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A piece looking at the rookie's and how they might fit into the 2013 picture. I think Jordan Hill in particular could have a surprisingly big impact. Think there's also an interesting take on Christine Michael's role.
LINK: http://seahawksdraftblog.com/projecting ... es-rookies
"Arian Foster arrived in 2010, establishing himself as one of the best running backs in the NFL. Houston still spent a second round pick on Ben Tate in 2011. That year, Foster recorded 1224 yards and ten touchdowns. Tate managed 924 yards and four touchdowns as a rookie. The move allowed the Texans to spell Foster and limit his carries to 278 for the season (49 less than 2010). When Tate got injured during the 2012 campaign, Foster again had to pick up the slack and had a career high 351 carries. Lynch had 315 in 2012 (5th most in the NFL) and the Seahawks might want to get that down to around the 260-285 mark (Frank Gore had 258 carries last year). Drafting Michael allows them to do that and like Tate in 2011 he could see around 175-200 snaps."
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OXFORD, Miss. (April 6, 2013) – Senior Chloe Garner (Somerset West, South Africa) remained in contention on the individual leaderboard and the ETSU women's golf team continued to stay in the hunt as a team following second round action Saturday in the Rebel Intercollegiate at the Ole Miss Golf Course.
Garner and sophomore teammate Gabriella Wahl (Heidenheim, Germany) fired team-best rounds of 2-over-par 73 and both are currently in the Top 10 individually. Garner is fourth and just four strokes back of Baylor's Hayley Davis, the tournament leader, while Wahl is tied for seventh.
As a team, the Bucs are sitting in the fifth spot out of 18 teams, and are 13 strokes back of first place Coastal Carolina.
"We are loving the great weather here and enjoying the golf course," said ETSU head coach Stefanie Shelton. "Today was another fun day to be out competing. I am proud of the ladies performance again as they had another solid round. We look forward to the opportunity to play this golf course one more time."
Along with Garner and Wahl, other ETSU results included a tie for 32nd by freshman Vivienne Chin (Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Malaysia) and a tie for 49th by junior Lourdes Lopez (Cadiz, Spain).
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On July 31, The John Train Band performed the seventh and final show in the 65th Pastorius Park Concert Series. The band ended the longstanding tradition in front of a packed audience who were treated to a powerful and diverse performance. And even though this summer isn't quite over yet, one can't help but look forward to next summer and the concerts it'll bring. If they were anything like this year you can rest assured the shows will be fun, entertaining, and memorable – and that's why the tradition continues to last.


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A heavy-duty construction shovel today demolished the cinder-block pump house on the north end of Echo Park Lake as part of an $85-million lake clean up project. Few if any residents objected when city engineers announced that the pump house, erected at the tip of a peninsula that juts into the lake, would be torn down and relocated to a new location on the south end of the lake. The frequently tagged building, which contained mechanical equipment, marred a vista of the lake and occupied a spot that once served as the original home of the Lady of the Lake, a 1930s Art Deco-style statue that was removed after it had been heavily damaged. After the Lady of the Lake was restored in the late 1990s, the statue had to be located on the east side of the lake since the pump house had taken its place.
"I've been looking forward to the day that abomination was torn down," said Stephen Roullier, who took photos of the pump house being torn down. "The new pump house is near the south east corner – a much better location."
Now, with the pump house gone, the stage is set for the Lady of the Lake to return to her original and prominent lake front spot. The before-and-after images below depict how the peninsula will change with the removal of the pump house and return of the Lady of the Lake. Roullier, who snapped the demolition photo above, also took a photo in 1974 that shows what the Lady of Lake looked like in its original location.


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Let us never forget that when Bill Clinton left office in January 2001, this country enjoyed a healthy $236 billion surplus, and the projections were that this surplus would grow by a total of $5 trillion over a 10-year period.
What happened? How did we go from a significant federal budget surplus to a massive deficit? Frankly, it is not that complicated.
President George W. Bush and the so-called deficit hawks chose to go to war in Afghanistan and Iraq and put the funding for those wars on our nation's credit card. By the time the last wounded veteran is cared for, those wars will end up adding more than $3 trillion to our national debt.
During this same period, Bush and the "deficit hawks" provided huge tax breaks to the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans who were already doing phenomenally well. These tax breaks for the very rich will increase our national debt by about $1 trillion over a 10-year period.
In addition, Bush and the "deficit hawks" established a Medicare prescription drug program written by the pharmaceutical and insurance industries. This program, which is far more expensive than it should be because it prohibits the federal government from using its purchasing power to negotiate cheaper drug prices, was not paid for. As a result, about $400 billion will be added to our national debt over a 10-year period.
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And now, as we approach the election and a lame-duck session of Congress, these very same Republican "deficit hawks," the folks who, to a significant degree, created the deficit crisis, are presenting some horrendous ideas about how we should get out of the mess that they caused. Sadly, they have been joined by some Democrats.


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The end of summer always comes as a bit of a shock. I'm not talking about the lack of beach days, road trips or forest hikes – I'm a spoiled Californian, after all, and can enjoy these activities nearly year-round.
No, I'm talking about breakfast.
There is a time of the year, usually in late October or early November, where yogurt, fruit and granola simply stop being appealing. The 'last chance' peaches sit, neglected and rotting, in the airing cupboard. The jar of Saint Benoit yogurt remains in the fridge, untouched. And the granola jar has long run dry.
For someone who spent her first 12 years of life eschewing breakfast (until I read in Sassy magazine that doing so can actually make you gain weight), I certainly give it a lot of thought these days. (Chuh, I don't want to get fat!)
So what does one make on a chilly fall morning for a quick breakfast?
Well, lately I've been simmering oatmeal with an apple grated into it. But that's not particularly exciting, now is it? (Still, I may bore you with it in a later blog post.)
If you're not in a rush, though, you can have this glorious baked pancake puffed and ready to eat in less than an hour.
The other day I was seduced at Rainbow not by a cute produce worker (sadly), but rather some slender and fragrant Japanese pears. Their skin was sticky to the touch, and they smelled of tropical fruits, like guava or passion fruit. I came upon this Deborah Madison recipe, which I've been wanting to try since I purchased the book seven years ago, and mixed up the batter. I lovingly sliced the pears, and with much anticipation, tasted one-
-and realized my error! It was a secret asian pear – tasty, but crisp and almost watery; certainly not a pear you would want to bake with. I guess the 'Japanese' bit should have tipped me off, but in my defense, they looked nothing like the apple-round 'asian pears' one usually meets in the fall.
But I made the pancake thingy anyway, and despite the lack of 'buttery' (as the recipe calls for) pears, it was still awesome. Dramatically puffed from the oven, it was a sight to behold. The barely sweet batter encased lightly-caramelized pears flecked with freshly ground cardamom. The crusty brown edges made a satisfying contrast to the delicate interior, and despite my greatest fears, the pears tasted tender and, well, pear-like.Drizzled with a bit of warm maple syrup, it felt decadent and nourishing all at once.
I compared clafoutis to an oven pancake, so it probably won't be particularly helpful when I compare the texture of this oven pancake to a clafoutis. But I'm gonna do it anyway.
This is like a breakfast version of clafoutis. Where clafoutis is rich and sweet, this batter contains milk, rather than half and half, and no sugar (2 tablespoons flavor the pears, but the batter itself contains none.) Clafoutis puffs a bit, but not nearly as much as this bad boy. Clafoutis would be offended if you deigned to pour maple syrup over it, but this pancake begs for it shamelessly.
