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Sleep Apnea Related Erectile Dysfunction is Treatable
Erectile dysfunction due to sleep apnea is treatable. This is the message from Dr. David Gozal, M.D., professor of pediatrics at the University of Louisville and author of a recent study into the effects of oxygen deprivation on sexual behavior. The study, published in the September issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, simulated the effects of chronic intermittent hypoxia (CIH) on a range of sexual behaviors in mice. Following treatment with tadalafil, results were evaluated positively.
After a period of simulating conditions relating to oxygen starvation by people with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS), mice were observed to lose 55 percent of daily spontaneous erections. After five weeks, the length of time between attempts at mating had increased by 60-fold, on average. "Even relatively short periods of CIH...are associated with significant effects on sexual activity and erectile function," Gozal states.
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Researchers also found that whilst oxygen starvation has no effect on levels of testosterone and estradiol, it produces a significant reduction of endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS). eNOS has an important role in male sexual activity and is increased by drugs such as Viagra (sildenafil).
When ordinary levels of oxygen were returned to mice, even mice who had only been exposed to one week of oxygen starvation, only recovered 74 percent of their original erectile function. However, in the second phase of the experiment mice were given the drug tadalafil. In almost all cases the treatment had the effect of improving sexual function to near normal levels.
John Heffner, former president of the American Thoracic Society, gave a cautious welcome to the findings stating, "a strong biologic plausibility exists that similar findings will be observed in humans." Dr. Gozal, who undertook the study, says further studies are required in order to investigate the effects of disrupted sleep on the central nervous system as this mediates sexual drive. | {
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Sunbaths and mystery departures - December 16th, 2015
I saw Sadie sitting on a red tile roof a couple of blocks north she has been regularly enjoying lately. I was glad to see her because I had been at Washington Square Park for almost half an hour already and was beginning to worry I may have a Hawkless visit.
The red tile roof and Sadie as seen from the park:
I moved closer to get a better view of her:
I moved to get even closer and of course she had disappeared by the time I got to a better vantage point.
I walked to 6th Avenue to check the Jefferson Market Library (one of her new perches) to see if she might be there but no dice.
But luckily I discovered that you can see the library tower from the southeastern side of the park anyway which is very helpful:
Pigeons near me went mad and fled toward the western side of the park. I looked up and saw that one of the Hawks was now on the Education Building flagpole:
I'm pretty sure it was Bobby but it was difficult to confirm.
He showed up 40 minutes after I had lost Sadie.
I watched him for 20 minutes. He dove off the pole faster than I could photograph him.
I looked for him but couldn't find him even though it looked like he was diving into the direction of the park.
A blog mostly about the Red-tailed Hawks of Washington Square Park (NYC)!
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Use of any of my images online or in print (i.e., for your facebook page, website, article, or any commercial use) is strictly prohibited unless I've given consent.
This blog was originally going to be about my discoveries around town so little did I know it'd eventually be all about the Washington Square Park Hawks! | {
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I have received, and read, the order relating to my bail as issued by the Sessions judge and I am shocked and distressed at an observation that suggests that you have complained of being threatened or intimidated by me.
This is so far from the truth as to be outrageous. I categorically state that I have never ever threatened you. The fact is I have been impeccably cooperative with you and your team from the very beginning. I flew to Goa on receiving the summons, and surrendered myself to you at the crime branch office. Even though there are many reasons to doubt the bona fides of the FIR, I did not display any rancour or reluctance in dealing with you.
There is not a single query that was put to me in my 10 days of police custody that I did not answer. There was no line of inquiry that I stonewalled – even though very often they appeared to have little to do with the case registered against me, and were more in the nature of fishing expeditions.
In my 10 days of police custody I was interrogated by atleast 5 different officers, ranging from the Dy. SP to Inspectors , and not one of them can point to a single question that I left unanswered or a single moment in which I refused to cooperate.
Apart from this I willingly underwent 2 days of medical tests of every kind at the GMC Bambolim – and here again no doctor or officer can state that I did not fully cooperate. Unusually I was also asked to undertake a series of psychological examinations at the institute of psychiatry and human behaviour, which I gladly did, answering over a thousand questions over several hours.
In addition I presented and handed over my mobile phone to you on the first day itself.
I had a perfectly cordial relationship will all your officers and staff. Leave alone intimidation or threat, there is not a single harsh word that I uttered to any of the crime branch staff.
Alas, by stating what you have, falsely – about intimidation – you have reinforced my fear that I cannot expect an unprejudiced and fair investigation at your hands. That the fishing expeditions, the selective gathering of material and witnesses, is all of a piece, part of a process not aimed at arriving at the truth of the alleged event, but at trying to indict me no matter what the facts. It is evident that the false allegations of intimidation leveled against me, was merely a ploy to sabotage my chances for grant of bail, and the fact that in your reply to my bail application before the Sessions Court, the fact of such intimidation was not mentioned suggests that the same was an afterthought and in abrogation from the principles of fair play.
This apprehension of facts being twisted and misrepresented is aggravated by a suggestion that I heard in court that I had confessed to some parts of the crime. I was shocked when during the course of the argument on my bail application, the Prosecutor made a statement that I have admitted to my guilt or to the narration of events as has been put forth by the alleged victim during my interrogation. I reiterate that I was interrogated many times, by various officers of different levels and I, in no uncertain terms disputed each and every allegation leveled against me.
If there exists any other statement on record, the same is not my statement and is an act of manipulation or tampering.
I write this in sorrow, and in deep distress. I wish you had done honour to my trust and cooperation.
It is very unfortunate that we are living in India which is in opposition of the theme of its constitution. We should have an independent executive, independent judiciary and independent legislature. Due to our collective apathy, legislature has invaded the independence of executive and is planning to do the same to judiciary by using “reforms” (which are much needed, but cannot be excuse to encroach independence of judiciary). Due to this, many a times populist tendencies tend to overcome the objective process of analysing evidence. Though corruption is also a big problem, a solution for which should be analysed independently. | {
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By: BrianHarte If you have a bumper that requires these lights. (kouki 180sx or several other aftermarket 180sx bumpers) then you know that these stock lights are just position lights. The turn signals are down lower in the openings. I HATED the stock kouki turn signals, so I sold them. This left me with no […] | {
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Dhanteras : The meaning and the legend behind it
The first of many festivals on Diwali season is Dhanteras. Teras is basically ‘Tera’ which is triyodashi or 13th date of the month according to Hindu calendar. Lord Yama or God of Justice and the Goddess of Wealth or Mother Lakshmi is worshipped on this day. Traditionally, people buy shinning ornaments like jewellery made of gold or silver jewellery or utensils to celebrate Dhanteras. A lamp or diya is lightened to mark the arrival of Diwali.
How do people celebrate Dhanteras :
It is highly believed that Goddess Lakshmi always favours a clean and decorated place. Hence people clean their houses and business places like shop etc and decorate it with the rangoli and light. As per tradition, people buy jewellery or utensils. Family members gather together to sing hymes to praise the Goddess.
Why do we celebrate Dhanteras?
The celebration of Dhanteras is associated with a legend of love, devotion, sacrifice and faith. The legend states a story of King Hima who was loved by his people and subjects. The king had a son who was predestined to die by snake-bite in his sleep on the fourth day of his marriage. Despite knowing the fate of the prince, a princess was ready to marry him.
Days passed with the fear of the beloved prince dying on the fourth day of the marriage. The newly wedded wife, however, was very intelligent and knew that her faith and devotion will oblige the God of Justice (Lord Yama). Hence on the fourth day, when death was about to arrive in their room, queen lit the lamps all over the palace and laid out her ornaments and lots of gold and silver coins in a heap at the entrance of the sleeping chamber.
When Yama, the god of Death and Justice, arrived at the prince’s doorstep in the guise of a Serpent, his eyes were dazzled and blinded by the brilliance of the lamps and the jewellery. Yama could not enter the Prince’s chamber, so he climbed on top of the heap of gold coins and sat there the entire night listening to the stories and songs. In the morning, he silently went away not due to the fact that he was dazzled and blinded by the brilliance of the lamps and the jewellery but due to the intelligence and love of the wife for her husband. Thus, the young prince was saved from the clutches of death by the cleverness of his new bride, and the day came to be celebrated as Dhanteras.
Not only this, on this day when gods and demon churned the ocean for nector, Dhanvantari (the physician of the Gods) emerged carrying a jar of the elixir
Shekhar is working as Digital Marketing Associate at FreeKaaMaal. He is a MBA graduate who loves to write on interesting topics related to Tech and online Shopping . He is always up for dessert and an interesting conversation. | {
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Deals Rumor Mill: America Movil, Icahn, J&J
Law360, New York (October 1, 2013, 3:47 PM EDT) -- Talks over America Movil SAB's proposed $9.6 billion buyout of Dutch rival Royal KPN NV are hung up on disagreements over the proposed purchase price, sources told Bloomberg on Tuesday. Mexico's America Movil, owned by billionaire Carlos Slim, has so far stuck firm to the consideration outlined in its offer, despite rebukes from some stakeholders and analysts that KPN commands a higher price. And KPN appears to agree, citing a tax offset tied to a separate sale of its German operations make it a more valuable... | {
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During the first weeks of therapy, buserelin may cause hot flashes (sudden sweating and feelings of warmth), decreased sexual ability, temporary increase in pain, pain while urinating, or weakness in legs.
Your blood pressure may be monitored regularly as there is a risk of developing high blood pressure with buserelin.
If you are a patient with diabetes, your blood glucose should be regularly monitored while on buserelin therapy.
Buserelin can cause loss of fertility which may be permanent. If you intend to have children, discuss this with your doctor before receiving buserelin
Do not take buserelin if you have urinary obstruction, spinal cord compression, history of pituitary gland tumors or osteoporosis, demyelinating form of Charcot-Marie-Tooth syndrome (an inherited neurologic disorder).
Do not consume the drug if you are allergic to buserelin or any of its ingredients.
Avoid taking buserelin if you are pregnant or planning to become pregnant or breastfeeding or if you have undiagnosed abnormal vaginal bleeding.
Seek immediate medical attention if you develop any allergic reaction. | {
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Note: This posting has been updated so as to work with Confluence 4.x. (The previous version of the posting targeted Confluence 2.x.)
I spent several semi-productive hours this weekend writing a plugin for Atlassian's Confluence wiki. The plugin enables the running of JavaScript on the server and placing the result into the page displayed. I have found that using a wiki to intermix static content and dynamic content makes for a great reporting and situation-awareness tool kit (see JSPWiki). I wanted to do the same again within the confines of Confluence 4.x.
Confluence has a really good plugin manager webapp. You can search a repository for existing plugins for immediate inclusion. And you can also upload the plugin from your desktop. I gave the plugin manager a work out getting my plugin to work and can attest to its stability.
And here is the rub, Atlassian has made including and using plugins simple but has made creating a simple plugin almost impossible. My plugin's actual logic is very simple
To make this happen, however, Atlassian wants me to use Atlas. Atlas, as a far as I can tell, is much like Ruby on Rails and Spring Roo where the tool lays out a directory structure with files that together are the parts of and tools for building an "Hello World" application/plugin. In addition to Atlas, Maven and (perhaps) Eclipse are also needed. If my occupation was building whole applications on top of the Atlassian products and their APIs I could understand the logic of this tool chain. But I have a 4 line (!) plugin.
Confluence has been around for a long time and I guessed that the pre-Atlas way of building plugins was documented and with code examples. As far as I can tell, and this is after much searching, this is not the case. I was not able to find a single example of a basic plugin built with, for example, Ant. Since, in the end, a plugin is nothing more than a jar containing code and configuration I was shocked that this was missing from the mass of other documentation Atlassian provides. A whole population of, mostly in-house, programmers are being ignored. These are the programmers that are going to build plugins, i.e. small extensions to big tools that aid the better match between Confluence and the users needs.
To this end, here is how I build a basic macro plugin. (Note that the plugin documented here is not what I finally created. In the process of using the JDK's implementation of JavaScript I discovered that it is a old version of Mozilla's Rhino that does not support E4x, the XML language extensions. E4X makes XML a first class data type within JavaScript. Even the JavaScript syntax has been extends to allow for XML constants, for example x = <a/>. And so the final plugin uses Rhino 1.7R3 which does support E4X and JavaScript 1.8.)
The plugin's jar needs a minimum of two files. The Java class and the atlassian-plugin.xml configuration file. The development directory tree is
The JavaScriptPlugin class extends BasicMacro and must override the methods isInline(), hasBody(), getBodyRenderMode() and execute(). The isInline method specifies if the output of the plugin is suitable for an HTML span or block. The hasBody method specifies if the plugin has content, for example, as does the {code} macro. The getBodyRenderMode() specifies how Confluence is to handle the macro's output. Returning RenderMode.COMPATIBILITY_MODE specifies that the output is wiki text to be rendered as HTML. And, finally, execute does the work of the plugin.
The atlassian-plugin.xml is an XML declaration of the plugin. It must be in the root of the plugin's jar file. The file contains two main sections. The first is plugin-info which declares the plugin as a whole. The second is the (repeatable) macro which declares the specific plugin. The atlassian-plugin.xml has several further refinements of these sections. I was not able to find an XML schema for this file type.
What I have discovered about it is from reviewing Atlassian's own plugins. The atlassian-plugin element's key attribute seems to be a unique identifier but does not have a prescribed structure: I am here just using the JavaScritMacro class's package name. The macro element's name attribute is the name of the macro as used by the user. For example {javascript}1+2+3{javascript}
Atlassian uses the Spring toolkit in their development. Since Spring performs dependency-injection of objects matching the results of using Java reflection to find "bean" names, a lot of Atlassian's code looks like magic is happening. That is, there is no visible configuration or other assignment of object to values and yet the assignments have to made for the code to work. Spring is the magician.
And that is it. The built jar file is a valid Confluence 4.x plugin. Happy wiki scripting Download an archive of the development tree (Thanks to David Wilkinson for the tool to create this data URI.) Coda: I was asked why I created my own scripting plugin when two already exist in Atlassian's plugin repository. The initial reason was that our MySql 5.0 installation has too small a max_allowed_packet size and so Confluence was not able to install the existing script plugins into the database. The ultimate reason was that I knew what I wanted from the plugin and said to myself "how hard can it be?"
What I am focusing on in this photo is that he is using a computer and a notebook. I do the same. It suddenly occurred to me that every crafts person, since the beginning of time, uses this work arrangement. Tool to one side and notes to the other side. This is a great pattern. Why do we not perpetuate it today? Why put both on one machine? Some places have. When I worked at Lotus we always had a "development" machine and an "administration" machine. Perhaps some places do.
I should be able to open my laptop for use on one side of the desk and then slip out the tablet to place on the other side. Just say'n.
I have been slowly working on a metrics collection and monitoring service. There are many others, but I wanted something very simple to feed and to integrate with a wiki to monitor/display. During the development of the service I discovered Horizon charts by way of (the brilliant) Cubism.js.
The goal of an horizon chart is to use the a minimum of vertical height without loss of precision. Horizon charts look like bar charts. However, horizon charts use both the top and bottom edge as axises. The top edge is used to show values below a threshold with the bars going downward and the bottom edge is used to show values above the threshold with the bars going upward. Further, to extend the range of a value beyond the height of the chart the values are "folded" and the folds layered on the chart. Each fold is drawn as a bar on top of the previous fold's bar. The illustration at Sizing the Horizon: The Effects of Chart Size and Layering on the Graphical Perception of Time Series Visualizations shows this very well:
I was a little intimidated by Cubism.js and D3.js; they are sophisticated toolkits that will take more time for me to understand than I wanted to commit just now. Plus I really wanted to learn more about using HTML's canvas element, and so I set about my own implementation.
The code at https://gist.github.com/4264347 is my first cut at the implementation. It works for a fixed, two fold horizon chart. The example chart below plot the values between +/-200 with folds at +/-100.Update: Updated the working example to be more general. Removed the code from this posting in preference to the Gist.
FYI: To run the code just download the gist and open it in a browser. To play with it copy the gist into the HTML panel of http://jsfiddle.net/ and run.
Looking forward to Blackout Friday! I am so surprised that the national brand stores and the electrical grid operators have come together to turn off the power on Friday so we all can stop and view, with utter revulsion, the rapacity that is now "Christmas."
THIS IS A WORKING DOCUMENT
Jeff Atwood recently proposed that Markdown users come together and create a unified specification. While I do think a unified specification would be useful I do not think Markdown is the right syntax. I have used it and many of the other structured text markup alternatives. For programmer types and anyone else used to machine readable documents, structured text markup is a great way to reduce the effort needed to get content on the page. However, HTML is a great way to reduce the effort needed too. The problem with both is that Markdown is too weak a syntax and HTML is too strong of a one. We need a middle ground.
Here is a proposal for a middle ground. I am going to call this syntax Permatext:
A valid HTML document is a valid Permatext document.
HTML class and style information is discarded by a Permatext processor.
Any HTML end tags can be dropped if it is clear from the context that the end tag would be used. So, for example, an opening P tag automatically closes the previous P tag. An opening A tag need not use the closing tag if the link's title is a single word. Etc.
A short closing tag, </>, closes the most recient open tag.
Text within a code or pre tag need not be XML escaped. However, escaped XML will be honored. That is, if a valid named or numbered entity is found then it is honored. [tricky]
TODO
For example, the document contained in Atwood's posting would be marked up as follows:
<h1>Lightweight Markup Languages</>
<p>According to <i>Wikipedia</>:
<blockquote>
A <a href="http://is.gd/gns">lightweight markup language</>
is a markup language with a simple syntax, designed
to be easy for a human to enter with a simple text
editor, and easy to read in its raw form.
<p>Some examples are:
<li>Markdown
<li>Textile
<li>BBCode
<li>Wikipedia
Markup should also extend to <i>code</>:
<pre>
10 PRINT "I ROCK AT BASIC!"
20 GOTO 10
Now and then you need to watch a directory for changes. For me, this is mostly to ensure a data build is continuing. When the directory size remains constant then it is likely that the data build has failed. A simple monitor is to regularly check the directory's size and send an email message should it not change. If the email is to a email-to-SMS service then you will know sooner about the problem.
To regularly check use cron. While you can have a program that loops over the check and then sleeps for an interval this is very likely to fail at some time, that is, the program dies without warning. Cron will not fail in this way.
Since you are interested in change you need to record the previous value to compare to the new value. Just use a file. Anything else will likely fail.
So here is your crontab line (place all lines on one line) to run the command several times per hour
This says to watch the directory "$HOME/var/data-2012-09-18/", keep the record of previous directory size in "$HOME/var/data-2012-09-18.watch", and to raise an alarm by sending email to "[email protected]" (AT&T's email-to-SMS service). The "$HOME/bin/watch-directory-and-mail" script is
Update: The script works just as well with a file as with a directory. If the rate of growth of the directory/file is slow then use "du -sb" to get byte counts. (OS X's du does not have the -b option.) Update: If you have multi watching going on then the message sent is not very helpful. Have updated the code to enable to use to specify the message. Update: If you don't want the script txting you during the night then change the crontab schedule to 9 AM to 5 PM, eg "*/5 8-17 * * * $HOME/bin/watch-directory-and-mail ...".
I was reading this and it sparked an idea for the combined use of Marked and a command line script. I often would like to simply collect notes as I work at the command line. The notes can all go into the same file and I will sort them out afterwards (GTD "inbox" style). So the simple command line
function n() { echo "$(date): $*" >>~/Inbox/Note.txt; }
defines a "n" command that works well enough. Usage is simply to type "n this is my note" at the command line and the script will put the timestamp and the "this is my note" text in to the file ~/Inbox/Note.txt.
The spark, however, was that I could use Marked to display an automatically updated view of the note file's contents. Further, I could add a little markdown notation to the script to help visually separate the notes. The final script is
One of the projects I worked on was funded by the EU and so the code needed to be open-sourced. We did this by placing the code on SourceForge. And that was mostly all that was done. Eventually the EU stopped funding the project and so now the code sits abandoned. Untended. Crumbling with each new release of a dependent toolkit or tool.
When it was coded it represented some of my best work. Some of it is still good. Some of it I look upon with horror. This posting is not about me and my code but about the code's life. I can say without any doubt that the code will never be used again. Even in part. Anything that was useful has already been subsumed into other projects. So why keep it? Why should SourceForge pay to keep it available? I don't have a good answer yet, but I am leaning towards deleting it.
A challenge in doing this in bash was in coordinating the input from the ps pipeline and the user's confirmation. I came up with an answer but am not sure it is the right one and so have asked on Stackoverflow.com for help. Until then, here is a less violent killmatching:
We have many clients to a service. The service needs to be fault-tolerant and so it will have many replicas. When a client can no longer access the service it will switch to a replica and inform all the other clients will switch to the same replica. (It is not acceptable to load-balance across the replicas as the replicas' data values are not exactly the same but all the clients must return the same data values at all times.)
My current design is to have the client, on failing to reach the service, ask for a new service leader. When a new service leader is established it will then notify all the clients to use it.
As with many distributed coordination designs I need a distributed group manager. I am considering the use of JGroups and/or Apache Zookeeper in a solution.
Is there an existing recipe or recipes that I should be looking at to solve this problem? Update: We finally decided to have a master make a new copy of the repository, copy it to all service hosts, and notify the service hosts to switch to the new repository. The master tracks who has switched and raises an alarm if there is missing switchers after a fixed interval.
About a week ago now I was tired of NPR using the term "Obamacare" instead of the laws real name, The Affordable Care Act. And so I sent email and Facebook messages to the local and national NPR offices:
Dear NPR, please call the law by its rightful name, The Affordable Care Act, and not the prejudicial name its opponents want it called.
Both offices wrote back. The local office, RIPR, said that they would use the real name during its initial reference in a story and Obomacare afterwards. Further, "[...] because (like it or not) that's what many people know it by." I was peeved by this sloppiness and the lack of an historical grasp of the significance of names and so sent a rather strident response (for which I did apologize later). The message I receive from NPR's ombudsman was remarkable:
Thank you for your inquiry. We asked Ron Elving about the term and here is his reponse:
Initially, the term was coined and used by opponents of the ACA. It had a sneering kind of tone to it, implying that the president was trying to imitate or piggyback on the popularity of Medicare. (As indeed a lot of commercial products have done since 1965.) The White House initially resisted the term for this reason, preferring Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
In the headline wars of the cable tv news world, of course, PPACA never had a chance. Obamacare became increasingly common.
So some while ago, the White House did a turnaround and embraced the term. I am attaching a copy of the memo David Axelrod wrote about the term and why it was okay to use it as far as he was concerned. Axelrod was still in the White House as the top political advisor at the time and is now in Chicago co-directing the re-elect campaign.
Obamacare means never having to worry about getting sick and running up against a lifetime cap on insurance coverage. It gives parents the comfort of knowing their kids can stay on their insurance until they're 26, and that a "pre-existing condition" like an ear infection will never compromise their child's coverage.
It's about ending the practice of letting insurance companies charge women 50 percent more -- just because they're women.
And Obamacare can save seniors hundreds of dollars a year on prescription drugs -- and gives them access to preventive care that is saving their lives.
President Obama never lost sight of the fact that this reform is about people. People like his own mother, who spent the last years of her life fighting cancer -- and fighting with insurance companies, too.
That shouldn't happen. And because of Obamacare, it can't.
So next time you hear someone railing against Obamacare, remember what they're actually saying they want to take away.
The four machines I am watching are called ds1, ds2, ds3, and ds4 and the two log files I am interested in tailing -- qs-common.log and ds-common.log -- are in the same location. Term uses the -t option to set the window's title (if it is not given then the first argument is used.) Don't forget to use ssh-id-copy to configured the remote hosts to use a private key so no password is needed
I know that a visual workplace works to improve productivity. What I did not think about was that it can work for the individual just as well as for the team. During the weekend's browsing I came across this posting about Kanban for One. And, better, the inspiring photograph of Nomad8's office with a kanban board at most desks.
Thus inspired, I created my own Kanban board and used it right from the start of the day. And it worked! It was much easier to manage the set of activities over the day. It was delightful seeing the steady accumulation of "done" tasks. It was also surprising how quickly tasks got stuck. (And it is the stuck tasks that tend to get forgotten.) I plan to keep using the system and see how it goes.
The board is a 1'×2' piece of foam core board from a discarded marketing sign, the markings are with white pencil, and the tasks are written on 2"×1.5" Post It notes. It really couldn't be simpler to construct.
Note that I am using the kanban board in conjunction with an existing bug tracking system. The backlog is managed by the bug tracker. The queue needs to be on the kanban board, however.
There seems to be less and less opportunity to see how much hard work is necessary to achieve proficiency and (sometimes) success. The actions of a craftsman in wood, for example, can be seen by sitting at the side of a bench and being attentive. What works and what does not is equally visible. And if the craftsman has a the habit of talking to the work some of his interior worries and choices are available.
My children have no visibility into my work. I am a software programmer. I have been at this trade for 30 years but what can be seen of my efforts and the growth? There is nothing.
From my children's perspective there is no history there is only now and the future. No wonder they and the kids you write of think they can be famous. It requires so little effort.
There are times when I want a notification about the status of a long running process I have running on a remote system. I could have it send an email. I could have it send an instant message. I decided that, since I have a Mac, I would have it send a Growl notification. Growl's GNTP makes this easy and the language bindings available make it easier still.
The one obstacle I had was getting the IP address of the connecting host (i.e., my Mac). Commands like finger and who often show this data but I did not want to scrape the command output as it is different between operating systems. Digging into the code for who at koders.com I discovered that it used the user accounting database utmpxAPI for getting this data. And so, with all the parts needed, I coded up growler
I had a small problem today where I needed to refactor a Java class and maintain its serialization identity. I guessed that if I maintained the class's instance variable order and explicitly defined the serialVersionUID class variable with the class's previous implicit value I would be safe. So, before refactoring, I used Java's serialver to get the class's serialVersionUID. I then refactored the class and added the serialVersionUID class variable. But it didn't work. What was wrong? I needed to look into the object's serialization.
An object's serialized form is defined in Java Object Serialization Specification. I really didn't want to read the specification: All that I really wanted was to see the differences between the class's pre-refactor stream and the post-refactor stream. So I used jdeserialize to dump the protocol encoding of the streams.
What was quickly apparent in the dump was that the order of the instance variables within the stream have no relation to their order in the class definition. I was not expecting this. During the refactoring I had renamed some instance variables to better reflect their purpose. Once I reverted the instance variable's names to their previous values the serialization was the same. Success.
A distressing aspect of this exploration was that two objects with the same serialVersionUID will be considered the same by the serialization implementation and so it will misinterpret the bytes in the stream for the bytes needed by the class. The end result is that you get an object that is initialized wrong. I would have expected an exception that indicated the mismatch between data in the stream and data expected by the class. Perhaps there is a command line switch or system property I can use to enforce a stricter pairing. Be very careful when refactoring a class with an explicit serialVersionUID to either remove or update its value before committing the changes.
My comment on How I name files on my Mac:
I too add dates to file names even though I know the creation date is part of the file's meta-data. When files are moved between systems the meta-data is not always preserved. This chance of loss is also what thwart me from using a tagging tool as I can not be assured that the tags will be preserved between systems. And so, the trifecta of low-ceremony document management are
Geek-lights are the indicator lights embedded on the surface of your electrical equipment. The green "On" light. The blinking light on your ethernet port or USB thumb-drive telling you data is being transferred. Most of them tell you redundant or otherwise obvious facts. I don't need an "on" light for the monitor I am using. It is useful information when in power saving mode, however. Apple seems to have learned this.
However, geek-lights are incredibly useful for other kinds of information. Information that is different for you and me. For example, one to indicate if traffic is too heavy to venture out now. Another to tell me that I have email. Another to tell others that I am in a conference call and not just talking to myself again.
I would like to have a box of these geek-lights that I can use each for a specific purpose. The geek-light would be nothing more than a shallow and wide cylinder with the light on the top, temporary adhesive on the bottom, and the electronics sandwiched in between. Let's call them eyelets as they let you see something ordinarily invisible. Each eyelet is individually addressable by a short range wireless signal. An eyelet receives a signal that indicates whether it is illuminated or not. Eyelets don't send signals back. I can imagine the hardware being something akin to Logitech's Unifying receiver -- that is, unobtrusive.
The question now is, should eyelets have a battery charge indicator light?
"Anyone who isn't acting like a startup in publishing [replace with your industry] has a serious problem." I hate this aphorisms. It is not useful and mostly wrong. The only difference between a new product at a startup and one at an established company is where the seed money comes from. Everything else is the same.
I have been working with XML since SGML. I have been working with character-sets since before cuneiform was contemporary. That is, a long time. I have seen and continue to see characters very poorly handled. Even the use of the term "characters" is wrong. Unicode calls them "code points" as a single character (graphic impression) can be made from one or more code points. Unicode supports both a single code point that represents an e with an acute, U+00E9, and a multiple code point representation, U+0065 with a U+0301. The single code point is 'é' while the multiple code points are 'é'. For most users and most web browsers there is no difference in how this character is presented.
Now é is presented differently in different character-sets and in different character-encodings. For UTF-8 it is represented as two bytes, 0xC3 and 0xA9. For XML it is presented as the numbered entity "é" or "é". For HTML both the XML encodings can be used and the named entity "é" can be used. For percentage encoding within a URL's path and query it is represented as "%C3%A9". Within a domain name that uses punycode it is "xn--9ca". While these differences are not inherently problematic it has been my experience that their combined use very much is.
For example, if I have a URL that contains an é and I want to use this in an HTML A tag's href how do I encode it? All of the following are useable but only the first is correct:
http://foo.com/bar?%C3%A9
http://foo.com/bar?é
http://foo.com/bar?é
http://foo.com/bar?é
And being correct matters more and more because this stuff is being handled by code. Code is written by programmers and programmers don't universally understand character-encodings and character-sets. Moreover, you have programmers at both ends of the supply chain: The writer writes it wrong and the reader reads it wrong. How many times have you seen the following?
Only accept content for which there is a specified character-set. (For XML it is UTF-8 by default.) So, for HTML form elements make sure to use the accept-charset attribute. For HTTP requests make sure to require the charset attribute of the content-type header. If you can, only accept UTF-8 -- mostly because the supplier's tools will almost aways to the right thing with UTF-8.
Never use a character-set in your byte-oriented repositories as anything other than UTF-8. (So, when you get a percent-encoded URL make sure to store it not as supplied but as its decoding.)
I have returned to earth after some months of all-things-wargames-all-the-time. I have learned much about Roman, feudal, and 18C and 19C warfare. Perhaps not enough to author a Buffer's Guide but enough to ask respectable initial and followup questions. But what I have not yet done is actually play a game! My Bacuss Saxons and a Vikings are still unpainted. I do not have a game table. I haven't tracked down local DBA wargamers. So over the coming weeks I intended to paint my toy soldier: that is, after helping with kids projects, house projects, garden projects, etc. Wish me luck.
My public library, and, I expect, so does your's, uses Innovative Interfaces catalog tools. This web application is the poster child for poor user interface and user experience. It is not my objective to enumerate the problems. Instead, I discovered a useful mechanism of getting around the problem I have with remembering my library card's barcode. (Why on earth do the designers of this software expect me to remember my barcode is unfathomable.)
My original solution was to embed the barcode in a URL that mimicked the web application's form-based login. This URL was then bookmarked to allow for immediate access. This worked for a good number of years until the catalog software was updated. At which point the URL broke and I was unable to reproduce this solution using the updated software. (The obstacle seemed to be the need for a session identification that I could not contrive.) And so I needed a different approach.
The approach I took was to be able to show the barcode when I used the catalog. Having an absolute DIV positioned at the bottom the browser's window is easy to do with CSS. The problem was that to do this I needed to dynamically alter the catalog's HTML. I really did not want to install GreaseMonkey to accomplish this. The next best solution was to have a standalone page with an embedded IFRAME. This give me full control over what was on the page. The HTML is
I didn't like having to store this page as a file on my local machine and storing it on a HTTP server seemed overkill. Clearly, I was over thinking, but this is what I do for my day job. It then occurred to me that I could encode the page as a data URI and, I hoped, that when I used this URI the browser would render the encoded page. I used David Wilkinson's data: URI creation tool to create the URI. And, to my wonderment, Safari, FireFox, and Chrome (all on OS X) did exactly as hoped for.
What this means is that my future bookmarklets can more sophisticated then I ever considered practical before. Perhaps you can use this discovery too.
One of my favorite lines from M.A.S.H was Frank Bruns insisting that "we must have a plan even if it is wrong." While this was a line intended to ridicule Frank, it has been my experience that creating a plan, even if it turns out wrong, is a positive step forward.
I am enamored with all things miniature wargame. Last year I dove into the world of boardgames (and card games) as my sons were now of an age where we could plays games that were enjoyable to each of us. Boardgaming is not, however, a hobby. A hobby requires hands-on creativity. (Aka, dirty hands.) A hobby is what you do between events. While I am up to the challenge of developing boardgames and card games it is too much of an intellectual challenge only and I have enough of that in my day-job. And further, I don't really want to do it.
As a young teenager I had a detailed model Great Western Railway in N gauge. I loved this hobby. It allowed for the creation of a whole world and one run with British timeliness. (Timeliness, is something that has vanished from the modern UK rail system, I am told.) Modeling railways and railroads are still something I look forward to doing again in my dotage, but not now.
What sparked my interest in miniature wargaming come from an unexpected encounter at the Hobby Bunker. This game store is near to my employer's office and so I went to it too look at their stock of boardgames. What I encountered was not, principally, a boardgame store but instead a miniatures wargaming store. As, as it turns out, the Hobby Bunker is one of the best such stores in the US. And so for two hours I wondered the aisles of shelves stocked with unpainted miniatures in plastic and metal of all historical periods; the selection of paints in acrylic and enamel; the shelves of books with the historical accounts of nations, armies, commanders, and battles; wargamer magazines; and wargame rules. (Hobby Bunker does also have a good collection of boardgames.)
