one way you can help secure the future of Woodcraft Folk.'


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Our brand new website goes live on the the 1/11/11.
As of the 1st of November 2011 COW Vintage products will be available to purchase online for the first time from our brand new website. We have been working on this for a long time and hope you all are looking forward to the launch as much as we are.
Some of you keen followers may have noticed this date has been put back slightly. This was due to some technical problems that have now been ironed out but also allows us at COW to put loads more lovely special vintage items online for your viewing and shopping pleasure.
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