I casually studied Traditional Chinese Medicine for a time (I did live in Santa Cruz, after all), and learned that baking foods in the oven makes them not only hot in temperature but warming to the body, having been slowly infused with heat. Whether you buy this or not, turning on the oven undeniably warms up the house. It is said that pears benefit the lungs, important during flu season, and cardamom, a warming spice, aids digestion and increases spleen chi. (I won't go into all the smack they talk about sugar, eggs and dairy, though.)
See? Even Chinese medicine agrees – this is an ideal breakfast for fall. It may not be quick enough to make before work, but it is simple enough to throw together on a leisurely bojon morning.
And nearly as virtuous as a granola bowl.
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3 tablespoons butter
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
4 eggs
1 cup whole milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 – 3 medium, buttery pears, ripe but firm, cut off the core and sliced 1/4 – 1/2″ thick
1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom
juice of 1/2 lemon
2 tablespoons sugar
powdered sugar for dusting (optional)
maple syrup for drizzling
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Combine the flour and salt in a large bowl, make a well, and add the eggs. Whisk to combine, adding the milk little by little until the batter is smooth. Whisk in the vanilla and about two-thirds of the melted butter. Set aside.
Heat the skillet with the remaining butter over a medium flame, and brush some of the butter around the rim of the skillet. Toss in the pears, cardamom, lemon juice and sugar. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the pears are tender and the sugars are beginning to caramelize, about 10 minutes.
Pour the batter into the hot pan over the pears and place in the oven. Bake until golden and dramatically puffed, as though trying to escape from the pan, about 25 minutes. Dust with powdered sugar and cut into wedges. Drizzle with maple syrup and serve immediately.
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Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2000 2:53 pm
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Can someone share info re wavesailing in Australia? West vs east coast? Good places to camp, rent a van and equipment for about 10days?
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Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2000 2:51 pm
Post subject: RE: Australia early Dec?
I will ask my buddy in Melborne.
He sails a lot down south.
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Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2000 3:55 pm
Post subject: RE: Australia early Dec? West Coast Rules!
West Coast definitely. I spent about 3 months down there drove from melbourne to Perth up the west coast and then back to Sydney. I wasnt windsuring the whole time so just picked up my gear at Perth Airport (had a friend ship it). All west coast wavesailing is port tack which can be a little wierd for those used to sailing in Hawaii and califonia.
Pick up a car in Perth, rentals are pretty expensive. most people going for a few weeks buy a beater you can find in the hostels.
Perth has an afternoon thermal wind called the freemantle doctor which during the summer blows almost every day in the 15-20 knot range. Its mostly side-on and the waves are generally mushy and shore break but can be good fun.
(theres also some flat water sailaing in the estuary) Further south is an area called margaret river. Reef break which can hold huge waves (up to 5 meters). Water is refreshing but not cold. Its wine and forest country kind of like Nothern California.
abaout a dayd drive from Perth across the bottom of australia (south coast) is a spot called esperance which is probably the most amazing coastline I have ever seen. Pure white sand crystal clear water You can see the bottom 30 feet down while you are sailing! Huge granite headlands and very powerful clean waves. Wind is frontal and can get cloudy and cool (and still for a few days). Esperance gets alot of its power from wind farms which is always a good sign. Youd be most comfortable in a wetty youd wear in the gorge in the early summer. Its not quite shorty temparatures.
back to Perth and heading NOrth a few hundred Km there is a place called geraldton. WHich has a large variety of wavesailing locations. Waves are not as clean as Margaret river (side on mostly) and the water can be pretty opaque and green . just north of town about 15 k is a spot called Coronado. You can camp on the beach (no facilites) it can get stinking hot. flat inside before hitting the waves which makes it slightly less intimidating than some spots. huge port jumps.
There are more spots up north from geraldton which are really remote but have really nice Reef breaks: Narloo etc. The surfers rave about the waves there but I didnt hear any windsufing reports and wasnt interested in a no-aircoditioned days drive in 103 degrees. The further north you go the hotter and drier it gets. temperatures over 105 are not uncommon. north of geralton.
Hope this gets you started.
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Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2000 4:01 pm
Post subject: RE: Australia early Dec? Gear
Oh yeah, Gear - Air New Zealand took my gear for free. Id recommend taking your own, but there are a variety of shops in Perth that I am sure you could rent gear from.
If you take your own make sure you dont tell customs youre going to sell it before returning home. but if you do you can get a good price for used gear (beter that here)
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Great info, thanks!!!!
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Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2000 11:45 pm
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Ras - if you are going for 10 days from the US, East may be your best bet! Jason Polakow is from Torquay, in Southern victoria - also near where Bells beach is. May I recommend the personal service at Sailboard HQ in Sandringham (Melbourne) Victoria. You can rent a camper (not worth the purchase haggle for 10 days) or take the train to Torquay and rock up to a shop. Windsurfing is a brotherhood in Aus. And for a coupla cold tinnies and your best wipeout story, youll have mates for life (not to mention a ride to the best waves the next day!) But beware! The wind, waves and ocean are temperamental that time of year and a bluey (cold, blue north wind) could still blow in an knock you to Tasmania!!!! The water is cold in the east, and I (ok, Im a girl) wear a 3 mil, booties, gloves and sometimes a hood.
West is best when you have the time (5 hours by plane from Sydney or Melbourne) - a full day, but Ive waited for 5 days for wind at Lancelin and there is nothing else to do there but sail. But most of my mates DO go out west for the month of December if they can handle it.
I would hire a car with rack and either camp or stay in hostels/pubs. Look into hostelling international (www.iyhf.org) where accomodation is A$7-20 per night in dorm-styles - you get to meet a lot of people. Have a blast and say hi to Luke at SHQ for me.
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Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2000 4:25 am
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I live on the east coast in south east queensland and although early december is a good time for us , i would recomend south western Australia fly into Perth buy an older car or rent and head south the best winds are north but it is a little late for the best waves if you choose the east a coast a lttle town just south of Sydney,called Gerrora won t dissapoint
There are some rentals available in West Oz
have a great holiday
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Genealogy in the Hills/Hackett tree grew from an occasional interest to what my family has come to see as an addiction. Not that I'm an expert, by any means. But genealogy is a source of enormous pleasure.
Early in this journey, my mom, a Hackett, gently waved a gauntlet by saying, " You won't find anything about your father - he was an only child. And nobody in my family knows anything." (The emphases were hers.) More than a decade after her death, countless tidbits of information, a collection of stories and dozens of family names are stashed away in binders, files, books and stray pieces of paper. She would be astonished and, despite her general aversion to history, fascinated.
This blog is not an attempt to catalogue everyone on the tree. Besides - some of what I think I know is probably wrong. Pardon me, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, for adapting your quote, but every genealogist understands there are ancestors we know we know, there are ancestors we know we don't know and there are ancestors we don't know that we don't know.
I'll be sharing notes about the people I know that I know, hoping to hear from others about people I know that I don't know and learning about people I never suspected are attached to the Hills/Hackett Tree. And so, here we are!
Tree links: 7th great granddaughter of Joseph Hills, 2nd great granddaughter of William Hackett


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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
ERP vendor pricing: lifetime customer value
Dennis Moore has an interesting post on pricing of ERP systems, specifically on why a vendor might be willing to accept less than the maximum amount that a customer is willing to pay.
He lists a number of reasons, such as:
Read Moore's entire post on this subject, as it is a good primer on how vendors think about deals.
- Ability to accelerate a deal into the current time period, which helps the vendor meet certain financial goals or pushes the salesperson into the next tier of commissions.