That day I only bought an issue of Wargames Illustrated but the next time I bought some plastic saxons and the paint for them. And, like every good wargamer, they remain unpainted in the box still. But that is not because of waning interest but instead I have dove in the deep-end of the pool and am currently surrounded with magazines, military history books, wargaming books (mostly the foundational one), rule books, wargaming podcasts, and, soon to arrive, armies of vikings and saxons in 6mm.
I had a great time Saturday attending the Boston Battle Groups's Havoc Game Convention (HAVOC). My goal in attending was to see different historical periods and different rule sets in play. In the morning I watched Day of Battle rules payed out by Christopher Parker (the rule set's author), his brother, Jen, and Richard Brian. The game is driven by a unique combination of dice (d6) and a standard deck of cards. I need to see the rules played out in a tournament to make a judgement about them. I want to thank Chris and Dick for sharing their time and knowledge with me.
In the afternoon I watched a Punic wars battle played with the the De Bellis Antiquitatis (DBA) rules ((say what). This rule set seems most approachable. It had the feel of a boardgame but played with miniatures on an open table. Since returning from HAVOC I have spent the most time with this rule set. I want to thank Maureen, Spencer, Mike, and Harrison for a wonderful afternoon.
All in all, I met a wonderful group of people at HAVOC. All most willing to ofter advice and help. And Vic Gregoire invited me to join his "The Usual Gang of Idiots" for some wargames later in the year.
The calendar displays that we have had forever just don't help me anymore. Too much information and/or too much interaction need. I want my calendars to show me what I want without interaction. I want to distinguish what is common and what is unique. Common, for example, are events such as every workday at 9 AM I have a standup meeting; Thursdays I deploy new releases; Every second Monday of the month during a school year I have a PTA meeting. Unique ones are the dentist appointment and the odd professional event at night. I don't really want one-view calendar anymore. I need multiple-view calendar like he one illustrated here.
The top chart contains my unique events over the last 2 and next 8 days. The second chart contains my common events over the last 2 and next 8 days. The bottom left chart is a list of common events for the next several weeks. And the bottom right chart is a list of unique events for the next several weeks.
Since we have separated events that actually occupy the same timeline we need to rejoin them somehow. My initial thought was to add a ghost to each chart that signifies the presents of an event in another chart, but I am not wedded to this.
Does anyone make a calendar like this, either visually or purposefully?
Last year I attended a few lectures and read news reports about the pharmaceutical business where drug researchers and clinicians spoke about how the allocation of money was disproportionally being spent on life-style drugs and existing (often unique) drugs were being discontinued. This got me thinking about how we could continue to allow pharmaceutical companies to make gobs of money (I don't object to profiting from a great product) and also allow clinicians to depend on a consistent supply of drugs. We need a segmenting and deregulation like what was done with electric utilities in the mid-1990s.
The electric utilities in the mid-1990's were split into three segments: generation, transmission, and local distribution. While the customer does not have a choice of local distribution and transmission they should have a choice of generation. Local generation and transmission continued to be regulated. Generation was deregulated to enable competition. This change was fundamental in the motivation to build wind farms, solar farms, etc.
The pharmaceutical companies need to be split into three segments: research and development (R&D), manufacturing, and distribution. No one company can be in more than one segment. Manufacturing and distribution are typically low-risk, low-margin businesses. They are also critical to continuing care and so will be regulated. The R&D segment is typically a high-risk, high-margin business. This will be unregulated (well, more like less regulated). Within R&D there are two means of funding. The first is the self-funding pharmaceutical industry we have today. The second kind of R&D companies are the startups financed by venture capital.
Given these segments how does the money flow to encourage innovation and discourage abandonment of established, low-margin markets. Firstly, by separating manufacturing and distribution these businesses can continue to exist and be profitable as they do not need to directly bare the costs of R&D. People, world over, continue to get sick with the same diseases!
How is R&D paid for? R&D works within a venture capitol environment. Money comes from outside the pharmaceutical industry and money comes from inside the pharmaceutical industry. The money from within the industry comes from the sale of drugs to manufactures and a royalty on retail sales. This money does not go directly to the R&D businesses. This money goes into a venture capital fund. This is one of the many funds that R&D businesses can pitch a therapy to. I do not know how the internal fund is managed. This might be a kind of utility with public oversight.
This segmentation and organization allows for the continuation of the high-risk and high-reward therapy R&D but takes out of R&D's control the manufacturing and distribution. A win for all interested parties -- and we are all interested parties in health.
I have mentioned before Lawrence Lessig's work to remove the inequitable distribution of power through money and the dependency corruption that is pervasive in US politics, esp. at the federal level. His book Republic, Lost is a challenging read. He recently gave a talk at the Long Now Foundation that I highly recommend. Please do listen to it. Well worth an hour of your time.
I seem to use my command line utility realpath all the time. All it does it take a relative path and return its absolute path. It is very useful. So useful that I can't believe all systems don't have one in /usr/bin/. If you are missing this functionality too then here is source
If you are following the explanation in Version Control with Subversion, "Repository Replication", page 177, of how to clone a Subversion repository and want a working example then here it is as a Makefile | {
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In this edition of our ongoing Security for Industries series, we’re focusing our lens on the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and its growing cybersecurity impact across the automotive and electronics industries.
Bringing their expert insights to the table are Lisa Fisher, MEA lead for the IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV) Performance Data and Benchmarking Program, Ben Stanley, IBM IBV global automotive research lead, and Cristene Gonzalez-Wertz, electronics and environment, energy and utilities research director for IBM IBV.
The State of the Industrial IoT
While implementing IIoT devices can help improve efficiency and boost worker safety, it also comes with potential cybersecurity challenges. Yet when Fisher went looking for specific security data, she found it conspicuously absent.
That’s why IBM IBV commissioned a pair of benchmark performance surveys across 700 companies and 18 countries to uncover key trends in the electronics and automotive industries. The data shows that just over 10 percent of all businesses surveyed were ahead of the crowd in terms of their ability to generalize IoT security best practices and develop actionable cybersecurity strategies.
Quick to Implement, Slow to Secure
Eighty-seven percent of automotive manufacturers surveyed are quick to implement IIoT, but slow to secure these devices. According to Stanley, this often stems from a priority problem: Companies know they must implement IIoT to keep up, but they generally don’t account for the long-term needs of connected device security. As a result, only 10 percent of automotive organizations have an IIoT plan in place that includes a detailed road map and executive accountability.
With consumer data now moving from vehicles into factories and companies relying more on automation, the potential risks associated with an IIoT breach are significant: Stanley points to everything from data exposure to employee harm, in addition to concerns about environmental implications and the potential for automated device takeover.
Because adoption is both IT and OT-driven, companies are struggling to determine who’s in charge of security. Gonzalez-Wertz recommends adopting artificial intelligence (AI)-driven security tools, bolstering device privacy controls and focusing on employee education.
How Can Companies Improve IIoT Security?
While there’s now greater industry awareness of IIoT concerns, according to Stanley, companies need a vision — one that includes clear adoption, implementation and chain-of-responsibility protocols — to improve overall cybersecurity. He recommends conducting a yearly benchmarking review to see how organizations are doing and discover new avenues for secure IIoT integration. | {
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Ann Yu 's Acc Shop Women's Jewelry Store, Interior Design
Ann Yu , the project leader of the displayed project Women's Jewelry store, Interior Design by Ann Yu points out, A Jewelry Store: the starting of a new brand. Used glass and fragments in order to constitute the gender of the intuitive space. Liquidity, reflective, floating, dangerous, sensitive, disguised, fragile, with all the female psychological experience in series. Dramatic sense design attracts customers into the store, meanwhile combines with diversified art to creat the business combination and brand culture.. | {
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Jerusalem and its future
ByC. Robert ZelnickApril 5, 1985
Tel Aviv
— RESIDENTS of Jerusalem call it ``magic hour.'' It is the period just before twilight when the still bright Mediterranean sun has gone into repose behind the western hills. The air is perfectly transparent, without smog or vapors of humidity. The city appears a brilliant diorama, its objects lighted from within. A strong mountain breeze lends a shimmering quality to the vista, colors seeming to dance off the buildings and holy places -- gold from the Dome of the Rock, silver from the Al Aqsa mosque, a faint rose hue from the Jerusalem stone used in nearly all construction. Jerusalem would be an experience intense enough for resident, tourist, and pilgrim even were politics alien to the scene. It is not. Nor was it at the birth of our era when Jesus came over the Mount of Olives to celebrate Passover in the holy city.
It was a time of simmering resistance to Rome, a distant power that had established its regional capital in Caesarea.
Senior Roman officials came to Jerusalem principally to ``show the flag,'' collect taxes, and mete out justice, the latter bringing procurator Pontius Pilate to the city the week Jesus was sentenced to die.
The insult of Roman rule was felt most acutely by Jews during the Passover week, when they celebrated the deliverance from Egypt. Some scholars today theorize that the crowd that greeted Jesus with cries of ``Hosanna'' was beseeching him to fight for the country's independence from Rome. Palm branches strewn in his path have been found on ancient Hebrew coins and may well have been a symbol of Jewish nationalism. The psalms of degrees chanted by the crowd speak of harsh retribution against the pagan enemies of Zion. Once inside the temple, the verses may well have been left for the children to recite, adults knowing well that the proceedings were within earshot of the adjacent Antonia Castle and its Roman legions.
Jesus would not be stampeded or tricked into a recklessly futile challenge to Roman authority. His immediate targets were the corruption and hypocrisy of the Pharisees. While descending from the Mount of Olives he wept, overcome by the vision of the destruction of the Second Temple, an event that would follow his own crucifixion by some 37 years.
In nearly 2,000 years of subsequent rule by Romans, Arabs, crusaders, Mamelukes, Turks, and Britons, Jerusalem never approached the majesty and importance enjoyed before Jesus' day.
To the followers of Islam it ranked behind Mecca and Medina in spiritual significance and far behind Baghdad, Cairo, and Damascus in political consequence.
Jerusalem was too far inland for the crusaders to hold. During the four centuries before 1916, it was little more than a corrupt, dirty, underpopulated backwater of the Ottoman Empire.
The British governed the city as part of a League of Nations Palestine mandate in trust for beneficiaries whose antagonistic interests they found incapable of reconciliation. The British quit the country in 1948, when Israel's existence as an independent nation was established. Israel wound up dividing Jerusalem with Transjordan (now Jordan) along armistice lines that would prove unsatisfactory to all concerned.
Jordan governed Jerusalem along with the rest of the West Bank for the next 19 years. Its rule perfectly mirrored its priorities, which were, first, the ascendency of Amman and the East Bank; second, the subordination if not eradication of a separate Palestinian identity -- at least among Palestinians living under Jordanian occupation; and third, a continued state of belligerency with Israel. The Jewish section of the old city was burned. Jewish holy places were defiled. Jews were forbidden to enter the Temple Mount or even visit the Western Wall of the destroyed Second Temple.
Reconquered by Israel in 1967, Jerusalem has thrived in a way unique in recent millenniums. The population of some 300,000 -- more than one-third Arab -- is the largest ever. The holy places of all are protected and accessible. It is a clean, well-serviced, culturally and historically rich, intellectually vibrant, dynamic, and diverse municipality which, despite its modest size, can justifiably be numbered among the world's great capitals.
Jerusalem is intimately identified with Islam, Christianity, and Judaism.
Yet only Israel couples this with a political attachment of singular and special intensity. Israel cannot deny Jerusalem to humanity, but neither can humanity deny Jerusalem to Israel. Even among strident Palestinian nationalists there is scant sentiment for bisecting the city in the onerous pre-1967 fashion.
Yet, in contemplating the future Arab-Israeli peace process, most serious students urge that the question of Jerusalem's final status be left for last. Hardheaded political realism undergirds this approach. No Israeli government that begins negotiations with major concessions on Jerusalem is likely to survive long enough to reach a final accord. Nor will a final accord that fails to provide juridical sanction for historical Arab attachments to the city achieve even threshold legitimacy among the most moderate of Arab factions.
Once the psychological hurdles of peace, mutual recognition, and territorial compromise are cleared -- not to mention such imperative questions as security, sovereignty, and citizenship -- reasonable arrangements for Jerusalem should not be impossible to come by.
Some suggest that a special status for Christian and Muslim holy places -- plus corridors providing access to them -- would suffice.
Others flirt with such notions as broad grants of extraterritoriality -- the doctrine applied to foreign embassies -- or even some form of joint sovereignty and administration, or a borough system providing its functional equivalent.
One need not at this point reach too deeply into the kit of remedies. What has blocked the implementation of any one of them has been the inability or unwillingness of the parties to the dispute to tackle the broader policy issues of the Arab-Israeli question.
History at its best provides lessons and inspiration, not shackles for the future. A traveler wandering today through the Alsace-Lorraine country would scarcely dream of the intensity of Franco-German enmity that in less than three-quarters of a century produced three bloody wars, two of which involved all of the world's great powers, the last threatening civilization itself.
An observer today standing on the Mount of Olives sees an undifferentiated panorama reflecting the episodic preeminence of man's more noble traits -- his spirituality, his love of beauty, his ability to live in harmony with the natural environment, indeed celebrating and enriching that environment even while satisfying the needs of his civilization.
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Stacked bimbo Nikki Sexx and tanned Tara Lynn Foxx are a couple of slutty blondes in quest of a nasty anal three-way with infamous anal perv Mike Adriano. Each sexy bitch uses her tongue to probe the other's crinkled butthole; Mike stretches open their sphincters using a speculum and peers deep inside. Tara Lynn and Nikki team up to slurp the director's huge cock, ball sack and bunghole. They get ruthlessly ass-fucked in a wild session of gaping and ass-to-mouth fun with a cum-swapping climax.
Adorable, cuddly young Melissa May teams with sassy MILF Simone Sonay for a session of anal debauchery with pornographer Mike Adriano. The blonde sluts prepare the director's giant cock with some wet, gagging blow job action, slurping his balls and tonguing his bunghole. Mike reams Simone's rectum, stretching her anus with his prick, as Melissa obediently laps at his nut sack and deep-throats his massive member ass-to-mouth. Finally, Melissa receives a load of sperm... and lewdly drools it into the older woman's mouth.
Sleek, sexy brunette model Anna Morna is a big-assed beauty with a taste for huge, throbbing cocks. Today she's getting her juicy pussy stuffed by well-hung director Mike Adriano. Mike passionately tongues the all-natural girl's sweet asshole; he uses an anal toy and a close-up spy cam to examine her slippery cunt! Before long, the gorgeous slut is hungrily gagging on Mike's shaft, riding him in an intense, POV-style fuck that climaxes with a shower of cum on Anna's thigh. | {
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Photo during or around 1979. Thorney Lieberman was the principal photographer for the architectural firm of I.M. Pei and Partners (1971-1991). Images taken by him document 16th Street, Denver, Colo. before the creation of the 16th Street Transit Mall, more commonly known as the 16th Street Mall. Views encompass both sides of 16th Street starting at the corner of Colfax and Lincoln Streets, then proceeding north along Lincoln to 16th Street, then northwest along 16th Street across Broadway to Larimer Street.""; Series 35, Image 343 | {
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Several questions this week about holiday pay and overtime pay that I want to respond. When it comes to overtime pay on holidays, Santa is on the side of small business owners! Under federal law, a holiday does not have a special designation for overtime pay, nor is working on a holiday considered overtime. The law views holidays as just another business day.
You probably already know that both the federal and state law require almost every employer to pay overtime. And even a few, very few, employees are exempt from overtime. If your employee is entitled to overtime, calculating pay can be a bit tricky. The important thing to know is that under federal law, overtime is calculated weekly. This means if your employee works over 40 hours during the week of Christmas or New Year’s Day, they are entitled to “time and a half” – the employee’s hourly wage plus 50 percent – for the hours worked over 40 hours.
Of course that doesn’t mean you cannot play Santa and still add holiday pay to your employees checks for the holidays.
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St. Lucie County glioblastoma patients fear something local could be causing their illness
Nearly a dozen people in the Fort Pierce area have been told the same horrible news from their doctors: They have glioblastoma.
It’s an aggressive and deadly form of brain cancer that affects only about 13,000 people in the U.S. each year.
In a town of just 45,000 people, glioblastoma patients and their families want to know if there is something leading to their illness.
Eleven patients or surviving family members found each other only through word of mouth over the last year.
They found a common trend between themselves: they live at most about 7 miles apart. The majority are within 5 miles of each other. Some lived on the same street at one point. In one case, two patients lived in the same house, though over a span of 20 years.
Eleven people in the Fort Pierce area have developed glioblastoma, a deadly form a brain cancer. All of them live within a 7-mile area.
The patients who have had the chance to meet say they all lived a bulk of their lives in or near the 34982 zip code.
The 11 current cases that have been discovered were diagnosed within the last 5 years, affecting people younger than 3-years-old and as old as in their 70s.
The majority are younger than the average age for a glioblastoma diagnosis.
Stephanie Ankiel-Cunningham’s husband, Mark Cunningham, 34, was diagnosed with glioblastoma in 2016. He was healthy growing up and always active, until a sudden seizure in 2016.
“He went to the gym sometimes twice a day,” Cunningham said. “I thought maybe it was too much protein… In reality, it was glioblastoma,” Cunningham said.
The diagnosis has changed their lives completely.
And the bills are piling up.
“$50,000 since 2016,” Cunningham said.
It’s the cost of keeping Mark around as long as possible, to watch their 6-year-old, Kendal, grow up.
When Mark’s mobility and personality started to change, she started looking for local support.
Expecting to find maybe a couple people who have experienced glioblastoma to give her guidance, she found so much more.
Like 33-year-old Lenny Schelin Junior, who grew up in Fort Pierce.
He was diagnosed in 2017 with glioblastoma.
“When the doctor came out and showed me the picture from the cat scan and said you’ve got brain cancer, I said you got the wrong patient,” Schelin said.
Cunningham also found Mitzi Macias, whose mother-in-law passed away in 2016 after being diagnosed with glioblastoma in 2013.
“She was never sick a day in her life,” Macias said. Her mother-in-law lived in 34981.
Ronna Perry’s husband, Jackie ‘Kevin’ Perry, was also diagnosed with glioblastoma in 2017.
It was not until Perry's diagnosis that they learned someone who lived in their same home had been diagnosed with glioblastoma nearly 20 years ago.
“We knew our former landlord passed away from cancer, but it wasn’t until I spoke with Stephanie that I found out it was glioblastoma.”
Greg Harmon’s son only lived to be 21-months-old. Gregory Harmon III lived along Roselyn Avenue, and was diagnosed and passed away in 2016.
Lela Abbate's brother, Robert Haselgrove, was diagnosed in November 2016. He died three days later. He lived in the 34982 zip code the majority of his life.
Sebastiao Nogueira De Almeida was diagnosed the summer of 2015. He passed away the summer of 2016 and lived along Sunrise Boulevard.
Kim Hart's mother, Christine Yarough, was diagnosed in 2017 and lives in the 34983 zip code.
Some patients or loved ones did not want their information contributed to this story.
Once the majority of the 11 patients or living family members tracked each other down, they created a support group.
One goal of the group: Getting to the bottom of whether or not there is an environmental factor that could be making them sick.
“Something’s wrong,” Macias said.
Dr. Henry Friedman, a neuro-oncologist and Deputy Director of the Preston Robert TischBrain Tumor Center at Duke University, weighed in.
“That number does seem high,” Friedman said.
However, without looking at individual cases and health histories, he can only speak on the surface facts: Age, location and the number of cases that the local patients have uncovered.
“It certainly seems like a higher number than one would expect during that common timeframe in such a small denominator as the size of that town,” Friedman said.
However, he also said it can be extremely hard and time consuming for anyone to prove an environmental cause for illness.
Friedman says the only known contributor to glioblastoma is exposure to radiation.
Most of the glioblastoma patients have moved to new homes over the years.
The Florida Department of Health in St. Lucie County recently met with the support group of local glioblastoma patients.
The health department will offer them any available services. Local health officials are talking with state health officials about the best way to move forward with the patients’ concerns over the number of local cases.
Stephanie Ankiel-Cunningham is raising money to help continue to pay for her husbands growing medical bills. | {
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This 3 day convention highlights many aspects of beekeeping with interesting workshops showing beekeepers how to make the most of the resources around them.
It's the local beekeepers who are on the front lines to revive the population of honeybees in the U.S. Over the last decade, beekeepers have been trying to combat Colony Collapse Disorder brought on by pesticides and other contaminants in the air. It's the hobby beekeepers who are helping reverse the decline in the number of honey bees in Texas.
Many local beekeepers begin the process in part to take advantage of a state tax exemption, and to be able to get access to fresh honey which they can sell locally. | {
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Monday, July 16, 2007
Silk scarves in premium range are in extremely soft and flowing fabric that can go well with western as well as oriental women dresses. They remain favorites with women of all ages.
Indian silk women dress scarves are often long and narrow, usually worn on or near the head, for warmth, fashion, cleanliness, or religious purposes. In dry, dusty climates, or in environments where there is a lot of airborne contaminants, a thin scarf is often worn over the head to keep the hair clean. Over time, this women dress custom has evolved into a fashionable item in many cultures, particularly among women. Scarves in India have a significant place and traditional value. They are significant women dress because they are considered a protector of women's integrity. Women's outfit in India is considered incomplete without a long scarf. The fabric of a scarf can be cotton, chiffon, georgette, silk, net or sometimes mixed too. These are integral parts of the salwar kurta, lehenga, and churidar. With cultural exposure from Europe, these women dress scarves found their way to the western wardrobes too. | {
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When former Persuasions lead singer Jerry Lawson went solo a couple years ago, it would have been tough to guess that his first recording would be with a band. But that's what's going on with his 4-song EP, Beyond A Cappella. Lawson's distinctive baritone works especially well on the classic rock covers of "He Don't Love You" and "Staggerlee," but he also handles "Georgia On My Mind" nicely. The disc passes by pretty quickly, but is a tasty appetizer to keep us going until Lawson finishes a full debut with his new a cappella group, Talk of the Town. See http://www.jerrylawson.biz/.
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When former Persuasions lead singer Jerry Lawson went solo a couple years ago, it would have been tough to guess that his first recording would be with a band. But that's what's going on with his 4-song EP, Beyond A Cappella. Lawson's distinctive baritone works especially well on the classic rock covers of "He Don't Love You" and "Staggerlee," but he also handles "Georgia On My Mind" nicely. The disc passes by pretty quickly, but is a tasty appetizer to keep us going until Lawson finishes a full debut with his new a cappella group, Talk of the Town. See http://www.jerrylawson.biz/. | {
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Week 4 Daily Fantasy College Football RB Picks
Some easy matchups this week for some of NCAA’s top running backs where they could explode for 3 quarters and then sit out the 4th because of a lopsided game. Some of these backs have injuries and others split carries. Be sure to get the right running back for your week 4 daily college fantasy leagues!
Duke Johnson – Miami – $9,250
Savannah State Tigers at Miami Hurricanes
VEGAS LINE: Miami -55
I like starting this guy because when Miami gets close to the goaline the fans start to yell “Duuuuuuuuuke”. The coach probably doesn’t want to let down the fans. Look for Duke to get 1 or 2 TD’s at least in this super easy game against Savannah State. Duke probably won’t play the whole game, but he probably gets a guaranteed TD, at least.
Lache Seastrunk – Baylor – $8,250
Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks at Baylor Bears
VEGAS LINE: Baylor -27
A big price difference between Seastrunk and the top two running backs, but he could put up similar production in fantasy leagues. This guy is a stud and has had big games in weeks 1 & 2.
Todd Gurley – Georgia – $8,000
North Texas Mean Green at Georgia Bulldogs
VEGAS LINE: Georgia -32
Not a bad #1 option this week as the big man will be ready to roll against a really bad North Texas defense. Gurley could easily put up a few TD’s in what should be a stat padding game.
Jordan Hall – Ohio State – $7,750
Florida A&M Rattlers at Ohio State Buckeyes
VEGAS LINE: Ohio State -57
Hall has been scoring TD’s just about every game and should get 1 or 2 in this game. Ohio State has some depth at RB, and look for Hall to maybe only get limited work unless Florida A&M can somehow keep the game close.
Ameer Abdullah – Nebraska – $7,500
South Dakota State Jackrabbits at Nebraska Cornhuskers
VEGAS LINE: Nebraska -24.5
Struggled a little bit vs. UCLA and only has 2 scores through 3 weeks, getting both those TD’s in week 2. Should be a somewhat easy game for Abdullah, but he is risky since he really has only had one good game so far.
Jamaal Williams – BYU – $7,250
Utah Utes at BYU Cougars
VEGAS LINE: BYU -7
The only negative thing about Jamaal is that he has yet to find the end zone this year. He should get 25-30 carries in this one, and BYU could light up a bad Utah defense.
Paul James – Rutgers – $7,250Arkansas Razorbacks vs. Rutgers
VEGAS LINE: ——
Leads the nation in rushing yards and has been one of my sleeper RB’s the last few weeks because of his $2,500 Draft Kings price. The price has shot up in week 4 on draft kings and he no longer is a sleeper. Arkansas has the #6 ranked total defense after 3 weeks which could pose some problems for James.
Marion Grice – Arizona State – $7,250
Arizona State Sun Devils at Stanford Cardinal
VEGAS LINE: Stanford -8
Got off for 4 rushing TD’s in week 3. Stanford has a nice defense so I doubt he gets 4 TD’s in this game. Is a threat to catch 4-5 passes in this game which helps in the PPR scoring.
Venric Mark – Northwestern – $7,000 – Check Injury Status!
Maine Black Bears at Northwestern Wildcats
VEGAS LINE: Northwestern -33.5
Has missed the last two games due to injury. Be sure to check his status before starting him in week 4. In addition, backup RB Treyvon Green has been very good in the games Mark has missed. Look for both to split carries if Mark plays in week 4.
Karlos Williams – Florida State – $7,000
Bethune-Cookman Wildcats at Florida State Seminoles
VEGAS LINE: Florida State -39
This is a very interesting option at running back for daily leagues. The converted running back started his first game last week at his new position and had 8 carries for 110 yards and a TD. He will get some looks against a soft Behune-Cookman team, but may only get about 10-15 touches.
Storm Woods – Oregon State – $6,750 –Do Not Play HURT!
Oregon State Beavers at San Diego State Aztecs
VEGAS LINE: Oregon State -11.5
Jordon James – UCLA – $6,750
New Mexico State Aggies at UCLA Bruins
VEGAS LINE: UCLA -42
Was one of my sleeper picks from last week because of his $2,500 price tag. Much bigger price for James this week. He’s been steady, getting over 20 carries and 100+ yards in his first two games. Should be an easy win for UCLA this week and James will probably get around 100 yards and 1 TD.
Melvin Gordon – Wisconsin – $6,750
Purdue Boilermakers at Wisconsin Badgers
VEGAS LINE: Wisconsin -24
This guy is straight up explosive and averages over 10 yards per carry. He does split time a little bit in Wisconsin, but this guy is worth starting in any daily league.
Charles Sims – West Virginia – $6,500
West Virginia Mountaineers at Maryland Terrapins
VEGAS LINE: Maryland -5
Sims faces a tough Maryland defense and could be somewhat limited. West Virginia might start a redshirt freshman, who is solid, so there could be upside getting Sims in your lineup.
Tyler Gaffney – Stanford – $6,500
Arizona State Sun Devils at Stanford Cardinal
VEGAS LINE: Stanford -8
I’ve seen this guy play baseball a lot and he is a very athletic guy. He returned to Stanford this year after a year in minor league baseball. He’s had two very solid games and might be in store for another one. Arizona State has a decent defense, but look for Gaffney to put up some good stats.
T.J. Yeldon – Alabama – $6,500
Colorado State Rams at Alabama Crimson Tide
VEGAS LINE: Alabama -39.5
Coming off a big game against Texas A&M, look for the number of touches to be somewhat toned down for Yeldon. He should score a TD and get over 100 yards though against an easy Colorodo State team.
Treyvon Green– Northwestern – $6,250 – Check Venric Mark Injury Status
Maine Black Bears at Northwestern Wildcats
VEGAS LINE: Northwestern -33.5
This guy has filled in great for injured RB Venric Mark. If Mark misses another game, then Green is a great start in daily fantasy leagues. If Mark plays, look for Green’s workload to be hampered, but it is an easy game, so he could still find the endzone.
James Sims – Kansas – $6,250
Louisiana Tech Bulldogs at Kansas Jayhawks
VEGAS LINE: Kansas -10.5
Louisiana Tech has a bad defense and this could be ripe pickings for Sims. He has had a steady workload the first two weeks. Look for 20 carries 100 yards and hopefully 2 TD’s.
Kevin Parks – Virginia – $6,000
VMI Keydets at Virginia Cavaliers
VEGAS LINE: Virginia -40.5
This should be a real easy game for Virginia and Parks could get rolling in the first half. He’s only averaging 3.2 yards per carry this year, so if he doesn’t get it going this week, then that doesn’t bode well for the rest of the season.
Mark Weisman – Iowa – $5,750
Western Michigan Broncos at Iowa Hawkeyes
VEGAS LINE: Iowa -17
Weisman is a bruising, workhorse running back, whose only fault is only scoring 2 total TD’s during the first two weeks of the season. He’ll get plenty of work in this game and makes for a great, mid priced RB pick in daily fantasy.
Isaac Bennett – Pittsburgh – $5,750
Pittsburgh Panthers at Duke Blue Devils
VEGAS LINE: Pittsburgh -4
Had a nice game against an easy New Mexico, but backup James Conner also had over 100 yards and 2 TD’s. There might be a little bit of a split carry situation in Pittsburgh that is slightly edged by Bennett.
James White – Wisconsin – $5,500
Purdue Boilermakers at Wisconsin Badgers
VEGAS LINE: Wisconsin -24
Splits time with Melvin Gordon. This should be a somewhat easy game for Wisconsin so look for White to get back on track after a tough week 3 performance.
Ben Malena – Texas A&M – $5,500
SMU Mustangs at Texas A&M Aggies
VEGAS LINE: Texas A&M -28.5
Doesn’t get to touch the ball a whole lot because of Manziel but has scored a TD each of the first 3 weeks of the season. | {
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BRAND X: In the Pink
Suddenly the staid and stately London-based Financial Times has attitude to spare. Witness one of the brazen FT.com campaign one-liners riding around on the sides of city buses at the moment: last one to a billion is a rotten egg. The line's part of the salmon-colored daily's remarkably aggressive push to give its Web unit an emergency infusion of brand personality. Frankly, it needs it. The print-edition FT counts only about 100,000 subscribers in the U.S., and its target demographic is primarily the international business jet set. FT.com is trying to expand far beyond that niche audience -- the idea being that a global business perspective might have wide appeal in the borderless dot-conomy (hence another puckish line in the campaign: "at last the tri-state area is mine" just doesn't sound right). Given FT.com's lavish ad budget ($35 million, including that Oscar-night TV spot starring Dan Aykroyd as a clueless American attempting a deal with Italian businessmen), it's a good thing it's dispensing with its usual polite British reserve. FT's Website might transcend borders, but the lingua franca of the new economy is distinctly, crassly American. And so is the ethos: Greed isn't just good -- greed is great, greed is fun, and amassing dynastic wealth is a giddy, amusing pursuit. If you can overlook the occasional 600-point NASDAQ swoon, that is. | {
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Tires for Your Toyota
Tires for Your Toyota
Tires are some of the most important safety components on any vehicle. Maintaining proper inflation and rotating your tires at scheduled intervals are vital processes for preventing wear and avoiding dangerous blowouts on the road. It is important to regularly check for these tire wear warning signs.
– The depth of the tread is low (if you stick a penny head-down in the tread, the less of Abe Lincoln’s head you see the better)
– There are any noticeable markings or bulges in the sidewall
– You find yourself needing to re-inflate them often
– You notice car vibrations at high speeds
If you are starting to notice any of these signs of wear, a failing tire may not be far behind. No one wants to be stranded on the side of the road waiting for assistance or putting on a spare, and that is the least dangerous scenario. A tire blowout on the freeway could lead to a devastating accident.
New tires don’t only mean safety, they can also mean performance. Different tread types can increase traction for quicker cornering and improved braking distance. Fresh tires can improve fuel economy by staying inflated longer and having even tread all around. A set of winter tires can grip better in the rainy months and make it easier to get up to the mountains on weekends.
Looking for new tires online can mean navigating a labyrinth of different brands, sizes, and tread types. There are summer, winter and all-weather tires. There are different sizes and performance ratings too. With all these options, it can be difficult to decipher what set of tires is right for you and your Toyota.
Just looking at all the numbers can be daunting:
– What load index is necessary for my vehicle? If I haul cargo or tow anything does it change?
– What speed rating do I need? What if I do mostly highway or city driving?
– Can I get a different tire aspect ratio without new wheels?
Take the guesswork out of buying new tires and visit our online Tire Center. With simple searches by model, year and trim it makes it easy to find tires that suit your Toyota and to compare prices. Or you can schedule an appointment with a tire expert at Wilsonville Toyota. Trust your local Toyota-trained advisers to get you the right set of tires for your vehicle and the unique and ever-changing driving conditions of the Northwest. | {
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A sexy swing of the hips may attract admiring glances, but it is not a covert sign a woman is ready to breed, according to researchers.
A Queen's University, Ontario, team examined volunteers' walks and the levels of sex hormones in their saliva.
They found those with alluring walks were the furthest away from ovulation.
A British expert said the research, featured by New Scientist magazine, supported the idea women disguise their fertility to deter unsuitable partners.
'Surprising results'
Women give a wide variety of subtle signals to men to advertise the fact that they are ready to conceive and Meghan Provost, the lead researcher, had expected a "sexy", hip-swinging walk to be one of those.
If women are trying to protect themselves from sexual assault at times of peak fertility, it would make sense for them to advertise attractiveness... when they are not fertile
Meghan Provost, lead researcher
She analysed the gait of female volunteers, showed video clips to 40 men, asking them to rate the attractiveness of the way the women walked, and then matched the results to the hormone tests.
She said the results, published in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior, were so surprising that she had repeated the experiment again with another group of male viewers.
The women who were most fertile at the time of the experiment walked with fewer hip movements and with their knees closer together.
She now thinks the findings tally with other research suggesting that women want to conceal their ovulation from males other than their chosen partner.
Monogamy
A sexy walk would be too obvious, so women are thought to use changes in smell and facial expressions that can be experienced only at close range.
Ms Provost said: "If women are trying to protect themselves from sexual assault at times of peak fertility, it would make sense for them to advertise attractiveness on a broad scale when they are not fertile."
Dr John Manning, from the University of Central Lancashire, agreed with this theory.
He said it was in a woman's best interests to form a closer attachment to one man to help raise children, rather than to advertise her fertile time and be approached by a larger number of competing males.
He said: "I think that the subtle signs of ovulation are used, in a sense, to promote monogamy.
"If you want to pick up on these, you have to be already living with, or close to, the woman, so this constrains the man into daily attendance on a woman." | {
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Sunday, March 1, 2015
"David Hartsough knows how to get in the way. He has used his body to
block Navy ships headed for Vietnam and trains loaded with munitions on
their way to El Salvador and Nicaragua. He has crossed borders to meet
“the enemy” in East Berlin, Castro’s Cuba, and present-day Iran. He has
marched with mothers confronting a violent regime in Guatemala and stood
with refugees threatened by death squads in the Philippines.
Hartsough’s stories inspire, educate, and encourage readers to find ways
to work for a more just and peaceful world. Inspired by the examples of
Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., Hartsough has spent his life
experimenting with the power of active nonviolence. Engaging stories on
every page provide a peace activist’s eyewitness account of many of the
major historical events of the past 60 years, including the Civil
Rights and anti–Vietnam War movements in the United States as well as
the little-known but equally significant nonviolent efforts in the
Soviet Union, Kosovo, Palestine, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines. Waging Peace
is a testament to the difference one person can make; however, it is
more than one man’s memoir: it shows how this struggle is waged all over
the world by ordinary people committed to ending the spiral of violence
and war."
Sunday, February 15, 2015
Sarah L. Blum, ARNP is a decorated nurse Vietnam veteran who earned the
Army Commendation Medal serving as an operating room nurse at the 12th
Evacuation Hospital Cu Chi, Vietnam during the height of the fighting in
1967. Because Cu Chi sat on the edge of the Hobo Woods, where all the
fighting took place in 1967, her hospital handled mass casualties
regularly and their operating room became the largest user of fresh
blood in all of Vietnam
Back in the United States, Sarah received her brother soldiers of
Vietnam with their wounds and amputations, cared for them directly and
saw how their physical wounds did not heal when their heads and hearts
were deeply affected. She was awarded the Certificate of Achievement for
exemplary service as head nurse of the orthopedic ward at Madigan Army
Hospital in 1968, where she was also the assistant director of nursing
on evening and night shift in 1970.
Thursday, February 12, 2015
This is my mother’s word, it means to be
nosey, pushy and a general pain in the ass. It sometimes means having an
attitude the size of Montana on your shoulders and projecting that all over the
place. Generally this is not a nice thing but can be used in a nice context.
Nuke: To attack with a nuclear weapon,
or to otherwise bring about widespread and utter destruction.
I’d like to thank the universal
goodness that former comedian cum death monger Roseanne Barr does not (I hope)
have access to nuclear weapons.
I say “former” comedian because
in the last few years Barr has taken a decidedly unfunny turn and outlook on
life.
After Barr accused Green Party
presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein of being a “Zionist” in the 2012 Green
Party primaries (which Stein won and Barr lost) and after running for president
on the ticket of the stridently antiwar Peace and Freedom Party, Barr has used
her Twitter account to become a mega-Zionist. I stopped following her after she
urged Israel to nuke Iran. As a human being, nothing to me is more monstrous.
Recently, the person who used
her acting skills to convince me and the Peace and Freedom Party that she was
also about peace tweeted this to her almost 300k followers on Twitter:
This tweet was apparently in
response to the vote to divest from Israeli investments of UC Davis. The tweet
is shocking in its callousness. I understand the tweet was left up for about 10
hours before some cooler head prevailed and it was removed, but as we can see,
nothing online ever really gets deleted.
As universally shocking as this
tweet is and how revealing it is of the character of the person who did tweet
it, I live about 20 miles from UC Davis. As most people over the age of 10
know, nuclear devastation is not confined to a very small geographic area. Personally,
it is very painful that Barr would love to see my family, including my five
grandchildren who also live this close to Davis, die a very torturous death
because we are not “Jews.”
On the other hand, what if she
tweeted this: “I hope all Gentiles leave UC Davis and then it gets nuked.” How
long do you think it would be before she was in Gitmo being treated as a
terrorist? As much as I deplore her actual tweet, I would deplore one that
wanted to incinerate Jews just as strongly.
As a member of the Peace and
Freedom Party (I want to iterate that I am NOT speaking in that capacity and
only speaking for myself) I would like to reaffirm OUR position against war and the
use of nuclear weapons.
The Peace and Freedom Party was
born out of the struggle against the Vietnam War and the government’s violent
repression of those protests. The Party has long been committed to its name:
Peace and Freedom. Until the Green Party got ballot access here in California,
we were the only party that offered legitimate opposition to the two parties
that will (and have) used nuclear weapons.
I have also received several
messages about my relationship to my former running mate: even though I saw the
writing on the wall while I was running against her and wrote this:
The few weeks that I was her
running mate were devastating for me. I had known Roseanne for years before
that star-crossed collaboration and I considered her a friend.
Roseanne was flawed, of course,
as are we all. But I saw a person who I truly believed was committed to the
same principles that I was, but Twitter is not Barr’s friend and she started to
tweet some things that were 180 degrees from the platform of the party and my
own personal platform, such as: “If people go on welfare, birth control should
be mandatory.”
Side note: I also disagreed
that our entire campaign should be by tweet, especially ones that were so
contrary to what we, as a party, stand for.
Then some people have defended
her most recent foray into outrageousness by saying exactly that, “She is
famous for saying outrageous things.” Well, so am I, but I only consider what I
say outrageous in the context of Imperial Capitalism like, “war of aggression
is always wrong.”
Common sense dictates that there
is a profound difference between what someone says in the heat of passion (and
obviously Roseanne is passionate in her hatred of non-Jews) and what one takes
the time to type out (probably via iPhone) in a carefully crafted tweet. I
cannot think of any clearer expression of hatred that is more evil than wishing
a large part of Northern California be destroyed or radiated all for one
principled vote.
P.T. Barnum once said, “Publicity
is not measured in content, but inches,” and Roseanne’s public persona has now
completely turned into a circus: the kind that abuses animals and is filled
with horrific clowns (oops, that’s all circuses).
The moral of this story is if a
party has “Peace” in its name and platform, let’s more carefully vet our next
POTUS pick to make sure that he/she would not use his/her power to push the
button of a deadly weapon of mass destruction.
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
The Obama Files is Cindy Sheehan's latest book. The book is a six-year long chronicle of the hypocrisy of the US Empire and the abdication of the "left" in calling out the war crimes of "the first black US president."
Cindy's work shows clear-thinking and understanding of the truth behind the Empire of lies, but this is not a book about "gloating:" meant to awaken people to these truths that should be "self-evident" by now!
The Obama Files is now in its final stages of production and if you pre-order a copy today, you will get one of the first ones hot off the presses, signed by the author.
SPECIAL PREVIEW OF THE FOREWORD BY THE FABULOUS BROTHER LARRY PINKNEY:
Foreword to The Obama Files: Chronicles of an Award Winning War Criminal
by Larry Pinkney
Though often hidden or distorted, human history is replete
with examples of courage and sacrifice by a relatively few political dissenters
sounding the alarm and speaking truth to power. These dissenters are scorned
and ridiculed by those who control the corporate mass media and its concomitant
systemic machine of perpetual war, death, and destruction. Yet, US society in
particular, and Mother Earth as a whole, are in dire need of these principled
dissenters whose stories represent the very best of struggling humanity. This
is the essence of Cindy Sheehan and why her actions and writings over many
years are of such invaluable and enduring significance. She has repeatedly actualized
the words of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., when he said, “Our lives begin
to end the day we become silent about things that matter...”
“Cindy’s voice—righteous, outraged, and uncompromising,
rises from these pages like a messenger from the future compelled by a deep
knowledge of our past transgressions to sound an alarm. One can heed her
warning and follow her call or remain silent, and in doing so, remain violent.”
– Dennis Trainor, Jr. | writer, filmmaker, activist
“The Clash once sang about that opportunistic breed of rebel
that inevitably ‘joins the church.’ Cindy Sheehan, however, has never and will
never tow the company line. As The Obama
Files passionately articulates, the work of a true dissident requires one
to avoid easy compromises and comfortable alliances. This book—and all of
Cindy’s work—is a testament to the long term vision of collective liberation.”
– Mickey Z. | author of Occupy this Book
“Cindy Sheehan’s many books document her transformation from a woman whose
‘entire world was my family and this suburban intellectually challenged
sinkhole’ to an
international activist with humanity and the whole planet in her thoughts and
big heart.
In The Obama Files she excoriates the
world of presidential assassination
programs; pre-emptive indefinite detention; spreading government surveillance,
police
brutalizing and killing people of color in the Obama years. Even as I
share much of her
critique and experience in calling out crimes of the Democrats, I am choked up
at Cindy’s
deep outrage. She continues to call us to resist the crimes done in our
name, and
to join in creating a world where people will be free. – Debra Sweet | National
Coordinator of World Can’t Wait
“As far as I’m concerned, Obama has continued and expanded
on all of Bush’s worst policies. I never supported him. Like Cindy, I knew
better. After my years of activism, I learned that the system does NOT work for
the people. I have been very fortunate to work alongside Cindy throughout most
of Obama’s presidency. Because of that, I’ve read most of her articles, and
listened to most of her podcasts. The corporate media would lead you to believe
that Cindy went away after Obama came into office. If you want to see how wrong
they were, and how consistent Cindy has been, read this book. If you want to
see how much of a war criminal Obama has been, read this book.” – Jon Gold | 9/11
Truth Activist and author
Though often hidden or distorted, human history is replete
with examples of courage and sacrifice by a relatively few political dissenters
sounding the alarm and speaking truth to power. These dissenters are scorned
and ridiculed by those who control the corporate mass media and its concomitant
systemic machine of perpetual war, death, and destruction. Yet, US society in
particular, and Mother Earth as a whole, are in dire need of these principled
dissenters whose stories represent the very best of struggling humanity. This
is the essence of Cindy Sheehan and why her actions and writings over many
years are of such invaluable and enduring significance. She has repeatedly actualized
the words of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., when he said, “Our lives begin
to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
After suffering the terrible loss of her son Casey, in the US
war on Iraq, in 2004, Cindy Sheehan demonstrated an unshakable commitment to
raise awareness nationally and internationally about 1) the underlying and
unacceptable causes of war; 2) who the real purveyors of war actually
are; and 3) the inextricable connection of—militarism and war—to poverty,
corporate hegemony, the obliteration of human rights, ‘racism,’ and the de
facto state sponsored ‘terrorism’ against humanity carried out as an integral
part of the national and global surveillance police-state.
In the stalwart tradition of Rosa Luxemburg, Lucy Parsons,
Fannie Lou Hamer, and so many other courageous women and men of all colors,
Cindy Sheehan has taken her message directly to everyday ordinary people. In
plain language she urges people to critically think, and to link the issues together
in order to bring about an end to the insane militarism, corporate greed, and
environmental ravaging of our Mother Earth.
Well before the conclusion of the eight years of G.W. Bush’s
disastrous rule of perpetual war and unspeakable horrors abroad and at home,
the tiny US corporate/military power elite was preparing and grooming a
successor who would continue and substantively exacerbate the same Bush
policies, while insidiously and effectively masquerading as someone who would
bring about genuine change on behalf of the suffering masses in the US and
globally. This successor and articulate political conjurer was Barack Obama—Mr.
‘hope and change,’ whose second largest 2008 Obama campaign contributor was
none other than Wall Street’s notorious corporate blood-sucking Goldman Sachs.
Thus, in 2008, the handwriting was in fact already on the wall, but with the
complicity of the US corporate-stream mass media and numerous so-called
‘progressives,’ etc., the majority of everyday struggling people were
thoroughly and cynically bamboozled to their own detriment. Indeed, on the third
day of his first term as US President, Barack Obama mercilessly droned the
sovereign nation of Pakistan, murdering children, women, and men
non-combatants. Subsequently, Obama has gone on to massively increase
the use of deadly US drone attacks upon many other sovereign nations in
Africa, Asia, and the so-called ‘Middle East.’ It is estimated that at least 90
percent of the victims murdered and/or maimed by US killer drone attacks are
non-combatant children, women, and men. Thus, Obama spawns more rage and hatred
as a result of these ongoing killer drone attacks, and with it, the concomitant
spiral of terror and perpetual war.
Prior to 2009, when Barack Obama was officially installed as
the nominally ‘black’ designated standard bearer for the US system of global
Empire at home and abroad, there were precious few who had the principled
courage to sound the alarm. Fortunately for us all, Cindy Sheehan and a
relative handful of other dissenters, refused to be complicit with, or silenced
by, the nauseating and deafening chorus in those days by the supporters of
corporate brand Obama’s euphoria of madnesson the US
Democrat/Republican plantation of the damned.
Not satisfied with his war crimes abroad, the wily
corporate-controlled Drone Man Barack Obama, in service to the
corporate/military elite, has bestowed upon himself his very own ‘kill
list’—empowering him to target and have killed at will, individuals of any
nationality (including US citizens) in the US, or anywhere else in the world,
whom he, as judge, jury, and executioner, decides must die. This is Barack
Obama’s so-called ‘hope and change.’ Whatever happened to international law and
the US Constitution?
Barack Obama’s repeated annual signing of the so-called
National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which includes an outrageous
unconstitutional provision authorizing the indefinite detention of any
person or persons in the US without the due process ofa legal defense attorney, a jury of one’s
peers, or even an open trial is—onerous and utterly unacceptable—and is yet
another indication of Obama’s hypocritical and arrogant disdain for the US
Constitution, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the International
Covenant On Civil and Political Rights.
Cindy Sheehan has long made the connection between US
militarism abroad and political repression, including the militarization of the
police, at home. Thanks to her courage and diligence, an increasing number of
people are becoming aware of just how relevant and extremely important making
these connections are to our very survival as human beings on this precious
planet of Mother Earth.
It is with a sense of urgency that this book containing the
writings of Cindy Sheehan—particularly as they pertain to Barack Obama and the
current US political system—need to be read and re-read with a view
towards making a critical analysis of the recent past, in order to bring about
a seismic political change in the US and avert an even larger pending
political, economic, and social future disaster in the year 2015 and beyond.
May you be inspired to creative action by the clarity and
cutting-edge honesty of Cindy Sheehan’s writings in this book!
Larry Pinkneyis a veteran of the Black Panther Party, the former Minister of
Interior of the Republic of New Africa, a former political prisoner and the
only American to have successfully self-authored his civil/political rights
case to the United Nations under the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights. In connection with his political organizing activities,
Pinkney was interviewed in 1988 on the nationally televised PBS News Hour,
formerly known as The MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour, and more recently on the nationally
syndicated Alex Jones Show, and RT (formerly known as Russia Today). He is
currently founder and curator of theBlack Activist Writers Guild (BAWG)
BlackActivistwg.org (Click here: Black Activist Writers Guild).Pinkney is a
former university instructor of political science and international relations,
and his writings have been published in various places, including The Boston
Globe, San Francisco BayView newspaper, Black Commentator, Intrepid Report,
Global Research (Canada), LINKE ZEITUNG (Germany), 107 Cowgate (Ireland and
Scotland), and Mayihlome News (Azania/South Africa).He is in the archives of Dr. Huey P. Newton
(Stanford University, CA), cofounder of the Black Panther Party. For more about
Larry Pinkney see the book, Saying No to Power: Autobiography of a 20th
Century Activist and Thinker, by William Mandel [Introduction by Howard
Zinn]. (Click struggle-and-win.net Bill Mandel on Larry Pinkney to read excerpts from the book.)
Sunday, February 1, 2015
Justin Colella is an American entrepreneur, philosopher, social
activist, producer, and philanthropist. He started his first company at
the age of 19 and has been self-employed ever since. He is currently
President at Commission Enterprises, Inc. and other sales and marketing
corporations that engage in guerrilla marketing for Fortune 50 and
Fortune 500 clients. Mr. Colella is also Founder and Chairman of the
501(c)(3) Non-Profit Human Rights Organization, Hustle For Humanity. He
is a Licensed Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, a
Doctorate level Clinical Hypnotherapist, and an elected member of the
American Psychological Association (APA). He currently resides in
Southern California and is a competitive athlete in Boxing, Mixed
Martial Arts and CrossFit. Justin Colella is currently working on a
documentary film project set to be released in 2015 that promises to
challenge the existing global political, psychological, and economic
paradigm.
I have long advocated for the
seat of the central government of the USA be relocated to the geographic center
of the contiguous land mass. Along with the many problems associated with the
capital city built on a swamp, depending on where one lives, it can be
expensive and inconvenient as hell to get to!
The geographic concerns and
the seeming minimal interest in ending the wars combine to make trips to DC (or
NYC, or Chicago, or Los Angeles) difficult for most. I rode my bike from
California to DC in 2013, but not many people are full-time peace activists and
can’t afford the time it takes (three months for me) or the time off of work.
So what do we do? Most of us
who are still in this “antiwar” milieu have realized that the president of the
US is really just a figurehead for Empire and that Congress is there to
rubberstamp what the War Machine wants with very little show of opposition; so
Why DC?
DC is the marbleized logo of
power. I am not sure where decisions are really made, but I know the Imperial
Pronouncements emanate from DC and I also know that large gatherings of
courageous and determined humans have changed history in a positive way.
Spring Rising: An Antiwar
Intervention in DC is our call to gather there from March 18-21 for four days
of action designed to once and for all end the wars. Realistically, will this
happen? We know it won’t happen if we all cocoon in our comfort zones.
We think it’s urgent for the
planet to gather with us for these days (schedule), but if it’s not possible
for you to meet us in DC, please organize local solidarity actions and we will
be happy to help you connect with others in your area, if possible.
One person emailed to tell me
that when we call for gathering in DC, it’s just our way of getting others to
pay our ways there.
That’s a valid concern, but
the organizations that are pulling this together are grassroots and not all of
us think that “WashedUp, DeCeit” is an ideal place to spend a week. DC is
really one of the last places I want to go to, but I have been there countless of
times to protest and I can’t think of much site seeing that I have done. It’s a
place that whitely shines with war memorial after war memorial but has an
underlying feeling of black cancer. However, it’s also the place where a
massive response needs to be mounted against the massive police state that is
apparent there. We can’t wait for the “elected” War Criminals to grow a
conscience—because historically few have had one. We can’t wait for others—we must
be the ones.
Please email Dede Miller if you would like
help organizing a local solidarity action, or get on your own network and
figure out how to rideshare to join us.
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Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox is an independent online radio show and blog that strives to be completely free from establishment political ideology and focus on a message of peace, justice, environmental sustainability and economic equality. To this end, we provide educational and inspirational programs on topics related to these issues and we organize/promote actions working towards peace, justice, and environmental sustainability. | {
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I am trying to create a multi-page pop up menu in a Blu-ray project on a mac and also got the Rivergate software BluStreak Tracer (although right now it looks like I might never get to that step).
I created a single PSD file containing 5 pages and did all the "programming" exactly like this tutorial describes it (and they successfully created a multi page pop up BD with Encore and BluStreak) http://rivergatesoftware.com/tutorial-12tangos-1
Here is what mine looks like:
Whenever I import the 3.2MB big PSD file, Encore gets to 50% and then crashes. Unfortunately, I found a post on Creative Cow where someone described a similar issue and was only able to resolve the issue by taking out all the programming tags like # and (+ ) etc. http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/145/864292
Is there a way around it or is Encore simply too buggy?
UPDATE: Just out of curiousity I deleted folder by folder and re-imported into Encore. When I deleted #5, #4 and #3, it started working. A shame! It seems Encore can only handle so many pages within one file?? Anyone experiencing this? I am surprised that there don't seem to be a lot of people trying to get a clean multi-page pop-up menu with encore…
So instead of just "#5 scenes 4" maybe try "(#5) scenes 4" and that would work?
And in my experience (which may be the completely incorrect way), I wasn't quite sure how to do the background images to the popup menu to begin with, so I simply put the background images into the button folder. So instead of having a folder called "(+) BG1" with the background image, just put that same image in the "(+) settings p0" folder. | {
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Felicity, 17, returns today from a one-week trip to Surfers Paradise with nine friends. All were students at a north shore private school.
DAY ONE
Rumour has it the girls in 3303 were evicted from their sub-penthouse at Q1 on the first day. That doesn't seem too hard in this building, considering the strict rules and regulations dictating our stay at Surfers:
No bare feet/chests in the foyer to maintain the reputation of this four-star hotel.
Into the day in Surfers Paradise.
We arrived at the Q1 Resort and Spa in a limousine we booked three months ago and walked straight into a sea of teenagers. But there was no time to make friends - before we even got to our rooms we were sent off for a 10-minute lecture disguised as a ''debriefing''. Suitably warned, we register and get our IDs that we must keep on us.
Next: Woolies for a shop for the week, which costs us $440.
After a dunch (dinner-lunch) of chicken rolls washed down with shots, we head out to find tickets for the under-18 and over-18 beach parties. It's a bust: we wander around for 45 minutes before giving up and heading back to the Q1 for shots, an outfit change and dancing around the room.
Felicity with her friends.
A friend texts - she has met some guys staying in the penthouse. We head up there - only to get kicked out five minutes later after a noise complaint. The guys receive a $220 fine for having too many people in the room.
Oh well. We meet three guys in the lift and head to the other penthouse. There's 15 people here. We hang there for 30 minutes then it's back to our room for more shots and Spider-Man on TV.
It's late by the time we head to the beach. There are hundreds of people there. It's not too wild - we hear Queensland week was more out of control because most of the students were 16 or 17 and running around the streets ''off their faces''.
On the way home, four slightly older guys invite us to the penthouse of The Moroccan. One of my more sporty friends points out we are with the entourage of the tennis player Bernard Tomic. Spa baths, Smirnoff Blacks and toolies result in a random turn of events and some new friends.
We're home by 3am but we've forgotten our key so we call some guys we know on level 40, head up there, play spin-the-bottle and watch the sun rise. At 5am, it's back to the beach for a dip and a micro sleep. We're exhausted.
DAY TWO
Awake at 10.45am with a knock at the door. It's our Melburnian neighbours, asking us to join them for breakfast. The 10 boys introduce us to some Melbourne tunes, cook us bacon and eggs and wait on us hand and foot.
Then it's beach time: burritos, mojitos, photos with the Playboy bunnies outside Condom Kingdom and - finally - someone selling schoolies tickets for the over and under 18s parties.
We're invited to The Islander - it's disgusting! Both the rooms we visit are trashed. There's no food, only alcohol, beds are tipped over, toilet paper hangs off the balcony, there's blood pooled by the lifts, beer all over the floors and stained couches.
We hotfoot it out of there and head to the Beachcomber but lockout is from 5pm so it's home for vodka, tequila and another penthouse visit - this one is packed with boys from The Scots College. Now we've partied at three of the four penthouses!
The over-age party is starting at Shooters so us underage chicks head back to the grotty Islander to party with our new friends. I have to sweet talk the security guard to get in: the lockout time is 7pm and it's well after midnight. He's a pushover.
We rendezvous with the over-18s girls at Maccas and are home at 3am. Sleep comes easily.
DAY THREE
Wake up to the smell of pancakes. We gorge on them in bed while watching Friends on the TV. Then there's a knock on the door and the Red Frogs burst in and say ''we're making pancakes!'' so round two, here we go. The two guys and two girls, aged between 19 and 25, make choc-chip pancakes, clean our kitchen, wash the dishes, make our beds and then perform magic tricks for our entertainment. Why do they do it? ''At uni, a lot of my friends would get wasted all the time and I just wasn't into the party scene, so I would help them after going out,'' Gabriel tells me. ''Once I found out about Red Frogs, I thought it would be a good opportunity to help other kids stay safe and out of trouble.''
We booked them to come the next morning too because, well, they were amazing.
The afternoon is filled with jelly vodka shots and a bath for five, with bubbles overflowing onto the floor.
At 8.45pm, we head to the Surfers Paradise RSL for $5 drinks and a dance floor that goes off every night. Being underage, I take the wrist band from a girl leaving, in the hope security won't check my ID. They still ask for it but fall for my fakie and I'm in.
Next stop is Kitty O'Sheas to meet up with eight guys. One of my guy friends and I tell the bartender we just got married; he gives us each a tequila shot, my fake ID not failing me for the second time that night.
Back at the boys' hotel, The Chevron, the security guard refuses us girls entry as it's well after lockout at 1am.
My ''husband'' and I decide to try the front entrance and distract the guard so the other 14 people can sneak in the back.
We walk through the door and tell him we we're ''just married!'' - as he offers his congratulations the others sneak past. Then I tell the guard I left my phone upstairs and I'd be two seconds if I could get it, so in we went.
There's red wine on offer, plus Vodka and red cordial.
By 4am, I'm exhausted. The boys walk us back to our hotel and we call it a night.
DAY FOUR
No one emerged from bed before 12.40pm today. It's a lazy day - Hard Rock Cafe for the lunch deals, vodka and cranberries all afternoon, sushi for dinner, drinking games with the Newington guys staying in our building and, finally, dancing on the beach.
There's a kebab shop across the road from the RSL blasting pop tunes - perfect for late night refuelling. Home about 3am, after a relatively quiet night.
DAY FIVE
Twenty of us hit up Wet 'n' Wild for the day, then it's straight to the RSL. The fire alarm goes off at midnight and we have to evacuate the building. It's the perfect excuse to bail - despite the YOSO (You Only Schoolies Once) chants of my buddies. I'm all partied out but I still wish the week never had to end. | {
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Former player and TV pundit Robbie Savage says current coach has benefitted from the work ethic and togetherness the former boss Nigel Pearson had instilled in the club last season
Leicester City have shown great form this season and they are currently at the top of the EPL table.(Reuters Photo)
Former Leicester City, Derby County footballer, Robbie Savage has not been the best of admirers of John Terry. With his stinging rebuke during his TV punditry, Savage has rubbed the Chelsea man the wrong way.
The Welshman, however, says the English defender deserves to be given a contract extension at Chelsea, for all the work he has done at the London club. “At the beginning of the season, I did have a go at John Terry. I had a falling out. I said he won’t play all the matches, and I have been proved right,” Savage told Hindustan Times on Tuesday.
“But I think what he offers Chelsea right now is leadership. I don’t think he is going to play every match next season if he is ever given a contract. But if you have too many legends leave a football club… (Steven) Gerrard left Liverpool. He could have offered guidance to the youngsters. John Terry has been there since 17 (14), so..”
“For him to have won what he has, I think he deserves a contract, for another year. Not play every week, but share his experience with the youngsters, he can help the manager. I am sure the driving force behind John Terry is not money. I honestly believe if Chelsea offer Terry a contract with lesser money, he would stay. I just think he loves the football club.”
Savage also believes much of the success Leicester have been having this season is due to the groundwork done by former manager Nigel Pearson. “It is not (Claudio) Ranieri, but Nigel Pearson’s work last year. Togetherness, work rate, desire. I have never seen a team like this,” Savage said.
“Of course, Ranieri has tweaked a little bit, he has brought in one or two players. But the work ethic and togetherness is of Nigel Pearson.”
So does the former Leicester player think the club can go on to win the title? “It is incredible. Absolutely incredible. To have a team who haven’t spend millions of pounds. It is no fluke, top of the league with 13 games left. If they win the league, it will be the greatest achievement ever in British football. I think they are the favourites now, if they beat Arsenal, they will win it.”
“Thirteen games are left, so there is always a but. Until they have actually won it, you can’t really say. There is always Manchester City and Arsenal. If Arsenal beat Leicester, they will only be two points behind, and they have been there and done this before. Last season the pressure was to stay in the Premier League. Had they got relegated, people would have lost jobs, this year it is different. There is no pressure this time.” | {
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Kern Valley River Council is an Equal Opportunity Service Provider and a Permittee of the Sequoia National Forest
KERN RIVER 2003 ICF WILDWATER WORLD CUPSHosted by the Kern Valley River Council, a California Non-Profit Organization
Race Courses & Descriptions
Several sections of the Kern River will be used for the 2003 World Cup events. The whitwater difficulty will range from easy flatwater to challenging class IV rapids. Brief descriptions of tentative race courses follow. (Click on photos to display a larger image. Photos are from various reaches of the Upper and Lower Kern and do not necessarily correspond to the race courses described.)
World Cup 1: A classic race on the Cable Run. Starts at the Thunderbird put-in and finishes at River Kern beach. This is a a class III-IV
section of approximately four miles, with some stretches of class II. An good introduction to Kern River whitewater.
World Cup 2:
Sprint race through a class IV- section of the Cable Run. Put in at Camp 3 with the takeout at the ‘Half-Way” unimproved campground. This section includes “The Wall”, a rapid with strong current, standing waves and diagonals.
World Cup 3: A classic race starting at River Kern Beach and finishing at the end of Riverside Park in Kernville. This section starts at III+ and
is mostly class II-III with relatively straightforward lines.
World Cup 4:
Sprint race ending in Kernville. This starts with a class II+ or III drop, followed by a long pool and then finishes with class II rapids in Riverside Park in Kernville.
World Cup 5:
Classic race on the Upper Kern River. The “Limestone section”. Starts at Johnsondale Bridge and finishes at Willow Point. A scenic and challenging reach with class III and IV rapids. More difficult at higher flows. The road follows the river for most of this stretch. Some practice may be needed to run in a WW boat.
World Cup 6:
Sprint race on the Upper Kern River. The “Limestone section”. Starts at Limestone campground and finishes four rapids downstream. This is a short, but challenging section that includes two class IV rapids. | {
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Saturday, March 31, 2007
Apparently, Rep. Doug Petersen from Marblehead told a group of Swampscott voters that Lynn needed good schools so that the Lynn kids could work for the "Captains of Industry" growing up in Swampscott. All these insults from a Marblehead guy.~Now he'd doing the usual retractions... saying Lynn kids are also Captains of Industry, etc., etc.~ “There’s not a bone in my body that doesn’t think the world of Lynn public schools,” Rep. Doug Petersen (D-Marblehead) told the Herald. “There’s not a bone in my body that doesn’t think that Lynn kids won’t be captains of industry.” ~Now he's a liar as well as an elitist. Hey Dip Shit... Just shut up!!!~As a Lynn guy who has lived in Marblehead for the last 22 years, I'm feeling that Petersen has struck some nerves, and entered a psychological place that he can never return from. He dropped his guard and let his class bigotry come to the surface. ~Coming from Marblehead, he obviously doesn't have a clue what it feels like to live in Lynn and travel through Swampscott to Marblehead, with the subtle slights and unspoken innuendos that you sense. Call it class consciousness, elitism, or whatever.... Petersen embodied the type of response that Lynn people are all too familiar with.~Now he's getting all phoney about it.~In the words of Bush the Elder, Marblehead is a "kinder and gentler place". I love it here, and feel blessed to have been able to bring up my kids in this Town. But I'm a Lynn guy, a graduate of Lynn English High School, a product of a lower economic stratum, who was born from hard working parents. No shame in that. No need for a low life, lucky sperm club graduate to rub my nose in it.~Petersen can kiss my ass.
The Train is leaving the station. There is so much on my plate, that even I could be intimidated. Good thing it isn't fishing season!!~Sundance informal move is in place. Joanne and Amy Mann want me to help them. But Ryan and Countney are using my truck to move stuff into their new house this morning.~Tyler Gill need details on our scheme to make Maddie a multi-million dollar, Paris Hilton type heiress.~Mike Rockett is planning a road trip to look at a deal in Maine for the end of next week. Gulp!~Tons of Nanepashemet Telecom prep work is sitting there.~My basement tile job has been started and is screaming for attention.~Taxes still not complete. About 8 hrs of Sundance corporate is required before that task gets a check.~The garage has so much shit in it and needs a major reorg.~I have to send the Nanepashemet Boatbuilding book proposal to a New York book agent who seems to have a bit of an attitude.~.... and the Herreshoff Columbia Yacht Tender still isn't finished!!!!__________________________________________________See what I mean? If I wasn't such a mountain of a man, endowed with an iron trap mind and steely determination, even I could be prone to falter. It will never happen.
Friday, March 30, 2007
Yesterday was a mixed result.~Elevator was delivered but installation is not complete...~Couldn't get the occupancy permit because Verizon missed the schedule and didn't install the fire alarm line.~Lunch in NH at a Mexican Restaurant was really painful.________________On the other hand, my blood pressure is fine again, a new Madison Ave. book publisher has shown interest, and our latest Nanepashemet telecom venture shows real legs.
A day of ups and downs.~So the Peep of the Week Selection is a day late. What's the problem??? Deal with it.