- Use of the customer as a reference, which helps the vendor in future deals
Lifetime customer value
In addition, I would add another thought: vendors today increasingly look at deals in light of the total lifetime value of the customer. Lifetime customer value includes not just the upfront license fee but the margin on any professional services, plus (and this is the biggie) the ongoing maintenance revenue stream.
I think that SAP and Oracle in particular view pricing of the initial license in terms of covering their costs of sales and getting the customer into the maintenance revenue stream where they really make their money over the lifetime of the relationship.
In addition, gaining the initial sale puts the vendor in the position to sell that customer additional products and services in the future.
The concept of "total customer value" explains why Oracle, for example, has been gobbling up other vendors: Oracle is buying customer relationships and it is also acquiring products that they can sell into other customer relationships. It's faster and cheaper than selling new customers one at a time or developing new products from scratch.
Think: total cost
What does this mean for buyers? Just as the vendor considers the lifetime customer value, the buyer should consider the lifetime vendor cost, or the total cost of ownership. Understand that the initial license cost is usually the smallest part of the total cost: implementation costs, ongoing maintenance fees, and ongoing cost of internal personnel and contractors needed to support the system make up a much larger percentage. (For details on what it takes in terms of internal staff to support an ERP system, see our research at Computer Economics on ERP Support Staffing Ratios).
Anything you can do to manage these costs, or drive contract terms that limit the vendors ability to increase them will pay off much more than haggling over a few percentage points in discounts on the initial license fees.
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009
No recession for Rimini Street third-party maintenance business
Rimini Street, which offers alternative maintenance and support contracts for Oracle and SAP customers, reports today that its books in the first half of 2009 increased four-fold over the same period last year. It gets better: second quarter bookings increased six-fold over the same quarter last year.
In further evidence of a surging business, Rimini Street reports:
It's remarkable to do all this in a time of economic recession. But the recession may in fact be helping Rimini Street's business as Oracle and SAP customers are pressed to look for alternatives to inflated maintenance fees from these two vendors.
- A four-fold increase over last year in its J.D. Edwards client base
- US-based staff growth of almost 25%, while expanding its support operations into Europe and Asia-Pacific
- Signing up its first SAP clients, complementing its support for Oracle JDE and Siebel customers
- Delivery of tax and regulatory updates ahead of the "primary software vendor's planned release date for similar updates"
I also note Rimini Street's report of a strategic investment from private equity firm Adams Street Partners. The money will be used to fund Rimini Street's global expansion. Apart from this, however, to me this is a serious endorsment of the third-party maintenance model in general, and Rimini Street in particular. No doubt, Adam Street did their due diligence. If they came to the conclusion that third-party maintenance is a worth investment target, will others be far behind?
I hope not. I would like to see other private equity firms funding other third-party maintenance providers as well. The more the better.
Rimini Street's press release has details.
Update, July 31: Bob Evans at Information Week has an excellent article on the excessive nature of Oracle's and SAP's 22% maintenance fee practices and the door that this has opened for Rimini Street, and hopefully others. One tidbit:Some CIOs object, usually in language most charitably described as "colorful," that because the world's two largest enterprise software companies have built such wildly successful cash cows out of their support and maintenance businesses, SAP and Oracle have completely lost sight of the customer connection in that context. Most grating of all to these CIOs have been public comments made separately by top-level executives at the two companies indicating quite explicitly that whatever customers might or might not think about the 22% fees, that revenue is indispensable to the stock valuation of each company and so cannot be changed.This article should be required reading for any enterprise software buyer or CIO.
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Rimini Street, SAP, and the future of third-party maintenance
Rimini Street to provide third-party support for SAP
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Did you enjoy reading about Misty? I loved reading Ginger's interview, it makes me feel like I was right there with them!
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Here is today's daily download!
Hello my fellow lovers of digi scrap! Can you believe all the amazing things we have going on at GingerScraps? It has been a thrilling ride this last few months. And we have so many more fun things planned for Oct! One little hint…. a costume contest…. and a HUGE prize!
And one other secret…. we are having THE COOLEST item that will be available Sunday only- You will not want to miss it! A 24 hour deal that will blow your socks off!
And now I would like to tell you what I am doing here today- Some of you might remember a long long time ago on my first GingerScraps blog I used to do a Friday Feature. It was something I very much enjoyed! So when we recently had an opening on this site blog, a light bulb went off…. I am going to do a weekly post *every Saturday* with "The Dish". My posts will be interviews, recipes, tips, maybe a tutorial here and there. I hope you enjoy it!
This weeks "The Dish" I decided I wanted to do an interview with our Oct. guest designer Misty O'Brien!!
You can check out Misty's Facebook Fan Page, Twitter, blog, and sign up for my newsletter for contests, coupons, and the latest info.
She has a few fun new goodies in the shop- and more will be coming throughout the month as well!
Ginger: Hi Misty, I am so happy to have you as our first ever guest designer! I have missed you my friend! Why don't we start by you telling everyone a little bit about yourself.
Misty: Hi Ginger, and all you out there in digi land 🙂 Ok, a little about me- I'm from the Pacific Northwest, and I am a stay at home mom to two boys, Ian age 4 and Aidan age 2. I have been married to my husband Dan for 5 years but we've been going to school together since the first grade. I love digital scrapping and designing. I was just offered a position to write the digital scrapbooking column for the Examiner for my local area, so look for that soon! In our family's free time, we love to geocache, head to the park, and play games. In MY spare time, I enjoy reading, cooking, baking, and being as crafty as possible.
Ginger: Wow that is so awesome!! You will have to link us up when your column hits the newsstands! And thank you for introducing me to geocaching! My kiddos and I totally love it. 🙂 Since it is October.. and I have costumes on the brain… Tell us- What's your favorite Halloween costume you've ever worn?
Misty: When I was 16, my mom made me Dorothy's dress from the Wizard of Oz. She even glued red glitter to a pair of pumps for "Ruby" slippers. I worked at a pizza shop and we all dressed up Halloween night.
Ginger: Oh my goodness that is so cute! There's no place like home.. or the Pizza Shop 🙂 haha. What are you going to dress up like this Halloween?
Misty: I'm lame and only bought a funky black and pink wig. Since having kids, I haven't dressed up in years.
Ginger: Well a tip of the hat to you my lady……. or should I say A tip of the wig to you. I actually wore a funky blue 80's -ish wig last year as my "costume". This year.. I have a t-shirt, it says "Bite Me" and it glows in the dark… wow I went all out huh. lol. What is you favorite candy? And do you steal your childrens Halloween – trick or treating candy?
Misty: I love Reese's Peanut Butter anything and my most favorite is Dark Chocolate. I always steal my kids' candy, although this year, I think I'll actually let them eat some of it!
Ginger: Ohhhhh You HAVE to try the new dark chocolate Reeses! When I saw that commercial I was like… Reeses, Have you been reading my diary!? It was spooky!! haha So speaking of spooky…… Do you believe in ghosts?
Misty: Maybe, I'm sort of a fence sitter. Once, I went into a vacant house on the market, and the energy just felt thick, suffocating, and I broke out in goosebumps. I felt sick and had to get out of there ASAP.
Ginger: Freaky! Have you ever been hypnotized?
Misty: No, and I would LOVE to try hypnosis.
Ginger: Now a few random questions- What is the one thing that makes you happy despite any mood?
Misty: Chocolate Milkshakes
Ginger: Nice! haha. Name a television character that you simply adore?