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Man... These Thursdays come at you fast, don't they?~By the end of the day, Sundance will have an elevator attached... I will have had my humiliating checkup with Dr. Casale.... DiMatteo and I will have met at lunch in NH with a smart currently unnamed party... and we will have a yea or nay decision from the Marblehead Building Department about the temporary occupancy permit.~All of this and more will happen before the solemn duty of Peep of the Week Selections is undertaken this evening.~A lesser man would buckle under the strain.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
More adventures at the Marblehead Building Department. ~The ruse of observing state law and protecting the Town is getting old. ~I will get our permit for Sundance Pre-School, no matter how much it ultimately costs, and we will eventually find out which interest has been served. ~Good service by Sundance Pre-School over the years will generate the type of political support that will make all the present "public interest" actions petty by comparison. Every dog has his day.
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
I've been consulting lately for the Salem Waterfront Hotel, which is ironic, because the thing I hated most about my jobs at General Dynamics and Darwin was traveling and staying in hotels.~But the Salem Waterfront Hotel is a diamond in the rough. A great location, and beautifully appointed rooms. Mike Rockett has emerged as a brilliantly creative manager and I'm very impressed with his ideas for this great facility.~My consulting role has been to be a catalyst to make his ideas happen.~If I have a general Nanepashemet Peeps hoedown.... it will be at the Salem Waterfront Hotel.
I'm tired like it was Friday.... And it's only Tues. ~I wonder what I'll feel like on Friday!!~Working at home is tough. There is no let up. No coffee breaks. You are always on. I am an asshole boss to myself.
Monday, March 26, 2007
We're making a big push to get a temporary certificate of occupancy for the Sundance Pre-School from the Marblehead Building Dept. The problem is that the elevator will not be approved by the Mass Dept of Public Safety by the end of the week. Everything else is completely done though.~It will be a crazy week, but will be a great birthday present for Joanne if we can pull it off.~Amazingly, no takers yet for my "Trailer Assembly Raising".~Peeps... I give and I give and I give.I've never asked for anything from you.~Now my simple request is for you to help me put this freaking trailer together while swilling beer and eating burgers.~How can you ignore this plea??? I feel so humiliated.
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Saw the series conclusion of the HBO feature presentation of "Rome". ~Really well done. I think that because of its historical backdrop and the attention to detail of events that actually happened in antiquity, it is even more interesting. The acting in this series is excellent.~Usually when a series ends, it is a bit of a letdown. I'm not looking forward to the end of the Sopranos because of this tendency. But Rome ended beautifully. I will definitely buy this series on DVD when it comes out.
Remember the boat trailer that Joanne bought me for Christmas???~It's still unassembled in boxes, taking up space in my garage.~I'm thinking of staging a "Trailer Assembly Raising" modeled after an old fashioned, Amish Country Barn Raising.~I'll buy the beer, grill some burgers, and maybe even break out the Lagavulin for any Peep who wants to participate.~We'll set it up for Saturday, April 7 starting at 11:00 AM ... weather permitting. We'll be done by 3:00PM, because we have to go to Maddie Gill's Birthday Bash at 4:00PM. This will be a good warm up.~Email me at [email protected] if you're interested. There is absolutely no shame or humiliation if you choose to decline. I promise I won't hold it against you.... NOT!!!!~Pay no attention to the fine print.______________________________________________This is an equal opportunity Trailer Assembly Raising. Minorities, Handicapped, Women, Dorks, Sicilians, IRS Agents, White Men, and Democrats are encouraged to participate. Nanepashemet Project Management, Inc. takes no responsibility or liability for the potential dangers in this event.
This is the stapleless strip planking method that I am going to use on the Matinicus Peabod. ~Of course, the Herreshoff Columbia Tender still has about 40 hours of impossible to find time left for completion.
Saturday, March 24, 2007
We're on the homestretch with Operation Moonshadow. ~Rockett and Rumpf have done a great job, which was complicated by the addition of very expensive handicapped accommodations.~I'm very proud of the way it turned out, and how all of the team members responded to the challenges.~As usual, the end product put out by Village is outstanding.
Not sure what happened today, but I ripped out the basement carpet, made three dump runs, put a first coat of yellow paint on the Sundance Sign, worked out hard for 40 minutes on the Cybex, and outlined a business deal to one of my partners. ~I haven't felt this accomplished since the last time a Peep gave me a bottle of Lagavulin.~Plus... consumed zero carbs and I lost two more pounds in my weight loss mission.~This can't last...
Friday, March 23, 2007
So the rumor is that Bechtel is going to buy GD Wireless. That explains a lot.~Large corporations hold too much sway on the lives of individuals. It is not a good place to be. Impersonal business decisions ruin people, and are so irrational. Too Bad.~It so easily could have been GD buying Bechtel wireless.... but for the masters of corporate speak and cover your ass. See you in Hell.
While we're on the topic of Crawfords, Will and Chris are training for the Boston Marathon. They decided to train in December and have logged an 18 mile run since then. Since they are good athletes, I'm sure that they will be fine, but I don't recommend crash training for the marathon. ~Ryan did well last year with limited training, but he is a physical anomaly.
We just heard the great news that Will and Lauren Crawford are expecting their first child in Sept.~Excellent addition to the Circle of Life. ~Between Ryan and Courtney, and Will and Lauren, it will be an eventful summer.
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Joanne reminds me that once again, I need to reiterate the POTW Rules. Repetition is the path to mastery, so this little exercise is not really that irritating, although you would think that all of Western Civilization would have internalized the rules by now.~So....~To become a Nanepashemet Peep of the Week, one has to .....
1. Be alive. (Dead people, no matter how cool, are not eligible.)
2. Be human. (Although I love animals, especially cats and birds, animals and other non-human forms of life are not eligible.)
3. Be either annoying, or inspirational, or both. (And never ask me which applies!!!)
4. Automatic selection criteria is if you have given me a bottle of Lagavulin 16 year Single Malt Scotch during the previous week. (I'm amazed how many bottles I have received because of this rule.... but it is never enough.)
It's easy enough to remember, but since I have unlimited patience with stupid questions, I absolutely have no problem repeating these rules from time to time.
Remember, there are no stupid questions... Only stupid people who ask questions.
Because of the Vt. business trip, I had to postpone my appointment with Dr. Casale for a full checkup. He's been my doctor since I was eighteen, when I needed a Doctor's letter to run in the Boston Marathon. ~Since then, he's seen me through a couple of issues, but now I weigh about 90 lbs. more that when I first started to go to him. He always acts disgusted, and it is really painful. My appointment has been postponed until next Thurs., and I am going to skip all the carbs and work out daily until I have to deal with him.~My goal is to lose 10 lbs. before my appointment. Shouldn't be hard. Workout every day for a week.... avoid the carbs.... no hanging with the Rocketts or my kids.
Tons of prospects for Peep of the Week today with the St. Patrick's Day holiday and my Sugarbush sojourn.~I actually had to narrow the selection down. The first two were the easiest though.~ANNOUNCING....Nanepashemet Peeps of the Week for Week 12 of 2007~Mike RockettRick RockettWalter HomanPauline McBurneyThe pompous lady at the bar of Chez Henri in Warren,Vt.Mike Nestor~That's it.
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Those thousands of Peeps who hit this Blog every day know that I rarely miss a daily entry. Yesterday was the exception.~Mike and Rick Rockett asked me to look at a business opportunity in Vermont for them that turned into an overnight St. Patrick's Day encore. The only difference from the amount of drinking that I did since the St. Pat's holiday blowout is that I didn't have to get up and ski after St. Patrick's Day.~I'm not a good downhill skiier, and I suck even more with a nauseous stomach and no food. But the conditions were the best that I've ever experienced.... beautifully groomed snow trails, no ice, 25 degrees, no wind, crystal clear blue skies.~What a waste!! After my five runs to the Rockett Boys 10, it was time to admit what an out of shape fat bastard I am. ~If you had told me Mon. that I would be skiing at Sugarbush with a hangover on Wed. morning, I would have politely dismissed you as out of touch with reality. But that's why I missed the entry yesterday.
Monday, March 19, 2007
Thought it was going to be a quiet day today. But every time something happens that is GD stupid, things seem to stir up. To see that business unit disintegrate is so disquieting. It didn't have to happen.~It's always hard to get going after an active weekend. My trick is to clean up the office and file stuff away. The things that you touch gets you in a business frame of mind again. It didn't take long.~Then the calls started to come in.
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Toasted the day with some of the finest Peeps at Flynnies then Sweeneys. St. Patrick's Day is such a great day of happiness and good will. I don't hit the Pubs with any frequency anymore, but they are definitely a lot of fun to be in around March 17. ~Walter Homan and I did our Karaoke rendition, which we manage to do every ten years or so. He's the only guy that I've ever sung with. It was really bad, and I'm not quite sure why I did it. Usually I can hold my alcohol.~Joanne made our traditional corned beef and cabbage dinner which is great once or twice a year. I never was a huge fan of cabbage and turnip, but it tastes fine during these occasions. A happy combination of family and friends made Mike's visit back home a lot of fun - a good weekend
Friday, March 16, 2007
The family is trying to gather for St. Patrick's Day on Sunday - one of those holidays when we like to have a sit down dinner of corned beef and cabbage together.~Mike made it home from Virginia, but Kate is down in DC for business and this snowstorm prediction promises to screw up air travel. Ryan and Courtney are local I hope.~I'm optimistic that we will pull it off dispite this last attempt by winter to make an appearance during this snowless year in Boston.
Thursday, March 15, 2007
What a shocker!!~At the very last minute, in our Darwin quitting party, Tammy Pham and Brooke Lutrelle gave Tom DiMatteo and I each a bottle of Lagavulin. Then they reminded me of the automatic Peep of the Week rule.... Receipt of the gift of Lagavulin is an automatic selection for the thoughtful, giving. aspiring peeps.~What a brilliant maneuver!~Plus, I was touched by the Darwin Quitting Party.~So the selections were all either automatic Lagavulin rule, or inspirational, or both! Even Frank did something inspirational and didn't annoy me.
A Big Day.~Not just because it is Thursday, POTW Day, when lives are inexhorably changed.~Mike is coming home tonight from DC. for St. Patrick's Day ... his first trip home since signing on with BearingPoint.~I'm having dinner at Legal with my Darwin friends, who want to give DiMatteo and me a proper departure from that high end IT staffing company.~Plus, I just bought a Moto Q from Sprint, which should boost my productivity even higher. I didn't think that could be possible.~Not to mention working today doing the stuff I love to do, with people I love to work with at Sundance, Nanepashemet and Rockett.~How's your day look?
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
I had to surrender. ~Filed extensions for both Sundance and Nanepashemet with the IRS. ~The corporate filing deadline is March 15, and I wanted to make it, but only an all-nighter would have pulled it off, and I'm saving those efforts for a special occasion. I do intend to stay on this task until the returns are filed, and my country knows exactly how much money we made last year.
Some Crimes are not against the law. ~Leaving millions on the table, and ruining careers based upon business incompetence and chronic, myopic, CYA is a crime that should be against the law.~And I'd love to be the Prison Guard.
Nature played a cruel trick on us today... 60 degrees, like it's going to be like this from now on. It won't happen. Less than a week ago, I was freezing my ass off going to the Boston Govt. Center garage in single digit temperatures with a driving wind.~Today, the Sundance project hit the home stretch. Mike Rockett provided the catalyst, and Eyk Van Otterloo covered the unknowns. Sparky and Eric Rumpf filled in some other gaps. Sundance will be fine.~Nanepashemet Project Management also had a banner day. Huge potentials from two diverse clients. Waiting on one more, and it will be an unprecedented outlook. Peeps, I will tell you if it starts to suck, but it doesn't suck... the view from here and now is awesome.~Even finishing the Tender seems possible.
Monday, March 12, 2007
Dinner with DiMatteo and a player to be named later at Trattoria di Monica on Prince Street in Boston's North End.~DiMatteo is the zen master of North End Italian restaurants. Never a bad meal.~Always start at Cafe della Sport on Hanover Street.... always end at Joe's American Grille on Atlantic Street.
So now the IRS sent me a bill saying that I owe $132 from my 2004 taxes. No explanation or anything. I'm paying them immediately, but I don't think they'll appreciate it. Just one adventure after another.
Sunday, March 11, 2007
Joanne and I took a nice walk along Devereaux Beach in the 40 degree sunny weather. We saw some sea birds in the water that looked a lot like loons and we also saw Danny Marcus. ~Danny was one of the original "Suck Brothers" of Marblehead Youth Hockey. A great guy. ~He and Ralph Sevinor used to talk about who sucked on the ice, which could get on your nerves. Then we started to call them the "Suck Brothers", and everytime they said someone sucked, we would all crack up. ~Funny how you can change your perspective from something that is irritating to something that is laughable.~BTW, Gill, you must be spelling the address wrong. Hundreds of other peeps got it right.
Saturday, March 10, 2007
Watching Borat on DVD with Joanne and Kathy Peabody. It is so funny, that it hurts.~I've also rekindled my interest in Whiskey Sours. So far, I've told you about the Dark and Stormies, and Seagrams and Cider, and I don't think that another favorite cocktail will confuse anyone.~So here is my famous recipe for Whiskey Sours.~Fill a mid sized glass half way with ice, cover the ice with Jack Daniels, add some concentrated lemon juice, put in half a packet of Splenda, fill to the brim with Ginger Ale (I prefer diet for health reasons). Adding fruit is optional. Stir briskly. Drink. Repeat.
Have to make a drive this morning to move clutter from the house and get it to the dump. I'll concentrate on bagging junk until 1:30 PM, then make a dump run.~After that, it's all taxes and accounting for this fun weekend.~Do we know how to party or what!!!!
Friday, March 09, 2007
What's up for the weekend?~I really wanted to go x-c skiing up in No. Conway, but the more mature choice is to tackle the corporate taxes for Sundance Pre-School and Nanepashemet Project Management.~The corporate taxes are due March 15.~If you're expecting me to rant about taxes in America, then I'm sorry. I just can't go there every time. But then again, the oppressive tax system is stealing a weekend of my life.
It seems like an extraordinary amount of change is in the air, like the universe is switching channels. Some of those closest to me are undergoing various important transitions.~Change is always tough, because uncertainty of the outcome causes anxiety. Generally, we fear change.~But change is the opportunity for new experience, and growth. And that's what we came on Earth to do.... to experience things.~So embrace change. Don't be so judgemental.~Trust that God knows more than you do. And make the best of it.
Thursday, March 08, 2007
Now that Mike Nestor and Nathaniel Clarke are working together down in DC, it's only a matter of time before the BearingPoint stock spikes up.~I'm no Jim Cramer, but I know an investment opportunity when I see one.
Sorry I'm late. The New England Wireless Association Meeting at the Bell in Hand Bar on Union St. in downtown Boston turned into an open bar four Guiness affair. Then a crawl through single digit temperature and cutting wind to Donovan's in the Faneuil Marketplace for a couple of single malts that tasted like Oban. Plus I had to listen to the DiMatteo boys wax about their tastes in music.
When I got home to Marblehead, I hardly had only ennough time to fry up two Bubba Burgers, and get to bed. So I'm getting the POTW selections out late. Get over it. I have a good excuse.
It's Thursday morning. You won't know the Peeps of the Week until sometime tonight. So back off!! What do you think.... that all I do is ponder about the POTW selections??? I have my own work to do. Why don't you consider doing your's and leave me alone.~It's not going to be you anyway.
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
Try this exercise.~When you get up in the morning, visualize what your day will be like. What appointments do you have? What things are you working on? What issues are you trying to solve?~Now visualize that everything that happens in the day is a good thing and in favor of you. Imagine that it is the end of the day, and everything that happened was great.~I swear to all that is holy, that this freaking exercise works. Take it seriously. It freaking works.~You will have a great day. What does it hurt to try?
Tender remains unfinished. But Sundance is really on a roll. The Rockett crews are in high gear and the place looks great. If I was a toddler, I'd love to go there.~Even the freaking elevator is in construction.
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
I've been thinking about what I'm going to do when I win the Lottery.~To say that your life will not change is ludicrous. All of your relationships will be altered by people being envious, disengenuous, spiteful or otherwise. Virtually no one will think of you in the same way.~Your true friends will be diluted by pseudo wellwishers and phoney hangers on.~So far, not a pretty picture.~But I've already been through extreme ups and downs. And I know who my friends are. So I'm prepared for the reactions. That will not deter me.~I will pay down my mortgages first, and own my real estate outright. Then I will establish liquid investments that will pay for the taxes, insurance and maintenance of my house, condo, and the Sundance Pre-school. I will then invest enough for minimum annual income. Maybe kicking off $200k per year. That will stabilize my current situation for eternity.~I will also give all of my kids and extended family $1m each.~After capitalizing my businesses and current partners, I will open up a boatbuilding shop that manufactures cedar strip wooden boats. I will create a market for sailing dories and traditional Herreshoff styled boats throughout the Eastern Seaboard. I'll initiate fishing and sailing clubs as well as boatbuilding classes. And I'll write about it all.~What will you do?
So... You're sitting at General Dynamics, bored out of your mind. Believe me, I know the feeling. But that doesn't mean you can take that valuable time to bang the Nanepashemet blog for over 7 hours and easily 50 hits.~Do you have a charge number for this?~Searches for Lou, Mike, GD. Seriously, I'm a stockholder and a pensioner. Get back to work and Get a Life.
A $355M Jackpot - Lump Sum $147M - After Taxes - $70M.~So we're really aiming for a $70M payday. That's good enough. But then if you gave $1M to each of your family, they would have to pay gift tax on that.... probably about $500K. I've already paid the taxes on that money!!!!~Do you see why I get riled up over the tax system??! We get crumbs, relatively, compared to the money that we actually earn or win.~So what would you do with the $70M?~For starters, I would buy a bottle of Lagavulin.... at the distillery in Scotland.
We had dinner at Dale and Gail Johnson's house last night. Grilled Lamb, Salad with avocado and papaya, Dark and Stormies, Brussel sprouts, Sweet Potatoes. They also supplied fun and thoughtful conversation.~I highly recommend having dinner there.
The problem with a lot of religious sayings is that you tend to read them, then not see the practical relevance because on the verbiage or context in which they are written. Let's face it.... biblical quotes are written in a version of English common over 400 years ago. It's hard to feel the relevance behind the prose. But if you peal it down, it can hit you hard with the practicality.~Like the story of Jesus turning the other cheek.
"You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.' But I say to you, Do not resist one who is evil. But if any one strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also; and if any one would sue you and take your coat, let him have your cloak as well; and if any one forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles." - Matthew 5:38~It is really practical advise on the only true way to disarm your adversaries and gain the upper hand.
"And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." - Luke 11:9
"If two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. " - Matthew 18:19_________________________________
Imagine that the Bible is real, and you can have anything you want, simply by asking sincerely and prayerfully, and that by believing that you have already received your wish, it comes true.!!! That's what these authors are saying.~Why don't you try it? No one has to know, there is no embarrassment. It's a silent exercise between you and your Almighty.~Just make your request to God and instill your belief and feeling that you already have what you wished for. ~Let me know how you make out.
Friday, March 02, 2007
Christ said that if a man would have faith, he can move mountains. I used to think this was bullshit, now I know that it is rock solid. Nothing is insurmountable. Every problem can be solved by the exercise of truly trying to resolve it. And the results can be miraculous.~Mountains can be moved.... Instantly.... If you have the will and resolve.~If you want something, truly want it, you can attain it.~Be careful what you ask for, and have the courage to seek what you truly want.... not what you think that you deserve, or should have.
"I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours."
I'm getting ready to watch "The Departed", a Martin Scorsese film based upon Whitey Bulger in South Boston. ~I hope they don't glorify him.~People who think that the Sopranos or the Corleones are something to emulate have a screw loose.~Ultimately, those mobsters all get ruined. People who think they are cool, always forget the ending of the stories.
Thursday, March 01, 2007
FinzGlenmorangieBalveinieSalem Waterfront HotelJameson~Damn... if you overlook the myopic stupidity of those who insist on losing millions to save thousands... it's still all good.~I don't understand it. But I've seen it before. They declare victory.... and lose a fortune. To call them losers doesn't seem to do it justice. They are colossal, stupendous, humongous losers.~That's a better description.~Putting them in the rear view mirror.... receding fast.~Enough of that.
Regardless of my vacation day, I have no choice but to get the POTW selections out for Week 9 of 2007. It's been a real interesting week... with a lot of annoying stuff, but also a a lot of inspiring stuff. Nobody gave me a bottle of Lagavulin like last week, so there will be no automatic selections. Maybe next week.
Trying to take a vacation day this Thurs. and Fri. If you check your email and your voicemail while you are on vacation.... then you are not on vacation. The vacation part has to do with your mind, not where your body is located. I don't have any admiration for workaholics.~Despite this lofty position, I always answer my cell phone. And the good stuff keeps on coming in!!!! Man, I wish I had this streak on the BlackJack tables at Vegas.~It will be good when I come back from vacation.
Do you believe that you create your own reality? If that is the case, then this is going to be a great day... not to mention year. I'm expecting some awesome results from the reality I'm about to create. | {
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I knew it would happen and it did. I have officially become tired of this project. It’s ok, though. I am not afraid of this inevitable stage. It was bound to happen as does frequently with anything requiring a long-term commitment on my part. It’s simply an opportunity to re-invest and re-invigorate myself. As I often tell my children, boredom is the key to creativity. This is part of the adventure of photography. An adventure that keeps me learning, exploring, and growing both professionally and personally. Both as an artist and a technician. Although my growth curve is long and methodical, it is there and I see it. I see the development of a style that is now becoming recognizable to others. I see consistency in my images and a high level of technical achievement. I see experimentation and fun. I see emotion and connection. I see my story. Do you?
Week 34
Our first and only trip to the pool this summer. My little guy learned lots of tricks on the new diving platform at the lake this summer and was keen on trying them on a proper diving board. I am in awe of the power of his little body. Aubonne, SwitzerlandStuff happens. Especially in my home. A LOT of stuff happens! St-Prex, SwitzerlandOh, gosh. Be still my heart! This might be one of the most special images I have taken of my family so far this year. One of my goals with this project is to finish the year with 12 really great images. Could this one be a contender? I love the sun flare and his connection to the camera. These shot are NOT easy to take and I was laying on the ground under the swingset hoping he didn’t kick me! Prangins, SwitzerlandEnd of the day sun and smoke. A magical combination. St-George, SwitzerlandThree out of four of us like to shop. Guess which one doesn’t. Lausanne, SwitzerlandFreelensing in the forest. Yes, we find shells in the forest – lots of them! St-George, SwitzerlandNew school, new teacher, new classroom, new classmates. This is what the REAL first day of school looks like for many kids, I suspect. St-Prex, Switzerland
Week 35I turn off a lot of lights in my house. St-Prex, Switzerland. From the “Ghost Mom” series.I continue to focus on shadow and reflection as a way of capturing interesting images in full sun. Prangins, SwitzerlandSpiders are a staple of town life. St-Prex, SwitzerlandWe took the train to Lausanne to visit a proper bookstore and she bought her first book in two years after reading on her Kindle since we moved to Switzerland. She was so happy! Lausanne, SwitzerlandA creative twist on a shot I’ve taken dozens of times – the lake boat arriving at the port. For this shot, I set my prism under my lens and turned it until I got this lovely rainbow effect. Prisms are really affordable and super-fun to play with. You can achieve similar effects with other simple objects like the surface of your cell phone or discarded chandelier crystals. St-Prex, Switzerland.He got to pick out a new French book to read with Papa, although what he really wanted was a new Lego book. Lausanne, SwitzerlandLong exposures create a mysterious effect that I love. St-Prex, Switzerland
Kate Cuénoud is a family adventure and travel photographer and photo editor based in the Lake Geneva / Lac Leman region of Switzerland. | {
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Only Apple could announce PowerBooks at the same clock speed, and PowerMacs and a lower clock speed and call it an upgrade.
There are some really cool things about the new PowerBooks announced yesterday: larger displays, support for the 30-inch Apple Cinema display, faster DDR2 memory and the 8x double-layer SuperDrive. My issue is that the new PowerBook's clock speed is the same as it was before—1.67GHz. Sure the faster RAM and better video card, an ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 with 128MB of DDR SDRAM and dual-link DVI for those playing at home, should yield a little better performance, but a 1.67GHz processor?
The new dual-core PowerMac G5 is a stunner, however. And before you jump all over me, I know that two 2.5GHz cores are faster than a single 2.5GHz core. But whatever happened to the 3GHz PowerMacs? No matter how you slice it, the new PowerMacs are going to scream and I have to admit that these are the first PowerMacs that I have ever lusted after. I want one. Bad.
The PowerBooks, however are a yawn upgrade. Sure it would be great to have some additional screen real estate, but this is not an upgrade that I'll be buying. I think that once Apple announced that they were switching to Intel chips Freescale Semiconductor, Motorola's chip division, cut Apple off. Why would Freescale go out of their way to deliver faster chips to Apple when they know that their contract is soon coming to a screeching halt? | {
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Several defending champions had major workouts today and Friday as they seek repeats in the Breeders' Cup Nov. 1-2 and Santa Anita, including Wise Dan working a half-mile over Keeneland’s Polytrack in 47 2/5 seconds Friday. The Keeneland clockers caught him galloping out five furlongs in a minute flat.
“Pretty awesome – 11s and 12s all the way,” trainer Charlie LoPresti said of the eighth-mile splits. “He is just as good as last year.” Wise Dan worked five furlongs in 1:00 4/5 at Keeneland in his last work before winning the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Mile on turf. The 6-year-old gelding was upset by Silver Max in Keeneland’s Shadwell Turf Mile, which was taken off the turf.
Groupie Doll worked a half-mile in a bullet 46 2/5 seconds Friday at Churchill under exercise rider Jada Schlenk, galloping out five furlongs in a minute and six furlongs in 1:14. Groupie Doll also was upset in her last race before defending her title in the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint, having finished third in Keeneland’s Thoroughbred Club of America.
“She worked really well,” Bradley said Saturday. “I told Jada that I wanted to get a good work out of her, but she didn’t stick her or anything – just rambled right along. That’s what she did last year…. I wanted to see her energy level and that she was looking to be on her game. And she is on the dirt.”
Also Friday, Will Take Charge, winner of the Travers Stakes and Pennsylvania Derby in his last two starts, worked six furlongs in 1:14 2/5.
Fort Larned, last year’s Breeders’ Cup Classic winner, went an easy half-mile in 49 seconds Saturday, which trainer Ian Wilkes is using to set up a more serious work Tuesday at Churchill.
At Belmont’s training track Saturday, Kentucky Oaks winner Princess of Sylmar, who upset two-time champion Royal Delta in winning the Beldame in her last start, worked a half-mile in 48.46 seconds, the second-fastest of 44 at the distance. Though owner Ed Stanco has to pay $100,000 to make her eligible, she’s now headed to the Breeders’ Cup Distaff.
Over Belmont’s main track, Royal Delta headed trainer Bill Mott’s Cup delegation, working five-eighths of a mile in a “bullet” 59.69 seconds. Other Mott horses: Jockey Club Gold Cup upset winner Ron the Greek, half-mile in 48.66 for the Classic; last year’s Breeders’ Cup Classic third-place finisher Flat Out, five eighths in 1:01.38.
At Santa Anita, Mucho Macho Man worked five furlongs in 1:02 1/5 for the Classic, in which he was second last year.
Silver Max, the Shadwell Turf Mile upset winner, worked a half-mile in a lively 46 4/5 for the Mile on turf. Little Mike worked five furlongs in 1:01. | {
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Dalhousie University’s Communities of Practice: Part 2. Research Collaborations
The commitment of Dalhousie University's faculty of dentistry to improving access to care is visible in the innovative and supportive partnerships among dentists, dental hygienists, academics, care providers, policymakers and community members the faculty has established over the years. These partnerships are effective communities of practice that bring together a group of people who share a common concern or interest and who learn through interacting with each other.1 Communities of practice can take many forms, including voluntary informal networks, work-supported formal education sessions, apprentice training or multidisciplinary, multi-site project teams.2 Communities of practice can be a means of bridging the gap between researchers and the practitioners and policy-makers who make use of research outcomes,3 with knowledge transfer flowing in both directions. The process of knowledge transfer entails a complex series of actions that "encompasses all steps between the creation of new knowledge and its application to yield beneficial outcomes for society."4 Coalitions such as communities of practice in dental education and research may lead to new models of oral care that will help to alleviate the increasing demands placed upon our current systems of oral care.5
The Collaboration of Oral Health Researchers (COHR), a research group founded by Drs. Mark Filiaggi and Debora Matthews, has been a productive and dynamic community of practice since its early beginnings in 2004. The COHR mission is to improve the oral health of underserved populations and to build capacity for oral health-related research. Through the development of strong collaborative partnerships with decision-makers, stakeholders and the community, we are building necessary links between population needs assessment and delivery of oral health services.
Ann McInnis (left) of Northwood Care with Drs. Joanne
Clovis, Debora Matthews and Mary McNally at the Café
Scientifique The Inconvenient Tooth: A New Challenge for
Baby Boomers.
Concurrent with the creation of the COHR, we also began a significant and sustained partnership with the Atlantic Health Promotion Research Centre to create the Oral Health of Seniors research group. Over time, our coalitions have shared research knowledge and resources to form well-rounded and diverse groups with a common interest in increasing access to oral ealth care for vulnerable populations. Over the past 10 years, COHR researchers have been awarded over one million dollars of research and knowledge translation funding focusing on the oral health of older adults.
Recent COHR Research Communities
Community Engagement with Northwood Care
Our first and most consistent community research partner has been Northwood Care, located in central Halifax. Northwood Care is a large private, not-for-profit continuing care organization with a rich history of community outreach and collaborative research. Northwood's involvement with oral health research began in 1999. With support from the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation, the COHR research team examined the continuity of oral health care and policies for Nova Scotia seniors. As part of this work, a 2-day national forum was held to identify research priorities and to develop strategies for financial, organizational and policy interventions and to strengthen partnerships.
Seniors Oral Health Assessment Project
In 2004, a workshop titled Oral Health Assessments for Seniors: Building Capacity for a Canadian Consensus was sponsored by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)'s Institutes of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis and the faculty of dentistry. Building on the success of earlier partnerships, the collaborative team expanded to include Health Canada's National Advisory Council on Aging, the Nova Scotia Department of Health, the Nova Scotia Senior Citizens' Secretariat, the Group of IX Nova Scotia Seniors' Organizations, long-term health care providers (including Northwood Care) and the Canadian and Nova Scotia dental and dental hygienists associations. A study was developed to pilot test tools to measure the oral health status and quality of life of Nova Scotia seniors, and to examine barriers to access to oral health care. Funding was awarded through the Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation Collaborative Health Research Program.
These early projects have resulted in rich and lasting partnerships that have evolved to include the following collaborative initiatives:
2005: At the 6th Annual Clinical Conference sponsored by the Northwood Foundation in Halifax, members of the COHR presented an overview of the Seniors Oral Health Assessment Project pilot survey. Caregivers were given an information package consisting of education materials on the provision of oral care.
2005–2006: An oral health policy scan and analysis funded by the Nova Scotia Department of Health was undertaken to develop policy recommendations and strategies for addressing the oral health needs of seniors in the province. The research and stakeholder workshop involving 36 participants resulted in clear recommendations that were subsequently presented to the Minister of Health.
2006: Building Capacity for Oral Health Research on Seniors in Atlantic Canada, a CIHR-sponsored workshop, included 40 stakeholders from Atlantic Canada. The results of this workshop led to the successful application of a CIHR operating grant and 1 of 4 seed grants awarded nationally for research addressing oral health disparities.
April 2009: The partnership with Northwood Care resulted in a CIHR-funded Café Scientifique titled The Inconvenient Tooth: A New Challenge for Baby Boomers. This collaboration between Northwood and oral health researchers at Dalhousie brought the community together for a rich discussion of oral health challenges for the aging population.
Dentist Ed Ghiabi and research assistant Amany Toma demonstrate
the set-up used for the TOHAP study at Townsview
Estates in Truro, Nova Scotia, in April 2009.
Current COHR Research Communities
The Oral Health of our Aging Population Study
Until recently, there was no provincial data on the oral health of Nova Scotians, making it difficult to persuade policy-makers to change policy. To address this lack of data, Dr. Matthews initiated The Oral Health of our Aging Population (TOHAP) study with co-principal investigator Dr. Joanne Clovis. The aim of TOHAP study, a crosssectional population-based survey of 1200 adults aged 45 and older in Nova Scotia, is to gather information on the oral health of aging adults (rural, urban, community dwelling and those in long-term care) through a questionnaire and clinical examination. The data will allow comparisons between the oral health needs and expectations of the generation of the baby boomers and the generation that preceded them.
With support from provincial and national funding agencies as well as the Office of the Chief Dental Officer of Canada, the findings will contribute to our understanding of the oral health and the barriers to care for Nova Scotians aged 45 years and older. This research initiative is supported by a diverse group of stakeholders and has involved the active participation of private dental practitioners and long-term care providers. The 9-member collaborative research team will release its findings in 2010.
Increasing Capacity for Oral Health
Our experience with projects involving seniors is now providing a new focus for research outreach. The research project Increasing Capacity for Oral Health (ICOH) is a collaboration between clinician-researchers at Dalhousie and a diverse group of stakeholders in Newfoundland and Labrador who share an interest in building the necessary links between the assessment of oral health needs and the delivery of oral health services, particularly for vulnerable populations. The project lead is Dr. Clovis, with co-investigators Dr. Matthews and Dr. Stephen Bornstein, director of the Centre for Applied Health Research in St. John's, Newfoundland.
The overall goal of the project is to build an expanded stakeholder community in Newfoundland—including oral health care practitioners, seniors' groups, policy-makers and academics—who are keen to improve access to oral health care and to develop potential to measure and monitor oral health status in this province.
Ethics in an Aging Society and the Tri-facilities Projects
Ethics in an Aging Society is a qualitative research project that explores the experiences of personal care workers to better understand the ethical dimensions of mouth care in frail, dependent older adults. The Tri-facilities project is concerned with improving personal daily mouth care and oral disease prevention for older adults in rural continuing care settings on Nova Scotia's eastern shore. Research following from these 2 studies led by Dr. Mary McNally will ultimately inform policies and programs to promote better personal mouth care practices for dependent elders and to improve training and institutional care planning.