Misty: Phil Dunphy from Modern Family.
Ginger: What is the best vacation you've ever had in your life?
Misty: Ireland
Ginger: oh how wonderful! I would love to go to Ireland someday! I want to thank you for being our Guest Designer for Oct! And thank you for the fun interview 🙂 In closing I would love for you to share with us all a few things- I think it is fun to see a few of your favorite Layouts- and I would also LOVE you to share with us one of your favorite recipes!
Misty- Sure! Ok here are two of my favorite Layouts-
This one is my son Aidan- you can click on the LO to go see a full list of credits.
And one of my Hubby Dan- It will be linked to the full list of credits as well.
Ginger: Can you please share with us one of your favorite recipes?
Misty: mmmmmm your gonna love these!
Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line a baking sheet (or your standard cookie sheet) completely with foil, and then line the base of the foil with parchment paper, cut to fit.
Line the bottom of the baking sheet with saltine crackers, covering all parts.
In a medium heavy-duty saucepan, melt the butter and brown sugar together, and stir it over medium heat until it begins to boil. Once it has begun boiling, let it bubble for three more minutes, stirring it well. It will thicken a bit as it cooks. Remove from the heat and add the salt and vanilla, and quickly pour over your crackers. Spread quickly, it will begin to set as soon as it's poured.
Bake the caramel-covered crackers for 12 – 15 minutes, watching carefully as it will bubble and the corners might darken too quickly and/or burn. You can reduce the heat if you see this happening.
Remove from oven and immediately pour the chocolate chips over the crackers. You can do this in sections, don't worry about getting every cracker. Let stand five minutes, and then spread them evenly across the caramel. Sprinkle the chocolate with toasted almonds.
Put the baking sheet in the fridge to speed up the cooling process. Once completely cool, break up the crackers in large pieces. No need for it to be uniform. Store in a container (I keep mine in the fridge) for up to a week.
Ginger: Thank you so very much Misty! I am going to make these this weekend!! yummy!! 🙂
That wraps it up folks 🙂 I hope you fond this entertaining- If you have a suggestion or If you want to ask Misty and other questions- please comment here on the blog. She and I will be checking the comments and would love to shat with you! Have a Wonderful Weekend!
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The easiest way to get started writing Clojure code is with Clooj, an editor and IDE written entirely in Clojure itself. It is very new, but already has enough functionality to get started with Clojure (and more is being added rapidly). It can be downloaded from here.
Once you have it, you can run it by double-clicking (assuming you have Java installed). Here is a screenshot, showing some of the source code for Clooj itself:
The left column is the file-browser window, where you choose different files and projects to work on. The middle window is where code in files is edited. The right column is called the "Read-Eval-Print Loop" (or REPL for short)----this is where you test code out as you're writing it.
When you first open Clooj, there will be nothing in these windows. To get something, try going to Project -> New and creating a project for yourself. You should see the files in it displayed in the file-browser window. Click on the file under the 'src' directory in the new project (it should end with ".core"). You should now see a prompt in the top half of the REPL. Try entering some code in the bottom half of the REPL, such as (+ 1 2). You should be able to type Return and evaulate it, seeing the result in the top half of the REPL.
You should now be able to enter any Clojure expression into Clooj you want and see what happens. Use Clooj to work through examples as you're learning Clojure.
Once you've gotten a couple of things entered into the REPL, notice that you can retrieve prior expressions by typing the up arrow key, and browse back to later ones with the down arrow key. Also notice that Clooj checks your parentheses for you: if there is an unbalanced parenthesis, it is highlighted in light red. Try typing (() or ()) to see this in action.
Once you're ready to write some longer code, enter it in one of the existing files (or choose File -> New to get a new one). You can work with the file (sending it to the REPL) by choosing REPL -> Evaluate Entire File. Once you do this, you should be able to use functions defined in that file at the REPL.
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- 1 English
- 1.1 Pronunciation
- 1.2 Etymology 1
- 1.3 Etymology 2
- 1.4 Etymology 3
- 2 German
- 3 Luxembourgish
- 4 Old English
- 5 Pennsylvania German
- 6 Welsh
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English wel, wal, wol, wele, from Old English wel, wæl, well ("well, abundantly, very, very easily, very much, fully, quite, nearly"), from Proto-Germanic *wela, *wala ("well", literally "as wished, as desired"), from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- ("wish, desire"). Cognate with Scots wele, weil ("well"), North Frisian wel, weil, wal ("well"), West Frisian wol ("well"), Dutch Premium Coffee Bag Up Roll Colors Snakeskin Evening Clutch Diff Flap PU Leather r4RBr8PqSW4 Black Purse Hippie Swirl Messenger Hobo Sling Cotton Bag BTP Bohemian Crossbody Printed Hqf7WwR ("well"), Low German wol ("well"), German wol, wohl ("well"), Norwegian and Danish vel ("well"), Swedish väl ("well"), Icelandic vel, val ("well"). Related to will.
Alternative forms[edit]
well (comparative better, superlative best)
- (manner) Accurately, competently, satisfactorily. quotations ▼
He does his job well.
1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, "The Tutor's Daughter", in Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, page 266:
- In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.
1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Bag Ladies Tote Hobo wanture Green Leather Handbag Purse Womens Cross Shoulder Handbags Bag Body Designer zgwwqItB:
- A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand.
2013 July 20, "Welcome to the plastisphere", in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
- Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.
- (manner) Completely, fully. quotations ▼
a well done steak
We're well beat now.
1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314, page 0147:
- Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, [… ] . Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy wellSilver Clutch Size DMIX Big Crystal FqInRgp out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
- (degree) To a significant Large Black Yin Japanese Cotyou Tote Capacity Canvas Shoulder Large Bonsai Handbag Tree Yang 6 Bags in Women's aaPgx. quotations ▼
That author is well known.
1995 Feb, Luke Timothy Johnson, "The New Testament and the examined life: Thoughts on teaching", in The Christian Century, volume 112, number 4, page 108:
- Indeed, some readers may feel that I am beating a horse now already well dead. But in fact, that dead horse is still being driven daily through the pages of introductory textbooks.
2000, Colin Robinson, "Energy Economists and Economic Liberalism", in Energy Journal, volume 21, number 2, page 1:
- Energy markets demonstrated in the 1970s and 1980s that they were well capable of adapting to a perceived scarcity.
2006, Spider Robinson, Callahan's legacy:
- neither of us was paying attention to any damn imaginary scoring judges -- we were both well content, if a little fatigued.
- (degree, Britain, slang) Very (as a general-purpose intensifier). quotations ▼
- 1999, "Drummond Pearson", What Ash are doing right now... (on Internet newsgroup alt.music.ash)
- That guy rocks! I think he's called Matthew Lillard or sommat but he is well cool in Scream.
- 2002, "jibaili", FIFA 2003 How is it? (on Internet newsgroup microsoft.public.xbox)
- Hey Dude / FIFA 2003 is well wicked, I've got FIFA 2002 on PS2, David Beckham on Xbox and Football Manager on Xbox too, out of all pf [Genuine Purse Leather Soft Side Tooled Floral nxY6RgwqY8] them FIFA 2003 is easliy [Genuine Purse Leather Soft Side Tooled Floral nxY6RgwqY8] the best.
- 2003, Steve Eddy, Empower, Book 2
- Hey, you should've seen it, it was well good.
- 1999, "Drummond Pearson", What Ash are doing right now... (on Internet newsgroup alt.music.ash)
- In a desirable manner; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favourably; advantageously. quotations ▼
- (Can we date this quote?) John Dryden
- It boded well to you.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
- Know / In measure what the mind may well contain.
- (Can we date this quote?) Alexander Pope
- All the world speaks well of you.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Dryden
Derived terms[edit]
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.
well (comparative better, superlative best)
- In good health.
I had been sick, but now I'm well.
- (Wallet ZOMUSA Bag Wallet Women Girls Lady Clearance Zip Long Bag Purse Clutch Blue~b Elegant Messenger Women wSEHxAtfq) Good, content.
"How are you?" — "I'm well, thank you!"
- (archaic) Prudent; good; well-advised. quotations ▼
- 1897, National Association of Railway Surgeons, Railway surgeon, page 191:
- On leaving the operating table it is well to put the patient in a bed previously warmed and supplied with hot cans.
- 1897, National Association of Railway Surgeons, Railway surgeon, page 191:
Derived terms[edit]
- Used to acknowledge a statement or situation. quotations ▼
1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 5, in Bag Ladies Tote Hobo wanture Green Leather Handbag Purse Womens Cross Shoulder Handbags Bag Body Designer zgwwqItB:
- "Well," I says, "I cal'late a body could get used to Tophet if he stayed there long enough." ¶ She flared up; the least mite of a slam at Doctor Wool was enough to set her going.
"The car is broken." "Well, we could walk to the movies instead."
"I didn't like the music." "Well, I thought it was good."
"I forgot to pack the tent! Well, I guess we're sleeping under the stars tonight."
- An exclamation of surprise, often doubled or tripled.
Well, well, well, what do we have here?
- An exclamation of indignance.
Well! There was no need to say that in front of my mother!
- Used in speech to express the overcoming of reluctance to say something. quotations ▼
1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity:
- "Well," I answered, at first with uncertainty, then with inspiration, "he would do splendidly to lead your cotillon, if you think of having one." ¶ "So you do not dance, Mr. Crocker?" ¶ I was somewhat set back by her perspicuity.
It was a bit... well... too loud.
- Used in speech to fill gaps; filled pause.
"So what have you been doing?" "Well, we went for a picnic, and then it started raining so we came home early."
- (Hiberno-English) Used as a greeting
Well lads. How's things?
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- (reluctance): like, you know
- (filled pause): like
- (acknowledgment of previous statement): so
- (indignant): see, look, as if
Derived terms[edit]
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- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.
Etymology 2[edit]
From Middle English welle, from Old English wielle ("well"), from Proto-Germanic *wallijǭ ("well, swirl, wave"), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- ("to turn; wind; roll"). Cognate with West Frisian wel ("well"), Dutch Premium Coffee Bag Up Roll Colors Snakeskin Evening Clutch Diff Flap PU Leather r4RBr8Pq ("well"), German Low German Well ("well"), German Welle ("wave"), Danish væld ("well; spring"), Swedish väl ("well"), Icelandic vella ("boiling; bubbling; eruption").
well (plural wells)
- A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids. quotations ▼
- Bible, John iv. 11
- The woman said unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep.
- Bible, John iv. 11
- A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring. quotations ▼
- Milton
- Begin, then, sisters of the sacred well.
- Milton
- A small depression suitable for holding liquid, or other objects.
- (figuratively) A source of supply. quotations ▼
- Spenser
- Dan Chaucer, well of English undefiled
- Keble
- a well of serious thought and pure
- Spenser
- (nautical) A vertical, cylindrical trunk in a ship, reaching down to the lowest part of the hull, through which the bilge pumps operate.
- (nautical) The cockpit of a sailboat.
- (nautical) A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water to keep fish alive while they are transported to market.
- (nautical) A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of the water.
- (military) A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries.
- (architecture) An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole.
- The open space between the bench and the counsel tables in a courtroom.
- (metalworking) The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls.
- A well drink.
- They're having a special tonight: $1 wells.
- (video games) The playfield of Tetris and similar video games, into which the blocks fall. quotations ▼
- 2005, James Paul Gee, Why Video Games are Good for Your Soul
- Tetris, the most widely played computer game of all time, is a problem-solving puzzle game. [… ] The player attempts to lock the falling shape smoothly together with the shapes in the well.
- 2005, James Paul Gee, Why Video Games are Good for Your Soul
- (biology) In a microtiter plate, each of the small equal circular or square sections which serve as test tubes.
- (excavation in the earth, from which run branches or galleries): shaft
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 3[edit]
From Middle English wellen, from Old English willan, wyllan, wellan ("to boil; bubble forth") and Old English weallan ("to well; bubble forth; spring out; flow"), from Proto-Germanic *wallijaną, *wallaną. Cognate with German wallen ("boil, seethe"), Danish vælde ("gush") and outside Germanic, with Albanian valë ("hot, boiling").
well (third-person singular simple present wells, present participle welling, simple past and past participle welled)
- (intransitive) To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring. quotations ▼
- Dryden
- [Blood] welled from out the wound.
- Bryant
- [Yon spring] wells softly forth.
- Dryden
- (intransitive) To have something seep out of the surface.
- Her eyes welled with tears.
Derived terms[edit]
- Imperative singular of wellen.
- (colloquial) First-person singular present of wellen.
Cognate with German weil.
- because
Ech gi geschwënn um Bett, well ech midd sinn.
- I'm going to bed soon because I am tired.
Old English[edit]
From Proto-Germanic *wall-, whence also Old High German wella, Old Norse vella.
well m
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
- English: well
Pennsylvania German[edit]
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /ˈwɛɬ/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /ˈweːɬ/, /ˈwɛɬ/
- Soft mutation of gwell.
- Soft mutation of gwell.
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Gavin Ward needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 101 designs submitted by 20 freelance designers.
Plugged In Distribution
We are a young company with our finger on the pulse of the street / contemporary men and women's fashion forefront. We import and distribute international labels into the Australian market as well as exporting Australian labels into the international market.
Influential fashion buyers and retailers within the Australian and International market.
The logo is only text and needs to represent "plugged in distribution". For example the letters are shaped as a power cord or neon light/sign that is plugged in.
- No logos. Only text. The text is the logo.
- Cylindrical/ 3 dimensional text that joins together
- Text to look like neon light/sign or power cord
- Include a power cord/plug either plugged in or coming off the end of it.
- Single colour or shades of one colour (plus black and white)
- No multiple colour schemes.
- No background images.
The logo needs to represent a company that is cool, bold and cutting edge.
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text: On Saturday, October 8, Dysart will host its Seventh Annual Wine and Beer Tasting Fall Festival from 4-8 p.m. on Main Street. Eleven Iowa wineries and two Iowa breweries are scheduled to participate in this year's event. Committee members report that the Fall Festival continues to grow each year with more than 425 patrons in attendance in 2010. The committee, which includes Deb Ewoldt, Wendee Goken, Julie McLaughlin, Carol Zeien and Russ Grimm, is planning for continued growth in this year's Iowa Wine and Beer Tasting Fall Festival. The participation of the Iowa wineries and breweries, the public enthusiasm and the local support through their financial and volunteer assistance has continued to strengthen this very popular local fall event. Local businesses, the Dysart Development Corportation and the Dysart Business Builders are hosting the event. Each winery and brewery will be set up in a business on Main Street and the tasting participants will go from building to building sampling the Iowa wines and beers being presented. This arrangement has worked well because patrons can remain warm and dry if there is inclement weather. All wines and beers being tasted will be available for purchase from the wine or beer representative. Patrons will register with the Dysart H. A. T. Team where they will receive an engraved wine glass commemorating the event and a booklet explaining the Iowa wine and beer selections that are available for the tasters to experience and purchase, for a fee. Throughout the evening, music will be provided by Jeff Mattison. In addition, food booths and specialty booths will be set up for interest and enjoyment. Vintage cars will be on display on Main Street. A beer brewing presentation by Andrew Saucke will be held at 5:30 p.m., and a wine 101 presentation will be given by Penny Fitzgerald at 6:30 p.m. Mark your calendars for Saturday, October 8, from 4-8 p.m. for Dysart's Iowa Wine and Beer Tasting Fall Festival. Join together with friends and visitors to support Dysart and the Iowa wineries and breweries.