Conclusion
The COHR is clearly fulfilling its mandate, and along with its partners, has been awarded significant research funds to conduct projects aimed at improving the oral health of older adults. In every case the COHR research projects have been characterized by the development of strong collaborative partnerships, true communities of practice that are currently expanding to include research focused on immigrants and refugees and Aboriginal populations. Dr. Filiaggi envisions a future for the COHR that also includes an expanded research network involving other disciplines, partnerships with other relevant health and community organizations, mentoring programs, platforms to share resources and information, more emphasis on student research, and increased clinical research projects. The COHR is a unique group among Canadian faculties of dentistry. It will continue to generate more research communities of practice with a common interest in improving access to care for vulnerable populations.
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Artists place their signature in the bottom corner of a masterpiece and journalists add a copyright to their articles. Logo designers, however, are not so quickly recognized for their work.
Some logo designs , especially those that were created prior to the internet age, do not have an official designer attached to them, and for the aging/retired graphic designer this can understandably be a slightly disappointing fact.
One such case is the Major League Baseball logo, seen in the title image of this post. The logo was originally designed in 1968, and there seems to be a lack of physical evidence to prove the name of the designer. The Wall Street Journal and Paul Lukas of ESPN.com have recently carried out some research into this matter, and have since discovered the most likely candidate, Mr. Jerry Dior.
There are many reasons why the Major League Baseball logo is so timeless and an exceptional piece of branding, but the most obvious is the fact that image in the logo can be either left handed or right handed, depending on how you look at it. Also, the use of red, white and blue portrays this national pastime perfectly.
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This was my 10th cruise and I’ve learned a lot over those 10 cruises. So I thought I’d share some of the tips & tricks I’ve learned. Some of these things I’ve learned from experience. Some from fellow travelers, some from reading.
Pack all liquids in a zip lock bag. Get the 1 gallon size. You never know when something (lotion, body spray, etc. will open and the zip lock bag will keep your clothes from getting ruined.
Take a couple extra 2 gallon zip lock bags for wet swimsuits that don’t dry in time to be packed dry.
Go to Target and buy a pop up clothes hamper for dirty clothes. You can find these in the iron/laundry section of the store. They run about $6-7 and fold up nice and small but are big enough for a week’s worth of dirty clothes. Very handy.
Bring a tiny container of air freshener/room spray. These cabins are tiny with no fans. If you are married to a man and you have to share a bathroom with him you’ll understand why you should bring this. Scentsy makes the perfect size.
Bring a highlighter. If you’re traveling with lots of people who like to do different things then bring a few highlighters in different colors. Every day you will receive a newsletter outlining all the different things there are to do onboard. It can be frustrating if you can’t remember what time the galley tour is or what show is being featured tonight. Bring a highlighter and highlight all the activities and events you’re interested in and your day will go so much more smoothly.
Pack a small lint roller.
Bring Downy Wrinkle Releaser or an empty spray bottle you can fill with water once you’re on board. There are laundry rooms on the cruise ships but they get SUPER busy. You don’t want to wait an hour in line for the iron. Unpack as soon as possible to let your clothes hang and the wrinkles fall out. If you do need an iron go asap on the first night if possible. There most likely won’t be a line. Wait til the hour before dinner on formal night and you’ll be in for a wait.
Check and see if your cruise line lets you bring your own alcohol (if you drink alcohol). Cocktails onboard can be super expensive. BYOB and you’ll save a ton of money. By the way, Disney is BYOB friendly.
Bring a reusable water bottle. You’ll have ice in your room so you can take nice cold water out to the pool or beach.
Most cabin/ stateroom doors are metal. So bring some magnetic clips to hold papers (like the newsletter) on your door so you’ll know right where it is. Plus, if you want to save the newsletters as souvenirs this will keep them wrinkle free. If you have any magnetic hooks, bring those too. You can never have enough hooks to hang wet swimwear. Also, decorate your door! Not only does it help your door standout in a loooong line of lookalike doors (to make it easier to find), it’s fun and festive!
If you’re traveling to a port you’ve visited before, stay on the ship! This is a great time to explore the ship and take advantage of the pools/hot tubs without having to deal with crowds.
If you can swing it, book a room with a balcony. It really makes your cabin feel much bigger.
Bring a small notebook that can fit in your purse/pocket. At the end of each day be sure to write down what you did that day. Include what you ate and take pictures of your meals. The food is fantastic on cruises and you’ll want to share your dining experiences with family and friends back home. As much as we try, it’s impossible to take pictures of everything you do so your little notebook will become a great travel journal.
Speaking of food…order more than one appetizer! Or order 2 soups. Your food is prepaid. Take advantage of this. Try things you’ve never tried before, like escargot. If you don’t like it, get something else. Normally this is not something you’d do in a restaurant so now’s your chance!
In my opinion the sit down restaurants are always better than the buffets so try and eat at the full service restaurants when you can.
Adjust your schedule. We are not morning people. But we’ve found on cruises all the interesting and fun things to do seem to happen at certain times. So we wake up early to enjoy breakfast in the full service restaurant. Then in the couple of hours before dinner and the shows things seem to slow down. That’s when we nap. Then we’re ready to stay up late for the late night buffets and shows. We’re still getting our 8 hours of sleep, just broken up over the day with the nap.
Order room service. Room service is included in your cruise rate on most cruise lines. Take advantage of this! Have breakfast in your pajamas one day. Order a late night snack. Just be sure to tip the room service waiter.
Unplug. Unless it is absolutely necessary we do not use the internet or our cell phones while at sea, even though service is available. It is expensive for one, and for another…it can wait! You spent a lot of money to go on this cruise. You can be on the internet any time you’d like. Be present for your vacation.
Take pictures of everything! Your cabin. Your meals. Each other. Everything you can think of. You never know when you’ll be telling friends and family about your cruise and you wish you had a picture of that thing/meal/etc.
Book your next cruise while onboard. Some cruise lines offer significant discounts if you book your next cruise while on your current cruise.
I can’t believe I forgot to tell you that we saw Stitch last night! We made one last trip to the gift store to pick up a thank you for CSP’s mom for taking care of the pugs. We were getting on the elevator and there he was! Stitch is my favorite! And he was dressed up as Pirate Stitch! My favorite favorite!!!
Before we disembark I want to show you some pictures taken around the ship. Disney is world famous for a lot of things, one of them is their attention to detail. There isn’t a boring nook or cranny on their cruise ships. They have art everywhere and even the hand rails are decorative! One spot where this is very evident is Beat Street- the adult section of the ship where most of the lounges and bars are located. Even the ceiling is decorated with twinkle lights to resemble stars. This is Diversions- CSP’s favorite hang out. It’s the sports/games bar. They have everything from big screen tvs to giant Twister and fooseball. This is the Mickey Pool. You don’t often see it empty so this is a big deal! Here are some more shots from around the ship. Just places we thought were really nice. Even the light fixtures in the common areas are nice! Here are the gift shops, on either side of this hallway. The Walt Disney Theatre is where all the big shows are performed.
SO…this morning we woke up early and got dressed and packed up all the last minute things. Then we went to breakfast. The elevator doors opened and OMG the line for breakfast was insane! But we made it in finally and had a nice breakfast. We turned on our phones and watched them blow up with emails and texts from the week. The guy at the next table was wearing a Minnesota shirt and so was CSP (there were TONS of Minnesota people on this cruise!). You could tell the next table guy was dying to talk to CSP about it but he never got the chance. After breakfast we dropped off our customer satisfaction survey and headed to debarkation. Once you’re off the ship you pick up your luggage (easy color coded system). Then you go through customs. The line went quickly and next thing you know we were back on Florida ground! I waited with the luggage while CSP picked up Blanca (our RAV4) then we hit the road for home! It was so weird to eat breakfast on a cruise ship in the ocean then eat dinner at a Mexican joint in NC!
We arrived home and CSP’s parents were here. His mom stayed the week taking care of the pugs and the house. We showed pics after being attacked by 3 pugs who were full of kisses for their missing parents, then went to dinner. We made it home in record time. We didn’t stop for lunch, just gas, so that helped.
Overall we had a blast and can’t wait for next year to go again! My only complaints: if your child is screaming please remove them from the dining room/show. Also the hair dryer. They look like a vacuum tube. It does a fine job of drying your hair, the only problem is it gets so hot I couldn’t hold on to it long enough to dry my hair! And I have short, baby fine hair. I felt bad for long haired girls! I’m definitely bringing my own next time.
The best parts: being able to spend so much time with CSP with no distractions. It was awesome! Going to a fancy dinner every single night! The shows. Castaway Cay. Our balcony. Sleeping. I sleep like a baby on a boat. The constant gentle rocking. Seeing CSP so happy and relaxed. The people watching. Everyone is just happier on a Disney cruise ship!
Today is the day we’ve been looking forward to all week! Castaway Cay! Castaway Cay is Disney‘s private island. They have 3 separate beaches– the family beach, the sports beach, and the adults only beach called Serenity Bay. Paradise I tell you!
We woke up early and had breakfast in our room. Look at that view! Just as we were about to put on our swim suits and SPF, a message came over the loud speaker. It was the captain telling us they were having technical difficulties. Boo! So there was a 2 hour delay getting to the island. One of the ships’ side thrusters (used instead of tug boats) was malfunctioning. They got it running again and the next thing you know we were docked at Castaway Cay!
We got off the boat and went to wait for the tram. On the way to the gangplank we ran into Donald. Then CSP got stopped by Minnesota people who recognized the TC (Twin Cities) on his shirt and had to talk baseball!
We walked over to the tram station. On the way we passed the post office. Chip and Dale were there! We took the tram (even the tram route is pretty) to Serenity Bay and got lunch(since it was so late now) before we picked out our chairs on the beach. Lunch was a buffet and I didn’t take pictures. But it was great! Mahi mahi, ribs, chicken, burgers, hot dogs, lots of different salads, fruit, ice cream even!
CSP and I picked out our chairs (there are hammocks too!). I didn’t bring my good camera on the island so these are all iPhone pics, but not too shabby eh? This was the view from my chair. We went out into the cool water and swam and swam. Or bobbed and floated! There were some snorkelers nearby who warned us of giant starfish and stingrays. We saw lots of fish and I was calling for a dolphin baby to come see me but no real wildlife. UNTIL…we decided to go chill out on the beach. We were really far out in the water and were doing the stingray shuffle as to not step on one. I noticed some holes in the sand under our feet and pointed them out to CSP. I reached down to see what it was just as CSP saw the tail. It was a stingray! CSP started yelling “Crocodile Hunter!” and tackled me to get out of the way of the tiny baby stingray who just wanted to hang out with me! CSP is not a fan of wild animals. We made our way back to our chairs. CSP went and got us some cocktails. We relaxed on our chairs for a while. Reading books and I may have nodded off a bit. We eventually noticed people making their way back to the ship so we packed up and hopped back on the tram. Back on the ship we went up on deck to get some shots of the island.
We went back to the room and packed up our luggage since this was our last night on the cruise. 😦 Then we got ready for dinner. Dinner tonight was in Animator’s Palate. We haven’t been to Animator’s Palate since the first night of the cruise. CSP’s appetizer was a sesame seared tuna tartare. So pretty! He also had some sort of seafood mixture. I can tell that’s shrimp and scallops and maybe salmon. Not sure why I didn’t write this down.I had the chicken sate . If you’re wondering how I remembered all the things we ate, I brought a tiny notebook and put it in my purse. Then after we ordered I’d write down everything we ordered. Just before bed I’d write down everything we did that day. There’s no way I’d remember everything on my own!
We both had soup- CSP had lobster and crawfish bisque while I had potato leek soup. Our entrees included orange roughy stuffed with crab for CSP and seafood pasta for me. Lobster, scallops, shrimp and clams. I put those clams on CSP’s plate immediately. I can’t stand the idea of their shells touching my food! Dessert was a yummy strawberry and creme cake called Celebration Cake for me and the trio for CSP. It included chocolate mousse,a chocolate tart and a little celebration cake. During dinner service there was a little show. The man waving is Val, our waiter. We love Val. He’s from Romania and his wife works on the ship too. There are over 55 countries represented in the dining staff alone!
After dinner we went back to our room and went right to bed because tomorrow we have to get up early for breakfast and debarkation!
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Tuesday, 15 October 2013
Family || Patience
Getting into photography was something I have always wanted to do. I grew up with a camera latched around my wrist. In high school, I was always the girl who took photos at the swimming carnival, or someone's sweet 16th or just randomly around the playground. I was that girl. Did I know what I was doing or what goes into a good photo? No. All I knew was I liked capturing moments, moments in people's lives that they could cherish for years to come.
I first asked Georgia if I could take photos of her family a couple of weeks ago. I've known Georgia for several years now, so I knew her little family would be a great place to start my journey. It was daunting to put myself out there for the first time as a 'photographer' rather than someone who just takes photos. What if people didn't like my photos? What if I wasn't good enough?
I've learnt that becoming a photographer means putting all those fears and worries away and focusing on what is truly important - your subjects.
These are the photos I took of Georgia, Matt and their beautiful daughter Patience. My first 'proper' family shoot. I'm pretty happy with how these images turned out and it was a joy to hear that Georgia and Matt did too. I feel so much love through them which is what any family should be about. I love the love these guys possess - its awesome!
Thank you Georgia, Matt and Patience for kicking this journey off! I'm looking forward to seeing where it takes me
these photos are great! I have always been the annoying one with the camera haha People get annoyed of me because I am always lagging behind because I have to capture certain moments. But later on the appreciate it when the event was documented. I am no pro but it really is just something I love!
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Planning to sell your home this summer? You may have a little - or a lot - to do in order to get your home market ready. But you don't need a huge budget. These 10 tips can help you get it looking great with little effort, and cash.
1. Paint
Crisp white walls are great in a 1920s Spanish. For most other homes, a splash of color is an easy way to warm up the space, make it look more updated, and banish fingerprints and stains. Use a soft neutral like one of these favorite gray shades for a modern look.
2. Address your front door
A fresh coat of paint on your front door is a quick fix that pops with potential. Use a bright color like red or yellow to differentiate your home from others and make it shine from the street.
If your door really can't be salvaged by painting it, you'll be happy to know that replacing it with a new steel door has been shown to return between 75% and 100%+ of your investment. "It's also a relatively low-cost project," said Houselogic. "According to the "2015 Remodeling Impact Report," a new steel front entry door has a national median cost of $2,000 installed."
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3. Quick curb appeal
Aside from your door, a few easy tasks can make the front of your home look great - important when you're looking to sell your home since poor curb appeal can keep potential buyers from even coming inside. A new layer of mulch has been called the easiest and quickest way to add curb appeal. Pulling noticeable weeds, giving the lawn a quick mow, and bringing in fresh flowers - if you can't plant, put a few pots near the front door—can make all the difference.
4. New appliances
Even if the rest of your kitchen needs work, new stainless steel appliances can tempt buyers. This package from US Appliance is just $1,749.
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If you end up with a fancy new fridge you don't want to leave behind, make sure to let your real estate agent know so it's stipulated in the contract.
5. Quickie bathroom updates
A new or painted vanity, hardware, fixtures, and lighting can make a tired bathroom look fresh again. Don't forget the little things - a fluffy set of towels, a nice rug, a modern shower curtain, and sleek accessories can make the space look good, even if it's really in need of a gut job.
6. New bedding
You'd be surprised how new bedding can transform the look of your bedroom for next to nothing. There are two schools of thought here: get a cheap bed-in-a-bag set that looks nice but probably doesn't have the thread count you want for everyday use, or spend a little more for something that has the looks and the luxe.
7. Create a guest room
Have a room that's currently an undefined space? A blowup bed covered in some chic bedding can help buyers envision how they'll use the room. This is a top tip from stagers, who say that "multipurpose" rooms can confuse buyers, leaving them unsure if a home will work for them.
8. Set the scene outdoors
Everybody is into indoor-outdoor living the days. A few tricks outside can make your place look inviting.
Create a seating area with some inexpensive outdoor furniture. Scour garage sales or catch a sale at Home Depot or Target. Put up an umbrella for shade and use inexpensive pavers or deck tiles to define the space. Stage it for outdoor dining and you've just created valuable, usable space buyers can see themselves enjoying.
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9. Steal a few staging tips
Hire a professional stager and it can set you back a couple thousand dollars. But you can steal a few of their most important tricks for free. Cleaning like you've never cleaned before, decluttering, and paring down your furniture to create inviting seating areas will allow buyers to see the space instead of your stuff (or your mess).
10. Window coverings
If your window coverings are ugly old not doing your house justice, or if they're keeping too much light from streaming into the home, consider taking them down. Natural light is high on almost every buyer's must-have list. You can purchase inexpensive drapes at any big box store that you can use to frame the windows - but remember to keep them open at showings, and to clean your windows first!
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Halloween is over. Election day is done. You know what that means, don’t you? If you don’t, it’s because you haven’t walked into a retail establishment lately. Even the grocery stores know. It’s Christmas time! Which, if you’re like most people, this holiday season came out of nowhere. Christmas Presents that will get Even …
Welders probably have the biggest badassery level in the world today and gift ideas for welders need to be just as cool. Their job essentially involves fusing steel together, whilst throwing around a tool that shoots fire. You can’t get much cooler than this. Gift Ideas for Welders If you know someone who’s part of …
Ah stocking stuffers – the magical work of Santa Claus. On the off chance you find yourself needing to help Santa out a bit this year, we have compiled every single one of our Stocking Stuffer Ideas into this directory, so you can find just the right thing.
So, you want to make sure your husband gets the gift of his dreams for Christmas, but he hasn’t dropped any hints and you have no clue what to get him. There are so many choices and it all depends on his tastes and what will please him the most as he opens it on …
Boyfriends are great. They are always there for us and protect us. But, when it comes to gifts, sometimes we want to spoil them. So, here are 20 lavish and expensive gifts to get the man in your life. Expensive Christmas Gifts for Your Boyfriend A Rolex Watch Now obviously, this gift is a far …
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Player Banners Explained
We want to thank everyone for their feedback last week on the Season 5 Rewards, and the Player Banners overall. (And thank you for the alternate Reward suggestions, some of which were well-received here at the studio.) Now that the dust has settled on the announcement, we want to take this opportunity to talk about the Banners moving forward, and give you some examples of how Banners are used in the game.
First and foremost, we decided to go with Player Banners for Season 5 Rewards because we wanted to give players the ability to show off their competitive achievements without relying on an Item Customization slot attached to a Preset in the Garage. The Toppers, Rocket Boosts, Wheels, and Trails we created for previous Competitive Season Rewards were well-received by the community, but using that Season Two Star Rocket Boost means you can’t use Boosts from drops, Crates, or Fan Rewards. Player Banners help you display your Ranked chops, while keeping your car’s look exactly how you want it.
Additionally, the Season 5 Reward Player Banners are not mandatory in any way. While everyone who placed in Competitive Playlists will get one or several of these Dragon-themed Player Banners, you do not have to display them on your account. Player Banners are a new Customization Item, so you will have a level of control over the Player Banners as you do Toppers, Wheels, and so on. Along with being able to choose which Player Banner you display (including keeping the ‘Standard’ Banner in place), you’ll also be able to customize the color on some Banners. (See the screenshots below.)
Outside of the S5 Rewards Banners you have already seen, all other Player Banners in the Autumn Update are not aesthetically tied to anything specific. Like the rest of our Customization Items, the Banners are cool, or funny (or both), or have an eye-catching effect like some of our Black Market Decals.
But what do they look like when you’re actually in Rocket League? Up top, you can see our dear friend, the Pigeon, demonstrating how the Player Banner fits into the Goal Replay screen. Below you can see how the Player Banner fits into the Garage Menu UI, and how some Banners have customizable colors.
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The Latest: Israeli teen dies of wounds in West Bank attack
Israeli soldiers secure an area near Dolev settlement in the West Bank, Friday, Aug. 23, 2019, after three Israelis were wounded in an explosion. The Israeli military said it suspects the explosion near Dolev settlement, northwest Jerusalem, to be a Palestinian attack. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Latest on the situation in Israel and the Palestinian territories (all times local):
2:20 p.m.
Israel's national rescue agency says a 17-year-old Israeli girl died of wounds from an explosion in the West Bank earlier in the day that the Israeli military has described as a Palestinian attack.
Initially, three Israelis were said to have been wounded in the blast on Friday near the Dolev settlement, northwest of Jerusalem.
The Israeli rescue agency, known as Magen David Adom, says the girl's 21-year-old brother was in a serious condition. It says their 46-year-old father was moderately wounded.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered condolences to the family and vowed to pursue perpetrators and "strengthen" Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank.
The family was at a water spring when the explosion occurred. It wasn't immediately clear if the explosive device was thrown at them or had been planted there earlier.
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11:30 a.m.
Israeli paramedics say three Israelis have been seriously wounded in an explosion near a West Bank settlement.
The Israeli military says it suspects the explosion on Friday near the Dolev settlement, northwest of Jerusalem, to be a Palestinian attack. There were no further details.
Israel's rescue service, known as Magen David Adom, said the three wounded are between 18 and 46 years old.
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How to Catch an Heiress
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Anthony Carter has not had it easy in life. In a matter of months, he lost his mother to cancer along with his much coveted spot in a prestigious doctoral program. Swimming in debt, he’s been forced to move back to his hometown in rural Montana and take whatever job he can find. A drunken weekend in Vegas is exactly what he needs to help him forget his problems.
A recent break-up with her boyfriend of nearly a decade has left straight-laced Liz Rockwell disillusioned with love and in desperate need of a vacation. She gets more than she bargained for when one drunken night at a Vegas bar results in her being married to Anthony. Embarrassed by her lapse in judgment, Liz is ready to make this whole night just go away. A quickie divorce seems like the best solution to their problem, until Anthony realizes who Liz really is.
Known in the media as the Candy Heiress, billionaire Liz is the answer to Anthony’s prayers. All he has to do is convince her to write him a check. Unfortunately, Liz is not one to be easily intimated or coerced. Discovering the Rockwell family secret may be Anthony’s only hope. But the more time he spends with the intelligent and tenacious Liz, the more he realizes their chapel wedding may not have been such a drunken mistake after all…
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We are midway through the 2015 AFL Season.Games have been won and lost, coaches have been sacked, players have been injured, outed, suspended and retired, and AFL has been a constant feature of the media headlines.
Dees Jumper
Fans have been treated to a round of home and away games unrivalled in excitement, skill and action. Loyalties are tested, disappointments borne, and passions ignited. Many games are
Bombers Football Jumper
closely contested, others not so much so. A diverse cluster of teams are clinging to top spot, embracing the middle rungs, or languishing on the bottom of the AFL ladder.
A constant through all this, balanced precariously on the slippery slope of your teams performance remains the humble footy jumper, jersey, guernsey. This singular piece of clothing is able to galvanise fans, direct loyalty and rouse the most placid of fans to a a fever pitch of excitement, when revealed on game day. Such an iconic part of the Aussie psyche, the humble footy jumper is worn, not only on match day,but all year round.
Cats Vintage Football Jumper
It goes to the beach, the bbq, the school fundraiser, the pub and the footy. Its distinctive colours invite interest from even the most passive of spectators . The AFL footy jumper, jersey, guernsey , its a dead set legend.
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NO. 211. AN ACT RELATING TO PLACING
A SECURITY FREEZE ON A CREDIT REPORT.
(S.267)
It is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State of
Vermont:
Sec. 1. 9 V.S.A. § 2480a is amended to read:
§ 2480a. DEFINITIONS
For
purposes of this subchapter:
* * *
(7) “Security freeze” means a
notice placed in a credit report, at the request of the consumer who is a
victim of identity theft, pursuant to section 2480h of this title.
Sec. 2. 9 V.S.A. § 2480b is
amended to read:
§ 2480b. DISCLOSURES TO
CONSUMERS
* * *
(c) Any time a credit reporting
agency is required to make a written disclosure to consumers pursuant to 15
U.S.C. § 1681g, it shall disclose, in at least 12 point type, and in bold type
as indicated, the following notice:
* * *
(3) If you believe a law
regulating consumer credit reporting has been violated, you may file a
complaint with the Vermont Attorney General’s Consumer Assistance Program, 104
Morrill Hall, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont 05405.
Vermont
Consumers Who Are Victims of Identity Theft
Have the Right to
Obtain a Security Freeze
You may obtain a security freeze
on your credit report at no charge if you are a victim of identity theft and
you submit a copy of a police report, investigative report or complaint you
have filed with a law enforcement agency about unlawful use of your personal
information by another person. You have a right to place a “security
freeze” on your credit report pursuant to 9 V.S.A. § 2480h at no charge
if you are a victim of identity theft. All other Vermont
consumers will pay a fee to the credit reporting agency of up to $10.00 to
place the freeze on their credit report. The security freeze will prohibit
a credit reporting agency from releasing any information in your credit report
without your express authorization. A security freeze must be requested in
writing by certified mail.
The security freeze is designed to help
prevent credit, loans, and services from being approved in your name without
your consent. However, you should be aware that using a security freeze to
take control over who gains access to the personal and financial information in
your credit report may delay, interfere with, or prohibit the timely approval
of any subsequent request or application you make regarding new loans, credit,
mortgage, insurance, government services or payments, rental housing,
employment, investment, license, cellular phone, utilities, digital signature,
internet credit card transaction, or other services, including an extension of
credit at point of sale.
When you place a security freeze on
your credit report, within ten business days you will be provided a personal
identification number or password to use if you choose to remove the freeze on
your credit report or authorize the release of your credit report for a
specific party, parties or period of time after the freeze is in place. To
provide that authorization, you must contact the credit reporting agency and
provide all of the following:
(1) The unique personal
identification number or password provided by the credit reporting agency.
(2) Proper identification to
verify your identity.
(3) The proper information
regarding the third party or parties who are to receive the credit report or
the period of time for which the report shall be available to users of the
credit report.
A credit reporting agency may
charge a fee of up to $5.00 to a consumer who is not a victim of identity theft
to remove the freeze on your credit report or authorize the release of your
credit report for a specific party, parties, or period of time after the freeze
is in place. For a victim of identity theft, there is no charge when the
victim submits a copy of a police report, investigative report, or complaint
filed with a law enforcement agency about unlawful use of the victim’s personal
information by another person.
A credit reporting agency that
receives a request from a consumer to lift temporarily a freeze on a credit
report shall comply with the request no later than three business days after
receiving the request.
A security freeze will not apply
to “preauthorized approvals of credit.” If you want to stop receiving
preauthorized approvals of credit, you should call [INSERT PHONE NUMBERS] [ALSO
INSERT ALL OTHER CONTACT INFORMATION FOR PRESCREENED OFFER OPT OUT.]
A security freeze does not apply to
a person or entity, or its affiliates, or collection agencies acting on behalf
of the person or entity with which you have an existing account that requests
information in your credit report for the purposes of reviewing or collecting
the account, provided you have previously given your consent to this use of
your credit reports. Reviewing the account includes activities related to
account maintenance, monitoring, credit line increases, and account upgrades
and enhancements.
You have a right to bring a civil
action against someone who violates your rights under the credit reporting
laws. The action can be brought against a credit reporting agency or a user of
your credit report.”
Sec. 3. 9 V.S.A. § 2480h(a)
is amended to read:
(a) Any Vermont
consumer may place a security freeze on his or her credit report. A credit
reporting agency shall not charge a fee to victims of identity theft but may
charge a fee of up to $10.00 to all other Vermont consumers for placing and
$5.00 for removing, removing for a specific party or parties, or removing for a
specific period of time after the freeze is in place a security freeze on a
credit report. Aconsumer who has been the victim of identity theft
may place a security freeze on his or her credit report by making a request in
writing by certified mail to a credit reporting agency with a valid copy of a
police report, investigative report, or complaint the consumer has filed with a
law enforcement agency about unlawful use of his or her personal information by
another person. A credit reporting agency shall not charge a fee for
placing, removing, or removing for a specific party or parties a security
freeze on a credit reportAll other Vermont consumers may place a
security freeze on his or her credit report by making a request in writing by
certified mail to a credit reporting agency. A security freeze shall
prohibit, subject to the exceptions in subsection (l) of this section, the
credit reporting agency from releasing the consumer’s credit report or any
information from it without the express authorization of the consumer. When a
security freeze is in place, information from a consumer’s credit report shall
not be released to a third party without prior express authorization from the
consumer. This subsection does not prevent a credit reporting agency from
advising a third party that a security freeze is in effect with respect to the
consumer’s credit report.
Sec. 4. 9 V.S.A. §
2480h(l)(10) is added to read:
(10) Any property and casualty
insurance company for use in setting or adjusting a rate or underwriting for
property and casualty insurance purposes.
Sec. 5. 8 V.S.A.
§ 4704a is added to read:
4704a. RERATING AFTER USE
OF ERRONEOUS CREDIT
INFORMATION
If
it is determined through the reinvestigation process set forth in the federal
Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1681i(a)(5), that credit information
relied upon by an insurer was incorrect, and if an insurer receives notice of
that determination from either the consumer-reporting agency or from the
insured who has provided written documentation from the consumer-reporting
agency, within one year of the date after the insured is no longer a customer
of the insurer, such insurer shall reunderwrite and rerate the consumer within
30 days after receiving the notice. After reunderwriting or rerating the
insured the insurer shall make any adjustments necessary consistent with its
underwriting and rating guidelines. If an insurer determines that the insured
has overpaid the premium the insurer shall refund to the insured the amount of
overpayment. | {
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The last weekend of September the skies of Câmpu Cetăţii is full of colorful hot air balloons. One can fly, or just ”take the elevator” and admire the different IFO-s (identifyed flying objects ): paragliders, motorized gliders, ultraligh planes and helicopters. To fly a hot air ballon, one must comply with strict rules: take-off is permittes exclusively in the morning between seven and ten o
Barn Theatre
The history of theatre in Mikháza dates back to the 17-18th century, when, according to the records, the local religious school’s pupils put on stage mostly liturgical drama, in Latin and Hungarian, with the support of the Franciscan monks. In 2002 a few actors initiated a summer festival, the Barn Theatre, hosted in the beginning in a crowded community centre. Later the event was moved to a new site: a completely rebuilt and enlarged barn. The annual cultural event taking place during summer (June – September) offers to the rural communities of the Niraj Valley living far from the cultural centres a buoyant cultural milieu. Its purpose is to preserve and revive the love and need for culture of the rural communities, to preserve traditions.
Wine fest
If you want to have a look about hungarian traditions, this festival offers a great opportunity. You can see brave young fellows, you can taste great wines and sweet grapes. To dance at the bal is inevitable, but don
Oktoberfest
An autumn agricultural exhibition which has lately become a festival. This is the occasion when local farmers can attend professional lectures about farming, a product exhibition takes place. Freshly draught beer in any quantity! This is why the event has “borrowed” – somewhat audaciously – the name of the famous Bavarian festival: Oktoberfest…
Willage fest Eremitu
It is both a cultural and musical festival, which offers a great opportunity for the people to catch-up. The main concept is to hand our traditions for the upcoming generations.
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Folk Dances and Music Camp
Collectivization did not affect Sâmbriaş, fact that was beneficial for the preservation of the immaterial cultural heritage: folk dances at songs. The folk dance camp organized each year in mid-July Sâmbriaş offers dance and music courses for beginners and advanced, folk pub throughout the night, ethnographical presentations, concerts, workshops for children etc..
Roman festival
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Ok seriously, how are we supposed to search the comments for help that we know has been discussed before if we can't get you a forum for this UI? WoW Interface is doing you a diservice by not getting you one. Do you have the ability to start one of your own? If not let me know, I can have one setup for you in about 30 minutes at a...
Originally posted by Sputter
I wasn't sure how I was going to limp along with Mazzle (still miss the context menu and some things from it). I love that I can update without blowing things up and this is very clean UI.
And for all us die-hard Mazzle fans in here, using the suggested "Daportrait" mod and I am now feeling much mor...
Originally posted by DanielCoffey
drdiesel - to answer this...
If you open the Bongos options, you can Hide Empty Buttons and the highlights
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Bagnon.
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Drdiesel,
Feel free to add in ArcHUD, which is probably as close as you're going to get to the Mazzle HUD. You can also add in Daportrait for the 3D models I believe...same with Baggins. My compilation won't break or not run if you take away or add anything...it might just require that you manually...
Originally posted by Arkive
Drdiesel,
Feel free to add in ArcHUD, which is probably as close as you're going to get to the Mazzle HUD. You can also add in Daportrait for the 3D models I believe...same with Baggins. My compilation won't break or not run if you take away or add anything...it might just require that you manually...
Ok, as much as I like this UI and it's easy of install and lack of errors, I *CAN NOT* do without the Mazzle 3D characters and the HUD is nothing compared to the Mazzle HUD. Anyway to get that HUD back in here instead? The 3D toons is a must have since the main purpose of a UI is to make things more efficient. Having to look and r... | {
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The trend in our culture is toward gaining a pound or two every year. This is one trend that you shouldn't follow. You can easily stop this trend and maintain your weight by cutting a mere 100 calories from your diet each day. If you want to rever
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TriQuint Semiconductor Inc., a leading RF solutions supplier and technology innovator, announced that it has acquired CAP Wireless (Newbury Park, CA) and its patented Spatium™ RF power combining technology that replaces traveling wave tube amplifiers (TWTAs) in communications and defense systems. TriQuint estimates that the TWTA market opportunity will be about $600 million by 2015.
Linear Technology announces the LTC3330, a complete regulating energy harvesting solution that delivers up to 50mA of continuous output current to extend battery life when harvestable energy is available. The LTC3330 requires no supply current from the battery when providing regulated power to the load from harvested energy and only 750nA operating when powered from the battery under no-load conditions.