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Towards European synergy for research in chemistry - a Euro-Chemistry summitActivity by Nico Kos | added on Jul 26, 2011 | Netherlands
Euro-chemistry is organizing a summit where we bring together stakeholders including chemistry performers, chemistry funders, chemical industry, policy makers (national & European level), international organizations, and non-European stakeholders such as the US National Science Foundation in order to discuss improved funding.
Euro-Chemistry Summit will take place on 15 December 2011 in Strasbourg at the premises of Council of Europe. Euro-Chemistry is a recently established trans-national organization of a number of research funding agencies at the level of heads of chemistry directorates. It aims at providing a broad support to chemistry research, establishment of joint strategies and engagement in cross-border activities. The Summit will gather chemistry stakeholders from among national funding agencies, both EU and international, chemical industry, policy makers, and scientists. The scheduled discussion sessions concerning chemists' careers and funding research and cooperation will provide consultation for shaping future activities of Euro-Chemistry. A limited number of participants can still be accepted. There is no participation fee but prior registration is mandatory. For more information visit http://www.euro-chemistry.org/news/?v=2&id=7&cid=2 or write to firstname.lastname@example.com.
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In defence of true love
As much as we may celebrate being single, who hasn't dreamt of finding a companion for life?
Jennifer Aniston is engaged, ending the star's unlucky-in-love spell.
But while some cheer, others have questioned the applause: why should being single be any cause for comment or concern? After all, many more of us are single than we may have been 50 or even 20 years ago. We're divorcing more, marrying later, embracing LGBT life, cohabiting and living-apart-together. It's normal, we are told, to choose something other than another half.
Or is it?
"Being single is losing its stigma, and rightly so," says Hugo Schywzer, an American social commentator and expert on all things couple-related. "It's absolutely false that being uncoupled is always a 'second best.' Many single people - some celibate, some not - lead very fulfilling lives and wouldn't choose to be partnered no matter whom they met."
The trouble is – and this is perhaps the crux of the Aniston fall-out, a "big but" as Schwyzer puts it – we have screaming double standards. "We also live in a culture that shames people for wanting to be in a relationship," he said. "If you aren't satisfied on your own and make it obvious you're looking for a partner, you can get teased for being 'needy' or pathologised as not really capable of handling things on your own."
He's right. Just recently, a Salon piece did its level best to fly the flag for singledom in a world that remains "couples-obsessed".
"I don't think we even know what being single is. We live in such a couples-obsessed society that there really are no 'singles' out there — everyone is pre- or post-coupled," says Michael Cobb, a professor of English at the University of Toronto, in the interview.
Cobb's argument pivots on the reality that being attached is certainly no silver bullet to lasting happiness and that being single is the best way to really get to know yourself, your world and connect with other people. It gives you time to pursue personal goals, take up tennis and spend time with family. To be, well, selfish.
Cobb talks about the fear of being alone that prevents many couples from ending bad relationships – though "that fear is probably much greater than the actual experience of it."
Many of us have been there - eking out a painful union because the other side looks far too barren. It's not, of course - or at least not in the long term. I, for one, can attest that a relationship with no trust, is far, far better off avoided than struggled with.
In that vein, simply because you're in a relationship doesn't mean you are any closer to cancelling out ever-growing amounts of emotional baggage, says Cobb. No, that would be far too easy.
Indeed, "the marker of success, the end of the romantic story, is riding off into the sunset with that person. But you don't get to see the next 30 years of boredom, or anxiety, or terror or concern."
We have heard the horror stories, read the divorce statistics and doubled-up with pain when our hearts are broken. But as much as we love to hope that singledom is the hottest date around, our surroundings attest to a very different approach.
In Australia, at least, marriage remains overwhelmingly popular. A new RSVP survey showed that 67 per cent of Gen Y singles are keen to marry. Seventy-one per cent of that age group's women would like to spend the rest of their lives with the one. Reach a certain age, somewhere around our mid- to late- twenties, and we are all likely to know more couples than singles. Perhaps that's because we're less risk-averse (read old-fashioned) than Cobb and his American countrymen.
Yes, we may be putting marriage off until later – the mean age to tie the knot has shifted from 25.4 in 1990 to 28.75 in 2010 - but, as social commentator Bernard Salt told me when we discussed living-apart-together couples in May, changes in Australian coupledom are not likely to replace "the Mum, Dad in the 'burbs model" anytime soon.
In short, a pro-singledom argument – and this is not going to be popular – may be a stubborn show of strength rather than a choice born from deep desire.
John Curtis, a relationship expert, author and proponent of alternatives to marriage is not so sure. "The argument for singledom has an array of motives, some, no doubt, born of pain, loss and being unlucky in love but another argument is that it is a choice, not unlike a nun or priest who forsakes all other options except the commitment to one vocation and life of service." But how many people really choose to be single?
Most of those who want to be single - just 12 per cent of single Baby Boomers in the RSVP survey want to get married - seem to have tried marriage. All of the rest still have the hope, the naivety, the dream, the gut instinct to find the one and walk into the sunset, hand in hand.
Aniston, J-Lo and Elle Macpherson are all "post-coupled". Their marriages did not last, though they once (or even twice) promised to live the rest of their lives in a partnership.
Schywzer sees the ideal of coupledom as something rather more elastic than it once was. Which is lucky, given fairytale-shattering divorce rates and morphing family models.
"We live in what might be called an 'if/then' culture," he told Life & Style. "Many young people say to me 'If I meet the right person, then I might consider being in a relationship - but if I don't, then I'm okay being single.' Part of the reason more people are single is that we've all raised our standards, and that's largely a good thing. But it's always going to be important to support those people who do want to be in a relationship to find the love they want, even as we celebrate the fulfillment they can have on their own."
True, we have more options open to us than ever. "There has been a decades-long 'experiment' to explore new possibilities for relationshipping," says Curtis. "Women have gained the most freedom in this regard and have had a huge variety of new options open up to them. They have gone from a single trajectory of marriage and motherhood to a much broader range of options including being or staying single and childless." There are few who join the rollercoaster of having a child with the aim of being single for the ride, surely.
And there's the rub. Yes, it would be ideal to celebrate both singleness and meeting the right person but there is a deep, instinctive desire, a fluid, yearning hope within most of us – even those of us who have been burnt or who are stubbornly independent - to find someone to just be alongside. A teammate. As Phoebe might say to Aniston's Rachel, a lobster. As long as coupling is possible, the caveat to single life remains: until something better comes along. No amount of friends, nieces, after work tennis clubs or sweaty bars can salve the longing for deep human companionship, no matter how brief. And that's nothing to be ashamed of.
The marriage naysayers, the staunch loners, the modern enlightened: they all once upon a time dreamt of finding a sidekick. As even Curtis admitted, "falling in love is part of a growth opportunity to become more complete as a person, not driven by the need to fill a void but more like a part of a life adventure approached with a sense of wonderment."