M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc. (“MACOM”), a leading supplier of high performance RF, microwave, and millimeter wave products, announced a new MMIC power amplifier for high power broadband applications.
Texas Instruments (TI) announced the SimpleLink™ Sub-1 GHz CC1200 transceiver, an extension to TI’s RF performance line family. With leading range, co-existence and data rates up to 1Mbps, the CC1200 is aimed at Sub-1 GHz wireless connectivity for Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and Home Area Networks (HAN) in the smart grid, home and building automation, and alarm and security system applications.
Versatile Power Inc., a technology leader in the design and manufacture of custom electronic subsystems, announces a new partnership with PowerGate LLC to bring enhanced power capabilities to customers in the form of engineered power systems.
GaN power amplifiers are driving demand for increased power handling from supporting passive components, and Marki Microwave is responding with new high power bias tees and baluns. The new high power surface mount baluns (BALH-0003SMG and BALH-0006SMG) have a 37 dBm 1 dB compression point and improved 5 dB insertion loss (2 dB excess).
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Well. A little note. Scyther with Furry cutter and no matter what charge
move is extremely good against Exeguttor (X-scissors is a bug move which so
it’s good against grass, Night slash is dark type move, which works against
psychic). So any Scyther with Furry cutter as quick attack is able to
destroy Exeguttor with ease.
I love your comment about how your own positive attitude is one of the main
reasons why you get positive reviews, because I really agree with that. You
don’t give people a reason to feel negative after watching your videos –
you don’t click-bait, you don’t make up random crap just to sound cool, you
always give credit to others when it’s needed, you show your work, you
don’t insult people, you’re not annoying, etc. So there’s just really
nothing to be negative about.
I get a Scyther in my neighborhood (and sometimes surrounding towns) a few
times a week, at most. It doesn’t sound like a lot, but for the convenience
and rarity of the Pokémon, it’s cool! I have (including an egg hatch or two
– *maybe during the event*) 60 candies!
I have a 97.8% IV (14/15/15) Primeape CP:1,404 that I’ve put a lot of
stardust (80k) into because it has Low Kick and Cross Chop (best DPS move
in the game with STAB), but I feel like it’s not really that effective to
take down gyms. Which specific gym defender should I be battling it with?
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Key events involving Yahoo and its performance
FILE- In this Monday, Dec. 7, 2009, file photo, Marissa Mayer, VP of Search Products and User Experience for Google, speaks in Mountain View, Calif. Yahoo announced Monday, July 16, 2012, it is hiring Mayer to be its next CEO, the fifth in five years as the company struggles to rebound from years of financial malaise and internal turmoil. Mayer, who starts at Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday, July 17, 2012, was one of Google’s earliest employees and was most recently responsible for its mapping, local and location services. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)
— AP
FILE- In this Monday, Dec. 7, 2009, file photo, Marissa Mayer, VP of Search Products and User Experience for Google, speaks in Mountain View, Calif. Yahoo announced Monday, July 16, 2012, it is hiring Mayer to be its next CEO, the fifth in five years as the company struggles to rebound from years of financial malaise and internal turmoil. Mayer, who starts at Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday, July 17, 2012, was one of Google’s earliest employees and was most recently responsible for its mapping, local and location services. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)
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On Monday, Yahoo named longtime Google executive Marissa Mayer as its fifth CEO in as many years. She'll be the latest person to attempt a turnaround at the struggling Internet pioneer. Here are some key developments involving Yahoo Inc. and its performance:
Nov. 17, 2008: Yahoo Inc. says co-founder Jerry Yang will step down as CEO as soon as a replacement is found. It ends a rocky reign marked by Yang's refusal to sell the Internet company to Microsoft Corp. for $47.5 billion, or $33 per share, in May 2008. Yahoo's board had been facing pressure to push him out as its stock plunged to its lowest levels since early 2003 and well below Microsoft's last offer price.
Jan. 13, 2009: Yahoo names technology veteran Carol Bartz as its new chief executive, bringing in a no-nonsense leader known for developing a clear focus.
Feb. 26: Yahoo announces a management shake-up. Chief Financial Officer Blake Jorgensen is pushed out, while Yahoo's chief technology officer and its top advertising executive in the United States get expanded duties.
April 21: Yahoo announces plans to cut nearly 700 jobs, or about 5 percent of its workforce.
June 3: At an investors conference, Bartz says a turnaround will take time. She also plays down talk of turning over Yahoo's search operations to Microsoft.
June 11: Yahoo hires a cost-cutting specialist, Tim Morse, as its new chief financial officer.
June 25: At a shareholders meeting, Bartz seeks to assure investors that she will polish Yahoo's tarnished brand and end a three-year financial funk that has depressed the company's stock.
July 29: Microsoft and Yahoo announce a 10-year search deal. Yahoo turns over responsibility for search technology to Microsoft, while Yahoo concentrates on sales of billboard-style advertising on the Web.
Feb. 18, 2010: Regulators in the U.S. and Europe approve the search partnership.
March 2: In pleading for patience, Bartz points to the years it took Steve Jobs to revive Apple Inc. after his return in 1997.
Oct. 7: Yahoo rolls out new tools to get people to the information they seek more quickly, especially when searching about entertainment, sports and major events. The hope is to distinguish itself from its Internet search partner, Microsoft, because Yahoo gets a cut of ad revenue when searches are done on its own site.
Dec. 16: Word leaks of services that Yahoo is thinking of shutting down, days after it shed 600 employees, or about 4 percent of its workforce.
May 10, 2011: Yahoo makes a surprise disclosure that Alibaba Group, one of China's most powerful Internet companies, had spun off its online payment service, Alipay. The split causes investors to re-evaluate the value of Yahoo's then-43 percent stake in Alibaba.
June 23: Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock seeks to defuse speculation about Bartz's job security at Yahoo's annual shareholders meeting, only to have it ignited again at the end of the session by an exasperated investor.
Sept. 6: Yahoo fires Bartz after less than three years on the job. Morse, the chief financial officer whom Bartz lured from chip-maker Altera Corp., is named interim CEO. | {
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011
9/11 Suffering
2 comments:
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We have heard that a key issue of the terrorists is the Palestinian refugees of 1948-67, but WE are guilty when we do not answer their specious claims by reminding them that the Moslem world concurrently almost emptied all the Jews 1948-67 out of the Moslem world. The Jews don't whine and carry on about it;those Arab Jews now constitute more than half of Israel's present population.How about their rights?
@anonymousYour comment gives the impression that Jews were forced out of Muslim world en masse, which is not true. First of all, there was no sizable population of Jews in the Muslim world. They were an insignificant minority. As everywhere in the world, there may have been incidents of harassment of minorities. But this was not the reason for their migration. Majority of Jews in Israel are of European or American descent. Were they too forced out of America and Europe? No! The American Tax payers’ money is given as aid to Israel which in turn is used as an incentive to Jews who migrate to Israel (a land robbed from the Palestinians). This is the reason for their migration from all over the world including the Muslim world. | {
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I'm kinda curious what the new Vette is gonna look like. I'm sure there are others out here too
Hendrick to appear on CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood Jan 20th: CBS News correspondent Lee Cowan gets a sneak peek at of Chevrolet's totally redesigned 2014 Corvette Stingray and talks with NASCAR team owner and Corvette collector Rick Hendrick about the prized vehicles this weekend on CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood. "The Corvette was just the ultimate car," Hendrick tells Cowan. "I mean, it was you had the styling, the power, all the girls liked them." Timed to the car's 60th birthday, Chevrolet has redesigned the vehicle for 2014 and brought back the legendary Stingray name. Hendrick, a top NASCAR team owner, has one of the largest private Corvette collections in the world, with nearly 150 in his stable. He said he met his wife, Linda, while driving a Stingray. Hendrick, a Chevy dealer, can't wait to get his hands on one of the new Corvettes, Cowan reports. "I think this car will probably be one of the most sought-after cars that we've seen in a long time," Hendrick tells Cowan. Cowan's report on the new Corvette is scheduled to be broadcast Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013 on CBS Sunday morning at 9:00am/et on the CBS Television Network.
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New Midstream Company Formed
Palmilla Energy LLC, a Houston-based company, has announced its formation to manage and develop midstream assets. Palmilla is backed by funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management, L.P.
Palmilla provides a full suite of midstream and marketing services to oil and gas producers throughout the United States and is led by seasoned energy executive Rich DiMichele, who formerly ran the midstream efforts for both Petrohawk Energy and Halcón Resources. While at Petrohawk Energy and Halcón Resources, DiMichele oversaw the development and ultimate sale of over $2 billion of midstream assets. Other Palmilla executives include Travis Boeker as EVP- Commercial and Business Development, Scott Grahmann as EVP-Accounting, Finance and Administration and David Wright as EVP-Operations and Construction. The combined management team has over 60 years of energy-related experience and has been involved in the development, acquisition, operations, turnarounds and divestitures of numerous energy assets and companies.
“I’m excited about the prospects we’re seeing in our industry right now. Alongside Oaktree’s expertise, we’ve put together a team at Palmilla that can capitalize on the opportunities the energy cycle currently presents,” said DiMichele. “The key is to execute win-win deals for us and our customers. One of the things that differentiates us is that we’ve proven we can create tremendous value for stakeholders on both sides of the table.”
Initially, Palmilla will manage the Wildcat Caddo system owned by Highstar IV, a fund managed by Oaktree, in northwest Louisiana.
“Producers in northwest Louisiana seem to be increasing their activity, and we think that a recently constructed cryogenic processing plant and gathering system, in the core of the Cotton Valley can add tremendous value to those producers,” said Boeker. “Having an unlevered asset with a strong financial partner in Oaktree creates the flexibility to enter into successful deals that work both right now and when gas and NGL prices recover. We’re very excited about the prospects for Wildcat Caddo.” | {
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Hello everyone. I've updated the Character Index with all the XP from freebuilds and the last contest. Please look it over and tell me if you see any errors. This is the info we'll use to set-up SoNE 2.0.
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The long awaited "Factions" game, our replace for SoNE, is almost over! To be ready for the final stages of transition we are freezing all SoNE entries. This includes all Freebuilds, BH Missions, and any other build that would earn XP.
We will finish up scoring the remaining MOCs and tally things up to be ready for Factions. All existing XP will be rolling over, so if you've played SoNE for awhile it will pay off!
In the mean time, please keep building! There won't be the same kind of build limits in Factions so you'll be able to post more MOCs without worrying about limits. You will also be able to earn up to 50 XP for each MOC instead of just 5. So build now and you'll be better prepared to earn tons of XP once the game launches! | {
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LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif. – (February 24, 2015) – On Thursday, February 19, 2015, Orange County Sheriff’s Department investigators arrested Raymond Newton Baker, 72, Laguna Niguel, following a three week investigation into allegations he sexually assaulted a victim under the guise he was training her to use a medical device.
The Special Victims Unit began an investigation in early February after the 29 year-old female victim reported to Orange County Sheriff’s deputies that Baker sexually assaulted her several times over a three month period. The victim alleged, “Ray Baker,” owner of Beautiful Image LLC located at 30012 Ivy Glenn, Suite 220, Laguna Niguel, sexually assaulted her under the guise he was training her to use the “soon-to-be-patented” cosmetic “Micro Current” device. Baker claimed to the victim the device was designed to reduce age lines, cellulite and promote weight loss.
The victim met Baker after answering a Craigslist job advertisement for the opening of a second spa in Fashion Island, Newport Beach. Baker paid the victim for each training period and later indicated he had changed the business name to “Bio Nova LLC.”
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Rock-it Radio since 1995 providing 50s and early 60s Rock and Roll, Doo Wop and Rockabilly music online! Come tune us in at http://www.rockitradio.net
We also have several 100 original radio shows from the first decade of Rock and Roll at: http://www.rockitradio.net/store.html
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We have a pretty large newsletter and featuring the playlists of more shows then I think we ever have done before. A total of 18 shows in this newsletter! We have some thank you's for peoplekind enough to donate to Rock-it Radio sinceour last newsletter. Good news as Internet radioTop Sites is listing Rock-it Radio as #1. Anda letter we received from Ebay to step it up orthreaten to loose our online store. So, Let's get started with some playlists!
============================================REMEMBER YOU CAN ORDER ANY OF THESE ROCK-IT RADIO SHOWS ON CD!!!! NEW EASIER ORDERING!
Would you like one of these Rock-it Radio shows on CD? Tobe able to play anywhere? And help support Rock-it Radio at the same time. For complete information check out our programordering webpage at: http://www.rockitradio.net/order.html
Our shows are of course copies straight from the studio so they are studio quality and satisfaction is guaranteed.Or if you would rather receive an invoice let me know and wecan e mail you a copy - Just e mail us the show(s) you would liketo have and the Rock-it # to: [email protected]
==============================================All Rock-it Radio shows stay online from 18 to 24 days and arebroadcast in MP3 Format. To tune in just click to the speakerat our program page at: http://www.rockitradio.net/programs.html
The newest show added replaces the oldest show so if you see ashow near the bottom of the listing - you should listen as soon aspossible.
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Rock-it Radio is 100% Publicly supported. But when youdonate to the Rock-it Radio Launching Pad - we give youa vintage broadcast of your choice. 100% of all sales from the Rock-it Radio Store (LaunchingPad) goes back to pay copyright fees, LLC taxes, Internetand bandwidth costs of Rock-it Radio. Without your supportwe would not exist. So. please consider a purchase at:http://www.rockitradio.net/store.html
===============================================NOTE: ALL SHOWS BELOW CAN BE FOUND IN OUR PROGRAM WEBPAGE - TO TUNE IN CLICK TO SPEAKER OF THE SHOW YOU WANT TO LISTEN TO. EITHER MP3 OR REAL PLAYER. BOTH FORMATS ARE SUPPORTED.AT: HTTP://WWW.ROCKITRADIO.NET/PROGRAMS.HTML
==============================================BILL GREEN AND THE ROCK AND ROLL RETROSPECTIVEON ROCK-IT RADIO SHOW #5630PART II OF CLINKING PIANOS.
The repetitive pressing of the piano keys in time with the beat, the clinking piano, was a musical technique completely unique to Rock 'n Roll. On this edition of Rock 'n Roll Retrospective host Bill Green shines the spotlight on this overlooked device. All the songs on this two part feature come from the Sixties(part 1 featured Fifties tunes). Hop on board and listen to an amazing variety of clinking piano tunes presented in chronological order.
===============================================BILLY VERA'S ROCK AND ROLL PARTY WITH A SPOTLIGHTON 1953 ON ROCK-IT RADIO SHOW #5631
This week's Billy Vera's Rock'n'Roll Party features songs from November, 1953, the era prior to when the music became rock'n'roll. Fans will recognize some of the more famous names like the Drifters, Louis Jordan, the Clovers, Dinah Washington and B.B. King. Those of you newer to the music will thrill to lesser known stars of the period like Percy Mayfield, Floyd Dixon and the great and neglected Annie Laurie.
===============================================LANE QUIGLEY AND THE MEMORY LANE SHOW ON ROCK-ITRADIO SHOW #5632
What starts out hot and fast, and ends cool and slow? The playlist for the latest Memory Lane Show, of course. Host Lane Quigley delivers a simmering stew of tasty sides from the Glory Days of the 45 RPM, mixed in with some fascinating interview clips and a chance for you to guess this week's Mystery Artist. Don't miss it, just go to the Rock-it Radio Program Page and click on Show #5632.
Cool Bobby B is back in this newsletter with another3 hour extavaganza of Doo Wop Rock and Roll from the first decade of Rock nad Roll! Here is the playlistof what you will hear when you select his show in ourprogram page.
Hour #1
1. Rockin' with the clock - Shirley and Lee2. Mexico - The Rocketones3. True Love - The Drifters4. Some kind of wonderful - The Drifters5. My love for you - Little Isidore & Inquisitors6. Memories of days gone by - 5 Satins7. Most of the pretty young girls - Upfronts8. Dee I - The Rocketones9. It ain't Nuttin' - Little Isidore & Inquisitors10. I said a prayer - Kid Kyle11. There's a moon out tonight - The Capris12. There goes the boy - The Lydells13. Walking the Streets alone - Love Letters14. Please say you want me - The Schoolboys15. Darling Little Angel - The Interiors16. Walking along - The Solitaires17. Pretty Little Angel Eyes - Curtis Lee18. Under the moon of love - Curtis Lee
37. 11th hour melody - the Rivieras38. Moonlight Cocktails - The Rivieras39. Tears on my pillow - The Imperials40. Two people in the world - The Imperials41. Tear Drops - Lee Andrews & Hearts42. Try the impossible - Lee Andrews & Hearts43. I've Had it - Lee Andrews & Hearts44. For your precious love - Garnett Mimms & Enchanters45. Dream On - 5 Keys46. Last night I dreamed - The Fiestas47. Darling how long - The Heartbeats48. Strange Love - The Native Boys49. Forever - Vidaltones50. Since I don't have you - The Skyliners51. Because of love - Dreamers52. I want her to love me - Larks53. Tonight - The Velvets54. Take me as I am - The Demans55. Goodnight Baby - Imaginations
===============================================JAMES RILEY AND THE ROCKABILLY AND BLUES SHOW ONROCK-IT RADIO SHOW #5634
Jammin James Riley is back with the Rockabilly and Blues Show on Rock-it Radio -
Rockabilly N Blues Radio Hour #1:
Chris Isaak joins us this week! We chat about his new album- First Comes The Night, playing with Dick Dale, his mirrored suit, Jerry Lee Lewis' influence, playing Nashville and more! We also hear tunes from Janis Martin, Dale Watson, Danny B. Harvey & Annie Marie Lewis and more!
Rockabilly N Blues Radio Hour #2:Nashville Boogie Vintage Weekender is our theme this week. We hear tunes from artists performing at the festival happening in May. We also chat with festival owner, Jason Galaz.
===============================================TREVOR HYLAND ROCK AND ROLL DANCE PARTY ROCKABILLYSHOW ON ROCK-IT RADIO SHOW #5635
From his studios in Bendigo, Victoria Australiaa show titled " Rockin' It Out ". with music that will get you movin' from The Rockabilly Revival in Britain. We actually have2 shows of Trevor's in this newsletter - make sure tocheck out show #5646 as well in a Pre Viva Las VegasSpecial.
===============================================PAPA WALT OLDIES SHOW WITH 'THIS AND THAT' ONROCK-IT RADIO SHOW #5637
Sometimes it's interesting to experience a little bit of this and a little bit of that. This edition of the Oldies Show is spinning twenty five "this and that' tunes whose titles offer intriguing bookends to the grammatical coordinating conjunction 'and'.
The Doo Wop Meteorologist DJ Pete Chaston is backthis week with another Doo Wop 50s and early 60sRock Show here exclusively from Rock-it Radio.Group Harmony Doo Wop Rock and Roll is still aliveand here is Pete to prove it! Here is the playlist.
===============================================OTTO FUCHS AND THE ROCKIN THE JOINT SHOW WITH ATRIBUTE TO JERRY LEE LEWIS ON ROCK-IT SHOW #5639
Saluting the Last Man Standing of The Million Dollar Quartet, which consisted of SUN Recording Artists Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis. A career that spans 5 Decades, and is still going strong - a musical journey to one of America's greatest living Legends - Jerry Lee Lewis.
===============================================ROCKIN DADDY O'S ROCKABILLY RANCH PARTY ONROCK-IT RADIO SHOW #5640
The Daddy O is back this week playing some music from the hottest Rockabilly bands out there today!And some great rockin' oldies as well. In the month of April we will be giving away the entire month a program of great rockin' instrumentalsfor those that support Rock-it Radio. More on that further down in the newsletter for now, check outthe playlist for this show!
===============================================DAVE THE RAVE AND THE RELICS AND RARITES SHOWON ROCK-IT RADIO SHOW #5641
Do you love the rarities of 60s Rock and Roll? Then this is the show to tune into! Dave featuresforgotten or lost or strayed releases of 60s Rock& Roll. From Psychadellic to Bubble Gum to just goodold Rock and Roll !!!
Congratulations also to Dave as today marks his3rd Anniversary of having the Relics and Rarities air right here on Rock-it Radio!
===============================================DJ SPINNING ROCK BOOGIE AND THE MOVIN' AND GROOVIN'SHOW ON ROCK-IT RADIO #5642 ROCKERS FROM ARIZONAAND NEW MEXICO PT. 2
Join DJ Spinning Rock Boogie for another in his series "Regional Round Up" that features a State or States of Americawith some of the record labels from out of that State(s), the Towns and Cities where those labels were situated, and ofcourse the artists who recorded on them.This show features the States of 'Arizona' and 'New Mexico Pt 2', with rock and roll and rockabilly from the 1950's and 1960's,including his regular feature, 'The Smooch Spot'. So climb aboard the Rocket, strap yourselves in and journey to the States of 'Arizona' and 'New Mexico' for some more rip roaring rock and roll with Spinning Rock Boogie.
34. To be loved - The Pentagons33. Every day of the week - The Students32. Glory of love - 5 Keys32. (tie) Glory of love - The Velvetones31. 16 Candles - The Crests30. He's Gone - the Chantels29. Since I don't have you - The Skyliners28. I'm so happy - Lewis Lymon & Teenchords27. Shadows - 5 Satins26. Just to be with you - The Passions25. Tear Drops - Lee Andrews & Hearts24. Rainy Day Bells - Globetrotters23. Life is but a dream - Harptones23. (tie) Life is but a dream - The Earls22. Walking along - The Solitaires21. Maybe - The Chantels20. Honey Honey - Lewis Lymon & Teenchords19. Looking for an echo - Kenny Vance & Planotones18. You belong to me - The Duprees
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extra. 11th hour melody - The Rivieras17. That's the way it goes - Harptones16. I'm so young - The Students15. Don't ask me to be lonely - The Dubs14. The closer you are - The Channels13. I only have eyes for you - the Flamingos12. My true story - Jive Five11. There's a moon out tonight - The Capris10. never le tyou go - The 5 Discs9. The Lion Sleeps tonight - The Tokens8. Remember then - The Earls7. Tell me why - Norman Fox & Robroys6. crying in the chapel - The Orioles5. Devil or Angel - The Clovers4. Sunday kind of love - The Harptones3. Morse Code of love - The Capris2. Earth Angel - The Penguins1. In the Still of the night - 5 Satinsclosing - Goodnight baby - The Imaginations
===============================================FLASHBACK: RICK WARD'S OLDIES SHOW ON ROCK-ITRADIO SHOW #5644 ON ROCK-IT RADIO.
Another Best of Broadcast as we dig deep into theRock-it Radio Archives as we hold nearly all 5500+Radio Shows of Rock-it Radio. Rick Ward besidesbeing producer for Wolfman Jack, Was a Icon DJ himselfin Southern California and beyond. We were blessedto have him here at Rock-it Radio and we dug outthis show from 2008. If you didn't catch him then youcan now from tuning into Show #5628 on Rock-it Radio'sProgram page. Sorry No playlist is available.
===============================================JACKIE BOND AND LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL OLDIES SHOW ON ROCK-IT RADIO SHOW #5645
From the UK Jackie is back with another rockin' setof 50s and early 60s Rockers that are sure to keepyour feet stompin! Here is the playlist of hisshow.
1. Something Moves Me - The Five Royales2. First Name Initial - Annette Funicello3. Birth Of the Boogie - Bill Haley And The Comets4. Reminiscing - Buddy Holly5. Need Your Love - The Flamingos6. I Can't Believe - Dino And The Diplomats7. Pretty Little Girl - Eddie And The Starlites8. Wouldn't It Be Going Steady - The Singing Roulettes9. Goddess Of Love - Lee Mareno And The Regents10. Watch My Signals - Bullmoose Jackson11. Car Trouble - The Eligibles12. Hot Cross Buns - Paul Gayten13. Let's You And I Go Steady - The Pearls14. Where Wuz You - The Four Preps15. Two Kinds Of People - Little Anthony And The Imperials16. Darline - Ray Frazier And The Blenders17. Tain't What You Say - Little Esther18. Lonely Teenager - Dion19. To Make A Long Story Short - Eddie And The Starlites20. Flat Top - Rockabilly 8821. Not Like Me - The Lincolns22. My Jealous One - The Edsels23. My Little Martian - Floyd Robinson24. Teardrops Follow Me -The Del Satins25. Good Night My Love - Jesse Belvin
===============================================TREVOR HYLAND'S ROCK AND ROLL DANCE PARTY ONROCK-IT RADIO SHOW #5646
In this show Trevor has put together a show about Helen Baily also known as ( Cherry Divine ) and her U.S. rockabilly lady influences. A fun girl. Helen and her Bass playing husband are off to Europe & Viva Las Vegas. She retired from her day job. Helen hails from Melbourne and all ready for Viva Las Vegas.Make sure to check her act out and this show if you are going to be there. We are posting a couple of great pictures of her in the Rock-it Radio Facebook page at:http://www.facebook.com/rockitface
"Rockin' It Out" from Trev's studios in Bendigo Australia. with music that will get you movin' from the beautiful Helen Bailey from Cherry Divine,plus hot tracks from rockin' ladies who have inspired her.
===============================================LANE QUIGLEY MEMORY LANE SHOW - PART I OF THE CLASS OF 1966 TRIBUTE ON SHOW #5647
It's time again for the annual Memory Lane Show 50 Year Reunion Program on RockitRadio. For the next 5 weeks, host Lane Quigley will spin back the clock to feature the music, pop culture and news that provided the backdrop for the final semester of the graduating class of 1966. Over the course of the program, you'll hear over 100 songs from your senior year, plus dozens of interview clips. You'll also hear a handful of commercials, TV themes and radio jingles that were on the air 50 years ago. So come along and celebrate with the graduates on part one of the Memory Lane Show 50 Year Reunion Program for the Class of 1966.
Congratulations and let me know what you would like to have along with a mailing address and we will got those items out to you. Just our way of saying Thank you for helping support Rock-it Radio. And of course we will have October drawings as well at the first week of next month.
FREE ROCKIN DADDY O SHOW CD TO THOSE THAT PURCHASEFROM ROCK-IT RADIO IN APRIL. ROCKINEST INSTRUMENTALS!
Rock-it Radio continues to giveaway CD's for APRILfor orders received this entire month. This month's giveaway comes from Rockin' Daddy O host of the RockabillyRanch Party and the Atomic Doo Wop Dance Party. This show features some rare and greatest Rockin Instrumentals. But you will only be able to receive and hear thisshow by on this CD that you will receive with your orderin the month of April.
All you have to do is support and order something from Rock-it Radio at the following sites.
All you have to do is support and order something from Rock-it Radio at the following sites.
TWO NEW VINTAGE RADIO SHOWS ARE ADDED TO THEEBAY STORE AND THE LAUNCHING PAD OF ROCK-IT RADIO.
We have added two more vintage Rock Radio Broadcastsin the Rock-it Radio Launching Pad, our mail order catalog and our Ebay Store...
#1 Catalog RIR #643 - DJ Ted Quillin on KRLA Los Angelesfrom 10/31/1981. Former Rock-it Radio DJ the Late TedQuillin returns on a special 20 year reunion show playingthe songs he did back in 1961 for KRLA and talking of his experiences.http://www.ebay.com/itm/131737461774
#2 Catalog RIR #644 - DJ Dan Ingram from WABC New York Cityfrom 6/12/1964. The Summer of '64 with one of New York's favoriteDJ's spinning the hits.http://www.ebay.com/itm/141914472858
NEW FLASHDRIVE RELEASE OF OUR 50 LATEST SHOWS ON MP3.We have just released our 4th flashdrive featuringRock-it Radio shows #5551 to #5600. Over 70 hoursof oldies Rock and Roll. To order these shows on CD would be $9.50 per show. So quite a savings andmuch more oldies music and choices with 50 shows and70 hours of oldies for $39.95. You can view the selectionin our flashdrive page at http://www.rockitradio.net/flashdrive.htmlor you can view it in our Ebay store as:http://www.ebay.com/itm/141918878892100% of all sales of these flashdrives goes to keepingRock-it Radio online and Rockin'!!!!
The last few newsletters we have been reporting ourdeclining sales at Rock-it Radio. Last week we receivedan e mail from Ebay stating that if we don't improve byApril 20th a $1000 a month minimum that we could looseour store. We have already been downgraded last month.Those that can we kindly ask that you shop at the Rock-it Radio Ebay Store at:http://stores.ebay.com/Rock-it-Radio-Store
Below is the letter we received.
Hello rockitradionet,
We've evaluated the status of your eBay Store again, and you still don't meet the minimum requirements for your store level. As a result, we lowered your store subscription from Anchor Store to Basic Store. Your fees will change and all of your Good 'Til Cancelled listings will renew at the pricing for a Basic Store. Also, your bundled subscription discounts, such as Selling Manager Pro, may be affected.We will re evaluate your store in 30 days and if the minimum is not upgraded you could loose your store priviledgesand benefits on Ebay.
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RECRUITING FOR RADIO PERSONALITIES FOR ROCK-IT RADIO
Do you know your 50s and 60s Rock & Roll, Doo wopor Rockabilly? And the ability to produce a show on CD? We do require a playlist for this newsletter but your show will stay online for the world for approx.3 weeks. Unlike some stations where you broadcast onetime and it's gone forever. If interested check out our Rock-it Radio Team pageat: http://www.rockitradio.net/team.html
We are also looking for writers and translators!
================================================== 3RD ROCK-IT RADIO FLASHDRIVE IS NOW RELEASED FORSALE - FOR ROCK-IT SHOWS #5501 TO #5550
New Release!!!! Rock-it Radio Shows #5501 to #5550 on Flash drive MP3 - 70 hours of 50s and 60s Rock and Roll now on Flashdrive. Just plug into your usb port in your pc or if your mp3 player has it in that usb port select and you will have 50 Rock-it Radio shows at your disposal. In our Ebay listing at:http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=141878689592
It really is a great savings from our CD's thatwe sell for $9.50 each could add up to $475 for 50 shows.We are offering the flashdrive to slash that amount to just$39.95.
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We are re listing 3 shows that have not been in our Ebay store for sometime. But we thought we would re list them today. Especially since today marks the 50th anniversary of The Vietnam War, we have a special broadcast of Pat Sajack (before the wheel of Fortune) when he was serving and DJing on AFVN (Armed Forces Vietnam Network). Serving and spinning Top 40 Songs to Military serving in Vietnam. Those that know the Movie with Robin Williams "Good Morning Vietnam" - it's that station! you can view the playlist of that show at: http://www.ebay.com/itm/141943972346
Also, come relive New Year's Eve 1967 with BBC Radio 1 Top Gear Show with DJ John Peel.
John Peel was one of the most fascinating 60s DJ's in the UK! Equivalent in popularity to the United States Wolfman Jack. He also introduced much of the 60s Psychadelic Rock to the UK. In our catalog these shows are listed as RIR #342 and RIR #343 you really get your monies worth because both items are a 2 CD set! Click to the link to see the playlists.
Sales of these items along with all items in our Launching Pad site of Rock-it Radio go to supporting Rock-it Radio and pay for licensing and online and broadcasting fees. We thank you for your continued support.
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ROCK-IT RADIO RETAKES #1 INTERNET RADIO STATION
With the excellent showing of DJ's and the talentthat they show and the music that they play at Rock-it Radio - We are happy to report that Rock-itRadio has regained the #1 position of most listenedto radio station over the internet according to Top Internet Radio Stations.
In an idea to cut back a little we found ourselvesasking ... this question?? Does anyone still listento Rock-it Radio using Real Media program or player?If you do please let us know and e mail us at:[email protected]
When Rock-it Radio first began streaming it was overthen called Real Player. It was the leader of streamingaudio at the time but that was back in the mid 90s. If we get enough response to listeners that listen stillusing this medium we will gladly keep it going. Otherwiseit will probably see the chopping block in the next fewweeks.
=====================================================STREEMA.COM PICKS UP AUDIO FEED OF ROCK-IT RADIO
Another way to tune into Rock-it Radio on your computer is now with Streema's audio feed of ourstation that picked up Rock-it Radio.
We all love our our e mails from listeners here at Rock-it Radio. Along with requests and dedications. Earlier this yeardue to the excessive spam we all were getting I stopped listingthe e mails at each shows playlist. But you can still contact them. Just go to the Rock-it Radio DJ page and eachDJ has there e mail link underneath each bio.You can find it at: http://www.rockitradio.net/dj.html
COLLECTING AIRCHECKS - A HOBBY OF RADIO NOSTALGIAWhat is a Aircheck? It is simply a recording of a radio broadcast. Usually collected by Radio fans. Come check out our webpage on collecting Airchecks.
In the mid 1960s it was difficult for the youth to actually listen to Rock and Roll in the UK. The BBC actually ran only a few hours a weekend to provide the young Brits with this outlet. At night during the week they ventured to even tune into Radio Luxembourg to get there fill, that broadcast rock and pop around the clock. To fill this void some venture capitalists decided to bring in commercial radio aboard refitted radio ships. And anchor themselves just off into International waters off the English coast. Radio Caroline (named after Caroline Kennedy the U.S. President's daughter at the time) and Radio London being the most famous. Rock-it Radio has a website dedicated to their ventures and also have actual radio broadcasts available of these offshore pirates. We invite you to check them out our webpage at:http://www.rockitradio.net/pirate.html
FINDING ROCK-IT RADIO ON THE 'TUNE IN RADIO' CELL PHONE APP.We have had a few requests from listeners that they couldn't find us on the popular 'Tune in Radio' App. on Android and PC and iphones. Running a search of 'Rock-it Radio' will actually list 100s of Rock stations. So, the best way to find us on this very thorough and extensive app. that I love using myself is -run a search on 'rockabilly' - there you will easily find Rock-it Radio listed. Our Tune in Radio App. webpage is also at:http://tunein.com/station/?stationId=41878
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A big welcome to the below new Rock-it Radio listeners thatjoined our Listeners Club from April 2, 2016 to April 13, 2016We hope that you enjoy the music Rock-it Radio provides and our playlists and information that our weekly newsletter provides. Any comments, criticisms, kudos, compliments or future ideas is always welcome and you can e mail me personally at: [email protected]
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We have added a total of 164 new members to the Rock-it RadioListeners Club since our last newsletter. We now have 86,325 exactly that have joined the Rock-it Radio Listeners club.We hope that you enjoy the rare 50's and early 60's Rock and Roll, Rockabilly and Doo Wop (which most commercial oldies radio stations have forgotten) that we are able to play for you from Rock-it Radio. Remember, we are here for you!
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Tongeak is an obedient, clean, good looking Labrador. His owner, Khun Jum, is very proud of him since he is so nice, always listens to her and never causes any trouble for her.
When Tongeak was about 3 years old, he couldn’t walk properly all of the sudden. He had to limp on three legs with troubling left front leg. Khun Jum noticed the abnormality, so she took him to see a veterinarian. The vet diagnosed that he had osteoarthritis on the left front shoulder and that he would immediately require an operation to remove all cartilages and let the body create new muscles. Khun Jum was undoubtedly shocked.
Moreover, the vet also found that there was some infection in his synovial fluid eating away the head of the bone, which would cause some delay of the operation procedure. Tongeak needed to take antibiotic to kill all those bacteria first. If not, they will keep eating all the bones, and things would get much worse. During 6-month of taking antibiotic, the vet found that the muscle in that leg was almost gone. He had to have operation very soon. The vet also informed that even the operation was successful, there was a high possibility that the leg would not heal back and Tongeak had to walk with 3 legs for his life. He suggested that swimming would be the best rehabilitation method since there would be no weight pressure putting on the operated leg and would not cause any further complication to the case.
After the operation for about 2 months, the wound was healed. Khun Jum was searching for a place where Tongeak could swim for rehab. She got to know Khun Pup who recently opened a dog training school, Doggie Doo, which was not far from her house. At that time, swimming pool was still under construction. Khun Pup allow Tongeak to swim as soons as the pool completed. That was when Tongeak got started swimming. At first, he would swim about 15 minutes a day, 2-3 times a week. After a while, he got better then Khun Jum increased the time to 30 minutes and to an hour.
Tongeak has been continually swimming at Doggie Doo right after operation since he was almost 4 years old. Now he is 11. Within these 7 years, it was around the 5th year that Tongeak could walk and run with 4 legs like any typical dog. It is a miracle that surprises everyone from the vet, Khun Jum, and trainers since they all expected that he wouldn’t walk properly for life.
Khun Jum said that after long service with this place, Doggie Doo has been taking care of Tongeak like its own children. All the staffs and Khun Pup always treat every dog very well and remember all their names and personalities. It is like Doggie Doo was founded from their deep hearts not for commercial purpose.
Even today (2012), Khun Jum still takes Tongeak swimming at Doggie Doo consistently at least for an hour once a week. Tongeak becomes physically and mentally stronger like a different dog from several years ago. He is even considered strong compared with the dogs in his ages. This is the biggest reward coming from swimming at Doggie Doo.
Lastly, Khun Jum would like to leave a tip for dog owners out there that exercise is very important for all dogs no matter they are healthy or sick. The exercise contributes to the dogs’ great physical and mental heaths, which make them live longer and stay with us for a long time. | {
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Other air assets taking part in this first day : 6 French Boeing C135 (Bretagne squadron) and 1 E-3F from Istres and Avor Air bases.
EA-18G Growler with their 2 ALQ-99 jaming pods ready to take off
American EA-18G Growler have also been seen on an Italian Air base and will take part in the SEAD operations.
At 05h45PM, the French MoD revealed that one of those fighters shot at a military Libyan vehicule.
Edit 1 : Qatar TV, Al Jazzeera is reporting that at least 4 Libyan tanks would have been detroyed by French fighters.
Edit 2 : It is now confirmed that a Rafale B from the Gascogne squadron has attaked a Libyan tank column with its AASM bombs detroying 4 of them.
French fighters engaged in the first stage of the operations over Libya
Source: Press conference of the French defense Ministry.BBC News
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If hurricanes are caused by mankind, then why are there hurricanes on Saturn?
There are even hurricanes on other planets, including a giant 1250-mile-wide hurricane on Saturn (see NASA photo below). According to Hillary Clinton and the mindless, scientifically illiterate democrats, all hurricanes are caused by mankind, including hurricanes on other planets where no man has ever set foot. How humans have managed to cause hurricanes on Saturn is never quite explains by “scientists” on CNN, for some reason… maybe because the very idea is stupid beyond belief.
According to democrats, I suppose, carbon dioxide also must be a time traveling greenhouse gas because, apparently, present-day CO2 had to have traveling back in time to cause hurricanes for the last million years or so (yeah, there were hurricanes a million year ago). It’s not just CO2 we have to worry about, you see, it’s that damned time-traveling CO2 that really screws things up!
Here’s a photo of a giant hurricane on Saturn. If you want to stop this hurricane, you’re apparently supposed to vote for a democrat (thereby proving you are a complete idiot):. | {
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Octoroks (オクタロック,Okutarokku?) are recurring enemies in the Legend of Zelda series. They are amphibious, octopus-like creatures that launch projectiles, mostly rocks, from their mouths at passersby. While largely land dwellers, Octoroks are often depicted as residing in water as well.
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Octoroks come in red and blue varieties and attack Link by shooting rocks at him. The rocks that they shoot, however, can be blocked by Link's shield, or deflected back at the Octorok. Blue Octoroks are more durable than red ones due to the fact that they take two hits from the Wooden Sword to be defeated instead of one, although they deal the same amount of damage. Octoroks can move quickly or slowly in horizontal and vertical paths, and can quickly change direction. They are common around the more desolate regions of Hyrule, while Moblins patrol the forested areas, Ghinis haunt the Graveyard, and Tektites infest Death Mountain.
Octoroks are similar to their The Legend of Zelda counterparts in almost every aspect; however, only certain Octoroks move around. Some jump in place, firing as they leap into the air. There are blue and red variants, with the blue Octoroks being significantly stronger than the red ones. Link gains 10 experience points for defeating a red Octorok, and 20 experience for defeating a blue Octorok.
Octoroks are found in the Light World, mainly in the region just east of Hyrule Castle. They only come in one color, a reddish purple, and are smaller and more dexterous than the Octoroks of previous installments. They spit rocks, and will sometimes spin in place while rapidly firing rocks in all four directions. They also deal a bit more damage to Link than other iterations of Octoroks. Octoroks have a Dark World equivalent called Slaroks.
Octoroks are similar to those from The Legend of Zelda. Unlike earlier variations, however, they have only four limbs, as opposed to the usual eight, and they only come in red (monochrome in the original version). Octoroks are still among the weaker enemies in the game, requiring only one strike from the sword, and they are vulnerable to most other weapons as well. Octoroks move slowly, spit rocks that can be blocked by Link's shield, and damage him on contact. They can be found mostly South of the Village and on the Toronbo Shores.
In addition to regular Octoroks, there is a closely related monster known as the Paraocto.
Octoroks were redesigned as aquatic monsters. They can be found almost anywhere there is water, including Lake Hylia, Zora's River, Zora's Fountain, and even in aquatic dungeons like Inside Jabu-Jabu's Belly. They remain hidden under the water most of the time; upon spotting Link, they surface and spit rocks at him. If Link gets too close, they retreat back under the water, where they cannot be harmed. The rocks they spit can be deflected back at them with the Deku Shield or the Hylian Shield, and they can also be defeated by long-range weapons like the Fairy Bow and the Hookshot. It is possible to deflect the rocks with a slash of the sword, although this is harder than using a shield. Their rock projectile may also be utilized against other enemies, resolving hits at around the same strength as a strike from the Master Sword. A large Octorok known as Bigocto appears as the mini-boss of Inside Jabu-Jabu's Belly. In Ocarina of Time 3D, an Octorok appears inside a tank in Lakeside Laboratory.
In Majora's Mask, when an Octorok is hit with an Ice Arrow, it will freeze into a solid block of ice, allowing Link to use it as a platform. They are also used in the Town Shooting Gallery as the targets. Unlike in Ocarina of Time, two deflected rocks are required to defeat an Octorok rather than just one. The Hero's Shield is the only thing that can deflect their rocks; the Mirror Shield and the defensive postures of all of Link's alternate forms will simply block them. Thus, once Link acquires the Mirror Shield, his only means of defeating Octoroks is the use of projectiles. Bigocto also appear in the Southern Swamp.
Navi's Note
“Bounce back the rocks it spits at you!”
Tatl's Note
The appearance and attack pattern of Octoroks in the Oracle games are similar to those of Octoroks in Link's Awakening, likely due to Flagship's reuse of certain data from Link's Awakening when programming these games. They come in shades of red and blue, with blue Octoroks being more durable than red ones. In Oracle of Ages, blue Octoroks appear in the past and red Octoroks appear in the present. In Oracle of Seasons, the two kinds often appear together. There is also a special Golden Octorok that appears in Oracle of Seasons.
In both games, Link can acquire an Octo Ring, which allows him to take on the physical appearance of an Octorok. He cannot use any items or abilities in this form, but like with other transformation rings, he is immune to Like Likes. This is likely the result of a programing oversight.
There are two kinds of regular Octoroks that appear in The Wind Waker. River Octoroks appear in the Forest Haven and Forbidden Woods, shooting rocks at passersby and hiding whenever Link comes near. Sea Octoroks appear around Eastern Triangle Island, Northern Triangle Island, Six-Eye Reef, Shark Island, and the Boating Course, firing bombs from their mouths at passing seafarers. If necessary, they can jump quite high in order to knock Link out of the air. Usually, if Link stops sailing his boat to battle Octoroks at sea, a massive swarm of them will eventually gather.
Both the Sea Octorok and River Ocorock figurines
When fought at night, the tops of sea Octoroks' heads glow blue, revealing them to be bioluminescent like many real-life deep sea dwellers. There are also six Big Octos scattered across the Great Sea, which appear at spots where seagulls gather.
The designs for river Octoroks and sea Octoroks are different, as are the projectiles they fire. However, during Link's second visit to the Forsaken Fortress, there is a room host to a river Octorok that fires bombs instead of rocks.
The description for the Octorok figurine in the Nintendo Gallery mentions that Octoroks have a "perfect attendance record", reflecting their appearances in all Zelda games up to The Wind Waker. This record is no longer accurate, as no Octoroks appear in Twilight Princess—although Twilight Princess does feature a similar enemy, the Water Toadpoli.
Interestingly, the Octorok sprite from The Legend of Zelda appears on Manny's backpack.
Octoroks are found on land in this game, and attack Link by shooting rocks at him. Red Octoroks are the most common, and can be defeated with a single sword slash. Blue Octoroks take a great number of hits to dispatch and shoot rocks in all four directions in succession, although they sometimes shoot a small red Force Gem instead. Pink Octoroks can be felled with a single sword strike, and shoot volleys of four rocks in one direction. They also sometimes shoot a small red Force Gem instead of a rock, and stand still unless approached, at which point they will back away. The latter two varieties are only found at The Coast, the first stage of Eastern Hyrule.
Octoroks are again depicted as land dwellers and look virtually identical to those from Four Swords. They appear in red and blue varieties, with the blue ones being more resilient. The red variants are found on dry land, and the blue variants are found near aquatic areas, such as Lake Hylia. Both fire rocks at Link. Golden Octoroks, which leave behind many Rupees when defeated, will sometimes appear due to a Kinstone fusion. The boss of the Temple of Droplets, the game's fourth dungeon, is known as Big Octorok. However, this Octorok's size is actually no bigger than normal; it is Link who is smaller, as he confronts Big Octorok while he is Minish-sized.
Octoroks appear on both land and sea. The earth-dwelling Octoroks vary, with some alternating their direction of fire, and others remaining fixed in place. The marine Octoroks are almost identical to those of The Wind Waker. Interestingly, the marine Octoroks charge at the S.S. Linebeck instead of spitting rocks. There is also an Octorok boss, known as Cyclok.
Octoroks appear in both land-dwelling and sea-dwelling forms. They act similar to past incarnations, shooting rocks at Link. When the Spirit Train is riding the undersea tracks in the Ocean Realm, water Octoroks try to squirt ink at it, blinding Link and temporarily hiding the map. Fast rubbing in any direction is required to remove the ink. Freezards also appear as Octoroks encased in ice. When Link throws his Boomerang through fire and into a Freezard, the ice melts, revealing the Octorok inside. Earth Octoroks are also fought as part of the Take 'Em All On mini-game.
"This monster descended from oceanic mollusks. It has developed the unsightly ability to spit rocks. The creature prefers to sleep with tufts of grass on its head, so it has learned to take on the appearance of grass in order to fool and defeat its prey. You can use a shield to bounce the rocks this monster spits back at it."
Octoroks come in several different varieties, the most common being Red Octoroks. These have reddish brown bodies and camouflage specific to their region on their heads; the camouflage is leafy in the Faron region, rocky in the Layranu region, and have no camouflage when appearing in The Sky. Octoroks remain burrowed underground until Link comes near them. If Link comes too close to an Octorok, however, it will retreat into the ground again, where it is invulnerable. Link can deflect their rocks back at them by using a Shield Bash attack when a rock nears his shield; incorrect timing will result in damage being dealt to Link's current shield. It is also possible to deflect the rock with Link's sword with a vertical or horizontal slice, although Spin Attacks are significantly easier. He can also attack from a distance with arrows or a Skyward Strike. Octoroks are also vulnereable to bombs, but as bombs are limited, most people avoid this method.
Sky Octoroks are larger and although stationary like their surface counterparts, they have no camouflage. Sky Octoroks are also one of the few enemies in the game that Fi cannot analyze.
Octoroks encountered in The Sky can be defeated by flying into them with a simple boost or Spiral Charge. The Spiral Charge may also be utilised to break Octorok projectiles, making flight far safer in infested areas.
Interestingly, they bear a striking resemblance to Deku Scrubs from past games, as they hide using camouflage. In fact, when the game was still unreleased, a number of websites misreported Octoroks as being Deku Scrubs. If Link tries to pick up a Octorok, it will launch up and damage Link, briefly revealing four tentacles. If the Whip is used, the Octorok will be pulled up from the ground and angrily chatter, but will return underground before Link can attack. If Link turns away from an Octorok while it is hiding, it will pop up from the ground and start making noise for Link to notice it. As soon he turns back, however, it will go back in the ground to protect itself from attacks.
Octoroks like the ones from A Link Between Worlds appear as enemies. Some Octoroks are aquatic and behave similar to those from Ocarina of Time & Majora's Mask. There is also a material called Octorok Sucker, which is the tentacle of an Octorok. The description of the Octorok Sucker, states that they are considered a delicacy in the Drablands, making it the first canon source were Octoroks (or at least their tentacles) are considered a source of food.
Octoroks are encountered as enemies, and are much larger than their canonical counterparts. Octoroks are also made reference to in the opening cinematic, in which King Harkinian asks "I wonder what's for dinner," to which Link replies, "Oh boy. I'm so hungry, I could eat an Octorok!"
In the early development of Ocarina of Time, Octoroks had possessed their traditional appearance and were land based enemies. As the game developed, however, they became aquatic enemies and were redesigned into the Octorok that appeared in the final product. Though there are no land based Octoroks in Ocarina of Time, the Deku Scrubs encountered in the final game retain the Octorok's traditional attack method, though they shoot Deku Nuts instead of rocks.
Octoroks occasionally appear as random enemies released from boxes and barrels. They are also found in Adventure Mode, in the Underground Maze. They fire rocks, which cannot be deflected back at them. While their model is nearly identical to the one from Ocarina of Time, they stand on dry land on their tentacles like in earlier Zelda titles. Octoroks appear as a collectible trophy as well.
Octoroks appear as enemies in the Smash Run game mode with their Skyward Sword design. Their behavior is similar to that of Skyward Sword, consisting of hiding when players get near and spitting rocks at them when they get far away. However, they can be grabbed while hiding. An Octorok also appears as a trophy.
Octoroks are frequently employed by Ganon. They are depicted as huge red octopi, dwarfing humans such as Link and Princess Zelda in size. They attack by spewing balls of energy at their targets. In the episode "The White Knight", an Octorok appears, trying to kidnap Zelda. Link deflects one of its energy balls at a Tinsuit to defeat it. Link fails to defeat the Octorok, but it is eventually defeated by Prince Facade.
An 8-Bit Octorok appearw in Hyrule Warriors and Hyrule Warriors Legends loading screens where it steals an 8-Bit Triforce but is killed by 8-Bit Link who is hit by a rock fired by another 8-bit Octorok dropping the Triforce. This cycle is repeated until the game finishes loading. Outside of the games loading screen, Octoroks do not appear in the main game, thus they only make a cameo appearance. | {
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Rapinoe’s Two Goals Lead Americans Past Australia 3-1
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Live analysis of the Women’s World Cup Group D match between the U.S. and Australia. Andrew Beaton and Erin Simon provide analysis of the television coverage, Matthew Futterman offers commentary from Winnipeg Stadium in Winnipeg, Canada. | {
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JIM MAZUCHOWSKI: GROWING UP IN A FORD FAMILY LEADS TO V-6 ENGINE PROGRAM MANAGER POSITION
Jim Mazuchowski is the program manager for V-6 engine programs, helping to bring to market Ford’s newest engine technology including Mustang’s new 3.7-liter V-6 engine
Responsible for all aspects of the V-6 engine program, Mazuchowski handles design and development, quality, cost, function, and implementation timing
Mazuchowski, a Michigan native, enjoys biking and volunteering in his free time
Jim Mazuchowski grew up in a Ford family. His dad was a draftsman in the engine division for 33 years, and his brother also worked for Ford. For Mazuchowski, program manager for V-6 engine programs, this was a key factor in his career.
“Growing up, my dad would wake me up on the weekends, and we worked on cars together,” said Mazuchowski. “That, and his work at Ford were huge influences in my career direction.”
Mazuchowski and his team are responsible for all the new gas V-6 engines under development at Ford, including the naturally aspirated EcoBoost™ and flex fuel engines. The scope of his work is something Mazuchowski enjoys – whether it’s design and development, quality, cost and function aspects, or implementing timing.
“I really enjoy the variety of tasks, the pressure and urgency involved, along with the great people I get to work with,” he said. “The work we do directly impacts the customer and is key to Ford’s fuel economy and sustainability strategy as well as quality and customer satisfaction.”
Since coming to Ford in 1988, Mazuchowski has held several positions that helped prepare him for his job in engine program management. Those roles included helping launch a series of V-8 engines, running manufacturing operations at the Cleveland Casting Plant, product design and development work, and strategic planning.
“I’m really fortunate and feel lucky about my career at Ford,” he said. “I’ve had so many experiences and assignments. On top of that, I’ve worked with very smart, hard-working people.”
Mazuchowski graduated from Michigan State University with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering. He also received a master’s degree in industrial engineering from the University of Michigan.
A love for all things Ford
Since Mazuchowski’s engines are spread across lineups, he is enthusiastic about all Ford vehicles. His favorite all-time Ford is the F-150 because of its strong performance, dependability and longevity – all reflective of the company’s image and values, he says.
And although his garage is currently filled with a Taurus X and Focus, he can’t wait to park a 2011 Mustang – with the new V-6 engine – in there, as well.
Personal Insights and Fun Facts
Jim Mazuchowski has been married for 20 years. He and his wife have three daughters, two of whom are newly minted drivers
Jim’s favorite place is on his bike. This year he rode from East Lansing, Mich., to the east side of the Upper Peninsula
Jim has volunteered for 20 years to raise awareness about multiple sclerosis and put an end to the disease
His first car was a 1972 Ford Maverick
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About Ford Motor CompanyFord Motor Company, a global automotive industry leader based in Dearborn, Mich., manufactures or distributes automobiles across six continents. With about 200,000 employees and about 90 plants worldwide, the company’s automotive brands include Ford, Lincoln, Mercury and Volvo. The company provides financial services through Ford Motor Credit Company. For more information regarding Ford’s products, please visit www.ford.com. | {
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(AllHipHop News) Starting to look like Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon’s marriage may be more Out than Wild. Earlier today (August 21st) Nick Cannon responded to reports that he and his wife Mariah Carey were living separately.
Cannon spoke with Entertainment Weekely’s The Insider stating “There is trouble in paradise…we have been living in separate houses for a few months.” This seemingly confirms reports that the pair have been separated since June and are in the midst of an impending divorce.
An Us Weekly source revealed that Cannon has been more despondent on the set of America’s Got Talent and “he never talks about Mariah, and she has never been to set in all the seasons he has hosted.” | {
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What’s breakfast without a steaming cup of joe? Jet-black, swirled with foam, and syrupy sweet: We sipped it all, and we’ve got opinions. For unadulterated java, we dig Bite Cafe, Lula Cafe, and Jam, where customized blends from beloved local beaneries Intelligentsia, Metropolis, and Dark Matter anchor the menus. Tasty out-of-town beans are cropping up too: The Bristol scores big with Philly-based La Colombe, and we’re thrilled that Milwaukee’s mighty Alterra made the menu at West Town’s Bleeding Heart Bakery & Café. (The lattes are also spot-on, but BH can keep those cloying specialty drinks.) The most palatable fruity brew comes from the River West outpost of Orange, whose citrus-tinged drip coffee remains unrivaled. When we seek sophistication with our caffeination, it’s the nifty French press cardboard cup at Bodega N. 5 or the sleek hourglass-shaped Chemex carafe at Nightwood. But for our money, Ipsento’s namesake latte—a steaming mélange of espresso, milk, coconut milk, honey, and cayenne—is the most buzzworthy concoction around (2035 N. Western Ave.; 773-904-8177). | {
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Typically the creepiest guy at the party, Has strange facial hair, tends to lurk in the backgrounds of pictures, and has simply a sadistic smile only a mother could love, generally a total creep. Everyone group of friends knows a 'Capitan-Creeper', They rule at creeping.
friend 1: man, last night would have been so much more fun if Capitan-Creeper wasnt there. | {
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Ariel Sharon, former Israeli PM, dies at 85
Ariel Sharon, the hard-charging Israeli general and prime minister who was admired and hated for his battlefield exploits and ambitions to reshape the Middle East, died Saturday. The 85-year-old Sharon had been in a coma since a debilitating stroke eight years ago. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Published: January 11, 2014
Updated: January 11, 2014 at 05:15 PM
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JERUSALEM – It was vintage Ariel Sharon: His hefty body bobbing behind a wall of security men, the ex-general led a march onto a Jerusalem holy site, staking a bold claim to a shrine that has been in contention from the dawn of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
What followed was a Palestinian uprising that put Mideast peace efforts into deep-freeze.
Five years later, Sharon, who died today at 85, was again barreling headlong into controversy, bulldozing ahead with his plan to pull Israel out of the Gaza Strip and uproot all 8,500 Jewish settlers living there without regard to threats to his life from Jewish extremists.
The withdrawal and the barrier he was building between Israel and the West Bank permanently changed the face of the conflict and marked the final legacy of a man who shaped Israel as much as any other leader. He was a farmer-turned-soldier, a soldier-turned-politician, a politician-turned-statesman – a hard-charging Israeli who built Jewish settlements on war-won land, but didn’t shy away from destroying them when he deemed them no longer useful.
Sharon died eight years after a debilitating stroke put him into a coma. His body was to lie in state at the parliament on Sunday before he is laid to rest at his ranch in southern Israel on Monday, Israeli media reported. Vice President Joe Biden will lead the U.S. delegation.
Sharon suffered his stroke in January 2006 and fell into a coma. Over the past week and a half, doctors reported a sharp decline in his condition as various bodily organs, including his kidneys, failed. Today, Dr. Shlomo Noy of the Sheba Medical Center near Tel Aviv said “his heart weakened and he peacefully departed” with relatives by his bedside.
His death was greeted with the same strong feelings he evoked in life. Israelis called him a war hero. His enemies called him a war criminal.
President Barack Obama remembered Sharon as “a leader who dedicated his life to the state of Israel.” Former President George W. Bush, who was in the White House during Sharon’s tenure, called him a “warrior for the ages and a partner in seeking security for the Holy Land and a better, peaceful Middle East.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a rival and harsh critic of Sharon, said: “His memory will be enshrined forever in the heart of the nation.” President Shimon Peres, a longtime friend and rival, said “he was an outstanding man and an exceptional commander who moved his people and loved them and the people loved him.”
The Palestinians, who loathed Sharon as their most bitter enemy, distributed candy, prayed for divine punishment and said they regretted he was never held accountable for his actions, including a massacre in the Lebanese refugee camps of Sabra and Chatilla by Christian militiamen allied with Israel during the 1982 invasion that was largely his brainchild.
“He wanted to erase the Palestinian people from the map ... He wanted to kill us, but at the end of the day, Sharon is dead and the Palestinian people are alive,” said Tawfik Tirawi, who served as Palestinian intelligence chief when Sharon was prime minister.
The man Israel knew simply by his nickname “Arik” fought in most of Israel’s wars. He detested Yasser Arafat, his lifelong adversary, as an “obstacle to peace” and was in turn detested in the Arab world.
Sharon had a life of surprises, none bigger than his election as prime minister in his twilight years, when he spent his first term crushing a Palestinian uprising and his second withdrawing from Gaza. The pullout in 2005 freed 1.3 million Palestinians from Israeli military rule and left his successors the vague outline of his proposal for a final peace settlement with Israel’s Arab foes.
Sharon opted for separating Israel from the Palestinians, whose birthrate was outpacing that of his own country. He gave up Gaza, with its 21 Jewish settlements, and four West Bank settlements, the first such Israeli pullback since it captured the territories in the 1967 Mideast war.
He also began building a snaking barrier of fences, walls, razor wire and trenches to separate Israel from the West Bank. The withdrawal and the barrier, which left large West Bank settlement blocs on Israel’s side, led many to suspect his real intention was to sidestep negotiations with the Palestinians and make it easier to hold onto what really mattered to him – chunks of the West Bank, with its biblical Jewish resonance and value as a buffer against attack from the east.
Sharon was born to Russian immigrant parents on Feb. 26, 1928, in the farming community of Kfar Malal, 10 miles (15 kilometers) north of Tel Aviv. He commanded an infantry platoon during the 1948 Mideast war over the creation of the state of Israel.
Leading a ragtag band of soldiers, some Holocaust survivors, Sharon took part in the unsuccessful May 1948 assault on the Jordanian Arab Legion stronghold at Latroun, a key spot on the road to Jerusalem whose Jewish district was blockaded by Arab forces. He was badly wounded in the leg and belly, and bled for hours while surrounded by enemy soldiers.
In 1953, he commanded Unit 101, a force formed to carry out reprisals for Arab attacks. After the slaying of an Israeli woman and her two children, his troops blew up more than 40 houses in Qibya, a West Bank village then ruled by Jordan, killing 69 Arabs. Sharon later said he thought the houses were empty.
After Israel’s 1956 invasion of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, Sharon was rebuked for engaging in what commanders regarded as an unnecessary battle. Some 30 Israeli soldiers died.
The accolades mounted as well. Sharon received praise for his command of an armored division during the 1967 Mideast War, in which Israel captured the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula.
His finest hour in uniform, as he described it, came in the 1973 Mideast war. Yanked out of retirement by an army desperate for leadership, he commanded 27,000 Israelis in a daring drive across Egypt’s Suez Canal that helped turn the tide of the war. A picture of a boyish-faced, 45-year-old Sharon, bloody bandage wrapped around his head, remains one of the most enduring images of the war.
In 1982 he engineered the invasion of Lebanon. It was portrayed as a quick, limited strike to drive Palestinian fighters from Israel’s northern border. Later it emerged that Sharon had a larger plan: to install a pro-Israel regime in Lebanon – a design that typified boldness to his friends and dangerous megalomania to his critics. The conflict quickly escalated, and Israel remained in Lebanon for the next 18 years.
That September, the Israeli military, controlling parts of Beirut, allowed members of the Phalanges, a Lebanese Christian militia allied with Israel, to enter the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Chatilla in Beirut to root out “terrorists.” The militiamen systematically slaughtered hundreds of civilians, including women and children. The massacres sparked mass protests in Israel and abroad. An Israeli commission rejected Sharon’s contention that he didn’t know what was coming, saying: “It is impossible to justify the minister of defense’s disregard of the danger of a massacre.”
He was fired as defense minister.
In his autobiography, Sharon said he was outraged by the findings. “It was a stigmatization I rejected utterly,” he wrote.
Sharon gradually rehabilitated himself, serving in parliament and using various Cabinet posts to build dozens of settlements in the West Bank and Gaza despite international protests.
As foreign minister in 1998, Sharon called on Jewish settlers to grab as much land as possible. Sharon’s demonstrative visit to the Temple Mount, or Haram as-Sharif, soon followed. Palestinian riots escalated into a full-fledged uprising that would claim more than 3,000 Palestinian and 1,000 Israeli lives.
In February 2001, with the fighting continuing and peace talks collapsing, Israelis grew deeply disillusioned and inclined to lay all the blame on Arafat. They elected Sharon prime minister in a landslide.
Fighting continued throughout Sharon’s first term and he was re-elected in 2003 to a second term.
In late 2003, he unveiled his “unilateral disengagement” plan – withdrawing from territory he no longer deemed essential to Israel’s security – without an agreement with the Palestinians.
He also confined Arafat to his West Bank headquarters in his final years before allowing the longtime Palestinian leader to fly to France in late 2004 shortly before his death.
Speaking Saturday, Olmert said Sharon’s legacy was far more complicated than critics say.
“Arik was not a warmonger. When it was necessary to fight, he stood at the forefront of the divisions in the most sensitive and painful places, but he was a smart and realistic person and understood well that there is a limit in our ability to conduct wars,” he said.
Sharon was widowed twice – he married the sister of his first wife after she died in an auto accident – and had two sons, Gilad and Omri. A third son died in 1967 in a firearms accident.
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Hudson moving around OK
2nd baseman's ankle "feels kind of funky"
Diamondbacks second baseman Orlando Hudson walked up the dugout steps and onto the field during batting practice Wednesday, and just seeing him walking gingerly was huge relief for manager Bob Melvin.
The previous night, Hudson had been hit by a pitch on the right ankle, fell to the ground in pain and needed help leaving the field.
"It was scary, right on that bone," Melvin said. "First thing you're thinking is potentially a crack or fracture, something along those lines. It's not, so that's the first piece of good news.
"The second piece of good news is he's not nearly as bad as I thought he'd be today. I thought that he'd have trouble walking, and he's moving around all right."
Hudson said he was available to pinch-hit Wednesday night, adding that had it been a must-win game he could have played but would not have been as mobile.
"It's sore as hell," he said. "It still feels kind of funky."
Big addition
For Jon Rauch, who pitched a scoreless inning in his Diamondbacks debut Tuesday night, the key for the 6-foot-11, 291-pound right-hander was just being a part of the game, Melvin said.
"I'm glad it wasn't a one-run game where you have to come in," Melvin said. "You want to settle in with your new team, and for the first time get on the field in front of our fans it was good that he could go out there in less of a pressure situation and let our fans see what he has to offer, and there's a lot of him to offer.
"So it was good that he could get into the game, and now he's part of the flow."
Melvin said Rauch's role probably will be setting up closer Brandon Lyon, with Tony Pena and Chad Qualls preceding Rauch, who was traded Tuesday from the Washington Nationals for infielder Emilio Bonifacio.
Jackson consistent
Conor Jackson, whose defense in left field keeps improving, has been a model of consistency for the Diamondbacks. Going into Wednesday night's game, he led the team with a .308 batting average and had 10 home runs and 51 RBIs, second only to Mark Reynolds.
"He and 'O' (Hudson) have been the most consistent guys for us the whole season," Melvin said. "Whether he's hitting second, whether he's hitting fourth, whether he's playing first, whether he's playing left, he's been a staple for us, a guy that really came into the season wanting to establish himself as a good major-league player.
"Every day, he has the same look in his eye, every day he has the same work ethic and preparation to keep this thing going, and he's been terrific for us."
Injury update
Right-handed reliever Juan Cruz, on the disabled list since July 6 because of a strained left oblique, is on course to be activated next week, when the Diamondbacks visit National League West rivals San Diego and Los Angeles.
Melvin said Cruz likely would pitch in two rehab assignments, with the first Friday, before being activated. | {
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Teen shot to death while tracking down lost cell phone (VIDEO)
The search for a missing cell phone in London, Ontario, over the weekend led to the fatal shooting of an 18-year-old man.
After accidentally leaving his cell phone in a taxi cab Sunday evening, Jeremy Cook used a tracking app to locate it. But according to authorities, when he arrived at the location where the app sent him, he found a group of three men in a car with his cell phone and things turned very bad.
The suspects apparently attempted to drive away, but Cook held on to the driver’s side door momentarily before he was shot multiple times. His body was then dumped behind a nearby strip mall.
The car, which still had the phone inside, was found abandoned after it hit a fence and crashed into a telephone pole.
London Police Const. Ken Steeves said the suspects, who are still at large, had no prior connection to Cook, who had no history of trouble, but they are using video surveillance obtained to try to piece the puzzle together.
“It’s certainly extreme,” said Steeves. “No one ever would have predicted or even thought that a loss of life would have resulted from a loss of a phone.”
I thought Canada has strict gun controls on handguns? I guess they failed to tell the bad guys.
John
I feel really bad for this guy but only an 18 year old would be so brazen as to grab a fleeing car with 3 criminals in it. Even if I were armed I would have called the cops and waited this one out. Crime happens everywhere, even in super-safe Canada. I am sure these 3 killers aren’t sleeping badly because of what they did and they obviously had a gun and this is why I generally feel the need to equalize….but I would have walked away from this scenario. | {
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Internship Experience
Internships are pretty much essential to a college student’s career path today. Many companies value experience over the amount of education you’ve had in the field. Simply attending college courses on the related field is not enough. I’ve come to realize that many of the topics that we cover in class are not used much outside of the classroom. I had no experience in the web design field, so how was I supposed to pursue that as my future career? Luckily for me, I scored an internship here at WebMasterIcons that required no experience. I figured that this would be an excellent opportunity for me to learn more about web design.