And who could turn that down?


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I love this dynamic project from Bercy Chen Studio LP in Austin Texas, which they submitted to our Fresh New Spaces Group on Flickr. It looks to me like it was inspired by Cargotecture (you know, when architects build structures out of shipping containers). What I love about their work is that it still has that architecture school fearlessness, optimism and creativity that often gets drilled out of architects when they venture out into the real world. When I saw this picture, my first thought was "well, night architectural photography is always sexier, let's see it in the light of day"…
Still pretty sexy. However, I have to wonder if Unhappy Hipsters is going to have a field day with that milk crate bicycle basket in the first photo. Here's the description of the building:
1111 east 11th is a three story mixed use project in the revitalized 11th Street Corridor of Austin TX. The ground floor is divided between an art gallery and boutique retail outlet. The second floor is reserved for office tenants with residential spaces occupying the top floor.
Formally, the shifting floor plates align with area landmarks such as the Texas State Capitol and the UT Austin Tower. The form mimics the geological exfoliation of the central Texas landscape, which can be found at the `Enchanted Rock`, the Texas version of Australia's Ayres Rock.
The resultant space is a series of unexpected terraces and canopies drawing one outdoors. The cantilevered second floor provides a respite of shade from the intense Texas sun at the entry. The floor plates step back at the rear of the structure allowing it to mediate between the commercial scale of the front and the residential in the back.
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"Children have 'Art' in them.––With art, as with so many other
things in a child, we must believe that it is there, or we shall never find it....Therefore we set twig or growing flower before a child and let him deal with it as he chooses. He will find his own way to form and colour, and our help may very well be limited at first to such technical matters as the mixing of colours and the like. In order that we may not impede the child's freedom or hinder the deliverance of the art that is in him, we must be careful not to offer any aids in the way of guiding lines, points, and such other crutches; and, also, he should work in the easiest medium, that is, with paint brush or with charcoal, and not with a black-lead pencil. Boxes of cheap colours are to be avoided. Children are worthy of the best, and some half-dozen tubes of really good colours will last a long time, and will satisfy the eye of the little artists."
---Charlotte Mason- Volume 1 Page 313
- watercolor paper
- watercolors (We liked these ones the best.)
- watercolor brush
- scissors
- glue or double-sided tape
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When large water-holding tanks require necessary maintenance, there is no need to saddle your business with the cost of replacing lost water or disposing of your produced water.
One contractor resurfacing water storage tanks across eight locations over a period of several weeks required water storage tanks and fire protection options.
Steel tanks from Rain for Rent provided the temporary water storage. Aluminum pipeline and high head pumps provided water for the contractor's fire protection system.
When some of the produced water saw dispersed contaminants, media filtration was brought in to allow for on-site discharge into the local sewer.


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Cable gland is used to connect cable. Made by Nylon66 material. It combines the characters of waterproof and anti-cold and so on.
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Rihanna gives Boston fans too little too late
At: TD Garden, Monday
She wasn't worth the wait. And I mean that on two accounts. Rihanna was originally supposed to play the TD Garden in early March but had to cancel because of laryngitis. Fair enough.
When she returned Monday night, to another sold-out crowd of close to 14,500 people, it should have been spectacular. Instead, she took the stage around 10:30 p.m., 90 minutes after her scheduled set time. Rapper A$AP Rocky, her opening act, was a no-show because he was sick, leaving a DJ to fill three hours of silence.
Adding insult to injury? There was no announcement about the delays, or even a tweet from the artist, and certainly no apology at any point.
The crowd responded the best they could: with a round of boos. Even when the house lights went down, the cheers and jeers rose up in unison. That's not how you want to begin your rescheduled concert.
All that drama aside, Rihanna gave a listless performance that hinged more on come-hither stares, coy smiles, a self-awareness that bordered on smug. Song titles reflected her overall state of mind: "Numb,'' "Cockiness (Love It),'' "Rockstar 101.'' When she pulled her microphone away, you could still hear every word thanks to the backing tracks. She was half-hearted.
Nor was there any vision in the set design. Overhead screens rarely showed anything more than close-ups of our star. It was interesting to imagine what kind of mischief her friend Katy Perry could have had with a song like "S&M,'' Rihanna's delicious ode to, um, tough love.
Ballads, at least, are still her strong suit, the moments when Rihanna forgets the flash and burrows into a song's sentiment. She sang an entire block of them, including "Love the Way You Lie'' and "Hate That I Love You,'' and her way with melancholy was on full display. She dedicated the closing "Diamonds'' to Boston, acknowledging its strong spirit in the wake of the Marathon bombings.
She tried to hit hard in the last stretch with some of her biggest hits – "We Found Love,'' "Only Girl (in the World),'' "Don't Stop the Music'' – but it was too late. By then it was simply a mad dash to the finish line, just one more twirl and hair toss before she could recede into the shadows.
She seemed oblivious to all of this, of course. After the show, she expressed her love for Boston on Twitter, when really she should have copied and pasted the message she posted after her March postponement: "I'm hurt that I let you down.''


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Do you believe a food blog author does not eat? Well, I do eat, but not much. I love eating, but just unable to eat. This problem started bothering me soon after I turned 30. Perhaps due to slow metabolism, but no one could explain the reason. There has been a serious conflict between my natural desire for food and my body's saying 'no'. However I have been pleasing my mouth, and ignoring my body's refusal of food. So my stomach is always full to overload like an airborne balloon. In March 2006, just before I turn 50, I took an important step in my life as to change my eating habit.
Change of Eating Habit
Actually over the past 20 years, doctors, dietitians and friends suggested hundreds of ways to correct my problem. Somehow I found only one way work for me – fasting. At the beginning, I went on a 6-day juice fasting. I lost 6 pounds out of that. Over the course of the next six months, I lost a total of 20 pounds.
Loss Weight As A Result of Intermittent Fasting
After the initial compulsory fasting, I target for one meal a day. I set up a food diary to record my eating history. On average, I skip 18 to 23 meals in a month. In some days, I replace a meal by snacks, a fruit or a glass of juice.
A Food Blog Idea
For someone who is only able to eat one meal a day, every meal is very important in terms of what to eat, where to eat and with whom to eat. This has led to an idea of setting up a food blog to record all my favourite foods. On any day when I am totally unable to eat, I just look at my blog and review my food photos and gain some satisfaction out of them.
A side objective of my blog is that some expact friends told me that they found it difficult to look for Chinese food websites written in English. I have therefore decided to make my blog bilingual and including the restaurant names and how much I spend on each meal just to make additional sense to travelers.
Who Else Wants to Lose Weight the Easy however Scientific Way?
During the course of my intermittent fasting, my colleagues and friends consulted me for weight-losing tips when they noticed the change in my appearance. I can only produce one answer – fasting – intermittent fasting – this is absolutely an easy way of losing weight which is backed up by scientific research.
Please understand…my blog is not to convince you to adapt my way of eating at all. Although I fast most of the time, but if I feel I need food…I eat. Fasting isn't about starving myself and it is out of my natural need for food. Of course this won't happen overnight. I took time to build up this eating habit. Please don't eat this way until you have a deep understanding of the diet.
There is a book called Eat Stop Eat written by Brad Pilon. I was amazed that his intermittent fasting program is actually what I have been practicing since 2006. If you are interested in the scientific research behind the use of intermittent fasting for weight loss then you should find this book to be both up to date and accurate.
Brad Pilon is a nutrition professional. His graduate studies were about nutritional sciences specializing in the use of short term fasting for weight loss. Click here to check out Eat Stop Eat.
Hong Kong Chinese Food - Intermittent Fasting


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At RBC, we are committed to reducing our environmental footprint through a variety of programs and initiatives. One of the ways we can reduce our impact is by disposing of our electronic waste, commonly referred to as e-waste, in a responsible and ethical manner.
E-waste refers to all electrical or electronic devices such as computers, monitors, televisions, cell phones and batteries that have been discarded and are no longer in use. Many electronic devices contain toxic and hazardous materials like lead, cadmium and mercury. If electronic waste is simply disposed of in landfills, hazardous materials could contaminate soil, water and air resulting environmental impacts and health risks. We also have an ethical responsibility to ensure e-waste is not shipped to other countries with limited environmental and health and safety standards. In addition, electronic devices are rich in precious metals, such copper, gold, platinum and palladium that can be recovered and reused.
In 2011, with the support of our electronic waste service provider, Global Electric Electronic Processing (GEEP), we tracked the disposal of over 37,000 electronic items in Canada, including CPUs, monitors, laptops, printers, servers and other specialized equipment. GEEP has a "no export" policy, which means e-waste is not shipped overseas for dismantling and disposal. GEEP also reported a better than 99 per cent landfill diversion rate for RBC e-waste.
How we're doing
Source: Corporate Responsibility Review
In addition to environmental benefits, GEEP's information security systems ensure maximum protection for RBC data and GEEP helps RBC maximize its return on obsolete and end-of-life inventory.
In 2012, a group of RBC employees visited GEEP's corporate headquarters in Barrie, Ontario, Canada and saw first hand how our electronic equipment is received, processed, stored and refurbished or recycled.


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Cancer can't take away Kyle Gendron's smile
I don't know Kyle Gendron, except socially. We say hello at functions, make small talk, and now and then, I post on his Facebook page "Wow!'' and "Amazing!'' because he is such a superb photographer.
When I e-mail him sometimes for advice about photography, he always e-mails back.
I met him four or five years ago in Burlington, where he lives with his wife and three children. His daughter, Mary Elizabeth, 7, and my granddaughter Lucy, 9, both have Down syndrome. So we go to the same fund-raisers and the same annual convention.
Kyle takes pictures at the Massachusetts Down Syndrome Congress convention and at its Buddy Walk, and at all the other gatherings that the organization and its affiliates have.
Besides being a husband, a father, and working full time, he is a you-can-always-count-on-him volunteer.
Every time I talk to him, he is upbeat. How's your family? Great. How's life been treating you? No complaints. How did you get those shots of the kids with the white background?
Never mind that I'm an amateur and he is way, way past me in the photography department. He always takes the time to explain what he did to get the perfect shot.
When he was diagnosed with Stage 4 colon cancer early this year, I thought, Oh, no. This is not good. Oh, no, his kids are so young. What is his wife going to do? What about his job? How will he be able to work? What will they do for money? He won't take his beautiful pictures any more.
He must have been scared at first. He must have cried. I'm sure he is scared and cries sometimes even now.
But the face he has shown to the world for the last seven months has been not just brave, but cheerful. "How are you?'' still met by a smile and "I'm doing great.'' "How's it going?'' still answered with a thumbs-up.
After every chemo treatment, Kyle posts an update on Facebook. This saves him from having to tell everyone individually what's happening, medically. These updates are fresh and honest, so parts are hard to read. "Chemo Fatigue sucks. Especially after the steroids wear off. Man it hits hard and fast.''
But they're positive, too. "Finally heard back from Dana-Farber on the CT Scan comparison . . . it looks like the tumors have shrunk a little more than 25% and there are NO new tumors. GREAT NEWS!!''
Two weeks ago, on Oct. 22, after his 14th chemo treatment, Kyle wrote a simple "All went well.''
And then came the grim details about what is next: five days of high-dose radiation beginning Nov. 26, followed by major surgery on Dec. 10 to remove the primary tumor in his rectum and half of his liver tumors.
"There is a good chance that I'll have a temporary ostomy,'' Kyle explained. "Then 2-3 months later when they do the surgery to remove the ostomy (called reversal, basically reattach the colon back to the rectum) they will also at that time remove the remaining tumors in the liver. . . . As you can imagine,'' he unimaginably added, "this is excellent news.''
This is pure Kyle.
Neuropathy. Sensitivity to cold. Exhaustion. Yes, he has them all.
"But the numbers are down and that's great,'' he insists.
I look on Facebook, and in every picture of Kyle he is smiling.
It must be hard to stay upbeat and cheerful when you're sick and exhausted and your income has been gutted and you have bills to pay and three kids to take care of.
Kyle does.
But he doesn't do it alone. And he tells you this. He gets support not just from his wife, his kids, and his family but from people who know him or just know about him.
People cook meals and deliver them. They pay for meals to be delivered. They help with the kids. They drive. They shop. His family set up a Web page for donations — http://www.giveforward.com/supportkylegendron — and have sponsored fund-raisers, too.
"I can't thank everyone enough for everything and anything you do. Your support makes a huge difference financially, mentally, emotionally, everything,'' Kyle wrote. "I feel so lucky to have such a great family and have made such wonderful friendships.''
His family and friends know what he means, because they feel so lucky to have him.


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AfDB, WHO and World Bank Participate in NORAD's High-Level Conference on Maternal Health with Hillary Clinton
Dr. Agnes Soucat, AfDB Director for Human Development, Dr. Luis Gomes Sambo, WHO Regional Director for Africa and Dr. Feng Zhao, AFDB Health Division Manager participated in 2 workshops organized by NORAD. The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation – on the Economic Benefits of Investing in Women's Health and the Saving Mothers Giving Lives initiative.
The workshops preceded a high level conference on global health and gender equality entitled "A World in Transition; Charting a New Path in Global Health" which brought together prominent politicians and experts in a joint effort to eliminate the tragic and preventable deaths of women, mothers and children around the world. Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Støre spoke at the conference followed by a keynote address by US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Dr Soucat served as a panelist in the workshop on Economic Benefits of Investing in Women's Health chaired by Tamar Manuelyan Atinc, World Bank Vice President for Human Development and Richard Horton, Chief Editor of the Lancet. Dr Sambo and Dr Zhao spoke in the workshop on Saving Mothers Giving Lives.
Investing in women's health and decreasing fertility in Africa are key to capturing the demographic dividend, reducing the intergenerational cycle of poverty and increasing women's voice. As a leader in gender issues in Africa, the AfDB through its new Human Capital Development Strategy is stepping up its efforts to develop programs that promote women's health and early childhood education.
In Zambia, which ranks 143 out of 172 countries for maternal mortality rates globally - nearly 3,000 women die every year. Uganda also continues to struggle with terribly high numbers of women who die from pregnancy and complications of childbirth. It is estimated that more than 6,000 women die in pregnancy or childbirth every year - ranking Uganda 141 out of 172 countries globally.
The United States and Norway are working to improve maternal and child health in Africa pledging approximately $75 million each. The money will be used to help fund one of Clinton's new priorities, a health care project called "Saving Mothers, Giving Life." It aims to help women in various African countries while they're pregnant, when they're giving birth and afterwards, to help their newborns get a better start in life. Starting in Uganda and Zambia, it is focusing on helping mothers during labor, delivery, and during the first 24 hours after a birth and strengthening district health services by building clinics and labs, training staff, improving supply chains, making blood supplies safe, and improving record-keeping systems.