I’ve been an intern here at WebMasterIcons for almost a month now. Throughout this time period, I’ve learned quite a bit about web design and how some of the aspects of it works. The business aspect, for instance, was definitely new to me. I never even thought about how communicating with the client worked (pricing, contract and proposal processes, drafting, etc). I was introduced to this on my first week here and it was pretty amazing to see how everything comes together.
As a web designer, one of the important skills you need is learning how to ask your client the right questions. That is definitely a weakness of mine as shown when I worked on a project assigned by a fellow coworker. I did not know how to ask the right questions to understand what he really wanted and ended up redoing the draft about three times.
This internship has taught me a great deal already. I walked in not knowing a single thing about web design. Now I am aware of the business/client aspect, different styles and layouts, basic idea of how to draft a website, considering different factors when designing a website (not everything that you design can be used or is practical for the website) and more. With a little over a month left here, I hope to gain as much knowledge as I can before I leave. | {
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Category: Great Albums (8+)
The return of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks was far and away the strangest thing to happen in 2017. Trump’s election? Forget that. Go and watch episode eight of the new season – ‘Gotta Light?’ – then tell me you’ve seen anything more perplexing, terrifying and brilliant since the beginning of January.
It wasn’t for everyone, no doubt. Season three was challenging right from the get go, with an experimental and bizarre first episode that I’m sure turned many off. I wasn’t convinced at first, either, but as the show went on I began to realize the genius behind its disjointed and jarring transitions, its flatly sinister tone and mysterious side stories with no obvious purpose.
It was also absolutely hilarious at times, in a way that Lynch very often doesn’t get credit for. How about the scene where Jerry is taking a drug-addled stroll through the forest and then hallucinates that his foot is talking to him? The brilliant five-minute cameo of Michael Cera as ridiculous cool-guy Wally Brando? The countless moments of slapstick brilliance with Dougie, AKA Mr Jackpot?
Season three was an enigma, full of hilarity in horror in equal measure. And a large part of its mystique comes from Angelo Badalamenti’s incredible soundtrack, much as was the case in the show’s first two seasons. Twin Peaks has some of the most instantly recognizable and iconic TV themes of all time, no question – the sweeping nostalgia of the title theme, the sinister and lovesick ‘Laura Palmer’s Theme’, the whimsical ‘Audrey’s Dance’…
These classics make their way on to the soundtrack of season three, too, but they sit alongside new pieces from Badalamenti, as well a couple of contributions from other musicians who are favourites of Lynch. Chromatic’s Johnny Jewel offers up the sultry and spellbinding ‘Windswept (reprise)’, while Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki’s horrifying ‘Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima’ sets every nerve on edge.
Badalamenti’s new pieces range from chilling (‘Dark Mood Woods’) to mystical (‘The Fireman’), to rapturous (‘Night’). He wrings drama from every note and chord of these ambient songs, all of which are relatively simple in composition and yet infinitely evocative. And he manages to bring them all together into a cohesive project alongside existing music from his own back catalogue, and that of his guest musicians.
Twin Peaks (Limited Event Series Soundtrack) is its own self-contained world, and that is just about the highest praise that can be heaped upon a soundtrack. Listening to it brings back strong memories of the show’s distant and recent past, but it is also evocative enough to suggest so many more scenes – perhaps even alternate realities – within the show’s dazzlingly strange universe. Grab yourself some coffee and a donut, put some wood on the fire, and stick this on your speakers. You won’t regret it.
Is there any living rapper with a more successful and storied career than Jay-Z? Any rapper who has built so large an empire and yet remained, unlike a Dr Dre, musically relevant even to this day? I can’t think of one if there is – the man known as Shawn Carter has been one of the biggest names in music for close to thirty years, and 4:44 is the introspective late-career rap album that draws a line under all those achievements.
It’s a humble, often low key and very personal album, in which Jay addresses the infidelity rumours surrounding his marriage, reflects on his business acumen, and muses on fatherhood. His rapping is mellow and revealing, sometimes bordering on spoken word as he pulls back the curtain on his hustler persona.
Hova makes a couple of appearances – on the braggadocious reggae bounce of ‘Bam’ and the nostalgic ‘Marcy Me’. But by and large this is a Shawn Carter album – conversational, real, and apologetic. On the album’s title track, over a soulful beat, he speaks directly to his wife: ‘I apologise, often womanise / Took for my child to be born to see through a woman’s eyes’.
That frankness can be found in nearly every song on 4:44. Opener ‘Kill Jay-Z’ finds him addressing the critics and listeners who condemned his infidelity, and wrote off his music career: ‘How can we know if we can trust Jay-Z?’ He takes all the criticism in stride, and makes no attempt to defend himself, just resolves to correct as many mistakes as he can: ‘You gotta do better, boy you owe it to Blue’.
In ‘The Story of OJ’ he takes on the history of racism over a jazz-bar piano slide. In ‘Smile’ he raps about coming to terms with and loving yourself, revealing his mother’s struggles coming out as a lesbian. And in closer ‘Legacy’, which features a voice recording of his five-year old daughter, he muses on how the money he has made will affect his children’s lives.
It’s unexpected stuff from the rap game’s most exuberant hustler, and a far cry from ‘Big Pimpin’ or Reasonable Doubt. But it’s brilliant, and it makes for one of his best albums yet in combination with the fantastic production work by No I.D, who handled every single track. These ten songs are soulful, spacious, and feature some excellent sample work to boot.
It’s often said that hip-hop is a young man’s game, but 4:44 provides a blueprint for longevity. Unlike Hov’s last Blueprint, this one strips away all the persona and egotism, leaving behind nothing but passion, emotion and vulnerability. These qualities are a rare find in hip-hop, but it is them that set 4:44 apart as one of the best albums of 2017.
Shoegaze innovators Slowdive returned with a fantastic self-titled album in 2017, delivering another helping of blissful, intergalactic dream-pop. Their return more than lived up to the enormous legacy of the genre they helped pioneer, and comfortably blew all imitators out of the water.
The eight songs of Slowdive are laced in a sugary film of reverb, with each carefully placed chord, rhythm and note sounding out as if in an enormous echo chamber. The album feels spacious to the extreme, limitless even: the soupy production effortlessly fuses guitars and keyboards together into one almost indistinguishable whole, to wonderful effect. Slowdive envelops the ears in a way few albums do.
Which isn’t to say that the record is mellow, by any means – songs like ‘Star Roving’ and ‘Go Get It’ are among the loudest the band has ever recorded. The former builds a driving space-rock groove from multi-tracked guitars and harmonized vocals, while the latter feels a bit post-rock with an interesting quiet/loud dynamic, as whisper-quiet verses erupt into a huge chorus: ‘I wanna see it / I wanna feel it’…
For a band who hadn’t released any new music in over twenty years, Slowdive came back sounding full of confidence in 2017. Their new record was meticulous and panoramic: as delicate as a spider’s web, but as eternal as a galaxy. And certainly among the best of the year.
On ‘Shadowboxing’, the fourth track from Julien Baker’s Turn Out the Lights, she sings: ‘There’s a comforting failure / Singing too loud in church / Screaming my fears into speakers / Until I collapse or burst’. These lines get right to the heart of what makes her second album so special – Turn Out the Lights understands the redemptive power of music, and comforting failure is exactly the feeling I get from it.
Across these eleven tracks, Julien airs out her fears and insecurities with intimate confidence, tackling the subject of depression and mental illness. She does so in a manner that is both sensitive and raw, like an open wound in the process of healing. The mood is sombre, but never without even the smallest glimmer of hope, and it is this that gives the album its cathartic power.
On ‘Hurt Less’, a simple and gorgeous piano ballad, Julien recounts how her depression became at one point so bad that she stopped wearing seatbelts while driving, and would fantasize about crashing through the windscreen: ‘I didn’t see the point / In trying to save myself’. But as the piano chords pick up power and a building violin brings the song to a climax, a shred of hope is found: ‘This year I started wearing safety belts / When I’m driving…’
It’s these small lyrical details that really set Turn Out the Lights apart. At no point does it fall back on tired metaphors and general gloom. At every step, Julien finds poetry in moments of day to day existence, like when a hole in her apartment’s drywall teaches her to ‘get used to the gaps’. Or how about this lovely line from ‘Appointments’: ‘Nothing turns out like I pictured it / Maybe the emptiness is just a lesson in canvasses’.
Musically, Turn Out the Lights is not a particularly adventurous record – Julien employs piano and guitar with heavy use of loop medals and reverb in most songs, some of which feature guest musicians on saxophone and strings. But the melodies are the sort that get immovably lodged in your brain, and Julien’s voice brings each one to life – even those that fixate heavily on death. Her singing is delicate but commanding, immediately grabbing the ear and positively pouring out emotion.
Turn Out the Lights is a painful listen at times, but always a rewarding one. It reminds us to never stop looking for that tiny glimmer of hope in the darkness, whether we find it in religion, love, or – in music.
Chelsea Wolfe is Metal Bjork. I’m convinced of it, having obsessed over her new album Hiss Spun for the last week. She is a musical polymath who draws influences from countless different corners of the music world, but always bends it to her own twisted vision. She is a brooding Gothic Romantic who sings only of love, the pain and damage of love, power and abuse and sex and sorcery. And this latest record is her greatest achievement yet.
On Hiss Spun she synthesizes sounds as diverse as industrial, doom/sludge/alternative metal, dark folk and a swarm of other abrasive noises in between. She channels Nine Inch Nails and Neurosis and Isis, but with an ear for melody so strong and a voice so warm and inviting she could be a legitimate metal pop star.
Wolfe has an understanding of dynamics, too, that really sets her records apart. Hiss Spun has moments of plodding industrial tension, like ‘Strain’ or ‘Partical Flux’, but it also has moments of skull-crushing black hole wall of amps release, like ‘Static Hum’, ‘The Culling’ or the transcendent ’16 Psyche’, which is one of my favourite songs of the year. These songs acquire their power by gargoyle-silhouetted contrast against passages of gnawing, atmospheric tension-building and slow dread.
Even within individual songs is a mastery of dynamics. ‘Twin Fawn’ starts out as an ominous dark folk ballad with Wolfe on guitar accompanied by only hand percussion and a gentle drone. But in the chorus it absolutely explodes into a sea of shimmering metal-gaze chords and booming snare hits to wonderful effect.
These talents were evident on Wolfe’s previous record, Abyss, but the difference is that Hiss Spun spreads them out more evenly across its entire length, and creates a more satisfying album arc in the process. Abyss placed all of its heavy songs in the first half, while side two was comprised of ominous, drony folk numbers. But with her latest album, Wolfe has succesfully fused these two aspects of her music into a cohesive whole.
In doing so, she’s put together one of the best metal or rock albums I’ve heard all year. Hiss Spun is wonderfully recorded and produced, genre-fluid, vicious and despondent in equal measure. It totally engulfs in fuzzy Gothic beauty, and absolutely must not be missed.
Autumn is here, and with perfect regularity another sobering The National record has fallen from the tree of indie rock like a sad, bruised little fruit. Yes – everybody’s favourite baritone crooners are back to squeeze out the last few drops of optimism and sunshine from the summer, and give us a healthy dose of cruel and dissapointing Reality.
This is a band whose ability to wring emotional and romantic turmoil from moody, mid-paced rock music is almost unparalleled, and over the past decade they’ve released a string of great albums that have done exactly that – 2007’s Boxer, 2010’s High Violet, and 2013’s Trouble Will Find Me. Up until this point, however, it’s fair to say that The National have not been the world’s most adventurous band.
Sleep Well Beast looks to change that, and is the first National album to experiment with the band’s core sound, albeit only slightly. There are sprinklings of electronics to be heard throughout the record, from the gentle tones in the background of ‘Day I Die’ to the sequenced drums in ‘I’ll Still Destroy You’. The electronics add an extra layer of depth to the album’s sound without ever being revolutionary, but at this stage of the band’s career a bit of variety goes a long way.
There are also moments on this record that get louder than we’ve ever heard from the band before: ‘Turtleneck’ has a raucous, stomping chorus with shades of cowpunk and Nick Cave, and ‘I’ll Still Destroy You’ builds to a fittingly destructive climax of synths, drums and strings.
The majority of Sleep Well Beast, though, much like previous National albums, consists of very beautiful piano ballads and indie rock slow-burners with cryptic, poetic lyrics courtesy of Matt Berninger. This time around, a majority of songs are about marriage and the struggles contained within, and many of the lyrics Berninger in fact co-wrote with his wife.
Sometimes they are gorgeously fatalistic (‘I was born to beg for you’) while at other moments the romantic drama feels a bit too unspecificied to really affect. The greatest lyrical moments are those where Berninger gets a bit more figurative with his images, like these from ‘Ill Still Destroy You’: ‘This one’s like your sister’s best friends in a bath / Calling you to join them…/This one’s like your mothers arms when she was young and sunburned in the 80’s’.
Sleep Well Beast‘s final quarter is perhaps its only weak point – I find the last three tracks all a bit too similar to those that came before, and lacking the same energy. The closer in particular is a bit of a dribble, opening almost identically to ‘I’ll Still Destroy You’ and featuring those same words in its chorus.
But all the same, this is another fantastic record from The National. It finds them taking just enough risks to remain compelling, broadening their music while keeping it as eloquently bittersweet as a tear drop falling in to a glass of wine.
The latest record from indie rock mainstays Grizzly Bear comes five years after their last – 2012s Shields – and it has certainly benefitted from that long gestation period. Painted Ruins is a record that sounds laboured over, carefully coloured in with lots of sonic details and ideas, and it finds the band deliberately pushing their sound into new territory.
This is Grizzly Bear’s most psychedelic album yet, and also their most panoramic, featuring some truly eye-widening moments of echo-drenched bliss courtesy of bandmate/producer Chris Taylor. Songs like ‘Four Cypresses’ and ‘Aquarian’ build up into impressive walls of sound comprising vintage synths, guitars, piano, strings, saxophones and other noises I can’t identify.
At times like this the band recall climactic prog-rockers such as King Crimson, while at others we find the band searching in unexpected places for inspiration. ‘Glass Hillside’ has a sticky, buoyant chorus that sounds like a psychedelic take on dub reggae, with vocalist Daniel Rossen’s languid singing guiding the song smoothly between ominous verses. It lands as one of the album’s stranger but more compelling tracks.
Taken as a whole, however, the vocals on Painted Ruins are a bit patchy. For starters, it feels as if Ed Droste and Daniel Rossen – the band’s two primary songwriters – are working at a slightly different wavelength. Rossen’s lyrics and singing are often ambiguous and psychedelic, as in ‘Glass Hillside’, but they sometimes ring a bit hollow. Droste, on the other hand, comes off as rather drippy in a number of songs, spouting heartbroken vagueries at odds with the tone of the record.
Still there are moments where Droste and Rossen harmonize to wonderful effect, as on the funky ‘Losing All Sense’ and the elegiac ‘Neighbours’. And Rossen shines on the aforementioned ‘Four Cypresses’, where he sings, mysteriously: ‘It’s early / Make no sound / Living in a pile / It’s chaos, but it works’.
True to form, the more chaotic moments within Painted Ruins do prove to be its best. ‘Mourning Sound’ and ‘Systole’ strike me as the weakest tracks on show here, the former being a fairly by-the-numbers indie rock bopper dressed up with some hazy synths, and the latter being a sleepy, underdeveloped ditty that didn’t really need to make it onto the record.
All in all, though, Painted Ruins is another great album from one of the more adventurous bands working in indie rock today. It isn’t quite as consistent as Veckatimest or Shields, but it feels like the thoughtful product of a self-aware band looking to stay relevant and fresh in a changing musical landscape. | {
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5 Tips for Choosing Better Office Furniture
You’re finally ready to move out of your home office to a small-but-fancy office space at a nearby business centre – all thanks to the steady stream of business from loyal clients. While choosing an office space is one of the most important decision in your growing up phase, the growing pains don’t stop there: You’ll still need to choose the furniture to go with your fancy office space.
You’ve searched high and low for the best furniture for you, the CEO, and your two employees; you’ve kept your eyes peeled on offers you read online or furniture magazines. You’ve finally found out that, choosing the right furniture is not as easy as you imagine.
Firstly, you need to choose carefully because you’ll probably be on your office desk 9-to-5, five days a week – minimum. Choosing the wrong chair or desk can be devastating. Secondly, you need to consider your budget, as quality often comes at a price; striking a balance is quite challenging.
But fear not, we are here to help!
Here’s how to choose the right office furniture
Without further adieu, here are some tips to help you choose the best office furniture, courtesy of our friends at Order Office Furniture, an online store offering furniture experts’ pick of high- quality executive furniture:
1. Office layout vs. Furniture size
Yes, that desk is great-looking; but does it fit? Does it look great in the overall layout? Is there enough room to open the cabinets and drawers? Can you and your employees roam around the room easily and comfortably? And don’t forget about your emergency exit: Don’t let your furniture block the path as it poses a risk to your office (and there are workplace safety laws to comply to!)
Those are the kind of questions you need to put the check marks on when it comes to choosing office furniture.
2. Choose practicality over aesthetic
I love office furniture. However, I need to keep reminding myself to focus on the practicality first, and aesthetic factors second. Both are important – but functional, effective furniture goes a long way.
Here are the questions that you need to ask yourself: Does your desk have enough storage for files? Can your furniture accommodate different functionalities? Is there enough space for your legs? Should you invest on a regular desk or standing desk? Is it easy to maintain the furniture?
3. Opt for value for money, not the cheapest
Starting out in a new office and cash-strapped, it’s easy to say yes to the cheapest furniture that you can find. But hold on, and think: More often than not, cheap furniture often comes at a hefty price – quite contradictive, I know. Think about it: Quality does come at a price, and even if the furniture looks great, you need to consider the quality of the finishing. You want high-quality executive furniture that is affordable and durable; in other words, you should focus on value for money, not the lowest price.
4. Focus on ergonomics
Believe it or not, furniture can look great but have poor ergonomics. Some desks are too high or too low; Some office chairs are a pain to your, um, behind – no pun intended. And, oh, that back and neck pain – it’s often caused by a wrong sitting posture and a not-so-ergonomic chair.
5. Most importantly: Choose comfort
Related to ergonomics, you mustn’t forget that comfortable workspace is a dream to many. It remains a dream for one reason: They don’t focus on comfort.
They often forget that they will work in the room, on the desk and chairs for hours, every day – so they opt for the bare essentials. You shouldn’t make the same mistake: Invest in comfort, as – just like ergonomics – it impacts the quality of your and your employees’ work.
Takeaway
Choosing an office furniture is not an easy task. Choose wrongly, and you’ll end up draining your budget for the furniture that you don’t really want. Therefore, you should take your time before making any decision. Alternatively, you may want to hire a furniture consultant or an interior designer to help you out.
Focus on practically and always keep your eyes on your budget – you don’t want to get started in a brand new location with big red figures at the end of your financial reports.
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Raphael Labro: More and more, people on Earth are concerned about terrible, dangerous diseases. Mad Cow Disease? AIDS? Obviously, there are no chances to fight or weaken them. Can you give us new information What are the origins? What can be done? What is being done about health and healing processes?? Is there a lesson to be learnt?
Billy Meier: Yes, I can. The Pleiadians gave me information about the origin of AIDS and the "Mad Cows Disease". The source of AIDS is in Uganda, Africa. It originates from the sexual practice of Sodomy with long-tailed apes (Meerkatzen). These animals have the AIDS virus in their DNA but will not be affected. Due to the practice of having sex with these creatures, the virus is transmitted to the human beings. Additionally, the homosexuality increases the speed of transmission from one person to the other. From Africa, it was transferred to Haiti, than the U.S. and from here to the entire world.
There are 14 different types of AIDS Virus. One of them is even unknown to the Pleiadians and therefore not able to have a kind of therapy. The other ones will be fought the following way: On Earth, there are 31.000 people which get direct impulses from the Pleiadians. Only 5 of them know about this fact, the others just receive "spiritual" impulses to prompt the scientific process. The Pleiadians research with their experts on the medical field and results are given as mentioned impulses to Earth. This is the help of our friends.
The transmission of AIDS proceed the following: By Coitus, French kisses, homosexual practises, blood transfers, open injuries and mosquito bites. The use of condoms is more useful against other sexual diseases but less or only of minor use against AIDS.
Cats carry three different kinds of A.I.D.S. virus which might be transferable to humans. Other animals are A.I.D.S. transmitters as well, e.g. cheetahs.
Raphael: What's the reason that Earth was punished with this disease?
Billy: All the sexual abnormalities are responsible. It should be mentioned that Homosexuality is not regarded as abnormality but as something comparable to a "sickness". It should not be punished. Regarding men, it's looked upon to be a "vast of seed"; concerning women one can say as blossoming is impossible, law says o.k.
Raphael: Billy, thank you for the explanation regarding A.I.D.S. but what have you been told about B.S.E?
Billy: B.S.E. (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) basically is triggered by sheep.The animals transmitted the virus to cattle and apparently all mammals can be infected. Another disease, the Creutzfeld-Jakob-Disease (CJD) is directly connected with B.S.E. as well as the Gerstmann-Sträussler-Syndrome.
The infection is possible either by hereditation or transmission through bloody saliva. Of course, the ingestion of infected meat is carrier as well.
The pathogens of B.S.E. are not to be destroyed by only cooking the meat. Temperatures of over 700°C (1228°F) are necessary, probably even 1000°C (1768°C). The incubation period varies regarding the evolution level of the carriers life form: Possible are 3 months up to 40, 50 years. For human beings, incubation periods can range up to the latter ones. This means, that most people already will naturally die before the virus reveals.
Raphael: Hopefully. Did you get any information about the background and development of the disease or any indication what is to be done?
Billy: The above given data I was told in contact 249 in June 1994. Ptaah (Semjase’s father), didn’t tell me about the reasons. I suppose, our Pleiadian friends will give impulses to some scientists as they do it for AIDS-therapies. | {
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Seems you are still obsessing about your W and not really learning anything here. God has given you many great gifts and you just don't seem to know how to accept them or even realize they are there for you. You still are trying to win back your W and the changes you are trying to get her to see are not real so they will not stick and everyone knows it, even your W. Start again to concentrate on YOU and YOUR girls.
"I also told her to go ahead and trade in the van and I would sign over the title to make sure she is taken care of."
This is something you know you didn't want to do, but because she threw a hissy fit, you caved in.
Do you remember what your friend told you about how you seem weak or insecure, no confidence? Well that's the perfect example right there. Don't cave in when you no it's not right. It's what being a man and an assertive individual is all about.
Just do your own thing. I don't know how many times people have been trying to tell you this.
She knows she can get her way with you. Is that the kind of man she said she wanted?
It shouldnt matter how much it will cost to fix the van as the van is HER problem. She isnt footing the bill(s) for your vehicle therefore there would be no need for you to foot the bills for her car.
Its very easy to get your name removed from the title of a vehicle pending your bank loan is paid in full. Again, some simple research on your part could have made a huge difference.
You could have said "W, I understand the fix you are in with the van and the repairs but I feel its best for me to have my name removed from the title before you take any further action with repairs or the purchase of a new vehicle".
Its these snap decisions that get you in trouble. As I understand it there isnt any sort of "legal separation" in Texas but you can create a temporary agreement. I know this because I have a friend who lives in Texas who is about to go through a very messy divorce. Both my friend and her H had a temporary agreement drawn up so EVERYTHING was clearly spelled out with finances, vehicles, the home and so on. It protects you, your W and your kids until some legal formalities are initiated.
It doesnt really matter what you "feel like" paying for or not. Without some sort of temporary agreement that is signed and legally binding what you "feel like" doing wont mean squat.
Well yes, but I mean as far as pulling myself out of the immediate fire with her also.
Kevin
WHO GIVES A CRAP ABOUT YOUR W NOW??? WORK ON YOU AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR D'S....My God, you are so stubborn & resistant. WTH???
Did you look up the word PATHOLOGICAL? It = "Diseased" b/c your obsession with your wife IS just that. Enough.
Let her go so she can find herself and you can work on you. You obviously are not capable of the work you need to do, with her in your mind and heart all the time. You have no boundaries and you don't respect hers. The whole rolling your eyes and yanking d7's hand AT THIS POINT, is just not progressing. The money issues....did you actually join a health club? As if you can't exercise without that? And yes eating out is a huge cost that most people do not realize b/c they think $5 is not a lot for their meal, but that same $5 would buy a lot of chicken, spend another dollar and get a pound of rice, spend another $2-3 and buy canned vegetables or some fresh carrots or what's on sale, and for under 10$ you can make 2 dinners for ALL 3 of you. (Why do I think those sentences just flew by? Oh I know, b/c they don't relate to your w...)
And find some AA meetings during the day or before work b/c there are a lot of them. You might find a "nooners" meeting near your work.[b] Just get there.
I am praying your d's stay centered, somehow, and that they'll have friends and can find some happiness at this HARD time in their lives b/c middle school sucks for girls! It's hard enough in the best of times. Let alone worrying about their father's sadness and hopelessness...which of course affects them at a deep level.
I have a 12 y/o D and I fear for her in middle school. I really do. And my daughter knows people in her school, and she has friends already. And we, her parents, are together. And still, I worry for her. So when your focus is overwhelmingly on your pain and anger and frustration with your wife, it's clear your d's are not the priority they should be. That's why you haven't gotten them into c yet, BUT you make sure you meet with a priest who makes you feel better....
Why don't you rent the movie "Mean Girls" and talk with your daughters about it. Listen to them and their reactions....the film is about high school but it relates to middle school too, big time and is about girls. LISTEN to their fears and wait for them to talk about it...they will at some point. Please do not reject their feelings b/c feelings are spontaneous reactions we cannot control. Our actions, yes we control our reactions and what we do with our feelings, but feelings themselves are not moral choices. They are just feelings. Let your ds tell you how they feel.
Why would you have to foot the bill when she's driving it? Let her worry about it. She didn't care where you were even going to live when she kicked you out of the house.
There's a line between being compassionate and being a tool. You are being the ultimate tool for her. Look at the people who succeeded at DB-ing. They were able to let the WAS see the consequences of their actions. No rescuing. They have no qualms about leaving us in the mud, yet when they find themselves in trouble they turn to us for help. But if they are rescued, they really don't learn anything.
I am signing the title over to her. Its up to her what she wants to do with it. My name will be off of it. I'm not rescuing her from the van. I'm not paying a dime towards it. Its all on her. I'm just getting my name off of it.
Why don't you rent the movie "Mean Girls" and talk with your daughters about it. Listen to them and their reactions....the film is about high school but it relates to middle school too, big time and is about girls. LISTEN to their fears and wait for them to talk about it...they will at some point. Please do not reject their feelings b/c feelings are spontaneous reactions we cannot control. Our actions, yes we control our reactions and what we do with our feelings, but feelings themselves are not moral choices. They are just feelings. Let your ds tell you how they feel.
I think they have seen it. But it would be worth renting again and watching it with them so we can talk about it. Another good idea. | {
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Council tenants in Kinross-shire with hoarding issues are to be given help, thanks to the launch of a new initiative that’s a first in Scotland.
Representatives from Perth and Kinross Council, NHS Tayside and the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service joined forces with other agencies this week to unveil the protocol, which was drawn up with the help of Linda Fay, Scotland’s first hoarding consultant.
The document recognises that hoarding is a mental health issue and will ensure that tenants with hoarding difficulties are supported in a co-ordinated way to tackle the issue.
At the heart of the approach is a multi-agency response, with housing teams working closely with social care, health and voluntary sector partners to ensure that tenants are supported with a range of actions that will help them regain control of their homes and their lives.
Hoarding has serious health risks for the person involved and is a major fire risk. Properties can also suffer many thousands of pounds worth of damage as a result.
Perth and Kinross Council’s head of housing, Lorna Cameron, said: “Compulsive hoarding can often be a complex issue for frontline housing staff who need to understand the causes and triggers to be able to provide appropriate support. Housing organisations across the country have identified hoarding as an issue that is presenting increasing challenges to staff, both in terms of supporting tenants to sustain their home and in protecting the property.” | {
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BREAKING CULTURE NEWS
that the New G.M. J. Mikel Ellcessor have what the paper is reporting changes in programming that will infuse the station with more Detroit music and attitude and not only that one of at DJ who have sing to be a DJ is Ann Delisi.
yes the same Ann Delisi who did DJ at the station from 1983 to 1995
the details will be mention in a Press release tomorrow,
according to the Detroit News Ellcessor said this -
When more of Detroit's radio is coming out of town, WDET is drilling deeper into the city", "At a time when so much of the world is talking about Detroit, and Detroit is absent from that conversation, the people in the city who are being talked about are like props in a play. It's vital to get their voices back up into that national dialogue."
"There will be music from somebody living and working and making music in Detroit every single hour that she is on the air," Ellcessor said. "That's a promise."
there have been no mention about this on the WDET web site it self as of 2:30 AM
the other changes at the station according to the Detroit News include a new program that will allow nonprofit arts organizations to get their news on the air, and a switch of some of the current NPR content to programs that will allow more live interaction with Detroit listeners.
but Ann Delisi will be the only DJ for now Ellcessor did said it is not turning the clock back on the all music format that was there almost five years ago, the station plans a mix of music and news that he feels is forward-looking and suited to Detroit
and why Ann Delisi well from the press released "Ann has changed and evolved over the years, as we all have," Ellcessor said. "She's coming back to WDET because we're going to create opportunities to both guide people through today's contemporary music and to get more people engaged in the WDET conversation."
To return to a partly music programs could be a help because it you have been reading the blog site in the last three years you know since most of the music program was dump by then GM Michael Coleman a lot of bands and you know a lot of bands have skip detroit Big time
the changes will go into effect Feburday 23 that two weeks awaystay to later in the day on this breaking news story in the culture cityand if you need a interview you can contact me at address on the left | {
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BANGKOK – Thailand’s Crown Prince could be proclaimed the country’s next king on Friday, the Thai Prime Minister said on Monday.
Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn would thus be crowned eight days after the death of his father, the immensely popular King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who passed away on Oct. 13 after a long illness.
“No one should be worried or concerned,” Prime Minister Gen. Prayut Chan-o-cha told “Khaosod” news website after a cabinet meeting.
The head of the military junta governing Thailand had previously said that the new king’s proclamation could take place between seven and 15 days after his predecessor’s death, although the official coronation ceremony could be delayed until after King Bhumibol’s remains are cremated.
The complex funeral rites could take up to a year to be completed, making the 64-year-old heir’s formal ascension to the throne a longer process than usual in the Southeast Asian country.
Prince Vajiralongkorn recently asked not to be immediately declared king, citing his wish to grieve along with the rest of Thai people, officials said.
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Senate Banking Chief Johnson Announces Retirement
The South Dakota senator will not run for re-election in 2014
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Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D. (left), chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, held a press conference in his home state Tuesday afternoon to announce that he will not run for re-election when his current term ends in 2014.
A three-term senator, Johnson, 66, said in comments from his alma mater, the University of South Dakota, that he would be 68 years-old at the end of this term and that it is time for him to say good-bye. "I will not be running for re-election to the United States Senate in 2014 or any other office. I look forward to serving the remaining two years as the country is facing difficult times on many fronts and I will work every day to find a bipartisan solution to these challenges."
As the Sioux Falls, S.D., paper reported, Johnson, who took over as the Senate Banking chairman in 2011, has struggled with health issues since a 2006 brain hemorrhage that left his speech and movement impaired. As Johnson said in comments Tuesday afternoon, "you have supported me in multiple elections, and, more importantly, your patience and prayers enabled me to recover from a life-threatening brain injury."
One challenger for his Senate seat is Republican former governor Mike Rounds, the paper says. Several other Democrats and Republicans are reportedly considering running for Senate if Johnson retires, including Johnson’s son, U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson, the paper reported.
In line to be next chairman of the banking committee is Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., however Reed is reported to be stepping into a leadership role held by retiring Sen. Carl Levin’s seat on the Senate Armed Services Committee.
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It's the end of the year, which means endless end-of-the-year lists, especially for TV shows. And I didn't watch TV this year. Seriously. I cut the cable cord in 2008. Yes, I am superior to you, thanks for asking.
Now I applaud the emergence of high-powered couples, and George and Amal send a great message by being together. But how about we do all women a service, and not label them as any kind of accessory to men; no trophies to win or trinkets to collect. That is so passé.
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has predicted the death of broadcasting. That may come as a relief to many of today's broadcast executives who will be well into retirement by then. But if he is giving TV stations another 16 years, his outlook is downright rosy.
Alicia's finally owning her campaign and starting to accept the fact that she wants this. We see her stand up to Peter and his philandering ways. It's only been five years and she finally has a reason, and the guts, to tell him to shut up and get a hold of himself.
To pass the time before the worlds of Meredith Grey, Alicia Florrick and Olivia Pope return, why not pick up a book that's on the same wavelength as your favorite show? These picks are sure to please -- and they make great holiday presents too!
Most who have been through a divorce will tell you that it is a marathon, not a sprint. In order to get to the finish line without collapsing, it is helpful to have a coach guide you from beginning to end.
I came home from the airport to quiet house with an empty laundry hamper, the sink devoid of dirty dishes and a bathroom counter I could actually see. And I thought to myself, there are two things that are keeping me from sobbing from loneliness.
In an exciting but not altogether unexpected development, the addition of How to Get Away with Murder to ABC's schedule now gives each of the Big Three networks a current drama series that challenges basic cable's status as the home of top-quality, unapologetically adult programming. | {
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